Recaps

Chen Ping traveled toward Shrek City while cultivating and searching for a suitable Soul Beast, then joined Bei Bei and Tang Ya in defeating the Touch Dragon King. He gained a poison Soul Skill and an evolved Martial Soul, and left with a possible introduction to Wang Yan.

• Chen Ping advised Captain Wang about Wang Xiaolong’s Support System path, then continued toward Shrek City and built his strength with medicinal baths, pills, exercise, and movement meditation.
• Chen Ping avoided the Star Dou Great Forest’s Wind Baboon and used the System to search for a suitable Soul Beast, which led him to Giant Centipede Cave as Bei Bei and Tang Ya fled a swarm of Touch Dragons.
• Chen Ping entered the cave and tried to kill the Little Touch Dragon King with Incendiary Bombs, but an Evil Pincer Bug poisoned the Touch Dragon King and gave him a chance to finish it.
• Chen Ping escaped with the Touch Dragon King’s corpse, then helped Bei Bei and Tang Ya topple and defeat the Big Touch Dragon King.
• Chen Ping absorbed the Little Touch Dragon King’s Soul Ring, gained Layered Poison, and asked Bei Bei to introduce him to Wang Yan so he could seek a Shrek Academy recommendation.
• Chen Ping discovered a valuable right arm Soul Bone on the Little Touch Dragon King, but his Willow Staff absorbed it and evolved into the Insect Staff - Touch Dragon.
• Chen Ping found that his evolved Martial Soul had not improved his cultivation speed, while Tang Ya woke after absorbing her Soul Ring and Bei Bei awkwardly asked what had happened.

Chen Ping reached Shrek Academy, built a place for himself through his research and cooking, and began preparing for academy life. The stretch ended with him in Class Nine alongside Ning Tian and Wu Feng as Mu Jin began teaching, while Zhou Yi imposed a harsh test on Class One.

• Chen Ping arrived at Shrek with Bei Bei and Tang Ya, met Wang Yan, and gained a place to stay while Wang Yan studied his evolved Martial Soul and the Coiling Dragon Sect’s manuals.
• Chen Ping developed Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, practiced until he could make it successfully, and negotiated paid cooking for Xuan Zi in exchange for meals at the academy’s Eighth Window.
• Chen Ping delivered Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Ning Tian and Wu Feng, who mistook him for a threat and attacked before he recorded their fight and explained their misunderstanding.
• Chen Ping delivered a jar to Mu En, who praised its effect on his damaged body and asked Chen Ping to bring him more.
• Chen Ping registered at Shrek, collected his allowance and dormitory key, and met Huo Yuhao in the cafeteria after inviting him to share a table.
• Chen Ping learned he was assigned to Mu Jin’s Class Nine, and his studying inspired Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and other freshmen to preview their lessons.
• Mu Jin welcomed Class Nine and praised Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng for studying, while Zhou Yi ordered all but two Class One students to run one hundred laps or face expulsion.

Chen Ping challenged Zhou Yi’s abusive training through a growing student campaign while building his massage business and cultivation. After a dangerous incident at Sea God Lake, he earned a path into Shrek’s Soul Guidance Department and secured valuable Rare Metals as he planned to obtain the Soul Devouring Evil Blade.

• Chen Ping explained how Soul Tools could support extreme team formations, then watched Zhou Yi’s harsh hundred-lap drill leave Huo Yuhao bleeding and Wang Dong injured while helping him.
• Chen Ping saw Zhou Yi refuse to reconsider expelling nine students, recognized that the New Student Competition could decide her authority, and began rallying students against her through massages and warnings about her expulsions.
• Chen Ping opened One Dragon Massage, sold supplements, and cultivated with a Profound Water Pill, while Wang Dong, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng visited and Huo Yuhao reopened his grilled-fish stall.
• Xu Sanshi attacked Huo Yuhao’s stall, but Chen Ping forced him into a wager and secured five Profound Water Pills and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Rumors about Zhou Yi spread across Shrek, and Wang Yan told Chen Ping that students, teachers, and former victims were joining the effort against her while the academy would cooperate.
• Chen Ping, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong were caught in Ma Xiao Tao’s Phoenix Evil Fire at Sea God Lake, then pretended to be injured to win compensation from Yan Shaozhe and a promise of Special Grade Material.
• At the Soul Guidance Department, Chen Ping redesigned an Adder, impressing Qian Duoduo, who brought him to the Rare Metal storage room and offered him materials worth about sixty-six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ping chose Mithril, Adamantine, and Dark Silver to resell, and decided that the money could help him acquire the Soul Devouring Evil Blade ahead of schedule.

Chen Ping helped expose Zhou Yi’s abuses and saw her stripped of her cultivation and banished from the academy. He then led Ning Tian and Wu Feng through an undefeated round robin, earning a place as a Reserve Core Disciple before the Promotion Tournament.

• Chen Ping’s student data helped Mu Jin expose Zhou Yi’s harmful training and the academy’s cover-up, leading Du Weilun and the Sea God Pavilion to punish her.
• Mu En arranged for Zhou Yi’s cultivation to be abolished and for her to be confined in Shrek City, while Fan Yu ended their relationship and agreed to atone to the students.
• Chen Ping formed a competition team with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Wu Feng’s strength helped them win their early matches and discourage other teams from challenging them.
• Chen Ping advised Ma Xiao Tao on managing her Evil Fire and proposed remedies and a new treatment package at his shop.
• Chen Ping’s team defeated Huang Chutian’s Team by binding Huang Chutian and the Lan Sisters, then won its remaining matches to finish the round robin with ten victories.
• Elder Xuan awarded Chen Ping a Reserve Core Disciple seat and arranged for him to face Huo Yuhao in the next assessment.
• Mu Jin announced that all thirty-three Class Nine teams had advanced, praised the class’s record results, and asked Chen Ping to stay after class for a gift.