Recaps

Xiao Qing stripped Han Feng of the Sea Heart Flame and captured his soul after exposing his connection to Mu Gu. He then contained the flame with Spatial Power while Su Qian continued battling the Gold and Silver Elders overhead.

• Xiao Qing rejected Han Feng’s plea for mercy, named Mu Gu, and sealed Han Feng’s soul in a jade bottle for Yao Chen.
• Hu Gan asked why Han Feng had pursued the Fallen Heart Flame despite already possessing a Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Qing gave no explanation.
• Xiao Qing saw that Su Qian had the upper hand against the Gold and Silver Elders and let him continue fighting.
• Xiao Qing used Spatial Power to form a Space Cage around the Sea Heart Flame, while Hu Gan was astonished by his ability.

Fire Elder led Jia Nan Academy’s Enforcement Team to Feng City and destroyed Han Feng’s forces there while Han Feng was away. After securing the city, Fire Elder moved on to the next target as Wu Tianlang’s parallel campaign also proceeded smoothly.

• Xiao Qing had secretly sent Yuan Yi out of the Inner Academy, leaving the Gold and Silver Elders as the only unresolved Black-Corner Region experts.
• Han Beng confronted the approaching Jia Nan Academy force and used Han Feng’s pills to force the remaining Feng City experts to stay and fight.
• Fire Elder killed the defenders who flew out to meet him, then ordered the Enforcement Team to take Feng City.
• The Enforcement Team purged Feng City’s inhabitants while Fire Elder raided the treasury and collected its valuables.
• Fire Elder led the Enforcement Team toward its next destination as Wu Tianlang continued a similar operation elsewhere.

Yuan Yi returned to the Eight Gates headquarters and told his elders that he had pledged allegiance to Jia Nan Academy, ordering them to change their conduct and keep watch on the Black Emperor Sect. At the Black Emperor Sect, Mo Tianxing learned from Qi Shan that the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva had revealed no trace of the Bodhi Heart.

• Yuan Yi returned to Black Mark City and heard the elders’ account of Jia Nan Academy’s campaign against Black-Corner Region factions.
• Yuan Yi reassured the Eight Gates elders that Jia Nan Academy would not attack them because he had pledged allegiance to one of its experts.
• Yuan Yi ordered the Eight Gates members to stop committing evil and instructed the elders to monitor the Black Emperor Sect.
• Qi Shan told Mo Tianxing that the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva could improve talent but had not revealed the location of the Bodhi Heart.
• Mo Tianxing recalled studying the substance for years and remained disappointed that it had yielded no sign of the legendary Bodhi Heart.

Mo Tianxing decided to auction the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva to draw powerful experts to the Black-Corner Region, while Xiao Qing helped Jia Nan Academy recover after defeating its enemies and offered to strengthen its Elders with pills. The chapter ended with Xiao Qing preparing to return to his companions and Su Qian welcoming his offer.

• Mo Tianxing praised Mo Ya's breakthrough to Three-Star Dou Emperor and proposed auctioning the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Qi Shan agreed that the auction could attract powerful experts, and Mo Tianxing set it for half a year later.
• Su Qian brought Xiao Qing the corpses of the Gold and Silver Elders, and Xiao Qing extracted and stored their souls.
• Hu Gan and the other Elders gathered the Black-Corner Region experts' corpses and helped restore order in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Qing told Su Qian he could refine pills to raise the academy Elders' strength, and Su Qian recognized his intention.

Xiao Qing distributed Energy Cores to Zi Yan and began refining Dou Ling Pills for Jia Nan Academy, drawing excitement from the Elders and students. As the pill-making continued and the academy’s supplies were replenished, Wu Tianlang exchanged ingredients for Sect-Breaking Pills to help him attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Qing gave Zi Yan her share of several Dou Emperor-level Energy Cores, and she agreed to save shares for Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Su Qian told the Elders that Xiao Qing would refine pills for the academy, and they exchanged for Dou Ling Pill ingredients before bringing him three sets to refine.
• Xiao Qing began refining pills and promised the Elders they could collect them in a week; Zi Yan entered seclusion to refine her Energy Cores.
• A Dou Ling Pill’s birth sent a pillar of energy and medicinal fragrance across the Inner Academy, where students gathered to cultivate and Elders guarded Xiao Qing’s pavilion.
• Fire Elder and Wu Tianlang returned with the Enforcement Team after raiding Black-Corner Region factions, replenishing the Medicinal Materials Repository with pill ingredients and other resources.
• Wu Tianlang exchanged for three sets of Sect-Breaking Pill ingredients, hoping the pills would help him break through from Dou Emperor Peak to Dou Zong.

After completing several days of Dou Ling Pill refining, Xiao Qing gave the pills to the Inner Academy Elders and received the gratitude of students who had advanced through cultivation. Su Qian then unexpectedly named him Jia Nan Academy’s honorary dean, leaving Xiao Qing stunned and reluctant to accept.

• Xiao Qing spent two more days refining Dou Ling Pills while the Elders and students waited outside his pavilion.
• Xiao Qing emerged and distributed jade bottles of Dou Ling Pills to the Elders, who thanked him and departed.
• Inner Academy students gathered to thank Xiao Qing for helping them cultivate and break through.
• Su Qian appeared and announced that Xiao Qing was Jia Nan Academy’s honorary dean, equal in status to Dean Mang Tianchi.
• Xiao Qing objected that he could not bear the position and worried about facing Mang Tianchi.

Xiao Qing accepted the position of honorary academy head at Jia Nan Academy and agreed to refine Sect-Breaking Pills for Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang. After completing the pills, he sent the two Elders away to enter seclusion and attempt their breakthroughs to Dou Zong.

• Su Qian and the Inner Academy students urged Xiao Qing to accept the honorary academy head position, and Xiao Qing agreed.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Qing to refine Sect-Breaking Pills for Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang, and Xiao Qing accepted.
• Xiao Qing rested for two days before the academy Elders brought medicinal ingredients for another round of pill refining.
• Four days later, Xiao Qing finished refining the Sect-Breaking Pills and gave pills to Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang.
• Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang thanked Xiao Qing and hurried away to enter seclusion and pursue breakthroughs to Dou Zong.

Xiao Qing descended into the lava beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to search for the Fallen Heart Flame and encountered a group of Flame Lizardmen. He followed a summons to Skyfire Venerable’s hidden barrier, where the two met.

• Xiao Qing informed the four Elders guarding the tower’s bottom that he was entering the lava world, then leaped into the pit.
• Xiao Qing searched the lava with his Spirit Realm soul power, confident that the Flame Lizardmen could not catch him.
• Xiao Qing killed a group of Flame Lizardmen with a sword strike and collected the energy-containing crimson beads from their bodies.
• Xiao Qing heard a faint plea for help from the lava’s depths and flew toward its source while more Flame Lizardmen gathered at the battlefield.
• Xiao Qing entered the transparent barrier around Skyfire Venerable’s skeleton and repelled its probing force with his soul power.
• Skyfire Venerable appeared as an illusory figure, apologized for probing Xiao Qing, and was astonished by his Spirit Realm soul power.

Xiao Qing captured the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and learned how Skyfire Venerable, whose real name was Yao Tianhuo, had been trapped in the magma world. Yao Tianhuo offered Xiao Qing his Five Wheel Separation Flame Technique in exchange for being taken outside.

• Xiao Qing imprisoned the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame in a Space Cage, astonishing Skyfire Venerable with his mastery of Spatial Power.
• Skyfire Venerable introduced himself as Yao Tianhuo and recounted how two Fallen Heart Flames had injured him before Flame Lizardmen attacked him.
• Yao Tianhuo explained that he survived by concealing himself with Spatial Power, though his body was destroyed and his soul remained trapped.
• Yao Tianhuo retrieved a Storage Ring and offered Xiao Qing his Five Wheel Separation Flame Technique as payment for taking him out of the magma world.

Xiao Qing offered to restore Skyfire Venerable’s body in exchange for ten years of service, and Skyfire Venerable accepted. After leaving the magma beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Qing returned to the surface and headed for his residence.

• Xiao Qing memorized the Five Wheel Separation Flame Technique and offered Skyfire Venerable a way to restore his body and soul power.
• Skyfire Venerable learned the body-refining method, and Xiao Qing assured him he could gather the needed Heavenly Flames and materials.
• Xiao Qing proposed that Skyfire Venerable serve him for ten years after his body was restored, and Skyfire Venerable agreed.
• Skyfire Venerable stored the skeleton and placed his Storage Ring in Xiao Qing’s possession before they left the sealed space.
• Xiao Qing flew out of the magma, greeted the four Elders at the bottom of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and walked back toward his residence.

Xiao Qing returned from the underground magma world and told Medusa about the treasures and Skyfire Venerable he had found. After refining Soul-Nourishing Saliva to restore Skyfire Venerable’s strength, Xiao Qing examined the spoils he had taken from Han Feng.

• Xiao Qing told Medusa about finding the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, fire pearls, and Skyfire Venerable in the underground magma world.
• Xiao Qing spent several days refining Fifth Grade Soul-Nourishing Saliva for Skyfire Venerable.
• Skyfire Venerable absorbed the Soul-Nourishing Saliva and recovered enough strength to defeat an ordinary Mid-Rank Dou Zong.
• Skyfire Venerable asked Xiao Qing to let him perceive the outside world except when Xiao Qing needed to keep secrets.
• Xiao Qing broke the soul imprint on Han Feng’s Advanced Storage Ring and examined its herbs, techniques, pill formulas, and high-grade pills.

Xiao Qing looted Han Feng’s treasures, discovered a Flame Mantra Fragment, and considered using the Bodhi Ancient Tree to create his own cultivation method. After sensing that Yuan Yi had crushed his jade slip, he suspected the Black Emperor Sect had made a move and headed out to investigate.

• Xiao Qing found and swallowed Han Feng’s Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill, but gained no noticeable benefit from its dragon aura.
• Xiao Qing stored the Myriad Beast Cauldron and found a Flame Mantra Fragment with Han Feng’s annotations in the Nethersea Storage Ring.
• Xiao Qing decided not to cultivate the flawed fragment and planned to study the Flame Mantra with Yao Chen before seeking enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Qing sensed that Yuan Yi had crushed his jade slip and suspected the Black Emperor Sect was involved.
• Xiao Qing put away the scroll and left his room, while Zi Yan had just emerged from seclusion after refining an Energy Core.

Xiao Qing left the academy and went to the Black Emperor Sect after learning it possessed the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva. He killed Mo Tianxing and began searching his soul for information.

• Xiao Qing left Zi Yan and Medusa at the academy and flew toward the Outer Academy.
• Yuan Yi gave Xiao Qing a letter reporting that the Black Emperor Sect would auction the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Xiao Qing refused Yuan Yi’s offer of support and traveled alone to the Black Emperor Sect.
• Xiao Qing trapped Mo Tianxing with Spatial Power and pierced his chest with a Soul Chain.
• Xiao Qing pulled Mo Tianxing’s soul from his body and began searching his memories.

Xiao Qing stole the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse from the Black Emperor Sect, leaving only the seventh-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core needed to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamitous Poison Body. After he escaped, the sect discovered its treasury had been emptied and began a lockdown, while Qi Shan found Mo Tianxing missing.

• Xiao Qing searched Mo Tianxing’s memories, learned where the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse were kept, and sealed Mo Tianxing in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Qing bypassed the spatial protection around the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Qing found a peak seventh-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse in the treasury and asked Skyfire Venerable whether he dared use its essence blood to revive himself; Skyfire Venerable agreed.
• Xiao Qing stored the corpse and the treasury’s other treasures, then escaped through spatial ripples.
• A treasury Elder discovered the chamber had been emptied and triggered an alarm, prompting the Black Emperor Sect to forbid anyone from leaving.
• Qi Shan went to Mo Tianxing’s residence but found no trace of him.

After Mo Tianxing disappeared and the Black Emperor Sect’s treasury was robbed, Xiao Qing infiltrated Demon Flame Valley to find Earth Demon Old Ghost. He trapped the Seven-Star Dou Zong in a soul barrier and attacked him, leaving their confrontation underway.

• Qi Shan failed to find Mo Tianxing, and news of the Black Emperor Sect’s crisis spread through the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Qing appeared above Demon Flame Valley and used his soul power to locate Earth Demon Old Ghost’s secluded chamber and the treasury.
• Xiao Qing entered Earth Demon Old Ghost’s chamber undetected and trapped him inside a powerful soul barrier.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost sensed the barrier, tried to negotiate with Xiao Qing, and offered compensation on behalf of Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Qing told Earth Demon Old Ghost to accept his death and unleashed overwhelming soul power against him.

Xiao Qing killed Earth Demon Old Ghost, seized his soul, and looted Demon Flame Valley’s treasury. Hours later, Fang Yan and the Elders discovered the theft and, believing their Patriarch was in seclusion, issued a wanted notice while waiting for him to emerge.

• Xiao Qing overwhelmed Earth Demon Old Ghost, killed him, captured his soul, and took his Storage Ring and body.
• Xiao Qing entered Demon Flame Valley’s treasury, collected its treasures, and killed the azure giant snake guarding it.
• Several hours later, Demon Flame Valley sounded the alarm, and Fang Yan and the Elders found the treasury emptied and the snake slain.
• Fang Yan led the Elders to Earth Demon Old Ghost’s retreat, but the Patriarch did not respond to their summons.
• Fang Yan ordered a wanted notice to be issued across the Black-Corner Region, offering valuable rewards for clues and postponing further action until Earth Demon Old Ghost left seclusion.

After the Demon Flame Valley treasury was robbed, the Black-Corner Region speculated that Earth Demon Old Ghost had met with the same fate as Mo Tianxing. Xiao Qing returned to Jia Nan Academy and confirmed to Su Qian that he had killed Earth Demon Old Ghost.

• Demon Flame Valley offered a reward for information about its stolen treasury, and its public execution of people who spread false leads quieted the search.
• A mysterious black figure approached the ruins of Feng City as Xiao Qing flew back through Jia Nan Academy’s spatial barrier.
• Su Qian considered whether Earth Demon Old Ghost was in seclusion or had been killed by Xiao Qing, and marveled at Xiao Qing’s formidable soul power.
• Su Qian met Xiao Qing above the Inner Academy basin and questioned him about the Black-Corner Region incidents.
• Xiao Qing claimed he had acted on the Academy’s behalf and told Su Qian that Earth Demon Old Ghost was dead.

After Xiao Qing killed Earth Demon Old Ghost, Xuan Guardian searched Feng City for Han Feng and learned that the forces there had attacked Jia Nan Academy and been defeated. He left to harvest souls elsewhere, while Xiao Qing returned to the Inner Academy and studied a bamboo scroll.

• Xiao Qing left Su Qian after killing Earth Demon Old Ghost, and Su Qian watched him depart.
• Xuan Guardian searched Feng City for Han Feng but found him missing.
• Xuan Guardian tortured a Demon Blade Sect leader for information, learned of the attack on Jia Nan Academy, and stored the man's soul in his Soul Bag.
• Xuan Guardian killed the woman and several Dou Wangs, then decided to investigate the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley for more souls.
• Xiao Qing sat at the Inner Academy's back mountain and opened a grayish-brown bamboo scroll.

Xiao Qing refined Mo Tianxing’s corpse, soul, and a seventh-tier fire-attributed Magic Core into an Earth Demon Puppet. The puppet reached roughly the Three-Star Dou Zong level, and Xiao Qing intended to use it to withstand Pill Lightning while cultivating the Demonic Lightning Body.

• Xiao Qing studied the Heavenly Demon Puppet method and gathered Mo Tianxing’s corpse and soul along with a seventh-tier fire-attributed Magic Core.
• Xiao Qing used the Life Spirit Flame to purge corpse qi from the body, inserted the Magic Core into its chest, and placed Mo Tianxing’s consciousness-cleared soul in its forehead.
• Xiao Qing refined strange metals while tempering the corpse, and Zi Yan and Medusa returned and waited nearby.
• Xiao Qing awakened the puppet by spreading the soul through its body and letting the Magic Core’s energy circulate through it.
• Xiao Qing coated the puppet in molten dark-golden metal, refining it into a silver Earth Demon Puppet with an aura roughly at the Three-Star Dou Zong level.
• Xiao Qing planned to use the puppet to take Pill Lightning for him during his cultivation of the Demonic Lightning Body.

Xiao Qing refined an Earth Demon Puppet and explained the materials needed to make one for Zi Yan before revealing a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse and describing the Beast World’s three great clans. Zi Yan learned she likely belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and struggled with the possibility that her parents had abandoned her, while Xiao Qing and Medusa comforted her and promised to face the truth with her.

• Xiao Qing imprinted his soul on the Earth Demon Puppet, and Zi Yan asked him to refine one for her; he explained that they lacked a Dou Zong’s body.
• Xiao Qing took out a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse, and Medusa and Zi Yan listened as he explained the three great Beast World clans.
• Zi Yan realized her bloodline likely came from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and wondered why she had grown up alone.
• Xiao Qing and Medusa comforted Zi Yan, and Xiao Qing resolved to grow stronger so he could take her to meet the old Dragon Emperor and set things right.

Xiao Qing refined the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse with the Life Spirit Flame, collecting its blood essence and drawing out its Magic Core. The chapter ended with the cyan-red energy mist condensing into a crystal before Xiao Qing, Zi Yan, and Medusa.

• Xiao Qing refined the corpse and collected five droplets of cyan-red Heaven Demon Phoenix blood essence, which strengthened his body and caught Zi Yan and Medusa’s interest.
• Xiao Qing used one droplet of blood essence to begin extracting the Rank-Seven Heaven Demon Phoenix Magic Core, choosing to reserve the remaining blood for Zi Yan and Medusa.
• Xiao Qing contained the energy-rich mist with a soul barrier after it attracted nearby Magical Beasts, allowing the extraction to continue undisturbed.
• The Life Spirit Flame burned the remaining skin to ashes, and the gathered cyan-red mist formed a vortex that condensed into an irregular crystal.

Xiao Qing gave Zi Yan and Medusa Heaven Demon Phoenix Blood Essence, then learned of a suspected Rank-Seven tiger and decided to hunt it later. He began refining Seventh Grade Pills in the mountains, with Zi Yan and Medusa staying to guard and watch as his Life Spirit Flame rapidly cultivated medicinal herbs.

• Xiao Qing stored some Heaven Demon Phoenix Blood Essence and gave the remaining drops to Zi Yan and Medusa, explaining that his powerful body would gain little from them.
• Medusa and Zi Yan told Xiao Qing about a possible Rank-Seven tiger and nearby treasure in the southwest mountains, and Xiao Qing decided to hunt the beast later.
• Xiao Qing said he would refine Seventh Grade Pills away from the Inner Academy because the Pill Lightning would cause too much commotion, and Zi Yan and Medusa chose to stay as his Guardians.
• Xiao Qing summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron and used the Life Spirit Flame to grow medicinal herbs from seeds, astonishing Zi Yan and Medusa.

Xiao Qing used the Life Spirit Flame to refine a Seventh Grade Sect Origin Pill while Zi Yan and Medusa watched. After seven days the pill took shape, and Pill Lightning gathered overhead, leaving them facing the danger of its strike.

• Xiao Qing began refining a Seventh Grade Sect Origin Pill in the Myriad Beast Cauldron as Zi Yan and Medusa watched.
• Xiao Qing controlled the Life Spirit Flame and waited seven days for the stubborn principal ingredients to melt.
• Xiao Qing merged the medicinal liquids and refined them into a smooth, jade-green pill with visible Pill Patterns.
• Pill Lightning gathered in the sky above the cauldron, and Medusa warned that its power could be stronger than the lightning she had faced during her evolution.

Xiao Qing refined a seventh-grade Sect Origin Pill and used its Pill Lightning to cultivate his Demonic Lightning Body while the Earth Demon Puppet absorbed the strikes. The lightning drew magical beasts and startled Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders, who realized Xiao Qing had made a seventh-grade pill.

• Xiao Qing summoned the Earth Demon Puppet, which shattered the Pill Lightning and grew stronger as the strikes tempered its body.
• Zi Yan realized the puppet could absorb lightning, while Xiao Qing decided to use the Pill Lightning to cultivate his Demonic Lightning Body.
• Xiao Qing drew the lightning onto himself, and a new black thunder pattern began to form as Medusa and Zi Yan watched over him and the pill.
• The pill's fragrance attracted magical beasts, but the Pill Lightning's might pinned them down before they could approach.
• Su Qian sensed the disturbance and told the Inner Academy elders that Xiao Qing was refining a seventh-grade pill, leaving them astonished.

Xuan Guardian destroyed Demon Flame Valley and killed its leaders, then sensed Pill Lightning from a high-grade medicinal pill near Jia Nan Academy. He decided against investigating and planned to report the Seventh-Grade Alchemist to the Soul Hall.

• Xuan Guardian confronted Fang Yan and the second and third elders, who warned him that Demon Flame Valley's old patriarch might retaliate.
• Xuan Guardian revealed that he believed the Earth Demon Old Ghost was dead and sent his soul chains after the three elders.
• Fang Yan and the two elders attacked with Starry Sky Fire Phoenix, but Xuan Guardian destroyed it, killed them, and collected their souls.
• Xuan Guardian noticed Pill Lightning near Jia Nan Academy and realized that a Seventh-Grade Alchemist had appeared.
• Xuan Guardian chose not to approach Jia Nan Academy and decided to report the discovery to the Soul Hall.