Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang entered Senior White's Real Illusion expecting to overpower the Young Man in Blue, but the young man proved to be a formidable opponent. After their fierce clash, the Young Man in Blue left, complimenting Song Shuhang's long hair.

• Song Shuhang met the Young Man in Blue with a White Horse in the desert and watched him practice fist techniques before he vanished.
• Song Shuhang waited for the Young Man in Blue to return, intending to attack him before he could leave again.
• Song Shuhang launched a fist attack, but the Young Man in Blue deflected it and countered with his Thousand-Hand Divine Ability.
• Song Shuhang and the Young Man in Blue exchanged more than a thousand blows, fighting to a standstill.
• A hoof stomped Song Shuhang into the ground as the Young Man in Blue announced that his time was up and rode away, praising Song Shuhang's long hair.

Song Shuhang tried to uncover the hidden plot by cutting his hair, only to find himself in a new fight with the Young Man in Blue. The encounter ended when Senior White revealed that he had been inventing the plots to match Song Shuhang’s reactions.

• Song Shuhang cut his long hair, hoping to stop the previous hidden plot from appearing again.
• The grown-up Young Man in Blue arrived and remarked that Little White had cut his hair.
• Song Shuhang fought the Young Man in Blue and learned Senior Eternal Fire’s Crippled Saber during their battle.
• The White Horse stomped Song Shuhang into the sand, and the Young Man in Blue asked why people had to die before leaving.
• Senior White appeared and told Song Shuhang that he had improvised Hidden Plots 2 and 3 according to Song Shuhang’s psychology.

Song Shuhang and the others emerged from Senior White’s real illusion, where they discovered they had experienced different versions of its story. As they teased Song Shuhang about the illusion’s altered proposals, Black-Skinned Soft Feather spotted danger ahead and Song Shuhang rushed to wake Senior White.

• Little White ended the desert illusion, and Song Shuhang returned to the flying sword artifact to find Senior White asleep at the controls.
• Song Shuhang learned that Su Clan's Sixteen, Onion Lady, and Senior Turtle had experienced a different version of Senior White’s illusion, which had made him propose to each of them.
• Song Shuhang realized that the illusion had changed its proposal line to address whoever entered it, and White Dragon Sister joked about a version in which he proposed to himself.
• Senior Turtle and Onion Lady deduced something from Song Shuhang’s and Su Clan's Sixteen’s reactions as Sixteen tried to stop White Dragon Sister’s teasing.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather shouted a warning about a mountain, and Song Shuhang rushed to wake Senior White but was thrown back by his protective glow.

Song Shuhang and the others survived the flying sword artifact’s crash into a mountain and arrived in the Beast Cultivator World. Senior White found a box of disguise masks left by Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable, which the group kept in case they needed them at Mount Ga'er.

• The flying sword artifact crashed into a mountain, and Song Shuhang’s head repeatedly took the brunt of the collisions while Senior Turtle and the others weathered the impact.
• Su Clan's Sixteen trimmed Song Shuhang’s broken branches, and Senior White woke up and announced that they had reached the Beast Cultivator World.
• Song Shuhang led the group to where Senior White was searching in a hole in the mountain, and Senior White retrieved a sealed box.
• Senior White opened the box and found twenty disguise masks and a note identifying them as a gift from Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable.
• Senior White gave a mask each to Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, Black-Skinned Soft Feather, Onion Lady, and Senior Turtle, and kept the rest for later.

Song Shuhang and Senior White traveled through the Beast Cultivator World to meet Fairy Azure Luan, while Song Shuhang discovered that Mad Saber Three Waves had been injured by their earlier flying-sword crash. Three Waves had been waiting to meet Fairy Skylark, and the group’s arrival had accidentally sent him flying off a cliff.

• Onion Lady recognized the Beast Cultivator World, and Senior White repaired the damaged flying sword artifact by shrinking and restoring it.
• Song Shuhang contacted Fairy Azure Luan, received her coordinates, and set off with Senior White and the others toward her prepared accommodations.
• Senior White explained that his flying sword artifact could connect to Earth’s internet through a Spatial Passage, allowing Song Shuhang and Onion Lady to go online.
• Song Shuhang found Mad Saber Three Waves’ messages describing his planned meeting with Fairy Skylark and how their flying sword’s crash had flung him off a cliff and seriously injured him.

Song Shuhang realized Senior White’s flying sword had accidentally struck Senior Three Waves, who survived the fall and found a trove of beast lingzhi. As the group continued toward Mount Ga’er, Three Waves warned Shuhang that Fairy Skylark advised bringing a dragon into the trial.

• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen realized their flying sword had hit Senior Three Waves, and Senior White turned back to check on him.
• Song Shuhang read Senior Three Waves' messages and learned that he had been injured but landed on Millennial Beast Lingzhi that cushioned his fall.
• Senior Three Waves urged them not to come because he was recovering with Fairy Skylark and would meet them near Mount Ga'er soon.
• Senior White sent Senior Three Waves four Disguise Face Masks by disposable flying sword, prompting Three Waves to ask Song Shuhang what they meant.
• Senior Three Waves told Song Shuhang that Fairy Skylark advised him to bring a dragon into the Mount Ga'er trial.

Song Shuhang learned he should bring a dragon to Mount Ga’er’s Legacy Grounds and arranged a possible way for Su Clan's Sixteen to join him. Their journey stopped short of two groups of beast cultivators fighting, where a tiger cultivator revealed he had forty-two Sacred Ape Phantoms.

• Song Shuhang wondered whether the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art required a dragon and asked Mad Saber Three Waves if he should bring a Sacred Ape too, but Three Waves misunderstood and disconnected.
• Song Shuhang asked Fairy Azure Luan for another slot at Mount Ga’er, but she said the Sacred Mountain opened the next day and she could not obtain one in time.
• Senior White proposed sending Su Clan's Sixteen through his Black-Room-Breaker One-Time Flying Sword, though he warned she might lack the authorization to activate the trial.
• Senior White stopped their flying sword to avoid two groups battling ahead and decided to change course and reinforce the artifact.
• Thirteen beast cultivators split into groups of seven and six after a fight; the straw-hatted leader boasted of having forty-one Sacred Ape Phantoms, and the tiger cultivator called Daoist Turntable answered with forty-two.

Senior White and the others encountered beast cultivators fighting over their Sacred Ape cultivation and brought an unconscious woman resembling Su Clan's Sixteen aboard their flying sword. At Mount Ga'er, Senior White recognized the area as near the place he had called home after leaving his hometown.

• Daoist Turntable and a straw-hat beast cultivator led their groups in a contest and then a melee, while Senior White piloted the flying sword around them.
• A helmeted beast cultivator resembling Su Clan's Sixteen crashed into the flying sword, and Senior White brought her aboard after her helmet fell off.
• White Dragon Sister healed the unconscious woman, who woke briefly with a strange grin before closing her eyes again.
• Song Shuhang sent a group transmission telling the fighters to retrieve their companion from Fairy Azure Luan, and his Sage Seals revealed his identity as Tyrant Song.
• The beast cultivators resumed fighting after the flying sword departed, while Senior White and the others arrived at Mount Ga'er.
• Senior White said Mount Ga'er seemed close to the place he had called home after leaving his hometown.

Song Shuhang treated patients infected with Nine Nether Evil Energy while preparing to enter Mount Ga'er, where he hoped to learn more about Senior White’s origins. The chapter ended with White Dragon Sister suggesting that Song Shuhang extract some of Sixteen’s energy for his cultivation technique.

• Song Shuhang recalled the conflicting memories of the two Senior Whites and concluded that Mount Ga'er might reveal more about Senior White’s hometown.
• Fairy Azure Luan led Song Shuhang and the others to their lodgings, and Song Shuhang planned to enter Mount Ga'er the next day.
• Patients infected by Nine Nether Evil Energy came to Song Shuhang for treatment, and he accepted refining materials, seeds, and spirit-plant fruits as payment.
• When Sixteen of the Su Clan arrived with the unconscious adult version of Sixteen, Song Shuhang’s lotus roots mistook her for a patient and briefly extracted some of her energy.
• White Dragon Sister suggested that Song Shuhang extract some of Sixteen’s energy for his Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, leaving Song Shuhang bewildered.

After tea from Senior White sent Song Shuhang into a dream, the Confucian Sage repeatedly subjected him to pregnancy-related visions. Song Shuhang broke into his consciousness space and confronted the figure secretly influencing the dream, an older version of Su Clan's Sixteen, whose identity remained uncertain.

• Song Shuhang reassured Su Clan's Sixteen that Senior White's disposable flying sword could get her into the Mount Ga'er Trial, while Sister White Dragon complained that he had missed her hint.
• Senior White invited Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, Senior Turtle, and Onion Lady to drink sleep-inducing flower tea.
• Song Shuhang fell asleep and dreamed that the Confucian Sage questioned him about Nascent Souls and pregnancy, then woke only to discover he was still dreaming.
• Song Shuhang opened his consciousness space and used his True Self Meditation Scripture to identify and draw out the figure interfering with his dream.
• The figure appeared as an older Su Clan's Sixteen, gave inconsistent answers about her identity, and prompted the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword to warn that if she was Sixteen, she must have expired.

Song Shuhang discovered that the Big Sixteen in his dreams was a strange Trial Incarnation possibly fused with a Mirage Dragon, after her borrowed energy ran out. As Su Clan’s A Sixteen faced her in the trial, Big Sixteen suddenly charged at Song Shuhang’s Wooden Body, and Creation Fairy began singing.

• Song Shuhang realized that the energy he had drawn from Big Sixteen had affected his dreams, but her manifestation dissipated before he could appraise her.
• Song Shuhang woke at dawn and saw Su Clan’s A Sixteen fighting Big Sixteen in the sky.
• White Dragon Sister identified Big Sixteen as an unusual Trial Incarnation, and Senior White suggested she might be fused with a Mirage Dragon.
• Song Shuhang connected Big Sixteen’s dream power to his own connection with Mirage Dragons and watched the trial battle without interfering.
• Big Sixteen agreed to settle the fight in one move, then charged toward Song Shuhang’s Wooden Body and declared she would take it.
• Song Shuhang asked whether he could defend himself, while Creation Fairy appeared and sang about giving birth to a Nascent Soul.

Su Clan's Sixteen defeated Big Sixteen with her Saber Path and began the Trial Incarnation ritual, but the Mirage Dragon's possessor escaped the Crystal Coffin and tried to seize Song Shuhang's Wooden Body. Song Shuhang revealed that the possessor had entered a Flame Substitute Technique instead, leaving her trapped in the spell as he prepared to dispel it.

• Creation Fairy taunted Big Sixteen as she charged, but White Dragon Sister urged Song Shuhang to trust Su Clan's Sixteen.
• Su Clan's Sixteen used her landscape-shaped Saber Path to wound Big Sixteen, and Song Shuhang safely lowered her to the ground with Thought Power.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister placed Big Sixteen in a Crystal Coffin and built defenses around it for the ritual.
• A living laser beam escaped the Crystal Coffin's defenses, reflected into Song Shuhang, and tried to seize his Wooden Body.
• Song Shuhang revealed that the beam had possessed a Flame Substitute Technique instead of his real body and prepared to dispel the substitute.

Song Shuhang stopped Big Sixteen from escaping his Flame Doppelganger, then made the possessed doppelganger disappear. Sixteen completed her trial ritual, but a newly formed Flame Doppelganger took on a female shape, leaving Song Shuhang stunned.

• Song Shuhang's Flame Doppelganger changed into Big Sixteen's likeness, but she could not escape its possession.
• Song Shuhang questioned Big Sixteen about her origins, and she tried to free herself by pulling off her Mirage Dragon Horn and stabbing her flaming body.
• Song Shuhang snapped his fingers and made the Flame Doppelganger vanish, apparently taking the laser beam with it.
• Su Clan's Sixteen pushed the Crystal Coffin into the Heavenly River, completed the trial ritual, and grew stronger with the power of the Mirage Dragon.
• Song Shuhang formed a new Flame Doppelganger, which appeared female, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather revealed she had expected it.

Song Shuhang discovered that his Flame Doppelganger now always became a self-destructive Big Sixteen, then prepared to leave for Mount Ga'er with Senior White and Fairy Azure Luan. Big Sixteen’s friends arrived to collect her, and Daoist Turntable was startled by how much she had shrunk.

• Song Shuhang repeatedly summoned a Flame Doppelganger that looked like Big Sixteen, who tried to pull off her Mirage Dragon horn and stab herself before the duplicate exploded.
• Song Shuhang and the others rested in the pavilion while he repaired the ground, and Fairy Azure Luan arrived with five beast cultivators.
• Song Shuhang recognized the beast cultivators as Big Sixteen’s friends and dispelled the Flame Doppelganger.
• Fairy Azure Luan stamped Senior White’s wrist and Song Shuhang’s face to prepare them for Mount Ga’er’s opening.
• Daoist Turntable told Song Shuhang they had come to collect Big Sixteen, then asked her how she had shrunk so much.

Song Shuhang learned why the Beast Cultivator World recognized Su Clan's Sixteen as their companion, then helped Sixteen and White Dragon Sister swap halves so Sixteen could join Daoist Turntable's group for Mount Ga'er's trial. At Mount Ga'er, the golden moon appeared and the Trial Grounds began to open.

• White Dragon Sister explained to Song Shuhang that the completed ritual had made Big Sixteen become Sixteen, allowing Sixteen to access some of Big Sixteen's memories.
• Su Clan's Sixteen agreed to join Daoist Turntable and the beast cultivators at Mount Ga'er, both to replace Big Sixteen in their formation and to settle her karmic tie.
• At Sixteen's request, Senior White cut Sixteen and White Dragon Sister in half and swapped their halves, creating a human-headed, dragon-bodied Sixteen and a dragon-headed, human-bodied White Dragon Sister.
• The Sixteen combination left with Daoist Turntable and his companions, while White Dragon Sister stayed with Song Shuhang and Senior White.
• Fairy Azure Luan brought Song Shuhang and Senior White to Mount Ga'er, where a golden full moon appeared and rune paths formed for the trial's participants.

Song Shuhang, Senior White, and the White Dragon Sister crossed the Trial Path beneath Mount Ga'er, where accumulated attacks struck Song Shuhang all at once after Senior White stepped off. After the trial-takers received the giant tree’s Moonlight blessing, cabins appeared inside it, and Song Shuhang planned to follow Senior White’s choice.

• Senior White chose a runes Path, and Song Shuhang and the White Dragon Sister followed him toward Mount Ga'er.
• Song Shuhang saw other cultivators endure attacks on their Trial Paths while his own path remained calm beside Senior White.
• When Senior White stepped off the path, all its accumulated attacks struck Song Shuhang at once, causing him to scream before the trial sent him out.
• Senior White and the White Dragon Sister healed Song Shuhang, and the trial-takers gathered beneath the giant tree.
• Golden Moonlight strengthened the cultivators who had practiced the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, and the giant tree opened to reveal cabins.
• Song Shuhang decided to let Senior White choose a cabin and searched the crowd for Sixteen.

Song Shuhang and White Dragon Sister boarded cabins on Mount Ga'er’s shifting giant tree while Senior White chose a cramped cabin for himself. As the entire tree launched toward the Golden Moon, Song Shuhang wondered whether Senior White’s hometown was there.

• White Dragon Sister could sense Sixteen and her other half within Mount Ga'er but could not pinpoint them because its cube-shaped spaces kept shifting.
• Senior White chose a tiny single-person cabin, then separated his upper body from his thighs so he could ride inside while Song Shuhang stayed with the legs.
• Song Shuhang boarded a three-person cabin with White Dragon Sister and asked her to tell his fortune; she assured him he would not die.
• After the participants boarded, the cabins began shaking, and Senior White’s cabin was fired toward the Golden Moon.
• The entire giant tree launched from Mount Ga'er toward the Golden Moon, which Pavilion Master Chu identified as the location of the Trial Grounds.
• Song Shuhang wondered whether Senior White’s hometown was on the moon.

Song Shuhang and the other Beast Cultivators faced a new Mount Ga'er trial that tested their Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art. The trial drew attention to Song Shuhang’s unruly Great Sacred Ape, while Senior White enjoyed a high-speed ride at the hands of the other Ape King.

• Creation Fairy sang beside Song Shuhang’s ear, and White Dragon Sister warned him that a new trial had arrived.
• Two Ultra-Giant Sacred Apes appeared, and their golden gaze began assessing the trial participants’ Sacred Ape phantoms and dragon force.
• The Great Sacred Ape among Song Shuhang’s 66 phantoms provoked the muscular Ape King, drawing the attention of the trial participants, who recognized Song Shuhang.
• The well-proportioned Ape King entertained Senior White by spinning and launching his VIP cabin at tremendous speed.

The Super Giant Ape Kings launched the trial-takers toward the moon after their attempts to torment Sage White and Profound Sage Tyrannical Song failed. Song Shuhang’s scream delighted the Ape Kings, who then blessed the contestants’ Sacred Apes as the giant tree crashed into the moon.

• The Thin Super Giant Ape King tried nearly thirty ways to torment Sage White in the VIP cabin, but Sage White only became more excited.
• The Stout Super Giant Ape King finished identifying the contestants while its Sacred Ape projection battled Song Shuhang’s Sacred Ape.
• The two Ape Kings launched the giant tree at maximum speed, adding obstacles along its path to make the flight more difficult.
• Song Shuhang screamed during the flight, cheering up the Ape Kings, who then blessed the trial-takers’ Sacred Apes.
• Song Shuhang’s sixty-six Sacred Apes evolved into Steel Sacred Apes, and the giant tree crashed into the moon, burying half its trunk in the surface.

After reaching Mount Ga'er, Song Shuhang and the others wondered whether the golden moon was a vast Real Illusion and set out to find its core. A new trial began with monsters emerging from the shadows, and Song Shuhang gained cultivation experience when one disintegrated into a rune.

• Song Shuhang reunited with Senior White after the giant tree cabin’s impact and noticed that the golden moon’s ground felt familiar.
• Pavilion Master Chu, White Dragon Sister, and Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword discussed how the golden moon resembled a Real Illusion and how the ability could create enormous realms.
• Senior White proposed searching for the golden moon’s core, but a beam of light destroyed the branch he used to probe for it.
• Hideous monsters emerged from shadows, and a three-eyed monster choked itself unconscious after laughing at Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang punched the unconscious monster, which disintegrated into a damaged rune that poured cultivation experience and Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art memories into him.