Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang and the Merit Snake Beauty fought the Celestial Ones while the petrified Sixth-Grade Celestial One’s body unleashed ancient shaman divine blood against them. After the Celestial Ones were destroyed, the statue produced a seed containing mutated golden divine blood, which Song Shuhang obtained.

• Song Shuhang used his spatial skill to enter the Celestial Ones’ ranks and summoned his clone and artifacts to fight alongside the Merit Snake Beauty.
• The Merit Snake Beauty killed a Celestial One, and a blood-red tentacle from the Sixth-Grade Celestial One’s statue drained the body and began to grow.
• The statue’s tentacles attacked and drained the Celestial Ones, while the Merit Snake Beauty wounded them to give the tentacles openings and Song Shuhang’s clone collected their belongings.
• Song Shuhang learned from Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword that the tentacles were ancient shaman divine blood, cursed to target the Celestial Ones.
• Song Shuhang collected fifty storage bottles and a flying craft, then watched the statue’s branches merge into a flower that produced a seed containing a drop of mutated golden divine blood.

After securing the captives and returning to the restaurant, Song Shuhang followed a burst of inspiration to create a new Golden Core Formation Diagram centered on the Confucian Sage teaching the Dao. He completed the diagram, “Sage's Voice, Once Sung in the Ancient Past,” and began its final Dragon-Pointing Finishing Touch.

• Song Shuhang stored the seed in his Core World and locked the stone statue and unconscious spellcaster in the Winter Hall, while Ling Xiao remained unconscious under the Resurrection Coin's light.
• Song Shuhang asked Fairy Promise and Waiting to leave the Confucian Sage's Eye in place because it had inspired a Confucian-themed Golden Core Formation Diagram.
• Song Shuhang returned to the restaurant, arranged for the Puppet Fairy to run it, and entered secluded cultivation in the Core World.
• Song Shuhang recalled his strange Confucian School memories before finding inspiration in the image of the Sage teaching the Dao to listeners of every kind.
• Song Shuhang completed the diagram, named it “Sage's Voice, Once Sung in the Ancient Past,” and touched the Sage's eyes to perform the final step.

Song Shuhang tried to complete the Sage's Golden Core Formation Diagram, but its animated scenes repeatedly dodged his finishing touch and left the right eye blank. After he gave up, Senior White's Clone returned badly transformed, handed him a cellphone-shaped object, and shattered, leaving Song Shuhang without an explanation.

• Song Shuhang smoothly added the finishing touch to the Sage's left eye, but the Sage moved to avoid his attempt to finish the right eye.
• The Golden Core Formation Diagram animated monkeys, lotus flowers, and a gaze that made its listeners' bellies swell, then reverted to its original image.
• Song Shuhang tried again, watched the animation repeat, and decided the right eye's finishing touch would have to wait.
• Song Shuhang left his Golden Core Space and found Puppet Fairy, Chu Chu, and the pastry chefs missing from the restaurant.
• Senior White's Clone emerged from spatial fluctuations, explained that a formation in a Secret Realm had turned half his body wooden, and gave Song Shuhang a cellphone-shaped object before shattering.

Song Shuhang learned that cultivators across the Nine Provinces Number One Group had been attacked by the Celestial Race, which hunted Fifth-Grade golden cores. He revealed that he had captured a Sixth-Grade Celestial One and offered the seniors a chance to interrogate it.

• Song Shuhang noticed Senior White's Clone and Senior White's statue were gone, then joined the Nine Provinces Number One Group to ask whether Tiantian Island Lord had collected them.
• Several group members reported attacks by fast-moving squads that targeted Fifth-Grade cultivators, and Young Master Phoenix Slayer said he had captured three attackers alive.
• Senior Yellow Mountain uploaded photos showing the attackers' QR-code-like forehead runes, and Song Shuhang identified them as the Celestial Race from the Celestial Human Realm.
• The seniors discussed the Celestial Race's golden-core hunts and warned Fifth-Grade cultivators to travel in groups and prevent the hunters from escaping.
• Song Shuhang revealed that he had encountered fifty-one Celestial Ones, including one at the Sixth Grade, and had imprisoned the Sixth-Grade one in his private space.

Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group discussed the Celestial Ones’ attacks and arranged to visit Tiantian Island. After meeting Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman on Lanxi Island, Song Shuhang helped him confront an evil curse practitioner, then received a message from Tiantian Island Lord offering to pick him up.

• Song Shuhang described how he had defeated and captured a Sixth-Grade Celestial One, while Senior Yellow Mountain asked the group to share intelligence and requested a Celestial aircraft for study.
• Bright Moon, When Will You Be revealed he had reached the seventh grade, and Senior Yellow Mountain assigned him to study the captured Celestial One.
• Song Shuhang arranged to meet Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman on Lanxi Island and travel with him to Tiantian Island.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman arrived after another Celestial Ones attack and asked Song Shuhang about the evil curse practitioner.
• Song Shuhang brought out the evil curse practitioner, warned that he might have a resurrection technique, and watched Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman restrain him with talismans.
• As Song Shuhang and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman prepared to leave for Tiantian Island, Tiantian Island Lord messaged Song Shuhang asking where he was so they could pick him up.

Song Shuhang and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman went to Tiantian Island after suspecting something was wrong with Tiantian Island Lord. They found Tian Tian’s immortal abode intact but empty, where messages from Tiantian Island Lord continued to appear as if someone were chatting while away.

• Song Shuhang noticed Tiantian Island Lord had called him by an outdated nickname, and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman agreed to investigate the island.
• Song Shuhang and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman entered Tiantian Island using a shield that served as a key to its active protective formation.
• The two followed a stream through the island’s formations to Tian Tian’s modern, heavily secured immortal abode.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman received a reply from Tiantian Island Lord that used his chat nickname, raising his suspicions.
• Song Shuhang and Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman found the abode’s computer logged into the group chat, with no one in the room.
• The computer typed another reply from Tiantian Island Lord, prompting Song Shuhang to identify it as AFK chat.

Song Shuhang discovered that Tiantian Island Lord had died, leaving a soul remnant inhabiting his computer, which continued chatting in the Nine Provinces Number One Group. Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman sought help to preserve the remnant and went to investigate Fairy Tiantian’s location, while Song Shuhang watched over the computer and wondered whether Tian Tian could be revived.

• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method and learned that a remnant of Daoist Tian Tian’s soul inhabited his modified computer.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman sensed the soul remnant, failed to reach Vice Island Master Tian Tian by phone, and concluded that something had happened to Tiantian Island.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman asked the Nine Provinces Number One Group for help preserving Tian Tian’s soul, and several fellow daoists responded that they would come or could not leave immediately.
• Tiantian Island Lord continued chatting from the computer and insisted that he was fine, while Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman explained that he had become a computer spirit.
• Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman left to check on Fairy Tiantian, and Song Shuhang stayed behind to watch the computer and consider whether a Resurrection Coin could revive Tian Tian.

Song Shuhang discovered that Tiantian Island Lord’s remaining soul had been swept into the Sealed Space, leaving his prepared resurrection art unable to activate. Guided by Soft Feather, Song Shuhang tried appraising the words “Sealed Space” to learn what it was and where it existed.

• Song Shuhang offered to use a Resurrection Coin for Tiantian Island Lord and asked the group about his cultivation realm.
• The Appraisal Secret Method revealed that Tiantian Island Lord’s remnant soul had only one-tenth of his memories and the strength of a Second-Grade cultivator.
• Song Shuhang learned that the rest of Tiantian Island Lord’s soul had been swept into the Sealed Space, beyond the reach of his prepared Revival Divine Art.
• The seniors could not identify the Sealed Space, so Soft Feather suggested appraising the term itself.
• Song Shuhang wrote “Sealed Space” on paper and activated the Appraisal Secret Method to investigate it.

Song Shuhang and Soft Feather investigated Tiantian Island Lord’s death and found the Sealed Space hidden in his room by appraising its spatial nodes. The discovery left Song Shuhang in agony, and he realized his Core World was beginning to retreat from the room.

• Soft Feather asked Song Shuhang for a photograph of Tiantian Island Lord’s room and suggested appraising the space there for clues.
• Song Shuhang used the Confucian Sage’s Eye to see three Space Nodes, then appraised the first and learned it connected to his Core World.
• Song Shuhang appraised the second Space Node at great physical cost and identified it as the entrance to the Sealed Space.
• Song Shuhang told Soft Feather to inform the Nine Provinces Number One Group and ask its seniors to find Senior White.
• As Song Shuhang curled up in pain, the Sealed Space Node swelled and the Core World’s node grew blurry, suggesting that the Core World had chickened out.

Song Shuhang sent his clone into the Sealed Space while he hid in the Core World, and the clone tested the space before being dragged into its node and crushed. The pain fed back to Song Shuhang, making him faint, but then a figure suddenly sat up from his body.

• Song Shuhang sent his clone into the Sealed Space and escaped into the Core World before it was cut off.
• Song Shuhang's clone found an invisible wall around Tiantian Island Lord's room and failed to break it with attacks and spells.
• Song Shuhang's clone found no remnant soul and suspected the third Space Node was connected to Tiantian Island Lord's death.
• The Sealed Space contracted and dragged Song Shuhang's clone into its node, crushing it and dispelling the clone.
• Song Shuhang felt the clone's final pain, fainted beside the Living Spring, and a figure suddenly sat up from his body.

Ye Si left the Core World after splitting off a high-tier Spirit Ghost to take her place in Song Shuhang’s contract, warning him that his memories of her would fade. After those memories vanished, Song Shuhang went to inspect the Sealed Space and found himself drawn toward its entrance.

• Ye Si told Pavilion Master Chu that the Heavenly Emperor’s revival and the current Heaven’s recovery might be connected, then asked Chu to look after Song Shuhang while she was away.
• Ye Si separated a featureless high-tier Spirit Ghost to inherit her contract with Song Shuhang, said goodbye to him, and left through a passage opened by the Core World.
• Ye Si warned Song Shuhang that their next meeting might find her in a state like his, and joked that she would be colorful; the Merit Snake Beauty reached after Ye Si as she departed.
• Song Shuhang’s memories of Ye Si faded, along with the traces of her existence, while his memories of Cheng Lin became incomplete; Pavilion Master Chu suggested Ye Si might be hiding from the current Heaven.
• Song Shuhang left the Core World to inspect the Sealed Space, but when he arrived in Tiantian Island Lord’s room, his physical body fell away and a door to the Sealed Space appeared before him.

Song Shuhang discovered that he had become unable to interact with objects and people in either the Present World or his Core World, as though he existed in another dimension. He escaped to his Core World and planned to ask Senior White Two for help.

• Song Shuhang found Tiantian Island Lord's remnant soul attached to his Merit Index Finger after his soul returned to his body.
• Tiantian Island Lord's remnant soul could not reenter his computer because its protective formation rejected him, and Song Shuhang found an invisible barrier around the computer and other objects.
• Song Shuhang realized the Sealed Space gate remained and returned to his Core World through its connection to Senior White Two's Evil Lotus World.
• Song Shuhang discovered that he could not touch Pavilion Master Chu, who sensed someone stroking her head, and suspected he himself had been shifted into another dimension.
• Song Shuhang decided to find Senior White Two and seek his help.

Song Shuhang sought Senior White Two’s help with his Sealed Space Mode, and the two entered the mysterious Sealed Space Gate together. Meanwhile, Ye Si joined a gathering of Longevity Immortals forming the Heavenly Dao Must Step Down Alliance, where Daozi and Daoist Scarlet Firmament stated their goals.

• Song Shuhang summoned Senior White Two, who revealed that he had captured Everything Can Be Sold after the hide-and-seek game and was studying his special bedsheet.
• Senior White Two said he had never encountered Song Shuhang’s Sealed Space Mode and could not immediately reverse it, but offered to test an imitation bedsheet.
• Song Shuhang could not take the bedsheet through the mode’s barrier, so Senior White Two accompanied him to the Present World.
• Senior White Two examined the Sealed Space Gate, pushed Song Shuhang through it, and followed him inside.
• Ye Si appeared in a golden desert among statues of Cheng Lin, Daoist Scarlet Firmament, Daozi, and a Buddhist Longevity Immortal.
• Daozi agreed to join the Heavenly Dao Must Step Down Alliance to target the Heavenly Dao, while Daoist Scarlet Firmament said he wanted to nurture a Heavenly Dao.

Daozi, Ye Si, Vajra Master, Master Scarlet Firmament, Fairy Cheng Lin, and the Eight-Armed Ancient Demon agreed to oppose the Heavenly Dao’s recovery by stopping the Ancient Heavenly Court’s reconstruction and targeting the revived Heavenly Emperor. In the Sealed Space, Song Shuhang waited on a frozen, grayscale Tiantian Island while Senior White Two searched for clues, and the island’s inhabitants began appearing as the temperature rose.

• Vajra Master asked to rename the alliance, and Ye Si welcomed the suggestion.
• Vajra Master proposed taking down the revived Heavenly Emperor, and Daozi said he wanted to test how much strength she had retained.
• The Eight-Armed Ancient Demon offered to support whoever sought the Heavenly Dao Seat in exchange for lifting his clansmen’s curse, and Daozi accepted.
• Song Shuhang and Senior White Two explored a grayscale copy of Tiantian Island, where Song Shuhang found his Core World inaccessible.
• Senior White Two suspected the Sealed Space was an experiment created by his other self and flew off to investigate, leaving Song Shuhang behind with the imitation bedsheet.
• As Song Shuhang shivered in the cold, Tiantian Island’s inhabitants appeared when the temperature rose and began moving as if released from a Time Freeze.

Song Shuhang encountered Vice Island Master Tian Tian inside the Sealed Space and discovered that the island’s residents were projections formed from remnant souls. As disasters overwhelmed Tiantian Island’s defenses and Tiantian Island Lord began to collapse, Song Shuhang summoned his Never-Falling Holy City to protect them.

• Song Shuhang found that most Tiantian Island residents could not see him, but Vice Island Master Tian Tian appeared in color and recognized him as an intruder.
• Song Shuhang appraised Tian Tian, learning that her projection had second-grade combat strength and that its death would destroy her remnant soul.
• A barrage of disasters struck Tiantian Island, and Tian Tian hurried to control the Guardian Sect Formation while Song Shuhang followed to keep her safe.
• Tiantian Island Lord’s remnant souls gathered into a projection, and he summoned a divine tortoise, a black dragon pulling a coffin, and a fire sparrow to defend the island.
• Tiantian Island Lord began to break apart before completing his next spell, as a meteorite breached the formation and fell toward him.
• Song Shuhang abandoned his Heavenly Master Orthodox Law and summoned the Never-Falling Holy City to shield Tiantian Island.

Song Shuhang used the Never-Falling Holy City to protect Tiantian Island as a strange space subjected it to repeated disasters. After the assault escalated to a nuclear explosion, the Holy City dispersed, and the same collapse appeared on his Second Golden Core’s diagram.

• Song Shuhang raised the Never-Falling Holy City to block a meteor and brace the breach in Tiantian Island’s formation.
• Tiantian Island Lord and Vice Island Master Tian Tian joined the defense, using the island’s anti-air missiles and artillery to repel the first wave of disasters.
• After the sky briefly fell quiet, Tiantian Island Lord explained that the bizarre space repeatedly reset the island and erased its residents’ memories, while each disaster further broke apart his soul.
• A new wave began with lightning and heavenly fire, then escalated into increasingly powerful modern weapons aimed at the Holy City.
• Song Shuhang attacked an incoming nuclear bomb with the Holy City’s weapons, but its explosion dispersed the Holy City and caused the matching city on his Second Golden Core’s diagram to fall apart.

Song Shuhang and Tiantian Island faced an overwhelming calamity as the island’s defenses failed, but the Puppet Fairy arrived and protected everyone with her head-hugging crouch defense. As Song Shuhang activated several burst secret arts, the Holy City in his Second Golden Core Diagram collapsed and its armored figure leaped out.

• Song Shuhang used the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s Heaven-Burning Flame Saber to burn away the calamity and reinforce the Holy City’s defense.
• Seven sections of Tiantian Island’s protective formation shattered, leaving the island exposed to the continuing calamity.
• Song Shuhang called for Senior White, and the Puppet Fairy emerged from the void and linked Tiantian Island’s members into her defensive crouch.
• The Puppet Fairy warned that her protection could not last, so Song Shuhang activated ten burst secret arts from his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact.
• The Holy City in Song Shuhang’s Second Golden Core Diagram collapsed, and the armored man leaped out of the diagram.

Song Shuhang’s collapsed Never-Falling Holy City resonated with a golden-armored warrior and transformed his Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact into the sixty-meter-tall Giant Who Destroys All Things. The giant destroyed Tiantian Island’s calamities, then dispersed and left Song Shuhang wondering how it had fought without draining his energy and where thirty-three extra artifacts came from.

• Song Shuhang watched the golden-armored warrior emerge beneath a sea-like surface and suffer in despair as the Holy City collapsed.
• The warrior and Song Shuhang’s artifacts assembled into a towering Steel Giant, which became the alternate State 1 called the Giant Who Destroys All Things.
• The giant escaped Tiantian Island’s defensive formation and used the King’s Guillotine, Sword Execution Tower, and Giant Bear Iron Lady to destroy the incoming calamities.
• The giant continued firing into the void after the calamities were gone, while Song Shuhang noticed that his spiritual energy had barely been depleted.
• The giant dispersed into sixty-six composite artifacts, leaving Song Shuhang puzzled by the thirty-three extras.

Song Shuhang and the Puppet Fairy survived another calamity on Tiantian Island, which reset after the Tiantian Island Lord split apart. Chu Chu returned from exploring the Thirty-Three Palaces with Senior White, and Song Shuhang suggested she study the Immortal Chef techniques she had found.

• Song Shuhang reclaimed one set of the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact, but the other set vanished into the void before he could summon it.
• The Tiantian Island Lord thanked Song Shuhang, then split apart as the island and its inhabitants reset in the gray Sealed Space.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword compared Tiantian Island to a game dungeon, and Song Shuhang worried that the next calamity could destroy it.
• Chu Chu appeared after Senior White sent her away from the tenth palace, where he was fighting through the Thirty-Three Palaces.
• Chu Chu gave Song Shuhang several Immortal Chef secret manuals, and he encouraged her to practice them as a supplementary profession.

Song Shuhang considered how Chu Chu could develop her auxiliary skills, then watched Tiantian Island return to the Present World and its lord complete his Golden Core Diagram. After a pillar of light swallowed Song Shuhang, it gave him a formula for transforming his Blood Demon Core, and he prepared to try it.

• Song Shuhang encouraged Chu Chu to study the Way of the Immortal Chef and planned to use his Core World to provide ingredients and a place to practice.
• Senior White told Song Shuhang to fly up as Tiantian Island began returning to the Present World, and Tiantian Island Lord reappeared amid the island's residents.
• Tiantian Island Lord's Golden Core Diagram changed to show the island enduring disasters, and he completed its Finishing Touch by making a point representing new life.
• Tiantian Island vanished, leaving Song Shuhang, Puppet Fairy, and Chu Chu above a gray ocean while a pillar of light remained behind.
• Song Shuhang touched the pillar with his Appraisal Secret Method, was swallowed by it, and received a formula for transforming his Blood Demon Core with a Blood Bone and ten Blood Demon Orbs.
• Song Shuhang took out the Blood Demon Core, Blood Bone, and Blood Demon Orbs to try the transformation.