Recaps

Lin Xiao revealed that his third heaven-bestowed soul ring was thirty thousand years old, while Oscar received a disappointing third soul skill. The group returned to Shrek Academy, where Lin Xiao found the newly renovated dormitories and wondered whether Yu Xiaogang had arrived.

• Lin Xiao announced that his third soul ring was thirty thousand years old, startling the group and prompting Dai Mubai to confront him before Lin Xiao stopped him with the Immortal Execution Sword.
• Tang San resolved to make poison and hidden weapons so he could secretly eliminate Lin Xiao, while Zhao Wuji praised Lin Xiao's strength.
• Zhao Wuji led the group to find Oscar a third soul ring, and Oscar gained a Wind Spirit Fox skill that boosted speed by thirty percent for thirty seconds.
• The group returned to Shrek Academy after more than ten days, and Zhao Wuji gave them three days to rest.
• Lin Xiao saw the renovated dormitories and learned Ning Rongrong had assigned him a private courtyard beside hers; he wondered whether Yu Xiaogang had arrived and noticed Tang San had gathered herbs on the journey back.

Lin Xiao prepared to gather ingredients for Universal Antidote Pills while settling into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s courtyard. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang condemned Tang San’s third soul ring as poorly suited to his control-focused fighting style, then asked about Lin Xiao, leaving Tang San worried about his teacher’s interest in him.

• Lin Xiao considered refining Universal Antidote Pills but lacked pill-refining methods, so he planned to gather the ingredients and prepare them as medicine if necessary.
• Lin Xiao admired the courtyard residence Ning Rongrong had arranged and considered helping Ning Fengzhi obtain the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to repay the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang reunited with Tang San and learned that Tang San had reached level thirty-one and gained a third soul ring from a Blazing Flame Tiger.
• Yu Xiaogang berated Tang San for choosing a soul ring that gave Blue Silver Grass an offensive flame skill instead of strengthening its control abilities.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to tell him about Lin Xiao, and Tang San worried that Yu Xiaogang might take Lin Xiao as a disciple.

Tang San feared Yu Xiaogang would take Lin Xiao as a disciple and secretly resolved to kill him for Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone. Meanwhile, Lin Xiao and Xiao Wu considered telling Ning Rongrong about the future, and Lin Xiao began explaining what Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing would experience.

• Tang San admitted to Yu Xiaogang that he had friction with Lin Xiao, while secretly plotting to kill him and take Xiao Wu’s soul ring and soul bone.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to reconcile with Lin Xiao and left to visit him, intending to make Lin Xiao Tang San’s junior disciple.
• Xiao Wu asked Lin Xiao whether they should tell Ning Rongrong about his future knowledge, but worried that doing so could expose her identity as a soul beast.
• Lin Xiao weighed the risks and benefits of telling Ning Rongrong, including how she might change her fate and the possibility that she could covet Xiao Wu’s soul ring and soul bone.
• Xiao Wu asked Lin Xiao what Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing would experience, and Lin Xiao began explaining.

Lin Xiao rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to recruit him as a disciple while Xiao Wu borrowed his bathroom. Tang San saw Xiao Wu emerge from Lin Xiao’s house after showering and charged toward them in a jealous rage.

• Xiao Wu asked Lin Xiao to tell Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing about their futures when he judged it safe, and he agreed to wait until their affection reached sixty unless something important happened.
• Xiao Wu went into Lin Xiao’s house to borrow his bathroom, while Lin Xiao considered his medicinal ingredients and the alchemy he hoped to obtain.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived at Lin Xiao’s courtyard and introduced himself as the academy’s new teacher, praising Lin Xiao’s talent and hinting that he should become his disciple.
• Lin Xiao said he had never heard of Yu Xiaogang’s reputation and dismissed Tang San’s rank thirty-one cultivation as nothing special.
• Xiao Wu came out of the house in pajamas with wet hair, and Tang San saw her and charged over, enraged by what he imagined had happened.

Yu Xiaogang tried to recruit Lin Xiao as his disciple while Tang San confronted Lin Xiao over Xiao Wu bathing at his home. Lin Xiao slapped Tang San and rejected Yu Xiaogang, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Wu told Yu Xiaogang she had borrowed Lin Xiao's home to bathe, while privately viewing Yu Xiaogang with contempt.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived intending to make Lin Xiao his disciple and imagined becoming famous as the teacher of a future Titled Douluo.
• Tang San rushed to Lin Xiao's courtyard and angrily questioned Xiao Wu about bathing there.
• Lin Xiao blocked Tang San from entering and slapped him after Tang San claimed he had the right to discipline Xiao Wu.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Lin Xiao apologize, but Lin Xiao defended Xiao Wu's independence, rejected Yu Xiaogang as a teacher, and mocked his teaching record.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San confronted Lin Xiao over Xiao Wu, but Lin Xiao rebuffed them and drove them away. Flender and Zhao Wuji watched without intervening, then decided to leave and postpone speaking with Lin Xiao about the Great Soul Arena.

• Yu Xiaogang despaired when Lin Xiao revealed his photographic memory and dismissed Yu Xiaogang's claim to be his teacher.
• Xiao Wu defended Lin Xiao and objected to Tang San criticizing her for bathing and eating at Lin Xiao's place.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Xiao Wu to apologize to Tang San, so Lin Xiao slapped Yu Xiaogang and threatened them until Tang San led his teacher away.
• Tang San resolved to seek another chance to reclaim Xiao Wu and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while Yu Xiaogang planned to ask Flender for help.
• Zhao Wuji criticized Yu Xiaogang to Flender, and Flender acknowledged that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had caused the trouble before deciding to postpone his talk with Lin Xiao.

After a dinner with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, Lin Xiao discovered they had pretended to be drunk to test whether he would take advantage of them. Their affection for him rose, and he began another skill draw, gaining an enhanced teleportation ability.

• Flender let Yu Xiaogang’s clash with Lin Xiao play out and questioned whether his old friend had changed too much for them to remain friends.
• Lin Xiao hosted a drinking feast for Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, and carried the three girls to a guest room when they appeared drunk.
• Lin Xiao saw their affection scores rise and used the Goddess Codex to realize they had pretended to be drunk to test him.
• The girls watched Lin Xiao leave them safely in the guest room and agreed to explore the city during their days off.
• Lin Xiao drew Xiao Wu’s Instant Teleportation skill, which the system enhanced into unlimited, uninterruptible teleportation within one thousand meters with no cost or cooldown.

Lin Xiao drew three enhanced skills: long-range, unblockable teleportation, a massive soul power amplification, and a devastating area attack. After discussing the conflict between the students, Flender decided to split Shrek’s eight students into two teams, with Zhao Wuji training Lin Xiao’s group and Yu Xiaogang kept away from them.

• Lin Xiao drew Xiao Wu’s enhanced Instant Teleportation, which could carry him anywhere within a thousand meters without cost or interruption.
• Lin Xiao drew Ning Rongrong’s Soul Power Amplification, which increased soul power by five hundred percent for two hours regardless of level difference.
• Lin Xiao drew Zhu Zhuqing’s enhanced Netherworld Ten Thousand Swords, an area attack whose swords pursued marked targets and corroded their meridians and soul power.
• Flender asked Zhao Wuji whether Lin Xiao’s group could train alongside Tang San’s group, and Zhao Wuji said Dai Mubai and Tang San’s intentions made that impossible.
• Flender decided to divide the eight students into two teams and agreed that Zhao Wuji would train Lin Xiao’s group while Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San’s group.
• Flender planned to announce the arrangements after the break and said he might recruit more teachers if needed.

Yu Xiaogang complained to Flender and Zhao Wuji that Lin Xiao had attacked him, but they recognized his account as dishonest and rejected his demand to punish Lin Xiao. The argument ended with Yu Xiaogang learning that both men had witnessed what really happened and that Lin Xiao would be trained by Zhao Wuji.

• Yu Xiaogang told Flender and Zhao Wuji that Lin Xiao had insulted him and attacked him after refusing to become his disciple.
• Flender questioned Yu Xiaogang's version of events and recalled his willingness to teach Tang San but not ordinary students.
• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San and demanded that Flender discipline Lin Xiao or expel him from the academy.
• Zhao Wuji revealed that he had watched the encounter outside Lin Xiao's courtyard and announced that he would train Lin Xiao, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Yu Xiaogang protested the split training teams, and Flender revealed that he had also witnessed the encounter.

Flender rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to train Lin Xiao and assigned him to train Tang San and the others instead. The next morning, Lin Xiao and the girls discussed refusing Yu Xiaogang’s guidance, but Zhao Wuji arrived with news that he would train them himself.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Lin Xiao would not be his student and that Yu Xiaogang should focus on Tang San and the others.
• Yu Xiaogang left, privately deciding he would eventually make Lin Xiao recognize his abilities and ask to become his disciple.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing discussed leaving Shrek Academy rather than letting Yu Xiaogang teach them.
• Lin Xiao agreed that he would not accept Yu Xiaogang’s guidance and suggested the group enjoy their remaining days off.
• Xiao Wu proposed explaining their concerns to Flender, but Zhao Wuji arrived and said he would be responsible for training the four of them.

Zhao Wuji told Lin Xiao and the girls that he would train them instead of Yu Xiaogang, then presented a plan Lin Xiao criticized and replaced with more advanced methods. Zhao Wuji went back to test Lin Xiao’s Soul Power body-tempering technique, while the girls chose to rest and Lin Xiao prepared to begin training himself.

• Zhao Wuji announced that he would train Lin Xiao and the three girls, while Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San and the others.
• Lin Xiao and the girls welcomed the arrangement and read Zhao Wuji’s physical-training plan, which Lin Xiao judged crude and inefficient.
• Lin Xiao proposed Soul Power body-tempering, nightly medicinal baths, and actual combat to improve physical strength, Soul Power, and spiritual power.
• Lin Xiao offered to teach the body-tempering method, and Zhao Wuji decided to return to his courtyard to test it himself.
• Ning Rongrong asked to stroll with the girls and begin training the next day, while Lin Xiao agreed and planned to train on his own.

Lin Xiao independently developed a body-tempering method and received the Nine Revolutions Profound Art from the system, then used it to cultivate. After Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo arrived, Ning Fengzhi offered Lin Xiao the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s protection, and Lin Xiao agreed to visit the sect in the future.

• Lin Xiao struggled to combine meditation with body tempering, then received the Nine Revolutions Profound Art as a system reward for developing his method.
• He began cultivating the art, which accelerated his Soul Power growth, and planned to try Thunderfire Body Tempering while relying on Invincible Golden Body if danger arose.
• After returning from shopping, Ning Rongrong brought Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo to meet Lin Xiao.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Lin Xiao had a master, and Lin Xiao said he had no background and came from the mountains.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect protect Lin Xiao from Tang Hao, and Lin Xiao thanked him and said he hoped to visit Seven Treasure City.

Ning Fengzhi gave Lin Xiao ten million Gold Soul Coins and planned further gifts to secure the prodigy’s loyalty to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. As Lin Xiao began teaching Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San approached Ning Fengzhi and was kicked away.

• Ning Fengzhi gave Lin Xiao a Gold Soul Card containing ten million Gold Soul Coins and encouraged him to spend time with the girls.
• Lin Xiao began teaching Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing body-tempering methods and acupoint identification.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to prepare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Soul Bones for Lin Xiao.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that Lin Xiao could become unmatched as a Titled Douluo and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should invest in him before other factions did.
• Tang San blocked Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, introduced himself, and Ning Fengzhi kicked him more than twenty meters away.

Ning Fengzhi kicked Tang San for secretly following him and refused to hear his proposal for hidden weapons, prompting Tang San to swear revenge on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong learned of Lin Xiao’s extraordinary talent and ordered Spirit Hall to recruit him while investigating Tang Hao, Shrek Academy, and Ning Fengzhi’s activities.

• Ning Fengzhi kicked Tang San and warned him against following people whose cultivation far exceeded his.
• Tang San tried to offer Ning Fengzhi his hidden weapons, but Ning Fengzhi left with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo without hearing him out.
• Tang San vowed to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect pay and returned to the Shrek Academy Dormitory, still fixated on Xiao Wu and Lin Xiao’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo gave Bibi Dong a dossier on Lin Xiao, and Bibi Dong ordered a Suotuo City branch hall deacon to approach him and investigate Tang Hao and Shrek Academy.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported Ning Fengzhi’s presence in Suotuo City and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Path Guardians, and Bibi Dong ordered a thorough investigation.

Spirit Hall decided to recruit Lin Xiao or at least avoid making an enemy of him after learning that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might seek him out. At Shrek Academy, Bishop Tu Ling paid Lin Xiao for his completed mission and revealed that Spirit Hall had rewarded him for intelligence about Clear Sky Douluo, beginning to explain why Lin Xiao had provided it.

• Bibi Dong concluded that Ning Fengzhi and two Titled Douluo were in Suotuo City to guard against Tang Hao and possibly recruit Lin Xiao, and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to win Lin Xiao over without offending him.
• Lin Xiao spent the night teaching Xiao Wu and the other girls acupoints, then saw Tang San leave while seething with jealousy over Xiao Wu staying at Lin Xiao's courtyard.
• Teacher Shao Xin told Lin Xiao that Flender wanted to see him, and Lin Xiao found Bishop Tu Ling and two deacons waiting in the dean's office.
• Lin Xiao handed in the Man Faced Demon Spider legs for his completed mission and received his commission.
• Bishop Tu Ling gave Lin Xiao a Gold Soul Card containing five million gold soul coins as a reward for intelligence about Clear Sky Douluo, alarming Flender and Zhao Wuji.
• Bishop Tu Ling began explaining why Lin Xiao had provided the intelligence, saying there was more to the matter than Flender assumed.

Bishop Tu Ling explained that Tang Hao had ambushed Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong, prompting Lin Xiao to report him and Spirit Hall to increase patrols around Shrek. Lin Xiao refused Spirit Hall’s recruitment offer and chose to remain at Shrek, but accepted resources sent by Bibi Dong as a goodwill gesture.

• Bishop Tu Ling told Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Lin Xiao that Tang Hao had attacked Lin Xiao and Ning Rongrong because Lin Xiao had grown close to Xiao Wu, and that Spirit Hall was guarding against further retaliation.
• Flender condemned Tang Hao after learning he had tried to kill the young students and silence them.
• Bishop Tu Ling invited Lin Xiao to join the Spirit Hall of the Saints, offering resources and protection.
• Lin Xiao declined the invitation and said he wanted to continue training at Shrek.
• Bishop Tu Ling accepted Lin Xiao’s decision and gave him a Storage Soul Tool containing resources approved by Bibi Dong.

Flender decided to relocate Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou City to protect Lin Xiao and the other students from Tang Hao. Meanwhile, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun planned to deal with Lin Xiao, with Tang San developing a poison and the group intending to challenge him during training.

• Bishop Tu Ling left after delivering Spirit Hall's offer, while Zhao Wuji noted that other factions might also seek Lin Xiao.
• Flender decided to move Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou City, and he told Zhao Wuji to continue the usual lessons while he worked out the details.
• Lin Xiao returned to his courtyard and told Xiao Wu and the others to prepare for formal training the next day.
• Tang San brooded over Lin Xiao's connections with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun discussed how to deal with Lin Xiao; Tang San said he was still preparing a poison.
• Dai Mubai urged the group to avoid Lin Xiao until the poison was ready and suggested they prove themselves during training, which Tang San accepted.

Lin Xiao and Tang San’s groups were assigned to separate training teams, but Yu Xiaogang protested and Lin Xiao openly insulted him. Tang San demanded an apology, and Lin Xiao beat him before Tang San retaliated with hidden weapons.

• Tang San and his companions waited for training while Lin Xiao arrived with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Flender assigned Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun to Yu Xiaogang, and Lin Xiao, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to Zhao Wuji.
• Yu Xiaogang argued that all eight students should train together, but Flender kept the teams separate.
• Lin Xiao refused Yu Xiaogang’s training and mocked his Rank 29 strength, prompting Tang San to demand an apology.
• Lin Xiao dodged Tang San’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and kicked him into a tree, then warned him not to keep acting crazy.
• Tang San rose, shouted at Lin Xiao, and launched hidden weapons from Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night as he charged.

Lin Xiao easily defeated Tang San after blocking his poisoned hidden weapons, then severely beat him while Flender slowed the poison in Yu Xiaogang’s foot. As Lin Xiao left to train with Xiao Wu and the others, Yu Xiaogang insisted on coaching them, prompting Zhao Wuji to confront him.

• Lin Xiao protected Xiao Wu and the others with Invincible Golden Body, then teleported beside Tang San and knocked him down.
• Yu Xiaogang stepped on one of Tang San’s poisoned hidden weapons, and Flender warned everyone to avoid the weapons while slowing the poison’s spread.
• Lin Xiao slapped Tang San repeatedly and threatened to kill him, while Tang San pretended to be unconscious and privately planned to poison Lin Xiao later.
• Lin Xiao joined Xiao Wu and the others as Zhao Wuji suggested they train at Lin Xiao’s courtyard because the playground was covered in poisoned weapons.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded that Zhao Wuji let him train the students, and Zhao Wuji walked toward him to make his position clear.

Zhao Wuji beat Yu Xiaogang for repeatedly insulting his teaching and warned him to leave Shrek Academy. Flender did not intervene, and Yu Xiaogang’s standing with his old friend fell further as Zhao Wuji left with Lin Xiao and the others.

• Zhao Wuji confronted Yu Xiaogang over mocking his teaching and struck him, leaving him badly injured.
• Zhao Wuji slapped Yu Xiaogang again and threatened to keep beating him if he spoke up.
• Lin Xiao reflected that Tang San’s protagonist halo had protected the protagonist’s camp from consequences.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped arguing and obeyed Zhao Wuji’s order to leave him alone.
• Zhao Wuji led Lin Xiao and the other three away, while Flender questioned Yu Xiaogang’s decision to provoke him.
• Flender’s view of Yu Xiaogang worsened as Yu Xiaogang silently resented his friend’s words.

After falling out with Yu Xiaogang over his demand to train Lin Xiao and the others, Flender left, and Lin Xiao began teaching the three girls his Body Tempering Method. Zhao Wuji joined them and received Lin Xiao’s meridian chart, while Lin Xiao ended the day determined to deal with Dai Mubai and his companions if they tried to intrude again.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that Shrek would not force students to accept his training, and Yu Xiaogang’s anger convinced Flender their decades-long friendship was over.
• Lin Xiao, the three girls, and Zhao Wuji returned to Lin Xiao’s courtyard, where Lin Xiao taught the girls the Body Tempering Method from the Nine Revolutions Profound Art.
• Zhao Wuji observed that the girls’ Soul Power was strengthening their bodies and accepted Lin Xiao’s meridian chart and permission to use the method.
• After a day of cultivation, Lin Xiao explained that a stronger body could allow Soul Masters to absorb older Soul Rings, and Zhao Wuji believed the theory could transform the Soul Master World.
• Zhao Wuji told Lin Xiao that Flender had visited and that he had turned Dai Mubai and the others away; Lin Xiao vowed to beat them if they tried to intrude again.

Lin Xiao and the others continued body-tempering cultivation for ten days, while Zhao Wuji kept Tang San and his companions away from the courtyard. As Lin Xiao planned the next stage of training, Dai Mubai proposed hiring help from the Black Market to deal with him.

• Zhao Wuji drove Tang San and the others away whenever they tried to enter Lin Xiao's courtyard, and he beat Yu Xiaogang after Yu Xiaogang criticized his training.
• After ten days of body tempering, Lin Xiao had reached Rank 36, Ning Rongrong's strength had greatly increased, and Zhao Wuji had also felt his body grow stronger.
• Lin Xiao said he would spend another twenty days completing the first stage of body tempering and would investigate combining the method with Soul Power cultivation.
• Tang San grew furious at being unable to see Xiao Wu and decided to keep developing poison against Lin Xiao.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the others agreed they needed a plan, and Dai Mubai suggested finding people outside to teach Lin Xiao a lesson.
• Tang San recognized that Dai Mubai meant the Black Market, where they could pay to have someone killed.

Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun went to Suotuo City's black market to hire an assassin to kill Lin Xiao. Tang Hao remained unable to approach Shrek Academy because of Spirit Hall and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect patrols, while an unknown observer watched the four students leave.

• Dai Mubai proposed hiring an assassin through the black market, and Tang San explained how it worked.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun agreed to go together and set out for Suotuo City's black market at night.
• Tang Hao watched Shrek Academy from a distance and resolved to keep guarding Tang San, since patrols from Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect blocked his way inside.
• Tang Hao learned Lin Xiao had reported him to Spirit Hall and blamed him for the growing danger around Tang San.
• Tang Hao withdrew to a cave, while an unseen watcher observed Dai Mubai and the others racing toward the city.

Flender discovered that Dai Mubai, Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun had hired three Soul Emperors to assassinate Lin Xiao, then arranged for the academy to protect him. Lin Xiao remained unruffled and asked how long Flender and Zhao Wuji would take to deal with the matter.

• Flender followed the four students into Suotuo City's black market and learned they had posted a one-million-Gold-Soul-Coin assassination mission targeting Lin Xiao.
• Flender told Zhao Wuji about the plot, and Zhao Wuji demanded that the students be punished.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji weighed the danger of confronting Dai Mubai and Tang San because of their powerful connections, and decided to watch over Lin Xiao and discipline Oscar and Ma Hongjun.
• Flender ordered the teachers to take turns guarding the academy at night and went with Zhao Wuji to warn Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao laughed at the news and asked Flender how long he and Zhao Wuji would need to resolve the situation.

After learning that Dai Mubai and the others had hired assassins, Lin Xiao secured Flender's promise not to interfere if he chose to kill them later. As the Black Market accepted the contract, Zhu Zhuqing went to investigate the four students, who had secretly gathered in a dorm room at night.

• Lin Xiao told Flender he would take sole responsibility if he eventually killed Dai Mubai and the others, and Flender agreed not to interfere.
• Lin Xiao decided to wait until he had enough strength to face retaliation from Tang Hao and the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Xiao Wu warned Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that Dai Mubai and the others were plotting something, and Zhu Zhuqing volunteered to investigate.
• Flender told Zhao Wuji that the Black Market had accepted the assassination job and urged him to stay alert.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Dai Mubai and the others gathered in one dorm room after lights-out and began checking their other rooms for clues.