Chapter Summaries

Chapter 2772 Summary: Three-Eyed Senior’s Method to Break Strong Luck

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Three-Eyed Boy Senior prepare for another luck-based gamble. Song openly pities Three-Eyed Senior, believing that his own overwhelming luck—enhanced by White Senior’s fortune—will cause Three-Eyed Senior to suffer a crushing defeat.
• Both exchange sarcastic “encouragement,” each predicting that the other will lose badly. Their confrontation becomes so intense that their combined pressure creates cracks in the surrounding void.
• They agree to a five-round contest based entirely on luck. The first person to win three rounds will be declared the victor.
• The loser of each round will choose the event for the next round, allowing them to select a game more favorable to their own type of luck. Both accept the rule as long as each event genuinely depends on chance and cannot be manipulated through techniques.
• Three-Eyed Senior proposes the first event: while standing still and using no abilities, they must see who is struck by more Slaying Immortal Lightning within a set time.
• The lightning is revealed to be extraordinarily powerful, with each strike capable of causing severe pain even to a Rank 9 Tribulation Immortal.
• Song Shuhang recognizes the trap in the event. Normally, strong luck would help someone avoid danger, but winning this round requires being struck more often—essentially turning “bad luck” into the desired outcome.
• Despite the danger, Song accepts the challenge, partly because he would enjoy seeing Three-Eyed Senior struck by more lightning and partly because he remains confident in his own fortune.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Displays increasing confidence in his luck and his ability to defeat Three-Eyed Senior. He has also learned to use sarcastic, “toxic” encouragement from his past experiences with @＃％× Fairy. Although he understands the danger of the contest, his competitive and mischievous side leads him to accept rather than retreat.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior: Shows himself to be cunning, competitive, and highly confident in his own unusually bad luck. He designs the first event specifically to exploit the contradiction between having good luck and intentionally seeking misfortune. His confidence suggests he believes his terrible luck will allow him to dominate the lightning challenge.
• Eyeball Butler: Attempts to warn and assist Song Shuhang by promising to identify traps in Three-Eyed Senior’s games. Three-Eyed Senior immediately removes him from the scene by transforming the totem pole into a rocket and launching him away.

Significant Themes

• The paradox of luck: The chapter explores whether “good luck” means avoiding danger or obtaining the desired result, even when that result requires misfortune.
• Competition and psychological warfare: Song and Three-Eyed Senior try to undermine each other through taunts, false encouragement, and displays of confidence before the actual contest begins.
• Fairness versus manipulation: Although the rules appear fair, Three-Eyed Senior exploits the wording of the gamble to create an event where ordinary strong luck may become a disadvantage.
• Confidence and recklessness: Both characters understand the risks but accept them because of pride, rivalry, and faith in their own luck.

Character Interactions

• Song and Three-Eyed Senior engage in a tense but humorous exchange, each insisting that the other will suffer a humiliating defeat.
• Three-Eyed Senior misreads Song’s pity as guilt, while Song privately wonders how someone with face-reading abilities could misunderstand his expression.
• Eyeball Butler supports Song and offers to inspect the proposed challenges, but Three-Eyed Senior silences him by launching him into the sky.
• The chapter ends with Song accepting the Slaying Immortal Lightning challenge, setting up the first round of their dangerous luck competition.

Chapter 2773 Summary: “If It Were Anyone Else, They Might Lose, but I Am Ba Song!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Three-Eyed Boy Senior proposes a competition specifically designed to test luck: Song Shuhang and Senior will stand beneath Slaying Immortal Lightning for five minutes, with the winner being whoever is struck more times.
• The participants are teleported to a scorched lightning-filled battlefield. Demon Emperor? E and the clone of Long-eyed Planet’s Big Shot are forced to accompany them, despite only being spectators or part of the wager.
• Each contestant is allowed to choose only one position, and that location cannot be changed once the lightning begins.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior uses his experience to select an advantageous location. Song Shuhang initially tries to exploit his 15+1 primordial-spirit structure by splitting into multiple bodies and occupying several positions, but Senior rules this against the competition’s terms and forces him back together.
• Senior confidently believes Song Shuhang will lose because Song appears to be relying on the tremendous luck provided by White Senior’s projected left arm.
• Song Shuhang removes the projected arm and curls up defensively, activating a hidden interaction between his own misfortune and White Senior’s luck.
• The first lightning wave contains twelve strikes: four powerful bolts and eight weaker ones. The four stronger bolts hit Three-Eyed Boy Senior, while all eight weaker bolts strike Song Shuhang.
• Although Senior initially leads in the number of strikes, Song Shuhang ends the exchange ahead by three hits, demonstrating that his combination with White Senior produces not simple good luck, but a strange balance of shared misfortune and fortune.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang displays his usual cleverness and willingness to exploit loopholes, though his attempt to divide himself across multiple locations fails. He then reveals greater confidence in his unusual luck-related abilities.
• He recognizes that his repeated adventures with White Senior have created a powerful combined effect: Song tends to absorb hardship while White Senior benefits from favorable outcomes.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior appears experienced, confident, and initially dominant. He understands the battlefield better and successfully blocks Song’s first strategy, but he underestimates the unpredictable nature of Song and White Senior’s combined luck.
• Demon Emperor? E remains bewildered and irritated at being dragged into a dangerous lightning trial that was supposedly only a wager. His reaction also provides comic relief.
• White Senior, though not physically present in person, continues to influence events through the projected left arm and his unusual luck-based connection with Song Shuhang.

Significant Themes

• Luck versus strategy: The contest appears to favor naturally lucky cultivators, but Song Shuhang’s strength comes from manipulating the relationship between luck and misfortune rather than simply possessing good fortune.
• Rules and loopholes: Both contestants attempt to interpret the competition’s rules advantageously. Song tries to use his divided primordial spirit, while Three-Eyed Boy Senior relies on strict wording to invalidate the tactic.
• Partnership and shared fate: Song and White Senior’s bond functions almost like a combined ability. Their partnership causes misfortune to be distributed in an unusual way, turning apparent disadvantages into advantages.
• Overconfidence and unpredictability: Three-Eyed Boy Senior’s certainty that Song will lose is challenged by an outcome he did not anticipate.
• Humor amid danger: The characters’ exaggerated reactions to being struck by immortal-slaying lightning keep the deadly competition comedic.

Character Interactions

• Three-Eyed Boy Senior taunts Song Shuhang, emphasizing his superior experience and claiming that “old ginger is spicier.”
• Song responds confidently, insisting that his youthful “scallion” may still prove more effective.
• Senior attempts to enforce the one-location rule when Song splits into multiple parts, directly countering Song’s ingenuity.
• After the first lightning exchange, Song proudly informs Senior that he has taken more strikes, reversing the earlier taunt.
• Demon Emperor? E reacts with disbelief and admiration at the successful lightning strikes, highlighting the absurdity of the competition.

Key events

• Song Shuhang and Senior Three-Eyed Youth endure waves of Slaying Immortals Lightning as part of their wager competition. Three-Eyed expects his Lightning-Absorbing Physique and experience to help, but the lightning increasingly targets Shuhang.
• Shuhang initially adapts quickly, thanks to his extensive history of surviving Thunder Method attacks. He also reveals that he has endured Heavenly Punishment—an ordeal so severe it once reduced his body to ash.
• As the lightning intensifies, Shuhang is overwhelmed by its sheer quantity, while Three-Eyed receives only an occasional bolt despite his special physique.
• The accumulated lightning damage triggers a transformation in Shuhang and Senior White’s left hand. Shuhang relives memories of the many kinds of lightning he has endured, including Heavenly Punishment.
• His suffering fulfills a hidden “graduation requirement,” producing a lightning-related Law radiance: a “graduation certificate” that will reduce damage from lightning and greatly shorten Thunder Method effects, even from Heavenly Tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang demonstrates unusual resilience and rapid adaptation, turning past pain and repeated tribulations into a lasting defensive breakthrough. He jokes with Three-Eyed about his “tender scallion fragrance” even while being struck.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is baffled and frustrated as his expected advantage disappears. Despite his Lightning-Absorbing Physique and attempt to make the contest fair, Shuhang’s fortune and accumulated resistance leave him behind.
• Demon Emperor E, watching as a wager stake, is both pleased to see the competitors suffer and astonished by Shuhang’s claim that he survived Heavenly Punishment.
• Senior White’s left hand also undergoes transformation alongside Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Pain as growth: Shuhang’s accumulated suffering becomes the basis for a powerful new protection.
• Unpredictable fortune: The lightning’s preferential targeting overturns Three-Eyed’s carefully planned contest.
• Endurance and qualification: Surviving extreme trials—including Heavenly Punishment—proves essential to reaching a new level of capability.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s body develops a special thunder-related Law, the “Heavenly Thunder Graduation Certificate,” after being struck by Heavenly Thunder repeatedly. The Law makes lightning less painful, absorbs and converts Slaying Immortals Lightning into a force that strengthens his body, and shortens the duration of Thunder Methods.
• The lightning stops early, but Song Shuhang asks for the remaining two minutes. Three-Eyed Senior refuses and moves them on to the next trial, leaving Demon Emperor? E and the small ball avatar behind as the thunderclouds start up again.
• Back at the tea table, the Eyeball Butler guesses that Three-Eyed Senior lost the lightning trial. Its cheerful teasing earns it a javelin through the feet. Song Shuhang keeps his expression carefully neutral.
• Three-Eyed Senior proposes the second luck-based trial: each contestant gets five attempts to search the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room for a valuable treasure he once sent into the Present World and then forgot.
• Song Shuhang refuses, warning that he previously sent dangerous beings into the Little Black Room and might encounter them there.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang’s repeated exposure to lightning has unexpectedly made him resistant to it and strengthened his body. His modest, cautious manner contrasts with his eagerness to test his new abilities.
• Three-Eyed Senior is irritated by losing and takes his frustration out on the laughing Eyeball Butler. He also seems willing to use the second trial to pursue his own personal interest.
• Demon Emperor? E and the small ball avatar are abandoned after the first trial, leaving E facing renewed lightning.
• The Eyeball Butler cheerfully comforts its master after his loss, but its teasing provokes a violent response. Song Shuhang, wary of becoming the next target, suppresses a smile.

Significant themes

• Repeated hardship can produce unexpected adaptation and growth.
• Luck-based contests blur the line between competition and personal motives.
• Comic misfortune runs through the chapter: Song Shuhang thrives under lethal lightning, while others are left suffering—or punished for laughing.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang challenges the fairness of Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s second trial: he must search the dangerous Heavenly Dao Little Black Room for a treasure he cannot identify or locate, while enemies he previously sent there may recognize him.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth agrees to adjust the conditions. He gives Song Shuhang a one-use disguise mask from Immortal Venerable Silver Trigram, which should prevent those enemies from recognizing him. The Third Divine Eye Song Shuhang won earlier will also provide a “sensation” that helps him find the treasure.
• Song Shuhang asks for defensive or resurrection abilities, arguing that the Little Black Room may contain terrifying opponents. After Eyeball Butler protests that he deserves some protection, Senior Three-Eyed Youth skewers the butler with javelins—but acknowledges its point and grants Song Shuhang three spells through the Third Divine Eye.
• The spells are Immortal-Locking Eye, which seals space and can restrain even a Longevity Immortal for ten breaths; Melting Eye, which fuses a targeted space and its contents; and a spell that lets Song Shuhang summon and borrow Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s power. Using the last one, however, counts as failing the trial.
• As the spells are transferred, Lady Dragon Network detects the information as potentially malicious data and asks whether to block it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is assertive and practical, repeatedly pointing out unfair risks and negotiating for safeguards. He also cheekily interrupts Senior Three-Eyed Youth by identifying the disguise mask before its explanation is finished.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth presents himself as willing to make the trial fair, but his “solutions” remain dangerous and self-serving. He ultimately concedes some protection after the butler’s arguments land.
• Eyeball Butler champions Song Shuhang’s case despite being badly wounded. Its outspoken protests provoke the master’s violence, but also help Song Shuhang secure the spells.
• Lady Dragon Network acts as a wary safeguard, treating the newly implanted spells like a possible Trojan horse.

Significant themes

• Fairness versus favoritism: The trial’s rules are repeatedly adjusted, exposing the tension between a supposedly fair challenge and Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s influence over its conditions.
• Risk and survival: Song Shuhang insists that a treasure hunt is not a fair test if he lacks the means to survive its dangers.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter balances threats, bloodshed, and powerful spells with banter, interruptions, and the absurdity of treating magical abilities as suspicious data.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang’s firewall initially blocks the spatial techniques Senior Three-Eyed Youth sent to his Third Divine Eye. Lady Dragon Network removes the block and begins analyzing the techniques.
• The analysis identifies two abilities—Immortal-Locking Eye and Melting Eye—but fails to interpret a separate summoning rune. Song Shuhang is delighted at the prospect of gaining the two techniques.
• Shuhang agrees to Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s wager: if he uses the third function to summon the senior’s energy for help, he will forfeit.
• Before the second trial, Three-Eyed Youth prepares a temporary incarnation and two modified Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessels, each holding enough energy for five trips into the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room.
• The senior explains that the vessels use the Disaster Giant Turtle Clan’s innate ability to enter the Little Black Room. Shuhang already knows the clan and excitedly recounts his past dealings with its members.
• Asked to choose a vessel, Shuhang rubs the projection of Senior White’s left hand and wonders whether to cheat during the trial.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is eager to collect powerful techniques and remains playful and irreverent, even while negotiating a serious wager. He also promises to return the Sun Ship to the Black Dragon World.
• Lady Dragon Network efficiently handles the firewall and technique analysis, but her clipped replies suggest she is extremely busy.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth suspects Shuhang has secretly benefited from him, yet accepts that a wager need only be superficially fair. He prepares carefully for the next trial.
• The old eyeball butler, despite being badly injured, remains alive and tries to encourage his master to stay cheerful.

Significant themes

• Cleverness versus fairness: Three-Eyed Youth accepts that absolute fairness is impossible, while Shuhang openly considers a tactical shortcut.
• Unexpected gains and opportunism: A security feature accidentally blocks a gift, but resolving the issue turns it into a potential new advantage for Shuhang.
• Resilience and eccentricity: The butler’s survival and encouragement, alongside Shuhang’s comic behavior, keep the chapter’s dangerous supernatural setting lighthearted.

Key plot points and events

• Before entering the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room, Song Shuhang puts on Silver Trigram’s one-use disguise mask to keep the Three-Eyed Senior from reading his expression. The mask unexpectedly cycles through the faces of four people connected to his current Primordial Spirit projection—Senior White, Sage Seven Cultivator, Fairy Skylark, and Sage Spirit Butterfly—then fuses them into a strange, beautiful-but-discordant face.
• Song Shuhang adds a second mask that blocks divination-based tracking, joking that the mask beneath his mask is another mask. He also notices the first mask may strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• He considers exploiting his possession of Senior White’s Primordial Spirit left hand to bypass the contest’s five-entry limit. Deciding not to risk testing the rules too soon, he plans to use most of his allotted chances first.
• Song Shuhang and the Three-Eyed Senior’s Eye Demon incarnation activate their Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessels and enter the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Song Shuhang lets Senior White’s left hand choose their direction, trusting it to lead them somewhere valuable.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang’s physical body realizes its Primordial Spirit projection is missing. His fifteen-plus-one Primordial Spirit fragments begin trying to project power back into the present world and form a new one.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains cautious despite his urge to cheat, choosing to delay testing the contest’s limits. He is also confident that Senior White’s luck will guide him toward treasure.
• The Three-Eyed Senior is wary of Song Shuhang impersonating him, while the Eyeball Butler openly mocks its master’s rigid thinking.
• The Eastern Great Emperor is disappointed when the vessels pass his workshop without stopping, missing the chance to finish upgrading his treasure before Song Shuhang’s gamble ends.

Significant themes

• Cunning and rule-bending: Song Shuhang searches for loopholes but weighs the risks of exploiting them.
• Identity and disguise: Layered masks conceal both his appearance and his trail, while the magically merged face becomes an unusual new persona.
• Luck and trust: Song Shuhang relies on Senior White’s left hand to steer them toward fortune.
• Fragmented selfhood: His Primordial Spirit’s separation from his physical body creates a new problem, setting up another attempt at projection.

Character interactions

• The Three-Eyed Senior warns Song Shuhang not to disguise himself as him; the Eyeball Butler sides with Song Shuhang and needles its master.
• Song Shuhang and the Three-Eyed Senior enter the contest through separate vessels, with the Senior represented by his Eye Demon incarnation.
• The Eyeball Butler gives its master a rare sincere blessing, distinguishing its teasing of the Senior’s main body from its respect for the incarnation.

Key plot points and events

• While upgrading the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, the Eastern Great Emperor suddenly feels an unexplained familiarity and sadness when he looks at Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang enters a Heavenly Dao Little Black Room as a Primordial Spirit Projection, carrying the Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel so he can escape by summoning it back.
• Guided by Senior White’s Left Hand, Song Shuhang encounters Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw, her three Ancient Heavenly Court subordinates, and a Smoke Evil Demon.
• Senior White’s Left Hand inexplicably draws the claw to itself. Song Shuhang explains that he has come to honor an agreement with Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s true body: he will take her claw and subordinates out of the prison space.
• The Smoke Evil Demon also asks to be rescued. Song Shuhang initially demands payment, but Senior White’s Left Hand signals that the demon’s body is the “treasure” they came to find. Song Shuhang agrees to take its core while claiming its body.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang acts confidently, improvising a disguised identity but never getting to use it. He negotiates with the demon, then changes course when Senior White identifies its body as the needed quest item.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw is startled by its involuntary leap to Senior White’s arm, then becomes hopeful when it learns its true body still remembers it and that it may escape with its subordinates.
• The Smoke Evil Demon is desperate to return to the Present World before its damaged body perishes. It offers its body and the secret it contains in exchange for help.
• Senior White’s Left Hand communicates silently, both arranging the claw’s rescue and guiding Song Shuhang toward the demon body.
• The closing joke comes from Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw, which compares Song Shuhang’s abrupt claim on the demon’s body to a scoundrel’s declaration.

Significant themes

• Promises and obligations: Song Shuhang honors Senior White’s agreement with Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s true body.
• Bargaining and self-interest: Rescue is framed as a costly service, and the Smoke Evil Demon must offer something valuable in return.
• Mystery and foreshadowing: The Eastern Great Emperor’s strange recognition of Song Shuhang and the demon body’s importance hint at larger developments.
• Comedic absurdity: The claw’s unexplained obedience and Song Shuhang’s blunt negotiations undercut the scene’s prison-and-rescue stakes.

Plot points

• Song Shuhang uses Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos to gather a Tribulation Immortal, two Profound Sages, the Smoke Evil Demon, and Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw, then boards the Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel.
• The vessel’s ancient Netherworld aura alarms the Smoke Evil Demon. Song refuses to sell the vessel, noting it belongs to a senior—and that making more would harm young Disaster Giant Turtles.
• The vessel burns a tenth of its stored energy to escape the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room and return to the Present World.
• Still racing at high speed, Song opens the door and throws the three cultivators out, calling it a safe disembarkation. Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw is left behind by mistake, but declines to jump and plans to leave through a Space Gate.
• When the claw contacts her main body, she discovers it is dead. Song tries to reassure her that the main body may still revive or have merely feigned death. He then continues toward the Netherworld with the Smoke Evil Demon.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is resourceful and hurried, but his cheerful announcements and reckless handling of passengers make him comically inconsiderate. He offers the claw comfort when she is distressed.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s claw initially admires Song’s technique and questions him tactfully about the vessel. She avoids probing his masked identity, then becomes shaken by the apparent death of her main body and clings to Song for support.
• The Smoke Evil Demon recognizes the vessel’s powerful, ancient Netherworld connection.
• Song and the claw exchange polite farewells, but her sudden crisis changes their parting into an unexpected moment of dependence.

Significant themes

• Comic contrast between courtesy and danger: Song’s polite passenger announcements clash with his hazardous “disembarkation.”
• Secrecy and restraint: The claw respects Song’s mask and does not pry into his identity.
• Death and hope: Song draws on his experience with death to suggest the main body’s absence may not be final.
• Responsibility and harm: Song refuses to sell the vessel, partly because producing it would injure the turtles whose shells are used.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang separates the Smoke Evil Demon’s body from its core. He keeps the body—which contains a trace of Immortality Information—as a quest item for Senior White.
• To protect himself from a possible encounter between the Smoke Evil Demon and Boss Fat Ball’s Song Shuhang-like clone, he sends the core into the Netherworld.
• The core tries to contact Sovereign Fat Ball but gets no answer. Remembering that it was told its master might be dead, it grows anxious and sets out to find him.
• Drawn by a Netherworld Ruler aura, the core reaches a Demon Sea World and encounters bald-headed Song Four, who claims, “I am Tyrant Song Ruler!”
• Song Four uses Netherworld Ruler Authority to seize the core and read its information. It contains Boss Fat Ball’s research on Pseudo-Immortality, including methods for sending power into the Present World without triggering Heavenly Punishment and influencing or evading Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Shuhang realizes the research could help him prepare for the Tribulation of Thousand Days.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows kindness, but his help is also motivated by self-preservation: he wants to keep the Smoke Evil Demon away from Boss Fat Ball’s clone. He increasingly embraces his identity and persona as Netherworld Ruler.
• The Smoke Evil Demon feels genuine warmth and gratitude toward Song Shuhang, then becomes worried when it cannot reach its master. Its trust turns to alarm when it discovers that the apparent Netherworld Ruler is Tyrant Song.
• Song Shuhang grows more confident about surviving his coming tribulation after acquiring information that directly supports his preparations.

Significant themes

• Kindness mixed with self-interest: Song Shuhang helps the demon while carefully managing the dangers it could pose to him.
• Identity and deception: Song Four’s bald appearance and Netherworld authority make him seem like a new ruler, but his face is unmistakably Tyrant Song’s.
• Power, information, and survival: The demon’s body and core hold valuable research, and Song Shuhang’s authority lets him extract it.
• Fate and preparation: The newly acquired research strengthens Song Shuhang’s confidence in facing the Tribulation of Thousand Days.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang and the Smoke Evil Demon part on friendly terms; the demon mistakes his assistance for an act of kindness and feels unusually close to him.
• After arriving in the Netherworld, the demon’s search for Sovereign Fat Ball leads it instead to Song Four.
• Song Four’s summons draws the demon in, and he overrides its resistance to read its memories and research.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang combines the Heavenly Thunder Graduation Certificate, Boss Fat Ball’s research, and his own tribulation knowledge to devise ways to shorten his thousand-day Tribulation Immortal Heavenly Tribulation. He estimates he can reduce it by at least half—possibly bringing the remaining trial down to a little over a year.
• He feels confident that he can survive the tribulation, even wondering whether it will be too easy. Song Four recognizes that his confidence is getting out of hand, and Song Shuhang punctures his own chest to “let some air out.”
• The Smoke Fiend Core asks whether its master, the Netherworld Ruler, is truly dead and whether Song Shuhang caused the Heavenly Dao’s collapse. Song Shuhang denies responsibility, though he admits the collapse happened near the end of his fifth Profound Sage Tribulation. The grieving core falls silent, and Song Four has it stored in the Core World’s Immortal Locking Prison.
• During the Heavenly Dao Transition Period, Song Shuhang reflects that he may be able to use this unusual window for bold plans, though his Netherworld Ruler Authority cannot shorten the thousand-day tribulation directly.
• In the Present World–Heavenly Dao Little Black Room passage, Song Shuhang receives Song Four’s information and continues searching the prison spaces for a treasure as part of a bet with a senior.
• He remembers that he once sent a dangerous, sealed Ancient God—shaped like a fossilized giant egg—into a Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Realizing he has entered the room containing it, he is immediately attacked by one of its destructive tentacles.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows growing expertise and confidence in handling tribulations, but also recognizes that his confidence can become inflated. He remains compassionate toward the Smoke Fiend Core, offering condolences after learning of its master’s apparent death.
• Song Four acts as the more self-aware, deadpan side of Shuhang, warning him when his attitude becomes overconfident and managing the core afterward.
• The Smoke Fiend Core shifts from suspicion to grief: it initially blames Song Shuhang for the Heavenly Dao’s collapse, then accepts his denial and mourns its master.
• The Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw is puzzled by Song Shuhang’s plans and questions why he is entering the prison spaces.

Significant themes

• Confidence versus humility: Shuhang’s overwhelming defenses make tribulation seem almost trivial, but Song Four’s teasing prompts him to check his own arrogance.
• Loss and uncertainty: The core’s grief highlights the consequences of the Heavenly Dao’s collapse and the uncertainty surrounding the Netherworld Ruler’s fate.
• Opportunity in a changing world: The Heavenly Dao Transition Period offers a rare chance for unusual schemes, even as Shuhang considers how to make his long tribulation more manageable.
• Consequences of past decisions: Shuhang’s earlier choice to stash the Ancient God in a prison room returns to threaten him at exactly the wrong moment.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Phoenix Ritual Zither Master arrive in the Heavenly Dao Prison and are immediately attacked by a sealed Ancient God.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master destroys its first tentacle with Sun True Fire. The Ancient God cuts off and detonates the damaged limb, revealing itself inside a massive, tentacle-covered fossil egg.
• The Ancient God appears weaker than before, possibly because imprisonment has kept it from replenishing its energy. It is still powerful enough to pose a serious threat.
• Song Shuhang continues searching for the treasure connected to his bet with Three-Eyed Senior. He realizes his opponent has an advantage: recovered memories can reveal whether the treasure is in a given prison space.
• Suspecting the Ancient God may be drawn to information about Immortality, Song Shuhang produces the Smoke Evil Demon Body, which contains a strand of pseudo-Immortality information. The Ancient God reacts violently and sends nearly a hundred tentacles toward him.
• Song Shuhang uses the Netherworld Ruler’s Immortal-Locking Eye to freeze the Ancient God and its tentacles, then follows with Melting Eye to attack while it is immobilized.

Character developments and interactions

• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master is grieving the death of her true body and takes out her frustration on the Ancient God. Though confident enough to strike first, she admits she cannot handle all its tentacles alone and suggests Song Shuhang engage it while she studies its weaknesses.
• Song Shuhang remains cautious and resourceful. He hides the full extent of his abilities from Phoenix Ritual Zither Master, uses the Ancient God’s possible interest in Immortality as a lure, and acts quickly when it attacks.
• Their cooperation is uneasy but practical: Phoenix Ritual Zither Master assesses the threat, while Song Shuhang supplies the decisive restraint and follow-up attack.
• The Ancient God’s aggression suggests the pseudo-Immortality information strongly attracts or agitates it.

Significant themes

• Reflection and learning: Song Shuhang’s accumulated combat experience helps him recognize danger and respond effectively.
• Adaptation under pressure: The pair use observation, a possible weakness, and coordinated abilities rather than relying on brute force.
• Unfair advantage and cunning: Song Shuhang notices Three-Eyed Senior’s informational edge and considers how to even the score later.

Key events

• Song Shuhang attacks the weakened Ancient God trapped in its fossil egg with two pupil arts left in his Third Divine Eye by the Netherworld Ruler: the Immortal-Locking Eye and Melting Eye. The Ancient God’s tentacles and shell melt, but it survives.
• He follows up with the Hezhi God Tyrant Pillar, which manifests as a crushing demon kingdom, then draws its hidden Hezhi Blade and delivers a devastating slash. The Ancient God’s cries stop, and its body dissolves into emerald liquid and eggshell fragments.
• The Ancient God still regenerates. Song Shuhang’s attempt to strike its source through the Primordial Spirit Disintegration Scripture fails.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw detects tiny, concealed cells spreading through the battlefield and raises a barrier of true fire. Some cells have already landed on both her and Song Shuhang, growing into fine tentacles that try to burrow into them. They cannot pierce Song Shuhang’s skin.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains composed and relentless, layering attacks rather than assuming the Ancient God is dead. He also imagines combining his future pupil arts into a four-step combo.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw is shaken by the force of Song Shuhang’s attacks and alarmed by the Ancient God’s endurance. She protects them both when the hidden cells emerge.
• Their contrast is clear: she recognizes how dangerous the situation is, while Song Shuhang also finds the cells’ ability to evade detection intriguing—as a possible subject for a wager with Senior Three-Eyed Youth.

Significant themes

• Extreme resilience: Even a weakened Ancient God survives attacks powerful enough to devastate formidable opponents.
• Escalating danger: Apparent victory gives way to a subtler threat hidden in the battlefield.
• Power and experimentation: Song Shuhang treats new abilities both as weapons and as possibilities to study, even amid combat.

Chapter 2785 Summary: The Iron Fist of Knowledge, Destroying Enemies Invisibly!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master discovers that the Ancient God’s parasitic hair tentacles have rooted into her claws and are draining her energy. The tentacles rapidly evolve resistance to her protective flames.
• To use more powerful attacks safely, Phoenix Rhapsody detaches her claws from Song Shuhang’s arm. The tentacles immediately abandon her and seize the Smoke pseudo-immortal body from Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang reveals that he deliberately allowed the Smoke body to be taken because he had secretly modified it. He also uses Senior White Two’s universal Mental Power to remove the tentacles from Phoenix Rhapsody’s claws and compress them into a small hairball.
• Most of the tentacles retreat to the Ancient God, while Song Shuhang captures a small portion for possible future use as a treasure, gambling item, or sale.
• The Ancient God, weakened into a furry green slime after enduring Senior Three-Eyed Boy’s Melting Eye and Song Shuhang’s He Zhi Pillar, swallows the Smoke body to analyze its pseudo-immortality.
• The Smoke body triggers a massive information-based attack. As the Ancient God analyzes it, it is confronted by a simulated computer interface containing drives, a DVD drive, Network Neighborhood, and Internet Explorer.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increasing confidence and ingenuity. Rather than resisting the Ancient God directly, he relies on preparation, mental power, hidden modifications, and overwhelming information.
• Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master proves cautious and perceptive by identifying the tentacles’ true target. She also grows more willing to trust Song Shuhang after learning that he intentionally sacrificed the Smoke body.
• The Ancient God is shown to be more powerful and mentally stable than during the Ancient era. Although physically damaged, its instinct and desire for pseudo-immortality drive it to take the bait.
• Senior Three-Eyed Boy remains an important contributor through his earlier attack, which helps weaken the Ancient God.

Significant Themes

• Knowledge as power: Song Shuhang’s repeated motto—“Knowledge is power”—becomes literal, as information and data are weaponized against the Ancient God.
• Preparation over brute force: Song Shuhang defeats or limits his enemies through traps, data manipulation, and clever planning rather than overwhelming combat strength.
• Evolution and adaptation: The parasitic tentacles evolve immunity to Phoenix Rhapsody’s flames, showing the Ancient God’s terrifying adaptability.
• Technology versus ancient power: The ancient being’s attempt to understand pseudo-immortality is disrupted by modern computer imagery and data overload, creating a humorous clash between primordial cultivation and digital concepts.

Character Interactions

• Phoenix Rhapsody warns Song Shuhang about the danger of the Smoke body and later questions whether he intentionally let it be stolen.
• Song Shuhang reassures her by confirming his plan and removes the parasitic tentacles from her claws, though the process causes her significant pain.
• Their encrypted exchange shows growing cooperation and trust, though Phoenix Rhapsody remains bewildered by Song Shuhang’s cryptic confidence.
• The Ancient God unknowingly accepts Song Shuhang’s trap by swallowing the Smoke body and beginning its analysis, only to encounter a bizarre virtual computer system.

Chapter 2786 Summary: Once More, Please Hurt Me Again!

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ancient God discovers that the interface containing information about Immortality has a mysterious section labeled the “D Drive.”
• Although its instincts warn that opening it is dangerous, the Ancient God cannot resist because it senses genuine Immortality-related information within.
• The D Drive automatically opens a series of memory fragments:
  1. A collapsing universe containing a figure surrounded by Merit Power—the Immortal Daoist.
  2. A memory in which the Ancient God is tortured and experimented on by a Liquid Metal Ball, which also carries Immortality information.
  3. A mysterious white-clad figure hopping on one leg, radiating an inexplicable charm and possessing another form of Immortality information.
• Each memory disappears too quickly for the Ancient God to fully comprehend the Immortality principles it contains.
• The Ancient God repeatedly urges the memories to continue, even welcoming further torture, believing another encounter might help it understand the “pseudo-Immortal” information within the Smoke Demon’s body and advance toward true Immortality.
• The white-clad figure eventually turns around and declares: “The eyes of the gods are watching the future!”
• The statement detonates the Ancient God’s concentrated spiritual power. The clash between pseudo-Immortality and fragmented true-Immortality information overwhelms it, causing its mental world to explode and leaving it unable to think.

Character Developments

• Ancient God: Its obsession with Immortality becomes extreme. It is willing to endure any danger or pain—even repeated dissection—in exchange for a chance to study Immortal information. Its normally chaotic, virus-like mind briefly becomes highly focused, but this concentration ultimately causes its mental collapse.
• Immortal Daoist: Appears only as a fleeting memory, but is presented as an existence embodying genuine Immortality.
• Liquid Metal Ball: Is revealed as another being connected to Immortality. Its relationship with the Ancient God is purely experimental and cruel, yet the Ancient God views it with near-worshipful fascination.
• White-Clad Figure: Introduced as a mysterious and charismatic Immortal entity. Its cryptic warning about the future directly triggers the Ancient God’s collapse.

Significant Themes

• Obsession and self-destruction: The Ancient God’s pursuit of Immortality overrides its survival instincts and drives it to accept limitless suffering.
• Knowledge as danger: Immortal information is so powerful that merely witnessing or attempting to comprehend it can destroy the mind.
• The limits of comprehension: The Ancient God can sense profound truths but cannot process them fully, emphasizing the gap between ordinary understanding and Immortal-level existence.
• Fate and observation: The white figure’s statement introduces the idea that gods—or higher beings—may be observing or influencing future events.
• Pain as a path to enlightenment: The Ancient God treats suffering as the price of gaining insight, believing that being “hurt once more” may unlock the next step toward Immortality.

Character Interactions

• The Ancient God interacts primarily with the D Drive interface, desperately manipulating it to reopen the Immortal memories.
• It is subjected to cruel experiments by the Liquid Metal Ball, yet interprets the encounter as a precious opportunity rather than an attack.
• Its brief encounter with the white-clad figure becomes the most consequential interaction: the figure’s cryptic words overwhelm the Ancient God and cause its mental world to collapse.

Plot points and events

• After absorbing the “immortality information,” the Ancient God falls into an eternal sleep. His true illusion—a complete Giant Minor World—continues to exist around him.
• Song Shuhang enters the illusion despite the Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s warning. Because he knows the world’s information so thoroughly, he can navigate it safely and then use his own true-illusion ability to infiltrate and dissolve it.
• He finds the sleeping Ancient God and retrieves a small piece of his own Smoke Body, which he had hidden inside the Smoke Fiend Body. The rest has fused too deeply with the Ancient God to remove without risking waking him.
• When the illusion vanishes, the Ancient God spits out a seal. Song Shuhang recognizes it as the authority over the Giant Minor World. Since he has taken control of the world’s reality, information, and illusion, the seal changes to read “Overlord World,” making him its World Lord.
• The victory is bittersweet: the world is almost entirely collapsed and deserted, leaving Song Shuhang with a title but no subjects.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang displays confidence and resourcefulness, defeating the Ancient God through knowledge and preparation rather than force. He also remains cautious about the strange Smoke Body fragment and stores it instead of reabsorbing it.
• The Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw is impressed by Song Shuhang’s composure and competence. Her admiration reflects her own doubts about her ability to lead the Heavenly Court Remnant Faction and her wish to resurrect the Heavenly Emperor.
• The two share light banter: she finds the sleeping Ancient God cute, while Song Shuhang points out that its “fluffy” hairs are actually tentacles. She also nervously reacts when the Ancient God moves.

Significant themes

• Knowledge over strength: understanding the Ancient God and his world proves more effective than direct combat.
• Power and responsibility: Song Shuhang gains rulership, but the empty, ruined world makes his authority largely symbolic.
• Leadership and self-doubt: the Claw’s admiration highlights her sense that she is unsuited to carry the burden of leadership alone.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes that the Artificial Giant Minor World is a legally recognized plane of the Myriad Heavens and Realms, and that its World Lord Seal makes him its officially recognized World Lord.
• He worries that the world has been reduced to a single planet and may lose its legal status because its plane is incomplete. He then devises a possible solution: purify the collapsed Heavenly Emperor World and combine its empty plane with the Giant World, creating a “Giant-Heaven World.”
• Song absorbs the World Lord Seal. Its authority may let him influence and shorten the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation. He calculates that, with other methods and research, his remaining tribulation could be reduced to about six months.
• He hopes to complete the final wager with Senior Three-Eyed Youth after becoming a Tribulation Immortal, then pass the bet’s qualification to Senior White.
• The new seal joins the seven Sage Seals already associated with Song’s Small Dantians. Together, the eight seals strengthen his Primordial Spirit and are expected to boost his body and cultivation further.
• Before leaving the Heavenly Dao Prison, Song detaches Senior White’s arm and tosses it as a pointer, hoping it will lead him toward the treasure sought in his wager.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang turns concern about the Giant World’s incomplete state into an ambitious plan to restore it. He is excited by the Seal’s practical benefits and by the prospect of advancing his cultivation and settling his wager.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw is puzzled by Song’s regret and later congratulates him on becoming a World Lord. She also feels an unexplained emotional reaction to his new title.
• Senior White is absent, but Song’s plans depend on his World Lord authority and future Tribulation Immortal advancement. Song also uses White’s detached arm as a good-luck pointer.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth remains Song’s future opponent in the final wager, which Song hopes to complete after his tribulation.

Significant themes

• Legitimacy and identity: Official recognition gives the Giant World—and its ruler—status and privileges.
• Repair through combination: Song imagines restoring a damaged world by joining two incomplete realms.
• Ambition and strategic planning: He links the World Lord Seal to cultivation, tribulation, and future wagers.
• Comic absurdity: Grand cosmic authority and serious cultivation calculations sit alongside Song’s playful “pointer” stunt and irreverent humor.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang uses Senior White’s arm as a pointer to locate Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s lost treasure. It points to the Ancient God, though Shuhang reasons that the treasure is hidden on the Ancient God rather than being the Ancient God itself.
• Unable to find the treasure with his Third Divine Eye, Shuhang decides to bring the sleeping Ancient God along as a “buy one, get one free” gift. He stores it and its mass of tentacles in his Heavenly Sleeve Cosmos, then rushes back to the Present World before it can wake.
• The group arrives in the ruined Heavenly Emperor World. Seeing the destruction of a world she helped build brings Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw—currently posing as Jingjing—close to tears.
• Shuhang quickly enters Senior Three-Eyed Youth’s space, keeping Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw from seeing his main body or discovering his identity.
• Before Shuhang can produce the Ancient God, Three-Eyed Youth reveals that he has already lost the gamble: a trap in the Heavenly Dao Prison captured his incarnation and confiscated his Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel. The trap was left by Heavenly Dao Dog Egg’s Dad, who evidently anticipated his attempt to retrieve the treasure.
• Shuhang initially celebrates Three-Eyed Youth’s defeat, then backtracks after Eyeball Butler warns that provoking him could expose Shuhang’s identity. He presents the Ancient God anyway as an extra gift, but Three-Eyed Youth declines it as too dangerous. Shuhang insists he never takes back something he has given.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang acts boldly and resourcefully, but remains anxious about his identity being revealed. His enthusiasm for Three-Eyed Youth’s loss gives way to damage control when he realizes the risk.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw grows more curious about Mask’s identity and shows deep grief over the fallen Heavenly Emperor World, which connects her personally to the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth shifts from despair over his trapped incarnation and stolen vessel to improved spirits when Shuhang praises the scheme behind his loss. He recognizes the Ancient God as an extremely hazardous gift.
• Eastern Great Emperor comically worries that his repeated forgetting and remembering of Shuhang’s projection means he has recurring old-age amnesia.
• Eyeball Butler acts as a cautious adviser, warning Shuhang not to antagonize Three-Eyed Youth or reveal himself.

Significant themes

• Fate and forethought: Three-Eyed Youth’s gamble was effectively lost before it began because Dog Egg’s Dad had prepared a trap long in advance.
• The burden of the past: Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s sorrow over the ruined world reflects the lasting emotional cost of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s collapse.
• Identity and concealment: Shuhang carefully hides who he is, creating both tension and humor.
• Danger disguised as generosity: The “bonus” Ancient God is less a gift than a potential catastrophe.

Character interactions

• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw teases Shuhang for courting death and probes his identity, while he deflects her questions.
• Shuhang and Three-Eyed Youth banter over the failed gamble; Shuhang’s teasing nearly goes too far, and Eyeball Butler privately reins him in.
• Shuhang tries to foist the Ancient God onto Three-Eyed Youth, who politely refuses; Shuhang responds with mock-stubborn generosity.

Chapter Summary: “A Gift for a Gift”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang jokes with Three-Eyed Boy Senior about repeatedly “scamming” him by bringing troublesome or valuable beings into his small world.
• To prove he feels no guilt, Song Shuhang literally pulls a Lapis Lazuli heart from his body and offers it to Three-Eyed Boy Senior.
• Because Song Shuhang’s regeneration is extremely fast, a replacement heart grows immediately, leaving the original heart without a place in his body.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior accepts the heart as a forging material and insists on giving Song Shuhang a return gift.
• Instead of offering an ordinary treasure, Three-Eyed Boy Senior abruptly cuts off two of Eyeball Butler’s tentacles and gives them to Song Shuhang.
• Eyeball Butler quickly regenerates the severed tentacles, revealing that this kind of mutilation is routine for him.
• The tentacles are described as excellent materials for artifact forging, potentially useful for creating high-grade blades for Song Shuhang’s disciple.
• The chapter ends with Three-Eyed Boy Senior preparing to seal the rampaging Ancient God inside Song Shuhang’s discarded heart.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: His bizarre regenerative abilities and casual attitude toward bodily harm are emphasized. He remains generous and playful but becomes increasingly nervous when Three-Eyed Boy Senior insists on reciprocating his gift.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior: He is shown to have a mischievous, eccentric sense of humor. He interprets the exchange literally and responds to Song Shuhang’s heart with equally shocking generosity—or brutality—by donating Eyeball Butler’s tentacles.
• Eyeball Butler: His loyalty to Song Shuhang is reinforced, as he tries to secure compensation for him. His incredible regeneration and familiarity with having limbs severed add to his strange, comedic character.
• Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master’s Claw: She becomes increasingly unsettled by the casual way the others remove and regrow body parts. She also begins questioning whether her Main Body will still need her if it revives with a new claw.

Significant Themes

• Absurdity and dark humor: Organ removal, regeneration, and limb severing are treated as ordinary gift-giving, creating comedy through the contrast between grotesque actions and casual dialogue.
• Reciprocity and friendship: The exchange highlights the unusual but genuine relationship between Song Shuhang and Three-Eyed Boy Senior. Both insist that a gift must be answered with another gift.
• Regeneration and identity: The discarded heart and regenerated tentacles raise questions about whether replacement body parts diminish the value or identity of the originals.
• Transformation of perspective: Phoenix Rhapsody’s view of Three-Eyed Boy Senior changes as she witnesses his unexpectedly friendly and familiar behavior toward Song Shuhang.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Three-Eyed Boy Senior banter over Song Shuhang’s habit of causing trouble and giving bizarre gifts.
• Eyeball Butler humorously encourages Three-Eyed Boy Senior to reward Song Shuhang for giving him his “true heart.”
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior rebukes Song Shuhang’s suggestive wording but still embraces the spirit of the exchange.
• Eyeball Butler complains about having his tentacles severed, only to regenerate them almost immediately.
• Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master silently observes the strange exchange and worries about her own future, while Song Shuhang misunderstands her anxiety as another period of “quiet time.”

Key plot points and events

• Senior Three-Eyed Youth prepares an elaborate sealing formation, intending to trap the weakened Ancient God inside Song Shuhang’s heart and upset him. The formation was originally designed to capture the Striped Sock Dragon’s Nine Netherworld body.
• The two agree to a third, friendly round of their best-of-five contest. Song Shuhang has already won twice, and Three-Eyed Youth hopes to win this final round before their relationship changes when Song Shuhang advances to the Tribulation Immortal realm.
• Three-Eyed Youth extracts a hidden treasure from the sleeping Ancient God: a spatial magical treasure he once designed to help him escape the limits of his minor world and expand his reach into the Present World. His first attempt was thwarted when the Heavenly Dao sent the treasure to its prison space; scarce materials and the need for improvements have kept him from making another.
• For the third round, they will draw Law-infused cards used with the treasure. The winner is whoever draws a card containing more Laws. As a thank-you for helping retrieve the treasure, Three-Eyed Youth lets Song Shuhang keep his card, regardless of its usefulness.

Character developments and interactions

• Three-Eyed Youth reveals both his competitive pride and his long-term ambition to move beyond his minor world. Though he wants to defeat Song Shuhang at least once, he accepts his earlier losses and shifts to a luck-based contest.
• Song Shuhang remains cheerfully provocative, offering bizarre contest ideas and explaining that he enjoys Heavenly Tribulations because he can capture and cook them. He approaches the card draw with exaggerated confidence and presents his “True Lucky Hand.”
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw, listening nearby, is startled by Song Shuhang’s Heavenly Tribulation stories and withdraws into self-isolation after joking about possibly becoming only a claw.
• The Eyeball Butler remains a capable manager despite its habit of favoring Song Shuhang over its master.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and changing relationships: Three-Eyed Youth wants one last win before Song Shuhang’s advancement changes their connection.
• Ambition and limitation: The spatial treasure embodies Three-Eyed Youth’s effort to overcome confinement, while the shortage of materials and past interference show how difficult that goal is.
• Luck versus confidence: The final contest hinges on random card draws, but Song Shuhang’s bravado—and Three-Eyed Youth’s growing resignation—keeps the rivalry comic.
• Humor through contrast: High-stakes powers and ambitions are undercut by playful banter, absurd competitions, and Song Shuhang’s casual treatment of Heavenly Tribulations.