Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang and the others investigated the trial’s monsters, which drained beast cultivators and seemed connected to heart demons. After capturing a canine monster, Song Shuhang followed Senior White’s lead to continue searching for the Golden Moon’s core.

• Song Shuhang declined to study the cultivation memories and suggested looking for the Golden Moon’s core.
• White Dragon Sister spotted a beast cultivator being drained by monsters, and Song Shuhang cut down two of them.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and White Dragon Sister noted that the monsters resembled heart demons, and the group decided to capture one.
• White Dragon Sister lured a canine monster toward Song Shuhang, but it shattered its teeth biting his head before he yanked it free.
• White Dragon Sister sealed the canine monster, and Song Shuhang carried it along when it could not be stored in the Prayer-Bead Space.
• Senior White tossed a branch to guide their next move while Song Shuhang watched for monsters that might damage it.

Song Shuhang, Senior White, and White Dragon Sister followed Senior White’s branch through the trial grounds and climbed into the sky, where they found a sleeping Divine Dragon. Song Shuhang’s Blade-Nourishing Art delighted the dragon, which praised him and appeared to acknowledge him.

• Senior White’s branch pointed the group toward the five o’clock direction, and they dragged the sealed canine monster along as they left the monster trial segment.
• Song Shuhang searched for Su Clan's Sixteen but could not find her because Spatial Interference disrupted White Dragon Sister’s tracking.
• When the branch pointed skyward, Senior White and White Dragon Sister climbed into the air, while Song Shuhang struggled against crushing pressure before joining them.
• White Dragon Sister revealed a sleeping Divine Dragon, and Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method and Blade-Nourishing Art on it.
• The Divine Dragon woke, enjoyed Song Shuhang’s Blade-Nourishing Art ×22, and told him that it liked him.

The Divine Dragon acknowledged Song Shuhang as a trial participant and strengthened his Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, then offered a hint about advancing it further. Song Shuhang learned that combining his power with White Dragon Sister’s could improve his chances of comprehending the inheritance, while the Divine Dragon questioned his understanding of the seventh-grade nascent soul.

• The Divine Dragon offered Song Shuhang a paid position using the Blade-Nourishing Art to test trial participants, but acknowledged that Song had already passed because he brought White Dragon Sister.
• The Divine Dragon’s acknowledgment strengthened Song Shuhang’s Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art and added golden dragon patterns to the Sacred Apes, who briefly sobbed before returning to their scriptures.
• The Divine Dragon said that combining Song Shuhang’s power with White Dragon Sister’s could advance his divine art and raise his chance of comprehending the General Outline Inheritance by twenty percent.
• Pavilion Master Chu encouraged Song Shuhang to unite with White Dragon Sister, and White Dragon Sister grabbed Pavilion Master Chu’s tuft of hair until the Divine Dragon clarified that he meant combining their powers.
• The Divine Dragon asked Song Shuhang about the seventh-grade nascent soul and insisted that any nascent soul born without undergoing pregnancy was heresy.

Song Shuhang learned that the Divine Dragon’s pregnancy method could speed up his path to the Nascent Soul Realm, and agreed to work as a temporary trial officer in exchange for guidance. He left ready to test the job, possibly by facing the trial contestants.

• Song Shuhang asked White Dragon Sister to hit him to check whether he was dreaming, and Senior White flicked his forehead hard enough to knock his head off.
• The Divine Dragon explained that it had never met the Confucian Sage, though it knew of his reputation and had witnessed a fellow Longevity Immortal lose to him.
• The Divine Dragon said Song Shuhang could shorten the Nascent Soul nurturing period by using a True Dragon and the complete Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art to give birth to a Nascent Soul through pregnancy.
• Senior White asked what the Divine Dragon wanted in return, and the Divine Dragon offered to teach Song Shuhang how to combine with a True Dragon if he helped temper the trial contestants.
• Senior White encouraged Song Shuhang to accept the temporary job, and Song Shuhang agreed to become a trial officer.

Song Shuhang accepted the Divine Dragon’s temporary trial-examiner authority and worked with Senior White and the others to design tests for the incoming beast cultivators. Their plans included Shuhang phantoms, a staged Flat-Ground Fall, and illusions based on his many deaths.

• Song Shuhang accepted the trial-examiner job, and the Divine Dragon transferred authority to him, Senior White, and Fairy White Dragon.
• Song Shuhang rejected using the Powerhouse Appraisal Technique and agreed with Senior White to keep Pregnancy Gaze as a last resort.
• Senior White asked Black-Skinned Soft Feather and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword to plant Shuhang phantoms around the trial area to test participants’ willpower.
• Song Shuhang recalled being frightened by Senior White’s Flat-Ground Fall, so Senior White assigned him to demonstrate one for the participants.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword proposed using illusions of Song Shuhang’s many deaths, and Senior White added the idea to his trial notes.

After the first stop, Beast Cultivators reached the Golden Moon Trial’s second stop, where they were separated and warned to prepare for a grueling challenge. The trial opened with an ambush by Tyrant Song, whose questions about love and filial piety immediately broke their composure.

• The giant tree carried the failed trial-takers back toward Mount Ga'er after the monsters at the first stop were defeated.
• Beast Cultivators discussed hoping Tyrannical Song had already passed the Divine Dragon's Recognition and moved on.
• A group of nine Beast Cultivators reached the second stop and went around the canine Shadow Beast tied to a branch.
• The nine trial-takers were teleported to separate locations and heard that success would earn the Dragon's Recognition and Blessing.
• Tyrant Song appeared before them and asked what love and filial piety were, causing their mental states to collapse.

Song Shuhang and his companions scored nine Beast Cultivator trial-takers after testing them with Pregnancy Gaze, then Song Shuhang accidentally fell early during a scripted reward ceremony and set off an explosion. A second group of trial-takers, including Su Clan's Sixteen, arrived and recognized Shuhang's screams.

• Song Shuhang, White Dragon Sister, Senior White, and Divine Dragon scored the nine Beast Cultivators, averaging their reactions into passing results.
• The nine Beast Cultivators realized Pregnancy Gaze had been an illusion and discussed how to guard against further tricks.
• Song Shuhang congratulated the Beast Cultivators, but slipped and fell before the scripted tenth step.
• The ground exploded beneath Song Shuhang and the nine Beast Cultivators, filling the trial grounds with screams.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and Daoist Turntable's group arrived as the second batch of trial-takers, and Su Clan's Sixteen recognized Song Shuhang's scream.

Song Shuhang used his trial-official authority to guide the Golden Moon Trial, gathering Su Clan's Sixteen with her team and warning them about his illusion. When the second stage began, he protected Sixteen from the Flat-Ground Fall Explosion by sending her flying above the blast, while the trial continued to unfold under the Divine Dragon's supervision.

• Daoist Turntable's group was teleported into the second stage before they could observe the trial, and Song Shuhang gathered Sixteen's team at one location.
• Song Shuhang warned Sixteen's team about his Pregnancy Gaze illusion, which appeared before all the trial-takers and startled them.
• The Divine Dragon copied Song Shuhang's warning voice and considered using it to make trial-takers lower their guard before later challenges.
• The second batch of trial-takers began the Flat-Ground Fall Explosion stage while the first batch advanced to the Tyrannical Song Profound Sage's Nightmare.
• Song Shuhang's Wooden Body exploded after his sixth step, while his hair used his authority to carry Sixteen above the blast.

Song Shuhang rescued Su Clan's Sixteen from his explosive trial segment while the other participants endured it, then prepared to guide her through the Golden Moon Trial's final stage. The participants entered individualized trials and found themselves in separate worlds, relieved that Profound Sage Tyrannical Song was nowhere to be seen.

• Song Shuhang carried Su Clan's Sixteen clear of the Flat-Ground Fall Explosion, while the other participants were trapped in its blast by the Air-Sealing Barrier.
• Su Clan's Sixteen asked Song Shuhang how he had become part of the trial, and he explained that he was working as a temporary trial officer.
• After the third and fourth batches completed the first two segments, the trial participants gathered at a huge gate for the final trial.
• Song Shuhang reunited his wooden body with his head and told Su Clan's Sixteen he would take her through the final trial.
• The participants touched the gate, heard a Sage White question about dodging or defending against a Divine Wind Spell, and were transported to separate worlds without encountering Tyrant Song.

Senior White, White Dragon Sister, and Song Shuhang turned the third trial round into a collection of illusions based on Song Shuhang’s memories of pain, making every participant play Tyrant Song. The trials began inflicting those ordeals, leaving the participants helpless as the staged suffering escalated.

• The participants entered different illusion worlds and believed Tyrant Song was absent from the final round.
• Senior White directed the illusions, while White Dragon Sister recreated Song Shuhang’s pain and Song Shuhang gave the signal to begin.
• Each illusion revealed that its participant had become Tyrant Song, and the scripted scenes began.
• The blonde fairy’s furnace and hammer subjected one group to the agony of being forged with their own bodies.
• Another group’s bodies exploded into blood mist, while the whale’s world struck its Tyrant Songs with Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal lightning.

Senior White paused the Liquid Metal Man scene after sensing unusual energy in the Beast Cultivator World, then moved its Tyrant Songs into a Heavenly Punishment scenario where Sage White killed them. He prepared to test the final Confucian School Golden Lotus World script, which involved Fat Ball Netherworld Ruler.

• The Giant Whale World's Tyrant Songs were blasted apart by a Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, and Daoist Turntable was among the three who found excitement in the pain.
• The Liquid Metal Man World’s Tyrant Songs became too terrified to learn from the battle they were witnessing.
• Senior White sensed unusual energy in the Beast Cultivator World and paused the Liquid Metal Man scene.
• Senior White transferred the Tyrant Songs into a Sage White script, where Heavenly Punishment threatened them and Sage White sliced them into cubes.
• Senior White turned to the Confucian School Golden Lotus World script to test whether it would trigger another reaction.

Senior White and White Dragon Sister accelerated a Confucian School Golden Lotus World plot in which a batch of Tyrant Songs was slaughtered by a Steel Finger wielding Nine Nether Evil Energy. A Confucian School head of household repeatedly revived them, trapping them in a death loop whose end depended on a strand of Nine Nether Evil Energy in the Beast Cultivator World.

• Senior White asked White Dragon Sister to accelerate the plot for the final batch of Tyrant Songs.
• A Steel Finger appeared and accused those present of stealing its treasure and leaving an imprint in the world.
• The Steel Finger unleashed a Nine Nether Evil Energy storm that shredded the Tyrant Songs and Confucian School disciples, while the Tyrant Songs wondered whether Song Shuhang had endured the same suffering.
• A Confucian School head of household reversed time and revived everyone, but the Steel Finger attacked again.
• Senior White revealed that the repeated deaths would continue until the strand of Nine Nether Evil Energy in the Beast Cultivator World moved.

Senior White watched the Golden Lotus World trial to see whether the false divine weapon fragments would react to the Nine Nether Evil Energy. After the Tyrant Songs were repeatedly resurrected and killed, their strange answers confirmed the influence, so Senior White ended the scenario and sent a clue-following flying sword into the void.

• The Tyrant Songs were resurrected repeatedly by the Confucian School head, only to be killed each time by the Metal Finger's Nine Nether Evil Energy storm.
• The exhausted Tyrant Songs saw a vision of the Beast Cultivator World's God of War asking whether they desired power, but none of them did.
• Senior White recognized their replies as evidence that the false divine weapon fragments and Nine Nether Evil Energy were influencing the trial participants.
• White Dragon Sister ended the Golden Lotus World scenario, breaking the cycle of death and resurrection.
• Senior White sent a Disposable Flying Sword carved from Song Shuhang's branch into the void to follow a clue.

Senior White sent a Disposable Flying Sword through the Mount Ga'er Trial Grounds' spatial confinement to pursue the source of the Nine Nether Evil Energy, while the Divine Dragon concluded the trial and blessed the Beast Cultivators. The sword emerged in a crow-covered ruined palace and struck a hard object, turning the distance between them negative.

• Senior White cast a Sword Formula and sent a Disposable Flying Sword through the spatial confinement toward the source of the Nine Nether Evil Energy.
• The Real Illusion ended, freeing the exhausted trial-takers, who compared their experiences and praised Senior Tyrant Song for enduring so many trials.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen watched as the Divine Dragon appeared and began blessing the Beast Cultivators who had passed.
• The Beast Cultivators received Dragon Patterns on their Sacred Apes, then rested and headed toward the Purgatory Tunnel to the Legacy Grounds of the General Outline.
• The Divine Dragon called Song Shuhang and Sixteen to follow so it could reunite them with White Dragon Fairy and distribute rewards.
• Senior White's Disposable Flying Sword used the Disaster Giant Turtle's Trans-Spacetime Stroll ability to reach a crow-covered ruined palace, where it struck a hard object.

A wooden flying sword carrying Tyrant Song’s aura struck a black stele in the ruins, and the stele mistakenly concluded it was a relic made by the dead Song Shuhang. Senior White recorded the stele’s location, then greeted Song Shuhang by congratulating him on having completely died.

• Senior White’s Disposable Flying Sword—Clue-Following stabbed the black stele, and crows eventually pulled it free.
• The stele identified Tyrant Song’s aura on the sword and concluded that someone had inherited a magical artifact he made before dying.
• The stele sent its findings and the flying sword into the Netherworld, then received the messages “[White.]” and “[Relocate.].”
• Senior White recorded the stele’s coordinates as Divine Dragon returned with Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen.
• Senior White told Song Shuhang that the records said he had completely died, leaving Song Shuhang bewildered.

Song Shuhang learned that Sovereign Fat Ball’s records considered him completely dead, giving him a chance to stay hidden until he reached the Eighth-Grade. Divine Dragon then began teaching him the Ape-Dragon Nascent Soul Mystical Method, an auxiliary chapter of the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art.

• Senior White told Song Shuhang that Sovereign Fat Ball’s records listed him as completely dead and might eventually discard his information.
• Song Shuhang decided to keep a low profile until his next Manifestation Before All at the Eighth-Grade.
• Song Shuhang explained to Divine Dragon how he had obtained three Sage Titles, including one in an independent Small World.
• Divine Dragon introduced the Ape-Dragon Nascent Soul Mystical Method and explained that it had been adapted from the Dragon-Tiger Convergence Divine Saber Manual.
• Divine Dragon said the first step required a Dragon Pearl, and White Dragon Sister and Su Clan's Sixteen each offered theirs.

Song Shuhang discussed using the Dragon Pearls of Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister to cultivate a Nascent Soul, joking that he could use many of them. Divine Dragon became curious about his unusual body and offered its own Dragon Pearl if he could prove himself.

• Su Clan's Sixteen explained that she had coughed up a Dragon Pearl as her Dragonification advanced, and White Dragon Sister said the change was good news.
• Song Shuhang asked whether Dragon Pearls were valuable and joked about growing a dragon bloodline to produce them and repay his debts.
• Senior White and Divine Dragon explained that a cultivator could use only one Dragon Pearl, but Song Shuhang insisted he would use both and even more.
• Song Shuhang's head fell off while he laughed, and Su Clan's Sixteen picked it up and put it back in place.
• Song Shuhang claimed he would have at least seven Nascent Souls like Grandpa Gourd, while Senior White suggested his Natal Dantian might mean eight.
• Divine Dragon failed to see through the Sage's Blood in Song Shuhang's body and offered to lend him its Dragon Pearl if he proved himself.

Song Shuhang proved to Divine Dragon that he had seven Golden Cores by manifesting seven Life Wheels, while White Dragon Sister and Sixteen repeatedly dealt with his flying head. Senior White then revealed that he could spit out a Dragon Pearl, leaving Song Shuhang stunned.

• Song Shuhang hesitated to borrow Divine Dragon's Dragon Pearl, so White Dragon Sister flicked his head off and ordered him to prove his seven Golden Cores.
• Su Clan's Sixteen put Song Shuhang's head back, and Senior White observed how Divine Dragon's anger and enjoyment fed into a cycle.
• Song Shuhang displayed seven different Life Wheels and explained that his seven Little Golden Cores were in seven Small Dantians, with another special Golden Core in his Natal Dantian.
• Divine Dragon struck Song Shuhang's face with its Dragon Pearl when he honestly said the Golden Cores had appeared while he practiced, but Sixteen caught and replaced his head.
• Senior White vouched that Song Shuhang had gained the Golden Cores by repeatedly dying, then spat out a Dragon Pearl and shocked Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang tried to gather seven Dragon Pearls and used his Golden Core QR Code to ask his seniors to lend him one. Several friends responded, while Fairy Cheng Lin repeatedly tried and failed to connect him to Spotted Dragon Two.

• Senior White explained that the fourth Dragon Pearl was the Mirage Dragon Clan Leader's, which Senior White Two had given to Song Shuhang.
• Su Clan's Sixteen asked White Dragon Sister if she could obtain three more Dragon Pearls, but White Dragon Sister said she could not in her current state.
• Song Shuhang used his Golden Core QR Code to send a request to his friends asking to borrow a Dragon Pearl.
• Demon Emperor Hezhi and Lord of Imperishability rejected Song Shuhang's request, while the Heavenly Emperor sent him one point of energy and Dragon Network Will Fat Ball accepted.
• Fairy Cheng Lin repeatedly failed to connect Song Shuhang to Spotted Dragon Two, sending nearly three hundred notifications.

Fairy Cheng Lin bombarded Spotted Dragon Two with transfer requests until he changed his account name to Little Spotty and blacklisted Song Shuhang. Song Shuhang helped Fairy Cheng Lin search for him, but Little Spotty refused to leave the blacklist, which Song Shuhang suspected was really a VIP customer group.

• Fairy Cheng Lin sent Spotted Dragon Two nearly ten thousand transfer requests, overwhelming Song Shuhang with notifications.
• Spotted Dragon Two changed his account name to Little Spotty and blacklisted Song Shuhang, causing Fairy Cheng Lin's next transfer to fail because the user could not be found.
• Fairy Cheng Lin used Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost to request temporary query permission, and Song Shuhang agreed.
• Song Shuhang told Fairy Cheng Lin that Little Spotty was in the blacklist and agreed to her request to move him to the allies list.
• Little Spotty refused Song Shuhang's request to leave the blacklist, saying he liked it there.