Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Venerable White travel toward one of the Limitless Demon Sect’s ancestral grounds on the Meteor Sword. Venerable White accelerates without warning, leaving Shuhang terrified by both the height and speed.
• The ancestral ground is located in a Chinese desert. Once prosperous and spiritually rich, it has deteriorated into a barren region after the Limitless Demon Sect moved its main altar elsewhere. It remains useful for cultivating disciples and housing elders in secluded death retreats.
• True Person Weiwei, a Fourth-Grade cultivator and talented formation administrator, maintains part of the ancestral ground’s defensive formations while hoping his achievements will eventually earn him a transfer to the sect’s main altar.
• During a break, Weiwei watches the promotional material for End-Dharma War, a film featuring cultivators secretly acting under aliases. He becomes especially fascinated by the handsome “Song Bai,” who plays the protagonist Ling Ye, and by Lychee Overlord, who plays Ling’er.
• Weiwei and other Demon Sect disciples enthusiastically discuss the film. They repeatedly condemn the character Senior Brother Gao Sheng, unaware that many of the actors are actually powerful cultivators from the cultivation world.
• The ancestral ground’s defensive formation suddenly detects an intruder. Weiwei and another formation administrator prepare to deal with the trespasser, assuming the person will have to be killed regardless of whether the intrusion was accidental.
• The monitoring formation reveals that the intruder is a strikingly handsome cultivator who looks exactly like Ling Ye from the movie. Weiwei is stunned to discover that his idol is a real cultivator.
• The intruder raises a massive golden sword, condensing Sword Qi and spiritual energy into a blade roughly four hundred meters long. Weiwei realizes that Ling Ye has not entered by accident—he is attacking the Limitless Demon Sect’s ancestral ground.
• Weiwei cries out, “The main character Ling Ye is attacking the city!” His admiration instantly turns into horrified disbelief.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Remains comically vulnerable to flying speed and height, especially when Venerable White accelerates without warning.
• Venerable White: Demonstrates his usual reckless enthusiasm and extreme flying speed, treating the Meteor Sword like a vehicle for high-speed racing.
• True Person Weiwei: Is established as a hardworking but somewhat weak-willed formation specialist who relies on modern technology for entertainment. His admiration for Ling Ye becomes intense, only for him to be emotionally devastated when Ling Ye appears as an enemy.
• Limitless Demon Sect disciples: Show curiosity and enthusiasm about popular entertainment, while remaining unaware that the film’s cast consists of real cultivators.
• The film’s cast: Their secret identities and exaggerated aliases create dramatic irony. The movie’s fictional characters are closely based on actual cultivators, making the real-world appearance of Ling Ye especially shocking.

Significant Themes

• Reality imitating fiction: Cultivators are acting in a movie based on their own world, while other cultivators mistake the fictionalized versions for ordinary actors.
• The danger of celebrity worship: Weiwei’s admiration for Ling Ye changes instantly into panic when his idol becomes a hostile force.
• Technology and cultivation: Even isolated cultivators use phones, movies, and online entertainment to cope with harsh cultivation environments.
• Comedic contrast: A grand, terrifying attack is presented through Weiwei’s melodramatic reaction as a fan whose favorite actor has suddenly become his enemy.
• Hidden identities and misunderstandings: The cast’s aliases protect them from curses and unwanted attention while causing others to completely misunderstand who they are.

Character Interactions

• Weiwei discusses the film with fellow Demon Sect disciples, enthusiastically praising the actors and condemning Senior Brother Gao Sheng.
• The disciples speculate that some of the actors resemble real cultivators and heavenly fairies, but dismiss the possibility because they cannot imagine powerful cultivators making a movie.
• Weiwei and another formation administrator debate how to handle the intruder, with the latter insisting that anyone entering the ancestral ground should be killed.
• When the monitoring image reveals Ling Ye, Weiwei reacts with awe and recognition, only to realize moments later that the admired “actor” is preparing an actual attack on the Demon Sect.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White, disguised as “Ling Ye,” attacks the Limitless Demon Sect’s Ancestral Grounds with Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen watching from behind protective shields.
• He asks Shuhang and Sixteen to name his sword techniques. Their suggestions—“Holy Sword,” “Demon Sword,” and “Immortal-Slaying Sword”—fail to impress him, so he borrows an extravagant name from a mobile game: “Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory.”
• White’s enormous first strike cracks the compound’s defenses; his condensed second strike exploits the damage and breaks through the first defensive layer.
• The sect’s defenders recognize the attacker as a formidable, formation-savvy cultivator and call for the Seventh-Grade Venerable Lushan Road Devil Lord, who is in death seclusion. They also activate the Ancestral Grounds’ counterattack formation.
• White replenishes his energy from the Crystal Lotus and continues attacking, using flamboyant names such as “Galaxy Nuclear Explosion Sword” and “World-Destroying Demon Light Cannon.” His renewed assault shatters another defensive layer.
• When a barrage of counterattacks targets him, White raises a regenerating curtain of sand to absorb the bombardment. During the confusion, he and his companions change position.
• White then cuts through two more layers with a serious sword strike enhanced by spatial power. The defenders realize that spatial energy—not simply overwhelming force—explains his ability to penetrate the increasingly strong barriers.
• The chapter ends as a voice senses the “scent of treasure,” hinting that the attack or the Crystal Lotus has drawn attention to something valuable.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White is playful and theatrical, turning a dangerous siege into a chance to test the Crystal Lotus’s energy replenishment. He jokes about move names but also demonstrates exceptional skill: he identifies weak points in the formations and uses spatial power to defeat them.
• Song Shuhang helps name White’s attacks, admires his immense Sword Qi, and ruefully reflects that he now considers himself a saber practitioner—making sword-technique naming an awkward task.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen contributes a more imposing name, “Immortal-Slaying Sword,” and warns White about the sect’s defenses and counterattack.
• True Person Weiwei is alarmed by the attack and coordinates the defense, repairs the barriers, and urges the sect to summon its elder.
• The Limitless Demon Sect’s defenders move from confidence in their layered defenses to fear and bewilderment as White repeatedly breaks through them.

Significant themes

• Humor amid danger: White’s improvised, over-the-top move names contrast with the real threat of the siege.
• Skill over brute force: White’s knowledge of formations and use of spatial power prove more decisive than raw strength alone.
• Experimentation and curiosity: White deliberately tests the Crystal Lotus’s replenishment speed and possible limits while fighting.
• Reputation and identity: The aside about Lushan Road Devil Lord’s unchangeable Daoist title pokes fun at how names and reputations can become permanent.

Chapter Summary: “The Illusory Reality and the Pink-Skinned Skeletons”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable White senses an exceptionally valuable treasure hidden within an ordinary pavilion in the Limitless Demon Sect’s Ancestral Grounds.
• Having finished testing the Crystal Lotus—which can instantly and repeatedly restore spiritual energy without side effects—Venerable White decides to search for the treasure instead of continuing the battle.
• He uses spatial teleportation to bring Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen directly into the pavilion, bypassing its defenses.
• Song Shuhang senses a vast, mysterious space beneath the pavilion that resonates with his Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique.
• Venerable White uses Earth Escape to carry the group deep underground. They pass through the sect’s expected restrictions without encountering them, suggesting the area has been secretly altered or protected.
• The group arrives in a blood-red cavern filled with extremely dense spiritual energy. Sixteen’s thrown stir-fried beans reveal an invisible spatial distortion, identifying the area as a True Illusion.
• Venerable White concludes that a Seventh-Grade Venerable—or a treasure connected to one—created or sustains the illusion, and that the treasure is located inside.
• Entering the illusion, the group finds an expansive grassland with spiritual energy comparable to a small Spirit Vein.
• More than a dozen beautiful white-robed female immortals approach while laughing. Their apparent seductive “benefits” abruptly become horrifying when their robes reveal not flesh, but jade-white bones.

Character Developments

• Venerable White remains bold, impulsive, and confident in his abilities. He casually experiments with spatial teleportation and Earth Escape, even when he is not completely certain of the outcome, though he responsibly prepares safeguards. His treasure-seeking instincts override his original plan to withdraw.
• Song Shuhang demonstrates growing sensitivity and cultivation awareness by detecting the hidden space and recognizing its resonance with his own technique. He is also increasingly cautious, anticipating that his overwhelming “good fortune” may bring unexpected dangers.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen serves as the practical and observant member of the group. She reminds Venerable White of the urgency of the sect’s counterattack and cleverly uses stir-fried beans to locate the invisible illusion.
• True Person Weiwei and the Limitless Demon Sect’s disciples become increasingly anxious as they lose track of Venerable White’s group. Weiwei’s attitude also shows conflicted feelings: the person he once wanted to destroy has become an idol, making the situation emotionally complicated.

Significant Themes

• Illusion versus reality: The hidden cavern and True Illusion blur the boundary between physical space and fabricated worlds. Appearances repeatedly prove deceptive.
• Curiosity and risk-taking: Venerable White’s desire to investigate the treasure leads the group into an unknown and potentially dangerous realm.
• Hidden power and ancient treasures: The mysterious True Illusion suggests that the Limitless Demon Sect’s Ancestral Grounds conceal forces far greater than its ordinary appearance implies.
• Comedic misdirection and horror: The approaching female immortals initially resemble a typical alluring fantasy encounter, but their skeletal appearance transforms the scene into horror.
• Trust and teamwork: Although Venerable White’s methods are reckless, Song Shuhang and Sixteen continue following him, combining their own abilities with his strength.

Character Interactions

• Sixteen urges Venerable White to act quickly before the Limitless Demon Sect launches another counterattack.
• Song Shuhang questions Venerable White’s teleportation and Earth Escape methods, highlighting the senior’s reckless confidence.
• Venerable White promises to divide the treasure among the three, while Song Shuhang’s unusual sensitivity becomes essential to locating it.
• Sixteen’s practical experiment with the beans confirms Song Shuhang’s suspicions and allows the group to enter the hidden illusion.
• The chapter ends with the trio facing the unsettling transformation of the seemingly beautiful female immortals into skeletal figures, setting up the next danger.

Chapter 803 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Inside an extraordinarily powerful True Illusion, Song Shuhang, Venerable White, and Su Clan’s Sixteen witness female immortals transform into dazzling white skeletons before disappearing.
• They investigate the location and discover a vast, dried-up lake filled with the remains of ancient aquatic creatures.
• Sixteen scatters melon seeds into the lake as a test. This unexpectedly causes armored female figures to emerge from beneath the lakebed.
• The leading silver-armored woman orders them to stop, identifying the area as the Jade Lake Forbidden Grounds and addressing Song Shuhang as the “Master of the Beast God Division.”
• Song Shuhang realizes that this title may come from the golden chains he possesses, which identify their bearer as an acknowledged spirit-beast-taming master of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Beast God Division—the predecessor of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect.
• He suspects that the True Illusion depicts a fragment of the Ancient Heavenly Court, particularly the Jade Lake area. Contact with it also awakens sealed memories of the South Heaven Gate from his experiences on the Mysterious Island.
• Venerable White becomes excited at the possibility of taking the entire True Illusion away. He theorizes that the dried-up lake, or another major location within the illusion, may be its core.
• The chapter then shifts to Demon Venerable Lushan Road, who is cultivating in seclusion to break through to the Eighth-Grade Profound Sage Realm.
• It is revealed that he deliberately returned to the spiritually depleted ancestral land of the Limitless Demon Sect because a concealed fragment of the Heavenly Court—containing the Jade Lake Forbidden Grounds—lies beneath it. He believes this fragment holds the opportunity for him to reach both the Eighth and eventually Ninth Grade.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang begins connecting his Beast God Sect inheritance, the Ancient Heavenly Court, the Jade Lake, and his sealed memories from the Mysterious Island. His identity and past are shown to have deeper ties to the Ancient Heavenly Court than he realized.
• Venerable White remains adventurous and treasure-focused, immediately considering whether the entire True Illusion can be relocated once its core is found.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen continues to act as the group’s curious and practical companion, testing the dried lake with her snacks and helping question the nature of the armored guardians.
• Demon Venerable Lushan Road is portrayed as a long-lived, nearly exhausted ancient cultivator whose desperate seclusion is driven by the hope of reclaiming his cultivation future through the Heavenly Court fragment.

Significant Themes

• Reality versus illusion: The True Illusion is so advanced that its manifestations may be indistinguishable from reality, blurring the boundary between actual beings, memories, and constructed phenomena.
• Ancient legacies and hidden identities: Song Shuhang’s chains reveal a connection to the former Beast God Division, while his recovered images suggest that parts of his own past have been deliberately sealed.
• Ruins and resurrection: The dried Jade Lake, vanished immortals, and buried armored guardians evoke the remains of a fallen civilization that may still retain its original functions.
• Opportunity and obsession: Both Venerable White and Lushan Road view the Heavenly Court fragment as a valuable opportunity—one for exploration and treasure, the other for extending his life and advancing his cultivation.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang, Sixteen, and Venerable White discuss the strange skeletons and the unusually powerful nature of the True Illusion.
• Sixteen questions whether the lake guardians are the same female immortals seen earlier, while Song Shuhang speculates that they may be manifestations or constructs of the illusion.
• Venerable White and Song Shuhang reason together about the illusion’s connection to the Ancient Heavenly Court and how its core might be located.
• The silver-armored guardian interacts cautiously with the group, issuing a warning but not attacking unless they continue into the forbidden area.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Senior White and Su Clan’s Sixteen split up to investigate the core of the True Illusion, leaving Song Shuhang near the dried-up Jade Lake. They provide him with a Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman Treasure for communication, since ordinary phones cannot receive signals in the Ancient Heavenly Court fragment.
• Song Shuhang deploys his Reconnaissance Stand-in Puppet to scout the area while he remains safely outside the lake. The puppet explores a suspicious valley, but its connection to Song Shuhang is suddenly severed.
• The puppet is thrown back out of the valley in five pieces, causing Song Shuhang to experience its dismemberment pain directly. He collapses and accidentally rolls into the dried-up Jade Lake.
• The Jade Lake female guards immediately attack him. Their silver-armored leader unleashes a barrage of sword strikes, but Onion Lady activates a powerful protective barrier, allowing Song Shuhang to escape.
• Song Shuhang reaches the shore badly wounded, having suffered six deep sword cuts. The guards stop attacking once he leaves the lake and resume their defensive positions.
• The silver-armored guard warns him not to challenge them again and reveals that the guards are capable of speech and conscious judgment, rather than being simple “NPCs.”
• Song Shuhang contacts Senior White and Sixteen to report the suspicious valley. He then asks the guards whether they know that the Ancient Heavenly Court—and jokingly, “Great Ming”—has fallen.
• Elsewhere, Elder Lushan Road discovers that Song Shuhang’s puppet intruded into the valley where he was secretly cultivating, leaving him angry and suspicious.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains curious and reckless, repeatedly testing the Jade Lake guards despite recognizing the danger. His encounter reinforces his tendency to use humor—even jokes about the fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court—in tense situations.
• He also shows greater tactical caution by using the reconnaissance puppet rather than entering the dangerous valley himself, though the puppet’s shared pain leaves him suffering firsthand.
• The silver-armored female guard is established as an intelligent leader rather than a mindless construct. She recognizes Song Shuhang as the Beast God Division Grandmaster, communicates clearly, and claims that the guards deliberately restrained themselves.
• Onion Lady again protects Song Shuhang at a critical moment by activating the defensive talisman.
• Senior White and Su Clan’s Sixteen remain concerned about Song Shuhang’s safety and prepare to return after hearing his scream.
• Elder Lushan Road is introduced as the hidden occupant of the suspicious valley and reacts angrily to the intrusion.

Significant Themes

• The remains of a fallen civilization: The Jade Lake guards continue protecting a site belonging to the long-destroyed Ancient Heavenly Court, raising questions about loyalty, duty, and whether the past can recognize that its world has ended.
• Reality versus programmed behavior: Song Shuhang questions whether the guards are living beings, magical constructs, or entities following fixed commands. Their speech suggests they possess more awareness than initially believed.
• Curiosity and recklessness: Song Shuhang’s desire to understand the guards and the True Illusion repeatedly places him in danger.
• Pain and shared experience: The puppet’s ability to transmit everything it experiences turns a disposable scouting tool into a source of genuine suffering for Song Shuhang.
• Humor amid danger: Song Shuhang’s “Great Ming has fallen” remark and his comparison of the guards to game NPCs provide comic relief while emphasizing the strangeness of the situation.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang repeatedly questions the silent Jade Lake guards about their identity, their master, and their connection to the Ancient Heavenly Court, receiving no answers until he crosses into the lake.
• The silver-armored guard directly confronts Song Shuhang, attacks him, then warns him to leave after he retreats.
• Song Shuhang communicates with Senior White and Su Clan’s Sixteen through the talisman; Sixteen expresses concern after hearing his scream, while Senior White promises to return.
• Song Shuhang credits Onion Lady with saving him, while she mocks his recent streak of bad luck.
• Elder Lushan Road’s encounter with the destroyed puppet establishes a coming conflict between him and Song Shuhang.

Plot points and events

• Demon Venerable Lushan Road discovers that someone has entered the hidden Heavenly Court Fragment, where he hopes to achieve enlightenment and advance to Eighth-Grade Profound Sage. After destroying an intruding puppet, he prepares the valley’s formations and resolves to kill the intruder.
• At the dried-up Jade Lake, a silver-armored guard tells Song Shuhang that the Heavenly Emperor is alive and will return to rebuild the Heavenly Court. She shows him the Emperor Pearl, whose immense vitality supposedly proves the Emperor’s continued existence.
• The pearl’s vitality suddenly drains away, and it crumbles into powder. The guard and the other Jade Lake guards are devastated, interpreting its destruction as proof that the Heavenly Emperor has died.
• Worried the grieving guards may attack him, Song Shuhang argues that the pearl might simply have reached the end of its lifespan. His explanation calms the silver guard, though the Emperor’s fate remains uncertain.

Character developments

• Lushan Road becomes increasingly defensive and determined, treating any intrusion as a threat to his cultivation breakthrough.
• The silver guard shifts from composed certainty about the Emperor’s return to grief and despair, then regains some calm after Song Shuhang’s reassurance.
• Song Shuhang remains cautious and irreverent, using quick reasoning—and a promise that the pearl’s destruction may be harmless—to talk his way out of danger. The incident reinforces his belief that his recent bad luck is alarming.

Significant themes

• Faith and uncertainty: The guards’ hopes rest on the Emperor Pearl, but its destruction leaves the truth of the Emperor’s survival unclear.
• Enlightenment and obsession: Lushan Road’s ambition makes him willing to kill anyone he thinks might obstruct his advancement.
• Coping with crisis: Song Shuhang uses humor and plausible explanations to manage a potentially dangerous emotional outburst.

Character interactions

• Lushan Road prepares to confront whoever entered his territory, although the intruder’s identity is not established here.
• The silver guard explains her faith in the Heavenly Emperor to Song Shuhang and briefly treats him as a potential servant of the restored court.
• When the pearl breaks, Song Shuhang tries to prevent the distraught guards from turning on him by offering an alternative explanation.

Chapter 806 Summary: “Out, Finally Out!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang prepares to leave Jade Lake after misleading the bright-silver female guard, but suddenly becomes paralyzed as something appears to emerge from his back.
• His true qi and physical strength are rapidly drawn toward his back, causing him to fear that the shattered Emperor Pearl has allowed the Heavenly Emperor to possess him and reincarnate through his body.
• The guard is unable to save him, though she offers to kill whatever emerges and avenge him.
• Song Shuhang contacts Venerable White and Su Clan’s Sixteen for help, but both are delayed by battles elsewhere.
• The “thing” finally emerges, draining nearly all of Song Shuhang’s energy. He collapses but discovers he is still alive.
• The emergence is revealed not to be the Heavenly Emperor, but Senior Sister Ye Si, who has finally awakened after completing her contract with Song Shuhang.
• Ye Si heals Song Shuhang and begins transferring her powerful spiritual energy back into him.
• Her energy restores Song Shuhang’s depleted reserves and begins opening his remaining extraordinary meridians through the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Displays his usual anxious imagination, immediately assuming the worst possible explanation. His fears give way to immense relief when he realizes Ye Si has awakened. His Spirit Ghost system is effectively upgraded through Ye Si’s recovery, and he begins benefiting from her Fifth-Grade cultivation.
• Senior Sister Ye Si: Fully awakens after her disappearance and contract with Song Shuhang. She appears emotional, having seemingly cried before emerging, and remains deeply concerned for him. Her cultivation not only remains intact but advances slightly.
• Bright-silver female guard: Despite her cold appearance, she is relatively easy to deceive and shows a blunt, oddly practical willingness to help Song Shuhang—even if only by killing the entity emerging from him.
• Venerable White and Su Clan’s Sixteen: Both respond immediately to Song Shuhang’s distress but are temporarily prevented from helping because they are engaged in separate battles.

Significant Themes

• Fear created by imagination: Song Shuhang’s familiarity with possession and reincarnation stories causes him to construct an elaborate, terrifying explanation for what is happening, making the situation seem far worse than it is.
• Relief after misunderstanding: The chapter builds suspense around a possible Heavenly Emperor resurrection before humorously revealing the harmless truth.
• Mutual dependence and partnership: The contract between Song Shuhang and Ye Si creates a powerful energy-sharing relationship, emphasizing the benefits and consequences of their bond.
• Growth through crisis: Even while Song Shuhang is nearly exhausted, Ye Si’s return allows his cultivation to progress and his extraordinary meridians to begin opening.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the bright-silver guard discuss his strange condition, with her misdiagnosing it as a fatal rebirth or parasitic process.
• Song Shuhang calls Venerable White and Su Clan’s Sixteen for assistance, but both are delayed by combat.
• Ye Si emerges by embracing Song Shuhang from behind, creating the chapter’s central emotional and comedic reveal.
• Ye Si reassures and heals Song Shuhang, while her spiritual power flows into him and strengthens their shared cultivation system.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Si’s continuous stream of Fifth-Grade spiritual energy pushes Song Shuhang toward opening his second extraordinary meridian, the Lunar Yin Vein. Unlike ordinary cultivators, Song Shuhang can attempt the breakthrough rapidly because of his unusually powerful constitution and Ye Si’s assistance.
• Ye Si searches Song Shuhang’s Inch-Shrinking Bag for restorative pills. Onion Lady helps identify a Volcano Pill and a physical-strength recovery pill, which Ye Si feeds to Song Shuhang.
• The Jade Lake’s silver-armored female guard asks whether Ye Si is an enemy and offers to execute her. Song Shuhang quickly refuses.
• The guard and Ye Si sense an unexplained familiarity with each other. Ye Si also feels an instinctive hostility toward the guard, similar to the mysterious closeness she previously felt toward Fairy Lychee.
• Ye Si begins merging back into Song Shuhang’s body. Halfway through the process, they discover that she can emerge from his body in unusual ways, creating a bizarre two-headed, four-armed form.
• Ye Si calls this ability the “Four-Armed Divine Ability.” Song Shuhang can control her additional arms and even use her spiritual energy to cast techniques through them. His attempt at Palm Thunder produces an enormous lightning sphere, revealing the ability’s formidable potential.
• Song Shuhang tries to discover how to return control of the arms to Ye Si, but his shouted command—“Release it, Four-Armed Divine Ability!”—fails. The two become stuck in the awkward form.
• Venerable White returns carrying a sentient giant ginseng as a captured prize. He sees Song Shuhang’s appearance and immediately laughs at him.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates how abnormal his constitution and cultivation progress have become. He experiments enthusiastically with the new ability, recognizing that it may allow him to use Ye Si’s powerful spiritual energy in combat.
• Ye Si: Becomes increasingly integrated with Song Shuhang, gaining the ability to merge with him and manifest extra limbs. She remains emotionally expressive and panics when she temporarily loses control of her arms.
• Onion Lady: Shows growing usefulness and initiative by identifying the correct pills. Her relationship with Ye Si develops as she regards Ye Si as her “master” after learning the Heaven’s Weeping Canon.
• Jade Lake Female Guard: Displays unexplained recognition and emotional familiarity toward Ye Si, hinting at a deeper connection between them.
• Venerable White: Returns victorious with a sentient ginseng and reacts to Song Shuhang’s strange new appearance with amusement.

Significant Themes

• Unusual cultivation and rapid advancement: Song Shuhang’s exceptional body and outside assistance allow him to bypass the normal difficulty and preparation involved in breaking through extraordinary meridians.
• Fusion and identity: Ye Si’s merging with Song Shuhang blurs the boundary between individual bodies, abilities, senses, and control.
• Power mixed with absurdity: The Four-Armed Divine Ability could be extremely powerful, but its accidental activation leaves Song Shuhang looking ridiculous and unable to control it properly.
• Mystery and hidden connections: The female guard’s unexplained familiarity with Ye Si, along with Ye Si’s instinctive hostility, suggests undisclosed links involving their origins or bloodlines.
• Comedic companionship: The characters’ cooperation, panic, experimentation, and teasing create humor even during a major cultivation breakthrough.

Character Interactions

• Ye Si assists Song Shuhang’s breakthrough and feeds him restorative pills supplied by Onion Lady.
• Song Shuhang reassures Ye Si when she fears losing control and collaborates with her to test the new ability.
• Ye Si and the Jade Lake guard exchange suspiciously familiar looks and comments.
• Onion Lady observes the situation with concern and amusement.
• Venerable White’s arrival ends the scene with laughter at Song Shuhang and Ye Si’s bizarre four-armed appearance.

Chapter Summary: “There Was Nothing One Blast Couldn't Solve”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Ye Si discover that their experimental “four-arm mode” has gone wrong. Even after Ye Si separates from Shuhang’s body, her arms remain under his control.
• Following Venerable White’s advice, Shuhang uses Ye Si’s hands to cast Palm Thunder again. The spell becomes dangerously oversized, but releasing it into the ground finally restores control of Ye Si’s arms.
• Ye Si accidentally dives back into Shuhang’s body when trying to embrace him, creating another embarrassing moment that greatly amuses Venerable White.
• Shuhang reports discovering a mysterious valley protected by powerful formations. A substitute puppet sent inside was severed into five pieces by Sword Qi, suggesting that something important—or the core of the area—may be hidden there.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen arrives and explains that she encountered ruined palace structures filled with unintelligent resentful spirits and skeletons. Shuhang decides to deal with them later to strengthen his Merit Light and improve his chances of surviving his ongoing misfortune-related tribulation.
• The group heads toward the mysterious valley, while Venerable White drags along an intelligent giant ginseng he intends to sell rather than eat.
• After reaching the valley entrance, they confirm that it is filled with numerous high-level, Venerable-grade formations, likely protecting a powerful Limitless Demon Sect Venerable.
• Rather than enter and dismantle the formations one by one, Venerable White prepares to destroy the entire valley from the entrance with a powerful attack.

Character Development

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful but increasingly burdened by his strange connection with Ye Si and his disastrous luck. His concern with improving his Merit Light shows his determination to survive his current tribulation, even if it means acting like an exorcising monk.
• Ye Si becomes more integrated with Shuhang through their unusual fusion ability. She is embarrassed and frustrated by her lack of control but cooperates with Shuhang to solve the problem.
• Venerable White continues to display overwhelming power, unconventional problem-solving, and a playful sense of humor. He treats dangerous situations casually and prefers overwhelming force over complicated methods.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen acts as a capable and steady companion. She is cautious about the valley and its formations but agrees to help Shuhang deal with the resentful spirits.
• The giant ginseng is revealed to possess intelligence, making it more than an ordinary treasure. Venerable White’s decision not to eat it reflects a degree of compassion and practicality.
• The silver female guard develops an infatuation with Venerable White, viewing him as a possible new object of faith after the destruction of the Emperor Pearl.

Significant Themes

• Power versus finesse: The chapter humorously emphasizes Venerable White’s philosophy that complicated obstacles can often be solved through overwhelming force.
• Unusual bonds and cooperation: Shuhang and Ye Si’s fusion is awkward and embarrassing, but it also demonstrates their growing supernatural connection and ability to work together.
• Merit and survival: Shuhang’s pursuit of resentful spirits reflects his attempt to turn good deeds into protection against his terrible luck and tribulation.
• Ruins and lost glory: Sixteen’s description of the ruined palaces evokes the collapse of the Heavenly Court’s former splendor and the lingering presence of its dead.
• Faith and replacement: The silver guard’s thoughts suggest that when an old source of faith disappears, love—or admiration—may become a substitute.

Character Interactions

• Shuhang and Ye Si struggle together to undo the effects of their failed transformation, with Venerable White guiding them and laughing at their bizarre appearance.
• Venerable White jokes about Shuhang’s poor attempt to change the subject and teases him about Onion Lady’s repeated consumption.
• Shuhang asks Sixteen to accompany him in exorcising the palace spirits, explaining that he needs to improve his Merit Light.
• Sixteen questions whether Shuhang has become addicted to monk-like behavior, while still agreeing to help him.
• At the valley entrance, Venerable White takes command, deciding to bypass the dangerous formations entirely by blasting them apart.

Chapter Summary: “Fishing Failed, What a Letdown”

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White prepares an unusually elaborate spell to attack the valley occupied by a Seventh-Grade Venerable from the Limitless Demon Sect.
• He reveals that the spell is his own newly created technique and summons Qingwu, the Willow Tree Demon, to load four hundred Disposable Flying Swords into its Spell Ring.
• The spell generates more than one hundred auxiliary formations, enhancing the swords with abilities such as acceleration, reinforcement, sharpness, energy multiplication, lightning, flames, storms, and chain attacks.
• Venerable White seals the space around the valley, preventing the enemy from escaping, then launches the enhanced swords.
• The valley’s powerful defensive formations are destroyed almost instantly. The swords merge into a massive seven-colored pillar of light, which obliterates the defenses and reduces the valley to a bottomless abyss.
• After the attack, Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen wonder whether the Limitless Demon Sect Venerable survived.

Character developments

• Venerable White demonstrates his creativity, immense power, and experimental mindset by testing a spell he recently invented. He also reveals that his long casting time was deliberate: he hoped to lure the enemy out and kill him while he attempted to interrupt the spell.
• White’s playful personality remains evident despite the attack’s terrifying power. He jokes about naming the technique later and is disappointed that his “fishing” strategy failed.
• Song Shuhang is impressed and nervous throughout the casting, recognizing the danger of an uncontrolled high-level spell. His awe is emphasized when he calls the final destruction beautiful.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen remains calm and observant, helping assess the unknown spell and its possible consequences.
• Qingwu, the subdued Willow Tree Demon, assists White by loading the swords and recording the attack, showing her practical role within his group.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and technological-like experimentation: White combines countless formations and disposable weapons into a completely original attack, treating combat like an engineering experiment.
• Preparation versus improvisation: The spell requires extensive preparation, but White has designed it to maximize destructive efficiency and prevent escape.
• Humor amid danger: The absurd scale of the attack, White’s casual attitude, the “disposable divine flying swords,” and his disappointment at failing to bait the enemy create comedy within a deadly confrontation.
• Curiosity and continual improvement: White records the spell so he can study and refine it later, reflecting his constant drive to experiment and improve.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang asks Sixteen about White’s spell, but White overhears and answers himself while continuing to cast.
• White orders Qingwu to retrieve and load the flying swords, while Song Shuhang reacts with surprise at their enormous number.
• Song Shuhang urges White to attack quickly rather than worry about naming the technique.
• White’s group retreats to safety as the spell reaches its limits, and White protects them with the Spell Ring during the resulting devastation.
• Qingwu records White’s attack, reinforcing the cooperative but comedic dynamic among the group.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang suspects the Limitless Demon Sect’s Seventh-Grade Venerable, Demon Venerable Lushan Road, survived Venerable White’s opening attack and may be hiding nearby. He is right about the survival, but wrong about the ambush: Lushan Road appears openly.
• Lushan Road mocks Venerable White for supposedly exhausting his strength and energy, then uses a curse aimed at shattering the hearts of Song Shuhang, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and White. White redirects Song’s Merit Light into three swords that easily break the curse.
• Lushan Road takes the result as proof that White is nearly powerless. Avoiding close combat, he traps the group in a Demon Domain and attacks from the air with demonic flames and his ultimate technique, Demon-Eye Heavenly Annihilation.
• White reshapes the Demon Domain into a beach, then reveals that his energy has already been fully restored by a Crystal Lotus, whose replenishment works despite the area’s unusual laws. He unveils an apparently devastating spell—Myriad Swords Volley—which is actually instantaneous, despite Lushan Road’s assumption that it requires lengthy preparation.
• White’s sword barrage destroys Lushan Road’s killing formation and targets the Venerable himself. Lushan Road activates numerous defenses and spends several life-saving resources, but realizes they may not be enough.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White remains calm and playful under pressure. He uses Song’s Merit Light to counter the curse, demonstrates control over the environment, and reveals that Lushan Road has seriously underestimated his recovery and abilities.
• Demon Venerable Lushan Road, an experienced, long-lived survivor, is cautious rather than reckless: he probes with a curse and chooses ranged attacks to avoid White’s martial skills. His confidence collapses when White launches the supposedly slow spell instantly.
• Song Shuhang stays alert and recognizes the danger of a possible ambush. He asks Ye Si whether she can consume the curse; she admits she cannot, highlighting that curse-eating is the Spirit Ghost’s special talent.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen is caught in the lethal pressure of the Venerables’ battle alongside Song, relying on White’s protection.
• White and Lushan Road’s exchange is defined by opposing assessments: Lushan Road believes White is depleted, while White lets him commit to that mistaken conclusion.

Significant themes

• Underestimation and misdirection: Lushan Road correctly identifies White’s apparent weakness but misjudges both his recovery and his spell’s preparation time.
• Caution versus confidence: Lushan Road’s careful tactics cannot compensate for his flawed assumptions, while White stays relaxed because he has more resources than his opponent expects.
• Resourcefulness and adaptability: Merit Light, environmental manipulation, and the Crystal Lotus let White overcome the area’s restrictions and turn the battle around.

Plot points and events

• Demon Venerable Lushan Road, a Seventh-Grade cultivator, is trapped by Venerable White’s powerful spell and its spatial lockdown. To escape, he uses a secret technique that sacrifices what he believes is half his remaining lifespan.
• His escape succeeds—but he soon collapses, rapidly ages, and realizes that he has accidentally sacrificed his entire lifespan. Venerable White confirms that Lushan Road’s vitality was cut off by the sacrifice itself.
• As Lushan Road lies dying, White asks him about the core of the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment. Lushan Road refuses to cooperate, confident that his imminent death will take the secret with him.
• White asks Song Shuhang for a Virtuous Golden Lotus Seed, which can extend lifespan, and brings over the enormous Ginseng. He says he has an experiment in mind and still wants information from Lushan Road.
• In a separate scene, Soft Feather finishes carving formations on Spirit Butterfly Island and prepares to break through to the Fourth-Grade Realm the next day. Her father reassures her that she will still have time to join Song Shuhang’s film.
• After Soft Feather leaves, Venerable Spirit Butterfly secretly contacts Venerable White to ask to borrow Mad Saber Three Waves for the next movie, My Unrestrained Life.

Character developments and interactions

• Lushan Road shows determination and optimism, believing he can survive with a century of life left and eventually advance to the Eighth Grade. His confidence collapses when he discovers he has unknowingly spent everything. Even at death’s door, he defies White and keeps the fragment’s location secret.
• Venerable White remains calm and curious, explaining Lushan Road’s fate and treating the crisis as an opportunity for an experiment. His interest in obtaining information persists despite the prisoner’s resistance.
• Song Shuhang observes the escape and questions White’s decision not to pursue Lushan Road; he also supplies the Lotus Seed.
• Soft Feather is cheerful and eager both about her upcoming breakthrough and her chance to act in the film. Venerable Spirit Butterfly is supportive and affectionate, while quietly arranging the next production with White.

Significant themes

• The cost of power and mistaken certainty: Lushan Road’s desperate escape technique saves him from the attack but consumes more than he intended, turning hope into a fatal miscalculation.
• Mortality and resolve: His final refusal to yield reflects a stubborn will, even as his body and spiritual energy fail.
• Cultivation alongside ordinary interests: High-stakes battles and realm breakthroughs sit beside playful concerns about films, casting, and borrowing a fellow cultivator for a production.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable Spirit Butterfly decides to make Mad Saber Three Waves the lead in a lavish film, imagining him enduring a string of spectacularly miserable scenes as a form of compensation for his minor role in an earlier movie.
• After learning that Three Waves is trapped in Senior White’s Sluggish Secret Realm, Spirit Butterfly sends his disciple Liu Jianyi to retrieve him. Jianyi unusually rushes off eagerly, intrigued by the realm’s power to slow movement.
• Spirit Butterfly offers Song Shuhang a role requiring him to disguise himself as a woman, mistakenly believing Shuhang enjoys cross-dressing. Shuhang declines, citing his impending return to school.
• Elsewhere, Senior White explains how he extracted the soul of the dying Seventh-Grade Venerable Demon Venerable Lushan Road by exploiting a brief gap between the effects of a life-extending seed on the soul and the body.
• Senior White seals Lushan Road’s soul inside Shuhang’s Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl, modifies it, and places it in the mouth of a sentient Ginseng Spirit. The soul can then control the ginseng’s body, allowing Senior White to question it.
• Lushan Road awakens in the unfamiliar body and demands to know what has happened to him.

Character developments and interactions

• Spirit Butterfly shows a generous but misguided side: he wants to support what he assumes is Shuhang’s hobby, even considering sending him women’s immortal clothing and teaching him makeup.
• Song Shuhang is embarrassed by Spirit Butterfly’s misunderstanding and refuses the acting offer. He also recognizes the Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl’s significance, recalling how it first sparked his interest in cultivators.
• Liu Jianyi, normally lazy and burdened by his master’s constant assignments, responds with surprising enthusiasm to the mission—though the reason for his motivation remains unclear.
• Senior White demonstrates impressive ingenuity and confidence, using an elaborate soul-extraction and containment method rather than directly interrogating Lushan Road.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen questions the need for Senior White’s complicated approach, while Shuhang lends the ice pearl and watches the procedure.
• Lushan Road awakens confused and alarmed, realizing he is no longer in his own body and must rely on his captors.

Significant themes

• Helping others can be self-serving or misguided: Spirit Butterfly sincerely wants to help Shuhang, but his assumptions turn his kindness into an awkward scheme.
• Cleverness and unconventional problem-solving: Senior White manipulates the boundary between life and death to preserve and interrogate a powerful soul.
• Comic contrast: Lighthearted misunderstandings and Liu Jianyi’s unexpected enthusiasm sit alongside the unsettling spectacle of a soul trapped in a ginseng body.

Chapter 813 Summary: “Please, What Is Your Mother’s Surname?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Venerable White reveals that Demon Venerable Lushan Road’s soul has been placed inside the body of the great Ginseng Spirit.
• White questions Lushan Road about the location of the Heavenly Court Fragment’s core. Lushan Road initially refuses to cooperate.
• White tempts him with the possibility of continuing to live. When Lushan Road admits that he wants to live, White uses a golden, rune-covered pot to pull out the Soul-Sealing Ice Pearl containing his consciousness.
• The pot establishes a contract with Lushan Road, turning him into its “pot spirit.”
• The Ginseng Spirit briefly awakens, believing its possession was only a nightmare, but realizes it was real. White knocks it unconscious again with a kick.
• White explains that the mysterious pot is a combat divine artifact from an unknown cultivation system. A soul above the Fifth Grade can become its pot spirit if it willingly fulfills the contract.
• The pot can summon its spirit for combat three times per day, for up to half an hour each time. If the summoned spirit is critically injured, it can be recalled into the pot to recover; if it dies, it is truly destroyed.
• White summons Lushan Road and demonstrates that the pot spirit can answer the owner’s questions.
• Lushan Road reveals that the Heavenly Court Fragment’s core is hidden among the palaces in the western region. He also possesses partial authority over the core and is required to open it.
• Under the pot’s contract, Lushan Road overcomes his resistance and begins guiding White, Song Shuhang, and Su Clan’s Sixteen toward the western palaces.

Character Developments

• Venerable White demonstrates his characteristic ingenuity, ruthlessness, and playful attitude. Rather than killing Lushan Road, he converts him into a useful combat spirit and information source.
• Demon Venerable Lushan Road remains proud and defiant, but his desire to live makes him vulnerable to White’s plan. Even after becoming a pot spirit, he struggles against the contract before being forced to cooperate.
• Song Shuhang remains curious and humorous, comparing the pot to a magic lamp and jokingly asking Lushan Road for his mother’s surname. He also recognizes the awkwardness of being ignored.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen reacts with amusement to Shuhang’s failed attempt at conversation.
• The Ginseng Spirit suffers repeated humiliation and helplessness, losing control of its body and being knocked unconscious whenever it awakens.
• Willow Tree Demon Qingwu becomes more appreciative of her usefulness to White, relieved that she is not being treated as expendably as the Ginseng Spirit.

Significant Themes

• The desire for survival: Lushan Road’s admission that he wants to live reveals how strongly even powerful cultivators cling to existence, though his resulting “life” as a pot spirit is far from what he intended.
• Free will versus coercion: The contract technically requires willingness, but White manipulates Lushan Road into fulfilling its conditions and then uses it to override his resistance.
• Power and utility: White evaluates people and objects according to their usefulness, turning Lushan Road into both a weapon and a source of information.
• Irony and dark humor: Lushan Road avoids death only to become an imprisoned pot spirit, while the Ginseng Spirit’s genuine terror is treated comically.
• Unfinished ambitions: Lushan Road had nearly secured control of the Heavenly Court Fragment and might eventually have reached the Eighth Grade, but his plans are abruptly ruined.

Important Character Interactions

• White psychologically pressures Lushan Road by asking whether he truly wants to live.
• White and Lushan Road engage in a battle of wills, with the pot’s contract ultimately forcing Lushan Road’s cooperation.
• Song Shuhang’s question about Lushan Road’s mother’s surname is ignored, producing an awkward but humorous exchange.
• White then asks the decisive question about the Heavenly Court Fragment’s core, and Lushan Road provides the information.
• The group follows Lushan Road’s guidance toward the western palaces to locate and access the hidden core.

Summary

Demon Venerable Lushan Road leads Venerable White, Song Shuhang, and Su Clan’s Sixteen to an underground palace beneath the Jade Lake Heavenly Court Fragment. The ruins are shrouded in Nine Netherworld chaos, which Lushan Road warns can form hostile beasts.
When a black dragon made of chaotic energy attacks, Song Shuhang’s Sage Scripture destroys it and brings back the remnants. The lotus connected to the core in his Heart Aperture then activates, absorbs the energy, and drives the mist away. Its roots pursue the retreating mist even through another dimension, astonishing Lushan Road, who once struggled for years to get past it.
Following Lushan Road’s carefully tested route through a spatial formation, the group reaches a small hidden room containing three reclining chairs. Lushan Road uses a sequence of runes to summon a black-haired woman in a phoenix robe—the apparent custodian of the palace’s core. She is extremely slow to react and initially notices only Lushan Road, then eventually the others.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang discovers that the Heart Aperture lotus can absorb Nine Netherworld energy, greatly expanding its apparent usefulness. Its roots also suggest a possible way to navigate labyrinthine ruins. He jokes with Ye Si about whether she once owed the mysterious woman money.
• Ye Si reacts to the woman with unexpected panic, and both she and Song Shuhang experience a vivid, sorrowful image of her. Ye Si insists she has never met the woman, but admits her memories are incomplete and becomes unsure whether she may have forgotten a deeper connection.
• Demon Venerable Lushan Road guides the group through the palace but is visibly astonished when Song Shuhang’s lotus effortlessly consumes the mist that once caused him great hardship. The summoned woman remarks that his death means he can no longer help sustain the Jade Lake Celestial Realm.
• Venerable White remains intrigued by Song Shuhang’s lotus and observes its unusual appetite for both Spirit Stones and Nine Netherworld energy.
• The black-haired woman appears frail and lethargic, with delayed reactions, but is delighted to see Venerable White—a living Seventh-Grade Venerable—and notes that she had been searching for one.

Significant themes

The chapter highlights the vast gap between cultivators’ abilities, as Song Shuhang casually overcomes a danger that once challenged Lushan Road for years. It also deepens the mystery around Ye Si’s incomplete past: her emotional reaction suggests a significant, possibly painful bond with the woman, despite her lack of conscious recognition.

• Venerable White refuses to merely help maintain the Jade Lake Celestial Realm, explaining that he wants to take it over entirely. The tear-mole beauty agrees to transfer its core authority to him, trusting that he can eventually support it himself. Restoring the realm to its former beauty would require the power of a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal.
• The tear-mole beauty mistakes Song Shuhang for Fairy Cheng Lin, a Longevity Immortal she knew. Song denies the identity, and Ye Si—who seems unsettled by the woman—also says she has no connection to Cheng Lin. Venerable White recognizes the name and recounts seeing a vision in Cheng Lin’s residence of another immortal killing her. The woman doubts Cheng Lin could have died so easily and insists the scene was an illusion.
• The beauty claims she preserved the Jade Lake Celestial Realm for Cheng Lin under an old agreement and demands that Song fulfill his part of it by kissing her. Song resists, insisting he is not Cheng Lin and warning that the request may involve a misunderstanding.
• The beauty separates Song from Venerable White and Su Clan’s Sixteen, saying this will spare his “new lover” from witnessing the kiss. Song, still trying to make sense of the situation, asks what Cheng Lin actually looked like, believing that answer will connect the clues.
  Character developments and interactions: Venerable White remains focused on acquiring the realm, while Song is caught between his own objections and the beauty’s certainty that he is Cheng Lin. Ye Si’s strong reluctance to meet the woman suggests a hidden connection worth exploring. Su Clan’s Sixteen and Venerable White react to the demanded kiss, adding to Song’s embarrassment.
  Themes: The chapter plays with mistaken identity, uncertain memory, and promises that cross time or identities. It also contrasts the beauty’s longing to restore a lost home with Venerable White’s ambition to claim it, while using humor to undercut the increasingly serious mystery surrounding Cheng Lin.

Chapter 816 Summary: “A Double Kill with One Arrow”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang fails to learn Fairy Cheng Lin’s appearance because the Beauty with a Beauty Mark becomes angry at his continued questioning. She believes he is merely searching for an excuse to avoid fulfilling Cheng Lin’s promise.
• The Beauty explains that she upheld her agreement by preserving and supporting the Jade Lake Celestial Realm after the Heavenly Court’s destruction. She demands the kiss Cheng Lin had promised her.
• She paralyzes Song Shuhang and forcibly kisses him, fulfilling the old promise. Song Shuhang realizes this is his first kiss.
• Ye Si, who is merged with Song Shuhang, attempts to emerge and accept the kiss in Cheng Lin’s place, believing it is her mission. However, she is caught halfway through the process, causing both her and Song Shuhang to receive the kiss—hence the “double kill with one arrow.”
• After the promise is fulfilled, the Beauty begins dissipating into particles of light. She gives Song Shuhang her Phoenix Crown and Phoenix Robe, explaining that they are the core treasures of the Jade Lake Celestial Realm. They will allow a Seventh-Grade Venerable to control and preserve the realm.
• Song Shuhang asks whether she has anything else to say. She curses Cheng Lin before finally losing consciousness and vanishing.
• As she disappears, the Beauty sees Cheng Lin’s familiar image in Song Shuhang: the crooked Daoist crown and loose golden-patterned robe. This confirms her deep attachment to Cheng Lin despite Cheng Lin’s betrayal of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Song Shuhang recites the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture as a farewell ritual.
• Afterward, he jokes that he failed to ask the Beauty’s gender, since he had been assuming she was female.
• The dimensional space reconnects, and Venerable White and Su Clan’s Sixteen return. They notice the Beauty is gone.
• Song Shuhang’s Merit Light suddenly ignites and begins forming a human shape, suggesting it has undergone a major qualitative transformation.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Accepts responsibility for Cheng Lin’s promise, even though he is not Cheng Lin. He becomes more willing to bear the emotional consequences of Cheng Lin’s actions and shows compassion by seeing the Beauty off with a scripture. He also suffers the humorous shock of losing his first kiss.
• Ye Si: Demonstrates a stronger sense of responsibility and courage. Rather than avoiding the Beauty, she tries to fulfill Cheng Lin’s obligation herself, though her attempt results in both her and Song Shuhang being kissed.
• The Beauty with a Beauty Mark: Reveals that her anger masks grief, exhaustion, and long devotion. Fulfilling the promise allows her to die peacefully. Her final thoughts show that she still cherishes Cheng Lin’s original appearance despite calling her a betrayer.
• Cheng Lin: Although absent, she remains central to the chapter. Her unfulfilled promise, betrayal, and relationship with the Beauty drive the entire encounter.

Significant Themes

• Promises and repayment: The chapter centers on the idea that promises create lasting obligations, even across death and betrayal.
• Identity and mistaken responsibility: Song Shuhang is treated as Cheng Lin, forcing him to confront the consequences of another person’s actions.
• Love mixed with resentment: The Beauty’s affection for Cheng Lin survives alongside anger over Cheng Lin’s betrayal.
• Sacrifice and acceptance: The Beauty uses the last of her strength to preserve the Jade Lake Celestial Realm and dies only after her wish is fulfilled.
• Comedic treatment of serious events: The emotional farewell is balanced by humor surrounding the forced kiss, Ye Si’s involvement, and uncertainty about the Beauty’s gender.
• Transformation: The sudden change in Song Shuhang’s Merit Light hints at a new development or power connected to the encounter.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the Beauty: Their confrontation shifts from accusation to forced intimacy, followed by a final exchange of gifts, curses, and farewell.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si: They argue internally over who is responsible for the kiss, with Ye Si insisting that their merged existence makes the event mutual.
• Song Shuhang and the departing Beauty: He takes on Cheng Lin’s role as much as possible, listens to her final words, and honors her death with a prayer.
• Song Shuhang, Venerable White, and Su Clan’s Sixteen: They reunite after the dimensional split, but White and Sixteen are left puzzled by the Beauty’s disappearance and Song Shuhang’s suddenly changing Merit Light.

Chapter Summary: “Vegetables and Fruits”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang realizes that silently reciting the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture beside the Beauty with a Beauty Mark counted as a form of transcendence. As a result, he gained substantial Merit.
• Venerable White explains that transcending the Beauty caused the Jade Lake Celestial Realm to lose its spiritual “support,” placing the entire realm at risk of collapse.
• Song Shuhang gives Venerable White the Phoenix Crown and Phoenix Robe, which together form the core of the Jade Lake Celestial Realm.
• Venerable White decides to wear the Phoenix Robe and Crown in order to communicate with the core, stabilize the realm, and eventually move it elsewhere as another personal Vacation Manor.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen secretly photograph Venerable White in the feminine attire. Venerable White warns them not to distribute the pictures.
• While Venerable White meditates and connects with the realm’s core, Song Shuhang’s Merit flames continue undergoing a mysterious transformation.
• Song Shuhang and Sixteen discuss her upcoming Heavenly Tribulation and promise to meet in the Jiangnan Region after she succeeds.
• Song Shuhang jokes about sharing Venerable White’s picture with the Nine Provinces Number One Group. Ye Si, influenced by their contract, unexpectedly takes Venerable White’s phone, photographs him, and sends the image to the group.
• Song Shuhang quickly recalls the message, but Dongfang Jingxue had already saved and reposted the image. Numerous group members then praise Venerable White’s beauty and jokingly propose marriage, leaving Song Shuhang terrified of the consequences.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Gains a better understanding of how his actions can generate Merit. He continues to behave recklessly and humorously, but becomes increasingly anxious when his jokes produce real disasters—especially involving Venerable White’s dignity.
• Venerable White: Demonstrates his willingness to wear women’s clothing when necessary and reveals a past connection with Fairy Winter Melon, who used him as a model for Immortal Garments. He also prepares to assume control of the Jade Lake Celestial Realm.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen: Shows affectionate teasing toward Venerable White and expresses renewed determination to overcome her Heavenly Tribulation. Her relationship with Song Shuhang remains warm and supportive.
• Ye Si: Acts impulsively through her connection with Song Shuhang, interpreting his joking desire to share the picture as a genuine impulse and causing the embarrassing photo to reach the group.
• Fairy Winter Melon: Though absent, she is characterized as an eccentric Immortal Garment maker from an older “vegetable”-named generation.
• Nine Provinces Number One Group: The members enthusiastically embrace the image, turning Venerable White’s brief embarrassment into a widespread joke.

Significant Themes

• Merit and unintended consequences: Song Shuhang’s compassionate act brings him Merit but destabilizes the entire realm, showing that spiritual actions can have unpredictable results.
• Identity and appearance: Venerable White’s beauty and comfort with feminine clothing create comic tension around gender, appearance, and social expectations.
• Friendship and teasing: Song Shuhang, Sixteen, and the group members use humor to strengthen their relationships, though the jokes repeatedly escalate beyond Song Shuhang’s control.
• Responsibility versus recklessness: Song Shuhang tries to prevent the photo from spreading after joking about it, highlighting his tendency to act first and manage the consequences afterward.
• Generational traditions: The vegetable- and fruit-themed Daoist titles introduce a playful sense of sect history and continuity.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Venerable White discuss the realm’s collapse and the importance of the Phoenix Crown and Robe.
• Song Shuhang and Sixteen tease Venerable White, exchange encouragement about her Heavenly Tribulation, and joke about sending his photograph to the group.
• Venerable White shares his history with Fairy Winter Melon and her Immortal Garment hobby.
• Ye Si acts on Song Shuhang’s joking thoughts, creating an embarrassing situation that he desperately attempts to undo.
• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group react enthusiastically to the photograph, repeatedly declaring Venerable White beautiful and jokingly asking him to marry them.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and Ye Si panic after accidentally posting a photo of Venerable White to the Nine Provinces Number One Group. They fear White will punish anyone who shared it by sending them to the Sluggish Secret Realm.
• Ye Si deletes the photo-related messages from White’s phone while Shuhang tries to redirect the group’s conversation. His warning about White’s threatened punishment quickly silences the chat.
• The seniors switch to discussing their recently filmed movie and its planned release. Bright Moon, When Will You Be hopes audiences will remember him as the main villain, but the group’s imagined reviews suggest viewers mostly notice the protagonist Ling Ye, Senior Brother Gao Sheng, or the villain’s armor.
• Ye Si finishes erasing the relevant chat history. Shuhang relaxes, hoping White won’t notice anything amiss.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen spots Ye Si’s hands emerging from Shuhang’s chest. Shuhang jokingly presents them as a new divine ability, “Two Heads, Four Arms,” and Ye Si plays along by appearing beside his head.
• Sixteen recognizes Ye Si and learns that she has contracted with Shuhang as his Spirit Ghost. Ye Si clarifies that she remains an independent person and is not an ordinary Spirit Ghost.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang tries to avert trouble through quick thinking, using White’s threat to distract the group and later improvising an explanation for Ye Si’s appearance.
• Ye Si supports Shuhang, handles the message deletion, and cooperates with his playful cover story.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen shifts from confusion at Shuhang’s “divine ability” to surprise and curiosity about Ye Si’s presence and their contract.
• The group’s seniors respond collectively to the threat by stopping the photo discussion and finding a safer topic. Their teasing and lack of attention to Bright Moon’s role also expose his comic disappointment.

Significant themes

• Comedic crisis management: Shuhang and Ye Si try to escape consequences through teamwork, distraction, and concealment.
• Identity and autonomy: Ye Si’s Spirit Ghost bond with Shuhang does not erase her individuality.
• Recognition and vanity: Bright Moon’s hopes of being remembered contrast with the attention audiences supposedly give to other characters and details.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s Merit Light completes a major transformation, becoming intensely hot and briefly swirling around him like a dragon.
• Hoping to shape it by visualization, Song Shuhang focuses on a dragon. The result is an awkward hybrid: a golden, scaled snake-like lower body and an unfinished, stick-figure-like upper body—the “Matchstick Snake Demon.”
• Su Clan’s Sixteen suggests the upper half may be incomplete because Song Shuhang lacks enough Merit Power, though she admits it may be the final form. Shuhang resolves to earn more merit by transcending wandering souls.
• Song Shuhang discovers he can retract and manifest the Merit Light at will. It remains as a faint protective layer and will appear to repel curses, evil spells, and ghosts.
• Ye Si confirms that she and the Merit Light can coexist inside Song Shuhang without interfering.
• Song Shuhang combines Ye Si’s “Two Heads, Four Arms” ability with the Merit Light to create “Three Heads and Six Arms.” The result looks comically mismatched, with Ye Si on one side and the Matchstick Snake Demon’s glowing head and rod-like arms on the other.
• Sixteen photographs the form and posts it to the Nine Provinces Number One Group. The seniors joke about possible movie roles, and True Lord Yellow Mountain follows up with a picture of a young, paper-headed, three-headed Doudou.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains control over his transformed Merit Light and a new protective ability, but his attempts to make it look impressive lead to comic disappointment. He treats the awkward appearance with humor and is happy for Sixteen to share the photo.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen observes the transformation, offers a cautious explanation for its unfinished appearance, and playfully documents Shuhang’s new form.
• Ye Si confirms that her presence does not conflict with the Merit Light and joins Shuhang’s experiment, while teasing the result’s lack of visual unity.
• The group seniors respond with lighthearted speculation and jokes, turning Shuhang’s odd transformation into a source of group entertainment.

Significant themes

• Merit and cultivation: Spiritual power can evolve into tangible, protective forms, but may require further accumulation to reach completion.
• Limits of control: Despite Shuhang’s focused intentions, the Merit Light does not take the shape he wants.
• Companionship and humor: Shuhang, Ye Si, and Sixteen approach a strange and potentially powerful change through playful experimentation, while the group extends the joke through photos and banter.