Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping, an eleven-year-old transmigrator, tried to make a living selling Shrek-related Soul Master guides with help from his unreliable system. A group of laborers confronted him over the advice he had given one of their sons.

• Chen Ping rested beneath a tree and argued mentally with his system about its lack of useful abilities.
• When the system warned him that people were approaching, Chen Ping tried to leave but was surrounded by laborers.
• The laborers had a young man identify Chen Ping’s advertising signs and accuse him of being a crooked education peddler.
• Chen Ping worried that the system’s damage formula might be wrong and that he could not afford to compensate anyone.
• The laborers’ leader asked Chen Ping whether he had persuaded his son to abandon control-type Blue Silver Grass cultivation and become a support-type Soul Master.

Chen Ping advised Wang Xiaolong’s father to steer the boy away from a Control-type path and toward becoming an Auxiliary-type Soul Master, using academy requirements and Blue Silver Grass’s strengths to make his case. The father remained concerned about the Tang Sect legacy, so Chen Ping suggested the boy learn its Secret Arts from his mother, especially Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

• Wang Xiaolong’s father corrected Chen Ping that his son’s name was Wang Xiaolong, not Tang Xiaolong, and complained that the Tang Sect was nearly extinct.
• Chen Ping reviewed Wang Xiaolong’s age, Soul Power, and goal of entering Heaven Dou National Seventh Academy, then explained the different admission and graduation requirements for Control-type and Auxiliary-type Soul Masters.
• Chen Ping cited Blue Silver Grass’s weak basic attributes and strong growth and recovery rates to argue that Wang Xiaolong should pursue the Auxiliary-type path.
• Wang Xiaolong’s father remained uncertain because his son shared Tang San’s Martial Soul and could learn Tang Sect Secret Arts.
• Chen Ping suggested that Wang Xiaolong learn the Tang Sect Secret Arts from his mother, especially Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, to improve his self-preservation as an Auxiliary-type Soul Master.

Chen Ping persuaded the middle-aged man that Wang Xiaolong could become a support-type Soul Master by learning Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and using Blue Silver Grass to heal allies. He recommended a Gem Crystal Bug for Wang Xiaolong’s first Soul Ring, leaving the father impressed by the value of Chen Ping’s knowledge.

• Chen Ping explained how Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track could help Wang Xiaolong survive battles as a support and contrasted Tang San’s many techniques with Blue Silver Grass’s weaknesses.
• The middle-aged man considered the support path but worried about which Soul Beast Wang Xiaolong should hunt for his Soul Rings.
• Chen Ping promised a complete career plan and recommended a Gem Crystal Bug, which he said would likely give Wang Xiaolong the Vitality Refraction Soul Skill.
• Chen Ping said later Soul Rings should come from Soul Beasts with abundant vitality to strengthen Vitality Refraction.
• The middle-aged man became excited by Chen Ping’s precise Soul Beast advice and reconsidered the consultation fee after recalling his advertisement for Shrek training plans.

Chen Ping convinced Captain Wang that he was a Shrek Academy student and sold him advice about a Soul Ring that could help Wang Xiaolong’s Blue Silver Grass develop healing abilities. After leaving for Shrek City, Chen Ping reflected on the years of hardship that followed his sect’s destruction and his system’s recent awakening.

• Chen Ping let Captain Wang believe he was a Shrek Academy student and recognized the man’s niece as Tang Ya.
• Captain Wang accepted Chen Ping’s advice about a Gem Crystal Bug Soul Ring and paid him several Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ping left Captain Wang and continued toward Shrek City.
• Chen Ping recalled that he had bought the Soul Ring information using Academic Genius Points from his system.
• Chen Ping remembered awakening among the dead after the Coiling Dragon Sect was slaughtered, then surviving for nearly six years before his system activated.

Chen Ping learned that Tang San considered him a threat and might kill him, so he abandoned his plan to coast through life and began following the system’s training advice. He endured a painful medicinal bath and swallowed a foul-tasting pill to improve himself.

• Chen Ping considered using his knowledge of future tournaments to get rich and live comfortably, but the system warned him that Tang San had noticed his transmigration.
• The system explained that Tang San saw Chen Ping as a potential threat and was far more likely to kill him than train him as a subordinate.
• Chen Ping agreed to work hard rather than risk Tang San finding him while he remained weak.
• Chen Ping collected medicinal ingredients, paid for a superior room, and prepared a painful medicinal bath.
• Chen Ping jumped into the tub, endured the burning pain, and swallowed a mud-like pill.

Chen Ping endured painful medicinal baths, pills, exercise, and study to boost his cultivation despite having only level-two innate soul power. By the end, his regimen had raised his training speed to match ordinary soul masters with level-four or level-five innate soul power.

• Chen Ping chose to review advanced calculus while enduring a medicinal bath and the Pungent Strength Pill, earning scholar points from his study and training.
• Chen Ping settled on cheap Odd-Flavored Body-Tempering Soup and Pungent Strength Pills rather than trying to obtain a costly Mystic Water Pill.
• Chen Ping followed each bath with four hours of exhausting exercise, then meditated after drinking salted water and climbing into bed.
• Chen Ping found that supplements, baths, and exercise made his cultivation progress as quickly as that of an ordinary soul master with level-four or level-five innate soul power.
• Chen Ping reasoned that he could safely use supplements heavily while still under beginner protection, before the long-term cost of consumed potential increased with age.

Chen Ping prepared to leave for Shrek Academy, but worried about getting a recommendation and reaching level fifteen before admissions. He set out for Star Dou Forest to obtain his first soul ring, leaving his plans to claim Wang Yan as a distant uncle for later.

• Chen Ping remained at level ten and worried that his Willow Wood Staff, lack of family connections, and Shrek's recommendation requirement would block his admission.
• Chen Ping decided to claim Wang Yan as a distant uncle because they supposedly shared the Coiling Dragon Staff martial soul, but first planned to reach level fifteen and get a soul ring.
• Chen Ping used his accumulated cultivation and three months of preparation time to pursue Shrek's admissions, then packed his things and left his lodging.
• Chen Ping paid for his meal with a Gold Soul Coin and left; the attendant discovered the room reeked from Chen Ping's Body Tempering Soup and Mighty Tonic.
• Chen Ping traveled toward Star Dou Forest for his first soul ring and dismissed the idea of seeking out the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm or Electrolux.

Chen Ping ran toward Star Dou Forest to make the most of an expensive medicinal regimen while training his body and trying to cultivate at the same time. He began experimenting with meditation while running, determined to test the limits of Douluo Continent’s established cultivation methods.

• Chen Ping decided not to pursue Electrolux and ran toward Star Dou Forest because he could not afford a carriage.
• He pushed himself through hours of running to absorb more of his medicine’s potency and prepare to defeat a soul beast, reach rank fifteen, and find Wang Yan within three months.
• Chen Ping focused inward while running and tried meditating, despite the difficulty of dividing his attention.
• Chen Ping reflected on how cultivation methods had changed over time and decided to test whether moving meditation could work during long-distance running.

Chen Ping experimented with drawing primal energy into his body while running and developed a risky moving meditation by matching his strides and breathing to the energy’s circulation. After several hours, he stopped at sunset with improved cultivation and stamina, convinced that running could help him escape pursuers.

• Chen Ping drew the airflow stirred by his running into his meridians and found that it circulated faster than energy from seated meditation, though it strained his weak channels.
• Chen Ping discovered that syncing his arm swings, footsteps, and breathing with the energy’s flow made it easier to guide and control.
• Chen Ping’s moving meditation eased his fatigue and resumed his cultivation, but interrupting his focus nearly sent the energy surging out of control.
• Chen Ping continued the experiment, relying on his system’s risk projections, his knowledge of moving meditation, and Huo Yuhao’s experience with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Chen Ping ran from morning until sunset, gained cultivation and fitness, and concluded that his endurance could help him escape people pursuing him.

Chen Ping camped safely near the Star Dou Great Forest, then turned back after spotting a Wind Baboon near a warning sign. He chose not to risk the forest route, wary that the butterfly effect might have brought dangerous beings there early.

• Chen Ping used powdered thousand-year soul beast dung to ward off beasts, lit a campfire, and slept through the night.
• After waking refreshed, Chen Ping praised the cheap dung he had bought and planned to resell some for a profit.
• Chen Ping saw a sign warning that the Star Dou Great Forest lay fifty li ahead, then noticed a black shadow moving through the treetops.
• Fearing the Wind Baboon and the possibility that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux had arrived early, Chen Ping turned around and left.
• The Wind Baboon watched Chen Ping retreat, then dismissed him and waited for another young human to hunt.

Chen Ping used the system to search for a soul beast whose ring could strengthen his Willow Wood Staff and support his movement-based fighting style. He found a promising but dangerous thousand-year Demon-Eyed Tree, then limited the recommendations to beasts no older than five hundred years, the current limit for his first soul ring.

• Chen Ping reconsidered hunting an Ironclad Cocoon after unlocking movement meditation and decided to seek a soul skill suited to fighting with movement.
• Chen Ping spent academic genius points to search the western outer Star Dou Forest for poison-related soul skills that could improve his agility and martial soul's toughness.
• Chen Ping discovered the system could recommend a thousand-year Demon-Eyed Tree with several appealing soul skills, including Poison Staff and Paralyzing Toxin.
• Chen Ping worried that the Myriad Demon King might be watching over the Demon-Eyed Tree and judged the thousand-year beast too dangerous to hunt unprepared.
• Chen Ping filtered out every soul beast older than five hundred years because that was the upper limit for his first soul ring.

Chen Ping found a promising Touch Dragon King near the Star Dou Forest, but its colony made hunting it dangerous. When his system revealed that the Touch Dragons had left their cave, he headed there to investigate and found Bei Bei and a girl fleeing the swarm as the Touch Dragon King emerged before them.

• Chen Ping learned that the 480-year-old Touch Dragon King had suitable attributes and potential soul skills, but its colony and allies made the cave dangerous to enter alone.
• Chen Ping noticed that Touch Dragons were leaving the Great Centipede Cave and decided to run to the Venomous Insect Woodland to investigate.
• Bei Bei and a girl fled through the woodland with more than twenty pursuing Touch Dragons, and the girl asked whether Bei Bei had any realgar left.
• The Touch Dragon King burst from the ground in front of Bei Bei and the girl.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya struggled to overcome the thousand-year Touch Dragon King outside the Great Centipede Cave, while Chen Ping slipped into the cave to find its Lesser Touch Dragon King. Chen Ping followed the touch dragons’ tracks deeper inside and began racing against the time the pair could keep the beast occupied.

• Bei Bei struck the Touch Dragon King with Thunder Dragon Claw, but its shell resisted the attack.
• Tang Ya proposed restraining the beast with Blue Silver Grass, and Bei Bei agreed to draw its attention while she tried to flip it over with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Chen Ping realized that Bei Bei and Tang Ya would fail to capture the Touch Dragon King and entered the cave without alerting them or the beasts.
• Chen Ping found bat droppings and followed the airflow and touch dragon tracks through the cave.
• Chen Ping spotted several small creatures and estimated he had only about an incense stick’s worth of time to deal with the Lesser Touch Dragon King and escape.

Chen Ping tried to kill a four-hundred-and-eighty-year Touch Dragon King with homemade incendiary bombs, but it proved tougher than expected. An Evil Pincer Bug emerged behind him, leaving Chen Ping trapped in the cave as danger closed in from every side.

• Chen Ping prepared a homemade incendiary bomb and threw it at the Touch Dragon King, setting its shell and the surrounding oil alight.
• The Touch Dragon King survived the first fire and thrashed around the cave, so Chen Ping threw a second incendiary bomb.
• The Touch Dragon King detected the second bomb by sound but could not see it clearly, and the burning oil spread as it flailed.
• An Evil Pincer Bug burst out of the ground behind Chen Ping, trapping him between it and the Lesser Touch Dragon King while the larger Touch Dragon King and other Touch Dragons remained outside.
• Chen Ping wondered why the Touch Dragon King resisted fire so well, unaware that fire temperatures worked differently on the Douluo Continent.

Chen Ping’s incendiary bombs and dung powder failed to drive off the soul beasts, and he discovered that the powder had actually enraged them. The Touch Dragon King killed the Evil Pincer Bug but was poisoned by its tail, leaving both beasts near death.

• Chen Ping’s incendiary bombs proved too weak to kill the Touch Dragon King, so he scattered thousand-year soul beast dung powder at it and the Evil Pincer Bug.
• Chen Ping analyzed the powder and learned that it came from a King Sea Cucumber and could attract unfamiliar hundred-year land-dwelling soul beasts.
• The enraged, blinded Touch Dragon King chased Chen Ping and attacked the Evil Pincer Bug, tearing through the cave and spraying venom.
• After the Touch Dragon King bit off two of its legs, the Evil Pincer Bug clamped onto its body and stabbed its abdomen with its venomous tail.
• The Touch Dragon King crushed the Evil Pincer Bug’s head, but the bug’s tail remained embedded in its belly, poisoning it.

Chen Ping killed the Evil Pincer Bug and the Lesser Touch Dragon King to claim the latter's stronger soul ring, then fled the Great Centipede Cave with the corpse. He emerged to find Tang Ya and Bei Bei struggling against the Greater Touch Dragon King, which broke free and charged at him.

• The Evil Pincer Bug died, and Chen Ping saw its hundred-year soul ring emerge.
• Chen Ping stabbed the Touch Dragon King repeatedly to ensure he could claim its soul ring, and the beast eventually died.
• Chen Ping freed the Touch Dragon King's corpse from the Evil Pincer Bug's pincer, strapped it to himself, and ran for the cave entrance.
• Chen Ping reached the entrance and saw Tang Ya and Bei Bei fighting the Greater Touch Dragon King, unable to defeat or overturn it.
• The Greater Touch Dragon King tore through Tang Ya's Blue Silver Entanglement and charged at Chen Ping.

Chen Ping and his companions fought the Greater Touch Dragon King outside the Great Centipede Cave, and Chen Ping used leverage to topple the charging beast. Tang Ya seized the opening to flip it over, leaving it vulnerable to the next attack.

• Tang Ya bound the Greater Touch Dragon King with blue silver grass long enough for Chen Ping to roll down the slope, though its wind-cutting attack slashed his cheek.
• Chen Ping requested an analysis report and found that his Touch Dragon King Armor had protected him from serious injury.
• Bei Bei used Martial Soul Possession and Dragon Transformation to attack the Greater Touch Dragon King with Thunderous Might, but the beast continued charging.
• Chen Ping recognized the beast's unstable footing and called for Bei Bei to prepare his third soul skill as he set his extended Willow Wood Staff against a rock.
• Chen Ping used the staff as a lever to lift and topple the Greater Touch Dragon King, and Xiao Ya pulled its legs to flip it onto its side.

Chen Ping, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya defeated the Greater Touch Dragon King after Bei Bei struck its exposed abdomen, then Tang Ya killed it as it weakened. After recovering, Bei Bei and Tang Ya discovered Chen Ping had not yet enrolled at Shrek Academy and had no soul ring, and Chen Ping thanked them for their help.

• Bei Bei unleashed Thunderous Fury while Chen Ping and Tang Ya restrained the Greater Touch Dragon King, allowing him to strike its abdomen with his Thunder Dragon Claw.
• The Greater Touch Dragon King released thick black mist to escape, but Bei Bei found it and continued attacking with lightning.
• Tang Ya stabbed the dying Greater Touch Dragon King through its abdomen and head, and its pale purple soul ring appeared.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya rested with Chen Ping, who removed the Lesser Touch Dragon King's corpse and its unabsorbed yellow soul ring.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya learned Chen Ping was a first-year student who had not enrolled and did not yet have a soul ring.
• Chen Ping thanked Bei Bei and Tang Ya for drawing away the Greater Touch Dragon King and helping him survive.

Chen Ping met Bei Bei and Tang Ya after obtaining Soul Rings, but rejected the idea of joining the Tang Sect because he suspected the sect had a sinister connection to Tang San. Bei Bei apologized for Tang Ya’s thoughtless remark and offered help, leaving Chen Ping about to absorb his Soul Ring under their guard.

• Bei Bei introduced himself and Tang Ya to Chen Ping, who said he was preparing to take the academy entrance exam.
• Tang Ya learned that Chen Ping had no family and blurted out that it was wonderful, embarrassing Bei Bei and offending Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping decided not to join the Tang Sect because he distrusted its history and feared Tang San might target him.
• Bei Bei apologized for Tang Ya, offered medicine for Chen Ping’s wounds, and volunteered to stand guard while they absorbed their Soul Rings.
• Tang Ya apologized in her own way, and Chen Ping chose to absorb his Soul Ring first while Bei Bei and Tang Ya watched over him.

Chen Ping absorbed a 480-year Soul Ring and reached level fourteen, while Tang Ya began absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Realizing his actions might have altered Huo Yuhao’s future, Chen Ping accepted Bei Bei’s invitation to visit Shrek City and asked about Teacher Wang Yan.

• Chen Ping absorbed the Lesser Touch Dragon King's 480-year Soul Ring, endured its powerful soul force, and advanced to level fourteen.
• Bei Bei congratulated Chen Ping, while Tang Ya began absorbing the Thousand-Year Soul Ring from the Touch Dragon King.
• Chen Ping worried that Tang Ya gaining her third Soul Ring early would keep her and Bei Bei from meeting Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Forest and might change his path to Shrek.
• Bei Bei invited Chen Ping to tour Shrek City, and Chen Ping asked whether he knew Teacher Wang Yan.
• Bei Bei said Wang Yan was reportedly Shrek's youngest senior teacher and an expert in Soul Beast and Soul Master theory.