Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping began Attribute Reception with the Auspicious Beast, hoping to draw on her luck while she sought his ability to survive death. As their powers and memories began to exchange, a mysterious fragment left Wang Dong, passed through Huo Yuhao, and flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Auspicious Beast agreed to let Chen Ping perform Attribute Reception, believing his uncanny resilience might help her evade her destined death.
• Chen Ping pressed his Vertical Pupil against the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s, and Attribute Reception began as Life Force flowed into her and stirred the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Dong woke in pain with golden eyes, and a pale fragment flew from her forehead into Huo Yuhao before escaping toward the Star Dou Forest.
• Electrolux prepared a Spiritual Net in Chen Ping’s Second Sea of Consciousness to catch any interference from Tang San.
• As the reception neared its end, threads of the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Luck transferred to Chen Ping, and their memories began to exchange.

Chen Ping completed Attribute Reception with the Auspicious Beast, and Electrolux captured the Divine Sense and Soul Fragment Tang San had sent to possess it. Tang San’s plan to use his daughter and the Auspicious Beast’s luck collapsed, leaving him furious and vowing revenge against Chen Ping and the Douluo Star Will.

• The Auspicious Beast received Chen Ping’s memories, recoiled from his mathematical knowledge, and grew drowsy after Attribute Reception.
• A Blue-Gold radiance carrying a Solidified Soul reached the Auspicious Beast, but Electrolux’s Life Force net trapped it and captured Tang San’s Divine Sense.
• Electrolux explained that the Soul Fragment could have grafted itself onto the Auspicious Beast’s soul and revealed that the power behind it belonged to the Venerable Evil God.
• Tang San realized Chen Ping, not the Son of Luck, had undergone Attribute Reception and recalled how his plan was supposed to fuse his daughter’s soul with the Auspicious Beast.
• Tang San’s attempt to spy on Douluo Continent failed against the World Will, and he swore revenge on whoever had thwarted him.

After Chen Ping exchanged memories with the Auspicious Beast, he gained extensive knowledge of Star Dou Forest Soul Beasts and borrowed some of her fortune, easing his terrible luck. The next morning, Ning Tian and Wu Feng joined the camp for a meal, where Wu Feng discovered her dark gold claws could cut through a tree without making it fall.

• Chen Ping told Xuan Zi that Attribute Reception had given him the Auspicious Beast’s memories, including Soul Beast knowledge and distribution maps, while the sleeping Auspicious Beast muttered about failing a quiz.
• Electrolux explained that the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Destiny would temper Chen Ping’s misfortune and improve his Sea of Consciousness and Spiritual Power cultivation, then went to study the captured Soul Fragment and divine power.
• Chen Ping realized that the Gaze of Destiny effect had become an extra digit in his Scholar Points, and he continued preparing Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear meat for the camp.
• The next morning, Ning Tian and Wu Feng woke to Chen Ping’s cooking and saw the Scarlet King eating ribs while the Auspicious Beast waited for her meal.
• Wu Feng activated Dragonification and her dark gold claws, then tried to chop firewood, but the tree remained standing despite her claws cutting through it.

Wu Feng tested the mutated Dark Gold Dreadclaw and received the name Dark Gold Blazing Dragon Claw, while Chen Ping used the Auspicious Beast’s memories to plan a secret search for rich mineral deposits in Star Dou Forest. Back at Shrek, Huo Yuhao questioned why Chen Ping was excluded from the Ultimate Soldier Plan, and Qian Duoduo recalled that Chen Ping had chosen to focus on Soul Tool production.

• Wu Feng tested her dragon claw on Xuan Zi, whose sleeve was cut and scorched, and Xuan Zi explained that the attack could threaten powerful Soul Masters.
• Wu Feng proposed the name Dinosaur Claw, but Chen Ping named her External Soul Bone the Dark Gold Blazing Dragon Claw.
• After the meal, Chen Ping combined the Auspicious Beast’s and Scarlet King’s knowledge of Star Dou Forest terrain and identified potential rich mineral deposits to mine.
• Chen Ping had Xuan Zi take the group back to the academy, then considered how hidden ore deposits could explain the abundance of rare metals in a later era.
• Qian Duoduo outlined Huo Yuhao and He Caitou’s training for the Ultimate Soldier Plan and urged them to study Chen Ping’s bandit-suppression operation.
• Huo Yuhao asked why Chen Ping was not included in the plan, and Qian Duoduo remembered that Chen Ping had chosen to devote his energy to Soul Tool production.

Chen Ping showed Qian Duoduo and Xian Liner a map of the Star Dou Forest and proposed that its remote terrain concealed several undeveloped Rare Metal ore veins. Qian Duoduo set out to organize a survey, while Chen Ping joined Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to sample the Extreme Individual Soldier courses before being thrown out for eating too much of the nutritionist’s rare sea urchins.

• Chen Ping presented Qian Duoduo and Xian Liner with a detailed map of the northern Outer Region of Star Dou Forest and explained his suspicion that its natural barriers hid several Rare Metal ore veins.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou continued their Beast Fighting Arena test as He Caitou explained to Huo Yuhao how vital the rumored ore deposits were to Shrek Academy’s scarce supply of Rare Metal.
• Qian Duoduo took Chen Ping’s map and left with Xian Liner to organize a survey led by Du Weilun.
• Chen Ping watched Huo Yuhao and He Caitou defeat the Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then dragged them away before Gong Lao could demand compensation.
• Chen Ping attended Gao Sheng’s makeup and transformation lesson, then visited nutritionist Lu Xiaoxiao and ate more than ten Spiritual Rhyme Sea Urchins.
• Lu Xiaoxiao drove Chen Ping out of the classroom after he consumed the sea urchins she had reserved for several classes.

Over a year and a half, Chen Ping and his Shrek companions advanced in cultivation and Soul Tool skills as Mu En prepared an exchange mission to the Sun Moon Empire. Mu En assigned the three students their tasks, asked whether they would join the Tang Sect, and entrusted Shrek’s affairs to Qian Duoduo and Shao Zhe as his health declined.

• Chen Ping reached Level 5 as a Soul Engineer and Level 4 as a Forging Master, while Ning Tian reached level forty-six and Wu Feng reached level forty-two.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi became Soul Kings, He Caitou and Jiang Nannan reached level forty-nine, and Tang Ya became a Soul Ancestor as Shrek’s students began using Soul Tools for Inner Court assessments.
• Mu En told Qian Duoduo, Chen Ping, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao that they would travel to the Sun Moon Empire in three months, with Chen Ping studying its Soul Guidance field, He Caitou drawing attention, and Huo Yuhao seeking advanced blueprints.
• Chen Ping, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao all refused Mu En’s suggestion that they join the Tang Sect.
• Mu En told Qian Duoduo to leave the Academy’s affairs to Shao Zhe, ordered Xuan Zi to continue mining, and went to sleep while enduring the Dragon Core’s baleful aura.

Before leaving Shrek Academy for a two-and-a-half-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire, Chen Ping received heartfelt gifts from Ning Tian and Wu Feng and realized their feelings for him. He departed with the exchange group, bound for Maple Leaf City, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng stayed behind.

• Chen Ping completed the Dragon Blood Potion and learned that it could disable all Soul Skill cooldowns while active.
• Wu Feng gave Chen Ping a ten-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Soul Bone, and Ning Tian gave him the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's Young Sect Master Token and a handwritten Distraction Control Method manual.
• Chen Ping embraced Ning Tian, but she pulled away when she noticed Wu Feng recording them with an Image Retaining Pearl.
• Chen Ping said goodbye to Ning Tian and Wu Feng, then flew to Shrek Academy's gates to join the exchange group.
• Chen Ping and the other ten exchange students departed for Maple Leaf City, where they would study in the Sun Moon Empire for two and a half years.

Chen Ping and Shrek’s delegation met Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in Maple Leaf City, where Chen Ping turned Xiao Hongchen’s challenge into a public embarrassment for the Sun Moon side. The delegations then set off for the exchange, and Chen Ping took an interest in Jing Hongchen’s advanced flying soul guidance device as Huo Yuhao understood his hint.

• Chen Ping, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and the other Shrek students reached Maple Leaf City and met the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy delegation the next morning.
• Xiao Hongchen provoked Chen Ping and challenged him to a one-on-one fight, but Chen Ping dismissed him as a child and called Jing Hongchen his old brother.
• Jing Hongchen mocked Shrek’s two deans, and Qian Duoduo revealed that he had recently become a Super Douluo, leaving Jing Hongchen alarmed.
• The delegations departed together, and Jing Hongchen demonstrated his Rank Nine bionic flying soul guidance device by carrying the Sun Moon students in a golden light membrane.
• Chen Ping praised Jing Hongchen’s device and nudged Huo Yuhao, who understood that Chen Ping wanted him to handle it.

Chen Ping and the Shrek exchange students arrived in Mingdu and began their two-and-a-half-year stay at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Their physical tests astonished Director Lin Jiayi, and Chen Ping’s results ended with the instrument reporting an impossible 206 Soul Bones.

• Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek group into Mingdu aboard an advanced flying Soul Guidance Device, and Chen Ping was struck by the city’s lights and reminded of home.
• Jing Hongchen introduced Director Lin Jiayi at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then left with Qian Duoduo while Lin arranged the students’ accommodations and testing.
• The academy’s body tester showed that Shrek’s students were exceptionally strong, with He Caitou registering level-70 physical strength and Huo Yuhao approaching Soul Emperor-level physical strength.
• Chen Ping’s test reported level-40 Soul Power, level-60 physical strength, and level-80 resilience, baffling Lin Jiayi because Chen Ping had no Soul Bones.
• The testing teacher noticed the instrument’s Soul Bone reading, and Lin Jiayi shrieked when it displayed 206 Soul Bones for Chen Ping.

Chen Ping stunned the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy during Shrek’s entrance tests when its equipment detected 206 Soul Bones in his body and his new Intentional Blast Punch destroyed the strength-testing device. The tests were postponed, and the Shrek students settled into clean private dormitories while Lin Jiayi left to show Jing Hongchen recordings of the incident.

• Lin Jiayi and the others discovered the body tester had marked all 206 of Chen Ping’s bones as Soul Bones, and Lin Jiayi blamed a possible instrument malfunction.
• The Shrek students took the strength test, and He Caitou earned a rating of seventy by stacking buffs with his Cigars.
• Chen Ping combined his blood qi and Spiritual Power into Intentional Blast Punch, which smashed through the strength-testing device and cracked the metal floor behind it.
• Lin Jiayi postponed the remaining reaction-speed test and left, planning to show Jing Hongchen recordings instead of explaining the results himself.
• The ten Shrek students received individual rooms with private bathrooms in the academy’s Sixth Grade dormitory area, impressing Chen Ping with their accommodations.

Jing Hongchen reviewed Chen Ping’s extraordinary assessment results and ordered the Shrek exchange students separated for study while insisting the academy follow normal procedures. The next morning, Chen Ping fused a Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Mammoth Staff, evolving it into the Star Tumor Beast Staff.

• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that He Caitou and Huo Yuhao had excelled in testing, while Chen Ping’s results included more than two hundred supposed Soul Bones and extreme physical capabilities.
• Jing Hongchen watched a recording of Chen Ping destroying the Strength Testing Device with one punch, and learned that Lin Jiayi had canceled the reaction-speed test.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to monitor He Caitou and assign the Shrek students to separate Soul Engineer laboratories, while allowing their instruction to proceed normally.
• Chen Ping rested on his first day at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and waited until morning to consider obtaining his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Chen Ping fused the Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Mammoth Staff, transforming it into the diamond-like Star Tumor Beast Staff with increased hardness and powerful blunt-force strikes.

After evolving his Martial Soul, Chen Ping discovered that the Diamond Mammoth Soul Bone had strengthened all the bones in his body. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he learned that the exchange students would receive unusually powerful mentors, and Mo Fang singled him out as his student.

• Chen Ping felt the Diamond Mammoth Soul Bone’s remaining power spread through his skeleton, briefly causing unbearable itching and making his bones glow with a faint white light.
• Chen Ping ate at the Sixth Grade cafeteria, then went to meet the teachers who would mentor the Shrek exchange students.
• Lin Jiayi announced that all ten available teachers were at least Eighth Level Soul Engineers, including two Rank Nine Soul Engineers, and explained the students’ study arrangements.
• Chen Ping realized Jing Hongchen had assembled the stronger faculty in response to Mu En opening Shrek’s Golden Tree Secret Chamber to the Sun Moon students.
• Mo Fang, a bald Rank Nine Soul Engineer specializing in defensive Soul Tools, ignored the planned mentor lottery and chose Chen Ping as his student.

Chen Ping followed Mo Fang, a Rank Nine Soul Engineer who specialized in defensive devices, to his laboratory and learned that he would have to pass a test to remain his student. Mo Fang assigned him a reading list centered on mathematics and argued that Soul Engineers needed to understand the principles behind devices instead of merely copying them.

• Chen Ping chose Mo Fang as his mentor, while Huo Yuhao drew Xuan Ziwen as his mentor.
• Mo Fang led Chen Ping to his laboratory on the Teaching Building’s sixth floor and introduced himself as a Level 88 Control System Soul Douluo and a founder of Linked Defense Soul Guidance Devices.
• Mo Fang gave Chen Ping a reading list and set a test for one month later, requiring him to score above fifty to remain his student.
• Mo Fang criticized Soul Engineers for imitating their mentors’ methods without understanding the underlying principles.
• Mo Fang explained that mathematics would help Chen Ping optimize soul guidance devices and avoid wasting time on ineffective designs.

Chen Ping studied under Mo Fang, who advised him on Soul Engineering and revealed his feud with Jing Hongchen. After Chen Ping recognized a damaged Absolute Defense Soul Guidance Device he had destroyed two years earlier, he suspected Mo Fang had secretly sold the devices to fund his research and began considering whether Mo Fang might someday join Shrek Academy.

• Mo Fang explained the problems facing Soul Engineers outside the Sun Moon Empire and promised to teach Chen Ping everything he knew, partly to undermine Jing Hongchen.
• Chen Ping spent three days studying the textbooks Mo Fang assigned while Mo Fang worked quietly on components at his Experimental Table.
• Chen Ping recognized Mo Fang's Absolute Defense Soul Guidance Device as the one he had destroyed during the tournament, and Mo Fang realized Chen Ping was that student.
• Mo Fang claimed a friend from the Star Luo Empire had sold the device, but Chen Ping suspected Mo Fang had made and sold it himself to support his research.
• Chen Ping inferred that Mo Fang's rivalry with Jing Hongchen and financial troubles might be genuine, and considered recruiting him to Shrek Academy if he learned Mo Fang's loyalties.
• Chen Ping told Mo Fang that he had damaged the device and offered him Thousand Refined Steel, hinting that its properties explained how the Soul Tool had stopped working.

Chen Ping impressed Mo Fang by passing his entrance assessment and earned permission to use the professor’s laboratory. He then visited Huo Yuhao and gave him Thousand Refined Metals, hoping the materials might help with Huo Yuhao’s studies under Xuan Ziwen.

• Mo Fang examined Chen Ping’s unusual refined steel, realized Jing Hongchen had kept Shrek’s metal research secret, and became angry at his colleagues.
• Chen Ping completed Mo Fang’s test in under an hour, scored ninety after a deduction for his calculation steps, and received a laboratory token.
• Mo Fang sent Chen Ping away for the day, and Chen Ping learned that He Caitou and the other Shrek students had been assigned mentors.
• Chen Ping remembered that Huo Yuhao had not joined the Tang Sect in this timeline and went to find him in Laboratory No. 3.
• Huo Yuhao told Chen Ping about studying with Xuan Ziwen and his awkward encounter with Ju Zi, and Chen Ping gave him Thousand Refined Metal ingots to study and use in Soul Tools.

Chen Ping faced down Keke, Wang Shaojie, and Zimu after they tried to bully him in the laboratory. He recorded their attack and staged evidence of their assault while waiting for the Royal Inspectorate to arrive.

• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao Thousand Refined Metal and answered a few forging questions before Huo Yuhao hurried to the restroom.
• Keke, Wang Shaojie, and Zimu tried to impose rules on Chen Ping and mock him for being a Rank Two Soul Engineer.
• Wang Shaojie and Zimu tore Chen Ping's school uniform, and Chen Ping grabbed Zimu's wrist while making their attacks hit Zimu instead.
• Wang Shaojie and Keke went to fetch the Royal Inspectorate, and Chen Ping revealed that his Image Retaining Pearl had recorded the confrontation.
• Chen Ping used Zimu's shoe to stage bruises on himself, then knocked Zimu unconscious before he could call for help.

Chen Ping confronted the Royal Inspectorate after Wang Shaojie falsely identified him as Huo Yuhao and accused him of assault. After the officers arrested him and he tore apart their restraints, Chen Ping threatened them with a Rank 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, leaving them begging for mercy as he condemned their abuse of authority.

• Wang Shaojie returned with Royal Inspectorate officers and told them to arrest Chen Ping as Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Ping showed his student ID, but Wang Shaojie insisted he was the person who had beaten Zimu, and the officers put Golden Handcuffs on him.
• Wang Shaojie punched Chen Ping and hurt his own hand, while Chen Ping used his blood qi to tear the handcuffs apart.
• The officers prepared to subdue Chen Ping, but he produced an Invincible Shield and a Rank 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, prompting them to kneel and plead for their lives.
• Chen Ping mocked the Royal Inspectorate for its selective enforcement, false accusations, and threats against him.

After Wang Shaojie and the Royal Inspectorate tried to detain and kill Chen Ping, Jing Hongchen scrambled to prevent Qian Duoduo from turning the incident into a conflict between the academies. Chen Ping secured compensation for himself and Huo Yuhao, leaving Jing Hongchen furious but forced to accept.

• Chen Ping confronted Jing Hongchen over the Royal Inspectorate's threats, while Qian Duoduo arrived, tore open the office wall, and threatened to take Shrek's students away and retaliate.
• Jing Hongchen persuaded Qian Duoduo to return to his office and promised that Wang Shaojie, Xu Mochen, and the other Inspectorate members would be killed within three days.
• Mo Fang joined the negotiations and rejected Jing Hongchen's initial offer of materials, prompting Jing to offer blueprints, study access, and additional compensation.
• Chen Ping asked Jing Hongchen for the Rank Nine defensive soul guidance device Mortal World's Blessing, and Jing handed it over.
• Chen Ping also demanded compensation for Huo Yuhao, whom the Inspectorate had originally targeted, and Jing gave him two Rank Eight defensive soul tools.

Chen Ping and the Shrek students celebrated the spoils of their confrontation with Jing Hongchen, including the Mortal World's Blessing and two Rank Eight shields he gave Huo Yuhao. Jing Hongchen returned from the palace furious and demanded to know which students had organized the bullying, while Ju Zi's withdrawal application went unaddressed.

• Qian Duoduo took the Shrek students to a restaurant and told them they could claim their weekly Rare Metals and blueprints and enter Mingde Hall.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao Jing Hongchen's two Rank Eight Defense Soul Tools as thanks for helping secure the compensation.
• Qian Duoduo explained that Indestructible Diamond specialized in physical defense and reflection, while Unassailable by Wind and Thunder defended against elemental attacks.
• Jing Hongchen returned from reporting to the Old Emperor, grew enraged over the lost Soul Guidance Devices, and nearly hit Lin Jiayi with a bowl.
• Jing Hongchen dismissed Ju Zi's withdrawal application and ordered Lin Jiayi to identify whether Wang Shaojie, Keke, or Zimu had organized the bullying, threatening punishment for the culprits.

Jing Hongchen learned that Orange had orchestrated the bullying incident, but she had already left the academy, so he ordered the matter buried and turned back to the academy’s research priorities. Meanwhile, Chen Ping absorbed Mo Fang’s lessons and struggled to calculate the shifting coordinates needed to open the Undead Demiplane, leaving him determined to master spatial travel.

• Jing Hongchen discovered that Orange had submitted a withdrawal application and ordered Lin Jiayi to capture her, but Lin Jiayi reported that she had already left the academy.
• Jing Hongchen tore up Orange’s application, threatened her, and ordered students not to discuss the incident while prioritizing the investigation into the Rank Nine Soul Guidance Device and Special Rare Metal.
• Lin Jiayi arrested several scapegoats, and the academy’s students stopped talking about the incident as Huo Yuhao became the only student remaining in Xuan Ziwen’s Laboratory.
• Chen Ping studied Soul Tool theory with Mo Fang, who shared his knowledge and assigned him problems involving three-dimensional Core Formations.
• Chen Ping continued working with Electrolux to calculate the Space Anchor’s changing coordinates and open the Undead Demiplane, hoping to use the skill to enter other spaces as well.