Chapter Summaries

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian contracted with the Winged Sword Tigers, and Zuo Xiaoduo forced the rebellious male tiger to submit. As Zuo Xiaoduo prepared to attend an important school announcement, Wu Yuting arranged for Zuo Xiaonian to use the Annihilation Sky Pagoda at home while he went to class.

• Zuo Changlu told Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian to contract with the two Winged Sword Tigers and promised to take them for training.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian each contracted with a tiger, and Zuo Xiaoduo assigned himself the male tiger after Zuo Xiaonian claimed the female.
• Zuo Xiaoduo beat the male tiger and threatened to kill him until the tiger submitted to their contract.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo that school required all students to attend an important announcement.
• Zuo Xiaonian chose to cultivate in the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, and Wu Yuting proposed giving her independent access while leaving the pagoda at home.

Zuo Changlu convened Star Soul Continent’s leaders and declared the continent at its highest state of war readiness, issuing sweeping orders for conscription, military preparation, security crackdowns, and wartime financing. He left the leadership mobilizing for an imminent fight against the Witch Alliance and other threats.

• Wu Yuting lamented that Zuo Xiaoduo wasted the Annihilation Sky Pagoda’s cultivation space, while Zuo Xiaonian entered it to cultivate and Zuo Xiaoduo went to school.
• Zuo Changlu summoned the continent’s ministers and Four Directional Marshals, then ordered the entire Star Soul Continent to enter its highest state of war readiness.
• Zuo Changlu ordered schools to begin brutal education, directed the Star Shield Department to hunt infiltrators, and imposed harsh penalties for unrest and crime.
• Zuo Changlu reinstated Nan Zhengqian as Marshal of the Southern Army and ordered wartime tax collection, nationwide conscription, and the immediate mobilization of 1.57 billion troops.
• Zuo Changlu ordered major lineages, sects, and local powers to supply fighters and form military units, threatening those who refused with extermination.
• Zuo Changlu ordered You Dongtian to have the Netherworld Palace target senior figures in the Witch Alliance with assassination missions.

Zuo Changlu organized Star Soul Continent’s eight thousand places in the Star Radiance Mountain Range trial and warned that few participants would survive. He then issued the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat Order, announcing full wartime mobilization, while Zuo Xiaoduo and his classmates saluted the broadcast at school.

• Zuo Changlu divided the trial places among the armies, the Military Department, the Martial Education Department, and the Nine Heavens Pavilion, and ordered the lists completed within two days.
• Zuo Changlu warned that the trial would pit Star Soul Continent’s participants against geniuses from the Dao Alliance and Witch Alliance, and told officials to prepare them for deadly dangers.
• Zuo Changlu ended the meeting, and the continent’s leaders dispersed to carry out his orders.
• The Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat Order appeared across the Star Soul Continent, announcing a race war and universal military recruitment, wartime taxes, and other emergency measures.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and his classmates saluted the order at school, and Li Chenglong declared that the Imperial Seat’s leadership would make the continent invincible.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong joked about the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat before Wen Xingtian asked the class who could reach Infant Transformation soon. The chapter left Zuo Xiaoduo promising to break through within three days if given time off.

• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong admired the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat, and Zuo Xiaoduo fantasized about being his son or descendant.
• Li Chenglong rebuked Zuo Xiaoduo for joking about the Imperial Seat, then dragged him into the classroom.
• Wen Xingtian asked how many students had reached or could soon reach Infant Transformation, and around twenty students raised their hands.
• Li Chenglong estimated that he would break through to Infant Transformation within two days.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked for three days off and promised Wen Xingtian that he would reach Infant Transformation.

Wen Xingtian organized Class One’s preparations to enter the Ruins Secret Realm, promising to guarantee loans for students who needed breakthrough resources. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong headed to the Principal’s Office, feeling that a new stage of their lives was about to begin.

• Wen Xingtian urged students who had suppressed their cultivation enough times to consider entering the Ruins Secret Realm, warning them of the danger and the opportunity.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong said they could break through soon, and Pi Yibao volunteered to go as well.
• Wen Xingtian offered to guarantee school loans so students could prepare for their breakthroughs.
• Wen Xingtian recorded Class One’s eligible students, gave the class instructions, and summoned Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong to the Principal’s Office.
• Li Chenglong told Zuo Xiaoduo that he felt a new life was beginning, and Zuo Xiaoduo said they would face it together.

Li Chenglong and Zuo Xiaoduo went to the principal’s office as preparations began for a Star Radiance Mountain Range trial across the Star Soul Continent. Yu Moyan emerged from months of brutal training after breaking through to Infant Transformation Realm, and Luo Yanling told him the upcoming Star Mark Ruins trial might reunite him with old friends.

• Li Chenglong reflected on staking his future on following Zuo Xiaoduo, and the two went to the principal’s office.
• Long Yusheng and Wan Lixiu asked the Cloud High Martial principal to make Zhou Yunqing captain, explaining that they expected to leave the school formation to find their boss.
• Li Changming agreed to join the trial but declined to be captain, saying he expected to leave the team and reunite with his friends.
• Yu Moyan emerged from the cavern after killing all its Star Beasts and completing his tenth Core Origin Realm suppression before breaking through to Infant Transformation Realm.
• Luo Yanling told Yu Moyan that the Star Mark Ruins were about to open and that he might see his old friends there.

After Yu Moyan survived the trial, Luo Yanling helped him prepare for the next journey and asked about his feelings for her daughter, Yan'er. Yu Moyan accepted the possibility of marrying Yan'er if peace ever returned, then left to rest before departing with the group.

• Luo Yanling led Yu Moyan from the cave to the dormitories and urged him to treat his injuries and recover.
• Yu Moyan asked to leave the school's team roster so he could fight alongside his old companions, and Luo Yanling explained he could request to join another team.
• Luo Yanling gave Yu Moyan the Ancient Sword Demon Spirit, while he kept the worn sword Zuo Xiaoduo had given him in his Space Ring.
• Yu Moyan thanked Luo Yanling and bowed to her, acknowledging that his trial might take him away from Yuyang High Martial Arts School.
• Luo Yanling asked Yu Moyan about Yan'er, and Yu Moyan said he would marry her if peace reigned under heaven and she was still willing.
• Yu Moyan told Luo Yanling to take care of herself and left the treatment room.

Yu Moyan reflected on his wounds and agreed to join Sister Yan for the trial, promising never to marry if he could not marry her. Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong were appointed captain and vice-captain of Hidden Dragon High Martial’s expedition team, while Gao Qiao’er warned them that rival geniuses would make the trial extremely dangerous.

• Yu Moyan reviewed each of his wounds, drank Spirit Water, and sang as he looked forward to seeing his brothers again.
• Sister Yan asked Yu Moyan to join her team for the trial, and he agreed.
• Sister Yan reminded Yu Moyan of his promise to marry her when peace came, and Yu Moyan promised never to marry if he could not marry her.
• Ye Changqing appointed Zuo Xiaoduo captain and Li Chenglong vice-captain of Hidden Dragon High Martial’s four hundred Infant Transformation cultivators, giving Zuo Xiaoduo a figurehead role.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong left Ye Changqing’s office and met Gao Qiao’er and other Gao Lineage cultivators, who asked them to look after the group.
• Gao Qiao’er warned Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong that the Witch Alliance and Dao Alliance would send equally numerous teams of talented cultivators, while the Ruins could not provide enough opportunities for everyone.

Li Chenglong agreed to help prepare the Infant Transformation students for the dangerous ruins, while Gao Qiao'er updated Zuo Xiaoduo on the company’s progress. The chapter left Fang Yinuo’s effective management—and his secret nighttime thefts—revealed to the reader.

• Gao Qiao'er explained that rival alliances would fight over the ruins and asked Li Chenglong to brief the students once the roster was set.
• Li Chenglong agreed to help organize the students, and Zuo Xiaoduo offered to intimidate anyone who resisted.
• Gao Qiao'er sent the others away and gave Zuo Xiaoduo an update on the disposal of supplies.
• Gao Qiao'er reported that Fang Yinuo had expanded the company’s operations and worked smoothly with the Gao Lineage.
• Gao Qiao'er recalled Fang Yinuo’s extravagant spending, while the narration revealed that he secretly stole valuables and resold them.

Zuo Xiaoduo gathered resources and cultivated in preparation for breaking through, while his parents revealed they were leaving to recover their strength. The chapter left Zuo Xiaoduo surprised by how soon they planned to return to their former world.

• Fang Yinuo told Zuo Xiaoduo he had successfully seized control of the company, and Zuo Xiaoduo let him run it as he wished.
• Zuo Xiaoduo collected upper-grade star soul jade, gathered star soul jade powder outside the city, and prepared to cultivate in seclusion.
• Zuo Xiaoduo absorbed heat from the Blazing Sun Heart and continued training inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian emerged from seclusion for dinner after five days inside the pagoda.
• Wu Yuting told Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian that she and Zuo Changlu would leave the next day to recover, surprising Zuo Xiaoduo.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian worried that Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting were hiding the truth about their health, but their parents insisted they were fine. Zuo Xiaoduo then fancied that his family might descend from the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat, leaving Zuo Changlu embarrassed and retreating upstairs.

• Zuo Xiaonian asked Zuo Changlu and Wu Yuting whether they were lying about returning, and Wu Yuting promised they would contact the children after they went home.
• Zuo Xiaoduo admitted he could not read his parents' physiognomy, and Zuo Changlu explained that the people before him were not their real selves.
• Zuo Xiaoduo asked whether the Zuo family might descend from the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat because they shared the same surname.
• Zuo Changlu called the idea nonsense, while Zuo Xiaoduo and Wu Yuting joked that the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat might have left descendants in Phoenix City.
• Zuo Changlu announced that he would leave the next day and hurried upstairs, while Zuo Xiaoduo continued asking Wu Yuting whether their family might share the Imperial Seat's bloodline.

Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian worried about their parents’ impending departure and discussed their cultivation and assignments for the Secret Realm. Zuo Xiaoduo tried to tease Zuo Xiaonian into performing a cat-ear dance, but she found his list of followed streamers and confronted him.

• Wu Yuting laughed at Zuo Xiaoduo’s suggestion that their family might descend from the Sky-Patrolling Imperial Seat and went upstairs to check the family genealogy.
• Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian discussed their worry about their parents and agreed to wait three months for the truth to become clear.
• Zuo Xiaoduo told Zuo Xiaonian he planned to use the Nine Heavens Spirit Spring, and she said the resulting refinement of his spiritual qi would benefit him.
• Zuo Xiaonian said she had been selected as one of Nine Heavens Pavilion’s thirty Cloud Transformation cultivators entering the Secret Realm, while Zuo Xiaoduo announced he would lead Hidden Dragon High Martial’s Infant Transformation contingent.
• Zuo Xiaoduo teased Zuo Xiaonian about singing “Conquest” and doing a cat-ear dance, then searched for dance videos on his phone.
• Zuo Xiaonian took Zuo Xiaoduo’s phone and discovered that he followed at least a hundred female streamers known for dancing.

Zuo Xiaonian discovered Zuo Xiaoduo’s videos and reacted with anger before deciding to learn the dances herself, while Zuo Xiaoduo hoped to avoid punishment. At the Central Plains King’s nearly emptied manor, the King spoke with his steward as the pond’s fish began behaving strangely.

• Zuo Xiaonian found Zuo Xiaoduo’s dance videos, scolded him, and returned to her room.
• Zuo Xiaonian watched the videos, decided she could perform the dances better, and later ordered Zuo Xiaoduo to train with her.
• The Central Plains King’s steward told him that the heir was still returning from the Upper Capital and offered to meet him.
• The Central Plains King declined, saying those destined to die would die, and called the steward to stand beside him.
• The pond’s fish began thrashing and spreading blue bubbles among one another.

The Central Plains King showed Old Ma how one poisoned fish had spread poison through all nine ponds, using the dying fish to explain how a threat within could destroy the whole group. He left Old Ma facing the implication that he was the poisonous fish.

• The Central Plains King watched as fish across all nine ponds rolled and blew blue bubbles after the poison spread.
• Old Ma asked the Central Plains King what was happening, and the Prince reminded him of his 121 years of service and trust.
• The Central Plains King explained that the ponds were connected and that one poisoned fish had brought disaster to all of them.
• The Central Plains King asked whether the disaster had begun with a single fish, and Old Ma agreed with him.
• The Central Plains King warned that threats within a group were more dangerous than storms outside, then fixed a sharp gaze on Old Ma.