Recaps

Zhou Qing exposed Dales’s exploitation of Falling Star City and uncovered his ties to the Fallen Ones while helping You Hui prepare to take control. After defeating the Fallen Ones, Zhou Qing and Norman agreed to treat Dales’s impostor as the real city lord, and the arc ended with the real Dales heading to destroy evidence as Zhou Qing confronted the impostor over new taxes.

• Zhou Qing challenged Dales’s plan to collect donations, then humiliated him in a staged fight and rallied Falling Star City’s residents against the city’s corrupt leadership.
• Zhou Qing explained Dales’s scheme to his companions and persuaded Norman to support You Hui, while Norman let the group leave without reporting Zhou Qing to Spirit Hall.
• Dales imposed taxes and bought residents’ minerals at low prices as Zhou Qing suspected that the Dales leading the campaign was an impostor.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu found Tao Rong Iron inside a meteorite beneath Falling Star Lake, and it merged with Zhou Qing’s Aura Field as their Soul Power increased.
• Norman and Luo Xing’s force fought four Fallen Ones at Falling Star Slope, and Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu arrived to help destroy them.
• Zhou Qing and Norman found evidence linking Dales to the Fallen Ones, but Fake Dales rallied the city guards against Spirit Hall before Zhou Qing redirected attention to the accusations.
• Zhou Qing told Norman that Dales was an impostor and proposed treating him as the real Dales, and Norman agreed to the plan.
• Fake Dales forced the commoners to sell their minerals cheaply and raised their taxes, while the real Dales sought to destroy evidence at the Falling Star Spirit Hall Branch and Zhou Qing challenged Fake Dales at dinner.

Zhou Qing abandoned his attempt to stir Falling Star City’s residents into rebellion and turned toward building a broader movement, while preparing for the Continental Elite Tournament and seeking a Second Spirit Ring. In the Northern Forest, he and his companions met Mu Bing and Wei Sa, witnessed Wei Sa’s breakthrough, and observed the Dancing Winter Rabbits gather beneath an aurora.

• Zhou Qing exposed Dales’s schemes, let the real Dales die by suicide, and saw the crowd celebrate the fake Dales’s public beheading before deciding to seek change in the countryside.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina returned to Nuoding City, where Zhou Qing planned to study young children’s martial souls and prepare Nuoding Academy for the Continental Elite Tournament.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San set out to obtain Second Spirit Rings, with Zhou Qing choosing a Dancing Winter Rabbit and Tang San choosing an Emerald Fern to expand Blue Silver Grass’s perception of plants.
• At a carriage station, Zhou Qing refused Flender’s offers and won a wager by having Tang San identify Oscar as a Food System Soul Master, leaving Flender impressed with them.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San that he wanted to end the oppression of ordinary people by nobles and Soul Masters, earning Tang San’s admiration.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, and Bu Yi traveled to Heavenly Soul City, where Mu Bing offered to guide them through the Northern Forest and Wei Sa later absorbed an Ice Snow Lotus to reach level eleven.
• Mu Bing led the group to Ice Lake to observe the Dancing Winter Rabbits, and Zhou Qing advised Wei Sa on developing her support abilities and combat skills.
• The group watched the rabbits compete for mates as predators and Soul Masters hunted nearby, then saw the once-in-eleven-years Starlight Ripples appear over the lake and heard Zhou Qing explain them as an aurora.

Zhou Qing spread his ideas of equality through Holy Soul Village while Tang San began shaping the Tang Sect around agriculture and industry. After the group revealed hidden truths and exchanged gifts, events in the empires and Spirit Hall pointed toward growing political conflict.

• Zhou Qing absorbed a jointly formed thousand-year Dancing Winter Rabbit Soul Ring, completed his Water true essence, and reached Soul Power Level twenty-one.
• Tang San refined his second Spirit Ring, and Zhou Qing planned for the Bu sisters to contribute through agriculture, industry, fisheries, and medicine.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Xiao Wu that the Ferocious Beasts might attack her and urged her to reveal her identity as a Soul Beast in human form.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village, where Zhou Qing taught the villagers exercise and lessons while Tang San shared practical skills and researched better rice with Xiaolan.
• Zhou Qing invited people from nearby villages to study and proposed that the villages build roads and establish a school together.
• Zhou Qing argued that a revolution must prevent its leaders from becoming a new aristocracy, and Tang San pledged to establish the Tang Sect in support of a nation jointly led by the people.
• Tang San revealed his Twin Martial Souls, and Xiao Wu confessed she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charm Rabbit who considered herself human.
• Xue Ye warned Xue Qinghe that Spirit Hall might seek to establish a nation, while Dai Tianran discussed Spirit Hall’s political weaknesses with Dai Weisi and left Dai Mubai fearing his future in the palace.

Zhou Qing and Tang San investigated how Soul Palaces transformed during Martial Soul awakening and used their findings to develop Artificial Soul Palaces and new cultivation methods. The group then traveled to Vast Sea City to help Romantina hunt a Rubik's Cube Octopus, where Ariel led them to its habitat and Tang San became interested in the sea’s vibrations.

• Zhou Qing organized the Worker-Peasant Council, helped build roads between villages, and arranged for Su Yuntao to awaken the children’s Martial Souls at the village market.
• Zhou Qing and Romantina observed the awakening ceremony and concluded that the Soul Palace shattered into mist that connected the Martial Soul to the Meridians.
• Tang San built an Artificial Soul Palace from Soul Crystal and Soul Sand, and Bu Yi used it to evolve her Elemental Fox into an Elemental Fire Fox.
• Zhou Qing cultivated in a smaller Artificial Soul Palace, achieved congenital Fetal Respiration, and developed the Human Body Eight Trigram Furnace theory.
• Tang San reversed the Mysterious Heaven Skill to form the Mysterious Heaven Cauldron, developed high-yield New Rice, and agreed with Zhou Qing to expand cultivation and farming experiments.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu traveled to Vast Sea City, where Romantina joined them aboard Ariel’s ship to hunt a Rubik’s Cube Octopus.
• Ariel showed the group the reefs and Blue Silver Trees, recounted Spirit Hall’s failed expedition to Sea God Island, and described the Rubik’s Cube Octopus and its habitat.
• The group declined to dive into the turbulent sea, and Tang San connected its waves and currents to the principles of vibration he knew from forging.