Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang completed a five-thousand-meter run to absorb a horse-type Spirit Beast Crystal’s energy, then spent several days growing closer to Fairy Ye Si while Chu Chu cultivated under her guidance. After realizing the Appraisal Technique had given him a cultivation method before, Song Shuhang wondered whether appraising himself could help him deal with the painful spiritual energy between his brows.

• Song Shuhang completed the five-thousand-meter sprint, absorbed the crystal’s spiritual energy, and returned to the Library Space to sit with Fairy Ye Si.
• Song Shuhang learned that tapping his locator badge had let Time City’s administration watch everything within two hundred meters, including his awkward run, and Fairy Ye Si cut off the broadcast.
• Over three days, Chu Chu advanced rapidly under Fairy Ye Si’s guidance while Song Shuhang and Fairy Ye Si spent time together and discussed his planned movie.
• Song Shuhang read about Dragon Demons and considered seeking a potion made from their blood to strengthen his physique and ease the pain between his brows.
• Song Shuhang recalled that the Appraisal Technique had suggested a way to absorb Spirit Beast Crystals and wondered whether appraising himself could reveal a solution to his excessive spiritual energy.

Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method to find a way to handle his excessive mental energy, and learned that cultivating Merit Light could help. The appraisal’s injuries were transferred to his Spirit Ghost, whose wounds reopened after Senior Sister Ye’s healing spell stopped.

• Song Shuhang entered Senior Sister Ye’s healing formation and used the Appraisal Secret Method on himself to seek a solution to his excessive mental energy.
• Song Shuhang endured severe pain as the appraisal revealed his personal information, then listed potions, body-refinement techniques, sealing, and Merit Light as possible remedies.
• Song Shuhang considered pursuing the Dragon Demon Potion while cultivating Merit Light by delivering resentful souls.
• Song Shuhang suffered an even stronger wave of pain and fainted despite Senior Sister Ye’s healing spells.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost emerged with deep wounds on its back, and Senior Sister Ye healed them with a special spell.
• The Spirit Ghost’s wounds reopened when Senior Sister Ye stopped healing, and both it and the unconscious Song Shuhang cried out in pain.

Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost left Jadewater Pavilion to search for the Foreign Monk, while the Foreign Monk was released from prison and headed to Wenzhou City. Their paths converged as the monk caught a thief tampering with an electric scooter.

• Senior Sister Ye helped Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost leave Time City and Jadewater Pavilion so it could seek a solution to Song Shuhang’s excessive mental power.
• The Spirit Ghost returned to Earth, checked on Song Shuhang’s parents, and went to Ox Summit Mountain before deciding to search for the Foreign Monk.
• The Foreign Monk left Southern River Grand Prison after advancing to the Second-Grade, then chose to travel to Wenzhou City to visit a movie set.
• Zhou Li returned home and locked his new electric scooter, while a thin thief tried and failed to pick its lock.
• The Foreign Monk arrived and ordered the thief to stop stealing, eager to punish him.

Foreign Monk stopped Zhou Li from beating a scooter thief, then injured the thief himself and insisted on taking responsibility. He carried the thief toward the police station while Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost watched from above.

• Foreign Monk confronted a thief trying to steal Zhou Li's electric scooter and frightened him with a display of strength.
• Zhou Li arrived and tried to punch the thief, but Foreign Monk stopped him and warned that seriously injuring the thief could cost him three years in prison.
• Foreign Monk took the thief from Zhou Li and punched him, deliberately causing serious injuries so Zhou Li would not have to act.
• Foreign Monk called 110 to report the theft and his own assault, but the police mistook his call for a prank.
• Foreign Monk carried the injured thief toward the police station despite the thief's pleas to go to the hospital, while Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost observed his growing Merit Light.

The Foreign Monk turned himself in after seriously injuring a thief, but the police let him go when the thief denied the assault and begged for medical help. As the Spirit Ghost prepared to approach him on the road to Ox Summit Mountain, four Ghost Cultivators confronted the monk.

• The Spirit Ghost watched the Foreign Monk at the police station and planned to ask him about the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture and Merit Light.
• The Foreign Monk confessed to seriously injuring a scooter thief and insisted that he be punished, while the thief denied the assault and begged to be taken to a hospital.
• The police sent the thief to the hospital and drove the Foreign Monk out, despite his offers to injure the thief again so he could be imprisoned.
• The Foreign Monk decided to find a quiet place on Ox Summit Mountain to serve a three-year secluded retreat and began walking there.
• The Spirit Ghost moved to meet the Foreign Monk, but four men in black suits surrounded him and revealed themselves as Ghost Cultivators.

Four Ghost Cultivators attacked the Foreign Monk with traps designed to counter his Merit Light and Buddhist techniques, but his Daoist swordsmanship kept him fighting until Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost intervened. The Spirit Ghost rescued him and carried him a hundred meters into the air, where the Foreign Monk mistook it for a dead benefactor and left the question of whether a Second-Grade Cultivator would survive a fall from the thirty-fifth floor hanging.

• The four Ghost Cultivators sealed the Foreign Monk’s Merit Light with Blood Sand and trapped him in a Grudge Ghost Formation.
• The Foreign Monk resisted their attacks with his Immortal Marvel Dao Profound Sword, while their Buddha-Extinguishing Water failed to affect him.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost swooped in, wounded Ghost Cultivator No. 1’s Ghost General with the Holy Light Swordsmanship, and swallowed it.
• The Spirit Ghost returned with a saber-qi True Dragon, shielded the Foreign Monk from the Ghost Cultivators’ attacks, and carried him out of the formation.
• The Foreign Monk recognized the Spirit Ghost as his former subway benefactor, feared that the benefactor had died, and found himself carried a hundred meters above the ground.

Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost learned that Foreign Monk had derived the Soul-Deliverance Method from the High Monk’s Ascetic Diary, though the Spirit Ghost could not understand how. Meanwhile, Song Shuhang remained unconscious in Time City as runes appeared in his eyes and the diary was identified as a primer for the World-Saving Buddha Sect’s Transcendence Technique.

• Foreign Monk mistook Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost for a dead cultivator’s ghost, and the Spirit Ghost tossed him into the air before catching him and establishing a mental connection.
• The Spirit Ghost told Foreign Monk that its main body was alive and asked him about the method of transcending departed souls.
• Foreign Monk gave the Spirit Ghost the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture and the High Monk’s Ascetic Diary, which the Spirit Ghost read and memorized without understanding how the diary taught the method.
• Foreign Monk explained that compassion for the ascetic High Monk had let him comprehend the Soul-Deliverance Method, and the Spirit Ghost decided to seek help from the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Song Shuhang’s back wounds opened while he lay unconscious in Time City, and runes briefly emerged from his eyes before returning.
• The diary was identified as a primer for the World-Saving Buddha Sect’s Transcendence Technique, which people with great compassion could comprehend.

Song Shuhang discovered that his Spirit Ghost could still trigger his Appraisal Secret Method, then began copying High Monk's Ascetic Diary so he and Senior Sister Ye could read it with compassionate hearts. Meanwhile, the Glowing Jellyfish sealed the Darknight Time Ring after sensing danger, and Venerable White's expedition realized time had passed differently in the Primordial Ruins before Venerable White suddenly fell.

• Song Shuhang told Senior Sister Ye that his Spirit Ghost had triggered the Appraisal Secret Method and considered how to read High Monk's Ascetic Diary with a compassionate heart.
• At Senior Sister Ye's urging, Song Shuhang began writing out High Monk's Ascetic Diary so they could read it together.
• Li Yinzhu called for help while still hanging at the entrance to the Cloud Pavilion in Jadewater Pavilion.
• The Glowing Jellyfish sealed the Darknight Time Ring after sensing a threatening presence within it and considered seeking help from old friends.
• Venerable White's expedition discovered that nearly thirty days had passed outside the Primordial Ruins in only six days, and Venerable Spirit Butterfly shouted for Venerable White not to move before he fell.

Venerable White and the others fell into an abyss, where only he could see an ancient expert’s sermon until he used his True Illusion to share the vision. The illusion unexpectedly replayed Song Shuhang’s unfinished words, which Venerable White silenced before revealing the sermon to the party.

• The party fell through a collapsed abyss, and Venerable White reassured them that the being below meant no harm.
• Venerable White saw an ancient expert’s sermon, but the others could not; he spread his True Illusion to help them perceive it.
• Venerable White’s illusion conjured Song Shuhang, who began to say, “Little White, when you...” before Venerable White turned him into sand.
• A second illusory Song Shuhang appeared, and Venerable White ordered him to be silent.
• Venerable White reshaped the illusion to reveal the ancient expert’s sermon, and the party studied the Longevity Immortal’s Dao radiance and scripture.

Cheng Lin demonstrated her self-rebirth Dao before being confronted and apparently killed by a black-handed Longevity Immortal, leaving Venerable White’s group to speculate about the fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court. Elsewhere, Song Shuhang read the High Monk’s Ascetic Diary aloud to Senior Sister Ye, and the diary’s suffering began affecting him directly.

• Cheng Lin lectured Venerable White’s team on the Daoist Canon and demonstrated how she birthed a stronger new version of herself from a lotus.
• Cheng Lin recorded her thoughts about an approaching battle, then faced a black-handed Longevity Immortal who accused her of betraying the Heavenly Court and crushed her head.
• Venerable White and the others discussed Cheng Lin’s role in the Heavenly Court’s destruction before settling down to review their insights and await the recording’s replay.
• Crying Old Man stayed outside Jadewater Pavilion, determined to wait until he obtained the complete Heaven’s Weeping Canon.
• Senior Sister Ye finished reading the High Monk’s Ascetic Diary and told Song Shuhang that she had briefly gained an insight before sadness made her lose it.
• Song Shuhang read the diary aloud to Senior Sister Ye, then suddenly felt the monk’s hunger, cold, and frostbitten feet as if they were his own.

Song Shuhang read the High Monk's Ascetic Diary aloud and was trapped in its automatic chant, suffering the monk's trials despite Senior Sister Ye's attempts to stop them. The diary's final curse killed him, leaving his body out of his control.

• Song Shuhang's recitation triggered the diary's Automatic Chant Continuation, and he began experiencing the high monk's physical hardships.
• Senior Sister Ye tried a Healing Spell, then carved into the ground with her sword to interrupt the chant, but neither effort worked.
• Song Shuhang endured extreme cold, scorching heat, sharp stones, poison, and further tortures as the diary continued reciting itself.
• A deep voice condemned Song Shuhang to die because he lacked a merciful heart, and the diary described his death and the rotting of his bones.
• Song Shuhang's vision went black, and he lost control of his body.

Song Shuhang awakened after comprehending the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Method and used it to free the Altar Master's remnant soul, sharing a strangely joyful connection with Senior Sister Ye. Meanwhile, Fairy Lychee received Copper Trigram Immortal Master's apology gift, modeled it, and posted selfies to the Nine Provinces Number One Group.

• Song Shuhang used the Enlightenment Stone's power to understand the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Method while trapped in a dark unconscious state.
• Song Shuhang awakened after thirteen minutes and found that the scripture had appeared in his True Self, helping bear the strain of his excessive mental energy.
• Song Shuhang delivered the Altar Master's resentful remnant soul, and Senior Sister Ye touched his finger as it dispersed, making them feel connected.
• Fairy Lychee received a limited-edition cultivation robe from Copper Trigram Immortal Master as an apology for her beating him.
• Fairy Lychee wore the robe, took selfies, and uploaded several to the Nine Provinces Number One Group's shared space.

Doudou planned another escape from True Lord Yellow Mountain, while Copper Trigram Immortal Master discovered that the group was investigating his past bogus fortunes. The chapter left Copper Trigram fearing for his safety after Medicine Master learned he might have impersonated him.

• Doudou, silenced and confined by True Lord Yellow Mountain, decided to flee into space rather than face being married off as a bride.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master celebrated Fairy Lychee's selfie and changed his account name after she let him off.
• Northern River's Loose Cultivator asked whether Copper Trigram had impersonated other group members to give bogus fortunes, prompting several fellow daoists to demand answers.
• Copper Trigram saw that Northern River had identified his IP address, cast a divination that promised good luck, and asked Medicine Master to reserve him a bed through September first.
• Medicine Master agreed to treat Copper Trigram but asked whether he had impersonated him, leaving Copper Trigram frightened that he had offended his doctor.
• Yu Jiaojiao happily read the latest updates from an author confined in a dark room.

Yu Jiaojiao kept Song Shuhang writing and prepared a movie project while his Spirit Ghost joined the Foreign Monk to perform a soul-deliverance ritual. In Time City, Song Shuhang continued absorbing Spirit Beast Crystals and wondered how delivering a complete soul would affect him.

• Yu Jiaojiao decided to add Body Tempering Liquid to Song Shuhang's midnight snack and told him his girlfriend was coming to visit, then asked what genre he wanted for their movie script.
• Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost teamed up with the Foreign Monk to attend a household's soul-deliverance ritual after learning the Soul-Deliverance Method.
• Song Shuhang appraised and swallowed a Second-Grade donkey-type Spirit Beast Crystal, then ran around a pillar carrying Senior Sister Ye as weighted training while Chu Chu secretly recorded them.
• The next day, Song Shuhang swallowed a Second-Grade camel-type Spirit Beast Crystal and chose not to eat or drink.
• Song Shuhang decided he could not yet absorb a Fourth-Grade deer-type Spirit Beast Crystal and turned his attention to the Spirit Ghost's attempt to deliver a complete soul.

Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost used the Salvation Art to deliver a departed soul and discovered that Merit Power might help it become a High-Rank Spirit Ghost. After hearing about the result, Song Shuhang asked Senior Sister Ye about nearby souls, and she offered to take him outside Jadewater Pavilion for a stroll.

• Foreign Monk performed a grand-looking salvation ritual while Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost delivered the deceased’s soul and received Merit Power.
• Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost realized that repeatedly using the Salvation Art might let it advance to a High-Rank Spirit Ghost, and Song Shuhang told it to prioritize delivering departed souls after meeting Yu Jiaojiao.
• Song Shuhang learned that the Spirit Ghost’s salvation had not visibly benefited his main body and told Senior Sister Ye about the experiment.
• Song Shuhang asked whether there were departed souls near Jadewater Pavilion, and Senior Sister Ye proposed taking him outside to explore the area.

Song Shuhang left Time City with Senior Sister Ye and prepared to depart Jadewater Pavilion, while the chapter followed a rescue plot forming around Seven Cultivations Manor’s captured cultivators. As a mysterious beam entered Senior Sister Ye, Shuhang sensed a presence like Venerable White’s and wondered whether she had reached the Seventh-Grade Venerable realm.

• Senior Sister Ye took Song Shuhang out of Time City, explained the lifespan cost, and led him quietly toward Jadewater Pavilion’s back door while Crying Old Man waited at the front gate.
• Li Yinzhu remained suspended in Jadewater Pavilion, and Six Cultivations, Phoenix Saber Jasmine, and White Jade Lion transported thirteen captured Golden Core Spirit Emperors toward a Spirit Vein mine.
• The master of Nine-Eyed Gama Hall prepared to ambush the Immortal Ark and rescue his captured subordinates, while Ancient Shrine Maiden Elise also searched for the ship so she could help Venerable Seven Cultivations.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye reached the unguarded back door, put on a spacesuit, and set off on Senior Sister Ye’s flying book.
• As they neared the edge of Jadewater Pavilion’s defensive layer, Senior Sister Ye began silently crying, and a beam of light from the pavilion entered her body.
• After the beam stopped the tears, Song Shuhang sensed a presence like Venerable White’s from Senior Sister Ye and wondered if she was a Seventh-Grade Venerable.

Song Shuhang accompanied Ye Si away from Jadewater Pavilion to search for wandering souls, while Six Cultivations faced an ambush by the Limitless Demon Sect. Six Cultivations drew the awakened Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and unleashed its destructive flames as the battle began.

• Song Shuhang noticed a powerful aura from Ye Si but set aside his questions while comforting her.
• Ye Si recovered, took Song Shuhang out of Jadewater Pavilion, and sensed that something interesting was happening near Seven Cultivations Manor's flying vessel.
• Six Cultivations confronted the master of Nine-Eyed Gama Hall and the Limitless Demon Sect's rescue force aboard the vessel.
• The master of Nine-Eyed Gama Hall attacked with the demonic statue's strongest strike, and Six Cultivations summoned the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• Six Cultivations slashed with the Destruction Blade, filling the Limitless Demon Sect members' vision with destructive flames.

Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye turned the Limitless Demon Sect’s failed ambush to their advantage, and Song Shuhang delivered the blank soul of a Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor. The soul earned him merit equivalent to delivering more than a thousand people, while the Phoenix Flame merged into his saber.

• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s slash defeated the Hall Master of Nine-Eyed Gama Hall and set the Limitless Demon Sect cultivators ablaze, forcing them to flee.
• Senior Sister Ye used Heaven’s Weeping Canon to make a fleeing Limitless Demon Sect cultivator cry until he grew too heavy, and he was burned to ashes by the Phoenix Flame.
• The Phoenix Flame resonated with Song Shuhang and merged into his Overlord Shatter Saber, marking its blade with blazing-red patterns.
• Senior Sister Ye pointed out the dead cultivator’s blank Fifth-Grade soul, and Song Shuhang began delivering it with the Soul-Deliverance Method.
• The soul’s final grateful emotion brought Song Shuhang Merit Power, including a phantom-like merit manifestation worth more than a thousand people.

Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye prepared to intercept twelve Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperors from the Limitless Demon Sect, while Pavilion Master Chu remembered the people she had left behind and reflected on Jadewater Pavilion’s past. The first fire-wreathed attacker struck Song Shuhang, activating a secret technique that covered him in wounds.

• Senior Sister Ye touched Song Shuhang’s finger again, and they both felt an electric shock before she shared her joy and anticipation with him.
• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden found Li Yinzhu hanging at Cloud Pavilion, called Pavilion Master Chu, and lowered her so she could rush off to find a toilet.
• Pavilion Master Chu watched the Glowing Jellyfish’s farewell message, remembered Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu in Time City, and realized Song Shuhang had become Ye Si’s Dao companion.
• Pavilion Master Chu recalled awakening from her dream of Jadewater Pavilion and resolved to resurrect its disciples, then decided Song Shuhang should see the original pavilion before taking Ye Si away.
• Pavilion Master Chu noticed Li Yinzhu’s severe cold illness and judged that she could face a life-or-death crisis within a year if it remained untreated.
• Twelve fire-wreathed Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperors from the Limitless Demon Sect approached Song Shuhang and Ye Si; when one flew at him, Song Shuhang raised his hand and a secret technique inflicted more than seventy wounds on him.

Song Shuhang appraised the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, learned it had been left by the Third Heavenly Dao, and delivered the souls of twelve Limitless Demon Sect Spirit Emperors to gain Merit Power. Meanwhile, his Spirit Ghost was wounded by the appraisal again and severed its connection to him.

• Song Shuhang suffered more than seventy wounds when his Appraisal Secret Method triggered, then recovered with his Healing Spell as Senior Sister Ye restrained the twelve fleeing Spirit Emperors.
• Song Shuhang learned that the Phoenix Flame was a prototype of Tribulation Fire and that the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber had been left behind by the Third Heavenly Dao.
• Senior Sister Ye had the Phoenix Flame turn the twelve Spirit Emperors into blank souls, and Song Shuhang began delivering them with the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture.
• The master of the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall fled from Witch Elise while Song Shuhang delivered the souls and reached ten thousand Merit points, gaining protective Merit Light.
• Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost suffered reopened wounds, severed its sensory connection to him, and sent a warning that it was going to die.