Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Tremble, Get Pregnant, You Stupid False Gods”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect unexpectedly appears in the middle of the battle between the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect and the Divine Faction. Song Shuhang is unsure whether Skylark is acting under her own will or has been possessed by a powerful entity from the Nine Netherworld.
• Creation Fairy suddenly possesses Song Shuhang and begins singing nonsensical vocalizations. Her song releases a strange power that projects a second version of Song Shuhang directly into the battlefield in outer space.
• Song Shuhang’s consciousness splits between his body at the Yellow Mountain Festival and the projected scholar fighting—or rather, arriving—at the battlefield.
• Creation Fairy changes to a sorrowful song connected to the Sage’s past longing for Skylark. The Sage’s Eye appears in the projected Song Shuhang’s hand, confirming that Creation Fairy’s intervention is related to the Sage’s wish to see Skylark once more.
• Song Shuhang uses the Confucian movement technique Gentleman Travels Ten Thousand Miles to approach Skylark. He initially intends only to observe her and avoid interfering in the battle, since his projected body lacks his strongest weapons and abilities.
• Dugu Bai publicly announces Song Shuhang’s arrival, drawing the attention of the Divine Faction. The gods recognize him as the First Millennium Sage and begin surrounding him.
• More than a dozen gods abandon their opponents to attack Song Shuhang, believing his reputation and the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber make him a major threat.
• Realizing he cannot escape or quietly pass through the battlefield, Song Shuhang activates the Confucian Vajra Body. The Sage’s Eye rapidly absorbs Righteous Qi.
• Rather than immediately using a saber technique, Song Shuhang begins questioning the gods about filial piety and maternal love, setting up a mysterious and likely powerful technique related to “the greatness of a mother’s love.”
• The chapter ends when he questions a one-eyed giant god, who replies that he has no mother because he was born from a stone.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates both humility and courage. He knows the projected body is far weaker than his true combat form, but he accepts the danger because he wants to fulfill the Sage’s wish to see Skylark. Once exposed, he shifts from trying to avoid conflict to confronting the gods through Confucian techniques and psychological composure.
• Creation Fairy: Acts independently and unpredictably, possessing Song Shuhang and using her singing to create a projection of him in the battlefield. Her sorrowful song reveals a deep connection to the Sage’s memories and Skylark.
• Skylark: Remains mysterious. Her sudden appearance raises questions about her current identity, mental state, and possible possession.
• Soft Feather: Reacts enthusiastically to Song Shuhang’s unusual “motherly love” technique, suggesting she already knows or anticipates its effects.
• Dugu Bai: Displays great admiration for Song Shuhang and loudly encourages him, unintentionally ruining Song Shuhang’s attempt to remain unnoticed.
• The Divine Faction: Treats Song Shuhang as a serious threat based on his reputation, especially his victory over powerful opponents and possession of the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber inheritance.

Significant Themes

• Longing and reunion: Creation Fairy’s song expresses the desire to meet a lost loved one again, linking Song Shuhang’s actions to the Sage’s wish to see Skylark before she disappears.
• Identity and possession: The appearance of Skylark and Creation Fairy’s possession of Song Shuhang both raise questions about personal will, borrowed identities, and the influence of powerful beings.
• Reputation versus reality: The gods fear Song Shuhang as a peak Profound Sage, but the current projection is much weaker and lacks his usual weapons. His fame creates danger by making him a target.
• Parody of cultivation battles: The chapter contrasts grand cosmic warfare with Song Shuhang’s absurd singing, awkward situation, and bizarre interrogation about motherhood.
• Confucian power and righteousness: Song Shuhang relies on Righteous Qi, the Confucian Vajra Body, and the Sage’s Eye rather than conventional weapons, emphasizing the unusual nature of his projected form.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Su Clan’s Sixteen recognize that Creation Fairy has possessed him and identify her “Personality One” behavior.
• Creation Fairy’s song communicates the Sage’s longing to Song Shuhang and the others, prompting Song Shuhang to act on the Sage’s behalf.
• Dugu Bai’s enthusiastic shout alerts the gods to Song Shuhang’s presence, forcing him into combat.
• The Divine Faction coordinates its response, analyzing Song Shuhang’s abilities and ordering a group attack.
• Soft Feather eagerly anticipates Song Shuhang’s strange maternal-love technique, while the other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group remain confused.
• Song Shuhang directly challenges the gods with questions about filial piety and motherhood, ending with the stone-born one-eyed god’s literal response.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang responds to the One-Eyed Giant’s claim that it has never known a mother’s love by using the Confucian Sage’s Pregnancy Gaze. The beam causes the giant to experience ten seconds of pregnancy followed by half an hour of labor, leaving it writhing in agony.
• The assembled Deities realize how dangerous the spell is. A clever half-man, half-deer Deity guesses that the beam travels in a straight line and tries to evade it by hopping unpredictably.
• Song Shuhang fires upward instead. Feng Qiaozi, a silver-haired member of the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect, appears with a Bronze Ancient Mirror and reflects the beam onto the hopping Deity.
• Feng Qiaozi and Song Shuhang coordinate their attacks, using the mirror to redirect the Pregnancy Gaze in unpredictable patterns. Soon, all the Deities surrounding Song Shuhang are affected.
• A frozen Divine Kingdom opens, and an ice-forged goddess emerges—apparently the next major opponent.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang turns an awkward exchange into a weapon, demonstrating both his willingness to use the absurd Pregnancy Gaze and his ability to coordinate attacks while focused on events elsewhere.
• The Deities become more cautious after witnessing the spell’s effects. The half-deer Deity shows tactical intelligence, but its countermeasure fails once the beam is reflected.
• Feng Qiaozi arrives as Song Shuhang’s ally, using his mirror and a deliberately terrible acrostic poem to identify himself. Their teamwork transforms a predictable attack into a battlefield-wide threat.
• At the Yellow Mountain Festival, Soft Feather finds the technique hilarious and wants to try it herself; the other group members keep their distance from Song Shuhang. Su Clan’s Sixteen explains the spell as a Confucian teaching method, while True Lord Eternal Fire notes that most Confucian Sage techniques were lost.
• Senior White’s Clone offers to help, but Song Shuhang asks him to wait and watch.

Significant themes

• Comedy through absurdity: A supposedly terrifying magical battle hinges on forced pregnancy and childbirth, while characters debate whether the spell qualifies as Confucian education.
• Ingenuity and teamwork: The Deities adapt their tactics, but Song Shuhang and Feng Qiaozi counter them by changing the beam’s direction through reflection.
• The danger of underestimated techniques: Even a weakened spell from the Confucian Sage remains devastating to opponents below a certain level.

Key plot points and events

• The Ice Goddess willingly accepts Song Shuhang’s Pregnancy Gaze. Though the spell only simulates pregnancy and childbirth, she treats the experience as real and promises to name the child after Song before killing him.
• She traps Song and Feng Qiaozi inside an ice domain. Feng plans to seal her, but the goddess anticipates the attempt and attacks.
• Skylark, apparently possessed by a powerful Nine Netherlord presence, suddenly breaks into the domain and punches the goddess in the abdomen. Terrified by Skylark’s overwhelming aura, the Ice Goddess retreats to her divine kingdom.
• Skylark demands the Sage’s Eye. The eye willingly leaves Song and recognizes her; Skylark addresses the Confucian Sage, then gouges out her own left eye, hinting at a deeper connection to the Sage and the Liquid Metal Ball.
• At the Yellow Mountain Festival, the group discusses whether the Pregnancy Gaze can produce actual children. Copper Trigram Immortal Master is exposed as the “unfamiliar fairy” in disguise, prompting the usual exasperation. Song remains focused on reaching Skylark, while Mad Saber Three Waves watches her with intense concern.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is caught between the Ice Goddess and his desire to reach Skylark. He knows the Pregnancy Gaze is only a temporary spell, despite the goddess’s conviction.
• The Ice Goddess shifts from playful confidence to fear when confronted by Skylark’s immense power.
• Feng Qiaozi tries to help Song by preparing a sealing move, but the goddess sees through the plan.
• Skylark appears in a fearsome, crimson-eyed state, protects Song without explanation, then takes the Sage’s Eye and reveals that she has been searching for the Confucian Sage.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group provides comic relief through its banter about Copper Trigram’s disguise and the Pregnancy Gaze.

Significant themes

• Comic absurdity alongside danger: the pregnancy spell and group banter contrast with a genuine life-or-death confrontation.
• Hidden identities and past connections: Copper Trigram’s disguise and Skylark’s apparent link to the Confucian Sage deepen the chapter’s mystery.
• Power and fear: Skylark’s presence alone overwhelms a formidable deity, emphasizing the enormous gap between their strength.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Skylark of the Mysterious Maiden Sect removes her old eye and implants the Confucian Sage’s Eye, apparently restoring part of her lost consciousness and memories.
• Her discarded Skylark’s Eye lands in Song Shuhang’s hand, changes from crimson to blue, and crystallizes, leaving Song Shuhang uneasy about its possible effects.
• Skylark attempts to use the Confucian Sage’s Pregnancy Gaze, an area-of-effect technique that can force anyone caught in it to become pregnant. However, the technique initially backfires, causing her intense pain and making her roll uncontrollably across the battlefield.
• After recovering temporarily, Skylark recognizes Song Shuhang and confirms that her restored consciousness will not last long. The Liquid Metal Sphere’s influence is gradually returning and will soon suppress her again.
• Skylark explains that the Confucian Sage was someone she once knew, but she rejected him because he was not the person she was searching for.
• She describes her mysterious ideal person: someone unusual, kind, talented, goal-oriented, and difficult for others to understand. Song Shuhang jokingly suggests that he might be that person, but Skylark immediately rejects the idea.
• Skylark gives Song Shuhang a fortune: he will soon gain great wealth, but the moment of acquiring it will also carry deadly danger. Song Shuhang connects this prediction to his upcoming treasure-mining expedition with Senior White.
• Skylark asks Song Shuhang to tell Mad Saber Three Waves that she must postpone a promised visit.
• As her consciousness begins fading, Skylark declares that she will return in a hundred years. Before being suppressed, she unleashes Pregnancy Gaze across the battlefield, striking most of the nearby deities.
• The affected beings—regardless of sex or even gender—undergo ten months of pregnancy in seconds, causing widespread chaos. Some are eventually killed by opposing fighters while distracted or incapacitated.

Character Developments

• Skylark briefly regains her identity, memories, and control after implanting the Confucian Sage’s Eye. Her connection to the Confucian Sage is revealed to be emotionally complicated: he cared for her, but she left him while searching for someone else.
• Skylark’s personality remains playful, unpredictable, and destructive. Even while losing consciousness, she prioritizes causing mayhem and ends her appearance with a spectacular attack.
• Song Shuhang successfully fulfills the Confucian Sage’s final wish by allowing him to “see” Skylark again and conveying his lingering feelings. Song also gains the mysterious Skylark’s Eye and becomes more aware that his future treasure hunt may be extremely dangerous.
• The Confucian Sage is shown to have had a romantic or deeply personal history with Skylark, though she viewed him as someone who did not meet the conditions of her search.
• Mad Saber Three Waves is indirectly characterized as someone important to Skylark, since she had arranged to visit him and specifically asks Song to deliver her apology.

Significant Themes

• Memory and identity: Skylark’s consciousness and memories are unstable, divided between her own will and the Liquid Metal Sphere’s control.
• Unrequited or misunderstood affection: The Confucian Sage loved Skylark, but she did not see him as the person she sought, creating a bittersweet contrast between his devotion and her rejection.
• The unpredictability of fate: Skylark’s fortune-telling suggests that wealth and danger will arrive together for Song Shuhang.
• Absurdity and dark comedy: A devastating battlefield technique is presented through exaggerated pregnancy-related humor, blending cosmic danger with slapstick.
• Temporary reunions and unfinished promises: Skylark’s brief return lets her reconnect with Song Shuhang and send a message to Three Waves, but her consciousness fades before she can remain in control.

Character Interactions

• Skylark and Song Shuhang: Their conversation shifts between danger, comedy, and emotional revelation. Song is frightened by her Pregnancy Gaze but later helps her understand the Confucian Sage’s feelings and offers himself as a possible match for her ideal person.
• Skylark and the Confucian Sage: Their past is revealed through Skylark’s memories. He wished to see her again before death, while she had left him to pursue an unknown person.
• Skylark and Three Waves: Though he does not appear directly, Skylark reveals that she had promised to visit him and asks Song to pass along her message.
• Skylark and the battlefield forces: Her final Pregnancy Gaze indiscriminately attacks the deities of both sexes and genders, turning the battlefield into chaotic farce and leaving the combatants struggling to respond.

Key plot points and events

• The Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s ambush overwhelms the Divine Faction. Skylark’s Group Pregnancy Gaze has left many enemies—including pregnant men—unable to fight, making victory seem assured.
• Skylark warns Song Shuhang that the Nine Netherworld’s evil consciousness may soon retake her body, then leaves to get away from the battle. Song keeps Skylark’s Eye and plans to give it to Mad Saber Three Waves.
• Song asks Feng Qiaozi to reserve two portions of suitable materials for his Thirty-Three Combined Magical Artifacts, preferably Eighth-Grade or higher, and to recommend artifact refiners to help Fairy Six Cultivations.
• As Song tries to return to the Core World, a spatial attack severs his projected body’s right foot. The attacker is the Planet with Eyes—the Second Heavenly Dao’s Dao Artifact and the Church of the End’s leader.
• The Planet with Eyes traps Song with Holy Light and tries to learn the location of the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber. Song warns the sect to flee because the artifact’s true body is planet-sized. His test of the upgraded Core World’s ability to bypass the lockdown fails when the Planet with Eyes uses a Law-level command to immobilize space.
• Before Song can dismiss his projection, Skylark returns under the Liquid Metal Ball’s control. She demands to know where Song got the Confucian Sage’s right eye. When he says he found it in a dream, she attacks; the Planet with Eyes’ light lockdown targets her, but she dismisses it with darkness.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains pragmatic under pressure: he negotiates battlefield rewards, warns Feng Qiaozi about Skylark, and tests the Core World’s limits even while facing a major enemy.
• Skylark shifts from a helpful ally to a dangerous threat as the Liquid Metal Ball regains control of her body. Her desperate demand for the Sage’s right eye suggests it is connected to what she is missing.
• Feng Qiaozi accepts Song’s requests and relays his warning about the Planet with Eyes to the sect’s elder.
• The Thirty-Three Beast God Sect celebrates an easy victory until the Planet with Eyes appears, forcing its forces to abandon the offensive and prepare to flee.
• The Planet with Eyes and Skylark both confront Song, creating a sudden, unstable three-way crisis.

Significant themes

• Victory can be overturned instantly: the sect’s apparent triumph collapses with the arrival of the Planet with Eyes.
• Power has limits: Song’s upgraded Core World cannot overcome a Law-level spatial command.
• Unstable identity and control: Skylark’s body and actions change as the Liquid Metal Ball takes over.
• Cooperation and obligation: Song’s contribution earns him battlefield spoils, while he uses his influence to secure resources and support for allies.

Key plot points and events

• Skylark, possessed by the Liquid Metal Ball, demands that Song Shuhang reveal where the Confucian Sage hid the missing part she seeks. The Planet with Eyes tries to stop her from taking him.
• Senior White Two, who had been tracking the Planet, intervenes and attacks Skylark with a technique meant to send the Liquid Metal Ball back to the Netherworld. Skylark counters by unleashing a flood of Nine Nether Evil Energy, forming a black-hole-like vortex that threatens both Senior White Two and the Planet.
• At Senior White Two’s request, Song Shuhang opens a passage through his Core World, allowing Senior White Two to draw in power and summon You Be Busy T233, his enormous little-sun pet. Senior White Two uses himself as its energy core, transforming it into a World-Destroying Cannon.
• Song Shuhang helps aim and fire the cannon at the black hole. Before the battle can resolve, however, space freezes—not as a simple pause in time, but as the arrival of a force associated with the Heavenly Dao.
• Senior White Two withdraws, leaving a motionless shell behind, and tells Song Shuhang to retrieve T233 later and close the Core World. An unseen power then erases the cannon blast, the black hole, and the Planet’s Holy Light.
• The same power imprisons the Planet with Eyes in a featureless black space—the “little black room”—and Skylark in a featureless white space—the “Little White Room.” The chapter ends as the unseen force turns toward You Be Busy T233.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is caught between several powerful beings and remains largely outmatched, but he actively cooperates with Senior White Two by opening the Core World and operating the cannon. He is thrilled by the weapon’s power, even as he fears the consequences.
• Senior White Two puts aside his plan to capture the Planet and prioritizes sending the Liquid Metal Ball back to the Netherworld. He relies on Song Shuhang and T233 to unleash his ultimate weapon, then retreats when the Heavenly Dao’s power appears.
• Skylark/Liquid Metal Ball shows overwhelming strength through Skylark’s Immortal Bone, but her search for the Confucian Sage’s missing component is cut short when she is imprisoned.
• The Planet with Eyes refuses to surrender Song Shuhang and attacks alongside the others, but it too is powerless against the unseen force.

Significant themes

• The limits of power: Even planet-scale attacks, black-hole-like energy, and a world-destroying cannon are easily erased by the Heavenly Dao’s intervention.
• Unstable alliances: The Planet, Skylark, and Senior White Two clash over their own goals, while Song Shuhang becomes an unwilling collaborator in the escalating conflict.
• Comic spectacle amid danger: The dramatic superweapon battle is undercut by playful details—Senior White Two’s “pet” becoming a cannon and Song Shuhang’s enthusiasm for firing it.

Key plot points

• After Skylark and the Eyed Planet are imprisoned by the Heavenly Dao, all memories and records of them become “transparent.” They have not been erased from existence, but no one can remember or identify them while they remain locked away.
• Song Shuhang dispels his projection inside T233 before the little sun is imprisoned. The Heavenly Dao later retrieves T233 and exposes a time-reversed image showing Song Shuhang happily firing the World-Destroying Cannon.
• The revelation makes Song Shuhang an apparent target. As the Heavenly Dao tries to imprison him, Senior White’s Clone, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Soft Feather grab on. The Heavenly Dao changes the destination and throws all four into a vast, gray world of deathly aura.
• The resulting confinement erases or obscures others’ memories of the prisoners. Song Shuhang remains partly remembered because his recent “Manifestation Before All” ensures the world remembers the First Sage—but not his appearance, identity, or abilities.
• Song’s parents sense that they once had a child but cannot remember him or feel grief. Concluding they are still young, they decide to have another child.
• In the gray world, the group continues falling until Senior White’s Clone summons the Meteor Sword, giving them a place to land. They learn that Heavenly Dao imprisonment can last ten thousand years. Song Shuhang begins testing whether his Core World can help him escape.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is rattled by the loss of his memories and by the cannon footage, then urgently tries to evade imprisonment. He warns his companions that joining him may erase them from everyone’s memory.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen chooses to stay with him regardless; Soft Feather follows, saying she will stay with Sixteen. Their loyalty turns the attempted escape into a shared fate.
• Senior White’s Clone remains calm, explains the imprisonment and its likely duration, and helps the group by summoning the Meteor Sword. He notes that his main body is still safe in the Present World.
• Song’s parents show how complete the memory loss is: they recognize a gap in their lives but cannot recall their son or mourn him.

Significant themes

• Erasure and identity: The Heavenly Dao’s prisons suppress not only prisoners but also memories and records of them, making existence itself seem to vanish.
• Loyalty and companionship: Sixteen and Soft Feather accept the danger to remain with Song Shuhang.
• Comic contrast: The terrifying prospect of ten thousand years in confinement is balanced by Song’s parents’ matter-of-fact decision to try for another child.

Plot and events

• Song Shuhang can still sense his Core World, but a barrier prevents him from entering or taking anything out. The group is therefore trapped in the death-filled confinement space, where weak spiritual energy makes cultivation difficult. Senior White’s Clone jokes that they will likely die after several centuries, long before a ten-thousand-year sentence could end.
• Senior White takes Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Su Clan’s Sixteen downward on the Meteor Sword, but discovers the space loops: after about ten minutes of travel, they return to their starting point. There may be no reachable ground.
• To give everyone shelter, Senior White summons an Immortal Ark. He also reveals that his connection to his main body has been cut off. Before it vanished, he arranged for Senior Three Waves to be sent to the Sluggish Secret Realm after the Yellow Mountain Festival.
• Song Shuhang examines Skylark’s Eye, a blue crystal linked to the forgotten Fairy Skylark, but his true yuan has no effect. Senior White recalls that Skylark practiced an ice-related technique and was notorious for deliberately seeking death, yet somehow remains alive.
• Creation Fairy’s phantom appears with Song Shuhang. Senior White suggests letting her try the unresponsive eye, and Song Shuhang hands it to her.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang swings between panic over being trapped and humor, including joking about his “ten-thousand-year sentence” and the danger of Dharma King Creation’s concerts without Creation Fairy’s heart-demon-calming influence.
• Senior White stays calm and practical, finding temporary shelter and directing the group’s investigation of the eye.
• Soft Feather and Sixteen help reason through the eye’s possible energy requirements; Sixteen also brings the discussion back on track when the group digresses.
• The group realizes their memories of Skylark are incomplete. Soft Feather mistakenly forgets who was previously confined in the Little White Room, and Song Shuhang recalls only vague details.
• Creation Fairy repeatedly calls Song Shuhang “A-Dull,” prompting playful disbelief from him and amusement from Sixteen.

Significant themes

• Confinement and uncertainty: The group is cut off from familiar resources and communication, with no clear escape route.
• Memory and identity: Their hazy recollections of Skylark raise questions about what they know and have forgotten.
• Humor amid danger: Jokes about imprisonment, courting death, and disastrous concerts help the characters cope with their predicament.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Creation Fairy activates Skylark’s Eye by exposing it to the death energy and gray mist surrounding the Immortal Ark. The gemstone-like casing turns black, but Song Shuhang’s attempt to activate it fails.
• The group discovers that the outer crystal must be broken. Senior White’s Clone cuts it open with the Meteor Sword, revealing a living-looking black eye.
• Since the eye appears to function only when implanted, Song Shuhang agrees to have his left eye replaced. Senior White removes his original eye painlessly, inserts Skylark’s Eye, and uses Healing Spells while Song Shuhang applies Cheng Lin’s Self-Healing Method.
• Song Shuhang’s original eye unexpectedly regenerates. Instead of rejecting Skylark’s Eye, the regenerated eye liquefies and fuses with it, creating a functioning hybrid eye.
• The new eye allows Song Shuhang to see clearly through the normally obstructive gray mist. When he feeds it Innate True Essence, it begins another transformation: the eye turns blue, while Song Shuhang’s hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes grow dramatically and change color.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes the host of Skylark’s Eye and gains improved vision, including the ability to see through the mysterious mist. His inheritance of the “Cheng Lin” daoist title strengthens the Self-Healing Method far beyond expectations.
• Senior White’s Clone acts as the group’s experimenter and surgeon, calmly solving the eye’s activation problem and helping Song Shuhang implant it.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen shows courage by volunteering to undergo the eye replacement herself, though Song Shuhang ultimately takes responsibility.
• Soft Feather contributes playful speculation and enthusiasm, joking about the eye’s possible abilities and the group’s bizarre experiments.
• Creation Fairy remains mostly silent after activating the eye, behaving mysteriously and offering no explanation for her actions.

Significant Themes

• Experimentation and adaptation: The characters approach a dangerous, unknown artifact through trial and error, gradually uncovering its functions.
• Transformation and identity: Song Shuhang’s body changes through the fusion with Skylark’s Eye, while his connection to the Cheng Lin title further complicates his identity.
• The absurdity of cultivation practices: Eye-gouging, magical surgery, and supernatural regeneration are treated with casual humor, parodying the extreme methods of powerful cultivators.
• Inheritance and legacy: Skylark’s Eye may contain the powers or techniques of the mysterious Skylark, making it both a keepsake and a source of new abilities.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang protests when Creation Fairy throws away Skylark’s Eye, worried about its sentimental value to Mad Saber Three Waves.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen help investigate the artifact, with Soft Feather joking about its potential to cause pregnancy like the Sage’s Eye.
• Senior White’s Clone leads the eye-replacement procedure, while Song Shuhang jokes about his Cheng Lin identity and the group teases him about collecting daoist titles.
• The chapter ends with everyone confronted by the unexpected result of the experiment: Song Shuhang’s new eye appears to be transforming his entire appearance, leaving him bewildered.

Plot points

• Song Shuhang’s appearance changes to resemble Fairy Skylark after her left eye merges with him, but his consciousness remains unaffected. He senses powerful vitality in the eye.
• Using his Appraisal Secret Method, he learns that Skylark’s eye converts stored deathly energy into vitality, could be used to make a resurrection artifact, and is bound to him. The appraisal also warns that removing it will attract the Calamity Giant Tortoise, which will devour it.
• As Senior White prepares to remove the eye, the giant tortoise suddenly appears, attacks the group, and smashes Senior White’s Immortal Ark.
• Senior White strikes the tortoise with his Tree of Merit, giving Song Shuhang time to gouge out the eye. Song throws it away to draw the tortoise off, while Senior White sends a Disposable Flying Sword to carry the eye farther ahead.
• The group follows the tortoise. Senior White hopes it can break through the “Ring Serpent Space,” whose looping boundaries may otherwise keep them trapped in the Heavenly Dao’s Little Black Room.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains clear-headed despite the eye’s influence and uses his appraisal ability to uncover its properties and danger. He acts decisively under pressure, removing the eye despite the pain.
• Senior White’s Clone protects the others, fights the tortoise, and quickly turns the chase into an escape experiment. He is especially distressed when the tortoise destroys his beloved Immortal Ark.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen thinks ahead, warns Shuhang that the tortoise is after the eye, and helps the group assess the threat.
• Soft Feather asks about the eye’s abilities and the prison’s limits, voicing the group’s uncertainty about escape.
• The group cooperates closely: Senior White creates an opening, Shuhang removes and throws the eye, and the others flee with him.

Significant themes

• Dangerous power and its cost: The eye offers extraordinary life-giving potential but brings a deadly pursuer.
• Improvisation and teamwork: The characters respond to a sudden, overwhelming threat by coordinating and adapting quickly.
• Hope amid confinement: The tortoise’s ability to enter the Little Black Room suggests the prison may have weaknesses—and possibly a way out.

Senior White tests the Ring Serpent Space by baiting the Disaster Giant Turtle with Skylark’s Eye. The turtle repeatedly crashes into the spatial boundary and is teleported back, but eventually bites a piece out of it. Senior White probes the opening, releasing a torrent of meteorites, poisonous water, and other debris. He speculates that the Heavenly Dao’s Little Black Room stores items cleared from its otherwise empty spaces—and that some of the discarded material may be valuable treasure.
When the turtle approaches again, Senior White decides it may be possible to communicate with it, since it has stopped charging and is watching the eye. After getting no response, he switches to “Plan B”: turn Skylark’s Eye into a resurrection pendant, then let the turtle swallow it, since objects inside its stomach apparently remain undamaged. Song Shuhang worries that he might revive inside the turtle, but Senior White reassures him that this would still be better than dying permanently.
Senior White begins crafting a pendant called Rebirth Through Fire, using a blueprint designed for a pair of Fire Phoenix eyes. When Skylark’s Eye alone fails to activate it, he uses one of Song Shuhang’s preserved eyes as the second component. The pendant works: Skylark’s Eye releases vitality, while Shuhang’s eye produces a phoenix phantom. Shuhang recognizes it as linked to the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, though he does not understand why it appears in his eye when he himself has not reached the corresponding cultivation stage.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White is resourceful and improvisational, treating the turtle’s behavior and the debris-filled space as opportunities. His confidence—and casual willingness to make Shuhang test a resurrection item—creates much of the humor.
• Song Shuhang remains cautious and uneasy about the plan, especially the possibility of waking inside the turtle, but cooperates. The phoenix apparition introduces a new mystery about his eye and its connection to the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen question Senior White’s assumptions and observe the experiment; the group generally trusts his intuition.
• The Disaster Giant Turtle appears driven by instinct, yet its pause and focused attention suggest it may understand more than expected.
  Significant themes: preparedness and contingency planning; turning danger into opportunity; the uncertain value of discarded things; and the uneasy boundary between death, resurrection, and survival.

Key plot points and events

• Senior White completes the Rebirth Through Fire artifact for Skylark’s Eye and has the Disaster Giant Turtle swallow it, finishing the mission.
• The turtle escapes the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room” without opening a rift. Since the group lacks the authority to follow, Senior White reveals a hidden trap: the bottle holding the artifact is coated with Liquid Metal Ore, which corrodes nonmetal materials once activated. It hurts the turtle as it vanishes, and Senior White has marked the bottle with his Sage Seal so he can track it later.
• Song Shuhang proposes using the breach the turtle left in the barrier as a possible route out. The group returns there and gathers golden sand for Song’s Core World.
• More material spills from the breach. Senior White dismisses many metal fragments as low-value, despite Soft Feather recognizing Ghost Emperor Iron among them. He then finds Tribulation Immortal Snake Immortal hide, now weakened to Eighth-Grade strength, and gives it to Song for his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. He splits a piece of Divine Dragon Wood among himself, Sixteen, and Soft Feather.
• Just as the group braces for the danger they expect to follow their good fortune, the Disaster Giant Turtle reappears and drags Song Shuhang off the Meteor Sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White shows his usual resourcefulness and retaliatory streak: he protects the resurrection artifact while using the bottle’s corrosive coating to punish the turtle for destroying his Immortal Ark. He also shares valuable finds fairly with the group.
• Song Shuhang prioritizes escaping over treasure, then starts imagining turning his expanding Core World into a real-estate business after Soft Feather, Sixteen, and Senior White ask about buying property there. He also receives valuable crafting materials.
• Soft Feather eagerly asks about treasure and jokes seriously about buying a home in Song’s Core World; her quick acceptance of Senior White’s assessment of the metal fragments echoes his attitude.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen keeps the group focused on the danger of being trapped and later stays alert for the expected crisis.
• The turtle’s smug mockery turns into pain and anger after Senior White’s trap activates; its final lunge misses, but its return creates a new threat.

Significant themes

• Adventure’s double edge: The group treats wealth and danger as inseparable—every treasure haul may bring a crisis.
• Pragmatism over greed: The characters initially choose freedom over treasure, then collect only what seems useful.
• Unexpected future possibilities: Song’s joking vision of selling property in his Core World hints at an unlikely new path for him.
• Revenge and ingenuity: Senior White turns an ordinary-looking container into a clever weapon, balancing the turtle’s earlier destruction of his ark.

Plot and key events

• A Disaster Giant Turtle ambushes Song Shuhang, snaring him with its powerful tongue. Senior White counters by appearing beneath the turtle’s jaw and striking it with the Tree of Merit; the Merit Snake Beauty then burns the tongue with the Scarlet Heaven Sword, allowing Song Shuhang to escape.
• The turtle asks Senior White how he can use its innate Trans-Spacetime Stroll. Senior White explains that he watched another turtle use the ability and imitated its effects, though his version is limited by the Little Black Room’s seal.
• The turtle reveals that it has come to retrieve objects infected by the aura of Immortality. Contrary to Song Shuhang’s assumption that it wants Skylark Fairy’s eye, it says Song Shuhang himself—and especially his blue hair—is affected. Senior White clarifies that activating Skylark’s Eye infected Song Shuhang too.
• Song Shuhang considers cutting off his hair to avoid attracting more turtles, but hesitates at the thought of surrendering it under pressure. Senior White, Creation Fairy, Soft Feather, and Sixteen support him, arguing that the turtle cannot simply take something from him without compensation.
• Senior White demands either a fair trade or a fight. His curiosity about the turtle’s unusual anatomy and space-travel ability awakens his eagerness for battle and experimentation. As he releases his restraints, his charm becomes so powerful that everyone—including the turtle—is drawn to him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang weighs practical self-sacrifice against the principle of choosing for himself. His humorous overthinking about his hair underscores his growing awareness that the real issue is power and autonomy.
• Senior White shifts from defending Song Shuhang to challenging the turtle, combining fairness with his scientific desire to study its innate ability.
• The Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy protect and encourage Song Shuhang; Soft Feather openly challenges the turtle’s demand, while Sixteen silently prepares for a fight.
• The turtle clarifies that it is a different individual from the earlier one, implying the Disaster Giant Turtles are a race and that more may come after Song Shuhang.

Significant themes

• Autonomy and consent: Song Shuhang’s reluctance is less about losing hair than about being forced to give it up.
• Fairness versus coercion: Senior White insists that the turtle must negotiate rather than seize what it wants.
• Curiosity and danger: Senior White’s scientific fascination pushes him toward a potentially risky confrontation.
• Escalating consequences: The aura infection makes Song Shuhang a target for an entire race, not just one pursuer.

Chapter Summary: “Your Hair Is Extremely Valuable”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Disaster Giant Turtle agrees to trade rather than fight, seeking an object affected by Song Shuhang’s Immortality Aura.
• Senior White negotiates for a valuable refining material. The turtle can offer only a pair of enormous antlers, which are eighth-grade materials suitable for forging two Giant Deer Lord’s Mighty Bows.
• To complete the exchange, Song Shuhang cuts off his blue hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. The turtle takes them and disappears peacefully.
• Senior White demonstrates that his “Trans-Spacetime Stroll” can be used to locate valuable ores, astonishing the turtle, which had never thought to use the ability that way.
• Song Shuhang regrows his hair with Dharma King Creation’s Hair-Growth Technique, but it grows back blue, making him fear that his hair’s color has permanently changed.
• Because Song Shuhang’s hair can attract Disaster Giant Turtles, Senior White keeps the newly regrown hair for possible use as bait if they need to escape the Little Black Room.
• The group returns to the gap in the Ring Serpent Space Barrier and searches through objects emerging from it, but finds no additional materials needed for the Thirty-Three Combined Magical Artifacts.
• While Song Shuhang sleeps, Senior White, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Soft Feather continue searching.
• Song Shuhang later awakens alone in an unnaturally dark environment. Using his Merit Light, he discovers scattered human body parts and becomes horrified and enraged.
• The chapter ends when he finds half of a head with long blue hair, suggesting a possible connection to himself, Skylark, or another important figure.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Learns that his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes have significant value because they carry the Immortality Aura. He willingly sacrifices them for the antlers but is dismayed when his regrown hair remains blue. His anger at the dismembered remains reveals his strong moral sense and compassion.
• Senior White: Continues to display his eccentric, fearless, and opportunistic nature. He initially misunderstands the turtle’s attempt at negotiation, then efficiently bargains for rare materials. He also devises a practical plan to use Song Shuhang’s hair as bait.
• Disaster Giant Turtle: Is unusually calm and cooperative, bargaining peacefully and accepting the trade without conflict. Its limited knowledge of how to use Trans-Spacetime Stroll contrasts humorously with Senior White’s inventive application of the ability.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen: Remains cautious and relieved that the dangerous encounter ends peacefully. She recognizes that the turtle’s good temperament may be unusual.
• Soft Feather: Treats Song Shuhang’s hair as a potential source of wealth and jokes that he could become rich by repeatedly selling it.
• Creation Fairy: Comically celebrates Song Shuhang’s haircut with a fragmentary song.

Significant Themes

• Value beyond appearances: Song Shuhang’s hair is not merely cosmetic; because of its connection to the Immortality Aura, it functions as a rare and powerful resource.
• Negotiation versus violence: The encounter demonstrates that even dangerous supernatural beings can sometimes be dealt with through trade rather than combat.
• Resourcefulness and unconventional thinking: Senior White’s use of Trans-Spacetime Stroll and his plan to use hair as bait show his ability to turn strange circumstances into practical advantages.
• Comedy amid danger: Haircuts, baldness, blue hair, and bargaining with a giant turtle provide humor even as the group faces serious threats.
• Foreshadowing and mystery: Song Shuhang’s discovery of a dark world filled with body parts sharply changes the tone and introduces a disturbing mystery about what happened to the victims—and whose blue-haired head he has found.

Character Interactions

• Senior White and the Disaster Giant Turtle engage in a humorous but tense negotiation, with Senior White repeatedly demanding greater sincerity.
• Song Shuhang mediates by clarifying the turtle’s intentions and ultimately agrees to the exchange.
• Senior White teases and advises Song Shuhang about the value of his hair, while Soft Feather jokes about its potential profitability.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen provides a cautious counterpoint, warning that not every Disaster Giant Turtle will be as peaceful.
• The group works together searching for treasure, but the chapter ends with Song Shuhang mysteriously separated from the others, creating a sudden emotional and narrative rupture.

Key events

• Song Shuhang wakes in a place strewn with dismembered body parts, recognizes the distinctive blue hair, and discovers that every part belongs to Fairy Skylark. The parts retain body heat and are preserved by Immortality Power.
• Appraisal reveals that Skylark’s detached parts attract the Disaster Giant Turtle, which collects and reclaims them. Song Shuhang concludes that Skylark is the source of the Immortality Power, though he doubts she was ever the Heavenly Dao.
• His Appraisal Secret Method identifies his current form as a backup resurrection body forged by Senior White from Song Shuhang’s eye, Skylark’s eye, and a resurrection artifact. It was swallowed by the turtle and activated prematurely after contacting Skylark’s remains. Song Shuhang is alarmed: his original body may still be alive.
• Song Shuhang opens his Core World to escape the turtle and, on an impulse, transports all of Skylark’s scattered body parts there. He then realizes the remains may be dangerous even inside the Core World—and that returning them to Skylark would be an awkward prospect.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang is bewildered by his apparent resurrection and the possibility that his main body is still alive, but he tries to stay calm and plan how to contact Senior White.
• His impulsive decision to take Skylark’s remains reveals a well-meaning but questionable streak; he quickly recognizes the consequences and regrets acting without a plan.
• Skylark remains absent, but the preserved, dangerous remains deepen the mystery surrounding her and her connection to Immortality.

Significant themes

• Immortality and mortality: The chapter contrasts ordinary limits on life with the extraordinary, hazardous power attached to Skylark.
• Identity and resurrection: Song Shuhang’s backup body raises questions about what happens to his original body and what it means to be “reborn” before death.
• Good intentions, unintended consequences: Song Shuhang’s attempt to safeguard Skylark’s remains may create new problems.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang has no direct contact with Senior White or Skylark; instead, he relies on Senior White’s resurrection artifact and his own appraisal ability to piece together what happened.
• His imagined conversation with Skylark—offering her a mountain of her own body parts—provides the chapter’s comic, self-deprecating finish.

Key plot points

• After gathering Skylark’s body parts in Blade-Sword Peak’s valley and declaring it a Forbidden Land, Song Shuhang heads toward Winter Hall to check on Fairy Six Cultivations’ work on his Dharma artifacts.
• A short distance from the valley, he develops a severe headache and collapses. The Invisible Sword Gu carry him to safety, and he remains unconscious for more than a day.
• Song Shuhang wakes on a treasure-laden tractor driven by Senior White, with Su Clan’s Sixteen massaging his temples and Soft Feather nearby. He learns that the treasures in the barrier have been collected and that the group is trying to use a breach to escape the Heavenly Way’s “little black room.” Their storage spaces are full.
• Song Shuhang confirms that the events he experienced while unconscious were real: his Resurrection Artifact activated, creating a revived Profound Sage Tyrannical Song Spare Body, which now lies in his Core World alongside Skylark’s remains.
• His treasure haul has supplied nearly all the materials for his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact—only nine animal materials remain, and the ones gathered so far are mostly from Eighth-Grade demon sages. Senior White warns that combining thirty-three Eighth-Grade artifacts would not automatically make them Ninth-Grade, and powerful artifacts require immense energy.
• The tractor reaches a dead end, leaving the group’s escape route uncertain.
• Elsewhere, the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect and the Deity resume fighting after the Eyed Planet is captured and sealed away. Their memories of it become hazy; afterward, the bow-holding old man finds himself mysteriously setting aside part of the spoils.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang wakes confused but accepts that his “dream” was reality. He is intrigued—and somewhat alarmed—by the Spare Body and the prospect of completing his artifact set with exceptionally rare materials.
• Senior White investigates possible uses of the Spare Body, including whether it might eventually function like a clone or synchronize cultivation realms. He also explains the limits of combining high-grade artifacts.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen tends to Song Shuhang while he recovers; Soft Feather teases him about repeatedly saying “holy crap” in his sleep and suggests he may learn to control both bodies.
• The Invisible Sword Gu show concern and initiative by rescuing Song Shuhang when he collapses.
• The old man with the bow is puzzled by his own actions, hinting that the erased memories of the Eyed Planet may still be affecting events.

Significant themes

• Dream versus reality: Song Shuhang’s apparent nightmare leaves real consequences, including the revived Spare Body and the pile of Skylark’s body parts.
• Unintended consequences and mystery: The Resurrection Artifact activates while Song Shuhang’s main body survives, and the Eyed Planet’s disappearance distorts others’ memories.
• Power has a cost: High-grade artifacts promise tremendous potential but demand energy and cannot overcome cultivation limits simply through accumulation.
• Companionship and practical care: Friends and even the Sword Gu respond to Song Shuhang’s vulnerability, while the group works together amid danger and uncertainty.

Chapter 1336: “So Boring”

Key events

• The old man with the bow sets aside a share of the spoils for a mysterious helper who aided the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect. He cannot remember who the person was, but takes that very forgetfulness as proof the helper must have existed.
• Dugu Bai initially declines to hear the sect’s “highest secret” until later. Worried that he has disappointed the elders—and perhaps harmed his chances with his master, Fairy Fusheng—he quickly pledges himself to reviving the sect.
• The old man and Fairy Fusheng’s brother accept Dugu Bai’s pledge and promise to support him from the shadows. Privately, they discuss grooming him as the sect’s next leader, while leaving his relationship with Fusheng to the younger generation.
• In the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room, Senior White and the others find their route blocked. They decide to lure in a Disaster Giant Turtle, defeat it, and study its ability to travel across space-time so they can escape. They prepare their weapons, but the turtle does not appear, so they wait and cultivate.
• In the Heavenly Dao Little White Room, Skylark regains control of her body after her connection to the Nine Netherworld is cut off. Trapped alone in a featureless white void, she grows intensely bored, reminisces about Mad Saber Three Waves, and resolves to ask him to have a child with her if she escapes. She then decides to provoke a tribulation—and Song Shuhang’s spare body begins to tremble.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Bai proves earnest and eager to take responsibility, though his sudden pledge is partly driven by anxiety over how the elders judge him. The elders see potential in him as a future sect master.
• The old man with the bow and Fusheng’s brother act as secretive mentors: they test Dugu Bai, encourage him, and plan to guide him without publicly revealing themselves.
• Senior White remains resourceful and enthusiastic, turning confinement into an opportunity to study the Disaster Giant Turtles.
• Skylark is restless, impulsive, and drawn to people who share her taste for courting danger. Her boredom leads her from joking about pregnancy to an immediate plan to undergo a tribulation.

Significant themes

• Legacy and responsibility: The elders entrust the sect’s revival to its younger generation.
• Memory and mystery: The forgotten benefactor’s unexplained place among the spoils hints at an unusual, possibly supernatural secret.
• Boredom as a danger: For thrill-seekers like Skylark and Three Waves, inactivity is nearly unbearable and can drive reckless choices.
• Turning confinement into opportunity: Senior White treats imprisonment as a chance to learn a means of escape, while Skylark struggles against the emptiness of hers.

Plot points and events

• Skylark enthusiastically activates the Tribulation Law and enters an Eighth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, eager for a genuine challenge.
• Song Shuhang’s unconscious body unexpectedly falls into her Tribulation World. Skylark recognizes him and considers using her left eye—the Confucian Sage’s Pregnancy Eye—to wake him, but decides against it because the coming tribulation could kill him.
• The Nine Netherworld Liquid Metal Sphere’s fragment of consciousness, lodged in Skylark, awakens and realizes it is trapped in a place that naturally counters it.
• The first wave of the tribulation manifests as over a thousand peak Seventh-Grade magical weapons. Skylark fights them with a massive ice blade, while the lightning also erodes the Nine Netherworld fragment.
• Skylark reveals that she wants the foreign consciousness removed from her body. She deliberately guides tribulation lightning into herself to grind it away, despite the danger.
• Song Shuhang’s body is caught in the tribulation’s collateral damage and repeatedly struck by lightning.
• In the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room,” Shuhang suddenly experiences the same electric shocks. Senior White, Soft Feather, and Su Clan’s Sixteen find no current in his surroundings; Shuhang recognizes the sensation from an earlier tribulation experience.

Character developments

• Skylark shifts from her usual playful, death-seeking demeanor to a focused and determined resolve to reclaim control of her body. She also shows consideration by protecting Shuhang rather than risking him with her Pregnancy Eye.
• Song Shuhang remains unconscious in the Tribulation World, but his body appears linked to events there, as shown by his matching shocks in the little black room.
• The Liquid Metal Sphere fragment is alarmed and furious at being trapped in the Heavenly Tribulation, where its power is being worn down.

Character interactions

• Skylark speaks with the awakened Nine Netherworld fragment, first welcoming it as company, then confronting it about its control over her body.
• She protects Shuhang from the explosion’s aftershock by pulling his body away, even as she uses the tribulation against the fragment.
• In the little black room, Senior White asks what is wrong with Shuhang; Soft Feather and Sixteen check him, while he explains his familiar sensation.

Significant themes

• Freedom and bodily autonomy: Skylark refuses to accept another consciousness controlling her body.
• Risk and self-sacrifice: She willingly exposes herself to greater danger to eliminate the intruder, while still taking care not to endanger Shuhang unnecessarily.
• Unexpected consequences and interconnectedness: Shuhang’s body is mysteriously drawn into Skylark’s tribulation, and its injuries are felt across separate settings.
• Skylark’s contradictory nature: Her reckless appetite for danger coexists with genuine principles and concern for others.

Chapter Summary: “A Never-Before-Seen Tribulation Method”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang suddenly begins suffering electricity equivalent to an Eighth-Grade Profound Sage Heavenly Tribulation, despite not undergoing tribulation himself.
• He realizes that his missing spare body, stored in his Core World, has likely been dragged into the Tribulation World.
• Senior White and the others deduce that the spare body was connected to Fairy Skylark, since it was created from a resurrection artifact containing Skylark’s Eye. Skylark’s attempt to break through to the Eighth-Grade Profound Sage Realm has therefore affected Song Shuhang’s spare body—and, through their connection, his main body.
• Senior White knocks Song Shuhang unconscious in an attempt to transfer his consciousness into the spare body, allowing him to respond directly to the tribulation.
• While Song Shuhang is unconscious, Soft Feather notices that his aura is growing stronger rather than weaker.
• The Heavenly Tribulation is unintentionally helping him condense a second Immortal Bone, advancing his Fourth-Grade cultivation. The tribulation endured by the spare body is reflected onto the main body.
• In the Tribulation World, the spare body awakens and is immediately struck by powerful lightning. Although badly burned and internally injured, it survives because of Song Shuhang’s unusually resilient body.
• Song Shuhang sees Fairy Skylark at the center of the tribulation and discovers that her method of undergoing tribulation is extraordinarily unconventional.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increasing resistance to Heavenly Tribulation lightning, likely due to his repeated exposure to it and his exceptionally tough physique.
• His cultivation unexpectedly improves as the tribulation tempers and forms another Immortal Bone, bringing him closer to completing the Fourth-Grade realm.
• Senior White remains practical and inventive, quickly proposing a method to give Song Shuhang control over the situation by knocking him unconscious.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen continues to act protectively, catching Song Shuhang and placing him safely in the hand tractor after he loses consciousness.
• Fairy Skylark is revealed to possess incredible endurance. Rather than attacking, defending, or using techniques, she withstands the tribulation through sheer durability.

Significant Themes

• Unintended consequences and interconnected fate: Song Shuhang is affected by a tribulation he did not initiate because of the connection between his spare body and Skylark’s Eye.
• Growth through suffering: The painful lightning strengthens Song Shuhang’s cultivation by helping form another Immortal Bone.
• Resilience versus conventional power: The chapter contrasts standard tribulation methods—direct attack, defense, or evasive techniques—with Skylark’s extreme reliance on endurance.
• Comedic absurdity in cultivation: The terrifying Heavenly Tribulation becomes bizarrely humorous as Song Shuhang suffers remotely while Skylark simply rolls around in the lightning.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang argues with Senior White’s clone about responsibility for the lightning, while Senior White insists he is innocent.
• Song Shuhang, Senior White, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Soft Feather work together to determine why the tribulation is affecting him.
• Senior White proposes knocking Song Shuhang unconscious, and Song Shuhang agrees despite the danger.
• Soft Feather and Sixteen observe the unexpected strengthening of Song Shuhang’s aura, prompting Senior White to explain the connection between the spare body’s tribulation and the main body’s cultivation.
• In the Tribulation World, Song Shuhang witnesses Fairy Skylark’s unprecedented “endure everything” approach to surviving Heavenly Tribulation.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang awakens in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room during Skylark’s tribulation and realizes that the mass of Skylark’s body parts inside the Disaster Giant Turtle likely relates to her unusual way of surviving tribulations.
• Skylark cheerfully insists she is fine, despite looking badly battered. A wave of ordinary Heavenly Tribulation Missiles appears, and Song Shuhang finds himself without his usual support: Merit Snake Beauty cannot enter the room, Ye Si is in seclusion, Puppet Beauty is being repaired, and his other allies and equipment are inaccessible or would intensify the tribulation.
• Skylark takes the missiles head-on to protect Song Shuhang. Some fragments still reach him, so he relies on his body-tempering techniques and fights them off with his fists.
• The tribulation unexpectedly strengthens Song Shuhang. His wounds heal rapidly, his body and techniques improve, and a second Ancient Sacred Ape phantom begins to form. His second Immortal Bone also grows and becomes armor through his Saber Intent Armor, while a third Immortal Bone starts to stir.
• Song Shuhang realizes his cultivation is advancing dangerously fast. Before reaching the Fifth Grade, he needs to forge the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, but so far he has made only the Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful and determined, but his rapid advancement creates a new practical problem: he is not ready to meet the next cultivation milestone.
• Skylark displays her characteristic resilience and protective streak, willingly taking the brunt of the tribulation to keep Song Shuhang alive.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: The tribulation physically harms Song Shuhang but also accelerates his strengthening and cultivation.
• Reliance and self-reliance: Song Shuhang’s usual “cheats” and allies are unavailable, forcing him to endure the danger with his own body and techniques.
• The risks of rapid progress: Advancement is not purely beneficial when Song Shuhang’s preparations—especially his composite artifact—cannot keep pace.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang questions Skylark’s tribulation method and worries about whether she can withstand the attacks. She reassures him that she will not let him die, then shields him from the missile barrage.
• Song Shuhang’s internal complaints about his unavailable allies and equipment contrast with Skylark’s confidence, while their shared danger brings out her protectiveness and his determination to survive.