Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang used the Divine Weapon Compendium to reach Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, but was dragged into a desert sandstorm and buried with the sword and the Stone Stele. Senior White found them afterward, and Song Shuhang recited a poem from beneath his tombstone.

• Song Shuhang realized the Divine Weapon Compendium could use the Overlord Shatter Saber as a coordinate and help him create a teleportation network.
• Song Shuhang reached through the void again, grabbed Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, and was pulled along with the Stone Stele to a desert.
• A strange sandstorm buried Song Shuhang, the Stone Stele, and Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword together.
• Senior White arrived carrying a sealed Spirit Vein and asked Song Shuhang why he had brought his own tombstone.
• Song Shuhang told Senior White he had developed literary youth syndrome and recited a poem about being buried while Senior White remained outside.

Song Shuhang emerged from beneath the grave dirt and learned from Stele Fellow Daoist that the desert world was an independent realm, possibly Senior White’s hometown. He used the Appraisal Secret Method to investigate it, but the result only identified the sand as five billion years old.

• Senior White teased Song Shuhang about dying, and Song Shuhang crawled out from beneath the grave dirt.
• Song Shuhang picked up Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword and freed Stele Fellow Daoist, who shrank to palm size and introduced himself as Tyrant Song’s Tombstone.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White where they were, and Senior White said the desert might be his hometown.
• Stele Fellow Daoist explained that the realm was an independent, free world beyond the restrictions of space and time, and that its opening would complete his mission.
• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method on the desert and learned that its sand was five billion years old.

Song Shuhang and his companions discovered that the desert sand was five billion years old and possessed a charm like Senior White’s. When Senior White vanished as the frozen world began moving again, Song Shuhang headed toward a building he spotted in the distance.

• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method on the sand and learned that it was five billion years old and unusually charming.
• Senior White stirred the sand, causing the stagnant world to flow again as the sun rose over the desert.
• The pillar-shaped Spirit Vein fell to the ground, and Senior White disappeared, leaving only his magical robe behind.
• Song Shuhang concluded that the desert was Senior White and set out toward the sunrise with the Scarlet Heaven Sword and the Stone Stele.
• Song Shuhang spotted a building and sped toward it using the Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles movement technique.

Song Shuhang investigated a tomb in Senior White’s homeland and learned that it contained an empty coffin, then cautiously climbed inside. The chapter left him in the coffin, hoping for an unexpected harvest despite the danger.

• Song Shuhang reached a newly built tomb and found its tombstone covered in unfamiliar characters that resembled Senior White’s handwriting.
• The Stone Stele identified the writing as resembling that used by its master, Heavenly Dao White, when he was young.
• Song Shuhang suspected the tomb belonged to the Young Man in Blue with a White Horse, but refused to open it recklessly because Senior White might have built it.
• Song Shuhang appraised the tombstone and learned that the owner’s name had been erased, the tomb was empty, and lying in its coffin might bring an unexpected harvest.
• Song Shuhang used his Primordial Spirit to pass through the earth, entered the tomb, and cautiously slipped into the empty coffin.

Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele activated a message hidden in the empty coffin beneath the Young Man in Blue with a White Horse’s tomb. Heavenly Dao White addressed the message to “Ghostly White,” assuming he still held authority to travel to the Present World, and Song Shuhang realized the message was meant for Senior White Two.

• Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele entered the empty coffin, where they found no clues until the stele began vibrating.
• The Stone Stele pinned Song Shuhang inside the coffin and declared him its sworn brother as the tombstone outside changed to read “Song Shuhang’s Tomb.”
• A nebula projection appeared on the coffin lid and played a recording from Heavenly Dao White.
• Heavenly Dao White addressed “Ghostly White,” predicting that he would use his Netherworld Ruler authority to travel to the Present World.
• Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele guessed that “Ghostly White” meant Black White, then Song Shuhang noted that Senior White Two had already spent his travel authority.

Song Shuhang listened to Heavenly Dao White’s recorded message for Senior White Two, which warned that the ninth Heavenly Dao would bring a major turning point, but he suspected the frequent buzzing hid more information. His attempt to recover the hidden message failed, leaving him with an ordinary coffin lid and the possibility of asking Senior White Two for help.

• Song Shuhang asked Stele Fellow Daoist to record Heavenly Dao White’s message, but it had no recording function.
• Heavenly Dao White said Little White was not the younger sister he had intended for Ghostly White, mentioned the unfinished Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique, and warned that the ninth Heavenly Dao would usher in a major change.
• Song Shuhang doubted the brief message was the whole story and wondered whether its repeated buzzing concealed a clue.
• Song Shuhang noticed the buzzing might encode hidden information and asked Stele Fellow Daoist to reactivate the message, but the attempt only left his primordial spirit numb.
• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method on the coffin lid, which revealed that its secret had already been activated and the lid was now ordinary.

Song Shuhang used the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique to replay Heavenly Dao White’s hidden message, allowing Senior White Two to hear the words buried in the static. Heavenly Dao White revealed his failed attempt to transcend and proposed that two people becoming Heavenly Dao simultaneously might be the key, before bidding farewell to Ghostly White.

• Song Shuhang tried appraising the coffin and circulating the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique, which caused Heavenly Dao White’s message to replay.
• Senior White Two’s consciousness reached Song Shuhang and asked him to circulate the technique again so he could hear the hidden message.
• Senior White Two and Song Shuhang heard Heavenly Dao White address Ghostly White through the static.
• Heavenly Dao White said he had failed to transcend after being pulled back by the authority of the Heavenly Dao and that none of his nine escape plans had worked.
• Heavenly Dao White proposed that two different people proving their Dao and becoming Heavenly Dao at the same time might be the key, then said he expected to die for good.

Song Shuhang discussed the possibility of two individuals becoming the Heavenly Dao with Senior White Two, who assigned him to work out how it could happen by next month. Senior White Two also explained how Song could keep Fellow Daoist Stele with him, but refused to help find the missing Senior White from the Present World.

• Song Shuhang pretended he had forgotten Heavenly Dao White's message, then admitted he did not want to become the Heavenly Dao and would rather live to see the New World.
• Senior White Two said there might be a chance for two individuals to inherit the Heavenly Dao at the instant someone bore the Heavenly Mandate.
• Senior White Two assigned Song Shuhang to consider how two people could become the Heavenly Dao simultaneously and said he would check next month.
• Song Shuhang asked how to resolve his Wood Body's attachment to Fellow Daoist Stele, and Senior White Two told him to keep the stele until after his death.
• Fellow Daoist Stele said he could follow Song Shuhang now that his mission was over, while Senior White Two refused to help locate the missing Senior White from the Present World and withdrew.

Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele escaped the tomb and set off with Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword to find Senior White in the desert. After Song Shuhang left a memorial offering at his own tomb, a Little White formed from sand ate the lotuses, while Song Shuhang searched for an oasis where he hoped to lure Senior White out with food.

• Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele climbed out of the tomb and found Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword mourning beside a tombstone bearing Song Shuhang's name.
• Song Shuhang performed a memorial rite for himself with Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and white lotuses, then headed into the desert with the Stone Stele and sword.
• A Little White formed from golden sand ate all the white lotuses Song Shuhang had left at the tomb before scattering back into the desert.
• Song Shuhang told the Stone Stele and Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword that the desert might be Senior White and searched for the oasis from the Real Illusion, planning to draw Senior White out with food.

Song Shuhang set out food at an oasis in Senior White’s desert in hopes of luring Senior White out, while Nine Nether Evil Energy erupted at Mount Ga'er and swallowed him and his companions through a vortex. The chapter ended when Song Shuhang’s Wood Body appeared at the oasis instead of Senior White.

• Song Shuhang, Stele Fellow Daoist, and Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword found the oasis and prepared lotuses, spirit fruits, and Living Spring water as bait for Senior White.
• At Mount Ga'er's Trial Grounds, a surge of Nine Nether Evil Energy overwhelmed the area after Song Shuhang and the Stele's bodies were engulfed.
• White Dragon Sister and Su Clan's Sixteen rushed to help; Song Shuhang's Merit Hall, the Stele, and White Dragon Sister's Dragon Seal pushed back most of the evil energy.
• Some Nine Nether Evil Energy opened the secret treasure suppressing the Former Heavenly Dao, creating a vortex that swallowed Song Shuhang, the Stele, the Wood Body, and Su Clan's Sixteen; White Dragon Sister followed them.
• At the oasis, Song Shuhang saw a sprout bearing spirit fruits emerge from the ground and realized it was his Wood Body, not Senior White.

Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele tried to return to the Mount Ga'er Trial Grounds after Nine Nether Evil Energy began flooding Senior White’s Desert World. Song Shuhang used his Core World’s lotus roots to absorb the energy and clear their path, while the black Stone Stele found itself partially merging with the energy inside the secret treasure.

• Song Shuhang pulled his wooden body, the Stone Stele’s artifact shell, and his Primordial Spirit out of the sand, and the Stone Stele decided it needed to return to the Mount Ga'er Trial Grounds to keep suppressing the secret world.
• Song Shuhang and the Stone Stele entered Stele-Blade Unity as Nine Nether Evil Energy erupted throughout the Desert World.
• Song Shuhang opened a node to his Core World and sent its Lotus Projection roots through the space to absorb the Nine Nether Evil Energy blocking the Stone Stele’s way.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword abandoned its plan to stab the Stone Stele after seeing the mass of lotus roots.
• In the crow-filled swamp, the black Stone Stele reported the secret treasure’s Nine Nether Evil Energy to the ruler of the Nine Netherworld and found that it could partly control the energy, though a force compelled it to follow a set operational track.

The Black Stele was forced to drain the nine nether evil energy from its infected network into the Former Heavenly Dao's Secret Treasure while Song Shuhang and his allies continued their struggle in the desert. Song Shuhang chose Young White from three apparitions, completing the Stone Stele's mission and activating a spell that sent them toward the past.

• The Former Heavenly Dao's message triggered the secret treasure to siphon the Black Stele's nine nether evil energy and the energy of every infected patient connected to it.
• Young White, Teenage White, and Adult White appeared by the oasis, and Heavenly Dao White asked Young Ghostly White to identify which one Song Shuhang had dropped.
• Song Shuhang chose Young White, causing Adult White and Teenage White to vanish and completing the Stone Stele's mission.
• The Stone Stele returned to Song Shuhang and celebrated his freedom, while Young White prepared everyone for the spell's impact.
• Young White activated a spell using the desert world and the stolen evil energy, enveloping Song Shuhang, the Stone Stele, Scarlet Heaven Sword, Su Clan's Sixteen, and White Dragon Sister before they lost consciousness.

Song Shuhang and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword traveled through a Temporal Dao Art toward the past, while events elsewhere stirred concern about the Sacred Mountain Trial Grounds and Tyrant Song. Song Shuhang remained in the temporal state as he asked how long the journey would take.

• The Crystal House's owner sensed profound temporal power in the Sacred Mountain Trial Grounds, found no source, and alerted the Divine Dragon and Sacred Apes.
• The Divine Dragon received the warning and lamented that someone might have created a hidden area in the Trial Grounds.
• Sovereign Fat Ball ordered the Black Stele to investigate the Previous Heavenly Dao's secret treasure and sent it a metal-ball fiend pet to help.
• Sovereign Fat Ball taunted Ghostly White outside the Evil Lotus World, then left; the Hamster Fiend tried to contact Tyrant Song but the transfer failed because he was outside the service area.
• Song Shuhang awoke during the Time Reversal with the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and learned that Stele Fellow Daoist's consciousness had been left behind as a return coordinate.
• Song Shuhang asked how much longer the temporal journey would last, and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword asked whether he wanted the truth or a lie.

Song Shuhang learned that the Temporal Dao Art was reversing time second by second and might keep their consciousnesses trapped for hundreds of millions of years. Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister joined him, and White Dragon Sister began teaching Song Shuhang and Sixteen as time continued to reverse.

• Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword showed Song Shuhang its watch and explained that its hands tracked the spell's second-by-second time reversal.
• Song Shuhang worried that he would die of old age if the spell took them hundreds of millions of years into the past, but Scarlet Heaven Sword assured him his lifespan would not be affected.
• White Dragon Sister and Su Clan's Sixteen arrived after their consciousnesses were pulled into the Temporal Dao Art from the Desert World.
• White Dragon Sister proposed using their long time in the spell to teach Song Shuhang and Sixteen, and Song Shuhang eagerly agreed.
• As White Dragon Sister taught Song Shuhang, he found that he could not retain what he learned and that his memories and companions were growing unfamiliar.

The Time Reversal Spell made Song Shuhang’s memories and learned knowledge grow blurry, while White Dragon Sister and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword remained unaffected. Song Shuhang tried to strengthen Su Clan’s Sixteen’s impression of him, but his memory loss continued until he forgot their relationship, and Sixteen told him she had been his teacher.

• Song Shuhang noticed that his memories of the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and White Dragon Sister were growing blurry after about thirty hours in the Time Reversal Spell.
• White Dragon Sister reasoned that the spell itself was affecting Song Shuhang’s memories, while she and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword said their own memories were normal.
• Song Shuhang worried that Su Clan’s Sixteen had also lost memories and introduced himself to her, but she laughed and recognized him.
• As the spell continued, Song Shuhang introduced himself to Sixteen again and asked what relationship they had shared.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen told Song Shuhang that they had been teacher and student, then clarified that she had been the teacher.

Song Shuhang’s memories kept vanishing under the Time Reversal Spell as Su Clan’s Sixteen comforted him and answered his questions. Just as she began to explain their relationship, Sixteen realized her own memory was also being affected.

• Song Shuhang asked whether Sixteen was an adult and learned they were more than teacher and student.
• Song Shuhang hugged Sixteen, and she leaned into him without resisting.
• As his memory faded further, Song Shuhang forgot his own name, and Sixteen reminded him that he was called Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang guessed that he and Sixteen might be family because they shared the surname Su, and Sixteen explained that his surname was Song.
• When Song Shuhang asked what their relationship was, Sixteen stopped and told White Dragon Sister that her memory was also disappearing.

During the Time Reversal spell, Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, and White Dragon Sister gradually lost their memories. The four ended up drifting together in the void, where Song Shuhang found a floating white ball and White Dragon Sister shoved it into his mouth to test whether it was edible.

• White Dragon Sister told Su Clan's Sixteen that memory loss was part of the Time Reversal spell and urged her not to resist it.
• Song Shuhang hugged Sixteen and soon forgot her name, while Sixteen's memories faded as well.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword lost its memories, followed by White Dragon Sister, who relied on her true body's backup to restore them later.
• The four amnesiac consciousnesses drifted together, and Song Shuhang asked whether a floating white ball could be eaten.
• White Dragon Sister took the ball from Song Shuhang and stuffed it into his mouth to test it.

Song Shuhang and his companions found white dumplings that melted into his stomach, and he volunteered to test them for poison. Meanwhile, Stele Fellow Daoist guarded their physical bodies at the Mount Ga'er Trial Grounds as Song Shuhang’s body began to regrow and a blood bead from Wooden Body merged with him.

• Song Shuhang ate a little dumpling, then tried to savor a second one, but it melted into his mouth as soon as he licked it.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister gathered more white dumplings while Song Shuhang waited to see if the first ones had poisoned him.
• Song Shuhang ate a white dumpling and felt pleasant itching as his shoulders, collarbones, and pectoral muscles tingled; White Dragon Sister advised everyone to keep waiting before eating.
• At the Mount Ga'er Trial Grounds, Stele Fellow Daoist protected Song Shuhang, Wooden Body, White Dragon, and Su Clan's Sixteen inside a spell space beneath his stele body.
• Song Shuhang’s physical body began growing down to his pectoral muscles, while a blood bead formed on Wooden Body and merged with Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang’s body regrew in his tomb as his Sage’s Blood, cultivation techniques, and companions accelerated and strengthened the process. His body became transparent like glazed glass, though Creation Fairy said it was still short of completion.

• The Sage’s Blood restored Song Shuhang’s valuable object and vitality, reconnecting his cultivation system and doubling his recovery speed.
• The Great Sacred Ape and 122 Lesser Sacred Apes appeared above Song Shuhang’s tomb and solemnly mourned him while operating the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art to aid his regeneration.
• Song Shuhang’s spine and other body parts grew as his cultivated techniques, innate talents, and accumulated knowledge activated and produced the Voice of the Great Dao.
• Stele Fellow Daoist prepared to cover Song Shuhang as his waist finished growing, while Merit Fairy and Creation Fairy emerged and wrapped him in their power.
• Creation Fairy removed Song Shuhang’s Confucian Sage’s Eye, and Merit Fairy and Creation Fairy’s influence helped his strengthened body turn transparent like glazed glass.
• Creation Fairy said Song Shuhang’s transformation was still incomplete as his Spirit Ghost slowly emerged.

Song Shuhang’s companions strengthened his newborn glass-like body, while Stone Stele Fellow Daoist examined the strange Golden Core visible inside him. The chapter left the Fat Whale Golden Core floating belly-up and looking as if it were in danger.

• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost joined Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy in strengthening his body, which became transparent like glass.
• Creation Fairy grew a glass-like replacement eye for Song Shuhang, then removed and stored it as a spare.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost knocked on his transparent abdomen, revealing his vast Natal Dantian and the Fat Whale Golden Core within.
• Stone Stele Fellow Daoist mistook the Golden Core’s nine dragon patterns for proof it was not Dragonless, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather explained that the patterns had been drawn on.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather revealed that she had a Dragonless Golden Core, then pointed out that Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core looked as if it were about to die.