Chapter Summaries

• Skylark’s rebirth: After the Heavenly Tribulation giant repeatedly attacks her, Skylark’s body collapses—but the “meatball” rolling toward Song Shuhang is revealed to contain a shrunken, newly reborn Skylark. She explains that she used an ancient Borrowed-Womb Pregnancy Method to escape her old body, which she intends to leave as a gift for a Nine Netherworld entity. Her new body is weak, however, and the Liquid Metal Ball uses safeguards to pull her Immortal Bone back into the old body. Without the bone, Skylark is no longer immortal, and death would be permanent.
• The battle turns toward Song Shuhang: The Heavenly Tribulation giant follows programmed attack priorities: it repeatedly targets whichever body carries Skylark’s aura, then turns on Song Shuhang. Song struggles to finish activating his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact while the giant attacks.
• Song Shuhang unleashes the artifact: Using his Tyrant Song Sage Seal, Song releases the artifacts’ final seals, restoring all thirty-three to Eighth-Grade power. Their combined strength blocks the giant’s devastating sword-energy attack, but the activation rapidly drains Song’s True Essence and begins to wither his body.
• Skylark helps: Seeing Song in danger, Skylark sends her unusually pure, powerful spiritual energy into him, allowing him to keep powering the artifacts. He then throws the Sage Seal into the formation, and the composite artifact begins to manifest as the Never-Falling Holy City.
  Character developments and interactions: Skylark’s clever escape shows her resourcefulness and fierce desire for freedom, but losing the Immortal Bone makes her suddenly vulnerable and dependent on others. Song risks exhausting himself to protect the group, while Skylark repays that effort by sustaining him. Scarlet Heaven Sword warns Song about the danger, but he insists on handling the attack himself. Song Shuhang’s two bodies also coordinate the fight and artifact activation.
  Themes: The chapter contrasts apparent immortality with real vulnerability, and freedom with the cost required to attain it. It also emphasizes sacrifice and mutual support: Song’s determination and Skylark’s aid turn a desperate defense into a chance to counterattack.

Chapter 1361 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang activates the first form of his Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure, the defense-oriented Unfalling Holy City—also called the Eternal City of Neverfall.
• The thirty-three magical treasures combine into a massive, 300-meter-high fortress equipped with:
  • Towering walls and defensive spikes
  • Arrow towers and Dolphin Sonic Cannons
  • War drums, horns, and zither music that strengthen allies
  • A war chariot, armor, weapons, shields, rings, and other battle equipment for Song Shuhang
• Although the city is designed for defense, Song Shuhang is inexplicably placed outside its gates, fully armed and riding the Shrimp Dragon Divine Travel Chariot.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Giants attack with their light swords, but the Holy City’s defenses withstand the assault completely. Its counterattacks severely damage and shrink the Giants.
• Encouraged by the magical treasure’s music and power, Song Shuhang charges forward. The Holy City moves with him, allowing him to run over the Heavenly Tribulation Giants.
• Song Shuhang and the Holy City make repeated crushing attacks while the fortress’s cannons and towers bombard the enemy.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Giants are ultimately destroyed. Their sword cannot penetrate the city’s defenses, while they cannot withstand Song Shuhang’s combined assault.
• After the battle, the magical treasure components return to Song Shuhang’s body. He collapses from extreme exhaustion and consumes recovery pills.
• Merit Snake Beauty reforms and swallows Chi Xiao Sword, preventing it from delivering a dramatic post-battle speech.
• Song Shuhang prepares to advance after surviving the tribulation. Spiritual energy floods into him, and his Whale Void Core begins transforming into a solid Golden Core.
• Just as the advancement begins, the Heavenly Tribulation Light Sword—revealed to be a Heavenly Tribulation Missile—explodes.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates the full combat potential of his combined magical treasure. He shifts from uncertainty about the Holy City’s unusual design to confidence, using it aggressively rather than merely relying on its defenses.
• His reckless but effective fighting style becomes even more exaggerated: instead of dueling the Heavenly Tribulation Giants conventionally, he literally crushes them beneath his moving fortress and chariot.
• Song Shuhang survives the tribulation but is left physically depleted, appearing almost skeletal from energy loss.
• Yun Quezi contributes vital power amplification but nearly exhausts her energy reserves. She confirms that she has no further role in the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chi Xiao Sword tries to maintain a dignified, expert-like image, but is repeatedly interrupted and ultimately swallowed by Merit Snake Beauty.
• Merit Snake Beauty shows her usual mischievous, direct behavior, treating Chi Xiao Sword like food after reforming her body.
• Song Shuhang’s main body and backup body resonate with each other as his cultivation begins advancing toward the next realm.

Significant Themes

• Defense becoming offense: The Unfalling Holy City is fundamentally defensive, yet its durability enables Song Shuhang to attack fearlessly and turn defense into overwhelming force.
• Teamwork and integration: The thirty-three magical treasures function as a unified system, with each beast’s artifact contributing to the fortress’s defenses, weapons, mobility, or buffs.
• Power through absurdity: The chapter treats an immense, majestic magical fortress and a serious tribulation battle with comedic imagery—particularly Song Shuhang running over the Heavenly Tribulation Giants like a vehicle.
• Endurance and exhaustion: Victory comes at a high cost, as Song Shuhang and Yun Quezi expend enormous amounts of energy.
• Advancement after trial: The destruction of the Heavenly Tribulation Giants marks the completion of Song Shuhang’s tribulation and leads directly into his Golden Core condensation.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Yun Quezi: Yun Quezi’s power amplifies the Holy City, while Song Shuhang relies on that support to withstand and defeat the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang and Chi Xiao Sword: Chi Xiao Sword comments on the Holy City and attempts to present itself as a powerful senior, but Song Shuhang’s victory leaves it with little opportunity to show off.
• Chi Xiao Sword and Merit Snake Beauty: Merit Snake Beauty abruptly grabs and swallows Chi Xiao Sword, creating a comedic interruption.
• Song Shuhang’s main body and backup body: The two bodies synchronize during the post-tribulation energy surge, helping initiate the Golden Core transformation.
• Song Shuhang and the Heavenly Tribulation Giants: Their confrontation evolves from defense to an overwhelming vehicular assault, ending with Song Shuhang and the Holy City repeatedly crushing the Giants.

Key plot points and events

• As Song Shuhang’s Golden Core forms, an enhanced Heavenly Tribulation Missile explodes at the worst possible moment. His resurrection body shields his advancing main body by assembling the second set of Thirty-Three Beasts artifacts into the Doomsday Sacred Sword.
• The enormous sword blocks the blast without being unsealed, while Shuhang watches his Phantom Core compress. It appears to be becoming a whale-shaped core rather than a conventional sphere, and he anxiously hopes it will gain at least seven Dragon Patterns.
• The missile’s explosion ends Shuhang’s tribulation, but Skylark’s old body is struck by the final Demon Tribulation Dragon and dies again. The Liquid Metal Ball is too occupied fighting the Immortal Bone to intervene.
• The Demon Dragon then targets Shuhang. His resurrection body unseals the Doomsday Sacred Sword and uses its ultimate technique, “Obey Death, Sword of the End,” destroying the dragon and ending the Demon Tribulation.
• Afterward, Shuhang’s resurrection body begins glowing and losing its hair. Senior White Two explains that this is likely the sword’s cost: its power demands a serious payment, possibly the body itself. He reassures Shuhang that he can help and marks him with a rune.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains focused on advancing despite the danger, nervously calculating how his cultivation, artifacts, and other advantages might raise his Dragon Pattern count. His resurrection body again acts as his protector.
• Senior White Two jokes about the sword’s length, then gives a warning about the price of using it and offers protection.
• Skylark’s Alt offers to supply energy for the sword, but Shuhang declines, believing the weapon’s cost is not ordinary energy.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword comments on the contrast between the “Never-Falling Holy City,” which charges forward, and the Doomsday Sacred Sword, which Shuhang uses as a shield.

Significant themes

• Protection and sacrifice: Shuhang’s resurrection body repeatedly takes the danger meant for his main body, while the sacred sword’s power appears to demand a personal cost.
• Power has consequences: The sword can annihilate a Demon Tribulation Dragon, but its ultimate price is still uncertain.
• Unconventional cultivation: Shuhang’s developing core may not follow standard forms, and his hopes for its Dragon Patterns reflect both ambition and comic insecurity.
• Humor amid danger: Shuhang’s obsession with Dragon Patterns, the sword’s “199-meter head start,” and his protest over losing hair undercut the chapter’s high-stakes battles.

Chapter Summary

• Song Shuhang’s revived body is merged with his main body. The Eighth-Grade Doomsday Sacred Sword’s immense power causes the revived body to disintegrate. Senior White Two explains that the collapse can be used to combine it with Song Shuhang’s main body, turning it into a true clone ability. He performs the fusion without disrupting Song Shuhang’s ongoing advancement, and Song Shuhang gains the Clone Secret Art.
• Song Shuhang reaches the Fifth Grade. His Fat Whale Phantom Core condenses into a Golden Core that retains its whale shape rather than becoming round. He advances to the Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor Realm, but the Golden Core remains encased in armor made from his Immortal Bone. When Song Shuhang retracts the armor, he discovers the core has only three dragon patterns.
• The low pattern count shocks him. Song Shuhang had expected seven or more patterns, given his merit and Sage Seal. He concludes that his original aptitude may have been only one pattern and briefly feels disappointed. The Scarlet Heaven Sword and Skylark’s Alt are equally surprised and have no reassurance to offer.
• Song Shuhang regains his resolve. Drawing on his experience and strengthened Dao heart, he accepts the result rather than giving up. He decides to seek fortuitous opportunities, though he asks Senior White Two whether the Golden Core can be removed and refined again. Senior White Two says that is impossible: once formed, a Golden Core determines one’s Great Dao.
• Senior White Two offers a way forward. Pleased with the Doomsday Sacred Sword, he tells Song Shuhang he can choose how many dragon patterns he wants. Song Shuhang immediately asks for nine. Senior White Two agrees and enters the Present World, setting up the next step.

Character Developments and Themes

Song Shuhang gains a long-desired clone ability while facing a major disappointment about his cultivation potential. His response shows increased maturity: he lets himself feel the setback, then resolves to keep going. The chapter contrasts fixed limitations and irreversible choices with determination, luck, and the possibility of outside help. It also emphasizes the value of personal connections, as Senior White Two’s intervention turns Song Shuhang’s apparent dead end into renewed hope.

Key Interactions

Senior White Two guides the body fusion, reassures Song Shuhang about his advancement, and later offers to improve his dragon-pattern count. The Scarlet Heaven Sword and Skylark’s Alt congratulate him on reaching the Fifth Grade, then react with him to the unexpected three-pattern result.

Key events

• Senior White Two reveals he has never used his one-time chance to enter the Present World. He spends it to reach the Treasure Plant Spirit Realm, where he invokes the Heavenly Dao’s authority to alter Song Shuhang’s Core Markings.
• His arrival transforms the realm’s atmosphere, making it seem to revolve around him. He explains that the Heavenly Dao is currently in passive mode, allowing him to act without drawing its attention.
• Senior White Two summons Song Shuhang and removes his armored Fat Whale Golden Core. Though Song initially thinks he has only three Dragon Patterns—and perhaps the aptitude for just one—Senior White Two examines their origins.
• All three patterns came from outside sources: the Sage Seal and Merit Snake Beauty formed one; the Confucian Vajra Body and Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art formed another; and the Never-Falling Holy City, part of Song’s Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, formed the third.
• Song realizes that, because his Golden Core is actually a Whale Core, none of these enhancements necessarily came from his own cultivation. He ends the chapter horrified that he may not possess even one Dragon Pattern of his own.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior White Two demonstrates how much he values Song Shuhang: he spends two rare, lifelong opportunities—entry into the Present World and use of Heavenly Dao authority—for someone he has known only a little over two months. He insists Song is neither a reincarnated powerhouse nor especially funny.
• The Liquid Metal Ball is shocked and resentful, comparing Senior White Two’s sacrifices with the one-time chances it previously used. It threatens Song, but Senior White Two dismisses the threat and says he can erase some of the Ball’s memories afterward.
• Song Shuhang’s initial anxiety about the cost of Senior White Two’s help gives way to hope when he thinks he may have hidden potential, then to comic despair when he learns his Dragon Patterns were externally supplied.

Significant themes

• Self-worth and generosity: Senior White Two’s extraordinary sacrifice challenges Song’s belief that he is not worth such effort.
• Cultivation versus borrowed power: Song’s apparent progress depends on powerful external aids, raising doubts about what he has achieved independently.
• Cosmic authority and sacrifice: The chapter highlights the rarity and cost of the Netherworld Rulers’ special chances.
• Comedy through deflation: Grand displays of power and Song’s hopes repeatedly give way to the absurdity of his Whale Core and his fear of having no “guaranteed” Dragon Pattern at all.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang discovers that his Fat Whale Golden Core has no Dragon Patterns and worries that his cultivation talent is unusually poor.
• Senior White Two suggests that Song’s mutated Golden Core, along with his Sage Seal and Merit Light, may make forming patterns much harder. He reassures Song by recalling that he once had no patterns himself and simply cultivated in seclusion until he reached the Sixth Grade.
• To help Song, Senior White Two uses his Heavenly Dao authority to paint nine Dragon Patterns onto the Golden Core. Each new pattern cleanses and improves Song’s spiritual power.
• The first eight patterns depict objects and forces tied to Song: the Doomsday Sacred Sword, the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber, the Confucian Sage’s Eye, a lotus representing his Core World, and his Fat Whale Core, among others.
• For the final pattern, Song asks to be depicted as the one who “holds down the fort.” Senior White Two claims he will draw himself—but the finished figure looks like Song. He explains that everyone will see it as Senior White Two.

Character developments and interactions

• Song moves from disappointment to curiosity and excitement once he hears that Senior White Two also began without Dragon Patterns.
• He takes an active role in choosing the designs, repeatedly lobbying for a Golden Dragon and suggesting a lotus, a Fat Whale, and finally himself.
• Senior White Two comforts Song, then playfully overrides his requests, showing both his affection and teasing confidence. He also reveals his fondness for particular weapons and his collector’s interest in the Phoenix Saber.
• Their conversation about the final pattern ends in a joke about identity: the image resembles Song, yet Senior White Two insists it represents him.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus potential: Having no Dragon Patterns does not necessarily predict someone’s ultimate strength.
• Personal meaning and identity: The patterns reflect the people, powers, and treasures connected to Song’s path.
• Mentorship and companionship: Senior White Two reassures Song through shared experience and practical help.
• Humor and self-image: Song’s request to appear on his Core Marking—and Senior White Two’s playful claim over the result—turns cultivation into a comic exchange.

Chapter 1366: “The Truth Is One and Only One!”

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang completes his Ninth Core Pattern, bringing his Fat Whale Golden Core to nine Dragon Patterns. Its unusual effect makes anyone who looks at it see themselves. Senior White Two returns the core to him and sends him back to the Demon Tribulation World.
• To conceal their connection from the Liquid Metal Ball, Senior White Two uses Heavenly Dao authority to erase its recent memories. He then leaves behind a decoy “skin” in the Treasure Plant Spirit Realm; the Heavenly Dao’s golden hand grabs the decoy and throws it into the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room.
• Song learns he has passed the Eighth-Grade Demon Tribulation, but cannot leave the Demon Tribulation World just yet. As in the Present World, he must complete three stages: Manifestation Before the Demon, condense a Demon Seal, and give a Sacred Demon Lecture. Senior White Two wonders whether the Heavenly Tribulation’s interference will make Song’s manifestation affect the Present World.
• On October 1, the Nine Provinces Number One Group discusses the successful Yellow Mountain Festival. Venerable Yellow Mountain has advanced to the Seventh Grade, while Doudou is in seclusion after receiving a Transformation Pill that will help him attempt his next breakthrough.
• Several group members realize they feel driven to train harder, yet cannot remember the person who once inspired that pressure. Su Clan’s Seven also vaguely recalls an exceptionally talented junior he treated like a little sister; Mad Saber Three Waves feels he has lost someone he loved.
• Vice Island Master Tian Tian connects the clues: the missing person is one and the same woman—Su Clan’s Seven’s junior, a highly talented cultivator who made others feel pressured, and the person Three Waves secretly loves. A-Qi responds by heading to confront Three Waves, who is already panicking.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang reaches the Nine-Pattern Spirit Emperor stage and is amused by his core’s mirror-like effect.
• Senior White Two continues protecting his identity and maneuvering around the flawed, passive Heavenly Dao.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain explains that Doudou and Fairy Fusheng’s wedding was part of the festival plan and his agreement with the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect, though he had hoped they might genuinely grow fond of each other.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer vows to stay ahead of Doudou in cultivation, while admitting he cannot remember another person who motivates him.
• Su Clan’s Seven becomes increasingly unsettled by his missing memories. His teasing exchange with Three Waves escalates into a planned saber spar, then into an awkward revelation about Three Waves’s heartbreak.
• Three Waves is shocked to discover that he may be in love, while the group reacts with disbelief and jokes. Tian Tian’s deduction gives the mystery a clear answer—and puts Three Waves in immediate danger from A-Qi.

Significant themes

• Memory and absence: Multiple characters sense that someone important has vanished from their recollections, while emotional traces remain.
• Truth emerging from shared clues: The group’s scattered feelings and partial memories converge on Tian Tian’s conclusion that there is only one explanation.
• Cultivation and rivalry: The festival’s benefits, Doudou’s prospects, and Phoenix Slayer’s determination show how competition drives the group to improve.
• Humor amid danger: Song’s “mirror” joke, the group’s banter, and Three Waves’s predicament contrast with the serious Heavenly Dao and tribulation events.

Key plot points and events

• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group debate the identity of a forgotten junior. Vice Island Master Tian Tian jokingly proposes that the missing person is A-Qi’s gifted junior and that Mad Saber Three Waves is in love with them. Three Waves denies it, while Su Clan’s Seven seems ready to confront him.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer recalls that the missing person may have been a man. The group continues speculating, and Little White Crane suggests the forgotten member was once one of their juniors—possibly Profound Sage Tyrannical Song.
• A Profound Sage Manifestation appears, but it shows the Netherworld’s Demon Tribulation World rather than the usual golden tribulation scene. Its imagery includes a half-serpent fairy, a seal, and nine scholarly Ancient Sacred Apes.
• The manifestation reveals Song Shuhang, dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, as its central figure. The group and cultivators across the worlds realize he has gone to the Netherworld, survived a Demon Tribulation, and advanced to the Eighth Grade as a Demon Sage.
• Seeing Shuhang brings back fragments of people’s memories. They recognize him as the forgotten Nine Provinces group member and connect him to the mysterious pressure they had sensed.
• Meanwhile, the Netherworld’s demons are baffled by a human sage manifesting there and wonder whether Shuhang follows both immortal and demonic paths.
• Shuhang asks Senior White Two to let him choose the name inscribed on his Demon Seal. He picks “Book Mountain Hermit,” but is told the name is already taken.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang has reached Eighth-Grade Demon Sage and deliberately stages an impressive manifestation. Having regretted that his earlier Sage Seal formed its inscription randomly, he now hopes to control his Daoist name.
• The group members begin recovering memories of Shuhang as he appears in the manifestation, confirming that his identity had been erased or obscured from their minds.
• Mad Saber Three Waves becomes the target of the group’s teasing and denies being romantically interested in A-Qi’s junior; his sparring match with Su Clan’s Seven is temporarily interrupted.
• Senior White Two agrees to help Shuhang choose and inscribe a name, though the chosen name proves unavailable.

Significant themes

• Memory and obscured identity: Shuhang’s presence has faded from people’s recollections, and seeing him again restores pieces of their memories.
• Expectation versus reality: The group anticipates a conventional Sage Manifestation, only to see a Netherworld setting and a casually dressed Shuhang.
• Crossing boundaries: Shuhang’s achievement as a human sage within the Demon Tribulation World unsettles both cultivators and demons, blurring the line between immortal and demonic paths.
• Humor amid epic events: Grand cosmic imagery is undercut by group-chat gossip, Three Waves’ embarrassment, Shuhang’s ordinary clothes, and the rejected Daoist name.

Character interactions

• Tian Tian’s teasing speculation about Three Waves and A-Qi’s junior sparks a lively group debate; Three Waves pleads his innocence while the others keep inventing possibilities.
• Yellow Mountain shuts down Rain Moon’s increasingly provocative comments by muting him.
• The group reacts collectively to Shuhang’s manifestation, piecing together who he is and joking that his progress has pressured them to cultivate harder.
• Shuhang and Senior White Two discuss the Demon Seal inscription, ending with the comic revelation that “Book Mountain Hermit” is already claimed.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang manifests as a Profound Demon in the Netherworld, with Senior White Two helping him choose a demon title. The title-selection process stalls because every name Song considers seems to have been claimed already.
• Shuhang rejects “Song Tyrant,” worries about reusing titles meant for friends, and dislikes the awkward “White Whale Saber Expert.” His attempt to register “Divine Sword Song One” also fails.
• When time runs out, the Demon Seal randomly selects from a short list of titles. “Confucian Sage” unexpectedly appears, and Shuhang eagerly chooses it.
• After a suspenseful roulette, the Seal first displays “Tyrant Song,” then replaces “Song” with “Confucian.” Shuhang is officially named the Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon. His manifestation inspires a grand phenomenon throughout the Netherworld and Myriad Heavens and Realms.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains anxious and self-conscious about his public image, but his choices also show consideration for friends: he sets aside possible titles for Xiao Cai and Chu Chu. He ends the episode frustrated by the title imposed on him.
• Senior White Two acts as Shuhang’s adviser and sponsor, explaining the rules and teasing him, but cannot override the title-selection deadline.
• ＊＊JS reveals that he has secretly reached the Seventh-Grade Venerable Realm. He feels overlooked as Shuhang receives another spectacular public milestone.

Character interactions

• Senior White Two and Shuhang banter throughout the title-selection ordeal, with White Two offering suggestions and urging him to decide before time runs out.
• Shuhang’s concern for Xiao Cai and Chu Chu shapes which titles he is willing to use.
• Cultivators and Netherworld demons watch and speculate about Shuhang’s new title, while the Nine Provinces Number One Group provides a contrast between his fame and ＊＊JS’s unnoticed advancement.

Significant themes

• Fame versus recognition: Shuhang’s achievements attract attention across worlds, while ＊＊JS’s major advancement goes unnoticed.
• Identity and reputation: A title becomes a public identity, yet Shuhang has little control over the one he receives.
• Fate, rules, and comic frustration: Rejected names, a fixed deadline, and the random selection turn a grand ceremony into an absurd struggle over naming.
• Cross-cultural irony: Shuhang becomes a “Confucian” demon despite the Nine Nether Demons’ hostility toward the Confucian School—though the added “Tyrant” makes the title even less to his liking.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang questions why his chosen dao titles were taken and why his “Confucian Sage” option became “Tyrant Confucian.” Senior White Two explains that the Demon Seal only accepts titles Shuhang has used or genuinely suits him; Shuhang’s weak Confucian affinity makes “Confucian Sage” unsuitable. The seal’s title grants him the same year-long “Known Throughout the World” effect as a Sage Seal, so observers will see both Profound Sage Tyrannical Song and Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon.
• Shuhang must give a Profound Demon Lecture. A poor performance will bring 365 different kinds of pain over the following year. With only five minutes to prepare, he chooses a memorized lecture draft on Dao Heart Planting Demons, which Senior White Two judges appropriate for the occasion.
• Meanwhile, Limitless Demon Sect disciples Gongzi Hai, Zheng Neng, and Devil Lord Anzhi finish a five-month retreat and prepare to advance to Fifth-Grade. Gongzi Hai learns that Tyrannical Song is appearing again—now as both a Sage and a Profound Demon. A message claiming Song is only Fourth-Grade and therefore beatable initially reassures him, but seeing the new lecture and realizing Song will remain his Heart Demon shatters that comfort. The three resolve to meet again after reaching Fifth-Grade.
• Cultivators and Netherworld demons gather eagerly for Shuhang’s lecture. He begins with an aura modeled on Senior Master Scarlet Firmament’s world-burning Saber Intent, then smoothly shifts into the refined bearing of a Confucian gentleman as he starts speaking.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang accepts the awkward “Tyrant Confucian” title and faces the lecture despite his modest cultivation. His confidence has grown since his first lecture, and he prepares quickly by relying on a suitable demonic-path text and borrowed authority.
• Senior White Two explains the title’s rules and warns Shuhang about the stakes, offering only limited help with the punishment.
• Gongzi Hai is badly shaken by Shuhang’s prominence and the prospect of facing him as a Heart Demon, but forces himself to continue toward advancement. Zheng Neng and Anzhi support his resolve.
• The wider audience, including veteran cultivators, anticipates another valuable lecture; the Netherworld demons add to the attention Shuhang receives.

Significant themes

• Reputation and identity: Shuhang’s Sage and Demon identities coexist, turning an imperfect title into a striking dual reputation.
• Preparation under pressure: He meets an impossible deadline by drawing on knowledge and experience already available to him.
• Ambition amid a changing era: Gongzi Hai and his companions strive to rise with the wave of powerful figures, even as Shuhang’s success threatens to overshadow them.
• Auspicious beginnings and uncertain outcomes: The chapter ends just as Shuhang begins his lecture, leaving its impact—and the audience’s response—unresolved.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang begins his Profound Demon Lecture intending to speak with Master Scarlet Firmament’s domineering aura, but instead adopts the calm bearing of a refined Confucian scholar.
• As he lectures on Dao Heart Planting Demons, the nine dragon patterns within his Whale Core activate one after another. They produce a series of spectacular phenomena: the Never-Falling Holy City, Sacred Apes, the Merit Snake Beauty, several Dharma treasures, and other projections.
• When the ninth pattern activates, listeners see themselves giving the lecture in Song Shuhang’s place. Powerful experts recognize this as an extraordinary “True Self Reflection” effect, which they cannot dispel.
• Song Shuhang’s Whale Core suddenly pulls his consciousness inward, revealing a newly formed Golden Core with nine innate dragon patterns. Its ninth pattern has been strengthened by Spirit Ghost Ye Si. He wonders what this means for his aptitude, but realizes that the interruption could ruin his lecture.
• When he returns, he has lost the state needed to lecture naturally. A mechanical recitation will not create the resonance needed for the lecture’s climax, and the Nine Nether fiends urge him to continue.
• Creation Fairy appears with a new draft. Song Shuhang reads its opening questions—“What is filial piety?” and “What is love?”—and his aura shifts into that of a great Confucian. He realizes the draft is about to turn the lecture in a new direction.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains bewildered by his changing lecture persona, the Whale Core’s powers, and the newly revealed Golden Core. He is anxious about failing the lecture but adapts when Creation Fairy offers an alternative draft.
• Creation Fairy intervenes at a critical moment, presenting Song Shuhang with a draft that restores his lecture’s momentum.
• The audience, including powerful cultivators and Nine Nether fiends, reacts with awe, confusion, and growing curiosity. Even veteran experts struggle to understand the phenomena.
• Members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group discuss the lecture’s hidden profundity. Yellow Mountain advises them to remember its plain-seeming opening, while Four Waves frets about whether Song Shuhang might retaliate against him.

Significant themes

• Talent and hidden potential: The Whale Core’s patterns and the unexpected Golden Core suggest that Song Shuhang’s abilities are still unfolding.
• Performance versus understanding: Knowing a lecture word for word is not enough; Song Shuhang must recover the genuine state that gives it force.
• The power of self-reflection: The ninth pattern makes listeners confront an image of themselves, hinting that inner understanding may be as important as spectacle.
• Unexpected transformation: Song Shuhang’s intended domineering lecture becomes Confucian in tone, and the new draft promises another abrupt shift.

Chapter 1371 Summary: “What Kind of Great Death Would I Be Making?”

Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang is reminded by Senior White that the Profound Demon Lecture takes place in the Netherworld, where lectures suited to the Present World—especially Confucian, Buddhist, or Holy Light teachings—may be disastrously received.
• Creation Fairy has given him a Confucian lecture script, but Song Shuhang realizes using it could result in overwhelming negative reviews and the full set of 365 Netherworld punishments. He abandons the script and resumes lecturing on Dao Heart Planting Demons, specifically “Establishing the Demonic Will.”
• His abrupt return to the previous topic frustrates both the cultivators of the Myriad Heavens and Realms and the demons of the Netherworld, who had been anticipating the answers to his earlier questions about filial piety and love.
• Exhausted from the wedding incident, battles, tribulations, artifact refinement, imprisonment, and repeated torment, Song Shuhang begins yawning during the lecture.
• He eventually falls asleep in the middle of the live Profound Demon Lecture. The entire audience is stunned, and the lecture’s phenomenon weakens and disappears.
• Senior White Two, offended that Song Shuhang fell asleep in his domain, decides to subject him to the harshest possible selection of the 365 punishments.
• After recovering through sleep, Song Shuhang awakens in a strange hall and realizes he has entered a Dream Entry. He is possessing Creation Fairy during an ancient Confucian Sage lecture.
• Creation Fairy and Glazed Scholar enter the hall, where the Confucian Sage begins teaching his disciples. The lecture topic is “Filial Governance.”
• The Sage asks, “What is filial piety?” and “What is love?”—the same questions Song Shuhang had nearly used during his own lecture. He then asks, “What is motherly love?”
• Song Shuhang recognizes the lecture as the source of Creation Fairy’s script and panics, knowing the Sage’s lesson involves experiencing pregnancy and childbirth.
• At the same moment, Song Shuhang’s sleeping body unexpectedly says aloud: “What is motherly love?”

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increased caution by refusing to use a Confucian lecture in the Netherworld, but his exhaustion overwhelms his judgment and physical endurance.
• His tendency toward absurd and embarrassing situations continues when he falls asleep during a major lecture, provoking the anger of Senior White Two.
• Through the Dream Entry, Song Shuhang gains insight into Creation Fairy’s past and the origins of the lecture script.
• Senior White Two becomes particularly vindictive, treating Song Shuhang’s sleep as an insult and planning severe punishments.
• Creation Fairy is revealed to have attended the Confucian Sage’s original lecture and likely experienced its bizarre, physically induced lessons.
• The Confucian Sage is shown as a powerful but unconventional teacher whose lectures can directly affect both the mind and body of his disciples.
• Glazed Scholar displays a familiar, affectionate relationship with Creation Fairy, gently rubbing her head as they enter the lecture hall.

Significant Themes

• Exhaustion and endurance: Song Shuhang’s extraordinary workload finally catches up with him, showing that even his powerful body has limits.
• The dangers of context: Knowledge or teachings that work in one world may fail catastrophically in another because of differences in culture, nature, and worldview.
• Humor through humiliation: The chapter turns a supposedly solemn Profound Demon Lecture into a spectacle when Song Shuhang falls asleep.
• Repetition and karmic consequences: Song Shuhang’s lecture mirrors the Confucian Sage’s original lesson, linking his current predicament to the past.
• Learning through physical experience: The Confucian Sage’s approach to teaching filial and maternal love is extreme, forcing disciples to experience the concepts rather than merely hear about them.
• Dreams as historical insight: Song Shuhang’s Dream Entry allows him to witness an important event from Confucian history firsthand.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White: Senior White’s earlier warning influences Song Shuhang’s decision to abandon the Confucian script.
• Song Shuhang and the lecture audience: His change of topic disappoints the audience, while his later sleep leaves both worlds shocked and outraged.
• Senior White Two and Song Shuhang: Senior White Two interprets Song Shuhang’s sleep as disrespect and vows to punish him.
• Creation Fairy and Glazed Scholar: The two appear close, walking together to the lecture hall, with Glazed Scholar treating her affectionately.
• Confucian Sage and his disciples: The Sage begins a powerful lecture on filial governance, questioning his disciples about filial piety, love, and motherly love.
• Song Shuhang and Creation Fairy: By entering her dream, Song Shuhang experiences the lecture from her perspective and realizes he may be forced to undergo the same terrifying “lesson.”

Chapter 1372 Summary: “The... Whale Core Is Pregnant!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon’s lecture repeatedly shifts styles, frustrating and confusing the audiences across the Myriad Heavens and Realms and the Netherworld. After appearing to fall asleep, he unexpectedly continues through a powerful “Dream Lecture.”
• Song Shuhang lectures on filial piety and maternal love, emphasizing the hardships of pregnancy and childbirth.
• The “Confucian Sage’s Eye” Core Markings activate, projecting the Confucian Sage’s Eye and unleashing a technique called Pregnancy Gaze.
• In the Dream Entry realm, the Confucian Sage uses Pregnancy Gaze on his students. Song Shuhang experiences it through the Creation Fairy’s female body, though his connection is soon severed, sparing him most of the pain.
• In the real lecture, the technique affects nearly every listener who looks at the projected eye—regardless of gender, species, age, or physical form. Their pregnancies progress from conception to childbirth in only ten seconds.
• The Myriad Heavens and Realms and the Netherworld descend into chaos as countless beings panic, complain, joke, or attempt to understand the bizarre phenomenon.
• Senior White Two, being the Netherworld Ruler, is unaffected and predicts that Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon will receive overwhelming negative reviews.
• After the lecture ends, the Pregnancy Gaze projection disappears—but Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core begins swelling, suggesting that even his Core may now be pregnant.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang continues using increasingly absurd and dangerous methods in his Profound Sage lecture. Although embarrassed and horrified by the Pregnancy Gaze, he calmly delivers the lesson’s final moral.
• His Dream Entry talent may have evolved, as he experiences only a brief moment of the Creation Fairy’s pregnancy pain instead of fully sharing her suffering.
• Skylark is delighted by the technique and plans to borrow the Confucian Sage’s Eye to use Pregnancy Gaze again during her future tribulation, revealing her enthusiasm for chaotic “courting death.”
• Senior White Two remains composed and immune, but recognizes that Song Shuhang’s actions will likely cause serious backlash.
• Daozi and the Confucian Sage’s students are unwillingly caught in the Dream Lecture and subjected to the pregnancy experience.
• Numerous familiar cultivators, including Yellow Mountain, Doudou, and others, become unwilling participants in the lecture’s disaster.

Significant Themes

• Filial piety and maternal sacrifice: The lecture nominally teaches respect for parents, especially the suffering mothers endure during pregnancy and childbirth.
• Absurdity and comedic escalation: A serious moral lesson is transformed into a universal magical pregnancy event, highlighting the chapter’s parody-like humor.
• Equality through shared experience: Pregnancy Gaze affects all beings equally—men, women, demons, monsters, plants, stones, and other entities—unless they are already pregnant.
• The dangers of uncontrolled power: A technique intended as an educational demonstration becomes a realm-wide catastrophe when amplified by the laws of the Profound Demon Lecture.
• Cause and effect: Song Shuhang’s reckless and unconventional lecture style continues to produce consequences far beyond what he intends.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the Confucian Sage: They speak in unison within the Dream Lecture, effectively reenacting the Sage’s teaching and technique.
• Skylark and Scarlet Heaven Sword: Skylark enthusiastically celebrates the possibility of using Pregnancy Gaze again, while Scarlet Heaven Sword grimly recognizes the disaster unfolding.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White Two: Senior White Two watches the incident with exasperation and warns that even he cannot rescue Song Shuhang from the consequences.
• The cultivators and demons: Their reactions range from panic and anger to curiosity and mockery, with some laughing at powerful figures who are also affected.
• Song Shuhang and his Fat Whale Golden Core: The chapter ends with the unexpected revelation that the Pregnancy Gaze may have affected not just Song Shuhang, but the Whale Core within his body.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s Dream Entry advances to the era when the Confucian Sage fights four Longevity Immortals competing for the Heavenly Dao. The Sage defeats and persuades them to withdraw, cementing his reputation as the era’s unmatched powerhouse.
• The Confucian Sage unexpectedly notices Song Shuhang within the dream. Mistaking the encounter as an opportunity to teach him, he demonstrates the spell known as Pregnancy Gaze, and Song Shuhang memorizes most of its structure and runes.
• The Sage asks whether the position of Heavenly Dao is his for the taking. Song Shuhang considers warning him against it, but the Sage appears to perceive his unspoken thought and refuses to abandon the contest.
• Song Shuhang wakes near the end of the Profound Demon Lecture, assuming he has failed. Senior White Two explains that the lecture succeeded: Pregnancy Gaze inflicted half an hour of labor pains on Netherworld Fiends, leaving them unable to give Song Shuhang a bad review.
• The Netherworld’s destructive power grants Song Shuhang a new talent: Embryo Gaze, which condenses in his right eye.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang unintentionally causes widespread chaos with Pregnancy Gaze, then learns the spell directly from the Confucian Sage. He remains bewildered by his effect on the lecture and the strange connection between his dream and the past.
• The Confucian Sage is shown at the height of his power: serene, overwhelmingly strong, and generous enough to teach a seemingly unexpected visitor. He notices Song Shuhang and senses a connection to the Confucian Sect, though he says they have no destiny together.
• Creation Fairy, mistaken by the Sage as the person he is addressing, pleads for him to undo Pregnancy Gaze and insists she understands filial governance.
• Senior White Two explains why the lecture counted as a success and reveals the unusual origin of Song Shuhang’s new talent.

Significant themes

• Unintended consequences: Song Shuhang’s dream encounter and lecture produce effects he never intended, with the Netherworld’s fiends suffering the consequences.
• Fate and history: The Sage’s question about becoming Heavenly Dao raises the possibility that Song Shuhang’s presence could affect the past, though the Sage rejects his implied warning.
• Power and absurdity: The Sage’s legendary mastery is juxtaposed with the bizarre, comic effects of Pregnancy Gaze and Song Shuhang’s bewildered reactions.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang’s Eighth-Grade Profound Demon lecture ends successfully, and he receives the Netherworld’s blessing: the talent Embryo Gaze, which can forcibly transform a target into a fragile embryo. Because he learned Pregnancy Gaze, he suspects the two abilities could be combined—but fears the result could be lethal.
• When the Demon Tribulation World disappears, Song Shuhang, his clone, Merit Snake Beauty, and Immortal Skylark’s old body are all swept into the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Alternate Skylark escapes and returns to the Present World, but fails to obtain the Confucian Sage’s Eye.
• In the Evil Lotus World, Senior White Two examines the Sword of the End and its thirty-three components. He concludes that the composite artifacts—and their matching cultivation technique—were designed by another version of himself.
• The Liquid Metal Ball storms in, blaming Senior White Two for its missing memories. Their argument escalates into another battle between the Netherworld Rulers.
• As Song Shuhang is imprisoned again, people across the worlds begin forgetting him and his lecture. The lingering “Known Throughout the World” effect leaves them with vague memories—and the bizarre conviction that they are carrying his child.
• Back in the Little Black Room, Song Shuhang reunites with Sixteen, Soft Feather, and White’s clone. After White says becoming the Heavenly Dao is a cultivator’s goal, Shuhang asks what happens if White grows tired of it.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang gains a strange, potentially dangerous talent and tries to prepare for being captured by sending out a clone, but the plan fails when the Heavenly Dao’s power captures the entire group. His final question suggests he is thinking about the burden of becoming Heavenly Dao.
• Senior White Two confirms that the composite artifacts reflect the methods of another version of himself, while remaining puzzled by that counterpart’s choices. He answers the Liquid Metal Ball’s accusations with sarcasm before accepting its challenge.
• Alternate Skylark is separated from the Liquid Metal Ball and avoids capture, though she urgently asks Song Shuhang for the Confucian Sage’s Eye too late.
• The Liquid Metal Ball reacts to unexplained memory loss by immediately accusing White, revealing its entrenched hostility and irrational “bandit logic.”
• Sixteen, Soft Feather, and White’s clone welcome Song Shuhang back and notice his recent tribulation and improved realm.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Song Shuhang’s existence fades from public memory, while the artifacts hint at another version of Senior White and the hidden history behind their creation.
• Unintended consequences of power: Song Shuhang’s new talent may be far more dangerous when combined with Pregnancy Gaze, and his attempt to protect himself from capture proves ineffective.
• Burden of ultimate authority: Song Shuhang’s question about White tiring of being Heavenly Dao raises the possibility that even the highest position can become an unwanted responsibility.
• Absurdity and comedy: The chapter mixes cosmic danger with grotesque jokes, especially the world’s distorted memories of Song Shuhang and the Liquid Metal Ball’s insistence that every problem is White’s fault.

Chapter 1375 Summary

• Song Shuhang and Senior White discuss whether a Heavenly Dao would ever give up the position. Senior White says he would not: the role grants access to countless worlds and hidden places, making it an endless source of entertainment. Their conversation raises the possibility that past Heavenly Daos sought to resign in pursuit of freedom, immortality, or a higher state beyond the Heavenly Dao.
• Soft Feather jokes that Senior White seems like the Heavenly Dao’s “biological son.” The group then notices that Song Shuhang has reached the Fifth-Grade Realm—an advancement forced by surviving Fairy Skylark’s Heavenly Tribulation and Demon Tribulation. His spiritual energy has transformed, though he still needs time to develop a proper Spirit Emperor’s Body.
• Song Shuhang explains that he earned the title Tyrant Confucian Profound Demon after surviving the Demon Tribulation. Su Clan’s Sixteen worries about possible aftereffects, but he reassures her that his condition and Dao Heart are stable.
• The conversation turns to Golden Core patterns. Song Shuhang suspects he originally had an Unpatterned Golden Core, but Senior White says he has never heard of one. Senior White reveals that his own Golden Core has ten Core Markings—more than the accepted limit of nine. He gained them after an unusually long process during seclusion.
• Song Shuhang explains that his Whale Golden Core initially had three markings, all supplied by external sources: his Dharma Artifact, Merit Snake Beauty and the Sage Seal, and his Confucian techniques. He had no natural Dragon Patterns of his own. During the tribulation, someone in the Demon Tribulation World drew six more onto his Golden Core, giving him the Nine-Dragon Pattern.
• Senior White realizes Song Shuhang might have requested more than nine markings, since Core Markings can be drawn on. Song Shuhang regrets not asking for a Ten-Dragon Pattern, and Soft Feather eagerly asks to inspect his Golden Core from within. The chapter ends with her looking at it and asking whether his Whale Core is “too fat from overeating” or “pregnant.”

Character Developments and Interactions

• Song Shuhang reaches the Fifth-Grade Realm remarkably early, gains a demonic title, and discovers how unusual his Golden Core is. He is both relieved about surviving and comically regretful about missing the chance to exceed nine markings.
• Senior White reveals his own exceptional Ten-Dragon Pattern and helps Song Shuhang recognize that drawn Core Markings may have no fixed upper limit.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen notices Shuhang’s breakthrough, checks on his well-being, and is stunned by the revelations about his Golden Core.
• Soft Feather brings humor to the discussions, first teasing Senior White and then ending the chapter with a blunt, absurd question about Song Shuhang’s Whale Core.

Significant Themes

• Power and freedom: The Heavenly Dao’s authority offers access to vast possibilities, but its restrictions may drive some beings to seek a higher form of existence.
• Unusual paths to advancement: Song Shuhang’s rapid rise and externally added Core Markings challenge conventional rules about cultivation.
• Humor amid danger: Serious questions about tribulations and cosmic power repeatedly give way to teasing, surprise, and comic banter.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang shows Soft Feather the nine patterns on his Fat Whale Golden Core. The whale has become unusually round, and Song wonders whether the Confucian Sage’s Pregnancy Gaze is responsible.
• His ninth pattern acts like a mirror, reflecting whoever looks at it. Soft Feather sees her own image and briefly mistakes it for a romantic declaration from Song.
• Song and Soft Feather laugh over the misunderstanding and agree not to tell Senior White or Su Clan’s Sixteen what the pattern does in advance.
• Sixteen examines the pattern, but sees a golden dragon turn into a white one rather than seeing her own reflection. Song realizes the dragon may represent Sixteen herself.
• Sixteen explains that after Song gave her Dragonbone Withered Vine to treat injuries from her failed Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, she underwent a transformation and became a dragon.
• Song ends by asking whether she is still Sixteen, raising uncertainty about how much the transformation has changed her.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is proud of his unusual Golden Core patterns and mischievously builds suspense around the ninth. His teasing backfires when Sixteen’s reaction reveals a significant, unexpected change in her nature.
• Soft Feather is startled when she sees herself in the pattern, briefly assumes Song has encoded a romantic message, then quickly regains her composure and enjoys the joke. Her playful rapport with Song is clear.
• Sixteen responds more quietly than Soft Feather. The pattern’s image prompts her to acknowledge her dragon transformation, while her teasing response shows their familiar closeness with Song.
• Song and Soft Feather share a conspiratorial joke; Song and Sixteen’s playful exchange turns serious when her altered identity comes to light.

Significant themes

• Identity and transformation: Sixteen’s dragon form raises the question of whether physical or spiritual change alters who someone is.
• Misinterpretation and intimacy: The same mysterious image leads Soft Feather to a romantic misunderstanding and Sixteen to a revelation about her own nature.
• Playfulness alongside uncertainty: The chapter’s humor and teasing give way to a more serious question about Sixteen’s identity.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang reassures Su Clan’s Sixteen that becoming a dragon has not changed who she is. She agrees to let Senior White examine her after they leave, explaining that White Dragon’s attachment to her resembles Song’s Merit Snake Beauty state and is helping heal her tribulation injuries.
• While examining the Ninth Dragon Pattern, Song sees a series of bizarre visions: the Merit Snake Beauty appears in a Phoenix Robe, falls off her throne and dies; Fairy Cheng Lin then appears, blows Song a kiss, and declares her love for the Merit Snake Beauty. The Merit Snake Beauty reacts with exaggerated embarrassment.
• Cheng Lin calls the Merit Snake Beauty a “maddening soy milk maker,” prompting Song to object to the odd nickname. Cheng Lin explains that she is supposedly only a thought-form created by Ye Si’s longing and a fragment of Cheng Lin’s memories. Song remains skeptical and says Senior Spotted Dragon can verify her story.
• Song ends his inner vision and returns to the group. Sixteen says the experience was nice, while Soft Feather misreads the situation and imagines that Sixteen did something alarming to Song.
• Senior White takes his turn examining Song’s golden core. He recognizes its many core markings, criticizes their drawing quality, and says the style seems familiar. Song suggests it resembles Senior White’s own drawings, then hastily redirects him to the final dragon pattern.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains protective of Sixteen and unsettled by the Ninth Dragon Pattern’s strange visions. He doubts Cheng Lin’s explanation but plans to seek confirmation.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen is confident that her dragon transformation has not altered her identity, and appreciates Song’s concern.
• Fairy Cheng Lin is playful and openly affectionate toward the Merit Snake Beauty, while claiming she is only a memory-laden thought-form sustained by Ye Si’s longing. Song distrusts her account.
• Senior White is eager but composed as he examines Song’s core. Song’s teasing remark about the drawings nearly wounds his pride.
• Soft Feather misinterprets Sixteen’s cheerful response and privately spins dramatic explanations.

Significant themes

• Identity and transformation: Sixteen insists that her new dragon form does not change who she is.
• Memory, grief, and persistence: Cheng Lin’s alleged existence as a thought-form raises the question of how longing can preserve someone after they are gone.
• Trust and skepticism: Song questions Cheng Lin’s claims, reflecting her unreliable history.
• Comic misunderstandings and teasing: The bizarre romantic visions, “soy milk maker” joke, and Soft Feather’s mistaken assumptions keep the scene lighthearted.

Chapter 1378 Summary

• The Ninth Core Pattern’s strange reflection: Song Shuhang shows Senior White his Ninth Core Pattern, which reveals a subject’s “true self.” Senior White sees himself not as a person, but as a crudely drawn matchstick figure covered in boastful slogans. Song realizes Senior White Two had apparently been praising this same absurd image. Senior White suspects the result is because he is currently a clone, though Song wonders whether the drawing could relate to Senior White’s actual nature.
• The group remains trapped: Senior White explains that while his Meteor Sword can pass through the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room, the people inside cannot. He is developing a new Disposable Flying Sword capable of transporting living beings. He has studied the Disaster Giant Turtle’s space-crossing ability and adapted part of it to the sword, but still lacks essential materials. A turtle he captured escaped, and no substitutes could be found in the room.
• A possible way forward: Senior White has sent the Meteor Sword back to the outside world with a message, hoping members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group will find it and provide the materials. Until then, he plans to keep refining the design. The approaching Immortal Chef Banquet, scheduled for October 7, gives the group a deadline. Song also considers using his Appraisal Secret Method on Su Clan’s Sixteen.
• Cultivation and a sudden arrival: While Senior White works, Song, Soft Feather, and Sixteen train nearby. Soft Feather and Sixteen attack Song in coordination, but his defenses withstand their strikes. Their practice is interrupted when a rift opens in the Little Black Room and throws in a person wrapped in a bedsheet, who complains, “If I can’t afford to provoke him, can’t I hide?”

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains curious about the Ninth Pattern and tries to find a practical way out, while also thinking about investigating Sixteen.
• Senior White is patient and resourceful, continuing his research despite the lack of materials; his clone’s bizarre reflection leaves a lingering mystery.
• Soft Feather and Sixteen cooperate in sparring against Song, showing their growing combat coordination.
• The chapter ends on a cliffhanger with the arrival of an unidentified, evasive newcomer.

Significant themes

The chapter mixes identity and the “true self” with comedy, especially through Senior White’s ridiculous portrait. It also emphasizes resourcefulness under confinement, reliance on allies, and persistence, while the sudden arrival shifts the story toward a new mystery.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Su Clan’s Sixteen encounter Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot, a merchant hiding in the Heavenly Dao’s “little black room.”
• Shuhang calls over Senior White, who needs four rare materials to make a magical artifact. The merchant agrees to help, but panics when he mistakes Senior White for Senior White Two, the Netherworld Ruler he believes is pursuing him, and flees in his shuttle.
• Senior White catches the shuttle using a trap he had previously set for a Disaster Giant Turtle. Once he realizes this Senior White is not the Netherworld Ruler, the merchant calms down and resumes the transaction.
• While calculating the price, the merchant realizes Shuhang may know why he is being pursued. Senior White redirects the conversation to the purchase, and the merchant’s sales instinct makes him comply.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang is cheerful and opportunistic, hoping the merchant can supply materials for Senior White. He also recognizes why the merchant fears Senior White.
• Senior White remains calm and resourceful, using his modified teleportation technique and an existing trap to stop the fleeing merchant. He is puzzled by the merchant’s fear.
• Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot is both wary and professional: his fear drives him to flee, but his compulsive merchant’s instinct makes him turn back whenever a sale is mentioned.
• Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen reassure Senior White that his appearance is not frightening.

Significant themes

• Mistaken identity and misunderstanding: The merchant confuses Senior White with his nearly identical counterpart, the Netherworld Ruler.
• Comedic occupational habit: Despite being in danger, the merchant cannot resist serving a potential customer.
• Pragmatism and confidence: Senior White treats the cost as unimportant, reflecting his casual attitude toward wealth and risk.

Character interactions

• Shuhang greets the merchant enthusiastically and urges him to stay for a genuine deal.
• Senior White and the merchant negotiate, but the merchant’s mistaken fear interrupts the exchange.
• Shuhang explains the likely mix-up, while Senior White catches the merchant and reassures him through the circumstances.
• The merchant briefly probes Shuhang about his pursuer, but Senior White steers the conversation back to the materials and their price.