Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo began special training with Meng Chenyu, determined to grow stronger and earn enough money to protect his sister. As he repeatedly rose from Meng Chenyu’s attacks, Mu Yanyan recognized his cleverness while Zuo Xiaonian watched in pain.

• Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Zuo Xiaonian had agreed to do Meng Chenyu a favor so he could receive three days of training, and Meng Chenyu refused to let him back out.
• Meng Chenyu began training Zuo Xiaoduo by attacking him and taunting him, while he vowed to become stronger and richer.
• Zuo Xiaoduo endured repeated knockdowns and kept charging back, drawing on his newly enhanced strength and pushing himself to improve.
• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaonian that Zuo Xiaoduo was clever, while Zuo Xiaonian continued watching the beating with growing distress.

Mu Yanyan praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s rapid combat growth, clear thinking, and extraordinary perseverance as he fought Meng Chenyu. She warned Zuo Xiaonian that his late start and weak Star Soul limited his future, though he might reach Infant Transformation with great fortune, while the fight continued on the screen.

• Mu Yanyan explained that Zuo Xiaoduo kept improving his techniques and mastering his newly acquired power during the fight with Meng Chenyu.
• Mu Yanyan praised Zuo Xiaoduo for controlling his anger and thinking clearly despite Meng Chenyu’s provocations.
• Zuo Xiaonian thanked Mu Yanyan for praising her younger brother and asked whether he could catch up to her.
• Mu Yanyan said Zuo Xiaoduo’s perseverance surpassed Meng Chenyu’s but that his late start made it impossible for him to catch up to Zuo Xiaonian.
• Mu Yanyan said Zuo Xiaoduo might reach Infant Transformation only with extraordinary good fortune, and Zuo Xiaonian felt relieved that he could then stay with her for a thousand years.
• Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan watched Meng Chenyu continue striking Zuo Xiaoduo.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Meng Chenyu fought an exhausting sparring match while Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan watched. After Meng Chenyu sent Zuo Xiaoduo into a recuperation pod, she climbed into one herself, prompting Zuo Xiaonian to promise to push her Junior Sister harder.

• Zuo Xiaonian watched Meng Chenyu repeatedly kick Zuo Xiaoduo and vowed to make her Junior Sister cultivate more diligently.
• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaonian that the Governor-General’s Office had responded about the Greedy Wolf Sect and that Seven Kills was reportedly active in Phoenix City.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kept attacking Meng Chenyu and hurling threats at her despite his injuries and exhaustion.
• Meng Chenyu finally kicked Zuo Xiaoduo into a recuperation pod, then entered another pod herself to recover.
• Zuo Xiaonian complained that Meng Chenyu had needed a nutrient pod after sparring with Zuo Xiaoduo, and Mu Yanyan agreed she should be taught to recover properly.

Zuo Xiaoduo endured a day of brutal training under Meng Chenyu, repeatedly using her family’s recuperation pod to recover. Zuo Xiaonian agreed to consider Meng Chenyu’s request for a meal with her brother in three days, while Mu Yanyan prepared additional protection for Zuo Xiaonian’s dangerous breakthrough.

• Meng Chenyu emerged from the recuperation pod fully restored, praised Zuo Xiaoduo’s fighting spirit, and reminded Zuo Xiaonian of their agreement about a meal with her brother.
• Zuo Xiaoduo shouted for Meng Chenyu and insulted her, prompting Mu Yanyan to tell Meng Chenyu she could hit him harder because the recuperation pod would prevent lasting harm.
• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaonian that two junior martial uncles would arrive in a month and a half and two senior martial uncles would come down from the mountain to help guard her breakthrough.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spent the day being beaten by Meng Chenyu and entered the recuperation pod three times, making her worry that he was deliberately running up the cost.
• When Zuo Xiaonian brought Zuo Xiaoduo a roasted One-Horned Deer haunch, he demanded that she reject the meal arrangement, but she left without answering and he could only threaten to tell their parents.

After learning that Zuo Xiaonian had endured humiliation because of him, Zuo Xiaoduo resolved to become strong enough to protect her and trained with renewed determination. He continued cultivating in the Healing Pod, where spiritual energy helped his mysterious cool energy spread through his meridians.

• Zuo Xiaoduo regretted being too weak to protect Zuo Xiaonian, vowed to become her pride, and ate the One-Horned Deer leg.
• Meng Chenyu, Mu Yanyan, and Zuo Xiaonian saw Zuo Xiaoduo practicing three martial arts with exceptional precision.
• Mu Yanyan criticized Meng Chenyu for complaining and urged her to learn from Zuo Xiaoduo's perseverance.
• Zuo Xiaonian told Meng Chenyu that their agreement would end if she quit, so Meng Chenyu went back in to keep fighting Zuo Xiaoduo.
• At midnight, Zuo Xiaoduo entered the Healing Pod for the fifth time and found that its spiritual energy healed his injuries and helped his cool energy spread through his meridians.

Zuo Xiaoduo exploited the Healing Pod to recover and temper his bones while provoking Meng Chenyu into beating him, but the pod’s special cooling energy eventually ran out. Near the end of his stay, he swallowed the Spirit Liquid rather than let the remaining benefits go to waste.

• Zuo Xiaoduo cursed Meng Chenyu throughout their fights, and her increasingly furious blows sent him back into the Healing Pod.
• Meng Chenyu grew so enraged by Zuo Xiaoduo’s relentless insults that she began using a Healing Pod herself to calm down.
• At three thirty in the morning, Zuo Xiaoduo found that the Healing Pod’s special cooling energy had reached saturation, though its Spirit Liquid still nourished him as he tempered his bones.
• Zuo Xiaoduo wondered what Nian Nian Cat had promised Meng Chenyu and resented Meng Chenyu for bargaining with her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo gulped down the Spirit Liquid in the pod, deciding that its remaining benefits were too valuable to waste.

After recovering in Meng Chenyu’s training hall, Zuo Xiaoduo drank a bellyful of Spirit Liquid from a shared recuperation pod and began spraying out Star Soul energy. He provoked Meng Chenyu into another fight, ending the chapter while taunting her about her appearance as she attacked him.

• Zuo Xiaoduo emerged from the recuperation pod with a distended belly after drinking its Spirit Liquid.
• Meng Chenyu laughed at Zuo Xiaoduo for drinking what she considered filthy bathwater.
• Zuo Xiaoduo began spraying Star Soul energy from his nostrils because his body could not contain the liquid he had consumed.
• Zuo Xiaoduo challenged Meng Chenyu and fought her with his Starry Sky Step and Dragon Gate Leg.
• Zuo Xiaoduo insulted Meng Chenyu’s figure as she struck him with a flurry of palm attacks.

Meng Chenyu beat Zuo Xiaoduo and forced him to drink Spirit Liquid from the Healing Pod, while Mu Yanyan taught Zuo Xiaonian about cultivation and hardship. During special training the next morning, Zuo Xiaoduo completed his full-body tempering and broke through to the Martial Master level, driving Meng Chenyu back.

• Meng Chenyu battered Zuo Xiaoduo, dislocated his jaw, and made him swallow mouthfuls of Spirit Liquid from the Healing Pod.
• Mu Yanyan explained to Zuo Xiaonian that Spirit Liquid was valuable and that hardship helped a Martial Artist reach the summit.
• Zuo Xiaoduo completed the tempering of his entire body during special training and opened the barrier to the Martial Master level.
• Zuo Xiaoduo's strength surged, and he drove Meng Chenyu back as Zuo Xiaonian watched the breakthrough on the monitor.

Zuo Xiaoduo’s meridians opened as he advanced into the Martial Master Realm, while Mu Yanyan explained that his ability to recognize and correct flaws in combat techniques mattered more than the increase in strength. Meng Chenyu quit his training early after his antics nearly drove her to fury, and Mu Yanyan took over as his trainer, where Zuo Xiaoduo showered her with flattery.

• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaonian that Zuo Xiaoduo had already reached the basic standard of a Martial Master and might refine his cultivation further before the deadline.
• Meng Chenyu withdrew from Zuo Xiaoduo’s special training after becoming too furious to continue safely, and Zuo Xiaonian ended her role in the training.
• Meng Chenyu realized the bathwater Zuo Xiaoduo had consumed was precious Spirit Liquid and regretted how much he had drunk without wasting any.
• Mu Yanyan began training Zuo Xiaoduo, and he praised her beauty and righteousness while asking her to correct his techniques.
• Meng Chenyu watched the surveillance feed and gaped at how sweetly Zuo Xiaoduo treated Mu Yanyan.

Zuo Xiaoduo showered Mu Yanyan with praise while she patiently taught him, leaving Meng Chenyu furious and convinced he was manipulating her. After Zuo Xiaonian defended her brother, Meng Chenyu fled, while Mu Yanyan prepared to test Zuo Xiaoduo by making him expend all his strength.

• Zuo Xiaoduo praised Mu Yanyan’s teaching and compared her favorably with Meng Chenyu, making Mu Yanyan increasingly gentle toward him.
• Meng Chenyu watched in dismay as Mu Yanyan patiently corrected Zuo Xiaoduo and demonstrated fist techniques for him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo continued praising Mu Yanyan while criticizing Meng Chenyu’s technique and suggesting she was spoiled.
• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaoduo to perform his palm techniques, leg techniques, and footwork with full explosive power until he used up all his strength.
• Meng Chenyu begged Zuo Xiaonian to stop Zuo Xiaoduo, but Zuo Xiaonian defended him and invited Meng Chenyu to challenge anything he had said.
• Meng Chenyu accused Zuo Xiaonian of setting a trap for her and ran out, while Zuo Xiaonian watched the screen with a faint smile.

Mu Yanyan examined Zuo Xiaoduo’s meridians while helping him recover and discovered they were far broader, tougher, and more flexible than those of an ordinary Martial Master. She also found his Star Soul was unusually weak and purple, leaving her unable to understand the mysteries of his cultivation.

• Zuo Xiaoduo exhausted himself completing a round of training, so Mu Yanyan personally used her star soul power to regulate his meridians.
• Mu Yanyan felt Zuo Xiaoduo’s meridians and was stunned by their extraordinary size, flexibility, and resilience.
• Mu Yanyan realized his meridians already met the basic requirements for Embryonic Breathing, despite his Martial Master Realm.
• Mu Yanyan examined Zuo Xiaoduo’s dantian and found his Star Soul was a weak purple flame, unlike the white Star Souls she knew.
• Mu Yanyan finished her examination without understanding how Zuo Xiaoduo’s unusual Star Soul could sustain his powerful meridians.

After sparring with Mu Yanyan, Zuo Xiaoduo trained in the Healing Pod and drank much of its Spirit Liquid before leaving with Meng Chenyu. Meanwhile, Phoenix City’s hidden faction investigated Greedy Wolf’s destroyed avatar and prepared for the phoenix vein’s coming qi surge, which they believed was tied to the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden.

• Mu Yanyan sparred with Zuo Xiaoduo, then warned him not to drink more Spirit Liquid because he had already reached the Martial Master Realm, but he secretly took two more mouthfuls.
• In a Phoenix City tea room, three people discussed Greedy Wolf’s destroyed avatar, the phoenix vein’s coming qi surge, and the need to assemble Kill Break Wolf before the Star Lord arrived in a month.
• The group identified the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden as the likely person connected to the phoenix vein’s soul surge, while ordering an investigation into Greedy Wolf’s destruction and the location of Greedy Wolf’s Heart.
• By the end of the three-day special training, Zuo Xiaoduo had consumed roughly a cubic meter of Spirit Liquid and left the Healing Pod with a round belly.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said an emotional goodbye to Mu Yanyan, who invited him to visit with his sister, while Meng Chenyu privately resented his cute act.
• As morning sunlight fell across Mu Yanyan and the other women, something stirred in Zuo Xiaoduo’s mind and he looked at them again.

Zuo Xiaoduo received a drop of Spirit Liquid after Liu Jiansheng and his men returned safely, then learned that hundreds of adventurers had been killed outside Phoenix City. The chapter left Liu Jiansheng mourning the Feilong Team and asking whether the suspected killers were Seven Killings.

• Zuo Xiaoduo saw that Zuo Xiaonian and Mu Yanyan had worsening Qi Aspects, then received Spirit Liquid and realized Liu Jiansheng's group had returned safely.
• Liu Jiansheng and his nine brothers went to see Qin Fangyang, eager to report their successful trip and thank Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Qin Fangyang told Liu Jiansheng that 735 adventurers had been confirmed dead after teams traveling south, west, and east of Phoenix City were attacked.
• Qin Fangyang revealed that all twenty-five members of Wang Feilong's Feilong Team had died, and Liu Jiansheng wept as he remembered their final farewell.
• Qin Fangyang said the killers might be undercover Witch Alliance operatives and that some suspected Seven Killings.

Liu Jiansheng and his surviving teammates mourned their fallen comrades, thanked Zuo Xiaoduo for saving them, and vowed to care for the dead men’s families. Zuo Xiaoduo used his fortune-reading ability on Mu Yanyan and learned she would die protecting Zuo Xiaonian during her breakthrough two months later.

• Liu Jiansheng told his teammates that one of them would stay behind on future missions to look after the others’ families if disaster struck.
• Liu Jiansheng gave Qin Fangyang a thank-you gift and asked him to pass along the team’s gratitude to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Qin Fangyang gave Liu Jiansheng an envelope for the fallen men’s families, and the ten survivors left to report their haul and visit Wang Dalong’s family.
• Zuo Xiaoduo spent a cool drop of Fortune Points to read Mu Yanyan’s fortune and saw that she would die protecting Zuo Xiaonian during her breakthrough.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized that the enemy threatening Zuo Xiaonian would be powerful enough to kill even Mu Yanyan, a Great Grandmaster.

After Zuo Xiaoduo broke through to Martial Master, Mu Yanyan advised him to postpone the Three Touches, Five Evaluations and keep the Greedy Wolf's Heart close to dispel baleful energy. Zuo Xiaoduo then pressed Zuo Xiaonian to reveal what she had promised Meng Chenyu, learning that Meng Chenyu's older brother wanted to take her to a meal; Zuo Xiaonian offered to let him come along, but he ended up with a headbutt.

• Mu Yanyan told Zuo Xiaoduo to wait before attempting the Three Touches, Five Evaluations and to wear the Greedy Wolf's Heart until its bloodstain vanished.
• Zuo Xiaoduo angrily demanded that Zuo Xiaonian explain what terms she had agreed to with Meng Chenyu.
• Zuo Xiaonian explained that Meng Chenyu's family had invested heavily in the training hall and that using its resources required a price.
• Zuo Xiaonian said Meng Chenyu's older brother wanted to take her out for a meal, while Zuo Xiaoduo warned her that he had bad intentions.
• Zuo Xiaonian said Zuo Xiaoduo could accompany her if he was worried, but rejected his idea of pretending to be her boyfriend or fiancé and headbutted him.

Zuo Xiaoduo tried to appease Zuo Xiaonian after she confronted him about rumors concerning his sister, and the siblings returned home to find their parents waiting. After a playful ride and a brief scolding, Zuo Xiaoduo discovered a new double bed in his room and prepared to rest after three exhausting days of training.

• Zuo Xiaonian asked Zuo Xiaoduo whether his sister had cerebral palsy, and he frantically denied spreading the rumor.
• Zuo Xiaonian demanded a horsey ride as punishment, and Zuo Xiaoduo carried her around like a warhorse.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting scolded the siblings and told Zuo Xiaoduo to go to school that afternoon.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian joked about jelly before entering his room and finding a new double bed.
• Zuo Xiaonian pushed Zuo Xiaoduo onto the bed and went back to sleep, while he laughed and teased her.

After three days of training, Zuo Xiaoduo slept while Zuo Xiaonian secretly punished Meng Chenyu for beating him. When Zuo Xiaoduo returned to school, he found his entire class injured and learned Qin Fangyang wanted to speak with him about something else.

• Zuo Xiaoduo fell asleep after training, and Zuo Xiaonian tucked him in before returning to the training hall.
• Zuo Xiaonian beat Meng Chenyu in a spar, explaining that Master had ordered her to correct Meng Chenyu's lax training.
• Zuo Xiaonian left Meng Chenyu crying and resolved that only she could beat up her younger brother.
• Zuo Xiaoduo arrived at school and found all thirty-five classmates battered while Qin Fangyang treated their injuries.
• Qin Fangyang called Zuo Xiaoduo outside, but Zuo Xiaoduo insisted on knowing who had beaten his classmates.

Qin Fangyang delivered Zuo Xiaoduo twenty thousand Star Origin Coins and ten valuable Star Soul Stones from Liu Jiansheng and the other teachers. Zuo Xiaoduo eagerly accepted the gifts and left for class carrying the heavy stones.

• Qin Fangyang gave Zuo Xiaoduo twenty thousand Star Origin Coins as a thank-you gift from Liu Jiansheng and the others.
• Zuo Xiaoduo counted the coins in front of Qin Fangyang and joked that his greatest ambition was to be known for having a few coins.
• Qin Fangyang handed Zuo Xiaoduo a bag containing ten Star Soul Stones pooled together by the ten teachers.
• Zuo Xiaoduo recognized the stones' high value, then insisted he could not refuse the teachers' goodwill when Qin Fangyang offered to return half.
• Zuo Xiaoduo slung the stones over his back and headed back to his classroom, boasting that he could carry even more.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Class One had badly beaten Li Chenglong and the rest of Class Nine after a dispute, leaving Li Changming unconscious. Enraged by the attack, Zuo Xiaoduo was left ready to respond.

• Zuo Xiaoduo returned to Class Nine with the Star Soul Stones and asked his injured classmates what had happened.
• Long Yusheng and the others explained that Li Chenglong had clashed with Cheng Fangzhi after Cheng Fangzhi insulted Qin Fangyang and Li Chenglong’s parents.
• Class One students beat Li Chenglong, then beat Long Yusheng, Wan Lixiu, and the other Class Nine students who came to confront them.
• Li Changming tried to stop Class One from attacking, but they overwhelmed him and knocked him unconscious.
• Zuo Xiaoduo exploded with rage after hearing the story.

After Class Nine was beaten by Class One, Zuo Xiaoduo ignored his classmates’ pleas to wait and went to confront Cheng Fangzhi. His classmates then followed him, arriving as Zuo Xiaoduo entered Class One and asked to speak with Cheng Fangzhi.

• The injured Class Nine students urged Zuo Xiaoduo not to retaliate, while Li Chenglong told them to let the matter go.
• Qin Fangyang canceled Class Nine’s afternoon lessons so the students could recover.
• Zuo Xiaoduo announced he was going to Class One, and the class failed to stop him.
• Wan Lixiu rallied Long Yusheng, Yu Moyan, and the other students to follow Zuo Xiaoduo, while Li Changming asked to be dragged along.
• Zuo Xiaoduo politely entered Class One and asked its teacher to let him speak with Cheng Fangzhi.