Recaps

Xiao Yao led the new students through the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, uniting them to defeat the senior students and win. The group entered the Inner Academy, where Xiao Yao and his companions received a shared pavilion and Xiao Yao resolved to grow stronger before going to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yao retrieved valuable cultivation and magic-core rewards from the Library Pavilion, then left with Xun Er and Qing Lin for the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan brought the new students through a hidden gate into the Inner Academy’s outer forest, where Elder Su explained the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and Xiao Yao chose to compete with his abilities restricted.
• Xiao Yao’s group defeated senior students, took their Fire Energy, and recruited injured newcomers to unite against the remaining teams.
• Xiao Yao led dozens of new students against four senior teams, while Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao helped defeat their leaders and seize their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yao faced Sha Tie’s Black Fiend Team alone, defeated all five members, and returned the new students’ stolen Fire Energy with extra days added.
• Xiao Yao challenged Luo Hou and unleashed the Azure Soul Hand, but Elder Su shielded Luo Hou before declaring the new students the winners.
• Elder Su awarded the new students ranked Fire Crystal Cards and led them into the Inner Academy, then arranged for Xiao Yao, Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to share an isolated pavilion.

Xiao Yao founded the Immortal Fall Pavilion, defended it from the White Gang, and built its strength through cultivation and pill sales. When the Fallen Heart Flame broke free beneath the tower, Xiao Yao subdued it and descended into the magma, leaving his friends waiting above.

• Xiao Yao united the freshmen under the Immortal Fall Pavilion and gave several companions Heart Flame seeds to aid their cultivation.
• Xiao Yao entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with Wu Hao, discovered the Flame Python beneath it, and secretly fed it a seed flame.
• Xiao Yao defeated Bai Cheng and the White Gang when they threatened Xun Er and the Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yao and his companions sold pills and Dou Techniques, recruited Lin Yan, and clashed with the Medicine Gang over medicinal ingredients.
• Su Qian summoned Xiao Yao as the Fallen Heart Flame grew restless and threatened the tower’s seal.
• The Invisible Fire Python broke free and destroyed the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower as Xiao Yao promised to fight it.
• Xiao Yao destroyed the Flame Python’s body, captured its flame, and descended into the magma in search of a faint soul fluctuation.

Xiao Yao subdued the dangers beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, gained Skyfire Venerable’s service, and gathered rare ingredients while refining pills for Jia Nan Academy. He helped Xun Er break through to Dou Wang and secured the fire-attributed Magic Core he needed, leaving with a Sect-Breaking Pill entrusted to Su Qian.

• Xiao Yao found Skyfire Venerable beneath the tower, restored much of his Soul Force with Soul Liquid, and secured his agreement to serve for five years in exchange for a rebuilt body.
• Xiao Yao collected fire beads from the Flame Lizard People and escaped the magma as the tower’s seal broke and magma erupted.
• Xiao Yao cultivated to Nine-Star Dou Zong, mastered the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method, and escaped pursuing Dou Zun lizardmen beneath the tower.
• Xiao Yao gathered medicinal ingredients with help from Zi Yan, refined Battle Spirit Pills for Elder Hao, and negotiated for more pill-making materials.
• Xiao Yao and Zi Yan found Earth Heart Tempering Milk in the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave, and Xiao Yao used some of it to help Xun Er break through to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yao continued refining pills for Zi Yan and Lin Yan, then traded a Sect-Breaking Pill for Su Qian’s Seventh Rank fire-attributed Magic Core.

Xiao Yao refined Seventh-Grade pills, helped Phoenix Cry, Zi Lin, and Ice Dragon transform or evolve, and revealed his Dou Zong strength at the Strong Ranking tournament. As he prepared to leave for Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Pact, Xun Er faced pressure from her clan and Xiao Yao foresaw a Soul Hall attack on an Ancient Jade.

• Xiao Yao refined a Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill under the threat of tribulation lightning, while his companions and academy defenders kept outsiders at bay.
• Xiao Yao completed his alchemy mission, gained new rewards, and promised to refine more pills for the academy and his companions.
• Xiao Yao refined pills for Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin, who transformed into human forms, then gave Zi Lin a Creation Pill that awakened her ancient bloodline.
• Xiao Yao gave Ice Dragon a Creation Pill, allowing it to become a True Dragon, and learned that his Strong Ranking position qualified him for the tournament.
• Xiao Yao revealed his One-Star Dou Zong cultivation at the tournament, accepted first place without competing, and told his companions he would leave for Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Pact.
• Zi Yan broke through to Dou Emperor and won her tournament match with one punch, then gave Xiao Yao ingredients and requested several batches of pills.
• Xiao Yao entrusted Xun Er and the others with Immortal Fall Pavilion before leaving to cultivate, while Xun Er learned that her clan wanted her to return and awaken her Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Xiao Yao mastered a sixth-tier Miniature Five-Element Sealing Formation and foresaw the Soul Hall sending Dou Zong and Dou Zun experts to seize an Ancient Jade.