Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang condensed the Heavenly Emperor’s remaining energy and Stellar Destruction Virus into a new God Tyrant Pillar, which he named the Emperor-Destroying Pillar. The pillar revealed powerful defenses and a poisoned blade, giving Song Shuhang a new weapon as the story left him examining its abilities.

• Song Shuhang gathered the Heavenly Emperor’s dispersing energy and condensed it into a dark-gold God Tyrant Pillar.
• Song Shuhang discovered that the pillar had absorbed Stellar Destruction Virus and renamed it the Emperor-Destroying Pillar after the Merit Snake Beauty suggested a better name.
• The Merit Snake Beauty’s line caused the pillar’s outer shell to peel away, revealing its double-helix form and engravings of the Heavenly Court’s fall.
• The Merit Snake Beauty touched the pillar, activating a Merit Hall and Ancient Heavenly Court projection that formed a powerful defensive barrier around her and Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang called for the pillar to unsheathe, and the Heavenly Emperor statue drew a serrated blade infused with the Destruction Law and poison.

Song Shuhang reunited with his Steel Avatar and learned that the Heavenly Emperor had left him a billion Spirit Stones. He ended the chapter holding a square hammer, unsure how it could represent his fortune.

• Song Shuhang used the Emperor-Destroying Pillar to maintain the ancient heavenly court projection defense while heading to meet his Steel Avatar.
• The Steel Avatar emerged from the Tribulation World with the little sun and shared its experiences and control method with Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang decided to return the Sun Ship to the Black Dragon World as a gift for Lady Dragon Network.
• The Steel Avatar revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had left Song Shuhang 1,000,000,000 Spirit Stones.
• The Steel Avatar handed Song Shuhang a perfectly square hammer, leaving him baffled about his supposed fortune.

Song Shuhang appraised the hammer the Heavenly Emperor had left as a clue, learning that it belonged to Dongfang Pei, the Eastern Great Emperor. As the collapsing world began to fail, the Merit Snake Beauty explained the hammer’s immense value and asked the Steel Avatar whether it could summon its owner.

• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method on the hammer and learned it belonged to Dongfang Pei, the Ancient Heavenly Court’s foremost hammer cultivator.
• The Merit Snake Beauty identified Dongfang Pei as the Eastern Great Emperor, and Song Shuhang decided to keep his hammer as a collectible.
• The artificial star and planets vanished, and the Small World began to crack as its viral energy dissipated.
• The Merit Snake Beauty said the hammer could be worth several times a billion Spirit Stones if the Eastern Great Emperor was still alive, since he excelled at both hammer combat and artifact forging.
• The Merit Snake Beauty asked the Steel Avatar whether the Heavenly Emperor had explained how to use the hammer to summon the Eastern Great Emperor.

Song Shuhang summoned the Eastern Great Emperor, Dongfang Pei, to upgrade his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts using the forging opportunity owed to the Heavenly Emperor. The upgrade was ready to begin, but Dongfang Pei demanded Spirit Stones and materials, leaving Song Shuhang to face the cost.

• Song Shuhang questioned why they should summon the Eastern Great Emperor, and the Merit Snake Beauty explained that Dongfang Pei was the world's foremost master artificer.
• Song Shuhang considered saving the forging opportunity for his disciples, then jokingly declared that whoever held the hammer would possess Thor's power.
• Dongfang Pei appeared and said he would upgrade Song Shuhang's artifacts as repayment for a billion Spirit Stones he had owed the Heavenly Emperor.
• Song Shuhang sent both sets of his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact to Dongfang Pei, who praised their craftsmanship and noted their developing artifact spirits.
• Dongfang Pei asked Song Shuhang for Spirit Stones and forging materials, explaining that the billion Spirit Stones had only paid his service fee.

Song Shuhang reluctantly agreed to upgrade both sets of his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, despite realizing the process would consume his spirit stones and rare materials. The Eastern Great Emperor selected nearly all of Song Shuhang’s materials and said he would need roughly three times as many spirit stones to complete the work.

• Song Shuhang asked the Eastern Great Emperor for a refund instead of upgrading his artifacts, but the Great Emperor refused.
• Song Shuhang decided to proceed with the upgrade and said he could borrow more spirit stones from Senior White if necessary.
• Song Shuhang opened his Core World and had the Core Assistant bring out his spirit stones and artifact-forging materials.
• The Eastern Great Emperor sorted through the materials, kept nearly all of them, and told Song Shuhang to prepare roughly three times as many spirit stones.

Song Shuhang borrowed a vast amount of Spirit Stones from Senior White's Clone to fund the Eastern Great Emperor's upgrade of his two sets of 'Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts.' He then contacted Mother Yellow Mountain to ask for a date, leaving Senior Yellow Mountain furious enough to tear a book in half.

• The Eastern Great Emperor agreed to upgrade Song Shuhang's two sets of Dharma Artifacts for three times the Spirit Stones after inspecting Song Shuhang's premium refining materials.
• Song Shuhang borrowed colossal Spirit Stone deposits from Senior White's Clone, and the Eastern Great Emperor declared that they were more than enough.
• The Eastern Great Emperor said most of Song Shuhang's Dharma Artifacts had only faint consciousness and that advancing it could improve the upgrade.
• Song Shuhang contacted Mother Yellow Mountain and asked, "Up for a date, Senior Yellow Mountain?"
• Senior Yellow Mountain tore a classic book in two, while Doudou looked on in confusion.

Venerable Yellow Mountain agreed to take Song Shuhang to the Spirit-Transforming Ruins to seek a substance that could help a faintly aware Natal Dharma Artifact develop an Artifact Spirit. Li Daojun approved their defensive candidate but said they still needed to find a highly meritorious monk before entering the ruins.

• Doudou worried that Venerable Yellow Mountain had discovered he replaced the heart medicine with candy beans, then chewed the candy while Yellow Mountain listened.
• Song Shuhang asked Venerable Yellow Mountain to organize their trip to the Spirit-Transforming Ruins, and Yellow Mountain agreed to contact Li Daojun.
• Song Shuhang said he could leave immediately because his Steel Avatar and Song Four could cover his other responsibilities.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain contacted Li Daojun, who asked whether they had found a trustworthy defensive cultivator.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain assured Li Daojun that Song Shuhang had at least Eighth-Grade defense, and Li Daojun said they still lacked a highly meritorious monk.

Venerable Yellow Mountain recruited Song Shuhang for Li Daojun’s ruins expedition, presenting him as a reliable, merit-rich defensive expert. Song Shuhang arrived at Li Daojun’s lunar cave abode, where his identity and respect for Yellow Mountain left Li Daojun stunned.

• Li Daojun asked Venerable Yellow Mountain to find a trustworthy eminent monk with vast merit and strong defenses for the ruins expedition, and Yellow Mountain promised to bring Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang left the Eastern Great Emperor to prepare a treasure for strengthening his Natal Dharma Artifacts’ consciousness, while the Great Emperor began planning their upgrades.
• Song Shuhang opened a Space Gate to Earth, met Venerable Yellow Mountain, and traveled with him to Li Daojun’s hidden cave abode on the moon.
• Li Daojun was startled when Yellow Mountain arrived through a Space Gate, then froze as Song Shuhang appeared surrounded by merit light and seven Sage Titles.
• Li Daojun realized that Yellow Mountain’s supposed junior was Tyrant Song and was shocked when Song Shuhang addressed Yellow Mountain as his senior.

Venerable Yellow Mountain and Song Shuhang visited Li Daojun, whose cave abode was being watched by people seeking the treasure that could enhance a magical artifact’s spiritual awareness. Song Shuhang called Li Daojun “Senior,” leading the watchers to believe he was the reincarnation of an ancient big shot and leaving Li Daojun wondering if that might be true.

• Li Daojun resented Venerable Yellow Mountain for calling the terrifying Baba Song his junior, while Yellow Mountain told him to treat Song Shuhang normally.
• Li Daojun explained that watchers had learned about his treasure after seeing him use it to enhance a flying sword.
• Song Shuhang noticed the watchers and decided to help Li Daojun for Venerable Yellow Mountain’s sake.
• The watchers panicked at Song Shuhang’s arrival and began retreating, but then heard him address Li Daojun as “Senior.”
• The watchers concluded Li Daojun was the reincarnation of a powerful ancient figure and fled to report their theory.
• Li Daojun was stunned by Song Shuhang’s greeting and wondered whether he, like Yellow Mountain, was an ancient big shot’s reincarnation.

Song Shuhang took Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun through a Space Gate to the Spirit-Transforming Ruins. There, they found five Primordial runes, which Dog Egg's Dad translated as a rude dismissal.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain urged Li Daojun to give Song Shuhang the ruins' coordinates, and Li Daojun realized Song Shuhang had secretly helped him.
• Song Shuhang opened a Space Gate and took Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun to the Spirit-Transforming Ruins.
• Li Daojun opened the ruins' entrance and led Song Shuhang and Venerable Yellow Mountain inside.
• Song Shuhang examined five Primordial runes on a Stone Stele, but his Law did not translate them.
• Song Shuhang asked Dog Egg's Dad to read the runes, and Dog Egg's Dad refused before Cheng Dogdan Fairy explained that they meant, “Why are you looking? Get lost!”

Song Shuhang opened a hidden passage beneath a mocking Primordial Script stele by striking it with Blade-Nourishing Art. The passage turned out to be the rare Immortal Body Passage, which tempered the bodies of Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun but had no effect on Song Shuhang.

• Song Shuhang learned that Dog Egg's Dad had already translated the Primordial Script and resolved to study it more diligently.
• Song Shuhang translated the stele's five characters as an insult, then struck it with thousands of applications of Blade-Nourishing Art until it shifted aside.
• Song Shuhang led Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun into the hidden passage beneath the stele.
• After about five hundred steps, Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun grew exhausted, while Song Shuhang felt no physical strain.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain identified the passage as the rare Ancient Era body-tempering treasure land called the Immortal Body Passage, and Song Shuhang wondered whether he could move it into his Core World.

Song Shuhang learned that the Immortal Body Passage could temper cultivators and decided to preserve it for his disciples. In a hurry to reach the treasure that could upgrade his magical treasure, he carried Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun through the ruins’ defenses to the tenth floor.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain explained how the Immortal Body Passage could help cultivators temper their bodies and condense Immortal Bodies.
• Song Shuhang decided to bring his disciples to the passage and marked it with an Inscribed Wooden Saber so he could later try to take it away.
• Song Shuhang carried Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun out of the passage and revealed that he was rushing to find the ruins’ treasure-enhancing substance.
• Song Shuhang charged through the ruins’ sixth- through ninth-floor defenses, enduring their attacks without slowing down.
• Song Shuhang brought Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun to the tenth floor, where the mysterious substance was hidden, and Venerable Yellow Mountain swallowed two pills after the ordeal.

Song Shuhang searched the Spirit-Transforming Ruins’ empty tenth floor with Li Daojun and Venerable Yellow Mountain for a substance that could enhance bonded magical treasures. When Song Shuhang used his severed left arm, which held Senior White’s soul, to point the way, the eleventh floor opened and the mysterious substance began to flow out.

• Li Daojun explained that the eleventh-floor entrance appeared unpredictably and that its attack had knocked him unconscious for more than ten months.
• Song Shuhang decided he could not wait for the entrance to open on its own and invoked Senior White’s help.
• Song Shuhang cut off his left arm and tossed it into the air, where it pointed toward one side of the tenth floor.
• Song Shuhang charged toward the indicated wall, prompting the passage to the eleventh floor to open.
• Strange substances streamed out of the passage as Song Shuhang’s left arm rejoined his elbow.

Song Shuhang collected a large supply of mysterious substance from the passage to the eleventh level and shared it with Mother Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun. He returned to Eastern Great Emperor with the material while his Steel Avatar stayed behind to explore the level with the others.

• Song Shuhang compressed the mysterious substance flowing from the passage into a block and divided it into three portions.
• Li Daojun offered half his share back, so Song Shuhang suggested that Mother Yellow Mountain distribute it to the Nine Provinces Number One Group as New Year gifts.
• Li Daojun and Mother Yellow Mountain decided to explore the eleventh level, while Song Shuhang planned to send his Steel Avatar with them.
• Song Shuhang summoned the Merit Pipi Pillar, transferred himself through the Core World, and swapped places with his Steel Avatar.
• Song Shuhang returned to the collapsing world with the mysterious substance and told Eastern Great Emperor that a real man kept his word.
• Reverse Whale Artifact Spirit Little Fairy stared eagerly at the mysterious substance.

Song Shuhang brought a miraculous substance to the Eastern Great Emperor, who began refining Song Shuhang’s dharma artifacts in the Eastern Spring Pavilion’s Artifact Refining Hall. The Great Emperor offered Song Shuhang a way to save spirit stones by feeding his own spiritual energy to the furnace.

• The Reverse Whale Artifact Spirit Little Fairy ate a piece of the miraculous substance, and her spiritual awareness grew stronger.
• The Eastern Great Emperor said he would incorporate the substance into the enhancement process to give Song Shuhang’s sixty-six dharma artifacts complete artifact spirits.
• The Eastern Great Emperor summoned his Artifact Refining Hall, explained that Song Shuhang’s Eastern Spring Pavilion fragments could not offset the spirit stone costs, and took the artifacts, materials, and spirit stones inside.
• The Eastern Great Emperor fed Song Shuhang’s spirit stones into extraction equipment and began preparing to upgrade the Overlord Expert Shield.
• The Eastern Great Emperor told Song Shuhang he could replace spirit stones by standing beside the Heavenly Fire Furnace and channeling his spiritual energy into it.

Song Shuhang helped the Eastern Great Emperor upgrade his Overlord Expert Shield, but the shield fell just short of forming an artifact spirit. When Song Shuhang offered his Glazed Heart as a final refining material, immortality force from Senior Skylark’s void node quickly regrew his heart, leaving him considering selling the extras.

• Song Shuhang asked the Eastern Great Emperor to turn surplus spiritual energy into Spirit Stones, but the emperor refused and began refining the Overlord Expert Shield.
• Song Shuhang fueled the Heavenly Fire Furnace while the Eastern Great Emperor used precious materials and the mysterious substance to temper the shield.
• The shield reached ninth grade and its spiritual awareness grew, but the Eastern Great Emperor found that it still could not form an artifact spirit.
• Song Shuhang explained that Eye Drops had awakened the spiritual awareness of his artifacts and that he had once accidentally refined the Reverse Whale Fist Set with his body.
• Song Shuhang offered his Glazed Heart to strengthen the shield, and Senior Skylark’s immortality force rapidly grew him a replacement heart.

The Eastern Great Emperor reforged Song Shuhang’s Turtle Shield with Tyrant Song’s Glazed Heart, raising it to Weak Immortal Divine Weapon level and forming a newborn artifact spirit. Song Shuhang rapidly strengthened his bond with the shield, while Senior Turtle felt unexplained chills in the Dream Realm.

• The Eastern Great Emperor compressed Tyrant Song’s Glazed Heart and hammered it into the Turtle Shield, with Merit Snake Beauty singing and distracting him.
• The Eastern Great Emperor quenched the upgraded Turtle Shield, which gained a heartbeat, an extra source of spiritual energy, and the potential to become an Immortal Divine Weapon.
• A fluffy newborn artifact spirit appeared on the Turtle Shield, and the Eastern Great Emperor warned Song Shuhang that upgrading all sixty-six artifacts could strain their bonds.
• Song Shuhang rubbed the Turtle Shield and sent it hundreds of rays of love per second, strengthening their bond at a startling pace.
• In the Dream Realm, Senior Turtle felt chills across his shell, while Soft Feather suddenly tensed and cried out.

Soft Feather endured the delayed pain from her Spirit Ghost shattering as she and her companions entered the Phantom Sun, while Song Shuhang restored his upgraded shield’s bond with his Blade-Nourishing Art and continued refining artifacts. The chapter left Song Shuhang wondering whether the destructive energy that had engulfed Soft Feather’s Spirit Ghost could destroy the Phantom Sun.

• Soft Feather’s Spirit Ghost shattering pain finally reached her, and Onion Lady tried to heal her while Senior Turtle said he felt strangely comfortable.
• Song Shuhang used his Blade-Nourishing Art to restore his Rainbow Turtle Shield’s closeness to him after its advancement, then gave the Eastern Great Emperor another Glazed Heart for artifact refining.
• White-Bone Fairy told Song Shuhang that Black-Skinned Soft Feather had collapsed in pain, so he directed her to bring Blackhide into his Core World and give her Living Spring water.
• Soft Feather told Song Shuhang she felt the object she was seeking was inside the Phantom Sun and asked about the destructive substance that had surrounded her Spirit Ghost.
• Song Shuhang identified the substance as viral energy capable of destroying a world and wondered whether the Phantom Sun counted as a star.

Song Shuhang restored his heart while helping the Eastern Great Emperor upgrade his artifacts and warned Soft Feather about the stellar explosion virus. As Song Fat Ball arrived to reunite with him, it revealed its Netherworld Ruler aura, freezing the Eastern Great Emperor in shock.

• Song Shuhang regrew his Glazed Heart with two divine arts and a wisp of immortality force, dispelling a chilling sensation.
• Song Shuhang warned Soft Feather to retreat if she sensed the stellar explosion virus and set Onion Lady's Inscribed Wooden Saber to open the Core World in an emergency.
• The Eastern Great Emperor upgraded the Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot, and Song Shuhang asked whether the finished artifacts could protect him in the depths of a star.
• Song Fat Ball contacted Song Shuhang after finishing its challenges on Mars and said it would come find him.
• Song Fat Ball emerged from a Spatial Passage and revealed its Netherworld Ruler aura, causing the Eastern Great Emperor's hand to freeze mid-swing.

Song Fat Ball returned from Mars and reported defeating thirteen Longevity Immortals, then Song Shuhang sent it to investigate stars for a destructive virus. The Eastern Great Emperor finished advancing the Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot and told Song Shuhang to hurry up and provide the remaining hearts.

• Song Fat Ball appeared before Song Shuhang and reported completing its challenge mission on Mars by defeating thirteen Longevity Immortals.
• Song Fat Ball called Song Shuhang its main body, shocking the Eastern Great Emperor and leaving Song Shuhang unsure how to respond.
• Song Shuhang used his Third Divine Eye to transmit information about the stellar explosion virus to Song Fat Ball and ordered it to search stars across the Myriad Heavens and Realms for infections.
• Song Fat Ball agreed to the mission and vanished through space, while Song Shuhang explained to the Eastern Great Emperor that its existence was connected to the Former Netherworld Ruler.
• The Eastern Great Emperor finished advancing the Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot into a Weak Longevity Immortal Artifact and asked Song Shuhang to provide the remaining sixty-four hearts.