Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo accepted responsibility for his lie at the school assembly, then joined his friends in Class Nineteen and proved himself in a brutal class fight. As the students prepared for their first missions, his face readings warned Shen Tienan’s entire squad of a death calamity, but she ignored him and left.

• At the school assembly, Li Changjiang announced Zuo Xiaoduo’s scholarship and tuition benefits, and Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he had lied about his family’s poverty and apologized to his parents.
• After receiving his award, Zuo Xiaoduo claimed He Yuanyue had taught him physiognomy, then trained with Qin Fangyang and secretly helped Zuo Xiaonian divide the spoils from the Witch Alliance fight.
• Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian fought the Witch Alliance attackers, while Zuo Xiaoduo killed two wounded enemies from inside a tree and later discovered that Uncle Nan’s Dragon Blood Flying Knife had absorbed their power.
• In Class Nineteen, Zuo Xiaoduo led his five friends against the veteran students, used formations to withstand the attack, and unleashed the Great Sun Flame Sun before Qin Fangyang stopped the fight.
• Qin Fangyang warned the newcomers about the risks of the martial path, then had the class spar and explained how they could earn contribution points and choose weapons.
• Before the training expedition, He Yuanyue asked Zuo Xiaoduo to read the students’ faces, and he warned Shen Tienan that all six members of her squad showed signs of a death calamity.
• Shen Tienan rejected Zuo Xiaoduo’s warning and left with her squad, while Zuo Xiaoduo reassured Bai Bingbing’s team and told his friends their own mission would bring a scare but no danger.

Zuo Xiaoduo led his team into the wasteland, where they gathered rare herbs, defeated the Phoenix City Three Young Masters, and survived a hidden attack. Meanwhile, He Yuanyue and Jiang Changbin uncovered the Witch Alliance’s threat to Phoenix City and began investigating the Phoenix Mansion as He Yuanyue’s time grew short.

• Qin Fangyang broke the legs of Shen Tienan and her five companions to keep them from entering the field, but Shen Yushu arranged healing pods so they could go anyway.
• Zuo Xiaoduo led Wan Lixiu, Long Yusheng, Li Chenglong, Li Changming, and Yu Moyan beyond the city barrier, where they followed Li Chenglong’s clues to collect valuable Star Soul Continuity Grass and Revival Star Grass.
• After Shen Tienan led her squad into the fog against Qin Fangyang’s warning, Three-Tailed Tigers killed all six students, and Qin Fangyang found only fragments of their remains.
• Teng Hao and the other Phoenix City Three Young Masters demanded part of Zuo Xiaoduo’s team’s haul, but Zuo Xiaoduo defeated them and forced them to sign over their possessions and promise weekly gifts.
• Liu Jiansheng and his brothers pursued the hidden attackers after Zuo Xiaoduo’s team suffered wounds in an ambush, while Li Changming treated Zuo Xiaoduo’s back injury.
• He Yuanyue told Jiang Changbin that Shang Qingyun was likely a Witch Alliance leader seeking Phoenix City’s Phoenix Vein fortune, and Jiang vowed to seek help from the Dragon Blood Team.
• He Yuanyue and Sister Lan discussed the Phoenix Mansion, the Ning and Meng families, and possible Phoenix Vein candidates, then He Yuanyue assigned investigations and asked for Dragon Soul Liquid and Heavenly Origin Root despite the cost to her lifespan.

After Mu Yunfeng’s attack, Zuo Xiaoduo trained while Qin Fangyang faced a bounty-driven assault, and the students’ families blamed the school for the deaths. He Yuanyue then used Zuo Xiaoduo’s observations to identify two sites weakening Phoenix City’s Phoenix Vein, while the sky’s final signs remained unresolved.

• Zuo Xiaonian killed Mu Yunfeng and accused Meng Chenyu of letting him threaten Zuo Xiaoduo, then took Meng Chenyu to face their master.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s team redeemed 9,880 contribution points, while Qin Fangyang reported six students’ deaths and faced their families’ accusations.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained in the fivefold Gravity Room, and Qin Fangyang escorted him home while teaching him about the dangers of showing mercy.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Mu Yanyan that she and Zuo Xiaonian faced deadly danger tied to Zuo Xiaonian’s breakthrough and the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact.
• He Yuanyue had Zuo Xiaoduo observe Phoenix City and learned that the Meng Group headquarters and the Ning Lineage’s ancestral graves appeared to pin down the phoenix-shaped landform.
• Shen Yushu offered a bounty for Qin Fangyang, who killed hundreds of attackers before Shen’s forces set Phoenix Tail Mountain on fire.
• Qin Fangyang escaped the burning mountain by riding his sword into the sky, and Shen Yushu turned to seek a meeting with President Meng.
• He Yuanyue watched Southern Sky for a dragon as a great fire rose there and turned rain into steam across hundreds of miles.

After the Dragon Vein awakens and gives Phoenix City a chance to survive, He Yuanyue warns that the Meng Lineage, the Ning Lineage, and the Witch Alliance may be plotting to take the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact. Zuo Xiaoduo studies the city’s feng shui and proposes changing its waterways, then prepares to act with Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan.

• He Yuanyue explained that the Dragon Vein had awakened and supported the Phoenix Vein, giving Phoenix City a chance to survive if people protected both veins.
• He Yuanyue revealed that the Meng Lineage and Ning Lineage had helped suppress the Phoenix Vein and might be colluding with the Witch Alliance to steal the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact from Zuo Xiaonian.
• Zuo Xiaoduo obtained the General Outline of the Qi-Observing Art from Qin Fangyang, recovered from the infusion, and trained intensely in the Gravity Room.
• Zuo Xiaoduo inspected Phoenix City from above and identified the Meng Group’s headquarters and the Ning Lineage’s ancestral graves as opposing points in a formation suppressing the Phoenix Vein.
• Zuo Xiaoduo proposed redirecting the Wenshui River through the Coldwater River to change the city’s feng shui, and Qin Fangyang agreed to help gather experts.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian designed her ice-phoenix sword, while Zuo Xiaoduo described his plans for a pair of heavy hammers packed with concealed weapons.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained his plan to alter the terrain near Chen Yu Tower and the Meng Group headquarters, and Mu Yanyan agreed to help that night.
• Zuo Xiaoduo brought out his old puppy coin bank and had Zuo Xiaonian drip three drops of blood from her middle finger into it.