Chapter Summaries

White-Bone Fairy caught up on the year’s Profound Sage Lectures and was stunned by the many sages, including Song Shuhang appearing under several titles. She met Song Shuhang on the way to the seabed, asked whether Song Blockhead was there, and then passed out.

• White-Bone Fairy ended her combat state and received sixteen accumulated Profound Sage Lectures, marveling at how many sages had appeared in just over a year.
• White-Bone Fairy watched Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’s lecture, recognized Empress Cheng Lin’s Daoist Canon explanation and a familiar merit-light beauty, and wondered whether Tyrannical Song was Cheng Lin’s contingency.
• White-Bone Fairy began to watch Sage White’s lecture when Song Shuhang and a long-legged fairy emerged from a Small World to meet her.
• Song Shuhang displayed four sage titles to distinguish himself from Song Blockhead, and Creation Fairy stole his prepared introduction.
• White-Bone Fairy asked whether Song Blockhead was present, and Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair lifted her into the air before she passed out.

Song Shuhang left the Core World to scout the Heavenly River Su Clan, while White-Bone Fairy woke and learned that Tyrant Song—not Song Blockhead—had saved her. Pavilion Master Chu joked that Song Shuhang was Song Blockhead’s illegitimate son, and White-Bone Fairy decided to ask him about their connection herself.

• Song Shuhang let the exhausted White-Bone Fairy rest by the Living Spring, then launched himself from the Core World toward the Heavenly River Su Clan using the Great Deer Lord's Bow.
• Soft Feather, Black-Skinned Soft Feather, Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, Hamster Unit, Onion Lady, and Stele Fellow Daoist followed him, leaving Pavilion Master Chu with the sleeping White-Bone Fairy.
• White-Bone Fairy woke and told Pavilion Master Chu she had secretly investigated the fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court and believed Pavilion Master Chu and Song Blockhead had been involved.
• Pavilion Master Chu explained that Tyrant Song had saved White-Bone Fairy and showed her a recording in which a golden man jokingly called Song Shuhang his illegitimate son.
• Pavilion Master Chu clarified that Song Shuhang was not her, White-Bone Fairy's, or the Golden Dragon Progenitor's son, and White-Bone Fairy decided to ask Tyrant Song about Song Blockhead herself.

Song Shuhang arrived at the Heavenly River Su Clan with Soft Feather and his companions, where a clan member mistook him for Sage Spirit Butterfly. Before reaching the inn, Soft Feather's sudden burst of power raised questions about the Heavenly Emperor's plans on Spirit Butterfly Island, and Song Shuhang began considering a visit there after the clan gathering.

• Song Shuhang was launched from the Core World to the Inscribed Wooden Saber near the Heavenly River Su Clan and landed safely.
• Soft Feather crashed through Song Shuhang's thought-power hand, so his primordial spirit caught her; Pavilion Master Chu suspected that a distant being had transmitted power to her.
• The Heavenly Emperor told Song Shuhang that she was busy with a plan on Spirit Butterfly Island, which was not her target, but refused to reveal what she intended to do.
• Song Shuhang gathered Soft Feather and his accessories, and they headed to the inn to register and explore the Heavenly River Su Clan.
• Su Moying greeted the group and mistook Song Shuhang for Sage Spirit Butterfly after recognizing Soft Feather as Spirit Butterfly Ancient Sage.
• Song Shuhang remembered his wish to have a daughter like Soft Feather.

Song Shuhang visited the Heavenly River Su Clan ahead of its annual gathering and discovered that his powerful treasures were quietly helping Su Moying comprehend his cultivation. Su Clan's Seven arrived to escort him, and agreed to arrange a place for Song Shuhang to scatter wealth at the gathering.

• Su Moying recognized Song Shuhang as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song and called Su Clan's Seven to tell him Song Shuhang had come to the Vermilion Bird Gate.
• While waiting at an inn, Su Moying gained sudden clarity in his cultivation from standing near Song Shuhang and asked what he would lecture on during his next Sage Manifestation.
• Song Shuhang told Su Moying that he had no plans to manifest his Sage Manifestation that month and hoped his next lecture could be special.
• Su Clan's Seven arrived and greeted Song Shuhang, who explained he had come early to scout the grounds and find a place to scatter wealth.
• Su Clan's Seven agreed to arrange Song Shuhang's wealth-scattering segment, possibly as part of the annual gathering's opening ceremony.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather explored the Heavenly River Su Clan grounds and helped a secluded cultivator by standing outside her cave. The cultivator rewarded them with Spirit Stones, leaving Song Shuhang delighted at his unexpected extra income.

• Su Clan's Seven gave Song Shuhang and Soft Feather identity plaques and showed them to the resting area reserved for the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• After Su Clan's Seven left, Song Shuhang and Soft Feather wandered the Heavenly River Su Clan grounds and turned away when their plaques warned them of a secluded cultivator nearby.
• A woman cultivating in the cave asked Song Shuhang and Soft Feather to stay outside for five minutes, offering Spirit Stones in exchange.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather waited while the woman cultivated, and Pavilion Master Chu guessed their presence was helping her break through a bottleneck.
• The woman sent Song Shuhang a box containing ten Seventh-Grade and more than twenty Sixth-Grade Spirit Stones, which he split evenly with Soft Feather.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather collected Spirit Stones from secluded Su Clan members, then White-Bone Fairy was accidentally sent through the Core World to Senior White. Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost and Heavenly Sword Layman returned after completing their cultivation.

• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather accepted their share of the Spirit Stones they had earned together and continued exploring the Heavenly River Su Clan.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather collected Spirit Stones from nearly thirty secluded cultivation sites, splitting almost six hundred stones each.
• Song Shuhang paid Onion Lady ten Grade-Five Spirit Stones as her wages for the previous month.
• Song Shuhang opened the Core World, but its exit shifted just as White-Bone Fairy tried to leave, sending her to Senior White instead.
• Merit Snake Beauty returned to Song Shuhang and swallowed the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost and Heavenly Sword Layman emerged from the Core World after completing their cultivation.

Song Shuhang learned that Fairy Spirit Ghost had cultivated the Layman Lineage’s Special Divine Body, which could make him difficult to perceive and disrupt even a Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation. He suspected Boss Fat Ball’s alternate account had invaded the Secret Realm, while that ball remained inside it, confused about who it was and where it was.

• Song Shuhang greeted the returning Drunken Star Scholar, whose cultivation made him so easy to overlook that Song Shuhang could barely see him.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost used Spatial Shift and Position Swap to switch places with Stele Fellow Daoist, then merged with Song Shuhang and made his presence indistinct.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost told Song Shuhang that she had spent years cultivating in a time-accelerated Secret Realm and had condensed the Layman Lineage’s Special Divine Body.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost revealed that the scholar’s beautiful-bearded elder had stayed behind to confront a powerful being that forced its way into the Secret Realm.
• Song Shuhang suspected that the intruder was Boss Fat Ball’s alternate account and worried about whether the elder had survived the encounter.
• Inside the Secret Realm, a ball sank into confusion and wondered who it was and why it was there.

A memoryless ball wandered the Secret Realm, pieced together Song Shuhang’s image, and decided he was its missing part or main body. Meanwhile, Song Shuhang continued exploring the Su Clan with Soft Feather, and White-Bone Fairy suddenly appeared in Senior White’s laboratory.

• The ball forgot its past and guessed that it was searching for its main body or a missing part of itself.
• The ball found residual time power and used the lingering aura there to reconstruct an image of a black-haired man it recognized as its target.
• The ball decided to find a way out of the Secret Realm and reunite with the man, while Song Shuhang shivered and worried that a big shot might be trying to track him.
• Song Shuhang told Soft Feather he was exploring the Su Clan partly to find a place connected to Giant Patriarch, and Soft Feather agreed to keep searching with him.
• White-Bone Fairy appeared in Senior White’s laboratory, and Senior White sensed that she carried the White Emperor Scripture.

White-Bone Fairy arrived in Senior White’s laboratory after crossing paths with ＠＃％× Fairy and asked the group about Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’s father. Suspecting that Song Shuhang might be Song Blockhead, she agreed to help Senior White with an experiment in exchange for hearing more about Tyrant Song.

• White-Bone Fairy appeared in Senior White’s laboratory and learned that ＠＃％× Fairy had returned to recharge and that the group did not know where Song Shuhang was.
• White-Bone Fairy asked about Song Shuhang’s father and whether his name was Song One, but Senior White and Sage Seven Cultivations said his father was an ordinary man with a different name.
• Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect, Sage Seven Cultivations, Fairy Six Cultivations, and Senior White explained that Song One was one of Song Shuhang’s seven Daoist names and listed his Sage Titles.
• White-Bone Fairy recalled seeing Tyrant Song’s four Sage Titles and decided she needed to confirm whether Song Shuhang was Song Blockhead with her own eyes.
• Senior White offered to take White-Bone Fairy to the Heavenly River Su Clan after she helped with his experiment, and she accepted in exchange for information about Tyrant Song.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather got lost inside a misty formation in the Heaven River Su Clan’s grounds, then accidentally triggered an explosion while trying to escape it. A mysterious figure contained the blast and greeted Song Shuhang as the First Millennium Sage.

• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather realized they had wandered into a shifting formation in the Heaven River Su Clan’s territory, but they chose to explore because they could leave through the Core World.
• Pavilion Master Chu guided them through the maze, instructing them to move in perfect synchronization.
• When Chu Dull Hair said breaking the formation normally would take days, she told Song Shuhang to use the Sacred Ape World Refinement secret technique within a one-meter range.
• The formation-layerer shut down the maze, but Song Shuhang could not dismiss the Sacred Ape phantoms, and their dispersal caused a tremendous explosion.
• A mysterious figure contained the explosion and redirected its force through space, then greeted Song Shuhang as the First Millennium Sage.

Song Shuhang and his companions met Su Clan Knot, who invited them to observe his new secret technique and offered to trade it for a meal of Heart Demons. The group accepted and followed him to learn about the technique, which could let people feel what others felt during a Profound Sage Lecture.

• Song Shuhang sent Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy into his sleeve, then worried that their antics made his life resemble Three-Eyed Senior's.
• Pavilion Master Chu asked the silent elder his name, and he identified himself as Su Clan Knot with a spirit tablet.
• Song Shuhang revealed Stele Fellow Daoist's tombstone, and he and Su Clan Knot bonded over carrying their own memorial tablets.
• Su Clan Knot invited Song Shuhang and the fairies to observe his secret technique, then offered to trade it for a Heart Demon meal.
• Song Shuhang agreed to the trade, and Su Clan Knot explained that his technique could let people experience one another's feelings during a Profound Sage Lecture.

Song Shuhang prepared Roasted Milk Heart Demon while Su Clan Knot explained his developing secret technique, and Senior White Two continued battling Fat Ball’s clone. After three days, just as Su Clan Knot was about to taste Song Shuhang’s dish, A-Si Su summoned him to the Su Star Book Pavilion, and Su Clan Knot snapped Song Shuhang away.

• Su Clan Knot explained his secret technique to Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and the others while Song Shuhang prepared Roasted Milk Heart Demon.
• Senior White Two taunted Fat Ball’s weakening clone and considered visiting Fat Ball’s main body in the Netherworld.
• After three days, Su Clan Knot finished explaining the technique, and Song Shuhang completed the Roasted Milk Heart Demon and offered him a piece.
• A-Si Su asked Su Clan Knot to address the gathered clan disciples at the Su Star Book Pavilion.
• Su Clan Knot snapped his fingers, and Song Shuhang vanished.

Song Shuhang arrived at the Heavenly River Su Clan’s Su Star Book Pavilion in an awkward kitchen apron and was mistaken for the clan’s ancestor. After revealing himself as Tyrant Song, he faced the clan’s wary disciples and an unexpected question about solving Profound Sages’ infertility.

• Senior Knot teleported Song Shuhang to the Su Star Book Pavilion, where the gathered Su Clan members welcomed him as their ancestor.
• Song Shuhang explained that Senior Knot was resting and eating, while Su Clan’s A-Si tried to confront him before Fairy Su Five stopped him.
• Su Clan’s A-Si asked Song Shuhang who he was, and Song Shuhang introduced himself as Tyrant Song.
• The Su Clan disciples reacted nervously to Tyrant Song’s reputation, and A-Si asked whether he had come to research a cure for Profound Sages’ infertility.

Song Shuhang attended the Su Clan Annual Meeting and learned that Su Clan's A-Si wanted to study Profound Sage Infertility, prompting Shuhang to worry about advancing to the Eighth-Grade Realm. Su Clan's Seven arranged for Shuhang to distribute treasures during the meeting, while Ancestor Knot arrived to address the assembled clan.

• Song Shuhang wondered whether reaching the Eighth-Grade Realm would make him infertile and speculated that the Confucian Sage had researched Pregnancy Gaze to solve that problem.
• Su Clan's A-Si asked to study Profound Sage Infertility, and Song Shuhang suggested discussing it after the annual meeting.
• Su Clan's Seven announced that Song Shuhang planned to distribute treasures among the Heavenly River Su Clan and took him to rehearse his part in the opening segment.
• Ancestor Knot arrived amid special effects, and the Su Clan disciples welcomed him as he began speaking.
• Su Clan's Seven led Song Shuhang toward the Nine Provinces Number One Group's lodgings, where Song Shuhang reunited with Su Clan's Sixteen and learned Senior White would arrive later.

Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen joined the Nine Provinces Number One Group at the Su Clan Annual Meeting, where the seniors shared wine and music in a peaceful gathering. Song Shuhang quietly treasured the scene while Soft Feather set out to find him with Onion Lady and Hamster Unit.

• Mad Saber Three Waves brought wine from the Mysterious Island to the Heavenly River Su Clan courtyard and welcomed Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen entered the pavilion and found the Nine Provinces Number One Group enjoying music, dancing, games, and conversation.
• Su Clan's Seven and Mad Saber Three Waves brought Song Shuhang to drink with Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman and the other seniors.
• Su Clan's Sixteen poured the wine, and Song Shuhang pretended to drink while transferring it into the Core World because his body was still in seclusion.
• Song Shuhang looked around at his friends and silently cherished the gathering.
• Soft Feather picked up Onion Lady and Hamster Unit and left Ancestor Knot's cave dwelling to find Senior Song.

Soft Feather joined the Nine Provinces Number One Group at the Heavenly River Su Clan annual meeting, while the group noticed her unusual manner and Song Shuhang discovered that secret immortal wine could strengthen his primordial spirit. After he passed out drunk, the group prepared to make its grand entrance as the meeting began.

• Soft Feather brought Onion Lady and Hamster Unit to the gathering and noticed a scholar whom the others overlooked, who said his cultivation technique was at a critical stage.
• Soft Feather served the seniors slices of roasted heart demon and returned Onion Lady and Hamster Unit to Song Shuhang before heading to speak with Senior Yellow Mountain.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister suspected Soft Feather's changed demeanor was connected to the Heavenly Emperor's Temporal Law.
• Song Shuhang's primordial spirit drank secret immortal wine made to nourish Copper Trigram's primordial spirit, grew stronger, and promptly passed out from drunkenness.
• Song Shuhang woke in a box packed with the group members and learned that they were about to make an explosive entrance at the annual meeting.

Soft Feather arranged a spectacular entrance for the Nine Provinces Number One Group at the Heavenly River Su Clan Annual Gathering, launching the members onto a Seven-Colored Celestial Ladder with Senior Yellow Mountain leading the way. Song Shuhang was saved for the grand finale and was hurled into the sky by a pair of enormous illusory palms.

• Mad Saber Three Waves revealed the A-Qi Big Macaque Set he had prepared for the gathering.
• Soft Feather proposed an elaborate entrance, and Venerable Yellow Mountain supported her plan despite the other group members’ surprise.
• Soft Feather launched Two-Use Flying Swords at the group, while Venerable Yellow Mountain attached the mother sword to himself and became the first to soar into the sky.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain’s flight produced a Seven-Colored Celestial Ladder, and the group members were sent up to rotate along its steps as Black-Skinned Soft Feather filmed them.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan's Sixteen ascended together, then Soft Feather explained that Song Shuhang had drawn the specially dramatic grand-finale sword.
• Song Shuhang was enveloped in seven-colored light, seized by enormous illusory palms, and hurled skyward for his grand entrance.

Song Shuhang opened the Wealth-Scattering Throne above the Heavenly River Su Clan and drew the Nine Provinces Number One Group and the clan’s disciples inside to claim treasures. After visiting Three-Eyed Senior’s Small World, he learned that the ritual also came with hidden rewards.

• Song Shuhang used his Wealth-Scattering Throne mark to create a spectacular entrance atop the Seven-Colored Celestial Ladder.
• The Heavenly River Su Clan’s disciples recognized the Wealth-Scattering Throne, and some mistook Song Shuhang’s appearance as a sign of his generosity.
• Song Shuhang drew the Nine Provinces Number One Group and the Heavenly River Su Clan disciples into the Wealth-Scattering Throne to choose treasures.
• Song Shuhang retreated into the Wood Door World to arrange for Senior Spirit Butterfly’s spatial artifact to reach Soft Feather.
• Song Shuhang visited Three-Eyed Senior and explained that he had exchanged Heavenly Dao’s Eyedrops and other treasures before scattering them through the ritual.
• Eyeball Butler reminded Three-Eyed Senior to prepare hidden rewards, and Song Shuhang eagerly realized there were additional prizes.

Song Shuhang asked Three-Eyed Senior for a hidden reward and chose help with learning the Ancient Language. Three-Eyed Senior gave him a thorny Wisdom Crown and a half-price coupon.

• Song Shuhang admitted he regretted missing earlier hidden rewards, but stopped dwelling on them when Three-Eyed Senior refused to make them up.
• Song Shuhang asked for a resurrection treasure, then requested an Ancient Language language pack instead.
• Three-Eyed Senior and Eyeball Butler explained that Ancient Language could not be properly learned through forced information, and Three-Eyed Senior offered a reward to improve Song Shuhang's learning efficiency.
• Eyeball Butler brought out the thorny Wisdom Crown, which Song Shuhang accepted despite learning that wearing it would hurt.
• Three-Eyed Senior gave Song Shuhang an extra gift, a sheet of paper labeled Half-Price Coupon.

Song Shuhang received a Half-Price Coupon for his Whale-Spending Strike and returned to the Wealth-Scattering Throne, where he secretly gave Soft Feather the Heaven-and-Earth Bracelet. As he considered giving Su Clan's Sixteen a gift, someone asked him to secretly pass her three packaged Little Sixteens.

• Three-Eyed Youth explained that the Half-Price Coupon would cut the cost of Song Shuhang's Whale-Spending Strike in half, then sent him back to the Wealth-Scattering Throne.
• Song Shuhang used the throne's authority to place Sage Spirit Butterfly's custom Heaven-and-Earth Bracelet in Soft Feather's box.
• Soft Feather put on the hairpin and bracelet, revealing that she had noticed Song Shuhang's secret intervention.
• Song Shuhang considered secretly giving Su Clan's Sixteen a treasure but found that his valuables were all fixed assets.
• An unknown voice asked Song Shuhang to secretly pass Su Clan's Sixteen three packaged Little Sixteens.