Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing explained that he challenged Huyan Zhen to show Tang San and the others how tournament rules could constrain powerful nobles and officials. As the team prepared for the match, Dugu Bo warned them about Huyan Zhen’s strength but agreed to intervene if they were in danger.

• The audience reacted with shock and excitement after the organizers approved the Nuoding Team’s challenge against Huyan Zhen.
• Tang San asked Zhou Qing why he had challenged Huyan Zhen, and Zhou Qing said he wanted to teach the team and his students to use rules against powerful figures.
• Zhou Qing explained that the team had fought bandits and pirates in real battles and cared little for the preliminary competition or noble titles.
• The thirty-six students watched Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, Salas, and the other VIPs, and many came to admire Zhou Qing.
• Dugu Bo entered the lounge and questioned the team’s chances against Huyan Zhen, whose defensive power he had experienced firsthand.
• Tang San said the team only needed to fight Huyan Zhen evenly or wound him to intimidate their opponents, while Dugu Bo promised to watch over them.

Zhou Qing's team faced Huyan Zhen in a special arena match, drawing attention to their close ties with Dugu Bo and their unusual strength. The battle began with Huyan Zhen refusing to summon his Martial Soul, while Zhou Qing and his teammates joined their Mind-Sense Qi Fields.

• The Advanced Academy teams awoke and learned that Nuoding Team would spar with Huyan Zhen, then Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi entered the reinforced arena.
• Dugu Yan told Imperial Fighting Team Two that Dugu Bo had become close to Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina, astonishing her teammates and prompting powerful spectators to reconsider Nuoding Team's influence.
• Salas, Ning Fengzhi, and an elderly man stood ready to protect Zhou Qing's team as the referee announced the start of the match.
• Huyan Zhen refused to summon his Martial Soul, and his soul-powered voice pushed Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi back several steps while the others held their ground using Stacked Wave Force.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina unleashed their Mind-Sense Qi Fields and merged them into a crimson radiance that spread across the arena.

Zhou Qing and his allies used their Mind-Sense Qi Fields to overwhelm the arena and spectators, then Zhou Qing demonstrated his extraordinary strength by blasting Huyan Zhen backward. The contest remained poised for escalation as Zhou Qing’s physical power proved far beyond what his Soul Elder rank suggested.

• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina released their Mind-Sense Qi Fields, causing most spectators and many Soul Masters to collapse while allies with similar convictions remained unaffected.
• Xue Ye, Salas, and Ning Fengzhi reacted to the Qi Field, while high-level Soul Masters resisted its effects by circulating soul power and releasing their Martial Souls.
• Huyan Zhen transformed into his Martial Soul form and tried to withstand the Qi Field, but it overwhelmed him again.
• Xue Qinghe struggled to conceal her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul as faint golden light appeared on her disguised Swan Wings.
• Zhou Qing charged Huyan Zhen and struck him with his First Soul Skill, blasting the level-eighty-nine Soul Douluo more than thirty meters away.

Zhou Qing used his Third Soul Skill, Autumn Roar, to batter Huyan Zhen with a cutting gale, while Tang San and Romantina supported him. Huyan Zhen unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar in response, and the VIP spectators realized Zhou Qing was powerful enough to advance from the Preliminary Competition.

• Zhou Qing’s opening strike showed Huyan Zhen that the young fighter possessed immense strength, prompting Huyan Zhen to abandon political concerns and fight in earnest.
• Zhou Qing unleashed Autumn Roar, a gale that sliced through stone and threatened Huyan Zhen’s body and internal organs.
• Tang San used Life Accumulation and his Swift Wind Right Palm Bone to spread Blue Silver Grass seeds across the arena, nearly doubling the gale’s strength.
• Romantina used Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing to reveal that Huyan Zhen was bleeding after inhaling some of the wind.
• Huyan Zhen transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and slammed the arena with his forelimbs, cracking the ground and shaking the stands.
• Xue Ye and the other VIP spectators realized Zhou Qing’s strength was comparable to a Soul Saint and sufficient for him to advance from the Preliminary Competition.

Zhou Qing and his teammates fought Huyan Zhen’s Diamond Mammoth while Tang San searched for a weakness in its defenses. Zhou Qing unleashed a self-created skill that raised his Soul Power intensity to the level of a quasi-Soul Douluo, prompting Huyan Zhen to focus his attack on him.

• Huyan Zhen used his Martial Soul Avatar, but Xiao Wu struck the Diamond Mammoth’s forehead and forced it back three steps.
• Tang San hurled arena rubble at Huyan Zhen to probe for a weakness, while Romantina, Bu Liu, Wang Sheng, Xiao Wu, and Bu Qi supported the team.
• Zhou Qing circulated the powers of spring, autumn, and winter through his body and covered himself with his Armament Qi Field.
• Zhou Qing’s Soul Power intensity climbed to the level of a level 80 quasi-Soul Douluo, and blood qi surged across his body.
• Huyan Zhen focused on Zhou Qing, deciding he could not let the fight drag on.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Bu Qi exploited the weak points in Huyan Zhen’s Diamond Mammoth form. Zhou Qing’s Surging Heart overwhelmed Huyan Zhen, who fell as the Mammoth reverted to his human form.

• Tang San identified the Mingmen Acupoint on Huyan Zhen’s back and his navel as weak points, and Zhou Qing decided to attack both at once.
• Zhou Qing dodged the Diamond Mammoth’s spikes and trunk, then struck its Mingmen Acupoint with a powerful blow.
• Bu Qi attacked Huyan Zhen while Tang San and Xiao Wu evaded the Mammoth’s limbs and reached its underside.
• Tang San boosted Xiao Wu into the air, and Xiao Wu struck the Mammoth’s navel, weakening its defense further.
• Zhou Qing unleashed his self-created Soul Skill, Surging Heart, and knocked the Diamond Mammoth down, forcing it to revert to Huyan Zhen.

Zhou Qing and the Nuoding Team defeated Huyan Zhen, earning a direct place in the Finals. Afterward, Huyan Zhen thanked the team and rediscovered that he had first pursued cultivation for the joy of battle.

• Zhou Qing dispersed Huyan Zhen's Martial Soul Avatar, and the awakened spectators realized Nuoding Team had won.
• The master of ceremonies declared Nuoding Team the victors, and Xue Ye granted them a qualifying slot in the Finals.
• Tang San healed Zhou Qing, Huyan Zhen, and the others with his soul skills.
• Huyan Zhen accepted his defeat and thanked Zhou Qing and the team for helping him remember his original desire to enjoy battle.
• Zhou Qing inferred that his Mind-Sense Qi Field had stirred Huyan Zhen's buried memories.

After the Nuoding Team defeated Huyan Zhen, he reprimanded Huyan Li and offered to maintain ties with Zhou Qing and the others. Zhou Qing’s explanation of vibration helped Huyan Zhen understand how to advance toward Titled Douluo, and Huyan Zhen declared the teenagers his younger siblings.

• Huyan Zhen slapped Huyan Li into a wall for barging in and then apologized to the Nuoding Team for his grandson’s behavior.
• Huyan Zhen offered the team the Elephant Armored Sect’s construction and forging services, then argued with Huyan Li over the Strength Clan’s reputation.
• Tang San asked Huyan Zhen about forging, and Zhou Qing explained that vibration was central to tempering a Soul Master’s body.
• Huyan Zhen realized vibration could guide his cultivation and thanked Zhou Qing, promising the Elephant Armored Sect’s support.
• Huyan Zhen told Huyan Li to call Zhou Qing and the others Great-Uncle and Great-Aunt, as he planned to use vibration to reach level ninety.

Dugu Bo brought Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina to his medicinal garden in Sunset Forest, where Tang San recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and several rare herbs. The chapter ended with Tang San identifying an Aromatic Silk Beauty and confirming that Dugu Bo had not planted it.

• Dugu Bo led Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina through Sunset Forest to his medicinal garden.
• Tang San recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained how its opposing energies had helped Dugu Bo endure the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison.
• Dugu Bo warned the group to stay away from the divided spring waters, but Tang San said he knew the place well.
• Tang San spotted rare herbs, including Snow Silkworm and Cinnabar Lotus.
• Tang San recognized the Aromatic Silk Beauty growing beside the spring and asked Dugu Bo whether he had planted it; Dugu Bo said he had not.

Tang San discovered that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well contained immortal treasures that could counter Dugu Bo’s poison, but the herbs might be ancient Plant Soul Beasts with hidden intelligence and life essence. Zhou Qing decided that the group should study their abilities rather than waste them by eating them outright.

• Tang San told Dugu Bo that the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could neutralize his poison but would also dispel his poison arts, so Dugu Bo refused to use them.
• Dugu Bo offered the herbs to Zhou Qing’s group and explained that Ice Snow Lotus and Fire Ganoderma had died after he transplanted them into the well.
• Tang San estimated that the Aromatic Silk Beauty could be at least five hundred thousand years old if it had developed intelligence and cultivation in the well’s unusual environment.
• Romantina used Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, allowing Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to reveal that the immortal treasures’ intelligence and life essence were hidden in their roots.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suggested eating the herbs, but Zhou Qing chose to study their abilities, noting that the Aromatic Silk Beauty could provide poison immunity.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, and Dugu Bo discovered that the immortal herbs in Dugu Bo’s garden were intelligent plant soul beasts, and Romantina recorded Aromatic Silk Beauty’s toxin-blocking ability. Tang San realized the herb’s patterns might help create replicable Soul Tool cores, but Aromatic Silk Beauty called him a bastard, prompting him to ask Zhou Qing and Dugu Bo to help beat it up.

• Romantina’s Spiritual Detection revealed that Aromatic Silk Beauty had intelligence, while the other immortal herbs joined a noisy spiritual conversation.
• Dugu Bo learned that Romantina had eight permanent sub-consciousnesses and was astonished by her unusual Second Soul Skill.
• Romantina recorded Aromatic Silk Beauty’s energy pathways, and Tang San inferred that its petal patterns could inspire toxin-resistant Soul Tool cores.
• Tang San began asking Romantina to record the patterns and pathways of the other immortal herbs for future study.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty interrupted Romantina’s soul skill and called Tang San a bastard; Tang San then asked Zhou Qing and Dugu Bo to help him attack it.

Tang San learned that Aromatic Silk Beauty called him a hybrid because his mother had been a shapeshifted Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor. The revelation strengthened his suspicions about his parents and left him questioning whether Tang Hao had sought his mother’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty called Tang San a hybrid, and Tang San threatened it with Cuckoo Poison until Zhou Qing intervened and asked what it meant.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty explained that Tang San was the child of a human and a shapeshifted Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor.
• Tang San accepted that his mother had been a shapeshifted Soul Beast and reflected on the Soul Ring and Soul Bone she could have provided.
• Tang San considered whether Tang Hao had pursued those treasures despite loving his mother, and his gaze turned hostile.

Tang San worried that his suspicions about Tang Hao might force him to cut ties with him, while Zhou Qing and Dugu Bo learned more about dragon bloodlines and the hierarchy of gods. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo confidently accepting the risk of opposing the Sea God and hoping his poison could one day kill him.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty explained that Dugu Bo's body could evolve toward the dragon race and that the plants in the treasured place had inherited part of the fallen Water and Fire Dragon Kings' legacy.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty described the ranks of gods and revealed that Poseidon had possessed God-level cultivation but Lord God-level status.
• Zhou Qing explained that he, Tang San, Romantina, and their companions had offended the Sea God and would inevitably face him in the future.
• Dugu Bo laughed off the threat and said he would gladly test whether his poison could kill a god, imagining that his Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison might evolve into Jade Phosphor Dragon Poison.

Zhou Qing studied the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and reorganized them to create a Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Aura Field. The relocated plants began cultivating actively as they struggled to survive in their new environments.

• After learning that Zhou Qing had opposed the Sea God's Will, Aromatic Silk Beauty and the other immortal herbs fell silent, while Zhou Qing urged Romantina to help study their energy patterns.
• As the Preliminary Competition continued, Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina studied the herbs and helped Dugu Bo refine his cultivation technique, while Zhou Qing used the Innate Internal Scripture Chart to perceive the well's Aura Field.
• Zhou Qing had Tang San switch the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot between the Ice Pool and Fire Pool, prompting the plants to manifest figures and protest.
• Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, and Dugu Bo transplanted the other immortal herbs into Eight Trigrams positions around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, forming a Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Aura Field.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot began drawing energy and minerals from their new surroundings to survive, just as Zhou Qing intended.

Zhou Qing’s Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams formation connected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well more deeply to Douluo Continent and gave its immortal plants a way to evade Heavenly Tribulations. The plants accepted Zhou Qing as their master, but the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass were left furious because they had to cultivate without pause to keep the formation working.

• Zhou Qing arranged the Immortal Herbs and treasures in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, causing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to circulate its ice and fire energies and strengthen the spiritual energy there.
• The immortal plants warned Zhou Qing and Dugu Bo that rapid cultivation could bring deadly Heavenly Tribulations for Soul Beasts.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty sensed that Zhou Qing’s formation connected the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Douluo Continent and helped its Plane Consciousness grow, then submitted to Zhou Qing as master.
• The immortal plants discovered that the formation let them merge their auras with heaven and earth to evade Heavenly Tribulations, but it required the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to cultivate constantly.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass resented being pressured into nonstop cultivation, while Zhou Qing reflected that true immortality meant responsibility rather than enjoyment.

Zhou Qing explained how the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could become a body- and soul-tempering cultivation ground, and Dugu Bo pledged his support. The group cultivated there, gaining new abilities and levels by the end of the Preliminary Competition.

• Zhou Qing told Dugu Bo that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' energy would eventually merge into the world and that the well could help Dugu Bo pursue Level 100.
• Dugu Bo swore to help Zhou Qing and his companions, while Zhou Qing organized the immortal herbs' cultivation and duties.
• Romantina reached Level 30, gained her Third Spirit Ring from a Dream Spider, and developed the Spiritual Dreamscape skill.
• Tang San discovered that the Blue Silver Emperor resonated with the patterns of the immortal herbs and planned experiments with his Second Soul Skill.
• Zhou Qing raised his soul power to Level 37 and studied the well's Aura Field, while Tang San and the others explored complementary cultivation methods.
• Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, Bu Qi, Bu Yi, and the others cultivated at the well, and their levels at the end of the Preliminary Competition were listed.

Xiao Wu and the others examined Lovesick Heartbreak Red at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Tang San explained how it could be plucked. When Zhou Qing brought out the Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg, it responded to the flower, and the two began to merge.

• Xiao Wu reached level thirty-six in Soul Power and picked up Lovesick Heartbreak Red as Tang San recounted its tragic origin.
• Zhou Qing criticized the story's characters, and Dugu Bo's speculation led Tang San to connect the flower's legend with the origins of the Valley of Asking Love.
• Tang San explained that Lovesick Heartbreak Red could be plucked by offering heart's blood while thinking of a beloved person, and Xiao Wu failed to move it.
• Zhou Qing washed Xiao Wu's heart's blood off the flower in the Yang Spring Fire Pool and asked her for the Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg.
• The Radiant Goddess Butterfly Egg floated onto Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the egg and flower began to merge.

The Light Goddess Butterfly and the Flower-Loving Youth emerged from the egg and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the Butterfly asked to hide within Zhou Qing’s heart. She explained how the Dragon God’s legacy and the Divine Realm’s laws had brought persecution and Heavenly Tribulations upon Soul Beasts, then began recounting her history with the Flower-Loving Youth.

• The Light Goddess Butterfly emerged from the egg while the Lovesick Heartbreak Red manifested the phantom of a white-clad youth, and she thanked Zhou Qing for saving them.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly asked to hide within Zhou Qing’s heart, explaining that she had witnessed the group defeat a Lord God-level will and that Douluo Star’s consciousness watched over them.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly recounted how the Dragon God’s death split his power into the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King, and how the Divine Realm began purging Beast Race Deities.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly explained that the Dragon God’s altered laws barred Beast Race creatures from godhood, while the Divine Realm added rules that caused Soul Beasts to leave Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly began telling how she met the Flower-Loving Youth after the Dragon God’s madness ended, saying the real details differed from Tang San’s version.

The Light Goddess Butterfly explained how the God of Love and her husband were manipulated by the God Realm, leading to their deaths and the creation of the Lovesick Heartbreak Red. She asked to reside inside Zhou Qing and help him form an Inner World, but he refused because he was uncomfortable with other beings living inside his body.

• The Light Goddess Butterfly recounted how she and a flower-loving mortal became husband and wife, only for the God Realm to separate them and test his love.
• She explained that the mortal died of heartbreak, his obsession became the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and she later ended her own life while seeking to reunite with him.
• Zhou Qing questioned why she had shared her story, and she warned that his ideals would eventually bring him into conflict with the God Realm.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly praised Zhou Qing's cultivation method and asked to live in his heart, offering to help him open an Inner World and evade the God Realm's detection.
• Zhou Qing refused, saying he had a mental cleanliness obsession and did not want anyone living inside his body.

The Light Goddess Butterfly pleaded to stay with Zhou Qing, then entered his body with the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and helped form a rudimentary Inner Scenery World. Cowherd and Weaving Maid took their places within it, advancing Zhou Qing’s cultivation and raising his Soul Power to level 40.

• The Light Goddess Butterfly rejected Dugu Bo’s offer to stay in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well because merging with heaven and earth would take a hundred years.
• The Light Goddess Butterfly chose to reside in Zhou Qing’s Heart Field and tend his Four Seasons Cycle, and she and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red entered his body and mind.
• Zhou Qing discovered that the two beings had formed a rudimentary Inner Scenery World, where the Light Goddess Butterfly became Weaving Maid and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red became a child who held the Big Dipper.
• Cowherd and Weaving Maid took their places in Zhou Qing’s Inner Scenery World, strengthening his Innate Internal Scripture Chart and allowing him to absorb starlight.
• Zhou Qing opened his eyes with his Soul Power at level 40, and Tang San congratulated him while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm called him Douluo Continent’s favored son.