Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang arranged to collect Evil Delusion Cores during his next lecture and set out with his companions to investigate a dangerous Evil Delusion nest near Red Horse Town. The group reached the guarded old campus, where the Evil Delusions had been contained.

• Song Shuhang told the group that he planned to give another final lecture and advertised collecting Evil Delusion Cores; Senior Yellow Mountain agreed to establish a collection point on the moon.
• Senior Yellow Mountain privately gathered the group’s messages to learn the timing of Song Shuhang’s next lecture and promised to warn everyone.
• Canghai Scholar directed Song Shuhang and the others to an abandoned school campus near Red Horse Town, where high-threat Evil Delusions had made their nest.
• Li Yinzhu clung to Su Clan's Sixteen instead of Song Shuhang, then relaxed when Soft Feather picked her up.
• Song Shuhang and his companions arrived at the campus entrance in an invisible black walking tractor, where armed guards were keeping watch.

A Daoist priest and his Foreign Monk disciple tested whether Merit Power could restrain the fused Evil Delusion in the Old Campus Area, but their attack provoked it into a frenzy and forced them to retreat. As the Daoist priest strengthened the seals, Song Shuhang arrived and greeted the Foreign Monk, leaving the priest stunned.

• The Daoist priest brought the Foreign Monk into the fog-covered Old Campus Area to test Merit Power against the Evil Delusion.
• The Foreign Monk used his kasaya, Vajra Demon-Subduing Pestle, and Buddhist light while chanting, weakening the Evil Delusion but failing to subdue it.
• The Daoist priest ordered a retreat after the Evil Delusion broke against its seal and pursued the Foreign Monk, then activated more defensive seals.
• The Daoist priest told the Foreign Monk to contact his senior brother and report that Merit Power restrained the Evil Delusion but also enraged it.
• The Foreign Monk spotted Song Shuhang and waved to him as he descended from the sky with several figures.
• Song Shuhang greeted the Foreign Monk as Master, leaving the Daoist priest astonished.

Song Shuhang reunited with the Foreign Monk, whose Jade-Green Kasaya was the daoist robe he had exchanged for it, and learned that the monk had passed his master's trial. After giving him a Hair-Growth Technique, Song Shuhang discovered that the Foreign Monk's master was Daoist Wuyinzi, who was struggling to seal the Evil Delusion.

• Song Shuhang greeted the Foreign Monk and recalled their connection through End-Dharma War and their exchange of the Jade-Green Kasaya.
• The Foreign Monk showed how he could turn the kasaya inside out to wear it as a daoist robe and explained that he had passed his master's trial.
• Song Shuhang praised the Foreign Monk's increased Merit Power and credited him with teaching the soul-delivery methods that had helped Song Shuhang.
• After learning that the Foreign Monk avoided returning to his sect because of his bald head, Song Shuhang gave him the Hair-Growth Technique.
• The Foreign Monk said Song Shuhang's arrival meant they no longer needed reinforcements, and Song Shuhang realized that Daoist Wuyinzi was the monk's master.

Song Shuhang entered the Old Campus Area to deal with a Fusion-Type Evil Delusion, which Pavilion Master Chu's ahoge sealed with overwhelming force. After the Merit Snake Beauty revealed the humanoid Evil Delusions, Song Shuhang wiped them out as they advanced in a chanting war dance.

• Wuyinzi released the sealing barrier, and Pavilion Master Chu's ahoge trapped the Evil Delusion beneath more than eighty pillars of water.
• Song Shuhang entered the Old Campus Area with the Foreign Monk, Wuyinzi, Canghai Scholar, Daoist Nun Miaoqing, Soft Feather, and Su Clan's Sixteen.
• The Merit Snake Beauty blew away the white mist and exposed a group of humanoid Fusion-Type Evil Delusions.
• The Evil Delusions chanted and stamped toward Song Shuhang and his companions in a synchronized war dance.
• Song Shuhang snapped his fingers, and the Merit Snake Beauty struck down the Evil Delusions in a storm of light.

Song Shuhang and his companions defeated a Fusion-Type Evil Delusion wave, collected its remains and cores, and tested whether Merit Power and Reverse Whale Little Fairy could make cultivation techniques more effective. The cores revealed that one Evil Delusion had been artificially bred and modified, leaving Song Shuhang intrigued by the discovery.

• Merit Snake Beauty swept away the Fusion-Type Evil Delusions, and Song Shuhang noticed that the victory had earned him some Merit Power.
• Song Shuhang planned to let Xiao Cai, Su Clan's Sixteen, and Soft Feather fight future Evil Delusions to cultivate their Merit Power.
• Song Shuhang sent the Evil Delusion remains to the Core World for storage, while Soft Feather found three cores belonging to the fused creature.
• Reverse Whale Artifact Spirit Little Fairy used the Appraisal Secret Method on the cores, identifying fusion, cloning, and artificial modification properties.
• Song Shuhang realized that one core showed traces of artificial breeding and modification.

Song Shuhang discovered an unusually shaped Evil Delusion Core that might have been artificially raised and suspected the Limitless Demon Sect. He recruited Fairy Bie Xue to help investigate whether Evil Delusions could be cooked, while Soft Feather and the Heavenly Emperor kept Sage Spirit Butterfly unaware of how he had gained strength.

• Song Shuhang set the unusual Evil Delusion Core aside, shared its information with Nine Provinces Group Two, and suggested the Limitless Demon Sect might be raising Evil Delusions.
• Fairy Eastern Six agreed to cautiously probe the Limitless Demon Sect, while Sage Spirit Butterfly realized he had lost several days and questioned Soft Feather about his condition.
• Soft Feather told Sage Spirit Butterfly that he was in secluded cultivation, and he accepted the explanation after noticing his strength had increased.
• Fairy Bie Xue asked Song Shuhang for more heavenly tribulation ingredients, and he invited her to help experiment with cooking Evil Delusions.
• Song Shuhang contacted Demon Emperor Hezhi, who told him to get lost.

Song Shuhang questioned Demon Emperor Hezhi about Evil Delusion, prompting Hezhi to probe the cultivation chat system. The system caught him and connected him to Lady Dragon Network, who prepared to punish him using her newly developed abilities.

• Song Shuhang asked Demon Emperor Hezhi about researching and raising Evil Delusion, then wondered whether it could be used as an ingredient in a Heavenly Tribulation Feast.
• Demon Emperor Hezhi attempted to crack the cultivation chat system so he could block Song Shuhang.
• The system detected Hezhi's intrusion and switched to human customer service, bringing Lady Dragon Network into the conversation.
• Hezhi challenged Lady Dragon Network, claiming he knew the Dragon Network's structure and could exploit her weaknesses.
• Lady Dragon Network said she had changed and revealed that her new spells drew on information about Fat Ball.

Lady Dragon Network used a Level 10 blessing spell to make Demon Emperor Hezhi send Song Shuhang his research on Evil Delusion. Song Shuhang and his companions prepared to use the materials to research Evil Delusion Cuisine, while Hezhi admitted that Tyrant Song had won this round.

• Lady Dragon Network's You Are a Good Person spell overwhelmed Demon Emperor Hezhi's defenses and controlled him for about ten seconds.
• Under the spell's influence, Hezhi agreed with Song Shuhang's plan to turn Evil Delusion into food and sent him his research on raising, capturing, storing, and using Evil Delusion as an ingredient.
• Song Shuhang shared the materials with Pavilion Master Chu, White Dragon Sister, and Senior White Two, and discussed them with Su Clan's Sixteen, Soft Feather, Senior Stone Stele, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Pavilion Master Chu's silly hair and White Dragon Sister judged the materials theoretically feasible, and Song Shuhang decided to pursue Evil Delusion Cuisine with Fairy Bie Xue.
• Song Shuhang thanked Hezhi and promised to praise him publicly if the research succeeded; after Lady Dragon Network's spell wore off, Hezhi told Song Shuhang that he had won the round.

Song Shuhang gathered allies to test Demon Emperor Hezhi’s evil delusion research and persuaded Fairy Bie Xue to join the project. He set off to hunt more evil delusions after giving the Foreign Monk a life-extending gift for Wuyinzi, who was left threatening to beat his disciple.

• Song Shuhang decided to test Hezhi’s research notes with Stele Fellow Daoist and Dark-skinned Soft Feather, while White Dragon Sister suggested sending his QR Code to his Tyrannical Ball clone on Mars.
• Song Shuhang convinced Fairy Bie Xue to join the evil delusion research project by offering her Hezhi’s notes, and asked her to meet Chu Chu and bring immortal chef utensils.
• Canghai Scholar identified a powerful evil delusion in Shancun Hu'ao, and Song Shuhang prepared to take Sixteen, Soft Feather, and Xiao Cai there to farm specimens.
• Song Shuhang gave the Foreign Monk a life-extending specialty for Wuyinzi, whose disciple then joked that Wuyinzi’s head suited a shaved look.
• Wuyinzi threatened to beat the Foreign Monk to death.

Song Shuhang brought Soft Feather, Canghai Scholar, Daoist Nun Miaoqing, and the others to an Evil Delusion lair so Soft Feather and the others could try fighting its inhabitants themselves. After meeting a guard who knew Song Shuhang through his father, Song sealed the lair with water pillars and entered.

• Canghai Scholar admired Song Shuhang's Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot, and Soft Feather explained that its faint divine-weapon consciousness had not yet formed an artifact spirit.
• Song Shuhang agreed to let Soft Feather and the others handle the Evil Delusion first while he stayed behind to support them, carrying the sleeping Li Yinzhu on his back.
• At the lair, a bespectacled security guard recognized Song Shuhang as Old Song's son and warned him that the area was dangerous.
• Song Shuhang told the guard that his group had come to deal with the Evil Delusions, then sealed the lair with four water pillars and went inside.
• Canghai Scholar and Daoist Nun Miaoqing introduced themselves to the guard while Su Clan's Sixteen followed Song Shuhang into the lair.

Shu Zhong learned that Song Shuhang was respected as a senior in the cultivation world, while Song Shuhang and his companions confronted another Evil Delusion. Su Clan's Sixteen began fighting the beast-shaped creature as the cultivation chat announced new recharge, livestream, and tipping functions.

• Shu Zhong's squad captain urged him to use his connection to Song Shuhang's father to meet a potential reclusive expert, and Shu Zhong reflected on how ordinary Dad Song seemed.
• Dad Song continued washing dishes as his body slowly processed the information Song Shuhang had shared with him.
• Merit Snake Beauty cleared away the evil energy in the lair, revealing a giant canine-shaped resentment-type Evil Delusion.
• Song Shuhang explained the Evil Delusion's weaknesses, and Su Clan's Sixteen took the fight while Soft Feather tried to record her.
• Prickly Little Squirrel announced new cultivation chat features and offered Kun King an 88% discount on his first recharge.

Soft Feather livestreamed Su Clan's Sixteen fighting an Evil Delusion, while Sage Spirit Butterfly briefly joined the group chat and caught Soft Feather in a lie about her identity. The Evil Delusion unleashed an illusion that Song Shuhang recognized as a Real Illusion, then healed itself and summoned an army of hounds.

• Soft Feather started a group livestream to show Sixteen's battle, and the seniors of Nine Provinces Group Two joined to test the new feature.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly saw Soft Feather's livestream and asked where she was, so Soft Feather claimed she was Black-Skinned Soft Feather while secretly remaining beside him.
• The group watched Sixteen display a transformed saber style that combined her True Dragon constitution and the path of painting, prompting Mad Saber Three Waves to announce he would switch to the sword.
• Fairy Lychee warned Soft Feather that the Evil Delusion was preparing its trump-card spell, and Sixteen braced herself as eye runes opened across its body.
• The Evil Delusion covered its nest in a swamp-like illusion, and Pavilion Master Chu's cowlick and Song Shuhang recognized that it was a Real Illusion.
• The Evil Delusion Tyrant Dragon Hound healed in the swamp as an army of small canine Evil Delusions emerged around it.

Su Clan's Sixteen unleashed a devastating storm-and-thunder saber strike that wiped out the Overlord Hound Evil Delusion’s True Illusion army. Her Glazed Heart, made from Song Shuhang’s heart, powered her through the attack, and she handed the remaining fight to Shuhang.

• The Overlord Hound ordered its miniature fierce hounds to charge through its True Illusion, suppressing the weaker practitioners nearby.
• Su Clan's Sixteen summoned a storm and gathered its thunder into her saber, then struck down the entire fierce hound army and scorched the illusionary swamp.
• The live-broadcast viewers discussed Sixteen’s strength, and Su Clan's Seven estimated that her brief burst matched 2.5 Mad Saber Three Waves.
• Song Shuhang asked whether the attack had strained Sixteen, who concealed her blush and the heartbeat of his Glazed Heart in her chest.
• Su Clan's Sixteen said White Dragon Sister wanted Shuhang to study the Real Illusion and switched places with him, surprising White Dragon Sister.

Song Shuhang took over from Su Clan's Sixteen and confronted the Overlord Hound Evil Delusion, overwhelming its attacks with Palm Thunder. He used his Chaos World to analyze the creature and discovered that its Real Illusion was called Shared Real Illusion.

• Song Shuhang tagged in for Su Clan's Sixteen, while Soft Feather teased Sixteen about feeling shy around him.
• Song Shuhang formed a huge ball of Palm Thunder, shattering the evil hounds and nearly breaking the Overlord Hound Evil Delusion's True Illusion.
• Pavilion Master Chu's ahoge warned Song Shuhang to restrain his attack so it would not spill into the main world, and he dismissed the lightning.
• Song Shuhang approached the Overlord Hound Evil Delusion and summoned his Chaos World to analyze its body.
• Song Shuhang identified the evil delusion's Real Illusion as Shared Real Illusion.

Song Shuhang used his Chaos Space to analyze an Evil Delusion's Shared Real Illusion and continued expanding Cultivation Chat's paid features. Demon Emperor Hezhi dismissed the top-up offer, only to discover that the new VIP feature included a way to block designated friends.

• Song Shuhang's Chaos Space swallowed the Overlord Hound Evil Delusion's Real Illusion and began analyzing its sharing method.
• Song Shuhang agreed to Lady Dragon Network's request to set Demon Emperor Hezhi's top-up rate at ten First-Grade Spirit Stones per coin.
• Lady Dragon Network announced the special exchange rate, and Demon Emperor Hezhi scoffed that top-ups were meaningless to him.
• Lady Dragon Network proposed VIP features, including the ability to block friends, and Song Shuhang approved the upgrade.
• Cultivation Chat announced the VIP subscription perks, prompting Demon Emperor Hezhi to curse Song Shuhang.

Demon Emperor Hezhi considered recharging the cultivation chat to block Song Shuhang, but refused after suspecting it would reveal his location. Song Shuhang asked Lady Dragon Network to research a Shared Real Illusion feature, then had Xiao Cai slay a weakened Evil Delusion and earn Merit.

• Demon Emperor Hezhi decided not to recharge for VIP because he feared Song Shuhang would learn his coordinates.
• Song Shuhang sent Lady Dragon Network data on Shared Real Illusion and asked her to adapt it for the cultivation chat.
• Song Shuhang subdued a Fifth-Grade Overlord Hound Evil Delusion and asked Pavilion Master Chu whether it should be sealed.
• Pavilion Master Chu advised Song Shuhang to kill the Evil Delusion, so he called Xiao Cai over to finish it.
• Xiao Cai killed the Evil Delusion with Gale Saber, gained Merit Light, and handed its core to Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang appraised an Evil Delusion core and joined Soft Feather and the others in hunting another Evil Delusion. While he and Su Clan's Sixteen shared a quiet moment, Fairy Spirit Ghost slipped into Sixteen's heart unnoticed.

• Song Shuhang used the Artifact Spirit Fairy to appraise a marshmallow-like core and learned it was connected to a more powerful Evil Delusion.
• Soft Feather ended her livestream, promised to livestream her next hunt, and received praise from the Nine Provinces group.
• Pavilion Master Chu sealed the next Evil Delusion nest, and Soft Feather livestreamed herself fighting a mist-snake-shaped Evil Delusion.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen sat together and felt their heartbeats synchronizing, revealing Sixteen's embarrassment to him.
• Song Shuhang jokingly asked Sixteen if he should give her his pancreas, and she wondered if it was a declaration of love.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost followed their joined hands into Su Clan's Sixteen's body and settled inside her heart without being noticed.

Soft Feather accidentally mastered the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber and destroyed a Mist-Serpent Evil Delusion, then headed to another nest to continue fighting. As Soft Feather battled, Su Clan's Sixteen's heartbeat fell into rhythm with the fight, and a mysterious fairy appeared before her.

• Soft Feather summoned the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and used the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber to burn a Mist-Serpent Evil Delusion and its core to ashes.
• Northern River's Loose Cultivator comforted Soft Feather with a tip, and she resolved to keep hunting evil delusions with the sword.
• Soft Feather explained that she had learned the saber technique simply by watching Song Shuhang, and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword granted her permission to use it.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen went to the next Evil Delusion Nest, where Soft Feather resumed fighting while Canghai Scholar and Daoist Nun Miaoqing recorded the battle.
• Su Clan's Sixteen's heartbeat synchronized with the battle, drawing her consciousness toward a smiling fairy who appeared before her.

Su Clan's Sixteen encountered a quiet, gentle fairy who was visible to her, White Dragon Sister, and Pavilion Master Chu. The fairy revealed a familiar connection to Pavilion Master Chu and Song Shuhang, then asked to live with Sixteen for a while.

• Su Clan's Sixteen noticed the fairy and, after ruling out a heart demon or illusion, asked White Dragon Sister to check whether she could see her.
• White Dragon Sister synchronized with Sixteen and saw the fairy, then brought Pavilion Master Chu's ahoge over to confirm that it could see her too.
• White Dragon Sister suggested the fairy resembled both Song Shuhang and Pavilion Master Chu, then asked if they had a daughter.
• Pavilion Master Chu confirmed that the fairy was her daughter, and the fairy affectionately touched her ahoge.
• The fairy addressed Su Clan's Sixteen as Fairy Sixteen and asked if she could live with her for a while.

Su Clan's Sixteen signed a Temporary Contract with Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost Fairy, who moved into Sixteen's heart and linked their spiritual power. The Spirit Ghost Fairy revealed that she had two experiments in mind, beginning by asking whether Sixteen liked Shuhang—and whether she liked the Fairy herself.

• Su Clan's Sixteen agreed to sign a Temporary Contract with the quiet, refined Fairy, and the Spirit Ghost settled inside her heart.
• Song Shuhang discovered that the Spirit Ghost Fairy had left his body, though her cultivation functions remained active and linked his spiritual power to Sixteen's.
• White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu speculated about why the Spirit Ghost Fairy had moved into Sixteen, and White Dragon Sister suggested asking her directly.
• Su Clan's Sixteen contacted the Spirit Ghost Fairy, who explained that she had been crying because a thought had moved her.
• The Spirit Ghost Fairy said she wanted to conduct two experiments, then asked Sixteen whether she liked Shuhang and whether she liked the Fairy.