Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and used his Heavenly Flames to overcome the Heart Flame's scorching in seconds, catching Han Yue's attention. After she left, Yao Lao pointed out that a Heart Flame still lingered near Xiao Yan's heart, contained by his Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan crossed the tower threshold and quickly recovered from the Heart Flame's scorching as his Heavenly Flames circulated through his body.
• Xiao Yan met Han Yue, who recognized him as the champion of the Outer Academy and questioned how he had resisted the Heart Flame so quickly.
• Han Yue explained that her declining Han Family had sent her to Jia Nan Academy to train and build ties with promising talents.
• Xiao Yan watched Han Yue leave, then entered farther into the tower as other students hurried to find training rooms.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan about the Heart Flame near his heart, and Xiao Yan found it contained within rings of azure-gold Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discovered that the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower imprisoned the Fallen Heart Flame above a Magma Sea, and they found the flame had evolved into a powerful Invisible Fire Python. Yao Lao predicted it would erupt within about a year, while the awakened python tried to escape and was struck back into the magma by a mysterious force.

• Xiao Yan tested the projected branch flame and found it purified his Dou Qi before he and Yao Lao entered the tower.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan away from the Space Cage, and they suspected the Fallen Heart Flame was beneath the tower in a Magma Sea.
• Yao Lao used the Bone Chilling Flame to scout the Magma Sea and saw a huge Invisible Fire Python sleeping at its center.
• Yao Lao concluded the academy had built the tower to contain the Fallen Heart Flame and predicted a small eruption in about a year.
• After Yao Lao withdrew his soul power, the Invisible Fire Python sensed the intrusion, became enraged, and tried to escape the Magma Sea.
• A vast black stream of energy struck the python and knocked it back into the magma.

The Fire Spirit overpowered the mysterious expert’s attacks but withdrew into the Magma Sea, while a gray-robed elder worried that the Inner Academy could no longer contain it. In the first-floor training room, Xiao Yan met Pang Hu, who recalled challenging a little girl in white to hit him three times.

• The invisible giant python attacked the mysterious expert, endured a barrage of energy ribbons, then retreated beneath the Magma Sea and promised to surprise its enemies.
• A gray-robed elder on the tenth floor sensed the Fire Spirit growing stronger and worried that the Inner Academy could not suppress it without Dean Mang Tianchi.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao finished investigating the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan chose a training room on the first floor.
• Pang Hu asked Xiao Yan for money and remembered how a little girl in white had claimed to be number one on the Strong Ranking List.
• Pang Hu had told the girl she could punch him three times, and she eagerly prepared to do so.

Xiao Yan turned the amiable young man's attempted robbery around and forced him to hand over his Fire Energy Card. The young man reflected on his past humiliating encounters and begged Xiao Yan to let him go.

• The amiable young man recalled how a little girl in white had knocked him unconscious with one punch after he tried to rob her, then raided Old Man Hao's Medicine Repository for herbs.
• The young man tried to rob Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan pulled out the Black Iron Heavy Ruler and demanded the young man's Fire Energy Card instead.
• The young man surrendered his card to Xiao Yan, who saw that it held only twenty-seven Fire Energy points.
• The young man claimed he had spent nearly a month cultivating in the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and begged Xiao Yan to let him go.

Xiao Yan cultivated in the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, using its Heart Flame to temper his Dou Qi and strengthen his body. He moved to a deeper floor for stronger cultivation, where his rapid energy absorption alarmed the other students, who mistook him for a reckless newcomer courting fire poison.

• Xiao Yan took twenty-seven Fire Energy points from an amiable student and began cultivating on the first floor.
• Xiao Yan let the Fallen Heart Flame temper his body and Dou Qi for seven days, then left when the first floor’s effect had become negligible.
• Xiao Yan entered an advanced training room on the second floor and absorbed its stronger fire-attribute energy at high speed.
• The other students noticed the energy disappearing and saw Xiao Yan shrouded in red mist.
• A student complained that newcomers who absorbed energy too quickly risked fire poison, while Xiao Yan continued cultivating.

Xiao Yan finished cultivating on the second level of the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower while the onlookers waited for him to collapse. He introduced himself as Xu Yi and left, prompting the Inner Academy students to recognize him as the wanted man from the Black-Corner Region.

• The onlookers shared a story about a former student who suffered fire poison and hallucinations after reckless cultivation in the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• The students bet on how soon Xiao Yan would pass out, but most eventually returned to cultivating as he remained unconscious.
• On the eighth day, the gambling man resolved to stop watching and cultivate, but Xiao Yan woke before he could leave.
• Xiao Yan announced that he had cleared the tower's second level, identified himself as Xu Yi, and left the cultivation room.
• The students recognized Xu Yi as the man wanted by the Blood Sect for killing Fan Ling and agreed to keep his identity secret.
• The gambling man collapsed, then weakly called for help so he could get back to cultivating.

Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower’s sixth layer and began cultivating in a high-grade training room despite the instructor’s warning about its fierce Heart Flame. Four months later, he was still cultivating as the Fire Energy Points on his card dwindled.

• Instructor Hou Hu relayed Elder Liu’s warnings that Xiao Yan needed Six-Star Dou Ling strength to enter the sixth layer and risked Heart Flame poison by training too long.
• Xiao Yan gave Hou Hu a bottle of Ice Spirit Pills and continued down to the sixth layer.
• Xiao Yan chose a high-grade training room and started cultivating amid the sixth layer’s powerful Heart Flame.
• Over the next four months, Xiao Yan’s Fire Energy Points rapidly dwindled while he remained seated in cultivation.

After nearly half a year cultivating in the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Yan halted his breakthrough just before reaching Dou Wang so he could first obtain the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk and strengthen his foundation. He left the tower to return, realizing he had spent almost six months in seclusion.

• Xiao Yan stopped his breakthrough at the final moment, intending to reach Dou Wang only after using the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk in the Inner Academy's back mountain.
• Yao Lao joked that Xiao Yan was now three-quarters of a Dou Wang, and the two exchanged awkward remarks.
• Xiao Yan checked his Fire Energy Card, saw that it showed two, and decided his cultivation had still fulfilled much of his purpose for entering the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan left the training room and met Instructor Hou Hu on the first floor of the tower.
• Instructor Hou Hu told Xiao Yan he had cultivated in the tower for almost six months, making him the first person to remain there continuously for so long.

After spending nearly half a year cultivating in the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Yan returned to find Wangtian on the verge of disbanding. He used the organization’s saved Fire Energy Points to plan a pill business, despite Yan Qishang warning that the Medicine Gang was a formidable rival.

• Instructor Hou Hu told Xiao Yan he had broken an Inner Academy record, and Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that nearly half a year had passed.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wangtian, where Yan Qishang and Huang Hao tried to resign over Xiao Yan’s long absence.
• Bei He explained that Wangtian’s members had been hunting magical beasts and gathering herbs to fund the organization, while the collected tuition fees remained untouched in Xiao Yan’s room.
• Xiao Yan told Bei He to use the saved Fire Energy Points to buy materials for making medicinal pills and said he would handle any retaliation from the Medicine Gang.
• Yan Qishang explained that the Medicine Gang was controlled by the Alchemy Department and led by Han Xian, leaving Wangtian facing a powerful organization.

Xiao Yan refined a large batch of medicinal pills for Wangtian and then headed to the back mountain to find the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. After locating the valley guarded by a newly advanced Snow Demon Sky Ape, he realized he had been needlessly hiding despite his strength.

• Xiao Yan dismissed Yan Qishang's concerns about the Medicine Gang and took the medicinal ingredients Bei He had bought.
• Xiao Yan spent three days refining 120 bottles of Qi Recovery Pills, Body Recovery Pills, and Ice Spirit Pills, then left Yan Qishang and the others to sell them.
• Xiao Yan flew into the back mountain and asked Yao Lao to help search for the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
• Yao Lao detected a newly advanced Fifth-Order Magical Beast in a crescent-shaped valley, and Xiao Yan identified it as the Snow Demon Sky Ape from the intelligence report.
• Xiao Yan watched the Snow Demon Sky Ape from cover until Yao Lao reminded him of his strength, prompting him to abandon his cautious approach.

Xiao Yan provoked the recently matured Snow Demon Sky Ape by insisting it was a monkey, then challenged it to a duel and used his Dou Wang aura to make it back down. He asked to borrow something from the ape, leaving it wary and ready to fight.

• Xiao Yan startled the Snow Demon Sky Ape and argued with it over whether it was a monkey or an ape.
• Xiao Yan tricked the Snow Demon Sky Ape into accidentally calling itself a monkey, enraging the beast.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape challenged Xiao Yan to a duel, but reconsidered after sensing his Dou Wang-level aura and chose not to fight.
• Xiao Yan asked to borrow something from the Snow Demon Sky Ape, which suspected he wanted its head and prepared to attack.

Xiao Yan fought the Snow Demon Sky Ape over its Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and defeated it with Eight Extremities Collapse. The ape was left badly injured and terrified of the technique’s lingering force, while Xiao Yan stood ready to take the treasure.

• Xiao Yan told the Snow Demon Sky Ape he would take its Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, prompting the ape to enter berserk mode and attack him.
• Xiao Yan and the Snow Demon Sky Ape traded physical blows, then clashed using Eight Extremities Collapse and Ice Giant Claw.
• Xiao Yan struck the ape with sixteen layers of hidden force, and the Snow Demon Sky Ape fell badly wounded as its berserk state ended.
• Xiao Yan warned the ape that the hidden force would erupt again, frightening it into stopping its attempt to fight.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape grieved that it might die before becoming a sixth-rank Magic Beast, a goal for which it needed the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.

Xiao Yan subdued the Snow Demon Sky Ape, then followed Yao Lao into the underground cavern to collect the real Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. After gathering some from the stalactite, he planned to take some of the fake milk below as well.

• Xiao Yan drained the destructive force from the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s body and persuaded it to submit.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape offered to guide Xiao Yan to the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, but Xiao Yan pressed it down and entered the cave alone.
• Yao Lao guided Xiao Yan east through the underground cavern to a vast, glowing stalactite.
• Xiao Yan identified the real Earth Core Body Tempering Milk above the fake pool, and Yao Lao exposed it by removing stone from the stalactite.
• Xiao Yan carefully collected the real milk with a jade spoon and bottle, then told Yao Lao he wanted to collect some of the fake milk below.

Xiao Yan spared the Snow Demon Sky Ape after teasing it and returned to prepare a medicinal bath with Yao Lao. Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to use the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to strengthen his foundation and break through to Dou Wang.

• The Snow Demon Sky Ape asked Xiao Yan to take it as an underling, but Xiao Yan joked that he planned to kill it for its magic core.
• Xiao Yan tricked the Snow Demon Sky Ape into lying down, then let it go and warned it to return home and avoid future trouble.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that he spared the Snow Demon Sky Ape because it amused him, and Yao Lao suggested they prepare the medicinal liquid.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to stop suppressing his cultivation and use the treatment to break through after nearly four years in the Dou Ling realm.
• Xiao Yan brought out the wooden tub and medicinal ingredients, and Yao Lao poured an entire bottle of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk into the water.

Xiao Yan tempered his body with Earth Core Body Tempering Milk under Yao Lao’s guidance and endured three days of intense pain as he absorbed its energy. He broke through to Dou Wang, briefly reached four-star Dou Wang, then restrained his advance and settled at peak three-star Dou Wang.

• Yao Lao prepared the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and told Xiao Yan to enter the wooden tub.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the medicinal energy despite its extreme pain, while it invaded and tempered his muscles, bones, and marrow.
• Xiao Yan endured the suffering and increased his absorption until the medicinal liquid gradually faded over three days.
• The saturated Dou Crystal in Xiao Yan’s Qi Cyclone shattered, and he naturally broke through from peak Dou Ling to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan stopped his advance at four-star Dou Wang, compressed the remaining energy, and settled at peak three-star Dou Wang.
• Yao Lao saw Xiao Yan restrain his breakthrough and lowered his hand, deciding not to warn him against greed.

Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Wang and prepared to return to the Inner Academy. Meanwhile, the Bai Gang confronted Wangtian at the trading area on the Medicine Gang's behalf, but Yan Qishang's group showed no fear.

• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Wang, summoned his solid blue-gold Dou Qi Wings, and received Yao Lao's congratulations.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to pack up so they could return after his breakthrough.
• Yan Qishang, Huang Hao, and members of the Qingshan Organization faced off against Bai Cheng, Fu Ao, and the Bai Gang at the trading area.
• Bai Cheng revealed that Han Xian had hired the Bai Gang to target Wangtian because its pill sales threatened the Medicine Gang's profits.
• Bai Cheng warned that the Medicine Gang could recruit someone from the Inner Ranking's top ten to deal with Xiao Yan, but Yan Qishang and Huang Hao remained confident in their leader.
• Despite Yan Qishang's casual manner, Bai Cheng decided to press ahead with the confrontation for the tier-five medicinal pill Han Xian had promised him.

Yan Qishang and Wu Xiangyang prepared to defend Wangtian from Bai Cheng and the Bai Gang, but Xiao Yan arrived dramatically and crushed Bai Cheng before the fight could begin. Xiao Yan saved Bai Cheng with several pills, and Bai Cheng agreed that the Bai Gang would become Wangtian’s subordinate and pay tuition.

• Bai Cheng demanded Wangtian’s pill formulas and merger into the Medicine Gang, but Yan Qishang refused and Wu Xiangyang stepped forward to face him.
• Bai Cheng began preparing his Mystic Earth Swirling Rotation technique while Wu Xiangyang readied a counterattack.
• Xiao Yan descended onto the battlefield on his Black Iron Heavy Ruler and landed on Bai Cheng, leaving him bleeding and badly injured.
• Xiao Yan misunderstood Bai Cheng’s pleas for help as offers of submission and tuition before stuffing medicinal pills into his mouth.
• After recovering, Bai Cheng thanked Xiao Yan and agreed that the Bai Gang would become Wangtian’s subordinate and pay tuition.

Xiao Yan returned to Wangtian after defeating Bai Cheng and discussed the organization’s pill sales and training plans. As the Medicine Gang plotted to retaliate, Xiao Yan struck their headquarters with a massive green fireball, leaving it scorched to the ground.

• Xiao Yan told Yan Qishang that Bai Cheng had agreed to make the Bai Gang a vassal organization, then led Wangtian back to its base.
• Yan Qishang reported that the pills had sold well and suggested recruiting alchemists, and Xiao Yan said he would personally test each candidate for spies.
• Xiao Yan ordered Yan Qishang and Huang Hao to reach the Dou Ling realm within a year and the other three Da Dou Shi to do so within two years.
• The Medicine Gang’s leader decided to challenge Xiao Yan and seize Wangtian’s pill formulas, then ordered someone to gather information on him.
• Xiao Yan’s enormous green fireball crashed into the Medicine Gang headquarters and reduced it to scorched earth.

Xiao Yan confronted Han Xian over the Medicine Gang targeting Wangtian and forced him to hand over three Inner Academy trading spots. He left with the deed seal, while Han Xian’s members remained behind as Han blamed them for failing to detect Xiao Yan.

• Han Xian recognized the aura of a Heavenly Flame in the attack and trembled as Xiao Yan approached through the smoke.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Han Xian, then smashed the meeting hall wall and the Xuan Steel Rock floor while complaining that he was only thirteen.
• Xiao Yan demanded three of the Medicine Gang’s six trading spots as compensation for targeting Wangtian, and Han agreed to hand them over immediately.
• Han challenged Xiao Yan to a pill-refining contest for the remaining trading spots, Fire Energy Points, and pill formulas, but Xiao Yan refused and left with the deed seal.
• Han scolded the gang members for letting Xiao Yan enter and overhear their meeting, and they lowered their heads in silence.

After destroying the Medicine Gang’s headquarters, Xiao Yan took its three trading spots for Wangtian and planned to gather the ingredients for an Earth Spirit Pill before the Fallen Heart Flame erupted. He stayed in the academy to cultivate and prepared to face any experts Han Xian sent after him.

• Han Xian vowed to recruit an Inner Academy expert to take revenge on Xiao Yan after the Medicine Gang’s headquarters was reduced to ruins.
• Xiao Yan gave Yan Qishang three trading-spot contracts taken from the Medicine Gang and explained that he had settled the grudge that night.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to gather the materials for an Earth Spirit Pill, and Xiao Yan planned to trade an Earth Fire Lotus Seed for a sixth-rank water-attribute Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan decided to have Wangtian search for a Dragon-Beard Ice-Fire Fruit and Green Wood Immortal Vine rather than risk being overcharged by Elder He.
• The next day, Xiao Yan sent Yan Qishang to find the two ingredients and assured him he would remain in the academy to cultivate and confront anyone Han Xian sent.