Recaps

Wu Yuting warned Zuo Xiaonian to stop yielding to Zuo Xiaoduo and then explained to her son why he must not rush their relationship. She left him with a strict warning not to take Zuo Xiaonian's chastity before her innate ice jade physique reached great perfection.

• Wu Yuting advised Zuo Xiaonian to set boundaries with Zuo Xiaoduo, especially about letting him touch her chest.
• Zuo Xiaonian admitted she had always indulged Zuo Xiaoduo and did not want to change, while Wu Yuting decided to speak to him herself.
• Wu Yuting questioned Zuo Xiaoduo about his intentions, then recognized how his persistence had pushed Zuo Xiaonian's boundaries.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo that Zuo Xiaonian's ninety-nine star soul and innate ice jade physique made it dangerous to act rashly.
• Wu Yuting warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to take Zuo Xiaonian's chastity until her ice jade physique reached great perfection, and he asked her to explain more clearly.

Wu Yuting explained that Nian Nian needed to reach Flying Heaven before Zuo Xiaoduo could take her chastity, warning that otherwise her cultivation would lose the chance for perfection. After Zuo Xiaoduo hurried off to see her, Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu discussed how well he cared for her and why they had warned him.

• Wu Yuting explained the three stages of perfection and told Zuo Xiaoduo that Nian Nian must reach Flying Heaven before he took the final step with her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo considered the cultivation realms, said he understood, and left to practice.
• Zuo Xiaoduo soon cheered up and bounded toward Zuo Xiaonian, thinking he could still do everything short of the final step.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Changlu that she had warned Zuo Xiaoduo because Zuo Xiaonian was becoming increasingly receptive to him.
• Zuo Changlu reflected on Wu Yuting's double standards, and she remarked that Zuo Xiaoduo had the patience not to act rashly even if Zuo Xiaonian climbed into his bed.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed that Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian should focus on cultivation before having a child. Back at the villa, Zuo Xiaoduo tried to act refined, then noticed Li Chenglong's suspicious behavior and pressed him about what he had done the previous night.

• Wu Yuting explained that a child would be difficult to raise while she and Zuo Changlu were away, and that the coming war made cultivation a priority.
• Zuo Changlu agreed with Wu Yuting and accepted that he would have to take the blame if the couple learned they had been misled.
• Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed heat in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda while Zuo Xiaonian practiced inside it, then sat in the courtyard pretending to read with refined poise.
• Li Chenglong returned, spotted that Zuo Xiaoduo was holding his book upside down, and mocked his performance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo chased Li Chenglong, later returned with him battered, and noticed his weak legs, a red mark on his neck, and embarrassed behavior.
• Zuo Xiaoduo suspected Li Chenglong had stayed out all night and demanded that he confess what he had done.

Zuo Xiaoduo questioned Li Chenglong about the night he spent with Xiang Bing and learned that she had taken him to a hotel and pinned him down. Li Chenglong stopped short of describing what happened next, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo demanding the details.

• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed that signs of romantic luck covered Li Chenglong's face and pulled him aside to ask what had happened.
• Li Chenglong told Zuo Xiaoduo that Xiang Bing had confessed she liked him, and he had not objected.
• Li Chenglong said Xiang Bing had taken him drinking, then led him to the Moon-Gaining Tower, where they received VIP treatment and a suite.
• Li Chenglong recounted that Xiang Bing told him to shower, then spun him around and pushed him onto the bed.
• Li Chenglong said Xiang Bing had pinned him down and that he had been defiled, but refused to share the details.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing had spent the night together, and Li Chenglong asked Zuo Changlu and his wife to arrange their engagement. Zuo Changlu agreed but began explaining how a person's fortune could affect their future.

• Li Chenglong told Zuo Xiaoduo that Xiang Bing had gone home after they spent the night together.
• Li Chenglong said he would marry Xiang Bing and asked Zuo Xiaoduo to have his parents act as matchmakers and arrange an engagement.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Zuo Changlu to help, and Zuo Changlu agreed to propose the marriage.
• Zuo Changlu asked what Zuo Xiaoduo could see in Li Chenglong's future and explained that fortune could determine whether someone could bear great wealth or status.

Zuo Xiaoduo assured Zuo Changlu that Li Chenglong had a destiny worthy of their matchmaking, and Zuo Changlu agreed to propose the match. Meanwhile, Bai Yunduo gathered a mountain of star soul jade powder and arrived at the villa, where Zuo Xiaoduo began reading her physiognomy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that Li Chenglong’s physiognomy and destiny foretold achievements at the continent’s pinnacle, though he would play a supporting role to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Changlu agreed to go propose a match for Li Chenglong and told Zuo Xiaoduo to assess a visitor’s fate that afternoon.
• Bai Yunduo collected star soul jade powder outside Fenghai City, warning each delivery person to keep the matter secret.
• Bai Yunduo received Zuo Changlu’s message and went to the villa carrying the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Changlu welcomed Bai Yunduo and asked Zuo Xiaoduo to read her physiognomy, which he immediately understood.

Bai Yunduo visited Zuo Changlu and Zuo Xiaoduo to ask for directions to Chaotic Stone Plain, where she planned to dump Star Soul Jade Powder. After she left, Zuo Xiaoduo read her fate and predicted that she and her husband would die in a battle within three to five years, prompting Zuo Changlu to ask whether her fate could be changed.

• Bai Yunduo asked Zuo Changlu how to reach Chaotic Stone Plain and explained that she was going there to dump Star Soul Jade Powder.
• Zuo Changlu gave Bai Yunduo directions and offered her water before she left, and she wrote the character for “water” as thanks.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that Bai Yunduo had exceptionally high status and Fortune Qi but was destined to suffer the loss of her husband.
• Zuo Xiaoduo interpreted Bai Yunduo’s writing and her destination as signs of a crushing battle and a separation in life and death within three to five years.
• Zuo Changlu asked Zuo Xiaoduo whether there was a way to save Bai Yunduo and avert her fate.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained that the woman’s fate could only be changed by placing her under a commander destined to win a war, while Zuo Changlu privately noted Li Chenglong’s extraordinary fortune. That evening, Zuo Changlu and his wife brought Li Chenglong and gifts to the Xiang Family to make a marriage proposal.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that the woman’s life-and-death tribulation was a heavenly dao killing scheme that ordinary people could not reverse.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said the woman’s fortune and destiny were far below Li Chenglong’s, astonishing Zuo Changlu, who recognized her as the Left Route Heavenly King’s wife.
• Zuo Changlu announced that they would make a marriage proposal for Li Chenglong that evening, dismissing concerns about the proper time.
• Wen Xingtian contacted Ye Changqing, who contacted Liu Yichun, and Xiang Kuangren was sent home to wait.
• Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu, his wife, and Li Chenglong with gifts to the Xiang Family to make the proposal.

Vice Principal Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to arrange Ice Egg’s marriage into the Xiang Family, whose fortunes soared after receiving the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat’s calligraphy. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo found a vast deposit of Star Soul Jade Powder and brought it into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, surprising Little Dragon.

• Vice Principal Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to the Xiang Family, where they presented the Imperial Seat’s calligraphy blessing Ice Egg and Chenglong’s marriage.
• Xiang Kuangren accepted the match and declared that Ice Egg would marry into the Li Family, while the Xiang Family prepared hundreds of banquet tables for the flood of congratulatory guests.
• After his parents left, Zuo Xiaoduo went southwest to collect Star Soul Jade Powder, first moving cultivating Zuo Xiaonian out of the way inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered a deep opening filled with Star Soul Jade Powder and spent an hour loading a quantity over a hundred times greater than everything he had gathered before.
• Little Dragon emerged from hiding in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and asked Zuo Xiaoduo where he had found so much powder.

Zuo Xiaoduo secretly hauled away a vast hoard of star soul jade powder, unaware that Bai Yunduo had arranged for him to collect it. He and Zuo Xiaonian then spent ten days cultivating together inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.

• Little Dragon reinforced the mountain range's earth veins and worried that the star soul jade powder would not keep up with consumption.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized he had taken several hundred thousand cubic meters of star soul jade powder, then hurried home and reassured himself that it had been discarded.
• Bai Yunduo watched Zuo Xiaoduo leave, ordered her experts to keep filling the hole, and said someone else would collect the powder.
• Zuo Changlu and his wife returned near midnight with Li Chenglong, who had drunk himself unconscious.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian finished ten days of cultivation in a room furnished and sealed with upper-grade star soul jade.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting discussed Li Chenglong’s promising future, then revisited Zuo Xiaoduo’s strange dreams and inexplicable lack of martial aptitude as they suspected a connection to an ancient phoenix legend. The chapter left them examining the significance of a broken Jade Jue that had appeared on Zuo Xiaoduo when he was sixteen.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed that Li Chenglong had remarkable fortune and would likely achieve great things.
• Zuo Changlu sealed off their room and told Wu Yuting that Zuo Xiaoduo’s strange dreams and weak Star Soul had long troubled him.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting recalled that their mortal-world incarnations had produced a son with no martial aptitude, despite their own extraordinary abilities.
• Zuo Changlu connected Zuo Xiaoduo’s dreams of the starry sky exploding with Xiao Nian’s Phoenix Vein Soul Impact and the legend of the phoenix crying on Mount Qi.
• Zuo Changlu asked Wu Yuting to remember the broken Jade Jue that had appeared on Zuo Xiaoduo’s chest when he was sixteen, and she recalled that they had found it ordinary.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting suspected that the ancient jade Zuo Xiaoduo wore was the legendary Creation Disk and that it had concealed his talent until he began cultivating at seventeen. They agreed to keep their theory secret, then Zuo Changlu brought out an Annihilation Sky Pagoda containing Cloud's fragrance.

• Zuo Changlu connected Zuo Xiaoduo's lost ancient jade, his sudden rise in cultivation, and his mastery of Physiognomy to the legendary Creation Disk.
• Wu Yuting wondered whether Zuo Xiaoduo's rise at seventeen echoed the venerable elder who emerged at seventy, and Zuo Changlu considered whether King Qi's legacy explained part of it.
• Zuo Changlu warned Wu Yuting to keep their conjecture secret, and they joked that Flood Great Shaman would miss out on the greatest share of Zuo Xiaoduo's Fortune Qi.
• Zuo Changlu produced an Annihilation Sky Pagoda and told Wu Yuting he had put Cloud's fragrance inside using Zuo Xiaoduo's method.

Zuo Changlu showed Wu Yuting that star soul jade powder only worked in Zuo Xiaoduo’s Annihilation Sky Pagoda, which also sped up cultivation, and they discussed limiting who could learn about it. The couple resolved to protect their son and planned to search once more after the parent-teacher meeting before returning to Phoenix City.

• Zuo Changlu showed Wu Yuting the useless star soul jade powder in his Annihilation Sky Pagoda and explained that it worked only in Zuo Xiaoduo’s pagoda.
• Zuo Changlu told Wu Yuting that time in Zuo Xiaoduo’s pagoda flowed thirty times faster and could increase, while they weighed the risks of letting his friends use it.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed to set a limit on who could learn about the treasure, perhaps until they reached Flying Heaven.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting decided to make another attempt to find what they sought after the parent-teacher meeting and return to Phoenix City if they failed.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting affirmed they would protect Zuo Xiaoduo despite the dangers, then heard Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian return from seclusion.
• Zuo Changlu opened the door and pretended to scold Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian for shouting late at night.

After cultivating, Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo reported their realms to Zuo Changlu, who scolded them and sent them away before they could question him. Zuo Xiaoduo led Zuo Xiaonian to his room and kissed her, but she bit his tongue when his hands wandered under her clothes.

• Zuo Changlu scolded Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo for claiming no one had been in the room, then asked about their cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had reached mid-stage Cloud Transformation, while Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he was at Dan Origin Realm Peak after suppressing his breakthrough seven times.
• Zuo Changlu called Zuo Xiaoduo useless for falling behind his wife and sent the pair away, slamming the door before they could ask questions.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reassured the worried Zuo Xiaonian and led her into his room, saying he would talk to their mother about Zuo Changlu's temper.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kissed Zuo Xiaonian and slipped his hands under her clothes, so she bit his tongue and made him jump back in pain.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian kissed and flirted before returning to the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate. Zuo Xiaonian agreed to spend more time training there, unaware that the time difference would leave her alone with Zuo Xiaoduo for more than two years.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pretended his tongue still hurt until Zuo Xiaonian checked it, and the two kissed.
• Zuo Xiaonian warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to go further, but they continued kissing for two hours.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian returned to the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate and discuss taking the Nine Heavens Spirit Spring Water.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that time passed much more slowly inside the pagoda and persuaded Zuo Xiaonian to train there longer.
• Zuo Xiaonian agreed to cultivate in the pagoda, not realizing that her remaining leave would let them spend more than two years together inside.

Zuo Xiaoduo coaxed Zuo Xiaonian into kissing and hugging, while she believed she had held her boundaries; Wu Yuting understood how he had maneuvered her but chose not to tell her. The next morning, Zuo Xiaoduo went to school, Zuo Xiaonian continued cultivating, and Wu Yuting picked a fight with Zuo Changlu after recalling how he had courted her.

• Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Zuo Xiaonian to reward him with a kiss, and their kissing and hugging ended when she fled to the cultivation room.
• Zuo Xiaoduo left for school with Li Chenglong while Zuo Xiaonian stayed inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate.
• Zuo Xiaonian examined her swollen lips and felt proud that she had prevented Zuo Xiaoduo from crossing her forbidden line.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Wu Yuting that she had held firm, and Wu Yuting realized Zuo Xiaoduo had deliberately made her feel that way but kept the truth to herself.
• Wu Yuting remembered that Zuo Changlu had once courted her similarly, then picked a fight with him after breakfast.

Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing announced their engagement to their classmates, with Xiang Bing firmly warning off anyone who might pursue either of them. The class applauded their declaration and accepted their request for blessings.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong arrived at school grinning after their happy night and engagement.
• Their classmates teased Li Chenglong, who tried to share his romantic experience at the lectern.
• Xiang Bing rushed forward and took over, saying Li Chenglong might reveal too much.
• Xiang Bing announced that she and Li Chenglong were engaged and warned potential suitors to look elsewhere.
• Xiang Bing asked the class to bless their happiness and threatened to use her fists against anyone who interfered.
• The class applauded Xiang Bing, and Wen Xingtian watched with appreciation.

Xiang Bing made clear that she was committed to Li Chenglong, and Wen Xingtian praised her and Zuo Xiaoduo for their loyalty. As Hidden Dragon High Martial prepared for its parents’ meeting, Ye Changqing discovered that officials had arranged a massive concert and an elaborate stadium renovation, whose strange spatial energy left him stunned.

• Xiang Bing’s declaration made clear that she would not tolerate anyone trying to come between her and Li Chenglong.
• Wen Xingtian praised Xiang Bing’s devotion and Zuo Xiaoduo’s loyalty, then jokingly threatened to beat Zuo Xiaoduo at the Martial Dao Arena.
• Eight days after Li Chenglong’s engagement, Minister Ding told Ye Changqing that officials had added observers and other arrangements to the parents’ meeting.
• The Martial Education Department arranged a live performance by the Star Soul Continent’s ten most popular singers and invited military families and families of the fallen.
• Ye Changqing found that officials had already prepared Fenghai City’s largest indoor stadium as an aerial concert hall, where he sensed spatial power.

The Three-Party Alliance struggled to unlock a powerful gate in the Star Radiance Mountain Range until an injured artisan’s blood activated it. The gate rejected Star Beast blood, leaving the leaders facing the grim possibility that opening it would require human or Witch Tribe blood.

• Ye Changqing and the others examined the immense concert venue at Hidden Dragon and suspected that a master of Spatial Methods had created it.
• The Three-Party Alliance’s artisans failed to find the mechanism controlling the Space Ruins’ gate, and You Dongtian’s sword chipped against the mountains beside it.
• A Witch Alliance artisan wounded himself with a chisel, and the gate drained all the blood from his body before turning pink.
• You Dongtian and the others realized the gate responded to human blood, while You Xingchen sent Yun Zhonghu to fetch Star Beasts.
• Yun Zhonghu tested Star Beast blood on the gate, but Flood Great Shaman explained that only blood from humans, the Witch Tribe, or similar peoples would work.

Flood Great Shaman agreed to collect blood without killing anyone, and the blood opened the gate after less than a full barrel. Great Shaman Bingming mocked Flood for misjudging the amount and was sent flying by another hammer blow.

• Bai Yunduo proposed drawing blood from many people instead of killing fifteen sacrifices, and Flood accepted her plan.
• Several hundred people gave blood, and the first barrel opened the gate after the vortex consumed more than half of it.
• Flood realized they had gathered far more blood than necessary, while Great Shaman Bingming mocked his estimate.
• Flood ordered Great Shaman Bingming onto a boulder and then struck him with his hammer, sending him flying across the mountain.

Flood Great Shaman punished Bingming and Dan Kong before choosing a team to investigate the dangerous gateway. The leaders of the Witch Alliance, Star Soul Continent, and Dao Alliance entered together, leaving Marshal Dongfang and the others waiting outside in alarm.

• Flood Great Shaman sent Dan Kong crashing into a boulder after Liehuo and Xue Luo stopped him from pursuing Bingming.
• Liehuo and Xue Luo gagged and blindfolded Bingming to keep him from making more taunting remarks.
• Flood Great Shaman chose Liehuo and the Wind Emperor to enter the opening with him, while You Xingchen selected Dongtian and Xiao Hu, and Daoist Lei selected Feng and Yun.
• Flood Great Shaman entered first, followed by Liehuo, the Wind Emperor, and the other six leaders.
• Demonic energy and white mist filled the gateway, cutting off the view of the nine leaders from Marshal Dongfang and the others outside.

Li Chenglong’s parents joined the Zuo family for dinner and celebrated his engagement to Xiang Bing. Xiang Bing and Li Chenglong recognized that Zuo Xiaoduo had stirred up their fights to bring them together, and Xiang Bing promised she would no longer take the bait.

• Li Chenglong welcomed his parents to Fenghai City, where both families gathered for dinner with Zuo Changlu, Zuo Xiaoduo, Zuo Xiaonian, Xiang Bing, and Grandma Shi.
• Li Chenglong’s mother privately wondered whether he had used tricks to win Xiang Bing, prompting Zuo Xiaoduo to joke that Xiang Bing’s poor eyesight made Li Chenglong look handsome.
• Xiang Bing tried to thank Zuo Xiaoduo for helping bring her and Li Chenglong together, but he deflected her thanks and suggested the two engaged couples toast together.
• Li Chenglong realized Zuo Xiaoduo had given Xiang Bing a reminder that sparked their relationship, then told her Zuo Xiaoduo had refused thanks so he could keep stirring up trouble.
• Xiang Bing admitted she had understood Zuo Xiaoduo’s scheme and had kept fighting Li Chenglong because it gave them time together, then vowed not to fall for the provocations again.

The two families shared a lively dinner as Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing awkwardly reconciled after nearly fighting in front of their parents. Zuo Xiaoduo failed to stir up suspicion between his parents and instead ended up under Zuo Xiaonian’s watchful eye.

• Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing stopped their mock fight when Grandma Shi coughed, and Xiang Bing apologized to the parents for losing her temper.
• Mama Li welcomed Xiang Bing and teased Li Chenglong about his stubbornness, while Zuo Xiaoduo joked about Li Chenglong’s reputation as the Steel Cult Leader.
• Mama Li warned Li Chenglong not to hit women, and the two families continued their meal in good spirits.
• Zuo Xiaoduo suggested that Zuo Changlu might be hiding a mistress, but Wu Yuting revealed that she had set the names on his phone herself and twisted Zuo Xiaoduo’s ear.
• Wu Yuting warned Zuo Xiaonian that Zuo Xiaoduo’s luck with women was flourishing, and Zuo Xiaonian promised to keep him under close watch.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian joined their parents at the parent meeting, where Zuo Xiaoduo noticed that his section’s seating arrangement was unusual and suspected a trap aimed at him. Outside, Ye Changqing, Xiang Kuangren, Liu Yichun, and Cheng Guying welcomed the powerful officials attending the event and a meeting afterward.

• Wu Yuting questioned Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian about what they had done while cultivating in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo brought his family to the stadium and found that his number one pass placed them in the second row, while Li Chenglong’s number two table was far away.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Li Chenglong to check other seating arrangements, and Gao Qiao'er sent information showing that their section alone was arranged differently.
• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Zuo Xiaonian and Li Chenglong to evacuate his parents and alert nearby classmates if trouble started.
• Ye Changqing, Xiang Kuangren, Liu Yichun, and Cheng Guying welcomed guests arriving for the parent meeting and the meeting afterward.

Ye Changqing prepared to welcome the Star Soul Continent’s most powerful figures to Hidden Dragon High Martial, but the arrival of Flood Great Shaman revived memories of the massacre he had survived. The chapter ended as ten Great Shamans appeared behind Flood Great Shaman.

• Ye Changqing anticipated that the gathering of prominent figures would raise Hidden Dragon High Martial’s reputation.
• Ye Changqing and the others waited as students, families, and performers assembled for the event.
• Flood Great Shaman emerged from a spatial rift, and his presence left Ye Changqing and the others stunned.
• Ye Changqing recognized Flood Great Shaman as the man whose casual hammer strike had killed thousands of his comrades years earlier.
• Ten Great Shamans appeared behind Flood Great Shaman.