Recaps

Zuo Xiaoduo arranged a formation to drain the Meng and Ning families’ fortune, with Qin Fangyang and their allies changing rivers and placing coins across Phoenix City. He Yuanyue recognized the formation and agreed to keep it secret as Qin resumed teaching and Jiang Changbin arrived in the city with two Dragon Blood Team members.

• Zuo Xiaoduo instructed Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian to place coins at sites connected to the Meng and Ning families, while Qin Fangyang went to meet Meng Chentian.
• Meng Tianyue and Ning Suifeng presented Qin Fangyang with the heads of Shen Yushu and his followers, then offered him wealth in return for settling their dispute.
• Qin Fangyang consulted Zuo Xiaoduo and negotiated ten billion Star Origin Coins, pills, spirit medicine, jade, and a cultivation manual from the Meng and Ning families.
• Zuo Xiaoduo, Qin Fangyang, Zuo Xiaonian, Mu Yanyan, Sister Lan, and Luo Lie placed coins and redirected rivers around Phoenix City to complete the formation.
• Qin Fangyang grieved for Qianqian and returned to Phoenix City, while Zuo Xiaoduo mapped the formation and found its lines converged at Phoenix Dance Garden.
• Jiang Changbin fought with Jiang Wenzhou over reinforcements, staged a public threat to expose his parentage, and eventually flew to Phoenix City with Han Song and Yang Yu.
• He Yuanyue learned how the formation worked, recognized that it would seize the Meng and Ning families’ fortune, and decided to keep it secret and leave it in place.
• Qin Fangyang taught Class Nineteen why Zuo Xiaoduo should delay breaking through, then took him to He Yuanyue, who identified the formation as the All-Heaven Stars Three Souls and Seven Spirits Yin-Yang Reversal.

Zuo Xiaoduo trained, arranged weapons, and tried to avert a foretold disaster for Long Yusheng’s family as He Yuanyue prepared for her decline. Meanwhile, Mu Yanyan’s disciples gathered to protect Ling Nian, and the Meng and Ning Clans investigated changes to Phoenix City’s terrain.

• Zuo Xiaoduo explained to He Yuanyue how his formation would protect Zuo Xiaonian and link her fate to the empire’s fortune, then told her that Qin Fangyang was teaching through the Fuel Exhausted, Fire Passed On technique.
• Qin Fangyang reported that the Meng and Ning Clans had annihilated the Shen Family and other households, and he and He Yuanyue arranged how to distribute the seized money and supplies.
• Zuo Xiaoduo began training in weighted gear and designed elaborate swords and Nine-Nine Kitty Hammers with Wu Tiejiang, while Zuo Changlu arranged rare materials for the weapons.
• Zuo Changlu met Blind Hong, who offered to read Zuo Xiaoduo’s fortune, while Zuo Xiaoduo encountered Qi-Reading Adepts who warned him of a bloody calamity.
• He Yuanyue named Li Changjiang and Hu Ruoyun to lead Second High School after her, shared her regrets, and asked the staff to prepare students for the future.
• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu that Long Yusheng’s family faced destruction, then persuaded Qin Fangyang to demolish the family’s old home to save them.
• Mu Yanyan learned from Zuo Xiaonian that White Tiger Baleful Intent was approaching and warned her fellow disciples about Ling Nian’s coming Phoenix Vein Soul Impact and the Witch Alliance’s presence.
• Ning Suifeng and Meng Tianyue examined Phoenix City with Meng Chentian and Qi-Reading Adepts, who began investigating the altered peaks and reversed Wenshui flow.

As Phoenix City’s clans investigated the reversed Wenshui River, Jiang Changbin gathered a team to confront a suspected enemy, while Zuo Xiaoduo sensed danger too late to stop the battle. Shang Qingyun was exposed as a Witch Alliance Star Lord and killed by Wu Tiejiang, leaving survivors injured and the Governor’s Residence under suspicion.

• Qi-Reading Adepts confirmed that the reversed Wenshui River had not disrupted Phoenix City’s feng shui, while Ning Suifeng privately resolved to consult Blind Hong and inspect the ancestral graves.
• Elder Ge urged the Witch Alliance to search for hidden implements, and a black-clad man mistakenly destroyed the Long Family Manor before Old Master Long forbade revenge.
• Jiang Changbin assembled a team to attack their enemy and kept Governor Shang Qingyun drinking, while Zuo Xiaoduo later saw black aura on himself and Zuo Xiaonian and realized their allies faced deadly danger.
• Shang Qingyun fought off the team after Jiang Changbin poisoned him, killing two Star Shield Bureau experts and badly wounding others as Yang Yu sacrificed himself trying to stop him.
• As Shang Qingyun recovered through starlight and prepared to kill the remaining fighters, Wu Tiejiang struck him dead with a massive hammer, bringing down the Heavenly Dao’s lightning in response.
• Zuo Xiaonian rescued the wounded from the battlefield, and the Star Shield Bureau treated the survivors while Jiang Changbin reported that Shang Qingyun had been a Witch Alliance Star Lord.
• He Yuanyue scolded Jiang Changbin for not having Zuo Xiaoduo examine their fortunes, and Jiang Wenzhou began investigating possible infiltrators in the Governor’s Residence.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian concluded that their parents were weakened masters in hiding and resolved to protect them while Zuo Xiaoduo trained and earned money through fortune readings. The Meng and Ning families suffered mounting disasters, and Blind Hong died from heavenly backlash after accepting Zuo Xiaoduo as his godson.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian agreed to conceal their suspicions about their parents and stop them from summoning help that might expose them.
• Zuo Xiaoduo earned millions through fortune readings, gave money to his parents, and used cooling power from Fortune Points to expand his cultivation capacity.
• Hu Ruoyun and He Yuanyue uncovered an Insoluble Poison scheme in Bai Bingbing’s food, while Zuo Xiaoduo revealed that he had avoided eating it and hoped to expose its instigator.
• Zuo Xiaonian trained Zuo Xiaoduo in hidden weapons, Qin Fangyang increased his training load, and the siblings received and named their new swords.
• Meng Chentian ordered the Bai Family operation abandoned as disasters struck the Meng and Ning families, and he warned against harming Ling Nian before the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact.
• Blind Hong revealed that reversed feng shui formations were draining his life, used his final qi-reading art on Zuo Xiaoduo, and died after accepting him as his godson and leaving him his books and ring.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Tiejiang suspected Blind Hong had left a hammer technique and arranged to conceal it among other techniques to protect Zuo Xiaoduo from his enemies.
• Meng Chentian helped Zuo Changlu move Blind Hong’s belongings but later forgot the encounter, while Ning Suifeng saw a video of thick mist covering the Ning Family’s ancestral graves.