Chapter Summaries

Han Xian waited outside the Wangtian base, but its guard accepted his bribe and still refused to let him in. Zi Yan grew impatient waiting for the expert Han Xian had mentioned, then rushed outside and confronted him over the inferior medicinal pills he had given her.

• Han Xian and his gang waited outside the Wangtian base, and the Wangtian Dou Master refused to let them enter even after accepting Han Xian’s Wind-Walking Pills.
• Han Xian ordered Jiang Chao to fetch the late-arriving ally from the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Zi Yan told Yan Qishang she was the number one on the Strong Ranking List, while Huang Hao realized he had lost to her.
• Zi Yan grew tired of waiting for Han Xian’s supposed expert and went outside, followed by Xiao Yan and the others.
• Zi Yan accused Han Xian of deliberately giving her inferior medicinal pills and charged at him, while Han Xian denied it in fear.

Zi Yan beat Han Xian over his answers about a forged pill until he realized she had only wanted him to respond while she spoke. Xiao Yan arrived with his group, and after Zi Yan returned to his side, he asked Han Xian why he had come to Wangtian.

• Zi Yan demanded that Han Xian admit whether he had faked a pill, striking him whenever he answered yes or no.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Wangtian with five others, and Han Xian recognized him.
• Zi Yan repeatedly hit Han Xian for speaking disrespectfully about Xiao Yan until Han Xian complained that she would not let him finish a sentence.
• Zi Yan explained that she had been hitting Han Xian because he had not responded to her, then demonstrated the expected response with another smack.
• Xiao Yan called Zi Yan back, and Han Xian realized she had fooled him before Xiao Yan asked what had brought him to Wangtian.

Han Xian paid Xiao Yan double the overdue tuition after Zi Yan warned him to behave, but Jiang Chao stopped him from leaving when he announced that their secret weapon had arrived. The newcomer turned out to be a familiar, imposing figure, and Xiao Yan and Zi Yan awaited his reaction to seeing her.

• Han Xian handed Xiao Yan two Green Fire Crystal Cards to settle his overdue tuition, and Xiao Yan returned the emptied card.
• Zi Yan declared that Wangtian was under her protection and warned Han Xian to pay on time and avoid trouble.
• Jiang Chao arrived claiming that their expert could defeat Xiao Yan, then grabbed Han Xian when he tried to leave.
• A towering figure landed in the field, and Zi Yan recognized him while Xiao Yan anticipated his reaction to seeing her.

Zi Yan stopped Liu Qing from fighting for Han Xian and sent Han Xian and his group away. As Xiao Yan headed back with Zi Yan, she warned him that the academy elders alone could enter the tower’s ninth and tenth levels, leaving his plans for the deepest level unresolved.

• Liu Qing arrived and told Han Xian and Jiang Chao that they were blocking his way, then approached Zi Yan and called her Big Sister.
• Zi Yan questioned Liu Qing about working for Han Xian, accepted his explanation, and ordered him to leave Han Xian alone.
• Zi Yan dismissed Han Xian and the onlooking students, while Jiang Chao privately decided to report back to Yan Hao.
• A gatekeeping Dou Master confessed that he had accepted Wind-Walking Pills from Han Xian, and Xiao Yan promised to reward him with another bottle.
• Zi Yan explained that only academy elders could enter the tower’s ninth and tenth levels and warned Xiao Yan to make other arrangements for his plans.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan to refine more pills for her before he left, and he agreed.

Xiao Yan sensed that the Fallen Heart Flame was about to erupt and planned to use the resulting chaos to capture its true body. The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the seal beneath the tower and headed for the opening as a Tower Guarding Elder realized it was awakening.

• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan to stay in the tower, and Xiao Yan cultivated in a high-grade training room for twenty days.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao sensed the Fallen Heart Flame's warning pulses, and Xiao Yan planned to approach the tower's central passage during the eruption to capture it.
• The energy passage began glowing red while the students in the tower enjoyed unusually effective cultivation.
• The Fallen Heart Flame surfaced from the Magma Sea and shattered the energy seal at the crust opening.
• A Tower Guarding Elder on the tenth floor discovered the broken warning seal and recognized the Fallen Heart Flame's heartbeat-like pulse.

The Invisible Fire Python broke through the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower’s lowest barrier and began climbing toward the surface, prompting Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders to evacuate students and reinforce the remaining barriers. The Python was stopped at the ninth level, where it recognized its old opponent Su Qian and faced the elders’ combined seal.

• A gray-robed old man sensed the Invisible Fire Python rushing upward and ordered the elders to the tower and the students to evacuate.
• Elder Liu and Instructor Hou Hu began clearing the tower as the Tower Guarding Elders hurried toward the tenth level.
• Su Qian learned of the abnormal eruption, ordered Qin Xuan to alert the Outer Academy, and rushed to the tower.
• The Invisible Fire Python smashed through the barrier on the tenth level, and Su Qian ordered the elders to intercept it at each remaining level.
• Su Qian and more than twenty elders reinforced the ninth-level barrier, knocking the Invisible Fire Python back and drawing its furious attention.

Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders tried to wear down the Invisible Fire Python as it climbed through the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, but the Fire Spirit had feigned exhaustion and broke through their barriers. With Mang Tianchi’s final defense now under attack, the elders feared the Fallen Heart Flame would escape and draw Han Feng and the Black-Corner Region into an assault.

• Su Qian and the elders reinforced barriers as the Invisible Fire Python broke through the seals on the ninth and eighth floors and continued upward.
• After five hours of resistance, the elders on the first floor thought the weakened Python was nearly exhausted, and Su Qian prepared to knock it back underground.
• The Invisible Fire Python revealed it had been gathering strength, smashed through the layered barrier, and struck the tower top.
• Mang Tianchi’s dark energy film appeared and stopped the Python’s attack, but the Fire Spirit began battering it with renewed force.
• The Grey-Robed Elder warned Su Qian that the Python might break free, expose the Fallen Heart Flame, and prompt Han Feng to attack the Inner Academy.

Su Qian organized the academy elders into a formation to capture the Fallen Heart Flame if it broke through the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. Xiao Yan was stuck outside the tower after an instructor forcibly evacuated him, leaving his plan to seize the flame in jeopardy.

• Su Qian ordered the students farther from the tower and positioned nearly thirty elders in a formation to seal the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Instructor Hou Hu found Xiao Yan at the edge of the crowd and assured him that the academy elders would handle the eruption.
• Xiao Yan recalled that he and Yao Lao had planned to approach the tower's sixth level during the eruption and seize the Fallen Heart Flame's true body.
• An academy instructor had dragged Xiao Yan out of the tower during the evacuation, and Xiao Yan had failed to pry himself free or persuade the instructor to let him return.

Xiao Yan was dragged out of the tower by instructors who mistook his attempts to stay behind for heroic determination, then found himself unable to sneak back inside. Meanwhile, Han Yue remained in the tower after returning to search for Liu Ying, and the instructors began responding to the danger.

• A middle-aged instructor dragged Xiao Yan out of the high-grade training room, and Instructor Hou Hu joined them outside the tower.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao for help, but Yao Lao admitted he did not know what to do.
• Moon Spirit members discovered that Liu Ying had already come out while Han Yue had gone back inside the tower to search for her.
• Instructor Hou Hu hurried away to find a way to help Han Yue after hearing she was still inside.
• Xiao Yan tried to slip away, but the middle-aged instructor grabbed him and refused to let him go, despite Xiao Yan insisting he was terrified of dying.

Instructor Hou Hu was forbidden from entering the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to rescue Han Yue, while Xiao Yan waited for a chance to seize the Fallen Heart Flame. The tower’s tip shattered, and the Invisible Fire Python emerged as the elders began forming a sealing array.

• Instructor Hou Hu learned that Han Yue was still inside the tower, but the elderly instructor in charge refused to let anyone enter.
• Instructor Hou Hu told Moon Spirit and Liu Ying that they would have to wait, while Xiao Yan saw Han Yue’s presence as a chance to approach the tower.
• The Great Ming King went berserk inside Xiao Yan’s Spirit Container, and Xiao Yan realized the tower was about to break.
• The Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower’s tip shattered, sending magma into the sky as the Invisible Fire Python emerged.
• The elders answered a command to form the Thousand Layer Sealing Formation.

Su Qian and the elders used the Thousand Layer Sealing Formation to trap the Invisible Fire Python after it broke out of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. The python’s struggles devastated the plaza, but the elders kept replacing every net it tore through, leaving it bound and weakened.

• The twenty-eight elders formed the Thousand Layer Sealing Formation and dropped its energy nets over the Invisible Fire Python.
• The Invisible Fire Python charged against the nets, then crashed into the plaza and shattered its bluestone paving.
• Su Qian pulled Elder Li back into position with an energy whip and warned him that the beast was going mad.
• The Invisible Fire Python rolled across the plaza and tore through several nets, but the elders quickly formed more to fill each gap.
• The Invisible Fire Python’s flames weakened as the ever-tightening nets continued to multiply around it.

The Inner Academy elders trapped the Invisible Fire Python in a giant energy net and withstood its last burst of strength. The beast then flooded the empty first floor of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower with magma while Su Qian dismissed the damage.

• The exhausted Invisible Fire Python stopped struggling, and Su Qian prepared the elders to seal it again.
• The Invisible Fire Python feigned defeat, then surged with energy and blasted invisible flames at the net, but the formation suppressed it.
• Instructor Hou Hu gathered nearly a hundred instructors outside the plaza to stand ready to support the elders.
• Su Qian mocked the trapped beast as it realized its escape attempt had failed and vowed to riot again once it regained strength.
• The Invisible Fire Python drew magma from the underground sea and poured it into the first floor of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, while Su Qian laughed that the empty tower could be repaired.

Han Yue escaped the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and began crossing the magma, while the Inner Academy instructors struggled to find a way to save her. Xiao Yan realized he could fly to her himself, leaving the rescue in his hands.

• The Invisible Fire Python pulled magma into the tower, and Su Qian ordered the elders to begin sealing it despite Han Yue still being inside.
• Han Yue leapt from the tower and raced across the magma, alarming the students and the Moon Spirit members watching outside.
• Instructor Hou Hu begged the white-haired old man to let him rescue Han Yue, but the old man refused and said he would go once she reached the halfway point.
• The white-haired old man explained that no Dou Wang expert was available to fly out and retrieve Han Yue because the elders were maintaining the formation.
• Xiao Yan realized that he could fly across the magma and bring Han Yue back himself.

Han Yue risked her life crossing the magma while the elders tightened their energy net around the Invisible Fire Python, and Su Qian refused to divert anyone from the sealing. Xiao Yan broke free from the instructor holding him and flew toward the danger with Dou Qi Wings, leaving the white-haired old man startled by the strength of the newcomer.

• The Invisible Fire Python attacked Han Yue as she tried to reach the designated spot, while the elders tightened their energy net around it.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to continue the sealing rather than send Elder Liu to rescue Han Yue.
• The white-haired old man decided to intervene when Han Yue had crossed only two-thirds of the route.
• Xiao Yan blasted the middle-aged instructor away and revealed blue-gold Dou Qi Wings.
• The white-haired old man recognized the sound of a powerful expert flying overhead and looked up in shock.

Xiao Yan revealed himself as a Dou Wang expert and rescued Han Yue from the raging fire, while the Inner Academy elders prepared to contain the Fire Spirit. As the restrained Invisible Fire Python sensed its own kind, Xiao Yan had Great Ming King transform into a Fire Phoenix and call out to nearby Fire Spirits.

• The white-haired old man and Hou Hu watched in disbelief as Xiao Yan flew overhead with green-gold Dou Qi wings.
• Xiao Yan caught the exhausted Han Yue and carried her safely away from the magma, while she teased him and learned he was a Dou Wang.
• Elder He identified Xiao Yan to Su Qian, who rallied the elders to deal with the Fire Spirit now that Han Yue was safe.
• Xiao Yan saw that the Invisible Fire Python had been restrained and called on Great Ming King to summon its kind.
• Great Ming King transformed into a green-gold Fire Phoenix and cried out, and the Invisible Fire Python sensed a strong presence of its own kind.

Xiao Yan lured the Fallen Heart Flame into attacking and threw Han Yue to safety, but the flame swallowed him as the elders continued their sealing formation. Su Qian then gathered the elders’ Dou Qi and prepared to strike the bound flame with his Annihilation Death Ray.

• The elders trapped the Invisible Fire Python with black energy chains and captured the Fallen Heart Flame’s true body.
• Xiao Yan realized the flame had targeted him and told Han Yue to go ahead as it lunged at them.
• Xiao Yan hurled Han Yue out of danger, then vanished into the Invisible Fire Python’s mouth.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to continue sealing the flame despite Xiao Yan being swallowed.
• Su Qian gathered the elders’ strength and formed an Annihilation Death Ray, terrifying the bound Invisible Fire Python.

Su Qian crippled the Invisible Fire Python and sealed it beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, while the Inner Academy mourned Xiao Yan, who had been swallowed by the beast. Han Yue blamed herself for being a burden, and when Wangtian’s elders reacted with secret confidence and laughter, she accused Yan Qishang of being a traitor.

• Su Qian cut away most of the Invisible Fire Python’s head, and the elders bound it and dropped it into the Magma Sea beneath the tower.
• Han Yue wept over Xiao Yan’s apparent death until a white-haired elder told her Xiao Yan had sacrificed himself because she had been slowing him down.
• Zi Yan, Huang Hao, and Yan Qishang discussed Xiao Yan’s plan to capture the flame, and Zi Yan struck Yan Qishang for suggesting he might be dead.
• Yan Qishang laughed among the grieving students, then tried to explain himself when they stared at him.
• Han Yue confronted Yan Qishang and accused him of being a sinister villain, while Zi Yan and Huang Hao pretended to condemn him too.

Han Yue left after accusing Yan Qishang of trying to seize Wangtian, while Zi Yan pressured him to keep Xiao Yan’s whereabouts secret and accept the blame. At the Inner Academy, Su Qian’s forces suppressed the Invisible Fire Python, and Hu Gan arrived with reinforcements before Su Qian ordered urgent repairs to the tower seals and academy barrier.

• Zi Yan and Han Yue accused Yan Qishang of betraying Xiao Yan and trying to take over Wangtian, and Yan Qishang stopped himself from revealing Xiao Yan’s whereabouts.
• Han Yue returned to her base with Liu Ying and the Moon Spirit girls, while Zi Yan told Yan Qishang he should be glad to take the blame for the leader.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders drove the Invisible Fire Python underground and resealed the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Hu Gan arrived with more than twenty Outer Academy experts and learned that Xiao Yan had died, leaving him and the elders saddened.
• Su Qian ordered the Outer Academy elders to strengthen the tower’s seals and the barrier above the Inner Academy.

After the Inner Academy sealed the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, a mysterious man in Feng City ordered an investigation into whether the academy possessed Heavenly Flames. Deep underground, Xiao Yan escaped from the Fallen Heart Flame and planned to let the wounded flame try to refine him, while the confused Invisible Fire Python searched for the kin it had swallowed.

• Su Qian ordered Qin Xuan to send the students away and seal the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower for a month while repairs were made.
• A handsome man in Feng City sensed a possible Heavenly Flame near the Jia Nan Inner Academy and ordered Han Beng to investigate it within two years.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Invisible Fire Python’s belly in the magma sea, and Yao Lao urged him to refine the wounded Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan took an Earth Spirit Pill, then pretended to be unconscious so the Fallen Heart Flame would try to refine him instead.
• The Invisible Fire Python woke in its birthplace, realized its swallowed kin had vanished, and frantically searched the magma for it.

Xiao Yan endured the Invisible Fire Python’s relentless flames while the Earth Spirit Pill healed and strengthened his body, tricking the Fire Spirit into continuing to attack him. The chapter then revealed that Queen Medusa had awakened when Xiao Yan swallowed the pill, leaving her appearance during the ordeal unexplained.

• Xiao Yan taunted the Invisible Fire Python into noticing him, and it wrapped him in its body before attacking him with its source flames.
• The Earth Spirit Pill continually repaired Xiao Yan as the flames damaged him, turning his body into a battlefield that gradually strengthened him.
• After seven days of scorching, Xiao Yan cried out in pain to reassure the doubtful Invisible Fire Python, which resumed its attack.
• Over the following half year, Xiao Yan kept encouraging the Invisible Fire Python as it burned him, while he grew stronger and eventually went bald.
• The chapter turned back to when Xiao Yan swallowed the Earth Spirit Pill, and Queen Medusa emerged from his chest and teased him about waking her.