Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu and the others left the Scripture Pavilion after obtaining their rewards, and Hu Gan told them they would enter the Inner Academy in two days. Hu Jia learned that Xiao Yu had reached Nine Star Dou Ling and reconsidered her chances of competing with him.

• Xiao Yu gave Xiao Yu an Earth Tier Low-Grade cultivation method and asked her to help him once she reached Five-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Xun Er found the Vermillion Fruit, which Xiao Yu took, and Xiao Yu gave Xun Er a defensive bracelet with a Sixth-Tier Demonic Beast magic core.
• Xiao Yu and the others left the Scripture Pavilion after the elders warned them to keep what they had seen and heard secret.
• Hu Gan told the five students to rest for two days before heading to the Inner Academy and urged them to support one another.
• Hu Jia complained that Hu Gan had let Xiao Yu leave, but Hu Gan revealed Xiao Yu's Nine Star Dou Ling strength and explained the importance of the Inner Academy competition.

Xiao Yu prepared to enter Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy with the other selected students and arranged for Cai Die, now restored to her strength and memories, to accompany him. As the group flew toward the Inner Academy, Headmaster Hu Gan asked Xiao Yu to teach its students a lesson in their customary match against the newcomers.

• Xiao Yu reunited with Little Cai, who returned to his sleeve after eating Companion Purple Crystal Source, and learned that Cai Die wanted to remain by his side.
• Xiao Yu suggested that Cai Die seek a position at Jia Nan Academy, and Headmaster Hu Gan said the Inner Academy elders would decide whether she could stay.
• Xiao Yu, Cai Die, Xun Er, Xiao Yan, and the other selected students gathered before Hu Gan's study to begin their journey to the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan assigned Xiao Yu and Cai Die to fly with him while the other students boarded Griffin Beasts in groups of five.
• Hu Gan told Xiao Yu that the Inner Academy students usually bullied newcomers and asked him to teach them a lesson; Xiao Yu agreed.

Xiao Yu and the Outer Academy students reached the Inner Academy, where he asked the elders to let Cai Die stay. The elders accepted her as an honorary elder, and the chapter ended as Elder Qing asked where the other top five contestants were.

• Hu Gan led the flying formation through the unusually quiet forest, with Cai Die’s aura keeping the Demonic Beasts away.
• Hu Gan revealed the hidden gate to the Inner Academy, and the students followed him through it.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing sensed Cai Die’s Dou Zong aura and questioned Hu Gan and Xiao Yu about her.
• Xiao Yu revealed Cai Die was Medusa’s younger sister and needed him to refine a Spirit Fusion Pill, then asked for her to remain at the academy.
• Elder Su agreed to make Cai Die an honorary elder of Jia Nan Academy, and Elder Qing asked Hu Gan where the other four top Selection Tournament contestants were.

At the start of the Fire Energy Hunt Competition, Xiao Yu explained that the older students’ Fire Energy could be taken just as the newcomers’ could, then split from his companions to hunt alone. He left Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia to travel as a team through the forest toward the Inner Academy.

• Hu Gan introduced Xiao Yan and the other top newcomers to Inner Academy elders Su and Qing, who praised their strength and explained the newcomers’ prospects for growth.
• Elder Su handed each newcomer a crystal chip containing five days’ worth of Fire Energy and announced that older students would try to seize their chips as they crossed the forest.
• After the competition began, Xiao Yu stopped his companions in the forest and suggested taking Fire Energy from older students in return.
• Xiao Yu decided to travel alone because he was the strongest, while Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia formed a team.
• Hu Jia accused Xiao Yu of disliking them, and Xun Er whispered something to her that made her call Xiao Yu a pervert.

Xiao Yu split from Xiao Yan and the others to compete alone for fire energy, then encountered an Inner Academy team ambushing Outer Academy students. The Inner Academy students swiftly knocked the five Outer Academy students down as the seizure of fire energy began.

• Xiao Yu and the others agreed to divide into two teams and bet on who would collect more fire energy, with the loser owing the winner one request.
• Xiao Yu gave Xun Er a jade shard containing his Soul Power so she could summon him if she was in danger.
• Xiao Yu left alone, displaying speed far beyond what he had shown in the selection tournament, while Hu Jia resolved to catch up to him.
• Xiao Yu headed north and spotted five Inner Academy students confronting a team of five Outer Academy students.
• After an Outer Academy student refused to hand over his fire energy, the Inner Academy team attacked and quickly incapacitated all five students.

Xiao Yu intervened when five Inner Academy seniors beat and extorted Outer Academy freshmen, then swiftly defeated them and seized their Fire Energy. He left with 173 Fire Energy on his black card, while the seniors were left intimidated and empty-handed.

• Xiao Yu arrived after hearing a fight and found the Inner Academy seniors demanding Fire Energy from the Outer Academy freshmen.
• The scar-faced senior challenged Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu knocked him into a tree and quickly defeated the other four seniors.
• Xiao Yu revealed his Dou Ling strength and threatened to beat the seniors until the scar-faced man pleaded for mercy.
• The scar-faced senior transferred his Fire Energy to Xiao Yu and showed him how to use the cards.
• Xiao Yu drained the remaining seniors’ cards, raising his Fire Energy total to 173.

Xiao Yu took a forest map from Jiang Han, gave healing pills to the defeated students, and continued through the forest. Elder Su and Elder Qing decided not to intervene in the competition, while Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan's teams ambushed old students in the northern and southern parts of the forest.

• Xiao Yu forced Jiang Han to hand over a rough map of the forest and learned that the freshmen could head northwest to reach the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yu gave healing pills to the five freshmen and sent them toward the Inner Academy, then gave pills to Jiang Han and his companions before leaving.
• Jiang Han and the others decided they would join Xiao Yu if he established a faction in the Inner Academy.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing recognized Xiao Yu's Dou Ling strength and chose not to interfere with his participation in the competition.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan's teams continued ambushing old student teams in the northern and southern parts of the forest.

Xiao Yu defeated another team of old students and raised his Fire Energy total to 371, while Leng Bai, Su Xiao, and Xiu Yan joined forces to target Xiao Yan’s team. Xiao Yan’s group encountered four new students, who explained that they had been wandering the forest to avoid being robbed.

• Xiao Yu defeated five old students, took their Fire Energy, and left them medicinal pills before continuing through the forest to look for Xun Er and the others.
• Su Xiao, Xiu Yan, and Leng Bai gathered their three teams and agreed to attack Xiao Yan’s team before it could join forces with another new student team.
• Leng Bai led Su Xiao and Xiu Yan toward Xiao Yan’s location, explaining that Xiao Yan’s team included several top-ranked new students.
• Xiao Yan sensed several auras approaching, but he and his companions relaxed when four new students came into view.
• The four new students told Xiao Yan that they had wandered the forest because the other end was blocked and they feared being robbed.

Xiao Yan and his companions were ambushed by three veteran teams while trying to regroup with Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu arrived just in time to save Xun Er and turn the battle in their favor.

• Xiao Yan agreed to travel with four freshmen and seek out Xiao Yu after learning that veteran squads were blocking the route through the forest.
• Su Xiao, Xiu Yan, and Leng Bai arrived with three teams and challenged Xiao Yan’s group, seeking their Fire Energy and the veterans’ honor.
• Xiao Yan’s group fought back but struggled against the veterans’ superior strength as Xiao Yu hurried toward the battle.
• A veteran launched an ice spike at Xun Er, but Xiao Yu appeared, caught it with his Heavenly Flames, and rescued her.
• Xiao Yu struck the attacker into his companions, leaving all three unable to fight, and Xiao Yan greeted him after retreating from Su Xiao.

Xiao Yu intimidated the Black Fiend Squad and the senior students into surrendering their Fire Energy, revealing himself as a Nine Star Dou Ling. The competition ended with the White Fiend Squad withdrawing, but Xiao Yu insisted they hand over their Fire Energy too.

• Sha Tie joined Su Xiao, Leng Bai, and Xiu Yan in confronting Xiao Yu, and they began negotiating how to divide the new students' Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yu released the aura of a Nine Star Dou Ling, frightening the assembled squads until Sha Tie and his Black Fiend Squad surrendered their Fire Energy Cards.
• Xiao Yu collected Fire Energy from Sha Tie's squad and the senior students' cards, raising his own total to nine hundred and eighty and Xun Er's to two hundred.
• Xiao Yu led the group to the forest exit, where Elder Su announced that the competition was over and the White Fiend Squad had withdrawn.
• Xiao Yu objected to the White Fiend Squad leaving without a fight and demanded that they surrender their Fire Energy.

Xiao Yu and the other new students received their Fire Crystal Cards and entered the Inner Academy, where Elder Su assigned Xiao Yu, Xun Er, Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to live together. The group settled into their new residence, ready to begin life in the Inner Academy.

• Xiao Yu collected the White Fiend Squad's Fire Crystal Cards, then learned Luo Hou's card held only thirty points because it had been upgraded to azure.
• Elder Su awarded the new students Fire Energy and explained the Fire Crystal Card colors and upgrade costs; Xiao Yu received a Crimson Fire Crystal Card and transferred his energy, including the thousand points he had saved.
• Elder Su led the new students into the vast Inner Academy, where Xiao Yan looked toward the buildings and thought of the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Elder Su took Xiao Yu and the other five to a quiet estate and said they would all live there together.
• Hu Jia objected to sharing the estate with three grown men, but agreed to stay after Elder Su offered to move the others elsewhere.

Xiao Yu and the others settled into their Inner Academy residence, learned how the academy’s competition and Fire Energy system worked, and began making plans for their first day. As Xiao Yu’s group headed out to explore, older students confronted the newcomers and demanded a tribute fee.

• Elder Su explained that Inner Academy students focused on cultivation, formed factions, and spent Fire Energy to use the arena and obtain techniques.
• Xiao Yu and the others chose rooms in their pavilion, and Xiao Yu welcomed Cai Die when she arrived to join them.
• Cai Lin absorbed Companion Purple Crystal Source, while Xiao Yu cultivated; the next morning, Hu Jia and Wu Hao revealed that they had advanced to Seven-star Great Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yu and the others planned to explore the Inner Academy, with Wu Hao and Xiao Yan heading toward the arena and Xiao Yu planning to visit the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• At the manor gates, older students demanded that each newcomer hand over two days' worth of Fire Energy as a Newcomer Tribute Fee.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan intervened when Green Mountain tried to collect tribute from the newcomers, then proposed forming a faction of their own. Xiao Yu asked A Tai to gather interested students and suggested that Xiao Yan lead the new faction so they could support one another’s cultivation in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.

• A leading newcomer refused to pay Green Mountain another tribute fee, and the old students threatened to punish him.
• Xiao Yu’s group appeared, drove Green Mountain away, and Xiao Yan rejected its offer to recruit them.
• Xiao Yu asked A Tai to gather newcomers willing to join a faction, and A Tai agreed that the students would support the plan.
• Xiao Yu told the group to meet at his residence the next day to discuss the faction’s details.
• Xiao Yu proposed that Xiao Yan lead the faction, explaining that students needed a group to gain access to the tower’s high-grade cultivation areas.

Xiao Yu, Xun Er, and Hu Jia visited the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where its Heart Flame tested them as soon as they entered. Xiao Yu and Xun Er overcame the flame's torment, while Hu Jia was still struggling when the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yu and Wu Hao postponed discussing their faction and headed to the arena, while Xiao Yu, Xun Er, and Hu Jia went to see the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Xiao Yu sensed the tower's scorching energy and noticed a powerful faction cutting ahead of the queue before the tower opened.
• Xiao Yu warned Hu Jia about the tower's strange flame, but she mistook his concern for mockery and entered ahead of him.
• The Heart Flame tormented Hu Jia and Xun Er, while Xiao Yu used his Dou Qi to weaken it and drew the old students' attention with his Dou Ling strength.
• An old man praised Xiao Yu for resisting the Heart Flame through his own strength, and Xun Er soon opened her eyes after overcoming it too.

Xiao Yu and Xun Er waited for Hu Jia while Elder Liu explained the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and introduced them to Han Yue. Han Yue learned that Xiao Yu planned to form a faction with the new students and recognized him as the powerful newcomer from the Fire Energy Hunt Competition.

• Elder Liu praised Xiao Yu and Xun Er for dispelling the Heart Fire and offered to explain the tower's rules while they waited for Hu Jia.
• Elder Liu sent the surrounding students away to cultivate and began explaining the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to Xiao Yu and Xun Er.
• Han Yue arrived and told Elder Liu she planned to cultivate on the sixth floor, revealing that she had reached six-star Dou Ling.
• Elder Liu introduced Han Yue to Xiao Yu and Xun Er and mentioned that she led the Moon Spirit faction.
• Xiao Yu declined to join Moon Spirit, saying he and the new students planned to establish their own faction.
• Han Yue recognized Xiao Yu as the newcomer whose strength had led the Great Elder to remove Luo Hou from the Fire Energy Hunt Competition.

Xiao Yu and his companions toured the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where he received the Chaos Flame reward and improved his cultivation. After Pan Men was officially established, he visited Cai Die and learned about the Fire Energy privileges given to academy elders.

• Elder Liu removed the heart flame from Hu Jia, then showed her, Xiao Yu, and Xun Er around the tower’s first level and its cultivation rooms.
• Xiao Yu cultivated in the tower, received the Chaos Flame reward, and learned that the Blood Sect headquarters was the next check-in location.
• After leaving the tower, Xiao Yu reached the peak of Nine Star Dou Ling, while Hu Jia told Xiao Yan and Wu Hao about the tower.
• Xiao Yan and Wu Hao discussed visiting the tower and establishing a faction, and Pan Men was officially formed.
• Xiao Yu went to Cai Die’s room and learned that her Fire Crystal Card received thirty days of Fire Energy each month as an academy elder.

Xiao Yu absorbed the Chaos Flame, which rejected the other Heavenly Flames in his body. After learning that Xiao Nian could wield them because of her Divine Phoenix Fire Body, he passed the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to her, causing her aura to surge.

• Xiao Yu took the sleeping Xiao Nian back to his room after she called Cai Die Auntie and fell asleep in his arms.
• Xiao Yu absorbed the Chaos Flame, which refined his Dou Qi and pushed him past the peak of the nine-star Dou Ling realm, though he suppressed his breakthrough.
• The Chaos Flame attacked the Green Lotus Core Flame, and both it and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame fled Xiao Yu's body.
• The system explained that the Chaos Flame rejected all other flames and suggested Xiao Yu give the two Heavenly Flames to Xiao Nian.
• Xiao Yu severed his connection to the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame and sent them into Xiao Nian, whose Phoenix Mark lit up as her aura surged.

Xiao Yu helped establish Pan Men with twenty freshmen while preparing to cultivate a new Dou Technique. He traveled into the back mountain to undergo a heavenly tribulation, drawing the attention of the Inner Academy's Great Elder.

• Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame acknowledged Xiao Nian as their master, raising her cultivation to the peak of Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yu examined Chaos Flame and memorized the Earth Tier High-Grade Dou Technique Frostless.
• A Tai told Xiao Yu and the others that many freshmen had joined other factions, but twenty still wanted to join them.
• Xiao Yu and the others officially established Pan Men with the twenty freshmen and planned its badges and robes.
• Xiao Yu removed his seal in the back mountain and began undergoing a heavenly tribulation, while the Great Elder sensed his aura and vanished from the Inner Academy.

Xiao Yu endured the lightning tribulation’s final strikes, and the Chaos Flame helped him recover as the clouds dispersed. He advanced to the peak of four-star Dou Wang, while the Great Elder and Zi Yan headed toward the crater.

• The Great Elder saw Xiao Yu beneath the tribulation clouds as Xiao Yu struggled to withstand the red lightning.
• Xiao Yu survived a red bolt that tempered his body, then used healing pills and Dou Qi to prepare for the final strike.
• A crimson-black bolt struck Xiao Yu, and the Chaos Flame enveloped him as the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Zi Yan admitted she had eaten a Vajra Bodhi from Elder Hao’s medicinal storehouse, then followed the Great Elder toward the lightning’s source.
• Xiao Yu absorbed the surrounding energy, rose to the peak of four-star Dou Wang, and opened his eyes at the bottom of the crater.

After breaking through to the Dou Wang realm, Xiao Yu met Elder Su and Zi Yan, who became interested in his alchemy and medicinal herbs. He returned home to reassure Xun Er, but their embrace left them both embarrassed.

• Xiao Yu's black blood scabs fell away, and he quickly covered himself with a robe when Elder Su and Zi Yan arrived.
• Elder Su introduced Xiao Yu to Zi Yan, who asked him for rare medicinal herbs; Xiao Yu offered to refine pills for her instead.
• Elder Su asked about Xiao Yu's breakthrough, and Xiao Yu confirmed that he had reached the Dou Wang realm.
• Elder Su praised Xiao Yu and promised to seek greater authority for him in the Inner Academy before he and Zi Yan departed.
• Xiao Yu returned to his residence, where Xun Er checked on him and embraced him after admitting she had been worried.
• Xun Er noticed Xiao Yu's arousal, blushed, called him bad, and ran upstairs while Xiao Yu headed to his room.