Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “The Burden, I Gritted My Teeth and Carried It!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After washing off his blood, Song Shuhang collapses into bed to recover from severe blood loss.
• In space, Copper Trigram Immortal Master—still disguised as Song Shuhang—is weakened by Medicine Master’s poison and unable to resist Fairy Flowing Firefly’s Repulsion Rocket Skyward Technique.
• Fearing an ambush from Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Copper Trigram deliberately maintains Song Shuhang’s appearance and aura.
• This disguise attracts the master of the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall, who recognizes Song Shuhang’s aura and attacks him, blaming him for sending the master’s subordinates into reincarnation.
• Copper Trigram realizes he must bear one of Song Shuhang’s “burdens” and is forced to fight while severely weakened.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly’s repulsion barrier initially blocks the master’s attack, but it disappears afterward, leaving Copper Trigram vulnerable.
• Copper Trigram uses divination bamboo slips to create an Eight-Trigram defensive formation. The master destroys it with a powerful demonic stomp, apparently crushing “Song Shuhang” to death.
• The “corpse” is actually a substitute or concealed escape. Copper Trigram survives by hiding within an invisible Eight-Trigram formation.
• The master takes the fake corpse back to the Limitless Demon Sect, hoping to trace its connection to the real body and locate Song Shuhang.
• Once the master leaves, Copper Trigram considers returning to Earth but decides against it because Fairy Flowing Firefly’s marks would reveal his location and potentially lead the Nine Provinces group to him.
• He also decides to stop using Song Shuhang’s appearance, fearing further trouble. After seeing Fairy Lychee’s photos in the group chat, he chooses to disguise himself as her instead, believing she is relatively easy to appease with gifts.
• Back on Earth, Song Shuhang wakes still weakened. Yu Jiaojiao tells him to prepare for a trip to the Three Worlds Global Express Delivery branch to investigate what Elder Bamboo Pipe left behind.

Character Developments

• Copper Trigram Immortal Master: Demonstrates both cowardice and resourcefulness. He is terrified of being caught by the group but nevertheless endures Song Shuhang’s enemies, describing them as burdens he is forced to carry. Despite his weakened state, he uses his divination techniques cleverly to survive. His tendency to impersonate acquaintances continues, culminating in his transformation into Fairy Lychee.
• Song Shuhang: Remains physically weakened after losing blood, while unknowingly benefiting from Copper Trigram taking one of his enemies’ attacks and dangers upon himself.
• Master of the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall: Becomes increasingly vengeful and obsessive after his losses. His rage makes him attack immediately, and his failure to capture the real Copper Trigram/Song Shuhang intensifies his determination to pursue them.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly: Though absent from the main confrontation, her repulsion technique and tracking marks strongly affect Copper Trigram’s choices.
• Fairy Lychee: Her beauty and reputation for accepting apology gifts make her Copper Trigram’s preferred disguise.
• Yu Jiaojiao: Acts as Song Shuhang’s guide and prompts the next stage of the story involving Elder Bamboo Pipe.

Significant Themes

• The consequences of identity and disguise: Copper Trigram’s imitation of Song Shuhang causes enemies to mistake him for the real target, showing how borrowed identities carry borrowed dangers.
• Burden and responsibility: Copper Trigram repeatedly complains about inheriting Song Shuhang’s problems, but he still endures the attack and effectively saves Song Shuhang from another calamity.
• Survival through wit rather than strength: Although poisoned and weakened, Copper Trigram survives through deception, divination formations, and careful planning instead of direct combat.
• Karmic consequences and mistaken grievances: The Nine-Eyed Gama Hall’s master attacks Copper Trigram because of actions attributed to Song Shuhang, emphasizing how past conflicts continue to create new danger.
• Comedic absurdity amid serious danger: The chapter balances space battles, death threats, and soul-hunting with Copper Trigram’s anxiety about being mistaken for others, his fear of Fairy Flowing Firefly, and his decision to become Fairy Lychee.
• The persistence of deception: Even after escaping death, Copper Trigram immediately plans another disguise, showing that impersonation is both his survival strategy and a source of continuing chaos.

Important Character Interactions

• Copper Trigram and Fairy Flowing Firefly: Her repulsion technique launches him into space, while her tracking marks prevent him from safely returning to Earth.
• Copper Trigram and the Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master: The master mistakes him for Song Shuhang and attacks him out of revenge. Copper Trigram survives the encounter by using defensive divination and a substitute.
• Copper Trigram and Song Shuhang: Though Song Shuhang is unaware of the event, Copper Trigram takes on one of his enemies and later expects gratitude for surviving a death calamity in his place.
• Copper Trigram and Fairy Lychee: Their relationship is indirect but humorous: Copper Trigram chooses her appearance because he believes gifts can keep her from becoming angry if she discovers the disguise.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao: Their interaction at the end shifts the story back to Earth and sets up the investigation into Elder Bamboo Pipe’s legacy.

Chapter Summary: “Jiaojiao, I Can’t Eat Any More Dirt”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu Jiaojiao prepares Song Shuhang a blood-nourishing breakfast to help him recover from his severe blood loss the previous day.
• After morning training, Jiaojiao transports Shuhang to the Jiangnan branch of Three Lives Global Express using the Earth-Escaping Technique.
• The technique transforms their bodies and belongings into a mist-like state, allowing them to travel through the soil as if swimming.
• Their journey becomes increasingly difficult when they encounter underground structures, mud, and an underground river. Carrying Shuhang severely drains Jiaojiao’s energy.
• During the mud-filled portion of the journey, the technique malfunctions around Shuhang’s mouth and nose. Mud enters his body and inexplicably fills his stomach and intestines.
• Jiaojiao helps him expel the dirt with a water-type spell. Despite the ordeal, Shuhang insists they continue, suggesting they divide the remaining trip into shorter sections with rest stops.
• After an hour, they reach the destination—but discover that the underground branch has completely disappeared.
• They find two formations and a concealed metal notice explaining that the branch was relocated to the thirtieth floor of the Prosperous Building on Paradise Road.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates courage and determination, enduring the frightening and humiliating experience of eating dirt without abandoning the mission.
• His initial excitement about learning the Earth-Escaping Technique quickly turns into intense caution after its dangerous side effects.
• Yu Jiaojiao shows her loyalty and willingness to help Shuhang, but also recognizes the limits of her abilities. Her proficiency with water-based techniques does not translate easily to earth manipulation, and transporting another person pushes her to exhaustion.
• Jiaojiao becomes embarrassed and apologetic after realizing she overestimated her ability to carry Shuhang safely.
• Both characters adapt pragmatically by planning rest stops and continuing despite the setback.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation versus ordinary logic: The Earth-Escaping Technique violates scientific expectations, creating bizarre effects such as mud appearing directly inside Shuhang’s stomach.
• Trust and cooperation: Shuhang must rely completely on Jiaojiao’s control of the technique, while Jiaojiao works hard to protect and transport him.
• Persistence through hardship: Even after suffering an absurd and dangerous complication, Shuhang refuses to give up.
• Modernity encroaching on cultivation: Jiaojiao notes that technological development has made secluded cultivation spaces increasingly difficult to find, forcing cultivators to hide underground or in alternate dimensions.
• Comedic anticlimax: After their exhausting journey, the branch is revealed not to have been destroyed but simply relocated, making their ordeal both unnecessary and humorous.

Character Interactions

• Jiaojiao playfully carries Shuhang by gripping his ear while using the Earth-Escaping Technique.
• Shuhang repeatedly worries about being trapped underground and tries not to distract Jiaojiao while she concentrates.
• Their journey is marked by mutual dependence, with Jiaojiao physically guiding him and Shuhang offering practical solutions when her energy runs low.
• After Shuhang complains that he “can’t eat any more dirt,” Jiaojiao is confused and mortified when she learns what happened.
• At the end, both react with stunned silence upon discovering the relocation notice, underscoring the chapter’s humorous conclusion.

Chapter Summary: The Last Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao discover that the Three Realms Express relocated to the Prosperous Building in a busy human district ten years earlier, making their difficult underground journey largely unnecessary.
• After resting, they use the Earth Escape Technique to return to the surface, then take a taxi to the building.
• The apparent empty thirtieth floor is revealed to be protected by a blinding spell. Using his true qi, Shuhang sees the hidden courier office, guarded by magical terracotta-warrior puppets.
• Inside, Shuhang encounters a powerful white-haired Daoist nearing the Sixth-Grade True Lord realm. The Daoist notices the scent of the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon “Blood Demon” on Shuhang but does not comment.
• Shuhang presents Elder Bamboo Tube’s golden chain and asks about the package entrusted 130 years earlier.
• The courier confirms that the package belonged to Elder Bamboo Tube of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect. It was never delivered because the sect was destroyed, so the package was returned to headquarters and preserved.
• To claim it, Shuhang must prove both possession of the golden chain and cultivation of the Thirty-Three Beast God’s Innate-True-Qi Technique. He successfully demonstrates the technique.
• The courier agrees to resend the package to Shuhang’s chosen address within two days, but charges one Fourth-Grade spirit stone for the original delivery and 130 years of storage.
• Shuhang pays with his final Fourth-Grade spirit stone, leaving himself nearly penniless.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Despite discovering that his arduous underground journey was unnecessary, he refuses to abandon the mission. His perseverance, sense of responsibility, and gratitude toward Yu Jiaojiao are emphasized. He also successfully fulfills the requirements to claim the package, though the cost leaves him financially desperate.
• Yu Jiaojiao: She continues supporting Shuhang through the Earth Escape Technique, helps conceal and dry his soaked clothing, and guides him through the courier office’s hidden protections. Her exhaustion shows the physical cost of assisting him.
• White-haired Daoist: His immense strength is established, as is his unusual ability to detect the Blood Demon’s scent surrounding Shuhang. His restrained reaction hints at possible future significance.
• Qipao-clad courier: She is efficient, professional, and bound by the old contract’s conditions, verifying Shuhang’s identity without unnecessary questions.

Significant Themes

• Perseverance despite wasted effort: Shuhang remains determined even after realizing that his suffering could have been avoided.
• Responsibility and loyalty: He honors Elder Bamboo Tube’s request long after the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s destruction.
• The passage of time: The 130-year-old package connects the present to the lost sect and its tragic past.
• Hidden supernatural society: The courier office’s urban location, concealment spell, magical guards, and interstellar services reveal how the cultivation world operates alongside ordinary human society.
• Poverty and sacrifice: Shuhang’s final spirit stone is spent to complete the mission, highlighting both his limited resources and willingness to sacrifice for others.

Character Interactions

• Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao share a cooperative but occasionally humorous journey, with Jiaojiao helping him while teasing or managing the consequences of their travel.
• The white-haired Daoist briefly observes Shuhang and recognizes the Blood Demon’s presence, creating an understated connection between them.
• Shuhang interacts formally with the courier, providing the golden chain, demonstrating his cultivation technique, and paying the required fee to secure the delayed package.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang pays a fourth-grade spirit stone to retrieve a package held at Three Lives Global Express. He has it sent to Yu Jiaojiao’s villa, where he plans to stay and catch up with his friends.
• After leaving, Shuhang and Jiaojiao encounter the white-haired Daoist who had been at the delivery service. Mistaken for a wishing well by passersby, he quietly collects the coins left before him.
• The Daoist introduces himself as Horizon and asks to inspect Shuhang’s Blood Demon remains. Shuhang lends him a blood pearl, one of nearly twenty he carries.
• Horizon explains that he has spent centuries studying Blood Demons and needs their power to complete a set of magical artifacts designed to help him overcome his fifth-grade bottleneck. He offers Shuhang four years of cultivation in exchange for twenty pearls, at a rate of five pearls per year.
• Shuhang is intrigued by the offer, but Jiaojiao recognizes Horizon as the “Transmission Maniac” and urgently warns him not to accept.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is anxious that his costly package may contain something worthless, though Jiaojiao reassures him. He is also eager for spirit stones and sees Horizon’s offer as a possible opportunity.
• Yu Jiaojiao remains practical and protective: she comforts Shuhang about the package, then reacts immediately when she recognizes Horizon’s dangerous reputation.
• Daoist Horizon is courteous and outwardly composed, but intensely eager to acquire Shuhang’s Blood Demon pearls. His centuries-long research and stalled cultivation breakthrough explain the unusual trade he proposes.
• Shuhang and Horizon begin a potentially valuable negotiation, but Jiaojiao’s warning abruptly raises suspicion about Horizon’s offer.

Significant themes

• Risk and opportunity: A seemingly generous offer may carry hidden danger, so Shuhang’s desire to advance must be balanced against caution.
• Cultivation as commerce: Rare materials and years of cultivation can be exchanged, turning spiritual progress into a negotiated commodity.
• Comic contrasts: Horizon’s otherworldly dignity is undercut by strangers treating him as a wishing well, while Shuhang’s lofty concerns include both expensive spirit stones and fear of receiving a useless toy.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang flees when Yu Jiaojiao warns him about Daoist Horizon, the notorious “Transmission Maniac.” Jiaojiao explains that Horizon has spent three centuries transferring his cultivation to others to keep his own Golden Core from forcing him into a dangerous heavenly tribulation.
• Horizon’s power is genuine and generously given, but recipients have suffered a disturbingly high rate of catastrophe: of seventy-two people, only seven are known to have survived safely. Some suspect his transfers also pass along the misfortune of his impending tribulation.
• Shuhang realizes he could have declined the offer or traded Spirit Stones instead. He and Jiaojiao head to a busy restaurant, where they discover the crowd is lining up for meat-stuffed flatbreads rather than fish heads.
• The restaurant’s owner recounts how the veiled Fairy Bie Xue criticized the fish head dish, taught the chef how to cook it, and then took over the kitchen after the chef ran off. Her experimental meat combinations unexpectedly drew a huge crowd. She removes the ingredients’ spiritual energy before serving them, though they remain beneficial.
• Horizon returns to the restaurant and tells Bie Xue that he has sent a package and tried to find a copy of a rare Black-Gold Cicada-rearing manual. He also shares a photograph of Venerable White driving a hand tractor in Jiangnan, with a young man beside him.
• Horizon recognizes that the young man in the photo is Shuhang—the same young cultivator who just ran from his power-transfer offer. Bie Xue learns Shuhang may be connected to Venerable White and asks where he is, but Horizon admits Shuhang has already fled.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is cautious about accepting more cultivation because his body is already struggling to handle the Spirit Beast Crystals he possesses. He also recognizes that Horizon’s offer could have been negotiated rather than simply feared.
• Yu Jiaojiao protects Shuhang by warning him about Horizon and activating a concealment tool made by her father, which hides both their presences.
• Daoist Horizon is revealed as an earnest but unlucky cultivator: his power transfers are voluntary, high-quality transactions, yet their recipients often meet disastrous fates. He later realizes Shuhang’s connection to White.
• Fairy Bie Xue is a formidable, exacting cook who experiments creatively with food. Her interest in Shuhang stems from his possible link to Venerable White, whom she once loved and who rejected her.
• The restaurant owner and chef are caught off guard by Bie Xue’s intervention; the chef eagerly learns from her, while the owner is left bewildered as her cooking transforms his restaurant’s business.

Significant themes

• Fate and misfortune: Horizon’s cultivation is sound, but a mysterious pattern of calamity follows those who receive it, suggesting that fortune may be transferred along with power.
• Caution versus opportunity: Shuhang avoids a risky offer, then realizes he might have found a safer way to benefit from it.
• Food as craft and experimentation: Bie Xue’s high standards and creative cooking turn an ordinary restaurant into an unexpected attraction.
• Chance connections: A photograph links Shuhang to Venerable White and draws Bie Xue’s attention, setting up a potential encounter.

Key plot points and events

• Fairy Bie Xue asks Daoist Horizon to find the young man who was with Venerable White, offering him a special meal in return. Horizon agrees, but his tracking spell is misled by Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao’s concealed auras, directing him toward Yu Jiaojiao’s villa instead.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao join a long queue at Bie Xue’s fish-head restaurant. Yu Jiaojiao recognizes that the meat-filled flatbreads use rare cultivator ingredients and were made by an Immortal Chef.
• Knowing such food can benefit cultivators, Shuhang buys fifty flatbreads, despite initially thinking he would eat anything.
• Bie Xue follows an unusually enticing spring-onion scent from the kitchen and discovers it comes from Song Shuhang himself. Recognizing him as the young man connected to Venerable White, she takes the opportunity to approach him.
• After a brief, awkward exchange, Bie Xue ends the day’s sales early and invites Shuhang aboard her hidden Immortal Ark. She asks whether he has eaten an ancient spring-onion treasure.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang is practical and food-motivated, but quickly seizes the chance to buy spiritually beneficial food once he learns what it is. He remains polite while growing uneasy at Bie Xue’s intense attention.
• Fairy Bie Xue shifts from searching for Shuhang to approaching him directly. His connection to Venerable White and his distinctive scent both make her favorably curious about him.
• Daoist Horizon eagerly pursues his promised meal, but his tracking expertise is thwarted by the aura-concealing device.

Significant themes

• Fate and coincidence: Bie Xue’s intended target arrives at her restaurant just as she is trying to locate him.
• The hidden extraordinary in ordinary life: A popular street snack turns out to be made by an Immortal Chef from rare ingredients.
• Cultivation’s practical benefits: Food can strengthen a cultivator’s body, a particular concern for Shuhang.
• Comic misunderstanding: Bie Xue’s sincere remark that Shuhang “smells wonderful” sounds to him like possible harassment.

Character interactions

• Bie Xue bargains with Horizon, offering food for help finding Shuhang.
• Yu Jiaojiao warns Shuhang about the flatbreads’ unusual ingredients.
• Bie Xue and Shuhang communicate through Secret Voice Transmission; she compliments his scent, then leads him to the Immortal Ark for a private conversation about the spring-onion treasure.

Key plot points

• Fairy Bie Xue notices Song Shuhang’s scallion scent and asks whether he has any aged scallion treasure to trade. Shuhang gives her an Onion Spirit Crystal made from the onion tip Daoist Cloudmist once removed from him.
• Shuhang asks for Dragon Demon Blood, hoping to make a potion that will strengthen his constitution. Bie Xue has none and explains that it is vastly more valuable than the crystal.
• Instead, she offers to prepare an Immortal Delicacy capable of raising his constitution to the Second-Grade Pinnacle. Shuhang accepts, and they arrange for the meal to be prepared the next day at Yu Jiaojiao’s villa.
• Onion Lady, hidden in Shuhang’s Inch-Shrinking Bag, realizes the traded crystal spared her regrown onion tip. Still afraid Shuhang may trade her parts in the future, she resolves to escape.
• Elsewhere, Daoist Horizon tracks Shuhang to Yu Jiaojiao’s villa. He arrives just as Gao Moumou, newly freed from the “little black room,” steps outside while puzzling over how to write a xianxia novel.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is candid about his physical imbalance and his need to improve his constitution. He is pleased to trade a useless item for a chance to strengthen himself.
• Fairy Bie Xue is a renowned Immortal Chef. Believing Shuhang’s praise of her banquet came from Venerable White, she becomes especially pleased and generous. The exchange also gives her a way to build a relationship with Shuhang and eventually ask about Venerable White.
• Onion Lady moves from relief at avoiding being harvested to renewed anxiety and determination to flee.
• Yu Jiaojiao is glad to be included in the upcoming meal, expecting to enjoy the food too.
• Daoist Horizon reaches the villa in pursuit of Shuhang, setting up a possible encounter with Gao Moumou.

Significant themes

• Mutual benefit and social connection: A simple trade satisfies both Shuhang and Bie Xue while opening the door to a future relationship.
• Power, rarity, and value: Dragon Demon Blood is far more precious than the aged scallion crystal, but Bie Xue offers an alternative suited to Shuhang’s immediate needs.
• Insecurity and self-preservation: Onion Lady’s fear of being treated as an ingredient drives her growing resolve to escape.

Chapter 608 Summary: “Gao Moumou’s Tragedy-Colored Script”

Plot and Events

• Gao Moumou leaves the villa to meet Lin Tubo, who is arriving by taxi. Although the weather is extremely hot, Gao prefers sitting outside to remaining in the villa’s “Little Black Room,” where he has been confined for several days.
• While waiting under a tree, he develops the movie script requested by Song Shuhang and his friends. He decides to combine an immortal-cultivation setting with science fiction, centering the story on Earth being invaded by a powerful, mysterious force.
• The cultivators, previously hidden from ordinary society, emerge to protect humanity and recruit disciples. The protagonist is chosen as a disciple of the Cultivation Chat faction.
• Gao deliberately designs the story as an intensely tragic drama:
  • The protagonist’s first love marries another man.
  • His second lover is secretly a ghost, and he only discovers after falling deeply in love with her that she has already died.
  • The protagonist becomes depressed, drinks heavily, and struggles to continue living.
  • A cruel senior brother repeatedly challenges and beats him, though the senior brother eventually dies and is posthumously cleared of blame.
  • A spoiled young master dies after accidentally hitting the protagonist while driving, then becomes the protagonist’s spirit artifact through a series of coincidences.
  • A gentle senior sister, who comforts the protagonist after his injuries, becomes his first love but is forced by her family to marry someone else. She and her husband later die at the hands of the enemy, fueling the protagonist’s desire for revenge.
• Gao writes an opening in which Earth suffers catastrophic losses during the invasion, surviving only because another mysterious power protects humanity. This power is revealed to be the cultivators.
• To keep the power system manageable for a movie, he simplifies traditional cultivation realms into three ranks: Bronze Immortal, Silver Immortal, and Gold Immortal.
• An unnamed white-haired Daoist nearby overhears this system and is appalled by how childish and disrespectful it seems.

Character Developments

• Gao Moumou: Demonstrates his creativity, dark sense of humor, and enthusiasm for writing. Though known for comedy, he eagerly constructs an exaggeratedly tragic story designed to emotionally torment Song Shuhang’s character. He also shows practical awareness by simplifying the cultivation system for cinematic storytelling.
• Song Shuhang: Does not appear directly, but Gao plans to make him play a protagonist who suffers repeatedly through heartbreak, injury, bereavement, and despair.
• Lin Tubo: Is expected to arrive and is the reason Gao is waiting outside, though he has not yet appeared.
• The white-haired Daoist: Reacts silently with disbelief and criticism to Gao’s simplistic Bronze/Silver/Gold cultivation hierarchy.

Significant Themes

• Comedy through exaggerated tragedy: Gao treats the protagonist’s suffering as entertainment, turning melodramatic misfortune into a source of humor.
• Creative freedom and parody: The script freely combines cultivation fantasy, science fiction, apocalyptic fiction, ghosts, spirit artifacts, and superhero-style world-building.
• Practical storytelling: Gao recognizes that a film cannot explain a dozen traditional cultivation stages, so he condenses them into three easily understood levels.
• Conflict between ordinary fiction and real cultivation: Gao believes he is inventing a fictional setting, while the nearby Daoist’s reaction hints that his “fictional” ideas may clash humorously with the actual cultivation world.
• Freedom and endurance: Gao’s willingness to endure the heat rather than return to confinement reflects his determination to escape the villa and preserve his freedom.

Character Interactions

• Gao waits for Lin Tubo while writing and planning the script.
• He imagines Song Shuhang acting out humiliating and painful scenes, revealing a playful but vindictive friendship.
• The future protagonist’s relationships are designed around repeated emotional loss: failed love, a deceased ghost lover, and the death of the senior sister.
• The white-haired Daoist serves as an amused or disapproving observer, silently judging Gao’s simplistic cultivation framework.

Key plot points and events

• Daoist Horizon strikes up a conversation with screenwriter Gao Moumou and criticizes his Bronze/Silver/Gold cultivator ranks. His alternatives—numbered levels, then numbered grades—are hardly more imaginative, but Gao writes the latter down.
• Their discussion grows into story advice. Horizon recounts a fellow cultivator whose beloved junior sister promised to run away with him on her wedding day, but an accidental encounter with a rampaging beast left him unconscious until she had married. Gao enthusiastically adapts the tale for his script.
• Horizon suggests making the protagonist’s tragedy larger: have a mysterious force destroy his entire sect and give him a blood-coughing illness whenever grief overwhelms him. Gao records these ideas, and the two cheerfully escalate the protagonist’s misery.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao return to the villa and find Horizon chatting with Gao. They recognize him as “Transmission Maniac” and fear he has followed Shuhang to target him again.
• Horizon says he came at someone else’s request. Seeing the meat-stuffed flatbreads Shuhang is carrying, he realizes Shuhang has already met the person who sent him—but before he can explain, he is suddenly hurled about fifteen meters and crashes through a young tree. The chapter ends with the others confused about who struck him.

Character developments and interactions

• Gao Moumou welcomes Horizon’s advice and becomes increasingly impressed, readily adopting both the ranking proposal and the increasingly melodramatic plot suggestions.
• Daoist Horizon is genial and persuasive thanks to his supernatural Affinity Aura. He begins with a narrow goal—changing the ranking system—but gets drawn into collaborating on Gao’s script. His tale reveals his sympathy for a fellow cultivator’s bad luck.
• Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao share wary humor about Horizon’s reputation and briefly consider retreating before he notices them. Shuhang remains polite but weary of the Daoist’s persistence.

Significant themes

• Comic exaggeration: Horizon’s uninspired ranking ideas and the escalating tragedies satirize formulaic storytelling.
• Fate and misfortune: The fellow cultivator’s romance is ruined by a genuinely accidental event, suggesting that chance can be as cruel as deliberate schemes.
• Life imitating art: A real cultivator’s heartbreak becomes material for Gao’s increasingly over-the-top script.
• Unresolved mystery: Horizon’s sudden, unseen launch interrupts his explanation and introduces a new source of danger.

Key plot points and events

• An Immortal Ark suddenly materializes and crashes into Daoist Horizon, knocking him aside. Its pilot, Lingduzi of Three Lives Global Express, rushes to apologize and offers him a collection of medicinal pills.
• Horizon is sore but unharmed, thanks to his cultivation. Lingduzi explains that the Ark malfunctioned during landing, though the real cause—a delivery package resonating with something nearby—is left unsaid. Horizon warns him about the danger, then lets the matter go.
• The crash’s fragrance puts the ordinary bystander Gao Moumou to sleep, while cultivators are unaffected.
• Lingduzi recognizes Song Shuhang and confirms his identity with the Golden Chain. He delivers a large package entrusted long ago by Elder Bamboo Pipe of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect, and Shuhang registers receipt by imprinting his true qi on a crystal plate.
• After Lingduzi leaves, the Golden Chain resonates with the package and glows, reassuring Shuhang that its contents are likely significant.

Character developments and interactions

• Daoist Horizon moves from irritation to sympathy when he sees Lingduzi’s genuine distress. Lingduzi’s nervous, bungled attempts at apology—including accidentally calling Horizon “Transmission Maniac”—provide comic relief.
• Lingduzi is conscientious but flustered: he accepts responsibility for the crash, promises to report the malfunction, and completes the delivery properly.
• Song Shuhang is surprised by the delivery’s speed and curious about the package. His thoughts about Spirit Stones and an ominous debt-collection contact reveal his humorous, slightly anxious outlook.
• Horizon, Lingduzi, and Shuhang interact courteously despite the accident; Shuhang mostly observes the apology before receiving his package.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and safety: Lingduzi takes the crash seriously, and Horizon points out how deadly it could have been to an ordinary person or a weaker cultivator.
• The supernatural alongside everyday life: Magical transport, cultivation, and identity verification operate like familiar delivery services, complete with receipts, name cards, and vacation work.
• Comic mishaps and foreshadowing: Lingduzi’s awkward apologies lighten the scene, while the package’s resonance hints at a deeper connection between it and the Golden Chain.

Plot points and events

• Gao Moumou wakes after briefly falling asleep, unaware that he was put under by hypnotic gas while Song Shuhang handled a delivery. Shuhang says he was out for only a few minutes.
• Daoist Horizon has made himself at home in the villa, drinking tea and eating sandwich after sandwich. Shuhang tolerates his presence because he cannot easily turn away a senior cultivator.
• Shuhang opens the delivery: a seamless metal cube sent as a gift by a senior. The Golden Chain resonates with it, revealing thirty-three movable beast patterns. Shuhang rearranges them to match the chain, and the cube opens.
• The box is packed with beautifully preserved “Immortal Garments”—women’s clothes decorated with formations that enhance their appearance, but provide no magical protection. Their various sizes make Shuhang wonder whether the sender’s disciple could change shape or whether there were multiple disciples.
• Shuhang imagines the smaller garments suiting Su Clan’s Sixteen and a larger outfit suiting Soft Feather. Gao Moumou jokes about Shuhang’s tastes, then privately gets a burst of story ideas involving a male character disguising himself as a woman.
• Shuhang carries the box upstairs and offers Yu Jiaojiao a garment. She declines, saying she is not close to reaching the stage when she can wear it and teasing that Shuhang does not meet her standards of beauty.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is curious about the mysterious delivery but ends up bemused and mildly frustrated by its contents. He considers giving the clothes away rather than selling or keeping them.
• Gao Moumou recovers feeling refreshed, banters with Shuhang, and finds creative inspiration in the garments.
• Daoist Horizon remains cheerfully shameless, treating the villa like his own home.
• Yu Jiaojiao jokes with Shuhang and reveals her attraction is shaped by her Flood Dragon heritage: she considers horns essential to a man’s good looks.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and technology: The century-old cube’s sophisticated, game-like locking mechanism suggests cultivators may have mastered technologies long before modern society.
• The unexpected value of gifts: Shuhang trades a valuable spirit stone for an item that is valuable but awkwardly suited to him.
• Humor and perspective: The chapter turns a mysterious artifact into a box of women’s clothing, while showcasing how each character interprets it differently.
• Different standards of beauty: Yu Jiaojiao’s dragon-lineage preferences contrast with human ideas of attractiveness.

Key plot points and events

• While unpacking a box sent long ago to Elder Bamboo Pipe, Song Shuhang finds more than Immortal Garments: a second Golden Chain, a handwritten Compendium of Hundred-Beast Taming, thirty-three Second-Grade Spirit Beast Crystals, and a gift list.
• The book was prepared by a Thirty-Three Beast God Sect researcher and sent to Bamboo Pipe for review. The crystals were a congratulatory gift for Bamboo Pipe’s disciple, who had reached the Second-Grade Realm. The sect’s destruction prevented the package from reaching its intended recipient.
• Shuhang memorizes the compendium and resolves to honor the gift by passing on its knowledge if he proves unsuited to beast taming. The crystals, which match the needs of his cultivation technique and are safe for him to consume, will help him complete his Innate True Qi before advancing to the Third Grade.
• Yu Jiaojiao, impressed by Shuhang’s recent good fortune, secretly tries to use a picture of Venerable White to make a wish: that Gao Moumou will write thirty thousand words—or preferably fifty thousand—overnight.
• The group reunites and celebrates over dinner and Sea Clan tribute wine. Jiaojiao disguises herself as her mother using a Transformation Brooch and joins them. Everyone but Daoist Horizon gets thoroughly drunk.
• Encouraged by Jiaojiao, Gao Moumou declares that he will become a world-class author and write until dawn. His friends applaud instead of stopping him, and he unexpectedly writes productively while drunk.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang responds to the lost sect’s legacy with responsibility: he treats the compendium as a meaningful obligation, while also recognizing the crystals’ immediate value to his training.
• Yu Jiaojiao is playful and mischievous, testing whether Venerable White’s apparent luck can help her get more writing updates from Gao Moumou. She later cheers him on at the drinking party.
• Gao Moumou turns an ambitious drunken boast into action, retreating to his writing room and working through the night.
• Shuhang and Jiaojiao share an easy, teasing rapport; Jiaojiao’s wish is made in secret, but Shuhang notices it.
• Daoist Horizon entertains Gao Moumou and Mei Yi with stories from his past, and remains sober while the others succumb to the wine.

Significant themes

• Legacy and responsibility: Shuhang feels obliged to preserve and pass on the knowledge left behind by the ruined sect.
• Cause and effect, and gratitude: He sees accepting the gifts as creating a responsibility to complete the giver’s intentions.
• Luck and playful belief: Jiaojiao wonders whether Venerable White really brings extraordinary fortune and tries her own small wish.
• Friendship and encouragement: The gathering reconnects the friends, while their boozy applause sends Gao Moumou toward his writing rather than restraining him.
• Unexpected inspiration: Gao’s drunken determination produces real work because his story is already deeply planned.

Key plot points and events

• Fueled by alcohol, Gao Moumou writes more than 50,000 words overnight—far beyond his usual output.
• Fairy Bie Xue prepares an “Immortal Treasure Banquet” for Song Shuhang, intended to elevate his physique. Her snake-waisted friend wakes hungry but cannot eat meat or pungent foods under a vow.
• Mistaking an Onion Spirit Crystal for permitted vegetarian food, the friend eats it. The crystal is an onion—and therefore one of the Five Pungent Foods. A small pagoda arrives, and its monk owner takes her away to cultivate and recite scriptures for three years and six months, as punishment for breaking her vow.
• At 9 a.m., Yu Jiaojiao wakes from her hangover and discovers Gao Moumou has posted sixteen chapters, totaling about 50,000 words. She recalls wishing for that exact result to a photo of Venerable White and decides his image must have granted the wish.
• Jiaojiao downloads Venerable White’s sticker pack, sets his picture as her phone wallpaper and lock screen, and considers making further wishes about Gao’s writing. She posts a vague, celebratory status while avoiding naming Venerable White in case he sees it.

Character developments

• Gao Moumou shows an unusual burst of productivity, apparently turning his drunken declaration to write through the night into reality.
• Fairy Bie Xue remains focused and disciplined as she prepares the banquet, but is exasperated when her friend consumes the valuable onion crystal.
• The snake-waisted woman is playful and hungry, but her overconfident interpretation of her dietary rules gets her caught in a loophole. She protests being taken back to the pagoda, though she ultimately recognizes the monk’s wording was technically correct.
• Yu Jiaojiao moves from disappointment at expecting no new chapters to excited belief in Venerable White’s wish-granting power. She turns that belief into a daily ritual.

Significant themes

• Unexpected consequences: A drunken writing spree produces an enormous update, while a supposedly harmless onion snack triggers a lengthy punishment.
• Rules and responsibility: The monk insists that the snake-waisted woman agreed to avoid both meat and pungent foods; her assumption that all plants were allowed does not excuse breaking the vow.
• Luck, faith, and coincidence: Jiaojiao treats Gao’s remarkable output as proof that her wish to Venerable White worked.
• Comedy through exaggeration: The chapter contrasts 50,000 words, 50 roujiamo, and a three-year-and-six-month sentence, while treating absurd situations as routine.

Character interactions

• Bie Xue gently warns her friend not to interfere with the cooking, then can only watch as the monk’s pagoda retrieves her. Their familiarity is evident in Bie Xue’s calm, resigned reaction.
• The snake-waisted woman argues with the monk over the meaning of her vow; he corrects her recollection and enforces the punishment despite her protests.
• Jiaojiao connects Gao’s writing spree to her wish, then plans her phone habits around worshipping Venerable White’s image—while carefully keeping the wish vague in public.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang wakes with a severe hangover and a headache, then discovers one of his gloves came off in his sleep. He is relieved his dangerous appraisal ability did not activate and resolves to keep the gloves secure at night.
• Fairy Bie Xue arrives at Yu Jiaojiao’s villa with the Immortal Treasure Banquet she promised Shuhang. There, she finds Daoist Horizon already staying at the villa, while Shuhang’s other friends remain asleep from drinking.
• Shuhang eats the main dish and shares the thirteen side dishes with Yu Jiaojiao and Horizon. The banquet greatly improves his constitution, eases his headaches, removes the pressure in his Dantian, and slightly extends his lifespan. He reaches the peak of the Second-Grade Realm and finds his physical strength comparable to his previous full-force punch.
• Shuhang realizes he can resume cultivating the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique by consuming Spirit Beast Crystals. He imagines how much stronger another banquet might make him.
• Fairy Bie Xue asks about the several-hundred-year-old onion crystal Shuhang previously gave her. He says he has no more, but identifies Ox Summit Mountain as where the onion appeared—while clarifying that it may not have originally lived there. He avoids exposing Onion Lady, who is hiding in his arms.
• After the meal, Fairy Bie Xue asks whether Shuhang knows Venerable White. Shuhang confirms he does and says he welcomed White after his latest seclusion. Bie Xue then asks where White is now.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang becomes stronger and healthier through the banquet, while continuing to act considerately toward Onion Lady. He is also uneasy about Bie Xue’s interest in Venerable White, knowing she once sought to become White’s cultivation partner and was rejected.
• Fairy Bie Xue demonstrates her generosity and formidable culinary skill, but also her lingering interest in finding more ancient onion material and in learning White’s whereabouts.
• Daoist Horizon resents that Bie Xue prepared a banquet for Shuhang so readily when he, as her friend, rarely gets to taste one.
• Onion Lady fears Bie Xue will seek another onion crystal and that Shuhang may sacrifice her onion tip, but Shuhang protects her by giving only a cautious account of the crystal’s origin.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Horizon share the banquet’s side dishes with Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Food as cultivation: Bie Xue’s cooking produces real physical, spiritual, and lifespan benefits.
• Power and bodily transformation: Shuhang’s rapid gains contrast with the painstaking cultivation usually required to reach comparable strength.
• Loyalty and protection: Shuhang weighs honesty against shielding Onion Lady from danger.
• Awkward ties to the past: Bie Xue’s question about Venerable White revives her history of rejection and leaves Shuhang unsure how to respond.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tells Fairy Bie Xue that Venerable White is unreachable while exploring an undersea ruin. He offers to pass along her message when White returns.
• Bie Xue exchanges phone numbers with Shuhang, then gives him an Immortal Chef Banquet invitation. Although Shuhang already has a place through Su Clan’s Seven, she insists he keep it and fill in the name himself, so he can invite someone else.
• Shuhang offers the invitation to Yu Jiaojiao, but she already has a place through her family’s ties to Bie Xue’s ingredient supplier, True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord.
• Daoist Horizon asks to trade for Shuhang’s Blood Demon Pearls. Shuhang refuses any deal involving imparted cultivation and asks first for Dragon Demon Blood, then—when Horizon has none—for Spirit Stones.

Character developments and interactions

• Bie Xue’s eagerness to hear from Venerable White is evident: she prefers Shuhang to serve as the link rather than simply obtaining White’s number. News that White is safe improves her mood.
• Shuhang is practical and candid about his needs, especially his shortage of Spirit Stones. He also considers sharing his invitation with friends.
• Yu Jiaojiao declines the invitation without fuss, explaining that she already has access to the banquet.
• Horizon is willing to bargain for the Blood Demon Pearls, but the two settle on straightforward terms after Shuhang rules out cultivation transfer.

Significant themes

• Personal connection and longing: Bie Xue’s request for Shuhang’s number reflects her desire for direct contact with White.
• Generosity and social ties: The invitation is treated by Bie Xue as a meal to share, despite its considerable value.
• Caution and practical exchange: Shuhang avoids a risky cultivation-transfer arrangement and prioritizes resources he needs.

Key events

• Song Shuhang sells Daoist Horizon twenty Blood Demon Pearls. Horizon, who urgently wants them for an experiment with his Tribulation Transcendence Dharma Artifact, offers forty Sixth-Grade Spirit Stones. Shuhang accepts, turning a modest haul into a major fortune by his standards.
• Shuhang keeps the costly puppet safely away from the new Spirit Stones, then begins cultivating with five more Spirit Beast Crystals. He hopes to complete the Innate True Qi of the Thirty-Three Beasts Divine Innate Unity Qi Technique and advance toward Fourth-Grade sword flight, rejecting the embarrassing idea of using his Dragging Saber Technique.
• In the Eastern Sea, the Glazed Scholar finds his former senior brother Daozi, now mentally childlike and unable to recognize him. The Scholar asks where the Sage and the Confucian disciples who died in the calamity were buried. Daozi repeats, “The dead cannot bury the dead,” then recalls that people from the Nine Netherworld killed many Confucian scholars.
• The Scholar decides to go to the Nine Netherworld, telling the Glowing Jellyfish this is his final destination. He enters and releases the immense Immortal Energy he had been suppressing. Far away, Shuhang suddenly senses the outburst—and thinks of “imparting the technique.”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows his usual practical, somewhat inexperienced approach to bargaining: he accepts a generous offer without haggling. He remains focused on cultivation and wary of wasting resources.
• Daoist Horizon is eager to obtain the Pearls and pleased with the exchange; he immediately seeks a quiet room to test them.
• The Glazed Scholar is driven by duty to his fallen teacher and fellow disciples, but accepts that he cannot recover or bury them. His remaining purpose is to investigate the Nine Netherworld before his time runs out.
• Daozi, once a dignified and dependable leader, is now innocent, playful, and deeply impaired. His scattered remark offers a clue, but not a clear answer, about the Confucian catastrophe.
• The Glowing Jellyfish accompanies the Scholar but honors his wish to go on alone.

Significant themes

• Grief, duty, and mortality: The Scholar’s long effort to survive the calamity was meant to let him honor the dead, yet Daozi’s refrain underscores the limits of what the living—or the dead—can do.
• Memory and loss: Daozi’s childlike state contrasts sharply with the respected senior brother he once was, showing how much of the past has been erased.
• Unresolved history and sacrifice: The mystery of the New Heavenly Dao and the Confucian Sect’s destruction remains open, while the Scholar’s final journey toward the Nine Netherworld suggests a costly attempt to uncover the truth.
• Practical ambition amid larger tragedy: Shuhang’s lighthearted cultivation and money concerns provide a comic contrast to the Scholar’s solemn farewell and the chapter’s tragic revelations.

Key plot points and events

• While cultivating with his fifth Spirit Beast Crystal, Song Shuhang suddenly receives a tiny amount of extraordinarily powerful energy through his Spirit Ghost, which is being controlled by a mighty entity preparing for battle.
• The energy rapidly fills his Dantians and breaks through several bottlenecks: Shuhang advances from the Fourth Dantian to the Seventh, reaching the Dragon Head Dantian in a matter of breaths.
• He comes within a hair of opening the Eighth, Dragon Horn Dantian. That breakthrough would trigger the Second-Stage Heavenly Tribulation, for which he is badly unprepared.
• Shuhang mentally begs the energy to stop. The Spirit Ghost connection breaks, halting the advancement—though a final surge diverts into his brow, greatly strengthening his mental energy instead.
• Once cultivation ends, he resolves to complete all thirty-three Spirit Beast Crystals, perfect his pseudo-innate true qi, and wait for Venerable White before attempting tribulation.
• Yu Jiaojiao bursts in with a report: a scholar-like man and a glowing jellyfish were spotted standing on the Eastern Sea, likely including the powerful being occupying Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost. Seeing Shuhang’s condition, she jokes that Daoist Horizon must have attacked him.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang gains several realms’ worth of progress but is anxious rather than triumphant: he understands that an unprepared tribulation could kill him. He shows greater caution by planning to delay advancement until he is ready.
• Yu Jiaojiao remains alert and eager to share news, while her immediate, humorous guess about Daoist Horizon echoes Shuhang’s own suspicion.

Character interactions

• The powerful being’s energy reaches Shuhang indirectly through the Spirit Ghost, creating an involuntary link between the two.
• Shuhang’s resistance appears to interrupt that connection, though the final energy still reaches him and boosts his mental strength.
• Yu Jiaojiao arrives to update Shuhang about the likely location of the Spirit Ghost’s occupier and reacts with surprise to his sudden cultivation changes.

Significant themes

• Power without control: A seemingly small gift from a vastly stronger being can overwhelm Shuhang and force dangerous progress.
• Preparation versus ambition: Rapid advancement is not automatically beneficial; Shuhang must prioritize readiness over reaching the next realm.
• Comedic danger: The chapter balances life-threatening cultivation and tribulation risks with recurring jokes about Daoist Horizon’s notorious habit of transmitting power.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Jiaojiao reports that a fish-herding demon spotted Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost in the Eastern Sea, alongside a scholar-like man and a Glowing Jellyfish. The pair spoke peacefully, then vanished.
• Shuhang’s recent breakthrough from the Fourth to the Seventh Dantian—and his imminent move toward the Eighth—was caused by events involving his Spirit Ghost and a powerful expert. The rapid advancement leaves him with severe headaches as his spiritual energy strains his constitution.
• Shuhang wonders whether the Glowing Jellyfish is the one he encountered at the Jadewater Pavilion, and whether it is connected to the expert occupying his Spirit Ghost. He cannot contact the Spirit Ghost, so Jiaojiao promises to keep searching.
• In space, Copper Trigram Immortal Master—disguised as Fairy Lychee—believes he has evaded pursuit and looks forward to revealing his newly attained True Lord status in a duel with Northern River’s Loose Cultivator.
• Copper Trigram spots Doudou and mistakenly suspects it is part of a tracking trap. He follows the dog, eventually discovering that Doudou is searching for Shuhang’s lingering aura.
• Doudou, having run away to escape being married off by True Lord Yellow Mountain, finds a hidden palace and learns that Shuhang has already returned to Earth.
• A literary young woman welcomes Doudou, then notices Copper Trigram hiding nearby. As she looks at him, she suddenly breaks into anguished tears, leaving him confused about what he has done.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is grateful for Jiaojiao’s help but remains anxious about his Spirit Ghost, the mysterious expert, and his painful, uncontrolled cultivation progress.
• Yu Jiaojiao acts as a supportive friend: she shares intelligence, reassures Shuhang, and offers to keep tracking the beings he seeks.
• Copper Trigram is boastful about his breakthrough and planned duel, but his paranoia leads him to misread Doudou’s intentions. His disguise and curiosity bring him to the palace, where the girl’s reaction unsettles him.
• Doudou is determined to avoid Yellow Mountain’s matchmaking plans and trusts Shuhang as a refuge. Its cheerful arrival at the palace contrasts with the danger and uncertainty around it.
• The literary girl’s intense, unexplained distress introduces a new mystery and sets up a likely confrontation or emotional complication.

Significant themes

• Uncontrolled power and its costs: Shuhang’s extraordinary advancement comes with painful physical consequences and unanswered questions.
• Misunderstanding and dramatic irony: Copper Trigram imagines Doudou is tracking him, while Doudou is actually following Shuhang’s trail.
• Friendship and refuge: Jiaojiao supports Shuhang, and Doudou seeks safety with someone it trusts.
• Comic bravado versus uncertainty: Copper Trigram’s grand plans and confidence are undercut by his mistaken assumptions and the girl’s inexplicable tears.

Chapter Summary: “Mom?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Doudou spots Fairy Lychee hiding near Jadewater Pavilion and happily rushes into her arms, believing her to be the real fairy.
• The “Fairy Lychee” is actually Copper Trigram Immortal Master in disguise. His transformation is so convincing that even Doudou, who knows Fairy Lychee well, cannot detect the deception.
• Doudou complains to the disguised Copper Trigram about True Lord Yellow Mountain trying to arrange a wedding for her. She fears he may even change her gender before marrying her off.
• Copper Trigram secretly encourages Doudou’s trust, intending to use the situation to arrange a memorable wedding as part of his own scheme.
• Copper Trigram and Doudou approach Fairy Ye Si, who has been crying uncontrollably after seeing the disguised “Fairy Lychee.”
• Ye Si explains that she felt inexplicably happy upon seeing “Fairy Lychee,” and that her emotional reaction is partly caused by her cultivation technique.
• After sensing the aura around “Fairy Lychee,” Ye Si experiences a powerful sense of familiarity, similar to the feeling she associates with a mother.
• She unconsciously calls “Fairy Lychee” “Mom,” leaving Copper Trigram shocked and confused.
• Ye Si then invites Copper Trigram and Doudou into Jadewater Pavilion as honored guests. Copper Trigram decides the pavilion may be a useful place to hide before his confrontation with Northern River.
• Elsewhere, in Jiangnan, Gao Moumou wakes from drunkenness and prepares to discuss his script with Song Shuhang.

Character Developments

• Doudou: Remains impulsive, trusting, and mischievous. She turns to Fairy Lychee for emotional support and openly vents about Yellow Mountain’s marriage plans.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master: Demonstrates an extremely convincing disguise and continues manipulating events for his own purposes. He plans to exploit Doudou’s trust and use Jadewater Pavilion as a temporary refuge. Ye Si’s calling him “Mom” deeply unsettles him.
• Fairy Ye Si: Reveals a strong, unexplained emotional and possibly spiritual connection to Fairy Lychee. Her unusual cultivation technique causes intense crying, while her subconscious recognition of “Lychee” suggests hidden memories or a deeper relationship.
• Fairy Lychee: Though absent in person, her appearance and aura serve as the trigger for Ye Si’s mysterious maternal response.
• Gao Moumou: Returns to the plot after recovering from drunkenness and prepares to present his script to Shuhang.

Significant Themes

• Disguise and mistaken identity: Copper Trigram’s impersonation is so perfect that even close acquaintances are fooled.
• Hidden connections and lost memories: Ye Si’s instinctive “Mom” suggests a mysterious bond with Fairy Lychee that she does not consciously understand.
• Comedic misunderstanding: Copper Trigram interprets the situation with disbelief and exaggerated concern, especially over Ye Si apparently identifying Fairy Lychee as her mother.
• Trust and emotional dependence: Doudou relies heavily on Fairy Lychee for protection, making her especially vulnerable to Copper Trigram’s deception.
• Schemes and opportunism: Copper Trigram turns every situation—including Doudou’s complaints and Jadewater Pavilion’s hospitality—into an opportunity to advance his plans.

Character Interactions

• Doudou and disguised Copper Trigram: Doudou affectionately confides in him while believing he is Fairy Lychee; Copper Trigram responds warmly while secretly plotting.
• Ye Si and disguised Copper Trigram: Ye Si reacts with overwhelming joy and familiarity, while Copper Trigram is baffled by her emotional response and the “Mom” slip.
• Ye Si and Doudou: Their meeting takes place under the protection of the disguised Copper Trigram, with Ye Si enthusiastically welcoming both visitors into the pavilion.
• Gao Moumou and Song Shuhang: Their interaction is set up for the following scene, as Gao prepares to explain his script after waking up.

Key plot points

• After getting drunk and writing fifty thousand words overnight, Gao Moumou brings Song Shuhang and Yu Jiaojiao the opening of his new script.
• The story is set in a future where a hostile supernatural force devastates Earth. Cultivators emerge from hiding, protect humanity, and recruit disciples to fight back.
• The protagonist is a handsome cultivator who is repeatedly beaten in training by a rival senior brother, Gao Sheng. Gao Moumou intends to play Gao Sheng.
• Song Shuhang realizes the training scenes resemble Venerable White’s past interactions with a young man in the desert, and worries the script could offend White—or make Shuhang seem responsible for the joke.
• The protagonist falls for a kind senior sister, but misses her wedding after an enemy attack leaves him unconscious. She marries someone else, and he grieves over losing her.
• After drowning his sorrows, the protagonist meets a second woman whose tastes and habits strikingly match Song Shuhang’s. The chapter ends as Shuhang recognizes the resemblance.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is nearing his Second-Grade Heavenly Tribulation and asks Yu Jiaojiao about preparation. Her advice: her own experience is only a reference, so he should consult human cultivator seniors.
• Shuhang reacts to Gao Moumou’s script with growing alarm, imagining the consequences of its pointed parallels to Venerable White. He jokingly wonders about buying Gao a grave, while privately debating whether the script is safe to show White.
• Gao Moumou is proud of his rapid writing and his role as Gao Sheng, and insists he will play the character even if Shuhang objects.
• Yu Jiaojiao reads along and understands Shuhang’s concern once he explains that Venerable White is the protagonist.
• Daoist Horizon contributed the tragic wedding plot, giving Shuhang another possible person to blame if White dislikes it.

Significant themes

• Cultivation as preparation and examination: Shuhang compares spiritual practice to schooling and tribulations to major entrance exams, emphasizing the need to prepare.
• Friendship and comic peril: Gao’s creative choices put him—and potentially Shuhang—in awkward danger, while Shuhang responds with affectionate worry.
• Life inspiring fiction: The script draws on real people and familiar experiences, creating humorous anxiety over whether its characters are disguised references.
• Unconventional romance: The plot deliberately avoids the expected heroic wedding rescue, instead giving the protagonist an unlucky, painful loss.