Recaps

Grandma Shi identified the meteorite Zuo Xiaoduo found as a Blazing Sun Heart, a rare treasure exceptionally suited to his Flame Sun True Scripture. She also explained why specialized cultivation techniques did not advance in step with ordinary cultivation realms, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo with a clearer understanding of attribute-based physiques and their power.

• Grandma Shi sealed Zuo Villa against the Blazing Sun Heart's heat and identified the treasure as rarer and more valuable than ordinary Top-Grade Star Soul Jade.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether the Blazing Sun Heart could help Ye Changqing, and Grandma Shi warned that its intense fire energy would kill him.
• Grandma Shi explained that the Blazing Sun Heart could greatly aid Zuo Xiaoduo because he practiced the heaven-grade Flame Sun True Scripture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked why his technique remained at its first level despite his growth in cultivation, and Grandma Shi explained that ordinary star yuan qi cultivation suited most physiques while exclusive techniques required specialized ones.
• Grandma Shi described how the Twelve Great Witches used their distinct attributes to command floods, flames, space, and ice, giving them advantages even against higher-level opponents.

Grandma Shi explained how attribute cultivation techniques advanced according to talent and attribute power, then taught Zuo Xiaoduo to believe in fate without submitting to it. The chapter left him storing the Blazing Sun Heart and learning that information about similar treasures in the Star Soul Empire had been sealed.

• Grandma Shi explained that specialized cultivation techniques advanced according to their attribute requirements and would not automatically match a practitioner's existing realm.
• Grandma Shi told Zuo Xiaoduo that his Flame Sun True Scripture was exceptionally rare and that talent, fate, luck, and opportunity shaped who could cultivate it.
• Grandma Shi urged Zuo Xiaoduo to contend against his circumstances rather than submit to fate, and her words gave him new insights into his cultivation and Qi-Observing Art.
• Grandma Shi instructed Zuo Xiaoduo to absorb the Blazing Sun Heart's heat first, then gradually absorb the Blazing Sun Soul after it stopped releasing heat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stored the Blazing Sun Heart in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and asked whether similar treasures had fallen on Star Soul Continent.
• Grandma Shi said some Blazing Sun Hearts had fallen within the Star Soul Empire, but the information had been sealed.

Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated with the Blazing Sun Heart inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, absorbing its heat until he emerged completely burned of his hair and clothes. He was left mortified when Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian witnessed his naked exit.

• Grandma Shi explained that rare Star Soul Stones could cause immense natural phenomena, but their awakened forms became impossible to find.
• Zuo Xiaoduo wondered whether one of the stones lay beneath the glaciers, then secretly hoped he could find one for Nian Nian Cat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated with the Blazing Sun Heart’s heat inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, rapidly strengthening his Flame Sun True Scripture as the space grew scorching hot.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Annihilation Sky Pagoda naked, with his clothes, hair, and body hair burned away.
• Zuo Xiaoduo screamed and called Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian perverts after finding them staring at him.

Zuo Xiaoduo woke up hairless after cultivating with the Blazing Sun Heart, and Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing sent him back into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to continue. By early morning, he had adapted to its heat and kept absorbing the Blazing Sun Heart’s energy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that his hair had vanished and complained about his appearance to Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he had used the Blazing Sun Heart to cultivate the Flame Sun True Scripture, and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian told him to resume cultivating after a short rest.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing left, urging Zuo Xiaoduo to return to cultivation and remember school the next morning.
• Zuo Xiaoduo prepared water, wrapped himself in clothes, and reentered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate.
• By about four thirty in the morning, Zuo Xiaoduo had adapted to the heat, drunk more than thirty barrels of water, and continued absorbing the Blazing Sun Heart’s heat and Spiritual Qi.

Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda until his meridians were overtaxed, then fell asleep to recover. In his dream, Little Dragon excitedly asked to live near the red, hot treasure, but Zuo Xiaoduo refused and grew suspicious of his agreeable response.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pushed his cultivation until his Dantian felt swollen and his meridians strained, then left the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and collapsed into deep sleep.
• Little Dragon appeared in Zuo Xiaoduo's dream and excitedly asked how he had obtained some red, hot treasure.
• Zuo Xiaoduo declared the treasure his and refused to let Little Dragon move in near it.
• Little Dragon accepted the refusal without protest, making Zuo Xiaoduo suspect he was scheming.

Little Dragon moved the remaining third of the earth vein into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after Zuo Xiaoduo paid him a Fortune Point. Zuo Xiaoduo slept through the morning, forgetting Wen Xingtian had told him to come to school early, and woke thinking about getting fire silkworm clothing.

• Little Dragon warned Zuo Xiaoduo that the complete earth vein would need much more powder to form properly, but Zuo Xiaoduo told him to move it in anyway.
• Little Dragon demanded the Fortune Point Zuo Xiaoduo had promised, and Zuo Xiaoduo gave him one.
• Little Dragon swallowed the Fortune Point and moved the earth vein into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda while moaning in pleasure.
• Zuo Xiaoduo slept through Li Chenglong's calls, and Li Chenglong left for school after glimpsing him through the window.
• Zuo Xiaoduo woke late, showered, and remembered that he needed Fang Yinuo to help him obtain fire silkworm clothing.

Zuo Xiaoduo inspected the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after Little Dragon shaped an earth vein into a dragon-like ridge, then gathered more star soul jade powder for its construction. The pagoda’s space seemed to have grown, while Little Dragon secretly reveled in the Blazing Sun Heart.

• Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, endured its scorching heat, and cultivated with the Flame Sun True Scripture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that the new earth vein resembled Little Dragon and found Little Dragon’s request for more powder written on the ground.
• Zuo Xiaoduo left the pagoda, and Little Dragon’s phantom emerged to embrace the Blazing Sun Heart.
• Zuo Xiaoduo visited Boss Sun and absorbed more than a hundred cartloads of star soul jade powder, then urged Boss Sun to collect more.

Zuo Xiaoduo expanded his star soul jade powder collection business with Boss Sun, then arrived late at school and faced his classmates’ reaction to his completely shaved body. He left the class laughing after claiming his hairless look was a combat precaution.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Boss Sun to collect star soul jade powder directly from dumpers, offered to pay by the truckload, and advised him to expand the storage yard.
• Zuo Xiaoduo arrived at school around noon and apologized to an angry Wen Xingtian for ignoring his instruction to come early.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered class with a completely hairless head and face, leaving the students stunned.
• Zuo Xiaoduo claimed he had shaved his hair to prevent enemies from grabbing it in combat and offered to shave his classmates too.
• Zhen Piaopiao and Li Chenglong joked about Zuo Xiaoduo shaving off every bit of body hair, making the class erupt in laughter.

Wen Xingtian told the class that Great Witch Dan Kong had infiltrated Star Soul territory and that Flood Great Shaman’s return signaled a looming war. In the Witch Alliance’s hall, Dan Kong reported back and complained to Great Shaman Liehuo about his mission and the boss’s godson.

• Wen Xingtian announced that Great Witch Dan Kong had entered Star Soul territory, fought the Right Route Heavenly King, and returned to the Witch Alliance after completing his mission.
• Wen Xingtian warned the students that Flood Great Shaman had appeared at Sun Moon Pass and that the border armies were preparing for war.
• Great Witch Dan Kong reported to Flood Great Shaman that his mission had gone smoothly and then withdrew from the hall.
• Great Shaman Liehuo questioned Dan Kong about delivering something and complained that Flood Great Shaman had used his belongings to settle a karmic debt.
• Great Witch Dan Kong complained that repeated missions had left his injuries unhealed, then described the boss’s godson as shameless to Great Shaman Liehuo.

Flood Great Shaman discovered that only a tenth of his karmic debt had been canceled and angrily punished Great Witch Dan Kong for breaking Zuo Xiaoduo’s leg. At Hidden Dragon High Martial, Wen Xingtian reprimanded Zuo Xiaoduo for overtraining, then challenged the rest of the class to match his determination.

• Flood Great Shaman checked his fortune qi and karmic debt, then learned that his growing affection for Zuo Xiaoduo was part of the arrangement.
• Flood Great Shaman overheard Great Witch Dan Kong boasting about breaking Zuo Xiaoduo’s leg and smashed Dan Kong into a tree with a Sledgehammer.
• Wen Xingtian lectured the class about the dangers of overtraining and scolded Zuo Xiaoduo for pushing his cultivation to the point of near collapse.
• Wen Xingtian sent Zuo Xiaoduo to the Gravity Room, then rebuked the class for falling behind him and challenged them to take on stronger students.

Wen Xingtian lectured Class One about cultivating hard while respecting their limits, then led them to combat training. Zuo Xiaoduo discovered his strength had surged in the Gravity Room, and after receiving a challenge from Tang Qianshou, he hurried to the Principal’s Office at Wen Xingtian’s summons.

• Wen Xingtian explained that enduring dangerous cultivation could strengthen willpower and expand meridians, but warned the class to know their limits before leading them to the training field.
• Xiang Chong and Meng Changjun suggested teaming up against Zuo Xiaoduo, while Li Chenglong declared himself Zuo Xiaoduo’s loyal strategist and embraced the class calling him a bei.
• Zuo Xiaoduo found that his strength had increased severalfold after a day and night of cultivation, so he switched to three-thousand-jin weights to keep expending energy.
• Tang Qianshou of Second-Year Class One delivered a formal challenge asking Zuo Xiaoduo to seize a table with him the next day.
• Zuo Xiaoduo received Wen Xingtian’s message to go to the Principal’s Office and left immediately.

Class One began challenging upperclassmen for their tables months earlier than usual, while Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing examined Zuo Xiaoduo to understand his rapid cultivation. They confirmed he was at Embryonic Breathing, but his dantian contained an inexplicable fiery-red bead that left them baffled.

• Li Chenglong proposed that Class One students seize tables from second-years and gang up on anyone who resisted, and Xiang Chong agreed.
• Class One launched its campaign to dominate Hidden Dragon High Martial a month and a half after enrolling, five months earlier than usual.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing ordered Zuo Xiaoduo onto the desk to examine his meridians, dantian, and Star Soul, while he misunderstood their intentions and got beaten.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing found that Zuo Xiaoduo's meridians could not explain his rapid cultivation and discovered a spinning fiery-red bead in his dantian.
• After examining the bead and confirming Zuo Xiaoduo was at Embryonic Breathing, Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing remained bewildered by his unusual dantian.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian tested Zuo Xiaoduo’s cultivation and Star Soul Power in secret, only to discover that his strength defied their instruments. They covered up the extraordinary result and ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to claim he had a ninety-six Star Soul and avoid future testing.

• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian found that Zuo Xiaoduo’s Dantian contained an unusually dense vortex and realized his cultivation had advanced far faster than expected.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian disconnected the test from the higher-ups and secretly checked Zuo Xiaoduo’s Star Soul Power.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Star Soul produced dazzling purple light, sending the tester’s reading past its limit and exploding the machine.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian told Zuo Xiaoduo to say he had a ninety-six Star Soul and never undergo another Star Soul test.

After warning Zuo Xiaoduo to hide his exceptional strength, Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing debated the risks of letting him take missions and grow through combat. Ye Changqing finally agreed, and Zuo Xiaoduo received permission to accept missions, though the teachers remained concerned about his future.

• Wen Xingtian warned Zuo Xiaoduo that revealing how far he stood above others could make powerful people capture and dissect him, and Zuo Xiaoduo promised not to show off.
• After Zuo Xiaoduo left, Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing argued late into the night over whether to let him take missions and face danger.
• Ye Changqing agreed to let Zuo Xiaoduo accept missions after Wen Xingtian argued that his strength would make him dominate the school’s table challenges regardless.
• Zuo Xiaoduo received a secret notice allowing him to accept missions under the same conditions as older students, without special treatment.
• Wen Xingtian argued that Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong needed to grow through real combat, while Ye Changqing worried that risking such rare talents could endanger their futures.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian suspected the Central Plains King of hiding the Qiu family after Qiu Xiaoqian’s arrest, while Zuo Xiaoduo explored school missions and the Nethernet. Wen Xingtian encouraged the students to qualify for missions, and Zuo Xiaoduo and his classmates faced an upcoming milestone.

• Ye Changqing told Wen Xingtian that the Qiu family was implicated in a plot against Hidden Dragon High Martial and suspected the Central Plains King had hidden them.
• Zuo Xiaoduo studied school missions, then accessed the Nethernet and registered as “Cat Really Smells Good.”
• Wen Xingtian told the class that Zuo Xiaoduo was the earliest first-year student to have his restrictions lifted and was exempt from the mission examination.
• Li Chenglong, Xiang Chong, Xiang Bing, and the other students resolved to work toward qualifying for missions.
• Wen Xingtian indicated that Zuo Xiaoduo, Li Chenglong, and thirteen other classmates would soon face another major milestone.

Zuo Xiaoduo headed to the Dining Hall for his scheduled contest with Second-Year Class One, drawing attention with his newly shaved, gleaming head. The chapter left him exchanging formal greetings with Tang Qianshou before their confrontation began.

• Zuo Xiaoduo refused to handle the movie arrangements, and Li Chenglong followed him toward the Dining Hall.
• The twenty-nine members of Second-Year Class One gathered to watch Tang Qianshou's contest, with the top ten absent.
• Zuo Xiaoduo arrived with his head, eyebrows, eyelashes, and body hair shaved, startling the students and prompting cheers and laughter.
• Zuo Xiaoduo joked with the crowd, who joined in reciting his familiar appeal for support.
• Tang Qianshou stepped forward and saluted Zuo Xiaoduo, who returned the salute and protested that the formality had caught him off guard.

Zuo Xiaoduo agreed to settle his contest with Tang Qianshou through a hidden-weapons duel. Tang Qianshou recognized Zuo Xiaoduo’s exceptionally rare, naturally gifted hands, and the chapter ended with the onlookers amazed by his independent finger control.

• Tang Qianshou challenged Zuo Xiaoduo to a hidden-weapons duel, and Zuo Xiaoduo accepted the rules.
• Tang Qianshou inspected Zuo Xiaoduo’s hands and explained that their finger shape was an exceptional hidden-weapons talent by his family’s standards.
• Tang Qianshou became so fascinated with Zuo Xiaoduo’s hands that Zuo Xiaoduo pulled his hand away, drawing laughter from the crowd.
• Tang Qianshou asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo could move a ring finger independently, and Zuo Xiaoduo demonstrated that he could.
• The onlookers tried to copy Zuo Xiaoduo’s finger movement but found they could not do it without moving their other fingers.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Tang Qianshou in a one-move hidden-weapons contest by striking the sole of Tang’s shoe with a Jade Gourd after its seemingly spent trajectory bounced back. Tang asked how Zuo controlled the weapon so precisely, and Zuo explained that it took extensive practice and predicting an opponent’s movements.

• Tang Qianshou asked Zuo Xiaoduo to keep their contest separate from the reputation of his hidden weapons lineage, and they agreed that one undodged attack would decide the match.
• Tang Qianshou explained that his Moon-Chasing Flowing Light Technique would leave him too drained to dodge afterward, so Zuo Xiaoduo took the first attack.
• Zuo Xiaoduo launched a Jade Gourd, which repeatedly changed direction and struck the sole of Tang Qianshou’s shoe as he landed.
• Tang Qianshou admitted that he had failed to dodge, while two teachers explained how the gourd’s pursuit and bounce had trapped him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Tang Qianshou that he had mastered the technique through countless repetitions and explained that the gourd could cause explosive damage if its spirit essence were detonated.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained how jade could carry Spirit Essence in his hidden weapons, giving Tang Qianshou a breakthrough in the Tang family's weapon techniques. Tang then prepared to test a forbidden throwing-knife art against Zuo Xiaoduo.

• Tang Qianshou recognized the Tang family's Bone-Drilling Maggot technique in Zuo Xiaoduo's Little Gourds and asked how he had learned it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo credited his teacher and explained that jade could hold Spirit Essence, allowing hidden weapons to change direction and pursue targets.
• Tang Qianshou realized the insight could transform his Lineage's hidden-weapon research and memorized Zuo Xiaoduo's explanation.
• Tang Qianshou warned that his secret throwing-knife art would drain all his strength and said he would aim for Zuo Xiaoduo's shoulders and legs.
• Zuo Xiaoduo joked that Tang Qianshou had given him time to prepare by revealing his targets.

Zuo Xiaoduo survived Tang Qianshou’s devastating throwing-knife attack with a shoulder wound, while both fighters realized how narrowly the throw had missed its intended target. The chapter left the duel unresolved, with Tang Qianshou’s weapon proving capable of threatening even Zuo Xiaoduo’s life.

• Tang Qianshou threw a tiny knife that pierced Zuo Xiaoduo’s shoulder after Zuo Xiaoduo instinctively dodged.
• The knife punched through four enormous trees before Li Chenglong retrieved it and extinguished the flames in the woods.
• Zuo Xiaoduo recognized that ordinary speed and reactions could not evade Tang Qianshou’s throw, though he could have used his hidden Heavenly Origin Evasion Technique.
• Tang Qianshou realized Zuo Xiaoduo had dodged the intended strike at the hollow of his shoulder, turning a potentially lethal hit into a flesh wound.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang Qianshou tested each other in a fight that ended in a draw, though Tang admitted his sure-kill knife strike had failed. They agreed to exchange knowledge about hidden weapons, while the students reconsidered their power and watched Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang eat together.

• Tang Qianshou's sure-kill knife strike wounded Zuo Xiaoduo but failed to hit its intended target, so Tang judged himself defeated.
• Zuo Xiaoduo called the fight a draw, and Tang accepted the gesture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited Tang Qianshou to discuss hidden weapons, and Tang agreed to trade insights.
• The students reflected on the danger of both fighters' techniques as they headed to the Dining Hall.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang Qianshou ate together and talked animatedly while the Dining Hall remained quiet.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang Qianshou exchanged hidden weapon knowledge and found that their different training backgrounds complemented each other. Tang Qianshou gave Zuo Xiaoduo training devices and books, leaving him with valuable resources to improve his skills.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Tang Qianshou that he had learned hidden weapon techniques from a compendium, and Tang Qianshou recognized it as his family's General Outline of Hidden Weapons.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang Qianshou shared the secrets behind their techniques and learned from each other.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Tang Qianshou for ways to train finger dexterity, and Tang Qianshou demonstrated Finger Cages from the Eighteen Hells Methods.
• Tang Qianshou gave Zuo Xiaoduo ten sets of Finger Cages, totaling a hundred and eighty devices.
• Tang Qianshou lent Zuo Xiaoduo copies of his family's True Explanation of Hidden Weapons and Catalogue of Hidden Weapons Under Heaven to photocopy.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Tang Qianshou discussed the limits of hidden weapons and the possibility of developing a cultivation method that could overcome them. Zuo Xiaoduo then entered the Star Soul Tower trial with eighty-six other students and found himself among wounded survivors surrounded by vastly larger enemy forces.

• Tang Qianshou explained that hidden weapons became less effective at higher cultivation realms because they could not withstand powerful True Essence.
• Zuo Xiaoduo encouraged Tang Qianshou to keep seeking a better cultivation method, and they parted after a long discussion.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong joined the other students at the Star Soul Tower, where Wen Xingtian worried that Zuo Xiaoduo would cause trouble during the trial.
• The eighty-seven students entered the Star Soul Tower together and were transported to a battlefield after a devastating battle.
• Zuo Xiaoduo found himself among a few hundred wounded soldiers whose officers had fallen, while enemies outnumbered them by more than ten to one.

Zuo Xiaoduo took command of five hundred stranded fighters, drew away the enemy troops, and led his group through a gap to safety. With no one knowing their location, he decided they would make their way east toward Sun Moon Pass.

• The fighters asked Zuo Xiaoduo to lead them, and he reluctantly accepted command of the five hundred survivors.
• Zuo Xiaoduo organized the fighters into squads, ordered them to hide in a pit, and went alone to scout.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly broke through Witch Alliance troops and drew the enemies away from the northern route.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned and led all five hundred fighters north through the gap he had opened.
• The group surveyed the unfamiliar terrain, confirmed Sun Moon Pass lay to the east, and followed Zuo Xiaoduo's decision to head east.

Zuo Xiaoduo led his men through the military trial in a chaotic fashion and received the assessment “a complete mess,” while Li Chenglong earned “A Generation’s Military Strategist.” Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian then wondered whether Zuo Xiaoduo might be connected to the powerful Lord Zuo, the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat.

• Zuo Xiaoduo led the surviving 249 men through enemy encirclements and returned to camp as the trial ended.
• The assessors judged Zuo Xiaoduo’s command a complete mess and found no military role suited to him.
• Ye Changqing lamented Zuo Xiaoduo’s poor performance, while Li Chenglong received the highest assessment, “A Generation’s Military Strategist.”
• Wen Xingtian recalled a rumor that Lord Zuo had received the same assessment as Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed whether Zuo Xiaoduo’s surname and the gifts he had received suggested a connection to Lord Zuo.