Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Fan Ling with his growing strength and Heavenly Flames, then called Great Ming King to wipe out the Blood Sect guards. Fan Ling realized Xiao Yan’s flames were behind the strange suppression of his Dou Qi, and Great Ming King fixed its gaze on him.

• Medusa subdued the white-haired Dou Wang while Xiao Yan fought Fan Ling.
• Fan Ling’s expected reinforcements were defeated, and he decided to rely on himself.
• Fan Ling used Bone-Melting Blood Fiend Palm, but Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames consumed the blood mist and badly burned his hands.
• Fan Ling ordered the Blood Guards to attack, and Great Ming King killed them all with one strike.
• Great Ming King turned its gaze on Fan Ling, whose Dou Qi stalled as he realized it was a creature formed from Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan killed Fan Ling and had Great Ming King take him to Cai Lin, who was whipping the white-haired Elder Wang while waiting for him. After Elder Wang accidentally insulted her, Medusa turned her attention fully toward him, leaving him facing her wrath.

• Xiao Yan crushed Fan Ling's head, burned his corpse away, and asked Great Ming King to take him to Cai Lin.
• Great Ming King carried Xiao Yan to the northern edge of the forest, where Cai Lin was whipping Elder Wang with a Seven-Colored Energy Whip.
• Cai Lin continued striking Elder Wang while she worried that Xiao Yan was taking too long to deal with Fan Ling.
• Elder Wang accidentally shouted that Cai Lin was an old hag, then realized he might be in danger.
• Cai Lin stopped spacing out, smiled at Elder Wang, and clenched her fists after hearing his insult.

Medusa and Xiao Yan dealt with the white-haired Dou Wang after finishing their other business, using the Cyan Winged Great Ming King to burn him nearly bald. Xiao Yan and Medusa left him alive but charred and kneeling as they prepared to face the people approaching them.

• Medusa appeared on the field and struck the white-haired Dou Wang with a seven-colored energy ribbon, carving a long trench into the ground.
• Xiao Yan arrived on Great Ming King, reassured the uneasy bird, and agreed with Medusa that the white-haired Dou Wang should die.
• Xiao Yan summoned the third-rank Cyan Winged Great Ming King, whose cyan flames gave it enough power to threaten a Dou Wang.
• The white-haired Dou Wang tried to flee, but Great Ming King caught him and swallowed him before spitting him out charred and nearly bald.
• Xiao Yan recalled Great Ming King, descended with Medusa, and approached the kneeling Dou Wang as steady footsteps sounded nearby.

Xiao Yan used a curse mark and Medusa’s whip to make Xia Yuhao explain the Blood Sect’s strength, then recruited him into the newly formed Wangtian organization. Xia Yuhao accepted the position of Chief Elder and the code name White Hair under pressure.

• Xiao Yan forced Xia Yuhao to explain that the Blood Sect had a Dou Emperor sect leader and three Dou Wang elders, with Xia Yuhao ranked third.
• Xiao Yan announced that he had founded Wangtian to save the people of the Black-Corner Region and offered Xia Yuhao the position of Chief Elder.
• Xia Yuhao privately doubted Xiao Yan’s claims but pretended to be interested when Xiao Yan threatened him.
• Xia Yuhao agreed to join Wangtian and called Xiao Yan “Wangtian” as requested.
• Xiao Yan assigned Xia Yuhao the code name White Hair, which Xia Yuhao accepted rather than risk being called Baldy.

Xiao Yan sent Xia Yuhao to infiltrate the Blood Sect, then set off for Peace Town with Medusa. Yuan Yi arrived to invite Xu Yi to Black Seal City, but Xiao Yan and Medusa overwhelmed him and left him badly injured beside a Heavenly Flame lotus.

• Xiao Yan ordered Xia Yuhao to infiltrate the Blood Sect and tell Fan Ling that Xu Yi had killed the man if asked about his identity.
• Xia Yuhao flew away, and Medusa and Xiao Yan headed toward Peace Town.
• Yuan Yi arrived to invite Xu Yi to Black Seal City, then panicked when he saw Xiao Yan and Medusa standing in midair.
• Xiao Yan ordered Medusa to kill Yuan Yi, then made Yuan Yi kneel and told him to eat a cyan-gold Flame Lotus.
• Medusa struck Yuan Yi with an energy palm, leaving him coughing blood in a deep pit while the Flame Lotus remained unharmed.

After Xiao Yan left, Yuan Yi recovered and returned to Black Seal City, where Fan Lao attacked him over the death of his son. Yuan Yi survived by retreating behind the City Lord’s Mansion’s defensive formation, then ordered repairs as the Flame Mark on his forehead reminded him of Xiao Yan.

• Yuan Yi swallowed the Cyan-Gold Flame Lotus, felt his injuries ease, and promised to run Eight Fan Gate well when Xiao Yan needed him.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin left, and Yuan Yi staggered back into Black Seal City.
• Fan Lao led the Blood Sect toward Black Seal City, blaming Yuan Yi for his son’s death outside the city.
• Fan Lao attacked Yuan Yi above the City Lord’s Mansion, but Yuan Yi dodged into the mansion and activated its defensive formation.
• Fan Lao threatened Eight Fan Gate but left when Yuan Yi refused to come out, and Yuan Yi ordered the formation withdrawn and the damaged mansion repaired.
• The Flame Mark on Yuan Yi’s forehead heated as he thought of Xiao Yan, then cooled after Yuan Yi insisted he had not spoken ill of him.

Fan Lao searched the forest for Fan Ling’s body, then issued a five-million-gold reward for Xu Yi after failing to identify the killer. Xia Yuhao spread Xu Yi’s boastful quotes across the Black-Corner Region, making him famous and drawing a crowd of challengers toward the Jia Ma Empire.

• Fan Lao searched the battlefield for Fan Ling’s body and killed a Blood Guard when the search failed, then wounded Xia Yuhao for failing to protect Fan Ling.
• Fan Lao spared Xia Yuhao and left the forest, declaring that the Blood Sect would put out a warrant for Xu Yi.
• Five days later, Fan Lao’s warrant offered five million gold coins for Xu Yi’s capture and promised a requested Qi Method or Dou Technique for bringing him in alive.
• Xia Yuhao spread Xu Yi’s boastful quotes through the Black-Corner Region, provoking its fighters to join the search and challenge him.
• Some Black-Corner Region fighters formed groups and set off for the Jia Ma Empire to look for Xu Yi.

Ruo Lin was ambushed near Peace Town by Meng Hu, a criminal seeking revenge on Jia Nan Academy, and struggled against his superior strength. As Meng Hu broke through her final defense and raised his blade, Ruo Lin closed her eyes, believing she was about to die.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa flew toward Peace Town and descended more than a hundred li away from it.
• Meng Hu attacked Ruo Lin and explained that he wanted revenge on Jia Nan Academy's Enforcement Team for cutting off his ear.
• Ruo Lin used her Water Mandala technique, but Meng Hu destroyed the forming water snake with a saber strike.
• Meng Hu broke through Ruo Lin's weakened Force-Dispersing Water Mirror and charged at her.
• Ruo Lin closed her eyes in despair as Meng Hu swung his blade at her.

Xiao Yan tried to rescue Instructor Ruo Lin while Medusa teased him, then dropped him from the sky as punishment for mocking love. He crashed into Meng Hu and defeated him, but ended the chapter bleeding from his head as he approached Ruo Lin.

• Xiao Yan told Medusa he planned to save Ruo Lin, who was being harassed by Meng Hu, and asked Medusa to hide.
• Medusa teased Xiao Yan, then made him smooth the wrinkles he had gripped into her robe before suddenly disappearing from his arms.
• Medusa trapped Xiao Yan with invisible energy chains and let him fall, refusing to free him after he complained about her explanation that she acted out of love.
• Xiao Yan crashed onto Meng Hu, who had been threatening Ruo Lin, and finished him off with an elbow strike.
• Xiao Yan approached Ruo Lin and insisted he was fine despite the blood on his head, then collapsed.

Xiao Yan woke in Peace Town after Ruo Lin rescued him and convinced her to recruit him into Jia Nan Academy. He learned that applicants needed to reach the eighth stage of Dou Power before age eighteen, and vowed to meet the standard.

• Ruo Lin told Instructor Huo De that Xiao Yan had saved her and insisted she would check his identity herself.
• Xiao Yan pretended to wake up, but Ruo Lin revealed she had known he was conscious and teased him about his act.
• Xiao Yan asked Ruo Lin to take him into Jia Nan Academy, and she agreed because he had saved her.
• Xiao Yan told Ruo Lin that he had traveled from the Jia Ma Empire with a merchant caravan and agreed to her guess that he was fifteen.
• Ruo Lin explained Jia Nan Academy's eighth-stage Dou Power admission requirement, and Xiao Yan declared that he would not give up on enrolling.

Xiao Yan reached six-star Dou Ling and trained with Ruo Lin before Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment began. Ruo Lin took him to meet Instructor Huo De for testing, but on the griffin ride she insisted he sit down before he could explain that he only wanted to look at the scenery.

• Xiao Yan advanced from peak five-star Dou Ling to six-star Dou Ling, then bantered with Medusa before joining Ruo Lin for morning class.
• Ruo Lin taught Xiao Yan the low Huang class Heart-Shattering Palm and urged him to build his skills steadily; Xiao Yan eagerly practiced the technique.
• The day before Jia Nan Academy began recruiting students, Ruo Lin took Xiao Yan to meet Instructor Huo De for testing.
• On the griffin ride, Ruo Lin pulled Xiao Yan into a seat, believing the beast’s dampness made it hard for first-time riders to stand safely.
• Xiao Yan tried to tell Ruo Lin he wanted to stand and look at the scenery, but she kept pushing him back into the seat.

Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan City with Ruo Lin and took the academy’s entrance test. He passed when the crystal ball lit up, then unsuccessfully tried to burst it before learning how sturdily the academy’s testing equipment was made.

• Ruo Lin reassured Xiao Yan during the griffin ride through the primeval forest and warned him not to move around.
• Ruo Lin brought Xiao Yan to Jia Nan City and led him to Instructor Huo De at the recruitment square.
• Huo De explained the entrance requirements and asked Xiao Yan to touch the testing crystal ball.
• Xiao Yan made the crystal ball shine, passing the test and relieving Ruo Lin and Huo De.
• Xiao Yan kept pouring Dou Qi into the crystal ball in an attempt to burst it, but Ruo Lin and Huo De told him it could withstand far greater force.

Xiao Yan and Huo De discussed the absent, tool-obsessed dean of Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy before Ruo Lin began entering Xiao Yan's student information. The chapter ended with Ruo Lin discovering that Xiao Yan was already a Da Dou Shi, not at the eighth stage of Dou Power as she had believed.

• Huo De told Xiao Yan that the dean had disappeared into seclusion while researching a replacement for the academy's flying Griffins, leaving Vice Dean Hu Gan to manage the Outer Academy.
• Huo De explained that Hu Gan had dismantled the dean's laboratory, driving the dean to hide elsewhere in Jia Nan City, and that the dean was a Dou Zong.
• Ruo Lin stopped Huo De's digression and asked Xiao Yan to provide his name, level, and age for the student records.
• Xiao Yan said he was a fifteen-year-old Da Dou Shi, but Huo De and Ruo Lin thought he had only recently reached the eighth stage of Dou Power.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Dou Qi Armor to prove his rank, leaving Ruo Lin astonished that he had never told her he was a Da Dou Shi.

Xiao Yan’s return to Jia Nan Academy exposed the truth about his three months of lessons with Ruo Lin, leaving her hurt and him regretting how he had treated her. After Huo De helped him carry the recruitment furniture back, Xiao Yan reached the student dormitory and welcomed the start of academy life.

• Ruo Lin realized Xiao Yan was a six-star Da Dou Shi and ran off, upset that she had spent three months teaching him basic cultivation despite their difference in strength.
• Huo De tried to comfort Xiao Yan, then admitted that his own wife had gone back to her parents’ home with their son after he gave her time to cool down.
• Xiao Yan decided to go after Ruo Lin, but Huo De first asked him to help carry the tables and chairs back and take him to the student dormitory.
• Huo De explained that official recruitment would begin the next day and that he had only come early because Ruo Lin had asked him to.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Jia Nan Academy student dormitory, opened his room’s window, and celebrated the start of academy life.

Jia Nan Academy’s elders reviewed Xiao Yan’s enrollment records and discovered that he had destroyed the Mo Clan alone at age ten, prompting them to debate how best to nurture him. The meeting ended with Hu Gan angrily denouncing the absent Outer Academy Headmaster and warning the elders not to help with his artifact-refining project.

• Hu Gan presented Xiao Yan’s student records and intelligence from the Jia Ma Empire to the elders.
• The gray-robed elder and the golden-robed elder were shocked to learn that Xiao Yan had wiped out the Mo Clan alone at age ten, when he was at least a five-star Dou Ling.
• Hu Gan and the elders agreed that Xiao Yan should be nurtured, while Old Man Huo argued that the Alchemy Department should train him because he was a second-tier Alchemist.
• Hu Gan said Xiao Yan could decide whether to join the Alchemy Department and adjourned the meeting.
• The gray-robed elder asked whether they should report the recruitment results to the Outer Academy Headmaster, and Hu Gan angrily condemned the absent Headmaster and forbade the elders from secretly supplying him with materials for artifact refining.

Xiao Yan met with Ruo Lin, who excused him from her classes and advised him about the Inner Academy selection and its talented students. After leaving the teaching building, Xiao Yan encountered the bruised Huo De sneaking toward it.

• Ruo Lin told Xiao Yan he could skip her classes as long as he behaved and did not cause trouble.
• Ruo Lin encouraged Xiao Yan to enter the Inner Academy selection, but Xiao Yan said he would wait until he reached Dou Ling.
• Ruo Lin warned Xiao Yan about talented seniors Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, Lin Yan, Liu Qing, and Han Yue, who had entered the Inner Academy and challenged its Strong Ranking List.
• Xiao Yan left the teaching building and spotted Huo De sneaking toward it with a bruised and swollen face.

Xiao Yan heard how Huo De brought his wife back by slapping himself whenever she refused, then reunited with Medusa in his room. He explained that he planned to grow stronger before entering the Inner Academy and revealed that its strongest student was an Ancient Void Dragon hatchling.

• Huo De told Xiao Yan that he had slapped himself seventeen times to frighten his wife into returning home, then advised Xiao Yan to be cruel to women.
• Xiao Yan left Huo De, who encountered Instructor Ruo Lin waiting at the corridor entrance.
• Medusa visited Xiao Yan in his room and teased him about staying home to raise their children while she protected and supported him.
• Xiao Yan said he would wait until he reached at least peak Dou Ling or Dou Wang before entering the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Inner Academy's top Strong Ranking List student was an Ancient Void Dragon hatchling, and Medusa settled down to sleep in his arms.

Xiao Yan avoided Ruo Lin and stayed with Medusa, then disappeared from Jia Nan Academy’s Outer Academy for two years. The chapter introduced Yan Qishang, who went into the forest to hunt the Crimson Flame Flood Dragon but stopped to eat roasted meat before meeting Xiao Yan.

• Medusa stopped Xiao Yan from opening the door for Ruo Lin, and Xiao Yan claimed he was not there until Ruo Lin left.
• Xiao Yan became a rumored but rarely seen figure at Jia Nan Academy before teachers and students eventually forgot about him.
• Two years later, Yan Qishang entered the primeval forest to compete with the other Four Talents by capturing the Crimson Flame Flood Dragon.
• Hungry, Yan Qishang found roasted meat at a campfire, ignored a warning that it could not be eaten, and took a bite.
• A black-robed youth approached Yan Qishang and repeated that the meat could not be eaten.

Yan Qishang woke after eating drugged Crimson Flame Flood Dragon meat and learned Xiao Yan had been trying to catch a Heart Illusion Demon Fox cub. He followed Xiao Yan through the forest, where Xiao Yan revealed his strength by calmly sending off a Shadow Leopard, before a small cyan bird arrived with a message.

• Yan Qishang woke and learned Xiao Yan had warned him three times that the roasted meat contained enough knockout drug to fell a magical beast.
• Xiao Yan explained he had baited a Heart Illusion Demon Fox cub and gave Yan Qishang a cyan pill to ease his headache.
• Yan Qishang followed Xiao Yan and introduced himself as a five-star Da Dou Shi from Mystic-Tier Class 2, while Xiao Yan claimed to be from Yellow-Tier Class 2.
• Xiao Yan pointed out a fourth-rank Shadow Leopard behind Yan Qishang, then casually waved it away when Yan Qishang urged them to flee.
• A small cyan bird flew to Xiao Yan and chirped at him while Yan Qishang watched anxiously.

Xiao Yan gave Yan Qishang the last Crimson Flame Flood Dragon in the region, a fourth-rank Crimson Flame Flood Dragon King that Great Ming King had killed. As Xiao Yan flew deeper into the forest, Yan Qishang took the competition item and then saw signs that Xiao Yan might be fighting a fifth-rank magical beast.

• Xiao Yan transformed Great Ming King into a massive Fire Phoenix and had it spit out the Crimson Flame Flood Dragon King, burying Yan Qishang beneath a pile of corpses and junk.
• Xiao Yan explained that Great Ming King had nearly cleared the region of fire-attribute magical beasts and told Yan Qishang to take the dead Crimson Flame Flood Dragon King for the competition.
• Xiao Yan rode Great Ming King deeper into the forest despite Yan Qishang warning him about fifth-rank magical beasts.
• Yan Qishang removed the reverse scale beneath the Crimson Flame Snake King’s jaw, but four other competitors arrived and confronted him after he had already claimed it.
• The group heard a Twin-Winged Nether Tiger rampaging nearby and spotted someone fighting it, prompting Yan Qishang to suspect Xiao Yan was the fighter.