Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo struggled to withstand Bing Xiao Bing’s relentless swordplay, while the spectators and officials questioned how she could suppress him at the same cultivation level. As he staggered beneath her attacks, he finally called out a move: “Red Sun Golden Sun!”

• Zuo Xiaoduo cycled through numerous sword techniques, but Bing Xiao Bing countered them and kept him on the defensive.
• Li Chenglong, Gao Qiao'er, and the Hidden Dragon High Martial students watched anxiously as Zuo Xiaoduo fought on with his deep reserves.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian doubted Bing Xiao Bing was truly a teenager at the Dan Origin Realm, while Minister Ding recognized her as Great Shaman Bingming.
• Bing Xiao Bing pursued Zuo Xiaoduo as he staggered backward, and he avoided using his unfinished Lifting the Light as Though It Were Heavy and Lifting the Heavy as Though It Were Light swordplay.
• Zuo Xiaoduo roared and shouted, “Red Sun Golden Sun!”

Zuo Xiaoduo unleashed the Red Sun Golden Sun, then fought Great Shaman Bingming amid the steam and storm as the Ice Soul Essence exceeded the contest’s limits. He attacked with the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer, forcing Bingming to unseal his strength, and Bing Xiao Bing was knocked off the platform.

• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Red Sun Golden Sun vaporized Bingming’s ice field and filled the training ground with steam and torrential rain.
• The Ice Soul Essence erupted with excessive cold, and You Dongtian prepared to intervene before the Left Route Heavenly King stopped him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo burst through the mist wielding two enormous hammers and attacked Bingming with the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer.
• Bingming stopped suppressing his cultivation and took several hammer blows as the Ice Soul cried out.
• Bing Xiao Bing flew out of the mist and landed outside the platform among Team Five.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming in their duel, costing Bingming a strand of Ice Soul Essence and his allies ten percent of the material proceeds. After accepting defeat, Bingming heard Zuo Xiaoduo invite him to dinner and offer another gift.

• Great Shaman Bingming admitted defeat after the Ice Soul Essence's seal broke, while the Liehuo Couple and Dan Kong realized they had lost their wager.
• You Dongtian celebrated the victory, and the Left Route Heavenly King and his wife glared at him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kept hammering at empty air and shouting about his sword until the marshals and minister cleared the mist.
• Zuo Xiaoduo bowed to Bingming, praised him as a worthy opponent, and claimed his final sword strike had won by luck.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited Bingming to dinner that night and said he had another gift for him.

After Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming, he invited the gathered experts to dinner and confirmed that no one had exposed his hidden trump card. Marshal Dongfang explained the deaths of the ten fighters to Ye Changqing and urged him to guide the students while dealing firmly with those who refused to accept the truth.

• Zuo Xiaoduo invited Great Shaman Bingming and the other experts to dinner, and Great Shaman Liehuo promised to ensure Zuo received what he had won.
• Minister Ding praised Zuo Xiaoduo's talent, and Zuo Xiaoduo was declared the winner before returning to his team.
• Marshal Dongfang told Ye Changqing that many Hidden Dragon High Martial students remained upset about the deaths of the ten fighters.
• Marshal Dongfang sent Ye Changqing a file explaining the victims' identities and their connection to the Central Plains King, whose faction was being targeted nationwide.
• Ye Changqing agreed to explain the matter to the students, and Marshal Dongfang warned him to act firmly toward students who rejected the explanation and let emotion override judgment.

Hidden Dragon High Martial's teachers explained that the Ten Thunderous Battles had targeted the Central Plains King and his conspiracy, calming most students by revealing the stakes. A handful of boys remained devoted to Xiao Junyi and vowed revenge against Lan Xiaotu, leaving the school largely stabilized but with lingering threats.

• Ye Changqing passed Marshal Dongfang's information to the teachers, who explained that the nine male students killed were the Central Plains King's illegitimate sons and that Xiao Junyi had been central to the conspiracy.
• Wen Xingtian urged his students to think carefully, explaining why the Central Plains King could not simply be killed before his crimes and rebellion were fully established.
• The teachers' explanations calmed Hidden Dragon High Martial, while students who had been preparing to join the conspirators realized how disastrous that choice might have been.
• Five or six boys refused to accept Xiao Junyi's death, declared their love for her, and vowed that Lan Xiaotu was their enemy.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial chose to ignore the grieving boys and their threats.

Zuo Xiaoduo invited the Left and Right Heavenly Kings and others to dinner at his villa after the events at Hidden Dragon High Martial wound down. Meanwhile, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived in Fenghai City and headed by taxi toward the villa district, hoping to reach their son in time for dinner.

• Several students canceled their challenges after Great Shaman Bingming lost to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Great Shaman Liehuo worried that the Witch Alliance’s younger generation could not match Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students and resolved to improve their training.
• Teams Two and Five decided to stay in Fenghai City overnight, while the Dao Alliance’s people were also kept from leaving.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited You Dongtian, Liehuo, and the others to eat at his place, intent on collecting the stakes they owed him.
• Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu entered Fenghai City, took a taxi to Hidden Dragon High Martial Villa District, and wondered whether their son had lost weight.

On the drive to visit their son at Hidden Dragon High Martial, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting experienced a profound insight into life and reincarnation. The insight shattered part of a shackle in Zuo Changlu’s heart and brought Wu Yuting to the brink of opening her own path.

• Wu Yuting worried that her son Xiao Duo was eating poorly away from home, while Zuo Changlu endured her scolding and avoided calling him.
• Wu Yuting told the driver that their son was a freshman at Hidden Dragon High Martial, and the driver praised his achievement.
• As neon lights passed outside the car, Zuo Changlu contemplated the many forms of life and gained insight into Mortal World Incarnation.
• Wu Yuting sensed Zuo Changlu’s change, held his hand, and experienced a vision of a great road appearing beyond a doorway in her spiritual world.
• A shackle in Zuo Changlu’s heart shattered, while Wu Yuting’s doorway lost a corner, bringing both closer to breaking through.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong hosted a group of unexpected visitors, while Zuo Xiaoduo misjudged their status and assumed they were minor figures. The guests began introducing themselves under names that Zuo Xiaoduo suspected were false.

• Wu Yuting and the driver continued toward their destination, and the driver unknowingly received a great blessing that restored his health and purified his soul.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong welcomed five men and two women into Zuo Xiaoduo's home, though they were surprised that everyone they had invited had come.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Grandma Shi to rest and had Li Chenglong order two tables of food from Heaven First-Class.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong concluded that their guests were low-ranking subordinates or young relatives of important figures.
• Bingming introduced himself as Bing Xiao Bing and blamed Liehuo for the wager that put ten percent of their supplies at stake.
• Lie Xiaohuo introduced his wife, Xue Xiaoluo, and Dan Kong introduced himself as Kong Xiaodan while Zuo Xiaoduo suspected their names were fake.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong met the Witch Alliance guests at a gathering hosted by Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo, where old debts and a recent defeat came up. The chapter left You Xiaoyu and Yun Xiaohu arguing over who deserved credit for arranging the affair.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong greeted Great Witch Dan Kong, You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo, sensing a special closeness with Yun and Bai.
• Zuo Xiaoduo offered the guests Spirit Fruits, and Bai Xiaoduo poured tea and welcomed everyone as a host.
• You Xiaoyu reminded Lie Xiaohuo and Kong Xiaodan of their debts, while Bing Xiao Bing brushed off their dispute and enjoyed the refreshments.
• Bing Xiao Bing privately blamed her loss on Boss Flood giving his godson the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer and decided not to accept punishment for it.
• Yun Xiaohu and You Xiaoyu argued over who deserved credit for bringing about the gathering, with You Xiaoyu teasing Lie Xiaohuo as he defended himself.

Bai Xiaoduo demanded that the Witch Alliance guests bring gifts for their first visit to Zuo Xiaoduo’s home, but they dodged the demand by rushing to carry in the food. They left the gift question unresolved as the meal was set out.

• Bai Xiaoduo scolded Lie Xiaohuo, Xue Xiaoluo, Kong Xiaodan, and Bing Xiao Bing for arriving without first-visit gifts.
• Xue Xiaoluo began to offer a token gift, but Liehuo stopped her, and Bing Xiao Bing pleaded to be excused because she had already lost so much.
• Li Chenglong noticed that the food had arrived, and Kong Xiaodan, Lie Xiaohuo, Bing Xiao Bing, and Xue Xiaoluo hurried out to carry in the dishes.
• Bai Xiaoduo mocked the four for avoiding the gift demand, but they ignored her and kept carrying dishes to the table.

Zuo Xiaoduo hosted the four Witch Alliance guests and demanded the Ice Soul before the meal began. Bing Xiao Bing handed it over, and Zuo Xiaoduo took charge of hosting the dinner with Li Chenglong as deputy host.

• Zuo Xiaoduo invited the guests to sit, already resentful that they had brought no gifts.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Bing Xiao Bing to hand over the Ice Soul as the dishes arrived.
• Bing Xiao Bing gave Zuo Xiaoduo a Space Ring containing the Ice Soul in ten-thousand-year black ice and warned him that it was weak and needed gentle handling.
• Zuo Xiaoduo checked the ring, praised Bing Xiao Bing's character, and put it away.
• Yun Xiaohu offered to be the principal host, but Zuo Xiaoduo declined and named himself principal host and Zhongzhong deputy host.

Zuo Xiaoduo hosted Lie Xiaohuo and the others, then used a story about a rich man and his empty-handed guests to mock them for arriving without gifts. His punchline singled out Lie Xiaohuo, leaving the guests humiliated while You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo laughed.

• Zuo Xiaoduo took the host's seat, served wine, and urged the guests to drink tea while claiming it was his first time sitting there.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong acted out a story about a wealthy man whose poor friends repeatedly came to eat without bringing anything.
• Zuo Xiaoduo compared the friends' arrival time to that of Lie Xiaohuo and the others, and Bai Xiaoduo burst out laughing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo described a handsome young friend named Xiaohuo who always brought his wife to mooch meals.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Lie Xiaohuo what he had brought the host, prompting You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo to laugh as Lie Xiaohuo lost his appetite.

Zuo Xiaoduo entertained the gathering with a joke that teased Lie Xiaohuo, Kong Xiaodan, and Bing Xiao Bing about what they had brought to dinner. The group laughed off the embarrassment and learned more about Zuo Xiaoduo’s shameless sense of humor.

• Zuo Xiaoduo joked that Lie Xiaohuo had brought only white clouds and a clear breeze when visiting his elder brother.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Kong Xiaodan by saying he had brought the two eggs between his legs, making the gathering erupt in laughter.
• Zuo Xiaoduo joked that Bing Xiao Bing had carried a head as his gift, and Bing Xiao Bing eventually laughed along.
• Zuo Xiaoduo insisted the story was only a dinner-table joke, while You Xiaoyu sprayed tea over Yun Xiaohu and the others kept laughing.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s parents, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting, arrived unexpectedly during his drinking party, leaving the Witch Alliance guests terrified and unable to escape. The chapter ended as the couple entered and recognized the guests, though they were unsure why the young men looked so familiar.

• Zuo Xiaoduo joked with his guests and urged them to keep drinking while a car arrived outside.
• Wu Yuting called out to Zuo Xiaoduo, who delightedly rushed to greet his mother.
• You Dongtian, Lie Xiaohuo, and the other Witch Alliance guests panicked, but Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo held them in their seats.
• Zuo Xiaoduo brought his parents’ luggage inside and persuaded Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to join the gathering.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting saw the seven guests and wondered why they looked familiar.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived while Zuo Xiaoduo was hosting a mixed group of Star Soul and Witch Alliance guests, startling several of them. Zuo Changlu took charge of the gathering and invited everyone to share a meal, leaving the guests bewildered by their sudden change in status.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting entered and greeted Zuo Xiaoduo's friends, while the guests reacted with embarrassment and shock.
• Zuo Changlu sat in the principal host's seat and invited the young guests to stay for a meal instead of unpacking.
• Zuo Xiaoduo put his suitcase aside and rearranged the seating, with Lie Xiaohuo and Kong Xiaodan seated as guests of honor.
• Zuo Changlu warmly urged everyone to sit and listened as Bai Xiaoduo silently reported the day's events to him.
• Zuo Changlu smiled at the table and remarked that it was a good day.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived at Zuo Xiaoduo’s banquet and teased the powerful guests gathered there while Zuo Xiaoduo carefully introduced them as distant friends. The guests endured the couple’s barbs without revealing their identities.

• Zuo Changlu praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s friends as proof that his son was growing into a fine person, leaving the guests embarrassed and uncomfortable.
• Zuo Xiaoduo introduced Lie Xiaohuo and Xue Xiaoluo to his parents.
• Zuo Changlu mocked Lie Xiaohuo’s red hair and warned him to avoid gambling, while Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo laughed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo introduced Kong Xiaodan and Bing Xiao Bing as friends from far away, avoiding mention of the Witch Alliance.
• Kong Xiaodan and Bing Xiao Bing coughed through Zuo Changlu’s attempts to address them, and Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting laughed and decided to keep teasing their guests.

Zuo Changlu pressured Lie Xiaohuo and the other disguised Great Shamans to address him and Wu Yuting as elders, threatening to expose their identities. The guests struggled to comply, while You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo eagerly set the example.

• Zuo Changlu told the guests they were family and urged them to call him Uncle Zuo, while hinting that he and Wu Yuting might publicize a visit to their hometowns.
• You Xiaoyu greeted Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting as Uncle Zuo and Auntie Zuo, bowing deeply to encourage the others to follow suit.
• Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo also bowed and offered respectful greetings, earning Zuo Changlu's praise as good children.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said he would bow and kowtow when meeting the guests' parents, leaving Lie Xiaohuo and the others privately furious and regretting their visit.

Zuo Changlu welcomed Lie Xiaohuo and the others to dinner after using the threat of making them call him and Wu Yuting Uncle and Auntie to secure the upper hand. He teased them with food and delayed their drinks to begin telling a story, leaving them dreading what came next.

• You Xiaoyu urged Lie Xiaohuo, Bing Xiao Bing, and Kong Xiaodan to pay their respects to Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting, while Xue Xiaoluo pleaded with Wu Yuting to spare them.
• Wu Yuting interceded in exchange for a promised gift from Xue Xiaoluo, and Zuo Changlu called the demand a joke and invited everyone to eat.
• Zuo Changlu served Lie Xiaohuo chicken kidney, Kong Xiaodan chives, Bing Xiao Bing a chicken heart, and You Xiaoyu a fish eye, provoking their silent resentment.
• Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo thanked Zuo Changlu and ate comfortably while the others waited eagerly to drink.
• Zuo Changlu raised a toast, set his glass down, and announced that their names reminded him of a funny story about a rich man hosting a dinner.

Zuo Changlu used a story to prompt the Witch Alliance guests to offer gifts, and Lie Xiaohuo reluctantly gave Zuo Xiaoduo six jars of wine. Kong Xiaodan began to offer his own gift, but Wu Yuting guessed it was spatial soil before he could explain.

• Zuo Changlu told a story about a generous host and a poor friend called Little Huo, while Yun Xiaohu played along as the straight man.
• Lie Xiaohuo stood up and said he had brought gifts for Zuo Xiaoduo, then presented a jar of Water and Fire Incompatible Wine.
• Wu Yuting praised the jar, and Bing Xiao Bing remarked that it was small, prompting Lie Xiaohuo to hand over all six jars he had brought.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo to thank Lie Xiaohuo, and Zuo Xiaoduo thanked him as Brother Lie.
• Kong Xiaodan stood to offer Zuo Xiaoduo a gift, but Wu Yuting guessed that he had brought spatial soil, making him break into a cold sweat.

Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu pressured their guests into giving Zuo Xiaoduo rare treasures, and Zuo Xiaoduo then pointed out that Zhongzhong deserved a share too. Zuo Changlu turned the conversation toward Li Chenglong’s lack of cultivation resources, leaving the guests facing another round of demands.

• Kong Xiaodan gave Zuo Xiaoduo a ring containing half a tael of Space Soil after Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu urged him to offer a gift.
• Bing Xiao Bing gave Zuo Xiaoduo a ring of Prehistoric Black Ice after Wu Yuting, Lie Xiaohuo, Kong Xiaodan, and Xue Xiaoluo pressured her for a contribution.
• Lie Xiaohuo and the others realized Zuo Changlu was using their gifts as a pretext to send them away before they had eaten or drunk anything.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reminded Zuo Changlu that Zhongzhong also lived in the villa and had not received a gift.
• Zuo Changlu suggested that the guests should provide for Zhongzhong too, then mentioned that Li Chenglong lacked cultivation resources, and Li Chenglong agreed.

At the family banquet, Zhongzhong received lavish cultivation gifts, and You Xiaoyu gave Zuo Xiaoduo three drops of Nine Heavens Spring Water after being conspicuously left out. The guests drank and joked together until You Xiaoyu mentioned a spectacle from earlier that day, making Bing Xiao Bing fear Zuo Changlu would learn what happened.

• Zhongzhong accepted a Heart-Tempering Fruit and four hundred pieces of Top-Grade Star Soul Jade from the guests.
• Zuo Changlu hosted the banquet warmly but repeatedly left You Xiaoyu out of the toasts, while Wu Yuting also excluded him.
• You Xiaoyu gave Zuo Xiaoduo three drops of Nine Heavens Spring Water, and Zuo Changlu then invited You Xiaoyu to drink with him.
• Bai Xiaoduo and Yun Xiaohu ignored You Xiaoyu's hints to ask the hosts for gifts, and the banquet grew lively with drinking and jokes.
• Bing Xiao Bing told a dirty joke, drew everyone's objections, and drank a whole jar as punishment.
• You Xiaoyu mentioned the spectacle from earlier that day, and Bing Xiao Bing looked pleadingly at him as Zuo Changlu asked to hear about it.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting hosted a lively drinking session where their guests teased Bing Xiao Bing for losing to Zuo Xiaoduo. After the guests left, the seven people who had shared the table fought a fierce, evenly matched battle in the sky outside Fenghai.

• You Xiaoyu and the others recounted how Bing Xiao Bing had drawn a match against Zuo Xiaoduo and been beaten, prompting everyone to tease her until she fled to the bathroom.
• Zuo Changlu said he and Wu Yuting had come early because Wu Yuting missed their son, and Wu Yuting reminded Xue Xiaoluo about a future gift.
• The drinking session continued until half past one in the morning, when Lie Xiaohuo and the others drunkenly agreed to leave.
• After midnight, the seven people who had been drinking fought to the death above the wasteland outside Fenghai, blaming each other for their predicament.
• Several senior figures arrived and stopped the battle, which had ended in an even match between the two sides.

Flood Great Shaman repeatedly beat Liehuo, Dan Kong, and Bingming while they hid that Zuo Changlu had visited. In the Upper Capital, Zuo Xiaonian consumed Ice Soul Essence and entered a perilous state as her compressed Spiritual Qi filled her Dantian.

• Flood Great Shaman stopped beating Liehuo and the others when his strength drained away again, while they secretly resolved not to tell him Zuo Changlu had come.
• Zuo Xiaonian advanced to the peak of Infant Transformation by eating King Beast meat and cultivating with Top-Grade Star Soul Jade.
• Zuo Xiaonian joined a Nine Heavens Pavilion mission to destroy the Central Plains King's faction and helped bury its compound beneath the earth.
• The team gave Zuo Xiaonian a chest of Black Ice, where she found and swallowed a piece of lifeless Ice Soul Essence.
• The Ice Soul Essence froze Zuo Xiaonian for twelve hours, sealed her meridians, and forced her Spiritual Qi to compress in her Dantian until it nearly burst.

Zuo Xiaonian broke through into Cloud Transformation after consuming the Ice Soul Essence, unleashing a cold surge that froze the entire Nine Heavens Pavilion. The Pavilion’s supreme leader examined her and recognized her extraordinary fortune, while the story ended with another example of Zuo Xiaonian finding treasures everyone else had missed.

• Zuo Xiaonian released her restraint and broke through into Cloud Transformation, after the Ice Soul Essence had repeatedly helped suppress her cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian emerged from seclusion just as Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming and won the Ice Soul Essence, and her cold power froze the entire Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• The Nine Heavens Pavilion’s supreme leader examined Zuo Xiaonian and sighed at her remarkable fortune.
• The chapter recounted how Zuo Xiaonian repeatedly found valuable treasures by chance during missions and even while shopping.
• After other squads searched a site and found nothing, Zuo Xiaonian split a gold ironwood roof beam and uncovered enough hidden treasures to fill half the room.

Zuo Xiaonian’s extraordinary luck led her to buy a carved dog containing a Heaven Crystal, which strengthened the spiritual qi around the Nine Heavens Pavilion while weakening Flood Great Shaman again. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong prepared guest rooms and discussed how to divide their gifts.

• Zuo Xiaonian bought an adorable Star-Pleasure Jade dog carving for eight hundred million Star Origin Coins from Zuo Xiaoduo’s account.
• The Nine Heavens Pavilion head discovered that the carving contained a Heaven Crystal, and Zuo Xiaonian made a tiny hole that released spiritual qi into her room and the pavilion.
• Flood Great Shaman found himself inexplicably weakened once more in the Star Radiance Mountain Range.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong prepared guest rooms for Dad Zuo and Mom Zuo after receiving valuable gifts.
• Li Chenglong proposed keeping the Top-Grade Star Soul Jade and sharing the Heart-Tempering Fruit, but Zuo Xiaoduo told him to eat it himself.