Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping discovered that the strange sphere in the valley was a Sun Moon Empire high-altitude detection device, where Keke was overseeing military tests. When the device flew through a mysterious Bone Gate, the gate vanished and its signal was cut off.

• Chen Ping examined the hollow sphere and recognized its anti-gravity module and gas propulsion system.
• Keke, serving as Deputy Camp Commander, ordered her soldiers to test the detector's optical sensors above the mist.
• Keke reflected on her expulsion from the academy and blamed Chen Ping for the turn her life had taken.
• Keke noticed two black shapes in the detector's feed and realized it had flown into a massive Bone Gate.
• Keke ordered the detector to descend, but the Bone Gate closed and the image feed disappeared.

Chen Ping captured a Sun Moon Empire High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device by opening a Gate of the Undead along its ascent route. He left it in the Undead Demiplane with David Dai, who held it like a kite.

• Chen Ping recognized the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device and realized he could evade its anti-theft measures by catching it through a Gate of the Undead.
• Chen Ping opened a gate beneath the device as it rose, drew it into the Undead Demiplane, and summoned David Dai.
• Chen Ping hooked the device with David Dai’s iron hook and ordered him to keep it from floating away.
• David Dai obeyed, holding the device as it struggled to rise, while Chen Ping recalled how Electrolux had turned him into an Abomination and arranged care for his mother and daughter.

Chen Ping escorted Ning Tian and Wu Feng toward the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School after securing a High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device from Ju Zi. He reflected on the gains from the trip and wondered whether Ju Zi could remain undefeated once her enemies had better reconnaissance.

• Chen Ping asked Ning Tian why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had moved away from Heaven Dou City, and Ning Tian said it had avoided political centers for thousands of years.
• Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng walked through a border town toward the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, with Chen Ping wearing accessories the two girls had given him.
• Chen Ping explained that the Metal Wolves he had brought into his Undead Demiplane had devoured Skeleton Soldiers and harassed other Undead Creatures while he was away.
• Chen Ping considered how the Metal Wolves might become a useful force because they grew stronger by consuming Rare Metal.
• Chen Ping planned to have the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device's technology mastered and mass-produced before the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• Chen Ping judged that he had won his contest of wits with Ju Zi and wondered whether she could remain the God of War once her opponents had better detection.

Chen Ping arrived at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, admired its auspicious valley and advanced defenses, and entered the grounds. Ning Tian and Wu Feng went to the West Garden to report to their family, leaving Chen Ping to wait in the East Courtyard.

• Chen Ping recognized the valley surrounding the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School as an exceptionally auspicious feng shui site.
• Wu Feng caught Chen Ping looking at her exposed navel and chased him after he teased her.
• Chen Ping admired the School’s fortified gate and saw Ning Tian use her Young Sect Master Token to open it.
• Ning Tian explained the separate East Courtyard and West Garden routes for men and women, then left with Wu Feng for the West Garden.
• Chen Ping stayed behind and prepared to explore the East Courtyard while waiting for a guide.

Chen Ping met Chen Xiaoyu, a young Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciple whose Martial Soul was the Seven Kill Sword. While Ye Xin'er arranged to test Chen Ping with Lucky Bracelets, he collected all three from Xiaoyu and put them on.

• Chen Ping wandered through the Nine-Bend Welcome Corridor and met Chen Xiaoyu squeezing through a narrow gap between partitions.
• Chen Xiaoyu introduced herself as one of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's Five Golden Flowers, and Chen Ping learned that her Martial Soul was the Seven Kill Sword.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng recovered in a pavilion after the Sect's elders had fawned over the Silver Moon Wolf King.
• Ye Xin'er and Ning Lan joined Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Ye Xin'er revealed that she had sent Xiaoyu to deliver a token as part of a test of Chen Ping.
• Chen Xiaoyu recited Ye Xin'er's pitch for the Lucky Bracelets, and Chen Ping traded her coins and Sun Moon Empire candies for all three bracelets and put them on.

Chen Ping arrived at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, where Chen Xiaoyu gave him all three Bracelets without explaining their makers. His arrival sent the Sect’s steward and leaders into surprise and teasing, while they waited to discuss the Soul Spirit path and family matters.

• Chen Xiaoyu forgot Ye Xin'er’s instructions after eating Chen Ping’s milk candy and let him take all three Bracelets.
• A steward met Chen Ping, saw that he wore five tokens of affection, and led him toward the Council Hall.
• The steward mistook Chen Ping’s former supplement shop for a place that might help his aching back and asked about it.
• In the Council Hall, Fen Tian teased Chen Ying about Xiao Feng finding a partner, and Chen Ying answered with a burst of Sword Intent.
• The Sect Master Jun Ping stopped their quarrel and said they would ask Chen Ping about the Soul Spirit path and Ye Xin'er and Da Shan’s hopes of reuniting.

Chen Ping met the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s Sect Master and Fen Tian, who were startled by his appearance and the bracelets he wore. As they welcomed him with tea, Chen Ping learned that a hidden observer had been watching him and that the sect’s Ten Thousand Year Old Tea Tree sometimes hit people.

• A young deacon led Chen Ping into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s Council Hall, where he noticed the Sect Master, Fen Tian, and an unseen person watching him.
• The Sect Master and Fen Tian lost their composure after noticing Chen Ping’s bracelets, then explained that Ning Tian and Wu Feng had praised his looks.
• The Sect Master called for Chen Ying to fetch Old Madam Ye, and Chen Ping realized the hidden observer had stopped watching him.
• Chen Ping accepted tea made from leaves of the sect’s Ten Thousand Year Old Tea Tree and nearly spat it out when the Sect Master said the tree hit people if they picked too much.
• Chen Ping joked about once worrying whether he could beat Soul Beast Ingredients, and the Sect Master praised him for preparing delicacies for the Fierce Beasts in the Star Dou Forest.

Chen Ping learned that Grandma Ye was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s second Titled Douluo and wondered why Titled Douluo lifespans had shortened over ten thousand years. When Grandma Ye saw the chains covering him, she was stunned, leaving Chen Ping and the others unsure of her reaction.

• Ning Junping introduced himself as Ning Tian’s father and identified Wu Fentian as Wu Feng’s father, a Level 91 Titled Douluo known as Red Demon.
• Chen Ping asked about the School’s other Titled Douluo, and Ning Junping said it was the 140-year-old Grandma Ye.
• The system announced that Chen Ping had uncovered an important clue about changes in the Douluo world’s rules and deducted fifty thousand points related to Zhao Wuji’s statue mystery.
• Grandma Ye entered after hearing Chen Ping say he wanted to bask in her good fortune, and Ning Junping gave her the seat of honor.
• Grandma Ye mistook Chen Ping for Xin'er, then noticed the chains covering him and stared in shock at Ning Junping and Wu Fentian.

Chen Ping met Compassionate Begonia Douluo and learned that she was a level 96 Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master. After discussing the sect and its unusual inheritance, he demonstrated his Soul Guidance Exoskeleton to Ning Junping, who revealed that he was an Eighth Level Soul Engineer.

• The Old Lady thanked Chen Ping for helping Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Ning Junping introduced her as level 96 Compassionate Begonia Douluo.
• Chen Ping guessed that the Old Lady's martial soul was Nine Heart Begonia and considered how the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School safeguarded its inheritance.
• Chen Ping wondered why the powerful Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had stayed out of the Sun Moon Empire's war and set the question aside for later.
• Ning Junping, Wu Fentian, and the others discussed Chen Ping's character and the five bracelets that made them suspect he was flirtatious.
• Chen Ping brought out his Soul Guidance Exoskeleton for Ning Junping to examine, and Ning Junping revealed that he was an Eighth Level Soul Engineer who made his own devices.

Chen Ping presented Ning Junping with a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Guidance Exoskeleton for testing, and Ning Junping put it on to demonstrate how it worked. The chapter ended as the exoskeleton amplified Ning Junping’s palm strike to startling speed and force.

• Chen Ping offered Ning Junping a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Guidance Exoskeleton and explained how he had built it using lower-level arrays.
• Ning Junping accepted the prototype, while Wu Fentian voiced concerns about the dangers of testing it.
• Ning Junping reassured Wu Fentian that Chen Ping trusted the device’s safety and privately marveled at Chen Ping’s engineering talent.
• Ning Junping fitted the exoskeleton onto himself and explained how its Soul Guidance circuits amplified Soul Power and transmitted force.
• Ning Junping struck at Wu Fentian, and the exoskeleton surged with power, accelerating his palm strike to an alarming speed.

Chen Ping demonstrated the strength of his Soul Guidance Exoskeleton and proposed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School fund the development of One-Character Battle Armor with its rare-metal reserves. He left Ning Junping and Wu Fentian captivated by his plan to make the School the leading producer of battle armor.

• Ning Junping and Wu Fentian tested the Soul Guidance Exoskeleton, and Ning Junping's hand-chop matched Wu Fentian's strength closely enough to make him take the equipment seriously.
• Chen Ping recognized that the exoskeleton needed further development into battle armor to overcome its limits with different Soul Masters and Martial Soul Avatars.
• Ning Junping offered to buy the exoskeleton's manufacturing technology or provide generous terms for mass production in exchange for priority purchasing rights.
• Chen Ping rejected those proposals and asked the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School to supply rare metals for direct development of One-Character Battle Armor.
• Chen Ping outlined a three-step product-standard-platform plan, persuading Ning Junping and Wu Fentian to imagine the School supplying the finest battle armor across Douluo Continent.

Chen Ping persuaded Ning Junping to invest in developing battle armor and offered the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a share of its future production. Ning Junping took Chen Ping to the sect treasury, where the rare metals inside astonished him and revealed the sect’s potential to produce powerful soul weapons.

• Chen Ping proposed that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect invest in battle armor and said it could handle contract manufacturing of One-Character Battle Armor.
• Ning Junping learned that Chen Ping had also created Shrek’s New Flying Soul Guidance Devices and agreed to support his plans.
• Ning Junping led Chen Ping to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury after Wu Fentian escorted Grandma Ye back to her room.
• Chen Ping found vast quantities of rare metals in the treasury, including Hair Crystal, Heart-Freezing Iron Essence, and Deep Sea Dark Silver Mother.
• Chen Ping realized the materials could support powerful fixed soul weapons and concluded that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s stockpile helped explain its efforts to retain Mo Fang.

Chen Ping inspected the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s hidden rare-metal treasury, while Ning Junping tried to tempt him with increasingly valuable treasures. The chapter ended with Ning Junping revealing a depowered God-Bestowed Soul Ring that had once belonged to Jixiang.

• Ning Junping explained that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had given Mo Fang unlimited research funding so he could produce Rank 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.
• Ning Junping showed Chen Ping the Sect’s vast treasury of Rare Metals, hidden among ordinary storage rooms to deter thieves.
• Chen Ping declined to choose Rare Metals and said he would ask Mo Fang for them, leaving Ning Junping worried that Chen Ping would claim the Sect’s resources through his connection to the professor.
• Ning Junping offered Chen Ping a tiny piece of ten-thousand-year-old Life Gold and a set of Secret Method Soul Bones, but Chen Ping kept looking through the treasures.
• Ning Junping revealed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring that had once belonged to Jixiang, explaining that its power had dissipated and it could no longer be used.

Chen Ping learned the history of the depowered God-Bestowed Soul Ring and connected Jixiang’s cultivation to opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. He left the explanation eager to use immortal herbs to raise his own Innate Soul Power.

• Chen Ping used his Vertical Pupil to identify the bead as a depowered God-Bestowed Soul Ring that could be analyzed with enough Scholar Points.
• Ning Junping explained that the ring had belonged to Xiao Wu and was later given by Tang San to his disciple Jixiang.
• Ning Junping described how God-Bestowed Soul Rings were awarded through Sea God Assessments and recounted Xiao Wu’s extra rewards.
• Chen Ping recalled that opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians could grant Innate Soul Power and improve cultivation speed.
• Chen Ping considered using the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to open his meridians and raise his Innate Soul Power.

Chen Ping learned how Jixiang gained Innate Full Soul Power, then lost the leg and Soul Bone that might have allowed him to reach the ninth rank and use a God-Bestowed Soul Ring. Ning Junping explained that the ring had become unusable, but offered Chen Ping one of three treasures, and Chen Ping chose it despite the warning.

• Ning Junping told Chen Ping that Tang San opened Jixiang’s Eight Extraordinary Meridians, gave him a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and left him a Sea God Imprint.
• Jixiang advanced rapidly on Sea God Island, but Evil Spirit Orcas attacked him because of the imprint and cost him a leg and Soul Bone.
• Jixiang never reached level ninety, so he died without using the ring, which his descendants also could not absorb.
• Ning Junping explained that his Sect had helped Jixiang’s descendants run a medical clinic for 2,672 years in exchange for the ring.
• Chen Ping realized the ring’s energy had dissipated, then asked whether he could choose it as one of the three treasures.
• Ning Junping accepted Chen Ping’s choice but warned that generations of sect masters had failed to find a use for the ring.

Chen Ping took the powerless God-Bestowed Soul Ring from Ning Junping and sent it to Electrolux to study for his artificial Soul Ring project. He then explained that Soul Spirit contracts were difficult to reproduce, but assured Ning Junping that this could change in the future.

• Chen Ping refused Ning Junping's warning and accepted the God-Bestowed Soul Ring for his research into artificial Soul Rings.
• Chen Ping secretly sent the ring to Electrolux, who abandoned his zombie surgery to begin studying it.
• Chen Ping and Ning Junping returned to the Council Hall and discussed the Silver Moon Wolf King Soul Spirit Ning Tian had obtained.
• Chen Ping confirmed that Soul Spirit contracts required both the Soul Master and Soul Beast to willingly agree, making Ning Tian's success difficult to repeat.
• Chen Ping told Ning Junping that Soul Spirit contracts might become easier to form in the future.

Chen Ping reassured Ning Junping that he had only taken two girls from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School and described his tentative plan to create Soul Spirits for aging Soul Beasts. He went to visit Mo Fang’s laboratory, but three sect disciples stopped him and asked if he was Chen Ping.

• Chen Ping told Ning Junping that he had once hosted the Emperor Auspicious Beast and hoped to explore a small-scale Soul Spirit System for Soul Beasts nearing the end of their lives.
• Ning Junping learned that the concern about Chen Ping taking all five remaining Five Golden Flowers had been a misunderstanding and gave him the key to Mo Fang’s laboratory.
• Chen Ping explained that Mo Fang often worked through the night and reassured Ning Junping that the sect was not at fault for his teacher’s habits.
• Chen Ping left the Council Hall and walked toward the Back Mountain, eager to see what he might find at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.
• Three disciples stopped Chen Ping near Mo Fang’s laboratory and asked whether he was Chen Ping.

Chen Ping was challenged by three Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciples and went to the Martial Arena, where he noticed the school’s collection of Soul Tools. Ning Dashan began the duel with a Level 6 Heavy Hammer and two boosts from his Seven-Tiered Pagoda.

• A Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciple accused Chen Ping of tricking young girls and tried to drag him to the Martial Arena.
• Chen Ping broke free, walked to the arena, and the other disciples cautioned each other about his strength.
• Chen Ping examined the Soul Tools displayed beside the arena and considered how the school’s free equipment could encourage their use.
• Ning Dashan challenged Chen Ping, summoned his Seven-Tiered Pagoda, and picked up a Level 6 Heavy Hammer.
• Ning Dashan activated his first two pagoda boosts, rushed Chen Ping, and prepared to strike with the hammer.

Chen Ping fought Ning Dashan and overwhelmed him with his strength, prompting the other Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciples to join the battle. As Chen Nian drew his sword, Gu Li Pa launched a bone-spike attack at Chen Ping.

• Ning Dashan attacked Chen Ping with his Wind Thunder Hammer, but Chen Ping blocked the strike with his Star Tumor Staff.
• Chen Ping hurled Ning Dashan and his hammer across the arena, then Ning Dashan’s two teammates joined him and formed up around Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping welcomed the chance to fight opponents closer to his own level as the three disciples prepared to attack together.
• Chen Nian summoned his azure sword, while Gu Li Pa grew into a skeletal giant and fired hundreds of bone spikes at Chen Ping with Bone Thorn Storm.

Chen Ping fought the three Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School disciples and quickly defeated Chen Nian with his speed and raw strength. Ning Dashan then charged him with the transformed Wind Thunder Hammer while boosting himself and Gu Li Pa, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Chen Ping blocked the bone spikes from Gu Li Pa, Ning Dashan, and Chen Nian, and noticed that all three wore strange tetrahedral pendants.
• Ning Dashan transformed his Wind Thunder Hammer into an axe and rushed Chen Ping as Gu Li Pa and Chen Nian attacked from opposite sides.
• Chen Ping used Drifting to evade Chen Nian's Seven Kill Unsheathed and Gu Li Pa's Bone Dragon Roar, then struck Chen Nian unconscious with a palm.
• Ning Dashan charged Chen Ping with the Wind Thunder Axe and used his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to send Buffing Light to himself and Gu Li Pa.