Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping absorbed Scarlet King as a Soul Spirit and learned from Snow Empress that the God Realm forbade soul beasts from becoming gods. He brought Aromatic Silk Beauty into Qiankun Valley of Love Questioning to question her about Tang San, while preparing to fuse his demiplanes.

• Electrolux crushed the Divine Sense Spider, and Snow Empress told Scarlet King that Divine Sense was the only way to defeat Divine Sense Erosion.
• Snow Empress revealed that the God Realm forbade soul beasts from becoming gods, and Chen Ping allowed Scarlet King to share the information with Di Tian.
• Chen Ping summoned Scarlet King as a Soul Spirit, and the Auspicious Beast joyfully greeted him.
• Chen Ping captured Aromatic Silk Beauty and took her into Qiankun Valley of Love Questioning, where he observed the inverted Undead Demiplane above it.
• Chen Ping promised to spare Aromatic Silk Beauty if she told him everything Tang San had said to her, and she agreed.

Chen Ping learned from Aromatic Silk Beauty that Sea God Island’s priests had planted the Azure Serpent Flowers around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revealing that Tang San commanded a hidden force. He spared her after she shared the information, but as she left the Gate of the Undead, a Black Dragon Claw struck her down.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty told Chen Ping that a group led by the Second Sacred Pillar had planted the Azure Serpent Flowers and that two burly men had later delivered Tang San’s book and trials.
• Chen Ping concluded that the poisoned woman at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had likely been Dugu Yan and that the Second Sacred Pillar was Sea Dragon Douluo of Sea God Island.
• Chen Ping realized Tang San had influence over the Sea God Island priests and felt both alarmed by this hidden force and relieved to learn of it early.
• Chen Ping accepted Aromatic Silk Beauty’s testimony as sufficient and let her leave the Undead Demiplane.
• A Black Dragon Claw struck Aromatic Silk Beauty as she crossed the Gate of the Undead, and a crimson Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Level Left Leg Bone fell to the ground.

Di Tian killed Aromatic Silk Beauty and confronted Chen Ping over the danger his Soul Spirit System and potential Artificial Soul Rings posed to soul beasts. Chen Ping argued that Tang San and the God Realm were the greater threat, and Di Tian set him down after considering his warning.

• Di Tian appeared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and killed Aromatic Silk Beauty, leaving her soul ring and Left Leg Bone behind.
• Chen Ping emerged and faced Di Tian, who seized him in a dragon claw and considered killing him for endangering the auspicious beast.
• Chen Ping argued that his Soul Spirit System could reduce soul-beast killings, but Artificial Soul Rings could make humans stronger and worsen the soul beasts' plight.
• Di Tian decided he truly wanted to kill Chen Ping, but asked what made him confident he would be spared.
• Chen Ping warned that Tang San and the God Realm were conspiring against the Star Dou Forest and said he would have to defeat Tang San to secure peace.
• Di Tian weighed Chen Ping's warning and placed him back on the ground, recognizing that the soul beasts could not guard against Tang San indefinitely.

Chen Ping explained how Tang San had targeted the Auspicious Beast, and Di Tian punished the immortal herbs for their role in the schemes before taking the Auspicious Beast back to the Star Dou Forest. On the journey, Di Tian explained the Auspicious Beast clan’s Bottleneck of Destiny and asked to hear more about Chen Ping.

• Chen Ping shared Tang Wutong’s memories and explained Tang San’s earlier attempts to exploit the Auspicious Beast.
• Di Tian thanked Chen Ping’s teacher, then threatened the immortal herbs and spared them after they pledged submission.
• Di Tian took the Auspicious Beast away and said they still needed to find a way to recover their losses.
• Di Tian explained that Auspicious Beasts faced a Bottleneck of Destiny and asked the Auspicious Beast to tell him about Chen Ping and the Human World.

Chen Ping collected Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Soul Bone and Soul Ring, then prepared to use the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to strengthen his body. After consuming the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Pill Pearl, he faced the springs, determined to endure them so he could retrieve the Dragon Kings’ remains below.

• Chen Ping stored Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and Soul Ring, then replanted its flower body and seeds.
• Chen Ping tested the cold and Yang springs from a distance and found that even his Ultimate Ice Soul Power could not fully resist their extremes.
• Chen Ping ate the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, whose medicinal power began to protect his body from the springs’ heat and cold.
• Chen Ping resolved to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to retrieve the two Dragon Kings’ Soul Bones and remains before Di Tian could find them.
• Chen Ping swallowed Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Pill Pearl, which sharply reduced the threat of the springs’ cold and fire poisons.

Chen Ping endured three days of extreme pain in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his body into a Vajra Undying Body and elevate Scarlet King's Hellfire into Purgatory Demonic Flame. He then searched the Yang spring for the Soul Bones left by the Dragon Kings buried there.

• Chen Ping cultivated at the junction of the springs, enduring the opposing ice and fire energies as the Life Carving Knife healed and reforged his body.
• After three days, Chen Ping completed his Golden Body and found that the Yang spring's fire could no longer harm him.
• Chen Ping used Jade Phosphorous Ten Absolute Flowers pollen during his cultivation and carefully stored the remaining pollen for use against others.
• Chen Ping explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well formed around two Dragon Kings' remains and that their Soul Bones might still endure.
• Chen Ping plunged into the Yang spring to search for the Dragon Kings' Soul Bones.

Chen Ping descended into the Yang Spring to search for the Dragon Kings’ remains and found the enormous skeleton of the Fire Dragon King. He marveled at its scale before refocusing on finding its soul bones.

• Chen Ping dived deeper into the Yang Spring, using his Eye of True Sight to locate the Fire Dragon skeleton after his Spiritual Power failed.
• Chen Ping reached the skeleton and relied on Snow Empress’s power to endure the heat and divine pressure.
• Chen Ping discovered that a bone more than two hundred meters long was one of the Fire Dragon King’s ribs and realized the skeleton stretched over two thousand meters.
• Chen Ping dismissed the idea of turning the Dragon King’s remains into an Undead Creature without greater power and Electrolux’s revival.
• Chen Ping stopped dwelling on the Dragon Kings’ strength and resumed searching for their soul bones.

Chen Ping endured the crushing heat and pressure inside the Fire Dragon King's skull to find and retrieve its god-tier torso bone. After sending it and another Dragon King's soul bone into the Undead Demiplane, he escaped the spring before its Fire Element solidified.

• Chen Ping descended along the Fire Dragon King's spine and entered its skull, where dense Fire Element nearly crushed him.
• Chen Ping studied the skull's solid-liquid Fire Element and followed its slow circulation toward the center of a Red Vortex.
• Chen Ping found the complete Fire Dragon King's Torso Bone, protected by armor formed from flame energy.
• Chen Ping opened a Gate of the Undead and sent the torso bone into the Undead Demiplane, then escaped before the Fire Element could solidify.
• Chen Ping used the same method to send another Dragon King's soul bone into the demiplane and climbed out of the cold spring.

Chen Ping returned to Shrek Academy with two Lovesick Heartbreak Reds and told Mu En about Tang San’s lingering influence over the Human World. After hearing Chen Ping’s account, Mu En was shaken by the possibility that Tang San’s plans threatened the entire Soul Master World.

• Chen Ping plucked two Lovesick Heartbreak Reds, instructed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to replace Aromatic Silk Beauty, and returned to Shrek Academy.
• Chen Ping told Mu En that he had obtained the flowers to help heal Mu En’s soul injury and revealed that he had encountered Tang San’s Divine Sense again.
• Mu En sealed the room with Space Power and explained why he trusted Chen Ping’s accusations against Tang San.
• Chen Ping recounted his encounters with Tang San’s Divine Sense, what he learned in Qiankun Valley of Love Questioning, and his conclusions about Tang San’s motives.
• Mu En reacted with shock to Chen Ping’s revelations and wondered whether Tang San’s protections for Shrek Academy had also served selfish purposes.

Mu En resolved to uncover the Golden Ancient Tree’s secrets after Chen Ping’s treasures gave him hope of recovering and purging the Dragon Core’s baleful aura. As the Sun Moon Empire’s hostage crisis threatened war, Xuan Zi assigned Chen Ping to lead a covert rescue mission in Sunrise City.

• Mu En wondered why the Golden Ancient Tree had not grown stronger after absorbing generations of Sea God Pavilion Masters and decided to investigate once he recovered.
• Chen Ping’s return and the God of Food’s Crystal Caterpillar Sausage and Lovesick Heartbreak Red gave Mu En hope of healing and removing the last of the Dragon Core’s baleful aura.
• The Sea God Pavilion rejoiced at Mu En’s recovery prospects while Xuan Zi described the Sun Moon Empire’s kidnappings, hostage mutilations, and border provocations.
• Xuan Zi explained that Shrek and the Three Great Empires would send Soul Douluo-led squads to pressure the Sun Moon Empire without exceeding the limit on combat strength.
• Xuan Zi tasked Chen Ping’s squad with infiltrating Sunrise City to rescue the detained students, teachers, and sect elders, which would free the Three Great Empires to pressure the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers.

Chen Ping accepted command of a hostage-rescue mission in Sunrise City and chose his former tournament teammates for the squad. While preparing them for the operation, he revealed that an Immortal Grade Herb had raised his cultivation to level 68 and improved his talent.

• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe assigned Chen Ping to lead a hostage rescue in Sunrise City, supported by diversionary operations in other cities.
• Chen Ping requested Huo Yuhao for Spiritual Detection, declined large-scale attackers, and asked to take his former tournament teammates.
• Chen Ping arranged for the squad to hunt for Soul Rings before departing five days ahead of the mission.
• He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao questioned how Chen Ping expected the team to obtain Soul Rings so soon.
• Chen Ping revealed his level 68 cultivation and explained that an Immortal Grade Herb had boosted his cultivation and talent without the usual side effects.

Chen Ping revealed that he had found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and promised each of his companions an Immortal Grade Herb. He gave Huo Yuhao treasures to help Ma Xiao Tao and offered Wu Feng a Fire Dragon Grass, leaving the group preparing to benefit from the herbs.

• Chen Ping explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, along with his Sixth Soul Ring, had raised his Soul Power by eight levels and promised everyone a share of its Immortal Grade Herbs.
• Chen Ping assured Wang Dong that Immortal Grade Herbs could help those with Innate Full Soul Power and teased her for neglecting her cultural studies.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao an octagonal Frostheart Orb and red gel, explaining that the gel could ease Ma Xiao Tao's Evil Fire and the orb might become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit.
• Chen Ping told Wu Feng that he had found a more suitable herb for her than the red gel intended for Ma Xiao Tao.
• Chen Ping gave Wu Feng a Fire Dragon Grass and explained how to eat it while preserving its roots and stem for replanting.

Chen Ping distributed Immortal Grade Herbs to his companions and revealed that he had brought Ning Tian the Aromatic Silk Beauty. Ning Tian obtained the herb and the hope of restoring the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Chen Ping prepared to use Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve his Spiritual Power.

• Wu Feng eagerly took the Fire Dragon Grass, and Chen Ping handed Immortal Grade Herbs to He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong.
• Chen Ping explained that the herbs could improve his companions’ aptitude and cultivation, then watched them find places to cultivate.
• Chen Ping teased Ning Tian before revealing that he had brought her the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Ning Tian embraced and kissed Chen Ping, relieved that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School could once again produce a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• After Ning Tian left, Chen Ping took out Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve his Spiritual Power.

Chen Ping used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which greatly sharpened his vision and expanded his Sea of Consciousness. Ten days later, he led a team of powerful Soul Masters toward Sunrise City for a hostage rescue mission, leaving Xiao Xiao and Jing Ziyan behind in Shrek City.

• Chen Ping consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and found his eyes and Sea of Consciousness dramatically nourished.
• Ten days later, Chen Ping left Shrek City with Ji Juechen, He Caitou, Ning Tian, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Wu Feng, while Xiao Xiao and Jing Ziyan stayed behind with Nana.
• Chen Ping's team flew toward Sunrise City using customized Level Seven flying soul guidance devices supplied by Qian Duoduo.
• Ji Juechen rode his flying sword standing upright, letting the cold wind and rain batter his face as he pursued his idea of the flying sword path.

Chen Ping led his companions on a covert route across the Star Luo Empire to the Southern Sea Coast, planning to enter the Sun Moon Empire by sea and rescue the captured people. After they reached the beach at night, he took Wang Dong to catch fish for a barbecue.

• Chen Ping guided the group around cities and the Star Dou Great Forest, traveling south through the Star Luo Empire while explaining that the detour would help keep their plan secret.
• After flying all day, Chen Ping and his companions reached the Southern Sea Coast and watched the sunset over the sea.
• Chen Ping explained that the Academy’s powerhouses would draw enemy attention while their smaller group entered the Sun Moon Empire covertly to rescue the captives.
• Chen Ping told the group to rest on the shore and prepare a fish barbecue, then walked toward the sea with Wang Dong to catch fish.

Chen Ping used the Heart of the Ocean to shield himself and Wang Dong'er as they walked through the sea and gathered seafood, then explained that the artifact would let their group travel underwater the next day. After a large seafood feast, the group rested beside a bonfire and took turns keeping watch.

• Chen Ping rejected traveling by shuttle boat or flying, and revealed the Heart of the Ocean as their way to travel underwater.
• Chen Ping and Wang Dong'er walked into the sea inside the artifact's protective blue barrier and collected seafood from the reefs.
• Chen Ping and Wang Dong'er brought back buckets of seafood, astonishing the group with their haul.
• Chen Ping explained that the Heart of the Ocean could recharge itself in seawater and would power their underwater journey.
• The group ate a seafood feast, then meditated beside a bonfire and took turns keeping watch.

Chen Ping and the others traveled underwater to Haiyue City and quietly entered the Sun Moon Empire, while Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiao Tao began Shrek’s feint attack by destroying border detectors. The chapter ended as Ma Xiao Tao unleashed her World-Ending Destiny, Burner of All Things, against the Soul Guidance Devices.

• Chen Ping used the Heart of the Ocean and a new-model all-terrain Soul Guidance Device to guide the group beneath the sea toward Haiyue City.
• Chen Ping navigated around the Sun Moon Empire navy, then brought everyone ashore by climbing a cliff away from Sun Moon Port.
• Chen Ping and the others changed into local clothing, entered Haiyue City without inspection, and settled into a hotel.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiao Tao approached the Sun Moon Empire’s border and drew the High-Altitude Detectors’ attention.
• Zhang Lexuan used Moonlight Shock to trigger explosions in every High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Device within ten li.
• Ma Xiao Tao summoned her Extreme Fire Phoenix and unleashed World-Ending Destiny, Burner of All Things, against the Soul Guidance Devices.

Shrek and the allied empires launched a surprise bombardment against the Sun Moon Empire’s border camps, exposing the cost of its failure to adopt new defenses. Xu Tianran learned of the losses and blamed his political rivals for blocking military reforms as his control continued to weaken.

• After the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices were destroyed, Star Luo forces bombarded Sun Moon Empire positions with long-range Level Four Soul Guidance Cannons.
• The Sun Moon Empire commander charged at Ma Xiao Tao and Zhang Lexuan, but Ma Xiao Tao killed him before he could reach them.
• Across the border, surprise squads destroyed detection devices while artillery teams fired thousands of shells, devastating six Soul Engineer Legions and killing or wounding nearly a thousand soul engineers.
• Ju Zi explained to Xu Tianran that the allied forces’ new Flying Soul Guidance Devices and inexpensive long-range cannons had overwhelmed the border defenses.
• Xu Tianran blamed his younger brothers and the emperor for undermining his authority, then regretted not using a stronger poison against his father.

Ju Zi realized Xu Tianran had poisoned the Old Emperor with help from the Evil Soul Masters, while Xu Tianran ordered her to test the Linked Soul Guidance Device in the military. Outside Sunrise City, Chen Ping's group found its defenses nearly impossible to breach and discovered strange devices buried underground.

• Ju Zi connected Xu Tianran's poisoning of the Old Emperor to the Evil Soul Masters and nervously answered Xu Tianran's questions.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi to deploy Professor Mo Fang's Linked Defensive Soul Guidance Technology in a trial military unit.
• Chen Ping's seven-person group reconnoitered Sunrise City and found two Soul Engineer Legions and extensive detection devices guarding it.
• Chen Ping's group considered digging a tunnel, but Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection revealed strange buried Metal Pots beneath the city.
• Wang Dong asked what the strange underground objects were.

Chen Ping devised a way to enter Sunrise City after discovering the Sun Moon Empire had buried seismometers to prevent tunneling. He sent his companions into the Small World of the Other Shore and passed through the city inspection by secretly disabling its alarms and disguising the results.

• Chen Ping explained how the buried seismometers could detect and locate underground intruders, and the group abandoned their plan to tunnel into the city.
• Ji Juechen proposed drawing the Soul Engineer Legions away, but Wu Feng warned that the two legions outside made a direct fight too dangerous.
• Chen Ping sent the other six into the Gate of the Other Shore and said he would enter Sunrise City alone.
• Chen Ping shaped steel nails into fine needles and used them to temporarily block the Soul Power Detection devices' speakers.
• Chen Ping covered the detector's warning with the Mirage Shell, and the soldiers let him pass as an ordinary laborer.