Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu endured the Blazing Heavens Qi Refining Tower’s first Heartfire Tempering, revealing powerful flames and setting new records. After Elder Liu explained the tower’s rules and cleared away the onlookers, he called the two over to meet Han Yue.

• Han Yue and the students watched Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan endure the Heartfire Tempering as the time passed seventeen minutes.
• When Elder Liu tried to draw the invisible flames from Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan’s green Heavenly Flames erupted and badly burned him.
• Xiao Yan woke after enduring the Heartfire Tempering himself, and Elder Liu explained the tower’s rules and first-entry precautions.
• Xiao Yu endured the trial for twenty-one minutes, broke the record, and woke after his flames burned Elder Liu again.
• Elder Liu sent the onlookers away, then called Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan over to meet Han Yue.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan toured the Blazing Heavens Qi Refining Tower with Elder Liu after meeting Han Yue, who offered to help them if needed. At the tower’s central abyss, they glimpsed distortions that Xiao Yu suspected were the Fallen Heart Flame, but Elder Liu pulled them away just before an invisible energy shot out.

• Elder Liu introduced Han Yue to Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan, and Han Yue shook Xiao Yu’s hand despite her reputed aversion to physical contact with men.
• Han Yue warned Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan that forming Pan's Gate with the new students could provoke the major factions, then offered help before leaving for the sixth floor.
• Elder Liu led Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan into the Blazing Heavens Qi Refining Tower and explained how students competed for cultivation rooms of different grades at the same Fire Energy cost.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan reached the central black abyss, where Xiao Yu saw living distortions climbing through the darkness and suspected they were the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Elder Liu yanked Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan away as invisible energy shot from the abyss with a hissing sound.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan discovered that the Blazing Heavens Qi Refining Tower held the Fallen Heart Flame’s imprisoned fire spirit, then returned to Pan's Gate to find that someone had come to seize their people. The chapter left Xiao Yan facing the first trouble Han Yue had warned him about.

• The Fallen Heart Flame’s fire spirit appeared above the black hole, battered the spatial seal, and retreated after failing to escape.
• Elder Liu warned Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan to keep the incident secret, then learned Xiao Yu had become a one-star Dou Ling.
• Medicine Elder identified the fire python as the Fallen Heart Flame’s intelligent fire spirit and warned that it could eventually break free of Jia Nan Academy’s seal.
• Xiao Yan decided to postpone planning how to obtain the Heavenly Flame, and Medicine Elder returned to his ring when he sensed someone approaching.
• A Pan's Gate disciple told Xiao Yan that someone had come to forcibly take their people away.