Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping began Attribute Guidance with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, drawing on Elder Yi’s power of life as the Star Dou Great Forest responded. As the exchange neared its end, a mysterious fragment left Wang Dong, passed briefly through Huo Yuhao, and flew toward the forest while Elder Yi prepared to intercept interference from Tang San.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion agreed to Attribute Guidance because she hoped Chen Ping’s uncanny ability to survive would help her evade her destined death.
• Chen Ping pressed his vertical pupil to the Auspicious Beast’s third eye, and the power of life in his Second Sea of Consciousness surged into her as the Star Dou Great Forest’s life force flowed toward them.
• Wang Dong woke in pain at Shrek Academy as her eyes turned gold and a pale golden fragment emerged from her forehead.
• The fragment entered Huo Yuhao’s brow briefly before escaping his Sea of Consciousness and flying toward the Star Dou Forest.
• Elder Yi formed a protective spiritual net from the remaining power of life in the gold of life, ready to counter Tang San’s interference.
• As Attribute Guidance neared its end, threads of fortune and memories began passing between Chen Ping and the Auspicious Beast.

Chen Ping and Electrolux stopped Tang San’s soul fragment from entering the Auspicious Beast, disrupting Tang San’s plan to bind her fate to his daughter. Tang San realized his scheme had failed and swore revenge, while the captured fragment remained with Chen Ping and Electrolux.

• The Auspicious Beast recoiled from the complex memories she received from Chen Ping, while Electrolux’s spiritual net caught the blue-gold light carrying a solidified soul fragment from Shrek.
• Electrolux captured the fragment and explained that Tang San’s divine power could have grafted it onto the Auspicious Beast’s soul, allowing it to replace her and merge with another soul.
• Chen Ping recognized that his intervention had prevented the Auspicious Beast from becoming part of Tang San’s planned love triangle and tragic sacrifice.
• Tang San recalled his scheme to use his daughter’s divided soul, the Child of Fortune, and the Auspicious Beast to gain the Golden Dragon Spear and weaken Douluo Star’s will.
• Tang San failed to spy on the Douluo Continent when its will shattered his water mirror, and he vowed that Chen Ping and Douluo Star’s consciousness had courted death.

Chen Ping gained memories of the Star Dou Forest’s Soul Beasts and some of the Auspicious Beast’s Fortune through Attribute Guidance, while Electrolux investigated the captured soul fragment. The next morning, Ning Tian and Wu Feng woke to find Chen Ping cooking for the gathered Soul Beasts, and Wu Feng tested her Dragon Transformation claws.

• Chen Ping told Xuan Zi that Attribute Guidance gave him Soul Beast knowledge and distribution maps, while the sleeping Auspicious Beast muttered about being unable to solve questions.
• Electrolux said the Auspicious Beast’s Fortune would suppress Chen Ping’s bad luck and improve his Sea of Consciousness, then withdrew to study a soul fragment and Divine Sense.
• Chen Ping noticed his Academic Genius Points had gained a digit and realized the Gaze of Destiny effect had become points instead.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng woke to the smell of roasted meat and saw the Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion waiting near Chen Ping’s cooking.
• Wu Feng used her Dragon Transformation claws to try to chop down a tree, but it remained standing despite her feeling the cut land.

Wu Feng tested her mutated External Soul Bone, which Chen Ping named the Dark Gold Flame Dragon Claw, while Chen Ping used the Auspicious Beast’s memories to identify promising mineral deposits in the Star Dou Forest. At Shrek, Huo Yuhao questioned why Chen Ping was excluded from the Ultimate Individual Soldier Plan, and Qian Duoduo recalled that Chen Ping wanted to focus on making Soul Tools.

• Wu Feng demonstrated that her Dragon Claw could cut and burn through a tree, and Xuan Zi tested its power against his defended sleeve.
• Wu Feng suggested naming the claw Dinosaur Claw, but Chen Ping named it the Dark Gold Flame Dragon Claw instead.
• After the feast, Chen Ping questioned the Auspicious Beast and Scarlet King about the Star Dou Forest’s terrain and recognized signs of valuable mineral deposits.
• Chen Ping had Xuan Zi take them back to the academy, eager to investigate the hidden veins he had identified.
• Qian Duoduo outlined Huo Yuhao and He Caitou’s Ultimate Individual Soldier training, and Huo Yuhao asked why Chen Ping was not included.
• Qian Duoduo recalled that Chen Ping had declined the plan because he wanted to devote his energy to making Soul Tools.

Chen Ping told Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er that he had found likely rare-metal deposits in the Star Dou Forest, prompting them to organize a survey. He then joined Huo Yuhao and He Caitou in several ultimate individual soldier classes, but Lu Xiaoxiao kicked him out after he ate her supply of costly sea urchins.

• Chen Ping presented Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er with a map marking unusual terrain in the Star Dou Forest and explained his suspicion that it concealed rare-metal deposits.
• Qian Duoduo decided to send Du Weilun to survey the marked locations, then left with Xian Lin'er to report the discovery.
• Chen Ping watched Huo Yuhao and He Caitou fight the arena's thousand-year soul beasts before escaping with them as Elder Gong sought compensation.
• Chen Ping attended Gao Sheng's makeup class with Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, but his muscular build limited his prospects at disguise.
• Chen Ping ate more than a dozen spirit charm sea urchins at Lu Xiaoxiao's nutrition class, exhausting her reserves and getting himself thrown out.

Over a year and a half, Chen Ping and Shrek’s students advanced in cultivation and Soul Tool skills while the academy began promoting Soul Tools. As Mu En prepared to withdraw from academy affairs, he assigned Chen Ping, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao to study in the Sun Moon Empire, leaving Huo Yuhao responsible for obtaining its cutting-edge Soul Tool blueprints.

• Chen Ping trained intensively for a year and a half, reaching Level 5 Soul Engineer, Level 4 Blacksmith, and rank forty in Soul Power, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng advanced to ranks forty-six and forty-two.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and Jiang Nannan passed the Inner Court Assessment using Soul Tools, prompting Martial Soul Department students to adopt Soul Tool equipment; Tang Ya also reached the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Mu En told Chen Ping, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao that they would travel to the Sun Moon Empire in three months, with Qian Duoduo accompanying them and Shaozhe escorting them to the exchange.
• Mu En assigned He Caitou to draw attention, Chen Ping to investigate the Sun Moon Empire’s future Soul Tool development, and Huo Yuhao to obtain its advanced blueprints; Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Chen Ping, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao declined Mu En’s invitation to join the Tang Sect, and Mu En then entrusted academy affairs to Qian Duoduo and Shaozhe before falling asleep.

Before leaving for a two-and-a-half-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire, Chen Ping received heartfelt parting gifts from Ning Tian and Wu Feng and realized they cared for him deeply. He departed with the Shrek delegation, bound for Maple Leaf City, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng stayed behind at the academy.

• Chen Ping completed the Dragon Blood Potion and prepared to join the exchange after Shrek planned to admit students from Sun Moon Royal Academy to the Golden Tree Secret Chamber.
• Wu Feng gave Chen Ping a ten-thousand-year Diamond Mammoth left arm bone, while Ning Tian gave him the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect Young Sect Master Token and a handwritten Heart Separation Control Method.
• Chen Ping embraced Ning Tian, but she broke free after noticing Wu Feng secretly recording them; Ning Tian then scolded Wu Feng for using the Recording Pearl.
• Chen Ping promised Ning Tian and Wu Feng he would return, then flew to the academy gates to meet Qian Duo Duo and the other exchange participants.
• Chen Ping and the group of eleven departed Shrek Academy for Maple Leaf City, where the exchange would take place.

Shrek Academy’s delegation met Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in Maple Leaf City before beginning their exchange. Chen Ping turned Xiao Hongchen’s challenge aside with a verbal counter, while Qian Duoduo’s revelation that he had become a Super Douluo unsettled Jing Hongchen; the groups then set off together for the academy.

• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo led Shrek’s students to Maple Leaf City, where Chen Ping and the others met Ye Xiaosheng and exchanged pleasantries.
• At Maple Leaf Square, Xiao Hongchen provoked Chen Ping, but Chen Ping dismissed him as a child and prompted Yan Shaozhe to reveal that Chen Ping was Mu En’s final disciple.
• Jing Hongchen’s attempt to bait Chen Ping into a soul fight failed, and Qian Duoduo announced that he had recently become a Super Douluo, alarming Jing Hongchen.
• The two academies departed together, and Chen Ping examined Jing Hongchen’s powerful bionic flying soul tool while Huo Yuhao understood his hint to leave the matter to him.

Chen Ping and the Shrek exchange students arrived in Mingdu and began their entrance physical tests at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. The tests revealed the students’ exceptional strength, and Chen Ping’s results ended with the academy discovering an impossible total of 206 soul bones.

• Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek group into Mingdu and introduced them to Lin Jiayi at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Lin Jiayi welcomed the exchange students, explained their studies, and led them to the physical testing room.
• Ye Xiaosheng and the other Shrek students completed their tests, astonishing Lin Jiayi with their strength.
• He Caitou’s physical strength measured at level seventy, while Huo Yuhao’s approached that of a Soul Emperor despite his soul power being in the thirties.
• Chen Ping’s test showed level-forty soul power, level-sixty physical strength, and level-eighty resilience before the instrument detected soul bones.
• Lin Jiayi looked at the test results and shouted in shock that Chen Ping had 206 soul bones.

During Shrek Academy’s entrance tests at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Chen Ping discovered that his new Intentional Strike could destroy their strength tester. Lin Jiayi postponed the remaining test, and Chen Ping and the other Shrek students settled into their dormitories.

• The physical examination machine registered all 206 of Chen Ping’s bones as Soul Bones, and Lin Jiayi blamed a possible machine malfunction.
• The Shrek students tested their striking force, with most scoring in the fifties and He Caitou reaching seventy after stacking enhancements.
• Chen Ping charged his fist with Blood Qi and Spiritual Power and unleashed an Intentional Strike that pulverized the strength tester and cracked the metal floor.
• Lin Jiayi postponed the reaction speed test and planned to show Jing Hongchen a recording of the test results and the destroyed machine.
• The ten Shrek students received clean, private rooms with bathrooms in the sixth-year dormitory area, and Chen Ping compared them favorably to Shrek’s Outer Court dormitories.

Jing Hongchen learned that Chen Ping’s testing had produced bizarre readings and that Chen Ping had destroyed a strength tester, so he ordered the Shrek exchange students to be separated for their lessons while plotting the Sun Moon Empire’s future expansion. The next morning, Chen Ping absorbed a Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Barbarian Elephant Staff, evolving it into the Beast Staff: Star Nodule.

• Lin Jiayi reported that Chen Ping’s fitness test showed over two hundred Soul Bones, and Jing Hongchen dismissed the reading as a malfunction.
• Jing Hongchen watched a recording of Chen Ping shattering the strength tester with one punch, while Lin Jiayi admitted he had skipped the reaction-speed test.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to monitor He Caitou and arrange separate lessons for the Shrek students with advanced Soul Engineers.
• Jing Hongchen declared that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually conquer the continent and considered the hereditary rewards his family might gain.
• Chen Ping absorbed the Diamond Mammoth Left Arm Bone into his Barbarian Elephant Staff, transforming it into the diamond-hard Beast Staff: Star Nodule.

After evolving his Martial Soul with a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone, Chen Ping felt its power strengthen the bones throughout his body. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he learned that Shrek’s access to the Golden Tree’s secret chamber had prompted Jing Hongchen to arrange a formidable group of mentors, and Level 9 Soul Engineer Mo Fang singled him out as a student.

• Chen Ping endured a brief, unbearable itch as the Diamond Mammoth Soul Bone’s remaining power spread through his bones, then decided that Soul Beast meals were better value than buying more Soul Bones.
• Chen Ping ate at the sixth-year dormitory dining hall and went to the Sixth-Year Teaching Building to meet his mentors.
• Lin Jiayi announced that the ten available teachers were all at least Level 8 Soul Engineers, including two Level 9 Soul Engineers who had not taken students in years.
• Chen Ping realized Jing Hongchen had assembled the impressive teaching staff in response to Shrek offering its exchange students access to the Golden Tree’s secret chamber, and concluded that the timeline’s changes made assumptions about the original story risky.
• Mo Fang, a bald Level 9 Soul Engineer specializing in defensive Soul Tools, ignored Lin Jiayi’s plan to assign mentors by lottery and pointedly chose Chen Ping as his student.

Chen Ping became Mo Fang’s student and learned that the Level 9 Soul Engineer specialized in energy defensive soul tools and linked defenses. Mo Fang set him a month to study and pass a paper, emphasizing that mathematical understanding—not just copying established techniques—was essential to becoming a true Soul Engineer.

• Chen Ping chose Mo Fang as his mentor, while Huo Yuhao was assigned to Xuan Ziwen.
• Mo Fang led Chen Ping to his sixth-floor laboratory and introduced himself as a rank 88 Control System Soul Douluo and a pioneer in linked defensive soul tools.
• Mo Fang gave Chen Ping a reading list and set a paper for him to take in a month, requiring a score above fifty for him to remain as a student.
• Mo Fang explained that Chen Ping needed to study counting-rod calculations and understand the principles behind soul tools instead of merely reproducing other engineers’ methods.

Chen Ping studied under Mo Fang and learned about the professor’s rivalry with Jing Hongchen and his struggles to fund his research. After Mo Fang recognized the Absolute Defensive Soul Tool Chen Ping had shattered, Chen Ping offered him a Thousand-Refined Fine Steel Ingot, leaving Mo Fang intrigued by its properties.

• Mo Fang explained the flaws in Soul Engineers outside Sun Moon and said he would teach Chen Ping everything he knew, partly to frustrate Jing Hongchen.
• Chen Ping spent three days studying Mo Fang’s assigned textbooks while Mo Fang worked on a golden bead in his laboratory.
• Chen Ping recognized the bead as an Absolute Defensive Soul Tool he had broken during a tournament two years earlier, and Mo Fang recognized Chen Ping as the one who had destroyed it.
• Mo Fang said the Soul Tool’s components were intact even though it no longer worked, and he wondered how Chen Ping had disabled it.
• Chen Ping kept his method secret and gave Mo Fang a Thousand-Refined Fine Steel Ingot as a clue to the Soul Tool’s destruction.

Chen Ping passed Mo Fang’s assessment and earned permission to enter his laboratory, then visited Huo Yuhao and gave him Shrek’s improved rare metals to experiment with. The chapter left Huo Yuhao with new materials to study while Chen Ping considered how to keep him from leaving Sun Moon Academy.

• Mo Fang examined Chen Ping’s unusual fine steel and realized the academy’s senior Soul Engineers had concealed Shrek’s rare-metal technology from him and their colleagues.
• Chen Ping completed Mo Fang’s test, scored ninety points, and received a laboratory token, though Mo Fang warned him not to slack off.
• With no lessons planned and his fellow students occupied, Chen Ping headed to the Experimentation Zone to find Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao told Chen Ping that Xuan Ziwen’s lessons had been valuable and mentioned his awkward encounter with Ju Zi.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao several thousand-refined rare-metal ingots from Shrek’s technological breakthrough and explained that they could improve Soul Tools by half a level or more.

Chen Ping was given Thousand Refinement metals by Chen Ping and waited in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory while Huo Yuhao went to the bathroom. When Wang Shaojie, Zimu, and Keke tried to bully him, Chen Ping turned the confrontation into a recorded setup and left Zimu unconscious as he waited for the Imperial Disciplinary Squad.

• Chen Ping explained that Thousand Refinement metals could improve Soul Tools and gave Huo Yuhao some to use.
• Huo Yuhao left to use the bathroom, and Wang Shaojie, Zimu, and Keke arrived to lay down rules for Chen Ping.
• Wang Shaojie and Zimu mocked Chen Ping’s Level 2 Soul Engineer rank and tore his uniform while he pretended to be helpless.
• Chen Ping grabbed Zimu and used him to absorb Wang Shaojie’s and Keke’s attacks, prompting them to leave and fetch the Imperial Disciplinary Squad.
• Chen Ping activated his Recording Pearl, staged evidence of being beaten, and knocked Zimu unconscious when he tried to call for help.

Chen Ping was wrongly targeted by the Imperial Disciplinary Squad after Wang Shaojie accused him of assaulting Zimu. He broke their restraints and forced the squad to beg for mercy by threatening them with an Invincible Shield and a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, then exposed their abuses of authority.

• Wang Shaojie brought the Imperial Disciplinary Squad to arrest Chen Ping, claiming he was Huo Yuhao and had injured Zimu.
• Chen Ping showed his student ID, and the squad leader recognized that his name was Chen Ping but continued to threaten and arrest him.
• The squad leader locked Chen Ping in Soul-sealing golden handcuffs, which Chen Ping studied before tearing apart with Blood Qi.
• Wang Shaojie punched Chen Ping and hurt his own fingers, while Chen Ping produced an Invincible Shield and a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
• The squad members dropped to their knees and pleaded with Chen Ping, while Wang Shaojie wet himself in terror.
• Chen Ping accused the Imperial Inspection Corps of corruption, selective enforcement, framing him, and threatening to kill him.

After the Imperial Inspection Corps tried to detain and kill Chen Ping, Jing Hongchen scrambled to prevent Qian Duoduo from pulling Shrek’s exchange students out of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Chen Ping secured valuable Soul Tools and study privileges as compensation, while Jing Hongchen was left furious and humiliated.

• After watching Chen Ping’s recording, Jing Hongchen kicked Wang Shaojie and the Imperial Inspection Corps out of his office, then tried to placate Chen Ping by calling him his younger brother.
• Chen Ping confronted Jing Hongchen over the attempted detention and threat to kill him, and Qian Duoduo tore off the office wall before threatening war and gathering Shrek’s exchange students to leave.
• Jing Hongchen persuaded Qian Duoduo to return to his office and promised that Wang Shaojie, Xu Mocheng, and the other inspection squad members would be executed within three days.
• Mo Fang arrived and pressed Jing Hongchen for compensation, prompting Jing Hongchen to offer Soul Tool materials, blueprints, and access to Mingdetang for Shrek’s students.
• Chen Ping demanded Jing Hongchen’s Level Nine Red Dust Protection and two Level Eight Defensive Soul Tools for Huo Yuhao, and Jing Hongchen handed them over to settle the dispute.

Chen Ping secured three powerful Defensive Soul Tools from Jing Hongchen after exposing the academy’s bullying, then gave Huo Yuhao two Level 8 shields. Jing Hongchen returned from the palace furious and ordered the students responsible for the bullying punished, while Ju Zi’s withdrawal request remained unaddressed.

• Qian Duoduo treated the students to a meal and announced their rewards, including rare metals, Soul Tool blueprints, and a chance to enter Mingdetang.
• Chen Ping gave Huo Yuhao the Level 8 shields Diamond Unbreakable and Wind and Thunder Unharmed, then showed off the Level 9 Red Dust Protection he had obtained from Jing Hongchen.
• Qian Duoduo explained the shields’ defensive abilities and revealed that Jing Hongchen and Professor Mo had once competed as defensive Soul Engineers.
• After reporting the incident to the emperor, Jing Hongchen raged over his losses and ordered the students who organized the bullying punished or expelled.
• Lin Jiayi tried to tell Jing Hongchen that Ju Zi had applied to withdraw, but Jing Hongchen dismissed the request and demanded to know which students had organized the bullying.

Jing Hongchen learned that Ju Zi had orchestrated the bullying incident, but she had already left the academy, so he suppressed the scandal and focused on the academy’s research. Meanwhile, Chen Ping studied advanced Soul Tool theory with Mo Fang and struggled to calculate the spatial coordinates needed to open the Undead Demiplane.

• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that Ju Zi had organized the bullying and submitted a withdrawal application, but had left campus before anyone could find her.
• Jing Hongchen tore up Ju Zi’s application, ordered her arrest, then called off the matter and warned students not to discuss the incident.
• Chen Ping spent the following days absorbing Mo Fang’s lessons in Soul Tool theory, impressing him with his memory and occasional insights.
• Chen Ping practiced opening the Undead Demiplane by calculating the Spatial Key’s changing coordinates, while Electrolux repeatedly tried to explain the mathematics.
• Chen Ping considered using spatial techniques to escape pocket dimensions and bypass the poison barrier around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.