Chapter Summaries

Dai Huabin defeated a Three Thousand Year Level Golden-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger in the Promotion Exam despite running out of stamina and suffering many wounds. His score of 185 points put him ahead of Wu Feng and left him challenging Chen Ping with renewed arrogance.

• Dai Huabin broke through the Golden-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger's protective barrier and traded savage attacks with it in the Beast Fighting Arena.
• Dai Huabin endured the tiger's claws, knocked its front paws off balance, and tore open its abdomen with a blow to its soft underside.
• The referee stopped the tiger's final tail strike and separated the barely surviving beast from Dai Huabin.
• Zhu Lu admired Dai Huabin's strength, while the students from Class One and Class Two were shocked that he had defeated a Three Thousand Year Level Soul Beast.
• Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe awarded Dai Huabin 140 base points and 45 technique points, giving him 185 points and the top score ahead of Wu Feng.

Chen Ping entered the Beast Fighting Arena and chose to challenge a five-thousand-year Soul Beast, stunning the students who knew his Soul Power was only level 27. His opponent turned out to be a formidable Scorpion Tiger, and their wary first exchange left Chen Ping facing a far more dangerous test than expected.

• Dai Huabin singled out Chen Ping as a rival, and Chen Ping leaped into the arena with enough force to impress him.
• Chen Ping chose a five-thousand-year Soul Beast, surprising the crowd and the proctor with his confidence.
• Chen Ping revealed his yellow and purple Soul Rings and brought out the Touch Dragon Staff, confirming that he intended to face the challenge.
• The staff led a powerful Tiger-type Soul Beast into the enclosure, and Chen Ping recognized it as a Scorpion Tiger with a hooked tail.
• Chen Ping and the Scorpion Tiger sensed each other's strength and wariness as the confrontation began.

Chen Ping entered the Scorpion Tiger’s black mist to evade its hearing and sense its movements through the arena floor. The Scorpion Tiger finally pounced from close range, and Chen Ping swung his Touch Dragon Staff in response.

• The Scorpion Tiger covered the Beast Fighting Arena in black mist and advanced toward Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping removed his shoes and entered the mist, while Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe explained how he could use quiet steps and vibrations to track the Soul Beast.
• Chen Ping and the Scorpion Tiger waited in silence, each trying to make the other reveal its position first.
• Chen Ping sensed a faint vibration underfoot and swung his Touch Dragon Staff as the Scorpion Tiger pounced from six or seven meters away.

Chen Ping fought a five-thousand-year Scorpion Tiger in the Beast Fighting Arena, countering its stealth, wind blades, and powerful attacks with his Touch Dragon Staff. He left the Scorpion Tiger badly battered and Dai Huabin stunned by his strength and skill.

• Chen Ping used the Scorpion Tiger’s confusion to leap from his staff and strike its head, making it stagger with the staff’s Blindness effect.
• Chen Ping followed up with a heavy blow aimed at the Scorpion Tiger’s waist, but it deflected the strike with its Scorpion Tail Hook and charged at him.
• Chen Ping dodged the Scorpion Tiger’s wind blades and jammed his Touch Dragon Staff into its mouth, triggering a powerful corrosion effect.
• Chen Ping pulled the staff free, toppled the Scorpion Tiger, and struck its chest hard enough to flip its massive body across the arena.
• Dai Huabin watched in disbelief as Chen Ping countered the Scorpion Tiger’s attacks and matched its strength.

Chen Ping pursued the Scorpion Tiger and survived its hidden poison-needle attack before defeating it with staff strikes and his Potent Toxin soul skill. The Scorpion Tiger collapsed unconscious on the Beast Fighting Platform, revealing the power of Chen Ping's two soul skills working together.

• Chen Ping chased the Scorpion Tiger toward the arena wall, where it leaped away and fired thousands of poison needles from its tail.
• Chen Ping deflected most of the needles with the Touch Dragon Staff, but poison swollen his hands and forced him to drop it.
• When the Scorpion Tiger lunged at him, Chen Ping kicked the Touch Dragon Staff into the air and launched it with his foot, piercing the beast's shoulder.
• Chen Ping summoned and hurled his Martial Soul again, striking the weakened Scorpion Tiger and building up five Poison Marks.
• Chen Ping activated Potent Toxin, strengthening his poison skills; two powerful Poison Bubbles burst on the Scorpion Tiger and left it unconscious.

Chen Ping defeated the Shrek Beast Pen’s Scorpion Tiger and earned a record-breaking 229 points on his Second Year Student Promotion Exam. After receiving praise from his teachers and classmates, he left the Beast Fighting Arena and headed to Qian Duoduo’s office in the Soul Guidance Department.

• Du Weilun stopped Chen Ping from delivering a finishing blow to the unconscious Scorpion Tiger, while Dai Huabin watched in dismay and accepted the gap between them.
• Teacher Li healed Chen Ping’s injuries, and Yan Shaozhe awarded him 180 base points and 49 Technique Score points for a total of 229.
• Chen Ping’s score surpassed the other students’ results and set a new record for the Promotion Exam.
• Wang Yan excitedly praised Chen Ping, and Teacher Mu Jin watched them, pleased with her chances of being named Best Teacher again.
• After speaking briefly with Wang Yan, Chen Ping left the arena and went to Qian Duoduo’s office in the Soul Guidance Department.

After emerging from secluded cultivation and passing the Promotion Exam, Chen Ping visited Qian Duoduo and showed him the results of his Soul Engineering work. Qian Duoduo was stunned when Chen Ping’s Rank Two Flying Soul Guidance Device produced immense thrust, and the chapter ended with him wondering how Chen Ping had made it so powerful.

• Qian Duoduo worried that Huo Yuhao had not returned to school or applied for help hunting a Soul Ring.
• Chen Ping visited Qian Duoduo after his seclusion and reported that he had passed the Promotion Exam.
• Chen Ping showed Qian Duoduo a batch of Rank Two Core Arrays, prompting Qian Duoduo to give him a Rank Two Soul Engineer badge.
• Chen Ping presented a Rank Two Flying Soul Guidance Device he had made during his month of seclusion.
• Qian Duoduo tested the device with the Soul Power of a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster and was shocked by its powerful thrust and five Mach Rings.

Qian Duoduo recognized the strategic importance of Chen Ping’s Flying Soul Guidance Device and ordered him to study encryption while keeping its design secret. He protected Chen Ping’s identity and gave him an invitation to the academy’s Treasure Appraisal Meeting.

• Qian Duoduo tested Chen Ping’s Flying Soul Guidance Device and considered how it could strengthen the Star Luo Empire’s deterrence against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qian Duoduo certified Chen Ping as a Rank Two Soul Engineer and assigned him to study Soul Tool encryption, forbidding him from using the device publicly except in a life-or-death situation.
• Qian Duoduo recorded their conversation and told Chen Ping to name him as the device’s designer until Chen Ping became at least a Soul Saint, so Chen Ping could avoid attracting attention.
• Qian Duoduo gave Chen Ping an invitation to the Treasure Appraisal Meeting and explained that the academy used it to win over promising Lesser Soul Masters.

Chen Ping used the quiet hours before the Treasure Appraisal Meeting to absorb the Earth-Splitting Mammoth Right Leg Bone, but the process drained his Soul Power and caused his Martial Soul to behave strangely. As he examined his flickering soul rings, he discovered that the circuits forming their soul skills were rapidly changing.

• Qian Duoduo told Chen Ping to take whatever he wanted from the Academy's Treasure Appraisal Meeting, then left after learning that Huo Yuhao had returned.
• Chen Ping remembered the Earth-Splitting Mammoth Right Leg Bone and decided to absorb it before the evening meeting.
• The bone fused with Chen Ping's Touch Dragon Staff, which rapidly consumed his Soul Power until he replenished it with Level Four Milk Bottles.
• Chen Ping studied his flickering soul rings and realized that the circuits forming his soul skills were changing rapidly.

Chen Ping’s Touch Dragon Staff evolved into a heavy Mammoth Beast Staff, changing its recommended techniques and revealing a new strength-focused effect. He discovered that his Soul Skills changed with his Martial Soul and that he could switch back to its Insect Staff form, though doing so required Soul Power and a cooldown.

• Chen Ping absorbed the Earth-Splitting Mammoth Right Leg Bone, transforming his Touch Dragon Staff into the Mammoth Beast Staff.
• Chen Ping used Scholar Points to learn that the staff boosted strength and stance, delivered powerful blunt strikes, and suited Cleaving Staff and Upright Staff techniques.
• Chen Ping asked the system to analyze his altered Soul Skills, and it revealed that his first skill, Accumulating Momentum, let him build up to three layers of Staff Momentum to increase attack damage.
• Chen Ping realized he could switch his Martial Soul and its Soul Skills back to their former forms, but the transformation nearly drained his Soul Power and had a cooldown.

Chen Ping accepted the Treasure Appraisal Meeting invitation and headed to the Treasure Pavilion with Ning Tian and Wu Feng. After buying them roses in Shrek City, the three arrived at the Pavilion, where the meeting was about to begin.

• Chen Ping decided he would make use of the academy's resources at the Treasure Appraisal Meeting without hesitation.
• Chen Ping found Ning Tian and Wu Feng in the classroom, and learned that they had also received invitations.
• Chen Ping and the two girls climbed over the academy wall into Shrek City and bought roses from a little flower seller.
• Chen Ping gave Ning Tian and Wu Feng roses, then joked that he could use the flowers to make Rose Flower Cakes.
• Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng followed the invitation map to the Treasure Pavilion and saw the imposing building.

Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian entered the Treasure Pavilion for its annual Treasure Appraisal Meeting, where Chen Ping sensed that nine Soul Bones were on display. Ning Tian declined a credit evaluation because she had brought money to buy supplies for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, leaving their guide to realize how wealthy her family was.

• Chen Ping, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian arrived at the Treasure Pavilion and showed their invitations to an attendant.
• The attendant guided them through the lavish entrance hall and up to the second floor, where the exhibits were displayed.
• Chen Ping sensed nine Soul Bones and noticed a thirty-thousand-year Void Shadow Leopard Torso Bone priced at three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ping suggested that they have their credit limits evaluated, but Ning Tian declined and said she had brought Gold Soul Coins to buy supplies for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.
• The guide nearly stumbled at Ning Tian's casual attitude toward the credit limits, then understood when Ning Tian mentioned her sect.

Chen Ping received the Treasure Pavilion’s highest-level VIP privileges after Mu En raised his evaluation in recognition of his New Student Competition victory. He left with a red VIP card and decided to inspect the displayed treasures before choosing any Soul Bone.

• Ning Tian told Chen Ping that her thirty-thousand-year Void Shadow Leopard Torso Bone could buy six or seven Soul Bones.
• Mu En visited the Treasure Pavilion with Old Lin and explained that he had come to reward Chen Ping.
• After Chen Ping submitted his form, Xiao Hong told him that he had been granted the highest-level VIP privileges and could take one displayed item each year.
• Xiao Hong explained that Mu En had upgraded Chen Ping’s evaluation from Black Grade after his first-place finish in the New Student Competition.
• Chen Ping put away his red VIP card, set aside the idea of choosing a Soul Bone immediately, and decided to inspect the exhibition hall.

Chen Ping discovered a Golden Apple that could improve a Soul Master's cultivation talent and had it set aside for purchase. After surveying the remaining exhibits, he ran into Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, who complained that Chen Ping still would not call him Big Brother Xu.

• Chen Ping examined the Treasure Pavilion exhibits and found a Golden Apple that improved the cultivation talent of Soul Masters with low Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Ping reasoned that the Golden Apple had not appeared when Huo Yuhao visited because Shrek's leaders did not think Huo Yuhao had low Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Ping asked the receptionist to set the Golden Apple aside for him while he continued browsing.
• Chen Ping bought another Golden Crystal Stone, admired the unaffordable Soul Bones, and decided he could return to the next Treasure Appraisal Meeting.
• Chen Ping greeted Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, and Xu Sanshi protested that Chen Ping still would not call him Big Brother Xu despite taking pills and Gold Soul Coins from him.

Chen Ping’s extraordinary arena record spread across Shrek, while Mu En explained why the Treasure Pavilion had invested in him despite his low innate Soul Power. The chapter ended with Mu En deciding the academy should support Chen Ping’s needs without spoiling him.

• Chen Ping’s 229-point Beast Fighting Arena record spread through the Outer Court, along with exaggerated stories about his past feats.
• Xu Sanshi grew uneasy around Chen Ping, knowing he might lose to him in the Soul Arena.
• At the Treasure Pavilion, Lin Huiqun questioned whether Chen Ping deserved a Red-Level VIP Card, and Mu En revealed Chen Ping had only Innate Level Two Soul Power.
• Lin Huiqun examined Chen Ping and discovered he was twelve years old, already Level 27, physically comparable to a Soul Ancestor, and had defeated a Five-Thousand-Year Scorpion Tiger.
• Mu En cited Chen Ping’s potential as a Rank Nine Soul Engineer, his evolving Martial Soul, and his possible future as a Limit Douluo to justify the investment.
• Mu En told Lin Huiqun to give Chen Ping one resource of his choosing each year, ensuring he had what he needed without spoiling him.

Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao a gift after his return and discovered that the system had intercepted a divine soul invading his Sea of Consciousness. The system identified the captive as Electrolux, leaving Chen Ping stunned and wondering why he had targeted him.

• Chen Ping finished shopping at the Treasure Pavilion and ran into Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, then listened as Huo Yuhao repeated his story about awakening a Second Martial Soul and being stranded in the Far North.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao a piece of Hundred Refined Adamantine to celebrate his safe return.
• As Chen Ping handed over the gift, Huo Yuhao's eyes briefly flickered gray, and Chen Ping felt a strange jab and a burst of ringing in his ears.
• Chen Ping hurried back to his dormitory and asked the system whether it had caught Tang San's Divine Sense.
• The system said it had captured Electrolux's divine soul, which had split itself and sent one part into Chen Ping's Sea of Consciousness, but claimed it had already suppressed him.

Chen Ping explored his Sea of Consciousness, where his System Spirit had captured Electrolux’s weakened divine sense. After nourishing Electrolux with life energy from the Life Carving Knife without waking him, Chen Ping received his delivered purchases and opened the Gilded Carved Dragon Treasure Box.

• Chen Ping entered his cramped Sea of Consciousness and learned from his System Spirit about its undeveloped state and the limits of his Spiritual Power.
• Chen Ping paid his System Spirit a thousand Scholar Points for information and confirmed that the gray sphere she held was Electrolux’s divided divine sense.
• Chen Ping fed life energy from the Life Carving Knife to Electrolux, but the sphere remained dormant, so he put the knife away and planned to nourish it daily.
• Chen Ping answered a knock and found a wooden box containing the items he had bought at the Treasure Appraisal Meeting.
• Chen Ping stored the Rare Metals, opened the Gilded Carved Dragon Treasure Box, and smelled a powerful fruity fragrance.

Chen Ping ate a Golden Apple and felt its Power of Light cleanse and strengthen his body. He woke at Soul Power Level Twenty-Nine, with improved cultivation talent and Soul Elder seemingly within reach, and began wondering how many Golden Apples Mu En still had.

• Chen Ping compared his slow cultivation progress with Ning Tian and Dai Huabin before deciding to eat the Golden Apple.
• The Golden Apple nourished Chen Ping, sent golden currents through his body, and expelled impurities as ash.
• Chen Ping reached Soul Power Level Twenty-Eight as the fruit's energy gathered in his Dantian.
• The next day, Chen Ping discovered he had reached Level Twenty-Nine and realized the Golden Apple had also improved his cultivation speed.
• Chen Ping estimated he could become a Soul Elder within one or two months and wondered whether Mu En had more Golden Apples.

Chen Ping learned that the academy’s Selection Competition could lead to valuable Soul Bones, and he discovered that second-year Core Disciples would be allowed to compete. The chapter left him and the other candidates eager to face the contest and its secret mission.

• Chen Ping studied Encryption Arrays, built a working encryption device for his flying Soul Guidance Device, and earned Qian Duoduo’s approval.
• Qian Duoduo told Chen Ping that placing in the top seven of the Selection Competition could earn him a high-age Soul Bone and explained the rewards tied to Shrek’s tournament success.
• Chen Ping became eager to compete for the Soul Bones, confident that his strength had grown since his first year.
• Wang Yan gathered the grade’s Core Disciples and announced that around thirty candidates under fifteen would compete for seven places on a future secret mission.

Wang Yan brought the second-year Core Disciples to the Selection Competition, where they formed four teams before Xuan Zi announced a no-rules group melee. The fight began with He Caitou firing his Twin Dragon Rapid-Fire Cannon into the most crowded area.

• Wang Yan rallied the second-year students and led them to the Soul Arena, where they identified potential allies and opponents.
• Huo Yuhao formed a seven-person team with Xiao Xiao, Xie Huanyue, and three upperclassmen Soul Elders.
• Dai Huabin assembled a seven-person team with the Lan Sisters and others, while Chen Ping formed a team with Wu Feng, Ning Tian, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou.
• The remaining Third and Fourth Grade students formed a nine-person team of Soul Elders.
• Xuan Zi arrived and announced that the final seven students standing in the no-rules group melee would win.
• After Xuan Zi started the match, He Caitou fired eight shells from his Twin Dragon Rapid-Fire Cannon into the most crowded area.