Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “A Tragic ‘Air Crash’!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Doudou, the intelligent and powerful Pekingese, discovers the location of a dog-stealing gang at an abandoned factory.
• He calls the police himself, calmly reporting the gang and the hundreds of kidnapped dogs being held there.
• When the gang attacks, Doudou effortlessly defeats them:
  • He sends the fat gang leader flying with one paw.
  • He repeatedly slaps the burly leader unconscious.
  • He then defeats the remaining members, stacking them in a heap.
• The police arrive, rescue more than a hundred dogs, and arrest the unconscious gang members. They are baffled by the evidence of paw prints and cannot understand how one “person” defeated so many criminals.
• Doudou watches from the roof, confirms the dogs are safe, and silently leaves, pleased with how heroic and mysterious he appears.
• The chapter then shifts to a mist-shrouded restricted region in southeastern China, which is secretly a powerful Seal Land.
• Daoist Cloudmist, once an infamous elder of the Empty Thieves’ Sect, has been sealed inside the Five-Finger Mountain Sealing Art by True Lord Yellow Mountain. He is now preparing to break free.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain comes to observe Cloudmist’s escape attempt, treating it as personal entertainment. However, Venerable White unexpectedly appears at the same location.
• Venerable White explains that he is waiting for Liu Tianzong, the “Cold Flame Sword,” who stole his Meteor Sword and is expected to come help Cloudmist escape.
• Yellow Mountain regrets not releasing Cloudmist earlier, realizing that his attempt to amuse himself has attracted the far more dangerous Venerable White.
• Venerable White demonstrates that he can now control his overwhelming natural charm. He briefly releases it, causing Yellow Mountain to experience the entire world fading into black and white while White becomes its dazzling center.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang continues flying uncontrollably toward Senior White, pursued by Helm Master Jing Mo.
• A cold, middle-aged cultivator appears directly in Shuhang’s path while Sky-Stepping and lost in thought. Shuhang cannot stop the Myriad-Mile Escape Technique and crashes headfirst into the man’s lower back, sending both of them flying.

Character Developments

• Doudou demonstrates his extraordinary strength, intelligence, courage, and strong sense of justice. He behaves like a heroic vigilante while taking pride in his dramatic appearance and secretly performing good deeds.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain is shown as mischievous and playful, having tormented Daoist Cloudmist during his imprisonment, but he is also cautious and increasingly alarmed by Venerable White’s presence.
• Venerable White has advanced enough to partially control his previously uncontrollable charm. He remains innocent, confident, and socially oblivious, not realizing how intimidating and dangerous his improved control seems to Yellow Mountain.
• Song Shuhang remains caught in chaotic situations beyond his control. His anxiety and helplessness during the flight contrast humorously with the powerful cultivators around him.
• Daoist Cloudmist is positioned as a major figure preparing to return to the cultivation world after two centuries of suppression.
• Liu Tianzong is introduced as an important future participant, particularly because of his connection to both Cloudmist and Venerable White’s stolen Meteor Sword.

Significant Themes

• Justice and hidden heroism: Doudou protects innocent animals and leaves without seeking recognition.
• Comedy through the supernatural colliding with ordinary life: A police report made by a dog and paw-print evidence leave the officers completely bewildered.
• The dangers of power and charisma: Venerable White’s beauty and presence are so overwhelming that even an experienced True Lord cannot safely face them.
• Consequences of mischief: Yellow Mountain’s decision to keep Cloudmist imprisoned for entertainment creates new trouble when White arrives.
• Uncontrollable fate and chaos: Song Shuhang’s escape technique carries him toward an unavoidable collision, emphasizing his recurring inability to control the bizarre situations surrounding him.

Character Interactions

• Doudou confronts and defeats the dog-stealing gang before contacting the police, then observes the officers’ confusion from a distance.
• Yellow Mountain and Venerable White exchange cautious conversation. White easily perceives Yellow Mountain’s thoughts, while Yellow Mountain tries unsuccessfully to hide his fear and discomfort.
• White playfully tests his charm on Yellow Mountain, who privately concludes that White is now even more dangerous than before.
• Song Shuhang’s pursuit by Helm Master Jing Mo ends in an accidental collision with the distracted middle-aged cultivator, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Chapter 202 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang uses Venerable White’s Myriad-Mile Escape Technique to flee from Helm Master Jing Mo, but collides with a cold-faced swordsman in midair.
• The escape technique continues dragging both of them forward, leaving Song Shuhang spinning uncontrollably with his head pressed against the swordsman’s lower back. The swordsman is irritated and reminded of an unpleasant incident from his past.
• Jing Mo attacks them with his flying sword, but the cold-faced man casually deflects it without even drawing his own sword.
• As the escape technique weakens, Jing Mo prepares to kill Song Shuhang. However, Song Shuhang reaches the Forbidden Land of the Five-Finger Mountain Sealing Art, where Venerable White and True Lord Yellow Mountain are waiting.
• Venerable White dispels the escape technique and pulls both Song Shuhang and the cold-faced swordsman into the sealed area. He recognizes the swordsman as Liu Tianzong, the Cold Flame Sword of the Empty Thieves’ Sect—and discovers that Liu is carrying his stolen Meteor Sword.
• Jing Mo launches the Nine Heavens Thunder-Inducing Divine Art into the mist surrounding the forbidden land. True Lord Yellow Mountain effortlessly destroys the thunder dragons with a single breath.
• Realizing that Yellow Mountain is a Sixth-Grade True Lord and that Song Shuhang is his friend, Jing Mo immediately activates the Blood Escape Technique and disperses into blood mist to escape.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful but comically unlucky. His emergency escape succeeds in reaching Venerable White, though the collision leaves him dizzy, nauseated, and unable to speak properly.
• Venerable White demonstrates complete confidence and overwhelming power. He calmly rescues Shuhang, identifies Liu Tianzong, and is pleased that his stolen Meteor Sword has effectively been delivered back to him.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain displays his immense strength and protective attitude toward Song Shuhang, easily neutralizing Jing Mo’s attack.
• Liu Tianzong/Cold Flame Sword is shown to be a powerful but aloof Fifth-Grade cultivator. Although annoyed at being dragged into the chase, he is not allied with Jing Mo or Shuhang.
• Helm Master Jing Mo shifts from aggression to caution once he realizes he is facing a True Lord. His immediate use of the Blood Escape Technique highlights his survival instinct.
• Tangtang becomes captivated by Venerable White’s appearance and controlled charm, imagining a romantic “captured disciple and domineering senior” scenario.

Significant Themes

• Comedic misfortune amid serious danger: Song Shuhang’s escape is effective but absurd, turning a life-threatening pursuit into a humiliating collision.
• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: The gap between cultivation levels is emphasized, as Yellow Mountain destroys Jing Mo’s attack effortlessly and Jing Mo flees rather than risk confrontation.
• Luck and misfortune: Venerable White’s good fortune—recovering the Meteor Sword—implies potential trouble for those around him, a recurring humorous idea.
• Unexpected connections and coincidence: Song Shuhang’s escape accidentally brings Liu Tianzong, the stolen sword, and Jing Mo directly to Venerable White.
• Romantic fantasy and sect culture: Tangtang’s reaction reflects the influence of popular stories within the Empty Thieves’ Sect and adds a playful contrast to the surrounding conflict.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Liu Tianzong are unwillingly forced together by the escape technique, creating an awkward and comedic pairing.
• Liu Tianzong rebukes Jing Mo for attacking carelessly, while Jing Mo suspects that Liu may be connected to Shuhang.
• Venerable White recognizes and rescues Shuhang, then focuses on recovering his Meteor Sword from Liu Tianzong.
• Yellow Mountain confirms his friendship with Shuhang, prompting Jing Mo to retreat immediately.
• Tangtang silently admires Venerable White while Yellow Mountain and Venerable White monitor Daoist Cloudmist’s attempt to break free from the sealing art.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Helm Master Jing Mo uses a talisman containing the Blood Escape Grand Technique to flee after pursuing Song Shuhang. The technique normally allows its user to disperse into blood mist and escape even from a True Lord, though repeated use permanently sacrifices aspects of the user’s vitality or potential.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain chooses not to interfere, since Venerable White has already acted. Venerable White creates a vast desert through his True Illusion, trapping the blood mist and preventing Jing Mo from escaping.
• Jing Mo mistakenly believes he has escaped unharmed. He soon recognizes the desert as the same illusion in which Venerable White previously destroyed his Transformation Puppet.
• The illusion collapses, revealing that Jing Mo has barely moved—only about two centimeters. He realizes he is facing a Seventh-Grade Spirit Venerable, not merely a Sixth-Grade True Lord, and falls into despair.
• Venerable White restrains Jing Mo after Song Shuhang confirms that Jing Mo attacked him independently to steal his Blood God Diamond, rather than being sent by Gongzi Hai.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain binds the unconscious Jing Mo, while Song Shuhang contacts Su Clan’s Seven, who eagerly agrees to come and deal with the Limitless Demon Sect disciple.
• Afterward, Song Shuhang asks about Su Clan’s Sixteen, who was seriously injured. Yellow Mountain reassures him that the Heavenly River Su Clan should be able to treat her.
• Yellow Mountain also discusses Doudou with Song Shuhang, offering him a doubled red packet as compensation for the trouble Doudou causes.
• In a humorous private conversation, Yellow Mountain asks whether Song Shuhang thinks Venerable White is handsome. Song Shuhang enthusiastically agrees, causing Yellow Mountain to suspect that Shuhang’s way of thinking may be “dangerous” and cautiously distance himself.

Character Developments

• Helm Master Jing Mo: His arrogance collapses when he discovers that his supposedly successful escape was merely Venerable White’s illusion. He recognizes the overwhelming gap in power between himself and Venerable White.
• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates greater confidence and judgment by identifying Jing Mo’s motive, requesting Venerable White’s help, and arranging for Su Clan’s Seven to handle the captured enemy. He also shows genuine concern for Su Clan’s Sixteen.
• Venerable White: Displays effortless mastery over illusion and spatial control, trapping Jing Mo without even seriously attacking him. He remains calm, helpful, and amused throughout the encounter.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain: Acts as a relaxed observer and supporter. He reassures Song Shuhang about Sixteen, offers him a reward for helping with Doudou, and becomes comically suspicious after misunderstanding Song Shuhang’s praise of Venerable White.
• Su Clan’s Seven: Is portrayed as aggressive and enthusiastic when offered a captured Limitless Demon Sect disciple, though he hangs up before Song Shuhang can ask about Sixteen.

Significant Themes

• The difference between perceived and true power: Jing Mo believes his escape technique has worked, but Venerable White’s superior cultivation renders it useless.
• Illusion and deception: The True Illusion turns Jing Mo’s confidence into panic by making him believe he has traveled far when he has not escaped at all.
• Consequences of arrogance: Jing Mo’s decision to pursue and torment Song Shuhang independently leads directly to his capture.
• Friendship and concern: Song Shuhang’s concern for Sixteen and his appreciation of Doudou show that his relationships with the Nine Provinces Number One Group are becoming more meaningful.
• Comedic misunderstanding: Yellow Mountain’s attempt to investigate Song Shuhang’s romantic preferences produces an awkward misunderstanding and reinforces the chapter’s lighthearted tone.

Character Interactions

• Venerable White and Song Shuhang cooperate seamlessly in capturing Jing Mo, with White leaving the final decision to Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang and Jing Mo clash over whether Gongzi Hai ordered the attack; Jing Mo angrily denies serving Gongzi Hai.
• Song Shuhang calls Su Clan’s Seven for assistance, though Seven’s impatience prevents him from hearing the question about Sixteen.
• Yellow Mountain comforts Song Shuhang about Sixteen and discusses Doudou’s behavior with him.
• Yellow Mountain privately questions Song Shuhang about Venerable White’s appearance, then becomes uneasy when Song praises White’s beauty too sincerely.

Chapter Summary: “Haha, I’ve Finally Broken Free!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• True Lord Yellow Mountain awkwardly moves away from Song Shuhang, claiming he had passed gas. Song Shuhang doubts him and prepares to correct Yellow Mountain’s strange assumptions about him.
• Venerable White confronts Cold Flame Sword Liu Tianzong and reveals that the Meteor Sword originally belonged to him. Liu had taken it from a cave abode centuries earlier while Venerable White was disguised as a statue.
• Liu realizes that the terrifyingly handsome figure who haunted him for a year was actually Venerable White. He returns the sword, but the sword spirit flies back to Venerable White on its own.
• Liu asks whether Venerable White is secretly a woman disguised as a man. Venerable White jokingly allows him to believe that if it comforts him. Relieved, Liu flies away laughing, abandoning Tangtang.
• Yellow Mountain warns Song Shuhang not to develop romantic thoughts about Venerable White and suggests he focus on Su Clan’s Sixteen, Soft Feather, or Fairy Lychee instead.
• Song Shuhang recounts his successful trip to J City: he defeated a Ghost General, received help from Senior Brother Three Days, obtained ingredients for Blood Qi Pills, and survived an attack by Limitless Demon Sect cultivators.
• Venerable White and Yellow Mountain discuss the legendary Enlightenment Stone, a mysterious object capable of greatly accelerating a First-Stage cultivator’s aperture-opening process. If Shuhang found it, he might reach the Second Stage within four years.
• Daoist Cloudmist finally breaks free from Yellow Mountain’s Five-Finger Mountain Sealing Art and triumphantly declares his liberation, immediately insulting Yellow Mountain with an improvised rhyme.

Character Developments

• Venerable White is revealed to have transformed into a statue during seclusion, explaining how Liu Tianzong obtained the Meteor Sword and why Liu was haunted by White’s appearance.
• Cold Flame Sword Liu Tianzong shifts from fear and disbelief to resignation and emotional relief. His obsession with Venerable White’s appearance is resolved when White humorously lets him maintain his preferred explanation.
• Song Shuhang continues to benefit from improbable luck but remains wary of Venerable White’s “blessings,” which often cause dangerous or bizarre situations alongside good fortune.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain acts as an amused observer and protective senior, teasing Shuhang while secretly enjoying Daoist Cloudmist’s struggle against the seal.
• Daoist Cloudmist remains defiant and irreverent. Even after escaping, his first instinct is to mock Yellow Mountain.
• The Meteor Sword is shown to possess a loyal sword spirit, willingly returning to Venerable White.

Significant Themes

• Luck and unintended consequences: Shuhang’s good fortune repeatedly brings valuable opportunities, but Venerable White’s blessings may also create serious danger.
• Misunderstanding and appearance: Liu’s year-long trauma stems from misidentifying Venerable White’s statue and becoming fixated on White’s beauty.
• Power and inevitability: Liu immediately understands that resistance is pointless against a Seventh-Stage Venerable, while the sword itself recognizes its true master.
• Comedy amid cultivation danger: Serious events—ancient treasures, demonic sects, and powerful seals—are undercut by awkward jokes, romantic misunderstandings, and exaggerated reactions.
• Freedom and confinement: Daoist Cloudmist’s escape provides the chapter’s comic climax, contrasting his triumph with Yellow Mountain’s irritation.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Yellow Mountain: Yellow Mountain teases Shuhang about his supposed attraction to Venerable White, while Shuhang struggles to explain himself without Secret Voice Transmission.
• Venerable White and Liu Tianzong: White calmly reclaims the Meteor Sword and reveals the truth about his statue disguise, while Liu reacts with terror and embarrassment.
• Venerable White and Song Shuhang: White praises Shuhang’s luck and discusses ways he might accelerate his cultivation.
• Yellow Mountain and Daoist Cloudmist: Yellow Mountain seals Cloudmist and watches him struggle, only to be mocked when Cloudmist finally escapes.
• Liu Tianzong and Tangtang: Liu becomes so overwhelmed by his encounter with Venerable White that he leaves without noticing or helping Tangtang.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Daoist Cloudmist breaks free from True Lord Yellow Mountain’s seal. Overcome with poetic inspiration, he mockingly calls Yellow Mountain “Yellow Mountain Big Fool,” provoking Yellow Mountain’s anger.
• Rather than recapturing Cloudmist immediately, Yellow Mountain deliberately lets him experience the modern world first, planning to seal him again after he becomes accustomed to its comforts. He has also secretly tampered with Cloudmist so he can continue tracking him.
• Su Clan’s Seven arrives and takes custody of Helm Master Jing Mo, a captured member of the Limitless Demon Sect. He seals Jing Mo’s weapons and magical items, gives them to Song Shuhang for safekeeping, and plans to reclaim them after eliminating the sect’s branch.
• Su Clan’s Seven departs quickly after noticing Venerable White, whom he instinctively fears and avoids.
• Yellow Mountain leaves as well, asking Song Shuhang to continue looking after Doudou until Cloudmist is recaptured. Tangtang is accidentally left behind and feels strangely disappointed at being ignored; she vows to return.
• While returning with Venerable White, Song Shuhang receives a worried call from Tubo and lies that he went out to buy cigarettes.
• Song asks to be sent to J City. Venerable White decides to use a flying sword remotely, locating the destination through a phone map rather than accompanying him personally.
• The sword launches at absurd speed, leaving Song screaming as he is sent flying toward J City.

Character Development

• Daoist Cloudmist: Regains his freedom and eagerly embraces the modern world, though his awkward poetry and ragged appearance reveal his lack of refinement despite his literary enthusiasm.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain: Shows a vindictive but calculated side. Instead of acting immediately, he devises a psychological punishment designed to make Cloudmist’s eventual re-sealing more painful.
• Song Shuhang: Remains cautious around powerful seniors, especially after witnessing Yellow Mountain’s temper. He also becomes increasingly anxious about Venerable White’s unconventional transportation methods.
• Venerable White: Demonstrates confidence in his experimental abilities, using modern technology to guide a flying sword. His bad mood stems from Su Clan’s Seven fleeing from him despite his efforts to suppress his aura.
• Su Clan’s Seven: Acts efficiently in dealing with Helm Master Jing Mo but privately reveals that he is still frightened of Venerable White.
• Tangtang: Develops an unexpected desire for recognition after being ignored, ending the chapter determined to return.
• Tubo: Shows concern for Song Shuhang when he cannot find him, highlighting their ordinary friendship amid the supernatural events.

Significant Themes

• Freedom and punishment: Cloudmist’s escape appears triumphant, but Yellow Mountain’s plan suggests that freedom can become a more effective form of punishment.
• Modernity as temptation: The chapter humorously compares the modern world—and especially technology—to an addictive luxury that can make returning to confinement unbearable.
• The clash between cultivation and ordinary life: Ancient cultivators interact with phones, maps, cigarettes, and modern social concerns, creating comedic contrasts.
• Fear and power: Even powerful cultivators such as Su Clan’s Seven instinctively avoid Venerable White, emphasizing White’s overwhelming and unpredictable reputation.
• Unintended consequences: Song Shuhang is repeatedly caught between the actions of stronger seniors, particularly when Venerable White’s mood leads to a dangerously fast journey.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang silently worries that Cloudmist’s insults will earn him another sealing from Yellow Mountain.
• Yellow Mountain explains his elaborate plan to Song, alarming him with its cruelty and precision.
• Su Clan’s Seven thanks Song, collects Helm Master Jing Mo, and hands over the sealed treasures before fleeing from Venerable White.
• Tangtang continues imagining a dramatic romantic story involving Song and a senior cultivator, then reacts emotionally when everyone leaves her behind.
• Tubo checks on Song’s whereabouts, while Song attempts to conceal the supernatural situation.
• Song questions Venerable White’s flying-sword method and expresses fear for his safety, but White confidently launches him at extreme speed, ending the chapter on a comedic cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary: Stressed by a Mountain of Books

Key Plot Points and Events

• Senior White transports Song Shuhang back from Tubo’s grandfather’s home on an extremely fast flying sword. Because there is no windproof formation, Shuhang is nearly crushed by the speed and fears he may develop a fear of flying.
• Song arrives just as two petty thieves attempt to rob the car. He accidentally lands on one thief, then defeats the other with a single punch.
• Song uses the thieves as a convenient explanation for having gone out in the middle of the night. Tubo, his family, and the neighbors enthusiastically capture and beat the thieves before tying them up and taking them to the police.
• After two days, Song and Li Yangde leave Tubo’s grandfather’s home. Song carries two boxes of waxberries as gifts. His arrival seems to have coincided with the end of the village’s strange incidents and the recovery of several elderly residents.
• Back at Medicine Master’s building, Song discovers that Senior White has completely renovated the house, replacing nearly everything with expensive new furnishings. Song politely praises the renovations despite knowing the house belongs to Medicine Master.
• Song gives Senior White waxberries and invites him to travel during the summer vacation. Senior White eagerly suggests learning to fly an airplane, prompting Song to privately worry that White might fly it into space.
• Doudou asks whether True Monarch Yellow Mountain plans to retrieve him. Song explains that Yellow Mountain will return after recapturing Daoist Cloudmist.
• Doudou also reveals that important events occurred in the Nine Provinces Number One Group while Song was offline. Song checks the chat history and discovers that Soft Feather has completed her synchronization with her Spirit Ghost.
• The chapter ends with Song noticing a strange contradiction: Northern River’s Loose Cultivator says he and others are preparing to explore Mysterious Island, even though they supposedly entered it twenty days earlier. Song wonders whether Northern River—or perhaps he himself—has lost his memory.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Becomes more accustomed to using his cultivation abilities, casually defeating the thieves and managing supernatural situations. He remains practical and considerate, covering for himself rather than exposing the magical truth to Tubo’s family. His growing familiarity with Senior White is also evident, though he remains wary of White’s reckless ideas.
• Senior White: Displays his usual combination of overwhelming power, eccentricity, and poor judgment. He renovates Medicine Master’s entire home without permission and proposes learning to fly an airplane, showing his childlike enthusiasm for modern technology and travel.
• Doudou: Shows impatience and insecurity about being ignored by True Monarch Yellow Mountain. He also continues acting as Song’s source of information about developments in the cultivation group.
• Soft Feather: Has successfully completed consciousness synchronization and energy sharing with her Spirit Ghost, unlocking a major cultivation advantage: faster purification and cultivation, along with increased true-qi storage.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator: Reappears in the group after being absent during the Mysterious Island events, but his new messages create a confusing inconsistency about the timing of the expedition.

Significant Themes

• The collision of ordinary and supernatural life: A mystical flying-sword journey ends in a mundane encounter with thieves, while Song must maintain a believable explanation for his supernatural activities.
• Senior White’s irresponsible enthusiasm: White’s immense power is balanced by his impulsive behavior, producing both comedic danger and inconvenience.
• Friendship and community: Tubo’s family and neighbors quickly unite against the thieves, while Song, Yangde, Doudou, and the group’s seniors maintain strong interpersonal bonds.
• Cultivation and technological modernity: The characters casually combine magical techniques with cars, phones, computers, airplanes, and even the idea of astronaut equipment.
• Mystery and distorted time or memory: The apparent contradiction in Northern River’s messages introduces a larger mystery connected to Mysterious Island and raises questions about memory, chronology, or altered reality.

Important Character Interactions

• Song and Senior White joke about the house renovations, waxberries, and future travel plans.
• Song and Doudou discuss Yellow Mountain’s delayed return and the group’s latest news.
• Song interacts with Tubo and the village community by allowing the thieves to serve as an explanation for his nighttime absence.
• Soft Feather’s message to Song and Northern River’s response establish both her cultivation breakthrough and the troubling mystery surrounding Mysterious Island.

Chapter Summary:

Senior White’s Gains and Shuhang’s Unease!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Soft Feather considers joining Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Mad Saber Three Waves, and True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey on another expedition to the Mysterious Island.
• The group discovers that the three seniors’ memories were not merely damaged—they had completely forgotten that they had already gone to the island. They believed the expedition was still upcoming, despite the date being nearly a month later.
• Their protective spells, scouting treasures, and modern recording equipment all failed. Most footage was blank or useless, though a few blurry images showed ordinary lakes, forests, and the three men leaving the island in a dazed state.
• Medicine Master theorizes that the three seniors voluntarily entered into a contract with a powerful being on the island and sealed their own memories. The seal cannot be forcibly removed without risking permanent memory loss; only an unknown “opportunity” may undo it.
• The seniors inspect their gains from the expedition. Northern River found two spirit herbs, Ancient Lake obtained a common piece of Cold Iron, while Three Waves appears to have gained absolutely nothing.
• Copper Trigram’s earlier prediction that Three Waves would have good luck leads Three Waves to angrily seek him out. Their exchange also references the upcoming battle at the Forbidden Summit.
• The group updates the three amnesiac seniors on events that occurred during their missing days.
• Song Shuhang decides to avoid the Mysterious Island entirely, but Venerable White casually expresses interest in having him investigate it and recover information about the island.

Character Developments

• Soft Feather becomes frightened by the possibility of losing her memories and begins reconsidering the expedition, worrying that the island could erase everything she remembers.
• Northern River, Three Waves, and Ancient Lake are revealed to have suffered an extreme and mysterious memory seal. Their confusion and incomplete gains make the expedition seem both dangerous and unrewarding.
• Medicine Master makes progress in identifying the cause of the memory loss but cannot yet provide a solution.
• Venerable White reveals that he has searched for the island several times but could never find it, possibly because his extraordinary luck prevented him from entering a place that would erase his memories.
• Song Shuhang grows increasingly cautious and uneasy about the island. He wants to stay away, but Venerable White’s interest makes him suspect that circumstances may eventually force him to investigate.
• Three Waves becomes furious after learning that Copper Trigram’s favorable divination may have been completely wrong, while Copper Trigram counters by invoking their future duel.

Significant Themes

• Memory and identity: The island’s power threatens not only knowledge but personal continuity, leaving the victims unaware that anything happened.
• The danger of unknown contracts: The seniors may have willingly exchanged something with a mysterious power, emphasizing the risks of entering supernatural realms without understanding their rules.
• Curiosity versus self-preservation: Soft Feather and Shuhang must choose between the desire to uncover the island’s secrets and the danger of losing their memories.
• Luck and fate: Venerable White’s inability to find the island may reflect protective luck, while Three Waves’ disappointing expedition challenges the reliability of divination.
• Comedic camaraderie: Despite the serious danger, the seniors respond with teasing, exaggerated reactions, and threats, maintaining the group’s humorous dynamic.

Character Interactions

• The group reassures Soft Feather that the three seniors could protect her, while Ancient Lake offers to equip her against memory loss.
• The seniors humorously reconstruct how the three men might repeatedly explore the island, forget everything, and unknowingly repeat the same expedition forever.
• Medicine Master exchanges information with Ancient Lake and explains the possible contract-based memory seal.
• Three Waves threatens to confront Copper Trigram over his inaccurate fortune-telling, prompting Northern River to mock the diviner and Copper Trigram to retaliate by mentioning their upcoming battle.
• Shuhang discusses the island with Venerable White and becomes alarmed when White suggests that Shuhang investigate it.

Key plot points and events

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Mad Saber Three Waves, and True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey discuss using a modified Mars probe to investigate the Mysterious Island without personally entering and having their memories sealed. Northern River hopes to obtain a probe through his aerospace investments.
• The group discusses Fairy Bie Xue’s upcoming Immortal Chef Banquet. Invitations are scarce this year, and guests can earn one by supplying rare ingredients from a forthcoming list. Venerable White reveals Fairy Bie Xue stopped inviting him after he declined her request to find her a dual-cultivation partner.
• Song Shuhang invites Soft Feather to adventure somewhere other than the Mysterious Island and asks Su Clan’s Seven about Sixteen’s recovery. Sixteen is improving after her Heavenly Tribulation, but Dragonbone Withered Vine could help her heal. Northern River offers to ask his contacts about obtaining some.
• Song feels helpless because his low cultivation prevents him from assisting. Venerable White cautions him not to let that frustration become a Heart Demon and recommends reading religious scriptures for peace of mind.
• The scene shifts to World’s End Wandering Temple, whose enormous basketball court has strict rules against using cultivation, spells, or magical artifacts. Despite the bans, monks perform astonishing feats through sheer physical ability. A disciple tells Monk Three Days that Song Shuhang has come online.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang’s concern for Sixteen and frustration at being unable to help reveal his growing sense of responsibility, while also highlighting his inexperience.
• Northern River shows concern for Sixteen and offers practical help; Su Clan’s Seven reassures the group and identifies the medicine she needs.
• Venerable White gently supports Song, though his past refusal of Fairy Bie Xue’s request hints at an awkward history that may complicate the banquet.
• The group’s casual banter contrasts with its serious cooperation, from planning island research to sourcing rare medicine.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness and growth: Song recognizes the limits of his current strength but is reminded that cultivation takes time.
• Community and mutual aid: The seniors share knowledge, connections, and resources to help one another.
• The comic blending of the extraordinary and everyday: Cultivators plan space exploration, compete for banquet invitations, and play basketball under rules designed to keep their supernatural abilities out of the game.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang reconnects with Three-Day Little Monk, who offers to send him an auxiliary method for the Unmoving Vajra Body. Because cultivation methods must remain confidential, Three-Day sends it by sealed Flying Sword Message after Venerable White confirms their location.
• Shuhang searches the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s shared files for the “Charging Technique,” a minor technique for powering electronic devices. He finds a guide by Mad Saber Three Waves but cannot understand its dense cultivation terminology. Venerable White grasps it quickly and promises to teach him.
• Venerable White tells Shuhang that the cars ordered by True Lord Yellow Mountain should arrive within a couple of days. Shuhang also thinks ahead to returning home for summer vacation and sharing Spirit-Vein Jade Tea with his family.
• Soft Feather proposes a treasure hunt using a map she found among her father’s notes, rather than going to the dangerous Mysterious Island. Shuhang agrees to join her during the summer break. She also says the tea she has been preparing for him is nearly ready.
• Doudou, newly active in the group chat, demands that Yellow Mountain come collect him within half a month, threatening to damage Yellow Mountain’s prized flying ark. Doudou also insists on learning to drive, which Yellow Mountain dismisses.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains eager to learn and relies on senior cultivators for guidance. He appreciates Venerable White’s help and thinks about caring for his family in return.
• Three-Day Little Monk is an accomplished Fourth-Grade cultivator who stays playful and unpretentious, happily joining his temple brothers’ basketball game despite his status.
• Venerable White combines vast experience with a youthful appearance and a fondness for waxberries. He quickly understands techniques that confuse Shuhang.
• Soft Feather is enthusiastic about adventure but accepts a safer alternative to the Mysterious Island. Her father’s intervention is subtle enough that she appears to believe the treasure map is simply an exciting find.
• Doudou remains forceful and mischievous, while True Lord Yellow Mountain is both wary of Doudou’s threats and exasperated by his desire to drive.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and dependence: Shuhang advances through the help of seniors, while still trying to become more capable himself.
• Secrecy and responsibility: Valuable cultivation knowledge is protected through carefully controlled physical transmission.
• Parental care: Northern River recognizes that Venerable Spirit Butterfly has redirected Soft Feather toward a safer adventure without taking away her sense of independence.
• Everyday humor amid cultivation life: Basketball, phone batteries, cars, and driving provide a comic contrast to spiritual techniques and flying swords.

Chapter Summary: “Ah~ That Familiar, Miserable Scream!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• King Doudou demands that True Lord Yellow Mountain let him learn to drive and obtain a driver’s license. Yellow Mountain refuses, arguing that a Pekingese cannot safely drive and telling Doudou to wait until he can transform into human form.
• After being muted and threatened with expulsion from the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Doudou uses a manipulative “ultimate move”: he privately complains to Fairy Lychee and sends selectively edited screenshots that make Yellow Mountain appear cruel.
• Fairy Lychee immediately sympathizes with Doudou and promises to confront Yellow Mountain, leaving Doudou smugly satisfied. Song Shuhang is horrified and decides never to raise a demon pet.
• At Demon Throat Peak, Gongzi Hai learns that Helm Master Jing Mo has been captured alive by Su Clan’s Seven and taken to the Heavenly River Su Clan.
• Jing Mo and Half-Gourd Daoist had attempted to kill “Stressed by a Mountain of Books” while he was alone. Shuhang used a powerful magic treasure to kill Half-Gourd Daoist instantly, then escaped with an extremely fast technique after being badly injured.
• Gongzi Hai concludes that Jing Mo likely knows little useful information, but he orders the Limitless Demon Sect’s branches connected to Jing Mo to withdraw before Su Clan’s Seven can retaliate.
• Rather than regretting choosing Su Clan’s Seven as an opponent, Gongzi Hai welcomes the pressure, believing their conflict will accelerate his cultivation and growth. Anzhi Devil Lord privately calls him a madman.
• Two hours later, Venerable White finishes waiting for the delivery of the auxiliary Vajra Foundation Fist cultivation method, Unmoving Vajra Body. A small black flying sword approaches, and Song Shuhang hears a familiar, terrified scream from it.

Character Developments

• Doudou displays cleverness, emotional manipulation, and shamelessness, using his “cute pet” image to turn Fairy Lychee against Yellow Mountain.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain remains strict and exasperated, refusing to indulge Doudou despite the dog’s persistence.
• Song Shuhang continues to be disturbed by Doudou’s behavior while eagerly anticipating a cultivation method that will strengthen his body and help open his apertures.
• Gongzi Hai shows strategic composure after Jing Mo’s capture. He is willing to accept danger and rivalry as motivation for advancing on the Dao.
• Anzhi Devil Lord becomes more wary of Shuhang’s abilities after witnessing the mysterious magic treasure that killed Half-Gourd Daoist.
• Venerable White remains casually enthusiastic, spending large amounts of time and money on waxberries while waiting for the flying sword delivery.

Significant Themes

• Cunning and manipulation: Doudou demonstrates how appearances and selective information can be used to influence others.
• Power and hidden abilities: Shuhang’s unexpected magic treasure and escape technique reveal that apparent weakness can conceal deadly capabilities.
• Rivalry as motivation: Gongzi Hai views his conflict with Su Clan’s Seven as a force that will accelerate his cultivation rather than merely an obstacle.
• The contrast between comedy and danger: The chapter shifts from Doudou’s absurd driving dispute to serious sect politics, capture, death, and potential intelligence leaks.
• Cultivation and physical strengthening: The arrival of Unmoving Vajra Body marks an important step in Shuhang’s development.

Important Character Interactions

• Doudou and Yellow Mountain: Their quarrel drives the comedic opening, with Doudou demanding independence and Yellow Mountain firmly restraining him.
• Doudou and Fairy Lychee: Doudou exploits Fairy Lychee’s affection by presenting himself as an innocent victim; she readily takes his side.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou: Shuhang observes Doudou’s antics with disbelief and growing aversion to the idea of owning a demon pet.
• Gongzi Hai, Anzhi Devil Lord, and Zheng Neng: They analyze Jing Mo’s defeat, Shuhang’s abilities, and the danger posed by Su Clan’s Seven.
• Venerable White and Song Shuhang: They prepare to receive Shuhang’s new cultivation method, ending the chapter on the ominous return of a familiar scream.

Key plot points and events

• A Flying Sword Message arrives carrying both a USB drive—with the supplementary technique for the Unmoving Vajra Body—and a terrified little monk.
• Senior White briefly pretends the monk may have been sent by mistake and threatens to return him by flying sword. Song Shuhang helps the monk down instead.
• The monk introduces himself as Guoguo, a six-year-old disciple of Abbot Profound Principle. When Song Shuhang prepares to call Senior Brother Three Days, Guoguo admits he secretly escaped from his temple.
• Three Days confirms that Guoguo hid on a flying sword using an invisibility talisman, then rode the message sword to Song Shuhang. He asks Song Shuhang to look after him for a few days until someone can collect him.
• Senior White contacts Three Days to learn how to unseal the USB drive.
• Song Shuhang playfully pulls Guoguo’s cheeks and asks why he ran away. Guoguo finally reveals that he wants surgery for hemorrhoids, which he believes he developed after years of intense meditation and cultivation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is amused by Guoguo’s cuteness but wary of the trouble he may bring. He agrees to shelter him and responds to his confession with stunned disbelief.
• Senior White remains calm and teasing, using the threat of another high-speed sword ride to frighten Guoguo.
• Guoguo appears solemn and dutiful, but proves mischievous and determined enough to risk a terrifying flight to escape temple restrictions. His embarrassing medical concern explains his otherwise absurd plan.
• Senior Brother Three Days is relieved Guoguo reached his destination and, feeling sorry for the boy, allows him a short stay away from the temple.

Significant themes

• Comic contrast: Guoguo’s serious monastic manner clashes with his childish fear, secret escape, and unexpectedly mundane reason for leaving.
• Rules versus personal wishes: Though temple rules forbid young disciples from leaving, Guoguo finds a risky way to seek help—and a little freedom.
• Compassion and responsibility: Three Days gives Guoguo time outside the temple, while Song Shuhang agrees to care for him.

Chapter Summary: “Target: The Sky? Too Naive—It's the Universe!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang discusses Little Monk Guoguo’s hemorrhoids, which developed after two years of cultivating while sitting on “Fire Rock” and “Ice Stone.”
• Body Tempering Liquid failed to cure Guoguo because he had consumed too much ordinary-quality liquid; Venerable White explains that only a higher-quality version would still affect him.
• Guoguo wants minimally invasive surgery before entering the Thousand-Layer Prison Grotto Abode, where intense ice-and-fire cultivation might worsen his condition.
• Too embarrassed to tell his senior brother, Guoguo asks Song Shuhang for help. Song agrees to take him to the Jiangnan University Town Affiliated Hospital and arranges a room for him.
• Song Shuhang studies and masters the auxiliary cultivation technique Unmoving Vajra Body.
• Venerable White teaches him a simplified Charging Technique, which uses Blood Qi to charge electronic devices through a thunder talisman drawn in the palm.
• The next morning, True Lord Yellow Mountain arranges for Song Shuhang and Venerable White to receive pilot licenses, medical certificates, and flight training.
• Doudou secretly gives Song Shuhang one of his hairs “for emergencies,” but it is actually part of Doudou’s scheme to learn how to fly without Yellow Mountain’s permission.
• Song Shuhang asks Yellow Mountain to prepare a spacesuit and oxygen equipment, declaring that his ambition with Venerable White is not merely to fly through the sky, but eventually to reach the universe.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues acting responsibly and compassionately, agreeing to help Guoguo despite the awkwardness of the situation.
• He gains another cultivation technique and a practical supernatural skill, showing steady growth in both combat and everyday abilities.
• Song’s naïveté and trust remain evident when he mistakes Doudou’s dog hair for a genuine protective measure.
• Little Monk Guoguo is revealed to be obedient but somewhat sheltered and overly trusting. His fear of worsening hemorrhoids motivates him to seek medical treatment rather than endure further suffering.
• Venerable White remains powerful, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about unusual activities. He also appears eager to begin flight training.
• Doudou demonstrates his mischievous and self-serving side, manipulating Song Shuhang so he can pursue his own desire to fly.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain acts as the practical organizer, using his connections to arrange official-looking licenses and training for the cultivators.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation versus ordinary life: Even powerful cultivators must deal with mundane physical problems such as hemorrhoids, hospitals, and electronic charging.
• The advantages of sect resources: Guoguo’s abundant access to Body Tempering Liquid contrasts with rogue cultivators who struggle to obtain even a single batch.
• Naivety and deception: Guoguo trusts hospital advertising, while Song Shuhang trusts Doudou’s supposed emergency assistance.
• Friendship and responsibility: Song helps Guoguo because he feels responsible for looking after him, even when the request is embarrassing.
• Ambition and escalation: What begins as ordinary flight training immediately expands into Venerable White and Song Shuhang’s absurdly grand goal of reaching outer space.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Guoguo discuss the monk’s condition, treatment options, and fear of his upcoming cultivation.
• Venerable White privately explains Guoguo’s Body Tempering Liquid problem to Song through Secret Voice Transmission.
• Song offers Guoguo a place to stay and promises to arrange medical treatment.
• Venerable White instructs Song in Unmoving Vajra Body and the Charging Technique.
• Doudou gives Song a dog hair while secretly plotting to use the flight-training opportunity for himself.
• Song and True Lord Yellow Mountain exchange messages about the sudden flight lessons, with Song requesting space equipment because of his exaggerated expectations.

Chapter Summary: “Could You Let Me Eat in Peace?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang tells True Lord Yellow Mountain that Senior White may attempt to fly into outer space. Yellow Mountain agrees to prepare the necessary equipment but urgently warns Shuhang not to let Doudou near an aircraft, fearing the trouble he might cause.
• Yellow Mountain is surprised that Doudou supposedly has no interest in learning to fly and wonders whether spending time with Shuhang has made the mischievous dog more responsible.
• Fairy Lychee arrives at Yellow Mountain’s immortal cave, setting up a new interaction just as he finishes his conversation with Shuhang.
• Shuhang researches airplane safety and parachutes online before going downstairs for breakfast, determined to prepare for the dangerous flight adventure.
• Senior White has brought back a large assortment of ordinary breakfast foods while eating yet more waxberries.
• While eating, Shuhang watches a television program discussing the huge crater Senior White accidentally created near Jiangnan’s Electronics City. The public believes it is a sinkhole, and Professor Liu gives an elaborate explanation blaming underground exploitation and environmental damage.
• Senior White recognizes the crater as his own accidental creation. Shuhang humorously encourages him to let “experts” explain away future destruction instead of using earth-leveling spells.
• Little Monk Guoguo emerges from the bathroom and asks Shuhang to inspect whether he wiped himself properly, revealing that his hemorrhoids are still severe. The sight ruins Shuhang’s appetite because the fried dough sticks resemble feces.
• Guoguo asks for Spirit Rice rice balls and Sweet Dew Liquid, prompting Senior White to explain that these spiritually enhanced foods aid cultivation. He offers to teach Shuhang how to grow them.
• Guoguo refuses the fried dough sticks because he does not know whether they were cooked in vegetable oil or animal fat, since consuming animal fat would violate his Buddhist precepts. He settles for a plain bun, leaving Shuhang feeling depressed.

Character Development

• Song Shuhang shows increasing caution and responsibility by studying aviation safety, though he remains trapped in bizarre situations caused by Senior White and Guoguo.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain remains deeply concerned about containing Doudou’s destructive tendencies. He also appears hopeful that Shuhang may be a positive influence on him.
• Senior White continues to be carefree, powerful, and oblivious to the consequences of his actions. He casually admits to creating the crater and shows nostalgia for his former life as a cultivator who farmed spiritual crops.
• Little Monk Guoguo is earnest, innocent, and disciplined. He takes hygiene seriously but lacks any sense of embarrassment, while his strict adherence to Buddhist dietary rules creates additional humor.

Significant Themes

• Chaos and responsibility: Shuhang repeatedly tries to prepare responsibly, but Senior White’s unpredictable behavior and Guoguo’s antics make normal life impossible.
• The absurdity of explanations: The crater demonstrates how ordinary society rationalizes supernatural events through scientific or environmental explanations.
• Cultivation versus ordinary life: Spiritual foods, flying swords, and immortal caves exist alongside television talk shows, online safety guides, and everyday breakfast.
• Influence and personality: Yellow Mountain wonders whether Shuhang’s presence has softened Doudou’s troublesome nature, raising the idea that relationships can change behavior.
• Humor through contrast: Serious cultivation matters are juxtaposed with mundane concerns such as breakfast, hemorrhoids, hygiene, and dietary restrictions.

Character Interactions

• Yellow Mountain and Shuhang discuss the dangers of flying with Senior White and Doudou.
• Yellow Mountain welcomes Fairy Lychee to his immortal cave.
• Shuhang and Senior White joke about the crater being reclassified as a sinkhole.
• Shuhang gives Guoguo hygiene advice, only to have the monk publicly display his bottom for inspection.
• Senior White explains spiritual agriculture and offers to help Shuhang grow Spirit Rice.
• Guoguo’s Buddhist dietary restrictions clash with Shuhang’s ordinary breakfast, ending the chapter on a comic and melancholic note.

Chapter 214 Summary: Skydiving Suits and Senior White’s Misunderstanding

Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang leaves Little Monk Guoguo at home with Doudou while he and Senior White go out to learn how to fly. He avoids bringing Guoguo because Senior White’s flying practice could endanger bystanders.
• After completing his morning exercises, Song Shuhang receives an aviation agent, Catherine, sent by Senior Yellow Mountain’s contact, Huang Wenzhong.
• Catherine delivers a bulky aviation suit and oxygen equipment, along with already-issued Class II medical certificates and Private Pilot Licenses for Song Shuhang and “Song Bai” (Senior White), despite neither having flown before.
• Catherine takes them by pickup truck to the Jiangshui Civil Aviation Training Center, where they will study flight theory, practice on simulators, and eventually fly a real aircraft.
• Senior White sees the aviation suit and mistakenly assumes Song Shuhang intends to travel into outer space.
• Song Shuhang lies that he has always admired astronauts and wants the suit for recreational purposes, carefully avoiding admitting that he fears Senior White may accidentally fly them into space.
• Senior White becomes interested in Song Shuhang’s supposed enthusiasm for space travel, while Song Shuhang worries that the conversation may lead to an unwanted trip beyond Earth.
• At the training center, Catherine shows them the airfield and explains that they can choose among several aircraft, including six small helicopters, after completing their lessons.

Character Development

• Song Shuhang remains cautious and practical. He prepares himself mentally with the True Self Meditation Scripture and wears the Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl, expecting Senior White’s flight training to become dangerous or unpredictable.
• He also demonstrates tact and consideration by disguising his real concerns rather than hurting Senior White’s feelings.
• Senior White shows unusual self-restraint. Determined not to repeat his earlier destructive experience with a car, he plans to study aircraft theory properly and avoid modifying or dismantling the plane during the lesson.
• Despite this resolve, his curiosity and enthusiasm remain strong, especially regarding aircraft and outer space.
• Catherine is professional but increasingly impressed by the two clients’ wealth and eccentricity. She also becomes involuntarily attracted to Senior White, whose extraordinary appearance and aura affect her almost immediately.
• Little Monk Guoguo confidently accepts responsibility for guarding the house, while Doudou’s presence reassures Song Shuhang that things will remain under control.

Significant Themes

• Miscommunication and misunderstanding: Song Shuhang’s attempt to conceal his fear creates Senior White’s mistaken belief that space travel is the real goal.
• Caution versus curiosity: Song Shuhang prepares for disaster, while Senior White approaches aviation with genuine excitement and a desire to explore.
• Responsibility and self-control: Senior White recognizes the danger he caused previously and resolves to behave responsibly during flight training.
• The absurdity of wealth and cultivation: Obtaining pilot licenses and specialized equipment before receiving any instruction highlights the extravagant resources surrounding the characters.
• Human fascination with the unknown: The chapter contrasts ordinary aviation with the characters’ growing interest in outer space and the wider universe.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang instructs Guoguo to protect the house and later cooperates with Catherine regarding the flight arrangements.
• Catherine treats Song Shuhang and Senior White as influential clients, despite finding their requests strange.
• Senior White questions Song Shuhang about the aviation suit, leading to Song Shuhang’s carefully constructed explanation about his interest in astronauts.
• Catherine secretly admires Senior White’s appearance, adding a humorous contrast between his supernatural charm and his effort to control it.
• The chapter ends with Song Shuhang and Senior White beginning formal aviation training, with the possibility of chaotic flight practice looming ahead.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White receive an accelerated lesson on airplane theory, including flight regulations, weather analysis, aircraft operation, and navigation.
• They train in a simulator before taking a helicopter into the air under the supervision of instructors Little Li and Old Liu.
• Song Shuhang flies first. Although nervous, he operates the helicopter flawlessly, surprising Little Li, who assumes he has prior aviation experience.
• Senior White then pilots the helicopter with extraordinary ease, behaving like an expert despite having never flown a plane. Old Liu, already psychologically overwhelmed by Senior White during simulator training, becomes even more distressed.
• Song Shuhang inexplicably puts on a bulky spacesuit before the second flight, claiming he has always wanted to experience being an astronaut. He secretly relies on the Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl to keep from overheating.
• Meanwhile, the chapter introduces the Cultivator World’s periodic Flying Sword competitions. These include the Fourth-Grade Sword-Flight Competition, Fifth-Grade Flying Sword Race, and Sixth-Grade Sword-Escape Competition.
• Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang, a three-time Fourth-Grade champion, is determined to win a fourth consecutive title. He enjoys racing airplanes and searches for aircraft to challenge.
• Yang finds the helicopter and flies alongside it before dramatically accelerating ahead, deliberately provoking its passengers.
• Song Shuhang notices Yang because of his Eye Aperture. Senior White recognizes the cultivator’s behavior as a challenge, leaving Shuhang worried that a misunderstanding—or competition—is about to begin.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates unexpectedly excellent piloting skills despite his nervousness. He develops an enthusiasm for helicopters, particularly their reassuring stability, though he still finds them inferior to flying swords. His eccentric spacesuit experiment highlights his curiosity and impulsiveness.
• Senior White: Quickly masters both theoretical knowledge and helicopter controls. His vast experience flying through the skies makes him appear like a veteran pilot. He also immediately interprets Yang Yuxiang’s gesture as a provocation.
• Instructor Little Li: Initially terrified of teaching the two “beginners,” he becomes relieved and excited after witnessing their skill, believing the dangerous assignment has turned into an easy and profitable job. Song Shuhang’s spacesuit, however, continues to make him uneasy.
• Old Liu: Becomes mentally shaken after spending time training Senior White in the simulator, to the point of questioning his outlook on life.
• Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang: Is established as a talented, competitive cultivator obsessed with racing flying swords against aircraft. His pride and playful arrogance motivate him to challenge the helicopter.

Significant Themes

• Freedom versus regulation: Flying swords offer limitless maneuverability, while airplanes are constrained by physics, weather, safety procedures, and human regulations.
• Modern society and cultivation: The Cultivator World remains hidden but adapts to modern life, creating competitions comparable to the Olympics and interacting with contemporary technology.
• Comedic contrast: The supposedly inexperienced students are remarkably capable, while the professional instructors are the ones overwhelmed by the situation.
• Competition and pride: Yang Yuxiang’s joy in overtaking planes reflects the chapter’s recurring fascination with speed, skill, and one-upmanship.
• The absurd blending of worlds: Ordinary aviation, cultivation techniques, spacesuits, and supernatural perception coexist in increasingly humorous ways.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White discuss the simplicity of aviation theory and compare airplanes with flying swords.
• Little Li privately reassures Old Liu that the students are likely experienced pilots, while Old Liu struggles to recover from his encounter with Senior White.
• Little Li reacts with confusion and suspicion to Song Shuhang’s spacesuit, while Senior White shows interest in trying it himself.
• Yang Yuxiang flies beside the helicopter, theatrically signals a race, and speeds away.
• Song Shuhang is confused by Yang’s behavior, while Senior White confidently identifies it as a provocation.

Chapter Summary: “Supersonic Helicopter, Yo!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable White interprets a rival flying on a sword ahead of them as a challenge and becomes determined to overtake him. He frames the race as part of the cultivator’s need to keep advancing and never fall behind.
• Song Shuhang worries about openly discussing cultivation in front of flight instructor Little Li, but discovers that Venerable White has already soundproofed the helicopter. Little Li can see them speaking but cannot hear anything, leading him to believe he has suddenly gone deaf.
• Venerable White equips the helicopter with a powerful array combining invisibility, soundproofing, energy concealment, and anti-detection abilities. The aircraft becomes invisible and undetectable to ordinary people, radar, and other defensive systems.
• He then inscribes an improved acceleration array based on Song Shuhang’s Azure Wind Acceleration Pendant. The array can increase speed up to tenfold.
• Song Shuhang realizes that tenfold acceleration could push the ordinary helicopter to roughly 1,500–1,700 km/h—faster than the speed of sound. He becomes increasingly alarmed, especially because Venerable White has not reinforced the helicopter’s structure.
• As the helicopter accelerates, Little Li notices the impossible speed readings and begs them to turn back. Venerable White refuses, claiming that the aircraft cannot be detected.
• When Little Li attempts to take control, Venerable White immobilizes him with a technique that leaves him unable to move below the neck. Little Li is completely unable to understand the supernatural events occurring around him.
• Venerable White finally activates the acceleration array at full power. The helicopter reaches supersonic speed and produces a sonic boom cloud.
• Little Li briefly marvels at witnessing supersonic flight, before realizing the danger: the helicopter begins to break apart, starting with its upper propeller.

Character Developments

• Venerable White is portrayed as enthusiastic, competitive, and dangerously confident. He treats the pursuit as both a cultivation principle and a personal race, while casually applying advanced formations to an unsuitable aircraft.
• Song Shuhang acts as the cautious and rational counterbalance. He understands the risks, worries about Little Li’s safety, and tries to prepare for the consequences, though he cannot stop Venerable White.
• Flight Instructor Little Li shifts from professional confidence to total panic. His attempts to remain calm and follow aviation procedures collapse as he encounters soundproofing, invisibility, supernatural immobilization, and supersonic flight in a normal helicopter.

Significant Themes

• Cultivator logic versus ordinary-world logic: Venerable White applies the idea of constant advancement to a literal flying race, while Song Shuhang and Little Li recognize the practical dangers.
• Reckless power and unintended consequences: Advanced cultivation techniques are used casually, but the ordinary helicopter cannot withstand their effects.
• The gap between supernatural and modern society: Little Li’s confusion highlights how incomprehensible cultivators’ abilities are to ordinary people.
• Competition and pride: Venerable White’s determination to avoid being overtaken drives the escalating danger.
• Comedy through contrast: The chapter juxtaposes grand cultivation ideals with aviation regulations, panic over no-fly zones, and an ordinary helicopter being forced into supersonic flight.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang repeatedly warns Venerable White to be careful, especially because Little Li is aboard, but Venerable White dismisses the concerns with absolute confidence.
• Venerable White reassures Song Shuhang that Little Li will survive and have his memories erased, which only makes Song Shuhang more frightened.
• Little Li tries to communicate with and restrain Venerable White, but the soundproofing prevents meaningful communication, and Venerable White later paralyzes him.
• Song Shuhang and Little Li share a silent understanding that something is terribly wrong, particularly when Song Shuhang’s spacesuit and bitter expression reveal that the acceleration is intentional.
• The chapter ends on a cliffhanger as the helicopter begins disintegrating after reaching supersonic speed.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The helicopter’s propeller breaks off while Senior White is flying at supersonic speed. Its windows shatter, its tail and metal plating tear away, and the aircraft nearly disintegrates.
• Instructor Little Li, who had once dreamed of flying in a supersonic aircraft, believes he is about to die. Despite having prepared himself mentally—and having purchased a large insurance policy—he panics, cries for his mother, and eventually faints.
• Senior White uses invisible Sword Qi to destroy the falling debris safely and creates a protective shield around the remaining helicopter shell.
• Song Shuhang places his spacesuit helmet over Instructor Little Li’s head to provide oxygen, hoping that Little Li will later remember the incident as a nightmare.
• Song Shuhang tries to convince Senior White to abandon the damaged helicopter and cancel their race with the flying-sword cultivator. Senior White initially agrees that the aircraft is badly made but refuses to give up.
• Senior White draws the inscriptions for his “Single-Use Flying Sword 004 Edition” onto the helicopter shell. By infusing it with spiritual power, he transforms the wrecked aircraft into a giant flying sword.
• The modified shell takes off again, and Senior White activates the acceleration formation, pushing it back to supersonic speed.
• Meanwhile, Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang slows down after overtaking the original helicopter, disappointed by its poor speed. He is preparing to find another opponent when the ruined, windowless helicopter suddenly catches up to him at nearly Mach 2.
• Yang Yuxiang is stunned by the impossible sight but recognizes Senior White’s provocative hand seal. Believing the strange aircraft is challenging him to a race, he accepts and prepares to demonstrate the speed of his three-time Sword-Flight Competition championship.

Character Developments

• Instructor Little Li: His imagined bravery collapses when death appears certain. He reveals a deeply human fear of dying and abandons his dignity by sobbing openly before fainting.
• Senior White: Demonstrates his eccentric confidence, extraordinary cultivation abilities, and refusal to abandon a challenge. His creativity turns a destroyed helicopter into a massive flying sword.
• Song Shuhang: Acts protectively toward Instructor Little Li and tries to restrain Senior White’s reckless behavior. He is relieved when Little Li faints and ultimately resigns himself to Senior White’s absurd plan.
• Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang: Reveals his pride and competitive nature. He is dissatisfied with easy victories and immediately accepts what he interprets as a challenge from the transformed helicopter.

Significant Themes

• Fear versus imagined courage: Instructor Little Li learns that preparing for death in theory is very different from facing certain death in reality.
• Absurdity and cultivation overcoming common sense: Senior White’s spiritual techniques completely bypass ordinary physics, allowing a helicopter wreck to function as a flying sword.
• Recklessness versus responsibility: Song Shuhang attempts to stop Senior White, while Senior White prioritizes continuing the race and having fun.
• Competition and pride: Yang Yuxiang’s identity as a champion drives him to seek worthy opponents, even when the challenger is an impossible aircraft.
• Transformation and ingenuity: The ruined helicopter changes from a failing machine into a faster and more powerful magical vehicle.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang comforts and assists the terrified Instructor Little Li by supplying him with the spacesuit helmet and oxygen.
• Song Shuhang repeatedly persuades Senior White to abandon the aircraft, but Senior White counters that they should not give up before the last moment.
• Senior White’s transformation of the helicopter leaves Song Shuhang shocked but helplessly accepting of his senior’s eccentricity.
• Yang Yuxiang mistakes Senior White’s gesture for a deliberate racing challenge. Senior White and Yang therefore enter an imminent contest, despite the helicopter being a bizarre, barely recognizable wreck.

Chapter Summary

Plot and Events

• Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang repeatedly challenges Venerable White’s helicopter after being left behind during their first acceleration.
• Using wind-based techniques, Yang catches up several times:
  • His hurricane-assisted sword flight lets him pursue the helicopter.
  • Venerable White then uses the powerful Heavenly Roc Escape Technique, revealing that the helicopter shell is actually a flying sword.
  • Yang responds with the Falling Moon Sword Sect’s Moonlight Escape Technique, eventually catching up again.
• Venerable White praises Yang’s speed but reveals that he has been deliberately limiting himself. When he unleashes his true speed, the helicopter moves almost like it is teleporting, leaving Yang completely unable to pursue.
• Rather than becoming discouraged, Yang gains a new ambition: advance to the Fifth-Grade Realm, master stronger escape techniques, dominate the Fifth-Grade Flying Sword Race, and eventually race Venerable White again.
• Inside the helicopter, Instructor Little Li awakens and panics at the extreme speed and vertical flight. Senior White knocks him unconscious again.
• When Song Shuhang suggests landing, Senior White instead offers to teach him Turtle-Breathing Technique, immediately giving Shuhang an ominous feeling.

Character Developments

• Gale Sword Yang Yuxiang is shown to be highly skilled, competitive, and remarkably resilient. His pride is humbled by Venerable White’s overwhelming speed, but the experience inspires him to stop delaying his advancement and pursue a greater goal.
• Venerable White remains playful and vastly superior. He treats the race as entertainment, praises Yang’s ability, and casually demonstrates that he has been holding back.
• Song Shuhang admires Yang’s elegant sword-flight style and feels envious of his cool, wind-swept appearance. He remains wary of Senior White’s sudden lessons.
• Instructor Little Li serves as comic relief, reacting with terror to the helicopter’s impossible flight.

Themes

• Competition and self-improvement: Defeat becomes motivation for Yang rather than a source of despair.
• Humility before greater power: Yang realizes that even his celebrated abilities are insignificant compared with a true expert.
• Hidden strength: Venerable White’s restrained performance emphasizes how difficult it is to judge his actual capabilities.
• Comedy through contrast: The grand aerial duel is contrasted with Shuhang’s envy, Little Li’s panic, and the suspiciously named Turtle-Breathing Technique.

Character Interactions

• Yang and Venerable White engage in a playful but intense contest, each repeatedly overtaking the other until White reveals the enormous gap between them.
• Yang confidently challenges White, while White responds with encouragement and teasing superiority.
• Song Shuhang observes the race and comments on it, admiring Yang’s style while remaining uneasy about White’s intentions.
• Senior White’s proposed lesson leaves Shuhang expecting that “Turtle-Breathing Technique” may involve another unpleasant or dangerous experience.

Chapter Summary: It’s About to Crash, Damn It, Senior White Is Distracted!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable White teaches Song Shuhang the Turtle-Breathing Technique because their flying sword is accelerating toward outer space and can no longer safely stop.
• The flying sword’s speed is too great for an emergency halt: although Venerable White could stop it easily, the helicopter shell would be destroyed, endangering Song Shuhang and Instructor Little Li.
• Since there is only one spacesuit, Song Shuhang gives it to Instructor Little Li and prepares to survive using Turtle-Breathing Technique.
• Song Shuhang quickly masters the technique, which allows him to stop breathing and slow his heartbeat for roughly two hours.
• Venerable White creates a protective Talisman Treasure on a notebook page to shield Song Shuhang from the vacuum, temperature, radiation, and other dangers of space.
• The group breaks through Earth’s atmosphere and enters outer space. Song Shuhang is awestruck by the beauty of the stars.
• While admiring the universe, Venerable White becomes distracted by old memories and stops paying attention to their course.
• Song Shuhang notices a huge object directly ahead and realizes they are about to collide, but Venerable White does not respond.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates courage and adaptability by accepting the dangerous situation, learning Turtle-Breathing Technique quickly, and giving his spacesuit to Instructor Little Li.
• His anxiety about space travel contrasts with his genuine awe once he sees the stars.
• Venerable White is shown as both reckless and considerate. He lies about being unable to stop the flying sword because he wants to fulfill Song Shuhang’s wish to visit space.
• White’s concern for his junior is evident in the protective talisman he makes, though his distraction creates a new danger.
• Instructor Little Li remains largely passive in the chapter but is protected by Song Shuhang, who sacrifices his own spacesuit for her safety.
• Liu Jianyi is mentioned as an example of someone who cultivated Turtle-Breathing Technique because of his extreme laziness.

Significant Themes

• Recklessness versus consideration: Venerable White’s dangerous decisions are motivated by kindness, while Song Shuhang must cope with the consequences.
• Trust and responsibility: Song Shuhang relies on White’s abilities but also recognizes the need to protect Instructor Little Li.
• Wonder and danger: The beauty of outer space is presented alongside its lethal conditions, emphasizing the contrast between exploration and survival.
• Cultivation’s unconventional possibilities: Techniques and talismans allow cultivators to survive situations that would normally be impossible for ordinary humans.
• The unpredictability of Venerable White: His absent-mindedness and unusual methods repeatedly turn ordinary journeys into dangerous adventures.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang questions Venerable White about the emergency, prompting White to reveal that they are entering space.
• White teaches him Turtle-Breathing Technique and reassures him that he will be safe.
• Song Shuhang gives his spacesuit to Instructor Little Li and reluctantly accepts White’s improvised talisman.
• After entering space, Song Shuhang and White share a moment of admiration for the stars—until White becomes lost in his memories.
• Song Shuhang then desperately warns White about the approaching object, but White remains unresponsive, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable White suddenly spaces out while flying through space, triggering the dangerous Flat-Ground Fall skill.
• Their “helicopter-style flying sword” collides with a massive space station. The impact tears a huge hole in its side, though Venerable White’s protective shield prevents the station from being completely destroyed.
• Song Shuhang panics, realizing that the station may contain astronauts and that the collision could become an extremely costly disaster.
• The chapter shifts briefly to the space station, where astronauts Akuro and Anthony are preparing to return to Earth after five months and nearly sixty completed experiments. The collision violently shakes the station and leaves them alarmed.
• Venerable White wakes from his daze and casually learns that they have hit a space station. He is relieved that it was not destroyed.
• Instructor Little Li regains consciousness in a spacesuit and discovers that he is in outer space, unable to move below the neck. Terrified and confused, he begs to be taken home.
• Venerable White decides to erase Little Li’s recent memories and then repair the hole in the space station rather than simply flee.
• Despite Song Shuhang’s doubts about White’s mechanical skills, Venerable White confidently insists that his recent experience dismantling modern appliances has prepared him for the task. He plans to repair the station physically or use magic to seal the damage.

Character Developments

• Venerable White remains powerful, absentminded, and dangerously unpredictable, but he also displays a strong sense of responsibility. He believes that since he caused the damage, he must repair it.
• Song Shuhang acts as the cautious, realistic counterbalance to Venerable White. He worries about the astronauts, the station’s destruction, and White’s questionable repair abilities.
• Instructor Little Li becomes increasingly traumatized by the bizarre events. His confusion and helplessness lead him to panic, cry, and imagine absurd alien-abduction scenarios.
• Anthony and Akuro are introduced as hardworking astronauts who have endured five months in space. Their friendly teasing shows familiarity and camaraderie, which makes the sudden collision more disruptive.

Significant Themes

• Comedy from dangerous incompetence: Venerable White’s immense power is undermined by his absentmindedness and poor practical judgment.
• Responsibility and consequences: Although the accident is treated humorously, White recognizes that he should repair the damage he caused.
• Contrast between the extraordinary and the ordinary: Space travel, magic, and supernatural abilities collide with mundane concerns such as machinery, traffic accidents, and workplace frustration.
• Fear of the unknown: Little Li’s reaction highlights how terrifying supernatural events appear to an ordinary person who cannot understand them.
• Human cooperation and companionship: Anthony and Akuro’s banter emphasizes the bond formed through shared hardship, while Song Shuhang and Venerable White continue functioning as an exasperated but cooperative pair.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang repeatedly warns Venerable White about the impending collision and later challenges his plan to repair the station.
• Venerable White responds to Shuhang’s concerns with casual confidence, believing his recent experience is enough to handle the repairs.
• Anthony and Akuro joke about each other’s baldness and white hair before the collision interrupts their preparations.
• Instructor Little Li directly blames or fears Venerable White, begging him to let him return home.
• Venerable White prepares to erase Little Li’s memories, while Little Li misunderstands the procedure and imagines horrifying alien experiments and brainwashing.