Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo left his fortune-telling stall to attend class after Hu Ruoyun scolded him, and he rejected Bai Bingbing's offer of breakfast again. Hu Ruoyun grew suspicious of Bai Bingbing's changed behavior, though tests found nothing unusual in the buns.

• Zuo Xiaoduo packed up his fortune-telling stall and hurried to class when Hu Ruoyun ordered him to stop.
• Bai Bingbing offered Zuo Xiaoduo twenty meat buns, but he refused them and warned her not to bring him food because he had a wife.
• Bai Bingbing threw the buns into a trash can, and Hu Ruoyun later retrieved them.
• Hu Ruoyun asked Li Changjiang to test the buns and review the reports from previous days.
• Li Changjiang told Hu Ruoyun that the buns contained only purple sun root, while Hu Ruoyun remained concerned about Bai Bingbing's changed demeanor.

Hu Ruoyun brought He Yuanyue evidence that someone might be poisoning Zuo Xiaoduo with medicinal ingredients disguised in food. He Yuanyue identified the method as a deadly Insoluble Poison and advised caution while they investigated.

• Hu Ruoyun asked He Yuanyue whether four beneficial herbs could become a compound poison when mixed into food.
• He Yuanyue explained that taking Honeygrass Flower, Nine-Complete Vine Juice, Dream Ganoderma Grass, and Purple Sun Root in sequence could create Insoluble Poison, which would destroy a person's Star Soul and Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
• Hu Ruoyun showed He Yuanyue reports finding the four herbs, in that order, in food brought to Zuo Xiaoduo by a girl pursuing him.
• He Yuanyue noted that Zuo Xiaoduo had never eaten the food, making the girl's switch to different ingredients suspicious, and urged Hu Ruoyun to investigate cautiously and discreetly warn him.

He Yuanyue suspected the Meng Family was plotting against Zuo Xiaoduo but decided not to expose them yet, while Zuo Xiaoduo continued building his strength without reaching a breakthrough. After embarrassing Wan Lixiu at lunch, he went to the school gates and earned a total of one million from fortune-telling.

• He Yuanyue suspected the Meng Family had targeted Zuo Xiaoduo and chose to keep her suspicions quiet to avoid putting him in greater danger.
• Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed spiritual energy in the Gravity Room but felt no sign that he was close to breaking through, so he continued accumulating power.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Wan Lixiu about her appetite in the cafeteria, prompting her to openly order more food and vow to beat him up.
• Zuo Xiaoduo set up his fortune-telling stall outside the school and earned six hundred thousand in under an hour, bringing his day's total to one million.

Hu Ruoyun questioned Zuo Xiaoduo about refusing Bai Bingbing’s food, and he revealed that he had foreseen danger surrounding her and a hidden scheme against him. After sharing a heartfelt moment with Hu Ruoyun, Zuo Xiaoduo trained intensely, and late in the afternoon an uncontrollable breakthrough sensation overtook him.

• Hu Ruoyun took Zuo Xiaoduo to her office and demanded to know why he would not eat the food Bai Bingbing brought him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Hu Ruoyun that he had read Bai Bingbing’s fortune and sensed malice toward him, harmful food, and danger to her family if he investigated openly.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that he hoped to draw out the person behind the scheme, but feared his current allies were too injured to confront them directly.
• Zuo Xiaoduo thanked and embraced Hu Ruoyun, who watched him leave with tears of relief.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained harder in the Gravity Room, and near late afternoon he felt an uncontrollable breakthrough approaching.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s overflowing dantian expanded after he received three unexpected drops of cooling power, letting him control his true essence and continue building his reserves. Meanwhile, the Star Shield Bureau identified Shang Qingyun as a likely Left Assistant Star serving the Dongming Star Lord, raising new questions about his decades in Phoenix City.

• Zuo Xiaoduo struggled to suppress his overflowing true essence and wondered why he had not yet exceeded Nian Nian Cat’s record.
• Star Shield Bureau investigators reported to Jiang Wenzhou that Shang Qingyun was almost certainly the Left Assistant Star under the Dongming Star Lord.
• Jiang Wenzhou questioned whom Shang Qingyun had been supporting and why he had remained hidden in Phoenix City for decades.
• Zuo Xiaoduo received two drops of cooling power that expanded his meridians and dantian, allowing him to draw the surging true essence back under control.
• Zuo Xiaoduo received a third drop and speculated that the rewards came from the life-or-death calamity he had foreseen for those closest to him being resolved.
• Zuo Xiaoduo counted seven drops of Fortune Points in reserve and wondered whether his Physiognomy was about to level up.

Zuo Xiaoduo tried to convince his parents that he and Nian Nian Cat belonged together, then brought Zuo Changlu into the study to reveal that he had transferred him most of his savings. He explained that he had saved the money because he knew their family was not well-off and wanted to show that he had grown up.

• Zuo Xiaoduo decided to focus on cultivation while joking about his ambitions and his hopes of surpassing Nian Nian Cat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly urged Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu to approve of him and Nian Nian Cat as a couple.
• Zuo Changlu escaped to his study, but Zuo Xiaoduo followed and hinted that he had a surprise.
• Zuo Xiaoduo showed Zuo Changlu his bank card and said he had transferred him nine hundred thousand from an account that had held a million.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that he had saved money because he knew their family was not well-off and wanted to show that he had grown up.

Zuo Xiaoduo asked Zuo Changlu to stop bringing old friends to their home so the family could remain safe and private, and Zuo Changlu agreed. Later, he told Wu Yuting that the conversation had loosened his Dao bottleneck, and the couple decided to let their children continue believing their mistaken suspicions while finding their own way forward.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pleaded with Zuo Changlu to stop asking Uncle Nan, Uncle Wu, and others to visit, saying he and Sister Nian Nian could handle things and wanted their parents to stay safe.
• Zuo Changlu agreed to listen to Zuo Xiaoduo, then learned that his son had given him the money because he trusted him to spend it rather than let Wu Yuting keep the family poor.
• Zuo Changlu felt his Great Dao imprint circulate faster and reflected that his son’s concern had revealed the Dao of life to him.
• Zuo Changlu told Wu Yuting that his Dao had loosened and described Zuo Xiaoduo’s mistaken belief that his parents were injured and hiding from enemies.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed to let Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Nian continue their speculation and see how far they could go on their own.

Zuo Xiaoduo worried that his expanded dantian was slowing his cultivation while his fortune-telling business brought in a fortune. After he refused to give Zuo Xiaonian his bank card PIN, she began crying, leaving him scrambling to comfort her.

• Zuo Xiaonian cared for the wounded Mu Yanyan, who struggled with the revelation that her second senior brother had been a Witch Alliance undercover agent, and sent Meng Chenyu away to cultivate in seclusion.
• Qin Fangyang refused Zuo Xiaoduo's visit and ordered him to train hard, build up his reserves, and make substantial progress before he returned.
• Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed spiritual energy and star soul jade for days but still could not fill his greatly expanded dantian, while his record showed twenty-seven days until Zuo Xiaonian's breakthrough.
• Zuo Xiaoduo's fortune-telling earned him five million over seven days, and he handed two million each to his parents as wages.
• Zuo Xiaonian pinned Zuo Xiaoduo down and demanded his bank card PIN, but he refused despite her threats and his mother's intervention.
• Zuo Xiaonian began crying during the meal, and Zuo Xiaoduo offered to give her the PIN.

Zuo Xiaoduo tried to comfort Zuo Xiaonian after she cried over his offer of money, then coaxed her back to dinner and shared his bank password. Later, Zuo Xiaonian trained him in hidden-weapon control until after midnight and ordered him to repeat the exercise.

• Zuo Xiaonian refused to eat or answer Zuo Xiaoduo after he offered his parents money as wages, and Wu Yuting explained that the gesture had stirred painful memories for her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo pleaded outside Zuo Xiaonian's room and offered her his bank password, convincing her to open the door and return to dinner.
• Zuo Xiaoduo gave Zuo Xiaonian the password, which was her birthday, and served her food while she secretly signaled her victory to Wu Yuting.
• Zuo Xiaoduo coaxed Zuo Xiaonian into joining him for hidden-weapon practice, and she trained him until one thirty in the morning.
• Zuo Xiaonian inspected Zuo Xiaoduo's three gourd throws, criticized his control and judgment, and ordered him to repeat the exercise ten times.

Zuo Xiaonian made Zuo Xiaoduo train hidden-weapon techniques under costly penalties, then promised him a chance to win the money back with precise practice. Over the next seven days, Phoenix City underwent a sweeping investigation and mourning for Yang Yu, while Han Song and a Yang Clan expert stayed to watch events unfold.

• Zuo Xiaonian set increasingly steep penalties as Zuo Xiaoduo practiced hidden-weapon throws with exact trajectories and piercing depths.
• After checking that Zuo Xiaoduo had only 736 left, Zuo Xiaonian promised him large rewards for meeting future training targets, and he eagerly agreed to continue.
• Over the following seven days, Phoenix City screened everyone with cultivation and uncovered several Witch Alliance undercover operatives; Jiang Changbin was suspended.
• The Yang Clan brought Yang Yu home for burial, and all ninety-eight members of the Dragon Blood Team attended his funeral alongside the funerals of two Star Shield Bureau Infant Transformation experts.
• After the funerals, Han Song and a Yang Clan expert remained in Phoenix City, determined to investigate the affair and avenge Yang Yu.

Phoenix City settled under strict Star Shield scrutiny as Qin Fangyang returned to school and punished Zuo Xiaoduo for failing to make cultivation progress. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo received their newly forged swords and were asked to name them.

• Star Shield Headquarters investigated Phoenix City's martial schools, and the city grew quiet after the Dragon Blood Team members were killed.
• Qin Fangyang and Sister Lan returned to Second High School with most of their injuries healed, while Mu Yanyan and her disciples reported Duan Tianyu's betrayal to the Kunlun Dao Sect, which paid compensation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo worried that the cooling power he gained from reading fortunes was preventing him from filling his cultivation and breaking through before Zuo Xiaonian's breakthrough.
• Qin Fangyang learned that Zuo Xiaoduo had not suppressed a breakthrough in several days, beat him, and doubled his training load to five thousand jin.
• Zuo Xiaonian admired her white Sword of Hope and its scabbard, while Wu Tiejiang described Zuo Xiaoduo's thin Cloudtop True Gold sword as exceptionally sharp.
• Zuo Changlu brought the finished swords home and asked Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo to choose names for them.

Zuo Xiaonian named her sword the Spirit-Seizing Sword, while Zuo Xiaoduo named his the Spirit Cat Sword and was punished with a night of sword practice. Meanwhile, a string of disasters devastated the Meng Group and Ning Family, leaving Meng Tianyue and Ning Suifeng confronting mounting deaths and losses.

• Zuo Xiaonian named her sword the Spirit-Seizing Sword, and the blade acknowledged her as its master.
• Zuo Xiaoduo named his blade the Spirit Cat Sword, and Zuo Xiaonian dragged him outside to practice swordsmanship through the night.
• Meng Chentian listed a week of fires, attacks, deaths, thefts, and scandals that had cost the Meng Group more than fifty billion.
• Meng Tianyue learned that his seventeenth son had died suddenly of a heart attack in Ezhou.
• Ning Suifeng told Meng Tianyue and Meng Chentian that thirteen members of the Ning Family had died without warning, while everyone at one estate had perished in a battle between Jiang Changbin and Shang Qingyun.

Ning Suifeng and Meng Tianyue confronted Meng Chentian over the disasters striking their families and considered breaking the feng shui configuration. Meng Chentian insisted they preserve the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact, then ordered them to halt a plan against Zuo Xiaoduo as he prepared to meet him.

• Ning Suifeng described the deaths, business losses, fires, and miscarriages afflicting the Ning Family and blamed the ancestral residence’s feng shui.
• Ning Suifeng proposed flattening the surrounding mountains, but Meng Chentian warned that anyone who tampered with Phoenix City's Feng Shui Formation would die.
• Meng Tianyue suggested killing the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden to break the configuration, but Meng Chentian said she had to die only during the Phoenix Vein Soul Impact.
• Meng Tianyue suspected Zuo Xiaoduo had arranged the configuration, and Ning Suifeng suggested killing him; Meng Chentian argued that Zuo Xiaoduo might be needed to undo it.
• Meng Chentian said he would visit Zuo Xiaoduo the next morning and ordered the others to abandon the Bai Family operation and avoid rash action.

Blind Hong told Zuo Changlu how his readings of Phoenix City's Phoenix Vein and the Ning and Meng families’ Feng Shui formations had drawn the Heavenly Dao’s backlash. After Zuo Changlu learned that Zuo Xiaoduo’s recent plan had reversed Blind Hong’s arrangements, he realized the reversal had rapidly drained the old man’s remaining lifespan.

• Meng Chentian promised Meng Tianyue that he could preserve the Meng Family, but warned him they must not harm Ling Nian.
• Blind Hong arrived at Zuo Changlu’s shop, visibly aged and weakened, and asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo had come.
• Blind Hong explained that revealing the Phoenix Vein’s location had brought a Heavenly Dao backlash that cost him half his lifespan and crippled his cultivation.
• Blind Hong said he later helped the Ning and Meng families build Phoenix-Luring Wind-Extinguishing formations, but the Heavenly Dao’s backlash blinded him when he read their Feng Shui.
• Blind Hong revealed that someone had recently reversed his formations, causing his life to drain rapidly, and said he lost years of lifespan each time he slept.
• Zuo Changlu connected Blind Hong’s decline to Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian’s recent efforts to defy heaven and alter fate, and wondered whether the Heavenly Dao could truly be resisted.

Blind Hong, facing a fatal backlash from changing Phoenix City's feng shui, came to repay Zuo Changlu by using his final chance to read Zuo Xiaoduo's fortune. As Blind Hong performed the True Soul Qi-Observing Art, he saw azure and purple qi surging toward the Ninefold Heavenly Gate.

• Blind Hong told Zuo Changlu that the backlash from altering Phoenix City's feng shui would follow his reincarnations until the karma was repaid.
• Blind Hong explained that he had come to read Zuo Xiaoduo's qi as his final way to repay Zuo Changlu, and Zuo Changlu reassured him that they owed each other nothing.
• Zuo Changlu called Zuo Xiaoduo to the Star Soul Stone shop and introduced Blind Hong as a renowned Qi-Reading Adept who wanted to examine his fortune.
• Blind Hong used his one lifetime chance to perform the True Soul Qi-Observing Art and saw azure and purple qi surging toward the Ninefold Heavenly Gate.

Blind Hong's attempt to read Zuo Xiaoduo's destiny left him dying, and Zuo Changlu made Xiao Duo his godson and promised to have him open the Gate of Yin-Yang Reincarnation. Blind Hong died after leaving Xiao Duo his books and life-bound ring, and Zuo Changlu mourned his old friend.

• Blind Hong collapsed after reciting his vision, and Zuo Changlu and Zuo Xiaoduo struggled to revive him.
• Blind Hong woke briefly and asked Zuo Changlu to arrange his funeral, but Zuo Changlu said Xiao Duo would see him off by opening the Gate of Yin-Yang Reincarnation.
• Zuo Changlu ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to kneel and call Blind Hong his godfather, and Blind Hong accepted him with tears.
• Blind Hong gave his books and life-bound ring to Xiao Duo and warned him not to learn the True Spirit Qi-Observing Art.
• Blind Hong cursed Heaven, died, and Zuo Changlu mourned the loss of his friend.

After Blind Hong died, Zuo Changlu told Zuo Xiaoduo to remember his godfather, and a mysterious ring bound itself to Zuo Xiaoduo as a Life-Bound Ring. Wu Tiejiang arrived and was shocked by Blind Hong’s sudden death, while Zuo Changlu kept its complicated cause to himself.

• Zuo Changlu covered Blind Hong’s body and discovered that his ring floated beyond his grasp.
• Zuo Xiaoduo took the ring, put it on his little finger, and bound it with his blood; he could summon it by thought afterward.
• Zuo Changlu explained that the ring was a Divine Sense Ring that Zuo Xiaoduo could not yet open.
• Wu Tiejiang entered, saw Blind Hong’s body, and angrily struggled to accept that his old friend had died so suddenly.
• Zuo Changlu concealed that Blind Hong’s life-extension had succeeded before a backlash caused by Zuo Xiaoduo’s actions brought about his death.

Zuo Changlu discussed Blind Hong’s death and the implications of Zuo Xiaoduo making him his godfather, then realized Blind Hong may have left behind his legendary hammer techniques. He ordered Wu Tiejiang to gather other suitable techniques for Zuo Xiaoduo while keeping Blind Hong’s technique secret.

• Zuo Xiaoduo left after Zuo Changlu reminded him to come see his godfather off the next day.
• Wu Tiejiang questioned Zuo Changlu about Zuo Xiaoduo taking Blind Hong as his godfather, and Zuo Changlu sent him outside so he could speak with Blind Hong.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Tiejiang realized Blind Hong’s life-bound weapons had been hammers and suspected he had left his hammer technique behind.
• Zuo Changlu warned that revealing Blind Hong’s technique would make Zuo Xiaoduo a target for his enemies across the Star Soul Continent.
• Zuo Changlu told Wu Tiejiang to find seven or eight other hammer techniques for Zuo Xiaoduo, and Wu Tiejiang agreed to keep the matter secret.

Zuo Changlu mourned Blind Hong and gathered his belongings, while Meng Chentian arrived too late to seek the dead man’s help. After unknowingly helping Zuo Changlu, Meng Chentian realized he had missed his chance to confront the father of Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian.

• Zuo Changlu spoke to Blind Hong’s corpse, mourned their friendship, and poured out wine in farewell.
• Meng Chentian went to Blind Hong’s home seeking help but found it locked and waited outside.
• Zuo Changlu arrived, told Meng Chentian that Blind Hong had died, and revealed that Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian were his children.
• Zuo Changlu asked Meng Chentian to help sort and carry Blind Hong’s belongings, and Meng Chentian willingly assisted.
• After Zuo Changlu drove away, Meng Chentian realized he had spent the afternoon helping the father he had hoped to confront.

Zuo Changlu left Meng Chentian dazed and unable to remember their encounter, while Ning Qingcheng showed Ning Suifeng a video of dense mist over the Ning Family’s ancestral graves. The chapter left Ning Suifeng considering whether the strange events in his clan were connected to the graves’ feng shui.

• Meng Chentian chased Zuo Changlu to return the Luopan, then became confused and forgot what had happened.
• Meng Chentian returned to Meng Group, where he fell asleep on the sofa after telling Meng Tianyue he had found neither Zuo Xiaoduo nor Blind Hong.
• Ning Qingcheng showed Ning Suifeng a widely shared video of thick mist covering the Ning Family’s ancestral graves.
• Ning Suifeng watched the video and saw the mist sharply divided from the clear road beside it.