Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Tyrant Song’s earlier gains against the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao are partly undone: its struggle over Heavenly Dao Authority returns to its starting point, but the three grains of Immortality Sand the Black Heavenly Dao spent remain lost.
• Shuhang answers with a Heavenly Dao Pillar, knocking his opponent away and creating an opening for the Fifth Heavenly Dao Fairy’s hidden support.
• Using the Samsara Seal, the Fairy activates “Let There Be Samsara.” The technique reverses the Black Heavenly Dao’s actions while preserving the cost it paid, leaving it with the loss but not the reward.
• The Black Heavenly Dao recognizes that the technique depends on preparations Shuhang has planted—Dao Marks, pillars, and other groundwork. It begins destroying these traces while continuing to suppress his authority.
• Shuhang accepts that the same technique cannot simply be repeated. He plans to use another contingency from the Fairy’s many anti–Fourth Heavenly Dao strategies and continue wearing his opponent down.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is resourceful and irreverent, relying on hidden allies and layered plans rather than fighting alone. Though he boasts of victory, he knows he must adapt when his first trick is countered.
• The Fifth Heavenly Dao Fairy acts as Shuhang’s enthusiastic, unpaid ally. Her compassion for living beings contrasts with her exceptional hostility toward the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao; her past preparations prove crucial.
• The Fourth Black Heavenly Dao remains experienced and determined, but is increasingly forced to divide its attention between suppressing Shuhang and stopping his attacks and setup. Its options are narrowing, and it cannot undo the price it has already paid.
• Shuhang and the Black Heavenly Dao exchange a battle of tactics: Shuhang exploits prepared contingencies, while his opponent identifies and disrupts their prerequisites.

Significant themes

• Preparation and adaptability: Victory depends on layered plans, allies, and switching strategies when a tactic is countered.
• Irreversible costs: The Samsara technique can undo an outcome without erasing the price paid to produce it.
• The shrinking of choice: Despite its power, the Black Heavenly Dao is increasingly compelled to react to Shuhang’s moves.
• Comic bravado amid high stakes: Shuhang’s playful narration and boasts contrast with the severe struggle over the Heavenly Dao’s authority.

Key plot points and events

• On entering the Heavenly Dao Dimension, the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao’s condition, abilities, and the cost of its brief return to the Dao became fully visible to Song Shuhang. Their many past connections—and Song’s earlier Dream Entry into the Black Heavenly Dao’s transformation—left it with no secrets from him.
• Song secretly asked Senior White to finish his task and quietly block the dimension’s exit, while appearing to let the Black Heavenly Dao suppress him.
• After carefully countering Song’s interference, the Black Heavenly Dao sacrificed nine grains of Immortality Sand and regained control of part of the Heavenly Dao Authority. It then unleashed its prepared ultimate Stellar Destruction Viruses across the stars of the Myriad Heavens and Realms.
• Believing the ensuing destruction would clear the way for its final Transcendence, the Black Heavenly Dao expected Song to despair. Instead, Song revealed that he had never truly been suppressed. Senior White appeared behind him, confirming he was ready.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains composed and deceptive, using his exhaustive knowledge of the Black Heavenly Dao to conceal his real position and coordinate with Senior White.
• The Black Heavenly Dao is methodical and confident in its plan, but mistakes its temporary recovery of authority for victory. Its desire to see Song’s despair exposes its overconfidence.
• Senior White responds to Song’s discreet request and arrives at the crucial moment, suggesting the apparent struggle was part of a larger setup.
• Song and Senior White communicate quietly, while the Black Heavenly Dao focuses on Song and remains unaware of the support closing in behind him.

Significant themes

• Information as power: Deep connections and past encounters allow Song to understand an apparently flawless opponent.
• False victory and misdirection: The Black Heavenly Dao’s apparent triumph may be another stage in Song’s plan.
• Cooperation and trust: Song relies on Senior White’s careful timing while maintaining the appearance of fighting alone.
• Catastrophic ambition: The Black Heavenly Dao is willing to destroy the entire cosmos to pursue Transcendence.

Plot points

• Senior White arrives as the conflict reaches its conclusion. He and Song Shuhang plan to “whitewash” the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao—both spiritually and physically.
• Realizing White Heavenly Dao has returned, the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao tries to leave the Heavenly Dao Dimension and end its Ultimate Sublimation.
• White Heavenly Dao prevents it from departing, while Song Shuhang uses the subtitles on his face to reveal the problem: the Black Heavenly Dao’s Immortality Sand may be nearly exhausted.
• The Black Heavenly Dao insists it still has plenty and opens a Space Gate to escape. Song Shuhang and White Heavenly Dao let it go, appearing amused.
• As it steps through, the Black Heavenly Dao discovers that its body has effectively been left behind. Its Immortality Sand is consumed completely, leaving it unable to escape its Flawless Heavenly Dao state. Song Shuhang’s final message suggests that what it saw was real, but that its own perception had deceived it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains calm and playful, using his unusual facial subtitles to unsettle the Black Heavenly Dao and keep it occupied.
• White Heavenly Dao takes a commanding role, smiling warmly while firmly refusing to let the enemy leave.
• Senior White is present at the decisive stage and supports the plan to whitewash the villain.
• The Fourth Black Heavenly Dao shifts from confidence that the destroyed world guarantees its escape to genuine alarm. It misreads Song Shuhang’s stalling as a simple trick and only recognizes the trap when it is too late.
• Song Shuhang and White Heavenly Dao act in close coordination, sharing amused expressions as the Black Heavenly Dao walks into the outcome they have prepared.

Significant themes

• Perception and self-deception: The final message frames the Black Heavenly Dao’s downfall as a failure to see reality clearly.
• Power and hubris: Its belief that its authority and remaining resources make it untouchable leaves it vulnerable.
• Humor amid high-stakes conflict: The chapter treats the villain’s defeat as a playful “whitewashing,” punctuated by Song Shuhang’s comic subtitles.

Key plot points and events

• After the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao is completely erased, its immortal body becomes pure-white Immortality Sand. Song Shuhang warns Merit Snake Beauty and Senior White not to eat or waste it; the sand is valuable and entirely free of consciousness.
• Song contacts the Fifth Heavenly Dao Fairy, whose portion of the sand has also been purified, and brings it into the Heavenly Dao Dimension. Senior White painstakingly checks every grain, confirming that no trace of the Black Heavenly Dao remains.
• The chapter explains how the Fifth Fairy’s preparations helped defeat the Black Heavenly Dao. Past Sight made it perceive an outdated state of its Immortality Sand, while Secluded-Realm Reincarnation concealed the passage of time. The Black Heavenly Dao thus failed to realize it was burning away over ten days.
• During those ten days, Song Shuhang and Senior White built a model of the Myriad Heavens and Realms and exchanged it with the real universe. The Black Heavenly Dao’s Stellar Destruction Virus destroyed the model instead, leaving the actual worlds and their inhabitants unharmed.
• Song and Senior White consider whether the blank Immortality Sand might someday serve as a substitute Heavenly Dao, but recognize that making it take over their authority is only a possibility.
• They turn to the next goal: Song intends to remove Senior White’s Heavenly Dao restraints and help him transcend, taking those restraints onto himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is careful and strategic: he safeguards the purified sand, verifies the Black Heavenly Dao is truly gone, and accepts the burden of Senior White’s restraints to give him freedom.
• Senior White supports Song’s plan, shares his understanding without needing much explanation, and personally verifies the sand. Their mutual trust is emphasized through their exchange of clenched fists.
• Merit Snake Beauty admires the sand and briefly considers tasting it; Song stops her. Senior White also tries to examine a grain, prompting Song to keep watch over both of them.
• The Fifth Heavenly Dao Fairy remains a crucial ally. She provides the preparations that enabled the victory and reports that her sand is clean; Song thanks her, and she replies that she is delighted.

Significant themes

• Preparation and teamwork: The victory depends on the Fifth Fairy’s long-planned measures and the coordination of Song and Senior White.
• Sacrifice and protection: The Black Heavenly Dao’s body is consumed to create the purified sand, while the real worlds are saved through Song and Senior White’s deception.
• Freedom and responsibility: Song is willing to bear the Heavenly Dao’s restraints so Senior White can transcend.
• Time and perception: The chapter shows how manipulating what the Heavenly Dao perceives can turn its own power and assumptions against it.

Plot points and events

• Senior White asks Song Shuhang to confirm who should transcend. Song says he has no particular attachment to transcendence and urges Senior White to go first.
• Song argues there is no need to rush: he has only recently become the Immortal Heavenly Dao, and the Fourth Black Heavenly Dao’s shell may offer ways to pursue transcendence later.
• The two discuss how Song might use the shell and its Immortality Sand. Song plans to experiment with his abilities, especially his unusually powerful Blade-Nourishing Art.
• As Song sincerely refers to his fellow daoists as “seniors,” the Heavenly Dao Rules respond by granting many of them a blessing titled “Senior Respected by Tyrant Song Heavenly Dao.” It promises favorable treatment from tribulations and cultivation energy. Song’s peers receive different, non-senior marks.
• Senior White, impressed by the Rules’ response, decides Song should reach the threshold of transcendence within a month. Song is shocked by the demand.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows humility and loyalty, putting Senior White’s chance to transcend ahead of his own. He is confident he can catch up later, while recognizing how much he has grown since becoming a Heavenly Dao.
• Senior White is pleased by Song’s reassurance but ultimately sets him a startlingly ambitious deadline.
• Merit Snake Beauty dramatically pretends to die so she will not interrupt their conversation, dutifully embracing her role as a Merit Body.
• Senior Yellow Mountain and the other members of Song’s group unexpectedly receive Heavenly Dao blessings. Yellow Mountain reacts with bemusement—and a wry acknowledgment of how extraordinary Song’s rise has been.

Significant themes

• Humility and gratitude: Song’s sincere respect for his seniors has real, universe-wide consequences.
• Growth and changing roles: The former rookie is now a Heavenly Dao, while his old seniors receive blessings from him.
• Power and responsibility: The chapter explains that prolonged service can make Heavenly Dao figures increasingly shaped by the Rules they administer.
• Friendship and trust: Song urges Senior White to pursue transcendence without worrying about him, while Senior White responds by setting Song a new challenge.

Key events

• The world has been shaken by a string of unprecedented changes: the Eighth Heavenly Dao collapsed, Tyrant Song conquered the Netherworld and became its ruler, Daozi briefly became Heavenly Dao before resigning, and Tyrant Song and Sage White proved their immortality together.
• In the Ninth-Grade Tribulation Space, Melon-Eating Sage continues its Thousand-Day tribulation. With the tribulation now stable—and shortened by Tyrant Song and White’s earlier disruptions—it expects to finish in about a year.
• While thinking about visiting them afterward and discussing the Dao of Longevity, Melon-Eating Sage receives two mysterious blessing imprints.
• A powerful Ten-Directional Annihilation Tribulation then splits itself into ten weaker attacks, apparently out of deference to the imprints. Melon-Eating Sage discovers that they identify it as a friend acknowledged by the Tyrannical Song Heavenly Dao and the White Heavenly Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Melon-Eating Sage is revealed as kind, loyal, and sentimental: it once risked harm to protect the young Song Shuhang, misses him and White, and trusts their extraordinary potential.
• Its experience of the tribulation shifts from fear of their disruptive influence to hopeful anticipation of meeting them again.
• The chapter ends with Melon-Eating Sage wondering in disbelief whether Tyrant Song and White have become Heavenly Daos.

Significant themes

• Unprecedented change: Tyrant Song and White continue to overturn expectations about cultivation and immortality.
• Friendship and gratitude: The blessings show that the bond Melon-Eating Sage formed with them has lasting significance.
• Humor and irony: Melon-Eating Sage’s quiet plan to discuss longevity is interrupted by evidence that its friends may already be Heavenly Daos—and even the tribulation seems to treat them with respect.

Summary

Key events and plot points

• Melon-Eating Sage completes his Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation with almost no difficulty. His unusual karmic ties to both the former and current Heavenly Dao cause the tribulation to repeatedly “discount” its own power. He emerges as a Tribulation Immortal, becoming the first of the new Heavenly Dao era.
• Still reeling from the rapid succession of Heavenly Dao changes he witnessed, he jokes by recording a memoir titled Melon-Eating Autobiography—My Daoist Companion Suddenly Became the Heavenly Dao and Took Care of Me Everywhere, but I Panicked Like Crazy.
• In the Heavenly Dao Dimension, Song Shuhang and Senior White discuss using their new authority before Song Shuhang’s scheduled attempt at Immortal Transcendence in one month. Song Shuhang wants to prepare the people he cares about in case he cannot use Heavenly Dao Authority afterward.
• Song Shuhang decides to improve the foundations of the seniors in the Nine Provinces Number One Group and, especially, his disciples. Rather than simply altering their cultivation directly, he plans nine trials to strengthen their abilities and wills.
• Song Shuhang summons Little Cai, Chu Chu, and Joseph. Senior White’s blessing restores Chu Chu’s body, enlarges Little Cai, and rejuvenates Joseph, enabling all three to take part in the trials. Longevity Immortals observing the scene are astonished and envious of the advantages that come with being Tyrant Song’s disciple.

Character developments

• Melon-Eating Sage goes from a protected cultivator facing tribulation to a Tribulation Immortal, though the bewildering speed of events leaves him stunned and overwhelmed.
• Song Shuhang embraces his responsibilities as a Heavenly Dao. He uses his authority not merely to grant power, but to prepare his loved ones through challenges that will build their resolve.
• Senior White supports Song Shuhang’s plans and shares his interest in using their new authority.
• Chu Chu, Little Cai, and Joseph accept their master’s trials seriously, aware of the weight of being disciples of the Heavenly Dao. Their physical changes give each a fresh opportunity to advance.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Song Shuhang treats Heavenly Dao authority as a duty to prepare and protect those close to him.
• Growth through hardship: The disciples must earn improvement through trials, reflecting the importance of willpower alongside talent.
• The absurdity of fate and advancement: Melon-Eating Sage’s tribulation is comically easy because of his extraordinary karmic connections, while the rapid changes in the Heavenly Dao leave him unable to make sense of events.
• The privilege of connection: Being Song Shuhang’s disciple now carries almost unimaginable benefits, provoking awe and envy among powerful observers.

Character interactions

• Melon-Eating Sage reacts to Song Shuhang and White’s apparent kindness with disbelief, humorously turning his shock into a memoir title.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White coordinate how to use their authority, with Senior White reminding Song Shuhang not to overlook his disciples.
• Song Shuhang addresses Little Cai, Chu Chu, and Joseph directly, announcing their trials; the disciples answer respectfully and accept the challenge.
• Longevity Immortals discuss Joseph’s unusual aptitude and the advantages he gains through his connection to Song Shuhang, highlighting the observers’ envy of the disciples’ new opportunities.

Key plot points and events

• Cultivators across the Myriad Heavens and Realms marvel at the unusual benefits of having Tyrant Song as Heavenly Dao. Unlike earlier Heavenly Daoes, Song Shuhang has a large, living circle of friends, family, disciples, and acquaintances.
• Senior Everything Can Be Sold suggests that Shuhang may really be a newcomer who advanced roughly one level a month. Most cultivators dismiss this as impossible, but his Heavenly Dao blessing lends the claim credibility. He hints that investigating Shuhang’s past may leave them stunned—and takes a bottle of medicine to cope with the truth.
• Shuhang and Senior White prepare Dragon Pattern stickers to upgrade the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s members. Shuhang also arranges opportunities and support for people connected to him:
  • He names the young dryad sprout Mi Lulu, grants her intelligence, appoints her his disciple, and gives her a powerful liquid-metal companion artifact.
  • He promises Scarlet Eyes a trial to enter his sect and says he will help him reunite with his deceased brother, Black-Eye, possibly through reincarnation after Shuhang achieves Transcendence.
  • He plans to give Sima Jiang, a mortal who once delivered medicinal materials, a chance to enter the cultivators’ world.
• With the Dragon Pattern stickers ready, Shuhang and Senior White plan a dramatic reveal to the Nine Provinces Number One Group, intending to make the whole world notice their takeover.

Character development and interactions

• Song Shuhang embraces the responsibilities and powers of Heavenly Dao, using them to protect, guide, and repay people who have mattered to him. His gentle reassurance to Scarlet Eyes and care for Mi Lulu show his personal warmth alongside his overwhelming authority.
• Senior White supports Shuhang’s plans by preparing the stickers, working with him to strengthen the group.
• Everything Can Be Sold is both amused and unsettled by Shuhang’s extraordinary history; his blessing shows that even their relationship is recognized by the Heavenly Dao.
• Scarlet Eyes is eager to become Shuhang’s disciple and relieved by the promise of seeing his brother again.
• Mi Lulu begins a new life with Shuhang as her master, retaining a faint memory of her former admiration for him.
• Sima Jiang is remembered by Shuhang for a small but meaningful connection from his early cultivation days.

Significant themes

• The value of relationships: Long-lived cultivators often lose loved ones to time, while Shuhang’s unusually broad network remains active and meaningful.
• Power used with compassion: Shuhang applies Heavenly Dao authority not only to grand cosmic matters but also to individual hopes, debts, and second chances.
• Fate, memory, and renewal: Mi Lulu’s new life and the possible reincarnation of Black-Eye suggest that bonds may survive death and change.
• A growing legend: Other cultivators struggle to reconcile Shuhang’s apparent beginner status with his rapid rise, while his actions make the Nine Provinces Number One Group a likely subject of worldwide attention.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang, now the Heavenly Dao, prepares to distribute Golden Core Dragon Pattern Stickers made by Senior White. The stickers can add patterns to cultivators’ Golden Cores, potentially enhancing their cultivation prospects.
• He decides to announce the gift to the Nine Provinces Number One Group, despite having another, more powerful chat system, because the original group carries special meaning for him.
• Song’s login is projected across the Myriad Heavens and Realms through a “Manifestation Before All.” The cultivators of every realm can watch the group’s conversation.
• Song declares that the group is now protected by him and Senior White, and jokes that he has taken it over. The members respond with teasing and performative introductions, briefly turning the public broadcast into a chaotic spectacle.
• Song announces that Senior White and he have prepared a special gift for Senior Yellow Mountain. Before the gift can be revealed, Yellow Mountain removes Song from the group. The broadcast displays the expulsion to everyone.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains playful and familiar even after becoming the Heavenly Dao. He uses his immense authority casually, but his attempt to make a grand announcement ends in comic humiliation.
• Senior White supports Song by preparing the Dragon Pattern Stickers and joining him in arranging a gift for Yellow Mountain.
• Senior Yellow Mountain is exhausted by the group’s antics and regrets having created it, yet still feels fondness and pride toward Song. His affection does not stop him from kicking Song out when the latter makes him the center of a public spectacle.
• The group members show that their irreverent banter persists even when their chat is being broadcast to the whole world.

Significant themes

• Power versus dignity: Song can command the heavens, but he cannot prevent an ordinary group-admin action from embarrassing him.
• Continuity of identity: Becoming the Heavenly Dao has not changed Song’s basic personality or his attachment to his old friends.
• Community and nostalgia: Song chooses the original group over a more capable system because of its shared history.
• Public image and playful rebellion: The broadcast exposes the group’s private jokes, while its members continue to tease one another despite the cosmic audience.

Character interactions

• Song contacts the seniors and claims the group is under his and Senior White’s protection; Soft Feather and others joke that he is staging a takeover.
• Yellow Mountain watches with a mixture of irritation, weariness, and affection, then responds to Song’s surprise announcement by immediately kicking him out.
• The group members and the wider audience witness Song’s spectacularly undignified expulsion, turning the chapter’s grand Heavenly Dao spectacle into a punchline.

Plot points and events

• The Myriad Heavens and Realms watch a group chat in which Yellow Mountain kicks Tyrant Song’s Heavenly Dao out for interrupting. White Heavenly Dao promptly adds him back, while Song apologizes to Yellow Mountain.
• Song prepares to honor Yellow Mountain during the public “Sage Lecture” display, planning to use dragon-pattern stickers to upgrade his Golden Core. He discovers, to his embarrassment, that Yellow Mountain already has a complete Nine-Dragon Pattern Golden Core, making the gift unnecessary.
• Asked what he wants instead, Yellow Mountain jokes about making several group members more mature and improving Eastern Six’s driving. He then says he has no particular regrets and is happy simply to stay with the group.
• Senior White gives Yellow Mountain the stickers for a future disciple or loved one, while Song gives him a piece of Fat Ball’s body and adds the title “Eternal Group Owner” to his Heavenly Dao blessing.
• Onlookers mistake Yellow Mountain for a powerful female immortal—and perhaps Song’s mother—because of Song’s nickname for him. The chapter closes by revealing that Yellow Mountain is not a fairy: the apparent mystery was “Tyrant Song’s Heavenly Dao’s deception.”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows both the authority of the Heavenly Dao and his affectionate, playful side. Despite his immense power, he apologizes to Yellow Mountain and is deeply moved by Yellow Mountain’s contentment and generosity.
• Yellow Mountain remains the group’s caring, patient “Mama Yellow Mountain.” He takes Song’s antics in stride, declines to demand anything for himself, and values his friends’ company above personal rewards.
• White Heavenly Dao quietly restores Song to the group and helps present Yellow Mountain with a gift.
• Group members add comic interruptions: Three Waves is muted and renamed by White, while “When Will the Bright Moon Appear” eagerly hopes for his own chance to appear before the audience.

Significant themes

• Found family and belonging: Yellow Mountain’s greatest happiness is being with the group, and Song credits his place in it with helping shape who he became.
• Affection beneath comedy: The teasing, kicks, and group-chat mishaps sit alongside sincere gratitude and care.
• Power tempered by restraint: Song could alter his friends’ personalities but refuses, recognizing that their flaws and eccentricities are part of who they are.
• Public image versus reality: The spectators misread the group’s joking familiarity and invent a dramatic story about Yellow Mountain, underscoring the gap between appearances and truth.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang continues his Heavenly Dao ceremony, presenting members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group in the order shown on his Star Road Map.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain is named “Eternal Group Master,” much to his dismay, since he wants to retire from leading the group. He is sent back before he can object.
• Soft Feather appears next. Song Shuhang gives her a new secret technique suited to her Dragonless Golden Core and a Liquid Fat Ball. He reassures her that he and Senior White will handle the difficult future connected to Weizaizi. Their palm slap accepts Weizaizi’s wish, and Soft Feather’s unexplained tears stop. Seeing this, Spirit Butterfly puts away the sword he had prepared to attack the Heavenly Dao.
• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan receive Dragon Pattern stickers from Senior White, completing the nine patterns on their Golden Cores. Song Shuhang blesses their unborn child and gives them Liquid Fat Balls. Senior White’s eccentric sticker designs and Song Shuhang’s romantic Dao-music accompaniment turn the ceremony into a comic spectacle.
• Other group members are presented in succession, including Northern River, Master Profound Principle, Seven Lives Talisman, Su Clan’s Seven, Doudou, White Crane, Three Ri, Yu Jiaojiao, and her father, Jiao Ba.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White ask Copper Trigram about his true appearance and gender. He claims his profile has always listed him as male, but Northern River remembers seeing it listed as female; their teasing exchange continues as they are sent back.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer appears, while Three Waves repeatedly urges him to hurry so Three Waves can have his own turn. Several other members also wonder when they will appear. Three Waves is carrying a private message for Song Shuhang and fears he may forget it if he waits.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang uses his Heavenly Dao powers benevolently, honoring his seniors and friends with gifts, blessings, and personal reassurances.
• Soft Feather is comforted and regains her composure, though she does not fully understand the significance of Song Shuhang’s promise to fulfill Weizaizi’s wish.
• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan celebrate the coming of their child and receive a blessing for the baby.
• Spirit Butterfly abandons his plan to attack the Heavenly Dao after seeing Soft Feather recover.
• Yellow Mountain remains reluctant to keep the group-master role, despite Song Shuhang’s grand title.
• Copper Trigram continues to evade certainty about his identity, turning the question into another joke between group members.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and reassurance: Song Shuhang accepts the burden of facing the future on behalf of Soft Feather and Weizaizi.
• Friendship and gratitude: The ceremony reflects how group members helped Song Shuhang along his path, which he now repays through recognition and gifts.
• Power used for care: Song Shuhang’s immense authority is applied to protect, encourage, and celebrate people close to him.
• Humor amid grandeur: Heavenly Dao blessings and cosmic music are repeatedly undercut by the group’s familiar teasing and Senior White’s unconventional art.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang thanks Soft Feather for guiding him into cultivation, gives her a playful new technique, and shares a palm slap that conveys his promise.
• Senior White handles the Dragon Pattern stickers while Song Shuhang supplies ceremonial music; Medicine Master’s request for greater formality becomes a running joke.
• Northern River challenges Copper Trigram’s claims, prompting Copper Trigram to joke that Northern River is suspiciously invested in his gender.
• Three Waves pressures Phoenix Slayer to finish quickly, while other members eagerly announce their own turns.

Key plot points and events

• Young Master Phoenix Slayer receives his Nine-Dragon Pattern from Senior White, along with a Liquid Fat Ball that becomes a white windbreaker. Senior White urges him to cultivate toward the Longevity Immortal Realm, and Phoenix Slayer vows to keep advancing despite Song Shuhang having surpassed him.
• The next person summoned to the Manifestation Before All platform is Mad Saber Three Waves. Senior White has prepared a Sea-Wave Dragon Pattern for him.
• Three Waves asks for privacy and relays a message from the black-haired version of Fairy Skylark, who has died again. The message is encoded in an unknown ancient language. Senior White translates it with Heavenly Dao Authority, and Song Shuhang’s Chat-Cultivation Immortality Path reveals its meaning.
• The message shows that, in the former Black Dragon World’s era, the world collapsed after the Ninth “God” escaped. This suggests that if the current Ninth Heavenly Dao steps down or escapes, the Myriad Heavens and Realms might also collapse.
• Song Shuhang concludes that he and Senior White are distinct Heavenly Dao candidates, so one could remain behind to protect the world if the other stepped down. Their plan to transcend together must wait until they understand the danger.

Character developments and interactions

• Phoenix Slayer begins visibly nervous but tries to preserve his handsome image. Senior White’s heartfelt encouragement prompts him to take his cultivation future seriously; he and Song Shuhang exchange a joking but sincere farewell.
• Senior White shows how deeply past losses still affect him, expressing his hope that Phoenix Slayer will live long and reach the Longevity Immortal Realm.
• Song Shuhang teases Phoenix Slayer, jokes about his authority as Heavenly Dao, and later treats Skylark’s warning with seriousness. Three Waves points out the irony of Shuhang warning others not to cause trouble.
• Three Waves is unusually focused and obedient, serving as a careful messenger rather than behaving recklessly. He admits he does not understand the encoded message himself.
• Senior White and Song Shuhang work together to decode Skylark’s warning. Their partnership offers a possible safeguard: one may remain as Heavenly Dao while the other steps down.

Significant themes

• Mortality, loss, and perseverance: Senior White’s memories of losing friends give emotional weight to his wish that Phoenix Slayer survive and keep growing.
• Responsibility and sacrifice: The possibility that stepping down could destroy the world complicates the Heavenly Dao’s plans for transcendence.
• Communication and trust: Skylark’s warning reaches Shuhang and Senior White through multiple layers of encoding, showing both her caution and the importance of preserving her message.
• Comedy alongside cosmic stakes: Shuhang’s jokes, the improvised advertisement caption, and the group’s banter contrast with the grave threat of the world’s collapse.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White reassure Black-Haired Skylark that they understand her warning and will be careful when pursuing Immortal Transcendence.
• Senior White decides to remain in the Myriad Heavens and Realms while Song Shuhang advances first. He believes his continued presence will help ensure the worlds remain safe, and considers using the purified Fourth Heavenly Dao Shell as a future substitute.
• Mad Saber Three Waves delivers the message to Skylark, but Senior White decorates his Golden Core with Dragon Pattern Stickers first; Song Shuhang then sends him away before he can show them off to others.
• After Three Waves leaves, more of Skylark’s message is revealed: the Second God foresaw that the Ninth God’s departure could destabilize the world. This led to two plans—the eternal Eighth God Plan and the Immortality Substitute Plan. Both failed: the Eighth God had serious flaws and reigned briefly, while the substitute could not withstand the Heavenly Dao’s burden.
• Song Shuhang concludes that Skylark herself was intended to become the substitute for the Ninth God. Senior White notes that she likely does not know they already have a complete, pure Fourth Heavenly Dao Shell, which may provide the solution they need.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White shows his protective, self-sacrificing side by choosing to stay behind until Song Shuhang’s Transcendence proves the worlds are safe.
• Song Shuhang pieces together the ancient plans and recognizes Skylark’s likely purpose, while also noticing Three Waves’s implied lack of confidence in his reassurance.
• Black-Haired Skylark is revealed to have sent crucial information about the dangers of leaving the Heavenly Dao Seat and the possibility of using her as a last-resort replacement.
• Mad Saber Three Waves provides a brief comic interlude: he resists Senior White’s “decorations,” but is outmatched and sent away before he can show them off.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and sacrifice: Senior White is willing to delay his own advancement to protect the worlds.
• The danger of flawed plans: Both ancient strategies failed because their designs could not withstand the demands of the Heavenly Dao.
• Trust and proof: Senior White believes safety must be demonstrated by what remains after Song Shuhang advances.
• Hidden history shaping the present: The past gods’ attempts to control succession may explain later events, including the rise of the Ball Heavenly Dao.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White decide they need to speak with Black-Haired Skylark, but bringing her out normally would require Blue-Haired Skylark to suffer a catastrophic death. Neither is willing to harm a friend or fellow group member.
• Senior White points out that, as Heavenly Dao, he and Shuhang can use their authority to make Black-Haired Skylark manifest without killing Skylark. They arrange to do so, while leaving the livestream’s advertisement screen up.
• Meanwhile, members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group puzzle over who has taken the stage after Three Waves. They realize Drunk Star Layman may have been skipped—or possibly never appeared—and suspect that Shuhang and Senior White forgot to remove the advertisement during his Sage Manifestation. Soft Feather reminds Shuhang not to forget him.
• Behind the Sage Manifestation scene, Senior White uses Heavenly Dao authority, with Blue-Haired Skylark’s consent, to bring forth Black-Haired Skylark.
• Shuhang and Senior White ask her for the original plan and procedures for the Immortality Substitute Plan. Skylark warns that she may not be capable of bearing the full burden of serving as a substitute Heavenly Dao.
• Shuhang reassures her that they have a better candidate. Senior White shows her the Fourth Heavenly Dao Shell and encourages her to live as she wishes rather than feel obligated to join the plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang and Senior White show their reluctance to hurt Skylark, even though her immortality might make such harm seem acceptable. They also begin acting more consciously in their new role as Heavenly Dao.
• Black-Haired Skylark is willing to share her plan but remains cautious about the cost and her own suitability. Senior White and Shuhang try to relieve that burden and affirm her freedom to choose her life.
• The group’s members collaborate in reconstructing the Sage Manifestation order, teasing one another and worrying that Drunk Star Layman has been overlooked.

Significant themes

• Compassion over expediency: Shuhang and Senior White refuse to cause even a temporary, “safe” death to achieve their goal.
• Freedom and self-determination: Skylark should not be pressured into sacrificing herself for a plan when another option may exist.
• Responsibility and distraction: The Heavenly Dao’s powers are useful, but Shuhang is still adjusting to his authority—and may have neglected the livestream and Layman.

Key events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White show Black-Haired Skylark a complete, unconscious Heavenly Dao Shell—a remarkably perfect substitute for a Heavenly Dao. Skylark is astonished and feels her long-standing burden lift.
• Skylark sends them the full Heavenly Dao Substitute Plan. White and Shuhang begin adapting it to the laws of their world and plan to consult the Sage Eye Research Group.
• Before departing, Skylark recalls a possible link between the collapse of the Black Dragon World and an unknown being that also lifted Black Dragon to safety. Shuhang and White suspect this being was the First God, paralleling the mysterious First Heavenly Dao of their own world. They resolve to stay alert and protect the current Ninth Heavenly Dao.
• Shuhang arranges for Scholar to make a Sage Manifestation, giving the often-forgotten cultivator a rare chance to be seen by everyone.
• During the manifestation, Scholar’s Dao title becomes confused even to Shuhang and Scholar himself. Shuhang and White offer to erase his cultivation and let him start over, but Scholar declines, choosing to stay with his own path.
• Scholar abruptly breaks through to the Eighth-Grade Profound Sage realm and is pulled into the Heavenly Tribulation space. Afterward, Shuhang realizes Scholar’s strange cultivation technique has affected even the Heavenly Dao, and becomes concerned.

Character developments and interactions

• Skylark gains freedom from her last great responsibility, shares her research, and leaves Shuhang and White with a cryptic warning about the world’s collapse.
• Shuhang and Senior White work as partners, combining deductions about the substitute plan and the possible First Heavenly Dao threat. Shuhang also shows loyalty to Scholar by arranging his public recognition.
• Scholar briefly enjoys being noticed, but rejects an apparently advantageous restart because he considers his current cultivation his own choice. His breakthrough suggests his technique has an extraordinary—and potentially troubling—effect.
• The group-chat cultivators discuss Skylark’s return and Scholar’s manifestation, with their usual confusion over names and identities adding comedy.

Significant themes

• Identity and recognition: Scholar’s fading presence and muddled Dao title make being remembered a source of genuine happiness.
• Commitment to one’s path: Scholar turns down a powerful shortcut, affirming that his cultivation is his own choice.
• Hidden history and looming threats: The First God/First Heavenly Dao may be tied to a world’s collapse, despite scant evidence.
• Power with unintended consequences: Scholar’s technique may influence even the Heavenly Dao, prompting Shuhang to investigate.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes Drunken Star Layman’s cultivation method can affect even the Heavenly Dao: Shuhang still cannot reliably remember the layman’s Dao name, though Senior White is unaffected. The layman has used the names Drunk Moon, Drunk Sun, and now Drunken Star.
• Senior White suggests the method’s extraordinary effect may come from the layman’s unusually compatible physique. Shuhang sends two strands of Heavenly Dao Will to observe the layman’s Eighth-Grade tribulation. The tribulation repeatedly overlooks the area around him, making his advancement appear effortless. Shuhang records the method’s effects and secretly takes two bolts of tribulation lightning as tea snacks.
• During the public “Manifestation Before All” event, Song Shuhang summons Fairy Lychee. She reveals she has an Eight-Dragon Pattern Golden Core. Senior White uses Heavenly Dao authority to restore her Golden Core and grant her a ninth dragon pattern, then returns her to the Sixth Grade.
• Completing Lychee’s Nine-Dragon Pattern stirs causal connections linking her to Cheng Lin and Ye Si. Ye Si briefly reacts, while Cheng Lin’s fragment reunites and restores her. This disrupts Cheng Lin’s plan to sever her connection with Song Blockhead.
• Cheng Lin promptly leaves with Heavenly Emperor’s Son to settle their personal grievances. Dog Egg’s Dad lets them go, confident they can handle themselves. Their conversation with Senior Three-Eyed Youth raises the possibility that the Netherworld Ruler’s role as a Dao Marker may soon matter, and that past Heavenly Daos could return in the Ninth Heavenly Dao Cycle.
• Song Shuhang notes that Song Blockhead has also recovered ahead of schedule, likely because Lychee’s Nine-Dragon Pattern triggered the causal chain. He then plans to summon Dharma King Creation and, at Senior White’s suggestion, Creation Fairy as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang acts with growing confidence as the Immortal Heavenly Dao, investigating the layman’s cultivation method and managing the public ceremony. He is nevertheless unsettled by how strongly cause and effect continue to affect those around him.
• Senior White remains uniquely immune to the layman’s memory-affecting method and calmly advises Shuhang. He also performs Lychee’s Golden Core enhancement.
• Drunken Star Layman demonstrates the extreme power of his cultivation method by becoming effectively invisible to his own Heavenly Tribulation.
• Fairy Lychee receives a Nine-Dragon Pattern and casually pats Shuhang’s head, showing the easy familiarity she retains despite his status as Heavenly Dao.
• Cheng Lin and Heavenly Emperor’s Son depart together to confront their unresolved personal conflict. Cheng Lin’s restoration also revives the complications surrounding Song Blockhead.
• Dog Egg’s Dad is relaxed about the confrontation, while his discussion with Senior Three-Eyed Youth and Senior White Two hints at larger cosmic developments.

Significant themes

• Power and identity: The layman’s cultivation method can obscure his identity even from the Heavenly Dao, suggesting that transcendence may mean escaping observation.
• Causality and unintended consequences: A seemingly simple Golden Core upgrade triggers Cheng Lin’s restoration and disrupts her carefully laid plans.
• Familiarity beyond status: Lychee’s playful interaction with Shuhang underscores how old relationships persist despite his divine authority.
• Cycles and return: The possibility that former Heavenly Daos may return foreshadows major changes in the cosmic order.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Dharma King Creation makes a dramatic entrance with musical accompaniment, but instead of singing, he presents himself as a refined calligrapher and writes before the assembled cultivators. Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group suspect he is cultivating a respectable public image so he can spring his true musical performance on everyone later.
• Creation Fairy joins Song Shuhang as a pendant. Song asks whether he can fulfill any of her wishes as Heavenly Dao. She indicates that the wishes within Heavenly Dao’s power have already been addressed; Song promises that he and Senior White will help with the remaining personal matter—apparently connected to Glazed Scholar.
• Creation Fairy chooses to enter the Holy Eye Golden Core, which does not reject her and is compatible with her former role guarding the Sage’s Eye.
• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group and several younger reserve members appear in turn before the cultivators of the myriad worlds. Song’s Heavenly Dao authority heals Deputy Island Lord Tiantian’s soul. Senior White preserves Dragon Patterns within the younger members until they reach the proper cultivation level.
• Little Guoguo asks Song for a blessing. He humorously blesses her never to suffer from hemorrhoids, prompting many cultivators to reflect on their own affliction.
• Song and Senior White conclude their public manifestation, having effectively announced that the Nine Provinces Number One Group is under their protection.
• Song reunites with Su Clan’s Sixteen and explains that Transcendence should grant freedom from the constraints of time and space. He gives her the Core World’s key—the Lotus Projection—placing it within her Glazed Heart. This lets her and Ye Si enter and leave the Core World freely and travel using its coordinate system.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang uses his Heavenly Dao authority not only to address others’ needs but to make a personal commitment to Creation Fairy. He also entrusts Sixteen with access to his most important refuge and possessions.
• Dharma King Creation maintains an unexpectedly dignified, calligraphy-focused persona, despite his reputation for music and the group’s certainty that the performance is only postponed.
• Creation Fairy remains close to Song and chooses to reside in the Holy Eye Golden Core.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen receives a powerful means of protection and mobility, along with the possibility that her Glazed Heart may eventually evolve into an Immortal Heart.
• Senior White completes the Nine-Dragon Pattern Golden Core, supports Song’s arrangements, and remains his partner in considering Transcendence.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and protection: Song uses his new authority to heal, bless, preserve, and safeguard others.
• Trust and intimacy: Giving Sixteen the Core World’s key symbolizes Song’s confidence in her and the closeness of their relationship.
• Public image and humor: Creation’s polished introduction contrasts with his notorious musical talent, while the group eagerly interprets his behavior.
• Transcendence and possibility: The chapter looks ahead to freedom beyond time and space, while Sixteen’s Glazed Heart and the younger cultivators’ Dragon Patterns are shown as seeds of future growth.

Key plot points and events

• After Song Shuhang’s intervention, the Heavenly Dao succession crisis ends. The rules stabilize, and the Myriad Heavens and Realms enter a prosperous cultivation era. The Nine Provinces Number One Group becomes famous—and widely treated as untouchable—because its members are under Heavenly Dao protection.
• Song Shuhang and a formidable team continue researching the “Immortality Substitute” plan, intended to use the Fourth Heavenly Dao’s Pure Body in place of the Tenth Heavenly Dao. While the others make rapid progress, Song Shuhang spends much of his time mastering Heavenly Dao laws and eradicating the Blackest Progenitor’s Stellar Destruction Virus.
• As Heavenly Dao, Song Shuhang visits people from his past. He returns the Shadow Lord’s repaired and enhanced Shadow Holy Land artifact, then strengthens Tree Demon Qingwu and entrusts her with helping his three roommates begin cultivation. He secretly grants them improved aptitude and prepares them for the path, leaving their future progress to their own efforts.
• He observes his parents in the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World. They are beginning cultivation, and his pregnant mother carries a daughter already blessed by Song Shuhang’s ascension. Song Shuhang also supports Senior Daozi’s resurrection as a Longevity Immortal, detached from his former Heavenly Dao role.
• Across the realms, Song Shuhang blesses or offers opportunities to relatives, friends, and acquaintances, including Zhao Yaya, a young Beast Cultivator, a Foreign Monk, and two university professors. He leaves some people undisturbed, including Demon Emperor Hezhi.
• When his scattered wills return, Senior White reports that the research project is nearly ready for final experiments. Eager to contribute, Song Shuhang volunteers to be the test subject for the Immortality Substitute plan. The chapter closes with the prospect of his eventual departure from the Heavenly Dao seat.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang settles into his role as Heavenly Dao, using his authority to protect and encourage people without dictating their futures. He feels a little embarrassed that the research team has progressed without him, so he volunteers for the final experiment.
• Shadow Lord accepts Song Shuhang’s upgraded artifact, concealing how startling it is to see his former acquaintance become a Heavenly Dao.
• Qingwu continues caring for Song Shuhang’s roommates and guiding them toward cultivation; Song Shuhang rewards her trust and work.
• Song Shuhang’s parents adapt to their son’s godlike status, cultivate at the Confucian School, and affectionately imagine their family’s future.
• Senior White recognizes Song Shuhang’s wandering attention and updates him on the research, while the assembled researchers—including Heavenly Dao beings, Netherworld Rulers, and powerful immortals—work together on the plan.

Significant themes

• Responsibility after attaining power: Song Shuhang uses immense authority to help others while leaving their choices and achievements to them.
• Continuity and gratitude: He revisits people who shaped his life, repays kindness, and ensures friends and family have opportunities ahead.
• A new age after upheaval: The stabilized world enters a period of growth, with cultivation and inheritance flourishing.
• Transition and renewal: Daozi’s resurrection and the planned Immortality Substitute both point toward release from old Heavenly Dao roles and the possibility of a new future.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang prepares for an experiment to test an “Immortal replacement” plan with Senior White, using the Fourth Heavenly Dao’s shell. The goal is to explore whether they can eventually attain Transcendence together—and, in the process, challenge the record for the shortest Heavenly Dao reign.
• To prevent interference, Song seals his Core World and transfers the authority over his artificial Overlord World to an heir. He chooses Little Yinzhu, who accepts the Realm Lord Seal; Little Lingxiao declines. Song also arranges for the Overlord World’s prisoners to remain there.
• Senior White, Senior White Two, and the other researchers set up the experiment. Song enters Dao Artifact mode with Su Clan’s Sixteen, allowing Samsara Blade Fairy to record and livestream the results.
• The first two experimental stages go smoothly: Song’s Immortal Fat Whale Golden Core and the Fourth Heavenly Dao’s shell manifest as a black-hole-like vortex and a radiant sun, and Song successfully transfers small amounts of Heavenly Dao authority to the shell.
• The simulated third stage suggests that the transfer could make Song leave his Heavenly Dao position—an unwanted outcome. The group concludes the plan needs revision: Senior White should first “graduate,” leaving both Heavenly Dao restraints on Song, so Song can transfer one restraint to the Fourth Heavenly Dao’s shell while remaining in office.
• As the experiment winds down, Song and Senior White sense a mysterious figure emerging in the depths of the Myriad Heavens and Realms, reminiscent of the First Heavenly Dao. They suspect their experiment may have triggered the conditions for the Ninth Heavenly Dao to “drop out.” The figure begins to retreat, and both decide they must stop it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song acts responsibly despite his usual playful attitude, preparing carefully for the experiment and entrusting Little Yinzhu with the Overlord World. His affection for his daughters is evident in their warm, joking family moment.
• Little Yinzhu accepts the role of temporary Realm Lord with maturity, while Little Lingxiao supports her sister. Yinzhu’s new authority and Heavenly Dao connection greatly strengthen her prospects.
• Senior White leads the practical work efficiently, while Senior White Two, Dog Egg’s Dad, Lady Dragon Network, Skylark, and the others provide cautions and technical guidance. Samsara Blade Fairy eagerly handles data collection and livestreaming.
• Song and Senior White work in close coordination, sharing the same instinct to pursue the mysterious figure rather than let it slip away. Their partnership is central to the experiment.

Significant themes

• Experimentation and caution: Even a promising plan requires staged tests, careful data collection, and revision when risks become clear.
• Power and responsibility: Song delegates authority and protects those connected to him before undertaking a potentially dangerous experiment.
• Family and legacy: His choice of Yinzhu as heir reflects both affection and his desire to secure the future of the world and his lineage.
• Ambition and the unknown: The pursuit of synchronized Transcendence unexpectedly brushes against the ancient mystery of the First Heavenly Dao and the possible succession of Heavenly Daoes.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White sense that a mysterious, flickering figure must not be allowed to escape, and attack at once. Senior White traps it in a desert world while Shuhang surrounds it with Heavenly Dao Pillars.
• The figure is hard to perceive: observers’ minds instinctively overlook it. The group suspects it is connected to the First Heavenly Dao, though ties to other past Heavenly Daoes are also possible.
• The figure summons a spreading shadow filled with the remnant shells of the Second through Eighth Heavenly Daoes. Its influence causes decay and death, but Shuhang’s nine saber-bearing pillars halt its expansion.
• Senior White spots a second similar figure elsewhere and traps it in a star-like desert imbued with Immortality. A third and then a fourth figure appear, suggesting the threat may be multiplying or acting in several places at once.
• Merit Daoist moves to suppress the third figure. The group considers bringing the others to the Samsara Seal, but moving the Seal could endanger the newly built reincarnation system.
• For the fourth figure, Cheng Lin and Heavenly Emperor’s Son unite their powers through the Confucian Golden Lotus World, Evil Lotus World, and Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber. This opens a passage using Dog Egg’s Dad as its coordinate.
• A colossal Spotted Dragon—Dog Egg’s Dad in his original Heavenly Dao form—emerges and charges the fourth figure. The chapter ends with the first Heavenly Dao returning in earnest.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang and Senior White act on instinct and coordinate effectively, combining Heavenly Dao authority, spatial control, and saber techniques.
• Shuhang demonstrates the strength of the perfected Heavenly Dao Pillars and his exceptional saber talent.
• The External Aid Research Group debates the figures’ identity and purpose, while preparing additional support and weighing the risks to the Samsara Seal.
• Cheng Lin and Heavenly Emperor’s Son set aside their usual friction to work together, enabling Dog Egg’s Dad’s return.
• Dog Egg’s Dad becomes the unexpected key to the passage, while his comic exchanges with the group briefly lighten the crisis.
• Merit Daoist sheds his Karma Fire and appears in a radiant, restored form before joining the battle.

Significant themes

• The cost and legacy of the Heavenly Dao: Remnant shells thought to have vanished have instead accumulated into a dangerous force.
• Identity and erasure: The figures’ near-invisibility reflects the First Heavenly Dao’s supposed erasure of his own existence.
• Cooperation across old divisions: Former rivals and allies must combine their powers against a threat linked to multiple generations.
• Uncertainty at a turning point: The Ninth Heavenly Dao’s departure may trigger world-changing events, but whether these bring salvation or catastrophe remains unknown.