Recaps

Chen Ping grew closer to Bei Bei and Tang Ya after they discussed Tang Ya’s new Soul Skill and his Soul Bone. He learned more about Shrek Academy and resolved to make the most of the opportunities ahead.

• Tang Ya was astonished that Chen Ping’s Soul Bone had triggered Martial Soul Evolution, and Bei Bei suggested they ask Teacher Wang Yan about it.
• Chen Ping and Tang Ya thanked each other for their gains, and Bei Bei invited Chen Ping to call them Big Brother Bei Bei and Sister Xiaoya.
• Tang Ya explained that her new Soul Skill, Touch Dragon Strangle, created eight powerful vines to bind and crush a target.
• Chen Ping considered how to prepare for Control System Soul Masters and reflected on why Shrek Academy offered better resources than other schools.
• Chen Ping learned details about Bei Bei and Tang Ya’s class, homeroom teacher, and school break, then vowed to make his mark in the Soul Master world.

Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya reached Shrek City, where Chen Ping realized that the academy’s nourishing soul-beast meals were far beyond his means. He decided that becoming a Core Disciple could earn him the food allowance he wanted, and entered Shrek Academy disguised as Bei Bei’s younger paternal cousin so they could find Teacher Wang Yan.

• Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya avoided traveling through the Star Dou Forest and followed the main road to Shrek City.
• Chen Ping saw Shrek students buying expensive food and learned that the academy’s best meals could cost over sixty Gold Soul Coins each.
• Chen Ping decided that a Core Disciple’s monthly food allowance would be worth risking his life to obtain.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya arranged for Chen Ping to enter the academy as Bei Bei’s younger paternal cousin.
• Bei Bei led Chen Ping and Tang Ya into the academy and said they would find Teacher Wang Yan at the Library.

Chen Ping toured Shrek Academy with Bei Bei and Tang Ya, learning about its divisions and grounds while growing uneasy over Zhao Wuji’s missing statue and Tang San’s influence. Bei Bei brought him to the academy’s library, a single floor in the sixth-year teaching building, and proudly called its collection the continent’s largest and most comprehensive.

• Bei Bei showed Chen Ping the statues honoring Shrek’s founders and heroes, and Chen Ping noticed that Zhao Wuji had no statue.
• Bei Bei explained the Martial Soul and Soul Tool divisions as Tang Ya introduced Sea God Lake as a memorial to Tang San.
• Bei Bei led Chen Ping through Shrek Square and described how the colored teaching buildings marked students’ year levels.
• Chen Ping steadied himself after confronting his fear of Tang San and asked where Teacher Wang could be found.
• Bei Bei said Teacher Wang usually spent the hour in the library and took Chen Ping to the library inside the sixth-year teaching building.
• Chen Ping was taken aback by the library’s modest size while Bei Bei praised its collection.

Chen Ping found Wang Yan at Shrek Academy and told him he had sought him out because their martial souls were connected. Wang Yan was moved by Chen Ping’s hardship and took him, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya to get something to eat.

• Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya found Wang Yan reading in the library’s Plant-type Soul Beast subsection.
• Chen Ping introduced himself as a disciple of the Coiling Dragon Sect, shocking Wang Yan into leading them outside to talk.
• Chen Ping explained that he had wandered the continent after evil soul masters destroyed his sect and had reached rank fourteen while searching for a place to settle.
• Wang Yan realized Chen Ping had suffered greatly and was choked into silence by the boy’s scars, calluses, and cracked hands.
• Wang Yan said their families had little connection beyond sharing the Coiling Dragon Staff martial soul, then invited Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya to eat.

Chen Ping joined Wang Yan, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya for a meal at Hongyue Tower, where Wang Yan learned how Chen Ping's Martial Soul had evolved by devouring soul bones. Impressed by Chen Ping's independence and potential, Wang Yan offered him a room at his home and asked to study his Willow Wood Staff Martial Soul.

• Chen Ping persuaded Wang Yan to take everyone to eat, but Wang Yan explained that Shrek's dining hall had no stools.
• Wang Yan brought Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya to Hongyue Tower, where the three hungry youngsters eagerly ate their fill.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya told Wang Yan how Chen Ping had obtained his first soul ring and evolved his Martial Soul by devouring a soul bone.
• Wang Yan admired Chen Ping's courage and self-reliance, and offered him a room in his staff housing until enrollment.
• Wang Yan asked Chen Ping whether he would let him study his self-evolving Willow Wood Staff Martial Soul.

Chen Ping settled in with Wang Yan and considered ways to earn money before enrolling at Shrek. When Wang Yan discovered Chen Ping’s manuscripts, he mistook them for the Coiling Dragon Sect’s inherited teachings and promised to keep them secret.

• Wang Yan offered Chen Ping a room and told him to call him Second Uncle in private.
• Wang Yan paid for a costly meal, then took Chen Ping shopping and brought him to the staff dormitory.
• Chen Ping considered earning money by running a food stall while balancing work with cultivation and enrollment requirements.
• Wang Yan noticed the manuscripts in Chen Ping’s bamboo basket and asked to read them.
• Wang Yan was astonished by the manuscripts and assumed they were the Coiling Dragon Sect’s inherited teachings.
• Chen Ping agreed with Wang Yan’s assumption, and Wang Yan promised not to reveal what he had read.

Chen Ping explained that the Coiling Dragon Sect’s manuscripts were compiled to help him earn money, while Wang Yan recognized their value and became captivated by the soul skill damage dilution theory. Wang Yan resolved to nurture Chen Ping into a renowned Soul Master, while Chen Ping discovered his cultivation speed was declining.

• Chen Ping told Wang Yan that he had posed as a Shrek student to sell cultivation guidance and had compiled the manuscripts from the Coiling Dragon Sect’s records.
• Wang Yan said he had visited the Coiling Dragon Sect’s ruins after the Evil Soul Masters attacked, but Chen Ping had already fled.
• Wang Yan struggled to understand the formulas in the damage dilution manuscript, yet praised its theory as a groundbreaking achievement with the potential to benefit every Soul Master.
• Wang Yan planned to use the Coiling Dragon Sect’s cultivation manuals to help Chen Ping gain fame and eventually reveal the sect’s Three Great Secret Techniques, if Chen Ping wished.
• Chen Ping cultivated while Wang Yan read, then realized his cultivation speed had fallen from that of someone with roughly four and a half ranks of innate Soul Power to someone with four.

Chen Ping realized his medicine would steadily slow his cultivation until its effects were repaid, so he resigned himself to grinding through the coming months. Wang Yan discovered that Chen Ping could meditate while performing complicated tasks, but his own attempt to imitate the feat caused his soul power to run wild.

• Chen Ping understood that his system-made medicine would make his cultivation speed decline until it fell below his normal rate and eventually repaid its borrowed gains.
• Chen Ping continued cultivating while meditating, pouring Wang Yan a cup of water without interrupting his soul power circulation.
• Wang Yan left for his room, baffled by Chen Ping’s ability to cultivate while moving.
• Wang Yan tried to stand while meditating, lost control of his soul power, and suffered intense pain without lasting injury.

Chen Ping searched Shrek City for a way to earn money but realized ordinary barbecue could not give him the unique, lucrative business he wanted. He remembered a story that might help him create food nobody else could reproduce, leaving him eager to test whether it could make him a fortune.

• Chen Ping slept soundly in Wang Yan's room, then woke late and rushed to begin cultivating and earning money.
• Chen Ping ate cold steamed buns, took Wang Yan's spare key, and went out to look for a business venture.
• Chen Ping explored Shrek City's Food Street and concluded that copying Huo Yuhao's grilled fish was difficult because he lacked Huo Yuhao's cooking talent and the Douluo Continent had no cumin.
• Chen Ping rejected selling ordinary barbecue because competitors could copy it and suppliers could be pressured to cut him off.
• Chen Ping recalled a classic story that might let him make unique food and earn money quickly.

Chen Ping decided to sell Buddha Jumps Over the Wall as a distinctive, hard-to-copy dish for wealthy students, and set out to find its ingredients. He also noticed that his Academic Genius Points were running low and eagerly anticipated school starting again.

• Chen Ping concluded that he needed a unique flavor, not merely a substitute for cumin, to protect his cooking business from imitators.
• Chen Ping chose Buddha Jumps Over the Wall because its costly ingredients and lengthy preparation would make it difficult to copy and allow him to charge high prices.
• Chen Ping rejected Boiled Cabbage in Clear Broth as a less suitable choice because customers might not appreciate its value.
• Chen Ping reasoned that Buddha Jumps Over the Wall could also be understood as Tang Jumps Over the Wall, given the Douluo Continent's use of the word Buddha and its connection to Tang San.
• Chen Ping searched the street for ingredients and saw that his Academic Genius Points were about to drop below four digits.

Chen Ping used his Academic Genius Training System’s Simulation Training Field to practice making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, hoping to earn money for tuition and living expenses. As Wang Yan left to handle academy work, he warned Chen Ping that other people at Shrek Academy were interested in his Martial Soul.

• Chen Ping bought ingredients and earthenware jars, then used the system to deduce a Buddha Jumps Over the Wall recipe and train in a Simulation Training Field.
• Chen Ping rushed through the tutorial at triple speed, but his first attempt earned a score of zero because the ingredients were unevenly cooked.
• Chen Ping tried again and earned a score of one, with the system criticizing the tough abalone and gritty clams.
• Chen Ping regrouped and continued practicing, determined to master the dish and make money from it.
• Wang Yan returned with cafeteria food, and Chen Ping explained that he was recreating a Coiling Dragon Sect dish to earn money.
• Wang Yan said he would be busy for three days and warned Chen Ping that others at Shrek Academy were interested in his Soul Bone-devouring, self-evolving Martial Soul.

Chen Ping trained while learning to make Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and Wang Yan grew increasingly eager to taste it. After three days, Wang Yan’s plan to return home for the finished dish was interrupted when Xuan Zi guessed what was cooking and teased him about it.

• Chen Ping comprehended the Left Circle, Right Square skill, which let him meditate while doing another task, and continued his training and cooking practice.
• Chen Ping spent three days confined to his room, progressing through the stages of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall as Wang Yan brought him meals and was tempted by the growing aroma.
• Chen Ping told Wang Yan the dish would be ready when he returned from work, after completing the difficult broth transformations.
• Wang Yan accompanied Xuan Zi from Shrek Academy and discussed researching Chen Ping’s martial soul evolution as a possible way to help Xiaotao’s evil fire.
• Xuan Zi recognized that Wang Yan was eager to get home for the dish and guessed that Chen Ping would lift the lid that night.

Chen Ping finished a potent jar of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and served it to Wang Yan and Elder Xuan Zi after the elder kicked down his door to follow its aroma. Impressed by the dish, Xuan Zi offered to supply ingredients and pay Chen Ping to cook it for him, leaving Chen Ping eager to profit from the wealthy elder.

• Chen Ping discovered that his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall had several slight effects on strength, vitality, and blood energy.
• Elder Xuan Zi kicked down Chen Ping's door and followed the dish's aroma into the kitchen, where Wang Yan introduced him to Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping served Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Wang Yan and Xuan Zi, who devoured the food and praised it.
• Xuan Zi asked Chen Ping to cook Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for him in exchange for payment, and Chen Ping saw a chance to make money from the old man.

Chen Ping used Academic Genius Points to devise a premium, soul-beast version of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and persuaded Xuan Zi to provide its rare ingredients. He asked for six months of free meals at the academy’s eighth serving window, while planning to profit from surplus ingredients.

• Chen Ping weighed what to charge Xuan Zi and spent a thousand Academic Genius Points to develop a soul-beast version of the dish.
• Chen Ping told Xuan Zi that his sect had a secret recipe requiring rare soul-beast ingredients, and Xuan Zi agreed to pay for it.
• Chen Ping listed eighteen rare ingredients, including an Ironhide Savage Pig hind hock, Five-Colored Phoenix Chicken eggs, and young King Sea Cucumbers.
• Xuan Zi offered to gather the ingredients and let Chen Ping name his compensation, while Chen Ping planned to use the surplus to make extra servings.
• Chen Ping asked Xuan Zi for permission to eat free at the academy’s eighth serving window for six months, surprising Xuan Zi and Wang Yan.

Chen Ping continued supplying Xuan Zi with Premium Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and Xuan Zi agreed to cover his meals at Shrek’s counter eight while challenging him to earn a Core Disciple training slot. When Chen Ping delivered another batch, Xuan Zi told him to take one pot to Mu En, who had claimed a pot from every delivery since catching Xuan Zi eating one on the way.

• Xuan Zi agreed to pay for Chen Ping’s meals at counter eight and said he would prioritize Chen Ping’s cooking whenever he had gathered enough ingredients.
• Chen Ping prepared Premium Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for Xuan Zi and used a Storage Necklace to carry an extra pot for a new customer.
• Chen Ping called Xuan Zi with the Sound Transmission Soul Tool and brought him two pots of Premium Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
• Xuan Zi explained that Mu En had caught him eating a pot on the way and now expected one pot from each delivery.
• Xuan Zi told Chen Ping to take one pot to Mu En, who was sitting by the freshman dormitory entrance.

Chen Ping prepared to deliver a reserved serving of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to a new student at Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with Ning Tian and Xiao Feng heading to the dormitory, where Xiao Feng blushed while holding Ning Tian’s hand.

• Chen Ping reflected on Mu En’s reputation and watched Xuan Zi leave across Sea God Lake.
• A student called Chen Ping to arrange pickup of her reserved serving, and he agreed to meet her at the dormitory entrance.
• Ning Tian told Xiao Feng they would settle into the dormitory and officially register the next day.
• Ning Tian asked Xiao Feng to stop calling her young mistress and call her Sister Tian instead.
• Xiao Feng took Ning Tian’s hand and blushed, unaware that Ning Tian had not noticed her reaction.

Chen Ping followed Ning Tian and Wu Feng through Shrek Academy, unaware that Wu Feng suspected him of stalking them. When he tried to pass them, Wu Feng attacked, and the chapter ended with Chen Ping facing both girls’ soul rings and realizing he was outmatched.

• Chen Ping headed after Ning Tian and Wu Feng while thinking about his growing savings and a Mystic Water Pill.
• Wu Feng warned Ning Tian that Chen Ping was following them, but Ning Tian dismissed her concerns until they saw he had stayed behind them for a long time.
• As the girls neared their dorm, Chen Ping quickened his pace to overtake them, and Wu Feng released Ning Tian and kicked at him.
• Wu Feng transformed and attacked Chen Ping with her dragon-scaled arm, while Chen Ping dodged and readied his Insect Staff - Touch Dragon.
• Chen Ping saw Wu Feng's two yellow soul rings, then discovered Ning Tian also had two, leaving him alarmed at facing both girls.

Chen Ping fought off Wu Feng and Ning Tian by stealing Ning Tian’s speed boosts and using his staff to vault over Wu Feng. After arguing over whether Shrek’s dormitories were coed, he told the girls about a white-bearded old man lying outside the supposed girls’ dormitory and dared them to confront him.

• Wu Feng attacked Chen Ping with Dragon’s Fire while Ning Tian summoned her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to support her.
• Chen Ping distracted the girls by shouting for Teacher Li, then used his staff to vault over Wu Feng and intercept Ning Tian’s speed boost.
• Chen Ping repeatedly stole Ning Tian’s speed enhancements, enraging Wu Feng, who activated her Dragon’s Wrath but still could not catch him.
• Chen Ping jabbed Wu Feng with his staff and argued that Shrek’s dormitories were coed, while Wu Feng and Ning Tian insisted he was heading toward the girls’ dormitory.
• Chen Ping told the girls that a white-bearded old man lay outside the supposed girls’ dormitory and challenged them to beat him up.

Chen Ping confronted Wu Feng and Ning Tian after they attacked him, then discovered that a misunderstanding about the dormitory had begun with his own misleading reply. He settled the matter for a thousand gold soul coins and let them leave, while the two girls remained curious about how a One-Ring Soul Master had stayed at Shrek.

• Chen Ping revealed his Hundred-Year Soul Ring and threatened to report Wu Feng and Ning Tian for their attack, while a white-bearded old man secretly watched.
• Chen Ping showed Wu Feng and Ning Tian that the dormitory building housed both male and female students, and listed the four disciplinary violations they had committed.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng explained that Bei Bei had connected them with Chen Ping to order food, and Chen Ping realized his reply had reinforced their mistaken belief that the building was a girls' dormitory.
• Chen Ping demanded a thousand gold soul coins for the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, accepted the payment, and let Ning Tian erase the Recording Pearl's footage.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng left after Ning Tian suggested meeting again with Bei Bei, still wondering how Chen Ping had remained at Shrek as a One-Ring Soul Master.

Chen Ping reached level fifteen and worried about his chances in Shrek’s Freshman Competition before delivering Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to Mu En. Mu En teased Chen Ping into promising to take first place in his exams and asked him to bring more food in the future.

• Chen Ping reached level fifteen, compared his cultivation with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and worried that he could not compete against three-ring Soul Elders without Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping hurried to Shrek’s dormitory to deliver Xuan Zi’s takeout to Mu En.
• Chen Ping told Mu En that Xuan Zi had ordered the nourishing Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for him, while Mu En revealed he knew Chen Ping had been bad-mouthing him.
• Chen Ping claimed children who ate the dish came first in their exams, so Mu En challenged him to prove it and threatened to confront him if he failed.
• Mu En sent Chen Ping away and told him to bring Buddha Jumps Over the Wall directly to him in the future.

Mu En praised Chen Ping’s medicinal cooking and ordered someone to investigate his background. Chen Ping weighed his chances in the freshman tournament and hoped to be placed with powerful teammates as he looked ahead to academy life.

• Mu En savored Chen Ping’s Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, recognized its benefits, and decided to investigate Chen Ping’s background.
• Chen Ping considered the teams and Martial Soul Fusion Skills that could threaten his bid for first place in the freshman tournament.
• Chen Ping concluded that teaming up with Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu would give him the best chance, though he also saw possibilities with Huo Gua or the Blue Sisters.
• Chen Ping’s worries eased as he anticipated the tournament and considered unlocking powerful supplement formulas from the system.

Chen Ping returned to Shrek Academy, collected his monthly stipend, and completed the registration process for his new student dormitory. After cleaning his cramped room, he wondered whether his roommate would tolerate the conditions or move elsewhere.

• Chen Ping considered ways to obtain dragon blood for his cultivation before heading to Shrek Academy the next morning.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya welcomed Chen Ping at the gates while earning credits by greeting new students.
• Chen Ping collected his monthly Gold Soul Coin stipend and suspected that academy officials resented paying it out.
• Chen Ping paid ten Gold Soul Coins, received his dormitory key and uniform, and greeted Mu En before entering the dormitory.
• Chen Ping cleaned his small, dusty room and wondered whether his roommate would move elsewhere because of the cramped conditions.

Chen Ping learned that he had been assigned to Mu Jin’s Freshman Class Nine, then shared his cafeteria table and meal with a poor, skinny freshman. He discovered the boy was Huo Yuhao, whose future would soon intersect with Chen Ping’s business and bring him into conflict with Zhou Yi.

• Chen Ping checked the class noticeboard and found that he had been assigned to Mu Jin’s Freshman Class Nine rather than Zhou Yi’s Class One.
• Chen Ping secured a large helping of Crystal White Jade Rice at Window Eight and invited a thin boy eating alone to share his table.
• The boy introduced himself as Huo Yuhao and said he planned to sell grilled fish outside the academy.
• Chen Ping recognized Huo Yuhao and considered offering him supplements, unaware that Huo Yuhao would soon become one of his customers.
• Chen Ping’s presence at Shrek would eventually draw him into conflict with Zhou Yi despite his efforts to avoid the academy’s major upheavals.

Chen Ping arrived early at Freshman Class Nine and began studying, setting off a chain reaction that spread through the freshman classrooms. The chapter ended with Zhou Yi confronting the noisy students of Class One and declaring them all trash.

• Chen Ping enjoyed having his dorm room to himself, then went early to Class Nine and chose a front-row seat.
• Chen Ping reviewed his textbook and found that Five Years of Soul Hunting, Three Years of Simulation covered much of the material.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng saw Chen Ping studying and joined him, prompting the other Class Nine students to open their books as well.
• The studying spread from Class Ten through the freshman classrooms until nearly every class was quietly reading.
• Zhou Yi arrived at the corridor, called the students in Class One noisy, and announced that every student in her class was trash.

Mu Jin introduced himself as the friendly homeroom teacher of Class Nine, contrasting his approach with Zhou Yi’s harsh treatment of Class One. He began the school year’s first lesson on Soul Masters and Soul Tools, leaving the freshmen learning about an Unranked Recording Pearl.

• Mu Jin greeted Class Nine and explained that he preferred making friends with his students, unlike Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi ordered nearly a hundred Class One students to run a hundred laps around Shrek Square or face expulsion.
• Mu Jin praised Chen Ping for arriving early and studying, then encouraged Ning Tian and Wu Feng for studying too.
• Mu Jin wrote “Soul Master, Soul Engineer, Soul Tool” on the blackboard and began explaining the three terms.
• Mu Jin revealed that a Recording Pearl, an Unranked Soul Tool, had let him learn about events in the classroom.