Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lei overwhelmed the Outer Academy students, declared Xiao Xun'er his girlfriend, and destroyed the square to warn off her admirers. Hu Gan confirmed that Xiao Lei had passed the Inner Academy Selection, and Xiao Lei offered to pay for the damage.

• Xiao Lei knocked Liu Kun unconscious with a casual strike, stunning the students, Instructor Ruo Lin, and Hu Jia.
• Xiao Lei challenged the gathered students, but no one dared to face him, and Hu Jia mocked them for backing down.
• Xiao Lei declared that Xiao Xun'er was his girlfriend and stomped the square apart, leaving the crowd awed and the male students intimidated.
• Hu Gan identified himself as the academy's Outer Academy Vice Dean and confirmed that Xiao Lei had passed the selection.
• Xiao Lei offered to cover the repair costs and showed Hu Gan a Five-Pattern Purple-Gold Card, drawing excited reactions from the female students.

Xiao Lei reunited with Xun'er, embraced her in public, and received the Soul Deterrence skill. He won the Inner Academy Selection Tournament and helped Qing Lin secure a place among the top five, then left the arena with both girls as he worried about how Xun'er would react to the other women in his life.

• Hu Gan accepted Xiao Lei's Five-Pattern Purple-Gold Card, and Xiao Lei flew to join Xun'er in the stands.
• Xun'er threw herself into Xiao Lei's arms, and the system rewarded him with the Profound High-Rank Soul Skill Soul Deterrence.
• Xiao Lei spoke with Instructor Ruo Lin, then watched the tournament after receiving a guaranteed place in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Lei won the tournament, and the top five became Xiao Lei, Xiao Xun'er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao.
• Xiao Lei explained Qing Lin's background to Xun'er, who took Qing Lin's hand and chatted with her as Xiao Lei worried about Queen Medusa and Ya Fei.

After the Selection Tournament, Xiao Lei joined the other top contestants on a journey to Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion. The two powerful elders opened the pavilion’s Space Lock, allowing the group to enter.

• Xiao Lei reunited with Xun Er and Qing Lin after five peaceful days, then learned that Instructor Ruo Lin had summoned him to enter the Library Pavilion.
• Instructor Ruo Lin brought Xiao Lei, Xun Er, and Qing Lin to Vice Dean Hu Gan, where Hu Jia and Song Hao had also gathered as the other top contestants.
• Hu Gan revealed a hidden passage in his office and led the five contestants through it to a secluded valley containing the Library Pavilion.
• Hu Gan asked the pavilion’s guardians to open the entrance, and Xiao Lei sensed that the two gray-robed elders were immensely powerful.
• The two elders undid the pavilion’s Space Lock, and Hu Gan led the contestants through the opened spatial gate.

Xiao Lei and the others entered the library to choose treasures before joining the Inner Academy. Xiao Lei left with the Thunder Phantom movement Dou Skill, while Xun'er and Qing Lin received treasures from him.

• Hu Gan explained the library rules, and Two Elders Qian Bai opened its doors for the five entrants.
• Hu Jia proposed that the newcomers band together in the Inner Academy, and the group agreed to follow Xiao Lei's lead.
• A purple scroll containing the High-Level Xuan Rank Cultivation Method, Purple Thunder Skill, shot from an energy barrier, and Xiao Lei caught it.
• The five grabbed treasures released from the barriers, and Xiao Lei obtained the Earth Rank High-Level Dou Skill, Thunder Phantom.
• Xiao Lei gave the Heaven Jade Fruit to Qing Lin and the Ninefold Phoenix Fire Skill to Xun'er, then led the group out of the library.

After leaving the Library Pavilion, Xiao Lei mastered Thunder Phantom and gave Xun'er a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill during their time together. He then joined Xun'er and Qing Lin to begin the journey into the Inner Academy with the other selected students.

• Xiao Lei and four others left the hidden valley after the Two Elders Qian Bai warned them to keep the Library Pavilion secret.
• Hu Gan gave Xiao Lei and the others two days to rest before they gathered again.
• Xiao Lei mastered Thunder Phantom, then gave Xun'er a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill while they walked together.
• Xiao Lei, Xun'er, and Qing Lin met outside Hu Gan's study on the day the selected students entered the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan addressed the fifty students, then escorted them as they boarded ten Griffin Beasts and flew toward the Inner Academy.

Hu Gan brought Xiao Lei and the freshmen through a hidden gate to the Inner Academy, where Elder Fang announced the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. Xiao Lei confirmed he could seize fire energy from the senior students, then the competition began.

• Hu Gan led the Griffin Beast formation through a concealed silver gate into the Inner Academy.
• Elder Fang and Elder Huang welcomed the fifty freshmen and gave each of them a crystal card containing fire energy.
• Elder Fang explained that the freshmen had to cross the forest while avoiding or defeating senior students who would try to seize their fire energy.
• Xiao Lei asked whether the freshmen could take fire energy from the seniors, and Elder Fang said they could if they had the ability.
• Elder Fang declared the Fire Energy Hunting Competition underway.

Xiao Lei and his allies intervened after five Senior Students robbed a group of freshmen, then defeated the seniors and made them surrender their Fire Crystal Cards. Xiao Lei began dividing the captured fire energy, assigning Hu Jia and Song Hao thirty percent to share.

• Five Senior Students beat five freshmen and took most of their fire energy, leaving them two days' worth.
• Xiao Lei, Xiao Xun'er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao arrived, and Xiao Lei challenged the seniors to hand over their Fire Crystal Cards.
• The Senior Students attacked Xiao Lei's group, but Xiao Lei sent all five flying with a lightning strike.
• Xiao Lei invited the freshmen to avenge themselves, and they beat the helpless Senior Students until the seniors surrendered.
• Xiao Lei stopped the freshmen, collected the seniors' cards, and told Hu Jia and Song Hao to split thirty percent of the fire energy.

Xiao Lei’s group defeated five Senior Students, divided their Fire Energy, and learned about the Inner Academy and the teams in the hunting competition. They continued deeper into the forest, where another Senior Student team spotted them and moved to attack.

• Xiao Lei divided the five Senior Students’ Fire Energy among his group and had them question the seniors about Fire Energy and the competition.
• A Senior Student told Xiao Lei that the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower accelerated cultivation and that the Black White Fiends were two stronger teams.
• Song Hao gave Xiao Lei a rough map, and Xiao Lei led the group farther into the forest to hunt for more Fire Energy.
• The Gray-robed Elder and Blue-robed Elder watched Xiao Lei’s group and discussed their strength and ambition to take Fire Energy from fifty Senior Students.
• A different team of five Senior Students encountered a freshman team of three women and two men and moved to surround them.

Xiao Lei and his teammates defeated two Inner Academy senior student teams during the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and took their Fire Energy. News of the freshman team's strength spread through the forest, sending the senior students into a panic as the hunt escalated.

• Xiao Lei, Xun'er, Hu Jia, Qing Lin, and Song Hao each defeated a member of the first senior student team and collected their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Lei distributed the Fire Energy among the five teammates, then returned the cards and led the group onward.
• Xiao Lei broke through a second team's coordinated defense with a Thunder Palm Print, leaving all four seniors unable to fight.
• Xiao Lei divided the second team's Fire Energy among his group and returned their cards.
• Word spread through the forest that a freshman team was hunting senior students, throwing the competition into chaos.

Xiao Lei's team became the target of the remaining Inner Academy senior students after robbing five teams of their Fire Energy. When three senior student teams confronted them together, Xiao Lei's aura sent all fifteen students crashing into the trees, leaving the watching new students stunned.

• Xiao Lei's team robbed two more Inner Academy senior student teams, leaving five teams with fewer than ten Fire Energy and forcing them to leave the competition.
• The remaining three senior student teams began searching for Xiao Lei's group, while curious and supportive new students followed them.
• Xiao Lei stopped his team and announced that three senior student teams were approaching, but Song Hao worried that fighting all fifteen at once was too risky.
• Xiao Lei said he could handle the senior students alone, then unleashed his aura and sent all fifteen crashing into the surrounding trees.
• The new students and the defeated senior students stared in disbelief at how easily Xiao Lei had overwhelmed them.

Xiao Lei defeated fifteen Inner Academy Senior Students and took their Fire Crystal Cards, revealing himself to be a Dou Wang. He led Xun'er and the others, along with the new students who joined them, toward the forest exit, where the Black White Fiends awaited.

• The Gray-robed Elder and Blue-robed Elder sensed Xiao Lei's aura and recognized him as a Dou Wang.
• Xiao Lei defeated fifteen Senior Students, revealed his Thunder Wings, and collected their Fire Crystal Cards after they surrendered.
• Xiao Lei divided the fire energy among his group as agreed, then invited the other new students to travel with them.
• Xiao Lei led the expanded group toward the forest exit while the defeated Senior Students returned to the Inner Academy by another route.
• At the rocky clearing near the exit, watching Senior Students discussed Xiao Lei as the Black White Fiends waited among the boulders.

Xiao Lei led the new students out of the Secluded Dark Forest and defeated both Black White Fiends teams in one move, stunning the watching Senior Students. After taking their fire energy, he led the new students toward the Inner Academy, but three figures suddenly rushed in from different directions.

• Cang Jie told the Senior Students that his team, Lin Ke's team, and Lan Chen's team had lost to Xiao Lei, who was already a Dou Wang.
• Forty-five new students emerged from the Secluded Dark Forest and made way for Xiao Lei and his four companions.
• Xiao Lei challenged the Black White Fiends captains, Tie Zhan and Ji Du, and unleashed his Dou Wang aura.
• Xiao Lei's Thunder Palm Print struck all ten Black White Fiends team members at once, knocking them to the ground.
• The ten Senior Students handed their Fire Crystal Cards to Xiao Lei's group, who divided the fire energy before returning the cards.
• Xiao Lei led the new students toward the Inner Academy as three figures rushed in from different directions.

After the new students won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Su Qian awarded them Fire Energy and gave Xiao Lei, Xiao Xun'er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao Azure Fire Crystal Cards before leading them into the Inner Academy. Xiao Lei and his companions settled into a pavilion, where he encouraged Qing Lin to focus on improving her strength as the system spoke to him again.

• Su Qian declared the new students the winners of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and awarded each of them twenty days of Fire Energy.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Lei, Xiao Xun'er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao Azure Fire Crystal Cards and thirty extra days of Fire Energy.
• Su Qian led the new students into the Inner Academy, where they saw its vast basin and buildings.
• Su Qian arranged pavilion rooms for Xiao Lei and the other four, then left to settle the remaining students.
• Xiao Lei told Qing Lin she did not need to serve him and should focus on improving her strength, and the system spoke in his mind.

Xiao Lei learned he had obtained Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Thunder, then received a request from the new students to intervene against Inner Academy seniors collecting excessive tribute fees. He agreed to meet the gathered new students, leaving his next move undecided.

• Xiao Lei obtained Wu Earth Apricot Yellow Thunder by patting Qing Lin and considered combining it with his other Strange Lightning.
• The next morning, Xiao Lei, Xun Er, and Qing Lin watched Hu Jia spar with Song Hao before a group of new students arrived asking to see Xiao Lei.
• Xu Kun told Xiao Lei that senior students were repeatedly entering the new student area to demand tribute fees, far beyond the usual amount.
• Xu Kun asked Xiao Lei to help restore the customary limits and offered to have the new students give their tribute fees to him.
• Xiao Lei declined the fees and told Xu Kun to gather all the new students, then asked Xun Er and the others what they thought.

Xiao Lei led Xun Er, Hu Jia, Qing Lin, and Song Hao to confront Senior Students who were extorting the new students. After revealing his Dou Wang strength and defeating the group blocking the exit, he declared that the new students would pay no more Fire Energy, winning their loyalty.

• Xiao Lei and his companions agreed to gather the new students into a faction and went to the exit.
• Xiao Lei found Xu Kun and the other new students confronting Senior Students who demanded more Fire Energy.
• Xiao Lei rallied the new students to refuse further tribute and threatened to fight together against anyone who used force.
• A Senior Student threatened Xiao Lei with the power of the Crimson Blood faction, but Xiao Lei released his Dou Wang aura and blasted the blockers away.
• Xiao Lei ordered the Senior Students to leave and declared that the new students would pay no more Fire Energy, earning their reverence.

Xiao Lei established the Thunderclap Organization with the new students to help them gain a foothold in the Inner Academy. He then brought Xun Er into his Small World and sent her into the Awakening Pool, while planning to enter seclusion himself afterward.

• Xu Kun proposed that Xiao Lei unite the new students into a faction for protection, and Xiao Lei agreed to lead them.
• Xiao Lei named the new faction Thunderclap, and the new students cheered and pledged to follow him.
• Back at the courtyard pavilion, Xiao Lei assigned Hu Jia and Song Hao to handle Thunderclap's affairs with Qing Lin's help, while he and Xun Er prepared to enter seclusion.
• Xiao Lei brought Xun Er into his Small World and explained that her background would not change how he felt about her.
• Xiao Lei explained the Awakening Pool to Xun Er, and she entered it as he watched.

Xiao Lei visited Queen Medusa in the Mystic Realm, where their spar turned into an intimate battle before he returned to Jia Nan Academy. He then gathered Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao to check out the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, but the crowd stopped them at its entrance.

• Xiao Lei met Queen Medusa in the Mystic Realm, sparred with her, and stayed with her afterward.
• Queen Medusa chose to keep cultivating in the Mystic Realm rather than visit Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Lei.
• Xiao Lei returned to the academy and told Qing Lin he would alternate seclusion with Xun Er so the Thunderclap Organization could respond to trouble.
• Xiao Lei gathered Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao and led them toward the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• The group reached the tower after passing through a large crowd, but they could not move beyond a boundary in the line.

Xiao Lei entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower with Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Song Hao, but Qing Lin felt uncomfortable and left with him. On their way back, Chi Sha of the Crimson Blood Organization challenged Xiao Lei to an Arena match, wagering 120 days of Fire Energy.

• Xiao Lei and his companions waited for the tower to open, then entered and adapted to its Heartfire with varying ease.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Lei that the tower made her feel hot and uncomfortable, so he sent Hu Jia and Song Hao to find cultivation rooms and left with Qing Lin.
• Chi Sha and two dozen Crimson Blood members surrounded Xiao Lei and challenged him to fight at the Arena over his treatment of their members.
• Xiao Lei asked how much Fire Energy Chi Sha would wager, and Chi Sha offered 120 days; Xiao Lei accepted and told him to lead the way.

Xiao Lei faced Chi Sha in the Inner Academy Arena after Crimson Blood challenged him, then revealed his Dou Wang strength and defeated Chi Sha with a single palm strike. Chi Sha was sent crashing into the crowd, where someone angrily shouted about a Mystic Spirit Fruit.

• Xiao Lei and the Crimson Blood members arrived at the Arena, drawing a large crowd eager to see his showdown with Chi Sha.
• Chi Sha registered for the duel, declared that Xiao Lei would pay for defying Crimson Blood, and attacked with a Blood-red Spear.
• Xiao Lei formed Thunder Wings, revealing that he had reached the Dou Wang level and shocking the watching students.
• Xiao Lei flew up to Chi Sha and struck him in the chest, sending him flying into the crowd.
• Someone in the crowd shouted angrily about a Mystic Spirit Fruit, and Chi Sha was struck again and sent flying back toward the platform.

Xiao Lei defeated Chi Sha and negotiated with Zi Yan after Chi Sha crushed her Mystic Spirit Fruit. After Xiao Lei demonstrated his pill refining, Zi Yan accepted a Dou Ling Pill and agreed to join Thunderclap.

• Xiao Lei treated the gravely injured Chi Sha, then faced Zi Yan, who demanded compensation for her crushed Mystic Spirit Fruit.
• Xiao Lei offered Zi Yan a Dou Ling Pill if she joined Thunderclap and promised to refine pills for her.
• Xiao Lei warned the arena crowd not to provoke Thunderclap, then took Chi Sha's Fire Energy and returned to his residence with Qing Lin and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Lei used an Automatic Pill Refining Furnace to make Qi Gathering Powder and showed Zi Yan he could refine pills.
• Zi Yan accepted the Dou Ling Pill and agreed to join Thunderclap.