Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang sees a future version of himself, “Ghost Song,” who looks older and more weathered. He speculates that marriage, children, or other life burdens might explain the change, and imagines various possible futures for his daughters.
• The Cultivation Chat System then delivers information about the Dao of Longevity tied to Death, passed through Daozi. This helps Shuhang clarify the nature of his own emerging Death Dao.
• His Dao is not simply surviving repeated deaths or returning to life. It appears to depend on remaining in a suspended condition: dead, but not fully dead; on the verge of resurrection, but unable to complete it.
• Shuhang questions whether this “neither alive nor dead” state can genuinely support longevity. He worries it might strip away essential qualities of life, as other unconventional Daos can have serious drawbacks.
• Reviewing the unusual states of Cheng Dogdan and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, he connects their apparent “death beyond death” to this principle. He then considers a possible loophole: perhaps two individuals can prove their Daos even if one of them is dead.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang displays the extraordinary analytical ability of a Three Severings Tribulation Immortal, rapidly building and testing possibilities. Despite his comic daydreaming, he becomes cautious and serious when weighing the risks of his Dao.
• Daozi acts as an intermediary, sending Shuhang valuable information that advances his understanding.
• Cheng Dogdan and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son serve as examples of different forms of existence beyond ordinary death, prompting Shuhang’s deductions.
• Shuhang also reflects humorously on his debts, Core World, family, and imagined children, drawing on the support and resources of the Nine Provinces Number One Group and Senior White.

Significant themes

• The boundary between life and death: The chapter explores whether an incomplete resurrection can become a lasting state rather than a temporary anomaly.
• The cost of immortality: A Dao may offer longevity while risking the loss of vital qualities associated with life.
• Reasoning through paradox: Shuhang’s breakthrough comes from questioning assumptions—especially whether everyone proving a Dao must be alive.
• Comedy alongside cosmic stakes: His extravagant family-life speculation contrasts with the grave, potentially dangerous choice of his Dao.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang contacts both Senior Whites to report on the sudden birth of the New Heavenly Dao: Confucian Daozi has become the Immortal Heavenly Dao, apparently through an unusual shortcut involving a Heavenly Court Fragment and a ritual held in Song Shuhang’s Core World.
• Senior White Two reports that the Nine Netherworld is stirring. His intuition suggests that Fat Ball, previously shattered, may soon reunite through “Rebirth Through Fire.”
• Song Shuhang connects the clues and suspects that Daozi’s ascension and Fat Ball’s impending return are linked to the Heavenly Court Fragment and the Heavenly Dao’s plans. He intends to verify his theory with Cheng Lin.
• Senior White Two is not trying to stop Fat Ball. Instead, he is raiding Fat Ball’s inheritance caches before it revives, planning to leave an IOU with an effectively endless repayment period.
• Song Shuhang had contacted the two Seniors to submit the “homework” Senior White Two had assigned him: thinking through how two different people might prove the Dao at the same time. Senior White Two has forgotten assigning it.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows increasingly quick, systematic reasoning, rapidly piecing together the connections among Daozi, Fat Ball, the Heavenly Court Fragment, and the Netherworld. His survival instinct also shapes how carefully he distinguishes between the two Senior Whites.
• Senior White Two is exhausted after being abruptly awakened, but remains focused on looting Fat Ball’s treasures before its possible return. His opportunistic, mischievous side is prominent.
• Senior White takes a measured, analytical approach, clarifying how the Heavenly Dao’s ascension normally relates to the birth of a Netherworld Ruler.
• Fat Ball does not appear directly, but its potential revival becomes the chapter’s central looming threat.

Significant themes

• The relationship between the Heavenly Dao and the Netherworld, including the usual emergence of a corresponding Netherworld Ruler.
• Shortcuts, hidden mechanisms, and the possibility of multiple people proving the Dao.
• The uneasy blend of cosmic danger and comedy, especially in Senior White Two’s “inheritance raid” and Song Shuhang’s distress over losing a fortune he hoped to claim.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang consults both Senior Whites, carefully using distinct forms of address to avoid confusing—or offending—them.
• Senior White and Senior White Two compare interpretations of Daozi’s ascension and the Nine Netherworld’s response.
• Senior White Two’s plan to claim Fat Ball’s inheritance leaves Song Shuhang ruefully calculating the fortune he has lost, while their conversation ends with the comic revelation that Senior White Two forgot the assignment Song Shuhang came to discuss.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang discusses with the two Senior Whites how two different individuals might prove the Dao simultaneously, fulfilling a clue left by Heavenly Dao White.
• He proposes using a “neither living nor dead” Dao of Longevity: perhaps one person could prove the Dao while living and another while dead, exploiting a loophole in the Heavenly Dao. The idea has unresolved problems, including how death could coexist with immortality and how the two Daos would work together.
• The group considers whether Confucian Daozi’s recent ascension as the temporary 8.5th Heavenly Dao offers a model. Daozi is busy using his limited time to fulfill others’ wishes, so Shuhang contacts Fairy Cheng Lin instead.
• After teasing Cheng Lin with the nickname “Cheng Dogdan,” Shuhang explains that Senior White wants to ask about Daozi’s ascension. Cheng Lin outlines the successful 8.5th Heavenly Dao Plan, which Senior White Two praises as bold and carefully devised.
• Senior White observes that Daozi and the Heavenly Dao Sphere might count as two separate individuals, but they did not prove the Dao simultaneously. The discussion ends with a possible synthesis: combine the “neither living nor dead” Dao with the 8.5th Heavenly Dao’s self-completion method so two individuals can complement one another and ascend together.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows increasing confidence in developing his own theory, building on the clues and Daozi’s deduction.
• Senior White and Senior White Two take his idea seriously, identify its weaknesses, and help broaden it into a potentially workable approach.
• Fairy Cheng Lin shifts from being annoyed by Shuhang’s teasing to staying in the discussion out of respect for Senior White; she also reveals details of the plan she helped arrange.
• Daozi is portrayed as responsible and pressed for time, prioritizing the completion of others’ wishes while serving as the temporary Heavenly Dao.

Significant themes

• Life, death, and immortality: The chapter explores whether a state beyond ordinary life and death could enable longevity.
• Cooperation and complementary shortcomings: A successful path to the Dao may require two individuals whose different states or abilities compensate for one another.
• Ingenuity and risk: Daozi’s plan is praised for being daring yet meticulous, reinforcing the value of bold strategies backed by careful design.
• Duty and repayment: Daozi’s limited time is devoted to helping others and repaying Shuhang’s kindness.

Character interactions

• Shuhang presents his theory to both Senior Whites, who challenge it without dismissing it.
• The two Senior Whites offer contrasting but complementary perspectives: one stresses the difficulties of death and immortality, while the other considers ways to refine the proposal.
• Shuhang’s playful insult irritates Cheng Lin, but Senior White’s request persuades her to remain and contribute.
• Cheng Lin’s account of the 8.5th Heavenly Dao Plan gives the group a new model to connect with Shuhang’s theory.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and the two Senior Whites discuss how two people might attain Immortality simultaneously. They take inspiration from Daozi and the Heavenly Dao Sphere, who were incomplete beings that complemented each other.
• Senior White proposes using Shuhang’s “neither living nor dead” Dao of Longevity to create two mutually complementary, incomplete candidates. Daozi’s example involved deliberately biting away part of his own existence with a talent stored in the Confucian Canon.
• While the group discusses whether that talent can be recovered, newly installed Heavenly Dao Daozi makes his first attempt to alter the world’s laws. His power of “defying Heaven and changing fate” fully resurrects four Confucian Tribulation Immortals and heals four others, resolving long-standing afflictions among his junior brothers.
• Daozi still cannot find Glazed Scholar, and regrets that his work is not flawless. The Confucian Sage’s Eye appears to comfort him. Daozi then sends both the eye and the Confucian Canon toward Song Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang asks Fairy Cheng Lin about how Daozi became incomplete, prompting the revelation that Daozi intentionally sacrificed part of himself.
• Senior White and Senior White Two assess the risks and limits of adapting Daozi’s method.
• Daozi demonstrates care and responsibility toward his Confucian junior brothers by using his first Heavenly Dao command to restore them. Their emotional reaction shows their gratitude and respect for him.
• Though troubled by his inability to find Glazed Scholar, Daozi is reassured by the Sage’s Eye and passes it—and the Canon—on to Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Mutual sacrifice and complementarity: Two people may attain the Way together by becoming complementary parts of a whole.
• Responsibility and compassion: Daozi uses his immense new authority first to save others.
• Imperfection and acceptance: Despite failing to resolve every problem, Daozi’s efforts are affirmed by the Sage’s Eye.
• Legacy and transmission: The Confucian Sage’s artifacts and Daozi’s example become possible resources for Shuhang’s plans.

Plot and key events

• Daozi returns the Confucian Canon to Junior Sister and gives Tyrant Song the second Confucian Sage’s Eye as thanks for his repeated help to the Confucian School, including lending his Core World and Heavenly Court Fragment for the ritual.
• Inside his Core World, Song Shuhang prepares to recover his accessories, especially the Song Fat Ball Trench Coat, which could become dangerous as Boss Fat Ball nears resurrection. He plans to send it to Senior White Two, the only one able to suppress it reliably.
• The Confucian Canon arrives and strikes Merit Snake Beauty, who blocks it while protecting Song. Song recognizes the book and picks it up, overlooking her complaint.
• The Canon contains the second Sage’s Eye. Song brings it together with the first, which returns from the blood net holding his unrecoverable organs.
• Creation Fairy removes Song’s newly revived eyes and installs the two Sage’s Eyes, while his Third Divine Eye and other organs return to their places.
• The Sage’s Eyes cause intense heat and make Song’s tears evaporate into mist. Once he adjusts, they reveal visions that culminate in a passage of Confucian Script describing the Sage’s innate ability and its inheritance.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi shows gratitude and faith in Song, judging him the ideal person to use the Sage’s Eyes.
• Song Shuhang remains practical and irreverent, thinking of salvaging his tears as artifact materials even amid a profound discovery.
• Merit Snake Beauty protects Song from the flying book, then theatrically pretends to be dead when he ignores her. She watches with curiosity as the eyes are installed.
• Creation Fairy acts quickly and expertly, handling Song’s eye replacement without hesitation.
• Pavilion Master Chu dryly corrects Song’s assumption that the mist is fog: it is his tears.

Significant themes and revelations

• Reciprocity and loyalty: Daozi frames the gift as repayment for Song’s many favors to the Confucian School.
• Fate and unique suitability: Daozi believes the Sage’s Eyes and Song are destined to meet, and that only Song can make them famous.
• The cost of inheritance: The Sage’s talent can be passed on only through a costly, uncertain process—one Sage’s Eye and one Dao of Longevity per attempt. With only two eyes, at most two people could inherit it, even in the luckiest circumstances.
• Power alongside absurdity: A major, potentially life-changing transformation unfolds amid comic complaints, casual banter, and Song’s practical concern for harvesting valuable tears.

Song Shuhang and the two Senior Whites discussed how to reduce the risks of inheriting the Confucian Sage's talent, including preserving the Sage's Eye and recording a Dao of Longevity before sacrificing it. Meanwhile, Daozi began freeing the Calamity-Answering Substitutes bound to the Ancient Heavenly Court on Song Blockhead's behalf.

• Song Shuhang explained the Confucian Sage's Eye and the Sage's analysis of his talent to Pavilion Master Chu's tuft of hair and Phoenix Ritual Zither Master.
• Senior White and Senior White Two agreed that the Confucian Sage's talent could enable two people to achieve Incomplete Complementary Apotheosis, making its high cost worth studying.
• Senior White Two proposed using Song Shuhang's Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core to restore the Confucian Sage's Eye, while Senior White suggested preserving a Dao of Longevity's knowledge before sacrificing it.
• Song Shuhang considered using his neither-alive-nor-dead Longevity Method as the sacrifice but doubted he could master his other, more lofty Longevity Method.
• After resolving his junior brothers' troubles, Daozi drew a ring of light and began granting freedom to the Calamity-Answering Substitutes bound to the Ancient Heavenly Court.

Plot points and events

• As part of Daozi’s 8.5th Heavenly Dao ritual, Calamity-Answering Substitutes—made from Ancient Heavenly Court members’ imprints and Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost techniques—thank Daozi and enter a ring of light, freeing their original selves from the Ancient Heavenly Court Path.
• The Northern Great Emperor and other surviving Longevity Immortals feel the effects: their auras grow warmer, their cultivation loosens, and they gain greater freedom. This also explains why Puppet Fairy could not recognize the resurrected Northern Great Emperor: his familiar essence remained in the imprint.
• Golden Cheng Lin is overwhelmed with joy at her companions’ coming liberation, though Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s teasing stops her from crying. With the ritual complete, she leaves to return Mysterious Island’s Heavenly Court fragments and the Emperor’s Seal to Gold Trigram, as their contract requires. She also plans to visit the Golden Dragon Progenitor’s tomb.
• Song Shuhang learns that the newly liberated Heavenly Court survivors may eventually gather under Gold Trigram. His version of the Heavenly Court Path has none of the old system’s hidden dangers, and the ritual’s spectacle may encourage survivors across the realms to return.
• Confused about Gold Trigram being called the second Heavenly Emperor, Song Shuhang wonders whether the Heavenly Emperor’s Son was the first. The Heavenly Emperor’s Son senses his name being called, announces that he is ready to resurrect—and then says he is “coming out” of Song Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi completes the liberation phase of the ritual and is acknowledged by the substitutes on behalf of their originals.
• Golden Cheng Lin sees her long-standing hope of freeing her old companions fulfilled, then turns to her duties to Gold Trigram and her visit to the Golden Dragon Progenitor.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament comforts Cheng Lin with teasing humor, easing her emotional moment.
• Song Shuhang remains puzzled by the Heavenly Emperor succession and becomes alarmed by the Heavenly Emperor’s Son’s unusual resurrection message.
• Gold Trigram is positioned to benefit from the freed survivors and inherit the complete Heavenly Emperor’s Path, though he has not yet received the seal.

Significant themes

• Liberation and recovery: The former Heavenly Court’s members are released from a system that bound and endangered them.
• A safer legacy: Gold Trigram’s Heavenly Court offers a way to rebuild without repeating the old Heavenly Dao’s hidden dangers.
• Friendship and remembrance: Cheng Lin’s reaction reflects her enduring bonds with her former companions.
• Comedic contrast: A major cosmic transition ends on a deliberately awkward joke about resurrection.

Chapter 2959 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang learns that the Heavenly Emperor’s Son has successfully resurrected through the Lotus projection connected to him.
• She explains that she had been hiding on Black-skinned Yurouzi rather than directly on Song Shuhang, using their connection and concealed aura to remain undetected.
• The Lotus projection blooms, and the resurrected Heavenly Emperor’s Son emerges, retaining Yurouzi’s basic appearance but appearing more mature.
• Her resurrection is confirmed as a “perfect rebirth,” meaning she has escaped the Heavenly Court Dao’s schemes.
• She retrieves the Lotus projection and stores it in her Qiankun Space.
• When Song Shuhang asks whether he can accompany her to “cause trouble,” she reveals that she intends to kill Cheng Lin.
• Because Song Shuhang currently occupies the identity or role of Cheng Lin, the Heavenly Emperor’s Son immediately targets him with a time-based sword technique, “Sword of Years—A Fleeting Encounter, Ten Years of Flowing Water.”

Character Developments

• Heavenly Emperor’s Son returns fully to life and displays her playful, mischievous personality, along with a dangerous and seemingly personal hostility toward Cheng Lin.
• Song Shuhang remains sarcastic and curious, attempting to uncover how the resurrection worked and what the Heavenly Emperor’s Son plans to do next. He also realizes that her explanation contains half-truths.
• Black-skinned Yurouzi discovers that the Heavenly Emperor’s Son had secretly been hiding within her, leaving her shocked and offended.
• Fairy of Creation instinctively covers Song Shuhang’s eyes when the resurrected Heavenly Emperor’s Son appears, possibly to prevent him from accidentally triggering abilities connected to his powerful eyes.
• Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master’s claw serves as a humorous observer and is irritated when Song Shuhang pokes its eye.

Significant Themes

• Resurrection and escape from fate: The Heavenly Emperor’s perfect rebirth represents a successful escape from the Heavenly Court Dao’s control.
• Hidden identities and incomplete truths: The Heavenly Emperor’s Son concealed herself through Black-skinned Yurouzi, while Song Shuhang recognizes that her explanation is deliberately misleading.
• Identity confusion: The chapter plays with the overlap between Song Shuhang, Cheng Lin, Yurouzi, and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, making personal identity and reincarnation unclear.
• Humor amid danger: Banter, misunderstandings, and absurd reactions contrast with the serious revelation that the Heavenly Emperor’s Son intends to attack Song Shuhang.
• Fate and temporal power: Her attack invokes the Dao of Time, suggesting that the conflict involves not only personal grudges but also manipulation of time and past identities.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son exchange sarcastic remarks about guessing, resurrection, and Red Envelopes.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Son reveals to Song Shuhang and Black-skinned Yurouzi that she had secretly hidden on Yurouzi.
• Song Shuhang challenges the truthfulness of her explanation, prompting her to respond with another cryptic statement.
• Fairy of Creation shields Song Shuhang’s eyes during the resurrection.
• Song Shuhang jokes with the Phoenix Rhapsody Qin Master’s claw about the “fresh” Heavenly Emperor.
• The chapter ends with the Heavenly Emperor’s Son suddenly turning their playful conversation into a real attack on Song Shuhang, whom she identifies with Cheng Lin.

The Heavenly Emperor struck Song Shuhang with her Years Sword, ending his prolonged epiphany and giving him information that further completed his Dao of Longevity. As the Heavenly Emperor departed to pursue Cheng Lin, Song Shuhang crashed and sensed his signal connecting to another signal far above the heavens.

• The Heavenly Emperor struck Song Shuhang with her Years Sword, freezing him while his Confucian Sage's Eye processed the information.
• The Heavenly Emperor explained that she had ended Song Shuhang's fading epiphany and shared information about the Ancient Heavenly Court and her insights.
• The Heavenly Emperor wrapped herself in Song Shuhang's bedsheet, opened a Space Gate, and left to find Cheng Lin.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword contacted Daoist Scarlet Firmament, who suggested telling the Heavenly Emperor that Cheng Lin had gone to the Mysterious Island.
• Fairy Cheng Lin asked whether Song Shuhang was all right, but his system reported that he had crashed.
• Song Shuhang sensed his signal connecting with another signal from the same source, one far above the Myriad Heavens and Realms.

Key plot points and events

• The Heavenly Emperor’s Years Sword sends Song Shuhang’s consciousness drifting and links him to the “Old Tyrant Song” attached to Senior Daozi, triggering an unusual dream within a dream.
• Song Shuhang enters Daozi’s perspective at the moment Daozi is ascending to become the 8.5th Heavenly Dao. Though Daozi initially senses the intrusion, he recognizes Song Shuhang and allows him to observe.
• From Daozi’s vantage, Song Shuhang sees the Myriad Heavens and Realms. Daozi repays Su Clan’s Sixteen for helping his ascension by granting her merit infused with the Heavenly Dao’s favor, which will protect her during future tribulations.
• Old Tyrant Song whispers to Daozi. Daozi responds by smashing apart the void with the Confucian Canon, destroying the Void Sun Guardian and the Stellar Doomsdayer.
• Song Shuhang studies the attack through the dream and successfully comprehends a new technique, provisionally named Sub-Heavenly Dao Book Smash.
• Daozi reaches the Heavenly Dao, and the laws of immortality begin transforming him. The experience sends Song Shuhang’s consciousness to a level beyond the Myriad Heavens and Realms.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains an unprecedented view of Daozi’s ascension and learns a powerful attack by observing it. His connection to Daozi allows him access to this experience.
• Senior Daozi demonstrates both his immense perception and his willingness to cooperate with Song Shuhang. He also shows gratitude by protecting Sixteen through Heavenly Dao merit.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen receives a lasting blessing that will make future tribulations treat her with greater regard.
• Old Tyrant Song speaks privately to Daozi, though Song Shuhang cannot hear the words.

Significant themes

• Connections and karma: Personal ties can open doors even in cultivation’s highest realms.
• Gratitude and merit: Daozi repays Sixteen’s assistance with a blessing more valuable than merit alone.
• Learning through experience: Song Shuhang turns witnessing another’s ascension-era technique into a new ability of his own.
• Transformation and transcendence: Daozi’s contact with the Heavenly Dao, and Song Shuhang’s shared experience, push consciousness beyond ordinary limits.

Song Shuhang endured contact with Heavenly Dao information and used the brief moment to derive the Cultivation Chat System’s dao of longevity. In the present world, his body repeatedly collapsed and regenerated as those around him sensed his transformation and the return of his former power.

• Song Shuhang used his accumulated foundations to withstand the Heavenly Dao information he mooched through Daozi’s dream.
• Song Shuhang devoted all his remaining energy and abilities to deriving the Cultivation Chat System’s dao of longevity.
• Pavilion Master Chu sensed Song Shuhang’s head grow dangerously hot as his body repeatedly collapsed and reformed.
• The Phoenix Ritual Zither Master's Claw wondered whether the Heavenly Emperor’s Senile Dementia Sword had caused Song Shuhang’s overheating, and Stele Fellow Daoist suggested it had triggered a deeper transformation.
• Senior White Two sensed an aura of the Heavenly Dao, and the Song Fat Ball Trench Coat confirmed that Song Shuhang was reclaiming power recognizable from his main body’s past.
• Senior White Two looked forward to Fat Ball reviving and meeting Song Fat Ball.

Song Shuhang recovered from his exhausting Heavenly Dao Vision and fully comprehended his Neither-Life-Nor-Death Dao of Longevity. In the Present World, he attained the Dao and manifested a gentle moon wheel, whose light prompted Fengyi Zither Master's Claw to call out, "Yu Yizhi!"

• Senior White Two and the others watched Song Shuhang cool down and used healing and merit power to protect him while he remained in Dream Entry.
• Song Shuhang emerged from his moment of deduction too exhausted to learn from Daozi's use of Heavenly Dao authority, but trusted his future self could seize that chance later.
• As his mind recovered, Song Shuhang fully comprehended the Neither-Life-Nor-Death Dao of Longevity and recognized it as a cycle moving from death toward life.
• Song Shuhang attained the Dao in the Present World, and a gentle moon wheel appeared behind his head.
• The moon wheel illuminated those around Song Shuhang, and Fengyi Zither Master's Claw called out, "Yu Yizhi!"

Song Shuhang attained the Longevity Immortal Realm and manifested a sorrowful Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel. As his Three Corpses appeared and sought nourishment, the Cultivation Chat System announced that Primordial Witch had completed the New Year event’s first quest and claimed a Heavenly Dao reward.

• Phoenix Ritual Zither Master's Claw and the others discussed how Song Shuhang had attained longevity after enduring more than a hundred deaths in an instant.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather asked about Song Shuhang’s Dao of Longevity, and Senior White Two identified it as a path evolved from the Dao of Neither Life nor Death.
• Pavilion Master Chu explained that the signs accompanying longevity differed according to each cultivator’s Great Dao.
• Song Shuhang’s Three Corpses appeared beneath his Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel, and they said they needed suitable nourishment.
• The Cultivation Chat System announced that Primordial Witch had slain two Void Sun Guardians and claimed a Heavenly Dao reward for completing the event’s first quest.

Chapter 2965 Summary

Key plot points

• Scarlet Heaven Sword reasons that the two defeated Void Sun Guardians were likely taken down by a team of powerful cultivators, who joined forces to test the rewards offered by the new missions.
• The Primordial Witch submits the two Guardian remains and becomes the first Supreme VIP member of the Cultivation Chat System. Her rewards include three years of VIP membership and a Heavenly Dao Sub-Immortality Information Gift Package.
• The information proves valuable: it contains Daozi’s insights from before he became immortal. The Primordial Witch says it cannot be explained in words, prompting other powerful cultivators to pursue the missions enthusiastically.
• Elsewhere, Song Shuhang obtains two Guardian remains. His Virtuous and Evil Corpses try to give one directly to the main body, but Song Fat Ball intervenes and begins converting it into something closer to pure energy.

Character developments and interactions

• Scarlet Heaven Sword offers a plausible explanation for the rapid victories, while Stele Fellow Daoist agrees. Their theory overlooks the behind-the-scenes encouragement provided by Lady Dragon Network, Fairy Cheng Lin, and Tyrant Song’s fans.
• Lady Dragon Network quietly takes satisfaction in helping create the successful first mission submission.
• The Primordial Witch’s reward convinces other experts that the missions are worth pursuing; King Wuxiang quickly offers to team up against another target.
• Song Fat Ball criticizes the Virtuous and Evil Corpses for failing to consider that the human main body cannot safely absorb a Void Sun directly, then takes charge of processing it.

Significant themes

• Incentives and momentum: A prestigious first reward encourages wider participation in the missions.
• The value and limits of knowledge: Information near the realm of immortality is highly coveted, yet too profound to convey in ordinary language.
• Teamwork and influence: The experts’ success relies on cooperation, while unseen organizers help steer events toward a strong start.

Chapter 2966 Summary

• Song Shuhang absorbs Longevity Substance: Song Fat Ball Cloak processes the remnants of two defeated Void Sun Guardians, then has Merit Fairy use Shuhang’s Void Sun Pillar to filter them again. The Pillar absorbs the Guardians’ lingering attributes, grows stronger, and passes the purified Longevity Substance to Shuhang. The energy replenishes what he spent reaching enlightenment and further solidifies his Longevity Immortal Great Path Halo.
• Shuhang reaches the realm of a Longevity Immortal: After absorbing the energy, Shuhang is fully a Longevity Immortal in terms of realm. Song Fat Ball cautions that they should save some of the incoming energy, since Shuhang may need it for another, even greater Longevity Dao tied to the Cultivation Chat System. Senior White Two quietly watches, pleased.
• Daozi turns to a new task: Shuhang’s Dream Entry plot synchronizes with the present world, as Daozi intended. Having resolved his own Obsession and helped Song Blockhead complete his redemption, Daozi asks Shuhang for help with another companion’s wish.
• The Outer Heavenly Demons’ plight is revealed: Daozi explains that a curse once drove the Outer Heavenly Demon Clan mad, reducing them to destructive treasure-seekers and bringing them close to extinction. A companion of Daozi’s secretly protected them.
• Shuhang is asked to become their savior: Daozi proposes using Shuhang as a vessel to project his “from death to life” Longevity Dao onto the Outer Heavenly Demons. With the Heavenly Dao’s authority, Daozi hopes to guide them through a cycle of death and life and free them from the curse. Shuhang agrees to hear him out, and the chapter ends with the question of whether Tyrant Song will save the clan.

Character Developments and Interactions

Shuhang advances dramatically while remaining characteristically casual, even joking that Outer Heavenly Demons are simply “outdoor bosses” that drop loot. Song Fat Ball shows careful concern for his safety, insisting on an extra purification step before he absorbs the energy. Merit Fairy carries it out, while Daozi moves from completing past redemptions to seeking Shuhang’s help with a new one. The contrast between Shuhang’s playful view of the Demons and their tragic history adds humor to the chapter’s shift toward a serious rescue mission.

Significant Themes

The chapter emphasizes transformation and renewal, both in Shuhang’s Dao of death and rebirth and in the proposed cure for the Demons. It also explores redemption and compassion, revealing that the supposedly monstrous clan has suffered from an imposed curse, and continues the story’s playful treatment of cultivation progress through Shuhang’s “use first, pay later” advancement.

• Daozi’s plan: Daozi asks Song Shuhang to help lift the curse afflicting the Outer Heavenly Demons. He could remove it by other, easier means, but deliberately offers Song the opportunity to gain the demons’ gratitude, greater fame, and more Merit and Heavenly Dao blessings. He respects Song’s choice and will not pressure him.
• Song agrees: Song readily accepts, out of mutual loyalty and gratitude toward the Confucian School, which has repeatedly helped him and looked after his family and companions. Daozi asks him to connect his many backup energy sources before they begin.
• The spectacle: Five breaths later, the Heavenly Dao sends a vast light through Song, revealing his Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel to cultivators across the worlds. Observers glimpse that his Dao holds both life and death, and realize they had never seen him use his full strength.
• Tyrant Song everywhere: The light spreads across the realms, with a projection of Song at the end of every beam. These countless versions track down the Outer Heavenly Demons and enter their bodies. The chapter ends with every demon exploding, leaving onlookers stunned and unsure what the Heavenly Dao and Song have done.
  Character developments and interactions: Daozi’s generosity reflects his gratitude and his hope of strengthening Song’s standing before the future contest for the Ninth Heavenly Dao. Song’s willingness to help shows the reciprocal trust between him and the Confucian School. Daozi offers; Song freely agrees, making their cooperation a matter of mutual regard rather than obligation.
  Themes: Generosity and reciprocity; using public deeds to build reputation and earn merit; the extraordinary reach of Song’s power; and the tension between the seemingly benevolent purpose of lifting a curse and the shocking, bloody result.

Plot points and events

• Tyrant Song and the Heavenly Dao appear to destroy the Outer Heavenly Demons across the Myriad Heavens and Realms. The powerful figures watching lament the apparent loss of a traditional source of opportunities for young cultivators.
• The demons unexpectedly revive. Their minds return in stages: first the strongest, then the entire race. The restored demons grieve for what they suffered, then recognize Tyrant Song as their savior.
• The demons bow to Tyrant Song, and their gratitude generates a tremendous wave of Merit Power and reputation for him.
• Daozi deliberately keeps himself in the background and directs the credit to Tyrant Song, hoping to strengthen his standing should he pursue the Ninth Heavenly Dao position.
• In the Core World, the Eight-Armed Primordial Outer Heavenly Demon confirms that the curse placed on its race by the Fourth Heavenly Dao has ended. It promises to serve Tyrant Song if he seeks Proof of Immortality.
• Meanwhile, members of the Tyrant Song Hype Group discuss replacing the lost Outer Heavenly Demon “farming” opportunities with missions involving the Sun-Worship Sect and Star Annihilation Sect. Several reveal that they have already infiltrated those groups and are preparing to move against them.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang gains the gratitude and allegiance of an entire race, along with a major increase in merit and fame.
• Daozi demonstrates strategic support for Song Shuhang, intentionally letting him receive the recognition to bolster his future claim to the Ninth Heavenly Dao.
• The Outer Heavenly Demons change from mindless, destructive beings into an intelligent people capable of mourning, gratitude, and collective loyalty.
• The Eight-Armed Primordial Outer Heavenly Demon expresses deep relief and pledges personal service to Song Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Redemption and restoration: The apparent destruction of a feared race is actually a means of restoring its minds and ending its curse.
• Reputation and merit: Song Shuhang’s public role brings him spiritual merit and strengthens his political standing.
• Changing perceptions: The demons can no longer be treated as monsters or targets for cultivation rewards; they are now a recognized people.
• Self-effacing support: Daozi advances Song Shuhang’s prospects by deliberately surrendering the credit.

Character interactions

• The powerful figures react to the demons’ apparent destruction, then infer that their revival was intentional and refrain from interfering.
• The demons collectively honor Tyrant Song, while the Eight-Armed Primordial Outer Heavenly Demon personally thanks him and offers its aid.
• Daozi quietly supports Song Shuhang’s ambitions by ensuring the wider world associates the restoration with him.
• Members of the Hype Group trade information about their undercover work in the Sun-Worship Sect and Star Annihilation Sect, discussing plans to exploit the new missions.

Key plot points and events

• The Eight-Armed Outer Heavenly Demon promises to help Tyrant Song compete for the next Heavenly Dao. Daozi witnesses the promise, making it known across the Myriad Heavens and Realms.
• The witnessed pledge fuels speculation among powerful immortals: Daozi may already be planning his retirement and favoring Tyrant Song as his successor, raising questions about whether the Heavenly Dao position is becoming hereditary.
• Sensing that Song Shuhang is exhausted after helping lift the Outer Heavenly Demon clan’s curse, the Eight-Armed bigshot sends him a rare pill containing Longevity Substance, then withdraws into the statue.
• At the Core World, Senior White Two suspects Shuhang is using the opportunity to perfect a second Dao of Longevity, which could serve as a backup if his current Dao disperses.
• In the Dream Entry plot, Daozi offers to help Shuhang develop that second Dao. He proposes viewing the Myriad Heavens and Realms from the Heavenly Dao’s perspective. The immense flow of information nearly overwhelms Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Eight-Armed Outer Heavenly Demon: Grateful to Shuhang, he turns that gratitude into a public pledge of support and gives Shuhang a precious recovery pill.
• Daozi: Supports Shuhang’s possible future bid for the Heavenly Dao and later offers guidance, while emphasizing that a Dao of Longevity must ultimately be developed by its practitioner.
• Song Shuhang: Is left extremely weakened by his recent effort but continues working on a vast second Dao of Longevity tied to the Cultivation Chat System.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather, Stele Fellow Daoist, and Senior White Two check on Shuhang and assess his condition and progress.

Significant themes

• Mutual aid and gratitude: Shuhang’s help earns lasting support from both the Outer Heavenly Demons and Daozi.
• Succession and power: The public promise prompts speculation about who may inherit the Heavenly Dao and how that position is passed on.
• Personal cultivation and perspective: Even with a Heavenly Dao’s help, Shuhang must ultimately perfect his own Dao.
• The cost of power: Shuhang’s achievements leave him nearly drained, while even a glimpse of the realms’ full complexity threatens to overwhelm him.

Key plot points and events

• Protected by Daozi, Song Shuhang experiences the Myriad Heavens and Realms through the Heavenly Dao’s vision. The view overwhelms him, leaving him with little beyond awed exclamations.
• Daozi spots the Stellar Destruction Virus across the realms. It has infected at least 60% of the stars, presenting a threat that could destroy the entire Myriad Heavens and Realms—and possibly the Confucian Golden Lotus World.
• Angered by this new doomsday crisis just after resolving several personal matters, Daozi tells Shuhang to keep observing while he recovers and familiarizes himself with the rules needed to confront the virus.
• With Daozi sharing the Heavenly Dao’s sight, Shuhang surveys familiar locations from his past. He sees that Earth’s Evil Delusion disaster has ended, though spiritual energy has renewed and changed the world.
• In Jiangnan University Town, Shuhang notices Tree Demon Qingwu still attending school in his place. She is secretly helping his three roommates begin cultivating, apparently turning them into devoted shut-in cultivators.
• Shuhang considers rewarding Qingwu for covering for him, while deciding that his roommates’ progress can wait until the larger crisis is handled.
• His survey then reaches the Mysterious Island, where he spots a golden Cheng Lin standing before White Dragon Sister’s Dragon Tomb, catching his attention.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains a firsthand sense of the Heavenly Dao’s vast perspective and the scale of the virus threat. His awe gives way to concern, though he also reflects warmly on familiar places and people.
• Daozi is exhausted after completing his own Obsession and those of Song Shuhang and the Eight-Armed Outer Heavenly Demon. Despite his fatigue, he is furious at the virus and prepares to act against it.
• Qingwu has taken on a guiding role for Shuhang’s roommates, whom she is teaching cultivation. She senses that someone is watching but cannot detect Shuhang’s Heavenly Dao perspective.
• Shuhang’s roommates have finally accepted that cultivation is real and are seeking Qingwu’s guidance. They remain outside the “Best Bros for Life” group, which leaves Shuhang briefly feeling left out.

Significant themes

• Cosmic catastrophe and responsibility: The virus’s widespread infection turns personal accomplishments into a looming universal crisis.
• Perspective and scale: Seeing the realms through the Heavenly Dao transforms abstract data into a visceral reality.
• Memory and continuity: Shuhang revisits the places tied to his journey, noting how much they—and the world—have changed.
• Ordinary life amid the extraordinary: Winter vacation, friendships, school, and roommates’ cultivation continue even as a world-ending threat emerges.

Golden Cheng Lin tried twice to use her blood to awaken White Dragon Sister, but the Bone Dragon Artifact Spirit said she was not the person its master awaited. The Heavenly Emperor's Son attacked, and her Future Sword stripped away Golden Cheng Lin's golden coating.

• Song Shuhang observed Golden Cheng Lin in the Dragon Tomb and saw the Heavenly Emperor's Son, a masked figure, Gold Trigram, and White-Bone Fairy near the Mysterious Island.
• Golden Cheng Lin drew blood with a serrated saber and used it to activate the Crystal Coffin, but White Dragon Sister did not awaken.
• A Bone Dragon Artifact Spirit told Golden Cheng Lin that the ritual had worked and she was not the person its master was waiting for.
• Golden Cheng Lin tried again with blood that had its golden component removed, but the Crystal Coffin remained still.
• The Heavenly Emperor's Son attacked with the Future Sword, and Golden Cheng Lin dodged into its path, losing her golden coating and revealing her glass-like body.