Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping examined a strange floating sphere in a valley and recognized its Anti-Gravity Module Crystal as advanced Sun Moon Empire technology. Below, Keke oversaw a detection test until she realized the detector had flown into a Giant Bone Gate, which vanished and cut off its feed.

• Chen Ping identified the hollow sphere’s propulsion system and Anti-Gravity Module Crystal while wondering what it was for.
• Keke told her soldiers to continue the experiment instead of searching for a fugitive, following the battalion commander’s orders.
• Keke ordered the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool raised to test its optical sensing through the clouds.
• Keke spotted a Giant Bone Gate in the detector’s images and shouted for the device to be lowered.
• The Giant Bone Gate vanished, and the image feed to Keke’s display cut out.

Chen Ping used the Undead Demiplane to capture a Sun Moon Empire High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool and tasked David Dai with keeping it from drifting away. The valuable device remained in Chen Ping’s possession, though he could not yet reveal how he had obtained it.

• Chen Ping recognized the approaching device as a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool and realized he could use a Gate of the Undead to bypass its anti-theft measures.
• Chen Ping opened a gate along the detector’s flight path and drew it into the Undead Demiplane before closing the portal.
• Chen Ping summoned David Dai and used his iron hook to catch the still-rising detector.
• Chen Ping told David Dai to hold the detector like a kite, and David Dai obeyed while joking that he had a big stomach pouch rather than being fat.
• Chen Ping recalled how Electrolux had punished David Dai for mistreating his mother and daughter, then turned him into an Abomination.

Chen Ping traveled with Ning Tian and Wu Feng toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect after acquiring a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool and helping Ning Tian gain a pack of Golden Wolves. He left the chapter pleased with his gains and hoping the detection technology could be copied before the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

• Chen Ping asked Ning Tian why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had moved away from Heaven Dou City, and she said it had stayed far from centers of power for several thousand years.
• Chen Ping gave Ning Tian and Wu Feng cotton candy as they explained that the sect lay beyond the mountains outside the town.
• Chen Ping recalled how the Golden Wolves had devoured Skeleton Soldiers and driven other undead creatures away while he traveled with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Chen Ping reflected that he had acquired Ning Tian's Soul Spirit, a pack of Golden Wolves, and a High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool from Keke after outmaneuvering Ju Zi.
• Chen Ping considered having the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool's technology mastered and mass-produced before the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

Chen Ping arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, admiring its terrain, vast grounds, and layered defenses. Ning Tian and Wu Feng went to the western garden while Chen Ping was left to explore the eastern courtyard.

• Chen Ping recognized the valley surrounding the sect as an exceptionally auspicious feng shui site.
• Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng entered the valley and saw the sect’s sprawling complex and its inscription welcoming visitors.
• Wu Feng caught Chen Ping looking at her exposed navel and chased him after he teased her.
• Ning Tian used the Young Sect Master Token to open the sect’s fortified main gate.
• Ning Tian explained that men and women used separate courtyards, then she and Wu Feng headed to the western garden while Chen Ping stayed near the eastern courtyard.

Chen Ping met Chen Xiaoyu, a young Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciple with the Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng reunited with their sisters. Chen Ping mistook the bracelets Chen Xiaoyu delivered for lucky charms and put all three on.

• Chen Ping encountered Chen Xiaoyu squeezing through a narrow partition and learned that she had the Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng recovered in the West Courtyard after the sect elders questioned them and fussed over the Silver Moon Wolf King.
• Ye Xin'er and Ning Lan teased Ning Tian and Wu Feng, then revealed that Chen Xiaoyu was delivering tokens to Chen Ping.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng realized they had not explained the tokens to Chen Ping and warned Ye Xin'er that he might wear them all.
• Chen Xiaoyu recited Ye Xin'er's sales pitch, and Chen Ping gave her coins and candy before taking all three bracelets and putting them on.

Chen Ping arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect wearing all five of the bracelets and necklace Chen Xiaoyu had given him, causing a steward to mistake them for tokens of romantic interest. In the Conference Hall, the sect leaders discussed Chen Ping’s relationships and the Soul Spirit Dao while Fentian teased Chen Ying about their daughters’ prospects.

• Chen Ping took all three bracelets from Chen Xiaoyu, who forgot Ye Xin'er’s instructions after eating his milk candy.
• A sect steward met Chen Ping, noticed the five pieces of jewelry he wore, and led him toward the Conference Hall.
• Chen Ping offered the sweating steward a prescription and mentioned his former shop selling supplements at Shrek Academy.
• In the Conference Hall, Fentian celebrated that Chen Ping liked Xiao Feng, while Junping said Chen Ping could help Xin'er and Dashan through the Soul Spirit Dao.
• Fentian teased Chen Ying about Ning Lan still being unmarried, and Junping intervened to stop their argument.

Chen Ping met the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect master and Fentian, who were startled by his looks and welcomed him warmly. As they shared tea and talked about his work with Soul Beasts, the matriarch was summoned to meet him.

• Chen Ping entered the council hall and sensed an unseen person watching him despite being unable to detect them with Spiritual Power.
• The sect master and Fentian greeted Chen Ping, then both froze when they noticed the bracelets on his wrist.
• The sect master explained that Chen Ying would fetch the matriarch and asked attendants to serve tea.
• Chen Ping learned that the tea came from a ten-thousand-year-old tree that hit people if too many leaves were picked.
• Chen Ping joked about preparing Soul Beast ingredients, and the sect master called it good fortune to cook for the Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Forest.

Chen Ping met Ning Junping and Wu Fentian, learned that Titled Douluos’ lifespans had declined, and received a system clue linking the change to the mystery of Zhao Wuji’s statue. Grandma Ye arrived and reacted with shock when she saw the chains hanging from Chen Ping.

• Ning Junping introduced himself and identified Wu Fentian as Wu Feng’s father, a rank ninety-one Titled Douluo.
• Chen Ping learned that the sect’s other Titled Douluo was Grandma Ye, who was a hundred and forty years old.
• The system announced that Chen Ping had discovered a key clue about changes to the Douluo World’s rules and reduced the points needed to unlock the Zhao Wuji statue’s mystery.
• Grandma Ye entered after hearing Chen Ping say he wanted to bask in her good fortune, and Ning Junping escorted her to the seat of honor.
• Grandma Ye started to address Chen Ping as Xin'er, then noticed the chains hanging from him and froze in shock.

Chen Ping met Merciful Begonia Douluo, learned that she was a rank-96 Nine Heart Begonia soul master, and considered why the powerful Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect stayed out of the war. The sect’s leaders then turned to business as Chen Ping prepared to demonstrate his Soul Tool Exoskeleton.

• Merciful Begonia thanked Chen Ping for helping Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Ning Junping identified her as a rank-96 Super Douluo and their great-grandmother by seniority.
• Chen Ping guessed that Merciful Begonia’s martial soul was the Nine Heart Begonia and reflected on how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect preserved its rare lineage.
• Chen Ping wondered why the sect had remained absent during the Sun Moon Empire’s war despite its strength, but could not yet connect the clues.
• Ning Junping and Wu Fentian found Chen Ping’s manners and knowledge impressive, though his five bracelets made them suspect he was a womanizer.
• Chen Ping brought out his Soul Tool Exoskeleton, and Ning Junping asked him to demonstrate it, revealing that he was a Level 8 Soul Engineer.

Chen Ping presented Sect Master Ning with a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Tool Exoskeleton, and Ning Junping volunteered to test it despite Wu Fentian’s concerns. After explaining the prototype’s design, Ning activated it and unleashed a startlingly fast strike.

• Chen Ping offered Ning Junping a Quasi-Level 7 Soul Tool Exoskeleton that used three level 5 arrays to amplify a level 6 core array.
• Ning Junping accepted the prototype and dismissed Wu Fentian’s concern that it might be dangerous.
• Ning Junping reflected on Chen Ping’s extraordinary talent and Shrek Academy’s ability to gather gifted students.
• Ning Junping put on the exoskeleton and explained how its soul tool circuits amplified strength and speed.
• Ning Junping activated the exoskeleton and delivered a knife-hand strike at alarming speed.

Chen Ping demonstrated the Soul Tool Exoskeleton to Ning Junping and Wu Fentian, then proposed using the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s rare-metal reserves to develop One-Word Battle Armor. He left Ning Junping tempted by a sweeping vision of the sect supplying Battle Armor across the continent.

• Ning Junping’s knife-hand strike with the Soul Tool Exoskeleton clashed with Wu Fentian’s bare palm and made him recoil in surprise.
• Chen Ping considered how the exoskeleton could evolve into Battle Armor and decided he needed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s top-grade rare metals.
• Ning Junping offered to buy the exoskeleton’s manufacturing technology or grant Chen Ping a favorable mass-production deal with priority purchasing rights for the sect.
• Chen Ping rejected both offers and proposed skipping mass production of the exoskeleton to develop One-Word Battle Armor instead, using the sect’s rare-metal reserves.
• Chen Ping outlined a three-step progression from products to standards to platforms and persuaded Ning Junping with a vision of the sect supplying the continent’s finest Battle Armor.

Chen Ping persuaded Ning Junping to invest in developing battle armor and revealed that he had also designed Shrek’s New-Style Flying Soul Tools. Ning Junping took him to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s treasury, where Chen Ping discovered an astonishing store of rare metals.

• Chen Ping proposed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect help develop the battle armor market and offered it contract manufacturing work for future One-Word Battle Armor.
• Ning Junping was convinced by Chen Ping’s reputation as the creator of the New-Style Flying Soul Tools and agreed to support the project.
• Wu Fentian took the sleeping Grandma Ye back to her room while Ning Junping led Chen Ping toward the treasury.
• Ning Junping opened the treasury with his nine-story pagoda token and showed Chen Ping its eighty-one rows of metal shelves.
• Chen Ping found huge quantities of hair crystal, cold heart iron essence, and other top-grade metals, enough to make him wonder whether the sect could produce Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

Chen Ping inspected the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s rare-metal reserves and declined to choose from them, saying Mo Fang could obtain what he needed through the sect’s research funding. Ning Junping then presented several treasured items, ending with a powerless God-Given Soul Ring whose history he explained.

• Ning Junping explained that the sect kept Mo Fang and his Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell research under its protection to prepare for the coming war.
• Ning Junping showed Chen Ping the sect’s rare-metal storeroom and described how the sect concealed its most valuable supplies among ordinary stores.
• Chen Ping declined to select rare metals and said Mo Fang could obtain them through his unlimited research funding, leaving Ning Junping dismayed.
• Ning Junping offered Chen Ping a tiny piece of gold of life and a complete set of Secret Art Soul Bones, but Chen Ping continued examining the treasures.
• Ning Junping showed Chen Ping a God-Given Soul Ring that had once belonged to Jixiang but had lost all its power and could no longer be used.

Chen Ping learned the history of a depleted God-Given Soul Ring and realized that opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians might greatly increase innate Soul Power. He left the chapter eager to use the sect’s immortal herbs to try the method on himself.

• Chen Ping used his vertical pupil to identify the white pearl as a depleted God-Given Soul Ring that could be analyzed near a Sea God Pillar.
• Ning Junping explained that Xiao Wu had left the ring unused and that Tang San later gave it to Jixiang, his disciple.
• Chen Ping recalled that Jixiang had gained innate Soul Power after Tang San opened his Eight Extraordinary Meridians with medicinal treasures.
• Chen Ping reasoned that opening the meridians could raise a Soul Master's innate Soul Power by several levels and considered using the immortal herbs in the Hot Pot to try it.

Ning Junping explained how Jixiang gained innate full soul power through Tang San’s help but was later crippled by Evil Spirit Orcas and died before using his God-Given Soul Ring. Chen Ping chose the long-useless ring over the sect’s other treasures, and Ning Junping warned him that generations of sect masters had failed to uncover its secrets.

• Chen Ping reflected on how opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians had given Jixiang a chance to cultivate and considered how Tang San had changed after gaining power.
• Ning Junping explained that Jixiang reached Soul Saint level on Sea God Island, but Evil Spirit Orcas attacked him because of Tang San’s Sea God Imprint and tore off his leg along with its soul bone.
• Jixiang never reached Level 90 or absorbed the God-Given Soul Ring before his death, and his descendants inherited a martial soul with no innate soul power.
• Ning Junping recounted how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had supported Jixiang’s descendants’ Medical Hall in exchange for the ring, and he consulted an ancient book recording the history.
• Chen Ping chose the God-Given Soul Ring, and Ning Junping offered him a chance to reconsider, noting that the ring had remained useless despite generations of sect masters studying it.

Chen Ping accepted the depleted God-Given Soul Ring so Electrolux could study it and help develop artificial Soul Rings. Back in the conference hall, Chen Ping explained that Soul Spirit bonds required the willing cooperation of both sides, but suggested the process might become easier in the future.

• Chen Ping insisted on taking the depleted God-Given Soul Ring to research artificial Soul Rings, and Ning Junping gave it to him.
• Chen Ping secretly sent the ring to Electrolux, who began studying it and asked Chen Ping to bring him other divine technology.
• Chen Ping and Ning Junping returned to the conference hall, where Ning Junping asked whether Ning Tian's Silver Moon Wolf King Soul Spirit was difficult to replicate.
• Chen Ping explained that Soul Spirit bonds required complete willingness from both the Soul Beast and the Soul Master, and that Ning Tian's success depended on favorable circumstances.
• Chen Ping told the discouraged Ning Junping not to rush because forming Soul Spirit bonds might become easier in the future.

Chen Ping reassured Ning Junping that he hoped to explore a soul spirit system with the Emperor Auspicious Beast, easing the sect master's fears about his intentions toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's girls. After leaving to visit Mo Fang's laboratory, Chen Ping was stopped by three sect disciples who challenged him by asking if he was Chen Ping.

• Chen Ping told Ning Junping about his past cooking for Star Dou Forest's soul beasts and his rough plan to offer willing, dying soul beasts a chance to become soul spirits.
• Ning Junping understood the earlier misunderstanding and lost his reservations about Chen Ping after hearing that he had only pursued two girls from the sect, not five.
• Ning Junping gave Chen Ping the key and directions to Mo Fang's laboratory, explaining that Mo Fang had been spending his nights absorbed in research.
• Chen Ping left the Conference Hall and headed toward the mountain behind the sect, excited to see what he might discover at Mo Fang's laboratory.
• Three uniformed Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples blocked Chen Ping's path, and their oldest member asked, “You're Chen Ping?”

Chen Ping was challenged to a duel by three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples and followed them to the Martial Arts Platform. There, Ning Dashan attacked him with a Level 6 Soul Tool Heavy Hammer after boosting himself with his Seven-Story Pagoda.

• Three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples accused Chen Ping of luring young girls and demanded that he fight them on the Martial Arts Platform.
• Chen Ping broke free from one disciple’s grip and headed to the platform, deciding to settle the misunderstanding through a fight.
• Chen Ping examined the platform’s cabinets of soul tools and approved of the sect’s free equipment for duels.
• Ning Dashan selected a Level 6 Soul Tool Heavy Hammer and challenged Chen Ping.
• Ning Dashan summoned his Seven-Story Pagoda, activated its Strength and Speed boosts, and charged at Chen Ping with his hammer.

Chen Ping fought Ning Dashan and overwhelmed him with his strength, prompting the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples to attack together. As Chen Nian drew his sword and Gu Lipa unleashed a storm of bone spikes, Chen Ping faced the group without fear.

• Ning Dashan attacked Chen Ping with his Wind-Thunder Hammer, but Chen Ping blocked the blow with his Star Nodule Club and flung him away.
• Ning Dashan admitted Chen Ping was incredibly strong, then joined Chen Nian and Gu Lipa in surrounding him.
• Chen Nian summoned his crystal sword while Gu Lipa revealed his skeletal giant form and attacked Chen Ping with Bone Spike Storm.

Chen Ping faced Gu Lipa, Chen Nian, and Ning Dashan, noticed their strange pyramid pendants, and fought off their coordinated attacks. He used Falling Snow to evade Chen Nian’s sword and knocked him unconscious, while Ning Dashan continued the assault with his transformed Wind-Thunder Axe.

• Chen Ping blocked Gu Lipa’s bone spikes and noticed that all three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples wore translucent pyramid pendants.
• Ning Dashan transformed his Wind-Thunder Hammer into a Wind-Thunder Axe and charged as Gu Lipa and Chen Nian attacked from front and rear.
• Gu Lipa unleashed Bone Dragon Roar while Chen Nian struck with his Seven Kill Sword, but Chen Ping used Falling Snow to evade the attacks.
• Chen Ping appeared behind Chen Nian and knocked him unconscious with a palm strike.
• Ning Dashan boosted himself and Gu Lipa with his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and charged Chen Ping with the Wind-Thunder Axe.