Recaps

Ye Changqing gave Zuo Xiaoduo the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and revealed Hidden Dragon High Martial’s internal crisis, while Zuo and Li Chenglong strengthened ties with the Xiang siblings. Wen Xingtian began reshaping Class One through brutal training, and the stretch ended with Zuo challenging senior students over a dining hall table.

• Zuo Xiaoduo showed Ye Changqing his twin hammers, and Ye judged his final attack powerful enough to threaten an ordinary early-stage Infant Transformation cultivator.
• Ye Changqing gave Zuo Xiaoduo the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, urged him to prepare for the coming war, and asked him to kill Great Witch Dan Kong if he grew strong enough.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read Ye Changqing’s fortune and traced Fenghai City’s Dragon Veins from the air, finding that they skirted Hidden Dragon High Martial and that a faint vein led toward Phoenix City.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong gave the Xiang Family their ten-leaf Orchid Fragrance Grass, and Xiang Tianfei accepted it and promised to repay them.
• Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing took Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to Heaven First-Class, where the meal helped ease the imbalance created by the Xiang Family’s debt to them.
• Li Chenglong explained Hidden Dragon High Martial’s leadership crisis and proposed transferring schools, but Zuo Xiaoduo chose to confront the people behind its troubles.
• Wen Xingtian assessed Class One, divided the students into groups, and trained them harshly, correcting their combat flaws and beating Zuo Xiaoduo in a spar.
• Zuo Xiaoduo refused to give up a dining hall table to Zhao Wensheng and cracked Zhao’s fist bones with a punch before following with a Dragon Gate Leg.

Zuo Xiaoduo navigated lineage politics, confronted the lingering injustice surrounding Shi Yunfeng, and won another dining-hall challenge. As Hidden Dragon High Martial prepared its first trial, he began painfully compressing his True Essence to delay his breakthrough.

• Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Zhao Wensheng in the dining hall, then heard Wu Yunhai and the Gao brothers propose cooperation while he suspected their lineages might still be plotting against him.
• Grandma Shi showed Zuo Xiaoduo the evidence of Shi Yunfeng’s legacy and told him how slander had ruined her husband’s reputation, and Zuo Xiaoduo promised to help uncover the truth.
• After Zuo Xiaoduo predicted that Shi Yunfeng’s injustice could soon be exposed, he punished two young men for mocking Shi Yunfeng and donated their payment to a veterans’ office.
• Xiang Kuangren attacked Vice Principal Wei to reclaim his former post, while Wen Xingtian put Zuo Xiaoduo through punishing training and inspected his heavy armguards.
• Zuo Xiaoduo led Class One into a challenge against Second-Year Class Seven, defeated Wu Qing, and watched Teacher Tian share the losing class’s punishment of standing to eat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained through the night, reached the Innate Peak, and learned the Ice Heart Jade Pot Heart Method from Wen Xingtian to suppress his approaching breakthrough.
• Wen Xingtian announced that the first trial would begin in a week and ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to take first place, and Zuo Xiaoduo then began compressing his True Essence with the new method.
• Zuo Xiaoduo endured severe pain, repaired cracking meridians with Fortune Points, and hammered his compressed True Essence until it occupied roughly one twenty-fourth of his Dantian’s capacity.

Zuo Xiaoduo pushed his cultivation through repeated compressions while investigating the campaign against Grandma Shi and preparing for the school trial. He entered the trial, swept through Star Beast territory, and joined Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing as hidden attackers waited to make their move.

• Zuo Xiaoduo collected seventeen thousand upper-grade Star Soul Jade pieces from Fang Yinuo and began compressing his true essence under Wen Xingtian’s guidance, eventually revealing that he had already compressed it three times.
• Wen Xingtian ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to remain at the villa and suppress his cultivation until the trial, while Zuo Xiaoduo kept gathering jade and warned Fang Yinuo that someone might be watching him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that Director Sun had been paid to paint insults about Grandma Shi, forced him to stop, and took his valuables before asking Fang Yinuo to fund an organization to influence online opinion.
• Zuo Xiaoduo gave Li Chenglong clues about the plot against Principal Shi, began his ninth compression, and later handed classmates envelopes of trial advice before Wen Xingtian led them out.
• Before the trial, Zuo Xiaoduo saw danger in Xiang Chong’s and Xiang Bing’s physiognomies, warned them to split up and meet him, and privately alerted Wen Xingtian to the threat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo swept through the trial grounds with his Little Gourds, collecting Star Beasts and climbing past 9,500 points before entering Dan Origin Realm territory and killing giant pythons.
• Zuo Xiaoduo met Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing on a hillside, where five hidden attackers watched them eat and rest.
• Zuo Xiaoduo led Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing toward the Dan Origin Realm hunting grounds, while the five concealed students waited until they left and planned to begin their operation around ten that night.

Zuo Xiaoduo foiled an assassination attempt on Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing, then helped the school conceal their survival while it investigated the conspiracy. After the trial, he exposed the truth behind the Gao and Wu Lineages’ feud and continued cultivating with Li Chenglong.

• Zuo Xiaoduo defeated the attackers targeting him, rescued Xiang Bing with Wen Xingtian’s help, and helped save the gravely wounded Xiang Chong.
• Wen Xingtian and Xiang Kuangren secured the captured operatives and kept Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing’s survival secret while they investigated who had hired the attackers.
• Zuo Xiaoduo resumed the trial, raided the Thunderbolt White Tiger territory, and sold nine cubs to his classmates for 286,888 upper-grade star soul jade.
• The trial ended with Li Chenglong and Meng Changjun placing behind Zuo Xiaoduo, and the class mourned Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing, believing them dead.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian traced the attack’s information leak to a Wendao Alliance hall master, while Li Chenglong investigated possible connections among Fenghai’s factions.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sold his Star Beast haul at Heaven First-Class, received five billion Star Origin Coins, and learned the school had bought Fenghai’s Top-Grade Star Soul Jade to treat Principal Ye.
• Zuo Xiaoduo showed the Gao and Wu Lineages footage revealing how their feud had escalated, prompting some young members to reject the conflict and leaving the elders to argue over Li Chengqiu’s crimes.
• Li Chenglong completed his first compression on the Thorny Road, then cultivated with Zuo Xiaoduo as their combined practice drew in energy at an increased rate.