Recaps

Meng Chentian asked a group of Qi-Reading Adepts to investigate whether the Wenshui River flowing backward had harmed the feng shui of the Meng and Ning Clans. They found no apparent effects, leaving Chentian unconvinced as the group praised the clans’ supposedly unshakable feng shui arrangements.

• Meng Tianyue warned the Qi-Reading Adepts that the reversed Wenshui River might disrupt the feng shui shared by the Ning and Meng Clans.
• Meng Chentian said his discomfort had alerted him to a disturbance, but Brother Feng suggested that projections could not reveal everything and proposed inspecting the site.
• Meng Tianyue sent Meng Chentian with Ning Suifeng and the adepts while he stayed behind.
• Brother Feng and the other adepts examined the area from above and concluded that the river’s reversed course had not weakened Phoenix City’s feng shui or affected the clans’ fortunes.
• Meng Chentian pressed the adepts to confirm their findings, and Brother Feng said the clans’ feng shui configurations would remain stable unless the earth veins underwent a major upheaval.

Meng Chentian and Ning Suifeng consulted Qi-Reading Adepts, who concluded that Phoenix City's feng shui formation could not be broken from either outside or within. Though they reassured the Meng and Ning families, both men privately suspected the Wenshui's reversal concealed another purpose, while a second group found that it seemed to have no visible effect on the Phoenix Vein.

• A Qi-Reading Adept explained that reversing the Wenshui's flow could not break Phoenix City's formation, while doing so from within would require demolishing Meng Group headquarters and relocating the Ning Lineage's ancestral graves at once.
• Meng Chentian told Ning Suifeng he remained uneasy and suggested asking Blind Hong to inspect the situation, but Ning Suifeng publicly reassured him.
• Ning Suifeng privately resolved to find Blind Hong and examine the ancestral graves again, suspecting that someone had a hidden plan.
• Ning Suifeng told Meng Tianyue that the two families' feng shui formation remained safe, and Meng Tianyue thanked him.
• A second group arrived above Phoenix City, and Elder Ge observed that the Wenshui's reversed flow should have affected the feng shui configuration but appeared to have no effect.

The Witch Alliance discussed how Shen Yushu’s accidental fire had strengthened the Phoenix Vein and warned that hidden feng shui implements could still disrupt their plans. Later, a black-clad swordsman demolished Long Family Manor, leaving its residents in ruins and confusion.

• Elder Ge told the Witch Alliance that the fire had given the Phoenix Vein a faint chance to soar and urged them to search for hidden implements.
• Elder Ge named Marshal Dongfang, Master Daogen, and a person from the Witch Alliance as the only people he knew who could find the implements, then mentioned that Blind Hong might have done so at the cost of his remaining life.
• At around three in the morning, a black-clad figure rode a streak of sword light to Long Family Manor.
• The black-clad figure unleashed sword strikes that destroyed the manor’s buildings and collapsed its basement.
• Dozens of people rose from the ruins, shouting and screaming as the manor caved in.

A disguised black-clad man accidentally razed the Long Family’s ancestral compound while seeking revenge against someone else, then apologized and left. Old Master Long ordered the family to relocate and told Long Yusheng to bring a generous gift to Master Zuo, whose warning about a coming calamity had proved accurate.

• The black-clad man realized he had attacked the Long Family by mistake, apologized, and vanished into the sky.
• Old Master Long ordered the family to treat the wounded and move into a hotel while salvaging their valuables.
• Old Master Long forbade his family from seeking revenge, saying the powerful attacker’s misunderstanding had to be accepted.
• Old Master Long recalled that Long Yusheng’s classmate had warned them about a calamity and urged them to move away.
• Old Master Long told Long Yusheng to bring Master Zuo a generous gift and ask for advice on rebuilding.

After Zuo Xiaoduo’s warning proved accurate when the Long Family home was destroyed, powerful families and factions began searching for the Divine Physiognomist. Jiang Changbin prepared to launch an operation and sought reinforcements, while He Yuanyue told him to have Zuo Xiaoduo read their qi.

• The Long Family moved its belongings to a hotel and planned to stay away until its home was rebuilt, while Long Yusheng concealed that Zuo Xiaoduo had been the one to destroy it.
• Phoenix City’s influential families and the Witch Alliance searched for the Qi-Observing Art, and Wan Pingyuan urged Wan Lixiu to befriend Zuo Xiaoduo after hearing his warning had come true.
• Wan Pingyuan told Wan Lixiu that an expert had flattened the Long Family home with one sword stroke, and she left for school after he lectured her about treating Zuo Xiaoduo respectfully.
• Jiang Changbin told He Yuanyue that he had secured two Cloud Transformation experts from the Dragon Blood Team and wanted to move against their enemy.
• He Yuanyue offered Qin Fangyang and Sister Lan as reinforcements and told Jiang Changbin to have Zuo Xiaoduo read their qi instead of doing it herself.

Jiang Changbin assembled a trusted team for a dangerous operation in Phoenix City, which he said would target a likely Star Lord that night. He briefed Mu Yanyan, then asked about her fellow disciples who had arrived in the city.

• Jiang Changbin contacted teachers Mu and Qiu and asked Director Sun to recruit his brother Sun Baijiang, an Infant Transformation cultivator, for the operation.
• Director Sun agreed to speak to Sun Baijiang after Jiang Changbin claimed he might die that night.
• Jiang Changbin decided against recruiting more people because he feared an unknown recruit could be a spy, and he calculated that his team would have nine members.
• Mu Yanyan arrived at the Star Shield Bureau, and Jiang Changbin took her to a secret room to explain that they would likely face a Star Lord that night.
• Jiang Changbin warned Mu Yanyan that the mission would be extremely dangerous and asked whether her fellow disciples, who had arrived the day before, were in Phoenix City.

Mu Yanyan agreed to bring her fellow disciples into Jiang Changbin’s operation against the Witch Alliance, while privately wondering whether they were connected to Zuo Xiaonian’s warning. As the team prepared to act that night, Jiang Changbin went to the Governor’s Residence and learned that Shang Qingyun expected the Governor to be away until after dinner.

• Jiang Changbin persuaded Mu Yanyan to ask her fellow disciples to join the operation, and she agreed while deciding the battle could reveal whether they were a danger to Zuo Xiaonian.
• Jiang Changbin gathered the group, briefed them on the mission, and had them plan their battle formations for an attack that night.
• Han Song assessed that the target would likely be no stronger than early Cloud Transformation and that their group could defeat him.
• Jiang Changbin went to the Governor’s Residence and told Shang Qingyun he had come to invite the Governor for a drink.
• Shang Qingyun told Jiang Changbin that the Governor had gone to Long Family Manor and likely would not return until after dinner.

Jiang Changbin talked Shang Qingyun into leaving the Governor's Residence for drinks, and the two reminisced about meeting nineteen years earlier. The chapter ended with Shang teasing Jiang about his early baldness as they headed to a restaurant.

• Jiang Changbin repeatedly urged Shang Qingyun to come drinking, offering him six bottles of three-hundred-year-old Plum Blossom Drunk to take home.
• Jiang Changbin dragged Shang Qingyun out of the Governor's Residence, telling the staff to work, sleep, or sneak home as they pleased.
• Shang Qingyun finally agreed to drink with Jiang Changbin, who boasted that wine made him feel like he owned the Star Soul Continent.
• Jiang Changbin asked Shang Qingyun what impression he had made when they first met nineteen years earlier.
• Shang Qingyun joked that he had mistaken Jiang's early bald spot for snow, then said he had chosen a nearby restaurant for their meal.

Jiang Changbin took Shang Qingyun to a restaurant run by his brother-in-law’s brother, where they drank together, and only later remembered that he had meant to ask Zuo Xiaoduo to read his aura before the battle. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo’s family discussed warning Teacher Mu about an impending calamity as he devoured steamed buns.

• Jiang Changbin explained to Shang Qingyun why he had chosen a roadside restaurant, then revealed his connection to its owner and booked the whole place.
• After Jiang Changbin and Shang Qingyun had drunk three rounds, Jiang Changbin remembered that he had forgotten to have Zuo Xiaoduo read his aura and face before the battle.
• Jiang Changbin concealed his worry from Shang Qingyun and continued drinking, telling him that he had remembered a bureau matter too late to handle that night.
• At dinner, Zuo Xiaoduo confirmed that Zuo Xiaonian had reminded Teacher Mu about her coming calamity and said she could avoid it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo ate twelve steamed buns in moments, prompting Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu to joke that they had become pig farmers.

At dinner, Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly forced his surging True Qi back into his dantian, while Zuo Xiaonian revealed that her own failed breakthrough attempts had been accumulating power for months. The chapter left the family astonished by how much strength she might gain when she finally broke through.

• Zuo Xiaoduo endured another sudden surge of True Qi and forced it back into his dantian before resuming his meal.
• Zuo Xiaonian admitted she had reached the breakthrough threshold months earlier but her attempts kept returning to her dantian.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had made around twenty attempts and expected to make about forty before breaking through.
• Zuo Xiaoduo envied how the Phoenix Vein made Zuo Xiaonian's repeated accumulation effortless, and Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu exchanged glances at her potential strength.

As Zuo Xiaoduo struggled to suppress the surging True Essence Qi inside him, he and his family joked over dinner. Zuo Xiaonian suddenly felt a foreboding panic, and Zuo Xiaoduo saw black aura on both their faces, signaling imminent danger to someone close to them.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting marveled at Zuo Xiaoduo's extraordinary accumulation of breakthrough power, then joked about his enormous appetite as he ate seventy steamed buns and half a gazelle.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Zuo Xiaonian about her admirers treating them to food, and she playfully warned him off.
• Zuo Xiaoduo's strange sensation returned, leaving him stiff and motionless while Zuo Xiaonian laughed at him.
• Zuo Xiaonian's right eyelid began twitching, and she told Zuo Changlu that an unexplained panic had come over her.
• Zuo Changlu urged Zuo Xiaoduo to examine Zuo Xiaonian, and Zuo Xiaoduo saw black aura on her face and recognized it as a sign of danger to someone close.
• Zuo Xiaoduo checked his own reflection and discovered the same nearly solidified black aura on his face.

Zuo Xiaoduo realized Qin Fangyang, Mu Yanyan, and Sister Lan were in mortal danger, but he could not reach them or find help. Zuo Changlu sent Zuo Xiaonian to deliver a note to Uncle Wu, while distant tremors suggested the battle had already begun.

• Zuo Xiaoduo inferred that Qin Fangyang and Mu Yanyan faced a deadly crisis and found that their phones could not connect.
• Zuo Xiaoduo learned from He Yuanyue that Sister Lan had gone with Qin Fangyang, and He Yuanyue collapsed after hearing his warning.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian struggled to find anyone who could rescue the group until Zuo Changlu said he knew someone who could help.
• Zuo Changlu wrote a note for Uncle Wu, and Zuo Xiaonian raced off to deliver it despite Zuo Xiaoduo's warning not to go.
• Zuo Xiaoduo heard distant tremors that suggested experts had already begun fighting.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Changlu worried that Uncle Wu might not reach Teacher Qin in time, while Shang Qingyun and Jiang Changbin’s tavern gathering was interrupted by two insulting intruders. Shang Qingyun injured Yang Yu with a bamboo chopstick, revealing that the confrontation involved an unexpectedly formidable opponent.

• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether Uncle Wu could help, and Zuo Changlu warned that he might not arrive before the fight was decided.
• Jiang Changbin and Shang Qingyun continued drinking at the tavern as two men arrived and complained about the place being booked.
• Yang Yu entered the room, insulted Jiang Changbin, caught his wrist, and threw him out into the rain.
• Shang Qingyun stood up to Yang Yu, who rushed him with a barrage of slaps.
• Shang Qingyun pierced Yang Yu’s palm with a bamboo chopstick, and Yang Yu recognized that Shang Qingyun was a tough opponent.

Qin Fangyang and twelve experts ambushed Shang Qingyun, who discovered he had been poisoned and used the Ancestral Shaman Golden Body Great Art to resist their attacks. Qin Fangyang pierced Shang Qingyun’s chest with a True Essence sword and detonated it, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Qin Fangyang attacked Shang Qingyun with Body and Sword as One, but Shang Qingyun shattered his sword and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Twelve experts launched a coordinated assault on Shang Qingyun, who realized Jiang Changbin had poisoned him and shouted his name.
• Shang Qingyun unleashed the Ancestral Shaman Golden Body Great Art, locking the twelve attackers in a stalemate as he tried to force out the poison.
• Han Song urged Qin Fangyang to break the stalemate before Shang Qingyun expelled the poison.
• Qin Fangyang formed a sword from True Essence, drove it into Shang Qingyun’s chest, and detonated it.

Qin Fangyang exhausted himself to wound Shang Qingyun, who retaliated by knocking him away and then turned on the remaining attackers. Shang Qingyun killed two Star Shield Bureau experts and began healing despite his many wounds.

• Qin Fangyang struck Shang Qingyun with a True Essence Sword, but Shang Qingyun hit him with a palm and sent him flying, leaving his fate unknown.
• Shang Qingyun trapped the attackers’ weapons in his body, spun up a powerful suction, and killed two Star Shield Bureau experts, destroying their bodies and spirits.
• Mu Yanyan’s fellow disciples suffered injuries when their life-bound weapons broke, while Han Song, Yang Yu, and Sun Baijiang realized Shang Qingyun was far stronger than they had been told.
• Shang Qingyun pulled the broken weapons from his body as his wounds began to heal, even as Qin Fangyang’s Sword Qi seeped from the wound in his chest.

Jiang Changbin revealed that he had poisoned Shang Qingyun with Cloud-Dispersing Powder, but Shang remained powerful enough to overwhelm the group fighting him. The battle left Teacher Qiu gravely injured, and Han Song urged Jiang Changbin to flee.

• Shang Qingyun recognized Jiang Changbin as the one who had poisoned him and demanded to know when it happened.
• Jiang Changbin revealed that he had used a mixture of Cloud-Dispersing Powder, Plum Blossom Drunk, and Orchid Fragrance Liquid to poison Shang Qingyun.
• Shang Qingyun lunged at Jiang Changbin, and Han Song, Yang Yu, Teacher Qiu, Sun Baijiang, Sister Lan, Mu Yanyan, and her four fellow disciples surrounded him.
• Shang Qingyun fought off the ten attackers and tore off Teacher Qiu's shoulder and arm, leaving him badly wounded.
• Shang Qingyun's battle destroyed the nearby buildings and snapped the two persimmon trees, while Han Song told Jiang Changbin to get away.

Shang Qingyun pursued Jiang Changbin after Jiang escaped, using the Ancestral Witch Heaven-Burning Art to attack him and destroy the former Long Family Manor. As Han Song and the others kept Shang Qingyun at bay, he summoned starlight that began healing his wounds and purging the Cloud-Dissolving Powder.

• Jiang Changbin fled, and Shang Qingyun broke away from Mu Yanyan, Han Song, and Yang Yu to chase him.
• Han Song and Yang Yu intercepted Shang Qingyun, but he used the Ancestral Witch Heaven-Burning Art to drive them back and resume the pursuit.
• Han Song warned Jiang Changbin of an incoming attack, and Jiang dodged the blast but was caught in its aftermath and lost consciousness.
• Shang Qingyun's strike obliterated the former Long Family Manor and left a vast crater.
• Shang Qingyun summoned starlight from the sky, which began healing his wounds and purging the Cloud-Dissolving Powder.

Shang Qingyun revived himself with the Star Constellation Borrowed Life Art, and Duan Tianyu betrayed Yang Yu with a fatal sword strike. After Yang Yu avenged himself by killing Duan Tianyu, he burned his life and Primordial Spirit to confront Shang Qingyun and give Han Song and the others a chance to survive.

• Shang Qingyun revealed the power of the Star Constellation Borrowed Life Art and attacked Yang Yu.
• Duan Tianyu stabbed Yang Yu through the heart, then revealed that Shang Qingyun was his lord.
• Yang Yu killed Duan Tianyu, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit, while Shang Qingyun watched without intervening.
• Yang Yu refused Han Song's plea to flee and prepared to sacrifice himself against Shang Qingyun.
• Yang Yu burned his life and Primordial Spirit, then charged Shang Qingyun and caught him in combat.

Yang Yu sacrificed himself to cripple Shang Qingyun, but the Star Constellation Borrowed Life Art gradually restored Shang Qingyun and turned the battle against the exhausted defenders. Qin Fangyang and Qiu Yunshang prepared to die standing, resigned to Shang Qingyun's survival and the danger he posed to Phoenix City.

• Yang Yu grabbed Shang Qingyun and detonated his life origin soul essence, blasting him with a devastating explosion.
• Han Song, Mu Yanyan, Qin Fangyang, Qiu Yunshang, and the others attacked Shang Qingyun before he could recover, but the starlight continued healing him.
• Shang Qingyun regained strength and knocked Qin Fangyang and Qiu Yunshang out of the sky, leaving the remaining fighters increasingly battered.
• Shang Qingyun struck Mu Yanyan's eldest martial brother down as Han Song and the others struggled to hold him back.
• Qin Fangyang and Qiu Yunshang stood together and exchanged names, accepting that they would likely die while regretting they could not kill Shang Qingyun.

Shang Qingyun recovered his full strength and unleashed the Great Star Transformation Art, but a mysterious senior froze his starlight dragon and crushed him with a single hammer blow. As the Heavenly Dao's backlash gathered in the sky, Han Song led the survivors and wounded in a desperate escape.

• Shang Qingyun used the Great Star Transformation Art to recover his strength and summoned a colossal dragon of starlight to attack everyone.
• Sister Lan, Mu Yanyan, Sun Baijiang, Han Song, and the others accepted that they were about to die, while Qin Fangyang laughed from below.
• A mysterious voice dismissed Shang Qingyun as a trivial opponent, froze the starlight dragon, and struck Shang Qingyun dead with a massive hammer.
• Han Song thanked the unseen senior, who warned that the Heavenly Dao's backlash was coming and ordered everyone to flee.
• Han Song led the others and their wounded companions away as immense black clouds gathered and an enormous eyeball appeared in the sky.

The Heavenly Dao unleashed a massive lightning tribulation on Wu Tiejiang’s ownerless hammer after it killed Shang Qingyun, shaking Phoenix City and nearly killing everyone nearby. Wu Tiejiang survived, but his hammer’s handle melted away, leaving only the hammerhead.

• A giant eye appeared in the sky and focused on Wu Tiejiang’s hammer, drawing down millions of bolts of lightning.
• Han Song, Mu Yanyan, Sister Lan, and the others were knocked unconscious by the thunder and tremors, while Wu Tiejiang hid in a pit and realized the Heavenly Dao had intervened.
• The lightning shook Phoenix City, making high-rise buildings sway so violently that many residents later avoided buying apartments in them.
• After an hour, the lightning stopped, the clouds cleared, and the giant eye disappeared.
• Wu Tiejiang climbed out, cursed Zuo Changlu for putting his life at risk, and found that the hammer’s handle had melted away while its hammerhead remained intact.

Wu Tiejiang survived the strange heavenly upheaval but was terrified by the danger and begged Zuo Changlu to stop involving him in risky favors. As Zuo Changlu and Zuo Xiaoduo headed home, Zuo Xiaoduo continued wondering whether his parents were powerful experts in hiding.

• Wu Tiejiang fled to his blacksmith shop after seeing Eternal Iron ground bright silver, then sent Zuo Xiaonian to check on her master and the others.
• A lone eye appeared in the sky as lightning and thunder shook Phoenix City, prompting Zuo Changlu to panic and go investigate with Zuo Xiaoduo.
• The storm stopped while Zuo Changlu and Zuo Xiaoduo were on their way to the shop, where they found Wu Tiejiang alive and badly shaken.
• Wu Tiejiang pleaded to be released from Zuo Changlu's favors, but Zuo Changlu reminded him that the hammers were unfinished before promising not to call on him again.
• On their way home, Zuo Xiaoduo wondered whether his parents were powerful experts living in seclusion.

Zuo Xiaonian searched the ruined battlefield and rescued the surviving experts, while Zuo Xiaoduo arranged transport for them. The wounded were brought to the Star Shield Bureau for treatment, and Zuo Xiaoduo continued to suspect that his parents had once been powerful cultivators whose past remained hidden.

• Zuo Xiaoduo reasoned that his parents might have lost or sealed their cultivation and resolved to investigate secretly.
• Zuo Xiaonian found Qin Fangyang unconscious and critically injured, gave him a Healing Medicinal Pill, and searched the battlefield for survivors.
• Zuo Xiaonian rescued Mu Yanyan, Sister Lan, the Three Senior and Junior Brothers, Teacher Qiu, Sun Baijiang, Han Song, and Jiang Changbin, then collected three Space Rings from the central pit.
• Zuo Xiaonian called Zuo Xiaoduo for cars, and he coerced several drivers into transporting the wounded.
• Sister Lan and Han Song woke up, contacted Second High School and the Star Shield Bureau, and helped organize care for the survivors.
• The Star Shield Bureau received the injured and supplied Healing Medicine and Nutrient Pods.

Jiang Changbin recounted the battle against Shang Qingyun to Phoenix City’s leaders after they gathered at the Star Shield Bureau. The meeting confirmed Shang Qingyun was a Witch Alliance Star Lord, while Sun Fenghou pressed for news of his brother.

• Jiang Changbin tried to avoid the gathering by pretending to be unconscious, but Jiang Wenzhou woke him and brought him to the conference room.
• Jiang Changbin dismissed everyone except Wan Pingyuan, He Yuanyue, Sun Fenghou, and headquarters leaders, then sealed the room and began explaining the battle.
• Jiang Changbin reported that Han Song and Yang Yu had been sent to help, but Yang Yu was dead and Han Song was gravely wounded.
• Han Song confirmed that Shang Qingyun was a Witch Alliance Star Lord, though his specific celestial star remained unknown.
• Wan Pingyuan mourned the betrayal by his longtime friend Shang Qingyun and learned that two veteran Star Shield experts had also been killed.
• Sun Fenghou demanded news of his elder brother, and Jiang Changbin told him that he was still alive.

Han Song recounted the battle against Shang Qingyun, including Yang Yu’s sacrifice and the intervention of a mysterious hammer-wielding powerhouse. As the authorities began investigating the infiltrators and the strange lightning, Zuo Xiaonian returned home and kept Wu Tiejiang’s presence secret.

• Han Song described how a Witch Alliance spy wounded Yang Yu, who then sacrificed himself to attack Shang Qingyun.
• Han Song said a hidden powerhouse killed Shang Qingyun with one hammer blow, after which a Tribulation Eye appeared and lightning knocked everyone unconscious.
• He Yuanyue berated Jiang Changbin for forgetting to have Zuo Xiaoduo examine their fortunes before the battle.
• Jiang Wenzhou took charge of the aftermath and asked Wan Pingyuan to support an investigation into possible infiltrators in the Governor's Residence.
• Zuo Xiaonian returned home, kept Wu Tiejiang’s presence secret, and explained that she had gone to check on Mu Yanyan after the fighting stopped.