Recaps

Hun Tiandi lured Gu Yuan out of the Gu Realm after recovering from his injuries, and the two argued about their past rivalry and the chance to become a Dou Emperor. Hun Tiandi then revealed that he had come to fight Gu Yuan for practice.

• Gu Yuan sensed someone spying on the Gu Realm and stepped into the void, where he found Hun Tiandi waiting.
• Hun Tiandi teased Gu Yuan about having a daughter, and Gu Yuan retorted that it was better than dying without anyone to see him off.
• Gu Yuan doubted Hun Tiandi could become a Dou Emperor, but Hun Tiandi declared that Xiao Xuan's failure would not stop him.
• Hun Tiandi thanked Gu Yuan for showing mercy during their battle a thousand years earlier and recalled how Gu Yuan had passed up chances to destroy the Xiao and Hun Clans.
• Gu Yuan demanded to know why Hun Tiandi had come, and Hun Tiandi said he wanted to fight him to get back into shape.

Hun Tiandi challenged Gu Yuan to test his strength and draw the Gu Clan’s attention while the Nihility Devouring Flame operated elsewhere. After their three-day battle ended in a draw, Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan to monitor the Hun Clan, leaving the Nihility Devouring Flame free to act.

• Hun Tiandi challenged Gu Yuan to a fight in chaos space, and Gu Yuan accepted so he could test his rival’s recovered strength.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan battled for three days, disturbing the void and causing spatial storms across the Dou Qi Continent.
• The two stopped after a final exchange, neither having gained the advantage, and Hun Tiandi left after Gu Yuan warned him against stirring up trouble.
• Gu Yuan returned to the Gu Realm and ordered the Gu Clan’s senior members to monitor the Hun Clan, as Hun Tiandi had intended.

After Hun Tiandi recovered, the Emperor Clans reacted with alarm, while Xiao Lin returned to Jia Nan Academy to discuss an unspecified matter with Su Qian. Their conversation was interrupted by a familiar purple-clad girl demanding high-grade pills.

• The Emperor Clans learned that Hun Tiandi had healed; the Yao Clan went on alert, the Stone Clan considered sealing itself off, and the Ling Clan decided to retreat behind the defenses of the Ling Realm.
• Xiao Lin sent recommendation letters to Xiao Yan, the Eldest Miss of the Gu Clan, and Nalan Yanran, then returned to Jia Nan Academy to speak with Su Qian.
• Xiao Lin appeared through a Spatial Teleportation Passage in Su Qian's office and said he expected to stay at the academy for a few years.
• Xiao Lin claimed he was far stronger than Mang Tianchi, but Su Qian doubted him because he remembered Xiao Lin losing their previous spar.
• A purple-clad girl burst into the office demanding high-grade pills, then stopped when she noticed Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin reunited with Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy and indulged her demand for medicinal ingredients and pills. He gave her a dozen sixth- and seventh-tier pills, while hinting that his return also involved Zhukun beneath the academy.

• Xiao Lin greeted Zi Yan, who had come to Su Qian's office seeking high-tier pills, and noticed how much she had grown and strengthened.
• Zi Yan called Xiao Lin Old Man Lin, then roared at him for staying away and mauled his head before settling beside him.
• Xiao Lin apologized and promised to visit more often, while Zi Yan insisted she was grown up and demanded compensation.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Lin for high-grade medicinal ingredients and high-tier pills, and he gave her a dozen sixth- and seventh-tier pills.
• Xiao Lin planned to help Zi Yan make up the last of her developmental deficiencies and later address the matter of Zhukun beneath Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Lin helped Zi Yan make up for her stunted development with medicinal pills, then waited for her to awaken while strengthening his Trial Grounds. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran reached Peace Town, and Xiao Yan acknowledged his romantic feelings for Xun'er.

• Xiao Lin gave Zi Yan Tier 6 and Tier 7 medicinal pills and watched over her as she took a few each day.
• After eating the last Tier 7 pill on the seventh day, Zi Yan fell into a sleep that would complete her development as an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Lin improved the Trial Grounds with dozens of spirit arrays while waiting for Zi Yan to awaken and Xiao Yan's group to arrive.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran reached Peace Town after half a month of travel, bickering along the way.
• Xiao Yan realized that his feelings for Xun'er went beyond those of an older brother for a younger sister.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached Peace Town, where Nalan Yanran and Xun'er continued their rivalry after Nalan missed a fight with thugs in the Black-Corner Region. Jia Nan Academy's Law Enforcement Team intervened, but captain Zhou Kang's attention toward the two girls suggested another confrontation might arise.

• Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Xun'er arrived at Peace Town after half a month of travel.
• Nalan Yanran complained that Xiao Yan and Xun'er had defeated the thugs before she could fight, and Xun'er taunted her about being weaker.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Xun'er to a duel, and Xiao Yan watched them face off.
• Zhou Kang and Jia Nan Academy's Law Enforcement Team arrived and warned the group that fighting was forbidden in Peace Town.
• Zhou Kang ogled Nalan Yanran and Xun'er while ignoring Xiao Yan, so Xiao Yan stepped forward and explained that the girls were only bickering.

Xiao Yan and his companions tried to enter Jia Nan Academy with a recommendation letter, but Zhou Kang used the opportunity to threaten them. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan easily defeating Zhou Kang after the captain attacked him.

• Xiao Yan told Zhou Kang that he, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran intended to enroll at Jia Nan Academy with a recommendation letter.
• Zhou Kang demanded to inspect the letter, then dismissed his team members' advice to report it and threatened to arrest Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan challenged Zhou Kang to try making a move, while Xun'er and Nalan Yanran ignored the captain.
• Zhou Kang grabbed for Xiao Yan, who fractured his wrist and kicked him across the ground when he attacked again.
• Xiao Yan mocked Zhou Kang after defeating him.

Xiao Yan defeated Law Enforcement Team squad leader Zhou Kang after Zhou Kang provoked him in Peace Town. Elder Huo arrived, learned what happened, and agreed to handle the matter after Xiao Yan presented his and his companions’ Letters of Recommendation.

• Xiao Yan defeated Zhou Kang with a single kick, leaving the surrounding Law Enforcement Team members stunned.
• A Law Enforcement Team member threatened Xiao Yan, but the team held back as they suspected an academy elder had written his Letter of Recommendation.
• Elder Huo arrived, heard an account of the incident, and ordered the Law Enforcement Team to take Zhou Kang away for treatment.
• Huo Dian warned Xiao Yan that he would only let the matter go if Xiao Yan truly had a Letter of Recommendation from an academy elder.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran each handed Huo Dian their Letters of Recommendation.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran entered Jia Nan Academy as special admits using recommendation letters from Lin Supreme Elder, whose identity and standing surprised Huo Dian. After enrolling them in the Outer Academy, rumors spread about the trio’s arrival and Xiao Yan’s defeat of a Law Enforcement Team captain.

• Huo Dian recognized the star-marked signature on the trio’s recommendation letters as Lin Supreme Elder’s and verified them.
• Huo Dian learned that Xiao Yan’s grandfather had obtained the letters through a friend, then told the trio what he could about Lin Supreme Elder.
• Huo Dian escorted Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran to Deputy Headmaster Hu Gan, who approved their enrollment.
• Hu Gan enrolled the three after seeing their youth and Dou Ling cultivation, and news of their special admission quickly spread through the academies.
• Rumors also spread that one of the new admits had defeated Two-Star Dou Ling squad captain Zhou Kang with a single kick.

After Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran enrolled at Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Lin asked First Elder Su Qian about recruiting graduates for the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace. Su Qian agreed, revealing that President Mang Tianchi had already approved the idea years earlier.

• Huo Dian told Xiao Lin that Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran had enrolled, and reported Xiao Yan's clash with the Law Enforcement Team.
• Xiao Lin recalled that the next Inner Academy Selection Tournament was three months away and anticipated Xiao Yan entering the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Lin asked Su Qian whether the academy arranged anything for graduates and proposed giving them the option to join his Central Plains faction, the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Su Qian agreed to the recruitment plan and explained that Mang Tianchi had written to him about it years earlier.

Xiao Lin and Su Qian arranged for the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace to recruit Jia Nan Academy graduates without forcing them to risk the long journey to the Central Plains. Xiao Lin opened a stable Spatial Wormhole between the academy and the sect, leaving Su Qian astonished by the strength of the elder sent to guard it.

• Su Qian agreed to let the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace recruit Jia Nan Academy graduates.
• Xiao Lin proposed opening a Spatial Wormhole directly between Jia Nan Academy and the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, and Su Qian agreed.
• Xiao Lin returned to the sect to arrange preparations and then opened the Spatial Wormhole over several days.
• Xiao Lin sent Zhu Fang, a Six-Star Dou Venerable and the sect's seventh elder, to guard Jia Nan Academy's end of the wormhole.
• Su Qian and the Qian Bai Er Lao were stunned by Zhu Fang's strength, and Su Qian realized he had underestimated Xiao Lin and his sect.

Xiao Lin arranged for Zhu Fang to guard Jia Nan Academy’s Spatial Wormhole and introduced him to the academy’s leaders. The academy’s announcement that a Central Plains faction would recruit graduates sparked excitement and speculation, while Xiao Lin kept the faction’s identity secret so students could choose freely.

• Xiao Lin welcomed Zhu Fang to Jia Nan Academy and assigned him to guard the Spatial Wormhole.
• Xiao Lin introduced Zhu Fang to Su Qian, Qian Mu, and Bai Lie, who welcomed him as a valuable ally.
• Jia Nan Academy announced that a major Central Plains faction would recruit its graduates through the Spatial Wormhole.
• Inner Academy students eagerly discussed the opportunity and tried to identify the unnamed faction, but none knew its identity.
• Xiao Lin kept the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace’s name secret so graduates would have more freedom to choose their paths.

Xiao Lin arranged for Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy graduates to join the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, while Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran settled into the Outer Academy. The Xiao Household members reunited, ending the chapter with Xiao Yu and Nalan Yanran's complicated relationship still unexplained.

• Xiao Lin told Su Qian and Qian Bai Er Lao about the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, and Su Qian agreed to let it recruit Inner Academy graduates without revealing its name to students.
• Su Qian made Zhu Fang a guest elder so he could guard Jia Nan Academy's Spatial Wormhole while concealing his identity.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran drew attention in the Outer Academy, while Inner Academy students anticipated challenging Xiao Yan and courting the two girls.
• Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Mei came to greet Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran, and the six celebrated their reunion.
• Xiao Ning questioned Xiao Yan about whether he had offended Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yan denied it as the girls began catching up.

Xiao Yan and his companions reunited at Jia Nan Academy and spent three months cultivating and attending classes while awaiting the Inner Academy Selection Tournament. When the tournament arrived, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yu were ready to compete, while Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei would sit it out.

• Xiao Mei asked about Xun'er and Nalan Yanran's relationship, and the two women traded polite, pointed jabs while claiming to be close.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran reunited at Jia Nan Academy and relied on the three Dou Ling as they settled into the Outer Academy.
• During the following three months, Xiao Yan enjoyed attending classes and made friends, while Xun'er and Nalan Yanran gained followers and protectors.
• Xiao Yan reached Eight-Star Dou Ling, Xun'er reached Seven-Star Dou Ling, and Nalan Yanran reached Six-Star Dou Ling as they prepared for the tournament.
• Xiao Yu, now a Three-Star Da Dou Shi, joined the tournament after spending an extra year preparing; Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei chose not to participate.
• The annual Inner Academy Selection Tournament began.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran dominated the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, while Xiao Yu also qualified for the Inner Academy. In the final ranking melee, Xiao Yan swept the other competitors off the platform, leaving the four of them set to enter the Inner Academy together.

• Xiao Yan defeated his opponent and continued his streak of effortless victories in the tournament.
• Xun'er advanced when Yuan Chuan forfeited, and Nalan Yanran quickly defeated her next opponent without drawing her sword.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yu all secured places in the top fifty, while Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei congratulated them.
• Hu Gan arranged a grand melee to rank the fifty qualifiers, and Xiao Yan knocked the other competitors off the platform as Xun'er and Nalan Yanran barely needed to act.
• Xiao Yu placed fourth by staying with Xiao Yan and the two girls, and the four prepared to enter the Inner Academy together.

After receiving their tournament rewards, Xiao Yan and the other qualifiers prepared to enter Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy. They departed on Griffin Beasts, while Xiao Yan drew envious looks for riding with four beauties.

• Xiao Yan received the High Xuan Tier Soul Dou Technique Lion-Tiger Shattering Gold Chant and additional Fire Energy for his tournament performance.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yu said goodbye to Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei, who promised to work toward entering the Inner Academy.
• Vice President Hu Gan gathered the fifty qualifiers and explained that the Inner Academy was Jia Nan Academy's secretive core, located some distance from the Outer Academy.
• Ten Griffin Beasts arrived, and Hu Gan told the students to board in groups of five for the journey.
• Xiao Yan boarded with Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yu, and Hu Jia, while the surrounding students envied him as the Griffin Beasts carried them toward the Inner Academy.

Hu Gan led Xiao Yan and the other new students through a hidden gate into the Inner Academy. They received Fire Crystal Cards and learned they had to cross the forest while Inner Academy students hunted them for their fire energy.

• Hu Gan revealed a hidden Silver Gate and led the new students through it into the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan noticed the gate resembled a formation he had seen before, unaware that Xiao Lin had created it.
• An elder gave each of the fifty newcomers a Fire Crystal Card and explained that fire energy was used for cultivation and purchases in the Inner Academy.
• The elder announced that Inner Academy students could take the newcomers' fire energy by any means short of killing before they reached the academy.
• The elder started the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and sent the newcomers running into the forest.

Xiao Yan led nearly forty new students through the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and defeated three senior teams, taking half the Fire Energy from each team and sharing it among his followers. With the new students rallying around him, Xiao Yan set off to find the last two teams.

• Xiao Yan defeated a team of five senior students who had planned to rob the new students.
• Xiao Yan and his companions took half the Fire Energy from each senior student's Fire Crystal Card and distributed it among the new students.
• The chapter explained that nearly forty of the fifty new students had joined Xiao Yan, who had already led them to rob three senior teams.
• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran were happy for Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yu watched him with a complicated, admiring gaze.
• Xiao Yan's group continued through the forest to search for the last two senior teams.

Xiao Yan led the new students to the forest’s exit, where the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team were waiting to block the way into the Inner Academy. Their captains proposed fighting Xiao Yan together, fearing defeat would make them the academy’s most disgraceful students.

• Xiao Yan’s group defeated the three ordinary senior teams and headed toward the forest’s exit without searching for the Black Fiend Team or White Fiend Team.
• Xiao Yan and the new students reached the blue stone steps to the Inner Academy and found the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team waiting there.
• Elders Su and Qing watched as captains Hong Xin and Zhao Chenghong introduced themselves to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan recognized that Hong Xin was a Five-Star Dou Spirit and Zhao Chenghong was a Six-Star Dou Ling, but felt confident his Eight-Star Dou Spirit strength would overwhelm them.
• Hong Xin and Zhao Chenghong admitted they could not see through Xiao Yan’s strength, then agreed to fight him together rather than concede.

Xiao Yan defeated Hong Xin and Zhao Chenghong, while Xun'er and Nalan Yanran overwhelmed the other members of the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team. The senior teams surrendered their Fire Crystal Cards, leaving the new students victorious in the final battle.

• Hong Xin and Zhao Chenghong teamed up against Xiao Yan, while Xun'er and Nalan Yanran took on the eight remaining senior students.
• Xiao Yan used Explosive Step and Mountain-Piling Force to injure Hong Xin and Zhao Chenghong with a single exchange.
• Xiao Yan chased the two seniors with Flame Wheel Dance until they surrendered and handed over their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran defeated the eight other senior students without getting dust on their clothes.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran completed the new students' victory over the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team.

After Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran led the new students to defeat the senior teams, Elder Su and Elder Qing declared the new students the winners and awarded the trio azure Fire Crystal Cards. The elders then led the new students into the Inner Academy, where Xiao Lin opened his eyes at the Trial Grounds.

• The new students defeated the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team, took half the fire energy from their members, and won the competition.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing praised Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran, then declared the new students the winners and awarded every new student twenty fire energy points.
• Elder Qing explained the Fire Crystal Card rankings, and Elder Su gave Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran azure cards with an extra thirty fire energy points each.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing led the new students up the Azure Stairway and into the vast basin of the Inner Academy.
• At the center of the Inner Academy's Trial Grounds, Xiao Lin opened his eyes as the new students arrived.

After helping the new students establish the Pan Gate, Xiao Yan finally set out with Xun'er and Nalan Yanran to visit the master of the Inner Academy's Trial Grounds, Lin Supreme Elder. They arrived at the bamboo grove that concealed the formations and central pavilion.

• Xiao Yan founded the Pan Gate to protect the new students from senior students' demands and recruited most of his classmates.
• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran managed the Pan Gate while Xiao Yan took a hands-off role, helping the new students gain a foothold in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan told Xun'er and Nalan Yanran they should visit someone they had put off seeing, and both girls realized he meant Lin Supreme Elder.
• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran argued over who could hold Xiao Yan's hand as the three left for the Trial Grounds.
• Xun'er and Nalan Yanran explained that the bamboo grove contained over a hundred formations and a pavilion with additional rewards, and the three arrived to visit Lin Supreme Elder.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran entered the Trial Grounds hoping to clear its formations and meet Lin Supreme Elder to thank him. Xiao Lin secretly split them apart and prepared to put them through a trial of his own.

• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran learned that clearing three randomly grouped formations could earn them a chance to meet the Grand Elder and make a request.
• Xiao Yan urged the group to keep trying until they cleared the Trial Grounds, and the three entered the bamboo grove.
• Xiao Lin, annoyed that Xiao Yan had waited over a month before seeking him out, took control of the formations to put the three newcomers through their paces.
• Xiao Lin's formations separated Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran as soon as they entered the grove.
• Xiao Yan marveled at how the group had been split up, while Yao Lao noted that the Trial Grounds contained over a hundred formations and required passing through at least three to reach the central pavilion.

Xiao Lin trapped Nalan Yanran in a customized Red Dust Heart-Refining Formation, where false memories convinced her she and Xiao Yan had shared a life together and were about to marry. As Nalan Yanran began her wedding, Xiao Lin’s carefully crafted illusion was poised to take a sudden turn.

• Xiao Lin let Xun'er and Nalan Yanran pass the first two formations, then trapped them in his perfected Red Dust Heart-Refining Formation.
• Xiao Lin altered Nalan Yanran’s memories and made her believe that she and Xiao Yan had cultivated and traveled together before becoming celebrated lovers.
• Nalan Yanran believed it was her wedding day, said farewell to her parents and grandfather, and left the Nalan Family with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan brought Nalan Yanran to the Xiao Household Ancestral Residence, where their friends and relatives gathered for the wedding.
• Nalan Yanran noticed one guest was missing, while Xiao Lin prepared to disrupt the perfect wedding illusion.

Nalan Yanran experienced an illusion in which Xiao Xun'er interrupted her wedding to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan abandoned her to follow Xun'er. The illusion shattered, restoring Nalan Yanran's memories and leaving her furious.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their wedding bows, but Xiao Xun'er interrupted them before they could bow to each other.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that her father had arranged a marriage for her and asked him not to forget her, then ran away in tears.
• Xiao Yan abandoned Nalan Yanran at the wedding and chased after Xun'er despite Nalan Yanran threatening to sever their ties.
• Nalan Yanran began to emit black vapor as the wedding scene shattered, revealing that it had been an illusion.
• Nalan Yanran regained her memories and remained furious about what had happened in the illusion.