Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo survived the bounty hunters’ ambushes and entered the Star Beast Forest, where he hid and compressed his True Essence as enemies gathered to hunt him. The search intensified, drawing powerful cultivators and Star Beasts into the forest while Zuo Xiaoduo continued evading pursuers underground.

• You Dongtian revealed himself as the Right Route Heavenly King, secured the Three Demons Beyond Heaven’s obedience, and claimed seventy percent of the Netherworld Palace’s net profits while allowing visitors to search its records.
• Zuo Xiaoduo killed five Infant Transformation attackers and then fought off more pursuers, using his movement techniques, hidden weapons, and swords to escape the expanding hunt.
• Zuo Xiaoduo fled into the Star Beast Forest, destroyed ten attackers with his Thousand Souls Hammer, then hid in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and compressed his True Essence.
• Thousands of cultivators converged on the Star Radiance Mountain Range as Tian Wujiang, the Three Ghosts of the Yellow Springs, Grandma Shi, and other powerful figures arrived or entered the forest.
• Ye Changqing defied Minister Nan’s order and took Wen Xingtian and ten old brothers to help Zuo Xiaoduo, while Minister Nan panicked after Wu Yuting learned about the operation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cautiously tunneled near the Centipede King, escaped its notice, and emerged near two snakes before killing three members of the Black Mountain Four Wolves.
• After the surviving wolf’s face-reading triggered six Fortune Points, Zuo Xiaoduo hid as dozens of cultivators arrived, then escaped underground when they blasted apart his hiding place.
• Pursuers rushed into the tunnels after Zuo Xiaoduo, while more fighters quietly joined the search.

Zuo Xiaoduo hid from the bounty hunters and used the Centipede King’s lair to survive their pursuit, then became trapped in a contest over the hunters’ Space Rings. After escaping with a huge haul and a severed centipede leg, he headed toward the Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit while Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian searched for him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo lured seventy-six pursuers through his tunnel, where the Centipede King attacked and killed them as Ye Changqing’s group arrived too late to find him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo learned that the Centipede King guarded Dragon Soul Ginseng and a flood dragon’s remains, then tried to retrieve the dead hunters’ Space Rings from underground.
• The Centipede King repeatedly stopped Zuo Xiaoduo from escaping and forced him to keep retrieving rings, while other would-be thieves were killed and added to the heap.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian returned to the centipede’s lair and realized Zuo Xiaoduo was nearby, even as he and the Centipede King continued their struggle over the rings.
• The Four Swords of the Kingly Way attacked the Centipede King, and Ye Changqing recognized the men who had once gravely wounded him.
• While the battle distracted the fighters, Zuo Xiaoduo collapsed the ground and swept the rings, soil, and a severed centipede leg into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• The Four Swords of the Kingly Way fled after the Centipede King wounded them, and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian set out to search for Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Xiaoduo headed for the Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit and entered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to recover, using up the stored power in his Dragon Blood Flying Knife.

Zuo Xiaoduo gathered treasures and evaded bounty hunters while his allies searched for him and prepared to protect him. He stole the Snake Soul Fruit tree from Snake Valley, leaving She Wang and the Five Snake Venerables to face the enraged Snake King.

• Zuo Xiaoduo recovered, collected Space Rings, and set out for the Soul-Tempering Vermilion Fruit, which he harvested along with its tree before escaping the collapsing valley.
• Zuo Xiaoduo disguised himself, robbed bounty hunters, and killed Scarface and the Ghost Assassin after using the Void-Transforming Stone to overcome their concealment.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian organized Hidden Dragon High Martial to search for Zuo Xiaoduo and plunder bounty hunters, while Yu Moyan accepted Hell Eighteen Trays to grow strong enough to help him.
• Zuo Xiaonian tried to rush to Zuo Xiaoduo, but Uncle Nan stopped her after Zuo Changlu confirmed Xiao Duo was safe, while Qin Fangyang headed toward the Star Radiance Mountain Range.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian confronted bounty hunters at the summit, defended Hidden Dragon High Martial’s actions, and warned the gathered killers against attacking them.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered Snake Valley using the Void-Transforming Stone and stole the Snake Soul Fruit tree by uprooting it and storing it in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• She Wang and the Five Snake Venerables found the empty pit, and the Snake King attacked them after discovering its treasure was gone.
• The Five Snake Venerables wounded the Snake King and died in an explosion, while She Wang escaped with Snake Spirit Grass after losing his right leg to the Snake King's venom.

Zuo Xiaoduo survived Snake Valley, slipped into Tiger King territory, and was found after Minister Nan intervened in the battle over the Heavenly Tiger Moonlight Paste. His disappearance alarmed You Dongtian and Nan Zhengqian, and Wu Yuting learned that they had sent her son into danger without telling her.

• Vice Principal Cheng captured the crippled She Wang as the Snake King burst from Snake Valley and attacked the humans outside.
• Zuo Xiaoduo escaped the lair, collected Space Rings from the dead, and used the Void-Transforming Stone to hide from his pursuers.
• The Snake King fought the Centipede King over the Dragon Soul Ginseng, while Tian Wujiang killed Zhao Qingsong and was placed on Shuicheng First High School’s mandatory kill list.
• Zuo Xiaoduo slipped into Tiger King territory as the kings battled, but two Winged Sword Tigers swallowed the Heavenly Tiger Moonlight Paste blossoms and drew the Tiger King after them.
• Minister Nan stopped the Tiger King’s attack on Zuo Xiaoduo, subdued the king, and ordered him to guard the area, and another stranger warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to go missing again.
• You Dongtian and his searchers panicked when Zuo Xiaoduo vanished despite his protections, then found him and arranged to keep him under watch.
• Zuo Changlu concealed Zuo Xiaoduo’s disappearance from Wu Yuting while demanding that You Dongtian find him, until You Dongtian called to report that Little Surplus was safe.
• Wu Yuting overheard You Dongtian admit that Zuo Xiaoduo had disappeared during their dangerous plan, and You Dongtian begged her forgiveness.