Chapter Summaries

Long Ao Tian told Chen Ping that Xu Tianran had restored the Sun Moon Empire Army’s morale and led it to capture four Heaven Dou Empire cities in just over ten days. The Sun Moon Empire had developed Soul Tool Mine Detectors to counter the border defenses, and Chen Ping was left confronting a rapidly escalating technological arms race.

• Long Ao Tian explained that Xu Tianran had gone to the Heaven Dou border, executed Ju Zi for colluding with Evil Soul Masters, and rebuilt the army’s morale by personally tending to the troops.
• Xu Tianran reorganized the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and led them north, where they captured four Heaven Dou Empire cities in just over ten days.
• Long Ao Tian said the Sun Moon Empire had developed Soul Tool Mine Detectors to find buried Soul Cannon Shells and Soul Masters, countering the Heaven Dou Empire’s border explosions.
• Long Ao Tian explained that Heaven Dou forces used Chen Ping’s Soul Tool Howitzers to harass mine-clearing troops, slowing the invasion to roughly one city every two days.
• Long Ao Tian lamented that the Sun Moon Empire’s High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools exposed their artillery positions, leaving him wishing they could jam or destroy them.

Long Ao Tian relayed Vina’s warning that rival princes and supply delays were complicating Xu Tianran’s invasion, while Chen Ping questioned how the Sun Moon Empire kept its forces supplied. He realized the Air-Prohibiting Conches might disable the empire’s High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, leaving Long Ao Tian surprised by his idea.

• Long Ao Tian told Chen Ping that three princes in the Sun Moon Empire controlled key ministries and were secretly obstructing Xu Tianran.
• Chen Ping considered how Xu Tianran’s army could keep advancing without an apparent supply train and suspected a hidden supply line.
• Long Ao Tian also asked Chen Ping to find a way to shoot down or block the Sun Moon Empire’s High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping recalled that the Sea Demon Elephant clan’s Air-Prohibiting Conches could disperse air and force flying people and machines out of the sky.
• Long Ao Tian watched Chen Ping think through the idea and asked whether he had actually found a solution.

Vina sent Long Ao Tian to ask Chen Ping for help with Shrek’s arms sales and City Guard, but Chen Ping instead proposed ways for Heaven Dou to slow the Sun Moon Empire’s advance and said he could address its supply line and detection tools. The chapter ended with Long Ao Tian leaving after Chen Ping warned him to obtain stronger defensive equipment.

• Long Ao Tian explained Heaven Dou’s plan to send Body Sect experts and powerful Soul Masters into Sun Moon territory to harass the enemy and force Xu Tianran to divert troops.
• Chen Ping advised Heaven Dou to destroy local records whenever a city fell, making captured cities harder for the Sun Moon Empire to govern and easier to retake.
• Long Ao Tian excitedly accepted Chen Ping’s delaying tactic, and Chen Ping said defeating the enemy would require cutting its Private Supply Line and dealing with its High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping promised to handle the supply line and detection tools, then warned Long Ao Tian to obtain a Higher-Level Defensive Soul Tool or Invincible Shield rather than charge high-level Soul Tools head-on.
• Long Ao Tian asked whether Chen Ping could truly deal with the detection tools, and Chen Ping assured him that he would.

Chen Ping planned a journey north to obtain his seventh soul ring, visit the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect, and investigate the Sun Moon Empire. He reluctantly agreed to let Nan Qiuqiu accompany him as a guide, with the warning that she must retreat if danger arose.

• After Long Ao Tian left, Chen Ping considered how to obtain a hundred-thousand-year soul beast for his seventh soul ring and planned stops at Dragon City and the Far North.
• Chen Ping intended to negotiate with the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect, including buying the ice extreme divine crystal metal beneath the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Chen Ping considered using a Far North beast tide as a precaution and investigating who was secretly supplying resources to Xu Tianran.
• Chen Ping prepared to travel alone, relying on Huo Yuhao's portals to summon reinforcements if needed.
• Nan Qiuqiu asked to accompany Chen Ping to Dragon City, and he agreed to take her as his guide and study her Rouge Dragon martial soul, provided she retreated if danger appeared.

Chen Ping decided to visit Dragon Girl, whom he had not seen in six years, before leaving with Nan Qiuqiu. At Shrek Academy, he reunited with Xian Yongshuang and saw how far her cultivation and Soul Tool talent had advanced.

• Chen Ping agreed to visit Dragon Girl before he and Nan Qiuqiu set out, and learned that her name was Xian Yongshuang.
• Nan Qiuqiu told Chen Ping that Xian Yongshuang had wanted to take his surname but had instead adopted Dean Xian's surname.
• Chen Ping entered Xian Lin'er's private Experimentation Zone and startled Xian Yongshuang, causing her Ranked Carving Knife to damage the Core Array.
• Chen Ping greeted Xian Yongshuang as his junior sister and noted that she had advanced from an unawakened Soul Master to a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor in six years.

Chen Ping reunited with Yong Shuang, who thanked him for rescuing her from being treated as merchandise and offered her Dragon Blood Essence to help restore his Martial Soul to a Coiling Dragon Staff. He declined, but promised to visit again before setting off with Nan Qiuqiu for the North Sea, where Yong Shuang asked him to help with something.

• Yong Shuang thanked Chen Ping for giving her a place at Shrek and the Pill Pavilion, where she could live as a Soul Master and Soul Engineer.
• Yong Shuang offered Chen Ping more of her blood for Dragon Blood Potions, and he accepted that he might need it in the future.
• Yong Shuang offered her Dragon Blood Essence to help evolve Chen Ping's Willow Wood Staff into a Coiling Dragon Staff, but he said his Martial Souls could evolve by other means and that her living well was enough repayment.
• Chen Ping told Yong Shuang he would soon travel with Nan Qiuqiu from the northern part of the Heaven Dou Empire to the North Sea and offered to bring her something.
• Yong Shuang traced his route and asked Chen Ping to help her with something.

Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu flew north from Shrek City toward Dragon City, discussing Yong Shuang’s request to search for her scattered clanspeople. Chen Ping explained the dangers they faced and Nan Qiuqiu’s envy of his Soul Core, leaving them still on their journey.

• Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu left Shrek City and flew north toward Dragon City.
• Nan Qiuqiu asked Chen Ping what he had discussed with Yong Shuang, and he told her about her request to find her clanspeople hiding in the mountains and offer them refuge at the Pill Pavilion.
• Chen Ping explained that Yong Shuang did not resent humanity despite her clan being hunted, which eased Nan Qiuqiu’s guilt and sadness.
• Chen Ping praised Yong Shuang’s cultivation talent and compared it with Nan Qiuqiu’s, prompting Nan Qiuqiu to envy his Soul Core and worry about her own chances of becoming a Titled Douluo.

Chen Ping explained to Nan Qiuqiu how spiritual power helped Soul Masters fuse soul cores and promised to make artificial soul cores available to everyone. As they reached Dragon City, he found the city sparsely populated and guarded by a small number of High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, with the Far North and the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion looming.

• Chen Ping told Nan Qiuqiu that strong spiritual power was essential for controlling soul cores and said he wanted to make condensing them easy for everyone.
• Chen Ping explained that artificial low-speed soul cores could help mid-level Soul Masters cultivate faster, and promised Nan Qiuqiu one after he finished his current tasks.
• Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu flew toward Dragon City, which lay close to the Far North and had grown cold and deserted as residents evacuated.
• Chen Ping considered why the Sun Moon Empire would target the Heaven Dou Empire and believed Dragon City would likely fall to the enemy.
• Chen Ping used his spiritual power to detect a few High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools deployed above Dragon City to watch for spies.

Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu entered Dragon City, where they reunited with Yu Tianlong and the Heavenly Dragon Sect members he led. After Nan Qiuqiu proposed visiting the Earth Dragon Sect first, Chen Ping prepared to see her mother before visiting the Heavenly Dragon Sect and heading to the Far North.

• Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu entered Dragon City and saw its defenses and patrols.
• Yu Tianlong recognized Chen Ping and tried to lead the Heavenly Dragon Sect members in bowing to him, but Chen Ping stopped them.
• Yu Tianlong invited Chen Ping to visit the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Nan Qiuqiu suggested visiting the Earth Dragon Sect first to discuss their business.
• Chen Ping agreed to visit Nan Qiuqiu's mother, then the Heavenly Dragon Sect, before traveling to the Far North.
• Chen Ping recalled an enormous mineral vein near Dragon City that could supply enough rare metals for another war.

Chen Ping visited the Earth Dragon Sect and offered Nan Shuishui a hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the sect’s cold well secret realm. Nan Shuishui accepted the offer, overwhelmed by his wealth, though she had intended the realm as a gift of gratitude.

• Chen Ping met Nan Shuishui, who thanked him for saving the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s disciples and Vice Sect Master and for helping her and Nan Qiuqiu avoid danger.
• Nan Shuishui led Chen Ping and Nan Qiuqiu to the Earth Dragon Sect’s secret realm, a cold well, and offered it as a separate thank-you gift.
• Chen Ping admitted he had come to acquire the secret realm and proposed buying it for a hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu were stunned when Chen Ping clarified the sum was in Gold Soul Coins and offered to pay even more.
• Nan Shuishui stopped Chen Ping from raising his offer and agreed to the hundred-million price.

Chen Ping bought the Earth Dragon Sect’s Cold Spring secret realm for one hundred million Gold Soul Coins after Nan Shuishui revealed its hidden cave and rumored vein of ice-attribute rare metal. He entered the cavern and found its extreme cold harmless, leaving him poised to explore the treasure within.

• Nan Shuishui told Chen Ping that an ancestor had found ice-attribute metal ore in a cave beneath the Cold Spring, though the sample had since disappeared.
• Nan Shuishui explained how to open the cavern and warned Chen Ping about its deadly cold as Nan Qiuqiu stood guard with her.
• Chen Ping descended into the Cold Spring, using his Spiritual Power to locate the entrance while enduring the cold without difficulty.
• Chen Ping opened the hidden doorway and entered the cavern, where the extreme chill activated his Ultimate Ice Soul Power but could not harm him.
• Chen Ping marveled that an Earth Dragon Sect leader had once endured the cavern’s cold long enough to chip out a piece of ore.

Chen Ping and the Snow Empress discovered a cavern filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and learned it contained ten-thousand-year mystic ice marrow. The Snow Empress explained that the marrow could help her rebuild an energy body, leaving Chen Ping pleased and her teasing him about settling for less than the bodies he promised others.

• Chen Ping summoned the Snow Empress, and they were stunned by the crystal-filled cavern.
• The Snow Empress recognized the crystals as signs of a Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern and explained the marrow's power to help ice-affinity beings grow stronger.
• Chen Ping told the Snow Empress he had bought the place for a hundred million Gold Soul Coins, the same price she had once cost him.
• The Snow Empress revealed that the marrow could help her condense a new energy body and survive apart from Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping said he was happy she might regain a body before the others, and the Snow Empress teased him about giving her only an energy body.

Chen Ping and the Snow Empress explored the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave, where she explained how its treasures could strengthen his soul core and help him form a second one. After collecting ice extreme divine crystals, Chen Ping descended to the Ice Spring’s source and discovered a cavern filled with overwhelming cold elemental power.

• The Snow Empress told Chen Ping that absorbing ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow could ease the difficulty of condensing his second soul core, and she said she did not need it to rebuild her body yet.
• The Snow Empress urged Chen Ping to collect the ice extreme divine crystals and take all the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow.
• Chen Ping extracted the ice extreme divine crystals and stored them, then dove toward the source of the Cold Spring.
• Chen Ping endured the Ice Spring’s intensifying cold currents and dropped into a small cavern beneath the spring.
• Chen Ping breathed the cavern’s frigid air, briefly froze in place, and realized its concentration of Heaven and Earth essence rivaled the core of the Dragon King Remains.
• Chen Ping resolved to take the two Dragon King skeletons from beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well someday and enrich Douluo Star with blessed grotto-heavens.

After absorbing more than a dozen stalks of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, Chen Ping spent two days refining its power and strengthening his connection to heaven and earth. He arrived at the Heavenly Dragon Sect to receive its promised thanks, where its Sect Master and Vice Sect Master welcomed him and argued over their earlier failure to join his fight.

• Chen Ping absorbed more than a dozen stalks of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow before his Four-Attribute Soul Core could take no more, then reassured Nan Qiuqiu and Nan Shuishui that he was unharmed.
• Chen Ping spent two days refining the marrow's energy, strengthening his body and Soul Power and gaining a greater connection to the primal energy of heaven and earth.
• Yu Tianlong greeted Chen Ping at the Heavenly Dragon Sect and said the sect had worried that the Earth Dragon Sect had imprisoned him.
• Chen Ping met the Heavenly Dragon Sect's Sect Master and Vice Sect Master in the main hall, where the Sect Master praised his strength and the Vice Sect Master accused him of refusing to help earlier.
• The Vice Sect Master released his eight Soul Rings as he argued with the Sect Master about their failure to fight alongside Chen Ping against the Evil Soul Masters.

Chen Ping received the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s collected dragon scales after its Sect Masters explained their hope that he would protect the young disciples if Dragon City fell. As he accepted only the silver dragon scales and agreed to take Yu Tianlong and the others to Shrek Academy, the Sect Masters entrusted him with their sect’s Dragon Pearl.

• Chen Ping examined Old Long Tianlong’s unusual dragon Martial Soul aura as the two Sect Masters ended their bickering.
• Yu Gangfeng showed Chen Ping treasure caskets filled with dragon scales, including more than twenty silver dragon scales.
• Old Long Tianlong offered the scales to repay Chen Ping and asked him to take Yu Tianlong and the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s young disciples to Shrek Academy if Dragon City fell.
• Chen Ping accepted one box of silver dragon scales and promised to return the other scales to Yu Tianlong at Shrek Academy.
• The Sect Masters gave Chen Ping the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Dragon Pearl, a treasure normally held only by each generation’s Sect Master.

Chen Ping learned that the Dragon Pearl could lead its bearer into Dragon Valley, a dangerous realm of dragon souls and powerful rewards, and accepted it from the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s old Sect Master. After arranging shelter for the sects’ younger members, Chen Ping set out wearing the pearl and left his chances of entering Dragon Valley to luck.

• Vice Sect Master Yu Gangfeng explained that the Dragon Pearl could draw a Soul Master into Dragon Valley, where their soul power and martial soul would be suppressed.
• The old Sect Master described Dragon Valley’s aggressive dragon souls and said defeating them could strengthen a Soul Master or even evolve their martial soul.
• The old Sect Master gave Chen Ping the sect’s last Dragon Pearl and asked him to study it and care for the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s young disciples.
• Chen Ping promised to help the young disciples and arranged a hotel at Shrek Academy for them and the Earth Dragon Sect’s younger generation.
• Chen Ping left Dragon City, traveled north toward the Far North, then turned into Sun Moon Empire territory with the Dragon Pearl around his neck.

Chen Ping identified Aoke City in Glorious Province as a likely supply hub feeding Xu Tianran’s army and prepared to assess it. Meanwhile, Shrek City’s three Soul Engineer Corps assembled for a drill, and Shi Xing handed the next move to Huo Yuhao.

• Long Ao Tian’s suspicion led Chen Ping to focus on Glorious Province, whose past ruler had been overthrown by Ju Zi.
• Chen Ping traveled alone to Aoke City and spotted an unusually large Soul Engineer Corps guarding its walls, confirming his suspicion that the city served as a supply hub.
• Chen Ping considered destroying Aoke City and the other major grain cities to cripple Xu Tianran’s military logistics.
• Shrek City’s guards assembled three Soul Engineer Corps, equipped with standardized soul tools made for Shrek’s stronger troops.
• Shi Xing addressed Huo Yuhao as the Young Grand Secretary and left the next step to him.

Huo Yuhao mobilized Shrek City's three Soul Engineer Corps for Chen Ping's urgent request, while Shi Xing tried to understand the purpose of the deployment. In Aoke City, a patrol squad joked about their duties until the sky suddenly darkened.

• Huo Yuhao ordered the First, Second, and Third Corps of the Shrek City Guard to move to their designated positions near the Star Dou Forest.
• Huo Yuhao told Shi Xing that Chen Ping had urgently requested help from deep within the Sun Moon Empire's Northern Cities.
• Shi Xing questioned why the three Soul Engineer Corps had been mobilized, and Huo Yuhao told him to prepare and wait.
• Huo Yuhao watched the approaching forces as the three Corps assembled at the exercise ground.
• Aoke City's wall patrol discussed skipping their duties and drinking liquor, then noticed that the sky had gone dark.

Chen Ping opened three Space Gates over Aoke City, allowing Huo Yuhao's three Shrek City Guard corps to bombard the city from afar. The attack destroyed Aoke City and its defenders before Chen Ping passed out, caught by the Scarlet King and the Snow Empress.

• Chen Ping used his spiritual power to open three colossal Space Gates above Aoke City, exhausting himself as he held them open for five seconds.
• Huo Yuhao synchronized the gates with the targets and ordered the three Shrek City Guard corps to attack Aoke City's defenders and defensive positions.
• The three corps poured Soul Guidance Rays and artillery shells through the gates, overwhelming Aoke City's defenses and destroying its fortifications, supplies, and elite Soul Engineer Corps.
• The Space Gates vanished after transmitting the bombardment, leaving Aoke City in ruins and engulfed in flames.
• Chen Ping collapsed from exhaustion, and the Scarlet King and the Snow Empress caught him before he hit the floor.

Huo Yuhao and Chen Ping’s long-range bombardment devastated Aoke City, destroying its grain and resource stores and terrifying Di Tian with the power of human weapons. As the city lord ordered his forces to capture the unconscious Soul Master reported near the east gate, Di Tian remained uncertain whether to attack Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao declared the mission complete after the three City Guard Legions bombarded Aoke City through spatial gates opened with Chen Ping’s help.
• Di Tian and the green-haired beauty watched the Soul Engineer Corps and feared how powerful humanity had become.
• Chen Ping’s bombardment destroyed Aoke City’s granaries and rare-resource warehouses, spreading panic through the city.
• A guard reported that a Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff was carrying an unconscious Soul Master toward the east gate while a white-clad ice-attribute swordswoman protected him.
• The city lord ordered his troops to seize the unconscious Soul Master and hurried toward the east gate himself.