Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Plot and events

Venerable Yellow Mountain introduces Li Daojun to Song Shuhang, whose terrifying reputation makes Li Daojun extremely nervous. Yellow Mountain jokingly assures him that Song Shuhang is easygoing, though he privately admits that dealing with Shuhang can require heart-saving medicine. Yellow Mountain then points out that several people are secretly monitoring Li Daojun’s cave abode because of the rare substance he possesses—one capable of enhancing the spiritual awareness of a Natal Dharma Artifact.

Li Daojun’s background and predicament

Li Daojun explains that his information was exposed because he became too excited after obtaining the treasure and carelessly used it to enhance a flying sword in public. He has since been forced to hide from those seeking the substance. Song Shuhang realizes that the watchers likely intend to seize or investigate the treasure and decides to help Li Daojun out of respect for Yellow Mountain and the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s connections.

Character interactions and developments

The watchers are terrified when they discover Song Shuhang beside Li Daojun. They initially hope to retreat and later determine whether the two are truly close. However, Song Shuhang loudly greets Li Daojun as “Senior Li Daojun,” shocking both the observers and Li Daojun himself. The watchers mistakenly conclude that Li Daojun must be the reincarnation of an ancient, immensely powerful figure who was once close to Song Shuhang. They flee and spread this exaggerated interpretation.

Li Daojun’s reaction

Li Daojun is left stunned. He had expected, at most, to be treated as Song Shuhang’s equal or addressed as a fellow Daoist. Being publicly called “Senior” makes him wonder whether he, like Yellow Mountain, is secretly the reincarnation of an ancient big shot. His confusion contrasts with the watchers’ absolute certainty about his supposed hidden identity.

Themes

The chapter uses mistaken assumptions and exaggerated reputations for comedy. It highlights how fear and incomplete information cause others to mythologize Song Shuhang and Li Daojun. It also explores the protective bonds among Yellow Mountain, Song Shuhang, and their allies, showing that association with Song Shuhang alone can radically alter someone’s perceived status. The closing author’s note adds a humorous meta-parallel between the author’s cold and the story’s original opening, where Song Shuhang also began with a cold.

Chapter Summary: “What Are You Looking At? Get Lost!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reunites with Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun. Although Li Daojun is confused and uneasy that Song Shuhang keeps calling him “Senior,” he realizes Song is deliberately showing him respect while secretly helping him.
• Yellow Mountain reminds Li Daojun to provide the coordinates of the Spirit-Transforming Ruins. Song Shuhang then calculates the location and opens a spatial gate for the group.
• Li Daojun is overwhelmed by the experience and privately considers it an achievement worthy of bragging about, though he understands he cannot claim credit for being treated as Song Shuhang’s equal.
• The group arrives at the Spirit-Transforming Ruins. Li Daojun uses a disc-shaped magical artifact to open the entrance.
• Inside, they encounter a massive stone stele bearing five ancient Primordial Runes. Neither Song Shuhang nor Venerable Yellow Mountain can initially decipher them.
• Song asks Merit Snake Beauty for help, but she humorously repeats one of Song’s earlier evasive responses instead of translating the runes.
• Song then contacts Spotted Dragon Two, also known as Dog Egg’s Dad, for assistance. Dog Egg’s Dad rudely replies, “Why are you looking? Get lost!” Cheng Dogdan explains that this is precisely the meaning of the five runes.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues to demonstrate immense growth, casually opening a spatial gate despite admitting that he has not fully mastered spatial abilities. However, he remains humble and continues treating his former seniors with respect.
• Li Daojun gains a clearer understanding of Song Shuhang’s kindness and restraint. He realizes that Song helped him secretly and becomes even more cautious about misrepresenting their relationship.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain feels proud of Song’s rapid progress and stable personality, but also somewhat exhausted by how dramatically Song’s abilities continue to develop.
• Merit Snake Beauty shows increasing emotional intelligence and observational ability. She can now interpret others’ expressions and uses Song’s own words to tease him.
• Dog Egg’s Dad and Cheng Dogdan contribute comic relief through their blunt and irreverent responses.

Significant Themes

• Humility amid power: Despite becoming extraordinarily strong, Song Shuhang has not developed arrogance and still regards the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s members as his seniors.
• The influence of relationships: Song’s powerful and eccentric friends have helped keep him grounded, preventing his rapid cultivation progress from inflating his ego.
• Growth and parental pride: Yellow Mountain views Song almost like a child who has grown up, combining pride in his progress with the fatigue of constantly witnessing new developments.
• Respect and self-awareness: Li Daojun understands the importance of recognizing his own limits and avoiding reckless claims about his connection with Song.
• Comedy through contrast: Grand discoveries, ancient ruins, and powerful cultivators are undercut by casual insults and absurd misunderstandings.

Character Interactions

• Yellow Mountain reassures Li Daojun and prompts him to share the ruins’ coordinates with Song.
• Song respectfully addresses Li Daojun as “Senior,” while Li Daojun internally struggles with the mismatch between the title and their actual positions.
• Yellow Mountain and Song discuss the difficulty of reading Primordial Script.
• Merit Snake Beauty humorously imitates Song’s earlier answer to Cheng Dogdan.
• Song asks Dog Egg’s Dad to translate the runes, only to receive an insult that turns out to be the exact translation.

Chapter 2754 Summary: “Immortal Body Passage”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang contacts Dog Egg’s Dad to confirm the translation of the Primordial Script and thanks him. Dog Egg’s Dad offers to translate future inscriptions as well.
• The inscription on the enormous stone stele is revealed to mean: “What are you looking at? Scram!” Its hostile wording suggests that the ruin’s creator had a strange sense of humor.
• The stele begins reacting to Song Shuhang’s translation. Inspired by his Stele Fellow Daoist, Song Shuhang uses all sixty-four of his braided hair-hands to perform an intensified Blade-Nourishing Art technique called “Cheap Love.”
• His bizarre but powerful technique causes the stele to resonate and move aside, revealing a previously undetectable hidden passage.
• Song Shuhang, Venerable Yellow Mountain, and Li Daojun enter the passage. Song Shuhang leads from the front as their defensive “meat shield,” while Merit Snake Beauty remains ready to protect them.
• After roughly five hundred steps, Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun become exhausted. They discover that every step through the passage tempers and strengthens the physical body.
• Yellow Mountain identifies the passage as the extremely rare Immortal Body Passage, an Ancient Era body-tempering treasure land. Song Shuhang immediately wonders whether it can be excavated and moved into his Core World.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues to display his unusual combination of immense knowledge, reckless creativity, and absurd combat techniques. He reflects on his lack of Primordial Script knowledge and resolves to study harder.
• His mastery of Blade-Nourishing Art has advanced enough for him to unleash over fourteen thousand applications in seconds, demonstrating remarkable control and power.
• Song Shuhang’s physical body is so unusually strong that he feels no strain from the passage’s body-tempering effects, unlike the others.
• Li Daojun becomes increasingly impressed by Song Shuhang, interpreting his casual remarks about studying as evidence of a humble, hardworking powerhouse. His admiration develops into near-worship.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain remains exasperated by Song Shuhang’s unpredictable behavior, especially when the strange “Cheap Love” technique unexpectedly opens the passage. He also acts as the knowledgeable guide by recognizing the Immortal Body Passage.
• Dog Egg’s Dad is established as a reliable translator of Primordial Script and a helpful contact for Song Shuhang.

Significant Themes

• The importance of learning: Song Shuhang’s inability to translate the inscription reminds him that even powerful cultivators must continue studying.
• Unpredictability and unconventional methods: A ridiculous technique that appears romantic and absurd succeeds where ordinary investigation might have failed.
• Physical cultivation and endurance: The hidden passage represents a rare opportunity to strengthen the body, emphasizing the value of physical foundations in cultivation.
• Reputation versus reality: Li Daojun idealizes Song Shuhang as a wise and diligent “big shot,” while Yellow Mountain understands that Song Shuhang’s success often comes through chaotic, improvised actions.
• Treasure-hunting in ruins: The discovery reinforces the dangers and opportunities of ancient ruins, where hidden mechanisms and secret passages may conceal valuable inheritances.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang thanks Dog Egg’s Dad for his translation and receives an offer of future assistance.
• Li Daojun misinterprets Song Shuhang’s self-criticism as profound humility, increasing his admiration.
• Yellow Mountain silently questions Li Daojun’s exaggerated view of Song Shuhang and considers introducing him to the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Song Shuhang explains the insulting inscription to Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun, then shocks them by opening the stele with “Cheap Love.”
• During the passage journey, Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun ask Song Shuhang to slow down because they cannot keep up with his extraordinary physical strength.
• The chapter ends with Song Shuhang considering whether the entire Immortal Body Passage can be relocated into his Core World.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable Yellow Mountain explains that cultivators who reach the Second Stage may condense special bodies—such as Immortal Bodies, Demon Bodies, Buddha Seeds, Confucian Roots, or Monster Bodies—though the process is extremely difficult and has a high failure rate.
• The ruins contain an ancient Immortal Body Passage, which originally helped cultivators condense Immortal Bodies when combined with special techniques, treasures, medicinal materials, and heavenly fire. It also functions as a powerful body-tempering ground.
• Song Shuhang realizes the passage could be extremely useful for training his disciples after teaching them the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art. He considers acquiring the resources needed to help each disciple refine an Immortal Body.
• Rather than walking through the passage normally, Song Shuhang carries Venerable Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun on his shoulders and sprints through it, reaching the sixth-floor area almost instantly.
• Song reveals that he is in a hurry to find the ruins’ mysterious treasure-enhancing substance, which he plans to use to upgrade his intrinsic magical treasure for the Eastern Great Emperor.
• Li Daojun warns him about the increasingly dangerous formations on the sixth through tenth floors. Song Shuhang effortlessly withstands them using his defenses, Merit Light, armor intent, and Sacred Ape techniques.
• He charges through the sixth floor’s Sword Qi Formation, the seventh floor’s Five-Element Formation, the eighth floor’s True Word attacks, and the ninth floor’s Primordial Spirit-targeting slashes without slowing down.
• They arrive at the tenth floor, where the mysterious substance is located. Song finally puts the two seniors down.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates an enormous increase in strength and confidence. He treats powerful ancient formations as insignificant and prioritizes his goal with comical determination.
• His concern for his disciples becomes clear as he immediately considers using the Immortal Body Passage to improve their cultivation.
• He also shows growing ambition regarding his Core World, planning to excavate or even relocate the passage and possibly the entire ruins for future use.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain remains dignified but is repeatedly forced into embarrassing situations, particularly when Song carries him while sprinting. His reaction combines exasperation, resignation, and nostalgia as he reflects on how dramatically Song has changed.
• Li Daojun shifts from being a knowledgeable guide to an awed observer. He is repeatedly unable to finish his warnings before Song has already overcome the danger, leaving him deeply impressed by Tyrant Song’s power.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming strength and growth: Song Shuhang’s rapid advancement is emphasized through his ability to ignore obstacles that once took Li Daojun years to overcome.
• Practical use of ancient treasures: The Immortal Body Passage is not merely a relic; Song immediately thinks about how it can benefit his disciples and future companions.
• Generational change: Yellow Mountain’s memories of the inexperienced Song contrast sharply with the near-invincible powerhouse he has become.
• Humor through senior-junior role reversal: Though Yellow Mountain is the senior, Song carries him around and drags him through dangerous areas, undermining the senior’s dignity.
• Resourcefulness and urgency: Song combines cultivation, treasure acquisition, and long-term planning while rushing to upgrade his magical treasure.

Character Interactions

• Yellow Mountain patiently explains the nature and purpose of Immortal Bodies to Song and Li Daojun.
• Song enthusiastically praises the passage and offers to let Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun use it in the future.
• He then disregards conventional etiquette by carrying both seniors through the passage and ruins at full speed, prompting Yellow Mountain’s silent embarrassment.
• Li Daojun repeatedly warns Song about each formation, but Song’s effortless progress turns the warnings into humorous interruptions.
• Upon reaching the tenth floor, Song’s success leaves Li Daojun speechless, while Yellow Mountain quietly takes pills and reflects on Song’s astonishing transformation.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang carries Li Daojun and Venerable Yellow Mountain through the Spirit-Transforming Ruins, effortlessly overcoming traps and attacks with his overwhelming strength and defensive abilities.
• On the empty tenth floor, Li Daojun explains that the valuable substance they seek comes from a passage to the eleventh floor. The passage opens unpredictably, at most once a month.
• Li Daojun reveals that his last attempt to enter the eleventh floor ended with a mysterious, combined mental and physical attack that knocked him unconscious for more than ten months.
• Since Song Shuhang cannot afford to wait, he uses his unusual left arm—said to contain Senior White’s soul—to determine where the passage will open. He detaches and tosses the arm; it points toward a wall.
• Song charges toward the indicated spot, triggering the passage just before he reaches it. The sought-after, strange substance begins flowing out.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang demonstrates confidence befitting a powerful cultivator, but his urgency to obtain the substance makes him unwilling to wait. His casual self-amputation and the arm’s return highlight how far his body has become from normal.
• Li Daojun shares his hard-won knowledge of the ruins and explains why he had sought powerful defenders and cultivators with Merit Power for another attempt.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain reacts with bewilderment to Song’s bizarre method, then witnesses it succeed.
• Song treats his detached arm as a conduit to Senior White, invoking him for guidance; the others are astonished by the result.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: Song’s strength turns a dangerous expedition into an effortless journey for his companions.
• Patience versus urgency: Li Daojun views a month’s wait as trivial, while Song’s other obligations make delay unacceptable.
• The bizarre as practical: Song’s extraordinary body and unconventional technique produce a surprisingly effective solution.
• Persistence and uncertainty: The ruin offers no clear route or schedule, requiring its explorers to rely on experience, observation, and improvisation.

Chapter 2757 Summary — A True Man Keeps His Word

Key Plot Points and Events

• The passage to the eleventh level releases a massive amount of mysterious substance—far more than when Li Daojun opened it previously. The substance exists between illusion and reality and can give people the experience of a Seventh-Grade Venerable’s “True Illusion.”
• Song Shuhang compresses the substance into roughly one cubic meter and divides it into three portions for himself, Li Daojun, and Mother Yellow Mountain.
• Li Daojun insists on following their original agreement and returns half of his portion, believing Song Shuhang should receive the larger share. Song Shuhang instead asks him to give it to Mother Yellow Mountain so it can be distributed as New Year gifts to members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Although Song Shuhang needs to leave, Li Daojun and Mother Yellow Mountain decide to continue exploring the eleventh level. Song offers to send his Steel Avatar to accompany them.
• Song summons his enormous Merit Pillar, jokingly calling it the “Merit Pipi Pillar.” Li Daojun is astonished by its immense Merit Power and suspects it may be a cultivation method unique to Song Shuhang.
• The secret realm prevents Song from opening a normal Space Gate, but his evolving Core World successfully bypasses the spatial imprisonment. He leaves the Inscribed Wooden Saber as a coordinate, returns to the Steel Avatar, and swaps places with it.
• Back in the collapsing world, Song Shuhang immediately delivers the mysterious substance to Eastern Great Emperor for use in upgrading the Thirty-Three Beast Dharma Artifacts.
• The Reverse Whale Artifact Spirit, Little Fairy, reacts greedily and excitedly to the substance, even drooling over it.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates generosity by sharing the valuable substance despite needing a large amount for his own sixty-six Dharma Artifacts. He also shows increasing mastery over his Core World and the ability to operate through avatars.
• Li Daojun is characterized as honest, principled, and unwilling to take more than his agreed share. He remains curious and adventurous, choosing to explore the eleventh level despite the dangers.
• Mother Yellow Mountain reinforces his reputation as the reliable and considerate leader of the group, accepting responsibility for distributing the substance as New Year benefits.
• Eastern Great Emperor continues developing an upgrade plan for Song’s Dharma Artifacts and is surprised by how quickly Song fulfills his promise.
• Little Fairy reveals an amusingly strong appetite and attraction to the artifact-enhancing substance.

Significant Themes

• Integrity and keeping promises: Song returns exactly as promised, embodying the chapter’s title, “A True Man Keeps His Word.”
• Generosity and community: Rather than hoarding the substance, Song arranges for it to benefit the wider group and their Dharma Artifacts.
• Trust and fairness: Li Daojun’s insistence on honoring their agreement highlights the importance of upright conduct.
• Growth and advancement: Song’s evolving Core World overcomes spatial restrictions, reflecting his steadily increasing power.
• Comedic contrast: Grand, mysterious treasures and powerful cultivation techniques are balanced by playful names such as “Merit Pipi Pillar” and Little Fairy’s drooling reaction.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Li Daojun negotiate the division of the mysterious substance, with Li Daojun insisting on fairness and Song redirecting the extra share toward the group.
• Song and Mother Yellow Mountain discuss the upcoming New Year gifts, reinforcing their cooperative relationship and Yellow Mountain’s dependable nature.
• Song offers his Steel Avatar and Merit Pillar to support Yellow Mountain and Li Daojun’s exploration of the eleventh level.
• Song reunites with Eastern Great Emperor and immediately provides the substance for the Dharma Artifact upgrade project, while Little Fairy eagerly watches from the sidelines.

Chapter 2758 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Spirit of Item Fairy unexpectedly develops an appetite for a mysterious substance Song Shuhang possesses. The material strengthens the spiritual consciousness of Magical Items.
• Song Shuhang gives her a fingernail-sized portion shaped into a small ball. She happily consumes it, and her spiritual consciousness visibly grows stronger.
• Great Emperor Dongfang is surprised that the substance can enhance an already-formed Spirit of Item. Normally, such spirits improve slowly through their master’s nurturing and growing bond, but this material acts like forced maturation.
• Song Shuhang considers feeding the substance to all sixty-five of his other Magical Items. Dongfang stops him, explaining that he will incorporate the substance into the upcoming refinement process so the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasures can develop complete Spirits of Item more efficiently.
• Dongfang summons an auxiliary hall from his ancient Heavenly Court artifact, the Spring Pavilion of the East. The hall is actually the core of his artifact-refining workshop and contains furnaces, forging platforms, quenching pools, and Spirit Stone-processing equipment.
• Song Shuhang briefly considers using fragments of the Spring Pavilion that he owns to reduce the refining cost. Dongfang immediately rejects the idea, explaining that the fragments were deliberately discarded and now belong to Song Shuhang—but they cannot be exchanged for Spirit Stones.
• Dongfang feeds Song Shuhang’s large supply of eighth- and ninth-grade Spirit Stones into a Spirit Stone energy extraction device. The process causes Song Shuhang considerable emotional pain as he watches his wealth disappear.
• The extracted energy is divided: some becomes a solution for engraving formation runes, while the rest is reserved to upgrade the Magical Items.
• Dongfang chooses to upgrade the Overbearing Expert’s Shield first, recognizing its durable material—the shell of an old Northern family’s pet turtle.
• He then offers Song Shuhang a way to reduce the Spirit Stone cost: Song can personally channel his Spiritual Energy into the Heavenly Fire Furnace, replacing Spirit Stones according to how much energy he can provide.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains highly concerned with avoiding pain and conserving resources, especially Spirit Stones. His attempts to save money show both his practicality and his attachment to his hard-earned wealth.
• Great Emperor Dongfang demonstrates immense expertise as an artifact refiner, while also showing a blunt, practical attitude toward payment and resources. He is capable of reading Song Shuhang’s thoughts and expressions and quickly shuts down attempts to bargain.
• The Spirit of Item Fairy gains a significant boost in spiritual consciousness after consuming the mysterious substance, suggesting that she may develop faster and become more powerful than a normal Spirit of Item.
• Song Shuhang’s other Magical Items display a lively collective personality by eagerly reacting to the possibility of being fed the strengthening substance.

Significant Themes

• The value of resources: The chapter humorously emphasizes how precious Spirit Stones are, especially to Song Shuhang, while Dongfang treats them as necessary fuel for high-level artifact refinement.
• Forced growth versus natural development: The mysterious substance accelerates the growth of Spirits of Item, raising questions about whether artificial strengthening can replace gradual cultivation and bonding.
• Expertise and sacrifice: Powerful results require major investments, and Song Shuhang must decide whether to spend his wealth or personally expend his Spiritual Energy.
• Comedy through economic anxiety: Song Shuhang’s distress over losing Spirit Stones contrasts with Dongfang’s indifferent professionalism.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang consults Dongfang about the mysterious strengthening substance, but Dongfang admits that even his vast knowledge cannot identify every treasure.
• Song Shuhang feeds the Spirit of Item Fairy while he and Dongfang observe its effects.
• Dongfang prevents Song Shuhang from distributing the substance immediately and explains his more effective refinement plan.
• Dongfang notices Song Shuhang’s attempt to use the Spring Pavilion fragments as compensation and firmly refuses.
• At the end, Dongfang challenges Song Shuhang to “swallow his pride” and power the Heavenly Fire Furnace himself to save Spirit Stones, setting up the next stage of the artifact-refining process.

Chapter Summary

• Artifact refinement begins: The Eastern Great Emperor explains that Song Shuhang can supply his own Spiritual Energy to fuel the Heavenly Fire instead of paying entirely with Spirit Stones. Although Song tries to negotiate having excess Spiritual Energy converted into Spirit Stones, the Great Emperor rejects the idea.
• Upgrading the Overbearing Expert’s Shield: Song continuously feeds Spiritual Energy into the furnace while the Eastern Great Emperor places the turtle-shaped shield on the forging platform. Two Rank 9 materials, one super-Rank 9 material, Spirit Stones, and a piece of mysterious substance are incorporated into the shield.
• The Great Emperor’s extraordinary technique: The Emperor’s hammer strikes both refine the shield and function as a powerful combat technique. Each blow consumes valuable resources, amusing and paining Song Shuhang, who thinks of every strike as “money.” Additional energy arms carve and inscribe the mysterious substance onto the shield.
• The shield reaches its limit: The Overbearing Expert’s Shield rapidly advances to Rank 9, and its existing artifact spirit grows stronger. However, despite the Great Emperor’s efforts, the mysterious substance cannot push it far enough to condense a true Spirit of Item.
• Song Shuhang’s unusual methods: The Emperor learns that Song previously awakened the spirits of all sixty-five of his Magical Items using special “eye drops.” Song also reveals that one of his magical items gained a spirit after he accidentally fell into a furnace and refined himself, costing him a resurrection. The Emperor is shocked and criticizes this reckless, unconventional method.
• Using Song’s heart as a material: Seeking another way to strengthen the shield, Song suggests using part of his body. He removes his seven-colored Lapis Lazuli heart, which possesses qualities comparable to Divine Beast refining material. The Emperor agrees to test it. Song’s body immediately regenerates a new heart through his self-healing abilities and a surge of Immortal Power from Senior Yun Quezi’s void node.
• New opportunity discovered: Seeing how quickly his heart regenerates, Song realizes he may have found a bizarre way to make money by selling his own hearts.

Character Development and Interactions

• Song Shuhang displays his characteristic shamelessness, practicality, and willingness to exploit his unusual abilities. He is more concerned with saving resources—and potentially earning Spirit Stones—than preserving dignity. His willingness to use his own body in artifact refinement highlights both his recklessness and resourcefulness.
• The Eastern Great Emperor demonstrates immense refinement expertise and generosity by allowing Song’s Spiritual Energy to offset the Heavenly Fire’s cost. He is impressed by Song’s audacity but remains exasperated by his strange methods and abnormal luck.
• Merit Snake Beauty reacts with embarrassment to Song’s attempt to monetize his Spiritual Energy, humorously distancing herself from him.
• The exchange between Song and the Great Emperor is marked by teasing, disbelief, and mutual recognition: the Emperor respects Song’s unusual potential while repeatedly being shocked by his behavior.

Significant Themes

• Pride versus practicality: Song refuses to let pride prevent him from seeking financial advantages, while the Emperor’s traditional approach contrasts with Song’s shameless pragmatism.
• Resource consumption and value: Artifact refinement is portrayed as extremely costly, with every hammer strike consuming Spirit Stones and rare materials.
• Unorthodox cultivation: Song’s magical items, body-refinement experiences, and regenerative heart reveal how far he deviates from conventional cultivation methods.
• Luck and abnormal talent: His ability to awaken numerous item spirits, survive self-refinement, and rapidly regenerate a special heart emphasizes his extraordinary—and often absurd—fortune.

Key plot points and events

• Eastern Great Emperor upgrades Song Shuhang’s Turtle Shield using the refining material called “Tyrant Song’s Glazed Heart.” He compresses the heart and incorporates it into the shield during an elaborate forging process.
• The finished shield, renamed the Overlord Expert Shield, rises from peak Ninth-Grade quality to a Weak Immortal Divine Weapon. The heart also gives it an extra source of spiritual power.
• The shield immediately produces a newly formed, fuzzy Dumpling-like artifact spirit. It is still immature and will need months of care to develop.
• Song Shuhang tests the shield’s bond with him and is delighted by its defensive strength: it can withstand Ninth-Grade attacks and even some attacks from newly ascended Longevity Immortals.
• Eastern Great Emperor warns that rapidly upgrading all sixty-six of Song Shuhang’s natal artifacts may weaken their intimacy with him. Song Shuhang counters by rubbing the shield and channeling hundreds of “love” rays into it each second, rapidly restoring their closeness.
• In the Dream Realm, Senior Turtle suddenly feels a chill and pain in his shell, while Soft Feather also cries out in pain—an apparent reaction to Song Shuhang’s treatment of the shield.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains eager to strengthen his equipment and jokes about using his own regenerative body parts as materials. He is pleased by the shield’s power and treats its new spirit affectionately, but his unconventional method of bonding with artifacts shocks the Great Emperor.
• Eastern Great Emperor proves his mastery by smoothly revising the upgrade plan and forging the shield. He is also caught off guard by Song Shuhang’s bizarre “love” technique.
• Merit Snake Beauty playfully sings while the shield is being hammered, prompting Song Shuhang to tell her not to distract the Great Emperor.
• The new artifact spirit is born but remains a helpless, fuzzy presence that needs nurturing.
• Senior Turtle and Soft Feather end the chapter experiencing unexplained discomfort, suggesting a connection to the shield’s treatment.

Significant themes

• Growth through care: Powerful artifacts need both cultivation and emotional connection with their owner.
• Comedy and absurdity: Song Shuhang’s willingness to use his own heart—and his unusual approach to rebuilding intimacy—turns a serious forging process into slapstick.
• Power and responsibility: The shield’s dramatic advancement brings greater protection, but also creates a need to nurture its spirit and maintain the bond with it.

Chapter Summary

• Yurouzi’s delayed pain: Yurouzi suddenly experiences intense pain as the sensation from her Spirit Ghost’s destruction finally synchronizes with her body. She remains mentally composed and even treats the pain as a “fresh” experience, echoing Song Shuhang’s unusual tolerance for pain. Cong Niang attempts to help with a healing technique, though it has little effect.
• Senior Turtle’s strange reaction: While carrying Yurouzi and Cong Niang through the illusory sun, Senior Turtle feels inexplicably comfortable and notices that his affection for Song Shuhang has suddenly increased. The cause is unclear, but it appears connected to the ongoing events within the illusory sun.
• Song Shuhang restores his shield: In the Artifact Refining Hall, Song Shuhang completes the advancement of the Overbearing Expert’s Shield. The seven-colored shield’s Spirit of Item happily circles him, and their former estrangement has completely disappeared. Song explains that he used a powerful form of “Saber Nurturing Technique” infused with his love, allowing him to forcibly restore intimacy with his magical item. Dongfang Dadi is shocked by the technique but agrees to study it later.
• Artifact refinement continues: Dongfang Dadi begins upgrading another of Song Shuhang’s magical items, while Song provides another Lapis Lazuli Heart and acts as the fire-starter for the Heavenly Fire furnace. His willingness to give up his own heart for artifact refinement further astonishes Dongfang Dadi.
• Black-skinned Yurouzi’s collapse: White Bone Fairy contacts Song Shuhang to report that black-skinned Yurouzi has suddenly collapsed in pain. Song deduces that she may be sharing or receiving the pain caused by Yurouzi’s Spirit Ghost destruction. He brings them into his Core World and instructs them to seek Senior Lord Chu and use Living Spring water to ease the soul-level pain.
• Yurouzi approaches the illusory sun’s center: After recovering somewhat, Yurouzi tells Song that she and the others are nearing the center of the illusory sun, where she believes the object or substance she is searching for may be located. She also recalls a destructive virus-like energy surrounding the Heavenly Emperor’s Spirit Ghost—an energy capable of destroying stars or even entire worlds.
• Developing threat: Song realizes that the illusory sun in the Dream Realm might itself qualify as a star. This raises the frightening possibility that the destructive Virus Energy could target or destroy it.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Yurouzi displays Song Shuhang-like pain tolerance and remains curious and upbeat despite severe suffering. Her connection to the Heavenly Emperor’s Spirit Ghost appears to have granted her important memories.
• Song Shuhang continues balancing artifact refinement with concern for his companions. He acts protectively toward both Yurouzis and remains closely connected to Yurouzi through the Cultivation Chat function.
• Cong Niang shows concern for Yurouzi and tries to heal her.
• Senior Turtle develops unexplained increased affection for Song Shuhang, suggesting another hidden influence at work.
• Dongfang Dadi is impressed and disturbed by Song Shuhang’s unconventional “love-based” Saber Nurturing Technique, reinforcing Song’s reputation for defying common cultivation logic.
• White Bone Fairy becomes involved in caring for black-skinned Yurouzi and is reminded of her past connection with Dongfang Dadi.

Significant Themes

• The chapter emphasizes pain as a transformative and even familiar experience, especially through Yurouzi’s reaction and her resemblance to Song Shuhang.
• Love and emotional bonds are portrayed as literal cultivation power, capable of repairing the estrangement between a cultivator and a magical item.
• The growing connection between the characters and the mysterious destructive energy introduces a theme of hidden cosmic danger, potentially threatening even the Dream Realm’s illusory sun.

Chapter Summary: “The Great Emperor’s Hand Froze”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang initially believes something is wrong when he cannot feel his heartbeat, but realizes that his heart has not yet regenerated after being destroyed.
• Using the Cheng Lin Self-healing Method, the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Skill, and a trace of immortal power, he quickly recreates his Lapis Lazuli heart.
• The restoration briefly releases an extraordinary aura that Dongfang Dadi senses—one seemingly beyond ordinary cultivation and even Eternal Life power.
• Song warns Yurouzi to recognize and avoid the dangerous “star explosion virus” if she encounters its aura inside the illusory sun. He secretly prepares an emergency escape route through Cong Niang’s Branded Wooden Knife, allowing Yurouzi and Cong Niang to be pulled into the Core World if necessary.
• Dongfang Dadi continues upgrading Song Shuhang’s Shrimp Dragon Divine Travel Chariot and other magical treasures, incorporating mysterious material and Song’s heart into the refining process.
• Song jokes that refiners can “hammer someone’s life-bound magical treasure to death” while still being paid and thanked, irritating and bewildering Dongfang Dadi.
• Song asks whether the upgraded Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure will allow him to explore the interior of a star. Dongfang confirms that the treasures should withstand stellar heat, though Song’s body remains uncertain. Song considers relying on his Pseudo-Immortal Mode.
• Song Fat Ball contacts Song Shuhang after completing its challenge on Mars and asks whether Song has finished his enlightenment. Song claims that he is permanently in a state of enlightenment, trying to discourage Fat Ball from approaching.
• Fat Ball ignores this and suddenly arrives through a spatial channel. Seeing Song Shuhang, it abandons its disguise and reveals its true nature, emitting the terrifying aura of the Nine Nether Ruler.
• Dongfang Dadi’s hammer freezes mid-swing in shock at the unexpected appearance of this dangerous entity.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates rapid regeneration and growing confidence in his unusual power. He remains reckless and curious, already planning to explore a star, but also shows increased caution by preparing emergency measures for Yurouzi.
• Dongfang Dadi: Continues proving his extraordinary refining ability, upgrading treasures to the level of weak Eternal Life Divine Weapons. He becomes increasingly puzzled by Song Shuhang’s erratic conversation and is ultimately stunned by Fat Ball’s arrival.
• Yurouzi: Receives a serious warning about the star explosion virus and agrees to remain vigilant while exploring the illusory sun.
• Song Fat Ball: Reveals an unexpected emotional attachment to Song Shuhang, feeling an intense urge to reunite with him. Its excitement causes it to drop its disguise and expose its Nine Nether Ruler aura.

Significant Themes

• Regeneration and transformation: Song’s restored heart symbolizes his increasingly extraordinary physical nature and hints at powers beyond conventional cultivation.
• Danger beneath curiosity: Song’s desire to explore stars contrasts with the potentially catastrophic threat posed by the star explosion virus.
• Preparedness and protection: Despite his impulsiveness, Song takes covert precautions to protect Yurouzi and Cong Niang.
• Identity and disguise: Fat Ball’s false identity collapses when emotion overrides strategy, revealing the dangerous being beneath the harmless-looking clone.
• Humor amid cosmic danger: Song’s casual jokes and abrupt topic changes provide comic relief even as the characters confront threats involving stars, viruses, and the Nine Nether Ruler.

Character Interactions

• Song and Yurouzi exchange a serious warning about the virus and agree to maintain contact.
• Song and Dongfang Dadi banter over refining, with Song teasing him about hammering magical treasures and Dongfang silently threatening retaliation.
• Song consults Dongfang about the feasibility of entering a star, receiving a qualified but encouraging answer.
• Song tries to reassure Fat Ball and prevent it from visiting, but Fat Ball arrives anyway, creating the chapter’s cliffhanger as Dongfang recognizes its terrifying aura.

Key events

• Song Fat Ball returns from Mars and reports that it has defeated thirteen Longevity Immortals, completing the first stage of Tyrant Song’s “Proof of Immortality.”
• Eastern Great Emperor is shaken to learn that the being he suspects is the Netherworld Ruler calls Tyrant Song its “main body.” Tyrant Song himself is uneasy about the encounter.
• Tyrant Song gives Song Fat Ball a new mission: search the stars across the Present World’s many realms for signs of a virus that can destroy stars and may eventually threaten worlds. He warns it to record infected locations but not activate the virus.
• Song Fat Ball eagerly accepts and departs.
• Afterward, Eastern Great Emperor questions Tyrant Song about the strange being. Tyrant Song gives only a vague explanation, and the two resume their work.
• Eastern Great Emperor finishes advancing the Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot into a weak Longevity Immortal artifact. He then asks Tyrant Song to speed up collecting the remaining sixty-four hearts.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Fat Ball takes pride in its victories but still regards Tyrant Song as vastly stronger. Its devotion is expressed through its eagerness to carry out his orders—and its delight at feeling cared for by him.
• Tyrant Song stays composed despite his discomfort. He finds a way to send Song Fat Ball far away on a useful task, while taking the threat of the stellar virus seriously.
• Eastern Great Emperor becomes increasingly wary and confused about Tyrant Song after witnessing Song Fat Ball, and handles Tyrant Song’s artifact more cautiously than before.
• Tyrant Song and Eastern Great Emperor exchange guarded explanations, then return to cooperating on their practical task.

Significant themes

• Unsettling bonds and identity: Song Fat Ball’s relationship to Tyrant Song is intimate but difficult to define, unsettling both Tyrant Song and the onlooker.
• Power and perspective: Song Fat Ball’s impressive victories pale beside Tyrant Song’s defeat of the Heavenly Emperor, illustrating the vast differences in strength.
• Duty amid danger: The stellar-virus mission shifts attention from personal triumph to a potential threat spanning many worlds.

Chapter 2764: The Eastern Emperor’s Worry

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang assists the Eastern Emperor in upgrading his magical treasures. He maintains the Heavenly Fire Furnace while extracting sixty-four lapis-lazuli-like hearts from his body at once.
• The Eastern Emperor is shocked by how quickly Song’s hearts regenerate—roughly one breath—and jokes internally that Song’s repeated heart extraction makes his “speaking from the heart” impossible to trust.
• The sixty-four hearts are used as materials for the artifact-upgrading process. Song continues operating the furnace while his transformed braid-hands use the Saber Nurturing Technique on each upgraded item.
• The Shrimp Dragon Divine Travel Chariot is upgraded, followed by the Old Ape Saint Master’s Sharp Sword.
• Song briefly loses focus while imagining a future wager with Three-Eyed Senior. As a result, he applies more than 6,400 Saber Nurturing Technique repetitions to the sword, causing the sword’s consciousness to disappear temporarily and reducing it to a small, inactive blade.
• Alarmed by Song’s reckless technique, the Eastern Emperor decides to accelerate the remaining upgrades. He worries that, after three hours of work, Song may effectively take possession of the Heavenly Fire Furnace.
• In the Nine Nether, the Hamster continues guarding the White Ruler’s thigh near the Nine Repairs Tomb. General, another of White Senior Two’s pets, arrives to investigate Song’s activities.
• General suddenly begins trembling and collapses without any visible attack. When questioned about Song, he unexpectedly praises Song’s personality, sincerity, appearance, rapid cultivation progress, and special relationship with White Senior Two.
• General realizes that his favorable impression of Song is increasing uncontrollably, leaving him shocked and despairing.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates extraordinary regenerative ability and growing proficiency with his unusual heart-extraction and artifact-nurturing methods. However, his tendency to become distracted and overuse the Saber Nurturing Technique creates dangerous side effects.
• Eastern Emperor: Remains highly capable and professional, upgrading artifacts with remarkable speed and precision. At the same time, he becomes increasingly anxious about Song’s bizarre techniques and the possibility of losing his family’s Heavenly Fire Furnace.
• General: Experiences a mysterious change in attitude toward Song, shifting from neutrality to intense, involuntary admiration. His inability to control these thoughts causes confusion and despair.
• Hamster: Acts as an observer and reacts with disbelief to General’s sudden praise of Song.
• Dao: Recognizes that General’s condition resembles something familiar, though the cause is not explained in the chapter.

Significant Themes

• Absurdity and parody: Song’s ability to extract dozens of hearts and use them as refining materials turns the normally emotional idea of “speaking from the heart” into a literal and comedic technique.
• Power mixed with recklessness: Song possesses overwhelming abilities, but his carelessness—especially when distracted—can produce unexpected damage.
• Loss of control: Both the sword and General are affected by forces beyond their control: the sword loses its consciousness, while General’s opinion of Song keeps rising against his will.
• Growing unease surrounding Song: His unconventional methods increasingly alarm even powerful figures such as the Eastern Emperor and White Senior Two’s subordinates.

Character Interactions

• Song and the Eastern Emperor work together in an efficient but increasingly tense artifact-refining partnership. The Eastern Emperor supplies his refining expertise, while Song provides energy, materials, and the Saber Nurturing Technique.
• The Eastern Emperor internally mocks Song’s “heart” technique but remains impressed by his regeneration and worried about the risks of working with him.
• The Hamster and General discuss White Senior Two’s condition and Song’s recent activities before General’s strange reaction interrupts the conversation.
• Dao questions General about Song, inadvertently prompting General to reveal his uncontrollably positive assessment of him.

Chapter 2765 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dao identifies the technique affecting General, the gorilla, as Ba Song’s Saber Nurturing Technique, one of his powerful “Evil Techniques.” The technique appears to have been cast remotely, impressing Dao and suggesting that Ba Song may have developed a new method of using it.
• Hamster realizes that Ba Song is likely upgrading one of his Thirty-Three Beast Combination Magical Item sets. Since one set belongs to White Senior Two, White Senior Two immediately opens a portal to the Evil Lotus World and heads toward Ba Song.
• In the Core World, White Bone Fairy cares for the suffering Black-skinned Yurouzi, whose condition has only partially improved after drinking water from the Living Spring. Lord Chu suggests taking her to Song Shuhang, who may be able to ease her pain.
• In a collapsed small world, Eastern Emperor rapidly refines and evolves Song Shuhang’s magical items. Using multiple arms and an assembly-line-like process, he upgrades items such as the Four King’s Walls, the Saint Elephant Commander’s Pillar, and the Cat Demon Fairy’s Divine Gate.
• Song Shuhang supports the refinement by starting a fire and restoring intimacy with his life-bound magical items. He also opens a passage from the Core World so White Bone Fairy can bring Black-skinned Yurouzi to him.
• Song Shuhang applies the Saber Nurturing Technique to Black-skinned Yurouzi. The technique successfully reduces her pain, reinforcing its reputation as an unusually versatile ability.
• White Bone Fairy greets Eastern Emperor and explains that Song Shuhang recently saved her life. Eastern Emperor becomes increasingly suspicious that many former members of the Ancient Heavenly Court are connected to Ba Song.
• While everyone is distracted, a root from the Core World secretly pierces Eastern Emperor’s artifact-refining hall, apparently attempting to absorb or “lick” the Heavenly Emperor’s Way. Song Shuhang notices this and worries that the Core World may cause trouble.
• Hamster and White Senior Two then arrive. Eastern Emperor senses White Senior Two’s terrifying aura and realizes that this may be the Nine Nether Ruler’s main body, rather than a weaker clone.
• Shocked by White Senior Two’s presence and by the revelation that one magical-item set belongs to him, Eastern Emperor instinctively becomes extraordinarily gentle with his hammer, striking the Wild Boar Overlord’s Tusk with what he considers the gentlest force of his life.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates greater control and versatility with the Saber Nurturing Technique, using it not only on magical items but also to alleviate Yurouzi’s physical suffering. He remains alert to the Core World’s unpredictable behavior.
• Eastern Emperor continues acting as an exceptionally skilled and efficient refiner, but his confidence is shaken when he detects White Senior Two’s overwhelming aura. His attitude shifts from aggressive speed to extreme caution.
• White Bone Fairy becomes more closely connected to Song Shuhang, relying on him to help Black-skinned Yurouzi and openly acknowledging that he saved her life.
• Black-skinned Yurouzi remains in serious pain but gains partial relief through Song Shuhang’s technique.
• White Senior Two is portrayed as immensely powerful and intimidating, even when appearing only as a golden thigh. His arrival immediately changes the atmosphere.
• Dao and Hamster act as observers who interpret Ba Song’s actions and help connect the various developments involving the magical items.

Significant Themes

• Unexpected versatility of power: The Saber Nurturing Technique, initially associated with upgrading magical weapons, is also capable of easing suffering, making it seem almost all-purpose.
• Comedic contrast between power and gentleness: Eastern Emperor’s frantic, forceful refining is humorously contrasted with his sudden need to use the “gentlest hammer technique in history” after sensing White Senior Two.
• Interconnected relationships: Former Ancient Heavenly Court figures, Nine Nether beings, and Song Shuhang’s companions continue to converge around him, suggesting that his influence spans multiple factions and worlds.
• Unpredictable magical systems: The Core World behaves almost like a living entity, secretly attempting to absorb the Heavenly Emperor’s Way without Song Shuhang’s conscious command.
• Power imbalance and intimidation: Eastern Emperor, normally confident and highly capable, becomes deeply unsettled by White Senior Two’s presence, highlighting the overwhelming status of the Nine Nether Ruler.

Character Interactions

• Dao and Hamster discuss the identity and purpose of the Saber Nurturing Technique.
• White Senior Two and Hamster travel through the Evil Lotus World to investigate Song Shuhang’s magical-item upgrades.
• White Bone Fairy brings Black-skinned Yurouzi to Song Shuhang, while Lord Chu assists through its Ahoge.
• Song Shuhang uses the Saber Nurturing Technique on Yurouzi, earning relief and approval from those present.
• White Bone Fairy exchanges greetings with Eastern Emperor and explains her connection to Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang, Hamster, and White Senior Two clarify the ownership of the magical-item sets, causing Eastern Emperor to realize the danger of his situation.
• Eastern Emperor’s terror at White Senior Two’s aura provides the chapter’s final comedic beat.

Plot points and events

• During the artifact upgrades, Eastern Great Emperor notices that Senior White Two’s golden leg seems to carry the aura of the current, rather than former, Netherworld Ruler. Since the Heavenly Emperor had described a transition between rulers, this leaves Eastern uneasy about the job he has accepted.
• Song Shuhang explains that his artifacts can be assembled into two interchangeable sets, though the Reverse Whale Little Fairy gauntlet is unique. Only one set is being upgraded so far, and Senior White Two loses interest when he hears how long the work is taking.
• White-Bone Fairy offers to help. At Eastern’s request, she uses her hammer techniques and Heavenly Fire to preheat the remaining artifacts, speeding up the process.
• After more than forty minutes, one full set is upgraded. Song Shuhang’s braid restores the artifacts’ lost affinity, and he combines them into the Sword of the End. The weapon’s quality and power now approach those of a Longevity Immortal’s divine weapon.
• Senior White Two rides the sword through the air and opens a portal to the Steel Lair. There, he has Ugly Tiger retrieve a replica of the Eyed Planet’s heart and installs it in the Sword of the End set, balancing it against the replica heart in the other set. The artifacts’ thirty-three Glazed Hearts begin beating in synchrony with it.

Character developments and interactions

• Eastern Great Emperor is unnerved by the golden leg’s apparent connection to the current Netherworld Ruler, but presses on with the upgrades. Song Shuhang’s defense of his work unexpectedly moves him.
• Song Shuhang remains matter-of-fact about the upgrade process and promises Senior White Two another set to play with once it is ready.
• White-Bone Fairy shows her helpful, generous nature by volunteering her labor. Pavilion Master Chu’s Dull Hair jokes that she and Song Shuhang would make a fitting pair: one likes unpaid work, the other cannot afford to pay.
• Senior White Two is initially bored by the slow progress but becomes engaged again once the upgraded Sword of the End is ready, immediately taking it for a test ride and modifying it.
• Hamster Unit comments on its master’s changing interest and helps explain the relationship between the artifact sets.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and transition: Eastern’s unease reflects the wider uncertainty surrounding the change in leadership between the old and new Heavenly Dao—and the mysterious status of the current Netherworld Ruler.
• Cooperation and craftsmanship: Eastern, White-Bone Fairy, and Song Shuhang each contribute different skills to upgrade and restore the artifacts.
• Power gained through connection: The Sword of the End becomes formidable through its composite nature, while the synchronized hearts suggest that balance and shared power are central to the two artifact sets.

Eastern Great Emperor upgraded Song Shuhang’s Dharma Artifacts and discovered that the Netherworld Ruler had already given him another artificial heart. Meanwhile, Song Shuhang’s growing strength prompted Lady Dragon Network to propose a comprehensive cultivation chat system upgrade, but she needed him to find a treasure to serve as its download terminal.

• Eastern Great Emperor found an artificial Power Heart already installed in Song Shuhang’s second Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot and questioned his relationship with the Netherworld Ruler.
• Song Shuhang explained that White Senior Two first became familiar with him through his jokes and that his connection to Senior White in the Present World had also played a part.
• Eastern Great Emperor resumed upgrading the Dharma Artifacts, while Song Shuhang and White-Bone Fairy helped as they worked through the remaining pieces.
• Eyed Planet Boss felt its origin being repeatedly stimulated by a distant object and searched the void for the source.
• Lady Dragon Network sensed Song Shuhang’s Ninth Grade strength and proposed building a full cultivation chat client, asking him to find a treasure to serve as its download terminal.

Song Shuhang learned that Lady Dragon Network needed a powerful treasure to carry the upgraded Cultivation Chat client and chose to seek one through Three-Eyed Senior’s Eighth-Stage wager. He sent his fifteen-plus-one Primordial Spirit projections into the Wealth-Spending Throne space, while his body stayed behind to tend the fire, and opened the door to Three-Eyed Senior’s sunny world.

• Lady Dragon Network told Song Shuhang the Cultivation Chat function was being upgraded and asked him to find a treasure capable of supporting client downloads.
• Lady Dragon Network suggested he consult Everything Can Be Sold, Sage White, or use the Wealth-Spending Throne wager; Song Shuhang chose the wager to avoid spending money or borrowing.
• Song Shuhang asked Pavilion Master Chu’s tuft of hair and Eastern Great Emperor to watch over his body, then sent his fifteen-plus-one Primordial Spirit projections into the Wealth-Spending Throne space.
• Eastern Great Emperor was shocked by Song Shuhang’s fragmented Primordial Spirit, while the Virtue Snake Beauty reassured him that Cheng Gou Dan was dead.
• Song Shuhang opened the small wooden door and found Three-Eyed Senior laughing in the sunny world beyond; the senior’s aura revealed him as a Netherworld Ruler.

Song Shuhang returned to the Three-Eyed Senior’s Small World to settle their wager, offering the captured Demon Emperor E and requesting a medium for his Cultivation Chat client download feature. The Three-Eyed Senior accepted the stake and offered a strange saber intent as a possible bonus, prompting Song Shuhang to wonder if he had once beaten Daoist Scarlet Firmament.

• The Eastern Great Emperor learned from Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair that Song Shuhang knew at least four Netherworld Rulers and urged White-Bone Fairy to help finish forging the Dharma Artifact.
• Merit Snake Beauty answered for White-Bone Fairy, who complained that her friend had stolen her line.
• Song Shuhang returned to the Three-Eyed Senior’s Small World and offered the captured Demon Emperor E as his stake in their wager.
• The Three-Eyed Senior accepted Demon Emperor E, explaining that he needed a living Longevity Immortal to anchor a world he had created.
• Song Shuhang asked for a treasure to support downloads of his Cultivation Chat client and suggested adding sword intent as a bonus.
• The Three-Eyed Senior offered a strand of saber intent shaped like sword intent, and Song Shuhang asked whether he had once wagered against and beaten Daoist Scarlet Firmament.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks Senior Three-Eyed Youth whether Daoist Scarlet Firmament ever lost a bet to him. Three-Eyed Youth is embarrassed by the subject, and Eyeball Butler is punished before he can explain. Shuhang concludes that Three-Eyed Youth probably won, but at some humiliating cost.
• They negotiate the stakes for an Eighth-Grade bet. Three-Eyed Youth has offered Sword-Shaped Saber Intent, so Shuhang agrees to wager his Armor Saber Intent in return. He believes he can cultivate it again if he loses.
• Three-Eyed Youth teases Shuhang about winning both intents and eventually inventing a Shield Saber Intent.
• Shuhang asks for a suitable treasure to use as a client’s vessel. Three-Eyed Youth rejects the suggestion, claiming he only invited Shuhang to propose it. Eyeball Butler says the real reason is that his master has no such treasure; Three-Eyed Youth burns him into a shriveled eyeball for speaking out.
• A powerful Chilling Holy Light suddenly breaks through the barriers of Three-Eyed Youth’s Wealth-Scattering Space and strikes Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit Projection. Shuhang recognizes its source as the grudge-holding “Eyed Planet Boss.”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows confidence in his ability to regain the Armor Saber Intent and tries to steer the conversation away from embarrassing subjects. Though outwardly composed, his eyes reveal his disdain for Three-Eyed Youth’s antics.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is touchy about his past bet with Daoist Scarlet Firmament and playful—sometimes vindictive—in his dealings with Shuhang and Eyeball Butler. He also appears to lack the treasure Shuhang wants.
• Eyeball Butler repeatedly needles his master, correcting his terminology and exposing his lack of a suitable treasure. His bluntness earns him increasingly harsh punishment.
• The Eyed Planet Boss reappears with an attack aimed at Shuhang, demonstrating that it has tracked him down and still bears a grudge.

Significant themes

• Bets and their hidden costs: Winning may still involve losing something valuable or enduring humiliation.
• Teasing and retaliation: The exchanges between Three-Eyed Youth and his butler turn verbal provocation into escalating physical punishment.
• Persistence and recovery: Shuhang is willing to risk losing an ability because he trusts his capacity to rebuild it.
• Old grudges: The chapter ends by showing that past conflicts can resurface unexpectedly.

Chapter 2771 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang’s primordial spirit projection confronts the enormous “Long-eyed Planet Big Shot” through a clash of Consciousness.
• The planet recognizes Song Shuhang as the troublesome enemy who has repeatedly escaped or caused it trouble. Song boldly provokes it, confident because Three-Eyed Boy Senior is nearby.
• Long-eyed Planet attempts to destroy Song Shuhang’s Consciousness remotely, crushing it into “15 + 1” fragments. However, Song survives and returns to the Scatter Wealth Throne Space.
• Most of the planet’s gloomy Holy Light is devoured by Song’s Merit light, but a portion separates and becomes a beacon for Long-eyed Planet’s arrival.
• Song warns Three-Eyed Boy Senior that the Scatter Wealth Throne Space has been infiltrated. Three-Eyed Senior dislikes Holy Light because of his Nine Nether nature and tells Song to keep away, though the discomfort is mainly caused by Song being covered in the Holy Light’s residue.
• Three-Eyed Senior manipulates Space around the Holy Light, expanding it into a miniature world and preparing for the enemy’s arrival.
• Long-eyed Planet sends a small spherical Clone through a Space Gate. Upon detecting Three-Eyed Boy Senior, the Clone immediately retracts its Holy Light and attempts to flee.
• Three-Eyed Senior collapses the Space Gate, trapping the Clone and forcing it to participate in the upcoming bet.
• A betting ritual is established, pairing:
  • Song Shuhang with Demon Emperor “噩” and the Armor Daoist Meaning
  • Three-Eyed Boy Senior with Long-eyed Planet’s small Clone and the sword-shaped Daoist Meaning
• Three-Eyed Senior proposes competing in pure luck rather than repeating their previous pain-tolerance contest.
• Song realizes that the portion of White Senior within his “15 + 1” primordial spirits seems to grant him extraordinary luck. Feeling that such a contest would be unfair, he suggests changing the competition method.
• Three-Eyed Senior interprets Song’s hesitation as fear and challenges him.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang displays increased confidence and fearlessness, openly taunting a powerful planetary entity because of Three-Eyed Senior’s protection and his own growing strength.
• His Consciousness proves resilient despite being crushed, reinforcing his unusual survival abilities and suggesting that his fragmented primordial spirit has become an advantage.
• Song also shows consideration and fairness: he recognizes that his connection to White Senior may give him an overwhelming advantage in a luck-based contest.
• Long-eyed Planet Big Shot is revealed to be extremely cautious despite its immense power. Its Clone immediately tries to retreat after seeing Three-Eyed Senior, making it appear cowardly.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior remains domineering and competitive, quickly turning the enemy’s infiltration into a new gambling opportunity. He also demonstrates advanced Space manipulation.
• Demon Emperor “噩” identifies with the planet Clone’s cautious personality, humorously recognizing a similar “careful” nature in it.

Significant Themes

• Defiance against overwhelming power: Song Shuhang refuses to be intimidated by a much larger and stronger opponent.
• Cunning versus brute force: Although Long-eyed Planet possesses immense strength, Three-Eyed Senior and Song exploit strategy, spatial control, and the betting ritual to gain the upper hand.
• Luck and destiny: The proposed competition centers on whether pure luck can determine victory, while Song’s connection to White Senior suggests that luck may be influenced by powerful bonds or cosmic blessings.
• Humor amid danger: The threatening confrontation is undercut by Three-Eyed Senior’s disgust with Holy Light, the Clone’s cowardly retreat, and Song’s observation that its behavior resembles his own.
• Rivalry and gamesmanship: Serious conflicts are repeatedly transformed into wagers, making competition and manipulation central to the characters’ interactions.

Character Interactions

• Song and Long-eyed Planet exchange hostile Consciousness messages, with Song provoking the planet and the planet promising annihilation.
• Song warns Three-Eyed Senior about the incoming enemy, but Three-Eyed Senior initially rejects him because of the Holy Light covering him.
• Three-Eyed Senior traps the planet’s Clone by destroying its escape route.
• Song and Three-Eyed Senior establish another bet, but Song questions the fairness of competing in luck.
• Three-Eyed Senior responds by teasing Song for supposedly being afraid, setting up the next stage of their rivalry.