Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong considered how to recruit Manager Cai, while Li Chenglong acquired a struggling media company and turned it into an internet-trolling operation. The company began work under the name Handsome Zuo Film, Television, Entertainment and Media Co., Ltd., with its staff intimidated by the mysterious new owner's wealth and power.

• Zuo Xiaoduo said they could not destroy Manager Cai's family to force him to join, and wondered whether Fang Yinuo could help without exposing his Witch Alliance identity.
• Li Chenglong bought a struggling internet company, renamed it Handsome Zuo Film, Television, Entertainment and Media Co., Ltd., and retained its employees with much higher salaries.
• Li Chenglong ordered the company to become the internet's biggest troll operation within a month, giving it an initial budget of one hundred million.
• Ancient Qi and the staff learned that the new owner's trace led to the Three Pure Ones Hall on the Dao Alliance Continent, and realized they had little choice but to follow his orders.
• The company completed its preparations, and Ancient Qi was surprised that the Handsome Zuo name was available to register.

Zuo Xiaoduo reassured his father that he was behaving himself, while Zuo Changlu learned that his son was behind the online abuse aimed at the family. The Zuo Shuai company’s setup and recruitment proceeded remarkably smoothly, though many new hires quit after hearing about its work.

• Zuo Changlu called Zuo Xiaoduo, who claimed he was behaving like an adorable little white bunny and offered to retaliate against people insulting his father.
• Zuo Changlu told Wu Yuting that their son had caused the online trouble, and Wu Yuting became angry that he had not let her speak to Xiao Duo.
• Ancient Qi and his colleagues found that the Zuo Shuai company’s registration and paperwork were completed with extraordinary ease.
• A crowd of highly qualified job applicants joined the company, but more than half resigned after Ancient Qi described its new direction of influencing online public opinion.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong found that their new company had quickly recruited hundreds of elite online trolls, and they assigned them to praise Hidden Dragon High Martial. General Manager Ancient Qi organized the first campaign, and the eager staff immediately began working on it.

• Hundreds of experienced online trolls joined Commander Zuo Film, Television, Entertainment and Media Co., Ltd. within a day and night.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong learned of the rapid recruitment and decided to test the new company's ability by assigning a campaign about Hidden Dragon High Martial's revered teachers.
• Ancient Qi called a senior management meeting, where the staff proposed tracing the school's history and celebrating its teachers, alumni, and heroes.
• Ancient Qi assigned Team One to write an introductory article about Hidden Dragon High Martial, and the employees immediately began work.

Marshal Zuo Company’s online campaign rapidly boosted Hidden Dragon High Martial’s reputation with documented stories of its history and heroes. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong remained unaware that their company was becoming a powerful force for guiding public opinion.

• A powerful but unseen backing turned Marshal Zuo Company into a tool for influencing public sentiment without the government appearing directly.
• Reporters from Marshal Zuo Company gathered evidence and interviewed witnesses about Hidden Dragon High Martial’s history across the nation and its borders.
• Articles about Hidden Dragon High Martial spread rapidly online, making the school hugely popular and stirring a greater wave of coverage.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong succeeded as company bosses while remaining confused about the forces driving their success.

The school struggled to decide how many credits to award Zuo Xiaoduo after he submitted an unprecedented number of Star Beasts, all of them malnourished. Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian recognized the likely cause and set symbolic credit totals for Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong headed to school, anticipating the Trial Commendation Ceremony and their credits.
• The Academic Affairs director reported that Zuo Xiaoduo had submitted 45,678 Star Beasts and might earn over 400,000 credits under the usual calculation.
• The director revealed that all 45,678 of Zuo Xiaoduo’s Star Beasts were malnourished, leaving the school’s senior staff baffled.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian dismissed the issue, suspecting Zuo Xiaoduo’s Flame Sun True Scripture and possibly a Demonic Dagger were responsible.
• Ye Changqing set Li Chenglong’s award at 22,000 credits and Zuo Xiaoduo’s at 22,222 credits.

Ye Changqing cut Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong’s Star Beast reward to 22,222 school credits because they had been drinking and taking away nutrient solution from the Nutrient Pods. Wen Xingtian confronted them in his office, where they admitted the solution tasted good and promised not to do it again.

• Ye Changqing reduced Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong’s Star Beast credits after discovering they had been drinking nutrient solution and taking containers of it home.
• Ye Changqing explained the deduction to Wen Xingtian, who gave up arguing for the students.
• Wen Xingtian summoned Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to his office, and they arrived expecting the awards ceremony.
• Wen Xingtian exposed their nutrient-solution drinking, and Zuo Xiaoduo accidentally admitted they had tried it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong defended themselves weakly, while Wen Xingtian scolded them and revealed Li Chenglong had been drinking it several times a day.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong were caught sneaking energy fluid and reprimanded by Wen Xingtian, then discovered Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian had overheard them insulting the principal. The freshman trial commendation ceremony went ahead, but the two received fewer school credits than expected.

• Wen Xingtian scolded Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong for secretly drinking energy fluid and warned them that another incident would cost them their school credits.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong suspected Ye Changqing had reported them after realizing the pair had stopped drinking water at home.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian revealed they had overheard the boys calling them devious, and Ye Changqing told them they had four years to explain themselves.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong accepted their commendations at the ceremony looking dejected, despite receiving their prizes.
• The school awarded Zuo Xiaoduo 22,222 credits, Li Chenglong 22,000 credits, and third-place Meng Changjun 21,000 credits.

After the award ceremony, Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong realized Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian had used the Nutrient Liquid incident to conceal their School Credit deductions and keep them cautious. They left resigned to the loss while the two instructors celebrated having fooled them, and Class One’s students kept their distance.

• Class One dominated the rankings, and the principal awarded School Credits to the new students at the ceremony.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong wondered why the expected punishment never came and concluded the instructors had used the Nutrient Liquid incident to take their School Credits.
• Zuo Xiaoduo figured that he had lost several hundred thousand School Credits and that Meng Changjun had also been docked, while Li Chenglong understood only part of the scheme.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed how they had frightened the pair and agreed that the School Credit loss would not hinder Zuo Xiaoduo’s future cultivation or missions.
• Class One’s students avoided Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong, wary of their moods and of being targeted after the recent trouble.

Zuo Xiaoduo used a staged self-criticism to warn Wen Xingtian that Vice Principal Xiang would be targeted that night, but Wen destroyed the paper and sent him away. Wen then traded barbed remarks with Vice Principal Wu, leaving the warning unresolved.

• Meng Changjun and the other students panicked after Wen Xingtian overheard their talk about being attacked and suggested they needed to experience knives sinking into their flesh.
• The students beat Hao Han for speaking carelessly, while Zuo Xiaoduo approached Wen Xingtian and insisted on admitting his mistake.
• In Wen Xingtian's office, Zuo Xiaoduo wrote that Vice Principal Xiang faced danger that night and described a plot against him, then outlined countermeasures.
• Wen Xingtian tore the self-criticism to pieces, ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to rewrite it, and kicked him out of the office.
• Vice Principal Wu came to speak with Wen Xingtian, who mocked leaders who collected high salaries without teaching before walking away.

After Wen Xingtian punished Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong, Zuo fantasized about defeating his teachers while the pair returned to their online projects. As their fame grew, organized critics began attacking Zuo Xiaoduo for being an Innate Martial Artist who had not contributed to society.

• Vice Principal Wu watched Wen Xingtian leave and privately decided Wen was another obstacle he had to remove.
• Wen Xingtian beat Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong in class, and they went home injured after being barred from the Nutrient Pods for a week.
• Zuo Xiaoduo celebrated the return of the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and imagined defeating Qin Fangyang, Wen Xingtian, and Ye Changqing, frightening Li Chenglong with his laughter.
• Xiang Kuangren told Wen Xingtian that Lei Datou had returned to Fenghai and invited him for a drink, prompting Wen to question the sudden reunion before agreeing to walk with him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong watched their online series gain popularity as members of the Wu Lineage and Gao Lineage visited them.
• Online critics began disparaging Zuo Xiaoduo's fame and lack of contributions, and organized commenters traded insults with the Steel-Iron Divine Cult and Sword King's supporters.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong watched their online campaign backfire when their hired team began attacking them while steering debate toward the Steel-Iron Divine Cult and the Sword King. The company’s manager took the boss’s approval as confirmation that the plan was working, and the team prepared to keep escalating the public conflict.

• Posts detailing the founders of Hidden Dragon High Martial and their heroic deeds shifted public opinion against the Steel-Iron Divine Cult and the Sword King's supporters.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong realized their team had opened the campaign by insulting them, but decided to let the attacks continue and make those responsible bear the consequences.
• The boss messaged Ancient Qi, “Good work,” encouraging Manager Gu and the company to continue their strategy.
• The company planned to keep attacking the Sword King and Cult Leader, then provoke celebrity fans before entering the debate with facts and stories about heroic seniors.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong’s company gained overwhelming online exposure and sponsorships while the school’s students and staff carried on with their usual routines. Vice Principal Gao was then gravely injured in a late-night fight, and the next morning the school’s senior figures confronted Xiang Kuangren over the attack.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong’s company secured advertising fees and enthusiastic promotion from major websites, rapidly attracting attention across the industry.
• Zuo Xiaoduo compressed his spiritual qi for the sixteenth time, Li Chenglong suppressed his for the fifth time, Ye Changqing kept watch, and Class One students continued scheming against one another.
• Xiang Kuangren fought Vice Principal Gao in the middle of the night, leaving Gao gravely injured and unconscious before fleeing when Vice Principal Wu arrived.
• At four in the morning, Vice Principal Wu accused Xiang Kuangren of attacking Gao, and Vice Principal Wei questioned Xiang’s earlier remarks about Gao’s guilty expression.
• Xiang Kuangren denied the accusation, while Wen Xingtian demanded to know what evidence linked him to the attack.

Wen Xingtian and Xiang Kuangren challenged Vice Principal Wu to provide evidence that Xiang had attacked Vice Principal Gao. Ye Changqing ordered a fair investigation based on evidence from both sides, but Wu argued that Gao’s words and the wounds left by the Overlord Halberd implicated Xiang.

• Wen Xingtian berated Vice Principal Wu and demanded conclusive evidence against Xiang Kuangren, threatening to drive out anyone who interfered with Ye Changqing’s recovery.
• Ye Changqing silenced the room despite coughing blood and said the attack on Vice Principal Gao required an impartial investigation.
• Ye Changqing explained that Gao had accused Xiang while Xiang had denied responsibility, and insisted both sides needed supporting evidence.
• Vice Principal Wu argued that Gao’s shout during the battle implicated Xiang and demanded proof that Xiang had not been at the scene.
• Xiang Kuangren rejected Gao’s words as evidence, and Vice Principal Wu claimed the Overlord Halberd’s distinctive traces could identify the attacker.

Xiang Kuangren tried to clear his name by calling Lei Datou and his son as witnesses, but Lei Datou claimed they had stopped drinking at eleven, leaving Xiang without an alibi for the attack on Vice Principal Gao. Xiang then produced a miniature disc and demanded a projector.

• Xiang Kuangren brought Lei Datou and his son in as witnesses and said they had drunk together at the Supreme Hotel until after two in the morning.
• Lei Datou confirmed that he and his son had joined Xiang for drinks, but said the drinking had ended at eleven.
• Vice Principal Wu pointed out that Vice Principal Gao had been attacked at one in the morning, so Lei Datou's account did not clear Xiang.
• Xiang questioned Lei Datou about his testimony, accused him of betraying their long friendship, and demanded a projector.
• Xiang took a miniature disc from his pocket.

Xiang Kuangren used hotel surveillance footage to prove that Lei Datou had drunk with him until after three in the morning, undermining Lei’s claim that they had met earlier. Jiang Wenzhou arrived to testify for Xiang and began showing a separate recording of Lei’s movements, leaving the evidence against him unresolved.

• Xiang Kuangren played footage showing him and Lei Datou entering the Supreme Hotel at 6:47 p.m. and drinking together until 3:20 a.m.
• Lei Datou claimed the room’s clock was broken and said he had only echoed Xiang’s guesses about the time.
• Jiang Wenzhou arrived with Star Shield Bureau officers and said the hotel’s owner and manager were already in his custody.
• Jiang Wenzhou said he had recorded Lei Datou and another man repeatedly leaving their room, then started a recording of Lei heading toward the restroom.

Jiang Wenzhou showed evidence that Lei Datou had repeatedly left Xiang Kuangren’s private room to vomit and take sobering pills, clearing Xiang of suspicion. When Lei Datou was pressed for the reason behind his betrayal, he killed his son and himself with poison, leaving the investigation without a lead as Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing worried that incidents were growing more frequent.

• Jiang Wenzhou played surveillance footage of Lei Datou repeatedly vomiting, taking sobering pills, and returning to Xiang Kuangren’s room.
• Jiang Wenzhou revealed that the hotel’s surveillance equipment had failed, then used his evidence to support Vice Principal Xiang’s innocence.
• Xiang Kuangren asked Lei Datou why he had betrayed him, and Lei Datou warned that Xiang was destined to lose the fight.
• Lei Datou struck his son dead, then poisoned himself and severed his heart meridians before Wen Xingtian could save him.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian recognized the poison and concluded that Lei Datou’s death had left them without a useful lead.
• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that incidents had been coming more frequently, and Ye Changqing slowly agreed.

After evidence cleared Xiang Kuangren of the attack, Jiang Wenzhou and Hidden Dragon High Martial’s leaders acknowledged the incident and its wider investigation remained unresolved. Jiang revealed that twenty-three Star Shield Bureau investigators had disappeared while probing the school’s old cases, and Wen Xingtian suspected the failed accusation was only the start of a larger scheme.

• Jiang Wenzhou stored Lei Datou and his son’s bodies and the blood-corroded floor in his Space Ring, while Vice Principal Wu and Vice Principal Wei accepted that Xiang Kuangren had been cleared.
• Vice Principal Wu apologized to Xiang Kuangren, and Wen Xingtian left without acknowledging the other vice principals.
• Ye Changqing and Jiang Wenzhou exchanged apologies, and Jiang departed after urging Ye to care for his health.
• Jiang told Wen Xingtian that twenty-three investigators assigned to Hidden Dragon High Martial’s old cases had vanished and that the Star Shield Bureau lacked the strength to confront those implicated.
• Jiang said he had placed the Supreme Hotel personnel in Star Shield Headquarters custody, and Wen concluded that Zuo Xiaoduo’s warning about Xiang Kuangren’s fortune had prevented a worse outcome.

Ye Changqing warned Xiang Kuangren that the crude accusations against him were part of a plan to sideline him and ultimately kill him at Sun Moon Pass. The chapter ended with Xiang Kuangren realizing Ye Changqing’s injury had healed and cheerfully asking him to kick him again.

• Ye Changqing used a piece of Top-Grade Star Soul Jade to ease his injury and told Vice Principal Wei that he had fewer than three hundred pieces left.
• After leaving Ye Changqing, Vice Principal Wei privately mocked his claim and revealed that he did not believe Ye Changqing had that much jade.
• Xiang Kuangren complained that the accusations against him were absurd, and Ye Changqing explained that they were a pretext for a broader plot to remove and discredit him.
• Ye Changqing warned that the plot could drive Xiang Kuangren to Sun Moon Pass, where his enemies could kill him, then beat him in anger.
• Xiang Kuangren noticed that Ye Changqing’s kicks felt powerful and concluded that his injury had healed, then asked for another kick.

Ye Changqing helped Xiang Kuangren see that Lei Datou had never been a true brother, easing his grief over the plot against him. Wen Xingtian arrived at Class One’s training area and found blood everywhere as Zuo Xiaoduo crept behind an alarmed Meng Changjun.

• Ye Changqing recalled how political schemers had targeted the old brothers and explained that Lei Datou’s betrayal did not make him a friend or brother.
• Xiang Kuangren accepted Ye Changqing’s words and dismissed Lei Datou as unworthy of grief.
• Wen Xingtian overheard Xiang Kuangren, smiled, and headed to Class One, hoping to find another spectacle at lunch.
• Wen Xingtian reached the training area and saw bloodied, wrecked grounds, with Zuo Xiaoduo sneaking behind a wary Meng Changjun.

Zuo Xiaoduo punished Class One for their timid ambush practice by repeatedly attacking and wounding all thirty-five classmates, then ordered them healed in Nutrient Pods. He left them dreading his promised round-the-clock ambush training for the next seven days, while Wen Xingtian learned that this had already been their third brutal round that morning.

• Zuo Xiaoduo caught Meng Changjun, Hao Han, and Xiang Bing hiding, stabbed them, and mocked their attempts to ambush him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo attacked the rest of Class One, wounded all thirty-five students, and lined them up without letting them bandage their injuries.
• Zuo Xiaoduo ordered the teaching assistant to put the students into Nutrient Pods, then threatened to ambush them again that afternoon and for seven days straight.
• Xiang Chong and the other students begged Zuo Xiaoduo for mercy, but he scolded them and promised nonstop training.
• Wen Xingtian stopped the teaching assistant, who explained that Zuo Xiaoduo had already ambushed and wounded the class three times that morning.

Zuo Xiaoduo terrified his classmates with an extreme training session, then gathered them for lunch while joking about their injuries. The class headed to the Dining Hall in fear of what he might do next.

• Wen Xingtian watched Zuo Xiaoduo's brutal training methods and left to see what results they would produce.
• Xiang Chong and the other classmates emerged from the recovery room, saw Zuo Xiaoduo waiting with his sword, and panicked.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited the terrified class to lunch and led them toward the Dining Hall.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Xiang Chong, Yu Yan'er, Pi Yibao, Meng Changjun, and others about their injuries, frightening them further.
• Onlookers at the Dining Hall saw First-year Class One arrive with Zuo Xiaoduo leading and the others trailing behind timidly.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Second-Year Class Four’s monitor while claiming their dining tables, then continued to terrify his own classmates when their teacher failed to arrive. The chapter left Class One facing another round of Zuo Xiaoduo’s thirty-five-against-one training, with his new nickname, Great Demon King Zuo, spreading among the students.

• Zuo Xiaoduo challenged Second-Year Class Four to fight for the tables and defeated its monitor with a Dragon Gate Leg kick to the crotch.
• Zuo Xiaoduo went upstairs to eat while other students wondered why he seemed increasingly powerful and waited for a protagonist to challenge him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s classmates ate and left the Dining Hall in fear, while two students on cleaning duty hurried to wash dishes and return to cultivation.
• Wen Xingtian did not arrive that afternoon, so Zuo Xiaoduo summoned his thirty-five classmates for another ambush exercise.
• Class One’s students reluctantly went outside as Zuo Xiaoduo acquired the nickname Great Demon King Zuo.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s brutal training pushed Class One to overcome their fear and unite against him, leaving both students and Zuo battered after a fierce battle. The next day, Wen Xingtian saw that the class’s combat skills and killing intent had sharply intensified.

• Class One students discussed the painful techniques Zuo Xiaoduo had used on them, while Zhen Piaopiao and Yu Yan’er kept the girls company with the two little White Tigers.
• Class One students fought back against Zuo Xiaoduo’s evening attack, and Pi Yibao bit his arm to restrain him as the others swarmed him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo eventually defeated all thirty-five students, and the entire class entered the Nutrient Pods before celebrating their victory over him.
• Wen Xingtian organized sparring the next day and noticed that Class One fought with far greater skill, defense, and killing intent.

Wen Xingtian watched Class One’s brutal, self-directed combat training and decided it could forge exceptional fighters, despite the destruction it caused. After school, Gao Chengxiang and Gao Qiao’er visited Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong, saying they wanted to talk over tea.

• Hao Han attacked a fellow townsman who approached him from behind, and Class Three’s teacher complained that Class One’s training had become dangerous.
• An explosion damaged the students’ building, but an investigation found that no one had been hurt.
• Wen Xingtian fined Xiang Chong and others, banned bombs on school grounds, and let the training continue while considering how to improve the other classes.
• Gao Chengxiang arrived at Zuo Xiaoduo’s villa with Gao Qiao’er and a bag of gifts.
• Zuo Xiaoduo suggested taking their guests to Heaven First-Class, but Gao Qiao’er said they only wanted tea and had things to discuss with him and Li Chenglong.

Gao Qiao'er and Gao Chengxiang visited Zuo Xiaoduo, revealed that the Gao Lineage had learned of his fortune-telling ability, and used a paid reading to warn him they knew. After they left, Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong recognized that his conspicuous actions in Phoenix City had finally brought the danger he had expected.

• Zuo Xiaoduo welcomed Gao Qiao'er and Gao Chengxiang into Li Chenglong's villa while Li Chenglong went to make tea.
• Gao Qiao'er said the Gao Lineage knew Zuo Xiaoduo was Master Zuo and asked him to read her fortunes, placing a hundred pieces of upper-grade star soul jade on the table.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Gao Qiao'er she would have a safe and smooth life blessed with good fortune and wealth, and the siblings left without waiting for tea.
• Li Chenglong said the siblings had discovered Zuo Xiaoduo's supernatural fortune-telling ability and warned that the situation was dangerous.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reflected that his high profile in Phoenix City had been necessary to save Zuo Xiaonian, though it had now brought consequences.