Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang refined the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and deciphered its dao patterns, learning that Onion Lady had been its Eight Cultivations master and had deleted her records. He used his Blade-Nourishing Art to speed up the release of the ninth dao pattern, as the signature Song One appeared again.

• Song Shuhang refined the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, purifying his immortal essence and deciphering the eight unsealed dao patterns about controlling and strengthening energy.
• Song Shuhang found no surviving records about the Eight Cultivations and asked the saber whether Onion Lady had been its master.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber confirmed that Onion Lady had refined it to the Eighth Revolution and deleted her own records, though the data remained recoverable as their intimacy increased.
• Song Shuhang used his many braided hands to perform the Blade-Nourishing Art, delighting the saber and accelerating the release of its ninth dao pattern.
• Pavilion Master Chu’s stray hair noticed the signature Song One and recalled the man who had insisted, “Call me Song One!”

Pavilion Master Chu questioned Song Shuhang about the clue behind his name, while the Heavenly Dao Must Step Down Alliance discussed who should succeed the collapsed Current Heaven. Daozi considered Tyrant Song a better candidate to prove the Dao, but an illusory figure offered him the role of a Transitional Heavenly Dao.

• Pavilion Master Chu asked Song Shuhang whether he had a clue, and he evaded the question by offering her the Tomb of Nine Cultivators.
• The Vajra Temple master celebrated the Current Heaven's death, while Ye Si proposed renaming the Heavenly Dao Must Step Down Alliance.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament asked who would prove the Heavenly Dao, and Eight-Armed Demon Venerable asked for help lifting his clansmen's curse.
• Daozi said Tyrant Song was better suited than he was to prove the Dao because of his ties to the Confucian School and his teacher.
• Ye Si noted that Shuhang might not want to prove the Dao, and an illusory figure offered Daozi the position of Eighth-and-a-Half Heavenly Dao.

Key events

• Fairy Cheng Dogdan proposes creating a temporary “8.5th Heavenly Dao” to act during the interval before the Ninth Heavenly Dao emerges.
• The plan would combine the perfected Ancient Heavenly Court Path with the Heavenly Emperor’s authority, triggering a contingency left by the Eighth Heavenly Dao. That combination would be absorbed into the vacant Heavenly Dao and gain limited authority and immortality.
• The group worries that absorption might erase the participants’ wills. Fairy Cheng Dogdan suggests using a method associated with the Confucian Sage to preserve part of their existence, but Daozi notes that the Sage’s technique was an innate ability and was never passed on.
• In the Present World, Song Shuhang is nearing completion of the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s ninth refinement when Mad Saber Three Waves messages him to borrow a book. Song Shuhang wonders what book Three Waves could possibly want.

Character developments and interactions

• The Vajra Temple master, freed from his obsession, calmly questions whether the proposed Heavenly Dao can be controlled.
• Daozi probes how a temporary Heavenly Dao could work; the Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable hopes it can lift the curse that robbed his people of their minds; Daoist Scarlet Firmament focuses on the plan’s risks and underlying purpose.
• Fairy Cheng Dogdan explains the scheme, while the Northern Great Emperor humorously resents the Ancient Heavenly Court being implicated again.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword blurts out that its heart demon is gone and wants to visit Song Shuhang; Daoist Scarlet Firmament hushes it so the discussion can continue.
• Daozi recognizes the Confucian Sage’s “swallowing part of an existence” method as a possible safeguard, but points out that it cannot simply be inherited.

Significant themes

• Power and uncertainty: Even a temporary share of Heavenly Dao authority may come at the cost of individual identity.
• Legacy and contingency: The Ancient Heavenly Court Path and the Confucian Sage’s methods continue to shape events long after their creators are gone.
• A serious plan amid comedy: High-stakes cosmic debate is punctuated by the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s interruption and the abrupt, mundane request for a book.

Song Shuhang unsealed the Confucian Canon so Mad Saber Three Waves could borrow it for a favor to an old acquaintance. Three Waves departed with the book after jokingly declaring Song Shuhang his senior, while Creation Fairy silently watched him go.

• Song Shuhang told Mad Saber Three Waves that the Confucian Canon was sealed and belonged to the Confucian School, and Creation Fairy reluctantly agreed to lend it for three days.
• Song Shuhang used the Blade-Nourishing Art to open a small window in the sealing pillar and retrieve the Confucian Canon.
• The Confucian Canon released Vast Righteous Qi that suppressed Dream Realm Heart Demons, and Creation Fairy stroked the book nostalgically before handing it to Three Waves.
• Three Waves arrived, apologized after asking Song Shuhang how many times he had died, and explained that he needed the book to help an old acquaintance.
• Song Shuhang asked Three Waves for a New Year red envelope, but Three Waves called him his own senior and departed with the Confucian Canon.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang is disappointed that Three Waves left without giving him a New Year’s red envelope. Stele Fellow Daoist explains that Three Waves was protecting his dignity: a Fifth-Grade cultivator would feel awkward giving a gift to someone about to become a Longevity Immortal.
• Senior White offers Song Shuhang some of Fairy Bie Xue’s experimental buns, made with ingredients such as Heart Demons, Heavenly Tribulations, and Evil Delusions. Song Shuhang complains that he got none despite supplying many of the ingredients, then orders Chu Chu to bring him ten.
• In the Dream Realm, Three Waves arrives carrying the Confucian Canon. Skylark awakens and learns that Song Shuhang and Senior White have been blowing up a star. Alarmed and curious, she grabs Three Waves and takes him to investigate. Three Waves prepares a revival artifact, fearing that a star will kill him.
• Before leaving, Three Waves sends the Confucian Canon onward with a message, in accordance with an agreement with an old friend. He says it will return to Shuhang in three days.
• The Confucian Canon appears at the Heavenly Dao Must Step Down Alliance headquarters and smacks Daozi in the face, bypassing the group’s defenses. Daozi recognizes it and, while examining the attached message, triggers a deeply unsettling, high-pitched demonic voice.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains playful and shameless about asking for gifts and food, even when his contribution to the buns earns him no share.
• Senior White is generous but matter-of-fact, sharing the buns while explaining they were prepared specifically for him.
• Fairy Bie Xue reacts with exasperation to Shuhang’s demand and jokingly threatens to make buns filled with Shuhang and Chu Chu.
• Three Waves presents himself as a scholar and spell researcher, but his confidence is undercut by his fear of touching a star. He also honors an old agreement by delivering the Canon.
• Skylark is energetic and curious, teasing Three Waves about his old friends and pulling him along to investigate the star.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly panics at hearing that his daughter Soft Feather was involved in blowing up a star; Sage Seven Cultivator joins him in going to investigate.
• Daozi is startled and angered by the Canon’s surprise arrival, then shaken when he recognizes it and hears the message.

Significant themes

• Humor and irreverence: Cosmic-level events are treated casually, while food, red envelopes, and Three Waves’s misfortune drive the jokes.
• Power and vulnerability: Even powerful cultivators face limits—Three Waves fears a star, while Daozi is caught off guard by an attack that breaches a supposedly secure space.
• Old bonds and obligations: Three Waves’s delivery of the Canon reflects a continuing promise to an old friend.
• Escalating mystery: The Canon’s unexplained arrival and eerie message introduce a new, ominous development.

Plot points and events

• Daozi receives the Confucian Canon, but cannot explain who sent it or interpret the strange cry, “Three Dummy~.” Ye Si identifies the phrase as part of the Creation Fairy’s unusual linguistic system.
• Ye Si relays that Senior Three Waves borrowed the Canon from Song Shuhang and delivered it. Daozi suspects Ancestor Skylark arranged the handoff.
• Opening the Canon’s last page reveals a hidden message in the Confucian Sage’s handwriting. The Sage says he left backup arrangements for Daozi and his junior brothers, warns that the arrangements may have flaws—including incomplete resurrections—and entrusts the brothers to Daozi.
• Daozi realizes that becoming the 8.5th Heavenly Dao may let him repair those flaws. He also senses the Sage’s “Devouring Existence” talent within the Canon and agrees to take the position, despite the danger.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi moves from bafflement and frustration to resolve, recognizing that the Sage’s message gives him a way to help his fading junior brothers. He remains protective of his junior sister, defending her voice when the others mock the strange cry.
• Ye Si clarifies the Creation Fairy connection and identifies how the Canon reached Daozi.
• The others—among them the Scarlet Heaven Sword, the Northern Great Emperor, the Vajra Temple master, and the Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable—question Daozi, react to the Sage’s apparent foresight, and acknowledge his greatness. A Cheng Dogdan-like figure warns that the choice is dangerous; Daozi accepts the risk and asks what he must face.

Significant themes

• Fate and foresight: The Sage’s preparations suggest he anticipated events far into the future, though it remains unclear how.
• Responsibility and sacrifice: Daozi accepts a perilous role to save his junior brothers.
• Imperfection and hope: Their flawed resurrections may still be repaired through the Sage’s legacy.
• Trust in the past: The Canon and its hidden message connect the Sage’s plans to the present crisis, while Skylark’s possible involvement underscores how much remains unknown.

Key plot points

• Daozi, the Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable, Daoist Scarlet Firmament, and others agree to pursue the 8.5th Heavenly Dao Plan. Their personal goals include restoring Daozi’s junior brothers and sisters, lifting the curse on the Demon Venerable’s people, and helping someone ascend as Heavenly Dao.
• Fairy Cheng Lin says she wants the new Heavenly Dao to free and revive friends still petrified by the Ancient Heavenly Court Path. The plan will require many allies and resources, including restoring the Ancient Heavenly Court Path.
• The group questions why Cheng Lin and Song Blockhead—who hold the identity of Heavenly Emperor—aren’t becoming the 8.5th Heavenly Dao themselves. They offer to take on any danger, but Cheng Lin explains the issue is not hidden danger.
• Cheng Lin reveals she is a Spirit Ghost. She cannot attain the Proof of Immortality without affecting her original self, who is apparently pursuing the Ninth Heavenly Dao. She keeps that person’s identity secret, while insisting he knows nothing of her group’s independent plans.
• Cheng Lin adds that freeing the petrified immortals also requires substitutes. Her group has created these by splitting themselves, another reason they cannot take the Heavenly Dao position.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi shows urgency and responsibility, eager to restore what his junior brothers and sisters have lost and willing to risk himself for the plan.
• The Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable shares that eagerness and offers to replace Daozi if the plan proves dangerous.
• Fairy Cheng Lin reveals key truths about her nature and limitations, while remaining guarded about her original self’s identity.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament, the Vajra Temple master, and the Northern Great Emperor press Cheng Lin and Song Blockhead for an explanation, expressing both suspicion and surprise at her revelations.
• The group’s shared commitment to protecting loved ones helps establish trust and cooperation.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and devotion: Each major figure is driven by a wish to save people they care about.
• Cooperation: The plan depends on collective effort, resources, and trust.
• Identity and hidden origins: Cheng Lin’s Spirit Ghost nature—and her secretive connection to her original self—complicates assumptions about who she is.
• Responsibility and substitution: The plan requires some beings to take others’ places, underscoring its personal costs.

Key plot points and events

• Fairy Cheng Lin outlines the first steps toward making Daozi the 8.5th Heavenly Dao: recover more Ancient Heavenly Court fragments, especially those from important locations. The group estimates that retrieving roughly another fifth should complete the plan.
• Several allies volunteer to help. Daozi heads to the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World to retrieve its fragments, while the Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable goes to collect fragments held by his clan.
• Cheng Lin plans to approach Gold Trigram, the new Heavenly Emperor and rightful successor to the old position, whose cooperation and fragments may be essential. The Northern Great Emperor instead prepares to visit Song Shuhang, who also possesses fragments, and retrieve his turtle.
• The group identifies another requirement: they need Heavenly Tribulation power, which they plan to borrow from a trusted junior or ally about to undergo tribulation. Daoist Scarlet Firmament thinks of Onion Lady and considers visiting Shuhang.
• At the same time, Shuhang finds that the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s Ninth-Revolution Dao Pattern remains stuck at about 98%, despite his Immortal Essence reaching an extraordinary level. He wonders whether completing it requires becoming a Longevity Immortal—or even proving immortality—neither of which can be achieved by mere desire.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword, Northern Great Emperor, and Ye Si arrive to see Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Daoist Scarlet Firmament, Daozi, the Eight-Armed Primordial Demon Venerable, the Northern Great Emperor, and the Vajra Temple master all agree to support the 8.5th Heavenly Dao plan, each for personal or friendly reasons.
• Daozi’s mention of the New Year awakens a warm, nostalgic response in him, and he departs with renewed purpose.
• The Northern Great Emperor shows unexpected tenderness, especially when speaking of bringing his turtle home.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword eagerly volunteers to visit Shuhang, partly because they are close and partly because its Heart Demon has mysteriously vanished. Ye Si joins them, valuing the chance to spend the New Year with Shuhang before she becomes more deeply involved in Cheng Lin’s plan.
• The visitors reunite with Shuhang, who greets them and asks why they have come.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus limits: Shuhang’s stalled progress underscores that immense power and strong desire do not guarantee advancement to immortality or the Heavenly Dao.
• Cooperation and shared purpose: Formerly distinct figures unite to rebuild the Ancient Heavenly Court and prepare Daozi’s ascension.
• Memory, friendship, and the passage of time: Daozi’s recollection of New Year traditions and Ye Si’s wish to cherish one more celebration give the grand cosmic plan a personal, bittersweet dimension.
• Preparation and sacrifice: The plan depends on gathering scattered fragments, gaining Gold Trigram’s cooperation, and carefully borrowing power from someone facing tribulation.

Plot points and events

• Scarlet Heaven Sword arrives, explaining that he sensed his Heart Demon had disappeared and came to find Song Shuhang. He hints that he wants Song to use the Blade-Nourishing Art on him.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber greets Scarlet Heaven Sword. He realizes it has reached its eighth transformation and is nearing the ninth. Song explains that the saber, his clone, Onion Lady, and Scarlet Heaven Sword’s Heart Demon vanished together; only the saber has returned, and Onion Lady was the one who completed its eighth transformation.
• Song uses the Blade-Nourishing Art on both weapons. Northern Great Emperor notices Song has reached the Three Severings Tribulation Immortal realm—power comparable to a Weak Longevity Immortal—and is stunned by how far he has advanced in only a few months.
• Northern Great Emperor reunites with his Little Turtle, who asks him to remove the seal limiting it to the Eighth Grade. The Emperor restores its Ninth-Grade power and explains that the other version of himself is an abandoned former shell, destined to merge with the Heavenly Court Path as part of the Completion Plan.
• The Emperor asks to borrow Song’s Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment. Song says it has already fused with his Core World and cannot be removed. The Emperor instead proposes conducting the necessary ritual inside the Core World. Song worries that this would put the Heavenly Court Fragment within reach of his Core World, which has a habit of secretly “licking” the Heavenly Court Path.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang continues to grow in power and casually uses the Blade-Nourishing Art, while his bodily oddities—such as having relocated his kidneys—remain a source of comedy.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword is eager for Song’s attention and reacts with disbelief to Onion Lady’s apparent advancement through the saber’s transformation process.
• Northern Great Emperor is surprised by Song’s rapid rise, but remains composed while reuniting with and restoring his Little Turtle. He also clarifies the relationship between his current self and the other version.
• Little Turtle is affectionate toward the Emperor but self-conscious about being unable to help while sealed at the Eighth Grade.
• The scene’s humor comes from the weapons’ awkward hints, Song’s exaggerated Blade-Nourishing Art, and the Emperor’s shock at the strange “accessories” and Song’s progress.

Significant themes

• Rapid growth and transformation: Song’s strength and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s progress show how quickly characters and artifacts can change.
• Identity and continuity: The Emperor distinguishes his true self from the former shell that will become part of the Completion Plan.
• Trust and cooperation: The Emperor asks Song for help and offers compensation, while Song remains willing to assist despite the unusual request.
• Comic unpredictability: Serious matters involving powerful beings and cosmic plans are repeatedly undercut by playful misunderstandings and Song’s eccentric Core World.

Song Shuhang agreed to help the Northern Great Emperor use his Core World for a ritual involving the Heavenly Court Fragments, despite the risk that it might absorb the Heavenly Court Path. After the emperor left, Song Shuhang’s companions arrived and Island Master Gold Trigram worried that Song Shuhang might want his fragments too.

• Song Shuhang warned the Northern Great Emperor that his Core World might draw the Heavenly Court Path out of the Ancient Heavenly Court and agreed to restrain it during the ritual.
• Senior White gave buns to Song Shuhang and a fairy who appeared behind him, and the fairy discussed her growing connection to Song Shuhang and her contract with Su Clan’s Sixteen.
• The Northern Great Emperor said he had reached an agreement and would adjust the Heavenly Court Fragments to account for the Core World before borrowing it in a few days.
• Senior Turtle stayed behind with Song Shuhang to help find the missing Onion Lady, so the Northern Great Emperor departed alone.
• Island Master Gold Trigram, the Phoenix Ritual Zither Master's Claw, and White-Bone Fairy arrived, and Island Master Gold Trigram worried that Song Shuhang might seek his Heavenly Court Fragments.

Chapter Summary: “So She Was the One Who Tricked Me!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang assures the Island Master of Golden Gua that he has no intention of taking or permanently using the Heavenly Court Fragments. He explains that the Northern Emperor and the Four Directional Great Emperors are the ones seeking to borrow them.
• Senior ChiXiao Sword reveals that the Northern Emperor’s group has a mysterious “grand plan,” possibly intended to save themselves, though he refuses to disclose the details. He warns that someone will soon approach Golden Gua about the Heavenly Court Fragments.
• Golden Gua realizes that leaving Mysterious Island unattended could allow the Northern Emperor’s companions to seize it or forcibly take the fragments. He decides to return and personally guard the island.
• Golden Gua asks why the Heavenly Emperor calls Song Shuhang “Senior Song.” Song explains that the title is partly Yurouzi’s nickname for him and that the Heavenly Emperor, after being reborn, occupied Yurouzi’s Spirit Ghost.
• Golden Gua finally understands that the Heavenly Emperor had manipulated and deceived him from beginning to end. His previous sense of familiarity with Song Shuhang came from Song’s earlier visit to Mysterious Island.
• As Golden Gua prepares to leave through a spatial channel, Song Shuhang’s accumulated enlightenment suddenly breaks through. Laws connected to the Heavenly Emperor appear around him, especially the Heavenly Court’s principles and the Dao of Time.
• Song Shuhang’s strong compatibility with the Dao of Time causes everyone present to recall their first meetings and past experiences with him. Golden Gua, however, experiences the release of a sealed memory from his youth, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increasing power and understanding after defeating the Heavenly Emperor’s primordial spirit. His comprehension of the Dao of Time begins converting the Heavenly Emperor’s knowledge into something he can personally understand.
• Island Master of Golden Gua becomes less suspicious of Song Shuhang and gains clarity about the Heavenly Emperor’s deception. He also reveals a cautious, protective side by rushing back to defend Mysterious Island.
• Senior ChiXiao Sword acts as a discreet intermediary for the Northern Emperor’s group, hinting at their secretive and potentially urgent plan.
• Yurouzi clarifies that “Senior Song” is her personal nickname for Song Shuhang, while her connection to the Heavenly Emperor explains the confusion surrounding their identities.

Significant Themes

• Deception and manipulation: Golden Gua realizes that the Heavenly Emperor used him, making him question how much of his recent history was controlled by her.
• Identity and continuity: The similarities between Yurouzi and the reborn Heavenly Emperor blur the boundaries between individual identity, possession, and inheritance.
• Memory and time: Song Shuhang’s breakthrough links the characters’ memories to the Dao of Time, suggesting that suppressed or forgotten experiences may soon resurface.
• Trust and alliances: The discussion over the Heavenly Court Fragments highlights the fragile trust between former Heavenly Court members and the uncertain motives of the Northern Emperor’s faction.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Golden Gua exchange information about the Heavenly Court Fragments, with Song trying to reassure him that he is not a threat.
• ChiXiao Sword provides Golden Gua with a warning about the Northern Emperor’s plans, increasing Golden Gua’s concern for Mysterious Island.
• Song Shuhang and Yurouzi explain their relationship with the Heavenly Emperor, allowing Golden Gua to understand why he had been deceived.
• The entire group is affected by Song Shuhang’s emergence into the Dao of Time, while Golden Gua alone receives a particularly important vision of his sealed youthful memory.

Key plot points and events

• Gold Trigram’s memories begin resurfacing when he looks at Song Shuhang, prompting him to question the Heavenly Emperor’s earlier explanation of his sealed past.
• His recovered memories show him as a child, taught cultivation by a mysterious, double-pupiled man. Gold Trigram initially suspects this was the Heavenly Emperor, since the teachings led him onto the Heavenly Court Path.
• The man leaves after Gold Trigram reaches the Fifth-Grade Realm. Gold Trigram remains confused about where Song Shuhang fits into the memories.
• As a young cultivator, Gold Trigram gets stuck on the final stroke of his Golden Core Formation Diagram. He prays for guidance and receives advice from a voice: to seal his spiritual power and leap from a high cliff to experience near-death.
• Gold Trigram follows the advice, falls, and crashes badly before passing out. The memory ends with the revelation that the voice was Song Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Gold Trigram shifts from trusting the Heavenly Emperor’s account to reconsidering who has deceived him. His recovered memories confirm that his Heavenly Court cultivation path was established early, but expose Song Shuhang’s role in his past.
• Song Shuhang’s apparent connection to Gold Trigram is unexpectedly reckless: he advised the child to attempt a dangerous leap, which Gold Trigram mistook for a genuine path to enlightenment.
• The Heavenly Emperor remains a central source of uncertainty. Her explanation about Gold Trigram’s past seems partly consistent with his memories, but the chapter leaves unresolved how she relates to the double-pupiled mentor and Song Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Unreliable memories and competing explanations: Gold Trigram must piece together his past while weighing what the Heavenly Emperor told him against what his memories reveal.
• Mentorship and influence: Gold Trigram’s cultivation path was shaped by others, including a mysterious teacher and Song Shuhang.
• Comedy through dangerous absurdity: A child’s earnest response to bizarre advice turns a supposed breakthrough into a disastrous cliff jump.

Song Shuhang and Island Master Gold Trigram discovered that Gold Trigram shared childhood memories with the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, including memories of Song Shuhang. Song Shuhang concluded that Gold Trigram might be the other side of the Heavenly Emperor’s Son.

• Gold Trigram recognized Song Shuhang from childhood memories in which Song had tricked his younger self into jumping off a cliff.
• Song Shuhang explained that the memories belonged to the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, though Gold Trigram had revealed them under the influence of the Way of Time.
• Song Shuhang and the others considered whether Gold Trigram had inherited the Heavenly Emperor’s Path through shared cause and effect.
• Song Shuhang reasoned that the path’s perfect inheritance and their shared childhood memories suggested Gold Trigram was the other side of the Heavenly Emperor’s Son.

Key events

• Island Master Gold Trigram wonders whether he may be a counterpart to the Heavenly Emperor—and even a fairy—after Song Shuhang’s reasoning. Song advises him to wait until Dadazi is resurrected, though both doubt how truthful she will be.
• Gold Trigram leaves for Mysterious Island, still holding a grudge over Song’s claim that he once made him jump off a cliff in the Ancient Era.
• Song gives only a vague explanation of how he knows about that past, preferring to keep his unusual Dream Entry ability private.
• With their immediate business settled, Song decides to return to Earth for New Year’s. He hopes to introduce the Mechanical Girl—whom he calls his daughter—to his parents and spend a peaceful holiday with them.
• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master, White-Bone Fairy, Senior Turtle, and Yurouzi decide to accompany him. Senior White agrees, noting that he plans to enter a long seclusion afterward. Song opens a Space Gate toward the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly and Sage Seven Cultivator arrive too late to find Song and Yurouzi. When Song confirms in the group chat that Yurouzi and Senior White are coming home with him, Spirit Butterfly is so shaken he becomes “Sage Lord Butterfly.”
• Venerable Yellow Mountain proposes a group New Year’s gathering and offers to distribute red envelopes; Young Master Phoenix Slayer suggests holding it at Song’s home.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is increasingly aware of how extraordinary—and potentially troublesome—his Dream Entry ability is, so he keeps its details from most people. He also treats this New Year as potentially his last and intends to enjoy it, including by asking for plenty of red envelopes.
• Island Master Gold Trigram is unsettled by the possibility that his identity is not what he thought, but remains wary of Song and protective of Mysterious Island.
• Yurouzi eagerly chooses to spend New Year’s with Song, as her father remains in seclusion.
• Senior White joins Song for the holiday before his planned extended retreat.
• The fairies and companions show their attachment to Song by choosing to travel with him; Senior Turtle specifically wants to keep track of Onion Lady.
• The banter turns awkward when Song repeats a saying about beautiful women being good liars. Stele Fellow Daoist deliberately frames it as an insult either way, drawing hostile looks from the fairies. Elsewhere, Ye Si playfully spins Pavilion Master Chu’s Dull Hair, while Chu insists she is merely spacing out.

Significant themes

• Identity and uncertainty: Gold Trigram questions his nature and connection to the Heavenly Emperor.
• Privacy and trust: Song conceals the mechanics of his Dream Entry talent to avoid needless complications.
• Companionship and homecoming: Despite their extraordinary lives, Song and his companions value spending New Year’s together.
• Mortality and time: Song’s thought that this may be his last New Year, alongside Senior White’s impending seclusion, gives the celebration a bittersweet undertone.

• The group debates where to spend New Year’s, settling on Wenzhou City. Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan are happy to join, while Seven Lives Talisman suggests the trip because it would fulfill an old wish to see Wenzhou’s sea with the people most important to him. The others tease him about having a secret romantic interest; he clarifies that he means the group.
• Fairy Eastern Six plans to come from nearby Hujian. She recounts sinking her car while driving across the sea and sends a photo of herself cycling instead. Three Waves jokes about her long legs, prompting Guo Da to repeatedly post increasingly elaborate images of Three Waves getting his head rubbed.
• Soft Feather says she and Shuhang will first visit the Golden Lotus World to bring his family to Wenzhou. She mentions that her father is still in secluded cultivation, and Seven Cultivations suggests Spirit Butterfly return to seclusion so his sudden appearance won’t contradict her story.
• White Crane eagerly says he will hurry back to celebrate with Senior White, noting that Shuhang can travel with Senior White’s spatial techniques. Three Waves and Fairy Bie Xue urge him to retract the message before Shuhang can boast.
• White Crane discovers the chat app’s retract feature, but Shuhang restores the message using his own group-owner powers. He gleefully declares that he no longer needs Senior White to open Space Gates, provoking Three Waves to tell him to stop talking.
  Character developments and interactions: The group’s familiarity shows through affectionate teasing, shared New Year plans, and running jokes—especially the “dog food” complaints, Guo Da’s image-based harassment of Three Waves, and the group’s attempt to curb Shuhang’s bragging. Shuhang, however, turns the failed attempt into a chance to show off, while White Crane’s devotion to Senior White and Soft Feather’s effort to keep her father’s cultivation status consistent drive smaller comic moments.
  Themes: Fellowship and belonging, playful romantic teasing, the gap between grand cultivation abilities and everyday mishaps, and the group’s irrepressible humor.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang keeps pressing Mad Saber Three Waves for a New Year’s red packet, calling him “Senior Three Waves.” Three Waves refuses to accept the title, insisting that he is Shuhang’s junior instead.
• Yu Jiaojiao agrees to take leave and visit for the New Year. She privately asks her father, True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord, whether they should use the occasion to persuade her mother to return.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain explains that the group has already decided to give red packets to Shuhang’s disciples. He also announces that the group will pause its exploration of the ruins for the holiday.
• Yellow Mountain reveals the group’s actual New Year gift: materials from the ruins that, combined with previously obtained Heavenly Dao Eye Drops, can help artifacts develop Artifact Spirits. Shuhang, despite wanting a red packet himself, is expected to help give these gifts to everyone.
• Zhou Li gets permission to bring a relative to Shuhang’s New Year gathering. The group plans a feast and celebration at Shuhang’s home, with Fairy Bie Xue preparing the meal. Since his house cannot hold everyone, Shuhang intends to host them through an entrance to his spacious Core World.
• Senior White proposes adding New Year performances, hoping the holiday will be lively and bring the group together. Dharma King Creation volunteers a new song, while Flood Dragon Overlord’s awkward promotional slogan abruptly dampens the enthusiasm.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang’s former timid-newcomer manner has given way to shameless persistence: he treats getting a red packet as a personal obsession, though he ends up helping provide gifts for the others instead.
• Three Waves jokes that he is Shuhang’s “junior,” while Soft Feather objects to him imitating her way of addressing Shuhang.
• Jiaojiao shows affection for her family by suggesting they reconcile with her mother; her father immediately insists they discuss it privately.
• Yellow Mountain is both practical and considerate: he organizes the holiday plans and has secretly prepared a red packet for Shuhang, but changes his mind after Shuhang’s relentless begging.
• Senior White’s quietness is explained by his wish to make the celebration especially joyful. The group’s banter and volunteering underline their camaraderie.

Significant themes

• Community and celebration: The group comes together for a shared New Year feast, gifts, performances, and time with loved ones.
• Generosity and reciprocity: Shuhang wants to receive a gift but is instead drawn into helping give one to the entire group.
• Humor through role reversal and wordplay: Three Waves’ claim to be Shuhang’s junior and Shuhang’s joking concern that the gathering sounds like a funeral meal drive the chapter’s comedy.

Key plot points and events

• Flood Dragon Overlord’s New Year’s advertisement for undersea burial plots sparks outrage in the Nine Provinces Group Two. When Song Shuhang objects, Venerable Yellow Mountain abruptly mutes him—even though Song is only the group’s server, not its owner.
• Yellow Mountain then mutes several notorious troublemakers, including Dharma King Creation, Mad Saber Three Waves, Skylark, Copper Trigram, Doudou, and Dongfang Jingxue. The group members are bewildered, especially Copper Trigram, who says he had not posted at all.
• In a temporary chat, Dongfang Jingxue guesses Yellow Mountain is muting them preemptively to avoid their usual antics over the New Year. The others joke about their reputations as habitual “death-courters” and compare them unfavorably with the group’s more sensible members.
• Pleased with the peace and quiet, Yellow Mountain invites everyone to submit performances for a New Year’s program. Members suggest a bicycle race, combat racing, mechas, and a construction-vehicle brawl; Snow Wolf Cave Master tries to retract the last idea after realizing Eastern Six has already seen it.
• Song Shuhang, still muted, can only watch the discussion and share it with his attached companions. Scarlet Heaven Sword proposes that it and Fairy perform sword swallowing.
• Meanwhile, in the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World, Daozi meets with junior brothers and branch leaders to seek the School’s Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable Yellow Mountain takes firm, preemptive control of the group, muting even innocent or silent members. He finds the resulting calm unexpectedly satisfying and becomes cheerful enough to organize New Year’s festivities.
• Song Shuhang is confused at being blamed and muted, and frustrated that he cannot join the conversation.
• Dharma King Creation, Three Waves, Skylark, Copper Trigram, Doudou, and Dongfang Jingxue react in different ways: Creation regrets speaking up too late; Copper Trigram feels particularly wronged; and the others joke about their reputations. Dongfang offers the most plausible explanation for Yellow Mountain’s actions.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master tries to placate Eastern Six after a potentially dangerous suggestion, while the group’s teasing reinforces their familiar, chaotic rapport.
• Daozi’s separate meeting introduces a serious objective: obtaining the Confucian School’s Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments.

Significant themes

• Comic authority and scapegoating: Yellow Mountain’s arbitrary-looking moderation leaves even Song, the server, bearing the blame.
• Reputation and group dynamics: The members’ standing as troublemakers shapes how they interpret events and interact with one another.
• Order versus chaos: Yellow Mountain’s muting restores calm, but the group’s New Year planning quickly generates fresh, unruly ideas.
• Contrasting tones: Festive banter in the chat runs alongside Daozi’s consequential political or strategic negotiations.

Key plot points

• Daozi arrives at the Confucian School, where four Tribulation Immortals—Wen Zi, Yan Zi, Seven Dull, and Yu Zi—are keeping watch over Yuanzi. Kun King’s consciousness remains hidden inside Yuanzi, still intimidated by Daozi’s powerful aura.
• Daozi apologizes for failing to protect his junior brothers during the Confucian School’s calamity. They reassure him that they accept their incomplete resurrections and are grateful for the extra time Tyrant Song gave them.
• Determined to give them complete resurrections, Daozi reveals that the Confucian Sage anticipated their situation and left him a backup plan in the Confucian Canon. The four brothers agree to let him proceed after he assures them the plan is not dangerous.
• Daozi asks the Confucian School to lend him a Heavenly Court Fragment, which he needs for his plan. The school agrees.
• Since Song Shuhang is visiting, Daozi decides to speak with him as well, partly to discuss the fragment. He does not know that the Northern Great Emperor has already reached an agreement with Song Shuhang about it.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi’s guilt over his brothers’ suffering is clear, but it becomes focused determination: he wants to take responsibility by restoring them fully.
• The four junior brothers show resilience and loyalty. They comfort Daozi, value the chance to recover lost Confucian teachings, and worry about his safety despite their own condition.
• Seven Dull’s nickname for Daozi briefly breaks the solemn mood, while the brothers’ warmth and teasing reveal their close bond.
• The Confucian Sage’s message reassures the brothers that their master planned for their return. The Canon’s appearance in Daozi’s hands also renews their suspicions that Tyrant Song may be connected to the Sage.

Significant themes

• Family duty and regret: Daozi’s sense of responsibility drives him to seek a complete resurrection for his brothers.
• Resilience and service: The junior brothers accept their limitations and use their remaining time to restore the Confucian School’s lost inheritance.
• Trust across generations: The Sage’s preparations continue to guide his disciples, while Tyrant Song’s past help has strengthened the school’s faith in him.
• Rebirth and restoration: The chapter centers on correcting incomplete resurrections and recovering what the Confucian School lost.

Plot points and events

• Daozi decides to ask Song Shuhang about borrowing the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment. Since the Confucian School values courtesy, he considers offering Shuhang a New Year’s red envelope in return.
• Song Shuhang, Senior White, Soft Feather, and others help his parents prepare to leave the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World for Wenzhou. Mom Song has enjoyed being treated as “Zhao Fairy” so much that she is reluctant to go.
• Shuhang reassures his parents that the earlier Evil Delusion disaster has been resolved and that only minor aftereffects remain. He hopes they will return to the Confucian School after New Year, at least until the Heavenly Dao Strife is over.
• To change the subject when his mother senses he may be planning something dangerous, Shuhang introduces the Mechanical Girl Lingxiao as his “daughter.” His parents are stunned by her unusual origins and Shuhang’s claim that he personally “gave birth” to her.
• Dad Song says he would rather hear that Shuhang is getting married and having a child. Shuhang replies that he has been “neutered” because Eighth-Grade cultivators generally cannot reproduce: their Laws transform them into unique species.
• Soft Feather compares this to different organisms evolving from separate cells. Mom Song jokingly wonders whether another person could evolve into Shuhang’s kind, prompting Shuhang to call himself her “little monkey son.” She swats him, then asks whether he has considered finding a girlfriend.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi shows his respectful, thoughtful nature by considering how to repay Shuhang before asking for a favor.
• Mom Song is delighted by the Confucian disciples’ attention, but her maternal concern emerges when she senses Shuhang may be taking on something serious. Her humor and affection continue even as his revelations overwhelm her.
• Dad Song teases Shuhang and expresses conventional hopes for his son’s future, while also trying to cope with the increasingly strange developments in Shuhang’s life.
• Shuhang uses jokes and unexpected revelations to deflect family concern. His “daughter” introduction successfully changes the subject, though it shocks his parents even more.
• Soft Feather explains the biological consequences of cultivation in accessible terms, supporting Shuhang’s explanation while keeping the conversation playful.

Significant themes

• Family affection amid the extraordinary: Shuhang’s parents struggle to process his supernatural life, but their concern and love remain constant.
• Courtesy and reciprocity: Daozi’s planned red envelope reflects the Confucian ideal of repaying kindness.
• Transformation and individuality: Eighth-Grade cultivators’ Laws make them distinct beings, raising questions about evolution, reproduction, and what counts as a species.
• Humor as deflection: Shuhang’s jokes ease—and sometimes intensify—the tension of his family’s questions.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang explains that his rapid rise to the Eighth-Grade Realm interrupted his plans to spend more time cultivating and developing his relationship with the women around him. The Stele Fellow Daoist teases him, pointing out that Shuhang has hardly acted like someone who spends long periods in seclusion.
• Mom Song surveys the many beautiful fairies accompanying her son and wonders how she might help him find a partner. She worries that they may be put off by Shuhang having been neutered, and even considers having another son with Dad Song.
• When Shuhang mentions the approaching New Year, his parents silently agree to use the holiday to observe his relationships and discreetly help him.
• Shuhang senses that his parents are plotting something and resolves to watch them.
• Senior White opens a Space Gate to the Song family’s home on White Whale Road in Wenzhou City, where they plan to prepare for New Year visits from their cultivation-group seniors.
• Daozi arrives before they leave, wishes Shuhang a happy New Year, and gives him a red packet. Shuhang is deeply touched by the gesture, while Daozi is surprised by how much it means to him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains self-aware and humorous about his cultivation progress, but is alert to his parents’ intentions. His gratitude for Daozi’s small gift reveals how much he values warmth and personal attention.
• Mom and Dad Song share a quiet, affectionate understanding and shift into matchmaking mode, though Mom Song is unsure how to help or whether Shuhang’s circumstances will complicate things.
• Stele Fellow Daoist challenges Shuhang’s claim that he lives a secluded cultivator’s life.
• Senior White casually handles the group’s travel by opening the Space Gate.
• Daozi offers Shuhang a warm New Year greeting and gift, strengthening the sense of goodwill between them.

Significant themes

• Family affection and parental concern: Shuhang’s parents want him to be happy, even as their efforts risk becoming embarrassing interference.
• Cultivation versus ordinary life: Shuhang’s rapid advancement repeatedly disrupts his plans for personal relationships.
• Ritual and emotional meaning: Daozi’s modest red packet matters to Shuhang not for its material value, but for the kindness and connection it represents.