Recaps

Xiao Yan and the other tournament qualifiers entered the hidden valley to visit the Library Pavilion, where Qian and Bai Elders recognized his Heavenly Flame and opened a spatial passage. The group prepared to enter, while Xiao Yan learned the fourth-place student had been expelled for suspected cheating.

• Xiao Yan learned that the top five could enter the Library Pavilion, but the fourth-place student had still not awakened after being beaten by Yun Li.
• Instructor Kulu brought Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian to meet Hu Gan, who led the group through a hidden passage toward the Library Pavilion.
• Hu Gan brought the four qualifiers to the ancient pavilion and asked its elders to open the entrance.
• Qian and Bai Elders noticed Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame, asked his name, and wondered why only four students had come.
• Hu Gan explained that the fourth-place student had been expelled for suspected cheating, and Qian and Bai Elders opened a door-shaped passage in space.

Xiao Yan and the others entered Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion to seek cultivation methods and Dou Techniques. Xiao Yan obtained a powerful Earth Tier body-tempering technique and helped Xiao Yi Xian and Hun Li Li find scrolls, but Hun Li Li’s kiss on his cheek provoked Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian as they left the pavilion.

• Hu Gan led Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hun Li Li through the Space Lock and explained the Library Pavilion’s rules.
• At the pavilion entrance, Hun Li Li teased Xiao Yan, who kissed her; she blushed and ran inside.
• The group discovered that energy barriers launched scrolls and treasures for visitors to catch, and Xiao Yan returned a Sky Jade Fruit he did not need.
• Xiao Yan caught and claimed the high-level Earth Tier body-tempering Dou Technique, Great Sun Separation Fire Body, then helped Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian obtain suitable Earth Tier techniques and a cultivation method.
• With time running short, Xiao Yan gave Hun Li Li several scrolls; she chose one and kissed his cheek before leaving, angering Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian.

After leaving the Library Pavilion, Xiao Yan spent three days learning the Soul Suppressing Seal before joining Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to enter the Inner Academy. As the group boarded Griffins, Xiao Yan discovered that Hun Li Li had lost her Dou Qi and fallen to the 3rd Stage.

• Xiao Yan and the others left the Library Pavilion, and Hu Gan advised them to strengthen themselves before entering the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan secluded himself in the Back Mountain and practiced the Soul Suppressing Seal, eventually forming its preliminary seal by the third morning.
• Xun Er met Xiao Yan, and they joined Xiao Yi Xian at Hu Gan's study to prepare for the Inner Academy journey.
• Hu Gan addressed the selected students and arranged for them to travel on ten Griffins, with Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hun Li Li assigned together.
• Hun Li Li slipped into Xiao Yan's arms, then revealed that she had to recultivate her Dou Qi; Xiao Yan checked her with his soul power and found that she had fallen to the 3rd Stage.

Hun Li Li confronted Old Man Mu Gu after discovering Lin Lang had been planted as a Soul Hall agent, then returned to Jia Nan Academy and explained that she had cleansed Hun Tian Di’s power from her body. Xiao Yan and the other students departed for the Inner Academy, where Hu Gan revealed a hidden spatial gate and led them through it.

• Hun Li Li brought Lin Lang’s corpse to a Soul Hall branch hall, struck Old Man Mu Gu with the Hall Master Token, and warned him not to send another agent near her.
• Old Man Mu Gu realized Hun Li Li’s status was exceptionally high and began considering another way to gain her favor.
• Hun Li Li told Xiao Yan that she had used the Dust Cleansing Art to remove Hun Tian Di’s power and soul imprint, leaving her temporarily weakened.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to look after Hun Li Li, then invited Han Yue to join their Griffin formation.
• Hu Gan and three elders escorted the students across the Back Mountain, protecting them from magical beasts and landing beside a mountain ravine.
• Hu Gan opened a concealed silver spatial gate, and Xiao Yan and the others followed him into the Inner Academy.

Xiao Yan and his four teammates began the Inner Academy’s Fire Energy Hunting Competition by turning the tables on the older students who were supposed to hunt them. Xiao Yan’s group ambushed a five-person team and quickly overwhelmed them, leaving the surviving older student surrendering as the others stared in shock.

• Hu Gan introduced Xiao Yan, Hun Li Li, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Han Yue to Inner Academy elders Su and Qing, who gave the newcomers Fire Crystal Cards and explained the trial.
• Elder Su announced the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and warned that older students could attack newcomers in the forest to steal their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yan proposed robbing the older students, and his four teammates agreed to follow his lead and divide their gains equally.
• Xiao Yan’s group encountered five older students who had already robbed two newcomer teams, and Xiao Yan assessed their strength before attacking with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan knocked two older students out with punches, shattered another’s Dou Qi Armor with a hidden force, and used suction, repulsion, and a blue flame to subdue a third.
• The last older student surrendered when Xiao Yan held a hand to his throat, while the other students watched in disbelief.

Xiao Yan’s team continued robbing Inner Academy seniors during the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, drawing attention from the academy’s elders and freshmen. After learning that powerful young women from the Ancient Eight Clans had transferred to the Inner Academy, Xiao Yan feared the dangers awaiting him there.

• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated senior teams and took their Fire Energy, leaving each opponent with the minimum seven points.
• Two elders watched the freshmen’s victories and praised Xiao Yan’s united team, while discussing the powerful transfer students in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan’s team defeated another senior group, and Xiao Yan learned that the Inner Academy included young Da Dou Shis from major clans.
• After hearing that the transfer students included Yao Ling, Shi Xuanxuan, and Ling Yanfei, Xiao Yan worried they were from the Ancient Eight Clans and considered fleeing Jia Nan Academy.
• Rumors spread about Xiao Yan’s team robbing seniors, and five senior teams with less than ten Fire Energy left the forest, leaving only the checkpoint team.

Xiao Yan faced the five-member Cold Shadow Team alone in the forest, using his Heavenly Flame to suppress their ice-based Dou Qi. The fight escalated as Lin Zhan countered his flames, and Xiao Yan unleashed an Earth Tier Dou Technique with his Heavy Profound Ruler.

• Lin Zhan introduced the Cold Shadow Team and demanded that Xiao Yan’s group hand over their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yan sent the four girls to the sidelines and challenged all five seniors by himself.
• Xiao Yan revealed cobalt blue flames that the watching elders recognized as a Heavenly Flame, slowing the Cold Shadow Team’s Dou Qi and melting their icy spears.
• Lin Zhan shielded his teammates with the Cold Shadow Myriad Frost Spear and turned it into a massive ice pillar to strike through Xiao Yan’s fire waves.
• Xiao Yan coated the Heavy Profound Ruler with flames and swung it with the Earth Tier Flame Splitting Devouring Wave Ruler.

Xiao Yan defeated Lin Zhan’s Cold Shadow Team and won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, earning cyan Fire Crystal Cards for himself and his teammates. After entering the Inner Academy, he met Yao Ling, a reincarnated alchemist who had come to Jia Nan Academy hoping to join him and protect the Yao Clan, only to suspect that several other women were also pursuing him.

• Xiao Yan defeated Lin Zhan and the other four members of the Cold Shadow Team, then took most of their Fire Energy.
• Elder Su declared Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Li, and Han Yue the winners and awarded them cyan Fire Crystal Cards with thirty days of Fire Energy each.
• Xiao Yan and his teammates exchanged their black cards for the cyan cards and followed Elder Su into the Inner Academy.
• Yao Ling recognized Xiao Yan as the man she had admired in her previous life and recalled returning three years into the past to prevent the Yao Clan’s destruction.
• Yao Ling had persuaded Yao Dan to send her to Jia Nan Academy, hoping to ally with Xiao Yan, but discovered Shi Xuanxuan and Ling Yanfei and feared she would have to compete with six women for his affection.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Inner Academy with Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Hun Li Li, and Han Yue, where he encountered Yao Ling and Ling Yanfei and worried about the Soul Clan’s plans. After surveying the academy, he prepared to cultivate in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and assigned his companions tasks to build a Student Union and prepare for trouble from older students.

• Xiao Yan noticed Yao Ling and Ling Yanfei among the gathered students and worried that the Ling Clan and Shi Clan members might know about his future.
• Elder Su assigned Xiao Yan and the four women a shared pavilion and explained the Inner Academy’s factions, Fire Energy, and cultivation facilities.
• Xiao Yan explored the Inner Academy with Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, Hun Li Li, and Han Yue, then resolved to cultivate in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower despite his looming responsibilities.
• Xiao Yan assigned Xiao Yi Xian to sell pills, Xun Er and Han Yue to organize new students into a Student Union, and Hun Li Li to deal with any older students who caused trouble.

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, used its Heart Fire to refine his Dou Qi, and drew the Fallen Heart Flame’s attention when he peered into the central black hole. Elder Su led him to a high-grade room on the third floor, where Xiao Yan began cultivating in seclusion.

• Xiao Yan provoked the senior students at the tower entrance, but Elder Su intervened before a fight began.
• Xiao Yan endured the projected Heart Fire and refined his Dou Qi until the flame dissipated, astonishing Elder Su and the other students.
• Xiao Yan asked to visit the third floor, and Elder Su agreed to take him there.
• Xiao Yan looked into the central black hole and triggered the Fallen Heart Flame, but Elder Su pulled him back before it could escape its seals.
• Elder Su warned Xiao Yan to keep the incident secret, then brought him to a high-grade third-floor room, where Xiao Yan began cultivating.

Shi Xuanxuan visited Yao Ling for help removing the Fallen Heart Flame’s fire poison, and Yao Ling treated her with a medicinal bath. After Shi Xuanxuan left, Yao Ling admitted that seeing her had made her heart flutter and wished she could meet Xiao Yan sooner.

• Shi Xuanxuan asked Yao Ling to help remove the fire poison that had accumulated in her body.
• Yao Ling prepared Ice Spirit Marrow-Cleansing Liquid and instructed Shi Xuanxuan to use it in a medicinal bath.
• Shi Xuanxuan followed Yao Ling’s guidance, and the treatment reduced the fire poison and eased her symptoms.
• Yao Ling told Shi Xuanxuan that she would need ten more days of treatment and two days of consolidation.
• Shi Xuanxuan thanked Yao Ling, accepted tea, and left after their fingertips touched and stirred unfamiliar feelings in both of them.
• Yao Ling watched Shi Xuanxuan leave and sighed that she needed to meet Xiao Yan sooner.

Shi Xuanxuan and Ling Yanfei considered Xiao Yan’s possible role in protecting their clans from the Soul Clan, while Xiao Yan cultivated in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and advanced to Seven-Star Da Dou Shi. After two months in seclusion, he returned to find Yao Ling and Shi Xuanxuan had joined the Student Union, and asked why they had chosen it.

• Shi Xuanxuan reflected on her rebirth, her goal of saving the Shi Clan, and her plan to pause tower cultivation until the fire poison was cleared.
• Ling Yanfei recalled how her bloodline revealed the Ling Clan’s destruction and began to suspect Xiao Yan was the Flame Emperor who could help avert the clans’ fate.
• Hun Li Li teased Han Yue, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian about their closeness to Xiao Yan while he was away cultivating.
• Xiao Yan ran out of Fire Energy while approaching a breakthrough, consumed an Earth Fire Lotus Seed, and advanced from Four-Star to Seven-Star Da Dou Shi over two months.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Freshman District and learned that Yao Ling, Ling Yanfei, and Shi Xuanxuan had joined the Student Union and that it had organized guards and other members.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Ling and Shi Xuanxuan in the attic and asked why they had joined the Student Union.

Xiao Yan used his Cobalt Blue Flame to begin purging the fire poison entangled with Shi Xuanxuan’s Dou Qi. The treatment eased her condition but had to stop before the poison was fully removed, and Shi Xuanxuan discovered that the flames had burned away her clothes.

• Shi Xuanxuan told Xiao Yan she had come to grow stronger by following him, and Yao Ling explained why they wanted his help with Shi Xuanxuan’s fire poison.
• Xiao Yan examined Shi Xuanxuan’s Rock Dou Qi and judged that Heavenly Flames could remove the poison without damaging her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan went with Shi Xuanxuan to her room, while Yao Ling prepared a bathtub before learning that the treatment would use Heavenly Flames instead of a medicinal bath.
• Yao Ling stood guard as Xiao Yan guided his Cobalt Blue Flame into Shi Xuanxuan’s body and burned the fire poison out of her Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan stopped the treatment after Shi Xuanxuan neared her limit and said two more sessions should finish the job.
• Shi Xuanxuan regained awareness, realized the flame had burned away her upper-body clothes, and saw Xiao Yan covering his eyes.

Xiao Yan treated Shi Xuanxuan for Fire Poison, while Yao Ling’s misunderstanding led her to confess her feelings for him to Shi Xuanxuan. Xiao Yan then learned the Student Union was thriving, and Hun Li Li asked him to refine more pills for its depleted supplies.

• Xiao Yan finished treating Shi Xuanxuan, promised two more sessions, and said he would make pills to prevent Fire Poison from accumulating.
• Yao Ling imagined Xiao Yan and Shi Xuanxuan had been intimate, then told Shi Xuanxuan that she loved Xiao Yan and would accept becoming his concubine.
• Shi Xuanxuan said she would support Yao Ling, and Yao Ling checked that Shi Xuanxuan’s aura and bloodline were unharmed.
• Hun Li Li told Xiao Yan that Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian were cultivating, Han Yue was managing the Student Union, and the group had grown to nearly a hundred members.
• Hun Li Li reported that the Student Union had run out of Xiao Yan’s pills and asked him to refine another batch.

Xiao Yan brushed off Hun Li Li’s flirtation and asked Old Yao about Shi Xuanxuan’s unusual scent, learning that she possessed a rare Natural Charm Body. Old Yao warned him that the Ancient Clan women might know about his accelerated cultivation, then advised him to train his body-tempering technique; Xiao Yan instead began refining pills, intent on advancing his alchemy.

• Hun Li Li teased Xiao Yan in an OL outfit, replenished his Fire Energy, and sniffed his card after noticing Shi Xuanxuan’s scent on it.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about Shi Xuanxuan’s sweet, arousing fragrance, and Old Yao identified her as a rare Natural Charm Body.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan women might have come to him early because they knew his cultivation was nearly six years ahead of schedule.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to cultivate his fire-element body-tempering Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan chose to practice alchemy and review prescriptions from the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined a batch of pills, received Old Yao’s praise, and continued practicing toward becoming a Fifth-Grade Alchemist.

Xiao Yan visited the Student Union and learned from Han Yue how it had grown and what resources it lacked. He supplied pills and ordered her to pressure rival factions while he stayed behind to refine more, leaving the Student Union poised for a possible conflict.

• Xiao Yan found Han Yue managing the Student Union’s busy office and reviewed its membership, missions, finances, and guard rotations.
• Han Yue explained that the union had little Fire Energy left and that rival factions resented Yao Ling, Shi Xuanxuan, and Ling Yanfei joining.
• Xiao Yan gave Han Yue a Storage Ring of pills to sell and told her to recruit alchemists and use the proceeds to buy medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan ordered Han Yue to pressure the Medicine Gang’s market and provoke the rival factions, promising to act if they retaliated.
• Han Yue told Xiao Yan that Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian had been cultivating in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower for about a month and would return within half a month.
• Xiao Yan collected medicinal ingredients and returned to his attic to refine pills, telling Han Yue to contact him if anything urgent happened.

Xiao Yan treated Shi Xuanxuan’s fire poison with his Heavenly Flame, but her breakthrough triggered an uncontrolled surge of Dou Qi and caused the flame to erupt inside her meridians. He pulled the Heavenly Flame from her body, leaving her condition uncertain and her undergarment burned away again.

• Xiao Yan reviewed information about the Inner Academy factions and recognized that the Student Union’s conflict with the Medicine Gang, Iron Mountain Gang, and Azure Cloud Society threatened its foothold.
• Xiao Yan returned to the attic and went to Shi Xuanxuan’s room to purge her fire poison while Yao Ling stood guard outside.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flame to burn away more of Shi Xuanxuan’s fire poison as she endured the pain and guided her Dou Qi.
• Shi Xuanxuan’s purified Dou Qi surged toward a breakthrough, struck Xiao Yan’s controlled flame, and triggered its defensive eruption inside her meridians.
• Xiao Yan shielded Shi Xuanxuan with his soul power, then forcibly drew the Heavenly Flame out of her body, burning away her undergarment in the process.

Xiao Yan helped Shi Xuanxuan recover from her injuries and complete her breakthrough, but his damaged soul power caused him to collapse into her arms. Yao Ling examined him and discovered that Shi Xuanxuan was suffocating him with her chest.

• Xiao Yan gave Shi Xuanxuan a Green Spirit Pill and placed her on the Green Lotus Throne so she could heal while completing her breakthrough.
• Shi Xuanxuan advanced to a Four-Star Dou Ling and thanked Xiao Yan for helping her.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from his injured soul power, and Shi Xuanxuan caught him in her arms.
• Yao Ling examined Xiao Yan and found that his soul injury was treatable, but Shi Xuanxuan was nearly suffocating him.

After Xiao Yan collapsed from Heavenly Flame backlash, Yao Ling treated him while Shi Xuanxuan watched over him, and Yao Ling secretly kissed him as he slept. The next morning Xiao Yan recovered, but Han Yue reported that their members and pill-selling operations had been attacked, prompting Xiao Yan to investigate.

• Shi Xuanxuan accidentally pressed the unconscious Xiao Yan against her chest, then laid him on her bed after Yao Ling warned her not to suffocate him.
• Yao Ling diagnosed Xiao Yan's soul injury, gave him a Soul Nourishing Pill, and sent Shi Xuanxuan to stabilize her newly advanced realm.
• After Shi Xuanxuan left, Yao Ling secretly kissed the sleeping Xiao Yan and stayed beside him through the night.
• Shi Xuanxuan returned in the morning, and Xiao Yan woke recovered; Yao Ling checked his condition while he thanked both women.
• Han Yue reported that members buying medicinal ingredients had returned empty-handed, pill sellers had been obstructed and injured, and half their selling locations had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes and told Yao Ling and Shi Xuanxuan to go with him to investigate.

Xiao Yan confronted Sun Qingyang over the Medicine Gang obstructing the Student Union’s pill sales, while Yao Ling, Shi Xuanxuan, and Ling Yanfei stood up for him. The two leaders agreed to settle the dispute in a pill-refining contest at North Plaza the next day, using a prescription selected by Elder Hao.

• Sun Qingyang mocked Xiao Yan for bringing few people to confront the Medicine Gang, and Xiao Yan challenged him to resolve their dispute through alchemy.
• Yao Ling and Shi Xuanxuan backed Xiao Yan, then Ling Yanfei arrived and revealed her Eight-Star Dou Ling strength, weakening the Medicine Gang’s advantage.
• Xiao Yan proposed a pill-refining contest, and Sun Qingyang raised the stakes: the loser would surrender pill-selling rights or prescriptions, while the winner would gain the other side’s concessions.
• Xiao Yan and Sun Qingyang agreed to compete using the same prescription, with Elder Hao serving as judge and selecting the prescription himself.
• Elder Hao approved the contest, and both sides agreed to meet at North Plaza the next day.

Xiao Yan faced Sun Qingyang in a highly anticipated pill-refinement contest at the Inner Academy, after revealing that he had advanced beyond Fourth-Tier Alchemist. The contest’s difficult Fifth-Grade formula was the Double Spirit Ascension Pill, and Xiao Yan recognized it as a recipe suited to his strengths.

• Yao Ling explained Sun Qingyang’s standing as a Fourth-Tier Alchemist, while Xiao Yan and the others expressed confidence in Xiao Yan’s Alchemy.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was no longer a Fourth-Tier Alchemist, and news of his contest with Sun Qingyang spread across the Inner Academy.
• A huge crowd gathered at the North Plaza the next morning as Elder Hao began refereeing the contest between Sun Qingyang and Xiao Yan.
• Elder Hao presented an undisclosed formula, and Sun Qingyang’s expression turned grim after reading its difficult requirements.
• Xiao Yan recognized the formula as the Fifth-Grade Double Spirit Ascension Pill, which required two powerful flames and suited his specialty.

Xiao Yan and Sun Qingyang began a competition to refine the Double Spirit Ascension Pill, a difficult Fifth-Grade pill said to guarantee a breakthrough to Dou Wang. After both suffered setbacks, Xiao Yan suspected the pill formula’s prescribed method was flawed and decided to test his own approach with the remaining ingredients.

• Elder Hao announced the Double Spirit Ascension Pill as the competition’s subject and said the first successful refinement would win, with failed pills judged if neither succeeded.
• Xiao Yan and Sun Qingyang inspected their ingredients and began refining, using Xiao Yan’s worn cauldron and Sun Qingyang’s Qingyang Fire.
• Sun Qingyang’s first attempt failed after his eighth ingredient, and he calmed himself before starting again while Xiao Yan’s technique drew praise.
• Xiao Yan’s first attempt also failed when unstable medicinal liquid blasted the cauldron lid away.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the formula’s two-stage, flame-switching method would waste medicinal potency, so he chose to test his own interpretation using the remaining ingredients.

Xiao Yan refined a genuine Fifth-Grade Double Spirit Ascension Pill after discovering the supplied formula was flawed, defeating Sun Qingyang in their pill-refining contest. Sun Qingyang accepted the loss and learned the correct method, and Elder Hao declared Xiao Yan the winner.

• Yao Ling judged that the Double Spirit Ascension Pill formula was incomplete, while Xiao Yan's companions trusted that he could succeed.
• Xiao Yan used two Heavenly Flames to refine the pill as Sun Qingyang followed the flawed formula and produced only a Fourth-Grade pill.
• Xiao Yan completed the Fifth-Grade pill despite his cauldron breaking, then retrieved and refined it in his flame-wreathed hand.
• The elders confirmed Xiao Yan's pill was a genuine Fifth-Grade Pill, and Sun Qingyang asked why his own refinement had failed.
• Xiao Yan explained the formula's flaw and demonstrated that Sun Qingyang's pill exploded with power comparable to a Dou Wang attack.
• Sun Qingyang conceded and promised to honor the wager, and Elder Hao declared Xiao Yan the winner.

After Xiao Yan won the alchemy competition, he secured favorable terms for the Student Union and teased Han Yue, only to be caught by Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian. At the chapter’s end, Sun Qingyang decided to merge the Medicine Gang into the Student Union, seeing Xiao Yan’s talent as an opportunity for its members.

• Elder Hao offered Xiao Yan access to the Herb Repository and reduced the Student Union’s monthly Fire Energy payment from twenty percent to ten percent, provided the discount stayed secret.
• Xiao Yan assigned Han Yue to take over the Medicine Gang’s trading locations and manage the Student Union’s accounts, while urging her to make time for cultivation.
• Han Yue wiped blood from Xiao Yan’s cheek, and Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian arrived and teased them before escorting Xiao Yan away.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to help manage Student Union affairs so Han Yue could enter seclusion and cultivate.
• Sun Qingyang learned that Xiao Yan was twelve, a Da Dou Shi, and a Fifth-Grade Alchemist, then proposed that the Medicine Gang merge into the Student Union.
• The Medicine Gang’s members warmed to Sun Qingyang’s proposal, hoping Xiao Yan’s future guidance would help them advance in alchemy.

Xiao Yan rested while Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian handled plans for the Medicine Gang and Student Union, as Ling Yanfei’s Spirit Communion with Yao Ling revealed the depth of Yao Ling’s feelings for him. Ling Yanfei then used Xiao Yan’s blood as a medium and saw a powerful black-robed figure with multicolored flames, leaving her stunned by the possibility that it was Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan gave Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian medicinal pills, then fell asleep as Xiao Yi Xian massaged his shoulders.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to manage the Medicine Gang handover and Student Union matters while Xiao Yan rested.
• Ling Yanfei’s Spirit Communion with Yao Ling overwhelmed her and revealed Yao Ling’s intense, long-suppressed love for Xiao Yan.
• Ling Yanfei decided not to commune with Yao Ling again and used blood from a fragment that had cut Xiao Yan as a medium for Spirit Communion.
• Ling Yanfei saw a black-robed figure atop a multicolored flame lotus platform and recognized the possibility that he was Xiao Yan.