Recaps

Zhou Qing investigated Bu Yi’s stalled cultivation and developed a theory that her Martial Soul had entered a second gestation, while Xue Qinghe maneuvered amid Star Luo and Heaven Dou politics. The group took a dangerous mission connected to an attack on Xiao Lang, and Zhou Qing’s bluff drove Hu Lingling to a near-fatal collapse before Tang San saved her.

• Zhou Qing concluded that Soul Beasts refined energies that could alter their bloodlines, then theorized that Bu Yi’s Elemental Fire Fox had entered a gestation phase that blocked her cultivation and connection to it.
• Zhou Qing asked Romantina to examine Bu Yi, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confirmed that flames obscured her Martial Soul while Zhou Qing linked its slow development to a Soul Palace.
• Zhou Qing proposed studying young children with Romantina to investigate Martial Soul gestation, while Romantina discovered that her Brain Martial Soul could store and magnify information gathered through Spiritual Detection.
• Zhou Qing discussed Martial Soul talents and Soul Ring choices with Tang San, while Yu Tianheng sought Qin Ming’s help improving his team and Xue Qinghe offered to secure its tournament entry.
• Qingzhu Zhu demanded freedom from her engagement to Dai Mubai, defeated him in a duel, and repudiated him before Star Luo’s court.
• Xue Qinghe ordered investigations into Nuoding City and the Star Luo royal struggle, while Zhou Qing found a Fallen Ones’ manuscript describing Martial Soul gestation and began planning his own research.
• Zhou Qing accepted a mission to investigate the accomplices of the attack on Xiao Lang, and he and Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina followed a lead from Xiao Manor to Hu Lingling.
• Zhou Qing’s bluff about killing the veiled Soul Ancestor provoked Hu Lingling into a failed Secret Art that left her gravely injured, and Tang San saved her before she woke and vowed revenge.

Zhou Qing and his companions traced a Soul Ancestor’s possible connection to Dales while investigating the disappearances and Zhou Qing’s parents’ deaths in Falling Star City. Ning Rongrong and You Hui joined them, and the group left the inn before Ning Fengzhi could meet them.

• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina tracked Hu Fangyuan to Falling Star City, where he urged Dales to abduct pregnant women so he could evolve his Martial Soul.
• The group reached Falling Star City, met Ning Rongrong, and discovered that Zhou Qing possessed a rare Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg that could conceal Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast aura.
• Zhou Qing told Ning Rongrong that the group was investigating a Soul Ancestor, then proposed looking into the city’s disappearances and the deaths of his parents.
• The group split up to investigate, and Zhou Qing spent time with Ning Rongrong while Tang San searched Dales’ Mansion and Xiao Wu questioned local witnesses.
• Romantina reunited with You Hui, who recalled seeing a powerful Soul Master enter Dales’ Mansion and hearing a terrible scream there.
• The group compared reports of abducted people, missing outsiders, and a likely hidden chamber in Dales’ Mansion, while Zhou Qing suspected Dales was supplying victims to a Spirit Devouring Worm Soul Ancestor.
• Zhou Qing persuaded Ning Rongrong not to ask her father and Sword Douluo for help, and the group left Welcome Spring Inn before Ning Fengzhi could meet them.
• You Hui offered her large, mostly empty home as a place for the group to stay.

Zhou Qing rescued Wang Shi, drew Ning Fengzhi’s interest with his unusual power and ideas, and began uncovering a hidden formation beneath Falling Star City. After learning of a secretive bloodline tied to the city’s long-running plot, he sent You Hui and Romantina to distract Dales while the others searched the City Lord’s Mansion for evidence.

• Zhou Qing found Wang Shi among pregnant women recruited as wet nurses, paid for their release, and arranged help for her while Ning Rongrong’s guards drove off their captors.
• At Welcome Spring Inn, Zhou Qing resisted Sword Douluo’s pressure until his energies and Martial Soul resonated, unleashing a force that knocked out everyone in the inn.
• Zhou Qing explained his theories about Martial Soul evolution to Ning Fengzhi, proposed combining disciples’ Soul Power to help evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and asked to enter the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Zhou Qing mapped Falling Star City with his friends and discovered that its roads and buildings formed a Soul Ring and Soul Tool Core Formation, which Tang San helped investigate.
• Zhou Qing and the others dug beneath a road and found Soul Sand, while Ning Rongrong recognized it as a material that conducted Soul Power exceptionally well.
• You Hui revealed that a Soul Ancestor and his descendants had advised the city’s rulers for generations and that her parents had encountered Fallen Ones before they died.
• Zhou Qing sent You Hui and Romantina to keep Dales occupied while Tang San and the others searched the City Lord’s Mansion for a suspected secret room.

Zhou Qing and his companions uncovered Hu Fangyuan’s experiments and Dales’s role in them, while the Soul Crystal rumor exposed the dangerous formation beneath Falling Star City. After returning to Holy Soul Village, they came back to confront Dales, who was preparing a scheme to profit from a campaign against the Fallen Ones.

• Zhou Qing sent Ning Rongrong to spread the rumor of buried Soul Crystals, prompting residents to dig up Falling Star City’s roads and damage the Soul Tool Core Formation.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu searched the City Lord’s Mansion, found Hu Fangyuan’s diary and chamber, and learned that Dales had supplied Hu Fangyuan with victims and resources.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San fought Hu Fangyuan, then Zhou Qing refined the Dragon Gu formed from the Spirit Devouring Worms and reached Level 18.
• Ning Rongrong intervened when Dales threatened to execute a resident, and Sword Douluo helped Zhou Qing expose the formation and Dales’s connection to Hu Fangyuan.
• Zhou Qing left Falling Star City with the four victims’ bodies and told his companions he intended to make Dales infamous rather than let him die easily.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village, where Tang San tore up Tang Hao’s letter and Zhou Qing revealed his new Soul Ring and Level 18 power to Old Jack.
• Dales planned to eliminate witnesses, staged a campaign against the Fallen Ones, and sought to raise money from the city’s residents and noble families.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and You Hui returned to Falling Star City, where Dales told them the Fallen Ones were at Falling Star Slope and asked the tournament champions to demonstrate their strength.