Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After watching Joseph complete another set of The Times Are Calling, Song Shuhang decides the exercises are too embarrassing to keep teaching him. He considers other options but worries Joseph is too old to begin cultivation and may not withstand the Body Tempering Liquid.
• Remembering his own Holy Light Swordsmanship, Song Shuhang chooses to teach Joseph its forms. He demonstrates the first move, Holy Light Slaying Evil Sword, using the Overlord Shatter Saber in place of a greatsword. The move produces a calm, warm holy radiance that Joseph mistakes for Sword Qi.
• Joseph remembers about sixty percent of the demonstration. Song Shuhang begins teaching him step by step, warning him not to pass the technique on without permission. Joseph eagerly agrees to recite its awkward incantation: “Holy Light, that evil looks worthy of a fight!”
• After an hour of practice, Joseph is tired from wielding the heavy saber but delighted with the new technique.
• Song Shuhang checks the Nine Provinces Number One Group to ask about ways for older people to open their cultivation apertures. He finds Venerable White directing Skylark toward him because his Heart Aperture core can purge Netherworld Evil Energy. Skylark plans to seal her own body and study it first. Song also reads advanced cultivation discussions, which he cannot fully understand but finds enlightening.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows growing responsibility toward Joseph and thinks beyond him to his own parents, hoping they too might one day cultivate. He remains cautious about formally accepting Joseph as a disciple until Joseph is ready.
• Joseph demonstrates extraordinary perseverance and humility: he practices daily, admits the limits of his memory, and enthusiastically accepts both the sword forms and their strange incantation. He hopes this means he has officially entered Song’s sect, but Song postpones that decision.
• Song and Joseph share a warm, teacher-student dynamic. Song encourages Joseph while setting boundaries around the secret technique; Joseph trusts and obeys him.
• Venerable White and Skylark exchange advice about purging Netherworld energy, indirectly involving Song because of his unusual core.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and mentorship: Joseph’s dedication motivates Song to find a more fitting path for him.
• Age and access to cultivation: Song’s concern about Joseph—and his parents—raises the question of whether older people can still begin cultivating.
• Responsibility and secrecy: Song treats passing on a cultivation technique as a serious obligation, not merely a lesson.
• Appearance versus substance: The sword forms initially provide Joseph only an impressive “shell,” while their true power depends on cultivation; nevertheless, the practice gives him purpose and encouragement.

Key plot points and events

• While traveling to Jiangnan, Song Shuhang chats with Venerable White, who has recovered deleted group messages using the app’s roaming feature—including records of the Jade Lake incident. White accepts Shuhang’s explanation that the leaked photos were accidental and leaves to refine a mysterious treasure.
• Master Profound Principle—posting as “Three Days”—says a newly purchased phone exploded. He asks Shuhang to keep looking after Guoguo and the other two children for a few more days.
• The group trades jokes and affectionate teasing, including Medicine Master and Jiang Ziyan’s honeymoon banter and Three Waves’ habit of rubbing a dog-head emoji that turns out to be a picture of Doudou.
• Lay Buddhist Xian Gong reports that he has absorbed the Dragon Demon Potion and plans to enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Seventh-Grade Venerable Realm. He has also finished refining Dragon-Tail Shadow Escape, a flying-sword speed-enhancing treasure intended for Venerable White. Shuhang plans to collect it when he reaches Jiangnan.
• Three Waves jokingly suggests that Xian Gong adopt the title “Nuclear Blast Venerable.” Though Northern River warns him too late, the joke hits Xian Gong’s painful old wound. Xian Gong replies that, after his breakthrough, he’ll thank Three Waves by sending him a nuclear bomb.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains cautious about the Jade Lake incident and hopes the gift will further reassure Venerable White. He also readily agrees to care for the children.
• Venerable White is unusually forgiving about the leaked photos and is excitedly pursuing a new artifact.
• Xian Gong has overcome the danger associated with the Dragon Demon Potion and is optimistic about advancing, though the nuclear-blast joke shows that his old trauma still hurts.
• Three Waves once again speaks without thinking, turning a playful joke into a serious offense.
• Profound Principle/Three Days shows concern for his mischievous pupils while trusting Shuhang to look after them.

Significant themes

• Friendship and responsibility: Group members support one another, while Shuhang takes responsibility for the children and helps Xian Gong prepare a gift for White.
• Forgiveness and making amends: White accepts Shuhang’s explanation, and Shuhang hopes his thoughtful present will repair any lingering awkwardness.
• Humor with consequences: The group’s teasing creates camaraderie, but Three Waves’s joke reveals that old wounds can remain sensitive even when someone seems to be healing.

Character interactions

• White and Shuhang exchange candid, friendly messages about the Jade Lake records and White’s plans.
• Profound Principle entrusts Guoguo and the other children to Shuhang, while teasing that Shuhang is too lenient with them.
• Group members banter over phones, romance, and dog-head emojis.
• The conversation turns tense when Three Waves’s joke about Xian Gong’s title revives Xian Gong’s painful past; Northern River can only lament that his warning came too late.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator realizes he was too late to warn Mad Saber Three Waves, who has once again rushed into trouble. At the Forbidden City, Northern River eagerly anticipates an upcoming duel with the fortune-teller who has repeatedly offended him. He plans to wait patiently and fight him before an audience.
• Ten li away, Copper Trigram Immortal Master sits by the roadside disguised as Song Shuhang and offers a little girl a fortune reading. The girl asks whether her absent father will come home for New Year. Copper Trigram’s divination indicates an auspicious result, but because his readings must be interpreted in reverse, he knows her father will not return.
• Trying to inhabit Song Shuhang’s character more fully, Copper Trigram gives the girl a heart-shaped charm containing a spell and tells her she will be able to see her father, even though he will not come home.
• After the mother and daughter leave, Copper Trigram reflects that he has improved at disguise but performed poorly as a fortune-teller by withholding the true meaning of the hexagram. He decides he should use Senior Xian Gong’s appearance next time.
• A crowd recognizes his Song Shuhang disguise as the infamous Senior Brother Gao Sheng from a newly released film. They chant “Senior Brother Gao Sheng must die!” and chase him. Copper Trigram flees, regretting his choice of disguise.

Character developments

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator is increasingly excited about his planned duel and imagines the satisfaction of defeating his opponent publicly, though he recognizes he must wait and keep his aura suppressed.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master treats disguise as a form of immersive role-playing: he tries to think and act as Song Shuhang would, even at the expense of his usual fortune-telling honesty. He sees his disguise skill improving but remains self-critical about his performance as a diviner.
• The little girl is trusting and hopeful, especially about seeing her father again. Her mother is wary of strangers but is strangely willing to let her daughter keep Copper Trigram’s charm.

Significant themes

• Patience and anticipation: Northern River sees restraint as necessary preparation for a satisfying future victory.
• Identity and performance: Copper Trigram believes a disguise requires becoming the person he imitates, not merely copying their appearance.
• Truth versus kindness: He knows the fortune’s real implication but gives the child comfort and a magical means of seeing her father instead.
• Comedic reputation and unintended consequences: Copper Trigram’s disguise works too well, drawing a crowd whose reaction to Song Shuhang’s film role turns into a chaotic chase.

Character interactions

• Northern River’s brief thoughts about Three Waves reveal his exasperation with the latter’s reckless habits.
• Copper Trigram gently engages the girl in a reading and offers her a charm; her mother watches with suspicion but does not intervene.
• The crowd’s recognition transforms Copper Trigram from a roadside fortune-teller into the target of an enthusiastic, harmless mob, forcing him to abandon the scene and run.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• End-Dharma War becomes an enormous nationwide success after True Lord Yellow Mountain’s promotion. Senior Brother Gao Sheng, played by Overlord Blade, becomes nearly as popular as the protagonist, Ling Ye.
• The phrase “Senior Brother Gao Sheng must die” trends online, and when Copper Trigram Immortal Master disguises himself as Song Shuhang, a crowd recognizes him as Gao Sheng and begins chasing him through the streets.
• Copper Trigram avoids using supernatural abilities to prevent exposing himself, instead leading hundreds of fans through several streets before escaping through sharp turns.
• The chase is recorded and uploaded, promising to become another viral video.
• Two Fourth-Grade Limitless Demon Sect disciples track Copper Trigram, believing him to be the Third-Grade Overlord Blade. They attempt to capture him but are defeated and bound after Copper Trigram reveals overwhelming strength.
• The disciples had been searching for Overlord Blade because the Limitless Demon Sect believes Ling Ye is actually Venerable White and hopes to use Overlord Blade to locate him.
• The next morning, Joseph enthusiastically continues practicing Holy Light Slaying Evil Sword, convinced that the technique is especially suited to him and may have been created for him by his master.
• While traveling to Jiangnan University Town, Ji Shuangxue shows Song Shuhang a video of a “Song Shuhang” being chased by thousands of people in Cup Capital. Song Shuhang realizes the person in the footage is Copper Trigram in disguise.

Character Developments

• Copper Trigram Immortal Master: His disguise as Song Shuhang causes yet another disastrous situation. He becomes convinced that Song Shuhang is fundamentally incompatible with him and places Shuhang on his disguise blacklist. Despite wanting to avoid trouble, he easily defeats the Limitless Demon Sect disciples.
• Song Shuhang: Continues suffering the consequences of Copper Trigram’s disguises. He is shocked and exasperated upon discovering that Copper Trigram has once again used his appearance.
• Joseph: Becomes more devoted to practicing Holy Light Swordsmanship after noticing improvements to his body and spirit. He develops a personal connection to the technique, believing his master may have designed it specifically for him.
• Ji Shuangxue: Her attitude toward Song Shuhang appears less hostile, as she voluntarily greets him and shares videos with him.
• Limitless Demon Sect disciples: Their mistaken assessment of “Overlord Blade’s” cultivation leads them into a humiliating defeat.

Significant Themes

• Comic consequences of mistaken identity: Copper Trigram repeatedly causes trouble while disguised as Song Shuhang, forcing Shuhang to deal with the fallout.
• The power of popularity and herd mentality: A movie catchphrase turns into a real-life chase, with people joining simply because others are participating.
• The gap between public image and reality: Fans see Gao Sheng as a hated villain, while the person they chase is actually a disguised cultivator.
• Cultivation-world intelligence and misinformation: The Limitless Demon Sect’s faulty information about Overlord Blade’s strength results in a disastrous miscalculation.
• Mentorship and personal dedication: Joseph’s commitment to swordsmanship reflects his gratitude toward and admiration for his master.

Character Interactions

• Copper Trigram interacts indirectly with the public as they pursue him, then confronts and defeats the two Limitless Demon Sect disciples.
• The captured disciples reveal the sect’s plans to locate Venerable White through Overlord Blade.
• Ji Shuangxue playfully questions Song Shuhang about whether he has a twin after showing him the video.
• Song Shuhang identifies Copper Trigram in the footage, confirming that the latest public scandal is another consequence of Copper Trigram borrowing his identity.

Key plot points and events

• A video shows Senior Copper Trigram disguised as Song Shuhang being chased by a crowd. Shuhang worries that Copper Trigram’s fortune-telling may bring trouble to his doorstep.
• Shuhang arrives in Jiangnan with three young monks—Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu—and a young Demon Catcher. The Demon Catcher explains that evil energy is gathering in the region and offers to escort Shuhang.
• The children ask to go demon hunting, hoping to subdue even one weak ghost before Senior Brother Three Days takes them back to their temple. Shuhang refuses, judging them too inexperienced and bound by his promise to look after them.
• The group plans to buy food. When the children ask for vegetarian “chicken,” Shuhang warns that the shop uses chicken broth and suggests cooking at home.
• On the way to buy groceries, Shuhang and the children are confronted by a gang of thugs. Their leader turns out to be a scammer Shuhang robbed of his wallet three months earlier. He demands to know which hand Shuhang used so he can punish it.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains cautious and responsible: he looks after the children, declines to expose them to danger, and takes their dietary needs seriously. He is also amused to encounter the scammer again.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu are eager, determined, and mischievous. They want adventure badly enough to threaten to run away again if denied, though their abilities are far below what serious demon hunting would require.
• The young Demon Catcher demonstrates concern for Shuhang’s safety while pursuing his own investigation into the region’s supernatural activity.
• The scammer has nursed a grudge for three months and has gathered a gang to exact belated revenge.

Significant themes

• Responsibility versus youthful recklessness: Shuhang balances the children’s enthusiasm against their limited strength and his promise to protect them.
• The collision of ordinary and supernatural life: A possible supernatural threat looms in Jiangnan, but the immediate danger comes from an old-fashioned street scammer and his gang.
• Delayed consequences and comic irony: Shuhang’s past prank has finally caught up with him, though the confrontation is treated as an absurdly late revenge.
• Practicality in daily life: Cultivation offers conveniences, but Shuhang still handles ordinary concerns such as cooking, shopping, and keeping the children safe.

Character interactions

• Shuhang reassures Ji Shuangxue about the disguised man in the video, while privately fearing he may be blamed for Copper Trigram’s actions.
• He gently but firmly turns down the children’s request to hunt demons, prompting their disappointment and scheming.
• He jokes with the little monk about breaking his vegetarian vows, then explains why the supposedly vegetarian dish may not be suitable.
• The chapter ends with Shuhang recognizing the scammer from their earlier encounter and calmly exchanging remarks before the man threatens him.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang encounters a scammer and his companions, who recognize him from a previous dispute and try to intimidate him. The scammer offers to let him choose which arm to lose, while insisting he does not hurt children.
• Song sends Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu to wait outside and follows the men into an alley. He easily disarms the scammer, twists a steel pipe with his bare hands, and beats the gang without causing lasting injuries.
• As the battered scammer seethes over his defeat and remembers that Shuhang took his money months earlier, a mysterious voice offers him power and revenge.
• The voice conjures a black crystal ring and persuades the scammer to wear it, promising he can become powerful enough to defeat Shuhang. The ring heals his injuries and begins strengthening him. He tests his new strength on a steel pipe, bending it but not yet twisting it fully.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is confident in his strength as a Third-Grade Cultivator, but sees little point in fighting ordinary thugs. He handles the gang efficiently and restrains himself to avoid serious harm.
• The scammer shifts from boastful aggressor to humiliated, revenge-driven victim. Though suspicious of the ring’s promises, his desire to overpower Shuhang wins out.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu watch from outside and joke about Shuhang’s encounters. Zhu envies the attention, while Guoguo’s interest hints that he may be contemplating trouble of his own.
• The mysterious voice plays on the scammer’s resentment and fantasies of becoming a protagonist, adapting its pitch after his jokes and questions derail the offer.

Significant themes

• Power and revenge: Humiliation makes the scammer receptive to a dangerous-seeming promise of strength.
• Temptation and manipulation: The voice presents power as nearly cost-free, asking only that the scammer recover a treasure later.
• Comedy amid danger: Internet catchphrases and pop-culture references undercut the ominous recruitment, while Shuhang’s overwhelming strength makes the gang’s threat almost farcical.

Chapter Summary: Evil Lotus Space Has Betrayed Us!

Key Plot Points and Events

• The man who staged the accident believes the black crystal ring is a divine artifact that will continually strengthen him. He vows to return and take revenge on Song Shuhang.
• The mysterious human cultivator who planted the ring leaves, confident that the Netherworld energy and evil whispers will transform the victim into a powerful agent. His larger plan is to spread Netherworld energy among more humans and create new “masters of the world.”
• Senior Sister Ye Si secretly records the incident and informs Song Shuhang. She confirms that the bait-setter is a human cultivator, suggesting that human cultivators may be cooperating with forces in the Netherworld.
• Ye Si tracks the cultivator, who is a relatively weak Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor still operating in the Jiangnan Region. His activities may explain reports of evil energy gathering there.
• Song Shuhang returns with Guoguo, Shi Luoli, and Candle Lolita to rescue the accident conspirator. He sees the ring as another case of Netherworld corruption and decides to handle it personally because the core in his Heart Aperture can suppress Netherworld power.
• Song Shuhang confronts the man at his minivan. The man initially assumes Song Shuhang has returned to punish him or steal the ring and resists having it removed.
• The ring cannot be pulled off normally and appears to have fused with the man’s finger. Ye Si immobilizes his companions with a Soul-Snaring Spell and seals the area from outside observation.
• Song Shuhang summons the Lotus Projection from his Heart Aperture. Its roots extract both the Netherworld energy from the man and the evil power inside the ring, causing the black crystal ring to shatter.
• Because the man had only recently been infected, he returns to normal and should recover after several days of weakness.
• In the Netherworld, Metal Sphere Sovereign senses that another portion of its smuggled power has been devoured. It initially suspects White, but then realizes that the Sovereign’s mark within the Evil Lotus World has been erased, prompting it to cry out White’s name in alarm.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increased responsibility and caution. Rather than simply punishing the conspirator, he chooses to save him and prevent the Netherworld corruption from spreading.
• Ye Si acts as an effective scout and investigator. She records evidence, tracks the human cultivator, protects the group with a barrier, and neutralizes the conspirator’s companions.
• The accident conspirator shifts from a confident would-be avenger to a frightened victim. His belief in the ring as a divine artifact blinds him to the fact that it is corrupting him.
• The mysterious cultivator is revealed to be part of a broader scheme involving the Netherworld and the recruitment or transformation of humans.
• Metal Sphere Sovereign becomes increasingly alarmed as its power is repeatedly destroyed and its control over the Evil Lotus World appears to have been compromised.

Significant Themes

• Corruption disguised as power: The ring promises strength but is actually a tool for Netherworld possession and transformation.
• Hidden alliances and infiltration: The involvement of a human cultivator suggests that the Netherworld’s influence extends beyond demons and may include cooperation with human forces.
• Rescue versus punishment: Song Shuhang chooses to protect even an enemy when that person is being manipulated, emphasizing moral restraint.
• Escalating threat: The destruction of the ring is a local victory, but the wider plan to distribute Netherworld energy remains active.
• Loss of control: Metal Sphere Sovereign’s reaction reveals that its influence over the Present World and possibly the Evil Lotus World is weakening.

Character Interactions

• Ye Si communicates her findings directly to Song Shuhang and coordinates the rescue operation with him.
• Song Shuhang jokingly but firmly prevents Guoguo, Shi Luoli, and Candle Lolita from splitting off to buy groceries, bringing them into the supernatural incident instead.
• Song Shuhang confronts and physically restrains the conspirator, who misunderstands his intentions and assumes he wants the ring for himself.
• Ye Si supports Song Shuhang by sealing the scene and incapacitating the conspirator’s companions.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si cooperate to remove the Netherworld influence, with Song Shuhang providing the Lotus Projection and Ye Si agreeing to erase the victim’s memories.
• Metal Sphere Sovereign reacts to the destruction of its power and the erased mark in the Evil Lotus World, setting up a potential confrontation involving White.

Plot points and events

• Senior White Two smoothly overwrites the Metal Sphere’s control imprint on the Evil Lotus World, replacing its weak six-digit password with a far more secure, hundred-character code. The furious Metal Sphere cannot enter or damage its former domain.
• White Two blocks out the Metal Sphere’s shouting with magical earplugs, drinks Dragon Demon Potion, and discovers he can spin silk. He weaves himself a giant cocoon and falls into a deep, comfortable sleep, possibly for a thousand years.
• Before sleeping, he orders his subordinate, the Hamster Fiend, to deliver the potion’s reward to Song Shuhang. The Hamster Fiend heads toward the Present World, eager for a rematch at China’s Forbidden Summit.
• The Metal Sphere creates a small clone to watch the sealed Evil Lotus World and keep an eye on White Two.
• Elsewhere, True Lord Yellow Mountain finally finds Daoist Cloudmist hiding in an internet café under a disguise. He seals Cloudmist, silences him, and takes him away.
• Cloudmist wonders how Yellow Mountain tracked him despite his changing disguises, phones, and accounts. Yellow Mountain keeps the answer secret: Cloudmist’s identification documents were obtained through Yellow Mountain’s friend Snow Wolf Cave Master, allowing Yellow Mountain to trace him whenever he uses one.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White Two is buoyant and mischievous after taking control of the world; he taunts the Metal Sphere before settling into his cocoon.
• The Metal Sphere is enraged and frustrated, then resorts to surveillance through a clone.
• The Hamster Fiend eagerly anticipates fighting Song Shuhang again and believes its modified technique can overcome his defenses.
• Daoist Cloudmist remains smug about his evasions until Yellow Mountain catches him. His confidence turns to panic, while Yellow Mountain calmly demonstrates that Cloudmist’s precautions have not outsmarted him.
• Yellow Mountain and Cloudmist continue their cat-and-mouse rivalry, ending with Yellow Mountain in control.

Significant themes

• Technology and surveillance: Modern tools—phones, accounts, and especially identification documents—shape how people evade or track one another.
• Power and ownership: White Two’s new imprint makes the Evil Lotus World his private domain, shutting out its former owner.
• Comic irony: Cloudmist believes he has outmaneuvered Yellow Mountain, but his reliance on documents is exactly what exposes him.

Key plot points and events

• Daoist Cloudmist is captured by True Lord Yellow Mountain and faces a long period of sealing. Senior White Two falls into another deep sleep.
• In Jiangnan, Ye Si wipes the scammer’s memories of the day and replaces them with an elaborate dreamlike account of hauling bricks and being injured. Song Shuhang returns him to the car.
• The children are disappointed that Shuhang doesn’t stage a dramatic battle or seal anything, since his Sealing Art is still only theoretical.
• Ye Si tracks the fifth-grade cultivator who had used an eerie voice to tempt the scammer. Shuhang, Ye Si, and the three children follow him to an empty courtyard house, concealed inside Ye Si’s Golden Book.
• Ye Si explains that her Golden Book has multiple modes, including one that makes them difficult even for sixth-grade cultivators to detect. She also reminds Shuhang that he’ll need to choose a Natal Dharma Treasure when he reaches the fourth grade.
• The group watches the cultivator cover his body in runes, apply extensive makeup, and transform himself into a striking woman. He then puts on a red bridal gown, leaving the observers baffled about his intentions.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Si demonstrates both her skill with memory manipulation and her growing command of her Golden Book, while discussing its development with Shuhang.
• Shuhang is cautious about confronting a fifth-grade opponent and keeps the children behind him, though they eagerly follow along.
• Guoguo, Zhu, and Shi tease Shuhang for failing to deliver the exciting battle they expected.
• The mystery cultivator’s elaborate disguise—apparently including makeup, hair styling, and bridal clothing—becomes the focus of the group’s curiosity.

Significant themes

• Memory and illusion: Ye Si’s replacement memories show how fabricated experiences can conceal gaps left by memory erasure.
• Power and preparation: Shuhang’s lack of a practical sealing technique contrasts with Ye Si’s carefully developed magical treasure.
• Appearance and deception: The cultivator’s transformation underscores how thoroughly outward appearance can disguise identity.
• Humor amid danger: The group is tracking a potentially dangerous opponent, but their reactions to his unexpected makeover keep the scene comedic.

Chapter Summary: “What Is This Thing? Don’t Come Over!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang, Guoguo, and Ye Si observe a mysterious cultivator in the Jiangnan Region wearing a red wedding dress. Song Shuhang realizes the cultivator is responsible for corrupting ordinary people with Netherworld evil energy, but hesitates over how to report the bizarre situation to the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• The cultivator prepares ten defensive formations, most designed to resist mental attacks, and places a Blackstone Demon Plate—his Netherworld “Merit Plate”—before him.
• He performs the Spirit Possession Art, summoning a powerful Netherworld existence, apparently at least a Venerable-level evil demon, into his body.
• The possessing entity admires the cultivator’s feminine appearance and wedding dress, only to discover that the body is male. It immediately extracts a ball of Netherworld energy and produces a special Rune before returning to the Netherworld.
• The cultivator successfully absorbs the Netherworld energy and allows the Rune to brand his entire body. The markings transform his constitution to resemble that of a Nine Nether Demon while allowing him to retain his human identity.
• This energy completes the final stage of his Golden Core Formation Diagram. Although his Three-Dragon Pattern Golden Core had previously prevented him from advancing beyond the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor realm, he now believes he can break through to the Sixth-Grade True Lord realm.
• Because his new demonic constitution would make Heavenly Tribulation especially dangerous in the Present World, he opens a passage to the Netherworld and attempts to enter it before beginning his tribulation.
• Before he can reach safety, countless transparent tentacles pierce into his body and drain all the Netherworld evil energy—including the energy contained in his tattoos.
• The tentacles vanish after completely stripping him of his demonic power, leaving him an ordinary Fifth-Grade cultivator. Without the tattoos’ protection, entering the Netherworld would now be extremely dangerous.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains observant but comically uncomfortable with the recurring subject of cross-dressing cultivators. He correctly identifies the danger posed by the ritual and considers informing the seniors.
• Ye Si demonstrates her knowledge of cultivation techniques by recognizing the Spirit Possession Art and identifying the summoned entity as a powerful being from the Netherworld. She also reacts cautiously, retreating more than five hundred steps when she senses its danger.
• The cross-dressing cultivator is revealed to be an ambitious Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor who has spent a long time unable to advance because of his flawed Three-Dragon Pattern Golden Core. He willingly aids the Netherworld’s corruption of ordinary people in exchange for power and a chance to evolve into a hybrid human–Nine Nether Demon.
• The possessing Netherworld entity is vain and focused on appearances, but quickly abandons the body after fulfilling its purpose. Its actions enable the cultivator’s transformation but do not protect him from the later attack.
• The cultivator’s confidence and triumph collapse into panic when the mysterious tentacles drain his power, reversing the advancement he had worked toward.

Significant Themes

• Ambition and dangerous shortcuts: The cultivator sacrifices his humanity and risks Netherworld corruption to overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• The price of power: His apparent breakthrough is temporary; the very energy that grants him hope is taken away before he can benefit from it.
• Humanity versus demonic transformation: The cultivator seeks to retain his human identity while adopting a Nine Nether Demon’s constitution, highlighting the instability of crossing the boundary between human and monster.
• Comic absurdity amid serious danger: The wedding dress, possession by a vain entity, and the cultivator’s shocked discovery that his body is male contrast with the genuinely threatening Netherworld ritual and mysterious attack.
• Unseen forces and vulnerability: The transparent tentacles appear without warning and ignore conventional attacks, suggesting a powerful hidden entity capable of manipulating or consuming Netherworld energy.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Guoguo discuss the cultivator’s strange clothing and intentions, with Song Shuhang trying to interpret the situation and decide how to report it.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si exchange information about the Spirit Possession Art and the nature of the entity being summoned.
• Ye Si acts protectively and cautiously, retreating from the danger while explaining the ritual to the others.
• The possessing entity and the cultivator’s body interact humorously through the entity’s reaction to the body’s appearance, especially the wedding dress, flat chest, and unexpected male anatomy.
• The cultivator and the mysterious tentacles enter into a desperate conflict: he attacks them with his Golden Scissors and tries to escape into the Netherworld, but the intangible tentacles ignore his resistance and drain him completely.

Plot and events

• Song Shuhang’s Golden Lotus drives a cross-dressing cultivator back from the Netherworld passage into the Present World. The cultivator immediately faces the Fifth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, compounded by the lingering damage of Netherworld Evil Energy.
• The Heart and Fire Tribulations strike together, and the cultivator’s Golden Scissors are destroyed. He escapes back into the Netherworld, badly endangered.
• Ye Si protects the courtyard with a temporary barrier around the rift, then takes Song Shuhang and the three children away.
• Song Shuhang’s body collapses, but Ye Si confirms he is unharmed—apparently he has simply eaten too much.
• While unconscious, Song Shuhang enters the world inside his Heart Aperture Core. Its Living Spring transforms the surrounding chaos into a small, grassy island, giving him what he jokingly recognizes as a portable plot of land.
• A mysterious passage pulls his consciousness into a vast gray space. Unable to find an exit, he spots a huge white cocoon radiating an aura like Venerable White’s. Someone inside is snoring and cannot be woken, leading Song Shuhang to suspect it may be Venerable White Two—and that he may be in the Netherworld.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows his usual mix of resourcefulness and comic imagination: he quickly considers using his new land to grow spiritual plants, then wonders whether Onion Lady could be planted there. Once stranded as a disembodied consciousness, he tries calling out to and shaking the cocoon’s occupant.
• Ye Si remains calm and protective. She reassures the children about Song Shuhang, secures the dangerous rift as best she can, and evacuates everyone.
• The cross-dressing cultivator goes from pursuing his plan to being caught between two Heavenly Tribulation attacks, losing his weapon and retreating.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu admire Song Shuhang’s powerful Golden Lotus and worry when he collapses.
• Song Shuhang’s attempts to wake the cocoon’s sleeper—calling, warning of disaster, and shaking it—get no useful response, heightening the mystery of who is inside.

Significant themes

• Risk and consequences: The cultivator’s use of Netherworld Evil Energy leaves him vulnerable, and his escape into the Present World exposes him to a deadly tribulation.
• Transformation and discovery: Song Shuhang’s Heart Aperture Core develops into a living, usable landscape, hinting at new possibilities and powers.
• Comic relief amid danger: Song Shuhang’s absurd “planting” ideas and increasingly desperate attempts to wake the sleeper contrast with the serious supernatural threats.
• Uncertainty and hidden worlds: Song Shuhang’s consciousness is displaced through unfamiliar spaces, ending on the unresolved possibility that the cocoon belongs to Venerable White Two in the Netherworld.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang realizes he may be inside the Netherworld’s Evil Lotus World, a realm connected to the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World.
• He discovers Senior White Two asleep inside a giant cocoon. White Two communicates with him through sleep-talk because one of his earplugs has fallen out.
• White Two explains that the Netherworld’s ruler—the “Metal Lump”—sealed him in the realm. White Two changed the realm’s mark of dominion and now rules it, but the exit remains sealed; breaking it would take centuries.
• Shuhang believes he can still return through the passage he used to enter, so he takes the opportunity to question White Two.
• White Two suspects the Metal Lump may be behind experiments that fuse humans, animals, and Netherworld Demons, possibly as part of a plan to enter the Present World.
• White Two cannot explain his own identity or his connection to the other Senior White, saying he has not worked out the latter himself.
• Shuhang asks about the mysterious young man in blue with a white horse. White Two says the description sounds like himself when young. When Shuhang brings up a failed proposal to “Little White,” White Two responds by hurling the giant cocoon at him, crushing his incorporeal consciousness.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang moves from alarm at being trapped to relief when he realizes he can likely leave. He uses White Two’s unusually forthcoming sleep-talking to investigate the Netherworld, then risks a personal question that provokes a violent response.
• Senior White Two reveals his hostility toward the Netherworld’s ruler and his unexpected control over the Evil Lotus World. Though he answers many questions, he remains guarded—or genuinely uncertain—about his own identity and relationship to the other Senior White.
• Their exchange is a mix of exposition, teasing curiosity, and escalating awkwardness: White Two calmly answers questions about major Netherworld secrets, but the mention of his youthful proposal abruptly ends the conversation.

Significant themes

• Power and confinement: White Two has seized control of his prison, yet remains unable to escape it.
• Uncertain identity: The two Senior Whites’ connection, and the meaning of White Two’s origins, remain unresolved.
• Humor amid danger: Cosmic secrets and a possible human–demon experiment sit alongside comic sleep-talk, censored answers, and Shuhang’s ill-timed curiosity.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang dreams that Senior White Two’s Giant Cocoon crushes him to death after he asks about Senior White Two’s private life. He wakes only in his consciousness; his physical body is still recovering.
• Ye Si watches over him with Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu. Mistaking his nightmare cries for signs of death, the three children panic, but Ye Si reassures them.
• Ye Si sends Guoguo and Shi to buy groceries while keeping Zhu behind. The children privately hope to reunite and sneak away together to hunt evil spirits.
• Song Shuhang returns his consciousness to the Core World and wonders whether his physical body could enter it. The thought immediately makes his body vanish from the bed.
• Banknote returns to the stone fortress to check on Skylark, whom he had left the day before. He finds her sealed in ice, with Snow Wolf Cave Master guarding her.
• Skylark explains that Nine Nether Evil Energy has contaminated her body. She is studying how it fuses with humans and suspects a force in the Netherworld is seeking a person in the real world to merge with. She believes she is not in immediate danger.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains unconscious physically but can move his consciousness between worlds. His spontaneous disappearance suggests the Core World may now affect his body.
• Ye Si acts as a responsible caretaker, managing the children and hiding her own emotional struggles behind her senior-sister role.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu show their loyalty to one another: despite wanting to escape and hunt evil spirits, Guoguo and Shi refuse to leave Zhu behind.
• Banknote reveals genuine concern for Skylark, charging into danger to protect his most valuable client. His concern quickly gives way when she offers him a Grade-Five Spirit Stone as an apology.
• Skylark remains fearless and curious about dangerous phenomena, deliberately exposing herself to Nine Nether Evil Energy for research. Snow Wolf Cave Master serves as her cautious protector and regards her reckless behavior as habitual.
• Banknote and Skylark’s transactional banter contrasts with their underlying friendship, while Snow Wolf’s reaction highlights the absurdity of putting a price on loyalty.

Significant themes

• Friendship and money: Banknote’s instant forgiveness for payment playfully questions whether friendship is truly priceless.
• Recklessness and curiosity: Song Shuhang’s question and Skylark’s experiments both lead them into danger, though Skylark knowingly embraces the risk.
• Loyalty and responsibility: The children insist on sticking together, and Ye Si protects them while caring for Shuhang.
• The Netherworld’s threat: Skylark’s discovery hints at a larger plan to fuse Nine Nether Evil Energy with a human in the real world.

Plot points and events

• Ye Si discovers that Song Shuhang has vanished from his bed. Using their Spirit Ghost–host connection, she finds him inside a newly formed Core World: a tiny, living island surrounded by chaos and sustained by a Living Spring.
• Song Shuhang explains that his core evolved after absorbing Netherworld evil energy. His unconscious consciousness entered the world, and he was able to bring his physical body—and then Ye Si—inside by thought.
• Song tests the island as a place to grow spiritual plants, planting Onion Lady despite her protests. Her roots respond unusually well to the soil, suggesting the island may genuinely suit her.
• Ye Si points out that the Core World might also serve as a portable storage space. Shuhang tries placing his belongings there, but the world immediately consumes his Spirit Stones. He decides to keep his other possessions in the Inch-Shrinking Bag until he understands the space’s rules.
• Shuhang and Ye Si realize that Zhu, Guoguo, and Shi may be setting off together to hunt demons. They leave the Core World at the same place they entered and hurry to find the children, who could face danger from people corrupted by Netherworld energy.
• After they leave, Onion Lady escapes her hole, explores the island, and complains of boredom. A passage appears when she wonders aloud whether she can leave.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is excited by the Core World’s potential, but his experiments also show his carelessness: he nearly loses valuables to the world’s appetite for Spirit Stones. He and Ye Si quickly collaborate on testing its capabilities and protecting the children.
• Ye Si acts decisively when Shuhang disappears, then becomes a practical partner in examining the new world. She identifies its possible uses and proposes testing its limits.
• Zhu responds to being left alone by choosing to reunite with Guoguo and Shi rather than wait at home. The three children finally assemble as a team for their demon-subduing adventure.
• Onion Lady protests being planted, yet discovers that the island’s soil stimulates her roots. She remains stubbornly independent, escaping as soon as she gets the chance—but may have found a place that suits her.
• Song and Ye Si’s shared awareness and easy cooperation reinforce their close partnership.

Significant themes

• Unexpected growth and discovery: Shuhang’s core evolves into a living pocket world, opening possibilities he had not anticipated.
• Power balanced by risk: The Core World offers refuge and storage, but its limits are unknown and it consumes Spirit Stones.
• Freedom and autonomy: Onion Lady resists being treated as a plant or prisoner, even as the new environment may help her thrive.
• Responsibility and danger: Shuhang and Ye Si’s concern for the children contrasts with the children’s eagerness to venture into a hazardous region.

Key plot points and events

• Onion Lady discovers a passage that seems to lead out of Song Shuhang’s Core World. It pulls her in before she can decide whether to trust it.
• She emerges in a bleak gray world, marks her route with snipped hair so she can find her way, and eventually reaches a glowing cocoon resembling one produced by Song Shuhang’s mutated Dragon Demon Potion.
• Seven-colored light from the cocoon transports her to a strange, weightless place high above the heavens.
• There she sees a powerful version of Venerable White confronting a Longevity Immortal. The Immortal dismisses him as a mere Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal and attacks with a gigantic golden foot.
• Venerable White shatters the foot with one punch, withstands the Immortal’s full-power divine-elephant attack, then severs the attacker’s foot with a sword-like gesture. The humiliated Immortal flees, his confidence in himself—and his prospects of contending for the Heavenly Mandate—broken.

Character developments and interactions

• Onion Lady is hopeful but wary about escaping the Core World. Her repeated efforts to navigate the gray realm show her resourcefulness, though the arrival near the familiar cocoon renews her sense that she cannot escape Song Shuhang’s influence. She sides instinctively with Venerable White and warns him, unaware that he cannot hear her.
• Venerable White appears serene and fearless despite facing a vastly higher-ranked opponent. His overwhelming performance reveals extraordinary power and self-assurance.
• The Longevity Immortal begins arrogantly, expecting to crush a newly ascended Tribulation Immortal. After his attacks fail and he is wounded, he loses his confidence and retreats.
• Their clash escalates from a dismissive challenge to a humiliating defeat, while Onion Lady witnesses it as a powerless observer.

Significant themes

• Apparent limits versus true power: Venerable White’s supposed lower rank does not reflect his actual strength.
• Pride and conviction: The Immortal’s defeat destroys the confidence he considers essential to pursuing the Heavenly Mandate.
• Uncertain freedom and fate: Onion Lady’s possible escape repeatedly leads her into unfamiliar situations that may still connect to Song Shuhang.
• Power and hierarchy: The chapter challenges the assumption that rank alone determines who can dominate a fight.

Chapter 875 Summary

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White reaches the Nine Heavens, where the Longevity Immortals are gathering to compete for the chance to become the Heavenly Dao. Having defeated Divine Elephant with a single sword strike, he draws wary attention—but no one attacks again, as they are saving their strength for the final struggle.
• Onion Lady, watching through what she thinks is a dream, is stunned to realize that Venerable White may be a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal competing for the Heavenly Dao.
• Venerable White befriends Merit Daoist, a Daoist cultivator who wears Buddhist-style merit light. They discover a shared passion for extreme speed. Merit Daoist owns the exceptionally fast [Myriad Heavens Piercing Shuttle], which Venerable White greatly admires.
• Onion Lady expects to witness the decisive battle, but the scene abruptly skips ahead to Venerable White’s ascension. The missing interval implies that the Longevity Immortals fought fiercely, with Merit Daoist fighting alongside Venerable White.
• As Venerable White is drawn toward the Heavenly Dao, he stops himself. He feels uneasy and believes he is not ready to ascend.
• Rather than take the opportunity himself, Venerable White offers to sell the qualification to become the Heavenly Dao to Merit Daoist—in exchange for the [Myriad Heavens Piercing Shuttle].

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White is revealed as powerful enough to challenge the Longevity Immortals, yet cautious about taking on the Heavenly Dao. His enthusiasm for fast magical treasures leads him to treat an unprecedented cosmic opportunity as a transaction.
• Merit Daoist approaches White with goodwill, having felt an unusual affinity for him and prepared to help him earlier. Their shared interest builds a friendly connection despite their rivalry. He is stunned when White makes his offer.
• Onion Lady moves from confused disbelief and romantic speculation to excited fascination. By glimpsing the Light of the Great Dao, she gains profound insights and expects her cultivation to advance.

Significant themes

• Power and readiness: Being strong enough to ascend does not mean one is prepared to do so.
• Friendship amid rivalry: Merit Daoist and White connect even while competing for the same ultimate position.
• Comedic contrast: The solemn struggle for the Heavenly Dao is undercut by White’s straightforward attempt to trade it for a prized speed treasure.

• Plot: In a dream caused by the Giant Cocoon, Onion Lady witnesses Senior White trade away his chance to become the Heavenly Dao in exchange for the Myriad Heavens Piercing Shuttle. Merit Daoist takes his place, becoming the new Heavenly Dao and ushering in a universe-wide surge of spiritual energy. The dream collapses, and Onion Lady wakes in the gray space beside the cocoon.
• Character developments: Onion Lady realizes the dream was tied to the person inside the cocoon: Senior White Two, who explains that he is distinct from the Seventh-Grade Senior White she knows. He once nearly became the Heavenly Dao, but now has no cultivation realm. The revelation leaves Onion Lady surprised, though she soon focuses on finding a way out and resolving to cultivate on Song Shuhang’s Core Island.
• Interactions: Onion Lady tries to wake Senior White Two and asks him about Song Shuhang and the dream. He offers to help her leave if she can make him laugh. Her string of cold jokes fails, so he gives her another task: shake the cocoon as hard as she can. Onion Lady readily agrees and begins.
• Themes: The chapter contrasts immense cosmic power with whimsical, mundane bargaining, and uses humor—especially Onion Lady’s painfully unfunny jokes—to lighten the mystery surrounding Senior White Two and the cocoon.

Song Shuhang and Ye Si followed Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu as the three searched for ghosts and monsters, while Onion Lady was teleported into the Evil Lotus World. The little fellows finally found demonic aura at a rental house marked as a secret base, where a graceful figure appeared.

• Senior White Two teleported Onion Lady into the Evil Lotus World after she shook the Giant Cocoon for nearly an hour.
• Song Shuhang realized Onion Lady had disappeared and told Ye Si that she had entered another world through his Core World.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu followed their compass to places where resentment had lingered, but found that the Foreign Monk had already cleansed them.
• Shi's compass detected demonic aura at an ordinary rental house, where the three little fellows saw a sign identifying it as a monsters' secret base.
• The lazy Derpy Husky at the entrance stood up, and a graceful figure appeared in the air.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and his companions discover a branch of the monster organization Monsters from Around the World Unite and Become One Family. A sign openly advertises its supposedly secret base, but Shi explains that Demon Catchers are now largely inactive and peaceful members of the Demon Race are generally left alone.
• Onion Lady is unexpectedly teleported out of Evil Lotus World by Senior White Two. The coordinates are slightly off, so she appears in midair near the base and lands safely.
• Hoping to enjoy her newfound freedom from Song Shuhang, Onion Lady tries to leave. But the base’s husky recognizes her knowledge of the organization’s bizarre manual, Two Hundred Skills a Monster Must Master to Survive. Onion Lady admits she was taught it by a transmission elder, so the husky concludes she may have been recruited by headquarters and invites her inside.
• Onion Lady worries that the “Human-Shedding Banquet” involves eating people. The husky explains that it is instead a special feast prepared by Fairy Bie Xue: for a few hours, low-level monsters can experience human form, while higher-level members can alter conspicuous animal traits.
• Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu abandon their search when they learn the banquet is not a human-eating event. Guoguo wants to attend for the food, but they decide it is too dangerous to enter a Demon Race stronghold. Remembering that his prayers to Senior White have worked before, Guoguo prays for help.
• An out-of-control, heavily modified off-road vehicle suddenly barrels toward the children. Guoguo pushes Shi and Zhu out of its path, but is struck himself. The chapter ends with his apparent death and farewell.

Character developments and interactions

• Onion Lady is delighted to be free, but her reflexive answers about the organization’s manual reveal her deep familiarity with its humiliating teachings. Her exchange with the husky turns her escape into an unexpected invitation to the banquet.
• The husky acts as a knowledgeable, welcoming representative of the branch. It corrects Onion Lady’s mistaken fears and explains the banquet’s purpose.
• Song Shuhang reflects that his past experience as Onion Lady left him unable to forget the manual’s two hundred skills, which still influence his thoughts and behavior. With Ye Si, he also debates whether animal features such as ears and tails should be removed.
• Guoguo jokes about the value of cat ears, then shows genuine responsibility when he sacrifices himself to save Shi and Zhu. His faith in Senior White provides a comic beat just before the sudden danger.
• Shi and Zhu follow Guoguo’s lead, first weighing the risk of entering the base, then turning their attention to food. They are saved by Guoguo’s quick action.

Significant themes

• Belonging and identity: Onion Lady’s accidental arrival leads her back into an organization that shaped her past, while the banquet explores the boundary between monster and human appearance.
• Comic absurdity: The secret base’s conspicuous sign, the degrading monster-training manual, and the “Human-Shedding Banquet” all subvert expectations.
• Responsibility and sacrifice: Guoguo accepts the danger himself to protect the younger children, ending the chapter on a sudden, serious contrast to its playful tone.

Chapter Summary

• Guoguo is run over—repeatedly—by Fairy Eastern Six’s enormous off-road vehicle. He expects to die, especially when the driver reverses over him, but discovers he is completely unharmed. Eastern Six explains that she has covered the vehicle with protective formations because of her notoriously dangerous driving.
• Guoguo recognizes Eastern Six as a friend of Abbot Profound Principle and realizes she is heading to the Human-Shedding Banquet hosted by the 250th Branch of the monster organization “All the Monsters in the World Unite and Become One Family.” This fulfills the wish he had just made to Senior White.
• Eastern Six admits she has a little Ancient Demon blood and is an elder of the branch. Guoguo persuades her to bring him, Shi, and Zhu to the banquet, and she agrees as compensation for the accident.
• At the entrance, the lazy Derpy Husky objects to the children’s presence but ultimately helps by giving Eastern Six tufts of his fur to mask their auras. The three children enter the branch safely.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang and Ye Si consider sneaking in themselves. Shuhang checks a post from his friend, the Crazy Psychiatric Hospital Director, announcing that authorities have surrounded the gathering and are about to arrest its attendees.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Guoguo goes from terrified resignation to relief and excitement. His willingness to forgive Eastern Six’s absurd accident shows that the banquet matters more to him than the frightening encounter.
• Fairy Eastern Six is introduced as graceful and beautiful in person but infamous for catastrophic driving. Her protective car formations and casual attitude toward the crash reveal that she knows her weakness and has prepared for it.
• Shi and Zhu are initially horrified by Guoguo’s apparent injury, then become excited when Eastern Six offers them entry; Zhu is especially impressed by how quickly Guoguo’s wish seems to come true.
• Derpy Husky grumbles about letting humans in but cooperates by providing a way to conceal their auras. His banter with Eastern Six reflects their familiarity.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si remain outside, setting up the possibility that the banquet will be interrupted by the approaching authorities.

Significant Themes

• Comic misfortune and hidden safety: Guoguo’s apparent death is exaggerated for comedy, while Eastern Six’s precautions turn a seemingly lethal accident into a harmless one.
• Luck and wish fulfillment: Guoguo’s immediate access to the banquet seems to validate Senior White’s good fortune, though the chapter leaves open whether it is more than coincidence.
• The boundary between human and monster worlds: The children enter a monster gathering by relying on Eastern Six’s status and the husky’s aura-masking fur.
• Impending disruption: The director’s announcement creates suspense, contrasting the children’s successful infiltration with the threat of a police raid.