Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo warned Xiang Chong that he faced a romantic calamity and advised him not to fall in love before reaching Guixuan. He then examined Gui Xiaocheng’s recurring dream and revealed that it pointed to a crisis in Gui Xiaocheng’s lineage, leaving Gui Xiaocheng startled by how accurately Zuo Xiaoduo described the situation.

• Zuo Xiaoduo read Xiang Chong’s character for love and warned him of rouge baleful intent, advising him to avoid romance until he reached Guixuan.
• Xiang Bing memorized Zuo Xiaoduo’s warning because she trusted his predictions and worried about her brother.
• Gui Xiaocheng paid Zuo Xiaoduo fifty pieces of upper-grade star soul jade and asked about his repeated dreams of his home’s wall collapsing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sensed that Gui Xiaocheng’s lineage faced a looming crisis and said he would expect greater payment if it was resolved.
• Zuo Xiaoduo inferred that Gui Xiaocheng’s lineage depended on another lineage whose important patron was about to leave, and Gui Xiaocheng was shocked by his accuracy.

Zuo Xiaoduo gave Gui Xiaocheng advice to protect his family from disaster, then resumed fortune-telling and earned a crowd of paying customers. Meanwhile, Class Three studied recordings of his battles and analyzed his growing strength and adaptable techniques.

• Zuo Xiaoduo advised Gui Xiaocheng to place a Sun Moon Pass Front Stone in the southwest corner of his courtyard and warned him that his family must never waver again.
• Li Chenglong organized a queue and collected fortune-telling fees as more students rushed to sign up.
• Zuo Xiaoduo earned two hundred and fifty pieces of upper-grade star soul jade before class and planned to read fortunes for up to twenty people a day.
• Zuo Xiaoduo wondered why Class Three had not challenged him for a table.
• Class Three's homeroom teacher led the students through three days of battle footage, pointing out Zuo Xiaoduo's increasing strength and varied combat methods.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Qu Xiangren with one sword strike, convincing him and Class Three that the gap between them was overwhelming. With Class Two also conceding, anticipation shifted to whether second-year Class One could stop Zuo Xiaoduo’s run.

• Qu Xiangren decided to challenge Zuo Xiaoduo despite his classmates’ warnings, and his friends promised to stand with him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sent Qu Xiangren thirty meters back with a single sword strike, and Qu Xiangren conceded defeat.
• Qu Xiangren realized Zuo Xiaoduo had mastered the realm of lifting the light as though it were heavy and expressed complete respect.
• Second-year Class Two conceded after learning of Qu Xiangren’s defeat, while students across the second year looked ahead to Class One’s fight.

Tang Qianshou volunteered to challenge Zuo Xiaoduo in hidden weapons and studied the mystery behind Zuo’s technique. Meanwhile, Grandma Shi began teaching Zuo and his classmates through afternoon storytelling, and life at Hidden Dragon High Martial remained peaceful and orderly.

• Tang Qianshou offered to compete with Zuo Xiaoduo in hidden weapons and asked for copies of Zuo’s match videos to study.
• Tang Qianshou concluded that Zuo had activated the hidden weapons during his fight with Xiang Chong using a technique he could not yet understand.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued his routine of school, fortune-telling, Gravity Room training, and hammer practice in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Grandma Shi to tell stories, and Xiang Chong, Xiang Bing, Zhen Piaopiao, Yu Yan'er, Meng Changjun, Hao Han, and others joined the afternoon gatherings.
• Grandma Shi began preparing lessons and teaching the students so they would be better equipped to survive future battles.

The Gao Lineage head visited White Cloud Pavilion for guidance after Minister Nan rebuked him. White Cloud Pavilion said the Gao Lineage’s Fortune Eye had been blocked and warned him never to harm others.

• The narration described White Cloud Pavilion’s reputation and his past interventions that helped the Fu, Kong, and Gu Lineages rise.
• The Gao Lineage head visited White Cloud Pavilion, unsure what to do after being berated by Minister Nan.
• White Cloud Pavilion said the Gao Lineage’s Fortune Eye had been blocked and there was nothing to be done about it.
• White Cloud Pavilion warned the Gao Lineage head never to harm others.

White Cloud Pavilion told the Gao Lineage head that his lineage was doomed to fall, then gave him a walnut as an obscure parting message. On the way home, the head began to suspect the walnut held a clue and returned to a fruit stall to investigate.

• White Cloud Pavilion warned the Gao Lineage head that the Gao Lineage's fortune had run out and that its members would die over the next five months.
• After the head pleaded for help, White Cloud Pavilion gave him a walnut, ended their relationship, and refused to explain further.
• The Gao Lineage head left with the walnut and traveled home in disguise, wondering what White Cloud Pavilion meant.
• The head suddenly ordered his taxi to stop, got out, and ran back toward an intersection where a fruit stall was selling walnuts.

The Gao family head asked a fruit vendor how to eat walnuts and took the vendor’s answer as a revelation, rewarding him with a fortune. In the taxi afterward, he interpreted Master Bai’s walnut as a hint that the Gao Lineage should use force to break through obstacles and obtain its desired benefits.

• The Gao family head asked a walnut vendor whether the walnuts were walnuts and how they should be eaten, confusing the vendor and the customers.
• The vendor told the Gao family head to crack the walnuts open, and he suddenly realized how to eat them.
• The Gao family head thanked the vendor by tossing him tens of thousands of Star Origin Coins and left without buying walnuts.
• The stunned vendor offered the fruit for free, then ran off with the money.
• In the taxi, the Gao family head decided Master Bai’s walnut was a reminder that the Gao Lineage needed to break through its obstacles with force.

The Gao patriarch decided that the Gao Lineage should use overwhelming force against Zuo Xiaoduo, while a young man was warned not to go to Fenghai and seek answers about his defeat. Zuo Xiaoduo remained in Fenghai as his elders worried that their enemies were holding back because he could spot and counter their schemes.

• The Gao patriarch gave his granddaughter a walnut and watched her crack it with a mallet, then laughed as he embraced the idea of the Gao Lineage acting like a sledgehammer.
• The heads of the Capital City's Wu Lineage and the Wei Family visited White Cloud Purple Reed and left without anyone knowing what they had taken away.
• A thin young man asked his Martial Uncle to let him go to Fenghai to investigate his defeat by Zuo Xiaoduo and Fang Yinuo, but his Martial Uncle warned that he would die if he went.
• The Martial Uncle told the young man to abandon the identity of Meng Chentian, settle in Upper Capital, and let others deal with Zuo Xiaoduo for now.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued stirring up trouble online while Ye Changqing and the others worried that their enemies were avoiding action because Zuo Xiaoduo would see through their plans and trap them.

Ye Changqing, Wen Xingtian, and Xiang Kuangren worried that powerful enemies might target Zuo Xiaoduo, while Zuo’s accurate readings made him famous across Hidden Dragon High Martial. His rising fame brought a line of students seeking predictions, many of them asking about romance.

• Ye Changqing, Wen Xingtian, and Xiang Kuangren discussed the threat to Zuo Xiaoduo and feared an attack by powerful enemies or people from their own side.
• Ye Changqing said Minister Nan was pushing forward in Capital City but seemed unconcerned about Zuo Xiaoduo’s danger.
• After Zuo Xiaoduo’s predictions came true, Gui Xiaocheng brought him two thousand pieces of upper-grade star soul jade, and Zuo’s reputation as a divine physiognomist spread across campus.
• Zuo Xiaoduo raised the price of his readings from fifty to five hundred as dozens of students queued each day, many hoping to learn about their romantic prospects.
• A girl asked Zuo Xiaoduo whether she had a chance with Song Yusheng, but he refused to answer questions involving other people.

Zhan Xuejun confronted Zuo Xiaoduo and Xiang Chong, declaring Xiang Chong her chosen fiancé and challenging him to become stronger than her. Xiang Chong accepted, and they agreed to revisit the engagement after he met her conditions, while Zuo Xiaoduo recognized the danger in her fate.

• Zhan Xuejun arrived and told Zuo Xiaoduo that her lineage had chosen Xiang Chong as her fiancé.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw deadly signs surrounding Zhan Xuejun and realized she was the calamity tied to Xiang Chong’s fate.
• Zhan Xuejun demanded to know whether Xiang Chong dared to marry her, and Xiang Chong enthusiastically agreed.
• Zhan Xuejun said Xiang Chong had to defeat her, surpass her in battlefield kills, rank, and military merits before he qualified.
• Xiang Chong boasted that he would eventually beat her and carry her home, then mistakenly described his family tradition as beating wives on their wedding night.
• Zuo Xiaoduo corrected Xiang Chong’s misunderstanding, and Zhan Xuejun blushed before leaving with her spear.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that the Xiang Family had arranged Xiang Chong’s engagement to Zhan Xuejun after misinterpreting his warning, and he feared their relationship was tied to a dangerous calamity. The chapter left Xiang Chong infatuated with Zhan Xuejun while Zuo Xiaoduo tried to stay out of their fate and argued over dividing the spoils.

• Xiang Bing explained that the Xiang Family had arranged Xiang Chong and Zhan Xuejun’s engagement to prevent him from choosing his own romance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized the Xiang Family had misunderstood his prediction and worried that Xiang Chong and Zhan Xuejun’s fate involved a heaven-and-earth calamity.
• Zuo Xiaoduo decided not to interfere, fearing the calamity could consume him and leave Zuo Xiaonian alone.
• Xiang Chong joked about Zhan Xuejun’s spear after watching her leave, and Li Chenglong understood the suggestive remark.
• Zuo Xiaoduo, Xiang Chong, and Li Chenglong argued over their spoils on the way home, with Zuo Xiaoduo insisting Li Chenglong’s share was only five percent.

Li Chenglong and Xiang Chong divided the bribes, while Xiang Bing left in anger after Li Chenglong declared he never wanted a wife. That evening, Grandma Shi taught Zuo Xiaoduo and the others how to survive when a blade could no longer be dodged.

• Li Chenglong split fourteen hundred and sixty in extra perks with Xiang Chong, who gave Xiang Bing three hundred.
• Xiang Bing asked Li Chenglong whether he would favor a future wife, then dragged Xiang Chong away after Li Chenglong praised staying single.
• Li Chenglong reminded Zuo Xiaoduo to check on the Marshal Zuo Company and proposed sparring with him that night.
• Zuo Xiaoduo insisted that he had a wife who was the most beautiful woman in the world, but Li Chenglong laughed and did not believe him.
• Grandma Shi demonstrated emergency techniques for surviving an unavoidable sword strike and told the students to remember them.
• Grandma Shi explained that clenching the teeth or swallowing could shift the throat enough to help avoid a fatal wound.

Grandma Shi taught Zuo Xiaoduo, Li Chenglong, and the other children how conviction and quick thinking could keep them alive against stronger opponents. As online attention around Hidden Dragon High Martial continued to build, a first-person account of a tragic romance between a martial artist and an ordinary woman began spreading.

• Grandma Shi taught the children life-preserving methods and urged them to hold on to the belief that they could survive.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian recalled surviving the Flood Great Shaman's hammer because they refused to give up, while General Fu died after accepting his fate.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing discussed Zuo Xiaoduo's Hammer Technique and the Flame Sun True Scripture he had inherited.
• Online attention around Hidden Dragon High Martial spread toward Vice Principal Shi through a carefully staged campaign.
• A first-person post about a martial artist and an ordinary woman whose love ended in tragedy began circulating online.

Marshal Zuo Company's promoters turned the debate over martial artists and ordinary people into a public reckoning over Vice Principal Shi, whose past accomplishments and the ordinary status of the woman involved convinced the public that he had been falsely accused. The public then turned its anger toward those who had promoted the old accusation, demanding that they be investigated and exposed.

• Marshal Zuo Company's promoters drove a discussion about martial artists and ordinary people across the internet and beyond.
• Netizens circulated accounts of Vice Principal Shi's military service, martial arts, teaching, and extraordinary feats.
• People uncovered the woman's identity and background, establishing that she had been an ordinary person rather than a martial artist.
• Netizens concluded that Vice Principal Shi had been falsely accused and began defending his reputation.
• The public accused the old slanderers and called for investigations and doxxing to settle the score.

Dongfang Zhengyang launched a public campaign to clear Vice Principal Shi’s name, prompting a sweeping investigation and mass apologies for the online abuse that drove Shi Yunfeng to his death. The public demanded that those who participated face consequences beyond apologizing.

• Dongfang Zhengyang published a signed and sealed post calling for justice for Vice Principal Shi and asked people to gather their old posts as evidence.
• The public flooded the site with accusations and demands for apologies, while official bureaus arrested instigators and shut down involved internet companies.
• More than fifty thousand people were arrested, and over ten million people posted apologies beneath a tribute to Vice Principal Shi and his final letter.
• People condemned the public’s role in the smear campaign and questioned whether apologies alone could make those who joined in pay for their actions.

Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students and staff watched the state punish people who had joined the online abuse and saw more than fifty million people apologize to Principal Shi. Although the school celebrated his exoneration, they worried that the masterminds behind the campaign would remain beyond the law’s reach.

• The state deducted personal credit points from people who had hurled abuse online, recorded their actions, and issued reminders that the internet was subject to the law.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students rushed online to support the school as the public tide turned toward demanding justice for Vice Principal Shi.
• Students and staff saw more than fifty million people apologize and recalled how overwhelming the original online attack had been.
• Faculty and staff discussed the arrests overseen by Minister Nan and doubted that investigators could identify the masterminds after more than twenty years.

After Shi Yunfeng’s name was cleared, students at Hidden Dragon High Martial were provoked into demanding practical support for his widow, Teacher Yu. Marshal Dongfang and major institutions then announced a monument and lavish film projects honoring Shi Yunfeng, leaving the public caught up in a wave of commemorations.

• Jingjing Cat and other users accused Hidden Dragon High Martial of failing to do enough for Shi Yunfeng and Teacher Yu, provoking angry replies from teachers and students.
• Li Chenglong and other students urged Hidden Dragon High Martial to take practical action, and the school launched a discussion about how to help Teacher Yu.
• Online users called for Shi Yunfeng to be remembered through monuments, biographies, and screen adaptations.
• Marshal Dongfang announced that a hundred-foot statue and a monument to Shi Yunfeng would be erected in the Martyrs' Cemetery at Sun Moon Pass.
• Zuo Shuai Film and Television announced a biography, a sixty-episode television drama, and seven films about Shi Yunfeng, securing five billion Star Origin Coins in funding.
• Marshal Dongfang, Principal Ye Changqing, the Dongfang Legion, and Hidden Dragon High Martial joined the film projects, while biographies of Shi Yunfeng spread across the internet.

Public campaigns cleared Principal Shi Yunfeng’s name and renewed respect for fallen heroes, while Grandma Shi began recovering her resolve and vowed to pursue those responsible. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong watched their campaign reshape public opinion as the government promoted realistic accounts of the border war.

• Ye Changqing, Wen Xingtian, and others visited Grandma Shi, but she refused to return to teaching and said her heart was dead.
• Grandma Shi wiped Shi Yunfeng’s Golden Sword and vowed to find the hand behind the injustice before joining him in death.
• Minister Nan, Marshal Dongfang, Marshal Zuo Company, and others guided online discussion toward stories of fallen heroes and the realities of war.
• Marshal Dongfang ordered that unrealistic films depicting one person single-handedly defeating the Witch Alliance’s great leaders never be shown again.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong took pride in the campaign’s success, though Li Chenglong wondered whether the shift in public sentiment had come too easily.

Zuo Xiaoduo complained that his company would receive only ten percent of the profits from a major film and television venture, then asked Fang Yinuo to help him set up a company to profit more from the creatures he hunted. The chapter ended as Hidden Dragon High Martial began its second trial.

• Zuo Xiaoduo learned that the Marshal Zuo Company would receive a ten-percent share of the film and television venture without investing money, but he remained dissatisfied with the deal.
• Li Chenglong refused to listen as Zuo Xiaoduo complained about lost profits and asked him to repay a debt.
• Several days later, Hidden Dragon High Martial began its second trial.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Fang Yinuo to help establish a company after realizing that buyers earned far more from the snakeskins he sold than he had from the snakes.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s wealth and cultivation grew rapidly, but his teachers worried that his progress was inexplicably fast. Wen Xingtian suspected Li Chenglong had an Ice Nightmare Soul constitution after learning that he used to cultivate pressed against Zuo Xiaoduo to absorb his cold energy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo learned Fang Yinuo could not help him start a new company, scolded him, and went out for trials disappointed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Fortune Points rose from twenty-four to eighty-eight, and his cultivation advanced to the middle stage of the Embryonic Breath Realm.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian worried that Zuo Xiaoduo was advancing too quickly and planned to examine his Dantian again.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed how Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong avoided medicinal pills, noting that Li Chenglong’s cultivation speed seemed normal for his constitution.
• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Li Chenglong insisted on cultivating back-to-back with Zuo Xiaoduo, who said the cold energy in Li Chenglong’s body had long since melted away.

Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Li Chenglong’s mysterious cold energy had been expelled through practicing with Zuo Xiaoduo, revealing signs that Li Chenglong might possess the Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution. Ye Changqing realized both students were extraordinary, but learned they had already gone out on a trial.

• Wen Xingtian explained how Li Chenglong had repeatedly practiced with Zuo Xiaoduo to make sure no cold energy remained inside him.
• Wen Xingtian reported Li Chenglong’s rapid cultivation and the ongoing transformation of his Star Soul, leading him to suspect Li Chenglong had the Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution.
• Ye Changqing warned Wen Xingtian to keep the possibility secret, then reacted with alarm at the prospect of Li Chenglong becoming a peerless powerhouse.
• Wen Xingtian reminded Ye Changqing that Zuo Xiaoduo was even more gifted in most respects, and Ye Changqing asked where the two students were.
• Wen Xingtian said Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong had gone out on a trial, and argued that geniuses still needed to face danger and hardship.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed the extensive secret safeguards arranged for the students’ trial, and Ye Changqing decided to go east of the city to check on them himself. Zuo Xiaoduo found the trial an easy way to earn points but obeyed Wen Xingtian’s warning not to enter areas above Infant Transformation.

• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed how sects secretly protected young geniuses during trials and arranged their apparent chance encounters.
• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Xiang Kuangren, Vice Principal Zhan, Vice Principal Gao, and Shi Family Sister-in-Law were already watching the trial.
• Ye Changqing announced he would go east of the city for a stroll, despite Wen Xingtian teasing him for wanting to act as a nanny.
• Zuo Xiaoduo treated the trial as an effortless point-farming trip and remembered Wen Xingtian’s warning to stay out of areas above Infant Transformation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo considered testing the restriction but ultimately did not dare.

During the trial, Zuo Xiaoduo secretly fed Star Beast blood to the Dragon Blood Flying Knife until it overflowed, then showed off with his sword and kicked at a falling meteor. His kick failed to break the meteor, and he ended the chapter hopping in pain while Xiang Bing and Zhen Piaopiao laughed and left.

• Zuo Xiaoduo drained Star Beasts to feed the Dragon Blood Flying Knife until it became overfull and spilled Spiritual Qi, then absorbed the excess for four hours.
• Zuo Xiaoduo strode through the trial with the Spirit Cat Sword and sang a crude poem, prompting Zhen Piaopiao, Xiang Bing, and the others to move away.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sped through the trial, collecting Star Beasts and kicking apart falling meteors to impress the watching girls.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kicked a meteor that did not break and hurt his shin, while Xiang Bing and Zhen Piaopiao laughed and hurried away.

After a meteor broke Zuo Xiaoduo’s shin and burned his hand, he investigated the scorching boulder and discovered it could evaporate a stream on contact. The spreading vapor drew the attention of nearby people, who headed over to investigate.

• Zuo Xiaoduo treated his broken shin and examined the meteor that had injured him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo pulled the flaming boulder from its crater, burned his hand, and realized it was unusually hot.
• Zuo Xiaoduo used the Spirit Cat Sword to roll the boulder into a nearby stream.
• The boulder evaporated the stream water and filled the area with thick vapor.
• People nearby noticed the fog and went to investigate.

Zuo Xiaoduo captured a blazing meteorite that strengthened his Flame Sun True Scripture, then was ordered to leave the trial early and brought the stone home for Grandma Shi to examine. Grandma Shi saw the stone’s intense heat, but its nature remained unknown.

• Zuo Xiaoduo stored the strange meteorite in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, where its heat withered his Spirit Fruit saplings and helped his Flame Sun True Scripture grow more profound.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued the trial and amassed gains far beyond the runner-up despite his earlier injury.
• Xiang Kuangren ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to leave early after noticing he was heading toward the Thunderbolt White Tigers’ territory.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to the villa and asked Grandma Shi to examine the meteorite.
• Zuo Xiaoduo placed the stone on a Star Iron rack, and its heat rapidly raised the courtyard’s temperature.