Recaps

The Wu and Gao Lineage Heads ordered their young members to befriend Zuo Xiaoduo, while secretly planning to kill him and exploit his fame to deflect suspicion and gain powerful allies. Their scheme relied on keeping their own members ignorant and manufacturing public evidence of friendly relations with him.

• The Wu Lineage Head told its students not to seek revenge for Yun Tian and to befriend Zuo Xiaoduo, even suggesting the girls take an interest in him.
• The Gao Lineage Head likewise ordered its members not to harbor hostility toward Zuo Xiaoduo and threatened to expel anyone who disobeyed.
• That evening, the Wu and Gao Lineages' core members agreed to have their young members build genuine-looking friendships with Zuo Xiaoduo before arranging his death.
• The Lineage Heads planned to document Zuo Xiaoduo's interactions with their members and ordinary classmates, using online personalities and public accounts to shape opinion and create evidence that would clear their lineages after his death.

Zhan Xiaofei argued with the principal over Zuo Xiaoduo’s safety and lodging, only to learn the principal had arranged a cheap villa for Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong. After the principal threatened his pay, Zhan Xiaofei left and cursed him in a restroom, where someone recognized who he was talking about.

• Zhan Xiaofei went to the principal to discuss Zuo Xiaoduo’s treatment and safety after the Life-and-Death Arena incident.
• The principal said Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong could rent a vacant villa beside his home for fifty a month until they left the school.
• Zhan Xiaofei accused the principal of taking over his student, and the principal called him a recruiter and threatened to suspend his performance pay.
• Zhan Xiaofei apologized, then left the Principal’s Office after the principal ordered him out.
• Zhan Xiaofei cursed the principal in a first-floor restroom and complained about the villa arrangement.
• A person in the next stall asked Zhan Xiaofei whether the person he was cursing was the principal.

Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan neared the Upper Capital, where a powerful Witch Alliance assassin ambushed them. Realizing they had almost no chance against him, Mu Yanyan prepared to sacrifice herself so Zuo Xiaonian could try to escape and warn others.

• Zhan Xiaofei paid off Old Xiang to delete a recording and its cloud backup.
• Mu Yanyan escorted Zuo Xiaonian toward the Nine Heavens Pavilion and planned to stay in the Upper Capital to protect her.
• A masked Witch Alliance man appeared and revealed that he had come to kill Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian.
• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaonian to flee toward the Upper Capital and send a warning when the battle began.
• Zuo Xiaonian accepted the plan, understanding that Mu Yanyan would likely detonate herself to give her a chance to survive.

Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian faced the man in black, who attacked them both at once and knocked Zuo Xiaonian unconscious. A palm print on Zuo Xiaonian summoned Marshal Nan’s shadow, which captured and crippled the attacker before vanishing, and Mu Yanyan revived Zuo Xiaonian.

• The man in black split his attack between Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian, forcing Mu Yanyan onto the defensive.
• The man in black knocked away Zuo Xiaonian’s sword and struck her head, but she fell without being injured.
• An ethereal palm rose from Zuo Xiaonian’s shoulder and transformed into Marshal Nan’s shadow.
• Marshal Nan’s shadow caught the fleeing man in black, broke his bones, and ordered Mu Yanyan to take him to the Nine Heavens Pavilion for interrogation.
• Marshal Nan’s shadow vanished, and Mu Yanyan confirmed Zuo Xiaonian was unharmed and brought her around.

Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan brought the defeated Witch Alliance attacker to the Nine Heavens Pavilion, where Mu Yanyan received a chance to qualify for entry if she reached God-Imperial within two years. Zuo Xiaonian began her entry challenge under the name Zuo Ling Nian.

• Zuo Xiaonian woke and learned that she and Mu Yanyan had survived the ambush, then helped carry the masked Witch Alliance attacker to the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• The Pavilion’s elders recognized signs of Minister Nan’s White Silver Profound Origin Qi and took the attacker into a secret chamber without removing his mask.
• An elder told Mu Yanyan she could qualify to enter the Pavilion if she reached God-Imperial within two years, and she hurried back to the Kunlun Dao Sect to train.
• Zuo Xiaonian entered the Core Origin Pavilion and was told to choose one of ten challenge groups and defeat an opponent to stay.
• The Pavilion staff addressed her as Zuo Ling Nian, the name she used outside her family and the source of her title, Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden.

Zuo Xiaonian crushed the Nine Heavens Pavilion’s combat trials despite being only at Core Origin, stunning its administrators. Elder Long granted her second-floor resources while keeping her missions at the first-floor level, and the administrators then asked what code name she should receive.

• Zuo Xiaonian passed all ten first-floor trials, defeating the testers without difficulty.
• Elder Long authorized Zuo Xiaonian to continue testing on the second floor despite her Core Origin cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian defeated nine of the second floor’s ten Infant Transformation testers, while the tenth was absent.
• Elder Long reviewed the recordings and judged that Zuo Xiaonian’s strength had reached Infant Transformation Peak.
• Elder Long assigned Zuo Xiaonian second-floor resources but first-floor missions for the time being.
• The first-floor administrator asked Elder Long what code name Zuo Xiaonian should receive.

Zuo Xiaonian joined the Nine Heavens Pavilion under the code name Spirit Cat, while Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong settled into the Hidden Dragon High Martial guesthouse and spent their days cultivating. They had not registered yet because they mistakenly believed they were supposed to register on October 1.

• Elder Long reviewed Zuo Xiaonian's file, assigned her the code name Spirit Cat, and placed her at the top of the Grade-A Sealing rankings.
• Zuo Xiaonian settled into the Nine Heavens Pavilion without incident.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong checked into the Hidden Dragon High Martial guesthouse, where their admission notices gave them free lodging, meals, and access to ordinary training facilities.
• Zuo Xiaoduo proposed that they spend the three days before school began cultivating with Star Soul Jade, and Li Chenglong joined him with an equal supply.
• The guesthouse staff wondered why the two top-ranked admissions had not registered, unaware that they thought registration was meant to take place on October 1.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong spent their first days in a guesthouse competing to cultivate, unaware that they could register at Hidden Dragon High Martial before October 1. After Zhan Xiaofei corrected their misunderstanding, they hurried to register at the school.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong cultivated back-to-back in their room, competing over piles of Star Soul Jade fragments and bickering about who had the advantage.
• Zhan Xiaofei and another teacher spotted the pair's cultivation contest and wondered why they had not registered at the school.
• Zhan Xiaofei knocked and told Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong that registration could be completed any time before October 1.
• Zuo Xiaoduo blamed Li Chenglong for misunderstanding the deadline, and Li Chenglong accepted the blame as they packed to leave.
• Zhan Xiaofei escorted the two to register, privately recognizing their guileless expressions as a convincing act.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong joined Hidden Dragon High Martial’s first-year Class One, where their classmates greeted them with cult titles. As Wen Xingtian prepared to have Zuo introduce himself and take the class monitor role, Zuo resolved to avoid the job and gave only a brief greeting.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong arrived in Class One and were greeted by students calling them “Cult Leader” and “Sword King.”
• Wen Xingtian introduced himself as their God-Imperial homeroom teacher and asked the class to introduce themselves in ranking order.
• Wen Xingtian expected Zuo Xiaoduo to become class monitor, but Zuo Xiaoduo decided he did not want the responsibility.
• Zuo Xiaoduo went to the platform, introduced himself by name, and was greeted as the Sword King.

Zuo Xiaoduo introduced himself to Class One by teasing his classmates and bringing up their past rivalries, while Wen Xingtian struggled to keep the gathering under control. The chapter ended as Zuo Xiaoduo prepared to formally introduce himself.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told the class not to mix his martial-world title with academy life, then joked that many of his enemies were present.
• Zuo Xiaoduo taunted Xiang Bing, Yu Yan'er, Xiang Chong, and Pi Yibao about their past encounters with him and his friends.
• Zuo Xiaoduo questioned Meng Changjun and his five teammates about arriving together and joked that they planned to take over Class One.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked why Ximen Daqing was absent, and Xiang Chong explained that Ximen Daqing had been assigned to another class after his cultivation and spiritual sense origin were damaged.
• Zuo Xiaoduo declared the greetings finished and said he would formally introduce himself.

Zuo Xiaoduo introduced himself to his new class, claimed his specialties were fortune-telling and making money, and was repeatedly silenced by homeroom teacher Wen Xingtian. The chapter left Li Chenglong giving his own introduction and Xiang Bing furious after he called himself unmarried while looking at her.

• Zuo Xiaoduo boasted to the class that fighting was not his real specialty, so Wen Xingtian dragged him outside and beat him before carrying him back into the classroom.
• Zuo Xiaoduo brushed off the beating, lectured his classmates for laughing, and claimed he excelled at fortune-telling and amassing wealth before Wen Xingtian threw him into his seat.
• Wen Xingtian called Li Chenglong to introduce himself, and Li Chenglong added that he was unmarried while glancing at Xiang Bing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Xiang Bing about her reaction, and Xiang Chong grabbed his furious sister and warned her that she could not beat Li Chenglong.

After Class 1 completed introductions, Wen Xingtian held elections for class officers. Zuo Xiaoduo was elected class monitor and Li Chenglong became deputy, while the other positions were assigned; Wen Xingtian forced Zuo to accept the role.

• Wen Xingtian announced that the class would elect officers instead of holding lessons on its first day.
• Zuo Xiaoduo won the secret ballot for class monitor with twenty-four of thirty-six votes, leaving Wen Xingtian worried about the trouble he might cause.
• Wen Xingtian prompted Li Chenglong to run for deputy class monitor, and Li won thirty-three votes.
• Meng Changjun became cultural education minister, Xiang Chong became martial education minister, and Xiang Bing became health minister despite protesting.
• Zuo Xiaoduo tried to refuse his class monitor duties, but Wen Xingtian insisted, so Zuo accepted.

Wen Xingtian sought an explanation for Zuo Xiaoduo’s unusual Three Touches, Five Evaluations record and learned that it was ungraded. The principal also warned that his failing health could leave Hidden Dragon High Martial vulnerable to rival factions, while Wen Xingtian reacted in disbelief to Zuo Xiaoduo’s assessments.

• After Wen Xingtian left the classroom, Zuo Xiaoduo began his inaugural speech by boasting about the fortune of having him as class monitor.
• Wen Xingtian went to Principal Ye Changqing and asked to inspect Zuo Xiaoduo’s records, and Ye Changqing revealed that Zuo Xiaoduo’s assessment was ungraded.
• Ye Changqing told Wen Xingtian that his heart meridians remained damaged and that he might have to give up the principal’s position if they did not improve within three years.
• Ye Changqing warned that Hidden Dragon High Martial’s future school culture could be threatened if power fell to rival factions, but Wen Xingtian said he would leave rather than face them alone.
• Wen Xingtian examined Zuo Xiaoduo’s file and recognized that the three assessments came from the Heaven and Earth Network.

Ye Changqing explained why Zuo Xiaoduo's extraordinary Three Touches, Five Evaluations records had been concealed and why he had gone to great lengths to protect him at Hidden Dragon. Wen Xingtian learned that he had been reassigned to safeguard Zuo Xiaoduo, but was baffled by how the boy had already provoked him into giving him a beating.

• Wen Xingtian questioned Zuo Xiaoduo's three unusual written evaluations, and Ye Changqing explained that he had hidden or erased the records to keep them from drawing danger to the boy.
• Ye Changqing revealed that Former Principal He Yuanyue had asked him months earlier to conceal Zuo Xiaoduo's records, but he had not taken the request seriously at the time.
• Ye Changqing said he had rented his villa to Zuo Xiaoduo and reassigned Wen Xingtian to protect him, citing the boy's unusual evaluations, competition battles, Flame Sun True Scripture, and threats within Hidden Dragon.
• Wen Xingtian admitted he had beaten Zuo Xiaoduo shortly after the boy arrived to register, and Ye Changqing was surprised because Xiao Zhan had praised the boy's conduct and emotional intelligence.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian marveled that Zuo Xiaoduo had already been elected class monitor by secret ballot.

Wen Xingtian laid out Hidden Dragon High Martial’s harsh credit and training requirements, while upper-year students gathered to taunt the new intake and challenge its supposed geniuses. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong left the crowd with apparent ease as unseen observers questioned Zuo Xiaoduo’s reputation and past killings.

• Wen Xingtian warned Ye Changqing that Zuo Xiaoduo might bring trouble, but Ye Changqing said he would protect the school and honor his promise of three years of peace.
• Wen Xingtian announced that students had to earn credits to remain enrolled and would begin cultivation and life-and-death combat training at five the next morning.
• More than a thousand upper-year students gathered outside to mock the incoming class and call Zuo Xiaoduo the Cult Leader and Li Chenglong the Sword King.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong waved to the crowd and made their way out, while Zhan Xiaofei approached them.
• Ye Changqing and other observers watched from the rooftops, and several questioned whether Zuo Xiaoduo was the genius they valued or the person who had killed Yan'er, Wu Yuntian, and others.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong moved into a villa at Hidden Dragon High Martial, while Zuo Xiaoduo sensed that the school was divided by hidden struggles. He settled in but remained wary of being singled out and began preparing his bed with the upper-grade star soul jade.

• Hidden Dragon High Martial’s vice principals gathered as the school faced a looming succession struggle, though Zuo Xiaoduo knew nothing about it.
• Zhan Xiaofei told Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to sign a million-a-year rental contract for the principal’s villa, explaining privately that they would actually pay only fifty a month.
• Zuo Xiaoduo signed the contract, and Li Chenglong insisted on sharing his room before agreeing to use the same Training Room instead.
• Zuo Xiaoduo settled into the villa and suspected the school’s factions and his special housing arrangement might expose him to hostile upper-year students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo worried that the open courtyard would not suit hammer practice, then hollowed out his mattress and placed his upper-grade star soul jade inside.

Zuo Xiaoduo slept after cultivating, while Li Chenglong stayed up analyzing the dangers surrounding Hidden Dragon High Martial. The next morning, Wen Xingtian supervised the students’ life-and-death sparring and watched Li Chenglong fight.

• Zuo Xiaoduo dreamed of the little dragon, rejected his offer of friendship, and demanded benefits in return for the Fortune Points he had lost.
• The little dragon wondered how to give Zuo Xiaoduo something valuable and hurriedly searched for an answer.
• Li Chenglong reviewed dozens of clues and suspected the school had moved them to a private villa because it could not guarantee their safety in the dormitories.
• Wen Xingtian began the class’s life-and-death sparring, monitoring every fight while keeping pills and Nutrient Pods ready to treat injuries.
• Wen Xingtian watched Li Chenglong’s battle after Zuo Xiaoduo had already finished and settled down to rest.

Zuo Xiaoduo secured first place with two punches, while Li Chenglong fought through a string of challenges to take second. Xiang Bing’s fear of fighting drew Wen Xingtian’s anger and a three-day ultimatum, leaving her name crossed off the class roster unless she overcame her psychological barrier.

• Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Xiang Chong and Meng Changjun with one punch each, then declared Xiang Chong the stronger of the two.
• Li Chenglong endured more than a dozen fights, finished second, and Xiang Chong, Meng Changjun, Yu Yan'er, Pi Yibao, Hao Han, and Jia Kuang followed in the rankings.
• Wen Xingtian stopped Xiang Bing’s fight and berated her for holding back, while Xiang Chong tried to defend her.
• Xiang Bing protested when Wen Xingtian blamed her weakness on Li Chenglong’s earlier beating, and Wen gave her three days to overcome her fear or leave the class.
• Wen Xingtian crossed Xiang Bing’s name off the roster and told seven students to choose martial arts suited to them at the Martial Treasury Pavilion.

Wen Xingtian ordered Li Chenglong to spar with Xiang Bing for three days so she could overcome her psychological burden and he could strengthen his fundamentals. After the opening ceremony, their brutal match began while Zuo Xiaoduo faced six challengers.

• Wen Xingtian assigned Li Chenglong three days of nonstop sparring with Xiang Bing, demanding that he improve or be expelled.
• Zuo Xiaoduo encouraged Li Chenglong to fight without holding back and tried to organize bets on the match, but his classmates refused.
• The students attended Hidden Dragon High Martial's opening ceremony, where Zuo Xiaoduo fell asleep standing up.
• Everyone collected ten martial arts uniforms, but Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong stayed in their clothes to face their challengers.
• Zuo Xiaoduo fought six former Zhujundian First High School students as Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing traded heavy blows, both ending up badly bruised.

Li Chenglong defeated Xiang Bing but was denied a Nutrient Pod and ordered to fight Zuo Xiaoduo instead. Wen Xingtian then made the whole class attack Zuo Xiaoduo, threatening credit penalties and refusing to offer rewards, and the fight began.

• Li Chenglong beat Xiang Bing unconscious, and Wen Xingtian ordered her taken to a Nutrient Pod before making Li review his technique.
• Wen Xingtian sent Li Chenglong to join the students fighting Zuo Xiaoduo and ordered everyone to attack him together.
• Wen Xingtian threatened to deduct ten credits from each student who failed to knock Zuo Xiaoduo down and said Zuo Xiaoduo would lose fifty credits if the class defeated him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked what reward he would receive for winning, but Wen Xingtian refused to offer any rewards.
• The thirty-odd students surrounded Zuo Xiaoduo, who charged into the fight with his Starry Sky Step and Dragon Gate Leg.

Wen Xingtian made Zuo Xiaoduo fight all thirty-five of his classmates at once for ten credits, while their classmates cycled through Nutrient Pods and back into the melee. After an hour, Zuo Xiaoduo was battered but still standing as the others intensified their attacks before lunch.

• Zuo Xiaoduo unleashed his martial arts techniques against the crowd, but Wen Xingtian ordered the students to keep attacking and drove away upper-year students who tried to watch.
• Wen Xingtian ordered Xiang Bing to join the fight, bringing the number of classmates attacking Zuo Xiaoduo to thirty-five.
• Zuo Xiaoduo activated the Flame Sun Divine Art and knocked four students unconscious, and Wen Xingtian sent them to Nutrient Pods to recover before returning to the fight.
• Meng Changjun, Xiang Chong, Li Chenglong, and Pi Yibao joined forces to drag Zuo Xiaoduo down, but he continued to resist after an hour of fighting.
• Wen Xingtian warned the students they would lose if they failed to knock Zuo Xiaoduo down before lunch, and Jia Kuang, Xiang Chong, and Meng Changjun launched another fierce assault.

Zuo Xiaoduo fought his entire class and was finally defeated, impressing Wen Xingtian and his classmates with his strength. After recovering in a Nutrient Pod, he avoided further group fights, leaving Li Chenglong to face the class’s challenges and Xiang Bing’s constant calls to fight.

• Zuo Xiaoduo fought thirty-five classmates, who wore him down with repeated attacks while he also sent many of them to Nutrient Pods.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong were treated in Nutrient Pods, while Wen Xingtian praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s combat power and concluded that the Principal had recognized a remarkable talent.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from his Nutrient Pod, whose unusually depleted solution puzzled the attendant.
• Li Chenglong asked Zuo Xiaoduo for praise for his decisive kick, but Zuo Xiaoduo blamed him for starting trouble.
• Xiang Bing challenged Li Chenglong to fight, and for the next three days Li Chenglong handled his classmates’ challenges and fought Xiang Bing while Zuo Xiaoduo trained on his own.

Li Chenglong questioned Xiang Bing about Fenghai City and Hidden Dragon High Martial while sparring with her, learning that her great-grandfather was Vice Principal Xiang. Xiang Chong urged Xiang Bing to go home for their great-grandfather’s birthday, and Li Chenglong cautiously asked about the vice principal’s strange injury.

• Li Chenglong pressed Xiang Bing for information about the school, its power players, and Fenghai City as their daily sparring continued.
• Xiang Bing told Li Chenglong that Vice Principal Xiang was her great-grandfather and resumed fighting him.
• Xiang Chong arrived and urged Xiang Bing to recover in a Nutrient Pod and go home for their great-grandfather’s upcoming birthday.
• Xiang Bing said she planned to stay in the dorms, and Li Chenglong asked whether Vice Principal Xiang had suffered a strange injury.

Li Chenglong told Xiang Bing and Xiang Chong that Zuo Xiaoduo had found a mature Orchid Fragrance Grass that might cure their great-grandfather, and they hurried to verify it. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo lamented his supposed invincibility until Principal Ye Changqing overheard him and nearly coughed himself senseless.

• Li Chenglong described the nine-leaf Orchid Fragrance Grass he and Boss Zuo had found in an old Star Soul Musk Deer cave, and Xiang Bing and Xiang Chong realized it might cure their great-grandfather.
• Xiang Chong said Zuo Xiaoduo's Pure Yang Fire Power could nourish the grass, and the siblings agreed to go see him and inspect it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to the villa, complained that no one would spar with him, and recited a poem about his loneliness at the summit.
• Ye Changqing overheard Zuo Xiaoduo boasting about being peerless and started coughing uncontrollably.
• Zuo Xiaoduo hurried over to help Ye Changqing and asked why the principal was there.

Zuo Xiaoduo questioned Ye Changqing about the house he had rented, and Ye Changqing showed him an email from He Yuanyue explaining why she had urged him to attend Hidden Dragon. The email revealed that He Yuanyue believed Zuo Xiaoduo might inherit the Dragon Vein and would be safer at Hidden Dragon than in the Upper Capital.

• Ye Changqing recovered from Zuo Xiaoduo's sharp remarks, and Zuo Xiaoduo praised the house while joking about its bathrooms.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether the house belonged to Ye Changqing and whether the principal lived nearby; Ye Changqing confirmed that it was his property and that he lived next door.
• Ye Changqing told Zuo Xiaoduo that He Yuanyue had discussed him with Ye Changqing and sent an email recommending that he attend Hidden Dragon.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read He Yuanyue's email, which asked Ye Changqing not to let the Heavenly Network's Leftist Path classification ruin Zuo Xiaoduo's prospects.
• He Yuanyue's email said Zuo Xiaoduo was suspected of inheriting the Dragon Vein and should stay at Hidden Dragon rather than risk harm in the Upper Capital.