Chapter Summaries

Han Feng learned that the Break-Sect Pill auction had stirred chaos in the Black-Corner Region and that Soul Hall was involved, then left to pursue an opportunity. At Peaceful Town, Yao Yan refused Jia Nan Academy’s required pill and said he had come to apply for a teaching position, prompting an Enforcer to ask about his strength.

• Han Feng reflected on his incomplete Flame Mantra and his resentment toward Yao Lao, then learned about the Break-Sect Pill auction and suspected Eight Gates had engineered the resulting turmoil.
• After reviewing intelligence that showed Soul Hall Envoys were active in the Black-Corner Region, Han Feng ordered his guards to conceal his return and flew away.
• Yao Yan arrived at Peaceful Town and observed Jia Nan Academy’s Enforcers requiring travelers to swallow a Killing Intent Sensing Pill.
• Yao Yan examined the pill, returned it, and said he had come to apply as a teacher at Jia Nan Academy.
• The spear-wielding Enforcer asked Yao Yan what his strength was.

Yao Yan sought a teaching position at Jia Nan Academy, revealing that he was an eighteen-year-old Five Star Dou Wang and a Fifth-Rank Alchemist who wielded the Green Lotus Core Flame. Hu Gan agreed to take him to meet the Inner Academy Grand Elder for final approval.

• Yao Yan told Mu Yun that he was a Five Star Dou Wang from the Central Plains who wanted to stay at Jia Nan Academy, stunning the Law Enforcement Team with his age.
• Mu Yun brought Yao Yan to Huo De, who arranged for the Outer Academy dean to be notified while Yao Yan waited in Peaceful Town.
• Hu Gan arrived and questioned Yao Yan about his family, then asked him to remove his mask and explain his teaching experience.
• Yao Yan revealed that he was a Fifth-Rank Alchemist and displayed the Green Lotus Core Flame, convincing Hu Gan to support his request.
• Hu Gan agreed to take Yao Yan to meet the Inner Academy Grand Elder for final approval.

Yao Yan joined Jia Nan Academy after convincing Su Qian to let him stay despite his uncertain status in the Yao Clan. While exploring the Inner Academy and its cultivation tower, he exposed his strength by stopping Xiong Zhuang from demanding Fire Energy and announced he might teach a class on respecting teachers and juniors.

• Hu Gan brought Yao Yan to the Inner Academy, where Yao Yan saw the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and sensed the sealed Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian questioned Yao Yan about his origins, and Yao Yan explained that he came from the Yao Clan and had been cast out after avenging his parents by killing a family from the same clan.
• Su Qian agreed to let Yao Yan stay temporarily, but kept him under observation and did not immediately appoint him as an instructor.
• Yao Yan visited the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower the next day and attracted attention from students who preyed on newcomers.
• Xiong Zhuang demanded five Fire Energy points and grabbed Yao Yan, but Yao Yan effortlessly overpowered him and revealed that he was a teacher.
• Yao Yan warned Xiong Zhuang not to touch him again and suggested that Jia Nan Academy add a class on respecting teachers and caring for junior students.

Hu Gan and Su Qian discussed Yao Yan’s talent and the mysterious Magical Beast cub Su Qian had released into the mountains. Yao Yan entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where he discovered that the Fallen Heart Flame was weakening the seal and could eventually destroy the tower.

• Su Qian explained that he was keeping his distance from Yao Yan because of his complicated background, and Hu Gan agreed that the academy had little to offer a Five Star Dou Wang.
• Su Qian told Hu Gan that the Magical Beast cub he had brought back could fight Rank 5 Magical Beasts, use Space Power, and consume an enormous amount of resources, so he had let her go into the mountain range.
• Xiong Zhuang warned Yao Yan about the Heart Fire in the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, but Yao Yan extracted it and refined it as nourishment for his cultivation.
• Xiong Zhuang led Yao Yan toward a cultivation room, and Yao Yan stopped at the Black Hole in the tower’s center to inspect the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Yan found that the Fallen Heart Flame had burned a gap in Mang Tianchi’s Space Seal and knocked its fire python away with his Soul Power.
• Yao Yan realized that the Fallen Heart Flame drew strength from the Heart Fire throughout the tower, making the entire tower a powder keg that could eventually explode.

Yao Yan cultivated in the lowest chambers of the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, using Fallen Heart Flame to refine his Magic Poison Spot and strengthen his Dou Qi. After the tower closed for maintenance, he asked Xiong Zhuang to help him find a Snow Demon Sky Ape so he could obtain its Magic Core and pursue the Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid.

• Yao Yan confirmed that Fallen Heart Flame was sealed beneath the tower and learned from Elder Liu that he could cultivate in its lowest chamber without competing with the students.
• Yao Yan released the Magic Poison Spot and let two Exotic Flames refine it, strengthening his Dou Qi as his cultivation approached Six Star Dou Wang.
• Yao Yan emerged about ten days later with a stronger aura, and Elder Liu told him the tower would reopen in three days.
• Yao Yan decided to use the closure to seek Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and asked the waiting Xiong Zhuang to investigate nearby Snow Demon Sky Apes.
• Xiong Zhuang was surprised to learn Yao Yan wanted a Snow Demon Sky Ape's Magic Core to refine a pill, while Yao Yan kept his alchemist rank private.

Yao Yan sought out the Snow Demon Sky Ape and met Zi Yan, a hungry young member of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, in the mountains behind Jia Nan Academy. After gaining her trust with a pill, he took her along to find the ape, while Su Qian secretly watched them leave.

• Xiong Zhuang warned Yao Yan that the Snow Demon Sky Ape could unleash berserk strength, and Yao Yan rewarded him with Tier 3 Qi Recovery Pills before flying toward the back mountain.
• Yao Yan found Zi Yan overpowering a Frost Moon Wolf and confronted her near the cave where she had found Green Lemon Fruit.
• After learning Yao Yan was a new Jia Nan Academy teacher, Zi Yan shared a fruit with him and accepted a pill, then agreed to help him locate the Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Yao Yan carried Zi Yan into the air and promised to avenge her against the Snow Demon Sky Ape after she warned him about its berserk strength.
• Su Qian emerged after they left, judged that Zi Yan seemed comfortable with Yao Yan, and decided to keep observing him.

Yao Yan took Zi Yan to the cave where the Snow Demon Sky Ape had once threatened her, killed the beast, and helped her find an underground pool of Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid. He collected some of the stronger fluid hidden inside a stalactite and left the rest of the treasure intact before returning with Zi Yan to the Inner Academy.

• Yao Yan flew with Zi Yan to the Snow Demon Sky Ape's cave and killed the beast with a kick and a Green Lotus Core Flame attack.
• Yao Yan followed Zi Yan's treasure-seeking sense through the cave and found an underground world of stalactites.
• Zi Yan drank the diluted Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid from a pool while Yao Yan collected some of the stronger liquid stored inside a stalactite.
• Yao Yan left several drops of the concentrated fluid behind, collapsed the cave entrance to protect the treasure, and flew back toward the Inner Academy with Zi Yan.

Yao Yan told Su Qian that he was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist and asked to stay at Jia Nan Academy, then began refining nourishing medicinal liquid for Zi Yan. The chapter ended with him putting Zi Yan into a bathtub of the liquid, which she eagerly drank.

• Su Qian asked Yao Yan about Zi Yan's origins, and Yao Yan hinted that she might belong to a mysterious clan.
• Yao Yan revealed that he was an eighteen-year-old Seventh-Rank Alchemist and explained that he had come to Jia Nan Academy partly to seek refuge.
• Su Qian agreed to let Yao Yan stay and asked him to look after Zi Yan.
• Yao Yan gave Xiong Zhuang a Third-Rank Pill to Assist Cultivation, then took Zi Yan with him to prepare food and medicine.
• Yao Yan refined Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid with medicinal ingredients and poured it into a bathtub for Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan eagerly dunked her head into the bathtub and drank the medicinal liquid.

Yao Yan helped Zi Yan awaken her bloodline with Vitality Spirit Liquid, while Su Qian sealed the area to hide her unusual connection to Space Power. Yao Yan also secured Su Qian’s permission to recruit Jia Nan Academy graduates for a future faction and planned to deal with Han Feng; Zi Yan’s breakthrough was expected to take three months.

• Zi Yan absorbed the Vitality Spirit Liquid, awakening her bloodline and drawing Heaven and Earth Energy and Space Power toward her.
• Yao Yan warned Su Qian that Zi Yan’s aura could attract the Void Ancient Dragon Clan or the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes, so Su Qian sealed the courtyard and surrounding space.
• Yao Yan proposed reshaping the Black-Corner Region and revealed that he wanted to build a faction with Jia Nan Academy graduates, while Su Qian forbade him from recruiting current students.
• Yao Yan agreed to respect Jia Nan Academy’s boundary and planned to draw Han Feng into conflict over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian concealed Zi Yan’s spatial fluctuations as she entered a breakthrough, and Yao Yan estimated that she would awaken in three months.

Hu Gan learned that Yao Yan was a seventh-rank alchemist and considered asking him for a Break-Sect Pill, while Su Qian insisted Jia Nan Academy stay out of faction disputes. In Black Seal City, Cai Lin ordered Yuan Yi and Gold Silver Two Elders to stir up trouble around Demon Flame Valley, as Han Feng began conspiring with Soul Hall to slaughter several faction cities for their souls.

• Su Qian told Hu Gan that Yao Yan was a seventh-rank alchemist who had made the Huang Ji Pill and Break-Sect Pill, and Hu Gan asked to seek a pill for himself.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan agreed Jia Nan Academy should not become involved in Yao Yan's faction plans, and Su Qian told Hu Gan to approach Yao Yan privately.
• Cai Lin ordered Yuan Yi to spread news about Demon Flame Valley and have Gold Silver Two Elders handle the matter, warning that the Break-Sect Pill would not be easy to obtain.
• Yao Lao told Cai Lin to wait for Yao Yan and explained that his Soul Body and Soul Hall's attention limited what he could do.
• Han Feng used Sea Heart Flame to face two Soul Hall figures, then offered to help them seize souls by arranging attacks on several faction cities.

Yao Yan left Jia Nan Academy for the Black-Corner Region after learning that an entire city had been wiped out and resolving to target Demon Flame Valley. He returned to Black Seal City, reunited with Cai Lin and Yao Lao, and confirmed that he had found news of Fallen Heart Flame.

• Yao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Six Star Dou Wang and learned from Su Qian that a city had become an empty city and Demon Flame Valley had acquired the Break-Sect Pill.
• Yao Yan revealed that his High-Level Spirit Realm Soul Power could threaten ordinary five- or six-star Dou Ancestors and said he planned to seek an opportunity to destroy Demon Flame Valley.
• Yao Yan left Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid with Su Qian for Zi Yan and flew toward the Black-Corner Region.
• Yao Yan returned to Black Seal City and saw that Cai Lin had kept the city busy and orderly.
• Yao Yan met Cai Lin and Yao Lao, then confirmed to Yao Lao that he had found news of Fallen Heart Flame.

Yao Yan explained the Fallen Heart Flame’s condition and Jia Nan Academy’s defenses, then decided to use Han Feng and Demon Flame Valley to provoke a confrontation so he could seize the flame. He left Yao Lao and Cai Lin wondering how the plan could work, while intending to reveal his identity as “Young Master.”

• Yao Yan told Cai Lin and Yao Lao that Jia Nan Academy’s hidden experts made taking the Fallen Heart Flame by force too dangerous, but he refused to abandon it.
• Yao Yan explained that the Fallen Heart Flame was close to breaking free of its seal and that the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower had fueled its hatred of Jia Nan Academy.
• Yao Yan and Yao Lao discussed Han Feng’s secret cultivation of the Flame Mantra, his attempt to refine another person’s origin, and his connection to the Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao identified the Soul Hall as responsible for massacring a city in the Black-Corner Region and revealed that one of its members had encouraged Han Feng’s past crimes.
• Yao Yan proposed contacting Han Feng and leaking news of the Fallen Heart Flame so Han Feng and Demon Flame Valley would move against Jia Nan Academy, then planned to reveal his identity as “Young Master.”

Yao Yan teased Cai Lin and Yao Lao before revealing his plan to refine an Ice Heart Pill using Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid. As Yao Yan began the refinement in a barren mountain, Yao Lao grew suspicious that his alchemy teacher might be a Rank 9 Alchemist.

• Yao Lao warned Yao Yan not to underestimate Han Feng or the Soul Hall, and Yao Yan assured him he would stay cautious.
• Yao Lao teased Yao Yan about Cai Lin and Cai Die, then admitted he had returned to the room and been watching them.
• Yao Yan showed Yao Lao a bottle of Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and said he would refine an Ice Heart Pill that day.
• Yao Yan began refining the pill in a barren mountain near Black Seal City while Yao Lao and Cai Lin watched.
• Yao Lao recognized traces of advanced alchemy methods in Yao Yan's technique and wondered whether his teacher was a Rank 9 Alchemist.

Yao Yan refined a Seventh-Rank Ice Heart Pill and faced the pill lightning that gathered over it. He chose to let the lightning strike him so he could temper his body, while Yao Lao and Cai Lin watched in alarm.

• Yao Lao suppressed his doubts about Yao Yan and watched him refine the Ice Heart Pill.
• Yao Yan fused six drops of Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid with the medicinal essences and spent two days refining them in the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Yao Yan suppressed the pill’s restless spiritual essences and formed the Ice Heart Pill, prompting Yao Lao to warn that its pill lightning could be powerful.
• Dark clouds gathered above the cauldron, and Yao Lao and Cai Lin prepared to intervene if Yao Yan could not withstand the lightning.
• Yao Yan asked Yao Lao to watch the cauldron, activated the Indestructible Diamond Body, and flew into the sky to meet the pill lightning.
• Yao Yan let a massive bolt of lightning strike him, beginning to temper his body through destruction and regeneration.

Yao Yan endured increasingly powerful pill lightning while tempering his body and ultimately shattered a red, higher-grade strike with a bloodline power he had kept hidden. After the thunderclouds vanished, he collapsed, concealed the source of his strange power from Yao Lao, and wondered how to make the Tunling Clan bloodline truly his own.

• Yao Yan deliberately provoked the pill lightning, and Yao Lao warned Cai Lin that his actions would make its strikes stronger and more frequent.
• Yao Yan endured nearly a hundred lightning strikes as the storm intensified, while Cai Lin and Yao Lao watched in alarm.
• Yao Lao recognized the changing lightning as Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Yao Yan finally struck back with his fist and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Yan's hidden Tunling Clan bloodline surfaced, helping him shatter the red lightning and pierce the thunderclouds before he suppressed the bloodline again.
• Cai Lin gave the exhausted Yao Yan pills, and Yao Lao returned the Ice Heart Pill and asked about the strange power and altered lightning.
• Yao Yan claimed his power came from a secret technique, while privately considering that he would need to refine the Tunling Clan bloodline completely.

After recovering from his injuries, Yao Yan recruited the Gold Silver Two Elders with a Break-Sect Pill and set out for Maple City to confront Han Feng. He left Cai Lin and Yao Lao in Black Seal City, while Yao Lao wondered what secrets Yao Yan was hiding.

• Yao Yan healed himself with the sinister energy, recognized its dangerous properties, and decided to pursue the Fallen Heart Flame rather than follow the Evil Spirit Clan’s path.
• After seven days in seclusion, Yao Yan emerged fully recovered and reassured Cai Lin before asking her to contact Yuan Yi and investigate Han Feng.
• Yao Yan used his Soul Pressure and a genuine Break-Sect Pill to convince the Gold Silver Two Elders to serve him.
• Yuan Yi reported that Han Feng was secluded in Maple City, so Yao Yan took the Gold Silver Two Elders there while Cai Lin and Yao Lao stayed behind in Black Seal City.
• Cai Lin watched Yao Yan leave, and Yao Lao urged her to cultivate while privately wondering what secrets Yao Yan still concealed.

Yao Yan arrived in Maple City with the Gold Silver Two Elders to confront Han Feng, and his group overwhelmed the city lord’s guards. Han Feng appeared in a sea of flames, and Yao Yan attacked him with Soul Pressure.

• Crowds gathered outside Han Feng Residence, where visitors sought Han Feng’s pill-refinement services, as rumors spread of a city being massacred.
• Yao Yan and the Gold Silver Two Elders blasted down the City Lord Manor’s gates, and Silver Elder crippled a young Dou Huang who attacked them.
• Yao Yan invited the 5-Star Dou Huang Rough Man to serve him, then ordered everyone unrelated to his business with Han Feng to leave.
• Han Feng appeared above the manor on a sea of flames and demanded an explanation from the Gold Silver Two Elders.
• Yao Yan taunted Han Feng about his elevated position and unleashed Soul Pressure at him.

Yao Yan subdued Han Feng with Spirit Realm Soul Power and pressured him into revealing Jia Nan Academy’s Exotic Fire. Han Feng agreed to retrieve it, while secretly fearing the consequences and looking for a chance to survive.

• Yao Yan’s Soul Pressure dragged Han Feng from the sky and forced him to kneel before him.
• Han Feng pleaded for his life, blamed Venerable Yao for his misfortune, and invited Yao Yan into his residence to explain their past.
• Han Feng claimed Venerable Yao had wronged him, but Yao Yan challenged his account and demanded the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng refused to surrender the Sea Heart Flame outright and told Yao Yan that Jia Nan Academy might possess a higher-ranked Exotic Fire.
• Yao Yan ordered Han Feng to retrieve Jia Nan Academy’s Exotic Fire, and Han Feng reluctantly agreed while asking for help if he faced an opponent he could not defeat.

Yao Yan coerced Han Feng into handing over his treasures, including the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron and Abyssal Sea Storage Ring, while promising to help him in exchange for information about Jia Nan Academy. Han Feng secretly sought help from the Soul Hall, unaware that Yao Yan expected them to come, and Yao Yan looked ahead to visiting the Soul Clan.

• Yao Yan promised Han Feng a Spirit Crystal if he provided information about Jia Nan Academy within a month, then accepted Han Feng's invitation to stay in Maple City.
• Yao Yan demanded Han Feng's medicinal ingredients and Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron, taking the cauldron and giving Han Feng another medicine cauldron in exchange.
• Yao Yan forced Han Feng to surrender his Abyssal Sea Storage Ring, despite Han Feng threatening to detonate the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng ordered Kuang Zhan to look after Yao Yan and left to seek help from the Soul Hall and possible Dou Zong allies.
• Yao Yan watched Han Feng depart and revealed that he wanted the Soul Hall to come to him before he visited the Soul Clan.

Han Feng enlisted the Soul Hall Guardians to help test Yao Yan’s strength and began arranging an attack on Jia Nan Academy. While staying at Han Feng’s residence, Yao Yan consumed a Dou Ling Pill and started advancing from Six Star Dou Wang toward Nine-Star Dou Wang.

• Han Feng told two Soul Hall Guardians about Yao Yan’s Spirit Realm Soul, and they proposed having Black-Corner Region Dou Zong experts test him rather than risk confronting him themselves.
• The lead Guardian suggested Han Feng lure the Demon Flame Valley Old Ancestor into taking action, and Han Feng agreed to use Demon Flame Valley’s hostility toward Jia Nan Academy.
• The Guardians decided to let Han Feng test Yao Yan first and keep the opportunity to capture his soul for themselves instead of informing their Venerable Elder.
• After ten days, Han Feng reported that he had persuaded several Demon Flame Valley Dou Emperors to attack Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy while they investigated the location of its Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Yan dismissed his maids, sealed the room with his Soul Power, and began refining a Dou Ling Pill to raise his strength from Six Star Dou Wang toward Nine-Star Dou Wang.