Chapter Summaries

The Glowing Jellyfish encountered a glazed scholar who escaped the Darknight Time Ring and borrowed Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost to meet someone. Song Shuhang discovered the Spirit Ghost was missing and headed back toward Earth, where Four Cultivations gave him a talisman.

• The Glowing Jellyfish sealed a Space Gate as the glazed scholar emerged from the Darknight Time Ring and explained that Song Blockhead had sealed him there until an appointed time.
• The glazed scholar found Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost, took control of its body, and left it suffering from the pain of Song Shuhang’s appraisal.
• Song Shuhang received the Spirit Ghost’s messages, then saw through their shared senses that a glazed scholar had taken over its body and blocked their connection.
• Song Shuhang decided to return to Earth, and Senior Sister Ye agreed to take him to Jadewater Pavilion before accompanying him.
• Four Cultivations met Song Shuhang and handed him the Sun-Chasing Escape Talisman prepared by Seven Cultivations.

Song Shuhang returned to Jadewater Pavilion with Senior Sister Ye after learning about a possible way to obtain Dragon Demon Blood and being offered a loan of spirit stones by Venerable White. At the pavilion gate, they met Crying Old Man, whose account of ancient ruins revealed that Jadewater Pavilion had once been destroyed.

• Four Cultivations gave Song Shuhang a Sun-Chasing Escape Talisman and said Seven Cultivations was investigating the existence connected to the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd.
• Venerable White offered to lend Song Shuhang spirit stones, and Song Shuhang wondered whether he should borrow them to buy Dragon Demon Blood.
• Senior Sister Ye brought Song Shuhang back to Jadewater Pavilion, where they heard someone crying through the Heaven's Weeping Canon.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye met Crying Old Man at the gate, and he explained that Senior White had asked him to prepare a trial for Song Shuhang in space.
• Crying Old Man said he had learned the Heaven's Weeping Canon from ruins describing the ancient Jadewater Pavilion's destruction, shocking Senior Sister Ye.

Song Shuhang learned that ancient Jadewater Pavilion had been destroyed and that Pavilion Master Chu had rebuilt the present pavilion as a True Illusion. He worried that Ye Si might also be an illusion, but Pavilion Master Chu confirmed that she was real.

• Senior Sister Ye weakened and became distressed after Crying Old Man said ancient Jadewater Pavilion had been destroyed.
• Crying Old Man told Song Shuhang that he had found the incomplete Heaven's Weeping Canon in an underground cave describing Jadewater Pavilion's destruction.
• Pavilion Master Chu seized Crying Old Man and hurled him through a spatial gate after he discussed Jadewater Pavilion's destruction.
• Pavilion Master Chu confirmed to Ye Si that Jadewater Pavilion had been destroyed and that she had rebuilt it.
• Song Shuhang asked whether Ye Si was part of Pavilion Master Chu's True Illusion, and Pavilion Master Chu said Ye Si was special and real.

Song Shuhang tried to learn whether Senior Sister Ye was safe, but Pavilion Master Chu fell asleep before answering and Shuhang soon fell asleep too. He entered a vision of Jadewater Pavilion’s ancient destruction, where he saw Demon Catchers slaughter five exhausted sects and then turn toward the pavilion.

• Pavilion Master Chu ignored Song Shuhang’s questions, took Ye Si into Cloud Pavilion, and fell asleep; Song Shuhang fell asleep on the floor nearby.
• Song Shuhang entered a vision of ancient Jadewater Pavilion under attack, where Pavilion Master Chu led the pavilion’s defenses against the fallout of a battle between five sects.
• More than three thousand Demon Catchers ambushed the exhausted sects and slaughtered their members with overwhelming force.
• After killing every member of the five sects, the Demon Catchers charged toward Jadewater Pavilion.

Song Shuhang watched Pavilion Master Chu’s memories of the Jadewater Pavilion’s destruction and learned how Senior Sister Ye Si was reborn through a Spirit Ghost. The chapter ended with Pavilion Master Chu revealing that Ye Si could have become Song Shuhang’s contracted Spirit Ghost, but he already had one.

• Pavilion Master Chu skipped parts of her memory as Song Shuhang watched her survive the Jadewater Pavilion’s destruction and endure a ten-day Heavenly Tribulation.
• Pavilion Master Chu found Senior Sister Ye Si’s shattered body, then explained that a generations-old Spirit Ghost had emerged and was not Ye Si’s own Spirit Ghost.
• The Spirit Ghost’s belly swelled, and she contracted with Pavilion Master Chu to receive spiritual energy before a lotus enveloped her.
• The lotus opened to reveal a newly born Ye Si with a complete soul, while the Spirit Ghost flew away; Pavilion Master Chu later restored the Jadewater Pavilion and waited ten years for Ye Si to awaken.
• Pavilion Master Chu told Song Shuhang that Ye Si could have been contracted as a Spirit Ghost, but his existing Spirit Ghost made that impossible.

Song Shuhang worried that Senior Sister Ye’s Spirit Ghost constitution could make her vulnerable to forced contracts, then accidentally triggered Jadewater Pavilion’s defenses and was left hanging in a painful split. As his Spirit Ghost neared a breakthrough, his body trembled against the chains while he struggled to hold in his urine.

• Song Shuhang learned from Pavilion Master Chu that Senior Sister Ye could sign a Spirit Ghost Contract and feared someone might force her into one.
• Song Shuhang woke in Cloud Pavilion, left to check on Li Yinzhu, and triggered Jadewater Pavilion’s defensive system at the entrance.
• The defenses caught Song Shuhang in a net and bound him in a painful full split, while no one nearby heard his calls for help.
• Song Shuhang tried to distract himself by reciting scripture and using his Appraisal Secret Method, but the technique failed and his need to urinate grew worse.
• Song Shuhang sensed through their contract that his Spirit Ghost was completing its evolution, and the resulting surge of true qi began breaking through toward his Dragon Body Dantian.
• Song Shuhang’s body trembled as the breakthrough began, tightening the chains and threatening to pull him into a U-shaped split.

Song Shuhang escaped the Sea King’s attempt to reclaim the Silver Gauntlet, then traded it to Pavilion Master Chu for a twelve-year delay to Li Yinzhu’s illness. As he prepared to leave for Earth, Pavilion Master Chu teleported him back to Li Yinzhu’s room, where her cold illness was worsening.

• Pavilion Master Chu crushed the Sea King’s spatial force, drove it away with a palm strike, and removed its tracking mark from the Silver Gauntlet.
• Song Shuhang’s Dragon Body Dantian opened, and he sensed that his Spirit Ghost had advanced to a High-Rank Spirit Ghost.
• Pavilion Master Chu told Song Shuhang that Li Yinzhu’s illness could become fatal within a year, but offered to delay it by twelve years in exchange for the Silver Gauntlet.
• Song Shuhang accepted the trade, received a Jadewater Pavilion access token, and prepared to return to Earth to find his Spirit Ghost.
• Li Yinzhu shivered as her cold illness overwhelmed the warming runes and flame pearl, then Song Shuhang suddenly appeared at her doorway.

Song Shuhang helped Li Yinzhu suppress the cold energy in her body and took her to find Chu Chu, while Crying Old Man blasted his way out of the rock where Pavilion Master Chu had sent him. On Indigenous Island, Seven Lives Talisman prepared to reward his students as the natives secretly organized a rebellion against him.

• Song Shuhang fed Li Yinzhu a Flame Blade, temporarily easing her cold, then carried her toward Time City to find Chu Chu.
• Crying Old Man, trapped inside a rock after Pavilion Master Chu teleported him, erupted with spiritual power and broke free.
• Several young hikers saw a glowing figure fly out of an exploding rock and mistook the event for the birth of the Monkey King.
• Seven Lives Talisman completed his merit task and planned to bring immortal chefs and medicinal liquid to the Indigenous Island natives before leaving.
• The natives gathered to plan a rebellion against Seven Lives Talisman, unaware that he had been monitoring their meeting.

Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman’s Indigenous residents plotted to overthrow him, but their march to his house was interrupted when they discovered him practicing martial arts by the sea. They watched him unleash energy that battered the ocean, leaving their rebellion in terrified uncertainty.

• A tall Indigenous man rallied the residents to rebel against Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman and end their assignments and punishments.
• The Indigenous people practiced The Times Are Calling, then surrounded Seven Lives Talisman’s house and performed it to draw him out.
• When no one answered, the tall Indigenous man led the group forward while they continued their routine.
• A loud explosion came from the seaside, and a young Indigenous man reported that Seven Lives Talisman was there.
• The Indigenous people reached the beach and watched Seven Lives Talisman leap high and send dragon- and tiger-shaped energy into the sea, creating explosions and towering water columns.
• The residents’ confidence collapsed as they feared Seven Lives Talisman could kick them into minced meat.

Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman frightened the natives into continuing his lessons, then encountered two powerful beings searching for a scholar. After they departed, he wondered whether their arrival was retribution for scaring the natives.

• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman shattered the divine lightning with his punches, then caught the natives planning to resist him and made them promise they loved studying the Book of Songs.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman extended the lessons for half a month, assigning earlier classes and more homework, while the natives wept.
• A refined scholar stepped through a spatial rift, explained that he had borrowed Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost, and asked Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman about a scholar wandering near the Eastern Sea.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman told the refined scholar that he was in the Pacific Ocean, and the scholar tore open space and left to search for the other man.
• A glowing jellyfish arrived looking for the scholar, praised Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman’s talismans, and followed him through a spatial rift.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman felt shaken by the two Tribulation Immortals and wondered if their visit was retribution for frightening the natives.

Song Shuhang returned to Earth from a time-accelerated realm and checked in with the Nine Provinces Number One Group, where Fairy Flowing Firefly insisted he still needed to complete his month in space. The chapter left him facing another trip back to space as he tried to explain that he had already fulfilled his agreement with Venerable White.

• Su Clan's Seven chased a big macaque impersonating him and threatened to bring it as a greeting gift for Medicine Master, while the group suspected the macaque was Three Waves.
• Fairy Eastern Six discovered that Doudou had apparently added a “Road Killer” label to her group nickname, and Doudou secretly continued planning to escape being married off.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman asked about Song Shuhang, and the group discussed Venerable White's ruin expedition and the dangers of the next Hand Tractor Race.
• Pavilion Master Chu teleported Song Shuhang alone back to Earth, where he landed in a mountain forest in South China and began planning how to find his spirit ghost.
• Song Shuhang told the group he had returned from a time secret realm after spending more than thirty days there, but Fairy Flowing Firefly insisted on sending him back to space to complete the full month in normal time.

Song Shuhang returned from space and gathered clues about the expert who had borrowed his spirit ghost, then contacted Yu Jiaojiao about making a New Year movie. The chapter ended with Shuhang remembering his urgent business and asking where Yu Jiaojiao was so he could meet her.

• Fairy Flowing Firefly went offline after threatening to catch Shuhang, so he escaped on the puppet silver dragon and hid his account.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman told Shuhang that the expert with his spirit ghost had headed toward the Eastern Sea and that a glowing jellyfish was chasing it.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman advised Shuhang to contact True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord's faction, prompting Shuhang to message Yu Jiaojiao.
• Yu Jiaojiao told Shuhang she had captured author Gao Moumou and was forcing him to write, then discussed a sci-fi and xianxia movie with Shuhang.
• Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao agreed that Senior White would play the male lead, and Shuhang asked where Yu Jiaojiao was so he could meet her.

Song Shuhang hurried to Yu Jiaojiao’s Jiangnan villa to ask about his borrowed Spirit Ghost, while Gao Moumou continued writing in her black room and learned that his daily supplements were nourishing medicines. Gao Moumou invited Song Shuhang and his other roommates to join him, and Song Shuhang arrived at the villa as Yu Jiaojiao prepared to introduce him to the author.

• Song Shuhang set off on the Puppet Silver Dragon for the Jiangnan Region after realizing he needed to ask Yu Jiaojiao about the Eastern Sea cultivator who had borrowed his Spirit Ghost.
• Gao Moumou asked Yu Jiaojiao how long she planned to keep him in the black room, and she explained that she wanted him to write a story for a movie and loved his novels.
• Yu Jiaojiao told Gao Moumou that she had been adding Clear-Eyed Pills, Vitality Potion, and diluted Body Tempering Liquid to his food, and she said Mei Yi had received the same benefits.
• Gao Moumou asked to call his friends, then invited Song Shuhang and began persuading Tubo and Yangde to join him at the villa.
• Song Shuhang received the villa’s address, flew there on the Puppet Silver Dragon, and met Yu Jiaojiao, who led him inside to see the author.

Song Shuhang went with Yu Jiaojiao to meet the author she had captured, worrying that the author might be his friend Gao Moumou. He discovered Gao Moumou in the dark room, and both friends were stunned to see each other.

• Yu Jiaojiao noticed Song Shuhang's Merit Light, and he explained that he had gained it by sending many Fifth-Grade dead souls to the afterlife.
• Song Shuhang told Yu Jiaojiao that a senior had borrowed his Spirit Ghost, and she promised to watch for news from the Eastern Sea.
• Yu Jiaojiao described how she had found the author online, and Song Shuhang realized her story sounded much like Gao Moumou's circumstances.
• Song Shuhang arrived at Yu Jiaojiao's dark room and saw that the author inside was his best friend, Gao Moumou.
• Gao Moumou said he had just sent Song Shuhang the room's address and asked him to keep quiet because Mei Yi was asleep nearby.

Song Shuhang reunited with Gao Moumou, who had been captured by Yu Jiaojiao and made to write novels under a psychological suggestion. Song Shuhang began explaining how his summer film project had led to Gao Moumou’s predicament.

• Yu Jiaojiao recognized Gao Moumou as Song Shuhang’s close friend from the same dorm, and Song Shuhang entered the little black room to meet him.
• Gao Moumou told Song Shuhang that Yu Jiaojiao had brought him to the villa and required him to write twenty to thirty thousand words each day in exchange for food.
• Song Shuhang asked whether Gao Moumou had considered escaping, and Yu Jiaojiao revealed through Secret Voice Transmission that she had used a psychological suggestion to keep him from thinking about it.
• Gao Moumou decided to discuss an escape plan with Tubo and Yangde when they arrived, while also urging Song Shuhang to search the villa for escape routes.
• Song Shuhang warned Gao Moumou that his secret might upset him, then began recounting how he had wanted to make a film at the start of summer vacation.

Song Shuhang explained how Yu Jiaojiao had recruited Gao Moumou to write a screenplay, and the two agreed to make a science-fiction and immortal-cultivation movie. Meanwhile, Fairy Flowing Firefly mistook Copper Trigram Immortal Master disguised as Song Shuhang for the real Song Shuhang and launched him into space, leaving the real Song Shuhang confused by the group message.

• Song Shuhang admitted that Yu Jiaojiao had kidnapped Gao Moumou to write a screenplay for his movie, and Gao Moumou angrily tried to attack him but hurt himself instead.
• Gao Moumou agreed to write a science-fiction and immortal-cultivation screenplay, requested a movie role, and planned to make the protagonist suffer as revenge.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master, disguised as Song Shuhang, learned that Northern River's Loose Cultivator expected him to flee into space, but his divination suggested that journey would bring danger.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly mistook Copper Trigram Immortal Master for Song Shuhang, tied on a protective sash, and launched him into space for a month.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly announced in the Nine Provinces Number One Group that she had sent Song Shuhang into space again, and the real Song Shuhang read the message while sitting with Gao Moumou.

Song Shuhang gathered help for his planned movie while Pavilion Master Chu prepared Ye Si to leave Jadewater Pavilion, and Witch Elise abruptly ended her battle with the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master. Near Ox Summit Mountain, the Foreign Monk reunited with Daoist Wuyinzi, who gave him a new Daoist robe and promised to teach him the next cultivation method.

• Yu Jiaojiao told Song Shuhang she had asked her Eastern Sea subordinates to report unusual news, and Song Shuhang said he would ask friends with film companies to help make his movie.
• Pavilion Master Chu placed a modified Silver Armguard on sleeping Ye Si and said she could leave Jadewater Pavilion after adapting to it.
• Crying Old Man set off again to search for Jadewater Pavilion and pursue the Heaven's Weeping Canon.
• Witch Elise stopped attacking the exhausted Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master, revealed that someone linked to the Limitless Demon Sect had lured her to him, and flew away.
• The Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master returned toward the Limitless Demon Sect, furious over his losses and the Second-Grade cultivator who had transcended his subordinates' souls.
• The Foreign Monk met Daoist Wuyinzi near Ox Summit Mountain, agreed to learn the succeeding Immortal Marvel Dao Profound Sword method, and put on the Second-Grade Daoist robe his master gave him.

Song Shuhang’s uncontrolled Appraisal Secret Method revealed the golden chain’s origins and a century-old delivery waiting at Three Lives Global Express. He decided to collect it with Yu Jiaojiao, while a distant scholar also suffered the appraisal’s pain.

• Wuyinzi gave the Foreign Monk the next cultivation methods and told him to return in two months to light his Life Lamp.
• Song Shuhang trained, then discussed ways to find wandering souls with Yu Jiaojiao, who suggested ghost cultivators or war-torn regions.
• Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method activated on the golden chain, inflicting nearly two hundred wounds before identifying it as a Spirit Beast Chain tied to the Ancient Heavenly Court and the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect.
• The appraisal revealed that Bamboo Pipe had left a gift package for a disciple at the Three-Life Escort Agency one hundred and thirty years earlier, and Yu Jiaojiao said the agency now operated as Three Lives Global Express.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao agreed to visit Three Lives Global Express, while a scholar in the Eastern Sea suffered another wound from the appraisal’s pain.

Copper Trigram Immortal Master, disguised as Song Shuhang and still weakened, was attacked in space by the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall's hall master, who mistook him for the cultivator who had killed his subordinates. After escaping by using a hidden formation, Copper Trigram decided to disguise himself as Fairy Lychee, while Song Shuhang woke and prepared to visit a Three Lives Global Express branch with Yu Jiaojiao.

• Copper Trigram maintained Song Shuhang's disguise in space, and the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall's hall master sensed the familiar aura and attacked him.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly's repulsion layer blocked the hall master's first strike, but Copper Trigram's divination formation was crushed by the hall master's demonic stomp.
• Copper Trigram escaped inside an invisible Eight-Trigrams Formation, while the hall master mistook his discarded body for a clone and carried it away to the Limitless Demon Sect.
• Copper Trigram decided to stay in space rather than risk returning to Earth, then changed his disguise to Fairy Lychee after seeing her photos in the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Song Shuhang woke feeling weak from blood loss, and Yu Jiaojiao said she would take him to a Three Lives Global Express branch.

Yu Jiaojiao took Song Shuhang underground with the Earth-Escaping Technique, but the journey left his stomach full of dirt before they reached Three Lives Global Express's former branch. They found that the branch had relocated to the Prosperous Building on Paradise Road.

• Yu Jiaojiao used the Earth-Escaping Technique to carry Song Shuhang through the earth toward Three Lives Global Express.
• Yu Jiaojiao struggled through a muddy stretch, and Song Shuhang's stomach filled with dirt when the technique weakened.
• Yu Jiaojiao used a water-type spell to help Song Shuhang clear the dirt from his stomach, and they planned rests for the rest of the journey.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao continued underground and reached a huge hollow where the branch had once stood.
• Song Shuhang found a notice stating that Three Lives Global Express had moved to the thirtieth floor of the Prosperous Building on Paradise Road.