Chapter Summaries

Lei Luo learned about Lu Mu, Xiao Yu’s persistent suitor and his likely opponent in the selection tournament. The two faced each other in the arena, where Lei Luo rebuked Lu Mu for calling Xiao Yu by her nickname.

• Instructor Ruo Lin warned Lei Luo that Lu Mu was a powerful alchemist and likely to face him in the tournament.
• Xiao Yu asked Lei Luo to teach Lu Mu a lesson for pestering her, and Lei Luo promised to handle him.
• The referee announced that 174 contestants remained and began calling the next matches.
• Luo Fu and Ge Li fought to a stalemate as the crowd watched their contrasting wind and earth Dou Qi.
• The referee called the match between Lu Mu and Lei Luo, drawing the attention of Xiao Yu’s many suitors.
• Lu Mu asked whether Lei Luo was Xiao Yu’s boyfriend, and Lei Luo told him he was unworthy of calling her Yu.

Lei Luo defeated Lu Mu in the arena, first shattering his sword and then burning him with black flame after Lu Mu attacked with the Alchemist Department’s Pill Flame Technique. When an Enforcement Team elder accused Lei Luo of breaking the rules by attacking before Lu Mu could surrender, Lei Luo denied hearing any surrender.

• Lei Luo taunted Lu Mu for pursuing Xiao Yu, provoking Lu Mu to draw his sword and unleash his Dou Qi.
• Lei Luo shattered Lu Mu’s sword in an instant, shocking the spectators.
• Lu Mu used the Pill Flame Technique and attacked Lei Luo with a Spiral Flame Cone, but Lei Luo dismissed the technique and revealed black flame.
• Lei Luo’s black flame engulfed Lu Mu until Lei Luo deliberately withdrew it, while four Dou Emperor elders failed to extinguish the fire.
• An Enforcement Team elder accused Lei Luo of attacking after Lu Mu tried to surrender, and Lei Luo replied that he had heard no surrender.

Wu Hao returned to the selection tournament and defeated Yan Cheng in two exchanges, setting the stage for the top five selection the next day. As the five strongest students gathered at the crowded plaza, Lei Luo watched Hu Jia arrive and recalled her unusual interest in Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yu.

• Wu Hao returned from a mission in the Black-Corner Region and defeated Yan Cheng in two exchanges.
• The selection tournament ended, with the top five selection scheduled for the next day.
• Lei Luo and his group entered the packed plaza through a guarded passage arranged by Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Bai Shan and Hu Jia arrived at the plaza as spectators gathered for the top five selection.
• Lei Luo remembered Instructor Ruo Lin saying Hu Jia had special thoughts about Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yu.

Lei Luo and Xiao Xun'er entered the Inner Academy Tournament’s new battle royale elimination round, where contestants fought or formed teams to survive. Bai Shan and Wu Hao confronted Lei Luo over Xiao Xun'er, and he provoked them by grabbing her chin as the melee continued.

• Vice Dean Hu Gan announced that the final round would be a battle royale in which contestants could use any methods or form teams, with rankings based on how long they lasted.
• Hu Gan started the elimination round, and contestants scattered, formed teams, and fought across the arena.
• Bai Shan confronted Lei Luo for making Xiao Xun'er angry, and Wu Hao joined him.
• Lei Luo mocked Bai Shan and Wu Hao, then grabbed Xiao Xun'er's chin and challenged them to react.

Lei Luo provoked Xun’er by groping her, then threatened Wu Hao and Bai Shan when they confronted him. Wu Hao backed down after sensing Lei Luo’s strength, while Su Qian revealed that Lei Luo might be a Dou Wang with a Heavenly Flame.

• Lei Luo groped Xun’er, provoking her and drawing furious condemnation from the spectators.
• Wu Hao and Bai Shan surrounded Lei Luo, but he warned Wu Hao that he would cut off his hand and Bai Shan that he would take his life.
• Wu Hao sensed Lei Luo’s aura and withdrew his group, while Bai Shan hesitated over whether to attack.
• Su Qian arrived and told the elders that Wu Hao and Bai Shan had made the wise choice because Lei Luo might be a Dou Wang who had mastered a Heavenly Flame.

Su Qian learned that Lei Luo had reached Dou Wang strength and planned to speak with him before he entered the Inner Academy. After the selection narrowed to five contestants, Xun'er withdrew from her fight with Hu Jia, and Lei Luo challenged Hu Jia.

• Su Qian told the elders that Lei Luo had once been a Seven-Star Dou Master and said he would personally speak with him before he entered the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan warned Bai Shan through a voice transmission to withdraw, and Bai Shan led his people away from Lei Luo.
• Lei Luo sat out the plaza battles as the contestants dwindled until Xun'er, Wu Hao, Bai Shan, Hu Jia, and Lei Luo remained.
• Bai Shan and Wu Hao paired off to fight while Hu Jia challenged Xun'er, who eventually left the plaza after exchanging a palm strike.
• Lei Luo stood and asked Hu Jia to fight him, but Hu Jia stepped back and told him to wait.

After Bai Shan and Wu Hao conceded, Lei Luo fought Hu Jia in the final match of the Inner Academy selection. Lei Luo dominated her, and Hu Jia withdrew, making him the tournament winner despite having enrolled less than three days earlier.

• Bai Shan lost his match, and Wu Hao conceded to Hu Jia before leaving the square.
• Hu Jia challenged Lei Luo, who agreed to fight her while deciding to teach her a lesson.
• Lei Luo caught Hu Jia's kicks and lifted her by the ankles, embarrassing her in front of the spectators.
• Hu Jia continued attacking, but Lei Luo caught her leg, sent her crashing to the ground, and overpowered her.
• Hu Jia withdrew, and Miter Lei Luo was declared the winner of the Inner Academy selection battle.

Lei Luo won the Inner Academy Selection Tournament and enjoyed a feast with Ruo Lin and her students before Su Qian visited him. After questioning why Lei Luo had enrolled despite his strength, Su Qian accepted his explanation and gave him a Fire Energy Card with thirty points.

• Lei Luo took first place in the tournament, and Ruo Lin celebrated that two of her students had reached the top five.
• Ruo Lin treated Lei Luo and her students to a lavish meal in Jia Nan City.
• Su Qian visited Lei Luo and Xiao Yu and teased them about sharing a residence before asking why Lei Luo had come to Jia Nan Academy.
• Lei Luo revealed that he was an eighteen-year-old three-star Dou Wang and said he had come to use the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to accelerate his cultivation.
• Su Qian reminded Lei Luo to treat Jia Nan Academy as a place to study and gave him a Fire Energy Card containing thirty points.

The top fifty students entered the Inner Academy, traveling by Griffin Beast through dangerous mountain ranges toward its hidden location. Lei Luo anticipated the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and planned to take Fire Energy from the older students rather than become their prey.

• Hu Gan congratulated the fifty students and explained that the Inner Academy was Jia Nan Academy’s secret cultivation core.
• Ten Griffin Beasts arrived, and Hu Gan assigned Lei Luo, Xiao Xun'er, and the other top five students to the same group.
• Hu Gan and three elders escorted the students as their Griffin Beasts flew toward the rear mountains, where they fought off attacking magical beasts.
• Bai Shan asked about the Inner Academy’s distance, but Hu Jia admitted she did not know its location.
• Lei Luo cultivated during the long flight and looked forward to reversing the Fire Energy Hunting Competition’s usual roles by hunting older students.

Lei Luo and the new students entered the Inner Academy through a hidden spatial gate and learned that older students would hunt them for their Fire Energy. Having already received his own card as the top-ranked student, Lei Luo eyed the older students and considered taking their points instead.

• Hu Gan revealed a silver gate hidden in the mountain ravine, and Lei Luo and the students followed him through it.
• Hu Gan introduced the top five students, including Lei Luo, to Inner Academy elders Su and Qing.
• Elder Su gave the new students Fire Energy Cards and explained that older students could rob them in the forest, though the newcomers could fight back and seize points.
• Hu Jia asked why Lei Luo had no card, and Lei Luo explained that he had already received one as the top-ranked student.
• Lei Luo estimated how much Fire Energy the older students carried and eagerly considered defeating them all for their points.

During the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Lei Luo’s team decided to hunt the senior students instead of becoming their prey. They ambushed and defeated a senior team, leaving Lei Luo to announce that they were being robbed.

• Fifty new students entered the forest for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, followed later by fifty senior students seeking to plunder their Fire Energy.
• Hu Jia and the others asked Lei Luo what the competition was about, and he explained that the senior students were hunting them for their Fire Energy.
• Lei Luo proposed that his team become hunters instead, and Bai Shan, Xiao Xun'er, Hu Jia, and the others followed him through the forest.
• A senior team beat a group of new students and took three Fire Energy points from them.
• Lei Luo and his teammates ambushed the senior team and quickly defeated all five students.
• Lei Luo walked up to the senior captain and told him that they were being robbed.

Lei Luo robbed old students of their Fire Energy Cards and led his group on a rapid sweep through the forest, building his balance to 81 points. He then sensed another target to the northwest and led the others toward it.

• Lei Luo defeated an old student captain and took 16 Fire Energy from his card, leaving the team with seven points each.
• Lei Luo led Bai Shan and the others into the forest to search for more old student teams, while the defeated students fled in the opposite direction.
• Lei Luo used his soul power to track teams that had just robbed freshmen and ambushed them while they were relaxed.
• Within half an hour, Lei Luo's team had robbed five teams, raising his Fire Energy balance to 81 points.
• Lei Luo sensed something to the northwest and told the others to follow him.

Lei Luo’s group ambushed and robbed a powerful old-student team, taking their Fire Energy after Lei Luo subdued the captain. As they prepared to leave, a fourth-tier magical beast attacked the helpless captain, leaving the group startled.

• Five old students robbed two freshman teams and warned them to respect their seniors.
• Lei Luo and his companions followed the old students and decided to rob them before their haul attracted more attention.
• Lei Luo’s group ambushed the old students, and Lei Luo dislocated the captain’s arm before transferring the team’s Fire Energy.
• Hu Jia mocked the old students for being angry after the freshmen robbed them back.
• A fourth-tier magical beast suddenly attacked the incapacitated captain, prompting the old students to call for help.

Lei Luo rescued the old student captain by instantly killing a fourth-tier Phantom Leopard, then led his group into the forest to challenge the Black Fiends Team. He ambushed the team as it approached and demanded their Fire Energy Cards.

• A Phantom Leopard attacked the injured old student captain, but Lei Luo killed it with a single unseen strike and took its Magic Core.
• The old student captain thanked Lei Luo and accepted defeat, while Bai Shan and the others were stunned by Lei Luo’s strength.
• Lei Luo led the group deeper into the forest and decided to target the strongest old-student teams for their Fire Energy.
• Lei Luo sensed the Black Fiends Team nearby and moved ahead to confront them.
• Sha Tie and the Black Fiends Team chatted confidently as they walked, until Lei Luo called out and demanded their Fire Energy Cards.

Lei Luo gathered all thirty remaining freshmen to confront the senior students, and the two sides met in the forest for the final battle. As the fight was about to begin, Bai Shan fled, leaving the freshmen shaken and the senior students jeering.

• Elder Su and Hu Gan noticed the freshmen and senior teams converging, while Lei Luo ordered his group to gather all the freshmen.
• Wu Hao and the others rallied the freshmen, who gathered around Lei Luo and agreed to face the senior students head-on.
• Sha Tie led the Black Fiends Team to meet Luo Hou and the White Fiend Team as the senior students assembled against Lei Luo's group.
• Luo Hou unleashed his ice-element Battle Qi, revealing his Dou Ling strength, while Sha Tie was identified as a Half-Step Dou Ling.
• Lei Luo assigned opponents for the coming fight, but Bai Shan quietly retreated and disappeared into the forest, drawing mockery from the senior students.

Lei Luo attacked the older students before they could overwhelm the new students, then fought Luo Hou and Sha Tie with his blade technique. He left Sha Tie unable to fight and was about to strike Luo Hou with an azure flame needle when an unseen voice intervened, declaring Lei Luo the winner.

• Lei Luo knocked out a White Fiend Team member and three Black Fiends Team members, shifting the battle in the new students' favor.
• Luo Hou and Sha Tie confronted Lei Luo while the new students fought the remaining older students.
• Lei Luo blocked Luo Hou's staff attacks and unleashed Flowing Light Heavenly Dance, wounding both Luo Hou and Sha Tie and leaving Sha Tie unable to fight.
• Luo Hou launched an ice pillar at Lei Luo, but Lei Luo melted it with an azure flame needle and aimed the needle at Luo Hou's brow.
• An unseen speaker told Lei Luo to spare Luo Hou and declared that he had won.

Elder Su ended the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and declared the new students its winners, rewarding Lei Luo, Xiao Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao with Cyan Fire Crystal Cards. Lei Luo also made the old students surrender their cards, and the new students began looking to unite around his growing strength.

• Elder Su stopped Lei Luo from killing Luo Hou, ended the competition, and declared the new students the victors.
• Elder Su awarded every new student twenty days of Fire Energy and gave Lei Luo, Xiao Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao Cyan Fire Crystal Cards.
• Lei Luo refused to return the new students’ black cards until they collected the spoils owed under the competition rules, and Elder Su ordered the old students to hand over their cards.
• Lei Luo took Luo Hou’s and Sha Tie’s cards while the other new students divided the remaining spoils among themselves.
• The new students began considering an alliance with Lei Luo, whose plan was to establish a faction in the Inner Academy.

After entering the Inner Academy, Lei Luo planned to build a faction among the new students. When older students demanded half the new students’ Fire Energy at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, Lei Luo went to confront them and asked who dared touch his people.

• Lei Luo and the others settled into a shared building in the Inner Academy, where Xun'er struggled with her resentment toward him.
• Lei Luo and the others set out for the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate with their Fire Energy.
• New students told Lei Luo that older students were blocking the tower and demanding half their Fire Energy as tribute.
• Lei Luo encouraged the new students to form their own faction and led Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and the others to free those still trapped at the tower.
• Lei Luo confronted the older students at the tower entrance and demanded to know who had dared touch his people.

Lei Luo stopped old students from extorting newcomers, beat their leaders, and reclaimed the stolen Fire Energy. He agreed to lead a new faction for the newcomers and named it Taotie.

• Lei Luo struck down the old student leader after rejecting his demand for newcomer tribute.
• Lei Luo demanded that the old students return the Fire Energy they had stolen and give up half of their own.
• Lei Luo sent a second old student flying when he threatened him, then forced the remaining students to hand over their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Lei Luo returned the stolen Fire Energy to his brothers and let the old students leave after taking their Fire Energy.
• The newcomers asked Lei Luo to lead their faction, and he agreed to name it Taotie.

Lei Luo founded Taotie to build a powerful faction, then entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and discovered how much the sixth floor’s Heart Fire accelerated his cultivation. As his Fire Energy dwindled, Great Elder Su Qian appeared, and Lei Luo asked what had happened.

• Lei Luo established Taotie among the Inner Academy freshmen and became its sect master, planning to expand its influence beyond the academy.
• Lei Luo went to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower’s sixth floor and began cultivating in a high-grade chamber.
• Lei Luo found that the Heart Fire greatly increased the speed of his Battle Qi cultivation and wondered about devouring Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lei Luo realized that the sixth floor’s high Fire Energy cost would limit how long he could cultivate.
• Great Elder Su Qian appeared as Lei Luo was preparing to leave, and Lei Luo asked why he had come.