Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan received a Zen Heart Pill from Wu Bai, who then continued training under the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Ling. After learning that his body-tempering gains had reached diminishing returns, Wu Bai prepared to focus on advancing to Dou Wang.

• Wu Bai gave Lin Yan a Zen Heart Pill that eased his fire poison and asked him to buy three sets of herbs and two rare medicinal ingredients before leaving the academy.
• Wu Bai tested his medicinal formula, then trained in combat and body tempering under the Yellow Springs Demon Saint for more than two months.
• Wu Bai completed his Dou Ling cultivation, reaching Nine-Star Dou Ling after ten months.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint explained that Wu Bai had drawn out most of his body's hidden potential and should now focus on advancing to Dou Wang.

Wu Bai learned the Earthflame Body cultivation technique and entered seclusion on the ninth floor while Han Yue advanced to Eight-Star Dou Ling and learned a Low Earth Tier Dou Technique. After overseeing Baiyue, Han Yue challenged the Strong Ranking and defeated its fiftieth-ranked student, preparing to face stronger opponents.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint taught Wu Bai the Earthflame Body, a high Earth Tier technique that cultivated his Dou Qi and physique together, and Wu Bai quickly mastered the transition from Sunflame Art.
• Han Yue emerged from three months of cultivation on the ninth floor, having advanced from Five-Star to Eight-Star Dou Ling, and reunited with Wu Bai.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint taught Han Yue a Low Earth Tier Dou Technique after beating her and Wu Bai in a two-against-one fight.
• Wu Bai entered seclusion on the ninth floor, and Han Yue organized Baiyue's recruitment plans for the upcoming Inner Academy students.
• Han Yue challenged the Strong Ranking's fiftieth-ranked student and defeated him easily, then called for her next opponent.

Han Yue strengthened [Baiyue] and rose to eleventh on the Strong Ranking while Wu Bai cultivated on the ninth floor of the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower. Wu Bai broke through to Dou Wang, tested his new abilities in the Magical Beast Forest, and killed a fifth-tier magical beast.

• Han Yue welcomed new students into [Baiyue], awarded them pills and fire energy, and gave Xiao Ying and Xiao Xing a hundred days' worth of fire energy each.
• Han Yue reached Nine-Star Dou Ling and rose to eleventh on the Strong Ranking as [Baiyue]'s new members began to stand out.
• Wu Bai broke through to Dou Wang, manifested flame wings, and practiced his newly awakened abilities outside the Inner Academy.
• Wu Bai traveled to the Magical Beast Forest and killed a gigantic wolf-shaped magical beast, taking its fifth-tier magic core.

Wu Bai trained through the night against Magical Beasts to master his new Dou Wang strength, then returned to the academy with Han Yue. The Yellow Springs Demon Saint reminded him to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map in two months, while Wu Bai focused on gathering old objects to revive powerful experts.

• Wu Bai fought a Tier 5 Magical Beast with Cikong, then battled a giant bear to improve his close-combat skills and endured its blows with the help of Earthflame Body.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint treated Wu Bai’s injuries and praised his progress as Wu Bai continued training until he had adapted to his strength.
• After returning to the academy, Wu Bai learned that he needed to travel to the Black-Corner Region in two months to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.
• Wu Bai told the Yellow Springs Demon Saint that he planned to collect old objects belonging to powerful experts so he could revive them, and said he was in no hurry to become a Dou Di.
• Han Yue arrived as Wu Bai returned, and students recognized her beside the unfamiliar Dou Wang, speculating that he was her boyfriend and a mysterious Tier 6 Alchemist.

Wu Bai refined a large batch of medicinal pills after returning from seclusion, then discussed how to attract powerful Inner Academy students to [Baiyue]. The Yellow Springs Demon Saint pointed out that promoting the Zen Heart Pill’s protection against fire poison could draw in those struggling to cultivate in seclusion.

• Wu Bai planned his pill-refining work and successfully refined Qi Cultivation Pills, then spent the day making medicinal pills.
• Han Yue returned and told Wu Bai that people were curious about the powerhouse who had flown her out of the tower.
• Wu Bai considered recruiting top Inner Academy students who were nearing Dou Wang, but he and Han Yue recognized that his unique breakthrough method could not be replicated.
• Wu Bai proposed publicizing the Zen Heart Pill’s benefits to attract cultivators troubled by fire poison.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint reminded Wu Bai and Han Yue that the pill’s protection from fire poison was already a compelling reason for others to join [Baiyue].

After a week of pill refining, Wu Bai took stock of his medicines, rested, and discovered that spiritual energy had begun to mix with his soul power. The Yellow Springs Demon Saint explained the soul realms and the Spirit Realm’s importance, leaving Wu Bai wondering whether his teacher knew any Soul Dou Techniques.

• Han Yue promised Baiyue members a Zen Heart Pill if they reached Nine-Star Dou Ling within three years, provided they supplied the herbs.
• Wu Bai finished a week of refining and counted twenty-five sixth-grade pills and thirteen fifth-grade pills, then wrote a list of herbs to buy.
• Wu Bai fell asleep from exhaustion and woke to find that his soul power had grown stronger and changed.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint told Wu Bai that spiritual energy was entering his soul power and that he could reach the Spirit Realm before Dou Zong.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint explained how Spirit Realm souls could create sentient eighth-tier pills and described the soul realms and their combat potential.
• Wu Bai asked whether the Yellow Springs Demon Saint knew any Soul Dou Techniques, and his teacher answered with a knowing smile.

Wu Bai obtained the Earth-tier soul Dou Technique Shattered Soul Finger and stocked up on medicinal herbs in Jia Nan City, paying with a Dou Ling Pill. He commissioned the Spirit Medicine Vault to gather more herbs for him and ended the day sharing a feast with Han Yue.

• Wu Bai received Shattered Soul Finger from his teacher, though repeated use would burden his transforming soul.
• Wu Bai bought medicinal herbs at the Spirit Medicine Vault and paid with a Dou Ling Pill after the shopkeeper recognized him.
• The shopkeeper offered Wu Bai a discount and agreed to gather high-grade medicinal herbs from outside the academy in exchange for pills.
• Wu Bai enjoyed a meal at Jia Nan City’s finest restaurant and had food packed for Han Yue.
• Han Yue returned from the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and happily ate the feast Wu Bai had ordered.

Wu Bai traveled to Black Seal City to attend the Eight Gates' auction, hoping to meet someone who might be revived. At the auction, he bought Thunder Bat Sky Wings as a gift for Yue'er and watched Fan Ling bid on a fragmentary treasure map.

• Wu Bai reached two-star Dou Wang, left the Inner Academy, and arrived in Black Seal City five days before the auction.
• Wu Bai put two Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills up for auction to raise funds and arrived masked at the auction house two days later.
• Wu Bai's teacher sensed that a young attendee carried the aura of the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Wu Bai waited through the early auction lots.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion bought Wu Bai's two Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills for two million five hundred thousand gold coins.
• Wu Bai outbid Fan Ling for Thunder Bat Sky Wings at two million gold coins, intending to give the flying Dou technique to Yue'er.
• Fan Ling bid two hundred thousand gold coins on a fragment of a treasure map.

Wu Bai won the Fragment Map and several auction items, then used the map to resurrect Purifying Lotus Demon Saint. After Yellow Springs Demon Saint explained what had happened, they discovered that Wu Bai’s soul was growing stronger and speculated about what his advancement might mean for them.

• Wu Bai outbid Fan Ling for the Fragment Map and later won the earth core fire ganoderma, while Xiao Yan watched from a nearby corner.
• Wu Bai settled his auction bill, rejected the Eight Gates steward’s attempt to recruit him, and left with his purchases.
• Xiao Yan and his companion discussed whether they could act against Wu Bai, whose strength and perception impressed them.
• Wu Bai placed the Fragment Map on the table, and Purifying Lotus Demon Saint emerged from it and regained a solid form.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint introduced Wu Bai to Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and explained how Wu Bai had brought them back to life.
• Yellow Springs Demon Saint noticed Wu Bai’s soul gathering spiritual energy faster, and Purifying Lotus Demon Saint wondered what might happen when Wu Bai reached an emperor realm soul.

Wu Bai killed Fan Ling and took the spoils from his Storage Ring while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen followed, then turned back before confronting him. Back at the Inner Academy, Wu Bai counted his gains and resumed cultivating.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen followed Wu Bai and Fan Ling's party, hoping to obtain the Fragment Map, but Yao Chen sensed something wrong and led Xiao Yan away.
• Wu Bai used his speed to kill Fan Ling and the Blood Sect members, taking Fan Ling's head and Storage Ring.
• Wu Bai transferred the valuables from Fan Ling's Storage Ring and discarded it, regretting that Xiao Yan and Yao Chen had left before they could work together.
• Wu Bai returned to the Inner Academy and set aside the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and Three Thousand Lightning Movement for possible future use.
• Wu Bai counted his gold coins, stored the earth core fire ganoderma, and decided he would eventually need a larger Storage Ring.
• Wu Bai put away his gains and resumed cultivating.

Wu Bai broke through to the Spirit Realm while cultivating in the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, causing a soul-power phenomenon that alarmed the Inner Academy. Afterward, the Yellow Springs Demon Saint introduced him to a new soul cultivation technique, Nine Revolutions Soul Refining.

• Han Yue considered saving the Flying Dou Technique for her younger sister, Han Xue, and Wu Bai left the decision to her.
• After more than half a month of cultivation, Wu Bai used the Soul-Guiding Secret Art and released a spiritual energy wave across the Inner Academy.
• The two Demon Saints entered the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to guard Wu Bai, and First Elder Su Qian ordered everyone to keep quiet near the tower.
• Several days later, Wu Bai's soul power erupted across the surrounding region as he reached the Spirit Realm, and his Dou Qi cultivation advanced toward Three-Star Dou Wang.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint told Wu Bai he would teach him a soul cultivation technique called Nine Revolutions Soul Refining.

Wu Bai and the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint infiltrated Maple City and used Nightmare Sky Mist to subdue Han Feng, taking his incomplete Flame Mantra and Nether Sea Storage Ring. Wu Bai returned to the Inner Academy with his teachers, while the Sea Heart Flame remained for later.

• Wu Bai traveled at night to Maple City with the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and his other teacher.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint cast Nightmare Sky Mist over Han Feng, trapping him in illusions of Yao Chen and Venerable Feng.
• Han Feng succumbed to the mist and obeyed his master's orders, then entered seclusion with the incomplete Flame Mantra.
• Wu Bai and the two Demon Saints took Han Feng's incomplete Flame Mantra and Nether Sea Storage Ring and returned to the Inner Academy.
• Wu Bai imprinted the Nether Sea Storage Ring as his own while his teachers examined the Flame Mantra.

After reaching Three-Star Dou Wang and stabilizing his soul power, Wu Bai tested his improved alchemy and produced a superior Dou Ling Pill. He visited Elder Huo to fulfill his promise to refine Sect Breaking Pills, and Elder Huo recognized that Wu Bai’s soul had reached the spirit realm.

• Wu Bai examined Han Feng’s storage ring and found few treasures worth keeping, then returned to cultivation.
• After nearly half a month in the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, Wu Bai emerged at Three-Star Dou Wang and stabilized his soul power through further cultivation.
• Wu Bai refined two Dou Ling Pills and found that his spirit-realm soul power had produced one of noticeably higher quality.
• Wu Bai decided he could refine sixth-grade pills and went to Elder Huo to fulfill his promise to make Sect Breaking Pills.
• Elder Huo felt the pressure of Wu Bai’s soul power, identified it as spirit-realm strength, and provided a meditation chamber and three sets of herbs.

Wu Bai refined a Sect Breaking Pill in Elder Huo’s sealed chamber, causing a disturbance across Jia Nan City and astonishing the academy elders. Three days later, Hu Gan brought Wu Bai to the Dean’s elevated cultivation platform in the Inner Academy, where Wu Bai could safely refine pills.

• Wu Bai spent a day and night refining a Sect Breaking Pill in Elder Huo’s sealed chamber, and the breakthrough in energy shook Jia Nan City.
• Hu Gan and the elders entered the damaged chamber, where Wu Bai revealed that he had refined a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Elder Huo showed Hu Gan the pill, and Hu Gan decided to ask Wu Bai to refine one for him.
• Wu Bai recovered, discussed his requirements for a refining site with Hu Gan, and returned to the Inner Academy.
• Three days later, Hu Gan took Wu Bai to the Dean’s cultivation platform, where Wu Bai could refine pills safely.

Wu Bai refined a Sixth-Grade Sect Breaking Pill in the Inner Academy while Hu Gan and a growing crowd watched. After the pill formed at dawn, Wu Bai’s Flood Dragon caught it and brought it to him.

• Wu Bai set up the Vast Sea Cauldron on a stone platform and used his Flood Dragon to heat it before adding the cold marrow branch.
• Hu Gan warned the students who gathered to watch that Wu Bai was refining a Sixth-Grade Pill and that they must stay quiet and keep their distance.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er joined the crowd, and Yao Chen explained the strength of Wu Bai’s beast flame and the demands of pill refinement.
• Wu Bai spent the night refining the herbs and carefully fusing their medicinal liquids as many students watched.
• At dawn, an Energy Pillar appeared and the formed pill tried to escape, but Wu Bai’s Flood Dragon caught it and delivered it to him.

Wu Bai received the New Flame Mantra, a revised cultivation technique created by the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and Purifying Lotus Demon Saint that allowed his Flood Dragon Flame Seed to cultivate and evolve by devouring other flames. He and his teachers realized they still needed a way to make a beast flame resist a heavenly flame instead of submitting to it.

• Wu Bai gave Hu Gan the successfully refined Sect Breaking Pill, and Hu Gan promised to repay the favor if he advanced to Dou Zong.
• Wu Bai advised Hu Jia to grow stronger and use her strength to answer the senior students who bullied newcomers.
• Wu Bai replenished his dou qi, then visited the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and Purifying Lotus Demon Saint to ask for a seventh-grade medicinal formula.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint passed Wu Bai the New Flame Mantra, which revised the Flame Mantra without requiring Wu Bai to change techniques or restart cultivation.
• Wu Bai studied the New Flame Mantra and learned that his Flood Dragon Flame Seed could cultivate by devouring flames, but they still needed a way for it to confront heavenly flames without submitting.

Wu Bai successfully fused the Flood Dragon Flame Seed with his former Flame Tiger Flame Seed using the New Flame Mantra, then prepared to refine pills before devouring a juvenile fallen heart flame. After leaving the Forbidden Grounds, he met Su Qian, who gave him the key to the Inner Academy's Medicinal Materials Warehouse.

• Wu Bai explained how his spirit realm soul let him grant beast flames sentience and make the New Flame Mantra work as a technique tailored to him.
• The Flood Dragon Flame Seed smoothly devoured Wu Bai's former Flame Tiger Flame Seed and returned to him as a blue-white flame with a trace of crimson.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint urged Wu Bai to practice with Sixth-Grade Pills before devouring a juvenile fallen heart flame, while the Yellow Springs Demon Saint warned him to avoid seventh-grade pills because of pill lightning.
• Wu Bai asked about preparations for suppressing heavenly flames, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint told him to refine pills first and address pill lightning later.
• After Wu Bai left the Forbidden Grounds, Su Qian presented him with the key to the Inner Academy's Medicinal Materials Warehouse.

Su Qian gave Wu Bai the key to the Inner Academy’s medicinal materials warehouse, and Wu Bai used its ingredients to refine a Water Spirit Pill. Afterward, he met Zi Yan, who asked him to refine a Transformation Pill, and learned that its pill lightning would require a powerful expert to withstand.

• Su Qian gave Wu Bai the warehouse key and told him he could use the stone platform in the forbidden grounds.
• Wu Bai took ingredients for a Water Spirit Pill from the warehouse and flew to the stone platform, unaware that Zi Yan was watching him.
• Wu Bai spent more than five hours refining a Tier 6 water-attribute magic core, then completed the pill the next day as a blue pillar of light rose into the sky.
• Zi Yan approached Wu Bai and asked him to refine a Transformation Pill.
• Wu Bai explained that the high-grade seventh-grade pill would attract pill lightning and require a powerful expert to withstand it, then introduced himself to Zi Yan.

Wu Bai negotiated with Zi Yan over joining his organization and offered her a Fifth-grade Pill in exchange for guarding him while he refined pills in the Magical Beast Forest. Zi Yan accepted, eager for the Azure Origin Pill, and the two left their arrangement settled despite their bickering.

• Wu Bai offered to refine Zi Yan a Transformation Pill if she joined his organization and supplied the herbs and suitable gifts.
• Zi Yan proposed trading information about treasure locations for gifts, and Wu Bai agreed to count especially precious finds at a discount.
• Wu Bai left for his residence, but Zi Yan followed and continued asking him for pills.
• Wu Bai offered Zi Yan an Azure Origin Pill if she guarded him during pill refining in the Magical Beast Forest, and she accepted after seeing the pill.
• Zi Yan praised Wu Bai for planning to refine pills away from the academy, then teased him for being stingy.

Wu Bai enlisted Zi Yan to guard him while he refined pills, then used two Demon Saints' Soul Power and heavenly cold qi to prepare an immature fallen heart flame for absorption. The New Flame Mantra began refining the flame after its strength was exhausted.

• Wu Bai and Zi Yan traveled to the Magical Beast Forest, where Zi Yan guarded him for several days as he refined an Azure Origin Pill for her.
• Wu Bai returned to the Inner Academy, cultivated in the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, and obtained a snow-white Storage Ring containing an immature fallen heart flame.
• Wu Bai secretly went to Han Feng's Maple City and ordered Han Feng to keep others away while he prepared to devour the flame.
• Wu Bai used heavenly cold qi to suppress the fallen heart flame, then made his fused beast flame's fire seed swallow it.
• After the cold qi exhausted the fallen heart flame's strength, the New Flame Mantra began refining it.