Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang uses his greatly enhanced physical strength and speed to batter the Flame Eye with the Vajra Foundation Fist, driving it into the Black River. The Flame Eye quickly heals by drawing on its Divine Kingdom, confirming that it is effectively immortal while the kingdom remains intact.
• Song Shuhang decides to keep the Flame Eye in sight and push it out of its kingdom. When it covers itself with the burning Black River, he breaks through the defense with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist.
• The Flame Eye discovers that Song Shuhang has 2,346 Sacred Ape Phantoms—far more than it ever believed possible—and realizes it cannot defeat him. Song continues striking it toward the kingdom’s gate, but it cannot be forced through.
• As the Flame Eye tries to wait out Song’s temporary power-up, Song teleports behind it and transfers it to another world: the plaza of the Summer Palace, which he senses lies above the Divine Kingdom.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang grows more confident in his overwhelming physical power, though he recognizes he is still adapting to it. He declines the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s offer to help, believing his current bodily strength is more useful than the sword’s available attack.
• The Flame Eye shifts from confidence in its Black River defenses and Divine Kingdom to disbelief and fear as Song’s strength exceeds its research and expectations. It tries to survive by relying on its kingdom and stalling until Song’s power fades.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword offers assistance partly to maintain its role in Song’s battles, but Song declines. The bow-wielding elder cannot shoot the Flame Eye because Song’s speed makes it impossible to aim.
• Song’s exchanges with the Flame Eye are largely physical: he relentlessly knocks it back while taunting its assumed limits and ultimately reveals that he can take it beyond its own territory.

Significant themes

• Power beyond established limits: The Flame Eye’s research and confidence are overturned by Song’s unprecedented number of Sacred Ape Phantoms.
• Territory and dependence: The Flame Eye’s apparent immortality depends on the Divine Kingdom, while Song’s final move challenges its claim that the kingdom is an inviolable world.
• Adaptation and resourcefulness: Song uses his new strength creatively, shifting from brute-force attacks to spatially removing the enemy from its source of power.

Plot points and events

• Using his consciousness-transfer clone, Song Shuhang brings the fight with the Flame Eye into his Core World, where it can no longer draw strength from its own Divine Kingdom. Though Song is weakening too, he gathers all his remaining strength into one final punch and destroys the Flame Eye, refusing its offer to become his subordinate.
• The Core World’s Lotus Projection absorbs and restores the Flame Eye as a rune, then mounts it on the Summer Palace’s stone stele. A harmless, miniature version forms: no longer a living being, it is bound to the Core World and can serve as a powerful weapon.
• The Merit Snake Beauty declares the Flame Eye dead. Song tries to console her about Cheng Lin, reasoning that Cheng Lin must still be alive because the Heavenly Dao assigned them to find her. The Beauty responds by staging an elaborate hanging “death,” leaving Song baffled and worried about his health.
• Song returns to the Flame Eye’s now-unstable Divine Kingdom and wonders how to move it into his Core World. Meanwhile, the temporary Sacred Ape Phantoms borrowed from Senior White Two disappear, and Song feels his strength collapse.
• Song vows to cultivate enough strength to summon two thousand Sacred Ape Phantoms himself. The Scarlet Heaven Sword doubts this and suggests he trade jokes for borrowed phantoms instead. After Song considers trading something else, the Sword calls his resolve weak; the Merit Snake Beauty silences it by swallowing it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang proves decisive and ruthless against the Flame Eye, but his bravado about becoming stronger is tested by how quickly borrowed power fades. He remains determined, even while acknowledging the practical difficulty of reaching that level.
• The Flame Eye shifts from arrogance to desperate bargaining, but Song’s disgust with its personality outweighs the appeal of gaining a subordinate.
• The Merit Snake Beauty shows increasing awareness and thoughtfulness, but also her bizarre, mischievous sense of humor. Her interaction with the Scarlet Heaven Sword suggests a close, wordless rapport.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword acts as a blunt, teasing adviser, challenging Song’s confidence rather than comforting him. The Beauty’s response abruptly ends its taunting.

Significant themes

• Borrowed power versus self-cultivation: temporary strength can be exhilarating, but losing it is painful; true resolve means pursuing strength independently.
• Power and responsibility: Song’s Core World can absorb a defeated enemy and repurpose its power, turning a threat into a tool.
• Humor amid danger: dramatic battles and serious questions about life and death repeatedly give way to absurd jokes and antics.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang realizes the Flame Eye’s Divine Kingdom is too vast to move into his Core World, and only part of it is the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment he wants. With the Flame Eye dead, the kingdom begins collapsing rapidly as its remaining fanatics and saints self-destruct.
• Unable to reach Senior White Two for help, Song Shuhang considers waiting for the kingdom to fall and retrieving the fragment afterward.
• Onion Lady senses a powerful summons and is brought out of the Core World. A spatial rift opens, and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber emerges, choosing her as its new master.
• The saber passes Onion Lady the Nine-Turn Phoenix Technique, powerful saber arts, and the accumulated insights of its previous wielders. She declares herself Eight Cultivations, succeeding Venerable Seven Cultivations.
• Onion Lady’s grand plan to “defy heaven” is simply to stop Song Shuhang from casually pinching off her onion tips.
• As the Divine Kingdom is about to crash into the present world, Song Shuhang tries to retreat into the Core World. The saber jumps from Onion Lady’s hands into his, responding to the Core World’s connection to the same Heavenly Dao that created it.
• Sensing Song Shuhang’s predicament, the saber prompts him to swing. He unleashes a phoenix-shaped wave of fire that sets the collapsing Divine Kingdom ablaze.

Character developments and interactions

• Onion Lady gains a major new status and power, though her modest, comic ambition contrasts with her extraordinary potential. She is surprised when the saber seems even more enthusiastic in Song Shuhang’s hands.
• Song Shuhang remains practical and quick to joke, but ends up wielding the newly awakened Dao Artifact when it responds to him.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword explains the Divine Kingdom’s collapse and watches Onion Lady with wary fascination, recalling a prophecy that she might one day become Heavenly Dao.
• Onion Lady and Song Shuhang trade teasing remarks about her supposed heaven-defying ambitions; their familiar dynamic continues even as she becomes a formidable cultivator.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber first accepts Onion Lady, then reacts strongly to Song Shuhang and his Core World, creating an unexpected partnership.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus personality: Onion Lady may possess world-shaking potential, yet her immediate goals remain small and personal.
• Inheritance and succession: The saber transfers its technique and the experience of its former wielders, making Onion Lady the next in a powerful line.
• Hidden connections: The Core World and the Dao Artifact share a link to the Third Heavenly Dao, allowing the saber to recognize Song Shuhang.
• Comedy amid catastrophe: The Divine Kingdom’s apocalyptic destruction is repeatedly undercut by filming, banter, and Onion Lady’s underwhelming “defiance of heaven.”

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang and his companions escape the Flame Eye’s Divine Kingdom after the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Flames burn it to ash. The flames spare an enormous fragment of the Ancient Heavenly Court: a half-statue with a Black River flowing from it.
• The Phoenix carries the fragment into Song Shuhang’s Core World. With the Divine Kingdom’s last foundation gone, it disappears permanently.
• Back in the Present World, Song Shuhang gathers the valuables that fall from the vanished kingdom. The mysterious bow-wielding elder has left, suggesting the wedding-related plan is still unfolding.
• Song Shuhang rejoins the wedding procession and the Nine Provinces Number One Group. He explains that a mysterious senior possessed him, enabling him to face the Flame Eye, and confirms that the hovering saber was the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• The group discovers that Onion Lady—not Song Shuhang—is the newly recognized Eight Cultivations. The saber comforts her, then returns to her so they can deepen their bond.
• As the procession resumes, Song Shuhang chats with Soft Feather, who is speaking through Doudou’s body, and Fairy Six Cultivations begins planning the next stage of the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. Song offers Senior Turtle’s Eighth-Grade shell as a frame; Six Cultivations wonders if a more ordinary shell would do.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang returns unharmed, though his help in the battle depended on possession and a non-original body. He remains a mediator between the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and its new master, Onion Lady.
• Onion Lady is confirmed as the Eight Cultivations. She feels jealous when the saber shows more affection toward Song, but is reassured by its attention and is set to enter seclusion to synchronize with it.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber demonstrates independent judgment, choosing what to burn and what to preserve. Its attachment to Song Shuhang coexists with its duty to bond with Onion Lady.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group checks on Song and reacts with surprise when they learn Onion Lady is the Eight Cultivations.
• Soft Feather and Song Shuhang trade playful remarks about weddings; her enthusiasm for a dramatic ceremony contrasts with Song’s caution.
• Fairy Six Cultivations and Song Shuhang resume their artifact-forging work, with Song’s unusually high-grade material prompting her dry response.

Significant themes

• Destruction and preservation: The Phoenix’s flames erase the Divine Kingdom but selectively preserve the Heavenly Court fragment.
• Identity and mistaken assumptions: Song’s many titles lead the group to assume he is the Eight Cultivations, but the role belongs to Onion Lady.
• Loyalty and affection: The saber’s competing attachment to Song and care for Onion Lady creates comic tension while establishing their developing bond.
• Humor amid catastrophe: The chapter shifts from apocalyptic destruction to banter about Onion Lady’s jealousy, wedding excitement, and an excessively valuable turtle shell.

Key events

• Song Shuhang continues assembling the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Magical Treasures, hoping to complete them before reaching Fifth Grade. He has a crudely refined Turtle Sage Shell for the Overlord Expert Shield, but still needs Hound Sage Fangs for the Hound God General’s Ring.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain relays an offer from the bow-wielding senior: in gratitude for Shuhang’s help against the Flame Eye, the senior will give him a fang. Shuhang asks for a second, then trades a Whale Sage Bone for nine more Eighth-Grade fangs, receiving ten in total.
• Shuhang gives two fangs to Fairy Six Cultivations, who is stunned by how quickly he has acquired such high-grade materials—and annoyed when he jokes about making the whole set from Eighth-Grade components.
• Fairy Six Cultivations agrees to refine the turtle-shell shield with Senior Turtle’s help. Shuhang asks for a second shell for Senior White Two; Senior Turtle offers one in exchange for a Sixth-Grade rabbit mount or Eighth-Grade rabbit fur.
• At the relay station, Shuhang finds Doudou impersonating him in a tailcoat and doglike pose. Doudou explains that Shuhang’s gauntlet vanished while he was wearing Doudou’s body, causing his bare hand to touch the ground. The contact triggered Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method, and the resulting pain knocked Doudou unconscious.
• Senior White appears in a tailcoat. Doudou, disguised as Soft Feather, urges him to add glowing red eyes and a wicked smile. The group reacts with alarm, though Fairy Lychee is intrigued.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is resourceful and ambitious about crafting artifacts, but his plans keep expanding: he now expects to make two complete sets. His easy access to rare materials surprises those around him.
• Fairy Six Cultivations remains practical and focused on the shield’s construction, while openly expressing envy and exasperation at Shuhang’s luck.
• Senior Turtle is willing to help refine his shell but treats further gifts as business, naming unusual rabbit-related payment.
• Doudou continues his mischievous role-swapping and theatrical antics, while revealing the dangerous consequences of Shuhang’s appraisal ability.
• Senior White calmly plays along with Doudou’s makeover suggestions, prompting concern from the group.

Significant themes

• Ambition and escalating plans: Shuhang’s goal of crafting one set grows into the prospect of two, despite the immense requirements.
• Comradeship and exchange: Help and gratitude are expressed through trades, favors, and collaborative crafting.
• Comic absurdity: Rare magical materials, bizarre bargaining, body-swapping mishaps, and increasingly extravagant costume suggestions drive the chapter’s humor.

Key plot points

• Senior White’s clone explains that the original Senior White has entered unusually long seclusion. The clone will act in his place, accompanied by the rail-fitted Meteor Sword.
• Song Shuhang asks how to obtain Eighth-Grade Rabbit Sage Fur for the Jade Rabbit Fairy cloak. The clone points him to Daoist Sugarcane, a collector of beast fangs who has a supply from a Rabbit Sage.
• Fairy Lychee contacts Sugarcane and negotiates on Shuhang’s behalf. Shuhang trades six Eighth-Grade Hound Sage Fangs for four portions of Rabbit Sage Fur.
• Shuhang trades one portion to Senior Turtle for an Eighth-Grade Turtle Sage Shell. He gives small shares of fur to Senior White’s clone and Fairy Lychee, keeps a little for a blanket, and sends the remaining fur and shell to Fairy Six Cultivations to make the cloak.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White’s clone is unusually playful, readily indulging Fairy Lychee’s request for a “wicked smile” photo. It also offers practical help, including a loan and spatial transport for the trade.
• Song Shuhang is resourceful and willing to barter valuable materials, though he worries about the Meteor Sword eventually blaming him for its railings.
• Fairy Lychee shows loyalty to Shuhang and a flair for bargaining, securing four portions of fur despite Sugarcane’s objections. She jokes that she is negotiating for her “daughter,” Ye Si, and asks for a share.
• Daoist Sugarcane is an eccentric beast-fang collector who complains about his bad luck and speculates wildly about his stern master, Coriander.
• Fairy Six Cultivations is exasperated when Shuhang presents her with yet another unusual crafting assignment.

Significant themes

• Trade and reciprocity: Rare materials move through a network of favors, bargaining, and exchanges.
• Comic eccentricity: The characters’ odd habits and banter turn a practical quest into a sequence of jokes.
• Cultivation and craftsmanship: The rabbit fur and turtle shell are valuable ingredients for specialized magical equipment.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang has collected large quantities of Eighth-Grade materials for the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. Fairy Six Cultivations, already exhausted from forging, begins work on the Overlord Expert Shield with Senior Turtle’s help.
• Shuhang asks Senior White to find potential traders. White posts a barter advertisement on his chat profile, offering Shuhang’s Whale Sage Bones, Whale Sage Scales, and Hound Sage Fangs for other Eighth-Grade refinement materials.
• The advertisement quickly attracts Purple Flame’s Loose Cultivator, who trades a pair of Ox Sage Horns for two unusually large Whale Sage Scales. Senior White completes the deal through spatial teleportation.
• White promises to take Shuhang treasure hunting in the universe after Doudou’s wedding, where they may find materials left from ancient battles between Profound Sages. Shuhang eagerly agrees despite the risks.
• During the wedding procession, Doudou learns that his intended has changed: he will marry Fairy Fusheng, a Fifth-Grade dog fairy and the last successor of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect.
• The newly acquired Ox Sage Horns are sent to Fairy Six Cultivations, who realizes they are another Eighth-Grade component she must forge. They can form the One-Horned Ox King helmet.
• Shuhang recalls that the completed Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact ultimately becomes a Rubik’s Cube, though he cannot understand how its wildly different components combine that way.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is increasingly overwhelmed by his good fortune in acquiring rare materials, but turns it into an opportunity to gather even more through trades. He cheerfully accepts Senior White’s hazardous treasure-hunting invitation.
• Fairy Six Cultivations is frustrated by the growing workload and worries about being underpaid, but perks up when Shuhang promises to ask for better compensation. Each new material—including the Ox Sage Horns—immediately adds to her burden.
• Senior White shows his practical, promotional side: he modifies phones, posts the trade advertisement, and handles an interspatial exchange with ease. His casual confidence about treasure hunting amuses or alarms the other cultivators.
• Doudou goes from anxiety about marrying a powerful figure from the Sky-Barking Camp to relief upon learning he will marry Fairy Fusheng instead.
• Senior Turtle boasts about his exceptionally durable shell, explaining that it has protected the Northern Great Emperor.

Significant themes

• Advertising and opportunity: Senior White’s slogan that this is an age when advertising reigns is proven by the swift, successful trade.
• Good fortune and escalating obligations: Shuhang’s luck brings valuable materials, but each acquisition creates more work for Fairy Six Cultivations.
• Appearance versus reality: The artifact’s components seem like ordinary pieces of armor, yet their final form is inexplicably a Rubik’s Cube.
• Risk and adventure: Shuhang is willing to accept danger in pursuit of rare treasures, trusting Senior White to keep him alive.

• Plot: Song Shuhang and Senior White’s clone continue acquiring materials for the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. Senior White completes a favorable trade: a pair of Elephant Sage Tusks for two Whale Sage Bones, even though the tusks are normally worth five to eight pairs of bones. But the tusks are a trap—Profound Sage Demonic Elephant, a member of the Finality Church, has hidden a lethal curse inside them and targets Shuhang for his connection to the Beast God Sect.
• The curse is defeated: Senior White’s clone restrains the curse, but Ye Si suddenly emerges from Shuhang’s body while still unconscious and eats it. She consumes the Eighth-Grade curse in several bites, then returns to her dormant state. The demonic elephant vows the attack is not over. Shuhang recognizes the attacker as an enemy linked to the Planet with Eyes and expects further conflict.
• Character developments and interactions: Ye Si’s unexpected ability to devour curses—previously associated with Shuhang’s First Spirit Ghost—raises questions about whether it came from her Spirit Ghost bond or Cheng Lin’s inheritance. Soft Feather eagerly asks whether her own Spirit Ghost could learn the skill; Shuhang promises to ask Ye Si when she wakes. Senior White purifies the tusks, and Shuhang jokes that following him brings good fortune, interpreting the risky encounter as “wealth sought amid danger.” Meanwhile, in the Core World, Fairy Six Cultivations is exhausted from forging the Overlord Expert Shield from Eighth-Grade materials. Another delivery—the blood-stained tusks—arrives before she can rest, prompting her to suspect an Elephant Sage has been killed.
• Themes: The chapter mixes danger with comic fortune and inconvenience: a seemingly profitable trade conceals a deadly attack, yet also yields a valuable windfall. It highlights the growing reach of the Finality Church’s threat, the mystery of Ye Si’s evolving powers, and the relentless strain placed on Fairy Six Cultivations by Shuhang’s ambitious artifact-making.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang explains that Profound Sage Demonic Elephant cut off his own tusks while trying to curse him. The curse failed, and Shuhang traded a pair of Whale Sage Bones for the tusks—an unusually profitable deal.
• Fairy Six Cultivations agrees to use the tusks for the Sacred Elephant Commander’s Pillar, one of the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts. Alone again, she resumes the exhausting artifact work, determined to honor her contract.
• Shuhang and Senior White’s Clone discuss using the Whale Sage Bones to track the Demonic Elephant and ambush him later, after Doudou’s wedding and once Senior White’s true body wakes.
• Doudou’s wedding procession arrives, featuring an elaborate dragon-and-lion dance. A Flood Dragon and several lion-dance teams are being carried and maneuvered by young cultivators who lost a gambling game and are working off their debts. The procession joins Doudou’s and continues toward the venue.
• Inspired by the spectacle, Doudou [Soft Feather Version] says she wants an equally grand procession if she ever marries, with wolf and cat dances too. Several animal-form guests feel an unexplained chill.
• Mad Saber Three Waves tests an online claim by setting out a large fishbowl; Young Master Phoenix Slayer promptly curls up inside it, delighting Three Waves and alarming the others.
• After Doudou’s procession leaves, a second, nearly identical one appears. Dugu Bai’s decoy plan is underway: disguised as Doudou, he intends to reach the venue and marry his master. His online friends help him, believing the scheme will win her heart.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang remains amused by the absurd chain of events and discusses strategy with Senior White’s more cautious, advice-seeking Clone.
• Fairy Six Cultivations shows professional dedication despite her exhaustion and frustration, continuing the work because she has accepted payment.
• Moon Flood Dragon complains about being forced into the dance, while the indebted performers nervously try to keep the choreography in step.
• Doudou eagerly embraces the wedding spectacle, while Three Waves’ experiment turns Phoenix Slayer’s catlike habits into a comic demonstration.
• Dugu Bai shows deep gratitude toward his online companions and remains hopeful that his elaborate deception will help him win his master’s affection.

Significant themes

• Absurdity and coincidence: Convenient trades, elaborate wedding customs, and bizarre mishaps make the world feel more ridiculous than fiction.
• Duty and loyalty: Six Cultivations honors her contract, while Dugu Bai’s friends rally to support him.
• Friendship and community: Online acquaintances prove willing to help one another in person.
• Comedy through role reversal and spectacle: Powerful cultivators and supernatural creatures become performers, props, or subjects of everyday experiments.

Plot points and events

• Dugu Bai’s plan succeeds: he and his companions disguise themselves as Doudou’s wedding sedan and head toward the wedding venue, with Dugu Bai eagerly imagining his master’s surprise.
• The actual wedding procession follows a dragon-and-lion dance troupe to a warm grassland instead of the supposedly frigid Sky-Barking Camp. True Lord Yellow Mountain tells Zhou Li to keep following the troupe, but the destination proves to be the Black Horse Monster’s territory.
• The Black Horse Monster is there to marry the daughter of Horse King, not Doudou. Both wedding parties were brought to the same place because the troupe’s escort was arranged for Horse King’s wedding too. Zhou Li realizes someone has interfered, but calls to Yellow Mountain and Horse King fail because the area has no phone signal. The procession turns back.
• Before they leave, the Black Horse Monster gives Song Shuhang a gift in thanks for helping him previously: four ancient Horse Saint Hooves. Senior White’s Clone identifies them as remains left behind when a Horse Saint Dissolved into the Dao. The hooves are useful materials for Song’s Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact.
• The hooves arrive in Song’s Core World as well, prompting Fairy Six Cultivations to wonder aloud whether Song has somehow acquired a full set of Profound Sage-grade materials.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Bai is delighted by his disguise and anticipates fooling his master, though his scheme has not yet intersected with the main procession.
• Zhou Li’s doubts about the route grow into suspicion that someone has deliberately caused the confusion.
• Song Shuhang is bemused by the mix-up and wary of how conveniently the rare hooves fit his crafting needs.
• The Black Horse Monster shows gratitude and generosity, while clarifying that his own wedding is unrelated to Doudou’s.
• Senior White’s Clone treats Song’s repeated luck in finding needed materials as a familiar occurrence; Zhou Li suspects the gift may have been deliberately arranged.

Significant themes

• Comic coincidence and mistaken identity: Two separate wedding processions converge through overlapping arrangements.
• Gratitude and reciprocity: The Black Horse Monster insists on repaying Song for a small past kindness.
• Fortune versus design: The rare materials appear just when Song needs them, leaving the group unsure whether the luck is natural or orchestrated.
• The burden of ambition: Song welcomes the hooves but worries that using Eighth-Grade materials for every artifact will make completing the full set daunting.

Plot points and events

• Fairy Six Cultivations laments that Song Shuhang keeps producing Eighth-Grade Profound Sage materials, making her feel like a failure by comparison. Shuhang says he may collect more materials during a planned trip with Senior White.
• Doudou’s wedding procession returns toward its original route after Zhou Li suspects the diversion was a trap. True Lord Yellow Mountain calls and reveals he approved the interception and helped Dugu Bai’s elaborate stunt, while the wedding itself is still proceeding according to plan.
• Dugu Bai’s disguised bridal procession reaches the Sky-Barking Camp without being detected. He is placed in the bridal chamber, expecting Fairy Fusheng—but her calm eldest brother appears instead.
• Dugu Bai panics as the brother begins removing his jacket and loosening his tie, fearing he is about to be forced into consummating the marriage. He considers revealing himself or fighting, but the brother reveals he is wearing armor and explains that the situation was staged to unsettle him.
• The brother tells Dugu Bai that Fusheng is elsewhere and that his hijacking plan failed from the outset. He also explains that he had been arranging a marriage for himself, not Fusheng, and that Doudou’s wedding is punishment for its own past actions.
• The brother announces that the wedding is a trap designed to draw certain people out. The “actors” have arrived, and Dugu Bai—an orthodox successor of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect—is expected to take part in what follows.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains casually generous with valuable materials, inadvertently intensifying Fairy Six Cultivations’ envy.
• Fairy Six Cultivations expresses her insecurity through dark humor, joking about a “sad mushroom.”
• Zhou Li moves from suspicion to reluctant cooperation once Yellow Mountain confirms the deception was authorized.
• Dugu Bai shifts from confidence in his elaborate wedding-hijacking plan to comic terror, then realizes he has been manipulated and starts piecing together the scheme.
• Fairy Fusheng’s eldest brother is revealed as composed and calculating, using Dugu Bai’s panic as part of a larger setup.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain emerges as a quiet orchestrator who permits the diversion while keeping the wedding’s larger plan on track.

Significant themes

• Deception and staged appearances: The procession, the intercepted communications, and the bridal chamber all conceal a broader plan.
• Consequences and responsibility: Yellow Mountain frames Doudou’s forced wedding as punishment for trouble it caused.
• Control versus free choice: Dugu Bai protests that love should be free, while the characters around him manipulate events for their own purposes.
• Comic reversal: Dugu Bai expects to rescue or surprise Fusheng but instead becomes the target of a frightening misunderstanding.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang’s matter-of-fact discussion of rare materials needles Fairy Six Cultivations, who responds with exaggerated despair.
• Zhou Li questions Yellow Mountain about the diversion; Yellow Mountain admits to enabling it and directs him back toward the wedding venue.
• Dugu Bai’s expectations collide with Fusheng’s eldest brother’s calm, unsettling behavior, producing the chapter’s central comic scene.
• The eldest brother dismisses Dugu Bai’s objections about marriage and explains the roles of Doudou, Fusheng, and the larger trap before summoning him into the next stage of the scheme.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Big Brother reveals that the current operation is designed to lure out and destroy the forces responsible for the destruction of the Thirty-Three Divine Beast Sect.
• Du Gu Bai learns that remnants of the enemy have continued monitoring and hunting the Beast God Sect. Big Brother intends to draw them into a trap and eliminate them.
• Although Big Brother claims complete annihilation is impossible, he admits that Fusheng has been placed safely with DouDou as a surviving “seed” of the Beast God Sect in case the operation fails.
• Du Gu Bai agrees to participate despite his limited combat ability. Big Brother jokingly labels him “Cannon Fodder B,” while calling himself “Cannon Fodder A,” since his cultivation is also suppressed to the Fifth Rank.
• Du Gu Bai is teleported onto a massive warship, where he meets the powerful bow-wielding elder from the Eye of Flame incident.
• The elder identifies the enemy as “Gods,” the main forces that helped destroy the Thirty-Three Divine Beast Sect. Most lack Divine Kingdoms and range from the Fifth to Eighth Rank, though two Ninth-Rank-level Gods with Divine Kingdoms are hidden nearby.
• The Thirty-Three Divine Beast Sect’s forces have already engaged the enemy, and the situation appears favorable because the trap has successfully drawn many enemies into the open.
• Meanwhile, in the real world, enemy forces search for the hidden remnants of the sect by tracking DouDou’s wedding procession.
• A shadow-based infiltrator follows one apparent wedding procession, while a goat-headed demon discovers another identical procession. Suspecting multiple decoys, the demon follows the second one.
• The demon then notices a young man carrying the aura of its supreme lord and the End Religion’s Holy Light, leading it to suspect that he may be an infiltrator or mole within the enemy’s ranks.

Character Developments

• Du Gu Bai shifts from fear and reluctance to determined participation, though he remains painfully aware that he may genuinely be expendable.
• Big Brother demonstrates his strategic confidence, dark humor, and willingness to use himself and others as bait. He also reveals a protective contingency for Fusheng.
• The bow-wielding elder appears to support the Beast God Sect and shows approval of Du Gu Bai’s loyalty. He even promises not to oppose Du Gu Bai’s possible relationship with Fusheng—provided Du Gu Bai can win her over.
• Big Brother and Du Gu Bai’s rivalry becomes more personal when Big Brother claims Fusheng once confessed her love to him and calls himself Du Gu Bai’s greatest romantic rival.
• The enemy forces are shown to be organized and determined to eradicate the Thirty-Three Divine Beast Sect completely, but they are also vulnerable to deception and misdirection.

Significant Themes

• Revenge and survival: The Beast God Sect seeks justice against those who destroyed its predecessor while ensuring that at least one surviving “seed” remains.
• Sacrifice and expendability: The repeated “cannon fodder” jokes conceal the serious danger of the operation and highlight the willingness of the characters to risk their lives for the sect.
• Strategy and deception: Both sides rely on traps, decoys, hidden forces, and false wedding processions to locate or ambush their enemies.
• Legacy and continuity: The sect’s survival is tied not merely to winning the battle, but to preserving descendants and inheritors such as Fusheng.
• Humor amid danger: Big Brother’s teasing, especially concerning Fusheng and Du Gu Bai’s romantic hopes, contrasts with the deadly military confrontation.

Character Interactions

• Big Brother reassures Du Gu Bai while bluntly warning him that he may serve as cannon fodder.
• Du Gu Bai tries to prove his loyalty by declaring his willingness to die for the Thirty-Three Divine Beast Sect.
• The bow-wielding elder encourages Du Gu Bai and jokingly discusses his potential relationship with Fusheng.
• Big Brother provokes Du Gu Bai by revealing Fusheng’s supposed confession and presenting himself as a romantic competitor.
• The enemy shadow infiltrator and goat-headed demon coordinate their search, but the demon’s discovery of the mysterious young man introduces suspicion and the possibility of betrayal within the enemy camp.
• The chapter ends on this cliffhanger: the goat-headed demon wonders whether the young man carrying the End Religion’s aura is a hidden mole.

Chapter 1312 Summary

• A Goat-Head Demon from the Finality Divine Church spots Song Shuhang and mistakes him for a fellow believer, wondering whether the Golden Wedding Sedan is genuine. Song Shuhang senses the demon’s hostile aura, and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber recognizes its connection to the Church and urges him to attack.
• Song Shuhang experiments with wielding the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber alongside the Scarlet Heaven Sword. He casts the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber with both weapons: the sword produces its usual scorching flames, while the Phoenix Saber creates powerful, undying phoenix fire. The two attacks overwhelm the demon and apparently burn it to ash.
• The demon survives by using an illusion and a seduction-like chant to disorient Song Shuhang, then tries to stab him. Senior White’s clone strikes from behind with the barbed Meteor Sword, but the demon escapes using a substitute technique, leaving only sand behind.
• Certain his escape technique makes him impossible to track, the demon hides underwater as a small fish and decides to wait for reinforcements. Meanwhile, Senior White’s clone claims he can still catch it—and summons Senior White’s cultivating main body, then flings him away as a “hidden weapon.” Song Shuhang senses trouble, while Doudou cries out in Creation Fairy’s voice.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows growing ingenuity by combining the Phoenix Saber’s power with a technique normally used through the Scarlet Heaven Sword. He also reassures the frustrated saber after the demon escapes.
• The Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber is eager for revenge against the Finality Divine Church, but its excitement gives way to frustration when its target gets away.
• Senior White’s clone acts decisively in battle and remains comically confident about tracking the demon, despite his unusual plan to use his own main body as a projectile.
• The Goat-Head Demon shifts from curiosity to alarm as it realizes Song Shuhang is not an ally. It survives the attack but recognizes that the sages and their weapons are exceptionally dangerous.
• Song Shuhang and the clone coordinate against the demon, while Scarlet Heaven Sword comments on the unusual two-weapon attack. The chapter ends on a comic, ominous note as Senior White’s clone launches his main body.

Significant themes

• Improvisation and power: Song Shuhang adapts a familiar technique to work with a different divine weapon, producing a distinct form of flame.
• Misjudgment and deception: The demon mistakes Song Shuhang for a Church member, then relies on illusion and disguise to escape.
• Humor amid danger: The demon’s desperate tactics and Senior White’s absurd “hidden weapon” plan undercut the otherwise serious battle.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White’s Clone uses his Main Body as a tracking projectile, hurling it into the sea to expose the Goat-Head Demon, whose substitution technique had kept him hidden. The impact blasts the demon out of the water and leaves him badly injured.
• Senior White’s Clone attacks with the Meteor Sword. Its transforming barbs expose the demon to merit-infused whale bones, which are especially painful to him, and the sword pierces his throat.
• The demon counters with a one-use scroll that summons a Tribulation Immortal-level Bone Claw, forcing Senior White’s Clone to retreat. As the demon tries to escape underwater, Merit Snake Beauty ambushes him and stabs him through the heart.
• Though the Bone Claw skewers Merit Snake Beauty, she twists her sword in the demon’s chest before being knocked aside. The demon then faces what he thinks is another thrown Senior White—but instead, Senior White launches a huge barrage of disposable flying swords, enhanced by more than a hundred auxiliary formations.
• The barrage overwhelms the Bone Claw and riddles the demon with wounds, killing him before he can use his substitution technique again. Merit Snake Beauty searches his corpse and takes his valuables.
• Song Shuhang asks for the demon’s horns for an artifact; Senior White agrees, and Fairy Six Cultivations later receives them.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White remains comically fearless about using his own Main Body as a weapon. His Clone and Main Body work together seamlessly, while his resourcefulness and overwhelming arsenal secure the victory.
• Song Shuhang is unsettled by Senior White’s treatment of his Main Body but contributes to the victory and negotiates for the horns, giving Senior White most of the remaining spoils.
• The Goat-Head Demon shifts from smug confidence in his concealment to panic as each escape attempt is thwarted. He underestimates both Merit Snake Beauty and Senior White’s final attack.
• Merit Snake Beauty proves to be an effective, persistent ambusher: despite being pierced by the Bone Claw, she lands a painful counterattack and later prioritizes looting the corpse.
• Qingwu and Demon Venerable Lushan Road assist Senior White by loading disposable swords into the spell ring for the final barrage.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming ingenuity and teamwork: Different abilities, allies, and tools combine to defeat an exceptionally powerful enemy.
• Humor amid danger: Senior White’s self-as-projectile tactic, Merit Snake Beauty’s theatrical pain, and the corpse-looting all undercut the battle’s violence with comedy.
• Merit as both power and vulnerability: Merit-based attacks are especially effective against the demon, while Merit Snake Beauty’s body can endure damage but still be struck and displaced.

Key plot points and events

• Fairy Six Cultivations receives a pair of Profound Sage-grade goat horns—enough to forge two Black Sheep Warrior’s Rings—but Song Shuhang realizes he had meant to save materials and give her a larger batch. When he quietly removes the horns from the Core World, she grows even more furious and hammers away at a turtle shell in a blazing, seemingly unhinged frenzy.
• Senior White’s Clone suggests calming her with a gift, but Song Shuhang fears that sending anything else into the Core World would make matters worse.
• The group captures the badly wounded but still-living Goat-Head Demon. Senior White takes the demon for his own purposes, while Song Shuhang receives the demon’s Spirit Stones and sealed spatial wristband; they agree he will share any valuable contents later.
• The party returns to Doudou’s wedding procession. Song Shuhang explains that his bold fight against an Eighth-Grade foe was done using a disposable, specially created body, with Senior White backing him up.
• Fellow members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group plan to publish a report of the battle, which should bolster Song Shuhang’s reputation and discourage those who might target him.
• Song Shuhang’s rapid progress prompts the group to resolve to cultivate harder. At seven in the evening, the procession reaches its destination, where the wedding’s next act is about to begin.
• Song Shuhang’s temporary body dissolves into his gauntlets, which return to his Doudou-based body along with the spoils. His consciousness then returns to Doudou’s body, bringing a strange mist that envelops the other consciousnesses and gathers into a dream.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows both recklessness and resourcefulness: he takes on a powerful enemy using a body he can afford to risk, but again mishandles the goat horns and upsets Fairy Six Cultivations. He is also increasingly treated as a formidable figure because of his recent feats.
• Fairy Six Cultivations responds to the horn mishap with furious, almost hysterical forging, while the Great Sea Turtle keeps his distance.
• Senior White’s Clone supports Shuhang, handles the capture and division of spoils, and promises to help with future treasure hunting.
• Doudou’s companions react differently to the battle: Soft Feather is thrilled, while Su Clan’s Sixteen worries about Shuhang’s safety.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group shifts from teasing and comparison to renewed determination, each member announcing a plan to spend more time cultivating.

Significant themes

• Comic consequences of good intentions: Shuhang’s attempt to fix his mistake only worsens Fairy Six Cultivations’ anger.
• Reputation and growing power: His public exploits reinforce his Sage title and influence how others judge him.
• Community and competition: Shuhang’s extraordinary advancement both inspires his friends and makes them feel they must catch up.
• Identity and embodiment: The chapter closes on the shifting consciousnesses, temporary bodies, and mysterious mist that leads into a dream.

Plot points and events

• Soft Feather, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Creation Fairy find themselves in a mist-filled dreamscape. They initially suspect it may be Song Shuhang’s dream and follow a seemingly endless path.
• Creation Fairy sings a line in the Ancient Era Language, clearing the mist and revealing a horde of grotesque monsters. The creatures are held back from the path by an invisible barrier.
• Song Shuhang emerges from the monster mob. He discovers that many of his usual techniques are unavailable, though his Confucian techniques, Righteous Qi, Merit Light, and lotus-stepping ability still work. Righteous Qi burns the weaker monsters, while Merit Light repels them.
• When Shuhang tries to land beside the others, he hits the invisible barrier and falls into the horde. He fights his way back into the air, then joins the group as they continue along the path.
• At the path’s end, they find a great door carved with three scenes: a dramatic birth, countless books, and the back of a blue-haired female cultivator. Shuhang recognizes them as milestones in his life—his birth, childhood, and cultivation—and thinks, “I was awesome” at every stage.

Character developments and interactions

• Sixteen stays cautious and practical, questioning whether the dreamscape is really Shuhang’s and urging the group to proceed safely.
• Soft Feather is adventurous and eager to fight the monsters. She also jokes that she hoped to find Shuhang asleep as a “Sleeping Beauty”; Sixteen covers her mouth before Shuhang can understand.
• Creation Fairy’s sing-song speech proves meaningful: she identifies Soft Feather as “silly,” clears the mist with a Confucian verse, and later calls Shuhang a “blockhead.” Her connection to the dreamscape remains unclear.
• Shuhang adapts quickly to the limits on his powers and protects the others from the monsters, though his dramatic attempt to rejoin them ends in a comic collision with the barrier.

Significant themes

• The dreamscape’s origin and purpose remain mysterious, with clues pointing away from Shuhang and possibly toward Creation Fairy or the Confucian School.
• The scene contrasts danger with humor: Shuhang’s heroic fighting is undercut by his collision with the invisible wall and his obliviousness to Soft Feather’s teasing.
• The carved door presents Shuhang’s life as a sequence of achievements, underscoring his exuberant self-confidence.

Chapter 1316 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Yurouzi examine a series of paintings depicting three stages of the Confucianism Sage’s life:
  1. His extraordinary birth, marked by purple qi, thunder, lightning, and dancing dragons.
  2. His childhood brilliance, when he had already read and mastered vast amounts of knowledge by age five.
  3. His cultivation guidance by a mysterious blue-haired woman, who resembles Fairy Maiden Sect Yun Quezi.
• The group opens a heavy door connected to the dreamscape. Golden mist pours out, later transforming into golden rain over a desert containing a dilapidated bamboo pavilion.
• Fairy of Creation becomes transparent and sings a wordless song filled with longing. Her singing transforms the mist into golden rain and causes Sixteen and Yurouzi to cry.
• Fairy of Creation temporarily vanishes, then reappears in a more powerful, sword-like form. She identifies Song Shuhang’s Confucian Diamond Body and explains that the Mist Dream was activated by his connection to the Confucian Sage’s teachings.
• She reveals that the dream will contain nothing more unless the Confucian Sage himself has revived, and advises them to retrace their steps to leave.
• Fairy of Creation clarifies that her earlier song concerned the Confucian Sage’s longing for the blue-haired woman—not her own beloved. The Confucian Sage’s disciples once searched the Myriad Realms for the woman but found no trace of her.
• Song Shuhang connects the woman to Yun Quezi, who has been captured by a powerful Nine Nether being.
• While Sixteen and Yurouzi investigate the pavilion, it suddenly explodes. A bamboo coffin rises from beneath it and opens, revealing a single eye.
• Fairy of Creation identifies the eye as one of the Confucian Sage’s own eyes.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang reflects on his astonishingly rapid cultivation. Although he acknowledges the Confucian Sage’s natural talent and disciplined progress, he realizes his own advancement has been even faster due to countless opportunities and fortunate encounters.
• Fairy of Creation displays a major change in behavior and speech. She speaks in complete sentences for the first time, reveals knowledge of the Confucian Sage, and demonstrates that she can reconstruct herself after seemingly disappearing.
• Fairy of Creation’s identity becomes more mysterious and significant. She appears to have been one of the Confucian Sage’s disciples or a powerful figure connected to his legacy.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and Yurouzi continue acting as a team, investigating the dreamscape cautiously but eagerly. Their emotional reaction to Fairy of Creation’s song reveals their sensitivity and empathy.

Significant Themes

• Longing and separation: The chapter centers on the desire to reunite with someone lost across time, worlds, or lifetimes.
• Unfulfilled love: The Confucian Sage’s attachment to his mysterious guide is portrayed as a lifelong, unresolved affection.
• Legacy and remembrance: The paintings, the Mist Dream, and the Sage’s eye preserve fragments of his life, knowledge, and relationships.
• Fate and coincidence: Song Shuhang’s connection to the Confucian Sage allows him to activate the dream and uncover links between ancient figures and current events.
• Knowledge as power: The Sage’s childhood achievements and the eye’s aura of “ultimate wisdom” emphasize the immense value and force of accumulated knowledge.

Character Interactions

• Sixteen and Yurouzi discuss the Confucian Sage’s cultivation achievements and compare them with Song Shuhang’s even faster progress.
• Sixteen and Yurouzi work together to explore the golden desert and pavilion while Song Shuhang watches from behind an invisible barrier.
• Song Shuhang questions Fairy of Creation about the meaning of her song and the person she longs to meet.
• Fairy of Creation explains the Confucian Sage’s relationship with the blue-haired woman and reacts with surprise when Song Shuhang identifies her possible connection to Yun Quezi.
• The chapter ends with the group confronting a new mystery: the Confucian Sage’s preserved eye emerging from the destroyed pavilion.

Key plot points and events

• The Confucian Sage’s eye emerges from an exploding tomb and settles in Song Shuhang’s hand. Creation Fairy suspects it may be drawn to Skylark, whom the Sage once wanted to see.
• The eye contains [Pregnancy Gaze], a teaching spell meant to help Confucian disciples appreciate their mothers’ hardships: it causes ten seconds of accelerated pregnancy followed by half an hour of intense childbirth pain.
• Song Shuhang tries to activate it on the eager Soft Feather using Confucian Righteous Qi. After several minutes with no apparent effect, he looks directly at the eye—and triggers the spell on himself.
• His belly rapidly swells, and he endures the spell’s supposedly unavoidable, level-12 pain. He cries out for his mother and is forced to recognize the lesson the Sage intended.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains curious but unlucky: despite learning how dangerous the eye is, he experiments with it and suffers the consequences. His ordeal leaves him overwhelmed and more appreciative of maternal love.
• Soft Feather eagerly volunteers to experience the spell, treating it as preparation for possible motherhood. Watching Song Shuhang suffer makes her reconsider.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen is embarrassed and unsure how to react, while Creation Fairy calmly explains the spell and its purpose.

Significant themes

• The chapter humorously presents filial piety and empathy for mothers through an absurdly painful lesson.
• It also plays on reckless curiosity and unintended consequences: Song Shuhang’s attempt to test the spell backfires spectacularly.
• The contrast between the Sage’s educational intent and the spell’s terrifying effect turns a solemn moral lesson into slapstick.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang consults Creation Fairy about the eye, then discusses the spell with Soft Feather and Sixteen.
• Soft Feather volunteers and reassures Song Shuhang that she will keep the experience private, but he accidentally becomes the target instead.
• Creation Fairy explains that the spell cannot be stopped, while Sixteen and Soft Feather watch Song Shuhang’s ordeal in stunned silence.

Chapter Summary: “Shut Your Mouth, You’ll Be Cursed”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Soft Feather regain consciousness after escaping the Misty Dreamscape. The Confucian Sage’s Eye has been brought back with them and is attached to Song Shuhang’s left glove.
• Song Shuhang confirms that the Eye’s frightening “Pregnancy Gaze” only affected the dream and did not physically harm him. He refuses Soft Feather’s request to test it again and stores the Eye in his Core World.
• Senior White’s Main Body remains in seclusion, while his Clone explains that he ended the secret technique after Song Shuhang and the others became unconscious. Doudou’s consciousness was restored so that the wedding could continue.
• Creation Fairy’s consciousness does not return. Senior White suspects it may have remained inside the Confucian Sage’s Eye or the Misty Dreamscape and plans to investigate it later.
• Doudou’s wedding has been transformed into the grand Yellow Mountain Festival, a powerful sacrificial ceremony connected to True Lord Yellow Mountain’s lineage. Senior White brings Song Shuhang, Sixteen, and Soft Feather to participate.
• Senior White uses Three Heads and Six Arms to bring everyone through the barrier, but still crashes into it, creating a humorous entrance.
• The ceremony begins with nine bell tolls, the appearance of a projected Yellow Mountain, and the descent of seven-colored treasure light. The light forms immortal armor and skirts that heal hidden injuries.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group learns that Copper Trigram is secretly present. They begin searching the attendees for him, though the ceremony proceeds.
• True Lord Yellow Mountain, Doudou, Fairy Fusheng, Zhou Li, and other members of Yellow Mountain’s lineage perform the ritual. Doudou and Fairy Fusheng conduct a ceremonial dance involving wine and blood.
• Tribulation clouds form above the projected mountain, alarming Song Shuhang, who fears Yellow Mountain may be triggering a dangerous Heavenly Tribulation. Instead, mist descends as rain, and the raindrops transform into brilliant crystal diamonds on the participants.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains deeply traumatized by the Sage’s Eye’s childbirth-related ability and becomes extremely cautious about using it. He also shows growing responsibility by worrying about Creation Fairy and the possible dangers of the ceremony.
• Soft Feather continues to be curious, playful, and mischievous, especially regarding Song Shuhang’s pregnancy experience and the Sage’s Eye.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen acts as a calm and concerned companion, checking on Song Shuhang and asking practical questions about the ceremony and Creation Fairy.
• Senior White’s Clone demonstrates his reliability and problem-solving ability. He explains the earlier events, takes responsibility for restoring Doudou’s consciousness, and offers to investigate the missing Creation Fairy.
• Mad Saber Three Waves remains incapable of resisting jokes or provoking trouble. He nearly makes a potentially blasphemous remark about Doudou and Fairy Fusheng’s dance, then jokingly renames himself “Four Waves” after being stopped.
• Creation Fairy’s absence becomes an unresolved concern, while Dharma King Creation appears strangely unconcerned that her consciousness is missing.

Significant Themes

• Consequences of supernatural power: The Confucian Sage’s Eye is both a valuable artifact and a dangerous burden, forcing Song Shuhang to confront the risks of power he does not yet understand.
• Identity and consciousness: The chapter raises questions about where consciousness resides and whether Creation Fairy’s personality or consciousness has become trapped within the Sage’s Eye.
• Ceremony and tradition: The Yellow Mountain Festival reflects the importance of lineage, ritual, sacrifice, and inherited spiritual practices in the cultivation world.
• Comedy amid danger: Serious mysteries and potentially catastrophic magical events are repeatedly undercut by jokes, failed entrances, teasing, and Three Waves’ reckless humor.
• Community and friendship: The Nine Provinces Number One Group gathers to support Doudou and Yellow Mountain, showing the group’s strong bonds despite their constant mockery of one another.

Important Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang refuses Soft Feather’s request to use the Sage’s Eye on her, establishing a humorous but firm boundary after his traumatic experience.
• Senior White’s Clone explains the escape from the Misty Dreamscape and discusses Creation Fairy’s disappearance with Song Shuhang and the others.
• Senior White humorously crashes through the festival barrier while attempting to bring the group inside.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator, Fairy Lychee, and the others organize the group for the ceremony and help explain its purpose.
• Mad Saber Three Waves jokes about Senior White’s ceremonial armor and Copper Trigram’s hidden identity, prompting the group to search for him.
• Soft Feather compares Doudou and Fairy Fusheng’s ritual dance to “Beauty and the Beast,” while Song Shuhang and Sixteen question the connection between the wedding and the festival.
• Northern River prevents Three Waves from making a potentially cursed remark, emphasizing the danger of disrespecting the sacred ceremony.

Key plot points and events

• The Yellow Mountain Festival distributes crystals, apparently one for every person counted by the event. Song Shuhang receives seven, while Senior White’s Clone gets three because the beings and objects accompanying them may each count as individuals.
• Senior White identifies the crystals as protective and elemental treasures: a True Sight Gem, a Thunder Crystal, a Flame Crystal, and several Tribulation-Substitution Gems. The latter can block ten ordinary curses or one powerful death-level curse.
• Song Shuhang gives gems to Fairy Six Cultivations, Senior Turtle, Onion Lady, and Pavilion Master Chu. Pavilion Master Chu declines hers, so Song keeps it with the intention of trading spare gems for materials for his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact.
• The festival’s “raindrops” stop, and Zhou Li warns that the expected visitors have arrived. Flames appear on the barrier as an unseen force attacks it, while the barrier shows a battle in outer space between the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect and hostile deities.
• As the deities’ attack intensifies, Skylark appears unexpectedly in the projected battle scene.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang’s unusual number of companions and possessions leads the group to suspect that the festival counts each as a separate person. He shares the resulting rewards generously.
• Fairy Six Cultivations is startled by the gems, then unexpectedly touched to receive one—a small sign of how unusual kindness has become after Song’s frequent demands for her work. She trades with Senior Turtle, who prefers fine wine to crystals.
• Pavilion Master Chu reports that the Core World’s improved Living Spring is slowly helping her body regrow, though she still has only her head. She turns down the gem and recalls that her former pavilion treasury once contained valuable materials.
• Senior White’s Clone teasingly gives Mad Saber Three Waves a Disposable Merit Flying Sword, implicitly threatening to send him back to the Sluggish Secret Realm. Three Waves refuses, while Northern River and Fairy Lychee joke that his current name is too dangerous.
• The group’s playful banter abruptly gives way to alarm as the festival becomes entangled with the distant space battle.

Significant themes

• Community and generosity: The festival’s rewards are shared among Song Shuhang’s companions, including beings who might otherwise be overlooked.
• Humor amid danger: The group’s teasing and slapstick threats contrast with the escalating conflict beyond the barrier.
• Hidden connections and looming conflict: The festival is linked to a wider struggle involving the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect, the deities, and now Skylark’s sudden appearance.