Recaps

Xiao Yan left the academy intending to seek the Hall of Souls’ help against Xu Ran, but Xu Ran let him go, confident he could control what happened. As the Inner Academy competition began, Xun’er and the others stunned Jia Nan Academy with their Dou Ling cultivation, while Ruo Lin learned she might soon meet Xu Ran’s companions from other worlds.

• Xiao Yan decided to approach the Hall of Souls for resources and allies, despite the danger that it might kill him because he was a descendant of the Xiao Clan.
• Xu Ran refused to capture Xiao Yan, saying he had anticipated his moves and wanted him to retain hope, then wondered when the System Lady would finish upgrading.
• Xu Ran told Ruo Lin he would introduce her to women from another world, and Ruo Lin said she did not mind how many companions he had.
• Ruo Lin told Xu Ran that she had become a Di Rank instructor and would enter the Inner Academy, where First Elder Su Qian wanted him to build cultivation towers.
• Xun’er and the other Dou Ling contestants revealed their strength at the Inner Academy competition, astonishing Jia Nan Academy with five or six Outer Academy students at Dou Ling level.

Zi Yan broke through to Dou Huang, took on an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old form, and went to show Xu Ran. She left him flustered by her transformation while insisting he not get improper ideas about her.

• Xun'er and the others claimed the Outer Academy's top five places, leaving Wu Hao pushed out as students focused on the newcomers.
• The Inner Academy worried that its usual Fire Energy Hunting Competition would be upended because the incoming students were powerful Dou Ling experts.
• Zi Yan broke through to Dou Huang and transformed from a girl into a young woman with a powerful Ancient Void Dragon presence.
• Zi Yan put on a blue dress and headed to the Outer Academy, eager to see Xu Ran's reaction to her grown-up appearance.
• Xu Ran was startled by Zi Yan's transformation, and Zi Yan teased him before warning him not to get ideas about her.

Xu Ran boasted to Zi Yan that he was the Ancestral Dragon, far above the Ancient Void Dragons, while she questioned his identity. As they prepared to enter Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, Zi Yan agreed to find him a secluded place in exchange for him revealing his true identity, and Xun'er and the other girls noticed their conversation.

• Xu Ran told Zi Yan that her clan’s elders might kneel and call him ancestor, and claimed even her father could not defeat him.
• Zi Yan recalled Xu Ran’s powerful bloodline pressure and asked whether he was a dragon nobler than the Ancient Void Dragons.
• Xu Ran called himself the Ancestral Dragon, but Zi Yan refused to believe him and kicked him in anger.
• Xu Ran asked Zi Yan to find a quiet, secluded place for him in the Inner Academy, and she agreed in exchange for learning his true identity.
• Xun'er and the other girls saw Zi Yan with Xu Ran and felt hostility and insecurity about her imposing presence.

Xu Ran brought Xun'er and the others to the Inner Academy, where Zi Yan’s identity as the Strong Ranking’s top student surprised them and an elder welcomed Xu Ran with a generous fire-energy reward. The group entered the academy, and Xu Ran received crystal chips granting each of the women one hundred thousand fire energy.

• Xu Ran introduced Zi Yan as the Inner Academy's number-one Strong Ranking student, and the women learned she was also the little girl they had met before.
• Zi Yan teased Xu Ran instead of clarifying her unusual ability to change her body, then warmly greeted Xun'er and the others.
• Xu Ran carried the women high above the ground on their way to the Inner Academy, prompting them to reflect on their smallness and their pursuit of strength.
• Xu Ran revealed the hidden silver gate to the Inner Academy and led the group through it.
• Elder Su Zheng greeted Xu Ran enthusiastically and explained that Su Qian had excused the women from the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Elder Su handed Xu Ran crystal chips granting each woman one hundred thousand fire energy, while Xu Ran resolved to claim the Fallen Heart Flame for himself.

Xu Ran promised to create a cultivation site far more powerful than the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and settled Xun'er and the others in a hidden residence in the Inner Academy. He revealed that the site would draw energy from the place where Zi Yan's father was trapped.

• Su Qian gave Xu Ran and the girls a hundred thousand Fire Energy, and Xiao Mei said she preferred cultivating with Xu Ran to using the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Xu Ran considered freeing Dragon Emperor Zhukun and reuniting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then told everyone he knew of a cultivation site far stronger than the tower.
• Elder Su respectfully left after hearing Xu Ran's claim, and the girls examined the Fire Energy chip he had received.
• Zi Yan led Xu Ran and the others to a scenic area in the Inner Academy, where Xu Ran hid their residence behind a barrier.
• Xu Ran told Zi Yan that he planned to build a cultivation room using the energy from the place where her father was trapped.

Xu Ran told Zi Yan that her father, Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, was trapped beneath Jia Nan Academy, where the Fallen Heart Flame lay under the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. He took Zi Yan into the tower to investigate and collect the Heavenly Flame, leaving them at the iron door above the abyss.

• Xu Ran explained that the Fallen Heart Flame came from the magma beneath Jia Nan Academy and warned Zi Yan not to go looking for her father alone.
• Zi Yan pleaded with Xu Ran to take her below the tower, and he agreed after she kissed his cheek, on the condition that she stayed by his side.
• Xu Ran and Zi Yan used their spatial abilities to slip past the tower guards, while he teased her about raiding the academy's Medicinal Materials Storehouse.
• As they approached the tower's lowest level, Zi Yan admitted she was concerned for Xu Ran's safety, though she insisted she only needed him for his pills.
• Xu Ran said he would collect the Fallen Heart Flame before attempting the rescue, then led Zi Yan through the iron door into the abyss below.

Xu Ran and Zi Yan descended to the lowest level of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where they found the Fallen Heart Flame straining against its seal. Xu Ran’s arrival provoked a tremendous reaction from the underground world, and Su Qian rushed to the tower as Jia Nan Academy faced a possible eruption.

• Zi Yan accused Xu Ran of intending to steal the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xu Ran said he planned to claim it to resolve the danger it posed to the academy.
• Xu Ran and Zi Yan reached the tower’s lowest level and saw cracks in the energy barrier containing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The underground magma erupted into violent waves of heat when Xu Ran arrived, apparently reacting to his Dou Di strength and the presence of the Ancient Emperor beneath the academy.
• The disturbance spread through the tower, alarming its cultivators and prompting calls to seal it and summon the elders.
• Su Qian rushed into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to respond to the threat of the Fallen Heart Flame breaking free.

Xu Ran calmed the upheaval beneath Jia Nan Academy, subdued the Fallen Heart Flame, and told Su Qian that a newborn flame could keep the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower working. He prepared to descend into the magma sea, and Zi Yan insisted on accompanying him.

• Zi Yan and Su Qian found Xu Ran amid the roiling magma, and he calmed it with a command.
• Xu Ran called the Fallen Heart Flame out of the magma and subdued it in his hand.
• Xu Ran asked to take the Heavenly Flame, and Su Qian agreed despite its importance to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xu Ran reassured Su Qian that a newborn Fallen Heart Flame beneath the magma could power the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower.
• Xu Ran said he would descend into the magma, and Zi Yan insisted on going with him despite Su Qian's objections.

Xu Ran realized that the Fallen Heart Flame had intensified Zi Yan’s feelings for him, and she kissed him while under its influence. He stopped things before they went further and brought her back to her senses, leaving Zi Yan bewildered by how closely she had clung to him.

• Su Qian noticed Zi Yan’s affection for Xu Ran and left her in his care, hoping they would become a couple.
• After Su Qian departed, Zi Yan asked to play with the Fallen Heart Flame and pressed herself against Xu Ran.
• Xu Ran recognized that the flame was amplifying Zi Yan’s feelings and understood that she had already been fond of him.
• Zi Yan confessed that she liked Xu Ran and kissed him passionately.
• Xu Ran stopped before their intimacy went further and called Zi Yan back to her senses.
• Zi Yan realized she was embracing Xu Ran with her hand inside his clothes and stared at him in bewilderment.

Zi Yan confronted Xu Ran after the Fallen Heart Flame had made her lose control and cling to him, while he showed her a replay of what happened. Though she complained that he had taken advantage of her, she was relieved he did not dislike her, and they jumped together into the magma below.

• Zi Yan woke up with her dress slipped down and accused Xu Ran of doing something to her.
• Xu Ran showed a replay of Zi Yan hugging and kissing him while she was affected by the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xu Ran explained that the flame had stirred up Zi Yan’s desires, and she reasoned that he could have stopped her sooner if he disliked her.
• Zi Yan took Xu Ran’s arm and asked how they would get down, and Xu Ran jumped with her into the magma.

Xu Ran and Zi Yan discovered a hidden world beneath the magma, where Xu Ran subdued the infant Fallen Heart Flame and encountered the spirit of Skyfire Venerable. Skyfire Venerable offered Xu Ran his techniques and Dou Techniques in exchange for being taken out of the underground world.

• Zi Yan spotted a long-dead expert's skeleton and recognized the Fallen Heart Flame drifting above it.
• Xu Ran and Zi Yan reached the ground as the flame creatures gathered around Xu Ran in worship.
• Xu Ran drew the infant Fallen Heart Flame into his hand, considering how it could benefit Jia Nan Academy.
• Skyfire Venerable emerged from the skeleton and expressed surprise that Xu Ran had subdued the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Skyfire Venerable offered Xu Ran his lifetime of cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques if Xu Ran took him out.

Skyfire Venerable offered to teach Xu Ran and Zi Yan, but Zi Yan mocked his strength compared with Xu Ran’s. Skyfire Venerable warned them about the Hall of Souls, unaware that Xu Ran had already killed three of its Heavenly Venerables.

• Skyfire Venerable offered Xu Ran and Zi Yan his knowledge, believing his Dou Zun experience made him a valuable teacher.
• Zi Yan laughed at Skyfire Venerable and said that he was only an ant before Xu Ran.
• Skyfire Venerable grew furious when Zi Yan repeated that he was a Dou Zun but still weak compared with Xu Ran.
• Zi Yan asked Skyfire Venerable about the Hall of Souls, and he warned her that its Heavenly Venerables could overpower him.
• Skyfire Venerable urged them not to provoke the Hall of Souls, while Zi Yan realized Xu Ran had already killed three of its Heavenly Venerables.

Zi Yan told Venerable Tian Huo that Xu Ran had killed three of the Hall of Souls' Heavenly Venerables, and proved it by showing their tokens. Venerable Tian Huo was left questioning whether the young pair's claims were true, while Zi Yan offered him the Heavenly Venerables' corpses as possible bodies for his revival.

• Venerable Tian Huo offered to protect Xu Ran and Zi Yan from the Hall of Souls, assuming they had only caused minor trouble.
• Zi Yan teased Venerable Tian Huo by revealing that Xu Ran had killed the Great, Second, and Ninth Heavenly Venerables.
• Venerable Tian Huo doubted her claim and described the Heavenly Venerables' formidable strength.
• Zi Yan showed Venerable Tian Huo the three Heavenly Venerables' tokens to prove what she had said.
• Zi Yan said Xu Ran had kept the Heavenly Venerables' corpses to make demon puppets and suggested Venerable Tian Huo could use one as a body.

Xu Ran revealed to Skyfire Venerable that he had killed three powerful members of the Hall of Souls and agreed to consider saving him in exchange for his loyalty. Xu Ran then took Zi Yan deeper into the magma to meet something, leaving Skyfire Venerable behind to wait.

• Skyfire Venerable recognized the tokens of the dead Hall of Souls Heavenly Venerables and concluded that Xu Ran was a Dou Sheng.
• Skyfire Venerable knelt and begged Xu Ran to restore his soul and provide him with a body, offering lifelong loyalty in return.
• Xu Ran compared Skyfire Venerable's promise to Han Feng's and said he believed Skyfire Venerable, though he would have to wait while Xu Ran handled other business.
• Xu Ran asked Zi Yan whether she would stay behind, and she insisted on accompanying him.
• Xu Ran took Zi Yan deeper into the magma, where increasingly powerful flame lizards gathered without attacking them.

Xu Ran and Zi Yan entered the magma depths and learned that the lizardmen guarded the God's Graveyard, where Zi Yan believed her father had encountered danger. Xu Ran drove the guards aside and descended toward the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, sensing a Dou Di presence and wondering whether Tuoshe Ancient Emperor would appear.

• Two Half-Saint lizardmen warned Xu Ran and Zi Yan to leave the God's Graveyard or be killed by its Guardian.
• Zi Yan worried that her father had fallen into danger in the graveyard and clung to Xu Ran for reassurance.
• Xu Ran claimed he did not fear the graveyard's master, and the lizardmen wondered whether he was a god too.
• The lizardmen refused to abandon their duty, so Xu Ran roared and sent them flying without killing them.
• Xu Ran took Zi Yan toward the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and sensed a familiar, weakened Dou Di presence.
• Xu Ran wondered whether Tuoshe Ancient Emperor would appear and thought about devouring him to obtain another Heavenly Flame.

Zi Yan learned that Xu Ran was a Dou Di and asked him to help her become a Dou Sheng, but he told her to cultivate at her own pace. Xu Ran and Zi Yan entered the space beneath the magma and reached the stone gate of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, where Zi Yan felt a strange familiarity.

• Zi Yan asked Xu Ran what a god was, and he confirmed that he was a Dou Di.
• Zi Yan celebrated that the Hall of Souls had provoked Xu Ran and asked him to help her become a Dou Sheng, but Xu Ran refused to bypass her cultivation.
• Zi Yan worried that Xu Ran's status had created distance between them, and she admitted she would accept being more than friends.
• Xu Ran revealed that the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion lay in a space beneath the magma, then led Zi Yan inside.
• Xu Ran and Zi Yan crossed an empty, ancient space and reached an enormous stone gate marked Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Zi Yan felt intimidated by the gate's presence, while her blood responded to it and stirred a sense of familiarity.

Xu Ran and Zi Yan entered the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion, where Xu Ran explained the Dou Di Origin Qi and the Ancient Jade needed to reach Dou Di. Zi Yan sensed her father in the darkness, and Zhu Kun awoke and rushed toward her.

• Zi Yan asked Xu Ran about Dou Di and other worlds, and he said the other Dou Di had left for different worlds while he was the continent’s only Dou Di.
• Xu Ran explained that Zhu Kun and other Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak experts needed Origin Qi to become Dou Di, and that the eight pieces of Tuoshe Ancient Jade could open the cave mansion where it remained.
• Zi Yan sensed a close bloodline presence and believed her father was inside.
• Xu Ran and Zi Yan saw the enormous, sleeping Ancient Void Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun, in the dark void.
• Zhu Kun opened his eyes, sensed his child’s presence, and charged upward.

Zhu Kun reunited with Zi Yan in the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s cave mansion and grew furious when he thought Xu Ran had deceived her. The chapter ended with Zhu Kun attacking Xu Ran after Zi Yan insisted he was a Dou Di who could rescue her father.

• Zhu Kun tearfully recognized Zi Yan as his daughter and lamented that he had been absent while the Ancient Void Dragon Clan fractured.
• Zhu Kun suspected Xu Ran had courted Zi Yan and brought her into danger, and he warned that she was destined to become the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan defended Xu Ran, saying he had come to rescue Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Kun questioned how Xu Ran could free him without the Ancient Jade, but Xu Ran said he did not have it.
• Zi Yan declared that Xu Ran was a Dou Di, and Zhu Kun dismissed the claim as deception.
• Zhu Kun flew into a rage and sent a purple-gold pillar of light through space toward Xu Ran.

Xu Ran easily avoided Zhu Kun’s attack and revealed that his power rivaled the strongest Dou Shengs, while Zhu Kun grew suspicious of his motives for bringing Zi Yan. Xu Ran dismissed the threat of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s cave, leaving Zhu Kun laughing at his claim that Tuoshe was weaker than him.

• Xu Ran praised Zhu Kun’s mastery of spatial power, while Zhu Kun insisted he could kill him.
• Zi Yan watched Zhu Kun attack Xu Ran and wondered what Xu Ran’s true form looked like.
• Zhu Kun’s attack passed through Xu Ran and exploded far behind him, leaving Xu Ran unharmed.
• Xu Ran told Zhu Kun that the outside world had changed and that other supreme experts now matched his strength.
• Zhu Kun suspected Xu Ran had brought Zi Yan to exploit him, but Xu Ran denied wanting anything from her or the cave.
• Xu Ran claimed Tuoshe Ancient Emperor could not trap him and was weaker than he was, prompting Zhu Kun to laugh at his arrogance.

Zhu Kun attacked Xu Ran after Xu Ran evaded his grasp, but he soon sensed that Xu Ran’s bloodline and power surpassed his own. The chapter left Zhu Kun seeing Xu Ran as a king, though Xu Ran had claimed to be his ancestor.

• Zhu Kun lunged at Xu Ran and tried to crush him, but Xu Ran slipped away using spatial abilities.
• Zhu Kun launched a furious assault, while Zi Yan refused to leave Xu Ran’s side.
• Xu Ran calmly endured Zhu Kun’s attacks, and Zhu Kun felt an overwhelming bloodline pressure and urge to submit.
• Zhu Kun asked whether Xu Ran was a magical beast, and Xu Ran claimed to be his ancestor as the Ancestral Dragon.
• Xu Ran questioned the origins of the Dragon Clan, and Zhu Kun’s anger faded as he began to see Xu Ran as his king.

Xu Ran revealed his Ancestral Dragon bloodline and Dou Di power to Zhu Kun inside the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's cave mansion. Zi Yan and Zhu Kun were overwhelmed by the gulf between Xu Ran and even the strongest Dou Shengs.

• Zhu Kun questioned Xu Ran about his age and bloodline, noting that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan was the only dragon branch left on the continent.
• Xu Ran declared that he might be a Dou Di and released the full presence of his Ancestral Dragon bloodline.
• Xu Ran's power shook the cave mansion, and he considered how his strength compared with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor in the Great Thousand World.
• Zi Yan sensed Xu Ran's power and worried that she could never catch up to him.
• Zhu Kun realized Xu Ran could have killed him during their earlier fight and marveled at the overwhelming power of a Dou Di.

Xu Ran revealed his immense dragon form, forcing Zhu Kun and Zi Yan to kneel before the Ancestral Dragon. After learning Xu Ran’s identity, Zhu Kun pledged his loyalty, and Xu Ran ordered him to reunite the fractured Ancient Void Dragon Clan once he escaped.

• Xu Ran transformed into a vast black dragon, and his bloodline power made Zi Yan and Zhu Kun kneel.
• Zhu Kun recognized Xu Ran as the Ancestral Dragon and kowtowed to him, while Zi Yan reflected on how deeply Xu Ran had affected her.
• Xu Ran helped Zi Yan up, then told Zhu Kun he would not help him claim the cave abode’s treasures.
• Zhu Kun pledged lifelong loyalty to Xu Ran, who told him to regain control of the fractured Ancient Void Dragon Clan after escaping.

Zhu Kun escaped the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and pledged loyalty to Xu Ran, while Skyfire Venerable learned that Xu Ran planned to restore him in a Dou Sheng body. Xu Ran left the underground magma world with them, enhanced Jia Nan Academy's cultivation facilities, and began placing Skyfire Venerable's soul into the Great Heavenly Venerable's body.

• Zhu Kun emerged from the cave mansion and resolved to serve Xu Ran in hopes of receiving guidance to become a Dou Di.
• Xu Ran introduced Zhu Kun to Skyfire Venerable, who was shocked that the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor called Xu Ran his master.
• Xu Ran brought Zhu Kun and Skyfire Venerable out of the underground magma world and promised to revive Skyfire Venerable in a Dou Sheng body.
• Xu Ran released the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, restored the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, and created a cultivation space filled with condensed energy.
• Xu Ran placed Skyfire Venerable's soul into the Great Heavenly Venerable's body, ensuring Skyfire Venerable would gain a Dou Sheng body and incur the Hall of Souls' enmity.

Xu Ran resurrected Skyfire Venerable as Skyfire Saint, a Dou Sheng who pledged loyalty and was assigned to protect Ya Fei. After Xu Ran restored the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and earned the Inner Academy elders’ gratitude, Zhu Kun departed while leaving Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy.

• Xu Ran transformed Skyfire Venerable into Skyfire Saint, whose soul and Dou Sheng body joined without rejection and whose strength rose to Dou Sheng.
• Skyfire Saint knelt before Xu Ran, pledged lifelong loyalty, and left to protect Ya Fei at the auction house.
• The Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower returned to normal with greatly improved cultivation benefits, and Xu Ran told Su Qian he had secured the Fallen Heart Flame and requisitioned the tower’s lowest level.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders praised Xu Ran and held a banquet where he answered their questions about cultivation and pill refining.
• Zhu Kun came to bid Xu Ran farewell and left Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy.

After Zhu Kun left, Su Qian reflected on Zi Yan’s origins and Xu Ran’s strength, while Zi Yan thanked her foster father for raising her at Jia Nan Academy. The chapter ended with Zi Yan gazing affectionately at Xu Ran as she began to express her feelings for him.

• Su Qian realized that Zi Yan was Zhu Kun’s daughter and that Xu Ran was powerful enough to earn the Dragon Emperor’s respect.
• Zi Yan told Su Qian she would always cherish her years at Jia Nan Academy, and he left the two alone.
• Su Qian hoped Xu Ran would treat Zi Yan well and decided to stop worrying about threats beyond his own power.
• Xu Ran praised Zi Yan for showing gratitude to Su Qian, and she explained how much her foster father meant to her.
• Zi Yan told Xu Ran that meeting Su Qian had brought her to Jia Nan Academy and led her to Xu Ran, then looked at him affectionately.