Chapter Summaries

At Xiao Court’s auction, Xiao Yan bought green wood immortal vine, and the bidding grew intense when Xue You offered three Emperor’s Extreme Pills in exchange for medicinal ingredients. The first pill’s bidding continued as Xiao Yu listened from his private room.

• Xiao Yan bid a Foundation-Stabilizing Pill for the green wood immortal vine, and Xue You awarded it to him after no one raised the offer.
• Xiao Yu suspected that a bidder’s voice belonged to Xiao Yan and decided to check later.
• Xue You unveiled an Emperor’s Extreme Pill and announced that three would be auctioned individually for medicinal ingredients, prioritizing items on Xiao Court’s list.
• A bidder questioned the pill’s quality, and Xue You guaranteed double compensation if any problem arose; the bidder then made the first offer.
• Dou Huang experts called out increasingly valuable ingredients and magic cores, and Xiao Yu placed a bid that included a Mid-Sixth-Order magic core.

At the Xiao Court auction, Elder Huo bought the first Emperor's Extreme Pill, an unidentified old man bought the second, and Han Feng secured the third. After the auction, Xiao Yu sensed trouble to the south and went to confront it as Dou Huang experts followed.

• Elder Huo invoked Jia Nan Academy's reputation to win the first Emperor's Extreme Pill, while Xiao Yu realized the auction had gathered many of the ingredients he needed.
• Han Feng waited until the third Emperor's Extreme Pill and watched the auction room ceiling as an old man on the roof sensed that both Han Feng and Xiao Yu had noticed him.
• A powerful old man bought the second pill and left the auction house immediately, prompting several Dou Huang experts to leave in apparent pursuit.
• Han Feng won the third pill, and Elder Huo took Xiao Yan back to an inn in Xiao City to study their pill.
• Xiao Yu sensed trouble to the south and vanished from the auction house as the Dou Huang experts headed there to witness the confrontation.

Xiao Yu intervened when two elders tried to rob a black-robed elder of his Emperor's Extreme Pill inside Xiao City. He confronted the attackers over Xiao City's rules, and prepared to cripple their Dou Qi after they refused to comply.

• A green-robed elder and a blue-robed elder ambushed a black-robed elder and demanded his Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• The black-robed elder tried to leave, but the green-robed elder blocked him, and both attackers prepared to fight inside Xiao City.
• Xiao Yu appeared with an overwhelming aura and stopped the three elders from clashing, allowing the black-robed elder to escape.
• Xiao Yu ordered the two elders to cripple their own Dou Qi, but the blue-robed elder arrogantly challenged him.
• Xiao Yu said he would do it himself.

Xiao Yu defeated two Five-Star Dou Emperors who had attacked Xiao Court, while the gathered faction leaders learned who he was. The elders launched desperate counterattacks, regretting that they had come to Xiao City, as Xiao Yu pressed his assault.

• Xiao Yu used his speed to slam the Green-Clothed Elder and the Blue-Clothed Elder into the ground.
• The leaders of several Black-Corner Region factions arrived and recognized Xiao Yu as the Court Master of Xiao Court.
• Pang Yuan told Yan that Xiao Yu was the court master, and Yan ordered Pang Yuan to apologize to him afterward.
• Xiao Yan revealed to Elder Huo that Xiao Yu was his cousin, and Elder Huo asked him to seek Xiao Yu's help with alchemy.
• Xiao Yu attacked the two elders in their craters, and they broke free to unleash poison and water attacks against him.

Xiao Yu defeated the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor after they attacked Xiao City, then prepared to cripple their Dou Qi. Medicine Emperor Han Feng tried to buy their release, but Xiao Yu grew suspicious of his connection to them and remained determined to punish them.

• Xiao Yu used the Golden Light Dao Flame and Great Desolate Flame to destroy the elders' attacks and smash them into craters in the street.
• Xiao Yu grabbed the battered green-robed and blue-robed elders by their throats and said he would cripple their Dou Qi rather than kill them.
• Han Feng arrived, introduced himself as Medicine Emperor, and asked Xiao Yu to spare the two men, offering compensation and then a top-grade sixth-rank pill.
• Fan Lao identified the elders as the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor, two obscure Five-Star Dou Emperors of the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yu suspected Han Feng was more than an acquaintance of the elders and refused to abandon their punishment.

Xiao Yu crippled the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor after they caused trouble in Xiao City, while Han Feng hid his anger and later killed them with sea heart flame. Xiao Yu mingled with Black-Corner Region faction leaders afterward, as Xiao Yan and a mysterious woman watched him.

• Xiao Yu crippled the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor, then let Han Feng take them away.
• Han Feng killed the two crippled men with sea heart flame and decided to accelerate his plan against Xiao Court.
• Xiao Yu greeted leaders from several first-rate factions and exchanged pleasantries with them after the auction.
• Xiao Yan waited with Elder Huo while a beautiful woman watched Xiao Yu mingle with the faction leaders.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yu and learned that the Xiao Court would welcome him and his clansmen. Su Mei asked Xiao Yu to refine an Emperor's Extreme Pill, and she offered him a rare Two-Extremes Coiling Dragon Branch as additional payment.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan caught up, and Xiao Yu offered to give Xiao Yan and his clansmen positions at the Xiao Court.
• Su Mei arrived and greeted Xiao Yu, who introduced her to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan remembered Elder Huo and tried to introduce him, giving Xiao Yu an opening to ask Su Mei whether she needed anything.
• Su Mei asked Xiao Yu to refine an Emperor's Extreme Pill because she had failed to win one at auction and had only gathered one set of ingredients.
• Su Mei offered additional medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yu recognized one as a Two-Extremes Coiling Dragon Branch.

Xiao Yu accepted Su Mei’s request to refine Emperor’s Extreme Pills and showed Xiao Yan and Elder Huo around the Xiao Court, including its upgraded Desolate Spirit-Gathering Tower. That night, Yao Lao praised the Xiao Court’s potential while reflecting on his former disciple’s betrayal and the Soul Palace’s threat.

• Xiao Yu accepted Su Mei’s medicinal ingredients as payment for refining Emperor’s Extreme Pills and arranged a time for her to collect them.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yu to Elder Huo, and Xiao Yu invited both men to stay at the Xiao Court.
• Xiao Yu showed Xiao Yan and Elder Huo the Xiao Court’s points system, Treasure Pavilion, Mission Hall, and Desolate Spirit-Gathering Tower 2.0.
• Xiao Yu explained that Returning-to-Truth Lightning purified the tower’s worldly energy, though keeping it running required more of his Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Court could become a superpower and recalled his anger and heartache over the disciple who had betrayed him.

Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that the Fallen Heart Flame’s seal was weakening and that they might soon have a chance to subdue it. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu exchanged alchemy insights with Elder Huo, and their discussion ended as someone returned with items to exchange for points.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the formation sealing the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Spirit would likely fail within a year, creating an opportunity to subdue it.
• At Elder Huo’s prompting, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yu to exchange alchemy insights with Elder Huo, and Xiao Yu agreed while preparing an Emperor’s Extreme Pill for Su Mei.
• Elder Huo watched Xiao Yu refine the pill, while Xiao Yu concealed the Pill Fusion step with the Myriad Transformation Flame.
• Xiao Yu and Elder Huo spent two days sharing alchemy knowledge, with Xiao Yu teaching him about the sixth rank and Elder Huo expanding Xiao Yu’s knowledge of medicinal ingredients.
• Elder Huo thanked Xiao Yu and promised to return after reaching the sixth rank, while Xiao Yan sat bored through their farewells.
• A clear voice called from outside as someone returned and asked Xiao Yu to see what they had found and estimate its exchange value.

Zi Yan returned to Xiao Yu’s hall, where he told Elder Huo to inform Su Qian that she was at the Xiao Court. Elder Huo and Xiao Yan left afterward, while Zi Yan stayed behind, sulking at Xiao Yu.

• Zi Yan tried to flee when she recognized Elder Huo, but Xiao Yu caught her with an energy hand and explained that she had followed him to the Xiao Court.
• Elder Huo explained that Zi Yan was a powerful magical beast who often stole medicinal ingredients, and Zi Yan threatened to pull out his beard if he told Su Qian she was there.
• Xiao Yu asked Elder Huo to pass the message to Su Qian, while Zi Yan threatened to eat Xiao Yan until Xiao Yu warned her against harming his younger brother.
• Zi Yan clung to Xiao Yu and begged him not to send her away, but he scolded her and Elder Huo agreed to deliver the message.
• Elder Huo and Xiao Yan departed, and Xiao Yu asked Zi Yan to show him what she had mentioned earlier, but she sulked and refused.

Xiao Yu lectured Zi Yan into agreeing to return to Jia Nan Academy and seek Su Qian’s permission before visiting Xiao Court again. After appraising her medicinal herbs and awarding her seventy thousand points, he took the usable herbs to his Alchemy Room to refine them.

• Xiao Yu explained that Zi Yan’s behavior had worried her elders and could cause conflict between Xiao Court and Jia Nan Academy, persuading her to go back and tell Su Qian she was safe.
• Xiao Yu agreed Zi Yan could return to Xiao Court if Su Qian approved, and reminded her to show respect to her elders.
• Zi Yan showed Xiao Yu a large collection of medicinal herbs, including yin-yang profound grass, and asked how many points they were worth.
• Xiao Yu valued the herbs at seventy thousand points and transferred them to Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan hurried away, while Xiao Yu sorted out the herbs he could use and carried them to his private Alchemy Room.

Su Qian arrived at Xiao Court to find Zi Yan, and Xiao Yu welcomed him as its court master. After seeing that Zi Yan was safe and well cared for, Su Qian set aside his worry and listened as she offered to show him around.

• Xiao Yu sensed a powerful Dou Zong aura at Xiao Court and went to meet its visitor, Su Qian of Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian recognized Xiao Yu as Xiao Court's court master, and Xiao Yu invited him into the main hall.
• Xiao Yu sent for Zi Yan, who greeted Su Qian with teasing remarks and brushed off his scolding for leaving without telling him she was safe.
• Su Qian thanked Xiao Yu for caring for Zi Yan, and Xiao Yu told him that she had helped rather than caused trouble.
• Zi Yan grew bored of their conversation and offered to show Su Qian around Xiao Court.

Xiao Yu accepted Su Qian and Zi Yan’s invitation to visit Jia Nan Academy, leaving Xue You in charge of the Xiao Court. Meanwhile, Han Feng rallied powerful factions for a plan that he believed needed two specific people to succeed.

• Zi Yan showed Su Qian around the Xiao Court, and he was impressed by its facilities and Xiao Yu’s potential.
• Xiao Yu delivered the Emperor's Extreme Pill to Su Mei and left quickly, angering her.
• Su Qian invited Xiao Yu to visit Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yu agreed so he could see the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and study the Fallen Heart Flame’s heart flame.
• Xiao Yu entrusted Xue You with authority over the Xiao Court’s affairs and departed with Su Qian and Zi Yan.
• In Maple City, Han Feng learned that the Blood Sect had agreed to join his plan while Emperor Ban was still considering it.
• Han Feng instructed his subordinate to contact every first-rate faction except the Xiao Court, then resolved to personally invite two people he considered essential to the plan.

Xiao Yu arrived at Jia Nan Academy with Su Qian and Zi Yan, then went to the Inner Academy to find Xiao Yan. He called out to Xiao Yan at the Pan Gate dormitory, where he was unexpectedly greeted by his cousin Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu, Su Qian, and Zi Yan entered Peace Town and saw the Death Spirit Tree before making their way into Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian left to handle his duties, while Zi Yan showed Xiao Yu around the Outer and Inner Academies.
• Xiao Yu asked for directions to the Pan Gate and went to Xiao Yan's freshman dormitory, where he loudly called for him to come out and welcome a guest.
• Pan Gate students took offense at Xiao Yu's greeting, and one of them prepared to confront him as Zi Yan watched eagerly.
• Xiao Yu's cousin Xiao Yu opened the door, recognized him, and surprised the student who had been about to pick a fight.

Xiao Yu brought Xiao Yu and the Xiao Clan members to the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, where he forced a path through the crowd and entered with them. Inside, the heart flame appeared in Xiao Yu’s body, but his six origin flames subdued it, and it vanished when his dou qi passed through it.

• Xiao Yu learned that Xiao Yan was cultivating in the tower after Xun'er had left, and Xiao Yu agreed to take Xiao Yu and the Xiao Clan members there.
• Xiao Yu examined the tower’s spatial barrier and floated ten meters above the crowd, startling the Xiao Clan members and nearby students.
• Xiao Yu surrounded his group with a protective wave of force and pushed through the waiting students into the tower.
• Xiao Yu entered the tower and sensed the heart flame manifesting inside his body.
• Xiao Yu’s six origin flames surrounded the heart flame, and his dou qi passed through it, causing it to disappear.

Xiao Yu's cousin entered the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and quickly overcame the Heart Flame, then revealed his Dou Huang-level strength to protect his clansmen's cultivation rooms. He descended to the sixth floor, sensed someone familiar inside a cultivation room, and continued toward the seventh floor without disturbing them.

• Xiao Yu worried that her cousin would be harmed by the Heart Flame, but he opened his eyes less than a minute later without injury.
• Xiao Yu's cousin asked where the clansmen usually cultivated, then released his aura and warned the first-floor students not to take their rooms.
• Elder Liu recognized him as the Court Master of Xiao Court after Zi Yan explained that the Elder had invited him as a guest.
• Xiao Yu's cousin asked Zi Yan to guard his clansmen in exchange for little medicinal pills, then continued deeper into the tower.
• Xiao Yu's cousin reached the sixth floor, sensed a familiar aura in an occupied high-grade cultivation room, and proceeded toward the seventh floor.

Xiao Yu found that the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower offered him little benefit, but the fallen heart flame suddenly rampaged and threatened everyone inside. He evacuated the students and rushed toward the tower’s central pillar to contain the crisis while Elder Liu went to alert Su Qian.

• Xiao Yu compared the fallen heart flame’s effects with his five qi thunder and concluded that his own cultivation method was more comprehensive.
• Xiao Yu sensed a hidden Six-Star Dou Emperor guarding the Seventh Layer and decided to leave, but the fallen heart flame began surging through the central pillar.
• Xiao Yu returned to the first layer and ordered everyone to evacuate as the rampage caused heart flames inside students to swell and burn them.
• Xiao Yu found his clansmen unconscious, gave Zi Yan pills, and sent her to carry them outside.
• Xiao Yu told Elder Liu to notify the academy’s Elder, then charged toward the black hole at the center of the first layer.
• Elder Liu trusted Xiao Yu and flew out of the tower to summon help.

Xiao Yu confronted the Fallen Heart Flame’s fire python as it tried to break through the spatial barrier beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower. He unleashed the might of his purple lightning and ordered the creature back into the black hole.

• Xiao Yu used his origin flame to protect himself from the heat and saw the invisible fire python trapped behind the spatial barrier.
• The fire python battered the barrier, cracking it and threatening to escape and destroy the tower.
• Xiao Yu summoned Blue-Silver Cold Lightning and extreme-breaking ice flame to lower the temperature and suppress the fire python.
• Xiao Yu gathered purple lightning into his eyes and unleashed its heavenly might, terrifying the fire python.
• Xiao Yu commanded the fire python to get back down.

Xiao Yu quelled the Fallen Heart Flame’s uprising, collected a remnant of its origin heart flame, and learned it could temper his body. Su Qian then revealed the academy’s secret about the Fallen Heart Flame and prepared to ask Xiao Yu for help with it.

• Xiao Yu frightened the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Spirit into retreat and calmed the uprising.
• Xiao Yu discovered that a remnant of invisible flame could strengthen his body, so he stored it away.
• Su Qian and the other elders arrived, and Xiao Yu withdrew while they discussed the crisis.
• Su Qian brought Xiao Yu to his office and openly explained the Fallen Heart Flame sealed beneath the academy.
• Su Qian gave three reasons for trusting Xiao Yu with the secret and considered asking him for help with the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yu agreed to help Su Qian contain the fallen heart flame and returned to check on Xiao Yan and the injured students. That night, he began planning an upgrade to the Spirit-Gathering Array to strengthen his faction, though he still needed to solve how to keep the array supplied with dou qi.

• Xiao Yu agreed to help the Canaan Inner Academy when the fallen heart flame broke free, in exchange for magic cores and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yu visited Xiao Yan, learned the injured students were out of danger, and gave Zi Yan medicinal pills as thanks for helping carry them back.
• Xiao Yu checked on the unconscious students and gave them healing pills, then talked with Xiao Yan about Xun'er returning to her clan.
• Xiao Yu took Zi Yan to his residence, where she refused to leave and stayed in the neighboring room.
• Xiao Yu studied the Spirit-Gathering Array and considered using a child flame mixed with a five qi thunder seed to condense cultivators' dou qi and reinforce their foundations.
• Xiao Yu realized the upgraded array might consume dou qi too quickly and continued looking for a way to replenish it without constant effort.