Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping purified the souls imprisoned in the Holy Spirit Cult's Secret Chamber, freeing them to reunite with their loved ones. Afterward, he questioned Mo Fang about the God Sealing Platform and learned that Mo Fang had made it.

• Chen Ping brought Mo Fang and the Holy Spirit Cult members back to the Branch Altar in Mingdu, where the Holy Servants mourned the fall of their captors.
• Chen Ping used the Light of Purification to cleanse the imprisoned souls and free them from the Secret Chamber.
• Nana and the other Holy Servants reunited with their loved ones while Chen Ping recovered from the spell's heavy Spiritual Power cost.
• Mo Fang said Chen Ping's purification ability made him more willing to believe that Chen Ping was not an Evil Soul Master.
• Chen Ping showed Mo Fang the God Sealing Platform and asked why Jing Hongchen had wanted him dead.
• Mo Fang admitted he had made the God Sealing Platform, and Chen Ping explained that he had found it near Jing Hongchen's office during the Body Sect's attack.

Mo Fang explained how Jing Hongchen’s rivalry and obstruction pushed him to secretly fund his research and eventually led him to capture the Snow Empress. The Snow Empress, furious at being caught, urged Chen Ping to let her kill Mo Fang.

• Mo Fang denied selling Mingdetang intelligence and described how Jing Hongchen won the hall master position and stifled his research.
• Mo Fang said he secretly sold Soul Tools to fund his work, including the Absolute Defense used at the tournament.
• Mo Fang spent ten years funding his Linked Defensive Soul Tool, but Jing Hongchen dismissed it and later planned to claim it for Mingdetang.
• Mo Fang explained that he made the God Sealing Platform to capture Ice Spirits, but found and captured the Snow Empress instead.
• The Snow Empress became enraged and asked Chen Ping for Soul Power so she could kill Mo Fang, offering to teach him her Three Absolutes.

Chen Ping calmed the Snow Empress and heard Mo Fang explain why he had sold a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo and the God Sealing Platform to fund his Linked Defensive Soul Tool research. Moved by Mo Fang’s dedication and angered by Jing Hongchen’s betrayal, Chen Ping decided to take the professor under his protection.

• Chen Ping persuaded the Snow Empress not to attack Mo Fang by promising to take her to see the Ice Empress.
• Mo Fang explained that he had given up the chance to gain a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone so he could fund the production of Linked Defensive Soul Tools.
• Mo Fang recounted how Jing Hongchen’s refusal to support his research and later need for a scapegoat left him exposed to an ambush by Evil Soul Masters.
• Chen Ping admired Mo Fang’s devotion to Soul Tool research and concluded that the Sun Moon Empire’s advantage came from its researchers’ attitudes as well as its technology.
• Chen Ping decided to accept Mo Fang and provide him with funding and a quiet environment to continue his research.

Chen Ping freed the relatives’ souls of Nana and eight former Holy Servants, arranged their reincarnations, and took the group and Professor Mo Fang into his service. After Chen Ping reported the Holy Spirit Cult’s ties to Mingdetang and the Sun Moon Imperial Family, Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion convened to address the threat, while the chapter explained how Mu En had avoided Ye Xishui’s schemes.

• Chen Ping used Elf to arrange reincarnation for the departed souls according to their wishes, and Nana and eight former Holy Servants pledged to follow him.
• Chen Ping gave the eight former Holy Servants soul contracts, and Mo Fang agreed to work for Chen Ping in exchange for funding and a place to work.
• Chen Ping brought the new recruits and Mo Fang into the Undead Demiplane, while Nana returned to the Academy to carry out a substitution.
• Chen Ping reported the Holy Spirit Cult’s ties to Mingdetang and the Sun Moon Imperial Family to Qian Duoduo, who sent the news to Shrek Academy.
• Mu En convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting and locked down the report, while the narration contrasted Mu En’s romantic experience with Long Xiaoyao’s vulnerability to Ye Xishui.

Chen Ping learned that Ji Juechen had challenged him because Nana had disappeared, then agreed to a private spar in the Soul Tool Trial Ground. Their fight began with Chen Ping overpowering Ji Juechen’s sword strike, leaving Ji Juechen shocked by Chen Ping’s strength.

• Chen Ping asked Jing Hongchen about Mo Fang, and Jing Hongchen told him to wait for news while Mo Fang remained in the Undead Demiplane and prepared to flee through the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's channels.
• Ji Juechen intercepted Chen Ping and explained that he wanted to fight because Nana had disappeared after meeting Chen Ping, leaving Jing Ziyan without a sparring partner.
• Chen Ping agreed to fight Ji Juechen on the condition that the recording devices be turned off, and Ji Juechen activated private sparring mode.
• Ji Juechen revealed his six Soul Rings and sword intent, while Chen Ping displayed four Soul Rings, including an orange-gold one.
• Chen Ping parried Ji Juechen’s sword and followed with a Splitting Staff strike that deformed the Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron Sword and forced Ji Juechen back.

Chen Ping and Ji Juechen fought at full strength, with Ji Juechen’s Dragging Saber Slash nearly overwhelming Chen Ping before Chen Ping’s varied Staff Techniques turned the match in his favor. Ji Juechen admitted defeat and thanked Chen Ping for agreeing to fight him.

• Ji Juechen charged Chen Ping with a powerful Dragging Saber Slash, but Chen Ping froze him with the Cold Binding Seal and struck him with his Jade Scorpion Staff.
• Ji Juechen’s sword energy forced Chen Ping backward through his Red Dust Protection, but Chen Ping withstood the attack.
• Ji Juechen pressed forward with a sword assault, and Chen Ping countered with Forward-and-Reverse Turning Staff and Retreat an Inch, Advance a Foot.
• Chen Ping’s varied Staff Techniques drove Ji Juechen toward the edge of the Soul Fighting Arena as Ji Juechen struggled to defend against them.
• Ji Juechen put away his battered Meteoric Iron Sword, admitted defeat, and thanked Chen Ping for the fight.

Chen Ping offered Ji Juechen free swordsmanship lessons in exchange for sparring matches and keeping Shrek’s Soul Spirit System secret. Before Ji Juechen could begin training, the Snow Empress appeared and attacked him, giving Chen Ping a chance to test her Soul Spirit combat abilities.

• Ji Juechen admitted that he had held back during their match and explained that he had learned the Dragging Saber Slash from a battle recording of Tyrant Saber Douluo.
• Chen Ping offered Ji Juechen free lessons in sword techniques in exchange for helping test Shrek’s Soul Spirit System and keeping it confidential.
• Ji Juechen eagerly accepted and promised to keep quiet, then prepared for another sparring match with Chen Ping.
• The Snow Empress appeared without warning and unleashed Emperor Sword, Great Cold Without Snow at Ji Juechen.
• Chen Ping watched from the sidelines, having lured Ji Juechen into becoming the Snow Empress’s target so he could test her Soul Spirit combat abilities.

Ji Juechen rapidly improved his swordsmanship under the Snow Empress’s instruction while Chen Ping reforged his Meteoric Iron Greatsword toward Spirit Forging. Meanwhile, Mo Fang and his companions safely reached the Heaven Dou Empire with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s help, revealing the sect’s far-reaching network of influence.

• Ji Juechen continued deep meditations and advanced rapidly under the Snow Empress’s guidance, while Chen Ping grew wary of fighting him.
• Chen Ping upgraded Ji Juechen’s Meteoric Iron Sword to Thousand Refinement quality and began melting it down in Laboratory Six to attempt Spirit Forging.
• Mo Fang took Nana and the others from the Undead Demiplane to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s branch in Mingdu.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect arranged powerful escorts and an old smuggling route to bring Mo Fang’s group safely into the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Chen Ping learned how the sect’s wealth and long-standing relationships gave it covert influence throughout the secular world.

Chen Ping forged Ji Juechen’s meteoric iron sword blank at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, using layered forging and repeated blood sacrifices to transform the metal. The final ingot radiated six feet of spiritual light, marking it as saint-grade Thousand Refinement.

• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect welcomed Mo Fang with a replicated laboratory and unlimited research funding, and Mo Fang and Nana settled in happily.
• Chen Ping heated Ji Juechen’s meteoric iron sword blank and explained how he would use layered forging to bring out star patterns in the metal.
• Chen Ping repeatedly folded and cut the meteoric iron, having Ji Juechen add blood to the metal each time until Ji Juechen grew pale from blood loss.
• Chen Ping’s final hammer blow made the ten-layered meteoric iron radiate six feet of spiritual light, confirming its saint-grade Thousand Refinement.

Chen Ping completed the Spirit Forging of Ji Juechen’s Meteoric Iron Sword, creating the first Spirit-Forged Metal on the Douluo Continent. Jing Hongchen secretly watched the final stages and left convinced he had discovered that Shrek’s Thousand Refinement Metal required bloodletting.

• Chen Ping hammered a Saint-grade Thousand-Refined meteoric iron ingot while Lin Jiayi worried that the noise was disrupting nearby laboratories.
• Jing Hongchen persuaded Lin Jiayi to break into Chen Ping’s laboratory, hoping to learn how Chen Ping forged special metal.
• Chen Ping asked Ji Juechen to let his blood drip onto the glowing metal, then struck the final blow and Spirit-Forged Ji Juechen’s Meteoric Iron Sword.
• Chen Ping’s recoilless hammer also completed Spirit Forging and merged into his body, while Ji Juechen drew the new sword into his body.
• Jing Hongchen mistook the bloodletting for the secret behind Thousand Refinement Metal and left delighted with his false conclusion.

After Chen Ping helped Ji Juechen forge his Meteoric Iron Sword, Jing Hongchen barged into the laboratory and mistakenly believed he had uncovered Shrek Academy’s secret method for making Thousand Refinement metal. Jing Hongchen left convinced he could reverse-engineer it and restore his lost standing, and he summoned Mingdetang’s other Level 9 Soul Engineers to help with the final step.

• Jing Hongchen entered Mo Fang’s laboratory and saw Ji Juechen’s pallor and the blood on the floor after Chen Ping’s forging work.
• Chen Ping challenged Jing Hongchen for interrupting the laboratory and asked him to arrange better soundproofing, while Jing Hongchen pretended not to notice the bloodstains.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to have the laboratory’s soundproofing renovated before the following morning.
• Back in his office, Jing Hongchen decided Chen Ping had accidentally revealed the secret of Thousand Refinement metal and believed he could reverse-engineer Shrek Academy’s method.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to summon Mingdetang’s other three Level 9 Soul Engineers, claiming he had figured out the method and only needed to complete its final step.

During his vacation, Chen Ping prepared to welcome Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and considered their invitation to visit the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Before meeting them, he encountered Ji Juechen, who said he had come about something other than a fight.

• Chen Ping reflected on his slower soul power growth and learned from letters that Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and the others had advanced rapidly.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng invited Chen Ping to visit the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after their planned trip to the Sun Moon Empire, and he decided to go.
• Chen Ping noted Shrek's Soul Tool Department was advancing with new blueprints, rare-metal mining, and his Thousand Refinement Metal Extraction Technique, while Tang Ya focused on reclaiming the Tang Sect Residence.
• As Chen Ping headed to the academy gates to meet Ning Tian and Wu Feng, Ji Juechen approached him with his +3 Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron Sword.
• Chen Ping asked Ji Juechen to postpone their sparring, but Ji Juechen said he had come to see him about something else.

Ji Juechen explained that Jing Hongchen and the Level 9 Soul Engineers had been draining their blood in a failed attempt to reproduce Chen Ping’s Spirit Forging. To escape further questioning, Ji Juechen agreed to Chen Ping’s offer of a lifetime contract and a place where he could fight opponents every day.

• Ji Juechen told Chen Ping that after Chen Ping enhanced his sword, he named it Falling Star and spent ten days challenging Soul Engineers and teachers at the Academy trial ground.
• Jing Hongchen captured Ji Juechen and questioned him about Chen Ping’s forging, but Ji Juechen claimed not to remember the process and only revealed that Chen Ping had drawn his blood ten times.
• Jing Hongchen and another Level 9 Soul Engineer collapsed after the researchers repeatedly drained their blood, allowing Ji Juechen to escape and find Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping realized Jing Hongchen would resume questioning Ji Juechen and took him out of the city to offer him a place with countless opponents.
• Ji Juechen agreed to sign a contract that could make him Chen Ping’s slave for life, provided he could fight every day.

Chen Ping put Ji Juechen in the Undead Demiplane, learned that Elder Yi had nearly restored Tang Wutong's soul fragment, and ran into Ning Tian and Wu Feng in Mingdu. After touring the city with them, he planned a gathering and a later discussion with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Chen Ping sent Ji Juechen to the Undead Demiplane, where supplies remained for him to live on for two months.
• Elder Yi told Chen Ping that Electrolux had nearly restored Tang Wutong's soul fragment after almost two years of nurturing it.
• Chen Ping stopped a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect carriage and pretended to demand a toll, but Wu Feng slipped free of his curtain trap and locked him in a hold.
• Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng reunited, shared a meal, and toured Mingdu before heading to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen Ping said he would show Ning Tian and Wu Feng the academy, host a gathering, and later discuss something with Ning Tian and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Chen Ping learned that Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department was shifting toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s Practical Control System, while Lin Jiayi searched for the missing Ji Juechen. The chapter left Chen Ping considering how Shrek might develop if he took control of the academy in the future.

• Lin Jiayi told Chen Ping he had failed to find Ji Juechen, and Chen Ping said Ji Juechen wanted to perfect his swordsmanship and challenge powerful opponents.
• Chen Ping invited He Caitou and Huo Yuhao to dinner, where Ning Tian and Wu Feng described changes at Shrek Academy.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng explained that Mu En’s Soul Tool assessment rule and teachers’ promotion incentives had encouraged Martial Soul Department students to learn Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping welcomed Shrek’s shift toward Practical Control System Soul Engineers and considered what kind of academy he might lead in the future.

Chen Ping watched Electrolux reveal memories from Tang Wutong’s soul fragment, uncovering how Tang San sent her to the lower realm to subdue the Emperor Auspicious Beast while sealing her memories. The revelation left Chen Ping and Electrolux with evidence of Tang San’s plan and its cruel treatment of Tang Wutong.

• Chen Ping found Ji Juechen exhausted but blissful after fighting thirty rounds of Soul Fighting in the Undead Demiplane.
• Chen Ping visited Electrolux, who said Tang Wutong’s soul fragment had been nurtured enough for its memories to be read safely.
• Electrolux projected Tang Wutong’s memories, showing her carefree life among the Divine Realm’s palaces and clouds.
• Tang San told Tang Wutong that she could descend to the lower realm and ordered her to subdue and guide the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Tang San instructed the two men before him to care for the mortal soul born in Tang Wutong’s body without treating it as Wutong, promising to awaken her after her merits were complete.

Chen Ping and Electrolux uncovered how Tang San had planned to use Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er’s deaths and souls to create Tang Wutong, while concealing the truth behind the Resurrection Divine Light. The memory then showed Tang San sending a frightened young Tang Wutong to the lower realm, leaving her in Da Ming and Er Ming’s care under pressure to obey him.

• Electrolux explained that the Resurrection Divine Light could restore bodies but not souls, and Chen Ping concluded that Tang San had used it to manipulate whose soul returned.
• Chen Ping and Electrolux inferred that Tang San intended to use Wang Qiu’er’s fortune and Wang Dong’er’s memories to shape Tang Wutong and secure Douluo Continent’s treasures.
• Tang Wutong’s memory showed Tang San stroking her head before handing her over to Da Ming and Er Ming for her trip to the lower realm.
• Tang Wutong said she did not want to leave and wanted her mother, but Tang San seized her wrist and delivered her to Da Ming.
• Tang San scolded Tang Wutong for resisting, then promised that her obedience would help her earn a Beast God Position after she returned.

Tang Wutong’s memories revealed that Tang San sent her to the mortal world as part of a long-term plan, while Da Ming and Er Ming concealed the truth from Xiao Wu. The memory ended as they entered a golden-and-silver lake valley, leaving Chen Ping and Electrolux to consider whether it was the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and a passage between worlds.

• Tang Wutong asked Da Ming and Er Ming whether Xiao Wu would be proud of her becoming a god, and Da Ming assured her she would be.
• Tang San’s memories showed that he planned to send Tang Wutong to the mortal world and was willing to let Douluo Continent suffer for his long-term ambitions.
• Da Ming told Er Ming to keep their visit to the Divine Realm secret from Xiao Wu and the Phoenix God, and said they would call the awakened Tang Wutong Wang Dong’er.
• Da Ming explained that Tang San intended to use the conflict between Evil Soul Masters and other forces to preserve faith in the Sea God, while Er Ming questioned whether Da Ming believed Tang San.
• A golden-and-silver halo dragged Tang Wutong, Da Ming, and Er Ming into a lake valley, where the brothers’ power fell and Tang Wutong saw two corpses beside the gold-and-silver water.
• Tang Wutong’s memory ended, and Chen Ping asked Electrolux whether the valley was the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and connected the mortal world to the Divine Realm.

Chen Ping identified the lake as Qiankun Asking Love Valley and concluded that Tang San had used evil soul masters to cultivate faith and power by inflicting suffering on ordinary people. Electrolux steadied Chen Ping when his anger began to shake his sea of consciousness.

• Chen Ping recognized Qiankun Asking Love Valley from its descriptions and the bodies of newlywed couples used to open it.
• Chen Ping condemned the God of Love’s sacrificial rules and reasoned that ordinary couples could hardly be expected to die for one another.
• Chen Ping suspected that Da Ming and Er Ming had supported the Holy Spirit Cult and connected their actions to Tang San’s scheme for harvesting faith.
• Chen Ping grew furious at Tang San’s disregard for common people and his desire to gain power over the Divine Realm.
• Electrolux reminded Chen Ping to steady his breath and focus, restoring his clarity.

After Electrolux helped Chen Ping understand that power was neither righteous nor evil, Chen Ping reached enlightenment and advanced to Level 44. He then reviewed what he had learned from Tang Wutong’s memories, including the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and Tang San’s schemes, and considered how to exploit the information.

• Electrolux challenged Chen Ping’s assumptions about righteous power, helping him overcome his confusion about Tang San and the Divine Realm’s gods.
• Chen Ping thanked Electrolux, gained a deeper understanding of the principle that power itself was neither righteous nor evil, and advanced to Level 44.
• Chen Ping recalled that the Qiankun Asking Love Valley connected the Divine Realm and Douluo Continent and could allow people to travel between them.
• Chen Ping noted that Da Ming and Er Ming had lowered their strength to the Level 99 Limit Douluo realm before entering the valley.
• Chen Ping concluded that Tang San had exploited suffering and faith, supported Evil Soul Masters, and passed down Ring Detonation.
• Chen Ping suspected Tang San had botched a scheme to control his companions by claiming he could bring only two people to the Divine Realm, leaving Ma Hongjun separated from Bai Chenxiang.