Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping fought Gu Li Pa and Ning Dashan, who used unfamiliar prism-shaped Soul Guidance Devices to protect themselves and launch a powerful wave. After Chen Ying revealed himself and introduced the devices as a mystery, Chen Ping asked what they were.

• Chen Ping stole Gu Li Pa’s buffing light, enlarged his staff, and smashed it down at him.
• Gu Li Pa used a prism to activate Vast Sea, Protective Shield, while Ning Dashan used another prism to unleash Vast Sea, Raging Waves at Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping dodged the wave with his Flying Soul Guidance Device, knocked out Gu Li Pa and Ning Dashan, and saw that Chen Ying had moved the three unconscious men beneath an awning.
• Chen Ying introduced himself as a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School Shadow Guards deputy commander and explained why he had remained hidden.
• Chen Ping asked Chen Ying what the prism-shaped Soul Guidance Devices were.

Chen Ping learned that Mo Fang had used rubbings of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to develop imitation Vast Sea Universe Towers for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School. He suggested the ancient device’s design may have originated from the Sun Moon Continent, leaving Mo Fang’s reaction pending.

• Chen Ying told Chen Ping that the Sect had recently begun issuing Vast Sea Universe Towers, each containing a different sealed skill.
• Chen Ping recognized their skills as those of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and wondered why the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had begun making imitations only recently.
• Chen Ping visited Mo Fang’s laboratory and found him engraving a new Vast Sea Universe Tower.
• Mo Fang explained that Ning Fengzhi had given him rubbings of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which he studied while working on Soul Guidance Devices.
• Chen Ping told Mo Fang that gods had existed on Douluo Continent but guessed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s design inspiration came from the Sun Moon Continent.

Chen Ping learned how Mo Fang had decoded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s ancient Core Arrays and discovered that Poseidon had been a remarkable Soul Engineer. Mo Fang gave Chen Ping a Vast Sea Universe Tower with a mass immobilizing and sleep-inducing skill, while activity stirred at the Clear Sky Sect.

• Chen Ping and Mo Fang discussed how Poseidon’s Core Array designs differed from modern Soul Guidance Devices, and Mo Fang explained how he had simplified the designs into Vast Sea Universe Towers.
• Chen Ping wondered whether Poseidon had learned Soul Guidance Device techniques from the Sun Moon Continent and asked Mo Fang what the arrays did.
• Mo Fang admitted he could identify the four Soul Skill Core Arrays but could not fully decipher or reproduce their functions.
• Mo Fang gave Chen Ping a Vast Sea Universe Tower that used Universe God Settling Cover to dizzy and immobilize weaker-minded opponents, potentially putting ordinary people to sleep for a day and night.
• Chen Ping accepted the device and considered its usefulness for incapacitating crowds during infiltration, while the Clear Sky Sect’s base also grew busy.

Wang Dong brought her Shrek classmates to visit the Clear Sky Sect, where she revealed that the sect had no soul guidance devices. As the visitors reached the mountain, a middle-aged man in the sect’s main hall sensed the crowd and wondered why Xiao Dong had brought so many people.

• Wang Dong and her classmates waited for Xie Huanyue, who arrived late in his flying soul guidance device and joked about trying for a Shrek Main Team spot.
• Wang Dong said Chen Ping had gone to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School and missed the visit.
• Xiao Xiao joked about visiting the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and Wang Dong admitted the Clear Sky Sect did not use soul guidance devices, not even Soul Guidance Lamps.
• Wang Dong recalled inviting her classmates to satisfy Da Ming and Er Ming’s requests without giving them the impression she had brought a romantic partner.
• A middle-aged man in green sensed the group from the main hall and sprayed tea over a short-haired middle-aged man as he reacted to Xiao Dong’s crowd of visitors.

Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao together to get his failing plan back on course. Wang Dong instead invited her classmates to the Clear Sky Sect, and Er Ming felt guilty after learning she had arranged the Jade Cold Room for Huo Yuhao.

• Tang San reviewed how his plans to enter Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness and eliminate the World Will and foreign Divine Thought had repeatedly failed.
• Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to persuade Wang Dong to bring Huo Yuhao to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Wang Dong invited all her available classmates to visit, forcing Er Ming to arrange extra lodging in the ancient castle.
• Er Ming learned Wang Dong had assigned Huo Yuhao the Clear Sky Fort's Jade Cold Room and praised Huo Yuhao for choosing a Golden Light Arm Bone for her.
• Wang Dong noticed Er Ming's guilty, hesitant reaction as he discussed Huo Yuhao.

Wang Dong questioned Er Ming about what he was hiding, while Da Ming explained the Jade Cold Room and later warned Er Ming about his feelings for her. In the Undead Demiplane, Electrolux revealed that the other half of his divine sense had just died after helping Huo Yuhao resolve a crisis.

• Wang Dong accused Er Ming of concealing what he knew about the light in her head, and Da Ming defended him and explained the Jade Cold Room’s benefits.
• Wang Dong apologized to Er Ming, who accidentally called her Wu Tong before Da Ming changed the subject.
• After Wang Dong left, Da Ming confronted Er Ming about developing genuine feelings for her and asked whether he still wanted Wu Tong to return.
• Electrolux sensed that the half of his divine sense inside Huo Yuhao had died, and he explained that it had likely used the Spiritual Origin of the big worm in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness before sacrificing itself to save him.

Chen Ping realized Old Yi’s earlier disappearance had likely been caused by a trap involving Snow Empress’s power, while Da Ming and Er Ming discussed Huo Yuhao’s lost protection and Tang San’s schemes. Outside Clear Sky Peak, Huo Yuhao mourned Electrolux’s sacrifice and remembered his warning to open the final spatial gift only after reaching safety.

• Chen Ping concluded that Snow Empress’s Snow Pill being ignited had been a deliberate trap, not a transformation of Ultimate Ice into Ultimate Fire.
• Er Ming asked whether someone should watch Huo Yuhao, but Da Ming let him leave and said Electrolux’s legacy might thwart Tang San’s schemes.
• Da Ming and Er Ming regretted that Huo Yuhao had lost his greatest trump card and feared Tang San would soon monitor their every move.
• Huo Yuhao wandered away from Clear Sky Peak in grief, despite gaining power from the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade Bed.
• Huo Yuhao recalled Electrolux’s warning that Ice Empress’s origin power could not be controlled and that he had sacrificed his divine soul to seal it again.
• Electrolux had told Huo Yuhao to open his final spatial gift only after leaving the Clear Sky Sect and traveling far away.

Huo Yuhao worried about the hidden power within the Clear Sky Sect and grieved Electrolux’s loss. In his Sea of Consciousness, Electrolux’s remaining golden light pillar transported him to the Undead Demiplane, where Huo Yuhao realized how little of his teacher’s knowledge he had inherited.

• Huo Yuhao questioned how the Clear Sky Sect could possess two beings whose power rivaled the Mortal Peak and grew suspicious of everyone.
• Huo Yuhao fell asleep in an inn and sensed Electrolux’s golden light pillar in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao infused the pillar with Soul Power and experienced the world as lines and particles while space folded around him.
• Huo Yuhao stepped through space and appeared high above the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao fell into a mass of undead, which recoiled from Electrolux’s aura.
• Huo Yuhao realized he had not mastered Electrolux’s Space Arts and would never again learn from his teacher.

Huo Yuhao arrived in the Undead Demiplane and discovered it was undergoing extensive construction under Chen Ping’s direction. Chen Ping explained that Electrolux’s Divine Thought had survived there, and he took Huo Yuhao to meet him.

• Huo Yuhao saw living workers directing undead creatures as they built houses, repaired roads, and made cement in the Undead Demiplane.
• Chen Ping recognized Huo Yuhao and offered to show him around and take him to see Old Yi.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao that Electrolux had left a Divine Thought with him, split from the one that had once resided in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Ping explained that Old Yi had prepared this safeguard before burning his divine soul to resolve Huo Yuhao’s problem.
• As they walked past undead creatures working and entertaining themselves, Chen Ping explained that the undead were intelligent and had become busy with their new lives.

Huo Yuhao reunited with the revived Electrolux, who explained why he had staged his death and warned him about God-level Experts. Electrolux absorbed the Memory Black Box from Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and recognized him, asking how Big Bug and Little Scorpion were.

• Chen Ping brought Huo Yuhao to Electrolux, who was simultaneously conducting numerous experiments.
• Huo Yuhao broke down upon seeing Electrolux alive, and Electrolux explained that he had split his divine soul to make his death seem convincing.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping to prevent God-level Experts from burning their divine souls.
• Huo Yuhao drew the Memory Black Box from his Sea of Consciousness, and Electrolux received it and recalled his memories.
• Electrolux addressed Huo Yuhao familiarly and asked how Big Bug and Little Scorpion were.

Huo Yuhao learned that Tang San had targeted him because of his immense luck and that many of his hardships had been part of a larger scheme. Chen Ping then introduced Snow Empress to Huo Yuhao, who was still recovering from the revelation that Ice Empress lived within him.

• Huo Yuhao questioned whether Tang San had taken his mother's soul, and Chen Ping asked the Elf about her; the Elf confirmed that her soul had been protected.
• Huo Yuhao pieced together Electrolux and Chen Ping's revelations and concluded that Tang San had targeted him and the Emperor Auspicious Beast for their luck.
• Chen Ping explained that Tang San might also want the Divine Weapon carried by the auspicious beast and control of the Douluo Star, while likely allowing Huo Yuhao to pursue godhood.
• Huo Yuhao realized that the web of conspiracy surrounding him had begun when he entered Shrek Academy.
• Snow Empress woke at the mention of Ice Empress, and Chen Ping released her so she could meet Huo Yuhao.

Chen Ping learned about Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s priceless exuviae and offered Huo Yuhao a Ranked Engraving Knife and Rank Nine Soul Guidance Devices for it, pending Sky Dream’s approval. He then decided to use the gathering of visitors as cover to investigate the Clear Sky Sect and arrived nearby with Huo Yuhao.

• Snow Empress accepted Huo Yuhao’s account of how he obtained the Ice Emperor as his Second Martial Soul and demanded to meet her when she awoke.
• Chen Ping asked Huo Yuhao for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s exuviae so he could turn it into a Soul Guidance Device.
• Huo Yuhao showed Chen Ping the exuviae and said he would ask Sky Dream for permission before giving it away.
• Chen Ping promised Huo Yuhao a Ranked Engraving Knife and one or two Rank Nine Soul Guidance Devices as a meeting gift.
• Chen Ping decided to investigate the Clear Sky Sect for clues about Tang San and left the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School with Huo Yuhao, reaching a nearby town.

Chen Ping accompanied Huo Yuhao back to the Clear Sky Sect, where Wang Dong welcomed them and apologized for Huo Yuhao’s suffering. As Chen Ping climbed the mountain, he discovered that the sect’s mist was diluted God Realm High-Energy Cloud.

• Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao arrived near the Clear Sky Sect and met Wang Dong, who rushed to check on Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong apologized for bringing Huo Yuhao to the room with the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade Bed, while Huo Yuhao reassured her and credited Chen Ping with helping him sort through his emotions.
• Chen Ping advised Wang Dong to take Huo Yuhao back to rest, then climbed the mountain alone and sensed unusually dense Heaven and Earth Vitality.
• Chen Ping entered the clouds that blocked his Spiritual Power and asked Electrolux to analyze them.
• Electrolux identified the mist as a heavily diluted form of the God Realm’s High-Energy Cloud and spread his divine sense through it.

Chen Ping and Electrolux discovered that the Clear Sky Sect’s clouds concealed thousands of Flying Soul Beasts feeding on God Realm vitality, including multiple Hundred Thousand Year Cloud Killers. They decided to collect some of the vitality without opening the Undead Demiplane, and Chen Ping used the God Conferring Platform to absorb it.

• Electrolux explained that the God Realm vitality above the Clear Sky Sect was poorly contained and that Tang San had little control over it.
• Electrolux revealed thousands of Flying Soul Beasts hidden in the clouds, including more than one Hundred Thousand Year Cloud Killer.
• Chen Ping and Electrolux agreed to collect some God Realm vitality, but Chen Ping worried that opening the Undead Demiplane would alert Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Electrolux directed Chen Ping to use the God Conferring Platform instead, and Chen Ping infused it with Soul Power to draw in the surrounding vitality.

Chen Ping guided Wang Dong through Clear Sky Peak’s sea of clouds and learned that she could not remember anything from before she was six. At Clear Sky Fort, Wang Dong’s Second Dad tested Chen Ping with a burst of pressure, and Chen Ping stood firm.

• Chen Ping waited for Wang Dong to lead him through the sea of clouds after storing the God Conferring Platform.
• Wang Dong recalled falling on the mountain as a child, then developed a headache when she tried to remember what happened before her Martial Soul Awakening.
• Wang Dong’s Second Dad arrived at Clear Sky Fort and explained that she could not remember anything from before she was six because of a head injury.
• Chen Ping realized Wang Dong’s missing memories had been taken by Tang San.
• Wang Dong’s Second Dad unleashed a brief oppressive force at Chen Ping, who withstood it using his blood energy, Soul Power, and Spiritual Power.
• Wang Dong scolded her Second Dad for testing her classmates and objected to his claim that she was second in class.

Chen Ping explored Clear Sky Fort with Wang Dong and met Er Ming, who apologized for testing him with his pressure and promised him a feast. Er Ming vanished by tearing through space, leaving Chen Ping to recognize the feat as far beyond the “Shrink the Ground to an Inch” explanation Wang Dong offered.

• Wang Dong led Chen Ping into Clear Sky Fort and showed him its vast, simply decorated interior, supported by eight enormous pillars.
• Er Ming returned, apologized for testing Chen Ping with his pressure, and invited him to call him Uncle Tai.
• Chen Ping told Er Ming that the pressure had loosened his bottleneck and joked that he would gladly eat a lot at dinner.
• Er Ming reached out and disappeared from the hall, and Wang Dong said he had used his Soul Skill, Shrink the Ground to an Inch.
• Chen Ping recognized that Er Ming had ripped open space with his bare hand and judged his spatial power comparable to Di Tian's.

Chen Ping discovered that the eight pillars hidden inside Clear Sky Fort were the sacred pillars of Sea God Island, which gathered Heaven and Earth Vitality over Clear Sky Peak. He realized they might help restore Jixiang’s Depowered God-Bestowed Soul Ring, but Electrolux explained that Chen Ping needed Sea God Divine Power, not ambient vitality.

• Electrolux directed Chen Ping to examine the eight thick pillars in Clear Sky Fort, and Chen Ping used divine sense to reveal the sacred pillars concealed beneath their Iron Birch Wood coverings.
• Chen Ping recognized the pillars as the seven sacred pillars of Sea God Island and the Sea God Sacred Pillar, and saw them gathering and releasing Heaven and Earth Vitality across Clear Sky Peak.
• Chen Ping used the Eye of True Sight on the Seahorse Sacred Pillar and confirmed that it had been abandoned after once receiving divine power from the Sea God.
• Chen Ping wondered whether the pillars could restore Jixiang’s Depowered God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and Electrolux explained that the ring required Sea God Divine Power rather than Heaven and Earth Vitality.

Chen Ping enjoyed a carefree evening with his classmates at the Clear Sky Sect before Electrolux let him overhear Da Ming and Er Ming discussing Wang Dong, Tang San, and Huo Yuhao. He learned Tang San would need time to recover his divine sense, but Er Ming believed Huo Yuhao had no hope now that Electrolux was gone.

• Chen Ping shared a lavish dinner with Da Ming, Er Ming, and his classmates, then played cards late into the night.
• Chen Ping inspected his bed with Spiritual Power and prepared to sleep before Electrolux told him to listen to Da Ming and Er Ming.
• Electrolux used his divine sense to let Chen Ping observe Da Ming and Er Ming discussing how Wang Dong would remain safe while Tang Wutong's missing soul was unfound.
• Da Ming said Tang San's divine sense was depleted from contacting them and would need time to recover, giving Chen Ping a possible opening.
• Er Ming said he and Da Ming might help Huo Yuhao if he could grow stronger, but felt there was no saving him now that Electrolux had died.

Chen Ping realized Da Ming and Er Ming might not be fully loyal to Tang San, then learned from Electrolux that Tang San likely understood only the basic functions of the Sea God Sacred Pillars. This gave them a possible opening while Tang San recovered from damage to his divine sense.

• Chen Ping interpreted Er Ming's words as a sign that Da Ming and Er Ming might remain neutral or undermine Tang San when they had the chance.
• Electrolux reminded Chen Ping of the eight sacred pillars and suspected Tang San did not know how to use most of their functions.
• Electrolux compared the pillars to the Soul Tool Press-Grinding Integrated Workbench and explained how difficult their technology would be to understand without a manual.
• Chen Ping realized Tang San likely knew only how to assign trials and rewards and raise Soul Power Level and Soul Ring age.
• Chen Ping and Electrolux saw an opportunity to exploit Tang San's ignorance while he recovered from the damage to his divine sense.

Electrolux planned to retaliate against Tang San by exploiting the divine power at Clear Sky Peak, while Chen Ping and Wang Dong spent the morning at Clear Sky Fort. Er Ming retrieved a Brocade Pouch for Wang Dong, then suddenly froze as he was about to hand it over.

• Electrolux explained that he intended to use Tang San’s divine power for research and make him pay for nearly destroying Electrolux’s divine soul.
• Chen Ping woke late at Clear Sky Fort and spoke with Wang Dong, who pointed out that it was already noon.
• Er Ming said Niu Tian had gone down the mountain to gather ingredients for river fare.
• Wang Dong asked Er Ming for the Brocade Pouch her father had mentioned, and Er Ming pulled it from the third floor using his strength to rummage through space.
• As Er Ming moved to hand the Brocade Pouch to Wang Dong, he jolted and froze.