Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu explained the requirements for refining the Inner Academy's Fallen Heart Flame and agreed to help if its elder gathered the necessary treasures. He supplied Xiao Yan with materials for refining the Sea Heart Flame, then continued refining pills as Xiao Yan prepared to work with Yao Lao.

• Fang Yu warned the Inner Academy elder that refining the Fallen Heart Flame would be dangerous and required Naling, a sixth-tier pill, and Heavenly Cold Qi, and the elder agreed to gather them within a year.
• The Inner Academy elder left, and Fang Yu resumed refining pills for experts who supplied him with ingredients and valuable compensation.
• Xiao Yan came to Fang Yu for materials to refine the Sea Heart Flame, and Fang Yu gave him a prepared ring without requesting payment.
• Fang Yu told Xiao Yan he had offered the Inner Academy elder a chance to refine the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan accepted that the flame belonged to the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu's repeated pill refinements produced frequent energy storms, astonishing the experts and Yao Lao, who then began refining a pill with Xiao Yan to prepare him to refine the Sea Heart Flame.

After completing his promised pills and establishing himself as the Black-Corner Region’s top alchemist, Fang Yu accompanied Xiao Yan to the Inner Academy and entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to experience its flames. He met Han Yue there and gave her a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, leaving the students astonished by his generosity and reputation.

• Fang Yu finished refining the pills he had promised, then asked Yun Yun and Elder Qing to manage Maple City while he and Xiao Yan went to the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu sent Xiao Yan to meet the Xiao Family members and went alone to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Fang Yu entered the tower and refined its invisible flames while Elder Liu chased away students who mocked him.
• Han Yue asked Elder Liu about Fang Yu and learned of his reputation as the region’s foremost alchemist and a powerful ally of the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu recognized Han Yue as a member of the Han Family and gave her a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill despite her initial refusal.

Fang Yu left the tower and explored the Inner Academy trading plaza, where he clashed with Liu Fei over a golden jade slip. After Liu Fei summoned her cousin Liu Qing, the Academy's Grand Elder arrived to stop the confrontation.

• Fang Yu gave Han Yue a peak fourth-tier Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, then left the tower while Xiao Yan went to cultivate on its lowest level.
• Fang Yu found the trading plaza and tried to buy a golden jade slip, but Liu Fei snatched it and refused to hand it over.
• Fang Yu slapped Liu Fei's would-be defender away, then struck Liu Fei and took back the jade slip; he paid the stall owner with a fourth-tier pill.
• Liu Fei left to fetch her cousin Liu Qing, while Fang Yu continued shopping and waited for them to return.
• Liu Qing arrived and prepared to fight Fang Yu, but the Academy's Grand Elder intervened; Fang Yu only nodded to the elder instead of bowing.

Fang Yu took Liu Fei under his supervision after sparing her at the Grand Elder’s request, then searched the academy for rare materials. Liu Fei received a Dou Spirit Pill and learned she would remain with Fang Yu for roughly half a year to a year, depending on her conduct.

• The Grand Elder asked Fang Yu to spare Liu Fei, and Liu Fei and Liu Qing apologized to him.
• Fang Yu asked Liu Qing to let Liu Fei stay by his side so he could correct her temperament, and Liu Qing agreed.
• The elders revealed that Fang Yu was a young seventh-tier alchemist, leaving Liu Qing shocked and pleased that his cousin had formed a connection with him.
• Fang Yu searched the trading plaza and academy pavilion, obtained a golden jade fragment, and exchanged a Dou Spirit Pill for rare materials.
• Fang Yu gave Liu Fei a Dou Spirit Pill and told her she would follow him for about half a year to a year, with her freedom depending on her performance.

Fang Yu found the infant Fallen Heart Flame and rescued Skyfire Venerable, then arranged to gather the materials needed for his resurrection. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and began training to stabilize his strength before refining the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Fang Yu searched the magma for two months, found the infant Fallen Heart Flame behind a barrier, and met the soul of Skyfire Venerable beside a skeleton.
• Fang Yu agreed to help Skyfire Venerable revive him, took him away in a ring, and gave the infant Fallen Heart Flame to the Grand Elder in exchange for medicinal ingredients.
• The Grand Elder promised to gather the ingredients within half a month, while Fang Yu told Skyfire Venerable that resurrection would require extensive preparation and time.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined the Sea Heart Flame, but Yao Lao told him to stabilize his realm for up to a year before refining the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Lao ordered Xiao Yan to hunt magical beasts daily to exhaust and rebuild his Dou Qi, and Xiao Yan decided to ask the Grand Elder where to find a Dou Emperor-class beast.

Fang Yu met Zi Yan at the academy, offered her pills, and persuaded her to travel with him in exchange for help finding herbs. After the Grand Elder approved, Fang Yu set out with Zi Yan for the Magical Beast Mountain Range to hunt powerful magical beasts and prepare for Venerable Tian Huo’s resurrection.

• Zi Yan attacked Fang Yu for taking her herbs, but he easily stopped her and distracted her with a bottle of pills.
• Fang Yu refused to reveal Zi Yan’s identity until she reached the Dou Huang realm and offered to help her grow stronger if she stayed with him.
• The Grand Elder appeared and encouraged Zi Yan to leave the academy with Fang Yu, who promised to protect her and share the pills he refined.
• Zi Yan agreed to help Fang Yu find herbs and magical beasts, while Fang Yu asked the Grand Elder about transformation-rank beasts nearby.
• Fang Yu explained that he needed a Dou Zong-level magical beast’s essence soul to prepare for Venerable Tian Huo’s resurrection, then departed with Zi Yan for the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Fang Yu traveled to Black Emperor City to acquire rare medicinal herbs and began negotiating with the proprietor of Thousand Medicine Workshop. After Grand Elder Su Qian encouraged him to use his strength against factions threatening the academy, Fang Yu set out to trade with the Black-Corner Region’s powerful sects.

• Grand Elder Su Qian suggested that Fang Yu seek rare beast essence blood and other materials from powerful Black-Corner Region factions, and Fang Yu agreed to eliminate any that obstructed him.
• Fang Yu arrived in Black Emperor City with Little Dragon Girl, drawing attention as the region’s only seventh-rank alchemist.
• Fang Yu entered Thousand Medicine Workshop to search for herbs and met its proprietor, whom the passage also called Yanran.
• The proprietor led Fang Yu upstairs, where he gave her a list of rare materials and asked her to bring everything the shop had.
• The proprietor returned with more than a dozen boxes of herbs, and Fang Yu opened them to inspect their contents.

Fang Yu met with Sect Master Mo and revealed that he wanted to use the Dou Zong’s body to resurrect a senior. After trapping him in a sealed, poisoned room, Fang Yu gave him a choice between dying by Fang Yu’s hand or killing himself to spare his sect from destruction.

• Fang Yu rewarded the woman with sixth-tier medicinal pills and asked her to bring him the person in charge, promising to make her city lord if their business succeeded.
• The woman agreed to become Fang Yu’s woman, and he explained that he intended to kill Sect Master Mo and use his corpse.
• Sect Master Mo arrived at the pharmacy and asked Fang Yu why he had summoned him.
• Fang Yu said he wanted to borrow Sect Master Mo’s body for a senior’s resurrection, prompting Sect Master Mo to flee.
• Fang Yu revealed that he had sealed the room and poisoned it, then offered Sect Master Mo two choices: die at Fang Yu’s hands or kill himself to spare his sect, with his son crippled.

Mo Ya argued against Sect Master Mo accepting Fang Yu’s terms, but Sect Master Mo insisted that resisting a young seventh-grade alchemist would doom their sect. The chapter ended with Mo Ya fleeing the Black-Corner Region while Sect Master Mo hoped he would survive.

• Mo Ya protested that accepting Fang Yu’s terms would cost him and the sect everything, while Sect Master Mo explained that Fang Yu’s influence could summon powerful allies to destroy them.
• Sect Master Mo ordered Mo Ya to take the sect’s treasures and flee, but Mo Ya proposed uniting the Black-Corner Region’s factions and fighting Fang Yu instead.
• Mo Ya continued urging a desperate attack, and Sect Master Mo slapped and berated him, warning that Fang Yu’s master might be an eighth-grade alchemist.
• Mo Ya finally understood that he had to survive before he could ever seek revenge, and he left to flee the Black-Corner Region.
• Sect Master Mo felt relieved that Mo Ya had escaped, though he privately believed revenge against Fang Yu was nearly impossible.

After the Black Emperor Sect fell, Fang Yu moved to unify the Black-Corner Region as Soul Hall backed Demon Flame Valley against him. Yun Yun agreed to help gather ingredients for a pill that could secure a Dou Zun’s aid, while Skyfire Venerable promised to stand with Fang Yu after he vowed to help him become a Dou Sheng.

• News of the Black Emperor Sect’s destruction spread, and factions in the Black-Corner Region began choosing sides between Fang Yu and Soul Hall-backed Demon Flame Valley.
• Fang Yu took control of factions that defected to him and told Yun Yun he had to seize the chance to unify the region before Soul Hall’s forces grew stronger.
• Yun Yun agreed to stay and asked Fang Yu to bring in a Dou Zun expert; Fang Yu said a seventh-tier pill could persuade one to help.
• Yun Yun took Fang Yu’s list of missing medicinal ingredients and set out to gather them.
• Fang Yu assured Skyfire Venerable that he was prepared to oppose Soul Hall and promised to help him become a Dou Sheng.
• Skyfire Venerable pledged to protect Fang Yu, even if a Soul Hall Venerable came after him.

Fang Yu offered to revive Venerable Yao with a Soul-Returning Pill in exchange for help unifying the Black-Corner Region, and Venerable Yao initially hesitated over the debt and Fang Yu’s possible motives. After Xiao Yan persuaded him to accept, Fang Yu agreed to proceed with the revival and promised not to use tricks.

• Fang Yu offered to refine a Soul-Returning Pill and revive Venerable Yao if he helped unify the Black-Corner Region.
• Venerable Yao declined to answer immediately, explaining to Xiao Yan that he feared owing Fang Yu an enormous debt and suspected Fang Yu needed help against Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan argued that revival would benefit them both, and Venerable Yao agreed despite worrying that Fang Yu might restrain him.
• Xiao Yan told Fang Yu that Venerable Yao had accepted the offer, and Fang Yu agreed to refine the pills and help revive him.
• Xiao Yan asked Fang Yu not to use tricks during the revival, and Fang Yu assured him that he would not.

Fang Yu prepared to refine a tier-seven pill to revive Skyfire Venerable and another old man, while Soul Hall’s experts plotted to seize it. With the academy and Yun Yun gathering the materials and elders ready to defend him, Fang Yu remained confident as the refinement approached.

• Fang Yu assured Skyfire Venerable that refining two tier-seven pills and arranging both revivals would not be difficult for him.
• Fang Yu set the requirements for revival: a tier-seven Soul-Returning Pill, a Dou Zong expert’s body, and a Dou Zong magical beast’s blood essence; the latter two were already prepared.
• Alchemists across the Black-Corner Region sought to observe Fang Yu’s pill refinement, and he limited access to fourth-tier alchemists or exceptionally young third-tier alchemists.
• Yun Yun continued handling Fang Yu’s affairs and cultivating with his pills, though she felt uneasy about following the future he had arranged for her.
• Fang Yu anticipated an attack by Soul Hall experts who intended to seize his pill, and relied on the academy’s elders to hold them off while he revived the two old men.
• Yun Yun and the academy gathered the remaining ingredients, and Fang Yu reassured them that he was ready to handle any attackers.

Fang Yu received an invitation from a Soul Hall elder and rejected the Protector’s threats, insisting that Soul Hall could not destroy the Xiao Family. After learning the meeting place, Fang Yu went to Yun Yun for the final medicinal ingredients and reassured her before deciding to meet the elder.

• A Soul Hall Protector appeared before Fang Yu and said Elder Sun had invited him to meet, while threatening the Xiao Family’s survival.
• Fang Yu refused to go unless Elder Sun came to him, mocked Soul Hall’s leaders, and warned that the Xiao Family had powerful backing.
• The Protector handed Fang Yu a scroll marking a city in the Black-Corner Region and fled after warning him not to miss the meeting.
• Fang Yu decided to find Yun Yun for the remaining medicinal ingredients before meeting the Soul Hall elder.
• Yun Yun urged Fang Yu to flee, but Fang Yu reassured her that he was prepared and advised her to hide somewhere safe.

Fang Yu poisoned a young Soul Clan Dou Venerable, extracted and devoured his Dou Emperor bloodline, and discovered that it granted power through inheritance and luck. He retained only a tiny portion for research, deciding he had no need to depend on bloodlines.

• The black-robed Soul Clan youth confronted Fang Yu and demanded to take him back for examination of his awakened Dou Emperor bloodline.
• Fang Yu taunted the youth until the poison he had prepared immobilized him, then revealed that he was a seventh-grade alchemist.
• Fang Yu extracted nearly all of the youth’s bloodline, reducing his cultivation from Dou Venerable to a barely living cripple.
• Fang Yu swallowed and refined the extracted blood, gaining strength and investigating the bloodline’s properties.
• Fang Yu learned that the bloodline could empower its inheritors but required luck, and he kept only a negligible portion after concluding he could grow stronger without it.

Fang Yu forced a Soul Clan man to submit by offering him the power to devour bloodlines, then returned to Yun Yun and agreed to refine pills for her. The Soul Clan man departed as Fang Yu’s secret slave, while Yun Yun prepared to receive the promised pills.

• Fang Yu threatened the Soul Clan man with death and tempted him with the power to devour bloodlines until the man agreed to become his slave.
• Fang Yu taught the Soul Clan man the bloodline-devouring divine ability and ordered him to secretly strengthen himself by targeting those who opposed him.
• The Soul Clan man vowed not to reveal Fang Yu’s power, regained his vitality, and left to carry out his task.
• Fang Yu returned to Yun Yun, who was shocked and relieved to find him unharmed.
• Yun Yun asked Fang Yu to refine pills from ingredients she had prepared, and he agreed to deliver them by the day after tomorrow.

Fang Yu finished refining seventh-tier pills and began resurrecting Skyfire Venerable and Yao Lao in a guarded stone chamber. The two seniors swallowed the pills and entered their chosen bodies, beginning the final fusion needed for resurrection.

• Fang Yu projected his pill-refining process over the city, then used his puppet to overcome the heavenly lightning and strengthen it.
• Fang Yu told Xiao Yan to guard the resurrection site, and Xiao Yan agreed; Yun Yun joined him outside.
• Fang Yu presented Skyfire Venerable and Yao Lao with seventh-tier pills and bodies to choose from.
• Fang Yu burned away the bodies’ deathly aura while restoring them, as the two seniors waited with their pills.
• Fang Yu had Skyfire Venerable and Yao Lao swallow the pills and enter their chosen bodies to begin the final resurrection process.

Fang Yu explained that Xiao Yan needed to grow stronger while the Soul Hall and Soul Clan remained a threat, and revealed that he wanted Xiao Yan’s help unifying the Black-Corner Region. Xiao Yan agreed in exchange for information about Heavenly Flames, as Fang Yu left their next steps focused on strengthening their clan and preparing for the Soul Clan.

• Fang Yu reassured Xiao Yan and Yun Yun that Xiao Yan’s master could be resurrected after adapting to his new body, and estimated that he would recover most of his strength.
• Fang Yu warned Xiao Yan to stay alert to the Soul Hall, pursue Heavenly Flames, and improve his strength while helping unify the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help Fang Yu unify the region but demanded that Fang Yu share information about Heavenly Flames and help him obtain them.
• Fang Yu agreed to provide that information after the region was unified and explained that the Soul Hall was backed by the Soul Clan, which possessed a Dou Di bloodline.
• Fang Yu said their clan needed to grow stronger and reactivate its Dou Di bloodline, while asserting that their little cousin’s clan would not let the Soul Clan destroy them.

After unifying the Black-Corner Region in a month, Fang Yu told his allies he planned to conquer nearby empires and eventually unify the Dou Qi Continent to become a Dou Di. He left them with instructions to keep his ambitions secret as the group prepared to seek support from the Sky Serpent Empire.

• Skyfire Venerable and Fang Yu’s reputation as a seventh-tier alchemist led the factions of the Black-Corner Region to submit, unifying the region within a month.
• Fang Yu asked Han Yue about Central Province and said he would accompany her there after her graduation, but first planned to unify nearby empires.
• Xiao Yan questioned whether their forces could overcome other empires, while Yao Lao warned that Central Province and Soul Hall were formidable.
• Fang Yu said he expected the Sky Serpent Empire’s saintess to help him win support and argued they could gradually unite Central Province.
• Fang Yu revealed that his ultimate goal was to unify the Dou Qi Continent and become a Dou Di, then told his allies to keep his plans secret or leave his alliance.

Fang Yu persuaded his allies to help unify the Northwest Continent and devised pills that could rapidly strengthen cultivators at the cost of their lifespan. He gave Yao Lao a secret method to activate his Dou Di bloodline, leaving Yao Lao with a path to reach Dou Sheng and advance their plans.

• After several days of deliberation, Xiao Yan and the others agreed to gamble on helping Fang Yu unify the continent.
• Fang Yu and Yao Lao planned to refine and improve the Life-Eating Pill, creating batches that could help cultivators reach higher realms at the cost of lifespan.
• Fang Yu presented additional pills and the group began planning how to unify the Northwest Continent.
• Yao Lao said he expected to reach Half-Saint within three to five years, but not Dou Sheng in the near future.
• Fang Yu gave Yao Lao a secret method for activating his faint Dou Di bloodline, and Yao Lao burned the scroll after reading it.

Fang Yu rejected Gu Yao’s demand to return to the Ancient Realm and confronted the Gu Clan’s hidden Dou Sheng elder. He left the elder with a warning to tell the Clan Chief to cooperate against the Soul Clan, while insisting that the Ancient Clan had no choice but to heed him.

• Gu Yao arrived with Ancient Clan subordinates and ordered Fang Yu to return to the Ancient Realm.
• Fang Yu told Gu Yao to get lost and slapped him away before he could attack.
• Fang Yu berated the hidden Ancient Clan elder for the clan’s treatment of the Xiao Family and warned that he would kill the gathered visitors if the elder did not emerge.
• The elder appeared and threatened Fang Yu, but Fang Yu argued that the Ancient Clan feared the consequences of killing him.
• Fang Yu warned that the Soul Clan had two nine-star Dou Shengs and urged the Ancient Clan to follow his advice and tell its Clan Chief to cooperate against them.