Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• Fairy Eastern Six discovers that Song Shuhang’s Ninth Dragon Pattern depicts her. Shuhang explains that the pattern reflects whoever looks at it, like a mirror—a power he calls showing the “True Self.”
• Eastern Six accepts this explanation, then eagerly helps Shuhang turn the pattern into a prank. They decide to target Venerable Yellow Mountain, with Eastern Six pretending to be deeply disturbed by what she saw.
• Yellow Mountain examines the pattern and sees his own reflection. Misreading Eastern Six’s dramatic behavior and the pattern’s unusual effect, he worries that Shuhang has romantic feelings for several young women but chose to immortalize him instead.
• Shuhang explains the mirror-like ability, but Yellow Mountain ends the exchange with a cryptic warning: “If you don’t court death, you won’t die.”
• The scene then jumps to the next morning. Shuhang wakes on a small boat at sea beside Senior White, confused about where he is and how he got there.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is pleased by his prank at first, but becomes flustered when Eastern Six turns the joke back on him. He remains honest about being attracted to Soft Feather, Su Clan’s Sixteen, and Ye Si.
• Fairy Eastern Six shifts from surprise to amusement and quickly embraces her role as co-conspirator, using a grave performance to bait Yellow Mountain.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain reacts with unexpected intensity, interpreting the reflection as a sign of Shuhang’s feelings and questioning him about his relationships. His concern gives way to an ominous warning.
• Doudou refuses to leave Shuhang, but Yellow Mountain tickles him until he lets go, adding a brief comic interruption.
• Senior White appears in the closing scene beside the bewildered Shuhang, setting up an unexplained new situation.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus self-perception: The Ninth Dragon Pattern acts as a mirror, prompting characters to confront their own image.
• Miscommunication and comic misunderstanding: Eastern Six’s staged reaction leads Yellow Mountain to draw mistaken conclusions.
• Pranks and consequences: A harmless joke spirals into awkward questions—and perhaps trouble for Shuhang.
• Uncertainty and abrupt transitions: The unexplained boat scene leaves both Shuhang and the reader wondering what happened.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang wakes aboard a small boat in the gray dawn, unsure why he fell asleep. Senior White’s unusually evasive answers make him suspect something is wrong.
• He discovers Senior White is livestreaming their voyage through the dangerous Chaotic Sea Region. The cultivation-world app was developed by Yellow Mountain’s team, and the audience quickly fills with members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• The person acting as “Senior White” is actually a clone. The clone has brought along the real Senior White, still in seclusion and shaped like a statue, and uses him—swinging him by a rope—as a direction finder. This points the boat toward Tiantian Island.
• Their route requires entering the Chaotic Sea Region to find an Age-Changing Strange Fruit. Senior White hopes it might restore his body to a preferred adult age, though the fruit can produce wildly unpredictable results.
• As the boat enters the region, the weather turns violently stormy, and a huge whirlpool appears beneath it, swallowing the boat.

Character development and interactions

• Song Shuhang moves from confusion to alarm as he realizes the livestreaming Senior White is a reckless clone. He is especially uneasy when fellow cultivators jokingly call him an accomplice and speculate about his future death.
• Senior White’s clone is playful and dangerously casual, treating the main body as a tool and dismissing the risk of dying because another clone would deal with the consequences.
• Senior White’s main body remains unconscious in seclusion, while the clone directs the voyage.
• The livestream audience reacts with a mix of amusement, concern, and admiration. Some viewers prefer Senior White’s cute small form, while Soft Feather and Su Clan’s Sixteen express interest in getting the strange fruit for their own reasons.

Significant themes

• Comedy through danger: A perilous expedition is treated as entertainment, especially when Senior White’s clone uses his own main body as a navigation device.
• Identity and bodily change: The Age-Changing Strange Fruit raises questions about appearance and age, with characters hoping to change their forms despite its unpredictable effects.
• Recklessness and responsibility: The clone’s cavalier attitude contrasts with Song Shuhang’s apprehension and the audience’s warnings, foreshadowing trouble as the voyage enters the Chaotic Sea Region.

Key plot points and events

• A sea calamity drags Song Shuhang, Senior White’s Clone, and their wooden boat into the Chaotic Sea Region’s depths. The vortex separates Song from the clone and boat.
• Song’s Core World is inaccessible because the region blocks or delays the connection. Unable to summon Ninth-Grade Senior Turtle, he must fend for himself.
• Sea Urchin Warriors attack Song because of his Sea Urchin Slayer Mark. Their squad leader recognizes him as Tyrant Song and retreats, since their Sea King has ordered them not to fight him.
• Song asks the Warriors to search for Senior White and a mysterious statue, but they find neither. He then asks about the “Chaotic Age” fruit; the squad leader knows nothing of it, having recently moved to the area.
• Song decides to head for Tiantian Island instead. The squad leader agrees to guide him as far as the island’s protective formation allows. Song traps the leader in a guardrail and sets off on two Squid Tyrant Blades.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful despite being stranded, but his frustration grows as his usual supports—Senior White, Senior Turtle, and his Core World—are unavailable.
• Merit Snake Beauty discovers she enjoys stealing other people’s lines, copying the Sea Urchin Warriors’ threats with evident satisfaction.
• The Sea Urchin Warrior squad leader shifts from hostility to cautious cooperation once Song’s identity and the Sea King’s orders become clear. It reluctantly agrees to help, though Song keeps it in custody for the journey.

Significant themes

• Comic misfortune and improvisation: Song repeatedly loses access to familiar allies and resources, forcing him to adapt.
• Reputation and authority: Song’s identity as Tyrant Song changes the Warriors’ behavior, overriding their initial hostility.
• Imitation and performance: Merit Snake Beauty’s line-stealing becomes a playful new hobby.
• Reluctant cooperation: The Warriors claim to fear no one, yet their loyalty to the Sea King and respect for Song shape their choices.

Character interactions

• Song and Merit Snake Beauty work together against the attackers; she escalates the threats while he reveals his status.
• The squad leader and Song trade awkward questions and answers, especially about the fruit and Tiantian Island.
• Song persuades the Warriors to search for Senior White by having Merit Snake Beauty repeat their own threats against the squad leader’s family.
• The chapter ends with Song taking the squad leader along as a captive guide toward Tiantian Island.

Plot points and events

• Song Shuhang tries to fly with the twin Squid Tyrant Blades, but struggles to control their spacing. As they drift apart, he ends up performing a perfect split while flying. He has the Sea Urchin Warrior captain guide him out of the Chaotic Sea Region toward Lanxi Island, near Tiantian Island.
• Shuhang reflects that it is Monday and classes have resumed. Worried that his unstable clone might explode in class, he has Tree Demon Qingwu impersonate him at university instead.
• Qingwu spends the morning enjoying sunlight and preparing breakfast for Shuhang’s roommates. Her comments about photosynthesis and her unusually feminine manner make the roommates suspect that “Shuhang” has changed—or may need a psychologist. Qingwu realizes her smile is also giving her disguise away and resolves to improve her imitation.
• After leaving the Chaotic Sea Region, Shuhang regains his connection to the Core World and speaks with Senior Turtle, who has never heard of the region. Shuhang reaches Lanxi Island, learns that Tiantian Island is nearby but protected by a formation, and messages its lord to announce his arrival.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains resourceful but inexperienced at Blade Flight; his absurd midair split contrasts with his attempt to appear cool and dignified. He is cautious about risking his classmates’ safety with an unstable clone.
• Tree Demon Qingwu is earnest about her mission and grateful for the chance to enjoy the Present World. She is also increasingly attentive to human habits, though her tree-like instincts and mannerisms make her disguise imperfect.
• The roommates notice the changes in “Shuhang” and tease one another about romance and being single, unaware that Qingwu is impersonating him.
• The Sea Urchin Warrior captain reluctantly helps Shuhang out of loyalty to the Sea King, then flees rather than accept a likely unwelcome “reward.”
• Senior Turtle offers help in the sea but is intrigued by the Chaotic Sea Region’s unusual ability to block the Core World.

Significant themes

• Comedy through incongruity: Shuhang’s epic split and Qingwu’s tree-related comments puncture attempts at seriousness.
• Identity and imitation: Qingwu’s disguise shows how subtle expressions and habits can reveal who someone really is.
• Trust and responsibility: Shuhang prioritizes his classmates’ safety and relies on allies while pursuing his goal.
• Mystery and discovery: The Chaotic Sea Region’s unusual properties suggest it may be a powerful, unexplored place.

• Events: After a whirlpool separates Song Shuhang from Senior White in the Chaotic Sea Region, Shuhang arrives alone at Lanxi Island. Senior White is still searching for an exotic fruit and cannot be reached, so the group worries about Shuhang’s safety—especially given the instability in his cultivation technique. Yellow Mountain asks the island’s members to keep an eye on him, though neither is available immediately. Shuhang says Senior Turtle can protect him and decides to explore the island.
• A concern back home: True Lord Eternal Fire tells Shuhang that an unidentified Rogue Cultivator Daoist recently approached his family. Shuhang knows nothing about the visitor and asks for the matter to be watched. He calls his mother, partly to ask whether anyone came by and partly to introduce her to the idea of supernatural powers. Misreading his hesitant questions as anxiety about the family’s expected second child, Mom Song reassures him that her love will not change. Shuhang gives up trying to explain over the phone; his mother later searches for uplifting advice about having another child.
• Character developments and interactions: Shuhang begins considering how to tell his family about his cultivation now that he has reached the Fifth-Grade Realm, but discovers that the conversation is harder than expected. He also assigns his disciple, Sparrow Demon Little Cai, to watch his home and discreetly record the Daoist if he returns. Little Cai is enthusiastic, having long wanted a chance to help, and sets off using a navigation system she bought with Spirit Stones. Shuhang forgets to discuss her mission’s reward before she leaves. Lonely without company on the island, he spots the repaired Puppet Fairy as a potential companion.
• Themes: The chapter contrasts the strange, high-stakes world of cultivation with ordinary family life and affectionate misunderstandings. It also emphasizes Shuhang’s growing sense of responsibility toward his family and disciples, alongside the friends’ concern for one another.

Key plot points and events

• Puppet Fairy is nearly repaired, and Song Shuhang takes her for a walk around Lanxi Island. She says little, collects discarded objects, and weaves an ordinary wire-and-marble tower. After blessing it, she makes it irresistible to passersby.
• Puppet Fairy repeatedly trades blessed objects for increasingly valuable goods. The trading spree ends when she exchanges a pipe for a small restaurant. The transfer is quickly made official, leaving Song Shuhang unexpectedly the restaurant’s owner.
• With no cook, Song recruits his disciple Chu Chu from the Core World. She can prepare simple dishes, so she creates a multilingual menu and takes charge of the kitchen. Song jokingly tells her the restaurant is part of his “Red-Dust Tempering.”
• While waiting for customers, Song reads about a supposedly prehistoric island whose residents speak Chinese. Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman reveals he had secretly wired the island; Northern River’s Loose Cultivator adds that the people have also been taught a group martial-art routine, thanks to Joseph.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group discusses mechanical soldiers and human mechanization after Puppet Fairy prompts the topic. Song also reports that his Sage Seal’s “Known Throughout the World” effect no longer affects ordinary people unless he summons it.
• The restaurant is quiet until a disheveled blonde girl arrives, speaks in a voice with an electronic quality, and orders ten dishes. Song suspects she may be a Mechanical Augmented Human, especially given the group’s recent discussion, but her ability to eat normally leaves the question unresolved.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang shifts from a casual stroll to accidental restaurant ownership and an improvised attempt at running a business. He remains bemused by events and uses humor to cope with the absurdity.
• Puppet Fairy shows creativity and initiative: she crafts and blesses objects, recognizes a trace of good fortune on a cheap ring, and conducts a succession of trades. Though mostly repaired, she remains quiet and moves awkwardly.
• Chu Chu proves capable and practical, readily taking on cooking and organizing the restaurant despite being surprised by her master’s request.
• The blonde customer is introduced as mysterious: doll-like in appearance, with a strangely clear voice and an uncertain connection to mechanical augmentation.

Significant themes

• Chance and unexpected opportunity: A casual outing turns into a business venture through a chain of unlikely trades.
• Cultivation in everyday life: Puppet Fairy’s blessing transforms mundane objects into coveted treasures, while cultivators discuss ordinary businesses, food, and technology.
• Technology and the human body: The group debates whether mechanization can rival cultivation—and what might be lost when flesh is replaced by machinery.
• Humor amid the extraordinary: Song’s sudden career change, the island’s strange cultural reports, and the group’s irreverent banter ground the supernatural events in comedy.

Character interactions

• Song tries to understand Puppet Fairy’s gestures and later asks about her crafting and the ring’s fortune. Her silence contrasts with the lively commotion her blessed objects cause.
• Song assigns Chu Chu the role of chef; she accepts respectfully but is plainly taken aback. Their exchange highlights his casual, improvisational approach to being her master.
• Song shares the island article and restaurant news with the Nine Provinces group, prompting teasing, speculation, and discussion with Seven Lives Talisman, Northern River, and others.
• Chu Chu serves the blonde customer without noticing anything unusual, while Song watches her closely and consults the group about what kind of being she might be.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mad Saber Three Waves and the other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group continue joking about the blonde mechanical girl’s eating habits and whether she consumes normal food.
• Chu Chu prepares ten dishes rapidly in the restaurant kitchen. The blonde girl refuses to eat until all ten dishes have been served, then devours them at extraordinary speed.
• After finishing, the girl stacks the plates and presents them to Song Shuhang, declaring that she has “completed” the task.
• Song Shuhang discovers that eating all ten dishes and returning the plates was a password test. The girl expected the restaurant’s owner to recognize the password and arrange an emergency escape route.
• Song Shuhang explains that he recently bought the restaurant and does not provide such services. The girl realizes she has come to the wrong place because the former owner—who supposedly handled such escapes—is gone.
• A misunderstanding reveals that the former owner apparently ran away with his sister-in-law, not his wife, further confusing the situation.
• Before leaving, the girl is stopped because she has not paid. Song Shuhang charges her 200 yuan after Chu Chu calculates the meal’s cost at 260 yuan.
• The girl pays with unfamiliar currency and rushes out, but immediately returns, asking Song Shuhang whether the restaurant has somewhere to hide.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains calm and practical despite the increasingly bizarre situation. He treats the mechanical girl like an ordinary customer, insists that she pay, and tries to understand the restaurant’s former secret function.
• Chu Chu demonstrates impressive cooking speed and efficiency, preparing ten dishes quickly while maintaining competent restaurant service.
• The blonde mechanical girl is shown to be extremely hungry, physically powerful, and mechanically unusual. She follows a specific password protocol but becomes increasingly anxious when the restaurant cannot provide the escape service she expected.
• The Nine Provinces Number One Group members continue offering absurd speculation and teasing commentary, especially about the girl’s mechanical nature and eating habits.
• The former shopkeeper is indirectly characterized as someone involved in clandestine escape arrangements and possibly as a man who eloped with his sister-in-law.

Significant Themes

• Miscommunication and mistaken identity: The girl assumes Song Shuhang inherited the former owner’s operations, while Song Shuhang knows nothing about the password or escape business.
• The ordinary colliding with the extraordinary: A normal restaurant meal becomes part of a secret emergency protocol involving a mechanical customer and a hidden escape network.
• Absurdity and comedic misunderstanding: The chapter builds humor through the “password” being ten finished dishes, the confusion over the former owner’s relationship, and the girl paying with unknown currency.
• Responsibility and practicality: Despite the chaos, Song Shuhang focuses on straightforward matters such as collecting payment and avoiding a financial loss.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang exchanges humorous messages with the group, who mock the situation and make wild guesses about the girl.
• Chu Chu serves both Song Shuhang and the restaurant’s first customer, proving her value as a cook and helper.
• Song Shuhang questions the blonde girl about the password, gradually uncovering her expectations and the former restaurant’s hidden role.
• The blonde girl’s panic contrasts with Song Shuhang’s composure. Her return at the end—asking for a hiding place—suggests that she is being pursued and that the restaurant may soon become involved in her emergency.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang’s newly acquired restaurant receives two unusual groups of customers. First, a golden-haired girl with a mechanically modified eye hides beneath the cashier’s counter, apparently fleeing someone.
• Six burly men in black suits enter and order ten dishes. They wait until every dish is served before rapidly eating everything, suggesting they are also involved in some urgent pursuit.
• After paying, one of the men warns Song Shuhang to change the restaurant’s sign, implying the establishment may attract trouble. The group leaves, but the same man soon returns badly injured and asks for a place to hide.
• Misinterpreting Song Shuhang’s glance toward the counter, the large man tries to hide beneath it and discovers the golden-haired girl already there. He jokingly assumes Song Shuhang has an inappropriate hobby, creating an embarrassing misunderstanding.
• The injured man attempts to flee again but is blasted back into the restaurant by a tattooed, smoke-covered pursuer. The pursuer seals the doors and windows with black smoke and demands the Ancient Demon Core, claiming that only he is worthy of possessing it.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains calm and practical despite increasingly bizarre and dangerous events. He handles the customers professionally, negotiates payment, and tries to keep order even while fugitives hide in his restaurant.
• Chu Chu acts as the restaurant’s efficient assistant, taking orders and preparing the large quantity of food at high speed. She also reinforces the humorous impression that Song Shuhang appears harmless and easy to bully.
• The golden-haired girl is revealed to be resourceful and quick, immediately recognizing the restaurant as a hiding place and silently signaling Song Shuhang to protect her.
• The suited burly man initially appears intimidating but proves polite, generous, and unexpectedly trusting. His desperation becomes clear when he returns injured and seeks refuge.
• The tattooed man is introduced as a powerful and threatening antagonist. His supernatural black smoke and fixation on the Ancient Demon Core establish him as a cultivator pursuing the others.

Significant Themes

• Absurdity amid danger: Serious pursuit and supernatural conflict are contrasted with ordinary restaurant business, food orders, payments, and awkward misunderstandings.
• Unexpected refuge and hospitality: Song Shuhang’s restaurant becomes a temporary shelter for people being hunted, even though he has not intentionally involved himself in their conflict.
• Misunderstanding and appearances: The burly man’s mistaken interpretation of the girl hiding under the counter creates comedy, while the men’s ordinary customer behavior conceals their urgent circumstances.
• Power and possession: The tattooed pursuer’s claim that only he deserves the Ancient Demon Core introduces a struggle over who is worthy or entitled to control powerful treasures.

Character Interactions

• The golden-haired girl silently asks Song Shuhang for protection, and he reluctantly allows her to hide beneath the counter.
• Song Shuhang and Chu Chu work together to serve the suited men, with Chu Chu preparing their ten dishes and Song Shuhang handling the payment.
• The burly man gives Song Shuhang practical advice about changing the restaurant’s sign, then returns to ask for shelter.
• Upon finding the girl under the counter, the burly man jokingly misjudges Song Shuhang’s relationship with her, embarrassing Song Shuhang.
• The tattooed pursuer violently interrupts the exchange, attacks the burly man, traps everyone inside the restaurant, and confronts the hidden conflict over the Ancient Demon Core.

Key plot points and events

• A burly man, apparently cornered by a patterned curse practitioner, offers to reveal the location of an Ancient Demon Core in exchange for his life. The patterned man agrees—until Song Shuhang’s phone rings, breaking the tense moment.
• Song answers a call from Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman, who asks him to capture an evil cultivator recently seen on Lanxi Island. The man is a Third Stage cultivator whose technique lets him fight at roughly Fourth Stage, but is vulnerable to holy and righteous powers, including Song’s Merit Light.
• Seven Lives Talisman sends a description and photo. Song realizes the intruder in his restaurant is the very cultivator he was asked to capture.
• Song theatrically recites lines to provoke recognition. When his Sage Seal appears, the patterned man identifies him as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song.
• Song asks whether the man will surrender or be subdued, then confronts him about the villagers he killed on Tiger Fang Mountain. A heavy pressure falls over the cultivator.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang remains outwardly composed despite finding the intruder’s dramatic treasure claim amusing. He uses humor and theatrics, but becomes stern when the man’s past crimes surface.
• Chu Chu sympathizes with the victim of another treasure dispute, recalling how the Void Sword Sect’s greed harmed her clan and left her with lasting injuries. She offers to intervene, but Song warns that the enemy is beyond her current strength.
• The patterned cultivator is shown to be greedy and dangerous, but also terrified once he recognizes Song’s reputation.
• Seven Lives Talisman continues pursuing an old vow to punish the cultivator, reflecting his habit of making many promises when young.
• Merit Snake Beauty mischievously imitates Song’s voice and steals his lines for later use.

Significant themes

• Greed and conflict: Powerful treasures invite violence and exploitation.
• Justice and accountability: Song’s confrontation ties the present encounter to the cultivator’s past crimes against innocent villagers.
• Reputation and recognition: Song’s fame can be useful, though recent events have weakened its usual effect.
• Humor amid danger: Song’s ringtone, deadpan demeanor, and poetic taunts undercut the tension without erasing the threat.
• Consequences of vows: Seven Lives Talisman’s old promises illustrate how youthful commitments can become lifelong burdens.

Character interactions

• Chu Chu privately discusses the danger with Song, who assesses the cultivator’s strength and keeps her from taking an unwinnable fight.
• Song’s call with Seven Lives Talisman happens in front of the intruders, while Puppet Fairy discreetly soundproofs the conversation to protect bystanders.
• Song and Merit Snake Beauty exchange a comic, indirect “performance” as she repeats his lines.
• The patterned man questions Song’s identity, then recognizes him after the Sage Seal appears; Song immediately challenges him over his crimes.

Key plot points and events

• An evil cultivator breaks into Song Shuhang’s restaurant to steal an Ancient Demon Core. Recognizing that Song Shuhang knows about his past killings at Tiger Fang Mountain, he assumes he is doomed and considers how to fake his death while preserving his resurrection method.
• The cultivator lunges at a burly man, apparently to take him hostage. Song Shuhang intercepts the attack with one finger; the power of his gauntlet burns the attacker’s palm and sends him crashing through a table.
• The cultivator launches a curse powered by Nine Nether Evil Energy. Song Shuhang’s transparent lotus absorbs the energy instantly.
• Desperate, the cultivator casts a life-consuming curse to summon You Be Busy T233. The summoned being recognizes Song Shuhang, greets him, and promptly departs—leaving the caster with a polite notice that it has gone offline.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang remains calm and protective, effortlessly blocking the attack and neutralizing both curses. His casual greeting also shows he recognizes T233.
• The patterned man shifts from plotting an escape to launching increasingly dangerous attacks, but each attempt fails. His final reaction is bewilderment when his summoned ally abandons him.
• The burly man proves more considerate than his appearance suggests: he warns Song Shuhang to flee and tells him not to risk himself.
• The golden-haired girl watches from hiding, alerting others to danger. Her scientific worldview is shaken by the supernatural powers she witnesses, and she becomes curious about Puppet Fairy.
• Puppet Fairy points out that the destroyed tables belong to her, adding a comic note amid the fight.
• T233 is busy with its own work and offers the attacker no help, despite being summoned at great cost.

Significant themes and tone

• The scene contrasts the patterned man’s lethal seriousness with Song Shuhang’s effortless defense and T233’s absurdly mundane “urgent matter.”
• Supernatural power clashes with scientific assumptions, especially through the girl’s bewilderment.
• The chapter mixes danger, comedy, and casual character banter, including the narrator’s closing note about the author missing a perfect-attendance bonus.

Chapter 1490 Summary: “Strong Like a Monster”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The patterned man’s attempt to summon the will of Senior Nine Nether’s pet unexpectedly fails when the summoned will abruptly withdraws, apparently recognizing and greeting Song Shuhang.
• Desperate to end the battle quickly, the patterned man uses “Lion’s Consecutive Slash,” a powerful claw attack infused with sharp Saber Qi.
• Song Shuhang effortlessly deflects every slash with a casual flick and then sends the attacker crashing into the restaurant wall with a single slap. The force of the attack amazes the blonde mechanical girl, who concludes that Song Shuhang is “strong like a monster.”
• Song Shuhang reveals that he has been deliberately holding back because he wants to capture the patterned man alive.
• When the patterned man attempts to escape by breaking through the restaurant wall, Song Shuhang transports everyone into the Summer Palace Plaza through a Real Illusion.
• To prevent escape, Song Shuhang summons the Four Kings’ Walls and seals the area with the Cat Demon Fairy’s Divine Gate.
• Rather than imprisoning the patterned man indefinitely, Song Shuhang decides to use him as a live combat instructor for his disciple Chuchu.
• Song Shuhang offers the patterned man freedom if he can defeat Chuchu, a Second-Rank cultivator, within half an hour.
• Chuchu begins fighting the Fourth-Rank curse master. Though initially overwhelmed by the difference in cultivation levels, she is protected by Song Shuhang’s Daoist Meaning Armor.
• With her defenses secured, Chuchu attacks aggressively and forces the patterned man to retreat.
• Meanwhile, the blonde girl and the burly restaurant worker return to the diner. The burly man has witnessed everyone disappearing and reappearing, leaving him stunned. The Puppet Fairy suggests erasing his memories.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates overwhelming strength, casually defeating a powerful opponent while carefully controlling his attacks. His actions show both confidence and strategic thinking.
• The patterned man shifts from aggressive confidence to fear and desperation after realizing Song Shuhang intends to capture him alive. His pride is challenged when he is reduced to a training opponent for Chuchu, though the possibility of freedom persuades him to cooperate.
• Chuchu shows courage despite being two major realms weaker than her opponent. She begins gaining practical combat experience with the Thirty-Three Beast Innate Qi Technique and learns to fight without fear after receiving Song Shuhang’s protection.
• The blonde mechanical girl becomes increasingly fascinated and confused by cultivation techniques. Her scientific knowledge cannot explain Song Shuhang’s illusions, summoned walls, or supernatural strength.
• The burly man remains an ordinary observer whose worldview is shaken by the supernatural events in the restaurant.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and restraint: Song Shuhang’s true strength is emphasized by how easily he defeats the patterned man without using lethal force.
• Turning enemies into resources: Instead of simply imprisoning or killing the patterned man, Song Shuhang uses him as a sparring partner to help Chuchu develop.
• Growth through adversity: Chuchu’s battle represents the importance of facing stronger opponents to gain experience and confidence.
• Conflict between science and cultivation: The blonde girl’s inability to explain the supernatural events highlights the limits of purely scientific understanding.
• Pride versus survival: The patterned man objects to being treated as a training target, but ultimately accepts the challenge because it offers a chance to escape.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang taunts the patterned man about his failed summoning spell and offers him several absurd alternative versions of the incantation.
• The patterned man attacks Song Shuhang but is effortlessly slapped aside, realizing that Song Shuhang has been holding back.
• Song Shuhang encourages Chuchu and secretly equips her with Daoist Meaning Armor, allowing her to fight a much stronger opponent safely.
• Chuchu and the patterned man engage in a battle that combines her swordsmanship with Song Shuhang’s defensive protection.
• The blonde girl observes Song Shuhang’s abilities with astonishment, while the Puppet Fairy focuses on the practical consequences, including the damaged restaurant and the need to erase the burly man’s memories.

Chapter Summary: “From Today On, I’ll Study Hard”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Puppet Fairy decides to erase the memories of the burly man and the blonde girl so they cannot expose the restaurant or continually return seeking supernatural assistance.
• Using Song Shuhang’s brightly glowing Merit Finger as a distraction, Puppet Fairy secretly casts a memory-erasure spell on the burly man. He forgets who he is, where he is, and what happened inside the restaurant.
• The confused man leaves and discovers that his subordinates are unconscious outside. Unable to remember the incident, he begins thinking about a mysterious treasure he recently acquired—an object that emits an evil, seductive voice. He considers having it appraised or selling it through the Lanxi Island auction.
• Puppet Fairy prepares to erase the blonde girl’s memories as well, with Song Shuhang assisting by creating another flash of Merit Light.
• Before the process can happen, a group of invisible pursuers arrives to capture the girl. They communicate through extremely low-frequency sound and identify her location using advanced equipment.
• The pursuers mistake Song Shuhang for an ordinary shopkeeper who is attempting to molest the girl. They fire a tranquilizer dart at him, but he catches it easily. When they fire again from behind, Merit Snake Beauty secretly deflects the dart.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang recognizes that he lacks practical knowledge of useful minor spells, such as sound barriers, concealment techniques, and memory erasure. He resolves to begin studying seriously so he can become a more dependable senior rather than relying only on a few techniques like Charging Technique and Palm Thunder.
• He also demonstrates increased awareness and confidence in his abilities, immediately detecting the invisible pursuers and effortlessly stopping their tranquilizer darts.
• Puppet Fairy remains pragmatic and focused on avoiding unnecessary trouble. She treats memory erasure as a convenient solution and scolds Song Shuhang for neglecting practical spell studies, despite refusing to teach him herself.
• The burly man loses his recent memories but retains vague awareness of the dangerous treasure he possesses, setting up a future problem involving the artifact.
• The blonde girl is revealed to be a wanted “experimental subject” pursued by a technologically advanced group. Her fear shows that she understands the danger posed by her pursuers.

Significant Themes

• Practical cultivation and self-improvement: Song Shuhang realizes that becoming powerful is not enough; he must also master everyday utility spells.
• The conflict between supernatural cultivation and technology: The pursuers use invisibility, low-frequency communication, X-ray vision, and tranquilizer weapons, presenting a scientific counterpart to cultivators’ techniques.
• Avoiding responsibility versus becoming reliable: Puppet Fairy wants to eliminate troublesome connections, while Song Shuhang increasingly aims to act like a responsible and capable senior.
• Misunderstanding and hidden identities: The pursuers misinterpret Song Shuhang’s actions, while the burly man leaves with no understanding of what happened or what the restaurant truly is.

Character Interactions

• Puppet Fairy instructs Song Shuhang to use his Merit Finger as a blinding distraction and criticizes his limited knowledge of minor spells.
• Song Shuhang silently communicates with the blonde girl, confirming that the people outside are searching for her.
• The pursuers misread Song Shuhang’s posture and assume he is an ordinary lust-driven shopkeeper, prompting them to attack him.
• Song Shuhang catches the first tranquilizer dart, while Merit Snake Beauty deflects the second, leaving the invisible attackers confused and unaware of the true strength of the people inside.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang is attacked in his restaurant by a group of invisible assailants using tranquilizer guns. His multiple defensive protections—including the Merit Snake Beauty, the Overbearing Expert’s Shield, Black Iron God Armor, and spiritual energy—make the darts ineffective.
• A Space Gate suddenly appears, and Lord Chu Two, a young woman in a black dress, emerges. The Merit Snake Beauty protects Song Shuhang while he investigates the unexpected arrival.
• Lord Chu Two teases Song Shuhang for appearing to sit still while being attacked, misunderstanding that he is merely pretending to be inactive.
• Song Shuhang confronts the invisible attackers and defeats the first three with powerful palm strikes. Their invisibility equipment is destroyed, and they are left badly injured.
• Rather than defeating the remaining attackers, Song Shuhang evaluates their practical abilities and recruits two of them to work in his restaurant:
  • The fourth attacker can bake cakes and prepare salads.
  • The fifth can make ice cream and shaved ice.
• The sixth attacker is spared because he deliberately avoided firing at Song Shuhang out of concern that the tranquilizer dose might harm him. Song Shuhang uses his Merit Finger, allowing Puppet Fairy to erase the man’s memories before sending him away.
• Lord Chu Two questions Song Shuhang about the whereabouts of her head and “What Can Be Sold.” Song Shuhang denies knowing anything.
• The chapter ends with Lord Chu Two repeating Song Shuhang’s earlier accusation—“You don’t know anything, so why are you even hanging around?”—creating a comic reversal.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang demonstrates overwhelming defensive ability and combat power, effortlessly neutralizing modern weapons and invisible opponents. He also displays his pragmatic and mischievous personality by turning attackers into restaurant employees instead of simply defeating them.
• Lord Chu Two is introduced or reintroduced as calm, powerful, and eccentric. She remains focused on recovering her missing head and locating “What Can Be Sold,” while casually observing Song Shuhang’s behavior.
• The invisible attackers shift from threatening enemies to comic victims and reluctant employees. Their differing skills and personalities become apparent, especially the cautious sixth attacker’s concern for Song Shuhang’s safety.
• The blonde girl becomes fascinated by Song Shuhang’s strength, interpreting it through the lens of scientific research and speculating about superpowers, biotechnology, and genetic enhancement.
• Puppet Fairy quietly assists Song Shuhang by erasing the sixth attacker’s memories.

Significant Themes

• Power versus technology: The attackers rely on invisibility gear, tranquilizer guns, and firearms, but Song Shuhang’s supernatural defenses and techniques render their technology useless.
• Violence transformed into absurdity: A potentially deadly ambush becomes a comedic recruitment process, with defeated enemies assigned kitchen duties.
• Pragmatism and opportunism: Song Shuhang evaluates people by their usefulness and turns an attack into an opportunity to staff his restaurant.
• Knowledge and curiosity: The blonde girl’s fear is overcome by her intense desire to understand Song Shuhang’s abilities, emphasizing the attraction of the unknown.
• Identity, memory, and secrecy: Puppet Fairy’s memory-erasing spell and Song Shuhang’s evasive answers reinforce the importance of hiding supernatural truths.
• Comic role reversal: The final exchange mirrors the chapter’s opening, with Lord Chu Two turning Song Shuhang’s own words back against him.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and the attackers: He mocks, questions, defeats, and ultimately recruits them based on their culinary skills.
• Song Shuhang and Lord Chu Two: Their conversation is teasing and evasive. Lord Chu Two comments on his behavior, while Song Shuhang tries to conceal information about her head and “What Can Be Sold.”
• Song Shuhang and the sixth attacker: Song Shuhang rewards the attacker’s restraint by sparing him, though he erases his memory to protect his secrets.
• Lord Chu Two and Song Shuhang: Their interaction concludes with a humorous verbal reversal that highlights their antagonistic but playful dynamic.

Chapter 1493 Summary: The Headless Knight’s Class Change Opportunity

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Shuhang pleads with Lord Chu Two not to attack him, worried that her Eternal Life-level power could kill him while his Resurrection Gold Coin remains on cooldown.
• Lord Chu Two demands information about the mysterious merchant “What Can Be Sold,” whom she believes possesses her missing head. Song Shuhang can only offer the contact information of the merchant’s disciple, “Anything For Sale.”
• Song explains that Anything For Sale is also searching for her master, so she likely cannot help locate What Can Be Sold.
• Frustrated, Lord Chu Two decides that Song Shuhang’s head could serve as a temporary replacement for her own. She seriously prepares to unscrew it.
• Song desperately negotiates, arguing that removing his head would kill him and questioning whether another solution is possible.
• Lord Chu Two explains that she accepts Song’s head because:
  1. She knows him and considers him a friend.
  2. He was the first person she saw after being resurrected, creating a sense of familiarity.
  3. His surname, “Song,” gives him additional appeal.
• Song delays the procedure by suggesting they wait until after dessert. He secretly considers escaping into his Core World, using a clone as a distraction, or finding another suitable “head” among his possessions.
• The chapter ends with Song opening the Nine Provinces Number One Group and wondering whether he possesses any usable head-like materials besides Lord Chu One’s head.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang becomes increasingly desperate and resourceful as he tries to avoid losing his head. His fear is balanced by quick thinking, as he considers clones, escape routes, and alternative materials.
• Lord Chu Two is shown to be calm, literal-minded, and disturbingly casual about dismemberment. Her fixation on recovering or replacing her head reveals both her abnormal post-resurrection condition and her emotional attachment to Song.
• The blonde mechanical girl becomes frightened and confused by the conversation, interpreting it through the lens of ghost stories about headless riders.
• Puppet Fairy remains motionless and unresponsive, providing no immediate assistance.

Significant Themes

• Identity and bodily integrity: Lord Chu Two’s missing head raises questions about whether identity depends on the original body or can be preserved through replacement and fusion.
• Immortality and resurrection: The discussion of revival coins, Eternal Life-level beings, and head replacement explores the strange consequences of surviving death.
• Friendship and attachment: Lord Chu Two’s willingness to use Song’s head is unsettling, but her reasons reveal a genuine sense of familiarity and affection.
• Dark comedy: Terrifying ideas—unscrewing someone’s head, preserving a headless body, and merging lives—are treated with mundane seriousness, creating a comic contrast.
• Ingenuity under pressure: Song’s survival depends on delaying, negotiating, and improvising rather than confronting Lord Chu Two directly.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang and Lord Chu Two: The central interaction is a tense but absurd negotiation. Song tries to preserve his life while Lord Chu Two calmly insists on using his head.
• Song Shuhang and the blonde girl: Their situation is observed from her perspective, emphasizing how horrifying and bizarre their conversation appears to an outsider.
• Song Shuhang and Puppet Fairy: Song looks to the Puppet Fairy for possible help, but she remains completely still.
• Lord Chu Two and the absent merchants: Her conversation with Song establishes her ongoing pursuit of What Can Be Sold and her belief that buying back her original head is possible.

Key plot points

• Song Shuhang asks the Nine Provinces Number One Group how to survive having his head removed by Pavilion Master Chu Two. He cannot defeat her, his resurrection artifact is on cooldown, and he wants a substitute head.
• The group offers little help. Senior Skylark jokes that she could spare a head, prompting Shuhang to remember the many still-vital parts of her body stored in his Core World. Bringing one into the Present World could attract the Calamity Giant Tortoise.
• At the restaurant, Shuhang persuades Pavilion Master Chu Two to consider Skylark’s head instead of his own, emphasizing its immortality aura. She agrees to inspect it, but gives him only five days to make the arrangements.
• Before leaving, Pavilion Master Chu Two warns that portals from several worlds are converging near the island. One leads to the Celestial Human Realm, whose inhabitants hunt cultivators with Golden Cores and demons with demon cores—making Shuhang, who has collected many, an especially tempting target.

Character developments and interactions

• Shuhang responds to danger with anxious improvisation, seeking advice from the group and then bargaining with Pavilion Master Chu Two. He finds a possible way to postpone his execution, though the plan carries risks.
• The group’s members offer a mix of blunt advice, sympathy, and jokes. Skylark’s remark unexpectedly points Shuhang toward a practical solution; Soft Feather separately suggests a pill that can grow extra heads, but Shuhang misses her message.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two remains playful but dangerous: she accepts Shuhang’s proposal only provisionally and sets a firm deadline. Her warning also suggests a measure of concern for his survival.

Significant themes

• Comedic peril: Shuhang treats imminent beheading as a problem to brainstorm in a chat group, while his friends’ banter contrasts with the genuine danger.
• Resourcefulness and improvisation: He tries to survive by substituting another head rather than confronting a stronger opponent.
• Power and vulnerability: Despite his accumulated resources, Shuhang remains exposed to powerful beings—and even his unusual collection of Golden Cores attracts new threats.

Key plot points

• Pavilion Master Chu Two warns Song Shuhang about the Celestial Ones, a race that hunts cultivators for their Golden Cores and Demon Cores. Before leaving, she compares his narcissism to that of an “idiot,” leaving him confused.
• Puppet Fairy identifies Chu Two as a Longevity Realm expert and recalls the unruly “Death-Seeking Song,” a friend of the Northern Great Emperor. She refuses to teach Song Shuhang a memory-erasing spell, explaining that a former student she taught surpassed her and then repeatedly defeated her in thunder techniques.
• Senior White’s clone calls from the Sea of Chaos. He teleports his statue-like main body to the restaurant, asks Song Shuhang to watch over it, and plans to explore a nearby secret realm. He directs Song Shuhang to buy a memory-erasing tutorial through the Top Student System.
• Song Shuhang notices the Calabash Brothers design on his waist and recommits to studying the Ancient Script alongside cultivation. He buys the spell tutorial and spends an hour learning it.
• He casts the spell on an unconscious invisible person. The target’s memories appear to him as computer folders and files; he permanently deletes one dated October 14, 2019. As he prepares to erase another person’s memories, the burly man whose memories Puppet Fairy previously erased returns carrying a black case.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang continues to build connections with powerful seniors, while Chu Two’s teasing comparison to someone from his past hints at a resemblance he does not understand.
• Puppet Fairy is wary of Chu Two, but her reluctance to teach comes from a lingering insecurity: a student once outperformed her and traumatized her with thunder techniques. Her story also fuels her firm rule against teaching anyone surnamed Song.
• Senior White remains playful and practical, turning his main body into a customer-attracting “statue” and helping Song Shuhang obtain the spell.
• Song Shuhang shows initiative by learning the spell himself, though its computer-like interface surprises him. Puppet Fairy and the golden-haired girl observe his lesson and spellcasting.

Significant themes

• Power, mentorship, and insecurity: Teaching can create rivals, and Puppet Fairy’s past defeat still shapes her choices.
• Cultivation meets modern technology: The memory spell presents recollections as computer files that can be permanently deleted.
• Learning and self-improvement: Song Shuhang renews his commitment to studying, not just cultivating.
• Comic camaraderie: The seniors’ warnings, teasing, and eccentric suggestions balance the chapter’s darker concerns about memory erasure and the Celestial Ones.

Plot points and events

• A burly man returns to Song Shuhang’s restaurant, despite having apparently had his memory erased by Puppet Fairy. Unsure why he came, he considers leaving after seeing the damaged restaurant, bloodied armored men, and a girl repairing a table.
• He becomes transfixed by a statue of Senior White. Song Shuhang hides it and redirects the man’s attention.
• The man feels an unexplained trust in Song Shuhang and asks him to appraise a black, egg-sized object he has brought in a case.
• The object emits a whisper that tempts people toward corruption, but Song Shuhang is largely immune. He identifies it as an energy core and learns the man wants to sell it because he senses it will bring trouble.
• Song Shuhang uses the Appraisal Secret Method. The process briefly turns him into smoke and inflicts wounds, though he quickly recovers.
• The appraisal reveals the object is an ancient core from the Blood Demon Royal Clan—an Outer Heavenly Demon branch. Its energy is nearly exhausted, but recharging it could restore it into a valuable Blood Demon King Core.
• Song Shuhang says its worth is difficult to measure in ordinary money and offers to pay in gold, recalling the gold dust he has stored.

Character developments

• Song Shuhang resists the temptation to exploit the man for repeated meals and escape services, showing awareness of his own ethics. He remains composed around the core’s corrupting whispers and willingly endures the pain of appraisal.
• The burly man shows striking willpower by resisting the core’s influence and actively seeking to dispose of it. Though inexperienced and baffled by events, he trusts Song Shuhang and follows his intuition.
• Puppet Fairy quietly resumes her role in the restaurant, repairing the table without drawing attention to the earlier chaos.

Character interactions

• Song Shuhang politely redirects the man from the Senior White statue and answers his questions about its maker.
• The man’s unexplained trust leads him to seek Song Shuhang’s judgment and offer him the core for sale.
• Song Shuhang praises the man’s resolve, explains the core’s uncertain market value, and considers buying it.

Significant themes

• Temptation and resistance: The core’s whisper encourages corruption, but both Song Shuhang and the burly man resist it.
• Trust and intuition: The man cannot explain his confidence in Song Shuhang, yet it guides him to seek help.
• The perilous value of power: The core is a rare treasure but also a dangerous burden, making its worth more complicated than its price.
• Comic contrast: The man’s ordinary confusion and Song Shuhang’s casual familiarity with supernatural threats underscore the absurdity of their situation.

Key plot points and events

• Song Shuhang trades a nearly depleted Blood Demon Royal Core to a burly customer for as much gold dust as the man can carry. He leads the customer into a storage room connected to the Core World, where a small mountain of gold awaits.
• The customer and his suited associates load several sacks onto a handcart and leave satisfied. He hopes to return with more treasures; despite his desire for the gold, he feels instinctively warned not to steal it.
• Puppet Fairy repairs the restaurant wall while Song Shuhang explains that he may be able to recharge the core using Blood Demon materials, perhaps with help from Senior White.
• Song Shuhang continues testing his Memory-Erasing Spell on three invisible men. He deletes their memories of the day from their D Drives.
• The third man has an unusual E Drive. Song Shuhang’s spell cannot enter the C Drive, and trying to access the E Drive triggers an electronic-chip firewall. He eventually breaks through by force, destroying the chip’s defensive function.
• The E Drive contains mechanical-body tests and, in its final files, memories of the blonde girl undergoing mechanization. This suggests the third invisible man may have been a researcher connected to her conversion.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang demonstrates growing confidence with the memory spell, but his attempt to alter basic C-Drive memories fails and causes minor backlash. He also becomes curious about the E Drive’s contents and pushes past its defenses.
• The burly customer trusts Song Shuhang and accepts the gold without knowing its precise value. His eagerness to acquire more gold is tempered by an unexplained instinctive fear of harming the shopkeeper’s property.
• Puppet Fairy questions the value of the depleted core, then accepts Song Shuhang’s reasoning and continues repairing the restaurant.
• The blonde girl witnesses Song Shuhang breach a biological electronic chip and wonders whether he is an extraterrestrial.

Significant themes

• Material wealth versus convenience: Gold is dazzling and satisfying to possess, but heavy and awkward compared with an electronic transfer.
• Memory and identity: The apparent division of memories into computer-like drives raises questions about which memories are fundamental, personal, or technologically stored.
• Human–machine boundaries: The E Drive and electronic-chip firewall reveal that mechanically modified people combine biological memory with embedded systems—and that Song Shuhang can intrude on both.

Chapter Summary: “Unexpected Byproduct, Core Reactor”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Invisible Man No. 3, revealed to have the weakest willpower, panics after Song Shuhang defeats the first two invisible men and fires wildly at him.
• While probing No. 3’s memories, Song Shuhang discovers fragments concerning the Golden Haired Girl:
  • She underwent extensive mechanical surgery, with more than forty percent of her body mechanized.
  • Researchers considered her the ideal test subject for a dangerous experiment.
  • They planned to implant a mysterious, powerful device called the Core Reactor into her body.
• The researchers admit that the procedure is extremely risky. Another failure could leave the girl a vegetable or cause her body to collapse.
• The Core Reactor, originally a watermelon-sized metal sphere, unfolds into a network of threads surrounding a powerful energy core. It connects with the girl’s mechanical body parts after implantation.
• The researchers reveal that the Core Reactor was created accidentally by Dr. Yoron. He died in an explosion that destroyed the original research records, making the device nearly impossible to reproduce.
• They believe the reactor could provide energy technology two centuries ahead of the modern world and greatly strengthen their mechanized-body research.
• After leaving No. 3’s memories, Song Shuhang confines him in the Core World and collects the invisible armor and electronic components for White Senior to study later.
• Invisible Men No. 1 and No. 2 remain in the restaurant, while No. 4 and No. 5 hide in the kitchen.
• Song Shuhang turns his attention to the Golden Haired Girl, who is hiding under the cashier’s desk and staring at White Senior’s petrified form.
• She mistakes White Senior’s stone body for a sculpture and offers all her money to buy it. Song Shuhang tells her that the “sculpture” is actually a powerful senior who might bring her good luck.
• Song Shuhang decides to erase the girl’s memories to prevent further trouble, though he allows her to remain in the shop afterward.
• During the memory-erasure process, he discovers that the girl has multiple memory “drives,” including an ordinary D Drive, an electronic-chip E Drive, and an additional F Drive resembling a mobile device.
• He deletes the memories of the day from her D Drive, but the supposedly erased memory unexpectedly restores itself.

Character Developments

• Song Shuhang remains cautious and practical, but he also shows curiosity about advanced technology and concern for White Senior’s future research. He recognizes the Golden Haired Girl as dangerous but treats her more gently because she was his first customer.
• The Golden Haired Girl is portrayed as innocent, naïve, and fascinated by White Senior’s stone form. Despite her dangerous mechanical enhancements, she seems emotionally dependent on the shop and wants to stay with the other girl.
• Invisible Man No. 3 is shown to be mentally weak and easily panicked, undermining his apparent status as a researcher.
• The researchers are morally ruthless, viewing the Golden Haired Girl as an expendable experimental subject. They are ambitious but also fearful of the power they are creating.
• Dr. Yoron is revealed posthumously as the accidental creator of the Core Reactor, dying in an explosion that destroyed his work.

Significant Themes

• Scientific progress through sacrifice: The researchers justify dangerous experimentation and deaths as necessary steps toward advancement.
• The dangers of uncontrolled technology: The Core Reactor is immensely powerful but poorly understood, making its implantation and replication highly hazardous.
• Exploitation and dehumanization: The Golden Haired Girl is treated as a test subject rather than a person, with researchers even discussing brainwashing her into a weapon.
• Accidental discovery: The reactor’s existence resulted from a failed experiment, suggesting that major breakthroughs may emerge unpredictably.
• Memory and identity: The chapter emphasizes memory as something stored, manipulated, and potentially restored like computer data. The girl’s ability to regenerate deleted memories hints that her mind is more complex than an ordinary human’s.

Character Interactions

• Song Shuhang defeats the invisible men and interrogates their memories rather than immediately destroying them.
• He mentally comments on No. 3’s lack of courage and the researchers’ cruel methods.
• Song Shuhang and the Golden Haired Girl exchange words beneath the cashier’s desk. She asks to buy White Senior’s “sculpture,” while he teases her and tries to calm the situation.
• He promises that she may remain in the shop after her memories are erased, causing her to react with excitement.
• The chapter ends with Song Shuhang confronting an unexpected problem: the Golden Haired Girl’s deleted memories automatically reappear.

Key events

• Song Shuhang discovers that the golden-haired girl’s memories return shortly after he erases them. She pretends to have amnesia, hoping to avoid another attempt.
• Puppet Fairy explains that the girl’s memories are stored in two places: her brain and the Core Reactor in her abdomen. Each backup restores what is erased from the other.
• Song Shuhang tries to erase the reactor’s memories. It absorbs some of his mental and spiritual energy instead, activating and transforming: it first turns black iron, then ancient bronze, strengthening the girl’s mechanical and physical components.
• The reactor’s power rises from roughly Second Grade to Third Grade—and triggers a Second-to-Third-Grade Heavenly Tribulation. To keep the restaurant and passersby out of danger, Song Shuhang teleports the girl and himself three hundred meters into the air.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Shuhang is practical but exasperated: he wants to erase the girl’s memories so the Science Division won’t pursue her or discover him. He also remains curious and persistent, even when his spell produces an unexpected result.
• The golden-haired girl is frightened of losing her memories and deliberately fakes amnesia. When Song Shuhang reveals what he knows about her Core Reactor, she feels exposed and distrustful.
• Puppet Fairy identifies the two-part memory system and observes the reactor’s cultivation-like advancement. She also reminds Song Shuhang that she owns the repaired restaurant.
• Song Shuhang and Puppet Fairy share a dry, humorous exchange as the situation escalates; Song Shuhang’s attempt to avoid trouble instead brings a tribulation down on them.

Significant themes

• The chapter plays with the contrast between science and cultivation: an experimental Core Reactor behaves like a cultivation engine, advancing in grades and provoking a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Memory, privacy, and control are central: the girl’s memories resist erasure, while Song Shuhang’s apparent insight makes her feel she has no secrets.
• Unintended consequences drive the comedy and suspense: a memory-erasure attempt powers up the reactor and creates a far more urgent problem.