Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan defeated Wang Shan with overwhelming physical strength, and Jiang Yun won second place in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament after defeating Song Yun. The next day, Hu Gan warned the top five about the Inner Academy’s harsh rules and led them into the Library Pavilion to try their luck.

• Zi Yan knocked Wang Shan out of the arena, winning her match and leaving the crowd stunned by her strength.
• Hu Gan awarded Zi Yan first place without requiring her to compete further, while Jiang Yun swept through his qualifying matches.
• Jiang Yun defeated Song Yun with a single palm strike and claimed second place in the tournament.
• Hu Gan summoned Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, Liu Zh Cun, Ling Feng, and Su Quan, warned them about the Inner Academy’s brutal competition, and explained their Library Pavilion privilege.
• Hu Gan opened a hidden passage, and Jiang Yun led Zi Yan and the others into the Library Pavilion.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion to search its sealed treasures, and Zi Yan’s ability to retrieve items let them claim several valuable finds. Zi Yan asked Jiang Yun to refine a Sky jade fruit into a pill so she could reach the peak of the fifth tier and hoped that advancing to the sixth tier would finally make her mature.

• Hu Gan brought Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, Ling Feng, Su Quan, and Liu Zh Cun to the Library Pavilion, where Elders Qian and Bai opened the Space Lock.
• Hu Gan explained that each visitor could take only one item, but Jiang Yun entered leisurely, confident that Zi Yan could pass through the energy seals.
• Zi Yan easily retrieved a Xuan Tier Mid Grade Dou Technique, then returned it because she considered it useless.
• Jiang Yun secured a ten-thousand-year vine after finding an Earth Tier cultivation method, an Earth Tier Dou Technique, and a sixth-tier magic core.
• Zi Yan found a Sky jade fruit and asked Jiang Yun to refine it into a pill to help her advance, hoping she would mature at the sixth tier.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan left the Scripture Repository Pavilion with their rewards, and Hu Gan arranged for Zi Yan to sit out the Fire Energy Capture Tournament because her strength could overwhelm the competitors. Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and the other students traveled through a spatial barrier into the Inner Academy, where Su Qian welcomed them.

• Jiang Yun gave Zi Yan the Ten-Thousand-Year Vine and another medicinal ingredient to help her advance, while she teased him about her grown-up appearance.
• Elders Qian and Bai inspected the students for stolen treasures, then Hu Gan led Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and the others out of the Scripture Repository Pavilion.
• Hu Gan warned the top five to prepare for the Inner Academy, then hurried to ask Su Qian to bar Zi Yan from the Fire Energy Capture Tournament because she was too powerful.
• Two days later, Jiang Yun promised Zi Yan he would show the Inner Academy students that the tournament's outcome would not change without her, and she urged him to beat them.
• Hu Gan led the students on Griffin Beasts through the mountains and opened a spatial barrier into the Inner Academy, where Su Qian and his staff greeted them.

During the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Jiang Yun overwhelmed the veteran students who tried to rob him and collected 671 days of Fire Energy. He confronted the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Squad at the forest’s final obstacle, where his Eight-Star Great Dou Master strength and earth-rank technique stunned them as the battle began.

• Su Qian distributed Fire Crystal Cards and explained that Inner Academy veterans would attack the new students and try to seize their Fire Energy.
• Zi Yan received a card worth 500 days of Fire Energy, then flew ahead with her Dou Qi Wings, revealing that she was a Dou Wang.
• Jiang Yun defeated veteran teams on his way through the forest and accumulated 671 days of Fire Energy.
• Two defeated veterans spread word of Jiang Yun’s strength and wealth, drawing more veterans to challenge him, but he easily defeated them.
• Jiang Yun reached the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Squad, whose captains Sun Hai and Wu Qiu introduced themselves before he challenged them.
• Jiang Yun unleashed the earth-rank Fire Cloud Hand, revealing that he was an Eight-Star Great Dou Master and shocking the veterans.

Jiang Yun defeated the White Fiend Squad and Black Fiend Team in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, astonishing the Inner Academy elders with his strength and range of Dou Techniques. He emerged victorious with more than a thousand days of Fire Energy, leaving Su Qian and Elder Qing to marvel at how much of his ability he had yet to reveal.

• Sun Hai and Wu Qiu recognized the power of Jiang Yun’s Fire Cloud Hand as he unleashed it against their combined attacks, while the elders questioned how the Xuan-tier technique could harness the energy of heaven and earth.
• Jiang Yun used Flame Rope to capture the opposing teams’ members, took most of their Fire Energy, and left each of them five days on their cards.
• Wu Qiu attacked Jiang Yun with his greatsword, but Jiang Yun deflected his blows and forced him back with his bare hands.
• Sun Hai ambushed Jiang Yun with Thunder Sword Finger, but Jiang Yun blocked it and struck him with Fire Cloud Seal, eliminating the White Fiend Squad.
• Wu Qiu used Rock-Splitting Mountain-Cleaving Slash against Jiang Yun’s Fire Cloud Blade, but he and Sun Hai were defeated, ending the Black Fiend Team’s challenge.
• Jiang Yun reached the administrators’ hillside, where Su Qian and Elder Qing marveled at his victory and the abilities he had kept hidden.

Jiang Yun won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, entered the Inner Academy, and moved into a shared courtyard with Zi Yan. After breaking through to Nine-Star Great Dou Master, he visited the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, where the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame inside him reacted to the sealed fallen heart flame.

• Su Qian rewarded Jiang Yun with fifty days of Fire Energy and an Azure Fire Crystal Card, while the other newcomers each received five days.
• Su Qian led the newcomers into the Inner Academy, where Jiang Yun and Zi Yan were assigned a courtyard together.
• News spread that Jiang Yun had defeated the Black Fiend and White Fiend Squads, while Jiang Yun broke through to Nine-Star Great Dou Master the next day.
• Jiang Yun headed to the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and sensed the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame inside him trembling and seeming hungry.

Jiang Yun cultivated in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, where the heart flame helped him advance to the peak of Nine-Star Great Dou Master. After the fallen heart flame sensed him and tried to escape its sealed shaft, Jiang Yun left the tower, and Elder Liu told him a young woman had been looking for him.

• Jiang Yun entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and discovered that the heart flame could slightly temper his Dou Qi.
• Jiang Yun used his Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to devour the heart flame scorching him, surprising Elder Liu, then persuaded him to let him cultivate on the sixth floor.
• Jiang Yun absorbed the room’s heart flame energy so rapidly that the fallen heart flame sensed him and attacked the spatial cage sealing its shaft before retreating.
• Jiang Yun cultivated for half a month and reached the peak of Nine-Star Great Dou Master, nearing a breakthrough to Dou Ling.
• Elder Liu praised Jiang Yun’s progress and told him that a young lady had been coming to look for him every day.

Jiang Yun returned to the new students’ dormitory and faced Xue Zhen, who demanded a tribute fee for the Snow Wolf Gang. Their fight revealed Jiang Yun’s immense strength and Earth Tier Cultivation Method, while powerful students watched and recognized the threat he posed.

• Song Yun warned Jiang Yun that senior students planned to collect his fire energy, and Jiang Yun gave Song Yun a pill in thanks for the warning.
• Jiang Yun arrived at his dormitory and rejected Xue Zhen’s demand for a thousand fire energy as a new student tribute fee.
• Xue Zhen attacked Jiang Yun with his Rushing Thunder Fist, but Jiang Yun caught his fist and countered with a pillar of white flame.
• Jiang Yun and Xue Zhen clashed in a battle of lightning and fire, and Xue Zhen stumbled back blackened and battered.
• Xue Zhen used his Thunder Dragon Nine Moves, and Jiang Yun drew fire energy from the surroundings with his Earth Tier Cultivation Method.
• Li Lin and the other powerful students watching from afar recognized Jiang Yun’s cultivation method and envied its value.

Jiang Yun defeated Xue Zhen with the White Tiger Seal, collected Fire Energy from the defeated students, and was punished by Su Qian for the fight and the damage. Back at his dormitory, he reunited with Zi Yan, who brought him precious medicinal ingredients to refine.

• Jiang Yun unleashed the White Tiger Seal, shattered Xue Zhen’s Thunder Flood Dragon, and left him badly wounded.
• Jiang Yun took Xue Zhen’s two thousand days of Fire Energy and collected Fire Energy from the other students.
• Su Qian arrived, fined the students involved thirty days of Fire Energy, and barred them from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower for half a month.
• Li Lin and the other spectators discussed Jiang Yun’s strength, while Li Lin vowed to compete for a top-ten Strong Ranking spot.
• Jiang Yun returned to his dormitory and reviewed his use of the White Tiger Seal as he waited for Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan returned with medicinal ingredients she claimed to have gathered herself and asked Jiang Yun to refine them into pills.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan set out to retrieve the earth core body tempering milk Zi Yan had found, after Zi Yan effortlessly struck down Feng Wuhen when he challenged Jiang Yun. They reached the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave, where the beast angrily confronted them and insulted Zi Yan.

• Jiang Yun finished refining pills overnight, and Zi Yan woke after accidentally licking a pill from his hand.
• Jiang Yun recognized the earth core body tempering milk Zi Yan had brought back and persuaded her to return to where she found it.
• Feng Wuhen confronted Jiang Yun, but Zi Yan attacked him and sent him flying with a single punch, revealing her immense physical strength.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan traveled into the forest outside Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy to find the Snow Demon Sky Ape and its treasure.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape recognized Zi Yan, accused her of bringing a human into its territory, and provoked her into preparing to fight.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan defeated the Snow Sky Demon Ape and collected earth core body tempering milk before hearing about a Dou Zun Secret Realm on the Black-Corner Region Great Plains. Though Jiang Yun worried the realm would be too dangerous, Qing Ming urged him to go.

• Zi Yan beat the Snow Sky Demon Ape, overcame its berserk bloodline with her dragon roar, and pummeled it into submission.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan found the true earth core body tempering milk inside a giant stalactite, and Jiang Yun collected more than half for Zi Yan to save for her next breakthrough.
• Zi Yan and Jiang Yun overheard two Sixth-rank Magical Beasts discussing a Dou Zun Secret Realm on the Black-Corner Region Great Plains and decided it promised treasure.
• Jiang Yun warned Zi Yan that Dou Emperors and Dou Zongs would make the secret realm dangerous, but Qing Ming's voice urged him to go.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the newly emerged secret realm after powerful figures from across the Black-Corner Region gathered and forced open its passage. They arrived in a dark, lifeless wasteland, where Zi Yan sensed a revolting aura.

• Jiang Yun decided to investigate the strange disturbance with Zi Yan, drank the earth core body tempering milk, and began breaking through as Zi Yan carried him toward the plains.
• A self-contained realm emerged above the plains, drawing Fan Lao, Su Mei, the Gold and Silver Elders, Mo Tianxing, Han Feng, and numerous other experts.
• The experts entered the realm through a newly opened spatial passage, while Jiang Yun concealed himself and Zi Yan until the others had gone inside.
• Jiang Yun completed his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Ling, and he and Zi Yan entered the passage behind the crowd.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan arrived in a dark wasteland, where Zi Yan sensed a revolting aura.

Jiang Yun discovered evidence of the Evil Clan in the ruins and joined Zi Yan at a site where Su Mei, Yuan Yi, and Fan Lao fought over Life-and-Death Profound Fruits. He used a spirit array to hold the three Dou Emperors off, then escaped through a spatial rift as Zi Yan secured a fruit.

• Jiang Yun found a wisp of evil aura, then Zi Yan killed a spiked demon monster that had attacked him.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan reached a mountain bearing six corpses and six Life-and-Death Profound Fruits, where Su Mei, Yuan Yi, and Fan Lao were fighting.
• Jiang Yun arranged nearly a hundred spirit seals and activated the Four Symbols Grand Array to intercept the three Dou Emperors while Zi Yan took a fruit.
• Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and Su Mei attacked the array together, forcing Jiang Yun to shatter it in a powerful explosion.
• Jiang Yun escaped through a spatial rift as the three Dou Emperors pursued him.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the ruins and discovered a chaotic battle over three treasures, including the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva. Mo Tianxing and Han Feng clashed over the prize as other powerful fighters closed in, leaving the inheritance contested.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan hid from the pursuing Dou Emperors until Fan Lao, Su Mei, and Yuan Yi each searched and left, then they continued into the ruins disguised in black robes.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan watched Han Feng, Mo Tianxing, and the others destroy moving skeletons of powerful magical beasts before the Dou Zun inheritance appeared.
• Jiang Yun recognized the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva among three objects on an altar, while Qing Ming urged him to try to obtain all three treasures.
• Han Feng identified the saliva as a path toward becoming a Dou Sheng, drawing the crowd's greedy attention away from the parchment scroll and Black Token.
• Mo Tianxing rushed for the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva and fought off attackers, but Han Feng stopped him with the Sea Flame Halberd as Elder Ying Shan and Fang Yan closed in.

Han Feng seized the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva, triggering a chaotic battle as rival experts fought to claim it. While the strongest combatants were occupied, Jiang Yun and Zi Yan recovered the Incomplete Map and hid nearby as the fighting continued.

• The Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva surged with energy, and Han Feng used his Heavenly Flame and soul power to seize it while the crowd hesitated.
• Mo Tianxing and Elder Ying Shan confronted Han Feng, who offered pills to recruit allies and escape with the saliva.
• The Gold and Silver Elders fought Mo Tianxing, Su Mei and other experts held off Elder Ying Shan, and Fang Yan and the other Demon Flame Valley elders attacked Han Feng.
• Han Feng’s sea heart flame overwhelmed the elders’ combined life transformation fire, but they continued their assault with Dou Techniques.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan appeared in a concealed corner, recovered the Incomplete Map, and watched the battle from hiding.

Jiang Yun used the black token to activate an ancient formation, then trapped and killed Fan Lao and Yuan Yi with the Great Demon Refining Formation. The Saint Heavenly Demon Flame devoured their Dou Qi and strengthened Jiang Yun, whose aura settled at peak Four-Star Dou Ling.

• Jiang Yun used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to awaken a formation through the black token while the other cultivators fought over the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva.
• Han Feng escaped with the Life Transformation Fire as pursuers attacked him, while Mo Tianxing broke through the Gold and Silver Elders and chased after him.
• Fan Lao and Yuan Yi stayed behind to search the ruins, where Jiang Yun appeared and taunted them with the black token.
• Fan Lao and Yuan Yi attacked Jiang Yun, but he activated the Great Demon Refining Formation and burned both Dou Emperors to death.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Flame absorbed the corpses' Dou Qi, rapidly raising Jiang Yun's strength before he compressed it to peak Four-Star Dou Ling.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the hidden realm’s true inner region, where they witnessed the Jinglian Demon Saint’s history and learned that he had sealed a Soul-Eating Clan member’s lingering evil energy. Zi Yan’s Ancient Dragon Inheritance began awakening, and Jiang Yun led her onward to search for what the Demon Saint had left behind.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan collected the Storage Rings of Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and their subordinates, then used the token to enter the hidden realm’s inner region.
• Jiang Yun broke through an illusion that separated him from Zi Yan and woke her from a painful vision.
• Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Qing Ming watched scenes of the Jinglian Demon Saint’s life and learned that he had slain a Soul-Eating Clan member whose evil energy threatened to corrupt the continent.
• Zi Yan’s bloodline awakened in response to the Soul-Eating Clan member’s aura, revealing new knowledge within her mind.
• The Jinglian Demon Saint used a bodhi tree to create a formation that would erode the dead Soul-Eating Clan member’s evil energy, then left behind a token, Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva, and part of a map.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan decided to search for what the Jinglian Demon Saint had left behind.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan discovered the dead Bodhi Tree and the Soul-Eating Clan corpse, and Jiang Yun decided to claim them with Qing Ming’s help. Outside the ruins, Han Feng escaped Mo Tianxing, who killed a group of cultivators before the survivors dispersed; Jiang Yun and Zi Yan later left the secret realm and set out for the academy.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan found the Bodhi Tree and the chained Soul-Eating Clan corpse, and Qing Ming revealed that both would dissipate within a hundred years.
• Jiang Yun decided to take the Bodhi Tree and the corpse, warned Zi Yan to keep his secret, and summoned the Azure Nether Tower.
• Han Feng emerged from the spatial passage badly injured, healed himself with a Sixth-Grade Resurrection Pill, and fled from Mo Tianxing.
• Mo Tianxing killed more than a dozen Dou Wangs and Dou Lings after they mocked him, then led Mo Ya, Qi Shan, and the Black Emperor Sect away.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan returned to a primeval forest and prepared to head back to the academy, where Zi Yan planned to advance to Dou Emperor.

After returning from the secret realm, Jiang Yun and Zi Yan told Su Qian that Jiang Yun had obtained a Heavenly Flame and gained the ability to refine pills. Su Qian brought Jiang Yun to the Inner Academy Alchemy Department to meet Elder Huo.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan fought their way back to Peace Town after escaping the secret realm, then agreed to claim an unknown Heavenly Flame had awakened Jiang Yun’s alchemy talent.
• Jiang Yun returned to the academy as a Four-Star Dou Ling, and Su Qian questioned him and Zi Yan about the Dou Zun ruins.
• Jiang Yun revealed his white Heavenly Flame, named it the undying saint flame, and demonstrated a first-tier Spring-Returning Pill for Su Qian.
• Su Qian welcomed Jiang Yun into the Alchemy Department, and Jiang Yun left Zi Yan resting while he followed Su Qian there.
• Su Qian led Jiang Yun to Elder Huo’s bamboo courtyard and announced that he had brought a treasure.

Jiang Yun impressed Elder Huo with his unknown heavenly flame and flawless alchemy, then used spatial force to create a movement technique. When Zi Yan began advancing, Jiang Yun built a Spirit Gathering Array to help her, and offered to set up more for Jia Nan Academy.

• Su Qian introduced Jiang Yun to Elder Huo, who examined his heavenly flame and learned he had refined flawless Spring-Returning Pills.
• Elder Huo arranged for Jiang Yun to join the Alchemy Department and access pill formulas and reference materials below the fourth grade.
• After Su Qian left, Jiang Yun used spatial force to develop the beginnings of a movement technique he named Flying Cloud Step.
• Jiang Yun found Zi Yan inside a purple cocoon after she ate several Life-and-Death Profound Fruits, and set up a Level 3 Spirit Gathering Array to aid her advancement.
• Su Qian and the elders came to investigate the gathered energy, and Jiang Yun offered to build Spirit Gathering Arrays for Jia Nan Academy in return for its kindness.