Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo uncovered and survived an ambush near Grandma Shi’s home, then helped her move into his courtyard as old friends gathered to remember Shi Yunfeng. As suspicions around Qiu Xiaoqian drew the Star Shield Bureau into the case, Zuo Xiaoduo began attracting students seeking fortune readings and pursued Earth Vein Qi for his cultivation plans.

• Zuo Xiaoduo sensed danger near Grandma Shi’s neighborhood, where Bai Xiangtian and four other attackers ambushed him, but he crippled them and called Wen Xingtian for help.
• Grandma Shi left the village with Zuo Xiaoduo and moved into his courtyard, where she kept her original home and joined Hidden Dragon teachers in remembering Shi Yunfeng.
• Grandma Shi told Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong about the Flood Great Shaman’s overwhelming power, while the Flood Great Shaman cursed Zuo Xiaoduo and destroyed the Witch Soul Hall.
• Three captured attackers named Qiu Xiaoqian as the person who ordered Zuo Xiaoduo’s murder, and Minister Nan ordered the Central Plains King to hand him over alive before Jiang Wenzhou took him into custody.
• Li Chenglong promoted Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune readings among students, and Xiang Chong paid him for an appointment while Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong negotiated a five-percent commission.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained to Li Chenglong that fortune readings could warn people of danger but could not guarantee their safety, and that revealing too much could bring backlash or redirect calamity.
• Little Dragon offered Zuo Xiaoduo Earth Vein Qi, and Zuo Xiaoduo accepted it while telling him to gather small portions from many veins rather than drain one.
• Zuo Xiaoduo decided to research merging earth veins at the school library, then accepted fifty pieces of upper-grade star soul jade from Xiang Chong and asked him to write a character for a reading.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune-telling and a public campaign helped restore Vice Principal Shi’s reputation, while the students prepared for trials and Li Chenglong’s unusual talent came to light. During the second trial, Zuo Xiaoduo discovered a blazing meteorite and brought it back for Grandma Shi to examine.

• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Xiang Chong about danger in romance and helped Gui Xiaocheng understand the crisis facing his lineage, then grew popular as a fortune-teller at school.
• Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Qu Xiangren in one strike, and Grandma Shi began teaching the students practical ways to survive deadly attacks.
• Zuo Xiaoduo recognized that Zhan Xuejun’s fate was tied to Xiang Chong’s, while Xiang Chong accepted their engagement and her challenge to surpass her.
• Marshal Zuo Company and Dongfang Zhengyang helped expose the online slander of Vice Principal Shi, prompting mass apologies, arrests, and plans to memorialize him and adapt his story.
• Grandma Shi refused to return to teaching and vowed to uncover who had caused the injustice, while Marshal Dongfang pushed the public to face the realities of war.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial began its second trial, and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian suspected Li Chenglong had the Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution as his Star Soul transformed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo hunted Star Beasts, fed the Dragon Blood Flying Knife, and injured his shin when a meteorite resisted his kick.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cooled the blazing meteorite in a stream, stored it in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, and later brought it home for Grandma Shi to examine.

Zuo Xiaoduo used the Blazing Sun Heart to advance his cultivation, then surprised his teachers with his extraordinary Star Soul and began accepting challenges and missions. After a hidden-weapons duel with Tang Qianshou, he led survivors through a Star Soul Tower battlefield trial, where his poor military assessment revived questions about his connection to Lord Zuo.

• Grandma Shi identified the Blazing Sun Heart as a rare treasure and explained how its intense heat could advance Zuo Xiaoduo’s Flame Sun True Scripture, then taught him to cultivate against his circumstances.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda until the heat burned away his hair and body hair, then arranged for Boss Sun to gather more star soul jade powder for the earth vein.
• Wen Xingtian warned his class about the approaching war and overtraining, while Zuo Xiaoduo’s rapid growth prompted a challenge from Tang Qianshou and an examination by Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing discovered Zuo Xiaoduo’s fiery dantian vortex and purple Star Soul Power, which overwhelmed the testing machine, and told him to conceal his true rating.
• Ye Changqing allowed Zuo Xiaoduo to accept missions under the usual conditions, while he and Wen Xingtian discussed the danger of exposing him and the Qiu family’s plot against the school.
• Tang Qianshou challenged Zuo Xiaoduo to a hidden-weapons duel, and Zuo Xiaoduo’s Jade Gourd defeated Tang’s dodge before Tang wounded Zuo Xiaoduo with a knife, after which they agreed to call the match a draw and exchanged techniques.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and the other students entered the Star Soul Tower battlefield, where he took command of five hundred wounded survivors and led them north before turning east toward Sun Moon Pass.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to camp with 249 survivors and received a poor military assessment, while Li Chenglong earned the highest rating and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian wondered whether Zuo Xiaoduo was related to Lord Zuo.

Zuo Xiaoduo prepared for wilderness missions, strengthened his cultivation, and discovered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda's accelerated time. His successful herb hunt was interrupted by news of an enormous bounty on his life, while an unidentified young man confronted the rulers of the Netherworld Palace.

• Li Chenglong received an era-defining military strategist evaluation and chose to follow Zuo Xiaoduo while four military leaders sought to recruit him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo selected herb and inner core missions with Li Chenglong's help despite warnings that enemies could attack him outside school.
• Zuo Xiaoduo completed the second level of the Flame Sun True Scripture and confirmed that three hours inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda passed in one hour outside.
• Little Dragon explained how Dragon Veins could develop the pagoda and agreed to move them and find underground treasures in exchange for access to the Blazing Sun Heart and promised drops.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian supplied Zuo Xiaoduo with emergency medicines before he left Fenghai in disguise for a month of missions.
• Zuo Xiaoduo followed Little Dragon's guidance to dig up Resurrection Grass and Fo-Ti Melons before discovering urgent messages telling him to return.
• Zuo Xiaoduo learned that a massive Underground World bounty had drawn hunters toward him, while his defenders intercepted attackers and Minister Nan told Ye Changqing to do nothing.
• An unidentified young man confronted Cen Changfeng, Ping Yiyou, and Zhou Haotian and demanded access to the Netherworld Palace website's backend data.