Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing explained the dimensions of the cosmos and learned that Huo Zhanji and his companions had come from another spacetime to kill him, Romantina, and Wang Sheng. In Sunset Forest, he absorbed a fourth Soul Ring from a Singing Summer Cicada and completed his Inner Scenery World, but vanished before his companions’ eyes.

• Zhou Qing explained the dimensions of cosmic space and revealed that Huo Zhanji and the others had come from another spacetime to kill him, Romantina, and Wang Sheng.
• Xue Ye welcomed the returning tournament teams in Heaven Dou City, but the absent Nuoding Team received no mention as Zhou Qing and his companions traveled to Sunset Forest.
• Zhou Qing found a dying nine-thousand-year-old Singing Summer Cicada, whose kin gathered to sing it a farewell song that helped it break through to ten thousand years.
• Zhou Qing absorbed the Singing Summer Cicada’s Soul Ring with Romantina’s support, completing the Four True Essences and the Four Seasons cycle in his Inner Scenery World.
• Zhou Qing’s Inner Scenery World fully opened, and he vanished after absorbing his fourth Soul Ring, leaving only his clothes as Wang Sheng and the others searched for him.

Zhou Qing demonstrated his new Divine Ability to gather and scatter qi, letting him transform into others and replicate their abilities. After forming his Inner Scenery World, he revealed that his Soul Power had reached level fifty-one and was no longer bound by Soul Rings.

• Zhou Qing formed himself from qi and explained that he had gained the Divine Ability to gather into form and scatter into qi.
• Zhou Qing transformed into Xiao Wu, angering her, then became Wang Sheng and demonstrated his Martial Soul and Soul Skills.
• Zhou Qing explained how sensing and recording another person's qi field let him replicate their appearance and abilities.
• Zhou Qing revealed a Light Wheel that projected his Inner Scenery World and said his Soul Rings had disappeared.
• Zhou Qing discovered his Soul Power had reached level fifty-one, leaving Tang San stunned by the widening gap between them.

Zhou Qing explained how his Inner Scenery World offered a path beyond relying on Soul Rings, and his companions looked forward to cultivating the same way. The group left Heaven Dou City and noticed the Moon Pavilion Master’s carriage, prompting Tang San to ask about its rumored connection to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Zhou Qing explained that his Inner Scenery World linked his body's Aura Field with heaven and earth, while Tang San and the others reacted to the dangers of controlling it and the prospect of cultivating without Soul Rings.
• Xiao Wu, Tang San, Wang Sheng, Bu Liu, and Bu Qi looked forward to opening their own Inner Scenery Worlds, while Romantina teased Zhou Qing about transforming into a girl again.
• Zhou Qing and the others left Sunset Forest, disguised themselves in Heaven Dou City, bought supplies, and departed without meeting Xue Ye.
• A luxurious carriage forced Zhou Qing's carriage to the roadside as it sped toward Heaven Dou City, and the coachman identified it as belonging to the Moon Pavilion Master.
• Tang San asked whether the Moon Pavilion was connected to the Clear Sky Sect, and the coachman said the rumor might stem from its master's surname, Tang.

Tang San and Zhou Qing speculated that Tang Yuehua had returned to the Clear Sky Sect with news about them, then discussed using spies from powerful factions to help develop their Worker-Peasant Alliance. Back in Fasinuo Province, they reunited with the Nuoding Academy Dean, Mo Hen, and Bu Yi, and reaffirmed their plans to develop their hometown rather than join an advanced academy or serve nobles.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San discussed Tang Yuehua's likely ties to the Clear Sky Sect and how their faction might handle spies sent by other powers.
• Zhou Qing proposed letting spies from different factions work for the Worker-Peasant Alliance, then replacing them as the faction's own people matured.
• Mo Hen, Bu Yi, and the Nuoding Academy Dean greeted Zhou Qing's group in Fasinuo Province, and the Dean learned Zhou Qing had become a Soul King.
• The Dean and Mo Hen said the group would face difficulties after choosing not to meet Xue Ye, while Zhou Qing said they wanted to develop their hometown instead of joining an advanced academy.
• Bu Yi and Mo Hen revealed their relationship, and Zhou Qing and Tang San congratulated them and asked to be invited to the wedding feast.

Romantina reassured Romanyac about the growing number of powerful Soul Masters in Nuoding City, while Xiaolan presented the students’ principles for good governance to Zhou Qing. The lesson ended with Zhou Qing assigning Uncle Wang’s son a hundred copies after he objected to class and asked to go play.

• Romantina told Romanyac that the Soul Masters gathering in Nuoding City could help it develop, and suggested inviting Poison Douluo to deter troublemakers.
• Zhou Qing asked the thirty-six students to share what they had learned about governing cities, and they chose Xiaolan to speak for them.
• Xiaolan explained that governance should adapt to local conditions, support sustainable development, and establish comprehensive systems.
• Xiaolan said rules, even those made by Zhou Qing or Tang San, must change when they become unsuitable, and Zhou Qing praised her answer.
• Uncle Wang's son interrupted the lesson to say he wanted to go play, so Zhou Qing ordered him to copy everything he said a hundred times.

Zhou Qing taught his students to treat all people equally, while Holy Soul Village and the surrounding villages prospered under his group’s influence. A team of time travelers set fires to the harvest in an effort to undermine Zhou Qing, and the chapter ended with Uncle Wang’s son sent to alert him.

• Zhou Qing told his students that people must treat one another as people, then dismissed class and had Xiaolan collect their exercise books.
• After half a month, Huo Zhanji’s team arrived at Holy Soul Village and saw its thriving fields and well-fed villagers.
• Chai Jiazhe proposed burning the crops, and Huo Zhanji decided to proceed after four team members voted in favor.
• Chai Jiazhe set a fire, but the villagers quickly organized, built a firebreak, and put out the flames.
• When the villagers spotted another fire in the west, Uncle Wang sent his son to find Zhou Qing and the others.

Zhou Qing organized a response after arsonists set fire to farmland near Holy Soul Village, and Romantina’s Spiritual Detection helped locate the culprits. Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan joined the pursuit, but villagers soon announced that the arsonists had already been caught.

• Uncle Wang's son reported that farmland was being deliberately set on fire, so Zhou Qing mobilized the militia to maintain order and search for clues.
• Zhou Qing and Romantina used Spiritual Detection to find Huo Zhanji, Yuan En Xing Tian, Chai Jiazhe, Zhang Hengrui, Lu Yixin, and Li Jiangqi among the arson suspects.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan joined the search while discussing the many factions that had sent spies to investigate Nuoding City and Holy Soul Village.
• Villagers told Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan that Romantina had caught the Soul Master arsonists and that they had accomplices.

Zhou Qing convened a village court to try Lu Yixin for burning the villagers’ rice fields. After sentencing him to prison and compensation, the court used Romantina’s Spiritual Sharing to show everyone evidence of the arson.

• Hu Liena recognized Lu Yixin, and Xie Yue and Yan said Spirit Hall had ordered them not to interfere with former team members.
• Zhou Qing heard the farmers describe their burned fields, while Old Jack requested compensation and Xiao Wu struck Lu Yixin with a gavel when he interrupted.
• Zhou Qing sentenced Lu Yixin to thirty years in prison and ordered him to compensate the farmers and villagers who fought the fire.
• Lu Yixin denied setting the fire, so Romantina used Spiritual Sharing to show the crowd him igniting the rice with a fire-producing Soul Tool.

After Lu Yixin was convicted for the fire, Zhou Qing established stricter entry rules for Holy Soul Village by issuing Identity Cards and requiring Spirit Hall martial soul certificates. Dugu Bo received a card and discussed his rejuvenation and the team’s future with Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu.

• Zhou Qing had Tang San deliver Lu Yixin’s verdict to Old Jack and demanded the names of his six accomplices, warning that Lu Yixin would be paraded through the streets if he refused.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu escorted Lu Yixin away, confiscated his valuables, and used the proceeds to compensate the villagers.
• Zhou Qing announced that visitors needed Identity Cards and Spirit Hall certificates, and Soul Masters lined up to register their information.
• Dugu Bo arrived, gave Zhou Qing his birth date, and received an Identity Card despite complaining that the rule applied to him.
• Dugu Bo told Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu that his rejuvenated body had changed his mental state and warned that skipping a meeting with Xue Ye might offend the king.
• Dugu Bo praised the team’s strength and offered to help if they encountered trouble, saying he now dared to challenge even a Peerless Douluo.

Dugu Bo asked how to settle near Holy Soul Village, then questioned Zhou Qing’s ambitions and learned he wanted to return the land to its people. Dugu Bo agreed to join Zhou Qing’s cause on the condition that Xue Xing’s life be spared.

• Zhou Qing arranged for Old Jack to have a courtyard built for Dugu Bo near the Worker-Peasant Council, with Dugu Bo paying the labor costs.
• Dugu Bo considered Zhou Qing’s actions and concluded that he had great ambitions beyond wealth, power, or cultivation.
• Zhou Qing said he wanted to return the land to the people who lived on it, and explained that he was willing for his ideas to spread among Soul Masters and sects.
• Dugu Bo accused Zhou Qing of seeking chaos, but agreed to help him after recognizing his debt and the weakness of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dugu Bo insisted that Xue Xing must live, and Zhou Qing assured him that Xue Xing would survive.

Huo Zhanji’s group learned that a Golden Ancient Tree had grown on a Spirit Rhyme Turtle and planned to steal it while rescuing Lu Yixin. Dugu Bo ambushed them, knocking out Yuan En Xing Tian and forcing the others to surrender after Huo Zhanji’s Spiritual Appraisal backfired.

• Li Jiangqi reported that Lu Yixin had been captured and that a young Golden Ancient Tree was growing on a Spirit Rhyme Turtle at the Worker-Peasant Council.
• Huo Zhanji’s group decided to steal the Golden Ancient Tree, distract the council, and rescue Lu Yixin.
• Dugu Bo appeared unexpectedly and struck Yuan En Xing Tian unconscious before the others could react.
• Dugu Bo stopped Huo Zhanji, Chai Jiazhe, Li Jiangqi, and Zhang Hengrui from fleeing by threatening to stomp Yuan En Xing Tian.
• Huo Zhanji used Spiritual Appraisal on Dugu Bo, but the skill failed and its backlash left him bleeding.

Dugu Bo nearly killed Huo Zhanji, but a hidden divine power inside him triggered a confrontation between two Divine Realms and forced the group to withdraw. Back in the Great God Circle, Huo Yuhao and Tang San discussed the failed mission and decided Huo Zhanji and the others needed more training.

• Dugu Bo choked Huo Zhanji, then pierced his neck with dragon claws and injected Jade Phosphorus Dragon Venom.
• A force erupted from Huo Zhanji, alerting the Five Great God-Kings to divine power from another time and space.
• The God King of Goodness ordered Asura to invoke Douluo Star's laws and direct a Heavenly Tribulation at Huo Zhanji.
• Asura's divine thought summoned the tribulation, but Huo Zhanji and the others transformed and vanished before it struck.
• Huo Yuhao condemned the first-generation Asura God, while Tang San concluded the team needed more experience before attempting Divine Realm Marvel.

After the Spirit Hall Team members appeared in Holy Soul Village and Dugu Bo nearly killed them, Zhou Qing stopped him and arranged for the captives to be publicly paraded. Zhou Qing identified Romantina as key to detecting future outsiders, while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan were chosen to escort the prisoners.

• Dugu Bo noticed his memories had been altered and prepared to kill the Spirit Hall Team members, but Zhou Qing stopped him and had him send the captives to the Worker-Peasant Council.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu recovered the captives' true appearances by focusing on them, and Zhou Qing explained that the memory alteration had only worked through suggestion.
• Zhou Qing urged Romantina to reach level forty and open her Inner Scenery World so she could simulate the Douluo World and detect outsiders.
• Zhou Qing gagged the seven captives, loaded them onto a prison cart, and hired soul masters to parade them through the villages as a way to identify undercover agents.
• Zhou Qing selected Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to escort the prisoners, and they wanted to question the captives about burning farmers' fields.

Hu Liena worried that the seven Spirit Hall Team members could expose Spirit Hall’s secret mission, while Zhou Qing explained to Dugu Bo that they were scapegoats from other worlds. The chapter ended with Zhou Qing inviting Dugu Bo to explore the Abyss Ruins, whose first four layers they could enter safely.

• Hu Liena feared that the seven Spirit Hall Team members would expose Spirit Hall and considered killing them, though they kept silent about recognizing her, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• Dugu Bo asked Zhou Qing about the seven, and Zhou Qing explained their origins using the concept of Ten-Dimensional Space and Parallel Time and Space.
• Dugu Bo accepted that he would help Zhou Qing guard against becoming a tyrant, despite joking that they were not close.
• Zhou Qing invited Dugu Bo to Abyss Town and explained that the Ascension Curse on the first four layers could not affect them.
• Dugu Bo realized the Abyss Ruins might be a great treasure for them to explore.

Zhou Qing explained the new organization’s principles and why it was not yet time to revolt against the Douluo Continent’s ruling powers. The group had built a supportive popular base, but social conflicts and organized resistance remained too weak for revolution.

• The Spirit Hall Pope realized Huo Zhanji and the others had been impersonated, but Lu Renjia and the original Spirit Hall Team members were left to take responsibility for the farmland fire.
• Zhou Qing formed a new organization with himself as president, Tang San as vice president, and Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Yi, and others as members.
• Zhou Qing outlined the organization’s goals, targets, driving force, strategy, and vision of a nation jointly led by its people.
• Tang San applied Zhou Qing’s framework to his research into high-yield grain seeds and recognized education as the way to involve others.
• Zhou Qing told Romantina that revolution required a popular base, irreconcilable social contradictions, and forces of resistance, and said the group currently had only an insufficient popular base.

Over six months, Zhou Qing and the Red Assembly expanded their work among villages near Holy Soul Village while their cultivation advanced. In the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye learned of their efforts and began planning how to undermine or eliminate Zhou Qing.

• Dugu Bo observed Zhou Qing and the others discuss opposing noble rule and improving commoners’ lives, and realized they had already begun acting from Holy Soul Village.
• After the conference, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Yi, the Seven Sisters, and others returned to their duties and guided the Worker-Peasant Council.
• Red Assembly members improved their cultivation by applying their theories of qi fields, while Zhou Qing and Tang San recruited young students and organized villagers’ practical skills into teaching manuals.
• Over the next half year, villages near Holy Soul Village and along the road to Vast Sea City developed, and residents began calling the young Red Assembly members the “Red Scarf Children.”
• Xue Ye learned about the Red Assembly’s ideals and dismissed Zhou Qing’s efforts as a naive attempt to win popular support.
• Xue Ye decided to plan how to shatter Zhou Qing’s convictions, kill him, or turn the Red Assembly members against him.

The rulers of the Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall assessed the Red Assembly’s growing influence and Zhou Qing’s ambitions. Dai Tianran learned Dai Mubai had fled, leaving the prince’s future contest with Dai Weisi unresolved.

• Xue Ye considered raising taxes in Fasinuo Province to finance the army and prepare to suppress the Red Assembly.
• Dai Tianran warned Dai Weisi that Zhou Qing’s ambitions threatened the privileged classes, though some of Zhou Qing’s methods were worth learning.
• Dai Weisi told Dai Tianran that Dai Mubai had disappeared, and Dai Tianran ordered the Zhu Family head to guide Zhu Zhuqing in searching for him within three years.
• Bibi Dong and Chrysanthemum Douluo discussed the Red Assembly’s roads, Enlightenment Academies, and likely recruitment efforts after the Continental Elite Tournament.

Bibi Dong recognized that Zhou Qing’s Red Assembly could become Martial Soul Hall’s true rival by building shared interests with the factions that sent spies into it. Zhou Qing, Romantina, and Dugu Bo reached Abyss Town and visited Ruozhi Primary School, where Zhou Qing asked Abel about recent developments in the Abyss Ruins.

• Bibi Dong concluded that the Red Assembly could keep its spies loyal by giving their backers a stake in its growth, and she focused on establishing a Martial Soul Hall in Abyss Town.
• Zhou Qing and Romantina traveled with Dugu Bo to Abyss Town, while Tang San, Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, and the others stayed in the Holy Soul Village region.
• Romantina joined the expedition to use her Soul Skill for detection and test the Ascension Curse in the depths of the Abyss Ruins.
• The three saw Abyss People building near the eastern edge of the ruins, and Zhou Qing suspected the work was connected to Martial Soul Hall.
• Zhou Qing and his companions visited Ruozhi Primary School and asked Abel whether anything major had happened in the Abyss Ruins.

Zhou Qing learned that Spirit Hall had begun constructing a Martial Soul Hall in Abyss Town and invited Abel, Riko, and their companions to visit the outside world. Abel accepted the invitation, though his people remained bound to the Abyss.

• Abel explained that Spirit Hall had started building a sanctuary in Abyss Town and claimed it was meant to uphold justice and register the Soul Power cultivators.
• Abel said the Abyss People accepted their inability to leave and wished Riko well in her choice to explore, even if she died in the Abyss.
• Abel taught his students to stay alert around unfamiliar adventurers, cooperate with those who shared their goals, and accept partings they could not prevent.
• Zhou Qing translated Abel's advice for Dugu Bo and Romantina, then invited Abel, Riko, and their students and friends to visit Holy Soul Village.
• Abel accepted Zhou Qing's invitation and said he would look forward to visiting.

Zhou Qing and Romantina parted from Abel and traveled with Dugu Bo to meet Odin, while Zhou Qing explained how Inner Scenery flight worked. Dugu Bo and Odin recognized echoes of their deceased spouses in each other, leaving both to consider a possible new relationship.

• Abel bid farewell to Zhou Qing and Romantina, asking them to tell Riko that he and the others were well if they met her.
• Zhou Qing explained how a Soul Master with an Inner Scenery World could fly by changing the circulation of Soul Power and resonating with Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Romantina guided Dugu Bo and Zhou Qing to Odin's treehouse, where Dugu Bo danced with Odin after being reminded of his late wife.
• Odin said Dugu Bo resembled her first love, and Dugu Bo explained that Odin reminded him of his deceased wife.
• Zhou Qing suggested that Dugu Bo and Odin marry, but both hesitated because they remained attached to their deceased loved ones.