Chapter Summaries

• Plot: Song Shuhang realizes the Fat Whale Golden Core has swallowed the Immortality Light Cluster. Before Merit Snake Beauty can squeeze it back out, the cluster merges with the core. The transformation succeeds because the core already carries Immortality-related traits and shares an origin with Skylark’s Immortal Bone.
• The transformed core: The Fat Whale Golden Core becomes extraordinarily dense and indestructible, gains a renewed Dragon Rune Rebirth ability, and can still be spat out like a demon beast’s core. It resembles an Immortal Bone but seems to lack Immortality’s full power and imposing presence—a “counterfeit” Immortality. Shuhang is nonetheless pleased, seeing it as a valuable gain.
• Character developments and interactions: Shuhang’s corpses and companions return, and several of them can pronounce Merit Snake Beauty’s name correctly, prompting his bewilderment about his own tongue. Merit Snake Beauty and Q-version White try to comfort him, though Shuhang insists he is not upset and gently explains that Merit Snake Beauty often recites lines simply for fun. Shuhang then decides to test the core’s new resilience.
• Climax: Shuhang hurls the Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core into the center of the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, daring the tribulation to break its defenses. The core joins in by spraying spiritual spring water as the tribulation’s weapons concentrate their attacks on it.
• Themes: The chapter mixes comedy with a sudden breakthrough, portraying Immortality as both powerful and potentially dangerous. It also emphasizes Shuhang’s habit of turning peril into experimentation—and his willingness to test an extraordinary new power against overwhelming force.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang unleashes his Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core against the Ninth-Grade Final Heavenly Tribulation. The full barrage—including space-, causality-, and world-destroying attacks—cannot harm it, and the tribulation ends in a spectacular explosion.
• Shuhang poses for a group photo with his corpses, avatars, and companions, waiting for Senior White to finish advancing. A Metal Sphere beside him has begun transforming into a golden-haired girl but pauses halfway to rest.
• The cultivation-world broadcast shows Shuhang’s Golden Core and its resistance to the tribulation. Viewers are shocked and speculate about his unusual core; powerful Longevity Immortals recognize its Immortality attribute and debate what it means for their pursuit of the Heavenly Dao Seat.
• Melon-Eating Sage, whose own tribulation has been largely drained by Shuhang and Senior White, calmly expects to survive the remaining danger.
• Senior White completes his advance to the Tribulation Immortal realm. An apparition of the Immortal World appears, and he nearly reaches toward it—but withdraws, choosing to remain among his friends and fellow cultivators.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates that he can create an Immortal Golden Core without first proving the Dao or becoming the Heavenly Dao, potentially opening a new path to immortality.
• Senior White reaches Tribulation Immortal status, yet consciously declines the apparent invitation to leave the mortal world.
• Melon-Eating Sage shifts from shock to numb acceptance, confident that the diverted tribulation has left him safe.

Character interactions

• Shuhang and the Meteor Sword calmly acknowledge the tribulation’s end; Shuhang’s companions gather around him for a keepsake photo.
• Shuhang waits for Senior White rather than starting the photo without him.
• The Longevity Immortals react collectively to Shuhang’s achievement, with some fearing it diminishes the importance of competing for the Heavenly Dao Seat and others noting it may mean he will not compete with them.
• Senior White’s decision is shaped by his attachment to the people around him—including Shuhang, who still owes him Spirit Stones.

Significant themes

• Immortality and its implications: Shuhang’s Golden Core survives an otherwise overwhelming tribulation, challenging established ideas about how immortality must be attained.
• Belonging and choice: Senior White could appear to ascend beyond the world, but chooses connection and ordinary companionship instead.
• Power and perspective: The broadcast turns private events into a public spectacle, while the observers’ differing reactions reveal their pride, anxieties, and ambitions.

Summary

• After Senior White proves the Dao and becomes a Tribulation Immortal, an Illusory Immortal World appears around him. Its nature puzzles everyone watching: it does not seem to be a world beyond Transcendence, but may be connected specifically to Senior White.
• Song Shuhang draws on clues from his earlier appraisal of Senior White and from messages left by Heavenly Dao White. These suggest that Senior White is a unique being who did not originally belong to the present world, and that the Illusory Immortal World may be his original world—or a chance to return to it or restore it.
• Song Shuhang speculates that Heavenly Dao White’s experience at Half-Step Transcendence, where time and space may be mutable, could be connected to Senior White’s appearance. Still, he recognizes that the truth remains uncertain.
• Senior White chooses not to return to the Illusory Immortal World. He says he has not had a homeland for a long time and senses that returning could cause his very existence to disappear.
• The newly advanced Senior White rejoins Song Shuhang and the others. They arrange a commemorative group photo on the transformed Divine Bridge, including their companions and, in the corner, the Melon-Eating Sage, who is still enduring his tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang uses his Tribulation Immortal abilities to connect clues about Senior White’s origins, while accepting that he cannot fully understand the Illusory Immortal World.
• Senior White remains cheerful and casual after his breakthrough, but his decision to stay reveals the danger and uncertainty surrounding his origins. He shares the group photo with Song Shuhang as a keepsake.
• Pavilion Master Chu and the others voice their curiosity about the strange world through the cultivation chat.
• The Self Corpse suggests it may be related to the state after Transcendence; Song Shuhang challenges this interpretation.
• The Melon-Eating Sage, despite being struck by lightning, politely agrees to appear in the photo because Senior White asked.

Significant themes

• Identity and belonging: Senior White may come from another world, yet considers himself without a homeland.
• The limits of knowledge: Even powerful cultivators cannot clearly define Transcendence or the world Senior White encountered.
• The cost of returning to the past: A possible chance to reclaim one’s origins may threaten one’s continued existence.
• Companionship and memory: The group photo turns a moment of cosmic uncertainty into a shared keepsake.

Key events

• Senior White gives Song Shuhang a gemstone bearing a moving group photo of their tribulation. Shuhang compares it to a high school graduation picture: completing the tribulation marks the end of his time as a student of the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The pair prepare to leave, but Melon-Eating Sage warns that a cultivator must entrust their Primordial Spirit to the Tribulation Immortal Void after the tribulation. Shuhang explains that he and Senior White completed this stage back when they were Eighth-Grade cultivators, astonishing Melon-Eating Sage.
• They return to the Present World. Origin energy replenishes what they spent and, since they barely used any energy, strengthens their cultivation. Their Tribulation Immortal qualities are confirmed as complete.
• Senior White returns Shuhang’s Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core, which Shuhang swallows. They joke about developing a breath attack that launches the core at enemies.
• The Disaster Giant Turtle suddenly appears and bites down on half of Shuhang, complaining that he is hard on the teeth.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang feels wistful about leaving the Heavenly Tribulation behind, recognizing that advancement changes his identity permanently. Senior White is more matter-of-fact and helps him move on.
• Melon-Eating Sage shows his considerate nature by warning them about the final advancement step. Their explanation leaves him bewildered about how they managed it so early.
• Merit Snake Beauty quietly plots to imitate Shuhang’s trick of swallowing and later releasing the Golden Core, hoping to outdo Creation Fairy.
• Senior White and Shuhang share lighthearted banter about a future “Fat Whale Breath” technique before the turtle’s interruption.

Significant themes

• Growth and irreversible change: Like graduating from school, advancing means leaving an old stage behind.
• Unconventional advancement: Shuhang and Senior White’s early Primordial Spirit entrustment challenges others’ assumptions about cultivation.
• Humor amid high stakes: The chapter undercuts a major breakthrough with playful schemes, jokes, and the turtle’s unexpected attack.

Key events

• Song Shuhang suspects that the aura making Miss Disaster Giant Turtle mistake him for Skylark comes from the Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core within him—not from Skylark’s body parts or a resurrection artifact.
• The Merit Snake Beauty protects Song Shuhang and taunts the turtle, prompting the already-irritated giant to grind him between her teeth. Her bite cannot harm him, and her “saliva” is actually fuel.
• The turtle unleashes her Ninth-Grade Turtle Roar Cannon, proud of its recent upgrade. Song Shuhang reveals that he has also reached Ninth Grade and easily withstands the blast.
• Senior White watches with amusement and studies the cannon’s mechanics, considering how to adapt its fuel-powered attack for human use.
• Once the turtle spits Song out, he asks about Skylark’s Immortality Aura and the Disaster Giant Turtle Clan’s duty to retrieve her discarded parts.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains calm and playful despite being chewed and blasted. He jokes with the turtle, demonstrates his new Ninth-Grade cultivation—and even uses a Hair-Growth Technique to tease her about her replacement shell—before turning serious to investigate Skylark.
• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle vents her frustration through the attack, then feels aggrieved when it fails to hurt Song. She concludes she should avoid him in future, though she agrees that his aura resembles Skylark’s.
• The Merit Snake Beauty acts as Song’s shield and delivers melodramatic threats, but retreats from the turtle’s fuel.
• Senior White treats the clash as harmless fun and turns it into a chance to research the Turtle Roar Cannon.

Significant themes

• Comedy through power imbalance: The turtle’s fearsome attack and bite are ineffective against Song, while their banter turns the confrontation into slapstick.
• Curiosity and practical ingenuity: Senior White analyzes the cannon, and Song pursues the mystery behind Skylark’s aura.
• Larger unresolved mysteries: The chapter ends with questions about why the turtle clan retrieves Skylark’s parts, what dangers those parts pose, and who assigned the clan this task.

Song Shuhang questioned Miss Disaster Giant Turtle about her clan’s origins and its work collecting Fairy Skylark’s immortal parts, then suspected the parts could be connected to a world-destroying weapon. He brought Senior White and Miss Disaster Giant Turtle into the Overlord World to examine the Emperor-Destroying Pillar, and Miss Disaster Giant Turtle decided to summon her father for help.

• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle said her clan remembered serving a Heavenly Dao but had forgotten which one, and Song Shuhang deduced that it was probably the First Heavenly Dao.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White agreed that Fairy Skylark might have existed since the Primordial Era, while Miss Disaster Giant Turtle said she would check her clan’s records for details about Skylark’s cultivation.
• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle warned that unattended parts containing immortality aura could be used to make a weapon capable of destroying a world.
• Song Shuhang transported Senior White and Miss Disaster Giant Turtle into the Overlord World and concealed its heavenly secrets, then added protection using the Tomb of Nine Cultivators and Stele Fellow Daoist’s power.
• Song Shuhang summoned the Emperor-Destroying Pillar and asked whether it shared traits with a weapon made from an Immortality Aura Part, but Miss Disaster Giant Turtle did not know.
• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle decided to call her father, while Song Shuhang admitted that he still lacked basic cultivation knowledge despite having reached the Ninth Grade.

Song Shuhang summoned Turtle Dad to investigate the Immortality Aura surrounding his Emperor-Destroying Pillar. Turtle Dad confirmed that the Stellar Destruction Virus was made from Immortality Aura Parts, but not from Fairy Skylark’s parts.

• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle summoned Turtle Dad after failing to identify the aura around Song Shuhang’s pillar.
• Turtle Dad stopped preparing to attack Song Shuhang after learning about the Immortality Aura and hearing that the Confucian Sage’s Ashes Urn guarded Fairy Skylark’s Immortal Bone.
• Turtle Dad asked Song Shuhang to leave no remains behind if he died, since the Disaster Giant Turtle Clan was already burdened with recovering Fairy Skylark’s parts.
• Song Shuhang asked Turtle Dad to inspect the Stellar Destruction Virus sealed in the Emperor-Destroying Pillar.
• Turtle Dad confirmed the virus was made from Immortality Aura Parts, but said the parts did not come from Fairy Skylark.

Song Shuhang learned that the Stellar Destruction Virus had infected many stars across the Present World and asked Song Fat Ball to expand its survey. After Song Fat Ball warned him about a Heavenly Dao Remnant Shell in the Nine Netherworld, Blackhide suggested that Soft Feather might already have a sample of the virus.

• Turtle Dad told Song Shuhang that Skylark Fairy had been the only known possessor of an Immortal Bone before him.
• Song Fat Ball reported that 63 of 113 sampled stars across ten planes carried the dormant Stellar Destruction Virus, and Song Shuhang ordered further sampling.
• Song Fat Ball warned Song Shuhang that it had seen their Heavenly Dao Remnant Shells in the Nine Netherworld.
• Song Shuhang told Turtle Dad that the remnant was not his corpse and emphasized that they needed a vaccine for the virus.
• Blackhide suggested that Soft Feather’s main body might already possess a sample of the Stellar Destruction Virus.

Chapter Summary: The Flirtatious Talk of a Married Male

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Dream Realm’s Phantom Sun, Soft Feather, the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, Senior Turtle, and Onion Lady discover a mass of Stellar Explosion Virus inside the sun’s illusory core.
• Soft Feather explains that the virus can ignite and destroy an entire star or minor world, and may even kill Longevity Immortals. Everyone strengthens their protective barriers.
• The group debates whether the virus can be sealed or whether they should leave, deciding to wait for Song Shuhang and Senior White.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword suddenly reveals that it has been infected despite the protective barrier. It suspects the virus mistook it for a star because its body contains enormous amounts of fire-based power from Scarlet Firmament’s use of the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber.
• Rather than fear the infection, the sword treats it as an advantage, joking that it may gain the virus’s destructive poison effect and become an even more dangerous weapon.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White arrive. Senior White walks toward the virus while the Dream Realm’s World Tree creates a path beneath his feet, displaying its support for him as the realm’s acting master.

Character Developments

• Soft Feather remains observant and informative, using a magical telescope-like artifact to study the virus and relaying Senior Song’s warnings.
• Senior Turtle acts cautiously and protectively, repeatedly strengthening the barrier and warning everyone not to touch the virus.
• Onion Lady shows her vulnerability and concern, especially fearing that the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword might explode or disappear.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword demonstrates its reckless, weapon-like personality. It is unconcerned about death because it can reform as a Heart Demon, and it views infection as a potential combat enhancement.
• Senior White is shown to possess complete authority over the Dream Realm, with the World Tree actively assisting and glorifying his movements.
• Song Shuhang arrives with Senior White, though the chapter focuses more on the group’s discovery and the sword’s infection than on his actions.

Significant Themes

• Danger and resilience: The Stellar Explosion Virus represents overwhelming destructive power, but the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword’s ability to survive or reform highlights the unusual resilience of Heart Demons.
• Transformation of threats into weapons: The sword sees the virus not merely as a danger but as a possible source of additional destructive power.
• Protection and companionship: Senior Turtle safeguards the weaker members, while Onion Lady’s worry demonstrates the group’s emotional bonds.
• Authority and the Dream Realm: Senior White’s arrival emphasizes the difference between a mature, responsive plane and a developing one. The World Tree willingly supports him, unlike the Overlord World’s indifferent treatment of Song Shuhang.
• Humor amid danger: The chapter contrasts the potentially world-ending virus with comedic dialogue, particularly the dragon-headed figure’s flirtatious greeting toward Senior Turtle.

Character Interactions

• Senior Turtle and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword cooperate to create and reinforce the protective barrier.
• Soft Feather explains the virus’s danger to Senior Turtle and Onion Lady, while Onion Lady repeatedly asks practical and worried questions.
• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword isolates itself after detecting the infection, then reassures the others that it is not truly afraid of exploding.
• Onion Lady expresses concern over losing the sword, revealing her attachment to it and its role in Song Shuhang’s future adventures.
• Upon arriving, the dragon-headed figure mistakes Senior Turtle for a beautiful female turtle and flirts with him, joking that he can only engage in flirtatious banter now that he is already married.
• Senior White’s entrance shifts the mood from anxious observation to confidence, as the Dream Realm itself visibly responds to and supports him.

Senior White and the others investigated a mass of Stellar Destruction Virus in the Dream Realm, and Song Shuhang became infected when the virus targeted his sunlike Steel Avatar connection. Senior White isolated the phantom sun and prepared to send it to the Heavenly Dao Prison World for study.

• Song Shuhang warned that the Stellar Destruction Virus could spread through the Dream Realm, while Turtle Dad mistook Senior Turtle for a fairy named Dongfang Pei.
• Senior White found that the virus carried immortality information that made it difficult to control, and Soft Feather reported that it had infected the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Song Shuhang turned bright red and hot after the virus infected his skin, but he said it could not penetrate his defenses and proposed studying the infection.
• Senior White asked Miss Disaster Giant Turtle to evacuate the uninfected people, then isolated the phantom sun with Disposable Flying Swords before attempting to send it to the Heavenly Dao Prison World.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White surrounds the Phantom Sun with a ring of “Little Black Room-Breaking” Disposable Flying Swords, linking them with spatial power so he can send the Sun into the Heavenly Dao Prison.
• Song Shuhang asks for a supply of the swords. Since Senior White can now manufacture them easily, he agrees.
• Senior White, Song Shuhang, and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword enter the dimensional space with the Phantom Sun. The Merit Snake Beauty’s echoing screams are left behind.
• Turtle Dad and Miss Disaster Giant Turtle marvel that Senior White has perfected a technique inspired by their own ability. They plan to follow once the others’ memories begin to blur, a sign they have entered the prison.
• Onion Lady tries to avoid going, but Senior Turtle hands her over to Turtle Dad. She jumps away, only for a sudden shock wave—like a star exploding—to burst from the dimensional space. Onion Lady concludes that “the mascot” is on Song Shuhang’s side.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White shows increased skill and confidence, mass-producing the swords and using them to transport something the Disaster Giant Turtles could not.
• Song Shuhang eagerly seeks tools that will let him enter and leave Heavenly Dao Little Black Rooms, even though he cannot remember whom he originally needed to retrieve.
• The Disaster Giant Turtles acknowledge that Senior White has surpassed them at adapting their technique; Turtle Dad is also keen to investigate the virus experiment.
• Onion Lady remains comically fearful: she boasts only after the danger seems gone, then desperately looks for an excuse to avoid entering the prison.
• Senior White, Song Shuhang, and the Scarlet Heaven Sword cooperate smoothly, while the turtles coordinate their planned follow-up and Onion Lady resists being included.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity and mastery: Senior White turns a limited natural ability into a versatile, scalable technique.
• Comedic contrast: The group discusses a dangerous experiment with casual humor, while Onion Lady’s bravado repeatedly collapses into panic.
• Uncertainty and foreshadowing: The unexplained explosion suggests the Phantom Sun or its contents may still be dangerous despite Senior White’s precautions.

Key plot points and events

• The Phantom Sun’s destruction triggers a violent stellar explosion, but instead of bursting outward, its force is sucked back into the dimensional rift—turning it into a dangerous black hole.
• Onion Lady and the others are caught nearby and pulled toward the rift. Senior Turtle tries to save Onion Lady, but the suction stretches her scallion body until he cuts it off to spare her further pain.
• The black hole then shatters Onion Lady’s Enlightenment Stone and pulls in its fragments and her roots. Senior Turtle calls for her Resurrection Coin, but she is too panicked to respond.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber protects Onion Lady, and Song Shuhang’s clone rushes in wielding the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword. He grabs Onion Lady and the two treasures, but they are all swallowed by the black hole. Their combined presence appears to plug the rift, calming it.

Character developments and interactions

• Onion Lady regrets not staying with Song Shuhang and Senior White, whom she believes bring good fortune. She endures the loss of her scallion body and Enlightenment Stone, though she tries to console herself with the prospect of regrowing.
• Senior Turtle protects Onion Lady, cuts her stretched body to relieve her suffering, and attempts to retrieve her and her belongings.
• Song Shuhang’s clone risks himself to rescue Onion Lady, reinforcing his reputation for bearing everyone else’s disasters.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber acts protectively toward Onion Lady, its current master, while the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword accompanies Song Shuhang’s clone.
• Senior White’s presence at the start is interpreted by Onion Lady as an unconscious escape from danger, underscoring his legendary luck.

Significant themes

• Luck and misfortune: Onion Lady’s belief that Senior White and Song Shuhang bring safety shapes her regret at being separated from them.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: Song Shuhang’s clone intervenes despite the danger, embodying his tendency to shoulder disasters for others.
• Loss and resilience: Onion Lady loses both her body and a treasured possession, yet accepts that she can regrow and recover.

Plot points and events

• Onion Lady, Song Shuhang’s clone, Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber are swallowed by the black-hole extradimensional space. Senior Turtle is stunned; despite the group’s apparent strength, he cannot safely enter to rescue them.
• Soft Feather worries about the missing team and tries to contact Onion Lady. When she receives no reply, she is shaken by the possibility that her companion is in danger.
• As the black hole begins to close, Soft Feather sends in a reconnaissance camera. It finds no trace of the missing group before disappearing, and its loss causes her memories of it to blur.
• Soft Feather notices that her memories of Song Shuhang and Senior White have become clear again. Song Shuhang confirms that he is alive, but says he has lost contact with his clone.
• The scene shifts to Song Shuhang and Senior White, who are caught in the explosion of the Phantom Sun and its virus. Song uses the Emperor-Destroying Pillar to shelter them and absorb some of the virus. Senior White is distracted when another voice calling “Fellow Daoist White” sounds like Song Shuhang.

Character development

• Soft Feather experiences the helplessness of losing companions for the first time. Her usual cheerfulness gives way to a serious, determined mood, suggesting she has made a vow to become stronger or better prepared.
• Senior Turtle tries to reassure Soft Feather, though his confidence in the missing group also serves to calm himself.
• Song Shuhang remains resourceful under extreme danger, using the Emperor-Destroying Pillar as both protection and a way to turn the crisis to his advantage.

Character interactions

• Senior Turtle comforts Soft Feather by reminding her of the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s protection, Song Shuhang’s knack for surviving desperate situations, and Onion Lady’s extraordinary fortune.
• Soft Feather persistently tries to reach Onion Lady, then contacts Song Shuhang and learns he is alive but separated from his clone.
• Song Shuhang speaks with Senior White about finding another test subject, but Senior White is distracted by the mysterious familiar voice.

Significant themes

• Helplessness and maturity: Soft Feather’s inability to save her companions marks a painful step toward adulthood.
• Hope amid uncertainty: Senior Turtle and Soft Feather look for reasons to believe the missing group survived, even as evidence remains unclear.
• Adaptability in crisis: Song Shuhang responds to catastrophic danger with improvisation, while the chapter leaves several characters’ fates unresolved.

Song Shuhang, Senior White, and Pavilion Master Chu’s hair tuft watched a recording from an Immortal Daoist who entrusted Senior White with stopping the Stellar Destruction Virus. The recording suppressed the Phantom Sun’s explosion, revealing an Immortality Aura Grain, and Senior White suggested Song Shuhang ask Netherworld White about it.

• Song Shuhang recognized the Merit Light Daoist as the Immortal Daoist from his dream, and Pavilion Master Chu’s hair tuft identified the figure as a recording.
• The Immortal Daoist explained that the Stellar Destruction Virus was made from Immortality Aura Objects, with root mother viruses forged from a genuine Immortal Body.
• The Immortal Daoist said he had reversed Cause and Effect to delay the destruction of the Myriad Heavens and Realms and placed his hope in Fellow Daoist White.
• The Immortal Daoist’s Merit Net suppressed the Phantom Sun’s explosion and forced the virus back down, revealing an Immortality Aura Grain.
• Song Shuhang wondered whether an Immortal Body made of particles could be split apart, and Senior White suggested asking Netherworld White.

Song Shuhang and Senior White investigated the Stellar Destruction Virus and learned that the Merit Net might no longer be able to suppress it. The Merit Snake Beauty refused to inherit the blank Dao of Longevity, leaving Song Shuhang to wonder what price or secret the Dao held.

• Song Shuhang proposed that Senior White use divination to test his guess, and Senior White agreed to try it later.
• Senior White explained that the Merit Net might be past its intended lifespan, while the group speculated that the Stellar Destruction Virus had spread during Boss Fat Ball's era.
• Song Shuhang brought out ＠＃％× Fairy to ask how the Merit Net could help, and she mentioned the Dao of Longevity, the Merit Art of Worldly Dual Perfection, and Melon-Eating Sage.
• Song Shuhang suggested that the Merit Snake Beauty inherit the blank Dao of Longevity, but she refused, as she had also refused it during the Ancient Heavenly Court Era.
• Song Shuhang realized that the Merit Daoist had left behind both the Dao of Longevity and the Merit Art of Worldly Dual Perfection, which had been created from the Heavenly Dao's perspective.

Song Shuhang and Senior White investigated how to contain the Immortality Aura virus, learning that only power on the level of immortality could suppress it on a large scale. They were left considering the clues of Heavenly Dao White, while Song Shuhang's appraisal revealed that the Emperor-Destroying Pillar could absorb only a small amount of the virus.

• Song Shuhang speculated that Merit Daoist had left behind the Merit Net and its Dao of Longevity, and connected Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot's wealth gathering to the network's energy needs.
• Stele Fellow Daoist warned that Merit Daoist's fading power could no longer hold the virus particles for long, and Senior White found that hundreds of sealing methods had little effect.
• Senior White said that suppressing the Immortality Aura virus required power of the same immortal level, but he did not want Song Shuhang to risk proving the Way because the Heavenly Dao Seat was unstable.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White discussed using clues from Heavenly Dao White and whether two individuals could prove the Way at the same time, while Stele Fellow Daoist and Blackhide suggested other methods.
• Song Shuhang appraised a virus particle and learned that the Emperor-Destroying Pillar could absorb only a small portion of the virus offspring, then peeled away a layer of glove-shaped skin from his finger.

Song Shuhang and Senior White coordinated to break apart and seal the Immortality Aura Virus, then used Song Shuhang’s molted skin and Whale-Spending Strike to destroy the Phantom Sun hidden in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Senior White absorbed the Phantom Sun’s fragments with the Void Sun Pillar, which grew stronger.

• Song Shuhang sealed his molted hand into a bag and asked Senior White to strike the Immortality Aura Virus.
• Senior White shattered the virus particle, and his sealing runes temporarily contained its fragments.
• Song Shuhang shed his skin, covered the sealed virus fragments with it, and used Whale-Spending Strike to transform them into a powerful attack.
• Song Shuhang aimed the Divine Strike at the hidden Phantom Sun and destroyed it.
• Senior White summoned the Void Sun Pillar to absorb the Phantom Sun’s fragments, increasing its growth by one.

Song Shuhang and Senior White defeated Lord Void Sun and connected it to the Stellar Destruction Virus, then planned to investigate the threat and enter seclusion after the New Year. Song Shuhang wondered if this might be his last New Year, while Ye Si decided to return to the present world for the holiday.

• Song Shuhang and Senior White revealed that they had coordinated their attacks to detect and destroy Lord Void Sun, which had followed them into the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room World.
• Senior White explained that the Dream Realm might have served as a hub for spreading the Stellar Destruction Virus, and Song Shuhang resolved to keep it secure and investigate Void Sun's incarnations.
• Senior White said he would study whether two different individuals could prove the Dao simultaneously, while Song Shuhang planned to investigate Heavenly Dao White's plan and possibly prove the Immortal Dao himself.
• Song Shuhang thought this might be his last New Year, and Fairy Spirit Ghost relayed the thought to the special world.
• Ye Si told the phantom figure that she wanted to return to the present world for the New Year, and it agreed she could go with the third corpse's help.

Song Shuhang returned from Heavenly Dao Prison and learned that Onion Lady and his clone had vanished into a dimensional vortex. After failing to determine their condition, he found the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber had reached its Eighth Refinement.

• Song Shuhang and Senior White returned to the Present World, and Song Shuhang told the Disaster Giant Turtles that the parts they had sensed were bodily shells he had put to use.
• Song Shuhang asked the Disaster Giant Turtle Clan to share information and help find the creator of the Stellar Virus, and Turtle Dad agreed.
• Soft Feather told Song Shuhang that Onion Lady and his clone had been swept into the dimensional vortex after the Stellar Virus exploded.
• Song Shuhang found that he could not activate his Clone Secret Art and that Onion Lady's friend-list status was offline, so he left an Inscribed Wooden Saber as a coordinate where she had disappeared.
• Song Shuhang's Inscribed Wooden Saber struck the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber underground, which emerged as a Phoenix in its Eighth Refinement state.

Song Shuhang inherited the Eighth-Refinement Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and discovered that Onion Lady had completed its eighth refinement. He began the final refinement as his cultivation advanced toward the limits of the Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal Realm.

• Song Shuhang was stunned when the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber appeared in its Eighth-Refinement state, suggesting that Onion Lady had reached the Ninth Grade.
• Song Shuhang grasped the saber and accepted the Nine-Rebirth inheritance, resonating with it and activating phenomena tied to his karmic connections and lotus talents.
• The saber’s contract recognized Song Shuhang as its successor, with his signature shining as [Nine-Rebirth? Song One].
• Song Shuhang began the Ninth Refinement, drawing immortal energy into the saber as his three corpses emerged and his realm steadily advanced toward the limits of the Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal Realm.