Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Senior White Two reveals that Dharma King Creation’s apparently unbearable singing contains hidden “heavenly music.” He clears Song Shuhang’s ears so he can hear it, and tells him to remove his earplugs.
• Once Song Shuhang hears the hidden melody, he finds it overwhelmingly beautiful and enthusiastically sings along with Creation and Soft Feather. Other listeners assume he has gone mad.
• As Creation’s song reaches its climax, some cultivators trapped in Heart Demon Tribulations begin waking, though they emerge weak, distressed, and often vomiting. About one-third of those affected awaken; others, including Sparrow Demon Little Cai, remain trapped.
• Onion Lady also recovers. Still panicking at the singing, she begs Shuhang to save her and promises to obey him. He sends her and the Enlightenment Stone into the Core World.
• Ye Si remains peacefully unaffected. Shuhang asks whether the singing truly breaks Heart Demons; Senior White Two clarifies that its effect is Heart Demon Form Transformation, not simply breaking them.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from enduring the noise to appreciating its hidden melody and joining in. He is embarrassed afterward, recognizing that he could hear it only because Senior White Two intervened.
• Soft Feather happily treats Shuhang as a fellow devoted fan of Creation, while Dharma King Creation is moved by their apparent enthusiasm and resolves to write songs for them.
• Onion Lady awakens but remains terrified of the concert; Shuhang uses her promise of obedience to secure her cooperation before sending her away.
• Senior White Two guides Shuhang’s hearing and supplies the crucial explanation of the song’s effect. The other cultivators remain skeptical or confused about Shuhang’s sudden change.

Significant themes

• Perception and hidden meaning: Creation’s singing sounds torturous to most people, yet contains a beautiful melody audible to Shuhang after Senior White Two’s intervention.
• The strange nature of healing: The song appears to affect Heart Demons, but its mechanism is more unusual than simply defeating them—Senior White Two describes it as transforming their form.
• Humor amid danger: The concert’s absurdly painful reputation contrasts with its unexpected effects, Shuhang’s enthusiastic singing, and the audience’s increasingly desperate reactions.

Chapter Summary: The Fairy Is Surprisingly Beautiful

Key Plot Points and Events

• Senior White Two explains that heart demons are difficult to defeat because they are intangible, constantly changing manifestations of a cultivator’s weaknesses.
• He proposes fixing a heart demon into a single form, making it easier for cultivators with strong wills to overcome their tribulations.
• He suggests using Dharma King Creation’s concert and the Voice of Heaven to forcibly transform all heart demons into Dharma King Creation. Song Shuhang finds the idea hilarious.
• The theory proves effective: cultivators trapped in Heart Demon Tribulations awaken while screaming about being surrounded by thousands of Dharma King Creations singing.
• Senior White Two explains that Dharma King Creation’s power only works properly in a live concert. Recordings and phone transmissions lose the Voice of Heaven and retain mostly the harmful “Hell’s Voice.”
• This raises questions about how Soft Feather previously survived a Heart Demon Tribulation through Creation’s music.
• Dharma King Creation begins performing a gentle song called “Warm Contact,” drastically different from his usual destructive singing.
• The song contains a powerful, soothing form of the Voice of Heaven. Most listeners search for the faint heavenly music within it, while Song Shuhang and Soft Feather are overwhelmed by sleepiness and fall asleep.
• Song Shuhang’s consciousness drifts into a dreamlike lakeside setting, where he sees a beautiful woman. His body speaks in an unfamiliar female voice and announces an intention to tease her.

Character Developments

• Senior White Two demonstrates his analytical understanding of heart demons and develops a potentially revolutionary method for neutralizing them.
• Song Shuhang continues reacting humorously to terrifying situations, but he is also unusually sensitive to the Voice of Heaven and its effects.
• Dharma King Creation reveals surprising versatility by successfully performing a tender, soothing song instead of his usual devastating music.
• Soft Feather remains Creation’s devoted fan and tries desperately to resist falling asleep, but ultimately succumbs. Her unusual ability to benefit from Creation’s music remains unexplained.
• Doudou is repeatedly knocked unconscious by the concert, while True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey and other cultivators barely endure the performance.
• The giant sea turtle becomes so frightened by the singing that it hides inside its shell.

Significant Themes

• The nature of heart demons: The chapter explores how heart demons exploit personal weaknesses and how forcing them into a fixed form might make them vulnerable.
• Music as spiritual power: Dharma King Creation’s singing functions as both a destructive attack and a method of saving cultivators from tribulations.
• Humor amid danger: Terrifying supernatural events are presented comically, especially the idea of replacing every heart demon with Dharma King Creation.
• Individual perception and talent: Soft Feather’s unusual reaction to Creation’s music suggests that different cultivators may experience the Voice of Heaven in different ways.
• Identity and transformation: The ending introduces a dreamlike shift in Song Shuhang’s identity, as he speaks with a woman’s voice and behaves in a way he does not control.

Character Interactions

• Senior White Two and Song Shuhang discuss the mechanics of heart demons and imagine the absurd consequences of using Creation’s concert to defeat them.
• Song Shuhang observes and comments on the suffering of nearby cultivators, including Doudou and the giant sea turtle.
• Soft Feather and Song Shuhang both fall asleep under the influence of “Warm Contact,” distinguishing them from the other listeners.
• Dharma King Creation interacts indirectly with the entire audience through his concert, alternately terrifying, weakening, and soothing them.
• The chapter ends with Song Shuhang encountering a mysterious beautiful woman in his dream and apparently losing control of his voice and actions.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang abruptly enters a dream, inhabiting Fairy Cheng Lin during what appears to be a scene from her past. He recognizes the other woman as the tearful Merit Snake Beauty, though her name is obscured.
• Cheng Lin approaches the wary fairy, flirts with her, and offers to help with whatever is upsetting her. She boasts that she can beat nearly anyone nearby to tears.
• The fairy reveals that the person she wants beaten is Cheng Lin herself. Cheng Lin turns this into a mock bargain: she’ll “beat herself to tears” in exchange for kisses.
• Cheng Lin immediately performs an exaggerated, convincing bout of crying, then demands payment. The frightened fairy asks to pay later.
• Cheng Lin wipes away her tears and suddenly leans in to kiss her. Just before their lips meet, loud, dramatic guitar music erupts, interrupting the moment.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang experiences Cheng Lin’s sensations and actions from within the dream, reacting with embarrassment and alarm—especially at the physical intimacy and the possibility that Cheng Lin will sense his intrusion.
• Cheng Lin is shown as playful, shameless, and theatrically flirtatious. She uses jokes, bargaining, and even staged crying to pursue affection.
• Merit Snake Beauty initially appears timid and distressed, but reveals a mischievous streak by asking Cheng Lin to beat Cheng Lin herself. She remains flustered when Cheng Lin turns the request into a kiss bargain.

Significant themes

• Dream intrusion and blurred perspective: Song Shuhang experiences another person’s memories and sensations as though they were his own.
• Playful flirtation and negotiation: Cheng Lin treats affection like a humorous transaction, turning a promise to help into a bargain for kisses.
• Comedy through contrast: Cheng Lin’s confident antics clash with the other fairy’s shyness and Song Shuhang’s horrified embarrassment.
• Suspenseful interruption: The sudden music cuts off the nearly completed kiss and leaves the scene unresolved.

Character interactions

• Cheng Lin teases and comforts the tearful fairy, while the fairy questions her contradictory claims that help is free but fighting costs extra.
• The fairy names Cheng Lin as her target; Cheng Lin accepts the challenge by pretending to make herself cry and claims six kisses as payment.
• When the fairy postpones payment, Cheng Lin attempts to collect with a kiss, but the dramatic guitar music interrupts.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s Dream Entry carries him into Ye Si’s Heart Demon Tribulation. A wedding scene involving Ye Si, Cheng Lin, and the strange ＠＃％× Fairy abruptly becomes Dharma King Creation’s concert. His singing is agonizing to Song Shuhang, and the scene freezes.
• The concert is then torn apart, revealing Empress Cheng Lin. She tells Ye Si that she has passed on her inheritance and gives her the Daoist name Cheng Lin. Ye Si remains Ye Si; the name belongs to her as a legacy. Cheng Lin claims she herself will vanish forever.
• Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty appears and reaches for Cheng Lin, but cannot touch her. Cheng Lin then claims, absurdly, that Song Shuhang is her reincarnation and jokes about having a family with him, Ye Si, and the Merit Snake Beauty. Ye Si plays along, declaring that anyone who wants Song Shuhang must win her over first.
• Cheng Lin disappears when her time is up. The Merit Snake Beauty reveals that she never believed Cheng Lin’s story, then vanishes too.
• Ye Si explains that Cheng Lin’s words about “becoming Cheng Lin” mean the name is now one of Song Shuhang’s Daoist titles. Their bond has grown closer through Cheng Lin’s inheritance, and Ye Si’s Heart Demon Tribulation is over, though she needs time to awaken and absorb what she received.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang endures the bizarre Heart Demon scenes and tries to make sense of Cheng Lin’s disappearance and her tangled history with Song Blockhead, Pavilion Master Chu, and others.
• Ye Si emerges from her tribulation with Cheng Lin’s inheritance and a deeper spiritual connection to Song Shuhang. She confidently asserts that they are becoming one another in thought and identity.
• Cheng Lin acts tenderly toward Ye Si, passing on her legacy and naming her successor, but mixes this solemn farewell with outrageous teasing. Her claim that Song Shuhang is her reincarnation is a deliberate lie.
• The Merit Snake Beauty shows genuine distress at Cheng Lin’s apparent departure and speaks in her own voice for the first time here. Despite her emotional reaction, she sees through Cheng Lin’s deception.
• Song Shuhang and Ye Si’s banter highlights their closeness: Ye Si’s joking claim that a suitor must win her over first leaves him exasperated.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and identity: Ye Si remains herself while inheriting Cheng Lin’s name and legacy; the chapter also hints that Song Shuhang may carry the name as a Daoist title.
• Connection and shared selfhood: Cheng Lin’s inheritance strengthens the bond between Ye Si and Song Shuhang, bringing their thoughts and identities closer together.
• Farewell and uncertain survival: Cheng Lin’s claim that she will vanish raises questions about her fate and the rules governing Daoist longevity and rebirth.
• Humor amid emotional stakes: Cheng Lin’s absurd romantic and family claims puncture an otherwise solemn parting, while Song Shuhang’s bafflement provides comic relief.

Chapter Summary: “Roll, Song Baby!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang awakens from his Dream Entry and discovers that he is onstage at Dharma King Creation’s concert, performing backup dances.
• Senior White Two reveals that he forcibly brought Song Shuhang and Soft Feather onto the stage using invisible puppet strings because they were invited to dance while Song Shuhang was still unconscious.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather perform several dances, including the zombie dance, puppet dance, and horse-riding dance, while the concert is broadcast live to millions of viewers worldwide.
• Song Shuhang worries about the public embarrassment and the enormous publicity he will receive, especially since viewers mistake him for the famous “Senior Brother Gao Sheng.”
• Song Shuhang checks on his disciple Xiao Cai, who remains trapped in her Heart Demon Tribulation despite Dharma King Creation’s singing. Senior White Two explains that the Voice of Heaven cannot affect everyone and that Xiao Cai may be immune to it.
• As Dharma King Creation’s performance ends, Senior White Two senses that his presence in the Present World has been detected. Because the changing Heavenly Law is causing powerful cultivators to hide, he decides to flee.
• Before leaving, Senior White Two plays his usual prank, shouting “Roll, Song Baby!” and sending Song Shuhang flying through the air.
• Song Shuhang continues rolling while maintaining the horse-riding dance posture. His Merit Snake Beauty appears to help but instead imitates his rolling, creating an even more spectacular and absurd performance.
• Viewers watching the livestream are amazed by the “special effects” and begin identifying the airborne dancer as Tyrant Song.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Remains embarrassed and helpless as Senior White Two controls his body, but he adapts to the situation and ultimately turns the accident into an impressive performance. His concern for Xiao Cai also highlights his responsibility as a mentor.
• Senior White Two: Displays his playful, mischievous personality by controlling Song Shuhang’s dancing and launching him into the air. However, his sudden departure also reflects the danger posed by the changing Heavenly Law and his unusual status in the Present World.
• Soft Feather: Enthusiastically participates in the performance and admires Song Shuhang’s airborne horse-riding dance. Her playful attitude contrasts with Song Shuhang’s embarrassment.
• Xiao Cai: Remains unconscious and trapped in her Heart Demon Tribulation, suggesting that her inner demons are unusually difficult to overcome.
• Merit Snake Beauty: Attempts to respond to Song Shuhang’s command but merely copies his movements, unintentionally making the performance more dramatic.
• Dharma King Creation: Continues his powerful concert performance, with his Voice of Heaven influencing the audience and potentially replacing or suppressing Heart Demon Tribulations.

Significant Themes

• Comedy through loss of control: Song Shuhang repeatedly finds himself forced into humiliating situations, especially when Senior White Two manipulates him.
• Public identity and fame: The livestream turns Song Shuhang’s private embarrassment into a worldwide spectacle, reinforcing how easily his supernatural life becomes public entertainment.
• The limits of power: Dharma King Creation’s miraculous singing cannot affect everyone, showing that even powerful abilities have boundaries.
• Friendship and responsibility: Despite the absurd concert, Song Shuhang remains focused on Xiao Cai’s dangerous tribulation and considers ways to save her.
• Changing Heavenly Law and hidden danger: Senior White Two’s need to flee hints at larger cosmic changes and the risks facing powerful cultivators in the Present World.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang communicates with Senior White Two through mental voice transmission, protesting the forced dancing and worrying about Xiao Cai.
• Senior White Two treats Song Shuhang like a plaything, controlling his movements and jokingly launching him into the sky.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather dance together as backup performers, with Soft Feather enjoying the spectacle more than Song Shuhang does.
• Song Shuhang tries to enlist Merit Snake Beauty to stop his flight, but she imitates him instead, producing a synchronized rolling act.
• The livestream audience reacts with confusion and excitement, mistaking the supernatural performance for elaborate stage effects and recognizing Song Shuhang as “Tyrant Song.”

Key plot points and events

• Dharma King Creation’s concert ends after overwhelming the audience with its unusual power. Song Shuhang and Soft Feather are the only ones still standing; many of the others have been freed from their Heart Demon Tribulations.
• Soft Feather estimates that the concert helped at least 60 percent of the afflicted cultivators, and predicts that Dharma King Creation will soon be in high demand.
• Song Shuhang asks about the “Voice of Heaven” hidden in Creation’s singing. Creation explains that it began after he awakened his Mouth Aperture Talent, though he previously thought only he could hear it.
• Song Shuhang notices that Little Cai remains trapped in her Heart Demon Tribulation and asks Creation to sing for her, jokingly suggesting that Little Cai serve as a microphone. Before the song begins, she wakes on her own.
• Little Cai explains that the Voice of Heaven repeatedly comforted and encouraged her through memories of emotional trauma, helping her finally overcome her Heart Demon.

Character developments and interactions

• Dharma King Creation learns that others can perceive the special quality in his singing. He offers to teach Soft Feather and accept her as a disciple, prompting Song Shuhang to worry about how Venerable Spirit Butterfly would react.
• Soft Feather recognizes Creation’s talent and eagerly asks to study singing with him. She also joins in a lighthearted debate over which family members deserve a song.
• Song Shuhang shows concern for Little Cai, but his attempt to help nearly turns her into Creation’s microphone. Little Cai is moved by her master’s concern while also relieved she woke in time.
• Little Cai emerges from her tribulation with a dramatically altered outlook: she declares that cultivation matters more than love and insists that she wants to train immediately. Newly at the Fourth Grade, she asks Song Shuhang to teach her advanced saber techniques.

Significant themes

• Art as spiritual aid: Creation’s singing can reshape the experience of a Heart Demon Tribulation and help listeners face emotional pain.
• Growth through adversity: Little Cai overcomes a long-standing emotional wound, though her conclusion—that cultivation is the answer to everything—is played for comedy.
• Care expressed imperfectly: Song Shuhang’s clumsy plan to help Little Cai reveals genuine affection, while her reaction highlights the gap between good intentions and sensible methods.
• Comedy and cultivation: The chapter balances a major spiritual breakthrough with jokes about Creation’s future fame, family-song politics, and Little Cai’s single-minded enthusiasm for training.

Key plot points and events

• After Dharma King Creation’s concert, Song Shuhang sends his restless disciple, Xiao Cai, to meditate in his Core World so she can consolidate her cultivation. He and Soft Feather then quietly wait while Creation prays for cultivators still trapped in Heart Demon Tribulations; some may remain trapped or die.
• Soft Feather asks about Doudou’s wedding. Since Doudou is the one being married off, Song explains that he suggested groomsmen rather than bridesmaids. Soft Feather volunteers to disguise herself as a man, and Song returns her Transforming Brooch.
• Creation offers to help find groomsmen, listing unmarried members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group. Song considers several candidates, while ruling out some as unsuitable. Their discussion turns to Senior White and a mysterious past proposal. Song protects Senior White’s privacy and refuses to share details.
• Song recalls the proposal he witnessed in a True Illusion: the Young Man in Blue with a White Horse called Senior White beautiful and asked whether he would marry him when his hair grew to his waist.
• Senior White appears with Su Clan’s Sixteen. Song’s Sage Seal manifests and addresses him, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character developments and interactions

• Song acts as a cautious mentor to Xiao Cai, steering her toward patience and disciplined cultivation rather than more techniques.
• Creation reveals a compassionate, prayerful side beneath his exuberant performer persona. He also jokes about singing at Doudou’s wedding, though he knows it might distress True Monarch Yellow Mountain.
• Soft Feather shows her playful enthusiasm and readiness to help with the wedding, even offering to pass as a male groomsman.
• Song is practical and protective: he recruits candidates, keeps Senior White’s personal history confidential, and recognizes that Three Waves and Doudou would be a troublesome pairing.
• Creation and Soft Feather are curious about Senior White’s admirer, but Song holds firm on respecting his privacy.

Significant themes

• Cultivation requires discipline: progress means consolidating one’s foundation and strengthening the Dao Heart, not simply pursuing new techniques.
• Compassion amid danger: Creation’s prayers acknowledge the mortal risks of Heart Demon Tribulations.
• Privacy and respect: Song refuses to turn Senior White’s private affairs into gossip.
• Humor and friendship: Wedding logistics, matchmaking speculation, and Creation’s musical ambitions provide light comedy alongside the chapter’s serious reflection on tribulation.

Key events

• Song Shuhang’s Sage Seal unexpectedly praises Senior White, then begins to say something more personal. Shuhang drowns it out with a Lion’s Roar and pulls the Seal back into his body before it can finish.
• Soft Feather and Dharma King Creation try to reconstruct the missing words. A cultivator eventually guesses the phrase was a marriage proposal—“When your hair reaches your waist, will you marry me?”—and Senior White sends him flying with a Merit Light sword.
• Eager to get the same ride, Soft Feather asks for a “whoosh.” Senior White instead encloses her in a cage-like, guardrailed saber and says he has retired the Disposable Meteor Sword for group members. Soft Feather regrets being unable to leave the group.
• Senior White and Su Clan’s Sixteen return from their undersea errand, which went smoothly. Sixteen missed Dharma King Creation’s concert, but Creation says it was livestreamed.
• Senior White reveals a talent awakened at Eighth-Grade: Consciousness Switching, which swaps the minds of two people weaker than him. It can be used about three times a day, lasts up to forty-eight hours, and has no side effects.
• Senior White asks Doudou if other cultivators may take his place in tomorrow’s wedding. Still drowsy, Doudou agrees.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang panics over the Sage Seal’s apparent proposal, tries to keep others from solving it, and is embarrassed when they do. He also admires the safety features Senior White adds to the saber.
• Soft Feather is curious and playful: she helps analyze the Seal’s words, enjoys the prospect of a flying-sword launch, then ends up trapped in Senior White’s improvised “cage.”
• Dharma King Creation nearly exposes the proposal through his thoughts, and Senior White catches him. Creation also turns Shuhang’s Lion’s Roar into inspiration for a louder concert style.
• Senior White stays mild and good-humored while reacting to the supposed proposal, demonstrating his new talent, and refusing to launch Soft Feather on a meteor sword.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen confirms their errand went well and asks a practical question about the new ability. Doudou, barely awake, casually agrees to Senior White’s wedding-related request.

Significant themes

• Comic misunderstandings and curiosity: The group’s attempts to decipher the interrupted sentence nearly create more trouble than the original remark.
• Unexpected talents and consequences: Senior White’s new ability is presented as amusing, but its mind-swapping potential hints at further mischief.
• Friendship, teasing, and group dynamics: Characters protect one another from embarrassment while also eagerly joining in the jokes.

Plot points and events

• Doudou, still drowsy, agrees to let Senior White use a new technique to transfer consciousness during his wedding. The plan is presented as a punishment for those responsible for the chaos—but the participants quickly treat it like an entertaining game.
• Song Shuhang and Dharma King Creation volunteer, imagining they will take turns occupying Doudou’s body. Soft Feather eagerly asks to join, and her father, Venerable Spirit Butterfly, approves once he learns the others are participating.
• Senior White reveals that he can transfer all the participants’ consciousnesses at once, rather than one at a time. Their original bodies will sleep while he later returns them in sequence.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen decides she wants to join as well. Senior White casts the spell on Doudou, Song Shuhang, Dharma King Creation, Soft Feather, and Sixteen.
• The transfer mostly works—but Dharma King Creation remains in his own body, while the other three consciousnesses end up sharing Doudou’s. Their voices compete to control him, and Doudou’s body moves uncontrollably. The chapter ends with someone asking, “Sister, who are you?”

Character developments

• Doudou sobers up and enthusiastically accepts the idea of others experiencing his wedding in his body.
• Dharma King Creation initially resists because he is a Buddhist monk, then reframes the experience as a valuable lesson in suffering and becomes surprisingly eager.
• Song Shuhang tries to avoid participating by citing his best-man duties, but Senior White finds a workaround. He also teases Dharma King Creation.
• Soft Feather shows her characteristic impulsiveness and eagerness to join in. She persuades Liu Jianyi to contact her father and secure approval.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen quietly takes part despite Song Shuhang’s attempt to reassure her.
• Senior White remains casually confident, though his elaborate arrangement becomes more complicated than expected.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly trusts Senior White to supervise Soft Feather and allows her to participate.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang and Dharma King Creation trade jokes about the wedding, while Soft Feather complains that Song is partly responsible yet seems to escape punishment.
• Sixteen observes Soft Feather with a mix of familiarity and reassurance, then later joins the plan herself.
• Soft Feather recruits Liu Jianyi to contact her father; Spirit Butterfly’s approval depends partly on the presence of trusted companions.
• The group’s coordinated expectations collapse when several consciousnesses occupy Doudou’s sea of consciousness together.

Significant themes

• Consequences and responsibility: Senior White insists that those who caused trouble must bear the consequences, though the punishment turns into a voluntary adventure.
• Experience as a form of cultivation: Dharma King Creation rationalizes the wedding experience as a way to understand worldly suffering.
• Chaos and unintended outcomes: A seemingly controlled spell produces a crowded, confused shared consciousness.
• Trust and companionship: The characters readily join one another’s schemes, while Spirit Butterfly relies on Senior White and the others to look after Soft Feather.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White’s innate technique transfers four consciousnesses into Doudou’s body, while Doudou’s own consciousness moves into Song Shuhang’s. The unfamiliar fourth presence can only make odd sounds at first, leaving Doudou’s body awkwardly controlled by several people at once.
• Senior White confirms that the strange consciousness came from Dharma King Creation. Song Shuhang suspects it is connected to Creation’s “Voice of Heaven,” the uncanny quality hidden in his singing.
• The group tests the theory by singing. When the fourth consciousness joins in, it produces an ethereal song in an unfamiliar ancient language. Doudou’s body transforms into a refined, scholar-like figure, confirming the voice’s connection to Creation and suggesting a Confucian association.
• Senior White offers to switch Creation and the fourth consciousness back, but Creation claims they are one and the same and declines—partly to avoid risking the procedure. Senior White lets the matter rest.
• Senior White instructs Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Sixteen to help Creation Fairy get used to Doudou’s body overnight, since Doudou is due to be married the next morning.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang connects the fourth voice to Creation’s singing and correctly deduces its origin, though he suspects it is more than an ordinary split personality.
• Dharma King Creation discovers that his Voice of Heaven has a distinct female consciousness, now nicknamed Creation Fairy. He accepts the identity as part of himself but avoids being switched with her.
• Soft Feather remains playful, joking about Doudou’s supposed hidden personality and pushing for a livestream or a dramatic song.
• Sixteen takes the practical role, urging everyone to coordinate their control of Doudou’s body and focus on the mystery.
• Doudou, now inhabiting Shuhang’s body, complains about being blamed and uses the confusion to joke about Yellow Mountain.

Significant themes

• Identity and duality: The chapter blurs the line between a person and a seemingly separate inner consciousness.
• The hidden nature of talent: Creation’s Voice of Heaven appears to be more than a simple innate ability, hinting at deeper origins.
• Comedic disorder amid mystery: Bodily confusion, teasing, and song-based experiments contrast with the supernatural revelation.
• Fate and avoidance: Creation frames the situation as heaven’s will, while his reluctance to undergo the transfer suggests a more practical motive.

Character interactions

• The group alternates between investigating the fourth voice and joking about who—or what—she might be.
• Sixteen tries to coordinate the competing consciousnesses, while Soft Feather deliberately makes Doudou kneel to test what the body can do.
• Song Shuhang’s deduction prompts a musical experiment; Creation’s energetic response nearly turns it into a disruptive performance.
• Senior White guides the investigation and ultimately assigns the group to help Creation Fairy adjust, setting up Doudou’s looming wedding.

Plot and events

• Doudou jokes that, while Shuhang is using its body, it can avoid the deadline to return to True Lord Yellow Mountain and play games all night. Senior White instead plans to prepare for Doudou’s wedding, volunteering himself and his clone as best men. Soft Feather and Sixteen tease that Yellow Mountain might make them maid-of-honor instead; everyone imagines how striking Senior White would look in that role.
• Senior White takes Shuhang, Doudou, Soft Feather, Sixteen’s body, and the Great Sea Turtle by spatial transfer to the wedding venue. Dharma King Creation stays behind to care for the concert audience, many of whom have advanced after enduring his singing.
• The group arrives safely, but Doudou’s shared body keeps collapsing into awkward poses. Shuhang proposes taking turns controlling it: himself first, then Sixteen and Soft Feather. Creation Fairy cannot communicate, so she is left out.
• Their shared consciousness space feels increasingly cramped. Soft Feather’s memories of mailing herself in a small box—and Sixteen’s similar memory—make it worse. Sixteen then recalls a dream of being trapped in a crystal coffin, shrinking the space further. Soft Feather ultimately decides the crowding is amusing.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White takes charge of wedding preparations and casually demonstrates his mastery of spatial travel. The Great Sea Turtle becomes increasingly wary of him after recalling a terrifying being who looked just like him.
• Shuhang tries to manage Doudou’s body and the group’s shared mental space, guiding Soft Feather toward expansive memories to relieve the cramped feeling.
• Doudou remains playful and complains when Shuhang walks upright instead of on four legs.
• Soft Feather and Sixteen communicate freely with Shuhang through their shared consciousness, though their memories unintentionally worsen the confinement.
• Dharma King Creation remains cheerful and wants to write a song for the wedding, despite having overwhelmed the audience with his singing.

Significant themes

• Shared minds and blurred boundaries: The characters’ thoughts and memories affect one another and even reshape their common mental environment.
• Comedy through contrast: Wedding planning, body-sharing mishaps, and increasingly claustrophobic memories create humor, while the Sea Turtle’s fear of Senior White hints at a darker power beneath the light tone.
• Imagination and confinement: Memories of boxes and the crystal coffin turn the consciousness space into a metaphorical prison, even as the characters try to escape it through thought.

Key plot points and events

• Fairy Fusheng arrives at Sky-Barking Camp to stop her older brother’s wedding to Doudou, a Pekingese dog demon.
• Her brother insists the wedding will go ahead and claims he has fallen for Doudou after meeting him.
• Fusheng discovers that her brother’s thick book is filled with Doudou’s photographs. In a sudden fit, she beats her brother unconscious with the book, takes it, seals and ties him up, and hides him in a wardrobe.
• She plans to impersonate him, taking his groom’s outfits and altering them to fit.
• Elsewhere, Dugu Bai and a group of cultivators plot to hijack Doudou’s wedding carriage. Dugu Bai intends to abduct Doudou and marry Fusheng himself.
• The plotters learn that powerful guests—including Profound Sages—may protect the wedding. Their plan is exposed when they discuss it in a group chat owned by Zhou Li, an associate of Doudou’s household.
• Zhou Li realizes Fusheng may be the actual target of the wedding plan, but decides not to interfere, hoping Doudou’s marriage will free him from Doudou’s troublesome presence.

Character developments and interactions

• Fairy Fusheng shifts from trying to persuade her brother to marrying her to forcibly taking his place. Her impulsive, forceful nature is played for comedy.
• Big Brother reveals an unexpected infatuation with Doudou, whose photographs he has collected. He is caught unprepared and overpowered by Fusheng.
• Dugu Bai shows fierce devotion to Fusheng and reckless determination to prevent her marrying someone else. His fellow plotters question his strategy and warn him about the risks.
• Zhou Li acts as the practical connection to Doudou’s household. He inadvertently learns the conspiracy, then weighs intervening against the possibility that Doudou’s marriage might benefit him.
• The chapter sets up intersecting schemes: Fusheng’s disguise plan, Dugu Bai’s attempted abduction, and the wedding party’s likely defenses.

Significant themes

• Love and obsession: Big Brother’s fixation on Doudou and Dugu Bai’s devotion to Fusheng drive competing plans.
• Schemes and comic miscommunication: Characters’ plans overlap, are revealed in the wrong place, and repeatedly take absurd turns.
• Power versus preparedness: Fusheng succeeds largely because her brother is distracted and has not activated his defenses.
• Unexpected personal motives: The wedding is less straightforward than it appears, with several characters focused on whom they hope to marry rather than the ceremony itself.

Chapter Summary: “Cat Circle Phenomenon”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Creation Fairy are sharing Doudou’s body after Song Shuhang’s newly awakened Eighth-Grade ability transferred their consciousnesses rather than their souls.
• At Doudou’s wedding venue, True Lord Yellow Mountain is shocked to discover that:
  • Song Shuhang is controlling Doudou’s body.
  • Doudou’s consciousness is occupying Song Shuhang’s body.
  • Soft Feather, Sixteen, and Creation Fairy are also inside Doudou.
• The group plans to divide control of Doudou’s body throughout the wedding, while returning control to Doudou for the wedding night.
• Senior White volunteers to act as Doudou’s best man and summons his innate clone, joking that one person can count as two. Yellow Mountain assigns bridesmaids and asks White to help supervise the chaotic group.
• Song Shuhang-in-Doudou resists Yellow Mountain’s attempt to silence him. Merit Snake Beauty protects him from the first spell, but then unexpectedly enters Doudou’s body and shields the Pekingese. Yellow Mountain successfully silences him afterward.
• Yellow Mountain coordinates with Golden Lion, who is helping Fairy Fusheng prepare for the wedding. They plan to publicize the marriage between Fusheng, the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s successor, and Doudou.
• Yellow Mountain reflects on Doudou’s romantic history, joking that his encouragement of “free love” has led Doudou to accumulate numerous potential partners.
• Phoenix Slayer is trapped inside a rope circle because of the “cat circle” phenomenon. Although he insists he can escape through willpower, he curls up and decides to rest until the wedding preparations begin.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Sixteen practice controlling Doudou’s body. Song Shuhang then begins investigating Creation Fairy’s mysterious origins within the consciousness space.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Gains a more active and talkative personality while controlling Doudou’s body. He takes responsibility for managing the wedding and becomes curious about Creation Fairy’s identity.
• Doudou: Is temporarily displaced from his own body and increasingly frustrated by the others’ control of his wedding. He nevertheless remains involved and expects to regain control for the wedding night.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen: Become more comfortable sharing and controlling Doudou’s body, taking assigned portions of the wedding ceremony.
• Creation Fairy: Her existence as Dharma King Creation’s supposed second personality remains unexplained. Her behavior and identity continue to raise questions.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain: Acts as the responsible organizer, balancing wedding preparations with the unpredictable behavior of the consciousness-sharing group.
• Senior White: Shows his usual unconventional helpfulness by volunteering as best man and providing his clone as additional support.
• Phoenix Slayer: Displays his cat-like laziness and inability to resist a rope circle, despite claiming to possess exceptional willpower.
• Fairy Fusheng and Golden Lion: Continue carrying out their plans behind the scenes, with Fusheng preparing the groom’s clothing and Golden Lion cooperating with Yellow Mountain’s publicity strategy.

Significant Themes

• Chaos versus responsibility: The wedding is carefully organized, but the presence of several powerful personalities in one body threatens constant disorder.
• Identity and consciousness: The chapter explores the distinction between souls, bodies, and consciousness through Song Shuhang’s ability and Creation Fairy’s mysterious nature.
• Friendship and cooperation: Despite the absurd circumstances, the characters work together to ensure Doudou’s wedding succeeds.
• Romantic freedom and consequences: Yellow Mountain’s support for Doudou’s “free love” has produced humorous and potentially troublesome romantic complications.
• Comedic absurdity: The body-sharing arrangement, Merit Snake Beauty’s intervention, Senior White’s best-man plans, and Phoenix Slayer’s entrapment in a cat circle all reinforce the chapter’s playful tone.

Character Interactions

• Yellow Mountain questions the occupants of Doudou’s body and struggles to process the revelation that Creation Fairy is linked to Dharma King Creation.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou argue playfully over who should serve as best man, while Yellow Mountain repeatedly attempts to control them.
• Senior White reassures Yellow Mountain that he will supervise the group, though his own unconventional ideas create additional complications.
• Yellow Mountain and Golden Lion coordinate the wedding announcement and preparations for Fusheng.
• Yellow Mountain and Phoenix Slayer exchange banter about Doudou’s romantic life and the cat-circle phenomenon.
• The chapter ends with Song Shuhang turning his attention to Creation Fairy, setting up further investigation into her true nature.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang cautiously attempts to communicate with Creation Fairy, but her consciousness contains hundreds of millions—or even billions—of chaotic voices. The overwhelming noise severely shocks his consciousness, forcing it into self-protection and rendering him unresponsive.
• Senior White determines that Song Shuhang is unharmed and warns Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen not to contact Creation Fairy directly. Soft Feather ignores the warning out of curiosity and suffers the same fate, losing consciousness.
• The consciousnesses remain affected by their possession of Doudou’s body: Song Shuhang becomes unusually talkative, Soft Feather’s curiosity intensifies, and Sixteen becomes exceptionally calm.
• Doudou, controlling Song Shuhang’s body, explores its capabilities and discovers Song Shuhang’s Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets, an Eighth-Grade natal Dharma artifact. He nearly announces this in the Nine Provinces Number One Group but decides to respect Song Shuhang’s privacy.
• On September 23, the Autumn Equinox, Song Shuhang awakens after being unconscious since the previous day. Soft Feather has also recovered and has gained extensive musical knowledge from Creation Fairy, while Song Shuhang experiences no lasting improvement.
• Doudou’s wedding preparations reach the bridal procession stage. Soft Feather, still controlling Doudou’s body, is dressed as the bride and prepared to enter the sedan.
• Fairy Lychee and other fairies arrive as bridesmaids. The wedding procession is organized according to the customs of the bride’s side, with an extravagant procession sent to collect Doudou rather than the groom personally coming.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates concern for others after waking and immediately asks about Doudou’s wedding. He remains unchanged by Creation Fairy’s musical influence, suggesting he has little musical talent.
• Soft Feather: Her natural curiosity is amplified by inhabiting Doudou’s body, causing her to recklessly contact Creation Fairy. She also gains significant musical knowledge and enthusiastically embraces her role as the bride.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen: Becomes unusually calm while possessing Doudou, showing none of the harmful effects experienced by Song Shuhang and Soft Feather.
• Doudou: Uses Song Shuhang’s body to investigate his strength and artifacts. Despite his usual mischievousness, he shows unexpected consideration by refusing to expose Song Shuhang’s private information.
• Senior White: Acts as the group’s responsible guardian, diagnosing Song Shuhang’s condition, warning the others, and overseeing the consciousness exchange.
• Fairy Lychee: Treats Doudou affectionately, carrying and dressing the “bride,” while joking about Song Shuhang’s habit of calling her “Mommy Lychee.”

Significant Themes

• The dangers of curiosity and uncontrolled knowledge: Direct contact with Creation Fairy exposes consciousnesses to an incomprehensible flood of voices and information.
• Identity and influence of bodies: Possessing Doudou’s body alters each person’s personality, amplifying traits such as talkativeness, curiosity, and calmness.
• Privacy and respect: Doudou’s decision not to reveal Song Shuhang’s Eighth-Grade artifact emphasizes personal boundaries despite the temptation to gossip.
• Humor through role reversal: Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, Sixteen, and Doudou experience comic personality changes while inhabiting one another’s bodies.
• Marriage as spectacle and tradition: Doudou’s wedding is portrayed as a lavish, highly publicized event shaped by regional customs and misunderstandings about the bride and groom.

Character Interactions

• Senior White reassures Song Shuhang and warns Soft Feather and Sixteen about Creation Fairy, though Soft Feather’s curiosity leads her to disregard him.
• Song Shuhang and Soft Feather compare their experiences after regaining consciousness, while Sixteen checks whether Song Shuhang suffered any lasting effects.
• Doudou consults Great Sea Turtle about Song Shuhang’s gauntlets and debates whether to share the discovery with their fellow cultivators.
• Fairy Lychee affectionately interacts with Soft Feather-as-Doudou, dressing and carrying her while teasing Song Shuhang.
• The group coordinates the final preparations for Doudou’s wedding as the loud bridal procession arrives.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang reflects on Doudou’s wedding date, September 23, which the almanac considers auspicious for burial but inauspicious for marriage. He jokingly—and nervously—worries that the day may be a bad omen.
• Because of Senior White’s consciousness-transfer technique, Soft Feather is controlling Doudou’s body while Doudou’s consciousness is elsewhere. Fairy Lychee carries the real Doudou outside, unaware—or at least unconcerned—about the deception.
• Soft Feather takes Doudou’s place on the enormous Golden High Platform, a grand wedding sedan carried by puppet attendants and decorated with golden Pekingese statues.
• The wedding procession begins, accompanied by musicians, magical “firecrackers,” Fairy Lychee, and bridesmaids traveling on an Immortal Ark.
• After traveling one hundred meters, the procession stops for members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group to present Doudou with wedding gifts and blessings.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator gives Doudou a Heaven-and-Earth Bag containing a modified walk-behind tractor. Other cultivators present additional gifts.
• Soft Feather repeatedly slips up by speaking and behaving unlike Doudou. Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman realizes that the “Doudou” before him is actually Soft Feather.
• True Lord Jiao Ba presents a fish demon named Chu Chu. Soft Feather initially asks whether the fish is edible, forcing Song Shuhang to remind her that Doudou is fond of Chu Chu Fish Demons.
• The procession resumes and begins flying toward the groom’s residence, where a lavish Immortal Treasure Banquet awaits.
• Just as the group is traveling through the sky, a huge net and a mysterious shadow suddenly descend over the procession. Zhou Li assumes that Dugu Bai and several others have attacked, but Dugu Bai is visibly stunned because they are not responsible.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains anxious about the wedding’s ominous date and tries to help Soft Feather maintain her disguise.
• Soft Feather enthusiastically embraces the role of a bride, enjoying the grandeur of the Golden High Platform and imagining having a similar wedding herself. However, her lack of familiarity with Doudou’s speech and habits repeatedly threatens to expose her.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen supports Song Shuhang and Soft Feather, explaining cultivation-related matters and the wedding customs.
• Fairy Lychee shows affection and nostalgia toward Doudou, recalling how small Doudou was when adopted by True Lord Yellow Mountain.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman becomes suspicious after Soft Feather calls Song Shuhang “Senior,” correctly deducing that she is impersonating Doudou.
• True Lord Jiao Ba becomes confused by Soft Feather’s strange reaction to his gift, sensing that something about “Doudou” is wrong.
• Zhou Li reveals that he has prepared defenses against possible wedding crashers, but his assumptions about the attackers prove incorrect.
• Dugu Bai and the suspected troublemakers are themselves surprised by the attack, suggesting a third party is interfering with the wedding.

Significant Themes

• Identity and impersonation: Soft Feather’s disguise creates comedic tension as her unfamiliarity with Doudou’s mannerisms nearly exposes the switch.
• Friendship and communal celebration: The Nine Provinces Number One Group participates enthusiastically by giving gifts, offering blessings, and accompanying the wedding procession.
• Tradition versus absurdity: The wedding follows elaborate ceremonial customs, but magical technology, flying platforms, puppets, and cultivation-world eccentricities make it unconventional.
• Foreshadowing and uncertainty: The ominous wedding date and the sudden attack suggest that the ceremony may be heading toward disaster.
• Comedic misunderstandings: Soft Feather’s mistakes, the unusual gifts, and the group’s confused reactions provide much of the chapter’s humor.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen privately advise Soft Feather through their shared consciousness.
• Soft Feather jokes with Sixteen about Fairy Lychee’s appearance, while Song Shuhang warns her not to say such things aloud.
• Fairy Lychee lovingly sends Doudou off to be married.
• The group members present gifts directly to Soft Feather, believing—or initially assuming—that she is Doudou.
• Seven Lives Talisman catches Soft Feather’s verbal mistake and quietly recognizes her identity.
• Song Shuhang coaches Soft Feather through her awkward response to True Lord Jiao Ba’s fish-demon gift.
• Zhou Li confronts the presumed attackers, while Dugu Bai’s bewilderment reveals that someone else is behind the ambush.

Chapter 1295 Summary: “Scumbag? Excuse Me?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhou Li reassures Doudou that the wedding is secure and that Dugu Bai’s attempt to steal the bride will fail.
• Soft Feather becomes excited by the prospect of a “bride stealing” incident, while Song Shuhang questions why Dugu Bai would target Doudou rather than Fairy Fusheng.
• A bearded man breaks through the defenses and attempts to seize Doudou. Soft Feather mistakes him for Dugu Bai and launches into a dramatic speech accusing him of arriving too late to reclaim her.
• Song Shuhang realizes the man is neither Dugu Bai nor necessarily connected to him. Dugu Bai then appears and angrily confirms that he has not yet made his move; the bearded man and his allies are an unrelated wedding-crashing group.
• Zhou Li captures the bearded man and an assassin-like companion with special chains. The attackers reveal that their first plan has failed and initiate “Plan B.”
• All the wedding crashers gouge out their own eyes. Their bodies turn to ash, while their souls and eyeballs combine into a massive flaming eye with a scarlet vertical pupil.
• The bearded man declares that the flaming eye will kill everyone present. However, Merit Snake Beauty catches his soul before it can merge with the eye.
• Song Shuhang takes control of Doudou’s body and attempts to use the Ksitigarbha Soul-Deliverance Scripture on the captured soul. The bearded man protests that he is not a ghost.
• Merit Snake Beauty responds by stabbing him with Scarlet Heaven Sword, leaving the outcome unresolved.

Character Developments

• Zhou Li demonstrates careful preparation and strong defensive ability, successfully protecting Doudou and restraining the attackers.
• Soft Feather enthusiastically embraces the wedding-drama scenario and improvises an absurdly melodramatic “rejected lover” speech, though she repeatedly misidentifies the situation.
• Song Shuhang remains cautious and analytical, identifying the confusion surrounding Dugu Bai and recognizing the danger posed by the flaming eye.
• Dugu Bai is frustrated that the unrelated wedding crashers interfere with his own plan. He abandons Plan A and prepares to execute Plan B.
• Doudou remains largely passive because others are controlling or protecting his body.
• Merit Snake Beauty continues her role as a powerful guardian, protecting Doudou and capturing the bearded man’s soul.
• The wedding crashers are revealed to be fanatical and prepared to sacrifice their physical bodies to activate a more dangerous plan.

Significant Themes

• Misunderstanding and comedic chaos: Nearly every character misunderstands who is attacking whom, turning a serious wedding ambush into farce.
• Elaborate contingency plans: Both Dugu Bai and the wedding crashers rely on multiple backup plans, suggesting careful preparation but also mocking excessive scheming.
• Sacrifice and transformation: The crashers destroy their bodies and convert their remains into a flaming supernatural eye.
• Merit and protection: Doudou’s accumulated merit creates an impenetrable defense, while Merit Snake Beauty acts as both shield and enforcer.
• The contrast between comedy and danger: Soft Feather’s theatrical dialogue and the absurd wedding situation coexist with horrifying imagery and a potentially deadly supernatural weapon.

Character Interactions

• Zhou Li confidently reassures Doudou and challenges the wedding crashers.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen joke about bizarre wedding-crashing news, while Song Shuhang reacts with exasperation.
• Soft Feather confronts the bearded man with a fabricated romantic monologue, causing extreme confusion.
• Song Shuhang corrects Soft Feather’s mistaken assumptions about the attackers.
• Dugu Bai publicly denies responsibility for the current attack, blaming the wedding crashers for disrupting his plan.
• Zhou Li captures the bearded man and assassin, questioning their identities.
• The bearded man and his allies activate Plan B, provoking the gathered cultivators.
• Merit Snake Beauty captures the bearded man’s soul, and Song Shuhang attempts to deliver it onward before she attacks him with Scarlet Heaven Sword.

Plot points and events

• Scarlet Heaven Sword kills a bearded soul-being. Song Shuhang uses Doudou’s paw to perform the Soul-Deliverance Method, successfully delivering the soul and earning an enormous amount of Merit Power.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword explains that the attackers belong to a mysterious “Deity” and its followers from a supposed “Divine Kingdom.” The deity’s followers emerge from a giant Flame Eye and try to capture Doudou.
• The shadow assassins believe their “Blind Stab” state makes them intangible, but Scarlet Heaven Sword can still pierce them. Merit Snake Beauty repeatedly ambushes them, and Shuhang delivers their souls for further Merit Power. By the end, she has killed at least six.
• Song Shuhang and the others suspect Doudou’s wedding palanquin, a golden platform that resembles an altar, is connected to the Flame Eye. They conclude True Lord Yellow Mountain may have anticipated the danger and deliberately placed Shuhang in control of Doudou’s body to handle it.
• Senior White Two briefly contacts Shuhang while hiding from someone, then cuts off the connection. Shuhang suspects he is hiding from the current “Heaven” of the Myriad Heavens and Realms.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is surprised that delivering souls after killing them works, but quickly uses the method to help defeat the attackers and gain Merit Power. He pieces together clues about the wedding and Yellow Mountain’s intentions.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword reveals the attackers’ supposed origin, dismisses their claim of intangibility, and guides Shuhang toward the unusually valuable souls.
• Merit Snake Beauty becomes a relentless, highly effective ambusher, using Scarlet Heaven Sword and even the Face-Slapping Slipper to take down enemies.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen proposes that the golden platform is an altar tied to the Flame Eye; Soft Feather notices that Yellow Mountain may have expected trouble and jokes about the deity’s interest in Doudou. The group speculates together, while Scarlet Heaven Sword teases Shuhang for talking too much.
• Doudou remains the unwilling “tool” for the soul-deliverance ritual, complaining when he is held by the scruff.
• Senior White Two’s unexpected call adds a new mystery: he is playing hide-and-seek with a powerful being.

Significant themes

• Merit through unexpected means: Even souls of enemies killed in combat can be delivered, yielding extraordinary spiritual merit.
• Deception and perception: The assassins’ supposed invulnerability is a bluff, and their blindness leaves them vulnerable to ambush.
• Hidden plans and looming danger: Doudou’s wedding may conceal a larger conflict, with Yellow Mountain seemingly preparing for an unforeseen threat.

Chapter 1297 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Merit Snake Beauty continues slaughtering the Flame Eye’s fanatical assassins, killing six of them with precise sword strikes from behind. Song Shuhang purifies each defeated assassin afterward.
• Her accumulated merit triggers another evolution: a beautiful rune appears on her forehead and opens into a mysterious third eye with a hypnotic blue-and-crimson pupil.
• The Flame Eye, angered by the repeated deaths of its subordinates, finally manifests a humanoid phantom within its fiery pupil. It reveals its power by forcing everyone nearby to experience the things they hate most.
• The Flame Eye demands that everyone proclaim it the most hated and detestable being in the world. Its fanatical followers enthusiastically obey, even while being beaten and restrained.
• The Flame Eye then retrieves its surviving assassins through spatial manipulation, demonstrating that it possesses extremely powerful abilities—possibly at the Ninth Rank or higher.
• Recognizing Merit Snake Beauty as a remnant of the Ancient Heavenly Court, the Flame Eye attacks her by descending like a blazing miniature sun.
• Song Shuhang urges Merit Snake Beauty to wear the Flat Sky Crown and fight back, but she theatrically swallows the Chi Xiao Sword, collapses, and continues pretending to be dead. She then turns her back on the enemy in an exaggerated act of avoidance.
• Just as the Flame Eye attacks, a golden arrow arrives through repeated spatial jumps. An old archer from the Beast God Department appears and openly declares that the Flame Eye is the existence they hate most.
• The Flame Eye welcomes the declaration, not realizing it is being distracted. At the end of the chapter, a small sword suddenly pierces its chest.

Character Developments

• Merit Snake Beauty: Evolves again through Song Shuhang’s accumulated merit, gaining a third eye that seems capable of powerful mental or perceptual effects. She continues displaying her bizarre, theatrical behavior, including fake death and deliberately exposing her back.
• Song Shuhang: Remains cautious about the Flame Eye’s strength and recognizes that he cannot currently rely on his usual allies or treasures. He depends heavily on Merit Snake Beauty while also making jokes about her evolutions.
• Yurouzi and Su Clan’s Sixteen: Resist or barely succumb to the Flame Eye’s attempt to force hateful thoughts into their minds. Their reactions highlight their unusual mental resilience.
• The Flame Eye: Reveals itself as a powerful, arrogant entity that feeds on hatred and disgust. It values the devotion of its fanatics and appears to embody everything others detest.
• The Beast God Department Archer: Enters as a new opponent of the Flame Eye, using a golden arrow capable of resisting its flames and crossing space rapidly.

Significant Themes

• Hatred as power: The Flame Eye transforms the hatred and disgust of others into strength and identity, making revulsion itself part of its authority.
• Fanaticism and blind faith: The assassins continue worshipping the Flame Eye despite being defeated and abused, emphasizing the irrational devotion of zealots.
• Merit and transformation: Song Shuhang’s accumulated merit continues changing Merit Snake Beauty, linking spiritual growth with strange physical evolution.
• Comedy amid danger: The chapter repeatedly undercuts its serious battle through absurd behavior, especially Merit Snake Beauty’s fake death, Song Shuhang’s complaints, and the Flame Eye’s insistence that everyone call it detestable.
• Ancient Heavenly Court remnants: The Flame Eye’s recognition of Merit Snake Beauty hints at a deeper conflict involving survivors of the fallen Ancient Heavenly Court.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Yurouzi discuss whether the Flame Eye can retaliate and joke about Merit Snake Beauty’s changing form.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen comment on the Flame Eye’s mental attack and its attempt to manipulate their hatred.
• Song Shuhang repeatedly orders Merit Snake Beauty to fight, put on the Flat Sky Crown, and stop pretending to be dead; she ignores him and behaves theatrically.
• The Flame Eye exchanges declarations with its fanatics and later with the newly arrived archer, enjoying their expressions of hatred.
• The archer’s verbal answer appears to distract the Flame Eye while an unseen small sword strikes it, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Key plot points

• Scarlet Heaven Sword and Merit Snake Beauty strike the Flame Pupil’s shadow from behind. Though the shadow heals its chest wound with fire, the two prove resistant to its flames.
• The Flame Pupil opens a Divine Kingdom containing a vast, foul Black River. The Merit Snake Beauty dons the Heaven-Leveling Crown and takes her time-limited Merit Empress form, then bats her Merit Great Sun into the Divine Kingdom. A bow-wielding old man adds a rain of arrows.
• The Black River absorbs both attacks. Scarlet Heaven Sword warns that the Flame Pupil cannot be killed while its Divine Kingdom remains open; the old man claims he can handle it.
• Below, Song Shuhang recognizes the Divine Kingdom’s aura as connected to the Ancient Heavenly Court. Senior White Two explains that it is a crude attempt to imitate worlds such as the Core World, and says it must be smashed.
• Unable to fight effectively through Doudou’s body, Song Shuhang follows Senior White Two’s instructions to summon his Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets. His consciousness transfers into them, forming a golden, liquid-like version of himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Merit Snake Beauty shifts from a playful, deceptive attack to a serious, regal battle stance when she senses the Divine Kingdom’s threat. Her crown grants great power but steadily consumes its stored Merit Power.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword remains cool and taunting, while also identifying the Divine Kingdom as the key obstacle to defeating the Flame Pupil.
• The old archer acts as an additional combatant and appears confident he has a way to deal with the Divine Kingdom.
• Song Shuhang shows his knowledge of the Ancient Heavenly Court, but admits he has neglected his cultivation. Senior White Two teases him, then helps him act by transferring his consciousness into his gauntlets.
• Soft Feather, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Creation Fairy observe from Doudou’s body; Soft Feather and Sixteen notice Song Shuhang’s emotional reaction before his consciousness departs.

Significant themes

• Adaptability and teamwork: The heroes combine unusual abilities and attacks, even if their first attempt is nullified.
• The limits of power: The Merit Empress transformation is formidable but temporary, while the Black River’s scale lets it absorb substantial attacks.
• Imitation versus the genuine article: Senior White Two contrasts the Divine Kingdom’s crude construction with the far greater Core World.
• Improvisation and comic relief: Song Shuhang’s unconventional transfer into his own gauntlets turns a desperate tactical problem into the joke of his becoming “Song Shuhang Two.”

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s consciousness has been separated from his body with Senior White Two’s help, letting him fight without risking permanent possession by Doudou.
• At Senior White Two’s suggestion, Song cultivates the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art. White Two grants him 2,345 Sacred Ape Phantoms, in addition to the first phantom that brings him to the introductory level. The borrowed phantoms dramatically enhance his strength.
• The Beast Cultivator White Fur witnesses the gift and is outraged: after centuries of effort, it had cultivated only ten Sacred Ape Phantoms. Seeing Song receive thousands makes it faint from anger.
• Song launches himself into the Flame Eye’s Divine Kingdom. His impact sends the Flame Eye flying, while the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Fire and unusual Holy Light shield him from its heat.
• Song decides not to retreat. Supported by a Black Lotus and protected by Merit Empress, he uses his temporary enhancement to attack the Flame Eye at overwhelming speed with the second form of Vajra Foundation Fist: “Meteor.”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is confident and eager to show off his temporary power, though his impulsive leap initially surprises his allies. He quickly turns the mishap into an advantage and commits to finishing the fight before the borrowed enhancement expires.
• Senior White Two acts as Song’s guide, lending him the Sacred Ape Phantoms while warning that Song’s body and gauntlets have limits.
• White Fur moves from disbelief to envy and despair as it watches Song gain in moments what it could not achieve over centuries.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and Soft Feather worry about Song’s safety; Soft Feather even fears he may be the one to get pummeled.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword and Merit Snake Beauty follow Song into the Divine Kingdom despite its danger. The sword also nervously wonders whether Song’s new power will make it redundant.
• The old archer is frustrated that Song entered the Divine Kingdom before he could seal it, but agrees to support the reckless team.

Significant themes

• Unfair luck and fate: White Fur’s hard-earned progress contrasts sharply with Song’s extraordinary, seemingly effortless boon.
• Borrowed power and its limits: Song’s strength is immense but temporary, and his body and equipment can withstand only so much.
• Recklessness versus confidence: Song’s impulsiveness creates danger, yet his new power lets him exploit it.
• Comedic exaggeration: The chapter plays up spectacular power escalation, White Fur’s fainting fits, and the sword’s fear of becoming unemployed.