Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang reflects that receiving one Golden Core Spirit Emperor’s blank soul was already fortunate. Senior Sister Ye touches his finger again, triggering a stronger electric-like sensation; Shuhang senses her joy and anticipation and lets her enjoy the moment.
• At Jadewater Pavilion, Golden Lad and Jade Maiden find Li Yinzhu hanging at Cloud Pavilion and rescue her. She tearfully asks for a toilet. Pavilion Master Chu wakes briefly, watches the recording of the Glowing Jellyfish’s farewell, and wishes her friend success in pursuing Longevity.
• Chu remembers that Shuhang and a girl remain trapped in Time City and prepares to retrieve them, but memories of Ye Si and Shuhang becoming Dao companions make her pause. She decides Shuhang should see the original Jadewater Pavilion if he intends to take Ye Si away.
• Chu reflects on her past: she once awakened from the dream she had made of Jadewater Pavilion, but preserved it as her Dao. She hopes one day to truly resurrect its disciples, even if that means becoming the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu notices that Li Yinzhu’s severe congenital cold qi may become fatal within a year, and resolves to hint about it to Shuhang. She also observes Crying Old Man’s connection to Ye Si through the Heaven’s Weeping Canon and leaves matters for them to resolve.
• As Shuhang and Ye Si prepare to go to the Seven Cultivations Manor’s flying boat, twelve fire-wreathed Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperors from the Limitless Demon Sect approach. Shuhang hopes to capture them for their blank souls and asks Ye Si to intercept them.
• One attacker’s Escape Light strikes Shuhang as he raises his hand. A secret technique activates through his gloves, leaving him with more than seventy wounds and bleeding heavily.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang and Ye Si: Their affectionate, playful connection deepens. Shuhang recognizes Ye Si’s feelings and indulges her; they then cooperate confidently against the incoming attackers.
• Pavilion Master Chu: Her laziness and humor contrast with her deep grief and determination. She remains committed to her impossible-seeming goal of restoring Jadewater Pavilion’s disciples and shows concern for both Ye Si’s future and Li Yinzhu’s health.
• Li Yinzhu: Her rescue brings immediate relief, but Chu’s observation reveals that her illness is dangerously advanced.
• Crying Old Man: His cultivation creates a meaningful connection to Ye Si, though Chu chooses not to intervene.

Significant themes

• Dream, loss, and purpose: Chu accepts that Jadewater Pavilion is an illusion, yet transforms it into the foundation of her Dao and her hope of restoring its people.
• Love and belonging: Chu’s reflection on her own disappointed hopes highlights the significance of Ye Si and Shuhang finding a Dao partnership suited to them.
• Fate and hidden connections: Inherited techniques and cultivation paths link characters across time, while Chu’s all-seeing perspective reveals dangers others have yet to notice.
• Luck and danger: Shuhang’s apparent good fortune in encountering valuable opponents turns abruptly into serious injury.

Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method activates again despite his gloves and spacesuit, inflicting more than seventy deep wounds. As Senior Sister Ye restrains the twelve fleeing Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperors, Shuhang uses a Healing Spell and survives the pain.
The appraisal first identifies the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s Phoenix Flame as a prototype of Tribulation Fire: destructive, yet carrying a trace of vitality. A second, deeper appraisal reveals that the saber was left behind by the Third Heavenly Dao before its disappearance—a revelation that hints at a major mystery. To Shuhang’s surprise, this information costs him no further injuries.
Senior Sister Ye’s strange innate ability immobilizes the twelve Spirit Emperors, and the Phoenix Flame reduces them to blank souls. Shuhang delivers their souls with the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture, earning substantial Merit Power. By the seventh soul, his total reaches ten thousand, granting him protective Merit Light. Senior Sister Ye guards him as he works, keeping watch on the fleeing Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master.
The hall master is furious to see Shuhang dispatch his subordinates, but he is too weakened by the Phoenix Flame to attack. Witch Elise, an Ancient Shaman inheritor secretly lured there by Gongzi Hai, pursues him, forcing him to flee.
Meanwhile, Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost is once again injured by the appraisal’s backlash, this time suffering deeper reopened wounds. It severs its sensory link with Shuhang and sends him a desperate warning: “I’m going to die, I’m going to die.”
Character developments and interactions: Shuhang endures the appraisal’s pain and gains significant merit, while learning a potentially important secret about the saber. Senior Sister Ye demonstrates both formidable control and protective concern for him. The Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master’s hatred of Shuhang grows, though his weakened state prevents retaliation. Witch Elise’s pursuit helps keep the danger away, while the Spirit Ghost’s repeated suffering underscores the cost of Shuhang’s mysterious ability.
Themes: The chapter contrasts destructive power with the possibility of renewal, explores the heavy risks of forbidden knowledge, and links compassion and spiritual duty to tangible merit. It also emphasizes how Shuhang’s actions can harm those connected to him, even at a distance.

Plot points

• The Glowing Jellyfish returns to Earth with the sealed Darknight Time Ring. As she enters the atmosphere, a spatial passage opens and a blood-eyed, glazed scholar emerges despite her attempt to seal it.
• The scholar explains that he is not Song Blockhead, but someone whom Song Blockhead sealed inside the ring until an appointed time. He says he must meet someone before his remaining “time” runs out, then vanishes.
• Curious, the Glowing Jellyfish follows him. The scholar reaches Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost, which is in severe pain after bearing the effects of Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method. He asks to borrow its body and, despite its silent protest, possesses it.
• Shuhang receives the Spirit Ghost’s pleas for comfort, then loses their connection when the scholar blocks it. The last image transmitted shows the possession. Worried, Shuhang decides to return to Earth with Ye Si.
• Four Cultivations arrives with Six Cultivations. He explains that they came after sensing someone had absorbed the Phoenix Flame and gives Shuhang a Sun-Chasing Escape Talisman prepared by Seven Cultivations.

Character developments and interactions

• The Glowing Jellyfish recognizes the scholar’s appearance as typical of Song Blockhead’s eccentric humor, but remains suspicious and follows him.
• The scholar is calm and courteous despite the madness and killing intent in his eyes. He takes control of the Spirit Ghost, promising to return it safely and compensate Shuhang.
• The Spirit Ghost’s comic desperation—demanding that Shuhang comfort it or suffer through sensory sharing—highlights its pain and its bond with its original body.
• Shuhang is alarmed by the loss of his Spirit Ghost, which he considers essential to his cultivation, and accepts Ye Si’s reassurance that the bond can help them locate it.
• Ye Si supports Shuhang and hints that the situation resembles something in her own blurred memories.
• Four and Six Cultivations bicker over Six’s rough treatment of him, adding humor before Four reconnects with Shuhang and gives him the talisman.

Significant themes

• Trust and consent: The scholar’s polite request contrasts with his forceful possession of the Spirit Ghost.
• Interdependence: Shuhang’s reliance on the Spirit Ghost—and their enduring connection—makes its disappearance both practical and emotional.
• Time and urgency: The scholar’s limited remaining time drives his abrupt departure and unexplained mission.
• Comedy amid danger: The Spirit Ghost’s complaints and the cultivators’ banter soften an otherwise ominous turn.

Plot points and events

• Four Cultivations gives Song Shuhang a Sun-Chasing Escape Talisman, which Seven Cultivations can use to alert Shuhang once he finds an unnamed being connected to the Soul-Eating Demon Gourd. He also advises Shuhang to stockpile spirit stones, since almost anything may be purchasable.
• Shuhang considers borrowing spirit stones from Venerable White to obtain Dragon Demon Blood; White offers to lend him some.
• Senior Sister Ye brings Shuhang back to Jadewater Pavilion. They hear someone using the Heaven’s Weeping Canon, a technique Ye thought only she cultivated.
• At the pavilion gate, they meet Crying Old Man, a fifth-rank rogue cultivator who sobs uncontrollably at ordinary sights. He recognizes Shuhang and explains that Venerable White had asked him to wait in space and prepare a month-long trial for Shuhang.
• Crying Old Man says he learned the Heaven’s Weeping Canon from ruins describing the destruction of Ancient Jadewater Pavilion. Ye is shocked to learn the pavilion may have perished in ancient times.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains focused on finding a way to obtain Dragon Demon Blood, while weighing White’s offer of a loan.
• Senior Sister Ye’s confidence in the uniqueness of her cultivation technique is unsettled by Crying Old Man’s use of it. Her discovery about the pavilion’s past leaves her stunned.
• Crying Old Man is introduced as both a capable cultivator and a comically emotional figure. He greets Ye and Shuhang formally, then becomes overwhelmed by his joy at finding Shuhang.
• Shuhang tries to prevent Ye from looking at the meteorites that are making Crying Old Man weep, fearing her own Heaven’s Weeping Canon might trigger a second bout of sobbing.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and hidden connections: The demon gourd’s mysterious link and Jadewater Pavilion’s possible ancient destruction raise new questions.
• The past intruding on the present: Historical ruins suggest the current pavilion may be tied to a vanished ancient one.
• Comedy amid serious revelations: Crying Old Man’s uncontrollable tears contrast with the startling news Ye receives.

Chapter Summary: “You Were Beaten by a Monkey”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Senior Sister Ye is devastated when Crying Old Man reveals that the ancient Jadewater Pavilion was destroyed. She becomes physically weak and emotionally overwhelmed, suggesting that the revelation has deeply affected her despite her inability to remember the past.
• Crying Old Man explains that he once discovered underground ruins of Jadewater Pavilion. The ruins contained a mural of the pavilion in its prosperous era and an incomplete copy of the Heaven’s Weeping Canon, which he cultivated up to the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor realm.
• The ruins’ records state that Jadewater Pavilion was destroyed overnight during a conflict between five powerful cultivation factions, with no survivors.
• Crying Old Man asks Song Shuhang to help him join the “new” Jadewater Pavilion so that he can obtain the complete Heaven’s Weeping Canon.
• Pavilion Master Chu suddenly appears, throws Crying Old Man away, and teleports him through a spatial gate. His careless mention of Jadewater Pavilion’s destruction has offended her, much like reminding the Jade Emperor that the Monkey King once defeated him.
• Pavilion Master Chu confirms that the original Jadewater Pavilion really was destroyed and admits that she suffered intense grief and depression afterward.
• She reveals that the current Jadewater Pavilion is not an ordinary rebuilt sect but a massive “True Illusion” created by her.
• Song Shuhang becomes alarmed that everyone and everything in the pavilion might merely be an illusion. Pavilion Master Chu reassures him that Ye Si is different: she is not part of the True Illusion and is a genuine independent person.

Character Developments

• Senior Sister Ye Si: Her reaction to the destruction of Jadewater Pavilion suggests a powerful but inaccessible connection to its past. She remains confused because she cannot remember her history, but her emotional response indicates that the truth affects her deeply.
• Song Shuhang: He acts protectively toward Ye Si, comforts her, investigates the mystery rationally, and becomes increasingly worried about whether her existence is real. His concern also reveals how important she has become to him as his first love and prospective Dao companion.
• Crying Old Man: He provides crucial information about the ruins and the Heaven’s Weeping Canon. His desire to join Jadewater Pavilion shows his desperation to complete his cultivation, but his tactless remarks earn Pavilion Master Chu’s punishment.
• Pavilion Master Chu: She is revealed to be the creator of the present Jadewater Pavilion and carries immense grief over its ancient destruction. Though outwardly casual and playful, she remains sensitive about the subject and possesses overwhelming power.

Significant Themes

• Loss and reconstruction: The chapter explores how people cope with the destruction of their homes, communities, and identities. Pavilion Master Chu recreated Jadewater Pavilion, but the emotional scars of its destruction remain.
• Memory and identity: Ye Si’s inability to remember her past contrasts with her instinctive emotional reaction to the pavilion’s history. The chapter raises questions about whether identity depends on memory or deeper connections.
• Reality versus illusion: The lifelike True Illusion blurs the distinction between reality and fantasy. Although the recreated pavilion appears fully real, Ye Si’s genuine existence provides an important exception.
• Power and tact: Crying Old Man’s fate humorously demonstrates that even powerful cultivators must be careful around someone vastly stronger and emotionally affected by the past.
• Affection and first love: Song Shuhang’s fear that Ye Si might be unreal reveals the growing emotional significance of their relationship.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang catches and comforts the weakened Ye Si, demonstrating his concern for her.
• He questions Crying Old Man about the ruins and connects the Heaven’s Weeping Canon to Ye Si and Jadewater Pavilion.
• Crying Old Man asks Song Shuhang to recommend him to Pavilion Master Chu, but Chu responds by physically throwing and teleporting him away.
• Pavilion Master Chu confirms the pavilion’s destruction to Ye Si, then embraces and comforts her as she cries.
• Chu explains the nature of the True Illusion to Song Shuhang and reassures him that Ye Si is real, easing—but not entirely eliminating—his fears about their relationship.

Chapter 586 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang questions whether Ye Si is a real survivor of the ancient Jade Water Pavilion rather than an illusion created by “Real Illusion.” Since she showed no reaction to his salvation ability, he concludes she is neither an illusion nor a wandering soul.
• He asks Lord Chu about Ye Si’s condition, but Lord Chu is too sleepy to answer. She teleports herself and Ye Si to her bedroom, Cloud Pavilion, and Shuhang follows.
• Lord Chu jokingly invites Shuhang to sleep with them, then tells him to sleep on the floor and immediately falls asleep. Shuhang considers using the Appraisal Secret Technique on Ye Si but decides against disturbing the sleeping women.
• Lord Chu’s breathing hypnotizes Shuhang, causing him to fall asleep. He then enters a strange dream or memory that lacks the usual 88,888 voices, leading him to suspect that Lord Chu deliberately brought him into it.
• The vision shows the ancient Jade Water Pavilion under siege. Its defensive formation is operating at full strength while Lord Chu commands the disciples and supplies spirit stones to maintain it.
• The Pavilion is caught in the aftermath of a massive battle between five powerful sects. At first, Shuhang assumes the Jade Water Pavilion was destroyed by residual attacks or a forbidden technique.
• The situation suddenly changes when an enormous force of more than three thousand ancient Demon Hunters enters the battlefield. They slaughter members of all five sects, who are already exhausted from prolonged fighting.
• The Demon Hunters prevent escape using countless Binding Demon Ropes. A particularly dangerous young hunter, equipped with numerous transplanted demon eyes, unleashes various terrifying innate spells.
• Once the five sects are completely annihilated, the Demon Hunters turn their attention toward the Jade Water Pavilion. Lord Chu realizes the Pavilion may also be targeted and orders her disciples to prepare for battle.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes increasingly suspicious of Ye Si’s true identity and connection to the ancient Jade Water Pavilion.
• He also demonstrates greater caution and maturity by resisting the temptation to appraise Ye Si while she is asleep, remembering the severe backlash from his previous attempt.
• Lord Chu is shown in two contrasting ways: presently she is extremely sleepy, mischievous, and careless, while in the historical vision she is alert, determined, and responsible for defending her sect.
• Lord Chu’s concern for the Pavilion’s disciples becomes evident as she weighs whether they should join a battle involving cultivators far beyond most of their strength.
• Ye Si’s past remains mysterious, but her presence in Lord Chu’s bedroom and the historical connection to the Jade Water Pavilion reinforce the likelihood that she is tied to its surviving legacy.

Significant Themes

• Mystery and identity: The chapter deepens the question of who Ye Si really is and whether she is connected to the destroyed Jade Water Pavilion.
• The contrast between past and present: Lord Chu’s lively, formidable historical self contrasts sharply with her sleepy current personality.
• Collateral damage and injustice: The Jade Water Pavilion is endangered despite having no direct involvement in the war between the five sects.
• Overwhelming violence: The arrival of the Demon Hunters transforms an already dangerous conflict into a massacre, emphasizing how powerless the exhausted sects are against a prepared outside force.
• Responsibility and protection: Lord Chu must decide whether to risk her disciples in an unwinnable battle or attempt to protect them from the approaching Demon Hunters.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang repeatedly tries to question Lord Chu about Ye Si, but she evades him through sleepiness and teasing.
• Lord Chu’s playful invitation to “sleep together,” followed by her ordering Shuhang to sleep on the floor, creates a humorous contrast with the serious historical vision.
• In the memory, Lord Chu commands and protects the Jade Water Pavilion’s disciples, while they cooperate by supplying spiritual energy to sustain the defensive formation.
• The chapter ends with Lord Chu and the Pavilion’s disciples facing the newly arrived Demon Hunters, setting up an impending battle.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang witnesses a memory of the ancient destruction of the Jadewater Pavilion. Three thousand Demon Catchers attack, slaughtering both demons and cultivators.
• Pavilion Master Chu, gravely wounded, survives by deliberately triggering her Heavenly Tribulation while surrounded by enemies. The tribulation lasts ten days, destroys much of the attacking force, and devastates the pavilion.
• After overcoming the tribulation, Chu searches the ruins for survivors and finds Senior Sister Ye’s body. Ye’s body has been petrified and shattered, while her soul has completely vanished.
• A mysterious Spirit Ghost emerges near Ye’s remains. Pavilion Master Chu explains that it is not Ye Si’s original soul, but a Spirit Ghost inherited by the Ye family for generations.
• The Spirit Ghost becomes pregnant and later gives birth to a complete, newly formed Ye Si. Ye Si’s original soul had apparently been preserved and nurtured within the Spirit Ghost.
• Chu enters an energy-supply contract with the Spirit Ghost, allowing it to complete the process. The Spirit Ghost then departs, leaving the newborn Ye Si with Chu.
• Ye Si remains unconscious for ten years. During that time, Chu uses True Illusion to reconstruct the Jadewater Pavilion. When Ye Si awakens, she retains her former memories except for the destruction of the pavilion.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Feels helpless and distressed while observing the tragedy. He is shocked to learn that Ye Si was recreated through a Spirit Ghost and becomes increasingly flustered by the possibility that she could be contracted like one.
• Pavilion Master Chu: Reveals the depth of her grief and determination. She was willing to die alongside the invaders, yet survived the tribulation and spent years restoring the pavilion and caring for Ye Si. Her joking, provocative commentary contrasts with her profound trauma.
• Ye Si: Is revealed to have died physically and spiritually, but her soul was preserved and used to create a new body. Her current existence is part human and part Spirit Ghost, with her traumatic memories deliberately removed.
• The Spirit Ghost: Is established as an ancient entity passed down through the Ye family. It preserves Ye Si’s soul, becomes pregnant, gives birth to her, and then disappears after fulfilling its role.

Significant Themes

• Grief and helplessness: Song Shuhang and Chu are forced to confront a tragedy that cannot be undone, emphasizing the pain of witnessing the past without being able to change it.
• Sacrifice and survival: Chu survives only through a devastating tribulation that kills many enemies, leaving her to endure the ruins and her sorrow.
• Identity and rebirth: Ye Si’s new existence raises questions about whether she is the same person, a Spirit Ghost, or something between the two.
• Memory and trauma: Ye Si’s memories are preserved almost entirely, except for the destruction of the pavilion, suggesting that forgetting can be both protection and loss.
• Unusual bonds and inheritance: The Spirit Ghost’s connection to the Ye family and Chu’s energy contract show how spiritual beings, cultivators, and bloodlines can remain linked across generations.

Character Interactions

• Chu repeatedly teases Song Shuhang about the tragic scene, even asking whether he finds her suffering beautiful, while he firmly rejects her morbid jokes.
• Song Shuhang questions Chu about Ye Si’s fate, initially fearing that Ye has died permanently.
• Chu explains the Spirit Ghost’s origins, its relationship with the Ye family, and the process that restored Ye Si.
• Chu willingly provides the Spirit Ghost with energy because of her concern for Ye Si.
• At the end, Chu remarks that Ye Si might have been eligible for a Spirit Ghost Contract, causing Song Shuhang to panic over the implications.

Chapter 588 Summary: “Put Me Down Already! I Need to Pee!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang learns from Pavilion Master Chu that Ye Si can potentially sign a Spirit Ghost Contract because her current constitution is increasingly similar to that of a Spirit Ghost.
• Shuhang becomes alarmed by the possibility that someone—especially a powerful cultivator—could forcibly contract Ye Si. He worries that this could threaten their future relationship and make it dangerous to take her away from Jadewater Pavilion.
• He wakes from a dream on August 6, still lying on the floor of Cloud Pavilion, and reflects on Ye Si’s vulnerability.
• Shuhang leaves Cloud Pavilion to check on Li Yinzhu, who had fallen asleep after her cold illness flared up.
• Upon reaching the entrance, Cloud Pavilion’s defensive system mistakes him for an intruder. Crystal towers appear, a net captures him, and ten chains suspend him above the entrance in an extremely painful full split.
• Because Pavilion Master Chu and Ye Si remain asleep, no one hears his pleas for help. Shuhang grows increasingly desperate as he needs to urinate but cannot free himself.
• He attempts several ways to distract himself or escape:
  • Shouting for help.
  • Considering whether he can force the urine out with internal energy.
  • Reciting the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture.
  • Trying to use the Appraisal Secret Method on the chains, though it fails due to the Wood Ox Swordsman’s Heart Gloves.
  • Attempting to endure the situation through sheer willpower.
• At the worst possible moment, Shuhang senses a change in his Spirit Ghost’s contract rune. His Spirit Ghost is nearing the completion of its evolution into a High-Rank Spirit Ghost.
• The Spirit Ghost’s evolution causes Shuhang’s true qi to surge. His energy begins breaking through toward his fourth Dantian, the Dragon Body Dantian.
• The resulting comfort and involuntary trembling make his situation even worse, tightening the chains and threatening to turn his full split into an even more painful “U-shaped” split.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Displays deep concern and possessiveness toward Ye Si, revealing how seriously he regards their relationship. Despite his usual resourcefulness, he is rendered helpless by Cloud Pavilion’s defensive system and reduced to panic and absurd physical suffering. His Spirit Ghost also reaches a crucial evolutionary stage, potentially increasing his strength.
• Ye Si: Her unusual constitution is emphasized. She is valuable enough that powerful cultivators might try to forcibly contract her, making her future independence and safety a major concern.
• Pavilion Master Chu: Her protective defensive system is powerful but indiscriminate, accidentally treating Shuhang as an intruder while she sleeps.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost: Reaches the final phase of evolving into a High-Rank Spirit Ghost, marking an important advancement.

Significant Themes

• Love, insecurity, and protection: Shuhang’s fear of losing Ye Si through a forced contract reflects both his affection and his anxiety about whether their relationship can survive the dangers of cultivation.
• Power and autonomy: The possibility of forced Spirit Ghost Contracts raises concerns about the loss of personal freedom and the vulnerability of beings with rare constitutions.
• Comedic misfortune: Shuhang’s serious worries are contrasted with the ridiculous predicament of being suspended in a split while desperately needing to pee.
• Cultivation and involuntary progress: His Spirit Ghost’s evolution triggers an unexpected breakthrough, showing how Shuhang’s growth often occurs amid chaotic and inconvenient circumstances.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang discusses Ye Si’s Spirit Ghost potential with Pavilion Master Chu, though his increasingly frantic thoughts about their relationship remain internal.
• He calls repeatedly to the sleeping Pavilion Master Chu and Ye Si for help, but neither responds.
• His Spirit Ghost affects him through their contract despite being separated from him, initiating his next cultivation breakthrough.

Key plot points and events

• The Sea King tries to reclaim the Silver Gauntlet by opening a spatial gate, but the Jadewater Pavilion’s True Illusion disrupts its aim.
• Pavilion Master Chu wakes and crushes the Sea King’s spatial power, striking it through space. She removes the tracking mark from the gauntlet and adds a spatial coordinate of her own.
• Song Shuhang’s fourth dantian opens as his Spirit Ghost completes its advancement to a High-Rank Spirit Ghost. His increased mental power worsens the pain in his brow, which he must address by strengthening his physique.
• Shuhang explains that someone forcibly borrowed his Spirit Ghost, so he plans to return to Earth. Pavilion Master Chu warns that Li Yinzhu’s illness may become fatal within a year. She offers to delay the crisis by about twelve years if Shuhang gives her the Silver Gauntlet. He accepts.
• Chu gives Shuhang a Jadewater Pavilion token that can help him find the Pavilion and contact Ye Si. Shuhang is then teleported to Li Yinzhu’s room, where she is suffering a severe cold-energy flare and hoping to see him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains a stronger body and a newly advanced Spirit Ghost, but remains burdened by urgent responsibilities: retrieving the Spirit Ghost, helping Li Yinzhu, and deciding how to protect Ye Si. He willingly gives up a valuable artifact to buy Li Yinzhu more time.
• Pavilion Master Chu shows both overwhelming power and practical kindness: she protects Shuhang, secures the gauntlet, offers a solution for Li Yinzhu, and gives Shuhang a means of staying connected to the Pavilion. Her teasing, sleepy manner contrasts with her formidable abilities.
• Li Yinzhu grows weaker and longs for Shuhang’s reassuring presence. Golden Boy and Jade Maiden continue trying to keep her warm, but their charms and fire pearl provide only brief relief.
• Shuhang and Chu negotiate Li Yinzhu’s reprieve through the gauntlet; Chu also advises Shuhang about Ye Si, whom he worries he cannot safely take to Earth.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Shuhang parts with a rare treasure to help Li Yinzhu.
• The cost of time and survival: Time City can extend Li Yinzhu’s reprieve, but her illness remains an urgent threat.
• Power and protection: Chu’s strength shields Shuhang, while Shuhang’s limited power leaves him dependent on allies.
• Connection across distance: The Pavilion token offers a way to maintain contact with Ye Si as Shuhang returns to Earth.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang visits Li Yinzhu, who is suffering from the extreme cold energy in her body. To ease her pain, he uses his Flame Blade technique. Li Yinzhu absorbs the flames directly, temporarily suppressing the cold and restoring some color to her face.
• Song Shuhang carries Li Yinzhu away from Golden Lad and Jade Maiden, planning to take her to Chu Chu and then somewhere enjoyable. Using Pavilion Master Chu’s token, he travels toward Jadewater Pavilion’s Time City.
• Crying Old Man, teleported away by Pavilion Master Chu, finds himself trapped inside a cramped, unknown location—apparently beneath or within a massive rock. He attempts to escape by unleashing his spiritual power.
• In a mountainous region of China, a group of hikers witnesses a giant scenic rock explode. A mysterious glowing figure emerges from it and flies into the sky, leading the onlookers to jokingly conclude that the “Monkey King” has been born. They decide to upload their blurry footage.
• On Indigenous Island, Seven Lives Talisman completes his mission of teaching the natives to recognize Chinese characters. Having obtained Song Shuhang’s Blood God Diamond, he prepares to advance to the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor realm.
• Before leaving, Seven Lives Talisman plans to reward the natives with good food and medicinal liquid. Meanwhile, the natives secretly organize a rebellion against him, furious about his strict lessons, punishments, hunger, and excessive homework.
• The chapter ends humorously with Seven Lives Talisman silently observing their entire resistance meeting.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang shows increasing familiarity and responsibility toward Li Yinzhu, nearly referring to her as his daughter due to his experience with Daoist Li Tiansu’s dream. He is also becoming more skilled at controlling his Flame Blade.
• Li Yinzhu demonstrates her unusual ability to consume and benefit from flames. Though still afflicted by her underlying condition, she trusts Song Shuhang and obediently follows him.
• Crying Old Man remains determined and resilient despite Pavilion Master Chu’s apparent hostility. He continues hoping to obtain the Heaven’s Weeping Canon and refuses to give up.
• Seven Lives Talisman is shown to be both demanding and caring. He treats the natives harshly as students but also feels genuine affection for them and intends to improve their health and lives.
• The Indigenous Island natives shift from passive students to an organized group willing to resist their teacher, adopting the language of revolution in an exaggerated, comedic way.

Significant Themes

• Oppression and resistance: The natives interpret strict education and homework as oppression, turning the chapter’s title into a comic slogan for rebellion.
• Education and cultural influence: Seven Lives Talisman’s efforts to teach literacy and discipline reflect the transformative—and potentially coercive—power of education.
• Care beneath harshness: Both Song Shuhang and Seven Lives Talisman demonstrate concern for others, though their methods differ: Song Shuhang is gentle and protective, while Seven Lives Talisman is authoritarian but ultimately generous.
• The collision of cultivation and ordinary society: Supernatural events—such as a figure bursting from a mountain rock—are witnessed by ordinary people, who interpret them through popular mythology and entertainment.
• Humor through misunderstanding: The natives’ dramatic “revolution,” the hikers’ belief that the Monkey King has been born, and Song Shuhang’s near-slip about Li Yinzhu’s identity all create comedy from exaggerated interpretations.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang, Golden Lad, and Jade Maiden: They exchange greetings, with the latter two initially alarmed when Song Shuhang attacks Li Yinzhu with the Flame Blade. Their concern is quickly replaced by astonishment when Li Yinzhu absorbs it.
• Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu: Their interaction is affectionate and trusting. He uses his technique to relieve her suffering, carries her afterward, and promises to take her somewhere pleasant.
• Pavilion Master Chu and Crying Old Man: Chu forcibly teleports Crying Old Man away, while he remains confused but determined to endure the ordeal and pursue his goal.
• Seven Lives Talisman and the natives: Their teacher-student relationship is simultaneously beneficial and oppressive from the natives’ perspective. While he believes he is helping them, they view him as a cruel “demon” and secretly prepare to rebel.
• The natives among themselves: They bond through shared complaints and unite around the slogan, “Where there is oppression, there is resistance,” turning their frustrations into a collective plan of action.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman abandons his plan to treat the Indigenous islanders to food from the Immortal Realm after becoming angry with their behavior. Instead, he decides to frighten them.
The islanders, led by a tall former shark-hunting warrior, organize a rebellion against him. Their demands initially involve reducing assignments, limiting starvation and palm-beatings, and avoiding harsher punishments. The leader then encourages them to demand the complete abolition of assignments and corporal punishment.
To build courage, the islanders perform the “divine technique” known as The Times Are Calling, a synchronized exercise routine taught by Master Joseph. Believing their new training has made them powerful, they surround the island lord’s house and perform the routine while shouting provocatively. When Seven Lives Talisman does not appear, they mistakenly assume he is frightened and hiding.
The group advances toward the house, but a series of enormous explosions erupts from the seaside. They discover that Seven Lives Talisman is not hiding at all: he is practicing martial arts by the ocean. Wearing a white martial-arts uniform, he leaps over fifteen meters into the air and unleashes powerful kicks that produce visible energy shaped like dragons and tigers. The attacks explode across the sea, creating whirlpools and towering columns of water.
The islanders’ confidence collapses as they realize the island lord is vastly more powerful than they imagined. Their rebellion effectively ends before it begins, and they are terrified that one of his kicks could reduce them to pieces.

Character Developments

• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman is shown to be both vindictive and overwhelmingly powerful. He deliberately allows the islanders to misinterpret his absence, then unintentionally—or perhaps deliberately—terrifies them through his martial-arts display.
• The tall Indigenous leader demonstrates courage, organizational ability, and growing determination to escape the island lord’s oppressive rules. However, his confidence is based more on enthusiasm and fantasy than actual strength, and his resolve crumbles when confronted with Seven Lives Talisman’s abilities.
• The Indigenous islanders progress from timid complaints to collective rebellion. Their shared exercises temporarily give them unity and morale, but witnessing the island lord’s true power restores their fear and helplessness.

Significant Themes

• False courage versus genuine power: The islanders mistake synchronized exercise and emotional excitement for martial strength, while Seven Lives Talisman demonstrates authentic supernatural ability.
• Oppression and rebellion: The islanders’ complaints about assignments, starvation, and beatings reveal their resentment of the island lord’s harsh rule and their longing for freedom.
• Miscommunication and mistaken assumptions: The islanders interpret Seven Lives Talisman’s absence as fear, when he is actually practicing by the sea.
• Humor through contrast: Their grand revolutionary rhetoric is undercut by their modest demands and exaggerated confidence, while their imagined victory ends in terror.
• Power and intimidation: The island lord maintains control not only through punishment but through the overwhelming gap between his abilities and those of the islanders.

Character Interactions

The tall leader rallies the islanders by appealing to their shared hatred of assignments and punishment. The group responds enthusiastically, reinforcing one another’s courage during the exercise routine. Their solidarity grows as they surround the house, but their assumptions are challenged when they encounter Seven Lives Talisman at the beach. His spectacular display of power transforms their collective aggression into panic, establishing the island lord’s dominance once again.

Chapter Summary: “Is This Retribution?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The island natives discover that Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman has transformed into a terrifying, seemingly nonhuman being. Their plan to resist him is immediately undermined.
• The manor lord summons powerful lightning with a talisman, then casually destroys every bolt with his fists. The natives are so frightened that they kneel before him.
• When questioned about their attempted rebellion, the natives deny everything and flatter him, claiming they were merely investigating the noise.
• The manor lord learns that they supposedly love studying the Book of Songs. Taking their exaggerated praise seriously, he decides to delay his departure and teach them the entire text.
• He announces an intensified schedule: early classes, late endings, and increased homework. The natives break down in despair, realizing their attempt to resist him has prolonged their “hellish” education.
• After the natives leave, the manor lord reveals that he deliberately plans to use the extra half-month to grind the Blood God Diamond into blood ink for talisman-making.
• A mysterious scholar-like man emerges from a spatial rift. He has borrowed Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost and is suffering from an agonizing, unhealable wound caused by Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method.
• The scholar asks about another scholar-dressed man and mistakenly believes he is near the Eastern Sea, only to learn that he is actually in the Pacific Ocean. He then tears open space and leaves.
• A glowing jellyfish—also searching for the scholar—appears shortly afterward. She recognizes Song Shuhang’s name and praises the manor lord’s talisman treasures before departing through another spatial passage.
• The manor lord realizes both visitors are Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortals and is overwhelmed by their power. He concludes that being frightened by them is a form of retribution for terrifying the natives.

Character Developments

• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman: Displays overwhelming combat ability, clever manipulation, and a mischievous sense of humor. He turns the natives’ false praise into an excuse to prolong their lessons, while also remaining cautious and intimidated by beings far stronger than himself.
• The island natives: Their confidence collapses completely. They abandon their rebellion, flatter the manor lord, and suffer emotional devastation when their insincere praise results in more classes and homework.
• The scholar-like Tribulation Immortal: Is revealed to have taken Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost. Despite his elegant appearance and immense cultivation, he behaves awkwardly and is tormented by unbearable pain.
• The glowing jellyfish: Appears powerful, composed, and familiar with Song Shuhang. Her appreciation of the manor lord’s talismans establishes a positive connection between them.

Significant Themes

• Power and helplessness: The natives’ supposedly powerful divine art is meaningless against the transformed manor lord, while the manor lord himself becomes powerless before Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortals.
• Retribution and irony: The manor lord frightens the natives, only to be frightened by even stronger cultivators moments later.
• Education as punishment: The Book of Songs lessons become a comedic form of forced training, showing how knowledge can be weaponized through relentless instruction.
• Appearance versus reality: The refined scholar looks dignified but behaves erratically, while the manor lord’s terrifying appearance hides his playful and calculating personality.
• Humor through misunderstanding: The natives’ fake enthusiasm backfires, the scholar confuses the Pacific Ocean with the Eastern Sea, and multiple powerful figures casually cross paths.

Character Interactions

• The manor lord confronts the natives, accepts their excuses, and manipulates their flattery into extending their studies.
• The natives collectively flatter him while secretly suffering, creating a contrast between their words and true feelings.
• The scholar explains his connection to Song Shuhang and asks the manor lord for information, while the manor lord cautiously observes his strength.
• The glowing jellyfish confirms the manor lord’s connection to Song Shuhang through his talisman treasures and compliments his craftsmanship.
• The chapter ends with the manor lord reflecting humorously on how the fear he inflicted on others has returned to him.

Chapter Summary: “A-Qi: I’ll Slaughter That Big Macaque”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After two Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortals depart, Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman returns to his room and checks the Nine Provinces Number One Group for Song Shuhang.
• The group discusses Su Clan’s Seven, who is pursuing a “Big Macaque” impersonating her. The macaque is actually likely to be Three Waves, who has apparently become fond of using that form while pretending to be Su Clan’s Seven.
• The members also joke that Doudou added “Road Killer” to Fairy Eastern Six’s nickname. Doudou privately worries about being punished and continues preparing to flee True Lord Yellow Mountain’s residence to avoid being married off.
• The group discusses Senior White’s exploration team and the prospect of a second Hand Tractor Race. Since Senior White plans to compete next time, everyone anticipates disastrous events for the other contestants and jokes that they will need insurance.
• Song Shuhang finally returns to Earth after being sent back by Pavilion Master Chu. He suffers severe motion sickness from the long-distance spatial teleportation and lands in a tropical-looking forest in southern China.
• He learns that Li Yinzhu remains in the Time City’s upper level to slow her illness, while Chu Chu stays behind in Jadewater Pavilion to care for her.
• Shuhang confirms that more than thirty days have passed for him inside a time-related secret realm, causing Senior White’s escape rune to activate. He begins considering how to locate Spirit Ghost, whose connection to him has been blocked.
• After Song Shuhang contacts the group, Fairy Flowing Firefly threatens to send him back into space because she believes he returned too early. Although Shuhang explains that he fulfilled the agreement through time distortion, she considers the secret realm a loophole and insists he may need to spend a full month in normal time.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang returns to Earth but remains separated from Spirit Ghost and unsure how to find it. His experience with spatial teleportation also highlights his growing exposure to powerful but dangerous cultivation techniques.
• Li Yinzhu stays in the Time City to delay her cold disease, while Chu Chu remains with her as caretaker, showing the seriousness of Li Yinzhu’s condition and Chu Chu’s loyalty.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly remains strict about her promise to Senior White and refuses to accept Shuhang’s technical interpretation of the month-long agreement.
• Su Clan’s Seven is furious at being impersonated by Three Waves’s Big Macaque disguise and intends to bring the “dead monkey” to Medicine Master as a gift.
• Three Waves is portrayed as mischievous and obsessed with his monkey disguise, using it to impersonate Su Clan’s Seven.
• Doudou continues planning to run away from home because he fears Yellow Mountain will arrange a marriage for him, despite insisting that he has behaved well.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman shows concern about Song Shuhang and seeks him out in the group.

Significant Themes

• Comedy through disguise and mischief: Three Waves’s repeated impersonation and Doudou’s suspected nickname prank create much of the chapter’s humor.
• The dangers and advantages of time and space: Shuhang’s return demonstrates both the physical dangers of spatial teleportation and the benefits of time-based secret realms.
• Rules versus loopholes: The dispute over whether time spent in a secret realm counts as a full month explores the tension between the literal wording and intended meaning of an agreement.
• Friendship and concern: The group’s teasing is balanced by genuine concern for Shuhang, Li Yinzhu, and the members involved in dangerous explorations.
• Fear of control and obligation: Doudou’s escape plans reflect his resistance to being forced into marriage, while Shuhang’s anxiety over being sent back into space reflects a similar desire to avoid unwanted obligations.

Character Interactions

• Su Clan’s Seven and Three Waves: Their off-screen chase forms the chapter’s main comic subplot, with Seven determined to punish Three Waves for impersonating her.
• The group members and Fairy Eastern Six: The cultivators tease her about the “Road Killer” nickname, provoking her promise of revenge.
• Doudou and True Lord Yellow Mountain: Doudou secretly prepares to escape, fearing Yellow Mountain may marry him off, while the group jokingly blames him for the nickname prank.
• Seven Lives Talisman and Song Shuhang: Seven Lives Talisman searches for Shuhang, and Shuhang answers after returning to Earth.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly and Song Shuhang: Their exchange becomes a humorous argument over whether Shuhang’s time-secret-realm experience fulfills the requirement to remain in space for thirty days.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and Song Shuhang: Northern River correctly guesses that Shuhang encountered a time-related secret realm, earning Shuhang’s praise.

Key events

• Fairy Flowing Firefly accused Shuhang of taking a shortcut after his space journey and set off to confront him. He fled on the puppet silver dragon and hid his online status.
• Shuhang asked Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman about his missing spirit ghost. Seven Lives Talisman revealed that the powerful figure who borrowed it was last seen near an island in the Pacific and may be heading toward the Eastern Sea. A glowing-jellyfish-shaped senior is pursuing the spirit ghost, and the borrower promised to return it with a reward.
• Seven Lives Talisman suggested contacting True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord’s faction, which has influence in the Eastern Sea. Shuhang decided to seek help from Yu Jiaojiao.
• Shuhang found Jiaojiao busy forcing author Gao Moumou to write 20,000 words a day. They discussed making a New Year movie: a cheerful sci-fi story mixed with xianxia or magic, set in the future, with Venerable White as the male lead. Jiaojiao floated giving him a cross-dressing hobby, but Shuhang quickly warned her not to imitate Three Waves’s death-courting behavior.
• After their long discussion, Shuhang remembered his original purpose and asked where Jiaojiao was so he could visit.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains resourceful and increasingly tries to view setbacks from different angles: though the Eastern Sea is vast, the new clues narrow his search for the spirit ghost. He also stays cautious, saying he will avoid danger rather than force answers.
• His interactions with Jiaojiao are warm and playful, mixing practical planning with jokes. He worries about Venerable White’s reaction and steers Jiaojiao away from risky comic ideas.
• Jiaojiao is enthusiastic and decisive—both in organizing the movie and in coercing her captive author. Her mischievous suggestions bring out Shuhang’s anxiety about provoking powerful seniors.
• Seven Lives Talisman acts as a helpful guide, supplying clues and directing Shuhang toward Jiaojiao’s faction.

Significant themes

• Perspective and perseverance: Shuhang reframes a difficult search as progress once its scope is reduced.
• Risk and restraint: He pursues answers but is careful not to court danger unnecessarily.
• Comedy through power and mischief: The forced writing, movie-casting banter, and “Three Waves Disorder” turn the characters’ immense abilities into playful chaos.
• Community and cooperation: Shuhang relies on information and connections within the cultivation group to solve personal problems.

Chapter Summary: “Brothers Share Blessings and Hardships”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang remembers that he originally contacted Yu Jiaojiao to ask her to investigate the Eastern Sea and search for the powerful cultivator who borrowed his Spirit Ghost.
• He immediately travels to the Jiangnan Region on the Puppet Silver Dragon, despite his continuing fear of heights.
• Meanwhile, Gao Moumou is being kept in Yu Jiaojiao’s spacious “Little Black Room,” where he writes roughly 20,000–30,000 words daily.
• Gao discovers that his health, stamina, strength, and old injuries have dramatically improved. Yu Jiaojiao admits that she has been secretly adding Clear-Eyed Pills, Vitality Potion, and diluted Body Tempering Liquid to his food.
• Yu Jiaojiao explains that she kidnapped Gao primarily to make him write a story for a movie, though her desire to enjoy more of his writing was the real motivation.
• Gao asks to contact his friends. Rather than merely seeking freedom, he decides to bring his roommates—Song Shuhang, Tubo, and Yangde—to share the “benefits” and endure the Little Black Room with him.
• He phones Song Shuhang and arranges a reunion at Yu Jiaojiao’s villa, with Mei Yi already staying there.
• Yu Jiaojiao’s maids provide the villa’s address and send it to Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang arrives invisibly on the Puppet Silver Dragon, and Yu Jiaojiao leads him inside to meet Gao Moumou.

Character Developments

• Gao Moumou: Becomes more physically fit and productive due to the medicinal supplements. Although initially frightened and resentful about being kidnapped, he gradually accepts Yu Jiaojiao’s assurances and embraces his humorous plan to involve his friends. His loyalty and mischievous sense of brotherhood are emphasized.
• Yu Jiaojiao: Is revealed as an overenthusiastic, possessive fan who combines genuine care with coercive methods. She secretly improves Gao and Mei Yi’s health while forcing Gao to write, and her inherited merfolk beguilement unconsciously makes her promises especially persuasive.
• Song Shuhang: Remains dependable and eager to help his friends. He travels quickly to Jiangnan and agrees to reunite with Gao despite being busy.
• Mei Yi: Stays peacefully with Gao and benefits from the same medicinal treatments, though she remains mostly in the background.

Significant Themes

• Friendship and shared hardship: Gao’s decision to invite his roommates reflects the idea that true brothers share both advantages and difficulties.
• Coercion versus generosity: Yu Jiaojiao’s actions are simultaneously kidnapping and benevolent care, creating a comic moral contradiction.
• Cultivation entering ordinary life: Magical medicines, secret voice transmission, supernatural strength, and invisible travel are treated alongside everyday concerns such as writing deadlines and phone calls.
• Creative obsession and fan culture: Yu Jiaojiao’s extreme devotion to Gao’s novels drives the entire kidnapping and movie project.
• Trust and manipulation: Gao accepts Yu Jiaojiao’s assurances partly because of her supernatural ability to beguile listeners through her voice.

Character Interactions

• Gao and Yu Jiaojiao discuss his writing, captivity, the planned movie, and the medicines in his food.
• Gao and Mei Yi share the Little Black Room, with Gao concerned about her well-being as well as his own.
• Gao calls Song Shuhang to arrange a gathering and begins contacting Tubo and Yangde afterward.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao exchange messages about his arrival and the author Gao.
• The chapter ends with Yu Jiaojiao greeting Song Shuhang and taking him to meet Gao.

Chapter Summary: “Oh Damn, Isn’t This My Best Friend Gao Moumou?!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu Jiaojiao notices the golden Merit Light surrounding Song Shuhang. He explains that he gained it after using the Soul-Deliverance Method on numerous Fifth-Grade dead souls.
• Shuhang discusses his forcibly borrowed Spirit Ghost, which has apparently been upgraded into a rare High-Rank Spirit Ghost. Yu Jiaojiao promises to monitor news from the Eastern Sea and inform him if she finds any clues.
• As they travel to the Little Black Room, Shuhang learns that Yu Jiaojiao found the imprisoned author through an online chat account using her real name.
• Jiaojiao reveals that she pretended to be a shy girl, obtained the author’s address, and sent him a childhood photograph of herself with her beautiful mother.
• Shuhang gradually realizes that Jiaojiao’s story closely resembles the way his roommate Gao Moumou had described being contacted by a girl named “Yu Jiaojiao.”
• They arrive at the Little Black Room just after midnight. Shuhang anxiously suspects that the captive author may be Gao Moumou.
• The door opens, confirming his fears: the author is indeed Gao Moumou, who is sitting in a boss’s chair while receiving a massage.
• Gao Moumou recognizes Shuhang and casually invites him inside, revealing that he had just sent Shuhang the room’s address. He also asks Shuhang to keep quiet because Mei Yi is sleeping nearby.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Remains troubled by the loss of his Spirit Ghost and emotionally affected by the strange fate of his first love. He becomes increasingly nervous as he connects Jiaojiao’s online behavior to Gao Moumou, then struggles to decide how to explain the situation when the two finally meet.
• Yu Jiaojiao: Shows her playful, impulsive side. She is confident in her ability to deceive and track down the author, but does not realize that he is Shuhang’s close friend. She also demonstrates loyalty by offering to watch for information about the Spirit Ghost.
• Gao Moumou: Is revealed to secretly be the “author” Yu Jiaojiao captured. He appears surprisingly relaxed despite his confinement, treating Shuhang’s arrival as an ordinary visit and even arranging for him to receive the address.
• Mei Yi: Appears only briefly, sleeping in the room, but her presence adds to Shuhang’s confusion and discomfort.

Significant Themes

• Absurd coincidence and interconnected lives: Jiaojiao’s online identity, Gao Moumou’s author career, and Shuhang’s personal life unexpectedly intersect.
• Friendship and secrecy: Shuhang is forced to confront the hidden aspects of his best friend’s life while also concealing his own involvement in the cultivation world.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: The chapter builds humor through Shuhang’s escalating realization and his imagined explanations, only for Gao Moumou to treat the bizarre situation casually.
• Trust and responsibility: Jiaojiao agrees to help search for Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost, while Shuhang must trust that the powerful senior who borrowed it will honor his promise to return it.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao: They discuss Merit Light, the missing Spirit Ghost, and the imprisoned author. Their conversation shifts from serious concern to comic suspicion as Shuhang realizes the author may be Gao Moumou.
• Song Shuhang and Gao Moumou: Their reunion is awkward for Shuhang but casual for Gao Moumou. Both recognize each other immediately, though each is initially shocked by the unexpected meeting.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Gao Moumou: Their online relationship is revealed indirectly through Jiaojiao’s account of how she lured and captured him. Jiaojiao is stunned when she realizes the author already knows Shuhang.
• Gao Moumou and Mei Yi: Gao Moumou is attentive to Mei Yi’s sleep, asking Shuhang to lower his voice so she will not wake.

Chapter Summary: “That Day, I Suddenly Wanted to Make a Film”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu Jiaojiao realizes that the novelist she captured, Gao Moumou, is Song Shuhang’s close friend and roommate.
• Song Shuhang enters the villa’s “Little Black Room,” where Gao Moumou has been confined and forced to write twenty to thirty thousand words daily.
• Gao reveals to Shuhang that he has secretly been writing novels for years. He also explains that Yu Jiaojiao lured him away, convinced his parents, and forced him to write by withholding food until he met his daily quota.
• Despite his captivity, Gao is strangely comfortable. He praises the villa’s spiritual food, which has improved his health, healed old injuries, and even helped him develop a better physique.
• Shuhang asks whether Gao has considered escaping. Gao is shocked that the idea had never occurred to him and eventually decides that he and his friends should plan an escape after Tubo and Yangde arrive.
• Yu Jiaojiao explains that she used psychological suggestion, aided by her half-Mermaid heritage, to prevent Gao from thinking about escaping. She did this so he would remain mentally comfortable enough to write cheerful novels.
• Shuhang realizes that continuing to hide the truth will only worsen the misunderstanding. He prepares to confess that Yu Jiaojiao captured Gao because of circumstances connected to him.
• The chapter ends as Shuhang begins explaining how, at the start of summer vacation, he suddenly decided to make a film—a story that will presumably reveal how Gao became involved.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang is increasingly burdened by guilt over Gao’s situation. He wants to protect their friendship and carefully plans how to confess the truth without causing Gao to resent him.
• Gao Moumou is revealed to be a secret novelist who has adapted remarkably well to captivity. His normally mature and sensible personality has been distorted by Yu Jiaojiao’s psychological suggestion, spiritual food, and forced writing routine. Nevertheless, he eventually begins considering escape.
• Yu Jiaojiao is shown to be both highly resourceful and morally questionable. She abducted Gao to secure his writing but used psychological manipulation to make the experience bearable and productive.
• Tubo and Yangde remain offscreen but are expected to arrive the following day for a reunion with the other two roommates.

Significant Themes

• Friendship and guilt: Shuhang struggles with the fear that honesty could damage his relationship with Gao, while deception makes him feel increasingly guilty.
• Manipulation and free will: Gao’s apparent acceptance of captivity is revealed to be the result of psychological suggestion, raising questions about whether his contentment and choices are truly his own.
• The absurdity of supernatural life: Extraordinary powers, spiritual food, and supernatural methods intrude into ordinary college friendships, making normal reasoning unreliable.
• Writing under pressure: Gao’s role as an author is treated humorously but also highlights the bizarre lengths readers—or supernatural beings—might go to in order to obtain new chapters.
• Confession and storytelling: Shuhang chooses to explain events gradually, framing the truth as a story that began with his impulsive desire to make a film.

Important Character Interactions

• Yu Jiaojiao and Song Shuhang: They communicate secretly while observing Gao, with Jiaojiao explaining the psychological suggestion she used.
• Song Shuhang and Gao Moumou: Their conversation moves from casual reunion to mutual revelations. Gao confesses his hidden career and captivity, while Shuhang begins preparing his own confession.
• Gao Moumou and Yu Jiaojiao: Though Yu Jiaojiao has imprisoned and coerced him, Gao still appreciates her food and even plans to request spiritual ingredients for his family, demonstrating the effectiveness of her manipulation.
• The roommates: Gao looks forward to reuniting with Tubo and Yangde, while Shuhang anticipates having to explain the increasingly complicated supernatural circumstances surrounding their group.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang explains to Gao Moumou how Yu Jiaojiao became responsible for finding a screenwriter for his planned film. Unaware that Gao Moumou secretly wrote novels, Yu Jiaojiao captured him, locked him in a “Little Black Room,” and forced him to produce tens of thousands of words daily.
• Gao Moumou realizes that Song Shuhang’s movie project indirectly caused his ordeal and attempts to attack him in frustration. However, Song Shuhang’s dramatically enhanced physical strength and durability make Gao’s punches and kicks useless. Gao even injures himself while trying to leap at him.
• Despite jokingly declaring their friendship over, Gao agrees to write the film script because the payment will help fund his honeymoon with Mei Yi. He also demands a role in the movie, planning to play the protagonist’s rival and torment the character in revenge.
• Song Shuhang requests a story combining futuristic science fiction and immortal cultivation, with a handsome, immortal-looking protagonist—likely to be played by Senior White.
• Elsewhere, Copper Trigram Immortal Master, disguised perfectly as Song Shuhang, celebrates escaping Medicine Master and attempts to avoid the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• The group discusses hunting Copper Trigram. Medicine Master reveals that he planted medicine inside Copper Trigram that will temporarily weaken him, while Northern River’s Loose Cultivator predicts that Copper Trigram will flee into space.
• Copper Trigram divines that traveling through space will be dangerous, so he decides to remain on Earth and hide by changing his appearance.
• He is soon found by Fairy Flowing Firefly, who mistakes him for the real Song Shuhang. Believing she is fulfilling her agreement with Venerable White, she attaches a protective sash to him and launches him into space.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly informs the group that she has sent Song Shuhang back into space for another month. The real Song Shuhang reads the message while sitting with Gao Moumou and is horrified, realizing that everyone now believes he is in space while a disguised Copper Trigram has taken his place.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Shows increased confidence and physical power after his recent experiences, casually overpowering Gao Moumou. He remains good-natured and treats the disastrous situation as an amusing accident, though he is stunned by the confusion caused by Copper Trigram’s disguise.
• Gao Moumou: Moves from anger and betrayal to reluctant acceptance. He agrees to write the screenplay for financial reasons and channels his resentment into planning a revenge role as the protagonist’s rival.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master: Demonstrates his skill at disguise, evading Medicine Master and the group’s pursuit. Despite his confidence and cleverness, his own impersonation causes him to be mistaken for Song Shuhang and accidentally launched into space.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly: Displays her obsessive and fixated personality. Determined to complete Song Shuhang’s promised month in space, she immediately sends the disguised Copper Trigram back into orbit without realizing her mistake.
• Medicine Master and Northern River’s Loose Cultivator: Continue coordinating the pursuit of Copper Trigram, with Medicine Master relying on tracking medicine and Northern River using psychological tactics and prediction.

Significant Themes

• Comedic coincidence and mistaken identity: A chain of accidents causes Gao Moumou to be imprisoned for Song Shuhang’s film and Copper Trigram to be launched into space while disguised as Song Shuhang.
• Friendship tested through absurdity: Gao’s anger threatens his friendship with Shuhang, but humor, compensation, and shared history prevent the relationship from truly collapsing.
• The unpredictability of fate: Copper Trigram’s divination suggests danger in space, yet the “auspicious” result leads directly to his unwanted launch. Attempts to avoid misfortune only create new problems.
• Cause and effect: Small decisions—Yu Jiaojiao finding the wrong author, Copper Trigram choosing Song Shuhang’s appearance, and Fairy Flowing Firefly’s fixation—combine into increasingly ridiculous consequences.
• Revenge and role reversal: Gao plans to punish Shuhang symbolically through his screenplay, while Copper Trigram’s attempt to hide behind Shuhang’s identity results in him literally taking Shuhang’s place in space.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Gao Moumou: Their argument mixes genuine irritation with affectionate teasing. Gao tries to fight Shuhang, but the vast difference in their strength turns the confrontation into slapstick comedy.
• Gao Moumou and Yu Jiaojiao: Though Yu Jiaojiao is not directly present in the main exchange, her harsh treatment of Gao drives the conflict. Her disappointment at the possibility of losing his daily writing updates reinforces the comedic abuse of their arrangement.
• Copper Trigram and the Nine Provinces group: Copper Trigram attempts to outwit Medicine Master and Northern River, but their familiarity with his habits allows them to predict his escape plans.
• Copper Trigram and Fairy Flowing Firefly: Their encounter is entirely based on mistaken identity. Copper Trigram cannot reveal himself before being forcibly launched into space, creating the chapter’s main punchline.
• Song Shuhang and the absent Copper Trigram: Their identities become accidentally intertwined: Copper Trigram is treated as Shuhang, while the real Shuhang is left to discover that everyone thinks he has been sent away.

Chapter 599 Summary

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang keeps quiet in the group chat rather than correcting Fairy Flowing Firefly’s mistaken belief that he has been sent into space. Yu Jiaojiao offers to monitor news from the Eastern Sea through her contacts.
• Gao Moumou asks how Shuhang plans to make a movie. Shuhang says friends with film companies may provide equipment, crew, and distribution.
• During Jadewater Pavilion’s time suspension, Pavilion Master Chu gives the sleeping Ye Si a modified silver glove. It conceals anything unusual about Ye Si—even from a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal—and lets Chu reach her quickly in an emergency. Chu hopes Ye Si will eventually leave the Pavilion and visit Shuhang.
• Crying Old Man sets off again to find Jadewater Pavilion, determined to win Pavilion Master Chu’s help and learn the rest of the Heaven’s Weeping Canon.
• Near Earth, Ancient Witch Elise defeats the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master but unexpectedly lets him go. She tells him that someone linked to his Limitless Demon Sect lured her to him, suggesting a traitor. The furious hall master retreats, still blaming Shuhang for helping defeat his subordinates.
• The Foreign Monk reaches Ox Summit Mountain, where he encounters his master, Daoist Wuyinzi. Wuyinzi offers him further cultivation instruction and a valuable Second-Grade Daoist robe. The Monk gladly replaces his kasaya-covered robe with it.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang stays cautious and practical, accepting Jiaojiao’s help while pursuing his movie plans.
• Yu Jiaojiao supports Shuhang but remains intent on persuading Gao Moumou to write more.
• Pavilion Master Chu shows protective affection for Ye Si and begins preparing her to leave the illusion-like Jadewater Pavilion.
• Crying Old Man demonstrates renewed resolve, refusing to give up despite repeated setbacks.
• Ancient Witch Elise proves unpredictable: after a fierce fight, she chooses to deliver a warning and leave rather than finish her weakened opponent.
• The Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master retreats, enraged by his losses and increasingly suspicious of betrayal.
• Daoist Wuyinzi remains exasperated but caring toward the Foreign Monk, guiding his cultivation and trying to restore his proper Daoist appearance.

Significant themes

• Persistence and hope: Crying Old Man believes effort is worthwhile even without guaranteed success.
• Protection and independence: Chu safeguards Ye Si while acknowledging that she should eventually leave her confined life.
• Deception and uncertainty: Shuhang’s silence, the suspected sect betrayal, and Elise’s strange behavior all emphasize how little characters can safely assume.
• Mentorship and identity: Wuyinzi’s care for his unconventional disciple mixes practical guidance with concern over the Monk’s increasingly monk-like image.

Character interactions

• Shuhang and Jiaojiao exchange thanks and teasing over her continued efforts to recruit Gao Moumou as a writer.
• Shuhang and Gao Moumou discuss the practicalities of making a movie.
• Chu quietly equips and watches over Ye Si, expressing hope that she will someday visit Shuhang.
• Elise confronts the Gama Hall master, reveals a possible betrayal, and leaves him bewildered.
• Wuyinzi meets the Foreign Monk, offers him training and equipment, and gently pushes him back toward Daoist attire.

Plot points and events

• Wuyinzi gives the Foreign Monk the next part of his sword-art cultivation method and other techniques. He asks him to return in two months, when he reaches Second Grade, to light a Life Lamp that will help protect him while traveling. The monk agrees and privately remembers the Spirit Ghost who saved his life twice, hoping to repay her.
• After a long conversation with Gao Moumou, Song Shuhang cultivates through the night. He worries about his constitution, the mental pressure of Third-Grade cultivators, and how to gather enough merit to strengthen his protective Merit Light.
• Yu Jiaojiao suggests that ghost cultivators or war zones could provide many souls to transcend. Shuhang considers the idea but decides war zones are too dangerous to pursue casually.
• A memory of a ruined immortal palace and a bloodied hand marked “Beloved Dog 43B” leads Shuhang to examine his golden chain. His involuntary Appraisal Secret Method activates, inflicting nearly two hundred wounds.
• Jiaojiao heals him while he explains that the appraisal is uncontrollable. It identifies the chain as a Spirit Beast Chain, an Ancient Heavenly Court status token later modified by an elder of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect. The chain’s password is “Beloved Dog 43B,” and it can be used to claim a gift package sent to that elder’s disciple through the Three-Life Escort Agency 130 years ago.
• Jiaojiao explains that the agency is now called Three Lives Global Express and still stores old deliveries. She and Shuhang plan to visit its Jiangnan division the next day, despite the likely storage fee.
• Elsewhere, a bloodshot, seemingly composed scholar suffers another mysterious wound—apparently a consequence linked to Shuhang’s appraisal—while searching for something.

Character developments and interactions

• The Foreign Monk shows growing consideration for Wuyinzi: he delays altering his new robe so as not to upset his master and promises to return for the Life Lamp ceremony. He also remains grateful to the Spirit Ghost who rescued him.
• Song Shuhang continues disciplined cultivation but is increasingly burdened by his limited constitution and the dangerous, involuntary appraisal ability. Despite its painful cost, he is intrigued by the secrets it reveals and eager to retrieve the old package.
• Yu Jiaojiao acts as Shuhang’s practical adviser and healer, helping him recover and explaining the escort agency. Their banter remains playful; she jokes about arranging him an undersea tomb and asks for a favor in return.
• The scholar’s renewed injury suggests that Shuhang’s secret technique has effects on another person, though the connection is not explained.

Significant themes

• The cost of knowledge: Shuhang’s appraisal uncovers valuable history and a potential inheritance, but causes severe, uncontrollable physical pain.
• Loyalty and gratitude: The monk’s concern for his master and his wish to repay the Spirit Ghost emphasize bonds of care and obligation.
• Ancient legacies in the modern world: The chain links the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect to the Ancient Heavenly Court, while its old package can still be claimed through a modern, interstellar delivery organization.
• Risk and responsibility: Shuhang weighs seeking souls in dangerous places and recognizes that potential gains do not automatically justify the danger.