Recaps

Xiao Yan entered the Book Repository with the other selected students and searched its sealed treasures. After agreeing to help Han Yue find an Earth Tier cultivation method, he caught a scroll identified as the Early Earth Tier Dou Technique, Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody.

• Hu Gan brought Xiao Yan and the five other selected students to the Book Repository, where the Qian Bai Er Lao opened its Space Lock.
• The group entered the Repository and split up to search among treasures flying from energy barriers.
• Xiao Yan found a High Xuan Tier cultivation method but returned it because he did not need it.
• Xiao Yan met Han Yue, who asked him to watch for an Earth Tier cultivation method, and he agreed to help.
• An energy barrier released dozens of treasures at once, and Xiao Yan caught a scroll labeled Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody, an Early Earth Tier Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan found the Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody, an Earth Tier sonic Dou Technique, and gave Han Yue a suitable Qi Method during their visit to the Book Repository. Back at his residence, he learned the technique was connected to Sound Valley and began practicing its first movement.

• Xiao Yan selected the Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody and found Han Yue the Early Earth Tier Moonlight Art, which she happily accepted.
• Xiao Yan and the others left the Book Repository after Hu Gan announced their time was up, and Hu Gan told them they would head to the Inner Academy in a few days.
• Han Yue thanked Xiao Yan for helping her find a Qi Method, and the group parted to return to their quarters.
• Xiao Yan studied the Seven-String Spirit-Quelling Melody and learned from Yao Lao that it was connected to Sound Valley, a mysterious Central Plains power.
• Xiao Yan began practicing the technique’s first movement in his courtyard, where its music soothed nearby students and instructors and improved their cultivation speed.

Xiao Yan left for Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy after giving Xiao Yu cultivation resources, then stunned the Elders with his strength and unusual flight. When the Fire Energy Hunting Competition began, the Elders tried to stop him from joining because he was a Dou Wang.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yu a Storage Ring full of cultivation resources, teased her about her leg, and fled as she chased him.
• Xiao Yan flew beside the Griffin Beasts on his Black Heavy Ruler and told curious Elders that he could not teach them the ability.
• Hu Gan introduced Xiao Yan to two Inner Academy Elders, who were shocked to learn that the thirteen-year-old new student was a Dou Wang.
• The Elders explained the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, distributed Fire Crystal Cards, and sent the new students into the forest.
• Xiao Yan said he planned to join the competition, and the gatekeeping Elders hurried to block him.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Fire Energy Hunting Competition finish line, where Su Qian welcomed him and offered him an elder position with unrestricted access to the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. Xiao Yan accepted, and the elders gathered to greet him before a purple-clad figure arrived and left Su Qian and the others looking troubled.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the finish line with two elders and greeted Su Qian and the other elders.
• Su Qian and the elders learned Xiao Yan was thirteen and already a Dou Wang, and they marveled at his talent.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian for compensation after being disqualified, and Su Qian gave him an elder-grade Purple Fire Crystal Card.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Yan an elder position with extensive benefits, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• A purple-clad figure flew to the gathering, causing Su Qian and the other elders to look troubled.

Xiao Yan met Zi Yan at the end of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and moved into his new residence after the new students arrived. Zi Yan ignored his courtyard Restriction and came to demand protection money, while Xiao Yan prepared medicinal pills as snacks for her.

• Zi Yan ate a Golden Buddha Fruit from Elder Hao’s Medicine Garden and then sniffed Xiao Yan, recognizing the medicinal-herb scent on him.
• Su Qian stopped Zi Yan from bothering Xiao Yan and explained that she was mischievous but harmless.
• Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and the other new students emerged from the forest battered and exhausted, ending the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Su Qian took Xiao Yan to a quiet courtyard, then dragged the reluctant Zi Yan away.
• Xiao Yan refined medicinal herbs into pills for Zi Yan, who soon slipped past his Restriction and demanded protection money from him.

Xiao Yan outmatched Zi Yan, then won her over with pills and began refining more from her medicinal herbs, keeping a handling fee. After Zi Yan offered to guide him, they set off for the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower so Xiao Yan could see the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Zi Yan demanded a protection fee from Xiao Yan, but he dodged her attacks and teased her with pills until she called him boss.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the remaining pills, and she left with the bottle after eating her fill.
• The next morning, Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan for more pills and tried to charm him into handing them over.
• Xiao Yan asked Zi Yan to provide medicinal herbs, kept some as a handling fee, and refined the rest into pills.
• Xiao Yan set out to visit the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, and Zi Yan offered to lead him there.

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and used its heart flame to purify his Dou Qi as he cultivated. After withdrawing into a private room, he caused a huge disturbance that revealed he was breaking through to Dou Emperor.

• Zi Yan guided Xiao Yan around the Inner Academy and took him to the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan tested the heart flame’s effect and followed Zi Yan to her private cultivation room, where he began cultivating.
• Xiao Yan sensed that he was about to break through to Dou Emperor and asked Zi Yan to notify Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan moved to his own cultivation room, sealed it with Restrictions, and began his breakthrough while Zi Yan informed Su Qian.
• Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and the other students settled into the Inner Academy while Xiao Yan remained in seclusion.
• An explosion and a huge energy vortex alarmed the tower’s students, but Su Qian sensed Xiao Yan’s aura and told the Elders that Xiao Yan was breaking through to Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan emerged from ten months of seclusion after breaking through from Peak Dou Wang to Dou Emperor. Soon after, the Fallen Heart Flame began violently attacking its seal beneath the tower, and Xiao Yan recognized it.

• The elders and students watched as Xiao Yan’s enormous energy vortex gradually subsided, while Su Qian checked that the disturbance had not awakened the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Four months later, Xiao Yan’s Dou Emperor aura swept through the tower, and he emerged from seclusion to greet Elder Li.
• Zi Yan demanded pills from Xiao Yan, who gave her a Jade Bottle while Su Qian watched them fondly.
• The Heavenly Flame Refining Tower shook as the Fallen Heart Flame attacked its seal, and Su Qian reinforced the formation.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the sealing chamber and identified the roaring Fire Python as the Fallen Heart Flame.

After the Fallen Heart Flame retreated into the Magma World, Xiao Yan warned Su Qian that it would eventually break free and revealed his two Heavenly Flames as proof that he could help. He openly admitted that he wanted to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame, leaving Su Qian wary because the Inner Academy depended on it.

• Su Qian reinforced the seal, and the Fallen Heart Flame retreated into the Magma World after sensing the Heavenly Flames within Xiao Yan.
• Su Qian brought Xiao Yan and Zi Yan to his residence, where they shared tea before Zi Yan grew bored and left.
• Su Qian explained the tower's origins and recounted how he had repeatedly suppressed the Fallen Heart Flame's eruptions.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Fallen Heart Flame would eventually break through the seal and offered to deal with it.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Sea Heart Flame, astonishing Su Qian with his ability to control two Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he wanted to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian objected because the Inner Academy relied on it.

Xiao Yan persuaded Su Qian to consider trading the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame for a young one, then asked Yao Lao to help him reach the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. There, they prepared to search for the second flame while Xiao Yan briefly experienced Dou Zun power and regained his composure.

• Xiao Yan told Su Qian he could provide a young Fallen Heart Flame and argued it could grow into a guardian for Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian agreed to consider the trade after seeing the young flame, and Xiao Yan left to retrieve it.
• Yao Lao questioned Xiao Yan about the flame’s location, and Xiao Yan said it lay beneath the magma under the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower.
• Yao Lao concealed Xiao Yan’s aura and lent him power, raising his strength into the Dou Zun realm so they could bypass the Sealing formation.
• Xiao Yan felt exhilarated by the borrowed strength, then reminded himself it was not his own and regained his composure.

Xiao Yan descended beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower and found Yao Tianhuo, securing the young Fallen Heart Flame and the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Art in exchange for rescuing him. He brought the flame to Su Qian, who agreed to let Xiao Yan subdue the academy’s Fallen Heart Flame, though the Inner Academy Elders doubted he could succeed.

• Xiao Yan concealed himself with Yao Lao’s Soul Power and descended into the Magma World, where he found a hidden space containing the young Fallen Heart Flame and Yao Tianhuo’s skeleton.
• Xiao Yan revealed Yao Tianhuo’s soul and agreed to take him out in exchange for the Fallen Heart Flame and the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Art.
• Xiao Yan stored the flame and scroll, placed Yao Tianhuo’s soul in a Jade Bottle, and escaped as the hidden space collapsed.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan showed the Fallen Heart Flame to Su Qian and asked to subdue the academy’s flame; Su Qian agreed and thanked him on the academy’s behalf.
• Su Qian summoned the Inner Academy Elders, who doubted Xiao Yan could overcome the Fallen Heart Flame, but Su Qian chose to trust him.

Xiao Yan secured the elders’ approval to prepare for refining the young Fallen Heart Flame, then returned home and discovered Zi Yan had moved into his residence. After punishing her with chores for leaving the place in disarray, he tested his newly awakened Monkey Talisman and transformed into the Amethyst Winged Lion King, shaking the house apart.

• Su Qian presented Xiao Yan’s plan to the elders, who approved it and agreed to prepare for confronting the young Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yan preparations would take a few days, and Xiao Yan agreed to wait.
• Xiao Yan returned to his residence and found that Zi Yan had moved in while he was in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan ordered Zi Yan to clean the messy sitting room, and she hurried to do so.
• Xiao Yan examined his gains from reaching Dou Emperor and awakened the Monkey Talisman’s power.
• Xiao Yan transformed into the Amethyst Winged Lion King, smashing through the room and shaking the house while Zi Yan reacted outside.

Xiao Yan tested the Monkey Talisman and discovered it could transform him into any Magical Beast that had existed, though it copied only their appearance. After Zi Yan finished cleaning his residence, Xiao Yan partnered with her to search the forest for herbs and promised to deal with the powerful Magical Beasts that had been chasing her.

• Xiao Yan tested the Monkey Talisman in a remote forest clearing and transformed into Magical Beasts ranging from an Ironclad Ant to legendary creatures such as the Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the talisman could copy any Magical Beast's form, even one he had never seen, and realized he could also transform other people without letting them change back himself.
• Xiao Yan returned to find Zi Yan had cleaned his residence, then gave her a Jade Bottle of flavored pills as a reward.
• Xiao Yan asked Zi Yan to provide herbs for his pills, and she explained that Elder Hao had tightened the Medicine Garden's defenses and that she could not defeat the powerful Magical Beasts in the forest.
• Xiao Yan offered to accompany Zi Yan to find herbs and handle the Magical Beasts, and Zi Yan eagerly agreed.

Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to confront the Snow Demon Sky Ape that had bullied her and defeated the fifth-tier beast using only his physical strength. With the ape unconscious, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan headed into its cave to claim the treasure.

• Zi Yan rode with Xiao Yan on the Black Heavy Ruler to the Magical Beast Forest and led him to the Snow Demon Sky Ape's cave.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape emerged and taunted Zi Yan, who hid behind Xiao Yan and asked him to beat it up.
• Xiao Yan broke the ape's arm with a single punch, then fought it after it entered its Berserk state.
• Xiao Yan overwhelmed the berserk Snow Demon Sky Ape with punches and kicks, then knocked it unconscious.
• Zi Yan celebrated by kicking the fallen ape, and she and Xiao Yan went into the cave to claim its spoils.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan raided the Magical Beast Forest for treasures, then Xiao Yan demonstrated his alchemy skills to the Inner Academy. After the academy completed its preparations, Xiao Yan was ready to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan collected the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and other treasures, leaving a small portion behind and slipping away while the Snow Demon Sky Ape slept.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan raided the forest's beast kings until the terrified beasts began leaving their treasures outside their caves.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Yan to help the Alchemy Department, and Xiao Yan agreed to refine Pills before its teachers and students.
• Xiao Yan made Zi Yan special drinks from their gathered treasures and told her not to share them.
• Xiao Yan refined the Emperor's Extreme Pill and other high-rank Pills for the Alchemy Department, then answered questions and helped its members improve.
• Su Qian informed Xiao Yan that all precautions were in place, and Xiao Yan prepared to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower alone and quickly subdued the Fallen Heart Flame after discovering its origin inside a fire python. He sealed the weakened flame and prepared to leave with it.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the tower, reassured Su Qian, and entered the underground world alone.
• The Fallen Heart Flame ambushed Xiao Yan as a fire python, but he dodged its attacks and countered with his ruler and powerful strikes.
• Xiao Yan shattered the fire python's head and used his spiritual perception and Lasers to locate and damage the hidden flame origin.
• Xiao Yan resisted the Fallen Heart Flame's heart flame with the Horse Talisman and sealed its origin in his palm.
• Xiao Yan declared the task done, while Yao Lao remarked on how brutally he had subdued the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan subdued the Fallen Heart Flame and retreated to the Dean’s Stone Platform, where he used an Emperor’s Extreme Pill to advance to Three-Star Dou Emperor before devouring the flame. After three months of seclusion, he emerged and looked beyond Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower with the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian thanked him for resolving the academy’s crisis.
• Su Qian led Xiao Yan to Dean Mang Tianchi’s secluded Stone Platform, where Xiao Yan set up Restrictions before beginning his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Emperor’s Extreme Pill and advanced from One-Star Dou Emperor to Three-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan swallowed and began refining the Fallen Heart Flame while a young flame grew under the elders’ care and Zi Yan waited for him to return.
• Three months later, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and looked toward the area beyond Jia Nan Academy.

After refining the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yan reached Peak Dou Emperor and began preparing to break through to Dou Zong. Two months after drinking a potent tonic made from rare treasures, he triggered a tremendous surge of heaven-and-earth energy that drew the Inner Academy’s attention.

• Xiao Yan decided to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong immediately after reaching Peak Dou Emperor, and Yao Lao accepted that his foundation was stable.
• Xiao Yan used rare treasures and the Myriad Beast Cauldron to brew Tenfold Tonic Soup, then drank it and absorbed its violent medicinal energy while Yao Lao kept watch.
• Xiao Yan continued refining the tonic for two months as Su Qian periodically checked on his secluded cultivation.
• Heaven-and-earth energy suddenly rushed toward Xiao Yan, forming a vast vortex and stirring the sky above the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian sensed Xiao Yan’s aura and looked toward his cultivation site in alarm.

Xiao Yan completed his breakthrough to One-Star Dou Zong, astonishing Su Qian and Qian Bai Er Lao with the scale of the phenomenon. Afterward, he discovered that his soul realm had reached Early Spirit Realm and that he had awakened the Snake Talisman, whose power he wondered how he could use on the Dou Qi Continent.

• Su Qian and Qian Bai Er Lao sensed the enormous breakthrough phenomenon and learned that Xiao Yan was cultivating in seclusion.
• Su Qian and the two guardians waited for a month as the phenomenon continued, then watched Xiao Yan emerge from a sea of flames as a fourteen-year-old One-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan greeted Su Qian, Qian Mu, and Bai Lie respectfully, and they praised his cultivation and composure.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian about the young Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian said it was doing wonderfully.
• After Su Qian left, Xiao Yan reviewed his gains, discovered his soul realm had advanced to Early Spirit Realm, and learned that he had awakened the Snake Talisman.

Xiao Yan tested the Snake Talisman and discovered it made him invisible, undetectable, and untouchable until he initiated contact. After reuniting with Zi Yan and resting, he sensed Vice Dean Hu Gan approaching and wondered whether something had happened at the Outer Academy.

• Xiao Yan used the Snake Talisman to vanish before Yao Lao, whose Spirit Realm Grand Perfection Soul Perception could not detect him.
• Xiao Yan found that Yao Lao could not touch him while the Talisman was active, though anyone he touched could touch him in return.
• Xiao Yan dispelled the Talisman, and a shaken Yao Lao returned to the Bone Flame Ring to recover.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy, where Zi Yan crashed into his arms and eagerly ate the pills he gave her.
• Xiao Yan slept until the next day, then sensed Vice Dean Hu Gan approaching and wondered if something had happened at the Outer Academy.

Xiao Yan agreed to refine pills for Hu Gan and the Inner Academy elders, while planning to revive the Heavenly Fire Venerable before Yao Lao. After completing the elders’ pills, he received a request from Qian Bai Er Lao to refine a Peak Seventh-Grade Dual Origin Pill.

• Hu Gan asked Xiao Yan to refine a Sect Breaking Pill to help him break through to the Dou Zong Realm, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• The Inner Academy elders brought Xiao Yan medicinal herbs and registered requests for pills, while Su Qian organized the queue.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian to find herbs from a list he had prepared for reviving Yao Lao, and explained that he intended to revive the Heavenly Fire Venerable first.
• Xiao Yan refined Hu Gan’s Sect Breaking Pill and the elders’ Dou Ling Pills over the next few days, earning extra medicinal herbs.
• Su Qian brought Qian Bai Er Lao to Xiao Yan, and Qian Mu asked him to refine a Peak Seventh-Grade Dual Origin Pill.

Xiao Yan agreed to refine the Qian Bai Er Lao’s Peak Seventh-Grade Dual Origin Pill and began the difficult process in a secluded place. He successfully formed both pills at once, and the chapter ended as Pill Lightning gathered overhead.

• Xiao Yan told Qian Bai Er Lao he could refine their Dual Origin Pill, astonishing them and filling them with hope of breaking through to Dou Zun.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Yan most of the Medicinal Herbs he had requested, and Xiao Yan thanked him before heading to a secluded place to refine the pill.
• Xiao Yan studied Yao Lao’s guidance, then used the Myriad Beast Cauldron and Three-Colored Fused Heavenly Flame to refine the herbs over several days.
• Xiao Yan precisely divided and condensed the medicinal liquid, forming two Pill embryos at the same time.
• Xiao Yan completed both Peak Seventh-Grade Pills, drawing Pill Lightning that filled the sky as he watched it eagerly.

Xiao Yan endured the Seventh-Grade Pill’s lightning to temper his body, then successfully refined two Dual Origin Pills. After Zi Yan asked for help discovering her true form, Xiao Yan identified her as an Ancient Void Dragon.

• Xiao Yan faced two rounds of Pill Lightning, strengthening his body and improving his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan subdued the two pills that escaped the cauldron and stored them in a Jade Box, completing his first successful attempt at refining a Seventh-Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan relaxed together in the courtyard, playfully bickering over food.
• Qian Bai Er Lao collected the two Dual Origin Pills and left to enter seclusion and attempt breakthroughs to Dou Zun.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan to investigate her true form, and he told her she was an Ancient Void Dragon.

Xiao Yan learned that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon and promised to take her to find her family once he was stronger. After obtaining a Pill Recipe for her condition, he left Jia Nan Academy with her to seek ingredients in the Black-Corner Region, then used the Monkey Talisman to transform her into her true form.

• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that her clan lived in the Central Plains and promised to help her find her family when the time was right.
• Yao Lao created an Eighth-Tier Transformation Pill Recipe for Zi Yan, but Xiao Yan still needed to find its ingredients.
• Xiao Yan decided to search for medicinal ingredients in the Black-Corner Region and brought Zi Yan along because she could sense rare treasures.
• Su Qian agreed to let Xiao Yan take Zi Yan out of Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan stopped to give Xiao Yu cultivation resources before they left.
• Xiao Yan chose the Blood Sect as their first destination, then used the Monkey Talisman's power to make Zi Yan transform as brilliant light surrounded her.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan raided the Blood Sect and Demon Flame Valley, using Zi Yan’s dragon form and the Snake Talisman to evade detection. After killing Earth Demon Old Ghost and taking his treasures, they gathered the herbs needed to revive Heavenly Fire Venerable and prepared to address Zi Yan’s transformation problem.

• Xiao Yan used the Monkey Talisman to turn Zi Yan into an Ancient Void Dragon and rode her toward the Blood Sect.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan slipped through the Blood Sect’s Restrictions, emptied its treasury and Medicine Garden, and escaped before Fan Lao learned what happened.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan ransacked Demon Flame Valley but found no Puppet Refinement Art or Flame Manipulation Art among its treasures.
• Xiao Yan concealed a Three-Colored Fire Lotus with the Snake Talisman and detonated it beside Earth Demon Old Ghost, killing him.
• Xiao Yan took Earth Demon Old Ghost’s Storage Ring and found the Puppet Refinement Method, the Flame Manipulation Art, and many other treasures inside.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan sorted their spoils, completed their collection of herbs for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, and planned to revive Heavenly Fire Venerable and solve Zi Yan’s transformation problem.