Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang was brought into Jadewater Pavilion, where Golden Lad and Jade Maiden invited him to become a disciple, but he declined. He met Fairy Chu in her residence, where she mistook him for someone else before recognizing her mistake.

• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden said Song Shuhang had been sent to Jadewater Pavilion and invited him to join as a disciple, but he refused.
• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden led Song Shuhang through Jadewater Pavilion, whose welcoming disciples and abundant spiritual energy left him feeling that something was strange about the place.
• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden brought Song Shuhang to meet Fairy Chu, and he asked to bring Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu with him.
• Song Shuhang entered Fairy Chu's room with Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu, and Fairy Chu asked whether he had come to mock her.
• Fairy Chu called Song Shuhang 'Song Blockhead' before studying him and realizing she had mistaken him for someone else.

Song Shuhang met the master of Jadewater Pavilion, who mistook him for her old fellow cultivator Song Blockhead and discovered a striking resemblance in their souls and auras. After she abruptly went to sleep, Fairy Chu decided to send Song Shuhang and his companions to Time City the next day.

• Song Shuhang asked the black-haired woman about Song Blockhead, and she explained that he could not be Song Blockhead’s reincarnation because Song Blockhead had no next life.
• The black-haired woman said Song Shuhang’s soul and aura resembled Song Blockhead’s and wondered whether he was Song Blockhead’s descendant.
• The black-haired woman recognized Song Shuhang’s cultivation techniques, and he explained that he was not part of the destroyed Thirty-Three Beast God Sect.
• The black-haired woman sent Li Yinzhu to Chu Chu, examined Song Shuhang, then curled up in her rocking chair and went to sleep.
• After Song Shuhang, Chu Chu, and Li Yinzhu left, Fairy Chu inspected visions of powerful cultivators and decided to send them to Time City the next day.

Song Shuhang and Chu Chu visited Jadewater Pavilion, where Pavilion Master Chu took them to the time-slowing Underground City to cultivate. Meanwhile, Yu Jiaojiao lured Gao Moumou downstairs with a fake package delivery and abducted him.

• Jadewater Pavilion's disciples welcomed Song Shuhang, Chu Chu, and Li Yinzhu with a feast and tried to recruit Song Shuhang and Chu Chu.
• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden said Jadewater Pavilion had not gained new disciples for a very long time, then brought the visitors to the Guest Hall.
• Pavilion Master Chu visited Song Shuhang the next morning and offered to take him somewhere nice, while Li Yinzhu fell into a hibernation-like sleep.
• Pavilion Master Chu led Song Shuhang and Chu Chu to the Time City's Underground City, where twelve days passed for every day outside.
• Yu Jiaojiao called Gao Moumou to collect a supposed package, then grabbed him and revealed that she was his fan.

Yu Jiaojiao abducted Gao Moumou to force him to write more chapters, while Pavilion Master Chu brought Song Shuhang and Chu Chu to cultivate in Time City's Underground City. After Pavilion Master Chu fell into a deep sleep, time froze throughout Jadewater Pavilion, leaving only Li Yinzhu's cold breaths moving; meanwhile, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu began training underground.

• Yu Jiaojiao took Gao Moumou to a writing room, where she set a daily word count and prepared stimulants to keep him writing.
• Pavilion Master Chu introduced Song Shuhang and Chu Chu to Time City's Underground City, where twelve days passed for every day outside, and left them to cultivate.
• Pavilion Master Chu forgot her recent meeting with Song Shuhang and Chu Chu, returned to her Cloud Pavilion, and fell into a deep sleep.
• Time froze across Jadewater Pavilion as Li Yinzhu remained asleep, breathing out a spreading chill.
• Song Shuhang and Chu Chu began cultivating in a hall with dense spiritual energy, and Song Shuhang offered to help Chu Chu practice the Basic Saber Technique.

Song Shuhang and Chu Chu cultivated in Time City's Underground City, advancing their techniques and realms while waiting for Pavilion Master Chu to retrieve them. After Fairy Chu failed to appear for twenty-four days, Chu Chu suggested they explore deeper to find an exit.

• Song Shuhang taught Chu Chu basic saber techniques, and they spent their first day cultivating in the Underground City.
• They found a hall of medicinal-bath basins and weapons, where Song Shuhang took a medicinal bath and Chu Chu practiced with a newly found saber.
• Chu Chu opened her Dragon Palm Dantian, and the next day Song Shuhang broke through to open his Dragon Claw Dantian.
• Over twelve days, Song Shuhang stabilized his new Dantian, improved Steel Hand, and learned Holy Light Swordsmanship while Chu Chu mastered basic saber techniques.
• When Pavilion Master Chu failed to arrive at the agreed time, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu returned to the underground chamber and continued cultivating for another twelve days.
• After Fairy Chu still had not come, Chu Chu proposed that she and Song Shuhang explore deeper into the Underground City for a way out.

Song Shuhang was suddenly carried away from Chu Chu by Venerable White’s Myriad-Mile Escape Technique, only to become trapped in a tree hollow by a glowing jellyfish that absorbed his escape light and spiritual energy. After his physical attacks failed, he used Holy Light Swordsmanship and Fire Manipulation to make the jellyfish’s tentacles react, but they struck back as he tried to find a way out.

• Song Shuhang’s thirty-day Myriad-Mile Escape Technique activated in the Bronze Men Formation and carried him away, leaving Chu Chu surrounded and forced to fight alone.
• The Escape Light carried Song Shuhang through a dark passage, but he emerged inside a tree hollow containing a giant glowing jellyfish.
• The jellyfish trapped Song Shuhang in a cocoon and absorbed the Escape Light, his Dragon Dance Form, and his attempt to cast the Turtle-Breathing Technique.
• Song Shuhang’s physical sword strikes failed to harm the tentacles, so he used Holy Light Swordsmanship to attach holy flame to them.
• Song Shuhang used Fire Manipulation to spread the holy flame, and the jellyfish’s tentacles twisted together and swung at him.

Song Shuhang was captured by the Glowing Jellyfish and swallowed into a strange space of mirrors, where a black sphere poured 88,888 incomprehensible voices into his mind. After enduring their chant for 45 hours, he woke to find his mental power had surged to the level of a Third-Grade Cultivator.

• The Glowing Jellyfish absorbed Song Shuhang's attacks, released breathable mist, then incapacitated him and swallowed him.
• Song Shuhang woke in a mirror-filled space beside a flickering black sphere, which touched him and flooded his mind with 88,888 voices.
• The voices chanted in Song Shuhang's mind for 45 hours, leaving him collapsed and bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
• Song Shuhang woke another day later and ate eight Grain-Repelling Pills before his hunger eased.
• Song Shuhang saw bronze flashes at the center of his brows and realized his mental power had reached a Third-Grade Cultivator's level.

After enduring the inheritance in the Mirror Space, Song Shuhang discovered that his spiritual power had reached Third-Grade strength and awakened a painful, time-related appraisal ability. He left the Mirror Space and continued through Time City to find Chu Chu, wondering whether the ability could reveal the secrets of a mysterious puppet.

• Song Shuhang realized that his spiritual power had advanced to Third-Grade level, leaving his physique unable to keep up.
• Song Shuhang triggered runes in his eyes that rewound time on a mirror and revealed its history and connection to Fairy Chu.
• Song Shuhang left the Mirror Space and emerged in Time City's underground passages, then set out to find Chu Chu by following her scent.
• Song Shuhang tested the appraisal ability on a strange rock, burning his left palm before learning it was an ordinary stone with a billion years of history.
• Song Shuhang continued after Chu Chu and wondered whether appraising the mysterious puppet in his Inch-Shrinking Bag would reveal anything.

The glowing jellyfish left Time City after a cultivator obtained Song Blockhead’s spell inheritance, then said goodbye to the sleeping Fairy Chu. Song Shuhang found Chu Chu but suffered unexplained wounds when his Appraisal Technique activated by itself, leaving him afraid it could go out of control and kill someone.

• The glowing jellyfish told the sleeping Fairy Chu that the seventeenth wave’s male cultivator had obtained Song Blockhead’s inheritance, so she was leaving Time City with the Darknight Time Ring.
• Song Shuhang appraised the puppet doll, suffered nearly ten thousand wounds, and learned it required 50,000 Eighth-Grade Spirit Stones to activate.
• Song Shuhang recovered enough to find Chu Chu meditating, and she set aside her grievance about being left to face the 108 Bronze Men Formation.
• As Chu Chu bandaged Song Shuhang, more than thirty wounds suddenly opened on his hand, and his eyes’ runes secretly appraised her.
• Song Shuhang realized the Appraisal Technique had activated without his intent and feared it might run out of control and cause someone to bleed to death.

Song Shuhang’s uncontrollable Appraisal Technique repeatedly wounded him until Chu Chu knocked him unconscious, while Li Yinzhu woke to find the Jadewater Pavilion frozen in time. Elsewhere, Crying Old Man grew impatient waiting for Song Shuhang to arrive for the space trials he had prepared and decided to find him himself.

• Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Technique identified his bandage and Dao-Harmony Pill while opening new wounds, so he asked Chu Chu to knock him out; the pill healed him and the runes vanished, though 88,888 voices continued chanting in his mind.
• Chu Chu dragged the unconscious Song Shuhang to a corner of the temple space and concluded that the Underground City was too dangerous to explore for now.
• Li Yinzhu woke in the frozen Jadewater Pavilion, searched for Chu Chu and Song Shuhang, and triggered an alarm ward at the Cloud Pavilion.
• The alarm woke Pavilion Master Chu, and time resumed throughout the Jadewater Pavilion.
• Crying Old Man, who had prepared space trials for Song Shuhang to repay a favor to Venerable White, used a talisman treasure to decide to locate Song himself.

Crying Old Man followed a talisman to Song Shuhang but found the Jadewater Pavilion instead, raising hopes of completing his cultivation method. Meanwhile, Li Yinzhu was trapped in the pavilion, and Song Shuhang woke in Time City with the Appraisal Technique curse apparently gone.

• Crying Old Man followed the positioning talisman to a palace in space and recognized it as the Jadewater Pavilion, where he hoped to find the rest of the Heaven's Weeping Canon.
• Crying Old Man knocked repeatedly on the pavilion doors but received no answer and decided against forcing his way inside.
• Li Yinzhu entered Pavilion Master Chu's forbidden Cloud Pavilion and was caught in its defenses, while Pavilion Master Chu returned to sleep.
• A tearful female disciple called Senior Sister Ye entered Time City's Underground City to cultivate, and the guards remarked on her reputation as the Crying Tear Beauty.
• Song Shuhang woke after three days unconscious, found that the Appraisal Technique's effects had ended, and prepared to resume searching for the exit with Chu Chu.

Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Technique continued making him bleed, but he began to suspect it was triggered by questions and thoughts he was curious about. Appraising his rabbit-shaped Inch-Shrinking Bag revealed it had been made and gifted to him by a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal on the Mysterious Island, leaving him wondering what else he had encountered there.

• Song Shuhang woke after several days unconscious, and Chu Chu gave him a chicken-flavored Grain-Repelling Pill.
• The Appraisal Technique cut Song Shuhang’s arm, then identified the pill and its origin as the Food Immortal Cave; he suspected his curiosity had triggered the appraisal.
• Song Shuhang tried to appraise his bandages, but Chu Chu answered where they came from before the technique activated.
• Song Shuhang’s thoughts about the Inch-Shrinking Bag triggered thousands of cuts across his body, and Chu Chu panicked as he bled profusely.
• Song Shuhang appraised the Inch-Shrinking Bag and learned that a rabbit-loving Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal had crafted it from a One-Inch Finger Snake’s shed skin and gifted it to him.

After the moving passages separated Song Shuhang from Chu Chu, he wandered the Underground City of Time City and found a Jadewater Pavilion disciple in a library. He and Ye Si discovered their shared love of reading, but the book that had made her cry was a guide to conserving spiritual power while flying on a sword.

• Song Shuhang and Chu Chu explored the Underground City together until its shifting passages separated them.
• Song Shuhang searched alone for Chu Chu and an exit, marking the passages as he went.
• Song Shuhang found Ye Si reading in a vast, disordered library and learned she was a Jadewater Pavilion disciple.
• Song Shuhang introduced himself as a reader, and he and Ye Si bonded over their shared hobby.
• Ye Si showed Song Shuhang the book she had been reading: <On How Cultivators Can Conserve True Qi or Spiritual Power While Using Sword Flight!>.

Song Shuhang bonded with Senior Sister Ye over their shared love of books and asked her to help locate Chu Chu. Senior Sister Ye took a bandage Chu Chu had wrapped around Song Shuhang’s arm so she could search for her aura.

• Song Shuhang found only dry sword-flight theories in the book that had made Senior Sister Ye cry, and she told him her sadness had nothing to do with him.
• After Senior Sister Ye stopped crying, she and Song Shuhang discovered they both enjoyed reading books of all kinds.
• Song Shuhang recommended several novels and offered to recount their plots or bring them to Senior Sister Ye on a future visit to Jadewater Pavilion.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior Sister Ye to help find Chu Chu, and she explained that Time City periodically changed its position and internal structure.
• Song Shuhang gave Senior Sister Ye the bandage Chu Chu had wrapped around his arm, and their fingers touched as she took it.

Song Shuhang’s appraisal technique violently wounded him when it activated on Senior Sister Ye, revealing that she was Fairy Ye Si of Jadewater Pavilion before he fainted. After recovering, he told her about the technique, and she searched her books for a possible explanation while helping him locate Chu Chu; she also invited him to join Jadewater Pavilion and asked whether he had a Dao companion.

• When Song Shuhang touched Senior Sister Ye, his appraisal technique activated and caused severe bleeding that her healing spell eventually stabilized.
• The appraisal identified Senior Sister Ye as Fairy Ye Si, the Jadewater Pavilion’s “Crying Tear Beauty” and “Tears of Healing,” before Song Shuhang collapsed.
• While Song Shuhang was unconscious, the Enlightenment Stone and Onion Lady’s root absorbed some of his blood and began to grow.
• After waking, Song Shuhang described his appraisal technique to Senior Sister Ye, who said she might have encountered similar symptoms in her reading and searched her books for a match.
• Senior Sister Ye told Song Shuhang she had located Chu Chu and invited him to join Jadewater Pavilion, but he declined for the time being.
• As Senior Sister Ye searched and Song Shuhang cultivated, she asked him whether he had a Dao companion.

Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye agreed to become provisional dao-companions and began introducing themselves in the Time City Underground City. Senior Sister Ye shared her background and interests, while Song Shuhang revealed that he had seven dao titles.

• Senior Sister Ye asked Song Shuhang to become her dao-companion, and he hesitated because they had only just met.
• Senior Sister Ye suggested they spend time getting to know each other, then burst into tears because her Heaven's Weeping Canon triggered her tear ducts.
• Song Shuhang agreed to try becoming provisional dao-companions with Senior Sister Ye, and they ruled out dual cultivation until they became true dao-companions.
• Senior Sister Ye introduced herself as Ye Si, a Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor who loved reading and practiced the Heaven's Weeping Canon.
• Song Shuhang introduced himself and listed his seven dao titles, surprising Senior Sister Ye.

Song Shuhang learned about Ye Si and her library, then read a page of her Heaven's Weeping Canon and was overwhelmed by uncontrollable sorrow. He and Ye Si ended up embracing and sobbing together just as Chu Chu arrived and witnessed them.

• Song Shuhang told Ye Si about his short cultivation journey, and she burst into tears after hearing how quickly he had progressed.
• Ye Si offered Song Shuhang access to the library’s books and explained that Heaven's Weeping Canon was her own cultivation technique, which she allowed him to read.
• After reading one page of Heaven's Weeping Canon, Song Shuhang was overcome by sadness and began crying uncontrollably.
• Ye Si caught Song Shuhang’s sadness and cried with him until the two embraced and wailed together.
• Chu Chu followed a bandage bird to the Library Space and found Song Shuhang and Ye Si sobbing in each other’s arms.

Song Shuhang and Chu Chu trained under Senior Sister Ye in Time City while searching for a cure for the bloody backlash from his Appraisal Technique. The chapter ended with Song Shuhang appraising a horse-type Spirit Beast Crystal and learning that he had to run five thousand meters on all fours to absorb it quickly.

• Chu Chu withdrew from Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye after misunderstanding their tearful explanation that they were dao companions.
• Senior Sister Ye guided Chu Chu and Song Shuhang in cultivation, then searched books with Song Shuhang for a way to cure his Appraisal Technique’s side effects.
• Senior Sister Ye woke from a nightmare of an apocalyptic battle, and Chu Chu and Song Shuhang resumed their training.
• Song Shuhang prepared to absorb a Second-Grade horse-type Spirit Beast Crystal with the Whale Swallowing Technique.
• Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Technique cut his hand and revealed that running five thousand meters on all fours would help him absorb the crystal fastest.

Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method to learn the history of a pair of gloves and found that wearing them reduced the technique’s unwanted activations. After absorbing a Horse-Type Spirit Beast Crystal, he left Senior Sister Ye’s library to complete the required five-thousand-meter run on all fours.

• Song Shuhang appraised Senior Sister Ye’s gloves and learned that Wood Ox Swordsman had left them at Jadewater Pavilion six hundred years earlier; he put them on and found they fit.
• Song Shuhang tested the gloves by touching nearby objects and items from his Inch-Shrinking Bag, and the Appraisal Secret Method did not activate.
• Song Shuhang used the Whale Swallowing Technique to eat a Horse-Type Spirit Beast Crystal while Senior Sister Ye watched.
• Song Shuhang absorbed the crystal’s energy and formed a phantom horse alongside the shark and sheep in his Qi Sea Dantian.
• Song Shuhang took a badge from Senior Sister Ye, entered a nearby arena, and prepared to run five thousand meters on all fours.

Song Shuhang trained by running on all fours inside the Arena Space while Senior Sister Ye set up a location link for his badge. A curious administrator broadcast his strange workout across Jadewater Pavilion, and Chu Chu stumbled upon him.

• Song Shuhang adapted his four-limbed run and used movement techniques to speed up as the Horse-Type Spirit Beast Crystal’s energy merged with his body.
• Senior Sister Ye submitted a request to activate Song Shuhang’s Location Badge and Location Mirror, identifying him as her dual-cultivation Dao partner.
• The administrator activated the artifacts, got Song Shuhang’s permission to connect, and broadcast his cultivation under a sensational headline across Jadewater Pavilion.
• Jadewater Pavilion’s disciples watched Song Shuhang bound and crawl through his workout, speculating about his unusual technique.
• Chu Chu doubled back toward the Great Library Space and saw Song Shuhang running on all fours.