Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping used an unorthodox method to open a passage into the Undead Demiplane, provoking its undead instead of summoning them peacefully. He closed the passage after a Snake-Man Corpse Knight lunged at him, leaving the knight’s severed head in his dorm room.

• Chen Ping traced circles in the air and opened an unstable passage into the Undead Demiplane, startling Electrolux with his unconventional method.
• The passage awakened hordes of hostile undead, and Chen Ping realized they were attacking him because he had broken into their realm.
• A Snake-Man Corpse Knight rode a giant skeletal snake toward the passage and lunged at Chen Ping as he tried to close it.
• Chen Ping dodged, and the closing passage severed the Snake-Man Corpse Knight’s head, leaving it bouncing on his bed and threatening him.
• Chen Ping knocked the head into the bathroom with his evolved Star Nodule Club and learned that the intelligent undead knight might be a formidable opponent if fully through the passage.

Chen Ping entered the Undead Demiplane with Electrolux and learned how badly its undead forces had weakened over time. After proposing that undead might awaken martial souls, he left Electrolux experimenting with Awakening Stones and the possibility of strengthening the undead army.

• Chen Ping subdued the snake-headed corpse knight, learned that he was called Snake, and discovered his strength had declined to roughly that of a Soul Emperor.
• Chen Ping opened a Gate of the Undead and entered the demiplane, where Electrolux appeared and said he would stay there to study how to restore the undead's strength.
• Chen Ping asked whether undead could awaken martial souls and argued that humanoid beings such as Ghost Douluo showed it might be possible.
• Electrolux became eager to test the idea, and Chen Ping tried awakening Snake with an Awakening Stone, but it produced no result.
• Electrolux took the Awakening Stones to continue experimenting, while Chen Ping returned through the gate after taking a first step toward mastering spatial magic.

Three months later, Chen Ping entered Mingdetang with the Shrek students and studied its soul-tool workshops, reflecting on the limits of its industrial-style production. He located the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo in Jing Hongchen’s office and waited for the Body Sect to break into Mingdetang.

• After three months of research, Chen Ping and the other Shrek students received permission to study at Mingdetang, and Mo Fang led them inside.
• Chen Ping saw Mingdetang’s vast underground laboratory and concluded that its soul-tool production was not truly industrialized because it relied on soul masters for power.
• Chen Ping considered using inexpensive rare-metal ore and solar-powered soul tools, such as those created by Ye Yulin, to enable cheap, stable energy for mass production.
• At his assigned laboratory bench, Chen Ping spotted Ji Juechen and became curious about the material of his Meteoric Iron Sword.
• Chen Ping used his spiritual power to search Mingdetang, discovered the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo on a shelf in Jing Hongchen’s office, and withdrew his scan.
• Chen Ping anticipated that the Body Sect would tunnel into Mingdetang to seize the embryo, causing losses beyond its hundred-million-Gold-Soul-Coin price.

Chen Ping studied Mingdetang’s equipment and learned the principles behind Mo Fang’s Linked Defensive Soul Tools before watching Ji Juechen fight Jing Ziyan and Nana. As Elder Yi analyzed Nana’s Ghost Martial Soul, she noticed Chen Ping could track her invisible vengeful spirit and grew frightened of him.

• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to let Chen Ping continue studying while keeping an eye on him and limiting He Caitou’s progress.
• Chen Ping tested Mingdetang’s Soul Tool Experiment Table, then watched linked defenses stop stray cannon shells at the Soul Tool Trial Ground.
• Mo Fang explained that his Linked Defensive Soul Tools were powerful but consumed too much soul power for military use, then gave Chen Ping a private lesson on their workings.
• Chen Ping saw Ji Juechen fight Jing Ziyan and Nana, recognized Nana’s Ghost Martial Soul, and secretly examined her with the Eye of Truth.
• Electrolux analyzed Nana’s martial soul and soul skills while Chen Ping watched; Nana noticed Chen Ping tracking her invisible vengeful spirit and feared he had been sent to watch her.

Chen Ping survived the Body Sect’s surprise attack on Mingdetang and used the chaos to break into Jing Hongchen’s laboratory. He took the Snow Empress Embryo and sent it through a Gate of the Undead, leaving behind a wooden decoy.

• Nana waited outside Mingdetang for Chen Ping, but explosions suddenly rocked the academy and threw her to the ground.
• Chen Ping survived the initial blasts by taking cover, then dug beneath Mingdetang as the Body Sect’s fighters emerged and slaughtered Soul Engineers.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi as the academy’s defensive Soul Tools attacked the Body Sect, and Chen Ping used a mining machine to race underground toward Jing Hongchen’s laboratory.
• Chen Ping opened the safe behind Jing Hongchen’s desk and found the Snow Empress Embryo resting on its God Sealing Platform.
• Chen Ping summoned a Gate of the Undead, sent the God Sealing Platform through with Snake, and left an identical wooden stand behind as a decoy.

Chen Ping stole the Snow Empress Embryo by leaving a fake God Sealing Platform in Jing Hongchen’s safe, then discovered and secretly removed sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells from a hidden Mingdetang chamber. As Jing Hongchen chased Du Busi and the Body Sect after their successful raid, Chen Ping escaped with his haul and left Mingdetang unaware that its ammunition store had also been robbed.

• Chen Ping planted a counterfeit God Sealing Platform in Jing Hongchen’s safe, and a Body Sect thief took it for the real Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Chen Ping found that the thick metal chamber beneath Mingdetang held sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells rather than Experiment Subject One.
• After Electrolux scolded him, Chen Ping summoned the Gate of the Undead inside the chamber and ordered his undead to carry away all sixteen shells and their racks.
• A young surveillance-room attendant spotted the theft and warned Jing Hongchen over the walkie-talkie, but Jing Hongchen was fighting Du Busi and could not respond.
• The Body Sect thief returned with the fake God Sealing Platform, and Du Busi led his sect away while Jing Hongchen pursued them.

After the Body Sect’s attack devastated Mingdetang, Jing Hongchen learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had stolen sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells and collapsed from rage. Chen Ping woke in the academy’s medical room to find Nana treating his wound and explaining how she had finally managed to meet him.

• Jing Hongchen surveyed Mingdetang’s destruction, feared Du Busi’s strength, and ordered repairs and relief efforts.
• Lin Jiayi reported that Shrek’s students had survived, Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao were recovering, and the warehouses remained intact.
• Lin Jiayi revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had stolen all sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells from Zero Chamber, and Jing Hongchen fainted.
• Nana poured alcohol onto Chen Ping’s wound while changing his bandages, waking him from a long sleep.
• Chen Ping recognized Nana, and she told him she had been trying to meet him for three months and had volunteered as a nurse to see him.

Nana asked Chen Ping for help because she believed his ability to see her Vengeful Spirit and his ties to Shrek could help rescue her parents from the Holy Spirit Cult. After Teacher Wang handcuffed Chen Ping during an inspection, Lin Jiayi intervened and arranged to have Jing Hongchen handle the matter and compensation; Chen Ping then spotted a hidden Starlight Sapphire in Huo Yuhao’s ward.

• Nana asked Chen Ping whether he could see the Vengeful Spirit released by her soul skill, and he admitted that he could.
• Nana locked the Medical Room door and began undressing, but Chen Ping wrapped her in his blanket and told her to explain what she needed instead.
• Teacher Wang entered, questioned Chen Ping about the Mingdetang attack, and demanded to search his belongings; Chen Ping refused and challenged the emperor’s authority over him.
• Teacher Wang handcuffed Chen Ping, but Lin Jiayi rushed in and ordered him to remove the restraints.
• Lin Jiayi searched Chen Ping’s storage soul tools, then offered to have Jing Hongchen unlock the handcuffs and discuss compensation.
• Chen Ping left the Medical Room with Lin Jiayi and used the Eye of Truth to spot a hidden Starlight Sapphire in Huo Yuhao’s ward.

Chen Ping negotiated with Jing Hongchen after the attack on Mingdetang, while Huo Yuhao also managed to extort him. Jing Hongchen then ordered Lin Jiayi to frame a rival Soul Engineer for treason and arrange his death so Jing could escape scrutiny.

• Chen Ping visited Jing Hongchen, accepted more rare metals and restriction handcuffs, and left after checking his condition.
• Huo Yuhao was caught with two Level Eight Defensive Soul Tools and cheerfully left after Jing Hongchen was extorted again.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that the crown prince had reacted cautiously to evidence about the stolen shells and warned him not to suspect the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to fabricate confessions linking detained spies to a higher handler and use a rival Soul Engineer's unauthorized sale of Absolute Defensive Soul Tools to accuse him of treason.
• Jing Hongchen decided to have the rival killed, arguing that the supposed death of a Level 9 Soul Engineer would help him retreat from the political turmoil.

After securing the stolen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells, Chen Ping learned that the System Sprite was the Douluo Star’s World Spirit and had created his system to resist Tang San. Chen Ping, Electrolux, and the sprite formed an alliance to fight Tang San and reverse the future.

• Chen Ping hid the sixteen Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells in the Undead Demiplane and considered how to handle the Snow Empress trapped in the God Sealing Platform.
• The System Sprite appeared and revealed that she was the World Spirit, created to save the world from a previous ascender who had stolen its origin power.
• The sprite explained that she had given Chen Ping his evolving Martial Soul and system, and admitted she had taken seventy percent of the points he spent.
• The sprite offered a way to prevent the Snow Empress from self-destructing and urged Chen Ping to join her and Electrolux in changing the future.
• Chen Ping accepted, and he, the sprite, and Electrolux swore to fight Tang San together.

Chen Ping studied the God Sealing Platform and uncovered Electrolux’s plan to create Soul Spirits, allowing intelligent Soul Beasts to provide Soul Rings while retaining their souls and combat abilities. After solving the Platform’s spatial puzzle and freeing the Snow Empress, he met her and claimed the sprite had chosen him for his potential.

• The sprite entered the God Sealing Platform to speak with the Snow Empress, while Electrolux explained his Soul Spirit system and how it could preserve a Soul Beast’s intelligence, Soul Bone, and fighting ability.
• The sprite returned and said the Snow Empress was willing to meet them, so Chen Ping chose to study the God Sealing Platform rather than destroy the Level 9 Soul Tool.
• Chen Ping recognized the Platform as a three-dimensional sliding-block puzzle and spent a day and night rearranging its spatial gems into a closest-packed structure.
• Chen Ping opened an exit in the Platform, and the Snow Empress emerged into the Undead Demiplane, freezing the ground around him.
• The Snow Empress questioned why the sprite had chosen to live in a human body, and Chen Ping said she had recognized his potential and selected him.

Electrolux persuaded the Snow Empress to become Chen Ping’s soul spirit, and the ritual gave Chen Ping an orange-gold fourth soul ring and greatly improved his cultivation talent. After absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion King arm bone, Chen Ping’s staff evolved into the Jade Scorpion, and he examined his powerful new fourth soul skill.

• Electrolux confronted the Snow Empress about her desire to survive, and she agreed to become Chen Ping’s soul spirit.
• Electrolux sealed the Snow Empress’s power into her Snow Core and fused it with Chen Ping, forming an orange-gold fourth soul ring and raising Chen Ping to rank forty-three and a half.
• Chen Ping absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion King arm bone, evolving the Touch Dragon Staff into the Insect Glaive - Jade Scorpion and upgrading Poison Explosion into Frost Poison Explosion.
• Chen Ping examined his new Cold Binding Seal soul skill and exclaimed at its freezing effects.

Chen Ping gained the Snow Empress’s Cold Binding Seal and Snow Drifting Soul Skills, then discussed the courage of human swordsmen with her before leaving the Undead Demiplane. Back in his dormitory, he found his Soul Power denser and able to transform into Ultimate Ice, though he expected this to slow his cultivation before Level 70.

• Chen Ping tested Cold Binding Seal on a White Level Skeleton, freezing it and nearly extinguishing its soul flame.
• The Snow Empress explained that Cold Binding Seal suited Chen Ping, and his Beast Staff’s Fourth Soul Skill changed to Snow Drifting, which let him become mist and evade attacks while relocating near an enemy.
• Chen Ping asked how the Snow Empress knew about human swordsmen, and she said they had repeatedly challenged her in the Far North to improve their swordsmanship.
• Chen Ping explained that continuing to live after facing a hard truth also took courage, and the Snow Empress accepted his words and called him a philosopher.
• Chen Ping opened a Gate of the Undead and returned to his dormitory, where he found his Soul Power had grown denser and could take on an Ultimate Ice attribute.

Chen Ping found that Mo Fang had left the laboratory with a notebook of study plans and research notes. After Nana described the Holy Spirit Cult’s crimes and asked for help rescuing her parents, Chen Ping offered to help if she became completely loyal to him.

• Chen Ping found Mo Fang's farewell letter and a thick notebook containing two years of study assignments, soul tool designs, and array diagrams.
• Qian Duoduo returned after hearing of Mingdetang's attack, checked that Chen Ping was safe, and teased him about Nana before leaving to see Yuhao.
• Nana visited Chen Ping and began offering herself as a servant, but Chen Ping stopped her and asked her to explain her situation privately.
• Nana told Chen Ping that the Holy Spirit Cult had destroyed her family and captured her parents' souls, and she asked him to help her take revenge and rescue them.
• Chen Ping promised to help Nana and asked whether she would become completely his, body and soul, before witnessing his secrets.

Chen Ping bound Nana with a soul contract and learned about the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch, its spirit ascension ritual, and a coming transfer involving its elder. He insisted they act the next day despite the danger, relying on his Shrek teacher and planning to adapt once they reached the branch altar.

• Chen Ping formed a soul contract with Nana and shared his history of surviving the Coiling Dragon Sect’s destruction by Evil Soul Masters.
• Nana described the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch, its members and doctrine, and the spirit ascension ritual she feared would change or exploit her.
• Chen Ping revealed his Purification Holy Fire and declared he would attack the branch altar the next day.
• Nana warned that the branch elder was powerful and that a Probationary Elder from the Main Altar was being sent to take him on a mission.
• Chen Ping chose to proceed the next day, noting that his Super Douluo teacher was with them and that they would adjust their plan to the circumstances.

Chen Ping brought Nana into the Undead Demiplane to show her the forces and abilities he could use to rescue her parents, then arranged for her to visit his teacher. The next day, Nana left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and headed for her Holy Spirit Cult Branch Altar so Chen Ping could open a Gate of the Undead near her.

• Chen Ping led Nana through the Gate of the Undead and connected her to the demiplane’s Public Channel, where she discovered its undead spent their time playing cards and mahjong.
• A grafted Frostbone Dragon flew down to Chen Ping, who scolded it for its strange roar before showing Nana the creature’s power.
• Chen Ping asked Nana whether she believed he could rescue her parents, then sent her to meet his teacher on the Frostbone Dragon’s back.
• The next day, Nana left the academy and contacted Chen Ping, who instructed her to go to the Holy Spirit Cult’s Branch Altar so he could guide a Gate of the Undead to her location.

Nana entered a Holy Spirit Cult branch with Chen Ping’s plan to kill its leaders, but headquarters elder Yan arrived and revealed a larger operation. Yan took Nana and the branch’s Holy Servants to the Explosion Mountain Range to ambush a Soul Engineer, leaving Chen Ping unable to act without adapting to the new situation.

• Nana entered the branch and discovered that its elder was refining captive souls, including her parents, into a Holy Spirit Banner.
• Before Nana and Chen Ping could attack, Yan arrived, ordered the branch leaders to gather the Holy Servants, and explained that they would help him capture a Soul Engineer.
• Yan led Nana and the other Holy Servants to the Explosion Mountain Range, where the target was scheduled to test Soul Tools.
• Yan told the Holy Servants to ambush the target and seal every escape route, then used an academy token to enter the range.

Chen Ping and Nana witnessed the Holy Spirit Cult ambush Mo Fang at the Explosion Mountain Range, where the Soul Engineer fought back but was trapped by his own defensive tools. Nana struck down the Second Holy Spirit, and Chen Ping’s undead appeared to turn the battle against Yan as Mo Fang renewed his attack.

• Nana recognized that the Holy Spirit Cult’s ambush at the Explosion Mountain Range was aimed at Mo Fang and saw Yan signal the attack.
• A Branch Altar elder struck Mo Fang with Withering Light, but Mo Fang’s Spatial Cube absorbed it and returned the blast, killing the First Holy Spirit.
• Yan attacked Mo Fang, shattered his Invincible Shield, and trapped him behind linked defensive barriers made with Mo Fang’s own creations.
• Nana beheaded the Second Holy Spirit with her Blazing Flame Blade, and a Frostbone Dragon swallowed the Branch Altar elder.
• Gates of the Undead opened around the battlefield as Chen Ping called out to Mo Fang, who drew a Level 9 saber and attacked Yan.

Yan tried to escape Professor Mo and the Holy Servants by splitting into four masses of flesh, but Chen Ping stopped his true body from killing Nana. The undead devoured Yan’s other three portions, leaving his true body trapped and helpless.

• Yan fled through the Explosion Mountain Range, but Professor Mo’s defensive screens stopped him and the Holy Servants turned against him.
• Professor Mo attacked Yan with a Class 9 blade, and Yan used his eighth Soul Skill, Flesh Split, to scatter into four masses of flesh.
• Yan’s true body devoured the Second Holy Spirit’s corpse and attacked Nana, but Chen Ping froze it with Cold Binding Seal and knocked it away.
• Nana and the other Holy Servants used their Linked Defensive Soul Tools to contain Yan’s remaining body.
• The undead army ate Yan’s other three masses of flesh, leaving his true body floundering in the wind.

Chen Ping captured Yan’s soul and persuaded Mo Fang to join him by explaining his opposition to the Holy Spirit Cult and offering a way to protect the rescued Holy Servants. Mo Fang accepted, intrigued by Chen Ping’s promises of immortality and advanced metal-forging methods, while Chen Ping planned to use the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s token to help the group escape the Sun Moon Empire.

• Chen Ping extracted Yan’s soul, rejected his offer to cooperate, and handed him to a Lich for questioning.
• Mo Fang refused to follow Chen Ping, believing him to be an Evil Soul Master, but reconsidered after Chen Ping explained his principles and Nana’s circumstances.
• Mo Fang agreed to go with Chen Ping and supervise him, while Chen Ping offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s Young Sect Master Token to help the Holy Servants escape.
• Chen Ping offered the group Soul Contracts and the possibility of becoming rational undead after death, astonishing Mo Fang and the Holy Servants.
• Chen Ping promised Mo Fang the Thousand-Refined Metal method and future knowledge of Spirit-Forged and Soul-Forged Metal, renewing his excitement for research.