Chapter Summaries

Chapter 920: “Am I Screwed?”

Key events

• Strange lotus-like roots emerge from Cheng Lin’s Immortal Ruins, destroy Venerable White’s seal, and seize and absorb every Sea Urchin Warrior nearby. The roots then retract, and the seal mysteriously returns to normal.
• The group decides to explore the ruins, partly because Venerable White is intrigued by the possible lotus hidden inside.
• Dharma King Creation and Fairy Flowing Firefly leave before the expedition continues. Venerable White gives Creation a sound-enhancing technique and Flowing Firefly a cultivation aid, then teleports them back.
• Venerable White reveals he is making ten thousand flying swords for a “Myriad Swords Returning to the Sect” formation, potentially combined with his powerful Spell Ring. Song Shuhang privately worries for White’s future enemies.
• Venerable White leads the remaining group through the ruins, steering them around traps. They reach a deep pit that Song Shuhang recognizes as the site of an earlier disastrous expedition caused by White’s own handiwork.
• The group jumps into the pit to reach Cheng Lin’s lecture records below. An air-restriction formation prevents them from flying, and despite White’s assurance that the pit is shallow, the fall continues long enough to make Song Shuhang doubt him.

Character developments and interactions

• Venerable White remains curious and undeterred by danger, gives his helpers their promised rewards, and casually describes an extravagant sword-formation project. His earlier accident in the ruins also makes his confident guidance rather suspect.
• Song Shuhang recognizes the pit from the group’s past, reacts awkwardly when White realizes he remembers the incident, and grows increasingly uneasy during the prolonged fall.
• Dharma King Creation is eager to return to his interrupted concert and jokes about having Fairy Lychee spin him around while he sings. She rejects the idea and tells him to take his medicine.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly is still weak from Creation’s singing but recovers enough to request a return trip.
• Fairy Lychee helps assess the mysterious roots and remains cautious about the pit. Northern River, Phoenix Slayer, Medicine Master, and Jiang Ziyan follow along while still recovering from Creation’s performance.

Significant themes

• The ruins combine genuine danger with absurd comedy: a mysterious, powerful lotus appears, while the group’s next threat is a pit made infamous by Venerable White himself.
• Venerable White’s curiosity and inventive confidence contrast with Song Shuhang’s growing awareness that those qualities can put everyone in trouble.
• The chapter closes on comic suspense: White insists the drop is shallow, but the continuing fall suggests otherwise.

Plot points

• Song Shuhang and his companions land safely in the ruins with Venerable White’s help. They encounter a vision of Longevity Immortal Cheng Lin giving a lecture on the Daoist Canon.
• Venerable White creates a transparent True Illusion so the group can witness the scene. Cheng Lin’s lecture grants the cultivators valuable insights, after which she demonstrates her Longevity Dao: her old body dissolves into a lotus, and a new version of herself is born from it.
• Cheng Lin’s revealed appearance confirms Song Shuhang’s theory: she is the ancestral Spirit Ghost connected to Ye Si. The vision also links the destruction of Jadewater Pavilion to the fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court, and shows Cheng Lin later sacrificing Heavenly Court divine-armament fragments to the ruined pavilion.
• The vision depicts the eye-covered, black-handed Longevity Immortal who appeared at Jadewater Pavilion. Song Shuhang recognizes him as someone who was once part of the Demon Catchers’ team that attacked it.
• After Cheng Lin’s head is crushed in the vision, the scene takes an unexpected turn: the black-handed immortal turns and grins, saying, “Found you, Cheng Lin!”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang moves from suspicion to certainty about Cheng Lin’s identity and her connection to Ye Si and Jadewater Pavilion.
• Ye Si and Fairy Lychee react strongly to Cheng Lin’s rebirth; Lychee even wonders whether she herself may be Cheng Lin resurrected or reincarnated. The Merit Golden Light Snake Beauty also watches the revelation.
• Venerable White supports the group by cushioning their fall and making the transparent illusion possible. The other cultivators benefit from Cheng Lin’s lecture.

Significant themes

• Rebirth and identity: Cheng Lin’s Dao is the creation of a new self from the death of the old, raising questions about reincarnation and continuity.
• Hidden histories and cause and effect: The vision connects Jadewater Pavilion’s destruction, Cheng Lin’s rise in the Heavenly Court, and that court’s eventual ruin.
• Knowledge through cultivation: Cheng Lin’s lecture offers profound insight, while the vision itself turns past events into clues.
• Unresolved motives: The reason the Demon Catchers attacked Jadewater Pavilion remains unclear, and the final grin suggests Cheng Lin’s story—and the mystery of her pursuer—is not over.

Chapter Summary: “See? The Emperor Pearl Is Still Here! Pop~~”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Immortal with eyes covering both arms is revealed as the one who killed Cheng Lin, the former Jade Lake Female Emperor. He had always suspected that Cheng Lin possessed a resurrection method and had planted a contingency in her former cave abode to monitor it.
• When Cheng Lin’s reincarnation—apparently Fairy Lychee—is discovered, the Immortal’s spell-afterimage locks onto the group’s location. His true body does not arrive, but the afterimage is still a serious threat.
• Venerable White determines that the group cannot escape while the spatial lock remains. Since the afterimage is weaker than the Immortal’s true body, he decides that everyone must destroy it before fleeing.
• The entire group launches a coordinated assault. Venerable White uses an extravagant spell involving over a hundred one-use flying swords, while the others contribute their strongest attacks, including sword techniques, demonic power, divine arrows, beams, and spell attacks.
• Their combined assault destroys most of the afterimage and removes the spatial lock. However, Venerable White discovers that half a head and one arm remain, so he attacks again—this time using himself as the focus of the spell and coating his body in numerous enhancement techniques.
• As the afterimage is being destroyed, it reveals an “Emperor Pearl,” claiming that its vitality proves the Emperor still exists and that the Heavenly Court will eventually be rebuilt.
• The Emperor Pearl suddenly loses all of its vitality and shatters, leaving the Immortal’s final boast meaningless.

Character Developments

• Venerable White demonstrates both strategic judgment and overwhelming combat ability. He remains calm under pressure, recognizes the afterimage’s weakness, coordinates the attack, and personally eliminates its surviving fragments.
• Fairy Lychee is increasingly implicated as Cheng Lin’s reincarnation, making her the Immortal’s primary target and placing her in greater danger.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and the other members of the group overcome their fear of fighting an Immortal-level enemy and contribute their strongest techniques to the combined attack.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer is especially terrified because the enemy is a demon catcher and he is the only demon among the group.
• Song Shuhang recognizes the potential of using his Core World as an emergency refuge, but ultimately stays back and prepares to protect the others if the battle goes wrong.
• The Immortal’s afterimage shifts from confident intimidation to desperation when the Emperor Pearl unexpectedly fails.

Significant Themes

• The limits of power and preparation: Even an Immortal’s contingency can be destroyed when faced with coordinated teamwork and careful strategy.
• Resurrection and identity: Cheng Lin’s return through reincarnation challenges the Immortal’s assumption that her death was final.
• The collapse of old powers: The destruction of the Emperor Pearl symbolizes the possible failure of the Emperor and the Heavenly Court to return.
• Teamwork against overwhelming strength: The group cannot defeat the Immortal’s true body, but they can overcome the weakened projection by combining their abilities.
• False certainty and reversal: The Immortal believes the Emperor Pearl guarantees victory, only for it to lose its vitality and shatter at the crucial moment.

Character Interactions

• The group discusses whether to flee, but Venerable White explains that the spatial lock makes escape impossible until the afterimage is destroyed.
• Fairy Lychee, Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Jiang Ziyan, Medicine Master, Ye Si, Young Master Phoenix Slayer, and the Lushan Road Lamp God all cooperate in Venerable White’s coordinated assault.
• Medicine Master encourages Jiang Ziyan to accept the danger and fight, emphasizing that inaction would leave them vulnerable to the Immortal.
• Song Shuhang remains behind the frontline, ready to pull everyone into his Core World if necessary.
• The Immortal directly taunts Cheng Lin, insisting that she failed to destroy the Heavenly Court. His confidence collapses when the Emperor Pearl’s vitality disappears and the pearl breaks.

Key events

• The Longevity Immortal’s spell-image is destroyed by Venerable White, and the Emperor Pearl it carried loses its life force and shatters. The real Longevity Immortal learns of the Pearl’s destruction.
• Outside Cheng Lin’s ruins, strange roots block the Longevity Immortal and drain his strength whenever he tries to pass. After the Pearl shatters, the roots suddenly withdraw, though space remains locked.
• The Longevity Immortal breaks into the ruins. With spatial teleportation unavailable, Venerable White prepares everyone to confront him.
• Song Shuhang transfers the other cultivators into his Core World, then attempts to follow. The Longevity Immortal interrupts the transfer and mistakes him for “Song Blockhead,” whom he believes is connected to Cheng Lin.
• Shuhang denies knowing Cheng Lin’s whereabouts and tries to escape, but the Longevity Immortal attacks. The Merit Snake Beauty appears, shields Shuhang, and stops the blow.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang acts quickly to protect the group, then finds himself stranded in a half-transferred state. He remains confused by the Longevity Immortal’s mistaken identity and suspicions.
• Venerable White responds calmly to the threat and tries to evacuate the group, but the spatial lockdown prevents him from doing so.
• The Longevity Immortal is enraged by the Emperor Pearl’s destruction and focused on finding Cheng Lin. His certainty that Shuhang is “Song Blockhead” leads him to attack when Shuhang refuses to hand Cheng Lin over.
• The Merit Snake Beauty, whose name Shuhang cannot pronounce, intervenes to protect him. The Longevity Immortal recognizes her and reacts with unexpected bitterness, suggesting a personal bond or history between them.

Significant themes

• Misidentity and hidden connections: The Longevity Immortal mistakes Shuhang for another person and assumes he is tied to Cheng Lin.
• Protection and loyalty: Shuhang risks himself to save the group, while the Merit Snake Beauty shields him from a potentially fatal attack.
• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable figures are constrained by unfamiliar forces—the roots defeat the Longevity Immortal’s attacks, and the spatial lockdown frustrates Venerable White and Shuhang.
• Unresolved relationships: The Longevity Immortal’s final, aching response to the Merit Snake Beauty hints at emotional history that remains unexplained.

Key plot points

• The Eye Immortal mistakes Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty for the ancient tear-mole beauty, who was devoted to Cheng Lin. Song suspects the beauty may have survived in some form within his Merit Light, and connects her interest in Fairy Lychee to Lychee’s possible link with Cheng Lin.
• The Merit Snake Beauty vanishes just as the Eye Immortal attacks. Song Shuhang disappears too, escaping despite the area’s Spatial Lockdown.
• The Eye Immortal finds that the Emperor Pearl has been drained of life and reduced to ordinary fragments. Cheng Lin Ruins’ roots then gather into a seven-colored lotus, from which emerges a powerful, mysterious man.
• The man asks the Eye Immortal to stop pursuing Cheng Lin. When refused, he defeats him with one palm and seals him inside a small magical house, apparently for a thousand years of reflection.
• In his Core World, Song Shuhang discovers it is embedded within a vastly larger world—and that Venerable White and the others he brought inside have disappeared.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains alert to the Merit Snake Beauty’s unusual behavior and successfully escapes the Eye Immortal, but is left facing a new mystery in his Core World.
• The Eye Immortal is consumed by hatred for Cheng Lin and refuses to be persuaded. His confidence in his own strength collapses when the stranger overwhelms him effortlessly.
• The mysterious lotus man is calm and courteous until the Eye Immortal rejects his request; then he acts decisively, capturing him. His connection to Cheng Lin and the roots remains unclear.
• The Merit Snake Beauty seems tied to the tear-mole beauty and possibly to Cheng Lin, but disappears before the confrontation can be resolved.

Significant themes

• Ancient grudges and tangled loyalties: Hatred stemming from the Heavenly Court’s destruction continues to shape present-day conflicts.
• Hidden identities and survival: The Merit Snake Beauty’s nature and Cheng Lin’s possible connection to Fairy Lychee remain uncertain.
• Power and humiliation: The Eye Immortal’s formidable abilities prove useless against the lotus man, overturning his sense of superiority.
• Uncertainty and escalating mystery: Song’s escape brings him into an unfamiliar larger world, with his companions’ whereabouts unknown.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang sees a vast world connected to his small Core World. Roots from that world form a stairway, and he follows it through a Space Gate.
• Meanwhile, Venerable White, Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Fairy Lychee, Medicine Master, Jiang Ziyan, and Young Master Phoenix Slayer are guests in the ancient, animal-filled world. Their host is the Third Heavenly Dao, the Spotted Dragon in human form.
• The host serves exceptionally potent spiritual tea. Venerable White enjoys it enough to receive an offer of a ton of tea leaves.
• Phoenix Slayer and Fairy Lychee ask whether they are Cheng Lin’s reincarnations. The Heavenly Dao first reassures them that they are not, explaining that Cheng Lin—the Spirit Ghost—has never reincarnated.
• Song Shuhang arrives and recognizes the host as the Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao. The host then reveals that Fairy Lychee is Cheng Lin, but not the same Cheng Lin as his Spirit Ghost.
• He explains that Cheng Lin once advanced her Dao of Longevity by using “New Life Gestation” to develop a flesh-and-blood body. During one attempt, the process unexpectedly—or perhaps intentionally—produced twins. One inherited Cheng Lin’s memories, abilities, and personality; the other inherited her bloodline and was born as an ordinary infant: Fairy Lychee.

Character developments and interactions

• Fairy Lychee goes from fearing she might be Cheng Lin’s reincarnation to learning she is one of Cheng Lin’s twin offspring. She is bewildered but begins trying to absorb the revelation.
• Phoenix Slayer is relieved to learn he has no connection to Cheng Lin and declines to dwell on becoming Demon Emperor.
• Song Shuhang reaches the new world and meets the Heavenly Dao face-to-face. He praises the tea, but is jokingly told his charm is too low to earn a gift of tea leaves.
• Venerable White remains enthusiastic about the tea, while the Heavenly Dao’s habit of revealing information in teasing, incomplete installments frustrates Fairy Lychee.

Significant themes

• Identity and inheritance: Fairy Lychee is connected to Cheng Lin by blood and origin, yet is distinct from the Spirit Ghost who continued Cheng Lin’s life.
• Rebirth and continuity: Cheng Lin’s unconventional cultivation method produces two different forms of succession—one preserving her whole self, the other carrying only her bloodline.
• Mystery and comic absurdity: Serious revelations about immortality and identity are delivered through bizarre “buy one, get one free” logic, giving the chapter a playful tone.

Key plot points and events

• Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao explains that Fairy Lychee was not an accidental “extra” from Cheng Lin’s twins: Cheng Lin’s choices had a purpose, though even he does not know what it was.
• Ye Si asks about her own origins. She was once nearly dead, with only a remnant soul left. Cheng Lin used a fragment of herself and her Dao of Longevity to remake Ye Si, making her both Cheng Lin’s daughter and, in a sense, part of Cheng Lin.
• Cheng Lin had once split herself into countless fragments to help Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao. He recovered most, but not all. He can sense that Cheng Lin is well, though he does not know where she is.
• Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao says the Ancient Heavenly Emperor possessed some of Cheng Lin’s fragments and may have used information from them in connection with Jadewater Pavilion’s destruction. The Demon Catchers’ role was partly related, but coincidence also played a part.
• The others finish asking questions and are teleported away. Fairy Lychee learns that the Longevity Immortal Demon Catcher who pursued Cheng Lin has been temporarily imprisoned.
• Left alone with Song Shuhang, Spotted Dragon Heavenly Dao reveals a colder identity: he is Spotted Dragon 2, not the original Third Heavenly Dao. The original had planned to merge the Golden and Evil Lotuses into a new world, but instead began forging the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and then disappeared.
• Spotted Dragon 2 awoke in a new world made from the two lotus worlds, where first-generation Cheng Lin remade him through the New Life Gestation method before shattering. He later gathered most of her fragments, remade a second-generation Cheng Lin, and placed her inside a human cultivator under contract—Song Shuhang.
• When Song Shuhang wonders whether he might be the reincarnation of the Third Heavenly Dao, Spotted Dragon 2 dismisses the idea with the chapter’s title: “Dreams should be dreamed while sleeping.”

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Si learns that her identity is inseparable from Cheng Lin’s: she is her own person, but also formed from Cheng Lin.
• Fairy Lychee remains eager to meet Cheng Lin and shows concern for the Demon Catcher who pursued her.
• Song Shuhang connects Cheng Lin’s fragments to the destruction of Jadewater Pavilion, then realizes the friendly figure before him is actually Spotted Dragon 2. He probes the mystery but gets no confirmation that he is a Heavenly Dao reincarnation.
• Spotted Dragon 2 shifts from warm and approachable to cold and threatening, revealing that his earlier manner concealed a different identity and a complicated history.

Significant themes

• Identity and inheritance: Ye Si and Spotted Dragon 2 are remade beings whose identities are shaped by others, yet remain distinct.
• Sacrifice and fragmentation: Cheng Lin’s self-splitting and eventual shattering underpin the creation of Ye Si and the events surrounding Spotted Dragon 2.
• Uncertainty and incomplete knowledge: Even powerful figures lack answers about Cheng Lin, the Ancient Heavenly Court, and the Third Heavenly Dao.
• Dreams versus reality: The ending cautions Song Shuhang against turning speculation into certainty.

Summary

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks Spotted Dragon 2 whether he is someone’s reincarnation. The dragon assures him that he is simply himself: a lucky human cultivator. “Song Blockhead,” whom others have mistaken him for, was apparently a friend of Cheng Lin’s, though Spotted Dragon 2 knows little about him.
• Shuhang asks whether the current Heavenly Dao is a ball and why the Third Heavenly Dao gave up the position. Spotted Dragon 2 knows the latter answer but warns that hearing the heavenly secret would prevent Shuhang from safely returning to the main world, so Shuhang declines.
• When Shuhang asks how he can repay the dragon’s help, Spotted Dragon 2 requests two favors: find Cheng Lin and tell her he has awakened, and look for her fragments. Shuhang agrees, partly because Ye Si, his Spirit Ghost, contains one of those fragments.
• Shuhang returns to his body. Alone, Spotted Dragon 2 resumes his enormous dragon form and reflects that Shuhang seems like an ordinary cultivator, though his ability to enter people’s memories and lives through dreams is extraordinary. He then goes back to sleep.
• On Heavenly Island, Copper Trigram Immortal Master—disguised as Northern River’s Loose Cultivator—tours the island with a silver-haired woman who is intensely affectionate toward him. She takes him to a graveyard for members of the fallen Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Copper Trigram notices separate cenotaphs for the Old and New Heavenly Emperors. The woman says she does not know why there are two, and that the Heavenly Emperor’s fate remains uncertain. She recalls him as gentle and handsome, but insists Copper Trigram is more attractive.
• Copper Trigram, baffled by the woman’s attraction to Northern River’s face, asks her to call it ugly. She refuses, saying she cannot lie about what she finds handsome.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains cautious and practical: although curious about the heavenly secret, he prioritizes his safety and offers to repay the dragon’s favors. He accepts responsibility for helping with Cheng Lin and her fragments.
• Spotted Dragon 2 is forthcoming and unexpectedly domestic in his concern for Cheng Lin, telling her to come home and visit. He is also intrigued by Shuhang’s unusual dream-related talent.
• Copper Trigram’s disguise fails to resolve his confusion: the silver-haired woman’s affection persists regardless of the appearance he uses. His self-confidence takes a comic blow when she sincerely praises Northern River’s looks.
• The woman shares limited information about the Ancient Heavenly Court and its burials, while her affection for Copper Trigram repeatedly clashes with his skepticism.

Significant themes

• Identity and reincarnation: Shuhang’s anxieties are eased, though not entirely settled, by the assurance that he is simply himself.
• Knowledge and danger: Some truths—especially heavenly secrets—carry serious consequences for anyone who learns them.
• Obligation and connection: Shuhang’s gratitude turns into concrete duties involving Cheng Lin and her scattered fragments.
• Uncertainty and loss: The two Heavenly Emperor cenotaphs and the island’s graves evoke the unresolved fate of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Appearance and attraction: Copper Trigram’s comic confusion suggests that others may see beauty where he sees nothing special.

Plot points and events

• Four days after returning from Spotted Dragon 2’s world, Song Shuhang and the others are still at the Cheng Lin Ruins, studying the six stone walls’ Self-Healing Secret Method.
• Fairy Lychee masters it first, followed by Northern River’s Loose Cultivator and then Shuhang. Shuhang can regrow his hair, but hasn’t yet mastered regrowing severed limbs.
• Since September 6 is the first day of the new semester at Jiangnan University Town, Shuhang plans to return to school. The group warns him that the popular End-Dharma War film has made his portrayal of Senior Brother Gao Sheng recognizable, so students may flock to see him.
• The seniors brainstorm ways to make Shuhang less noticeable. Venerable White suggests asking Lay Buddhist Most Transcendent, who might know how to reduce someone’s presence.
• Shuhang phones the lay Buddhist late at night to ask for help. The call ends with the irritated response: “Young Friend Shuhang, are you picking a fight?”

Character developments

• Shuhang makes progress in the healing technique, though his ability remains limited to regrowing hair. He is also eager to resume ordinary student life despite the likely attention.
• Fairy Lychee’s close connection to Cheng Lin helps her master the method quickly; Northern River’s understanding of the Dao helps him learn it next.
• Lay Buddhist Most Transcendent is revealed to be awake and reachable late at night, but clearly takes offense at Shuhang’s request.

Character interactions

• The fellow cultivators tease Shuhang about becoming a campus attraction and offer impractical fixes, such as invisibility or taking leave.
• Northern River invents a mnemonic for remembering the lay Buddhist’s difficult title, prompting the group—including Venerable White—to admit they struggle with it too.
• Shuhang’s polite request to the lay Buddhist is undermined by the implication that he wants to become an overlooked “little transparent person,” provoking the chapter’s closing joke.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and gradual progress: Shuhang’s healing ability develops in small, incomplete steps.
• Fame and unwanted attention: His film role threatens to disrupt his normal school life.
• Comedic camaraderie: The cultivators’ playful banter and collective forgetfulness contrast with their serious cultivation.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks Drunk Moon Hermit for a way to reduce his public visibility. Since End-Dharma War has made him famous as Senior Brother Gao Sheng, he wants to avoid being recognized when the new semester begins.
• The hermit agrees to make presence-diminishing runes. In exchange for ten runes and Spirit Stones, Song Shuhang gives him Living Spring water, which the hermit plans to gift to an elderly relative.
• With Venerable White’s help, Shuhang travels to collect the rune. Its effect is so strong that people nearly walk into him because they fail to notice him. He wears it on the way to Jiangnan University Town.
• Xiao Cai, Shuhang’s first disciple, asks when she can learn the Soul-Deliverance Art. Shuhang says the Foreign Monk will arrive that afternoon with texts she can study.
• Crying Old Man waits at the university entrance, hoping to find Shuhang and persuade Ye Si to teach him more of the Heaven’s Weeping Canon. Shuhang passes him unnoticed.
• Meanwhile, university staff review transfer paperwork for True Lord White Crane and a roughly ten-year-old girl, both set to join Shuhang’s class.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang tries to manage the consequences of his newfound fame, while continuing to guide Xiao Cai’s cultivation.
• Drunk Moon Hermit is envious that Shuhang’s redeemed villain role is more memorable than the hermit’s own major villain role. Despite his jealousy, he helps Shuhang and negotiates fairly for the Living Spring water.
• Venerable White assists Shuhang by transporting him quickly to the hermit.
• Xiao Cai shows eagerness to advance her training, and Shuhang responds with a plan for her to study established texts.
• Crying Old Man remains determined to learn from Ye Si, but Shuhang’s rune accidentally thwarts his attempt to meet him.

Significant themes

• Fame and anonymity: Shuhang wants to escape the attention brought by a popular film, while the hermit comically resents being overlooked.
• Mentorship and cultivation: Shuhang supports Xiao Cai’s development and helps her find a path to learn soul-deliverance techniques.
• The supernatural intruding into ordinary life: Magical concealment, cultivation, and unusual transfer students converge at the start of a university semester.

Plot points and events

• Class 43’s teachers are baffled when two unusual students request transfers into their class: White Crane, an accomplished scholar with three doctorates, and Shi, a ten-year-old prodigy who has already entered university.
• Song Shuhang arrives early and uses Senior Drunken Moon’s protective talisman to make himself easy to overlook. He enjoys the quiet, reflecting on his extraordinary summer and hoping to return to ordinary student life—though he still practices cultivation.
• His roommates discuss the hit film End-Dharma War. Gao Moumou is thrilled that he wrote the script, while Tubo is frustrated by acting offers based on his supposedly funny face.
• Song’s roommates are startled when he speaks from beside them, having been unnoticed since before they arrived.
• The adviser introduces White Crane and Shi to the class. Shi calls Song “Big Brother Shuhang,” drawing everyone’s attention and undoing the talisman’s effect. The students recognize him as the actor who played the hated Senior Brother Gao Sheng, and the classroom erupts.
• White Crane confronts Song, demanding to know where Senior White is. Song says Senior White is at home playing games, but White Crane claims she already checked Song’s home and knows they live together.

Character developments and interactions

• Song wants a peaceful return to student life, but his fame and unusual connections make that impossible. His cultivation habit also shows that he remains deeply immersed in the cultivator world.
• Gao Moumou, Tubo, and Yangde tease one another about the film and react with surprise when Song suddenly appears beside them.
• Shi’s affectionate greeting publicly links her to Song, making him the focus of the class.
• White Crane’s academic credentials contrast with her impulsive, intensely personal fixation on finding Senior White. Her confrontation suggests she knows more about Song’s private life than he expected.

Significant themes

• Ordinary life versus extraordinary events: Song longs for a routine semester after an unbelievable summer, but his past keeps intruding.
• Visibility and reputation: The talisman can make Song inconspicuous, yet attention and celebrity overwhelm its effect.
• Comedy through contrast: Remarkable figures—an overqualified scholar, a child prodigy, and a cultivator—are placed in the everyday setting of a university classroom.

Plot points and events

• True Lord White Crane arrives at Jiangnan University Town looking for Venerable White, whom he believes has transferred there to experience student life. He suspects Song Shuhang is hiding him.
• When Shuhang insists he does not know where Venerable White is, White Crane carries him out of class in a princess carry, claiming he is taking him to the infirmary. Their classmates mistake the scene for a romantic moment, leaving Shuhang mortified.
• At the infirmary, they find Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman working as the school doctor. He explains that he took the job as part of a deal with Venerable White: he will watch over the infirmary while White enjoys campus life, and White will help improve his tribulation-transcending formation.
• Seven Lives Talisman reveals that Venerable White is not at the university. He changed plans after spotting a nearby school that teaches excavator operation and went there to learn.
• White Crane is alarmed to learn that Fairy Eastern Six is also interested in the neighboring school’s driving lessons, given her destructive record in a previous tractor race.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains honest but is repeatedly disbelieved. His embarrassment over White Crane’s dramatic carrying becomes the chapter’s comic centerpiece.
• True Lord White Crane is single-minded in his search for Venerable White and uses his strength to interrogate Shuhang, then shifts his concern to the dangers posed by Eastern Six learning to drive.
• Venerable White is shown to be self-aware about the trouble his enthusiasm can cause: he arranged for a capable doctor to supervise the infirmary while he explores campus activities.
• Seven Lives Talisman is preparing to advance and hopes White’s help will improve his chances of forming an exceptionally strong Golden Core. He honors his agreement to remain at the university.

Significant themes

• Comic misunderstandings: White Crane’s interrogation and the princess carry look romantic to classmates, while Shuhang’s truthful answer is treated as evasiveness.
• Powerful cultivators in ordinary settings: School life, infirmaries, and vocational classes become entangled with supernatural plans.
• Responsibility and loyalty: Venerable White anticipates the risks of his own distraction, and Seven Lives Talisman sticks to their agreement.
• Unintended consequences: White’s harmless-seeming interest in new activities—and Eastern Six’s interest in driving—leaves everyone fearing for the surrounding schools.

Plot points and events

• True Lord White Crane rushes off to find Venerable White after hearing news of him. Song Shuhang leaves Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman and waits in a flowerbed for a concealment rune to make him inconspicuous again.
• Two upperclassmen approach Song. One gives him a supposed love letter, but it turns out to be a fan’s wish for the fictional characters Senior Brother Gao Sheng and Ling Ye to become a couple. Shuhang tears up the letter and slips away unseen.
• At the university gates, the scammer whom Shuhang previously thwarted waits with his companions, intent on taking revenge. His memories of being forced to haul bricks have obscured what happened during their earlier confrontation.
• Shuhang returns to class and learns that Shi has come to the university to experience ordinary life and seek an opportunity to advance to the Second-Grade Realm. She chose to stay near him because he is the person she knows best in the Present World.
• After class, Shuhang takes Shi to Medicine Master’s house while his roommates head to their rental. The scammer mistakes the roommates for useful bait, corners them in an alley, and orders his men to seize them and summon Shuhang.
• The Foreign Monk appears, recognizes Gao Moumou, and politely asks the attackers to let the three friends go.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang continues trying to preserve a quiet campus life, using the rune to avoid attention. He is bemused by the fan letter and chooses to avoid its writers.
• Shi explains her cultivation goal and her personal reason for joining Shuhang at school, showing trust and familiarity with him. Shuhang regards her as relatively easy to look after.
• Gao Moumou, Tubo, and Yangde are caught in the scammer’s revenge plan. Yangde tries to negotiate, Tubo jokes about the attackers’ motives, and Gao recognizes that fighting a larger group would be risky.
• The scammer remains fixated on revenge and targets Shuhang through his friends.
• The Foreign Monk shows up while searching for Shuhang, reconnects with Gao Moumou, and intervenes on the roommates’ behalf.
• The two upperclassmen reveal themselves as fans shipping Gao Sheng and Ling Ye rather than expressing romantic interest in Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Comedy through misunderstandings: Shuhang mistakes fan enthusiasm for a love confession, while the scammer’s distorted memories fuel his misguided revenge.
• The collision of ordinary and extraordinary life: Campus routines and social awkwardness unfold alongside cultivation, hidden abilities, and dangerous encounters.
• Loyalty and protection: The scammer uses Shuhang’s friendships against him, but the Foreign Monk steps in to protect people he knows.
• Escaping attention is difficult: Despite Shuhang’s efforts to become unnoticed, new complications repeatedly find him.

Key plot points and events

• A gang of local thugs confronts Gao Moumou and his friends, demanding revenge on Song Shuhang over a previous incident. The Foreign Monk intervenes, first intimidating them and then offering to take them to Song.
• Yangde calls Song, who arrives in the alley with Shi and the little cai sparrow. Relieved that the attackers are ordinary thugs rather than cultivators, Song lets the confrontation proceed.
• Shi swiftly defeats nearly the entire gang, leaving only its leader standing. Song takes the leader’s phone, gives him a number to call if he wants revenge, then has Shi knock him unconscious.
• Song retrieves the small amount of money in the leader’s wallet, explaining that he wants only this particular man’s money. Ye Si, observing from within Song, realizes this could be a way to earn money herself.
• The Foreign Monk explains why he came: to lend Song a monk’s ascetic diary and the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture. He also reports that he encountered a gravely wounded man from the Chu Household who was looking for Song.

Character developments and interactions

• The Foreign Monk acts as a protector and mediator, using his imposing presence to keep Gao and his friends safe. He trusts Song to handle the gang and brings him important books and news.
• Song Shuhang shows concern when he hears his friends are threatened, but quickly relaxes once he identifies the attackers. He remains playful and confident, and his selective theft of the leader’s money amuses Ye Si.
• Shi reveals formidable combat ability, dispatching armed adults with startling speed despite her small, childlike appearance. She checks with Song before dealing with the leader.
• Gao Moumou, Tubo, and Yangde are shocked by Shi’s strength and grateful for the Foreign Monk’s timely help.
• Ye Si takes a practical interest in Song’s way of acquiring money, hinting at a new potential source of income.
• The gang leader backs down under the Foreign Monk’s pressure but resumes his aggression once Song arrives; after Shi’s display, he is reduced to pleading.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: The Foreign Monk’s massive build conceals surprising agility, while Shi’s petite appearance contrasts sharply with her fighting prowess.
• Protection and trust: The monk safeguards Song’s friends and trusts Song to resolve the dispute; Song, in turn, relies on Shi.
• Humor amid danger: The gang’s threats, the monk’s “refreshing” face, Shi’s overwhelming victory, and Ye Si’s money-making insight keep the confrontation comic rather than grim.
• A new mystery: The wounded Chu Household disciple introduces a potentially serious development and sets up the next plot thread.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A severely injured Chu Household disciple arrives in the Jiangnan Region seeking Song Shuhang. The Foreign Monk explains that the disciple needs urgent surgery but lacks sufficient money.
• Song Shuhang agrees to pay for the treatment and considers taking the disciple to Senior Seven Lives Talisman, who is currently working as a school doctor, for healing.
• Because the disciple’s injuries were caused by sword qi, Song Shuhang suspects that another cultivator attacked him and that the Chu Household is facing a new crisis despite recently resolving its conflict with the Void Sword Sect.
• Song sends Xiao Cai ahead to observe the patient and check for suspicious visitors. She reports that only a nurse entered the ward.
• Song Shuhang, the Foreign Monk, and Ye Si travel by flying treasure to the hospital.
• Meanwhile, Soft Feather undergoes the Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation on Spirit Butterfly Island. The tribulation includes lightning, fire, metal, and earth elements, with the possibility of a Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Soft Feather remains calm throughout the process and uses Dharma King Creation’s “Seven Kills Song” to strengthen her resolve and cultivation.
• During the final lightning-and-fire wave, Soft Feather boldly challenges the Heavenly Tribulation, declaring that even it can be “killed” with Senior Creation’s singing empowering her.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates compassion and responsibility by offering to pay the injured disciple’s medical expenses and personally investigating the attack.
• The Foreign Monk acts as a concerned intermediary, bringing the injured Chu Household disciple to safety and seeking Song Shuhang’s help.
• Xiao Cai functions as Song Shuhang’s lookout, showing her usefulness and loyalty.
• Tubo humorously tries to become Shi’s disciple, claiming he is young and physically suited to martial arts. Shi rejects him because she has not completed her own apprenticeship, while Gao Moumou reinforces the idea that Tubo has missed the ideal age for training.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly becomes extremely anxious over Soft Feather’s tribulation, revealing his deep protectiveness as a father despite her obvious strength and extensive preparations.
• Soft Feather displays remarkable confidence, composure, and fearlessness while confronting the tribulation.
• Mad Saber Three Waves serves as a calm observer and attempts to reassure Venerable Spirit Butterfly.

Significant Themes

• Family and responsibility: Song Shuhang’s concern for the Chu Household and Venerable Spirit Butterfly’s worry for Soft Feather highlight the importance of protecting one’s family and allies.
• Danger beneath apparent stability: Although the Chu Household has a Golden Core Ancestor and recently dealt with the Void Sword Sect, the new attack shows that peace is fragile and hidden enemies may remain.
• Courage in the face of trials: Soft Feather’s fearless attitude toward the Heavenly Tribulation contrasts with Venerable Spirit Butterfly’s anxiety, emphasizing both personal bravery and the concern of loved ones.
• Humor amid danger: Tubo’s failed attempt to become Shi’s disciple and Soft Feather’s dramatic use of a murderous song provide comic relief alongside serious developments.
• Music as empowerment: Dharma King Creation’s song becomes a source of strength for Soft Feather, showing how spiritual cultivation and unconventional methods can complement each other.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the Foreign Monk discuss the injured Chu disciple and possible causes of his wounds.
• Song Shuhang instructs Xiao Cai to monitor the patient before entering the hospital himself.
• Tubo begs Shi to accept him as a disciple, but she refuses because she has not yet graduated from her own apprenticeship.
• Gao Moumou teases Tubo by pointing out that serious martial arts training should begin at a younger age.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly and Mad Saber Three Waves discuss Soft Feather’s tribulation, with Three Waves reassuring him and the Venerable expressing paternal anxiety.
• Soft Feather symbolically confronts the Heavenly Tribulation while being empowered by Dharma King Creation’s recorded singing.

Plot points and events

• Soft Feather faces a powerful thunderfire tribulation while Dharma King Creation’s amplified Seven Kills Song plays as her battle music.
• She uses Butterfly-Eagle Transformation, a Fourth-Grade sword technique requiring exceptional control, to strike the tribulation. After a second blow, the thunderfire and its cloud disperse.
• Just as Venerable Spirit Butterfly celebrates, Soft Feather is caught in the rare heart demon tribulation. She stands motionless, apparently trapped in her inner world.
• Inside a dark, chaotic consciousness-space, Soft Feather recognizes the heart demon but cannot find it. She grows bored, then sings several of Creation’s songs—especially the Seven Kills Song.
• Her singing causes the heart demons to cry out and beg for mercy, turning the ordeal into a chaotic, comic confrontation.

Character developments

• Soft Feather demonstrates unexpected mastery of advanced swordsmanship and confidence in combat. Though her father worries that she lacks resilience because he has sheltered her, she approaches the heart demon with curiosity and eventually overwhelms it through her enthusiasm for Creation’s music.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly is proud of Soft Feather’s success but immediately fears the heart demon, recognizing that her limited experience with hardship may leave her vulnerable.
• Mad Saber Three Waves is knocked down by Creation’s amplified singing and remarks that the tribulation seems to move in time with it.
• Dharma King Creation remains offstage, but his notoriously powerful singing becomes Soft Feather’s inspiration and, unexpectedly, her weapon against the heart demons.

Significant themes

• Inner strength and adversity: The heart demon tests a cultivator’s personal weaknesses; surviving it can strengthen their will.
• Protection versus preparedness: Spirit Butterfly’s loving protection may have left Soft Feather inexperienced with hardship.
• Humor through contrast: A fearsome spiritual trial is disrupted by absurdly powerful—and painfully bad—singing.

Character interactions

• Soft Feather treats Creation’s song as a personal battle anthem and plans to ask him for permission to use it.
• Spirit Butterfly and Three Waves discuss the unusual sword technique and the apparent effect of Creation’s singing on the tribulation.
• In the consciousness-space, the heart demons effectively duet with Soft Feather, pleading for her to stop singing and surrendering rather than endure it.

Plot points and events

• Soft Feather overcomes her Heart Demon Tribulation while hearing Senior Creation’s Seven Kills Song. The song makes the Heart Demon’s torment more intense, but Soft Feather’s own resilience would likely have carried her through regardless.
• Her true qi becomes Innate True Essence, her mental energy turns silvery-white, and a Phantom Core forms. She officially advances to Fourth Grade and is looking forward to learning sword flight.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang and a foreign monk visit an injured Chu household disciple in hospital. Ye Si stabilizes the disciple’s internal injuries, though he will need further treatment.
• The disciple explains that a forbidden land’s secret, recorded in the Chu household’s ancestral sword technique manual, has leaked. The rumors have attracted greedy cultivators, and the same clan uncle suspected of leaking the household’s sword formula before is implicated again.
• A group of unknown cultivators raided the Chu household, badly injured its Fifth-Grade patriarch, and trapped the remaining disciples while seeking information about the forbidden land. The wounded disciple escaped and sought Song Shuhang’s help.
• Song Shuhang realizes the raid threatens the expedition he and Venerable White planned: someone may be trying to reach the forbidden land first. He considers contacting Venerable White.
• Soft Feather calls to share her breakthrough. Song Shuhang congratulates her and begins to tell her about the Chu household crisis.

Character developments and interactions

• Soft Feather proves more mentally resilient than her overprotective father, Venerable Spirit Butterfly, expected. She treats the tribulation as an exciting challenge and emerges stronger.
• Song Shuhang responds to the Chu household disciple’s plea with concern and practical help, while recognizing the danger to the planned expedition.
• Ye Si uses her Fifth-Grade spiritual power and healing spell to protect the injured disciple from further harm.
• The Chu household disciple shows determination by escaping while gravely wounded and seeking help from Song Shuhang.
• Soft Feather and Song Shuhang share a cheerful call: she credits his supposed gift—the song—for helping her pass the tribulation, though he does not understand the reference.

Significant themes

• Inner strength: Soft Feather’s simple, firm character gives her the resilience to withstand a Heart Demon.
• Betrayal and vulnerability: Repeated leaks from within the Chu household leave it exposed to outside attack.
• Loyalty and mutual aid: Song Shuhang and Ye Si help the injured disciple, while the disciple turns to an old ally in his hour of need.
• Competition and timing: The attackers’ interest in the forbidden land turns Song Shuhang’s planned expedition into a race to secure it.

Chapter 937 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang learns that the Chu Household was attacked after rumors spread that its Ancestral Sword Formula contained the key to a mysterious Forbidden Land.
• The attackers severely injured the Chu Household’s Spirit Emperor-level ancestor and stole the formula, apparently intending to reach the Forbidden Land before Song Shuhang and Venerable White.
• Song informs Soft Feather, who becomes worried about her pregnant friend, Chu Chunying.
• Soft Feather asks her father, Venerable Spirit Butterfly, to help the Chu Household. He agrees to send people to investigate but promises to personally accompany her only after she masters the Sword-Controlling Art.
• Motivated by the promise, Soft Feather immediately begins practicing, using Senior Creation’s Seven Kills Song as her background music.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si transport an injured Chu Household disciple toward Senior Seven Lives Talisman and Venerable White.
• Venerable White appears unexpectedly, having been walking through the air and apparently enjoying himself while learning to operate an excavator.
• Upon hearing about the raid, Venerable White becomes unusually aggressive and declares that anyone who reaches the Forbidden Land first should be “wiped out.”
• Before heading to the Chu Household, Venerable White effortlessly heals the injured disciple with a single poke, removing the residual Sword Qi and restoring him completely. The disciple even senses that he is close to breaking through to the First-Grade Dragon-Gate Leap Realm.
• Venerable White decides that he, Song Shuhang, and their immediate companions are sufficient to explore the Forbidden Land; the other cultivators can join them later.
• The Foreign Monk declines to join the expedition because he must return to his sect and light his Life Lamp after officially becoming Daoist Wuyinzi’s disciple.
• The Foreign Monk gives Song Shuhang the original copies of High Monk’s Ascetic Diary and the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture in exchange for some of Song’s Living Spring, which he intends for his master.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang takes responsibility for helping the Chu Household and prioritizes treating its injured disciple before pursuing the Forbidden Land.
• Soft Feather shows strong concern for Chu Chunying and demonstrates her determination by immediately committing herself to mastering the Sword-Controlling Art.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly displays his affection for Soft Feather, humorously continuing to provide her with new dao titles while using the crisis as an opportunity to motivate her cultivation.
• Venerable White reveals a particularly domineering and protective side, reacting angrily to the theft of the Ancestral Sword Formula. His effortless healing further emphasizes his overwhelming power.
• The Chu Household disciple recovers fully and gains renewed hope of advancing in cultivation.
• The Foreign Monk moves into a new stage of his spiritual life by formally becoming Wuyinzi’s disciple and returning to his sect.

Significant Themes

• Protecting friends and repaying kindness: The characters immediately mobilize to aid the Chu Household despite the danger.
• Power and responsibility: Venerable White’s strength allows him to heal the injured disciple effortlessly, but the group still chooses to investigate the attack rather than ignore it.
• Motivation through relationships: Soft Feather’s desire to help her friends and travel with her father pushes her to work harder.
• Greed and danger surrounding hidden treasures: The Ancestral Sword Formula has become a source of violence because others covet its connection to the Forbidden Land.
• Humor amid crisis: Soft Feather’s constantly changing dao titles, Three Waves’ thoughts about naming a future daughter, and Venerable White’s excitement over “wiping out” the attackers lighten the otherwise serious situation.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang reassures Soft Feather about Chu Chunying and promises to investigate.
• Soft Feather appeals to Venerable Spirit Butterfly, who turns the rescue mission into an incentive for her to master sword control.
• Mad Saber Three Waves observes the father-daughter exchange and humorously imagines creating numbered dao titles for a future daughter.
• Song and Venerable White coordinate their response, with Song favoring a careful visit to the Chu Household and White eager to confront the attackers immediately.
• Venerable White heals the Chu Household disciple, earning his gratitude and the Foreign Monk’s admiration.
• Song Shuhang and the Foreign Monk exchange valuable spiritual resources, reflecting their mutual trust and respect.

Chapter Summary: “Should We Just Kill Them All?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Foreign Monk stores the Living Spring water Song Shuhang helped obtain. He plans to return it to his master, Daoist Wuyinzi, whose damaged foundation and limited lifespan may be extended by fifty years.
• The Foreign Monk asks to borrow back the Daoist robe he previously traded to Song Shuhang. Song reveals that it was destroyed during the battle with the black liquid metal man. Although disappointed, the Foreign Monk accepts this as fate and decides to disguise his Jade-Green Kasaya as a Daoist robe.
• After dropping the Foreign Monk off, Song Shuhang continues toward the Chu Household with Venerable White and the Chu Household disciple.
• Song begins teaching his sparrow demon disciple, Xiao Cai, the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture. He explains that it is only one part of the salvation method, which will be completed through the High Monk’s Ascetic Diary.
• Venerable White uses spatial power to teleport the group across most of China directly to the Chu Household.
• They discover that the Chu Household has been invaded and its people captured, while the attackers search the grounds.
• Venerable White creates a gigantic sword-energy array covering the entire estate. Initially intending to kill all the attackers, he instead weakens the attack at Song Shuhang’s suggestion, crippling the invaders without killing them.
• The attack leaves the Chu Household’s grounds saturated with spiritual energy, turning the destruction into a partial blessing.
• After landing, Venerable White confirms that the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor clan head is absent and has likely been taken to the forbidden land. He declares that the group will eventually eliminate the people who interfered with their forbidden-land dungeon expedition.

Character Developments

• The Foreign Monk: Demonstrates deep loyalty and gratitude toward Daoist Wuyinzi despite occasionally finding his master frustrating. His eagerness to deliver the Living Spring water reveals his respect and concern for Wuyinzi.
• Song Shuhang: Takes his role as Xiao Cai’s master seriously, intending to teach her both salvation techniques and saber skills. He also shows increasing moral restraint by persuading Venerable White to spare the attackers.
• Venerable White: Displays overwhelming power and his usual impulsive, destructive temperament. However, he listens to Song Shuhang’s request and precisely controls his attack to avoid killing the invaders or harming the Chu Household.
• Xiao Cai: Begins earnest cultivation by memorizing the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture, marking the start of her formal training under Song Shuhang.
• Chu Household disciple: Becomes increasingly awed and terrified by Venerable White’s abilities, especially spatial teleportation and the massive sword array. His fear of heights worsens after the group’s unconventional landing.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: The Foreign Monk’s relationship with Wuyinzi emphasizes that genuine respect can exist despite differences and past frustrations.
• Power and restraint: Venerable White has enough strength to annihilate the attackers, but Song Shuhang encourages a less lethal solution. The chapter contrasts overwhelming power with the responsibility to control it.
• Mentorship and inheritance: Song Shuhang begins passing on spiritual knowledge and combat ideals to Xiao Cai, continuing the transmission of cultivation traditions.
• Fate and impermanence: The destruction of the Daoist robe is treated by the Foreign Monk as an unavoidable twist of fate, reflecting the unpredictable nature of the cultivator world.
• Chaos as opportunity: Although the Chu Household is devastated, the released spiritual energy enriches the grounds, turning apparent disaster into a “blessing in disguise.”

Character Interactions

• The Foreign Monk and Song Shuhang discuss the ruined Daoist robe, revealing the monk’s anxiety about facing Wuyinzi and Song’s regret over losing the robe.
• Song Shuhang instructs Xiao Cai and clarifies how the scripture relates to the larger salvation method.
• Song and Venerable White debate how to deal with the attackers. Venerable White favors killing them all, while Song advocates disabling them and leaving their fate to the Chu Household.
• Venerable White reassures the Chu Household disciple during the rescue, though his reckless flying and landing terrify the disciple.
• At the chapter’s end, Venerable White and Song Shuhang unite in anger against the enemies who seized the forbidden land dungeon opportunity.

Key plot points and events

• Venerable White and Song Shuhang defeat the attackers who raided the Chu Household, freeing the captured disciples. The Chu Household treats the defeated enemies harshly rather than showing mercy.
• Elder Chu Wenyan confirms that Miss Chunying is safe. Song Shuhang also reassures him that Chu Chu is well and cultivating with Li Yinzhu.
• The Chu Household’s patriarch has been taken toward a dangerous underground “forbidden ground.” An elder produces a letter the patriarch had hidden in his prosthetic arm; it reveals the location and describes the area’s hazards: a mind-altering Voodoo curse, invisible sword-like Gu, and a powerful Talisman Treasure.
• Venerable White and Song Shuhang teleport to the forbidden ground to pursue the abductors. The curse immediately affects Sparrow Demon Little Cai, who attacks Song Shuhang until Venerable White grabs her and breaks its influence. Song Shuhang is protected by his Merit Golden Light.
• They encounter cursed attackers. Venerable White kills a concealed Fifth-Grade cultivator, then witnesses other attackers fleeing an Invisible Sword Gu that devours one of them and all his belongings.
• Venerable White suggests searching for the Gu’s nest and possibly raising its eggs with Song Shuhang’s beast-taming cultivation technique. Confident in his luck, he leads the group onward.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is now powerful enough to impress Elder Chu, who suspects he has reached the Third-Grade realm. He remains concerned for the Chu Household and handles Little Cai’s cursed attack with patience.
• Venerable White acts decisively to rescue the patriarch, demonstrates precise spatial teleportation and formidable combat ability, and treats the dangers as opportunities—especially the possibility of acquiring Invisible Sword Gu.
• Elder Chu Wenyan and the Chu elders express deep gratitude to Song Shuhang and Venerable White, share what they know, and entrust them with the patriarch’s letter.
• Little Cai is shown to be vulnerable to the curse, but quickly returns to herself under Venerable White’s protection.
• The banter between Song Shuhang, Venerable White, and Little Cai provides comic relief amid the pursuit and danger.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: The Chu Household acknowledges the rescuers’ help and cooperates to save its patriarch.
• Growing strength and changing perspective: Song Shuhang’s rapid advancement astonishes those who knew him before.
• Danger and opportunity: The forbidden ground is lethal, yet Venerable White views its creatures as potential treasures.
• Humor amid peril: Casual jokes and confidence contrast with the curse, deaths, and pursuit.