Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping used the Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Device to force his cultivation to rank forty-nine and unleash the Star Nodule Club’s Tool Soul True Body, defeating Dai Huabin with a barrage of strikes. Though the power badly strained his meridians, the Living Being Carving Knife began repairing the damage, and Chen Ping expected to recover in a few days.

• The Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Device poured Soul Power into Chen Ping, pushing him to rank forty-nine and transforming the Star Nodule Club into its enormous Tool Soul True Body.
• Dai Huabin charged Chen Ping rather than evade, but Chen Ping’s stored afterimages joined his strike and sent Dai Huabin crashing onto the ice unconscious.
• Qian Duoduo stopped Chen Ping from attacking Ji Juechen, and Chen Ping ended his Martial Soul Avatar state before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Chen Ping used the Living Being Carving Knife’s Power of Life to repair his injured meridians and estimated he would recover within three to five days.
• Chen Ping decided the Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Device could remain a trump card, since the rare metals he had won from Long Xiaoyao could fund even a Class 9 device.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao unleashed a powerful fusion of their ice and fire martial souls, but Ji Juechen interrupted it with a desperate strike. The resulting explosion knocked all three unconscious or away, and Elder Song rescued Ji Juechen.

• Ji Juechen eliminated Wu Feng while Chen Ping recovered his soul power and worried that the bride-stealing team was badly outmatched.
• Huo Yuhao flew to Ma Xiaotao, and their martial souls merged into an Ice-Fire Taiji Disc that boiled the lake and chilled the sky.
• Ji Juechen attacked the forming fusion skill with his Falling Star Colossal Sword, destroying the sword but disrupting the technique.
• The explosion hurled Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, and Ji Juechen away, leaving Ji Juechen unconscious.
• Elder Song caught Ji Juechen and noted his satisfied smile.

Chen Ping stepped in to save the defeated Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao, claiming he could turn the match around despite Su Tong’s confidence that he was too injured to fight. As Su Tong struck, Chen Ping summoned a noble Snow Woman whose Emperor’s Palm overwhelmed Su Tong and left her frozen unconscious.

• Su Tong approached Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was interrupted and the bride snatchers gained the advantage.
• Chen Ping landed beside them and told Su Tong he had come to turn the tables.
• Su Tong unleashed her Soul Saint aura and struck Chen Ping and the others with her Frost Palm, believing he could no longer fight.
• A graceful Snow Woman appeared before Chen Ping as his orange-gold Soul Ring supplied her with Soul Power.
• The Snow Woman used Emperor’s Palm, Great Cold Without Snow, causing Su Tong’s Snow Woman Martial Soul to dissolve and Su Tong to freeze into an unconscious ice sculpture.

Chen Ping defeated Su Tong with a single strike, revealing the Snow Empress Soul Spirit’s overwhelming suppression of her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, and the matchmaking conference concluded with Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng recognized as a couple. After the festivities, Yan Shaozhe wanted to summon Chen Ping to discuss Thousand Refinement Battle Armor, leaving Mu En exasperated by his disciple’s timing.

• Chen Ping used Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow to defeat Su Tong, and Mu En recognized the Snow Empress Soul Spirit’s bloodline suppression of her Martial Soul.
• Zhang Lexuan declared the bride-stealing segment complete and congratulated the couples, while Ma Xiaotao thanked Chen Ping and took the unconscious Huo Yuhao away.
• Chen Ping teased Ning Tian and Wu Feng about being his wives, and they grabbed his ears before rejecting his plan to stay overnight in their dormitory.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Mu En to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting so Chen Ping could explain the Thousand Refinement Battle Armor, and Mu En lamented his disciple’s poor timing.

After a night of rest, Chen Ping found that his meridians had mostly recovered from using the Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Device, but he still questioned why he lacked the usual weakness after a Martial Soul Avatar. Beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, he discovered that one of his Eight Extraordinary Meridians had opened, increasing his cultivation speed by ten percent.

• Chen Ping woke in Ning Tian and Wu Feng's dormitory, tucked their blankets around them, and let Ning Tian return to sleep while he went out for breakfast.
• Chen Ping checked his condition and concluded that the Living Being Carving Knife had helped his meridians recover, leaving him with an estimated three-day interval between uses of the Nine-Turn Soul Transformation Device.
• Chen Ping noticed he did not feel the severe weakness expected after using Martial Soul Avatar and wondered whether his Tool Soul True Body had lacked its usual effects.
• Chen Ping circulated his soul power beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and discovered that his cultivation speed had increased by ten percent.
• Chen Ping used his spiritual power to identify the cause: one of his Eight Extraordinary Meridians had opened.

After opening one of his Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Chen Ping felt stronger and gathered food before Qian Duoduo summoned him to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting. The meeting began with the Elders teasing him about his late-night barbecue and turned toward his Thousand Refinement Battle Armor and Dai Huabin’s Martial Soul Avatar.

• Chen Ping completed his cultivation, felt newly vigorous, and leapt more than a dozen meters.
• Chen Ping collected food from the Inner Court dining hall and ran into Qian Duoduo, who told him Xuan Zi had called a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Chen Ping reminded Ning Tian and Wu Feng to eat, then hurried to the meeting after washing up.
• Xuan Zi and the Sea God Pavilion Elders teased Chen Ping about his late-night barbecue and his relationship with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Xuan Zi said the Elders wanted Chen Ping to explain his Thousand Refinement Battle Armor and Dai Huabin’s Martial Soul Avatar.

Chen Ping negotiated the Academy’s purchase of his stock of Fixed-Installation Cannon Shells and made a new Outer Court dormitory building a condition of the discounted price. He silenced the Elders’ objections by challenging them to share the students’ harsh living conditions and pointing out the embarrassment during exchanges with Sun Moon Empire students.

• Yan Shaozhe outlined the meeting’s agenda, and the Elders settled several Academy matters before turning to Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping offered to sell the Academy around fifty thousand Fixed-Installation Cannon Shells at eighty percent of market price in exchange for repaying the rare-metal costs and earning a manufacturing fee.
• Chen Ping required Shrek to begin building an Outer Court dormitory with private bathrooms, cafeteria serving windows, and standard Level Zero Soul Tools within a month.
• Elder Gong objected that hardship was part of Shrek’s educational tradition, and several Elders agreed with him.
• Chen Ping challenged the Elders to live under the same conditions as students and warned that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students had heard about the Outer Court dormitories.
• Chen Ping’s arguments silenced Elder Gong and the other Elders who opposed the new dormitory.

Chen Ping secured unanimous approval for luxurious new Shrek dormitories and offered the Academy his Spirit Forging and Melt Forging techniques. His generosity won over the Sea God Pavilion Elders, who seemed ready to support an unspecified proposal Mu En had discussed with them, leaving Chen Ping confused about what his teacher had said.

• Xuan Zi called for a vote, and the Elders unanimously approved Chen Ping's dormitory proposal with a budget of three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Ping explained Battle Armor and Spirit-Forged Metal, then offered to give the Academy his Spirit Forging and Melt Forging techniques.
• Xuan Zi warned that Chen Ping's techniques were priceless, but Chen Ping said he wanted the Academy to keep them from reaching the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Elders' reservations about Chen Ping faded as they considered his concern for students, his contributions, and his strength.
• Mu En asked whether the Elders still objected to what he had proposed the previous night, and Chen Ping wondered what his teacher had discussed with them.

At the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Mu En accepted Chen Ping’s research on behalf of Shrek Academy and named him the Queue-Jumping Sea God Pavilion Master. The Elders unanimously approved, making Chen Ping the designated successor once he reached Soul Power Level 90.

• Mu En told the Elders that Chen Ping’s contributions far exceeded the resources the Academy had given him and argued that his research should not be accepted for nothing.
• Mu En accepted all the technologies Chen Ping had offered, while ensuring Chen Ping’s name would remain attached to the research in the Sea God Pavilion library.
• Mu En designated Chen Ping the Queue-Jumping Sea God Pavilion Master, with the position passing to him once his Soul Power reached Level 90.
• Xuan Zi explained that Chen Ping would succeed whoever held the position at that time, while Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao would be trained as later reserve successors.
• All the Sea God Pavilion members except Chen Ping raised their hands in favor, unanimously approving his appointment.

Chen Ping handed over his forging research to be sealed in the Sea God Pavilion Collection Library, while Mu En saw him as Shrek’s future successor. Exhausted from his work, Chen Ping finally relaxed as Ning Tian cared for him and reminded him to rest.

• Xuan Zi arranged for Chen Ping’s Spirit-Forged and Melt-Forged Metal research to be sealed as red-level confidential documents, and the Elders agreed.
• Mu En considered Shrek’s many gifted students and concluded that Chen Ping was the clear choice to succeed him as Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Chen Ping gave Xuan Zi his written forging methods and a Recording, and the original manuscript was sealed in the collection library.
• Chen Ping returned to his room and fell asleep from exhaustion; Ning Tian and Wu Feng moved him to a bed, and Wu Feng went to fetch food.
• Ning Tian urged Chen Ping to stop pushing himself and rest, and Chen Ping relaxed with his head on her lap.

Chen Ping kissed Ning Tian, and the surge of emotion helped her break through to level sixty. Wu Feng arrived, misunderstood what had happened, and then asked Chen Ping to help her level up too.

• Ning Tian teased Chen Ping for thanking her and putting distance between them, so he apologized and pulled her close.
• Chen Ping kissed Ning Tian, and the sudden surge of soul power pushed her through her bottleneck to level sixty.
• Wu Feng returned with dinner, saw Ning Tian in Chen Ping's arms, and mistakenly thought they had gone further.
• Ning Tian revealed her new level to Wu Feng, who asked Chen Ping to help her level up as well.
• Chen Ping warned Wu Feng that his method did not guarantee a breakthrough.

Ning Tian told Chen Ping about the upcoming Soul Hunting Operation in the Star Dou Great Forest, and he decided to join the expedition. Cai Mei'er expanded the team’s leadership to protect him, and Chen Ping spent a few days relaxing at the Academy before the trip.

• Chen Ping kissed Wu Feng several times while trying to help her level up, but she did not advance and was upset to learn that kissing was the method.
• Ning Tian explained that she had broken through in time to join Cai Mei’er’s Soul Hunting Operation and told Chen Ping that Wu Feng could not participate because she had not reached a bottleneck.
• Chen Ping recalled the operation’s possible dangers and said he would accompany Ning Tian, offering to guide the team using the Auspicious Beast’s memories of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Cai Mei'er agreed to Chen Ping’s request but added Zhang Lexuan as captain and Han Ruoruo to strengthen the expedition’s leadership.
• Chen Ping submitted his application and spent several days relaxing at the Academy, though he did not go fishing in Sea God Lake.

Chen Ping asked Elf about the power of faith and learned how it could extend lifespans and help create a Divine Spark. Elf explained that gods and martial souls originated from the power of the dragon, leaving Chen Ping to blame the Dragon God for Douluo Star’s transformation.

• Chen Ping summoned Elf and learned that Elf had been draining its power to stop Tang San from monitoring the continent.
• Elf explained that faith could extend a person's allotted lifespan and help condense a Divine Spark, but it could not restore a body close to decay.
• Chen Ping realized Mu En would not live long enough to benefit from the Goddess of Life's Blessing, which he expected to become available when Tang Wulin appeared.
• Elf said a Divine Spark was the power of the dragon and explained that Douluo Star's soul beasts, soul masters, and martial souls arose after exposure to it.
• Chen Ping concluded that the Dragon God was responsible for the origins of Douluo Star's supernatural power.

Chen Ping discussed the origins of soul beasts, soul masters, and divine power with the Elf, then joined an Inner Court team preparing to hunt for soul rings in Star Dou Great Forest. After Zhang Lexuan assigned the group’s formation, they entered the forest at full speed, with Chen Ping enjoying how easily the senior students cleared their way.

• Chen Ping and the Elf discussed how divine blood and accumulated energy had shaped soul beasts, soul masters, and the paths to godhood.
• Chen Ping trained with Bei Bei and the others before Cai Mei'er gathered the Inner Court students for a trip to Star Dou Great Forest.
• Chen Ping met Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, Li Yongyue, and Mo Xuan, and explained that he could help locate suitable soul beasts.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned the team’s formation, placing Chen Ping on the right flank and Ning Tian and Mo Xuan in the center.
• The group entered Star Dou Great Forest at full speed, and Zhang Lexuan’s aura and attacks cleared a path through the forest.

Chen Ping guided the Shrek group through the Star Dou Great Forest using a hidden route and helped Mo Xuan find a suitable Soul Beast. After discovering an enormous pink halo enhancing his body, Chen Ping recognized it as the Bloodthirsty Berserk Halo.

• Zhang Lexuan had Chen Ping cook water-boiled fish for the group before they entered the forest.
• Chen Ping mapped an efficient route through the Star Dou Great Forest and led the group to a suitable Blood-Red Baboon for Mo Xuan.
• The group killed the Blood-Red Baboon, and Mo Xuan began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Li Yongyue asked Chen Ping to find him a powerful Agility Attack System Soul Beast for his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Chen Ping sensed his bodily functions being enhanced and saw an enormous pink halo beneath his feet, which he identified as the Bloodthirsty Berserk Halo.

Chen Ping persuaded Zhang Lexuan and Ning Tian to inspect Shrek’s mining area, hoping to use the Undead Army to mine rare metals. As they hurried there, the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared before them.

• Chen Ping considered the Bloodthirsty Halo’s morale-boosting effects and how Mo Xuan’s Halo Martial Soul resonated with energy in the air.
• Chen Ping asked Zhang Lexuan to take him and Ning Tian to Shrek’s nearby mining area so Ning Tian could sense valuable rare metals.
• Ning Tian guessed that Chen Ping intended to use the Undead Army to mine, and he confirmed that the undead could work without rest.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged for Ruo Ruo to lead the others in setting up camp, then left with Chen Ping and Ning Tian for the mines.
• A powerful roar and shock wave flattened part of the forest, and the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion landed before Chen Ping and Ning Tian.

Chen Ping and Zhang Lexuan fought a Soul Beast that looked like a Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Chen Ping detected an identical one miles behind them. After Zhang Lexuan and Chen Ping’s attacks failed to stop the creature, it transformed into a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, leaving them facing a powerful beast believed to be extinct.

• Chen Ping sensed a second, apparently identical Three-Eyed Golden Lion behind the one charging them and warned Zhang Lexuan that something was wrong.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned her eight Soul Rings and attacked the charging beast with moonlight, but her strikes barely affected it.
• Chen Ping used his Cold Binding Seal to stall the beast briefly, giving Zhang Lexuan time to blast it back with Silver Moon Piercing Deathlight.
• The beast’s counterattack shattered Zhang Lexuan’s Level Eight Defensive Soul Tool and sent her flying, though she survived with minor injuries.
• The creature shed its Three-Eyed Golden Lion appearance and revealed itself as a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, which Chen Ping identified as a supposedly extinct Soul Beast.

Chen Ping, Ning Tian, and Zhang Lexuan fought a ten-thousand-year Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff whose roars, strength, and Domination Domain overwhelmed them. Chen Ping was sent flying as the beast launched another attack, and he realized it had previously transformed into a Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff unleashed its Lion Mastiff Roar, cracking Chen Ping’s Invincible Shield and devastating the surrounding forest.
• Chen Ping blocked the beast’s pounce with his Jade Scorpion Staff but was knocked back, giving Ning Tian time to fly up and enhance Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan used Ning Tian’s Piercing Light-enhanced attack to wound the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, but it continued its assault without reacting to the injury.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff activated its Domination Domain and slammed its paws into the ground, sending Chen Ping flying before sweeping at him in midair.
• Chen Ping recognized that the domain made the beast stronger and immune to pain, and recalled seeing it transform into a Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

A troop of Blood-Red Baboons attacked Han Ruoruo and the others after Mo Xuan’s wide-ranging aura triggered their aggression, while Cai Mei’er confronted their powerful king. The chapter ended with Chen Ping helpless in midair as the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s lethal claw came down on him.

• Han Ruoruo realized Mo Xuan’s aura had invigorated the Blood-Red Baboons and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• The Blood-Red Baboon King empowered its troop with a pale golden light as the baboons charged the group.
• Cai Mei’er attacked the fifty-thousand-year Baboon King and sent Han Ruoruo to deal with the other powerful baboons.
• Cai Mei’er heard a rumble from the direction Chen Ping had gone and urgently tried to kill the Baboon King quickly.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff launched Chen Ping into the air, and he could only watch as its claw struck toward him.

Chen Ping survived a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s powerful strike thanks to Red Dust Protection, and Zhang Lexuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion fought back. Ning Tian’s speed boost helped the Auspicious Beast evade the Mastiff’s bite, leaving the battle ongoing.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff struck Chen Ping and sent him crashing through trees, but Red Dust Protection shielded him from serious injury.
• Zhang Lexuan activated her Silver Moon Avatar and knocked the Mastiff off balance with a beam of moonlight.
• Zhang Lexuan noticed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion approaching and hesitated when Chen Ping told her the newcomer was an ally.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed her Eighth Soul Skill, Blood Moon Erosion, bathing the Mastiff in bloody light.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion attacked with Auspicious Beast Golden Flame, but the Mastiff lunged for her neck despite the flames.
• Ning Tian boosted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s speed, allowing her to evade the bite as the Mastiff snapped at empty air.