Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo faced Bing Xiao Bing in the tournament, despite believing he had no chance of winning. Their meeting began with cheerful compliments that quickly turned into teasing, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Minister Ding noticed that contestants with names from the Xiao generation had been defeating Hidden Dragon High Martial's competitors.
• Wen Xingtian ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to fight after Zuo asked to concede, and Zuo reluctantly headed for the arena.
• Bing Xiao Bing eagerly greeted Zuo Xiaoduo, saying she had long wanted to meet him and liked him very much.
• Zuo Xiaoduo praised Bing Xiao Bing's looks but teased her for being too skinny and joked that she might have trouble finding a wife.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing exchanged contact details and traded ridiculous claims about their fighting styles before beginning their match. Their first clash left Bing Xiao Bing pushed back farther than Zuo Xiaoduo, and they charged into a second exchange.

• Bing Xiao Bing sincerely asked Zuo Xiaoduo to exchange contact details, and he saved her number before introducing himself as the Iron Fist Young Master.
• Bing Xiao Bing introduced herself as Iron Palm Floating on Water, and the pair traded exaggerated explanations of their fist and palm techniques.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing began their fight by colliding their legs, and Bing Xiao Bing was knocked back eight paces while Zuo Xiaoduo retreated five.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing shouted new attack names and crossed paths in a second, deafening clash.

Zuo Xiaoduo continued fighting Bing Xiao Bing in a series of head-on clashes, repeatedly forcing the supposedly stronger opponent to retreat. The observers realized Bing Xiao Bing was Great Shaman Bingming, and the chapter left Zuo Xiaoduo delighted as Bingming kept attacking with brute strength.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing clashed again, and Bing Xiao Bing retreated nine steps while Zuo Xiaoduo retreated only four.
• You Xiaoyu and the Left Route Heavenly King realized Zuo Xiaoduo's foundations were more solid than Great Shaman Bingming's despite Bingming suppressing his cultivation.
• Marshal Dongfang and the other marshals recognized Bing Xiao Bing as Great Shaman Bingming and looked up Zuo Xiaoduo's information.
• Great Shaman Bingming attacked Zuo Xiaoduo relentlessly to regain face through direct clashes.
• Zuo Xiaoduo welcomed Bingming's strength-focused attacks and shouted that he liked Bing Xiao Bing.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing fought through hundreds of fierce clashes, with Zuo gaining the upper hand in their contest of strength. Bing Xiao Bing switched to the Ice Blade, and Zuo Xiaoduo eagerly asked what the weapon was called.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Bing Xiao Bing exchanged hundreds of powerful leg and body collisions, but Bing Xiao Bing realized she could not match his strength.
• Zuo Xiaoduo grew more excited as he fought, and a surge of the Flame Sun True Scripture finally knocked Bing Xiao Bing seven meters back without moving Zuo's feet.
• Bing Xiao Bing rose into the air and proposed a weapons contest, drawing a piercing whistle from You Xiaoyu below.
• Bing Xiao Bing revealed the Ice Blade, whose icy power froze the platform and sent a deep chill across the sports field.
• Zuo Xiaoduo stopped to admire the saber and asked Bing Xiao Bing what it was called.

Zuo Xiaoduo wagered with Bing Xiao Bing for her Ice Soul Essence, hoping to obtain it for Zuo Xiaonian, and agreed to write whatever she dictated if he lost. The chapter left them preparing to continue their fight, with Zuo Xiaoduo determined to win.

• Bing Xiao Bing revealed her Cold Blade was forged from Ice Soul Essence, and Zuo Xiaoduo proposed wagering for a piece of it.
• Bing Xiao Bing described the Ice Soul Essence’s extraordinary powers and asked what Zuo Xiaoduo would stake if he lost.
• Zuo Xiaoduo offered a Demon King-level Inner Core, but Bing Xiao Bing suggested he write and sign a few words instead.
• Zuo Xiaoduo agreed to write whatever Bing Xiao Bing dictated if he lost and resolved to fight his hardest for the Ice Soul Essence.

Zuo Xiaoduo accepted Bing Xiao Bing’s challenge, wagering that he would win a weapon contest in exchange for the Ice Soul. As the experts watched, You Dongtian proposed betting on the match’s result with Great Shaman Liehuo, but the stakes grew beyond what You Dongtian could authorize.

• Bing Xiao Bing explained that the Ice Soul was hers and offered it as the prize if Zuo Xiaoduo won.
• Zuo Xiaoduo agreed to the wager, determined to obtain the Ice Soul for Nian Nian Cat.
• You Dongtian and the others discussed the uncertain outcome, while You Dongtian prepared to intervene if Zuo Xiaoduo lost and faced a humiliating demand.
• You Dongtian proposed wagering five percent of the Space Ruins proceeds with Great Shaman Liehuo, but Liehuo demanded a ten-percent stake.
• You Dongtian hesitated because he lacked authority to risk ten percent of the proceeds.

You Dongtian pushed the Left Route Heavenly King into agreeing to a ten-percent wager on Zuo Xiaoduo’s fight with Great Shaman Bingming, and both sides swore Heavenly Dao Oaths. Zuo Xiaoduo prepared to fight the disguised powerhouse at Dan Origin Realm strength, resolved to use his trump cards if necessary.

• You Dongtian pressured the Left Route Heavenly King to decide whether to bet, and the Left Route Heavenly King agreed to wager ten percent.
• Great Shaman Liehuo demanded a Heavenly Dao Oath, and You Dongtian and the Left Route Heavenly King swore to the wager.
• The Left Route Heavenly King reflected on how You Dongtian always shifted blame and credit onto him.
• Liehuo and the others finalized their wager, and Liehuo told Great Shaman Bingming not to lose.
• Zuo Xiaoduo backed away from Bingming and prepared to fight, deciding he would use his trump cards if needed.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Great Shaman Bingming prepared to fight over the ice soul essence, with the stakes raised to a tenth of the resources in the newly emerged Space Ruins. The chapter ended with Bingming demanding that Zuo Xiaoduo make his move.

• Zuo Xiaoduo decided he had to win the ice soul essence, while Bingming resolved not to lose because the wager now included a tenth of the Space Ruins’ resources.
• Bingming’s sentient ice soul spread frost flowers and intensified the cold around the stage, while Zuo Xiaoduo remained protected by his Flame Sun True Scripture.
• Zuo Xiaoduo drew Spirit Cat and boasted about the sword, then accused Bingming of hiding his true abilities and using underhanded tricks.
• The Left Route Heavenly King teased You Dongtian about Zuo Xiaoduo’s shamelessness, and the Right Route Heavenly King privately regretted missing a chance to extort him.
• Bingming told Zuo Xiaoduo to make his move, and Zuo Xiaoduo complained that Bingming had turned hostile after being called out.

Zuo Xiaoduo clashed with Great Shaman Bingming in an arena where his blazing Flame Sun True Scripture met Bingming’s freezing saber arts, creating clouds and a rainbow. As their weapon fight continued, Zuo abandoned footwork Bing Xiao Bing had countered and switched to his father’s dangerous Leftist Path and Side Gate.

• Zuo Xiaoduo released the full heat of Great Sun Flame Sun, colliding with Bingming’s ice field and filling the arena with mist, thunder, and a rainbow.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Great Shaman Bingming exchanged rapid sword and saber attacks beneath the clouds.
• Bingming carefully kept his cultivation at the Dan Origin Realm peak, fearing Zuo Xiaoduo would claim victory if he exceeded the limit.
• Bing Xiao Bing countered Zuo Xiaoduo’s Starry Sky Step with saber light that nearly struck his lower body, so he stopped using it.
• Zuo Xiaoduo switched to his father’s Leftist Path and Side Gate footwork, a powerful but spiritually costly technique meant to deliver a killing blow.

Zuo Xiaoduo fought Great Shaman Bingming with uncanny footwork and shifting sword techniques, drawing on movements and styles that reminded Bingming of an old rival. Zuo Xiaoduo regained some ground with poetic rain-themed sword routines, but Bingming exposed an opening and forced him back into defense.

• Zuo Xiaoduo used strange footwork to evade Great Shaman Bingming’s saber, while Bingming recognized similarities to a technique used by an old rival.
• Bingming’s saber gradually restrained Zuo Xiaoduo’s ordinary sword technique and threatened to exhaust his spiritual power.
• Zuo Xiaoduo unveiled the Misty Spring Rain Sword and recited a poem, briefly recovering lost ground as Bingming recognized the routine as the boss’s Silk Rain Sword.
• Bingming found an opening when Zuo Xiaoduo repeated the sword routine and cut his trouser leg, though the footwork helped him avoid injury.
• Zuo Xiaoduo launched the Spring Rain Is as Precious as Oil Sword with another poem, and Bingming recognized it as the boss’s Light Rain Sword.

Zuo Xiaoduo struggled to withstand Bing Xiao Bing’s relentless swordplay, while the spectators and officials questioned how she could suppress him at the same cultivation level. As he staggered beneath her attacks, he finally called out a move: “Red Sun Golden Sun!”

• Zuo Xiaoduo cycled through numerous sword techniques, but Bing Xiao Bing countered them and kept him on the defensive.
• Li Chenglong, Gao Qiao'er, and the Hidden Dragon High Martial students watched anxiously as Zuo Xiaoduo fought on with his deep reserves.
• Ye Changqing and Wen Xingtian doubted Bing Xiao Bing was truly a teenager at the Dan Origin Realm, while Minister Ding recognized her as Great Shaman Bingming.
• Bing Xiao Bing pursued Zuo Xiaoduo as he staggered backward, and he avoided using his unfinished Lifting the Light as Though It Were Heavy and Lifting the Heavy as Though It Were Light swordplay.
• Zuo Xiaoduo roared and shouted, “Red Sun Golden Sun!”

Zuo Xiaoduo unleashed the Red Sun Golden Sun, then fought Great Shaman Bingming amid the steam and storm as the Ice Soul Essence exceeded the contest’s limits. He attacked with the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer, forcing Bingming to unseal his strength, and Bing Xiao Bing was knocked off the platform.

• Zuo Xiaoduo’s Red Sun Golden Sun vaporized Bingming’s ice field and filled the training ground with steam and torrential rain.
• The Ice Soul Essence erupted with excessive cold, and You Dongtian prepared to intervene before the Left Route Heavenly King stopped him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo burst through the mist wielding two enormous hammers and attacked Bingming with the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer.
• Bingming stopped suppressing his cultivation and took several hammer blows as the Ice Soul cried out.
• Bing Xiao Bing flew out of the mist and landed outside the platform among Team Five.

Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming in their duel, costing Bingming a strand of Ice Soul Essence and his allies ten percent of the material proceeds. After accepting defeat, Bingming heard Zuo Xiaoduo invite him to dinner and offer another gift.

• Great Shaman Bingming admitted defeat after the Ice Soul Essence's seal broke, while the Liehuo Couple and Dan Kong realized they had lost their wager.
• You Dongtian celebrated the victory, and the Left Route Heavenly King and his wife glared at him.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kept hammering at empty air and shouting about his sword until the marshals and minister cleared the mist.
• Zuo Xiaoduo bowed to Bingming, praised him as a worthy opponent, and claimed his final sword strike had won by luck.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited Bingming to dinner that night and said he had another gift for him.

After Zuo Xiaoduo defeated Great Shaman Bingming, he invited the gathered experts to dinner and confirmed that no one had exposed his hidden trump card. Marshal Dongfang explained the deaths of the ten fighters to Ye Changqing and urged him to guide the students while dealing firmly with those who refused to accept the truth.

• Zuo Xiaoduo invited Great Shaman Bingming and the other experts to dinner, and Great Shaman Liehuo promised to ensure Zuo received what he had won.
• Minister Ding praised Zuo Xiaoduo's talent, and Zuo Xiaoduo was declared the winner before returning to his team.
• Marshal Dongfang told Ye Changqing that many Hidden Dragon High Martial students remained upset about the deaths of the ten fighters.
• Marshal Dongfang sent Ye Changqing a file explaining the victims' identities and their connection to the Central Plains King, whose faction was being targeted nationwide.
• Ye Changqing agreed to explain the matter to the students, and Marshal Dongfang warned him to act firmly toward students who rejected the explanation and let emotion override judgment.

Hidden Dragon High Martial's teachers explained that the Ten Thunderous Battles had targeted the Central Plains King and his conspiracy, calming most students by revealing the stakes. A handful of boys remained devoted to Xiao Junyi and vowed revenge against Lan Xiaotu, leaving the school largely stabilized but with lingering threats.

• Ye Changqing passed Marshal Dongfang's information to the teachers, who explained that the nine male students killed were the Central Plains King's illegitimate sons and that Xiao Junyi had been central to the conspiracy.
• Wen Xingtian urged his students to think carefully, explaining why the Central Plains King could not simply be killed before his crimes and rebellion were fully established.
• The teachers' explanations calmed Hidden Dragon High Martial, while students who had been preparing to join the conspirators realized how disastrous that choice might have been.
• Five or six boys refused to accept Xiao Junyi's death, declared their love for her, and vowed that Lan Xiaotu was their enemy.
• Hidden Dragon High Martial chose to ignore the grieving boys and their threats.

Zuo Xiaoduo invited the Left and Right Heavenly Kings and others to dinner at his villa after the events at Hidden Dragon High Martial wound down. Meanwhile, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting arrived in Fenghai City and headed by taxi toward the villa district, hoping to reach their son in time for dinner.

• Several students canceled their challenges after Great Shaman Bingming lost to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Great Shaman Liehuo worried that the Witch Alliance’s younger generation could not match Hidden Dragon High Martial’s students and resolved to improve their training.
• Teams Two and Five decided to stay in Fenghai City overnight, while the Dao Alliance’s people were also kept from leaving.
• Zuo Xiaoduo invited You Dongtian, Liehuo, and the others to eat at his place, intent on collecting the stakes they owed him.
• Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu entered Fenghai City, took a taxi to Hidden Dragon High Martial Villa District, and wondered whether their son had lost weight.

On the drive to visit their son at Hidden Dragon High Martial, Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting experienced a profound insight into life and reincarnation. The insight shattered part of a shackle in Zuo Changlu’s heart and brought Wu Yuting to the brink of opening her own path.

• Wu Yuting worried that her son Xiao Duo was eating poorly away from home, while Zuo Changlu endured her scolding and avoided calling him.
• Wu Yuting told the driver that their son was a freshman at Hidden Dragon High Martial, and the driver praised his achievement.
• As neon lights passed outside the car, Zuo Changlu contemplated the many forms of life and gained insight into Mortal World Incarnation.
• Wu Yuting sensed Zuo Changlu’s change, held his hand, and experienced a vision of a great road appearing beyond a doorway in her spiritual world.
• A shackle in Zuo Changlu’s heart shattered, while Wu Yuting’s doorway lost a corner, bringing both closer to breaking through.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong hosted a group of unexpected visitors, while Zuo Xiaoduo misjudged their status and assumed they were minor figures. The guests began introducing themselves under names that Zuo Xiaoduo suspected were false.

• Wu Yuting and the driver continued toward their destination, and the driver unknowingly received a great blessing that restored his health and purified his soul.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong welcomed five men and two women into Zuo Xiaoduo's home, though they were surprised that everyone they had invited had come.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Grandma Shi to rest and had Li Chenglong order two tables of food from Heaven First-Class.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong concluded that their guests were low-ranking subordinates or young relatives of important figures.
• Bingming introduced himself as Bing Xiao Bing and blamed Liehuo for the wager that put ten percent of their supplies at stake.
• Lie Xiaohuo introduced his wife, Xue Xiaoluo, and Dan Kong introduced himself as Kong Xiaodan while Zuo Xiaoduo suspected their names were fake.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong met the Witch Alliance guests at a gathering hosted by Yun Xiaohu and Bai Xiaoduo, where old debts and a recent defeat came up. The chapter left You Xiaoyu and Yun Xiaohu arguing over who deserved credit for arranging the affair.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong greeted Great Witch Dan Kong, You Xiaoyu, Yun Xiaohu, and Bai Xiaoduo, sensing a special closeness with Yun and Bai.
• Zuo Xiaoduo offered the guests Spirit Fruits, and Bai Xiaoduo poured tea and welcomed everyone as a host.
• You Xiaoyu reminded Lie Xiaohuo and Kong Xiaodan of their debts, while Bing Xiao Bing brushed off their dispute and enjoyed the refreshments.
• Bing Xiao Bing privately blamed her loss on Boss Flood giving his godson the Thousand Soul Nightmare Hammer and decided not to accept punishment for it.
• Yun Xiaohu and You Xiaoyu argued over who deserved credit for bringing about the gathering, with You Xiaoyu teasing Lie Xiaohuo as he defended himself.

Bai Xiaoduo demanded that the Witch Alliance guests bring gifts for their first visit to Zuo Xiaoduo’s home, but they dodged the demand by rushing to carry in the food. They left the gift question unresolved as the meal was set out.

• Bai Xiaoduo scolded Lie Xiaohuo, Xue Xiaoluo, Kong Xiaodan, and Bing Xiao Bing for arriving without first-visit gifts.
• Xue Xiaoluo began to offer a token gift, but Liehuo stopped her, and Bing Xiao Bing pleaded to be excused because she had already lost so much.
• Li Chenglong noticed that the food had arrived, and Kong Xiaodan, Lie Xiaohuo, Bing Xiao Bing, and Xue Xiaoluo hurried out to carry in the dishes.
• Bai Xiaoduo mocked the four for avoiding the gift demand, but they ignored her and kept carrying dishes to the table.