Recaps

The investigation into the attacks exposed old wounds tied to Vice Principal Cheng’s family, while Li Chenglong traced the plot toward the vanished Golden Snake Gang. After Zuo Xiaoduo gave Ye Changqing a supply of Star Soul Jade, Hidden Dragon High Martial launched a student battle regime, leaving the school and its rival families in growing disorder.

• Ye Changqing’s team seized the Wendao Alliance and uncovered its role in the attacks on Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing, but the alliance’s leaders could not identify their hidden controller.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read Vice Principal Liu’s and Vice Principal Cheng’s fortunes, then linked Cheng’s family tragedy to Cheng Fengxiu’s romance with the Crown Prince and the danger of her becoming empress.
• Li Chenglong connected the Cheng family massacre to the earlier fall of the Golden Snake Gang and warned that She Wang and the Five Great Snake Venerables might be working for powerful forces.
• Ye Changqing rejected schemes that would betray Hidden Dragon High Martial’s principles, while Vice Principal Cheng left determined to pursue his own revenge.
• Ye Changqing found two thousand pieces of Top-Grade Star Soul Jade in Zuo Xiaoduo’s Space Ring and resolved to recover and teach again.
• Zuo Xiaoduo warned his class after Xiang Chong and Xiang Bing returned, and Wen Xingtian began a school-credit ambush regime that set students against one another.
• The Gao, Wu, and Li Lineages clashed at school as teachers encouraged battles, while Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong worked on their internet company and discussed recruiting a manager.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong built an online influence company while Zuo Xiaoduo faced school politics, trained Class One through brutal ambushes, and helped expose a plot against Xiang Kuangren. The arc ended with Gao Qiao’er recognizing Zuo Xiaoduo as Master Zuo and warning him that his fame had drawn dangerous attention.

• Li Chenglong bought a struggling internet company, renamed it, and ordered Ancient Qi to build the internet’s largest troll operation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong used the company to publicize Hidden Dragon High Martial’s history, while Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian cut their School Credits over their secret drinking of nutrient solution.
• Xiang Kuangren faced accusations of attacking Vice Principal Gao, but Jiang Wenzhou’s evidence cleared him as Lei Datou betrayed Xiang and then killed himself and his son.
• Jiang Wenzhou told Wen Xingtian that twenty-three investigators working on Hidden Dragon High Martial’s old cases had vanished, and Wen connected the danger to Zuo Xiaoduo’s earlier warning.
• Zuo Xiaoduo ambushed and wounded all thirty-five students in Class One, then forced them through repeated training until they fought back together and improved their combat skills.
• Gao Chengxiang and Gao Qiao’er visited Zuo Xiaoduo, and Gao Qiao’er asked him to read her fortune after revealing that the Gao Lineage knew he was Master Zuo.
• Zuo Xiaoduo gave Gao Qiao’er a favorable fortune reading, and Li Chenglong warned that her knowledge of his ability made their situation dangerous.

Zuo Xiaoduo uncovered how a Feng Shui trap had endangered Vice Principal Gao and his lineage, while Li Chenglong traced the plot to conflicts among powerful lineages and the Witch Alliance. Vice Principal Gao awoke, but Madam Gao concluded that the family’s own conduct had brought much of its misfortune and ordered it to change.

• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Ye Changqing that the Upper Capital Gao Lineage was coming after him, and Ye Changqing assured him Hidden Dragon High Martial would protect him while refusing to use schemes or assassination as the school’s example.
• Wen Xingtian guided Class One through choosing cultivation methods and weapon disciplines, then sent seven students into secret specialist training as the class separated into different paths.
• Ye Changqing brought Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to examine the unconscious Vice Principal Gao, where Zuo Xiaoduo identified a Feng Shui trap involving the Dragon-Controlling Pool and the bloodied Sun-Moon Stone.
• Zuo Xiaoduo warned Madam Gao that the trap was draining the Gao Lineage’s fortune and could cause sudden deaths, and the household soon learned that three young masters had been killed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong concluded that Vice Principal Gao had been used as a pawn in a plot against Vice Principal Xiang, while the Feng Shui formation made the Gao Lineage’s actions harm Star Soul Humans.
• Ye Changqing revealed that Hidden Dragon High Martial was being used to draw enemies out, and Li Chenglong connected the conflict among powerful lineages to the Witch Alliance’s efforts to exploit internal disorder.
• Madam Gao and Master Pang dismantled the Dragon-Controlling Pool and buried the Sun-Moon Stone, but deaths and crises continued as Madam Gao concluded the Gao Lineage had brought much of its misfortune upon itself.
• Madam Gao ordered the Gao Lineage to kneel before the Ancestral Instructions Stele after Vice Principal Gao awoke, and Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong continued their school routine.

Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Embryonic Breath Realm, trained in the Gravity Room, and filled the Annihilation Sky Pagoda with discarded Star Soul Jade powder while bargaining with Little Dragon. As Hidden Dragon High Martial prepared for its trials and the New Student Competition, the Gao Lineage returned to its military obligations and competitors across other schools fought for their titles.

• Li Chenglong reached the Embryonic Breath Realm but lost quickly to Zuo Xiaoduo, who discovered that Star Soul Jade powder had sprouted grass inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo gathered discarded Star Soul Jade powder for the pagoda, while Little Dragon claimed it had redirected Earth Dragon Qi into the space and bargained over treasure and Fortune Points.
• Zuo Xiaoduo broke through to the Embryonic Breath Realm with nine blooming lotus flowers, then demonstrated his swordsmanship against Zhang Wencheng and received advice to keep tempering his sword heart.
• Madam Gao confronted Gao Zhiyun over the harm to the Gao Lineage and Hidden Dragon, and Gao Zhiyun renewed his commitment to the ancestral teachings before ordering the lineage’s young men to train and enlist.
• Gao Zhiyun arranged for Gao descendants to join Hidden Dragon’s Sun Moon Pass trial, then wagered Xiang Kuangren that none would become a general within three years.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained under heavy loads, gathered more powder for the pagoda, and avoided giving his enemies an opening while they debated whether to attack him.
• Ye Changqing scheduled the New Student Competition and further trials, barred Zuo Xiaoduo from competing, and allowed Li Chenglong to enter.
• Zuo Xiaonian cultivated with Deep Sea Black Ice, while Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, and Zhou Yunqing competed at Cloud High Martial, and Yu Moyan won at Yuyang High Martial and vowed to protect those he loved.