Recaps

Liu Yu confronted Nine Heavens Pavilion while Fa Wutian was away, demanding a pill-refining challenge over the pill market. Fa Wutian returned having failed to recruit a guardian but having broken through to Dou Spirit, and he accepted the Medicine Gang's challenge with confidence.

• Liu Yu brought Medicine Gang members to Nine Heavens Pavilion, where Han Yue said Fa Wutian was absent and asked them to return the next day.
• Liu Yu warned Han Yue that his men might cause trouble if Fa Wutian was not there when they returned, then left with the Medicine Gang.
• Fa Wutian returned and told Han Yue he had not found the guardian expert but had advanced to Dou Spirit.
• Han Yue told Fa Wutian that Liu Yu had repeatedly sought him out to challenge him in pill refining and decide the future pill market.
• Fa Wutian accepted the challenge and assured Han Yue that he was confident he would win.

Fa Wutian and Liu Yu agreed to settle their dispute over the pill market with an alchemy contest. The chapter ended as Elder Mei Changsu arrived to serve as the neutral judge and both alchemists accepted the wager.

• Liu Yu challenged Fa Wutian to an alchemy contest, proposing that the winner gain control over the pill market.
• Fa Wutian demanded that, if he won, the Medicine Gang give the Nine Heavens Pavilion one-third of its share of the market, and Liu Yu agreed.
• The Medicine Gang brought four sets of ingredients for Healing Hui Pills, which Fa Wutian identified as a peak fourth-rank pill.
• Liu Yu laid out the contest rules: both sides would refine Healing Hui Pills without interference, and a neutral arbiter would judge their efficacy and quality.
• Mei Changsu arrived as the arbiter, and Fa Wutian and Liu Yu both accepted the wager.

Fa Wutian defeated Liu Yu in a pill duel at Nine Heavens Pavilion, refining a Healing Hui Pill with pill markings despite Liu Yu’s cauldron explosion. Liu Yu conceded and handed over one-third of the Medicine Gang’s pill market, while Fa Wutian’s victory was celebrated by the pavilion.

• Mei Changsu announced the pill duel, and Liu Yu’s attention to Fa Wutian’s Reincarnation Cauldron caused his ingredients to burn and his cauldron to explode.
• The blast injured Liu Yu, but the Reincarnation Cauldron shielded Fa Wutian and let him continue refining.
• Fa Wutian produced a Healing Hui Pill with pill markings, and Liu Yu realized he had lost but continued refining his final set of ingredients.
• Liu Yu completed a high-grade Healing Hui Pill, conceded defeat, and promised to give one-third of the Medicine Gang’s pill market to Nine Heavens Pavilion and stop causing trouble there.
• The Medicine Gang left, the Nine Heavens Pavilion members lifted Fa Wutian and cheered, and Mei Changsu quietly departed.

After the Nine Heavens Pavilion’s pill business outgrew its lone alchemist, Fa Wutian set out to find the hidden alchemists of the Black-Corner Region. He learned they were based in Peace Town, then killed Monkey when he tried to sell Fa Wutian’s information to Eight Gates.

• Fa Wutian realized the Nine Heavens Pavilion needed more alchemists and decided to seek out the scattered alchemists of the Black-Corner Region.
• Fa Wutian went to the Black-Corner Region and forced Monkey, a local informant, to reveal that the alchemists were hiding in Peace Town.
• Fa Wutian paid Monkey and secretly placed the Resounding Thunder soul skill on the gold coins as a precaution.
• Monkey went to Eight Gates to report information about the Soul-Awl Killing God, triggering the soul skill and killing him.

Fa Wutian reached Peace Town and sought out the Black-Corner Region alchemists staying at an inn, hoping to recruit them. After summoning them to the hall, he faced their skepticism and assessed the gathered alchemists.

• Yuan Yi learned that Fa Wutian had appeared at Eight Gates, realized a lead on him had slipped away, and ordered his guards to get information in writing next time.
• Fa Wutian met Old Li in Peace Town, told him he had come to find alchemists, and followed him to the inn where Canaan Academy hosted them.
• Old Li left Fa Wutian at the inn and warned him that the alchemists had poor tempers.
• Fa Wutian paid the waiter to summon every alchemist, promising them a great opportunity.
• The alchemists gathered in the hall and questioned Fa Wutian’s offer because he was not yet sixteen, while he surveyed them and identified the man confronting him as a Fourth-Rank Alchemist.

Fa Wutian recruited alchemists for the newly established Nine Heavens Pavilion, winning the support of Ouyang Feng and a few others. He brought them into the Inner Academy under agreements with Su Qian, then discussed the academy’s share of the pavilion’s profits with Han Yue.

• Fa Wutian introduced himself as a Fourth-Rank Alchemist and invited Ouyang Feng and the other alchemists to join the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Ouyang Feng joined after judging that Fa Wutian had the potential to make the pavilion powerful, and a handful of Ouyang Feng’s friends followed.
• Fa Wutian left with the new members after most of the alchemists declined the invitation.
• Fa Wutian negotiated agreements with Su Qian and brought Ouyang Feng and the others into the Inner Academy.
• Fa Wutian assigned Ouyang Feng’s group to supply pills to the pavilion using its medicinal herbs, then told Han Yue that the academy would take twenty percent of the pavilion’s annual profits.

Fa Wutian confronted the medicinal herb repository’s supervising elder over the Fire Energy taken from Ouyang Feng and the others, then searched the repository for Zi Yan. He found an Icefire Dragon-whisker Fruit and finally encountered Zi Yan eating a fifth-tier medicinal ingredient.

• Han Yue told Fa Wutian that a little girl had taken the herbs Ouyang Feng and the others bought, leaving them blamed for the loss and considering resigning.
• Fa Wutian confronted the supervising elder, who admitted spending their Fire Energy on a Dou Spirit Pill and offered medicinal ingredients as compensation.
• Fa Wutian accepted the compensation and searched the repository, taking several fourth-tier ingredients and an Icefire Dragon-whisker Fruit.
• As Fa Wutian prepared to leave, he heard a girl complain about the taste of the herbs and found Zi Yan gnawing on a fifth-tier medicinal ingredient.

Fa Wutian used special pills to persuade Zi Yan to become his little brother, then asked her to help him practice Nine Heavens Dragon's Roar. After hearing her dragon roar, he grasped the technique and unleashed a roar that made all things submit.

• Fa Wutian offered Zi Yan an energy pill, and she agreed to become his little brother in exchange for more.
• Zi Yan eagerly ate several bottles of pills, while Fa Wutian warned her that consuming too many could make her explode.
• Fa Wutian told Zi Yan he was going to practice a Dou Technique and asked her to come help him.
• At the Inner Academy's back mountain, Fa Wutian asked Zi Yan to roar so he could learn Nine Heavens Dragon's Roar.
• Fa Wutian listened to Zi Yan's roar, understood the technique, and unleashed a roar that made all things bow their heads.

Fa Wutian cultivated the Advanced Heaven Tier Nine Heavens Kunpeng Step, escaped the notice of Grand Elder Su Qian, and later accepted Zi Yan’s offer of rare medicinal ingredients in exchange for pills. When she mentioned a Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave, he realized it might hold Earthcore Body-Tempering Fluid that could help him continue tempering his body.

• Fa Wutian explained that his Nine Heavens Dragon's Roar was an Intermediate Earth Tier combat technique, then began cultivating the Advanced Heaven Tier Nine Heavens Kunpeng Step.
• After mastering the movement technique, Fa Wutian sensed someone watching and hurried away with Zi Yan, while Grand Elder Su Qian emerged from hiding and removed the spatial barrier.
• Fa Wutian returned to Nine Heavens Pavilion, sent Zi Yan away, and went to the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate.
• Half a month later, Zi Yan visited Fa Wutian for more medicinal pills, and he warned her that this was the last batch he would give her that month.
• Zi Yan offered to provide medicinal ingredients and told Fa Wutian about a Snow Demon Sky Ape in the back mountain whose cave might contain something valuable.
• Fa Wutian recalled that the Snow Demon Sky Ape guarded Earthcore Body-Tempering Fluid and realized it could help him overcome his growing resistance to Heartfire.

Fa Wutian helped Zi Yan defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape and retrieve Earthcore Body-Tempering Fluid, leaving some behind so it could regrow. Back at Nine Heavens Pavilion, he refined pills for Zi Yan and decided to reward Han Yue with a bottle of the fluid.

• Zi Yan told Fa Wutian she could not defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape while unable to return to her true form, and he agreed to help her.
• Fa Wutian used Soul-Calming Art to knock the Snow Demon Sky Ape unconscious, then stopped Zi Yan from waking it as she doodled on its face.
• Fa Wutian and Zi Yan collected most of the Earthcore Body-Tempering Fluid from the cave and left some behind for the stalactites to produce more.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape woke, found most of its treasure gone, and wailed over its loss.
• Fa Wutian refined medicinal pills for Zi Yan, then decided to give Han Yue one bottle of Earthcore Body-Tempering Fluid as a reward.

Fa Wutian emerged from two years of seclusion having reached the Nine-Star Dou Spirit level, while the Nine Heavens Pavilion grew stronger under Zi Yan’s protection. He joined the Inner Academy’s Strongest Competition, where he intended to seize the opportunity to devour the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Fa Wutian broke through to the Nine-Star Dou Spirit level after two years of planning for the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Nine Heavens Pavilion expanded, with Han Yue and Lin Yan reaching the Five-Star and Four-Star Dou Spirit levels respectively.
• As the Inner Academy Strongest Competition began, Han Yue and Lin Yan discussed Fa Wutian’s past victories and Zi Yan’s habit of eating the Pavilion’s pill stock.
• Zi Yan welcomed Fa Wutian out of seclusion, and he promised to make her more pills after the matter at hand was over.
• Fa Wutian told Han Yue and Lin Yan that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Spirit level, surprising them.

Fa Wutian watched the Inner Academy Strong Ranking Tournament conclude and used the top ten’s Heartfire Origin body-tempering opportunity to strengthen himself. After everyone else finished, he revealed a Miyan Pill to lure the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the tower, and the fiery python opened its greedy eyes.

• Han Yue told Fa Wutian that Liu Qing, a One-Star Dou Spirit from the Central Plains, had entered the Inner Academy the previous year.
• Liu Qing conceded to Han Yue before their match began, unwilling to challenge a Five-Star Dou Spirit.
• Zi Yan conceded to Fa Wutian in the final match, and Su Qian announced that the top ten would receive Heartfire Origin body tempering in three days.
• Su Qian warned the top ten about the dangers of Heartfire Origin before allowing them into the energy pillars beneath the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• After the others finished tempering, Fa Wutian took out a Miyan Pill from Yao Wushuang's inheritance to lure the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The fiery python formed by the Fallen Heart Flame opened its eyes and stared greedily at the Miyan Pill.

Fallen Heart Flame went berserk during Fa Wutian’s body tempering, and Su Qian saw it swallow him before retreating underground. As the Inner Academy’s elders began reinforcing the tower’s seal, Zi Yan insisted Fa Wutian was still alive and ran off crying.

• Su Qian ordered everyone to evacuate when Fallen Heart Flame emerged as a giant fire python, then rushed to Fa Wutian.
• Fa Wutian pretended to stay behind and hold off the fire python so Su Qian would leave, but Fallen Heart Flame swallowed him and returned underground with his Miyan Pill.
• Su Qian attacked Fallen Heart Flame without effect, then told the gathered students that Fa Wutian had met with disaster and summoned the elders to reinforce the seal.
• The elders prepared to reinforce the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower, but Zi Yan protested that Fa Wutian was still inside; after Su Qian said he had seen him swallowed, she ran away crying.
• Su Qian and the elders proceeded to reinforce the seal.

Fa Wutian successfully devoured the Fallen Heart Flame after a year of refining, evolving the Flame Mantra and reaching the peak of the Nine-Star Dou King level. He found Skyfire Venerable’s remains and learned the newborn Fallen Heart Flame was the old man’s companion, leaving Fa Wutian facing his request to spare it.

• Fa Wutian used an Earth Spirit Pill and the Flame Mantra to refine the Fallen Heart Flame, resisting its attempt to destroy his Dou Crystal.
• After a year, Fa Wutian finished devouring the flame, evolved the Flame Mantra to the Primary Earth Tier, and reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou King level.
• Fa Wutian followed the guidance through the lava and found Skyfire Venerable’s remains.
• Skyfire Venerable appeared as a dim soul, and the newborn Fallen Heart Flame leaped into his arms.
• Skyfire Venerable explained that he had once tried to refine two Fallen Heart Flames at once and asked Fa Wutian to spare the newborn flame.

Fa Wutian traded a Myriad Souls Pill for Skyfire Venerable’s Five-Wheel Flame Separation Technique and restored his soul. He then offered to resurrect Skyfire Venerable with the Flesh Pill Method in exchange for one year of protection, and Skyfire Venerable agreed.

• Skyfire Venerable gave Fa Wutian the Newborn Fallen Heart Flame and asked him for something to repair his soul.
• Fa Wutian exchanged a Myriad Souls Pill for the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Technique, and Skyfire Venerable recovered his soul body.
• Fa Wutian explained that the Flesh Pill Method could resurrect Skyfire Venerable using an Eighth-Rank Pill.
• Skyfire Venerable doubted Fa Wutian’s abilities until Fa Wutian said he was a sixth-rank alchemist from the Northwest Continent.
• Fa Wutian promised to resurrect Skyfire Venerable within three years in exchange for one year of protection, and Skyfire Venerable accepted.

Fa Wutian returned to Canaan Academy after devouring the Fallen Heart Flame and advancing to Dou King. His return gave Han Yue hope of restoring the Nine Heavens Pavilion, while the factions that had attacked it feared his retaliation and relied on the academy to protect them.

• Fa Wutian gave Soul-Nourishing Saliva to Skyfire Venerable, placed the Newborn Fallen Heart Flame in the Reincarnation Cauldron, and hurried back while avoiding the Flame Lizardmen.
• Su Qian reopened the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower after a year of investigating its dwindling Heartfire reserves.
• Han Yue reflected on the Nine Heavens Pavilion's losses after Fa Wutian's presumed death and Zi Yan's departure, while the Sky Wolf Gang and other factions had moved against it.
• The Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower shook, and Fa Wutian burst out with wings, revealing that he had returned alive as a Dou King.
• Fa Wutian told Su Qian that he had devoured the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian took him away rather than reseal the tower.
• Han Yue rejoiced that the Nine Heavens Pavilion was saved, while the factions that had suppressed it grew fearful and hoped Canaan Academy would restrain Fa Wutian.

Fa Wutian gave Canaan Academy a newborn Fallen Heart Flame in exchange for the academy’s original flame and returned to find the Nine Heavens Pavilion weakened by defections and attacks. He summoned the factions that had seized the Pavilion’s territory and singled out Bai Lang’s Sky Wolf Gang, preparing to settle their grudge.

• Fa Wutian gave Su Qian a newborn Fallen Heart Flame to compensate Canaan Academy, and Su Qian agreed to accept it.
• Fa Wutian returned to the Nine Heavens Pavilion, where Han Yue told him that Zhang Li, other hall masters, and members had left after the Pavilion was suppressed.
• Fa Wutian reassured the remaining members and ordered Han Yue to invite every faction that had attacked the Pavilion to a banquet three days later.
• The factions attended the banquet, and several offered to return seized territory and pay compensation.
• Fa Wutian agreed to forgive those willing to compensate the Pavilion but confronted Bai Lang of the Sky Wolf Gang, arguing that their existing grudge gave him cause to attack.

Fa Wutian retaliated against Bai Lang by moving against the Sky Wolf Gang, then prepared to graduate from Canaan Academy and pursue a treasure on the Eastern Wasteland Continent. He left the Nine Heavens Pavilion in the hands of his followers and planned to rebuild it in the Northwest Continent before expanding to the Central Plains.

• Fa Wutian refused to negotiate with Bai Lang, and a disciple reported that Deputy Pavilion Master Zi had reclaimed the Sky Wolf Gang's occupied territory and restricted its businesses.
• Fa Wutian decided to return to the Gama Empire, devour the Green Lotus Core Flame, and then seek the treasure hidden on the Eastern Wasteland Continent.
• Fa Wutian told Su Qian he intended to leave Canaan Academy, and Su Qian approved his graduation.
• Fa Wutian announced to the Nine Heavens Pavilion that he would leave and rebuild the faction outside the academy, prompting his followers to pledge to join him later.
• Fa Wutian told Han Yue that he planned to establish the Nine Heavens Pavilion in the Northwest Continent before moving into the Central Plains, where Han Yue's family lived.

Fa Wutian agreed to take Zi Yan with him after Su Qian allowed her to leave the academy. In Feng City, Han Feng followed Ouyang Feng to a valley to claim Soul-Awl Killing God, only to discover the meeting was a trap meant to encircle and kill him.

• Fa Wutian told Zi Yan he planned to leave, and she persuaded Su Qian to let her travel with him.
• Fa Wutian and Zi Yan set off for the Black-Corner Region to deal with an enemy before returning home.
• Ouyang Feng told Han Feng he had captured Soul-Awl Killing God and declined Han Feng's offer to join Feng City.
• Han Feng brought two Dou King subordinates to the valley, where he paid Ouyang Feng and ordered them to seize the masked captive.
• Zi Yan killed one Dou King, and an attack severely injured the other as Han Feng realized the meeting was a trap.

Fa Wutian defeated Han Feng by combining Fallen Heart Flame with his Soul-Piercing Awls, then ambushed and killed the Hall of Souls guardian who arrived to rescue him. After erasing the traces, Fa Wutian left with Ouyang Feng and the others.

• Fa Wutian sent Ouyang Feng and Zi Yan away before confronting Han Feng, who had revealed himself as a Nine-Star Peak Dou Emperor.
• Han Feng used Sea Heart Flame to withstand Fa Wutian's nine Soul-Piercing Awls, then greedily demanded that Fa Wutian surrender Fallen Heart Flame.
• Fa Wutian and Han Feng exchanged spear and sword attacks before Fa Wutian unleashed the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Technique.
• Fa Wutian concealed the nine Soul-Piercing Awls inside a surviving fire dragon, killing Han Feng and capturing his soul body.
• After Skyfire Venerable warned that a Two-Star Battle Ancestor was approaching, Fa Wutian laid a trap and killed the Hall of Souls guardian with the Soul-Piercing Awls.
• Fa Wutian erased the traces of the battle and left with Ouyang Feng and the others.

Fa Wutian stripped the Sea Heart Flame from Han Feng and devoured it, reaching the Four-Star Dou Emperor realm before fusing it with the Fallen Heart Flame. After three months in seclusion, he reunited with Zi Yan and Ouyang Feng and set out to leave the mountains.

• Fa Wutian rejected Han Feng’s plea to be released and admitted that he cultivated the Flame Mantra, then stripped away the Sea Heart Flame and restored Han Feng with Soul-Nourishing Saliva.
• Fa Wutian swallowed the Miao Meridian Pill and devoured the Sea Heart Flame, suppressing his rising cultivation at the Four-Star Dou Emperor realm.
• Fa Wutian used the Flame Mantra to fuse the Sea Heart Flame and Fallen Heart Flame into a pale blue Heavenly Flame over three months.
• Fa Wutian emerged from seclusion and learned from Ouyang Feng that Zi Yan had gone into the mountains to find medicinal herbs.
• Fa Wutian drove away a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast so Zi Yan could collect the Azure Wave Cloudmist Grass, then left with Zi Yan and Ouyang Feng.

Fa Wutian returned to the Fa Family, told Fama about his plans for the Nine Heavens Pavilion, and established it outside the Imperial Capital. Jia Xing Tian confronted him over the new faction and attacked him, intending to capture him.

• Fama reunited with Fa Wutian and scolded him for staying away and failing to send letters.
• Fa Wutian introduced Ouyang Feng and Zi Yan, revealed he had become a Four-Star Dou Emperor, and explained his plans for the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Fama warned that Jia Xing Tian would distrust the pavilion but agreed not to interfere if the alchemists chose to join.
• Fa Wutian and Ouyang Feng established the Nine Heavens Pavilion outside the Imperial Capital, and Fa Wutian offered rare low-rank pill formulas to recruit alchemists.
• Jia Xing Tian confronted Fa Wutian, accused the Fa Family of coveting the imperial family's position, and attacked him to capture him.

Fa Wutian fought Jia Xing Tian after Jia attacked him over the Nine Heavens Pavilion, but their battle drew Yun Yun into the conflict. After Fa Wutian revealed his identity and strength, Yun Yun realized the former child prodigy had surpassed her.

• Fa Wutian and Jia Xing Tian clashed, and their attacks damaged the mountain peak and destroyed much of the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Fa Wutian revealed that he was a Four-Star Dou Emperor and prepared to use Dragon Spear Wild Dance to kill Jia Xing Tian.
• Yun Yun intervened with an attack, then questioned Fa Wutian and Jia Xing Tian about their fight.
• Jia Xing Tian thanked Yun Yun, and Fa Wutian explained that Jia had attacked him for establishing a faction and destroyed his buildings.
• Fa Wutian introduced himself as Fama’s grandson, and Yun Yun recognized him as the prodigy who had become a Dou Practitioner at ten.
• Yun Yun realized that Fa Wutian’s strength surpassed her own, despite her being a Three-Star Dou Emperor.

Fa Wutian agreed to spare Jia Xing Tian if he survived three attacks, after Yun Yun failed to stop their confrontation. Jia Xing Tian endured Fa Wutian’s first move, and Fa Wutian prepared his newly invented Spirit-Burning Annihilation for the second.

• Yun Yun warned Fa Wutian that killing Jia Xing Tian could expose the Gama Empire to invasion, and Fa Wutian promised to stop the Chuanyun Empire himself if it attacked.
• Fa Wutian demanded that Jia Xing Tian withstand three moves, and Yun Yun eventually stepped aside as Jia accepted the challenge.
• Fa Wutian struck Jia Xing Tian with Nine Heavens Dragon's Roar, shattering his Mystic Phoenix Ward and injuring him.
• Fa Wutian fused the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame to create Spirit-Burning Annihilation, preparing to use it as his second move.

Fa Wutian killed Jia Xing Tian with Spirit-Burning Annihilation, and Yun Yun brought Jia Xing Tian’s ashes to Yao Ye at the imperial palace. Yao Ye accepted that she would not seek revenge and vowed to carry on the imperial family.

• Fa Wutian’s Spirit-Burning Annihilation devoured Jia Xing Tian’s Filthy Earth Phoenix Strike, overwhelmed his Mystic Phoenix Ward, and burned him to ashes.
• Yun Yun wrapped up Jia Xing Tian’s ashes and fled, while Fa Wutian went to find workers to repair the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Yun Yun brought Jia Xing Tian’s ashes to Yao Ye and explained how Fa Wutian had killed him.
• Yao Ye mourned her grandfather, then said she would not seek revenge against Fa Wutian and would do her best to carry on the imperial family.