Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After the Planet with Eyes’s beam traps Sage Seven Cultivations in an illusion, the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber restores him and urges him to escape by summoning.
• Seven contacts Four Cultivations, but the Planet with Eyes distorts the summoning: Four is pulled from the moon to Seven instead. The two realize they are facing the planet and that their attacks would barely scratch it.
• The Phoenix Saber grows into a small sun and holds off the planet’s beams. When the planet’s smaller eye fires a beam through space toward Six Cultivations, Seven warns her.
• In Song Shuhang’s Core World, Six Cultivations is forging Reverse Whale Warrior gauntlets from Eighth-Grade Whale Sage Bone. The frame alone costs 51,050 units, and she secretly intends to make the gauntlets Seventh Grade before having them sealed for Song to use at Fourth Grade.
• The Planet with Eyes’s Chilling Holy Light breaks into the Core World. The Core World’s protective lotus shields Song, Six, and the Great Sea Turtle as the planet’s image appears in the starry void.
• The newcomers recognize the planet from its previous attack. Song suspects it is a god associated with the Church of the End and considers seeking Senior White Two’s unfinished planet-scale weapon.

Character developments and interactions

• Seven Cultivations is shaken by the planet’s overwhelming scale and relies on the Phoenix Saber’s guidance; his warning alerts Six to the danger.
• Four Cultivations is bewildered by the reversed summoning and shares Seven’s helplessness, though he still looks for ways to escape.
• Six Cultivations remains focused on her extravagant forging project until Seven’s warning and the Holy Light’s arrival reveal the threat.
• Song Shuhang recognizes the returning Holy Light and reacts with concern, while the Great Sea Turtle recalls the planet’s earlier encounter.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber protects Seven and fights the planet alone, while the Core World’s lotus automatically shields those inside it.

Significant themes

• Scale and powerlessness: Even immense cultivators and godlike beings may be helpless against a planet-sized enemy.
• Protection and connection: The planet attacks through links and across space, making allies’ connections both a means of rescue and a vulnerability.
• Cost and comic contrast: Six’s costly, overpowered forging plans provide humor amid the escalating cosmic danger.

Key plot points and events

• A sinister Holy Light from a giant, many-eyed planet begins forcing its way into Song Shuhang’s Core World. Unlike Nine Nether Evil Energy, it cannot be absorbed by the world.
• The giant sea turtle uses the Cold Cleaver Sword to activate Winter Hall’s defenses. They slow the Holy Light and disrupt its spatial passage, but cannot sever it.
• Song Shuhang teams up with the Merit Snake Beauty, who transforms into the Merit Empress and joins her power with his steel arms. Together they wield Scarlet Heaven Sword in a new form they call Heaven-Leveling Crown Steel-Hand Empress Mode.
• Their Heaven-Burning Flame Saber attack clashes with and suppresses the Holy Light, giving the turtle an opening to try to cut off the passage.
• Fairy Six Cultivations learns from Sage Seven Cultivator that the planet’s real target is her, because it wants to erase everything connected to the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber. Seven and Four Cultivations are trapped elsewhere, protected by the saber as its energy rapidly runs out.
• Seven warns Six not to summon them, since the disrupted connection would pull her into danger. Before they can resolve the situation, the planet fires a massive beam at Six’s location. The beam enters Song Shuhang’s Core World and is larger than the world itself.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang takes charge of the defense, coordinating with the turtle and relying on teamwork rather than his usual Core World absorption ability. His extraordinary attack surprises Fairy Six Cultivations, who had underestimated his strength.
• The Merit Snake Beauty shows both playful affection—fitting herself over Song Shuhang’s steel arms—and commanding power as the Merit Empress. Song and the beauty share control of their combined sword technique.
• The giant sea turtle displays confidence in Winter Hall’s defenses but is unsettled when they fail to shut the passage completely.
• Six Cultivations stays composed under pressure and seeks information from Seven, while Seven prioritizes protecting her by urging her to keep away from the danger.
• Four Cultivations’s dry remark about not having written a will adds humor to their desperate predicament.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and synergy: Song Shuhang, the Merit Snake Beauty, Scarlet Heaven Sword, and the turtle combine different abilities to resist a threat no one can handle alone.
• Limits of familiar powers: Song’s “roots” ability and even Winter Hall’s formidable defenses prove inadequate against the unfamiliar Holy Light.
• Protective sacrifice and urgency: The cultivators face dwindling resources and danger while trying to shield one another.
• Humor amid peril: The absurdly grand combined mode and the cultivators’ jokes contrast with the escalating threat.

Key events

• A planet’s Map Cannon, a world-destroying beam, breaks into Song Shuhang’s Core World and threatens to destroy it. The Core World is still undergoing an irreversible upgrade and is especially vulnerable.
• The attack locks down space, preventing Song from evacuating everyone or escaping. His companions—including Great Sea Turtle, Fairy Six Cultivations, Scarlet Heaven Sword, and Merit Snake Beauty—brace for likely death.
• With few options left, Song releases more than half the Core World’s stored Heavenly Tribulation weapons and removes their seals. The weapons meet the incoming beam, but outside the Tribulation World or Netherworld they do not detonate as intended: they become brilliant fireworks.
• The Core World’s defenses finally break, yet the beam does not reach them. The weapons’ explosions leave behind a lingering gray cloud that appears to obstruct the attack, though the cause is uncertain and the danger may not be over.
• The Core World begins to tremble as its upgrade nears completion. Its lotus projection sends out roots to draw in energy, but it has already consumed Song’s stored Nine Nether Evil Energy, and he has no obvious reserve left. He considers trying to reconnect with Senior White Two.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful and defiant despite feeling helpless. He tries to evacuate the group, then gambles on the Heavenly Tribulation weapons; when they fail to explode, he accepts that survival may depend on resurrection.
• Great Sea Turtle admits that his sealed cultivation prevents him from confronting the cannon or opening a safe escape route. He cautions that the gray cloud may only delay the attack.
• Fairy Six Cultivations feels responsible for involving Song and apologizes. She and the others share the fear of imminent death, while using grim humor to cope.
• Merit Snake Beauty instinctively shields Song, fulfilling her role as his embodied merit, even though she likely cannot withstand the attack.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword promises revenge for Song if it survives. The unconscious white-furred beast cultivator briefly wakes, sees the beam, and faints again.

Significant themes

• Courage under overwhelming odds: Song keeps looking for ways to protect his companions even when defeat seems certain.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: The group faces danger together, and Merit Snake Beauty’s protective gesture embodies devotion.
• Improvisation and uncertainty: Song’s desperate plan produces an unexpected barrier, but neither he nor the others understand why it works.
• Fragile progress: The Core World’s upgrade could offer a path to help, yet its need for energy leaves them in a precarious position.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang finally establishes a connection between his Core World and Senior White Two’s Evil Lotus World, hoping to get the Nine Nether Evil Energy needed to finish the Core World’s upgrade.
• Senior White Two cannot come in person: his incarnation’s signal is blocked, and he cannot recall it while the Core World is upgrading. Instead, he sends Nine Nether Evil Energy in the form of stainless-steel basins, kitchen knives, and scissors—items he had planned to trade for valuables after Song’s world was destroyed.
• The Core World absorbs the energy and completes its advancement. It then slips into a strange, illusory “Pure Land Domain,” where it becomes untouchable by outside attacks but can no longer affect the outside world.
• The big-eyed planet’s world-destroying beam passes harmlessly through the Core World, and the world’s severed coordinates prevent further targeting. Song and the others are safe.
• Song transfers Fairy Six Cultivations and the sea turtle to the Beast Realm, while Sacred Ape Great Vajra returns to the Evil Lotus World. As Song begins reinforcing the upgraded Core World, a remnant of sinister Holy Light suddenly forms a blade and attacks him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful under pressure, seeking Senior White Two’s help and trusting him despite his warning about his Netherworld identity. After surviving the attack, he moves on to strengthen the Core World.
• Senior White Two provides the needed energy, but in his eccentric way: he sends household goods and jokes about bartering for the wreckage. His warning hints that lending Nine Nether Evil Energy may have consequences.
• Sacred Ape Great Vajra, now apparently tamed and working as Senior White Two’s pet, is friendly toward Song. He asks Song to tell the Beast Realm that he is content in his new job but will return after decades of training.
• Fairy Six Cultivations worries when she cannot contact Seven Cultivations and Four Cultivations through the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, suggesting they may be in trouble.
• The sea turtle, Scarlet Heaven Sword, and Great Vajra reflect on the Core World’s strange transformation and possible nature.

Significant themes

• Trust and unexpected aid: Song accepts help from Senior White Two despite knowing his dangerous role in the Netherworld.
• Transformation and survival: The Core World’s evolution turns vulnerability into protection, but its refuge comes with isolation from the outside world.
• Comedic contrast amid danger: Senior White Two’s bizarre barter plans and the basin-and-knife delivery provide humor during a near-apocalyptic crisis.
• Unresolved danger: The Core World’s safety does not end the threat entirely; the final attack shows that danger remains within its own walls.

Plot points and events

• A detached mass of Chilling Holy Light attacks Song Shuhang, apparently capable of serving as a beacon for the Eyed Planet to reopen a spatial passage. Merit Snake Beauty shields him, and Song reinforces her defenses with his Armor Saber Intent.
• Song’s Core World tendrils and Scarlet Heaven Sword’s Heaven-Burning Flame Saber fail to harm the Holy Light. Merit Snake Beauty’s Merit-powered Saber Intent, however, steadily breaks it apart.
• Song discovers he can wield Holy Light through his peculiar “Holy Light Swordsmanship.” His first-form attack destroys the main mass, but a remnant on the Whale Sage Bone forging platform mutates into a substance combining ordinary and Chilling Holy Light.
• Song asks Senior White Two to inspect it. White Two rejects the offering, comparing Holy Light to feces, but agrees to send someone for the newly discovered artifact-refining method and promises Song a gift. He also warns that Song’s luck is poor.
• Song confirms his bad luck when he trips on flat ground and nearly falls onto the mutated Holy Light. He narrowly avoids it by using Black Lotuses to leap clear.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang acts quickly to protect his Core World and allies, reveals his unusual Holy Light technique, and offers the strange substance to Senior White Two as thanks. He remains comically self-aware about his misfortune.
• Merit Snake Beauty proves especially effective against Chilling Holy Light, using her Merit-enhanced Saber Intent to defend Song and overwhelm the threat.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword helps analyze the Holy Light’s weaknesses and teases Song about his only sword technique, while also warning him about his darkening luck.
• Senior White Two maintains his irreverent, threatening humor, but acknowledges Song’s sincerity and offers practical help.

Significant themes

• Unexpected strengths and countermeasures: Merit Power and Song’s unusual Holy Light technique succeed where conventional attacks fail.
• Luck and comic misfortune: The danger is followed by a mundane trip that nearly creates a new crisis.
• Trust and generosity: Song’s sincere wish to repay Senior White Two contrasts with White Two’s suspicion and jokes.
• Unintended consequences: Song’s attack destroys the main threat but transforms the remaining Holy Light into an unknown substance.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang revives beside the Core World’s Living Spring using his Life-Talisman. He has no memory of what killed him: his last recollection is dodging Holy Light after a vast, eye-covered planet attacked the Core World.
• His body reforms intact, though his magical treasures are missing. He has lost the temporary liquid form Phoenix Slayer gave him, but feels physically stronger and says his Dao Heart has been steadied by death.
• Pavilion Master Chu explains that the Life-Talisman draws on a Longevity Immortal’s Dao and is exceptionally powerful. Shuhang reveals it was compensation from a senior for consuming one of his revival Bamboo Shoot Leaves. He mourns that it was wasted on a death he cannot explain.
• Before investigating, Shuhang notices Pavilion Master Chu is troubled. She is jealous at the thought that Song Blockhead learned Cheng Lin’s closely guarded Longevity Method, and suspects they shared an intimate bond.
• Shuhang proposes that Cheng Lin may have formed a Spirit Ghost Contract with Song Blockhead, allowing him to borrow her Longevity power. Chu finds the idea plausible and becomes hopeful.
• Chu then teases Shuhang about whether he might take another dual-cultivation partner besides Ye Si. The conversation leaves him at a loss while improving her mood.
• In the Winter Hall’s forging workshop, Scarlet Heaven Sword finds Shuhang in a puddle of liquid on top of the Whale Sage Bone gauntlet and tells him to stop playing around—suggesting his strange death involved being reduced to liquid.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is relieved to be alive but devastated that his rare, one-use revival talisman has been consumed. He remains cautious, knowing he can no longer rely on it, and tries to comfort Chu with theories about Cheng Lin and Song Blockhead.
• Pavilion Master Chu moves from concern about the attack to melancholy and jealousy over Song Blockhead’s connection with Cheng Lin. Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost Contract theory restores her hope, and teasing him helps lift her spirits.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword appears to know what happened to Shuhang and addresses him in his liquid state, setting up the explanation of his death.

Significant themes

• Mortality and resilience: Revival restores Shuhang, but the Life-Talisman is now gone, making future danger more serious.
• The cost and uniqueness of power: A Longevity Dao is portrayed as deeply personal and ordinarily impossible to pass on; the possible Spirit Ghost bond offers an exception.
• Bad luck and unintended consequences: Shuhang survives major threats only to die mysteriously afterward.
• Love, jealousy, and bonds: Chu’s feelings for Song Blockhead surface through her distress over his relationship with Cheng Lin, while her teasing Shuhang highlights the complicated connection between a Spirit Ghost and its master.

Song Shuhang appears to die while dodging a strange Holy Light during the forging of the Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets. He reappears at a resurrection point thanks to a pre-placed Life-Talisman, but Scarlet Heaven Sword and Merit Snake Beauty discover that his original body has liquefied and is wrapping itself around the gauntlets. The liquid body remains alive and seems to be merging with the weapon, leaving Song Shuhang with two apparently genuine bodies.
Using the Appraisal Secret Method, Shuhang learns that the gauntlets are a semi-finished artifact intended to reach Seventh-Grade Perfect quality—and that his liquid body is being used as forging material. The result claims he deliberately put himself into the Holy Light Flame to refine his intrinsic magical artifact. Shuhang rejects this as absurd, insisting he would never willingly sacrifice himself. Scarlet Heaven Sword suggests he was either irrational or possessed.
Shuhang asks Senior White Two to review what happened. Senior White confirms that the Holy Light behaved like an illusion, but says it was only the trigger: Shuhang’s Heart Demon was activated, likely through his connection to Ye Si, who is undergoing tribulation. A dormant deadly poison in Shuhang’s body also weakened him, combining with the Heart Demon and Holy Light to make him act against his will. His protection from Merit Light and the Sage Seal was not enough to prevent this indirect attack.
Character developments and interactions: Shuhang is confused and alarmed by his apparent self-sacrifice and the wasted Life-Talisman, but investigates rather than accepting the appraisal at face value. Scarlet Heaven Sword reports what it witnessed and offers possible explanations; Merit Snake Beauty protects Shuhang as he approaches the dangerous body. Senior White Two, despite being busy barbecuing in his cocoon, reviews the incident and identifies its interacting causes. Their teasing, especially about Shuhang’s supposed recklessness, underscores their familiar but irreverent relationship.
Significant themes: The chapter explores the danger of losing agency when multiple threats converge, the limits of spiritual protections, and the unsettling possibility of bodily duplication or transformation. Its comedy—particularly Shuhang’s denial and the companions’ jokes—contrasts with the serious revelation that his own body can become a weapon-forging material against his conscious intent.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang learns that a trace of the deadly poison he once received at Jadewater Pavilion remained in his body. Senior White Two also finds that Shuhang had been cursed by a force associated with his enemy, likely because he treated many victims of Nine Nether Evil Energy in the Beast Realm. The curse vanished when Shuhang died and was resurrected, but he has no resurrections left.
• Senior White Two offers to look for information on the Mysterious Maiden Sect’s Skylark, whom Shuhang recently saw demonstrating extraordinary strength. In return, he demands jokes from Shuhang.
• The Strange Holy Light on Shuhang’s Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets has fused with his body and erased its imprint. Senior White Two proposes that Shuhang make two sets of every component in his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact: one for himself and one for Senior White Two. Shuhang admits he cannot forge artifacts, so Senior White Two arranges to negotiate with Fairy Six Cultivations.
• Senior White Two offers Fairy Six Cultivations a deal: she will forge two complete artifact sets, and he will retrieve Seven Cultivations and Four Cultivations, who are battling a powerful, eye-covered planet.
• Senior White Two reveals that he had already been tracking the planet. He has sent No. 1 and No. 3 to lock onto its location so he can attempt to pull it into the Netherworld and confront it himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is shaken by the realization that another death would be final, yet remains eager to pursue opportunities involving cultivation materials and Nine Nether Evil Energy. He also remembers his promise to ask about Skylark and negotiates awkwardly with Senior White Two over the favors he owes.
• Senior White Two teases Shuhang—especially about the “Roll, Little Ox” joke—and turns Shuhang’s request for help into a bargain. Though playful and opportunistic, he intends to confront the planet regardless of the deal.
• Fairy Six Cultivations is frightened by Senior White Two’s overwhelming presence but speaks up for the two people most important to her. Her concern for Seven and Four Cultivations drives her request.
• The Great Sea Turtle notices Shuhang’s changed condition after his resurrection and is promised an explanation. Six Cultivations and the Turtle are summoned back to the Core World.

Significant themes

• Risk and mortality: Shuhang’s lack of remaining resurrections makes his usual recklessness newly dangerous.
• Bargains and favors: Assistance is framed as a trade, with Senior White Two setting playful or arbitrary prices.
• Loyalty and protection: Six Cultivations is willing to negotiate for the safety of Seven and Four Cultivations.
• Power and vulnerability: Shuhang moves among immensely powerful beings, while Six Cultivations’s fear underscores the gulf between their strength and hers.

Plot points and events

• Senior White Two departs to deal with the eyeball planet. Song Shuhang’s thoughts about the planet’s Holy Light accidentally transmit disgusting images to the senior during a barbecue; Senior White Two cuts the connection for good.
• Fairy Six Cultivations resumes forging Song Shuhang’s life-bound treasure, the Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets. She discovers that Song’s liquefied former body is fused into them, the result of his earlier attempt to refine the treasure with his body.
• Using the forging flame seed and her hammers, Fairy Six Cultivations completes the gauntlets’ frame. Song discovers that the treasure is already linked to him: when he moves his thumb, the gauntlet’s thumb moves too, and hammering the treasure causes him pain.
• Song inscribes the formation, but his liquefied body transforms into a pearl and takes the place of the planned Whale Spirit Beast Crystal. His Profound Sage Seal then stamps the finished treasure, elevating it to Eighth Grade.
• The treasure is usable because it was made with a sealing stage. Song identifies it as an Eighth-Grade gauntlet in a four-layer sealed state; each seal can be removed as he advances in cultivation.
• Song tests its Giant Whale Jet fist technique. It is useful, though weaker than his Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist. He senses a surprising resemblance between the two techniques.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains a powerful, deeply integrated life-bound treasure and feels unusually relaxed as it improves the flow of his Innate True Essence. He also realizes that many harmful effects once afflicting his liquefied body—such as curses, poison, Holy Light, illusions, and Heart Demons—have become properties of the gauntlets.
• Fairy Six Cultivations remains focused on completing the forging despite its unprecedented method. She had planned for the treasure’s high grade by leaving it sealable, allowing Song to use it before reaching Eighth Grade.
• Senior White Two reassures Song’s companions by going to rescue Four Cultivations and Seven Cultivations, but his humorous exchange with Song ends abruptly after the unwanted mental images.
• The giant tortoise and Scarlet Heaven Sword explain the effects of the Sage Seal and recognize the treasure’s Eighth-Grade quality.

Significant themes

• Risk and transformation: Song’s reckless self-sacrifice becomes an essential part of his treasure, turning bodily loss into strength.
• Growth and restraint: The four seals let Song wield a treasure beyond his current realm while reserving its full abilities for future advancement.
• The bond between cultivator and treasure: The gauntlets’ physical and spiritual connection to Song makes them fundamentally different from an ordinary weapon.
• Unexpected value in hardship: Song’s former afflictions are not simply erased; they are incorporated into the treasure as powers and effects.

Chapter summary

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang finishes refining his Natal Dharma Artifact, the Reverse Whale Warrior gauntlet. Though it is an Eighth-Grade Dharma Artifact, its seals currently limit it to Fourth-Grade power. It strengthens techniques, restores his energy, adds damage effects, and lets him use the Fifth-Grade secret technique Reverse Whale Golden Body early—but at the cost of harming his constitution.
• Shuhang notices that Giant Whale Jet and Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist share similarities, especially their ability to create phantom images. He wonders whether their strengths might be combined someday, while his companions joke about ridiculous names for the result.
• The Core World needs more Nine Nether Evil Energy to continue expanding, so Shuhang returns to the Beast Realm and resumes treating contaminated patients. With Merit Snake Beauty shielding him, he cautiously removes the Evil Energy, stores it for the Core World, and earns materials for future artifacts and Merit Power.
• During a treatment session, Merit Snake Beauty warns Shuhang that one patient carries a curse. The tiger-striped “patient” reveals himself as Tiger Soul, a Nine Netherworld creature and the operative leading an operation in the Beast Realm. He attacks a nearby patient, but Fairy Six Cultivations intercepts him with a golden spear.
• Tiger Soul’s body explodes, spreading cursed Nine Nether Evil Energy through the room. Shuhang’s gauntlet releases Holy-Light-infused tentacles that ignite and purify the Evil Energy, absorbing its curse.
• A telepathic message from the loyal gatekeeping tigers of Senior White Two then urgently tells Shuhang to return to the Present World—or face serious consequences.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang is pleased with his newly completed artifact, though amused and frustrated that his hoped-for sword—or even saber—has become a gauntlet. He also shows greater caution after being cursed previously.
• Fairy Six Cultivations stays close to Shuhang, hoping to learn news about Seven Cultivations and Four Cultivations. She also acts quickly to defend the patients when Tiger Soul attacks.
• Miss Shan remains grateful and supportive, insisting the patients offer materials willingly in return for Shuhang’s treatment.
• Tiger Soul’s apparent patient disguise gives way to his role as an enemy observer; his exaggerated reaction after being speared suggests he may be feigning weakness or theatrically staging his defeat.

Significant themes

• Growth through adaptation: Shuhang’s unexpected gauntlet pushes him to reconsider his fighting style and the potential to combine techniques.
• Service and gratitude: His medical work helps the Beast Realm, while the patients’ offered materials support his future cultivation.
• Caution amid hidden threats: The disguised Tiger Soul demonstrates that danger can appear even during routine treatment.
• Power with a price: Shuhang’s advanced secret technique can save him, but risks damaging his body.

Plot points and events

• Gatekeeper Tiger warns Song Shuhang that Senior White Two wants him back in the Present World as soon as possible—within ten minutes. Shuhang leaves the Beast Realm, though the hostile tiger-striped Beast Cultivator who attacked him has apparently escaped or was only a clone.
• Before departing, Shuhang explains to Miss Shan, Master Turtle, and the Black Horse Branch head that a Nine Nether Demon infiltrated the patients. He reassures them that they were not at fault and says he must leave because a dangerous enemy has targeted him; he even “died” once during their distant exchange.
• Shuhang gives Miss Shan a Sage Seal on her wrist as a parting gift, then uses a transmission rune to jump back to Earth. The violent arrival briefly leaves him clinging to a woman’s twenty-first-floor window before he escapes with Blade Flight and an illusion technique.
• After checking the date, Shuhang discovers it is September 22, 2019—one day ahead of Beast Realm time—and that he has missed a full week of classes. He cannot reach Su Clan’s Sixteen, but Senior White answers: he and Sixteen are adventuring underwater and will return that night.
• Senior White reminds Shuhang that Doudou’s wedding is tomorrow, on September 23. Shuhang realizes he has completely forgotten to prepare a wedding gift.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains candid and impulsive; telepathic communication lets his unfiltered thoughts reach others, including Gatekeeper Tiger. Despite being in a hurry, he shows concern for the Beast Realm’s people and affection toward Miss Shan.
• Master Turtle is alarmed to learn Shuhang faced an opponent powerful enough to cause his apparent death, but Shuhang absolves him and the others of blame for the infiltration.
• Miss Shan accepts Shuhang’s mysterious wrist-stamp after Master Turtle explains its significance. Their brief farewell suggests a friendly bond, though they have known each other only a short time.
• Dameng’s startling glimpse of Shuhang’s awkward arrival becomes a comic misunderstanding with her mother, who dismisses it as an illusion and reminds her she is about to be late for work.
• Senior White and Shuhang reconnect warmly by phone, exchange practical updates, and discuss the looming wedding.

Significant themes

• The costs of extraordinary adventures: Shuhang’s urgent mission disrupts ordinary life, costing him a week of classes and threatening his attendance record.
• Limits and risks of communication: Telepathy is convenient but exposes private, even subconscious thoughts.
• Parting and connection: Shuhang leaves the Beast Realm abruptly, yet his gift to Miss Shan and his renewed contact with friends preserve personal ties.
• Humor amid danger: A life-threatening confrontation and chaotic return are followed by comic mishaps and Shuhang’s sudden panic over Doudou’s wedding.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang returns from the Beast Realm and speaks with Senior White, who says Doudou’s wedding is only a day away—and likely to become complicated because no one knows who the groom will be.
• Senior White reports that Onion Lady’s Heart Demon Tribulation has stabilized, while Xiao Cai’s remains troublesome. His clone is taking them, along with other affected cultivators, to Dharma King Creation’s concert in hopes that Creation’s singing can help.
• Song Shuhang learns that Senior White arranged for the willow demon Qingwu to impersonate him at school. The disguise worked, but Qingwu’s natural feminine charm left classmates thinking Shuhang had become unusually coquettish.
• Gao Moumou also discovers Shuhang’s name on the cast list for Senior Three Waves’ film My Unrestrained Life. Shuhang has no idea how he became involved and suspects Venerable Spirit Butterfly may be responsible.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen welcomes Shuhang back and invites him to Creation’s concert. Her behavior has temporarily changed after a recent encounter, though Senior White says she will soon recover. She also jokes—or perhaps speaks earnestly—about having grown taller.
• Shuhang contacts Pavilion Master Chu, but she cannot locate Time City in her weakened state. She gives him a formation to learn so he can search for it with the Jadewater Pavilion Token; Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu should be safe there for now.
• Planning to visit his parents, Shuhang calls home and learns that a handsome foreign guest named Nicholas Dou has been waiting for him. Shuhang’s startled reaction closes the chapter.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang is relieved and grateful that Senior White handled his school absence, but embarrassed by the impression Qingwu left behind. He shares a warm reunion with Sixteen, who checks whether he was hurt; he admits he died once but was revived by a life talisman.
• Gao Moumou teases Shuhang about his apparent change in manner and his unexpected movie role, prompting Shuhang to improvise an explanation.
• Soft Feather is eager to hear about Shuhang’s adventures and is also heading to Creation’s concert with Senior Brother Liu.
• Pavilion Master Chu remains physically incapacitated, but gives Shuhang a practical way to try to reunite with Chu Chu and Yinzhu.

Significant themes

• The chapter mixes the extraordinary dangers of cultivation—death, Heart Demon Tribulations, and lost locations—with ordinary concerns such as school, family visits, and friends’ teasing.
• It emphasizes the support Shuhang receives from his companions, while also using mistaken identity and unexpected social consequences for comedy.
• Several unresolved threads—Doudou’s wedding, the concert’s effect on heart demons, the film casting, and Nicholas Dou’s visit—build anticipation for what comes next.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang returns home after hearing that someone named Nicholas Dou has visited. He discovers the visitor is Doudou, disguised as a blond human with an illusion device and using an ID card Snow Wolf Cave Master had made for him.
• Doudou explains that True Lord Yellow Mountain let him leave for the day before his wedding. He is anxious because he is expected to be the bride, yet the groom he met is male. He had considered what he would do if he suddenly turned female, including seeking surgery to become male again.
• Doudou admits he visited old friends partly to recruit someone to share the wedding embarrassment as a bridesmaid. He refuses to ask female cultivators, fearing their teasing.
• Song Shuhang suggests Doudou stop accepting the role of bride and instead act as the groom, gathering groomsmen to bring home his bride. Doudou immediately embraces the idea and asks Shuhang to be his groomsman.

Character developments

• Doudou is unusually subdued and anxious about the wedding, though his usual rebellious humor remains. He insists he does not regret provoking Yellow Mountain, and plans to run away after the ceremony. Song Shuhang’s suggestion restores his enthusiasm by giving him a way to reframe the wedding.
• Song Shuhang shows concern for his friend, trying to comfort him and offering a practical—and amusing—alternative to being forced into the bride’s role.

Significant themes

• Friendship and shared burdens: Doudou treats friendship as a reason to enlist Shuhang in the wedding, while Shuhang’s support reflects their long, complicated bond.
• Responsibility and consequences: Doudou claims he must accept the fallout from his prank on Yellow Mountain, even as he plots to escape afterward.
• Identity and imposed roles: The chapter humorously questions who gets to define Doudou’s role in the marriage, culminating in his decision to act as the groom rather than the bride.

Character interactions

• Doudou’s candid explanations leave Shuhang repeatedly baffled, especially his fears about becoming female and his plan to flee after the wedding.
• Shuhang first refuses to be Doudou’s bridesmaid, then proposes the groom-and-groomsmen alternative. Doudou eagerly recruits him once the idea appeals to his pride.

Plot points and events

• Doudou pressures Song Shuhang into being his best man for a wedding scheduled for the next day. Shuhang nearly refuses, but agrees; Doudou then bites him in mock anger, finding that Shuhang’s body has grown so tough it barely leaves marks.
• Song Shuhang’s mother brings them pastries and learns that Doudou is getting married. After she leaves, Doudou asks about Shuhang’s plans to protect his parents as they age. Shuhang explains that he has already given them the life-extending Living Spring and hopes to provide them with the Confucian Virtuous Golden Lotus and Senior White’s planned cultivation-training system.
• The pair search online for wedding advice, including tips for a dog’s wedding. Doudou considers inviting friends but worries they will think he is trying to trick them into being bridesmaids again. He also warns Shuhang not to pair him with Three Waves, fearing the two would cause trouble together.
• Shuhang asks Senior Three Days to be a best man, but Three Days dodges the request with a truthful “99% battery” excuse. He agrees to bring the young monk Guoguo as a flower boy, while attending the wedding only as a guest.
• Shuhang and Doudou head to Dharma King Creation’s concert. Doudou agrees to accompany Shuhang if Shuhang helps assemble a best-man party.
• During the flight, Shuhang contacts Senior White Two about the rescue of Four Cultivations and Seven Cultivations. They have been rescued, but the attempt to capture the eye-bearing planet failed: it fled to the Beast Realm, putting that realm in trouble.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains dutiful toward both friends and family: he accepts Doudou’s request and has already taken practical steps to extend his parents’ lives. He handles the wedding problem by turning to online research and recruiting acquaintances.
• Doudou reveals a softer, anxious side beneath his bluster. He is excited but nervous about his wedding and its arrangements, and relies on Shuhang for help. Their teasing friendship is underscored by the biting gag and their shared complaints.
• Senior Three Days declines the best-man role but stays honest, citing his phone’s actual battery level rather than inventing an excuse. He still offers to bring Guoguo as the flower boy.
• Mom Song is warm and considerate, giving the young men privacy after hearing their conversation.

Significant themes

• Family care and mortality: Shuhang is planning how to protect his parents even though they are too old to begin cultivation easily.
• Friendship and mutual obligation: Doudou’s coercive request is played for comedy, but Shuhang ultimately supports him; Doudou in turn agrees to accompany Shuhang to an unpleasant concert.
• Honesty and comic practicality: Senior Three Days’ refusal reflects his commitment to not lying, while Shuhang and Doudou tackle a supernatural dog wedding with ordinary internet searches.
• Unexpected consequences: The failed capture of the eye-bearing planet shifts the danger to the Beast Realm, setting up a wider crisis.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White Two explains that the Planet with Eyes escaped because it avoided his trap. Unable to use his full power in the Present World, he could not stop it; the creature had gone to the Beast Realm looking for Song Shuhang, hoping to trace him to Fairy Six Cultivations and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• Senior White Two warns Song Shuhang to stay away from the Beast Realm: both the Planet with Eyes and his own archenemy have targeted it. Song worries about Miss Shan and the Black Horse Branch but has no way to contact them.
• Senior White Two asks Song to forge him another Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact set and says he will join Song in playing Roll, Little Ox. Song considers asking Fairy Six Cultivations to make another Reverse Whale Warrior gauntlet.
• In the Core World, Song confirms to Fairy Six Cultivations that Seven Cultivations and Four Cultivations are safe. She can forge the gauntlet only if she has access to the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Fire. The saber’s connection to her suddenly returns, apparently because Senior White Two overheard them and restored it.
• Song returns to the Present World and talks with Doudou, who says Song’s Sage Seal aura—and the ominous presence accompanying his mental communication—nearly overwhelmed him. Song then plans to contact the seniors in the Nine Provinces Number One Group about Puppet Girl’s repairs.
• The group discusses Doudou’s upcoming wedding and possible gifts. Phoenix Slayer jokes that Doudou would most appreciate “Chu Chus,” prompting a playful exchange about Doudou’s unusual fixation and Three Waves’ teasing of Snow Wolf Cave Master.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains concerned for people in the Beast Realm and continues organizing help for his allies. His powerful Sage Seal is becoming difficult for him to control, affecting those around him.
• Senior White Two shows both formidable ability and practical limits in the Present World. He helps Fairy Six Cultivations regain access to the saber’s fire and maintains his teasing, game-playing rapport with Song.
• Fairy Six Cultivations remains bound to the saber and has her realm suppressed, but persists in cultivating. Her craft depends on the Phoenix Fire, making her renewed connection important.
• Doudou complains about the pressure from Song’s aura and resolves to train after the wedding. His friends’ teasing highlights his long-standing “Chu Chu” preference.
• Phoenix Slayer, Three Waves, and the group members trade jokes while discussing the wedding, showing their familiar, irreverent camaraderie.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Even a powerful figure such as Senior White Two cannot freely intervene in the Present World.
• Loyalty and concern: Song’s first thoughts after the warning are the safety of his acquaintances in the Beast Realm.
• Growing strength and responsibility: Song’s Sage Seal is powerful enough to intimidate others, but he has not yet mastered it.
• Humor and fellowship: Serious danger and cultivation concerns are balanced by playful banter among the seniors.

• Doudou’s wedding gifts: The Nine Provinces Number One Group jokes about what to give Doudou, then starts offering extravagant presents. Doudou requests an Immortal Ark, a walking tractor, a jet, an aura-concealing artifact, a fast flying sword, a convincing Stand-in Puppet, and “Chu Chus” in bulk. Several seniors claim specific gifts, while Jiaoba sets off to capture a fish demon named Chu Chu. Doudou also threatens to make trouble if Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s gift—a bone—isn’t good enough, recalling that Phoenix Slayer and Zhou Li once cut off his internet.
• Song Shuhang and the concert: Song Shuhang returns from the Beast Realm and heads to Dharma King Creation’s concert with Doudou. The group jokes about the concert and discusses earplugs, but Creation catches on and insists Shuhang sit near the front. Shuhang is quietly alarmed at the prospect.
• Su Clan’s Seven’s tribulation: Su Clan’s Seven reveals that he has completed his Fifth-Grade Tribulation Transcendence. His Heart Demon Tribulation was resolved by a long-dead ancestor, Su Clan Knot, who appeared, pulled out the heart demon, and ate it like a biscuit. The bizarre story astonishes the group, especially because recent Heart Demon Tribulations have been trapping cultivators.
• Materials for Shuhang: Su Clan’s Seven offers Shuhang materials he owes him. Shuhang says he has only made one gauntlet and still needs thirty-two more Natal Dharma Artifacts. Seven is shocked by the scale of Shuhang’s project.
  Character developments and interactions: Doudou eagerly embraces the attention and uses his wedding to demand gifts and tease his friends. The group’s playful banter is disrupted by the revelation that Su Clan Knot can consume heart demons, hinting at a potentially important answer to the current tribulation crisis. Su Clan’s Seven, newly returned from his own ordeal, reconnects with Shuhang and offers practical support.
  Themes: The chapter mixes comic camaraderie and gift-giving with a serious supernatural mystery: Heart Demon Tribulations are behaving abnormally, and Su Clan Knot’s unexplained intervention may offer a clue. It also highlights the group’s generosity and the absurd scale of Shuhang’s cultivation path.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang tells the Nine Provinces Number One Group that he is refining the Thirty-Three Beasts Combined Natal Dharma Artifacts, linked to his cultivation technique. The first is a pair of Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets; he only needs to combine the finished cores, since Fairy Six Cultivations arranged for an expert to forge them.
• Shuhang explains that Senior Seven Cultivations suffered an accident after passing his tribulation but is now safe. He keeps the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber secret.
• Senior White says Shuhang’s modified treasured saber is ready and proposes opening a shop together to add practical modifications—especially guardrails—to flying swords and sabers. Shuhang enthusiastically agrees.
• At a Battle Buddha Sect branch temple, Dharma King Creation prepares a concert for cultivators suffering from the Heart Demon Tribulation. He hopes his singing can help them and dreams of becoming a star across the cultivation world and the Myriad Heavens and Realms.
• Guests bring afflicted companions to test whether Creation’s singing will help. Soft Feather confirms it once dispersed her own heart demons.
• Shuhang arrives with Doudou, while Senior White’s Clone returns Onion Lady and Xiao Cai to him and promptly disperses. Doudou suspects the clone simply wanted to avoid the concert.
• Shuhang drags Doudou into the front row, despite Doudou’s attempt to sit farther away. Jiang Ziyan provides earplugs for them.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang is progressing on an ambitious set of matching artifacts and is eager to collaborate with Senior White on a modification business.
• The group teases Shuhang about his lack of sword talent and his unusual first artifact, while Su Clan’s Seven offers help obtaining materials.
• Creation’s ambition grows beyond ordinary-world fame: he wants to become a cultivation-world superstar, and he intends to give the concert everything he has.
• Jiang Ziyan anxiously hopes Creation can awaken Medicine Master, who remains unconscious in his Heart Demon Tribulation. Soft Feather reassures her from personal experience.
• Shuhang and Doudou’s playful friendship shows its familiar strain: Shuhang insists good friends should share hardship, while Doudou reluctantly complies because Shuhang still owes him help with his wedding.
• Liu Jianyi is amused by the idea of conserving energy, echoing the explanation for Senior White’s Clone’s departure.

Significant themes

• Facing inner trials: The Heart Demon Tribulation is universal across cultivation systems, and the concert offers an unconventional hope for helping those trapped in it.
• Ambition and reinvention: Creation wants to turn an unusual talent into a career that spans worlds.
• Friendship and comic inconvenience: Shuhang’s teasing loyalty repeatedly draws Doudou into situations he would rather avoid.
• Cultivation alongside everyday enterprise: The artifact work and proposed shop blend magical craftsmanship with practical, humorous ideas.

• Waiting for Dharma King Creation’s concert: Song Shuhang recounts his dangerous adventure in the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Winter Hall to Soft Feather, keeping the Northern Great Emperor’s resurrection secret. The group then jokes about Song Shuhang’s short legs; Doudou teases both him and the even shorter-legged Liu Jianyi. Soft Feather invites Song Shuhang to follow her livestream of Dharma King Creation’s concert and reminds him that she has warned viewers about its dangers.
• Passing the time: Since the concert will not begin until four, Jiang Ziyan suggests playing Werewolf. Soft Feather, Doudou, and True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey join, while the lazy Liu Jianyi opts out and Song Shuhang watches to learn. Master Profound Principle is left out because his Mouth-Sealing Zen prevents him from speaking.
• An awkward gaming reunion: Nearby, a young Daoist boasts about repeatedly defeating an opponent in a competitive game. The Buddhist master beside him reveals that he is the very player the Daoist had mocked—“Soaring Straight into the Clouds.” His calm response, “Karma,” leaves the Daoist mortified, prompting the chapter’s joke that the Buddhist Sect’s affinity is terrifying.
• Song Shuhang’s Core World expands: During the games, Song Shuhang senses his Core World complete its first expansion stage. The new area includes cultivated farmland near the Living Spring. He considers planting unused spirit plants there, along with a precious Seven Radiant Wonderfruit seed, but the Great Sea Turtle advises him to fertilize the soil first. The Turtle then decides to accompany him to the concert.
  Character developments and interactions: Soft Feather shows enthusiasm about sharing her livestream; Liu Jianyi’s laziness is played for laughs; and Song Shuhang gains new farmland that may support future cultivation. The chapter’s lighthearted group banter contrasts with the more consequential development of his expanding Core World, while the Daoist’s run-in with his supposed “weak” opponent delivers a comic lesson in humility.

Chapter Summary: “You’re Too Naive”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang is caught staring at Soft Feather’s long legs, prompting Doudou to embarrassingly explain that Shuhang was mesmerized by them.
• Doudou reveals that Shuhang once considered women’s legs unremarkable, a fact he overheard from Shuhang’s roommates while disguised as an adorable dog.
• Jiang Ziyan and Soft Feather tease Shuhang about his Sage Name, “Tyrant Song.” Doudou explains that mispronouncing it creates a phrase resembling “Dad,” leading to a playful fight between him and Shuhang.
• The group discusses Dharma King Creation’s upcoming concert. Shuhang suspects Creation may begin early so that the audience cannot prepare their protective earplugs.
• His suspicion proves correct: the venue suddenly darkens, and the concert begins ahead of schedule.
• Shuhang summons Senior Turtle from the Core World so he can witness the concert.
• Eight apparent copies of Dharma King Creation appear dramatically onstage, alarming the audience. They initially seem to be projections or clones used for lighting and staging.
• Dharma King Creation then makes a grand entrance using charm magic, transforming into a flamboyant performer in leather pants and wielding a silver microphone.
• The eight additional Creations reappear with microphones, suggesting that the real musical—and potentially dangerous—performance is about to begin.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains easily embarrassed but is more perceptive than before, correctly anticipating Dharma King Creation’s surprise tactics. He also demonstrates responsibility by remembering to bring Senior Turtle to the concert.
• Doudou continues to act mischievously, exposing Shuhang’s private history and provoking him into a comedic quarrel. Their relationship resembles that of bickering family members.
• Soft Feather is shown to be playful and imaginative, considering the possibility of choosing a Sage Name that sounds like “Mom” to tease others. However, she also displays restraint by recognizing the consequences of such a choice.
• Jiang Ziyan enjoys teasing Shuhang and uses her wicked sense of humor to exploit the joke surrounding his Sage Name.
• Dharma King Creation is portrayed as a theatrical and strategically clever performer who uses surprise, magical effects, and spectacle to control the audience’s attention.
• Senior Turtle is eager to experience the concert and lightly complains that Shuhang nearly forgot him.
• Soft Feather and Liu Jianyi are the only members of the group not wearing earplugs: Soft Feather genuinely enjoys Creation’s music, while Liu Jianyi’s reason is left uncertain.

Significant Themes

• Comedic friendship and camaraderie: The characters freely mock one another, especially Shuhang, but their teasing reflects familiarity and closeness.
• Naivety versus awareness: The title is reflected in the audience’s assumption that the early stage effects are harmless technical preparations, while Shuhang correctly senses that Creation is planning something more dangerous.
• Performance and spectacle: Dharma King Creation treats the concert like a magical theatrical production, combining music, charm spells, lighting, projections, and dramatic costume changes.
• Restraint and responsibility: Soft Feather’s decision to avoid a potentially disastrous Sage Name shows that she can control her impulsive tendencies.
• Technology and cultivation: The audience struggles to determine whether the eight Creations are magical clones, puppets, or advanced projections, blending modern entertainment with supernatural techniques.

Character Interactions

• Shuhang and Doudou engage in constant verbal and physical comedy, culminating in Doudou biting Shuhang’s arm after being compared to a son.
• Jiang Ziyan, Soft Feather, and Doudou collectively tease Shuhang about his attraction to legs and the embarrassing pronunciation of his Sage Name.
• Shuhang interacts with Senior Turtle as a considerate companion, ensuring he does not miss the concert.
• True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey secretly warns Shuhang that Creation’s entrance uses a charm spell to draw everyone’s attention.
• The audience members collectively speculate about the nature of Creation’s eight doubles, demonstrating both their anxiety and their tendency to rationalize danger.

Plot and key events

• Dharma King Creation opens his concert with an amplified, nine-voice performance of “Seven Kills Song.” Eight clones fly around the venue, turning the enclosed hall into a surround-sound assault.
• The singing overwhelms nearly everyone, even cultivators with earplugs and the Ninth Grade Great Sea Turtle. The earplugs only delay the effect; the song seems to penetrate the body and soul.
• Song Shuhang brought Ye Si, Onion Lady, and Xiao Cai to hear the music in hopes it would break their Heart Demon Tribulations. Onion Lady and Xiao Cai are incapacitated, while Ye Si appears unaffected, leaving the result uncertain.
• Soft Feather alone appears unaffected: she gleefully sings along while livestreaming the concert. Liu Jianyi, meanwhile, welcomes being rendered too weak to move because it lets him rest.
• Song Shuhang takes a scam call during the chaos, but the caller is quickly overcome by the concert and apparently faints.
• Senior White Two appears beside Song Shuhang to hear the performance. Unlike the others, he insists the singing contains a “Voice of Heaven,” and says Soft Feather is the only other listener who appreciates it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang finds his preparations useless and struggles to endure the performance while monitoring his companions. He is bewildered by Soft Feather’s enjoyment and Senior White Two’s praise.
• Great Sea Turtle asks to be sent back to the Core World, but even its protective shell amplifies the sound.
• Soft Feather is shown as unusually resistant to, or appreciative of, Dharma King Creation’s singing; she enthusiastically broadcasts it to her viewers.
• Liu Jianyi reveals that his laziness makes the song’s incapacitating effect appealing to him.
• Senior White Two shares Soft Feather’s positive interpretation of the song, sharply contrasting with the suffering crowd.

Significant themes

• Subjective perception: The same performance is torture to nearly everyone, yet Soft Feather and Senior White Two hear something sublime.
• Comedy through contrast: The concert’s deadly intensity is juxtaposed with Liu Jianyi’s contentment at being forced to rest and Song Shuhang’s doomed scam caller.
• Power and unintended consequences: Song Shuhang hopes the singing will help with Heart Demon Tribulations, but its overwhelming force makes the outcome unclear and endangers everyone nearby.