Recaps

An Yi let Ruo Lin, Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and the other female students test his pills, sparking lurid rumors about their visits. During the Inner Academy Selection Tournament finals, he effortlessly caught Bai Shan’s lightning attack and returned it to knock him out of the arena.

• An Yi asked Ruo Lin and the other female students to test his pills, and they accepted the pills as payment for their help.
• Outsiders spread rumors about An Yi’s late-night meetings with the female students, but Xiao Yu told Xiao Ning that they had only been testing pills.
• Vice Dean Hu Gan announced that the finals would be a battle royale in which contestants’ rankings depended on how long they stayed in the arena.
• An Yi entered the arena with Xun'er and asked whom she wanted him to eliminate; she told him to choose anyone he disliked.
• Bai Shan attacked An Yi with a powerful lightning technique, but An Yi caught the lightning in his palm and compressed it into a ball.
• An Yi returned the lightning to Bai Shan, blasting him out of the arena.

An Yi dominated the Selection Tournament with his physical strength, forcing Hu Gan to end the contest before he fought Hu Jia and Wu Hao. The top five were announced, and the students had seven days before entering the Inner Academy.

• An Yi returned Bai Shan's lightning attack and defeated him in one move, leaving the other contestants afraid to approach him and Xun'er.
• Hu Gan and the elders discussed An Yi's unexplained speed and strength, while Hu Gan said the Great Elder would decide whether he could enter the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• An Yi and Xun'er calmly drank tea on the stage as the melee ended, and Xiao Yan forfeited rather than fight An Yi.
• Hu Jia and Wu Hao challenged An Yi, but Hu Gan ended the tournament and named Nangong Yi, Xiao Xun'er, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xiao Yan as the top five.
• An Yi pressed his hand down and collapsed the stage into a dragon-claw-shaped crater without harming Hu Jia or Wu Hao, then left with Xun'er to refine medicine.

An Yi delivered more than a thousand supreme-quality pills made from over three hundred basic recipes to the Medicine Vault, astonishing Elder Hu and Elder Huo. He bargained for five fourth-rank recipes and a hundred sets of herbs, then left to pick something from the Library Pavilion.

• An Yi brought more than three hundred varieties of pills to the Medicine Vault less than ten days after receiving the basic recipes.
• Elder Hu examined the flawless pills, gathered them up, and hurried to fetch Elder Huo.
• Elder Huo offered An Yi fourth-rank recipes in exchange for fifteen supreme-quality pills per recipe, and An Yi bargained him down to twelve.
• Elder Huo explained the academy's recipe restrictions and warned An Yi not to reveal his special treatment.
• Elder Hu gave An Yi five fourth-rank recipes and a hundred sets of herbs, and Elder Huo escorted him out.
• An Yi complained that refining the requested pills would take about a month, then headed to the Library Pavilion.

An Yi’s pill-testing work exposed Xiao Yan to the Ice Jade Pill, prompting Hu Gan to explain the pill’s notorious history at Jia Nan Academy. An Yi arrived to find Xiao Yan furious and the others reacting awkwardly to what had happened.

• Hu Jia asked Xun'er why An Yi and the others had stayed in Instructor Ruo Lin’s pavilion, and Xun'er explained they had helped test An Yi’s pills.
• Xiao Yan described how pill testing required taking pills after getting sick or injured, and Xun'er revealed that he had tested a pill that suppressed desire between men and women.
• Hu Gan identified the pill as the Ice Jade Pill and recounted how a female Alchemy Department student had invented it for revenge, after which its spread caused chaos among male students.
• Hu Gan warned Xiao Yan that the Ice Jade Pill could cause permanent harm without a timely antidote, and Xiao Yan vowed not to test An Yi’s pills again.
• An Yi arrived and noticed Xiao Yan’s dark expression and the others’ strange reactions.

Hu Gan led An Yi and the other top students to the Library Pavilion, where elders Qian Mu and Bai Lie offered to take An Yi as their disciple. An Yi politely declined, entered the pavilion with his companions, and left the elders convinced he might be the most terrifying student in Jia Nan Academy’s history.

• Hu Gan warned the students that the Inner Academy favored strength and asked An Yi to look after the others; An Yi agreed.
• Hu Jia questioned An Yi about his cultivation, and Xun'er explained that his extraordinary strength came from years of punishing effort.
• Hu Gan brought An Yi, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Hu Jia, and the other top students to the Library Pavilion, where Qian Mu and Bai Lie recognized An Yi as an exceptional talent.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie offered to take An Yi as their disciple, but he declined because he preferred to live freely and avoid complicated master-disciple ties.
• Qian Mu promised to help An Yi within the academy, then opened the spatial doorway and hinted that An Yi might obtain something inside the pavilion.
• After the students entered, Qian Mu and Bai Lie told Hu Gan to meet An Yi's needs, saying he might be Jia Nan Academy's most terrifying student yet.

An Yi entered the Library Pavilion with Xun'er and used his strength to obtain a rare movement technique and a violent thunderflame treasure. The group left with An Yi injured and holding what Xun'er suspected was the Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Vine.

• An Yi captured two fire-attribute treasures and gave Xun'er the first volume of the Brahma Heavenly Phoenix Feather Step, which she said she could complete with her second volume.
• Xun'er explained that the movement technique came from a weakened version of a Heaven Tier Dou Technique created by the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• As Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao claimed their chosen treasures, An Yi detected a fast-moving sphere of purple lightning and crimson-gold flame.
• An Yi chased down the violent sphere, forced his hand through its defenses, and suffered deep burns and gashes to seize an ancient vine.
• Xun'er recognized the vine as possibly the Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Vine and urged An Yi to leave before the Library Pavilion's time ran out.

An Yi obtained the Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Ancient Vine from the Library Pavilion and immediately refined and swallowed it, astonishing the elders with his ability to suppress its violent power. As he began absorbing it, his thunder and fire bloodlines surged in strength, promising a major increase in his cultivation and combat power.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie explained that An Yi had taken the rare Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Ancient Vine, a treasure formed through heavenly thunder and earthfire tribulations.
• Bai Lie warned that refining the vine required strong body and soul, but An Yi melted it with his vermilion bird divine flame and swallowed the resulting liquid.
• The vine’s energy exploded inside An Yi, and Qian Mu and Bai Lie rushed to help him suppress it while Hu Gan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others away.
• An Yi’s bloodline power subdued and absorbed the thunderflame energy without burning him, leaving the elders astonished.
• An Yi sensed the vine strengthening his azure dragon and vermilion bird bloodlines and expected his cultivation, thunder, and flame powers to rise significantly.

An Yi refined the Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Vine and broke through to Seven-Star Dou Wang before leaving with the new students for the Inner Academy. Great Elder Su Qian assembled fifty Inner Academy elites to hunt An Yi for a reward, and the new students arrived at the forest entrance.

• An Yi refined the Myriad Tribulations Thunderflame Vine and reached Seven-Star Dou Wang, stunning Ruo Lin, Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning.
• Hu Gan gathered the fifty new students, explained the Inner Academy rules, and led them aboard Griffin Beasts toward the forest.
• Great Elder Su Qian assembled fifty elite Dou Ling students, including Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing, and ordered them to hunt An Yi for one thousand fire energy points each.
• Su Qian warned the elites that An Yi was far from ordinary, while Hu Gan's group passed through the spatial barrier and descended at the primeval forest entrance.

An Yi and his companions entered the forest trial, where senior students ambushed new arrivals to seize their fire energy. After An Yi sensed a group of Dou Ling experts hunting him, he effortlessly defeated Liu Qing and his four teammates, leaving the others stunned.

• Elder Su explained the forest trial rules and warned An Yi not to kill or cripple anyone.
• An Yi led Xun'er, Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao through the forest, and they defeated five senior students and took most of their fire energy.
• An Yi sensed fifty Dou Ling experts in the forest and suspected that they were targeting him.
• Liu Qing attacked An Yi with his spear, but An Yi caught it one-handed, knocked Liu Qing unconscious, and swiftly put his four teammates to sleep.
• Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao stared in shock at An Yi's effortless defeat of the five Dou Ling experts.

An Yi subdued Liu Qing and four other Inner Academy elites, learned that Su Qian had sent them after him for a Fire Energy reward, and tried to take their belongings. When they refused to give him their Storage Rings, he threatened them with his Ice Jade Pills, leaving Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xun'er stunned by his practiced intimidation.

• An Yi poured water on Liu Qing and his four teammates, revealed that he had sealed their Dou Qi, and asked Liu Qing why they had attacked him.
• Liu Qing explained that Su Qian had organized the hunt and promised each team member one thousand points of Fire Energy for taking An Yi's Fire Crystal Card.
• An Yi showed the five Storage Rings he had taken and tried to persuade their owners to give them to him as a first-meeting gift, but they refused.
• An Yi brought out Ice Jade Pills and claimed they would suppress worldly desires, then moved to feed one to Liu Qing.
• Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xun'er watched from behind a tree, and Wu Hao remarked that An Yi's intimidation routine seemed well practiced.

An Yi forced Liu Qing and four other Inner Academy students to surrender most of their fire energy, then learned that his black Fire Crystal Card could hold only two hundred points. He arranged for Xun'er, Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to store the excess, but kept Liu Qing and the others sealed so he could collect more fire energy later.

• An Yi threatened Liu Qing and the other four students with the Ice-Clear Jade-Pure Pill until they handed over most of their possessions, then let them recover their belongings and demanded their fire energy instead.
• An Yi collected fire energy from their cards until his black Fire Crystal Card reached its two-hundred-point limit, and Liu Qing explained the cards' storage limits and upgrade costs.
• An Yi asked Liu Qing and the others to give him their cards, but Liu Qing warned that Inner Academy rules required them to retain at least seven days' worth of fire energy.
• An Yi called Xun'er, Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao over to store the excess fire energy in their own cards, promising them part of it as payment.
• When Liu Qing asked An Yi to remove the seals, An Yi refused and said he would take the rest of their fire energy after upgrading his card.

An Yi forced Liu Qing to bring another team to him by threatening him with the Ice-Clear Jade-Pure Pill, then welcomed Lin Xiuya and Wolf Fang to his camp. Lin Xiuya realized Liu Qing had led him into a confrontation with a Dou Wang-level opponent.

• An Yi demanded Liu Qing lure teams to him, but Liu Qing negotiated to bring only one team in exchange for his faction paying An Yi two hundred fire energy points per member each month.
• Liu Qing and his four teammates left, and Liu Qing decided to lead Lin Xiuya to An Yi because he suspected An Yi was a powerful, physically formidable being like Zi Yan.
• An Yi and his companions cooked a lavish dinner by a forest stream and invited Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xiao Yan to eat.
• Liu Qing returned with Lin Xiuya, leader of Wolf Fang, and four other members of his team.
• Lin Xiuya questioned An Yi, learned he was a Dou Wang, and realized Liu Qing had brought him into a trap.

An Yi shared a meal with Lin Xiuya’s hunting team, then revealed he was a Seven-Star Dou Wang and demanded Fire Energy as protection. After Lin Xiuya’s attack failed, An Yi freed Liu Qing’s team and sent both groups into the forest to find another team.

• An Yi invited Lin Xiuya and his teammates to share grilled meat with Liu Qing’s group.
• An Yi revealed his Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation, and Lin Xiuya conceded and agreed to pay the same Fire Energy fees as Liu Qing’s team.
• An Yi offered to waive the fees if Lin Xiuya’s team could make him move half a step, but charged five hundred Fire Energy points for the attempt.
• Lin Xiuya attacked with his cyan longsword, but An Yi caught its tip between two fingers and defeated him without moving.
• An Yi released Liu Qing and his teammates from their Dou Qi seals, then told Lin Xiuya to find another team to bring over.
• Lin Xiuya pursued Liu Qing into the forest while Liu Qing urged him to find another team quickly.

An Yi faced the final team of senior students, then was interrupted by Zi Yan, who challenged him to a contest of raw strength. They exchanged powerful blows in the forest, leaving the onlookers stunned as the fight continued.

• Bai Cheng tricked Han Yue and her four teammates into coming to An Yi, who gave them the antidote and released their Dou Qi seals.
• An Yi explained that the senior students had been sent to seize his Fire Energy, then revealed that their team was the last to arrive.
• Zi Yan dropped from above and met An Yi’s punch, while he moved Han Yue and the others out of the way with a gust of wind.
• Zi Yan and An Yi began exchanging punches without Dou Qi or Dou Techniques, and their shock waves sent Han Yue’s team and Xun’er’s group flying.
• Zi Yan grew more excited as she traded blows with An Yi, while An Yi realized that her physical strength could threaten even a Dou Emperor.

An Yi stopped his fight with Zi Yan by trading her colorful pills for her medicinal herbs, then learned the Great Elder had sent her to test him. He secured Zi Yan’s cooperation with more candy and got Han Yue’s group to agree to pay him Fire Energy as protection fees.

• An Yi ended his clash with Zi Yan when he saw Xun'er and the others frightened by their fight.
• An Yi traded Zi Yan colorful pills for her rare medicinal herbs, and she gave him the rest of her herbs in exchange for more sweet-and-sour candies later.
• Zi Yan told An Yi that the Great Elder had sent her to test him and promised her a treat if she taught him a lesson, but An Yi warned her not to hit him.
• An Yi asked Han Yue and her group if they wanted to fight again, and Han Yue refused.
• An Yi demanded that Han Yue’s group pay two hundred Fire Energy each as a greeting gift and two hundred per person each month as protection fees, and Han Yue agreed.

An Yi and his companions reached the Inner Academy, where he collected nearly twenty-five thousand points of fire energy from the senior students. Su Qian then led the new students into the academy’s basin, which An Yi recognized as an ancient battlefield.

• An Yi flew his group out of the Primeval Forest, and Su Qian welcomed them to the Inner Academy while awarding An Yi a purple crystal card and the first arrivals additional fire energy.
• Xun'er and the others transferred their spare fire energy to An Yi, bringing his card to 5,500 points, while Han Yue’s team paid him 400 points each.
• An Yi used Zi Yan’s display of strength to make the senior students hand over their fire energy, then reduced the ongoing protection fee from 200 points to 100 per person after Su Qian intervened.
• Su Qian showed the new students the vast basin containing the Inner Academy, and An Yi identified its terrain as the result of a localized burst of energy.
• Su Qian confirmed that the basin was an ancient battlefield and led the group down into it.

An Yi considered becoming an Inner Academy elder after Su Qian explained the position’s privileges, though he worried he would lose the chance to collect fire energy from students. Su Qian sent An Yi to the Medicine Pavilion and asked Zi Yan to keep an eye on him, while Zi Yan led An Yi there and explained why she kept stealing medicinal herbs.

• Su Qian showed An Yi the new student residence and described the Inner Academy’s costly cultivation, technique, and herb resources.
• Su Qian offered An Yi an elder position, explaining its access to cultivation chambers, formulas, techniques, and rare resources; An Yi agreed to visit the Medicine Pavilion.
• An Yi joked that he would miss collecting protection fees, then promised Su Qian he would stop if he became an elder.
• Su Qian asked Zi Yan about An Yi, and she said he was strong and kind; Su Qian told her to spend time with him and help prevent trouble.
• Su Qian gave Zi Yan an Ice Crystal Fruit, and she swallowed it eagerly.
• Zi Yan led An Yi to the Medicine Pavilion, then explained that she stole its herbs because mountain trips were difficult and magical beasts had begun hunting her.

An Yi joined the Inner Academy as a Medicine Pavilion elder after impressing Elder Hao with his alchemy achievements and explaining his reasons for choosing the post. The next morning, Han Yue guided him to the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, where he entered despite her warning about its Heart Flame.

• An Yi stopped Zi Yan from taking more herbs without permission, and Elder Hao recognized him as the young alchemist who had refined a Supreme Dou Spirit Pill through Void Alchemy.
• An Yi explained that the Great Elder had suggested he become an elder rather than remain an ordinary student, and Elder Hao offered him work refining pills from the Medicine Vault.
• An Yi accepted a Medicine Pavilion elder badge and planned to refine pills using the pavilion's resources.
• The next morning, An Yi found Han Yue at the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and told her he had become an elder, canceling the protection fee he had mentioned.
• Han Yue agreed to guide An Yi through the tower crowd and warned him that its Heart Flame could burn his meridians.
• An Yi entered the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower.

An Yi explored the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and discovered that its Heart Flame could purify his Dou Qi without harming him. Great Elder Su Qian revealed that the sealed Fallen Heart Flame was growing unstable and hoped An Yi’s own flame could help suppress it before the seal failed.

• An Yi endured the first floor’s Heart Flame, found it slightly purified his Geng Metal Qi, and cooled his body after its heat frightened Han Yue and nearby students.
• Han Yue led An Yi down to the sixth floor, where she stopped because the stronger Heart Flame could injure her, and An Yi continued alone.
• On the eighth floor, Su Qian warned An Yi about the danger below, then agreed to take him toward the restricted lower levels.
• As they descended, Su Qian explained that the Fallen Heart Flame’s resistance was worsening and the tower’s seal could break within two years.
• Su Qian told An Yi that he had appointed him an Inner Academy elder in hopes that An Yi’s extraordinary flame could suppress the Fallen Heart Flame and delay a catastrophe.

After seven days in the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, An Yi mastered using the Heart Flame to temper his Gengjin Dou Qi and began planning to devour the Fallen Heart Flame once he reached Dou Emperor. Back at the new students’ pavilions, Xun'er urged him to use his strength to control factions in the Black-Corner Region and gather resources, and An Yi agreed to consider it after his breakthrough.

• An Yi left seclusion after successfully using his Vermilion Bird Divine Flame to amplify the Heart Flame and temper his Gengjin Dou Qi.
• An Yi decided he wanted to devour the Fallen Heart Flame but judged that he should wait until he reached Dou Emperor.
• An Yi returned to the new students’ pavilion, where Xun'er told him that Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao had formed the Pan Gate to resist senior students’ protection fees.
• Xun'er advised An Yi to control major factions in the Black-Corner Region and collect resources through them rather than keep robbing and destroying groups himself.
• An Yi agreed to consider taking over the Black-Corner Region from behind the scenes after reaching Dou Emperor.

An Yi refined Zi Yan’s medicinal herbs into pills and then joined her and Xun'er on a four-month expedition through the Primeval Forest. The trio returned with a huge haul, and Zi Yan, impressed by An Yi’s strength, negotiated her share of their spoils.

• Zi Yan brought An Yi a pile of rare medicinal herbs, and he refined them into pills while keeping half as his fee.
• An Yi invited Xun'er to join him and Zi Yan on a trip into the mountains after he rested and ate.
• An Yi, Xun'er, and Zi Yan spent four months gathering treasures and fighting magical beasts in the Primeval Forest behind Jia Nan Academy.
• After seeing An Yi defeat powerful fifth-rank beasts and face sixth-rank beasts, Zi Yan realized how much stronger he was and became more obedient around him.
• Zi Yan asked for half the expedition’s spoils, and An Yi offered thirty percent before threatening to reduce her share until she praised him as generous.

After the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower reopened, Great Elder Su Qian summoned An Yi to the Outer Academy, where the Heavenly Poison Lady Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun had arrived demanding to see him. An Yi reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, whose explanation for recognizing him left the onlookers with a wildly mistaken impression.

• Hu Jia told Xun'er and An Yi that the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower had been closed for three days after a disturbance on its sixth floor, then left when it reopened.
• Su Qian urgently took An Yi to the Outer Academy and explained that Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun had forced their way in and were waiting to see him.
• An Yi assured Hu Gan and the other elders that the two women were his friends, then flew to Instructor Ruo Lin's pavilion.
• Xiao Yi Xian rushed out of the pavilion and embraced An Yi, recognizing him through the White Tiger blood essence he had left inside her.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the blood essence let her recognize An Yi, and Instructor Ruo Lin, Yun Yun, Su Qian, and the others misinterpreted her words.

An Yi reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun at Jia Nan Academy and learned that the Hall of Souls had driven the Xiao Household into hiding while Protector Yan pressured the Misty Cloud Sect. After bringing Xiao Yan and his brother together, An Yi discovered that Xiao Yi Xian had reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor, far surpassing his own cultivation.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had traveled to Jia Nan Academy with Yun Yun after searching for An Yi in the Black-Corner Region.
• Yun Yun told An Yi that Protector Yan and his Soul Envoy Squad had forced the Xiao Household to flee, while Yun Shan tried to keep the Misty Cloud Sect safe.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she had intimidated Yuan Yi of the Eight Gates, and Yun Yun confirmed that Hai Bo Dong was watching over the Xiao Household in Black Seal City.
• An Yi brought Xiao Yan back from the Inner Academy, where Xiao Li had arrived with news, and the Xiao brothers reunited as Yun Yun explained the crisis to them.
• An Yi asked Xiao Yi Xian about her cultivation, and she revealed that she had reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor, leaving him stunned.

An Yi reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and planned to use Azure Dragon Blood Essence to stabilize her Disaster Poison Body. When he tried to take her and Yun Yun into Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, he remembered Xun’er was there and the two women left for Black Seal City instead, warning him they would return within a month.

• Xiao Yi Xian told An Yi that his earlier blood essence had kept her Disaster Poison Body stable while her cultivation grew.
• An Yi showed Xiao Yi Xian his Azure Dragon Blood Essence and explained that it could regulate her poison qi and repair her meridians.
• Xiao Yi Xian confronted An Yi about stories Yun Yun had told her, but did not press him further.
• An Yi found Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning among the Xiao Household members at Instructor Ruo Lin’s residence and stopped them from speaking about their reunion and past grievances.
• An Yi asked Su Qian and Hu Gan for permission to bring Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun into the Inner Academy, then realized Xun’er was there.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun decided to go to Black Seal City to settle the Xiao Household, with Xiao Yi Xian warning An Yi that they would return within a month.

An Yi faced Ling Quan, the Black Annihilation Army deputy commander sent to escort Xun'er back to her clan, after Ling Quan attacked him out of jealousy. An Yi answered with a single swift strike that severed Ling Quan's left arm and part of his shoulder.

• An Yi returned to the Inner Academy and told Xun'er about the turmoil in the Jia Ma Empire and the Hall of Souls' pursuit of the Xiao Household.
• Xun'er said her clan had been urging her to return, and she spent the following month by An Yi's side before they were interrupted by the Black Annihilation Army's arrival.
• Ling Quan introduced himself and ordered Xun'er to return, then questioned An Yi's presence and attacked the arm with which An Yi held Xun'er's hand.
• An Yi used the Void-Stepping Technique to evade Ling Quan's strike, and Xun'er rebuked Ling Quan for attacking him.
• Ling Quan prepared to fight An Yi, but An Yi vanished and reappeared behind him, holding his severed left arm after cutting through his shoulder.