Arc 15Mingdetang’s Fall

Chen Ping studies under Mo Fang, clashes with the Sun Moon Empire’s authorities, and steals the Snow Empress from Mingdetang during the Body Sect’s raid. After forming an alliance with the World Spirit and making the Snow Empress his soul spirit, he agrees to help Nana strike the Holy Spirit Cult’s branch altar.

  • Jing Hongchen dismisses Chen Ping’s extraordinary fitness results, while Mo Fang chooses Chen Ping as his student and trains him in Soul Tool theory.
  • Chen Ping exposes Wang Shaojie and the Imperial Disciplinary Squad for framing him, forcing Jing Hongchen to offer Shrek compensation and defensive Soul Tools.
  • Chen Ping learns to open passages into the Undead Demiplane, then enters Mingdetang with the Shrek students and discovers the Snow Empress Embryo.
  • During the Body Sect’s raid, Chen Ping replaces the Snow Empress’s God Sealing Platform with a decoy and secretly removes all sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells.
  • The World Spirit reveals her origins and joins Chen Ping and Electrolux against Tang San, and Chen Ping frees the Snow Empress and makes her his soul spirit.
  • Chen Ping receives the Snow Empress’s powers and a new soul ring, while Nana asks him to help avenge her family and rescue her parents’ souls from the Holy Spirit Cult.
  • Chen Ping forms a soul contract with Nana, learns about the Mingdu branch altar and its planned mission, and decides to attack the altar the next day.
Chapters 353–377 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 353Beast Staff: Star Nodule (3K)

Jing Hongchen learned that Chen Ping’s testing had produced bizarre readings and that Chen Ping had destroyed a strength tester, so he ordered the Shrek exchange students to be separated for their lessons while plotting the Sun Moon Empire’s future expansion. The next morning, Chen Ping absorbed a Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Barbarian Elephant Staff, evolving it into the Beast Staff: Star Nodule.

  • Lin Jiayi reported that Chen Ping’s fitness test showed over two hundred Soul Bones, and Jing Hongchen dismissed the reading as a malfunction.
  • Jing Hongchen watched a recording of Chen Ping shattering the strength tester with one punch, while Lin Jiayi admitted he had skipped the reaction-speed test.
  • Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to monitor He Caitou and arrange separate lessons for the Shrek students with advanced Soul Engineers.
  • Jing Hongchen declared that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually conquer the continent and considered the hereditary rewards his family might gain.
  • Chen Ping absorbed the Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Barbarian Elephant Staff, transforming it into the diamond-hard Beast Staff: Star Nodule.

Ch. 354This Professor Looked Terrifyingly Strong (3K)

After evolving his Martial Soul with a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone, Chen Ping felt its power strengthen the bones throughout his body. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he learned that Shrek’s access to the Golden Tree’s secret chamber had prompted Jing Hongchen to arrange a formidable group of mentors, and Level 9 Soul Engineer Mo Fang singled him out as a student.

  • Chen Ping endured a brief, unbearable itch as the Diamond Mammoth Soul Bone’s remaining power spread through his bones, then decided that Soul Beast meals were better value than buying more Soul Bones.
  • Chen Ping ate at the sixth-year dormitory dining hall and went to the Sixth-Year Teaching Building to meet his mentors.
  • Lin Jiayi announced that the ten available teachers were all at least Level 8 Soul Engineers, including two Level 9 Soul Engineers who had not taken students in years.
  • Chen Ping realized Jing Hongchen had assembled the impressive teaching staff in response to Shrek offering its exchange students access to the Golden Tree’s secret chamber, and concluded that the timeline’s changes made assumptions about the original story risky.
  • Mo Fang, a bald Level 9 Soul Engineer specializing in defensive Soul Tools, ignored Lin Jiayi’s plan to assign mentors by lottery and pointedly chose Chen Ping as his student.

Ch. 355A pioneer of the field (3K)

Chen Ping became Mo Fang’s student and learned that the Level 9 Soul Engineer specialized in energy defensive soul tools and linked defenses. Mo Fang set him a month to study and pass a paper, emphasizing that mathematical understanding—not just copying established techniques—was essential to becoming a true Soul Engineer.

  • Chen Ping chose Mo Fang as his mentor, while Huo Yuhao was assigned to Xuan Ziwen.
  • Mo Fang led Chen Ping to his sixth-floor laboratory and introduced himself as a rank 88 Control System Soul Douluo and a pioneer in linked defensive soul tools.
  • Mo Fang gave Chen Ping a reading list and set a paper for him to take in a month, requiring a score above fifty for him to remain as a student.
  • Mo Fang explained that Chen Ping needed to study counting-rod calculations and understand the principles behind soul tools instead of merely reproducing other engineers’ methods.

Ch. 356I have a friend (3K)

Chen Ping studied under Mo Fang and learned about the professor’s rivalry with Jing Hongchen and his struggles to fund his research. After Mo Fang recognized the Absolute Defensive Soul Tool Chen Ping had shattered, Chen Ping offered him a Thousand-Refined Fine Steel Ingot, leaving Mo Fang intrigued by its properties.

  • Mo Fang explained the flaws in Soul Engineers outside Sun Moon and said he would teach Chen Ping everything he knew, partly to frustrate Jing Hongchen.
  • Chen Ping spent three days studying Mo Fang’s assigned textbooks while Mo Fang worked on a golden bead in his laboratory.
  • Chen Ping recognized the bead as an Absolute Defensive Soul Tool he had broken during a tournament two years earlier, and Mo Fang recognized Chen Ping as the one who had destroyed it.
  • Mo Fang said the Soul Tool’s components were intact even though it no longer worked, and he wondered how Chen Ping had disabled it.
  • Chen Ping kept his method secret and gave Mo Fang a Thousand-Refined Fine Steel Ingot as a clue to the Soul Tool’s destruction.

Ch. 357The Sharp-Tongued Professor (4K)

Chen Ping passed Mo Fang’s assessment and earned permission to enter his laboratory, then visited Huo Yuhao and gave him Shrek’s improved rare metals to experiment with. The chapter left Huo Yuhao with new materials to study while Chen Ping considered how to keep him from leaving Sun Moon Academy.

  • Mo Fang examined Chen Ping’s unusual fine steel and realized the academy’s senior Soul Engineers had concealed Shrek’s rare-metal technology from him and their colleagues.
  • Chen Ping completed Mo Fang’s test, scored ninety points, and received a laboratory token, though Mo Fang warned him not to slack off.
  • With no lessons planned and his fellow students occupied, Chen Ping headed to the Experimentation Zone to find Huo Yuhao.
  • Huo Yuhao told Chen Ping that Xuan Ziwen’s lessons had been valuable and mentioned his awkward encounter with Ju Zi.
  • Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao several thousand-refined rare-metal ingots from Shrek’s technological breakthrough and explained that they could improve Soul Tools by half a level or more.

Ch. 358Remember the Four of Our Faces from Now On (4K)

Chen Ping was given Thousand Refinement metals by Chen Ping and waited in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory while Huo Yuhao went to the bathroom. When Wang Shaojie, Zimu, and Keke tried to bully him, Chen Ping turned the confrontation into a recorded setup and left Zimu unconscious as he waited for the Imperial Disciplinary Squad.

  • Chen Ping explained that Thousand Refinement metals could improve Soul Tools and gave Huo Yuhao some to use.
  • Huo Yuhao left to use the bathroom, and Wang Shaojie, Zimu, and Keke arrived to lay down rules for Chen Ping.
  • Wang Shaojie and Zimu mocked Chen Ping’s Level 2 Soul Engineer rank and tore his uniform while he pretended to be helpless.
  • Chen Ping grabbed Zimu and used him to absorb Wang Shaojie’s and Keke’s attacks, prompting them to leave and fetch the Imperial Disciplinary Squad.
  • Chen Ping activated his Recording Pearl, staged evidence of being beaten, and knocked Zimu unconscious when he tried to call for help.

Ch. 359Purple-Scaled Swift Dragon (3K)

Chen Ping was wrongly targeted by the Imperial Disciplinary Squad after Wang Shaojie accused him of assaulting Zimu. He broke their restraints and forced the squad to beg for mercy by threatening them with an Invincible Shield and a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, then exposed their abuses of authority.

  • Wang Shaojie brought the Imperial Disciplinary Squad to arrest Chen Ping, claiming he was Huo Yuhao and had injured Zimu.
  • Chen Ping showed his student ID, and the squad leader recognized that his name was Chen Ping but continued to threaten and arrest him.
  • The squad leader locked Chen Ping in Soul-sealing golden handcuffs, which Chen Ping studied before tearing apart with Blood Qi.
  • Wang Shaojie punched Chen Ping and hurt his own fingers, while Chen Ping produced an Invincible Shield and a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
  • The squad members dropped to their knees and pleaded with Chen Ping, while Wang Shaojie wet himself in terror.
  • Chen Ping accused the Imperial Inspection Corps of corruption, selective enforcement, framing him, and threatening to kill him.

Ch. 360Jing Hongchen's Breakdown (3K)

After the Imperial Inspection Corps tried to detain and kill Chen Ping, Jing Hongchen scrambled to prevent Qian Duoduo from pulling Shrek’s exchange students out of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Chen Ping secured valuable Soul Tools and study privileges as compensation, while Jing Hongchen was left furious and humiliated.

  • After watching Chen Ping’s recording, Jing Hongchen kicked Wang Shaojie and the Imperial Inspection Corps out of his office, then tried to placate Chen Ping by calling him his younger brother.
  • Chen Ping confronted Jing Hongchen over the attempted detention and threat to kill him, and Qian Duoduo tore off the office wall before threatening war and gathering Shrek’s exchange students to leave.
  • Jing Hongchen persuaded Qian Duoduo to return to his office and promised that Wang Shaojie, Xu Mocheng, and the other inspection squad members would be executed within three days.
  • Mo Fang arrived and pressed Jing Hongchen for compensation, prompting Jing Hongchen to offer Soul Tool materials, blueprints, and access to Mingdetang for Shrek’s students.
  • Chen Ping demanded Jing Hongchen’s Level Nine Red Dust Protection and two Level Eight Defensive Soul Tools for Huo Yuhao, and Jing Hongchen handed them over to settle the dispute.

Ch. 361Diamond Unbreakable, Wind and Thunder Unharmed (4K)

Chen Ping secured three powerful Defensive Soul Tools from Jing Hongchen after exposing the academy’s bullying, then gave Huo Yuhao two Level 8 shields. Jing Hongchen returned from the palace furious and ordered the students responsible for the bullying punished, while Ju Zi’s withdrawal request remained unaddressed.

  • Qian Duoduo treated the students to a meal and announced their rewards, including rare metals, Soul Tool blueprints, and a chance to enter Mingdetang.
  • Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao the Level 8 shields Diamond Unbreakable and Wind and Thunder Unharmed, then showed off the Level 9 Red Dust Protection he had obtained from Jing Hongchen.
  • Qian Duoduo explained the shields’ defensive abilities and revealed that Jing Hongchen and Professor Mo had once competed as defensive Soul Engineers.
  • After reporting the incident to the emperor, Jing Hongchen raged over his losses and ordered the students who organized the bullying punished or expelled.
  • Lin Jiayi tried to tell Jing Hongchen that Ju Zi had applied to withdraw, but Jing Hongchen dismissed the request and demanded to know which students had organized the bullying.

Ch. 362Attempting to Open the Demiplane (4K)

Jing Hongchen learned that Ju Zi had orchestrated the bullying incident, but she had already left the academy, so he suppressed the scandal and focused on the academy’s research. Meanwhile, Chen Ping studied advanced Soul Tool theory with Mo Fang and struggled to calculate the spatial coordinates needed to open the Undead Demiplane.

  • Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that Ju Zi had organized the bullying and submitted a withdrawal application, but had left campus before anyone could find her.
  • Jing Hongchen tore up Ju Zi’s application, ordered her arrest, then called off the matter and warned students not to discuss the incident.
  • Chen Ping spent the following days absorbing Mo Fang’s lessons in Soul Tool theory, impressing him with his memory and occasional insights.
  • Chen Ping practiced opening the Undead Demiplane by calculating the Spatial Key’s changing coordinates, while Electrolux repeatedly tried to explain the mathematics.
  • Chen Ping considered using spatial techniques to escape pocket dimensions and bypass the poison barrier around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Ch. 363Great Ghosts Stagger, Little Ghosts Weep; Blood of Hatred Mottles into Inky Moss

Chen Ping used an unorthodox method to open a passage into the Undead Demiplane, provoking its undead instead of summoning them peacefully. He closed the passage after a Snake-Man Corpse Knight lunged at him, leaving the knight’s severed head in his dorm room.

  • Chen Ping traced circles in the air and opened an unstable passage into the Undead Demiplane, startling Electrolux with his unconventional method.
  • The passage awakened hordes of hostile undead, and Chen Ping realized they were attacking him because he had broken into their realm.
  • A Snake-Man Corpse Knight rode a giant skeletal snake toward the passage and lunged at Chen Ping as he tried to close it.
  • Chen Ping dodged, and the closing passage severed the Snake-Man Corpse Knight’s head, leaving it bouncing on his bed and threatening him.
  • Chen Ping knocked the head into the bathroom with his evolved Star Nodule Club and learned that the intelligent undead knight might be a formidable opponent if fully through the passage.

Ch. 364Ghost Douluo's Remaining Value (3K)

Chen Ping entered the Undead Demiplane with Electrolux and learned how badly its undead forces had weakened over time. After proposing that undead might awaken martial souls, he left Electrolux experimenting with Awakening Stones and the possibility of strengthening the undead army.

  • Chen Ping subdued the snake-headed corpse knight, learned that he was called Snake, and discovered his strength had declined to roughly that of a Soul Emperor.
  • Chen Ping opened a Gate of the Undead and entered the demiplane, where Electrolux appeared and said he would stay there to study how to restore the undead's strength.
  • Chen Ping asked whether undead could awaken martial souls and argued that humanoid beings such as Ghost Douluo showed it might be possible.
  • Electrolux became eager to test the idea, and Chen Ping tried awakening Snake with an Awakening Stone, but it produced no result.
  • Electrolux took the Awakening Stones to continue experimenting, while Chen Ping returned through the gate after taking a first step toward mastering spatial magic.

Ch. 365The Industrial-Style Soul Tool System (4K)

Three months later, Chen Ping entered Mingdetang with the Shrek students and studied its soul-tool workshops, reflecting on the limits of its industrial-style production. He located the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo in Jing Hongchen’s office and waited for the Body Sect to break into Mingdetang.

  • After three months of research, Chen Ping and the other Shrek students received permission to study at Mingdetang, and Mo Fang led them inside.
  • Chen Ping saw Mingdetang’s vast underground laboratory and concluded that its soul-tool production was not truly industrialized because it relied on soul masters for power.
  • Chen Ping considered using inexpensive rare-metal ore and solar-powered soul tools, such as those created by Ye Yulin, to enable cheap, stable energy for mass production.
  • At his assigned laboratory bench, Chen Ping spotted Ji Juechen and became curious about the material of his Meteoric Iron Sword.
  • Chen Ping used his spiritual power to search Mingdetang, discovered the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo on a shelf in Jing Hongchen’s office, and withdrew his scan.
  • Chen Ping anticipated that the Body Sect would tunnel into Mingdetang to seize the embryo, causing losses beyond its hundred-million-Gold-Soul-Coin price.

Ch. 366The System Fell Short, Elder Yi Stepped Up! (4K)

Chen Ping studied Mingdetang’s equipment and learned the principles behind Mo Fang’s Linked Defensive Soul Tools before watching Ji Juechen fight Jing Ziyan and Nana. As Elder Yi analyzed Nana’s Ghost Martial Soul, she noticed Chen Ping could track her invisible vengeful spirit and grew frightened of him.

  • Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to let Chen Ping continue studying while keeping an eye on him and limiting He Caitou’s progress.
  • Chen Ping tested Mingdetang’s Soul Tool Experiment Table, then watched linked defenses stop stray cannon shells at the Soul Tool Trial Ground.
  • Mo Fang explained that his Linked Defensive Soul Tools were powerful but consumed too much soul power for military use, then gave Chen Ping a private lesson on their workings.
  • Chen Ping saw Ji Juechen fight Jing Ziyan and Nana, recognized Nana’s Ghost Martial Soul, and secretly examined her with the Eye of Truth.
  • Electrolux analyzed Nana’s martial soul and soul skills while Chen Ping watched; Nana noticed Chen Ping tracking her invisible vengeful spirit and feared he had been sent to watch her.

Ch. 367Snow Empress Embryo (4K)

Chen Ping survived the Body Sect’s surprise attack on Mingdetang and used the chaos to break into Jing Hongchen’s laboratory. He took the Snow Empress Embryo and sent it through a Gate of the Undead, leaving behind a wooden decoy.

  • Nana waited outside Mingdetang for Chen Ping, but explosions suddenly rocked the academy and threw her to the ground.
  • Chen Ping survived the initial blasts by taking cover, then dug beneath Mingdetang as the Body Sect’s fighters emerged and slaughtered Soul Engineers.
  • Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi as the academy’s defensive Soul Tools attacked the Body Sect, and Chen Ping used a mining machine to race underground toward Jing Hongchen’s laboratory.
  • Chen Ping opened the safe behind Jing Hongchen’s desk and found the Snow Empress Embryo resting on its God Sealing Platform.
  • Chen Ping summoned a Gate of the Undead, sent the God Sealing Platform through with Snake, and left an identical wooden stand behind as a decoy.

Ch. 368He went to steal a battery and came away with a Maybach (4K)

Chen Ping stole the Snow Empress Embryo by leaving a fake God Sealing Platform in Jing Hongchen’s safe, then discovered and secretly removed sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells from a hidden Mingdetang chamber. As Jing Hongchen chased Du Busi and the Body Sect after their successful raid, Chen Ping escaped with his haul and left Mingdetang unaware that its ammunition store had also been robbed.

  • Chen Ping planted a counterfeit God Sealing Platform in Jing Hongchen’s safe, and a Body Sect thief took it for the real Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
  • Chen Ping found that the thick metal chamber beneath Mingdetang held sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells rather than Experiment Subject One.
  • After Electrolux scolded him, Chen Ping summoned the Gate of the Undead inside the chamber and ordered his undead to carry away all sixteen shells and their racks.
  • A young surveillance-room attendant spotted the theft and warned Jing Hongchen over the walkie-talkie, but Jing Hongchen was fighting Du Busi and could not respond.
  • The Body Sect thief returned with the fake God Sealing Platform, and Du Busi led his sect away while Jing Hongchen pursued them.

Ch. 369Great rats, great rats, do not eat my millet! (4K)

After the Body Sect’s attack devastated Mingdetang, Jing Hongchen learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had stolen sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells and collapsed from rage. Chen Ping woke in the academy’s medical room to find Nana treating his wound and explaining how she had finally managed to meet him.

  • Jing Hongchen surveyed Mingdetang’s destruction, feared Du Busi’s strength, and ordered repairs and relief efforts.
  • Lin Jiayi reported that Shrek’s students had survived, Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao were recovering, and the warehouses remained intact.
  • Lin Jiayi revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had stolen all sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells from Zero Chamber, and Jing Hongchen fainted.
  • Nana poured alcohol onto Chen Ping’s wound while changing his bandages, waking him from a long sleep.
  • Chen Ping recognized Nana, and she told him she had been trying to meet him for three months and had volunteered as a nurse to see him.

Ch. 370Nurse Nana, a tantalizing scene (4K)

Nana asked Chen Ping for help because she believed his ability to see her Vengeful Spirit and his ties to Shrek could help rescue her parents from the Holy Spirit Cult. After Teacher Wang handcuffed Chen Ping during an inspection, Lin Jiayi intervened and arranged to have Jing Hongchen handle the matter and compensation; Chen Ping then spotted a hidden Starlight Sapphire in Huo Yuhao’s ward.

  • Nana asked Chen Ping whether he could see the Vengeful Spirit released by her soul skill, and he admitted that he could.
  • Nana locked the Medical Room door and began undressing, but Chen Ping wrapped her in his blanket and told her to explain what she needed instead.
  • Teacher Wang entered, questioned Chen Ping about the Mingdetang attack, and demanded to search his belongings; Chen Ping refused and challenged the emperor’s authority over him.
  • Teacher Wang handcuffed Chen Ping, but Lin Jiayi rushed in and ordered him to remove the restraints.
  • Lin Jiayi searched Chen Ping’s storage soul tools, then offered to have Jing Hongchen unlock the handcuffs and discuss compensation.
  • Chen Ping left the Medical Room with Lin Jiayi and used the Eye of Truth to spot a hidden Starlight Sapphire in Huo Yuhao’s ward.

Ch. 371Think of Danger, Think of Change, Think of Retreat

Chen Ping negotiated with Jing Hongchen after the attack on Mingdetang, while Huo Yuhao also managed to extort him. Jing Hongchen then ordered Lin Jiayi to frame a rival Soul Engineer for treason and arrange his death so Jing could escape scrutiny.

  • Chen Ping visited Jing Hongchen, accepted more rare metals and restriction handcuffs, and left after checking his condition.
  • Huo Yuhao was caught with two Level Eight Defensive Soul Tools and cheerfully left after Jing Hongchen was extorted again.
  • Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that the crown prince had reacted cautiously to evidence about the stolen shells and warned him not to suspect the Holy Spirit Cult.
  • Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to fabricate confessions linking detained spies to a higher handler and use a rival Soul Engineer's unauthorized sale of Absolute Defensive Soul Tools to accuse him of treason.
  • Jing Hongchen decided to have the rival killed, arguing that the supposed death of a Level 9 Soul Engineer would help him retreat from the political turmoil.

Ch. 372The System's Mystery, Reversing the Future!

After securing the stolen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells, Chen Ping learned that the System Sprite was the Douluo Star’s World Spirit and had created his system to resist Tang San. Chen Ping, Electrolux, and the sprite formed an alliance to fight Tang San and reverse the future.

  • Chen Ping hid the sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells in the Undead Demiplane and considered how to handle the Snow Empress trapped in the God Sealing Platform.
  • The System Sprite appeared and revealed that she was the World Spirit, created to save the world from a previous ascender who had stolen its origin power.
  • The sprite explained that she had given Chen Ping his evolving Martial Soul and system, and admitted she had taken seventy percent of the points he spent.
  • The sprite offered a way to prevent the Snow Empress from self-destructing and urged Chen Ping to join her and Electrolux in changing the future.
  • Chen Ping accepted, and he, the sprite, and Electrolux swore to fight Tang San together.

Ch. 373Freeing the Snow Empress (4K)

Chen Ping studied the God Sealing Platform and uncovered Electrolux’s plan to create Soul Spirits, allowing intelligent Soul Beasts to provide Soul Rings while retaining their souls and combat abilities. After solving the Platform’s spatial puzzle and freeing the Snow Empress, he met her and claimed the sprite had chosen him for his potential.

  • The sprite entered the God Sealing Platform to speak with the Snow Empress, while Electrolux explained his Soul Spirit system and how it could preserve a Soul Beast’s intelligence, Soul Bone, and fighting ability.
  • The sprite returned and said the Snow Empress was willing to meet them, so Chen Ping chose to study the God Sealing Platform rather than destroy the Level 9 Soul Tool.
  • Chen Ping recognized the Platform as a three-dimensional sliding-block puzzle and spent a day and night rearranging its spatial gems into a closest-packed structure.
  • Chen Ping opened an exit in the Platform, and the Snow Empress emerged into the Undead Demiplane, freezing the ground around him.
  • The Snow Empress questioned why the sprite had chosen to live in a human body, and Chen Ping said she had recognized his potential and selected him.

Ch. 374A Ferocious Beast Fourth Ring! (4K)

Electrolux persuaded the Snow Empress to become Chen Ping’s soul spirit, and the ritual gave Chen Ping an orange-gold fourth soul ring and greatly improved his cultivation talent. After absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion King arm bone, Chen Ping’s staff evolved into the Jade Scorpion, and he examined his powerful new fourth soul skill.

  • Electrolux confronted the Snow Empress about her desire to survive, and she agreed to become Chen Ping’s soul spirit.
  • Electrolux sealed the Snow Empress’s power into her Snow Core and fused it with Chen Ping, forming an orange-gold fourth soul ring and raising Chen Ping to rank forty-three and a half.
  • Chen Ping absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion King arm bone, evolving the Touch Dragon Staff into the Insect Glaive - Jade Scorpion and upgrading Poison Explosion into Frost Poison Explosion.
  • Chen Ping examined his new Cold Binding Seal soul skill and exclaimed at its freezing effects.

Ch. 375Snow Drifting? Blood Drifting! (4K)

Chen Ping gained the Snow Empress’s Cold Binding Seal and Snow Drifting Soul Skills, then discussed the courage of human swordsmen with her before leaving the Undead Demiplane. Back in his dormitory, he found his Soul Power denser and able to transform into Ultimate Ice, though he expected this to slow his cultivation before Level 70.

  • Chen Ping tested Cold Binding Seal on a White Level Skeleton, freezing it and nearly extinguishing its soul flame.
  • The Snow Empress explained that Cold Binding Seal suited Chen Ping, and his Beast Staff’s Fourth Soul Skill changed to Snow Drifting, which let him become mist and evade attacks while relocating near an enemy.
  • Chen Ping asked how the Snow Empress knew about human swordsmen, and she said they had repeatedly challenged her in the Far North to improve their swordsmanship.
  • Chen Ping explained that continuing to live after facing a hard truth also took courage, and the Snow Empress accepted his words and called him a philosopher.
  • Chen Ping opened a Gate of the Undead and returned to his dormitory, where he found his Soul Power had grown denser and could take on an Ultimate Ice attribute.

Ch. 376Become Mine Completely (3K)

Chen Ping found that Mo Fang had left the laboratory with a notebook of study plans and research notes. After Nana described the Holy Spirit Cult’s crimes and asked for help rescuing her parents, Chen Ping offered to help if she became completely loyal to him.

  • Chen Ping found Mo Fang's farewell letter and a thick notebook containing two years of study assignments, soul tool designs, and array diagrams.
  • Qian Duoduo returned after hearing of Mingdetang's attack, checked that Chen Ping was safe, and teased him about Nana before leaving to see Yuhao.
  • Nana visited Chen Ping and began offering herself as a servant, but Chen Ping stopped her and asked her to explain her situation privately.
  • Nana told Chen Ping that the Holy Spirit Cult had destroyed her family and captured her parents' souls, and she asked him to help her take revenge and rescue them.
  • Chen Ping promised to help Nana and asked whether she would become completely his, body and soul, before witnessing his secrets.

Ch. 377Make the Holy Spirit Cult Great Again

Chen Ping bound Nana with a soul contract and learned about the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch, its spirit ascension ritual, and a coming transfer involving its elder. He insisted they act the next day despite the danger, relying on his Shrek teacher and planning to adapt once they reached the branch altar.

  • Chen Ping formed a soul contract with Nana and shared his history of surviving the Coiling Dragon Sect’s destruction by Evil Soul Masters.
  • Nana described the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch, its members and doctrine, and the spirit ascension ritual she feared would change or exploit her.
  • Chen Ping revealed his Purification Holy Fire and declared he would attack the branch altar the next day.
  • Nana warned that the branch elder was powerful and that a Probationary Elder from the Main Altar was being sent to take him on a mission.
  • Chen Ping chose to proceed the next day, noting that his Super Douluo teacher was with them and that they would adjust their plan to the circumstances.
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