Recaps

After the Soul Hunting Operation ended successfully, Chen Ping reported his Domination Domain to Mu En and discussed the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament. Mu En named Chen Ping captain of the Shrek Team, leaving Chen Ping stunned as he wondered what would happen to Older Brother Bei Bei and the others.

• Cai Mei'er led Chen Ping and Ning Tian to inspect the mining area, and Chen Ping suggested safety improvements.
• The group subdued three Wolf Apes, Li Yongyue gained a Soul Ring, and Cai Mei'er collected the three Wolf Ape Soul Bones for the Academy.
• Cai Mei'er brought the group back safely, and Chen Ping, Ning Tian, Mo Xuan, and Li Yongyue returned with their gains from the operation.
• Chen Ping told Mu En about his Domination Domain, and Mu En advised him to develop it through repeated battles.
• Mu En discussed the coming tournament with Chen Ping and appointed him captain of the Shrek Team, prompting Chen Ping to ask about Older Brother Bei Bei and the others.

Mu En told Chen Ping that the next tournament would take place in the Sun Moon Empire under a new format that favored powerful sects, and encouraged him to treat the competition as a chance to grow. Chen Ping agreed to lead Shrek’s main team, while Mu En urged him to recruit promising Outer Court students and prepare for the Tang Sect to compete independently.

• Mu En explained that Bei Bei had formed the Tang Sect with Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and Tang Ya, and that its independent entry offered Shrek extra insurance.
• Mu En praised Chen Ping’s influence on the academy’s shift toward Soul Tools and revealed that the next tournament would be held in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Mu En encouraged Chen Ping to compete despite the risks, citing the Mirage Dragon Shell and the strong opponents drawn by the expanded tournament format.
• Chen Ping privately recalled that the Sun Moon Empire would interrupt the tournament before awarding its promised Soul Tools, but said nothing to Mu En.
• Mu En told Chen Ping to recruit promising Outer Court students for Shrek’s main team and said the Tang Sect would have to fill its own remaining places.

Chen Ping recruited fourteen students from Shrek Academy’s Outer Court for two Reserve Teams in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament and arranged the Tang Sect Team’s lineup. Huo Yuhao volunteered to face Dai Huabin after learning Dai had joined the Tang Sect Team.

• Chen Ping quickly obtained student records from Du Weilun and chose likely candidates for both Reserve Teams.
• Chen Ping reunited with Mu Jin, who gathered top students from several grades so he could recruit them.
• Chen Ping held Soul Fighting matches, selected the reserve members, divided them into two teams, and sent some to the Tang Sect.
• Bei Bei recruited Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Xie Huanyue as temporary Tang Sect members, bringing its roster to four Soul Emperors and three Soul Kings.
• Huo Yuhao learned Dai Huabin had joined the Tang Sect Team and volunteered to intercept him in the tournament.

Chen Ping prepared to absorb a God-Given Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as his fifth ring at rank fifty, while Mu En and Xuan Zi stood guard. The bead shattered and golden mist engulfed him, beginning the unprecedented attempt.

• Chen Ping showed Mu En and Xuan Zi the preserved God-Given Soul Ring, and they agreed to guard him as he attempted to absorb it.
• Chen Ping relied on his Soul Douluo-level physical strength and stable foundation to attempt the hundred-thousand-year ring at rank fifty.
• Chen Ping drew his Soul Power back into himself and released the Domination Domain as he prepared to face the ring’s trial.
• The golden bead shattered, golden mist spread around Chen Ping, and his four existing Soul Rings emerged as the absorption began.

Chen Ping endured the God-Given Soul Ring’s trial as he attempted to obtain a hundred-thousand-year fifth soul ring while advancing from Soul Ancestor to Soul King. As his body began bleeding under the pressure, Xuan Zi feared that Chen Ping would be torn apart, but Chen Ping remained determined to protect the people he cherished.

• Chen Ping drew the golden Pearl’s power into his body, and golden threads appeared as he began absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring.
• Chen Ping unleashed the power in his bones, soul rings, domain, and Gold of Life to withstand the trial’s pressure.
• After an hour, the golden threads formed nine rings of light that repeatedly struck Chen Ping, making him convulse and bleed.
• Chen Ping endured the pain by focusing on the people he wanted to protect and recalling the hardships he had already survived.
• Xuan Zi considered interrupting the absorption, fearing Chen Ping would be torn apart by the hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

Chen Ping endured the ordeal of absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and reached Soul King Level 53, while Mu En and Xuan Zi watched in alarm. After the successful breakthrough, Mu En considered Chen Ping’s future Soul Bone absorption and the Golden Ancient Tree’s strange ability to devour nutrients.

• Chen Ping endured severe pain as the Golden Ancient Tree absorbed the blood dripping from his body, puzzling Mu En.
• Xuan Zi watched Chen Ping repeatedly teeter on the brink of collapse as his Soul Rings, domain, bones, and the gold of life helped sustain him.
• Chen Ping’s nine golden light rings merged into a blood-red ring, and a burst of bloody mist made Xuan Zi fear he had exploded.
• Mu En dispersed the mist and confirmed Chen Ping had survived, reaching Level 53 and becoming a Soul King with five Soul Rings, including a red one.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi speculated about Chen Ping devouring the Hell Frenzy Dragon Skull and gaining a new Martial Soul, while Mu En wondered whether the Golden Ancient Tree had devoured the bloody mist.

Chen Ping remained in meditation for months after absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching Level 54 while his preparations continued without him. The Pill Pavilion began selling advanced Fixed-Installation Soul-Guided Cannons, drawing representatives from several empires to negotiate.

• Chen Ping sat motionless for ninety days as he subdued the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring's power, and he advanced to Level 54.
• The Pill Pavilion opened beside the One-Stop Bathing Center and sold Level 4 Fixed-Installation Shells, launch equipment, and Might Pills.
• Chen Ping used Thousand Refinement technology to make stronger cannon barrels and developed Fixed-Installation Soul-Guided Cannons with a starting range of fifteen kilometers.
• After receiving cannon samples, Xu Jiujiu and Dai Yueheng flew over, the Heaven Dou Empire sent Weina, and the Dou Ling Empire sent a prince to negotiate.

The Pill Pavilion sold the Star Luo, Heaven Dou, and Dou Ling Empires long-range Level 4 Soul Tool Cannons and soldier-enhancement supplies, expanding its arms business through Chen Ping’s Thousand Refinement Metal monopoly. After nearly four months in seclusion, Chen Ping appeared to stir in the Sea God Pavilion as Xuan Zi watched.

• The Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires each bought two thousand cannons and twenty thousand shells, while the Dou Ling Empire bought half as many; all three also purchased soldier supplies.
• The Pill Pavilion recruited Shrek Soul Tool Department graduates and expanded its production and sales using deposits from the empires.
• The buyers learned that Chen Ping owned the Pill Pavilion and marveled at his cannon technology, which was difficult to imitate without Thousand Refinement Metal.
• Nana and the Pill Pavilion employees grew the business more than a hundredfold and made it a leading employer for Shrek Soul Tool Department graduates.
• Chen Ping’s body seemed to tremble after almost four months in seclusion, and Xuan Zi wondered whether he had really moved.

Chen Ping emerged from a hundred-day meditation with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and reached rank fifty-four and a half. Half a month later, he gathered with the Shrek Team at the academy gates to leave for the tournament, where Tang Ya’s Tang Sect team was also preparing to compete.

• Chen Ping awakened with five Soul Rings, including a new red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and gained the Poison Devil Dance and Earth Devil Split Soul Skills.
• Xuan Zi told Chen Ping that he had meditated for over a hundred days and nearly missed the tournament, while his allies had kept his affairs running smoothly.
• Chen Ping learned that absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring had raised his cultivation to rank fifty-four and a half, and postponed visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until after the tournament.
• Half a month later, Chen Ping and the Shrek Team gathered at Shrek Academy to depart for the tournament in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Tang Ya and the Tang Sect team, including Bei Bei, Zhu Lu, and Dai Huabin, gathered alongside Shrek’s team, and Chen Ping judged his own lineup stronger despite its lower average ranks.

The teams traveled to Mingdu for a tournament expanded to include sects, while Xu Tianran and Ju Zi discussed the emperor’s failing health, their military position, and plans to capture Chen Ping. Ju Zi left to watch Chen Ping’s situation as Xu Tianran waited for his chance to take the throne.

• The teams set out for Mingdu as the tournament’s new rules brought the number of participants to 167.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that the emperor was frequently losing consciousness and that their faction controlled or could expect the loyalty of most of the military.
• Xu Tianran warned Ju Zi not to move against their opponents until he ascended the throne, recalling the disastrous unauthorized deployment that had led to her demotion and her subordinates’ imprisonment.
• Xu Tianran asked Ju Zi to watch for Chen Ping and said they must seize him if an opportunity arose, especially to obtain the Thousand Refinement Technique.
• Ju Zi left to keep watch on Chen Ping while Xu Tianran remained in the imperial garden.

Chen Ping and the Shrek Academy group stopped near Mingdu, where Huo Yuhao made a fortune selling grilled fish before a rude young sect master’s demands were stopped by the Shrek emblem. The group continued toward Mingdu without getting the chance to show off their strength.

• Chen Ping and the others landed about a hundred kilometers from Mingdu and stopped to cook and rest.
• Huo Yuhao sold grilled fish to members of the Heavenly Armor Sect for one Gold Soul Coin each, earning a hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• A group of Soul Masters arrived on Flying Soul Tools, and Feng Ling demanded that Chen Ping’s group grill food for him.
• Feng Ling recognized the Shrek Academy emblem on the group’s uniforms, and two middle-aged men from his party beat him and dragged him away.
• Chen Ping lamented that the incident had not given him a chance to reveal his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while the others imagined doing the same.

The Shrek group arrived in Mingdu and checked in at the Mingyue Hotel for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. There, Chen Ping reunited with Xu Jiujiu, who discussed the Star Luo Empire’s new soul cannons and asked for more High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools.

• The Shrek group traveled to Mingdu and, guided by Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, reached the Mingyue Hotel to check in for the tournament.
• He Caitou eagerly answered the hotel hostess, and Xiao Xiao discreetly pinched him before the group was led to the lounge.
• Chen Ping fed Wu Feng a grape and noticed Xu Jiujiu approaching with a new group of students.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted Chen Ping and told him that General Dai Hao had tested the new soul cannons in Yuming City, where they reached a range of sixteen kilometers.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Chen Ping to sell more High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, and Chen Ping advised her to train soldiers to use firing tables and mils.

Chen Ping advised Xu Jiujiu on improving the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Tool artillery and troop training, prompting her to offer him powerful positions and a place in the imperial family. After Wu Feng and Ning Tian made their closeness to Chen Ping clear, Xu Jiujiu accepted that she could not recruit him and discussed the tournament and future business instead.

• Chen Ping explained that the Star Luo Empire could improve artillery accuracy by training Soul Engineers in counting rods and selecting recruits for their mental calculation skills.
• Impressed by Chen Ping’s military knowledge and abilities, Xu Jiujiu invited him to join the Star Luo Empire, offering him high office and even kinship with the imperial family.
• Wu Feng fed Chen Ping grapes while Ning Tian linked arms with him, and Ning Tian reminded Xu Jiujiu that they had met at her auction.
• Xu Jiujiu realized that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had already secured Chen Ping’s affection and asked where his former tournament teammates were.
• Chen Ping explained that Bei Bei and the others were competing for the Tang Sect, and Xu Jiujiu joked that Shrek had sent too many strong teams.
• Xu Jiujiu chose to save Chen Ping’s favor for a future discount rather than ask him to let her team win with dignity.

Chen Ping and the Shrek team registered for the competition at the Mingyue Hotel, where they encountered Zhang Peng and were assigned a luxurious Sky Villa suite. The chapter ended with the group taking in the suite’s extravagant rooms and rooftop pool.

• Xu Jiujiu gave Chen Ping a Star Luo Imperial Family token and offered to help him if he ever needed something from the Star Luo Empire.
• Chen Ping and the Shrek team completed registration, image recording, medical examinations, and physical fitness tests for the competition.
• The group spotted Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, who felt uneasy when he saw Chen Ping, and they passed without speaking.
• The attendants led Chen Ping and the others to a Sky Villa on the top floor of the Mingyue Hotel, where they saw its lavish rooms, garden, and swimming pool.

Shrek Academy’s team reviewed the Sun Moon Empire’s revised tournament rules, which favored aerial combat and soul engineers, though Shrek’s own flight equipment gave it an advantage. After protests failed to change the rules, the 167 teams held the draw, and Shrek did not receive a bye.

• Shrek Academy’s team and the Tang Sect members gathered to discuss the competition format after settling into Sky Villa Number One.
• Chen Ping noted that the rules imposed no altitude limit, giving teams with flying soul tools a major advantage, but Shrek’s members welcomed the rule because they were equipped to fly.
• The teams learned that individual knockout points would determine whether a team match was needed and could also help teams advance after the knockout stage.
• Academies and sects from the Douluo Three Kingdoms protested the new rules, but the Sun Moon Empire kept them in place and the tournament remained scheduled to begin.
• He Caitou drew lots for Shrek Academy at the ceremony, but the team did not receive the bye among the 167 competitors.

The teams gathered at the tournament grounds, where Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao examined the Sun Moon Empire’s broadcasting technology. Xu Tianran arrived as Regent, and Chen Ping decided that killing him would only strengthen the empire’s drive for war.

• Shrek and the other teams traveled under heavy guard to the tournament venue, where a light curtain prevented competitors from falling off the stage.
• Chen Ping had Huo Yuhao use Spiritual Detection to memorize the structure of the Sun Moon Empire’s broadcast screens.
• The Royal Soul Engineer Corps secured the presidium as Xu Tianran arrived in a Dragon Carriage with Ju Zi pushing his wheelchair.
• Chen Ping’s remark about Xu Tianran’s arrival carried toward the presidium, but an official defused the moment by leading the officials in greeting the Regent and Ju Zi.
• Chen Ping considered killing Xu Tianran with Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells, then concluded that his death would fuel the Sun Moon Empire’s desire for war.
• Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Empire’s officials ascended the platform amid the crowd’s cheers.

Ju Zi opened the Continental Advanced Young Soul Master Elite Tournament, and Shrek Academy was matched against the Dragon Slaying Sect in the first preliminary knockout round. Chen Ping announced that he would fight alone and entered the arena as the crowd and rival teams watched.

• Zhongli Wu silenced the hundreds of thousands gathered at the tournament, and Chen Ping recognized him as the Holy Spirit Cult leader and wondered why Long Xiaoyao was absent.
• Ju Zi declared the tournament open, and the host announced the first match between Shrek Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect.
• Chen Ping leaped into the waiting area, drawing the attention of the powerhouse teams with his physical skill.
• The seven Dragon Slaying Sect competitors entered confidently, believing their traditional sect training gave them an advantage over academy students.
• Chen Ping announced that Shrek would field only one competitor, and the crowd reacted with astonishment as he was called into the arena.

Chen Ping faced a five-ring Soul King from the Dragon Slaying Sect in the tournament’s opening individual match and effortlessly stopped his full-strength charge. After demonstrating his immense physical power, Chen Ping revealed five Soul Rings and prepared to show the audience his genuine ability.

• The referee explained the individual match rules, and the Dragon Slaying Sect’s stocky young contestant took his place opposite Chen Ping.
• The Dragon Slaying Sect contestant charged Chen Ping with his Bronze Bull Martial Soul and Savage Bull’s Strength, revealing five Soul Rings.
• Chen Ping caught the contestant’s punch with one hand and absorbed its force, leaving him completely immobilized.
• Chen Ping released his opponent and reflected that the young man’s strength surpassed his own all-out punch from five years earlier.
• Chen Ping raised his fists, released five Soul Rings, and prepared to demonstrate his true strength.

Chen Ping revealed his unusual Soul Rings and used his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill to split open the arena and pull his opponent into the fissure. He stopped himself from closing the earth on the Dragon Slaying Sect disciple, leaving the audience stunned by the skill’s power.

• Chen Ping’s gold and red Soul Rings shocked the spectators, while Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu recognized him as a threat.
• Chen Ping channeled his fifth Soul Ring into his fists and unleashed Earth Devil Split against the Dragon Slaying Sect disciple.
• Chen Ping’s strike tore a vast fissure through the arena and dragged the disciple into it.
• Chen Ping began to close the fissure, then stopped when he realized the disciple could be killed.
• The audience, rival teams, Shrek’s members, and Xuan Zi were stunned by the scale of Chen Ping’s chained control skill.

Chen Ping won Shrek’s first knockout-stage match by using his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill to rip open the alloy arena and trap a Dragon Slaying Sect fighter. The remaining Dragon Slaying Sect members conceded, while Jing Hongchen’s attempt to gauge Shrek’s strength yielded little beyond a glimpse of Chen Ping’s power.

• Chen Ping used Earth Devil Split to tear open the Soul Fighting Arena and bury a Dragon Slaying Sect disciple, and the referee rescued the man before declaring Chen Ping the winner.
• Xiao Hongchen watched Chen Ping’s destructive strike with concern, while Vina and Long discussed his physical strength and Long claimed he could defeat Chen Ping one-on-one.
• Chen Ping pinched the damaged arena back together after the rescue, leaving the Dragon Slaying Sect competitors shaken.
• The Dragon Slaying Sect captain conceded the match rather than risk further losses.
• Jing Hongchen grew angry that the Dragon Slaying Sect had surrendered after revealing only one of Chen Ping’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills.

Chen Ping led Shrek to a decisive victory in the tournament’s opening match, using one Soul Skill to secure all twelve points and leave the Tang Sect wary of his strength. As the knockout matches continued, he publicly accused the Holy Spirit Sect of deliberately killing and maiming opponents, then met their death threats with contempt.

• Chen Ping used Earth Devil Split to defeat the opposing team alone, earning Shrek all twelve points and impressing the spectators and rival teams.
• Bei Bei and the Tang Sect realized Chen Ping likely possessed another powerful Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill and worried about facing him.
• Shrek’s team stayed to watch the knockout matches, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy claimed second place in morning points with eleven.
• After the Holy Spirit Sect caused one death and one injury, Chen Ping displayed a sign accusing them of deliberately harming their opponents.
• The Holy Spirit Sect restrained its violence in the team battle, then made throat-slitting gestures at Chen Ping, who dismissed their threats with contempt.
• The tournament held twenty-six matches by evening, and no competitor managed to defeat seven opponents in succession.

After the first day of the tournament, Chen Ping told Zhang Lexuan about the Body Sect’s presence in Mingdu and revealed his plan to visit an underground black market with Huo Yuhao to buy rare metals. He demonstrated a disguise that transformed him into a delicate-looking stranger, leaving Zhang Lexuan startled.

• Zhang Lexuan told Chen Ping that Body Sect members had entered the tournament and that senior members had secretly infiltrated Mingdu, advising him not to provoke them.
• Chen Ping said he had recognized the Body Sect disciples by their abundant blood qi and dismissed them as weakly supplied with medicine.
• Chen Ping explained that he planned to take Huo Yuhao to an underground black-market tournament in Mingdu to acquire rare metals such as soulforging silver.
• Zhang Lexuan worried that Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao would be vulnerable targets at the black market because of Chen Ping’s fame.
• Chen Ping used white mist to disguise himself as a delicate-looking man named Cai Xukun, an independent Soul Tool trainee, and made Zhang Lexuan recoil at his altered appearance and mannerisms.

Chen Ping sensed the tournament crowd’s Power of Faith as Shrek prepared for the second Knockout Stage match against the Heavenly Armor Sect. He Caitou entered the waiting area as Shrek’s lone representative, leaving the chapter poised for his fight.

• Chen Ping and Zhang Lexuan discussed how Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao could disguise themselves for black-market matches without help.
• Shrek’s arrival drew boos and cheers, while Chen Ping collected the crowd’s faint traces of Power of Faith.
• The Presidium announced Shrek Academy’s match against the Heavenly Armor Sect, which Huo Yuhao had encountered on the journey to Mingdu.
• Chen Ping stayed seated as He Caitou stepped up as Shrek’s sole fighter, with the Reserve Team expected to compete in later matches.
• He Caitou checked his Soul Tools and reassured Xiao Xiao before entering the match.

He Caitou revealed his ultimate Soul Tool War Turret, assembling a massive fortress with 128 Soul Cannons and two level-seven Super-Concentrated Energy Cannons. The fortress took flight as a Sky Fortress, leaving Han Yu helpless and Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen alarmed by the consequences of their rule changes.

• He Caitou introduced himself as a rank sixty-five food-type Battle Soul Emperor, stunning Han Yu.
• He Caitou assembled his Ultimate War Turret Form, a fortress armed with more than 128 Soul Cannons and four Super-Concentrated Energy Cannons.
• Xiao Hongchen dismissed He Caitou's fortress as inferior to his own abilities and reflected on his power as a Seven-Ring Soul Sage.
• When the match began, He Caitou's fortress used its thrusters to rise high above the arena as a Soul Tool Aerospace Fortress.
• Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen realized that the fortress could outfly their own Flying Soul Tools and pose a threat to ordinary Soul Masters on future battlefields.

He Caitou used Shrek’s flying Soul Tool Fortress to charge and fire a Level 7 Super-Concentrated Energy Cannon at Han Yu, forcing the referee to shield him. Shrek Academy won the first individual knockout match, while Xu Tianran confronted Jing Hongchen over the exchange students’ abilities.

• Han Yu realized he had no way to reach He Caitou’s airborne Soul Tool Fortress and could only wait helplessly.
• He Caitou boosted himself with cigars and drained three Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottles to charge the Super-Concentrated Energy Cannon.
• He Caitou fired the cannon at Han Yu, who raised his Heavenly Armor Shield and activated his second and fifth soul skills.
• The referee used his Martial Soul Avatar and a soul tool shield to protect Han Yu from the blast, suffering burns in the process.
• The referee declared Shrek Academy the winner, and Han Yu left the arena after realizing he could not withstand the attack.
• Xu Tianran questioned Jing Hongchen about He Caitou and Chen Ping, while Jing Hongchen privately acknowledged he had not taught He Caitou how to build the fortress.