Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Ye Si regains memories of the massacre that destroyed Jadewater Pavilion and fears she may have become a Resentment Spirit. Song Shuhang explains that she is a Spirit Ghost—or, more precisely, a person revived through her family’s inherited Spirit Ghost. The explanation reassures her somewhat but leaves her grieving that she is still effectively dead and uncertain whether she can ever have children.
• Song cannot offer a convincing solution to Ye Si’s worries. She eventually steadies herself and changes the subject, asking about his own Spirit Ghost, which is missing in an unknown space. Shuhang insists their contract remains intact and promises to bring it back.
• Yu Jiaojiao announces that filming at Senior White’s Vacation Manor is nearly complete. The crew will next shoot at the Confucian Sect’s Myriad Books Mountain. This reminds Shuhang of a cryptic message from the dying Glazed Scholar about the “inverted Myriad Books Mountain” and the “Sage Silence Pool,” raising suspicions that the location holds a hidden connection.
• Shuhang finds his notes on Mad Saber Three Waves’s last wishes. A newly added explanation clarifies Three Waves’s wish to have his ashes scattered at sea: he wants to keep “riding the waves” after death.
• Shuhang, Ye Si, and Yu Jiaojiao head to the set, where Venerable White is preparing to film a scene of Ling Ye returning to the ruined Skycloud Sect and weeping. White complains that the eye-drop prop will not make him cry.
• Shuhang tries to tell White about a strange double of him from a dream, but an inexplicable force censors his words, turning them into “beep beep beep.”

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Si confronts the reality of her death and Spirit Ghost nature. Her sorrow over losing a normal future is intense, but she shows inner resilience by composing herself and redirecting the conversation.
• Song Shuhang tries to comfort Ye Si honestly, reassures her about his missing Spirit Ghost, and uses the film shoot to help distract her. His curiosity grows about the Confucian Sect and Glazed Scholar’s final message.
• Venerable White remains casually focused on filming, while Shuhang’s failed attempt to warn him suggests the dream’s mystery may be beyond ordinary communication.
• Yu Jiaojiao keeps the production moving and informs Shuhang about the next filming location.

Significant themes

• Identity, death, and rebirth: Ye Si’s unusual revival complicates whether she is a ghost, a living person, or something between.
• Love and uncertain futures: Ye Si’s fears about intimacy and having children reveal the personal cost of her changed existence.
• Unresolved mysteries: The Myriad Books Mountain, Sage Silence Pool, missing Spirit Ghost, and censored dream warning foreshadow larger supernatural developments.
• Humor amid grief: Three Waves’s flamboyant last wish and White’s trouble crying provide comic relief alongside Ye Si’s painful revelations.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang is unable to speak, write, draw, or transmit a particular story about a mysterious “Senior White” he saw in a nightmare. Every attempt is replaced by silence or strings of Xs. Venerable White suspects a curse, but Shuhang explains that this problem is separate from the nightmare-inducing spell planted by an Ancient Ink Sect puppet.
• Venerable White agrees to investigate later and urges Shuhang to return to filming before Director Jacob gets angry.
• The crew films the destruction of the Skycloud Sect, using real spell-created ruins and fire. Shuhang, True Lord White Crane, and Ye Si play corpses; Venerable White films the scene as Ling Ye, mourning and burying his fallen disciples.
• Ye Si asks Shuhang about his Spirit Ghost’s ability to consume curses. He explains that it is an innate power gained through mutation, which surprises her, since she herself has become a Spirit Ghost.
• The Skycloud Sect scenes take all day, so the crew postpones its trip to the Confucian Sect’s Myriad Books Mountain until the next day. Other scenes, including Shuhang and White Crane’s wedding shot, are also completed.
• That night, the seniors gather at the manor. Su Clan’s Seven has returned with Copper Trigram Immortal Master, while Su Clan’s Sixteen is away preparing for another attempt at the Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Shuhang, Ye Si, and Yu Jiaojiao go to watch Fairy Lychee fight Copper Trigram. She beats him while he mostly defends, partly because he is in the wrong and partly because he is concealing his strength for a future match against Northern River’s Loose Cultivator.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang’s attempts to reveal his nightmare deepen the mystery: the silencing power blocks not only speech but also writing, images, and electronic text. He accepts that he cannot explain it for now.
• Venerable White shows concern and curiosity, but puts the filming schedule first while promising to look into the problem.
• Ye Si’s curiosity about Spirit Ghosts connects to her own transformation into one. She also eagerly anticipates meeting the real Fairy Lychee.
• Shuhang and White Crane exchange quiet, comic complaints while pretending to be corpses; Yu Jiaojiao warns them when the camera is about to turn their way.
• Fairy Lychee’s forceful treatment of Copper Trigram contrasts with his restrained defense. Ye Si’s eyes light up upon seeing Fairy Lychee in person.

Significant themes

• Mystery and supernatural constraints: Shuhang’s inability to communicate his dream suggests a powerful, unexplained force at work.
• Duty and cooperation: The group balances personal concerns with the demands of the film production and supports one another.
• Identity and transformation: Ye Si’s questions about Spirit Ghosts reflect her adjustment to her own changed nature.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter mixes curses, sect tragedy, and preparations for a heavenly tribulation with playful filming mishaps and exaggerated sparring.

Chapter Summary: “Dragon Demon Potion, You Deserve to Have It!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Si senses an unusually strong blood connection with Fairy Lychee and instinctively identifies it as the feeling of a mother. Fairy Lychee experiences the same inexplicable closeness toward Ye Si, despite this being their first meeting.
• Fairy Lychee becomes distracted by Ye Si and accidentally releases Copper Trigram Immortal Master, whom she had been swinging around while punishing him. Copper Trigram uses the opportunity to flee, pretending to panic while secretly flying away.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator notices Copper Trigram’s escape and alerts the others. Several cultivators—including True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey, Wandering Monk Profound Principle, and Young Master Phoenix Slayer—pursue him because of his past habit of disguising himself and giving them fraudulent “black fortunes.”
• The cultivators discuss how Copper Trigram constantly changes his appearance, making him nearly impossible to identify. They decide they must catch him before he disappears.
• Fairy Lychee worries that Ye Si will publicly call her “Mommy,” which could spark embarrassing rumors about Fairy Lychee having a secret daughter. She interrupts Ye Si and carries her away to speak privately.
• With the spectacle ending, Song Shuhang prepares to rest. Yu Jiaojiao asks to accompany him so she can use the Enlightenment Stone to help overcome a cultivation bottleneck.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong calls Song Shuhang to announce that Medicine Master has successfully prepared forty vials of Dragon Demon Potion. Xian Gong and Song Shuhang will each receive twenty.
• Xian Gong delivers the potions. The red liquid visibly forms tiny dragon shapes inside the test tubes.

Character Developments

• Ye Si: Develops an immediate emotional attachment to Fairy Lychee, apparently responding to a mysterious blood or spiritual connection. She nearly accepts Fairy Lychee as her mother.
• Fairy Lychee: Experiences an equally powerful maternal-like bond with Ye Si, leaving her confused and alarmed. Despite her denial, she instinctively protects Ye Si from public embarrassment and takes her away for a private conversation.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master: Shows his usual cunning and theatrics. He turns his apparent suffering into an escape attempt, hoping to later placate Fairy Lychee with a suitable gift.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and the other pursuers: Their resentment toward Copper Trigram remains intense because of his previous deceptions. Northern River, however, deliberately saves his true confrontation with Copper Trigram for the upcoming battle at Forbidden Summit.
• Song Shuhang: Remains amused by the strange relationship forming between Ye Si and Fairy Lychee, while eagerly anticipating the potion’s effects on his physical body.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong: Is delighted that the potion has been completed, since it may resolve the physical dangers caused by his and Song Shuhang’s excessive mental strength.

Significant Themes

• Unexpected bonds and identity: The mysterious connection between Ye Si and Fairy Lychee suggests hidden ties and raises questions about their true relationship.
• Comedy through misunderstanding: The possible “mother-daughter” relationship, public gossip, and Fairy Lychee’s panic create much of the chapter’s humor.
• Consequences of deception: Copper Trigram’s disguises and fraudulent fortune-telling have earned him widespread enemies, leading to a comic pursuit.
• Balancing mental and physical cultivation: Song Shuhang’s powerful mental strength has outpaced his physique, making the Dragon Demon Potion essential for restoring balance and preventing further strain.
• Friendship and mutual assistance: The cultivators help one another—or, in Yu Jiaojiao’s case, opportunistically share resources—as they pursue cultivation breakthroughs.

Character Interactions

• Ye Si and Fairy Lychee share a powerful, wordless moment of mutual recognition and closeness.
• Song Shuhang reacts nervously to the possibility of Ye Si calling Fairy Lychee “Mommy.”
• Fairy Lychee abruptly asks Su Clan’s Seven to lend her Ye Si, then carries Ye Si away before she can speak.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator warns the others that Copper Trigram is escaping, prompting a group pursuit.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer questions his master and Ancient Lake Abbey about Copper Trigram’s true appearance, only to learn that the fortune-teller’s identity is practically impossible to pin down.
• Yu Jiaojiao asks Song Shuhang to let her use the Enlightenment Stone, and he agrees.
• Xian Gong informs Song Shuhang about the completed Dragon Demon Potion and personally brings him his share, giving Song Shuhang hope that his physical weaknesses can finally be corrected.

Key plot points and events

• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong gives Song Shuhang twenty vials of Dragon Demon Potion, advising him to build up his Blood Qi first and then take the potion in small doses.
• Shuhang warms up with the Vajra Foundation Fist and Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist, then drinks one-tenth of a vial while meditating.
• The potion seems to do nothing at first. Then Shuhang’s mouth goes numb, and he begins uncontrollably spitting out long strands of silk.
• He discovers that, along with a slight increase in physical strength, he feels an inexplicable urge to weave himself into a cocoon.
• Neither Yu Jiaojiao nor Xian Gong knows how a human should make one, so Shuhang asks the Nine Provinces Number One Group for advice. The first replies are equally unhelpful; members suggest asking insect cultivators, and Mad Saber Three Waves tags Soft Feather.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang eagerly tries the potion, but his confidence gives way to bewilderment and embarrassment as its unexpected effect turns him into a silk-spitting “silkworm.” He remains practical enough to seek help online.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong acts as a cautious mentor, supervising the dose and offering to intervene if Shuhang is endangered. He speculates that cocooning might lead to a transformation.
• Yu Jiaojiao helps measure the potion and encourages Shuhang to follow the urge, though she cannot advise him how to make a cocoon.
• The group chat’s seniors respond with humor and uncertainty, demonstrating that even experienced cultivators have no ready answer to Shuhang’s bizarre problem.

Significant themes

• The unpredictability of cultivation: A carefully prepared medicine produces an effect nobody anticipated.
• Knowledge has limits: Shuhang’s broad education—and the experience of his companions—does not cover the practicalities of human cocoon-making.
• Comic contrast: A potentially serious bodily transformation is treated with deadpan reactions and an urgent, ordinary online question.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mad Saber Three Waves mistakenly assumes Venerable Spirit Butterfly is not human and sends an insulting message in the group chat. He retracts it, but Venerable Spirit Butterfly—using Soft Feather’s account—responds anyway and places Three Waves on his blacklist.
• Spirit Butterfly begins planning revenge: a lavish film titled My Unrestrained Life, in which Three Waves suffers through endless waves and volcanic eruptions.
• Song Shuhang, now using the group title “Vajra Gentleman Saber,” asks the Nine Provinces Number One Group for help after drinking the Dragon Demon Potion and uncontrollably beginning to spit silk.
• Shuhang explains that he feels compelled to make a cocoon, but none of the human cultivators know how. The group responds by humorously spamming the chat with claims that they are “powerless to help.”
• Spirit Butterfly offers assistance by sending Jiugu, a butterfly demon from Spirit Butterfly Island. Venerable White also comes to observe the unusual phenomenon.
• Jiugu teaches Shuhang how to construct a cocoon. He moves to a corner of his room, creates a supporting “Cocoon Web,” and then forms the cocoon’s “Pupal Lining” using C-shaped, S-shaped, and figure-eight silk-spitting techniques.
• By the end of the chapter, Shuhang has successfully begun making a large cocoon and remarks that he feels less human and is thirsty.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: His transformation after drinking the Dragon Demon Potion becomes increasingly bizarre. He is forced to confront the possibility that his body and instincts are no longer entirely human, though he remains practical and cooperative while learning the cocoon-making process.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly: Demonstrates his extreme sensitivity to wording and his vengeful, theatrical personality by blacklisting Three Waves and designing an elaborate humiliating movie for him.
• Venerable White: Displays his usual curiosity and childlike enthusiasm, experimenting on Shuhang’s silk with Sword Qi and watching the cocoon formation closely.
• Jiugu: Acts as a patient instructor and reveals the butterfly demons’ practical knowledge of silk production and cocoon construction.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong: Carefully records the process because he expects that he may also need to make a cocoon after drinking the Dragon Demon Potion.
• Mad Saber Three Waves: Once again becomes the target of group-chat ridicule and Spirit Butterfly’s retaliation.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and identity: Shuhang’s growing insect-like abilities make him question whether he is still a “pure-blooded human.”
• Absurdity in cultivation: A powerful cultivator’s serious supernatural crisis is treated like an awkward practical lesson in silkworm behavior.
• Comradeship through teasing: The group’s jokes and spam are irritating but also show their familiar, communal way of responding to danger.
• Curiosity and experimentation: The characters treat Shuhang’s strange condition as an opportunity to observe and learn, blurring the line between cultivation, science, and comedy.

Character Interactions

• Three Waves and Spirit Butterfly clash through the group chat, with Spirit Butterfly using polite wording to conceal his annoyance and future revenge.
• Shuhang appeals to the group for help, but the seniors offer only comedic refusals until Spirit Butterfly provides a genuine solution.
• Venerable White, Yu Jiaojiao, and Lay Buddhist Xian Gong actively assist and observe while Jiugu guides Shuhang.
• Jiugu’s professional instruction contrasts with Shuhang’s embarrassment, while the others treat the event as an entertaining spectacle and potential learning experience.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang continues the exhausting process of cocooning after drinking the Dragon Demon Potion to strengthen his constitution. The technique requires precise silk-spinning patterns—C-shaped, S-shaped, and figure-eight motions—along with using his hands to secure the silk.
• Although dizzy, thirsty, and frustrated, Shuhang persists under Wine Auntie Colorful Butterfly’s instruction. With his Third-Grade cultivation, he quickly completes the framework, pupal lining, and the outline of a massive, nearly two-meter-tall cocoon.
• Venerable White becomes fascinated by the process and nearly pokes the still-fragile cocoon, but Wine Auntie stops him to prevent damage.
• Yu Jiaojiao records and posts five short videos of Shuhang’s cocooning process in the Nine Provinces Number One Group. A complete recording is being made separately by Senior Xian Gong.
• The group members mock and discuss the videos, especially Guo Da, who repeatedly attempts to post an “adorable dog-head” emote as a form of self-deprecation. Other members continually interrupt him, turning the exchange into a comic argument.
• Doudou deliberately steals Guo Da’s posting position and provokes him. The conversation shifts to Doudou’s mysterious arranged marriage, with the group joking that True Lord Yellow Mountain may somehow transform Doudou or marry him off despite his being male.
• Mad Saber Three Waves suggests that Yellow Mountain’s supposed forbidden technique could be used on a senior. When Copper Trigram asks whom he means, Three Waves recklessly answers Venerable White.
• A separate crisis emerges when Copper Trigram appears online despite supposedly being tied up and beaten by Phoenix Slayer, Ancient Lake Abbey, and Wandering Monk Profound Principle. The group realizes they may have been deceived by a puppet or clone.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator analyzes Copper Trigram’s likely strategy, suggesting that the “Copper Trigram” being beaten may actually be Black Trigram in disguise, while the online figure could be a substitute. The attackers investigate, while Copper Trigram threatens to defeat Northern River at the upcoming Forbidden Summit.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates endurance and determination by completing an unnatural, physically demanding cocooning process despite severe thirst, dizziness, and mental fatigue. His attempt highlights his willingness to endure hardship for cultivation.
• Yu Jiaojiao: Acts as both an observer and archivist, recording Shuhang’s transformation and sharing it with the group. She also provides a practical explanation for why she cannot record the entire process herself.
• Wine Auntie Colorful Butterfly: Serves as Shuhang’s patient and knowledgeable instructor, guiding him through each technical stage and protecting the cocoon from Venerable White’s curiosity.
• Venerable White: Shows childlike curiosity toward the cocoon and its construction, reinforcing his innocent but potentially troublesome personality.
• Guo Da: Becomes increasingly frustrated as everyone repeatedly “steals” his chance to post his self-deprecating dog-head emote. His exaggerated anger becomes the center of a running comedic gag.
• Doudou: Reveals his shameless, mischievous personality by intentionally provoking Guo Da and embracing the attention. He remains confident even when the group questions his marriage arrangements and gender.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator: Displays his deep understanding of Copper Trigram’s schemes and acts as a sharp strategist. His familiarity with Copper Trigram’s methods allows him to anticipate possible deceptions.
• Copper Trigram: Remains elusive and manipulative, apparently using clones, puppets, disguises, or decoys to escape his pursuers. He ends the chapter by threatening Northern River.

Significant Themes

• Perseverance through absurd hardship: Shuhang’s cocooning is painful and ridiculous, yet he endures it for self-improvement.
• Transformation and cultivation: The cocoon symbolizes physical strengthening and possible rebirth, while also comically forcing a human cultivator into an insect-like process.
• Comedic friendship and group dynamics: The chat group’s members constantly tease, interrupt, and provoke one another, revealing their closeness through playful conflict.
• Deception and counter-deception: Copper Trigram’s use of disguises, puppets, and clones emphasizes the difficulty of distinguishing reality from illusion.
• Reputation and shamelessness: Doudou’s confidence and Copper Trigram’s evasiveness suggest that shamelessness, trickery, and audacity are powerful social and survival tools.

Important Character Interactions

• Shuhang follows Colorful Butterfly’s instructions while Yu Jiaojiao and the others observe his cocooning.
• Venerable White’s curiosity is restrained by Colorful Butterfly to protect Shuhang’s fragile cocoon.
• Guo Da repeatedly quarrels with Phoenix Slayer, Tiantian, and Doudou over the “dog-head” emote.
• Doudou provokes Guo Da by inviting him to rub his head and then jokes about Yellow Mountain arranging his marriage.
• Three Waves’ reckless comment about using a forbidden technique on Venerable White prompts concern from Northern River, who recognizes that Three Waves is courting disaster.
• Northern River collaborates indirectly with Phoenix Slayer and Ancient Lake Abbey to uncover Copper Trigram’s deception, while Copper Trigram responds with a personal threat aimed at their future confrontation.

Key events

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator exposes Copper Trigram’s trick: the battered “Copper Trigram Puppet” is his real body, while the one chatting in the group is a clone or puppet.
• Venerable White sends Mad Saber Three Waves flying—not into the sun, but into his Sluggish Secret Realm, where every movement takes a fixed, painfully long time. The realm does not slow time or thought; it simply restricts movement. The group agrees that this is an especially effective punishment for restless Three Waves.
• The Daoists tease Fairy Eastern Six about her repeatedly changing title and her poor driving, including a recent collision with Song Shuhang’s car. They then speculate about Dharma King Creation, whose fondness for singing makes the group nervously prepare to protect their ears.
• Sunbreaker Halberd Guo Da tries twice to post a “head-rubbing” challenge. Doudou, True Lord Yellow Mountain’s dog, anticipates the second attempt and steals the post with prepared messages. Guo Da is left frustrated and threatens to retaliate.
• Northern River remarks that the group is beyond saving. Yellow Mountain agrees, jokingly threatens to disband it, and draws pleas from members who want the group to remain. He then leaves to continue pursuing Fairy Dongfang Jingxue, convinced that a stern warning can curb the group’s unruly behavior.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang’s cocoon formation nears completion: the cocoon has grown so thick that observers can no longer see him.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White demonstrates his inventive, deadpan approach to disciplining Three Waves, choosing an amusingly tedious realm over a lethal punishment.
• Three Waves remains the group’s notorious thrill-seeker, so the prospect of enforced stillness is treated as particularly unbearable.
• Flood Dragon Overlord appears to encourage a harsher punishment but is actually giving White a way to spare Three Waves without losing face.
• Doudou and Guo Da continue their competitive, playful feud over the group’s head-rubbing posts; Doudou wins through preparation and timing.
• Yellow Mountain presents himself as a responsible group leader, but his “disband the group” threat is largely a way to scare members into behaving. The group’s replies show how much they value the chat—and, in White Crane’s case, how useful it is for tracking Venerable White.
• Eastern Six is embarrassed by jokes about her driving, while Dharma King Creation insists he is not planning to sing, though the group remains unconvinced.

Significant themes

• The chapter’s humor comes from the contrast between powerful cultivators and their childish online squabbles, pranks, and rivalries.
• It also highlights the group’s close-knit, chaotic community: members tease and antagonize one another, yet react strongly at the thought of losing their shared space.
• The closing return to Song Shuhang’s cocoon shifts attention from the group’s comedy to his ongoing transformation.

Chapter Summary: “Muscle Shuhang and Cocoon Formation Senior White”

Plot Points and Events

• After Yu Jiaojiao posts a video of Song Shuhang forming a cocoon, members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group gather to watch.
• Song Shuhang finishes spinning silk and remains trapped inside a hard, two-meter-tall cocoon. The interior is hot, poorly ventilated, and rapidly losing oxygen, forcing him to use the Turtle-Breathing Technique.
• Liquid suddenly fills the cocoon, nearly drowning him. This reveals that the mutated Dragon Demon Potion is finally taking effect.
• Song Shuhang’s constitution strengthens rapidly as the potion’s medicinal power is absorbed. The observers wait impatiently while he remains inside the cocoon.
• Once the liquid recedes and his transformation stabilizes, Song Shuhang breaks out of the cocoon with several punches.
• He emerges wearing the Golden Bell Shield Daoist Robe, but his body has expanded dramatically. His muscles are so exaggerated that his head appears comically small in comparison.
• Venerable White examines him and determines that the transformation is temporary. The potion strengthened his body too quickly, causing temporary muscular enlargement. With body-tempering cultivation, Song Shuhang should return to normal within two or three days.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong leaves to take his share of the Dragon Demon Potion. The others jokingly wish him success in forming a beautiful cocoon.
• Venerable White asks Song Shuhang for a vial of the potion so he can experience cocoon formation himself. After drinking it, he immediately begins elegantly spinning silk and constructing a cocoon in the corner of the room.

Character Development

• Song Shuhang: Successfully survives the mutated Dragon Demon Potion and gains a major increase in physical strength—more than three times his previous constitution. Although embarrassed by his temporary “Muscle Shuhang” appearance, he is relieved that the transformation is not permanent.
• Venerable White: Displays intense curiosity about the cocooning process. His interest shifts from observing Song Shuhang to personally experimenting with the potion, and he approaches the process with enthusiasm and confidence.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong: Is relieved that the Dragon Demon Potion works despite its unexpected side effects. He eagerly departs to begin his own transformation.
• Yu Jiaojiao and the gathered seniors: Treat Song Shuhang’s transformation as entertainment, teasing him while also observing the potion’s effects.
• Fairy Eastern Six: Reacts openly to Song Shuhang’s absurdly muscular appearance by laughing.

Significant Themes

• Unexpected consequences of cultivation: The potion is effective, but its mutated form produces bizarre results, showing that advancement often comes with unpredictable risks.
• Comedic contrast: A potentially dangerous transformation is treated as a spectacle, with the seniors casually watching, joking, and playing chess while Song Shuhang struggles inside the cocoon.
• Curiosity and experimentation: Venerable White’s willingness to try the potion himself reflects the cultivators’ fascination with new techniques and unusual experiences.
• Temporary transformation and adaptation: Song Shuhang’s body must adjust to a sudden influx of medicinal power, emphasizing the importance of gradual cultivation and balance.
• Friendship and group dynamics: The seniors tease and observe Song Shuhang, but they also monitor his condition and offer support when necessary.

Character Interactions

• Venerable White repeatedly questions Song Shuhang about his condition and jokes about processing the cocoon into silk.
• Song Shuhang communicates with the observers from inside the cocoon, reporting his discomfort, lack of oxygen, and eventual strengthening.
• Yu Jiaojiao praises his new physique by nicknaming him “Muscle Shuhang.”
• Venerable White examines Song Shuhang and reassures him that the transformation is harmless and temporary.
• The group bids Lay Buddhist Xian Gong farewell with humorous blessings about forming a beautiful cocoon.
• Song Shuhang willingly gives Venerable White a vial of Dragon Demon Potion, after which White begins his own elegant cocoon formation, contrasting sharply with Song Shuhang’s clumsy process.

Key plot points and events

• After Venerable White swiftly spins a cocoon, several members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group decide to try it too.
• Song Shuhang trades Dragon Demon Potion for cultivation resources:
  • Young Master Phoenix Slayer gives him five uses of his unusual “CPU” ability for a quarter-dose.
  • True Lord White Crane trades three blades of Saber Intent Tongxuan for half a dose.
  • Snow Wolf Cave Master trades him a copy of the Gale Saber technique for a quarter-dose.
• Each recipient drinks the potion and begins spinning a cocoon near Venerable White. Snow Wolf takes a distinctive approach, anchoring his silk to the ceiling and weaving around a chandelier.
• Yu Jiaojiao records the scene and shares it with the group. Members joke that the Nine Provinces Number One Group should be renamed the Nine Provinces Cocoon-Binding Group, and others enthusiastically endorse the name.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows growing confidence as a trader, bargaining aggressively while choosing rewards useful to his cultivation. The Saber Intent blades particularly suit his effort to develop his own Saber Intent rather than rely on imitation.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer is shrewd and economical, securing only a quarter-dose because he wants to experiment with cocoon-making, not repeatedly strengthen his constitution.
• True Lord White Crane eagerly follows Venerable White’s example, valuing the chance to share the activity with him more than the potion’s physical benefits.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master contributes a practical saber manual and demonstrates a more inventive way to build his cocoon.

Significant themes

• Social contagion and group belonging: Venerable White’s unusual pastime quickly becomes fashionable among his companions.
• Practical cultivation and exchange: Characters trade according to their individual needs, balancing rare resources against useful techniques and abilities.
• Humor through contrast: Serious cultivation treasures and bargaining are mixed with the absurd spectacle of respected cultivators making cocoons.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang negotiates playfully but firmly with Phoenix Slayer, White Crane, and Snow Wolf, matching each potion dose to a specific reward.
• White Crane’s attention remains fixed on Venerable White, while Phoenix Slayer studies the cocoon-making process.
• Yu Jiaojiao turns the private spectacle into a group joke, and fellow cultivators build on it by adopting the proposed new group name.

Plot and key events

• Song Shuhang’s cocoon transformation leaves him enormously muscular after he absorbs the Dragon Demon Potion’s medicinal power. Yu Jiaojiao shares a photo with the cultivators’ group, prompting jokes and speculation about how the other cocooning seniors might look.
• The group banters about Doudou skipping the cocooning to play an online game with his wife, while Guo Da insists on preserving the two-message format of his self-mocking “rub the dog” joke.
• Song receives a late-night sales call for a muscle-building supplement. The irony of being offered a product to gain muscles while already having an absurdly muscular body irritates him, and he blocks the caller.
• Venerable White finishes his cocoon quickly, calmly drinks tea inside, and soon begins studying the body-strengthening liquid. Song, Jiaojiao, and Fairy Eastern Six compare his speed with Song’s slower transformation and wonder whether faster cocoon-making hastens the process.
• Fairy Eastern Six declines to cocoon, wary of ending up with Song’s appearance. Song also reconsiders whether to give Dragon Demon Potion to Su Clan’s Sixteen and Soft Feather, since its effects may be undesirable despite offering physical protection.
• When Song’s roommate Lin Tubo arrives late at night, Song asks Jiaojiao and Fairy Eastern Six to conceal the cocoons with an illusion and disguise Jiaojiao. Tubo then sees Song’s enormous new body and cries out in shock.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is embarrassed and frustrated by his exaggerated muscles, but remains curious about the cocooning process and concerned about how it might affect others. He tries to hide the supernatural scene from his ordinary roommate.
• Venerable White approaches the unusual experience with cheerful curiosity, treating the cocoon as an enjoyable experiment and even bringing tea inside.
• Yu Jiaojiao teases Song about his appearance and helps conceal the cocoons when Tubo arrives.
• Fairy Eastern Six observes and times the process but chooses not to undergo it herself.
• Lin Tubo arrives seeking company after feeling lonely and romantically disappointed, only to be stunned by Song’s transformation.
• The cultivators’ group provides comic commentary, especially through Doudou and Guo Da’s running joke.

Significant themes

• Transformation and its costs: The potion strengthens the body, but its dramatic side effects make Song question whether the benefit is worth it for others.
• Curiosity and experimentation: Venerable White and the others treat the cocooning process as a novel phenomenon to study.
• Comedy through contrast: Song’s monstrous physique clashes with an ordinary sales pitch, casual conversation, and Tubo’s everyday problems.
• Secrecy between worlds: Song and his friends must conceal supernatural events from his non-cultivator roommate.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang realizes he forgot to use his Shapeshifting Brooch and is still wearing his unnaturally muscular body when Tubo arrives.
• Fairy Eastern Six helps him cover up the truth by claiming the muscles are a movie-prop suit. Yu Jiaojiao, disguised as a mature woman resembling her mother, also appears, causing Tubo to assume Shuhang is involved with two beautiful women.
• After changing back to his normal appearance, Song Shuhang walks through the resort with Tubo. Tubo explains that his young cousin asked him to complete homework for his girlfriend, worsening his feelings as a single man.
• Tubo questions Song Shuhang about his mysterious recent behavior and whether he has a girlfriend. Song Shuhang admits he may be developing feelings for someone, but their relationship is not yet confirmed.
• A mysterious blue-haired beauty overhears their conversation. She later approaches them and pretends to be Song Shuhang’s lover, calling him “Darling” and making provocative remarks.
• Tubo believes her performance and leaves the two of them together, jokingly treating her as Shuhang’s girlfriend.
• Once Tubo is gone, the woman reveals that she was only teasing Song Shuhang. Song Shuhang recognizes her as a powerful cultivator with an aura comparable to a Peak Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor, though she is not a known member of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• She offers to answer a question about whether someone or something Song Shuhang worries about is safe. Song Shuhang asks about his Spirit Ghost.
• Instead of directly answering, the blue-haired senior produces a tortoiseshell, ending the chapter on a humorous cliffhanger.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Becomes increasingly skilled at hiding the supernatural aspects of his life, though he remains easily flustered by unexpected situations. He also indirectly acknowledges that he may have romantic feelings for someone.
• Tubo: Remains observant and playful, but his complaints about being single reveal his loneliness and frustration. He quickly misinterprets the blue-haired woman’s act and enthusiastically supports what he believes is Shuhang’s new relationship.
• Fairy Eastern Six and Yu Jiaojiao: Cooperate smoothly to help Song Shuhang conceal his transformed body. Their presence unintentionally creates the appearance that Shuhang is surrounded by romantic interests.
• The Blue-Haired Senior: Is introduced as a powerful, mysterious, and mischievous cultivator. She enjoys teasing Song Shuhang, but also appears capable of providing important information about his Spirit Ghost.

Significant Themes

• Concealing the supernatural: Song Shuhang must continually invent ordinary explanations for extraordinary changes and companions.
• Misunderstanding and comic deception: Tubo repeatedly misreads the situations around Shuhang, while the blue-haired senior deliberately encourages those misunderstandings.
• Friendship and companionship: Tubo’s visit is less about romance than about seeking company after feeling lonely and frustrated.
• Growing romantic uncertainty: Song Shuhang admits that someone may occupy a special place in his life, though he is not ready to define the relationship.
• Mystery and suspense: The blue-haired senior’s identity, abilities, and knowledge of the Spirit Ghost remain unclear.

Character Interactions

• Fairy Eastern Six and Song Shuhang work together to deceive Tubo about his muscular body.
• Yu Jiaojiao reinforces the cover story by pretending to help Song Shuhang remove the “prop suit.”
• Tubo and Song Shuhang discuss romance, single life, and Shuhang’s increasingly mysterious circumstances.
• The blue-haired senior publicly flirts with Song Shuhang to provoke Tubo and embarrass him.
• After Tubo leaves, the senior shifts from teasing to offering potentially valuable information, but her use of a tortoiseshell leaves the answer about the Spirit Ghost unresolved.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang meets a blue-haired senior who uses tortoise-shell divination. Her questions about his Spirit Ghost’s injury, mutation, and the timing of its trouble convince him that she is Copper Trigram Immortal Master in disguise.
• Copper Trigram’s reading warns that the Spirit Ghost faces grave danger and many trials. Shuhang suspects the ominous result may actually be reassuring, since Copper Trigram’s readings are often best interpreted backward.
• Shuhang bargains a quarter-dose of Dragon Demon Potion for two readings and an answer to one question. He asks about Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen, who are approaching their Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulations. Copper Trigram says both have ominous prospects—but reveals she has already divined them. Shuhang infers that the two may succeed if the predictions are reversed.
• Shuhang uses his question to confirm that Copper Trigram is disguised as another Nine Provinces Number One Group senior. In return, she gives him a free reading: he will have a stroke of good luck in the next few days.
• Copper Trigram departs. Shuhang remains wary of the “good luck,” expecting it may mean trouble, then heads back to his room to see whether the seniors cocooned there are about to emerge.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang shows concern for his Spirit Ghost and especially for Sixteen, whose previous failed tribulation makes him anxious. He negotiates carefully over the potion and tries to find hope in Copper Trigram’s ominous readings.
• Copper Trigram is playful, commercially minded, and pleased to have a customer. She teases Shuhang, charges him for the readings, and ends with a deliberately unsettling prediction.
• Their exchange is a friendly but wary game: Shuhang recognizes Copper Trigram, while she enjoys keeping the identity of her current disguise secret.

Significant themes

• Fate and uncertainty: Divination offers warnings, but its meaning remains ambiguous.
• Irony and reversed fortune: Shuhang’s trust in Copper Trigram’s habit of misleading or inverted predictions makes bad omens seem potentially hopeful—and good luck sound dangerous.
• Friendship and concern: Shuhang’s questions reflect his care for Sixteen, Soft Feather, and his Spirit Ghost.

Summary

• The cocoons begin to open: Snow Wolf Cave Master emerges first, surprised to have finished cocoon formation before the others. His physique has changed only slightly, but he says the process improved his body. True Lord White Crane emerges next, looking much the same as before. He notices that his cocoon is tightly joined to Venerable White’s and becomes bashfully excited, imagining the two cocoons as evidence of their closeness. Yu Jiaojiao is disappointed that neither senior has developed the exaggerated muscles she hoped for; Song Shuhang remains the only one whose appearance changed dramatically.
• Doudou’s prank: While Venerable White and Young Master Phoenix Slayer remain cocooned, Doudou calls Shuhang, learns Phoenix Slayer is in the room, and arrives with a huge roll of specially reinforced tape. He cuts Phoenix Slayer’s cocoon loose from the ceiling, suspends it with demonic wind, then wraps it repeatedly until the entire roll is used. Doudou boasts that the tape will make it difficult for even a Fifth-Grade cultivator to break free and declares that he will someday get revenge on Phoenix Slayer. Shuhang doubts both the advertising claims and the effectiveness of the tape, and privately expects Phoenix Slayer to retaliate once he emerges.
• Venerable White checks in: Shuhang receives a call from Venerable White, who confirms he is perfectly safe inside his cocoon. He has simply found it so soft and comfortable that he has become sleepy, and asks Shuhang to wake him the next morning before hanging up.

Character developments and interactions

Snow Wolf is pleased with the physical benefits of cocoon formation, while White Crane’s admiration for Venerable White shows itself in his shy, fanciful reaction to their joined cocoons. Doudou’s mischievous rivalry with Phoenix Slayer drives the chapter’s main comic incident; Shuhang responds with skeptical practicality, worrying more about the likely consequences than confronting Doudou’s motive. Venerable White’s relaxed, sleepy call contrasts with the commotion around the others.

Themes

The chapter uses comic reversals and absurdity: elaborate cocoon transformations mostly fail to produce the muscles Yu Jiaojiao wanted, while Doudou treats an over-the-top taping prank as a tactical triumph. It also plays on rivalry, friendship, and consequences, as Doudou’s revenge scheme risks provoking a stronger opponent, and on the gap between advertising claims and reality, which Shuhang questions throughout.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White decides to sleep inside his cocoon, while Young Master Phoenix Slayer does not answer Shuhang’s call. The group gives up on watching either senior emerge and turns in for the night.
• Doudou and True Lord White Crane insist on staying in Shuhang’s room: Doudou hopes to see Phoenix Slayer struggle against the tape he wrapped around the cocoon, while White Crane wants to protect Venerable White and claim the joined cocoons. With only one bed, Shuhang joins them in cultivating through the night.
• At dawn, the film crew is unusually energetic and healthy, with some members even noticing improved fitness.
• Ye Si returns, delighted, and announces that Fairy Lychee has taken her as a goddaughter. Fairy Lychee gives Shuhang a red envelope containing two powerful Fifth-Grade Transparent Shield Talisman Treasures and asks him to treat Ye Si well.
• Fairy Lychee posts photos and presents the news to the Nine Provinces Number One Group as if she is an auntie announcing her daughter’s romance. Northern River’s Loose Cultivator is startled and calls on True Lord Yellow Mountain to react.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang spends the night cultivating because his constitution still lags behind his mental energy, leaving him unable to sleep comfortably. He is bewildered by Ye Si and Fairy Lychee’s new family arrangement, but goes along with it.
• Doudou remains fixated on seeing Phoenix Slayer emerge from the taped cocoon.
• True Lord White Crane openly prioritizes guarding Venerable White and collecting the cocoons.
• Ye Si is thrilled to have Fairy Lychee as her godmother and enthusiastically welcomes Shuhang into the new family.
• Fairy Lychee embraces a maternal role with playful, conspicuously staged solemnity, while taking selfies and sharing the news with the group.

Significant themes

• Unexpected family bonds: A close relationship forms through an unconventional godmother–goddaughter arrangement, which Ye Si extends to Shuhang.
• Comedy through mismatched expectations: The seniors’ hoped-for cocoon spectacle never happens, and Shuhang is blindsided by Fairy Lychee’s sudden “motherly” behavior.
• Cultivation’s effects on ordinary life: The film crew’s unexplained vitality suggests the surrounding cultivation activity or its benefits are affecting even ordinary people.

Plot points and events

• In the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Northern River’s Loose Cultivator is muted by True Lord Yellow Mountain. Copper Trigram and other members seize the chance to flood the chat with a mocking command red packet.
• Guo Da hopes to start another dog-rubbing thread, but Zhou Li beats him to it. Zhou admits he did so to earn Doudou’s favor and avoid trouble for a month. Yellow Mountain, already worn out by the group’s antics, closes the chat.
• Yellow Mountain has caught Fairy Dongfang Jingxue, who has been keeping copies of Doudou’s embarrassing song about him. He orders her to delete them all; she agrees but admits she has memorized the song and can sing it backward.
• At Song Shuhang’s home, Venerable White and Young Master Phoenix Slayer remain cocooned. Dharma King Creation brings Shuhang the movie’s newly written theme song, asking him to have the group’s fairies audition to sing it. Creation is leaving on a world concert tour, though Shuhang privately dreads hearing him perform.
• Shuhang reads an old Cultivator Daily, which reports on several cultivation-world events: the resealing of the Vajra Grotto Abode, Venerable Seven Thunders’ successful breakthrough, Creation’s latest disastrous livestream, and Fairy Bie Xue’s upcoming Immortal Chef Banquet.
• The newspaper’s final story concerns Li Jiatu, whose attempt to form an emotional bond with a Spirit Ghost failed because it found him insufficiently charming. After the ghost is recaptured, he switches to subduing it by force.

Character developments and interactions

• Yellow Mountain’s long-suffering patience is tested by the group’s pranks and Jingxue’s song collection; Jingxue remains composed and mischievous even while caught.
• Zhou Li shows his determination to please Doudou—and protect his relationship with Fairy Ouyang Yuan—by outmaneuvering Guo Da.
• Creation is revealed as a skilled songwriter, despite Shuhang’s comic fear of his singing voice.
• Shuhang takes charge of the movie theme-song auditions and learns about notable developments in the cultivation world.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays comedy off the cultivation world’s more serious news, especially through chat-group teasing, embarrassing songs, and Creation’s notorious singing.
• It contrasts emotional connection with coercion: Li Jiatu’s failed attempt to win the Spirit Ghost’s affection leads him to abandon that approach and use force.
• Reputation and “charm” recur as comic measures of personal appeal, from the group’s teasing to the newspaper’s Spirit Ghost story.

Key events

• Song Shuhang learns that Senior Creation has sent a theme song for their film. Ye Si wants to sing it but cannot read the modern characters, so Song offers to read it to her.
• Shuhang realizes he does not know the film’s title. Yu Jiaojiao suggests several joking alternatives, but Gao Moumou confirms that the working title is End-Dharma War.
• Doudou, eager to tease Young Master Phoenix Slayer, has wrapped his cocoon in exceptionally strong tape. Phoenix Slayer breaks free, revealing that he has grown a fifth tail after taking the Dragon Demon Potion.
• The new tail grants Phoenix Slayer a racial talent: Liquefaction Technique. He uses it on Doudou, who tries to escape but turns into a puddle and cannot regain his dog form.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang’s absent-mindedness is played for comedy: despite initiating the film project, he has forgotten its title.
• Ye Si shows her curiosity about filmmaking, while her unfamiliarity with modern writing highlights her recent arrival in the present-day world.
• Doudou’s bravado collapses as soon as Phoenix Slayer targets him. His earlier claim that he would face the consequences of his prank proves hollow.
• Phoenix Slayer’s fifth tail marks a major advancement and gives him a new, not-yet-fully-tested power. He treats Doudou as a convenient test subject.
• Shuhang, Yu Jiaojiao, and Ye Si witness the transformation in shock; Shuhang also warns Doudou that Phoenix Slayer is about to emerge.

Significant themes

• Comedy through overconfidence and consequences: Doudou’s elaborate prank backfires, and his confidence evaporates when Phoenix Slayer retaliates.
• Cultivation and transformation: Phoenix Slayer’s new tail represents progress in his cultivation and the emergence of another innate ability.
• The mundane alongside the fantastic: Film titles, scripts, phones, and tape coexist with magical cocoons and supernatural powers.

Key plot points and events

• Young Master Phoenix Slayer contains the melted Doudou in an empty wine barrel after Doudou’s reckless behavior triggers his transformation. Doudou begs Song Shuhang for help, but Shuhang stays quiet rather than risk provoking Phoenix Slayer.
• The group turns to waking Venerable White, who is still asleep inside a giant cocoon. Shuhang calls him, but White repeatedly insists it is still dark and asks to sleep longer.
• White suggests the group simply transport him to White Cloud Academy inside the cocoon, which he now calls his “little nest.”
• True Lord White Crane eagerly volunteers to carry the cocoon, promising to deliver it even if it costs his life. White accepts without realizing that White Crane is, in fact, a crane. After the call ends, White Crane confirms it will handle the task.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is cautious and exasperated: he avoids intervening for Doudou under Phoenix Slayer’s threatening stare, then struggles to persuade White to wake up.
• Doudou is frightened and helpless, protesting being shut in the barrel and appealing to Shuhang.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer remains playful but intimidating, treating Doudou’s punishment as a satisfying morning activity.
• Venerable White is unusually lazy and single-minded about continuing to sleep, responding drowsily and offering impractical solutions.
• True Lord White Crane is delighted at first to hear White should get up, then becomes devoted to the task of transporting him—and rueful when White mistakes it for Shuhang.

Significant themes

• The chapter’s humor comes from comic misunderstandings and exaggerated devotion, especially White’s stubborn sleepiness and White Crane’s earnest, self-sacrificing promise.
• Power and caution shape the group’s behavior: Shuhang chooses not to challenge Phoenix Slayer, while White’s potential strength makes even waking him a delicate matter.
• The “giant cocoon” becomes a symbol of White’s comfortable retreat, which he values more than getting up or traveling normally.

Key plot points

• At the ruins of Jadewater Pavilion, Ye Si revisits places from her past with Song Shuhang. The river she remembers is gone, and her former bamboo loft looks familiar—but she realizes it was rebuilt, not preserved. Its books have vanished, leaving her unsure who recreated it or why.
• Ye Si loses interest in exploring further, so she and Shuhang sit in the loft and pass the time. He teaches her modern simplified Chinese; they develop an unusually strong rapport, and she sometimes recognizes characters before he explains them.
• The film crew travels by disguised Immortal Ark to White Cloud Academy to film the next part of the story: Ling Ye leaves his sect for the front lines, then meets and falls for Ling’er, who is secretly a female ghost.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen calls Shuhang during the trip. She and Su Clan’s Seven are still preparing for the tribulation, but plan to reach the academy by sword flight.
• At White Cloud Academy, True Lord Eternal Fire asks where Venerable White is. He learns that White is asleep inside one of two enormous connected cocoons. Shuhang tries to wake him, but White refuses, insisting he should be roused only when filming begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Si’s nostalgia turns to sadness as she confronts how completely Jadewater Pavilion has changed. Her precise recognition of the loft’s subtle differences shows how deeply she remembers her old home.
• Shuhang supports Ye Si by accompanying her and teaching her to read. Their apparent new tacit understanding hints at a growing, possibly unusual connection.
• Shuhang’s explanation of the film plot makes Ye Si react to Ling Ye’s romance with a ghost; his awkward laughter reflects how uncomfortably the scenario lands with him.
• Sixteen and Shuhang share a warm, familiar phone conversation and agree to meet at the academy.
• True Lord White Crane guards the connected cocoons devotedly, while Shuhang’s increasingly exasperated attempts to wake Venerable White contrast with White’s carefree stubbornness.

Significant themes

• Memory and loss: Ye Si’s visit shows the pain of returning to a home that survives only in altered form.
• Change and continuity: The loft’s faithful reconstruction preserves its appearance but not its books or original substance.
• Growing connection: Shuhang and Ye Si’s ease and near-telepathic understanding suggest their relationship is deepening.
• Humor amid sentiment: Ye Si’s melancholy and the crew’s preparations are balanced by the absurdity of Venerable White sleeping through their arrival.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White remains asleep inside his giant cocoon, answering Song Shuhang only with sleepy murmurs. Though he is expected to join a film shoot, he refuses to come out.
• Song Shuhang tries to wake him by shaking the cocoon. Venerable White responds by making it impossibly heavy, pinning Shuhang beneath it and cracking the ground.
• The others cannot move the cocoon, and White Cloud Academy’s formations prevent Yu Jiaojiao from using Earth Escape. Song is left trapped until Venerable White wakes and releases the seal.
• Fairy Lychee takes and shares a photo of the pinned Song. Meanwhile, Mad Saber Three Waves sends a painfully slow message from the Sluggish Secret Realm, begging Venerable White to release him. Su Clan’s Sixteen sees the photo and laughs.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is reckless and impulsive, repeatedly trying to rouse Venerable White despite the danger. Once trapped, he quickly stops provoking him and tries to make the best of the situation.
• Venerable White remains sleepy and unresponsive, but casually uses a powerful sealing effect to stop Song’s disturbance.
• True Lord Eternal Fire greets Venerable White respectfully and is impressed by Song’s nerve; True Lord Dustfall describes Shuhang as a modern, unpredictable junior with exceptional talent for courting trouble.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Ye Si check on Song and attempt to free him, while White Crane and the other cultivators also fail. Fairy Lychee comforts him but takes the opportunity to share a selfie.
• Mad Saber Three Waves is miserable in the Sluggish Secret Realm, where even sending a message takes tremendous effort. The group reacts with more amusement than sympathy.

Significant themes

• Recklessness and consequences: Song’s determination to wake Venerable White lands him in trouble.
• Power and unpredictability: Even while asleep, Venerable White can effortlessly overwhelm the cultivators around him.
• Comedy through contrast: Respectful greetings, dangerous magical power, Song’s predicament, and Three Waves’ slow-motion suffering all play for humor.
• The next generation surpassing the old: Dustfall jokingly suggests Song may outdo the group’s established troublemakers, echoing the chapter’s title.

Plot and events

• Song Shuhang remains trapped beneath Venerable White’s enormous cocoon in White Cloud Academy’s square while the film crew prepares to shoot. Yu Jiaojiao, Ye Si, and True Lord White Crane stay with him; the others head to the set.
• Ye Si asks about Shuhang’s unusually fast-growing hair. He explains that the Hair-Growth Technique he learned from Senior Creation is unpredictable, then demonstrates it. His hair grows to nearly five meters.
• Rather than cut it immediately, Yu Jiaojiao and Ye Si arrange his hair into elaborate shapes—including sea creatures and a palace—and take photos, planning to use them as reaction images. Shuhang realizes he is experiencing the same sort of teasing he and Soft Feather once inflicted on Venerable White, prompting the chapter’s title question: “Was this retribution?”
• Su Clan’s Seven and Sixteen arrive. Seven cannot move the cocoon and learns that White is inside it; Shuhang explains that he had shaken it to wake White and was pinned in response.
• Sixteen gives Shuhang his registered invitation to the Immortal Chef Banquet. He gives her a vial of Mutated Dragon Demon Potion, explaining that it can strengthen her body and may help her prepare for a Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation. She accepts it gratefully.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator arrives to say filming is about to begin. Shuhang prepares to wake White.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang endures his predicament with weary humor, explains his spell, and generously gives Sixteen a potion that could aid her cultivation.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Ye Si turn Shuhang’s uncontrollable hair into a playful creative project, bonding over styling it and taking pictures.
• Su Clan’s Seven jokes that Shuhang brought his predicament on himself; Sixteen shows concern and gratitude, accepting both the invitation exchange and Shuhang’s help.
• Shuhang and Venerable White remain at the center of the chapter’s comedy: Shuhang’s attempt to wake White backfires, leaving him trapped beneath the cocoon.

Significant themes

• Karma and playful payback: Shuhang recognizes that being made into a comic spectacle may be retribution for teasing White in the past.
• Friendship and mutual support: The group keeps Shuhang company, shares a laugh, and helps one another, while Shuhang supports Sixteen’s cultivation.
• The absurdity of cultivation life: Magical techniques and powerful cocoons create ridiculous problems alongside serious concerns such as preparing for a Heavenly Tribulation.