Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang returned home with Li Yinzhu and the little monk, where Fairy Flowing Firefly told him his thousand bags of Spirit Rice had arrived. On the way to collect some, she asked when he planned to go to space, and he agreed to rest for two days before setting off.

• Song Shuhang reassured Mom Song that Fairy Flowing Firefly and Soft Feather were only friends and asked her to prepare vegetarian food for the little monk.
• Song Shuhang arrived home and found Fairy Flowing Firefly playing a shooting game with Dad Song; he brought in Li Yinzhu and the little monk.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly gave Song Shuhang the key to the building where his thousand bags of Spirit Rice were stored, and Dad Song worried that his son had been swindled.
• Song Shuhang and Fairy Flowing Firefly left to collect rice while Li Yinzhu fell asleep at home and the little monk looked around.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly asked when Song Shuhang would go to space, and he said he would rest for two days before setting off.

Song Shuhang spent a peaceful morning cultivating with Li Yinzhu, Guoguo, and Yu Jiaojiao before meeting Professor Smith and his new dog on the way down Ox Summit Mountain. Professor Smith’s dog barked and lunged at Li Yinzhu, while Guoguo became upset after accidentally swallowing half his ice cream.

• Song Shuhang brought Li Yinzhu, Guoguo, and Yu Jiaojiao to Ox Summit Mountain for cultivation, where he guided Guoguo and watched Li Yinzhu practice a sword technique.
• After cultivation, Song Shuhang took the group down the mountain and bought them snacks and drinks.
• Professor Smith arrived at Ox Summit Mountain with a new mixed-breed Pit Bull and recognized Song Shuhang, whom he remembered as the owner of a Pekingese.
• Song Shuhang learned that Professor Smith was waiting for a director friend who planned to film at Ox Summit Mountain, and Yu Jiaojiao became interested in directing.
• Professor Smith’s dog barked and lunged toward Li Yinzhu as she ate chicken wings, while Guoguo accidentally swallowed a large bite of ice cream and felt his enjoyment diminish.

Little Monk used his Eye Aperture Talent to frighten Professor Smith’s pit bull, and Song Shuhang arranged to visit a film shoot at Ox Summit Mountain. That night, Song Shuhang dreamed of eating, swallowed a hard object that tasted like mutton, and woke to the terrifying sensation that his dantian and body were swelling toward an explosion.

• Little Monk roared at Professor Smith’s pit bull and used his Eye Aperture Talent to make it envision being attacked by giant cats and cooked as hot pot.
• The pit bull cowered and trembled, while Song Shuhang apologized to Professor Smith and asked to visit a film crew at Ox Summit Mountain.
• Professor Smith agreed to arrange the visit, then dragged his still-trembling dog away and considered buying a Pekingese.
• Song Shuhang spent July 26 showing Li Yinzhu and Little Monk around the city and visiting relatives with Song’s mother.
• That night, Song Shuhang’s Whale Swallowing Technique made him dream of endless eating, and he swallowed a hard object that tasted like mutton.
• Song Shuhang felt his dantian swell and the sensation spread through his body, making him fear he was about to explode.

Song Shuhang discovered that two Third-Grade Spirit Beast Crystals had left his true qi and mental power dangerously stronger than his physique could handle, so he asked the Nine Provinces Number One Group how to strengthen his body. Fairy Flowing Firefly urged him to cultivate near the Moon, and the chapter left him preparing for a trip to space as Venerable Seven Cultivations offered to meet him there.

• Song Shuhang woke with Spirit Beast Crystals in his hand and found that a sheep pattern had appeared alongside the shark pattern in his Qi Sea Dantian.
• Song Shuhang realized the two crystals had overloaded his Dantians and mental power, leaving his physique unable to keep up.
• Song Shuhang asked the Nine Provinces Number One Group for ways to strengthen his physique, and Northern River's Loose Cultivator suggested sealing his power, cultivating in a suppressive Secret Realm, or using Dragon Demon Potion.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly proposed that Song Shuhang cultivate near the Moon without his spacesuit, and Northern River's Loose Cultivator confirmed that lunar energies could strengthen his body.
• Senior Brother Three Days said he would arrive in Wenzhou within an hour to take Little Guoguo back, clearing one obstacle to Song Shuhang's departure.
• Song Shuhang agreed to prepare for the space trip and persuade his parents, while Venerable Seven Cultivations said he would meet him in outer space.

Senior Brother Three Days brought Guoguo home and gave Song Shuhang a Vajra Token that could grant access to the Vajra Grotto Abode. Song Shuhang then left for space with Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu, while Daoist Cloudmist headed to his house hoping to use the Enlightenment Stone.

• Senior Brother Three Days returned the sleeping Guoguo to Song Shuhang and gave him the Vajra Token, explaining that entry to the Vajra Grotto Abode cost six Fourth-Rank spirit stones.
• Chu Chu arrived to help guard Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu, and Song Shuhang's parents agreed to let him travel.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly prepared a space capsule for Song Shuhang, and Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu joined him using their own supply of Grain-Repelling Pills.
• Song Shuhang chained himself to the capsule, and Fairy Flowing Firefly launched it into space with a powerful repulsive force.
• Daoist Cloudmist set off for Song Shuhang's home with gifts, intending to use his Enlightenment Stone.

Song Shuhang traveled toward the moon in a magically protected capsule with Yu Jiaojiao, Li Yinzhu, and Chu Chu, where they spotted cultivators chasing a flying sword carrying the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd. Two Limitless Demon Sect disciples recognized Song Shuhang and prepared to capture him for Gongzi Hai.

• Daoist Cloudmist visited Mom Song, learned that Song Shuhang had gone on a month-long trip, and returned to his room in frustration.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly warned Song Shuhang that his phone would lose signal as his capsule crossed the atmosphere, then sent him and his companions toward the moon.
• Yu Jiaojiao explained that most lunar cultivators had left, while Chu Chu worried that she could not survive in space without a breathing technique.
• Song Shuhang and his companions saw cultivators and demon cultivators chasing Senior White's Disposable Flying Sword, which carried the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd.
• Two Fourth-Grade disciples of the Limitless Demon Sect confronted Song Shuhang, recognized him as Stressed by a Mountain of Books, and moved to capture him for Gongzi Hai.

Song Shuhang’s group encountered two Limitless Demon Sect disciples in outer space, but before Yu Jiaojiao could fight them, a team of hulking cultivators arrived to collect unpaid wages. The wage-claiming team attacked the disciples and demanded 52,000 Fourth-Grade Spirit Stones, leaving them trapped and outmatched.

• Yu Jiaojiao urged Song Shuhang to let her out to fight the two Fourth-Grade Limitless Demon Sect disciples, but Li Yinzhu warned that they were attacking.
• A Limitless Demon Sect disciple’s concealed flying sword struck Song Shuhang’s lingering repulsive-force barrier and was flung into a distant meteorite.
• Fifteen hulking men arrived, identified the two as Limitless Demon Sect disciples, and displayed a contract claiming Ren Baodong owed them 50,000 Fourth-Grade Spirit Stones in unpaid wages.
• When the disciples refused to repay Ren Baodong’s debt, the leather-armored body cultivator crushed one disciple’s lightning spear and punched him through his shield.
• The wage-claiming team demanded 52,000 Fourth-Grade Spirit Stones, including penalties, while the remaining disciple called them loan sharks.

Song Shuhang tried to avoid the wine-red gourd as a horde of cultivators chased it through space, fearing they would kill him if he got involved. An old cultivator’s sealing spell missed the gourd and trapped Song Shuhang instead, leaving him crushed beneath the Mount Tai Seal.

• Huang Guanhua gave Song Shuhang his squad’s business card after learning he was a Rogue Cultivator, and Song Shuhang’s group continued toward the moon.
• Yu Jiaojiao confirmed she had marked the flying sword so they could detect whether the two Limitless Demon Sect disciples followed them.
• Song Shuhang realized the wine-red gourd might be the one that belonged to Half-Gourd Daoist before Venerable White’s flying sword carried it into space.
• Li Yinzhu warned Song Shuhang that the flying sword and gourd were approaching with a huge crowd of Fourth- and Fifth-Grade cultivators in pursuit.
• Song Shuhang dodged the gourd, but an old cultivator’s Mount Tai Seal curved past it and landed on him instead.

Song Shuhang remained trapped beneath the Mount Tai Seal while the pursuing cultivators chased the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, and he used the pressure to temper his body. A red-haired Fifth-Grade Golden Core Spirit Emperor arrived, freed him, and attacked, forcing Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao to flee on the Silver Dragon Puppet.

• An elderly cultivator's Mount Tai Seal accidentally pinned Song Shuhang instead of the flying sword carrying the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, and the cultivators continued their pursuit without freeing him.
• Yu Jiaojiao explained that the seal would take several days to expire, while Song Shuhang's attempts to circulate his true qi and mental energy caused him pain.
• As the seal injured Song Shuhang, Yu Jiaojiao gave him healing pills, and he practiced the Unmoving Vajra Body to strengthen his constitution.
• Li Yinzhu warned Song Shuhang that someone was approaching, and a red-haired Fifth-Grade Golden Core Spirit Emperor arrived and blasted apart the Mount Tai Seal.
• The red-haired man tried to seize Song Shuhang, but Yu Jiaojiao blocked him with a shield and urged Song Shuhang to escape.
• Song Shuhang activated the Silver Dragon Puppet, took the space capsule aboard it, and fled as the red-haired man pursued.

Red-Haired Spirit Emperor captured Song Shuhang, believing he carried a treasure linked to the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd’s sword light. Song Shuhang’s call to Venerable Seven Cultivations failed to persuade the captor, while the sword light raced toward them through space.

• Red-Haired Spirit Emperor pursued Song Shuhang and attacked, but Yu Jiaojiao’s shield and Song Shuhang’s spacesuit defense kept him safe from the saber qi.
• Red-Haired Spirit Emperor overtook Song Shuhang, seized him and his companions, and trapped them inside a spherical barrier.
• Song Shuhang answered Venerable Seven Cultivations’ call and explained that Red-Haired Spirit Emperor had captured him.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations asked Red-Haired Spirit Emperor to release Song Shuhang, but Red-Haired Spirit Emperor refused and demanded the treasure connected to the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd’s sword light.
• A Disposable Flying Sword’s sword light flew rapidly through space toward Song Shuhang’s location.

Red-Haired Spirit Emperor tried to seize the treasure he thought was the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, but the Disposable Flying Sword carrying a broken air conditioner arrived and destroyed his seals and barrier. Song Shuhang escaped onto the sword, only to discover that it had stopped at its destination as Red-Haired Spirit Emperor pursued him.

• Red-Haired Spirit Emperor threatened Song Shuhang, demanding the treasure that had supposedly attracted the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd.
• Red-Haired Spirit Emperor spotted a sword light approaching, restrained it with his Flame-Ring Sealing Technique, and attacked again with a Vajra Ring.
• Red-Haired Spirit Emperor discovered the sword carried a scorched household air conditioner rather than the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, and the wooden sword’s Sword Qi shattered his treasures and wounded him.
• The Disposable Flying Sword cleaved through Red-Haired Spirit Emperor’s Spherical Barrier Artifact and hovered beside Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang climbed onto the sword and tried to flee, but it did not restart, leaving him facing the pursuing Red-Haired Spirit Emperor.

Song Shuhang used Senior White’s Flying Sword Launcher to strike the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor, but the injured Spirit Emperor survived and attacked again. Venerable Seven Cultivations intervened through a White Jade Lion and summoned his true body, who knocked the Spirit Emperor flying as the Spirit Emperor prepared to rely on a hidden trump card.

• Song Shuhang launched the Single-Use Flying Sword 004 Edition at the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor, destroying his saber ray and badly wounding him.
• Song Shuhang prepared to escape with the Myriad-Mile Escape Technique, but the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor recovered and rushed to attack him.
• A White Jade Lion arrived, stopped the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor’s strike with a commanding mental attack, and identified itself as Seven Cultivations.
• The Red-Haired Spirit Emperor ignored the White Jade Lion’s warning and attacked it and Song Shuhang, while secretly detaching a flame-shaped tattoo that hid behind a meteorite.
• The White Jade Lion summoned Seven Cultivations’s True Body, who shattered the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor’s saber with a hand blade and struck him in the forehead.
• As he was sent flying and began losing consciousness, the Red-Haired Spirit Emperor wondered whether his hidden trump card could save him and asked who his opponent was.

Venerable Seven Cultivations rescued Song Shuhang in space and forced the red-haired Spirit Emperor to trade his Flame Substitute Method and Blade-Drawing Technique for his life. He took Song Shuhang and his companions toward a lunar cave abode, giving Shuhang the Blade-Drawing Technique and offering to teach him the Flame Substitute Method for a fee once he reached the Fifth-Grade Realm.

• Venerable Seven Cultivations arrived with his White Jade Lion clone and revealed that the red-haired Spirit Emperor had survived by hiding in a Flame Substitute.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations demanded the Flame Substitute Method and a distinctive skill, and the red-haired Spirit Emperor demonstrated his unusual Blade-Drawing Technique.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations traded the red-haired Spirit Emperor's two techniques for his life and told him to cultivate until he could seek revenge.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations took Song Shuhang, Yu Jiaojiao, Li Yinzhu, and Chu Chu aboard an Immortal Ark and headed for his lunar cave abode.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations gave Song Shuhang the Blade-Drawing Technique and offered to teach him the Flame Substitute Method for a fee after he reached the Fifth-Grade Realm.

Venerable Seven Cultivations offered Song Shuhang a place to temper his physique before the Tomb of Venerable Six Cultivations opened. After reaching the lunar cave abode, Shuhang discovered that its energy helped Onion Lady recover, and breakfast from the immortal chef gave his physique a slight boost; Seven Cultivations then invited him to practice.

• Venerable Seven Cultivations offered to let Song Shuhang train in a gravity chamber at his lunar cave abode during the two days before the tomb opened.
• The Immortal Ark reached the moon, where Seven Cultivations arranged rooms for the group and Yu Jiaojiao began cultivating in meditation.
• Onion Lady bounced onto Song Shuhang's stomach, excited that the lunar energy could help her regain her human form, and he stuffed her into his pocket.
• Song Shuhang ate the immortal chef's steak and felt his physique improve slightly.
• After breakfast, Venerable Seven Cultivations invited Song Shuhang to practice with him, and Shuhang eagerly agreed.

Venerable Seven Cultivations tested Song Shuhang’s combat skills and began training him against a hundred giants in a manifested ancient city. The giants charged as Seven Cultivations activated triple gravity, leaving Shuhang off balance and facing an incoming blow.

• Venerable Seven Cultivations manifested an ancient city from pure energy and explained how his spell differed from True Illusion and Illusory Reality.
• Song Shuhang attacked Seven Cultivations with the Vajra Foundation Fist, and the Venerable praised his technique and movement coordination.
• Seven Cultivations created one hundred giants with Second-Grade strength and challenged Song Shuhang to protect the town center for an hour or defeat them all.
• Song Shuhang spotted a fist-shaped weakness on a giant’s forehead and leaped toward it with the Overlord Shatter Saber.
• Seven Cultivations activated triple gravity as the giant swung its palm at the unbalanced Song Shuhang, while Four Cultivations questioned Shuhang’s abilities and Seven Cultivations pointed out his rapid rise to the Second-Grade Realm.

Song Shuhang trained under threefold gravity, defeated a giant, and then died once when a hundred giants overwhelmed him, triggering a make-up exam. Meanwhile, cultivators chasing sword lights across the moon were tricked into capturing damaged household appliances, and the next day Song Shuhang went with Li Yinzhu, Chu Chu, and Yu Jiaojiao to a lunar market, where he saw a heap of appliances.

• Venerable Seven Cultivations and White Jade Lion Four Cultivations discussed Song Shuhang’s rapid progress and searched for a mysterious cultivator whose aura was linked to the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd.
• Song Shuhang adapted to the giants’ attacks, defeated one with the Overlord Shatter Saber, and began learning the stance of Lightning Fist.
• The giants surrounded Song Shuhang and pounded him into the ground, but Venerable Seven Cultivations’ golden shield protected him; after a ten-minute rest, Song Shuhang entered a make-up exam against a hundred replenished giants.
• Groups of cultivators captured sword lights carrying damaged televisions, microwave ovens, refrigerators, and other appliances, while one long-haired cultivator asked where to find dog-demon girls.
• On July 29, Venerable Seven Cultivations advised Song Shuhang to take a break, so Song Shuhang brought Li Yinzhu, Chu Chu, and Yu Jiaojiao to a lunar market, where they found a huge pile of household appliances.

Song Shuhang learned that Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs' team had captured the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, then browsed the cultivator market with Li Yinzhu and Chu Chu before returning to Venerable Seven Cultivations' cave dwelling. On the way, they encountered a battle over the gourd, with Thousand Cliffs facing cultivators from the Limitless Demon Sect.

• Song Shuhang discovered that the familiar household appliances in the market were the spoils from cultivators who had captured Venerable White's discarded flying swords.
• A cultivator announced that Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs and his allies had captured the saber light carrying the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, prompting rumors that others might try to seize it.
• Song Shuhang browsed the market with Li Yinzhu and Chu Chu, but found the techniques and magic robes too expensive to buy.
• Li Yinzhu grew sleepy and cold, so Song Shuhang carried her back aboard Venerable Seven Cultivations' Immortal Ark with Chu Chu and Yu Jiaojiao.
• The Immortal Ark stopped to avoid a nearby battle, where cultivators threatened Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs unless he surrendered the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd.

Song Shuhang caught the escaped sword-light carrying the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd, prompting Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs and the Limitless Demon Sect to pursue him to Venerable Seven Cultivations's cave abode. As the attackers broke through the cave's defenses, White Jade Lion Four Cultivations revealed his plan to turn them into miners, before a mysterious golden-haired woman appeared and kicked him aside.

• Song Shuhang and his companions detoured around the battle between the Limitless Demon Sect and Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs's team and reached Venerable Seven Cultivations's cave abode safely.
• A sword-light carrying the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd flew toward Song Shuhang, stopped before hitting him, and let him grab its hilt.
• Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs's team and the Limitless Demon Sect pursued Song Shuhang, but Venerable Seven Cultivations's servants carried him and Chu Chu inside and raised a defensive barrier.
• Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs and Bottle Peak Master attacked the barrier, and their strikes breached the cave's defenses.
• White Jade Lion Four Cultivations explained that Venerable Seven Cultivations needed powerful cultivators to mine a dangerous planet's Spirit Stone deposit, then a golden-haired woman in a pale green dress appeared and kicked him away.

A golden-haired cultivator defeated the intruders at Seven Cultivations Manor and drove them away. Four Cultivations then told Song Shuhang that Venerable Seven Cultivations wanted his help finding a mysterious merchant, and Shuhang agreed to talk after taking Li Yinzhu back to her room.

• The golden-haired cultivator shot down a Limitless Demon Sect Spirit Emperor with a golden strand of her hair and captured thirteen Golden Core Spirit Emperors, including Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs and Bottle Peak Master.
• The golden-haired cultivator revealed the Seven Cultivations Manor plaque and threatened the remaining intruders, who fled.
• The golden-haired cultivator kicked Four Cultivations for disturbing her sleep, and he protested that Song Shuhang had brought the trouble.
• Four Cultivations noticed the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd in Song Shuhang's possession and suspected it might hold a clue to the legendary merchant who could sell any treasure.
• Four Cultivations said Venerable Seven Cultivations wanted Song Shuhang's help finding someone, and Song Shuhang agreed to speak after returning Li Yinzhu to her room.

Song Shuhang considered ways to earn Spirit Stones while staying at Venerable Seven Cultivations’s residence, as news of the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd’s capture cleared the moon of most cultivators. Meanwhile, Soft Feather prepared to reenter the ruin, and Song Shuhang told the group that Venerable White’s Disposable Flying Swords had returned to him in space.

• White Jade Lion suggested Song Shuhang mine Spirit Stone ore, but Song Shuhang decided to focus on strengthening his constitution and went to meet Venerable Seven Cultivations.
• News spread that Seven Cultivations Manor had captured Scattered Practitioner Thousand Cliffs, Bottle Peak Lord, and twelve Golden Core Spirit Emperors, leaving most cultivators to abandon the fight for the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd and return to Earth.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong asked the group for news about the Dragon Demon and Dragon Demon Blood, while Soft Feather announced that she and the others were preparing to enter the ruin again as Fairy Ji Yue.
• Song Shuhang asked the group for a quick way to earn Spirit Stones, and Venerable White offered to lend him some.
• Song Shuhang told Venerable White that the Disposable Flying Swords he had launched into space had somehow flown back.