Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Daoist Cloudmist, What the Heck Are You Doing?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A massive meteor mysteriously locks onto Song Shuhang’s location and descends toward him.
• Song Shuhang discovers Daoist Cloudmist beneath it. Cloudmist is badly injured, unconscious, and covered in blood.
• The story flashes back to explain what happened:
  • Cloudmist, now a Fifth-Grade Golden Core Spirit Emperor, was flying toward the Empty Thieves’ Sect headquarters.
  • A huge meteor suddenly appeared only ten meters above him, completely undetected by his senses.
  • Assuming True Lord Yellow Mountain was ambushing him, Cloudmist confidently used his Sword Pellet to split the meteor apart.
  • A hidden, extraordinarily powerful Sword Qi emerged from one of the meteor fragments and knocked him unconscious.
  • The meteor then struck and carried his unconscious body down toward Song Shuhang.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain watches Cloudmist through a tracking mark and recognizes the meteor’s strange characteristics. He recalls that a similar meteor nearly killed him when he was younger and was accompanying Senior White.
• The meteor destroys Yellow Mountain’s tracking mark, leaving him uncertain whether Cloudmist survived.
• Song Shuhang finds Cloudmist pinned beneath the meteor. He lifts the surprisingly light meteor, loads it onto his tractor, and carries Cloudmist aboard as well.
• Cloudmist’s sentient Sword Pellet briefly reacts to Song Shuhang but becomes calm after sensing that he means no harm.
• Meanwhile, at Song Shuhang’s home, Song Dad and Old Lü are drunk and boastfully reminiscing about their pasts. Song Shuhang calls to announce that he will arrive in about ten minutes, making Song Dad worry that his son will discover their drunken state.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates stronger physical abilities by lifting a large meteor. He remains practical and compassionate, deciding to rescue Cloudmist despite viewing him as foolish and unlucky. He also begins to suspect that the meteor carries Senior White’s aura.
• Daoist Cloudmist: Despite becoming a powerful Fifth-Grade cultivator through arduous self-cultivation, he is shown to be overconfident, impulsive, and exceptionally unlucky. His mistaken belief that Yellow Mountain is attacking him leads directly to his defeat.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain: Reveals concern for Cloudmist despite their long history of imprisonment, manipulation, and hostility. His memories also deepen the mystery surrounding the meteors and their possible connection to Senior White.
• Senior White: Does not appear directly, but his presence is suggested by the meteor’s unusual aura and bizarre destructive properties.
• Song Dad and Old Lü: Their drunken boasting provides comic relief and shows their friendly but excessive rivalry. Lü Tianyou becomes increasingly embarrassed by their behavior.

Significant Themes

• Fate and luck: Cloudmist is portrayed as having extraordinarily bad luck, while Senior White is associated with exceptional luck. The meteor’s perfectly timed arrival reinforces the idea that fate is active and unpredictable.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: Cloudmist assumes the meteor is an attack from Yellow Mountain and underestimates its hidden power, causing him to be defeated.
• Hidden danger: The meteor appears ordinary but conceals a devastating Sword Qi, suggesting that seemingly harmless objects may contain immense threats.
• Beneath hostility, lingering concern: Although Yellow Mountain has tormented and imprisoned Cloudmist, he still worries about Cloudmist’s survival.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter contrasts supernatural battles and near-death injuries with absurd misfortune, drunken boasting, and Song Dad’s anxiety about being caught drinking.

Character Interactions

• Cloudmist and True Lord Yellow Mountain: Their antagonistic relationship shapes the chapter. Cloudmist immediately blames Yellow Mountain for the meteor, while Yellow Mountain watches over him and worries after losing contact.
• Cloudmist and the meteor/Sword Qi: Cloudmist confidently attacks the meteor but is ambushed by the hidden Sword Qi and knocked unconscious.
• Song Shuhang and Cloudmist: Shuhang rescues the injured cultivator and transports him safely, despite considering him foolish and unlucky.
• Song Shuhang and Cloudmist’s Sword Pellet: The weapon briefly becomes alert but accepts Shuhang after recognizing that he poses no threat.
• Song Dad, Old Lü, and Lü Tianyou: The two older men drink and brag together, while Lü Tianyou quietly suffers embarrassment and withdraws from the conversation.
• Song Shuhang and Song Dad: Their phone call creates the chapter’s closing joke, as Song Dad realizes Shuhang is returning home at the worst possible moment.

Chapter 242 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang calls his father shortly before arriving home, warning him that he is returning in a “special vehicle.” The loud engine noise makes Song Daddy fear that Shuhang is coming home on a tractor.
• At home, Song Daddy is entertaining his old friend Old Lü, who is drinking heavily and teasing him. Hoping to avoid embarrassment, Song Daddy tries to drink Old Lü under the table before Shuhang arrives.
• Shuhang eventually drives a walk-behind tractor directly home. He originally intended to hide it nearby, but he has to transport Venerable White, Daoist Cloudmist, and a huge meteorite, making the tractor unavoidable.
• Old Lü and Song Daddy see Shuhang arrive on the tractor, dragging the enormous stone behind it. Old Lü finds the situation hilarious, while Song Daddy is mortified and feels his “liver” is about to burst from anger and embarrassment.
• Shuhang carries two unconscious people upstairs: Venerable White over one shoulder and the badly injured Daoist Cloudmist over the other.
• Song Mommy mistakes Venerable White for a woman because of his long hair. Shuhang awkwardly explains that “Song Bai” is a male art student. He tells her that Daoist Cloudmist is an injured acquaintance he found by the roadside.
• After Shuhang settles both men inside, Old Lü insists on taking the tractor for a ride. Lü Tianyou starts it, and Old Lü drives while Song Daddy and Tianyou ride in the back.
• Shuhang watches from the window and realizes that the tractor’s speed-enhancing and resistance-reducing talismans are still active. Although it looks ordinary, it can reach nearly 100 kilometers per hour, creating an imminent danger.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Becomes increasingly accustomed to handling bizarre supernatural situations, casually transporting unconscious cultivators and a meteorite while maintaining ordinary explanations for his family. He also displays impressive physical strength by carrying two adults upstairs without tiring. However, he remains socially awkward and embarrassed about returning home on a tractor.
• Song Daddy: Shows his concern for family reputation and his long-standing competitive relationship with Old Lü. His anxiety grows from fearing that Shuhang will arrive on a tractor, and his embarrassment turns to helplessness when Shuhang actually does.
• Old Lü: Reveals a nostalgic and mischievous personality. He enjoys teasing Song Daddy but also genuinely wants to relive his youth by driving a walk-behind tractor after more than twenty years.
• Song Mommy: Remains caring and practical, worrying about the unconscious guests and the potential danger of moving an injured person without medical help. She also hopes Shuhang might finally bring a girlfriend home.
• Lü Tianyou: Acts as the responsible but unwilling helper, starting the tractor and accompanying his father to prevent an accident.

Significant Themes

• Comedy from ordinary and extraordinary worlds colliding: Shuhang’s supernatural circumstances are disguised as mundane family problems, especially through the absurd image of a cultivator arriving on a tractor.
• Family embarrassment and parental expectations: Song Daddy worries about appearances, while Song Mommy interprets Shuhang’s guests through ordinary family concerns such as romance, safety, and social propriety.
• Nostalgia and aging: Old Lü’s excitement about driving the tractor reflects his desire to reconnect with his youth, while the scene acknowledges how much time has passed.
• Hidden supernatural danger: The tractor appears old and harmless, but its talismans make it extraordinarily fast, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.
• Shuhang’s growing strength and responsibility: He is increasingly capable of transporting and protecting others, even while still struggling to explain his unusual life to his parents.

Character Interactions

• Song Daddy and Old Lü compete through drinking and verbal teasing, continuing their long-standing rivalry.
• Song Shuhang lies to Song Mommy about Venerable White’s identity and explains away Daoist Cloudmist’s condition, highlighting the gap between his real life and what his family can know.
• Song Mommy criticizes Shuhang’s impulsive decision to move an injured person, while still helping him care for both guests.
• Old Lü deliberately provokes Song Daddy by taking the tractor for a ride, forcing Song Daddy and Lü Tianyou to accompany him.
• The chapter ends with Shuhang realizing that Old Lü, Song Daddy, and Lü Tianyou may be riding an extremely dangerous, magically enhanced tractor.

Chapter Summary: “The Speed Wasn’t Right!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mom Song notices Dad Song, Old Lü, and Lü Tianyou leaving on Song Shuhang’s tractor after drinking. She tries to stop them, but the tractor’s noise prevents them from hearing her.
• Mom Song considers chasing them in Lü Tianyou’s BMW, but Song Shuhang explains that his tractor has an unusually powerful speed. Catching up would be nearly impossible.
• Old Lü joyfully takes control of the tractor, reminiscing about his youth and his days driving tractors after drinking liquor. He steers toward the mountain roads near White Whale Road to avoid traffic and possible drunk-driving enforcement.
• The tractor accelerates far beyond what a normal tractor should be capable of. It quickly reaches speeds approaching sixty miles per hour, despite Old Lü not yet using the highest gear.
• Lü Tianyou realizes that something is seriously wrong. The tractor seems to be moving extremely fast, yet there is no wind hitting him in the open trailer, suggesting the vehicle may possess supernatural or otherwise abnormal properties.
• Meanwhile, three women—Little Wheat Ear, Ase, and Zhao Yaya—gather with their sports cars to race on a privately funded mountain road at Ox Summit Mountain.
• Although they drive expensive sports cars, the women are inexperienced racers who prioritize enjoyment and safety. They accelerate quickly on straight roads but brake heavily at every curve.
• Zhao Yaya, secretly fond of racing, recognizes that the location is close to Song Shuhang’s home and plans to visit him afterward.
• The tractor eventually reaches the mountain road and enters its highest gear. Old Lü, confident in his former tractor-driving abilities, prepares to take a bend at full speed, despite Dad Song’s warnings.

Character Developments

• Old Lü becomes increasingly carefree and nostalgic. His memories of youth and past hardships make the tractor ride especially exhilarating, but his confidence blinds him to the danger of the vehicle’s abnormal speed.
• Dad Song shifts from casually enjoying the ride to becoming uneasy as he notices the tractor overtaking cars and accelerating unnaturally. He begins warning Old Lü to drive carefully.
• Lü Tianyou is the first to seriously recognize the tractor’s abnormal behavior. His observations about the speed and missing wind show greater awareness and caution than the two older men.
• Mom Song is protective and quick-tempered, immediately trying to stop the drunken men and prevent them from causing trouble.
• Song Shuhang understands the tractor’s extraordinary capabilities but is unable to intervene, leaving him resigned to the impending chaos.
• Little Wheat Ear, Ase, and Zhao Yaya are presented as enthusiastic but weak racers. Their love of racing is more about companionship and fun than genuine speed or competition.
• Zhao Yaya is revealed to have secretly hidden her racing hobby from her family, while also maintaining a connection to Shuhang through her intention to visit him.

Significant Themes

• Comedy arising from danger and misunderstanding: The men treat the tractor ride as harmless fun, while the reader understands that its impossible speed makes the situation increasingly hazardous.
• Nostalgia and youth: Old Lü’s excitement is tied to memories of his younger days, when tractor driving represented freedom and happiness despite financial hardship.
• The contrast between appearance and reality: The sports cars look impressive, but their drivers are timid and inexperienced; the ordinary-looking tractor, meanwhile, possesses extraordinary speed.
• Hidden abilities and secrets: The tractor’s true nature is concealed from most characters, while Zhao Yaya secretly maintains a racing hobby.
• Recklessness versus safety: Old Lü embraces speed and risk, whereas Dad Song and the three female racers emphasize caution—though Old Lü’s confidence may prove far more dangerous than the girls’ cautious driving.

Character Interactions

• Mom Song attempts to assert control by shouting at Dad Song and the others, but the tractor drowns her out.
• Song Shuhang explains the tractor’s unusual speed to his mother, establishing his awareness of its capabilities.
• Old Lü and Dad Song joke and reminisce together, with Old Lü driving enthusiastically while Dad Song gives directions and gradually grows concerned.
• Lü Tianyou silently observes the tractor’s impossible performance and becomes increasingly suspicious, contrasting with Old Lü’s carefree excitement.
• Little Wheat Ear, Ase, and Zhao Yaya tease and challenge one another before beginning their informal race.
• The chapter ends with Old Lü confidently entering a sharp mountain bend at extreme speed, setting up an impending accident or supernatural incident.

Chapter Summary: “Zhao Yaya: Uncle?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Old Lü drives Song Shuhang’s heavily modified walk-behind tractor at astonishing speeds, confidently boasting about his driving while secretly nervous.
• The tractor, carrying Dad Song, Lü Tianyou, and a huge stone, rapidly overtakes three sports cars traveling at roughly 120–140 miles per hour.
• The passengers are shocked because the tractor appears to have an ordinary, hand-cranked engine, making its impossible speed difficult to explain.
• Zhao Yaya recognizes the driver as Uncle Lü and the refined man in the trailer as her uncle, Song Shuhang’s father.
• Zhao and her friends, Little Wheat Ear and Ase, decide to chase the tractor, especially after learning that it will soon reach a dangerous series of U-shaped mountain bends.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang pursues the tractor on foot. Concerned that his father and Uncle Lü may cause an accident after drinking, he uses the Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles movement technique to reach car-like speeds.
• Using the Imprint Sensing Method on the Overlord Shatter Saber stored in the tractor, Song Shuhang locates the vehicle and realizes it has entered the difficult road leading to Ox Summit Mountain.

Character Developments

• Old Lü displays his reckless, boastful personality, treating the tractor’s unbelievable performance as an opportunity to show off, though his nervousness reveals that he understands the danger.
• Lü Tianyou becomes increasingly bewildered by the tractor’s speed and begins questioning whether it has some extraordinary or supernatural mechanism.
• Zhao Yaya shifts from casual disbelief to alarm and curiosity after recognizing her relatives on the tractor. Her concern for their safety motivates her to chase them.
• Little Wheat Ear and Ase react with humor and fascination, treating the bizarre event as an entertaining mystery and eagerly joining the pursuit.
• Song Shuhang demonstrates responsibility and growing supernatural ability. Rather than relying on others, he immediately gives chase and pushes his movement technique to its limits to protect his family.

Significant Themes

• The collision of the ordinary and the extraordinary: A mundane walk-behind tractor performs impossibly well, creating a surreal contrast between everyday life and supernatural power.
• Family concern and responsibility: Song Shuhang’s pursuit reflects his willingness to protect his father and friends, even when doing so requires exhausting himself.
• Humor through disbelief: The characters repeatedly try—and fail—to explain the tractor’s speed through ordinary technology, producing comic reactions.
• Hidden supernatural influence: The tractor’s performance hints at the effects of Senior White’s defensive formation and the broader cultivation world operating beneath normal reality.
• Risk-taking and recklessness: Old Lü’s dangerous driving and the racers’ pursuit establish tension as the vehicles approach a hazardous mountain road.

Character Interactions

• Old Lü and Lü Tianyou exchange incredulous remarks about the tractor’s speed, with Old Lü attempting to maintain authority despite having no rational explanation.
• Dad Song observes the tractor’s victories over the sports cars and helps confirm that its speed is genuinely abnormal.
• Zhao Yaya jokes with Little Wheat Ear and Ase through their headsets, explaining that the people on the tractor are her uncle and Song Shuhang’s father.
• The women tease Zhao about previously wanting to introduce Song Shuhang as a boyfriend, while Little Wheat Ear and Ase remain eager to catch the strange vehicle.
• Song Shuhang remains physically separate from the others but is connected to them through the saber’s imprint, using cultivation techniques to locate and protect them.

Summary

• Key events: The author announces the start of 2016 as a fresh beginning and explains that Cultivation Chat Group had previously missed opportunities to compete for Qidian’s Monthly Ticket Ranking due to its release timing, personal matters, and a contract transfer. The author launches the book’s first serious monthly-ticket campaign and asks readers to vote, emphasizing that tickets counted double at the time.
• Character development: No fictional characters or plot developments appear; the chapter is entirely an author’s note.
• Themes: New beginnings, renewed motivation, ambition, reader support, and striving toward shared goals.
• Character interactions: There are no in-story interactions. The author directly addresses readers, encouraging them to participate by casting their monthly tickets and thanking them with New Year wishes.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the road up Ox Summit Mountain is rebuilt, it becomes wide and smooth enough for high-speed racing.
• Old Lü drives Song Shuhang’s magically reinforced tractor at roughly 150 km/h, overtaking three sports cars while drunk.
• Amazed by the tractor’s speed, Old Lü assumes he must be hallucinating from alcohol, then becomes excited and begins singing while driving.
• A sharp U-shaped hairpin turn suddenly appears. Old Lü brakes and steers into it, but twists his waist too far and severely pulls his lower back.
• Despite the pain, he manages to control the tractor and execute a spectacular drift. The tractor’s reinforced body and protective formation prevent the rear compartment, passengers, and cargo from being damaged.
• The three racing women behind them mistake Old Lü’s emergency maneuver for an incredible professional racing technique and praise him as a “Racing God.”
• Old Lü’s condition worsens, and Song Shuhang’s father urges him to stop and change drivers. Dad Song offers to drive because he knows how to operate a tractor, while Lü Tianyou admits that he does not.
• Before they can stop, they approach an even more dangerous U-shaped bend bordered by a cliffside and terraced drop. Old Lü insists on continuing and tries to survive the turn despite his injury.
• Meanwhile, the racing girls attempt to catch up, excited to watch Old Lü perform consecutive drifts through the upcoming S-shaped series of hairpin turns.

Character Developments

• Old Lü: His long driving experience and courage are emphasized, but his drunkenness, reckless enthusiasm, and aging body create serious danger. His injured lower back becomes the chapter’s central obstacle.
• Dad Song: He remains practical and responsible, repeatedly warning Old Lü to slow down and focus on safety. He reveals that he is also an experienced tractor driver and is prepared to take over.
• Lü Tianyou: He is deeply worried about his father and recognizes the danger of Old Lü’s drunken behavior. His helplessness is highlighted when he admits he cannot drive the tractor.
• The three racing women: They become increasingly impressed by Old Lü, misunderstanding his desperate, pain-driven maneuvering as intentional expert racing technique.

Significant Themes

• Comedy through danger and misunderstanding: Old Lü is actually struggling with alcohol, speed, and back pain, while spectators interpret his actions as masterful racing.
• Aging and physical limitations: Old Lü’s injury reflects the contrast between his past driving ability and his body’s declining flexibility.
• Courage versus recklessness: His determination to protect everyone and complete the turn is admirable, but his refusal to stop makes the situation increasingly dangerous.
• Supernatural protection: Venerable White’s Reinforced Vehicle Body and the formation keep the tractor and its passengers safe despite impossible speeds and violent drifting.
• Friendship and responsibility: Dad Song’s concern and willingness to take over contrast with Old Lü’s stubborn insistence on continuing.

Character Interactions

• Old Lü jokes and sings with Dad Song, trying to turn the dangerous drive into a shared celebration, while Dad Song repeatedly scolds him to drive carefully.
• Lü Tianyou anxiously warns his father to remain conscious and later worries as Old Lü’s back injury worsens.
• Dad Song offers practical assistance and attempts to persuade Old Lü to stop and switch drivers.
• The three racers communicate over their intercoms, enthusiastically praising Old Lü’s driving and planning to observe his upcoming S-curve maneuver, unaware that he is barely coping with the pain.

Chapter Summary: “Meteorite and Fissure”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Old Lü drives the modified walking tractor at extreme speed through the mountain road’s sharp U-shaped bends.
• After barely completing one turn, he lacks the strength and control to handle the next reverse bend. The tractor crashes through the guardrail and rolls down the terraced hillside.
• The three girls—Zhao Yaya, Little Wheat Ear, and Ase—witness the accident and rush to help.
• The tractor lands upside down on a lower terrace, apparently crushing Old Lü, Dad Song, and Lü Tianyou beneath it.
• Surprisingly, all three men survive with almost no injuries. Old Lü’s previously strained back hurts, but nobody suffers serious harm.
• During the crash, the tractor’s cargo is scattered. The meteorite inside the tractor is crushed, leaving visible fissures across its surface.
• Dad Song recalls seeing an unusual flash during the accident and realizes that their survival seems impossible under normal circumstances, given the fifteen-meter fall and the tractor landing on them.
• Zhao Yaya contacts Song Shuhang and asks him to bring a long rope. Shuhang arrives quickly, concealing that he used his movement technique to reach the scene.
• Since he has no rope, Shuhang claims he can arrange help for the tractor and prepares to rescue his father and the others himself.

Character Developments

• Old Lü: Demonstrates reckless determination and pride by attempting to race the tractor through the dangerous bends. His stubbornness causes the crash, though he survives largely unharmed aside from his back pain.
• Dad Song: Shows concern for Old Lü and tries to encourage him during the dangerous drive. After the crash, he angrily blames Old Lü but also notices the mysterious circumstances surrounding their survival.
• Lü Tianyou: Remains physically strong and helps Dad Song extract Old Lü and sort through the wreckage. He is also deeply concerned about his father.
• Zhao Yaya: Reacts responsibly and compassionately, immediately running to the crash site, checking on the men, and contacting Song Shuhang. Her medical training influences her desire to examine the survivors.
• Song Shuhang: Becomes anxious upon hearing that his father has crashed. He rushes to the scene using his enhanced movement technique but hides his supernatural ability from Zhao Yaya. He takes responsibility for organizing the rescue.

Significant Themes

• Recklessness and consequences: Old Lü’s pride and insistence on driving the tractor create a dangerous situation that nearly kills everyone.
• Miraculous survival and hidden powers: The men survive a crash that should have been fatal, suggesting that the tractor—or something connected to it—possesses unusual protective power.
• Family concern and responsibility: Song Shuhang, Zhao Yaya, and the others quickly act to protect and rescue the injured men.
• Humor amid danger: The dramatic crash is undercut by the absurdity of a high-speed walking tractor, Old Lü’s complaints, and the image of the overturned tractor lying “like a turtle.”
• The meteorite’s mystery: The fractured meteorite hints that it may be important and potentially connected to the strange flash and the survivors’ unexplained protection.

Character Interactions

• Dad Song encourages Old Lü during the drive but later scolds him for causing the accident.
• Dad Song and Lü Tianyou cooperate to pull Old Lü from beneath the overturned tractor.
• Zhao Yaya, Little Wheat Ear, and Ase shift from spectators filming the tractor’s race to rescuers after witnessing the crash.
• Zhao Yaya calls Song Shuhang, informs him of the accident, and asks him to bring rescue equipment.
• Song Shuhang reassures Zhao Yaya, explains his presence, and volunteers to rescue the men and arrange for the tractor’s recovery.

Chapter Summary: “Shuhang, Making Fake Documents Is Illegal!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang returns to the terraced fields where the tractor crashed. His father, Uncle Lü, and Lü Tianyou are stranded below because no one brought a rope.
• Shuhang surprises everyone by leaping down the steep terraces with extraordinary agility.
• He carries the large Lü Tianyou up the slope with ease, moving so quickly that the feat resembles a martial-arts master’s abilities. He then goes back to rescue his father and Uncle Lü.
• While searching around the tractor, Dad Song and Uncle Lü discover more than thirty vehicle registration certificates, all listing Song Shuhang as the owner. The documents cover numerous luxury cars, as well as the tractor.
• Assuming the certificates are fake, Dad Song seriously warns Shuhang that producing counterfeit documents is illegal.
• Shuhang seizes on this misunderstanding and claims the certificates are movie props made for a student film in which he plays a wealthy character.
• Dad Song accepts the explanation but asks Shuhang to finish the film before New Year’s so he can show it off to relatives, leaving Shuhang trapped by his own lie.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates dramatically increased physical strength and agility, astonishing his family and acquaintances. He also shows quick thinking by improvising a cover story for the mysterious vehicle documents, though the lie creates a new problem.
• Dad Song: Remains protective and practical, worrying that Shuhang may have committed a serious crime. His tendency to boast about his son emerges when he enthusiastically imagines showing Shuhang’s nonexistent movie to relatives.
• Lü Tianyou: Becomes amazed and embarrassed when Shuhang effortlessly carries him up the slope, forcing him to reconsider Shuhang’s physical abilities.
• Zhao Yaya: Notices Shuhang’s unusual agility and is confused by how much he has changed.
• Ase and Little Wheat Ear: React playfully to Shuhang’s appearance and athleticism, joking about being attracted to him and even asking for his phone number.

Significant Themes

• The hidden supernatural world intruding into ordinary life: Shuhang’s enhanced abilities are increasingly difficult to conceal in front of normal people.
• Improvisation and deception: Shuhang relies on a hastily invented explanation to protect his secrets, but the lie immediately spirals into an obligation.
• Family concern and misunderstanding: Dad Song interprets the strange evidence through ordinary assumptions, creating both comedy and tension.
• The gap between appearances and reality: The documents look authentic but are dismissed as props, while Shuhang’s seemingly impossible physical feats are treated as an unexplained oddity.

Character Interactions

• Zhao Yaya, Ase, and Little Wheat Ear tease one another while watching Shuhang rescue the stranded group, with Ase asking Zhao Yaya for Shuhang’s contact information.
• Lü Tianyou experiences firsthand how powerful Shuhang has become and reacts with disbelief.
• Dad Song and Uncle Lü discuss whether the registration certificates are counterfeit.
• Shuhang reassures them with the fabricated movie explanation, only for Dad Song to enthusiastically expand the lie by requesting a completed film for the family’s New Year gathering.

Chapter Summary: “The Meteorite...Boom!”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reassures his father that he will finish making a film before the New Year, despite having previously lied about filming and possessing numerous driver’s licenses.
• He plans to create a rich-playboy character and considers asking one of the powerful members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group—who may have connections to the film industry—for help.
• Zhao Yaya overhears the conversation and immediately realizes Song Shuhang is lying based on his subtle movements.
• After bringing his father and Uncle Lü safely up the mountain, Song Shuhang sends them home with Zhao Yaya while remaining behind to retrieve the overturned tractor.
• Using his enhanced strength, Blood Qi, and the Unmoving Vajra Body technique, Song Shuhang flips the tractor upright. The tractor is mostly undamaged, though it leaks some diesel.
• He notices that the meteorite beneath the tractor is covered in cracks. Upon examining it, he discovers traces of both Venerable White’s and Daoist Cloudmist’s Sword Qi inside.
• Song Shuhang realizes that their conflicting Sword Qi had already destroyed the meteorite’s interior, leaving it structurally hollow despite its hard exterior.
• Curious about what remains inside, he punches the meteorite with his Basic Fist Technique. Before he can inspect it, the meteorite suddenly explodes.

2. Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues to struggle with the consequences of his earlier lies. He now feels obligated to produce a convincing film and maintain the wealthy-playboy image he invented.
• His cultivation and physical abilities are shown to have advanced significantly: he can move rapidly, lift and flip a tractor, and use Blood Qi and defensive techniques in combat.
• Song Shuhang also demonstrates growing caution. When he senses danger before the meteorite explodes, he immediately prepares his last Armor Talisman.
• Zhao Yaya is established as perceptive and observant. She can identify Song Shuhang’s lies simply by watching his behavior.
• Venerable White and Daoist Cloudmist, though absent from the immediate scene, remain influential through the traces of their Sword Qi and earlier actions involving the meteorite.

3. Significant Themes

• The consequences of lying: Song Shuhang’s casual lies force him into increasingly absurd situations, including the need to make an actual film.
• The contrast between ordinary life and cultivation: Family concerns about New Year plans and filmmaking exist alongside superhuman strength, magical formations, and exploding meteorites.
• Hidden danger and curiosity: Song Shuhang’s desire to uncover the meteorite’s secrets leads him to interfere with an unstable object, triggering the explosion.
• The lasting impact of powerful cultivators: The meteorite has been physically transformed by the clash between Venerable White’s and Daoist Cloudmist’s Sword Qi, illustrating how powerful practitioners affect the world around them.

4. Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Dad Song: Dad Song questions him about the film, while Song Shuhang tries to reassure him and conceal the truth.
• Song Shuhang and Zhao Yaya: Zhao Yaya sees through his lies but still helps transport his father and Uncle Lü home. Their interaction shows her practical concern and familiarity with his behavior.
• Song Shuhang and Uncle Lü: Song Shuhang helps him reach safety after Uncle Lü twists his waist.
• Song Shuhang and the meteorite: His investigation shifts from cautious observation to direct experimentation, ending in the meteorite’s unexpected explosion.

Chapter Summary: “Afterwards”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang’s attempt to open the meteorite ends disastrously when its core suddenly explodes.
• He activates his last Armor Talisman, which protects him from the blast and the meteorite fragments. The fragments are powerful enough to approach the strength of ordinary Third-Grade cultivator attacks.
• The nearby tractor, previously protected by Venerable White’s formation, is destroyed after its defensive formation runs out of spiritual energy. The resulting fire causes a chain of explosions.
• Song Shuhang escapes using the Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles movement technique. Although he survives, the Armor Talisman is nearly exhausted.
• Returning to the crater, Song Shuhang finds the tractor completely ruined and discovers a fist-sized, pitch-black gemstone at the center of the meteorite’s remains.
• He suspects the gemstone may be an Enlightenment Stone, or another valuable treasure, and theorizes that it caused the meteorite’s unusual coldness and explosive reaction with the Sword Qi.
• More than a thousand meters away, Onion Lady, an Onion Spirit with three hundred years of cultivation, senses the treasure’s aura and begins moving her attention toward the explosion site.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates quick thinking and improved combat awareness by immediately using his final Armor Talisman and retreating from danger. He remains practical and humorous despite the destruction, worrying about the cost of clearing away the tractor wreckage and imagining his father’s reaction if the explosion had happened at home.
• He also becomes more curious and cautious about the meteorite, recognizing that its contents may be connected to the Sword Qi conflict and could be an important cultivation treasure.
• Onion Lady is introduced as a naïve but determined three-hundred-year-old Onion Spirit. Her cultivation has progressed extremely slowly because she is poorly suited to the Buddhist techniques she learned.
• Her backstory reveals that she was deceived by a monster organization into studying absurd “survival skills,” including stealing, surrendering, seduction, and manipulating cultivators.
• Onion Lady’s encounter with Monk Jiudeng led to her being imprisoned in a Buddhist pagoda for nearly three hundred years. During that time, she learned genuine Buddhist cultivation methods and gained broader knowledge of the Cultivation World.
• She now hopes to improve her cultivation and eventually reunite with Monk Jiudeng to take revenge—or, in her words, “give him one hell of a good time.”

Significant Themes

• Unexpected danger and bad luck: Song Shuhang’s seemingly controlled plan turns into a major explosion, reinforcing the unpredictable hazards of cultivation.
• Survival through preparation: The Armor Talisman saves Song Shuhang’s life, emphasizing the value of having defensive treasures even when their use comes at a high cost.
• Humor amid destruction: The chapter repeatedly contrasts deadly cultivation events with mundane concerns, such as the ruined tractor, household repairs, and Song Shuhang’s father’s imagined reaction.
• Misguided instruction versus genuine knowledge: Onion Lady’s ridiculous monster-training manual contrasts with the serious Buddhist teachings she later receives, showing how knowledge and mentorship shape a cultivator’s development.
• Freedom and revenge: Onion Lady’s imprisonment and slow cultivation motivate her desire to become stronger and reclaim control over her life.
• Treasure and hidden significance: The black gemstone suggests that the meteorite contains a valuable secret and may become the focus of future conflict.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang has no direct interaction with other characters during the explosion, but his actions are shaped by the prior assistance of Venerable White, whose formations protected the tractor and whose Sword Qi may have contributed to the meteorite’s explosion.
• Daoist Cloudmist’s Sword Qi is also implicated in the meteorite’s strange reaction, linking the discovery to past events involving the meteorite.
• Onion Lady’s historical interaction with Monk Jiudeng is central to her characterization: she attempted to use the absurd skills taught by the monster organization, failed to overpower him, and was ultimately taken to a Buddhist temple and imprisoned.
• The chapter ends with Onion Lady detecting the gemstone’s aura, setting up a likely future encounter between her and Song Shuhang.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The three-hundred-year-old Onion Spirit follows the explosion caused by the falling “meteorite” and discovers Song Shuhang holding a black gemstone.
• When Song Shuhang grabs the gemstone, its mysterious power weakens the bottleneck of his Third Aperture, the Nose Aperture.
• Using a Blood Qi Pill, martial techniques, and assistance from his Spirit Ghost, Song Shuhang successfully breaks through and opens the Nose Aperture.
• The new aperture greatly enhances his sense of smell and allows him to absorb spiritual energy with every breath, though it also makes unpleasant odors overwhelmingly intense.
• Song Shuhang realizes the gemstone is likely the legendary extraterrestrial “Enlightenment Stone.” It not only aids breakthroughs but also deepens his understanding of several techniques.
• Onion Spirit attempts to ambush him and steal the stone, believing her three centuries of cultivation make her superior.
• Song Shuhang detects her approach through her strong onion scent and counters her attack. His punch defeats her easily.
• Enraged, Onion Spirit reveals her powerful demon aura and tries to intimidate him, but Song Shuhang challenges her and activates a Thunder Talisman, using “Palm Thunder.”
• Onion Spirit is shocked because Song Shuhang is only a First-Grade cultivator. Since she cannot actually use her demon power in combat, she prepares to rely on her ultimate survival technique: “Five Hundred Ways to Surrender When You Can’t Beat a Human Cultivator.”

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Breaks through to the Third Aperture and gains enhanced smell and passive cultivation through breathing. His understanding of his martial techniques improves. He also displays increasing confidence—and a dangerous tendency to seek excitement by provoking stronger opponents.
• Onion Spirit: Revealed to be inexperienced despite her age and intimidating demon power. She has little real combat ability, relies primarily on Buddhist techniques, and possesses demon power mostly as an impressive-looking bluff. Her greed for the Enlightenment Stone leads her into an ill-advised confrontation.

Significant Themes

• Opportunity through danger: Song Shuhang’s breakthrough and acquisition of the Enlightenment Stone come as rewards for surviving a destructive calamity.
• Appearances versus reality: Onion Spirit looks like a terrifying three-hundred-year-old great demon, but her combat abilities are extremely limited.
• Rapid growth and cultivation: The Enlightenment Stone accelerates Song Shuhang’s advancement and grants deeper comprehension of his techniques.
• Humor and subversion: The chapter repeatedly undercuts dramatic cultivation tropes, especially through Song Shuhang’s blunt taunt and Onion Spirit’s comically practical surrender technique.

Character Interactions

• Onion Spirit cautiously observes Song Shuhang before attempting a surprise attack.
• Song Shuhang’s newly enhanced nose allows him to detect her by her onion scent, turning her stealth attack into an immediate confrontation.
• Their clash exposes the difference between Onion Spirit’s confidence and actual ability: Song Shuhang’s straightforward punch overwhelms her.
• After Onion Spirit threatens him with her supposed demon strength, Song Shuhang responds by provoking her and using Palm Thunder, leaving her startled and preparing to surrender.

Chapter 252 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Onion Spirit surrenders to Song Shuhang after he prepares to attack her with Palm Thunder, but Song Shuhang distrusts her and attacks anyway.
• Onion Lady reveals her true onion form and escapes underground using her innate earth-burrowing ability. Song Shuhang tracks her by following her aura and scent.
• Fearing imprisonment like the three hundred years she spent in the Heavenly Dragon Temple, Onion Lady attempts to escape through her supposed trump card: the Beautiful Demoness Ultimate Art: Charismatic Seduction.
• Her first attempt fails because she is still in onion form, merely swaying in the ground. Even after transforming into a beautiful woman and performing the technique properly, Song Shuhang remains completely unaffected and treats it like an ordinary dance.
• Humiliated and frightened by Song Shuhang’s threats, Onion Lady finally agrees to return with him peacefully.
• Song Shuhang assures her that he only intends to take her to meet a senior and that, if everything goes smoothly, she may be released within a few days. Relieved, she stops resisting.
• Zhao Yaya arrives to pick up Song Shuhang and brings him home, where his parents and the Lu family are dealing with the aftermath of their car accident and Song Shuhang’s mother’s furious lecture.
• The chapter ends with Zhao Yaya noticing that Song Shuhang has been hunched over the entire time.

Character Development

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increased caution and combat maturity. He refuses to trust Onion Lady’s surrender immediately, remembers his seniors’ warnings about underestimating enemies, and keeps a sword talisman ready in case she attempts another escape.
• His resistance to Onion Lady’s seduction highlights both his unusual emotional detachment in the situation and his practical mindset. Rather than being distracted, he sees her performance as ridiculous.
• Onion Lady is shown to be clever, desperate, and comically incompetent. She uses every survival method available—surrender, underground escape, seduction, bargaining—but ultimately gives in when none work.
• Her fear of renewed imprisonment reveals the lasting trauma of her three-hundred-year captivity. Song Shuhang’s promise of a short confinement eases her anxiety and begins establishing a less hostile relationship between them.
• Zhao Yaya remains responsible and good-humored, acting as the link between Song Shuhang’s supernatural adventure and the chaotic situation at home.

Significant Themes

• Caution versus trust: Song Shuhang refuses to accept a demon’s surrender at face value and prioritizes safety.
• Comedy through mismatched expectations: Onion Lady believes she possesses overwhelming seductive charm, while Song Shuhang sees only an onion dancing in the wind.
• Freedom and imprisonment: Onion Lady’s desperation is driven by her fear of spending another centuries-long period in captivity.
• Power and negotiation: Although Song Shuhang has the advantage, the conflict ends through reassurance and compromise rather than violence.
• The collision of the ordinary and supernatural: The absurd battle with a demon concludes with Song Shuhang getting into a family member’s sports car while his parents deal with a mundane driving accident.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang repeatedly confronts Onion Lady, alternating between threats, skepticism, and reluctant sympathy.
• Onion Lady tries to manipulate him through surrender, escape, seduction, and a cultivation-technique bribe, but none of these tactics work.
• Song Shuhang ultimately treats her more fairly by promising not to imprison her for long.
• Zhao Yaya provides comic relief at the end, unaware of the supernatural events and simply questioning why Song Shuhang has been hunched over.

Chapter Summary: “Absolute Prohibition!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang returns to Wenzhou with Zhao Yaya after the tractor is destroyed in an accident. He hides the true circumstances, claiming the tractor was experimentally enhanced by a friend and that another friend will handle the wreckage.
• He secretly keeps the possible Enlightenment Stone and tightly restrains the Onion Demon, warning it not to reveal its true form at home.
• Zhao Yaya questions Shuhang about his sudden physical growth, agility, and the extraordinary tractor. He attributes his changes to exercise and special tea supplied by a friend, intending to give her some Spirit-Vein Jade Tea.
• Shuhang contacts Doudou, but Zhou Li answers. He learns that Doudou has taken Little Monk Guoguo to the hospital for hemorrhoid surgery. Zhou Li agrees to bring them to Shuhang’s home the next day and also promises to deal with the tractor accident.
• At the Jiangshui Civil Aviation Training Center, Instructor Little Li wakes from a coma with fragmented memories. His colleagues show him footage of the “Soyuz” capsule returning from space, revealing that he apparently returned as one of the astronauts alongside “Anthony.”
• Little Li recognizes himself in the footage but remembers nothing. Mentions of Anthony, Song Bai/Venerable White, a desert, a white horse, and being beaten trigger painful, incomplete memories.
• Overwhelmed by inexplicable grief, Little Li begins crying uncontrollably without understanding why.
• Upon reaching home, Shuhang warns the Onion Spirit that revealing its demonic identity is absolutely forbidden.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Becomes increasingly skilled at concealing supernatural events from his family and ordinary people. He takes responsibility for the Onion Demon and plans ahead to protect his home from Venerable White’s dangerous abilities.
• Zhao Yaya: Grows more suspicious of Shuhang’s unusual physical abilities and strange acquaintances, though she accepts his explanations for now.
• Zhou Li: Continues serving as the exhausted troubleshooter for Doudou and readily agrees to handle yet another crisis, while openly wishing for a vacation.
• Instructor Little Li: Awakens with severe memory loss and mysterious trauma. His fragmented recollections suggest he was dragged into an extraordinary space-related adventure involving Venerable White and other cultivators.
• Onion Demon: Is frightened and placed under strict orders to conceal its identity, highlighting its vulnerable position under Shuhang’s control.

Significant Themes

• Secrecy and concealment: Shuhang must constantly invent mundane explanations for supernatural events, while Little Li’s memories have apparently been suppressed or disrupted.
• The collision of ordinary and supernatural worlds: Family trips, hospital visits, aviation training, and car accidents coexist with demons, cultivation, impossible vehicles, and space travel.
• Unintended consequences of powerful cultivators: Venerable White’s actions continue to affect innocent people, even while he remains in secluded cultivation.
• Absurdity and dark comedy: Little Monk’s surgery, Doudou’s endless troubles, the ruined tractor, and Little Li’s unexplained astronaut identity create a humorous contrast with the characters’ genuine danger and confusion.
• Trauma and memory: Little Li’s physical pain, emotional distress, and broken memories hint at a bizarre ordeal that he cannot consciously recall.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Zhao Yaya: She interrogates him about his new abilities and tractor, while he gives evasive but plausible explanations.
• Song Shuhang and Zhou Li: Shuhang arranges for Zhou Li to transport Doudou and Little Monk and asks him to clean up the tractor accident, adding to Zhou Li’s workload.
• Little Li and his colleagues: His coworkers question him about his disappearance and show him the footage that exposes his unexplained involvement in a space mission.
• Little Li and Catherine: Catherine welcomes him after he wakes, while his affection for her is briefly shown through his embarrassment and nervousness.
• Song Shuhang and the Onion Demon: Shuhang threatens the Onion Spirit into maintaining its disguise, establishing strict control over its behavior at his family home.

Chapter Summary — “This Saber—Pretty Sharp, You Know!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang returns home with Zhao Yaya and her friends, only to find his father, Old Lü, and Lü Tianyou being fiercely scolded by Mom Song for driving a tractor while drunk and causing an accident.
• Little Wheat Ear repeatedly encourages Mom Song by supplying her with tea, prolonging the scolding. Song Shuhang eventually intervenes and persuades his mother to let the three men off temporarily so she can entertain the guests.
• Old Lü apologizes for damaging Song Shuhang’s unusually powerful tractor and privately resolves to compensate him properly.
• Song Shuhang retrieves his belongings from the large trunk in his room, including the Soul Pearl, Spirit-Vein Jade Tea, and the Overlord Shatter Saber.
• He feeds the Soul Pearl to his Spirit Ghost, replenishing the energy it expended while helping him break through to the Nose Aperture realm.
• Concerned that Onion Spirit might attack—or that his mother might mistake her for an ordinary onion and cook her—Song Shuhang keeps Onion Spirit under close watch and carries her with him whenever he leaves.
• Song Shuhang hangs the Overlord Shatter Saber in the living room, disguising the powerful sect-protecting weapon as a decorative sword.
• He serves Zhao Yaya and her friends Spirit-Vein Jade Tea. Though initially skeptical that two leaves per cup could be worthwhile, they are amazed by its refreshing taste and unusual effects.
• Song Shuhang warns them that the tea is extremely potent and should be limited to one cup per day, then gives the remaining tea to the three women as thanks for helping him.
• At Mom Song’s request, Song Shuhang leaves to buy a heavy kitchen knife for chopping bones, taking Onion Spirit with him to prevent any accidents at home.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues balancing his supernatural life with ordinary family responsibilities. He remains cautious about concealing magical objects and abilities from his family, especially his mother.
• Mom Song is shown as forceful, caring, and uncompromising about safety. Her anger comes from concern over the men’s reckless drunk driving, but she quickly returns to her hospitable role.
• Dad Song, Old Lü, and Lü Tianyou are humbled by the accident and openly admit their mistakes. Old Lü’s intention to compensate Shuhang highlights his honesty and sense of responsibility.
• Onion Spirit remains terrified of Song Shuhang’s Sword Talisman and is forced to obey his commands. Her vulnerability creates ongoing comic tension.
• The Spirit Ghost is replenished after consuming the Soul Pearl, emphasizing its importance to Shuhang’s cultivation and recent breakthrough.
• Zhao Yaya and her friends, especially Little Wheat Ear, are introduced as guests who react with curiosity and amusement to Shuhang’s unusual gifts. Little Wheat Ear’s eagerness to aid Mom Song’s scolding marks her as mischievously entertaining.

Significant Themes

• Family discipline and affection: Mom Song’s scolding demonstrates that anger and care are closely connected within the family.
• Maintaining secrecy: Shuhang must hide the supernatural nature of his possessions while integrating them into normal domestic life.
• Power concealed beneath ordinary appearances: The dangerous Overlord Shatter Saber is presented as decoration, while Onion Spirit appears to be nothing more than a green onion.
• Responsibility and compensation: Old Lü’s remorse reinforces the importance of taking responsibility for one’s mistakes.
• Generosity despite scarcity: Shuhang shares the rare Spirit-Vein Jade Tea, even though he possesses very little of it, as repayment for his friends’ help.
• Comedy from supernatural-meets-domestic situations: Powerful magical treasures are treated like household objects, while ordinary family concerns—such as buying a bone-chopping knife—become sources of danger and humor.

Character Interactions

• Mom Song dominates the opening scene by scolding Dad Song, Old Lü, and Lü Tianyou, while Little Wheat Ear humorously assists her.
• Song Shuhang mediates between his mother and the three guilty men, helping them escape further punishment.
• Old Lü discusses the damaged tractor with Shuhang and promises to make amends.
• Shuhang carefully threatens Onion Spirit with the Sword Talisman and later carries her away from the house for her protection.
• Mom Song unknowingly handles the powerful Overlord Shatter Saber and approves of it as a decoration, while also ordering Shuhang to buy a proper kitchen knife.
• Zhao Yaya and her friends tease Shuhang about giving them only tea leaves, then become impressed when the Spirit-Vein Jade Tea produces an extraordinary refreshing effect.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang leaves home to buy a cleaver, and his mother asks him to bring back soy sauce.
• Onion Spirit reveals that she tricked Shuhang: he carried away an ordinary green onion while she secretly hid behind a box.
• Using her demonic ability to become invisible to ordinary people, Onion Spirit plans to escape once Shuhang is gone.
• She avoids attacking the Song family because she senses two overwhelmingly powerful auras in the house and is terrified of provoking them.
• Before she can flee, Madam Song notices her and casually picks her up, believing she is another onion.
• Madam Song begins preparing lamb stir-fried with scallions and repeatedly chops Onion Spirit, but the ordinary cleaver cannot damage her.
• Madam Song tests the cleaver on other ingredients, confirms that it is functioning normally, and becomes baffled by the indestructible onion.
• Suspecting that Onion Spirit may be made from some unusual material, Madam Song eventually remembers Song Shuhang’s “decorative blade.”
• She retrieves the blade from the living room and returns to the kitchen, intending to use it on Onion Spirit.

Character Developments

• Onion Spirit demonstrates her cleverness and survival instincts by substituting an ordinary onion for herself and hiding her true body.
• Despite boasting about her three hundred years of cultivation, Onion Spirit remains cowardly when confronted with the mysterious powerful auras in the house.
• Her pride repeatedly clashes with her fear: she wants to assert her dignity as a great demon but ultimately allows herself to be chopped rather than risk attracting danger.
• Madam Song is shown as practical, decisive, and fearless. Rather than dismissing the strange onion, she investigates the problem and immediately seeks a stronger tool.

Significant Themes

• Comedic contrast between power and circumstance: Onion Spirit is a genuine demon, yet she is helplessly treated as a common cooking ingredient.
• Survival versus pride: Onion Spirit’s boasts contrast sharply with her instinct to remain quiet and avoid confrontation.
• The hidden supernatural world: Ordinary humans remain unaware of the demons and powerful cultivators around them, creating dramatic irony.
• Family life intersecting with cultivation: Supernatural beings and immense powers are present in an ordinary household, but domestic chores continue normally.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Madam Song interact briefly in a normal mother-and-son exchange before he leaves.
• Onion Spirit secretly manipulates Song Shuhang by replacing herself with an ordinary onion.
• Madam Song unknowingly captures Onion Spirit, handles her like a vegetable, and repeatedly attempts to chop her.
• Onion Spirit internally mocks Madam Song and her fellow onions while remaining silent because of the dangerous auras nearby.
• Madam Song’s confusion over the indestructible onion leads her to retrieve Song Shuhang’s decorative blade, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Chapter 256: “Turning the Tables” — Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang rushes home after discovering that the “Onion Spirit” in his hand was actually an ordinary scallion infused with the demon’s aura. He realizes the real Onion Spirit may have escaped.
• Using the Spirit Detective Method, Song Shuhang searches his house but cannot locate her.
• He discovers that his mother has taken the Onion Spirit to the kitchen, mistaking her for a special scallion. Unable to cut her with ordinary kitchen knives, Song Mom uses Song Shuhang’s Overlord Shatter Saber and successfully chops her up.
• Song Mom cooks the Onion Spirit with mutton, creating a dish of “scallion-and-mutton stir-fry.”
• Song Shuhang finds the Onion Spirit’s roots, which are still alive, and consults the Nine Provinces Number One Group. The seniors explain that the roots may allow her to regenerate if planted and watered with Spirit Spring.
• They also warn that eating a three-hundred-year-old Onion Spirit could be extremely dangerous for ordinary people because of the concentrated demon aura. Only an Immortal Chef’s preparation might make it safe and beneficial.
• The group becomes shocked when Song Shuhang reveals that the Onion Spirit has developed sentience and can transform into human form—a highly abnormal feat for a plant-type monster.
• Believing the stir-fry could harm his family, Song Shuhang tries to throw it away. When his mother enters the kitchen, he impulsively eats the entire plate to conceal what happened.
• He retreats to his room and attempts to vomit the food, but cannot. The dish begins producing a warm, powerful energy in his stomach.
• The chapter ends with the Onion Spirit revealing that she is still conscious inside Song Shuhang’s pocket and smugly declaring that he will not be able to spit her out. She had deliberately allowed herself to be chopped up as part of a plan.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang is shown to be increasingly overwhelmed by the complications of the cultivation world. Although normally cautious, he is careless with the Onion Spirit and repeatedly has to improvise to conceal supernatural events from his family.
• His concern for the Onion Spirit deepens. Despite fearing her powers, he refuses to sell her as an ingredient for Fairy Bie Xue’s banquet because he recognizes her as a sentient life.
• His impulsive decision to eat the dangerous dish highlights both his protectiveness toward his family and his tendency to make desperate, reckless choices.
• Song Mom remains completely unaware of the cultivation world. Her practical, uninhibited use of the Overlord Shatter Saber causes the crisis, though she is proud of her cooking and innocently treats the demon plant as an unusual vegetable.
• The Onion Spirit demonstrates considerable intelligence and cunning. She exploits Song Mom’s actions and appears to have engineered the situation so that Song Shuhang would consume her.
• The group seniors recognize that the Onion Spirit is exceptionally unusual, possibly because of a hidden treasure or an ancient bloodline.

Significant Themes

• The danger of underestimating the supernatural: Song Shuhang’s assumption that he has captured the Onion Spirit proves false, and ordinary household events become dangerous because of hidden cultivation-world properties.
• The conflict between ordinary life and cultivation: Song Shuhang must constantly hide supernatural truths from his family while managing their accidental involvement.
• Life, identity, and morality: Song Shuhang’s reluctance to treat the Onion Spirit as food reflects his recognition that she possesses intelligence, sentience, and the potential to become human.
• Improvisation and unintended consequences: Song Shuhang’s attempts to solve one problem—first hiding the Onion Spirit, then protecting his family—only create a more dangerous situation.
• Hidden power and mystery: The Onion Spirit’s ability to develop sentience and transform despite lacking a Demon Core suggests an unknown origin or special secret.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Song Mom have a humorous but dangerous exchange when she proudly explains how she used his saber to chop the “scallion.”
• Song Shuhang consults Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Drunk Moon Hermit, Mad Saber Three Waves, Snow Wolf Cave Master, Medicine Master, and True Lord Yellow Mountain through the group chat.
• The seniors’ reactions shift from practical advice to astonishment when they learn the Onion Spirit can assume human form.
• Song Shuhang’s interaction with his unconscious Senior White emphasizes his isolation: he wishes Senior White were awake to resolve the crisis but must handle it himself.
• The final exchange is internal and one-sided: the Onion Spirit triumphantly reveals that she has outmaneuvered Song Shuhang and deliberately caused him to ingest her.

Chapter Summary: “If I Were an Onion?”

Key plot points and events

• Onion Lady reveals that, as a three-hundred-year-old Onion Spirit, her body contains dangerous demonic energy. She deliberately allows Mom Song to cook and eat her, hoping the energy will poison Song Shuhang.
• After being reduced to an onion root, Onion Lady hides in Song Shuhang’s pocket and attaches herself to the Enlightenment Stone, plotting to escape with it and a treasured blade once she recovers.
• The demonic energy spreads through Shuhang’s body. He uses the True Self Meditation Scripture to protect his consciousness and attempts to convert the energy into Blood Qi.
• Venerable White’s cultivation draws in spiritual energy, some of which reaches Shuhang and helps force the demonic energy out of his body.
• Shuhang falls asleep and begins dreaming through Onion Lady’s memories, similar to his previous experiences with the Altar Master and Rogue Cultivator Li Tiansu.
• In the dream, Shuhang experiences life as a giant green onion. He discovers that Daoist Scarlet Firmament planted the onion on a remote mountain long ago.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament encourages the onion to grow, remember its birthplace, and survive. The onion remains rooted and isolated for countless years.
• Eventually, the onion becomes enlightened without undergoing tribulation and transforms into a green-haired girl. She lives freely in the mountains for more than a decade.
• A monster organization called “Monsters Around the World Unite as One Family” recruits her and gives her the name Onion Lady. Shuhang hopes the organization might have taught her powerful techniques.

Character developments

• Onion Lady is shown to be cunning, spiteful, and opportunistic. She willingly sacrifices her body to infect Shuhang, then plans to steal the Enlightenment Stone and treasured blade.
• Her past reveals a more innocent beginning: she was deliberately planted by Daoist Scarlet Firmament and endured centuries of loneliness before becoming sentient.
• Song Shuhang remains calm and resourceful under the demonic-energy attack, using meditation and cultivation methods to resist it. His reaction to the dream is humorous frustration, especially during the long years spent as a stationary onion.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament appears as a mysterious and powerful figure who seems to have a personal interest in the onion’s future, though his exact motives remain unclear.
• Venerable White indirectly aids Shuhang by creating a spiritual-energy flow that helps purge the demonic energy.

Significant themes

• Transformation and identity: Onion Lady’s evolution from a planted vegetable to an enlightened monster reflects the broader theme of spiritual growth and changing identity.
• Endurance and survival: Her centuries of isolation emphasize the patience required to cultivate and become enlightened.
• Cause and effect: Shuhang’s consumption of Onion Lady allows him to experience her memories, while his cultivation and Venerable White’s spiritual energy counteract her revenge scheme.
• Humor in cultivation: The chapter contrasts dangerous demonic energy and powerful immortals with the absurdity of living as an onion for centuries.
• Hidden connections: Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s appearance links Onion Lady’s history to Shuhang’s earlier dream and suggests a larger connection between their fates.

Character interactions

• Onion Lady plots against Song Shuhang while he unknowingly carries her root and suffers the effects of her demonic energy.
• Mom Song cooks Onion Lady because the spirit actively cooperates, unknowingly helping her revenge plan.
• Venerable White’s cultivation indirectly supports Shuhang by supplying spiritual energy.
• In the memory, Daoist Scarlet Firmament personally plants the onion and offers words of encouragement before leaving her alone.
• Onion Lady later encounters the monster organization, which recruits and names her, setting her on the path to becoming the mischievous spirit Shuhang knows.

Chapter Summary: “Causal Threads, Sky City!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Monster Organization teaches Onion Lady its supposed secret ultimate technique, The Two Hundred Skills Essential for a Fairy to Survive Tenaciously. Instead of powerful combat arts, the manual contains ridiculous schemes involving theft, surrender, seduction, and manipulating human cultivators.
• Onion Lady diligently trains in these techniques for a year before leaving the mountain to test herself.
• She encounters a handsome monk named Jiudeng, only to discover that Jiudeng is actually female. Onion Lady’s techniques fail, but her charm technique succeeds, leading to a romantic encounter between the two.
• Jiudeng takes Onion Lady back to a Buddhist temple and suppresses her for nearly three hundred years—the event that explains Onion Lady’s past imprisonment.
• During the dream, Song Shuhang’s perspective shifts from Onion Lady’s body to an overhead view. He suddenly sees countless colored lines connecting living beings and objects throughout the world.
• He realizes these may be causal threads, with different colors representing different kinds of relationships. A pink line forms between Jiudeng and Onion Lady, then travels through Onion Lady’s connection to Song Shuhang and embeds itself in him.
• Song Shuhang finally wakes beside Venerable White. He can still see the mysterious lines in the real world, including golden lines connecting him to Venerable White and blue lines leading toward people or places in the room.
• When he touches the pink line connected to Onion Lady, the vision disappears, but he receives an image of a vast, magnificent Sky City at the line’s far end.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes increasingly frustrated and horrified by being forced to experience Onion Lady’s past, especially her absurd training and encounter with Jiudeng. His suffering nevertheless strengthens his patience and gives him insight into unseen causal relationships.
• Onion Lady is shown to be earnest and hardworking despite being trained in bizarre, self-defeating techniques. Her encounter with Jiudeng becomes a defining event in her history and eventually links her causally to Song Shuhang.
• Jiudeng is revealed to be a female monk rather than the male figure Song Shuhang initially assumes. She easily defeats Onion Lady and later suppresses her for centuries.
• Venerable White remains asleep beside Song Shuhang, but the golden thread connecting them suggests a significant bond.

Significant Themes

• Cause and effect: The colored lines symbolize how actions and relationships create invisible connections between people.
• Absurdity and irony: The Monster Organization’s “ultimate technique” is comically useless and directly contributes to Onion Lady’s bizarre fate.
• Identity and perspective: Song Shuhang is forced to experience Onion Lady’s life from within, blurring the boundaries between observer and participant.
• Fate and hidden connections: The mysterious threads suggest that relationships—familial, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise—shape the characters’ lives in ways they cannot perceive.
• Discovery and foreshadowing: The Sky City at the end of the pink thread introduces a major mystery and likely points toward future events.

Character Interactions

• The Monster Organization instructs Onion Lady in its strange survival manual.
• Onion Lady encounters and attempts to fight Monk Jiudeng, but her techniques fail.
• Onion Lady’s charm technique creates a romantic connection with Jiudeng, represented by a pink causal thread.
• Because Song Shuhang is spiritually connected to Onion Lady, Jiudeng’s relationship with her also creates a causal link to him.
• In the real world, Song Shuhang observes threads connecting him to Venerable White, Onion Lady, and other unknown people or places, culminating in the revelation of Sky City.

Chapter Summary: “Empty-Handed Stomach-Cleansing Hand”

• Sky City and the Mysterious Island: Song Shuhang briefly sees the magnificent, contradictory image of Sky City—both real and illusory. He suspects it may be the mysterious island above the Eastern Sea, especially because the Causal Threads seem connected to Jiudeng, the person who took Onion Lady away three hundred years ago. He wonders whether Jiudeng is currently on the island.
• Daoist Cloudmist awakens: Daoist Cloudmist, a member of the Empty Thieves’ Sect, recovers from his meteorite-induced injuries thanks to the spiritual energy radiating from Venerable White. He reveals that he used his technique, Empty-Handed Sleight, to remove the Onion Spirit’s body from Song Shuhang’s stomach and cleanse the demonic qi from it, leaving behind an Onion Spirit Crystal.
• A thief’s “repayment”: Cloudmist returns the Onion Spirit Crystal to Song Shuhang as repayment for rescuing him. However, while pretending to pat Shuhang, he secretly steals the Enlightenment Stone. After noticing Venerable White and realizing he is a terrifying Seventh-Grade Venerable, Cloudmist becomes frightened and discreetly puts the stone back. He decides not to risk offending Venerable White and instead plans to remain near Song Shuhang’s home, hoping to benefit from the stone later and steal it after the two separate.
• Venerable White’s influence: Song Shuhang identifies Venerable White to Cloudmist, deliberately emphasizing his status. Cloudmist immediately becomes cautious and respectful, showing how greatly even a skilled thief fears a powerful Venerable.
• Onion Lady’s predicament: After Cloudmist leaves, Song Shuhang discovers Onion Lady’s root attached to the Enlightenment Stone. She had crawled onto it intending to recover and eventually escape with the stone and the Overlord Shatter Saber, but she fell asleep and accidentally rooted herself into the stone. She has sprouted but can no longer detach herself or transform into human form, leaving her miserable and unable to act.
• Song Shuhang resumes his activities: Song Shuhang realizes he slept until after two in the morning, partly because he experienced a dream covering Onion Lady’s three-hundred-year history. He checks on the others and then logs into the Nine Provinces Number One Group, where he sees that Soft Feather has mentioned him.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Song Shuhang remains cautious but compassionate, especially toward Onion Lady. He is also increasingly involved in mysteries surrounding Sky City, Jiudeng, and the Mysterious Island.
• Daoist Cloudmist demonstrates both gratitude and habitual thievery. He repays Shuhang’s help fairly but still attempts to steal the Enlightenment Stone, ultimately restraining himself out of fear of Venerable White.
• Onion Lady suffers another humiliating setback: although she has begun recovering, she is physically trapped by her own roots in the Enlightenment Stone.
• Venerable White remains mostly inactive, apparently cultivating or sleeping, yet his presence alone intimidates Cloudmist and protects Song Shuhang’s possessions.

Significant Themes

• Contradictory reality and mystery: Sky City’s simultaneous realism and illusoriness reinforce the chapter’s supernatural uncertainty.
• Gratitude versus instinct: Cloudmist genuinely repays Shuhang but cannot entirely suppress his thieving nature.
• Power and deterrence: Venerable White’s unseen presence strongly influences Cloudmist’s decisions.
• Misfortune and comedy: Onion Lady’s attempt to escape results in her becoming rooted to the very treasure she wanted to steal, continuing the chapter’s humorous treatment of her bad luck.

Chapter Summary: “The Little Monk Plan and the Soft Feather Plan”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reads the cultivation group’s discussion about Fairy Bie Xue’s upcoming Immortal Chef Banquet and becomes hungry after hearing descriptions of the exotic dishes.
• He notices Soft Feather’s earlier message asking for his address so she can mail him the Spirit-Vein Jade Tea she personally made. He replies enthusiastically and sends his home address.
• Spirit Butterfly Island’s master secretly sees the message and worries that Soft Feather’s homemade tea may be dangerous. He orders someone to replace it with ordinary tea before shipping, fearing Song Shuhang could suffer severe side effects.
• Song Shuhang’s mother realizes that the strange scallion he brought home had affected her judgment. Unable to cut it with a normal knife, she irrationally used Song Shuhang’s decorative saber and damaged both the chopping board and marble counter.
• Connecting the scallion incident with Song Shuhang’s sudden exhaustion and his eating the entire lamb-and-scallion dish, Mom Song suspects something unusual happened. Song Shuhang admits that the scallion could harm people with weak constitutions, but reassures her that he is fine.
• Song Shuhang avoids revealing the truth about cultivation, deciding that he must become stronger and accumulate more resources before telling his family.
• At a nearby hotel, the little monk worries that Song Shuhang will punish him after returning home, especially because Doudou showed him a threatening video. He considers asking Doudou to delay their return and hide until Shuhang’s anger fades.
• Meanwhile, Soft Feather proudly prepares a huge wooden crate, apparently ready to ship the tea to Song Shuhang—unaware that her father has arranged for the dangerous tea to be replaced.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Continues hiding the supernatural truth from his family while trying to protect them. He remains cautious about revealing his cultivation and calmly handles his mother’s suspicions.
• Mom Song: Becomes more observant and suspicious after recognizing that the scallion caused abnormal behavior. Her concern for Shuhang’s health leads her to recommend a medical checkup.
• Soft Feather: Shows enthusiasm and affection for Song Shuhang by personally preparing and mailing Spirit-Vein Jade Tea. Her pride in the tea contrasts humorously with its likely danger.
• Spirit Butterfly Island’s master: Acts protectively toward Song Shuhang, secretly intervening to prevent Soft Feather’s homemade tea from harming him. His reaction also suggests long experience with Soft Feather’s hazardous experiments.
• The little monk: Is frightened of facing Song Shuhang and begins planning to avoid returning home. His serious, literal interpretation of Shuhang’s threat creates much of the chapter’s comedy.
• Doudou: Though mostly asleep in the scene, he has clearly encouraged the little monk’s fear by showing him the threatening video.

Significant Themes

• Protective secrecy: Shuhang hides cultivation from his family not out of distrust, but because he believes he is not yet strong enough to protect them fully.
• The collision of ordinary and supernatural life: Household activities such as cooking and medical checkups become dangerous or strange because of magical ingredients and cultivation-related objects.
• Parental concern and familial bonds: Mom Song’s suspicion is driven by genuine worry, while Spirit Butterfly Island’s master similarly protects Shuhang from Soft Feather’s well-intentioned mistake.
• Comic misunderstanding: The little monk interprets Shuhang’s angry words literally, turning a threat into an exaggerated fear of physical punishment.
• Dangerous good intentions: Soft Feather wants to give Shuhang a gift, but her homemade tea may be harmful, highlighting how cultivation-related kindness can still create trouble.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather: Exchange messages about the tea, with Shuhang expressing eagerness and providing his address.
• Mom Song and Song Shuhang: Discuss the mysterious scallion. She presses him for the truth, while he gives a partial explanation and conceals cultivation.
• Mom Song and Song Shuhang: Work together in the kitchen, reinforcing their close mother-son relationship despite Shuhang’s secrecy.
• Spirit Butterfly Island’s master and Soft Feather: Their interaction is indirect: he secretly alters her shipment to protect Song Shuhang from the tea she proudly made.
• The little monk, Doudou, and Zhou Li: The monk watches Doudou and Zhou Li while considering whether to flee with Doudou rather than face Shuhang, setting up a humorous avoidance plan.