Chapter Summaries

Senior White let the Qilin Beast capture him and was taken to the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Immortal Locking Prison, where he entered seclusion while Song Shuhang and the others watched from his Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos. There, they discovered that Mad Saber Three Waves and Fairy Skylark were imprisoned nearby too.

• The Qilin Beast mistook its reluctance to harm Senior White, disguised as Cheng Lin, for lingering love for Empress Cheng Lin before Phoenix Ritual Zither Master opened a Space Gate to take them back.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master and the Qilin Beast brought Senior White to the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Secret Realm and locked him in the Immortal Locking Prison, where the Qilin Beast stood guard.
• Inside Senior White’s Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos, Su Clan’s Sixteen tended to Song Shuhang while White Dragon Sister said he was healthy and likely comprehending the saber strike.
• Pavilion Master Chu sensed that Senior White was in seclusion and revealed that the group was trapped inside the Immortal Locking Prison, which White Dragon Sister had helped design.
• Mad Saber Three Waves recognized the disguised figure as Shuhang, and Fairy Skylark explained that it was Senior White because nobody else could lie motionless and look so handsome.

Skylark and Mad Saber Three Waves waited in the Immortal Locking Prison while Senior White remained in seclusion, and Su Clan's Sixteen secretly contacted them from inside Senior White's Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos. Skylark revealed that she was searching for the Confucian Sage's hidden Resurrection Formation, leaving the group with a plan to escape, find it, and leave.

• Mad Saber Three Waves and Skylark realized Senior White's presence improved their chances of escaping, while the Qilin Beast secretly reported Cheng Lin's disguise to the Phoenix Ritual Zither Master.
• Skylark said Senior White was in seclusion, so she and Three Waves waited in their cells as the Qilin Beast watched them.
• Su Clan's Sixteen used a hidden strand of Senior White's hair to contact Three Waves and learned that he and Skylark had been captured while searching for a location.
• Skylark told Sixteen she sought a Resurrection Formation left by the Confucian Sage in the Beast Cultivator World, and Sixteen shared the news with Song Shuhang and the others.
• Skylark laid out her plan: break out of prison, find the Resurrection Formation, and leave.

Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect prepared to escape the Immortal Locking Prison after Senior White accidentally dismantled part of its sealing formation. She then made a series of impossible Vow Inscriptions, leaving her convinced she was doomed.

• Senior White woke in a daze, lifted six slabs from the prison floor, and built himself a stone shelter for secluded meditation.
• Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect realized Senior White had opened a way out and told everyone to prepare to break free.
• Skylark cut off her hands to remove her spiritual energy-sealing manacles, and Mad Saber Three Waves helped her restore them.
• The Qilin Beast attacked Skylark and activated the prison alarm as she shattered a vial and cast a spell inscribed on her body.
• Skylark made vows to protect the mortal world, free all living beings, and bring peace to the Myriad Heavens and Realms, then declared she was doomed.

Skylark detonated the energy of her three Grand Vow Oaths, breaking open two Immortal Locking Prison cells, but the Disaster Giant Turtle rescued Cheng Lin, Senior White, and the others. Outside the prison, Mad Saber Three Waves carried Senior White’s stone box inside the gray potion that served as a coordinate for Skylark’s future revival.

• Skylark’s Grand Vow Oath energy exploded, and the Qilin Beast tried to suppress the blast while struggling with its delayed reactions.
• The explosion broke open two prison cells, and the Qilin Beast sent a binding net into them, trapping the Disaster Giant Turtle instead of its intended targets.
• The Disaster Giant Turtle vanished with Cheng Lin, Senior White’s stone box, and the man who was the source of the disease, leaving the Qilin Beast furious.
• The Qilin Beast left the Immortal Locking Prison and worried that something had happened to its companions outside.
• Mad Saber Three Waves carried Senior White’s stone box through the gray potion, which Skylark had prepared as an escape aid and a coordinate for her revival.

Mad Saber Three Waves and Senior White's stone box escaped the Immortal Locking Prison amid a battle between the Ancient Heavenly Court and an invading faction. Pavilion Master Chu showed the group the fighting and compared two body-refinement Venerables with Song Shuhang, whose face was too tough for their fists to harm.

• Pavilion Master Chu sensed the Ancient Heavenly Court members fighting invaders and projected the battle for the group.
• Pavilion Master Chu and White Dragon Sister explained that the Ninth-Grade and Eighth-Grade battles had been moved elsewhere, while hidden defenders and reinforcements favored the Heavenly Court side.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather asked how two body-refinement Venerables compared physically with Senior Song.
• Pavilion Master Chu said ordinary cultivators should not be compared with someone whose face Heavenly Punishment could not break through.
• The two Venerables punched each other in the face, and White Dragon Sister said their fists would likely suffer rebound damage if they struck Song Shuhang.

Su Clan's Sixteen, White Dragon Sister, Pavilion Master Chu, Black-Skinned Soft Feather, and Mad Saber Three Waves watched two body-tempering cultivators fall after their brutal duel. Three Waves disguised himself as the injured Heavenly Court Venerable Blue Waves so he could search for the Sage Resurrection Formation, while the Merit Fat Whale took Blue Waves away to heal him.

• The two seventh-grade body-tempering cultivators knocked each other unconscious and fell, with one landing near Mad Saber Three Waves and nearly crushing him.
• White Dragon Sister identified the injured cultivator as a member of the Heavenly Court faction by the secret mark on his wrist.
• Mad Saber Three Waves used a disposable disguise mask to copy the cultivator's appearance, injuries, and mark.
• The Merit Fat Whale swallowed the injured cultivator and began healing him before the Merit Snake Beauty returned it to the gray liquid.
• Heavenly Court medical personnel arrived and called the injured Venerable Blue Waves, startling Mad Saber Three Waves.

Mad Saber Three Waves posed as the badly injured Venerable Blue Waves while Heavenly Court rescuers carried him from the battlefield and tried to feed him medicine. As they assigned him to treat another unconscious fairy, Pavilion Master Chu suspected Fairy Yuanyuan might also be Three Waves in disguise.

• Heavenly Court medical members carried Mad Saber Three Waves out of the pit while he pretended to be Venerable Blue Waves and held the gray liquid.
• The medical team tried healing spells and stuffed pills into Three Waves' mouth, then Senior Dong ordered them to feed him mouth-to-mouth when he would not swallow.
• Three Waves swallowed the chewed pills to avoid being fed mouth-to-mouth, and Senior Dong praised A Liang before assigning him to treat Fairy Yuanyuan.
• Fairy Yuanyuan's body trembled slightly, and Pavilion Master Chu's stray hair noticed and said she might be another Three Waves.

Pavilion Master Chu and the others realized the fake Fairy Yuanyuan was an infiltrator whose target might overlap with Mad Saber Three Waves’s. As the two disguised operatives were carried to the rear, Song Shuhang’s stomach growled, and Su Clan’s Sixteen ate the Grain-Repelling Pill meant for him.

• Pavilion Master Chu, White Dragon Sister, Black-Skinned Soft Feather, and Su Clan’s Sixteen deduced that the fake Fairy Yuanyuan was an attacker infiltrating the Heavenly Court stronghold and might share Three Waves’s target.
• The fake Fairy Yuanyuan decided to stay unconscious, but Senior Dong ordered A Liang to chew her pills before feeding them to her, leaving her despairing as Three Waves gloated.
• The fake Fairy Yuanyuan mistook Three Waves, disguised as Venerable Blue Waves, for her senior Steel Edge and questioned why he had escaped being force-fed medicine.
• Pavilion Master Chu watched Three Waves and the fake Fairy Yuanyuan being carried to the rear, where both waited quietly for a chance to escape.
• Song Shuhang’s stomach growled, and when Su Clan’s Sixteen took out a Grain-Repelling Pill for him, she put it into her own mouth.

Su Clan's Sixteen tried to feed Song Shuhang a Grain-Repelling Pill, but White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu intervened as he repeatedly woke and passed out. Pavilion Master Chu secretly moved Song Shuhang's consciousness into her ahoge, where he watched Sixteen feed him and then discovered a third divine sense body beside them.

• Su Clan's Sixteen prepared to feed Song Shuhang the pill, but he woke and caught her as she leaned toward him.
• Song Shuhang passed out again after White Dragon Sister used her once-a-month Enhanced Dragon Might on him.
• Su Clan's Sixteen fed Song Shuhang the pill with her lips while he was unconscious.
• Pavilion Master Chu transferred Song Shuhang's consciousness into her ahoge, letting him watch the feeding with her divine sense.
• Pavilion Master Chu knocked Song Shuhang's divine sense to the ground, where he noticed a third divine sense body sitting beside them.

Pavilion Master Chu showed Song Shuhang his Spirit Ghost’s divine sense, then knocked them both back into their bodies after teasing and striking him. Meanwhile, Mad Saber Three Waves and Fairy Yuanyuan infiltrated the Heavenly Court hideout and learned that the invaders intended to use the Confucian Sage’s Resurrection Grand Formation to resurrect Emperor Venerable.

• Pavilion Master Chu revealed Song Shuhang’s tiny, female Spirit Ghost avatar and teased him about feeding her medicine.
• Song Shuhang called Pavilion Master Chu old enough to be his great-great-grandmother, so she swung his Spirit Ghost into his face and sent their divine senses back to their bodies.
• Song Shuhang pretended to remain unconscious while Su Clan’s Sixteen and Black-Skinned Soft Feather checked on him.
• Mad Saber Three Waves and Fairy Yuanyuan slipped away from the treatment area and infiltrated the rear of the Heavenly Court members’ hideout.
• Fairy Yuanyuan told Mad Saber Three Waves that the invaders planned to modify the Confucian Sage’s Resurrection Grand Formation to resurrect Emperor Venerable.

Song Shuhang learned that the Emperor Venerable’s former subordinates were seeking the Confucian Sage’s Resurrection Formation to revive him, and used his Cultivation chat function to ask his contacts about the figure. He received a costly offer of information from Everything Can Be Sold and a probing message from Fairy Cheng Lin, who suspected he was at the Heavenly Court Remnant Faction’s base.

• Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair relayed Three Waves’ report that the Heavenly Court members were modifying the Resurrection Formation to revive their Emperor Venerable.
• Song Shuhang secretly used Cultivation chat to send his contacts a mass request for information, but forgot to exclude White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu.
• Song Shuhang admitted he was awake after the others noticed the request, and Everything Can Be Sold offered information about Emperor Venerable for one thousand Grade-Five Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Cheng Lin asked why Song Shuhang was asking about Emperor Venerable, and Song Shuhang explained the resurrection plot to her.
• Song Shuhang asked Creation Fairy whether the Confucian School knew about the formation, and she indicated that the former school had known but the present-day one did not.
• Fairy Cheng Lin guessed that Song Shuhang was at the Heavenly Court Remnant Faction’s base in the Beast Cultivator World.

Song Shuhang learned that Fairy Cheng Lin had secretly guided the Emperor Venerable’s old subordinates to attack the Heavenly Court Remnants Hideout so Daozi could reclaim the Confucian Sage Resurrection Grand Formation. As Song Shuhang promised to stay out of the conflict, Senior White awoke and Skylark returned from the dead, opening the formation’s entrance.

• Fairy Cheng Lin explained that the Emperor Venerable was an ancient Innate Deity whose experiments ended with his body and Dao destroyed, then arranged a remote thunderstrike for Song Shuhang after he teased her.
• Fairy Cheng Lin admitted that she had leaked information about the Confucian Sage Resurrection Grand Formation to the Emperor Venerable’s old subordinates, and warned Song Shuhang not to interfere.
• Fairy Cheng Lin said her companion Daozi, a Confucian School Thirteen-Tribulation Immortal, wanted to reclaim the resurrection formation, and Song Shuhang recognized him from Creation Fairy’s projection.
• Song Shuhang promised Fairy Cheng Lin that he would watch quietly, but Senior White then awoke from his brief seclusion and sensed treasure.
• The gray liquid formed Skylark’s body, and the resurrected Skylark opened the hidden entrance to the Confucian Sage’s resurrection formation.

Skylark entered the Confucian Sage Resurrection Space through a hidden back door, bringing Sage White and Three Waves of the Bilang Card with her. A Tribulation Immortal guardian arrived to confront the group, while Song Shuhang remained inside Sage White’s Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos.

• The Confucian Sage Resurrection Space opened its hidden back door for Skylark, and Song Shuhang messaged Fairy Cheng Lin that he had not interfered.
• Skylark brought Sage White and Three Waves of the Bilang Card into the space, where Sage White transferred Su Clan's Sixteen, White Dragon Sister, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather outside but kept Song Shuhang and Creation Fairy inside his Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos.
• Skylark explained that the entire black-and-white space formed the resurrection formation, with the black lake at its core, then changed clothes using a cosmos artifact from Three Waves of the Bilang Card.
• White Dragon Sister spotted a huge white door above the lake, and a bald Tribulation Immortal guardian emerged through the main entrance to investigate the intruders.
• The bald guardian mistook White Dragon Sister for the Ancestor of the Golden Dragon, then recognized White? Song Shuhang? Saint as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song and mocked him for sneaking in.

The Confucian Sage’s Resurrection Formation expelled the bald guardian after it protected Skylark, and Senior White discovered the formation could no longer revive the Sage. Fake Fairy Yuanyuan then emerged from a shoot growing out of Mad Saber Three Waves and admitted she had used him.

• The bald guardian recognized Mad Saber Three Waves beneath his Blue Waves disguise and threatened to capture everyone who had entered the Sage’s Resurrection Space.
• The guardian attacked Skylark, but the formation sealed him and then expelled him from the space.
• Skylark explained that the formation had reacted because the Confucian Sage had left safeguards to protect her from attacks.
• Senior White discovered that the current Heavenly Dao had erased the formation’s foundational information, making the Confucian Sage’s resurrection impossible.
• Fake Fairy Yuanyuan emerged from a shoot growing out of Three Waves and confessed that she had used him, prompting him to demand that she take responsibility.

Fake Fairy Yuanyuan completed the Resurrection Formation by casting an Emperor Venerable artifact into the black lake, while Senior White and the others wondered whether the Heavenly Emperor’s information might interfere. The formation activated and produced four pillars of light, leaving Yuanyuan stunned by the prospect of four people being resurrected.

• Fake Fairy Yuanyuan revealed that she had already sent an artifact containing the Emperor Venerable’s information into the black lake and completed her mission.
• Senior White proposed that the lake might also contain the Heavenly Emperor’s information, prompting the group to wonder which figure the formation would resurrect.
• White Dragon Sister said she could not intervene because it might disrupt her own resurrection plan, and Skylark and Senior White admitted they had stayed calm by following others’ example.
• The black lake surged as the Confucian Sage’s Resurrection Formation activated and sent a golden pillar of light into the sky.
• The pillar split into four, each containing a tall figure, and Fake Fairy Yuanyuan wondered who the four people were.

The Confucian Sage's Resurrection Formation revived four of his disciples instead of the Heavenly Emperor or Emperor Venerable. Skylark explained that the formation was the Sage's fallback for restoring his Thirteen Tribulation Immortals, leaving Song Shuhang wondering about Glazed Scholar.

• Fake Fairy Yuanyuan tried to identify Emperor Venerable among the four figures but hurt her eyes by staring at the formation's pillars.
• Song Shuhang confirmed that the Heavenly Emperor was alive, while Fairy Cheng Lin was shocked to learn that four figures were being resurrected.
• The pillars revealed four Confucian School Tribulation Immortals whose golden-body corpses Song Shuhang had returned for burial.
• Fake Fairy Yuanyuan demanded to know where Emperor Venerable was, and Skylark said the formation was the fallback the Sage had secretly arranged for his disciples.
• Song Shuhang asked whether the formation was meant to resurrect the Thirteen Tribulation Immortals and wondered about Glazed Scholar.

The Confucian School’s four Tribulation Immortals failed to revive fully because their formation had been damaged and too much time had passed. They planned to visit the Confucian School before fading away for good, and the Bookworm Tribulation Immortal apologized to Creation Fairy while mistakenly patting Song Shuhang’s head.

• Pavilion Master Chu explained why the Glazed Scholar might not have been revived, and Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword warned Song Shuhang against relying on resurrection.
• The four Confucian School Tribulation Immortals emerged from the failed revival and thanked Fake Fairy Yuanyuan for her efforts.
• The Tribulation Immortals told Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect that the damaged formation and passage of time had left them close to disappearing permanently.
• Song Shuhang told the four that the Confucian School still existed after Senior White brought him and Creation Fairy out of the Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos.
• The Bookworm Tribulation Immortal apologized to Creation Fairy for breaking their promise, but repeatedly stroked Song Shuhang’s head instead.

Song Shuhang and Creation Fairy shared a farewell song with the four Confucian Tribulation Immortals, who approved of him as her caretaker. Before departing, the four received Song Shuhang’s eyes in hopes of prolonging their time in the world, while Pavilion Master Chu’s tuft attacked one of them.

• The Bookworm Tribulation Immortal told Song Shuhang that seeing Creation Fairy reminded him of their teacher, and Creation Fairy emerged to gaze at the four senior brothers before hiding inside Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang began singing in the Ancient Language, and the four Confucian Tribulation Immortals joined the performance as his Sacred Apes, Merit Snake Beauty, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather provided accompaniment.
• The Bookworm Tribulation Immortal praised Song Shuhang’s assembled chorus, and the four Tribulation Immortals decided they could trust him to look after Creation Fairy.
• As the four prepared to return to the Confucian School, Creation Fairy produced two eyes from Song Shuhang’s body, and Pavilion Master Chu explained that they might extend the Tribulation Immortals’ time in the world.
• The handsome Tribulation Immortal mistook Pavilion Master Chu’s tuft of hair for a spirit, prompting the tuft to thrust toward him.

Song Shuhang tried to escape the Confucian Sage Resurrection Grand Formation with four resurrected Confucian Tribulation Immortals, but the Sage’s spatial safeguard diverted him into a black lake. After the immortals departed, something grabbed Song Shuhang’s leg and dragged him underwater.

• Pavilion Master Chu’s silly hair strung together four Confucian Tribulation Immortals, and Song Shuhang offered them his two Glazed Eyes to use as anchors.
• The Bookworm Tribulation Immortal opened a Space Gate, and Song Shuhang and Senior White tried to leave with the immortals.
• The Sage’s spatial safeguard twisted the passage and dropped Song Shuhang into the black lake instead of the Confucian School’s location.
• The four Tribulation Immortals apologized, then left through the spatial passage without Song Shuhang.
• As Song Shuhang swam toward shore, a large hand grabbed his hairy leg and dragged him toward the lake bottom.

Song Shuhang fought off a mutated water beast in the Confucian Sage’s black lake and used his Appraisal Secret Method to uncover the Ancient Heavenly Court Remnants’ plot. The appraisal continued updating in painful installments as the beast swallowed a branch containing Emperor Venerable information.

• A hairy hand grabbed Song Shuhang’s leg from the black lake, so he attacked with lightning, Pavilion Master Chu’s stray hair, and Merit Snake Beauty’s Merit Great Sun until it released him.
• Skylark warned that the water beast was heading for Fake Fairy Yuanyuan, who leaped away as the beast grabbed and dragged her branch into the lake.
• Song Shuhang appraised hairs left on his leg and learned the beast had descended from ornamental pets raised by the Confucian Sage and had been modified by the Ancient Heavenly Court Remnants.
• Song Shuhang’s appraisal updated repeatedly, revealing that the Remnants had implanted an Emperor Pearl and Heavenly Emperor information in the beast, and that it had swallowed Fake Fairy Yuanyuan’s branch containing Emperor Venerable rebirth information.
• The conflicting information inside the water beast prompted another painful appraisal update, and Song Shuhang’s arm wound split open again.