Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Inner Academy hunters at the start of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, winning rewards for himself and the new students. He then followed Elder Su into the Inner Academy, where the five newcomers were assigned a shared pavilion and Hu Jia challenged Xiao Yan over the living arrangements.

• Elder Su gave the newcomers Fire Crystal Cards and explained that they had to cross the forest while Inner Academy students tried to take their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yan struck down every hunter almost instantly and demanded their Fire Energy.
• Elder Su ruled that the defeated hunters' Fire Energy belonged to Xiao Yan, declared the new students winners, and awarded each newcomer twenty points while giving Xiao Yan an Amethyst Card and one thousand extra points.
• Elder Su led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Hu Jia, and the other two newcomers into the Inner Academy and showed them their pavilion.
• Hu Jia objected to sharing a residence with the boys, but Xiao Yan told her to live elsewhere, and she insisted on staying with Xun'er.

Xiao Yan recovered his soul strength by consuming the Nine-Eyed Purple Divine Flower and prepared to cultivate the Three Thousand Lightning Movement. He waited over a month for a storm, then opened the scroll to begin absorbing its wind and lightning power.

• Xiao Yan left to recover his soul strength and told Xun'er he needed to prepare for sudden dangers.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan his real name was Yao Chen and explained that Han Feng had betrayed him for the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and activated its Dragon Qi under Medicine Elder's guidance.
• Medicine Elder refined the Nine-Eyed Purple Divine Flower for nine days, and Xiao Yan drank the resulting purple liquid to restore and strengthen his soul.
• Medicine Elder explained that Xiao Yan needed a thunderstorm to cultivate the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, so Xiao Yan refined pills while he waited over a month.
• When a storm arrived, Xiao Yan opened the Three Thousand Lightning Movement scroll and placed it on his lap as Medicine Elder instructed.

Xiao Yan mastered the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and entered a valley to obtain Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk for his future attempt to devour the Falling Heart Flame. After taking the treasure, he fled the enraged Snow Demon Sky Ape through the cave entrance.

• Xiao Yan refined the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, mastered Lightning Flash, and tested its speed before exhausting his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan heard a powerful roar and found a Snow Demon Sky Ape surrounded by six people, then slipped into its valley to search for the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk.
• Xiao Yan found a hidden cavern and took the liquid from a groove and from a stalactite above it.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape abandoned its attackers, returned to its cave, and confronted Xiao Yan after finding the treasure gone.
• Xiao Yan dodged the Snow Demon Sky Ape's attack and ran toward the cave entrance, with the ape charging after him.

Xiao Yan led the Snow Demon Sky Ape away from its cave and easily overpowered it while Lin Xiuya and the others watched. After Xiao Yan killed the beast and took its Magic Core, Han Yue confronted him about the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk, and he openly admitted taking it.

• Lin Xiuya pursued Xiao Yan while Han Yue and the others found the cave empty and set off after the thief.
• Xiao Yan stopped in an open area and battered the Snow Demon Sky Ape, impressing Lin Xiuya with his strength.
• Xiao Yan reduced his strength to ten percent and continued fighting as the others gathered to watch.
• The group recognized Xiao Yan as a possible freshman who had defeated more than twenty assessment students in a single move.
• Xiao Yan killed the Snow Demon Sky Ape with a punch and took its Magic Core.
• Han Yue asked Xiao Yan whether he had taken the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk, and he admitted that he had.

Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy after obtaining the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk and learned that Xun'er had established Flame Gate in his name to protect the new students. After spending several days with her, he entered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and used his Amethyst Card to request access to its lower levels.

• Han Yue and Lin Xiuya asked Xiao Yan to share the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk, but he refused and left after reminding them that he had saved them from the Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Han Yue suggested that they seek an elder's help to trade for some milk when they met Xiao Yan again.
• Xiao Yan returned to his residence and learned from Xun'er and Hu Jia that Xun'er had established Flame Gate to defend the new students from older students demanding their fire energy.
• Xiao Yan agreed to delay entering seclusion for several days to spend time with Xun'er, then went to the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to cultivate.
• The tower elder told Xiao Yan that new students had to cultivate on the first level for seven days before descending, but recognized him after seeing his Amethyst Card.

Xiao Yan entered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and secretly awakened the Falling Heart Flame at its depths, then began cultivating on the sixth level. He took cultivation room number one without knowing it belonged to a young lady, leaving the elders to wonder whether a conflict would follow.

• Elder Liu recognized Xiao Yan and escorted him directly to the sixth level of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan secretly looked into the tower’s central black hole, where the fire python sensed him and tried to escape its spatial prison.
• Xiao Yan gave Elder Liu and the other elders pills to clear fire poison, then hurried into the cultivation room with the richest energy.
• Xiao Yan inserted his Amethyst Card in cultivation room number one and began absorbing Heart Fire, estimating that his cultivation could soon reach Dou Wang.
• The elders realized Xiao Yan had entered the room reserved for a young lady, but Elder Liu believed she would eventually have to yield it to him.

After returning to the academy, Xiao Yan was awakened in his cultivation chamber by Ziyan, who challenged him after he took her room. He earned her goodwill with medicinal pills, then told Han Yue she could have the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk if she defeated him.

• Han Yue and her companions asked the elders for help finding Xiao Yan, but the elders warned them not to offend a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Ziyan pounded on Xiao Yan's cultivation-chamber door and attacked him when he emerged.
• Xiao Yan caught both of Ziyan's punches, impressing the onlookers with his strength.
• Xiao Yan gave Ziyan medicinal pills as compensation for taking her cultivation chamber, and she let him keep using it.
• Han Yue asked Xiao Yan for the Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk, and he agreed to give it to her if she defeated him.

Xiao Yan announced a paid challenge against Inner Academy students, offering Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk to anyone who could defeat him. The academy’s elders encouraged the contest, and Xiao Yan emerged from the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower to face a crowd of elite students.

• Xiao Yan invited any number of Inner Academy students to challenge him for three hundred Fire Energy points, with a drop of Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk as the prize for victory.
• Han Yue, Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, Ziyan, and other students signed up, and Han Yue helped spread news of the challenge to recruit more participants.
• Wu Hao told Xun'er that more than a thousand students had signed up, and Xun'er urged him and the others to join because she trusted Xiao Yan to win.
• The Great Elder and the other elders decided to let the contest proceed, offering participants points and winners a chance to enter the Fighting Skills Pavilion.
• When the next month began, Inner Academy students gathered at Blue Stone Square, and Xiao Yan was summoned from the tower to find more than fifty elite Dou Ling students waiting for him.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Inner Academy’s assembly for his challenge against all its students, where he discovered that Xun’er and Ziyan had joined the competition. The Great Elder confirmed Xiao Yan’s reputation as a Seventh-Grade Alchemist and began explaining why the students had little chance of defeating him, leaving the result of his story about Xiao Yan’s past victories unrevealed.

• The tower-guarding elder told Xiao Yan that Inner Academy experts had signed up to fight him.
• Xiao Yan saw that Xun’er and Ziyan were among the challengers, and Xun’er linked arms with him as they headed to the plaza.
• The Great Elder announced the reward of Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk, and Xiao Yan promised challengers who won could receive other means of reaching Dou Wang.
• The Great Elder revealed that Xiao Yan was a Seventh-Grade Alchemist and the Jia Ma Empire’s alchemist competition champion.
• The Great Elder told the assembled students that Xiao Yan had previously defeated the Outer Academy’s students and asked if they wanted to hear what happened when its vice principal and elders attacked him.

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy tournament, where he could win six hundred thousand Fire Energy by defeating the students. The tournament began with Han Yue leading Moon Spirit’s women against him, and Xiao Yan quickly knocked nearly all of them down.

• The Great Elder led the students and elders to a vast platform built for the tournament and explained that Xiao Yan’s victory could earn him six hundred thousand Fire Energy.
• The Great Elder told the students they could use any methods to defeat Xiao Yan, and Lin Xiuya proposed attacking in rotating groups to wear him down.
• Han Yue led nearly a hundred members of Moon Spirit onto the platform as the first group to challenge Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan glanced at Xun'er when he noticed her displeasure, then the Great Elder declared the tournament underway.
• Xiao Yan swiftly struck down nearly all of Moon Spirit’s members, leaving the watching students and elders stunned.

Xiao Yan defeated more than a thousand students who tried to exhaust him, but the strongest Inner Academy fighters then joined the battle. As Xun'er, Ziyan, Lin Xiuya, and the others attacked, Xiao Yan reflected their techniques with Heavenly Shift, leaving only the strongest opponents standing.

• Liu Ling ordered the factions to attack Xiao Yan together, and Liu Qing and Lin Xiuya sent their groups into the siege.
• Xiao Yan knocked down wave after wave of students, defeating more than a thousand in less than an hour.
• Lin Xiuya, Xun'er, Ziyan, and the ranking experts joined the fight, beginning the real battle.
• Xun'er and Ziyan led the assault while the others unleashed their reserved Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Shift to reflect the attacks, eliminating more than half of the remaining fighters.
• Xun'er and Ziyan moved in from Xiao Yan's left to test his physical strength.

Xiao Yan and the others stopped fighting when Falling Heart Flame erupted, and the Great Elder rushed back to the Inner Academy. As the flame broke through the tower’s seals, Su Qian confronted it alone while a man in Maple City gathered allies to pursue the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan defended himself from Ziyan while Xun'er struck him, until the Great Elder suspended the match after the ground shook and Falling Heart Flame erupted.
• Xiao Yan declined to seize the Heavenly Flame, while a man in Maple City ordered Han Beng to summon the Earth Flame Sect, Eight Gates, Blood Sect, and Gold and Silver Elders.
• Falling Heart Flame shattered the lower seal, broke through the barrier at the tower’s summit, and began to escape.
• Su Qian arrived in time to slam Falling Heart Flame back through the breach and fought it as its heartfire weakened him.
• Falling Heart Flame grew stronger, forced Su Qian back, and turned toward escape as he struggled to hold it off.

Xiao Yan helped Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders reseal Falling Heart Flame after it broke through the barrier. As the Outer Academy arrived to reinforce the seal, Han Feng appeared with allies and demanded the Heavenly Flame, then summoned the Gold and Silver Mister when Su Qian refused.

• The invisible fire python broke through the defensive barrier again, but Xiao Yan struck it back and rushed to help Su Qian.
• Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy elders to form a thousand-layer seal, and Xiao Yan escaped through the energy net before they closed it.
• Xiao Yan worried that Falling Heart Flame would grow stronger and escape again, while Su Qian explained that the Inner Academy depended on its cultivation benefits.
• Han Feng arrived with leaders from several forces and demanded that Su Qian release the Heavenly Flame.
• When Su Qian and Hu Gan refused, Han Feng threatened to take Falling Heart Flame by force and summoned the Gold and Silver Mister.

Han Feng and his allies attacked Canaan Academy to break the seal on the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, while Xiao Yan stepped forward to stop him. Xiao Yan revealed that he was Yao Chen’s disciple and confronted Han Feng over betraying and murdering his teacher, leaving Medicine Elder silent as Han Feng defended his demand for the Flame Mantra.

• The Gold and Silver Elders agreed to help Han Feng after he promised them a satisfying reward, and they prepared to hold back Su Qian.
• Han Feng rallied the Black-Corner Region factions to attack the academy while Su Qian and Hu Gan ordered the elders to protect the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan volunteered to stop Han Feng, and Hu Gan left to help the academy elders fighting the enemy Dou Huang experts.
• Fan Lao and Yuan Yi hurried away from Xiao Yan, while Han Feng dismissed him and continued toward the tower.
• Xiao Yan called Han Feng a teacher-slaying traitor and revealed that he knew Han Feng had murdered Yao Chen.
• Han Feng admitted that he had betrayed Yao Chen because Yao Chen would not teach him the Flame Mantra, and Xiao Yan explained that Yao Chen had refused to protect him from its dangers.

Xiao Yan confronted Han Feng and exposed the betrayal behind Han Feng’s resentment toward Medicine Elder, while boasting that he was a Seventh-Grade Alchemist. After Yuan Yi confirmed Xiao Yan’s identity, the Black-Corner Region’s forces began abandoning Han Feng, leaving them uncertain whether to believe Han Feng’s doubts about Xiao Yan.

• Han Feng attacked Xiao Yan, who blocked the strike and condemned Han Feng for betraying Medicine Elder over the Flame Mantra.
• Han Feng accused Medicine Elder of favoring Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan claimed Medicine Elder had begged him to cultivate the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan mocked Han Feng’s talent and claimed he had reached the seventh grade in alchemy, prompting Medicine Elder and the gathered fighters to react.
• Su Qian confirmed Xiao Yan had won the Jia Ma Empire’s Alchemist Grand Ceremony, and Yuan Yi identified him as the champion who refined the Azure Nether Longevity Pill.
• The Gold and Silver Elders and other Black-Corner Region experts offered to compensate Canaan Academy and withdrew their support from Han Feng.
• Han Feng promised the experts triple rewards and questioned whether Xiao Yan could really be a Seventh-Grade Alchemist because of his age, making them hesitate.

Xiao Yan fought Han Feng alone, claiming he would punish him for betraying his teacher, and savagely beat him with overwhelming physical strength. The chapter ended with Han Feng still alive and gathering his Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame into a massive trident for a potentially deadly counterattack.

• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian and the Black-Corner Region spectators not to interfere in his fight with Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan used his speed and strength to batter Han Feng, breaking through his Dou Qi Armor and leaving him bloodied.
• Xiao Yan drove Han Feng into a deep pit and continued beating him while cursing him for betraying his teacher, then paused to drink water.
• Han Feng rose despite his injuries and formed a dark blue flame trident, pouring his Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame into it.
• The Gold and Silver Elders and Su Qian recognized the trident's immense power and feared they could not withstand its strike.

Xiao Yan used the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to devour Han Feng’s flaming trident, then was pulled into the flames as they pursued the Falling Heart Flame beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. Xun'er followed him into the magma, while Canaan Academy sealed the eruption and the Black-Corner Region’s leaders began planning an alliance around the injured Han Feng.

• Xiao Yan formed the Yin-Yang Twin Flame and devoured Han Feng’s Heavenly Flame trident.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Flame pursued the Falling Heart Flame through the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, and Xun'er followed Xiao Yan into the magma.
• Su Qian and the academy elders sealed the magma pit, and Su Qian vowed that Canaan Academy would retaliate against the Black-Corner Region.
• The Black-Corner Region’s leaders gathered in Maple City and agreed they needed to unite against Canaan Academy.
• Yuan Yi proposed making the unconscious Han Feng their alliance leader, pointing out that he still owed them compensation.

After Yin-Yang Twin Flame devoured three Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan's body repeatedly burned away, and Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, Xiao Yixian, and Nalan Yanran took turns helping him survive. The chapter left them trapped underground as Xiao Yan's flames intensified and his body began to fail again.

• Yin-Yang Twin Flame devoured Sea Heart Flame, Falling Heart Flame, and Bone Spirit Cold Flame before returning to Xiao Yan, whose body could not withstand its power.
• The Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk kept Xiao Yan alive temporarily, but both ran out as his strength rose to the Dou Huang realm.
• Xiao Xun'er and Medusa shared Xiao Yan's burden by drawing Heavenly Flame into their own bodies, and Xiao Yixian and Nalan Yanran later joined them with help and supplies.
• The four women continued taking turns supporting Xiao Yan for over a year in an isolated space beneath the magma.
• Xiao Xun'er warned that Xiao Yan's body could not endure the flames again, while the woman in red angrily cursed his decision to devour three Heavenly Flames at once.

Xiao Yixian, Medusa, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran shared the Heavenly Flames consuming Xiao Yan, stopping his body from disintegrating and allowing it to regenerate. Xiao Yan recovered and realized the flames had begun devouring one another, even consuming Medicine Elder's Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

• Xiao Yixian proposed that the four women draw the Heavenly Flames from Xiao Yan's body into their own to save him.
• Xiao Yixian began absorbing the flames, and Medusa joined her, taking most of the burden from Xiao Yixian.
• Xun'er urged Nalan Yanran to acknowledge her feelings for Xiao Yan, then joined Medusa in bearing the flames.
• Nalan Yanran joined the chain and endured the flames despite her weakness and lack of fire affinity.
• The four women stabilized Xiao Yan, whose flesh regenerated until he regained a human form.
• Xiao Yan realized he had underestimated the Heavenly Flames' instinct to devour one another, including the Yin-Yang Twin Flame consuming Medicine Elder's Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

Xiao Yan awakened after enduring the Heavenly Flame and discovered that Xiao Yixian, Medusa, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran had helped him survive. He healed them and, amid their arguments and awkwardness, suggested that they leave the cramped space.

• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that the four women were near death after helping him withstand the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yixian, Medusa, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran and channeled the Heavenly Flame into them to restore their bodies.
• Nalan Yanran and the others awoke, and Xiao Yan hurriedly dressed after they scolded him for standing naked.
• Xiao Yan asked how the women had arrived, and Xun'er explained that she followed him into the Heavenly Flame.
• Medusa and Xiao Yixian argued, while Xun'er teased Xiao Yan about his feelings for Medusa and Nalan Yanran explained she had come to collect on his promise.
• Xiao Yan suggested that everyone leave, and the four women immediately turned toward him.