Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Song Shuhang is being battered by the lingering force of an Eighth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation. His cultivation is advancing so quickly that he may reach the Fifth Grade before Fairy Six Cultivations finishes making his magical artifacts; he also still lacks nine required materials.
• The tribulation’s attacks focus on the Nine Netherworld will hidden inside Skylark. The Liquid Metal Ball withdraws its power and conceals its remaining presence deep within her, intending to reawaken later and take over her body.
• Skylark deduces that the will may be able to seize control if she remembers it after the tribulation. She decides to let herself die, hoping the Heavenly Tribulation will destroy her body completely and prevent its return.
• Despite Song Shuhang’s urgent attempts to talk her out of it, Skylark drops her defenses and lies in the path of the attacks. Her exceptionally resilient body survives blasts that should be fatal, frustrating her attempt to die.
• A powerful, poison-like tribulation missile finally strikes. Skylark is severely poisoned, coughs blood, and stops breathing. She laments that she “messed up again,” since the attack did not reduce her to dust as she had hoped.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is anxious about both his rapidly advancing cultivation and Skylark’s apparent suicide attempt. He tries to persuade her to keep living, even invoking Senior Three Waves, but is unable to reach her.
• Skylark reveals a grim, determined side beneath her playful manner. She has thought through the Liquid Metal Ball’s plan and is willing to risk death to prevent it from reclaiming her body. Her wish to die also becomes darkly comic as she complains that the tribulation attacks are too weak.
• The Liquid Metal Ball presents itself as confident and prepared, but Skylark sees through its explanation and suspects that its apparent withdrawal is a trap.
• Their exchange mixes danger with banter: Song Shuhang tells Skylark to cover herself, and she retorts that he has been naked himself.

Significant themes

• Control and self-determination: Skylark would rather risk death than let an invading will control her.
• The uncertainty of immortality: Skylark’s extraordinary durability makes even her chosen death difficult to achieve.
• Tribulation as more than physical danger: Its elemental forces and whispered temptations threaten both the body and the mind.
• Dark comedy amid peril: The characters’ jokes and Skylark’s frustration contrast with the seriousness of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang survives the poisonous mist in Skylark’s first tribulation attempt. When she dies, the Tribulation World collapses and he returns to his Core World, relieved but wondering when she will resurrect.
• He checks his cultivation and worries that the tribulation has already pushed it to the Third Immortal Bone. Hoping to report back to his friends, he uses the True Self Meditation Method to return to his main body.
• Instead, he wakes in another Profound Sage Tribulation World with Skylark, who has already revived. She gives him the Confucian Sage’s Eye and announces she will attempt the tribulation again, this time aiming to die beneath the Heavenly Tribulation Hydrogen Bomb.
• Song Shuhang runs to escape the blast, but the tribulation’s lightning still strikes him. His body-tempering techniques strengthen, his Third Immortal Bone takes shape, and his cultivation surges despite his protests.
• Skylark slips him a powerful pill to help him endure the coming attack. It heals and strengthens him—but pours even more energy into his Fat Whale Phantom Core, accelerating his cultivation further.
• The tribulation shifts to rows of mirror-like weapons that unleash hundreds of thousands of beams. Skylark drops her defenses and is blasted apart, leaving a small piece of bone untouched by the barrage. Song Shuhang realizes that the bone embodies immortality.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is increasingly determined to control his rapidly advancing cultivation so he can finish the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Divine Artifacts. He tries to flee the tribulation, but its effects keep strengthening him against his wishes.
• Skylark remains cheerful and fearless about dying, treating each failure as preparation for another attempt. She gives Song Shuhang the Sage’s Eye and a pill, partly to help him survive being caught up in her tribulation.
• Their interaction is comic and lopsided: Skylark is delighted to see him and casually draws him into another deadly trial, while Song Shuhang is horrified and repeatedly protests.

Significant themes

• Immortality and repeated death: Skylark’s deaths are temporary, and the final image suggests an indestructible remnant survives even overwhelming destruction.
• Unwanted growth and loss of control: Song Shuhang’s power rises through tribulation and medicine despite his efforts to slow it down.
• Humor amid danger: Deadly attacks, repeated deaths, and explosive cultivation gains are presented through banter and Song Shuhang’s exasperation.

Chapter summary

• Skylark’s tribulation ends: Song Shuhang watches the Heavenly Tribulation attack the last surviving piece of Skylark’s bone. The bone remains unharmed and seems to embody the idea of immortality. The tribulation ends after judging Skylark dead, and Song is expelled from the Tribulation World.
• Song is struck on the way out: A final lightning spear ambushes him, piercing his waist and kidney. He is taken to the Living Spring in his Core World, where its waters, Cheng Lin’s self-healing method, and a pill from Skylark help him recover. The ordeal raises his cultivation and strengthens his body-tempering techniques. He also discovers that this temporary body can now travel farther from Blade-Sword Peak without losing consciousness.
• Song explains his situation to Pavilion Master Chu: She still remembers him, despite the effect that has made people forget his main body while it is trapped in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Song suspects his Core World may be preserving her memory. He tells her he was caught up in Skylark’s tribulation and is frustrated that his realm is advancing too quickly: he had wanted to finish refining his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact first.
• Seven and Four Cultivations arrive: Song’s voice assistant transfers Sage Seven Cultivator and White Jade Lion, Four Cultivations, into his Core World. They fall in with their powers restricted, but Seven Cultivator manages to use his True Illusion—Ancient Tomb World to break their fall.
• The Six Cultivations misunderstanding: Song hopes for a team of Fairy Six Cultivations to forge his artifact, but Seven Cultivator’s illusion merely produces copies of her. He then takes the real Seven and Four Cultivations to meet Fairy Six Cultivations, who is already working in the Winter Hall. To everyone’s astonishment, she is forging with great enthusiasm rather than tormenting her customers with her usual hammer-based “heart stabs.” The others suspect she must be a fake.
• Pavilion Master Chu senses Time City: After the visitors leave, Chu returns to the Living Spring and notices that Time City is nearby. The chapter closes with a joking appeal for monthly votes.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang continues to gain power against his wishes, suffers a painful but temporary injury, and remains preoccupied with collecting rare materials and completing his artifact. His conversations with Chu reveal his unusual predicament and his characteristic mix of complaining and joking.
• Pavilion Master Chu is surprised that she remembers Song, listens to his explanation, and later senses Time City’s presence.
• Sage Seven Cultivator and Four Cultivations reunite with Song and react with alarm to their uncontrolled fall. They are also bewildered by Fairy Six Cultivations’s unexpectedly diligent, non-tormenting smithing.
• Fairy Six Cultivations appears intensely focused on forging, calling out the names of Four Cultivations, Seven Cultivator, and Song as she works.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the Heavenly Dao: Skylark’s indestructible bone raises questions about the nature and source of immortality.
• Unwanted advancement: Song’s cultivation keeps rising while he wants to prioritize preparation and crafting.
• Memory, identity, and unusual exceptions: Song’s disappearance from others’ memories contrasts with Pavilion Master Chu’s ability to remember him.
• Comic expectation and reversal: The chapter repeatedly undercuts danger and convention—from Song’s kidney regrowing to the supposedly heart-stabbing Fairy Six Cultivations working without apparent malice.

Plot points and events

• Pavilion Master Chu uses Song Shuhang’s blood to locate and summon Time City into the Core World. She wants to reclaim the city, which she created and feared might otherwise drift away or be claimed by someone else.
• Fairy Six Cultivations finishes forging two Overlord Expert Shields. Song Shuhang assembles one with his Sage Seal and appraises it: the shield boosts the Giant Tortoise chapter, improves healing and water spells, reflects attacks, and contains defensive techniques that unlock with cultivation.
• Song Shuhang equips the shield and a Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlet. He then tells Six Cultivations that he and Senior White found nine more refining materials—leaving him only nine short of the thirty-three needed for his full artifact set.
• Six Cultivations is dismayed at the prospect of forging so many high-grade artifacts. Seven and Four Cultivations are also surprised by the reversal: instead of Song Shuhang being distressed by her demands, Six Cultivations is now the one suffering.
• Song Shuhang leaves the forge and considers how to accelerate the work. His rapidly rising cultivation makes the task more urgent, but he cannot safely leave the Core World to recruit help.
• Time City appears inside the Core World. Recognizing it, Song Shuhang begins to see a possible opportunity in its arrival.

Character developments and interactions

• Pavilion Master Chu demonstrates that Song Shuhang’s blood lets her sense and summon Time City despite the Core World’s isolation.
• Song Shuhang is resourceful and increasingly focused on solving practical problems: he assembles new equipment, negotiates with Six Cultivations, and looks for ways to speed up artifact production.
• Fairy Six Cultivations remains a proud master smith but is overwhelmed by the scale of Song Shuhang’s request. Her reunion with Seven Cultivations is affectionate yet quickly overshadowed by her frustration over the workload.
• Seven and Four Cultivations observe the unusual shift in the usual dynamic between Song Shuhang and Six Cultivations.

Significant themes

• Escalating fortune and consequences: Song Shuhang’s treasure haul brings opportunity, but also burdens the people who must turn it into finished artifacts.
• Cultivation outpacing preparation: His realm is advancing so quickly that his equipment may not be ready in time.
• Ingenuity and interdependence: Song Shuhang relies on allies’ skills and Pavilion Master Chu’s connection to Time City to address problems he cannot solve alone.
• Comic role reversal: Six Cultivations, normally the one who puts Song Shuhang through emotional strain, is now the one feeling overwhelmed.

Key plot points and events

• Pavilion Master Chu entrusts Time City to Song Shuhang, who places it at the edge of his Core World. Because Time City is a time-related secret realm, Chu Chu and Li Yinzhu were shielded from events outside while it drifted through space.
• Song Shuhang visits the two women, worried about their safety. He finds Li Yinzhu has grown from a toddler into a teenager, though she can shrink back to her younger form by holding her breath or staying somewhere cold. Her cold illness has improved, and she is nearing Fifth Grade after refining all nine Immortal Bones.
• Song Shuhang plans to arrange a Tribulation-Transcending Formation for Yinzhu through the Other Shore Demon Lord. He also jokes about changing his awkward future sage title.
• After recounting the Jadewater Pavilion’s dangerous transfer to the Beast Realm, Song Shuhang tells Chu Chu and Yinzhu they can explore the Core World while they wait for his main body to escape the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room.”
• Chu Chu asks to become his disciple. Though he initially cautions that he lacks teaching experience, he agrees to let her train with him and consider formally accepting her later. She chooses to learn the Thirty-Three Beasts cultivation method, while Song Shuhang insists she preserve her strong sword talent rather than switch to blade cultivation.
• Senior White Two congratulates Song Shuhang and reminds him that the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect owes him both materials and people for his Dharma-artifact project.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows affection and protectiveness toward Yinzhu, reacts with surprise to her growth, and takes responsibility for her cultivation. He also cautiously accepts Chu Chu as a prospective disciple.
• Li Yinzhu has recovered substantially and made major cultivation progress. Her unusual shrinking and growing is harmless, and she is cheerful and eager to reach Fifth Grade.
• Chu Chu has recovered from her injuries and made a deliberate choice to pursue cultivation under Song Shuhang rather than join a conventional sect. She and Song Shuhang discuss her future training and talent.
• Pavilion Master Chu entrusts Song Shuhang with Time City. Senior White Two offers practical support and advice.

Significant themes

• Time and change: Time City’s isolation causes its inhabitants to experience a different relationship to outside events, while Yinzhu’s dramatic growth underscores how much can change during separation.
• Mentorship and responsibility: Song Shuhang is increasingly drawn into guiding others, even as he doubts his ability to teach.
• Growth and recovery: Yinzhu’s improving health and cultivation, Chu Chu’s renewed prospects, and Song Shuhang’s expanding obligations all point toward new stages of development.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tells Senior White Two that he is missing nine materials for the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. Senior White Two arranges for a senior from the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect to meet him, though he cannot enter the Present World himself.
• The visiting elder cannot remember Song Shuhang because of the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room,” but he knows a mysterious Daoist once helped the sect defeat the False Gods.
• The elder recognizes Song Shuhang as Tyrant Song and credits him—incorrectly—with making thousands of False Gods pregnant, an ability actually used by Fairy Skylark.
• He gives Song Shuhang a spoils-of-war chest containing several Eighth-Grade materials. Four of them—pangolin scales, boar tusks, crab claws, and lobster whiskers—are among Song Shuhang’s missing materials. The elder says intuition led him to choose them.
• Before leaving, the elder agrees to send skilled craftsmen to forge two sets of the composite artifacts. Song Shuhang warns him that one set will use only Eighth-Grade materials; the elder promptly falls through his open Space Gate.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang gains valuable materials and access to expert craftsmen, but remains frustrated that others have forgotten him and that he is blamed for Fairy Skylark’s feat.
• The bow-carrying elder has lost his memories of Song Shuhang yet retains a sense that Song Shuhang mattered to his sect. His intuition also leads him to provide exactly the materials Song Shuhang needs.
• Senior White Two continues helping from afar, arranging the meeting despite being unable to visit the Present World.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Even when memories vanish, Song Shuhang’s deeds leave traces in others’ knowledge and intuition.
• Unintended reputation: Song Shuhang’s fame brings him credit—and blame—for an extraordinary feat he did not perform.
• Serendipity and mutual aid: The elder’s intuitive gift advances Song Shuhang’s goal, while the sect repays the mysterious helper it can no longer remember.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White Two coordinate the meeting and discuss the missing materials.
• The elder and Song Shuhang establish a connection through their shared cultivation technique, despite the elder’s memory loss.
• The elder offers the chest as thanks, and Song Shuhang asks in return for craftsmen to make two artifact sets.

Key plot points and events

• The bow-wielding elder is astonished to learn that Song Shuhang plans to forge two complete sets of Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts, using mostly Eighth-Grade materials—an unprecedented undertaking.
• He realizes the sets may be intended for Shuhang’s disciples and wonders whether having a second set could give a disciple another chance if the dangerous, one-time artifact-fusion process fails.
• To help and learn, the elder sends twenty artifact refiners—fifteen masters and five promising prodigies—into Shuhang’s Core World. They eagerly insist on getting straight to work, and the elder asks to let them watch the eventual fusion.
• Shuhang discusses the project with Senior White Two. Five material types are still missing, and some needed materials are trapped with Shuhang’s true body in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room.
• Senior White Two offers one quota to break free of the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s constraint, which has permanently fixed Fairy Six Cultivations’ realm. But the quota can go to either Fairy Six Cultivations or Four Cultivations White Jade Lion, not both; she must choose without Seven or Four Cultivations influencing her.
• Shuhang brings the new refiners to the forging room, where Fairy Six Cultivations, Seven Cultivations, and Four Cultivations are already working. Before Shuhang can explain, Fairy Six Cultivations asks bluntly whether he has obtained more Eighth-Grade materials.

Character developments and interactions

• The bow-wielding elder is impressed by Shuhang’s ambition and fortune. He openly seeks both practical help and a chance for his sect’s refiners to learn from him.
• Song Shuhang remains considerate toward his seniors and worries that Fairy Six Cultivations may be nearing a breaking point; he also tries to compensate her for the increasingly demanding project.
• Senior White Two agrees to provide a way out of Fairy Six Cultivations’ predicament, but makes the reward a difficult, self-sacrificial choice. He takes mischievous pride in acting like the Netherworld Ruler.
• Fairy Six Cultivations is focused and direct, prioritizing the work over greetings or explanations.
• The Thirty-Three Beast God Sect’s refiners are intensely enthusiastic, treating the chance to help forge the artifacts as more important than rest.

Significant themes

• Ambition and risk: Forging two unprecedented sets may offer a second chance at a notoriously irreversible fusion, but the idea remains untested.
• Knowledge-sharing and cooperation: The elder’s refiners help Shuhang while learning skills their diminished sect can no longer teach them.
• Sacrifice and choice: The single freedom-granting quota forces Fairy Six Cultivations to decide whose liberation matters more.
• Loyalty and responsibility: Shuhang’s concern for Fairy Six Cultivations contrasts with Senior White Two’s playful, deliberately challenging approach.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tells Fairy Six Cultivations that he has obtained four of the nine required eighth-grade materials for the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts.
• The twenty artifact-forging masters from the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect join the work, helping Six Cultivations and Sage Seven Cultivations forge the artifacts.
• Shuhang brings news of an additional reward: after the two artifact sets are complete, one person may be released from the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber’s constraints.
• Six Cultivations chooses to give the single opportunity to Four Cultivations, despite wanting it for herself. Shuhang agrees to pass on her decision.
• Seven Cultivations quietly supports her choice and hopes to free her himself someday. Six Cultivations urges Shuhang to find the remaining materials quickly.
• The chapter ends abruptly when a flash of cold light appears in the Core World and strikes toward Shuhang.

Character developments and interactions

• Six Cultivations is initially suspicious of Shuhang’s “good news,” then struggles with the single release opportunity. Her decision to give it to Four Cultivations shows the depth of their long-standing bond and her selflessness, even though freedom is also essential to her future with Seven Cultivations.
• Four Cultivations remains physically limited by his fourth-grade cultivation and helps direct the visiting masters. Though he does not hear the private discussion, he is the intended recipient of Six Cultivations’ choice.
• Seven Cultivations recognizes what Six Cultivations has decided but tactfully pretends not to know in front of Four. He supports freeing Four first while intending to help Six escape the saber’s constraints himself.
• Song Shuhang serves as the messenger and tries to reassure Six, though her distrust of his “good news” creates comic tension.
• The Beast God Sect masters shift from impressed observers to active collaborators, easing the workload.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: Six Cultivations puts Four’s freedom ahead of her own.
• Long-term devotion and hope: Seven Cultivations’ desire to free Six himself underscores their bond and his confidence in their future.
• Comedy amid serious stakes: Six’s exaggerated suspicion of Shuhang contrasts with the emotional weight of choosing who receives the one chance.
• Collective effort: The forging project depends on both expert craftsmanship and the support of the wider group.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang mistakes the Meteor Sword’s arrival for an attempt on his kidneys and knocks it down with his Overlord Expert Shield. He quickly apologizes and comforts the sword.
• The Meteor Sword has escaped Heaven’s Will black room and brought Song Shuhang’s prayer-bead dharma artifact, stocked with many Eighth-Grade forging materials.
• When Song Shuhang asks whether Senior White mastered the Disaster Giant Turtle’s “Trans-Spacetime Stroll,” the Meteor Sword demonstrates the ability itself, disappearing into the void without a spatial fluctuation.
• Song returns to Fairy Six Cultivations’s workshop and hands over the materials. They now have enough to forge two sets of Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts, but still lack five primary materials. Fairy Six Cultivations promises to accelerate the forging.
• Song reflects that his cultivation is advancing uncontrollably: his fourth Immortal Bone is more than halfway formed, while several sources—including a pill from Skylark—continue to boost his power. He jokes that he is nowhere near qualified to imitate Daoist Horizon’s cultivation-transmission act.
• Senior White Two asks whether one of the five missing materials is a “primate” material.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang’s reflexive defensiveness creates a comic mishap with the Meteor Sword, but he immediately recognizes and makes amends for hurting it.
• The Meteor Sword shows growing independence and an impressive new ability, suggesting it—or something connected to it—has acquired Trans-Spacetime Stroll.
• Fairy Six Cultivations remains focused on completing the artifact sets, while Sage Seven Cultivator is visibly overwhelmed by the immense pile of materials.
• Song and the Meteor Sword communicate through gestures and vibrations; Song also coordinates with Fairy Six Cultivations and Sage Seven Cultivator over the forging project.

Significant themes

• Relentless cultivation and power growth: Song’s advancement continues almost automatically, raising questions about how to manage or share his accumulating power.
• Unexpected transformation and mystery: The Meteor Sword’s escape and newly demonstrated ability leave the source of its power uncertain.
• Humor amid danger: Song’s exaggerated concern about kidney attacks and his awkward imagined pitch for transferring “ten days” of cultivation undercut the chapter’s high-stakes supernatural developments.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang receives two portions of ape-tail hair from Senior White Two, completing another material for the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. Senior White Two explains that his “Number Three pet,” a Sacred Ape Great Vajra, had its short tail hair repeatedly regrown and shaved to collect it.
• Four materials remain: squid, dolphin, cat, and bear. Song Shuhang is eager to gather them, but he cannot leave the Core World because of the Skylark’s Body-Part Distance Restriction.
• That night, Sea King leads two teams of Sea Urchin Warriors ashore near Wenzhou City. Having abandoned its plan to take the Silver Glove by force, Sea King hopes to trade valuable treasures for it and orders the group to approach Song Shuhang’s home discreetly.
• The warriors notice a black-dressed girl eating grilled seafood on the beach. When one of them, Jiu Qianjun, attacks her with the group’s signature Round Dance Slash, she blows him away in a tornado-like gust—so powerfully that he disappears into the sky.
• Recognizing the girl as far beyond their ability to challenge, Sea King orders a retreat around her. The warriors continue toward the city, while the girl finishes her food and remains hungry.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains practical and focused on completing the artifact, but his inability to travel makes finding the remaining materials difficult.
• Senior White Two casually supplies rare materials and reveals his eccentric, hands-on approach to caring for his powerful pets.
• Sea King shows a more diplomatic side: it believes the Silver Glove can be obtained through a sufficiently valuable trade and prioritizes avoiding a dangerous confrontation.
• Jiu Qianjun confidently threatens the girl, only to be launched away by her effortless counterattack. Sea King reframes his fate as heroic, preserving the warriors’ morale.
• The black-dressed girl appears innocent and absorbed in eating, yet displays overwhelming strength. The Sea Urchin Warriors’ fear contrasts sharply with her apparent lack of concern for them.

Significant themes

• The absurdity of powerful cultivators’ lives: rare artifact materials are gathered through bizarre and sometimes comic means.
• Trade versus force: Sea King’s plan reflects its belief that almost anything can be negotiated for the right price.
• Appearance versus power: the girl looks like an ordinary child, but proves vastly stronger than the Sea Urchin Warriors or even Sea King at its peak.
• Comic contrast: dramatic threats and martial techniques are undercut by the girl’s simple focus on eating—and by Jiu Qianjun’s ridiculous, sudden flight.

Plot points and events

• Pavilion Master Chu Two, driven by an extreme, unsatisfied hunger, targets the Sea King for its tentacles. She easily defeats it by opening a Space Gate and kicking it back to shore.
• She demands five tentacles, then releases the Sea King and its Sea Urchin Warriors while she roasts one tentacle over a bonfire.
• Chu Two reveals she has lost most of her memories of Song Shuhang, retaining only a vague recollection of someone called “Dad Song.” Her interrupted evolution leaves her short of energy and somewhat slow to react.
• When the Sea King mentions Profound Sage Tyrannical Song, Chu Two recognizes the name and secretly follows the Sea King toward Song Shuhang’s home on White Whale Road.
• The Sea King seeks Song Shuhang to negotiate for its missing Silver Gauntlet, relying on fragments of memory stored in its Holy Sword War Armor.
• At the Song household, Dad Song and Mom Song discuss wanting a daughter. Their conversation is interrupted by the Sea King’s party, whose blond spokesman asks whether Tyrant Song is home. Dad Song claims that his son “died young,” leaving the visitors bewildered.

Character developments

• Pavilion Master Chu Two is powerful but weakened by incomplete evolution and severe hunger. Her memory loss makes her uncertain about her connection to Song Shuhang, though hearing his sage title begins to restore her sense of purpose.
• The Sea King is frightened into surrendering five tentacles, then cautiously resumes its journey to recover its gauntlet.
• Dad Song and Mom Song are becoming younger; their affectionate, domestic moment is abruptly disrupted by the unexpected visitors.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Chu Two is formidable, yet her incomplete evolution leaves her dependent on energy and affects her behavior.
• Fragmented memory and identity: Chu Two’s lost memories and the Sea King’s armor-stored recollections shape their efforts to find Song Shuhang.
• Comic contrast: A terrifying sea creature is reduced to bargaining over tentacles, while Dad Song’s deadpan “died young” answer turns a serious inquiry into a punchline.

Character interactions

• Chu Two intimidates the Sea King, takes its tentacles, then offers a tongue-in-cheek deal for future help.
• The Sea King and Chu Two independently set out to find Song Shuhang, with Chu Two covertly trailing the Sea King’s group.
• The blond visitor politely questions Dad Song about Tyrant Song; Dad Song’s cryptic reply leaves the group questioning whether they have found the right household.

Plot points and events

• Sea King arrives at Song Shuhang’s home, expecting to find Tyrant Song, but Song Shuhang’s father treats him as a stranger and accepts condolences for a supposedly deceased son. Sea King suspects something has happened to Song Shuhang’s family or memories. It decides to investigate later rather than confront the cultivators guarding the house.
• A mysterious, blanket-wrapped vendor appears on White Whale Road. Pavilion Master Chu Two asks to buy her own head, but the vendor has no such item in stock. They exchange squid tentacles for one of Pavilion Master Chu One’s hairs, which confirms that Chu One is still somewhere and was recently present.
• In the Core World, Chu One meets the vendor, an old acquaintance known as Everything Can Be Sold. She trades two hairs for two Eighth-Grade squid tentacles, which she passes to Song Shuhang.
• The vendor then offers Sea King the original missing glove for its Holy Sword War Armor, agreeing to acquire it for a price.
• Song Shuhang is organizing an artifact-refining operation in Time City. With the squid tentacles in hand, he is closer to completing his Eighth-Grade Thirty-Three Combined Magical Artifacts. He contacts Everything Can Be Sold and orders Eighth-Grade dolphin teeth, bear claws, and cat whiskers. The total is twelve Ninth-Grade Spirit Stones, so Shuhang goes to find the money.

Character developments and interactions

• Sea King is cautious after earlier encounters with powerful figures, but remains driven to recover the missing armor glove. The vendor’s impressive wares tempt it to consider robbery, quickly dispelled by the vendor’s warning.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two is searching for a way to recover her own head and is willing to bargain for proof that the vendor can obtain it. Her exchange for Chu One’s hair gives her a lead.
• Pavilion Master Chu One remains in the Core World, where she trades hair for valuable squid tentacles and shares them with Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang continues coordinating his allies and pursuing the materials needed for his magical artifacts. He is optimistic about buying the remaining components, though short on Spirit Stones.
• Everything Can Be Sold acts as a powerful, resourceful merchant who can procure rare goods and information, but insists on payment and takes a cut in trades.

Significant themes

• Commerce and value: Rare treasures, personal items, and information all become negotiable goods; the vendor’s fees and bargaining emphasize that even powerful characters must pay.
• Identity and memory: Sea King’s confusion about Song Shuhang’s family hints at a larger mystery involving missing memories or altered circumstances.
• Interdependence and preparation: Shuhang’s progress depends on cooperation, specialized materials, and the support of allies.
• Mystery and foreshadowing: Chu Two’s search for her head, Chu One’s unexplained hair, and the strange situation at Shuhang’s home leave major questions unresolved.

Plot and key events

• Song Shuhang asks Senior White Two for twelve Ninth-Grade Spirit Stones to buy the last six materials needed for his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact.
• Senior White Two agrees after Song offers a joke about borrowing money and never repaying it. He then teases Song by saying the “loan” will simply be deducted from Song’s future remuneration.
• Song trades the twelve Spirit Stones with Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot for two Dolphin’s Teeth, two Bear’s Claws, and two Cat’s Whiskers. The merchant’s projection struggles to enter Song’s increasingly powerful Core World, but succeeds after Song lowers its restrictions.
• Once the materials are assembled, Song is eager to share his success with Fairy Six Cultivations.
• Everything Can Be Sold then asks to buy Song’s silver handguard, which Sea King needs to complete its Holy Sword War Armor. Song refuses because he and Sea King remain enemies.
• The merchant proposes a trade: a Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal left-hand glove, [Ancestral Shaman’s Blessing], plus other treasures. The glove can teleport briefly, store ten weapons, and—most importantly—mark the silver handguard so Song can later disable it and undermine Sea King’s armor.
• Song shows interest but tells the merchant the offer is not yet persuasive enough, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is resourceful and playful, using humor to persuade Senior White Two, but remains stubborn when an offer would help an enemy. He is also intrigued by the possibility of turning the handguard against Sea King.
• Senior White Two is tired from his contest with Heaven, yet lends Song the funds. His generosity comes with a teasing reminder that the money will be taken from Song’s pay.
• Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot is an opportunistic negotiator who adapts his offer to Song’s grudge against Sea King, though Song’s resistance threatens his profit.
• Sea King does not appear directly, but its conflict with Song drives the second negotiation.

Significant themes

• Humor and teasing shape even practical exchanges, especially lending and bargaining.
• Loyalty and grudges influence commerce: Song values denying Sea King’s success more than accepting a valuable trade.
• Power and progress are reflected in the Core World’s growing ability to resist outside influence.
• A compromise may turn an apparent concession into a strategic advantage: the glove could let Song sell the handguard while retaining a way to sabotage Sea King’s armor.

Key plot points and events

• Everything Can Be Sold tries to trade for Song Shuhang’s Silver Glove, offering the Ninth-Grade artifact Ancestral Shaman’s Blessing.
• Song Shuhang is unimpressed: its functions overlap with tools he already has, and he has just acquired the last materials needed for his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact. He asks for something more.
• Everything Can Be Sold uses a spell to identify items Song Shuhang might want. The choices include a Merit Hall fragment from the Ancient Heavenly Court, a lifespan-extending Golden Core, and a Resurrection Cross.
• Ye Si negotiates from within Song Shuhang, insisting on two of the three items rather than one. Everything Can Be Sold agrees, seemingly in a hurry because he senses a threatening presence tracking him.
• Song Shuhang receives the Ancestral Shaman’s Blessing, the Merit Hall fragment, and the Resurrection Cross, then hands over the Silver Glove. Appraising the artifact nearly leaves him covered in blood, but reveals it is another piece of a Tribulation Immortal battle-armor set. Ye Si uses its power to mark the Silver Glove before the exchange is completed.
• Everything Can Be Sold promptly disappears. Ye Si returns to slumber before finishing her legacy transfer.
• Song Shuhang excitedly tells Fairy Six Cultivations that he has gathered more key materials. She covers her ears and chants that she will not listen.
• Elsewhere, Skylark is reborn in the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room and declares herself free.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shows little interest in a trade unless it suits him, recognizing that his existing abilities make much of the offered artifact redundant. He is pleased to complete his materials collection and gains valuable treasures, including a resurrection item.
• Ye Si proves an assertive negotiator, securing two desired items and helping Song Shuhang use the new artifact. Her sudden return to sleep leaves her legacy transfer unfinished.
• Everything Can Be Sold remains professional but appears rattled by an unseen threat. His haste suggests the watching “Eyes of Greed” may be pursuing him or his main body.
• Fairy Six Cultivations reacts to Song Shuhang’s repeated excitement with comic exasperation, seemingly developing “Shuhang Chest Tightness Syndrome.”
• Skylark makes a brief, triumphant reappearance after being reborn.

Significant themes

• Bargaining and leverage: Song Shuhang’s lack of urgent needs lets him resist the initial offer, while Ye Si pushes the negotiation in their favor.
• Accumulation and connection: The artifact trade expands Song Shuhang’s growing collection of treasures and battle-armor components.
• Comic repetition amid danger: The chapter pairs high-stakes artifacts, mysterious pursuit, and near-fatal appraisal with recurring jokes about Song Shuhang’s enthusiasm and others’ exasperation.

Key plot points and events

• Skylark briefly regains control of her body after reviving, but the Nine Nether Evil Energy hidden within her returns and the Netherworld Ruler takes possession of her again.
• Skylark tries to force another Eighth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, hoping repeated deaths will exhaust the Ruler’s energy. Instead, the Ruler sends her into the Demon Tribulation World, its own territory, to push her toward the Eighth Grade and prevent further attempts.
• In Song Shuhang’s Core World, Fairy Six Cultivations continues refining two sets of Dharma artifacts, intending to trade them for Four Cultivations’s freedom. Sage Seven Cultivator quietly reaffirms his promise to rescue her.
• Song Shuhang teaches his disciples. He gives Little Cai an Eighth-Grade Whale Sage Bone for a future Natal Dharma Artifact and advises her to rest, though she insists she only wants to cultivate. Chu Chu asks which technique suits her as she considers joining his sect and changing from sword to saber cultivation.
• While preparing to appraise Chu Chu, Song Shuhang discovers a three-star Profound Sage Lecture Manuscript hidden in the Ancestral Shaman’s Blessing. He stores it again, hoping it may be useful later.
• Just as he reaches for Chu Chu’s hand, Song Shuhang vanishes. His Appraisal Secret Method has connected him to Skylark instead, identifying her as possessed before the rest of the information is erased. The chapter ends with Song Shuhang face-to-face with demonized Skylark.

Character developments and interactions

• Skylark is determined to resist the Netherworld Ruler, but her attempted escape is thwarted. The Ruler remains smug and manipulative, using its hidden power to redirect her into a tribulation it controls.
• Fairy Six Cultivations stays committed to her bargain despite her emotional pain; Sage Seven Cultivator remains devoted to saving her.
• Song Shuhang supports his disciples’ cultivation, though he worries about Little Cai’s extreme work ethic. His appraisal unexpectedly links him to Skylark, putting him in immediate danger.
• Little Cai eagerly accepts her master’s gift and is intensely devoted to cultivation; Chu Chu is preparing to follow Song Shuhang’s methods but is left confused by his sudden disappearance.

Significant themes

• The struggle for bodily autonomy and control drives Skylark’s conflict with the Netherworld Ruler.
• Promises, loyalty, and sacrifice shape Fairy Six Cultivations and Sage Seven Cultivator’s relationship.
• Mentorship and cultivation are explored through Song Shuhang’s guidance, Little Cai’s zeal, and Chu Chu’s desire to change paths.
• The chapter’s abrupt shift from routine teaching to possession and danger creates a strong contrast between everyday cultivation and looming supernatural threats.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang is dragged into the Demon Tribulation World with Skylark just as an Eighth-Grade Demon Tribulation begins. Skylark briefly regains control of her body and shields him, then uses an ice barrier to protect him from a second strike.
• The Liquid Metal Ball suppresses Skylark’s consciousness and declares that Song Shuhang must either die or be corrupted by the Demon Tribulation’s Nine Nether Evil Energy. It also uses the threat of his death to provoke Skylark’s guilt and weaken her resolve.
• Following Senior White Two’s instructions, Song Shuhang rolls a hundred meters away from Skylark. Senior White Two secretly grants him the Abridged Deathmatch Blood-Lock Immortality State, allowing him to survive in the Netherworld with only one “drop” of health. He refuses to remove Song Shuhang from the Demon Tribulation World, fearing the Liquid Metal Ball would discover their connection.
• Song Shuhang endures the full force of the Demon Tribulation. Though nearly destroyed, he survives and rapidly regenerates. The ordeal advances his Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art and Confucian Vajra Body, and his fourth Immortal Bone forms.
• Enraged that Song Shuhang keeps surviving, the Liquid Metal Ball increases the share of tribulation he must bear. The ordeal continues for a day, with Song Shuhang repeatedly reduced to the brink of death.
• At the end, Song Shuhang reveals that he now has nine Immortal Bones—a startling increase amid the ongoing tribulation.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows remarkable endurance and determination, surviving a calamity far beyond what his cultivation level should withstand. Yet he is frustrated that the resulting rapid advancement disrupts his plans to complete his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact.
• Skylark demonstrates strong affection and protectiveness toward Song Shuhang, risking herself and exhausting her strength to shield him. Though subdued, she believes she has done all she can and leaves his survival to his own fortune.
• Senior White Two helps Song Shuhang discreetly, balancing his desire to protect him against the danger of revealing their relationship to the Liquid Metal Ball.
• The Liquid Metal Ball becomes increasingly frustrated and intrigued by Song Shuhang’s survival, eventually deciding that Song Shuhang is connected to Skylark and should be claimed as well.

Significant themes

• Resilience and survival: Song Shuhang’s stubborn persistence lets him survive repeated near-death experiences.
• Protection and loyalty: Skylark’s self-sacrifice and Senior White Two’s covert aid show different forms of care for Song Shuhang.
• Power and unintended consequences: Surviving the tribulation strengthens Song Shuhang, but his unwanted cultivation advances interfere with his plans.
• Control and resistance: The Liquid Metal Ball tries to dominate Skylark and manipulate her emotions, while both she and Song Shuhang resist in their own ways.

Character interactions

• The Liquid Metal Ball taunts Skylark and Song Shuhang, insisting that survival is impossible and using Song Shuhang’s peril to undermine Skylark.
• Skylark shields Song Shuhang and urges him to flee, while Song Shuhang follows Senior White Two’s advice to create distance.
• Senior White Two secretly supports Song Shuhang, but warns that openly rescuing him could make him a target.
• Song Shuhang’s repeated survival frustrates the Liquid Metal Ball and turns its attention toward him.

Chapter 1356 Summary

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang completes his ninth Immortal Bone. The bones attach to Fat Whale’s Phantom Core like armor, bringing his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact close to completion. The remaining step is to temper the core and condense a Golden Core.
• He worries that his rapid, unstable progress may leave him with a weak Golden Core. Cultivators’ Golden Core patterns largely determine their future limits, and Song Shuhang has no idea how many patterns he could achieve.
• A voice reaches him from beyond the sealed Demon Tribulation World. His Tyrant Song Sage Seal reveals that Dryad Milulu is undergoing a Fifth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation and is near death, with almost all her energy and defenses exhausted.
• Song Shuhang recognizes Milulu as a kind tree demon and fan who once asked him to inscribe a blessing. Through the connection between his seal and hers, he sends her Innate True Essence.
• Revitalized by the energy and Song Shuhang’s encouragement, Milulu resumes fighting. Her damaged branches and roots are replaced by stronger growth, and branches scattered by the tribulation take root to form a small forest. She survives five waves while refusing to surrender.
• Meanwhile, Song Shuhang is still being battered by his own Demon Tribulation Lightning. His attempt to help Milulu cannot absorb all the energy surging through him. Another message arrives from his first disciple, Xiao Cai, prompting him to consider whether he should send her energy too.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains anxious about his cultivation prospects, but acts compassionately despite being in the middle of his own tribulation. His powerful, highly refined true essence makes him an extraordinary source of aid.
• Milulu transforms from despair to determination. With Song Shuhang’s support, she discovers renewed strength and fights the tribulation with her own branches, roots, and resilience.
• Xiao Cai is briefly reintroduced through a message expressing enthusiasm for cultivation. Song Shuhang’s hesitation about helping her shows his awareness of personal boundaries and the comic “Song Yazi” comparison.

Significant themes

• Perseverance: Milulu’s refusal to give up turns a near-fatal crisis into a chance to grow stronger.
• Support and connection: Song Shuhang’s blessing creates a channel through which he can help someone far away, illustrating how encouragement and aid can sustain others.
• Growth through adversity: Milulu’s destroyed branches and roots are replaced by tougher growth, while her scattered branches become a forest.
• Cultivation and destiny: The chapter emphasizes how Golden Core patterns shape a cultivator’s future, heightening Song Shuhang’s concern about his rushed advancement.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang communicates with Milulu through their linked Sage Seals, urging her not to surrender and transmitting his true essence.
• Milulu receives his power and encouragement, interprets it as a reason to keep fighting, and grows increasingly inspired by him.
• Song Shuhang receives Xiao Cai’s message but pauses over whether to send her energy as well, ending the chapter on a humorous note.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Cai asks Song Shuhang how to reach the Fifth-Grade Realm faster so she can take human form and practice saber techniques with him. He urges her to cultivate patiently, then ends their telepathic link. He refuses to accelerate her: without resolving her emotional “heart knot,” the Fifth-Grade Heart Demon Tribulation could kill her.
• Song Shuhang is alarmed that he is nearing his own Fifth-Grade tribulation before the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact is complete. The set must be assembled before he reaches Fifth Grade, or it will lose its ability to combine into one artifact.
• He consults Senior White Two, who is tracking Senior Everything Can Be Sold in hopes of robbing him. White Two proposes slowing time in the Demon Tribulation World, but says he first needs to make Fat Ball “lag.”
• Shuhang suggests using the Confucian Sage’s Eye—which causes whoever it hits to become pregnant—to disrupt Fat Ball, currently controlling Fairy Skylark’s body. He installs the eye and directs its gaze at her.
• Fat Ball tries to dodge, but Skylark’s body moves against its control, and the gaze hits. Skylark’s body rapidly becomes ten months pregnant. White Two uses the opening to tamper with the Demon Tribulation World, then sends Shuhang the Hound God General’s Ring and Jade Rabbit Fairy’s Cloak.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shows restraint and responsibility by refusing to rush Xiao Cai’s advancement. Faced with his own looming tribulation, he acts boldly and resourcefully, using an unconventional tactic to create an opening for White Two.
• Xiao Cai remains intensely devoted to cultivation, hoping to become human so she can train with Shuhang. Her enthusiasm is sincere, but her unresolved emotional problem makes rapid advancement dangerous.
• Senior White Two is mischievous and opportunistic, openly embracing his role as an evil Netherworld Ruler. Despite his antics, he works with Shuhang to manage the crisis and pursue his own experiment.
• Fairy Skylark demonstrates that her will can still influence her body even while Fat Ball possesses it.
• Fat Ball is confident it can control Skylark and evade the Sage’s Eye, but its assumption that it has completely subdued her proves mistaken.

Significant themes

• Patience and responsibility: Shuhang refuses to give Xiao Cai a shortcut that could endanger her.
• The cost of power and timing: His rapid advancement threatens the chance to complete an important artifact set, showing that progress can create new problems.
• Ingenuity under pressure: Shuhang turns an absurd, dangerous ability into a tactical distraction.
• Will and control: Skylark’s body resists Fat Ball, suggesting that possession has not erased her influence.
• Moral contrast and comic inversion: White Two treats robbery as fitting his evil nature, while Shuhang remains uncomfortable with the idea.

Character interactions

• Xiao Cai seeks guidance from Shuhang, who responds as a cautious mentor rather than simply helping her advance.
• Shuhang turns to White Two for advice; their conversation mixes urgent cultivation concerns with White Two’s comic pursuit of Everything Can Be Sold.
• Shuhang and White Two coordinate around Fat Ball: Shuhang creates the distraction, and White Two exploits it to interfere with the Demon Tribulation World.

Key plot points and events

• Under heavy pressure from the Demon Tribulation, Song Shuhang assembles the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts as Senior White Two rapidly sends him their parts. The artifacts range from familiar weapons and armor to bizarre items such as walls, a giant gate, a pillar, and a rock.
• Song Shuhang uses humorous fantasies about how Beast God Sect disciples might fight with their unusual artifacts to distract himself from the pain. Senior White Two repeatedly urges him to work faster, hoping the full set will be ready before Fat Ball recovers.
• Once the thirty-three artifacts are assembled, Song Shuhang realizes his special Reverse Whale Warrior Gauntlets are still with his main body, trapped in the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room.” Senior White Two says he will find a way to address this and restores the flow of time.
• The completed artifacts trigger Song Shuhang’s Fifth-Grade heavenly tribulation. His consciousness splits, and his main body unexpectedly appears with the special gauntlet. It joins the artifacts as their core, while the other thirty-two pieces gather around it.
• Song Shuhang’s main body and clone combine their two sets of artifacts. The gauntlets’ exceptional strength and importance to Song Shuhang make them the natural center of the composite formation. Heavenly-tribulation attacks temper the artifacts as they interlock and transform.
• The danger escalates when the Fifth-Grade heavenly tribulation and Skylark’s nearby Eighth-Grade Demon Tribulation converge. Senior White Two warns that they will not cancel out: instead, they combine into a powerful new force. A heavenly-tribulation missile forms and absorbs the Demon Tribulation.
• The Liquid Metal Ball watches Song Shuhang, claims him as its own, and experiences intense pain—apparently the pain of childbirth—while nearby events unfold.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains determined and resourceful under extreme physical pressure. He uses humor as a coping strategy, then takes command during the artifact fusion and faces the escalating tribulations.
• Senior White Two acts as Song Shuhang’s demanding coordinator and protector, pushing the work forward while managing the world’s time flow and warning him about the dangers ahead.
• Song Shuhang’s main body and clone demonstrate an unexpected connection: they appear together, share power, and cooperate to fuse their two artifact sets.
• The Liquid Metal Ball shows an unfamiliar vulnerability, suffering intense pain despite its possessive, domineering attitude.

Significant themes

• Perseverance under pressure: Song Shuhang keeps working despite pain, danger, and a severe deadline.
• Humor as resilience: His absurd imagined battle scenes help distract him from suffering and make the strange artifacts amusing rather than merely frustrating.
• Unity and transformation: The two artifact sets—and the main body and clone—combine into something stronger through resonance and cooperation.
• Unexpected consequences: The heavenly and Demon Tribulations do not oppose one another as expected; their interaction produces a more dangerous combined force.

Character interactions

• Senior White Two gives Song Shuhang a steady stream of artifact parts and sharp instructions, while Song Shuhang responds with questions and jokes about their unconventional designs.
• Song Shuhang’s main body and clone work back-to-back, synchronize their cultivation technique, and jointly command the artifacts to combine.
• Senior White Two corrects Song Shuhang’s hopeful assumptions about the tribulations, making clear that their collision will intensify rather than neutralize the danger.
• The Liquid Metal Ball addresses Song Shuhang possessively, but its own pain interrupts its threat.

Chapter Summary: “Song Shuhang Witnessed a Moment in History”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A Heavenly Tribulation Missile, infused with both Heavenly Tribulation and Demon Tribulation power, descends into the Demon Tribulation World. Instead of exploding, it transforms into the hilt of a massive Heavenly Tribulation Lightsaber.
• The Heavenly Tribulation and Demon Tribulation merge, creating a towering two-hundred-meter energy giant clad in golden armor. The giant wields the lightsaber and demonstrates formidable swordsmanship.
• The tribulation prioritizes Skylark, who is undergoing a higher-grade tribulation, over Song Shuhang. The giant launches an overwhelming sword attack against her.
• The Liquid Metal Ball, possessing Skylark’s body, attempts to fight back but is suddenly distracted by a mysterious sensation or event occurring within her body. As a result, its attacks dissipate, leaving Skylark exposed.
• The giant repeatedly strikes Skylark, stabbing her position more than a thousand times and reducing the area to a massive abyss.
• After apparently defeating Skylark, the tribulation giant turns its attention to Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang’s Merit Snake Beauty, empowered by the Heaven-Leveling Crown and wielding the Overlord Shatter Saber, blocks the giant’s attack. However, the crown’s energy rapidly runs out.
• The Merit Snake Beauty uses her powerful Imperial Saber Intent, severely damaging the giant, but the attack exhausts nearly all the crown’s remaining energy. The giant survives and shatters the Snake Beauty, forcing her to return to Song Shuhang’s body and begin resurrection.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword retrieves the discarded weapons but refuses to attack, explaining that its interference would greatly strengthen the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang prepares his fully assembled Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, hoping to confront the giant directly.
• At that moment, Skylark rises from the abyss, horribly injured—and a strange ball of flesh rolls out from beneath her skirt, implying that she has actually given birth during the tribulation.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains courageous but increasingly overwhelmed by the tribulation’s escalating power. He recognizes that ordinary defensive abilities, including his “blood-locking” cheat, no longer function because the battlefield has become a fusion of the Present World and the Nine Netherworld.
• Merit Snake Beauty demonstrates powerful combat instincts and loyalty, first defending Song Shuhang and then shifting to an offensive strategy when continued defense becomes impossible. Her Imperial Saber Intent seriously wounds the tribulation giant, but the effort exhausts her energy.
• Senior White Two continues to support Song Shuhang strategically, clarifying the altered laws of the battlefield and reassuring him that he will prevent Song Shuhang from dying.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword remains unable to fight openly because its Ninth-Grade-level power would amplify the tribulation. It assists only by recovering Song Shuhang’s weapons.
• Skylark survives an apparently fatal assault and emerges in a bizarrely altered state, having seemingly given birth to an unknown entity.
• The Liquid Metal Ball is shown experiencing genuine physical pain and losing control of the situation while inhabiting Skylark’s body.

Significant Themes

• Escalation beyond expectation: The tribulation continuously transforms from a missile into a lightsaber and then into a giant swordsman, emphasizing its unpredictable and overwhelming nature.
• Limits of power and strategy: Song Shuhang’s usual advantages and defensive “cheats” fail, forcing him to rely on teamwork, artifacts, and improvisation.
• Sacrifice and protection: The Merit Snake Beauty repeatedly risks herself to protect Song Shuhang, while the Scarlet Heaven Sword restrains its own strength to avoid worsening the crisis.
• Chaos and absurdity: The chapter juxtaposes apocalyptic danger with humorous imagery, such as the tribulation becoming a lightsaber and Skylark unexpectedly giving birth in the middle of battle.
• Transformation and creation: The fusion of different tribulation forces creates a new entity, while Skylark’s mysterious childbirth introduces another unexplained form of creation amid destruction.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White Two: Senior White Two explains why Song Shuhang’s defensive status effect has failed and promises to keep him alive.
• Song Shuhang and the Merit Snake Beauty: The Snake Beauty protects him, fights on his behalf, and ultimately sacrifices herself after exhausting the Heaven-Leveling Crown.
• Song Shuhang and the Scarlet Heaven Sword: Song Shuhang thanks the sword for its limited assistance, accepting that it cannot attack without making the tribulation stronger.
• Merit Snake Beauty and the Heavenly Tribulation Giant: Their clash develops from defense into a powerful counterattack, with the Snake Beauty’s Imperial Saber Intent nearly destroying the giant.
• Skylark and the Liquid Metal Ball: The Liquid Metal Ball controls Skylark’s body but is disrupted by the strange event occurring within her, allowing the tribulation to devastate her.
• Song Shuhang and Skylark: Song Shuhang believes Skylark may have died, only to witness her emergence—and the shocking appearance of the mysterious flesh-like newborn.