Recaps

Zhou Qing visited the Five Elements Continent, where he challenged Lie Yan to govern its intelligent races and help oppose the God Realm. After helping Ji Dong choose his path and teaching him the foundations of cultivation, Zhou Qing returned to Sky City with new insights into developing his Inner Scenery World.

• Zhou Qing learned Sky City’s history from Regu and Luo Si, including how Earth became Douluo Star and how Mother’s incubation and humanity’s future were tied to the Guardians’ plans.
• Zhou Qing used the Soul Guidance Core Crystal to travel to the Five Elements Continent, where he met Ji Dong and Lie Yan in the Earth Core Magma Lake.
• Zhou Qing explained the God Realm’s restrictions on nonhuman beings and persuaded Lie Yan to cooperate with him, then urged her to govern the Underground World’s intelligent races responsibly.
• Zhou Qing helped Lie Yan recognize her duty to regulate the planet’s magma and guide its underground creatures, while challenging Ji Dong to decide whether to live as Li Jiedong or Ji Dong.
• Ji Dong and Zhou Qing competed in mixing cocktails, and Zhou Qing’s The East Is Red moved Lie Yan to resolve to become a qualified Underground Empress.
• Zhou Qing demonstrated the Limitless Flame and explained how he was building a cultivation system from foundational principles, then Lie Yan agreed to train Ji Dong and help organize the Underground World.
• Lie Yan created the Karma Fire of the Red Lotus and sent Ji Dong back to the outside world, while Zhou Qing returned to Sky City and shared what he had learned about the Five Elements Continent.

Zhou Qing and his companions expanded their work in the Abyss Ruins and built support for the Red Assembly while exploring new paths for Soul Rings and cultivation. Tang Hao’s arrival brought Tang San closer to the truth about his mother’s death and the Clear Sky Sect’s downfall.

• Zhou Qing helped Riko awaken her Spirit Eye martial soul, then arranged trade between Abyss Town and the outside world while Romantina absorbed the Heart of Dreams and formed her Inner Scenery.
• Zhou Qing argued that humans, Soul Beasts, and other intelligent beings could share a collective, then returned to Holy Soul Village and encouraged Tang San to pursue artificial Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu condensed and refined her fourth Soul Ring with Romantina’s help, while Zhou Qing explained the Star of the Ocean and asked Tang San to study artificial Soul Ring creation.
• Tang San and local craftsmen expanded affordable Soul Tool production as the Red Assembly gained support, prompting the Two Great Empires and Spirit Hall to consider how to counter its influence.
• Li Ai’s slander and increased taxes failed to weaken the Red Assembly, and Romanyac arrived in Holy Soul Village to report that Li Ai had removed him as Nuoding City’s lord.
• Tang Hao arrived masked and challenged Zhou Qing, who defeated him, treated his injuries, and brought Tang San to meet him.
• Tang San recognized Tang Hao despite his disguise, rejected the Clear Sky Sect’s secret techniques, and questioned Tang Hao about his mother and the Sect’s role in her death.
• Tang San inferred that the former Clear Sky Sect master may have alerted Spirit Hall to Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and that guilt over the sect’s ruin had contributed to the former master’s death.

Tang San revived Ah Yin, confronted Tang Hao over his past, and traveled with Zhou Qing to the Clear Sky Sect to return Tang Hao’s soul bones and propose cooperation. After clashing with the elders, they left as Tang Xiao prepared to take the sect back into the outside world, while Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered Zhao Wuji’s group.

• Tang San defeated Tang Hao in a spar, then helped revive Ah Yin by joining her seedling with his Blue Silver Emperor clone.
• Ah Yin confronted Tang Hao over abandoning Tang San, while Tang San refused to accept Tang Hao’s family claims and took two soul bones to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San and Zhou Qing visited the Clear Sky Sect, proposed cooperation with Holy Soul Village, and rejected Tang Xiao’s efforts to bring Tang San back into the clan.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders tried to stop Tang San and Zhou Qing from leaving, but Zhou Qing defeated the Seventh Elder and the pair overwhelmed the sect’s forces.
• Tang Xiao disciplined the Seventh Elder and decided to take the Clear Sky Sect out of seclusion, while Zhou Qing and Tang San planned to recruit Lou Gao and seek Di Tian’s cooperation.
• Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Wu killed a wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and they met Zhao Wuji’s group.

Zhou Qing brokered cooperation between humans and Soul Beasts, while Xiao Wu began guiding the Ferocious Beasts through human society. Zhou Qing and Tang San then traveled to Gengxin City, where Tang San completed the Crimson Armor for a contest against Lou Gao.

• Zhou Qing brought Zhao Wuji’s group to the Star Dou Great Forest’s core, where he fought Di Tian and persuaded the Ferocious Beasts to test cooperation with humans and Artificial Soul Rings.
• Meng Yiran and Oscar received Artificial Soul Rings, and Meng Yiran absorbed a third ring beyond the age limit Yu Xiaogang believed possible.
• Zhou Qing transformed Da Ming and Er Ming into human children, and Di Tian led most of the Ferocious Beasts toward human towns to study human life.
• Zhou Qing tasked Li Daniu with resolving Li Ai’s increased grain tax and discussed Ah Yin’s loneliness and future with Tang Hao.
• Xiao Wu guided Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts around Star Dou Town, arranged a trade base, and began building cooperation between the Red Assembly and Soul Beasts.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San traveled to Gengxin City and challenged Lou Gao to a forging contest after Lou Gao rejected their invitation to cooperate.
• Tang San and Zhou Qing forged armor from Deep Sea Silver and Silkworm Shedding while Lou Gao made Thunder Dragon Armor from dragon hide, metals, and Gold of Life.
• Tang San completed the Crimson Armor, and Silong arranged a public contest as news of the rival divine artifact-grade armors spread through Gengxin City.