Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang’s allies bound the transformed Sage’s Eye Golden Cores to his Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core, potentially strengthening his resurrection ability. They finished the experiment and proposed killing Tyrant Song once to test whether a consumed Sage’s Eye could recover.

• Miss Disaster Giant Turtle realized the Sage’s Eyes had become parts of Tyrant Song and worried that her clan would need more turtles to recover them if he died.
• Creation Fairy restrained the agitated Fat Whale Golden Core while the others debated whether the two Sage’s Eye Golden Cores counted as one Golden Core or two.
• Daozi and Dog Egg’s Dad helped stabilize the Sage’s Eye Golden Cores and resonate them with the Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core, reducing its resurrection cooldown.
• Senior White Two directed Creation Fairy to release the Fat Whale Golden Core, and the group guided it into the external Dantian system to bind it with the Sage’s Eye Golden Cores.
• After nearly ten hours, Senior Three-Eyed Youth declared the binding experiment successful, and he suggested letting Tyrant Song die once to test whether a consumed Sage’s Eye would recover.

Song Shuhang’s Sage’s Eye Golden Core evolved through the Eighth-Grade stages, but its Nascent Soul remained invisible. His Fat Whale and Sage’s Eye Golden Cores then underwent Tribulation Transcendence on their own, devoured the tribulation space, and triggered a Manifestation Before All that appeared to the cultivators as a whale demon playing with two Golden Cores.

• The Sage’s Eye Golden Core formed a Spirit Lake and an empty lotus, while the assembled big shots wondered why Song Shuhang’s ninth Nascent Soul could not be seen.
• The Sage’s Eye Golden Core advanced to the Sage Seal stage as Song Shuhang’s seven Sage Seals and Realm Lord Seal empowered it.
• The Fat Whale Golden Core and Sage’s Eye Golden Core entered the Eighth-Grade Profound Sage Heavenly Tribulation Space together and devoured nearly all its power.
• Daozi’s will incarnation used the remaining spiritual power to make the Manifestation Before All stage appear across the Myriad Heavens and Realms.
• Cultivators saw the Fat Whale Golden Core manifest alongside the Sage’s Eye Golden Core and mistook them for a whale-type great demon playing with two balls.

Plot points and events

• A golden whale appears during the “Manifestation Before All,” prompting cultivators across the realms to speculate about its identity. Many mistake it for a newly ascended Whale Sage, while some notice that its markings resemble a Golden Core Formation Diagram.
• Cultivators compare the expected lecture with Tyrant Song’s famously outrageous Profound Sage Lectures. They acknowledge that his performances have spoiled them, but remind one another not to judge ordinary Profound Sages too harshly.
• Powerful immortals sense an aura of Immortality from the whale and the two small objects beside it, and suspect this new manifestation will be extraordinary.
• Members of Nine Provinces Number One Group recognize the whale as Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core. Its markings contain a starry path and the names of group members; Soft Feather notes that she appears twice.
• The group identifies the two objects beside the whale as a pair of the Confucian Sage’s Eyes. They fear these could secure “Merit good reviews” simply by looking at the audience.
• When the lecture segment begins, the Fat Whale cannot deliver a lecture itself. Song’s main body is expected to intervene, but Daozi steps forward with a lecture manuscript he has prepared.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains committed to appearing in the Manifestation Before All, even after becoming a Longevity Immortal. His friends tease him for this and for seemingly breaking his promise that the previous appearance would be his last.
• Soft Feather is delighted to spot herself twice in the Golden Core’s formation pattern and wonders how a Golden Core can give a lecture.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer jokes that the whale looks tasty, while Northern River’s Loose Cultivator anticipates escaping the lecture once he realizes the Sage’s Eyes are present.
• Seven Cultivations recognizes the unsettling weight of the two objects before their identity is confirmed.
• Daozi takes action at the cliffhanger, revealing that he has prepared a manuscript to provide the lecture.

Significant themes

• Expectation and comparison: Tyrant Song’s exceptional lectures have raised the standard so high that ordinary performances risk seeming disappointing.
• Public spectacle and reputation: The Manifestation Before All turns a private-seeming achievement into a realm-wide event, complete with speculation, jokes, and anticipated reviews.
• Oaths and reliability: Seven Lives Talisman contrasts Song’s apparent broken promise with his own habit of recording and fulfilling every vow.
• Power hidden in familiar forms: The whale is not an ordinary Sage, and its companions are not ordinary objects; appearances conceal Song’s Golden Core and the Confucian Sage’s Eyes.

Key plot points and events

• Daozi uses Heavenly Dao Authority to let Fat Whale Golden Core speak with Tyrant Song’s voice. He also uploads a prepared script into the whale and two Holy Eye Golden Cores, turning them into a lecture-reading system.
• The “Whale Sage” begins its lecture amid an unprecedented flood of celestial phenomena. Its voice suppresses Heart Demons, shatters some outright, and loosens cultivation bottlenecks—even though most listeners cannot understand the words.
• The lecture quickly rises beyond Longevity-level material into Immortality and Heavenly Dao information. The Heavenly Dao censors the actual content, leaving many listeners with thunderous sounds that are still beneficial to hear.
• Cultivators give the lecture lavish praise, earning the Whale Sage an enormous amount of Merit—enough, in effect, to clear Tyrant Song’s debts.
• The audience realizes the lecture skipped the expected Sage Seal, then watches one condense. A giant face appears over the seal, with the Holy Eye Golden Cores aligned like its eyes.
• The face reveals the “Whale Sage” to be Tyrant Song, shocking the audience because he had supposedly already delivered his final lecture.

Character developments and interactions

• Tyrant Song remains the hidden force behind the lecture: his voice, script, and reputation shape the event, while the final projection exposes his identity.
• Primordial Witch senses that she has recently encountered the golden whale, but her memories blur whenever she tries to connect it with Immortality. She wonders whether the information itself prevents her from retaining the memory.
• Members of the Tyrant Song Hype Group debate the whale’s identity. After dismissing other famous figures, King Wuxiang suggests Tyrant Song, prompting the group to search their own blurred memories.
• The wider audience moves from awe and confusion to enthusiastic praise, then to stunned recognition when Tyrant Song’s face appears.

Significant themes

• The limits of comprehension: The lecture benefits listeners even when they cannot understand its words; exposure itself can transform them.
• Power and spectacle: Heavenly Dao assistance makes a mechanical reading into a world-shaking event, blurring the line between performance and genuine spiritual force.
• Memory and forbidden knowledge: Information tied to Immortality seems to distort or erase memories, even for powerful beings.
• Expectation and revelation: Tyrant Song’s earlier lectures establish the standard the Whale Sage surpasses—only for the apparent rival to be revealed as Tyrant Song himself.

Key events

• The Myriad Heavens and Realms realize the seemingly unprecedented “Whale Sage” lecture was Tyrant Song in disguise. His bizarre lecture performance once again surpasses everyone’s expectations, and the audience grudgingly showers him with merit praise.
• The crowd adopts a new rule: whenever a Profound Sage lecture is strange or impossible to identify, assume it is Tyrant Song.
• Viewers then notice two golden spheres in Tyrant Song’s projected face and suspect they are the Confucian Sage’s Eyes, now part of his Golden Core.
• Daozi, the Heavenly Dao, uses the lecture’s closing moments to draw attention to the eyes. As merit gathers into Tyrant Song’s new Sage Seal, Daozi displays several possible sage titles, including “Tyrant Sage” and “Tyrant Eyes.”
• A title Daozi did not create—“Tyrant Dummy,” apparently connected to Song Shuhang’s junior sister—surfaces and is selected by Song Shuhang’s subconscious as his Ninth Seal: the Tyrant Dummy Seal.
• Alarmed that Shuhang may regret the choice, Daozi summons a trace of his main-body consciousness and urges him to change the title before the Sage Seal is finalized.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains an outrageous, unpredictable figure: even in disguise, his lecture is unmistakably his, and his subconscious appears to choose a ridiculous new sage title.
• Daozi shifts from quietly managing the lecture to actively promoting the Confucian Sage’s Eyes, then scrambles to help Shuhang undo the unintended title.
• The audience moves from admiration for the supposed Whale Sage to disbelief at Tyrant Song’s reveal, then panic over the eyes and the “Tyrant Dummy” title.

Themes

• Tyrant Song’s singular reputation: no one can match him in Profound Sage lectures, and even his strangest acts are recognized as his own.
• Comedy through escalating absurdity, mistaken identity, and involuntary public attention.
• The tension between a person’s subconscious choices and the chance to revise them before they become permanent.

Song Shuhang accepted the layered saint title Tyrant Dummy and Tyrant Speech, then ended his Profound Sage Lecture and sent Three-Corpses Tyrant Benevolence into the Heaven's Will little black room. He announced that it was time to sacrifice a Longevity Dao, leaving the cultivators wondering which Longevity Immortal he intended to sacrifice.

• Song Shuhang agreed to the saint title Tyrant Dummy, then changed it to Tyrant Speech after comprehending the embryonic form of another Longevity Method.
• The cultivators of the Myriad Heavens and Realms saw a double-layered Sage Seal bearing both Tyrant Dummy and Tyrant Speech.
• Tyrant Song reassured the cultivators that the Golden Cores' tribulation was accidental, then ended his lecture and collected the Fat Whale Golden Core and Holy Eye Golden Core.
• Song Shuhang gave Three-Corpses Tyrant Benevolence a Glazed Eye containing his Longevity Method of Rebirth from Death and sent him into the Heaven's Will little black room.
• Song Shuhang installed a Holy Eye Golden Core and announced that it was time to sacrifice a Longevity Dao, shocking the cultivators.

Key plot points and events

• Tyrant Song’s announcement that he was looking for a Longevity Immortal to sacrifice sends the powerful beings of the Myriad Heavens and Realms into a panic.
• Demon Emperor Hezhi hides, changes locations, and resolves not to answer Song Shuhang’s messages. Demon Emperor? E fears he will be handed over to Song, while the resealed Stone Giant and the Kun King Egg also suspect they are targets.
• Longevity Immortals speculate that Song may sacrifice beings he recently challenged—or the “Void Sun Guardians” and “Stellar Doomsdayers” gathered during a New Year event. Some decide to capture those creatures alive for him.
• Song Shuhang, unaware of the rumors, begins a ritual to inherit the Confucian Sage’s innate ability. With Creation Fairy’s help, he restores the Sage’s Eye and uses the Confucian Canon to activate the Sage’s secret technique.
• The ritual requires consuming a Sage’s Eye and a Dao of Longevity. Song intends to sacrifice his own “Rebirth from Death” method, but the technique instead locks onto a Dao of Longevity inside the Confucian Canon. Daozi reacts in alarm.

Character developments and interactions

• Song’s reputation has become so fearsome that even powerful immortals assume his plans must involve them; his actual willingness to sacrifice himself contrasts sharply with their suspicions.
• Hezhi, Demon Emperor? E, the Stone Giant, and the Kun King each respond to the threat in their own way, but all are united by fear—especially those who previously insulted Song.
• Creation Fairy supports Song’s ritual by restoring his eye and supplying the Confucian Canon. Senior White and other powerful figures have helped simplify the Sage’s complex technique.
• Daozi’s startled reaction signals that the ritual’s unexpected choice of a Longevity Dao may have serious consequences.

Significant themes

• Reputation and misunderstanding: Song’s past confrontations and alarming announcement fuel widespread panic, despite his lack of intent to target innocent immortals.
• Fear and poetic justice: Former critics fear that their insults may finally catch up with them.
• Self-sacrifice and unintended consequences: Song plans to offer his own Dao, but the ritual overrides his choice and selects one from the Confucian Canon.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang activates the Sage’s Secret Technique, offering the Confucian Sage’s Eye and his own Life-from-Death Dao of Longevity.
• The technique unexpectedly targets Daozi’s Longevity Dao, which Daozi had stored in the Confucian Canon as a safeguard for his future revival. Song Shuhang stops it just in time, before it can consume the Dao.
• Daozi adds a protective cover to the Canon, and Song Shuhang restarts the technique, directing it safely toward his own Longevity Dao.
• The technique consumes Song Shuhang’s Sage’s Eye and Life-from-Death Dao of Longevity. His Longevity Immortal aura and moon wheel fade, making observers think he has fallen in rank.
• A moment later, a different Dao of Longevity appears and the moon wheel shines again. Song Shuhang has replaced his consumed path with another complete Longevity Method, maintaining his realm through an almost seamless transition.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows control and caution by halting the technique before it harms Daozi, then deliberately sacrifices his own Dao. His unusual ability to sample and record details of Daozi’s Longevity Method gives him valuable insight, though only into methods stored in the Confucian Canon.
• Daozi is shaken by the near-loss of his revival safeguard. After securing it with a protective cover, he trusts Song Shuhang to continue.
• Creation Fairy playfully comments on the exchange, while Song Shuhang explains what nearly happened.
• Observers across the realms, including Great Emperor Hezhi, initially see Song Shuhang’s apparent decline as a chance to attack. Their hopes collapse when his replacement Dao appears.
• The sealed Pitch-Black Sun becomes alarmed, wondering whether Song Shuhang’s technique might threaten or restrain beings connected to Immortality.

Significant themes

• Risk and restraint: Song Shuhang’s experiment nearly endangers Daozi, but careful intervention prevents disaster.
• Immortality and sacrifice: The technique can consume a Longevity Dao and temporarily disrupt a Longevity Immortal’s status, prompting speculation about whether it can affect Immortality itself.
• Adaptability and misdirection: What looks like a catastrophic loss is actually a rapid transition to another Dao, overturning the observers’ expectations.

Song Shuhang comprehended a new Longevity Method based on the origin of language and writing, then used it to create his own script, Tyrant Script. He realized it was only the second component of his Second Longevity Method, which he planned to build further through splitting and combining.

• In the laboratory, the Heavenly Dao Will explained that Song Shuhang had comprehended a new language-and-writing Dao of Longevity rather than perfected his previous method.
• Dog Egg's Dad confirmed that Song Shuhang had preserved the core information of the Longevity Method of Rebirth from Death in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room.
• During the Profound Sage live broadcast, Song Shuhang opened his right eye and revealed insights into the origin of writing and language to cultivators across the realms.
• Song Shuhang announced that he had created the beginnings of his own writing system, Tyrant Script, which could let him return even after body-and-soul annihilation if the script continued to circulate.
• Song Shuhang recognized that the Origin Language-and-Writing Longevity Method was the second component of his Second Longevity Method, which he would continue constructing through splitting and combining.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes the Confucian Sage’s Eye lets him inherit the Sage’s Devouring talent by sacrificing his Dao of Longevity—without sacrificing his own. The Fat Whale Golden Core can revive the Eye afterward, potentially allowing the ritual to be repeated for others.
• He envisions gathering the fragments left behind by these sacrifices into a true “Second Longevity Method,” built on the Cultivation Chat System. He also considers creating a more inclusive method, perhaps based on the Merit Network or Causal Threads, to connect the Nine Provinces Number One Group without restricting its members.
• Song revives the Sage’s Eye with the Fat Whale Golden Core’s immortal power, preserving the relic. He confirms that he successfully inherited the ability to Devour Existence and says his new Longevity Method has made even the Ancient Language easier for him.
• Daozi links Song Shuhang to the Nine Netherworld and extends the Profound Sage Lecture broadcast. Song is preparing to demonstrate his newly inherited power against the Netherworld Ruler.
• In the Nine Netherworld, Boss Fat Ball agrees to cooperate with Song Youyou’s main body in exchange for a chance to survive. Meanwhile, Senior White Two listens from the neighboring Evil Lotus World and helps himself to Fat Ball’s stored spirit fruits.
• The broadcast shows Song Shuhang facing a mist-shrouded figure identified as the Netherworld Ruler, leaving cultivators across the realms wondering what he will do.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is delighted by the strategic possibilities of his new power and increasingly confident in his plans for a Second Longevity Method.
• Daozi is relieved that the Sage’s Eye is safe and supports Song’s next move, while also using the broadcast to strengthen Song’s reputation.
• Song Youyou calmly reminds Boss Fat Ball of their agreement; Fat Ball accepts cooperation as his best hope of survival.
• Senior White Two remains characteristically self-indulgent, eating Fat Ball’s spirit fruits while observing events.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and preservation: The Sage’s talent can be passed on while his relic is restored and protected.
• Networks and community: Song’s future Longevity Method is meant to connect allies while preserving their freedom.
• Reputation and spectacle: Daozi deliberately turns Song’s impending confrontation into a public display designed to make him legendary.

Key plot points and events

• Daozi uses mist to conceal Boss Fat Ball’s liquid-metal appearance and existing Heavenly Dao Seals, making him seem like a powerful, unconquered Netherworld Ruler. The illusion magnifies his apparent strength tenfold and helps make Tyrant Song’s impending victory look more impressive.
• During a prolonged Profound Sage Lecture broadcast, Song Shuhang attacks Fat Ball with the Confucian Sage’s “Devouring Existence” ability, forming a black hole that seems to threaten existence itself.
• The battle disappears behind black mist. Its unseen but violently shifting movements lead viewers to imagine a spectacular clash between Tyrant Song and the Former Netherworld Ruler, fought on the latter’s home ground.
• Confucian disciples see through the mist and recognize Fat Ball as their old enemy. They interpret Song’s attack as the Sage’s return and feel their long-held resentment finally ease.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi carefully stages the scene to boost Tyrant Song’s reputation, controlling what the broadcast audience can see while allowing Confucian disciples to witness the enemy clearly.
• Song Shuhang / Tyrant Song displays overwhelming confidence and power, apparently confronting a Netherworld Ruler directly. His Sage-linked technique strengthens the perception that he is the Confucian Sage’s reincarnation.
• Fat Ball is presented to the public as an immense, terrifying foe, though his appearance and true condition are hidden.
• The cultivators and Longevity Immortals react with awe and fear, believing Tyrant Song is facing a being beyond the limits of ordinary cultivators. Confucian disciples respond with devotion and emotional relief.

Significant themes

• Image-making and public perception: Daozi’s concealment and exaggeration shape how the audience understands the fight—and magnify Tyrant Song’s prestige.
• Faith and confirmation: The Confucian disciples treat what they witness as proof that Tyrant Song is the Sage reborn, reflecting how readily people embrace beliefs that validate their hopes.
• Releasing resentment: Seeing their former enemy attacked gives the Confucian disciples emotional closure, which the narration links to greater freedom in their cultivation.
• Spectacle versus reality: The audience imagines a world-shaking battle, but the actual combat remains hidden behind mist.

Summary

During the apparent confrontation between Tyrant Song and Sovereign Fat Ball, Daozi uses a screen of terrifying black mist to conceal what is really happening: Song Shuhang is peacefully devouring Fat Ball’s existence with the Confucian Sage’s talent. The spectacle outside looks like a desperate battle, but Fat Ball is cooperating. Song explains that he must take most of Fat Ball’s existence for Daozi to consider it safe to leave alive. Fat Ball repeatedly curses Senior White Two, who enjoys hearing the insults but eventually loses interest as Fat Ball weakens and falls asleep.
Song plans to transfer the body left behind after Fat Ball’s existence is removed to Daozi’s side for verification. It may then be refined into soulless “Song Fat Ball” constructs, fulfilling his promise of a New Year’s gift for Little Lingxiao and potentially providing gifts for others.
In the Confucian Golden Lotus World, the revived Thirteen-Tribulation Immortals and other Confucian disciples recite scripture to steady themselves as they witness Fat Ball’s decline. Daozi blesses them with sweet rain, helping the Confucian School settle its old grievances and resolve its karmic debts. Relieved that the school can move forward, Daozi reflects that meeting Cheng Lin, Master Scarlet Firmament, Tyrant Song, and others has been his great fortune, then withdraws.
After a full day, Song’s devouring reaches its final stage. He transfers the existence he has taken from Fat Ball into Song Youyou, giving Song Youyou a stable foundation and making him a fully matured Netherworld Ruler rather than one whose power rests on borrowed strength.
Fairy Cheng Lin—currently known as Cheng Dogdan—then prepares to act. Though Dog Egg’s Dad offers to strengthen her so she will not shatter again, Cheng Dogdan refuses, saying shattering would be just right. She has been contemplating “peaceful shattering.”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang calmly treats the devouring as both a necessary way to neutralize Fat Ball and a source of materials for future gifts. He and Fat Ball exchange terse, strained remarks while Song continues his task.
• Sovereign Fat Ball submits to the process but grows progressively weaker; its repeated curses reveal its lingering resentment toward Senior White Two.
• Senior White Two takes pleasure in Fat Ball’s anger, then returns to sleep once the spectacle becomes less entertaining.
• Daozi finds closure as the Confucian School’s old resentment is resolved, and feels his long-standing sense of failure finally lift.
• Song Youyou gains genuine stability and matures into a Netherworld Ruler through the existence transferred from Fat Ball.
• Cheng Dogdan and Dog Egg’s Dad disagree over whether she should be strengthened before acting; Cheng Dogdan embraces the possibility of shattering.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus truth: The supposed battle is an illusion; mathematics is humorously invoked as more reliable than perception.
• Grievance and reconciliation: Daozi’s blessing helps the Confucian School lay old enmities to rest.
• Identity and existence: Fat Ball’s existence can be removed without obvious physical change, yet its loss profoundly weakens it and gives Song Youyou a true foundation.
• Acceptance of destruction: Cheng Dogdan sees shattering not simply as failure, but as a potentially desirable part of what comes next.

Key plot points and events

• Cheng Lin, currently called “Cheng Dogdan,” refuses to strengthen herself before shattering unless Dog Egg’s Dad restores her former Daoist name. He refuses, joking that he has another daughter now: the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, who is also made from Cheng Lin fragments.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Son suggests Song Shuhang could someday have a daughter with Cheng Lin. Dog Egg’s Dad proposes the name “Song Egg-Egg,” alarming Cheng Lin because it echoes the couple’s planned future.
• Cheng Lin and Song Shuhang’s “Three Years Later Plan” is meant to separate their merged fragments safely. It would also address unstable Heavenly Emperor fragments inside their shared body, reduce personality conflicts among Cheng Lin’s divided selves, and allow Cheng Lin to reincarnate—potentially as one of triplets alongside Song Shuhang’s child and Song Blockhead.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang has transferred nine-tenths of Boss Fat Ball’s “existence” into Song Youyou. Daozi removes the now-soulless portion of Fat Ball’s body for later refinement and release from the Netherworld.
• Cheng Lin prepares to help Song Youyou begin a new life. She dons her Jade Lake Empress robes and crown, restoring her former grandeur; the Merit Snake Beauty arrives as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Cheng Lin’s resentment over her humiliating new name persists, and she jokingly considers abandoning the future plan to avoid being renamed “Song Egg-Egg.”
• Dog Egg’s Dad is unusually gentle and playful, teasing Cheng Lin and the Heavenly Emperor’s Son rather than acting like his formerly cold, taciturn self.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Son gets caught in the joke and unwittingly suggests a possible future that Cheng Lin finds alarming.
• Song Shuhang, Daozi, and Cheng Lin coordinate the transfer and preparation for Song Youyou’s new beginning.

Significant themes

• Identity and names: Names shape how people see themselves; Cheng Lin’s unwanted name undermines her sense of charm and dignity.
• Fragmentation and reintegration: The characters’ divided selves carry both practical dangers and conflicts of personality, making separation preferable to forced fusion.
• Rebirth and future planning: Reincarnation offers a way to resolve old dangers and create a new life, though even tentative plans can bring unexpected complications.
• Humor amid serious stakes: Teasing about names and family plans sits alongside the urgent work of managing unstable fragments and transforming Song Youyou.

• Key events: Cheng Lin appears in the Jade Lake Empress outfit. Merit Snake Beauty reacts with exaggerated, self-taught melodramatic acting, pretending to die from an imaginary spear wound. Cheng Lin dismisses the performance and begins the Cheng Lin Reincarnation Technique, enclosing herself and Song Youyou in a growing lotus. The technique severs the link between Daozi and Sovereign Fat Ball, since Song Youyou has devoured most of Fat Ball’s existence. Daozi ends the long Profound Sage Lecture broadcast after shaping its final impression: Tyrant Song has decisively defeated the Former Netherworld Ruler. The broadcast leaves viewers believing Song Song may have devoured the ruler to strengthen himself. As several powerful observers enter the Netherworld, the lotus blooms, and they sense that Tyrant Song’s presence has transformed the realm.
• Character developments: Cheng Lin is preparing to reincarnate while also transforming Song Youyou into an existence like Spotted Dragon Two. Song Youyou’s absorption of Fat Ball has reached more than nine-tenths, making him central to the severing of Fat Ball’s connection with Daozi. Daozi carefully manages the broadcast to maximize Tyrant Song’s public prestige. Merit Snake Beauty’s comic, theatrical “death” suggests she has picked up the group’s irreverent style.
• Interactions: Cheng Lin admires her own imperial outfit in front of Merit Snake Beauty, whose over-the-top reaction leaves her bewildered. Cheng Lin scolds Song Youyou when he denies teaching Merit Snake to act dead. Daozi observes the reincarnation ritual, recognizes its effect on Fat Ball, and manipulates the broadcast’s ending to frame Tyrant Song’s victory.
• Significant themes: Public image and reputation are shown as powerful tools: Daozi turns a victory into a legend, leaving cultivators convinced Tyrant Song is nearly untouchable. The chapter also blends cosmic-scale consequences with absurd comedy, as a ritual that alters the Netherworld follows a fake, tomato-blooded death scene. Its closing image emphasizes the result: Tyrant Song has effectively taken over the Netherworld and made it bear his mark.

Key plot points and events

• The Netherworld is now saturated with Tyrant Song’s aura and effectively under his watch. Visiting Longevity Immortals decide it is too risky to remain and quietly leave.
• Song Youyou emerges from a giant lotus bud with an aura nearly identical to Senior White Two’s. Countless fragments of Cheng Lin scatter, but Dog Egg’s Dad uses Dog Egg’s Shell to collect most of them.
• A few unusual fragments remain with Song Youyou and transmit information to Song Shuhang. The data reveals memories belonging to Song One, his first Spirit Ghost.
• The memories show Song One stranded in a spirit-rich world after losing contact with his main body because their Spirit Ghost Contract was incomplete. Song Shuhang recognizes this as the period when Spirit Ghost One was taken away by the Glazed Scholar.
• The memory then shows Song One leaving Jadewater Pavilion after spending time there. He promises the young Pavilion Master Chu he will return, then sets off to seek blank Spirit Ghosts and grow stronger.
• Alone on the road, Song One loudly declares his wish: to find a capable, beautiful fairy for his main body and help him lose his virginity after he turns eighteen. He then considers whether Ye Si might suit Song Shuhang better than the older-sister-like Chu Qiongqiong.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang reacts with alarm as the memories confirm Spirit Ghost One’s past and connection to his own history. He also verifies the transmitted information for hidden risks before reading it.
• Song One is revealed as inexperienced and dependent on his main body, yet determined to become stronger and eventually return to Chu Qiongqiong. His concern for Song Shuhang appears sincere, though expressed in embarrassingly blunt, comic terms.
• Dog Egg’s Dad efficiently gathers most of Cheng Lin’s fragments, while Song Youyou pauses to receive the fragments’ information.
• Song One and Chu Qiongqiong share a quiet farewell: she watches him leave, and he promises to return.

Significant themes

• Memory, identity, and cause and effect: Song Shuhang’s recovered memories clarify the origins of Spirit Ghost One’s separation and past events that once seemed accidental.
• Independence and growth: Song One leaves the safety of Jadewater Pavilion to seek strength and define a future beyond his Spirit Ghost identity.
• Comic affection: Song One’s grand, misguided romantic mission for his main body undercuts the chapter’s revelations with humor.

Song Shuhang relived Song One’s painful memory of returning too late to save Jadewater Pavilion, then resolved to shape the future even if the past could not be changed. As Song Youyou’s Spirit Ghost fragments were stored away, Song Shuhang received embarrassing memories of Song Blockhead’s flirtatious behavior and concealed that Song Blockhead was his Spirit Ghost.

• Song Shuhang saw memories of Song One searching for blank Spirit Ghosts, advancing through fusion, and advising Pavilion Master Chu to relocate Jadewater Pavilion.
• Song One returned to find Jadewater Pavilion still flourishing, but realized its apparent prosperity was a True Illusion and that he had arrived too late to help.
• Song Shuhang felt Song One’s despair, touched Pavilion Master Chu’s cowlick, and removed the sealed Hamster Unit sphere from his head.
• Song Shuhang declared that he would change the future even if the past could not be changed, then stored the sphere in his robes.
• Song Youyou’s Spirit Ghost fragments fell into Dog Egg’s Dad’s Dog Egg Shell, and their final memories revealed Song Blockhead’s flirtations with several fairies.
• Song Shuhang hid his embarrassment from Pavilion Master Chu and said Song Youyou was nearing the final stage of taking shape.

Key plot points and events

• Song Youyou completes his reincarnation and becomes the genuine Netherworld Ruler, taking a position equivalent to the other senior rulers. He can leave the Netherworld, but doing so would temporarily cut him off from it, so he chooses to stay.
• Boss Fat Ball survives, but in a severely weakened state. The reincarnation ritual has severed its connection to the Heavenly Dao, meaning it will not disappear when Daozi eventually relinquishes that position. However, having lost most of its existence and much of its body, Fat Ball falls into a long slumber.
• Daozi honors his promise not to seal or restrict Fat Ball again. He discovers an inherited Heavenly Dao function that allows him to alter a Netherworld Ruler’s memories and decides to use it to “whitewash” Fat Ball.
• Daozi begins deleting memories connected to the struggle for the Heavenly Dao and the Confucian School. He saves a copy of some memories for the Confucians, then removes large sections rather than laboriously filling the resulting gaps.
• When Daozi asks whether to alter Fat Ball’s memories of its clashes with Senior White, Senior White Two says to leave them intact.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Youyou has risen from being one of Song Shuhang’s incarnations to a full Netherworld Ruler. He reflects on the burden of the role and remains in the Netherworld, where he is safe and connected.
• Boss Fat Ball is no longer tied to the Heavenly Dao, but its physical and spiritual weakness leaves it unconscious for what may be thousands of years.
• Daozi shows both integrity and a casual, teasing side: he keeps his promise to Fat Ball while treating memory deletion as a practical solution—and briefly punches it just to test the sensation.
• Senior White Two, Dog Egg’s Dad, and Three-Eyed Ruler react uneasily to the memory-altering permission. Each suspects a previous Heavenly Dao may have created it, while recognizing that any of them might have been responsible.
• Senior White Two chooses not to erase Fat Ball’s memories of their rivalry, believing their past conflicts will make things more interesting.

Significant themes

• Promises and responsibility: Daozi honors his agreement with Fat Ball even after circumstances change.
• The cost of power: Becoming Netherworld Ruler brings freedom and protection, but also isolation and constraints.
• Memory and identity: The Heavenly Dao’s ability to reshape a ruler’s past raises unsettling questions about how much identity depends on memory.
• Comedy amid danger: The rulers’ suspicion, Daozi’s casual handling of a frightening power, and the “whitewashing” joke give a light tone to a scene involving severe injury and memory manipulation.

Song Youyou and the others decided to preserve Senior Fat Ball’s remaining memories before he moved the purified, shrunken Ruler to a new home in the Netherworld. A mysterious link then connected Song Youyou and the Fat Ball remnants to Song Shuhang, revealing the Netherworld Ruler as a Heavenly Dao dao mark and leaving Song Youyou wondering whether Fat Ball had become Song Shuhang’s.

• Senior White Two and Song Youyou chose to leave Senior Fat Ball’s memories of them intact while Daozi erased the rest.
• Song Youyou picked up the sleeping, shrunken Senior Fat Ball and set out to find him a place in the Netherworld.
• Activating the Netherworld Ruler’s authority linked Song Youyou, Senior Slim Ball, Song Shuhang’s cloak, Tyrant Corpse, and Little Lingxiao, forming a coordinate that connected to Song Shuhang’s true body.
• Senior Three-Eyed Young Man explained that a complete Netherworld Ruler was the Heavenly Dao’s dao mark and warned Song Shuhang to treat his future Netherworld Ruler well.
• Song Youyou wondered whether Senior Fat Ball, after losing most of his existence, had become Song Shuhang’s dao mark.

Chapter summary

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang reasons that past Heavenly Daoes may not have vanished completely after leaving their seats. Some might be hidden beyond the Myriad Heavens and Realms or lying dormant, and a “Dao Marker” could provide a route back.
• The gathered seniors share clues about former Heavenly Daoes: Three-Eyed Senior still senses malice from the one linked to him; Dog Egg’s Dad believes his corresponding Heavenly Dao planned an escape; and Heavenly Dao White may have left unknown safeguards after reaching Half-Step Transcendence.
• They conclude that Heavenly Dao Sphere’s collapse was unusually complete because it had been incomplete and reduced to a “tool sphere.” Song Shuhang is blamed for helping bring about its downfall, though Daozi proudly accepts responsibility for defeating Fat Ball.
• Merit Daoist’s fate also appears grim. The group clarifies that he cultivated Merit Power as a secondary path, and that Netherworld Rulers experience such power as unpleasant but not hateful—unlike the prospect of a Heavenly Dao based on Holy Light.
• The conversation turns to the future. The group agrees Song Shuhang should become the Ninth Heavenly Dao, with the seniors assisting him. Dog Egg’s Dad laments losing the chance to work with him, while Senior White Two suggests later Heavenly Daoes may still be possible.
• Daozi redirects everyone from speculation to the immediate task: Immortal White is to inherit the teacher’s innate ability.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from his usual “salted fish” lethargy to passionate resolve, declaring that he will become the Ninth Heavenly Dao and even transcend if necessary.
• Daozi is proud of the role he played in defeating Fat Ball and warmly supports Shuhang’s appointment.
• Senior White Two offers a more hopeful perspective, suggesting the Ninth Heavenly Dao need not be the last.
• Dog Egg’s Dad shows both curiosity—proposing they try cultivating a Holy Light Heavenly Dao—and disappointment that he may not get to cooperate with Shuhang.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword teases Shuhang about his part in Fat Ball’s fall, while Shuhang deflects the blame toward Daozi and Senior White.

Significant themes

• Legacy and survival: Former Heavenly Daoes may endure beyond their apparent defeat, leaving open the possibility of return.
• Responsibility and honor: Daozi regards bearing the blame for defeating Fat Ball as a point of pride.
• Duty and resolve: Shuhang accepts the immense burden of becoming the Ninth Heavenly Dao.
• The unknowable future: The group speculates about future eras and even a Holy Light Heavenly Dao, but ultimately chooses to focus on the next urgent step.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks how he can visit Senior White, whose main body is trapped inside the formation sealing the Pitch-Black Sun. Daozi explains that Shuhang can safely enter if he equips the Heavenly Dao-Level Calculation ability, with the others guiding him.
• Before leaving, Shuhang assigns tasks to his avatars: Song Youyou continues adapting to the Nine Netherworld Authority, the Self Corpse studies Dao in the Heavenly Dao Time Secret Realm, and the Steel Avatar keeps playing with the children.
• Shuhang enters the sealing formation without disrupting it. He records the thirty-three Unknown Whites noticing him and sends the footage to True Lord White Crane, who is delighted by the sight.
• Inside, Shuhang finds Senior White Two’s Golden Leg and the White Horse amusing themselves by pretending to gallop. Further along, he discovers Current-World Senior White playing a phone game while eating fruit.
• When Senior White notices Shuhang, he quickly hides the evidence and pretends to be meditating. Shuhang calls out the act, then explains that he has come to give Senior White the Confucian Sage talent.
• Senior White says Shuhang arrived at the wrong time: he had been about to win his game, and the interruption cost him the round.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains practical and candid, carefully organizing his avatars before the visit. His blunt honesty also punctures Senior White’s attempt to appear dignified.
• Senior White is revealed to be comfortably entertaining himself inside the seal, and his playful, game-loving side takes precedence over solemnity.
• True Lord White Crane is ecstatic to receive footage of thirty-three Senior Whites, though he bristles when Shuhang teases him about being a “best sis.”
• Daozi reassures Shuhang that his visit can be made safely, while the surrounding figures joke about Shuhang’s unusual access to Heavenly Dao abilities.

Significant themes

• Power balanced by limitations: Heavenly Dao assistance is powerful but requires a constitution capable of bearing its information.
• Humor and irreverence: Even a world-sealing mission becomes an occasion for teasing, comic discoveries, and Senior White’s gaming mishap.
• Connection across confinement: Though Senior White cannot leave the formation, Shuhang can still reach him and bring him a gift.