Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping fought Gu Lipa and Ning Dashan after they used powerful Soul Tools, then learned from Chen Ying why he had stayed hidden during the battle. The chapter ended with Chen Ping asking what the triangular pyramid Soul Tools were.

• Chen Ping intercepted Gu Lipa's enhancement beams, then struck at him with his enlarged Star Nodule Club.
• Gu Lipa used the Vast Sea Protective Shroud to withstand Chen Ping's attack, and Ning Dashan unleashed Vast Sea Raging Waves at him.
• Chen Ping evaded Ning Dashan's attack, knocked Gu Lipa unconscious, and punched Ning Dashan unconscious.
• Chen Ying revealed that he was the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's Shadow Guards deputy commander and explained why he had not appeared earlier.
• Chen Ping asked Chen Ying about the triangular pyramid Soul Tools carried by Gu Lipa and Ning Dashan.

Chen Ping learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had begun issuing Vast Sea Cosmic Towers based on rubbings of the ancient Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Mo Fang explained how he had adapted the designs, and Chen Ping suggested that the original Soul Tool might have been inspired by the Sun Moon Continent.

• Chen Ying told Chen Ping that the sect had recently begun issuing Vast Sea Cosmic Towers, each with a different fixed Soul Skill.
• Chen Ping recognized the towers as replicas of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and recalled its connection to Tang San and Poseidon.
• Chen Ping visited Mo Fang's laboratory and found it filled with Vast Sea Cosmic Towers that Mo Fang had been researching and crafting.
• Mo Fang said Sect Master Ning had given him ancient rubbings of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which helped guide his work on the towers.
• Chen Ping concluded that Mo Fang's arrival had enabled the sect to reproduce the ancient designs and suggested that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's inspiration came from the Sun Moon Continent.

Chen Ping learned how Mo Fang had deciphered and recreated parts of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, then received a Vast Sea Cosmic Tower that could immobilize or put opponents to sleep. As Chen Ping accepted it, the Clear Sky Sect was also stirring with unusual activity.

• Chen Ping and Mo Fang discussed how Poseidon's ancient core arrays differed from modern soul tool designs and how Mo Fang had used the rubbings to create simplified Vast Sea Cosmic Towers.
• Chen Ping asked whether Mo Fang had decoded the soul skills built into the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but Mo Fang said he understood only the arrays' breakpoints.
• Mo Fang explained that Chen Ping's Vast Sea Cosmic Tower could unleash the Cosmic Spirit-Settling Shroud, immobilizing weaker soul masters and potentially putting ordinary people to sleep for a day and night.
• Chen Ping accepted the tower, recognizing its usefulness for incapacitating crowds during infiltration.
• The base of the Clear Sky Sect grew unusually busy.

Wang Dong brought a group of Shrek classmates to visit the Clear Sky Sect, where they discovered the sect had no soul tools at all. At the mountaintop, a middle-aged man sensed the crowd and wondered why Little Dong had brought so many visitors.

• Wang Dong waited with Huo Yuhao and other classmates as Xie Huanyue arrived slowly on a Flying Soul Tool.
• Xie Huanyue joked that his bulk helped him withstand his classmates' beatings and might help him earn a place on Shrek's main team.
• Wang Dong lamented that Chen Ping and Wu Feng had gone to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect instead of joining the visit.
• Wang Dong revealed that the Clear Sky Sect used no soul tools, not even Soul Guidance Lamps, embarrassing her in front of her classmates.
• A cyan-clad middle-aged man sensed the visitors from the mountaintop and sprayed tea on his companion in surprise.

Tang San’s failing plan pushed Da Ming and Er Ming to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao together at the Clear Sky Sect, but Wang Dong invited her classmates too. After arranging everyone’s rooms, Er Ming struggled with guilt over luring Huo Yuhao into what he knew was a trap.

• Tang San ordered Da Ming and Er Ming to bring Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao together because his plan had gone badly off course.
• Wang Dong invited her available classmates to visit the Clear Sky Sect rather than bringing Huo Yuhao alone.
• Er Ming moved elders to make room for the many guests and felt relieved when Wang Dong assigned Huo Yuhao the Cold Jade Chamber.
• Er Ming praised Huo Yuhao for choosing a Golden Radiance Arm Bone for Wang Dong, then felt guilty about luring him to the sect.
• Wang Dong noticed Er Ming’s guilty reaction as he stumbled through his words.

Wang Dong questioned Er Ming about concealing what he knew, while Chen Ping listened as Electrolux explained the God-Given Soul Ring and revealed that his other half of divine sense had died after helping Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong accused Er Ming of hiding information about the light in her head, and Da Ming explained why they had kept their suspicions to themselves and why Er Ming had offered the Cold Jade Chamber to her classmate.
• Wang Dong apologized to Er Ming, who accidentally called her Wu Tong before stopping himself.
• After Wang Dong left, Da Ming warned Er Ming that he was growing too attached to her and asked whether he still wanted Wu Tong to return; Er Ming promised to control his emotions.
• In the Undead Demiplane, Electrolux explained his findings about the God-Given Soul Ring while Chen Ping struggled to follow the technical details.
• Electrolux sensed that his half of a divine sense within Huo Yuhao had died, and explained that it had endured by taking some of the Spiritual Origin in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness before sacrificing itself to save him.

After Elder Yi’s divine soul vanished while suppressing the Snow Empress’s power, Chen Ping realized the apparent explanation for the crisis had been a deception. Huo Yuhao left Clear Sky Peak grieving, carrying Elder Yi’s final warning and an unopened spatial gift.

• Chen Ping concluded that the Snow Empress’s Snow Core ignition had been a trap and that Elder Yi’s earlier explanation about ultimate ice becoming ultimate fire was mistaken.
• Er Ming worried about Huo Yuhao leaving alone, while Da Ming told him to let the boy clear his head and lamented that losing Elder Yi’s power left Xiao Dong unable to escape Tang San’s schemes.
• Da Ming and Er Ming discussed how Tang San’s control over them would grow once the world’s will disappeared.
• Huo Yuhao flew beyond Da Ming’s perception, overwhelmed by grief as he recalled Elder Yi’s final words.
• Elder Yi had explained that he would burn his divine soul to suppress and reseal the Ice Empress’s origin power, then leave Huo Yuhao a spatial gift to open far from the Clear Sky Sect.

Huo Yuhao struggled with suspicion about the Clear Sky Sect after Electrolux’s warning, then discovered that Electrolux had left him a way to travel into the Undead Demiplane. He arrived safely in the demiplane but regretted that he had never mastered Electrolux’s spatial arts.

• Huo Yuhao brooded over the Clear Sky Sect’s immense hidden power and grew wary of everyone after losing Elder Yi.
• Huo Yuhao fell asleep and sensed Electrolux’s golden pillar of light in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao channeled his soul power and spiritual power into the pillar, which revealed a path through space.
• Huo Yuhao stepped through space from the inn and appeared high above the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao fell into a crowd of undead, then realized Electrolux’s pillar had enabled him to enter the demiplane.

Huo Yuhao arrived in the Undead Demiplane and found it transformed by a massive construction project run by living people and intelligent undead. Chen Ping explained that another fragment of Elder Yi’s divine sense had survived and was waiting to meet him, leaving Huo Yuhao reassured but bewildered by the undead’s new lives.

• Huo Yuhao surveyed the Undead Demiplane and discovered undead creatures building roads and houses under the direction of living workers.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Chen Ping, who had hurried over after sensing a spatial fluctuation.
• Chen Ping offered to take Huo Yuhao to Elder Yi and explained that Elder Yi had split off another divine-sense fragment years earlier as a safeguard.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao that the Elder Yi in the demiplane was essentially the same divine sense that had once resided in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao watched undead creatures laying roads, playing cards, and reading, and Chen Ping explained that they had become busy and found ways to amuse themselves.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Electrolux, who explained that he had survived by dividing his divine soul and leaving a memory fragment behind. After Huo Yuhao gave Electrolux the fragment, Electrolux regained his memories and asked after Big Bug and Little Scorpion.

• Chen Ping brought Huo Yuhao to Electrolux, who was conducting many research tasks at once.
• Electrolux explained that he had divided his divine soul for safety and left a Memory Black Box in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping about facing god-level experts and stopping them from burning their divine souls.
• Huo Yuhao extracted the memory fragment from his Sea of Consciousness and gave it to Electrolux.
• Electrolux regained his memories, addressed Huo Yuhao familiarly, and asked how Big Bug and Little Scorpion were doing.

Huo Yuhao learned that Tang San had manipulated his life and targeted him and the Star Dou Forest Emperor Auspicious Beast for their fortune, leaving him to accept that his path at Shrek Academy had begun in a conspiracy. Chen Ping then introduced Snow Empress to the possibility that Ice Empress resided within Huo Yuhao.

• Electrolux and Chen Ping revealed that Wang Dong was Tang Wutong, daughter of Tang San and Xiao Wu, and that her departing figure was part of her soul.
• Huo Yuhao questioned why he and his mother had suffered despite his supposed status as a Child of Fortune, while Chen Ping privately confirmed that Elf had protected his mother's soul.
• After reviewing Tang Wutong's memories, Huo Yuhao realized Tang San had targeted him and the Emperor Auspicious Beast for their fortune and possibly sought a divine weapon and control of Douluo Star.
• Chen Ping told Huo Yuhao that Tang San would likely allow him to pursue godhood, but Huo Yuhao recognized his hardships as part of a trap that began when he entered Shrek Academy.
• Snow Empress awoke at the mention of Ice Empress, and Chen Ping brought her out to meet Huo Yuhao, who was too nervous to rouse the recovering Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Chen Ping negotiated with Huo Yuhao for Tian Meng’s shed husk and promised valuable Soul Tools in return, then decided to visit the Clear Sky Sect to gather intelligence. He and Huo Yuhao used the Undead Demiplane to travel to a town near the sect.

• Chen Ping asked Huo Yuhao to trade Tian Meng’s shed husk so he could turn it into a trapping Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao offered the shed husk if Tian Meng agreed, and Chen Ping promised him a Ranked Carving Knife and one or two Level 9 Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping considered the risks and potential rewards of visiting the Clear Sky Sect while Tang San was unlikely to know of him.
• Chen Ping informed Ning Tian and Wu Feng that he would enter secluded cultivation, then traveled with Huo Yuhao through the Undead Demiplane to a town near the Clear Sky Sect.

Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao returned to the Clear Sky Sect, where Wang Dong welcomed Huo Yuhao and apologized for his ordeal. As Chen Ping climbed toward the sect, he discovered that its concealing mist contained diluted energy from the Divine Realm.

• Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao arrived near the Clear Sky Sect, where Wang Dong flew to meet them and anxiously checked on Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong apologized for bringing Huo Yuhao to the sect, and Huo Yuhao reassured her while concealing the full truth of what he had experienced.
• Wang Dong invited Chen Ping to visit, but he sent her and Huo Yuhao ahead so Huo Yuhao could rest while he climbed the mountain.
• Chen Ping sensed that the mountain mist blocked his Spiritual Power and that the sect's Heaven and Earth Essence was extraordinarily dense.
• Electrolux analyzed the mist and told Chen Ping it was diluted high-energy mist from the Divine Realm.

Chen Ping and Electrolux discovered that Tang San’s Divine Realm Essence was nourishing thousands of hidden Flying Soul Beasts in the Clear Sky Sect’s sea of clouds. They decided to collect some of it for study, and Chen Ping used the God Sealing Platform to absorb the essence without opening the Undead Demiplane.

• Electrolux reasoned that Tang San had brought Divine Realm Essence to the Clear Sky Sect but had only weak control over how it spread.
• Electrolux revealed that thousands of Flying Soul Beasts, including several hundred-thousand-year Cloud Assassins, were thriving in the clouds above the sect.
• Chen Ping and Electrolux agreed to collect Divine Realm Essence so Electrolux could study its composition.
• Chen Ping worried that opening the Undead Demiplane would alert Da Ming and Er Ming, and Electrolux told him to use his body and Soul Power instead.
• Chen Ping activated the God Sealing Platform and drew the surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence into it.

Chen Ping secretly filled the God Sealing Platform with Heaven and Earth Essence, then followed Wang Dong through the Sea of Clouds toward Clear Sky Castle. There, Wang Dong’s missing childhood memories caused her pain, and Second Dad tested Chen Ping’s strength before praising him.

• Chen Ping closed the God Sealing Platform’s channels after it nearly reached capacity and waited for Wang Dong to guide him through the Sea of Clouds.
• Wang Dong recalled falling on the mountain as a child, then suffered a headache when she tried to remember anything from before her Martial Soul Awakening.
• Second Dad explained that Wang Dong could not remember anything from before she was six because she had hit her head as a child.
• Chen Ping realized that Wang Dong’s lost memories had been taken along with her soul by Tang San.
• Second Dad subjected Chen Ping to overwhelming physical and spiritual pressure, but Chen Ping endured it and earned his praise.
• Wang Dong scolded Second Dad for testing her classmates and disputed his claim that she ranked second in the class.

Chen Ping toured Clear Sky Castle with Wang Dong, where Er Ming apologized for testing him with his pressure and invited him to dinner. After Er Ming abruptly vanished, Chen Ping recognized that he had forcibly torn through space rather than used the movement skill Wang Dong named.

• Wang Dong led Chen Ping into Clear Sky Castle and showed him its immense, simply furnished interior and eight massive pillars.
• Er Ming reappeared, apologized for testing Chen Ping, praised his resilience, and invited him to a feast.
• Chen Ping thanked Er Ming and joked that he would eat plenty, pleasing Er Ming.
• Er Ming reached out and disappeared from the hall, leaving Chen Ping stunned.
• Wang Dong said Er Ming had used a skill called Shrinking Earth to Inches and had likely gone to catch fish.
• Chen Ping privately concluded that Er Ming had ripped open space with his bare hand, revealing power comparable to Di Tian's spatial movement.

Chen Ping discovered that the eight pillars in Clear Sky Castle were the Sacred Pillars taken from Sea God Island, which explained Clear Sky Peak’s dense Heaven and Earth Essence. He realized they might help restore a depleted God-Given Soul Ring, but Electrolux warned that the ring required Sea God Divine Power, leaving Chen Ping unsure how to obtain it.

• Er Ming demonstrated his ability to crush space, making Chen Ping more cautious about confronting him and Da Ming.
• At Electrolux’s prompting, Chen Ping used Divine Sense to see through the eight pillars’ iron-birch covering and identify their hidden carvings.
• Chen Ping recognized the pillars as Sea God Island’s Seven Sacred Pillars and the Sea God Sacred Pillar, which Tang San had installed in Clear Sky Castle.
• Chen Ping’s Eye of Truth identified one pillar as the abandoned Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, and he wondered if it could restore a depleted God-Given Soul Ring.
• Electrolux explained that the ring needed Sea God Divine Power rather than Heaven and Earth Essence, leaving Chen Ping wondering where he could find any.

Chen Ping learned that Tang San would need time to recover his depleted Divine Sense, giving him a brief chance to act without Tang San’s attention. He overheard Da Ming and Er Ming discuss Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and the possibility of helping Huo Yuhao.

• Chen Ping spent the evening feasting and playing cards with his classmates at the Clear Sky Sect, then returned to Wang Dong’s room to sleep.
• Electrolux told Chen Ping that he had observed Clear Sky Castle and shared his Divine Sense perceptions with him.
• Er Ming reminisced about how happy Wang Dong had been with her classmates, while Da Ming said Tang San was recovering after learning that the Otherworldly Divine Soul was gone.
• Da Ming explained that Wang Dong would remain safe as long as Tang Wutong’s missing soul fragment was not recovered and that Tang San needed time to restore his Divine Sense.
• Er Ming said that he and Da Ming might help Huo Yuhao if he became strong, but lamented that his teacher’s death left them unable to change what had happened.

Chen Ping realized Da Ming and Er Ming might not be fully aligned with Tang San, and Electrolux pointed out that Tang San likely understood only the basic functions of Poseidon’s eight sacred pillars. Their limited knowledge of the pillars and Tang San’s damaged Divine Sense left Chen Ping and Electrolux an opportunity to exploit.

• Chen Ping interpreted Er Ming’s words as a sign that Da Ming and Er Ming might stand aside rather than help Tang San when an opportunity arose.
• Chen Ping considered testing the brothers’ attitude by resurrecting Tang Wutong with a Heart of Light.
• Electrolux reminded Chen Ping of Poseidon’s eight sacred pillars and suggested Tang San did not know how to use most of their functions.
• Electrolux compared operating the sacred pillars to mastering Mingdetang’s complex processing machine without a manual, and Chen Ping understood that Tang San might know only how to assign trials and rewards.
• Chen Ping and Electrolux concluded that Tang San’s ignorance of the pillars, combined with his damaged Divine Sense and months of recovery, gave them an opening.

Electrolux planned to retaliate against Tang San by exploiting his weakened state and taking advantage of his divine power. The next day, Chen Ping and Wang Dong encountered Er Ming, who retrieved a brocade pouch for her before abruptly freezing as he was about to hand it over.

• Electrolux explained that he intended to use Tang San's divine power while Tang San was recovering, and warned that Tang San would pay for scheming against him.
• Chen Ping examined the pillars at Clear Sky Castle the next day and met Wang Dong, who had only just gotten up around noon.
• Er Ming explained that Niu Tian had gone to find ingredients for lunch and admitted he missed the river catches Da Ming used to bring back.
• Wang Dong asked Er Ming for the brocade pouch Niu Tian had promised her, and Er Ming retrieved it from the castle's third floor.
• Er Ming froze just as he was about to hand the blue brocade pouch to Wang Dong.