Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang leaves Chu Chu with Yinzhu and flies into Jadewater Pavilion to investigate a growing spatial collapse that threatens to consume the entire place. The pavilion’s disciples stand motionless with vacant eyes.
• He encounters Umbrella Daoist, who is also searching for Pavilion Master Chu but is confused and unreliable. Song Shuhang sends him to search elsewhere and heads for Chu’s Cloud Pavilion.
• Golden Lad and Jade Maiden block the entrance. They can move and use Jadewater Pavilion techniques, but Ye Si senses they are not the familiar figures. When they refuse to let him pass, Song Shuhang overpowers them with his Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist and Gale Saber.
• In Cloud Pavilion, Song Shuhang discovers two outsiders: White Fur, a Fifth-Grade cultivator, and a mud-like being. White Fur recognizes Song Shuhang’s Confucian Vajra Body and challenges him to test it against his Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art.
• Song Shuhang ignores White Fur and flies past him toward the top floor. White Fur gives chase, but Merit Snake Beauty intervenes, striking him with a slipper and a winged Fat Whale. The blow shatters his ten Sacred Ape phantoms and leaves him bloodied.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang stays focused on finding Pavilion Master Chu despite the danger and several distractions. He uses flight, combat skill, and his indestructible Steel Hand body to force a path through the pavilion.
• Ye Si, though undergoing her Heart Demon Tribulation, remains aware enough to warn Song Shuhang that Golden Lad and Jade Maiden are impostors and urge him onward.
• Umbrella Daoist offers help but remains forgetful and disorganized, leaving Song Shuhang to continue the search largely on his own.
• White Fur is boastful and eager to prove his technique superior, but his confidence is quickly undercut when Song Shuhang refuses his challenge and Merit Snake Beauty defeats him.
• Merit Snake Beauty acts protectively and decisively, using the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s voice and an unexpectedly comic slipper attack.

Significant themes

• Urgency amid upheaval: The spatial collapse makes locating Pavilion Master Chu—and understanding the pavilion’s transformation—an immediate priority.
• Appearance and identity: Familiar figures may not be what they seem, as shown by the false Golden Lad and Jade Maiden.
• Pride versus purpose: White Fur values proving his martial art’s superiority, while Song Shuhang prioritizes the larger crisis.
• Power and comic deflation: The chapter sets up an epic clash between famous body-tempering arts, then subverts it with Song Shuhang simply flying past and Snake Beauty ending the fight with a slapstick attack.

Chapter Summary: I Would Rather Die Than Say It

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reaches the top floor of Cloud Pavilion after defeating a white-haired Fifth-Grade beast cultivator. The man initially believes Shuhang is a weak Fourth-Grade cultivator, but realizes with shock that he is actually Profound Sage Tyrannical Song, an immensely powerful Eighth-Grade figure.
• Merit Snake Beauty and the Winged Fat Whale continue attacking the white-haired man. The Fat Whale swallows him, though he survives.
• Inside Pavilion Master Chu’s room, a mass of Black Mud ambushes Merit Snake Beauty. Her Merit Great Sun completely destroys it before Song Shuhang can question it.
• Song Shuhang interrogates the white-haired man about the intruders and the changes affecting Jadewater Pavilion. The man refuses to reveal anything, insisting that he would rather die than speak.
• Merit Snake Beauty repeatedly strikes him with the Face-Slapping Slipper, causing severe pain without killing him. Despite this, he remains silent and eventually faints.
• The supposedly destroyed Black Mud reappears, escapes through a window, and splits into hundreds of fragments when attacked by Song Shuhang’s Invisible Saber Gu.
• Unable to extract information through interrogation, Song Shuhang contacts Senior White Two. In exchange for one hundred Golden Waxberries, Senior White Two uses hypnosis on the white-haired man.
• Under hypnosis, the man begins revealing his identity and abilities, explaining that he comes from the Beast Realm and practices the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates overwhelming strength but remains confused about the situation in Jadewater Pavilion. He tries conventional interrogation, then turns to Senior White Two when physical coercion fails. His humorous concern that he appears to be the villain contrasts with the white-haired man’s apparent righteousness.
• White-haired man: Shifts from arrogant confidence to terror after realizing Shuhang’s true identity. Despite enduring torture, he maintains his loyalty and refuses to speak until hypnotized.
• Merit Snake Beauty: Shows formidable combat ability and unwavering loyalty to Shuhang. Her tendency to crush or swallow enemies becomes a source of concern and humor for Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Senior White Two: Reveals that he can track Shuhang across realms and readily assists him, though he demands payment in jokes or rare food. His hypnosis proves more effective than torture.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword: Acts as a commentator and adviser, noting the danger of Merit Snake Beauty’s swallowing habit and suggesting that the Black Mud may share Shuhang’s unusual ability to survive fragmentation.
• Black Mud entity: Proves extremely difficult to kill, surviving the Merit Great Sun and being divided into countless fragments before escaping.

Significant Themes

• Hidden strength and mistaken identity: The white-haired man’s misunderstanding of Shuhang’s cultivation emphasizes the dangers of judging appearances and concealing one’s true power.
• Loyalty and resistance: The white-haired man’s refusal to betray his group, even under torture, presents a contrast between apparent villainy and honorable steadfastness.
• Humor amid danger: The scene combines brutal combat and interrogation with comic elements, including the Face-Slapping Slipper, the Fat Whale swallowing an enemy, Senior White Two’s demand for jokes, and Shuhang’s worry that he resembles a villain.
• Power and adaptability: Both Shuhang’s allies and the Black Mud demonstrate unusual abilities, while Senior White Two’s hypnosis provides a clever alternative when force fails.
• Mystery and investigation: The identities of the intruders, the transformation of Jadewater Pavilion, and Pavilion Master Chu’s absence remain unresolved.

Character Interactions

• Shuhang defeats and questions the white-haired man, while Merit Snake Beauty physically restrains and tortures him.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword comments on Merit Snake Beauty’s behavior and advises Shuhang about the Black Mud.
• Song Shuhang relies on Senior White Two, bargaining with Golden Waxberries for his hypnosis technique.
• Under Senior White Two’s spell, the white-haired man finally begins explaining his origins and cultivation method, providing the first meaningful clue about the forces behind the incident.

Key plot points and events

• While questioning White Fur, Song Shuhang receives the first six levels of the Beast Realm’s Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, along with White Fur’s cultivation insights. Senior White Two approves of the art and boasts of his own army of 12,346 Sacred Ape Phantoms, then offers to give Song one if he starts cultivating it.
• Under hypnosis, White Fur reveals that he belongs to the Beast Realm Restoration Society. His group’s mission is to retrieve the Primordial Heavenly Court, which he identifies as the entire Jadewater Pavilion—the prototype from which the Heavenly Court was built.
• The group has infiltrated the pavilion while Pavilion Master Chu is being restrained. White Fur and other operatives planted special runes throughout it; a powerful expert is meant to use them to move the entire pavilion. The runes vanish into the structure once buried, making them difficult to remove.
• White Fur gives Song one unburied rune. It resembles Song’s Jadewater Pavilion Pass, suggesting the runes enabled the intrusion while Pavilion Master Chu was occupied. Song cannot contact her through his pass and decides he must find another way to reach her.
• Senior White Two declines to help locate Pavilion Master Chu, joking that he has gone to lose weight. Song then heads toward a nearby lake with the Merit Snake Beauty, who stuffs White Fur back into the Winged Fat Whale’s mouth. When White Fur wakes, he panics.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains a valuable cultivation technique but shifts his attention to the threat against the Jadewater Pavilion. He pieces together that Pavilion Master Chu’s Dao of Longevity may be tied to the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao, possibly explaining Song Blockhead’s earlier warning to her.
• White Fur is revealed as a relatively low-ranking operative with only partial knowledge of the retrieval plan. Hypnosis makes him cooperative, but once it wears off, he is terrified of being swallowed again.
• Senior White Two displays his playful pride in the Sacred Ape art, offers Song a phantom, and takes offense when Song privately wonders whether he looks heavier.
• Song and Senior White Two’s mind-to-mind communication is both useful and risky: Song’s unspoken thoughts can be heard. The Merit Snake Beauty, meanwhile, handles White Fur with unsettling enthusiasm.

Significant themes

• Ancient history shaping the present: The Jadewater Pavilion’s identity as the Primordial Heavenly Court connects Pavilion Master Chu’s future cultivation to the legacy of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Hidden threats and preparation: The invaders’ long-planned infiltration and concealed runes show how vulnerable even a powerful domain can be when its guardian is distracted.
• Humor amid danger: Senior White Two’s phantom-counting and weight-related banter contrast with the serious threat to Pavilion Master Chu and the pavilion.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tries to contact Pavilion Master Chu through Ye Si, but she is still occupied with her Heart Demon Tribulation. He decides to investigate the area where the sky’s vortex collapsed.
• Leaving Chu’s Cloud Pavilion triggers a spatial transfer. Song Shuhang finds himself under a strange gray sky with five moons, and concludes that the whole Jadewater Pavilion has been transported to the Beast Realm, far from Earth.
• He heads to Time City to retrieve Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu and bring them to safety. Instead, he finds a bottomless pit where the city’s entrance stood. Umbrella Daoist is there but has forgotten Song Shuhang; he also reports that Time City vanished during a spatial transfer. Song Shuhang hopes Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu remain safe in the Present World.
• Song Shuhang and Umbrella Daoist set out to find Pavilion Master Chu. When Umbrella Daoist detects a hostile group, Song Shuhang refuses to fight and retreats, knowing his Fourth-Grade strength cannot match their Fifth- through Seventh-Grade cultivators.
• At the Jadewater Pavilion’s edge, Umbrella Daoist discovers he cannot leave, confirming that he is part of Pavilion Master Chu’s True Illusion. He separates from Song Shuhang and goes to hide.
• The pursuing group catches up. Its leader, the One-Horned Venerable, hopes to hold Song Shuhang in place until his Patriarch can capture him. Song Shuhang prepares to defend himself, summoning his Sage Seal and reaching for the Merit Snake Beauty.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang stays cautious and practical: he prioritizes finding Chu and securing Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu rather than risking a fight with stronger opponents. He is frustrated that others mistake his reputation for actual combat power.
• Umbrella Daoist remains forgetful and uncertain, yet can sense hostility. His inability to leave the Pavilion reveals his connection to Chu’s True Illusion. He trusts Song Shuhang’s supposed Eighth-Grade strength even when Song Shuhang insists he is outmatched.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword is eager for a fight and encourages Song Shuhang to use it, while Song Shuhang hesitates to spend his limited resources.
• The One-Horned Venerable sees Song Shuhang as both a prize for his Patriarch and a possible route to advancing his own cultivation.

Significant themes

• Reputation versus reality: Song Shuhang’s title and apparent aura lead others to overestimate him, even though he is only Fourth Grade.
• Displacement and uncertainty: The Pavilion’s transfer leaves Song Shuhang cut off from Earth and unsure of his companions’ safety.
• Caution, responsibility, and survival: Song Shuhang weighs powerful trump cards against immediate danger and focuses on protecting others before seeking combat.

Chapter Summary: The Man Who Carries a Pocket World

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang summons Merit Snake Beauty and receives ChiXiao Sword from her without the usual heroic music or exaggerated behavior. Her more restrained attitude appears to have begun after Cheng Lin possessed Ye Si.
• With ChiXiao Sword’s assistance, Song Shuhang prepares to use Flame Saber. Because his body is currently in a liquefied state, ChiXiao Sword advises beginning with the peak eighth-rank version rather than the more dangerous ninth-rank form.
• Song Shuhang unleashes Flame Saber, producing an enormous sea of fire far beyond what an ordinary eighth-rank attack should be capable of. The attack kills six fifth-rank beast cultivators and forces Unicorn Venerable to use a precious spatial-transfer life-saving item created by his ancestor.
• Unicorn Venerable regrets confronting Song Shuhang directly but activates a hidden follow-up attack. Waves of extremely fast, sharp metal projectiles are launched at Song Shuhang.
• Merit Snake Beauty deflects the first wave, but Song Shuhang cannot evade the second. He escapes into his Core World, a portable inner world, just before being struck.
• Although he avoids the main attack, one Myriad Beast Steel spike pierces his abdomen immediately before the spatial transfer. His liquefied body prevents him from suffering serious injury.
• Outside, Unicorn Venerable believes all eleven projectiles have hit Song Shuhang and assumes his defenses are unexpectedly weak. He explains that the projectiles are Myriad Beast Steel, a Beast Realm specialty so hard that even powerful cultivators struggle to refine it.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues adapting his combat methods to his unusual liquefied body. He recognizes that the state makes him highly resistant to piercing injuries but vulnerable to flame and extreme heat.
• He shows greater confidence in using his Core World as an emergency escape route, joking that a man carrying a small world cannot be ambushed easily. However, being pierced just before escaping reminds him that he must remain vigilant.
• Song Shuhang also demonstrates practical judgment by testing Flame Saber gradually rather than immediately risking the ninth-rank version.
• ChiXiao Sword acts as both weapon and combat analyst, monitoring the limits of Song Shuhang’s body and identifying the spatial-transfer effect of Unicorn Venerable’s defensive treasure.
• Merit Snake Beauty behaves more calmly and efficiently than before, actively protecting Song Shuhang by deflecting the incoming projectiles.
• Unicorn Venerable shifts from confidence to fear and regret after witnessing Flame Saber’s destructive power. He becomes more cautious, relying on hidden weapons and defensive treasures rather than confronting Song Shuhang directly.

Significant Themes

• Power versus physical limitations: Song Shuhang’s attack power is immense, but his liquefied body imposes specific weaknesses, especially against fire and heat.
• Preparation and adaptability: Both sides rely on layered tactics—Song Shuhang uses ChiXiao Sword and Core World, while Unicorn Venerable combines a life-saving treasure with concealed projectiles.
• Overconfidence and misjudgment: Unicorn Venerable initially believes he can stall Song Shuhang, only to discover that Flame Saber is overwhelmingly powerful. He then misinterprets Song Shuhang’s disappearance and apparent vulnerability.
• The importance of vigilance: Song Shuhang’s escape succeeds, but the spike that catches him proves that even powerful defensive abilities cannot replace constant awareness.
• Misleading appearances: The lingering afterimage makes Unicorn Venerable believe Song Shuhang has been transformed into a “hedgehog,” while Song Shuhang is actually safe inside the Core World.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and ChiXiao Sword cooperate closely, discussing the safe strength and number of Flame Saber uses his current body can withstand.
• Merit Snake Beauty silently supports Song Shuhang by returning ChiXiao Sword and later shielding him from the projectile assault.
• Unicorn Venerable warns his subordinates about Song Shuhang’s attack but is soon forced to watch his formation collapse under Flame Saber.
• Song Shuhang and Unicorn Venerable engage in an indirect tactical contest: Song Shuhang tests his attack, while Unicorn Venerable sacrifices defenses and uses hidden weapons to delay or injure him.
• The chapter ends with Unicorn Venerable believing his ambush succeeded, unaware that Song Shuhang has escaped into his Core World and survived with only a harmless puncture.

Key plot points and events

• One-Horned Venerable’s first attack uses Ten Thousand Beasts Martial Steel, whose armor-piercing quality makes it effective against spiritual defenses. The weapons strike what appears to be Song Shuhang, but the target is only an afterimage; he has vanished.
• Merit Snake Beauty, acting through Song Shuhang’s Merit Light, chooses One-Horned Venerable as her new “toy” and attacks him with the Winged Fat Whale. She repeatedly tries to swallow him, while he and his companions fight back. The whale and Merit Snake Beauty are blasted apart several times but keep reforming.
• Song Shuhang asks the Great Sea Turtle for help. Unable to fight because his cultivation is sealed, the Turtle lends Song Shuhang a heavy shell that cannot be removed for twenty-four hours. It can be moved around his body and has an automatic-defense mode.
• As the Jadewater Pavilion stabilizes under a Tribulation Immortal’s intervention, Song Shuhang decides to leave before the Beast Realm’s powerful cultivators can turn their attention to him. Merit Snake Beauty retreats—but first swallows the newly revived White Fur again.
• Song Shuhang emerges from the Core World wearing the shell and flies away on it, collecting the scattered metal spikes. He tells One-Horned Venerable that the weapons cannot kill him because he is a “Slime Spirit.” Just as he starts to escape, Pavilion Master Chu appears, caught between two Beast-Cultivator Tribulation Immortals.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang stays pragmatic and resourceful, using the Core World to avoid danger, seeking backup, and choosing retreat when the situation grows riskier. His joke that he is a Slime Spirit highlights his unusual resilience.
• Merit Snake Beauty displays possessive, impulsive behavior, abandoning White Fur for One-Horned Venerable as her next target, then returning to swallow White Fur again during her retreat.
• The Great Sea Turtle cannot intervene directly, but offers a defensive artifact with comically inconvenient limitations and enthusiastically promotes its features. Song Shuhang reluctantly tests how to move it.
• One-Horned Venerable is unsettled by Song Shuhang’s apparent disappearance and frustrated by Merit Snake Beauty’s ability to recover after being destroyed.
• White Fur becomes an unfortunate recurring victim of Merit Snake Beauty’s attacks.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword advises Song Shuhang and helps him consider alternatives to fighting.

Significant themes

• Adaptability over brute force: Song Shuhang survives by using misdirection, allies, and retreat rather than relying on direct combat.
• Resilience and persistence: Merit Light and its manifestations repeatedly recover, frustrating their opponents.
• Comedic misfortune: The oversized, inescapable turtle shell and White Fur’s repeated swallowing provide humor amid the danger.
• Escalating danger: Song Shuhang’s escape is interrupted by Pavilion Master Chu’s sudden arrival and confrontation with Tribulation Immortals.

Plot and key events

• In the Beast Realm, Pavilion Master Chu fights two Beast-Cultivator Tribulation Immortals while Song Shuhang watches. Despite their teamwork, she overwhelms them, but two more arrive and surround her.
• Song offers to help, but Pavilion Master Chu insists she can handle the four and opens a portal to send him away. She claims no one could have moved the Jadewater Pavilion into the Beast Realm without her permission.
• As Song retreats, the Merit Snake Beauty leaves behind a piece of merit light to spy on the fight. The One-Horned Venerable orders his men to fire metal spikes at Song, but Song tests his liquid body and finds that ordinary physical attacks barely affect him. He collects the spikes and escapes.
• The portal sends Song to a mountain elsewhere in the Beast Realm. He uses the merit light to watch the battle remotely, though the view is distant and difficult to endure.
• At a village, Song sees a sign reading “Black Horse Branch of All Humanity United as One Family.” He immediately turns around and leaves.

Character developments and interactions

• Pavilion Master Chu shows her overwhelming skill, calmly fighting several Tribulation Immortals while keeping in touch with Song. Her confidence and teasing wink reassure him, though the fight remains unresolved.
• Song Shuhang remains concerned for Chu but respects her order to leave. He also demonstrates growing confidence in his unusual liquid-body ability by deliberately testing it against the spikes.
• The Merit Snake Beauty shows signs of greater awareness: she secretly leaves a surveillance eye behind and appears to understand the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s attempt to keep Song holding it.
• The One-Horned Venerable is desperate to stop Song, seeing him as a chance to advance to the Eighth Grade; his failed attack leaves him furious.
• Song and the Scarlet Heaven Sword trade familiar, comedic banter, especially over Song’s repeated mispronunciation of the Merit Snake Beauty’s name.

Significant themes

• The gulf between Tribulation Immortals and lower-level cultivators emphasizes the scale and danger of high-level power.
• Loyalty and trust shape Song’s decision to rely on Pavilion Master Chu rather than interfere.
• The chapter balances epic combat with comedy, from Song’s “slime spirit” claim to his immediate flight from the village’s ominous-sounding organization.

Plot points

• Song Shuhang approaches a Beast Realm village called the Black Horse Branch of All the World’s Humans Joining Together as One Family. The villagers mistake him—standing on a turtle shell—for the expected master from the Turtle Main Branch.
• The branch welcomes him with a red carpet and a lavish reception. Shuhang tries to explain the mistake, but he and the villagers struggle to communicate.
• Hoping to investigate whether the organization holds any secrets connected to Song Blockhead, Shuhang initially plans to return and sneak in later. He flees using Blade Escape—Tyrant, but the branch leader pursues him.
• The leader eventually recognizes Shuhang as Tyrant Song, Profound Sage. A clumsy written translation from the Scarlet Heaven Sword further confuses matters, claiming Shuhang likes cute girls and calling the mix-up a “beautiful misunderstanding.”
• The leader invites Shuhang to stay overnight. Seeing this as a chance to enter the branch openly, Shuhang accepts.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is cautious about impersonating the expected master, since the deception might lead to conflict. Once recognized and invited, he readily adapts the situation to his investigative goals.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword acts as translator, but admits its spoken Beast Realm language is poor. Its overconfident, awkward written translation creates comic misunderstandings.
• The branch leader, an enthusiastic Third-Grade cultivator, desperately tries to please the presumed honored guest. He first assumes Shuhang is dissatisfied with the reception and offers to replace the women with cute boys, then becomes excited when he realizes Shuhang’s identity.

Significant themes

• Miscommunication and comedy: Language barriers repeatedly distort Shuhang’s intentions.
• Improvisation and opportunity: Shuhang turns an accidental invitation into a convenient way to explore the branch.
• Reputation and status: Recognition of Shuhang as a famed Sage immediately changes how the branch leader treats him.

Plot points

• After his long detour, Song Shuhang arrives at the Black Horse Branch of the “All the World’s Humans Unite as One Family.” The branch master first mistakenly announces the expected guest, Master Turtle, then introduces Shuhang as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song—the First Millennium Sage.
• The branch gives Shuhang an enthusiastic welcome. Instead of the matching adult welcoming party he had hoped to see again, a lively group of little girls presents him with flowers. He learns that, in this branch, flowers are only a greeting, not a marriage proposal.
• Shuhang is shown the branch’s grassland settlement, where members live in yurts and raise horse-type spirit beasts. He notices a large stone building used to honor the beasts and store the Spirit Beast Crystals they leave behind. Their reason for preserving the crystals is simply tradition.
• A girl named Shan, who speaks many languages, translates for Shuhang. The branch master leaves to arrange a special dinner and activities for his honored guest.
• While resting, Shuhang asks Shan basic questions about the organization and watches, through the Merit Snake Beauty’s eyes, the ongoing battle between Pavilion Master Chu and four Tribulation Immortals. The Sage Seal appears to protect him from the battle’s mental impact, but its pressure overwhelms Shan. Shuhang’s Merit Power gently relieves her, and he notices that her cultivation technique contains traces of the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains good-natured and self-conscious about the branch’s elaborate hospitality. His curiosity about the crystal-collecting tradition leads him to suspect a connection between the branch and the Beast God Division.
• Shan emerges as a bright, confident guide: she understands Shuhang’s language, explains local customs, and becomes the group’s translator. Her cultivation lineage also makes her especially interesting to Shuhang.
• The branch master is eager to impress Shuhang, adapting the welcome and planning festivities in hopes that the Sage will give the branch’s young people guidance.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword teases Shuhang about the flowers and helps interpret the welcome, though Shan soon takes over translation.

Significant themes

• Tradition and hidden connections: The branch preserves Spirit Beast Crystals without knowing why, while Shuhang recognizes possible ties to an older Beast God legacy.
• Fame and hospitality: Shuhang’s status as a Sage transforms a small branch’s ordinary customs into a major occasion.
• Power and compassion: The Sage Seal’s immense presence harms Shan unintentionally, but Shuhang’s Merit Power protects her, showing the gentler side of his strength.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang appraises “Shan” after she thanks him for helping her cultivation. He learns her name is Shanxin, a First-Grade cultivator of the Black Horse Branch, and that her main technique is the ominously named Divine Beast World-Destroying Great Technique.
• After dinner with the Black Horse Branch, Song Shuhang returns to his quarters and resumes meditating while keeping an eye on the battle at Jadewater Pavilion.
• He wakes—or believes he wakes—on a moonlit grassland beside a young man who calls him Fairy Cheng Lin. The man offers him fragrant wine and reacts as though he can hear and see Song Shuhang’s words and actions.
• Song Shuhang tests whether he is in a dream by making unusual gestures. The young man accurately describes them, confirming that this is not an ordinary Dream Entry.
• The man asks Cheng Lin why she destroyed the Heavenly Court, calling her the Jade Lake Empress. He then reveals that he deliberately brought her into this dreamscape and warns her not to interfere with his plans.
• Song Shuhang tells him he is not Cheng Lin and introduces himself as Tyrant Song. The man dismisses the name but recognizes Cheng Lin’s aura, warns that other enemies may find her in the Beast Realm, and urges her to leave.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains cautious and curious: he tests the strange setting, then tries to correct the young man’s mistaken identity. He realizes he has been drawn into a deliberate encounter rather than entering someone’s memories.
• Shanxin gains a notable cultivation boost from the pressure she experiences and believes it was guidance from Tyrant Song.
• The young man appears to have a long, emotionally charged history with Cheng Lin. Though he resents her for destroying the Heavenly Court, he also warns her of danger and claims this is the last time he will help her.

Significant themes

• Mistaken identity and hidden connections: Song Shuhang is treated as Cheng Lin, suggesting the encounter is tied to her identity or aura.
• Unresolved history and consequences: The destruction of the Heavenly Court remains a source of deep grievance.
• Power and perception: The young man can perceive Song Shuhang’s actions inside the strange dreamscape, overturning his expectations about Dream Entry.
• Help mixed with hostility: The young man’s warning suggests that resentment and concern can coexist.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang’s touch during Shanxin’s thanks enables him to appraise her, while she interprets his earlier pressure as beneficial guidance.
• Song Shuhang and the young man trade questions and tests: the man offers wine and challenges “Cheng Lin,” while Song Shuhang probes whether he can perceive him.
• Their conversation shifts from puzzlement to confrontation as the man raises Cheng Lin’s past and warns her to leave the Beast Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang remains trapped in a dreamscape after the young man in the marten-fur coat leaves. A diviner called Tooth Fairy appears and, like the young man, mistakes him for Cheng Lin.
• A mirror shows Song Shuhang wearing Cheng Lin’s appearance, though his face is indistinct. Tooth Fairy’s first divination gives an ambiguous answer that he interprets as confirming Song Shuhang is Cheng Lin.
• Tooth Fairy warns him to leave the Beast Realm before the moon rises the following night. He divines that Song Shuhang’s friend—Pavilion Master Chu—will face minor trouble but no life-threatening danger.
• His final divination reveals that Song Shuhang’s sought-after decoder is hidden in an extremely filthy place outside the Beast Realm. Song Shuhang wonders whether it could be in the Nine Netherworld.
• Tooth Fairy sends Song Shuhang out of the dreamscape. Afterward, he and the young man discuss Cheng Lin: Tooth Fairy believes she genuinely has forgotten many things and plans to investigate her condition indirectly.
• Song Shuhang wakes after cultivating through the night. A phone selfie confirms he has returned to his own appearance. Outside, he finds the Black Horse Branch’s members gathered around his residence, all cultivating.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang stays practical amid the confusion: he checks whether he looks like Cheng Lin, asks about Pavilion Master Chu, and uses his last divination to search for the decoder. He remains puzzled by the way people recognize him as Cheng Lin.
• Tooth Fairy is revealed to have a personal, emotionally tender attachment to Cheng Lin, alongside serious concern about her strange condition. He intends to investigate without drawing the attention of her many enemies.
• The marten-coated young man also appears concerned about Cheng Lin and suspects she may have a problem with her Dao of Longevity.

Significant themes

• Mistaken identity and memory: Song Shuhang’s appearance and others’ certainty that he is Cheng Lin deepen the mystery of their connection.
• Affection and consequences: Cheng Lin’s past seems to have left her both devoted admirers and numerous enemies.
• Divination and uncertainty: The hexes offer useful clues but remain cryptic, especially the ambiguous first result.
• Hidden dangers and unfinished business: Song Shuhang must find the decoder, protect his friend, and leave the Beast Realm.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang questions Tooth Fairy about his identity and appearance, then seeks divinations for his friend and the decoder.
• Tooth Fairy repeatedly addresses Song Shuhang as Cheng Lin, warns him to leave, and finally helps him escape the dreamscape.
• After Song Shuhang vanishes, Tooth Fairy and the young man discuss whether Cheng Lin’s memory loss is genuine and how to investigate her safely.
• Back in the waking world, Song Shuhang encounters the Black Horse Branch members gathered outside his residence, setting up a new mystery.

Chapter Summary: “Master Turtle and the Human Alliance Manual”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The members of the Black Horse Branch are found gathered around Song Shuhang’s residence in a blissful, dreamlike state. Shan and the others have no memory of why they gathered there.
• After awakening, everyone discovers that their cultivation has improved significantly. Their true qi, Blood Qi, and progress toward opening acupoints have all increased.
• The branch members mistakenly believe Song Shuhang caused or gifted them this improvement and thank him enthusiastically.
• Song Shuhang investigates the reason for their advancement. The Scarlet Heaven Sword explains that energy from the Eighth-Grade Whale Sage Banquet inside Song Shuhang had gradually leaked out during his cultivation and been absorbed by the surrounding cultivators.
• The Black Horse Branch’s cultivation method comes from the same lineage as Song Shuhang’s Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique, allowing its members to absorb the released energy especially easily.
• Song Shuhang confirms through his Eye of Merit that Pavilion Master Chu remains safe, though he continues to distrust the predictions of the Ivory Trigram Master.
• Master Turtle from the Turtle General Branch arrives with two disciples. The Black Horse Branch stages an elaborate welcome involving a red carpet, music, synchronized receptionists, and even male members disguised with makeup and padding to fill out the reception line.
• Master Turtle praises the Black Horse Branch’s “reception technique,” explaining that it is an official standard of the Whole World’s Humans United as One Family Alliance. Impressed, he promises to recommend that the branch receive more resources.
• Rather than dine first, Master Turtle announces that he has come to teach everyone the alliance manual.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Becomes increasingly puzzled by the effects of his recent dreamlike cultivation experience and the unintentional benefits his presence brings to others. He remains cautious about supernatural predictions and investigates the cause of the Black Horse Branch’s improvement.
• Shan: Continues acting as Song Shuhang’s translator and guide. She is delighted by her own cultivation progress and grows more comfortable accompanying him, even riding on his turtle shell to observe Master Turtle’s arrival.
• Black Horse Branch Head: Demonstrates strong organizational ability and an obsession with impressing guests. His elaborate reception succeeds, earning the branch the possibility of increased resources.
• Master Turtle: Is introduced as a respected Fourth-Grade cultivator and representative of the Turtle General Branch. He values formal hospitality and is responsible for spreading the alliance’s teachings.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword: Provides the explanation for the branch members’ advancement and suggests that Song Shuhang test whether his cultivation technique directly complements Shan’s.

Significant Themes

• Unintended influence and generosity: Song Shuhang helps others without deliberately trying, as energy from his Whale Sage Banquet strengthens nearby cultivators.
• Cultivation as cooperation: The shared lineage between Song Shuhang’s technique and the Black Horse Branch’s method suggests that cultivation can be mutually supportive rather than purely individual.
• Hospitality and political alliance-building: The reception ceremony is treated as an important measure of respect and loyalty, showing how formal customs affect access to resources and influence.
• Appearance versus reality: The Black Horse Branch’s polished reception depends partly on theatrical disguises, while Song Shuhang’s apparent “gift” is actually an accidental side effect.
• Suspicion and uncertainty: Song Shuhang remains wary of prophecies and hidden motives, especially concerning the Ivory Trigram Master’s assurances about Pavilion Master Chu.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang questions Shan and the branch members about their mysterious gathering and cultivation gains.
• The branch members thank Song Shuhang, believing he is responsible for their improvement, while Shan translates their gratitude.
• Song Shuhang consults the Scarlet Heaven Sword, who explains the Whale Sage Banquet’s lingering energy and proposes a possible experiment involving Shan.
• Shan accompanies Song Shuhang to observe Master Turtle’s arrival.
• The Black Horse Branch Head warmly welcomes Master Turtle, whose praise rewards the branch’s efforts and promises greater future resources.
• Master Turtle then shifts the visit from ceremonial hospitality to instruction, preparing to teach the branch the alliance manual.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang asks whether he should leave while Master Turtle teaches the Human Alliance’s secret manual. Miss Shan explains that it is shared survival knowledge, open to all humans; only the Alliance’s cultivation technique is restricted.
• Master Turtle presents Three Hundred Wonderful Tips for How Humans Can Live Better in the Beast Realm. Its practical lessons cover diplomacy, friendship dances, choosing branch sites, and making a living. Some group dances can also form a Spirit-Gathering Formation for First-Grade cultivators.
• Shuhang listens and memorizes the manual, while Shan translates the daylong lecture. He supports her with pills and tea, and she benefits from both the nourishment and the gentle energy around him.
• After a question period, Master Turtle begins teaching the second layer of the Divine Beast World-Destroying Great Method. Shuhang and Shan leave because the technique is restricted to higher-ranked members.
• Shan accidentally translates that the technique may cooperate with spirit beasts. Shuhang recognizes a possible similarity to the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s method of using spirit beasts to refine and transfer energy. He considers testing the idea with Shan—with her consent.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows respect for cultivation taboos despite his curiosity, choosing not to secretly learn the restricted technique. He also helps Shan and remains alert to possible connections with his own knowledge.
• Miss Shan translates tirelessly, gains cultivation benefits from Shuhang’s gifts and aura, and grows more comfortable with him. Her accidental disclosure prompts his new line of inquiry.
• Master Turtle is a patient, methodical teacher who shares practical knowledge openly while reserving the Alliance’s cultivation method for qualified members.
• Shuhang and Shan’s relationship is warm and cooperative: he looks after her during the long lecture, and she assists him through translation.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and ethical boundaries: Shared survival wisdom is freely taught, but learning a restricted cultivation technique without permission remains taboo.
• Practical cooperation: The Alliance’s lessons emphasize diplomacy, art, livelihood, and collective cultivation as ways for humans to survive in the Beast Realm.
• Discovery through connection: A stray comment about spirit beasts links the Alliance’s technique to Shuhang’s existing knowledge and suggests a possible experiment.

Key events

• Song Shuhang asks Little Shan to help test a theory. His Innate True Qi circulates through her body but reveals only a faint connection between her cultivation and the Thirty-Three Beasts’ techniques.
• Thinking of Master Turtle’s advice about combining the divine technique with Spirit Beasts, Song Shuhang gives Shan small amounts of energy from a horse-type Spirit Beast Crystal.
• Shan’s Divine Beast Annihilation Dharma naturally assimilates the energy and returns refined Blood Qi to Song Shuhang. The exchange works repeatedly, and Shan rapidly gathers enough Blood Qi to open her Ear Aperture, advancing from the First-Grade realm.
• Back at his residence, Song Shuhang considers how Shan’s technique relates to the Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique. He copies a Human Alliance manual and uses his Appraisal Secret Method on it.
• The appraisal identifies the manual as an inheritance of a secret Beast Realm human alliance, established by “Song Bleep~” (apparently Song Blockhead). It hints that the manual, combined with the alliance’s ancestral cultivation technique, reveals a hidden secret—but the details are withheld as private and restricted to readers over 180.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Shan trusts Song Shuhang despite initially fearing his “experiment.” Her cooperation pays off with a major breakthrough, and she gratefully accepts his guidance. Her rapid progress underscores how strongly she responds to Spirit Beast Crystal energy.
• Song Shuhang acts cautiously, monitoring the energy he gives Shan and stopping to verify his findings through repeated tests. He recognizes that Shan’s technique can perform the role of a Spirit Beast more efficiently by returning refined energy.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword offers to translate the copied manual, hoping to escape Merit Snake Beauty’s stomach for a while. Song Shuhang declines, leaving the sword playfully annoyed.

Significant themes

• Trust and mentorship: Shan’s faith in Song Shuhang enables the experiment and leads to her advancement.
• Cultivation through cooperation: Shan’s technique and the Spirit Beast Crystal create a reciprocal exchange that benefits both her and Song Shuhang.
• Lost knowledge and hidden legacies: The connection among the Beast God Sect’s techniques, the Divine Beast Annihilation Dharma, and Song Blockhead’s secret manual suggests an obscured shared history.
• Comic secrecy: The appraisal mixes useful revelations with absurd commentary and age-restricted mysteries.

Plot points and events

• After an appraisal of Song Shuhang’s cultivation question produces an unhelpful result, he concludes that combining the Human Alliance’s secret manual with the Divine Beasts’ World-Ending Great Art may yield unexpected benefits. He still needs to obtain the latter, and would need preparation before cultivating a second auxiliary technique.
• The Black Horse Branch chief and Master Turtle decide not to disturb Song Shuhang overnight. Before leaving, the chief discovers that Shan has advanced from the Nose Aperture to the Ear Aperture in just two months, apparently thanks to her contact with Song.
• The next morning, the chief and Master Turtle visit Song Shuhang, bringing Shan to translate. Song has been monitoring a battle between Tribulation Immortals at Jadewater Pavilion, while wondering about Onion Lady, Xiao Cai, and Ye Si, whose Heart Demon state persists.
• Master Turtle reports that a companion suddenly began turning into a demon after Netherworld Evil Aura erupted from him. The companion had picked up a broken sword shortly beforehand.
• The chief reveals that he too found a broken weapon: a saber that tempted him with promises of power and of becoming “the main character of the world.” He refused its offer but kept it. Song suspects both weapons are connected to a Netherworld master and asks the chief to retrieve the saber.
• Song then asks Master Turtle whether he noticed anything unusual while cultivating the Human Alliance manual alongside the Divine Beasts’ art.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains focused on understanding the linked cultivation techniques and helping investigate the apparent source of demonic transformations. He presents himself with full Sage authority when receiving visitors.
• Shan has made remarkable progress and is grateful for the opportunity Song gave her. Her advancement strengthens the branch chief’s reverence for Song.
• The branch chief becomes eager to seek Song’s guidance, even imagining that the whole branch might gain cultivation breakthroughs. He also feels left out when he realizes Master Turtle can speak directly with Song, so he relies on Shan to translate.
• Master Turtle is respectful but impatient to meet Song, and brings a serious report about his demonized companion.
• Song’s conversation with both visitors shifts from formal greetings to investigating the broken weapons and their connection to Netherworld influence.

Significant themes

• Unexpected opportunity and rapid growth: Shan’s advancement suggests that even seemingly small connections can lead to major cultivation gains.
• Temptation and resisting corruption: The saber’s promise of power parallels the companion’s unexplained demonization, raising concern that Netherworld forces are manipulating cultivators.
• Cultivation’s hidden risks: Combining techniques may reveal powerful secrets, but Song recognizes that adopting another method requires preparation.
• Reverence and social hierarchy: The visitors’ awe of Song contrasts with the branch chief’s mild frustration at being the only one who cannot communicate with him directly.

Plot and events

Song Shuhang investigates whether cultivating the Beast Alliance’s secret manual alongside its Divine Beast World-Annihilation Technique produces a hidden effect. Miss Shan admits she has never tried using both at once, while Master Turtle volunteers to demonstrate. As he performs the technique and the manual’s three hundred speech, diplomacy, and dance methods, he senses a faint resonance with Shuhang—but neither of them discovers the promised “unexpected harvest.”
Minister Black Horse returns with a broken saber that had tried to tempt him with promises of strength and power. When Shuhang touches it, the saber offers a remarkably slow path to cultivation. Shuhang mocks the bargain, and the Merit Snake Beauty destroys the weapon. The released Nine Nether Evil Energy is swiftly absorbed into Shuhang’s Core World.
In return for Master Turtle’s cooperation, Shuhang agrees to help free his companion, who has been transformed into an evil demon and trapped beneath a turtle shell in a forest sealing formation. He arrives with Master Turtle, the branch minister, and Shan, and approaches the seal under the Merit Snake Beauty’s protection.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains confident and practical: he probes the cultivation mystery, dismisses the saber’s tempting offer, and readily agrees to help Master Turtle.
• Master Turtle is initially cautious about sharing his alliance’s inheritance, but the Merit Snake Beauty’s compassionate, wise presence appears to change his attitude, prompting him to volunteer. He is grateful when Shuhang offers to rescue his companion.
• Miss Shan clarifies that she cannot yet split her attention between cultivation and study, explaining why she has never tested the combined practice.
• Minister Black Horse shows strong will by resisting the saber’s seductive influence, though he remains wary of it.
• The Merit Snake Beauty quietly influences Master Turtle and then takes decisive action by cutting the saber apart.

Significant themes

• Temptation versus resolve: The saber promises power, but its offer fails against Shuhang’s confidence and Black Horse’s discipline.
• Trust and reciprocity: Master Turtle’s cooperation is met with Shuhang’s willingness to help his endangered companion.
• Power and perspective: What the saber presents as an impressive cultivation shortcut seems laughably slow to Shuhang, highlighting how dramatically his own circumstances differ from ordinary cultivators.
• Unanswered mysteries: The cultivation technique and secret manual resonate, but their combined effect remains unexplained.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang uses Merit Snake Beauty and lotus roots to remove Nine Nether Evil Energy from Master Turtle’s companion. Because the corruption was caught early, the cultivator can recover, though he will need nourishment and treatment for lingering damage.
• One of Master Turtle’s young men reveals that a bronze bracelet has been whispering temptations to him. It is part of the same evil-artifact series as the Broken Saber and Broken Sword. Song Shuhang takes it for further study and warns that such objects can lure people into becoming Nine Nether Demons.
• Master Turtle learns that the Human Alliance has received nearly two hundred similar cases in a day; more than eighty percent of the victims have become irreversibly corrupted. Song Shuhang suspects a large-scale Nine Nether plot, perhaps connected to the approaching Heavenly Change.
• Song Shuhang offers to treat infected alliance members who can be brought to the Black Horse Branch. He also asks Master Turtle to investigate a route from the Beast Realm to the Present World, hoping to secure a way out amid the growing danger.
• A spatial door opens, and Daozi—the Confucian Sage’s foremost Thirteen-Tribulation Immortal—appears in a disheveled state. He borrows Song Shuhang’s Sage Scripture and gives him a magnificent palace in return, though it smells awful.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang again demonstrates both formidable power and practical compassion: he saves the cultivator, advises on recovery, and offers help to other victims. At the same time, he is alarmed by the scale of the crisis and wants a route back to safety.
• Master Turtle’s gratitude and respect deepen, and he quickly acts on Song Shuhang’s warnings by notifying the alliance and arranging a contribution of artifact-refining materials.
• Shan turns to Song Shuhang in desperation, then feels embarrassed at asking for so much. His reassurance comforts her.
• The three young men are inspired by Song Shuhang’s strength, but one is immediately targeted by the bracelet’s temptation—showing how vulnerable even hopeful cultivators can be.

Significant themes

• Temptation and vulnerability: The evil artifacts exploit personal desires for power, turning ambition into a path to corruption.
• Crisis and collective responsibility: The outbreak is too widespread for one person to solve alone, making communication and cooperation essential.
• Power used to protect: Song Shuhang’s strength is presented not just as an ideal to pursue, but as a means of saving others.
• Dark comedy amid danger: Daozi’s absurd appearance and the foul-smelling palace punctuate the chapter’s mounting threat with humor.

Key plot points and events

• Senior Daozi brings Song Shuhang an enormous, foul-smelling palace from the Confucian School: an Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment once used as the Beast God Division’s septic tank. Daozi borrows Shuhang’s scriptures, declaring that he plans to become a second Sage, rise above the heavens, and take revenge on the world.
• Daozi briefly offers to make Shuhang his disciple, but immediately decides Shuhang is unsuited to the Confucian path and leaves through a Space Gate.
• The palace’s stench overwhelms Shan, Master Turtle, and the others, though Shuhang can tolerate it. His “golden chain” lets him pass the palace’s barrier.
• Hoping to find a hidden decoding secret, Shuhang uses his painful Appraisal Secret Method. It reveals an ancient inscription on a brick near the rear entrance.
• Shuhang asks Scarlet Heaven Sword to translate the inscription. It turns out to be a crude joke left by a thief who once searched the palace and found nothing—not the secret Shuhang wanted.

Character developments and interactions

• Daozi remains erratic, but his ambitions are clear: he wants to emulate the Sage and exact revenge. His powerful, casual handling of the palace also hints at extraordinary strength. He considers teaching Shuhang, then rejects the idea because Shuhang has no connection to Confucianism.
• Shuhang is curious and persistent, enduring severe pain from his appraisal ability in pursuit of a hoped-for clue. He also tries to manage the palace despite its size and stench.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword teases Shuhang for only seeking his help when needed, then translates the inscription. The Merit Snake Beauty reluctantly lets the sword out but keeps hold of it.

Significant themes

• Ambition and revenge: Daozi’s desire to surpass the Sage is intertwined with vengeance, while his unstable behavior makes his intentions unsettling.
• Persistence and comic disappointment: Shuhang pays a painful price to uncover a clue, only to learn it is an irreverent joke.
• The absurdity of grandeur: A magnificent Heavenly Court palace is revealed to be a septic tank, and even its ancient inscription yields nothing useful.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang again searches the palace for Song Blockhead’s decoding method, but his Appraisal Secret Method reveals nothing. He wonders whether Daoist Mulan of the Empty Thieves’ Sect may have found and taken it.
• Unable to shrink the enormous palace, Shuhang uses Great Sea Turtle’s shell to move it. Its terrible odor begins escaping, so he seals the palace with its barrier, activated through a resonating golden chain.
• Shuhang and his companions bring the palace to the Black Horse Branch, where a visitor is waiting. The visitor is Umbrella Daoist, who has forgotten why he came.
• Shuhang spots a message on Umbrella Daoist’s umbrella: Pavilion Master Chu entrusted him with something. The item is a jade box containing a red-crystal likeness of Pavilion Master Chu, protected by five colored crystal diamonds. Scarlet Heaven Sword identifies it as a resurrection method for a Tribulation or Longevity Immortal. Shuhang secures it in his Core World.
• Umbrella Daoist returns to the Jadewater Pavilion through a Space Gate, reminding Shuhang that he owes him ten Sixth-Grade Spirit Stones.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains cautious and resourceful: he consults Great Sea Turtle, uses its shell and the golden chain to transport and contain the palace, and prepares for a possible hostile visitor before meeting Umbrella Daoist.
• Great Sea Turtle offers practical advice but cannot cast the shrinking spell in its current condition.
• Shan is excited by the arrival of Daozi, a Confucian School Tribulation Immortal, and follows Shuhang’s instructions to stay close to him.
• Umbrella Daoist’s severe forgetfulness creates confusion, though his notebook helps him remember the recent loan. His exchanges with Shuhang are comic, especially when Shuhang realizes the debt may persist in Umbrella Daoist’s memory even if repaid.

Significant themes

• Mystery and uncertainty: The palace’s purpose and the decoder’s location remain unresolved, while Pavilion Master Chu’s apparent resurrection plan raises new questions.
• Practical ingenuity: Shuhang overcomes problems through help from allies and improvised use of available tools.
• Comedy amid danger: The palace’s lethal stench and Umbrella Daoist’s unreliable memory provide humor alongside the serious revelation of a possible resurrection method.

Chapter 1239 Summary: “It’s Time for the Annual Harvest Again”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reflects on the mysterious Umbrella Taoist, an individual specially connected to Lord Chu. Even Song Shuhang cannot determine the Taoist’s cultivation level, especially since the Umbrella Taoist has forgotten it himself.
• Concerned that Lord Chu’s gift of a Resurrection Crystal signals a major upcoming plan, Song Shuhang asks Master Turtle to investigate a passage back to the human world.
• Master Turtle requests Song Shuhang’s help treating people infected by Nine Nether Evil Energy. Song agrees to cure anyone who can still be saved.
• After returning to his palace near the Black Horse Branch, Song Shuhang cultivates until evening.
• Master Turtle brings four demonized members of the human alliance to him. Using his Lotus root tendrils, Song extracts all the Evil Energy within seconds, while Merit Snake Beauty shields the room from observation.
• In return, Master Turtle leaves a treasure chest filled with valuable refining materials. Song Shuhang accepts them, recognizing that he will need vast resources to refine the Beast God Department’s Thirty-Three Beast Combined Magical Items.
• News of Song Shuhang’s healing ability spreads rapidly. More and more infected people arrive, including individuals connected to the alliance. Song agrees to treat them, while Master Turtle charges outsiders double the material fee.
• Over three hundred infected people are cured in a short time. Song Shuhang gains large quantities of refining materials, absorbs the extracted Evil Energy into his Core World, and slowly accumulates additional Merit power.
• A heavily demonized Dragon Beast attacks the Black Horse Branch, its strength rising from Rank Six toward Rank Seven. Merit Snake Beauty intervenes, dons the Flat Sky Crown, transforms into the majestic Merit Empress, and kills the Dragon Beast with a single sword strike.
• She brings the corpse back to Song Shuhang, whose Core World is nearly ready for its next upgrade and needs only a small amount of high-quality Evil Energy.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates growing confidence and efficiency as a healer. He can now cure multiple people infected with Nine Nether Evil Energy almost effortlessly.
• He also shows increasing business sense, realizing that his ability to cure demonization can bring him both cultivation materials and Merit power.
• Song remains cautious about Lord Chu’s intentions and prepares a potential route back to the human world.
• Master Turtle proves himself practical, diplomatic, and reliable. He coordinates treatment efforts, compensates Song with valuable materials, and expands the operation while managing outside relationships.
• Merit Snake Beauty gains a chance to use the Flat Sky Crown and briefly manifests the powerful Merit Empress form. Her effortless defeat of the Dragon Beast highlights her overwhelming strength.
• The Core World continues progressing toward another upgrade as it absorbs large amounts of Evil Energy.

Significant Themes

• “Harvest” and accumulation: Song Shuhang harvests Evil Energy, refining materials, Merit, and practical benefits through his healing work.
• Power used for mutual benefit: His ability helps save countless lives while also advancing his own cultivation and resources.
• Reputation and influence: News of Song’s healing spreads through the Beast Realm, rapidly increasing his importance and attracting more patients.
• Preparation for future dangers: The Resurrection Crystal, the search for a passage home, and Song’s plans to refine the Thirty-Three Combined Magical Items all suggest larger conflicts ahead.
• The danger of demonization: Nine Nether Evil Energy is shown to be a widespread and potentially catastrophic threat, capable of transforming ordinary creatures into powerful monsters.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Miss Shan discuss the mysterious Umbrella Taoist and his unknown cultivation level.
• Song and Master Turtle establish a cooperative relationship: Master Turtle provides access, patients, and materials, while Song provides life-saving treatment.
• Master Turtle carefully seeks Song’s permission before sending patients from outside the alliance, showing respect for Song’s status.
• The cured alliance members express gratitude to Song, strengthening his reputation among the human factions.
• Merit Snake Beauty acts as Song’s protector, first concealing his treatment operation and later defeating the attacking Dragon Beast on his behalf.