Chapter Summaries

Xiang Bing publicly confessed to Li Chenglong and declared them a couple, drawing a stunned but affirmative response from him. She led him away for a meal, while their classmates watched and envied her boldness.

• Xiang Bing stopped the class’s cheering and declared that she liked Li Chenglong and wanted him to be her husband.
• Xiang Bing declared that they were a couple and demanded that Li Chenglong treat her well.
• Li Chenglong, overwhelmed and bewildered, agreed.
• Xiang Bing invited Li Chenglong to eat and drink with her, then took his hand and led him away.
• Yu Yan'er and Zhen Piaopiao envied Xiang Bing but recognized that her bond with Li Chenglong was unique.

Xiang Chong celebrated Xiang Bing and Li Chenglong’s romance with their classmates, while Zuo Xiaonian punished Zuo Xiaoduo at home for embarrassing her in public. The chapter left Zuo Xiaonian asking Wu Yuting for advice on how to handle her husband.

• After Xiang Bing went after Li Chenglong, Xiang Chong accepted the classmates’ invitation to celebrate and offered to treat them to drinks.
• Xiang Chong asked everyone to help him beat Li Chenglong if he ever bullied Xiang Bing, but the crowd abandoned him and followed Gao Qiao'er instead.
• Zuo Xiaoduo remained unconcerned when Li Chenglong did not return that night, since he had foreseen Li Chenglong’s romantic luck.
• Zuo Xiaonian sealed Zuo Xiaoduo’s cultivation and made him bungee-jump from a great height for three hours to punish him for embarrassing her.
• Wu Yuting stopped Zuo Xiaonian and began advising her on how to handle Zuo Xiaoduo, prompting Zuo Xiaonian to ask her to teach her.

Zuo Changlu warned Zuo Xiaoduo that relying on the Void-Transforming Stone could become a dangerous habit, while Zuo Xiaoduo planned to sell it to Yu Moyan for an enormous sum. The chapter ended with Zuo Changlu puzzled by the bead Zuo Xiaoduo had taken from the Giant Earthworm.

• Wu Yuting teased Zuo Xiaoduo with ways to punish him after marriage, and he eagerly agreed to heed her advice.
• Zuo Xiaoduo showed Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting the bead and the Void-Transforming Stone, explaining where he had found them.
• Zuo Changlu described the stone's usefulness and limitations, warning Zuo Xiaoduo that dependence on it could prove fatal against stronger opponents.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said he would use the stone sparingly and proposed selling it to Yu Moyan for one hundred million pieces of upper-grade star soul jade.
• Zuo Changlu examined the earthworm bead and admitted that its nature baffled him.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting examined the mysterious bead Zuo Xiaoduo had found but could not identify its nature. Later, Zuo Xiaoduo edged closer to Zuo Xiaonian while they watched television, and she eventually let him hug her before he began moving his hand onto her thigh.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting how he had obtained the bead, and they decided to keep it for further study.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting went to bed early, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian alone together.
• Zuo Xiaoduo watched a class group video of Xiang Bing confessing to Zhongzhong and asked Zuo Xiaonian to watch it with him, but she refused.
• Zuo Xiaoduo repeatedly shuffled across the sofa until he was leaning against Zuo Xiaonian and holding her hand.
• Zuo Xiaoduo pretended to be scared of a sika deer on television and clung to Zuo Xiaonian, who eventually allowed him to hug her.
• After a long while, Zuo Xiaonian felt Zuo Xiaoduo's hand moving onto her thigh.

Zuo Xiaoduo pushed Zuo Xiaonian’s patience with increasingly bold affection, prompting her to beat him in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda before cultivating there. After she came out, he treated their engagement as permission to cling to her in front of her parents, leaving Zuo Xiaonian embarrassed and Zuo Changlu unable to stay in the room.

• Zuo Xiaoduo stroked Zuo Xiaonian’s pants and tried to touch her chest, so she knocked him down and took him into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to spar.
• Zuo Xiaonian beat Zuo Xiaoduo eight times, then set up a tent in the pagoda to cultivate and strengthen her foundation.
• Zuo Xiaonian came out the next morning, and Zuo Xiaoduo put an arm around her waist while she made breakfast.
• Zuo Xiaoduo held Zuo Xiaonian’s hand and waist on the sofa, then rested his head on her thigh in front of Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting.
• Zuo Xiaonian asked Wu Yuting to rein in her son, but Zuo Xiaoduo defended his behavior as normal for an engaged couple, and Zuo Changlu left the room.

Wu Yuting warned Zuo Xiaonian to stop yielding to Zuo Xiaoduo and then explained to her son why he must not rush their relationship. She left him with a strict warning not to take Zuo Xiaonian's chastity before her innate ice jade physique reached great perfection.

• Wu Yuting advised Zuo Xiaonian to set boundaries with Zuo Xiaoduo, especially about letting him touch her chest.
• Zuo Xiaonian admitted she had always indulged Zuo Xiaoduo and did not want to change, while Wu Yuting decided to speak to him herself.
• Wu Yuting questioned Zuo Xiaoduo about his intentions, then recognized how his persistence had pushed Zuo Xiaonian's boundaries.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo that Zuo Xiaonian's ninety-nine star soul and innate ice jade physique made it dangerous to act rashly.
• Wu Yuting warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to take Zuo Xiaonian's chastity until her ice jade physique reached great perfection, and he asked her to explain more clearly.

Wu Yuting explained that Nian Nian needed to reach Flying Heaven before Zuo Xiaoduo could take her chastity, warning that otherwise her cultivation would lose the chance for perfection. After Zuo Xiaoduo hurried off to see her, Wu Yuting and Zuo Changlu discussed how well he cared for her and why they had warned him.

• Wu Yuting explained the three stages of perfection and told Zuo Xiaoduo that Nian Nian must reach Flying Heaven before he took the final step with her.
• Zuo Xiaoduo considered the cultivation realms, said he understood, and left to practice.
• Zuo Xiaoduo soon cheered up and bounded toward Zuo Xiaonian, thinking he could still do everything short of the final step.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Changlu that she had warned Zuo Xiaoduo because Zuo Xiaonian was becoming increasingly receptive to him.
• Zuo Changlu reflected on Wu Yuting's double standards, and she remarked that Zuo Xiaoduo had the patience not to act rashly even if Zuo Xiaonian climbed into his bed.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed that Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian should focus on cultivation before having a child. Back at the villa, Zuo Xiaoduo tried to act refined, then noticed Li Chenglong's suspicious behavior and pressed him about what he had done the previous night.

• Wu Yuting explained that a child would be difficult to raise while she and Zuo Changlu were away, and that the coming war made cultivation a priority.
• Zuo Changlu agreed with Wu Yuting and accepted that he would have to take the blame if the couple learned they had been misled.
• Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed heat in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda while Zuo Xiaonian practiced inside it, then sat in the courtyard pretending to read with refined poise.
• Li Chenglong returned, spotted that Zuo Xiaoduo was holding his book upside down, and mocked his performance.
• Zuo Xiaoduo chased Li Chenglong, later returned with him battered, and noticed his weak legs, a red mark on his neck, and embarrassed behavior.
• Zuo Xiaoduo suspected Li Chenglong had stayed out all night and demanded that he confess what he had done.

Zuo Xiaoduo questioned Li Chenglong about the night he spent with Xiang Bing and learned that she had taken him to a hotel and pinned him down. Li Chenglong stopped short of describing what happened next, leaving Zuo Xiaoduo demanding the details.

• Zuo Xiaoduo noticed that signs of romantic luck covered Li Chenglong's face and pulled him aside to ask what had happened.
• Li Chenglong told Zuo Xiaoduo that Xiang Bing had confessed she liked him, and he had not objected.
• Li Chenglong said Xiang Bing had taken him drinking, then led him to the Moon-Gaining Tower, where they received VIP treatment and a suite.
• Li Chenglong recounted that Xiang Bing told him to shower, then spun him around and pushed him onto the bed.
• Li Chenglong said Xiang Bing had pinned him down and that he had been defiled, but refused to share the details.

Zuo Xiaoduo learned that Li Chenglong and Xiang Bing had spent the night together, and Li Chenglong asked Zuo Changlu and his wife to arrange their engagement. Zuo Changlu agreed but began explaining how a person's fortune could affect their future.

• Li Chenglong told Zuo Xiaoduo that Xiang Bing had gone home after they spent the night together.
• Li Chenglong said he would marry Xiang Bing and asked Zuo Xiaoduo to have his parents act as matchmakers and arrange an engagement.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked Zuo Changlu to help, and Zuo Changlu agreed to propose the marriage.
• Zuo Changlu asked what Zuo Xiaoduo could see in Li Chenglong's future and explained that fortune could determine whether someone could bear great wealth or status.

Zuo Xiaoduo assured Zuo Changlu that Li Chenglong had a destiny worthy of their matchmaking, and Zuo Changlu agreed to propose the match. Meanwhile, Bai Yunduo gathered a mountain of star soul jade powder and arrived at the villa, where Zuo Xiaoduo began reading her physiognomy.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that Li Chenglong’s physiognomy and destiny foretold achievements at the continent’s pinnacle, though he would play a supporting role to Zuo Xiaoduo.
• Zuo Changlu agreed to go propose a match for Li Chenglong and told Zuo Xiaoduo to assess a visitor’s fate that afternoon.
• Bai Yunduo collected star soul jade powder outside Fenghai City, warning each delivery person to keep the matter secret.
• Bai Yunduo received Zuo Changlu’s message and went to the villa carrying the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Changlu welcomed Bai Yunduo and asked Zuo Xiaoduo to read her physiognomy, which he immediately understood.

Bai Yunduo visited Zuo Changlu and Zuo Xiaoduo to ask for directions to Chaotic Stone Plain, where she planned to dump Star Soul Jade Powder. After she left, Zuo Xiaoduo read her fate and predicted that she and her husband would die in a battle within three to five years, prompting Zuo Changlu to ask whether her fate could be changed.

• Bai Yunduo asked Zuo Changlu how to reach Chaotic Stone Plain and explained that she was going there to dump Star Soul Jade Powder.
• Zuo Changlu gave Bai Yunduo directions and offered her water before she left, and she wrote the character for “water” as thanks.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that Bai Yunduo had exceptionally high status and Fortune Qi but was destined to suffer the loss of her husband.
• Zuo Xiaoduo interpreted Bai Yunduo’s writing and her destination as signs of a crushing battle and a separation in life and death within three to five years.
• Zuo Changlu asked Zuo Xiaoduo whether there was a way to save Bai Yunduo and avert her fate.

Zuo Xiaoduo explained that the woman’s fate could only be changed by placing her under a commander destined to win a war, while Zuo Changlu privately noted Li Chenglong’s extraordinary fortune. That evening, Zuo Changlu and his wife brought Li Chenglong and gifts to the Xiang Family to make a marriage proposal.

• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Changlu that the woman’s life-and-death tribulation was a heavenly dao killing scheme that ordinary people could not reverse.
• Zuo Xiaoduo said the woman’s fortune and destiny were far below Li Chenglong’s, astonishing Zuo Changlu, who recognized her as the Left Route Heavenly King’s wife.
• Zuo Changlu announced that they would make a marriage proposal for Li Chenglong that evening, dismissing concerns about the proper time.
• Wen Xingtian contacted Ye Changqing, who contacted Liu Yichun, and Xiang Kuangren was sent home to wait.
• Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu, his wife, and Li Chenglong with gifts to the Xiang Family to make the proposal.

Vice Principal Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to arrange Ice Egg’s marriage into the Xiang Family, whose fortunes soared after receiving the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat’s calligraphy. Meanwhile, Zuo Xiaoduo found a vast deposit of Star Soul Jade Powder and brought it into the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, surprising Little Dragon.

• Vice Principal Liu Yichun accompanied Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting to the Xiang Family, where they presented the Imperial Seat’s calligraphy blessing Ice Egg and Chenglong’s marriage.
• Xiang Kuangren accepted the match and declared that Ice Egg would marry into the Li Family, while the Xiang Family prepared hundreds of banquet tables for the flood of congratulatory guests.
• After his parents left, Zuo Xiaoduo went southwest to collect Star Soul Jade Powder, first moving cultivating Zuo Xiaonian out of the way inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo discovered a deep opening filled with Star Soul Jade Powder and spent an hour loading a quantity over a hundred times greater than everything he had gathered before.
• Little Dragon emerged from hiding in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda and asked Zuo Xiaoduo where he had found so much powder.

Zuo Xiaoduo secretly hauled away a vast hoard of star soul jade powder, unaware that Bai Yunduo had arranged for him to collect it. He and Zuo Xiaonian then spent ten days cultivating together inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.

• Little Dragon reinforced the mountain range's earth veins and worried that the star soul jade powder would not keep up with consumption.
• Zuo Xiaoduo realized he had taken several hundred thousand cubic meters of star soul jade powder, then hurried home and reassured himself that it had been discarded.
• Bai Yunduo watched Zuo Xiaoduo leave, ordered her experts to keep filling the hole, and said someone else would collect the powder.
• Zuo Changlu and his wife returned near midnight with Li Chenglong, who had drunk himself unconscious.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian finished ten days of cultivation in a room furnished and sealed with upper-grade star soul jade.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting discussed Li Chenglong’s promising future, then revisited Zuo Xiaoduo’s strange dreams and inexplicable lack of martial aptitude as they suspected a connection to an ancient phoenix legend. The chapter left them examining the significance of a broken Jade Jue that had appeared on Zuo Xiaoduo when he was sixteen.

• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed that Li Chenglong had remarkable fortune and would likely achieve great things.
• Zuo Changlu sealed off their room and told Wu Yuting that Zuo Xiaoduo’s strange dreams and weak Star Soul had long troubled him.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting recalled that their mortal-world incarnations had produced a son with no martial aptitude, despite their own extraordinary abilities.
• Zuo Changlu connected Zuo Xiaoduo’s dreams of the starry sky exploding with Xiao Nian’s Phoenix Vein Soul Impact and the legend of the phoenix crying on Mount Qi.
• Zuo Changlu asked Wu Yuting to remember the broken Jade Jue that had appeared on Zuo Xiaoduo’s chest when he was sixteen, and she recalled that they had found it ordinary.

Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting suspected that the ancient jade Zuo Xiaoduo wore was the legendary Creation Disk and that it had concealed his talent until he began cultivating at seventeen. They agreed to keep their theory secret, then Zuo Changlu brought out an Annihilation Sky Pagoda containing Cloud's fragrance.

• Zuo Changlu connected Zuo Xiaoduo's lost ancient jade, his sudden rise in cultivation, and his mastery of Physiognomy to the legendary Creation Disk.
• Wu Yuting wondered whether Zuo Xiaoduo's rise at seventeen echoed the venerable elder who emerged at seventy, and Zuo Changlu considered whether King Qi's legacy explained part of it.
• Zuo Changlu warned Wu Yuting to keep their conjecture secret, and they joked that Flood Great Shaman would miss out on the greatest share of Zuo Xiaoduo's Fortune Qi.
• Zuo Changlu produced an Annihilation Sky Pagoda and told Wu Yuting he had put Cloud's fragrance inside using Zuo Xiaoduo's method.

Zuo Changlu showed Wu Yuting that star soul jade powder only worked in Zuo Xiaoduo’s Annihilation Sky Pagoda, which also sped up cultivation, and they discussed limiting who could learn about it. The couple resolved to protect their son and planned to search once more after the parent-teacher meeting before returning to Phoenix City.

• Zuo Changlu showed Wu Yuting the useless star soul jade powder in his Annihilation Sky Pagoda and explained that it worked only in Zuo Xiaoduo’s pagoda.
• Zuo Changlu told Wu Yuting that time in Zuo Xiaoduo’s pagoda flowed thirty times faster and could increase, while they weighed the risks of letting his friends use it.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting agreed to set a limit on who could learn about the treasure, perhaps until they reached Flying Heaven.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting decided to make another attempt to find what they sought after the parent-teacher meeting and return to Phoenix City if they failed.
• Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting affirmed they would protect Zuo Xiaoduo despite the dangers, then heard Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian return from seclusion.
• Zuo Changlu opened the door and pretended to scold Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian for shouting late at night.

After cultivating, Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo reported their realms to Zuo Changlu, who scolded them and sent them away before they could question him. Zuo Xiaoduo led Zuo Xiaonian to his room and kissed her, but she bit his tongue when his hands wandered under her clothes.

• Zuo Changlu scolded Zuo Xiaonian and Zuo Xiaoduo for claiming no one had been in the room, then asked about their cultivation.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had reached mid-stage Cloud Transformation, while Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he was at Dan Origin Realm Peak after suppressing his breakthrough seven times.
• Zuo Changlu called Zuo Xiaoduo useless for falling behind his wife and sent the pair away, slamming the door before they could ask questions.
• Zuo Xiaoduo reassured the worried Zuo Xiaonian and led her into his room, saying he would talk to their mother about Zuo Changlu's temper.
• Zuo Xiaoduo kissed Zuo Xiaonian and slipped his hands under her clothes, so she bit his tongue and made him jump back in pain.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian kissed and flirted before returning to the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate. Zuo Xiaonian agreed to spend more time training there, unaware that the time difference would leave her alone with Zuo Xiaoduo for more than two years.

• Zuo Xiaoduo pretended his tongue still hurt until Zuo Xiaonian checked it, and the two kissed.
• Zuo Xiaonian warned Zuo Xiaoduo not to go further, but they continued kissing for two hours.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian returned to the Annihilation Sky Pagoda to cultivate and discuss taking the Nine Heavens Spirit Spring Water.
• Zuo Xiaoduo explained that time passed much more slowly inside the pagoda and persuaded Zuo Xiaonian to train there longer.
• Zuo Xiaonian agreed to cultivate in the pagoda, not realizing that her remaining leave would let them spend more than two years together inside.