Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo saw signs that ten Second High School teachers were facing deadly misfortune and tried to warn them before they left to search the Wasteland for fallen meteors. After the full-bearded man gave him the character “一” to read, Zuo Xiaoduo sighed, leaving the meaning of the omen unresolved.

• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed black and baleful qi on all ten teachers and feared they were in mortal danger.
• The full-bearded man told Qin Fangyang they were heading to the Wasteland to search for meteor fragments.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stopped the group and warned that their chosen direction would bring them no gains.
• Qin Fangyang persuaded the skeptical full-bearded man to let Zuo Xiaoduo read his fortune.
• The full-bearded man drew the character “一” with his foot, and Zuo Xiaoduo studied it before sighing.

Zuo Xiaoduo used character divination to warn Brother Liu and his companions that traveling east or west would bring death, while heading north would bring good fortune. Brother Liu doubted him, but began to take the warning seriously after realizing he had unexpectedly written a will the night before.

• Zuo Xiaoduo interpreted the character 一 as an omen of death and warned Brother Liu's party to avoid traveling east or west.
• Zuo Xiaoduo urged the group to head north, claiming that direction offered safety and rewards.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that the character Brother Liu had written was a revelation from heaven, and his words left Brother Liu and the others wavering between belief and doubt.
• Brother Liu asked Qin Fangyang about Zuo Xiaoduo's background, while Qin Fangyang said it was safer to heed the warning than dismiss it.
• Brother Liu recalled that he had unexpectedly written a will and arranged his affairs the night before, making Zuo Xiaoduo's warning seem more convincing.

After Zuo Xiaoduo’s prediction unsettled Liu Jiansheng and his brothers, Liu tried to persuade Wang Feilong’s team to avoid heading south. Wang ignored the warning and went south, while Liu’s group set out north.

• Liu Jiansheng told his nine brothers that his farewell letter, strange impulse to write the character for “one,” and a brother’s dream made Zuo Xiaoduo’s prediction seem credible.
• Liu Jiansheng’s group met Wang Feilong’s team, and the two men teased each other about the names they had changed.
• Liu Jiansheng urged Wang Feilong to join him on the safer northern route, but Wang laughed at the divination and led his team south.
• Liu Jiansheng decided not to follow Wang’s team and led his nine brothers north.

Zuo Xiaoduo sensed that a girl waiting outside the school was dangerous, so he went back inside and asked Qin Fangyang for help. When they returned to the gates, she had disappeared, and Qin Fangyang warned him not to let romance distract him from training.

• Liu Jiansheng and his companions left, while Zuo Xiaoduo told Qin Fangyang he believed they faced danger.
• After school, Zuo Xiaoduo spotted a girl in a pink dress waiting by the road and suspected she was targeting him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rushed back into school and told Qin Fangyang that the girl had been following him for two days.
• Qin Fangyang accompanied Zuo Xiaoduo to the gates, but the girl was gone, and he doubted Zuo Xiaoduo's story.
• Qin Fangyang warned Zuo Xiaoduo to focus on martial training instead of romance and described the long lifespans of powerful martial artists.

Zuo Xiaoduo saw a mysterious girl in pink repeatedly appear near the school and struggled to decide whether to ask Zuo Xiaonian for help. He resolved to face the danger himself while keeping his phone ready, but the girl appeared in his path again as he tried to flee.

• Qin Fangyang mistook Zuo Xiaoduo's warnings about the girl for an excuse and left him at the school gate.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly checked that the girl was still beneath the streetlamp and wrestled with whether to call Zuo Xiaonian.
• Zuo Xiaoduo resolved to rely on himself but kept Zuo Xiaonian's number ready in case he faced irresistible danger.
• Zuo Xiaoduo dashed away from the school and planned to escape across rooftops to a busy street.
• Zuo Xiaoduo rounded another corner and saw the girl in pink in front of him again.

Zuo Xiaoduo met the eerie girl in pink who had been searching for him and tried to refuse her valuable jade pendant. After he questioned her claim about her dead parents, she briefly regained her own awareness, but she left after throwing the pendant at him.

• The girl in pink found Zuo Xiaoduo and said she had come to thank him for recovering her wallet.
• The girl offered Zuo Xiaoduo a radiant jade pendant, but he suspected something was wrong and refused it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told the girl her face did not resemble that of an orphan whose parents had died, and her gray eyes began to look normal.
• The girl checked her phone, thanked Zuo Xiaoduo, and again urged him to take the pendant.
• Zuo Xiaoduo refused, so the girl tossed the pendant at him and disappeared at great speed.

Zuo Xiaonian confronted the pink-clad girl and deduced that she was an avatar from the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect who had tried to use a Greedy Wolf Formation. The girl recognized Zuo Xiaonian as Phoenix City's Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden as Zuo Xiaonian prepared to intercept the Greedy Wolf's Heart.

• Zuo Xiaoduo left the jade pendant behind, refusing to accept another gift after receiving payment.
• Zuo Xiaonian appeared at the alley entrance and pressured the pink-clad girl, leaving her too frightened to resist.
• Zuo Xiaonian questioned the girl about the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect, its plans in Phoenix City, and the formation's connection to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained how the Greedy Wolf Formation used ten Greedy Wolf Souls and a central heart to kill its hosts and increase the cultivator's power.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had prepared to intercept the final thought escaping from the Greedy Wolf's Heart, and the pink-clad girl recognized her as Phoenix City's Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden.

Zuo Xiaonian killed the girl in pink after she insulted her and provoked her over Zuo Xiaoduo. Afterward, Zuo Xiaonian stayed alert for the possibility that the corpse was a decoy or could revive, while Zuo Xiaoduo worried about the consequences of her intervention.

• Zuo Xiaonian told the girl in pink that bullying Zuo Xiaoduo had made her a target, while the girl denied ever seeing or harming him.
• The girl in pink mocked Zuo Xiaonian with filthy insults, and Zuo Xiaonian recognized her as a member of the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect.
• Zuo Xiaonian attacked the girl in pink with a torrent of sword light and killed her with a wound through the throat.
• Zuo Xiaonian warned Zuo Xiaoduo that the Witch Alliance might use a secret escape technique or a double, and he suggested decapitating or burning the corpse to confirm her death.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether Zuo Xiaonian would face repercussions for intervening, and she dismissed the girl as a minor figure in the Witch Alliance.

After Zuo Xiaonian joined the two halves of the jade pendant and placed it on the Pink-Clothed Girl, the girl's body vanished and the pendant surged with energy into Zuo Xiaoduo, knocking him unconscious. He woke at home with strange new strength and found Zuo Xiaonian exhausted and unconscious on his bed, leaving him confused about what had happened.

• Zuo Xiaonian joined the two matching jade pendants, placed them on the Pink-Clothed Girl, and watched the girl's body disappear as a blood-red streak appeared inside the pendant.
• Zuo Xiaonian sent the pendant into Zuo Xiaoduo's robes, and its immense energy entered him and caused him to pass out.
• Zuo Xiaonian carried the unconscious Zuo Xiaoduo away, and he later woke at home able to float briefly before losing control and falling.
• Zuo Xiaoduo shattered his drinking glass and crushed a chair with his newfound strength.
• Zuo Xiaoduo found Zuo Xiaonian unconscious and deathly pale on his bed, brought her water, and carefully helped her drink half a bowl.

Zuo Xiaoduo feared Zuo Xiaonian had been badly hurt, but discovered she had only been pretending to sleep. Their scuffle wrecked his bed, and the chapter ended with him teasing her while she hid from their father beneath the quilt.

• Zuo Xiaoduo placed Star Soul Stones around Zuo Xiaonian, who revealed she had been awake when her feet tickled her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo scolded Zuo Xiaonian for frightening him, but she teased him and refused to explain what had happened to her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo lunged at Zuo Xiaonian, and his newly increased strength caused the bed to collapse beneath them.
• Zuo Changlu called from outside, and Zuo Xiaoduo blamed the wrecked bed on his cultivation breakthrough while Zuo Xiaonian hid under the quilt.
• After Zuo Changlu left, Zuo Xiaoduo teased Zuo Xiaonian and threatened to call their parents if she retaliated.

Zuo Xiaonian explained that Zuo Xiaoduo had narrowly avoided being used in the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect’s scheme. She revealed that the Greedy Wolf’s Heart now contained the witch’s intercepted power and memories, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo with a windfall and the witch unable to identify who destroyed her clone.

• Zuo Xiaoduo threatened to shout if Zuo Xiaonian tried to subdue him, then demanded to know what had happened to her.
• Zuo Xiaonian teased Zuo Xiaoduo before warning him that accepting the Greedy Wolf’s Heart could have put him in serious danger.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that the Greedy Wolf Witch belonged to the Witch Alliance and had nearly completed a formation that used Zuo Xiaoduo as its final target.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the witch had given Zuo Xiaoduo half of the Greedy Wolf’s Heart after his kind act disrupted her plan and triggered a backlash.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had destroyed the witch’s clone and sealed its remaining power and most of its memories inside the reunited pendant, preventing the original witch from learning who killed it.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Zuo Xiaonian had exhausted herself transferring the Greedy Wolf's Heart energy into him, and he angrily worried that she had sacrificed a chance to break through her bottleneck. Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the thief Zuo Xiaoduo had warned was the final target in the Greedy Wolf's Scheme, and that the rest of the thief's gang had died.

• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had refined the Greedy Wolf's Heart and transferred its energy into Zuo Xiaoduo, despite the strain and risks of guiding it through his body.
• Zuo Xiaoduo confronted Zuo Xiaonian for giving him the energy instead of using it to help herself break through her bottleneck.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo really could read faces, then reminded him that he had warned a thief to head east to avoid disaster.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that the thief had been the final target in the Greedy Wolf's Scheme and that returning the wallet had kept the Greedy Wolf Soul from being delivered.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that every member of the thief's ten-person gang except the thief had died the previous night.

Zuo Xiaonian explained how Zuo Xiaoduo’s advice had saved Zhang Yuan from Greedy Wolf’s Scheme, then pressed him about his claimed skill in Physiognomy. The chapter ended with Zuo Xiaonian laughing at Zuo Xiaoduo’s grand claims while he fumed.

• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that nine people had died in identical, inexplicable circumstances when Greedy Wolf’s Scheme erupted.
• Zuo Xiaonian revealed that she had tracked Zhang Yuan to Antai City and confirmed that Zuo Xiaoduo’s advice had led him to safety.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had kept following Zuo Xiaoduo because she believed the person behind Greedy Wolf’s Scheme would come after him.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo truly knew Physiognomy, and he insisted his skill could reveal life and death.
• Zuo Xiaonian laughed at Zuo Xiaoduo’s solemn boasts, and he demanded that she take him seriously.

Zuo Xiaonian realized that Zuo Xiaoduo’s relentless cultivation and warnings came from his fear that she would die during her breakthrough. Zuo Xiaoduo explained that he had seen an unavoidable tribulation, but her fate was not certain and careful preparation could still avert disaster.

• Zuo Xiaonian asked whether Zuo Xiaoduo had foreseen a calamity or her death when he read her face.
• Zuo Xiaonian described how Zuo Xiaoduo had been pushing himself through constant cultivation and fights because he wanted to protect her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admitted that he would pay any price to keep Zuo Xiaonian from dying.
• Zuo Xiaonian recalled that Zuo Xiaoduo had warned her about danger involving the Star Martial Golden Crystal two and a half months later.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that her breakthrough would bring an unavoidable tribulation, but the signs left room to change the outcome through preparation.

Zuo Xiaoduo persuaded Zuo Xiaonian not to give in to her apparent death fate, though the ominous sign on her face remained. Zuo Xiaonian then warned him that the Star Soul energy inside him could turn berserk and arranged to help him control it during three days off from school.

• Zuo Xiaoduo convinced Zuo Xiaonian that precautions and his help could let her avoid her calamity, and she brightened as they teased each other.
• Zuo Xiaoduo privately worried that the dark sign of calamity on Zuo Xiaonian's face had not faded.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that his uncontrolled Yuan Energy could make his body explode if he stirred it recklessly.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she would help him absorb and control the hidden Yuan Energy over the next three days, and revealed she had already arranged his leave with their father.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that she had told their father her master was helping clear Zuo Xiaoduo's meridians and would train him for three days.

Zuo Xiaonian kept Zuo Xiaoduo by her side while recovering from her injuries and realized the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect had infiltrated Phoenix City. Far away, Mo Xuanyi awoke after the destruction of her eastern double, which had been headed to the Central Plains.

• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo that she had arranged for him to stay with her for three days and explained how she had brought him home.
• Zuo Xiaonian absorbed ten pieces of middle-grade star soul jade in minutes, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo stunned by the gap between their cultivation levels.
• Zuo Xiaonian worried about the Greedy Wolf Witch Sect's agents in Phoenix City and decided to tell her Master about the threat.
• At the moment the Pink-Clothed Girl was killed, Mo Xuanyi's eastern double was destroyed, causing her to spit blood and collapse.
• Mo Xuanyi told the black-clothed old woman that the destroyed double had been heading to the Central Plains, within Ancient Qi's territory.

After her avatar’s unexplained death, Mo Xuanyi questioned whether her parents were truly dead and asked the Black-Clothed Old Woman about physiognomy. She persuaded her master to let her travel to recover the Greedy Wolf’s Heart, leaving her to wonder whether her parents might still be alive.

• Mo Xuanyi told the Black-Clothed Old Woman that she suspected her parents were not dead, but her master dismissed her feelings and refused to name any physiognomy experts.
• Mo Xuanyi asked to investigate her avatar’s death and recover the Greedy Wolf’s Heart, which held some of her soul’s memories.
• The Black-Clothed Old Woman agreed to let Mo Xuanyi travel with her eldest senior brother or martial uncle after three days of recovery, but forbade her from acting rashly or pursuing anything beyond the Heart.
• Mo Xuanyi remembered envying children with parents and reconsidered her belief that her parents had died at the hands of people from the Star Soul Continent.

Mo Xuanyi longed to learn whether anyone had found news about her parents. Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian set out for her master’s place, while their parents discussed their relationship and Zuo Xiaonian warned him to conceal it from her junior sister, Meng Chenyu.

• Mo Xuanyi resolved to find the physiognomist who had said her features did not belong to an orphan and hoped to learn what had happened to her parents.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian ate breakfast before leaving for her master's place, and Zuo Changlu told her to keep an eye on him.
• After the siblings left, Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu discussed whether anything had happened between them and agreed that Zuo Xiaoduo needed a sturdier double bed.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Zuo Xiaoduo not to reveal their relationship at her master's home because her junior sister, Meng Chenyu, did not know he existed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked about Meng Chenyu, and Zuo Xiaonian described her as pretty before praising his focus on cultivation.

Zuo Xiaonian brought Zuo Xiaoduo to the Martial Dao Arena for three days of intensive training, where he was shaken by the gulf between their strengths and resolved to work harder. Mu Yanyan and Meng Chenyu arrived to help train him, and Meng Chenyu was left to conduct his first day.

• Zuo Xiaonian carried Zuo Xiaoduo to the Martial Dao Arena and told him to persevere through three days with little sleep.
• Zuo Xiaoduo saw Zuo Xiaonian’s distant, formidable side and realized he needed to work hard to stand beside her.
• Zuo Xiaonian introduced Zuo Xiaoduo to her master, Mu Yanyan, and junior sister, Meng Chenyu.
• Mu Yanyan judged Zuo Xiaoduo’s aptitude adequate but said his age and formed skeletal structure limited his prospects.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked Mu Yanyan and Meng Chenyu to honor their agreement to help train Zuo Xiaoduo, and Meng Chenyu remained to begin his training.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Meng Chenyu argued in her family's lavish underground cultivation facility, where she mocked his humble background and boasted about her father's gifts. Zuo Xiaoduo defended his family and, after learning about the therapy pods, eyed the expensive equipment with interest.

• Meng Chenyu described the immense underground cultivation sanctuary and said her father had spent twelve billion star yuan to build it for her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo agreed that his sister had given him the chance to enter, then mocked Meng Chenyu for flaunting her father's wealth.
• Meng Chenyu claimed her father was better than Zuo Xiaoduo's, and Zuo Xiaoduo countered that his own father had raised a sister better than her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo listed his loving family and said he possessed something Meng Chenyu could never have, but she called his boast ridiculous.
• Meng Chenyu showed Zuo Xiaoduo the Star Soul Therapy Pods and explained that they could heal severe injuries in fifteen minutes.
• Zuo Xiaoduo looked over the lavish facility and therapy pods with a brilliant light in his eyes.