Recaps

Zuo Xiaonian gave Zuo Xiaoduo supreme-grade Marrow-Washing Pills and decided to train him now that he had reached Martial Warrior. Their conversation turned to his female classmates, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo nervous as Zuo Xiaonian handed him three cultivation booklets.

• Zuo Xiaoduo worried that Zuo Xiaonian's Death Calamity still surrounded her, despite her earlier efforts to keep its details secret.
• Zuo Xiaonian gave Zuo Xiaoduo Marrow-Washing Pills, and he ate two while she explained that stronger pills could harm him.
• Zuo Xiaonian declared that she would train with Zuo Xiaoduo and help him consolidate his cultivation after school.
• Zuo Xiaoduo mentioned pretty girls in his class, prompting Zuo Xiaonian to tease him about younger female classmates and her own age.
• Zuo Xiaonian ended the teasing and handed Zuo Xiaoduo three booklets to discuss his cultivation.

Zuo Xiaonian took Zuo Xiaoduo to a training hall and began teaching him three basic martial arts techniques. Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that the cool sensation between his brows let him absorb her movements with extraordinary speed, while his parents worried that their Star Soul Stones would not last.

• Zuo Xiaonian carried Zuo Xiaoduo to a training hall and told him to master Star-Seizing Palm, Dragon Gate Leg, and Starry Sky Step within three days.
• Zuo Xiaoduo feared Zuo Xiaonian would use training as an excuse to beat him and resolved to pretend he was learning slowly.
• As Zuo Xiaonian demonstrated Star-Seizing Palm, the cool sensation between Zuo Xiaoduo's brows sharpened his sight and made her movements appear much slower.
• Zuo Xiaoduo followed the demonstration and realized he had memorized the entire sequence, then decided to act clumsily so Zuo Xiaonian would not notice.
• At home, Zuo Xiaoduo's parents noted that he and Zuo Xiaonian had left and worried their Star Soul Stones would not cover both the business and his cultivation.

Zuo Xiaonian trained Zuo Xiaoduo late into the night, then helped his cultivation while he slept. After a meteor shower shook the earth, Zuo Xiaoduo woke feeling stronger and mistakenly credited his rapid progress to his own talent.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting flirted while he delayed making a phone call, then hid their flushed state when Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo returned home.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Changlu she had taken Zuo Xiaoduo to a martial arts gym and trained him in fist techniques.
• Zuo Xiaonian helped the exhausted Zuo Xiaoduo to bed and circulated spiritual energy through his meridians to aid his cultivation.
• A scheduled meteor shower shook the earth during the small hours, and Zuo Xiaoduo woke refreshed with his cultivation seemingly advanced.
• Zuo Xiaoduo remembered the techniques from training and boasted to himself that his progress proved he was a genius.

Zuo Xiaoduo reflected on the cultivators protecting Phoenix City from falling meteors, then encountered a suspicious girl repeatedly appearing beside a pink wallet on his way to school. The chapter ended with him sensing a Death Calamity around several fast-moving people who raced out of the school.

• Zuo Xiaoduo watched the meteors and imagined powerful cultivators diverting them away from Phoenix City, gaining a deeper appreciation for their protection.
• On his way to school, Zuo Xiaoduo saw the same girl from the previous day leaning against a lamppost and staring at her phone.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spotted the familiar pink wallet, picked it up, and hurled it at the girl instead of keeping it.
• The girl caught the wallet and angrily complained that Zuo Xiaoduo had refused the bait.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw the girl again near the school gates and hurried inside, unsettled by her repeated appearances.
• Several people raced out of the school, and Zuo Xiaoduo noticed black energy and killing intent around them, signs of a Death Calamity.

Zuo Xiaoduo tried to persuade Qin Fangyang to reduce or waive his tuition, but ended up paying the full amount and fifty low-grade star soul stones. As they left, he spun an elaborate tale about his family’s poverty, and Qin Fangyang urged him to study hard while taking care of his health.

• Zuo Xiaoduo regretted losing fortune points, then unexpectedly received a cool sensation from above.
• Zuo Xiaoduo praised his rapid improvement and asked Qin Fangyang to help him get free tuition or register him as impoverished.
• Qin Fangyang took Zuo Xiaoduo to the academic affairs office, where Zuo paid his tuition and handed over fifty low-grade star soul stones.
• Zuo Xiaoduo lamented the cost and claimed his family was desperately poor, describing his sister’s illness and his parents’ sacrifices.
• Qin Fangyang sympathized with Zuo Xiaoduo and told him to study and cultivate diligently while looking after his health.

Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Qin Fangyang that his family was destitute, prompting the teacher to give him star soul jade, but Qin later discovered he had been cultivating with mid-grade jade. Qin tried to stop Zuo from telling the class about his generosity, and Zuo ended by praising him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo claimed his family could barely afford tuition, so Qin Fangyang gave him two pieces of lower-grade star soul jade for cultivation.
• During class, Qin Fangyang sensed Zuo Xiaoduo's cultivation was unusually strong and discovered he was using mid-grade star soul jade.
• Qin Fangyang realized Zuo Xiaoduo had deceived him about his poverty and became angry with himself for believing the story.
• During break, Zuo Xiaoduo began telling the class that Qin Fangyang had helped his impoverished family, but Qin quickly ordered him to stop.
• Qin Fangyang told Zuo Xiaoduo to focus on studying, and Zuo thanked him and called him a model for the world.

Qin Fangyang announced the victory at Sun Moon Pass and the construction of Heavenly King Pass, then punished Li Changming for a careless joke about the heroes who had died defending humanity. The chapter ended with Li Changming pleading from outside the classroom while Qin Fangyang refused to soften his stance.

• Qin Fangyang told the class that You Dongtian defeated Hou Yunhai and drove the Witch Alliance forces back from Sun Moon Pass.
• Qin Fangyang announced that a new fortress, Heavenly King Pass, would be built on the reclaimed territory.
• Qin Fangyang described the sacrifices of the human heroes who had died at Sun Moon Pass, and the class fell silent.
• Li Changming mistakenly joked about the name Sun Moon Pass, prompting Qin Fangyang to order him to spend the day listening and cultivating in a one-handed handstand.
• Qin Fangyang insisted that students must never insult human heroes and told Li Changming to consider transferring to another class.
• Li Changming apologized from outside the classroom and pleaded that he had been asleep and had not meant to offend anyone.

Qin Fangyang punished Li Changming for insulting Sun Moon Pass, but relented after the class pleaded for him. Zuo Xiaoduo returned the Star Soul Jade Qin had given him, and he learned that Li Chenglong was teaching other classes and might become a lecturer and historical adviser after graduation.

• Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, Yu Moyan, and Li Changming pleaded with Qin Fangyang, who ordered Li Changming to stand outside for two days and warned he would be transferred if he made another mistake.
• Qin Fangyang wrote “Sun Moon Pass” on the blackboard and declared it a sacred place that must not be insulted.
• Zuo Xiaoduo wondered whether Qin Fangyang had punished Li Changming to strengthen the class’s unity, then returned two pieces of Star Soul Jade to Qin Fangyang.
• Qin Fangyang questioned Zuo Xiaoduo about his family’s finances, knocked him on the head, and broke the class’s tense silence.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked where Li Chenglong was, and Long Yusheng told him that Li Chenglong had gone to teach another class.
• Wan Lixiu explained that Li Chenglong had a photographic memory and that the school was considering appointing him as a lecturer and historical adviser after graduation.

Zuo Xiaoduo surged through the class rankings after a night of rapid progress, stopping at nineteenth place only when he was completely exhausted. Qin Fangyang praised his results and training, while Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu considered how soon they might need to challenge him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo won three consecutive matches and continued climbing the rankings as Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu watched his improved techniques in astonishment.
• Zuo Xiaoduo defeated students up to nineteenth place before exhaustion forced him to stop.
• Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu agreed to watch Zuo Xiaoduo's progress for two more days before deciding whether to challenge him.
• Qin Fangyang congratulated Zuo Xiaoduo for defeating sixteen classmates in two days, then urged the class to match his hard work.

Zuo Xiaoduo endured a group beating after climbing the class rankings, then Qin Fangyang warned him not to use his dangerous martial techniques at school. The chapter left Qin Fangyang meeting a group of ten people heading out on a mission.

• Qin Fangyang’s class rule allowed the eleven classmates Zuo Xiaoduo had overtaken to gang up on him, and they beat him while the others watched.
• Qin Fangyang asked why Zuo Xiaoduo had not fought back, and Zuo Xiaoduo said he had let his new underlings vent their anger.
• Qin Fangyang questioned who had taught Zuo Xiaoduo his techniques, then forbade him from using them at school because they were dangerous and belonged to the Kunlun Dao Sect.
• Qin Fangyang and Zuo Xiaoduo met ten people leaving the building, and their bearded leader urged Qin Fangyang to train his students until they reached the Innate level.

Zuo Xiaoduo saw signs that ten Second High School teachers were facing deadly misfortune and tried to warn them before they left to search the Wasteland for fallen meteors. After the full-bearded man gave him the character “一” to read, Zuo Xiaoduo sighed, leaving the meaning of the omen unresolved.

• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed black and baleful qi on all ten teachers and feared they were in mortal danger.
• The full-bearded man told Qin Fangyang they were heading to the Wasteland to search for meteor fragments.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stopped the group and warned that their chosen direction would bring them no gains.
• Qin Fangyang persuaded the skeptical full-bearded man to let Zuo Xiaoduo read his fortune.
• The full-bearded man drew the character “一” with his foot, and Zuo Xiaoduo studied it before sighing.

Zuo Xiaoduo used character divination to warn Brother Liu and his companions that traveling east or west would bring death, while heading north would bring good fortune. Brother Liu doubted him, but began to take the warning seriously after realizing he had unexpectedly written a will the night before.

• Zuo Xiaoduo interpreted the character 一 as an omen of death and warned Brother Liu's party to avoid traveling east or west.
• Zuo Xiaoduo urged the group to head north, claiming that direction offered safety and rewards.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that the character Brother Liu had written was a revelation from heaven, and his words left Brother Liu and the others wavering between belief and doubt.
• Brother Liu asked Qin Fangyang about Zuo Xiaoduo's background, while Qin Fangyang said it was safer to heed the warning than dismiss it.
• Brother Liu recalled that he had unexpectedly written a will and arranged his affairs the night before, making Zuo Xiaoduo's warning seem more convincing.

After Zuo Xiaoduo’s prediction unsettled Liu Jiansheng and his brothers, Liu tried to persuade Wang Feilong’s team to avoid heading south. Wang ignored the warning and went south, while Liu’s group set out north.

• Liu Jiansheng told his nine brothers that his farewell letter, strange impulse to write the character for “one,” and a brother’s dream made Zuo Xiaoduo’s prediction seem credible.
• Liu Jiansheng’s group met Wang Feilong’s team, and the two men teased each other about the names they had changed.
• Liu Jiansheng urged Wang Feilong to join him on the safer northern route, but Wang laughed at the divination and led his team south.
• Liu Jiansheng decided not to follow Wang’s team and led his nine brothers north.

Zuo Xiaoduo sensed that a girl waiting outside the school was dangerous, so he went back inside and asked Qin Fangyang for help. When they returned to the gates, she had disappeared, and Qin Fangyang warned him not to let romance distract him from training.

• Liu Jiansheng and his companions left, while Zuo Xiaoduo told Qin Fangyang he believed they faced danger.
• After school, Zuo Xiaoduo spotted a girl in a pink dress waiting by the road and suspected she was targeting him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rushed back into school and told Qin Fangyang that the girl had been following him for two days.
• Qin Fangyang accompanied Zuo Xiaoduo to the gates, but the girl was gone, and he doubted Zuo Xiaoduo's story.
• Qin Fangyang warned Zuo Xiaoduo to focus on martial training instead of romance and described the long lifespans of powerful martial artists.

Zuo Xiaoduo saw a mysterious girl in pink repeatedly appear near the school and struggled to decide whether to ask Zuo Xiaonian for help. He resolved to face the danger himself while keeping his phone ready, but the girl appeared in his path again as he tried to flee.

• Qin Fangyang mistook Zuo Xiaoduo's warnings about the girl for an excuse and left him at the school gate.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly checked that the girl was still beneath the streetlamp and wrestled with whether to call Zuo Xiaonian.
• Zuo Xiaoduo resolved to rely on himself but kept Zuo Xiaonian's number ready in case he faced irresistible danger.
• Zuo Xiaoduo dashed away from the school and planned to escape across rooftops to a busy street.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rounded another corner and saw the girl in pink in front of him again.

Zuo Xiaoduo met the eerie girl in pink who had been searching for him and tried to refuse her valuable jade pendant. After he questioned her claim about her dead parents, she briefly regained her own awareness, but she left after throwing the pendant at him.

• The girl in pink found Zuo Xiaoduo and said she had come to thank him for recovering her wallet.
• The girl offered Zuo Xiaoduo a radiant jade pendant, but he suspected something was wrong and refused it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told the girl her face did not resemble that of an orphan whose parents had died, and her gray eyes began to look normal.
• The girl checked her phone, thanked Zuo Xiaoduo, and again urged him to take the pendant.
• Zuo Xiaoduo refused, so the girl tossed the pendant at him and disappeared at great speed.

Zuo Xiaonian confronted the pink-clad girl and deduced that she was an avatar from the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect who had tried to use a Greedy Wolf Formation. The girl recognized Zuo Xiaonian as Phoenix City's Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden as Zuo Xiaonian prepared to intercept the Greedy Wolf's Heart.

• Zuo Xiaoduo left the jade pendant behind, refusing to accept another gift after receiving payment.
• Zuo Xiaonian appeared at the alley entrance and pressured the pink-clad girl, leaving her too frightened to resist.
• Zuo Xiaonian questioned the girl about the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect, its plans in Phoenix City, and the formation's connection to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained how the Greedy Wolf Formation used ten Greedy Wolf Souls and a central heart to kill its hosts and increase the cultivator's power.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had prepared to intercept the final thought escaping from the Greedy Wolf's Heart, and the pink-clad girl recognized her as Phoenix City's Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden.

Zuo Xiaonian killed the girl in pink after she insulted her and provoked her over Zuo Xiaoduo. Afterward, Zuo Xiaonian stayed alert for the possibility that the corpse was a decoy or could revive, while Zuo Xiaoduo worried about the consequences of her intervention.

• Zuo Xiaonian told the girl in pink that bullying Zuo Xiaoduo had made her a target, while the girl denied ever seeing or harming him.
• The girl in pink mocked Zuo Xiaonian with filthy insults, and Zuo Xiaonian recognized her as a member of the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect.
• Zuo Xiaonian attacked the girl in pink with a torrent of sword light and killed her with a wound through the throat.
• Zuo Xiaonian warned Zuo Xiaoduo that the Witch Alliance might use a secret escape technique or a double, and he suggested decapitating or burning the corpse to confirm her death.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether Zuo Xiaonian would face repercussions for intervening, and she dismissed the girl as a minor figure in the Witch Alliance.

After Zuo Xiaonian joined the two halves of the jade pendant and placed it on the Pink-Clothed Girl, the girl's body vanished and the pendant surged with energy into Zuo Xiaoduo, knocking him unconscious. He woke at home with strange new strength and found Zuo Xiaonian exhausted and unconscious on his bed, leaving him confused about what had happened.

• Zuo Xiaonian joined the two matching jade pendants, placed them on the Pink-Clothed Girl, and watched the girl's body disappear as a blood-red streak appeared inside the pendant.
• Zuo Xiaonian sent the pendant into Zuo Xiaoduo's robes, and its immense energy entered him and caused him to pass out.
• Zuo Xiaonian carried the unconscious Zuo Xiaoduo away, and he later woke at home able to float briefly before losing control and falling.
• Zuo Xiaoduo shattered his drinking glass and crushed a chair with his newfound strength.
• Zuo Xiaoduo found Zuo Xiaonian unconscious and deathly pale on his bed, brought her water, and carefully helped her drink half a bowl.

Zuo Xiaoduo feared Zuo Xiaonian had been badly hurt, but discovered she had only been pretending to sleep. Their scuffle wrecked his bed, and the chapter ended with him teasing her while she hid from their father beneath the quilt.

• Zuo Xiaoduo placed Star Soul Stones around Zuo Xiaonian, who revealed she had been awake when her feet tickled her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo scolded Zuo Xiaonian for frightening him, but she teased him and refused to explain what had happened to her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo lunged at Zuo Xiaonian, and his newly increased strength caused the bed to collapse beneath them.
• Zuo Changlu called from outside, and Zuo Xiaoduo blamed the wrecked bed on his cultivation breakthrough while Zuo Xiaonian hid under the quilt.
• After Zuo Changlu left, Zuo Xiaoduo teased Zuo Xiaonian and threatened to call their parents if she retaliated.

Zuo Xiaonian explained that Zuo Xiaoduo had narrowly avoided being used in the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect’s scheme. She revealed that the Greedy Wolf’s Heart now contained the witch’s intercepted power and memories, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo with a windfall and the witch unable to identify who destroyed her clone.

• Zuo Xiaoduo threatened to shout if Zuo Xiaonian tried to subdue him, then demanded to know what had happened to her.
• Zuo Xiaonian teased Zuo Xiaoduo before warning him that accepting the Greedy Wolf’s Heart could have put him in serious danger.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that the Greedy Wolf Witch belonged to the Witch Alliance and had nearly completed a formation that used Zuo Xiaoduo as its final target.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the witch had given Zuo Xiaoduo half of the Greedy Wolf’s Heart after his kind act disrupted her plan and triggered a backlash.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had destroyed the witch’s clone and sealed its remaining power and most of its memories inside the reunited pendant, preventing the original witch from learning who killed it.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Zuo Xiaonian had exhausted herself transferring the Greedy Wolf's Heart energy into him, and he angrily worried that she had sacrificed a chance to break through her bottleneck. Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the thief Zuo Xiaoduo had warned was the final target in the Greedy Wolf's Scheme, and that the rest of the thief's gang had died.

• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had refined the Greedy Wolf's Heart and transferred its energy into Zuo Xiaoduo, despite the strain and risks of guiding it through his body.
• Zuo Xiaoduo confronted Zuo Xiaonian for giving him the energy instead of using it to help herself break through her bottleneck.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo really could read faces, then reminded him that he had warned a thief to head east to avoid disaster.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the thief had been the final target in the Greedy Wolf's Scheme and that returning the wallet had kept the Greedy Wolf Soul from being delivered.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that every member of the thief's ten-person gang except the thief had died the previous night.

Zuo Xiaonian explained how Zuo Xiaoduo’s advice had saved Zhang Yuan from Greedy Wolf’s Scheme, then pressed him about his claimed skill in Physiognomy. The chapter ended with Zuo Xiaonian laughing at Zuo Xiaoduo’s grand claims while he fumed.

• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that nine people had died in identical, inexplicable circumstances when Greedy Wolf’s Scheme erupted.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that she had tracked Zhang Yuan to Antai City and confirmed that Zuo Xiaoduo’s advice had led him to safety.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had kept following Zuo Xiaoduo because she believed the person behind Greedy Wolf’s Scheme would come after him.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo truly knew Physiognomy, and he insisted his skill could reveal life and death.
• Zuo Xiaonian laughed at Zuo Xiaoduo’s solemn boasts, and he demanded that she take him seriously.

Zuo Xiaonian realized that Zuo Xiaoduo’s relentless cultivation and warnings came from his fear that she would die during her breakthrough. Zuo Xiaoduo explained that he had seen an unavoidable tribulation, but her fate was not certain and careful preparation could still avert disaster.

• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo had foreseen a calamity or her death when he read her face.
• Zuo Xiaonian described how Zuo Xiaoduo had been pushing himself through constant cultivation and fights because he wanted to protect her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admitted that he would pay any price to keep Zuo Xiaonian from dying.
• Zuo Xiaonian recalled that Zuo Xiaoduo had warned her about danger involving the Star Martial Golden Crystal two and a half months later.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that her breakthrough would bring an unavoidable tribulation, but the signs left room to change the outcome through preparation.

Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Zuo Xiaonian not to give in to her apparent death fate, though the ominous sign on her face remained. Zuo Xiaonian then warned him that the Star Soul energy inside him could turn berserk and arranged to help him control it during three days off from school.

• Zuo Xiaoduo convinced Zuo Xiaonian that precautions and his help could let her avoid her calamity, and she brightened as they teased each other.
• Zuo Xiaoduo privately worried that the dark sign of calamity on Zuo Xiaonian's face had not faded.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that his uncontrolled Yuan Energy could make his body explode if he stirred it recklessly.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she would help him absorb and control the hidden Yuan Energy over the next three days, and revealed she had already arranged his leave with their father.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had told their father her master was helping clear Zuo Xiaoduo's meridians and would train him for three days.