Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo awakened Celestial Person Physiognomy, gained the ability to cultivate, and discovered that Zuo Xiaonian faced a fatal tribulation. After passing the Star Soul Tower trial through an elaborate scheme, he joined Martial Warrior Class Nine and began introducing himself as a fortune-teller.

• Zuo Changlu gave Zuo Xiaonian a Life-Origin Pill and urged her to keep advancing, while Zuo Xiaoduo worried that he could not cultivate beside her.
• Zuo Xiaonian gave Zuo Xiaoduo money and Marrow-Washing Pills, and he used the money to buy jade and prepare an experiment.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s jade and broken pendant released two yin-yang fish into his forehead, awakening Celestial Person Physiognomy and a vigorous purple flame in his Star Soul.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw that Zuo Xiaonian faced a fatal tribulation during her planned breakthrough and resolved to become strong enough to protect her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo broke through to Martial Warrior, and Hu Ruoyun brought him to the Star Soul Tower for his assessment.
• In the Tower’s illusion, Zuo Xiaoduo helped an injured old man, was falsely blamed by the family, and used repeated assaults, witnesses, and public outrage to expose their extortion.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Tower and joined Martial Warrior Class Nine after Hu Ruoyun encouraged him to pursue his martial path.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kicked the classroom door off its hinges, offered fortune-telling for money, and claimed that his face-reading came from the Heavenly Secrets Way.

Zuo Xiaoduo joined Class Nine, proved himself in cultivation and combat, and reached the Martial Warrior realm. His family celebrated his breakthrough, dealt with his tuition and secret earnings, and pushed him and Zuo Xiaonian to focus on cultivation.

• Zuo Xiaoduo entered Qin Fangyang’s Class Nine, where Qin beat him in an assessment and the students prepared to make him fight his way up the rankings.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated under the Star Soul Power Formation, drawing an enormous vortex that shocked Qin Fangyang, then correctly predicted the class’s match results and defeated Li Chenglong.
• Zuo Xiaoduo endured repeated ranking fights and climbed six places, while Li Chenglong taught the class about humanity’s history and urged them to grow stronger.
• Mu Yanyan investigated a leak about Zuo Xiaonian’s planned breakthrough, arranged stronger security, and moved the breakthrough location without choosing it in advance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo caught and beat a pickpocket, took money from him as a supposed divination fee, and returned the girl’s wallet before going home.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told his family he had become a Martial Warrior, and they celebrated while discussing the dangers of cultivation and his expensive tuition.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting discovered Zuo Xiaoduo’s hidden money, while Zuo Xiaonian revealed her savings and Wu Yuting took most of Zuo Xiaoduo’s cash.
• Wu Yuting punished Zuo Xiaonian for taking a mission near her breakthrough, and Zuo Changlu reprimanded Zuo Xiaoduo before giving him tuition and cultivation resources.
• Zuo Changlu ordered Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian to focus on studying and cultivation, then Zuo Xiaonian repeatedly hurled Zuo Xiaoduo into the air after he mocked her.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s warnings and kindness disrupted a Witch Alliance plot, while Zuo Xiaonian killed the witch’s clone and transferred the Greedy Wolf’s Heart’s energy to him. The arc ends with Zuo Xiaonian preparing to help him control that power as Zuo Xiaoduo remains worried about her coming calamity.

• Zuo Xiaoduo secretly mastered the techniques Zuo Xiaonian taught him and continued rising through his class rankings, while Qin Fangyang warned him not to use dangerous Kunlun Dao Sect techniques at school.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read an omen for Liu Jiansheng’s group and urged them to travel north, and Liu Jiansheng chose that route while Wang Feilong led his own team south.
• A pink-clad girl repeatedly approached Zuo Xiaoduo with a jade pendant, but Zuo Xiaonian confronted her and recognized her as a Greedy Wolf Witch Sect member plotting against him.
• Zuo Xiaonian killed the girl’s clone, joined the matching pendants, and transferred the Greedy Wolf’s Heart’s immense energy into Zuo Xiaoduo, who passed out and woke with greatly increased strength.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that Zuo Xiaoduo’s return of the wallet had disrupted the Greedy Wolf Scheme, saving Zhang Yuan while the other nine members of the thief’s group died.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that she had given Zuo Xiaoduo the Greedy Wolf’s Heart instead of using it to break through her own bottleneck, and Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he would do anything to save her from her calamity.
• Zuo Xiaonian warned that Zuo Xiaoduo’s uncontrolled Yuan Energy could make his body explode and arranged three days of training to help him absorb and control it.

Zuo Xiaoduo endured three days of punishing training under Meng Chenyu and Mu Yanyan, reaching the Martial Master Realm as danger around Zuo Xiaonian continued to build. After learning Class One had beaten his injured classmates, he went to confront Cheng Fangzhi.

• Zuo Xiaonian brought Zuo Xiaoduo to Mu Yanyan’s training hall, where Meng Chenyu began their three-day training arrangement by repeatedly beating him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo endured the attacks, used the Healing Pod to recover, and consumed its Spirit Liquid while refining his techniques and tempering his body.
• Zuo Xiaoduo broke through to the Martial Master Realm, then trained under Mu Yanyan, who discovered that his meridians were unusually strong and his Star Soul was a weak purple flame.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw that Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian had worsening Qi Aspects, and later foresaw that Mu Yanyan would die protecting Zuo Xiaonian during her breakthrough.
• Qin Fangyang told Liu Jiansheng and his surviving teammates that 735 adventurers, including all twenty-five members of Wang Feilong’s team, had died in attacks suspected to involve Witch Alliance operatives.
• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Zuo Xiaonian about her planned meal with Meng Chenyu’s older brother, then returned to school and received Star Origin Coins and Star Soul Stones from Qin Fangyang.
• Long Yusheng and the other classmates told Zuo Xiaoduo that Class One had beaten them after Cheng Fangzhi insulted Qin Fangyang and Li Chenglong’s parents.
• Zuo Xiaoduo went to Class One despite his classmates’ protests and politely asked the teacher to let him speak with Cheng Fangzhi.