Chapter Summaries

Chen Ping confronted Di Tian during the beast tide and threatened to expose the secrets of the Star Dou Forest and Di Tian’s master to the Divine Realm. Di Tian halted his Dragon God Claw attack, but Chen Ping’s warnings left their confrontation unresolved.

• Chen Ping spoke to Di Tian across the battlefield and demanded to know whether he intended to continue the beast tide.
• Di Tian vowed to kill everyone for slaughtering his kin and unleashed the Dragon God Claw, shattering Xuan Zi and Du Busi’s defenses.
• Chen Ping dared Di Tian to kill him and claimed that their deaths could drag Di Tian’s master down with them, forcing Di Tian to stop his attack and cough up dragon blood.
• Chen Ping approached Di Tian and challenged him to strike his exposed neck while Xuan Zi and Du Busi watched in shock.
• Chen Ping claimed he could obtain intelligence from the Divine Realm and threatened to expose the Star Dou Forest’s secrets, leaving Di Tian wondering what else he knew.

Chen Ping explained that Di Tian had unleashed the beast tide to halt humanity’s rapidly advancing Soul Tool technology before it could threaten the Star Dou Forest and the recovering Silver Dragon King. He then used a claimed hidden Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell to pressure Di Tian into backing down, leaving Di Tian uncertain about the danger to the Silver Dragon King.

• Chen Ping reasoned that Di Tian had launched the beast tide because he feared human Soul Tool technology could destroy the Star Dou Forest before the Silver Dragon King recovered.
• Chen Ping concluded that his role in accelerating Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool development had helped drive Di Tian to attack humanity’s strongest fighters.
• Chen Ping used Di Tian’s concern for the Silver Dragon King to steer their confrontation and reveal a claimed automatic Soul Tool that would activate if it stopped receiving his signals.
• Di Tian withdrew his dark domain and assumed human form after Chen Ping warned that the Soul Tool was a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
• Di Tian asked whether Chen Ping had installed the shell beneath the Great Ferocious Land, and Chen Ping denied saying so, deepening Di Tian’s concern for the injured Silver Dragon King.

Chen Ping used the threat of a hidden Watchdog System to force Di Tian into negotiations over the Beast Tide. Di Tian acknowledged humanity’s rise and the strength of Chen Ping’s strategy, leaving the talks unresolved.

• Chen Ping explained the Cradle System to Di Tian and claimed it could trigger Level 9 Fixed-Installation Shells beneath the Star Dou Forest if its signal stopped.
• Chen Ping demanded that Di Tian withdraw the Beast Tide and argued that the humans would fight to protect Shrek City if negotiations failed.
• Di Tian defended the Beast Tide as a desperate effort to prevent Soul Beasts from being driven to extinction by humans and Soul Tools.
• Chen Ping challenged Di Tian’s appeal to the strong devouring the weak and said the Star Dou Forest had to withdraw unless it could defeat the Watchdog System.
• Xiong Jun smashed the negotiating table, while Du Busi and Zi JI called for fighting rather than accepting the humans’ threats.
• Di Tian silenced Xiong Jun and Zi JI, then admitted that humanity’s ability to use every resource had made humans rulers of the continent.

As negotiations over the beast tide stalled, Chen Ping unveiled a prototype soul tool that could create a soul ring. The demonstration left humans and soul beasts in uproar, with the threat of mutual destruction still unresolved.

• Di Tian insisted that Star Dou Forest would unleash a war of mutual destruction if humanity offered no lasting solution to the soul beasts’ threat of extinction.
• The Sea God Pavilion Elders and Body Sect experts fell silent, unable to propose a way to guarantee Star Dou Forest’s future survival.
• Chen Ping cleared away the broken negotiating table and revealed a prototype Sinking Silver Pillar, saying the crisis had forced him to show it early.
• Chen Ping poured gold-and-silver lake water onto the pillar and asked Du Busi to inject his soul power into it.
• Du Busi sensed a power he believed belonged only to gods, and a ring of white light began forming at the pillar’s base.
• Xuan Zi recognized the light as a soul ring, and humans and soul beasts erupted in shock.

Chen Ping demonstrated an Artificial Soul Ring and used its potential to persuade Di Tian to end the beast tide and support the research. After agreeing to cooperate, Chen Ping asked Di Tian to discuss compensation for Shrek’s losses.

• A white Artificial Soul Ring appeared from the Sinking Silver Pillar, and the Myriad Demon King confirmed it resembled a Soul Ring made from a ten-year Soul Beast.
• Chen Ping explained that Artificial Soul Rings required divine power and still faced production and age-related problems, while concealing his political aim behind the explanation.
• Di Tian offered to withdraw the beast tide and compensate Shrek if Chen Ping continued his research, and promised to find a solution to the divine power shortage.
• Chen Ping accepted Di Tian’s terms and shook hands with him, intending to gain the Soul Beast world as an ally.
• Chen Ping asked Di Tian to discuss compensation, freezing the Beast God’s smile.

Chen Ping negotiated compensation for the beast tide with Di Tian and secured Shrek's claim to the battlefield's Soul Rings and Soul Bones, along with a large payment of additional Soul Bones. He then raised a third demand for naturally shed silver dragon scales and any spare black dragon scales.

• Chen Ping demanded the beast remains outside Shrek City and all reasonably intact Soul Bones over ten thousand years old in the Star Dou Forest.
• Di Tian agreed to surrender the battlefield's Soul Rings and Soul Bones but retained the corpses and rejected the demand for the forest's entire stock.
• Chen Ping argued that Di Tian had initiated the beast tide despite warnings that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire had engineered its cause.
• Di Tian offered one hundred Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, ten Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and one ferocious beast Soul Bone from a Soft-Boned Enchanting Rabbit.
• Chen Ping bargained Di Tian up to two hundred Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, twenty Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and two ferocious beast Soul Bones.
• Chen Ping accepted the payment and requested naturally shed silver dragon scales and any spare black dragon scales.

After Shrek City survived the Beast Tide, Chen Ping thanked Du Busi and asked about the Body Sect’s giant energy hand technique. Du Busi explained that Law Heaven, Manifest Earth could reach its true form only after becoming a Deity.

• Di Tian roared as he flew back toward the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Soul Beast army withdrew from Shrek City.
• Shrek City's defenders celebrated their victory after holding off the Beast Tide, despite heavy casualties and exhausted defenses.
• Chen Ping thanked Xuan Zi and Du Busi, then promised the Body Sect Soul Bones and future Soul Rings as compensation for its help.
• Chen Ping joked about Du Busi's unburstable trousers before asking how he had created One Hand Supporting the Sky.
• Du Busi revealed Law Heaven, Manifest Earth, a secret technique that used energy to form an enormous hand, and said its ultimate form required becoming a Deity.

Chen Ping learned to imitate a Body Martial Soul Aspect and used his new golden finger to knock Jin Peng Douluo into the ground, though the attack exhausted him. He named the move Aspect Rift-Splitting Finger and headed into Shrek City to check Huo Yuhao’s teleportation device in Heaven Dou City.

• Du Busi explained the Body Sect’s Law Heaven, Manifest Earth technique, and Chen Ping realized ordinary Soul Masters might imitate Body Martial Soul techniques.
• Chen Ping formed a thirty-meter golden finger and challenged Jin Peng Douluo to test its strength.
• Chen Ping’s Aspect Rift-Splitting Finger drove Jin Peng into the ground, but the move consumed his Soul Power, Blood Qi, and Spiritual Power.
• Du Busi tried to recruit Chen Ping, but Xuan Zi covered his mouth and dragged him into Shrek City.
• Chen Ping named his move Aspect Rift-Splitting Finger and went to inspect Huo Yuhao’s teleportation device in Heaven Dou City.

Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu planned to exploit the beast tide surrounding Shrek City to invade the Heaven Dou Empire, while Chen Ping returned to the Star Dou Great Forest to assess the battle’s aftermath and salvage its resources. He turned the poisonous soul beast corpses into potential reinforcements for his Undead Army.

• Zhongli Wu assured Xu Tianran that Shrek City was surrounded and proposed leading Holy Spirit Cult experts in an attack on the Heaven Dou Empire before Shrek fell.
• Xu Tianran promised Zhongli Wu rewards and planned to use the war, a Death God Tower, and the Holy Spirit Cult to strengthen the Sun Moon Empire and eventually deal with Di Tian.
• Chen Ping returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and saw that the beast tide had devastated its animal-type soul beasts, with more than two hundred thousand dead.
• Shrek kept valuable materials and soul bones from the fallen beasts while returning their meat to the Star Dou Forest, and Chen Ping received many resources for his Half-Plane.
• Chen Ping accepted the corpses contaminated by Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Poison, intending to transform them into poison-attribute Undead Beasts for his army.

Chen Ping met Di Tian at the Lake of Life, collected its water, and exchanged the promised supplies and a small Artificial Soul Ring maker. He explained that he judged Soul Beasts and humans by their actions, leaving Di Tian impressed by his view.

• Chen Ping reached the Lake of Life, drank its water, and began channeling more into Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Di Tian emerged from the lake, rebuked Chen Ping for taking its water, and gave him the requested Soul Bones and scales.
• Di Tian asked for the small Soul Ring maker promised in their negotiations, and Chen Ping handed over a palm-sized Sinking Silver Pillar.
• Chen Ping explained that he judged people by their actions rather than their race, recounting his friendships with the Sea Princess Clan and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's daughter and his conflict with the Demon Soul Great White Shark King.
• Di Tian applauded Chen Ping's explanation with admiration.

Di Tian hoped Chen Ping’s Artificial Soul Ring technology could make human and Soul Beast coexistence possible, while Chen Ping privately considered the truths about the Dragon God and Tang San that Di Tian would not yet believe. Di Tian gave Chen Ping his Reverse Scale, but Chen Ping argued that it would not protect him from Tang San if he ascended to the Divine Realm.

• Di Tian imagined a future in which humans treated Soul Beasts as individuals and his people could avoid destruction through Chen Ping’s technology.
• Chen Ping withheld his knowledge of the Dragon God’s history and the Divine Realm, deciding to reveal it only when he had proof.
• Di Tian gave Chen Ping a black pendant made from his Reverse Scale as protection and a token of sincerity.
• Chen Ping recognized the scale’s ability to obscure him from the Divine Realm and explained that Tang San would still investigate and target him if he ascended.
• Chen Ping recalled how Tang San had maneuvered the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life into sacrificing themselves to resist Spacetime Turbulence.

Chen Ping kept Di Tian’s reverse scale and planned to retaliate against the Holy Spirit Cult by targeting its alliance with the Evil Emperor. Two days later, Xu Tianran demanded answers from Zhongli Wu after a failed assault on Tiansong City left the Sun Moon Empire with one expert dead and two severely injured.

• Chen Ping refused to return Di Tian’s reverse scale and considered using it to forge Soul Tools or resist Divine Realm surveillance.
• Chen Ping said he would go after the Holy Spirit Cult for helping incite the beast tide, and Di Tian approved of a plan that could entangle the Evil Emperor.
• Two days later, Sun Moon Empire forces found Body Sect and Shrek experts defending Tiansong City, and their attack ended with one death and two severe injuries.
• Xu Tianran questioned Zhongli Wu about the failed assault and regretted that Ju Zi was no longer there to read his mood and calm him.

Sun Moon Empire commanders debated how to respond after Shrek and the Body Sect unexpectedly appeared at Tiansong City, disrupting their planned assault. Keke presented a strategy devised by Crown Prince Xu Tianran, who intended to use her as a disposable mouthpiece.

• Zhongli Wu suspected a conspiracy after Shrek and the Body Sect's experts appeared at Tiansong City despite reportedly fighting Di Tian at Shrek City.
• A legion commander warned that Heaven Dou's anti-air weapons and defenses made an advance on its capital far more difficult than Zhongli Wu's proposal suggested.
• Zhongli Wu speculated that Shrek's spatial Soul Skill successor had transported the experts to Tiansong City and possibly persuaded Di Tian to withdraw the beast tide.
• Keke proposed taking Tiansong City, then splitting the Soul Engineer Corps to isolate Heaven Dou Imperial City by attacking Heaven Gate and Heaven Gate City.
• Xu Tianran had arranged Keke's release and promotion so she could voice his plans while taking the blame if the campaign failed.

Chen Ping entered the Evil Demon Forest with the Snow Empress to find the Holy Spirit Cult's hidden headquarters and prepare to turn the Evil Emperor against Mingdu. As he searched, chaotic soul power fluctuations revealed a fight between soul beasts nearby.

• Chen Ping descended into the Evil Demon Forest and summoned the Snow Empress to keep nearby soul beasts at bay.
• Chen Ping continued toward the forest's heart, intending to provoke the Evil Emperor into attacking Mingdu while searching for the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.
• Chen Ping considered how vast the cult's underground reserves were but could not determine the headquarters' location.
• Chen Ping detected approaching soul power fluctuations, concealed himself behind a tree, and sensed that soul beasts were fighting.
• A heavily scaled soul beast charged at the front of the approaching group.

Chen Ping witnessed a wounded Devouring Dragon unleash its powerful Devour Heaven and Earth skill while a Fire Evil Tyrant fought back against it. The Fire Evil Tyrant killed the Devouring Dragon with a blazing attack, leaving Chen Ping to face the aftermath of their clash.

• Chen Ping identified the fleeing ten-thousand-year Soul Beast as a Devouring Dragon and realized that a powerful pursuer had wounded it.
• The pursuer fired a red beam that grazed the Devouring Dragon, which turned to confront it.
• The Devouring Dragon unleashed Devour Heaven and Earth, drawing Chen Ping and the approaching attacker toward its maw.
• Chen Ping recognized the attacker as a Fire Evil Tyrant, an Evil Eye with spirit and fire attributes.
• As the Devouring Dragon prepared to devour the Fire Evil Tyrant, the Evil Eye blasted through its lower jaw and killed it instantly.

Chen Ping followed a sixty-thousand-year Fire Evil Tyrant after it killed a Devouring Dragon, hoping to search its memories for the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters. A ninety-thousand-year Greater Devouring Dragon awakened in a nearby cave and began devouring the Fire Evil Tyrant, leaving Chen Ping safely watching from a distance.

• The Fire Evil Tyrant killed the Devouring Dragon and dragged its body toward a cave to eat and hibernate.
• Chen Ping followed the Fire Evil Tyrant, considering searching its memories for clues to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters.
• Chen Ping sensed a powerful presence inside the cave and held back as the Greater Devouring Dragon awakened.
• The Greater Devouring Dragon unleashed a tremendous suction that broke down the Devouring Dragon’s corpse and began draining the fleeing Fire Evil Tyrant.
• Chen Ping realized the Greater Devouring Dragon was likely the slain Devouring Dragon’s parent and remained safe by keeping his distance.

Chen Ping witnessed the Greater Devouring Dragon defeat a Fire Evil Tyrant and then flee after apparently destroying its crystal core. The chapter left Chen Ping exposed in the forest as he realized the Devouring Dragon feared retaliation from the Evil Eye Clan.

• The Fire Evil Tyrant unleashed Frenzy Storm, interrupting the Greater Devouring Dragon's Devour Heaven and Earth and creating an opening to flee.
• The Greater Devouring Dragon blasted hundreds of compressed projectiles from its cave, shattering trees and breaking the Fire Evil Tyrant into pieces.
• Stray projectiles struck Chen Ping's Red Dust Protection and exposed his hiding place.
• The Greater Devouring Dragon ignored Chen Ping and the Fire Evil Tyrant's remains, then fled toward the Outer Zone.
• Chen Ping realized the bombardment might have shattered the Fire Evil Tyrant's crystal core and provoked the Evil Eye Clan.

Chen Ping followed the Greater Devouring Dragon and was caught in a mental illusion created by a 160,000-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant. After Chen Ping’s Awakening Necklace broke the illusion, the Tyrant fought the Greater Devouring Dragon and revealed a powerful attack linked to the Evil Emperor.

• Chen Ping concealed himself with the Mirage Dragon Shell and followed the fleeing Greater Devouring Dragon into a mental illusion realm.
• Chen Ping used his Awakening Necklace to break the illusion, revealing a silver-white Evil Eye Tyrant with sixteen tentacles and 160,000 years of cultivation.
• The Greater Devouring Dragon broke free of the Tyrant’s control and attacked it with a barrage, but the Tyrant blocked the blows with its tentacles.
• The Greater Devouring Dragon lunged to bite the Tyrant, which unleashed silver ripples that aged and damaged the dragon and shattered nearby plants.
• Chen Ping recognized the attack as a form of the Evil Emperor’s Light of Time and Space and suspected the Tyrant was the Evil Emperor’s pure-blooded, favored offspring.

The Evil Eye Tyrant killed the great Devouring Dragon with its Evil Eye Gaze and began consuming its brain matter. It then turned its attention to Chen Ping, threatening to kill him next.

• Chen Ping evaded the Evil Eye Tyrant’s attack and watched as it focused on the great Devouring Dragon.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant fired Evil Eye Gaze, paralyzing the great Devouring Dragon and reducing its body to fragments.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant used its tentacles and mouthparts to suck brain matter from the great Devouring Dragon’s head.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant noticed Chen Ping and threatened to savor his brain matter.

Chen Ping used the Cold Binding Seal and Sky-Splitting Finger to kill the hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant and capture its Soul Crystal. He rejected the Tyrant’s threats and pleas for mercy, revealing that he had come specifically to kill it.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant attacked Chen Ping with its tentacles, but Chen Ping immobilized it with the Cold Binding Seal.
• Chen Ping unleashed the Sky-Splitting Finger through the Evil Eye Tyrant’s exposed mouthparts, fatally wounding it.
• Chen Ping expanded his Domination Domain, pierced the Tyrant, and caught its Soul Crystal as its body shattered.
• The trapped Evil Eye Tyrant threatened Chen Ping with its father’s revenge and offered to help if spared.
• Chen Ping said he had come to kill the Evil Eye Tyrant, leaving it terrified and begging for mercy.