Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping avoided taking Tang San’s hidden plans from Er Ming and realized the brothers Da Ming and Er Ming were both away from Clear Sky Castle. He and Electrolux began examining the Sacred Pillars, but their attempt to reactivate the Sea God Sacred Pillar failed, leaving Electrolux to consider the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Wang Dong reached for Er Ming’s blue brocade pouch, but Chen Ping knew it held Tang San’s plans and Er Ming quickly destroyed it.
• Wang Dong asked Er Ming for a Soul Bone, so he left Clear Sky Castle to find one suitable for her.
• Chen Ping realized Da Ming and Er Ming were absent and saw a chance to investigate the eight Sacred Pillars without their supervision.
• Chen Ping touched each Sacred Pillar as Electrolux gathered traces of divine power from them.
• Chen Ping sent the gathered Sea God Divine Power into the Sea God Sacred Pillar, but it rejected the energy.
• Electrolux asked Chen Ping whether the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had originally occupied the diamond-shaped space in the Sea God Trident.

Chen Ping and Electrolux used a Koh-i-Noor diamond and a trace of Sea God divine power to create the Heart of the Ocean, a functional replica of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Electrolux activated a Sea God Pillar and explained that issuing Chen Ping a God Trial would alert Tang San, leaving Chen Ping to abandon his plan for easy rewards.

• Chen Ping explained that Tang San’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had enabled him to receive the Sea God Nine Trials, and he reflected on how luck and fate had shaped Tang Chen’s fate.
• Electrolux recognized that Koh-i-Noor diamond could serve as the missing material and asked Chen Ping to yield control of his body.
• Electrolux carved the diamond and used his divine sense and a trace of Sea God divine power to reproduce the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud’s four arrays, creating the Heart of the Ocean.
• Electrolux used the Heart of the Ocean to activate a Sea God Pillar and sensed its functions, while Chen Ping realized Tang Wutong must already have accepted a God Trial.
• Chen Ping asked Electrolux to issue him a trial and grant him Soul Ring age rewards, but Electrolux warned that Tang San would immediately learn of it.
• Chen Ping broke into a sweat and dropped the idea, realizing a God Trial could expose him and Electrolux to Tang San.

Chen Ping and Electrolux activated the Sea God Sacred Pillar, recharged a God-Given Soul Ring, and hid the pillar’s activation when Da Ming returned. The divine power drawn from the pillar triggered Tang San’s cultivation deviation, leaving his Divine Soul damaged and his ability to monitor the Douluo Continent impaired.

• Electrolux told Chen Ping he could not bypass the Sacred Pillar’s god trial in time, but reminded him that a nearby activated pillar could recharge the blank God-Given Soul Ring.
• Chen Ping brought the depleted God-Given Soul Ring near the pillar, and it absorbed divine power until it turned golden.
• Electrolux used the imitation Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to return the Sea God Sacred Pillar to standby as Da Ming arrived at Clear Sky Castle.
• Tang San lost Sea God divine power drawn through the Sacred Pillar while repairing his divine sense, and the sudden imbalance caused his divine power to run rampant.
• Tang San regained consciousness with cracks in his Divine Soul, lost his means of monitoring the Douluo Continent, and feared cultivating again before discovering what had drained his power.

Tang San traced the loss of his divine power to his many connections in the Lower Realm and severed them, cutting off his influence across the Douluo Continent. At Clear Sky Castle, Chen Ping and Class One continued their cultivation lessons while Electrolux’s scheme against Tang San began to take effect.

• Tang San examined the Sea God Trident, realized the Sea God's Heart was shattered, and admitted he could not identify which of his many Lower Realm arrangements was draining his divine power.
• Tang San severed all his connections to the Lower Realm, causing Da Ming and Er Ming's forehead imprints and Clear Sky Castle's Sacred Pillars to go inactive; the Sea God Helmet's signal also failed during the Sea God Family's ceremony.
• Mu En sensed a disturbance in the Golden Tree, while the red-clad Sea God Family Soul Master watched the trident rune on the Sea God Helmet go dark.
• Chen Ping and Class One sought cultivation advice from Da Ming and Er Ming, while Wang Dong reluctantly joined their studies and benefited from Er Ming finding her a Soul Bone.
• Electrolux reflected that he had deliberately disrupted Tang San's cultivation by draining his divine power and planned to settle accounts with him alongside Chen Ping and Elf.

After returning from the Clear Sky Sect, Chen Ping reunited with Ning Tian and Wu Feng at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and left Ning Dali hoping for help securing a soul spirit. Meanwhile, Chen Ping’s stolen detection tool had cost Ju Zi her rank and Keke her freedom, while Jing Hongchen struggled to protect Xu Tianran’s bid for the throne.

• Chen Ping spent several days touring the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, where Ning Dali apologized for their earlier fight and asked him for help obtaining a soul spirit so he could marry Ye Xin'er.
• Chen Ping told Ning Dali they could discuss the request once he reached rank sixty, while considering forming a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect team for the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• Chen Ping returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, relieving Lin Jiayi, who had worried after learning he was last seen in the Jingyang Mountain Range with the missing High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool.
• Ju Zi was demoted three ranks over the missing tool and imprisoned Keke and the other camp soldiers as scapegoats for unauthorized testing.
• Jing Hongchen failed to uncover Chen Ping’s Thousand Refinement Technique and, amid court turmoil, focused on helping Xu Tianran secure the throne and protect himself from political ruin.

After a year of focused cultivation and Soul Tool research, Chen Ping reached Level 47 and brought Snow Empress to the Undead Demiplane to meet Huo Yuhao and discuss their Battle Armor project. He planned to give Huo Yuhao expensive coffee beans, though his grin made Snow Empress suspect he had work in mind for his junior.

• Chen Ping sent Ning Tian and Wu Feng back to the Academy with the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool and its copied blueprints, then spent a year cultivating and studying Experiment Subject No. 1's designs.
• Chen Ping reached Level 47 after a second bout of Deep Meditation, and Snow Empress grew more accepting of him after seeing his diligent cultivation.
• Snow Empress asked Chen Ping to visit Bing'er, and he opened the entrance to the Undead Demiplane for their agreed meeting with Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Ping explained that he had brought Huo Yuhao into the Battle Armor development project and praised his talent for designing and manufacturing armor.
• Chen Ping searched his Storage Soul Tools for costly coffee beans to give Huo Yuhao, leaving Snow Empress wary of his capitalist smile.

Chen Ping watched Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan test their experimental Thousand Refinement Battle Armor against the Ice Dragon, then reassured them after they damaged it. He explained his division of labor in the Undead Demiplane to the Snow Empress, who called him an evil exploiter.

• After Jing Ziyan spent half a month pestering Chen Ping about Ji Juechen, he sent her to the Undead Demiplane to fight alongside him.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan told Chen Ping they had survived two and a half minutes against the Ice Dragon using their experimental Battle Armor.
• Jing Ziyan admitted that their fight had badly damaged both sets of Battle Armor, and Chen Ping took them for repairs and promised replacements.
• Chen Ping gave Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan coffee gifts and praised them for testing equipment, while they appreciated his concern for their safety.
• Chen Ping described how the Undead Demiplane's residents shared work, but the Snow Empress pointed out that he did none of it and called him an evil exploiter.

Chen Ping visited Electrolux’s research area, where Electrolux demonstrated a miniature Sea God Sacred Pillar forged from deep sea silver’s silver mother. Huo Yuhao accepted its undead trial and received a reward, while Chen Ping discovered that his own trial had offered nothing.

• Chen Ping arrived at Electrolux’s transformed Experimentation Zone with coffee beans for Huo Yuhao and nearly offered some to Electrolux out of habit.
• Electrolux summoned a miniature Sea God Sacred Pillar made from deep sea silver’s silver mother and explained that it could reproduce some of the full-sized pillars’ functions.
• Electrolux tapped the miniature pillar, sending divine sense imprints to Chen Ping and Huo Yuhao that offered an undead trial to summon a skeleton.
• Chen Ping accepted the trial and summoned a skeleton, but received no reward despite the pillar announcing one.
• Huo Yuhao summoned a skeleton, completed the trial, and excitedly told Chen Ping and Electrolux that he had received a soul power level and a God-Given Soul Ring.

Electrolux revealed that his imitation inheritance pillar could reproduce God Trials and God-Given Soul Rings, while Chen Ping realized Poseidon had copied much of the pillar’s design from the Angel God. The chapter ended with Chen Ping deciding he could use Poseidon’s borrowed techniques without concern.

• Huo Yuhao learned that the apparent God Trial was only a simulation made by Electrolux and was disappointed to lose the promised Soul Power and God-Given Soul Ring.
• Electrolux produced a Powerless God-Given Soul Ring and explained that he had recreated much of Poseidon’s inheritance system through a year of research.
• Electrolux infused the imitation inheritance pillar with Light Attribute Power, causing it to display a six-winged figure and issue a trial prompt.
• Chen Ping deduced that Poseidon’s inheritance pillar had been copied from the Angel God’s, explaining the similarities and overlap between Tang San’s and Qian Renxue’s God Trials.
• Chen Ping concluded that Poseidon had borrowed techniques from his predecessors and decided he could use those techniques freely.

Electrolux successfully used the Sea God sacred pillar to make a ten-year artificial soul ring, but needed more divine power to produce them in quantity. As Chen Ping’s exchange studies ended, Jing Hongchen offered vast reserves of rare metals and another Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shell for thousand refinement metal technology, which Chen Ping refused to reveal.

• Electrolux converted Chen Ping’s God-Given Soul Ring into a blank pearl and crushed it to produce a ten-year soul ring.
• Electrolux explained that the sacred pillar’s size limited the rings’ maximum age and that Chen Ping’s stored divine power could make over ten thousand ten-year rings.
• Chen Ping searched for another source of divine power after Tang San shut down the sacred pillar’s connection to the mortal world.
• Chen Ping completed his exchange studies at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and attended its farewell ceremony with Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen offered Chen Ping rare metals and an additional Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shell in exchange for the thousand refinement metal method.
• Chen Ping refused to share the method, knowing it would greatly strengthen the Sun Moon Empire against the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Chen Ping refused Jing Hongchen’s attempt to buy the thousand refinement metal process, then joined the Shrek delegation as it returned its exchange students at Maple Leaf City. The students welcomed their return to Shrek, while Chen Ping remained wary that Jing Hongchen and his allies would continue pursuing the process.

• Jing Hongchen failed to persuade Chen Ping to trade the thousand refinement metal process, and Crown Prince Xu Tianran arrived to see off the Shrek delegation.
• Xu Tianran and Chen Ping exchanged polite words while each privately considered killing the other.
• Jing Hongchen escorted Qian Duoduo and the Shrek students to Maple Leaf City, where Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er received them and the two academies exchanged students.
• Xiao Hongchen saw Chen Ping and resolved to reach Soul Saint before the tournament so he could restore Sun Moon’s glory.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed the returning students home, while Chen Ping suspected Jing Hongchen would not give up his pursuit of the thousand refinement metal process.

Chen Ping showed Shrek’s deans Jing Hongchen’s enormous offer for the thousand refinement metal process, including rare metals and Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells. The group realized the deal could transform Shrek’s Soul Tool Department, but focused on getting the children safely home rather than robbing Jing Hongchen.

• Xian Lin'er sealed the room against eavesdroppers, and Xuan Zi appeared after Chen Ping’s dealings drew him into the escort mission.
• Chen Ping explained that Jing Hongchen had repeatedly raised his offer for the thousand refinement metal process and showed the final offer sheet.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo were stunned by the offer’s silver dragon scales, prohibited rare metals, and Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.
• Qian Duoduo wondered whether they could return to rob Jing Hongchen, but Xuan Zi warned that he had come to protect them from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Lin'er and Xuan Zi stressed that their priority was ensuring the children returned safely, since Jing Hongchen would strike only when confident.

Chen Ping proposed splitting the Academy group’s departure and learned he had been approved as a Prospective Pavilion Elder of the Sea God Pavilion. He explained his soul spirit to the Pavilion Elders and left them eager to learn more.

• Chen Ping advised Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo to leave with him and Xuan Zi separately from the other students, and Yan Shaozhe agreed.
• Yan Shaozhe told Chen Ping that the Sea God Pavilion Elders had unanimously approved him as a Prospective Pavilion Elder, and Xuan Zi told him to keep the news secret until his formal graduation.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi praised Chen Ping’s Academy contributions and urged him to win the upcoming tournament, while Chen Ping revealed he had reached rank forty-eight.
• Chen Ping explained that his Heavenly Snow Woman soul spirit retained her consciousness and could fight alongside him, while concealing the Snow Empress’s identity and Electrolux’s role.

Xuan Zi escorted Chen Ping and the others toward Shrek Academy, ready for an ambush, and soon confronted the attacker Zhang Peng. Xuan Zi injured Zhang Peng with a single punch and accused him of disguising his crimes and working for the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xuan Zi assigned Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo to protect Chen Ping while he handled any attackers on the journey back to Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Chen Ping flew toward Shrek Academy, with Xuan Zi insisting that a safe return mattered most.
• A huge bank of dark clouds approached and formed a tiger's head, prompting Xuan Zi to break away and attack it with a fist of Soul Power.
• Xuan Zi's punch shattered the cloud-shaped tiger and injured the black-clad old man Zhang Peng, who stood revealed on a bank of dark clouds.
• Zhang Peng defended himself by saying he had merely absorbed Soul Beast blood to cultivate, but Xuan Zi accused him of hiding his crimes and finding an employer in the Sun Moon Empire.

Xuan Zi confronted Zhang Peng over his past slaughter of Soul Beasts and his role in the attack on Shrek’s students, but learned Zhang Peng had come to seize the thousand refinement metal method rather than kill them. As Xuan Zi forced Zhang Peng to reveal his Martial Soul Avatar, Chen Ping offered a way for him to cultivate without indiscriminately killing Soul Beasts.

• Xuan Zi exposed Zhang Peng’s past killings of Soul Beasts and warned that he would kill him for targeting Shrek’s students.
• Zhang Peng admitted he had come to seize the thousand refinement metal method and revealed Jing Hongchen’s offer of rare metals.
• Zhang Peng used his slowing power to resist Xuan Zi, then transformed into his black tiger Martial Soul Avatar and sent Soul Beast apparitions against him.
• Xuan Zi revealed his Godly Taotie Bull possession and prepared to continue beating Zhang Peng after he wished for Xuan Zi and Mu En to die.
• Chen Ping stepped forward and offered a way for Zhang Peng to keep cultivating without indiscriminately slaughtering Soul Beasts.

Chen Ping tried to recruit Zhang Peng by explaining how a Soul Spirit might help him gather Soul Beast blood without killing as many beasts. Zhang Peng became intrigued by the idea, though Chen Ping still doubted whether it would work and considered Zhang Peng a potential source of information about the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Zhang Peng dismissed Chen Ping’s claim that he knew a way to help him cultivate, but held back from insulting him in case it was true.
• Chen Ping cited Ning Tian’s recent success in Shrek Academy’s Soul Fighting matches as evidence that a Support System Soul Master could become formidable.
• Chen Ping described how a Six-Winged Colorless Mosquito Queen Soul Spirit could command a swarm to gather Soul Beast blood for Zhang Peng.
• Zhang Peng realized that relying on such a Soul Spirit might let him obtain high-age Soul Beast blood without killing beasts or continuing to work for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Chen Ping privately questioned whether Soul Beasts nearing the ends of their lives could be found and how Zhang Peng’s nine Soul Rings could be replaced.

Long Xiaoyao appeared and demanded that Shrek hand over Chen Ping and demonstrate the method for refining thousand refinement metal, offering resources and safe passage in return. Xuan Zi and the others faced the Limit Douluo, who insisted his terms were not open to negotiation.

• Long Xiaoyao arrived and stopped Zhang Peng from continuing his conversation with Chen Ping.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo recognized Long Xiaoyao as a living Limit Douluo serving the Sun Moon Empire.
• Long Xiaoyao offered to spare Shrek and provide Jing Hongchen’s promised resources if they handed over Chen Ping and demonstrated the metal-refining method three times.
• Xuan Zi warned Long Xiaoyao that Mu En was still alive, while Qian Duoduo accused him of bullying Shrek’s juniors.
• Long Xiaoyao declared that Shrek would hand over the method because his terms were not open to negotiation.

Xuan Zi accepted Long Xiaoyao’s wager to endure three attacks rather than surrender the thousand refinement metal, despite the danger to himself. After Long Xiaoyao’s first strike badly injured him, Xuan Zi refused to back down, and Long Xiaoyao prepared his next attack.

• Long Xiaoyao challenged the group to let one person endure three attacks, promising to let them go and not pursue the purification process if that person could still stand and speak afterward.
• Xuan Zi accepted the wager and transformed into his Godly Taotie Bull Avatar as Qian Duoduo warned him not to risk it.
• Long Xiaoyao struck Xuan Zi with a finger, forcing out his Martial Soul Avatar and making him spit blood.
• Chen Ping flew to Xuan Zi and used the Gold of Life to treat his severe internal injuries, while Zhang Peng considered collecting Xuan Zi’s blood before Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo frightened him off.
• Qian Duoduo urged Xuan Zi to stop and trade the metal, but Xuan Zi insisted it was vital to resist the Sun Moon Empire after Mu En’s death and demanded Long Xiaoyao attack again.
• Long Xiaoyao approached Xuan Zi as black dragon scales covered and transformed his arm.

Chen Ping stepped in to take Elder Xuan’s remaining two moves, and Long Xiaoyao revised the wager so Chen Ping had to withstand one attack and make him move at least half a step. After Long Xiaoyao saw Chen Ping’s unusual soul rings and prepared to strike, Chen Ping stopped him and proposed raising the stakes.

• Chen Ping offered to take Elder Xuan’s remaining two moves, despite Qian Duoduo, Yan Shaozhe, and Elder Xuan trying to stop him.
• Long Xiaoyao praised Chen Ping’s physique and accepted, but changed the wager: Chen Ping had to stand after one move and make Long Xiaoyao shift at least half a step.
• Long Xiaoyao cleared a space in the bamboo grove and invited Chen Ping to show his abilities.
• Chen Ping revealed four soul rings, including an orange-gold fourth ring, surprising Long Xiaoyao.
• As Long Xiaoyao began his attack, Chen Ping stopped him and said he wanted to raise the stakes, asking whether Long Xiaoyao dared to match him.

Chen Ping raised the wager with Long Xiaoyao, offering Spirit Forging and Melt Forging techniques in exchange for Long Xiaoyao’s Starlight Sapphire Storage Ring. Long Xiaoyao accepted and revealed his formidable soul rings as they prepared to test Chen Ping’s strength.

• Chen Ping summoned a Spirit-Forged Mechanism Recoil-Free Hammer that transformed into an armguard on his right hand.
• Chen Ping explained that Spirit Forging and Melt Forging could create equipment that merged with its user and changed form.
• Chen Ping offered the two forging techniques and the Thousand Refinement Technique if he lost, and demanded Long Xiaoyao’s Starlight Sapphire Storage Ring if he won.
• Long Xiaoyao accepted the raised wager and warned Chen Ping that he would show him the power of a Limit Douluo.
• Long Xiaoyao released his soul rings, revealing two yellow, one purple, four black, and two red rings as the confrontation began.