Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks the seniors of the Nine Provinces Number One Group for a joke to satisfy Senior White Two, who has offered help in exchange for hearing one that makes him laugh.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain tells the story of meeting a young cultivator whose dao title was Get Lost. Yellow Mountain mistook the title for a personal insult, later beat him up, and only then learned the truth. Song Shuhang laughs, and Senior White Two gives the joke a passing score.
• Senior White Two explains that he cannot send the group into the Netherworld itself. Instead, he will open a temporary passage into the Netherworld’s Demon Tribulation World, where they can test the Heavenly Tribulation Missile against the environment—provided they keep away from a Seventh-Grade contaminated cultivator undergoing tribulation.
• The group prepares to be transported. Just then, Yellow Mountain reports that Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect is contaminated and appears to be about to undergo a Netherworld Demon Tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is resourceful but wary: he recruits the group to find a joke, negotiates the plan with Senior White Two, and checks that the group and his Core World will remain safe and accessible.
• Senior White Two is unusually good-humored and agrees to help after judging Yellow Mountain’s story. He reassures Shuhang that he can control the passage and protect the group from the Demon Tribulation.
• Yellow Mountain’s anecdote reveals an embarrassing youthful mistake, prompting teasing from the other seniors. Shuhang joins in by joking that Three Waves is still likely to get beaten up.
• The group shifts from joking to cautious coordination once the dangerous destination—and Skylark’s condition—becomes clear.

Significant themes

• Humor and misunderstanding: Yellow Mountain’s grievance arose because he mistook someone’s literal dao title for an insult.
• Trust and caution: The group relies on Senior White Two’s power while taking precautions around a potentially lethal tribulation.
• Comic relief amid danger: The joke briefly lifts the group’s gloomy mood, but the unexpected news about Skylark restores the chapter’s tension.

Key events

• Song Shuhang realizes that the cultivator about to undergo Demon Tribulation is almost certainly Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect. She has been contaminated by Longevity-level Nine Nether Evil Energy and fully demonized, yet remains mentally clear.
• Skylark posts photos of her striking purple-skinned, demonized appearance, jokes about her new look, and announces that she is heading into tribulation.
• With Senior White Two opening a “back door,” Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group enter the Demon Tribulation World to find her. The group arrives safely, though the journey is physically disorienting.
• While the seniors send out spells, puppets, aircraft, and other scouts to search for Skylark, Song Shuhang prepares to test a Heavenly Tribulation Missile.
• Senior White Two says he will protect the group with a status effect, allowing them to experience the blast without being harmed. He grants them the ominously named “Abridged Deathmatch Blood-Lock Immortality State.”
• Reassured by the group’s confidence in Senior White Two—and by two powerful Venerables—Song Shuhang activates the missile. The chapter ends as it explodes.

Character developments and interactions

• Skylark treats her demonized transformation with humor and confidence, while still acknowledging the danger of her upcoming tribulation. Her clear mind despite total physical demonization makes her condition unusual.
• Song Shuhang connects the clues, organizes the group’s entry, and takes responsibility for testing the missile. He trusts Senior White Two’s protection.
• The group’s members readily join the risky expedition, with even cautious cultivators following the others’ lead.
• Senior White Two refuses Song Shuhang’s offer of a joke but agrees to help, asking instead for a future favor: Song Shuhang should share something fun with him.
• Venerables Seven Cultivations and Spirit Butterfly reassure Song Shuhang through their confidence and readiness to protect the group.

Significant themes

• Unusual identity and transformation: Skylark’s body has become that of a Nine Nether Demon, but her personality and awareness remain intact.
• Trust amid danger: The group ventures into a hostile realm and tests a powerful weapon on the strength of Senior White Two’s promise and the Venerables’ support.
• Humor in peril: Skylark jokes about her appearance, while the group’s banter lightens the tension of entering a dangerous world.

Key plot points and events

• Venerables Spirit Butterfly and Seven Cultivations stand close to a Seventh-to-Eighth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation Missile as it explodes, studying its power to prepare for their own future tribulations.
• Senior White Two’s protective formation keeps the Nine Provinces Number One Group unharmed, but deliberately lets them feel some of the explosion’s pain. Several weaker members are badly shaken; Shi and Onion Lady faint.
• The group discusses how heavenly tribulations are becoming “modernized,” with weapons such as missiles, tanks, and possibly nuclear bombs appearing at different advancement levels. Spirit Butterfly and Other Shore Demon Lord offer to share data on modern weapons and explosives.
• Seven Cultivations asks to experience a Heavenly Tribulation Atomic Bomb as well. Spirit Butterfly agrees, and Senior White Two provides protection—but warns that the blast may attract the attention of the Metal Sphere. The group must leave immediately afterward.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang enjoys the extreme experience, while Yellow Mountain, Fairy Lychee, and Northern River describe how close to death the simulated blast felt. The weakest participants fare worst.
• Yu Rouzi reflects on her luck and how she narrowly avoided the newer, more dangerous form of tribulations.
• Seven Cultivations and Spirit Butterfly show both curiosity and caution: they want to study the atomic bomb but recognize the risk of being injured before their own tribulations.
• Senior White Two is unusually accommodating, protecting the group while setting a clear warning. Shuhang responds enthusiastically and promises to tell him about future interesting discoveries.

Significant themes

• Preparation through experience: The cultivators deliberately endure simulated danger to improve their chances in real tribulations.
• Modernization and escalation: Heavenly tribulations increasingly resemble modern warfare, forcing cultivators to learn about weapons.
• Risk balanced by protection: The group seeks firsthand knowledge while relying on Senior White Two’s safeguards—and must still consider the consequences of attracting a powerful enemy.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang gathers the Nine Provinces Number One Group to test a relatively weak Heavenly Tribulation Atomic Bomb. Senior White Two gives them a protection state, and Shuhang moves the unconscious Shi and Onion Lady into his Core World.
• Before the blast, Mad Saber Three Waves asks Fairy Lychee to photograph him walking away from the explosion. The group gets caught up in planning poses and taking pictures.
• The atomic bomb detonates. The group survives, but the shock wave hurls them around and ruins nearly all their photos. Lychee manages to capture Three Waves in a dramatic pose just before he is blasted away.
• Venerables Seven Cultivations and Spirit Butterfly judge the bomb’s power and consider their chances of surviving similar tribulation weapons. They conclude that the much stronger bomb seen in White’s tribulation would be far more dangerous.
• Senior White Two warns Shuhang that the Metal Sphere has arrived. Shuhang transfers the group to the safer Desert Oasis area of his Core World, avoiding the Winter Hall, where other tribulation weapons are stored.
• White Two carries Shuhang back to the Present World, taunting the Metal Sphere and falsely claiming he can roam freely despite being sealed.
• As they escape, a tiny root tip from Shuhang remains behind in the Demon Tribulation World. The Metal Sphere later fails to retrace what happened because White Two has erased the group’s traces, and it grows anxious about a plan involving a contaminated individual.

Character developments and interactions

• Three Waves turns a frightening ordeal into a comic photo opportunity; Lychee’s skill delivers the one successful shot. The others—including Sixteen, Soft Feather, and Xiao Cai—eagerly join the photo plans.
• Spirit Butterfly and Seven Cultivations show both confidence and caution, reassessing their prospects against increasingly powerful tribulation bombs.
• Shuhang acts quickly to protect and evacuate the group. White Two remains playful and provocative, while the Metal Sphere is left furious and suspicious.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain confirms everyone is safe, while reflecting that Shuhang’s company reliably leads to danger and excitement.

Significant themes

• Comedy amid danger: The cultivators treat a lethal explosion as a chance for memorable photos.
• Power and uncertainty: Surviving the weaker bomb offers little reassurance about the stronger weapons in future tribulations.
• Trust and improvisation: Shuhang and White Two rely on fast decisions and their unusual connection to escape.
• Concealment and suspicion: White Two erases evidence, while the Metal Sphere’s inability to uncover events intensifies its concern.

Key plot points and events

• Liquid Metal Ball tries to recover an image of the man who interfered with its earlier plans. The image reveals Senior White, so Liquid Metal Ball realizes White has likely tampered with the evidence and vows to kill him.
• As it heads toward a demon tribulation, Liquid Metal Ball notices a Lotus Projection root absorbing its power. It recognizes the root as resembling the Holy Lotus and retaliates, destroying the projected root while sending its remaining energy back along the connection to attack the lotus’s source.
• Song Shuhang returns from the Demon Tribulation World in a comically stretched, noodle-like form, which quickly snaps back to normal. Senior White Two has also retrieved the scouting items left behind by the Nine Provinces Number One Group, preventing Liquid Metal Ball from tracing their owners.
• Sensing the attack, Song Shuhang severs the Lotus Projection’s link to his Core World. The projection explodes, releasing a huge amount of Nine Nether evil energy into the laboratory.
• Senior White Two protects Song Shuhang, gathers the energy, and gives it to him. Song Shuhang creates a new Lotus Projection and absorbs it, causing his Core World to expand substantially.
• In the Core World, the group finds that the Heavenly Court fragments have joined together, surprising True Lord Eternal Fire.

Character developments and interactions

• Liquid Metal Ball becomes increasingly frustrated with Senior White’s interference and remains determined to carry out its plan. Its attempt to destroy the lotus instead gives Song Shuhang a valuable source of energy.
• Song Shuhang acts quickly to protect his Core World by severing the lotus connection, then takes advantage of the released energy. He also wonders whether teleportation physically stretched him.
• Senior White Two continues protecting Song Shuhang: he retrieves the group’s abandoned objects, shields him from the evil energy, and turns the dangerous residue into a windfall.
• True Lord Eternal Fire recognizes the location as an Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment he had given Song Shuhang and is startled to see the fragments joined.
• Senior White Two notes that Song Shuhang could have gained much more power if more of Liquid Metal Ball’s energy had survived the transfer.

Significant themes

• A setback turned into an advantage: Liquid Metal Ball’s attack backfires, providing Song Shuhang with energy and growth.
• Caution and protection: Senior White Two anticipates the risk of leaving identifiable objects behind, while Song Shuhang responds decisively to the threat against his Core World.
• Unfinished mysteries: Liquid Metal Ball’s plans and Senior White’s motives remain unclear; the lotus’s connection to the Holy Lotus and the reunion of the Heavenly Court fragments also raise new questions.

Plot points and events

• True Lord Eternal Fire discovers that Song Shuhang has joined several Ancient Heavenly Court fragments—including the Summer Palace plaza, Blade-Sword Peak, a desert oasis, five Living Springs, and a Phantom City fragment—inside his expanding Core World. He considers whether the Confucian School might do something similar with its own fragments.
• The group returns from the Core World to Other Shore Demon Lord’s underground laboratory. Shuhang is absorbing a sphere of Nine Nether Evil Energy, while Senior White Two disappears.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group discusses their recent experience with powerful tribulation weapons. Several seniors announce plans to attempt Eighth-Grade advancement soon, while Medicine Master expects to face his tribulation the next day. Three Waves jokingly proposes renaming the group the “Nine Provinces Tribulation Transcendence Group,” but Yellow Mountain is wary of the suggestion coming from him.
• Other Shore Demon Lord offers to build Shuhang a custom formation for his future Fourth-to-Fifth advancement, replacing the now-unneeded formation for his Third-to-Fourth advancement. He considers the group’s exposure to tribulation missiles and nuclear bombs ample payment.
• Shuhang asks Sixteen to locate Phoenix Slayer so he can borrow his CPU. Phoenix Slayer and White Crane are waiting at Medicine Master’s building.
• Meanwhile, Skylark faces a deliberately weakened Seventh-to-Eighth Demon Tribulation in the Demon Tribulation World. Bored and frustrated by its repeated, unimpressive lightning, she freezes the enormous tribulation cloud and demands to be sent back to the mortal world so she can face a more exciting tribulation.
• The hidden Netherworld Ruler, the Liquid Metal Ball, is baffled: he had secretly weakened the tribulation to help her advance safely, but Skylark wants it made more dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang continues expanding his Core World and gains a large store of Nine Nether Evil Energy. He also makes a future arrangement with Other Shore Demon Lord for a tribulation formation.
• True Lord Eternal Fire recognizes the scale of Shuhang’s Core World project and considers applying the idea to the Confucian School’s Heavenly Court fragments.
• The seniors show growing confidence about reaching Eighth Grade after their recent tribulation experiences. Yellow Mountain, however, remains cautious about Three Waves’s supposedly well-intentioned suggestions.
• Skylark reveals an unusual appetite for danger: rather than welcoming an easy tribulation, she wants the challenge and spectacle of powerful explosions.
• The Liquid Metal Ball is forced to confront the mismatch between his protective plan and Skylark’s preferences.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: Many cultivators are preparing for major advancements, while Shuhang’s unusual resources and Other Shore Demon Lord’s expertise help shape his future path.
• Expectations versus reality: The Netherworld Ruler expects Skylark to appreciate an easy tribulation, but she finds it intolerably dull.
• Humor through reversed priorities: Most cultivators fear stronger trials; Skylark actively rejects a safe, weak one and asks for a more dangerous experience.
• Cooperation and mutual exchange: The group shares tribulation knowledge, and Shuhang’s experience benefits Other Shore Demon Lord as much as the Demon Lord’s future formation will benefit Shuhang.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Liquid Metal Ball debates whether to strengthen Skylark’s Demon Tribulation after suspecting she may cause trouble if the power remains unchanged. It ultimately refuses to “reward” what it sees as her bad behavior and decides to follow the original script.
• Skylark deliberately removes all her defenses, magical clothing, and protective abilities, then lies beneath the Demon Tribulation without resisting, dodging, healing, or attacking.
• The Tribulation severely injures her, burns her body, torments her soul with Heart Demon illusions, and eventually knocks her unconscious. Skylark nevertheless continues refusing to defend herself, even taking selfies during brief pauses to later tease Fellow Daoist Three Waves.
• Alarmed that Skylark may actually die—and concerned because she is essential to its larger plan—the Liquid Metal Ball considers increasing the Tribulation’s strength. Instead, it chooses the opposite approach and secretly lowers the Tribulation to Early Seventh-Grade power, making it survivable.
• Skylark notices that the Tribulation has become weaker. Since she can now endure it without effort, she becomes disappointed and regrets abandoning the more exciting Heavenly Tribulation of the Present World.
• Unwilling to undergo such a boring advancement, Skylark devises a way to strengthen the Tribulation herself: undergoing it alongside another person, which would cause the Tribulation’s power to increase dramatically.
• Because the Demon Tribulation World contains only Skylark, she summons a sealed scrap of “Banknote” paper from her spatial equipment. The scrap awakens and is horrified to discover that Skylark has brought it into the Demon Tribulation World, where she proposes that they undergo the Tribulation together.

Character Developments

• Skylark displays her eccentric, reckless, and mischievous nature. She treats the potentially fatal Tribulation as an annoyance, deliberately provoking the system controlling it and even taking photographs while being tortured.
• Her boredom becomes more important than survival: once the Tribulation is weakened, she is dissatisfied rather than relieved. She wants a dramatic, dangerous experience worthy of the Tribulations endured by her fellow cultivators.
• The Liquid Metal Ball reveals both its strictness and its dependence on Skylark. Although it refuses to encourage her “bad habit,” it secretly weakens the Tribulation to ensure she survives because she is important to its plans.
• Banknote is introduced or reintroduced as an unwilling participant. Its confusion and fear contrast sharply with Skylark’s confidence and apparent enjoyment of the situation.

Significant Themes

• Refusal to reward bad behavior: The Liquid Metal Ball believes that strengthening the Tribulation in response to Skylark’s defiance would encourage her reckless conduct.
• Control versus defiance: The Liquid Metal Ball tries to control the Tribulation according to its own plan, while Skylark repeatedly undermines that control through bizarre and unpredictable actions.
• Boredom and the pursuit of excitement: Skylark values a thrilling challenge more than a safe advancement, viewing an easy Tribulation as meaningless.
• Improvisation and absurdity: When the situation fails to provide the excitement she wants, Skylark invents a new solution by dragging another being into the Tribulation.
• Dependence hidden beneath conflict: Despite their antagonistic relationship, the Liquid Metal Ball needs Skylark alive, forcing it to compromise indirectly.

Character Interactions

• Skylark and the Liquid Metal Ball: Their conflict is mostly indirect. Skylark tests the limits of the Tribulation by refusing to resist, while the Liquid Metal Ball tries to manipulate its power without openly revealing its presence.
• Skylark and Fellow Daoist Three Waves: Though he does not appear directly, Skylark plans to use her Tribulation selfies to tease him later, showing their playful rivalry.
• Skylark and Banknote: Skylark casually summons Banknote into the dangerous Tribulation World and invites it to share the ordeal. Banknote reacts with alarm, immediately questioning how and why it was brought there.

Chapter summary

• The Banknote’s consciousness appears in the Demon Tribulation World after Skylark activates a piece of its body that she possesses. The Banknote refuses to join Skylark’s tribulation, fearing that undertaking a Heavenly Tribulation alongside someone else is reckless.
• Skylark explains that the Banknote once got drunk on immortal wine, fought a great demon, and arrived at her home badly damaged. When she repaired it and billed it for the materials, the drunken Banknote tore off part of itself and insisted on using it to pay its debt. Skylark accepted the piece and later repaired the Banknote’s body, replacing what it had removed.
• Skylark offers to return the piece if the Banknote helps strengthen her Demon Tribulation by summoning its own Heavenly Tribulation. The Banknote worries that the piece could be destroyed, but Skylark points out that it is already at risk: if she stops protecting it, the Demon Tribulation will destroy it anyway.
• With its consciousness still linked to the fragment, the Banknote reluctantly agrees, on the condition that Skylark release its consciousness afterward. It channels spiritual power through the fragment, and the Demon Tribulation recognizes it as an interferer, slightly increasing its strength. A mutated purple-black bolt streaked with purple-gold lightning then descends toward Skylark.
• The Liquid Metal Ball watches and privately intends to keep the Demon Tribulation from becoming too powerful, believing the Banknote to be Skylark’s demon pet.

Character developments and interactions

• The Banknote shifts from indignant refusal to reluctant cooperation when Skylark makes clear that its fragment is in immediate danger. Its cautious, money-minded nature is played for comedy, especially in the revelation that it once paid a debt with part of its own body.
• Skylark remains cheerful and persuasive despite being battered by the tribulation. She uses their longstanding partnership—and the fragment’s danger—to convince the Banknote to help, while promising to protect and eventually return it.
• The Liquid Metal Ball silently monitors the situation and plans to control the added danger rather than let Skylark’s experiment become fatal.
• The exchange between Skylark and the Banknote mixes friendship, bargaining, threats, and comic exasperation: Skylark treats the arrangement as a reasonable deal, while the Banknote repeatedly protests before accepting.

Significant themes

• Risk and survival: The Banknote is forced to choose between a dangerous chance of survival and the near certainty that its fragment will be destroyed.
• Debt and obligation: A past debt—paid in an absurd, drunken manner—becomes the basis for a new bargain.
• Reckless ambition: Skylark deliberately tries to intensify an already dangerous tribulation, confident enough to push the limits.
• Trust amid danger: The Banknote distrusts Skylark’s condition, but ultimately relies on their partnership and her promise to protect its body.

Key plot points and events

• A Heavenly Tribulation drawn by Fellow Daoist Banknote fuses with Skylark’s Demon Tribulation, forming a powerful sword of combined tribulation lightning.
• The Liquid Metal Ball, ruler of the Demon Tribulation World, quietly reduces the sword’s power, intending for Skylark to survive and advance to Eighth-Grade.
• Skylark is excited by the unusual attack and deliberately drops her defenses. After storing Banknote’s body fragment safely, she lets the sword strike her.
• The lightning pierces her shoulder and erupts through her body. Skylark cries out that she has “overdone it” and collapses.
• The Demon Tribulation stops. The Liquid Metal Ball discovers that Skylark has genuinely died—not feigned death—and its authority cannot revive or alter that fact.

Character developments

• Skylark remains reckless and thrill-seeking, prioritizing an exciting tribulation over her safety. Even while collapsing, she tries to make her fall look elegant. Her death leaves the reasons behind her extreme disregard for survival unclear.
• The Liquid Metal Ball shifts from confident control to shock, disbelief, and regret. It had assumed its careful reductions made the attack harmless, but realizes it may have misjudged what Skylark needed—or what she would do.

Significant themes

• The unpredictability of power and control: Even the ruler of the tribulation realm cannot account for every outcome.
• The conflict between survival and personal desire: Skylark’s pursuit of excitement overrides the cultivator’s conventional goal of longevity.
• Regret and unintended consequences: The Liquid Metal Ball’s attempt to manage the danger may have helped produce a disastrous result.

Character interactions

• Skylark treats the fused tribulation as a welcome challenge and willingly faces it without defense.
• The Liquid Metal Ball observes and manipulates the tribulation from afar, believing it is protecting her, then confronts the consequences of its intervention.
• Banknote is absent from the scene, but Skylark carefully preserves the borrowed piece of his body before the strike, honoring her promise to return it.

Plot points and events

• Liquid Metal Ball’s plan to use Skylark as a vessel for its Nine Nether Evil Energy is abruptly derailed when she dies.
• It briefly suspects Senior White, but recognizes that he is unlikely to be responsible. It laments losing Skylark, whose unusual compatibility allowed her to contain nearly all of its power.
• As Liquid Metal Ball prepares to take Skylark’s body for research, her blue hair rapidly turns black. Despite the change, its examination confirms that she is truly dead.
• Liquid Metal Ball brings her corpse to its temporary Netherworld base and places her on a platform for study.
• There, it resumes experiments on a captive stone giant. The giant is secretly enduring the conflict between Master Scarlet Firmament’s flames and the Nine Nether Evil Energy, hoping the opposing forces will help heal its injuries and eventually let it escape.

Character developments

• Liquid Metal Ball is frustrated by the collapse of its plan but quickly turns to research, unwilling to discard Skylark’s body or the stone giant’s potential as experimental subjects.
• The stone giant appears weakened and trapped, yet remains quietly hopeful, using the struggle inside its body to build strength and seek a way home.
• Skylark is confirmed dead, though her sudden hair-color change leaves a strange unanswered mystery.

Significant themes

• Control and exploitation: Liquid Metal Ball treats people as vessels and research material.
• Persistence amid suffering: The stone giant endures its torment and looks for an opportunity to recover.
• Uncertainty and dark humor: Skylark’s hair changing after death is an eerie puzzle, while Liquid Metal Ball’s petulant blame of White adds absurdity to the grim setting.

Character interactions

• Liquid Metal Ball angrily calls out Senior White, then admits to itself that he probably had nothing to do with Skylark’s death.
• It questions the stone giant about Skylark, dismisses its reply, and announces that it will conduct further experiments on it.
• The stone giant resists with a roar, but Liquid Metal Ball simply blocks it out and prepares its instruments.

Plot points

• Liquid Metal Ball investigates Skylark’s corpse but finds nothing unusual. Suspecting her injuries conceal the answer, it uses its power to restore her body.
• Once restored, Skylark’s body reveals fragments of memory. They show her wandering across eras and realms in search of an unknown person, with memories that are ancient and discontinuous.
• In one memory, Skylark meets the young Confucian Sage and guides him into cultivation. He quickly rises to the Second-Grade Realm. Skylark describes the person she seeks as kind, talented, ambitious, and unconventional—but insists the Sage is not that person.
• Her memories end around the close of the Ancient Era, leaving Liquid Metal Ball unable to explain her later, death-seeking behavior. It decides to destroy and examine her body to uncover why it accepts its power so perfectly.
• In Jiangnan, Song Shuhang tests his Sage Seal by asking companions to say his name. Most remain unaffected, but Sparrow Demon Little Cai and Shi feel the pressure of his title, “Tyrant Song.”

Character developments and interactions

• Liquid Metal Ball shifts from curiosity to frustration: restoring Skylark gives it clues about her past, but not the secret it wants. It also reveals a deep hatred of the Confucian Sage, whom it recognizes as a longtime enemy.
• Skylark emerges as an ancient wanderer whose original personality was cheerful and normal, sharply contrasting with the strange, self-destructive woman Liquid Metal Ball encountered. Her true purpose and what changed her remain mysteries.
• The young Confucian Sage is portrayed as precociously brilliant and supremely ambitious. His playful exchange with Skylark shows their fondness, though she rejects his assumption that he is the person she seeks.
• Song Shuhang is dissatisfied with the intimidating effect of “Tyrant Song.” His companions’ varied reactions turn the test into a comic contrast between those who resist the title’s aura and those who do not.

Significant themes

• Unanswered identity and purpose: Skylark’s lifelong search, missing memories, and later transformation leave major questions unresolved.
• Memory and the body: Restoring Skylark’s injuries unexpectedly unlocks memories, suggesting her physical condition is tied to access to her past.
• Long history and hidden connections: Skylark’s travels link her to figures and events spanning multiple eras.
• Reputation versus self-image: Song Shuhang dislikes the fearsome aura associated with his Sage Title, despite others responding to it with awe.

Key events

Song Shuhang struggles to control the Sage Seal he formed unusually early. Even with its aura suppressed, it still makes people around him call him “Tyrant Song” and feel his overwhelming majesty; resisting the effect only makes it worse. Since he cannot find Senior White Two, he contacts Pavilion Master Chu for advice.
Pavilion Master Chu is astonished to learn that Song formed a Sage Seal while still an unfinished Fourth-Grade cultivator, but admits she has no relevant experience. She jokes that he should beat the unruly seal into behaving. After discussing the Ice Soul Pills needed for Li Yinzhu’s cultivation, she falls asleep mid-conversation.
Encouraged by True Lord White Crane and Su Clan’s Sixteen, Song tries striking the Sage Seal. Instead of calming it, each hit makes its majesty stronger, until even Fifth-Grade Young Master Phoenix Slayer feels uncomfortable. At the chapter’s end, the Hamster Fiend confidently enters Medicine Master’s building with its tiny sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is frustrated by his lack of control, but willing to try unconventional advice. He recalls having beaten his Invisible Saber Gu’s shell during its evolution and worries that his life has become one absurd “beating” after another.
• Pavilion Master Chu is sleepy and exasperated by Song’s frequent interruptions. Her surprise at his progress highlights how extraordinary his early Sage Seal is; she offers a joking remedy rather than practical instruction.
• White Crane takes the idea of hitting the seal seriously, comparing it to fixing a faulty television by tapping it. Phoenix Slayer is skeptical at first, then supports continuing when the seal reacts. Sixteen backs Song’s experiment and offers to arrange leave if he must retreat into seclusion.
• Xiao Cai and Sixteen are affected by the seal’s aura, while Phoenix Slayer’s discomfort shows its growing reach.

Significant themes

The chapter mixes cultivation-world grandeur with comic trial and error: Song’s unprecedented advancement brings inconvenient side effects rather than effortless mastery. It also emphasizes how unusual his situation is—experienced seniors cannot offer reliable guidance—and turns his literal attempts to “beat” a problem into a running joke.

Plot and key events

• The Hamster Fiend enters Medicine Master’s Building to challenge Song Shuhang, calling him “Bedwetting Hang.” Shuhang, now at Fourth Grade, eagerly accepts and jumps out to confront him.
• The Sage Seal surrounds Shuhang with an imposing aura and Merit Light. The aura makes the Hamster Fiend perceive Shuhang’s Sage Title—Profound Sage Tyrant Song—and he accidentally stammers out “Tyrant… Daddy” before stopping himself.
• Shuhang jokingly treats the slip as the Hamster Fiend calling him “Daddy.” The two exchange taunts, then the Hamster Fiend asks Shuhang to suppress the aura so they can fight fairly.
• The Sage Seal switches the aura off just as Shuhang touches it. Shuhang suspects gentle contact may help him control the seal.
• The Hamster Fiend, confident in his improved swordsmanship, challenges Shuhang again. With Ye Si away undergoing tribulation, he no longer fears facing her—and privately keeps money ready to bribe her if needed.
• Shuhang summons his Black Iron Divine Armor, which Young Master Phoenix Slayer dramatically identifies from inside the building.
• In a parallel scene, Gao Moumou wakes unusually early despite needing little sleep and feeling energetic. He begins writing, while a turtle in the dormitory observes that its assigned task is going well.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is amused by the Hamster Fiend’s provocation and feels confident facing him at the same cultivation level. He is still learning how to manage the Sage Seal’s powers.
• The Hamster Fiend is eager to demonstrate his newly improved swordsmanship before attempting his Fifth-Grade tribulation. His confidence briefly falters under Shuhang’s Sage presence, but returns once it is removed.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer watches from the building and provides the Black Iron Divine Armor’s transformation sound effect.
• Gao Moumou’s unexplained lack of sleep continues, though he feels healthy and energetic rather than tired.

Significant themes

• Power and perception: Shuhang’s Sage aura and title make him seem vastly stronger than his actual Fourth-Grade cultivation.
• Humor through bravado: Both Shuhang and the Hamster Fiend threaten to make the other call him “Daddy,” only for the Hamster Fiend to nearly do so by accident.
• Learning to control new abilities: Shuhang’s unexpected success in quieting the Sage Seal hints at a gentler way to communicate with it.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang faces the Hamster Fiend in a rematch, wearing the newly assembled Black Iron Divine Armor. Young Master Phoenix Slayer provides dramatic sound effects and eyes the hamster as a potential snack.
• The duel starts with sword intent and saber intent cutting fallen leaves, followed by an extended exchange of taunts. The onlookers eventually urge them to stop talking and fight.
• When the Hamster Fiend launches its signature Heavenly Demon from Beyond, Song Shuhang uses the unseen Invisible Saber Gu to stab it from behind. He falsely claims the attack is an “exclusive” invisible saber technique.
• The hamster heals itself and adds defensive spells, then attacks again. Song combines Su Clan Seven’s Moonlight Blade-Wielding Technique with his Sage Seal’s Word-Follows-Law command, “Bind.” The attack and another hidden strike interrupt and injure the hamster once more.
• The Hamster Fiend refuses to quit, healing and strengthening its defenses. Song gives it one final chance to show its improved swordsmanship.
• The hamster unleashes a powerful, carefully focused strike whose might approaches the Fifth-Grade realm. The chapter ends before Song’s response: he intends to test the combined defense of his Black Iron Divine Armor and Saber Intent Armor.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang displays growing confidence and skill, combining saber techniques, the invisible Saber Gu, and Word-Follows-Law to control the fight. He deliberately holds back and uses the duel to test his armor.
• The Hamster Fiend is stubborn and determined to prove its improved swordsmanship. Having learned from an earlier encounter, it arrives equipped with healing and defensive artifacts, but remains vulnerable to Song’s concealed attacks.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and the other observers interpret the duel differently: Sixteen anticipates Song will test his armor, while Phoenix Slayer and White Crane recognize the danger of the hamster’s final strike.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus adaptability: The hamster’s healing and layered defenses show preparation, but Song’s varied, concealed methods repeatedly circumvent them.
• Persistence and pride: The hamster’s refusal to surrender keeps the duel going despite repeated defeats.
• Humor and misdirection: Song invents “exclusive secret arts” to conceal the Invisible Saber Gu, while the characters’ trash talk and the observers’ commentary undercut the duel’s seriousness.

Character interactions

• Song and the Hamster Fiend trade boasts and insults before and during the duel, each trying to unsettle the other.
• Song disguises his real tactics with false explanations, while the hamster repeatedly asks what hit it.
• The spectators—especially Sixteen, White Crane, Phoenix Slayer, and little Shi—comment on the fight, its pacing, and the danger of the hamster’s final attack.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang faces the Hamster Fiend wearing Black Iron Divine Armor reinforced with Saber Intent Armor. He deliberately takes its strongest sword attack head-on, confident his defenses will hold.
• The Hamster Fiend unleashes a sustained barrage of sword qi and Nine Nether Evil Energy. Shuhang provokes it to attack harder, hoping the pressure will trigger the Saber Intent Armor’s counterattack.
• When the counterattack finally comes, the hamster dodges by snapping off its tiny tail, which absorbs the slash. It charges again, but senses another danger and retreats.
• A transparent Lotus Root Tendril suddenly pierces the hamster and drains the Nine Nether Evil Energy it had drawn on. Shuhang realizes his active Lotus Projection has redirected some of its roots to feed on the hamster’s energy. He withdraws them before they can drain it completely, but the exhausted hamster collapses.
• Shuhang declares the day’s three duels over: one draw and two losses for the hamster. The hamster reveals that Senior White Two sent it to deliver the fox demon Shuhang met previously; the demon is sealed in a truck outside.
• As a consolation prize, the hamster advises Shuhang to ask a successor of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect about methods for refining a Natal Dharma Treasure. Shuhang is still undecided about what treasure to make.

Character development and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows increased confidence in his defenses and uses taunting strategically to provoke the hamster. He also remembers his Lotus Projection only after it intervenes, revealing that its abilities can act beyond his immediate awareness.
• The Hamster Fiend fights with determination and powerful swordsmanship, but its confidence gives way to desperation as its attacks fail. It sacrifices its tail to escape the Saber Intent Armor’s strike, then ends the duel utterly drained. Despite losing, it delivers its assigned message and useful advice.
• The observers finally get the dramatic duel they wanted. Su Clan’s Sixteen explains that Shuhang’s combined armor is holding, while others wonder why his merit light does not appear; Phoenix Slayer suggests Shuhang suppressed it himself.
• The exchange between Shuhang and the hamster remains playful and antagonistic: Shuhang mocks its attacks and its tail-shedding escape, while the hamster curses him and insists it will win.

Significant themes

• Defense, endurance, and counterattack: Shuhang wins by surviving the hamster’s strongest assault until his armor can respond.
• Unintended power and tactical adaptability: The Lotus Projection’s energy-draining roots turn the tide in a way neither fighter anticipated.
• Comic rivalry: The serious-looking duel is undercut by insults, the hamster’s gecko-like tail escape, and its helpless collapse.
• Continuing obligations and cultivation: The fox demon’s delivery and the advice about a Natal Dharma Treasure advance Shuhang’s larger connections to the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect.

Key plot points and events

• The Hamster Fiend tells Song Shuhang that the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s composite Natal Dharma Treasure might suit his cultivation technique. It also vows to defeat him after advancing to the Fifth Grade.
• The Hamster delivers a sealed crate containing a Fox Demon. The seal, placed by its master, will open automatically in twenty-eight hours; the Hamster can’t undo it. Song Shuhang stores the crate in his Core World.
• Over breakfast, the group discusses their plans: Su Clan’s Sixteen will cultivate, True Lord White Crane leaves to find food for Senior White, and Young Master Phoenix Slayer prepares to trade skill-training experience with Song Shuhang before entering seclusion.
• Song Shuhang uses Phoenix Slayer’s CPU to train in saber skills, sealing arts, and especially the techniques behind blade flight and blade control, hoping to improve their range and practical use.
• In the Netherworld, the Liquid Metal Ball places Skylark’s body in a crystal coffin and begins the final step of its plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang accepts the Hamster’s advice and delivery, while treating its boastful threats with bemused skepticism.
• The Hamster is shown to be unusually practical for a Nine Nether Demon: it uses an illusion to deal with the human truck driver and pays for the delivery.
• Sixteen is focused on consolidating her cultivation after benefiting from a medicinal feast. Phoenix Slayer is also eager to cultivate, having sensed an approaching breakthrough.
• Phoenix Slayer recognizes Song Shuhang’s pointed wish that he reach the Sixth Grade soon—so his CPU remains useful for training—and snaps at him.
• White Crane’s concern for Senior White’s recovery doubles as a convenient reason to leave.

Significant themes

• Training and advancement: Characters seek breakthroughs through cultivation, practice, and accumulated experience.
• Humor and camaraderie: Boastful rivalries, teasing, and practical arrangements keep the group’s interactions light.
• Preparation and uncertainty: Song Shuhang plans for future cultivation and skill needs, while the sealed Fox Demon and the Liquid Metal Ball’s unexplained “final step” set up developments to come.

Key plot points and events

• The Liquid Metal Ball places Skylark’s body in a Crystal Coffin and dissolves it into thousands of points of light to investigate why her body can contain its power.
• It discovers an indestructible section of bone at the center of the coffin. Neither the coffin’s dissolving runes nor the Liquid Metal Ball’s strength and Nine Nether Evil Energy can damage it.
• When infused with energy, the bone reveals the Law of Immortality. The Liquid Metal Ball suspects it may be connected to the Heavenly Dao or to a cultivator who forged their own immortal Dao.
• The bone suddenly draws Skylark’s scattered points of light back together, reconstructing her body and restoring the magical treasures hidden within it.
• Skylark does not awaken. The Liquid Metal Ball determines that her body is neither alive nor dead, and has no soul. It considers changing its plan: instead of waiting for her revival, it may occupy her body and study the Immortal Bone, while preventing her from coming back to life.
• Elsewhere, Song Shuhang and Young Master Phoenix Slayer finish a CPU exchange. Shuhang’s understanding of the Gale Saber and his blade-related techniques improves. Phoenix Slayer regrets lending him his “CPU” and says two exchanges remain.
• Shuhang wonders how Skylark’s Demon Tribulation went and whether the Netherworld has an equivalent of “Manifestation Before All.”

Character developments and interactions

• The Liquid Metal Ball shifts from studying Skylark’s body to coveting the Immortal Bone’s secrets. Its curiosity turns into a potentially sinister plan to use her body and suppress her revival.
• Skylark remains absent and unresponsive, but the Immortal Bone restores her body and leaves open the possibility that she may eventually return to life.
• Song Shuhang benefits from Phoenix Slayer’s cultivation experience and continues to improve his saber and blade techniques.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer is exasperated by the CPU exchanges and snaps at Shuhang’s cheerful encouragement.
• Shuhang’s concern about Skylark connects the separate scenes and suggests her fate may soon affect the group.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the Heavenly Dao: The bone appears to embody an absolute Law of Immortality, raising questions about whether immortality belongs only to the Heavenly Dao or can be forged by an individual.
• Life, death, and revival: Skylark’s reconstructed body occupies an uncanny state between life and death, leaving resurrection possible but uncertain.
• Ambition and exploitation: The Liquid Metal Ball’s fascination with immortality threatens to turn Skylark’s body into an instrument for its own advancement.
• Comedic contrast: The cosmic mystery of immortal existence is juxtaposed with Song Shuhang’s playful “CPU exchange” and Phoenix Slayer’s irritation.

Key plot points and events

• Young Master Phoenix Slayer explains that Nine Nether Demons entering the Eighth Grade undergo a tribulation in the Demon Tribulation World, but their manifestation is confined to the Nine Netherworld. True Lord Eternal Fire confirms that only Nine Nether Demons can see it.
• Through the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Song Shuhang learns about a more immediate concern: newly advanced Profound Sage True Love Breaks Hearts at the Horizon has discovered that his Sage Seal can “stamp” people without their consent. The mark lets him transmit spiritual energy to them from a distance.
• Since Horizon is already notorious as the “Transmission Maniac,” cultivators fear he will use the ability to reach disciples wherever they are. Sect leaders rush to warn their young members.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations says the stamp can likely be removed, and that Horizon’s long-distance transmissions would be weaker than face-to-face ones. He proposes a practical safeguard: have Song Shuhang stamp people first, since the Sage Seal cannot stamp someone twice.
• The group embraces the plan, and Shi eagerly asks Song Shuhang to stamp her.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang relies on Su Clan’s Sixteen to ask the group about Nine Nether Demons because Senior White has borrowed his phone. His casual complaint about needing new phones gives way to more serious questions about the Sage Seal.
• Sixteen acts as his intermediary, asking the group and then seeking a way to counter Horizon’s stamping ability.
• Eternal Fire shares the alarming screenshots; Northern River, Fairy Lychee, and other cultivators react with humor and genuine concern, especially for disciples about to leave their sects.
• Venerable Seven Cultivations offers reassurance and turns Shuhang into a proposed source of protection. Shi’s immediate request shows how quickly the group accepts this solution.

Significant themes

• Power without consent: The Sage Seal’s stamping ability is alarming because it can be imposed on others.
• Comic danger and group solidarity: The cultivators exaggerate their fear of Horizon in a running joke, but their concern for their disciples is sincere.
• New power creating new responsibility: Shuhang’s own Sage Seal may protect others, making him central to the group’s response.

Key events

• Song Shuhang reassures the group that Daoist Horizon only transfers his cultivation with consent, but Shi, Sparrow Demon Little Cai, and Su Clan’s Sixteen decide they want precautionary “Tyrant Song” Sage Seals anyway. Shi and Sixteen receive theirs on their forearms; Little Cai gets hers on her back. Young Master Phoenix Slayer declines, though Song Shuhang’s joking mention of another Transmission Maniac, Wuyazi, makes him reconsider the risk.
• As the group disperses, Phoenix Slayer leaves to visit True Lord Yellow Mountain and Doudou, Sixteen goes to cultivate, Shi rests, and White Crane searches for food for Venerable White. With time before class, Shuhang decides to buy a phone.
• His recent training has greatly improved his Blade Flight and Blade-Drawing Technique. He flies toward a phone shop on the Overlord Shatter Saber and imagines designing a safer, more comfortable flying saber.
• From the air, Shuhang spots Instructor Little Li practicing basic saber, sword, staff, and fist techniques. Shuhang recognizes the moves as remnants of Instructor Little Li’s adventures with Venerable White and the Young Man in Blue with a White Horse. Although his memories were erased repeatedly, fragments have returned. Shuhang concludes the techniques may improve his fitness but are unlikely to let him begin cultivation, and flies on.

Character developments and interactions

• Shi and Sixteen show trust and playful affection toward Shuhang by happily accepting his seal; Sixteen is especially pleased but embarrassed by the mark’s intimate, tattoo-like appearance. Little Cai is eager to receive a seal and treats it as a prized status symbol.
• Shuhang’s growing cultivation skills are evident in his confident flight, though he recognizes the practical need for better equipment.
• Instructor Little Li appears to be recovering fragments of memories erased after his extraordinary experiences. Shuhang observes without interrupting, then leaves him to practice.

Significant themes

• Consent and precaution: The group distinguishes Daoist Horizon’s principled conduct from the possibility of less scrupulous cultivators, and chooses a harmless safeguard.
• Humor and affection: The Sage Seals become a lighthearted, intimate group activity, while Shuhang’s jokes about a hypothetical Wuyazi invite comic anxiety.
• Memory and lingering consequences: Instructor Little Li’s erased past has not disappeared entirely; pieces of it survive in his movements.
• Growth and limits: Shuhang’s rapid progress contrasts with Little Li’s inability to turn incomplete martial techniques into a path to cultivation.

Plot and events

• Song Shuhang buys two new phones—one for himself and one for Senior White—after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation. He plans to have them magically modified later.
• He returns to Medicine Master’s building, then tries to wake little Shi for class. She refuses, sweet-talking him until he lets her sleep.
• At university, Professor Yang unexpectedly holds his usual strict roll call. Shi and True Lord White Crane are absent, so Shuhang uses his Shapeshifting Brooch to make Professor Yang perceive him as each of them when he answers for them.
• The trick works, but it confuses Shuhang’s classmates, who assume Professor Yang has gone blind or lost his memory. Another student tries to answer for an absent friend; Yang catches him, marks the friend present, but marks the student absent.
• Gao Moumou questions Shuhang. Shuhang jokingly claims the absentees’ tuition money earns them special treatment, rather than explaining the brooch.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is considerate toward Shi but easily outmaneuvered by her; he also improvises with magic to cover for his absent companions. He recognizes that his approach was risky and decides he should learn basic illusion techniques.
• Shi shifts instantly from calling Shuhang the worst to calling him her favorite once he lets her sleep, showing her playful, self-interested charm.
• Professor Yang remains observant and sharp: he sees through Xiong Donghua’s false roll call, even as Shuhang’s magical illusion successfully fools him.
• Gao Moumou and the other students are bewildered by Shuhang’s repeated answers and suspect something unusual, while Xiong Donghua learns that loyalty does not excuse answering roll for a friend.

Significant themes

• Ordinary life alongside the supernatural: phone shopping and university attendance proceed amid Shuhang’s magical abilities and Heavenly Tribulation.
• Cleverness and its limits: Shuhang’s illusion solves an immediate problem but creates confusion and highlights his lack of preparation.
• Playful affection and convenience: Shi’s changing praise reflects the light, teasing dynamic between her and Shuhang.