Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan spotted Xiao Yan at Jia Nan Academy and planned to find a chance to attack him, while Xiao Xun'er learned more about the Dou Zong expert who had defeated Xiao Yan and vowed to deal with the Snake People Race. After Chen Xuan’s victory over Lu Mu raised his profile, he joined the students preparing to enter the Inner Academy, hoping to find information about Heavenly Flames.

• Chen Xuan recognized Xiao Yan in the academy crowd and decided he would need an opportunity outside the academy to attack him.
• Xiao Xun'er reassured Xiao Yan about his future prospects, then privately swore to eliminate anyone who threatened him.
• A black-shadowed subordinate told Xiao Xun'er that the Dou Zong who defeated Xiao Yan was a Seventh-tier Monster Beast married to Medusa, and Xiao Xun'er threatened the Snake People Race.
• Chen Xuan’s defeat of Lu Mu spread through the academy, prompting rumors about his sudden rise to Da Dou Shi strength.
• After failing to find information about Heavenly Flames in the Outer Academy, Chen Xuan gathered with the students heading to the Inner Academy and listened to Vice Principal Hu Gan’s address.

Chen Xuan entered Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and learned that new students had to protect their Fire Energy during the Fire Energy Hunt. He pursued Xiao Yan but instead faced five Inner Academy students, and the chapter ended as he ambushed them with a cloud of powder.

• Hu Gan led the fifty new students through a concealed silver gate into the Inner Academy, where Elder Su and Elder Qing welcomed them.
• Elder Su gave each new student a crystal card containing five Fire Energy and explained the rules of the Fire Energy Hunt.
• Chen Xuan followed Xiao Yan’s group, decided against trying to kill him, and planned to steal Fire Energy instead.
• Five Inner Academy students led by Liu Feng surrounded Chen Xuan and demanded his Fire Energy.
• Chen Xuan scattered a packet of powder, catching Liu Feng and the other four off guard.

Chen Xuan used incapacitating powder to defeat five older students, took their Fire Energy, and learned about the Inner Academy and its competition. He left with a map and a plan to keep his true strength hidden while relying on the powder against stronger opponents.

• Chen Xuan explained that his powder temporarily stopped the five students from circulating their Dou Qi, then forced Liu Feng and the others to hand over their Fire Energy.
• Chen Xuan questioned Liu Feng, who gave him a rough forest map and described the fifty older students competing, including the powerful Black and White Sentinels.
• Liu Feng explained that Fire Energy paid for cultivation in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda and could be earned through tasks, wagers, or the Strong Ranking.
• Chen Xuan left the five students behind and considered the pagoda, while Liu Feng angrily hoped another competitor would rob him.
• Chen Xuan kept his greater strength concealed because he was impersonating Yang Shuo and feared drawing the academy's attention, so he planned to rely on medicinal powder when necessary.

Chen Xuan used disabling powder and smoke to rob both new students and Inner Academy students of their Fire Energy, while leaving newcomers the required two days’ worth. Xiao Yan’s group and the veteran students learned of his methods and vowed to watch for him, leaving Chen Xuan hated by both sides as he continued toward his destination.

• Chen Xuan incapacitated five Inner Academy students with medicinal powder, defeated their leader with his sword intent, and took their Fire Energy.
• Chen Xuan robbed several groups of new students, leaving each with two days’ worth of Fire Energy, and became widely despised.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Wu Hao, Lu Mu, and Bai Shan heard that Yang Shuo was robbing newcomers and agreed to teach him a lesson if they found him.
• Shi Zhong told Sha Tie’s Black Fiend Squad that a silver-haired new student had robbed them, so Sha Tie warned his team to guard against the student’s powder.
• Chen Xuan used smoke from special dry grass to incapacitate Sha Tie and his squad, slapped and robbed them, then continued searching for prey.

Chen Xuan secretly used herb smoke to incapacitate Xiao Yan’s group and the White Fiend Squad, then took their fire energy and won the Fire Energy Hunt. He received an Azure Fire Crystal Card and thirty days of fire energy, while leaving Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er furious with him.

• Chen Xuan concealed himself near the final checkpoint and waited for Xiao Yan’s group to clash with the White Fiend Squad.
• Xiao Yan’s freshmen and Luo Hou’s White Fiend Squad began fighting after Luo Hou refused to let them pass.
• Chen Xuan burned potent herbs and fanned the smoke into the battle, temporarily weakening both sides until Elder Su ordered his students to retreat.
• Chen Xuan emerged, and Elder Su allowed him to take the fire energy because his tactic had not broken the rules.
• Chen Xuan took everyone’s fire energy, provoked Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, and was awarded an Azure Fire Crystal Card and thirty days of fire energy.

After arriving in the Inner Academy, Chen Xuan defeated Brother Hui and his group when they tried to extort tribute, then robbed them of their fire energy. Green Mountain threatened to teach Chen Xuan a lesson, while Chen Xuan headed for the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda.

• Chen Xuan moved into a freshmen's pavilion with four students whose fire energy he had robbed during the hunt.
• Brother Hui and a dozen older students beat Chen Xuan's roommates and demanded monthly tribute from them.
• Brother Hui mistook Chen Xuan for Yang Shuo and ordered his group to attack him, but Chen Xuan resisted their blows and used powder to disable them.
• Chen Xuan whipped Brother Hui and the others with a spit-covered shoe, then robbed them of their fire energy.
• News of the fight spread, and Green Mountain announced that he would punish Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan left to find the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda and try its cultivation effects.

Chen Xuan entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, endured its strange flame long enough to temper his body, and drew attention from students and Elder Liu. Despite warnings about the danger, he used his Azure Fire Crystal Card to enter the fourth level, where his enemies were already gathering outside the tower.

• Chen Xuan entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda and endured its invisible flame for an hour, using it to strengthen his body with the Undying Hegemon Body Art.
• Elder Liu and the students were shocked that Chen Xuan had survived his first visit, and Chen Xuan claimed he would soon surpass Xiao Yan.
• Chen Xuan asked to enter the fifth level, but Elder Liu warned him that he lacked the strength; Chen Xuan chose the fourth level instead.
• Students spread news of Chen Xuan's location, and Brother Hui brought a group to wait outside the pagoda.
• Chen Xuan reached the fourth level, inserted his Azure Fire Crystal Card, and entered a cultivation room as students and instructors watched with curiosity.

Chen Xuan cultivated in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda for eight days and broke through to one-star Dou Ling, drawing attention from students and elders who believed he had concealed his strength. After leaving the pagoda to find food, he faced Zhou Yuan and Brother Hui, who had waited to confront him.

• Chen Xuan cultivated automatically in the chamber until his Dou Qi reached the peak of a nine-star Da Dou Shi.
• Other students and three elders noticed his breakthrough signs, and the elders decided to have Hu Gan investigate him.
• Chen Xuan absorbed the chamber's energy, broke through to one-star Dou Ling, and decided to eat before returning to cultivate deeper in the pagoda.
• Brother Hui identified Chen Xuan to Zhou Yuan, who threatened him for attacking their people.
• Chen Xuan dismissed Zhou Yuan's group, and Zhou Yuan claimed he could handle Chen Xuan alone.

Chen Xuan defeated Zhou Yuan and the men who tried to ambush him outside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, shocking the Inner Academy with his Dou Ling strength. After briefly leaving to eat, he returned and entered an advanced training room on the pagoda’s fifth floor.

• Zhou Yuan surrounded Chen Xuan outside the pagoda and challenged him, but Chen Xuan shattered his attack and knocked him down with Flash Collapse.
• Brother Hui and Zhou Yuan’s other men rushed Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan defeated them all and beat Zhou Yuan with his shoe.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er watched Chen Xuan and suspected he was hiding secrets, agreeing that they wanted to expose him.
• Chen Xuan left the pagoda, ate quickly, and returned intending to cultivate on the fifth floor.
• Chen Xuan entered an advanced training room on the fifth floor, drawing startled and gleeful looks from the other students.

Chen Xuan cultivated in an empty high-grade room belonging to Spirit until Zixuan and Liu Xinyu arrived and ordered him out. Zixuan attacked him with purple energy whips, and Chen Xuan caught them as the confrontation began.

• Chen Xuan entered an unoccupied high-grade cultivation room on the fifth floor and absorbed its abundant energy.
• Zixuan and Liu Xinyu learned that a new student called Yang Shuo had entered Spirit's room and decided to drive him out.
• Zixuan and Liu Xinyu entered the room and confronted Chen Xuan, claiming it belonged exclusively to Spirit.
• Chen Xuan refused to leave, and Zixuan attacked him with two purple energy whips.
• Chen Xuan formed Dou Qi armor and caught both whips, feeling his hands go numb from the impact.

Chen Xuan defeated Zixuan and Liu Xinyu with a concealed powder, humiliated them, and escaped the cultivation tower. News of the incident spread through the Inner Academy, and Spirit’s leader Han Yue ordered her people to gather in response.

• Chen Xuan fought Zixuan and Liu Xinyu, then scattered powder that prevented them from circulating their Dou Qi.
• Chen Xuan stripped the helpless women and left the cultivation room before they could retaliate.
• Instructors rescued Zixuan and Liu Xinyu, and the incident made Chen Xuan infamous throughout the Inner Academy.
• Han Yue learned that her people had been humiliated by Yang Shuo and ordered Spirit’s members to gather.

Chen Xuan hid in the forest in his honey badger form while Han Yue, Zixuan, Liu Xinyu, Lin Xiuya, and Yan Hao organized a hunt for him. As Han Yue's group searched deeper into the woods, an attacker mistook Chen Xuan for a magical beast and drew their attention to him.

• Han Yue gathered Spirit members at Da Dou Shi level or above and led them into the forest to find Chen Xuan and punish him.
• Lin Xiuya and Yan Hao joined Han Yue's hunt, and the searchers split into three groups.
• Chen Xuan transformed into a honey badger and secretly followed Han Yue's group, planning to attack only after they went deeper into the forest.
• Han Yue and Zixuan discussed castrating Chen Xuan if they caught him, and Chen Xuan decided to deal with Han Yue first without revealing his face.
• An arrow shot at Chen Xuan, and a three-star Dou Ling charged him, prompting Han Yue to notice the unfamiliar fourth-tier magical beast.

Chen Xuan used a Dou Wang Experience Card to overpower Han Yue and Lin Xiuya’s group, abducted Han Yue, and escaped into a secluded valley. After Chen Xuan left her in the tent, Han Yue woke with no memory of what had happened and wept in hatred.

• Chen Xuan raised his strength to the middle stage of a Fifth-tier Monster Beast, frightening the students and prompting them to flee.
• Chen Xuan ignored Lin Xiuya and Han Yue’s attacks, knocked Han Yue unconscious, and slaughtered students as Lin Xiuya tried to hold him off.
• Chen Xuan used his Berserk skill, seized Han Yue, and fled when he sensed an academy elder approaching.
• Chen Xuan escaped the elder with a Teleportation Jade Talisman and took Han Yue to a secluded valley.
• Chen Xuan carried out a disturbing act against the unconscious Han Yue, then left her alone in the tent.
• Han Yue woke up naked, remembered only encountering the Fifth-tier Monster Beast, and wept with hatred over what had happened.

Chen Xuan encountered and killed a Snow Demon Sky Ape that attacked him to protect the Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid. He entered the cave at the end of the valley to find the liquid and discovered the ape’s resting place.

• Chen Xuan sensed a Fifth-tier Monster Beast in a valley and found a Snow Demon Sky Ape guarding it.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape attacked Chen Xuan, accusing him of coming to steal its Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid.
• Chen Xuan transformed into his true form, fought the ape, and killed it, obtaining its Fifth-tier Magic Core.
• Chen Xuan burned the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s corpse and traveled deeper into the valley toward the Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid.
• Chen Xuan entered a dark cave and found the sunken, fur-covered place where the Snow Demon Sky Ape had rested.

Chen Xuan discovered an underground cavern containing Earthcore Body-Tempering Milk and used it to strengthen himself. After absorbing the concentrated milk, he reached Three-Star Dou Wang, while the story left him beneath the cavern’s giant stalactite.

• Chen Xuan uncovered a hidden passage beneath the cave’s sand and followed it into a vast underground world of glowing stalactites.
• Chen Xuan found diluted Earthcore Body-Tempering Milk beneath the largest stalactite and drank it before absorbing the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s Magic Core, reaching late fourth-tier Monster Beast and Seven-Star Dou Ling.
• Chen Xuan flew to the stalactite’s base, scraped it open with a jade shard, and collected most of the jade-green Earthcore Body-Tempering Milk.
• Chen Xuan swallowed half a bottle of the concentrated milk and endured its violent energy as he refined and absorbed it with the Undying Hegemon Body Art.
• Chen Xuan completed his breakthrough and reached Three-Star Dou Wang.

Chen Xuan returned to the academy after reaching three-star Dou Wang and learned that the top ten in the upcoming Strong Ranking Competition could cultivate in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda. When Han Yue confronted him, he defeated her and agreed to fight Yan Hao, the Strong Ranking’s fourth-ranked student.

• Chen Xuan left the valley to stabilize his cultivation, frightened off monster beasts on his way back, and beat several Inner Academy students who challenged him.
• Chen Xuan learned that the Strong Ranking Competition would take place in a month and that he needed to enter the top fifty to qualify.
• Han Yue brought people to confront Chen Xuan, but his nine-star Dou Ling aura and superior fighting skill let him dodge her attack, seize her, and slam her to the ground.
• Chen Xuan threatened Han Yue’s companions when they tried to intervene, then released her after slapping her twice.
• Yan Hao, the Strong Ranking’s fourth-ranked student, challenged Chen Xuan, who accepted and arranged to meet him at the arena.

Chen Xuan, disguised as Yang Shuo, faced Yan Hao in a life-or-death arena duel before a packed crowd. Chen Xuan met Yan Hao’s hammer with his bare fist, leaving Yan Hao shocked and the spectators stunned as the fight continued.

• Inner Academy students and elders gathered to watch Chen Xuan’s duel with Yan Hao, while Han Yue, Lin Xiuya, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xun’er discussed Chen Xuan’s strength.
• Chen Xuan and Yan Hao entered the arena as spectators loudly backed Yan Hao and called for him to punish Chen Xuan.
• Yan Hao charged with his earth-element Dou Qi and brought his Dark Meteor Hammer down on Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan punched the hammer with his bare fist, knocking it back and staggering Yan Hao while remaining unharmed.
• The crowd erupted in amazement, and Lin Xiuya grew worried for Yan Hao after seeing Chen Xuan’s strength.

Chen Xuan defeated Yan Hao to claim fourth place on the Strong Ranking, then cultivated on the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda. He secretly revealed his Dou Wang strength and used Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid to advance to a five-star Dou Wang, while academy elders discovered the source of his rapid growth.

• Chen Xuan blocked Yan Hao's strongest attacks, overwhelmed him in close combat, and defeated him to take fourth place on the Strong Ranking.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er discussed Chen Xuan's strength, while Lin Xiuya and Han Yue considered joining forces with Xiao Yan's Pan Gate to confront him.
• Chen Xuan entered an advanced cultivation room on the sixth floor and cultivated with Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid as three academy elders secretly watched.
• The elders discovered Chen Xuan was already a three-star Dou Wang and recognized the Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid as the reason for his rapid progress.
• Chen Xuan absorbed the liquid's energy, advanced to a five-star Dou Wang, and left the cultivation tower.

Chen Xuan waited for the Strong Ranking Competition, hoping to reach deeper levels of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda and face Xiao Yan. At the competition’s opening, he traded taunts with the mysterious little girl in white, who warned she would beat him if they met.

• Chen Xuan spent the ten days before the competition stabilizing his cultivation and wondered whether he would encounter Xiao Yan or Xiao Xun'er.
• The Inner Academy gathered at the central plaza, where Great Elder Su Qian announced the start of the competition and called the Strong Ranking contestants into the arena.
• Liu Qing made a forceful entrance, Lin Xiuya descended on a spiral of wind, and Xiao Yan arrived with startling speed.
• The little girl in white came to the front of the crowd, and the other top contestants showed they knew her strength despite her hidden identity.
• Chen Xuan mocked the contestants for showing off, and the little girl in white challenged him before he threatened to spank her if they met.

Chen Xuan watched Xiao Yan and the girl in white win their duels before being called to face Liu Qing, the third-ranked member of the Strong Ranking. Their match began with both men sizing each other up, and Liu Qing displayed formidable physical strength.

• Chen Xuan drew number thirty-seven and watched Xiao Yan defeat his opponent with powerful techniques.
• The girl in white knocked out an eight-star Dou Ling with one punch, astonishing the spectators and drawing Chen Xuan's attention.
• Liu Qing was called to fight and stepped into the arena, where Chen Xuan emerged as his opponent.
• Chen Xuan and Liu Qing exchanged confident words before Su Qian started their duel.
• Chen Xuan reached the peak of nine-star Dou Ling, while Liu Qing demonstrated his immense physical strength; Chen Xuan judged that Liu Qing was inferior to him in that regard.