Chapter Summaries

Fa Wutian tracked down the Black-and-White Fiends and defeated their team to claim their Fire Energy. He left with an additional 3,500 points, while the newcomers prepared to break out on their own.

• Bai Cheng warned the newcomers that Fa Wutian might keep the Fire Energy he stole, but Lin Xiuya calmed the group and told them to focus on escaping.
• After plundering the other five old-student teams, Fa Wutian set out to find the Black-and-White Fiends and discovered Luo Feng and Chen Liang leading a gathered team.
• Fa Wutian struck the team with Bloodland Eight Cracks, incapacitating everyone except Luo Feng and Chen Liang.
• Luo Feng and Chen Liang attacked Fa Wutian together, but he outmaneuvered them and overpowered their strongest techniques with Dragon Spear Wild Dance.
• Luo Feng and Chen Liang surrendered their Fire Energy Cards, giving Fa Wutian another 3,500 points of Fire Energy.

Fa Wutian reached the Inner Academy first, claimed the top arrival reward, and later confronted members of the Sky Wolf Gang who were extorting newcomers. The newcomers rallied behind him, leaving him facing the faction’s demands.

• Fa Wutian beat Lin Xiuya and his exhausted group to the assembly point, earning an Azure Fire Energy Card and thirty days of Fire Energy before upgrading the card to Purple.
• Bai Cheng accused Fa Wutian of stealing the reward and threatened revenge in the Inner Academy, but Fa Wutian intimidated him into silence.
• Lin Xiuya’s group arrived second and received Blue Fire Energy Cards and twenty days of Fire Energy; a Dou King instructor explained the tournament’s interception and penalties before bringing the newcomers to the Inner Academy.
• The next morning, Fa Wutian accidentally knocked a flowerpot onto someone from the Sky Wolf Gang, whose companions demanded that he hand over his Fire Energy.
• Newcomers gathered around Fa Wutian and urged him not to give in to the Sky Wolf Gang’s extortion.

Fa Wutian stopped the Sky Wolf Gang from extorting the newcomers and founded the Nine Heavens Pavilion to protect them. The faction quickly attracted many new members, including Han Yue and Lin Yan.

• Fa Wutian intimidated the Sky Wolf Gang members into returning the Fire Energy they had taken from the newcomers.
• Fa Wutian proposed uniting the newcomers into a faction, and they agreed to form the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• The Sky Wolf Gang members doubted the new faction could survive because it would lack Fire Energy, but Fa Wutian let them leave after they handed over the stolen Fire Energy.
• News of the Nine Heavens Pavilion spread through the Inner Academy, and many newcomers signed up.
• Han Yue and Lin Yan joined the Nine Heavens Pavilion, and Fa Wutian welcomed Han Yue's ability to help manage it.

Fa Wutian gave Han Yue Purefire Pills to sell so Nine Heavens Pavilion could support itself. At the Sky Wolf Gang, Bai Lang and Bai Cheng decided to let the Medicine Gang confront Fa Wutian over the new competition.

• Fa Wutian returned to Nine Heavens Pavilion and praised Han Yue for organizing the faction, while she explained its expenses and recruitment fees.
• Fa Wutian revealed he had refined Fourth-Rank Purefire Pills that could remove fire poison and handed them to Han Yue to sell.
• Han Yue opened a sales hall and set the Purefire Pills’ price at two thousand Fire Energy each.
• Bai Lang learned that Fa Wutian was a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old Nine-Star Dou Grandmaster and chose not to provoke him.
• Bai Cheng asked Bai Lang for Dou Spirit experts to attack Fa Wutian, but Bai Lang warned him about Fa Wutian’s background.
• Bai Lang and Bai Cheng decided to let the Medicine Gang retaliate against Nine Heavens Pavilion for competing with its pill sales.

Han Xian urged the Medicine Gang to avoid provoking the Nine Heavens Pavilion, but Liu Yu chose to defend the Clear Flame Pill market and challenge Fa Wutian to an alchemy contest. Meanwhile, Fa Wutian trained in the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower and broke through to One-Star Dou Spirit.

• Han Xian warned the Medicine Gang that Fa Wutian’s youth and the Sky Wolf Gang’s conflict with the Nine Heavens Pavilion made a confrontation risky.
• Liu Yu said Bai Lang would keep the Sky Wolf Gang from acting and decided the Medicine Gang must handle the dispute itself.
• Liu Yu refused to abandon the Clear Flame Pill market and announced he would challenge Fa Wutian to an alchemy contest.
• Fa Wutian entered seclusion in the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower because the Nine Heavens Pavilion lacked powerful combatants.
• After half a month of cultivation with the Heart Flame’s help, Fa Wutian broke through to One-Star Dou Spirit and prepared to return.

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.