Recaps

He Yuanyue resolved to uncover the truth behind her life’s work, while Zuo Xiaoduo’s injured team stopped training and Qin Fangyang learned how narrowly they had escaped death. Mu Yunfeng, hiding near the training grounds after being expelled from Phoenix City, had secretly killed two students and was now evading pursuit.

• He Yuanyue told Sister Lan to prepare Soul Dream Grass so she could hold on long enough to pave the way and investigate how she might have been deceived or used.
• Zuo Xiaoduo called the class together to recover after all six members of his team suffered serious injuries.
• Qin Fangyang arrived, heard Li Chenglong explain that Mu Yunfeng had attacked them, and realized how close the students had come to dying.
• Liu Jiansheng and the others returned without catching Mu Yunfeng, while Class Nineteen assembled.
• Mu Yunfeng hid in the grass near the training grounds, recalling that he had been expelled from Phoenix City and had secretly killed two Second High School students before deciding to flee.

Zuo Xiaonian killed Mu Yunfeng after he escaped his pursuers, then confronted Meng Chenyu for failing to stop the assassin from attacking Zuo Xiaoduo. She accused Meng Chenyu of wanting Xiaoduo dead and pressed her to explain why, but Meng Chenyu remained silent.

• Mu Yunfeng escaped Liu Jiansheng and the other pursuers, then tried to flee through the grass.
• Zuo Xiaonian ambushed Mu Yunfeng with her freezing technique, killed him, and took his head.
• Meng Chenyu praised Zuo Xiaonian's cultivation technique, and Zuo Xiaonian slapped her for neglecting her duty to protect Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Xiaonian accused Meng Chenyu of knowingly letting Mu Yunfeng attack and escape, and asked whether she wanted Xiaoduo dead because he disrupted her brother's plan.
• Meng Chenyu fell silent instead of answering Zuo Xiaonian's accusation.

Zuo Xiaonian confronted Meng Chenyu over using family resources to pressure her into meeting Meng Chentian and accused her of deliberately failing to protect Zuo Xiaoduo. The chapter ended with Zuo Xiaonian alleging that Meng Chenyu had watched Mu Yunfeng attack and escape so he could try to kill Xiaoduo again.

• Meng Chenyu argued that Zuo Xiaonian owed her family for providing resources that helped Zuo Xiaoduo break through.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that Master had arranged Xiaoduo's access to the resources and that she had agreed to dinner only to avoid further complications.
• Zuo Xiaonian challenged Meng Chenyu for treating the dinner as a romantic date and for assuming she should give Meng Chentian a chance.
• Zuo Xiaonian accused Meng Chenyu of volunteering to guard Xiaoduo so she could watch him die, citing her inaction when the Phoenix City Three Young Masters and Mu Yunfeng threatened him.
• Zuo Xiaonian claimed Meng Chenyu had let Mu Yunfeng escape so he could ambush Xiaoduo again, expecting to evade serious punishment by calling it a failed mission.

Zuo Xiaonian took Meng Chenyu to confront their master about the reason behind her attack, while Qin Fangyang treated the students and worried that Mu Yunfeng had been involved in earlier murders. After Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune-telling proved accurate when Zhou Xiaoma was badly injured, Bai Bingbing approached Xiaoduo, leaving him wary of her sudden attention.

• Zuo Xiaonian seized the silent Meng Chenyu and flew off to bring her before their master, while Mu Yunfeng’s headless corpse disappeared in the desolate grass.
• Qin Fangyang treated the students and wondered whether Mu Yunfeng had also been behind the earlier student murders.
• Song Zihao’s team encountered Star Beasts while chasing a Spirit Beast, and Zhou Xiaoma suffered a severe leg injury that might leave him disabled.
• Song Zihao’s teammates remembered Zuo Xiaoduo’s prediction about Zhou Xiaoma’s leg and were shaken by its accuracy.
• Bai Bingbing’s teammates urged her to pursue Zuo Xiaoduo, and she walked over to speak with him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo panicked at Bai Bingbing’s sudden approach, checked his face in his mirror, and looked for Zuo Xiaonian.

After the battle, Zuo Xiaoduo dodged Bai Bingbing’s attempts to treat his wound and helped his group tally their training contribution points. The injured students were taken away for treatment and interrogation while the teams compared their earnings.

• Bai Bingbing offered to treat Zuo Xiaoduo’s back wound and give him Muscle-Regenerating Powder, but he refused and fled under the pretense of needing the toilet.
• Luo Lie took Zhou Xiaoma back for treatment, while Teng Hao and two others were escorted away for interrogation over their connection to Mu Yunfeng and the Witch Alliance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and his group calculated that they had earned close to nine thousand contribution points, or more than sixteen hundred per person among the six of them.
• Zhao Changjun reported at least sixty-three points for his team, Jia Shinan reported fifty-nine, and Song Zihao said his team had only twenty-three after Zhou Xiaoma’s injury.
• Bai Bingbing said her girls’ team had earned seventy-seven points, drawing envious reactions from the others.

After the field training, Zuo Xiaoduo’s team surprised the other students with their haul, though the chapter did not reveal the exact amount. On the return journey, Qin Fangyang deduced that two young women had killed Mu Yunfeng, and the group arrived at the general affairs office to redeem their contribution points.

• Zhao Changjun and Bai Bingbing comforted Zuo Xiaoduo’s team, assuming they had returned empty-handed, while Qin Fangyang warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to show off.
• Qin Fangyang ended the field training and, with Luo Lie, led the students back toward school after their injuries had mostly healed.
• The group found Mu Yunfeng’s headless corpse and noticed that the surrounding vegetation had been frozen.
• Qin Fangyang examined the scene and concluded that two young women, likely Ling Nian and her junior sister, had killed Mu Yunfeng without resistance.
• The group returned to school and went to the general affairs office to redeem their contribution points, leaving everyone there stunned.

Zuo Xiaoduo and his companions turned in rare herbs for thousands of contribution points, while Qin Fangyang later reported the deaths of six students to their grieving families. The chapter ended with Shen Yushu confronting Qin Fangyang in the Principal’s Office.

• Zuo Xiaoduo’s group exchanged their collected goods for 9,880 contribution points, astonishing Zhao Changjun, Song Zihao, Bai Bingbing, and the other returning students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked the General Affairs Office to divide the points evenly among the six teammates, and the teacher deducted thirty points after correcting his arithmetic.
• Qin Fangyang slapped Zuo Xiaoduo into the classroom, then went to the Principal’s Office to report the six students’ deaths.
• Qin Fangyang told Shen Yushu and the six families that Three-Tailed Tigers had attacked the students’ team and that he had killed the entire pack.
• Shen Yushu stood and confronted Qin Fangyang by name.

Qin Fangyang defended himself against parents who blamed him for their sons’ deaths during field training, explaining how he had tried to stop the students from participating. The parents refused to accept his condolences, and Li Changjiang argued that Qin Fangyang had fulfilled his duties while the students and their parents had disregarded warnings and rules.

• Shen Yushu accused Qin Fangyang of letting his son die and demanded an explanation.
• Qin Fangyang said he had warned the parents, then broken the students’ legs to keep them home, but their parents had healed them and sent them to the training.
• Qin Fangyang insisted he bore no responsibility and urged the parents to focus on laying their sons to rest.
• Shen Yushu and the other parents declared the matter was not over, while Qin Fangyang accused them of failing to notify him their sons had joined the training.
• Li Changjiang defended Qin Fangyang, citing his efforts to prevent the students from going and their decision to leave early and enter a forbidden area.

After six students died in the forbidden grounds, the parents blamed Qin Fangyang despite his warnings, and He Yuanyue announced the school's limited punishment before ordering Qin to leave. Outside Second High School, Shen Yushu and the other parents mourned their sons but vowed to punish Qin Fangyang and Zuo Xiaoduo.

• The parents accused Qin Fangyang of causing their sons' deaths, while Li Changjiang tried to remind them that the students had left home despite their broken legs.
• He Yuanyue calmed the parents, cited the signed liability waiver and Qin Fangyang's warnings, and announced that Qin would receive a major demerit and lose one year's salary.
• He Yuanyue ordered Qin Fangyang to hand the students' remains to their parents and leave, and Qin complied after Shen Yushu threatened him.
• Outside Second High School, Shen Yushu blamed Qin Fangyang and Zuo Xiaoduo for his son's death and vowed not to let them escape punishment.
• The parents regretted allowing their sons to join the trial but redirected their guilt into accusations that Zuo Xiaoduo had cursed the students and Qin Fangyang had acted deliberately.

Qin Fangyang learned that Shen Yushu might retaliate against him after a student’s death, while Zuo Xiaoduo entered the fivefold Gravity Room to begin training. The chapter ended with Zuo Xiaoduo struggling under the room’s crushing gravity.

• Qin Fangyang listened as grieving parents blamed the school and worried that Shen Yushu was also targeting Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Luo Lie warned Qin Fangyang that angry parents had attacked teachers before and advised him to stay inside the school.
• Qin Fangyang realized Shen Yushu’s questions about his family might signal a threat and stayed to watch his students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spent contribution points to enter the fivefold Gravity Room for two hours.
• Zuo Xiaoduo felt the intense gravity press down on him and make breathing difficult.

Zuo Xiaoduo endured two hours of punishing training in the Gravity Room, using the Flame Sun True Scripture to adapt to the fivefold gravity and pushing himself through repeated rounds of martial arts. A full drop and a half of Fortune Points arrived after Shen Tienan’s predicted Death Calamity came true, and Zuo Xiaoduo finished seven more rounds before collapsing outside the room.

• Zuo Xiaoduo practiced the Star-Seizing Palm, Dragon Gate Leg, and Starry Sky Step in fivefold gravity while circulating the Flame Sun True Scripture and regulating his breathing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly pushed himself to exhaustion, rested briefly, drank from the Gravity Room’s faucet, and took several pills during two hours of training.
• Zuo Xiaoduo received a full drop and a half of Fortune Points, realizing Shen Tienan’s Death Calamity had come true and the other groups’ safe escapes had yielded only a small amount.
• Zuo Xiaoduo used his renewed strength to complete seven rounds of martial arts in the final five minutes, then collapsed outside the Gravity Room.

After Zuo Xiaoduo completed an exhausting session in the Gravity Room, Qin Fangyang praised his training and explained where to aim hidden weapons against powerful enemies. Qin Fangyang then escorted him home, revealing that he intended to teach him about the martial world and confront his reluctance to strike fatal blows.

• The Gravity Room teacher pulled Zuo Xiaoduo out after two hours under five times normal gravity and praised his relentless training to Qin Fangyang.
• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed that the Gravity Room's pressure had purified the spiritual energy in his body, and Qin Fangyang approved of his training routine.
• Qin Fangyang advised Zuo Xiaoduo to practice hidden weapons against the eyes and ear canals, which were less protected than the throat or heart.
• Qin Fangyang said he would escort Zuo Xiaoduo to and from school for the next few days, then walked him home through an ominous, blood-red haze.
• Qin Fangyang told Zuo Xiaoduo he would use their walks to teach him about the martial world and observed that Zuo Xiaoduo avoided striking opponents in fatal areas.

Qin Fangyang used a deadly ambush to teach Zuo Xiaoduo that enemies had to be killed decisively, then drew his pursuers away. At Mu Yanyan's office, she questioned Meng Chenyu about why she had let Mu Yunfeng escape after he attacked Zuo Xiaoduo.

• Qin Fangyang killed ten masked attackers and three more assailants while explaining to Zuo Xiaoduo why mercy could endanger ordinary people.
• Qin Fangyang told Zuo Xiaoduo the attackers had come for him, though their true target was Qin Fangyang, and addressed a roadside camera.
• After Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Zuo family residential complex, Qin Fangyang headed elsewhere and drew dark figures after him.
• Mu Yanyan asked Meng Chenyu why she had apparently wanted Zuo Xiaoduo dead, and Meng Chenyu denied it.
• Mu Yanyan challenged Meng Chenyu to explain why she had allowed Mu Yunfeng to leave after he attacked Zuo Xiaoduo.

Zuo Xiaonian warned Mu Yanyan that the Meng Family might be plotting against her family, and she and her master discussed their suspicions about Meng Chenyu and Meng Chentian. Mu Yanyan promised to expel Meng Chenyu if she or her family harmed Zuo Xiaoduo again, while Zuo Xiaonian remained convinced Meng Chentian’s polished demeanor concealed an ulterior motive.

• Meng Chenyu claimed she had not dared to stop Zuo Xiaoduo while Second High School was chasing him, and Mu Yanyan sent her away.
• Zuo Xiaonian secretly warned Mu Yanyan that the Meng Family had built the building and might have ulterior designs.
• Mu Yanyan agreed to watch Meng Chenyu and promised to expel her if she or the Meng Family was confirmed to have endangered Zuo Xiaoduo again.
• Mu Yanyan took Zuo Xiaonian into the clouds to discuss how Meng Chenyu might have leaked the location of Zuo Xiaonian’s last breakthrough.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Mu Yanyan she suspected Meng Chentian had an ulterior motive and described his carefully polished manner as false.

Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan discussed Meng Chentian’s suspiciously perfect demeanor and agreed that Mu would investigate his background through the Star Shield Bureau. They headed to Zuo Xiaonian’s home to consult Zuo Xiaoduo, but a message from He Yuanyue revealed that she also wanted to see him.

• Zuo Xiaonian told Mu Yanyan that she had found no information about Meng Chentian and asked her to investigate his birth and training records through the Star Shield Bureau.
• Mu Yanyan asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo had predicted Zuo Xiaonian’s breakthrough, and Zuo Xiaonian confirmed that he had.
• Mu Yanyan suggested visiting Zuo Xiaoduo to ask for guidance, and Zuo Xiaonian called Zuo Changlu to arrange dinner.
• Zuo Changlu welcomed Mu Yanyan to dinner, surprising her with his unusual generosity.
• Zuo Xiaonian received a message from He Yuanyue asking her to bring Xiaoduo.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s family welcomed Zuo Xiaonian’s teacher Mu Yanyan to dinner, where his enormous appetite left her astonished. The meal ended with Zuo Xiaoduo claiming he was full while eyeing the food still on the table.

• Wu Yuting prepared a huge meal while Zuo Xiaoduo waited impatiently for dinner.
• Zuo Xiaoduo ate several steamed buns before Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan arrived.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting welcomed Mu Yanyan and sat down with her and Zuo Xiaonian.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rapidly devoured the dishes, rice, buns, pickles, and chili sauce while the others chatted.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stood up and politely said he was full, though he kept looking at the remaining food.

Mu Yanyan visited the Zuo family and asked Zuo Xiaoduo about his fortune-telling, especially his prediction that her breakthrough would be obstructed. The chapter ended as Zuo Xiaoduo prepared to explain his ability, hoping Mu Yanyan’s trust would help him save Zuo Xiaonian.

• Zuo Xiaoduo took another roast goose, and Mu Yanyan explained that his appetite came from his rapid cultivation and would ease after he reached the Innate Realm.
• Wu Yuting and Mu Yanyan teased Zuo Xiaonian about how she had hidden her appetite by taking Bigu Pills, and Zuo Changlu insisted that she attend to her master.
• After dinner, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting left Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian alone, then privately joked about Mu Yanyan’s appearance.
• Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian entered Zuo Xiaoduo’s room and found him practicing punches; Zuo Xiaonian put away his electronic devices before Mu Yanyan asked about his fortune-telling.
• Zuo Xiaoduo prepared to tell Mu Yanyan how he had foreseen the obstruction in her breakthrough, believing her trust could help him save Zuo Xiaonian.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained to Mu Yanyan that Zuo Xiaonian's upcoming breakthrough carried a death calamity that could also determine Mu Yanyan's fate. He revealed that the date had become fixed and difficult to change, leaving Mu Yanyan questioning why they could not simply reschedule the breakthrough.

• Mu Yanyan asked Zuo Xiaoduo to explain Zuo Xiaonian's calamity, and he described how Mu Yanyan would bear the brunt of the enemies' attack while guarding her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read their faces and saw that both women faced grave danger, though Zuo Xiaonian now had signs of a brilliant future if she survived.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said that in his vision Mu Yanyan died protecting Zuo Xiaonian, who died from qi deviation during her breakthrough fifty days later.
• Mu Yanyan asked whether the outcome was fate or fortune, and Zuo Xiaoduo explained that Zuo Xiaonian could survive the calamity and rise afterward, but the danger was hard to alter.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said the breakthrough date had become a fixed moment of death despite his efforts to change it, and Mu Yanyan questioned why they could not move the date.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Zuo Xiaonian’s breakthrough was tied to the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact, which explained why she had been unable to leave Phoenix City. He saw a possible way to address her death calamity and joined Mu Yanyan in preparing to meet He Yuanyue at Phoenix Looking Back.

• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo and Mu Yanyan that He Yuanyue had linked her breakthrough to the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact and its fixed date.
• Zuo Xiaoduo connected the Phoenix Vein’s influence to Zuo Xiaonian’s fate and explained why she had remained in Phoenix City despite offers from powerful sects.
• Mu Yanyan worried that the Phoenix Vein connection made Zuo Xiaonian’s death calamity more dangerous and resolved to consult He Yuanyue.
• Mu Yanyan said He Yuanyue had arranged to meet her and Zuo Xiaoduo at Phoenix Looking Back that night, and they agreed to go together.
• A thunderstorm swept over Phoenix City, and Zuo Xiaonian noted that two and a half hours remained.

He Yuanyue gathered Zuo Xiaoduo, Zuo Xiaonian, and Mu Yanyan at Phoenix Looking Back to observe Phoenix City's Dragon Vein during a rare celestial alignment. She warned that if the city had no Dragon Vein, they would lose the coming battle and Zuo Xiaonian would have to flee and never return.

• After the rain stopped, Zuo Xiaonian rescued a kitten stranded on a mat in the floodwaters.
• Zuo Xiaoduo, Zuo Xiaonian, and Mu Yanyan joined He Yuanyue at Phoenix Looking Back beneath the full moon.
• He Yuanyue noticed three stars briefly brighten in the southern sky, while the jade pendant inside Zuo Xiaoduo warmed and flashed.
• He Yuanyue explained that she intended to use the celestial timing to watch Phoenix City's Dragon Vein rise and teach Zuo Xiaoduo more about the Qi-Observing Art.
• He Yuanyue told Mu Yanyan that if Phoenix City had no Dragon Vein, the battle would be lost and Zuo Xiaonian must leave the city forever.

He Yuanyue warned that Phoenix City would become a death trap for Zuo Xiaonian if its Dragon Vein was gone or had been used by the enemy. She then had Zuo Xiaoduo inspect the city and discovered two unusual spots without rising water vapor, which she believed might help reverse their disadvantage.

• He Yuanyue warned Zuo Xiaonian that she would perish in Phoenix City if its Dragon Vein was gone or already used by the enemy, but Zuo Xiaonian vowed to stay with her family.
• He Yuanyue asked Zuo Xiaoduo to examine Phoenix City from the mountain summit as water vapor rose across the landscape after the rain.
• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed two distant places in the bustling city where no water vapor rose.
• He Yuanyue realized the two spots might be important and ordered Sister Lan to fly Zuo Xiaoduo over them while he kept watching.
• Mu Yanyan questioned He Yuanyue, who said the discovery might become the key to reversing their disadvantage.

Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that the Meng Group headquarters and the Ning Lineage’s ancestral graves lay where an enormous landform resembling a grounded phoenix was being held down. He Yuanyue realized that these sites were blocking the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact from gathering enough force to rise, and the chapter ended with her identifying them as the cause of its weakening momentum.

• Sister Lan brought Zuo Xiaoduo back after he confirmed the locations of the two suspected sites.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told He Yuanyue that the sites were the Meng Group headquarters and the Ning Lineage’s ancestral graves, provoking her furious reaction.
• He Yuanyue asked Zuo Xiaoduo to examine the surrounding landforms, and he saw that Phoenix City and the nearby mountains resembled a huge bird.
• From the sky, Zuo Xiaoduo observed that the bird’s wings and tail seemed poised for flight, but something held its feet to the ground.
• He Yuanyue connected the two sites to the bird’s feet and concluded that they were the root cause of the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact’s waning momentum.

He Yuanyue realized that human greed had kept the phoenix from rising and waited anxiously for the Azure Dragon to appear. Meanwhile, Qin Fangyang fought through waves of assassins sent by Shen Yushu and continued hunting them on Phoenix Tail Mountain.

• He Yuanyue lamented that selfish desire had imprisoned the phoenix and urged the Azure Dragon to emerge.
• He Yuanyue told Mu Yanyan to wait until she had finished observing the night’s signs before explaining what was happening.
• Qin Fangyang recalled that Shen Yushu’s forces had attacked him repeatedly after he took Zuo Xiaoduo home.
• Shen Yushu offered an enormous bounty for Qin Fangyang’s death, drawing assassins and powerful fighters to Phoenix City.
• Qin Fangyang killed more than a hundred attackers, including several Dan Origin Realm Peak experts, and vowed to cut down everyone who came after him.

Qin Fangyang slaughtered wave after wave of assassins on Phoenix Tail Mountain, leaving Shen Yushu desperate to stop him. Shen ordered the mountain set ablaze, and Qin appeared on a cliff as the fire rose.

• Qin Fangyang fought attackers across Phoenix Tail Mountain through the rain, killing nearly four hundred people who charged up after him.
• Shen Yushu feared Qin Fangyang's threat and regretted turning his son's teacher into an enemy, but believed he could no longer back down.
• After the rain stopped, Shen ordered thousands of trucks to pour fuel around the mountain and set it on fire.
• As the flames soared, Qin Fangyang appeared on a cliff jutting out from Phoenix Tail Mountain.

Qin Fangyang escaped the attack on Phoenix Tail Mountain by displaying peak Infant Transformation strength, leaving Shen Yushu's bounty hunters shaken and unwilling to pursue him. At Phoenix Looking Back, He Yuanyue watched the fire rise over Southern Sky, still waiting for the dragon she believed must appear.

• Qin Fangyang rode his sword into the sky and promised Shen Yushu another chance the next day.
• Shen Yushu's allies accused him of providing false intelligence after realizing Qin Fangyang was a peak Infant Transformation expert.
• The surviving bounty hunters abandoned the hunt, blamed Shen Yushu, and celebrated their escape.
• Shen Yushu, left without the lure of money, decided to arrange a meeting with President Meng.
• He Yuanyue anxiously watched Southern Sky for a dragon as the full moon moved away from its central point.
• A fire suddenly engulfed Southern Sky, and its heat turned the rain into steam that rose across hundreds of miles.