Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator defeats Copper Trigram Immortal Master in their duel at the Forbidden Summit, using his Night Sky sword formation to overcome Copper Trigram’s defenses.
• Copper Trigram tries to distract him by claiming he has attacked his former lover. Northern River reveals the blonde woman was actually a physically manifested heart demon, which he defeated years ago while cultivating in the Outer Realm.
• The duel ends with Copper Trigram badly injured and Northern River exhausted but victorious. The watching cultivators gain insights from the fight, and reporters prepare competing accounts—one sensationally claims Northern River has a “virtual girlfriend.”
• Song Shuhang heads to deliver gifts from True Lord Yellow Mountain and return Northern River’s flying sword. A powerful, round pig emerges from a spatial rift and asks Venerable White to reseal the restored Jade Lake Celestial Realm. On spotting Song Shuhang, it abruptly withdraws its request.
• Before leaving, the pig transforms into a handsome man and begins awkwardly flirting with Copper Trigram, even offering him golden pills. Copper Trigram declines.

Character developments and interactions

• Northern River shows resolve and mastery in battle, remaining unfazed by Copper Trigram’s taunts. His account of overcoming his heart demon explains his past and underscores how firmly he has established his Dao heart.
• Copper Trigram is resourceful and provocative, trying both defensive artifacts and verbal tricks, but ultimately accepts defeat—while still promising a rematch.
• Venerable White calmly handles the pig’s request, while Song Shuhang’s presence appears to make the creature reconsider its plans.
• The pig’s sudden flirtation with Copper Trigram leaves Northern River, Song Shuhang, and the onlookers bewildered.

Significant themes

• Self-mastery: Northern River’s victory mirrors his earlier triumph over his heart demon.
• Truth versus appearance: The apparent romance behind the reporters’ gossip is an illusion, while Copper Trigram’s female form is also a disguise.
• Humor amid conflict: Serious cultivation battles and ominous threats are repeatedly undercut by teasing, sensational journalism, and the pig’s clumsy courtship.

Key plot points

• A giant pig transforms into a middle-aged man and declares love at first sight for Copper Trigram Immortal Master, using painfully awkward pickup lines.
• Copper Trigram tries to discourage him by explaining that he is a man in disguise. The pig is delighted and reveals a striking silver-haired female form with twelve wings.
• The woman explains that her race has thirty-six forms and that the Divine Beast White Crane Clan descends from one branch of it. She is apparently the source of True Lord White Crane’s bloodline.
• Copper Trigram attempts to escape by claiming to be a woman, but the woman says her species can change sex and that either of them could bear children.
• Cornered, Copper Trigram claims he has long loved Northern River’s Loose Cultivator. Northern River immediately denies it, but Copper Trigram reframes the claim as unrequited love.
• The nearby reporters record the exchange, and Northern River fears the story will spread through the cultivation world and ruin his romantic prospects.
• The silver-haired woman says Copper Trigram is the only person in tens of thousands of years to stir her heart. Though she accepts that he does not love her, she decides she still wants his body.
• She effortlessly carries Copper Trigram away through a Space Gate, promising to invite everyone to their wedding. Venerable White calls after her as she leaves.

Character developments and interactions

• Copper Trigram Immortal Master shifts from embarrassed rejection to frantic improvisation as he tries to avoid being abducted. His fabricated crush on Northern River only creates a new problem.
• The silver-haired woman experiences what she believes is love at first sight and pursues it with overwhelming confidence. Her immense power contrasts comically with Copper Trigram’s helplessness.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator bluntly rejects Copper Trigram’s claim and is horrified when reporters witness it, blaming Copper Trigram for dragging him into a public scandal.
• Song Shuhang deliberately keeps his distance, fearing Copper Trigram might pull him into the situation too.
• The woman and Copper Trigram’s courtship is comic and one-sided: she interprets his excuses as obstacles to overcome, while he tries to escape without provoking her further.

Significant themes

• Love at first sight and romantic delusion: The woman treats sudden attraction as destiny, while Copper Trigram sees it as a threat.
• Consent and power imbalance: Copper Trigram’s refusals are ignored, and the scene’s humor rests on his inability to resist a vastly stronger pursuer.
• Deception and its consequences: Copper Trigram’s increasingly desperate lies implicate Northern River and risk becoming public gossip.
• Comic reversal: Revealing that Copper Trigram is male—or claiming to be female—does nothing to deter the woman because her race can change forms and sex.

Chapter Summary

Plot Points and Events

• The silver-haired woman prepares to leave through a Space Gate while carrying Copper Trigram Immortal Master. Copper Trigram begs Venerable White for help, but White admits that he cannot defeat or stop her.
• Venerable White asks the woman to treat Copper Trigram kindly and not harm or force him. She solemnly promises, declaring that she loves him and will protect him at any cost.
• The woman departs with Copper Trigram, though she briefly finds herself attracted to Venerable White as well. Concerned about becoming fickle, she leaves quickly.
• Song Shuhang tries to give Copper Trigram a gift from True Monarch Yellow Mountain, but Copper Trigram refuses it before the Space Gate closes.
• Shuhang successfully delivers Yellow Mountain’s gift and a returned flying sword to Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, though he initially gets Lay Buddhist Most Transcendent’s name wrong.
• The reporters covering the Forbidden Summit begin writing sensational accounts of the battle, especially Divine Ridge Cultivator Radio, which prepares a provocative headline about Copper Trigram’s mysterious love interest.
• After the duel, the Nine Provinces Number One Group remains behind to discuss recent events, including the Nine Nether Demons’ attempts to corrupt ordinary people and animals.
• Northern River feels unsatisfied despite defeating Copper Trigram because Copper Trigram was carried away before he could fully enjoy his victory.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Sister Ye Si plan to find Medicine Master and earn money. Ye Si’s recent shopping spree has cost over six million, leaving Shuhang deeply in debt.
• Before leaving, Shuhang receives a dramatic challenge from the Hamster Fiend: “A sword came from the north, a Heavenly Demon from Beyond!”
• Recognizing the hamster’s challenge, Shuhang tears up the letter and refuses the duel. The Hamster Fiend angrily appears and insists that Shuhang accept, claiming it has improved its One-Sword Flying Demon technique and can now defeat Shuhang’s defensive talisman treasure.

Character Developments

• Venerable White demonstrates concern and responsibility by negotiating for Copper Trigram’s safety despite being unable to rescue him.
• The silver-haired woman openly acknowledges her love for Copper Trigram and reveals a fierce, protective side. Her simultaneous attraction to Venerable White creates humorous inner conflict, but she chooses to leave before her feelings become complicated.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master remains helpless and miserable while being abducted, ultimately giving up on receiving his gift from Yellow Mountain.
• Song Shuhang continues acting cautiously and pragmatically. Rather than accept a duel he expects to lose, he simply refuses the Hamster Fiend’s challenge. His mounting financial problems also become more prominent.
• Ye Si has embraced shopping enthusiastically, spending far more money than expected and joining Shuhang in his need to find additional income.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator is proud of defeating Copper Trigram but frustrated that the victory’s emotional satisfaction was weakened by Copper Trigram’s sudden removal.
• The Hamster Fiend returns as a persistent and theatrical rival, convinced that its training has finally made it capable of defeating Shuhang.

Significant Themes

• Love and devotion: The silver-haired woman’s confession and vow to protect Copper Trigram contrast with her fleeting attraction to White, creating both romantic and comedic tension.
• Power and helplessness: Even powerful cultivators may be unable to resist someone of a higher realm, as shown by White’s inability to stop the silver-haired woman.
• Honor versus practicality: White insists that Copper Trigram be treated well, while Shuhang rejects a challenge he considers foolish rather than accepting it for pride’s sake.
• Humor in cultivation culture: Dramatic declarations, exaggerated headlines, mistaken names, and the Hamster Fiend’s grandiose challenge undermine the seriousness of the martial setting.
• Ordinary concerns amid extraordinary events: After battles involving powerful cultivators and possible Tribulation Immortals, Shuhang’s immediate worries return to money, shopping expenses, and earning a living.
• The continuing threat of the Nine Nether Demons: The group’s discussion emphasizes that demonic corruption remains an ongoing danger in the wider Cultivation World.

Character Interactions

• White and the silver-haired woman negotiate Copper Trigram’s safety, with White using his flying sword as a veiled warning.
• The silver-haired woman openly declares her love for Copper Trigram while secretly reacting to White’s appearance.
• Shuhang exchanges gifts with Northern River and humorously struggles to remember the correct Daoist name.
• Northern River and the other cultivators discuss the wider state of the Cultivation World after the duel.
• Ye Si and Shuhang share concern over their excessive spending and plan to seek Medicine Master’s help.
• Shuhang and the Hamster Fiend engage in a comic confrontation: the Hamster Fiend demands a rematch, while Shuhang repeatedly refuses to participate.

Plot points and events

• Hamster Fiend tricks Song Shuhang into another duel by activating an upgraded Arena Battle Space that hides them from everyone else.
• It challenges Song Shuhang with its powerful sword technique, Heavenly Demon from Beyond. Song Shuhang realizes he cannot safely block the attack and refuses to kill or seriously injure the hamster, who serves Senior White Two.
• Song Shuhang reveals his “Three Heads and Six Arms” skill, with Ye Si and the Beauty with a Beauty Mark appearing alongside him. Ye Si takes up his saber and repeatedly knocks Hamster Fiend away, eventually incapacitating it with a flurry of sword strikes.
• Defeated, Hamster Fiend gives Song Shuhang an Evil Lotus seed as a return gift from its master, Senior White Two, in thanks for the Dragon Demon Potion. The seed can grant an evil spell and strengthen self-healing. Song Shuhang swallows it, only to learn afterward that any possible side effect “probably” will not kill him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains reluctant to fight, especially because he does not want to kill Senior White Two’s subordinate. He uses the encounter to demonstrate his new ability rather than relying on lethal force.
• Ye Si proves unexpectedly effective with the saber: though she says she lacks formal saber skill, she quickly spots weaknesses in Hamster Fiend’s attacks and controls her strength enough to leave it alive.
• Hamster Fiend is boastful and stubborn, repeatedly charging back after being knocked down, but ultimately accepts defeat and fulfills its promise of a gift.
• Song Shuhang and Hamster Fiend’s exchange is comic and antagonistic: Hamster Fiend ignores his refusal to duel, while Song Shuhang protests and later curses its belated warning about the lotus seed.

Significant themes

• Consent and persistence: the duel is imposed despite Song Shuhang’s repeated refusal.
• Restraint and loyalty: Song Shuhang wins without killing an opponent connected to Senior White Two.
• Humor through reversal: Hamster Fiend’s confident boasts repeatedly end in defeat, and its hazardous-sounding gift comes with a dangerously late caveat.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang reflects that he was unusually careless in swallowing the Evil Lotus Seed, despite normally treating unknown cultivation items with caution.
• Ye Si starts crying uncontrollably over the injured Hamster Fiend—even though she was the one who injured it. The tears are an involuntary effect of the Heaven’s Weeping Canon.
• The Evil Lotus Seed takes effect: Song Shuhang’s healing ability roughly doubles, and its effects resonate with the Virtuous Golden Lotus, adding about ten years to his lifespan.
• He gains the evil technique Lotus Steps, which creates a black lotus beneath each foot, letting him walk through the air. It is useful but limited to roughly a hundred steps before he needs to rest, and it can be strengthened through cultivation or more Evil Lotus Seeds.
• He also gains Good Teeth, Good Appetite, which lets him swallow certain energy-based spells and spit them back at an attacker. It cannot handle physical or indirect attacks, and using it requires him to swallow the incoming spell. He keeps this ability secret from the Hamster Fiend.
• Song Shuhang recognizes the technique from Dragon Cave Master, who had possessed it after consuming a Netherworld Evil Lotus Seed.
• Once Ye Si separates from Song Shuhang’s body, the Hamster Fiend accuses him of lying about the “Three Heads and Six Arms” technique. Song Shuhang brushes off the complaint, pointing out that the hamster lost regardless.
• Ye Si offers to heal the hamster, who asks for a water-element spell. She agrees—but demands payment in RMB or U.S. dollars rather than Spirit Stones.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains significant new abilities and benefits, but continues to be cautious about what he reveals. He also considers combining his new spell-reflection technique with his Whale Swallowing Technique.
• Ye Si remains tearfully compassionate despite having caused the Hamster Fiend’s injuries. Her offer to heal it is undercut by her insistence on ordinary currency.
• The Hamster Fiend is injured, frustrated by Song Shuhang’s deception, and reluctantly asks Ye Si for help. Its exchanges with her highlight their comic, adversarial dynamic.

Significant themes

• Unexpected consequences and caution: Song Shuhang’s impulsive decision to eat the seed produces lasting benefits, but also prompts concern about his recklessness.
• Power with limitations: The new techniques sound impressive but have practical constraints.
• Comic contradiction: Ye Si’s genuine-seeming tears over an injured creature clash with the fact that she injured it herself; her modern payment demands add another humorous contrast between cultivation and everyday life.

Plot points and events

• The Hamster Fiend, defeated by Song Shuhang and treated by Ye Si, admits he has no ordinary cash. Ye Si warns him to bring money next time, then heals his injuries.
• The Hamster is about to leave Song Shuhang trapped in the upgraded Arena Battle Space, but Song Shuhang stops him. Before deactivating it, the Hamster gives him a nearly undetectable invisibility talisman as thanks for the healing.
• Song Shuhang reappears at Forbidden Summit, where Venerable White and several members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group have been waiting. White is fascinated by the talisman’s spellwork and begins examining it.
• Medicine Master checks that Song Shuhang is unharmed, then leaves with Jiang Ziyan. Song Shuhang asks to learn more about pill refinement and is invited to visit.
• Senior Brother Three Days gives Song Shuhang a strand of exceptionally sharp sword-edge thread, a material used to make Sword Pellets. Song Shuhang jokes that his talents favor blades, prompting Three Days to tease him about a “Blade Pellet.”
• Three Days leaves with Little Monk. Song Shuhang reflects on nearing the Fourth-Grade Realm but recognizes that he still needs preparation—especially formations to help him survive the coming tribulation.
• Fairy Eastern Six introduces Xiao Cai, a sparrow demon Song Shuhang previously helped. Xiao Cai thanks him for saving her and asks why demons and Demon Catchers cannot love one another. Song Shuhang explains that Demon Catchers feel an uncontrollable urge to capture and kill demons, making such a relationship dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Si shows a practical, playful side: she treats the Hamster’s injuries but insists that he bring ordinary money in the future.
• The Hamster Fiend remains jealous and suspicious of Song Shuhang’s supposed interest in his master, Senior White Two, but repays Song Shuhang with the invisibility talisman after receiving help.
• Song Shuhang continues building relationships with senior cultivators, receives useful gifts, and thinks seriously about the risks of advancing to the next realm. He responds gently to Xiao Cai’s heartbreak, though he cannot offer an easy solution.
• Venerable White displays his characteristic curiosity, immediately studying the Hamster’s talisman.
• Xiao Cai is still troubled by her near-tragic encounter with the Demon Catcher Yan Shao and seeks to understand the hostility between their kinds.

Significant themes

• Mutual aid and reciprocity: Even former opponents can exchange kindness, as shown by Ye Si healing the Hamster and the Hamster rewarding Song Shuhang.
• Preparation and risk: Song Shuhang’s advancement is close, but cultivation requires planning for the dangers of a heavenly tribulation.
• Forbidden love and instinct: Xiao Cai’s feelings conflict with the innate violence that Demon Catchers experience toward demons, highlighting the limits imposed by nature and social roles.
• Cultivation as a community: Gifts, advice, and concern from fellow cultivators help Song Shuhang progress and underscore the group’s bonds.

Key plot points

• Sparrow Demon Little Cai learns that Yan Shao’s urge to capture her may come from his Demon Catcher instincts, not his personal feelings. She considers abandoning all her cultivation so he will no longer sense her demonic aura.
• Fairy Eastern Six stops her and explains that the two sariras that once concealed Xiao Cai’s aura have merged into Song Shuhang’s Merit Light. Buddhist techniques are generally difficult for demons to cultivate, but Senior White confirms that Merit Light itself can suppress demonic aura.
• Song Shuhang recommends that Xiao Cai learn the Buddhist Soul-Deliverance Method and cultivate Merit Light rather than sacrifice her hard-earned cultivation. Impressed by his manifested Merit Light, Xiao Cai asks him to take her as a disciple.
• Eastern Six offers materials for two Tribulation-Transcending Formations as a discipleship gift, with a discount on further supplies. Shuhang admits he has studied the method for only a little over a month, but Xiao Cai remains eager to learn from him.
• Shuhang accepts her and gives her the Daoist name Vajra Gentleman Saber, promising to teach her the Soul-Deliverance Method and his saber techniques. Xiao Cai’s blank reaction ends the chapter.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Cai’s devotion to Yan Shao makes her willing to risk losing her cultivation, but she redirects that commitment toward a new path as Shuhang’s disciple.
• Shuhang shows concern for Xiao Cai and reluctantly accepts her, while also recognizing the practical value of Eastern Six’s offer. He chooses one of his least-liked Daoist names to pass on.
• Eastern Six acts protectively toward Xiao Cai, rebukes Shuhang for unintentionally encouraging her drastic idea, and brokers the apprenticeship with a business-minded offer. Senior White contributes the key confirmation about Merit Light.

Significant themes

• Love and vulnerability: Xiao Cai’s feelings cloud her judgment, prompting her to consider a reckless sacrifice.
• Preserving hard-won progress: Shuhang argues that cultivation should not be discarded to resolve a romantic dilemma.
• Merit as protection and opportunity: Merit Light offers a way to hide Xiao Cai’s demonic aura and becomes the basis for her new apprenticeship.
• Mentorship and humility: Xiao Cai sees Shuhang’s achievements as extraordinary, while he attributes them largely to luck and is candid about his limited experience.

Key events

• Fairy Eastern Six explains that a Daoist title can become linked to its bearer’s Fortune. Since “Vajra Gentleman Saber” was one of Song Shuhang’s former titles, giving it to Little Cai may connect her Fortune to his—and potentially benefit her.
• Little Cai eagerly accepts the title despite its mismatch with her style. Song asks Venerable White’s opinion; White leaves the choice to him, then settles it with a coin toss. It lands heads, so Song formally names her Vajra Gentleman Saber Little Cai.
• Song is pleased to have passed on one of his seven titles and considers giving others to Joseph and Onion Lady.
• Song, Venerable White, and Fairy Eastern Six go to Northern River’s residence, where members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group are seriously discussing the Dao. Song listens from the sidelines, unable to join in at his current level.
• Little Cai is overwhelmed and falls asleep. Onion Lady, listening while rooted in the Enlightenment Stone, gains insight and appears close to a minor breakthrough.
• The discussion stimulates Song’s Heart Aperture core: its island expands dramatically, and a fist-sized Liquid Metal Ball begins forming in the surrounding chaos.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Cai shifts from doubt about her awkward-sounding title to excitement once she learns it could connect her to Song’s Fortune. She gratefully accepts it.
• Song Shuhang treats the weighty naming decision casually—ultimately letting Venerable White’s coin toss decide—while feeling relieved to have found uses for his surplus titles.
• Venerable White remains absorbed in studying a Talisman Treasure, declining to advise Song directly.
• Onion Lady benefits from the Dao discussion more than Little Cai, whose lower realm and demon-cultivator nature leave her unable to stay awake.

Significant themes

• Fortune and inheritance: A Daoist title may pass more than a name, carrying a connection to its former bearer’s Fortune.
• Learning through exposure: Even listeners who cannot participate may gain profound insight from a high-level discussion of the Dao.
• Comic contrast: The solemn significance of titles and cultivation is undercut by Song’s lighthearted attitude and White’s coin-flip decision.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang discovers a mass of Liquid Metal in the chaotic region of his Core World. He recognizes it as resembling the dangerous Liquid Metal Ball he has encountered before, possibly connected to the Netherworld Ruler.
• The Core World’s roots try to absorb it, but cannot digest it. A second attempt absorbs only a fraction before spitting it back out—this time onto the island, where Song Shuhang can confront it directly.
• Song Shuhang brings his physical body into the Core World. Senior White is drawn in as well, having grabbed Song Shuhang when he sensed spatial fluctuations.
• Song Shuhang tests several ways to deal with the entity. The Sage Scripture has no effect, and Senior White’s Sandification spell only breaks it into grains that quickly reassemble.
• At Ye Si’s suggestion, Song Shuhang uses the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture. The Liquid Metal Ball finally reacts and tries to escape. The Merit Snake Beauty grabs it and smacks it against her chest, leaving everyone stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is alarmed by the possibility that the Liquid Metal entity is a Netherworld threat inside his Heart Aperture. He shifts from hoping the Core World can simply absorb it to actively testing ways to remove it.
• Senior White follows Song Shuhang into the Core World, helps investigate, and tries his signature spell. His composed assistance contrasts with the strange, comic results.
• Ye Si proposes the Soul-Deliverance Method after sensing that the entity resembles a wandering soul; her suggestion proves more effective than the earlier attacks.
• The Core World shows growing intelligence by attempting a smaller “dose” after its first failed absorption, though it still cannot digest the entity.
• The Merit Snake Beauty unexpectedly takes action during the soul-delivery attempt, producing the chapter’s punchline: Song Shuhang, Senior White, and Ye Si are left wondering whether she is trying to get breast augmentation.

Significant themes and tone

• Uncertainty and danger: Song Shuhang fears the entity could be a hidden threat or even possess him, and he cannot yet identify its true nature.
• Experimentation and cooperation: The characters try different methods and build on one another’s observations.
• Absurd comedy amid peril: The threat remains unresolved, but the Merit Snake Beauty’s bizarre final gesture turns the tense confrontation into a joke.

Key plot points and events

• Merit Snake Beauty presses the tenth-sized Liquid Metal Ball against her chest. She cannot absorb the ball itself, but extracts its Merit Power—an imposing force associated with rules and punishment—leaving the sphere dull.
• The now-unprotected sphere emits Nine Nether Evil Energy and instinctively tempts Song Shuhang with power. His joking wish for dumplings causes it to transform into a dumpling, though nobody is fooled.
• The Sage Scripture senses the sphere once its Merit Power is gone and attacks it with Vast Righteous Qi. The sphere changes into a sword and begins to overpower the Scripture.
• Song Shuhang asks his Core to send the sphere into the Present World. The Core does so immediately, bringing Song, Venerable White, and Ye Si along. A mysterious, tribulation-like force strikes and destroys the sphere, sparing the gathered cultivators from serious harm.
• The group concludes that the force was not an ordinary Heavenly Tribulation: it felt like absolute obliteration. Song explains that the sphere was likely a fragment of the Netherworld Ruler’s avatar, which cannot enter the Present World.
• Song briefs the Nine Provinces Number One Group on the Netherworld Ruler’s plans to find a person or object to fuse with and return to the human world. Venerable White advises warning the major sects and opposing the plan before it succeeds.
• A small metal fragment remains. Song appraises it, discovering it is Mutated Tribulation Black Gold—a rare artifact-refining material whose Netherworld Ruler’s will has been erased—and safely claims it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang acts on his suspicion about the Present World’s obliterating force, though his Core’s immediate response nearly catches the group unprepared. He then shares crucial intelligence and uses his Appraisal Secret Method to identify the surviving fragment.
• Merit Snake Beauty demonstrates that she can absorb Merit Power from the sphere, but not fuse with the sphere itself.
• Venerable White explains the sphere’s instinctive temptation and the Sage Scripture’s reaction, then urges the cultivators to alert the major sects.
• Ye Si spots the Sage Scripture’s response, joins the discussion, and helps inspect the surviving fragment.
• The Nine Provinces cultivators are startled by the revelation that the Netherworld Ruler—not merely a powerful Netherworld cultivator—is behind the threat. Their discussion shifts toward warning the wider cultivation world.

Significant themes

• Temptation and corruption: Nine Nether Evil Energy tries to lure people into accepting power, but its crude dumpling offer is more comic than convincing.
• The limits of power and protection: Merit can suppress the sphere’s threat, but once that protection is removed, other forces react.
• A threat beyond ordinary cultivation: The revelation about the Netherworld Ruler raises the stakes beyond what the group can handle alone.
• Danger turning into opportunity: Though the sphere is destroyed, its altered remnant becomes a valuable treasure for Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang and Venerable White destroyed the Liquid Metal Ball inside Song Shuhang and discovered its remnants formed a sacrificial plate that could contact the Netherworld Ruler. Venerable White used the contact to test a theory about the Heavenly Dao and the Netherworld, leaving Song Shuhang wondering what a Netherworld version of Senior White might be like.

• Song Shuhang used the Core World and the Soul-Deliverance Method to remove the Liquid Metal Ball in ten portions, while Xiao Cai accidentally wished for dumplings and turned one portion into a metal dumpling.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Power destroyed each portion, leaving ten pieces of Mutated Tribulation Black Gold that Song Shuhang verified as safe.
• Venerable White assembled the ten pieces into a plate and transformed into the Confucian Sage to draw out the Netherworld Ruler through a Seventh-Grade Evil Demon relay.
• The Netherworld Ruler recognized the Confucian Sage, attempted to attack, and then realized Venerable White was an impostor before Venerable White separated the plate.
• Venerable White told Song Shuhang that the Heavenly Dao and Netherworld Ruler might be split aspects of a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal, and speculated about becoming the Heavenly Dao.

Plot points

• Senior White returns Song Shuhang’s ten pieces of Mutated Tribulation Black Gold, warning him to store them separately. He also gives Shuhang a newly refined spatial bracelet, the Sun and Moon Within a Pearl, as a reward for the Jade Lake Celestial Realm trip.
• Senior White suggests visiting the Longevity Immortal Ruins the next morning with Fairy Lychee and Northern River’s Loose Cultivator. Shuhang agrees, eager to meet Cheng Lin and investigate her connection to Ye Si.
• Senior White’s famous Flat-Ground Fall nearly causes a disaster at the lodgings, but the Willow Tree Demon Qingwu’s branches catch him before he hits the ground.
• Unable to sleep at first, Shuhang is reassured by Ye Si and eventually dozes off. Ye Si emerges, reads books she and Fairy Eastern Six collected, then falls asleep beside him.
• Shuhang dreams he is flying over the sea on Senior White’s Meteor Sword. He lands on a mysterious volcanic island, where Venerable Spirit Butterfly leads him onward. The dream ends with Shuhang in a changing room, greeted by director Jacob and surrounded by makeup artists carrying women’s clothes.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White is generous toward Shuhang, giving him a valuable artifact, but his absent-minded falling remains a recurring danger. He jokes about “sweet dreams” three times, unknowingly echoing the chapter’s dream setup.
• Shuhang shows his usual caution and concern for others, trying to catch Senior White and worrying about the danger to the other cultivators.
• Ye Si is protective of Shuhang, keeps watch while he sleeps, and reveals a fondness for reading.
• Qingwu quietly proves crucial by preventing Senior White’s fall from causing harm.
• Shuhang’s dream brings together familiar figures—Spirit Butterfly and Jacob—before ending on an unexplained, potentially comic predicament.

Significant themes

• Humor and recurring mishaps: Senior White’s spectacular fall contrasts with Shuhang’s anxious attempts to prevent disaster.
• Trust and companionship: Ye Si watches over Shuhang, while Qingwu helps protect the group.
• Dreams and imagination: Shuhang’s dream reflects his wish to fly on a sword, then shifts into a strange, unresolved scenario.
• Mystery and anticipation: The planned visit to the Longevity Immortal Ruins and the dream’s abrupt ending set up future revelations.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang becomes trapped in a bizarre dream based on Venerable Spirit Butterfly’s proposed film involving a cross-dressing role.
• In the dream, makeup artists forcibly dress and apply makeup to him. He realizes the scenario likely originates from Spirit Butterfly’s earlier suggestion.
• Unable to contact Ye Si through their Spirit Ghost Contract, Song Shuhang attempts to wake himself by breathing rapidly. Instead, the dream merely shifts to a new scene.
• He finds himself running around a volcanic crater in feminine-looking formalwear. A game-like system orders him to shout, “Zi Lang, Zi Lang~~ Where are you? Answer me!” with an anxious emotion.
• Ignoring the command causes his body to run toward the magma, so Song Shuhang reluctantly recites the line.
• Senior Mad Saber Three Waves appears trapped in the lava, revealing that “Zi Lang” refers to him. A new quest instructs Song Shuhang to find a mechanism that can rescue him before the volcano erupts.
• Three Waves provides a hint about a staircase and a box, but before Song Shuhang can follow it, a mysterious “ka” occurs. Mist surrounds him, interrupting the scenario.
• Song Shuhang returns to the sky above the sea, standing on the Meteor Sword with his normal clothes restored. Frustrated, he rejects the absurd dream.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains unwillingly subjected to the dream’s increasingly ridiculous scenarios. Although embarrassed by the cross-dressing plot, he gradually becomes curious about the dream’s hidden rules and chooses to treat it like an adventure game.
• He shows resourcefulness by trying to wake himself, analyzing the dream’s clues, and eventually cooperating with its forced quest system.
• Senior Mad Saber Three Waves appears in the role of “Zi Lang,” trapped in magma and acting helpless despite being a powerful Fifth-Grade cultivator. His dramatic panic and accidental reminder trigger the mysterious interruption.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly indirectly influences the entire dream through his earlier proposal for Song Shuhang’s film role.
• Ye Si is notably unreachable, suggesting that the dream is interfering with Song Shuhang’s normal spiritual connections.

Significant Themes

• Loss of control: Song Shuhang’s strength and abilities are ineffective within the dream, leaving him subject to forced actions, costume changes, and system commands.
• Dream logic and absurdity: The dream constantly changes genres—from film production to nightmare to video game—without obeying normal rules.
• Reality versus illusion: Song Shuhang repeatedly tries to distinguish whether he has awakened, only to discover that he has entered another layer of the dream.
• Forced roles and identity: The cross-dressing and assigned dialogue emphasize Song Shuhang’s discomfort with being made to play a role he did not choose.
• Comedic helplessness: The chapter derives humor from Song Shuhang’s resistance, Three Waves’ exaggerated distress, and the inexplicable “ka” that abruptly ends the quest.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang struggles against the makeup artists, who ignore his objections and transform his appearance.
• He mentally attempts to contact Ye Si, but their connection fails.
• The dream’s system directly commands Song Shuhang and punishes his refusal by controlling his movement toward the magma.
• Song Shuhang encounters Three Waves, who begs for rescue and gives him instructions for finding the escape mechanism.
• Three Waves’ shouted hint appears to violate whatever hidden rule governs the dream, leading to the mysterious “ka” and another scene transition.

• Plot and events: Song Shuhang wakes exhausted after a strange dream, finding Ye Si asleep beside him. Over vegetarian breakfast, Venerable White announces a trip to Longevity Immortal Cheng Lin’s cave residence. Shuhang asks to visit a nearby forbidden land afterward, hoping to find a treatment for Li Yinzhu’s Cold Illness; White agrees and says he also has a debt of cause and effect to settle with Daoist Priest Li Tiansu. The group travels by cruise ship, made extraordinarily fast by White’s formations. Shuhang and Fairy Lychee, both unusually tired and uneasy, go to rest. Shuhang soon dreams again of flying over the same misty island—this time standing awkwardly on Northern River’s twelve Sword Pellets rather than riding a proper sword. Venerable Spirit Butterfly appears and invites him to follow, but Shuhang declines; Spirit Butterfly vanishes, and mist envelops Shuhang just as it did in the previous dream. Meanwhile, Gao Moumou’s cold is mysteriously cured by a Healing Spell just as he prepares to skip an update.
• Character developments: Shuhang’s fatigue and recurring dreams deepen his suspicion that someone is manipulating his sleep. He remains focused on finding help for Li Yinzhu. Fairy Lychee reveals that she has felt persistently uneasy and has not rested well. Ye Si promises to wake Shuhang if he has another nightmare. Venerable White shows his characteristic ingenuity by outfitting the ship with powerful formations.
• Interactions: White checks on Shuhang’s sleep and agrees to accompany him to the forbidden land. Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and others help equip the ship. Shuhang asks Ye Si to keep watch, then rejects Spirit Butterfly’s invitation in the dream, wary of repeating the previous day’s events. Spirit Butterfly responds calmly before disappearing.
• Themes and significance: The chapter juxtaposes ordinary travel and companionship with supernatural unease. Repeated dreams, Fairy Lychee’s unexplained anxiety, and Gao Moumou’s sudden healing suggest hidden forces at work. The absurd “pellet flight” also adds comic contrast to Shuhang’s growing concern that the dream—and perhaps events around him—are not behaving normally.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu Jiaojiao visits Gao Moumou and cures his cold with a Healing Spell. Gao is bewildered by his sudden recovery but resumes writing instead of taking a day off.
• Song Shuhang is transported by mist to a volcanic crater, where he finds Mad Saber Three Waves trapped in lava. His body moves automatically, following what appears to be a prearranged “script.”
• A recording of Song Shuhang’s voice calls out for “Zi Lang,” and Three Waves repeats the same rescue scene from the previous day. Shuhang realizes the experience is not an ordinary dream.
• After following Three Waves’s instructions, Shuhang retrieves a treasure chest containing a small flying boat. Three Waves uses it to escape the lava just before the volcano erupts.
• Three Waves explains that they are filming a movie as punishment for insulting Venerable Spirit Butterfly. Shuhang’s participation is a form of Divine Soul Projection, an important experience that may help him control flying swords when he reaches the Fourth Grade.
• Shuhang reveals that he has opened his Third-Grade Solar Blaze Meridian and is advancing toward the Void King Meridian. Three Waves is stunned by his rapid progress and jokingly declares that he wants “Jingjing.”
• Shuhang is returned to the sea, where he resumes flying on his twelve Sword Pellets. He suspects Senior White or Northern River may be controlling or assisting the projection, but receives no answer.
• Meanwhile, Fairy Lychee falls into a rare, peaceful sleep. She awakens to find a mass of Merit Golden Light hovering above her, which transforms into a snake-like beauty who silently observes her.

Character Developments

• Gao Moumou: His skepticism and frustration over losing the chance to take sick leave add humor, while his dedication to writing is emphasized.
• Song Shuhang: He becomes more observant and composed within the strange projection, recognizing its repetitive structure and questioning whether it is truly a dream. His rapid cultivation progress is also revealed.
• Mad Saber Three Waves: He remains dramatic, unlucky, and comedic, suffering through repeated filming in the volcano. Despite this, he provides Shuhang with valuable information about Divine Soul Projection.
• Fairy Lychee: Her unusual restlessness finally gives way to deep relaxation, setting up a mysterious encounter.
• Yu Jiaojiao: She demonstrates her helpfulness and magical ability by curing Gao Moumou instantly.
• Merit Snake Beauty: She appears for the first time at the end of the chapter, emerging from Merit Golden Light to meet Fairy Lychee.

Significant Themes

• Reality versus dreams: Shuhang gradually realizes that his “dream” is a genuine Divine Soul Projection with real spiritual and cultivation significance.
• Cultivation and advancement: The chapter highlights how spiritual power, divine soul strength, and sword control are connected to future realm progression.
• Comedy through repetition and misfortune: Three Waves’s repeated volcanic rescue scene, scripted dialogue, and punishment create a deliberately absurd situation.
• Merit and mystery: The appearance of the Merit Snake Beauty introduces a supernatural mystery and suggests that merit-related forces may have their own consciousness or purpose.
• Duty versus personal desire: Gao Moumou’s forced return to writing after being cured contrasts with Three Waves’s punishment and Shuhang’s involuntary participation in the film.

Character Interactions

• Yu Jiaojiao cures Gao Moumou and indirectly forces him back to work.
• Song Shuhang and Three Waves reenact their earlier rescue scenario, with Shuhang increasingly aware of its artificial, scripted nature.
• Three Waves explains Divine Soul Projection and reacts with disbelief to Shuhang’s cultivation speed.
• Shuhang attempts to identify who is controlling or accompanying him during his flight, calling out to Senior White and Northern River without receiving a response.
• The chapter ends with the mysterious Merit Snake Beauty directly confronting Fairy Lychee, setting up their impending interaction.

Chapter Summary: “The Sinful Humans... No, I Forgot My Line.”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fairy Lychee is abruptly awakened by Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty, which has entered her room in its incorporeal Merit Light form. Because it is intangible and apparently lacks intelligence, it simply follows Fairy Lychee wherever she goes.
• Fairy Lychee initially mistakes the Merit Snake Beauty for an unidentified intruder and considers using her “365-Round Windmill” technique on it. She eventually realizes that it belongs to Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang’s Divine Soul returns to his body after being projected outside by Venerable White with the help of Northern River’s Loose Cultivator’s Twelve Star River Swords. The projection leaves Song Shuhang mentally exhausted.
• Song Shuhang discovers that Ye Si had been put to sleep during the Divine Soul Projection. Venerable White later confirms that he was responsible and explains that the experience was beneficial training for Song Shuhang.
• Fairy Lychee brings the Merit Snake Beauty back to Song Shuhang, who recalls it into his body. He notices that the Merit Snake Beauty has absorbed a large amount of Merit Power from the Liquid Metal Ball, becoming denser, more solid, and closer to developing a purplish-gold tail.
• Ye Si affectionately embraces Fairy Lychee, whom she regards as her “Mama Lychee.” Fairy Lychee realizes that both Ye Si and Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty seem unusually attached to her.
• Song Shuhang theorizes that Fairy Lychee may have a hidden connection to Cheng Lin, the Longevity Immortal. He suggests possible blood ties, reincarnation, or another close relationship. Fairy Lychee rejects reincarnation as unlikely, though the connection remains unresolved.
• The group reaches the Cheng Lin Immortal Ruins beneath the sea. Before they can proceed, Venerable White detects an ambush by a large force of Sea Urchin Warriors.
• The Sea Urchin Warriors accuse Song Shuhang of being a “sinful human” because of his Sea Urchin Slayer Mark and the blood of their comrades on him. Their Fifth-Grade elder attempts to deliver a dramatic threat but forgets his prepared speech, creating a comedic interruption. A younger warrior prepares to consult the group’s compulsory-education textbook for the missing line.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains confused by the independent behavior of his Merit Snake Beauty but begins connecting its reaction to Fairy Lychee with the larger mystery surrounding Cheng Lin, Ye Si, and the former Jade Lake/Jadewater Pavilion.
• Fairy Lychee shifts from irritation and suspicion to reluctant responsibility as she escorts the Merit Snake Beauty back to Song Shuhang. Her possible connection to Cheng Lin becomes more strongly implied, though she has no conscious memories confirming it.
• Ye Si demonstrates her strong emotional attachment to Fairy Lychee, reinforcing the mysterious bond between them. She also clarifies that she cannot control the Merit Snake Beauty and is actually allergic to Song Shuhang’s Merit Light.
• Venerable White is revealed to have orchestrated Song Shuhang’s Divine Soul Projection as both training and entertainment. He remains relaxed and amused even as the group approaches danger.
• The Sea Urchin Warrior elder is introduced as a serious enemy figure, but his forgotten lines undermine his intimidating presentation and highlight the absurdity of the Sea Urchin Warriors’ indoctrinated behavior.

Significant Themes

• Hidden connections and reincarnation: The chapter deepens the mystery linking Fairy Lychee, Ye Si, Cheng Lin, and the Merit Snake Beauty, suggesting that spiritual, familial, or reincarnational bonds may exist beneath the surface.
• Merit and spiritual evolution: Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty is becoming more powerful and more physically substantial after absorbing Merit Power, hinting at future evolution.
• Comedic subversion of dramatic tropes: The Sea Urchin Warriors attempt to frame Song Shuhang as a universally hated villain, but the elder’s forgotten script turns the threat into farce.
• Uncontrolled spiritual phenomena: Song Shuhang’s Merit Light behaves almost independently despite lacking intelligence, illustrating how powerful spiritual forces can act according to instinct or hidden connections.
• Training through danger: Venerable White treats Divine Soul Projection as both useful cultivation practice and a game, reflecting the story’s blend of cultivation adventure and humor.

Character Interactions

• Fairy Lychee struggles with the persistent Merit Snake Beauty before confronting Song Shuhang about it.
• Song Shuhang apologizes to Fairy Lychee and investigates the Merit Snake Beauty’s unusual behavior.
• Ye Si warmly embraces Fairy Lychee, causing Fairy Lychee to recognize how closely she is tied to Song Shuhang’s companions.
• Song Shuhang and Fairy Lychee discuss the possibility of Fairy Lychee’s connection to Cheng Lin.
• Venerable White jokes with Song Shuhang about the Divine Soul Projection and advises him to recover before entering the ruins.
• The group collectively prepares for the Sea Urchin Warriors’ ambush, while the enemy’s forgotten speech creates an awkward and humorous standoff.

Plot points and events

• A Sea Urchin Warrior elder threatens Song Shuhang, demanding that he surrender his head and promising—falsely—to spare his family. He gives the group twenty breaths to comply.
• The Sea Urchin Warriors reveal an arsenal of modern underwater weapons enhanced with runes. While they prepare to attack, Venerable White asks Song Shuhang to steer the Immortal Ark and swims out to inspect the weapons.
• The group realizes White’s experiments could be dangerous and moves the ark back, reinforcing its defensive and impact-buffering formations.
• Once the deadline passes, the elder admits that he never intended to spare anyone and orders the attack. Before the Sea Urchin Warriors can fire, however, their own weapons begin exploding—apparently because White is dismantling them.
• Protected by a talisman, White emerges unharmed and calmly starts taking apart another depth charge while the Sea Urchin Warriors’ attacks bounce harmlessly off his shield. That bomb explodes too, but White simply moves on to a torpedo.
• The elder sends a squad to stop White and orders the remaining warriors to attack the Immortal Ark.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains wary and incredulous, especially about White’s plan to investigate explosives. He takes over piloting the ark as requested.
• Venerable White is cheerful, curious, and fearless. His eagerness to study weapons—and his casual acceptance of repeated explosions—turns the Sea Urchin Warriors’ attack into comic chaos.
• The Sea Urchin Warrior elder shifts from theatrical threats to open hostility once his bluff fails, then becomes furious as his weapons explode.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group treats the threat calmly, trading jokes about having killed or accidentally killed Sea Urchin Warriors. Their practical concern is protecting the ark from White’s experiments.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer calls the Sea Urchin Warriors adorably dim-witted, only for their arsenal to make them seem considerably more dangerous.

Significant themes

• Comedy through contrast: The warriors’ elaborate threats and military preparations clash with the group’s relaxed attitude and White’s almost casual bomb-disassembly.
• Technology meets cultivation: Runic enhancements make modern weapons more powerful, but White’s cultivation-based defenses and curiosity render the arsenal ineffective.
• Threats versus reality: The elder’s promise to spare Song’s family is revealed as a deliberate lie; his ultimatum is merely part of a plan to attack everyone.
• Recklessness and collateral danger: White is unharmed, but his experiments repeatedly cause explosions that devastate the Sea Urchin Warriors—and put the ark’s crew on alert.

Summary

Plot points and events

The Sea Urchin Warriors launch hundreds of torpedoes, missiles, and deep-sea bombs at Song Shuhang’s small Immortal Ark. Song struggles to pilot the ark through the attack, while Fairy Lychee casually takes and posts a selfie with the bombardment in the background. One Sea Urchin Warrior is severely injured by its own explosions, loses a leg, and still pauses to photograph and post its injury before collapsing.
The bombardment rapidly reduces the Immortal Ark’s defenses from full strength to thirty percent, then below twenty percent. Northern River’s Loose Cultivator explains that repairing or reinforcing the ark would take too long, though the group could survive even if it were destroyed. When the ark activates an emergency-procedure menu with five unexplained options, Song randomly selects option three. A formation activates and sends Senior White’s Meteor Sword through space. It returns carrying Dharma King Creation, now dressed and made up as an extreme heavy-metal singer.

Character developments

Song Shuhang remains anxious and inexperienced under the attack but takes responsibility by piloting the ark and choosing an emergency option when no one else offers guidance. Fairy Lychee continues to display her carefree, eccentric personality, treating a lethal attack as an opportunity for photography. Northern River, Medicine Master, and Young Master Phoenix Slayer remain calm because they believe they can escape even if the ark is destroyed. Dharma King Creation is revealed to have become a popular but terrifying “Soul Song King,” whose destructive singing attracts thrill-seeking fans despite its dangerous effects.

Significant themes

The chapter uses absurd comedy to contrast extreme danger with casual social-media behavior. It parodies modern online culture through both Fairy Lychee’s glamorous selfie and the injured Sea Urchin Warrior’s insistence on posting a beautified injury photo. Another major theme is the unpredictable nature of Senior White’s inventions: the ark’s mysterious emergency systems provide no explanations and produce an unexpected solution. The chapter also emphasizes the bizarre appeal of danger, as people willingly seek out Dharma King Creation’s harmful music for excitement.

Character interactions

Song repeatedly asks the seniors for advice as the ark comes under fire, but they respond with relaxed indifference or vague suggestions. Fairy Lychee’s confidence contrasts sharply with Song’s panic. The group recognizes Dharma King Creation only after he appears in his frightening stage persona, and everyone immediately panics because they remember how dangerous his singing is. They try to warn him that they are aboard the ark, but he is too absorbed in his performance to hear them. The chapter ends as Dharma King Creation prepares to unleash his deadly song on his unsuspecting companions.

Plot points and events

• Dharma King Creation’s singing turns into a deafening, supernatural attack inside the Immortal Ark, leaving Song Shuhang, Phoenix Slayer, Medicine Master, and others barely able to function. Meanwhile, incoming torpedoes and shells reduce the Ark’s defenses to five percent.
• Following Venerable White’s instructions, Song presses emergency option 2, summoning Fairy Flowing Firefly. She uses her repulsive-force spell to stop the incoming ammunition and send it back toward the Sea Urchin Warriors.
• Song then activates the Ark’s loudspeaker formation, broadcasting Dharma King Creation’s song directly to the enemy. The sound leaves the Sea Urchin Warriors in disarray, and the returning explosives strike their ranks.
• Fairy Lychee tries to stop Creation by spinning him with her 365-Round Windmill technique. Instead, his singing continues, now with an even more disorienting vibrating, surround-sound effect.
• The scene shifts to Spirit Butterfly Island, where Soft Feather is preparing to undergo her tribulation. She secretly borrows a phone and calls friends, including Song Shuhang. When he finally answers, she hears the same brain-searing song.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is incapacitated by the singing but manages to follow Venerable White’s instructions, helping turn Creation’s song into a weapon against the attackers.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly overcomes her fear at the sight of the attack and acts decisively, shielding the Ark and returning the enemy’s ammunition.
• Dharma King Creation remains oblivious to the chaos his singing causes and continues performing even while Fairy Lychee swings him around.
• Fairy Lychee makes a forceful, ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stop Creation; Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and the other Ark occupants are increasingly overwhelmed by the song.
• Soft Feather is cheerful and eager to reconnect with Song Shuhang before her tribulation, unaware that answering his phone will expose her to the song.

Significant themes

• The chapter uses absurd comedy and escalation: a disastrous song becomes an unexpectedly effective weapon, while attempts to stop it only make it more outrageous.
• Cooperation and improvisation help the group survive—the Ark’s emergency system, Flowing Firefly’s spell, and White’s remote guidance all contribute.
• The shift to Soft Feather’s quiet pre-tribulation preparations contrasts sharply with the chaos, setting up a comedic interruption at the chapter’s end.

Chapter Summary: “Not Tentacles, They’re Roots!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dharma King Creation performs his powerful, grotesque “Seven Kills Song”, amplified by Fairy Lychee’s technique into overwhelming surround sound.
• The song incapacitates several listeners:
  • Liu Jianyi nearly vomits and collapses.
  • Venerable Spirit Butterfly spits out his tea.
  • Gongzi Hai faints while listening through a hidden device.
• Soft Feather recognizes Creation’s voice and surprisingly enjoys the music. Inspired by it, she confidently prepares to undergo her Fourth-Grade Tribulation Transcendence, hoping to master Sword Flight and stop getting lost.
• Gongzi Hai continues struggling with the persistent Nightmare Curse, which repeatedly disrupts his cultivation. He decides he must find Song Shuhang to uncover and remove its source.
• Gongzi Hai’s Sea Urchin Warrior allies locate and attack Song Shuhang. Their secretly monitored battle is interrupted by Dharma King Creation’s singing, knocking Gongzi Hai unconscious.
• During the battle, Senior White collects unexploded torpedoes and depth charges rather than letting them go to waste. The defeated Sea Urchin Warriors sink into the sea, where the ruins of Longevity Immortal Cheng Lin begin swallowing their bodies.
• The ruins awaken something that had been dormant rather than sealed. Song Shuhang, Ye Si, Fairy Lychee, and Senior White all sense the disturbance.
• Countless branching appendages rise from the seafloor and drag the Sea Urchin Warriors into the ruins. Song Shuhang insists they are not tentacles but lotus roots, suggesting a possible connection to the lotus within his own body.

Character Developments

• Soft Feather remains cheerful and fearless, drawing strength from Dharma King Creation’s bizarre music and becoming more determined to pass her tribulation.
• Liu Jianyi is further exposed to the absurd dangers surrounding Soft Feather, suffering physically from the demonic song while trying to protect her.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly demonstrates his indulgent affection for his daughter: because Soft Feather likes Creation’s singing, he seriously considers inviting Creation to perform on Spirit Butterfly Island. His aide, Jiugu, bluntly suggests he take his medicine.
• Gongzi Hai becomes increasingly desperate and physically weakened by the Nightmare Curse. His hatred of Song Shuhang intensifies, and he shifts his priorities from cultivation to finding Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang displays unusual confidence in identifying the emerging appendages, recognizing their plant-like nature because of his own connection to a lotus.
• Senior White remains practical and economical, collecting enemy explosives even as a mysterious threat awakens.
• Ye Si reacts strongly to the ruins because of her deep connection with Longevity Immortal Cheng Lin.

Significant Themes

• Comedy amid danger: The chapter contrasts serious cultivation, demonic attacks, and an awakening ancient power with absurd humor—especially Creation’s music and Spirit Butterfly’s response.
• Unexpected power of art: Dharma King Creation’s song functions almost like a weapon, incapacitating powerful cultivators and inspiring Soft Feather.
• Persistence and consequences: Gongzi Hai’s unresolved Nightmare Curse continues to damage his plans, showing that past attacks can have lasting effects.
• Hidden connections and awakening forces: The ruins respond to the Sea Urchin Warriors’ bodies, hinting at ancient secrets and connections between Cheng Lin, Song Shuhang, and the lotus.
• Plant versus animal imagery: The apparent “tentacles” are reframed as lotus roots, emphasizing Song Shuhang’s growing awareness of his unusual body and spiritual connections.

Character Interactions

• Soft Feather speaks with Song Shuhang over Liu Jianyi’s phone, cheerfully announcing her upcoming tribulation. Shuhang panics and urges her to hang up before the song causes more trouble.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly asks Jiugu whether Creation should hold a concert; Jiugu responds dryly that he should take his medicine.
• Gongzi Hai uses his Puppet Clone and listening device to monitor the Sea Urchin Warriors’ attack on Song Shuhang, only to be defeated by the transmitted music.
• Senior White, Fairy Lychee, and Song Shuhang discuss the strange appendages emerging from the ruins. Song Shuhang corrects them, insisting they are lotus roots, not tentacles.