Recaps

Zhou Qing and his companions developed Inner Scenery cultivation, investigated the Abyss Ruins, and entered the tournament finals in Tianming City. After Nuoding Team’s decisive victory, Xiao Wu revealed that Bibi Dong had killed her mother, and the group resolved to prepare for revenge.

• Zhou Qing showed how his Inner Scenery concealed and nourished him, then helped Dugu Bo refine his Spirit Rings until Dugu Bo formed an Inner Scenery and reached rank ninety-three.
• Zhou Qing led the Nuoding students through Heaven Dou City, then met Ning Rongrong and Tang San at the auction house, where a Fallen One escaped from a stone and vanished after fighting Soul Masters.
• The teams arrived in Abyss Town, where Zhou Qing and Tang San hired Riko to guide them into the Abyss Ruins and discovered that regulating their Soul Power circulation let them resist the Ascension Curse.
• Zhou Qing concluded that Abyss Town’s residents had adapted to the Ruins but could not control their Aura Fields, and he planned to study the Ruins and build ties with the town.
• Nuoding Team entered the tournament and defeated Dou Xing Plant Academy in one minute, while Bibi Dong examined Zhou Qing and Romantina’s Soul Ring Secondary Refinement theory and considered recruiting them.
• Xiao Wu told Zhou Qing and her companions that Bibi Dong had killed her mother, and the group supported her while Zhou Qing urged them to grow stronger and study Spirit Hall before seeking revenge.

Zhou Qing and his companions descended through the Abyss Ruins with Riko, learning about its dangers and the tragic history of the Rabbit Girl, Namiki, and Na. As Qian Renxue investigated the ruins from above, Zhou Qing’s group reached the Fourth Layer and began crossing the Sea of Corpses toward its center.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San recruited Riko as their guide, then led the group through the Second Layer, where they fought Weeping Corpse Birds and met Odin, Riko’s mother’s former teacher.
• Odin tested the group and allowed Riko to continue with them, explaining the dangers of the Ascension Curse and how people could become Fallen Ones in the Abyss.
• On the Third Layer, the group explored the Holy Cup Fruit Forest and met the Rabbit Girl, who told them how Namiki’s transformation led to the deaths of her children and trapped Explorers inside Namiki’s inner world.
• The Rabbit Girl revealed she had lost hope of finding Namiki and her child, but Riko comforted her, and Zhou Qing’s group agreed to help search for them.
• Riko helped the Rabbit Girl overcome her hesitation, and the group descended through the waterfall to the Fourth Layer as Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue discussed the God Realm and Qian Renxue began her own investigation of the ruins.
• On the Fourth Layer, the Rabbit Girl warned that boats made from floating creature bones were needed to cross the Sea of Corpses, while Zhou Qing and Tang San reasoned about its possible role in the Abyss’s cycle.
• Zhou Qing sent Wang Sheng back to train, then carried the Rabbit Girl across the sea by sensing its tides as Xiao Wu, Romantina, Tang San, and Riko followed toward the center.

Zhou Qing’s group explored the Abyss Ruins, where they encountered Qian Renxue and a team of strangers from another timeline. At the tournament, Nuoding Team defeated Spirit Hall’s impostors and advanced to the championship, where Zhou Qing faced the Hell White Tiger.

• Saundin explained that reaching the Fifth Layer required a White Whistle or a dangerous passage through the Sea of Corpses, while Zhou Qing and Tang San connected his account to a Soul Saint from Holy Soul Village.
• Zhou Qing accused Saundin of manipulating people for White Whistles, and Saundin admitted he used willing test subjects to advance his research and seek greater power.
• Qian Renxue confronted Zhou Qing in the Abyss Ruins, then agreed to pay him sixty billion Gold Soul Coins to keep her identity secret.
• Saundin killed Snake Lance Douluo after he seized the White Whistle, and Qian Renxue withdrew without attacking Saundin.
• The Spirit Hall Team’s new members proved to be Huo Zhanji and his companions from another timeline, and Bibi Dong exposed their false identities after sensing contradictions in her memories.
• Nuoding Team defeated the impostors in the tournament, while Zhou Qing and Tang San suspected powerful forces could restore the injured visitors and resolved to wait for their next move.
• Wang Sheng rejected Dai Weisi’s offer, awakened his Mind-Sense Qi Field, and defeated him, prompting Star Luo Royal Academy to concede the Promotion Competition to Nuoding Academy.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun combined into the Hell White Tiger for the championship match, and Zhou Qing struck it with Surging Heart.

After winning the tournament, Zhou Qing confronts Huo Zhanji’s time-traveling team and builds the Red Assembly while developing Holy Soul Village. The arc ends with Zhou Qing and Romantina exploring Abyss Town, where Spirit Hall is building a sanctuary, and Dugu Bo meets Odin.

• Zhou Qing defeated the Star Luo Royal Academy Team, received the Golden Dragon Spear from Bibi Dong, and declined her offer to join Spirit Hall.
• Huo Zhanji claimed that he and his teammates came from the future to restore Spirit Hall, but Bibi Dong exposed their vulnerability and forced him to reveal future cultivation methods.
• Zhou Qing absorbed the Golden Dragon Spear’s Dragon Soul and a Singing Summer Cicada Soul Ring, opening his Inner Scenery World and reaching level fifty-one.
• Huo Zhanji’s group set fire to farmland near Holy Soul Village, and Zhou Qing’s villagers caught the arsonists and punished Lu Yixin while registering visiting Soul Masters.
• Dugu Bo helped stop Huo Zhanji’s team from stealing the Golden Ancient Tree, but divine forces intervened and the team vanished before a Heavenly Tribulation struck.
• Zhou Qing founded the Red Assembly, organized village education and development, and drew the attention of Xue Ye, Dai Tianran, and Bibi Dong.
• Zhou Qing and Romantina traveled with Dugu Bo to Abyss Town, where Abel told them Spirit Hall was building a sanctuary and invited them to return with Riko and the students.
• Romantina led Zhou Qing and Dugu Bo to Odin’s treehouse, where Dugu Bo and Odin recognized their grief for deceased loved ones but hesitated to marry.