Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong reveals that one of the remaining Sea Urchin Warriors is actually a puppet.
• He attacks the invading Sea Urchin Warriors with a powerful fire dragon released from his tobacco pipe. The warriors—mostly Third-Grade cultivators, with one Fourth-Grade captain—are instantly destroyed.
• The disguised puppet survives the flames because of its Ink Sect construction and modern heat-resistant technology. It identifies Song Shuhang as its target and attempts to attack him.
• Xian Gong activates a defensive formation, restrains the puppet with vines, and prevents its self-detonation from causing damage. The puppet is destroyed, but its purpose remains unclear.
• Xian Gong examines Shuhang for curses, injuries, or other hidden effects, finding nothing abnormal. He decides Shuhang should also be examined by Venerable White.
• The hall master of the Limitless Demon Sect’s Nine-Eyed Gama Hall observes the battle from hiding. Rather than attack immediately, he concludes that Xian Gong’s trap is intended to lure him out and withdraws, planning to track and assassinate Shuhang later.
• In the Nine Netherworld, several Rebirth Mountain cave masters prepare an invasion of Earth. They plan to attack the Vajra Temple remnant in China, capture human cultivators, and earn rewards from their mountain master. Their operation is scheduled for the following day.
• At Medicine Master’s residence, Su Clan’s Seven leaves Mad Saber Three Waves tied upside down and in Medicine Master’s care for a year, ignoring Three Waves’s dramatic pleas to come along.

Character Developments

• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong demonstrates overwhelming strength, tactical preparation, and protectiveness toward Shuhang and the villa’s inhabitants. He is also suspicious and cautious after the puppet’s unexplained sacrifice.
• Song Shuhang becomes increasingly concerned that multiple enemies are targeting him and wonders whether the puppet secretly affected him before exploding. He remains cooperative and accepts Xian Gong’s decision to have him examined.
• The puppet’s controller or creator is shown to be technologically adaptable, combining Ink Sect puppet techniques with modern engineering. Its willingness to sacrifice the puppet suggests a larger hidden plan.
• The Nine-Eyed Gama Hall master is revealed as patient and calculating. Rather than recklessly attacking, he chooses surveillance and a future assassination attempt.
• The Rebirth Mountain cave masters become more organized and aggressive, coordinating a major invasion against Earth.
• Mad Saber Three Waves remains comic relief, suffering punishment for his behavior while loudly protesting his abandonment.

Significant Themes

• Technology versus tradition: The puppet’s mixture of ancient cultivation methods and modern fireproof technology reflects the changing relationship between cultivation and the modern world.
• Caution and strategy: Xian Gong’s trap and the Gama Hall master’s refusal to attack immediately show opposing but equally deliberate approaches to danger.
• Hidden motives and uncertainty: The puppet’s strange arrival and self-destruction leave Shuhang and Xian Gong unsure whether a secret attack or curse was involved.
• Escalating threats: Enemy forces are multiplying, from assassins targeting Shuhang to the organized Nine Netherworld invasion of Earth.
• Comedy amid danger: Three Waves’s punishment and exaggerated cries provide a humorous contrast to the serious battles and looming conflicts.

Character Interactions

• Xian Gong protects Shuhang by destroying the Sea Urchin Warriors and restraining the puppet before it can attack or explode.
• The puppet directly confronts Shuhang but offers no explanation for its mission before self-destructing.
• Xian Gong and Shuhang discuss the possibility that the puppet secretly affected him and agree that Venerable White should examine him.
• The Gama Hall master watches Shuhang and Xian Gong from a distance but deliberately avoids direct confrontation.
• The Rebirth Mountain cave masters cooperate in planning their assault on the Vajra Temple remnant.
• Su Clan’s Seven entrusts Three Waves to Medicine Master, while Three Waves desperately begs not to be left behind.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan restrain Mad Saber Three Waves, who is hanging upside down and gagged because of his incessant cries and reckless behavior.
• Medicine Master force-feeds Three Waves a specially prepared medicinal liquid called the Death-Defying Cure, intended to suppress the excessive excitement that causes him to court death.
• Despite Three Waves’s protests and threats, Medicine Master uses an alchemy technique to guide the medicine directly into his mouth. The medicine tastes unbearably bitter, and Three Waves is horrified by the possibility that it may suppress his death-seeking impulses.
• In an attempt to escape, Three Waves suddenly confesses his “love” for Jiang Ziyan and proposes pursuing her. She rejects him immediately and openly acknowledges her love for Medicine Master.
• Three Waves then offers to help Jiang Ziyan win Medicine Master’s heart in exchange for his freedom. She refuses, confident that Medicine Master will become hers without assistance. When Three Waves threatens to encourage other Fairies to pursue Medicine Master, Jiang Ziyan becomes ominous and makes it clear he may never be freed.
• Medicine Master questions whether the Death-Defying Cure has failed, since Three Waves continues to behave recklessly. He wonders whether the dosage was insufficient or whether he misunderstood the nature of Three Waves’s condition.
• The next morning, Song Shuhang learns that Gao Moumou and Master Cloud-Swallowing completed both the story and screenplay for the planned film overnight.
• Before Song Shuhang can review the script, he receives a call from Jacob’s Film Crew, a world-famous production team invited by Venerable Spirit Butterfly. The crew has arrived in the Jiangnan Region and is ready to begin filming.
• Song Shuhang gives them the location of Yu Jiaojiao’s villa and confirms that the script is finished. The crew plans to arrive in approximately an hour and a half.

Character Developments

• Mad Saber Three Waves remains addicted to courting danger and is terrified by the prospect of losing that defining trait. His desperate attempts to escape reveal both his shamelessness and his quick-thinking, though none of his schemes work.
• Medicine Master demonstrates firm control, advanced alchemy skills, and a dry sense of humor. His attempt to medically suppress Three Waves’s recklessness also shows his concern for his friend’s destructive behavior.
• Jiang Ziyan displays confidence, possessiveness, and unwavering affection for Medicine Master. She refuses Three Waves’s manipulation and becomes threatening when he suggests helping other women pursue Medicine Master.
• Song Shuhang transitions from dealing with supernatural dangers to preparing for the movie project. He is surprised and pleased by the speed of the script’s completion and by Venerable Spirit Butterfly’s unsolicited assistance.
• Gao Moumou and Master Cloud-Swallow prove their creativity and efficiency by producing a complete screenplay in a single night.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly, although absent, is shown to be thoughtful and supportive by arranging an experienced international film crew for Song Shuhang.

Significant Themes

• Friendship expressed through forceful care: Medicine Master’s harsh treatment of Three Waves is comedic but motivated by concern for his dangerous behavior.
• The absurdity of obsession and personality: Three Waves sees his suicidal recklessness as essential to his identity, making the “cure” more frightening to him than death itself.
• Romantic rivalry and confidence: Jiang Ziyan refuses to rely on schemes to win Medicine Master, emphasizing her confidence in their eventual relationship.
• Comedy through failed plans: Three Waves repeatedly tries to manipulate the situation, but his confessions, threats, and bargaining only worsen his circumstances.
• The collision of cultivation and modern filmmaking: The chapter shifts from magical medicine and supernatural personalities to scripts, directors, and film production, blending the fantastical world with ordinary entertainment.

Character Interactions

• Medicine Master and Three Waves: Their exchange is a comic struggle between Medicine Master’s determined “treatment” and Three Waves’s resistance. Three Waves’s dramatic protests contrast with Medicine Master’s calm practicality.
• Jiang Ziyan and Three Waves: Three Waves attempts to use romance and matchmaking to secure his freedom, but Jiang Ziyan rejects him and threatens him indirectly when he goes too far.
• Jiang Ziyan and Medicine Master: Their relationship is highlighted through Jiang Ziyan’s open confidence in winning Medicine Master, while Medicine Master reacts with embarrassment and frustration.
• Song Shuhang, Gao Moumou, and Master Cloud-Swallow: Their interaction establishes that the film project is ready to move forward, with Song Shuhang reviewing the newly completed material.
• Song Shuhang and Jacob’s Film Crew: Their phone conversation confirms that professional production has already been arranged and that filming can begin almost immediately.

• The film moves forward: Song Shuhang learns that Jacob’s film crew is arriving in the Jiangnan Region within an hour and a half and plans to begin preproduction soon. Surprised by the crew’s speed, he wonders if Venerable White’s offhand wish to start filming the next day has somehow come true. He and Gao Moumou discuss the work still involved in making a film, then decide to review the script and assign roles.
• Casting surprises: Gao Moumou is shocked to learn Song Shuhang will not play the protagonist. Song points to Venerable White, who arrives humming in his pajamas, as the intended lead. Gao then insists that Song play Senior Brother Gao Sheng—so Gao can comfortably portray the spoiled disciple who becomes the protagonist’s Artifact Spirit. Gao enthusiastically claims that role for himself.
• The first roles are assigned: The group confirms Venerable White as Ling Ye, the story’s protagonist. Song is tentatively cast as Senior Brother Gao Sheng. They discuss the senior sister, Murong Hua: True Lord White Crane eagerly volunteers but is rejected as unsuitable, while Su Clan’s Sixteen declines because she looks too young. They decide to seek volunteers through their group. For the eight-armed swordsman, they suggest True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey, whose abilities and skills fit the role.
• Gao Moumou realizes who the others are: Hearing the unusual names and titles, Gao suspects Song’s friends are online acquaintances. Song explains that they use nicknames in their group, including his former handle, “Stressed by a Mountain of Books.” Gao accepts the explanation and the casting discussion resumes. Su Clan’s Sixteen suggests finding a married couple to play Murong Hua and Feng Chuanzi.
  Character developments and relationships: Song Shuhang takes charge of coordinating the production, while Gao Moumou shows how personally invested he is in the story—and especially in the chance to play a character opposite Song. Venerable White is eager to read the script and becomes its lead. White Crane’s enthusiasm for playing the heroine reveals his attachment to Venerable White, though he is gently turned down. Su Clan’s Sixteen is self-aware about her youthful appearance.
  Themes: The chapter blends the practical excitement of making a film with the group’s playful, affectionate dynamics. It also highlights the contrast between ordinary explanations—online friends and nicknames—and the eccentric world behind the production, where cultivation abilities can determine casting choices.

Chapter Summary: “Song Shuhang, Little Friend, May You Rest in Immortality”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group discusses casting Venerable White’s film adaptation of the story involving Ling Ye, Senior Brother Gao Sheng, Murong Hua, and Feng Chuanzi.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen suggests casting a married dual-cultivation couple as Murong Hua and Feng Chuanzi. This would make the romantic scenes less awkward and reduce the risk of someone genuinely falling for Venerable White.
• The group discovers that most married couples are unavailable because they are in seclusion or on honeymoons. Yu Jiaojiao’s parents are unsuitable because they are currently feuding, while her stepmothers do not fit the roles.
• Song Shuhang proposes uploading the script to the Nine Provinces Number One Group so members can choose roles themselves. Venerable White posts it.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator eagerly looks for a role that would allow him to torment Copper Trigram, but becomes terrified when he realizes Senior Brother Gao Sheng would have to torment Venerable White. He immediately abandons the idea.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain offers technical, material, and personnel support for the film. His announcement brings many group members online.
• Dharma King Creation volunteers to join the production after his livestream, despite other members warning that his singing recently hospitalized hundreds of thousands of people.
• True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey accepts the role of the Eight-Armed Sword Saint and prepares to travel to the filming location.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master suggests changing a scene so he can bring his wife and wolf cubs into the film. Venerable White readily approves.
• Northern River successfully persuades Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan to play Murong Hua and Feng Chuanzi.
• Venerable White reveals that Song Shuhang will play Senior Brother Gao Sheng—the dangerous role everyone expects will end disastrously for him.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly sees Song Shuhang’s name and assumes he has returned to Earth prematurely, creating another potential crisis.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates practical judgment by suggesting an open casting process, but he becomes increasingly anxious as the group assigns him the role of Senior Brother Gao Sheng.
• Venerable White takes charge of the production, handling the script upload, casting decisions, and logistical arrangements. His fearsome reputation makes even joking about harming him terrifying.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen shows clear-headedness and concern for avoiding romantic complications during filming.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator remains energetic and mischievous, especially in his desire to torment Copper Trigram, but quickly becomes cautious when Venerable White is involved.
• Yu Jiaojiao uses her innate fishman charm on Gao Moumou to prevent him from seeing the group’s confidential information.
• Dharma King Creation remains oblivious to—or proud of—the destructive effects of his singing, while the other members treat his livestreams as a public disaster.
• True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey, Medicine Master, Jiang Ziyan, and Snow Wolf Cave Master all willingly join the production, turning the film into a large-scale group project.

Significant Themes

• Comedy through danger and power imbalance: Ordinary film acting becomes terrifying because the cast consists of powerful cultivators, and playing a role that opposes Venerable White may have real-life consequences.
• Community and cooperation: The Nine Provinces Number One Group rapidly organizes to support the film, offering actors, resources, technical aid, and creative suggestions.
• The contrast between fiction and reality: The members treat the film as entertainment, yet their extraordinary abilities and personalities repeatedly threaten to turn production into a genuine disaster.
• Reputation and social influence: Venerable White’s charm and authority shape casting decisions, while Dharma King Creation’s infamous music inspires both fans and widespread fear.
• Song Shuhang’s recurring misfortune: His name once again becomes associated with trouble, and he is assigned the role most likely to bring him danger.

Character Interactions

• Su Clan’s Sixteen, Song Shuhang, Yu Jiaojiao, and Gao Moumou discuss suitable romantic pairings for the film.
• Yu Jiaojiao charms Gao Moumou so he cannot access the group’s sensitive information.
• Northern River repeatedly interacts with Venerable White, first proposing reckless casting ideas, then helping recruit actors.
• Group members tease Dharma King Creation about his disastrous singing while he boasts about its popularity.
• Northern River recommends Snow Wolf Cave Master and his wife, but Snow Wolf instead negotiates for a larger scene involving his family.
• Northern River recruits Jiang Ziyan through Medicine Master’s account, and Venerable White approves the casting.
• The group reacts with amusement and concern when Venerable White casts Song Shuhang as Senior Brother Gao Sheng, while Fairy Flowing Firefly’s misunderstanding threatens to create further complications.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White reminds Song Shuhang that he lost the hand-tractor competition and owes a month in space. Shuhang argues that time spent in Jadewater Pavilion’s time-related secret realm should count. White reveals he already knew, since Shuhang’s escape talisman activated, and tells Fairy Flowing Firefly the punishment is fulfilled.
• White tries to contact the Crying Old Man to tell him he can return from space, but the call fails. The Crying Old Man is still stubbornly guarding Jadewater Pavilion.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group assigns roles for the movie:
  • Fairy Lychee takes the female-ghost role Ling’er.
  • True Lord Dustfall chooses the doomed sect leader Daoist Inaction, while Drunken Layman takes the villainous Evil General Bright Moon.
  • Young Master Phoenix Slayer casts himself as the guardian beast Heaven-Swallowing Cat and suggests Doudou play the ten-headed Hell Demon Hound; Yellow Mountain agrees on Doudou’s behalf.
  • True Lord White Crane claims the second male lead, White-Clad Swordsman Fan Bai. When Shuhang objects because the character is petite and eventually marries Gao Sheng, White Crane transforms into its delicate, feminine-leaning form and insists the role suits it.
  • Su Clan’s Sixteen chooses Blade Without Trace, a female saber-wielding disciple.
• With the cast settled, Shuhang suggests finding real locations for the film’s sets. White offers a renovated abandoned sect headquarters for the opening and says his True Illusion can provide the desert setting for the final battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang tries to avoid repeating his space punishment, then gets stuck managing the cast and reacting to the increasingly absurd casting choices. He quietly vows to give Gao Sheng’s role to someone else rather than pair him with White Crane.
• White is indulgent and decisive, readily approving the cast and offering lavish resources to move the film forward.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly is disappointed that Shuhang’s space punishment is being called complete, reflecting her obsessive need for things to be exact.
• White Crane reveals it has two human forms and uses its feminine-leaning one to prove it can play Fan Bai. Shuhang’s objection is overruled by White and Sixteen finds the exchange amusing.

Significant themes

• Playful role-playing and community: The cultivators eagerly choose parts and build the movie together, turning their group into an enthusiastic production team.
• Absurdity and comic reversals: White Crane’s transformation, the tragic character backstories, and Shuhang’s casting anxieties repeatedly undercut the seriousness of the film plot.
• Power and privilege: White’s ability to supply a private sect headquarters and a True Illusion makes ordinary production problems seem effortless.
• Duty and sacrifice: Several chosen roles involve defending others and dying in battle, contrasting with the lighthearted casting process.

Key events

• Venerable White offers his vacation cave abode—an entire former sect compound—as the film’s location. Song Shuhang marvels at White’s seemingly vast wealth and privately dubs him “White, Richest Under Heaven.”
• The group organizes the film’s costumes. Several cultivators volunteer standardized robes for sects, while Su Clan’s Seven is tasked with bringing Copper Trigram Immortal Master, famed for his disguises and enormous wardrobe, to provide distinctive outfits.
• The planning is interrupted when Dharma King Creation posts a five-minute voice message. Song Shuhang realizes too late that it may contain the Dharma King’s infamous singing.
• The recording overwhelms nearly everyone present: Gao Moumou and Yu Jiaojiao faint, Song Shuhang collapses, and several others struggle to endure it. Venerable White remains functional thanks to tiny earphones and his strength, though he still finds the singing awful.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations mutes Dharma King Creation for 30 days and threatens him. Other group members complain, joke, or threaten to launch the singer into space.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White remains calmly practical about the film’s preparations, then innocently plays the disastrous voice message. His earphones reveal he was at least partly prepared—or protected—against the noise.
• Song Shuhang helps coordinate costumes but is again caught unprepared by Dharma King Creation’s singing, despite recognizing the danger just before it starts.
• Su Clan’s Seven agrees to retrieve Copper Trigram, while Iron Trigram explains that he cannot participate because he is still recovering from his injuries.
• Dharma King Creation demonstrates that his singing has only grown more powerful after performing for a huge livestream audience, turning an ordinary group message into a mass ordeal.
• The group’s familiar teasing continues: members joke about Fairy Eastern Six’s repeatedly altered title, while she angrily denies Yellow Mountain’s claim that she changes it herself while sleepwalking.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts the cultivators’ casual access to extraordinary resources—sect compounds, magical garments, and props—with their everyday group-chat banter.
• Comedic danger comes from treating a supernatural ability as an ordinary convenience: one voice message becomes a nearly inescapable attack.
• Friendship and group camaraderie appear through the cultivators’ collective planning, teasing, and shared complaints, even as they threaten Creation with punishment.

Chapter Summary: “What If We Kicked Three Waves Out?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dharma King Creation’s singing causes widespread physical harm. Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group suffer dizziness, nearly fall from the sky, or lose consciousness, while ordinary creatures such as fish and shellfish die from the sound.
• The group jokingly votes to expel Dharma King Creation and discusses creating software that could block voice messages from specific users.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain reflects on the group’s increasingly reckless behavior and concludes that its transformation began after Mad Saber Three Waves joined. He proposes expelling Three Waves instead.
• At Medicine Master’s home, Jiang Ziyan relays Three Waves’ furious objection to Yellow Mountain. She then photographs Three Waves bound upside down, wearing sunglasses and a ridiculous wig, and sends the image to the group. Yellow Mountain is amused but also distressed that Jiang Ziyan seems to have adopted Three Waves’ troublemaking tendencies.
• Gao Moumou wakes at noon after apparently collapsing from exhaustion while working on the film script. Song Shuhang and Mei Yi tell him he merely fell asleep after staying up late, though Gao suspects something unusual happened.
• Song Shuhang informs Gao that Jacob’s film crew has arrived and that production preparations are underway.
• Several members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group arrive at the manor, presumably preparing to confront or punish Dharma King Creation if he appears.
• Director Jacob, Master Cloud-Swallowing, Venerable White, and Spirit Butterfly’s subordinates organize the film project. Song Shuhang is placed in charge of contracts, insurance, equipment, funding, and other logistical matters.
• Spirit Butterfly is eager for the movie to be completed because he wants to watch it with his daughter after her tribulation.
• The chapter ends with the arrival of the Foreign Monk, now dressed in Daoist robes because his sect belongs to the Daoist Religion. Filming is scheduled to begin in the next chapter, with the first scene involving Senior Brother Gao Sheng beating up the protagonist, Ling Ye.

Character Developments

• True Lord Yellow Mountain becomes increasingly exasperated with the chaotic group and seriously considers disbanding it. He identifies Mad Saber Three Waves as the source of the group’s reckless culture.
• Mad Saber Three Waves is blamed for the group’s “courting death” atmosphere despite having no role in Dharma King Creation’s singing incident. His protest is undercut when Jiang Ziyan humiliates him for comic effect.
• Jiang Ziyan displays a mischievous, increasingly reckless side, suggesting that Three Waves’ influence may be contagious.
• Gao Moumou remains suspicious and analytical, noticing that his supposed exhaustion does not make sense given his improved physical condition.
• Song Shuhang takes on greater responsibility, helping coordinate the film and managing contracts and production logistics.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly is portrayed as a devoted father who is strongly invested in the film because his daughter is excited to see it.
• The Foreign Monk continues to appear eccentric and humorous, visually contradicting expectations by wearing a Daoist robe despite being a bald monk.

Significant Themes

• Chaos and contagious recklessness: The group’s destructive behavior is treated as a social disease that began with Three Waves and has spread to others.
• Comedy through suffering and humiliation: The characters respond to dangerous situations with jokes, votes, teasing, and absurd punishments.
• Responsibility amid disorder: While the cultivators behave irresponsibly, Song Shuhang and Yellow Mountain are forced to manage the consequences and maintain order.
• Family affection: Spirit Butterfly’s urgency to finish the film highlights his love for and desire to support his daughter.
• The collision of ordinary life and cultivation: Film production, contracts, insurance, ambulances, and food coexist with sword flight, Immortal Arks, and supernatural disasters.

Character Interactions

• Group members collectively complain about Dharma King Creation’s singing and mock the idea of using him as a “sound-pollution weapon.”
• Yellow Mountain shifts the blame from Creation to Three Waves, creating a humorous conflict over who truly deserves expulsion.
• Jiang Ziyan communicates Three Waves’ outrage to Yellow Mountain, then worsens the situation by sending the group a humiliating photograph of him.
• Song Shuhang reassures and guides Gao Moumou while preparing him to meet Jacob and join the film project.
• Spirit Butterfly’s subordinate privately assures Song Shuhang that all production needs will be handled, allowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie.
• Song Shuhang reunites with the Foreign Monk, whose unusual clothing provides another comic moment before filming begins.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang meets a foreign Daoist who had originally hoped to become a Buddhist monk. They discover they share the same frustration: each ended up with the opposite kind of cultivation path and equipment they wanted.
• The two trade defensive garments: Song gives the monk his Jade-Green Kasaya, and receives the monk’s Golden Bell Shield Daoist Robe. The monk then asks to appear in the film, and Shuhang promises to try to get him a major role—possibly as a substitute for Shuhang’s own part.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group gathers for filming. Illusion Butterflies are placed on Shuhang’s ordinary friends so they will mentally dismiss the cultivators’ supernatural abilities as ordinary film effects.
• Venerable White leads the crew by immortal boat to his restored, beautiful sect residence, the first filming location. Shuhang asks to borrow Spirit Stones, hoping to prepare for an upcoming meeting with the mysterious Everything Can Be Sold and to find possible help for Li Yinzhu’s illness. White agrees to lend him some after filming.
• The crew prepares to shoot the opening fight scene: Senior Brother Gao Sheng confronts protagonist Ling Ye. Venerable White and True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey immediately settle into their roles, but Shuhang’s performance goes wrong: while attempting a dramatic somersault onto the platform, he loses coordination and crashes into its edge. Director Jacob calls “Cut.”

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang and the foreign Daoist bond over their mismatched religious and martial identities, then seal their friendship with an enthusiastic exchange of treasured robes.
• Shuhang shows resourcefulness by considering the monk for a role, while also revealing his anxiety about playing Gao Sheng himself.
• His concern for Li Yinzhu motivates him to seek extra Spirit Stones and keep multiple possible cures in mind rather than rely solely on the “forbidden area.”
• Venerable White is supportive and amused, lending Shuhang resources and helping guide the production.
• The group’s seniors and companions gather in a relaxed atmosphere, teasing Snow Wolf Cave Master’s adorable wolf cubs before filming begins.

Significant themes

• Identity and unexpected paths: Both Shuhang and the foreign Daoist find themselves practicing traditions different from the ones they once hoped to follow.
• Friendship and exchange: Their shared predicament quickly creates trust and a humorous, mutually beneficial trade.
• Preparation and hope: Shuhang seeks every possible resource to protect Li Yinzhu and pursue a cure.
• Comedy amid cultivation: The chapter contrasts powerful cultivators and cinematic spectacle with Shuhang’s very ordinary stage fright and pratfall.

Key plot points and events

• The gathered cultivators notice that Song Shuhang has reached the Third-Grade Realm, astonishingly soon after his earlier Second-Grade breakthrough. Medicine Master is especially shocked, since he helped introduce Shuhang to cultivation.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer mistakenly attributes Shuhang’s rapid progress to Daoist Horizon forcing power into him. The group warns one another about Horizon, while Flood Dragon Overlord panics over his daughter Yu Jiaojiao, who has been staying with him. Horizon overhears and is quietly wounded by their assumption.
• On the film set, Shuhang recovers from his earlier failed somersault, declines a stunt double, and successfully completes the jump on the second take.
• Filming continues: Venerable White plays Ling Ye, Jiang Ziyan plays Senior Sister Murong Hua, and Shuhang plays the threatening Senior Brother Gao Sheng. Shuhang and Venerable White have planned for Gao Sheng to win their staged saber duel after a series of exchanges.
• Shuhang attacks with the Basic Saber Technique, but Venerable White instinctively blocks with far greater force than expected. The impact sends Shuhang flying, reversing the intended outcome.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is now a Third-Grade cultivator, though he remains comically excited by an ordinary physical feat. He becomes more absorbed in his villainous role, but his skill cannot overcome Venerable White’s reflexes.
• Venerable White is calm and composed in character, yet his natural strength and instincts disrupt the staged fight.
• Medicine Master is impressed and privately exasperated by Shuhang’s extraordinary speed of advancement.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer confidently offers an incorrect explanation for Shuhang’s progress, prompting the group’s humorous misunderstanding about Daoist Horizon.
• Daoist Horizon hears the cultivators’ suspicions and is hurt, though he says nothing.
• Jiang Ziyan convincingly portrays Murong Hua’s tenderness, apparently drawing on her real affection for Medicine Master.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts genuine cultivation power with ordinary expectations: Shuhang’s rapid progress astonishes seasoned cultivators, while even a simple jump becomes a comic achievement.
• It also plays with the gap between acting and reality: Shuhang’s staged menace is overwhelmed by Venerable White’s real strength, turning a rehearsed defeat into an unexpected one.
• Misunderstandings and comic overconfidence drive the group’s reactions, especially their mistaken belief that Horizon has been empowering Shuhang.

Chapter 670 Summary: Venerable White vs. Senior White

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang is thrown into the air during the filming of the martial-arts scene and expects to crash painfully, humorously wishing for a stunt double.
• Northern River and the other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group prepare something that looks ominously like a funeral wreath, alarming Shuhang.
• Venerable White uses his spiritual energy to catch Shuhang and stabilize the scene. His intervention is disguised by Illusion Butterfly and the film setup, making the supernatural action appear to the ordinary crew as carefully choreographed wirework.
• The production crew interprets the real clash between Shuhang and Venerable White as an extremely dramatic exchange between the characters Ling Ye and Senior Brother Gao Sheng.
• Venerable White suppresses his strength to roughly Shuhang’s level and deliberately slows his movements so the fight can be filmed safely.
• The two engage in a spectacular exchange of basic saber techniques, trading nearly a hundred blows. Director Jacob is thrilled, believing the footage is extraordinary and requires almost no special effects.
• When Shuhang tries to signal that the scene should end, Venerable White continues attacking. To prevent a failed take, he controls Shuhang’s body with spiritual-energy threads like a puppet.
• Under Venerable White’s control, Shuhang flawlessly counters a five-saber attack, advances, and executes a precise upward slash that tears Venerable White’s robe without seriously injuring him.
• Shuhang realizes that this is effectively a private lesson in saber technique. Venerable White’s timing, angles, footwork, and combat experience help Shuhang absorb and internalize the knowledge he previously gained from Phoenix Slayer’s “CPU.”
• The battle continues, with Venerable White controlling Shuhang’s movements while Shuhang focuses on observing and learning. The crew remains captivated by what they believe is outstanding acting and choreography.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains nervous about being injured but adapts quickly, continuing to act even when the fight becomes dangerous. He gains a deeper understanding of saber technique and begins converting borrowed knowledge into genuine personal mastery.
• Venerable White demonstrates extraordinary control over both his strength and spiritual energy. He carefully restrains himself to match Shuhang’s level, then takes over Shuhang’s movements to preserve the filming sequence and teach him through practical combat.
• Director Jacob becomes increasingly enthusiastic, convinced that the actors are delivering an unforgettable opening fight scene.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group continues helping behind the scenes, manipulating the environment and disguising the cultivators’ supernatural abilities as film effects.

Significant Themes

• Learning through experience: Shuhang’s saber skills improve not through formal explanation but by observing and physically experiencing Venerable White’s movements.
• The gap between appearance and reality: The film crew sees wires, choreography, and special effects, while the actual event is a genuine battle between powerful cultivators.
• Mentorship and trust: Venerable White teaches Shuhang indirectly, using the fight itself as instruction while trusting him to continue performing.
• Improvisation under pressure: Both characters constantly adapt to prevent the scene from being ruined, blending real combat with scripted acting.
• Comedy amid danger: Shuhang’s fear, confusion, and thoughts about stunt doubles contrast with the crew’s admiration for the “acting.”

Character Interactions

• Shuhang and Venerable White: Their interaction forms the chapter’s core. They fight while simultaneously filming, with Venerable White controlling the pace and eventually Shuhang’s body. Shuhang moves from fear and frustration to appreciation as he recognizes the educational value of Senior White’s techniques.
• Shuhang and the film crew: Shuhang must maintain his character and deliver scripted lines despite being genuinely manipulated and attacked.
• Venerable White and the production: Without the crew realizing it, Venerable White turns the battle into a perfectly cinematic performance.
• Director Jacob and the actors: Jacob views the clash as an extraordinary cinematic achievement, praising the performers’ intensity and skill while remaining unaware of its supernatural reality.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang, acting as Senior Brother Gao Sheng under Venerable White’s control, fights Senior White’s character, Ling Ye. Their duel is convincing, but Shuhang grows increasingly nervous as his saber cuts up Senior White’s robe and the crew and fairies glare at him.
• Director Jacob calls a break so makeup artists can add fake blood and wounds for the next part of the scene. He is pleased with the footage and recognizes that this unusual production cannot be filmed through repeated takes like an ordinary movie.
• During the break, Shuhang asks Northern River’s Loose Cultivator for a stunt double, jokingly requesting a “clone technique” for chatting in the group. Northern River has never heard of one.
• Shuhang then produces two puppets. Northern River identifies the larger puppet as an inactive artifact, but offers to repair a damaged wooden doll as a substitute puppet. It needs a Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone, which Shuhang supplies.
• The wooden doll is revealed to be a reconnaissance puppet once used by Helm Master Jing Mo. It was wrecked after encountering Senior White’s “passionate desert.”

Character development

• Song Shuhang remains anxious about the consequences of hurting Senior White on camera, but tries to solve the problem creatively by finding a substitute.
• Venerable White is fully absorbed in acting and enjoys the makeup process, unaware of Shuhang’s growing distress.
• Director Jacob becomes more confident in the production, impressed by how exciting the fight is despite the lack of conventional choreography.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator teases Shuhang but ultimately offers practical help by agreeing to repair the wooden puppet.

Character interactions

• Shuhang’s apparent attack on Senior White creates comic tension with the watching fairies and crew, while he silently insists to himself that it is only acting.
• Northern River jokes about Shuhang’s likely funeral, then responds seriously enough to help with the puppet.
• The makeup artists are shy while working on Venerable White, who treats the experience with curiosity.

Significant themes

• Performance versus reality: The fight is staged, but the characters’ reactions and the danger surrounding Senior White make it feel real to Shuhang.
• Comic anxiety and improvisation: Shuhang’s fear drives increasingly desperate, inventive attempts to avoid his role.
• Unconventional production: The film must proceed continuously rather than through normal repeated takes, because the powerful cast cannot safely be made to repeat scenes.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator repairs a damaged Scout Doppelganger Puppet, originally a Third-Grade puppet, using a Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone.
• The puppet can transform into Song Shuhang’s appearance and transmit its user’s senses, though any pain it experiences is also shared with Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang activates the puppet and quickly learns to control it, using it as a stunt double so he can avoid personally acting out the brutal fight scene with Venerable White.
• With the help of illusory butterflies from Spirit Butterfly Island, the puppet appears indistinguishable from the real Shuhang to the film crew.
• Filming resumes. Venerable White plays the injured Ling Ye, while the puppet portrays Senior Brother Gao Sheng.
• The scene proceeds smoothly: Gao Sheng taunts Ling Ye, breaks his saber, knocks him down, and repeatedly attacks him.
• Shuhang uses the defensive Reverse Scale Saber Technique to create an imposing saber-qi dragon, which wraps around Ling Ye before Gao Sheng continues “beating” him.
• Both Shuhang and Venerable White become deeply immersed in their roles, and their acting coordination improves as the scene progresses.
• The film crew is delighted with the footage, but several members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group are confused. Northern River realizes that the “Shuhang” sitting beside him is actually the puppet, meaning the real Shuhang is onstage.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates resourcefulness by turning the repaired puppet into a perfect substitute for the dangerous and humiliating fight scene. His prior experience controlling the Spirit Ghost allows him to master the puppet quickly.
• He becomes increasingly confident as an actor and fighter, performing the scene naturally and taking satisfaction in the puppet’s capabilities.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator displays impressive repair skills and generosity. He is proud of the puppet but becomes increasingly bewildered by Shuhang’s unexpected plan.
• Venerable White enthusiastically embraces acting, displaying strong improvisational control and enjoying the experience. Even while portraying a battered and helpless character, he retains his extraordinary charm.
• Director Jacob is highly satisfied because the scene connects perfectly with the previous shot and requires little correction.
• The relationship between Shuhang and Venerable White shows growing acting chemistry and tacit understanding.

Significant Themes

• Resourcefulness and adaptation: Shuhang transforms an old, damaged treasure into a practical solution to an immediate problem.
• Appearance versus reality: The puppet looks and sounds like Shuhang, deceiving the film crew and confusing the seniors watching nearby.
• Performance and identity: The characters enthusiastically act out violence while remaining fully aware that it is staged, blurring the boundary between genuine combat and performance.
• Trust and coordination: The scene succeeds because Shuhang and Venerable White cooperate closely and respond instinctively to each other.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: The contrast between the smooth filming and Northern River’s growing confusion creates the chapter’s main humorous effect.

Character Interactions

• Northern River teaches Shuhang how to activate and control the puppet, while Shuhang gratefully praises him for providing a timely solution.
• Shuhang controls the puppet while Venerable White performs the role of Ling Ye, with both following the script and coordinating their movements precisely.
• Venerable White even controls the broken saber so it strikes his own face at the correct moment, ensuring continuity with the script.
• During the performance, Gao Sheng’s cruel taunts and Ling Ye’s stubborn refusal to surrender intensify the dramatic confrontation.
• Offstage, Northern River watches the apparent “Shuhang” beside him and the “Shuhang” onstage, finally realizing he has been sitting next to the puppet and can no longer understand Shuhang’s intentions.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang completes his scenes as Senior Brother Gao Sheng, using a puppet substitute to protect himself while acting opposite Venerable White, who plays Ling Ye.
• The climactic fight scene ends when True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey appears as the Eight-Armed Sword Saint and stops Gao Sheng from seriously injuring Ling Ye.
• Gao Sheng leaves after taunting Ling Ye and promising to challenge him again, concluding Song Shuhang’s scenes in the first act.
• Jiang Ziyan, playing Senior Sister Murong Hua, tends to Ling Ye’s wounds with unexpected gentleness, though her affection is clearly directed toward Medicine Master.
• Song Shuhang goes to thank Northern River’s Loose Cultivator for providing the puppet substitute, believing he has controlled it throughout the performance.
• Northern River posts about the filming in the group’s social feed, joking that Song Shuhang has “sacrificed himself” by beating up Venerable White. The other cultivators respond with bets about how long Song Shuhang will survive before Venerable White retaliates.
• The group’s messages create a comedic betting pool, while Yellow Mountain True Monarch threatens Dongfang Jingxue over her continued promotion of the annoying song “Song of the Yellow Mountain Big Fool.”
• Song Shuhang suddenly realizes that something is wrong: the person onstage was not the puppet substitute but his true body, while the “Song Shuhang” sitting beside Northern River was actually the puppet.
• The Ink Sect puppet’s mysterious light stops, restoring Song Shuhang’s normal senses. He confirms in horror that the figure currently standing before him is indeed his real body.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes increasingly confident in his acting partnership with Venerable White, but his confidence turns to shock when he discovers that his puppet and true body had somehow switched roles in his perception.
• Venerable White remains committed to the performance, convincingly portraying an injured but resentful Ling Ye. His apparent suffering becomes the basis for everyone’s jokes and concern.
• Jiang Ziyan reveals a surprisingly tender side while caring for Ling Ye, exposing the depth of her feelings for Medicine Master.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator acts as both a helpful friend and mischievous commentator, publicly exaggerating Song Shuhang’s danger and organizing bets about his fate.
• Yellow Mountain True Monarch is portrayed as increasingly exasperated by Dongfang Jingxue’s altered personality and musical trolling.

Significant Themes

• Identity and perception: The chapter’s central twist questions Song Shuhang’s ability to distinguish his own body from a puppet-controlled substitute.
• Unpredictable cultivation techniques: The strange Ink Sect puppet produces an impossible situation that defies both scientific logic and cultivation common sense.
• Comedic camaraderie: The cultivators treat Song Shuhang’s potential doom as entertainment, showing the group’s affectionate but chaotic relationships.
• Performance versus reality: The actors become deeply immersed in their roles, while the fictional violence has potentially real consequences for Song Shuhang.
• Romance and hidden affection: Jiang Ziyan’s gentle treatment of Ling Ye is primarily motivated by her love for Medicine Master.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Venerable White coordinate perfectly during the Gao Sheng–Ling Ye fight, making the scene appear genuinely intense.
• True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey interrupts the duel and imposes authority over the younger characters.
• Jiang Ziyan and Medicine Master share an indirect romantic interaction, as her tenderness toward Ling Ye is visibly influenced by Medicine Master’s presence.
• Northern River and Song Shuhang are connected through the puppet substitute, though Northern River unknowingly sits beside the substitute while the real Song Shuhang performs.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group turns Song Shuhang’s survival into a playful betting event.
• Yellow Mountain True Monarch and Dongfang Jingxue exchange threats and apologies over her promotion of the irritating song, reinforcing the group’s chaotic humor.

Chapter Summary: My Spirit Ghost Will Return Safely

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang panics after realizing he has just acted out a scene in which he beat Venerable White “to a pulp,” fearing that Senior White might retaliate.
• The members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group reassure him that because Venerable White willingly played the role and enjoyed the filming, Shuhang may not only survive but also gain good luck.
• Song Shuhang asks Venerable White whether he enjoyed acting. Venerable White confirms that the experience was fun and refreshing, especially because the role of Ling Ye reminded him of his past.
• Gao Moumou praises Shuhang’s acting as Senior Brother Gao Sheng and reveals that he has become interested in scriptwriting. He plans to learn from Master Cloud-Swallowing, though he rejects Shuhang’s joking suggestion that he become a Buddhist lay disciple.
• The group tests whether Shuhang’s luck has improved by having him roll ice dice created by Snow Wolf Cave Master. Shuhang successfully rolls four fours and then four sixes, convincing everyone that his luck has genuinely turned favorable.
• When asked to make a wish, Shuhang first wishes for someone else to replace him as Senior Brother Gao Sheng, but this is dismissed as unrealistic.
• He then makes a sincere wish: that his Spirit Ghost will safely return.
• Shuhang explains that a powerful expert forcibly borrowed his Spirit Ghost, but something went wrong during its return. It is now trapped in an unknown space, cut off from him, though he can still sense that it remains alive.
• The chapter ends with Medicine Master finally checking the Nine Provinces Number One Group, where a new message from Su Clan’s Seven has appeared, setting up the next development.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains anxious about the consequences of his actions but gains confidence after learning that Venerable White enjoyed the filming. His successful dice rolls also give him hope that his luck is changing.
• Venerable White reveals a more playful and nostalgic side. Acting allows him to revisit memories connected to the role of Ling Ye, and he becomes eager to continue filming.
• Gao Moumou shows growing interest in filmmaking, particularly scriptwriting, and begins considering guidance from Master Cloud-Swallow.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group continues to act as a supportive, teasing community, helping Shuhang cope with his worries while enthusiastically testing his fortune.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost is emphasized as an emotionally important part of him. Its disappearance leaves him feeling incomplete, motivating his hope that it will return safely.

Significant Themes

• Friendship and mutual support: Shuhang’s fellow cultivators comfort him, joke with him, and help him handle both his fear of Venerable White and his concern for his Spirit Ghost.
• Luck and fate: The dice experiment suggests that Shuhang’s fortunes may be improving after pleasing Venerable White, though the group remains curious about how far this luck extends.
• Performance and identity: Acting blurs the line between real personalities and fictional roles, allowing Venerable White to reconnect with his past while Shuhang temporarily embodies an unpleasant character.
• Loss and longing: Shuhang’s inability to locate his Spirit Ghost creates a sense of emptiness and vulnerability, showing how deeply connected he is to it.
• Humor amid danger: Serious supernatural problems are treated with playful banter, gambling jokes, and absurd suggestions such as using Copper Trigram as a stand-in.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen: Sixteen comforts Shuhang by explaining why Venerable White may not be angry.
• Song Shuhang and Venerable White: Shuhang seeks reassurance, and Venerable White confirms that the filming was enjoyable.
• Song Shuhang and Gao Moumou: Gao Moumou praises Shuhang’s acting and discusses his possible future in scriptwriting; Shuhang jokingly suggests Buddhism as a career path.
• Song Shuhang and the group: The cultivators test his luck through dice rolls and suggest increasingly unlikely ways to replace him in the film.
• Song Shuhang and his Spirit Ghost: Shuhang reveals his genuine emotional distress over their separation and vows to recover it.
• Medicine Master and the group chat: Medicine Master finishes posting to his social feed just as Su Clan’s Seven sends a new message, creating a cliffhanger.

Key plot points and events

• Su Clan’s Seven captures Copper Trigram Immortal Master and Doudou and plans to bring them to the movie set, where Fairy Lychee is waiting.
• Copper Trigram had been disguised as Fairy Lychee, leading a young woman, Ye Si, to call him “Mom.” When the disguise is exposed, Ye Si cries, and Copper Trigram promises to take her to meet the real Fairy Lychee.
• Fairy Lychee is furious at Copper Trigram’s impersonation and considers having him beaten, but agrees to confront him herself when Seven brings him to the set.
• Song Shuhang realizes Ye Si is leaving Jadewater Pavilion and worries that, in her spirit-ghost-like condition, she could be captured and bound by a cultivator.
• Seven confirms Pavilion Master Chu approved Ye Si’s trip and passes on news that Li Yinzhu’s Cold Illness has worsened. Shuhang resolves to find a cure soon, with only a year to act.

Character developments and interactions

• Copper Trigram continues his reckless habit of provoking trouble; his impersonation of Fairy Lychee puts him in immediate danger from her anger.
• Fairy Lychee shifts from indignation to cautious preparation, asking Shuhang to explain Ye Si before meeting the girl who may call her “Mom.”
• Song Shuhang is concerned for Ye Si’s safety and for Li Yinzhu’s worsening illness. He also resists Su Clan’s Seven’s teasing over his unsettled Daoist name.
• Su Clan’s Seven acts as messenger and escort, teasing Shuhang while arranging to bring Copper Trigram and Ye Si to the set.
• Iron Trigram, Copper Trigram’s disciple, fears being caught in his master’s fallout and flees to a more secluded hideout in disguise.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen quietly observes Shuhang and reflects on her understanding of his personality.

Significant themes

• The group’s recurring comedy of reckless behavior and its inevitable consequences, especially through Copper Trigram’s escalating mischief.
• Found family and emotional attachment, expressed through Ye Si’s instinctive closeness to Fairy Lychee’s appearance.
• Responsibility amid humor: Shuhang must balance the immediate concerns of Ye Si’s safety with the urgent need to cure Li Yinzhu.

Key plot points and events

• Filming continues with scenes showing Senior Brother Gao Sheng (Song Shuhang) repeatedly beating Ling Ye (Venerable White), while Murong Hua (Jiang Ziyan) tends to Ling Ye’s injuries.
• During a break, Song Shuhang says he prefers a happier, more satisfying ending where Ling Ye stops Murong Hua’s wedding. Jiang Ziyan firmly insists that nobody will disrupt her character’s wedding to Medicine Master—even in the movie.
• Medicine Master gets a makeover for his role. Without his eccentric hairstyle and dark circles, he turns out to be handsome and gentle, surprising the group and prompting jokes that he’ll attract love letters.
• Jiang Ziyan secretly coordinates wedding preparations with Mad Saber Three Waves. She promises him an antidote in exchange for arranging supplies and bringing Medicine Master’s parents.
• Three Waves also secures a small role in the film. When filming resumes, he appears as the messenger who tells Ling Ye that Murong Hua is getting married.
• Three Waves announces that Murong Hua is to marry a man named Mad Saber Three Waves. He is secretly retaliating against Jiang Ziyan for making him and Medicine Master take a large dose of the Death-Defying Cure and for hanging him upside down.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White enjoys acting but finds lying injured for several shots dull; he looks forward to playing Ling Ye’s distress over the wedding and delivers a convincing reaction.
• Song Shuhang shows enthusiasm for a romantic, triumphant ending, but Jiang Ziyan’s possessive seriousness leaves him and the others speechless.
• Medicine Master’s transformation reveals a striking appearance that his companions had never seen beneath his usual grooming. His awkwardness at their attention contrasts with their amused admiration.
• Jiang Ziyan appears to be arranging a real wedding with Medicine Master, while secretly using Three Waves to help. Three Waves, however, turns the movie into an opportunity for revenge.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group is puzzled by Three Waves’s sudden appearance, unaware of his deal with Jiang Ziyan or his plan.

Significant themes

• Reality blurring with performance: Jiang Ziyan’s apparent determination to make the fictional wedding real gives the movie’s plot personal stakes.
• Revenge and comic irony: Three Waves uses a tiny acting role to rewrite the wedding plot in his own favor.
• Hidden sides of people: Medicine Master’s makeover exposes a handsome, gentle side, while Three Waves’s cooperative act conceals mischief.

Key plot points and events

• Director Jacob continues filming after Mad Saber Three Waves unexpectedly takes over a minor role and changes the story. He accepts Three Waves’s mistaken name and improvised lines, deciding they can be dubbed later.
• Staying in character, Venerable White plays Ling Ye, who learns that Senior Sister Murong Hua is to marry Mad Saber Three Waves’s character in three days. She has sent him a letter declaring her love and asking him to attend the wedding. Ling Ye vows to reach it even if he has to crawl.
• The scene ends successfully, and Director Jacob praises both Venerable White and Three Waves, whose brief performance has impressed him.
• After filming, Three Waves asks Venerable White to hit him with a Disposable Flying Sword so he can escape the people he expects to pursue him. Venerable White says he is not angry and actually enjoyed Three Waves’s performance.
• Three Waves tries again to provoke Venerable White by praising his twin-tail and bun hairstyles, but Venerable White takes it as a compliment. His old sensitivity about the “Senior White Sticker Pack” has faded.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer reveals that he has already informed Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan about Three Waves’s actions. Three Waves angrily vows to remember Phoenix Slayer.

Character developments

• Mad Saber Three Waves is initially delighted by his successful plot disruption and assumes Venerable White will launch him to safety. When that fails, he becomes increasingly desperate, resorting to deliberate provocation—but neither tactic works.
• Venerable White remains calm, adaptable, and good-humored. He accepts the improvised scene and no longer reacts strongly to jokes about his hairstyle or stickers.
• Director Jacob shows flexibility as a filmmaker: he prioritizes expressive acting over exact dialogue and recognizes Three Waves’s unexpected talent.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer acts mischievously against Three Waves by alerting the people Three Waves hoped to evade.

Significant themes

• Improvisation and creative flexibility: A disrupted script becomes a compelling scene because the director and actors adapt.
• Plans backfiring: Three Waves’s careful escape strategy depends on provoking Venerable White, but White’s calm response leaves him exposed.
• Changing sensitivities: Venerable White’s relaxed reaction shows how an earlier irritation has lost its power over him.
• Comic contrast: The sincere, melodramatic romance scene gives way to Three Waves’s frantic attempts to get launched away.

Character interactions

• Ling Ye and Ling Sen (Venerable White and Three Waves) share a dramatic scene: Ling Sen delivers Murong Hua’s letter, and Ling Ye vows to attend her wedding.
• Three Waves and Venerable White shift from co-actors to a comic standoff, with Three Waves fishing for a flying-sword sendoff and White refusing to see any reason for one.
• Three Waves and Phoenix Slayer end on hostile terms after Phoenix Slayer alerts Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan.
• The gathered group watches Three Waves’s behavior and speculates about his motives, recognizing that he may be provoking White on purpose.

Key plot points and events

• Mad Saber Three Waves tries to flee before Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan arrive, launching himself into the sky on his treasured saber.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer has the hermit Drunk Moon Hermit stop him with a nearly unbreakable rope. The hermit offers Three Waves three chances to guess his name in exchange for release.
• Three Waves guesses “Drunk King,” “Drunk Emperor,” and “Drunk Immortal,” then mistakes the hermit’s online handle for his name. Drunk Moon tightens the rope until Three Waves passes out.
• Song Shuhang and several other merit-bearing cultivators chant a Buddhist scripture over the scene, apparently treating Three Waves as if he has died.
• Three Waves wakes to find Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan binding him into a rigid “1” shape. They plan to dress him festively and hang him up; Medicine Master also says a drug he administered should soon take effect.
• In a separate scene, six powerful cave masters on Rebirth Mountain decide to proceed with a plan even though its instigator, Dragon Cave Master, has not arrived.

Character developments and interactions

• Three Waves remains recklessly playful but is genuinely afraid of dying. His escape attempt quickly turns into desperate bargaining and painful humiliation.
• Phoenix Slayer explains that he is helping Medicine Master because of a favor, while Drunk Moon Hermit catches Three Waves to repay Phoenix Slayer for a favor. Their actions reveal how strongly favors shape their relationships.
• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan work together to restrain Three Waves, with Medicine Master’s gentle manner contrasting ominously with his treatment of him.
• Song Shuhang, the foreign monk, Master Profound Principle, and Cloud-Swallowing Monk join in solemn chanting over Three Waves, adding comic absurdity to the apparent “funeral.”

Significant themes

• A favor-based social world: Characters repeatedly help or hinder one another to repay obligations, leaving Three Waves to lament a society ruled by favors.
• Comedy through danger and humiliation: Three Waves’s life-threatening escape, mistaken guesses, and elaborate restraint are played for slapstick.
• Plans and uncertainty: The Rebirth Mountain cave masters press ahead despite the absence of the leader who initiated their plan, setting up a separate plot thread.

Plot and events

• Six True Lord-level cave masters of Rebirth Mountain locate the Willow Tree Demon in China. They agree to send an advance team to investigate while the others wait in support, confident that their combined force can defeat her.
• At the film set, Venerable White and Snow Wolf Cave Master’s family prepare for a fight scene. Meanwhile, several Nine Provinces Number One Group seniors gather to watch Medicine Master’s promised “good show.”
• Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan reveal their captive, Mad Saber Three Waves, tied up and dressed with festive red decorations. Medicine Master gives him a harmless experimental Balloon Gu: Three Waves rapidly swells into a sphere and floats away, tethered by a long rope. Medicine Master says he can control the effect and hints that removing the Gu will create an impressive spectacle.
• The group heads to the next filming scene. Song Shuhang then receives a call from Lay Buddhist Xian Gong, who has moved traps near Yu Jiaojiao’s villa and asks Shuhang to leave his aura on them. They intend to catch the Dragon Demon this time.

Character developments and interactions

• Medicine Master puts an old failed experiment to comic use, while Jiang Ziyan assists him. Their coordination—and her brief, subdued reaction before helping—suggests some underlying tension or emotion.
• Mad Saber Three Waves is once again the target of the group’s mischief. Bound and unable to protest except through muffled cries, he is horrified and humiliated as he becomes a human hot-air balloon.
• Drunk Moon Hermit is touched when Northern River’s Loose Cultivator claims to remember his name. In reality, Northern River has memorized a similar-sounding, incorrect name, “Lay Buddhist Most Transcendent.” The group’s teasing turns the mistake into suggestive gossip, embarrassing both men and Medicine Master.
• Song Shuhang observes the antics, worries about what Medicine Master means by an “impressive spectacle,” and is then drawn into Xian Gong’s Dragon Demon hunt.

Significant themes

• The chapter mixes high-stakes supernatural danger with absurd comedy: a powerful demon hunt contrasts with the group’s prank on Three Waves.
• Friendship and teasing define the cultivators’ social life, though jokes can leave their targets embarrassed.
• Ambition and failed experiments appear in Medicine Master’s story: his youthful wish to fly inspired the Balloon Gu, which never became a practical success.
• The chapter also sets up two looming dangers—the Willow Tree Demon and the Dragon Demon—while the characters remain occupied with filming and comedy.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang joins Lay Buddhist Xian Gong in preparing a trap to lure out a Dragon Demon from the Nine Netherworld. Song leaves liquefied true qi in the formation’s crystals so it can reproduce his aura and attract the demons.
• Both Song Shuhang and Lay Buddhist Xian Gong feel certain that the demons will appear, believing Song’s recent good luck will ensure success.
• Song is called back to the film set for the second-act scene of the movie. Venerable White plays Ling Ye, who is rushing to attend his Eldest Senior Sister Murong Hua’s wedding.
• In the scene, Ling Ye encounters Snow Wolf Cave Master’s family, who appear as enormous, realistic Snow Wolves. Their supernatural forms are disguised from the ordinary film crew through illusion techniques.
• Yu Jiaojiao unexpectedly joins the scene as another giant beast. Her battle with Snow Wolf Cave Master’s family becomes a spectacular fight, with Ling Ye caught in the middle, seriously “injured,” and eventually rendered unconscious.
• The filming proceeds smoothly, and the crew praises Venerable White’s acting and Song Shuhang’s appearance and performance. Song waits nearby to enter the scene as the person who rescues the wounded Ling Ye.
• Meanwhile, a spatial rift opens near the vacation estate. Six Sixth-Grade cave masters from the Nine Netherworld’s Rebirth Mountain emerge, followed by dozens of Fifth-Grade demons and more than a hundred lower-level demons.
• The demons are searching for the surviving remnant of Vajra Temple, but the vanguard is drawn toward the false aura of Song Shuhang created by Xian Gong’s formation.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong detects their arrival and prepares the ambush, but becomes concerned when he realizes that most of the approaching demons are only Third-Grade, with just ten Fourth-Grade demons among them.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Displays confidence in his unusually good luck and becomes more involved in both the demon-hunting plan and the film production. His growing reputation as a handsome and talented actor is humorously emphasized.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong: Remains determined to obtain the Dragon Demon Potion and eagerly anticipates the success of his trap. His excitement turns into uncertainty when the demons’ relatively low strength becomes apparent.
• Venerable White: Continues to perform as Ling Ye, convincingly portraying exhaustion, determination, and helplessness during the beast attack. His acting is so effective that even the crew becomes emotionally invested in his injuries.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master and family: Participate in the film as giant Snow Wolves, gaining an opportunity to act opposite Venerable White. Their transformation and willingness to endure real combat make the scene highly convincing.
• Yu Jiaojiao: Takes an unexpected role in the film, joining the Snow Wolves in a massive beast battle and contributing to the scene’s spectacle.
• Gao Moumou: Expands the script by adding Senior Brother Gao Sheng’s eventual rescue of Ling Ye, intending to redeem the character he himself plays.

Significant Themes

• Luck and fate: Song Shuhang’s recent run of good luck inspires confidence that the trap will succeed, while the film’s plot itself centers on Ling Ye struggling against cruel fate.
• Reality versus illusion: Real cultivators and demons are presented to ordinary people as movie effects, showing how supernatural events can be concealed beneath the appearance of filmmaking.
• Performance and identity: The cultivators genuinely act out their roles, blurring the line between their real abilities and their fictional characters.
• Preparation and unexpected complications: Both the trap and the film are carefully planned, but unforeseen developments—Yu Jiaojiao’s appearance and the demons’ unexpectedly weak composition—force the characters to reassess the situation.
• Spectacle and power: The giant-beast battle demonstrates the overwhelming scale of cultivator combat and provides a dramatic contrast with the ordinary crew’s limited understanding of what they are witnessing.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Lay Buddhist Xian Gong encourage each other and share confidence in their demon trap.
• Gao Moumou repeatedly summons Song back to the set and shapes the script to improve the reputation of his character, Senior Brother Gao Sheng.
• Venerable White’s performance impresses both the cultivators and the ordinary film crew, while the photographer becomes particularly sympathetic toward his wounded character.
• Yu Jiaojiao fights Snow Wolf Cave Master’s family in a staged but physically genuine battle, accidentally pulling Venerable White’s character into the conflict.
• The Nine Nether demons coordinate under the six cave masters, with stronger Fourth-Grade demons leading the mentally confused Third-Grade vanguard.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong prepares to confront the demons but realizes the incoming force may not contain the powerful Dragon Demon he and Song Shuhang need.