Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping searched Sunrise City for the captives and tracked down a Spirit System Evil Soul Master who was torturing someone in a blood-soaked hall. After she sensed a slight disturbance and turned toward him, Chen Ping stayed hidden and waited.

• Chen Ping entered Sunrise City in disguise and spent hours memorizing the streets while searching for the captives' prison.
• Chen Ping used Feng Ling's fate in the Original Work to identify a likely Evil Soul Master and found her in a dilapidated building.
• Chen Ping concealed himself with the Rainbow Scale Mystic Light Mirage and entered the building, using his golden eyes to see through the darkness.
• Chen Ping saw the female Evil Soul Master whipping a suspended Soul Master amid scattered body parts and blood.
• The Evil Soul Master sensed a slight stir in Chen Ping's Spiritual Power, but Chen Ping remained motionless as she searched and hesitated.

Chen Ping confronted an Evil Soul Master who had discovered him and endured her spiritual Thorn Whip before overpowering her with brutal punches. As she escaped his finishing blow by splitting into shadows and revealed her hatred-driven past, Chen Ping judged her beyond redemption and unleashed Crimson Fiend Lightning.

• The female Evil Soul Master struck Chen Ping with her Thorn Whip, but his strengthened body and Spiritual Power let him withstand it.
• Chen Ping charged in and punched her through a wall, then smashed her skull with Pain Piercing Heavenly Spirit.
• The wounded Evil Soul Master unleashed a soul-shaking sound-wave technique that distorted nearby detection devices, but Chen Ping's blow had disrupted her ability to use it effectively.
• Chen Ping prepared to finish her, but she dispersed into countless shadows and described how her hatred had awakened her Revenge Soul.
• The Evil Soul Master blamed others for failing to save her and attacked Chen Ping, who condemned her for torturing ordinary people.
• Chen Ping activated his Sixth Soul Ring and attacked her with Crimson Fiend Lightning.

Chen Ping killed a female Evil Soul Master with Scarlet King’s Crimson Fiend Lightning, then disguised himself as her and escaped while the Imperial Court’s soldiers covered up evidence of her crimes. He later reunited with his companions at a hotel, where they learned of the battle the next morning.

• Chen Ping unleashed Crimson Fiend Lightning and Purgatory Fire, killing the female Soul Douluo and destroying her body.
• Chen Ping disguised himself as the female Evil Soul Master and left the scene as soldiers arrived.
• The soldiers found dozens of gruesome human corpses but were ordered by their commander to keep quiet and report the matter to his superiors.
• Nearby residents blamed corruption and the Imperial Court’s appeasement of Evil Soul Masters for their unchecked crimes.
• Chen Ping rented a private hotel room, brought out his companions, and slept; they learned about the previous night’s commotion the next day.

Chen Ping used information extracted from the slain Evil Soul Master Wu Yun to locate hundreds of weakened hostages in a Water Prison beneath Sunrise City. He outlined a two-group rescue plan, noting that the prison’s former guard, Holy Spirit Cult Deputy Cult Master Feng Ling, had recently been transferred away.

• Chen Ping revealed that the liches had obtained detailed intelligence from Wu Yun, including the Water Prison’s location beneath Sunrise City’s South City Wall and its entrance at Soldier's Rest Cave.
• The group learned that several hundred prisoners had been weakened by Soul Extinguishing Powder and deprived of food and water, making their evacuation the main challenge.
• Chen Ping said the rescue would require two groups and told Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Ji Juechen to create a diversion outside the city three days later and flee through the Gate of the Other Shore if necessary.
• Chen Ping identified Wu Yun as the former head of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Sunrise City branch and said Feng Ling, the rank ninety-seven Deputy Cult Master who had guarded the hostages, had been transferred away two days earlier.

Chen Ping planned to infiltrate Sunrise City’s Water Prison by disguising himself as the dead Evil Soul Master Wu Yun. After surveying the prison and its guards, he headed for the South City Gate’s Soldier’s Rest Cave to begin the infiltration.

• Chen Ping explained that he would impersonate Wu Yun and enter the Water Prison, while Yu Hao would set off fireworks outside after three days.
• Chen Ping transformed into Wu Yun and demonstrated how Snake’s Soul Searching had given him the memories and personality details needed to impersonate her.
• Chen Ping entered a restaurant Wu Yun often visited and used his Spiritual Power to locate the Water Prison beneath the moat.
• Chen Ping discovered that the prison held weakened contestants and team leaders from the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, guarded by Evil Soul Masters.
• After confirming that none of the guards surpassed Wu Yun’s former cultivation, Chen Ping went to the Soldier’s Rest Cave at the South City Gate.

Chen Ping disguised himself as the deranged Wu Yun while the Third Elder, Fourth Elder Nangong Wan, Huang Zheng, and Mork arrived at the Water Prison. They inspected the prisoners and ordered their captors to keep the hostages alive, leaving Chen Ping still at risk of being recognized.

• Chen Ping approached the soldiers pretending to be Wu Yun, then froze when the Third Elder, Nangong Wan, Huang Zheng, and Mork appeared.
• Chen Ping maintained his bizarre act as Nether Lightning Douluo and Nangong Wan discussed Wu Yun's condition and the deaths of the Holy Spirit Cult's younger generation.
• Nangong Wan urged Huang Zheng and Mork to become Seventh Level Soul Engineers and eventually take revenge on Chen Ping.
• The four men entered the Soldier's Rest Cave and inspected the hostages in the Water Prisons.
• An Evil Soul Master reported that the prisoners were being given Soul Extinguishing Powder and nutritional supplements, and Nangong Wan ordered that they be kept alive and asked whether their wounds had been treated.

Chen Ping studied the Evil Soul Masters’ factional infighting and decided to impersonate Wu Yun by acting as unpredictably as the Chaotic Evil members. He left the Water Prison guards eating Soul Extinguishing Powder and confronted the supervisor about currying favor with the Third Elder and Fourth Elder.

• The Water Prison supervisor tried to win the Third Elder and Fourth Elder’s favor, while Chen Ping learned how poorly Wu Yun’s subordinates regarded their superior.
• After the elders returned to their hotel, Chen Ping finished reviewing the Liches’ intelligence and prepared to handle the guards as Wu Yun.
• Chen Ping kicked the Seven Ring Soul Saint supervisor and accused the guards of failing to administer Soul Extinguishing Powder.
• Chen Ping claimed the powder might be spoiled and forced the guards to eat handfuls of it to test its potency.
• When the supervisor tried to avoid eating the powder, Chen Ping struck him down and revealed that he knew the man had cozied up to the two elders.

Chen Ping tested Soul Extinguishing Powder on the Evil Soul Masters guarding the Water Prison, then used the weakened guards to rescue the prisoners. He told the captives to stay quiet and prepare for a breakout in three days, while a Heavenly Dragon Gate elder caught his attention.

• Chen Ping made the Evil Soul Masters consume Soul Extinguishing Powder until they could no longer gather Soul Power.
• Chen Ping signaled Wu Feng, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian, who killed the weakened guards in a swift attack.
• Chen Ping revealed himself to the prisoners as part of a Shrek rescue team and instructed them to remain quiet and prepare for their escape in three days.
• An elderly prisoner introduced himself as the Vice Sect Master of Heavenly Dragon Gate, and Chen Ping noticed something unusual about him.

Chen Ping and his companions secretly aided the prisoners in the Water Prison, treating their injuries and giving them food and water while preserving the planned breakout. As Chen Ping rested in disguise, Nether Lightning Douluo noticed the missing prisoners and the fresh scent of blood.

• The Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Dragon Gate and the Ao Jian Sect elder warned Chen Ping not to move the senior prisoners, since it would arouse the Titled Douluo's suspicions and jeopardize the breakout plan.
• Chen Ping treated several hundred imprisoned Soul Masters with his life force, while Ning Tian and the others handed out food and drinking water.
• The prisoners' gratitude gave Chen Ping a powerful surge of pure Faith Power, and he collapsed from exhaustion in the corridor.
• Chen Ping returned to Wu Yun's appearance as Ning Tian and the others, disguised in Holy Spirit Cult robes, scattered Soul Extinguishing Powder into the Water Prisons.
• Nether Lightning Douluo entered with Huang Zheng and Mork, noticed that many prisoners were gone, and questioned Wu Yun after smelling fresh blood.

Chen Ping used Pill Pearl to neutralize the Soul Extinguishing Powder in the Water Prison while fooling Nether Lightning Douluo into thinking it was still effective. Three days later, he set off a coordinated attack in Sunrise City that disrupted the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses and ended with explosions across the northern gate.

• Nether Lightning Douluo questioned Chen Ping about the missing Evil Soul Masters, then inspected the genuine Soul Extinguishing Powder and left the Water Prison.
• Chen Ping revealed that Pill Pearl had temporarily neutralized the powder in the prison water, allowing the hostages to recover while the powder remained genuine when tested.
• Three days later, Chen Ping and two others waited outside Sunrise City as darkness weakened the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices.
• At the agreed time, Chen Ping fired his High-Energy Heavy Soul Guidance Focusing Cannon at the Level Seven Fixed Armor-Piercing Bombs in Wu Yun’s former residence, triggering explosions underground.
• The blasts disrupted the high-altitude soul guidance devices’ locking effect, and further explosions erupted at multiple points inside and outside Sunrise City’s northern gate.

He Caitou’s attack crippled Sunrise City’s defenses and devastated the Soul Engineer Legion positions outside the city. As Third Elder and Fourth Elder rushed north, the Water Prison’s prisoners prepared to act while Mork exposed his Evil Soul Master nature.

• He Caitou’s forces destroyed the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices and bombarded the Soul Engineer Legions’ eastern and western positions.
• A Level Eight Standard Underground Sliding Shell exploded beneath the northern encampment, while shells shattered the detection and defense Soul Tools atop the city walls.
• He Caitou returned to the Soldier's Rest Cave and joined Ning Tian and the others as Third Elder and Fourth Elder flew north.
• Mork and Huang Zheng remained at the Water Prison, unaware that its supervisor had been replaced and its prisoners had completed Accumulating Momentum.
• After the Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Dragon Gate taunted him, Mork grabbed the old man by the throat and threatened him with a carving knife.

He Caitou and the disguised Evil Soul Masters captured Mork as the Water Prison operation began, while Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen fought a Soul Engineer Legion outside Sunrise City. The prisoners broke out of the southern Water Prison and charged into the nearby camp.

• Mork discovered the old man was a Soul Douluo, but the Evil Soul Masters killed Huang Zheng and the Heavenly Dragon Gate Vice Sect Master knocked Mork unconscious.
• Ji Juechen used his Azure Halberd Sword to slaughter Soul Engineers, killing the Camp Commander and destroying the battalion’s formation.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to coordinate their withdrawal, and Nether Lightning Douluo and Nangong Wan found the northern camp in ruins.
• The prisoners blew apart the bars connecting the moat to the Water Prison and surged toward the south.
• The escaped prisoners, many of them powerful Soul Masters, flooded into the Soul Engineer camp and overwhelmed its weaker troops.

Chen Ping and the hostages fought their way out of Sunrise City’s Water Prison, but reinforcements approached from Mingdu. After Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan exposed Chen Ping and attacked him with poison, Chen Ping revealed his Indestructible Golden Body and prepared to fight while Yu Gangfeng and the Ao Jian Sect elder engaged Nether Lightning Douluo.

• The hostages charged through the Evil Soul Masters and Soul Engineers as a signal flare warned that reinforcements were approaching from the north.
• Nangong Wan recognized Chen Ping and attacked him with Heavenly Centipede Poison, while Nether Lightning Douluo drove back the Ao Jian Sect elder.
• Chen Ping swallowed the poison mist unharmed and spat it at the Evil Soul Masters behind Nangong Wan and Nether Lightning Douluo.
• Chen Ping told Yu Gangfeng to join the Ao Jian Sect elder against Nether Lightning Douluo while he handled Nangong Wan.
• Nether Lightning Douluo unleashed Demon Skull Seven Stars, Hell Thunderclap against Yu Gangfeng and the Ao Jian Sect elder.

Ning Tian boosted Chen Ping and two Soul Douluo with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Chen Ping used his strange six-armed form to overwhelm Heavenly Centipede Douluo. The chapter left Heavenly Centipede Douluo terrified and considering escape before Mingdu’s reinforcements arrived.

• Ning Tian boosted Chen Ping, Yu Gangfeng, and Wu Liao’s attributes by eighty percent with her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Chen Ping used his Flying Soul Guidance Device to ram Nangong Wan and send him flying.
• Nangong Wan activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Chen Ping as a giant centipede.
• Chen Ping transformed into a Three Heads Six Arms form, blocked the centipede’s claws, and wounded it with Crimson Fiend Lightning and poison.
• Chen Ping’s Star Tumor Staff struck Heavenly Centipede Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar and sent him flying.
• Heavenly Centipede Douluo feared Chen Ping’s strength and decided he needed to escape before Mingdu’s reinforcements arrived.

Chen Ping used Ultimate Ice and his Poison Palm to kill Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan, then warned Yu Gangfeng and Wu Liao not to pursue the fleeing Nether Lightning Douluo. Drained of Soul Power as the Beast King Soul Engineer Legion approached Sunrise City, Chen Ping opened a pitch-black door.

• Nangong Wan sprayed his Innate poison mist and tried to flee, but Chen Ping froze and thinned the mist with Snow Drifting.
• Chen Ping appeared before Nangong Wan and struck his Martial Soul Avatar with Poison Palm, Jade Phosphorous Ten Absolute, freezing and poisoning him.
• Chen Ping smashed Nangong Wan's head with his three staffs, killing Centipede Douluo.
• Nether Lightning Douluo fled as Yu Gangfeng and Wu Liao fought the Evil Soul Masters, and Chen Ping stopped the two Soul Douluo from chasing him.
• Chen Ping absorbed energy from two Milk Bottles as the Beast King Soul Engineer Legion neared Sunrise City, then opened a pitch-black door.

Chen Ping and Shrek Academy carried out a portal-based rescue, freeing the prisoners and escaping the Beast King Soul Engineer Legion’s pursuit. After the operation, Chen Ping reached Soul Power Level 69 and looked ahead to becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Chen Ping sent the prisoners through a portal as the Beast King Soul Engineer Legion arrived, then escaped through it with Yu Gangfeng and Wu Liao.
• At the north side of the city, Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen distributed maps and Flying Soul Guidance Devices to the escaping Soul Masters, who flew away at high speed.
• Huo Yuhao closed the portal after Chen Ping and the two Soul Douluo emerged, and Yu Gangfeng and Wu Liao praised Chen Ping for killing the Heavenly Centipede Douluo.
• Chen Ping sensed that the battle had raised his Soul Power Level to 69 and resolved to reach the Titled Douluo realm before turning twenty.
• Wu Feng offered to help Chen Ping fly while he recovered, and Ning Tian teased her for wanting to take advantage of him.

Nether Lightning Douluo escaped the battle and was intercepted by Wang Yiheng and the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion, then learned that the hostages had all escaped. Xu Tianran questioned the legion commanders and summoned the State Preceptor as the Sun Moon Empire faced the consequences of the escape.

• The Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion surrounded Nether Lightning Douluo, who claimed he was on their side and showed his token.
• Wang Yiheng ordered Nether Lightning Douluo to surrender, but Nether Lightning Douluo unleashed his Martial Soul and disabled the Soul Guidance Devices aimed at him.
• Nether Lightning Douluo explained that Heavenly Centipede Douluo had died fighting a Soul Emperor, and challenged Wang Yiheng for failing to catch the fleeing hostages.
• Wang Yiheng began to say that a junior with Soul Emperor-level Soul Power had mastered spatial abilities, then stopped himself.
• Xu Tianran questioned the commanders of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion and the two legions stationed near Sunrise City about the hostages' escape.
• Xu Tianran ordered someone to summon the State Preceptor and questioned the Holy Spirit Cult's failure to guard the hostages.

Xu Tianran learned that Chen Ping had led the rescue of the hostages in Sunrise City and suspected that Shrek and the allied empires had arranged the operation. Furious at the Holy Spirit Cult’s failures, Zhong Li Wu demanded that Third Elder accept punishment.

• Wang Yiheng identified the mysterious Soul Emperor as Chen Ping and reported that he had transported the hostages away through a Space Door.
• Xu Tianran recognized Chen Ping as the former Shrek Team captain who had won the tournament and taken a Rank Nine Soul Guidance Device from him.
• Nether Lightning Douluo showed Xu Tianran moat water in which the Soul Extinguishing Powder remained effective, leading Xu Tianran to suspect that the poison had been neutralized by an unknown method.
• A border report revealed that Shrek’s powerhouses and more than thirty powerful Soul Masters from three allied empires had disappeared, apparently to receive the rescued hostages.
• Xu Tianran rebuked Zhong Li Wu over the rescue, and Zhong Li Wu ordered Third Elder to tear off his right big toe as punishment for the failure.

Xu Tianran responded to Zhong Li Wu’s show of force by preparing for war and plotting to exploit the Holy Spirit Cult, while Chen Ping’s growing legend led the Three Great Empires to jointly enfeoff him as a king. The chapter ended with Chen Ping asking Elder Xuan about Elder Mu’s condition at Shrek Academy.

• Zhong Li Wu killed the two Soul Engineers responsible for the city’s defenses, then left Xu Tianran to prepare for the likely war.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to summon senior generals for a Grand Court Session and considered using the Holy Spirit Cult while consolidating military power.
• A month later, Chen Ping and Elder Xuan watched students train in Shrek Academy’s Outer Courtyard Soul Arena.
• Chen Ping’s fame spread through exaggerated stories, and factions disagreed over how to portray him in their Shrines of Remembrance.
• The Three Great Empires jointly enfeoffed Chen Ping as a king, and Chen Ping asked Elder Xuan how Elder Mu was doing.

Chen Ping discussed his jointly bestowed title of King Wu'an and the strange Faith Power it brought, while Electrolux explained how the title’s many authorities could support a path toward a God King position. Chen Ping was left frustrated with the God Realm and its irresponsible gods.

• Xuan Zi told Chen Ping that Mu En remained stable in seclusion while slowly using the supreme treasure to wear away the Dragon Core’s baleful aura.
• Chen Ping dismissed his royal title as a political mascot and hot potato, though he acknowledged that offerings from the public and imperial families now gathered Faith Power within him continuously.
• Chen Ping described the varied and troublesome wishes that believers directed to him through their prayers.
• Electrolux explained that gods could hold multiple divine authorities and proposed combining Chen Ping’s four titles within one God Position as a path toward becoming a God King.
• Chen Ping sighed over the plan and condemned the God Realm’s first-generation gods of goodness and evil for abandoning their duties to gamble.