Recaps

The chapter followed Yu Moyan, Qin Fangyang, and Mu Yanyan as they dealt with loss and prepared for the struggles ahead, while Sister Lan remembered He Yuanyue and Hu Ruoyun followed news of Zuo Xiaoduo and his friends. It ended with Hu Ruoyun arguing with Li Changjiang over whether Zuo Xiaoduo was innocent and kind.

• Yu Moyan sat alone on the empty sports field, sang about old friends, and said that he missed them.
• Qin Fangyang hunted a Star Beast in the mountains and drank its blood, determined to reach God-Imperial so he could protect the children for Qianqian.
• Mu Yanyan returned to the Kunlun Dao Sect wounded and entered secluded cultivation, resolved to reach God-Imperial within three years.
• Sister Lan read He Yuanyue online news about Zuo Xiaoduo and the others at her grave, then wished her good night.
• Hu Ruoyun praised Zuo Xiaoduo as innocent and kind, but Li Changjiang challenged her description and she angrily dismissed him.

Minister Nan ordered a sweeping investigation into leaked intelligence and demanded other departments assist him. On a street in Upper Capital, Mo Xuanyi became entangled in an apparent assassination attempt when a wounded young fatty grabbed her and begged for help.

• Minister Nan ordered Team Three and other suspects detained and interrogated without being killed, and demanded continent-wide warrants and assistance from other departments.
• Minister Nan made the head of the Gao Lineage wait standing outside his office.
• Mo Xuanyi left a cake shop with a cake and liquor for her mother's birthday.
• A young fatty fleeing attackers dodged an arrow, but it pierced through his buttocks and knocked Mo Xuanyi's cake away.
• Black-clad figures converged, and the wounded young fatty grabbed Mo Xuanyi's thigh and begged her to save him.

Mo Xuanyi rescued the little fatty from a chaotic attack and left him at a clinic, while he secretly called for help. At Hidden Dragon High Martial, Zuo Xiaoduo finished an exhausting Gravity Room session and headed to watch the arena battles and wait for Zhongzhong.

• Mo Xuanyi escaped pursuing experts with the little fatty and took him to a private clinic to treat his arrow wound.
• Mo Xuanyi gave the little fatty a hundred Star Origin Coins and left, while he used a hidden phone to call for help.
• Unfamiliar people searched Phoenix City and nearby cities for the missing Star Gate group.
• Zuo Xiaoduo recovered from his Gravity Room training by consuming all the spirit water and spirit fruit in the lounge.
• Zuo Xiaoduo went toward the arenas to watch the battles and wait for Zhongzhong.

Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and tried growing spirit fruit seeds with star soul jade powder while Xiang Chong and Li Chenglong competed for the new students’ top ranking. He argued that he should be included in the rankings despite being barred from fighting in the arena.

• A teacher ordered the Gravity Room lined with recoverable metal after shallow fist marks were found, and noted how many school credits Zuo Xiaoduo had spent there.
• Zuo Xiaoduo planted spirit fruit seeds in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and poured star soul jade powder over them, hoping to grow an orchard.
• Zuo Xiaoduo watched Xiang Chong claim the arena and then abruptly leave when he saw Zuo Xiaoduo approach.
• Li Chenglong came home with Zuo Xiaoduo and bragged that he was poised to become Number One Among the New Students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo protested that he should still be included in the rankings even though the teacher had banned him from arena fights, and Li Chenglong urged him to raise the issue with Teacher Wen.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that most school missions were restricted to older students and complained that the available first-year missions paid too little to cover the credits he needed for cultivation facilities. He decided to start taking missions the next day, while Little Dragon was driven from his dream before it could offer him benefits.

• Li Chenglong showed Zuo Xiaoduo the newly opened mission system and explained that most rewarding missions were unavailable to first-year students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo complained about the meager school-credit rewards and the high costs of using the school's cultivation facilities, then resolved to start missions the next day.
• Li Chenglong said he would rest before the New Student Competition finals, and Zuo Xiaoduo angrily went upstairs to practice with his hammers.
• Zuo Xiaoduo drove Little Dragon out of his dream before it could speak, leaving Little Dragon wondering how to persuade him with the benefits it had prepared.

Zuo Xiaoduo sensed an ambush on his way to visit Grandma Shi and hurried toward her courtyard, where he discovered a campaign of abuse and a plan to defile her home. Before he could intervene, an unknown person attacked the men carrying manure, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Little Dragon decided to move another third of the remaining Dragon Vein and earth veins toward Zuo Xiaoduo’s space to demonstrate his sincerity, without merging them yet.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spent six hours cultivating in the Gravity Room, then bought food and wine and set out alone for Grandma Shi’s Small Courtyard.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sensed a growing aura of calamity and sped toward Grandma Shi’s neighborhood rather than turning back.
• Zuo Xiaoduo found red slogans insulting the residents painted across the neighborhood walls.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw three young men carrying manure toward Grandma Shi’s alley, but an unseen attacker blasted them and their buckets apart.

Zuo Xiaoduo witnessed a disguised man kill three people near Grandma Shi’s home, then fought the man as he accused him of bullying a martyr’s widow. Zuo Xiaoduo realized the violence was a carefully arranged ambush targeting him, likely connected to the Calamity Qi on his face.

• A uniformed young man named Bai Xiangtian killed three people who had been harassing Grandma Shi’s widow.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sensed that Bai Xiangtian was disguised and carried a vicious aura, despite his righteous appearance.
• Bai Xiangtian attacked Zuo Xiaoduo, and Zuo Xiaoduo blocked his first palm strike before retreating under a relentless assault.
• Zuo Xiaoduo pieced together clues indicating that the disturbance had been staged to draw him into an ambush.
• Zuo Xiaoduo concluded that someone had been watching him and that his exposed Calamity Qi had made him a target.

Zuo Xiaoduo realized his enemies had staged an attack to kill him and disguised himself as an innocent victim, then led five Infant Transformation experts through the neighborhood while they demolished houses in pursuit. Amid the smoke, he launched coins and revealed twenty or thirty Little Gourds as the attackers split up to surround him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo deduced that his enemies had arranged slogans, manure-throwers, and uniformed attackers to make his death look accidental.
• Four more uniformed men joined the first attacker, and the five struck Zuo Xiaoduo and sent him through the freshly painted wall.
• Zuo Xiaoduo fled through the neighborhood, drawing the five pursuers into smashing house after house as they tried to kill him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo soared above the smoke, scattered coins, and revealed twenty or thirty Little Gourds as the five men split up to attack.

Zuo Xiaoduo fought five Witch Alliance spies who attacked a village, keeping his identity hidden while protecting Grandma Shi from being drawn into the fight. After overwhelming them with his sword techniques, he left the five wounded men fleeing.

• The five men accused Zuo Xiaoduo of using hidden weapons after his returning jade gourd badly wounded one of them.
• Zuo Xiaoduo attacked from cover with hidden weapons, wounded all five men, and shouted that they were Witch Alliance spies attacking citizens.
• Grandma Shi watched from the air and recognized Zuo Xiaoduo, understanding that he was trying to spare her involvement.
• Zuo Xiaoduo unleashed his Starry Sky Step and sword techniques at full strength, scorching the battlefield and striking down all five men.
• The five wounded men sprang up and ran.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated and captured five would-be assassins at Grandma Shi’s home, then called Wen Xingtian and explained the ambush. With the village in ruins and Grandma Shi’s house the only one left standing, Zuo Xiaoduo suggested that she move to his spacious villa.

• Zuo Xiaoduo crippled five attackers, destroyed their Dantians, and kept them alive as leads before calling Wen Xingtian for help.
• Grandma Shi watched Zuo Xiaoduo fight, felt reassured by him, and returned to her courtyard with her bitterness eased.
• Wen Xingtian and Xiang Kuangren arrived, and their landings left the remaining houses collapsed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Wen Xingtian how the attackers had ambushed him and shared his suspicions; Wen Xingtian approved his actions and said he would take the captives for interrogation.
• Wen Xingtian promised to arrange aid for the villagers, and Zuo Xiaoduo suggested that Grandma Shi move to his villa.

Grandma Shi agreed to leave her ancestral home and move closer to the school, while Zuo Xiaoduo confronted the villagers for caring more about compensation than her well-being. Ye Changqing and Xiang Kuangren transported her entire courtyard intact, and Grandma Shi ended the chapter by rapping Zuo Xiaoduo on the head.

• Grandma Shi agreed to move because the distance from the school could put the children in danger, and she no longer felt bound to guard the ancestral home.
• The villagers begged Grandma Shi to stay because they feared her departure would delay their government compensation, and Zuo Xiaoduo rebuked them for their hypocrisy and mistreatment of Principal Shi.
• Ye Changqing ordered the courtyard reinforced and sealed, then Xiang Kuangren carried the entire structure through the air while Ye Changqing kept it intact.
• Wen Xingtian took away the five people Zuo Xiaoduo had crippled, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo behind with Grandma Shi.
• Grandma Shi struck Zuo Xiaoduo on the head with one finger, leaving him baffled.

Grandma Shi left the village with Zuo Xiaoduo after confronting the people who had persecuted her, severing her last ties to the ancestral home. Zuo Xiaoduo was glad she would move into his courtyard, where she would be nearby and safe.

• Grandma Shi scolded Zuo Xiaoduo for fighting without calling for help and exposing his abilities, then accepted his apology.
• Grandma Shi and Zuo Xiaoduo left the village without looking back, leaving the villagers to regret their treatment of her and fear losing her help with compensation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rejoiced that Grandma Shi was moving into his courtyard and felt relieved that she would no longer be alone.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Grandma Shi arrived at his villa, which stood in the middle of a courtyard covering several mu.

Ye Changqing and Xiang Kuangren transformed Grandma Shi’s courtyard beside the villa, and she invited them to celebrate her and Vice Principal Shi moving into their new home. The old friends drank together in Shi Yunfeng’s memory, their grief surfacing as Wen Xingtian drank in silence.

• Grandma Shi chose to keep her original courtyard, so Ye Changqing and Xiang Kuangren landscaped it beside the villa and added a fish pond.
• After waking from her nap, Grandma Shi invited Ye Changqing and Xiang Kuangren to come drink while she bought food.
• Ye Changqing, Xiang Kuangren, Wen Xingtian, and other Hidden Dragon teachers gathered in the courtyard and drank past midnight.
• The friends toasted Shi Yunfeng and remembered their years together, while Ye Changqing lamented that his brother had suffered an injustice.
• Xiang Kuangren collapsed in tears, while Wen Xingtian sat upright and drank silently, his face growing ashen and his gaze increasingly sharp.

After Wen Xingtian mourned Shi, Grandma Shi urged him to return to teaching and explained his battlefield past to Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong. She revealed that the Flood Great Shaman had crippled an entire army with one strike, and the chapter left the students stunned by his supposed invincibility.

• Wen Xingtian drank alone after the others left, unleashing a terrifying surge of Sword Qi and killing intent.
• Grandma Shi brought Wen Xingtian back to his senses and urged him to return to his students, promising he could visit her to drink.
• Grandma Shi explained that Wen Xingtian earned the name Ten-Thousand Butcher after exceeding a hundred thousand battlefield kills.
• Grandma Shi revealed that the Flood Great Shaman had killed nine thousand of twelve thousand troops with one hammer strike and damaged the Origin of every survivor.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong asked whether the Flood Great Shaman was truly invincible, and Grandma Shi said no one of their generation could match him.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong left Grandma Shi after she urged them to strengthen their foundations. In the Witch Alliance, Flood Great Shaman recovered his sight but remained plagued by unstable power and grew furious over his entanglement with Zuo Xiaoduo, whom he had once accepted as his godson.

• Zuo Xiaoduo joked with Grandma Shi about buying groceries and drinking with her, and she told him and Li Chenglong to build a solid foundation.
• Flood Great Shaman recovered his eyes but continued to suffer unpredictable surges and losses of power and fortune.
• Flood Great Shaman blamed Zuo Xiaoduo for the predicament and lamented losing his Life-Bound Ring.
• A fiery-red man explained that Zuo Xiaoduo was replenishing Flood Great Shaman's fortune, but Flood Great Shaman forbade him from mentioning his godson and struck him with a sledgehammer.
• Flood Great Shaman recognized that Zuo Xiaoduo had repaid more fortune than he had taken, but resented that they were now enemies despite the debt he owed him.

Flood Great Shaman struggled with the karmic debt tied to his godson and vowed to kill Zuo while sparing the boy. Meanwhile, Hidden Dragon High Martial’s New Student Competition ended with Li Chenglong as runner-up, and the school’s interrogation of five captured Infant Transformation cultivators raised a major problem.

• Flood Great Shaman resented owing Zuo’s family favors and resolved to repay them before severing the karmic bond.
• Flood Great Shaman recalled Liehuo and Bingming laughing at his misfortune, and he had broken Bingming’s bones after Bingming teased him about his godson.
• Flood Great Shaman swore to kill Zuo, but Great Shaman Liehuo pointed out that killing the boy’s birth father would be awkward, so Flood Great Shaman sent Liehuo flying with a hammer.
• Flood Great Shaman’s curses culminated in a hammer blow that sent the Witch Soul Hall into the sky and shattered it.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial’s New Student Competition ended with Li Chenglong taking runner-up while Zuo Xiaoduo continued cultivating and missed the award ceremony.
• Wen Xingtian and the others questioned five captured Infant Transformation cultivators, but they had little hope of discovering the mastermind behind them.

Five captured thugs implicated Qiu Xiaoqian in an attempt to kill Zuo Xiaoduo, prompting Minister Nan to send the Star Shield Department to investigate. The chapter ended with the Central Plains King feeding his trained Three-Winged Star Spirit Fish as his steward brought him a ringing phone.

• Three of the five captured thugs identified Qiu Xiaoqian as the one who ordered them to kill Zuo Xiaoduo, while the others confessed to past crimes committed for him.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian reported the lead to Minister Nan, who ordered Hidden Dragon High Martial to stay out of the case and said the Star Shield Department would handle it.
• Minister Nan insisted Qiu Xiaoqian would not have fled and emphasized that the five thugs must be kept alive.
• At the Central Plains King's Manor, the Central Plains King fed Star Beast Cores to his Three-Winged Star Spirit Fish.
• The steward brought the Central Plains King his ringing phone.

The Central Plains King was forced by Nan Zhengqian to produce Qiu Xiaoqian alive and unharmed for the Star Shield Bureau. After Qiu Xiaoqian was brought back and healed, Jiang Wenzhou led the bureau to collect him from the manor.

• Minister Nan warned the Central Plains King that Qiu Xiaoqian was suspected of plotting to seize Hidden Dragon High Martial and demanded he be handed over alive and unharmed before six.
• The steward reported that Qiu Xiaoqian had disappeared, so the Central Plains King sent over a thousand people to search for him and ordered the steward to bring him back intact.
• The Central Plains King slapped his consort twice and warned her that he would hand her over if her brother was not delivered unharmed.
• Qiu Xiaoqian was escorted back to the manor at four thirty and had fully healed by five.
• At five fifty-nine, Jiang Wenzhou and Star Shield Bureau experts arrived, and the Central Plains King let them take Qiu Xiaoqian away.

Jiang Wenzhou carefully arrived at five fifty-nine to take the Central Plains King away without offending either side. As the New Student Competition ended, Class One’s students spread stories of Zuo Xiaoduo’s uncanny fortune-telling, leaving students across the school impressed by his predictions.

• Jiang Wenzhou arrived at five fifty-nine to take the Central Plains King, observing Minister Nan’s deadline while avoiding giving the king grounds to complain.
• Li Chenglong ordered Class One to promote Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune-telling, and the students shared stories about his advice during the Trial Grounds.
• Class One’s students convinced themselves that Zuo Xiaoduo’s predictions had guided their classmates to better results and helped Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing survive an ambush.
• Other students questioned Xiang Chong, Xiang Bing, and Meng Changjun, who confirmed that Zuo Xiaoduo had predicted events and that his advice helped them.

Li Chenglong exploited Zuo Xiaoduo’s growing fortune-telling fame by arranging paid appointments, and Xiang Chong secured an early spot for a fee. On the way home, Xiang Bing scolded her brother for acting as a shill, while Xiang Chong defended the scheme as a way to obtain resources.

• Li Chenglong warned students that Zuo Xiaoduo would not read fortunes for just anyone and told them to register appointments through him.
• Xiang Chong offered Li Chenglong fifty upper-grade pieces to arrange a reading before the next trial, and Li Chenglong accepted the payment and promised him a place at the front of the line.
• Two students from Class Two saw the exchange and hurried after Li Chenglong.
• On the way home, Xiang Bing accused Xiang Chong of acting as a shill after seeing Li Chenglong give him fifty-two upper-grade pieces.
• Xiang Chong explained that he wanted another source of resources because their family supplies and school credits were insufficient.

Xiang Chong struggled to get Xiang Bing to accept a share of his commission, while Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong negotiated a cut for the customers Li Chenglong had brought him. The chapter ended with Zuo Xiaoduo realizing Li Chenglong had promoted his services before they agreed on payment and angrily vowing to get even.

• Xiang Bing refused to seek a commission from Li Chenglong and left after Xiang Chong agreed to give her half of his earnings.
• Zuo Xiaoduo left the Gravity Room with Li Chenglong, then hurriedly put on his shirt after a teacher called him out over the school loudspeakers.
• Li Chenglong demanded a commission for the customers he had recruited, and he and Zuo Xiaoduo bargained until they settled on five percent.
• Zuo Xiaoduo carefully checked and signed Li Chenglong's prepared agreement, which required them to settle each transaction separately.
• Li Chenglong explained that he had already promoted Zuo Xiaoduo's services, and Zuo Xiaoduo realized he could have kept all the earnings if he had negotiated sooner.
• Zuo Xiaoduo angrily threatened to remember the deal and get even with Li Chenglong.

Li Chenglong asked Zuo Xiaoduo to use his fortune-reading ability to warn Hidden Dragon High Martial’s seniors before they went to battle, hoping to reduce the school’s heavy losses. Zuo Xiaoduo explained that physiognomy could reveal approaching danger by reading signs of weakening fortune, but the chapter ended before he said how much he could do to help.

• Li Chenglong urged Zuo Xiaoduo to read the seniors’ destinies and warn them of danger before they went to the battlefield.
• Li Chenglong described the school’s fallen students and the records teachers visited in the school history hall.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Li Chenglong that his readings would not work like a protective talisman because Li Chenglong misunderstood the nature of physiognomy, fortune, and fate.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that fortune could decline to a low point and that, for martial artists, fortune could affect life and death.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said physiognomy could use facial features and weakening fortune to detect approaching crises and warn people to avoid them.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained to Li Chenglong how fortune-reading and changing a person’s fate could transfer or delay calamity rather than erase it. He left Li Chenglong considering whether Hidden Dragon High Martial’s remaining misfortune could fall on anyone connected to the school, including its hidden enemies.

• Zuo Xiaoduo distinguished between foretelling danger and giving precise instructions to avoid it, explaining that guidance could make the guide share the person’s karma.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Li Chenglong that calamity might be delayed or redirected, and that fortune-reading practitioners could suffer backlash for revealing too much.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that strong fortune could keep misfortune from falling on someone while putting people close to them at risk.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said Hidden Dragon High Martial’s fortune had helped Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing survive, but its misfortune might still need to manifest through someone at the school.
• Li Chenglong asked whether Vice Principal Wei, Vice Principal Wu, and people hiding within Hidden Dragon High Martial counted as members of the school.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained to Li Chenglong that he would only warn people who sought his guidance themselves, then Little Dragon brought him more earth vein qi and earned a promise of a drop once he assembled a complete vein.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Li Chenglong that people had to believe him and seek his advice willingly before his warnings could help them.
• Grandma Shi called Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to dinner, and they raced outside.
• Little Dragon visited Zuo Xiaoduo in his sleep and offered him earth vein qi, claiming it was half a vein.
• Zuo Xiaoduo caught Little Dragon’s attempt to exaggerate the amount, but accepted the qi and promised him a drop after he brought a complete earth vein.
• Little Dragon gratefully praised Zuo Xiaoduo, who warned him not to try such dishonest tricks again.

Zuo Xiaoduo encouraged Little Dragon to gather Earth Vein Qi from several veins, then planned to study how earth veins could be combined. At school, Xiang Chong paid him fifty pieces of upper-grade star soul jade for a reading, and Zuo asked him to write a character.

• Zuo Xiaoduo advised Little Dragon to take small portions of Earth Vein Qi from multiple earth veins instead of draining one dry.
• Little Dragon left eagerly to gather more Earth Vein Qi, while Zuo Xiaoduo imagined combining many veins and growing spirit medicines in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo searched his knowledge for information about merging earth veins and decided to visit Hidden Dragon High Martial's library.
• Xiang Chong stopped Zuo Xiaoduo at the school entrance and gave him fifty pieces of upper-grade star soul jade.
• Zuo Xiaoduo accepted the jade and asked Xiang Chong to write a character for him to read, and Xiang Chong wrote the character for affection.