Recaps

Chen Ping accepted command of a hostage-rescue mission in Rising Sun City and assembled his former tournament teammates as the core of the team. He revealed that an Immortal Herb had raised his cultivation to rank sixty-eight, leaving his friends stunned.

• Xuan Zi assigned Chen Ping to lead a hostage-rescue mission in Rising Sun City, with other teams set to distract the Sun Moon Empire.
• Chen Ping asked for Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection and requested that his former tournament teammates join him, planning to leave five days before the mission.
• Chen Ping explained the mission to He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and the others, then revealed that he had reached rank sixty-eight.
• Chen Ping said an Immortal Herb had boosted his cultivation and improved his aptitude, shocking Wu Feng and the rest of the group.

Chen Ping revealed that he had found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and brought immortal herbs for his companions. He gave Huo Yuhao remedies for Ma Xiaotao and a possible soul spirit, then presented Wu Feng with the Fire Dragon Grass.

• Chen Ping explained that his eight-level soul power increase came partly from his sixth soul ring and revealed that he had found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, promising everyone a share of its immortal herbs.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao the essence of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, explaining that the crimson gel could help Ma Xiaotao and the Heartchill Pearl might let Huo Yuhao form a soul spirit.
• Huo Yuhao hurried to take the crimson gel to Ma Xiaotao and kept the Heartchill Pearl for a possible soul spirit.
• Chen Ping told Wu Feng that he had found an immortal herb better suited to her than the crimson gel, which Wu Feng agreed should go to Ma Xiaotao.
• Chen Ping gave Wu Feng the Fire Dragon Grass and instructed her to eat its thorns, leaves, and stamens while leaving its roots and stem for him to replant.

Chen Ping distributed immortal herbs to his companions, then gave Ning Tian the Aromatic Silk Beauty she needed to restore the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. After sharing an intimate moment, he prepared to use Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to improve his spiritual power.

• Chen Ping handed Wu Feng the Fire Dragon Grass and gave suitable immortal herbs to He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and the others.
• Chen Ping considered how the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had opened most of his meridians and improved his cultivation aptitude.
• Chen Ping revealed the Aromatic Silk Beauty to Ning Tian after she confronted him for pretending he had not found her an immortal herb.
• Ning Tian embraced Chen Ping, relieved that the herb could help the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect regain its Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and then kissed him before hurrying away.
• Chen Ping took out Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, intending to use it to further improve his spiritual power.

Chen Ping consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which greatly enhanced his eyesight and expanded his Sea of Consciousness. Ten days later, he led a team of Soul Masters out of Shrek City on a hostage-rescue mission, while Xiao Xiao and Jing Ziyan stayed behind.

• Chen Ping drank the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and felt its effects nourish his three eyes and expand his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ten days later, Chen Ping left Xiao Xiao and Jing Ziyan in Shrek City while taking Nana and other teammates on the mission.
• Chen Ping's team departed with level-seven Flying Soul Tools crafted by Qian Duoduo.
• Ji Juechen flew standing on his oversized flying-sword Soul Tool, letting the cold wind and rain hit his face because he believed it suited a swordsman.

Chen Ping led his companions on a covert, circuitous journey across the Star Luo Empire to reach its South Sea Coast. He explained that they would enter the Sun Moon Empire by sea to avoid detection and rescue the captives, then prepared everyone to rest on the shore.

• Chen Ping guided the group around the Star Dou Great Forest and across the Star Luo Empire, avoiding cities to reduce the risk of encountering spies.
• After flying all day, Chen Ping and his companions reached the South Sea Coast and watched the sun set over the sea.
• Chen Ping told the group they would cross the sea into the Sun Moon Empire while Xuan Zi and the Academy's powerhouses drew attention as an overt force.
• Chen Ping explained that the group would secretly rescue the captives, who were capable fighters, while the enemy focused on Xuan Zi's team.
• Chen Ping headed to the water to catch fish, and Wang Dong eagerly followed with her Clear Sky Hammer.

Chen Ping showed Wang Dong how the Heart of the Ocean could shield them from seawater, letting them travel along the seabed instead of risking a boat or flying over the sea. After gathering a huge haul of seafood, he explained the tool’s abilities and automatic recharging, and the group prepared to use it for the journey ahead.

• Chen Ping rejected traveling by Soul Tool Shuttle Boat or flying, then revealed the Heart of the Ocean and said they would take the Seabed Expressway.
• Chen Ping and Wang Dong walked into the sea inside the Heart of the Ocean’s protective field, and Wang Dong was startled by an octopus clinging to her foot.
• Chen Ping gathered lobsters and other seafood from the seabed while Wang Dong helped collect a large haul for the group.
• Huo Yuhao prepared the seafood as Wang Dong described the experience, and Chen Ping explained the Heart of the Ocean’s abilities and automatic underwater recharging.
• The group enjoyed a seafood feast, then rested around the campfire and took turns keeping watch.

Chen Ping led his companions underwater to Haiyue City, where they entered the Sun Moon Empire unnoticed and settled in a hotel. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao attacked the empire’s border defenses, destroying its High-Altitude Detectors as the diversionary force began its assault.

• Chen Ping used the Heart of the Ocean and a Level 8 All-Terrain Soul Tool to guide his companions beneath the sea and around the Sun Moon Empire’s coastal navy.
• Chen Ping navigated to Haiyue City, approached through a cliff instead of Sun Moon Port, and changed the group into Sun Moon Empire clothing.
• Chen Ping and his companions entered Haiyue City without trouble, checked into a hotel, and planned to travel to Rising Sun City the next day.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao flew toward the Sun Moon Empire’s border and drew the attention of its High-Altitude Detectors.
• Zhang Lexuan used Moonlight Shockwave to make the High-Altitude Detectors within ten li explode, while Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Ultimate Fire Phoenix to burn Soul Tool components.

Shrek and the allied empires launched a devastating nighttime bombardment against the Sun Moon Empire, exposing the advantage of their long-range cannons and new flying Soul Tools. After hearing of the losses, Xu Tianran blamed his political rivals for blocking defensive technology and lamented that his influence was being steadily undermined.

• The Star Luo Empire's concealed Level 4 Soul Tool Cannons bombarded Sun Moon Empire positions from beyond visual range while Ma Xiaotao killed a rank-ninety-one Soul Engineer Corps Commander.
• Shrek's surprise teams disabled High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools across the border, allowing allied forces to bombard six Soul Engineer Corps through the night.
• The bombardment killed or wounded nearly a thousand Soul Engineers and destroyed many Soul Cannon positions and ammunition depots.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that new flying Soul Tools and long-range Level 4 cannons had enabled the attack, and that the army might have fared better if it had adopted Professor Mo Fang's Linked Defensive Soul Tools.
• Xu Tianran accused his younger brothers and the Emperor of conspiring against him, then struck a pillar and regretted not poisoning the Emperor more decisively.

Ju Zi realized Xu Tianran had poisoned the old emperor and was ordered to begin deploying linked Soul Tools in the army. Meanwhile, Chen Ping’s group investigated Rising Sun City’s formidable defenses, and Huo Yuhao revealed strange devices buried beneath the ground.

• Ju Zi connected Xu Tianran’s poisoning of Xu Shiliu to the Evil Soul Masters and the Soul-Extinguishing Powder.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to trial the Linked Defense Soul Tool Technology in the army and expand it if successful.
• Chen Ping’s group hid among a merchant caravan and used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection to survey Rising Sun City’s defenses.
• The group discovered that a thousand Soul Engineers and extensive detection Soul Tools guarded the city, making ordinary entry nearly impossible.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a series of strange metal vessels buried underground, and Wang Dong asked what they were.

Chen Ping found that the Sun Moon Empire had sealed off underground infiltration with newly deployed seismoscopes, so he sent his companions into the Other Shore Small World and devised a way to enter Rising Sun City alone. He passed the city’s soul power inspection by secretly disabling its alert speakers and using the Mirage Dragon Shell to disguise the result, leaving him inside the city undetected.

• Chen Ping explained how the Sun Moon Empire’s buried seismoscopes could expose anyone tunneling toward the city.
• Ji Juechen proposed drawing the Soul Engineer Corps away while the others charged in, but Wu Feng warned that they faced two corps.
• Chen Ping sent his six companions through the Gate of the Other Shore into the Other Shore Small World.
• Chen Ping shaved steel nails into fine needles and used them to temporarily block the detection instruments’ speakers as he joined the line into Rising Sun City.
• Chen Ping projected a false ordinary-person result over the detection instrument with the Mirage Dragon Shell and passed the inspection without alerting the soldiers.

Chen Ping searched Rising Sun City for the water prison and found a hidden torture hall occupied by a powerful spiritual-type Evil Soul Master. He remained concealed after she sensed a faint disturbance and turned to investigate.

• Chen Ping entered Rising Sun City in disguise and spent hours memorizing its streets while searching for a brothel linked to Feng Ling's torturer.
• Chen Ping located a dark, dilapidated building and sensed a powerful spiritual-type Evil Soul Master inside.
• After hearing a victim scream, Chen Ping used the Rainbow-Scaled Mystic Light Mirage Dragon to conceal himself and entered the building.
• Chen Ping saw a black-robed female Evil Soul Master torturing a captive amid the remains of her victims, and killing intent briefly stirred in him.
• The Evil Soul Master sensed a slight ripple in Chen Ping's Spiritual Power, turned around, and hesitated when she found no one.

Chen Ping fought the eight-ring Evil Soul Master, shrugging off her Thorn Whip and overpowering her with punches. After she invoked her Soul of Vengeance to escape death and attack him again, Chen Ping unleashed Crimson Fiend-Thunderlight to finish the fight.

• The Evil Soul Master struck Chen Ping with her Thorn Whip, but his strengthened body and Spiritual Power let him withstand it.
• Chen Ping punched the Evil Soul Master through a wall and shattered her skull with Heaven-Piercing Pain Fist, interrupting her sound-based attack.
• The injured Evil Soul Master dispersed into black silhouettes and revealed that her Soul of Vengeance had awakened from hatred.
• The Evil Soul Master blamed others for failing to protect her and lunged at Chen Ping, who condemned her for torturing ordinary people.
• Chen Ping activated his Sixth Soul Ring and attacked the Evil Soul Master with Crimson Fiend-Thunderlight.

Chen Ping killed a female Evil Soul Master in Rising Sun City, disguised himself as her to evade suspicion, and uncovered how the Sun Moon Empire's officials tolerated Evil Soul Masters. He left the city after sleeping peacefully, while the people around him remained unaware of his role in the incident.

• Chen Ping used the Scarlet King's Crimson Fiend Thunderlight to kill the female Soul Douluo, then disguised himself as her and made it appear she had survived.
• Soldiers investigating the battle found dozens of gruesome corpses in the tower, but the general ordered them to keep quiet and reported the matter to his superiors.
• Nearby residents concluded that officials in the Sun Moon Empire were allowing Evil Soul Masters to act freely in major cities.
• Chen Ping removed his disguise, checked into a hotel, and slept with his companions after bringing them out of hiding.
• The next morning, Chen Ping's companions heard about the previous night's violence and were stunned by how casually he had stayed at the hotel.

Chen Ping used intelligence obtained from the dead Evil Soul Master Wu Yun to locate hundreds of poisoned hostages beneath Rising Sun City and began planning their rescue. He assigned Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Ji Juechen to create a diversion in three days, while revealing that the prison’s former guard, Feng Ling, had recently been transferred away.

• Chen Ping explained that he had obtained Wu Yun’s memories by searching her soul, and Snake delivered the Liches’ detailed intelligence to him.
• Huo Yuhao and the others learned that the hostages were held in a water prison beneath Rising Sun City’s southern wall, entered through a troop shelter.
• Wang Dong read that the prisoners had been weakened by Soul-Extinguishing Powder and deprived of food and water, making their rescue difficult.
• Chen Ping rejected Ji Juechen’s suggestion to storm the prison, noting that hundreds of nearly powerless captives would need to be carried out.
• Chen Ping assigned Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Ji Juechen to cause a diversion outside the city in three days and revealed that Feng Ling, the former guard, had recently been transferred away.

Chen Ping disguised himself as the dead Evil Soul Master Wu Yun and scouted the water prison beneath Rising Sun City, where tournament competitors were being held. After confirming the prison’s layout and guards, he headed toward the southern gate’s troop shelter to continue his plan.

• Chen Ping explained the rescue plan: he would enter the water prison disguised as Wu Yun, while Yuhao would set off fireworks after three days.
• Chen Ping transformed his appearance and voice into Wu Yun’s, using information Snake had gathered from her soul.
• Chen Ping ate at Wu Yun’s regular restaurant and observed the heavy defenses around the southern city wall.
• Chen Ping used his spiritual power to locate the water prison and found tournament competitors from academies and clans locked in submerged cages.
• Chen Ping assessed the Evil Soul Master guards and, finding none stronger than Wu Yun had been, went to the troop shelter by the southern city gate.

Chen Ping disguised himself as the deranged Wu Yun while the Third and Fourth Elders inspected the Water Prison, narrowly avoiding exposure. The Elders confirmed the prisoners were being kept weak but alive as leverage against the Three Great Empires.

• Chen Ping pretended to be Wu Yun, then stopped himself from responding when Nangong Wan called to her.
• Nether Thunder Douluo and Nangong Wan discussed Wu Yun’s unstable behavior and urged Huang Zheng and Mo Ke to advance as Soul Engineers.
• Nangong Wan told Huang Zheng and Mo Ke to become Level 7 Soul Engineers and avenge the Holy Spirit Cult’s fallen members by killing Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping recognized the Elders and their companions as enemies he had deceived before, and worried that his disguise might fail.
• The Elders entered the Water Prison and learned that Soul-Extinguishing Powder and starvation kept the prisoners weak, while healers treated injured captives so they would remain alive.

Chen Ping impersonated Wu Yun to take control of the Water Prison and test the Evil Soul Masters guarding it. After forcing them to eat Soul-Extinguishing Powder, he confronted the supervisor about currying favor with the elders, leaving the man terrified.

• Chen Ping learned that Wu Yun's subordinates feared and resented her, and used their behavior to plan his approach.
• Chen Ping kicked the Water Prison supervisor and blamed the guards for failing to administer Soul-Extinguishing Powder.
• Chen Ping claimed the powder might have lost its potency and ordered the guards to eat it to test its effects.
• Chen Ping struck the supervisor again when he tried to avoid the test, then revealed he knew the man had been courting the two elders.

Chen Ping used Soul-Extinguishing Powder to disable the Evil Soul Masters guarding the water prison, then had Wu Feng and Wang Dong kill them. He revealed himself to the prisoners as part of a Shrek rescue team and told them to prepare for an escape in three days, while noticing something unusual about a Heavenly Dragon Sect elder.

• Chen Ping forced the Evil Soul Masters to eat Soul-Extinguishing Powder until they could no longer gather Soul Power.
• Chen Ping signaled Wu Feng and Wang Dong to attack, and they killed ten Evil Soul Masters with Ning Tian's amplification.
• Chen Ping removed his disguise and told the imprisoned Soul Masters that Shrek had come to rescue them and that they must stay quiet until the planned breakout in three days.
• A gray-haired prisoner introduced himself as the Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Dragon Sect and offered help with the escape.
• Chen Ping recognized the sect's connection to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and noticed something amiss as he examined the elder and the differing conditions inside the cells.

Chen Ping and his companions secretly rescued and treated the prisoners in the Water Prison while preserving their escape plan. Their actions earned Chen Ping an outpouring of faith, but Nether Thunder Douluo noticed signs of bloodshed when he returned to investigate.

• Chen Ping found the Heavenly Dragon Sect's Vice Sect Master and other senior captives enduring cramped, waist-deep Water Prisons, but they urged him not to move them and warned him about the two Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters.
• The prisoners advised Chen Ping to stick to the plan and avoid arousing suspicion while scattering Soul-Extinguishing Powder over the next three days.
• Chen Ping used his vitality to treat hundreds of prisoners, while Ning Tian and the others distributed food and water; the captives responded with gratitude that brought Chen Ping a great deal of pure faith.
• After Chen Ping resumed Wu Yun's appearance and his companions donned Holy Spirit Cult robes, Nether Thunder Douluo entered with Huang Zheng and Mo Ke and questioned Wu Yun about the missing workers.
• Nether Thunder Douluo smelled a faint trace of fresh blood and pressed Wu Yun to explain where everyone else had gone.

Chen Ping used the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Pill Pearl to neutralize the Soul-Extinguishing Powder in the Water Prison while keeping Nether Thunder Douluo convinced it was genuine, allowing the hostages to recover. When the appointed time arrived, Chen Ping began the planned attack on Rising Sun City, triggering explosions that threw the city and the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses into chaos.

• Nether Thunder Douluo inspected the Soul-Extinguishing Powder in the Water Prison, accepted Chen Ping’s explanations, and left with Mo Ke and Huang Zheng.
• Chen Ping revealed that the Pill Pearl’s aura neutralized the powder in the water, letting the hostages gradually regain their strength and Soul Power.
• Three days later, Chen Ping and two companions waited outside Rising Sun City, keeping beyond the reach of its detection Soul Tools.
• At the appointed time, Chen Ping fired his High-Energy Heavy Soul Tool Concentrated-Energy Cannon at Level 7 Fixed-Installation Bunker-Buster Shells, setting off violent blasts beneath the city.
• The explosions temporarily disabled the high-altitude Soul Tools’ targeting function, and the Soul Engineer Corps deputy commander ordered the defenses activated.
• Further explosions erupted at multiple points inside and outside Rising Sun City, with the blasts heard faintly in Mingdu.

Huo Yuhao and his companions launched a coordinated series of explosions and artillery strikes against Rising Sun City’s walls and the Soul Engineer Corps positions outside them. The city’s defenders were left disoriented, while Mo Ke’s threat to a prisoner raised the danger inside the Water Prison.

• He Caitou’s concentrated artillery destroyed the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools and bombarded the eastern and western Soul Engineer Corps positions, but their protective shield held.
• A Level 8 Fixed-Installation Underground Gliding Shell detonated beneath the northern encampment, engulfing it in a golden explosion and leaving fewer than ten people able to escape.
• Fixed Soul Cannon Shells shattered the defenses atop the eastern and western walls, destroying detection equipment and more than a third of the walls.
• He Caitou returned to the Hidden Troop Cave beneath the South City Wall and met Ning Tian and the others, while the Third Elder and Fourth Elder flew toward North City.
• The Water Prison prisoners prepared to act after three days of rest, and Mo Ke threatened the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Vice Sect Master with a carving knife.

Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen drew the Soul Engineer Corps away from Rising Sun City while allies freed the prisoners from the Water Prison. Ji Juechen devastated the pursuing battalion, and the prisoners broke through the prison bars and charged into the city.

• The disguised old man revealed his eight soul rings, and the Heavenly Dragon Sect's vice sect master defeated Mo Ke after the evil soul masters killed Huang Zheng.
• Ji Juechen used his Qinggang Sword to slaughter more than thirty Soul Engineers and defeat their close-combat battalion commander.
• Huo Yuhao signaled Ji Juechen to withdraw north, while Nether Thunder Douluo and Nangong Wan found the battalion's scattered remains and headed back to check the Water Prison.
• An explosion destroyed the bars linking the southern moat to the Water Prison, and the prisoners surged toward freedom.
• The prisoners charged into the nearby Soul Engineer encampment, where their strength far exceeded that of the two- and three-ring Soul Engineers.

Chen Ping and the freed hostages fought their way out of the Water Prison as reinforcements approached Rising Sun City. After Sky Centipede Douluo exposed Chen Ping’s identity and attacked him with poison, Chen Ping proved immune and split the fight so the others could confront Nether Thunder Douluo.

• A signal flare from the northern city wall warned Chen Ping and the others that reinforcements from Mingdu were nearing Rising Sun City.
• Sky Centipede Douluo recognized Chen Ping and attacked him with poisonous mist while Nether Thunder Douluo held off the hostages’ Soul Douluo elders.
• Chen Ping inhaled Sky Centipede Douluo’s poison without harm, then spat it onto the pursuing Evil Soul Masters, poisoning them.
• Chen Ping told Yu Gangfeng to help the Proud Sword Sect elder fight Nether Thunder Douluo while he faced Sky Centipede Douluo.
• Nether Thunder Douluo unleashed Demon Skull Seven Stars, Hell Thunderclap against Yu Gangfeng and the Proud Sword Sect elder.

Ning Tian enhanced Chen Ping and two Soul Douluos, allowing Chen Ping to transform into a three-headed, six-armed form and overwhelm Sky Centipede Douluo. After Chen Ping blasted the Titled Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar away, Sky Centipede Douluo feared he might die before reinforcements arrived.

• Ning Tian used the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to greatly boost Chen Ping, Yu Gangfeng, and Wu Liao.
• Chen Ping used his Flying Soul Tool to slam into Nangong Wan, who transformed into his Venomous Demon Centipede Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Ping revealed his three-headed, six-armed form and blocked Sky Centipede Douluo’s centipede legs with his weapons.
• Chen Ping wounded Sky Centipede Douluo with Crimson Fiend Thunderlight and planted poison seals on his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Ping detonated the Cold Binding Seal and struck Sky Centipede Douluo with his fully charged Star Nodule Club, sending him flying.
• Sky Centipede Douluo recognized Chen Ping as an extraordinary threat and feared he would be killed before reinforcements arrived.

Chen Ping killed Sky Centipede Douluo Nangong Wan with a poison-laced palm strike, then urged his allies to retreat as the Beast King Soul Engineer Corps approached Rising Sun City. Exhausted but recovering Soul Power from two Milk Bottles, he opened a pitch-black gate as the enemy force swept toward them.

• Nangong Wan sprayed a vast cloud of poisonous mist and tried to escape, but Chen Ping used Snow Drifting to reach him and struck him with Poison Palm: Jade Phosphorus Ten-Absolute.
• Chen Ping's freezing energy and Jade Phosphorus Ten-Absolute poison entered Nangong Wan's head, and Chen Ping crushed it with his clubs, killing Sky Centipede Douluo.
• Nether Thunder Douluo fled after Nangong Wan's death, and Chen Ping stopped Yu Gangfeng and Wu Liao from pursuing him.
• Chen Ping warned his allies to kill the remaining Evil Soul Masters and withdraw, then used two Milk Bottles to recover from his drained Soul Power.
• As the Beast King Soul Engineer Corps rushed toward the group outside the South City Wall, Chen Ping ended his Three Heads and Six Arms state and opened a pitch-black gate.