Chapter Summaries

The Hand Tractor Race grew more chaotic as Dharma King Creation joined forces with Northern River's Loose Cultivator to destroy Mad Saber Three Waves' vehicle. Eastern Fairy unleashed her hand tractor's stored energy, but her reckless driving sent her veering toward an unnumbered vehicle.

• Dharma King Creation overtook dozens of racers and caught up with Mad Saber Three Waves and Northern River's Loose Cultivator.
• Dharma King Creation attacked Three Waves to obtain the Quick Snow Clearing Calligraphy, and Northern River's Loose Cultivator pierced Three Waves' exposed vehicle, splitting it in two.
• The race commentator reported that True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord, Snow Wolf Cave Master, and True Lord Dustfall led the race while Fairy Soft Feather restarted from the beginning.
• Eastern Fairy released the energy stored in her hand tractor and sped past several racers, struggling to control it.
• Eastern Fairy's vehicle swerved toward an unnumbered hand tractor, whose owner remained unidentified.

Eastern Fairy’s runaway hand tractor caused a series of crashes, helping Song Shuhang pass several racers while he controlled Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s body. After reaching twentieth place, Song Shuhang activated a concealed button and discovered it started the Super Phoenix Slayer Battle Armor System, which asked whether he wanted to transform.

• Eastern Fairy’s tractor hit an acceleration trap and sped up thirtyfold, causing crashes across the course.
• Song Shuhang passed more than a dozen racers amid Eastern Fairy’s rampage and spotted Mad Saber Three Waves hauling his wrecked tractor away.
• Eastern Fairy ran over Three Waves and his damaged tractor before speeding off.
• Song Shuhang passed Three Waves, reached twentieth place, and considered how to activate Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s tractor’s sprint function.
• Song Shuhang pressed a concealed green button, activating the Super Phoenix Slayer Battle Armor System, which asked whether he wanted to transform.

Onion Lady tried to escape Song Shuhang but was caught by his Spirit Ghost, who took her onion tip and returned her to Song Shuhang’s pocket. The Spirit Ghost then touched a sealed ice coffin inside Sima Jiang’s parcel and was frozen solid, while Song Shuhang continued spinning in the Hand Tractor Race and suddenly felt an intense chill.

• Onion Lady slipped out of Song Shuhang’s pocket and tried to escape, but Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost confronted her beneath the car.
• The Spirit Ghost stole and ate Onion Lady’s onion tip, knocked her unconscious, and returned her and the Enlightenment Stone to Song Shuhang’s pocket.
• The Spirit Ghost explored the car and sensed a familiar bond coming from the parcel beside the unconscious Sima Jiang.
• The Spirit Ghost entered the parcel and touched the ice coffin inside, whereupon the coffin’s cold froze him solid.
• Jiang Shan announced Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s punishment, and Song Shuhang was sent spinning through the Spiral Ascension trap again.
• Song Shuhang sneezed during the race and felt a bone-piercing chill.

Song Shuhang used Number 44’s transformation function while inhabiting Young Master Phoenix Slayer, turning the hand tractor into a giant battle wheel that sped through the race before judges disqualified it. Meanwhile, Onion Lady seized Song Shuhang’s absence to retrieve her severed onion tip and make an escape attempt.

• Song Shuhang commanded Number 44 Hand Tractor to transform, and it became a giant Battle Wheel Rolling Form that spun him around as it raced forward.
• The battle wheel crushed past Dharma King Creation and Northern River's Loose Cultivator, then overtook twelve racers as commentator Jiang Shan announced Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s rise into the top ten.
• The judges ruled that Number 44’s giant-wheel form violated the Hand Tractor Race rules, leaving Song Shuhang in Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s body facing a penalty.
• Onion Lady noticed that Song Shuhang and the other powerful guardians were away, grew little hands and feet, and decided to escape.
• Onion Lady retrieved her severed onion tip from the rabbit-shaped Inch-Shrinking Bag and cautiously climbed out of Song Shuhang’s pocket.

Song Shuhang struggled in the hand tractor race after losing his acceleration advantage, then crashed with Eastern Fairy over a speed-boost formation. Meanwhile, Abbess Jiudeng and a senior discussed the memories Song Shuhang might uncover and their suspicions that the New Heavenly Dao had lost much of its power.

• Song Shuhang saw fleeting images of a Blood Pool, the Ancient Heavenly Court, and ice before continuing the race in a chill and worrying about his body.
• Song Shuhang realized Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s acceleration method was against the rules and feared he would finish last unless he found a Lucky Trap.
• Soft Feather hit another Lucky Trap and surged back into the top four, prompting Song Shuhang to seek an acceleration formation.
• Song Shuhang steered toward Venerable Spirit Butterfly’s formation, but Eastern Fairy collided with him and accidentally triggered the boost, flipping his tractor and speeding toward the starting line.
• Abbess Jiudeng said Song Shuhang had eaten Onion Lady’s green tip and might uncover sealed memories about the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• The senior said Song Shuhang’s Inch-Shrinking Bag surviving the Mysterious Island would confirm that the New Heavenly Dao had lost some of his authority, though he remained dangerous.

Song Shuhang used the Super Phoenix Slayer Battle Armor System’s navigation to get through the race’s hazards, while several contestants were eliminated. The leading racers reached the ocean course, where True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord raced across the water and began raising waves.

• Song Shuhang activated the system’s navigation, which warned him about a sharp turn ahead.
• Azure Firmament Sword Lord’s hand tractor broke apart at the turn, eliminating him from the race.
• Drunk Moon Hermit battered True Lord White Crane’s tractor, then True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey’s Scud Missile destroyed it; Song Shuhang drove through the resulting blast.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord, True Lord Dustfall, Snow Wolf Cave Master, and Soft Feather reached the ocean course.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord sped across the sea and stirred up wind and waves as True Lord Dustfall and Snow Wolf Cave Master followed.

Song Shuhang’s hand tractor sank beneath the sea after its Water-Avoidance Formation was damaged, so he logged into the Nine Provinces Number One Group to ask for help. The seniors laughed at his predicament, but no one had yet offered a solution.

• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord used waves to speed himself along, while Soft Feather overtook him after hitting another Sword Escape Lucky Trap.
• The racers entered the sea, where traps, mines, torpedoes, and a lightning zone made the race more dangerous.
• Song Shuhang’s hand tractor began sinking despite its Water-Avoidance Formation being active, and the system found that the formation only covered twenty percent of the vehicle.
• Song Shuhang learned the system could not repair the formation for him and asked it to connect to the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Song Shuhang, using Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s account, asked the group for urgent help, but Fairy Lychee suggested he repair the formation himself.

Song Shuhang used Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman's crude Water-Avoidance Formation to escape the water and resume the race. A squid monster awakened after being struck, only to be repeatedly run over by the racers as it tried to confront them.

• Fairy Lychee and the others learned that Young Master Phoenix Slayer was not Doudou, and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman explained a simplified Water-Avoidance Formation to him.
• Song Shuhang inscribed the formation on the hand tractor, which struck a hidden object and bounced out of the water.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly revealed that Venerable White had hidden an Easter egg beneath the course, while a giant squid monster awakened on the seabed.
• The squid monster chased Young Master Phoenix Slayer's tractor, but True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord ran it over first.
• True Lord Dustfall, Soft Feather, Snow Wolf Cave Master, Dharma King Creation, and many other racers trampled the squid monster as they continued along the course.

A giant Squid Monster interrupted the hand tractor race, and Song Shuhang wondered whether it was related to the Sea King. After the other contestants battered the monster, it targeted Song Shuhang, but Eastern Fairy’s runaway tractor struck him before the monster could finish its attack.

• The Squid Monster enlarged itself and attacked the approaching racers, but Drunk Moon Hermit, Northern River's Loose Cultivator, and True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey repeatedly struck and ran over it.
• Song Shuhang recognized the Squid Monster’s eye as resembling the Sea King’s and wondered whether the monster was its relative.
• The Squid Monster pretended to be dead, then attacked Song Shuhang with over thirty tentacles; Song Shuhang blocked every lash with the Overlord Shatter Saber but could not cut through them.
• Eastern Fairy’s tractor ran over Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s body as Song Shuhang tried to evade her, and she apologized before racing toward the Squid Monster.
• The Squid Monster swung its hammers at Eastern Fairy as a feint while preparing corrosive venom to spit at her.

Eastern Fairy lost her tractor to the Squid Monster’s acidic venom, then fought back with the Nine Demon Dances while Song Shuhang sang for her. The dance overwhelmed the Squid Monster, which ended the performance vomiting a torrent of blood.

• The Squid Monster shattered Eastern Fairy’s tractor shield, melted the tractor with acidic venom, and splashed her dress, eliminating her from the race.
• Eastern Fairy protected herself from the venom, tied her hair into a ponytail, and began dodging the Squid Monster’s attacks with a dance.
• Eastern Fairy purified the Squid Monster’s venom with seven-colored light and asked Song Shuhang, posing as Young Master Phoenix Slayer, to sing while she danced.
• Song Shuhang sang “Little Apple” as Eastern Fairy performed the Nine Demon Dances, captivating the spectators and driving the Squid Monster into fits of laughter and tears.
• Eastern Fairy finished her dance, and the Squid Monster fell still before vomiting a massive torrent of blood.

Song Shuhang asked Eastern Fairy whether to collect the Squid Monster’s blood, while the Sea Urchin Warriors performed a ritual that let the Sea King locate and attack the wounded monster. The Squid Monster dissolved into liquid, revealing a topaz crystal containing a pair of silver armguards.

• Song Shuhang, controlling Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s body, asked Eastern Fairy whether they should collect the Squid Monster’s blood, and she said she had no use for it.
• More than a hundred thousand Sea Urchin Warriors recited sacrificial prayers around a huge altar while their chiefs buried jars of true blood within it.
• The Sea King appeared above the altar, activated the true blood, and used twelve pillar eyes to search for a target.
• The Sea King found the severely wounded Squid Monster in the Eastern Sea and opened a Space Gate to it.
• The Sea King’s energy struck the Squid Monster, whose body liquefied and revealed a topaz crystal holding a pair of silver armguards.

Song Shuhang tried to keep the Silver Armguards from the Sea Urchin Warriors after they emerged from the Squid Monster, but Sea King dragged their crystal into a teleportation formation. Venerable Spirit Butterfly fought Sea King while Venerable White's Disposable Flying Sword 005 Version reached the crystal.

• Twelve beams melted the Squid Monster and revealed a yellow crystal containing a pair of Silver Armguards.
• Sea Urchin Warriors appeared beside a pyramid beyond a Space Gate and began teleporting the crystal away.
• Song Shuhang used Young Master Phoenix Slayer's body to knock the crystal out of the formation's range, but Sea King pulled it back with a beam.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly rescued Young Master Phoenix Slayer from Sea King's freezing attack and used golden ropes to seize the crystal.
• Sea King attacked Venerable Spirit Butterfly with rays and a Black Dragon, while Venerable White sent a Disposable Flying Sword 005 Version toward the crystal.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly shielded the sword with a Spirit Butterfly, and the sword entered the formation and lodged in the crystal.

Venerable White and Venerable Spirit Butterfly tried to seize the Silver Armguards from Sea King but let the teleportation formation carry them away. Whirlwind Venerable arrived at the last moment and stole a Silver Glove, taking the spotlight.

• Whirlwind Venerable decided to join the battle for attention and flew toward Sea King's Space Gate on his Bagua disc.
• Sea King destroyed Venerable White's Disposable Flying Sword 005 Version, but the Silver Armguards survived as the yellow crystal was blasted apart.
• Venerable White used spatial power to attack Sea King while Venerable Spirit Butterfly tried to capture the armguards, but Sea King blocked them and activated the teleportation formation.
• Venerable White and Venerable Spirit Butterfly withdrew rather than risk being pulled through the portal, and Venerable White let his flying sword pass through to locate Sea King's altar.
• Whirlwind Venerable sent the Child Wheel of the Space-Cleaving Mother-Child Wheel through the portal and cut a Silver Glove free from the armguard.
• Whirlwind Venerable retrieved the Silver Glove as the portal closed, while Sea King shouted in frustration.

Song Shuhang, controlling Young Master Phoenix Slayer's body, received a tenfold acceleration boost and raced toward the finish line, despite losing his tractor's shield in the Lightning Strike Zone. He lucked into tenth place after Lay Scholar Drunken* sabotaged Mad Saber Three Waves, leaving Song Shuhang on the verge of escaping a month-long space trip.

• Whirlwind Venerable tried and failed to convince Song Shuhang to become his beloved pet, then vowed he would eventually win him over.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly gave Song Shuhang a Tenfold Acceleration Formation as a replacement for the hidden reward that vanished with the Giant Squid Monster.
• Song Shuhang used the boost to catch up in the race, but drove straight through the Lightning Strike Zone and depleted his tractor's shield energy.
• Song Shuhang climbed to twelfth place as he neared the finish line on Indigenous Island.
• Lay Scholar Drunken* struck Mad Saber Three Waves with a Lightning Mad Dragon Drill, knocking him and the Big Macaque out of the top ten.
• Song Shuhang moved into tenth place and celebrated his chance to avoid the One-Month Space Trip.

Song Shuhang’s hand tractor sank just before the finish line, knocking him out of the race and drawing teasing congratulations from the Nine Provinces Number One Group. Venerable White picked him up and took him toward Seven Lives Talisman’s island, while the two discussed making the next race’s sea leg a free-route event.

• Song Shuhang’s Water-Avoidance Formation ran out of spiritual energy, and his Number 44 Hand Tractor sank before he could transform it or reach the finish line.
• Song Shuhang surfaced with the Overlord Shatter Saber, Silver Glove, and tablet, then saw the Nine Provinces Number One Group joke about his second sinking and early exit.
• Venerable White arrived and offered Song Shuhang a ride to Seven Lives Talisman’s island, where he could trade the Blood God Diamond and meet his friends.
• Venerable White revealed that he had brought Song Shuhang’s body in a van carried by a Disposable Flying Sword 005 Version.
• Song Shuhang told Venerable White that racing freely across the open sea sounded fun, and Venerable White proposed a free-route section for the next Hand Tractor Race.

Song Shuhang and Venerable White headed for the Hand Tractor Race’s finish-line formation, where the racers would receive a cultivation-enhancing reward. As the leading contestants crossed the line, the formation began activating, while Soft Feather was poised to claim the final spot among the top five.

• Venerable White explained that the finish-line Talisman Treasure Formation would strengthen the bodies and cultivation of every racer who reached it.
• Song Shuhang swallowed three enlarged time crystal roots with Venerable White’s help, and their medicinal power began strengthening his cultivation.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord led the race, followed by True Lord Dustfall and Master Profound Principle, while Snow Wolf Cave Master fell to fourth.
• Northern River's Loose Cultivator slowed down to let Soft Feather take his place in the top five, since he planned to pursue a breakthrough instead of exploring the Primordial Ruins.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord crossed the finish line first, and ten thousand Talisman Treasures appeared as Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman began presiding over the formation.

At the Hand Tractor Race finish line, Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman activated Venerable White’s mysterious stone gate formation, whose light healed and strengthened the contestants. When the light reached Song Shuhang, it pulled his consciousness back into his own body and began triggering another minor breakthrough, which Venerable White told him to accept.

• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman activated the Ten Thousand Talismans Formation, creating a stone gate that cultivators could not properly remember or record.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord and the other racers crossed the finish line and received healing and strengthening from the gate’s light; Soft Feather advanced a minor realm after Northern River's Loose Cultivator let her take fifth place.
• Mad Saber Three Waves and the lay practitioner crossed the line together, followed by Venerable White and the remaining racers, each receiving the gate’s blessing.
• The light around Song Shuhang burst into rainbow crystal radiance and pulled his consciousness out of Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s body and back into his own.
• Venerable White told Song Shuhang to lie still as the three pieces of Time Crystal Root and the gate’s light stirred his stored true qi and prepared him to advance another minor realm.

Song Shuhang began breaking through to the Dragon Tail Dantian with the help of the Time Crystal Root and the Ten Thousand Talismans Formation. A mysterious senior stopped him and taught him a more efficient method, leaving him ready to try again.

• Venerable White told Song Shuhang that his strong foundation made him safe to advance despite his rapid cultivation.
• Song Shuhang used the Time Crystal Root and the Ten Thousand Talismans Formation to build up True Qi and began charging toward the Dragon Tail Dantian.
• A mysterious voice warned Song Shuhang that his single-wave breakthrough attempt would waste True Qi and fail.
• The mysterious senior explained the four barriers between the Qi Sea Dantian and the Dragon Tail Dantian and described how cultivators could overcome them in stages.
• The senior told Song Shuhang to divide his True Qi into four portions, follow a specific circulation route, and pause for no more than a minute after the second barrier.

Song Shuhang broke through to the second-grade second small realm by opening his Dragon Tail Dantian, while the Nine Provinces Number One Group watched and compared his rapid progress with their own. Afterward, the seniors awarded the hand tractor race winners, and Shuhang noticed that nearly all of the top five had four-character Dharma names.

• Song Shuhang followed a senior's instructions, used his true qi to break through the Dragon Tail Dantian's bottlenecks, and opened the Dragon Tail Dantian.
• Venerable White explained that three Time Crystal Roots and the Ten Thousand Talismans Formation had enabled Song Shuhang's advancement, prompting Northern River's Loose Cultivator, Dharma King Creation, and Snow Wolf Cave Master to recall how long their own breakthroughs had taken.
• Song Shuhang opened his eyes after advancing and found the seniors holding the hand tractor race awards ceremony.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly and Whirlwind Venerable presented the medals to champion True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord, runner-up True Lord Dustfall, and third-place Master Profound Principle; Snow Wolf Cave Master took fourth, and Northern River's Loose Cultivator gave fifth place to Soft Feather.
• Song Shuhang noticed that nearly everyone among the top five had a four-character Dharma name.

After advancing to the Second Stage, Song Shuhang decided it was time to choose a Daoist name. Venerable White explained that the names Song Shuhang thought had four characters were mostly two-character Daoist names followed by honorifics.

• Song Shuhang worried about keeping his online username as his Daoist name and considered calling himself Book-and-Sword Rogue Cultivator or Divine Sword Daoist.
• Venerable White returned after awarding prizes and congratulated Song Shuhang on advancing, then told him to ask the group which senior had guided him through the breakthrough.
• Song Shuhang explained that he wanted a Daoist name, and Venerable White teased him by suggesting Bayberry Daoist.
• Venerable White pointed out that Song Shuhang practiced saber techniques, not sword techniques, and said his proposed names sounded dated.
• Song Shuhang argued that many seniors had four-character names, but Venerable White clarified that most had two-character Daoist names followed by honorifics.