Chapter Summaries

• A clash over Cheng Lin’s identity: Heavenly Emperor’s Son confronts Glazed-Colored Cheng Lin, who argues that their eventual merger makes it irrelevant whether one devours the other. He suspects she is connected to Song Shuhang: she weakens when Shuhang is nearby and recovers when he leaves. Cheng Lin confirms she is, in a broad sense, “Song Shuhang plus Cheng Lin,” then claims to be Shuhang’s future child, born of him and his fairy spirit ghost and sent back in time. She says this is why she cannot remain near Shuhang for long.
• Heavenly Emperor’s Son attacks: Despite her outrageous explanation, he strikes using his Way of Time, appearing behind her after making his speaking figure vanish. His sword pierces her waist, and he repeatedly wounds her. He dismisses her claim that she is Shuhang’s child, saying Shuhang is sterile—and that he is about to attain Proof of Immortality, which would make that sterility absolute. His prediction unsettles Cheng Lin.
• Cheng Lin survives and reveals her purpose: Under the attack, Cheng Lin transforms into a tree, with her blood becoming sap. A lotus blooms at its crown, producing a new Cheng Lin in fresh Saber Intent Armor. She explains that the fusion of their Longevity Methods lets her regenerate; without it, Heavenly Emperor’s Son could have killed her. She asks to end the fight because she has an important task for Shuhang: giving birth to Song Youyou of the Netherworld, whom she says is vital to him.
• Character developments and interactions: Heavenly Emperor’s Son is calculating and formidable, using his mastery of time to outmaneuver Cheng Lin and press her with knowledge of Shuhang’s future. Cheng Lin remains boastful and playful even while injured, but her concern for Song Shuhang—and her urgency about Song Youyou—shows genuine attachment beneath the absurd claims. Their exchange mixes threats, skepticism, and banter, with Heavenly Emperor’s Son treating Cheng Lin’s story as a possible deception while still probing its implications.
• Themes: The chapter explores identity and fusion, the distortions of time and fate, and the uncertainty of future parentage. Its violent confrontation contrasts with comic absurdity, while Cheng Lin’s mission introduces the theme of protecting someone whose existence may be crucial to the future.

Key plot points and events

• Glazed-Colored Cheng Lin tells the Heavenly Emperor’s Son that she wants to use a secret method to save Song Youyou. The method traces back to the original Ghost God Cheng Lin, whose shattered fragments eventually produced both Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son.
• Cheng Lin no longer needs to fuse with the Emperor’s Son to free their Ancient Heavenly Court companions, so the two can focus on saving Song Youyou. She believes Song Youyou will be valuable to Song Shuhang’s bid for Proof of Immortality.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White are considering a risky method of attaining enlightenment together. Cheng Lin wants to prepare a backup: Song Shuhang might use his Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core, Netherworld Ruler, and knowledge of Heavenly Dao rules to create an “Artificial Heavenly Dao.”
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Son agrees to help, despite Cheng Lin teasing her about fusion.
• In the Netherworld, Song Youyou reflects on the delayed merging of the Demon Sea World and wonders whether Demon Emperor E is still being struck by lightning at Three-Eyed Youth’s place.
• A reborn Fat Ball finishes growing. Senior White Two emerges from the Evil Lotus World, exhausted from being unable to hibernate amid recent events.
• Fat Ball recognizes White Two, appears before him, and triggers a Netherworld explosion. The chapter ends with Fat Ball, White Two, and Song Youyou facing off.

Character developments and interactions

• Cheng Lin shifts from trying to fuse with the Heavenly Emperor’s Son to prioritizing Song Youyou’s rescue and preparing a contingency for Song Shuhang.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Son shows her strong connection to Song Shuhang by agreeing to help, though she is irritated by Cheng Lin’s teasing.
• Song Youyou senses that someone may be plotting around him and remains patient about the Demon Sea World’s future.
• Senior White Two is visibly weary but still confronts Fat Ball. Fat Ball’s greeting confirms that it retained its memories.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and shared purpose: Daozi’s allies coordinate to support Song Shuhang’s rise.
• Contingency and uncertainty: Cheng Lin prepares an alternative in case Song Shuhang and Senior White’s main enlightenment plan fails.
• Cause and effect: Cheng Lin’s past connection with Song Shuhang has bound their futures together.
• Identity and continuity: The origins of Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, and Fat Ball’s retained memories after rebirth, raise questions about what persists through transformation.

Key plot points and events

• Boss Fat Ball revives with a furious desire for revenge on White Youyou, still resentful that White looted its treasure vaults before the Heavenly Dao Sphere collapsed.
• It crosses space ready to attack, only to find White Youyou and Tyrant Song—both now Netherworld Rulers—standing together. Outnumbered, Fat Ball’s rage briefly turns to caution.
• Fat Ball unleashes a full-scale barrage of Netherworld-powered weapons. Song Youyou activates Netherworld Ruler Mode, uses Saber Intent Armor and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, and cuts through the attacks while protecting himself and White Youyou.
• After two minutes of bombardment, neither defender is harmed. Fat Ball realizes Song is genuinely a Netherworld Ruler. Song, privately relieved, withdraws his temporary enhanced mode before its three-minute limit expires.
• When Fat Ball asks why Tyrant Song became a Netherworld Ruler, White Youyou explains that Song “plotted a coup and usurped the throne” after Fat Ball died.

Character developments

• Boss Fat Ball returns consumed by vengeance, but is shocked and unsettled by facing two powerful enemies—and by discovering Song has taken its former position.
• Song Youyou / Tyrant Song demonstrates the strength of his new status, defending against Fat Ball’s full arsenal. Beneath his stylish confidence, however, he knows his enhanced form is temporary and is relieved to end the fight before it fails.
• Senior White Two / White Youyou remains composed and teasing, greeting Fat Ball calmly and delivering the final explanation with dry humor.

Significant themes

• Power and succession: Fat Ball’s death creates an opening for Song to take its place as Netherworld Ruler.
• Old versus new methods: Fat Ball champions overwhelming modern firepower, while Song proves that swordsmanship and saber techniques remain effective.
• Appearance versus reality: Song looks effortlessly triumphant, but his confidence depends on a brief, limited transformation.
• Humor amid conflict: The chapter turns a potentially world-shattering duel into a comic confrontation, especially through the characters’ restrained reactions and White Youyou’s blunt “coup” explanation.

Character interactions

• Fat Ball confronts the two people it hates most, while they greet it almost casually.
• Song and White Youyou cooperate in resisting Fat Ball’s attack, though Song does most of the fighting.
• White Youyou needles Fat Ball by framing Song’s rise as a successful coup, leaving Fat Ball confused and incredulous.

Key plot points and events

• Boss Fat Ball believes Tyrant Song must have usurped its Netherworld throne after its death, since Song has become the corresponding ruler without proving the Dao or being related to it.
• Senior White Two reveals that less than a month has passed since Fat Ball’s last death—and that Song has not become Heavenly Dao.
• To explain Song Fat Ball’s allegiance, Senior White plays recordings of it meeting Song Shuhang and mistakenly accepting him as its main body. The footage also shows Song Fat Ball helping Song Shuhang, including serving as his vanguard and cloak.
• Seeing that Song Shuhang has already become a Longevity Immortal, Fat Ball is furious and humiliated. It threatens to destroy the avatar, but discovers their connection has been severed.
• The Heavenly Dao reveals that it deliberately cut the link, explaining that it had been watching and guarding Song Shuhang’s cloak. It taunts Fat Ball and declares their conflict unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• Boss Fat Ball shifts from baffled suspicion to outrage and disbelief as it learns how quickly Song Shuhang has advanced and how thoroughly its avatar has mistaken him for its main body. It also discovers it can no longer control that avatar.
• Senior White Two enjoys teasing Fat Ball, using recordings and exaggeratedly warm music to make the avatar’s mistaken loyalty especially humiliating.
• Song Shuhang is shown—through the recordings—as having gained a Longevity Immortal Moon Wheel and made remarkable progress despite the short time elapsed.
• The Heavenly Dao emerges as an active protector of Song Shuhang, openly antagonizing Fat Ball.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays comic humiliation against genuine power shifts: Fat Ball’s old authority is undermined by Song Shuhang’s rapid rise and the loss of control over its avatar.
• It also highlights loyalty and identity, as Song Fat Ball sincerely treats Song Shuhang as its main body—even though that bond began in a misunderstanding.

Plot points

• The Confucian School’s feud with the Heavenly Dao Sphere began when the Confucian Sage cut away part of its existence during the Heaven’s Way Succession Battle. After becoming Heavenly Dao, the Sphere tried to recover what it had lost by exterminating the school. The Netherworld Ball later compounded the conflict by repeatedly sending fiends to suppress the Confucian School.
• Now occupying the Heavenly Dao Seat, Daozi recognizes Boss Fat Ball as an old enemy and attacks through a Space Gate with the Confucian School’s “Iron Fist of Knowledge.”
• Using Heavenly Dao authority that can target the Netherworld Ball, Daozi batters Fat Ball from a sphere over a hundred meters wide down to a one-meter core. He stops short of destroying it, having controlled his strength so Fat Ball will know who avenged the Confucian School.
• Daozi identifies himself as the Confucian School’s first disciple and declares that he will settle their feud with Fat Ball. Nearby, Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son arrive together, now apparently reconciled after their former near-lethal fights.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi embraces his role as a Confucian avenger, channeling the school’s resentment into deliberate, measured punishment. His control shows that the beating is meant as both revenge and a message.
• Boss Fat Ball discovers that the reborn Heavenly Dao is not the familiar Heavenly Dao Sphere but an usurper—Daozi. He blames the absent Sphere for leaving him with its problems and feels helpless under Daozi’s authority.
• Senior White Two protects Song Youyou by moving her away from the impending fight and from Fat Ball.
• The chapter contrasts the former enemies Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, who have shifted from violence to peaceful coexistence.

Significant themes

• Revenge and moral complexity: The Confucian School acknowledges that both it and the Heavenly Dao Sphere had reasons for their actions, yet insists that a blood feud remains a feud.
• Reciprocity: The school’s guiding principle is to answer kindness with kindness and resentment with direct retaliation.
• Justice versus satisfaction: Daozi does not simply kill Fat Ball; he makes sure the target understands who is exacting revenge, emphasizing recognition and emotional closure.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White Two watches Daozi defeat the revived Fat Ball, feeling wistful but unable to interfere in their long-standing conflict.
• Cheng Lin arrives with the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and proposes using an old secret technique to reincarnate Song Youyou as a complete, independent Netherworld Ruler.
• Daozi senses her plan could help Tyrant Song’s path toward becoming the Ninth Heavenly Dao, so he stops short of destroying Fat Ball and offers assistance.
• Daozi proposes using part of Fat Ball—also a true Netherworld Ruler—to supplement Song Youyou’s borrowed authority. With the Pitch-Black Sun as a model, Tyrant Song’s Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core, and the Confucian Sage’s Eye, the group believes they can devise a way to fuse the two.
• The plan is postponed until Tyrant Song inherits the Sage’s ability to “Devour Existence” and Daozi works out the fusion method. They also want to test whether the Sage’s Eye can be preserved rather than consumed. Daozi offers Heavenly Dao-level computational support.

Character developments

• Cheng Lin is willing to risk repeating a dangerous technique to give Song Youyou a genuine, lasting existence; she speaks with Dogdan’s familiar manner.
• Daozi shows gratitude and trust toward Cheng Lin and Song Youyou, tempering his attack on Fat Ball and actively helping them.
• Senior White Two remains detached from the feud despite his personal history with Fat Ball, focusing instead on the possibilities of the plan.
• Song Youyou recognizes an important practical obstacle: preserving the Confucian Sage’s Eye as a reusable source of power.

Significant themes

• Identity and authenticity: Song Youyou is currently a “fake” Netherworld Ruler, dependent on borrowed power; the group aims to make him genuinely complete.
• Sacrifice and preservation: Cheng Lin accepts risk for Song Youyou, while the group seeks a solution that does not erase Fat Ball entirely or consume the Sage’s Eye.
• Cooperation across old conflicts: Former rivals and powerful figures set aside their differences to support a shared goal.
• Fate and foresight: Daozi’s Heavenly Dao intuition guides him to spare Fat Ball because its survival may serve a larger future purpose.

Character interactions

• Song Youyou questions Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son about their arrival; Cheng Lin offers help, while the Son says he is only observing.
• Spotted Dragon Two worries about Cheng Lin’s plan, and Cheng Lin reassures her that the others can restore her if something goes wrong.
• Daozi consults Cheng Lin, explains the proposed fusion to the group, and promises computational assistance.

Song Shuhang prepared for decades of closed-door cultivation to perfect his Second Longevity Method while powerful allies began research to support the wider plan involving Song Youyou and the Pitch-Black Sun. He organized a study schedule centered on gathering Longevity Method knowledge, and Song Fat Ball and Stele Fellow Daoist prepared to collect it across the Myriad Heavens and Realms.

• The Heavenly Dao, Netherworld Rulers, Longevity Immortals, and Lady Dragon Network began research on making the Sage's Eye reusable, while Daozi worked on fusing with a Netherworld Ruler.
• Daozi arranged for Song Youyou, Song Fat Ball, and others to support the preparations for a perfect Song Youyou, and opened Tyrant Song's Time Secret Realm for research and cultivation.
• Song Shuhang formally prepared for long-term seclusion, and Song Fat Ball suggested making perfection of the Second Longevity Method their ultimate goal.
• Song Shuhang wrote down his first lesson: observe Longevity Methods in bulk, prioritizing those tied to Merit and life and death and collecting examples from many races and cultivation systems.
• Song Fat Ball and Stele Fellow Daoist volunteered to challenge Longevity Immortals across the Myriad Heavens and Realms and bring the defeated experts back to explain their Dao of Longevity.

Song Shuhang began studying Pavilion Master Chu’s Withering and Flourishing Method and arranged to record her lecture for future Cultivation Chat System streams. Meanwhile, Song Fat Ball and Stele Fellow Daoist set out to recruit Longevity Immortals, while the Book Realm’s ruler and Fairy Wuyu discussed Tyrant Song’s growing influence before Song Fat Ball arrived.

• Song Shuhang asked Pavilion Master Chu’s stray hair to explain her Longevity Method and received permission to record the lecture, with access restrictions and a fifty-fifty share of the Spirit Stones.
• Song Fat Ball left the Time Secret Realm to invite Longevity Immortals into battle, and Stele Fellow Daoist joined him to monitor his condition.
• Song Fat Ball asked Stele Fellow Daoist who had inscribed the words on him, and Stele Fellow Daoist said they came from a reliable senior of Song Shuhang’s.
• The Book Realm’s Longevity Immortal recorded Tyrant Song’s recent achievements and discussed his influence with Fairy Wuyu.
• Song Fat Ball politely knocked at the Book Realm and asked whether anyone had called for him.

Plot points and events

• Fairy Wuyu and the Book Realm Longevity Immortal are discussing Tyrant Song’s earlier battle on Mars when Tyrant Song’s clone knocks at their door.
• The visitor is Song Fat Ball, a combat-focused clone with a small Stone Stele attached to it. Though it acts polite, its destructive aura makes Wuyu uneasy.
• Fat Ball says it heard them mention Tyrant Song and came to visit. It is delighted to find two Longevity Immortals it has never fought.
• After calling their meeting “fate,” Fat Ball immediately proposes fighting Wuyu. The Book Realm immortal intervenes, warning that their small realm cannot withstand a battle and asking what the clone really wants.
• Stone Stele explains that Tyrant Song is seeking Longevity Immortals both to challenge and to make agreements with. His true body also wants to learn about the mysteries of their Ways of Longevity.
• Fat Ball offers Wuyu a choice: meet Tyrant Song’s true body or fight the clone. Stone Stele reassures her that meeting the true body could benefit her.

Character developments

• Fairy Wuyu shifts from wary hospitality to alarm when the “polite” visitor proposes a fight. She is especially unsettled by the clone’s aura and apparent interest in her.
• The Book Realm Longevity Immortal remains measured and perceptive. He reads the clone’s changing mood, recognizes it has a purpose, and protects his realm by discouraging a fight.
• Song Fat Ball displays a comically contradictory mix of courtesy and aggression. It is sincerely pleased to find potential subjects for its true body’s studies, but its first instinct is still to hammer them.
• Stone Stele acts as the diplomatic counterweight, explaining Tyrant Song’s aims and presenting the meeting as potentially beneficial.

Significant themes

• Politeness versus violence: Fat Ball speaks gently, yet its nature and intentions remain intimidating.
• Fate and coincidence: A chance mention of Tyrant Song leads directly to his clone arriving—and to a consequential encounter.
• Knowledge and power: Tyrant Song seeks the insights of Longevity Immortals, while his formidable strength makes the request difficult to refuse.
• Cooperation under pressure: The clone’s offer of an agreement is entangled with the threat of a fight.

Character interactions

• Wuyu and the Book Realm immortal share a wary, familiar rapport; she looks to him for guidance in his territory.
• The Book Realm immortal calmly negotiates with Fat Ball to spare the fragile realm from battle.
• Fat Ball’s forceful “fight or meet Tyrant Song” offer frightens Wuyu, while Stone Stele softens it with assurances of possible benefit.

Song Fat Ball and Stele Fellow Daoist persuaded the Book Realm Longevity Immortal and Fairy Wuyu to avoid fighting and enter the Time Secret Realm. There, they saw Song Shuhang surrounded by Longevity Immortals as more arrived.

• Stele Fellow Daoist urged Song Fat Ball to resolve disputes peacefully and hurry, since time passed much faster outside the Time Secret Realm.
• The Book Realm Longevity Immortal asked Fairy Wuyu whether they could defeat Song Fat Ball, and she warned that his stone stele made their chances poor.
• The Book Realm Longevity Immortal offered Song Fat Ball coordinates for three Longevity Immortals who had grudges with the Book Realm, then took Fairy Wuyu through the Space Gate to meet Song Shuhang.
• Fairy Wuyu and the Book Realm Longevity Immortal entered the Time Secret Realm and felt its time flow reverse.
• They saw Song Shuhang surrounded by shining signs of the Dao of Longevity as the Northern Great Emperor, the Vajra Temple Master, the White-Bone Fairy, and other Longevity Immortals arrived, with more Space Gates opening.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang uses the Cultivation Chat System to summon Longevity Immortals to the Heavenly Dao Time Secret Realm. One message asks close allies for help; another promises access to rare Immortality Information. The guests arrive in waves, and some bring fellow Longevity Immortals along.
• Shuhang welcomes the growing crowd, including familiar allies and newly arrived guests. He meets the Book Immortal of the Book Realm and Fairy Wuyu, learns the Book Immortal is writing The Biography of Tyrant Song, and exchanges friend codes with them.
• To gather as many Longevity Immortals as possible, Shuhang also arranges to retrieve the Demon Emperor and Kun King, two former adversaries, as well as expecting a surprise from Daoist Scarlet Firmament.
• White-Bone Fairy questions whether it is appropriate to share the Longevity Immortal Profundity with such a large group. Shuhang reveals that Daozi helped him prepare: Heavenly Dao Rules descend upon him, and he sends every guest an invitation to a “Heavenly Dao-level” private tutoring session. The gathering realizes he intends to study their insights simultaneously.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang shows confidence, resourcefulness, and surprising hospitality, efficiently turning a small invitation list into a vast gathering. He is also amused and bashful about becoming the subject of a biography.
• The Book Immortal and Fairy Wuyu meet Shuhang’s main body and find him far gentler and more welcoming than expected.
• White-Bone Fairy voices concern on behalf of the guests about sharing their core insights. Shuhang reassures her that he has Heavenly Dao protection, though the scale of his plan still prompts concern about whether he can handle it.

Significant themes

• Connections and cooperation: Shuhang’s friendships and past ties—especially those formed around the Ancient Heavenly Court—help bring an extraordinary number of powerful figures together.
• Knowledge as a shared resource: The chapter turns cultivation insight into a communal exchange, while raising questions about how freely profound knowledge should be shared.
• Ambition and ingenuity: Shuhang’s plan to learn from many Longevity Immortals at once reflects his bold, unconventional approach to cultivation.

The Northern Great Emperor and the other Longevity Immortals agreed to discuss the Dao with Tyrant Song while Daozi’s protection kept his body safe. Elsewhere, Tyrant Evil questioned Boss Fat Ball about his Dao and unknown origins, then planned to ask Daozi’s authority to investigate further.

• The Northern Great Emperor realized that cultivating a Heavenly Dao let Longevity Immortals obtain quasi-Immortality Information from Daozi, and he and the other immortals agreed to begin their one-on-one discussion with Tyrant Song.
• Pavilion Master Chu stacked Song Shuhang’s white smoke into a gourd shape, but Daozi’s golden light dispersed it and left her sulking on his head.
• Tyrant Evil visited Senior White Two’s lair to borrow the unhatched Kun King Egg, but a research clone asked him to wait until the experiment was finished.
• Tyrant Evil found Boss Fat Ball sealed near the Demon Sea World and asked about his Dao of Longevity and origin.
• Boss Fat Ball said he lacked memories of his origins, and Tyrant Evil suspected either that the Heavenly Dao Sphere had altered his memories or that something was wrong with his origin.
• Tyrant Evil reported the conversation to his main body and considered using Daozi’s Heavenly Dao Authority to investigate Boss Fat Ball.

Tyrant Evil left Boss Fat Ball and received an unexpected message from Lady Dragon Network, who recalled that Fat Ball had been an eighth-generation Heavenly Dao and that she had been the ninth. Intrigued, Lady Dragon Network asked to see Boss Fat Ball, so Tyrant Evil returned to the Nine Netherworld to share his vision.

• Tyrant Evil left Boss Fat Ball sealed in the Nine Netherworld, believing it would keep trying to break free.
• Lady Dragon Network contacted Tyrant Evil through the Cultivation Chat System and insisted he call her Lady Fat Ball.
• Lady Dragon Network said Fat Ball was delicious and recalled that it had been a ball in the eighth generation, while she had been the ninth.
• Lady Dragon Network asked Tyrant Evil to return to Boss Fat Ball and share his vision, and he hurried back.
• Tyrant Evil prepared to start a video call, while Boss Fat Ball angrily hammered the seal and threatened to kill him.

Chapter 3005 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fat Ball Big Shot becomes enraged when Ba Song, Three Corpses, and Avatar record it like a zoo animal without paying for photographs.
• Although sealed, Fat Ball still attempts to curse Ba Song as the Nine Nether Ruler, declaring that Ba Song will die without a complete corpse and suffer an exploding head.
• Ba Song casually deflects the curse by pointing out that Song Shuhang’s body has already exploded countless times. Song Youyou also neutralizes Fat Ball’s Nine Nether authority, frustrating Fat Ball further.
• Reminded of its long rivalry with Ghostly White and Song Youyou, Fat Ball withdraws from the outside world and focuses on resisting the seal and finding a way to escape.
• Ba Song shares his vision with Dragon Network Lady, who examines Fat Ball and reveals that its appearance and nature resemble an earlier “ball” entity connected to the Ancient Nether.
• Dragon Network Lady explains that her original self, the immortal black dragon of the Black Dragon World, once encountered and consumed part of an earlier, eighth-generation Ancient Nether ball.
• The earlier ball eventually disappeared, and a corresponding Ancient Nether will-body emerged. Dragon Network Lady did not consume that being because it looked too much like herself.
• She confirms that the current Fat Ball Big Shot is definitely connected to the Ancient Nether ball she encountered in the past.

Character Developments

• Fat Ball Big Shot: Its pride and anger are emphasized, especially its resentment toward Ghostly White and Song Youyou for possessing or contesting Nine Nether authority. Despite its fury, it chooses to retreat and concentrate on breaking the seal.
• Ba Song/Song Shuhang: He continues provoking Fat Ball with humor, showing confidence in his ability to survive curses and explosions. He also becomes increasingly interested in the historical relationship between Fat Ball and Dragon Network Lady.
• Dragon Network Lady: She reveals more about her ancient past and her former identity as the black dragon’s will. Her memories suggest extensive knowledge of previous worlds, Ancient Nether entities, and the cycle of destruction and inheritance.
• Ghostly White/Song Youyou: Their possession of Nine Nether authority allows them to nullify Fat Ball’s curses, intensifying Fat Ball’s sense of being challenged and displaced.

Significant Themes

• Inheritance and reincarnation: The chapter suggests that powerful beings and their wills may reappear across destroyed worlds, even without retaining their former memories.
• The cyclical nature of history: The connection between the eighth-generation ball and the current Fat Ball implies that events from previous worlds may repeat in later eras.
• Resemblance as protection: Dragon Network Lady’s refusal to eat the Ancient Nether will-body because it resembled her highlights the idea that children or successors resembling their parents may receive protection rather than destruction.
• Power and authority: Fat Ball’s claim to be the current Nine Nether Ruler is undermined by Ghostly White and Song Youyou’s ability to counteract its authority.
• Humor amid cosmic danger: Ba Song’s teasing and Dragon Network Lady’s matter-of-fact discussion of eating powerful beings contrast with the immense stakes involving world destruction and Ancient Nether succession.

Character Interactions

• Ba Song deliberately teases Fat Ball while sharing the confrontation with Dragon Network Lady.
• Fat Ball attempts to intimidate Ba Song through a curse, but Ba Song responds mockingly, reducing the threat to a familiar inconvenience.
• Dragon Network Lady and Ba Song discuss whether consuming Fat Ball counts as “eating” or “merging,” revealing Dragon Network Lady’s unusual relationship with similar entities.
• Their conversation uncovers the historical link between Dragon Network Lady, the previous eighth-generation ball, and the present Fat Ball Big Shot, setting up questions about reincarnation, memory loss, and the continuation of ancient entities.

Key plot points and events

• Lady Dragon Network and Tyrant Evil speculate that the Ball Heavenly Dao may have been born specifically when the Eighth Heavenly Dao arrived, rather than being a smuggled ball from another world. Tyrant Evil briefly worries it could be connected to the Pitch-Black Sun, but Senior Daozi says the Sun did not recognize the Liquid Metal Ball, making a connection unlikely.
• Daozi and Lady Dragon Network consider whether the Ball Heavenly Dao’s purpose is to be eaten. Daozi thinks this may support their plan for Song Youyou to devour the Netherworld Ball Ruler and inherit the Sage’s talent. He strengthens the seal around the self-isolated Fat Ball and grows impatient to advance the plan.
• The group has made progress on binding the Confucian Sage’s eyes so they can be reused rather than consumed. Daozi says they need Three-Eyed Senior’s expertise in researching eyes, and Tyrant Evil arranges for Tyrant Benevolence and his Self Corpse to approach him.
• In the Slaying Immortals Lightning Pool, Demon Emperor? E is near death from accumulated injuries and the lightning, bitterly reflecting on how badly his fortunes turned after meeting the Confucian Sage and Tyrant Song. Tyrant Benevolence offers to rescue him in exchange for explaining the Longevity Method.
• Tyrant Evil reveals that they need to make one final wager with Three-Eyed Senior. Demon Emperor? E will again serve as the stake. Tyrant Benevolence carries him out, and the two Tyrant Song aspects go to meet Three-Eyed Senior, who is relaxing on a beach.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi becomes increasingly invested—and impatient—with the plan to pass on the Sage’s talent through Song Youyou.
• Lady Dragon Network proposes that the Ball Heavenly Dao may exist to be consumed; Daozi takes the idea seriously.
• Tyrant Evil and Tyrant Benevolence, Tyrant Song’s Self Corpse aspects, coordinate the eye-binding research and the wager with Three-Eyed Senior.
• Demon Emperor? E is reduced to a desperate, helpless state and again finds himself treated as a bargaining stake. His despair contrasts with the casual way Tyrant Benevolence and Tyrant Evil discuss his fate.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth is sought out as the specialist whose knowledge may solve the eye-binding problem.

Significant themes

• Identity and cosmic purpose: The group wonders whether the Ball Heavenly Dao is an ordinary outsider or an entity created to fulfill a particular role in the world.
• Inheritance and transformation: The plan to have Song Youyou devour the Netherworld Ball Ruler links consumption with the transfer of Sage talent.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a Longevity Demon Emperor can be left helpless by accumulated injuries and others’ decisions.
• Comedic repetition and exploitation: Demon Emperor? E’s repeated use as a wager stake turns his crisis into dark comedy.

Chapter Summary: “From Today On, Ba Song Is My Bro!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ba Shan visits the Three-Eyed Boy Senior for the latest monthly bet, finding him demoralized after being repeatedly “fleeced” by Ba Song and his clones.
• The Three-Eyed Boy explains that, in the past, he had decades or centuries to recover after a defeat, but Ba Song’s increasingly frequent challenges have left him no time to regain his confidence.
• Ba Shan reassures him that this is their final bet, after which the Three-Eyed Boy will no longer be targeted. This restores some of his fighting spirit.
• Ba Shan explains that Ba Song is researching how to fuse a pair of Confucian Sage’s Eyes with an Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core. Because the Three-Eyed Boy is an expert in eye-related research, Ba Song wants him to provide technical assistance.
• The Three-Eyed Boy agrees, largely because he is fascinated by the chance to study the Sage’s Eyes. His goodwill toward Ba Song increases significantly, and he even considers deliberately losing.
• The wager is once again a living Demon Emperor. The Demon Emperor is insulted that he is treated as an almost routine or insignificant stake.
• Ba Shan describes his strengths as merit, Holy Light, kindness, and performing good deeds. The Three-Eyed Boy dismisses these as unsuitable for a serious contest.
• Ba Song’s Self Corpse, Ba Ti, says that his specialty is making people forget him. The Three-Eyed Boy mocks his name by suggesting “Ba Ben,” prompting Ba Ti to recognize the same teasing style used by Drunk Fish.
• The Three-Eyed Boy ultimately chooses “memory” as the subject of the final competition.

Character Developments

• Three-Eyed Boy Senior: Initially exhausted and resigned, he regains motivation when reminded that this is his last bet and that it offers access to the Confucian Sage’s Eyes. His scholarly curiosity and desire to study rare treasures override his frustration.
• Ba Shan: Acts as a considerate negotiator, carefully encouraging the Three-Eyed Boy and presenting the bet in a way that appeals to him.
• Ba Ti/Self Corpse: Reveals his unusual ability to erase himself from others’ memories. His interaction with the Three-Eyed Boy also shows his growing familiarity with the humor and behavior of Ba Song’s wider circle.
• Demon Emperor: Feels humiliated when the Three-Eyed Boy casually accepts him as the wager, emphasizing the absurd imbalance between his status and how routinely he is used in these bets.
• Eyeball Butler: Provides comic commentary and practical reminders, helping the Three-Eyed Boy recognize the importance of the final challenge.

Significant Themes

• Exploitation disguised as friendship: Ba Song repeatedly takes advantage of the Three-Eyed Boy’s expertise and resources, though the relationship remains partly affectionate and mutually beneficial.
• Persistence versus exhaustion: The Three-Eyed Boy’s usual resilience is undermined by the relentless frequency of the challenges, showing that even powerful figures need time to recover.
• Curiosity and obsession: His fascination with the Confucian Sage’s Eyes is strong enough to make him overlook the unfairness of the wager.
• Identity and memory: The chapter sets up memory as the final contest, connecting directly to Ba Ti’s ability to make others forget him.
• Comedic power imbalance: Immortal-level figures and rare treasures are treated casually, while the Demon Emperor’s wounded pride provides comic contrast.

Character Interactions

• Ba Shan sympathetically consoles the demoralized Three-Eyed Boy and persuades him to view the bet as a final opportunity rather than another defeat.
• The Eyeball Butler teases and advises its master, especially by reminding him that losing this final match would leave him without any victories over Ba Song.
• The Three-Eyed Boy is drawn into the wager by his interest in researching the Sage’s Eyes, despite recognizing that Ba Song treats him like a treasure-retrieval machine.
• His dismissive reactions to Ba Shan’s merit-based abilities and Ba Ti’s name establish the rules and tone of the upcoming memory contest.

Chapter Summary: “The Stirring Butler”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ba Shan questions how a memory competition could be meaningful because cultivators—especially those in the Eternal Life Realm—already possess extraordinary memory and mental-processing abilities.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior considers creating an extreme competition that could challenge Eternal Life beings. Ordinary tasks such as memorizing numbers, images, or names would be effortless.
• He first suggests recreating Ba Song’s former “Sermon on the Myriad Realms,” in which Ba Song answered countless questions from cultivators across the Myriad Realms. However, Ba Song can no longer use Public Saint Appearance to conduct such a sermon.
• Eyeball Butler proposes using Three-Eyed Boy Senior’s memories from ancient times to the present as the competition material. Ba Shan would have to absorb and remember the memories within a set time, after which he would be tested on details from them.
• The Butler enthusiastically imagines embarrassing questions about Three-Eyed Boy’s past, including his eye collection, gambling losses, and romantic history.
• Ba Shan agrees, intrigued by the possibility of learning more about Three-Eyed Boy’s experiences and perhaps glimpsing the secrets of his Eternal Life Dharma.
• Three-Eyed Boy rejects the idea of exposing his memories, then considers using the Betting Demon Emperor’s memories as an alternative. Ba Ben explains that the Demon Emperor has lived only since the late ancient period, making his memories insufficient for a truly difficult challenge.
• Ba Shan offers to use his Main Body’s memories, but Three-Eyed Boy refuses because Ba Song’s memories contain too many painful and traumatic experiences.
• Eyeball Butler continues encouraging the plan, suggesting that Three-Eyed Boy could edit or censor his memories before using them.

Character Developments

• Ba Shan/Ba Song: Demonstrates confidence and curiosity. His advancement to the Eternal Life Realm makes ordinary memory challenges meaningless, and he becomes interested in exploring Three-Eyed Boy’s history and cultivation.
• Three-Eyed Boy Senior: Shows irritation and jealousy at Ba Song’s rapid rise from the 8th Rank Mysterious Saint to Eternal Life without the expected intermediate stage. He remains cautious about revealing his personal memories but recognizes that the Butler’s proposal could work.
• Eyeball Butler: Acts dutifully while secretly stirring trouble. It cleverly designs a competition that would expose its master’s private history and appears eager to uncover embarrassing secrets.
• Ba Ben: Provides useful information about the Demon Emperor’s age and history, helping determine whether his memories would be suitable as the wager.
• Betting Demon Emperor: Remains anxious and suspicious, fearing that the others will exploit his memories or use him as a stake. His discomfort provides comic relief.

Significant Themes

• The limits of cultivation: Eternal Life beings possess memories and perception far beyond ordinary human ability, making conventional contests pointless.
• Privacy versus curiosity: The proposed competition turns personal memories into public material, creating tension between Ba Shan’s curiosity and Three-Eyed Boy’s desire for privacy.
• Power and rapid advancement: Ba Song’s sudden leap into Eternal Life unsettles Three-Eyed Boy and highlights how extraordinary Ba Song’s development has become.
• Humor through interpersonal conflict: The Butler’s formal loyalty contrasts with its mischievous desire to expose its master, while the Demon Emperor’s fear of being exploited adds comic tension.
• Memory as identity and suffering: Ba Song’s memories are not merely information; they include pain, death, and trauma, making them unsuitable for casual competition.

Character Interactions

• Ba Shan and Dao/Three-Eyed Boy: Discuss the difficulty of creating a meaningful memory contest and negotiate possible competition formats.
• Three-Eyed Boy and Eyeball Butler: The Butler serves him tea and clothing perfectly while simultaneously plotting to reveal his secrets. Three-Eyed Boy recognizes the usefulness of its idea but distrusts its motives.
• Ba Shan and Three-Eyed Boy: Ba Shan’s curiosity about his senior’s memories contrasts with Three-Eyed Boy’s reluctance to share them.
• Three-Eyed Boy and the Demon Emperor: Three-Eyed Boy considers using the Demon Emperor’s memories but dismisses them as too limited, leaving the Demon Emperor offended and anxious.
• Eyeball Butler and Three-Eyed Boy: The Butler repeatedly pressures its master to accept the plan, even suggesting that he edit his memories to make the competition possible.
  The chapter ends with the Butler continuing to persuade Three-Eyed Boy to use his memories, leaving the proposed competition unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• The Eyeball Butler encourages Senior Three-Eyed Youth to wager a large, selectively edited memory in the upcoming match. Three-Eyed Youth instead reveals he has a Companion Artifact that could serve as the wager.
• He opens a hidden treasury filled with priceless treasures and produces a small bottle emitting black, evil mist. From it emerges a special, single eye.
• Three-Eyed Youth explains that he was the first Netherworld Ruler and that the artifact’s origins are tied to the Black Dragon World’s Ancient Nether. Its prototype may have been brought from that world by his corresponding Heavenly Dao and altered through experiments.
• The artifact recorded many memories about Three-Eyed Youth, including events missing or corrupted in his own memory bank. He proposes wagering those records, and Tyrant Benevolence agrees to leave the decision to him.

Character developments

• Senior Three-Eyed Youth reveals a major secret: he possesses an ancient Companion Artifact and a vast hidden treasury. He also hints that the artifact preserves a fuller record of his past than he does.
• The Eyeball Butler tries to persuade its master to accept the wager but is surprised when he offers the artifact’s memories instead.
• Tyrant Benevolence and Self Corpse Ba Ti react warily to the artifact’s ominous presence; Tyrant Benevolence ultimately trusts Three-Eyed Youth’s judgment.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Memories can be incomplete, altered, or corrupted, while objects may preserve truths their owners have lost.
• Secrecy and hidden history: The artifact’s records suggest concealed experiments and a past obscured even from Three-Eyed Youth himself.
• Creation and inheritance: The Netherworld Ruler may have originated as an experiment inspired by the Ancient Nether Will Collective, linking the world’s institutions to earlier, incomplete forms.

Character interactions

• The Eyeball Butler presses Three-Eyed Youth to use memories as a wager, attempting to influence his choice.
• Three-Eyed Youth explains the artifact’s history to the group, while Ba Ti asks questions about its prototype and origins.
• He asks Tyrant Benevolence for his view; Tyrant Benevolence defers to him, showing trust and deference.

Plot and key events

• Senior Three-Eyed Youth jokes that he will arrange a marriage for Tyrant Benevolence, but Benevolence rejects the idea. The Eyeball Butler’s attempt to tease its master earns it another spear wound; it decides that medicinal cuisine might help calm his increasingly violent temper.
• Three-Eyed Youth explains the challenge: his Companion Artifact stores a vast collection of memories in a scrambled, nonchronological form. Readers must reconstruct the sequence and interpret the artifact’s perspective.
• Benevolence agrees to a half-hour reading period, followed by fifty questions worth two points each. A score of sixty passes; a perfect score earns cooperation in studying the Confucian Sage’s Eye and information about an unpracticed Dao of Longevity.
• Hoping to secure that Dao information for Senior White, Benevolence declares he will get full marks. The two establish a wager, with a living Longevity Immortal—and the Demon Emperor—as the stake. Self Corpse Tyrant is accidentally left out of the ritual.
• Benevolence touches the artifact and is pulled into its vast, starry expanse of memories. As his consciousness departs, his body is left to instinct—and its hand quietly slips, hinting at a recurring Song-family habit.

Character developments and interactions

• Tyrant Benevolence is confident in his ability to handle disordered memories, drawing on Song Shuhang’s experience reading book series out of sequence. He is also eager to win the Dao of Longevity information for Senior White.
• Senior Three-Eyed Youth shifts from teasing Benevolence about marriage to laying out a serious trial. He is eager to study the Confucian Sage’s Eye and actively encourages Benevolence to succeed.
• The Eyeball Butler is both the target of its master’s violence and a comic observer, trying to find a way to improve his mood.
• Self Corpse Tyrant covers Benevolence’s mouth during the marriage exchange, then is inadvertently excluded from the wager.
• The Demon Emperor objects to being treated as a wagered stake.

Significant themes

• Memory and interpretation: The trial tests not just recall, but the ability to reconstruct fragmented memories and infer meaning.
• Instinct and inheritance: The closing joke suggests that some habits persist even when conscious thought is absent—and may become family traits.
• Comedy amid high stakes: Marriage banter, the wounded butler, the forgotten incarnation, and the Demon Emperor’s protest soften a challenge involving powerful treasures and immortals.

Chapter 3011 Summary: How the Nine Nether Ruler Was Made

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ba Shan, Song Shuhang’s Three Corpses Avatar, unconsciously uses the Saber Nurturing Technique while touching the Three-Eyed Senior’s accompanying Magical Item.
• The technique unexpectedly increases the item’s comfort and “friendship value” toward Ba Shan. The magical item, despite being associated with the evil Nine Nether Ruler, becomes strongly attracted to Ba Shan’s “Shan intent.”
• The change affects the surrounding Scatter Wealth Throne small world: the sunlight becomes warmer, and Three-Eyed Senior’s mood improves. He begins to view Ba Shan favorably and considers giving him a complete Eternal Life method as a gift.
• Meanwhile, Ba Shan searches the magical item’s vast memory bank for information that could help him create an Eternal Life method for White Senior. He has only half an hour and finds the disorganized memories difficult to process.
• Impressed by Ba Shan’s determination and influenced by their rising favorability, the magical item unlocks a sealed memory normally outside the assessment’s scope.
• Ba Shan is drawn through a golden vortex into a hidden memory titled “How the Nine Nether Ruler Was Made.” He initially suspects it may be a trap set by Three-Eyed Senior, but realizes it may instead be an unexpected bonus.

Character Developments

• Ba Shan: Demonstrates inherited skills from Song Shuhang, especially the Saber Nurturing Technique. He remains ambitious and determined despite the overwhelming memory search, adopting the Main Body’s fearless attitude toward difficult challenges.
• Three-Eyed Senior: Becomes unusually pleased with Ba Shan, partly because of the magical item’s reaction and the positive influence spreading through their connection. He considers rewarding Ba Shan with valuable cultivation knowledge.
• The accompanying Magical Item: Develops a strong personal affinity for Ba Shan and actively assists him by revealing a precious, sealed memory.
• Ba’s Self Corpse: Notices Ba Shan’s suspiciously energetic hand movements but chooses not to expose him, emphasizing the unity and mutual protection of the Three Corpses.
• Eyeball Butler: Observes the situation and wants to learn Ba Shan’s method for making Three-Eyed Senior happy, seeing it as more effective than his own attempts.

Significant Themes

• Instinct and inherited ability: Ba Shan’s techniques operate naturally and unconsciously because he shares Song Shuhang’s fundamental skills and talents.
• Friendship and influence: Even a magical object associated with evil can be affected by kindness, maintenance, and positive intent.
• Reward through affinity: Building favorability produces unexpected benefits, allowing Ba Shan access to knowledge beyond the formal rules of the assessment.
• Determination under pressure: Ba Shan refuses to be discouraged by the vast memory bank or the limited time, reflecting Song Shuhang’s persistent and reckless spirit.
• The contrast between good and evil: The magical item’s resistance to ordinary “Shan intent” disappears when it is delivered through genuine care, suggesting that moral alignment is more complicated than simple labels.

Character Interactions

• Ba Shan secretly nurtures the accompanying magical item while appearing to search its memories.
• The magical item responds positively, creating a growing friendship connection and eventually guiding Ba Shan to a hidden memory.
• Three-Eyed Senior notices the resulting changes in both the magical item and his own mood, causing him to reassess Ba Shan favorably.
• Ba’s Self Corpse silently protects Ba Shan’s secret, while the Eyeball Butler studies the interaction in hopes of reproducing its effect.
• The chapter ends with Ba Shan entering the mysterious memory concerning the creation of the Nine Nether Ruler, unsure whether he has discovered a reward or fallen into a trap.