Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu asked Hu Gan about Qilin and Heavenly Flames before the Inner Academy Selection Tournament began. When the free-for-all left him unchallenged, Qin Yu unleashed Earth Dragon Overturning and sent contestants flying across the platform.

• Qin Yu received an Inner Academy access token for Xiao Yi Xian and asked Hu Gan about Qilin, learning of a rumored pure-blooded Qilin in the Heavenly Qilin Empire.
• Qin Yu asked Hu Gan about several Heavenly Flames, but Hu Gan had no precise information and sent him away to prepare for the tournament.
• Half a month later, Qin Yu, Lin Xiuyan, Liu Qing, Lin Yan, Han Yue, and the other contestants gathered for the tournament, where the last fifty people on the platform would qualify for the Inner Academy.
• The tournament began, and Lin Xiuyan and Liu Qing drove away nearby opponents while the other contestants avoided Qin Yu because he was a Dou Ling.
• Bored that nobody would challenge him, Qin Yu stomped the platform and summoned an enormous earth dragon with Earth Dragon Overturning, which charged into the contestants and sent them flying.

Qin Yu used Earth Dragon Overturning to dominate the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, then returned to Xiao Yi Xian’s dormitory and spent the night with her. The tournament ended with the final qualifiers confirmed, while Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian reconciled in private.

• Qin Yu’s earth dragon swept students off the platform until fewer than ten remained, leaving the arena badly damaged.
• Several students voluntarily withdrew, and the remaining competitors eliminated Lin Yan before Hu Gan declared the tournament over.
• The teachers confirmed Bai Cheng had placed fiftieth and qualified for the Inner Academy despite passing out after the earth dragon struck him.
• Qin Yu met Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yu after the tournament, then accompanied Xiao Yi Xian to her dormitory.
• Qin Yu confronted Xiao Yi Xian over helping Xiao Yu kick him out, and Xiao Yi Xian eventually surrendered to his teasing and affection.

After spending the morning with Xiao Yi Xian, Qin Yu went to the Scripture Repository to collect the top-five selection reward. The Qian Bai Elders noticed something unusual about him when they sensed his Heavenly Flames.

• Qin Yu stayed with Xiao Yi Xian as she woke, helped ease her soreness, and brought her breakfast.
• Xiao Yi Xian urged Qin Yu to go collect his reward, and he left after helping her back to bed.
• Qin Yu arrived late at the Scripture Repository, where Lin Xiuyan, Yan Hao, and Han Yue teased him about spending the night with a woman.
• Hu Gan led Qin Yu and the others through the secret passage to meet the Qian Bai Elders.
• Qian Mu greeted Qin Yu, and Bai Lie sensed his Heavenly Flames.

Qin Yu used his treasure-seeking ability to choose a pair of powerful dragon-scale gauntlets from the academy’s spatial storehouse, naming them Dragon Fist. After returning, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and showed her the gauntlets as they prepared to enter the Inner Academy.

• Qin Yu revealed his Green Lotus Core Flame to the Qian Bai Elders, who let him and the others enter the spatial storehouse.
• Qin Yu searched the storehouse and narrowed his finds to a pair of gauntlets, a Purple Netherworld Demon Lotus, and the Dragon Elephant Earth-Splitting Step, then chose the gauntlets.
• Hu Gan explained that the gauntlets were made from an eighth-tier dragon-type magical beast’s scales and hide and had sixth-tier dragon-type Magic Cores embedded in them.
• Qin Yu named the gauntlets Dragon Fist and learned that he and the others would enter the Inner Academy in three days.
• Qin Yu returned to Xiao Yi Xian’s dormitory, cooked dinner after she woke, and showed her Dragon Fist, which adjusted to fit her hands.

Xiao Yi Xian arranged for Qin Yu to settle things with Xiao Yu before they entered the Inner Academy, believing Xiao Yu deserved a clear answer. Qin Yu accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s choice and confirmed Xiao Yu was happy with his answer, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to nervously ask whether he blamed her for intervening.

• Xiao Yi Xian urged Qin Yu to settle unfinished matters before entering the Inner Academy, then left the dormitory and invited Xiao Yu over.
• Xiao Yu arrived and told Qin Yu that Xiao Yi Xian had asked her to come; Qin Yu realized Xiao Yi Xian had arranged for him to answer Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yi Xian spent the night cultivating on the rear mountain, deciding Qin Yu should give Xiao Yu a definite answer before they entered the Inner Academy.
• The next morning, Qin Yu waited outside the dormitory and asked Xiao Yi Xian why she had arranged the meeting; she explained that she believed Xiao Yu deserved an answer.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yi Xian she could be the lady of the house, and Xiao Yi Xian saw that Xiao Yu was sleeping happily after receiving his answer.
• Xiao Yi Xian hesitantly apologized for making the decision on Qin Yu’s behalf without telling him first.

Qin Yu and the new students entered the Inner Academy through a hidden gate, where the Fire Energy Hunting Competition began. As Qin Yu headed into the forest with the others, Hu Gan told two elders that the Inner Academy students would soon learn how capable he was.

• Qin Yu teased Xiao Yi Xian after she joked that he was exhausted, then traveled with her and the other students toward the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan led the students to a clearing and revealed a hidden gate into the Inner Academy.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing gave each student a black crystal card that displayed a number and warned them that older students would try to steal their Fire Energy.
• Elder Su announced the start of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, and the students rushed into the forest.
• After the students departed, Hu Gan told Elder Su and Elder Qing that Qin Yu was capable of more than they expected.

During the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Qin Yu unleashed a massive earth dragon against the Black Fiend Team and drained the defeated students’ Fire Energy. Elder Su and Elder Qing watched in shock as Hu Gan assured them that Qin Yu was still holding back.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Qin Yu to let her fight the next group, and he agreed while warning her not to kill anyone.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian were surrounded by ten old students, including the Black Fiend Team and its Two-Star Dou Ling leader.
• Qin Yu summoned a huge earth dragon, whose beam and rampage scattered the old students and devastated the forest.
• Qin Yu collected the old students’ Fire Crystal Cards and drained their Fire Energy, while Xiao Yi Xian worried that they had gone too far.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing questioned Hu Gan about Qin Yu’s power, and Hu Gan said Qin Yu had not even used his Heavenly Flames.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian disrupted the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, helping the new students defeat the older students and win. At the Inner Academy entrance, Elder Huo of the Alchemy Department singled out Qin Yu.

• Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian roamed the forest, and Xiao Yi Xian used poison to weaken older students and take their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian encountered Lin Xiuyan's group and left them to fight before heading for the finish line.
• Qin Yu's earth dragon accidentally sent members of the White Fiend Team flying as they neared the finish line.
• Elder Su announced that the new students had won, gave Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian green Fire Crystal Cards, and led the students to the Inner Academy.
• Elder Huo introduced himself as an Alchemy Department elder and examined Qin Yu at the Inner Academy entrance.

Elder Huo confirmed that Qin Yu was an Earth-Attribute Battle Qi cultivator who had subdued the Green Lotus Core Flame, then arranged a private residence for him and Xiao Yi Xian in the Inner Academy. After settling in, Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian teased each other, and she narrowly escaped his playful advances.

• Elder Huo took Qin Yu aside and asked whether he was an Earth-Attribute Battle Qi cultivator, and Qin Yu displayed his Battle Qi and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Qin Yu told Elder Huo that he had no master or sect and had learned from an inheritance, so Elder Huo arranged a residence for him and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried that Elder Huo had come to object to her Woeful Poison Body, but Qin Yu explained that he had only wanted to confirm Qin Yu's cultivation attribute.
• Elder Huo gave Qin Yu the key to a quiet private residence and asked him to visit the Alchemy Department the next day.
• After settling in, Qin Yu teased Xiao Yi Xian about her earlier remark that he could not keep up, and she kissed his cheek to escape his embrace.

Qin Yu earned Elder Huo’s approval as an Alchemist and received a token for monthly medicinal ingredients. On his way to the Medicinal Materials Vault, Shen Yuan recruited him into the Medicine Gang and introduced him to the Inner Academy’s factions.

• Qin Yu teased Xiao Yi Xian before they went to sleep, and she bit his finger when he tried to touch her.
• Qin Yu visited the Alchemy Department, where Elder Huo and several elders watched him demonstrate his abilities and gave him a token for three high-grade ingredients each month.
• Qin Yu headed for the Medicinal Materials Vault and encountered a group of older students led by Shen Yuan.
• Shen Yuan introduced himself as the head of the Medicine Gang and invited Qin Yu to join, offering access to the gang’s medicinal ingredients and protection.
• Qin Yu accepted, and Shen Yuan explained the Inner Academy’s factions as they walked together.

Qin Yu used Elder Huo’s token to gather medicinal materials for five Fifth-Rank Pills and took a rare Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower. Zi Yan stole the flower out of curiosity, then offered to return it if Qin Yu would make her tasty pills.

• Qin Yu entered the Medicinal Materials Vault with Elder Huo’s token and collected materials for the five Fifth-Rank Pills he had to refine within a week.
• Qin Yu found a rare Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower, recognized its value for a Sixth-Rank Pill that could suppress dangers such as the Woeful Poison Body, and took it.
• Zi Yan swooped down from a shelf and snatched the flower, asking Qin Yu why he could take so many materials.
• Qin Yu explained that Elder Huo had given him special permission to collect alchemy materials, but Zi Yan doubted the stingy elder would do so.
• Zi Yan offered to return the flower if Qin Yu would refine her some tasty pills.

Qin Yu used Elder Huo’s authorization to gather ingredients for five Fifth-Rank Pills and found a rare Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower. Zi Yan stole the flower out of curiosity, then offered to return it if Qin Yu made her tasty pills.

• Qin Yu presented Elder Huo’s authorization at the medicinal herb depot and entered without an application form.
• Qin Yu collected ingredients for five Fifth-Rank Pills, a test he had to pass within one week to keep his special access.
• Qin Yu found and picked a rare Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower, a key ingredient for a Sixth-Rank Pill that could help suppress the Woeful Poison Body.
• Zi Yan snatched the flower and questioned Qin Yu about his unusual access to the herbs.
• Qin Yu explained that Elder Huo had authorized him to gather ingredients for alchemy, and Zi Yan offered to return the flower if he made her tasty pills.

Qin Yu refined five fifth-tier pills overnight and made sweet, chewy pills from Zi Yan’s bitter and hard medicinal ingredients. Zi Yan loved them, returned the Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower, and claimed Qin Yu as her personal Alchemist.

• Qin Yu accepted Earth Mother Coptis and a Profound Rock Spirit Fruit from Zi Yan, agreeing to make them into sweet pills in exchange for the Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower.
• Qin Yu finished five fifth-tier pills overnight, then refined Zi Yan’s ingredients with sweetening and fragrant herbs into amber pills.
• Zi Yan visited Qin Yu the next morning, eagerly ate several pills, and praised their taste.
• Qin Yu asked for the flower, and Zi Yan returned the Yin-Yang Twin-Life Flower.
• Zi Yan declared Qin Yu her personal Alchemist and promised to deal with anyone in the Inner Academy who caused him trouble.

Qin Yu refined flavored pills for Zi Yan, then visited the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to test its Heartfire tempering. After easily suppressing the Heartfire with his Green Lotus Core Flame, he heard someone call his name from behind.

• Zi Yan ate Qin Yu's pills and gave him a sixth-tier medicinal herb so he could refine more in different flavors.
• Xiao Yi Xian mistook Qin Yu giving Zi Yan a pill for an improper encounter, then learned Zi Yan was his new friend and personal Alchemist customer.
• After Zi Yan left, Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian spent time together before he headed to the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Qin Yu entered the tower and used his Green Lotus Core Flame to suppress the Heartfire and temper his Dou Qi.
• Qin Yu decided the Heartfire was effective and heard someone behind him call, “Qin Yu?”

Qin Yu met Han Yue in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and learned about her life in the Inner Academy before descending to cultivate. He discovered that tempering Earth Vein Force with Heartfire greatly accelerated his cultivation, leaving him close to a rapid breakthrough to Dou Wang.

• Qin Yu met Han Yue at the tower entrance, and she realized his Heavenly Flame had protected him from the Heartfire.
• Qin Yu and Han Yue descended together, discussed the Inner Academy and Lin Youruo, and he told her he had joined the Medicine Gang.
• Han Yue asked Qin Yu for a discount on pills, and he teased her before heading to a deeper level of the tower.
• Qin Yu found an empty cultivation room and used the Green Lotus Core Flame to guide Heartfire through his meridians, tempering Earth Vein Force before absorbing it.
• Qin Yu found that the method had boosted his cultivation progress by at least twenty percent, then felt an inexplicable sense of loss.

Qin Yu advanced to Two-Star Dou Ling after cultivating in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, then agreed to accompany Xiao Yi Xian there despite concerns about her Woeful Poison Body. He went to the Medicine Gang to deliver fifth-grade pills and found Shen Yuan refining a Golden Origin Pill.

• Qin Yu cultivated for several days in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and advanced to Two-Star Dou Ling.
• Qin Yu gave Zi Yan ten batches of pills, then agreed to take Xiao Yi Xian to the tower if she followed his instructions.
• Qin Yu headed to the Medicine Gang with five bottles of fifth-grade pills to fulfill Elder Huo's assignment.
• A Medicine Gang member tried to shove Qin Yu, but Qin Yu knocked him aside and entered the gang.
• Qin Yu watched Shen Yuan successfully refine a Golden Origin Pill, though Qin Yu noticed the pill was still lacking something.

Qin Yu asked Shen Yuan how to earn enough Fire Energy to upgrade his Blue Fire Crystal Card, offering him a fifth-rank pill in exchange for help finding the right channels. He then delivered five requested pills to Elder Huo, who saw through his claim that he had refined them during the past two days.

• After Shen Yuan completed a fourth-rank Golden Origin Pill, Qin Yu advised him to use fiercer heat when merging and condensing pills.
• Qin Yu asked Shen Yuan how many pills he would need to refine to upgrade his Blue Fire Crystal Card to red, and Shen Yuan said it required three hundred days of Fire Energy.
• Qin Yu showed Shen Yuan a fifth-rank Red Lotus Pill and offered to refine another for him if he found the right channels; Shen Yuan agreed to help.
• Qin Yu visited Elder Huo and delivered the five fifth-rank pills Elder Huo had requested.
• When Qin Yu claimed he had refined the pills over the past two days, Elder Huo pointed out that Qin Yu had spent that time in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and told him to deliver future tasks earlier.

After two months of cultivating in the tower, Qin Yu reached Six-Star Dou Ling and agreed to help Han Yue refine an Ice Spirit Pill. Zi Yan arrived at his dormitory, misread the scene, and quickly left without explaining why she had come.

• Qin Yu advanced from Two-Star Dou Ling to Six-Star Dou Ling through two months of cultivation in the tower.
• Han Yue asked Qin Yu to refine a fourth-tier Ice Spirit Pill to help her prepare for her breakthrough to Dou Ling, and he agreed once she gathered the ingredients.
• Xiao Yi Xian came to the doorway and stayed close to Qin Yu while Han Yue clarified that she only wanted his help with the pill.
• Zi Yan arrived late at night, noticed Qin Yu with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue, and ran off without saying what she had come to tell him.

Qin Yu gave Zi Yan her pills and discussed the Inner Academy Strong List with Xiao Yi Xian, deciding to wait before competing. He went to the Medicine Gang to replenish his Fire Energy and learned that the young man avoiding him was Han Xian.

• Han Yue left the courtyard while Xiao Yi Xian laughed at Qin Yu, who then prepared more snacks for her and Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan returned for the pills Qin Yu had promised, received three bottles, and teased him before flying away.
• Xiao Yi Xian came downstairs and asked whether Qin Yu would enter the Inner Academy Strong List competition; he chose to wait until his cultivation improved further.
• Qin Yu went to the Medicine Gang to arrange more Fire Energy and saw a young man who hurried away from him.
• Shen Yuan told Qin Yu that the young man was called Han Xian.

Qin Yu learned that competing in the Strong List tournament could earn him Fire Energy, so he went to the arena and answered Wang Teng’s taunts by stepping in to fight. After restoring Wang Teng’s Dou Qi with a Qi-Gathering Pill, Qin Yu faced him on equal terms.

• Qin Yu asked Shen Yuan about pill orders and learned that the Strong List tournament offered rewards even to students ranked below the top ten.
• Qin Yu arrived at the Inner Academy arena and saw Wang Teng defeat Liu Qing before mocking the freshmen and calling Qin Yu a coward.
• Liu Qing recognized Qin Yu in the stands, and Qin Yu joined him onstage and announced that he was the freshman Wang Teng had been challenging.
• Qin Yu dismissed Wang Teng as too weak to fight him, then flicked a pill into Wang Teng’s mouth.
• Wang Teng feared Qin Yu had poisoned him, but realized the Qi-Gathering Pill was restoring his Dou Qi; he threatened Qin Yu, who welcomed the challenge.