Inner Academy

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Admission

• Selection Tournament: The Outer Academy holds a tournament for fifty Inner Academy places each year 118 133.
• Final melee: The fifty selected students compete in a final event. The last five remaining gain access to the Inner Academy’s Library Pavilion; defeating more opponents increases a student’s initial Fire Energy allotment 137.
• Fire Energy Hunting Tournament: Before entry, freshmen receive crystal cards containing five days’ worth of Fire Energy. Senior-student teams intercept them in a forest and try to take it 150 151.
• Entrance: The route shown to Lu Heng’s group passes through a concealed spatial gate at a mountain ravine. The Inner Academy lies in a basin surrounded by mountains, where the ambient energy is notably dense 155 162.

Student Life and Resources

• Fire Energy is the Inner Academy’s currency. Students use it for pills, herbs, cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and access to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower 151.
• Cultivation has no fixed class schedule. Students earn resources through strength, while deeper levels of the tower consume more Fire Energy 163.
• Accommodation includes shared courtyards and, for exceptional performance, independent ones. Lu Heng receives an independent courtyard after entering 163.
• The Strong Ranking Tournament determines the distribution of cultivation resources for the following half-year 209.
• The Library Pavilion holds treasures and cultivation techniques available to qualifying students after selection 137 146 149 150.

Governance and Factions

• Su Qian is the Great Elder and the Inner Academy’s chief authority 175 186.
• The Elder Council can approve special rewards, including a Green Fire Crystal Card granting access to the tower’s fifth and sixth floors 171.
• Senior-student factions compete for influence and resources. Han Yue warns Lu Heng that his victory over the Black and White Fiend teams may draw retaliation 163.
• The Medicine Gang attempts to control private pill trading, demanding that Lu Heng stop selling pills independently. After its defeat, the academy’s pill market faces a reshuffle 194 196.
• The Alchemist Department holds a privileged position within the Inner Academy; its members take an interest in Lu Heng after his public pill refinement 165.

Notable Events

• Lu Heng’s arrival: His group enters after defeating Bai Han and Hei Lie in the Fire Energy Hunting Tournament, shocking the senior students waiting inside 162.
• Rapid rise: Within a few months, Lu Heng reaches peak nine-star Dou Grandmaster and appears at thirty-ninth on the Strong Ranking List 193.
• Han Feng’s attack: The academy recalls students on missions, increases patrols and guards, and later faces an assault on its outer restrictions 440 445.