Chapter Summaries

Long Ao Tian told Chen Ping that Xu Tianran had restored the Sun Moon Empire army’s morale and led a renewed invasion of the Heaven Dou Empire. As Soul Guidance Mine Sweepers and other countermeasures accelerated the arms race, Long Ao Tian warned that the empire’s advance was difficult to slow.

• Long Ao Tian told Chen Ping that Xu Tianran had arrived at the border, executed Ju Zi for colluding with Evil Soul Masters, and restored the soldiers’ morale by sharing their hardships.
• Xu Tianran reorganized the Sun Moon Empire’s army and led it to capture four Heaven Dou Empire cities in just over ten days.
• Long Ao Tian explained that the Sun Moon Empire had developed Soul Guidance Mine Sweepers to detect buried cannon shells and prevent another border explosion.
• The Heaven Dou Empire used Chen Ping’s Soul Guidance Grenade Launchers to bombard mine-clearing troops and slow the invasion, but the Sun Moon Empire was preparing countermeasures.
• Long Ao Tian said the Heaven Dou Empire needed a way to block or shoot down the Sun Moon Empire’s High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices to delay its advance.

Long Ao Tian told Chen Ping about the Heaven Dou Empire’s worsening military and political situation, including Xu Tianran’s advance and the princes’ attempts to obstruct him. Chen Ping suspected Xu Tianran had a hidden supply line, then thought of using the Sea Demon Elephant clan’s Sky Banning Conches to bring down the Sun Moon Empire’s detection devices, leaving Long Ao Tian surprised by his apparent idea.

• Long Ao Tian relayed Wei Na’s report that Xu Tianran had left the Imperial Court and that three princes were hindering his campaign through their posts in key ministries.
• Chen Ping considered how Xu Tianran’s army could keep advancing despite delays to its supplies and suspected that Xu Tianran had a private supply line.
• Chen Ping recalled that the Sea Demon Elephant clan’s Sky Banning Conches could disperse air and force flying targets out of the sky.
• Chen Ping realized the conches might disable the Sun Moon Empire’s high-altitude detection soul guidance devices, and Long Ao Tian asked whether he had a solution.

Wei Na and Long Ao Tian sought Shrek’s help for the Heaven Dou Empire, and Chen Ping proposed ways to slow the Sun Moon Empire’s advance. He promised to deal with Xu Tianran’s supply line and detection devices, leaving Long Ao Tian hopeful but uncertain.

• Wei Na asked whether Shrek could prioritize arms for the Heaven Dou Empire and lend it Shrek City Guard units.
• Long Ao Tian described the Heaven Dou Empire’s plan to harass the Sun Moon Empire’s rear with elite squads from the Body Sect and its own Soul Masters.
• Chen Ping advised the Heaven Dou Empire to destroy records in cities before they fell, making captured territories harder for the Sun Moon Empire to govern.
• Chen Ping suggested retaking cities once the Sun Moon Empire reduced its forces there, then attacking Xu Tianran’s Soul Engineer Legions from both sides.
• Chen Ping promised to address Xu Tianran’s private supply line and the High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices, and warned Long Ao Tian to obtain better defensive equipment.

Chen Ping planned a northern journey to secure materials, investigate the Sun Moon Empire, and find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his Seventh Soul Ring. He agreed to take Nan Qiūqiū as his guide, provided they retreated if danger arose.

• Chen Ping planned to visit Dragon City and negotiate with the Heavenly Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate for help and Ice Extreme Divine Crystal metal.
• Chen Ping considered traveling through the Far North, investigating the Sun Moon Empire's secret support for Xu Tianran, and hunting a suitable Soul Beast.
• Chen Ping prepared to travel alone, relying on Huo Yuhao's portals to summon reinforcements if needed.
• Nan Qiūqiū asked to accompany Chen Ping to Dragon City, explaining that she wanted to help as a local guide.
• Chen Ping agreed to take Nan Qiūqiū and study her Rouge Dragon Martial Soul, with the condition that they retreat if the situation became dangerous.

Chen Ping learned that the Dragon Girl he had brought to Shrek Academy was named Xian Yong Shuang and went to see her after six years apart. Their reunion left him impressed by her rapid cultivation and talent for making Soul Guidance Devices.

• Nan Qiūqiū told Chen Ping that the Dragon Girl was named Yong Shuang and had taken Dean Xian's surname, becoming Xian Yong Shuang.
• Chen Ping decided to visit Xian Yong Shuang before leaving with Nan Qiūqiū.
• Xian Yong Shuang was carving a Soul Guidance Device in Xian Liner's laboratory when Chen Ping arrived, and she accidentally damaged the Core Array in surprise.
• Chen Ping greeted Xian Yong Shuang, who shyly called him Senior Brother after six years apart.
• Chen Ping observed that Xian Yong Shuang had advanced from an unranked Soul Master to a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor and showed exceptional Soul Guidance Device talent.

Chen Ping reunited with Yong Shuang, who thanked him for rescuing her and offered her dragon blood to help his Martial Soul evolve into a Coiling Dragon Staff. He declined her offer and tried to end the awkward conversation, but Yong Shuang asked him for a favor related to his upcoming trip north.

• Yong Shuang thanked Chen Ping for buying her from the Starlight Auction House and giving her a life as a Soul Master and Soul Engineer.
• Yong Shuang offered to provide Chen Ping with more blood for Dragon Girl's Lament, and he agreed he might use it in the future.
• Yong Shuang offered her dragon blood essence to help Chen Ping's Willow Staff evolve into a Coiling Dragon Staff, but he told her he did not need it.
• Chen Ping told Yong Shuang that he and Nan Qiūqiū planned to travel from the northern part of the Heaven Dou Empire to the North Sea.
• Yong Shuang traced Chen Ping's route and asked him to do her a favor.

Chen Ping and Nan Qiūqiū flew north from Shrek City toward Dragon City, discussing Yong Shuang’s request to search for surviving members of her Dragon Girl clan along their route. Their conversation ended with Nan Qiūqiū envying Chen Ping’s Soul Core and worrying about her own chances of becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Chen Ping and Nan Qiūqiū left Shrek City and flew north toward Dragon City.
• Nan Qiūqiū asked Chen Ping about his visit with Yong Shuang, and he explained that she had asked him to look for surviving members of her clan near the North Sea route.
• Chen Ping told Nan Qiūqiū that Yong Shuang’s clan had been hunted, captured, and scattered, and that he would invite any survivors to Shrek and the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Nan Qiūqiū praised Yong Shuang’s wisdom and discussed her cultivation talent with Chen Ping.
• Nan Qiūqiū envied Chen Ping’s Soul Core and worried that she might not become a Titled Douluo.

Chen Ping explained how spiritual power supported Soul Core fusion and described plans for Artificial Soul Cores that could help other Soul Masters cultivate. He then reached Dragon City, where he found High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices deployed as the city faced a likely invasion.

• Chen Ping told Nan Qiūqiū that he wanted to make sure no one struggled to condense a Soul Core again and stressed the importance of training spiritual power.
• Chen Ping explained that spiritual power helped control and stabilize Soul Cores, then described Artificial Soul Cores and possible ways to use Low-Speed Soul Cores.
• Nan Qiūqiū asked whether she could receive an Artificial Soul Core, and Chen Ping promised one for her and the others after he finished his current tasks.
• Chen Ping flew toward Dragon City and considered its strategic vulnerability to the Sun Moon Empire and the evacuation of many civilians.
• Chen Ping reached Dragon City and used his spiritual power to detect several High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices above it.

Chen Ping entered Dragon City with Nan Qiūqiū and reunited with Yu Tianlong and the Heavenly Dragon Gate patrol, who welcomed him as the benefactor who had saved their Sect. After agreeing to visit Earth Dragon Gate first, Chen Ping considered the nearby Ore Vein and planned to visit Heavenly Dragon Gate before continuing to the Far North.

• Chen Ping and Nan Qiūqiū entered Dragon City after walking from a concealed grove and observed its defenses and the city’s decline.
• Yu Tianlong recognized Chen Ping and led the Heavenly Dragon Gate patrol in trying to bow to him, but Chen Ping stopped them with his Soul Power.
• Yu Tianlong told Chen Ping that Nan Qiūqiū’s mother had helped the military obtain advanced equipment and invited him to receive a gift from the Vice Sect Master.
• Nan Qiūqiū suggested that Chen Ping visit Earth Dragon Gate before Heavenly Dragon Gate, and Yu Tianlong’s group returned to inform their Sect Master of his arrival.
• Chen Ping agreed to visit Nan Qiūqiū’s mother, then Heavenly Dragon Gate, before heading to the Far North, while recalling the massive Ore Vein near Dragon City.

Chen Ping visited the Earth Dragon Gate and offered to buy its secret realm for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins. Nan Shuǐshuǐ accepted the offer after Chen Ping’s wealth left her stunned.

• Nan Shuǐshuǐ thanked Chen Ping for helping the Earth Dragon Gate’s disciples return safely from the Sun Moon Empire and for the Sect’s survival.
• Nan Shuǐshuǐ led Chen Ping and Nan Qiūqiū to the Earth Dragon Gate’s secret realm, located beside a cold well.
• Chen Ping admitted he had come to see the secret realm and offered to buy it for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Nan Shuǐshuǐ mistook Chen Ping’s offer for one hundred million Copper Soul Coins before learning he meant Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ping mentioned his liquid funds and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s billions in reserves, and Nan Shuǐshuǐ agreed to the sale to stop his offers.

Chen Ping bought Earth Dragon Gate’s cold spring secret realm for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins and descended into its hidden cave to investigate the rumored vein of ice-attributed Rare Metal. He entered the cave unharmed, finding an extreme cold that invigorated his Ultimate Ice Soul Power, and prepared to explore further.

• Chen Ping paid Nan Shuǐshuǐ one hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the cold spring secret realm, and she shared Earth Dragon Gate’s account of a hidden cave and a lost piece of icy Rare Metal.
• Nan Shuǐshuǐ explained how to open the cave and warned Chen Ping about the lethal cold before he descended into the spring.
• Chen Ping sank through the spring, using his Spiritual Power to locate the cave entrance and discover a deep, intensely cold spring eye.
• Chen Ping found and opened the cave mechanism, then passed through a strange barrier that kept the spring water out.
• Chen Ping entered the cave and found that its powerful cold could not harm him and instead invigorated his Ultimate Ice Soul Power.

Chen Ping and Snow Empress discovered a cave filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, which indicated that a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave lay within. Snow Empress explained that its marrow could strengthen powerful ice beings and might let her form a new energy body, but she teased Chen Ping about settling for one while he found better bodies for Scarlet King and Old Yi.

• Chen Ping summoned Snow Empress, and they discovered that the crystal-lined cave was filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.
• Snow Empress recognized the crystals as signs of a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave and excitedly explained the marrow’s power to advance ice-attribute beings and help them survive heavenly tribulations.
• Snow Empress told Chen Ping that Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow might let her condense an energy body and live independently of him.
• Chen Ping happily welcomed the possibility of reshaping Snow Empress’s body, recalling his promise to find Old Yi a new one.
• Snow Empress teased Chen Ping that using the marrow for an energy body would let him avoid finding her a better body later.

Chen Ping and Snow Empress explored the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, where Snow Empress explained how the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow could help Chen Ping form a second Soul Core. Chen Ping collected the cave’s Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and descended into a hidden chamber filled with overwhelming cold, leaving him intent on creating more blessed lands for Douluo Star.

• Snow Empress teased Chen Ping about the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, then explained that absorbing it could reduce the difficulty of forming his second Soul Core.
• Chen Ping agreed to collect the marrow and removed the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, which he thought could be used to make a Rank 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
• Chen Ping entered the spring source and endured its intensifying cold as his Soul Power absorbed the ultimate chill.
• Chen Ping fell into a hidden, waterless cave, where the freezing air nearly immobilized him.
• Chen Ping recognized the cave’s abundant Heaven and Earth Vitality and resolved to create more blessed lands for Douluo Star using the Dragon King remains and other resources.

Chen Ping absorbed more than ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, then spent two days refining their power and strengthening his body and Soul Power. He reached the Heavenly Dragon Gate, where its Sect Master and Vice Sect Master welcomed him and argued over their past failure to help him fight Nether Lightning Douluo.

• Chen Ping absorbed more than ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow from the hidden ice spring beneath the Earth Dragon Gate.
• Nan Qiūqiū and Nan Shuǐshuǐ were alarmed by Chen Ping’s bluish-green appearance, but he reassured them that he was fine and had gained greatly.
• Chen Ping spent two days refining the marrow’s energy, improving his Soul Power and his connection to the elemental energy around him.
• Yu Tianlong welcomed Chen Ping to the Heavenly Dragon Gate and escorted him to meet the Sect Master and Vice Sect Master.
• The Heavenly Dragon Gate’s Sect Master praised Chen Ping’s strength, and the Vice Sect Master argued with him over why he had not joined Chen Ping against Nether Lightning Douluo.

Chen Ping received the Heavenly Dragon Gate’s offer of dragon scales in exchange for helping its young members reach Shrek Academy. He accepted only the Silver Dragon Scales, and the Old Sect Master then entrusted him with the sect’s Dragon Pearl.

• Chen Ping sensed that the Old Sect Master’s Martial Soul resembled both Bei Bei’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and Elder Mu’s Light Sacred Dragon.
• Vice Sect Master Yu Gangfeng showed Chen Ping treasure boxes filled with scales from Silver and other true dragons.
• The Old Sect Master asked Chen Ping to take the Heavenly Dragon Gate’s young members, including Yu Tianlong, to Shrek Academy before the Sun Moon Empire attacked.
• Chen Ping accepted the box of Silver Dragon Scales but said he would return the other scales to Yu Tianlong.
• The Old Sect Master and Yu Gangfeng gave Chen Ping the Heavenly Dragon Gate’s secret treasure, the Dragon Pearl.

Chen Ping learned that the Dragon Pearl could lead a suitably ranked Soul Master into the dangerous Dragon Valley, where dragon souls could strengthen the body or evolve a Martial Soul. He accepted the pearl, arranged for the younger members of the Heavenly Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate to relocate to Shrek Academy, and set off through the Sun Moon Empire wearing it in hopes of finding a way into Dragon Valley.

• Vice Sect Master Yu Gangfeng explained that the Dragon Pearl could transport a Soul Master into Dragon Valley, where Soul Power and Martial Souls would be suppressed.
• The Old Sect Master described Dragon Valley's dragon souls and revealed that defeating compatible ones had helped evolve his Martial Soul into the Light Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• The Old Sect Master entrusted the Dragon Pearl to Chen Ping and asked him to help the Heavenly Dragon Gate's young disciples settle at Shrek Academy.
• Chen Ping arranged a hotel for the younger members of the Heavenly Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate, but their older powerhouses refused to flee before Dragon City fell.
• After learning the precautions for entering Dragon Valley, Chen Ping traveled toward the Far North and then into the Sun Moon Empire with the Dragon Pearl around his neck, hoping to encounter a spatial rift.

Chen Ping identified Oak City in Brilliant Province as a likely supply hub for Xu Tianran’s army and found it guarded by a Soul Engineer Legion. Meanwhile, Shrek City’s three City Guard Soul Engineer Legions assembled for an exercise, and Shi Xing turned to Huo Yuhao to lead what came next.

• Long Ao Tian suspected Brilliant Province was secretly supplying Xu Tianran, and Chen Ping set out to strike its grain and logistics hubs.
• Chen Ping reached Oak City and saw that a Soul Engineer Legion was guarding the city, confirming his suspicion that it served as a major supply center.
• Chen Ping considered destroying the province’s grain stores and supplies to cripple Xu Tianran’s campaign.
• Shrek City’s three City Guard Soul Engineer Legions assembled outside the city after receiving orders for an exercise.
• Shi Xing told Huo Yuhao that the next step depended on him.

Huo Yuhao led three Shrek City Guard legions toward the Star Dou Forest for an urgent exercise, explaining to Shi Xing that Chen Ping had requested Shrek’s help from the Sun Moon Empire. Meanwhile, Oak City guards discussed their lax patrols before noticing the sky suddenly darken.

• Huo Yuhao ordered Shrek City Guard Legions One, Two, and Three to move to their exercise positions near the Star Dou Forest.
• Shi Xing questioned Huo Yuhao about the sudden mobilization, and Huo Yuhao revealed that Chen Ping had requested help from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao told Shi Xing to ready the three Soul Engineer Legions, saying he would soon understand the reason for the exercise.
• Ten Oak City guards grumbled about their patrol and discussed the Soul Engineer Legion stationed to defend the city.
• The Oak City guards looked up when the sky suddenly went dark.

Chen Ping opened three enormous Space Doors over Oak City, allowing Huo Yuhao to direct Shrek’s three Soul Engineer Legions in a devastating surprise bombardment. After Oak City was reduced to ruins, Chen Ping collapsed from the effort and was caught by Scarlet King and Snow Empress.

• Three colossal Space Doors appeared around Oak City, and its defenders panicked and tried to close the city gates.
• Chen Ping exhausted his Spiritual Power maintaining the portals while Huo Yuhao synchronized their coordinates from the other end of the continent.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Shrek’s First, Second, and Third Legions to bombard Oak City and its defenses through the portals.
• The bombardment destroyed Oak City’s defenses, strategic supplies, barracks, and elite Soul Engineer Legion, leaving the city in flames and ruins.
• The Space Doors vanished, and Scarlet King and Snow Empress caught Chen Ping as he collapsed unconscious.

Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping completed a devastating long-range strike on Oak City, destroying its military forces and supplies and alarming Di Tian and the Star Dou Forest. As the Oak City City Lord rushed to capture the exhausted attacker near the east gate, Di Tian remained torn over whether to launch a Beast Tide.

• Huo Yuhao lowered his arm after directing the three Soul Engineer Legions' attack through Space Portals and told Shi Xing that the mission was complete.
• Di Tian and the green-haired woman witnessed the bombardment, and Di Tian considered the growing threat humans posed to Soul Beasts.
• Chen Ping's attack destroyed Oak City's granaries and rare-supply warehouses, leaving the City Lord fearful of the consequences as winter approached.
• A guard reported that a Three-Headed Crimson Demon Mastiff was dragging an unconscious Soul Master toward the east gate while a woman in white protected him.
• The City Lord summoned his Storm Halberd and hurried to the east gate, hoping to capture the unconscious attacker and avoid punishment.