Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing expanded the Worker-Peasant Council to villages in the Xingluo Empire, planned a road toward Vast Sea City, and established Hope Primary School in Holy Soul Village. Over the next three years, village roads were completed, the coastal road advanced, and trade began bringing new prosperity to rural communities.

• Old Jack asked Zhou Qing whether villages in the Xingluo Empire could join the Worker-Peasant Council, and Zhou Qing agreed.
• Zhou Qing persuaded the Village Chiefs to build a road toward Vast Sea City and set a Five-Year Plan for the project.
• Old Jack showed Zhou Qing the finished schoolhouse, which Zhou Qing named Hope Primary School and led as principal alongside Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina as teachers.
• Mo Hen joined the teaching staff and, after hearing Zhou Qing's lessons about nobles and commoners, reconsidered conflicts he had struggled to understand.
• Over three years, villages near the Heaven Dou and Xingluo border completed their connecting roads, while construction toward Vast Sea City reached nearly halfway.
• Ariel established a seafood business in Vast Sea City and transported fish inland, while coastal buyers' demand for village crops further motivated road construction.

Tang San and Zhou Qing saw how Blue Silver Rice had improved Holy Soul Village and reflected on how cultivation and building a society both depended on keeping things moving and developing. Zhou Qing then arranged to take village children to Heaven Dou City to witness the Continental Elite Tournament challenge and broaden their horizons.

• Tang San returned to Holy Soul Village and saw how new houses, cleaner clothes, and high-yield Blue Silver Rice had improved village life.
• Tang San and Zhou Qing resolved to work harder to bring prosperity to people across the continent, while Xiao Wu and Romantina interrupted their reflections with jokes and teasing.
• Zhou Qing explained to Old Jack that Nuoding Academy had become an intermediate academy and could challenge an advanced academy for a tournament place.
• Zhou Qing told Old Jack he, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina would challenge an academy in Heaven Dou City, and asked to bring mature village children along to see the city.

Zhou Qing led the Nuoding Team and thirty-six village youths toward Heaven Dou City, hoping the journey would broaden their horizons and show them the divide between nobles and commoners. In Heaven Dou City, Salas investigated Nuoding Academy’s application to challenge an advanced academy and suspected its teachers planned to compete.

• Old Jack and the other village chiefs agreed to let thirty-six youths over twelve travel with Zhou Qing’s team, and the Nuoding Academy Dean reluctantly approved the trip.
• The Nuoding Team set out for Heaven Dou City with teachers Mo Hen, Bu Yi, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi, while Xiao Lang and Adventurer's Guild members saw them off.
• Xiao Wu changed her scorpion-tail braid to twin braids, explaining that her long hair was inconvenient in combat.
• Zhou Qing assigned the youths to record and compare the places they saw, and asked class monitor Xiaolan to supervise them.
• Salas received Nuoding Academy’s application to challenge an advanced academy for a tournament spot and investigated the obscure school, wondering whether its young teachers intended to compete.

Salas planned to use Nuoding Academy’s tournament application to pressure a Heaven Dou City Advanced Academy, then visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy to summon its commissioners as witnesses. Xue Qinghe learned how intermediate academies had to earn recognition by challenging an Advanced Academy and said he would attend the assessment.

• Salas rejected his secretary’s suggestion to ignore Nuoding Academy’s application and saw it as a chance to put an unfriendly Advanced Academy in its place.
• Salas visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy with a gift and met the Three Education Commissioners and Xue Qinghe.
• Salas told the commissioners that an intermediate academy had applied to enter the Continental Elite Tournament and invited them to Spirit Hall for a discussion.
• Zhi Lin and Bai Baoshan explained that intermediate academy teams had to challenge an Advanced Academy for recognition, a rule that had kept them from participating.
• Xue Qinghe said he would witness the challenge and asked whether his recognition could allow the intermediate team to enter the tournament; Salas agreed that the decision would rest with the challenged academy.

The Nuoding Academy team traveled to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Salas to seek a place in the Continental Elite Tournament. After arriving, they faced four Soul Douluo-level educators, and the Nuoding Academy Dean’s nervousness left the meeting on an uneasy note.

• The Nuoding Academy Dean arranged lodging in Heaven Dou City, then took Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi to the Martial Soul Hall.
• Salas met the Nuoding delegation, learned that Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were only nine years old, and considered whether Spirit Hall might recruit them.
• Salas led the team nearly twenty kilometers to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Zhou Qing and Tang San speculated about its natural Mimetic Cultivation Environment.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, Zhi Lin, and other teachers gathered at the academy gates, and Bai Baoshan questioned the Nuoding Academy Dean about the tournament application.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean nervously confirmed their purpose, prompting disappointment from Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and the other teachers.

Xue Qinghe met the Nuoding Academy delegation as they sought an academy to challenge for tournament qualification. Zhou Qing proposed challenging Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Salas supported the choice after noticing Xue Qinghe’s signal.

• Xue Qinghe arrived at the gathering, and Zhou Qing joked with Bu Yi and Tang San about the First Prince’s appearance and Tang San’s changing features.
• Xue Qinghe greeted the Nuoding Academy Dean and offered to accompany the delegation as they chose an academy to challenge.
• Salas suggested Elephant Armored Academy, but the Nuoding Academy Dean hesitated because it belonged to one of the Lower Four Sects.
• Zhou Qing proposed Heaven Dou Royal Academy, arguing that the youths should challenge a true powerhouse.
• Salas interrupted Meng Shenji and endorsed Zhou Qing’s proposal after seeing Xue Qinghe’s subtle gesture.

Zhou Qing explained why Nuoding Academy had challenged Heaven Dou Royal Academy, aiming to avoid being used in Spirit Hall’s schemes. When Heaven Dou’s noble students came to provoke them, Xiao Wu verbally attacked them, and Zhou Qing recognized their arrival as a test.

• Zhou Qing told the Nuoding Team that Salas had tried to use their challenge to pressure the Elephant Armored Sect, so they had challenged Heaven Dou Royal Academy to seize the initiative.
• Tang San asked how their opponents might test them, but noble students arrived outside and shouted insults at the Nuoding Team.
• Xiao Wu confronted the nobles from the balcony and mocked their manners, status, and threats until one of them flew into a rage.
• The noble student threatened to kill Xiao Wu and assault her, but she remained unmoved and taunted him further.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi joined Xiao Wu on the balcony as Zhou Qing said the test had arrived.

Xue Beng tried to provoke the Nuoding Team, but Romantina knocked him down when he jumped toward the second floor. After Xue Qinghe intervened, a clash of convictions between her and Zhou Qing revealed how the Six-Winged Angel might let Qian Renxue control Qi Field Power, which could be a step toward god-level power.

• Xue Qinghe watched Xiao Wu intimidate Xue Beng and his companions, then Zhou Qing invited Xue Beng to jump up to the second floor.
• Xue Beng used Martial Soul Possession to leap toward the balcony, but Romantina struck him with the Phoenix Wutong Staff and sent him falling back down.
• Xue Beng prepared to retaliate, but Xue Qinghe rebuked him, prompting him and the other noble students to flee.
• Zhou Qing led the Nuoding Team downstairs and thanked Xue Qinghe, who apologized for her younger brother and studied Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.
• Xue Qinghe and Zhou Qing's wills clashed when they met eyes, stirring the Six-Winged Angel's desire to contend with Zhou Qing's Martial Soul.
• Zhou Qing realized that Qian Renxue's God-level Martial Soul might enable her to control Qi Field Power, potentially bringing her to the threshold of god-level power.

Xue Qinghe met Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, revealing his unusual cultivation and warning them that the Heaven Dou Royal Second Team was stronger than they expected. He identified Yu Tianheng as the team’s captain and disclosed that his Soul Power had reached level thirty-eight.

• Xue Qinghe greeted Zhou Qing and asked him not to call him the Crown Prince in public, while Xiao Wu bluntly suggested using the title in private.
• Tang San noticed Xue Qinghe’s Martial Soul responding to his presence and deduced that the First Prince was cultivating with exceptional coordination between his Soul Power and Martial Soul.
• Zhou Qing asked which Heaven Dou Royal Team they would face, and Xue Qinghe confirmed it was the Second Team.
• Xue Qinghe explained that Yu Tianheng had led a replacement team into the Second Team three years earlier after its victories over the Star Luo Royal Academy Team impressed him.
• Xue Qinghe listed the Second Team’s members, and Zhou Qing was surprised to learn that seventeen-year-old Yu Tianheng had reached Soul Power level thirty-eight.

Zhou Qing prepared the Nuoding Team to face Imperial Fighting Team Two, considering whether the match could draw out Poison Douluo and asking Tang San to watch over his granddaughter. Xue Qinghe warned Yu Tianheng and his teammates that the nine-year-old Nuoding Team members were dangerous and that Imperial Fighting Team Two could suffer a humiliating defeat.

• Zhou Qing told the Nuoding Team to avoid attracting the attention of powerful forces, then wondered whether their challenge could lure out Poison Douluo.
• Zhou Qing asked Tang San to keep an eye on Poison Douluo's granddaughter, and Tang San agreed.
• Qin Ming learned that Nuoding Team would challenge Imperial Fighting Team Two the next afternoon and questioned why Yu Tianheng's team had to fight.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were nine-year-old Soul Masters with Innate Full Soul Power, shocking Qin Ming and Imperial Fighting Team Two.
• Yu Feng said Imperial Fighting Team Two would prolong the match, but Xue Qinghe warned them to fight at full strength or face a humiliating defeat.

The Nuoding Team and Imperial Fighting Team Two began their Challenge Match at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan revealed their Martial Souls. Zhou Qing explained the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s growth and Dragon Transformation before the Nuoding Team became distracted by questions about Dugu Yan’s snake-tail form.

• Zhi Lin silenced the arena, and Meng Shenji announced the Challenge Match and asked both teams to introduce themselves.
• Yu Tianheng introduced himself as a Level 38 Soul Elder and transformed his right arm with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Zhou Qing explained that Dragon Transformation let Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Masters wield part of their Martial Soul Avatar’s power before Level 70, and Romantina considered how its advantage changed after the Soul Saint stage.
• Dugu Yan introduced herself as a Level 33 Soul Elder and transformed her lower body into a snake tail.
• Zhou Qing wondered aloud whether snake-type Soul Masters wore underwear, prompting the Nuoding Team to argue over the question while he privately pondered whether humans on Douluo Continent were “Hydrogen Men.”

Zhou Qing and the other members of the Nuoding Team introduced their martial souls and Soul Power levels to Yu Tianheng’s team, stunning them with three nine-year-old Soul Elders. Qin Ming began to suspect their innate Soul Power exceeded level ten.

• The chapter explained that martial souls allowed people to reshape or merge their bodies, and compared this ability to gathering into form and dispersing into vapor.
• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and the other Imperial Fighting Team members reported their ages, martial souls, and Soul Power levels.
• Zhou Qing introduced himself as a nine-year-old with a Blood Circulation System martial soul and level-thirty-four Soul Power, shocking Yu Tianheng and making Xue Qinghe suspect his martial soul was God-level.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu reported level thirty-two and level thirty-three Soul Power at nine years old, while the remaining Nuoding Team members introduced themselves.
• Qin Ming marveled at Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu’s cultivation and wondered whether their innate Soul Power had exceeded level ten.

At the Continental Elite Tournament, Nuoding Academy’s students revealed the results of secondary spirit ring refinement, astonishing the spectators with their evolving ring configurations. When the challenge match began, Zhou Qing crushed Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claw with one punch, leaving Yu Tianheng reeling.

• Wang Sheng, Romantina, Bu Liu, Bu Qi, and the other Nuoding Academy students showed spirit rings altered through secondary refinement, and Romantina’s second ring was at the thousand-year level.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean explained the Soul Ring Secondary Refinement Theory to Salas, the Three Education Commissioners, and Xue Qinghe, while Zhi Lin recognized the authors Romantina and Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu revealed three purple spirit rings each, prompting Xue Qinghe and Mo Hen to discuss how refined rings could evolve with their Martial Souls.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean grew confident about his team’s prospects, while the officials considered how the proven theory could change spirit ring standards.
• Meng Shenji started the challenge match, and Zhou Qing observed that Yu Tianheng’s team used a coordinated formation modeled on Zhou Qing’s tactics.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Zhou Qing with Thunder Dragon Claw, but Zhou Qing shattered it with a punch and sent Yu Tianheng flying.

Zhou Qing and the Nuoding Team easily withstood Yu Tianheng’s lightning, revealing their mastery of the Armament Qi Field and turning the match against Imperial Fighting Team Two. Tang San incapacitated Osler with a palm strike that combined the field with his Mysterious Jade Hand, leaving the fight in progress.

• Yu Tianheng unleashed his Second Soul Skill, Thunderous Might, but the Nuoding Team members blocked or endured the lightning with the Armament Qi Field.
• Meng Shenji recognized the technique as a possible Self-Created Soul Skill, while Xue Qinghe suspected Zhou Qing’s group had developed their own cultivation methods and could threaten Spirit Hall’s plans.
• Romantina struck Ye Lingling with a spiritual attack, causing the opposing team’s support member to collapse.
• Tang San intercepted Osler as he moved to attack Romantina and struck his waist with a palm infused with cold air, disrupting his Soul Power and knocking him into Shi Mo.

Romantina used her Stacked Wave Force to defeat Shi Mo, drawing the attention and greed of the academy commissioners and Salas. As Shi Mo charged Wang Sheng with his Mystic Water Shield, Wang Sheng activated his two refined Soul Skills and prepared to counterattack.

• Xue Qinghe recognized Tang San's footwork as a Self-Created Soul Skill while Nuoding Team overwhelmed Imperial Fighting Team Two.
• Romantina used Armament Qi Field and Stacked Wave Force to shatter Shi Mo's Mystic Turtle Shield and knock him out of the arena.
• The Three Education Commissioners and Salas concluded that gaining Romantina could give them control of the Soul Master World.
• Shi Mo charged Wang Sheng with Mystic Water Shield after seeing his brother fall.
• Wang Sheng activated Rock Tiger Transformation and Fire Tiger Transformation, formed lava-like armor, and struck at Shi Mo's shield.

Wang Sheng defeated Shi Mo with his self-created Bronze Head Iron Arms, while Tang San and the Nuoding Team overwhelmed most of the Imperial Fighting Team. Dugu Yan unleashed her Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison, and Tang San judged her conspicuous poison technique to be amateurish.

• Wang Sheng blasted Shi Mo away with Bronze Head Iron Arms, and Shi Mo collapsed after the stacked countershock left him unable to fight.
• Yu Feng watched as the Nuoding Team subdued the Imperial Fighting Team, leaving only Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Yu Feng able to continue.
• Dugu Yan tried to help Yu Tianheng, but Tang San seized her snake tail and threw her into Wang Sheng, who struck her with Bronze Head Iron Arms.
• Dugu Yan dispersed some of Wang Sheng's force with her flexibility, then released her third soul skill, Jade Phosphor Violet Poison, forcing nearby fighters to retreat.
• Tang San recognized the poison's toxicity but considered Dugu Yan an amateur because she released it so conspicuously.

Tang San neutralized Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphor Violet Poison and used a low-spec Guanyin Tear to drive some of the toxins from her body before defeating her. As the match continued, only Yu Tianheng remained against Zhou Qing, and Yu Tianheng activated his Third Soul Skill despite the strain it could cause.

• Tang San entered Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist, gathered the poison in his hands, and secretly transformed it into a low-spec Guanyin Tear.
• Tang San struck Dugu Yan while she was distracted, sending the processed poison back into her body and knocking her unconscious as some accumulated toxins left her system.
• Romantina’s Spiritual Impact knocked Yu Feng out of the air, and Xiao Wu kicked him out of the arena.
• Yu Tianheng faced Zhou Qing alone and, unwilling to accept defeat without testing their difference in strength, activated his Third Soul Skill, Wrath of Thunder.

Zhou Qing defeated Yu Tianheng, and Tang San and Bu Liu healed the injured Imperial Fighting Team Two. The Nuoding Team was awarded its entry certificate for the Continental Elite Tournament.

• Yu Tianheng attacked Zhou Qing with his Thunder Dragon Claw, but Zhou Qing shattered it with Long Moo Yongchun and sent Yu Tianheng flying, badly injuring his right arm.
• Tang San surgically removed bone fragments and healed Yu Tianheng's arm, then caught and threw him when he woke and struck out.
• Bu Liu healed the other Imperial Fighting Team Two members by slapping them to channel light-element energy.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, Zhi Lin, and Salas announced the Nuoding Team's victory, and Salas and Meng Shenji signed its Participation Certificate.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean accepted the certificate and carefully put it away.

Zhou Qing resisted Meng Shenji’s escalating soul pressure, then revealed that his group’s Qi Field was a self-created soul skill. He offered the theory behind it to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s three Education Commissioners for two billion gold soul coins, leaving them stunned.

• Meng Shenji invited the Nuoding Team to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Zhou Qing declined because thirty-six students were waiting at the inn.
• Meng Shenji tested Zhou Qing with increasing soul pressure, and Zhou Qing endured it until he unleashed his Qi Field and shattered the pressure.
• Xue Qinghe sensed Zhou Qing’s domineering will and concluded that he might become her mortal enemy unless she could make him submit.
• Zhou Qing explained that Qi Field came from conviction and knowledge of one’s Martial Soul, and said his group planned to publish its cultivation theory.
• Zhi Lin asked Zhou Qing to reveal the theory, and Zhou Qing offered the booklet to the three Education Commissioners for two billion gold soul coins.

Zhou Qing sold his Qi Field Power theory to five powerful buyers for ten billion Gold Soul Coins, then explained why he expected most of them to struggle to apply it. He left with plans to use the fortune to fund schools, research, construction, and Soul Guidance factories.

• Zhou Qing charged Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan two billion Gold Soul Coins each for separate copies of his theory, then sold copies to Salas and Xue Qinghe as well.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, Bai Baoshan, Salas, and Xue Qinghe each read their copies and put them away so no one else could see them.
• The Nuoding Academy Dean led Zhou Qing and the others away while the buyers stayed behind to study the theory and consider cultivating from it.
• Wang Sheng asked Zhou Qing if giving away the theory was safe, and Zhou Qing explained that its lack of practical methods and knowledge of meridians would make cultivation difficult for most people.
• Zhou Qing told his companions that he would use the ten billion Gold Soul Coins to fund border construction, expand schools, support agricultural research, and plan Soul Guidance factories.