Chapter Summaries

After Zuo Xiaoduo’s calculated revenge against the extortionate family won public support and secured his release, Li Changjiang and Hu Ruoyun discussed his ruthless, unconventional methods. The Heaven and Earth Net’s first evaluation was about to appear, leaving them anxious about its judgment.

• Public outrage over the family’s actions led to Zuo Xiaoduo’s release, and reporters and onlookers welcomed him as a hero.
• Zuo Xiaoduo tearfully asked whether he could beat the family again, then sprinted toward the hospital before the trial ended.
• Li Changjiang and Hu Ruoyun reflected on how Zuo Xiaoduo had manipulated sympathy and public opinion to punish the family.
• Li Changjiang described Zuo Xiaoduo’s methods as having something of the demonic path, while Hu Ruoyun worried about how lasting the consequences would be.
• The Heaven and Earth Net’s evaluation began to appear, and Hu Ruoyun gripped Li Changjiang’s wrist anxiously.

Hu Ruoyun and Li Changjiang saw Zuo Xiaoduo’s assessment, “Leftist Path, Demonic Heart,” and argued over whether his ruthless methods were justified. After the trial ended, Zuo Xiaoduo downplayed what he had done and Hu Ruoyun prepared to take him to the Martial Warrior class.

• Hu Ruoyun saw Zuo Xiaoduo’s assessment and protested that it was unfair, while Li Changjiang explained why it reflected his extreme methods.
• Li Changjiang said Zuo Xiaoduo had deliberately destroyed the family’s standing and left them no way back, prompting Hu Ruoyun to admit he had been stifled for too long.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Heaven and Earth Tower just as he had been preparing to attack the family further.
• Hu Ruoyun asked Zuo Xiaoduo about the trial, and he claimed he had only faced an extortion incident and handled it with tolerance.
• Hu Ruoyun told Zuo Xiaoduo he had done well and said she would take him to report to the Martial Warrior class.

Hu Ruoyun and Li Changjiang realized Zuo Xiaoduo had remembered details from an instinctive illusion, but Hu Ruoyun stopped Li Changjiang from reporting his possible mental-strength talent to protect him. She then brought Zuo Xiaoduo to Martial Warrior Class Nine, where he prepared to begin his martial path and said an emotional farewell to her.

• Li Changjiang realized Zuo Xiaoduo had remembered the trial while inside an instinctive illusion, suggesting unusual mental strength.
• Hu Ruoyun prevented Li Changjiang from reporting Zuo Xiaoduo's potential talent, fearing the information would put him at risk.
• Hu Ruoyun brought Zuo Xiaoduo to the doorway of Martial Warrior Class Nine and urged him to pursue his martial path.
• Hu Ruoyun told Zuo Xiaoduo he had to leap over the Dragon Gate before turning twenty.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to embrace Hu Ruoyun and thanked her before entering the class.

Zuo Xiaoduo left Hu Ruoyun and arrived at Martial Warrior Class Nine, where he made a flamboyant entrance and introduced himself as a fortune-teller. He surveyed the well-equipped classroom after Qin Fangyang ordered him to introduce himself at the lectern.

• Zuo Xiaoduo bowed farewell to Hu Ruoyun and left for Class Nine in a robe that made her wonder if it resembled a Daoist robe.
• Qin Fangyang continued teaching while his students waited curiously for the transfer student to arrive.
• Qin Fangyang told the class that a martial artist had to open a door, and Zuo Xiaoduo kicked the classroom door off its hinges.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered politely, introduced himself, and offered classmates fortune-telling and face-reading for one hundred yuan per reading.
• Qin Fangyang asked Zuo Xiaoduo to introduce himself at the lectern, and Zuo Xiaoduo looked over the classroom's cultivation facilities.

Zuo Xiaoduo introduced himself to Qin Fangyang’s Martial Warrior class and immediately boasted that he could teach the students and had inherited a lost art of physiognomy. The class’s chubby student challenged his claim, and Zuo Xiaoduo defended it as the exchange continued.

• Zuo Xiaoduo surveyed the Star Soul Stones in the classroom and calculated how much the academy must spend replacing them.
• Qin Fangyang asked Zuo Xiaoduo to introduce himself formally, and Zuo Xiaoduo calmly took the podium.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told the class they could call him Big Brother or Boss and offered to teach them.
• Zuo Xiaoduo claimed his face-reading ability came from the Heavenly Secrets Way, an inheritance lost for thirty million years.
• A chubby student questioned whether the Heavenly Secrets Way had ever existed, and Zuo Xiaoduo argued that history held countless forgotten sects.
• The chubby student countered that secret inheritors would hide their identities instead of announcing them openly.

Zuo Xiaoduo introduced himself to Class Nine as a fortune-teller who could guide people through life and love, but Qin Fangyang beat him during his combat assessment. The class welcomed him as its new punching bag, and the top-ranked student pointed out that this was what Zuo Xiaoduo had asked for.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told his classmates that he could divine their fortunes and guide them through danger, careers, and love.
• Qin Fangyang challenged Zuo Xiaoduo to look in a mirror and predict whether he would get beaten, then said he was assessing the new student's combat strength.
• Qin Fangyang beat Zuo Xiaoduo until he was bruised and swollen, and Zuo Xiaoduo praised the teacher's control over his blows.
• Qin Fangyang explained that Class Nine held daily sparring matches and weekly rankings, and asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo could fight his way up from last place.
• A swollen little fatty welcomed Zuo Xiaoduo as the class's new punching bag, and the top-ranked student said that was exactly what Zuo Xiaoduo had wanted.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s classmates saw through his plan to provoke them into sparring and made him their target, then Qin Fangyang began the class’s cultivation session. Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that the star soul power was much weaker at the back of the room, where he and Li Chenglong sat.

• Wan Lixiu revealed that Li Chenglong had previously tried to provoke the class and warned Zuo Xiaoduo that he would receive special attention.
• Wan Lixiu introduced herself and promised to make Zuo Xiaoduo’s life difficult, while Long Yusheng said he would read his face daily and spar with him when his readings were wrong.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized his classmates had seen through his intentions and tried to play off their hostility by saying he feared being pursued by female classmates.
• Qin Fangyang activated the Star Soul Power Formation and told the students to begin cultivating.
• Zuo Xiaoduo observed that the star soul power grew weaker toward the back of the classroom, and Li Chenglong complained that they paid the same tuition for so little light.

Zuo Xiaoduo was surprised to learn that students paid tuition, then focused on cultivating in the Star Soul Formation and experienced unusual energy flowing through his body. As Qin Fangyang monitored the class, he noticed an unfamiliar change in the room’s atmosphere.

• Li Chenglong used star soul stones with the Star Soul Formation to improve his cultivation, and Zuo Xiaoduo saw other students doing the same.
• Zuo Xiaoduo began cultivating and felt Star Soul flames rise from his dantian as a cool sensation spread through his meridians.
• A small vortex formed above Zuo Xiaoduo, drawing in Star Soul light and strengthening the cool sensation.
• Qin Fangyang directed extra star soul power toward students in less favorable positions while observing the class.
• Qin Fangyang saw stable energy vortexes above Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, and Yu Moyan, then sensed that the room’s atmosphere had changed.

Qin Fangyang discovered that Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed star soul power through a vortex larger than any other student's, though his skin showed no visible reaction. During cultivation, Zuo Xiaoduo's energies collided and surged through his body, leaving him invigorated as Qin Fangyang privately realized his vortex had briefly grown to half the classroom's size.

• Qin Fangyang noticed Zuo Xiaoduo's cultivation vortex was larger than Long Yusheng's and wondered how a student who had repeated a grade for five years could have such talent.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued cultivating as a cool current traveled through his meridians and met the volatile star soul power rising from his dantian.
• Zuo Xiaoduo convulsed as the currents merged, and the star soul formation poured most of its power into him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo finished cultivating, opened his eyes, and remarked that he felt good.
• Qin Fangyang watched Zuo Xiaoduo's vortex briefly expand to half the classroom before concealing his shock.

After Zuo Xiaoduo's first cultivation lesson, Qin Fangyang recognized his extraordinary talent while several classmates sensed their progress had been affected. At the Martial Dao Arena, Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu asked Zuo Xiaoduo to predict their match, and he tried to charge them for his face-reading.

• Qin Fangyang ended the Star Soul Formation, and Wan Lixiu, Long Yusheng, and Yu Moyan noticed their cultivation had felt unusual.
• Qin Fangyang led the class to the Martial Dao Arena, where students prepared for the next day's ranking battles and sparred under instructors' supervision.
• Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu asked Zuo Xiaoduo to predict who would win their match.
• Zuo Xiaoduo examined their faces and said he would provide a reading only if they paid him.
• Long Yusheng teased Zuo Xiaoduo about trying to profit from classmates, while the class mocked his talk of being the protagonist.

Zuo Xiaoduo wagered that he could predict ten classmates’ match results, then faced Li Chenglong in the sparring matches. He defeated Li Chenglong decisively, while Qin Fangyang recognized that Zuo Xiaoduo showed unusually advanced combat awareness for a recent Martial Disciple.

• Long Yusheng offered to pay Zuo Xiaoduo two yuan for each correct prediction about ten classmates, but said the class would beat him if he got any prediction wrong.
• Zuo Xiaoduo named the ten classmates’ likely outcomes and predicted that Li Chenglong would suffer a crushing defeat.
• Qin Fangyang started the matches, and Zuo Xiaoduo’s opponent turned out to be Li Chenglong.
• Li Chenglong attacked Zuo Xiaoduo with a whip kick, but Zuo Xiaoduo met it with his hardened leg and injured Li Chenglong’s shin.
• Zuo Xiaoduo charged Li Chenglong as he rose and kicked him backward, prompting Qin Fangyang to declare Zuo Xiaoduo the winner.
• Qin Fangyang considered Zuo Xiaoduo’s sharp combat awareness unusual for someone who had just completed the Martial Disciple realm.

After Zuo Xiaoduo correctly predicted every paired fight, his classmates admired his insight and invited him to join their teams for future missions. Qin Fangyang attributed the predictions to Zuo Xiaoduo’s sharp observation, while the students began treating him as a valuable ally.

• Long Yusheng announced the fight results, and every prediction Zuo Xiaoduo had made proved correct.
• Zuo Xiaoduo bragged about his supposed Heavenly Secrets Way, but Qin Fangyang explained that he had judged the fighters’ strength and bearing.
• Long Yusheng paid Zuo Xiaoduo twenty Star Origin Coins after losing their bet, and Zuo Xiaoduo pocketed the money without hesitation.
• Wan Lixiu, Yu Moyan, Long Yusheng, Li Chenglong, and other classmates welcomed Zuo Xiaoduo as a potential teammate for future missions.
• Qin Fangyang observed that thirteen students had quickly recognized Zuo Xiaoduo’s value and noted their resourcefulness.

Qin Fangyang worried that his students' pride and disregard for others would endanger them on future missions. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaonian told Mu Yanyan that someone had learned the details of her upcoming breakthrough, and Mu Yanyan summoned Meng Chenyu to ask whether she had leaked the information.

• Qin Fangyang ordered the training-ground winners to challenge the students ranked above them and worried about the others' future safety.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Mu Yanyan that someone knew her breakthrough involved star martial golden crystal and that the timing was accurate.
• Mu Yanyan concluded that the information had leaked and summoned her youngest disciple, Meng Chenyu.
• Meng Chenyu arrived after street racing, and Mu Yanyan asked her who she had told about Zuo Xiaonian's impending breakthrough.
• Meng Chenyu froze when Mu Yanyan demanded an answer.

Mu Yanyan questioned Meng Chenyu about the leak of information concerning Zuo Xiaonian’s breakthrough and confirmed she had not revealed it. Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian canceled the planned breakthrough location and agreed to keep it undecided, while Zuo Xiaonian asked for her family’s information to remain classified if her breakthrough failed.

• Mu Yanyan pressed Meng Chenyu to swear she had not shared any information about Zuo Xiaonian’s breakthrough, then verified her honesty with the Cold Moon Mirror Heart Method.
• Meng Chenyu joked about sharing a husband with Zuo Xiaonian, who teased her until she ran away in tears.
• Mu Yanyan assured Zuo Xiaonian that she would arrange for at least four Infant Transformation cultivators to guard her breakthrough.
• Mu Yanyan and Zuo Xiaonian canceled the previous breakthrough location and decided to choose a new one later without settling on it in advance.
• Zuo Xiaonian learned that her family’s information had been upgraded to Class S secrets and asked Mu Yanyan to guarantee that the classification would last sixty years if her breakthrough failed.

Zuo Xiaonian told Mu Yanyan she no longer wanted her origins investigated, and Mu Yanyan warned her against risking her family for love. At the martial training hall, Zuo Xiaoduo kept challenging stronger students despite his injuries, driven by a mysterious boost he received after earning money for fortune-telling.

• Zuo Xiaonian asked Mu Yanyan to stop investigating her origins and promised she would never harm her family.
• Mu Yanyan reflected on her own lost family ties and hoped Zuo Xiaonian would always protect hers.
• Meng Chenyu offered Zuo Xiaonian a ride in exchange for a bottle of top-grade Marrow-Washing Pills, and Zuo Xiaonian got into her car.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued fighting students ranked above him, enduring repeated defeats and severe injuries as Qin Fangyang finally called for him to stop.
• Zuo Xiaoduo recalled that receiving twenty yuan from Long Yusheng had filled his mysterious region with a cool sensation, improving his cultivation and storing about half a drop of Spirit Liquid.

Zuo Xiaoduo fought through repeated defeats until his determination earned his classmates’ respect and lifted him above last place. As the class recovered in Qin Fangyang’s healing mist, Li Chenglong began teaching the continent’s history and teased Zuo Xiaoduo in his opening remarks.

• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly fought, fell, and got back up, impressing the instructors, Hu Ruoyun, and his classmates with his determination.
• Zuo Xiaoduo climbed six places in the class rankings, leaving Li Chenglong at the bottom, and Long Yusheng explained Li Chenglong’s exceptional memory and knowledge.
• Qin Fangyang sealed the classroom and released restorative mist that healed the students and replenished their strength.
• Li Chenglong dressed like a teacher, took the lectern, and opened his history lesson with a joking jab at Zuo Xiaoduo.

Li Chenglong used a playful exchange with Zuo Xiaoduo to settle the class before teaching the history of the Star Soul Continent. He traced its eras through the age of immortals and gods, ending with conflicting accounts of how eight great sects were cast into the starry sky.

• Li Chenglong teased Zuo Xiaoduo into playing along in front of the class, and Zuo Xiaoduo warned him about the next ranking tournament.
• Qin Fangyang recognized how Li Chenglong’s lively opening and Zuo Xiaoduo’s cooperation had captured the students’ attention.
• Li Chenglong described the continent’s creation by Father God and speculated about humanity’s struggle to survive in the primordial age.
• Li Chenglong explained how sages led their peoples during the age of primordial desolation before rivalries sparked wars in the age of immortals and gods.
• Li Chenglong presented two accounts of the aftermath: either the eight great sects split the continent and departed, or a powerful individual expelled them into the starry sky.

Li Chenglong explained how the Star Soul Continent passed from the age of immortals and gods through the Dynasty Era and the technology-driven Martial Arts Extinction Period to the World-Destroying Era. He ended with the discovery that the meteor catastrophe had filled the devastated continent with spiritual qi and Star Spirit Stones, ushering in the Spiritual Qi Revival Era.

• Li Chenglong described how the fall of the immortals and gods left the Dynasty Era with few cultivation legacies and weak martial arts.
• Li Chenglong explained that technological development led people to abandon cultivation, weakened humanity, and caused the Martial Dao to become legend.
• Li Chenglong said that technology exhausted the continent’s resources and polluted its environment, bringing on the World-Destroying Era.
• Li Chenglong recounted how a three-hundred-year meteor shower devastated the continent and killed all but a tiny fraction of its people.
• Li Chenglong explained that the meteors brought abundant spiritual qi and Star Spirit Stones, beginning the Spiritual Qi Revival Era.

Li Chenglong explained how Star Soul Stones originated and how humanity turned back to the Martial Dao after two ancient sects returned and exposed the weakness of technology alone. He warned the students that powerful enemies and falling meteors still threatened their survival, then ended the lesson after Zuo Xiaoduo said he understood.

• Li Chenglong explained that Star Spirit Stones had fallen across the world for centuries and later became known as Star Soul Stones.
• Li Chenglong recounted how two returning sects brought disaster to humanity, with one sect attacking and the other joining forces with humans to pass down the Martial Dao.
• Qin Fangyang stopped Li Chenglong from revealing what happened next, saying the students were not qualified to know more.
• Li Chenglong described the high-martial era, in which humanity combined cultivation with technology while powerful experts guarded against enemies and meteors.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Li Chenglong that he understood the lesson.

After Li Chenglong described humanity’s history and the responsibilities of martial artists, Qin Fangyang corrected his view of technology and urged the class to grow stronger. He tried to discuss Zuo Xiaoduo’s ambitions, but Zuo revealed that he fought to claim the status he felt a boss deserved, and Qin ended the conversation by demanding his tuition.

• Li Chenglong concluded his history lesson by urging his classmates to grow stronger and protect others, then rolled off the platform when Qin Fangyang ordered him to.
• Qin Fangyang explained that technology still benefited ordinary people and martial artists by making life more convenient and freeing time for cultivation.
• After class, Qin Fangyang asked Zuo Xiaoduo about his ambitions, but Zuo admitted he had no long-term plans and fought in the ranking matches because he was the oldest, tallest, and handsomest student.
• Zuo Xiaoduo declared that he should be the boss of the class, and Qin Fangyang gave up on the heart-to-heart and told him to bring his tuition the next day.
• Zuo Xiaoduo questioned why he had to pay tuition, and Qin Fangyang angrily reminded him that cultivation and recovery energy cost money.