Chapter Summaries

The Inner Academy students waited for the new students to emerge from the Dark Forest, expecting Sha Tie’s team to have defeated them. Sha Tie revealed that his team had lost to Xiao Yao, and more than forty united new students appeared to face the final checkpoint.

• Students on the hillside discussed Xiao Yao’s strength and wondered whether Sha Tie’s Black Fiend Team could defeat the new students.
• Sha Tie and twenty-four others emerged from the Dark Forest, and Luo Hou realized they had lost.
• Sha Tie said Xiao Yao had matched the attacks of all five members of his team with physical strength alone and had used another trick when they tried to retreat.
• Luo Hou rose to face the new students, while Sha Tie warned him that Xiao Yao was among them and withdrew with his group.
• More than forty new students rushed out of the forest and gathered beneath the sunlight.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing noted that the new students had united and speculated that Xiao Yao had led them.

Xiao Yao and the new students began their final battle against the White Fiend Team, with Xiao Yao facing Captain Luo Hou while Xun Er and Qing Lin fought Ye Han. The clash remained undecided as Ye Han slipped past Xun Er and charged at Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yao identified Luo Hou as the White Fiend Team’s captain and challenged him to the final battle.
• Luo Hou assigned Ye Han and the other three White Fiend Team members to hold back the new students while he fought Xiao Yao.
• Xiao Yao and Luo Hou charged into battle as Xun Er and Qing Lin engaged Ye Han.
• Luo Hou’s spinning staff attack clashed with Xiao Yao’s fist, creating a powerful shockwave.
• Xun Er attacked Ye Han while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to disrupt him, but Ye Han evaded Xun Er and charged at Qing Lin.

Qing Lin and Xun Er helped defeat Ye Han while Xiao Yao faced Luo Hou’s powerful attack with the Azure Soul Hand. The collision devastated the battlefield, and Elder Su and Elder Qing vanished from the platform as the stunned spectators fled.

• Qing Lin bound Ye Han with jade-green snakes, struck him with a giant energy python, and Xun Er followed with a blow that sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xiao Yao told Luo Hou to finish their fight quickly, while Elder Su and Elder Qing wondered why Xiao Yao had smiled at them.
• Luo Hou poured his Dou Qi into his Cold Iron Staff, turning it into a massive ice pillar, then hurled it at Xiao Yao with all his strength.
• Xiao Yao unleashed the Azure Soul Hand, which tore the Cold Iron Staff in half and continued toward Luo Hou.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing disappeared from the platform as the Azure Soul Hand’s impact unleashed a destructive energy ripple, sending the older students fleeing.

Xiao Yao’s powerful Soul Handprint forced Elder Su to intervene and end the Fire Energy Hunting Competition in favor of the new students. Xiao Yao and the others collected the White Fiend Team’s Fire Energy, while Elder Su told the defeated old students they could challenge the new students after a month in the Inner Academy.

• Sha Tie, Yun Can, and the others saw that Xiao Yao’s Soul Handprint had reduced the rubble to dust and feared its power.
• Elder Su emerged unharmed after shielding Luo Hou from the attack, then declared the new students the winners of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Xiao Yao demanded Luo Hou’s Fire Energy, and Xun Er, Hu Jia, and the other new students moved to collect it from the White Fiend Team.
• Luo Hou and his teammates protested, but Elder Su rebuked them and reminded them that he had saved Luo Hou from the attack.
• Luo Hou gave Xiao Yao his Fire Crystal Card, and Xiao Yao transferred one hundred Fire Energy before returning the card.
• Elder Su said the old students could challenge the new students in the Inner Academy Arena after the new students had spent a month there.

After winning the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Xiao Yao and four other new students received upgraded Fire Crystal Cards and followed Elder Su into the Inner Academy. Elder Su brought them to their first-ever independent pavilion residence for new students, where they began settling in.

• Elder Su awarded the new students Fire Energy and gave Xiao Yao a Purple Fire Crystal Card and Xiao Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao Green Fire Crystal Cards.
• Elder Su explained the Crystal Card ranks, collected the students’ empty Black Crystal Cards, and led them into the Inner Academy.
• The new students marveled at the Inner Academy, and Xiao Yao resolved to grow strong enough to reach Dou Zun before going to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Elder Su arranged accommodations and took Xiao Yao, Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to an isolated pavilion they would share.

Elder Su arranged for Xiao Yao, Xun Er, Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to live together and encouraged them to form a team in the competitive Inner Academy. After Elder Su left, they chose rooms, and Wu Hao resolved to grow stronger so he could keep pursuing Xun Er.

• Hu Jia questioned Elder Su about making three girls share a pavilion with two men, and he explained that they could choose separate rooms.
• Elder Su described the Inner Academy's factions and competitive environment, urging the five students to rely on one another as a team.
• Wu Hao, Xun Er, and Hu Jia agreed to live with Xiao Yao, who accepted responsibility for handling the group's faction affairs.
• Elder Su explained that students could use Fire Energy to enter the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, exchange for techniques, or earn more in the Arena.
• Hu Jia and Wu Hao realized Xiao Yao's Fallen Heart Flame could provide Heart Flame for their cultivation, and Xiao Yao agreed to help them.
• Xun Er chose to stay next door to Xiao Yao, while Wu Hao decided to improve his strength so he would remain worthy of pursuing her.

Xiao Yao checked his progress toward becoming a Seventh-Grade Alchemist and reunited with Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin, promising to help them take human form. The next morning, he watched Wu Hao and Hu Jia spar while Xun Er served him tea.

• Xiao Yao reviewed his character panel and noted that he still needed more time before he could refine Seventh-Grade Transformation Pills.
• Xiao Yao brought Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin out of his Small World and promised not to put them back without an important reason.
• Phoenix Cry told Xiao Yao she wanted to take human form and promised to cultivate hard so she could protect him and his family.
• The next morning, Xiao Yao saw Wu Hao and Hu Jia sparring after both advanced to Seven-Star Great Dou Master during their cultivation.
• Xun Er offered Xiao Yao tea, and he praised her brewing and teased that he would be blessed to have her.

Xiao Yao learned that senior students were repeatedly charging freshmen a Freshman Tribute Fee and agreed to help them. He decided to go with his companions to meet the gathered freshmen and consider forming a faction.

• A Tai and more than a dozen freshmen told Xiao Yao that senior students had repeatedly taken two days of Fire Energy from each of them.
• Xiao Yao promised to join the freshmen and told A Tai to gather them.
• Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Xun Er supported using the crisis to form a faction in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yu and her companions arrived and urged Xiao Yao to lead a new faction, saying the seniors might target them later.
• Xiao Yao led his companions toward the other freshmen's residences to see how many people had gathered.

Xiao Yao arrived at the Inner Academy road exit and confronted older students extorting tribute from the new students. He drove them away and declared that the new students would pay no more Fire Energy, leaving the older students to warn him that he was challenging the Inner Academy’s rules.

• Xiao Yao and his group reached the exit, where older students had blocked the road and demanded two days of Fire Energy from each new student.
• A Tai refused to pay, arguing that the new students had already been approached by several factions and had no Fire Energy left to give.
• An older student threatened the new students with injuries and dismissed the possibility that Xiao Yao would intervene.
• Xiao Yao stepped out with his group and told the older students to leave, then used his Dou Qi pressure to force them to their knees.
• Xiao Yao declared that the new students would no longer pay Fire Energy and ordered the older students to disappear within three breaths.

Xiao Yao united the new students against harassment from the old students and founded Immortal Fall Pavilion with himself as its leader. That night, the group discussed an emblem for their new force.

• Xiao Yao drove off the old students and declared that new students would no longer surrender their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yao urged the new students to unite, and A Tai was the first to join the force he proposed.
• Xiao Yao named the force Immortal Fall Pavilion, and A Tai declared him its Pavilion Master.
• Xiao Yao proposed an emblem showing a pavilion surrounded by clouds and mist, and Wu Hao approved the design.

Xiao Yao gave Heart Flame seeds to Xun Er and the others, then left faction affairs to them while he recovered. Half a month later, he and Wu Hao headed to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to see why so many students gathered there.

• Xiao Yao discussed the Immortal Fall Pavilion emblem with Xun Er and the others, then offered to give them Heart Flame seeds for cultivation.
• Xiao Yao infused Heart Flame seeds into nine people, leaving himself pale and exhausted.
• Xun Er and Hu Jia promised to handle the new students’ affairs while Xiao Yao rested.
• Half a month later, Xiao Yao told Wu Hao that Xun Er, Hu Jia, and Qing Lin could manage Immortal Fall Pavilion’s affairs.
• Xiao Yao and Wu Hao set out for the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and followed the students heading north.

Xiao Yao and Wu Hao reached the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and entered, where the Heart Flame began refining their Dou Qi. Elder Liu recognized them as the new students who had defeated the senior students and the Black-and-White Fiends in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

• Xiao Yao used his wings to carry Wu Hao over the crowd and denied that he had reached the Dou Wang level, claiming his wings came from a rare flying Dou Technique.
• The tower doors opened, and Xiao Yao sensed the invisible crimson python within while the students rushed inside.
• Xiao Yao and Wu Hao entered the tower, endured the Heart Flame’s burning, and began cultivating as the others moved deeper inside.
• A silver-dressed young woman approached Xiao Yao and Wu Hao and asked how they had endured the Heart Flame so quickly.
• Elder Liu arrived and recognized Xiao Yao and Wu Hao as the students who had defeated the senior students and the Black-and-White Fiends in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

Xiao Yao met Han Yue at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where she invited him to join her Moon Spirit Gang, but he declined because he had founded the Immortal Fall Pavilion and already loved someone. Elder Liu then led Xiao Yao and Wu Hao through the tower to explain its cultivation levels.

• Han Yue asked Elder Liu why the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower increased cultivation speed, and he explained that it contained a Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yao and Han Yue introduced themselves, and Han Yue invited him to join the Moon Spirit Gang; he declined because he had founded the Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Han Yue said she planned to cultivate on the fifth level and left to train toward becoming a Six-Star Dou Ling.
• Wu Hao teased Xiao Yao about attracting girls, while Xiao Yao insisted he was devoted to someone he already liked.
• Xiao Yao asked Elder Liu to explain the tower, and Elder Liu led Xiao Yao and Wu Hao onward.

Xiao Yao and Wu Hao toured the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with Elder Liu, who showed them the creature formed from the Fallen Heart Flame sealed beneath it. After promising to keep the secret, Xiao Yao headed for the sixth floor with Wu Hao.

• Elder Liu explained how the tower's cultivation rooms were ranked and that stronger students could claim better rooms.
• The invisible Flame Python attacked the Spatial Cage beneath the tower, but the cage held and the creature retreated into the abyss.
• Elder Liu revealed that the creature was formed from the Fallen Heart Flame and warned Xiao Yao and Wu Hao not to spread the news.
• Elder Liu finished showing them the first floor and told them to remember the tower's rules.
• Xiao Yao chose to descend to the sixth floor, and Wu Hao followed while asking whether the tower could still help him.

Xiao Yao cultivated on the sixth floor of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, discovered the source of its fire energy, and sent a seed flame to the Flame Python beneath the tower. The chapter left the elders discussing a disturbance in the tower and asking Elder Liu what had caused it.

• Xiao Yao accompanied Wu Hao to the fourth floor, where Wu Hao entered a cultivation room to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yao entered a high-level cultivation room on the sixth floor and used his Purple Fire Crystal Card to begin cultivating.
• Xiao Yao absorbed the room’s fire energy, traced its source beneath the stone platform, and sent a seed flame from the Fallen Heart Flame to the Flame Python in the magma.
• The Flame Python swallowed the seed flame, and Xiao Yao expected it to help the beast break through the spatial seal in just over a month.
• The elders gathered in a hall and asked Elder Liu about the disturbance in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.

The Inner Academy elders discussed the growing danger from the Fallen Heart Flame and the need to rely on Xiao Yao’s two Heavenly Flames. Meanwhile, Bai Cheng and the White Gang confronted Xun Er and the Immortal Fall Pavilion, demanding five freshmen, including Xun Er.

• The First Elder warned that the Fallen Heart Flame was becoming restless and might cause a major disaster, so he ordered the elders to reinforce defenses and watch the Black-Corner Region.
• Elder Liu reported that Xiao Yao was cultivating on the sixth level, and the First Elder urged the elders to give him every possible convenience.
• Bai Shan and the White Gang confronted Xun Er, Hu Jia, and the Immortal Fall Pavilion in the freshmen residence district.
• Bai Cheng offered to leave the Immortal Fall Pavilion alone if it handed over five freshmen, but insisted that Xun Er be one of them.

Bai Cheng tried to force Xun Er and the Immortal Fall Pavilion students to join the White Gang, and the groups prepared to fight. Xiao Yao arrived in time to rescue them and faced Bai Cheng, who decided to attack with the White Gang all at once.

• Xun Er rejected Bai Cheng’s demand and vowed that the Immortal Fall Pavilion would resist the White Gang.
• Hu Jia, Qing Lin, and the new students readied themselves as Fu Ao and Bai Shan led the old students into an attack.
• Xiao Yao restrained Bai Shan and the others with Soul Force, then returned to Xun Er and her companions unharmed.
• Xiao Yao challenged the White Gang to fight him, and Bai Shan warned Bai Cheng about Xiao Yao’s strength.
• Bai Cheng accepted Xiao Yao’s challenge and gathered his Dou Qi as the White Gang prepared to attack together.

Xiao Yao effortlessly defeated Bai Cheng and the White Gang members who challenged Immortal Fall Pavilion, then sent them back with a warning. Afterward, he explained that Wu Hao had stayed behind to cultivate in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.

• Bai Cheng attacked Xiao Yao with his spear, but Xiao Yao stopped it between two fingers and used Soul Force to pin Bai Cheng, Bai Shan, Fu Ao, and the others to the ground.
• Xiao Yao blasted the White Gang members into the ground, leaving Bai Cheng injured and the others unconscious, then ordered new students to return them and deliver his warning.
• The new students carried the defeated White Gang members to their territory and told a Four-Star Dou Ling officer that Xiao Yao would erase the gang if it troubled Immortal Fall Pavilion again.
• The officer ordered the injured men taken for treatment and vowed to settle things with Immortal Fall Pavilion after Bai Cheng recovered.
• At a meeting in Immortal Fall Pavilion, Hu Jia and Xun Er asked Xiao Yao why Wu Hao had not returned, and Xiao Yao said Wu Hao had stayed on the fourth floor of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate.

Xiao Yao and Xun Er planned how Immortal Fall Pavilion could earn Fire Energy by entering the Arena and selling medicinal pills. After the group bought a large supply of ingredients, Xun Er proposed sending people into the mountains to gather more cheaply.

• Hu Jia transferred Fire Energy from Xiao Yao's purple Fire Crystal Card to support Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yao decided to earn Fire Energy through the Arena and sell medicinal pills, despite Xun Er warning him about the rival Medicine Gang.
• Xiao Yao gave Xun Er formulas for Ice-Clear Pills and Qi-Recovery Pills, and she, Hu Jia, and others purchased ingredients throughout the Inner Academy.
• The group returned with over a hundred batches of ingredients, and Hu Jia gave Xiao Yao back the Fire Crystal Card with more than a hundred days of Fire Energy remaining.
• Xun Er suggested organizing a team or hiring people to search the mountains for medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yao approved her plan.

Xiao Yao refined hundreds of Qi-Recovery and Ice-Clear Pills for Xun Er and the others to sell, then searched the Inner Academy Trading District for ingredients to make the Transformation Pill and Three-Stripe Green Spirit Pill. After spending most of his Fire Energy, he set up a stall and offered a red-clothed man a pill that he claimed could cure the man’s fire poison.

• Xiao Yao refined 210 Qi-Recovery Pills and 170 Ice-Clear Pills, then handed them over to Xun Er and the others to sell.
• The next morning, Xun Er and the others began selling pills while Xiao Yao went to the Trading District to seek medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yao bought nearly all the supplementary ingredients he needed, including enough to make three batches of the Three-Stripe Green Spirit Pill, and spent most of his Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yao set up a stall beside a red-clothed man and offered him a pill for his fire poison, prompting the man to warn him of the consequences if it failed.