Recaps

Lu Heng and the other top-ranked students received their Strong Ranking List rewards, including a sixth-tier medicine cauldron and an ancient array fragment for Lu Heng. He left eager to study the Five Elements Evolution Array fragment and prepare for the upcoming Heart Fire Origin Body Tempering, while Zi Yan complained that she had to wait until tomorrow to visit the treasure vault.

• Su Qian announced the rewards for the Strong Ranking List's top ten, including exclusive cultivation time and weapons or armor for those ranked fourth through tenth.
• Su Qian told Zi Yan she could choose three treasures from the Academy Treasure Vault, with Elder Huo accompanying her because she had eaten a Thousand-Year Ganoderma intended for a pill.
• Cao Yue chose the Cangwu Cauldron, and Lu Heng took the multi-attribute Chixiao Cauldron.
• Su Qian gave Lu Heng a fragment of the Five Elements Evolution Array because its energy matched Lu Heng's Five Elements Cycle.
• Lu Heng planned his cultivation before the Heart Fire Origin Body Tempering, and Cao Yue remarked on his talent.
• Zi Yan ran into Lu Heng and complained that the treasure vault would not open until the next day.

Lu Heng prepared for the Heart Fire Origin body tempering by refining pills for Han Yue, then entered the bottom of the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower with the top students. As the seven-day tempering began, his Li Fire Body absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin with ease and started to grow stronger.

• Lu Heng left with Zi Yan after promising to make her roasted fish, while Cao Yue watched their closeness and went to the Alchemist Department with the Cangwu Cauldron.
• Lu Heng used the Chixiao Cauldron to refine pills over three days, then gave Han Yue five bottles of medicine to support her cultivation and protect her meridians.
• Han Yue thanked Lu Heng with a kiss, and Zi Yan promised to protect him during the upcoming body tempering.
• Su Qian led Lu Heng and the other Strong Ranking students to the tower’s bottom level, where he explained the seven-day tempering and the rules for leaving early.
• Lu Heng began absorbing the Heart Fire Origin through his fifth-stage Li Fire Body, while the Five Spirits Chaos Art refined its energy into Dou Qi.

Lu Heng absorbed Fallen Heart Flame for ten days, reaching peak Five-Star Dou Ling and alarming the sealed flame with how much of its origin he consumed. After leaving the tower with Zi Yan, he sensed that his Five Elements Cycle could refine the flame and resolved to return for it.

• Chu Yuan, Lin Feng, and Gu Yue withdrew from the Heart Fire tempering before the seven-day limit, while Xiao Zhanting, Cao Yue, Mo Chen, Zhao Lie, Lin Xiaowan, Zi Yan, and Lu Heng remained.
• When the seven days ended, Su Qian allowed Lu Heng to keep absorbing Heart Fire after confirming that his body and cultivation remained stable.
• Zi Yan waited beside Lu Heng as he continued absorbing Fallen Heart Flame for three more days, while Su Qian guarded the tower.
• Lu Heng awakened at peak Five-Star Dou Ling with his Li Fire Body strengthened, and Zi Yan complained that she had waited hungry for three days.
• Fallen Heart Flame erupted against its seal, but Su Qian suppressed it; the flame glared at Lu Heng after he had drained an extraordinary amount of its origin.
• Lu Heng left with Zi Yan and sensed that his Five Elements Cycle could refine Fallen Heart Flame, deciding to return and use it as the Five Elements Evolution Array's core.

Over two years, Lu Heng and his companions trained relentlessly, and Lu Heng reached Seven-Star Dou King at age fifteen while advancing to a junior seventh-grade alchemist. He realized that awakening his Small Five Elements Spirit Body required rare top-tier treasures of four elements, and Zi Yan arrived at his training room.

• Lu Heng established a routine of cultivation, alchemy, cooking for Zi Yan, and discussing arrays, while Han Yue and the others intensified their training.
• Han Yue broke through the fourth turn of the Nine-Turn Wind-Roaming Steps, and the other members of Courtyard No. 1 advanced their abilities through punishing practice.
• After two years, Lu Heng reached Seven-Star Dou King on the Heavenly Burning Tower's ninth floor, aided by his Five Elements Cycle physique, Fallen Heart Flame, and a Mystic Spirit Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• Lu Heng's Book of Destiny recorded his Sixth Rank physiques, junior seventh-grade alchemy, and an unawakened Small Five Elements Spirit Body that required rare elemental Heavenly Treasures and magical beast blood essence.
• Lu Heng recognized that he needed top-tier metal, wood, water, and earth treasures to awaken the Small Five Elements Spirit Body, then left his Training Room as Zi Yan approached.

After two years of seclusion at Jia Nan Academy, Lu Heng decided to return to Wutan City to see Ya Fei and handle other matters. With Su Qian’s permission and a special token, he left the academy, promising Zi Yan and Han Yue he would return.

• Lu Heng emerged from seclusion, told Han Yue and his friends he planned to return to Wutan City, and shared a meal with them before leaving.
• Lu Heng reflected on Ya Fei and prepared pills for her, along with Heart Protecting Pills for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lu Heng asked Su Qian for leave, and Su Qian approved it and gave him an Inner Academy Special Token.
• Lu Heng refused Zi Yan’s request to come along, gave her semi-finished sixth-grade medicinal pills, and promised to return before setting off from Jia Nan Academy.

Lu Heng left Jia Nan Academy to return to Wutan City, reuniting briefly with Ruo Lin and Xueni before flying on alone. Ruo Lin and Xueni departed toward the Jia Ma Empire, while Lu Heng reached Wutan City after seven days of travel.

• Lu Heng met vice dean Hu Gan, confirmed that he was leaving to visit his family, and learned that Ruo Lin was preparing to recruit students in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Lu Heng found Ruo Lin and Xueni at the Outer Academy's main gate and reunited with them after more than two years apart.
• Xueni embraced Lu Heng but could not bring herself to confess her feelings, while Ruo Lin invited him to travel with them and agreed to visit him in Wutan City.
• Lu Heng took off using his five-colored wings, leaving Ruo Lin and Xueni to depart southwest on their recruitment journey.
• Lu Heng flew continuously with the support of his Five Elements Cycle and arrived in Wutan City after seven days.

Lu Heng returned to Wutan City after three years and reunited with Ya Fei at the Miteer Auction House. After they embraced and kissed, he began telling her about his years at Jia Nan Academy and his breakthrough to the Dou Wang realm.

• Lu Heng entered Wutan City quietly and found Ya Fei presiding over an auction at the Miteer Auction House.
• Ya Fei recognized Lu Heng, stopped the auction, and rushed to meet him in front of the crowd.
• Ya Fei brought Lu Heng to a private room, where she clung to him and cried before they kissed.
• Ya Fei and Lu Heng shared wine and caught up, and Lu Heng recounted his academy training and rise to the Dou Wang realm.

Lu Heng reunited with Ya Fei and told her about Han Yue, Xiao Yi Xian, and his feelings for her. The chapter ended with Ya Fei and Lu Heng sharing a bed as she fell asleep beside him.

• Ya Fei listened as Lu Heng described his rapid cultivation and worried that he must have suffered, but he reassured her that his path had been smooth.
• Lu Heng told Ya Fei that he was together with Han Yue, and Ya Fei accepted the news as long as he still had a place for her in his heart.
• Lu Heng embraced Ya Fei and told her she would always be his first, then admitted that Xiao Yi Xian was his too.
• Ya Fei said she liked Lu Heng's domineering nature and sent him to rest after his seven-day flight.
• Lu Heng and Ya Fei returned to his unchanged bedroom, lay together, and Ya Fei fell asleep in his arms.

Lu Heng gave Ya Fei valuable pills and revealed that he had reached beginner Seventh-Grade Alchemist status, while asking her to keep it secret. Ya Fei left for the auction house, and Lu Heng stayed behind to consider his next plans.

• Lu Heng gave Ya Fei several batches of pills, including Youth Preserving Pills for her and a bottle of Vitality Protecting Pills for Gu Ni.
• After Ya Fei kissed him, Lu Heng told her he was a beginner Seventh-Grade Alchemist, though his academy badge showed Sixth Grade.
• Lu Heng reminded Ya Fei that he intended to make her the most powerful woman in the Jia Ma Empire and asked her to keep his alchemist rank secret.
• Ya Fei went to the auction house to make up for the disruption at the previous day's auction, while Lu Heng remained at home.
• At the courtyard gate, Ya Fei asked Lu Heng to warn her before kissing her again, then hurried away.

Lu Heng returned to Wutan City to see Ya Fei and handle several matters, then unexpectedly met Xiao Yu waiting near the Miteer Auction House. After they talked, Xiao Yu invited him to visit the Xiao Family, and he agreed before leaving for Green Mountain Town.

• Lu Heng considered visiting Xiao Yi Xian, bringing Qing Lin back, and seeking the Green Lotus Core Flame before leaving the auction house courtyard.
• Lu Heng encountered Xiao Yu at the Miteer Auction House and learned she had been waiting there because she thought he might return.
• Xiao Yu admitted she had visited the auction house several times after returning to Wutan City, and Lu Heng told her he had come back the previous evening.
• Lu Heng said he planned to visit Green Mountain Town, and Xiao Yu invited him to the Xiao Family first.
• Lu Heng agreed to visit the Xiao Family, hoping to learn about Wutan City and meet Xiao Yan.

Lu Heng visited the Xiao Family with Xiao Yu and met her grandfather, Xiao Baichuan, who recognized Lu Heng’s exceptional talent and tried to gauge his willingness to help the family. Lu Heng declined involvement in ordinary family affairs but offered to help if the Xiao Family faced serious trouble, leaving Xiao Baichuan to notice Xiao Yu’s feelings for him and summon her back.

• Xiao Yu brought Lu Heng to the Xiao Family residence and introduced him to her grandfather, Xiao Baichuan.
• Xiao Baichuan recognized Lu Heng as the prodigy who had defeated a Jia Lie Family expert three years earlier and inferred that Lu Heng had reached at least the Dou Ling level.
• Over tea, Xiao Baichuan mentioned troubles involving the Jia Lie Family and Aoba Clan to test Lu Heng’s interest in the Xiao Family’s affairs.
• Lu Heng said he would not interfere in ordinary disputes but offered to help if the Xiao Family encountered serious trouble, and Xiao Baichuan gratefully accepted.
• After Lu Heng left with Xiao Yu, Xiao Baichuan realized she was interested in him and summoned her back for a conversation.

Xiao Xun'er learned that Lu Heng had reached the Dou Wang realm and ordered Ling Ying to investigate him discreetly. After leaving the Xiao Family, Lu Heng encountered Nalan Yanran and her companions at Wutan City's southern gate, recognizing that she had come to break off her engagement.

• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Lu Heng was a teenage Dou Wang who had once been a Dou Master three years earlier.
• Xiao Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to investigate Lu Heng's cultivation technique and connections at Jia Nan Academy without alerting him.
• Lu Heng left the Xiao Family and walked south through Wutan City, planning to leave for Green Mountain Town the next morning.
• At the southern city gate, Lu Heng recognized Nalan Yanran by her appearance and attire.
• Lu Heng identified the arrogant Five-Star Dou Zhe and the middle-aged Da Dou Shi accompanying Nalan Yanran as a minor character and Elder Ge Ye.

At Wutan City's gate, Lu Heng used his pressure to force an arrogant Misty Cloud Sect disciple to kneel, then accepted apologies from Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran. After they parted, Lu Heng recognized that Nalan Yanran's arrival meant Xiao Yan's engagement-cancellation events were about to begin.

• Lu Heng stared at Nalan Yanran, and Li Wang angrily confronted him for looking at her.
• Lu Heng pinned Li Wang to the ground with precise pressure, making Ge Ye recognize that Lu Heng was likely a Dou Wang.
• Ge Ye apologized for Li Wang and persuaded Lu Heng to withdraw his pressure.
• Nalan Yanran apologized for her senior brother, and Lu Heng acknowledged that he had stared at her impolitely.
• Nalan Yanran's group entered Wutan City while Lu Heng left, realizing that Xiao Yan's engagement-cancellation plot was about to begin.

Nalan Yanran learned that the young man who punished Li Wang might be as strong as a Dou Wang, while Lu Heng studied the Five Elements Evolution Array and prepared to visit Xiao Yi Xian. Ya Fei sent him off with her blessing to bring Xiao Yi Xian back.

• Nalan Yanran asked Ge Ye to estimate the black-robed young man's strength, and Ge Ye said he might match the Misty Cloud Sect's Great Elder, Yun Leng.
• Nalan Yanran decided not to investigate the young man and ordered Li Wang to receive thirty strokes at the Discipline Hall.
• Lu Heng studied the incomplete Five Elements Evolution Array on a mountaintop, then returned to the auction house and shared a meal with Ya Fei.
• Lu Heng told Ya Fei he planned to visit Xiao Yi Xian in Green Mountain Town, and Ya Fei prepared food and clothes for his departure.
• Ya Fei urged Lu Heng to bring Xiao Yi Xian back because Green Mountain Town was unsafe for her.

Lu Heng traveled to Green Mountain Town and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian after four years apart. The chapter ended with him embracing her as she clutched his robe.

• Lu Heng thanked Ya Fei, then flew from Wutan City to Green Mountain Town.
• He heard townspeople say Xiao Yi Xian had become a respected healer and helped Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion prosper.
• Lu Heng entered Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and found Xiao Yi Xian writing prescriptions.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Lu Heng, and they exchanged greetings after four years apart.
• Lu Heng told Xiao Yi Xian she had become prettier and pulled her into an embrace.

Lu Heng reunited with Xiao Yi Xian at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and urged her to return with him to Wutan City. He revealed his Dou Wang strength by unfurling his wings, then flew away with Xiao Yi Xian in his arms as the mercenaries watched in shock.

• Lu Heng embraced Xiao Yi Xian and asked her to return to Wutan City with him.
• Lu Heng hinted at his strength, and Xiao Yi Xian doubted that he had reached Dou Wang.
• Lu Heng carried Xiao Yi Xian out of the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and crossed Green Mountain Town with her.
• At the mercenary gathering point, Lu Heng displayed his Five-Colored Wings and revealed himself as a Dou Wang.
• Lu Heng flew off with Xiao Yi Xian, while the stunned mercenaries discussed reporting the incident to Boss Yao.

Lu Heng took Xiao Yi Xian flying and revealed that he was a Seven-Star Dou King, then brought her to her secluded home in the valley. There, Xiao Yi Xian confessed that her Woe Poison Physique had caused her parents and villagers to die and asked whether Lu Heng would still be willing to stay with her.

• Lu Heng told Xiao Yi Xian that he had reached the Seven-Star Dou King realm and could protect her.
• Xiao Yi Xian hesitated to return to Wutan City with Lu Heng because she feared her accumulating poison would endanger him.
• Xiao Yi Xian directed Lu Heng to her hidden valley home in the Back Mountain of Green Mountain Town.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lu Heng that poisonous qi had erupted from her body and killed her parents and villagers.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Lu Heng whether he would still be willing to be with her despite her poison physique.

Lu Heng reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he had known about her Woe Poison Physique since they first met and still loved her. He revealed a pill that could suppress the condition and promised to seek a permanent cure, leaving Xiao Yi Xian moved but embarrassed by his claim that she was his woman.

• Lu Heng embraced Xiao Yi Xian and told her he had known about her Woe Poison Physique since their first meeting, when he glimpsed its Seven-Colored Hidden Line.
• Lu Heng explained that the Woe Poison Physique absorbed poison into Dou Qi but could eventually trigger a dangerous backlash, and Xiao Yi Xian broke down over years of fear and loneliness.
• Lu Heng told Xiao Yi Xian that a peak Seventh-Grade Five Elements Poison-Locking Pill could suppress her condition, and he was confident he could refine it.
• Lu Heng admitted the pill was not a permanent cure but promised that higher-grade pills could eventually resolve the Woe Poison Physique as his cultivation advanced.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked who Lu Heng really was, and he called himself her man, making her blush and deny that she had agreed to it.

Lu Heng kissed Xiao Yi Xian and explained that his unusual constitution protected him from her poison. Xiao Yi Xian agreed to return to Wutan City with him after he refined a pill to control her constitution, but chose to wait in the valley until then.

• Lu Heng kissed Xiao Yi Xian, then explained that his Five Elements cultivation could neutralize her current Poison Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Lu Heng's offer but asked to remain in the valley until he refined the Five Elements Poison-Locking Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Lu Heng a Mystic Ice Toad's poison sac for the pill, and they shared lunch and cleaned up together.
• After nightfall, Xiao Yi Xian urged Lu Heng to return to Wutan City and promised to wait for him in the valley.
• Lu Heng flew away on his five-colored Dou Qi wings, while Xiao Yi Xian watched him go.

Lu Heng told Ya Fei about Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Physique and learned that Nalan Yanran had gone to the Xiao Family to break off her engagement. He planned to begin practicing Seventh-Grade pill refining with a Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill that might improve Ya Fei’s cultivation talent.

• Lu Heng returned from Green Mountain Town, and Ya Fei teased him about visiting Xiao Yi Xian alone.
• Lu Heng explained Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Physique and her tragic past, and Ya Fei urged him to keep visiting her.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that Nalan Yanran had gone to the Xiao Family to break off her engagement.
• Lu Heng decided to practice refining intermediate Seventh-Grade pills before attempting the peak Seventh-Grade Five Elements Poison-Locking Pill.
• Lu Heng chose the Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill as a possible way to improve Ya Fei’s physique and began shutting himself away to refine pills.

Lu Heng successfully refined a Seventh-Grade Intermediate Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill and gave it to Ya Fei to improve her cultivation talent. The chapter ended with him guiding the pill’s medicinal power through her blocked meridians as she began taking it.

• Lu Heng’s first attempt to refine the pill failed when a medicinal liquid exploded, but his second attempt succeeded.
• Ya Fei learned the pill could improve cultivation talent and cried as Lu Heng gave it to her.
• Lu Heng and Ya Fei ate together, then she arranged for Uncle Gu Ni to cover for her at the auction house.
• Lu Heng considered the ingredients and practice needed to refine the Five Elements Poison-Locking Pill, noting that he had only two portions of its rarest ingredient.
• Ya Fei swallowed the Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill, and Lu Heng used his soul power to guide its medicinal power toward her blocked meridians.

Lu Heng used the Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill to clear Ya Fei’s meridians, and she broke through to One-Star Dou Master. Ya Fei celebrated her newfound cultivation potential and thanked Lu Heng as he went to bathe.

• Lu Heng finished clearing and reinforcing Ya Fei’s meridians with the Heaven Origin Pulse-Clearing Pill.
• Ya Fei absorbed the pill’s remaining energy and broke through to One-Star Dou Master.
• Lu Heng used his Li Fire to remove the impurities from Ya Fei’s skin, and she hurried off to bathe.
• Ya Fei returned and embraced Lu Heng, excited that she had become a Dou Master and could cultivate more than ten times faster.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that heated water remained for his bath, then quietly thanked him as he left.

Lu Heng left Wutan City for the Tagor Desert to find Qing Lin and recruit Hai Bodong, after bidding farewell to Ya Fei. At the desert’s edge, he rescued a girl with Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils who identified herself as Qing Lin.

• Lu Heng told Ya Fei he planned to leave Wutan City for several months, and she supported his decision.
• Lu Heng helped Ya Fei stabilize her cultivation before departing secretly for the Tagor Desert.
• Lu Heng reached the desert and headed toward Stone Desert City, the base of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Lu Heng spotted a caravan under attack and recognized the jade-eyed girl beside it as a likely Qing Lin.
• Lu Heng killed the bandit charging at the girl, then asked her name, and she said she was Qing Lin.

Lu Heng rescued Qing Lin from the Sand Iron bandits and recognized her rare Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. He invited her to come with him to Stone Desert City and speak to her commander, but Qing Lin was left staring at his offered hand.

• Lu Heng killed the Sand Iron leader with Blazing Sun Finger, and the remaining bandits fled.
• The caravan manager thanked Lu Heng, who turned his attention to the frightened Qing Lin and invited her to come with him.
• Qin Yao introduced herself as deputy captain of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and explained that bandits had attacked the caravan on the way to Stone Desert City.
• Lu Heng decided to take Qing Lin to Stone Desert City and speak with Commander Xiao Ding.
• Lu Heng offered Qing Lin his hand, and she froze, unused to anyone treating her that way.

Lu Heng took Qing Lin from the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and flew with her back to Stone Desert City, where the townspeople’s hostile reactions showed that her isolation continued. The chapter ended with Qing Lin leading Lu Heng through the city as she shrank under the locals’ attention.

• Lu Heng asked Qing Lin to call him Brother, then carried her into the sky on his Dou Qi wings while Qin Yao and the steward realized he was a Dou Wang.
• Lu Heng flew Qing Lin to Stone Desert City, and she marveled at seeing the world from above.
• Lu Heng landed outside the city and asked Qing Lin to lead the way.
• As they entered Stone Desert City, pedestrians recognized Qing Lin, avoided her, and muttered about her; Lu Heng noticed her hunching her shoulders and lowering her head.