Chapter Summaries

Deng Yima mistook Fairy Lychee for Copper Trigram Immortal Master and attacked her with a pellet, but Fairy Lychee subdued him and promised to take him to Copper Trigram. The pellet’s effects then made Song Shuhang and Ye Tang fight at astonishing speed on the Immortal Severing Platform, leaving the group puzzled.

• Fairy Lychee and Northern River's Loose Cultivator explained that Copper Trigram Immortal Master had disguised himself as Fairy Lychee to give Deng Yima a disastrous fortune, but Deng Yima refused to believe them.
• Deng Yima threw a Black Tiger Secret Realm pellet at Fairy Lychee, who deflected it with a reflective crystal wall; the pellet burst against the platform’s barrier and released a strange mist.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain incapacitated Deng Yima, and Fairy Lychee dragged him away and beat him until he stopped attacking.
• Fairy Lychee threatened to take Deng Yima to Copper Trigram Immortal Master, while Mad Saber Three Waves felt uneasy in his Big Macaque disguise.
• Northern River's Loose Cultivator noticed that Song Shuhang and Ye Tang were suddenly exchanging blows at extreme speed on the Immortal Severing Platform.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain suspected the pellet had caused the strange effect, though Deng Yima had called it a slowing spell.

Chu Chu fought Ye Tang on the Immortal Severing Platform while her sealed cultivation gradually returned, turning the duel against the Second-Stage True Master. After defeating him with a sudden barrage of punches, she regained her True Qi as the Blood Qi from her five major acupoints expanded her Embryonic Dantian into a True Qi Vortex.

• True Lord Yellow Mountain suspected that Deng Yima's pellet had caused time acceleration, as Chu Chu and Ye Tang fought at extraordinary speed without tiring.
• Ye Tang grew frustrated as Chu Chu's strength appeared to recover, and he decided to end the fight with his Mountain-Splitting Sword.
• Ye Tang drove Sword Qi into Chu Chu, making her drop her treasured blade and stiffen, and he believed he had won.
• Chu Chu suddenly attacked Ye Tang with meteor-like fists and knocked him down, despite his belief that his Sword Qi had destroyed her meridians.
• Ye Tang realized Chu Chu had recovered to the Second-Grade realm as the seal on her Qi Storage and Essence Expansion Method came undone and her Blood Qi formed a True Qi Vortex in her Dantian.

Song Shuhang, disguised as Chu Chu, defeated Ye Tang and advanced to the Second-Grade Realm during their fight, giving the Chu Household one win and one loss. As the final battle approached, the Chu Household elder received word from his long-secluded grandfather that he would fight, while a hidden caller prepared to act after the old man departed.

• Song Shuhang defeated Ye Tang on the Immortal Severing Platform and formed a True Qi Vortex, advancing to the Second-Grade Realm without undergoing the Dragon Gate Leap.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group members speculated that the pellet’s spell involved time and that Song Shuhang’s advancement came from the Qi Storage and Essence Expansion Method.
• The Chu Household and Void Sword Sect each had one victory, leaving a final match against the Void Sword Sect’s Fourth-Grade grand elder.
• The Chu Household elder received a call from his grandfather, who said his injuries had healed enough for him to fight the final battle.
• The Chu Household’s old patriarch rode sword light toward the platform, and a household member called someone to report his departure and prepare to act.

Song Shuhang discovered that Venerable White had disappeared with the real Chu Chu, so he and Soft Feather set off for the Chu Household to look for him. As the final Immortal Severing Platform round approached, both the Void Sword Sect and the Chu Household gained unexpected support.

• Song Shuhang found the tent filled with yellow sand and discovered that Venerable White, Chu Chu, and his clothes were gone.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather headed to the Chu Household, believing Venerable White had gone to investigate its basement.
• Grand Elder Jian Yuanhai arrived at the Void Sword Sect camp, resolved to win the final round and obtain a copy of the Chu Household's Sword Formula.
• The Chu Household's clan elder welcomed his grandfather, who had emerged from twenty years of seclusion and had once brought the Sword Formula back to the household.
• The clan elder's grandfather noticed the many powerful members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group gathered in the Chu Household's camp.

Venerable White returned with Chu Chu and learned that Song Shuhang had left with Soft Feather, while the final Immortal Severing Platform battle began. At the Chu Household Grounds, a mysterious man and his allies broke into the secret chamber to seize the Mystic Sword Formula as Song Shuhang and Soft Feather arrived nearby.

• Chu Kangbo greeted the Nine Provinces Number One Group and revealed himself as a Fifth-Grade Golden Core Spirit Emperor.
• Venerable White returned with Chu Chu, learned Song Shuhang had gone off with Soft Feather, and carried a missile back to the Chu Household camp.
• Jian Yuanhai and Chu Kangbo took the stage as the final round of the Immortal Severing Platform Battle began.
• A schoolteacher-like man and his followers incapacitated Chu Household disciples, opened the secret chamber, and entered to seek the Mystic Sword Formula.
• Soft Feather and Song Shuhang reached the Chu Household Grounds after following her phone's map.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather entered the Chu Household Grounds while Venerable White made embarrassing emoji packs from the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s flight footage. Soft Feather detected knockout mist near the grounds’ center, and she and Song Shuhang used the Turtle-Breathing Technique before continuing inward.

• Song Shuhang learned from the guards that Venerable White had not returned to the Chu Household Grounds with Chu Chu, then entered with Soft Feather.
• Song Shuhang told Soft Feather that Senior White’s gift had turned the group’s seniors into shooting stars, and Soft Feather eagerly wished she had received one.
• Venerable White used Northern River's Loose Cultivator’s laptop to create and upload an emoji collection from the seniors’ flight footage, defeating the group members who tried to stop him.
• Soft Feather detected knockout mist near the center of the Chu Household Grounds and pulled Song Shuhang back before they inhaled too much.
• Song Shuhang cast the Turtle-Breathing Technique on himself and Soft Feather, and they prepared to explore deeper into the grounds.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather discovered masked Demon Race attackers at the Chu Household’s ancestral hall and moved to stop them. When a hidden assailant ambushed them with black spikes, Soft Feather shielded Song Shuhang and prepared to fight while he alerted the Chu Clan.

• Soft Feather gave Song Shuhang a magical contact lens that let them watch five spiked men guarding the ancestral hall from a god’s-eye view.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather saw one of the men attack an awakened Chu Household disciple, confirming the group was hostile.
• Song Shuhang told Soft Feather to capture the five guards quietly while he notified the Chu Household and arranged to surround the area.
• A hidden, smaller attacker shot black spikes at Song Shuhang and Soft Feather from a pavilion.
• Song Shuhang activated his Eye Aperture Talent to track the spikes, but Soft Feather teleported in front of him and blocked them with a golden light screen.
• Soft Feather revealed her metal armor and told Song Shuhang to notify the Chu Clan while she handled the attackers.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather fought the strange brutes attacking the Chu Household Grounds, killing their small leader and battling the four who came after him. Soft Feather held off the four with her sword, but a hidden Fourth-Grade brute struck her with a silver spike as she prepared to use Talisman Treasures.

• Song Shuhang used Lion's Roar to warn the Chu Household Grounds of the attack and the poisonous mist.
• Soft Feather defeated the small strange figure with a Talisman Treasure explosion while Song Shuhang watched the four approaching brutes.
• The wounded figure tried to attack Song Shuhang, but his spike pierced his own throat, and he died with a strange smile.
• Soft Feather fought the four Peak Third-Grade brutes, whose anger intensified after they saw their companion's corpse beside Song Shuhang.
• Soft Feather unleashed a barrage of sword light and prepared Talisman Treasures, but a concealed Fourth-Grade brute struck her sword with a silver spike.

Soft Feather fought the Sea Urchin Warriors while protecting Song Shuhang, killing four with a powerful prepared technique. When the surviving Fourth-Grade warrior threatened their families, Soft Feather pointed out the figure standing behind him.

• Soft Feather held off five Sea Urchin Warriors as four tried to get around her and attack Song Shuhang.
• Soft Feather used her armor's seven-attribute Sword Qi to kill four Sea Urchin Warriors at once.
• The remaining Fourth-Grade Sea Urchin Warrior attacked Soft Feather, and one of his silver spikes shattered against her weapon.
• The Fourth-Grade warrior threatened Soft Feather and Song Shuhang, then secretly contacted four more warriors lying in ambush.
• Soft Feather told the warrior he could kill her whole family and pointed behind him, where a furious voice told him to turn around.

Venerable Spirit Butterfly killed the Sea Urchin Warrior who threatened his family, then reunited with Soft Feather and met Song Shuhang in disguise. After seeing through Song Shuhang’s transformation, he unexpectedly decided that the young man was a reassuring friend for his daughter.

• Venerable Spirit Butterfly froze the Fourth-Grade Sea Urchin Warrior with a word and killed him with a Spirit Butterfly.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly ordered the Spirit Butterfly to remember the Sea Urchin Warrior bloodline and bar its members from coming within five hundred kilometers of Spirit Butterfly Island.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly greeted Soft Feather, who admitted nothing but ran to hug him, and he playfully knocked her helmet.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly saw through Song Shuhang’s Transforming Brooch and discovered his true appearance beneath the Chu Chu disguise.
• Song Shuhang greeted Venerable Spirit Butterfly in an altered voice, and the Venerable initially mistook his disguise for cross-dressing.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly sensed Song Shuhang’s peaceful aura and praised him as a reassuring friend for Soft Feather.

Venerable Spirit Butterfly reunited with Soft Feather and discovered Liu Jianyi had been secretly fighting Sea Urchin Warriors, while Song Shuhang and the others pursued the Chu Household’s hidden enemies. In the secret chamber, the gentleman and his servants prepared to escape, but when their way was blocked, they killed themselves before the group could stop them.

• Venerable Spirit Butterfly praised Song Shuhang for being Soft Feather’s friend, then called Liu Jianyi to ask why he had not been with Soft Feather.
• Liu Jianyi revealed he was fighting four Fourth-Grade Sea Urchin Warriors, defeated them with Fifth-Grade strength, received a Sea Urchin Slayer mark, and hurried to Soft Feather while disguising his cultivation.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly assigned Liu Jianyi to deliver the unconscious Iron Trigram Diviner to the Nine Provinces Number One Group and ordered him to return within three minutes.
• Soft Feather told Venerable Spirit Butterfly that more Sea Urchin Warriors might be hiding in the Chu Household’s secret chamber, while Chu Household members put on gas masks and advanced through the mist.
• The gentleman’s servants stabbed two Chu Household traitors and drained their blood to prepare their escape, but Song Shuhang, Venerable Spirit Butterfly, and Soft Feather arrived and blocked them.
• After admitting they could not leave, the four servants stabbed themselves in the chest, and the gentleman cut his own neck.

Song Shuhang tried to stop the Mister from escaping with the Chu Household’s Sword Formula scrolls through a spatial Formation, but its chaotic-space defenses defeated his attack. Venerable Spirit Butterfly stepped into the Formation unharmed, leaving the Mister shocked as the teleportation began.

• The four servants and the Mister drained their blood to activate the Star-Shifting Formation, and Song Shuhang realized the scrolls in the Mister’s hands were the Chu Household’s Sword Formulas.
• Song Shuhang’s blood arrows shattered his Golden Buckler, but his Flame Blade destroyed the arrows before the Formation’s spatial defenses sliced apart his attack.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly explained that chaotic space protected the active teleportation Formation, while six Chu Household disciples arrived and Song Shuhang warned them not to approach it.
• The Mister began sinking into the Formation with the scrolls, scattered harmless powder as a parting trick, and taunted Song Shuhang before Venerable Spirit Butterfly approached.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly thrust his hand into the Formation without being harmed, shocking the Mister, who wondered if the Venerable had mastered spatial power.

Song Shuhang recovered one Sword Formula scroll and helped organize the Chu Household after the intruders escaped. While he suppressed poison affecting six disciples, one suddenly began singing a strange line.

• Venerable Spirit Butterfly seized one Sword Formula scroll from Mister, severing Mister’s mechanical-looking arms in the process, while Mister escaped through the Star-Shifting Formation with the other three scrolls.
• Song Shuhang checked the recovered scroll, reassured the Chu Household disciples, and agreed with Venerable Spirit Butterfly to retrieve the remaining scrolls later.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly and Soft Feather left Song Shuhang to manage the Chu Household, and he ordered the clansmen to rescue the unconscious, summon their elders, and secure the secret chamber.
• The six disciples who carried out the corpses began itching after exposure to poisonous dust left in the secret chamber, and Song Shuhang suppressed the poison in one disciple with his true qi.
• The treated disciple’s eyes lit up, and he began singing, “The grass smells sweeter because of you?”

Song Shuhang left the Chu Household after treating six poisoned cultivators and headed to find Senior White, while the Chu Household defeated the Void Sword Sect on the Immortal Severing Platform. The Chu Household claimed the Void Sword Scripture as its reward, and Fairy Lychee brought the badly injured Iron Trigram Diviner to Medicine Master, reserving a second bed for Copper Trigram.

• Song Shuhang treated the six poisoned Chu Household cultivators, left them guarding the secret chamber, and departed to find Senior White.
• Chu Kangbo defeated Jian Yuanhai, destroying his sword arm and breaking his flying sword as the Chu Household won the third round.
• Chu Kangbo demanded the Void Sword Scripture, and the Everlasting Sword Sect guardians agreed to ensure the Void Sword Sect delivered it within a week.
• The Void Sword Sect withdrew, while its sect master Xu Zheng secretly took comfort in a message saying the plan had succeeded because the Chu Household's Sword Formula had been stolen.
• Liu Jianyi brought the severely injured Iron Trigram Diviner to the Chu Household camp, and Fairy Lychee took him to Medicine Master for treatment.
• Fairy Lychee messaged Copper Trigram to bring money for the medical bills and told Medicine Master to prepare two beds; Medicine Master asked Jiang Ziyan to get them ready.

True Lord White Crane entered Venerable White’s hand tractor race after hearing that the top five would join an expedition to a ruin from the Previous Era. True Lord Yellow Mountain gathered entrants, took Doudou home with a silencing collar, and remembered he owed Song Shuhang two red packets.

• Venerable White announced a hand tractor race whose top five finishers would accompany him to explore an undersea ruin from the Previous Era.
• True Lord White Crane volunteered to race, and several members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group signed up after learning about the ruin.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain offered to supply the hand tractors and asked interested cultivators to register.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain put a silencing collar on Doudou and took him home after Doudou refused to leave Song Shuhang.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain remembered that he owed Song Shuhang two red packets, surprising Venerable White by mentioning one was for receiving him after his seclusion.

After the Chu Household’s Sword Formula was stolen, Venerable White proposed a Hand Tractor Race alongside the upcoming Flying Sword Race, to the Nine Provinces Number One Group’s horror. The group’s attempts to talk him out of it failed, while True Lord White Crane enthusiastically volunteered to compete.

• Liu Jianyi slipped away to pursue two Golden Core Spirit Emperors who had pressured the Chu Household, and Venerable Spirit Butterfly followed with Soft Feather to watch over him.
• Chu Xueluo reported that thieves had stolen the Chu Household’s Sword Formula, released a fog that left many unconscious, and escaped despite Chu Chu and her companion killing several intruders.
• Chu Kangbo sent Wen Yan and most of the Chu Household members back to investigate, then returned to the clan grounds himself while the Nine Provinces Number One Group stayed behind.
• Venerable White finished sorting reaction images and announced that he wanted to hold a Hand Tractor Race alongside the Flying Sword Race.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and Mad Saber Three Waves objected, but Venerable White proposed modifying the tractors for speed and giving them a water-racing course.
• True Lord White Crane declared his support for the race and volunteered as its first competitor, prompting the other group members to grit their teeth.

The Nine Provinces Number One Group discussed a promised reward for Song Shuhang, but Venerable White kept revealing that Shuhang already had or would soon receive everything they considered giving him. The seniors were left wondering what he still needed, and turned to pills as a possible reward.

• Northern River's Loose Cultivator and the other seniors began discussing how to reward Song Shuhang for welcoming Venerable White out of seclusion.
• Venerable White explained that Shuhang could learn the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique and already knew the Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles movement technique.
• Venerable White said Shuhang might obtain a sword technique through his karmic connection with Li Tiansu and the Chu Household.
• The seniors learned that Shuhang had already secured cultivation in Su Clan's Seven's Heavenly River Secret Realm and would attend the Immortal Chef Banquet.
• Venerable White listed Shuhang's talismans, magical artifacts, weapons, and other rewards, leaving the seniors struggling to find something he lacked.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master suggested giving Shuhang pills, and the seniors reflexively looked to Venerable White again.

The Nine Provinces Number One Group prepared a generous red packet of pills and a Jade-Green Kasaya for Song Shuhang. On his way back to the Immortal Severing Platform, Song Shuhang was confronted by a Sea Urchin Warrior seeking revenge, and he turned the warrior’s threat back on him.

• True Lord Yellow Mountain organized pills from several sects to support Song Shuhang’s Second-Grade cultivation, battles, and injuries.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain decided to give Song Shuhang a protective robe, choosing a Jade-Green Kasaya, while Venerable White wondered what else he could offer.
• The Daoists contacted their sects to gather the pills and arrange for the gifts to be delivered with the hand-pushed tractor.
• Song Shuhang encountered a Sea Urchin Warrior who accused him of killing a companion and threatened his family.
• Song Shuhang interrupted the Sea Urchin Warrior’s scripted threat by repeating its next line with the demand to cut off his own head.

Song Shuhang killed the Poison-Gall Warrior Sui Qianjun and found a Sea Urchin Warriors textbook containing a useful breath-concealment method. He considered seeking a concealment method through the Nine Provinces Number One Group and then remembered the brooch holding his embarrassing memories.

• Song Shuhang recognized that the Sea Urchin Warrior was reciting scripted threats before it attacked him with poisonous spikes.
• Song Shuhang evaded Sui Qianjun's Round Dance Slash and cut the warrior in half with Flame Blade, killing it.
• Song Shuhang searched Sui Qianjun's remains, collected two small stones, and discovered The Sea Urchin Warriors' Twenty-Year Compulsory Education Textbook.
• Song Shuhang read about the Sea Urchin Warrior Camouflage Breath-Concealment Method and considered asking the Nine Provinces Number One Group for a mission that might earn him a concealment method.
• Song Shuhang took out the brooch containing his embarrassing memories from that day.

Song Shuhang accidentally combined the Transformation Brooch with his improvised camouflage method, turning himself into an illusory caterpillar while concealing his aura. After sea urchin warriors arrived and one died while trying to crush him, Shuhang learned they planned to attack the Void Sword Sect; meanwhile, a lazy Fourth-Grade cultivator confronted two Spirit Emperors and asked to beat them up for a photo.

• Song Shuhang's improvised camouflage method transformed his appearance into a caterpillar and hid his aura.
• Six Second-Grade sea urchin warriors found Sui Qianjun's body and followed the Vengeance Mark toward the Void Sword Sect, leaving one warrior behind.
• Song Shuhang tried to retreat, but the remaining sea urchin warrior mistook him for an ordinary caterpillar and died after grinding a finger against his shoe.
• Song Shuhang gained the Sea Urchin Slayer Warrior Title and realized the sea urchin warriors intended to wipe out the Void Sword Sect.
• Two Spirit Emperors turned to leave, but a lazy Fourth-Grade cultivator stopped them and asked to beat them up for a photo.