Chapter Summaries

Ning Suifeng watched a video showing mist engulfing the Ning Family’s ancestral graves and decided to investigate that night. Meanwhile, Qin Fangyang recovered from his injuries and broke through to Cloud Transformation, then took out his frustration on Zuo Xiaoduo for failing to approach a breakthrough.

• Ning Suifeng watched a video of towering mist near the Ning Family’s ancestral graves and said he would inspect them that night.
• Qin Fangyang recovered from severe injuries and broke through from Infant Transformation Peak to Cloud Transformation while unconscious.
• Zuo Xiaoduo trained in the tenfold Gravity Room but could not sense an impending breakthrough as his dantian continued to expand.
• Qin Fangyang kicked Zuo Xiaoduo into the air ninety-nine times and threatened to repeat it if he still had not neared a breakthrough the next day.
• Long Yusheng and the others watched Qin Fangyang kick Zuo Xiaoduo and joked about his technique.

Zuo Xiaoduo asked Qin Fangyang for leave to attend his godfather’s funeral, then earned money reading fortunes before training hidden weapons with Zuo Xiaonian. He made progress while Zuo Xiaonian secretly planned to let him save up before squeezing more money out of him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Qin Fangyang for the day off because his godfather had died, and Qin Fangyang agreed while reminding him to keep cultivating.
• Qin Fangyang saw Zuo Xiaoduo reading fortunes outside the school while balancing heavy weights, then watched him count 1,207,500 in earnings.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian trained that night, and Zuo Xiaoduo made strong progress with his hidden weapons while paying 888,000 in fines by 1:30 a.m.
• Zuo Xiaonian continued refining her cultivation and privately decided to let Zuo Xiaoduo regain some confidence and savings before making him pay more for training.
• Zuo Xiaonian judged that Zuo Xiaoduo’s control of hidden weapons was already exceptional, but hoped he would become even more precise and unpredictable.

Zuo Xiaonian imposed increasingly demanding hidden-weapon drills on Zuo Xiaoduo, while Ning Suifeng led the Ning Family's direct bloodline to investigate strange white smoke rising from their ancestral graves. The central grave collapsed beneath them, leaving the family members unconscious in the burial pit.

• Zuo Xiaonian gave Zuo Xiaoduo new, exceptionally difficult hidden-weapon standards based on benchmarks He Yuanyue had provided.
• Ning Suifeng brought the Ning Family's direct bloodline to the ancestral graves and found crowds livestreaming the strange mist.
• Ning Suifeng ordered the spectators arrested and their phones confiscated, then led his family through the dense mist to the burial grounds' center.
• Ning Suifeng and the Ning Family found thick white smoke pouring from the central ancestral grave, and the family members knelt before it.
• The central grave suddenly collapsed, dropping Ning Suifeng and everyone present into the pit and knocking them unconscious.

The Ning Family's ancestral burial ground collapsed into a bottomless pit after a strange figure appeared in the mist and the smoke vanished. At Blind Hong's funeral, Zuo Xiaoduo and the Zuo Family buried him, but supernatural grass and vines quickly concealed his grave.

• A shadowy figure in the mist pointed east before lightning struck it and the white smoke over the Ning Family graves dissipated.
• The Ning Family burial ground collapsed into a vast pit, and Ning Suifeng led his family away to investigate at dawn.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and the Zuo Family escorted Blind Hong's coffin to his chosen burial plot.
• Zuo Changlu placed star soul jade beneath Blind Hong's head and buried him, then Zuo Xiaoduo patted down the final shovelful of earth and erected a gravestone.
• Grass and vines rapidly grew over Blind Hong's grave, concealing the gravestone and burial mound.

Zuo Changlu and his family bid farewell to Blind Hong, while Zuo Changlu prepared to drink in mourning. The Ning and Meng Families searched unsuccessfully for answers to their recent misfortunes, and the Ning Family ended the day with no clue what its ancestor’s eastward warning meant.

• Zuo Changlu poured wine for Blind Hong, drank the final jar, and said goodbye to his friend.
• Wu Yuting reminded Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian to remember that Blind Hong was their godfather, and Zuo Xiaonian launched Zuo Xiaoduo into the air after he pinched her ear.
• The Ning and Meng Families investigated their mounting losses, learned Blind Hong had died, and found no leads from their Qi-Reading Adepts.
• Ning Suifeng recalled a figure in the mist pointing east and sent the Ning Family to search the eastern part of the city.
• The Ning Family searched residential areas, suburbs, and Phoenix Dance Garden Residential Community but found nothing.

Ning Suifeng and Meng Tianyue searched for a way to counter the Feng Shui Formation threatening their families. A Qi-Reading Adept proposed using the blood essence of Phoenix City’s most talented young man, and the chapter ended with them identifying Teng Hao as the likely candidate.

• Ning Suifeng ordered a man to try to kill the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden as a last resort, then went to the Meng Group for help.
• Meng Tianyue, Ning Suifeng, and the Qi-Reading Adepts failed to find a way to break the Feng Shui Formation.
• Brother Feng proposed using the blood essence of Phoenix City’s most talented young man to activate a Luopan and reveal hostile arrangements.
• Brother Feng said he had met a young man whose fortune ranked first in Phoenix City and named him Teng Hao, a student at First High School.
• Meng Tianyue identified Teng Hao as the son of Teng Guangyuan, deputy director of the City Commerce Bureau, and Ning Suifeng recognized the lead.

Meng Tianyue arranged a family dinner with Deputy Director Teng Guangyuan so he could obtain blood essence for Master Feng’s formation. Ning Suifeng then noticed that First High School lay east of the Ning Family’s collapsed ancestral graves, leaving the group stunned.

• Meng Tianyue learned that Teng Guangyuan’s son, Teng Hao, had reached the Innate stage and agreed to arrange for his blood essence to be taken without endangering his life.
• Meng Tianyue invited Teng Guangyuan and his family to dinner at Cloudtop Pavilion the next morning, and Teng Guangyuan eagerly accepted.
• Teng Guangyuan celebrated the invitation with his wife and told her to call their son home so he would be ready for the dinner.
• Ning Suifeng said they would adapt their plan as needed and remarked that making Teng Guangyuan’s family disappear would not cause serious trouble.
• Ning Suifeng observed that First High School lay east of the Ning Family’s collapsed ancestral graves, startling Meng Tianyue and the others.

Zuo Xiaoduo saw that Zuo Xiaonian’s death signs had weakened and went out with her to train, hoping to turn the outing into a romantic moment. He asked whether she had ever been in love, leaving her startled and demanding to know what he meant.

• Ning Suifeng wondered whether the Teng Family was connected to the location near the Ning Family’s ancestral graves and suspended the night’s operation until the following afternoon.
• Zuo Xiaoduo read Zuo Xiaonian’s face and saw that her death qi had shrunk, giving her at least a thirty percent chance of survival.
• Zuo Xiaoduo lamented that his face-reading skill had not leveled up despite accumulating thirteen drops of Fortune Points.
• Zuo Xiaonian took Zuo Xiaoduo out to train, leaving her sword at home after Zuo Changlu suggested she only needed its sheath—or even a tree branch.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admired Zuo Xiaonian beneath the moon and asked whether she had ever been in love, startling her.

Zuo Xiaoduo tried to tell Zuo Xiaonian that he wanted to date her, but she misunderstood his intentions and punished him with an exhausting training session. Afterward, he finally admitted he wanted to date her, leaving Zuo Xiaonian stunned and blushing.

• Zuo Xiaoduo nervously brought up dating, but he backed down when Zuo Xiaonian reacted suspiciously.
• Zuo Xiaonian assumed Zuo Xiaoduo was interested in Governor-General Wan's daughter and threatened to train the thoughts out of him.
• Zuo Xiaonian dragged Zuo Xiaoduo into training, beat him through sparring and sword practice, and withheld his usual rewards.
• After midnight, Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo still wanted to date, and he admitted he had wanted to date her.
• Zuo Xiaonian froze, then blushed and asked Zuo Xiaoduo to repeat what he had said.

Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo clarified their misunderstanding about dating before sensing three hostile figures approaching. Zuo Xiaonian prepared to use the encounter to test Zuo Xiaoduo’s hidden weapons, while the attackers stopped nearby.

• Zuo Xiaonian realized she had misunderstood Zuo Xiaoduo’s remarks about Wan Lixiu, and the two traded teasing comments about dating.
• Zuo Xiaonian sensed several presences approaching and warned Zuo Xiaoduo to stay still until he had recovered.
• Zuo Xiaonian detected three enemies closing in through the woods: one in the Dan Origin Realm and two in the Embryonic Breathing realm.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo to test his hidden weapons against the attackers, while he excitedly imagined becoming a famous martial hero.
• The three approaching figures stopped about thirty meters from Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian prepared to counterattack three men approaching with murderous intent, but the leader received a call and ordered a retreat. When Zuo Xiaoduo stopped them, he claimed they shared a fated bond with him.

• Zuo Xiaonian sensed that the three approaching men intended to kill her and Zuo Xiaoduo, and prepared to strike first.
• The three men closed in, but their leader's vibrating phone interrupted their covert attack.
• After answering the call, the leader signaled his companions to withdraw, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian confused.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sprang up and ordered the retreating men to stop, and they halted.
• Zuo Xiaoduo approached the three men and solemnly declared that they shared a fated bond with him.

Zuo Xiaoduo warned three Ning Family experts that bloodshed awaited them, then ambushed them with his Jade Gourds while Zuo Xiaonian attacked with her sword. The Dan Origin Realm leader and the two embryonic breath experts were badly wounded, but Zuo Xiaoduo insisted they be left alive for him to kill.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pretended to read the three Ning Family members’ faces and warned them of imminent bloodshed.
• The leader dismissed Zuo Xiaoduo’s warning and tried to leave with the other two.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sent his three Jade Gourds after the Ning Family members, wounding the two embryonic breath experts and injuring the Dan Origin Realm leader’s palm.
• Zuo Xiaonian launched a freezing sword attack, shattered the leader’s sword, severed his arm, and cut into his thighs.
• Zuo Xiaonian struck the two Ning Family experts as Zuo Xiaoduo called for them to be left alive so he could kill them.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained that he had spared the three men so they would admit his face-reading prediction had come true, while privately revealing to Zuo Xiaonian that Uncle Nan’s Small Flying Knife absorbed enemies’ blood essence to help him cultivate. He approached the wounded men and asked whether they now believed his prediction, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Zuo Xiaonian returned Zuo Xiaoduo’s Spirit Cat Sword after severing all four legs of each of the two men.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said he had predicted the enemies’ bloody calamity by reading their faces, and Zuo Xiaonian questioned his reasoning.
• Zuo Xiaoduo whispered that the Small Flying Knife absorbed blood essence and converted it into energy for his cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian urged Zuo Xiaoduo to keep the knife’s ability secret and decided to investigate it privately.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked the three wounded men whether they believed his prediction, and their Dan Origin Realm leader challenged him to kill them instead of toying with them.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian killed three Ning Family attackers, and Zuo Xiaoduo looted their bodies before they left. Qin Fangyang and Mu Yanyan, who had secretly guarded them, examined the corpses and realized Zuo Xiaoduo had been behind the earlier strange deaths; Qin Fangyang then began a serious warning to Mu Yanyan.

• Zuo Xiaoduo gained Fortune Points from reading the attackers’ faces, then killed all three with his Dragon Blood Flying Knife.
• Zuo Xiaoduo searched the bodies for valuables, complained that the men were poor, and gave the Space Ring to Zuo Xiaonian.
• Zuo Xiaonian took Zuo Xiaoduo away, while Qin Fangyang emerged and called Mu Yanyan over to inspect the scene.
• Mu Yanyan noticed that the corpses had lost their blood and begun to shrivel, connecting them to the earlier deaths and realizing Zuo Xiaoduo had been behind them.
• Qin Fangyang solemnly told Mu Yanyan that he needed to remind her of something.

Qin Fangyang warned Mu Yanyan that the matter involving Zuo Xiaoduo was too dangerous to investigate, then secretly took two White Jade Little Gourds from the corpses of three Ning Family men. At the Ning Family, Ning Suifeng learned that the men sent on the mission had been killed, possibly by an unknown swordsman.

• Qin Fangyang warned Mu Yanyan that the people and matters involved were too dangerous for even the Kunlun Dao Sect, and she promised not to cross the forbidden line.
• Qin Fangyang and Mu Yanyan wondered why Zuo Xiaoduo had read the faces of three men before they were killed by Ling Nian.
• Qin Fangyang found two White Jade Little Gourds hidden in the bodies of the Embryonic Breath Realm men, concealed them, and left after telling Mu Yanyan the dead were from the Ning Family.
• Mu Yanyan saw that Qin Fangyang had shattered the corpses but chose not to investigate, then left.
• Ning Suifeng became alarmed when his men failed to return, and a search party later brought back three mangled corpses.
• The Ning Family men reported that the victims' legs had been severed with an exceptionally thin, sharp sword and suggested an unknown killer was responsible.

After all the Ning Family’s pregnant women were lost, Ning Suifeng ordered the men to father children without restraint and vowed to kill the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden and Zuo Xiaoduo if the family could not find the Feng Shui Formation’s crucial point. Zuo Xiaoduo slept while Zuo Xiaonian read through the night, then rushed to school the next morning, still anxious about breaking through.

• A Ning Family elder concluded that a powerful outsider using sinister arts had killed the two men, while Ning Suifeng learned that the family’s last pregnant women had all miscarried or died.
• Ning Suifeng ordered Ning Family men to father children without restraint and resolved to kill the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden and Zuo Xiaoduo if the family failed to find the formation’s crucial point.
• Meng Tianyue sat in his dark study until dawn, while Zuo Xiaoduo returned home and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Zuo Xiaonian searched for information about the Dragon Blood Flying Knife, found none, and spent the night reading Fengling Tianxia’s novel instead.
• Zuo Xiaoduo woke, ate several pots of food, and hurried to school to cultivate, still impatient for a breakthrough.

Bai Bingbing thanked Zuo Xiaoduo and told him she would stop pursuing him, while Hu Ruoyun reflected on their unspoken reasons. At school, Qin Fangyang gathered Zuo Xiaoduo and the four other students present for a test after ordering them to remove their weights.

• Bai Bingbing apologized to Zuo Xiaoduo, thanked him, and said they would be friends because she would no longer pursue him.
• Hu Ruoyun watched Bai Bingbing regain her spirits and wondered whether Zuo Xiaoduo had acted for reasons he had not explained.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered class early and found Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, Li Changming, Yu Moyan, and Li Chenglong there with Qin Fangyang, while the other students were away on trials.
• Zuo Xiaoduo assumed Qin Fangyang intended to beat him and struck a practiced pose to take the beating, making Wan Lixiu and the others laugh.
• Qin Fangyang told the students to remove their weights, get used to their unburdened condition for an hour, and then accompany him to the testing room.

Qin Fangyang brought Zuo Xiaoduo and the others to the Testing Room to measure their strength after removing their weights. The chapter ended with Wan Lixiu throwing the first punch at a machine designed for Innate cultivators.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and the others removed their weights, and the stench from Zuo Xiaoduo's shoes drove Wan Lixiu, Long Yusheng, and the others outside.
• After an hour to adjust to their unweighted bodies, the group followed Qin Fangyang to the Testing Room.
• Luo Lie said he had cleared the staff and shut off surveillance, and Li Chenglong checked that the room was secure.
• Qin Fangyang insisted they use the Innate strength-testing machine and ordered the test data destroyed after each test.
• Qin Fangyang selected Wan Lixiu to go first, and she took her stance and punched the target.

Wan Lixiu and the others tested their punching strength, astonishing Luo Lie with figures far beyond what he expected. After three rounds were ordered, Zuo Xiaoduo had still not taken his turn.

• Wan Lixiu struck the target for 58,500 jin and regretted falling short of 60,000.
• Luo Lie praised Qin Fangyang after learning Wan Lixiu had reached that strength before entering the Innate Realm.
• Long Yusheng recorded 83,700 jin, while Yu Moyan scored 82,700 and Li Changming scored 82,000.
• Li Chenglong hit 85,000 jin, the highest result so far, and grinned as the others glared at him.
• Qin Fangyang ordered another round to verify the readings, then called for a third round; Zuo Xiaoduo had yet to test his strength.

Zuo Xiaoduo and the others completed Qin Fangyang’s strength tests, but Zuo’s punches nearly maxed out the Embryonic Breath Realm machine despite his Martial Master Realm. Qin Fangyang deemed all five students to have barely passed, leaving Luo Lie stunned by their teacher’s casual response.

• Long Yusheng and the others each threw three punches, and Qin Fangyang then directed Zuo Xiaoduo to use the Embryonic Breath Realm testing machine without special techniques.
• Zuo Xiaoduo struck the machine for 299,100 jin, shocking Luo Lie, Qin Fangyang, and the other students.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s next two punches registered 298,700 jin and 299,999 jin, one jin short of the machine’s maximum.
• Zuo Xiaoduo complained that his result was inadequate, and the other five students silently resented his shameless boasting.
• Qin Fangyang said the five students had barely passed, while Luo Lie privately cursed his casual show of confidence.