Recaps

Chen Ping arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect wearing all five of the bracelets and necklace Chen Xiaoyu had given him, causing a steward to mistake them for tokens of romantic interest. In the Conference Hall, the sect leaders discussed Chen Ping’s relationships and the Soul Spirit Dao while Fentian teased Chen Ying about their daughters’ prospects.

• Chen Ping took all three bracelets from Chen Xiaoyu, who forgot Ye Xin'er’s instructions after eating his milk candy.
• A sect steward met Chen Ping, noticed the five pieces of jewelry he wore, and led him toward the Conference Hall.
• Chen Ping offered the sweating steward a prescription and mentioned his former shop selling supplements at Shrek Academy.
• In the Conference Hall, Fentian celebrated that Chen Ping liked Xiao Feng, while Junping said Chen Ping could help Xin'er and Dashan through the Soul Spirit Dao.
• Fentian teased Chen Ying about Ning Lan still being unmarried, and Junping intervened to stop their argument.

Chen Ping met the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect master and Fentian, who were startled by his looks and welcomed him warmly. As they shared tea and talked about his work with Soul Beasts, the matriarch was summoned to meet him.

• Chen Ping entered the council hall and sensed an unseen person watching him despite being unable to detect them with Spiritual Power.
• The sect master and Fentian greeted Chen Ping, then both froze when they noticed the bracelets on his wrist.
• The sect master explained that Chen Ying would fetch the matriarch and asked attendants to serve tea.
• Chen Ping learned that the tea came from a ten-thousand-year-old tree that hit people if too many leaves were picked.
• Chen Ping joked about preparing Soul Beast ingredients, and the sect master called it good fortune to cook for the Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Forest.

Chen Ping met Ning Junping and Wu Fentian, learned that Titled Douluos’ lifespans had declined, and received a system clue linking the change to the mystery of Zhao Wuji’s statue. Grandma Ye arrived and reacted with shock when she saw the chains hanging from Chen Ping.

• Ning Junping introduced himself and identified Wu Fentian as Wu Feng’s father, a rank ninety-one Titled Douluo.
• Chen Ping learned that the sect’s other Titled Douluo was Grandma Ye, who was a hundred and forty years old.
• The system announced that Chen Ping had discovered a key clue about changes to the Douluo World’s rules and reduced the points needed to unlock the Zhao Wuji statue’s mystery.
• Grandma Ye entered after hearing Chen Ping say he wanted to bask in her good fortune, and Ning Junping escorted her to the seat of honor.
• Grandma Ye started to address Chen Ping as Xin'er, then noticed the chains hanging from him and froze in shock.

Chen Ping met Merciful Begonia Douluo, learned that she was a rank-96 Nine Heart Begonia soul master, and considered why the powerful Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect stayed out of the war. The sect’s leaders then turned to business as Chen Ping prepared to demonstrate his Soul Tool Exoskeleton.

• Merciful Begonia thanked Chen Ping for helping Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Ning Junping identified her as a rank-96 Super Douluo and their great-grandmother by seniority.
• Chen Ping guessed that Merciful Begonia’s martial soul was the Nine Heart Begonia and reflected on how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect preserved its rare lineage.
• Chen Ping wondered why the sect had remained absent during the Sun Moon Empire’s war despite its strength, but could not yet connect the clues.
• Ning Junping and Wu Fentian found Chen Ping’s manners and knowledge impressive, though his five bracelets made them suspect he was a womanizer.
• Chen Ping brought out his Soul Tool Exoskeleton, and Ning Junping asked him to demonstrate it, revealing that he was a Level 8 Soul Engineer.

Chen Ping presented Sect Master Ning with a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Tool Exoskeleton, and Ning Junping volunteered to test it despite Wu Fentian’s concerns. After explaining the prototype’s design, Ning activated it and unleashed a startlingly fast strike.

• Chen Ping offered Ning Junping a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Tool Exoskeleton that used three level 5 arrays to amplify a level 6 core array.
• Ning Junping accepted the prototype and dismissed Wu Fentian’s concern that it might be dangerous.
• Ning Junping reflected on Chen Ping’s extraordinary talent and Shrek Academy’s ability to gather gifted students.
• Ning Junping put on the exoskeleton and explained how its soul tool circuits amplified strength and speed.
• Ning Junping activated the exoskeleton and delivered a knife-hand strike at alarming speed.

Chen Ping demonstrated the Soul Tool Exoskeleton to Ning Junping and Wu Fentian, then proposed using the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s rare-metal reserves to develop One-Word Battle Armor. He left Ning Junping tempted by a sweeping vision of the sect supplying Battle Armor across the continent.

• Ning Junping’s knife-hand strike with the Soul Tool Exoskeleton clashed with Wu Fentian’s bare palm and made him recoil in surprise.
• Chen Ping considered how the exoskeleton could evolve into Battle Armor and decided he needed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s top-grade rare metals.
• Ning Junping offered to buy the exoskeleton’s manufacturing technology or grant Chen Ping a favorable mass-production deal with priority purchasing rights for the sect.
• Chen Ping rejected both offers and proposed skipping mass production of the exoskeleton to develop One-Word Battle Armor instead, using the sect’s rare-metal reserves.
• Chen Ping outlined a three-step progression from products to standards to platforms and persuaded Ning Junping with a vision of the sect supplying the continent’s finest Battle Armor.

Chen Ping persuaded Ning Junping to invest in developing battle armor and revealed that he had also designed Shrek’s New-Style Flying Soul Tools. Ning Junping took him to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury, where Chen Ping discovered an astonishing store of rare metals.

• Chen Ping proposed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect help develop the battle armor market and offered it contract manufacturing work for future One-Word Battle Armor.
• Ning Junping was convinced by Chen Ping’s reputation as the creator of the New-Style Flying Soul Tools and agreed to support the project.
• Wu Fentian took the sleeping Grandma Ye back to her room while Ning Junping led Chen Ping toward the treasury.
• Ning Junping opened the treasury with his nine-story pagoda token and showed Chen Ping its eighty-one rows of metal shelves.
• Chen Ping found huge quantities of hair crystal, cold heart iron essence, and other top-grade metals, enough to make him wonder whether the sect could produce Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

Chen Ping inspected the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s rare-metal reserves and declined to choose from them, saying Mo Fang could obtain what he needed through the sect’s research funding. Ning Junping then presented several treasured items, ending with a powerless God-Given Soul Ring whose history he explained.

• Ning Junping explained that the sect kept Mo Fang and his Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell research under its protection to prepare for the coming war.
• Ning Junping showed Chen Ping the sect’s rare-metal storeroom and described how the sect concealed its most valuable supplies among ordinary stores.
• Chen Ping declined to select rare metals and said Mo Fang could obtain them through his unlimited research funding, leaving Ning Junping dismayed.
• Ning Junping offered Chen Ping a tiny piece of gold of life and a complete set of Secret Art Soul Bones, but Chen Ping continued examining the treasures.
• Ning Junping showed Chen Ping a God-Given Soul Ring that had once belonged to Jixiang but had lost all its power and could no longer be used.

Chen Ping learned the history of a depleted God-Given Soul Ring and realized that opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians might greatly increase innate Soul Power. He left the chapter eager to use the sect’s immortal herbs to try the method on himself.

• Chen Ping used his vertical pupil to identify the white pearl as a depleted God-Given Soul Ring that could be analyzed near a Sea God Pillar.
• Ning Junping explained that Xiao Wu had left the ring unused and that Tang San later gave it to Jixiang, his disciple.
• Chen Ping recalled that Jixiang had gained innate Soul Power after Tang San opened his Eight Extraordinary Meridians with medicinal treasures.
• Chen Ping reasoned that opening the meridians could raise a Soul Master's innate Soul Power by several levels and considered using the immortal herbs in the Hot Pot to try it.

Ning Junping explained how Jixiang gained innate full soul power through Tang San’s help but was later crippled by Evil Spirit Orcas and died before using his God-Given Soul Ring. Chen Ping chose the long-useless ring over the sect’s other treasures, and Ning Junping warned him that generations of sect masters had failed to uncover its secrets.

• Chen Ping reflected on how opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians had given Jixiang a chance to cultivate and considered how Tang San had changed after gaining power.
• Ning Junping explained that Jixiang reached Soul Saint level on Sea God Island, but Evil Spirit Orcas attacked him because of Tang San’s Sea God Imprint and tore off his leg along with its soul bone.
• Jixiang never reached Level 90 or absorbed the God-Given Soul Ring before his death, and his descendants inherited a martial soul with no innate soul power.
• Ning Junping recounted how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had supported Jixiang’s descendants’ Medical Hall in exchange for the ring, and he consulted an ancient book recording the history.
• Chen Ping chose the God-Given Soul Ring, and Ning Junping offered him a chance to reconsider, noting that the ring had remained useless despite generations of sect masters studying it.

Chen Ping accepted the depleted God-Given Soul Ring so Electrolux could study it and help develop artificial Soul Rings. Back in the conference hall, Chen Ping explained that Soul Spirit bonds required the willing cooperation of both sides, but suggested the process might become easier in the future.

• Chen Ping insisted on taking the depleted God-Given Soul Ring to research artificial Soul Rings, and Ning Junping gave it to him.
• Chen Ping secretly sent the ring to Electrolux, who began studying it and asked Chen Ping to bring him other divine technology.
• Chen Ping and Ning Junping returned to the conference hall, where Ning Junping asked whether Ning Tian's Silver Moon Wolf King Soul Spirit was difficult to replicate.
• Chen Ping explained that Soul Spirit bonds required complete willingness from both the Soul Beast and the Soul Master, and that Ning Tian's success depended on favorable circumstances.
• Chen Ping told the discouraged Ning Junping not to rush because forming Soul Spirit bonds might become easier in the future.

Chen Ping reassured Ning Junping that he hoped to explore a soul spirit system with the Emperor Auspicious Beast, easing the sect master's fears about his intentions toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's girls. After leaving to visit Mo Fang's laboratory, Chen Ping was stopped by three sect disciples who challenged him by asking if he was Chen Ping.

• Chen Ping told Ning Junping about his past cooking for Star Dou Forest's soul beasts and his rough plan to offer willing, dying soul beasts a chance to become soul spirits.
• Ning Junping understood the earlier misunderstanding and lost his reservations about Chen Ping after hearing that he had only pursued two girls from the sect, not five.
• Ning Junping gave Chen Ping the key and directions to Mo Fang's laboratory, explaining that Mo Fang had been spending his nights absorbed in research.
• Chen Ping left the Conference Hall and headed toward the mountain behind the sect, excited to see what he might discover at Mo Fang's laboratory.
• Three uniformed Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples blocked Chen Ping's path, and their oldest member asked, “You're Chen Ping?”

Chen Ping was challenged to a duel by three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples and followed them to the Martial Arts Platform. There, Ning Dashan attacked him with a Level 6 Soul Tool Heavy Hammer after boosting himself with his Seven-Story Pagoda.

• Three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples accused Chen Ping of luring young girls and demanded that he fight them on the Martial Arts Platform.
• Chen Ping broke free from one disciple’s grip and headed to the platform, deciding to settle the misunderstanding through a fight.
• Chen Ping examined the platform’s cabinets of soul tools and approved of the sect’s free equipment for duels.
• Ning Dashan selected a Level 6 Soul Tool Heavy Hammer and challenged Chen Ping.
• Ning Dashan summoned his Seven-Story Pagoda, activated its Strength and Speed boosts, and charged at Chen Ping with his hammer.

Chen Ping fought Ning Dashan and overwhelmed him with his strength, prompting the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples to attack together. As Chen Nian drew his sword and Gu Lipa unleashed a storm of bone spikes, Chen Ping faced the group without fear.

• Ning Dashan attacked Chen Ping with his Wind-Thunder Hammer, but Chen Ping blocked the blow with his Star Nodule Club and flung him away.
• Ning Dashan admitted Chen Ping was incredibly strong, then joined Chen Nian and Gu Lipa in surrounding him.
• Chen Nian summoned his crystal sword while Gu Lipa revealed his skeletal giant form and attacked Chen Ping with Bone Spike Storm.

Chen Ping faced Gu Lipa, Chen Nian, and Ning Dashan, noticed their strange pyramid pendants, and fought off their coordinated attacks. He used Falling Snow to evade Chen Nian’s sword and knocked him unconscious, while Ning Dashan continued the assault with his transformed Wind-Thunder Axe.

• Chen Ping blocked Gu Lipa’s bone spikes and noticed that all three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples wore translucent pyramid pendants.
• Ning Dashan transformed his Wind-Thunder Hammer into a Wind-Thunder Axe and charged as Gu Lipa and Chen Nian attacked from front and rear.
• Gu Lipa unleashed Bone Dragon Roar while Chen Nian struck with his Seven Kill Sword, but Chen Ping used Falling Snow to evade the attacks.
• Chen Ping appeared behind Chen Nian and knocked him unconscious with a palm strike.
• Ning Dashan boosted himself and Gu Lipa with his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and charged Chen Ping with the Wind-Thunder Axe.

Chen Ping fought Gu Lipa and Ning Dashan after they used powerful Soul Tools, then learned from Chen Ying why he had stayed hidden during the battle. The chapter ended with Chen Ping asking what the triangular pyramid Soul Tools were.

• Chen Ping intercepted Gu Lipa's enhancement beams, then struck at him with his enlarged Star Nodule Club.
• Gu Lipa used the Vast Sea Protective Shroud to withstand Chen Ping's attack, and Ning Dashan unleashed Vast Sea Raging Waves at him.
• Chen Ping evaded Ning Dashan's attack, knocked Gu Lipa unconscious, and punched Ning Dashan unconscious.
• Chen Ying revealed that he was the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's Shadow Guards deputy commander and explained why he had not appeared earlier.
• Chen Ping asked Chen Ying about the triangular pyramid Soul Tools carried by Gu Lipa and Ning Dashan.

Chen Ping learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had begun issuing Vast Sea Cosmic Towers based on rubbings of the ancient Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Mo Fang explained how he had adapted the designs, and Chen Ping suggested that the original Soul Tool might have been inspired by the Sun Moon Continent.

• Chen Ying told Chen Ping that the sect had recently begun issuing Vast Sea Cosmic Towers, each with a different fixed Soul Skill.
• Chen Ping recognized the towers as replicas of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and recalled its connection to Tang San and Poseidon.
• Chen Ping visited Mo Fang's laboratory and found it filled with Vast Sea Cosmic Towers that Mo Fang had been researching and crafting.
• Mo Fang said Sect Master Ning had given him ancient rubbings of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which helped guide his work on the towers.
• Chen Ping concluded that Mo Fang's arrival had enabled the sect to reproduce the ancient designs and suggested that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's inspiration came from the Sun Moon Continent.

Chen Ping learned how Mo Fang had deciphered and recreated parts of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then received a Vast Sea Cosmic Tower that could immobilize or put opponents to sleep. As Chen Ping accepted it, the Clear Sky Sect was also stirring with unusual activity.

• Chen Ping and Mo Fang discussed how Poseidon's ancient core arrays differed from modern soul tool designs and how Mo Fang had used the rubbings to create simplified Vast Sea Cosmic Towers.
• Chen Ping asked whether Mo Fang had decoded the soul skills built into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but Mo Fang said he understood only the arrays' breakpoints.
• Mo Fang explained that Chen Ping's Vast Sea Cosmic Tower could unleash the Cosmic Spirit-Settling Shroud, immobilizing weaker soul masters and potentially putting ordinary people to sleep for a day and night.
• Chen Ping accepted the tower, recognizing its usefulness for incapacitating crowds during infiltration.
• The base of the Clear Sky Sect grew unusually busy.

Wang Dong brought a group of Shrek classmates to visit the Clear Sky Sect, where they discovered the sect had no soul tools at all. At the mountaintop, a middle-aged man sensed the crowd and wondered why Little Dong had brought so many visitors.

• Wang Dong waited with Huo Yuhao and other classmates as Xie Huanyue arrived slowly on a Flying Soul Tool.
• Xie Huanyue joked that his bulk helped him withstand his classmates' beatings and might help him earn a place on Shrek's main team.
• Wang Dong lamented that Chen Ping and Wu Feng had gone to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect instead of joining the visit.
• Wang Dong revealed that the Clear Sky Sect used no soul tools, not even Soul Guidance Lamps, embarrassing her in front of her classmates.
• A cyan-clad middle-aged man sensed the visitors from the mountaintop and sprayed tea on his companion in surprise.

Tang San’s failing plan pushed Da Ming and Er Ming to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao together at the Clear Sky Sect, but Wang Dong invited her classmates too. After arranging everyone’s rooms, Er Ming struggled with guilt over luring Huo Yuhao into what he knew was a trap.

• Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao together because his plan had gone badly off course.
• Wang Dong invited her available classmates to visit the Clear Sky Sect rather than bringing Huo Yuhao alone.
• Er Ming moved elders to make room for the many guests and felt relieved when Wang Dong assigned Huo Yuhao the Cold Jade Chamber.
• Er Ming praised Huo Yuhao for choosing a Golden Radiance Arm Bone for Wang Dong, then felt guilty about luring him to the sect.
• Wang Dong noticed Er Ming’s guilty reaction as he stumbled through his words.

Wang Dong questioned Er Ming about concealing what he knew, while Chen Ping listened as Electrolux explained the God-Given Soul Ring and revealed that his other half of divine sense had died after helping Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong accused Er Ming of hiding information about the light in her head, and Da Ming explained why they had kept their suspicions to themselves and why Er Ming had offered the Cold Jade Chamber to her classmate.
• Wang Dong apologized to Er Ming, who accidentally called her Wu Tong before stopping himself.
• After Wang Dong left, Da Ming warned Er Ming that he was growing too attached to her and asked whether he still wanted Wu Tong to return; Er Ming promised to control his emotions.
• In the Undead Demiplane, Electrolux explained his findings about the God-Given Soul Ring while Chen Ping struggled to follow the technical details.
• Electrolux sensed that his half of a divine sense within Huo Yuhao had died, and explained that it had endured by taking some of the Spiritual Origin in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness before sacrificing itself to save him.

After Elder Yi’s divine soul vanished while suppressing the Snow Empress’s power, Chen Ping realized the apparent explanation for the crisis had been a deception. Huo Yuhao left Clear Sky Peak grieving, carrying Elder Yi’s final warning and an unopened spatial gift.

• Chen Ping concluded that the Snow Empress’s Snow Core ignition had been a trap and that Elder Yi’s earlier explanation about ultimate ice becoming ultimate fire was mistaken.
• Er Ming worried about Huo Yuhao leaving alone, while Da Ming told him to let the boy clear his head and lamented that losing Elder Yi’s power left Xiao Dong unable to escape Tang San’s schemes.
• Da Ming and Er Ming discussed how Tang San’s control over them would grow once the world’s will disappeared.
• Huo Yuhao flew beyond Da Ming’s perception, overwhelmed by grief as he recalled Elder Yi’s final words.
• Elder Yi had explained that he would burn his divine soul to suppress and reseal the Ice Empress’s origin power, then leave Huo Yuhao a spatial gift to open far from the Clear Sky Sect.

Huo Yuhao struggled with suspicion about the Clear Sky Sect after Electrolux’s warning, then discovered that Electrolux had left him a way to travel into the Undead Demiplane. He arrived safely in the demiplane but regretted that he had never mastered Electrolux’s spatial arts.

• Huo Yuhao brooded over the Clear Sky Sect’s immense hidden power and grew wary of everyone after losing Elder Yi.
• Huo Yuhao fell asleep and sensed Electrolux’s golden pillar of light in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao channeled his soul power and spiritual power into the pillar, which revealed a path through space.
• Huo Yuhao stepped through space from the inn and appeared high above the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao fell into a crowd of undead, then realized Electrolux’s pillar had enabled him to enter the demiplane.

Huo Yuhao arrived in the Undead Demiplane and found it transformed by a massive construction project run by living people and intelligent undead. Chen Ping explained that another fragment of Elder Yi’s divine sense had survived and was waiting to meet him, leaving Huo Yuhao reassured but bewildered by the undead’s new lives.

• Huo Yuhao surveyed the Undead Demiplane and discovered undead creatures building roads and houses under the direction of living workers.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Chen Ping, who had hurried over after sensing a spatial fluctuation.
• Chen Ping offered to take Huo Yuhao to Elder Yi and explained that Elder Yi had split off another divine-sense fragment years earlier as a safeguard.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao that the Elder Yi in the demiplane was essentially the same divine sense that had once resided in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao watched undead creatures laying roads, playing cards, and reading, and Chen Ping explained that they had become busy and found ways to amuse themselves.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Electrolux, who explained that he had survived by dividing his divine soul and leaving a memory fragment behind. After Huo Yuhao gave Electrolux the fragment, Electrolux regained his memories and asked after Big Bug and Little Scorpion.

• Chen Ping brought Huo Yuhao to Electrolux, who was conducting many research tasks at once.
• Electrolux explained that he had divided his divine soul for safety and left a Memory Black Box in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping about facing god-level experts and stopping them from burning their divine souls.
• Huo Yuhao extracted the memory fragment from his Sea of Consciousness and gave it to Electrolux.
• Electrolux regained his memories, addressed Huo Yuhao familiarly, and asked how Big Bug and Little Scorpion were doing.