Chapter Summaries

As Song Shuhang finalized the name “Cultivation” for his Golden Core QR Code group, his many cultivation paths began consolidating as he advanced toward the Seventh-Grade Venerable realm. His Fat Whale golden core started recording the group’s members along its Star Road, though several special beings, including Su Clan's Sixteen, remained absent.

• Song Shuhang chose “Cultivation” as the group name and declined to announce it while he kept a low profile.
• Fairy Cheng Lin warned Song Shuhang that Demon Emperor Hezhi's incoming energy could make his body explode, so Song Shuhang circulated the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique and redirected the energy to his spirit ghost.
• Song Shuhang's Fat Whale golden core refined part of the incoming energy as his seven small dantians and Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts began consolidating his many cultivation systems.
• The Fat Whale's Star Road displayed figures of Song Shuhang's friends in the order he had met and added them to the group, but it could not record several special beings, including Su Clan's Sixteen.
• Song Shuhang saw the Lord of Imperishability, Demon Emperor Hezhi, and Senior Everything Can Be Sold appear on the Star Road, while the Fat Whale golden core served as the group’s host computer.

Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core evolved into a spiked Life Wheel while he endured Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy transmission. He was left wondering whether he could survive as Demon Emperor Hezhi posted a video claiming Tyrannical Song had been blown up, prompting alarmed comments from Song Shuhang’s cultivation contacts.

• Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core formed a spiked Life Wheel halo that let it fly, and the Spirit Ghost helped replenish his Spirit Lake.
• Demon Emperor Hezhi scanned Song Shuhang and concluded that only his head remained after his body exploded.
• Demon Emperor Hezhi used Song Shuhang’s blacklist function to post a video and announce that he had blown up Profound Sage Tyrannical Song.
• The Undying Demon Lord, Little Spotty, the big shot who could sell anything, Fairy Cheng Lin, Mad Saber Three Waves, Young Master Phoenix Slayer, and Fairy Eastern Six reacted to the post.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain asked whether Song Shuhang was all right, then added him to the blacklist, leaving Song Shuhang exhausted and longing to retire.

Song Shuhang secretly watched Demon Emperor Hezhi’s Moments post while channeling Hezhi’s energy into his Spirit Ghost, and the seniors’ visible personal notes left him worried about their friendships. The Heavenly Emperor discovered that Song Shuhang had Southern Autumn Temple and sent him a mysterious cultivation buff, leaving Song Shuhang bewildered.

• Doudou, the Heavenly Emperor, Northern River's Loose Cultivator, Soft Feather, White Dragon Sister, and Sixteen commented on Demon Emperor Hezhi’s Moments post and compared their assigned titles.
• Song Shuhang lurked while channeling Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy into his Spirit Ghost, then decided the Heavenly Emperor belonged on his VIP blacklist.
• The Heavenly Emperor asked Song Shuhang whether Southern Autumn Temple was in his possession, and Song Shuhang considered denying that he had it in his Core World.
• The Heavenly Emperor recognized that Song Shuhang had taken Southern Autumn Temple and warned him with the phrase “da-da-da-da.”
• The Heavenly Emperor sent Song Shuhang another point of energy and invoked “Time and tide bully only my youth” through a Space Gate as a buff.
• White Dragon Sister reassured Sixteen that the Heavenly Emperor had applied a buff rather than a damaging spell.

The Heavenly Emperor’s buff activated the Southern Autumn Temple’s Time Box, accelerating Song Shuhang’s body and cultivation beyond his ability to control. After briefly perceiving a branching river of possibilities, he returned to his body and discovered that his nascent soul embryos appeared to be growing umbilical cords.

• White Dragon Sister asked the Heavenly Emperor what buff she had given Song Shuhang, but she did not reply, and Doudou and Mad Saber Three Waves feared he was doomed.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Southern Autumn Temple phantom resonated with the real temple in Song Shuhang’s Core World and activated the Time Box, accelerating his body while Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy continued pouring into him.
• Song Shuhang redirected some energy toward Senior White Two’s Dragon Pearl, then strengthened himself with sacred ape phantoms and his Sage Seals as his cultivation accelerated out of control.
• Song Shuhang’s consciousness briefly rose above a river of branching possibilities, but mist obscured the branches before he fell back into his body.
• Song Shuhang saw that the embryos in his seven small dantians were developing umbilical cords and wondered whether nascent souls were supposed to have them.

Song Shuhang’s seven Minor Nascent Souls grew rapidly under Heavenly Emperor Dada Dada’s time buff and Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy infusion. As both forces weakened, the Nascent Souls reached a bottleneck because Song Shuhang’s body had not been restored, and he opened his eyes to end the process.

• Song Shuhang realized that seven umbilical cords connected his Minor Nascent Souls to the Spirit Lake, which helped channel Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy into their growth.
• Song Shuhang resolved to avoid group Tribulation Transcendence, while Su Clan's Sixteen explained that the time acceleration and energy infusion were rapidly increasing his strength.
• Su Clan's Sixteen warned White Dragon Sister that lending Song Shuhang her Dragon Pearl could bring her realm close to its limit when it returned.
• Song Shuhang cultivated in seclusion, nurturing the seven Minor Nascent Souls while diverting energy to the Spirit Ghost and Senior White Two's Dragon Pearl.
• As Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy and Heavenly Emperor Dada Dada’s time buff weakened, Song Shuhang realized the Nascent Souls could not advance until his body was restored and opened his eyes.

Song Shuhang survived Demon Emperor Hezhi’s attempt to overwhelm him with energy, though the effort left his companions exhausted. Mistaking White Dragon, who was wearing a disguise, for Su Clan's Sixteen, he tried to flirt with her before the real Sixteen set him straight.

• Song Shuhang’s Wooden Body absorbed the remaining energy from Demon Emperor Hezhi after the Heavenly Emperor’s Temporal Spell dissipated, foiling Hezhi’s scheme.
• The exhausted Merit Snake Beauty stabbed herself with the Squid Tyrant Twin Blades, shattered into merit light, and began gathering herself for a quick recovery.
• Song Shuhang thanked the exhausted Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy, then asked Su Clan's Sixteen to flirt with him or let him flirt with her.
• Song Shuhang approached the smiling figure he thought was Su Clan's Sixteen and flirted with her among his dense branches.
• The figure revealed that she was White Dragon wearing the Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable mask, and that the real Su Clan's Sixteen was nearby.

Song Shuhang watched White Dragon Sister and Su Clan's Sixteen test Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable's disguise mask, which deepened Sixteen's Dragonification and left their disguises impossible to see through. After the energy above Song Shuhang ran dry and the six Dragon Pearls returned, the big shot who could sell anything asked him to return the Dragon Pearl he had lent.

• Song Shuhang chose not to blacklist Senior Copper Trigram and decided that Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable was the one he would blacklist.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather explained that she had asked White Dragon Sister to test the Silver Trigram Heavenly Venerable mask after realizing she could change forms without it.
• White Dragon Sister and Su Clan's Sixteen described how the mask let them imitate each other's forms, while Sixteen's Dragonification and True Dragon Bloodline grew stronger.
• Senior Divine Dragon failed to see through their disguises, even with its True-Sight technique and trial examiner authority.
• The Demon Emperor Hezhi energy above Song Shuhang ran dry, and the six Dragon Pearls returned to their places.
• The big shot who could sell anything asked Song Shuhang to return the Dragon Pearl he had lent him.

Song Shuhang returned several Dragon Pearls to their owners while Su Clan's Sixteen prepared to advance to the fifth grade. Senior Everything Can Be Sold collected Senior White Two's pearl and departed after Song Shuhang finally managed to hand it over.

• Song Shuhang sent the Dragon Pearls back to their owners, while keeping Senior White's Mirage Dragon Pearl for him.
• Su Clan's Sixteen reclaimed her Dragon Pearl, and White Dragon Sister explained that Sixteen was ready to face her tribulation and aimed for nine dragon patterns.
• Senior Everything Can Be Sold asked Song Shuhang for Senior White Two's Dragon Pearl, and Song Shuhang spat it out for him.
• The Dragon Pearl initially followed Song Shuhang and resisted being boxed, but Song Shuhang eventually placed it in Senior Everything Can Be Sold's box.
• Senior Everything Can Be Sold said farewell to Song Shuhang and left through the Spatial Restriction.

Song Shuhang suffered cultivation-deviation aftereffects from using Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy without properly refining it. His companions explained that he would need to refine the energy in seclusion and strengthen his body, leaving the problem back where it started.

• Song Shuhang felt phantom pain and backward-flowing blood qi after Everything Can Be Sold left.
• Pavilion Master Chu’s strand of dull hair identified the symptoms as cultivation deviation, and White Dragon Sister linked them to Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather recalled that Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword had suggested Song Shuhang die once to fix the problem.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen asked Song Shuhang to describe his symptoms while trimming the branches growing on his body.
• White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu explained that Song Shuhang needed to refine Demon Emperor Hezhi’s energy in seclusion, while Divine Dragon suggested strengthening his body.

Song Shuhang persuaded Senior Divine Dragon to use a guaranteed admission slot to send him and Su Clan's Sixteen to the General Outline Inheritance entrance. After Song Shuhang added Senior Divine Dragon to his friend group with the nickname “Seven Dragon Balls,” the group traveled through a deep, seven-colored passage toward the inheritance.

• Senior Divine Dragon said Song Shuhang could skip the remaining trial stages and offered to send him directly to the General Outline Inheritance entrance.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior Divine Dragon to send White Dragon Sister along too, and Senior Divine Dragon agreed to take everyone in one go.
• Song Shuhang showed Senior Divine Dragon his Golden Core QR Code, which added Senior Divine Dragon as his friend and moved it into the “VIP Big Shot Group” as “Seven Dragon Balls.”
• Senior Divine Dragon experienced a sudden, alarming heart-fluttering feeling and vowed to pin Song Shuhang down if they met again.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather and White Dragon Sister returned to the women’s bodies, and Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen descended through the seven-colored passage together.
• Su Clan's Sixteen wrapped her tail around Song Shuhang as he nervously held her claw and claimed he was worried about the little dog he had tied up outside the Trial Grounds.

Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen reached the Giant Immortal Ark containing the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art’s General Outline Inheritance, but could not open its door. Song Shuhang tried using his Golden Core QR Code to contact Senior Divine Dragon, only to discover that it had sent something successfully.

• Song Shuhang discussed his unchanged nausea and stomachache with Su Clan's Sixteen and Pavilion Master Chu's cowlick, who suggested the Heavenly Emperor's Temporal Spell had kept his side effects mild.
• White Dragon Sister brought Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen to a dark space where an ancient Giant Immortal Ark appeared.
• Song Shuhang used his qualification mark to unlock the Ark's warning runes, but he and Su Clan's Sixteen could not push its door open.
• Song Shuhang failed to find a messaging function in his Cultivation group and instead ordered the Golden Core QR Code to transfer one point of energy to Senior Divine Dragon.
• Senior Divine Dragon watched recordings of Song Shuhang's Profound Sage Lectures, while Song Shuhang realized the energy transfer had succeeded and worried about what it had sent.

Senior Divine Dragon watched Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’s lecture and was struck by the Sage’s Eye’s Powerhouse Appraisal Technique. At the Giant Immortal Ark’s Legacy Grounds, Song Shuhang sought help opening the final gate, but following Senior White Two’s advice caused the Immortal Ark to explode.

• Senior Divine Dragon watched the lectures and recognized that Tyrant Song’s first lecture had a profound manuscript behind it.
• Senior Divine Dragon watched the Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon Lecture until the speaker’s gaze triggered the Sage’s Eye’s Powerhouse Appraisal Technique on him.
• Song Shuhang messaged Senior Divine Dragon to ask how to open the final gate, and Senior Divine Dragon replied, “Get lost! You have no conscience!”
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White Two for help, and Senior White Two told him to use the incantation to reclaim his stone stele.
• Song Shuhang cast the secret technique, drawing something toward him and causing the Immortal Ark to explode.

Song Shuhang accidentally destroyed the Immortal Ark and resumed summoning the Stone Stele, which finally opened the mysterious doors. A gigantic Dragon Eye appeared and fixed its gaze on him, beginning an ocular technique.

• Song Shuhang realized his spell had caused the Immortal Ark to explode, and White Dragon Sister confirmed that the ark had been extremely valuable.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather suggested the ark might have concealed the true Legacy Grounds behind the doors, so Song Shuhang decided to continue summoning the Stone Stele.
• Song Shuhang summoned the Stone Stele again, and after three minutes the doors rose like a rolling gate.
• A gigantic vertical Dragon Eye appeared behind the doors and stared at Song Shuhang with dissatisfaction, spreading Dragon Might and enveloping him in a vortex-shaped spell.
• Pavilion Master Chu identified the spell as an ocular technique, and Creation Fairy brushed Song Shuhang's eye socket as his right eye began to shine.

Song Shuhang confronted the Dragon Eye and insisted on entering the General Outline Inheritance Grounds, despite its claim that they were fated never to meet. He used his Golden Core QR Code to add the Dragon Eye as a friend, winning permission to continue the trial, though he still owed for the damaged Immortal Ark.

• Song Shuhang and the Dragon Eye glared at each other until a flower blooming from one of Song Shuhang's branches broke the tension.
• The Dragon Eye told Song Shuhang to leave because he and the Dragon Eye were not fated to meet, citing the Confucian Sage's words.
• Song Shuhang recognized the Dragon Eye as the Longevity Immortal who had been beaten to tears by the Sage.
• Song Shuhang projected his Golden Core QR Code, causing the Dragon Eye to add him as a friend and join the VIP Bigshot Group.
• The Dragon Eye allowed Song Shuhang to proceed because it was presiding over the trial's final stage, but demanded payment for the destroyed Immortal Ark.

Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen entered Mount Ga'er's General Outline Inheritance Grounds, where Song used the Blade-Nourishing Art to activate the inheritance crystals and reveal the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art. As he studied the formation, his consciousness entered a Crystal House, where a mysterious woman greeted him as if they were old acquaintances.

• The Dragon Eye sent Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen through its vortex into the General Outline Inheritance Grounds, while a new branch snapped off Song's body.
• Song used the Appraisal Secret Method on a crystal and learned that the crystals had to be arranged in the correct order to earn a reward.
• Song and Su Clan's Sixteen proposed using the Blade-Nourishing Art, and Song's hair arms massaged the crystals until they lit up and arranged themselves into the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, excluding its General Outline Chapter.
• Song compared the crystal-formed cultivation method with the version he had learned and entered a trance, prompting White Dragon Sister to warn the others not to disturb him.
• Song's consciousness reached a Crystal House, where a woman greeted him warmly, and he begged her not to attack because she had mistaken him for someone else.

Song Shuhang met the owner of the Crystal House, who explained why the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art’s General Outline could not be recorded and prepared to pass it on through a special method. The owner formed a blue energy ball and told Song Shuhang to accept its power, revealing that it would let him come into contact with time.

• The owner of the Crystal House mistook Song Shuhang’s unstable cultivation state for cultivation deviation and explained that it had helped him follow the Crystal rune into the inheritance grounds.
• Song Shuhang sat down to receive the General Outline Inheritance and learned that its Law-level power could not be recorded, even on a Great Dao Flower.
• The owner of the Crystal House sensed Song Shuhang’s thoughts and teased him about his expressions.
• The owner of the Crystal House formed a blue energy ball, told Song Shuhang not to resist, and announced that he was about to encounter the power of time.

Song Shuhang was smeared with the time-energy sphere and sent to the past, where he watched an old man teach the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art to seven beast cultivators. He listened closely and realized that his understanding of the technique had deepened.

• The master of the Crystal House smeared the time-energy sphere across Song Shuhang's face after noticing his unusual reaction to the power of time.
• Song Shuhang's consciousness traveled into the past while he stayed awake and sensed his understanding of the Appraisal Secret Method growing deeper.
• Song Shuhang arrived as a transparent observer in a bamboo forest filled with mythical beasts and saw seven beast cultivators gathered there.
• An old man with dragon and ape tattoos announced that he would teach the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, a body-tempering technique he had created.
• Song Shuhang listened to the old man's explanation of the foundation chapter and realized that his improved understanding would increase the number of his Sacred Apes.

Song Shuhang witnessed the old man’s lecture on the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art and entered the old man’s memories to observe how he created its Inheritance General Outline. He returned to the Crystal House unsure whether he had gained enough insight, despite the old man’s transmission method making the creation process itself the key.

• Song Shuhang listened to the old man explain the first hundred thousand words of the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art and felt satisfied by the lecture.
• The old man began explaining the Inheritance General Outline, and Song Shuhang and the seven Beast Cultivation disciples lost their senses before becoming 2D stickers.
• The old man summoned the stickers and used his memories to show them the process of creating the General Outline through repeated drafts, experiments, and revisions.
• Song Shuhang’s consciousness returned to the Crystal House, where its owner asked whether he had gained anything.

Song Shuhang left the Mount Ga’er trial unsure whether he had comprehended the General Outline Inheritance Chapter, realizing that his scattered high-level knowledge had collided with the profound knowledge he witnessed. The owner of the Crystal House sent him away after Song Shuhang failed to add him as a friend.

• The owner of the Crystal House assumed Song Shuhang had failed to comprehend the inheritance and encouraged him to remember the divine art’s creation process.
• Song Shuhang explained that he had remembered most of the process but could not understand what he had seemingly comprehended.
• Song Shuhang reflected that his limited cultivation knowledge had collided with advanced knowledge forced into his mind through past experiences.
• The owner of the Crystal House advised Song Shuhang to preserve his memories and meditate on them after leaving the trial.
• Song Shuhang tried to add the owner of the Crystal House as a friend, but the QR-Code Golden Core Diagram did not add him.
• The owner of the Crystal House clapped his hands and sent Song Shuhang out of the Crystal House space.

Song Shuhang recounted the creation of the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art’s General Outline Inheritance to Pavilion Master Chu and White Dragon Sister, hoping they could help him understand what he had intuitively grasped. They identified the knowledge he needed to study, but estimated it would take a year or two to learn the basics.

• Song Shuhang told Sixteen, Black-Skinned Soft Feather, Pavilion Master Chu, and White Dragon Sister that he had met a mysterious senior and had grasped parts of the inheritance without understanding them.
• Song Shuhang explained that he could not put his intuitive understanding into words, but he remembered the detailed process of the senior creating the divine art.
• Song Shuhang described the process for two days and nights while the Merit Snake Beauty projected the events above him.
• Song Shuhang revealed that the final process of the senior writing the divine art was missing from his memory, then asked whether his listeners felt full from hearing his account.
• White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu concluded that Song Shuhang needed extensive cultivation knowledge and estimated that learning the basic framework would take a year or two.