Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao successfully refined a Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill, earning new system rewards and missions. After discussing Skyfire Venerable’s future body and declining a position as an Inner Academy elder, he showed the pill to the expectant onlookers.

• The final bolt of Pill Lightning struck Lei Chenzi, who emerged as a Three-Star Dou Zong before Xiao Yao stored him away.
• Xiao Yao caught the fleeing Transformation Pill and stored it in a jade bottle, completing his Seventh-Grade pill-refining mission and receiving Eighth-Grade alchemy knowledge, Front Character Secret, and a wisp of Origin Emperor Qi.
• The system replaced Xiao Yao’s long-term missions with goals involving Dou Zun cultivation, Eighth-Grade alchemy, and soul strength.
• Xiao Yao spoke with Skyfire Venerable about finding a handsome Dou Zong-level skeleton, then greeted Xun Er, Su Qian, and Elder Huo.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Yao an Inner Academy elder position, but Xiao Yao declined and offered to refine pills for the elders in exchange for three sets of ingredients.
• Fire Old Man asked to see the Transformation Pill, and Xiao Yao opened its jade bottle, releasing a rich medicinal fragrance across the mountaintop.

Xiao Yao revealed that he had refined a Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill for Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin, and offered to help Fire Old Man advance his alchemy. Zi Yan arrived and demanded a pill of her own, and Xiao Yao promised to refine one for her when he gathered enough ingredients.

• Xiao Yao showed the elders his Seventh-Grade Pill and offered to refine more pills for the academy if they provided the ingredients.
• Fire Old Man asked Xiao Yao to guide him toward becoming a Sixth-Grade Alchemist, and Xiao Yao agreed to help.
• Xiao Yao explained that he had refined the Transformation Pill for Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin, and said he would make another so they could transform into human form together.
• Zi Yan rushed at Xiao Yao, then complained that he was hiding his alchemy skills and refused to make her a pill.
• Xun Er reassured Zi Yan that Xiao Yao was only teasing her, and Xiao Yao promised to refine a pill for Zi Yan once he had enough ingredients.

Xiao Yao promised to refine a Transformation Pill for Zi Yan once they found the necessary ingredients, then revealed to Hu Jia and Wu Hao that he was a Seventh-Grade Alchemist and a Dou Zong. He demonstrated his ability to control space before announcing that he would leave for about half a month to prepare to transform the two little ones.

• Zi Yan promised to behave while Xiao Yao searched for Seventh-Grade Transformation Grass and a Seventh-Grade earth-attribute Magic Core for her Transformation Pill.
• The next morning, Hu Jia and Wu Hao confronted Xiao Yao about the phenomenon caused by his pill refining, and he revealed that he had refined a Seventh-Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yao told Hu Jia and Wu Hao that he was already a Dou Zong and demonstrated his spatial power by vanishing into the void.
• Xiao Yao told Xun Er he would leave for about half a month and said he would be able to let the two little ones take human form when he returned.
• Xun Er admitted that Xiao Yao had hidden his true strength during the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, leaving Hu Jia and Wu Hao amazed by his talent.

Xiao Yao refined a Transformation Pill and used the pill tribulation to strengthen Heavenly Thunder Son, then spent the next half month refining several kinds of Seventh-Grade Pills. He ended with several jade bottles of pills and only one failed batch.

• Xiao Yao began refining a Transformation Pill, and after two days he condensed the pill embryo inside the Myriad Beast Cauldron.
• The Great Elder recognized that Xiao Yao had started refining another Seventh-Grade Pill, while Xun Er told Phoenix Cry she would soon be able to take human form.
• Heavenly Thunder Son absorbed the Transformation Pill's tribulation lightning, broke through to five-star Dou Zun, and returned to Xiao Yao's side.
• Xiao Yao collected the Transformation Pill and decided to practice refining other low-tier Seventh-Grade Pills before attempting the more difficult Creation Pill.
• Xiao Yao refined batches of Instant Qi Pills, Yin-Yang Life-Soul Pills, Fire Bodhi Pills, Pure Heart Pills, and Life-Devouring Pills over the next half month, failing only once.

After resting from weeks of pill refinement, Xiao Yao began refining a high-tier Seventh-Grade Creation Pill. Heavenly Thunder Son absorbed its Pill Lightning and advanced to Three-Revolution Peak Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yao told Senior Skyfire that he had mastered Seventh-Grade pills and discussed the ingredients needed to resurrect him.
• Xiao Yao rested overnight, then prepared the ingredients and began refining the Creation Pill in the Myriad Beast Cauldron.
• Xiao Yao spent a day condensing the medicinal liquids into a fist-sized mass of pure liquid.
• Heavenly Thunder Son blocked the Creation Pill's Pill Lightning and reached Three-Revolution Peak Dou Zun.

Xiao Yao returned to the Immortal Fall Pavilion after refining two Seventh-Grade high-tier Creation Pills for Zi Lin, intending to help her and Phoenix Cry transform the next day. He reunited with Xun Er and brought his companions together to witness the transformations.

• Xiao Yao trapped and collected the first Creation Pill, then spent a day refining two pills for Zi Lin's rare bloodline.
• Xiao Yao returned to the Immortal Fall Pavilion after nearly a month away, and Xun Er welcomed him while scolding him for making her worry.
• Xiao Yao told Xun Er that Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin would transform into human forms the next day, and he shared news of his gains with the others.
• Xiao Yu and the others arrived at the courtyard, where Ling Er tried to pet Phoenix Cry and learned that the proud Sixth Rank magical beast only let a few people touch her.

Xiao Yao gave Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin Seventh-Grade Transformation Pills, and the gathered students watched them take human form. Their transformation also raised them from Dou Emperor to Dou Zong, leaving the crowd astonished as Phoenix Cry reunited playfully with Xiao Yao and Xun Er.

• Xiao Yu brought A Tai and dozens of students to witness Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin's transformation, and Xiao Yao allowed them to watch.
• Xiao Yao gave Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin Seventh-Grade Transformation Pills, and they swallowed them.
• Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin transformed into human girls as brilliant white light surrounded them.
• The students realized Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin had risen from Dou Emperor to Dou Zong and marveled at their appearances.
• Phoenix Cry went to Xiao Yao and Xun Er, who praised her new appearance, and she proudly declared that her phoenix bloodline made her beautiful.

Xiao Yao arranged sleeping arrangements for Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin, then explained to Zi Yan that the two newly transformed magical beasts were much stronger than her. A month later, he lounged at the Immortal Fall Pavilion while Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin massaged him, leaving Xun Er to tease him for being waited on.

• Xun Er told Phoenix Cry she was old enough to share a room with Zi Lin, but promised she could sleep with her for the next couple of days.
• Xiao Yao assigned Zi Lin to share a room with Qing Lin, and Zi Lin declared that she called him Master because he had taken her away from her mother.
• Zi Yan arrived, learned that Zi Lin was a Dou Emperor, and demanded that Xiao Yao fulfill his promise to refine her a Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yao agreed to refine Zi Yan's Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill once they gathered the missing ingredients, which had been picked clean from the deep mountains.
• A month later, Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin massaged Xiao Yao as he relaxed in the Immortal Fall Pavilion, while Xun Er teased him about having them serve him.

Xiao Yao gave Zi Lin a high-tier Seventh Grade Creation Pill to awaken the ancient bloodline within her. Zi Lin transformed and reached the peak of the Sixth Rank, while Heavenly Thunder Son took the Tribulation Lightning for her.

• Xiao Yao and Xun Er enjoyed a peaceful moment at Immortal Fall Pavilion with Phoenix Cry and Zi Lin.
• A few days later, Xiao Yao gave Zi Lin a high-tier Seventh Grade Creation Pill and explained that it could evolve her bloodline.
• Zi Lin took the pill, endured its scorching power, and awakened an ancient bloodline as purple wings and flames appeared around her.
• Zi Lin's aura rose to the peak of the Sixth Rank, drawing Tribulation Lightning from the dark clouds.
• Xiao Yao summoned Heavenly Thunder Son, who endured the lightning bolt, and Zi Lin descended with her transformation complete.

Xiao Yao gave Ice Dragon a Creation Pill, allowing him to evolve into a True Dragon and honor his promise. Back at Immortal Fall Pavilion, Lin Yan reminded Xiao Yao that his ranking qualified him for the upcoming Strong Ranking Tournament, which Xiao Yao suspected the elders had arranged to make him participate.

• Xiao Yao gave Zi Lin credit for her bloodline evolution, then summoned Ice Dragon to fulfill his promise.
• Xiao Yao gave Ice Dragon a Creation Pill, and Ice Dragon transformed into a True Dragon.
• Ice Dragon flew into the storm and faced the descending lightning alongside Heavenly Thunder Son, whose strength reached Fifth-Turn Dou Zun.
• Ice Dragon thanked Xiao Yao and promised to repay him, then Qing Lin stored Ice Dragon as the group returned to Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Lin Yan told Xiao Yao that his thirty-fourth-place Strong Ranking qualified him for the tournament, and Xiao Yao suspected the elders had arranged his ranking to force him to compete.

Xiao Yao coached Fire Old Man in Sixth-Grade pill refinement, then joined the Strong Ranking tournament as it opened a month later. At the tournament, he watched with Xun Er and their companions, and asked Wu Hao about his recent Arena ranking.

• Xiao Yao asked his companions about joining the Strong Ranking tournament; Hu Jia looked forward to competing, Wu Hao hoped to qualify, and Xun Er and Qing Lin declined.
• Xiao Yao taught Fire Old Man how to control the heat and observe ingredients while refining pills, then demonstrated Sixth-Grade pill refinement for a week.
• Fire Old Man said he had gained much from watching Xiao Yao and felt eighty percent confident in refining a Sixth-Grade Pill, then entered seclusion to practice.
• A month later, Xiao Yao led his group through the competitors' passage into Central Plaza, where five stages had been set up for the Strong Ranking tournament.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yao she would watch rather than compete, and Xiao Yu and Wu Hao questioned her decision; Xiao Yao then asked Wu Hao whether he had made the Strong Ranking through the Arena.

At the Strong Ranking tournament, Han Yue introduced Xiao Yao to top-ranked contestants Lin Xiuyan and Yan Hao, revealing his reputation as a Dou Wang and Seventh-Grade Alchemist. Xun Er asserted her closeness to Xiao Yao, and Lin Xiuyan offered to become his friend.

• Xiao Yao noticed Han Yue, Lin Xiuyan, and Yan Hao among the contestants gathered on the platform.
• Han Yue told Lin Xiuyan and Yan Hao that Xiao Yao was the Immortal Fall Pavilion's master, a Dou Wang, and a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Han Yue brought Lin Xiuyan and Yan Hao over to meet Xiao Yao, who agreed to refine pills for her if she supplied the ingredients.
• Xun Er held Xiao Yao's arm, and he introduced her to Han Yue as the most important woman in his life.
• Han Yue introduced Lin Xiuyan and Yan Hao, and Lin Xiuyan clasped Xiao Yao's hand and asked to be friends.

Xiao Yao met the Inner Academy’s top contestants and drew Liu Qing’s attention ahead of the Strong Ranking Tournament. Liu Fei questioned the rumors about Xiao Yao, prompting Xun Er to defend him, while Liu Qing departed promising to test Xiao Yao’s strength.

• Lin Xiuyan, Yan Hao, and other contestants greeted Xiao Yao and praised his reputation as a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Liu Qing approached Xiao Yao’s group, and Lin Xiuyan introduced Xiao Yao as a likely contender in the Strong Ranking Tournament.
• Liu Qing questioned the rumors about Xiao Yao’s strength and alchemy, and Xiao Yao said the tournament would reveal the truth.
• Liu Fei dismissed the rumors and belittled Xiao Yao, so Xun Er warned her to stop insulting him and declared herself Xiao Yao’s woman.
• Liu Qing reprimanded Liu Fei, then told Xiao Yao he would witness his strength at the tournament before leaving with his group.

Xiao Yao declined Xun Er’s offer to join the Strong Ranking Tournament, determined to handle it himself. As the tournament began, Liu Qing and Lin Xiuyan drew the crowd’s attention, and Xiao Yao prepared to reveal a little of his One-Star Dou Zong cultivation to Su Qian.

• Xun Er asked to join the tournament, but Xiao Yao told her to stay and watch while he competed alone.
• Su Qian arrived with the academy elders and ordered the Strong Ranking participants to enter the field.
• Liu Qing landed in the arena and fixed his battle-ready gaze on Lin Xiuyan, prompting the crowd to anticipate their contest.
• Lin Xiuyan descended dramatically using wind-attributed Dou Qi footholds, impressing the spectators and elders.
• Xiao Yao thought about the approaching Three-Year Pact and decided to reveal some of his One-Star Dou Zong cultivation to Su Qian.

Xiao Yao revealed that he had reached One-Star Dou Zong, startling the Inner Academy and prompting Grand Elder Su Qian to rank him first in the Strong Ranking Tournament without a fight. He rejoined Xun Er and Qing Lin, explained why he had disclosed his strength, and said he would leave in a month to attend Little Flame’s Three-Year Pact.

• Xiao Yao emerged through a spatial rift, and the arena crowd realized he was a Dou Zong rather than the rumored Dou Wang.
• Lin Xiuyan, Liu Qing, Han Yue, and the academy elders reacted with shock to Xiao Yao’s cultivation and Seventh-Grade Alchemist identity.
• Xiao Yao asked Grand Elder Su Qian to excuse him from the tournament or spar with him, and Su Qian agreed to rank him first instead.
• Xiao Yao returned through a spatial gate to Xun Er and Qing Lin, who praised his entrance and asked why he had revealed his strength.
• Xiao Yao explained that the Seventh-Grade Alchemist rumor had already spread and said he would leave Jia Nan Academy in a month to attend Little Flame’s Three-Year Pact.

Xiao Yao agreed to take Qing Lin with him to the Misty Cloud Sect for Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Pact, while Xun Er worried about being left behind. At the Inner Academy’s Strong Ranking tournament, Su Qian placed Xiao Yao first and began the matches by lot.

• Xiao Yao agreed to bring Qing Lin to the Misty Cloud Sect and promised Xiao Yu he would bring Xiao Yan back to Jia Nan Academy after the pact.
• Zi Yan appeared at the tournament and ate the medicinal pills Xiao Yao had refined for her.
• Su Qian announced that Xiao Yao had reached the Dou Zong realm and awarded him first place on the Strong Ranking without a contest.
• Su Qian warned the contestants to avoid killing, then explained the tournament’s numbered, color-matched drawing system.
• Su Qian called the first match between the holders of blue-backed and red-backed number five.
• Wu Hao told Xiao Yao that he had drawn number twelve and identified the first fighters as the students ranked thirty-fifth and thirty-eighth.

Xiao Yao reunited with Zi Yan, who had recently reached Dou Emperor and was still seeking ingredients for her Transformation Pill. After Zi Yan won her arena match, she bargained with Xiao Yao for pills and left him ingredients to refine, while the competition continued.

• Zi Yan appeared beside Xiao Yao and told him she had broken through to Dou Emperor and obtained the Transformation Grass; she planned to hunt a Dou Zong-level earth-element beast with him for its Magic Core.
• Lin Xiuyan and Han Yue spoke with Xiao Yao, and Lin Xiuyan asked him to persuade Zi Yan not to embarrass him if they faced each other in the competition.
• Zi Yan was called to compete, leaped into the arena, and won by knocking her opponent out with one punch.
• Xiao Yao asked Zi Yan to go easy on Lin Xiuyan, and she agreed in exchange for two Emperor's Extreme Pills.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Yao a Storage Ring containing ingredients for four batches of Emperor's Extreme Pills and five batches of Emperor-Breaking Pills, asking him to refine them within a couple of days.

After the Strong Ranking tournament, Xiao Yao prepared to leave Immortal Fall Pavilion to cultivate, entrusting Xun Er and the others with the pavilion’s affairs. He vanished by tearing open space, while Zi Yan received pills and the materials she had arranged with the Grand Elder.

• Zi Yan revealed that the Grand Elder had promised her Transformation Grass and half the pills in exchange for Xiao Yao refining medicinal materials, and Xiao Yao teased her for being tricked into doing the work.
• Xiao Yao left the plaza with Xun Er, Phoenix Cry, and the others, and the Inner Academy spent the following days discussing his Dou Zong strength and Seventh-Grade alchemy.
• In Immortal Fall Pavilion’s main hall, Xiao Yao gave Zi Yan the pills for the Grand Elder and an additional bottle for herself, warning that he would be leaving for a while.
• Xiao Yao gave Zi Yan more pills and entrusted Xun Er with a Storage Ring of labeled pills for Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Xun Er and the others agreed to manage the pavilion, and Xiao Yao tore open space and disappeared.

Xiao Yao absorbed the fire beads and advanced to the peak of Dou Zong before beginning to cultivate Dou Skills. Meanwhile, Xun Er learned that her clan wanted her to return for an inheritance, but she asked Ling Ying to delay the order so she could remain with Xiao Yao.

• Xiao Yao asked Skyfire Venerable to guard him while he cultivated, and gave him Fifth Grade soul medicine liquid to restore his strength.
• Xiao Yao absorbed the energy of the crimson fire beads and reached the peak of Dou Zong, then began cultivating the Secret of the Formation Character and the Front Character Secret.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that the Clan Chief had ordered her to obtain the Ancient Jade Fragments or return to awaken her Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Xun Er asked Ling Ying to delay the clan's order because she wanted to stay with Brother Xiao Yao longer.
• Ling Ying warned Xun Er that she must not resist if the clan sent people to take her back, or the Clan Chief and elders might target Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao mastered the Miniature Five-Element Sealing Formation and used the Front Character Secret to foresee a Soul Hall attack involving numerous powerful experts. Back at the Inner Academy, Xun Er visited him late at night, leaving their conversation about to begin.

• Xun Er sent Ling Ying away and quietly worried that she might not spend another year at the Inner Academy with Xiao Yao.
• Xiao Yao formed a sixth-tier Miniature Five-Element Sealing Formation that could trap experts below the Dou Zong realm, then dispersed it.
• Xiao Yao used the Front Character Secret and foresaw the Soul Hall sending over a dozen Dou Zong-level experts, including five Dou Zuns, to seize an Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yao returned to the Inner Academy and considered the danger ahead, including the Black and White Heavenly Venerables and Heavenly Thunder Son.
• Xun Er visited Xiao Yao's room late at night, and he welcomed her inside.