Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Song Shuhang meets Daozi, who gives him a New Year’s red envelope. Daozi had hoped the gift might help him borrow Shuhang’s Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments, but learns that the Northern Great Emperor and Scarlet Heaven Sword have already made arrangements.
• Shuhang explains that fragments already inside his Core World cannot be removed, so the Confucian School’s fragments can instead be moved into the Core World for a ritual. He leaves his Virtuous Corpse, Tyrant Benevolence, to help Daozi transfer them.
• Before Shuhang departs, Tyrant Benevolence gives Daozi a merit rune as a blessing for his plans—part of the group’s effort toward the “Heavenly Dao 8.5” plan.
• Senior White opens a Space Gate, taking Shuhang and his parents back to their home in Wenzhou. He cleans the dusty house instantly with a spell.
• Impressed by the spell, Mom Song scolds Shuhang for not learning it. Shuhang admits he cannot cast even this basic spell, prompting Dad Song’s silent embarrassment on his behalf.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is grateful for Daozi’s red envelope and quickly feels loyal to him, promising to help if Daozi ever needs it. He also trusts his Virtuous Corpse to handle the fragment transfer.
• Daozi treats Shuhang as an equal and accepts his goodwill, despite the modest effect of the merit rune on someone of Daozi’s stature.
• Tyrant Benevolence acts independently and thoughtfully, offering Daozi a blessing for his plans. Fairy is disappointed that he may miss their planned New Year’s gun-fu practice.
• Senior White remains effortlessly charming and demonstrates how useful cultivation can be in everyday life.
• Mom and Dad Song react with affectionate exasperation to Shuhang’s lack of practical skills, despite his extraordinary cultivation rank.

Significant themes

• Goodwill and reciprocity: Daozi’s red envelope and Tyrant Benevolence’s merit rune turn practical cooperation into personal friendship.
• Power versus ordinary competence: Shuhang is a powerful Tribulation Immortal but cannot perform a simple cleaning spell, creating comic contrast between grand cultivation and domestic life.
• Family and everyday life: The return home shifts the focus from cosmic plans to New Year preparations and familiar family teasing.

Song Shuhang explained his spatial abilities and Small World to his parents as they prepared to host the Nine Provinces Number One Group for New Year. He revealed he had no spirit stones left and owed Senior White a whole lot, leaving Dad Song worried about the size of the debt.

• Song Shuhang told Dad Song he could open space gates, and he described using them to dispose of garbage in worlds that converted it into energy.
• Mom Song asked how many guests were coming, and Song Shuhang estimated seventy or eighty people would attend the New Year gathering.
• Song Shuhang reassured his parents that he could connect his Small World to their house to make room for the guests.
• Dad Song asked about giving spirit stones as New Year's gifts, and Song Shuhang admitted he had none because he had spent them preserving the World Fusion Card.
• Dad Song asked how much Song Shuhang owed, and Senior White replied that it was a whole lot.

Chapter Summary: “Song Fat Ball’s Merciless Cold Laugh”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Father Song worries about Song Shuhang’s enormous debt of spirit stones to Senior White, since he has no way to earn or repay such currency.
• Senior White reassures him that he will not charge interest. Song Shuhang further explains that his Cultivation Chat client may eventually make him extremely wealthy.
• Senior White plays with the mechanical girl Little Lingxiao, then begins teaching her the Dust-Cleansing Spell.
• Senior White asks how many disciples and children Song Shuhang has so that Northern River’s Loose Cultivator can prepare New Year red envelopes.
• Song Shuhang counts Joseph as a prospective disciple and summons several disciples from his

Core World

• Xiao Cai, his monster-sparrow first disciple, now capable of human transformation.
• Chu Chu, his second disciple, who behaves formally and is suited to represent his faction publicly.
• Song Shuhang also mentions Dryad Milulu as a future disciple who will inherit the title “Wood Daoist,” and Joseph as the potential “White Whale Saber Expert.”
• Li Yinzhu is brought out of the Core World while asleep. Song Shuhang considers her and Little Lingxiao daughters in a broad sense.
• Mother Song suggests showing End-Dharma War, the film Song Shuhang acted in, during the New Year gathering. Song Shuhang fears the relatives may beat him after watching it.
• Little Lingxiao successfully performs the Dust-Cleansing Spell, cleaning the entire exterior of the house and impressing the family. Song Shuhang proudly claims her talent comes from him.
• Meanwhile, Song Fat Ball hides in the Solar System and monitors the sun. He discovers that the culprit behind the Stellar Destruction Virus is preparing to infect the sun.
• Determined to spend the New Year with his main body, Song Fat Ball prepares to stop the culprit, ending with a sinister, confident laugh.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Continues expanding his growing faction, recognizing more disciples and family-like companions. He remains comically overconfident about becoming the richest person in the cultivation world, while also taking pride in Little Lingxiao’s abilities.
• Senior White: Acts generously toward Song Shuhang by waiving interest and supports him socially by confirming the potential of his Cultivation Chat project. He also patiently entertains and teaches Little Lingxiao.
• Father Song: Initially distrustful of Song Shuhang’s claims about wealth, but Senior White’s endorsement convinces him that the project may truly be profitable.
• Mother Song: Takes an active interest in Shuhang’s disciples and possible romantic prospects, while also planning a family viewing of his film.
• Little Lingxiao: Displays remarkable spellcasting talent by learning and performing the Dust-Cleansing Spell after Senior White’s demonstration.
• Xiao Cai and Chu Chu: Show their increasing maturity and usefulness as members of Song Shuhang’s faction. Chu Chu particularly demonstrates her formal discipline and suitability as its public representative.
• Song Fat Ball: Reveals determination and strategic patience. His desire to reunite with his main body is combined with a growing commitment to confronting the threat of the Stellar Destruction Virus.

Significant Themes

• Family and found family: Song Shuhang’s disciples, companions, and spiritual beings are increasingly treated as members of a large extended family.
• Generational and parental concern: Father and Mother Song try to understand and support their son’s extraordinary cultivation life, though they often react with ordinary parental anxiety.
• Trust and authority: Father Song trusts Senior White’s words more than Shuhang’s because Senior White possesses greater authority and credibility.
• Comedic contrast between ordinary life and cultivation: Spirit-stone debts, New Year red envelopes, family movies, and parental matchmaking are humorously mixed with magical spells, spatial worlds, and cosmic threats.
• Growth and inheritance: Song Shuhang is building a faction, assigning titles, accepting disciples, and passing on skills and identity.
• Hidden danger beneath domestic peace: While the Song family prepares for the New Year, Song Fat Ball confronts a potentially catastrophic virus threatening the sun and the Solar System.

Character Interactions

• Senior White reassures Father Song about Shuhang’s debt, strengthening Father Song’s confidence in the project.
• Senior White plays with and teaches Little Lingxiao, who responds with delight and quickly demonstrates her ability.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White discuss disciples, children, and New Year gifts from the cultivation group.
• Xiao Cai and Chu Chu formally greet Song Shuhang and the seniors, establishing their roles within his faction.
• Mother Song takes over caring for the sleeping Li Yinzhu and criticizes Shuhang’s awkward way of holding her.
• Mother Song and Song Shuhang disagree humorously over showing his film to relatives.
• Little Lingxiao’s successful spell impresses the family and allows Song Shuhang to boast proudly.
• Song Fat Ball, separated from the domestic events, prepares to intervene against the unknown enemy threatening the sun.

Key plot points and events

• Song Fat Ball plans to capture the hidden source of the “Stellar Destruction Virus” and present them to its main body as a New Year’s gift. It suppresses its urge to reunite with the main body and waits for the target to enter a stellar sun.
• To prevent the target from sensing danger, Song Fat Ball secretly disrupts divination and other predictive methods around the sun. Its experience with this kind of covert maneuver seems instinctive, despite its incomplete memories.
• In Wenzhou, Song Shuhang gathers his disciples and daughter. He regrets not having time to visit the Black Dragon World and arrange a trial for Scarlet Eyes, a prospective disciple.
• Little Lingxiao rapidly learns spells from Senior White, progressing from cleaning magic to lightning techniques. She even uses the Charging Technique to fully recharge Song Dad’s phone.
• Senior White proposes teaching a more powerful lightning art, so Song Shuhang opens a stable passage into his Core World for the demonstration.
• Song Dad mistakes the Core World for a garbage dump, then peeks inside and sees Fairy Bie Xue. She asks Song Shuhang for ingredients for a New Year’s feast and suggests a dragon-beast banquet. When Song Shuhang objects to killing a dragon, White Dragon Sister unexpectedly pokes her head through a spatial rift.

Character developments

• Song Fat Ball shows patience and cunning, carefully preparing an ambush while its longing to find its main body steadily grows. Its tactical instincts hint at a formidable, largely forgotten past.
• Little Lingxiao displays exceptional spell-learning ability, mastering techniques after minimal instruction and showing promise as a powerful cultivator.
• Song Shuhang is eager to demonstrate his Core World, but his household and friends keep interrupting his moment to show off.

Significant themes

• Longing and reunion: Song Fat Ball turns its separation from the main body into a motivating, almost playful challenge.
• Instinct and forgotten memory: Song Fat Ball’s battle skills persist even without clear recollection of its past.
• Mentorship and potential: Little Lingxiao’s rapid progress highlights the possibilities of patient teaching.
• Domestic comedy amid supernatural events: Spell lessons, family banter, feast preparations, and sudden spatial intrusions mix with high-stakes schemes.

Character interactions

• Song Fat Ball silently plots to deliver the virus mastermind to its main body.
• Senior White teaches Little Lingxiao while Song Dad proudly praises her; Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword jokes that Song Shuhang may become the “father of the Ruler of All Laws.”
• Song Shuhang responds to the teasing with a barrage of Blade-Nourishing Arts, then agrees to demonstrate lightning magic in his Core World.
• Fairy Bie Xue discusses the New Year’s feast with Song Shuhang, whose concern about killing a dragon immediately coincides with White Dragon Sister’s dramatic appearance.

Chapter Summary: “I Have a Wish”

Key Plot Points and Events

• White Dragon Sister suddenly appears at an awkward moment, revealing that she has not been cultivating in seclusion; Su Clan’s Sixteen is the one who has been secluded on Mysterious Island.
• When asked whether Sixteen has finished her seclusion, White Dragon Sister gives the uncertain answer, “Probably.”
• White Dragon Sister proposes transforming Song Shuhang into a dragon. She tempts him with the possibility of repeatedly harvesting dragon parts—such as his liver, heart, and bones—for food or profit, relying on his extraordinary self-healing abilities.
• Song Shuhang briefly considers the idea but ultimately refuses, maintaining that exploiting his own body for money is unacceptable. He also notes that the Disaster Giant Turtle Clan would collect anything that fell from him anyway.
• White Dragon Sister comments on how rapidly Song Shuhang has advanced and how abnormal his cultivation speed has become.
• With Senior White’s permission, White Dragon Sister takes Song Shuhang’s head away while leaving his body behind to help arrange the Core World and prepare for the New Year.
• Song Shuhang separates his head from his body without injury, horrifying his father. Soft Feather explains that Song Shuhang is unusually skilled at using the Flying Head Technique.
• White Dragon Sister brings Song Shuhang’s head to the White Dragon Tomb, where Su Clan’s Sixteen has just completed her seclusion.
• Sixteen welcomes Song Shuhang and reveals that she has a wish, recalling the wish she held before entering the Heaven’s River Su Clan’s final trial.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains comically unconventional but demonstrates a firm Dao heart by rejecting White Dragon Sister’s profitable yet grotesque suggestion. His rapid rise to the Three Severings Tribulation Immortal realm continues to distinguish him from ordinary cultivators.
• White Dragon Sister acts mischievously and assertively, teasing Song Shuhang while also showing concern about how quickly he has progressed. She remains closely connected to Sixteen and takes responsibility for reuniting her with Song Shuhang.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen successfully completes her seclusion and appears calm and steady in her cultivation. Her mention of a long-held wish signals an important emotional or narrative development.
• Dad Song becomes increasingly overwhelmed by the supernatural events around his son, especially when Song Shuhang’s head detaches and flies away.
• Senior White casually accepts Song Shuhang’s unusual separation and continues organizing activities in the Core World, treating the bizarre situation as normal.
• Little Lingxiao shows enthusiasm toward the idea of transforming into a dragon, reflecting her playful and mechanical nature.

Significant Themes

• Abnormal cultivation and rapid growth: Song Shuhang’s progress has become so extreme that even those close to him view it as difficult to comprehend.
• Maturity versus childish desires: The discussion about becoming a dragon humorously contrasts Song Shuhang’s claim of maturity with his father’s secret wish to transform.
• Body, identity, and self-sacrifice: Song Shuhang’s ability to separate his head and regenerate body parts reflects the increasingly extraordinary nature of his existence.
• Family reactions to cultivation: Dad Song provides a grounded, ordinary perspective, reacting with understandable fear to events that cultivators consider routine.
• Wishes and emotional bonds: Sixteen’s newly revealed wish introduces a more serious and personal thread, likely connected to her relationship with Song Shuhang and her past experiences.

Character Interactions

• White Dragon Sister and Song Shuhang exchange playful, threateningly persuasive banter over dragon transformation and harvesting his body parts.
• Senior White authorizes White Dragon Sister to borrow Song Shuhang’s head while assigning his body to help with preparations.
• Dad Song reacts in horror to his son’s headless body, while Soft Feather reassures him.
• At the Dragon Tomb, Sixteen receives Song Shuhang’s head from White Dragon Sister, corrects his wording about her seclusion, and remarks on his startling advancement.
• Sixteen then begins to share a significant wish from her past, ending the chapter on a moment of anticipation.

Su Clan's Sixteen explained that she had wished to live and see Song Shuhang again, then revealed that she was currently operating as a simulated personality while her original personality remained in the background. With Song Shuhang's cultivation advancing too quickly for them to wait, she called Fairy Spirit Ghost into view.

• Su Clan's Sixteen told Song Shuhang that her original wish had been to live and see him again, and that marrying him had been an upgraded version of that wish.
• Song Shuhang worried that Su Clan's Sixteen had been replaced by another Little Sixteen, but she assured him that the trial had gone smoothly and her existence had not been replaced.
• Su Clan's Sixteen explained that she was Su Clan's A16.1, a simulated personality serving as a safeguard while her original personality operated in the background.
• Su Clan's Sixteen said they could not wait any longer because Song Shuhang's cultivation had advanced too quickly, then called Fairy Spirit Ghost to join them.

Su Clan's Sixteen brought Song Shuhang into the space of crystal coffins and used her saber art to draw them into a dreamlike scene. There, Song Shuhang regained his body and heard a woman mistake him for another man surnamed Song.

• Su Clan's Sixteen joined with Fairy Spirit Ghost, ending the spirit ghost's synchronization with Song Shuhang.
• Su Clan's Sixteen took Song Shuhang by the hand and, with White Dragon Sister, opened the space containing more than a hundred crystal coffins.
• Su Clan's Sixteen drew her life-bound saber and unfolded a domain combining the Dao of Painting and the Dao of the Saber.
• Song Shuhang entered a dreamlike state, regained his full body, and noticed Pavilion Master Chu's cowlick had disappeared.
• A gentle female voice mistook Song Shuhang for another man surnamed Song and remarked that the women of the Heavenly River Su Clan often became entangled with men of that surname.

Plot and key events

• Song Shuhang senses danger in a conversation with an unseen fairy and reflexively tries to distance himself from “Song Blockhead,” assuming she may want to beat him.
• The fairy clarifies that she is not angry with him and has no romantic history with the man she calls “Fellow Daoist Song.” Their past conflict was a serious disagreement about the Dao, not a love affair.
• She notes that many younger women of the Heavenly River Su Clan have become involved with men surnamed Song, and teases Shuhang for sounding like the Song she once knew. Her face-reading ability lets her infer his thoughts.
• The conversation turns to whether a Dao of Longevity can be shared. The fairy explains that the Ancient Heavenly Court’s vast Heavenly Court Path allowed exceptionally talented cultivators to attain genuine longevity beneath the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao.
• Shuhang connects this explanation to Phoenix Ritual Zither Master, whose longevity was tied to the Heavenly Court Path. The discussion also prompts him to absorb and reflect on knowledge of that Path he gained from the Heavenly Emperor.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows hard-won caution, quickly anticipating trouble because of past humiliating encounters. He tries to avoid being mistaken for another Song, but his thoughts and expressions repeatedly give him away.
• The Su Clan fairy is perceptive, amused, and powerful enough to read Shuhang’s face. She gently corrects his assumptions, then engages him in a substantive discussion of cultivation and longevity.
• Their exchange moves from comic suspicion and teasing to serious discussion, with Shuhang listening and making a knowledgeable connection to Phoenix Ritual Zither Master.

Significant themes

• Learning from repeated mishaps: Shuhang’s caution is presented humorously as a survival skill.
• Preconceptions and mistaken identity: The fairy’s history with a man surnamed Song makes Shuhang wary of being judged by association.
• Longevity through collective structures: The Heavenly Court Path offers a way for near-longevity cultivators to attain longevity while anchoring their Dao beneath the Heavenly Emperor’s.
• Knowledge as inheritance: Even though the Heavenly Court Path now belongs to Island Master Gold Trigram, Shuhang’s accumulated understanding may still prove useful.

Song Shuhang entered the final stage of Su Clan's Sixteen's trial and learned that Fairy Su's Dao of Longevity incorporated ideas from a rival. He found himself in a series of strange encounters with different versions of Sixteen, and began to suspect that they were the collected “Little Sixteens.”

• Fairy Su told Song Shuhang that her Dao of Longevity drew on the Ancient Heavenly Court and incorporated creative ideas from a rival, including ways for many people to share a single Dao.
• Fairy Su sent Song Shuhang into the final stage of Su Clan's Sixteen's trial, where he expected to experience her Dao of Longevity.
• Song Shuhang found himself inside a coffin with an expressionless Sixteen, and they stared at each other without moving for a day.
• The scene shifted to Song Shuhang and a doting, elder-like Sixteen sitting beneath a tree.
• Song Shuhang suspected that the different Sixteens were among the hundred-plus Little Sixteens and quietly moved his hand toward the elder-like one to try appraisal.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang uses his appraisal technique on the “Little Sixteen” beside him, paying for it with a small amount of physical pain. He learns she is a Heavenly River Avatar created during the ritual that made Su Clan’s Sixteen, using the Ten Thousand Avatars Technique and the Dao of Longevity of a Su Clan ancestor.
• The appraisal cannot reveal the ancestor’s concealed name, and Song Shuhang chooses not to press the matter out of respect.
• The avatar explains that once the Heavenly River Trial began, the Little Sixteens’ information became shared. They had considered targeting Song Shuhang because he was important to Sixteen’s will to survive, but abandoned the plan because they could not defeat him and he advanced too quickly.
• More than a hundred Little Sixteens are waiting to meet Song Shuhang. Ordinarily, they would fuse into the original Sixteen after the trial, but Sixteen has chosen to remain herself. The avatar says this is their last meeting and asks Song Shuhang to close his eyes.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows respect for Sixteen’s ancestor and sensitivity toward the avatars’ harsh trial. His casual remark about the cruelty of returning from death surprises the avatar.
• The “big-sister” Little Sixteen reveals herself as an independent trial persona who has come to know Song Shuhang through shared information. Though she once considered harming him, she has developed a warm, teasing rapport with him.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen’s decision to remain wholly herself rather than absorb the avatars affirms her individuality.

Significant themes

• Identity and continuity: The avatars are potential replacements for Sixteen, but her choice preserves her distinct self.
• Death and survival: The trial’s process of returning from death is described as cruel, and Sixteen’s will to live is central to the avatars’ plans.
• Power and respect: Song Shuhang’s strength changes the avatars’ strategy, while his restraint in appraising the ancestor’s hidden identity shows deference.
• Parting and change: The avatar’s impending disappearance marks the end of one relationship as the trial moves toward its conclusion.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang and the avatar share a quiet, affectionate moment when he touches her arm; she notices his appraisal and holds his hand.
• She teases and reassures him about meeting the many Little Sixteens to come, while he reacts with embarrassment and disbelief.
• Their conversation shifts from the avatar’s former plan to attack him to the bittersweet prospect of her disappearance.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang reaches another stage of Su Clan Sixteen’s trial and meets the armored Little Sixteen he encountered earlier.
• She explains that the trial has begun Sixteen’s reincarnation-fusion process prematurely. Under the usual process, each Heavenly River incarnation would complete a life over roughly a thousand years before returning to Sixteen, carrying knowledge that could help her reach the Dao of Longevity.
• Sixteen has chosen to preserve the incarnations rather than absorb them, since each has lived a complete life. With White Dragon Sister’s help, she may be able to survive the trial without the usual fusion.
• Song Shuhang marks the armored Little Sixteen with a spatial coordinate, then uses his “Cheap Love” technique on her—an irreverent shortcut that leaves her accusing him of cheating.
• A day later, Song opens his Third Divine Eye and links his mind with Sixteen’s, helping her process the vast information from the Little Sixteens.
• He enters Sixteen’s consciousness, where the many incarnations and Sixteen’s 16.1 personality are sorting through the information. His sudden arrival silences the chaotic gathering.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from joking with the armored Little Sixteen to acting as practical support for Sixteen. He uses his experience with information overload to help her, while also hoping the trial will teach him about his own Dao of Longevity.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen shows compassion and independence by refusing to erase the incarnations through fusion. Her improved condition, aided by White Dragon Sister, gives her another possible path through the trial.
• The armored Little Sixteen is confrontational and suspicious, but ultimately explains the trial’s mechanics and accepts Song’s palm-to-palm challenge—only to find their power gap overwhelming.
• Song’s exchange with the incarnations is marked by teasing, mock threats, and an awkward pause when he appears in their shared consciousness.

Significant themes

• Identity and preservation: The incarnations are not merely fragments to be reclaimed; each has lived a meaningful life worth preserving.
• Inheritance and longevity: The Heavenly River incarnations pass accumulated experience to future generations, offering a route toward Longevity when individual cultivation falls short.
• Compassion versus tradition: Sixteen’s choice challenges the trial’s intended fusion-based solution.
• Improvisation and irreverence: Song repeatedly bends expectations, using humor and unconventional methods in situations involving profound cultivation and life-changing trials.

Key events

• Song Shuhang enters Su Clan’s Sixteen’s mental space through the Third Divine Eye, determined to watch over her final Heavenly River Trial ceremony.
• The energetic Little Sixteens greet him. One charges at him with drill horns, but he casually presses them back into her helmet.
• The ceremony consists of each Little Sixteen high-fiving Su Clan’s 16.1. Their cultivation insights, memories, and other information are transferred to her; afterward, the Little Sixteens remain beside her.
• Su Clan’s 16.1 gathers the transferred information into a sphere, revealing a projection of her Star River Dao of Longevity: the river represents her Dao, and its stars represent the clan members she shelters.
• Watching this gives Song Shuhang inspiration. His own Dao of Longevity begins to take shape, even though he had never consciously developed it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang has grown far beyond his earlier, vulnerable self. He remains protective of Sixteen, but now faces the ceremony with confidence, trusting both his own abilities and the powerful allies behind him.
• The Little Sixteens are lively and spirited, and cooperate with Su Clan’s 16.1 through the high-five exchange. The ceremony’s information-sharing appears to help protect Sixteen’s main personality during the final trial.
• Su Clan’s 16.1 appears to deliberately display her Dao’s projection, giving Song Shuhang a chance to learn from it.
• Song Shuhang records the ceremony, hoping its information may also help improve his cultivation-chat system.

Significant themes

• Experience shapes the Dao: A cultivator’s life, abilities, and defining experiences form the basis of their Dao of Longevity.
• Family and protection: Su Clan’s 16.1’s Star River represents her role as a vessel sheltering her clan.
• Growth through observation: Song Shuhang gains insight by witnessing another cultivator’s Dao rather than forcing a realization himself.
• Humorous self-reflection: Reviewing his life, Song Shuhang identifies his recurring pattern of battling powerful beings, dying repeatedly, and giving Dao lectures. He wonders whether his own Dao might combine fighting almighty figures with death—finding a way to survive amid repeated near-deaths.

Chapter summary

• Song Shuhang reflects on the need for a real, practicable method of longevity, not merely an impressive-sounding idea. He compares established Longevity Methods: Cheng Lin’s repeated rebirth, a Mo School immortal’s puppet body, Pavilion Master Chu’s cycle of life and death, and the Confucian Sage’s and Heavenly Emperor’s far more mysterious, powerful paths.
• He considers whether his own method could be “seizing life from death,” perhaps through resurrection. He rejects making resurrection his defining Dao, reasoning that Fairy Skylark is its undisputed master.
• Song Shuhang instead studies his own body, which has already begun forming the framework of a Longevity Dao. He hopes careful self-examination will reveal the unique method hidden within him; he even jokes that he could study himself down to individual strands after transforming into smoke.
• The Little Sixteens watch him as his Longevity aura grows stronger. He reassures them that he has only found inspiration, not reached another breakthrough, and deliberately keeps his aura from harming them.
• When Su Clan’s 16.1 compresses an information ball into herself and links all the Little Sixteens through a radiant network, Song Shuhang’s inspiration intensifies. He senses that “seizing a thread of life from nine deaths” may be possible, but that an even deeper Dao lies within him: a bottomless, extraordinarily advanced Great Dao beyond what even Tribulation Immortals or Longevity Immortals can manage.

Character developments and interactions

Song Shuhang is thoughtful and unusually self-aware: he recognizes his limits, declines to imitate Fairy Skylark’s specialty, and turns inward to seek a Dao suited to himself. His aura draws the Little Sixteens’ attention, while he protects them from its effects. Su Clan’s 16.1’s network of connected selves becomes the immediate trigger for his growing insight.

Significant themes

The chapter explores how longevity depends on a concrete path, the importance of discovering one’s own nature rather than borrowing another’s method, and the gulf between ordinary cultivation and higher, near-incomprehensible forms of Dao.

Key events

• Song Shuhang realizes that his second Dao of Longevity is a vast, unfinished path built from many parts of himself and his abilities—including Cultivation Chat, his golden-core patterns, Sage Seals, laws, causality, and merit.
• He suspects completing it may require insight from the perspective of the Heavenly Dao. Rather than wait for Senior White or another powerful figure to help, he decides to first pursue the Nine-Deaths-One-Life Longevity Method, potentially transitioning to his more expansive Dao later.
• As he settles on this plan, his Longevity aura fades and he is pushed out of Su Clan Sixteen’s consciousness space.
• White Dragon Sister asks whether he has comprehended a Longevity Method. Shuhang says he has only begun putting parts of one into practice.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost, speaking through Sixteen’s body, explains that Sixteen’s trial ritual is not over: she needs about three more hours to absorb its gains. Her Golden Core Formation Diagram is complete apart from its final stroke, and she is expected to face tribulation after waking.
• Shuhang learns that a hundred Little Sixteens helped draw the diagram. He briefly imagines how useful a hundred Little Shuhangs would have been during his own advancement, then decides the idea would only burden Venerable Yellow Mountain further.
• Yellow Mountain messages that he is nearly at Shuhang’s doorstep; Shuhang replies, “Coming right up, dear customer~”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows growing understanding of his unusual cultivation path and chooses a practical first step instead of waiting for others to solve it. His comic self-awareness remains intact.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen has made major progress through the ritual, though she remains asleep while digesting its benefits. Fairy Spirit Ghost temporarily acts through her body and updates Shuhang and White Dragon Sister.
• White Dragon Sister is impressed—and incredulous—at Shuhang’s rapid progress, then focuses on Sixteen’s condition.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain remains the target of Shuhang’s affectionate teasing, while also approaching to meet him.

Significant themes

• Cultivation as gradual synthesis: Shuhang’s Longevity Dao must unite many existing powers and experiences.
• Pragmatism and adaptability: He plans to pursue one path first and transition later if needed.
• Rapid advancement and comic exasperation: Shuhang’s unusual progress amazes others, while cultivation’s exhausting labor—especially completing a Golden Core Formation Diagram—provides humor.

Chapter 2926: “Tenfold Happiness” — Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang checks the date and realizes it is Chinese New Year’s Eve, January 24, 2020. He jokes solemnly that he will be another year older, prompting Pavilion Master Chu to remind him that it is also the first New Year since his sterilization.
• Senior Yellow Mountain announces that he is about to arrive, raising hopes that other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group will soon follow.
• Song Shuhang leaves the Core World with Su Clan’s Sixteen and Fairy Spirit Ghost. After Fairy Spirit Ghost spins his detached head around to wake him from his distraction, Song opens a Space Gate by smashing through the void with his unusually durable skull.
• Before leaving the Dragon Tomb, White Dragon Sister retrieves two Ancient Heavenly Court banknotes from her treasure hoard and places one in each of two red envelopes. Though no longer usable as currency, the banknotes are valuable keepsakes and can serve as luck-enhancing protective talismans.
• Song returns to his body and prepares his household and companions to welcome the seniors. Senior White and Black-Skinned Soft Feather’s main body are away hunting auspicious beasts for the New Year’s feast, while the others finish decorating and organizing the Core World and Song’s home.
• Song plans to introduce his disciples and daughters to the seniors so they can receive gifts and red envelopes.
• Senior Yellow Mountain arrives in modern clothes and is warmly welcomed. Song introduces Chu Chu and Xiao Cai, who greet him respectfully.
• Yellow Mountain gives Chu Chu and Xiao Cai matching Wind-Fire Wheels, allowing them to fly even before reaching the Fourth-Grade Realm. He also gives Li Yinzhu a warm fox-fur cloak and Little Lingxiao a miniature Immortal Ark designed as a child’s toy.
• Yellow Mountain gives Song Shuhang a thick red envelope containing 10,000 yuan in cash. He explains that he researched ordinary New Year customs and deliberately chose the amount to represent “tenfold happiness.”
• Su Clan’s Sixteen receives a separate red envelope containing 1,000 Grade-Five Spirit Stones.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues adapting to his unusual post-sterilization life and the strange consequences of his cultivation journey. His detached head and ability to use it to open a Space Gate remain sources of comedic absurdity.
• He shows increased responsibility as a leader and mentor, focusing on ensuring that his disciples, daughters, and companions receive gifts from the visiting seniors.
• Pavilion Master Chu has developed a sharper, more teasing personality after spending so long isolated in the Core World. She jokes about Song’s sterilization and threatens to remind Chu Two about his “debt” of a head.
• White Dragon Sister demonstrates generosity and sentimentality by using treasured Ancient Heavenly Court banknotes as meaningful New Year gifts for Song and Sixteen.
• Senior Yellow Mountain reveals a thoughtful, practical side. He studies modern New Year traditions and prepares personalized presents suitable for each recipient.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost remains mischievous, spinning Song’s head when he stops paying attention, while Su Clan’s Sixteen participates in the festivities and receives a generous spiritual gift.

Significant Themes

• Family and community: The chapter emphasizes the importance of gathering together for the New Year and welcoming friends, seniors, disciples, and companions.
• Tradition amid the supernatural: Modern Chinese customs—red envelopes, lucky money, New Year greetings, and family reunions—are blended with cultivation-world artifacts and magical gifts.
• Generosity and affection: The gifts are chosen according to each character’s needs, showing care beneath the comedic surface.
• Humor through contrast: Song’s extraordinary cultivation abilities are contrasted with his awkward reaction to receiving ordinary cash, while his “tenfold happiness” is both a sincere gift and a playful joke.
• The passage of time: Song reflects on aging and the end of another year, making the New Year a marker of both personal change and ongoing relationships.

Character Interactions

• Pavilion Master Chu teases Song about his sterilization and suggests contacting Chu Two to demand a New Year gift.
• Fairy Spirit Ghost playfully punishes Song for spacing out by spinning his head.
• Song and White Dragon Sister coordinate their return from the Dragon Tomb, with White Dragon Sister preparing gifts for him and Sixteen.
• Song encourages Chu Chu and Xiao Cai to address the seniors sweetly so they can maximize their red-envelope rewards.
• Song formally introduces his disciples to Yellow Mountain, who responds warmly and gives each of them a suitable present.
• Yellow Mountain’s affectionate but teasing explanation of Song’s 10,000-yuan red envelope creates the chapter’s central joke: the “tenfold happiness” is generous by ordinary standards but underwhelming compared with cultivation-world treasures.

Song Shuhang welcomed New Year visits from his seniors, who gave him gifts ranging from pills and money-making advice to a contract involving the Heavenly Court Fragments. The Northern Great Emperor left him with Gold Trigram’s letter and the terms for temporarily transferring the fragments into Song Shuhang’s Core World.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain gave Song Shuhang ten thousand yuan, and Song Shuhang planned to take his companions shopping and buy them phones.
• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan arrived, gave cultivation pills to the younger members, and gave Song Shuhang lifespan-extending pills for his parents.
• Jiang Ziyan gave Song Shuhang an information card containing Medicine Master’s promised ways to earn money in the Present World.
• The Northern Great Emperor arrived with Gold Trigram’s letter and a contract allowing the Heavenly Court Fragments to be transferred temporarily into Song Shuhang’s Core World.
• The Northern Great Emperor explained that Gold Trigram agreed to lend the fragments in exchange for receiving the complete Heavenly Emperor Authority after the ceremony.

Key plot points and events

• The Northern Great Emperor reveals that the Heavenly Emperor Authority was once divided, and his group possesses one part. He plans to hold a ceremony next year—meaning after the imminent New Year—to reunite the authority.
• Song Shuhang reads Island Master Gold Trigram’s letter. Gold Trigram has agreed to lend the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment for the ceremony, asking Song to protect it in exchange for another chest of spirit stones. A signed contract, with Fairy Cheng Lin as representative, is also entrusted to Song because the Core World is his territory.
• The Northern Great Emperor leaves to help move Gold Trigram’s fragment. Song gives him a New Year red envelope, which he accepts without offering a return gift.
• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group arrive to celebrate. Young Master Phoenix Slayer gives Song 6,666 yuan and New Year gifts for his family; Mad Saber Three Waves gives him 8,888 coins and a treasure map said to lead to a vast fortune.
• Song sends Tyrant Evil, one of his corpses, to investigate the map. With one hour remaining until New Year, he checks that the group is gathered and that Senior White and Soft Feather are on their way.
• On the Moon, Song Fat Ball prepares to make a surprise entrance with a metal case and the spoils he has collected.

Character developments and interactions

• Song is amused by the Northern Great Emperor’s secrecy and impressed by his organization’s plans. He agrees to safeguard Gold Trigram’s fragment, motivated both by the promised spirit stones and gratitude for Gold Trigram’s past kindness.
• Song’s generosity and attachment to New Year customs show in his red envelope for the Northern Great Emperor, even though the custom surprises him.
• Phoenix Slayer and Three Waves playfully compete to give Song auspicious cash gifts, while Three Waves also repays Song for lending him the Confucian Canon. Song accepts the treasure map but sensibly delegates its investigation to Tyrant Evil.
• The Northern Great Emperor remains warm and considerate, while Song and the arriving seniors share a relaxed, teasing rapport.

Significant themes

• Kindness and reciprocity: Song remembers past favors and protects Gold Trigram’s property beyond the financial incentive.
• Generosity and humor: The seniors’ extravagant, playful cash gifts turn New Year greetings into friendly competition.
• Hidden plans and impending events: The divided Heavenly Emperor Authority, the upcoming ceremony, the treasure map, and Song Fat Ball’s planned entrance all set up future developments.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang prepares his Core World for the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s New Year gathering, with Fairy Bie Xue’s banquet and a stage set up by the lake.
• While the guests explore the growing Ancient Heavenly Court ruins—assembled from fragments Shuhang owns and others transferred from the Confucian School—Song Shuhang remains at his old home in Wenzhou.
• Senior White tells Shuhang that he and Soft Feather are taking a brief detour to retrieve the Jade Lake Heavenly Court Fragment they once seized from the Limitless Demon Sect. They promise to return within ten minutes.
• Shuhang sends Chu Chu and Xiao Cai to help Fairy Bie Xue prepare the meal. He then realizes that Joseph has not arrived, despite being expected for the formal establishment of their master-disciple bond.
• When Joseph’s call is cut off, Shuhang quietly searches China with his powerful divine sense and finds him bound and hanging upside down in a cave. A crude puppet has taken and crushed his phone, boasting that Joseph’s master cannot rescue him.
• Joseph replies that he can ask his master for help—setting up a likely confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang takes responsibility for hosting the gathering and organizing his expanding collection of Heavenly Court ruins. His concern for Joseph shows that he takes their impending master-disciple relationship seriously.
• Senior White is eager to retrieve the Jade Lake fragment, though he frames the detour as serious business rather than a search for fun.
• Chu Chu continues her Immortal Chef cultivation by assisting Fairy Bie Xue; Xiao Cai is assigned to help with her knife skills.
• Joseph is in danger but remains confident enough to invoke his master’s help.
• The Limitless Demon Sect disciples, now working in Shuhang’s Overlord World, are awed by the scale of his power and wonder whether their forced labor might eventually become an opportunity to settle there.

Significant themes

• Unexpected danger amid celebration: New Year preparations are interrupted by Joseph’s abduction.
• Power and responsibility: Shuhang’s vast resources and strength come with obligations to his guests, followers, and prospective disciple.
• Expansion and opportunity: The Ancient Heavenly Court fragments and the sect’s situation reflect how Shuhang’s domains are continually growing.
• Cliffhanger and confidence: The captor dismisses Joseph’s master, while Joseph’s response hints that the threat may have badly underestimated Shuhang.

Key plot points and events

• Joseph, captured and suspended by the Crude Puppet, initially forgets to ask his master, Song Shuhang, for help. His captor removes his communications devices and sets up a barrier to block magical distress signals.
• Joseph simply shouts for his master, rather than using any special spell. The Crude Puppet realizes it has wasted effort preparing for a signal and angrily threatens him.
• A familiar voice tells Joseph to ask the puppet why it has not asked who his master is. Joseph announces Song Shuhang’s name.
• The Crude Puppet recognizes the name as Tyrant Song and is shaken by how powerful and influential Song has become. It recalls having once doubted, attacked, and plotted against him.
• Despite its fear, the puppet convinces itself that Joseph’s weak cultivation makes his claim unbelievable and advances to kill him. On its third step, a finger suddenly appears from the void and presses against its brow—an unmistakable sign that Song Shuhang has intervened.

Character developments

• Joseph moves from nervous helplessness to renewed confidence once he hears his master’s voice. He tries to project authority, even while hanging upside down.
• The Crude Puppet is shown to be cautious and formidable, but its overconfidence and past history with Song Shuhang leave it deeply rattled by his name. It ultimately chooses aggression despite its fear.
• Song Shuhang remains offstage until the cliffhanger, but his voice and sudden intervention demonstrate that he can reach Joseph despite the barrier.

Significant themes

• Reputation and power: Song Shuhang’s name alone terrifies an enemy who once underestimated him.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: Joseph’s ordinary shouting is mistaken for a sophisticated magical distress method, exposing the puppet’s excessive caution.
• Underestimation and changing fortunes: The puppet’s memories of dismissing Song as weak contrast sharply with his present status.
• Loyalty and rescue: Joseph’s reliance on his master gives him courage, while Song responds to his call.

Character interactions

• Joseph’s awkward bravado clashes with the Crude Puppet’s threats and frustration.
• The puppet tries to control Joseph through intimidation, but Joseph turns the exchange around by naming his master.
• Song Shuhang communicates briefly through a familiar voice, then appears to confront the puppet as it moves to attack Joseph.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ba Song effortlessly traces the hidden “root” of the crude puppet through a single touch, bypassing numerous disguises and virtual roots.
• His overwhelming strength leaves the puppet’s consciousness unable to react, while Joseph watches in amazement.
• Ba Song emerges from the shattered void in a liquid-metal form resembling the T-1000 from Terminator. His immense aura nearly breaks the soul inside the puppet, though Joseph is protected from the pressure.
• Ba Song reveals that the puppet master’s method involved transforming or brainwashing independent beings into subordinate puppets. Because these puppets retained separate bodies and seemingly independent souls, ordinary methods could not trace the true root.
• Claiming that such techniques are familiar and easy for him to counter, Ba Song uses the root connection to locate every puppet clone.
• He pierces the crude puppet’s forehead and destroys it. The resulting explosion simultaneously kills nearly a thousand puppets scattered across almost a hundred worlds.
• These victims had lived seemingly normal lives, unaware that they had already become extensions of the puppet master.
• The hidden Root Puppet is also destroyed. Ba Song collects the puppet’s stored treasures, cultivation techniques, pills, and components, though it has no spirit stones left after avoiding detection.
• Song Fat Ball—apparently connected to the enemy’s destruction—feels greatly satisfied after finally tracking down and eliminating the foe.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Ba Song/Song Shuhang demonstrates an overwhelming, almost transcendent level of power and technical understanding. He not only defeats the enemy but identifies and eliminates its entire network in one action.
• Joseph experiences intense relief and admiration. Seeing Ba Song fight directly confirms his belief that his master is an actual immortal rather than merely a martial-arts expert. Ba Song’s declaration that the puppet had targeted “my disciple” deeply reassures and moves Joseph.
• Joseph humorously compares Ba Song’s metallic appearance to the T-1000 and wonders whether immortals can suffer physical discomfort, adding comic relief to the otherwise intimidating scene.
• The puppet master is exposed as manipulative and cruel, having secretly stripped independent beings of their autonomy while allowing them to believe they remained free.
• Song Fat Ball gains emotional satisfaction from the enemy’s destruction, especially because it had previously been involved in a prolonged pursuit or hidden conflict with the puppet master.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and expertise: Ba Song’s knowledge makes the puppet master’s supposedly sophisticated concealment techniques completely ineffective.
• Identity and autonomy: The puppets’ tragedy lies in their false belief that they possessed independent lives, highlighting the horror of losing control without realizing it.
• Protection and recognition: Ba Song’s defense of Joseph and open acknowledgment of him as a disciple strengthen their master-student bond.
• Justice and total eradication: Ba Song refuses to destroy only the visible puppet, instead tracing and eliminating the entire hidden network so the threat cannot return.
• Humor amid danger: Joseph’s exaggerated praise, movie comparison, and confused thoughts about immortals provide comic contrast to the chapter’s darker themes of manipulation and mass destruction.