Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing confronted Li Huo Academy’s teachers after Ji Dong broke the rules, then revealed his extraordinary power and explained his cultivation principles. He left Ji Dong to follow his own path, giving him guidance for the next two years.

• Xia Tian defended Ji Dong, and Yang Bingtian questioned Zhou Qing about his identity and intentions.
• Zhou Qing explained that he had taught Ji Dong a cultivation method and had considered taking a nominal professor post at Li Huo Academy.
• Zhou Qing manifested a strange thirty-six-peak Yin Yang Crown, and Yang Bingtian recognized him as a twelve-year-old Seven-Crown Heavenly Master.
• Zhou Qing briefly made everyone present unable to mobilize their Magic Power, then released the effect and let them regain control.
• Zhou Qing told Ji Dong to develop his own path, avoid relying on combat skills for two years, and focus on understanding Magic Power.

Zhou Qing explained that Ji Dong needed to experience every kind of person to become a great bartender, then demonstrated his philosophy by making Yang Bingtian a Farmer's Wine. Yang Bingtian prepared to taste it, while Zhou Qing's bold claims about his power left Ji Dong worried about the trouble ahead.

• Zhou Qing told Yang Bingtian that Ji Dong needed to understand the human world to concoct the Number One Wine Under Heaven.
• Yang Bingtian observed that Zhou Qing treated everyone as an equal, and Zhou Qing said a clear conscience and a life without regrets made someone a powerhouse.
• Zhou Qing explained that he cultivated the Dao and the heart, and claimed he could render any Yin Yang Magic Master's powers useless.
• Zhou Qing chose to make Yang Bingtian a Farmer's Wine, drawing on his memories of farming with the people of Holy Soul Village.
• Zhou Qing prepared the wine with his Hou Yi Shooting Down the Nine Suns technique and qi field, then offered it to Yang Bingtian as an apology.
• Yang Bingtian accepted the glass and said he would judge the wine for himself.

Zhou Qing's Farmer's Wine helped Yang Bingtian break through to the Six Crowns realm, and Yang promised to look after Ji Dong. Zhou Qing then set out to destroy Holy Evil Island, while Ji Dong passed his final examination and tried to remain composed.

• Yang Bingtian drank Zhou Qing's Farmer's Wine, experienced the farmers' toil and joy, and advanced three levels into the Six Crowns realm.
• Yang Bingtian praised the wine and promised to treat Ji Dong like his own grandson, but Zhou Qing told him not to interfere in Ji Dong's life or death.
• Zhou Qing explained that he planned to visit Holy Evil Island to investigate the Five Element Sacred Beasts and the God Realm's Deities, then destroy the island because it hindered the planet and the continents' development.
• Zhou Qing flew east, and Yang Bingtian ordered the final examinations to continue as the teachers and students dispersed.
• Ji Dong passed his final examination after breaking into the One Crown realm, and he recalled his previous life to suppress his pleased expression.

Ji Dong rejected Heavenly Stems Academy and chose to remain at Li Huo Academy, explaining that he wanted to follow Zhou Qing’s teachings and pursue bartending and the Dao. Meanwhile, Zhou Qing examined the sea above Holy Evil Island and used his Inner Scenery to part the waters and reveal it.

• Yang Bingtian invited Ji Dong to take Heavenly Stems Academy’s assessment with Zhu Tian and Zhu Gui, but Ji Dong refused.
• Ji Dong explained that Zhou Qing’s study of ordinary phenomena revealed the Dao, and that he wanted to experience life and continue making wine rather than focus solely on cultivation.
• Ji Dong told Yang Bingtian that Zhou Qing had reached seven crowns and possessed Thirty-Six Crown Peaks, then offered to teach at Li Huo Academy.
• Yang Bingtian agreed to make Ji Dong the academy’s youngest teacher if he reached two crowns within the year, and dismissed Liu Jun’s objection.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that people on Douluo Star could cultivate inner worlds, then used his Inner Scenery and Earth, Water, Wind, Fire to part the sea and reveal Holy Evil Island.

Zhou Qing revealed Holy Evil Island, suppressed the Heavenly Machines, and tore open the Myriad Thunder Tribulation Prison Realm to confront the Five Sacred Beasts. He offered to take them into his Inner Scenery so they could leave the island and aid his cultivation, but the beasts questioned his proposal.

• Zhou Qing subdued Heavenly Machine of Light and Heavenly Machine of Darkness, then declared that he would destroy Holy Evil Island.
• Zhou Qing parted the sea, exposed the island's thirteen layers and Five Great Mountains, and tore open the Myriad Thunder Tribulation Prison Realm to enter.
• Zhou Qing met the Five Sacred Beasts, who recognized that his power rivaled that of gods and discussed how he wielded the world's power.
• Zhou Qing asked the Five Sacred Beasts to help him destroy Holy Evil Island and offered them freedom outside the island through his Inner Scenery.
• When Fire Ape resisted his offer, Zhou Qing said he could take the Five Great Mountains instead and revealed that the mountains sealed the beasts, who were unable to attain godhood because of the Dragon God.

Zhou Qing persuaded the Five Sacred Beasts to enter his Inner Scenery, where they regained divine power and formed Five Viscera Temples. He then prepared to absorb Holy Evil Island, knowing the island's disappearance would alert the Divine Realm and draw its enforcers.

• The Five Sacred Beasts trusted Zhou Qing after meeting the Light Goddess Butterfly and agreed to join his Inner Scenery without signing a contract.
• Zhou Qing taught the Five Sacred Beasts to align their energies with his five viscera, and they broke through to godhood as they entered his Inner Scenery.
• Five Viscera Temples formed, and Zhou Qing named the beasts Heart Ape, Mind Horse, Wood Mother, Golden Duke, and Yellow Crone.
• Zhou Qing warned the Five Sacred Beasts that absorbing Holy Evil Island could expose the God of Four Seasons' aura and alert the Divine Realm.
• Wood Mother promised that the Five Sacred Beasts would help Zhou Qing fight any gods who came to stop them.

Zhou Qing refined Holy Evil Island into the Five Viscera Temple within his Inner Scenery, then confronted Divine Realm Enforcer Hypnos, the God of Slaughter. He badly wounded Hypnos with one punch and left him demanding an apology, while Zhou Qing offered to spare him only if he knelt and called himself vermin.

• Zhou Qing merged Holy Evil Island into his Inner Scenery, renamed it the Five Viscera Temple, and raised his Soul Power Level to eighty-eight.
• The Heavenly Machine of Light and the Heavenly Machine of Darkness realized the island's disappearance would bring upheaval to their continents.
• Hypnos appeared as a Divine Realm Enforcer and ordered Zhou Qing to follow him to the Divine Realm for judgment.
• Zhou Qing shattered Hypnos's domain, dodged his attacks, and struck him hard enough to break his chest armor and destroy his lungs.
• Zhou Qing mocked the wounded Hypnos and demanded that he kneel, apologize, and call himself vermin in exchange for his life.

Zhou Qing faced Hypnos, who invoked the Asura God King's power in an attempt to kill him. Zhou Qing shattered the God King's borrowed attack, destroyed the Sword of the Killing God, and struck Hypnos through the heart.

• Hypnos used the God-Shocking Art, but Zhou Qing broke its effect with his Inner Scenery.
• Hypnos called on the Asura God King and unleashed a devastating sword-light that drove Zhou Qing toward the sea.
• Zhou Qing studied the borrowed power and used vibration to split the sword-light and shatter the Sword of the Killing God.
• The backlash tore off Hypnos's arms, and Zhou Qing rushed in and battered him with tens of thousands of punches.
• Zhou Qing focused his Soul Power into his final punch and pierced Hypnos's heart.

Zhou Qing defeated and killed Hypnos, the Killing God, with his Eight Crowns-level mortal strength, drawing the attention of the God Kings and deities. He remained on the Five Elements Continent as the God Realm’s deities considered offering him their Divine Thrones, then warned them that they would have to defeat him first.

• Zhou Qing shattered Hypnos’s heart and divine soul, killing the Asura God King’s Enforcer and ensuring he could not be revived.
• Lie Yan fused Hypnos’s body into the Planet’s core while the gathered experts withheld their challenge after seeing Zhou Qing recover his power.
• The Asura God King told the Destruction God King that Hypnos had been killed, and they observed Zhou Qing’s battle through the God Realm’s Fourth-Dimensional Space.
• Asura speculated that Zhou Qing’s Five Elements Continent sacred-beast bloodlines gave him god-level power despite his Eight Crowns cultivation.
• Deities across the God Realm watched the battle and expressed interest in passing their Divine Thrones to Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing’s vast qi field shattered their divine senses and warned that anyone seeking to subdue him would have to defeat him first.

The God Kings sent Asura to the Five Elements Continent to capture Huo Zhanji, suspecting that another timeline’s Divine Realm had sent him to claim the Five Elements Yin-Yang Power. When Asura confronted him, Huo Zhanji revealed that his father, Huo Yuhao, had become a God King and recounted the other timeline’s Divine Realm’s upheavals.

• The God Kings reviewed the battle in which Huo Zhanji killed Hypnos and discussed his connection to another timeline and the Five Sacred Beasts.
• Goodness and Evil ordered Asura to descend to the Five Elements Continent, kill Huo Zhanji, and draw the other timeline’s God Kings into their spacetime.
• Zhou Qing sensed Asura’s arrival and released his Mind-Sense Qi Field, sending nearby experts fleeing.
• Asura identified himself and demanded that Zhou Qing accompany him to the Divine Realm for punishment.
• Zhou Qing told Asura that his father, Huo Yuhao, had inherited the God of Emotion’s position and raised its Divine Throne to the God King level.
• Zhou Qing taunted Asura by describing how Goodness, Destruction, Life, and the Sea God’s successor had fared in another timeline.

Zhou Qing revealed that the God Realm’s future depended on the Five Great God-Kings surrendering their Godhoods, provoking Asura God. As the Sea God’s withdrawal destabilized Sea God Island and drew Spirit Hall’s attention, Zhou Qing faced Asura God and ultimately connected his qi field to the planet, commanding its energy.

• Zhou Qing accused Asura God and the other Great God-Kings of paving the way for the Sea God’s family to dominate the future God Realm, and Asura God angrily attacked him.
• The Great God-Kings ordered the Sea God to recall the Sea God Trident, end his trials and stop choosing successors; the Trident left Sea God Island and destroyed its Seven Sacred Pillars.
• Bo Saixi’s faith collapsed, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Evil Tiger Orca clan moved toward Sea God Island, and Bibi Dong prepared Spirit Hall to conquer it while Qian Daoliu let go of his feelings for Bo Saixi.
• Asura God struck Zhou Qing with his sword, but Zhou Qing blocked the blow with his Mind-Sense and Armament Qi Fields, surprising Asura God.
• Zhou Qing donned his Crimson Armor and wielded the Common Red Sword, then linked his qi field to the planet’s core and drew on the energy of the entire planet, shocking Asura God.

Zhou Qing used the Five Elements Continent’s power to overpower the Asura God King, despite the borrowed state lasting only eight or nine hours. Their battle ended with Zhou Qing’s sword piercing Asura’s chest, prompting Asura to burn his bloodline and origin to counterattack.

• Zhou Qing shattered Asura’s blood-colored sword seal by wielding energy drawn from the entire planet.
• Zhou Qing and Asura clashed across the continent, and Zhou Qing’s planet-empowered Common Red Sword matched the Asura Sword.
• Zhou Qing crushed Asura’s sword light and taunted him, then revealed his borrowed power could last nearly nine hours.
• Zhou Qing pierced Asura’s chest during their clash of wills, and planetary energy began invading Asura’s body.
• Asura burned his Asura Bloodline and origin, concentrating more than half of his divine power into the Asura Sword.

Zhou Qing escaped the Asura God's separate realm by unleashing Heavenly Manifestation, then overwhelmed the gods who came to rescue Asura. He left the Divine Realm's connection to the Five Elements Continent severed and refined Asura in his hand.

• The Asura God trapped Zhou Qing in the Asura Realm and summoned chains and six enormous swords to attack him.
• Zhou Qing found the realm's weak point and used Heavenly Manifestation to destroy it, crushing the Asura God beneath his immense form.
• The Four Great God Kings arrived with their divine artifacts to rescue Asura, but Zhou Qing crushed the artifacts and disrupted their attempt to escape through a space passage.
• Goodness, Evil, Life, and Destruction abandoned Asura and cut off the passage to the Five Elements Continent to avoid being seized by Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing seized Asura in one hand and refined him instantly.

Zhou Qing recovered in the Underground World after using his Heavenly Manifestation to kill the Asura God King, though the effort left his Meridians badly damaged. He discussed his gains and the severed Space Passage with Tang San and Lie Yan, concluding that light’s finite speed could leave the God Realm observing only the distant past.

• Zhou Qing examined the Asura God Core and decided to wait until he recovered and reached the Titled Douluo realm before analyzing it.
• Tang San woke from seclusion and tried to heal Zhou Qing, but Zhou Qing explained that his Meridians were already slowly recovering on their own.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San and Lie Yan that he had recruited the Five Sacred Beasts and planned to build a Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches system within his Inner Scenery.
• Lie Yan thanked Zhou Qing for severing the God Realm’s Space Passage to the Five Elements Star, while Zhou Qing thanked her for helping him draw on the planet’s Aura Field.
• Zhou Qing explained that light had speed and suggested that the God Realm might observe scenes from tens of thousands of years in the past.

After fleeing the Five Elements Continent, the God Kings chose to focus on Douluo Star and support Asura’s successor. Zhou Qing and Tang San discussed cutting the God Realm off from the lower realm, then Zhou Qing stored the Asura God Core in his Inner Scenery and offered it to Tang San.

• The Four Great God Kings destroyed the passage to the Five Elements Continent and ordered its inheritors to sever their connections to that world.
• The God Kings agreed to watch Douluo Star and help Asura’s successor recover, with the Life Goddess promising to restore his body.
• Tang San suggested destroying the passage between Douluo Star and the God Realm, but Zhou Qing explained that doing so would require confronting a God King.
• Zhou Qing stored the Asura God Core in his Inner Scenery so they could study it later, saying he would not absorb it himself.
• Zhou Qing offered the Asura God Core to Tang San if he wanted to use it.

After leaving Lie Yan, Zhou Qing and Tang San returned to the Abyss Ruins, where Regu and Luo Si explained that God Cores used unified models to control elemental laws. Zhou Qing learned that the models required the Power of Faith and asked why it had such an enormous effect.

• Lie Yan reflected on Zhou Qing’s power and convictions after he and Tang San left the planet’s core.
• Regu and Luo Si led Zhou Qing and Tang San back to the Seventh Layer of the Abyss Ruins.
• Zhou Qing told Regu that he had defeated a God King but could not fight major battles for two years.
• Regu and Luo Si explained that God Cores used circuits and unified theory models to control elemental laws.
• Regu and Luo Si said the models required the Power of Faith, which they warned must not be directed blindly toward one person or object.
• Zhou Qing said the Red Assembly did not belong to him alone and asked why the Power of Faith had such an enormous effect.

Zhou Qing learned how Power of Faith helped divine crystals form unified models through the resonance of living consciousness, then returned with Tang San to Ruozhi Primary School. He discovered Spirit Hall was recruiting Abyss Town’s strong people for a sea expedition, and Riko and Rabbitna had decided to join.

• Regu and Luo Si explained that Power of Faith resonated with elemental crystals inside living bodies, helping construct unified theoretical models.
• Zhou Qing reflected that faith-based godhood resembled an alternative Unity of Heaven and Man, while believers remained mortal.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San returned to Ruozhi Primary School, where Rabbitna told them Spirit Hall was recruiting Abyss Town’s strong people for an ocean expedition.
• Zhou Qing suspected something had happened to Sea God Island and went with Rabbitna to visit Riko and Abel.
• Riko told Zhou Qing she planned to join Spirit Hall’s operation with Rabbitna, and Zhou Qing praised her growth before teasing her about her height.

Zhou Qing warned Riko that Spirit Hall’s overseas expedition might target Sea God Island because the Sea God’s inheritance may have been disrupted, but Riko still chose to go. On the journey to Holy Soul Village, Tang San discussed Heavenly Manifestation and abandoned his idea of developing a god-core-based cultivation system for the Red Assembly.

• Zhou Qing suspected that the God Realm Turmoil had severed the Sea God’s inheritance and prompted Bibi Dong to plan an attack on Sea God Island.
• Zhou Qing explained the God Realm and its law-of-the-jungle society to Riko, Abel, and Rabbit Girl, but Riko still decided to join Spirit Hall’s Overseas Exploration Operation.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San left for Holy Soul Village by carriage, and Tang San asked Zhou Qing about Heavenly Manifestation.
• Zhou Qing explained that Heavenly Manifestation connected the body’s qi field with heaven and earth, while Tang San compared Inner Scenery with god cores.
• Tang San considered creating a Soul Core Cultivation System for the Red Assembly, then abandoned the idea because it could encourage people to prey on one another and was difficult to teach.

Tang Yuehua visited Holy Soul Village as an envoy of the Clear Sky Sect to deliver Zhou Qing an invitation to its return announcement. After Xiaolan explained that the Red Assembly might not attend, Tang Yuehua asked to see Tang Hao and prepared to meet him.

• Tang San proposed a shortcut for future Red Assembly members, but Zhou Qing warned that it could lead the world down the path of beasts and said existing techniques could still be studied and applied.
• Seven days after returning to Holy Soul Village, Zhou Qing and Tang San resumed their work, and Tang Yuehua arrived at the end of the month with an invitation from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xiaolan received Tang Yuehua, accepted the invitation, and explained that the Red Assembly might not have time to attend the sect's announcement.
• Tang Yuehua declined Xiaolan's offer to meet Zhou Qing or Tang San and asked whether Tang Hao was in the village.
• Xiaolan offered to take Tang Yuehua to Tang Hao, warned her that he had changed, and led her to change out of her magnificent clothes first.

Tang Yuehua visited Tang Hao at the Red Assembly’s forge and urged him to rejoin the Clear Sky Sect, but he insisted that he wanted to live quietly with Ah Yin. She revealed that Tang Chen had returned and that the sect planned to emerge from seclusion to build influence and seek the Power of Faith, leaving Tang Hao shaken by the news.

• Tang Yuehua found Tang Hao forging parts in the factory and embraced him, grieving that he had cut off his right arm and left leg.
• Tang Hao told Tang Yuehua that Ah Yin had been revived by Tang San and asked her to tell Tang Xiao to consider him dead.
• Tang Yuehua explained that the Clear Sky Sect planned to emerge from seclusion after Tang Xiao took control from the elders, but Tang Hao said he only wanted a peaceful life.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had found their grandfather, Tang Chen, who had returned from the City of Slaughter after breaking free of the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
• Tang Yuehua said the sect intended to expand its influence and gain the Power of Faith, and assured Tang Hao that Tang Chen could help him recover.