Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame to burn away Queen Medusa’s body and fused soul, guiding her Rainbow Swallowing Sky Python bloodline to form a new body. She emerged reborn as a tiny seven-colored snake, which eagerly accepted Heavenly Flame energy from Xiao Yan.

• Queen Medusa entered the Earthfire Lotus Platform and ordered Xiao Yan to begin her bloodline transformation.
• Xiao Yan used Earthfire energy seeds to strengthen the Green Lotus Core Flame and burned away Queen Medusa’s bloodline, body, and fused soul.
• Queen Medusa revealed the Rainbow Swallowing Sky Python traits in her soul, and Xiao Yan burned the remaining soul away so its essence could nourish them.
• A seven-colored serpent shadow appeared, drawing together Queen Medusa’s purified physical essence into a new body as storm clouds and lightning gathered above the temple.
• The heavenly lightning merged with the tiny seven-colored snake, completing Queen Medusa’s rebirth and fusion of will with her new body.
• Xiao Yan held the reborn Queen Medusa and offered her Heavenly Flame energy, which she eagerly sucked from his fingertip.

Xiao Yan escaped the Medusa Temple after the Snake-People Clan discovered Queen Medusa was missing, then traveled for half a month to Canaan Academy’s outskirts. He arrived at Peaceful Town and asked the academy’s Enforcement Team to take him to the school.

• Xiao Yan hid from Mobas, Yue Mei, and the other Snake-People Clan experts, then slipped out while they searched for Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan found the sleeping Little Heaven-Devouring Python, named her Little Cai, and fed her Heavenly Flame energy.
• Xiao Yan flew toward Canaan Academy, recovering his Dou Qi along the way and dealing with several troublemakers during his journey.
• Xiao Yan reached Peaceful Town, saw the Death Spirit Tree deterring arrivals from the Black-Corner Region, and joined the queue at the Enforcement Team’s checkpoint.
• Xiao Yan told the Enforcement Team leader that he was a new student and asked to be taken to Canaan Academy.

Xiao Yan arrived at Canaan Academy’s outpost, where Teacher Rale recognized him and recounted the rumors about his disappearance with Queen Medusa. Rale assigned two students to escort Xiao Yan to the academy, and they departed on a Griffin.

• Xiao Yan told Teacher Rale he was sixteen, had no admissions mentor, and carried a recommendation from the Jia Ma Imperial House.
• Teacher Rale recognized Xiao Yan as the student Queen Medusa had abducted, then described rumors that she had tried to kill him, eat him, or take him as her male consort.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the rumors and joked that he would rather capture Queen Medusa as his female consort.
• Teacher Rale sent two students to escort Xiao Yan through the primeval forest to Canaan Academy, relying on another girl’s presence there to confirm his identity.
• Xiao Yan leaped onto the Griffin, impressing the two students, and flew with them toward Canaan Academy.

Xiao Yan arrived in Jia Nan City and reunited with Yaoyue and Xiao Yu, only to learn that two Dou Emperors had taken Qinglian. He identified the kidnappers as members of the Heavenly Serpent Sect and explained that Qinglian’s talent matched the sect founder’s.

• Xiao Yan spotted Yaoyue and Xiao Yu from the Griffin and jumped down to greet them.
• Yaoyue rushed into Xiao Yan’s arms, while Xiao Yu teased them about their closeness.
• Xiao Yan asked where Qinglian was, and Yaoyue confessed that two powerful Dou Emperors had taken her despite Hai Lao’s efforts.
• Yaoyue described the kidnappers, and Xiao Yan suspected they came from the Heavenly Serpent Sect.
• Yaoyue explained the sect’s strength to Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yan said Qinglian’s talent suited its inheritance because its founder had possessed the same talent.

Xiao Yan reassured Yaoyue and Xiao Yu that Qinglian’s talent would let her thrive with the Heavenly Serpent Sect, then learned how Canaan Academy planned to place him. He accepted Yaoyue’s offer to share her dormitory while awaiting the Inner Court selection competition.

• Xiao Yan revealed that Qinglian had reached Two-Star Dou Fighter in only four months, easing Yaoyue and Xiao Yu’s worries about her future.
• Xiao Yan learned that Canaan Academy could admit him directly to the Inner Court or let him compete for a place, and he chose to enter the selection competition in three days.
• Yaoyue nervously offered to let Xiao Yan stay in her Alchemy Department dormitory, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Yaoyue emphatically assured Xiao Yan that hosting him would not be inconvenient.

Xiao Yan visited Yaoyue’s luxurious Alchemy Department dormitory and offered to teach her alchemy. They prepared to refine a third-tier Mandarin Duck Pill together, leaving Yaoyue excited and embarrassed by the pill’s formula.

• Xiao Yan learned that Yaoyue’s Alchemy Department dormitory was specially equipped and more comfortable than ordinary students’ quarters.
• Xiao Yan joked about transferring to the Alchemy Department, but Yaoyue offered to arrange it before he clarified that he preferred to focus on strength.
• Xiao Yan suggested teaching Yaoyue alchemy, and she eagerly led him to her alchemy room.
• Xiao Yan offered to guide Yaoyue’s Dou Qi so she could attempt a third-tier pill despite being a Dou Fighter.
• Yaoyue chose the Mandarin Duck Pill formula, and she and Xiao Yan prepared the ingredients for the refinement.

Xiao Yu caught Xiao Yan and Yaoyue in an intimate moment, then agreed to help Xiao Yan arrange his academy assessment. She led him to the vice principal’s courtyard, where they learned the vice principal was out.

• Xiao Yu entered Yaoyue’s pavilion at dawn and heard Yaoyue crying out upstairs.
• Xiao Yu kicked open the bedroom door, saw Xiao Yan and Yaoyue together, and fled in embarrassment.
• Xiao Yu later confronted Xiao Yan and Yaoyue, then agreed to take Xiao Yan to an instructor for his cultivation and age assessment.
• Xiao Yan escorted Yaoyue back to her room before leaving the pavilion with Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu brought Xiao Yan to the vice principal’s courtyard, where a woman told them the vice principal had gone out.

Xiao Yu interrupted Xiao Yan and Yaoyue while they were making love, then agreed to guide Xiao Yan to the vice principal for his cultivation and age assessment. She brought him to the vice principal’s courtyard, where they learned the vice principal had gone out.

• Xiao Yu entered Yaoyue’s pavilion at dawn and heard Yaoyue’s cries upstairs.
• Xiao Yu kicked open Yaoyue’s bedroom door, saw Xiao Yan and Yaoyue together, and fled in embarrassment.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yu to guide him to the instructor handling his assessment, and she scolded him for his relationship with Yaoyue.
• Yaoyue pleaded with Xiao Yu to help, and Xiao Yu agreed to take Xiao Yan to the vice principal’s courtyard.
• A woman told Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan that the vice principal had gone out.

Xiao Yan visited Canaan Academy’s Outer Court vice principal, Hu Gan, and easily subdued his hostile granddaughter, Hu Jia. After verifying Xiao Yan’s age, Hu Gan offered him a choice of entering the Inner Court directly or competing in the selection tournament, along with rewards intended to persuade him to stay in the Outer Court longer.

• Hu Jia tried to turn Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu away, then attacked Xiao Yan with her whip when he confronted her.
• Xiao Yan caught Hu Jia’s whip, pulled her toward him, and tied her up before Hu Gan invited them inside.
• Hu Gan introduced himself and Hu Jia, apologized for his granddaughter’s hostility, and asked Xiao Yan not to hold the scuffle against her.
• Hu Gan used a water-filled disk to verify that Xiao Yan was sixteen, then explained the academy’s selection tournament and the option of entering the Inner Court directly.
• After Xiao Yan asked what he would gain by competing, Hu Gan offered tournament rewards and a passage token so Xiao Clan members could travel between the Outer and Inner Courts.

Xiao Yan accepted Hu Gan’s offer to remain in the Outer Court after confirming that he would still receive a Fire Energy Card. After Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu left, Hu Jia accused him of having three women at the academy, while an unseen soul consciousness watched her conversation with Hu Gan.

• Xiao Yan asked whether he would receive Fire Energy if he stayed in the Outer Court, and Hu Gan confirmed that all Inner Court entrants received a Fire Energy Card.
• Xiao Yan accepted Hu Gan’s offer, and Hu Gan questioned Hu Jia about her conflict with him after Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu left.
• Hu Jia claimed Xiao Yan had three women at the academy: Princess Yaoyue, Xiao Yu, and Mo Shishi.
• Hu Gan challenged Hu Jia about how she knew these details, and she admitted she kept track of matters involving pretty girls.
• Hu Gan realized Hu Jia liked women and angrily called her over, while a soul consciousness secretly observed them.

Xiao Yan reunited with the Xiao Clan members at Canaan Academy during the Inner Court Selection Tournament and introduced them to Yaoyue as his wife. He noticed that the clan members treated him with awe, while Xiao Yu remained unimpressed.

• Xiao Yan learned from Xiao Yu that the Xiao Clan students would gather after their seclusion and thanked her for arranging a meeting.
• Xiao Yan returned to Yaoyue, and over the next two days they used Mandarin Duck Pills that helped her advance to an Eight-Star Fighter before she stopped to protect her foundation.
• Xiao Yan and Yaoyue arrived at the Inner Court Selection Tournament and met Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, and the other Xiao Clan students.
• Xiao Yan introduced Yaoyue as his younger cousin-in-law, and the Xiao Clan group agreed to sit together and watch the tournament.
• Xiao Yu remarked that Xiao Yan had gained prestige among the clan members, and Xiao Yan said such distance between them would become more common.

Xiao Yan surveyed the Inner Court selection candidates and noticed Han Yue, a powerful gray-robed man, and Mo Shishi before addressing the academy elders. Vice Principal Hu Gan silenced the square and invited Xiao Yan to state his request.

• Xiao Yan observed Han Yue and her watchful female companions, then assessed a gray-robed Six-Star Dou Master and the Eight-Star Fighter Mo Shishi.
• Xiao Yan recalled that Hu Jia had said Mo Shishi was sent to Canaan Academy to serve him as a female slave, though he did not know her.
• Xiao Yan called out to the academy elders and asked them to grant him a request, drawing the attention of everyone in the square.
• Old Huo proudly told the other elders that he had expected Xiao Yan to make a scene, while the students debated Xiao Yan's reputation.
• Vice Principal Hu Gan silenced the square and asked Xiao Yan to state his request.

Xiao Yan persuaded Hu Gan to replace the usual selection bouts with a tournament in which he would face every participating student alone. As hundreds of Dou Masters unleashed their attacks, Xiao Yan stood motionless and vanished into the barrage, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Xiao Yan proposed to eliminate all the Inner Court candidates by himself, and Hu Gan agreed to let him try.
• Xiao Yan entered the arena against more than four hundred Dou Masters while the Great Dou Masters, including Han Yue and Lin Yan, watched from the edge.
• Hu Gan began the Grand Elimination Tournament, and the students gathered their strength to attack Xiao Yan together.
• Xiao Yan refused to dodge as the students launched hundreds of Dou Skills at him, and he vanished beneath the oncoming attacks.

Xiao Yan burst through the students’ coordinated attack and crushed dozens of them with a massive flaming ruler, while the academy elders protected the students from death. Hu Jia and Mo Shishi rallied the crowd into five teams, and Xiao Yan let them prepare so he could test their strength and look for talent.

• Xiao Yan tore through the energy storm and struck a group of students with his flaming Black-Weight Ruler, melting the plaza floor into lava as the academy elders shielded the students in transparent spheres.
• The students feared fighting Xiao Yan, but Hu Jia urged them to unite, and Mo Shishi pointed out how their scattered attacks had left openings.
• Hu Jia proposed that the students split into groups by Dou Qi attribute and attack in alternating waves, prompting several Great Dou Masters to organize them.
• Xiao Yan told Han Yue that he would let the students unite so he could defeat them together and assess their talent.
• Five organized teams formed around Great Dou Masters and peak nine-star Dou Masters, with Hu Jia and Mo Shishi at their centers.

Xiao Yan battled Hu Jia’s five organized teams as they used coordinated defenses and successive attacks to exhaust him. Just as their combined lightning assault seemed poised to defeat him, he unleashed Heavenly Fire, Three Profound Transformations and stopped the bolts in midair.

• Hu Jia arranged five teams and ordered the defense team to intercept Xiao Yan’s opening attack, while Hu Gan shielded them with a golden barrier.
• Hu Jia sent the attack and interference teams after Xiao Yan, but he cut through their sandstorm with Wave-Cleaving Ruler.
• The reserve echelon surrounded Xiao Yan with vines, then Mo Shishi led a water- and ice-element assault that sent him crashing into the plaza barrier.
• Xiao Yan escaped the combined attack and faced the lightning bolts the attack team had been saving.
• Xiao Yan activated Heavenly Fire, Three Profound Transformations and swept his ruler through the air, stopping and detonating the incoming lightning bolts.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hu Jia's assembled students after his strength surged to the Seven-Star Dou Spirit level, eliminating multiple teams. As Lin Yan and Han Yue challenged him and Hu Jia regrouped the survivors into a triangular encirclement, Xiao Yan invited them to attack.

• Xiao Yan activated the Three Mysteries of Heavenly Flame and his bloodline power, rising from a One-Star to a Seven-Star Dou Spirit.
• Hu Jia ordered the Disruption Team to form a Sandstorm Wall, but Xiao Yan struck the unguarded team and eliminated its members before evading the rescue attacks.
• Xiao Yan cleared another group of students, then met Lin Yan's desperate charge and blasted him back, breaking Lin Yan's left arm.
• Lin Yan refused to surrender, and Xiao Yan prepared to finish him before Han Yue stepped forward and declared that she would fight for a place in the selection.
• Hu Jia regrouped the surviving Dou Masters into three teams and encircled Xiao Yan with Lin Yan and Han Yue, while Xiao Yan confidently welcomed the challenge.

Xiao Yan won the Inner Court selection and chose the candidates who would enter the Inner Court and join his new faction. He named the faction Heavenly Gate.

• Xiao Yan defeated Han Yue, Lin Yan, Hu Jia, and the other remaining contestants, and Hu Gan declared him the winner of the Inner Court selection.
• Xiao Yan invited the candidates to join his faction, rejected students who tried to gain favor by bullying weaker rivals, and recruited Han Yue, Mo Shishi, and Lin Yan.
• Xiao Yan selected forty-five candidates for the Inner Court and named Lin Yan, Han Yue, Hu Jia, and Mo Shishi among the top five.
• Xiao Yan overrode Hu Jia's protests and chose her to help manage the faction, while Hu Gan suppressed objections from the elders and instructors.
• Xiao Yan named his new faction Heavenly Gate.

Hu Jia interrupted Xiao Yan and Yaoyue, then told them it was time to enter the Library Pavilion. As they set out, Hu Jia discovered that Xiao Yan had reached Two-Star Dou Spirit and was stunned by his breakthrough.

• Hu Jia barged into Xiao Yan and Yaoyue's bedroom and interrupted them.
• Hu Jia told Xiao Yan that they would enter the Library Pavilion that day.
• Xiao Yan and Yaoyue got dressed and left the room to meet Hu Jia.
• Hu Jia mocked Xiao Yan for taking so long to get ready, but stopped when she sensed his Two-Star Dou Spirit aura.
• Hu Jia stared at Xiao Yan in disbelief and asked whether he had broken through.

After breaking through to the Two-Star Dou Spirit realm, Xiao Yan joined Hu Gan and the others on a journey to Canaan Academy’s Library Pavilion. The group reached the end of a mysterious spatial passage, where a glimmer of light appeared ahead.

• Xiao Yan explained his breakthrough to Hu Jia and followed her to meet Hu Gan, Lin Yan, Han Yue, and Mo Shishi.
• Xiao Yan greeted the group and checked on Lin Yan, who said the pill Xiao Yan had given him had helped his recovery.
• Hu Gan revealed a hidden passage leading to the Library Pavilion and led the five others inside.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the passage lay within a spatial tunnel, and the group walked for about half an hour until light appeared ahead.

Xiao Yan and the other tournament finalists reached Canaan Academy’s hidden Library Pavilion, where two elders opened a spatial barrier. The ancient plaque entranced Xiao Yan, and the chapter ended as fiery red armor appeared around him.

• Hu Gan explained that a spatial passage had taken the group from the Outer Court to a valley in the Inner Court.
• Two gray-robed elders opened the Spatial Lock protecting the Library Pavilion after Hu Gan presented the finalists.
• The plaque outside the pavilion clouded the group’s minds, but Hu Gan’s shout roused everyone except Xiao Yan.
• Hu Gan and the finalists tried to find a way to wake Xiao Yan, but their suggestions failed.
• Han Yue noticed fiery red armor appear on Xiao Yan as he continued staring at the plaque.