Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang is trapped in the Liquid Metal Ball’s sealed Nine Netherworld lair. His Core World is inaccessible, and his armor has limited energy.
• The Liquid Metal Ball reads his mind and threatens to question him. Song Shuhang’s reflexive, nonsensical answers—“Loved,” “Save the mother,” “No regrets,” “Save you,” and “Buy buy buy”—confuse and anger it, while also recalling its painful experience with Skylark’s Pregnancy Gaze.
• A Disaster Giant Turtle suddenly appears, swallows Song Shuhang, and escapes using its innate ability to travel through space and time. The Liquid Metal Ball is caught off guard and vows to recapture him.
• Inside the turtle, Song Shuhang cuts off his blue hair, apparently using it as a decoy, then successfully opens his Core World and retreats inside before Fat Ball can pursue him.
• He finds the Immortal Chef Banquet guests safe in Winter Hall, guarded by Senior Turtle. He reports that the battle has ended for now, though the Southern Everlasting Sword Sect’s secret realm may be destroyed, and says they still need a way out.
• Senior White’s Clone reassures him that Senior White’s true body is returning. Song Shuhang opens a small gap in the Core World, allowing a sword light to arrive using the clone as a coordinate.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang stays resourceful under pressure, using humor and delay to buy time, then improvising an escape with the Disaster Giant Turtle and his Core World.
• The Liquid Metal Ball is confident in its control of its lair, but its inability to detect or stop the turtle’s rescue humiliates and enrages it. Its lingering trauma from Skylark’s Pregnancy Gaze is exposed.
• Senior White’s Clone shifts from tending to his spirit pets to coordinating the group’s likely escape, giving Song Shuhang reassurance.
• The Disaster Giant Turtle acts as a highly capable retrieval specialist rather than a fighter, while the guests remain orderly under Senior Turtle’s watch. Onion Lady continues seeking cultivation advice from Seven Cultivations and Fairy Six Cultivations.

Significant themes

• Improvisation against overwhelming power: Song Shuhang survives by exploiting timing, misdirection, and allies’ abilities rather than overpowering Fat Ball.
• The limits of absolute control: The Liquid Metal Ball claims mastery over its domain, yet the turtle’s spatial ability bypasses its defenses.
• Humor amid danger: Song Shuhang’s absurd canned responses turn a threatening interrogation into comic frustration.
• Trust and refuge: The Core World and Senior White’s return offer safety, but only after Song Shuhang endures a brief, precarious escape.

Chapter 1441: “Time, Reverse!” — Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Senior White returns after finally receiving his delayed Void-Escaping Shuttle package, only to discover that the Immortal Chef Banquet has already ended and Song Shuhang has become involved in another super-rule-level crisis.
• After sharing memories with his clone, Senior White learns what happened and jokes that Song Shuhang may possess a constitution that constantly attracts major disasters.
• Song Shuhang preserves the Nine Nether Evil Energy gathered from the Netherworld Ruler’s lair and sends it, along with Senior White Two’s outer robe, into his Core World. His Lotus Projection absorbs the energy to help expand the Core World.
• Song Shuhang prepares to evacuate everyone to safety by reviving his clone and reopening the Core World. Senior White and the clone escape first using a one-time flying sword and the Disaster Giant Turtle’s trans-spacetime ability.
• A strange vortex suddenly forms around Song Shuhang. It is initially mistaken for spatial power, but Soft Feather realizes it is actually the power of time. Song Shuhang is dragged away, and Senior White deliberately follows him after studying the vortex.
• Song Shuhang reappears in the Liquid Metal Ball’s lair in the Netherworld. The Liquid Metal Ball reveals that it used a combination of time reversal and spatial transfer to pull him back. It has sacrificed part of one tentacle to perform the technique.
• The Liquid Metal Ball removes the blue substance shielding Song Shuhang, preventing him from using his previous escape method involving the Disaster Giant Turtle and Skylark’s Hair.
• Senior White arrives by following the time vortex. He recognizes the situation as another extremely dangerous disaster but chooses to stay and confront it.
• The Liquid Metal Ball uses its time-reversal power on Senior White, rapidly reversing his age until he becomes the young “Little White” from the True Illusion world.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains remarkably calm and mentally resilient even while facing an enemy capable of killing him effortlessly. His prolonged exposure to powerful beings such as Senior White Two has strengthened his fearlessness—and his tendency to court danger.
• Senior White continues to display both curiosity and recklessness. Despite sensing an instinctive danger from the Time Vortex, he enters it because he wants to study this new power. His analytical ability allows him to recognize and partially understand the unfamiliar force.
• Senior White’s clone acts cautiously and responsibly, attempting to stabilize Song Shuhang and warning the main body against following him.
• The Liquid Metal Ball demonstrates increasingly refined control over the Laws of Time and Space. It now uses time reversal selectively and efficiently within the Netherworld, making it far more dangerous in its own territory.
• Soft Feather correctly identifies the vortex as temporal rather than spatial power, showing sharp awareness and concern for Senior White’s safety.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen and White Dragon Sister react to Senior White’s impulsive behavior, with Sixteen agreeing that his actions are abnormal but characteristically “Senior White.”

Significant Themes

• Curiosity versus caution: Senior White knowingly enters a dangerous temporal phenomenon simply because he wants to understand it, emphasizing his scholar-like curiosity and reckless courage.
• Disaster and fate: Song Shuhang’s recurring encounters with catastrophes are treated almost as an unavoidable part of his existence, reinforcing the running theme that trouble follows him wherever he goes.
• Time and power: The chapter introduces time manipulation as a force far more dangerous than ordinary spatial techniques, with serious costs and consequences.
• Mental resilience: Song Shuhang’s lack of fear before an overwhelming enemy highlights how repeated exposure to danger has changed his psychology.
• The danger of familiar patterns: Previous escape tricks no longer work against the Liquid Metal Ball, forcing the characters into a new and more threatening situation.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White exchange complaints and jokes about the delayed package and the disasters that occur whenever Senior White leaves.
• Senior White and his clone share memories, then cooperate to evacuate the group.
• The clone tries to protect Song Shuhang from the temporal vortex, while Senior White ignores the warning and follows him.
• Soft Feather warns Senior White about the danger of Time Force, but he proceeds anyway, prompting her and Sixteen to comment on his reckless nature.
• Song Shuhang confronts the Liquid Metal Ball with unusual composure, even joking despite being trapped.
• Senior White joins Song Shuhang in the Netherworld and prepares to face the Liquid Metal Ball, only to be attacked by its time-reversal technique and transformed into a progressively younger version of himself.

Key plot points and events

• Liquid Metal Ball’s Time Reversal on Senior White triggers a mysterious, endless river resembling both the River of Time and the River of Fate. Senior White is left frozen in the body of a two-year-old, while a smoky hand emerges from the river and shields him.
• The river absorbs the reversal vortex. Sensing danger from the smoky hand, Liquid Metal Ball curses Senior White with the Netherworld’s once-a-year instant-death curse, then escapes with Song Shuhang through a Space Gate.
• Liquid Metal Ball attempts to forcibly read Song Shuhang’s memories. The probe instead pierces Song Shuhang’s body, which breaks apart into smoke, leaving his belongings—and his still-beating Whale Demon Core—behind.
• The smoky Song Shuhang attacks wildly. Liquid Metal Ball smashes, impales, and swallows him, but the smoke repeatedly reforms and cannot be digested. Liquid Metal Ball eventually seals him in an ice pillar and appraises his nature.
• The smoke is revealed to be “immortal and indestructible” in a limited sense: it can disperse into tiny particles to evade physical attacks and reproduce by absorbing usable energy. Its abilities resemble a weakened form of immortality.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remembers his suspicion that Senior White’s true self might be a sentient portrait, and warns him when the reversal becomes alarming. Once transformed, Song Shuhang loses his composure and attacks Liquid Metal Ball like a beast.
• Senior White remains mysteriously connected to the river and is protected by its smoky hand. The hand tries to rescue Song Shuhang but misses, leaving him exposed.
• Liquid Metal Ball shifts from taunting Song Shuhang to acting decisively as the situation grows more dangerous. Its concern for the missing part of itself swallowed by the Confucian Sage explains why it wants Song Shuhang’s memories, but its usual powers prove ineffective against the smoke.
• The smoky hand’s intervention briefly pits it against Liquid Metal Ball: it protects Senior White, attempts to seize Song Shuhang, and appears powerful enough to make the Netherworld Ruler feel threatened.

Significant themes

• Uncertain identity: The strange river and the portrait reflected in Senior White’s Ninth Dragon Pattern raise questions about what Senior White truly is.
• Limits of power: Liquid Metal Ball commands the Netherworld, yet cannot control or destroy the smoky beings.
• Immortality and transformation: Song Shuhang’s apparent death becomes a radical new form, suggesting that survival may come through changing what the self is rather than preserving the body.

Plot points

• Liquid Metal Ball examines Song Shuhang, now transformed into a black, smoke-like being whose body devours energy. Song escapes his ice seal and repeatedly attacks, undeterred by injury.
• Liquid Metal Ball cuts Song in half with a sword carrying the Nine Netherworld’s will. The severed portion cannot regenerate, leaving a gap in Song’s waist.
• Song swallows a colossal whale Demon Core. Its rainbow-colored mirage energy patches the gap, but his return to clear thought is actually triggered by Senior White waking up.
• Song recovers most of his memories, though he still cannot recall the Confucian School’s affairs. Liquid Metal Ball tries to bottle him, but Senior White appears through a Space Gate, backed by the River of Time and Fate.
• Senior White has energy for only one attack. His smoke-condensed palm effortlessly erases Liquid Metal Ball’s many attacks and sends him flying. Song and Senior White then disappear, leaving behind the two severed clumps of Song’s smoke.
• Elsewhere, Senior White Two finds Liquid Metal Ball’s abandoned nest and decides to claim the property.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang shifts from a mindless, bouncing smoke creature back into a mostly rational person. He adapts by using the Demon Core’s energy to repair his body, and remains casual even after losing part of his waist.
• Liquid Metal Ball moves from curiosity about Song’s unusual body to frustration at being unable to contain or kill him. Senior White’s strike shocks him and fuels his interest in the possibility of a new creation close to Immortality.
• Senior White awakens in a diminished, miniature form but demonstrates immense power through a single attack. He checks on Song before confronting Liquid Metal Ball.
• Senior White Two takes advantage of Liquid Metal Ball’s absence, turning the defeated ruler’s home into an opportunity for himself.

Significant themes

• Immortality and its limits: Song’s smoke body imitates immortality but can still be damaged by the Nine Netherworld’s power; Senior White’s palm appears closer to true Immortality.
• Adaptation and recovery: Song survives by consuming different energies and using them to compensate for damage.
• Mystery of the new era: Liquid Metal Ball notes the unusual number of Heavenly Dao and Netherworld creations appearing with the approaching Spiritual Energy Grand Tidal Wave, suggesting hidden forces at work.
• Power and vulnerability: Even immense strength does not prevent Liquid Metal Ball from being caught off guard, while Senior White’s overwhelming attack comes at the cost of having energy for only one strike.

Plot points and events

• Senior White Two discovers that Fat Ball’s Netherworld lair has been left unprotected. He uproots and carries the entire structure—including the ground beneath it—into the Evil Lotus World, slipping through Fat Ball’s seal without damaging it.
• Fat Ball returns with two masses of black mist, intending to study their Undying Smoke and use what he learns to claim Skylark’s Immortal Bone. He finds his ten-thousand-year-old lair missing and erupts in rage, shaking the Netherworld.
• White Two blocks out Fat Ball’s shouting with special earplugs and goes to sleep while his research clones examine a special flying sword and its time-spanning ability, along with technology from the Eyed Planet’s core.
• Fat Ball vows to retaliate by stealing White Two’s lair. White Two’s tiger servant warns him, but White Two recalls that his old lair is long gone and considers making use of an abandoned newer one before Fat Ball finds it.
• In the Present World, Senior White teleports Song Shuhang to an icy, unfamiliar planet. Exhausted and still in a childlike form, he retreats to the Core World’s Merit Hall to recover.
• Shuhang reunites with Soft Feather, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and the others. His body remains in a smoky, intangible state, though he expects it to be temporary. He asks the Great Sea Turtle to locate their position and help them return to Earth.
• Just then, Shuhang senses a connection to a stored treasure and sees the prompt: “Activate the Resurrection Cross?”

Character developments and interactions

• White Two remains mischievous and competitive, treating Fat Ball’s prized lair as a trophy and ignoring Fat Ball’s furious demands. His research clones reveal his continuing interest in powerful technologies.
• Fat Ball shifts from confidence about his research to fury and thoughts of revenge. He assumes White Two is responsible and plans to retaliate by taking White Two’s home.
• Song Shuhang is physically vulnerable in his smoke-like state but stays practical, relying on the Core World and asking the Great Sea Turtle for help.
• Senior White is depleted after the escape and depends on Shuhang to bring him somewhere safe to rest. Sixteen and the others show concern when Shuhang and the clones disappear.
• Ugly Tiger serves as White Two’s lookout, bringing him news of Fat Ball’s threat.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and comic retaliation: The two Netherworld Rulers answer one another’s provocations with theft and threats, while White Two treats Fat Ball’s rage as background noise.
• Power and survival: Fat Ball seeks the Immortal Bone as insurance against changes in the Heavenly Dao order.
• Uncertainty and transition: Shuhang and Senior White are stranded far from Earth, and the Resurrection Cross prompt introduces a new, unexplained possibility.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang discovers that his Resurrection Cross has activated, even though he appears lively in his smoke-like, seven-colored state. Unsure whether he is actually dead, he asks Senior Turtle, who cannot determine his condition.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group gathers to help. Su Clan’s Sixteen suggests using Song Shuhang’s Appraisal Secret Method on himself.
• The appraisal reveals that Song Shuhang is neither alive nor dead, but in a temporary Pseudo-Immortality state with about 56 minutes remaining. Believing the state will end harmlessly, he decides not to resurrect.
• Senior White Two contacts him and explains that Pseudo-Immortality imitates the Heavenly Dao and may consume Song Shuhang’s life force. He urges Song Shuhang to resurrect before the state expires.
• Song Shuhang activates the Resurrection Cross. Holy Light surrounds him, turning his smoky body golden. Senior White Two then realizes he may have misunderstood: the state’s energy might not be coming from Song Shuhang after all.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is anxious and indecisive, torn between conserving a newly acquired resurrection artifact and fearing that refusing it could leave him permanently dead. His repeated brushes with death remain a source of weary, self-deprecating humor.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen supports him calmly, holding his hand and encouraging him to use the Cross if necessary. She also reminds him of the Appraisal Secret Method.
• Senior Turtle examines Song Shuhang but admits his condition is too strange to diagnose.
• Senior White Two first discusses obtaining Heavenly Tribulation Nuclear Bombs, then shifts to concern over Song Shuhang’s state and insists he resurrect. His abrupt correction undercuts the confidence of his warning.
• The group offers practical suggestions, including consulting Senior Copper Trigram, while joking about his whereabouts.

Significant themes

• Life, death, and uncertain identity: Song Shuhang’s condition defies a simple alive-or-dead distinction.
• The cost and risk of power: The Pseudo-Immortality state may carry a hidden price, while resurrection itself could also have unpredictable consequences.
• Comic misfortune and unreliable certainty: Song Shuhang’s repeated deaths and Senior White Two’s changing assessment turn a life-or-death crisis into dark comedy.
• Companionship: The group’s concern and Sixteen’s quiet support help Song Shuhang face the decision.

Chapter Summary: “Three Cores—That’s How Stable It Is”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang’s Resurrection Cross completes its activation, making the resurrection irreversible. Holy Light flames and sacred music accompany the dramatic process, while Senior Yellow Mountain protects him from interference.
• The Resurrection Cross restores Song Shuhang’s original body rather than constructing a new one. His physical strength doubles, and his kidney—previously damaged and partially replaced with a Colossal Whale Demon Core—is fully restored.
• The Demon Core is not lost. Instead, resurrection transfers it into Song Shuhang’s Natal Dantian, where it becomes a new Seven-Colored Demon Core.
• Merit Snake Beauty extracts the Demon Core from Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core. The new core travels through his dantians and settles in the Third Dantian, since the Second Dantian is already occupied.
• Song Shuhang therefore evolves from a dual-core cultivator into a

Three-Core cultivator

1. Fat Whale Golden Core
2. Little Golden Core
3. Seven-Colored Demon Core

• The three cores greatly increase the richness and control of Song Shuhang’s spiritual power, potentially making him the strongest Fifth-Grade Spirit Emperor, surpassing the standard once held by Su Clan’s Seven.
• The Seven-Colored Demon Core grants Song Shuhang access to Mirage Mist, strengthening his future illusion abilities. It also contains a mysterious talent connected to fate, time, or fortune.
• When Song Shuhang activates this talent, he involuntarily enters a severely weakened form of the Pseudo-Immortality state, transforming into smoke and temporarily recreating his Seven-Colored Waist.
• This activation causes a major disturbance in the Core World: the Star River behind Senior White erupts and spreads across the entire world, placing immense pressure on its inhabitants.
• The chapter ends with an author’s note explaining that only two updates were released that day because of a delayed review.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes significantly stronger after resurrection. His body is enhanced, his original injuries are completely repaired, and he gains a third core with new powers.
• He initially believes using the Resurrection Cross was a loss, since the artifact was consumed for only a physical-strength increase. However, the survival and transformation of the Demon Core prove that he gained far more than expected.
• Song Shuhang’s abilities now include a foundation for cultivating illusions through Mirage Mist, potentially allowing him to learn techniques comparable to Senior White’s Mirage Dragon Illusion World.
• Senior White Two continues acting as Song Shuhang’s guide, clarifying the Resurrection Cross’s effects and revealing the hidden talent within the Seven-Colored Demon Core.
• Merit Snake Beauty demonstrates a new talent—“whale stroking”—and successfully removes the Demon Core from Song Shuhang’s Fat Whale Golden Core.
• The Fat Whale Golden Core becomes increasingly comical and distressed, especially after being forced to produce another core and having it orbit around it.
• Senior White’s reaction in the Core World suggests that the Seven-Colored Demon Core or Song Shuhang’s new pseudo-immortality ability has triggered a powerful, possibly dangerous phenomenon.

Significant Themes

• Unexpected gains from apparent loss: Song Shuhang believes the Resurrection Cross and Demon Core have been wasted, but the resurrection instead produces new abilities and greater strength.
• Transformation and evolution: Resurrection is not merely restoration; it changes Song Shuhang’s body, cultivation structure, and potential.
• Stability through balance: The chapter emphasizes the symbolic and practical stability of three cores, allowing Song Shuhang to control his spiritual power more efficiently.
• Comedic cultivation imagery: The Fat Whale Golden Core’s pregnancy-like appearance, its forced “birth,” and its reaction to the new Demon Core provide comic relief amid major power advancement.
• Mystery of fate and immortality: The Seven-Colored Demon Core’s connection to fate, time, fortune, and pseudo-immortality introduces a deeper mystery surrounding Song Shuhang’s unusual cultivation path.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang mentally complains to Senior White Two, suspecting that the Resurrection Cross situation was deliberately mishandled. Senior White Two denies deceiving him and explains the unexpected cost of restoring his pseudo-immortality.
• Senior Yellow Mountain protects Song Shuhang’s resurrection by covering him with his Daoist robe.
• Merit Snake Beauty interacts directly with Song Shuhang’s Natal Golden Core, forcibly extracting the Seven-Colored Demon Core despite the Fat Whale Golden Core’s resistance.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White Two discuss the fate of the Colossal Whale Demon Core, its transformation, and the abilities it now provides.
• The chapter also references the rivalry surrounding the title of strongest Fifth-Grade cultivator, comparing Song Shuhang with Su Clan’s Seven and Mad Saber Three Waves.

Key events

• Song Shuhang’s upgraded Core World reveals a vast Star River containing visible Manifestation Laws. Staring at it causes severe eye pain and even temporary blindness, but the Laws offer cultivators a rare chance to gain major insights.
• Sage Seven Cultivations urges everyone to keep watching: the experience can accelerate cultivation, especially for Profound Sages learning to contact the Laws. Even lower-ranked cultivators can retain the Laws as seeds for future growth.
• White Dragon Sister shields Su Clan’s Sixteen’s eyes and guides her to study Laws suited to her lightning-and-water attributes.
• Soft Feather repeatedly uses Cheng Lin’s Self-Healing Method to restore her eyes and continue studying. Onion Lady also keeps watching after Senior Turtle repeatedly cuts off and heals her onion tip—while privately collecting the tips to experiment with an onion facial mask.
• Other banquet guests, including veteran Profound Sages, gain insights; weaker cultivators faint after being overwhelmed.
• The group discusses why Senior White’s clone fled earlier. Three Waves suggests there may be no danger, but Phoenix Slayer warns that Senior White’s fortune often brings danger alongside opportunity. Three Waves then reassures them that Song Shuhang is present; the chapter ends before explaining the connection.

Character developments and interactions

• Sage Seven Cultivations shows his experience and determination, prioritizing the Star River’s benefits despite the pain.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen receives practical guidance from White Dragon Sister and focuses on Laws aligned with her awakened bloodline.
• Soft Feather demonstrates persistence by enduring repeated pain and healing herself.
• Onion Lady overcomes her fear, encouraged by Senior Turtle, who both tends to her and exploits the situation for his odd culinary-cosmetic experiment.
• Three Waves provides comic relief with his blindness and casual remarks; Phoenix Slayer offers a more cautious interpretation of the apparent good fortune.
• The Nine Provinces group’s restored memories of Song Shuhang make his presence relevant again, though the reason remains unresolved.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and sacrifice: Great gains may require enduring pain and hardship.
• Long-term cultivation: Insights can benefit even those unable to understand the Laws yet.
• Persistence and mutual support: Characters continue through discomfort, often with help from companions.
• Fortune and risk: A powerful opportunity may carry hidden danger, especially when Senior White is involved.

Key plot points

• The Nine Provinces Number One Group realizes Song Shuhang has reached the Fifth-Grade Realm after only about four to five months of cultivation. The revelation shocks the seniors and triggers a round of envy, grief, and teasing.
• Most of the cultivators have strained their eyes watching Senior White’s mysterious Star River. Three Waves proposes renaming their group the “Nine Provinces Great Blind Group,” prompting Yellow Mountain to despair.
• Inside Yellow Mountain’s robe, Shuhang is immobilized by the pressure of the Star River because his copied “Pseudo-Immortality Mode” is still potent despite being weakened. Senior White Two lends him the Sword of the End; the Star River’s will recognizes its connection to the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact and withdraws.
• White Two decides to take the duplicate Heavenly Tribulation weapons. Shuhang checks with the present-world Senior White, who approves the plan and says to leave the unique models for research.
• In the Merit Hall, child-sized Senior White falls while trying to leave, repairs the crater he made, then promptly falls asleep.
• His sleep causes the Star River to dissipate and then explode. Everyone in the Core World is knocked unconscious, and most memories of the Star River are erased. The Manifestation Law glimpsed within it remains in their minds.
• Shuhang emerges to find the seniors unconscious; only White Dragon Sister is awake, while Pavilion Master Chu continues blowing bubbles in the Living Spring.

Character developments and interactions

• The group’s seniors confront how astonishingly fast Shuhang has advanced. Phoenix Slayer laments that Shuhang has caught up with him; Six Cultivations and Sage Seven recall feeling outshone by him earlier.
• Northern River cuts Three Waves off before he can make a disparaging remark about Shuhang, while Three Waves later earns blame for “jinxing” the group by predicting the Star River could be watched longer.
• Shuhang shows caution and respect by consulting present-world Senior White before agreeing to White Two’s plan. White Two remains secretive about the Star River’s will, warning that knowing too much can be dangerous.
• Senior White’s childlike body causes a comic mishap, contrasting with the immense power and mystery surrounding the Star River.

Significant themes

• Rapid growth and comparison: Shuhang’s extraordinary progress unsettles the seniors and changes his place within the group.
• Dangerous knowledge and power: The Star River exerts overwhelming pressure and protects its secrets by erasing memories.
• Humor amid peril: Teasing, group-name jokes, and Senior White’s fall provide comic relief during a supernatural crisis.
• Memory and revelation: Though the Star River itself is forgotten, the knowledge of the Manifestation Law it revealed persists.

Key plot points and events

• After directly observing the Manifestation Law, Su Clan’s Sixteen and Soft Feather are unconscious. White Dragon Sister explains that they may suffer temporary blindness, mental exhaustion, and partial memory loss. Song Shuhang tucks Sixteen into bed—where she rolls herself up in the blanket—and helps White Dragon move the other unconscious guests into Winter Hall.
• Seeing several Eighth-Grade Profound Sages among the guests, Song Shuhang worries they may remember his earlier appointment to fight them on October 10. He fears facing several Sage Lords in succession.
• Realizing the unconscious Sages may lose recent memories, Song Shuhang hatches a plan: stage photographs suggesting that he has already defeated them, giving him “proof” the appointment was fulfilled.
• He and Song Shuhang Two pose beside the unconscious Winter Melon Sage Lord at Blade-Sword Peak. Song Shuhang adds his Merit Snake Beauty and twenty-one Sacred Apes to make himself look victorious. White Dragon Sister points out that Winter Melon looks too uninjured, then expertly adds wounds, disheveled hair, and moisture to make the scene convincing.
• Pleased with the improved photos, Song Shuhang decides to repeat the scheme with the other unconscious Sage Lords. He, his clone, and White Dragon Sister take Three Cycles Sage Lord outside the Core World to stage the next scene.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is anxious about the future battle appointments but quickly turns that anxiety into a mischievous, ethically questionable workaround. He collaborates enthusiastically with his clone on the photo setup.
• White Dragon Sister acts as caretaker and practical accomplice, helping move the guests and improve the staged “battle” evidence. Her skill prompts Song Shuhang to suspect she has done this before; she explains that an “idiot” once asked her to do it repeatedly, hinting at Song Blockhead.
• Song Shuhang Two enthusiastically directs the photography and pushes for a more dramatic presentation.
• Sixteen remains unconscious, displaying a familiar playful habit by rolling herself into the blanket.

Significant themes

• Comedy through improvisation: Song Shuhang treats a serious future challenge as a problem that might be solved with carefully staged photographs.
• Consequences of one’s choices: He recalls the advice that a self-created predicament must be faced, even as he searches for a loophole.
• Trust and complicity: White Dragon Sister and Song Shuhang Two support the plan, turning the scene into a group effort.
• Power and appearances: The photos use dramatic poses and spectacle to manufacture the impression of a decisive Sage-level victory.

Chapter 1450 Summary: The Ancient Temple with Green Lamp Beneath the Ice

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang leaves the scholar-dressed Three Weeks Saint Monarch on the Ice Plains under the care of his main body while he prepares a fake battlefield to imitate an 8th Rank Mysterious Saint battle.
• At Sister Little White’s direction, Song Shuhang uses the ChiXiao Sword to unleash a powerful Flame Saber attack. The strike melts the ice and creates a massive, seemingly bottomless pit.
• ChiXiao Sword notices something beneath the ice and extinguishes the flames. Song Shuhang and Little White discover a buried Ancient Temple emitting a cold green light.
• Suspecting that the temple may be connected to the place where Song Shuhang and White Senior previously descended from the Nine Nether, they investigate. Song Shuhang leaves his clone to watch the Saint Monarch.
• The temple is protected by a formation barrier but appears abandoned and ownerless. Its gate is damaged, its interior is covered in dust, and all statues and valuables have been removed.
• The only remaining object is a Green Lamp. When Song Shuhang touches it, a peaceful Buddhist Sound activates and cleanses all the dust in the temple.
• ChiXiao Sword explains that the lamp can absorb surrounding spiritual energy and function as a practical magical lighting and cleaning device. Song Shuhang is disappointed that the temple contains no obvious treasure.
• Song Shuhang considers bringing White Senior to the temple, believing his luck might reveal hidden treasures. However, when he attempts to move the sleeping White Senior from the Core World, White Senior is accidentally transferred into the outside world and begins falling from the air.
• Song Shuhang catches White Senior before he can crash into the ground, preventing a destructive impact. ChiXiao Sword becomes furious because Song Shuhang threw it aside while making the rescue.
• The chapter ends by revealing that a fist-sized creature is hiding beneath the temple and has realized it may have been discovered.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang: Demonstrates improved mastery of the Flame Saber after advancing in realm. He remains curious, impulsive, and prone to accidental chaos, but also reacts quickly to protect White Senior.
• Sister Little White: Acts as Song Shuhang’s knowledgeable guide, helping construct the false battlefield and identifying the temple’s spiritual and Buddhist properties.
• ChiXiao Sword: Continues to be irritated by Song Shuhang’s reckless behavior and mundane uses for an Eternal Life divine weapon, but still assists him. Its pride and comedic frustration are emphasized.
• White Senior: Remains asleep but is accidentally brought into danger when Song Shuhang transfers him from the Core World. His immense destructive power is highlighted through the possibility that merely falling could create a massive crater.
• Hidden Creature: A new mysterious presence is introduced beneath the temple, suggesting that the seemingly empty ruins may contain a concealed secret or treasure.

Significant Themes

• Power and control: Song Shuhang’s Flame Saber has become stronger, but he still lacks complete control over its effects, requiring ChiXiao Sword’s intervention.
• Ancient civilizations and buried history: The temple may be the remnant of a lost cultivation civilization destroyed or buried by an ancient disaster.
• Practical versus grand treasures: Song Shuhang expects a spectacular inheritance but finds only a useful lamp, while ChiXiao Sword points out its real magical value.
• Comedic danger: Catastrophic power is repeatedly contrasted with ordinary mishaps, such as using a divine weapon to make a fake battle scene or accidentally dropping White Senior.
• Hidden mysteries: The Green Lamp, erased temple sign, missing Buddha statue, and hidden creature imply that the temple’s true purpose and history remain unresolved.

Character Interactions

• Sister Little White directs Song Shuhang’s battlefield preparations and explores the temple with him.
• Song Shuhang asks ChiXiao Sword to help unleash the Flame Saber; the sword complains but cooperates.
• ChiXiao Sword and Song Shuhang argue humorously over the sword being discarded during White Senior’s rescue, with ChiXiao Sword threatening to stab him.
• Sister Little White silently enjoys the familiar comedic interaction between Song Shuhang and ChiXiao Sword.
• Song Shuhang communicates with his clone, assigning it responsibility for protecting the Three Weeks Saint Monarch.
• Song Shuhang attempts to involve White Senior in the investigation, unintentionally triggering the chapter’s final crisis.

Chapter Summary: The Strongest Fifth Rank

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang, Sister Little White, and ChiXiao Sword investigate an ancient Buddhist temple after suspecting that Senior White’s presence indicates a hidden treasure.
• ChiXiao Sword warns that ancient Buddhist temples often suppress demons or ancient devils underground, making excavation dangerous.
• Song Shuhang uses his Appraisal Secret Technique, sacrificing blood to gather information. The technique only reveals that the temple floor is made from ancient stone slabs brought from a temple called Zhuxing Temple.
• Before he can try again using Smoke Body to conserve blood, a Buddhist chant from the temple’s green lamp triggers a mysterious change. Song Shuhang is transported into a sealed chamber beneath the temple, becoming separated from Little White and ChiXiao Sword.
• A beam of light scans him and identifies him as a newly advanced Fifth-Stage cultivator with a preliminary Golden Core. The chamber then activates an eighteen-level challenge.
• The chamber transforms into a realistic grassland illusion, where Song Shuhang faces a Buddhist-converted bald Great Ape at roughly the same cultivation level.
• The Great Ape attacks with powerful physical techniques and later fires an energy beam. Song Shuhang easily counters using Steel Hand, the Gentleman's Journey of Ten Thousand Miles movement technique, his Bullet Time perception, and Daoist Meaning Armor.
• The Great Ape concedes defeat and explains that there are eighteen guardians. Their strength scales according to the challenger, with the final guardian expected to be a peak Fifth-Stage cultivator possessing nine Golden Core patterns.
• Rather than fight the guardians one by one, Song Shuhang proposes having all seventeen remaining guardians attack him together, confident in his strength and unrestricted life-bound magical weapon.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increasing confidence and control over his abilities. Though technically a newly advanced Fifth-Stage cultivator, his combat awareness, defensive techniques, enhanced perception, and accumulated abilities make him vastly stronger than ordinary cultivators of the same rank.
• He shows greater mastery of the Appraisal Secret Technique, controlling its blood cost and considering methods such as Smoke Body to improve efficiency.
• His humor and caution remain intact: he rejects the dangerous idea of throwing Senior White around to locate the treasure, joking that he wants to survive until the story’s ending and sequels.
• Sister Little White and ChiXiao Sword serve as observers and commentators, expressing concern over Song Shuhang’s reckless bloodletting and surprise at the temple’s strange mechanisms.
• The Bald Great Ape is established as an honorable Buddhist demon cultivator. It fights seriously, recognizes Song Shuhang’s superior strength, and willingly accepts defeat.

Significant Themes

• Hidden danger beneath sacred places: The temple’s peaceful Buddhist exterior conceals secret formations, underground chambers, and a dangerous trial system.
• Strength beyond cultivation level: Song Shuhang’s official rank does not reflect his true combat power. His techniques, talents, equipment, and experience allow him to dominate opponents of the same realm.
• Curiosity versus caution: Song Shuhang wants to uncover the temple’s treasure but repeatedly has to balance investigation with the possibility of triggering ancient dangers.
• Humor amid danger: The chapter uses comedy to offset the ominous setting, especially through Song Shuhang’s fear of dying early, his concern about wasting blood, and his refusal to swallow an attack spat from the Great Ape’s mouth.
• Trials and evaluation: The temple functions as an ancient testing ground, automatically assessing a cultivator’s realm and creating opponents tailored to their strength.

Character Interactions

• ChiXiao Sword cautions Song Shuhang against digging beneath the temple, warning that ancient demons or devils may be sealed there.
• Song Shuhang’s idea of using Senior White as a projectile horrifies the others, though he quickly dismisses it as suicidal.
• Sister Little White and ChiXiao Sword question Song Shuhang about the results of his appraisal and react skeptically to the limited information he obtains.
• When Song Shuhang disappears, Little White and ChiXiao Sword realize that he has fallen or been transported elsewhere but cannot immediately follow.
• During the trial, Song Shuhang and the Bald Great Ape exchange respectful dialogue. The Ape acknowledges Song Shuhang’s exceptional martial ability, while Song Shuhang treats the fight almost casually.
• After defeating the Ape, Song Shuhang learns about the remaining challenges and boldly asks to face all seventeen guardians simultaneously.

Chapter Summary: “Reward Item Quantity is 0”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang enters the Zhuxing Temple trial and decides to challenge all seventeen remaining bald ape guardians simultaneously instead of fighting them one at a time.
• The trial changes to a one-versus-seventeen battle in an attic plaza. The guardians form a powerful joint attack formation, using starlight to create a vajra with the strength of a Sixth-Rank artifact.
• Song Shuhang blocks the attack with four defensive walls from the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure.
• He then unleashes multiple Rank-Eight magical treasure components, temporarily sealed to Rank Five, overwhelming and defeating most of the guardians.
• Song Shuhang summons the complete Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure in its first form, the Unfailing Holy City, and uses it to crush the remaining guardians.
• The trial declares his performance “Excellent” and awards him a supposed Fifth-Rank defensive kasaya.
• However, the reward system reports that the number of available reward items is zero. After searching, it replaces the unavailable robe with an absurd new reward: a monk’s gallstones.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang displays enormous confidence in his abilities, relying on his triple core, powerful physique, Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Skill, and the complete combined magical treasure.
• His combat style becomes increasingly extravagant and overwhelming. Rather than carefully countering the guardians, he defeats them through overwhelming defensive power and a barrage of high-level magical items.
• Song Shuhang also reveals his practical side: he is immediately interested in the trial’s rewards and considers bringing Su Clan’s Sixteen, Yurouzi, and other fellow cultivators to repeat the challenge.
• The guardians, especially the leading gorilla, shift from confidence to disbelief and resignation as they realize Song Shuhang’s equipment is far beyond what a Fifth-Rank cultivator should possess.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and “cheating” equipment: Song Shuhang’s combined magical treasure gives him an unfair advantage, even against a coordinated group of Fifth-Rank guardians.
• Humor through contrast: The guardians prepare a supposedly devastating formation, only for Song Shuhang to casually block it and crush them with a massive holy city.
• Material reward versus absurd reality: The trial promises increasingly valuable rewards, but the ruined temple has no actual items left. This turns the expected prize into a joke.
• The consequences of destruction and neglect: Because Zhuxing Temple has been emptied and ruined, its reward system can no longer provide the items it advertises.

Character Interactions

• The Bald Great Ape repeatedly warns Song Shuhang that fighting all seventeen guardians at once is dangerous and that their combined formation could defeat a Fifth-Rank cultivator.
• Song Shuhang references the “Eighteen Bronze Men,” but the ape does not recognize the cultural comparison and instead explains the temple’s unnamed joint attack technique.
• The guardians attempt to delay the fight by offering conversation, since longer trials produce better rewards and their formation requires preparation time.
• Song Shuhang refuses to chat, joking that other fellow cultivators can return later to converse with them.
• After seeing the combined magical treasure, the leading gorilla realizes that the many weapons are actually components of one terrifying artifact. Song Shuhang confirms its deduction.
• Following the victory, Song Shuhang attempts to exchange the unwanted kasaya, only for the system to reveal that no proper rewards remain and distribute monk’s gallstones instead.

Chapter Summary: “Three Volumes of Scriptures”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang completes the All-Stars Temple’s eighteen-level Trial Space and receives a bizarre reward identified as “High Monk’s Kidney Stone.”
• The fist-sized golden stone emits Buddhist chanting, wooden-fish sounds, and an aura of compassion and wisdom, making Song Shuhang suspect it may be related to a Sarira.
• After returning to All-Stars Temple, Song Shuhang shows the stone to White Dragon Sister and Scarlet Heaven Sword. Scarlet Heaven Sword ridicules the reward, while White Dragon Sister suggests the temple’s treasure treasury may have been emptied long ago.
• Song Shuhang uses his Appraisal Secret Method on the stone. The appraisal reveals that it is an artificially cultivated kidney stone grown by an All-Stars Temple monk who recited scriptures while cultivating it.
• The stone contains recordings of three scriptures:

All-Stars Sacred Buddha Sutra

All-Stars Treasure Prison Sutra

Sacred Ape Dragon Force Sutra

• The third scripture concerns Song Shuhang because it resembles the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art he already practices, raising the possibility of a connection between All-Stars Temple and the Beast Realm’s ape cultivators.
• The group discusses the possibility that the temple’s greatest remaining treasure is a powerful Spirit Vein beneath it. Song Shuhang is interested but cannot move or conveniently use it.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword warns that the temple’s former occupants may have emptied it because of an impending disaster.
• The chapter ends when Song Shuhang’s clone observes an enormous cold current sweeping toward the temple like a freezing tsunami, rapidly thickening the surrounding ice.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains frustrated by his absurd reward but quickly shifts into investigative mode. He decides to preserve and study the three scriptures, especially the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Sutra, which might help complete or strengthen his cultivation.
• His curiosity and willingness to endure the Appraisal Technique demonstrate his growing resourcefulness and confidence.
• White Dragon Sister provides practical analysis, recognizing the likely existence of a Spirit Vein and explaining how trial formations traditionally functioned.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword continues acting as the group’s blunt, mocking voice while also displaying caution and sound judgment by suspecting a hidden danger in the temple.
• Song Shuhang’s clone functions as a scout and alerts the main body to the approaching disaster.

Significant Themes

• Absurdity and comedy: The grand Buddhist trial rewards Song Shuhang with an embarrassingly literal kidney stone, creating much of the chapter’s humor.
• Hidden value in strange objects: Although the reward appears useless, it contains potentially important scriptures and may connect to Song Shuhang’s cultivation.
• Ruins and forgotten civilizations: The temple’s surviving trial formation and possible Spirit Vein reveal the power of the ancient All-Stars Temple, while its emptied treasury hints at a mysterious catastrophe.
• Cultivation and inheritance: The scriptures preserved within the stone may provide lost knowledge and link Buddhist traditions with beast-cultivation techniques.
• Impending danger: The discussion shifts from exploration and treasure hunting to survival as the mysterious freezing phenomenon approaches.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang complains about the reward and argues that it should be replaced; the system-like voice ignores him.
• He shares the stone with White Dragon Sister and Scarlet Heaven Sword, who debate whether it is a Sarira and mock its official name.
• Song Shuhang explains the trial mechanism and his plans to study the scriptures, while White Dragon Sister questions whether the connection to his cultivation is genuine.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword urges everyone to leave the temple, and Song Shuhang’s clone confirms that a dangerous cold wave is already approaching.

Chapter Summary: White Senior, I’ll Cheer “666” for You from Behind!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang and Senior White prepare to leave the frozen ruins of All-Stars Temple as an overwhelming cold current approaches, threatening to freeze the entire area.
• Before departing, Senior White places a Disposable Flying Sword as a teleportation coordinate, intending to return someday. The cold current then completely freezes the temple and buries it beneath permanent ice.
• Senior White detects something valuable inside the approaching cold current. Instead of retreating, he takes Song Shuhang with him to investigate.
• Senior White enters the tsunami-like fog and cleaves it apart with his sword, discovering that aggressive creatures are hiding within it.
• Song Shuhang is attacked by an invisible, highly mobile creature that repeatedly targets his kidney. His Saber Intent Armor and Merit Snake Beauty protect him, but neither can locate the attacker.
• Creation Fairy helps Song Shuhang install the Confucian Sage’s Eye in place of his own eye. The powerful eye allows him to see the invisible attacker: a transparent, ice-like flea creature.
• Song Shuhang captures and destroys the flea creature, despite its attempt to decapitate itself and escape. It leaves behind a tiny, intensely cold crystal core, which Song Shuhang stores in his Prayer-Bead Space.
• Using the Sage’s Eye, Song Shuhang observes Senior White pursuing a much larger Glacial Bone Dragon through the cold current.
• The chapter ends with a gigantic, flame-covered Giant Flea charging toward Song Shuhang.

Character Developments

• Senior White: Awakens from his sleep and quickly becomes interested in the cold current’s hidden treasure. His curiosity overrides caution, leading him to confront the natural disaster directly. He demonstrates overwhelming power by cutting through the frozen fog and pursuing the Ice Bone Dragon.
• Song Shuhang: Initially wants to retreat, recognizing the cold current as extremely dangerous. He is forced to fight defensively against an invisible assassin-like creature, then adapts by using the Confucian Sage’s Eye. His physical strength and Steel Hand allow him to capture and destroy the creature.
• Creation Fairy and Merit Snake Beauty: Actively support Song Shuhang in battle. Merit Snake Beauty provides protection and installs the Confucian Sage’s Eye, while Creation Fairy supplies the eye and assists with the unusual procedure.
• White Dragon Sister: Retreats into Song Shuhang’s Core World before the confrontation begins.
• The icy creatures: The chapter reveals that the cold current contains multiple dangerous ice-based lifeforms, including flea-like creatures and a Glacial Bone Dragon.

Significant Themes

• Curiosity versus caution: Song Shuhang recognizes the cold current as a natural disaster, but Senior White’s curiosity and instinct for discovering treasures compel them to investigate.
• Adaptability and resourcefulness: Song Shuhang overcomes an enemy he cannot perceive by combining the abilities of his companions and using the Confucian Sage’s Eye.
• Power and danger in the unknown: The cold current is more than a weather phenomenon; it possesses a will-like freezing force and conceals powerful, specialized creatures.
• Comedic danger: Serious threats are repeatedly undercut by humor, especially Song Shuhang’s desire to remain behind Senior White and cheer “666,” the repeated kidney attacks, and the absurd process of replacing his eye.
• Family and lost memories: Song Shuhang briefly recalls holding the hands of a son and daughter, suggesting mysterious or forgotten memories that may have future significance.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Senior White travel together, with Song Shuhang acting as the cautious counterpart to Senior White’s reckless curiosity.
• Senior White jokes with Song Shuhang about cheering from behind, while Song Shuhang continues imagining himself safely supporting Senior White from the rear.
• Senior White warns Song Shuhang about the aggressive creature within the fog before continuing his pursuit.
• Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy cooperate to equip Song Shuhang with the Confucian Sage’s Eye, enabling him to fight effectively.
• Song Shuhang uses the newly installed eye to observe Senior White’s battle with the Glacial Bone Dragon, while a Giant Flea suddenly appears to challenge him.

Plot points

• Song Shuhang uses the Confucian Sage’s “Pregnancy Gaze” on invisible ice monsters in the Cold Tide. Though it does not make them pregnant, it leaves them helpless, and two monsters—a giant flea and a giant snake—explode, each yielding a large ice crystal.
• Senior White arrives carrying an Ice Bone Dragon and urgently pulls Song Shuhang out of the Cold Tide. Before they escape, Song Shuhang glimpses an enormous, apparently mindless creature beneath the ice, whose movements freeze and shatter space.
• Back on Earth, Senior White explains that he wants to study the living ice creatures and may turn the Bone Dragon into a chariot. He also expresses interest in the ice crystals’ properties.
• The pair return to the Southern Everlasting Sword Sect’s collapsed Secret Realm, where the elders and reporters are distressed: the Immortal Chef Banquet’s guests have disappeared, and repairing the realm may be costly.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White appear before the onlookers. Shuhang privately recognizes that the disaster was connected to the powerful beings who had all been released near him.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang has become unashamed of using Pregnancy Gaze as a practical combat technique, judging it by its effectiveness rather than its strange effect. He also works smoothly with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, even using the Dragging Saber Technique to evade the snake.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword cannot perceive the hidden monsters, leaving it baffled by Shuhang’s attacks and the crystals they produce.
• Senior White acts decisively to rescue Shuhang, then reveals his curiosity about the creatures as subjects for study and possible magical crafting.
• Shuhang feels guilty about the Secret Realm’s destruction, while the sect elders turn to him and Senior White for an explanation.

Significant themes

• Practicality outweighs embarrassment: Shuhang embraces an absurd spell because it works.
• The limits of perception are emphasized by monsters invisible even to a powerful divine weapon.
• Curiosity and discovery coexist with danger, as Senior White sees scientific and magical potential in the ice creatures.
• Powerful events have unintended consequences: the clustering of major beings around Shuhang leaves ordinary people and places to bear the damage.

Key plot points and events

• The Southern Everlasting Sword Sect’s elders panic after their Secret Realm collapses and its banquet guests disappear. Little Senior White leaves to retrieve Fairy Bie Xue, asking Song Shuhang to explain what happened.
• Song reassures the elders that all the guests are safe; they only fainted, and he and Senior White moved them somewhere secure. He privately worries that the banquet cannot continue and that he is responsible for the Secret Realm’s destruction.
• Hoping to find a way to repair it, Song thinks of Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot. A bedsheet-wrapped, pink-haired fairy appears instead: his disciple, Fairy Everything Has Goods, who sells in bulk and can restock through her master.
• Song asks whether she has something that can repair shattered space. She offers special crystals that can freeze and recombine fragments of space, but says the damaged Secret Realm would need hundreds of them at a steep price.
• Song then reveals he already has a huge crystal of the exact same kind, obtained as a drop from monsters during a cold tide. The fairy is left speechless.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang takes responsibility for the damage and wants to help the sect repair its Secret Realm. He remains anxious about the banquet but reassures the elders that the guests are safe.
• Little Senior White remains determined to make the long-awaited Immortal Chef Banquet end properly and sets off to bring Fairy Bie Xue back.
• Fairy Everything Has Goods presents herself as a cheerful, accommodating wholesaler, but her sales pitch collapses when Song reveals he already owns the rare item she is offering.
• The sect elders’ fear turns to relief when Song confirms the guests survived. The fairy and Song share an awkwardly comic exchange over their matching crystals.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and repair: Song wants to make amends for the destruction he helped cause.
• Unexpected fortune and coincidence: Just as Song seeks a rare solution, he discovers he already possesses the very crystal needed.
• Commerce and comedy: The fairy’s confident salesmanship is undercut by Song’s unexpected stockpile.
• Perseverance: Senior White’s commitment to completing the banquet persists despite the disaster.

Chapter 1457: “Resurrection Gold Coin” — Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang obtains a giant special ice crystal dropped by a monster from the Frozen World. He asks Fairy @#$%× how to use it to repair the damaged secret realm.
• Fairy @#$%× explains that only three-fifths of the crystal is necessary. Song Shuhang must charge it with pure Spiritual Energy or ice/water elemental energy until it releases a cold mist, then send it into the secret realm. The mist will rapidly stabilize the broken space, after which the remaining repairs can be completed normally.
• Song Shuhang asks whether Fairy @#$%× sells resurrection items. She introduces the Resurrection Gold Coin, usable by cultivators below Rank Six:
  • Heads: resurrection in ten months.
  • Tails: resurrection in ten years.
  • Landing on its edge: resurrection within ten minutes.
  • It causes only temporary weakness and does not result in major strength regression or other serious aftereffects.
• Unlike the superior Resurrection Cross, the gold coins can be reused after ten days and are sold in bulk, making them suitable for protecting juniors or maintaining a supply of emergency resurrection items.
• Song Shuhang consults Senior Chi Xiao Sword, who confirms that the price—eight 8th-grade Spirit Stones per coin—is reasonable for a resurrection treasure usable by cultivators below Rank Six.
• Lacking enough Spirit Stones, Song Shuhang proposes trading part of the ice crystal instead. Fairy @#$%× agrees to exchange two-fifths of the crystal for twelve Resurrection Gold Coins.
• Fairy @#$%× cleanly cuts the crystal into a precise three-fifths/two-fifths division and hands Song Shuhang the twelve coins. She also gives him a one-use Trading Coupon for future transactions.
• The chapter ends with Fairy @#$%× leaving satisfied while Song Shuhang prepares to use the remaining ice crystal to restore the shattered secret realm.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates increasing resourcefulness and confidence in negotiating. Although he lacks currency, he quickly identifies the ice crystal as a valuable trade asset and secures a larger number of resurrection items than originally planned.
• He also shows greater awareness of the importance of resurrection treasures, reflecting his recent dangerous experiences and his desire to improve his own and his companions’ safety.
• Fairy @#$%× initially considers refusing to help Song Shuhang because he will not buy her goods, but changes her attitude after recognizing his reputation as the “Thousand Year First Saint.” She proves to be a shrewd merchant, balancing goodwill, profit, and long-term business prospects.
• Senior Chi Xiao Sword acts as Song Shuhang’s market adviser, helping him judge the value of the resurrection coins.

Significant Themes

• Luck and reputation: Song Shuhang’s title gives Fairy @#$%× confidence that dealing with him may be worthwhile, while the Resurrection Gold Coin itself relies literally on luck to determine the resurrection time.
• Preparedness and survival: The discussion emphasizes the value of having multiple resurrection methods, especially as Song Shuhang frequently faces lethal dangers.
• Trade and resourcefulness: The chapter highlights the cultivation world’s flexible economy, where rare treasures, pills, and magical materials can serve as currency.
• Mutual benefit: Both sides leave satisfied—Song Shuhang gains twelve life-saving items, while Fairy @#$%× receives valuable ice crystal material at a profitable exchange rate.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Fairy @#$%× move from awkward customer-merchant tension to a successful and friendly negotiation.
• Song Shuhang privately consults Chi Xiao Sword before finalizing the deal, showing his reliance on experienced companions.
• Fairy @#$%× uses her reputation and business knowledge to recommend her own product, while Song Shuhang negotiates by offering the excess portion of the ice crystal.

Chapter Summary: “Repairing the Secret Realm”

Key plot points and events

Song Shuhang completes a transaction with Fairy @#%× from “Everything’s Available,” obtaining a technique and an ice crystal capable of freezing and reconnecting broken space. Because the others cannot see the fairy, the transaction appears to them as Song Shuhang performing a strange solo act, though the appearance of twelve gold coins and the divided ice crystal confirms that something occurred.
White Senior returns with Biexue Xianji and the ingredients for the Food Immortal Feast. Seeing that the feast’s venue has collapsed, Song Shuhang offers to repair the secret realm. He explains that the crystal must first be filled with spiritual energy, then placed inside the broken realm so its cold mist can freeze and fuse the fragmented space.
Water-element cultivators and spirit stones charge the crystal. Once activated, it releases an overwhelming chill that freezes the surroundings. Protected by his Daoist Meaning armor, Song Shuhang throws the crystal into the damaged secret realm. Its power immediately freezes the fractured spaces and reconnects them, effectively repairing the realm.

Character developments

Song Shuhang continues to demonstrate his growing abilities, resourcefulness, and willingness to help others. His status as the “Thousand Year First Saint” or “Mysterious Saint Ba Song” is reinforced as he becomes the Southern Evergreen Sword Sect’s main hope for resolving the disaster. He also shows practical leadership by organizing the repair process and personally handling the dangerous final step.
White Senior remains supportive and pragmatic, encouraging Song Shuhang to help while making clear that the Southern Evergreen Sword Sect must provide the necessary materials and compensation. Biexue Xianji’s admiration and affection for White Senior are emphasized. The Southern Evergreen Sword Sect elders become increasingly grateful and respectful toward Song Shuhang.

Significant themes

The chapter highlights cooperation: repairing the secret realm requires the combined spiritual energy of many cultivators and the resources of the entire sect. It also explores trust and reciprocity, as Song Shuhang relies on Fairy @#%×’s supposedly reliable technique while the sect promises compensation for his aid. Another major theme is Song Shuhang’s expanding reputation and influence; his intervention not only prevents disaster but also saves the sect’s dignity and preserves the Food Immortal Feast.

Character interactions

The Southern Evergreen Sword Sect elders respectfully ask Song Shuhang for assistance and promise to provide all necessary resources. White Senior endorses the request but reminds the sect that it must bear the costs. Song Shuhang explains the crystal’s function and coordinates with the cultivators supplying water-element energy and spirit stones. Biexue Xianji contributes a practical suggestion to use spirit stones if suitable cultivators are insufficient. Finally, Song Shuhang alone approaches and throws the dangerous crystal into the collapsing realm, completing the repair.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang uses his Armor Intent—actually Saber Intent—to lift and throw the soul-freezing ice crystal into the shattered Southern Everlasting Sword Sect Secret Realm. The crystal rapidly freezes and restores the broken space.
• The Secret Realm is successfully repaired, though it becomes much smaller and entirely frozen. Most of the crystal is consumed; a fingernail-sized remnant seals itself inside an ice pillar at the realm’s center.
• The sect prepares to resume the Immortal Chef Banquet. Senior White smooths the icy ground with a sword strike, while the sect takes responsibility for making the new venue usable.
• Song Shuhang brings the unconscious banquet guests back from his Core World and places each in their reassigned seat.
• The awakened Profound Sages discover that their memories of what happened after the banquet began are missing, though they have gained mysterious insights into the Law. The other guests awaken blind, their eyesight apparently affected by the Star River.
• Fairy Bie Xue decides to serve the Nether River Realm specialty Demon Eye, a featured dish said to be a valuable opportunity for Peak Fifth-Grade cultivators, particularly for advancing the final stroke of their Golden Core Diagram.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang feels relieved that the Secret Realm is restored, since he believes he shared responsibility for its destruction. His precise, large-scale transfer of the guests impresses the Southern Everlasting Sword Sect and prompts Fairy Bie Xue to note his remarkable growth.
• The sect disciples idolize Song Shuhang’s dramatic throw and his “Armor Intent,” mistaking his Saber Intent for armor. Song hears their praise but no longer bothers correcting them.
• Senior White praises Shuhang, then eagerly turns the focus back to restarting the banquet. Fairy Bie Xue and the sect elder cooperate to rebuild the event venue and kitchen.
• The Profound Sages speculate about their missing memories and the strange benefits they received. Winter Melon Sage Lord reassures the blind guests that their sight should return.

Significant themes

• Repair and responsibility: Shuhang helps mend damage he feels partly responsible for, while the sect begins planning how to manage its altered Secret Realm.
• Reputation and misunderstanding: The disciples’ admiration boosts Shuhang’s image, even as they misidentify his technique.
• Unexpected gains from hardship: The guests’ blindness and memory loss follow a mysterious experience that also seems to have granted the Profound Sages insights and may be addressed through a rare banquet dish.
• Community and recovery: The sect, Shuhang, Senior White, and Fairy Bie Xue work together to restore the venue and resume the gathering.