Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo fought Class One over its attack on Li Chenglong, while Qin Fangyang and Li Changjiang investigated signs that Broken Army had infiltrated the school. After Zuo Xiaoduo was targeted by attackers, he rushed to help Qin Fangyang and Li Changjiang, and his flying knife streaked toward an enemy poised to kill Li Changjiang.

• Zuo Xiaoduo beat Class One students and repeatedly blocked their classroom door, demanding they answer for bullying Li Chenglong and attacking Class Nine.
• Ge Yuanhang led Class One students to apologize to Class Nine and Li Chenglong, while Qin Fangyang suspected an outside influence had driven the students to violence.
• Zuo Xiaoduo took first place in Class Nine and sparred with Qin Fangyang, who pushed him to improve his real combat skills.
• Ten Martial Masters attacked Zuo Xiaoduo outside school, but Liu Jiansheng and his brothers arrived and revealed that Li Changjiang had secretly ordered them to protect him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo helped his father unload a truckload of stones, then met Uncle Nan, received a blood-colored Small Flying Knife, and learned that Blind Hong would stay at the shop.
• Attackers bombed Qin Fangyang and Li Changjiang’s vehicle, and Zuo Xiaoduo rushed from the shop after hearing Qin Fangyang’s call for help.
• Qin Fangyang and Li Changjiang fought eleven attackers while protecting five students, then Li Changjiang led the students away as Qin Fangyang held off their pursuers.
• Broken Army used needles and a song to control the five students, who stabbed Li Changjiang, and Zuo Xiaoduo hurled the Blood-Colored Small Flying Knife at the black-mist enemy poised to kill him.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian received Uncle Nan’s cultivation arts and became entangled in the investigation of the Azure Dragon Gang massacre and the Witch Alliance’s schemes. As Phoenix City’s hidden Phoenix Vein danger emerged, Zuo Xiaonian learned she faced a deadly tribulation, while He Yuanyue intervened in the school investigation.

• Zuo Xiaoduo’s throwing knife disrupted an attack on Li Changjiang and Qin Fangyang, and the attackers fled before Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he had thrown it.
• Uncle Nan gifted Zuo Xiaonian the Moon Soul True Scripture, Zuo Xiaoduo the Flame Sun True Scripture, and their family valuable weapon materials before departing.
• Phoenix City authorities discovered the Azure Dragon Gang had been massacred and investigated Second High School for Witch Alliance spies and students affected by the Broken Army Soul Confusion Lure.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read Qin Fangyang’s face and learned that Lü Qianqian, who had sacrificed her martial path to save him, had been separated from him for decades.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Flame Sun True Scripture filled Class Nine with spiritual energy, helping several students break through to the Martial Master tier.
• Grandma He told Zuo Xiaonian that the Witch Alliance’s Kill Break Wolf forces were targeting Phoenix City’s Phoenix Vein and that Zuo Xiaonian was likely to face its coming soul impact.
• Zuo Xiaonian read Zuo Xiaoduo’s hidden notes and realized he had been investigating the Greedy Wolf, Seven Killings, and Broken Army threats to protect her.
• After authorities removed nearly three hundred people from Second High School, He Yuanyue confronted Director Jiang and secured a promise that officials would not wrongly accuse students.

Qin Fangyang discovered that He Yuanyue was the wife he had lost, while Zuo Xiaoduo prepared jade hidden weapons and trained with his classmates and Zuo Xiaonian. As Phoenix City’s purge continued, a gray-clad envoy confronted Lin Genggao over the exposed operation and his failure to act.

• Qin Fangyang learned that He Yuanyue had once been Lü Qianqian, and later recognized her as his long-lost wife while deciding to watch over her quietly.
• Zuo Xiaoduo resolved to fight at Sun Moon Pass and protect his family and hometown after Li Chenglong described the sacrifices made against the Witch Alliance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo joined Zuo Xiaonian’s dinner with Meng Chentian and warned her that Meng Chentian and the Meng Lineage seemed dangerous.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that jade remained intact under his cultivation energy, ordered ten thousand jade trinkets as hidden weapons, and dubbed himself the Jade Young Master.
• Zuo Xiaonian trained Zuo Xiaoduo in stances and hidden-weapon technique, while he memorized the Hundred Weapons Manual and used more than eight thousand jade weapons in practice.
• The investigation into the exposed operation spread across the Flame Martial Empire, and Phoenix City began testing and purging suspected participants.
• A gray-clad envoy questioned Lin Genggao about the organization’s losses, and Lin admitted he had known of Cheng Fangzhi’s involvement for four months without acting.

Zuo Xiaoduo passed the Star Soul Tower’s second touch, moved up to the Martial Master Class, and began studying the Qi-Viewing Technique while training with hidden weapons. As his family prepared to attend the school assembly, the Witch Alliance struck Cheng Fangzhi’s family and Phoenix City, raising fears of a major crisis.

• The man in gray ordered Broken Army to kill Cheng Yunqi’s family, Zuo Xiaoduo, and compromised operatives, while Seven Killings reported heavy losses and Chen Yuting faced exposure.
• Li Changjiang and Hu Ruoyun told Zuo Xiaoduo he would headline the school’s award ceremony, and he negotiated a tuition refund, a waived fee, and a scholarship.
• Zuo Xiaoduo described a hostile gray-robed old man to Li Changjiang, then read Hu Ruoyun’s face, and Liao brought medicine and Star Spirit Grass that gave her hope of recovery.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s family celebrated his advancement and agreed to attend the assembly, while Zuo Xiaonian bought him food and agreed to fund his hidden weapons.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and five classmates took the Star Soul Tower’s second touch, and Zuo fled his marriage-choice illusion, while Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, Yu Moyan, Li Changming, and Li Chenglong received their evaluations.
• He Yuanyue arranged for Hu Ruoyun’s treatment, gave guidance to the students, and invited Zuo Xiaoduo to study the Qi-Viewing Technique with her while Qin Fangyang continued teaching the group.
• He Yuanyue, Qin Fangyang, and Sister Lan put Zuo Xiaoduo through hidden-weapons training, and He Yuanyue taught him and Qin Fangyang the foundations of the Qi-Viewing Technique.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained late into the night as Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting discussed their children and their mortal-world tribulation.
• The Witch Alliance killed Cheng Fangzhi’s family and seven Star Shield Bureau experts, then set fires across Phoenix City and destroyed the Cheng Group Medicinal Materials Company headquarters.
• Wan Pingyuan urged an investigation into He Yuanyue’s Phoenix Vein theory, Director Jiang Changbin requested reinforcements, and Zuo Changlu, Wu Yuting, and Zuo Xiaonian arrived at Second High School for the assembly.