Chapter Summaries

Er Ming destroyed a Brocade Pouch containing Tang San’s plans after nearly giving it to Wang Dong, then left to find her a soul bone. With Da Ming and Er Ming away from Clear Sky Fort, Chen Ping and Electrolux investigated the eight sacred pillars, but the Sea God Sacred Pillar rejected the divine power they gathered.

• Er Ming pulled back the Brocade Pouch when he remembered its contents, and Chen Ping realized it held Tang San’s letter and map for Huo Yuhao’s training.
• Wang Dong eagerly asked Er Ming about the soul bone her big dad had prepared, and Er Ming crushed the Brocade Pouch before promising to find her a suitable bone.
• Er Ming tore open space and left Clear Sky Fort to search for a soul bone, while Chen Ping noticed that neither he nor Da Ming was there.
• Chen Ping tested all eight sacred pillars with Electrolux and gathered traces of divine power from them.
• The Sea God Sacred Pillar expelled the Sea God Divine Power, prompting Electrolux to ask about the diamond-shaped slot that had held the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Chen Ping and Electrolux discussed how the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had enabled Tang San’s divine inheritance, then Electrolux used Koynor Diamond and Sea God Divine Power to craft a new Heart of the Ocean. After discovering the Ocean Pillars could issue assessments and distribute rewards, Chen Ping considered exploiting them but realized doing so would alert Tang San.

• Chen Ping explained that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had been essential for Tang San to receive the Sea God’s Nine Trials and inherit the Sea God’s position.
• Electrolux took control of Chen Ping’s body and carved a Koynor Diamond into a triangular pyramid with the Life Carving Knife.
• Electrolux etched the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s arrays onto the pyramid using a remnant of Sea God Divine Power, creating the Heart of the Ocean with the artifact’s four abilities.
• Electrolux activated an Ocean Pillar and sensed that it could manage assessments, rewards, and teleportation, while Chen Ping concluded Tang Wutong must already have received a Sea God assessment.
• Chen Ping asked Electrolux to use the Ocean Pillar to raise his Soul Ring ages, but Electrolux warned that issuing him an assessment would alert Tang San, so Chen Ping abandoned the idea.

Chen Ping and Electrolux activated the Sea God Sacred Pillar in Clear Sky Fort, charged a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and hid the pillar’s activation when Da Ming returned. The same drain of divine power sent Tang San into Cultivation Deviation, damaging his divine soul and leaving him unable to cultivate or monitor Douluo Continent.

• Chen Ping accepted that they might not access the Sacred Pillar’s rewards, but Electrolux found that a blank God-Bestowed Soul Ring could still charge near the activated pillar.
• Chen Ping’s God-Bestowed Soul Ring absorbed the pillar’s divine light until it became golden, and Electrolux then returned the pillar to standby mode as Da Ming approached.
• Da Ming noticed the pillar’s fading light but dismissed it as Tang San’s doing and went downstairs with the ingredients.
• Tang San cultivated in the God Realm Central Hub while discarding impurities from Faith Power into the Golden Dragon King’s seal.
• The Sacred Pillar’s drain of Sea God Divine Power disrupted Tang San’s balance of divine powers while he repaired his divine sense, causing Cultivation Deviation and cracks in his divine soul.
• Tang San recovered enough to stand, but could not identify what had drained his power and feared cultivating again.

Tang San traced his leaking divine power to his many connections with Douluo Continent and severed them all, restoring his divine soul at the cost of cutting off his lower-realm arrangements. The disconnection ended his influence over several places and freed Da Ming and Er Ming to help Chen Ping and Class One, while Electrolux planned to keep striking back at Tang San.

• Tang San realized the Sea God's Trident no longer contained the Heart of the Sea God's special abilities and, unable to identify which of his many lower-realm arrangements was draining him, severed every connection to Douluo Continent.
• Tang San's Brands on Da Ming and Er Ming vanished, the Holy Pillars at Clear Sky Fort stopped operating, Mu En sensed a disturbance in the Golden Ancient Tree, and the Sea God Family's reporting ritual failed when its helmet went dark.
• Chen Ping gained Scholar Points by asking Da Ming and Er Ming for cultivation guidance, while Class One students joined his lessons and Wang Dong reluctantly stopped slacking off.
• Da Ming and Er Ming enjoyed their freedom from Tang San's instructions and taught Class One, while Wang Dong benefited from avoiding her fate and receiving a Soul Bone.
• Electrolux considered the drained divine power a small first strike and intended to help Chen Ping and the Elf settle their debts with Tang San in the future.

Chen Ping returned to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School after his vacation, leaving Ning Dali hopeful that he would help him obtain a Soul Spirit. Meanwhile, Ju Zi faced punishment over the missing High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device, and Jing Hongchen focused on helping Crown Prince Xu Tianran secure the throne as the chapter left the imperial succession unresolved.

• Chen Ping returned to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, where Ning Dali apologized for their earlier misunderstanding and asked him to help obtain a Soul Spirit so he could marry Ye Xin'er.
• Chen Ping told Ning Dali they could discuss his request once he reached level 60, while considering whether to form a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School team for the next tournament.
• Lin Jiayi reported Chen Ping's return to Jing Hongchen after learning he had been seen in the Jingyang Mountain Range, where Ju Zi's camp had lost track of its High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device.
• Ju Zi was demoted three ranks, from Camp Commander to deputy company commander, and imprisoned Keke and the other soldiers involved in the device experiment as scapegoats.
• Jing Hongchen struggled to reproduce Chen Ping's Thousand Refined Metal technique and, amid the succession struggle, prioritized helping Xu Tianran become emperor while allowing Shrek's exchange students to study freely.

Chen Ping spent a year cultivating and studying Soul Guidance Device blueprints, reaching Level Forty-Seven, then brought the Snow Empress to meet Huo Yuhao in the Undead Demiplane. He planned to give Huo Yuhao expensive coffee beans before their Battle Armor development meeting.

• Chen Ping arranged for Ning Tian and Wu Feng to return the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device and copied blueprints to the academy, then left its research to others.
• Chen Ping spent the year cultivating and studying Experiment Subject One's blueprints, reaching Level Forty-Seven after his second Deep Meditation.
• The Snow Empress asked Chen Ping to take her to see Bing'er, and he agreed to meet Huo Yuhao in the Undead Demiplane.
• Chen Ping brought the Snow Empress to the demiplane for his weekly Battle Armor development meeting with Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Ping searched his Storage Soul Guidance Devices for costly Premium Coffee Beans to give Huo Yuhao as a gift.

Chen Ping watched Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan return from testing their new battle armor against the Ice Dragon, then explained his division of labor to Snow Empress. She pointed out that Chen Ping himself did no work, leaving him exposed as an exploiter.

• Chen Ping encountered Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan after they had fought together in the Undead Demiplane, where he had sent Jing Ziyan to join Ji Juechen.
• Ji Juechen told Chen Ping that he and Jing Ziyan had lasted two and a half minutes against the Ice Dragon while wearing Thousand Refinements Battle Armor.
• Jing Ziyan admitted that they had damaged both sets of armor during the test, and Chen Ping reassured them, took the damaged equipment for inspection, and gave them coffee beans.
• Chen Ping told Snow Empress that the Undead Demiplane ran on cooperation and division of labor, with others handling the work around him.
• Snow Empress told Chen Ping that he had no work of his own and called him a vile exploiter.

Chen Ping visited Electrolux’s experimental area, where Electrolux demonstrated a miniature Sea God Sacred Pillar made from Deep Sea Dark Silver Mother. The pillar issued trial prompts to Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao, leaving Huo Yuhao excited about what he believed was a genuine god trial.

• Snow Empress accused Chen Ping of exploiting everyone in the Undead Demiplane, and Chen Ping told her to use her full strength when she helped him fight.
• Chen Ping arrived at Electrolux’s experimental area and gave Huo Yuhao coffee beans from a Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree.
• Electrolux revealed a miniature Sea God Sacred Pillar forged from Deep Sea Dark Silver Mother and demonstrated its functions.
• The pillar assigned Chen Ping the Undead First Trial, and he completed it by summoning a small skeleton.
• Huo Yuhao received the same trial prompt and became excited about the reward, while Chen Ping and Electrolux looked at him with concern.

Electrolux showed Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping that he had recreated much of Poseidon’s God Examination system and could make God-Bestowed Soul Rings. Chen Ping realized Poseidon had copied the Angel God’s inheritance system, leaving the story with his doubts about Poseidon’s honesty settled.

• Huo Yuhao became crestfallen when Chen Ping and Electrolux explained that the supposed God Examination and its rewards had only been an imitation.
• Electrolux produced a Powerless God-Bestowed Soul Ring and explained that he had replicated much of Poseidon’s inheritance system.
• Electrolux activated the miniature Inheritance Pillar with Light Attribute power, causing it to issue a message in the Angel God’s voice.
• Chen Ping realized Poseidon had copied the Angel God’s Inheritance Pillar, which explained the overlap between Qian Renxue’s and Tang San’s examinations.
• Chen Ping concluded that Poseidon had borrowed techniques from his predecessors and was not as honest as he had seemed.

Electrolux used Chen Ping’s divine power to create a Ten-year Artificial Soul Ring, but Chen Ping struggled to find more divine power for mass production. As his exchange at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy ended, Jing Hongchen offered rare metals and a Rank 9 Fixed Cannonball for the Thousand Refined Metal technique, which Chen Ping refused to reveal.

• Electrolux converted Chen Ping’s God-Bestowed Soul Ring’s divine power into a Ten-year Artificial Soul Ring and explained that larger pillars could produce rings with higher age limits.
• Chen Ping considered other sources of divine power after Tang San shut down the Inheritance Sacred Pillar’s energy gathering on Clear Sky Peak.
• Chen Ping and the other Shrek Academy exchange students concluded their studies at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jing Hongchen offered Chen Ping rare metals from the Sun Moon Empire’s reserves in exchange for the Thousand Refined Metal refining technique.
• Jing Hongchen added a Rank 9 Fixed Cannonball to his offer, but Chen Ping still refused to disclose the technique because it could strengthen the Sun Moon Empire.

Chen Ping rejected Jing Hongchen’s offer for Shrek’s Thousand Refined Metal production method, then traveled with the exchange students to the agreed handover site. Shrek welcomed its students home, while Chen Ping suspected the failed negotiations would lead to conflict.

• Jing Hongchen failed to persuade Chen Ping to trade the Thousand Refined Metal method, and Xu Tianran arrived with Imperial Guards and armed soul engineers to see Shrek’s students off.
• Xu Tianran and Chen Ping exchanged polite smiles while each privately considered killing the other.
• Jing Hongchen escorted Shrek’s group to the exchange site, where Yan Shaozhe and Xian Liner arrived with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s exchange students.
• Xiao Hongchen saw Chen Ping and wanted to challenge him, but Jing Hongchen warned him off; Xiao resolved to reach the Soul Saint Realm and win the tournament.
• The two academies exchanged students, and Yan Shaozhe welcomed the returning students home as Chen Ping wondered whether the failed negotiations would bring physical conflict.

The group stopped for a meal, where Chen Ping explained that Jing Hongchen had offered vast quantities of rare metals and Rank 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells for the Thousand Refined Metal technique. Shrek’s leaders recognized the offer’s immense value, but Xuan Zi and Xian Liner focused on getting the children safely home rather than robbing Jing Hongchen.

• Xian Liner sealed the room against sound, and Xuan Zi appeared to join the group.
• Chen Ping showed the leaders Jing Hongchen’s latest offer for the Thousand Refined Metal technique.
• Xian Liner and Qian Duoduo were shocked by the offer’s Silver Dragon Scales, rare metals, and Rank 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.
• Qian Duoduo wondered whether they could rob Jing Hongchen, but Xuan Zi warned him that the Sun Moon Empire might attack to seize the purification process.
• Xian Liner agreed with Xuan Zi that their priority was to ensure the children returned safely.

Chen Ping proposed splitting the Shrek group during their evacuation, then learned that he had been approved as a Reserve Elder of the Sea God Pavilion. He discussed his cultivation and Soul Spirit with the academy leaders as the students prepared to leave the Sun Moon Empire.

• Chen Ping recommended that Dean Yan, Dean Qian, Elder Xuan, and he stay behind while Dean Xian escorted Huo Yuhao and the other students away.
• Yan Shaozhe told Chen Ping that the elders had approved his special admission as a Reserve Elder of the Sea God Pavilion, and Elder Xuan said the news should remain secret for his protection.
• Yan Shaozhe and Elder Xuan praised Chen Ping's achievements and urged him to win the upcoming tournament; Chen Ping revealed that he had reached level forty-eight and might become a Soul King before it began.
• Yan Shaozhe asked about Soul Spirits, and Chen Ping explained how he had gained a conscious Heavenly Snow Woman Soul Spirit while concealing Snow Empress's identity and Electrolux's role.

Elder Xuan escorted Chen Ping and the others toward Shrek Academy, where Zhang Peng ambushed them and was quickly injured by Xuan Zi. Zhang Peng defended his past actions, but Xuan Zi accused him of hiding the full truth about his crimes.

• The Snow Empress agreed to meet Chen Ping in the Far North someday in exchange for demonstrating the Snow Woman's power, impressing Elder Xuan.
• After a night's rest, Xian Liner led Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, Ye Xiaosheng, and the other students away while Elder Xuan, Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Chen Ping headed for Shrek Academy by air.
• Elder Xuan told Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo to guard Chen Ping and said he would handle any attackers himself.
• A mass of dark clouds took the shape of a tiger's head and attacked the group, but Elder Xuan's Soul Power fist shattered it and injured Zhang Peng.
• Zhang Peng accused Shrek of wrongly branding him an Evil Soul Master, and Xuan Zi mocked his claim by comparing it to being sentenced for picking up a rope while concealing the cow tied to it.

Xuan Zi confronted Zhang Peng over his past slaughter of Soul Beasts and his attempt to steal Shrek’s Thousand Refined Metal production method. As Zhang Peng admitted he had come only to test the waters, Chen Ping offered a solution that might bring the Super Douluo to Shrek.

• Xuan Zi condemned Zhang Peng for killing Soul Beasts in excess and blamed him for causing a small Beast Tide decades earlier.
• Zhang Peng confessed that Jing Hongchen had sent him to steal Shrek’s Thousand Refined Metal production method and promised him Rare Metal in return.
• Zhang Peng fought Xuan Zi with his Soul Rings and Martial Soul Avatar, but Xuan Zi’s attacks forced him onto the defensive.
• Zhang Peng claimed he was only a vanguard and promised to stop absorbing Soul Beast blood until Xuan Zi and Mu En died, enraging Xuan Zi.
• Chen Ping stepped forward and offered a way for Zhang Peng to continue cultivating without indiscriminately killing Soul Beasts.

Chen Ping tempted Zhang Peng with the possibility of using a Six-Winged Colorless Mosquito Queen Soul Spirit to obtain beast blood without killing soul beasts. Zhang Peng, whose cultivation was becoming difficult to sustain, grew eager to hear more.

• Zhang Peng dismissed Chen Ping’s claim, but Chen Ping cited Ning Tian’s success in Shrek Academy’s competitions to support his knowledge of Soul Spirits.
• Chen Ping explained that a Soul Spirit could command other soul beasts and proposed that a Six-Winged Colorless Mosquito Queen could gather beast blood for Zhang Peng.
• Chen Ping described the mosquito’s stealth and paralysis abilities and suggested its blood-gathering could spare Zhang Peng from slaughtering soul beasts.
• Zhang Peng called Chen Ping back after realizing that a Soul Spirit might provide him with a steady supply of high-aged soul beast blood.

Long Xiaoyao appeared and demanded that Shrek hand over Chen Ping and the Thousand Refined Metal refining process, revealing that he was acting for someone who had granted him a great favor. He refused to negotiate, leaving Xuan Zi and the others facing an imminent confrontation with the Limit Douluo.

• Long Xiaoyao stepped out of a crack in the air and stopped Zhang Peng and Xuan Zi from continuing their dispute.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo recognized Long Xiaoyao as a living Limit Douluo who was working for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Long Xiaoyao said he owed someone a great favor and demanded that Shrek hand over Chen Ping and demonstrate the Thousand Refined Metal refining method three times.
• Xuan Zi and Qian Duoduo protested Long Xiaoyao's demand, while Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo prepared for battle.
• Long Xiaoyao declared that his demand was not open to negotiation and threatened to force Shrek to comply.

Long Xiaoyao challenged Xuan Zi to withstand three attacks in exchange for the academy’s freedom and promised not to ask about the Thousand Refined Metal’s purification. Xuan Zi accepted to protect the metal, but after Long Xiaoyao’s first strike badly injured him, he insisted on facing the next attack.

• Long Xiaoyao offered a wager requiring someone to withstand three attacks and remain able to speak afterward.
• Xuan Zi accepted despite Qian Duoduo’s warning and transformed into his Godly Taotie Bull True Body after Long Xiaoyao’s first finger strike forced out his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Ping used the Gold of Life to treat Xuan Zi’s severe internal injuries, while Zhang Peng considered collecting his blood for cultivation.
• Qian Duoduo urged Xuan Zi to trade the Thousand Refined Metal, but Xuan Zi refused, saying Lin Er had explained its importance after Mu En’s death.
• Long Xiaoyao prepared his second attack as black dragon scales spread over his arm, and Xuan Zi told him to continue.

Chen Ping stepped in to take Xuan Zi’s remaining two moves from Long Xiaoyao, who changed the wager so Chen Ping had to withstand one attack and make Long Xiaoyao shift at least half a step. After revealing his unusual fourth Soul Ring, Chen Ping stopped Long Xiaoyao’s attack and proposed raising the stakes.

• Chen Ping offered to take Xuan Zi’s place, and Long Xiaoyao agreed while praising his physical strength and Mu En’s judgment.
• Long Xiaoyao revised the wager: Chen Ping had to remain standing after one attack and then force Long Xiaoyao to move half a step.
• Long Xiaoyao cleared a space in the bamboo forest, and Chen Ping followed him into it despite Qian Duoduo’s concern.
• Chen Ping summoned four Soul Rings, including an orange-gold fourth ring, which surprised Long Xiaoyao.
• As Long Xiaoyao began his attack, Chen Ping stopped him and said he wanted to raise the stakes.

Chen Ping raised the stakes in his wager with Long Xiaoyao, offering Spirit Forging and Molten Forging techniques alongside Thousand Refinement in exchange for Long Xiaoyao’s storage ring. Long Xiaoyao accepted and revealed his full soul ring configuration as he prepared to attack.

• Chen Ping summoned a Mechanical Forging Recoil-less Hammer that transformed into an arm guard, stunning Long Xiaoyao.
• Chen Ping explained that Spirit Forging and Molten Forging allowed the hammer to merge with its user and transform, then offered both techniques if he lost.
• Chen Ping demanded Long Xiaoyao’s Starlight Sapphire storage ring if he won, and Long Xiaoyao agreed to the raised wager.
• Long Xiaoyao stepped back and released his soul rings, revealing two yellow, one purple, four black, and two red rings.