Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks Netherworld Ruler Dog Egg’s Dad about Heavenly Dao Prison Space, hoping to compare it with Fish-Tallow Layman’s Forgetting Divine Technique. Dog Egg’s Dad has no prison-space research data, since his Heavenly Dao counterpart conducted experiments secretly.
• Song Shuhang’s speculation that Heavenly Dao Spotted Dragon invented the technique prompts Dog Egg’s Dad to insist on his preferred name: “Heavenly Dao Dog Egg’s Dad.”
• Fairy Cheng Lin recalls having seen the technique before. With Fish-Tallow Layman’s permission, Song Shuhang shares its opening chapter with her and Dog Egg’s Dad.
• Dog Egg’s Dad recognizes it as an ancient inheritance that predates him. He concludes that Heavenly Dao Prison Space was likely modeled on the technique and offers to send Song Shuhang into the prison space so he can investigate.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang connects the technique’s principles to Heavenly Dao Prison Space and seeks expert insight, but initially declines Dog Egg’s Dad’s offer to send him there.
• Dog Egg’s Dad reveals more of his history with Heavenly Dao Spotted Dragon and playfully corrects others’ use of his chosen title.
• Cheng Lin is distressed that “Cheng Dogdan” may be replacing her identity; she feels the title is even changing her personality and style.
• Fish-Tallow Layman is losing his memory and sense of identity so rapidly that he briefly fails to recognize Song Shuhang. The narration describes the endpoint as “Quantum Layman”: someone who exists but is effectively unperceived and forgotten.

Significant themes

• Identity and naming: Dao titles can shape a person, and Cheng Lin fears that “Dogdan” is changing who she is.
• Existence and perception: The Layman’s condition raises the paradox of someone who truly exists yet is remembered or perceived by no one.
• Lost knowledge and continuity: A technique thought likely to have vanished has survived from an era older than Dog Egg’s Dad, making its preservation seem miraculous.
• Hidden experimentation: Heavenly Dao Spotted Dragon’s secretive projects leave even his closest counterpart without access to their data.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang politely turns down Dog Egg’s Dad’s first offer to enter Heavenly Dao Prison Space, then consults Fish-Tallow Layman for permission to share the technique.
• The Layman’s confusion briefly disrupts their exchange, but he soon recognizes Shuhang and grants permission.
• Cheng Lin confirms the technique’s historical connection to Dog Egg’s Dad, while Dog Egg’s Dad clarifies that he encountered it before becoming Netherworld Ruler and offers Shuhang another chance to study the prison space.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks Dog Egg’s Dad whether he can freely enter and leave the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. He cannot, but offers to lend Song Shuhang his Netherworld Ruler aura—a risky move that could trigger Heavenly Punishment or land Shuhang in the Heavenly Dao Prison.
• Shuhang refuses, noting that he has another way in: a Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel he won from Senior Three-Eyed Youth. It has three uses remaining and can enter and exit the Little Black Room.
• Dog Egg’s Dad eagerly offers to erase Three-Eyed Youth’s mark from the vessel. Despite Shuhang’s objections, he begins doing so through Song Four.
• Three-Eyed Youth reveals that he is watching and clashes with Dog Egg’s Dad. Their argument turns into a childish exchange of nicknames, while their powers wrestle over the vessel.
• Worried that the fight will destroy his newly acquired Overlord World, Shuhang sends out his Primordial Spirit Projection. It enters the vessel, which then speeds toward the Heavenly Dao Prison.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang is practical and cautious: he rejects a dangerous shortcut and tries to protect both the vessel’s rightful owner and his fragile new world.
• Dog Egg’s Dad displays great confidence and immense power, but also a mischievous, possessive streak—he treats Three-Eyed Youth’s property as fair game.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is watchful and quick to retaliate, but joins in the childish banter rather than responding with anger.
• Cheng Lin acts as a sensible observer, urging Shuhang to let Dog Egg’s Dad take responsibility for the damage.

Significant themes

• The chapter humorously contrasts world-shaking power with childish behavior.
• It highlights the risks and ethical complications of using powerful artifacts, especially when ownership is disputed.
• Shuhang’s growing responsibilities as Overlord World’s ruler clash with the chaos caused by stronger figures around him.

Character interactions

• Shuhang and Dog Egg’s Dad disagree over the risks of using Netherworld Ruler aura and the propriety of altering Three-Eyed Youth’s vessel.
• Dog Egg’s Dad and Three-Eyed Youth trade insults and nicknames, escalating into a cross-dimensional power struggle.
• Cheng Lin warns Shuhang to make sure Dog Egg’s Dad bears the blame, while Shuhang intervenes to keep their clash from wrecking his world.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel hurtles into a Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Senior Three-Eyed Youth tries to stop it, but Dog Egg’s Dad deliberately restrains him and urges the vessel onward.
• Three-Eyed explains that these prison spaces are designed to target him. His previous incarnation and the vessel were captured there, and the space even sent his true self a humiliating notification. He expects his current divine-sense avatar to be imprisoned too.
• Shuhang realizes he had forgotten to return the vessel—and that Demon Emperor Hezhi, his wager with Three-Eyed, is still being struck by Slaying Immortals Lightning. Shuhang asks Three-Eyed to keep Hezhi there until their final wager after Shuhang reaches Ninth Grade, but to remove him from the lightning first so his condition does not spoil the wager.
• Shuhang then proposes investigating whether the Heavenly Dao prison spaces can shed light on the Fish-Chested Layman cultivation lineage.
• Dog Egg’s Dad connects the mystery to an erased imprint beneath Three-Eyed’s pillar in the Black Sea of the ancient Black Dragon World. The only trace left was the cryptic question, “Is Immortality truly eternal?”
• Three-Eyed has no memory of the event. He suspects his true self concealed or altered those memories.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains absent-minded about the vessel and wager, but quickly turns the unexpected prison encounter into an opportunity for research. His casual willingness to leave Hezhi suffering for now underscores his increasingly ruthless, Netherworld-Ruler-like humor.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is frustrated and resigned: he is being drawn into a prison space built to capture him, and learns his own memories may have been manipulated.
• Dog Egg’s Dad openly enjoys Three-Eyed’s predicament, restraining him and provoking him rather than helping.
• Shuhang tries to comfort Three-Eyed by comparing his memory tampering favorably with Heavenly Dao White’s, but this only prompts Three-Eyed to reconsider whether he is truly the most unfortunate.

Significant themes

• Memory, erasure, and identity: Three-Eyed’s missing memories and the vanished Black Sea imprint suggest that powerful beings’ histories can be deliberately rewritten.
• Captivity and humiliation: The Little Black Room is not merely a prison; it is a system designed to target and taunt its captives.
• Comic misfortune and rivalry: The characters’ serious mysteries are repeatedly undercut by forgotten obligations, competitive spite, and Three-Eyed’s growing sense that others may be more miserable than he is.

Key plot points and events

• Dog Egg’s Dad completes the opening information of the Forgetting Divine Technique in its original Primordial Language and uses it alongside the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room’s design to deduce how the two are connected.
• He fills the space with dense runes and formulas describing his reasoning. Song Shuhang can tell the work is impressive but cannot understand it, while the Three-Eyed Ruler follows the deductions closely with all three eyes.
• Dog Egg’s Dad explains that understanding the principles would not let the Three-Eyed Ruler create a true Heavenly Dao Prison Space: that requires Heavenly Dao authority and a Dao Artifact. The Ruler might, at most, devise a way to erase his own imprint from the space.
• Song Shuhang asks whether the deductions, combined with his Core World, could give it effects similar to the Heavenly Dao Prison. Dog Egg’s Dad says they could—and proposes an unconventional way for Song to learn the material.

Character developments and interactions

• Dog Egg’s Dad takes pride in beating the Three-Eyed Ruler to the deduction, and Song Shuhang encourages him with exaggerated praise. The Three-Eyed Ruler, meanwhile, is impressed by the work but complains that Dog Egg’s Dad keeps treating him as a target for old grievances against his Heavenly Dao counterpart.
• The two Rulers briefly seem ready to reconcile, but admit they would each enjoy seeing the other suffer misfortune. Their rivalry remains playful and unresolved.
• Song Shuhang is outmatched by the scholarly exchange, yet stays calm and jokes that he has plenty of time to study once he gains eternal life. His curiosity turns the deduction into a possible application for his Core World.
• Dog Egg’s Dad ends by offering to teach Song through the “Body-Memory Learning Method”: having Song’s main body cultivate the technique rapidly, potentially to Eighth or Ninth Grade.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and unequal expertise: Even a powerful cultivator can be unable to follow specialized reasoning; strength and scholarly understanding are distinct.
• Rivalry and grudges: The Rulers’ banter shows how old resentment can persist even when they acknowledge the other’s point.
• Learning through experience: Song’s proposed study plan is replaced by a humorous, hands-on approach that promises rapid progress.
• Power and authority: Some creations cannot be reproduced through knowledge alone; they depend on the unique authority and artifacts of the Heavenly Dao.

Key events

• Song Shuhang is alarmed when Dog Egg’s Dad proposes rapidly raising his Forgetting Divine Technique to Eighth or Ninth Grade. At those levels, the technique could make everyone forget him.
• Dog Egg’s Dad says the Heavenly Dao Prison Space’s ability to sever roots can help Shuhang advance the technique quickly. He also suggests pairing it with Righteous Qi and Demonic Path techniques, then severing all three through the Three Corpses Severance path.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth notes that the ancient path was considered inefficient and dangerous, but Dog Egg’s Dad argues Shuhang’s unusual strength and circumstances make him well suited to it.
• The group identifies possible vessels for the severed corpses: Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty, Heart Demon, and Fairy Spirit Ghost. The latter two merit-like companions are unusually independent, though Shuhang’s Heart Demon is less ideal.
• Dog Egg’s Dad estimates Shuhang has already reached roughly Fourth Grade in the Forgetting Divine Technique, and others are beginning to forget his name. They urge him to push onward and possibly reach Ninth Grade before facing the Heavenly Tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is wary of being forgotten, suffering cultivation deviation, and having his companions harmed. His increasingly elaborate nicknames—“Tyrant Ball,” “Tyrant Egg,” and others—become a running joke as the elders repeatedly misname him.
• Dog Egg’s Dad reveals a calculated, unconventional plan and treats Shuhang’s existing companions as potential components of cultivation.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth questions the plan’s value but is persuaded by Shuhang’s exceptional physical, spiritual, and mental strength.
• Shuhang objects when the two seniors discuss fusing or repurposing his Heart Demon and the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s Heart Demon; he is protective of them.

Significant themes

• Unorthodox advancement: Shuhang’s abnormal strength and circumstances may let him attempt a cultivation path normally considered impractical.
• Identity and obscurity: The Forgetting Divine Technique offers power at the cost of being erased from others’ memories.
• Companionship versus utility: The seniors view Shuhang’s independent companions as suitable vessels, while Shuhang sees them as individuals he values.
• Risk and timing: The plan hinges on advancing before the Heavenly Tribulation, then using its pressure to grow stronger still.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang has developed a weak, nascent form of the Dao—his own unique Eternal Life Great Dao.
• His proposed cultivation path is to:
  1. Sever the three corpses.
  2. Undergo the Ninth-Rank Heavenly Tribulation.
  3. Enter the weak Eternal Life realm.
  4. Perfect his personal Eternal Life Great Dao and advance fully into Eternal Life.
• As a Realm Lord, Song Shuhang can accumulate Spiritual Energy exceptionally quickly, making this route comparatively efficient.
• Dog Egg Dad and Three-Eyed Boy Senior agree that the “sever three corpses” method is worth attempting. Dog Egg Dad is especially pleased because he feels he has outwitted Three-Eyed Boy.
• Song Shuhang’s main concern is whether the process will harm Merit Fairy ＠＃％× and Spirit Ghost Fairy. Dog Egg Dad assures him that it will instead benefit them.
• The cultivation plan identifies:
  • Spirit Ghost Fairy as the carrier of the self-corpse’s obsession, connected to the I Forgot the Divine Skill.
  • Merit Fairy ＠＃％× as the carrier of the good-corpse’s obsession.
  • The evil-corpse as the first one to be severed.
• Although Song Shuhang lacks a dedicated demonic cultivation technique, Dog Egg Dad explains that the modified Ba Shen Pillar Secret Technique, derived from He Zhi Modi’s Demon God Pillar, is sufficient.
• Dog Egg Dad briefly reminisces about He Zhi Modi, praising his creativity while mocking his limited innate talent. He then jokingly suggests extracting He Zhi Modi’s Heart Devil to merge with Ba Gou’s Heart Devil, but Song Shuhang rejects the idea because He Zhi Modi deeply hates him.
• Dog Egg Dad and Three-Eyed Boy divide the teaching responsibilities:
  • Dog Egg Dad will imprint the necessary derivation formulas into Song Shuhang.
  • Three-Eyed Boy will teach the sever-three-corpses technique.
• Dog Egg Dad reveals that he intends to teach Song Shuhang by striking him with a “whip of knowledge.” Though Song Shuhang suspects this is merely an excuse to beat him, the method actually works.
• Song Shuhang’s defensive treasures intervene. Spirit Ghost Fairy and the spirits of his sixty-six life-bound magical treasures absorb the knowledge runes, process them, and transmit the understanding back to his primordial spirit.
• This activates Song Shuhang’s characteristic “learning mode,” allowing him to absorb vast amounts of knowledge indirectly through his magical items and spirits.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increased maturity and responsibility by prioritizing the safety of Merit Fairy and Spirit Ghost Fairy before accepting the cultivation method.
• He commits to pursuing the sever-three-corpses path after learning that it will help rather than harm his companions.
• His cultivation system continues to evolve uniquely, combining his Eternal Life Great Dao, magical treasures, spirit companions, and specialized techniques.
• Dog Egg Dad reinforces his role as both mentor and mischievous schemer. He gives sound cultivation advice but expresses it through intimidation, teasing, and questionable teaching methods.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior accepts Dog Egg Dad’s proposed route, though he remains suspicious of Dog Egg Dad’s strange behavior and apparent ill intent.
• Spirit Ghost Fairy and the sixty-six magical-item spirits become active participants in Song Shuhang’s cultivation and education, functioning as interpreters and processors of complex knowledge.
• He Zhi Modi, though absent, is further characterized as a powerful, creative, and bitter rival whose pride and hatred remain sources of humor.

Significant Themes

• The pursuit of Eternal Life: Song Shuhang is presented with a clear, personalized route toward the highest realm rather than relying on conventional cultivation.
• Individualized cultivation: His path is based on his own unique Dao, showing that advancement depends on developing a personal Great Dao rather than merely following inherited traditions.
• Companionship and mutual benefit: Song Shuhang’s spirits and magical treasures are not passive tools; they actively protect, teach, and strengthen him.
• Knowledge through unconventional means: The chapter humorously presents physical punishment as a method of transmitting profound knowledge, while ultimately emphasizing cooperation and adaptation.
• Mentorship mixed with comedy: Serious cultivation breakthroughs are balanced by Dog Egg Dad’s schemes, Three-Eyed Boy’s suspicion, and Song Shuhang’s disbelief.
• The value and limits of innate talent: Dog Egg Dad’s comments about He Zhi Modi suggest that creativity and effort can compensate for deficiencies, though natural limitations still matter.

Character Interactions

• Dog Egg Dad proposes the sever-three-corpses route and reassures Song Shuhang about its safety.
• Three-Eyed Boy supports the plan and clarifies the relationship between the various corpses and Song Shuhang’s spirit companions.
• Song Shuhang questions both seniors carefully, showing caution before agreeing.
• Dog Egg Dad and Three-Eyed Boy cooperate as instructors while maintaining their usual rivalry.
• Dog Egg Dad teases and threatens Song Shuhang with the whip of knowledge, while Song Shuhang openly doubts his motives.
• Spirit Ghost Fairy and the magical-item spirits protect Song Shuhang, absorb the instructional runes, and help him comprehend the new knowledge.
• Dog Egg Dad’s discussion of He Zhi Modi indirectly gives Song Shuhang material to use against He Zhi Modi through Dragon Network Lady, adding another layer of playful scheming.

Chapter 2838 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reflects on how nearly every aspect of his cultivation and daily activities has been taken over by his companions and supernatural abilities:
  • His dialogue is managed by Merit Fairy @#%×, the Fairy of Creation, and the black-skinned man.
  • Dragon Network Lady handles the improvement of his “Cultivation Chat” talent and Great Dao.
  • Song Fat Ball fights powerful Eternal Life-level figures.
  • Spirit Ghost Fairy, the Core World, and the “Heavenly Emperor Dada” enlightenment method assist with cultivation.
  • Song Shuhang himself mainly continues practicing the Saber Nurturing Technique.
• The Three-Eyed Boy transfers knowledge of the Ancient-era “Three Corpses” severing technique into Song Shuhang’s mind through his Third Divine Eye.
• Dog Egg Dad’s “knowledge whip,” combined with the Heavenly Dao Small Black Room, allows Song Shuhang to absorb and understand enormous amounts of complex knowledge at an extraordinary speed.
• Song Shuhang’s spirit projection cultivates continuously for 24 hours without distraction, while two Nine Nether Rulers guard him.
• His Forgotten Divine Skill rapidly advances to the peak of the seventh layer. With Spirit Ghost Fairy synchronizing with him, he breaks through into the eighth layer.
• Song Shuhang then begins circulating the Ba Shen Pillar Cultivation Technique and examines the method for severing the evil corpse.
• When the evil thoughts and obsessions within him manifest as mist, the mist appears completely pure and white rather than dark or corrupted.
• This shocks both Dog Egg Dad and the Three-Eyed Boy, since all living beings should possess at least some evil thoughts. The chapter ends by suggesting that the Ba Shen Pillar may not actually be human.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Feels increasingly redundant because his companions can perform almost everything better than he can. Despite this insecurity, he demonstrates exceptional learning ability and makes enormous progress in cultivation.
• Dog Egg Dad: Proudly presents his knowledge-whip method, though he privately does not understand why it works so spectacularly for Song Shuhang. He begins to suspect that Song Shuhang may be an extraordinary genius at learning.
• Three-Eyed Boy: Acts as Song Shuhang’s instructor by transmitting the Ancient Three Corpses technique and is astonished by both the knowledge-whip’s effectiveness and Song Shuhang’s abnormal purity.
• Spirit Ghost Fairy: Continues to serve as a powerful cultivation aid, synchronizing with Song Shuhang and directly helping him overcome a bottleneck.
• Ba Shen Pillar: Its true nature becomes increasingly mysterious. The absence of any detectable evil thoughts suggests it may not be a normal human entity.

Significant Themes

• Identity and usefulness: Song Shuhang questions his own value when his companions and supernatural abilities handle nearly every task for him.
• Accelerated cultivation through cooperation: His progress depends on the combined efforts of multiple allies, techniques, artifacts, and higher-level entities.
• The nature of humanity: The Three Corpses technique assumes that all beings contain evil, benevolent, and self-oriented aspects, but the Ba Shen Pillar challenges this assumption.
• Purity and abnormality: The pure-white mist symbolizes a state beyond ordinary human morality—or evidence that the Ba Shen Pillar is fundamentally nonhuman.
• Humorous cultivation logic: The chapter contrasts Song Shuhang’s existential frustration with the absurd convenience of having companions who can cultivate, learn, and fight on his behalf.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang jokes with Dog Egg Dad about having nothing left to do, prompting Dog Egg Dad’s confusion.
• Dog Egg Dad boasts to the Three-Eyed Boy about the knowledge whip while secretly being baffled by its results.
• The Three-Eyed Boy uses his Third Divine Eye to teach Song Shuhang the Three Corpses technique.
• Spirit Ghost Fairy synchronizes with Song Shuhang during cultivation, helping him break through to the eighth layer of the Forgotten Divine Skill.
• Dog Egg Dad and the Three-Eyed Boy jointly react with disbelief when Song Shuhang’s supposed evil thoughts manifest as perfectly pure white mist.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang begins the Three Corpses-Slaying technique, but instead of the expected black, evil mist, he exhales a pure-white mist.
• Dog Egg’s Dad questions whether Senior Three-Eyed Youth taught him the technique incorrectly. Three-Eyed insists the method is sound, then jokingly claims Shuhang is completely pure.
• The two consider why Shuhang’s Evil Corpse cannot emerge. They suspect his immense Merit Power, possible purification by the Confucian Sage, or—most plausibly—the transfer of his negative thoughts and Obsessions to Song Four, the Netherworld Ruler agent.
• Because Song Four’s authority is far greater than that of an ordinary Evil Corpse, Dog Egg’s Dad proposes changing the technique’s order: sever the Virtuous Corpse and Self Corpse first, and return to the Evil Corpse later, when Song Four is gone.
• Before they can make that change, the white mist takes human form and enters Shuhang’s shadow. A Mechanical Heart Demon emerges and transforms into a white-robed version of Shuhang. He checks his navel and remarks, “Luckily, the navel is black.”

Character developments and interactions

• Dog Egg’s Dad takes the anomaly seriously, investigates its cause, and devises a workaround. He also privately congratulates himself for outthinking Senior Three-Eyed Youth.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth confirms the technique is correct and joins the deduction, while teasingly pretending Shuhang has no evil in him. His banter and Dog Egg’s Dad’s skepticism maintain their comic rivalry.
• Song Shuhang remains largely unconscious or focused on the process, but the unexpected emergence of a white-robed counterpart—apparently connected to his Heart Demon—complicates the ritual.
• Song Four is identified as the likely receptacle for Shuhang’s negative thoughts and Obsessions due to the Netherworld Ruler Authority.

Significant themes

• Identity and divided nature: Shuhang’s darker impulses may have been displaced into Song Four, raising questions about what counts as one of his “corpses.”
• Power and spiritual hierarchy: The Netherworld Ruler’s authority is so immense that it disrupts a technique designed for ordinary cultivators.
• Comedy amid danger: The characters’ serious discussion is undercut by Three-Eyed Youth’s obvious lie, Dog Egg’s Dad’s self-congratulation, and the white-robed figure’s oddly reassuring navel check.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang successfully severs his Evil Corpse, which introduces himself as Tyrant Evil. The white-clad scholar has inherited Shuhang’s malicious Obsession, God Tyrant Pillar technique, and Sword-Shaped Saber Intent.
• Their formal exchange follows the ritual prescribed by the Three Corpses-Slaying Secret Technique. Tyrant Evil is considerate of Shuhang’s intent to continue, then shifts into Heart Demon Cutie and offers him freshly fried Heart Demon cuisine. Shuhang declines because he is currently a Primordial Spirit Projection.
• Shuhang resumes preparing to sever his next corpse. Meanwhile, Senior Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad discuss how the Heavenly Tribulation for the Three Corpses has merely been postponed by the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. It may later merge with Shuhang’s Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation.
• Merit Light begins shining from Shuhang as he prepares to sever his Virtuous Corpse. The observers note that he must first raise the Merit Art of Worldly Dual Perfection to the Eighth-Grade realm, a feat made possible by his considerable Merit Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Tyrant Evil emerges as a refined, polite, and attentive counterpart to Shuhang, while also retaining the unusual abilities and temperament of a Heart Demon. Shuhang warmly praises his own newly severed corpse.
• Song Shuhang’s Dao Heart and mental state are described as exceptionally stable, strengthened by his extraordinary experiences. The main thing that could truly unsettle him, the narration jokes, is losing his hidden stash of Spirit Stones.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad, despite being mortal enemies, silently recognize that they share the same concern: Shuhang might otherwise use an unorthodox method on his own corpse. They then jointly assess the risks and benefits of the deferred tribulation.
• Heart Demon Cutie’s shy offering and Shuhang’s gentle refusal show their familiar, affectionate rapport.

Significant themes

• Ritual and identity: The formal naming and greeting give each severed corpse a distinct identity while underscoring its origin as part of Shuhang.
• Self-acceptance and humor: Shuhang’s ease in praising his own corpse and the jokes about his resilience balance the serious cultivation process.
• Risk and opportunity: The postponed tribulation could make Shuhang’s later ordeal more dangerous, but also provide stronger tempering.
• Merit and cultivation: The next stage depends not merely on meditation but on accumulated Merit Power, which can be spent to accelerate cultivation if the body can endure it.

Chapter Summary: “The Relief of Bada”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang uses the Worldly Dual Cultivation Merit Technique alongside his powerful body and immense Merit Power, allowing him to cultivate across realms despite only being at the fifth-grade realm.
• With guidance from Merit Snake Beauty/Fairy @#%×, and because his physical body, primordial spirit, mental power, and spiritual energy are already comparable to a ninth-grade Tribulation Immortal’s, Song Shuhang rapidly advances through the technique.
• His cultivation reaches the ninth layer, equivalent to the ninth-grade Tribulation Immortal level—an achievement once desired by Eat Melon Saint, who had been unable to advance due to lacking a ninth-layer cultivation method.
• Upon reaching the ninth layer, Merit Snake Beauty summons the Merit PiPi Pillar, along with the Merit Whale and Merit Lightning Tribulation Tree. She and the other merit manifestations sacrifice themselves to strengthen the pillar, potentially allowing it to surpass the He Zhi Pillar and become one of Song Shuhang’s three strongest pillars.
• After a brief resurrection period, Merit Snake Beauty returns through Song Shuhang’s Spirit Projection in the Heavenly Dao Small Black Room.
• Song Shuhang then begins the process of severing his Shan corpse, using Fairy @#%×’s tree spear as the focus of the ritual.
• The chapter ends abruptly when Song Shuhang shouts “Sever!” and unleashes the Worldly Dual Cultivation Merit Technique toward the spear, catching Dog Egg Dad and Three-Eyed Boy Senior off guard.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang achieves a major cultivation breakthrough, reaching the ninth layer of the Worldly Dual Cultivation Merit Technique. His enormous reserves of Merit Power and exceptionally strong body make him uniquely suited to this accelerated advancement.
• He becomes increasingly aware of the harmful naming and speech side effects caused by the Layman lineage’s cultivation techniques, strengthening his resolve to sever his Shan and self corpses.
• Fairy @#%×/Merit Snake Beauty displays a dramatic, mischievous personality and tries to create an impressive “Knight of Merit” persona. However, she mispronounces Song Shuhang’s holy title and calls him “Ba Ba,” undermining her grand entrance.
• Fairy @#%× also shows a strong bond with Song Shuhang, reflecting that she is a manifestation of his Merit Power and is, in a sense, one with him.
• Dog Egg Dad proudly treats Fairy @#%× as his daughter’s girlfriend and openly boasts about her personality.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior remains outwardly dismissive but is reminded of his own old butler and appears subtly envious of Dog Egg Dad’s relationship with the merit fairy.

Significant Themes

• Merit as both power and identity: Song Shuhang’s Merit Power fuels his cultivation, creates living manifestations, strengthens his pillars, and even shapes Fairy @#%×’s personality.
• Rapid advancement through unique circumstances: The chapter emphasizes that Song Shuhang’s unusual combination of merit, physical strength, and existing high-level attributes allows him to bypass normal cultivation limitations.
• Humor amid high-level cultivation: Grand breakthroughs and pillar-sacrifice rituals are contrasted with mispronounced names, awkward dialogue, and exaggerated family-like relationships.
• The dangers of cultivation side effects: The continued distortion of names and speech highlights the bizarre consequences of the Layman lineage’s techniques and motivates Song Shuhang’s attempt to sever his corpses.
• Relationships and attachment: Dog Egg Dad’s affection for Fairy @#%× and the implied bond between Song Shuhang and his merit manifestation show how emotional connections persist even among powerful or artificial beings.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang criticizes Fairy @#%× for mispronouncing his holy title, but she silently mocks him because he also struggles to pronounce her name correctly.
• Fairy @#%× formally pledges herself to Song Shuhang while reading her lines from her palm, creating an intentionally awkward and comedic exchange.
• Dog Egg Dad teases Three-Eyed Boy Senior about being jealous of Fairy @#%×, while Three-Eyed Boy denies it.
• Their playful argument becomes tense as they watch Song Shuhang begin the corpse-severing ritual.
• The sudden activation of the severing technique interrupts their exchange and leaves both Nine Nether Rulers startled.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang severs his Virtuous Corpse. Instead of using Merit Snake Beauty as its vessel, the corpse merges with the Merit Tribulation Lightning Tree.
• The tree transforms into Tyrant Benevolence, a golden, muscular, brilliantly shining monk who inherited Song Shuhang’s Merit Art and his dormant “Sun Finger” talent. His bald head shines so intensely that it blinds Song Shuhang.
• Tyrant Benevolence explains that his monk-like appearance stems from Song Shuhang’s past use of Buddhist soul-delivery methods—and that he chose a distinct look to avoid resembling the Evil Corpse.
• Merit Snake Beauty turns Tyrant Benevolence into a forty-meter-long lance of light and wields him while riding Merit Fat Whale. Their powers synchronize so completely that they become, in effect, one being.
• The mounted Merit Fairy gallops off through the vast Heavenly Dao Prison Space, leaving Song Shuhang and the two Netherworld Rulers behind. Song Shuhang then prepares to sever his final corpse, the Self Corpse.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang completes the Virtuous Corpse severance more smoothly than the Evil Corpse severance, gaining another major increase in strength. He remains self-conscious and bewildered by the bizarre results of his cultivation.
• Tyrant Benevolence embodies Song Shuhang’s benevolent side: he is calm, courteous, and considerate, though his blinding radiance makes him comically overwhelming.
• Merit Snake Beauty demonstrates a striking new combat form, wielding Tyrant Benevolence as a lance in a synchronized partnership.
• Dog Egg’s Dad and Senior Three-Eyed Youth continue their childish rivalry, trading barbs while discussing the transformation.

Themes and interactions

• Cause and effect: Tyrant Benevolence’s appearance reflects choices Song Shuhang made earlier, reinforcing how past actions shape later outcomes.
• Humor amid cultivation: The solemn ritual is undercut by the corpse’s literal “sun-like” head, Song Shuhang’s blindness, and the absurd forty-meter lance form.
• Unity and selfhood: The corpses are separate manifestations of Song Shuhang, yet inherit his traits; Tyrant Benevolence and Merit Snake Beauty’s fusion further blurs the line between individual identities.
• Friendly rivalry and teasing: Dog Egg’s Dad needles Three-Eyed Youth, who responds by invoking Dog Egg rather than admitting envy.

Plot points and events

• Before attempting to sever his final corpse, Song Shuhang warns Merit Snake Beauty not to wander too far inside the unpredictable Heavenly Dao Prison Space. She ignores the warning and becomes even more exuberant, leading him to suspect that the Virtuous Corpse has intensified her usual liveliness.
• To prevent further trouble, Song Shuhang decides to focus on severing his Self Corpse. He calms himself with the Forgetting Divine Technique.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad explain that the Self Corpse is the hardest of the Three Corpses to sever. Unlike the Virtuous and Evil Corpses, it cannot simply be overcome through effort: success depends on understanding oneself.
• They describe the original purpose of the technique: to examine one’s life, shed attachment to “good” and “evil,” and gain a clear, neutral understanding of oneself and one’s Dao.
• Song Shuhang begins the process. Because he is only eighteen, reviewing his life takes far less time than it would for an ancient Tribulation Immortal. He quickly passes through his ordinary childhood and reaches the turning point of his cultivation journey, beginning with his encounter with the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• His memories converge on the evolution of his “talent”: the Golden Core QR Code and its growth into the Cultivation Chat Client. He senses that repeatedly reviewing this part of his life may help him understand his Dao.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows caution and self-awareness, then settles into focused introspection. His youth proves an unexpected practical advantage in confronting the Self Corpse.
• Merit Snake Beauty behaves unusually recklessly, apparently influenced by the Virtuous Corpse’s magnified straightforwardness.
• Dog Egg’s Dad is reluctant to remain imprisoned with Three-Eyed Youth for years, while Three-Eyed Youth takes malicious pleasure in the prospect.
• Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad reveal that neither has personally severed the Three Corpses, despite discussing the technique’s purpose and difficulty.

Significant themes

• Self-knowledge and the Dao: Severing the Self Corpse is fundamentally a process of seeing oneself clearly and discovering one’s own path.
• Youth as an advantage: A shorter life means less history to review, allowing Song Shuhang to reach the meaningful turning points quickly.
• Cultivation shaped by experience: Song Shuhang’s developing talent reflects the relationships, artifacts, and achievements that have defined his journey.
• Humor amid danger: The Netherworld Rulers’ mutual hostility and Song Shuhang’s concern about accidentally producing a fourth corpse keep the chapter’s serious cultivation premise comic.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang messages Merit Snake Beauty to restrain her, but her response only heightens his concern.
• Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad discuss Song Shuhang’s prospects while trading barbed thoughts about being stuck together.
• Song Shuhang’s memories emphasize the people who shaped his cultivation life, including the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Soft Feather, Medicine Master, Jiang Ziyan, Su Clan’s Sixteen, Doudou, and Senior White.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang reflects on his life and identifies joining the Nine Provinces Number One Group as the turning point that set him on his cultivation path.
• His Fat Whale Golden Core’s Star Road Map—depicting the group’s members and other influential seniors—leads to a door containing the True Self, formed through the ninth Golden Core Dragon Pattern.
• Using the True Self as a complete template, Song Shuhang copies its information and successfully slays his Self Corpse. The process takes an hour and a half and leaves him in tears from the strain.
• The Self Corpse is currently only an illusory spiritual figure, since Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit is in the Heavenly Dao Prison Space while its intended vessel, Fairy Spirit Ghost, is in the Present World.
• With the Forgetting Divine Technique cut away, Senior Three-Eyed Youth and Dog Egg’s Dad recover their proper ways of addressing Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang prepares to return to the Present World with Dog Egg’s Dad, leaving Three-Eyed Youth behind.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang gains a clearer understanding of himself and completes the most difficult of the Three Corpses. He also recognizes how much Senior White Two’s Heavenly Dao-backed Dragon Patterns have supported his growth.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is disappointed that Song Shuhang’s quick success deprives him of company in the prison world.
• Dog Egg’s Dad leaves with Song Shuhang, teasing Three-Eyed Youth as he goes.

Significant themes

• Self-knowledge and transformation: Song Shuhang’s life experiences help him define and separate his “Self.”
• Mentorship and connection: The Nine Provinces Number One Group and its members are central to his personal and spiritual development.
• The burden of immense power: Heavenly Dao Authority has quietly protected and enabled Song Shuhang, but contact with concepts such as immortality can overwhelm even powerful beings.
• Humor amid cultivation: The chapter balances a major spiritual breakthrough with jokes, awkward tears, and the seniors’ pointed farewells.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang’s bond with the Nine Provinces Number One Group is reflected directly in his Golden Core formation.
• Dog Egg’s Dad and Three-Eyed Youth trade teasing goodbyes, with both implying they expect to meet again.
• Song Shuhang invites Dog Egg’s Dad to travel back with him, while Three-Eyed Youth is left in the Heavenly Dao Prison Space.

Song Shuhang and Dog Egg's Dad tried to leave the Heavenly Dao Prison Space aboard the Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel, but Senior Three-Eyed Youth secretly kept them behind. In the Present World, Song Shuhang's Self Corpse reached Fairy Spirit Ghost, but they failed to synchronize and complete the final step of the severance.

• Song Shuhang suggested that Senior Three-Eyed Youth possess him to escape, but Senior Three-Eyed Youth said the prison world had already locked onto him.
• Dog Egg's Dad departed with Song Shuhang aboard the Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel and taunted Senior Three-Eyed Youth, who called after him to stay because he missed him.
• The Tortoiseshell Immortal Vessel escaped the prison space, but Senior Three-Eyed Youth remotely controlled it and left Dog Egg's Dad and Song Shuhang's Primordial Spirit behind.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth explained that Song Shuhang's Primordial Spirit would serve as a coordinate while his Self Corpse returned to the Present World to join Fairy Spirit Ghost.
• Song Shuhang's Self Corpse met Fairy Spirit Ghost and pressed palms with her, but they did not synchronize, leaving the final step of the Three Corpses Severance incomplete.

Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse and Fairy Spirit Ghost tried to synchronize as part of Three Corpses Severance, but the process remained incomplete. Fairy Spirit Ghost suspected they needed Song Shuhang’s missing First Spirit Ghost, whose fate was unknown.

• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master's Claw recognized Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse as part of Three Corpses Severance, and Pavilion Master Chu explained the technique’s purpose and limits.
• Pavilion Master Chu sensed that Fairy Spirit Ghost was incomplete, and Fairy Spirit Ghost summoned a slender hand through a portal that briefly restored her completeness.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost and the Self Corpse synchronized their Forgetting Divine Technique, allowing the Self Corpse to break through to its Ninth Layer.
• Despite reaching maximum synchronization, the pair failed to complete Three Corpses Severance, and Fairy Spirit Ghost realized they might need Song Shuhang’s missing First Spirit Ghost.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost reached into Song Shuhang’s chest and touched the shattered First Spirit Ghost Contract, considering whether she could block it temporarily.

Fairy Spirit Ghost blocked Song Shuhang’s broken First Spirit Ghost Contract, enabling the final stage of his Three Corpses Severance to begin. As a white lotus and Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel appeared, White Dragon Sister and White-Bone Fairy mistook the signs for Cheng Lin’s power, while Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair recognized the truth.

• Fairy Spirit Ghost wrapped the First Spirit Ghost Contract in runic formations and locked them, increasing her synchronization with Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse.
• Cheng Dogdan sensed Fairy Spirit Ghost’s actions and told Dog Egg’s Dad that his granddaughter was about to rebel before leaving.
• Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair and White-Bone Fairy sensed something was happening, and Island Master Gold Trigram opened a coordinate passage for the Golden Dragon Progenitor.
• White Dragon Sister emerged from her Dragon Tomb, and White Dragon, White Bone, and the cowlick exchanged wary questions as the others quietly moved away.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather sensed an unexplained influence, suspected the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, and began filming the trio.
• Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse began to dissipate around Fairy Spirit Ghost as a white lotus and Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel appeared, prompting White Dragon Sister and White-Bone Fairy to suspect Cheng Lin while Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair recognized Song Shuhang’s Dao of Longevity.

Song Shuhang’s Lotus Rebirth reached its final stage, merging his Self Corpse with Fairy Spirit Ghost under the Forgetting Divine Technique. A newly formed, nearly unnoticeable third corpse appeared, while Fairy Spirit Ghost stepped down from the lotus, leaving something else unseen on the platform.

• Pavilion Master Chu suspected Song Blockhead was helping Song Shuhang and agreed that the lotus was using Cheng Lin’s Dao of Longevity.
• White-Bone Fairy secretly used Song Blockhead’s Big Bone Fragments and detected a resonance from Song Blockhead.
• The lotus opened empty, and Stele Fellow Daoist and the others wondered whether the rebirth had failed.
• A hidden figure appeared on the lotus and caught Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw; Pavilion Master Chu identified him as Song Shuhang’s third corpse, altered by the Forgetting Divine Technique.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather asked whether Fairy Spirit Ghost had become the third corpse, and Fairy Spirit Ghost stepped off the lotus while the claw remained perched on an unseen arm.

Song Shuhang’s Third Corpse emerged as an individual through a fusion of energy with Ye Si, and Pavilion Master Chu discovered Song Blockhead had helped the ritual. The chapter ended with the hazy figure consulting a book for advice on how to answer Pavilion Master Chu.

• White-Bone Fairy and White Dragon Sister discussed whether Song Shuhang’s Three Corpses Severance had succeeded, while Phoenix Ritual Zither Master’s Claw revealed that someone was still on the lotus platform.
• Ye Si told Pavilion Master Chu that she and Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse had fused in energy and shared abilities, while the Self Corpse gained its own individual through Cheng Lin’s Dao of Longevity.
• Ye Si said she had been preparing to save the world so that she and Song Shuhang would not have to cry again.
• Ye Si asked Pavilion Master Chu to pat her head, allowing Pavilion Master Chu to see Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse and the hazy figure beside him.
• The hazy figure greeted Pavilion Master Chu and consulted Guide to Chu Qiongqiong + Corresponding Formulas after she pointed out that he had left out a “we.”

The illusory figure reassured Pavilion Master Chu that he would resolve their relationship within three years, while she wondered whether to take the initiative and contact Chu Two. After returning near Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse, he met White Dragon Sister, who asked why he had not visited her on the Mysterious Island.

• The illusory figure calculated that he needed an unconventional answer to avoid pushing Chu Qiongqiong into a dangerous emotional state, then teased Pavilion Master Chu by asking whether she wanted him to give birth to her.
• Pavilion Master Chu’s antenna-like hair whipped his wrist, and she recorded his reply that he could see only her and her antenna-like hair to send to the two-man undead team.
• The illusory figure promised Pavilion Master Chu that he would find a perfect answer for them within at most three years, then disappeared as her memories of their encounter faded.
• Pavilion Master Chu learned from the Core Assistant that Song Shuhang would reach the legal marriage age in a little over three years and considered contacting Chu Two.
• The illusory figure re-formed above Song Shuhang’s Self Corpse, where White Dragon Sister appeared through a Space Gate and asked why he had not visited her on the Mysterious Island.

Plot points and events

• White Dragon Sister reflects on her long bond with Song Blockhead: she once saw him as a little brother to protect, but time and his growth made their relationship more complicated.
• After her “death,” she says she has learned how to face her feelings. She tells the illusory Song Blockhead that she no longer sees him only as a little brother.
• Song Blockhead responds that he will prepare a “perfect ending” for them in three years. He then says, “White Dragon Sister, I’m back,” and disappears through the Space Gate.
• The gate’s effects will make White Dragon Sister’s memories hazy. Song Blockhead admits that he must now face his own feelings for her.
• White-Bone Fairy’s remotely controlled Big Bone Fragments appears and hits him with a hammer. The encounter turns playful as he greets her and jokes about her weapon.

Character developments and interactions

• White Dragon Sister moves from protective, sisterly affection toward openly acknowledging romantic feelings, while leaving the outcome to Song Blockhead.
• Song Blockhead recognizes that White Dragon Sister’s feelings require a direct response. He promises to return with a resolution, though the details remain unknown.
• White-Bone Fairy maintains her unusual, combative friendship with Song Blockhead, striking him before exchanging banter. Their friendship began with her pursuit of him over a Hammer Dao lecture record.

Significant themes

• Time and changing relationships: Childhood bonds can evolve as people grow.
• Death and clarity: White Dragon Sister’s “death” helped her understand and release feelings she had avoided.
• Mutuality and responsibility: Realizing one’s feelings is not enough; both people must face them.
• Humor amid emotional tension: Song Blockhead’s jokes and White-Bone Fairy’s hammer attack keep the scene light despite its serious emotional turning point.