Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Venerable White enter the newly opened Golden Lotus World with True Lord Eternal Fire. Though still a vast, empty white expanse, it is growing quickly and contains abundant spiritual energy.
• Confucian cultivators celebrate the world’s potential: once developed, it can serve as a safe new headquarters where their disciples can cultivate beyond the Netherworld’s reach.
• Because an enemy is beginning to mark the Evil Lotus World, Shuhang urges Eternal Fire to hurry. Eternal Fire performs the Imprint Dance, embedding runes into the Golden Lotus World.
• The imprints vanish, but Eternal Fire senses a growing bond with the world. He becomes its master, giving the Confucian School a way to resist the Evil Lotus World’s infiltration.
• The Confucian ceremony begins, but Shuhang gets bored during the elder’s speech. Venerable White then explains that cultivators can buy spiritual energy to replenish their cave abodes, much like paying utility bills.

Character developments and interactions

• True Lord Eternal Fire accepts the embarrassment of dancing in public for the Confucian School’s future. His skillful, flamboyant performance amuses the watching disciples, who record it; once it succeeds, he warmly thanks Shuhang and White.
• Song Shuhang acts with urgency, reminding Eternal Fire that the threat is already advancing. He is relieved when the imprinting succeeds and bemused by the idea of spiritual-energy fees.
• Venerable White supports the ceremony and later casually explains the practical details of maintaining numerous cave abodes.
• The Confucian disciples openly express their joy through tears, laughter, singing, poetry, and dance, celebrating together with Shuhang and White.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice for the community: Eternal Fire’s comic dance is a personal embarrassment undertaken to protect the Confucian School.
• Hope and resilience: The Golden Lotus World offers the Confucians a secure future after generations of effort and sacrifice.
• Humor in cultivation life: Grand spiritual matters sit alongside mundane concerns, such as speeches and paying for spiritual energy.
• Emotional openness and fellowship: The Confucian disciples’ unrestrained celebration contrasts with Eternal Fire’s initial self-consciousness, while shared danger and success bring the characters together.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White reveals that he owes the Rising Sun Qi Church decades of fees for supplying qi to his many grotto-heavens. He leaves the Golden Lotus World to pay True Lord Yellow Mountain, amused by the debt.
• Left behind for the Confucian School’s opening ceremony, Song Shuhang finds his phone has no signal and endures a long, soporific speech.
• Suspecting Senior White left because his extraordinary luck had steered him away from danger, Song considers leaving too. He stays when True Lord Eternal Fire says the speech will end in five sentences.
• As Song and Eternal Fire head for the exit, the Golden Lotus World is violently attacked. A huge steel finger pierces into the space, injuring Eternal Fire through his connection to the world.
• The Golden Lotus identifies the attacker as a powerful being from an adjacent minor world. The intruder—the Liquid Metal Ball—cannot enter fully, apparently because the Golden Lotus World has already been imprinted and claimed by someone.
• Song uses a low-level Healing Spell to ease Eternal Fire’s pain. Eternal Fire urges him to escape, calling the attack the Confucian Sect’s calamity.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from casual curiosity and boredom to anxious suspicion, correctly connecting Senior White’s departure with the coming danger. Despite his fear, he helps Eternal Fire and remains attentive to the crisis.
• Senior White appears to benefit once again from his uncanny luck: his departure spares him from the attack, though the chapter presents this as Song’s inference.
• True Lord Eternal Fire shows concern for Song’s safety even while badly hurt, and continues to regard him as a valued guest and benefactor.
• The Liquid Metal Ball is revealed as the attacker. Its angry demand to know who claimed the world suggests the imprint has blocked its direct entry and frustrated its attempt to seize the Golden Lotus World.

Significant themes

• Luck and danger: Senior White’s luck may protect him by guiding him away from disaster, while those nearby remain vulnerable.
• Ownership as protection: The Golden Lotus World’s imprint prevents the attacker from entering directly, showing that claiming or establishing control over a place can have practical defensive consequences.
• Courage and loyalty: Song offers help despite the overwhelming threat, while Eternal Fire tries to protect him by sending him away.
• Comedy amid peril: The opening’s jokes about qi fees and the tedious speech sharply contrast with the sudden, apocalyptic attack.

Plot points and events

• True Lord Eternal Fire tries to send Song Shuhang out of the Golden Lotus World, but the Liquid Metal Ball’s furious roar throws off his aim. Shuhang falls and is caught in the Nine Netherworld ruler’s devastating Storm Spell.
• The storm tears apart the Confucian disciples, elders, and Shuhang. Shuhang believes he is truly dying; a faint sign of hope appears in his fading consciousness, then vanishes.
• Eternal Fire witnesses the massacre and, driven by grief, activates the Golden Lotus World’s ability to reverse events. The world contracts, absorbs the invading Nine Netherworld energy, and restores everyone to life—while leaving them with memories of being killed.
• The Liquid Metal Ball attacks again. The Golden Lotus World’s contraction has sealed its exit, trapping Shuhang inside. The Confucian elder’s Sage relic, the One-Page Golden Book, briefly resists the storm but is quickly destroyed.
• Shuhang and the others are torn apart once more, with the enemy threatening to repeat the massacre as often as necessary.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang experiences genuine terror at the prospect of death and fights desperately to reach the exit. His attempt fails first because Eternal Fire accidentally knocks him down, then because the world’s shrinking seals the way out.
• True Lord Eternal Fire shifts from trying to protect Shuhang to grieving the slaughter of his people. His wish triggers the Golden Lotus World’s costly, time-reversal-like restoration.
• The Confucian elder tries to defend everyone with the Sage’s One-Page Golden Book, but it cannot withstand the second attack.
• The Liquid Metal Ball remains contemptuous and relentless, treating the defenders’ resurrection as a challenge rather than a deterrent.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts hope and despair: Shuhang briefly sees a chance to survive, only to lose it, and the group’s miraculous restoration leads straight into another massacre.
• It explores the cost and limits of salvation: the Golden Lotus World can restore its inhabitants, but doing so shrinks the realm and traps them inside.
• The repeated deaths underscore the horror of powerlessness against overwhelming force—survival once does not mean the danger is over.

• The death-and-revival cycle continues: The Steel Finger repeatedly kills everyone in the Golden Lotus World with its Storm Spell, while True Lord Eternal Fire revives them by expending the world’s power. After many repetitions, most of the Confucian cultivators grow numb; only a few continue searching for a way to escape. The Golden Lotus World has already shrunk by half, and if it is depleted, the deaths will become permanent.
• Shuhang tries to find a solution: Remembering a protective bamboo-shoot leaf he received from Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman, Song Shuhang treats it as a backup, not a way to break the cycle. He instead uses the Appraisal Secret Method on the Golden Lotus World, exploiting the fact that Eternal Fire may revive him after the appraisal’s cost kills him.
• What the appraisal reveals: The Golden Lotus World formed around the matured Virtuous Golden Lotus and can grow by absorbing the Nine Netherworld’s evil energy. More importantly, it and the Nine Netherworld’s Evil Lotus are two sides of the same entity, able to communicate with each other. Both were created by an ancient Heavenly Dao wielder attempting to escape. Shuhang gets no immediate clue for ending the battle before he dies again.
• A strange new revival: Shuhang awakens, but without arms or legs, and realizes he may have been revived by the bamboo-shoot leaf rather than by Eternal Fire. He then recognizes the familiar sensation of Dream Entry: he has entered the Virtuous Golden Lotus’s dream. Across from him, in another bottle, sits the black Evil Lotus. His spilled blood appears to have connected the two.
  Character developments and interactions: Shuhang remains determined despite repeated deaths, using ingenuity and his appraisal ability to search for a way out. Eternal Fire is nearly overwhelmed by the burden of sustaining everyone’s revival. The Confucian cultivators largely succumb to despair, while a few keep resisting. The chapter’s final shift links Shuhang to both lotus worlds, offering a possible new avenue to break the cycle.

• Plot: Through Dream Entry, Song Shuhang finds himself inside the Virtuous Golden Lotus, opposite the Evil Lotus, before either has developed sentience. He witnesses a one-legged, zebra-striped dragon—the Heavenly Dao from the beginning of the Era—begin creating the two lotus spaces. Over 81 days, it charges the lotuses with power until each has a core etched with 81 runes and guarded by 81 dragon scales. The Heavenly Dao then takes them to the Nine Netherworld, planting the Golden Lotus in the Demon Sea to absorb its energy and grow. It estimates the process will take about a century. Just as Shuhang resigns himself to a hundred years as a lotus, the dragon returns and stares coldly at him.
• Character development: Shuhang shifts from hopeful curiosity—believing the creation process may reveal how to break a deadly cycle—to anxiety and dismay at the prospect of another long, mind-numbing period as a plant. His final unease grows when the Heavenly Dao’s demeanor suddenly changes.
• Interactions: The Heavenly Dao treats the lotuses as experimental subjects, periodically feeding them power and explaining its plans aloud. It appears not to react to Shuhang’s presence at first, but later singles out the Golden Lotus he inhabits with a chilling stare. Shuhang can only observe and speculate.
• Themes: The chapter contrasts cosmic experimentation with Shuhang’s very human impatience and fear of boredom. It also emphasizes the immense scale and strangeness of the ancient world, while foreshadowing danger through the Heavenly Dao’s abrupt change in behavior.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang, using Dream Entry, experiences life as the Virtuous Golden Lotus in the ancient Demon Sea. A spotted dragon appears and watches the lotus with murderous hostility, but ignores Song Shuhang.
• Shuhang realizes this is not the Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao he saw earlier: their markings are reversed. He calls the newcomer “Spotted Dragon 2” and wonders how the two are related.
• After Spotted Dragon 2 leaves, four enormous Nine Nether Demons arrive and guard the Golden Lotus.
• Over what seems to be more than a century, the lotus absorbs energy and grows. Dream Entry unexpectedly begins fast-forwarding time, then pauses the fast-forward when the lotus is ready to mature.
• The Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao appears as a projection, and Spotted Dragon 2 arrives in person. The Heavenly Dao thanks it for protecting the lotus and says it had expected it to destroy it.
• The Golden Lotus blooms and uses its accumulated energy and eighty-one runes to form a small world. Because Shuhang is experiencing the lotus from within, he feels as though he himself is opening a small world.
• The Heavenly Dao gives Spotted Dragon 2 one last chance to reconsider its role in the plan. It warns that if the plan lets the Heavenly Dao escape, Spotted Dragon 2—whose life is linked to its own—may disappear.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang pieces together that the two dragons are distinct and gains firsthand insight into how a small world is formed. He is relieved when Dream Entry starts fast-forwarding through the long period of growth.
• The Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao is revealed to have a plan involving the Golden Lotus and its own possible escape. It treats Spotted Dragon 2 as a close, linked counterpart, though it finds the other’s repeated, cold “hmph” frustrating.
• Spotted Dragon 2 has spent the century guarding the lotus despite its hostility toward it. Its silence leaves unclear whether it accepts the plan, but the Heavenly Dao interprets its failure to destroy the lotus as agreement.
• The four demons act as the lotus’s protectors, while Golden Lotus reacts fearfully to Spotted Dragon 2.

Significant themes

• Identity and linked existence: The two nearly identical dragons are separate beings, yet their lives are connected.
• Choice and sacrifice: Spotted Dragon 2 may have to choose between the Heavenly Dao’s plan and its own continued existence.
• Transformation and creation: The lotus’s growth culminates in the creation of a world, which also gives Shuhang a new understanding of world-forming.
• Uneasy protection: Spotted Dragon 2 both frightens the lotus and keeps it safe, making its motives ambiguous.

Plot and events

• Song Shuhang, observing through the Golden Lotus he possesses, overhears Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao and Spotted Dragon 2 discuss a plan to “break free.” Their lives and memories are linked, but the Heavenly Dao is dominant; Spotted Dragon 2 expects to disappear when the plan succeeds.
• The Golden Lotus bursts open into a small world. At the same time, an Evil Lotus World forms elsewhere. The two worlds resonate and begin connecting, completing the plan’s second step.
• Just as the worlds seem ready to merge, the Heavenly Dao performs a song and dance that severs their connection. He explains that his research is unfinished and the worlds need further development. He also admits he wanted to see whether Spotted Dragon 2 feared disappearing.
• Song Shuhang realizes the performance has created an opening that may let him break out of his predicament.

Character developments and interactions

• Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao is confident and playful, but also shows attachment to Spotted Dragon 2. He admits he would feel guilty if his plan caused Spotted Dragon 2 to vanish, then teases him by staging an apparent farewell. His unusual one-legged dance reveals both artistic flair and that he is willing to interrupt his own plan.
• Spotted Dragon 2 accepts his possible disappearance with stoic resignation. He rejects the Heavenly Dao’s attempts at sentiment and refuses to dance, while making clear he dislikes the personality the Heavenly Dao has developed.
• Song Shuhang pieces together their relationship and the apparent purpose of the lotus worlds. He is fascinated by the dance, memorizes it, and finally spots a chance to escape.

Significant themes

• Freedom and responsibility: The Heavenly Dao seeks to escape a burden or condition that even his supreme status cannot resolve.
• Identity and change: Though the two dragons share a past and memories, their personalities have diverged.
• Attachment and mortality: The Heavenly Dao’s joking manner masks concern about losing his counterpart.
• Appearance versus reality: What looks like the final stage of the plan is deliberately halted, revealing that the Heavenly Dao has more control—and more unfinished work—than others realize.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes the way to stop the Steel Finger’s attacks is to sing and perform a dance associated with the Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao. The performance can sever the link between the Golden Lotus World and the Evil Lotus World, depriving the attacker of a route to strike.
• The plan is dangerously time-sensitive: Shuhang will be vulnerable while performing, and the Steel Finger’s Storm Spell is killing him and the others repeatedly.
• While still in the Dream Entry, Shuhang tries to memorize the dance but finds his recollection has become absurdly distorted: he remembers a one-legged spotted dragon waving a fan, not the Heavenly Dao’s human-form performance.
• The Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao tells Spotted Dragon 2 that he intends to revise his experiments and eventually retrieve him from the Netherworld. He hints that Heavenly Dao holders may not be able to die, despite the position changing hands.
• The Heavenly Dao lifts the Golden Lotus World and carries it toward the Present World, saying the lotus worlds may need to be replanted in more suitable realms. Shuhang’s Dream Entry then ends.
• Back in the Golden Lotus World, the Steel Finger’s attack resumes. Song Shuhang tries to ask True Lord Eternal Fire how long the world can withstand it, but Eternal Fire is too numb and exhausted to respond.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from relief at finding a solution to alarm over his unreliable memory and the lack of time to act. He remains determined to find an opening, but now faces the added obstacle of Eternal Fire’s mental exhaustion.
• True Lord Eternal Fire continues resurrecting everyone and activating the Golden Lotus World, but the relentless attacks have left him barely functioning.
• Onion Lady voices the horror of being repeatedly shredded down to her roots, underscoring the suffering caused by the attacks.
• Spotted Dragon 2 challenges the Heavenly Dao about his escape and questions why an immortal Heavenly Dao holder would relinquish power. The Heavenly Dao offers only a cryptic hint and says he cannot explain further.

Significant themes

• Desperation and endurance: The Golden Lotus World’s inhabitants cycle through death and resurrection as their defenses fail.
• Knowledge and uncertainty: Shuhang’s apparent solution depends on a memory he can no longer trust, while the Heavenly Dao’s remarks raise unsettling questions about immortality.
• Time and opportunity: Shuhang has found a possible way out, but the window to use it may close before he can act.

Plot points and events

• As the Steel Finger’s Storm Spell bears down on the Golden Lotus World, Song Shuhang realizes he may be able to disrupt the attack by recreating the Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao’s song and dance—but he lacks a folding fan.
• True Lord Eternal Fire, though dazed, instinctively protects Song Shuhang with the Golden Lotus World’s power. Onion Lady then improvises a fan from leftover onion sprouts, and Song Shuhang begins the performance.
• Song Shuhang’s body enters “automatic dance mode,” guided by his memories of the Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao. His singing resonates throughout the Golden Lotus World, weakening its connection to the Evil Lotus World and reducing the Steel Finger’s power.
• The Confucian elder takes advantage of the weakening attack and uses the Sage’s One-Page Golden Book to strike back. As Song Shuhang dances, different observers see different familiar people in his face; the Steel Finger sees Senior White Two and angrily accuses White of plotting against it.
• The Steel Finger makes one last attempt to crush Song Shuhang, but the two lotus worlds lend him their strength. His fan clashes with the finger, which begins to shatter.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang improvises under pressure, relying on an unusual performance rather than direct combat. Though his movements become involuntary, his song and dance turn him into the key to disrupting the enemy’s attack.
• True Lord Eternal Fire remains dazed but still manages to protect Shuhang, showing that his instincts and concern persist even while he struggles against the spell.
• Onion Lady uses her practical skills to make the makeshift fan, hoping Shuhang’s plan will also help save her. She again asks him to free her, though he does not hear her.
• The Confucian elder recognizes the opening created by Shuhang and immediately uses the Sage’s relic to counterattack.
• The Liquid Metal Ball misidentifies Shuhang as Senior White Two’s hidden trump card, revealing its fear and fury toward White.

Significant themes

• Improvisation and cooperation: An improvised onion-sprout fan, Shuhang’s strange performance, and the Lotus Worlds’ shared power combine to turn the tide.
• Hope in a desperate situation: Shuhang’s plan seems absurd and uncertain, yet it creates an opening when conventional defense is failing.
• Perception and identity: Each observer sees a different person in Shuhang’s face, suggesting that the performance reflects the viewer’s deepest impressions.
• Appearance versus reality: What looks like a ridiculous dance becomes a powerful means of weakening the enemy and protecting the world.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s dance concludes just as the passage between the Golden Lotus and Evil Lotus worlds is closing. His final fan movement destroys the Liquid Metal Ball’s finger inside the Golden Lotus World, ending the attack and saving the Confucian cultivators.
• Automatic Dance Mode also makes Shuhang drink the rest of the Dragon Demon Potion. Once he regains control, he begins spitting silk and forms a cocoon, then falls into a deep sleep.
• The Confucian survivors recognize the scale of their debt to Shuhang and resolve to repay him. True Lord Eternal Fire, exhausted from fighting the Metal Finger, also collapses asleep.
• In the Netherworld, the Liquid Metal Ball attacks Senior White Two, blaming him for its failure and vowing to kill him. White Two mistakenly assumes the anger is about teaching Shuhang the Imprint Dance. Their fight escalates into a prolonged clash between the two Netherworld rulers.
• At White Cloud Academy, Venerable White waits outside the sealed Golden Lotus World, unable to enter. When the Confucian experts carry out Shuhang’s cocoon, they thank White for bringing him—leaving White puzzled.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang proves decisive in the crisis, though the victory comes through the uncontrolled dance. The potion triggers an unexpected cocooning and deep sleep.
• True Lord Eternal Fire is revealed to have borne the direct fight against the Metal Finger through sheer will, but is left completely depleted.
• The Confucian cultivators, especially the white-haired elder, move from despair to gratitude and recognize Shuhang as their savior. Su Wenqu identifies him as a junior of Senior White and Senior Yellow Mountain.
• Senior White Two and the Liquid Metal Ball resume their ancient rivalry. White Two’s teasing aggravates the Ball, which plans to use their fight to seal White Two in the Evil Lotus Space and become the Netherworld’s sole ruler.
• Venerable White remains unaware of what happened inside the Golden Lotus World and is more interested in studying the world’s spatial fragments.

Significant themes

• Unexpected salvation: A seemingly comic, involuntary performance turns the tide of a catastrophic battle.
• Sacrifice and gratitude: The Confucian survivors owe their lives and the safety of their world to Shuhang.
• Rivalry and miscommunication: White Two and the Liquid Metal Ball fight over motives they do not fully understand, while the Ball pursues a larger plan.
• Humor amid danger: Cocooning, mistaken assumptions, and White’s curiosity undercut the chapter’s otherwise high-stakes conflicts.

Chapter Summary: “The Fragrant Bomb...”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang completes his cocoon and uses the Turtle-Breathing Technique to enter a deep sleep while absorbing the effects of nearly an entire bottle of Dragon Demon Potion.
• He sleeps for over five days, from August 13 to August 18, without suffering nightmares, curses, mental interference, or another Dream Entry.
• During his sleep, the film End-Dharma War finishes filming and enters post-production. Song Shuhang misses the later scenes.
• Yu Jiaojiao explains that Song Shuhang’s genuine vehicle registration documents were used as props in the movie. Gao Moumou originally changed the names on them to his own, but Snow Wolf Cave Master later helped restore and replace the documents.
• When Song Shuhang tears open his cocoon, an extraordinarily powerful food-like fragrance bursts out and spreads throughout the filming area.
• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group initially mistake the scent for the work of an Immortal Chef, possibly Fairy Bie Xue. Venerable White eventually recognizes it as resembling the fragrance produced by Song Shuhang’s Supernatural Lotus-Blossom Tongue, only much stronger.
• The group heads toward Song Shuhang to investigate, while Gao Moumou and the others, smelling the fragrance later, assume it is time for dinner.
• Song Shuhang emerges from the cocoon dramatically transformed: he has become extremely muscular, several times larger than before, and—unexpectedly—his skin has turned green.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Gains an unknown benefit from absorbing the Dragon Demon Potion and sleeping in the cocoon. His body undergoes a startling transformation into a gigantic, green-skinned, Hulk-like form. His innate fragrance-producing ability also appears to have become significantly stronger.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and Yu Jiaojiao: Look after Song Shuhang while he sleeps and promptly call him out once he awakens. They are shocked by his new appearance.
• Venerable White: Continues to be associated with cocoon sleeping, but unlike Song Shuhang, he is not responsible for the sudden fragrance. He successfully identifies the scent’s connection to Song Shuhang’s innate ability.
• Gao Moumou: Uses Song Shuhang’s vehicle documents as movie props and replaces the names with his own after receiving Venerable White’s approval, creating a humorous complication.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master: Demonstrates his practical role as a professional document replacer and currency exchanger by repairing the damage caused by the movie production.
• Doudou and the other cultivators: Their curiosity and appetites are immediately aroused by the powerful aroma.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation producing unpredictable results: Song Shuhang’s attempt to improve himself leads not only to possible physical advancement but also to bizarre side effects, including a green, oversized body and an overwhelming food fragrance.
• Humor through exaggeration: The chapter repeatedly treats absurd events—such as genuine documents becoming props and a cocoon emitting a “fragrance bomb”—as ordinary consequences of the group’s chaotic lifestyle.
• The contrast between ordinary life and cultivation: Movie editing, dinner, vehicle registration, and currency exchange coexist with Heavenly Tribulations, innate abilities, and mysterious potions.
• Curiosity and appetite: The scent unites cultivators of different personalities, drawing them toward Song Shuhang as though he were an exceptionally tempting dish.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang jokes with Sixteen and Yu Jiaojiao about his long sleep and his role in the film.
• Yu Jiaojiao recounts the vehicle-document incident, while Song Shuhang reacts with disbelief and annoyance at Gao Moumou’s actions.
• The group members speculate about the source of the fragrance, with Young Master Phoenix Slayer suspecting Fairy Bie Xue and Venerable White correcting him.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain and the others discuss whether Song Shuhang’s five-day sleep resulted in another cultivation breakthrough.
• Gao Moumou, Tubo, and Master Cloud-Swallow interpret the mysterious aroma in mundane terms and decide it signals dinner.
• The chapter ends with Sixteen and Yu Jiaojiao staring in astonishment at Song Shuhang’s enormous green form.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang emerges from the cocoon transformed by the Dragon Demon Potion: his skin has turned green, and he smells strongly of lotus and scallions.
• Yu Jiaojiao and Doudou both find him so appetizing that Doudou actually bites his hand. Shuhang protects himself with his Steel Hand technique, then makes Doudou stop by threatening to turn his online romance with Chu Chu against him.
• The scallion scent is traced to the Scallion-Sprout Fan that dissolved into the potion during Shuhang’s transformation. Onion Lady is unharmed and has even grown stronger from the potion’s power.
• Shuhang examines himself and discovers the potion has greatly strengthened his body and opened his Star Radiance Meridian. Most startlingly, he finds a mysterious core inside his Heart Aperture.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang jokes about his Hulk-like appearance, but becomes wary when his friends’ sincere hunger makes him a target. His teasing friendship with Doudou turns briefly into comic conflict before Shuhang forces the dog to back off.
• Doudou’s appetite is played for humor, though his bite recalls a previous incident when he mistook Shuhang for food.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and Yu Jiaojiao help explain the unusual fragrance, while Onion Lady clears up the scallion scent and confirms she benefited from the potion too.

Significant themes

• Unintended consequences of cultivation: the potion changes Shuhang’s appearance, scent, physique, cultivation, and even the contents of his Heart Aperture.
• Friendship and comic danger: familiar companions can still pose a threat when Shuhang unexpectedly smells like food.
• Mystery and foreshadowing: the core resembles one that once formed inside the Golden Lotus and enabled it to open a Small World, hinting that Shuhang’s new discovery may have major significance.

Key plot points and events

• After emerging from Dream Entry, Song Shuhang discovers a mysterious Key Core in his Heart Aperture. It resembles the core that had formed inside the Virtuous Golden Lotus, but he has no idea why it appeared or what it does. He worries it may cause his body to grow roots, bloom, or even transform into a world.
• Shuhang finds the Nine Provinces Number One Group posing in a stacked human pyramid and taking photos of his swollen, green, Hulk-like appearance. They attribute his transformation and strong scallion smell to the Dragon Demon Potion and the scallion sprout he carried.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain gives Shuhang a Sage Scripture, one of only ten remaining scriptures handwritten by the Confucian Sage. It is a precious token of thanks for Shuhang’s role in saving the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus Space. The Confucians are also preparing a greater reward.
• On touching the scripture, Shuhang feels a hidden Nightmare curse from the Ink Sect being forced out. When he wishes he could use the curse against its caster, the scripture instead compresses it into a black ring-shaped rune and seals it onto his right hand.
• As Gao Moumou and Shuhang’s other ordinary friends approach, Shuhang rushes into the bathroom to hide his Hulk-like form.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang is curious and uneasy about the new core, but focuses on the immediate embarrassment of his appearance and smell. He also considers asking the Confucian School for help curing Li Yinzhu’s illness or finding a secluded home for his family.
• The seniors tease and photograph him, while Snow Wolf Cave Master helpfully offers shower gel to remove his odor. Phoenix Slayer jokes that Shuhang looks appetizing.
• The Sage Scripture proves more than a keepsake: its power responds to the Nightmare curse and, seemingly, to Shuhang’s wish to retaliate. The group wonders whether the scripture might possess awareness.
• Yellow Mountain quietly incapacitates Doudou, cages him, and announces he is taking him home.

Significant themes

• Unintended consequences and mystery: Shuhang’s new Key Core appears without explanation, raising concerns about the costs of cultivation.
• Power and gratitude: Shuhang’s aid to the Confucian School earns him exceptional respect and a priceless gift.
• Protection turning into opportunity: The Sage Scripture not only counters the curse but seals it in a form that may let Shuhang use it against its caster.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter balances supernatural threats with the group’s playful teasing and Shuhang’s embarrassment.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang prepares to bathe, hoping special shower gel will remove the smell—and perhaps the green color—from his Hulk-like body.
• He discovers the blue-haired fortune-teller from his earlier encounter in the bathroom. She confirms she is Copper Trigram Immortal Master and says his previous prediction of good fortune came true, despite the near-fatal ordeal he suffered in the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World.
• Copper Trigram offers to trade a reading for one Virtuous Golden Lotus seed, then persuades Song to pay two. Her reading predicts an exceptionally auspicious fortune, but warns that Song’s death omen is strong. To survive the coming crisis, he must strengthen his Merit Light by exorcising ten thousand resentful souls.
• Copper Trigram leaves through the bathroom window. Song bathes with Onion Lady, who jokes that he should write a will and leave her an inheritance.
• Song eats five Virtuous Golden Lotus seeds to improve his Lotus-Blossom Tongue. The upgraded ability produces four snow-white lotuses, as expected. He then takes out a Saber Intent Tongxuan herb to test next.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains wary of Copper Trigram’s predictions, but pays for her advice because he has seeds to spare. He is unsettled by the warning and tries to reason out how to survive the coming danger.
• Copper Trigram is playful and evasive, using her fortune-telling to obtain a lotus seed. Despite her teasing, she provides a concrete survival requirement.
• Onion Lady has gained tiny hands and feet and continues her irreverent, self-interested banter, asking for part of Song’s estate.
• Song declines Copper Trigram’s offer to help him bathe, joking that he is not gay.

Significant themes

• Fortune and danger: “Good luck” may arrive through frightening, near-death trials, leaving Song unsure whether an auspicious prediction is actually comforting.
• Preparation and survival: The reading gives Song a practical goal—transform his Merit Light—rather than merely predicting what lies ahead.
• Cultivation through resources: Song uses his lotus seeds to pursue a new ability upgrade, illustrating the chapter’s focus on experimentation and steady advancement.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tests his upgraded Lotus-Blossom Tongue by swallowing a Saber-Intent Penetrating Mystique Herb. Despite the intense pain, the ability produces four lotuses—and four Saber-Intent Penetrating Mystique Lotus Seeds.
• The seeds unexpectedly fuse into one larger seed. Song Shuhang swallows it, discovers it tastes astonishingly good, and receives a flow of Saber Intent that deepens his understanding. He spends more than three hours in contemplation, bringing him close to mastering the technique.
• When he wakes, the Hulk-like build and green tint from his earlier transformation have mostly faded. He puts on his Daoist robe and uses an Illusion Brooch to restore his usual appearance.
• Song Shuhang finds the Nine Provinces Number One Group at Yellow Mountain Film and Television Production Co., where they are recording the movie’s theme song. The trailer is finished, and True Lord Yellow Mountain plans an extensive, even international, promotional campaign.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang gains a substantial new insight into Saber Intent and becomes more confident that he can eventually master it. He is also relieved that his altered appearance is fading.
• Onion Lady jokingly imagines inheriting Song Shuhang’s treasures if he dies, then panics at the thought that she herself might become part of his estate. She quickly reverses course and urges him to stay alive.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen sings the film’s dramatic theme song, displaying her musical ability, though Yellow Mountain thinks her naturally clear voice may not suit its sorrowful mood.

Significant themes

• Progress through cultivation: The lotus seed turns a painful experiment into a major advance in Song Shuhang’s understanding of Saber Intent.
• Comedy and misfortune: The seeds’ unexpected fusion frustrates Song Shuhang, while Onion Lady’s inheritance fantasies and alarm provide comic relief.
• Collective creative effort: The seniors’ film project brings the group together, with plans to promote their shared work widely.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang and Onion Lady trade comedic remarks, with her concern for her own fate turning into an emphatic plea for his survival.
• The seniors refrain from disturbing Song Shuhang while he meditates; later, Yellow Mountain welcomes him and explains the film’s progress and promotion plans.
• Sixteen performs with Fairy Lychee on piano and White Crane on drums, while the group listens and discusses how her voice fits the song.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White announces that his next project will be directing a high-speed racing film, expanding beyond cars to planes, boats, and submarines. Song Shuhang agrees to help, and True Lord Yellow Mountain is pulled into the plan.
• Promotion for End-Dharma War is prepared on an enormous scale by Yellow Mountain and other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• While the others work, Shuhang spends a day cultivating and practicing. Exhausted after copying the Confucian body-tempering chapter, he falls asleep at his desk and crushes it with his oversized body.
• The film’s trailer and advertising campaign launch. Jacob’s name, spectacular effects, and the striking cast draw widespread attention.
• Audiences become especially attached to Venerable White’s beautiful protagonist, Ling Ye, and furious at Shuhang’s character, Senior Brother Gao Sheng, for repeatedly bullying him in the trailer. Gao Sheng becomes the public’s most hated character—even overshadowing the actual villain.
• Shuhang’s parents spot him in the television coverage and recognize Venerable White, listed under the name Song Bai, as the friend Shuhang once brought home.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White eagerly shifts from acting to directing, revealing his ambitious, unconventional vision for a high-speed movie. Shuhang enthusiastically joins him and recruits Yellow Mountain, who accepts with practiced resignation.
• Shuhang is sidelined from the promotional preparations but uses the time to cultivate. His continued physical growth creates a comic problem when he crushes furniture in his sleep.
• The group’s seniors demonstrate their influence and coordination by flooding media and public spaces with advertising.
• The public’s affection for Ling Ye turns into hostility toward Gao Sheng, played by Shuhang under the stage name “Overlord Blade.” The actor playing the real villain, Bright Moon, is comically overlooked and ends up weeping in a restroom.
• Shuhang’s parents are surprised to see their son appearing in a major film report, then connect the cast to people they have met.

Significant themes

• Promotional spectacle and public opinion: The group’s overwhelming campaign rapidly shapes public discussion, while a brief trailer is enough to make audiences passionately condemn a fictional character.
• Image versus reality: The handsome cast and realistic effects dominate attention, while the actual villain is ignored; Shuhang’s hidden real identity also contrasts with his stage name.
• Comic consequences of cultivation: Shuhang’s extraordinary body and routine training intrude humorously into ordinary life.
• Ambition and collaboration: Venerable White’s new filmmaking plans and the group’s collective effort show how readily the seniors turn bold ideas into shared projects.

Chapter Summary: The Treasure of Senior White No. 3453

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s parents watch the trailer for End-Dharma War and are shocked to see him playing the villain, Senior Brother Gao Sheng. His mother jokingly declares that she and his father are cutting ties with him, calling him “Overlord Blade Gao Sheng.”
• During their text exchange, Song Shuhang learns that their neighbor Li Yun—actually Daoist Cloudmist of the Empty Thieves’ Sect—has been asking about him. His mother also hints that she hopes he will bring home several female friends.
• After cultivating the Confucian Vajra Body, Shuhang notices that his unusually large physique has shrunk further and may return to normal within a week. He plans to eat and later ask Venerable White to help examine the mysterious core in his Heart Aperture.
• Venerable White tells Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen that End-Dharma War is scheduled to premiere around the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth of the month, with final dubbing, editing, music, and special effects nearly complete.
• Instead of visiting the Undersea Ruins immediately, Venerable White invites Shuhang and Sixteen to one of his nearby treasure sites to retrieve Spirit Stones and another item intended for Sixteen.
• During the flight, Shuhang warns White not to become distracted or race an airplane. White responds by dramatically increasing the sword’s speed, terrifying both passengers.
• They arrive at the center of a vast lake, which Venerable White identifies as “Treasure No. 3453,” where most of his Spirit Stones are stored. Shuhang is overwhelmed by the implication that White has possessed thousands of treasure sites.
• White explains that the numbering is cumulative and many former sites have been abandoned or moved. When Shuhang asks how many sites he currently has, White says that asking about a cultivator’s treasures is a serious taboo.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang continues adjusting to his cultivation and changing body, while remaining eager to investigate the core in his Heart Aperture. His excitement over the movie’s release shows that he is becoming more comfortable with his unexpected role in the cultivation world and film project.
• Venerable White remains carefree, powerful, and unpredictably mischievous. His careless flying habits and enormous collection of treasure sites emphasize both his eccentricity and immense wealth.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen acts as a sensible companion, joining Shuhang in the treasure hunt and warning him not to provoke White during the return flight.
• Mom and Dad Song react humorously to Shuhang’s villainous role. His mother also reveals her curiosity about his female friends and concern over his social life.
• Daoist Cloudmist/Li Yun remains an off-screen but important presence, showing that his connection with Shuhang’s family continues despite his history with True Lord Yellow Mountain.

Significant themes

• Comedy from ordinary and extraordinary worlds colliding: Shuhang’s parents treat a cultivation-related movie role like a family scandal, while Shuhang casually discusses Spirit Stones, flying swords, and ancient cultivators.
• The absurd scale of cultivation wealth and power: Treasure No. 3453 humorously suggests the vastness of Venerable White’s resources.
• Friendship and trust: Shuhang, White, and Sixteen travel together comfortably, with Shuhang relying on White for guidance and resources despite White’s dangerous unpredictability.
• Identity and transformation: Shuhang’s changing body, secret cultivation life, and public acting career reflect his increasingly complicated double existence.
• The contrast between modern technology and cultivation: The movie industry, television, airplanes, and text messaging coexist with sword flight, secret voice transmission, and ancient treasure sites.

Character interactions

• Shuhang exchanges playful, embarrassing texts with his mother about his acting role, returning home, autographs, and bringing female friends.
• He and Sixteen tease and caution Venerable White during the flight, only to suffer the consequences when White accelerates dramatically.
• White discusses the movie’s production schedule with Shuhang and Sixteen, then invites them to share in his treasure hunt.
• Shuhang’s curiosity about White’s treasure sites leads to the revelation that asking about a cultivator’s accumulated wealth is considered taboo.

Chapter 797 Summary

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White brands Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen with runes that let them enter his hidden dimensional treasure vault beneath the lake.
• The trio travels through a passage filled with hundreds of concealed traps before reaching the vault, which is packed with Spirit Stones ranging from Grade Five to Grade Eight. A special Spirit Vein continually replenishes the stock.
• White lends Shuhang a spatial artifact and tells him to take as many Grade-Eight Spirit Stones as he can, along with any Grade-Nine stones he finds, to prepare for a possible meeting with the mysterious [Everything Can Be Sold]—a potential source of treatment for Li Yinzhu’s illness.
• White also gives Shuhang about fifty thousand stalks of Saber-Intent Penetrating Mystique Grass in exchange for lotus seeds, allowing Shuhang to repay the debt with future harvests.
• White gives Sixteen the Buddhist treasure Sharira Prayer Beads, borrowed on her behalf by Su Clan’s Seven, to help with her future tribulation.
• With White and Sixteen’s help, Shuhang fills the spatial bracelet with Spirit Stones. White offers to make more spatial artifacts so Shuhang can take additional loads, but Shuhang declines.
• Shuhang’s Heart Aperture core suddenly activates, making his heartbeat race and projecting a growing lotus of light. White and Sixteen suspect it may be trying to open a Small World, which would require energy. Shuhang looks toward the nearby Spirit Stones, suggesting they may be the power source.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is grateful for White’s generosity and eager to secure resources that might help Li Yinzhu. He also hopes he can eventually repay White, but the scale of the loan and grass-for-seed trade makes Sixteen suspect he has effectively tied himself to a long-term debt.
• Venerable White remains casual and generous, lending Shuhang vast wealth and offering even more. He also shows curiosity about Shuhang’s unusual core—and briefly wonders whether its lotus-shaped projection can be eaten.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen helps collect the Spirit Stones, accepts the prayer beads with gratitude, and quietly recognizes how burdensome Shuhang’s debts to White may become.

Significant themes

• Generosity and obligation: White’s extraordinary gifts help his companions, but they also create substantial debts and future responsibilities.
• Wealth and perspective: White has accumulated so many Spirit Stones that he cannot remember their number, treating them as abundant resources rather than precious currency.
• Mystery and change: Shuhang’s unexplained core begins activating, introducing a new danger or possibility just as the group finishes gathering supplies.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes the “core” in his Heart Aperture may be using Spirit Stones to mature and create a small world—an event he fears could make his body explode.
• A golden-lotus projection bursts from his chest and begins draining Venerable White’s Spirit Stones at an astonishing rate. It consumes 6,000 Fifth-Grade stones before they leave the treasure, and continues absorbing them even after they surface.
• Venerable White’s monitoring spell reveals the total has reached 12,000, then 36,000 stones. The lotus’s roots stretch across seemingly unlimited distance, which White suspects is due to spatial folding.
• Song Shuhang cannot command the lotus to stop and asks whether the core can be removed. Venerable White cannot sense the core itself and recommends consulting Medicine Master.
• When White prepares a sealing formation, the lotus retracts its roots and tries to return to Song’s Heart Aperture. Shuhang blocks it with his true qi while White seals the projection. It struggles but cannot escape.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang grows increasingly alarmed and frustrated: he fears both a catastrophic bodily transformation and the enormous debt caused by the lotus’s appetite. He also resents having an uncontrollable, parasite-like core inside him and resolves to seek its removal.
• Venerable White remains curious and largely unconcerned about the cost, even treating the lotus’s behavior as an opportunity to study small-world creation. He ultimately helps by sealing it.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen supports Song by accompanying him out of the treasure and suggesting they fly farther away to test whether the lotus will retract.

Significant themes

• Power without control: Song possesses a mysterious force that acts independently and ignores his commands.
• Curiosity versus caution: White is fascinated by the lotus, while Song focuses on the danger it poses.
• Debt and unintended consequences: The lotus’s hunger rapidly consumes vast resources, leaving Song responsible for the loss.
• Transformation and bodily risk: The possibility that the core may mature at the cost of Song’s life drives his urgency.

Character interactions

• Song repeatedly urges White to stop the absorption and leave the treasure; White reassures him that repayment can be gradual and initially wants to observe the process.
• Sixteen helps Song and proposes flying farther away, though the lotus’s roots continue reaching the treasure regardless.
• Song asks White to destroy or contain the lotus. White instead seals it, giving Song temporary control over the immediate threat and hope that the core can eventually be dealt with.

Chapter Summary: “Pay-to-Win Items”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reflects on the difference between abilities he can eventually master, such as the Appraisal Secret Method, and the mysterious “core” in his Heart Aperture, which remains uncontrollable and parasite-like. He hopes Medicine Master can eventually remove it.
• After its connection with the core is severed, the Golden Lotus projection becomes a physical, palm-sized Crystal Lotus.
• Venerable White examines the lotus and discovers that it stores extremely pure spiritual energy. Simply touching it instantly restores the energy he spent using Sword Escape and the Sealing Art.
• Venerable White humorously compares it to a game’s “Pay-to-Win” mana-replenishing item. The energy is perfectly compatible with a cultivator’s own spiritual energy and requires no additional nurturing.
• The lotus contains energy equivalent to roughly 25,000 Grade-Five Spirit Stones, meaning only about half of the 48,000 Spirit Stones originally absorbed reached Song Shuhang’s core. Song Shuhang is relieved that his effective debt has been reduced by half.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen notes that the lotus could be extremely valuable, though its worth would depend on whether repeated use causes side effects.
• To test the lotus’s limits, Venerable White decides to use his techniques during an attack on one of the Limitless Demon Sect’s Four Ancestral Grounds.
• Venerable White explains that the ancestral ground has powerful defenses and a Seventh-Grade Venerable guardian, so they cannot simply “farm” it. Instead, he plans a surprise attack to break through the defenses and seize any available benefits.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen agree to accompany him, carrying the Disposable Flying Sword as an emergency escape method.
• During their journey, Song Shuhang realizes they have been flying much longer than expected. Venerable White awkwardly claims it is an illusion caused by flying too slowly, then orders the Meteor Sword to accelerate.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains uneasy about the uncontrollable core in his Heart Aperture and continues to view it as a dangerous burden. However, learning that half the lotus’s energy remains gives him considerable relief regarding his enormous Spirit Stone debt.
• Venerable White displays his usual curiosity, confidence, and impulsiveness. He quickly turns the discovery of the Crystal Lotus into an opportunity for experimentation and a potentially reckless attack.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen shows practical judgment by questioning the lotus’s side effects, compatibility, and true value. She also readily joins Venerable White’s dangerous plan.
• Venerable White’s vague memory of being offended by the Limitless Demon Sect reinforces his eccentric, personal approach to conflicts: he does not remember the details, but still enjoys the prospect of causing them trouble.

Significant Themes

• Power with a cost: Song Shuhang contrasts abilities that demand payment but can eventually be controlled with the core, whose benefits come without understanding or control.
• Energy, debt, and value: The Crystal Lotus transforms the Spirit Stones’ spiritual energy into a portable, highly valuable resource, while also reducing Song Shuhang’s financial burden.
• Game-like cultivation: Venerable White’s “Pay-to-Win” comparison humorously reframes cultivation resources as game items, highlighting how absurdly powerful the lotus is.
• Risk and opportunism: The group balances danger against potential rewards, preparing to exploit a powerful enemy’s defenses while keeping an escape route available.
• Comedy amid danger: Serious matters—massive debts, powerful sects, and possible battles—are undercut by Venerable White’s casual explanations and awkward behavior.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Venerable White discuss the Crystal Lotus’s transformation, function, and stored energy.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen participates in evaluating the lotus, focusing on practical concerns such as side effects and repeated use.
• Venerable White proposes attacking the Limitless Demon Sect’s ancestral ground, while Song Shuhang clarifies whether the plan is a full-scale assault or a limited raid.
• The trio cooperates cautiously, agreeing to look for opportunities while remaining prepared to flee.
• Their journey ends on a comedic note when Song Shuhang questions Venerable White’s slow travel speed, prompting White to blame the delay on an “illusion.”