Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao used his soul perception to identify valuable items hidden in the Library Pavilion’s energy clusters and helped Xun Er obtain a cultivation art. The search continued as Xun Er and Qing Lin chased a cluster containing an earth-element Magic Core while Xiao Yao went after a fire-element Magic Core.

• Xiao Yao used his soul perception to track the energy clusters and directed Xun Er to a dazzling red one.
• Xiao Yao intercepted the red cluster and retrieved the mid-level Earth Tier Ninefold Phoenix Flame Art.
• Xiao Yao gave the cultivation art to Xun Er, who accepted it as a suitable transitional cultivation art.
• Xiao Yao sensed a Seventh Rank fire-element Magic Core in another red cluster and a Seventh Rank earth-element Magic Core in a golden-yellow one.
• Xiao Yao told Xun Er and Qing Lin to pursue the golden-yellow cluster while he went after the red one.
• The golden-yellow cluster evaded Xun Er and Qing Lin, and they chased after it.

Xiao Yao, Xun Er, and Qing Lin collected two seventh-tier Magic Cores before leaving the Library Pavilion with Hu Jia and Wu Hao. Outside, the two gray-robed elders asked Xiao Yao to refine a medicinal pill for them if he became a Seventh-Grade Alchemist, then presented him with Earth Core Jade Mother.

• Xiao Yao seized a red ball of light and took its seventh-tier Magic Core, while Xun Er gave him the golden Magic Core she had obtained.
• Xiao Yao, Xun Er, and Qing Lin left the Library Pavilion with Hu Jia and Wu Hao as the one-hour time limit expired.
• The gray-robed elders scanned the five visitors and warned them not to reveal anything about the Library Pavilion.
• Hu Gan led the five away, but the two elders stopped Xiao Yao and asked him to refine a medicinal pill for them if he became a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yao agreed, and one elder produced a piece of Earth Core Jade Mother for him to examine.

Xiao Yao received the Earth Core Soul Marrow and its two supplementary ingredients from the gray-robed men in exchange for promising to refine pills for them in the future. He then prepared to enter the Inner Academy with Xun Er and Qing Lin, while Hu Gan emerged to address the assembled students.

• Xiao Yao recognized the Earth Core Soul Marrow, and the gray-robed men gave him it, Pill Spirit Pulp, and Heavenly Hemp Jade Stone Essence in exchange for a promise to refine pills for them.
• Xiao Yao and Xun Er arranged for Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin to stay inside his Soul Storage Ring until they reached the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yao, Xun Er, and Qing Lin arrived outside Hu Gan's study, where students including Bai Shan, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Xiao Yu had gathered.
• Hu Jia and Wu Hao greeted Xiao Yao's group more warmly, and Xiao Yu joked with Xiao Yao and Xun Er before Xiao Ning and the other girls joined them.
• Hu Gan opened the study doors and stepped outside with several elders, silencing the crowd.

Hu Gan escorted the fifty selected students toward Jia Nan Academy’s secretive Inner Academy aboard ten Griffin Beasts. During the flight, Xiao Yao and the other top students discussed forming a faction, but agreed to choose its leader after reaching the Inner Academy.

• Hu Gan welcomed the fifty students and announced that they would travel to the Inner Academy on Griffin Beasts.
• The students boarded the beasts, and Hu Gan and three elders formed an escort around the departing group.
• Instructor Ruo Lin called out encouragement as the Griffin Beasts rose, and Xiao Yao and the others waved goodbye.
• Xiao Yao asked Xun Er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao what they knew about the Inner Academy, but none of them knew its rules well.
• Xiao Yao proposed forming a faction with the top five students, and they agreed to decide its leader after arriving.

Xiao Yao and the new students reached the hidden entrance to the Inner Academy, where Elder Su explained that they had to cross a forest while defending their Fire Crystal Cards from older students. The chapter left them facing the challenge, with a greater reward promised to those who arrived sooner.

• Hu Gan and the three elders fought off magical beasts as they escorted the students to a mountain ravine.
• Hu Gan revealed a silver gate hidden in the air, and the group passed through it into the Inner Academy's outer forest.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing welcomed the newcomers, and Elder Su reprimanded older students who mocked the girls.
• Elder Su distributed black crystal cards marked with the number five and warned the students to protect them.
• Elder Su explained that older students would try to seize the cards' Fire Energy, and the newcomers had to reach the Inner Academy safely for a reward.

Hu Gan informed Elder Su and Elder Qing that Xiao Yao was a Six-Star Dou Ling with two Heavenly Flames, making the Fire Energy Hunting Competition unfair unless his strength was restricted. Xiao Yao agreed to compete without his cultivation or flames in exchange for a promised pavilion, and Elder Su began the competition.

• Hu Gan told Elder Su and Elder Qing that Xiao Yao had reached Six-Star Dou Ling and wielded two Heavenly Flames.
• Elder Su offered Xiao Yao the choice of winning automatically or competing with his cultivation and flames restricted, and Xiao Yao chose to participate.
• Xun Er argued that Xiao Yao deserved compensation, so Hu Gan promised a better pavilion for the five participants if they performed well.
• Xiao Yao agreed to rely only on his physical strength and Soul Force, and Elder Su accepted his terms.
• Elder Su announced the start of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and ordered the students to begin their escape.

Xiao Yao and the others defeated five senior students in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and took their Fire Energy. After learning that fifty senior students were divided into ten teams, Xiao Yao prepared to turn the freshmen from prey into hunters.

• Five senior students ambushed Xiao Yao’s group, but Xiao Yao knocked one aside with a slap while Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao defeated the others.
• Xiao Yao’s group took the seniors’ Fire Crystal Cards, raising Xiao Yao’s Fire Energy from five to thirty, and agreed to follow his lead.
• Xiao Yao ordered the captured seniors to be questioned separately about the competition, threatening them to prevent lies.
• A blue-clothed senior told Xiao Yao that fifty seniors competed in ten groups of five, with eight teams about as strong as his and two teams of older, stronger students.

Xiao Yao and his teammates learned how Fire Energy worked and decided to turn the tables on the old students by hunting them for their cards. As the team set off, two observing elders noted that this year’s new students showed unusually strong teamwork.

• Xiao Yao tied five defeated old students to a tree while Hu Jia, Xun Er, Wu Hao, and Qing Lin shared what they had learned about Fire Energy and the old students’ teams.
• Xiao Yao proposed that they become hunters and take Fire Energy from the old students, and Xun Er and Qing Lin immediately showed their support.
• Wu Hao and Hu Jia agreed to join the plan after Xiao Yao reminded them of his strength in the selection tournament, and the team agreed to divide any Fire Energy they won equally.
• Xiao Yao led the other four into the forest, leaving the tied old students to wait for rescue.
• Two observing elders remarked that Xiao Yao’s team and another new-student team had shown surprising teamwork against the old students.

Two elders watched the selection tournament and wondered whether Xiao Yao could defeat the Black-and-White Fiend Team using only physical strength. In the forest, Xiao Yao and his teammates defeated five Inner Academy students and divided their Fire Energy evenly.

• The blue-robed and gray-robed elders praised the new students and discussed Xiao Yao's strength and possible fight with Luo Hou.
• Five Inner Academy students searched for an easier opponent after losing to another team, then encountered Xiao Yao's group.
• Xiao Yao told his teammates to fight one opponent each and collect the Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yao stopped his opponent's attack, demanded his Fire Crystal Card, and took the card holding thirty-five days of Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yao's teammates won their fights, and the group divided their total of one hundred and twenty-five days of Fire Energy into twenty-five days each.

Xiao Yao’s team continued robbing Inner Academy seniors, using his overwhelming Soul Force to defeat a coordinated group and take their Fire Energy. News of their attacks spread through the forest, throwing the competition into chaos as senior teams began to avoid them or plan to unite.

• Xiao Yao’s team hid after robbing one senior group and prepared to ambush five more approaching students.
• The second senior group charged Xiao Yao’s team, but Xiao Yao pinned all five with his Soul Force and forced them to surrender their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yao distributed the stolen Fire Energy among his teammates, and the group moved deeper into the forest.
• An old man and a gray-robed elder discussed Xiao Yao’s formidable Soul Force and his status as at least a Fourth-Grade Alchemist.
• Rumors of Xiao Yao’s team hunting senior students spread through the forest, and the remaining senior teams began avoiding them or considering joining forces.

Xiao Yao and his companions rested beside a stream after driving several old-student teams into retreat, then discussed how to draw out the remaining Black-and-White Fiends teams. Hu Jia suggested a honey trap, but Xiao Yao rejected it and promised to find another plan.

• Qing Ling'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Xue Ni continued deeper into the forest, hoping to meet Xiao Yao and join his hunt for old students.
• Wu Hao told Xiao Yao that their group had taken Fire Energy from four old-student teams, but other teams now fled when they saw them.
• Hu Jia complained that the old students were avoiding them and suggested luring them in by pretending to bathe with Xun Er and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yao refused Hu Jia's honey-trap plan and said he would find a way to lure out the remaining Black-and-White Fiends teams.
• Hu Jia teased Xiao Yao for only finding a solution after she involved Xun Er in her plan.

Xiao Yao discovered that four teams of older students planned to target Xiao Yu’s group and hurried to reunite with them. He led everyone away to gather other newcomers, while the older students searched for Xiao Yao’s team and another group of newcomers complained about being robbed.

• Xiao Yao used his soul perception to overhear four team leaders plotting to attack Xiao Yu’s group and take their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yao told Xun Er, Qing Lin, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia about the threat and rushed to Xiao Yu’s location.
• Xiao Yao warned Xiao Yu’s group that the older students were coming, and they decided to gather other newcomers before confronting them.
• Xiao Yao led both groups away, so the four teams arrived to find the forest empty and sent people to locate his team.
• Five bruised newcomers walked through another clearing and complained that older students had beaten them and stolen their Fire Energy.

Xiao Yao gathered the battered new students and recruited them to help seize the old students’ Fire Energy. After most of the new students assembled, his scouts reported that four old-student teams were heading toward them, and Xiao Yao prepared everyone to ambush them.

• Xiao Yao gave healing medicine to five injured new students and asked them to gather others willing to fight back against the old students.
• The five new students scattered through the forest to recruit their fellow newcomers while Xiao Yao and his companions waited.
• New students gathered around Xiao Yao, who rallied them to reclaim the Fire Energy taken from them.
• Xiao Yao’s scouts reported that four old-student teams were approaching after their location had been exposed.
• Xiao Yao told the new students to hide and promised they would divide the seized Fire Energy evenly.

Xiao Yao and his allies prepared an ambush for the old students in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. When the four old-student teams arrived and threatened them, dozens of hidden new students surrounded the twenty opponents, leaving the old students to realize they had been lured into a trap.

• Xiao Yao told Xiao Yu, Qing Ling'er, and the other new students to hide in the forest while he and Xun Er's group waited in the clearing.
• Two observing elders watched the new students' plan and remarked that the competition had taken an unexpected turn.
• Xiao Yao sensed twenty old students approaching, and he and Xun Er's group blocked their aura pressure as the four teams entered the clearing.
• The old-student leaders threatened Xiao Yao's group and agreed to attack together, but Xiao Yao called for everyone to come out.
• Dozens of new students emerged from the undergrowth and surrounded the old students, and Xiao Yao noticed that Xiao Ning had advanced to Da Dou Shi.

Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao fought Yun Can and the other old-student captains while Xiao Yao watched. Xun Er overwhelmed Yun Can, and Qing Lin trapped Qin Tian in an illusion, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yun Can, Bai Lei, Qin Tian, and Liu Pan agreed to fight the new students and divided up their opponents.
• Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao charged into battle, while Xiao Yao stayed back to watch.
• Xun Er revealed her Eight-Star Great Dou Master strength and rapidly pressured Yun Can, who called for help.
• Qing Lin evaded Qin Tian's attacks and used Illusory Eye Starburst to trap him in an illusion.

Qing Lin and Xun Er helped turn the battle against the old students, defeating their captains and forcing the remaining fighters to surrender. The new students gained control of the field and collected Fire Energy from the defeated opponents.

• Qing Lin struck Qin Tian with Phantom Binding Kill, shattered his wind shield, and knocked him down.
• Distracted by Qin Tian’s defeat, Yun Can was struck by Xun Er’s Golden Light Palm and crashed into a tree.
• Bai Lei urged the old students to fight harder, but Qing Lin stunned them and helped the new students reorganize their attack.
• Hu Jia knocked Bai Lei down and forced him to surrender his Fire Crystal Card containing eighty Fire Energy.
• Liu Pan surrendered to Wu Hao and handed over a Fire Crystal Card containing eighty-three Fire Energy, leaving the new students in control of the battlefield.

After Xiao Yao’s freshmen defeated another team of older students, they prepared to divide the spoils, only to be confronted by Sha Tie and four other powerful arena fighters. The chapter left Xiao Yao facing their threat as the injured older students warned them that he had not even joined the previous battle.

• Xiao Yao gave the freshmen healing medicine and ordered them to treat their injured companions and collect the older students’ Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yao gave Xun Er, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Qing Lin Qi-Recovery Pills, then told the freshmen they would face the final two teams before entering the Inner Academy.
• Two old men watching from the trees praised the freshmen’s strength and noticed five powerful auras approaching.
• Xiao Yao prepared to divide the twenty Fire Crystal Cards, but five black-clad fighters emerged from the forest and announced they would take the freshmen’s Fire Energy.
• Liu Pan recognized the imposing Sha Tie, and Yun Can warned the five newcomers that Xiao Yao had not fought when the freshmen defeated their team.

Xiao Yao faced Sha Tie and the Black Fiend Team in the final clash of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, insisting on fighting all five alone. He evaded their attacks with ease, and Sha Tie began strengthening his body with dark-golden Fighting Qi.

• Sha Tie told Xiao Yao that Inner Academy students were waiting outside the forest and demanded the new students' Fire Crystal Cards.
• Xiao Yao refused to surrender, and Xun Er and the other new students prepared to fight Sha Tie's five-man team.
• Xiao Yao declared that he would face the five men alone, while Xun Er, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia voiced concern and support.
• Sha Tie attacked Xiao Yao, and the other four Black Fiend Team members joined in, but Xiao Yao moved through their encirclement and evaded their strikes.
• Sha Tie stopped attacking and covered his body with dark-golden Fighting Qi, hardening himself like metal.

Xiao Yao defeated Sha Tie and his four companions, then collected the Fire Energy Cards taken from the new students and distributed their Fire Energy back with extra days added. After Xun Er and Qing Lin returned the cards, nearly five hundred days of Fire Energy remained on the pale blue cards.

• Xiao Yao evaded Sha Tie's attacks and overwhelmed him and the other four with his speed and skill.
• When Sha Tie ordered a retreat, Xiao Yao pinned all five down with Soul Force and demanded their Fire Energy Cards.
• Sha Tie surrendered, acknowledged Xiao Yao's strength, and handed over the group's cards.
• Xiao Yao gathered the cards from Sha Tie's group and the older students, then restored the new students' lost Fire Energy and added extra days.
• Xun Er and Qing Lin returned the cards to their owners, while nearly five hundred days of Fire Energy remained on the pale blue cards.

After defeating Sha Tie and his group, Xiao Yao led the new students in preparing for their final battle against the White Fiend Team. The recovered group set out for the rocky terrain where the old students were waiting, and the final battle was about to begin.

• Xiao Yao returned most of the seized Fire Energy to Sha Tie and the others, then told the new students to rest before fighting the last group of old students.
• By the campfire, Xiao Yao said he would face the White Fiend Team's captain while the others divided up the remaining opponents.
• Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Wu Hao, and the new students agreed on assignments and planned to help one another once they defeated their opponents.
• At dusk the next day, Xiao Yao ordered the recovered new students to move out, and his group led them toward the forest exit.
• Xiao Yao and the others reached a rocky clearing where Inner Academy old students wearing tower-shaped badges were gathered.