Chapter Summaries

Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students and staff watched the state punish people who had joined the online abuse and saw more than fifty million people apologize to Principal Shi. Although the school celebrated his exoneration, they worried that the masterminds behind the campaign would remain beyond the law’s reach.

• The state deducted personal credit points from people who had hurled abuse online, recorded their actions, and issued reminders that the internet was subject to the law.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students rushed online to support the school as the public tide turned toward demanding justice for Vice Principal Shi.
• Students and staff saw more than fifty million people apologize and recalled how overwhelming the original online attack had been.
• Faculty and staff discussed the arrests overseen by Minister Nan and doubted that investigators could identify the masterminds after more than twenty years.

After Shi Yunfeng’s name was cleared, students at Hidden Dragon High Martial were provoked into demanding practical support for his widow, Teacher Yu. Marshal Dongfang and major institutions then announced a monument and lavish film projects honoring Shi Yunfeng, leaving the public caught up in a wave of commemorations.

• Jingjing Cat and other users accused Hidden Dragon High Martial of failing to do enough for Shi Yunfeng and Teacher Yu, provoking angry replies from teachers and students.
• Li Chenglong and other students urged Hidden Dragon High Martial to take practical action, and the school launched a discussion about how to help Teacher Yu.
• Online users called for Shi Yunfeng to be remembered through monuments, biographies, and screen adaptations.
• Marshal Dongfang announced that a hundred-foot statue and a monument to Shi Yunfeng would be erected in the Martyrs' Cemetery at Sun Moon Pass.
• Zuo Shuai Film and Television announced a biography, a sixty-episode television drama, and seven films about Shi Yunfeng, securing five billion Star Origin Coins in funding.
• Marshal Dongfang, Principal Ye Changqing, the Dongfang Legion, and Hidden Dragon High Martial joined the film projects, while biographies of Shi Yunfeng spread across the internet.

Public campaigns cleared Principal Shi Yunfeng’s name and renewed respect for fallen heroes, while Grandma Shi began recovering her resolve and vowed to pursue those responsible. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong watched their campaign reshape public opinion as the government promoted realistic accounts of the border war.

• Ye Changqing, Wen Xingtian, and others visited Grandma Shi, but she refused to return to teaching and said her heart was dead.
• Grandma Shi wiped Shi Yunfeng’s Golden Sword and vowed to find the hand behind the injustice before joining him in death.
• Minister Nan, Marshal Dongfang, Marshal Zuo Company, and others guided online discussion toward stories of fallen heroes and the realities of war.
• Marshal Dongfang ordered that unrealistic films depicting one person single-handedly defeating the Witch Alliance’s great leaders never be shown again.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong took pride in the campaign’s success, though Li Chenglong wondered whether the shift in public sentiment had come too easily.

Zuo Xiaoduo complained that his company would receive only ten percent of the profits from a major film and television venture, then asked Fang Yinuo to help him set up a company to profit more from the creatures he hunted. The chapter ended as Hidden Dragon High Martial began its second trial.

• Zuo Xiaoduo learned that the Marshal Zuo Company would receive a ten-percent share of the film and television venture without investing money, but he remained dissatisfied with the deal.
• Li Chenglong refused to listen as Zuo Xiaoduo complained about lost profits and asked him to repay a debt.
• Several days later, Hidden Dragon High Martial began its second trial.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Fang Yinuo to help establish a company after realizing that buyers earned far more from the snakeskins he sold than he had from the snakes.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s wealth and cultivation grew rapidly, but his teachers worried that his progress was inexplicably fast. Wen Xingtian suspected Li Chenglong had an Ice Nightmare Soul constitution after learning that he used to cultivate pressed against Zuo Xiaoduo to absorb his cold energy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo learned Fang Yinuo could not help him start a new company, scolded him, and went out for trials disappointed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Fortune Points rose from twenty-four to eighty-eight, and his cultivation advanced to the middle stage of the Embryonic Breath Realm.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian worried that Zuo Xiaoduo was advancing too quickly and planned to examine his Dantian again.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed how Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong avoided medicinal pills, noting that Li Chenglong’s cultivation speed seemed normal for his constitution.
• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Li Chenglong insisted on cultivating back-to-back with Zuo Xiaoduo, who said the cold energy in Li Chenglong’s body had long since melted away.

Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Li Chenglong’s mysterious cold energy had been expelled through practicing with Zuo Xiaoduo, revealing signs that Li Chenglong might possess the Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution. Ye Changqing realized both students were extraordinary, but learned they had already gone out on a trial.

• Wen Xingtian explained how Li Chenglong had repeatedly practiced with Zuo Xiaoduo to make sure no cold energy remained inside him.
• Wen Xingtian reported Li Chenglong’s rapid cultivation and the ongoing transformation of his Star Soul, leading him to suspect Li Chenglong had the Ice Nightmare Soul Constitution.
• Ye Changqing warned Wen Xingtian to keep the possibility secret, then reacted with alarm at the prospect of Li Chenglong becoming a peerless powerhouse.
• Wen Xingtian reminded Ye Changqing that Zuo Xiaoduo was even more gifted in most respects, and Ye Changqing asked where the two students were.
• Wen Xingtian said Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong had gone out on a trial, and argued that geniuses still needed to face danger and hardship.

Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed the extensive secret safeguards arranged for the students’ trial, and Ye Changqing decided to go east of the city to check on them himself. Zuo Xiaoduo found the trial an easy way to earn points but obeyed Wen Xingtian’s warning not to enter areas above Infant Transformation.

• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian discussed how sects secretly protected young geniuses during trials and arranged their apparent chance encounters.
• Wen Xingtian told Ye Changqing that Xiang Kuangren, Vice Principal Zhan, Vice Principal Gao, and Shi Family Sister-in-Law were already watching the trial.
• Ye Changqing announced he would go east of the city for a stroll, despite Wen Xingtian teasing him for wanting to act as a nanny.
• Zuo Xiaoduo treated the trial as an effortless point-farming trip and remembered Wen Xingtian’s warning to stay out of areas above Infant Transformation.
• Zuo Xiaoduo considered testing the restriction but ultimately did not dare.

During the trial, Zuo Xiaoduo secretly fed Star Beast blood to the Dragon Blood Flying Knife until it overflowed, then showed off with his sword and kicked at a falling meteor. His kick failed to break the meteor, and he ended the chapter hopping in pain while Xiang Bing and Zhen Piaopiao laughed and left.

• Zuo Xiaoduo drained Star Beasts to feed the Dragon Blood Flying Knife until it became overfull and spilled Spiritual Qi, then absorbed the excess for four hours.
• Zuo Xiaoduo strode through the trial with the Spirit Cat Sword and sang a crude poem, prompting Zhen Piaopiao, Xiang Bing, and the others to move away.
• Zuo Xiaoduo sped through the trial, collecting Star Beasts and kicking apart falling meteors to impress the watching girls.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kicked a meteor that did not break and hurt his shin, while Xiang Bing and Zhen Piaopiao laughed and hurried away.

After a meteor broke Zuo Xiaoduo’s shin and burned his hand, he investigated the scorching boulder and discovered it could evaporate a stream on contact. The spreading vapor drew the attention of nearby people, who headed over to investigate.

• Zuo Xiaoduo treated his broken shin and examined the meteor that had injured him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo pulled the flaming boulder from its crater, burned his hand, and realized it was unusually hot.
• Zuo Xiaoduo used the Spirit Cat Sword to roll the boulder into a nearby stream.
• The boulder evaporated the stream water and filled the area with thick vapor.
• People nearby noticed the fog and went to investigate.

Zuo Xiaoduo captured a blazing meteorite that strengthened his Flame Sun True Scripture, then was ordered to leave the trial early and brought the stone home for Grandma Shi to examine. Grandma Shi saw the stone’s intense heat, but its nature remained unknown.

• Zuo Xiaoduo stored the strange meteorite in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, where its heat withered his Spirit Fruit saplings and helped his Flame Sun True Scripture grow more profound.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued the trial and amassed gains far beyond the runner-up despite his earlier injury.
• Xiang Kuangren ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to leave early after noticing he was heading toward the Thunderbolt White Tigers’ territory.
• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to the villa and asked Grandma Shi to examine the meteorite.
• Zuo Xiaoduo placed the stone on a Star Iron rack, and its heat rapidly raised the courtyard’s temperature.

Grandma Shi identified the meteorite Zuo Xiaoduo found as a Blazing Sun Heart, a rare treasure exceptionally suited to his Flame Sun True Scripture. She also explained why specialized cultivation techniques did not advance in step with ordinary cultivation realms, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo with a clearer understanding of attribute-based physiques and their power.

• Grandma Shi sealed Zuo Villa against the Blazing Sun Heart's heat and identified the treasure as rarer and more valuable than ordinary Top-Grade Star Soul Jade.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether the Blazing Sun Heart could help Ye Changqing, and Grandma Shi warned that its intense fire energy would kill him.
• Grandma Shi explained that the Blazing Sun Heart could greatly aid Zuo Xiaoduo because he practiced the heaven-grade Flame Sun True Scripture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked why his technique remained at its first level despite his growth in cultivation, and Grandma Shi explained that ordinary star yuan qi cultivation suited most physiques while exclusive techniques required specialized ones.
• Grandma Shi described how the Twelve Great Witches used their distinct attributes to command floods, flames, space, and ice, giving them advantages even against higher-level opponents.

Grandma Shi explained how attribute cultivation techniques advanced according to talent and attribute power, then taught Zuo Xiaoduo to believe in fate without submitting to it. The chapter left him storing the Blazing Sun Heart and learning that information about similar treasures in the Star Soul Empire had been sealed.

• Grandma Shi explained that specialized cultivation techniques advanced according to their attribute requirements and would not automatically match a practitioner's existing realm.
• Grandma Shi told Zuo Xiaoduo that his Flame Sun True Scripture was exceptionally rare and that talent, fate, luck, and opportunity shaped who could cultivate it.
• Grandma Shi urged Zuo Xiaoduo to contend against his circumstances rather than submit to fate, and her words gave him new insights into his cultivation and Qi-Observing Art.
• Grandma Shi instructed Zuo Xiaoduo to absorb the Blazing Sun Heart's heat first, then gradually absorb the Blazing Sun Soul after it stopped releasing heat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stored the Blazing Sun Heart in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and asked whether similar treasures had fallen on Star Soul Continent.
• Grandma Shi said some Blazing Sun Hearts had fallen within the Star Soul Empire, but the information had been sealed.

Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated with the Blazing Sun Heart inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, absorbing its heat until he emerged completely burned of his hair and clothes. He was left mortified when Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian witnessed his naked exit.

• Grandma Shi explained that rare Star Soul Stones could cause immense natural phenomena, but their awakened forms became impossible to find.
• Zuo Xiaoduo wondered whether one of the stones lay beneath the glaciers, then secretly hoped he could find one for Nian Nian Cat.
• Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated with the Blazing Sun Heart’s heat inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, rapidly strengthening his Flame Sun True Scripture as the space grew scorching hot.
• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the Annihilation Sky Pagoda naked, with his clothes, hair, and body hair burned away.
• Zuo Xiaoduo screamed and called Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian perverts after finding them staring at him.

Zuo Xiaoduo woke up hairless after cultivating with the Blazing Sun Heart, and Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing sent him back into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to continue. By early morning, he had adapted to its heat and kept absorbing the Blazing Sun Heart’s energy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that his hair had vanished and complained about his appearance to Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he had used the Blazing Sun Heart to cultivate the Flame Sun True Scripture, and Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian told him to resume cultivating after a short rest.
• Wen Xingtian and Ye Changqing left, urging Zuo Xiaoduo to return to cultivation and remember school the next morning.
• Zuo Xiaoduo prepared water, wrapped himself in clothes, and reentered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate.
• By about four thirty in the morning, Zuo Xiaoduo had adapted to the heat, drunk more than thirty barrels of water, and continued absorbing the Blazing Sun Heart’s heat and Spiritual Qi.

Zuo Xiaoduo cultivated inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda until his meridians were overtaxed, then fell asleep to recover. In his dream, Little Dragon excitedly asked to live near the red, hot treasure, but Zuo Xiaoduo refused and grew suspicious of his agreeable response.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pushed his cultivation until his Dantian felt swollen and his meridians strained, then left the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and collapsed into deep sleep.
• Little Dragon appeared in Zuo Xiaoduo's dream and excitedly asked how he had obtained some red, hot treasure.
• Zuo Xiaoduo declared the treasure his and refused to let Little Dragon move in near it.
• Little Dragon accepted the refusal without protest, making Zuo Xiaoduo suspect he was scheming.

Little Dragon moved the remaining third of the earth vein into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after Zuo Xiaoduo paid him a Fortune Point. Zuo Xiaoduo slept through the morning, forgetting Wen Xingtian had told him to come to school early, and woke thinking about getting fire silkworm clothing.

• Little Dragon warned Zuo Xiaoduo that the complete earth vein would need much more powder to form properly, but Zuo Xiaoduo told him to move it in anyway.
• Little Dragon demanded the Fortune Point Zuo Xiaoduo had promised, and Zuo Xiaoduo gave him one.
• Little Dragon swallowed the Fortune Point and moved the earth vein into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda while moaning in pleasure.
• Zuo Xiaoduo slept through Li Chenglong's calls, and Li Chenglong left for school after glimpsing him through the window.
• Zuo Xiaoduo woke late, showered, and remembered that he needed Fang Yinuo to help him obtain fire silkworm clothing.

Zuo Xiaoduo inspected the Annihilation Sky Pagoda after Little Dragon shaped an earth vein into a dragon-like ridge, then gathered more star soul jade powder for its construction. The pagoda’s space seemed to have grown, while Little Dragon secretly reveled in the Blazing Sun Heart.

• Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, endured its scorching heat, and cultivated with the Flame Sun True Scripture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered that the new earth vein resembled Little Dragon and found Little Dragon’s request for more powder written on the ground.
• Zuo Xiaoduo left the pagoda, and Little Dragon’s phantom emerged to embrace the Blazing Sun Heart.
• Zuo Xiaoduo visited Boss Sun and absorbed more than a hundred cartloads of star soul jade powder, then urged Boss Sun to collect more.

Zuo Xiaoduo expanded his star soul jade powder collection business with Boss Sun, then arrived late at school and faced his classmates’ reaction to his completely shaved body. He left the class laughing after claiming his hairless look was a combat precaution.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Boss Sun to collect star soul jade powder directly from dumpers, offered to pay by the truckload, and advised him to expand the storage yard.
• Zuo Xiaoduo arrived at school around noon and apologized to an angry Wen Xingtian for ignoring his instruction to come early.
• Zuo Xiaoduo entered class with a completely hairless head and face, leaving the students stunned.
• Zuo Xiaoduo claimed he had shaved his hair to prevent enemies from grabbing it in combat and offered to shave his classmates too.
• Zhen Piaopiao and Li Chenglong joked about Zuo Xiaoduo shaving off every bit of body hair, making the class erupt in laughter.

Wen Xingtian told the class that Great Witch Dan Kong had infiltrated Star Soul territory and that Flood Great Shaman’s return signaled a looming war. In the Witch Alliance’s hall, Dan Kong reported back and complained to Great Shaman Liehuo about his mission and the boss’s godson.

• Wen Xingtian announced that Great Witch Dan Kong had entered Star Soul territory, fought the Right Route Heavenly King, and returned to the Witch Alliance after completing his mission.
• Wen Xingtian warned the students that Flood Great Shaman had appeared at Sun Moon Pass and that the border armies were preparing for war.
• Great Witch Dan Kong reported to Flood Great Shaman that his mission had gone smoothly and then withdrew from the hall.
• Great Shaman Liehuo questioned Dan Kong about delivering something and complained that Flood Great Shaman had used his belongings to settle a karmic debt.
• Great Witch Dan Kong complained that repeated missions had left his injuries unhealed, then described the boss’s godson as shameless to Great Shaman Liehuo.

Flood Great Shaman discovered that only a tenth of his karmic debt had been canceled and angrily punished Great Witch Dan Kong for breaking Zuo Xiaoduo’s leg. At Hidden Dragon High Martial, Wen Xingtian reprimanded Zuo Xiaoduo for overtraining, then challenged the rest of the class to match his determination.

• Flood Great Shaman checked his fortune qi and karmic debt, then learned that his growing affection for Zuo Xiaoduo was part of the arrangement.
• Flood Great Shaman overheard Great Witch Dan Kong boasting about breaking Zuo Xiaoduo’s leg and smashed Dan Kong into a tree with a Sledgehammer.
• Wen Xingtian lectured the class about the dangers of overtraining and scolded Zuo Xiaoduo for pushing his cultivation to the point of near collapse.
• Wen Xingtian sent Zuo Xiaoduo to the Gravity Room, then rebuked the class for falling behind him and challenged them to take on stronger students.