Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang and Doudou traveled to H City to watch an unknown cultivator undergo his Fifth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, where a modernized sniper attack revealed the cultivator to be Devil Lord Anzhi. The story left them recognizing Anzhi as someone who had once crossed paths with each of them.

• Song Shuhang invited Doudou to accompany him to watch a fellow cultivator undergo tribulation, and Yellow Mountain reminded them that Doudou would soon face his own tribulation.
• Song Shuhang used Blade-Nourishing Art on his sabers, and Doudou explained that cultivators often kept their real names private, especially members of the Heavenly River Su Clan.
• Doudou drove Song Shuhang’s Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot to H City, where Song Shuhang took him to observe the tribulation from a safe distance.
• The cultivator’s defenses handled the early waves of Heavenly Tribulation, but a modernized Barrett Heavy Sniper shot broke through the six-pillar defense.
• White Bone shields blocked the shot while the cultivator’s formations repaired themselves, and Song Shuhang and Doudou recognized the cultivator as Devil Lord Anzhi.

Song Shuhang and Doudou found Devil Lord Anzhi undergoing tribulation and decided to distract him from a safe distance. Their appearance made Anzhi recognize Tyrant Song, and his moment of shock left him vulnerable to a fierce Heavenly Tribulation attack.

• Song Shuhang and Doudou planned to cheer for Devil Lord Anzhi beside his Tribulation-Transcending Formation without entering the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang plunged from the sky, struck the ground unharmed, and attracted Anzhi’s attention, though Anzhi initially failed to recognize him.
• Song Shuhang summoned his Sage Seals and Sacred Apes while he and Doudou shouted encouragement, drawing Anzhi’s gaze.
• Anzhi recognized Song Shuhang as Tyrant Song and froze in alarm, despite believing Song Shuhang had left the Jiangnan Region.
• The Heavenly Tribulation fired a barrage at Anzhi while Song Shuhang and Doudou smiled, and Anzhi wondered if Song Shuhang was his heart demon.

Song Shuhang and Doudou tried to disrupt Devil Lord Anzhi’s fourth-to-fifth-grade tribulation, but Anzhi mistook the real Song for a heart demon and strengthened his resolve. Song sent his clone into the formation, where his fully equipped Profound Sage persona walked through the tribulation lightning toward Anzhi.

• Devil Lord Anzhi identified Song Shuhang as his heart demon and overcame his fear, continuing to operate his Tribulation-Crossing Array.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou discussed ways to interfere without Song being caught in Anzhi’s heavenly tribulation, while Doudou asked a group of seniors for suggestions.
• After a group member suggested Song enter the formation and kill Anzhi, Song decided to send his clone while keeping his main body on Lanxi Island.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou entered the Core World, and Song switched his consciousness to his clone.
• Anzhi believed Song had vanished because his heart demon was defeated, but Song reappeared outside the formation and advanced toward him in eighth-grade armor and the twin Sage Seals.
• Song stepped into the tribulation’s range, and the lightning struck him without harming him.

Song Shuhang tricked Devil Lord Anzhi into facing his strengthened Heavenly Tribulation without his formation or hidden tools, then rescued him after he failed and kept him prisoner. While Doudou studied the tribulation for his own upcoming ordeal, Song Shuhang’s main body was studying when someone gently stroked his head.

• Profound Sage Tyrannical Song shielded Devil Lord Anzhi from the Heavenly Tribulation, carried him above the clouds, and released him far from his tribulation formation.
• Song Shuhang’s clone used Onion Lady’s Divine Stealing Technique to steal Devil Lord Anzhi’s hidden supplies, and the strengthened Heavenly Tribulation killed him—though the Seven Radiant Wonderfruit kept him alive.
• Song Shuhang caught Devil Lord Anzhi, then put him in Winter Hall and said he planned to send him, Gongzi Hai, and Zheng Neng to Sixteen.
• Doudou reviewed Devil Lord Anzhi’s tribulation and resolved to keep Song Shuhang and his enemies away when he faced his own.
• Song Shuhang’s main body studied in the Top Student System on Lanxi Island until someone gently stroked his head.

Song Shuhang brought Pavilion Master Chu Two to the sea and gave her Skylark’s head, which she attached to her own body. After the Disaster Giant Turtle attacked, Pavilion Master Chu Two fused with the head and declared that her Dao was complete.

• Pavilion Master Chu Two visited Song Shuhang and asked whether he had found a suitable head for her.
• Song Shuhang took Skylark’s intact head from the Core World and handed it to Pavilion Master Chu Two above the sea.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two pressed Skylark’s head onto her neck, making her original head turn illusory.
• A Disaster Giant Turtle lunged at Song Shuhang and Pavilion Master Chu Two, but Pavilion Master Chu Two stomped it into the ocean.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two’s eyes and hair turned black, her appearance changed, and she said that her Dao was complete.

Pavilion Master Chu Two completed her Dao of Longevity by fusing with Skylark’s head and used her new power to recreate the Jadewater Pavilion as an illusion. She revealed that threads of Cause and Effect now connected its members to the void, leaving Song Shuhang wondering what the new ability could do.

• Pavilion Master Chu Two became a true Longevity Immortal, and her Withered-Glory Twin Trees took root in the Calamity Giant Tortoise’s shell.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two pulled the escaping Disaster Giant Turtle back through a Space Gate, while it warned her that she would eventually be unable to enter the Present World.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two reconstructed the Jadewater Pavilion and its former members as a vivid illusion.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two explained that her original plan to create physical bodies for the pavilion’s members with Heart Demons was unreliable and dangerous.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two tapped the Jadewater Pavilion, causing Cause and Effect threads to extend from its members into the void.

Song Shuhang watched Pavilion Master Chu Two depart with the Jadewater Pavilion after she found a way to restore its lost members, then discovered that his Spirit Ghost could devour the curse left by Pavilion Master Chu. After returning to H City, he found Devil Lord Anzhi’s phone and used it to taunt Gongzi Hai about their future Fifth-Grade meeting.

• Pavilion Master Chu Two explained that Skylark’s head had revealed Causal Lines that could help her summon and eventually revive the Jadewater Pavilion members, then left for the Netherworld with the Pavilion.
• An unknown voice used Song Shuhang’s voice to demand that Pavilion Master Chu Two call him Dad, provoking her threat before she vanished; an umbrella-carrying figure disappeared with the Pavilion.
• Song Shuhang’s Spirit Ghost devoured a curse containing Pavilion Master Chu’s sorrowful Ancient Language cries, and Song Shuhang arranged for Pavilion Master Chu to teach him the language before she reconsidered and agreed.
• Song Shuhang returned to H City, where Doudou dug up Devil Lord Anzhi’s belongings; Song Shuhang found Anzhi’s chat with Gongzi Hai and sent a boastful message challenging him about their Fifth-Grade meeting.

Song Shuhang and Doudou dealt with Devil Lord Anzhi’s belongings and examined his tribulation formation while Song Shuhang taunted Gongzi Hai by phone. After a quiet evening, Doudou’s cultivation breakthrough brought his own Heavenly Tribulation upon him.

• Song Shuhang messaged Gongzi Hai using Devil Lord Anzhi’s phone, but Gongzi Hai replied only with dismissive “Heh”s; Doudou sent back an insult, and Song Shuhang stored the phone in his Core World.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou checked Devil Lord Anzhi’s pills and Spirit Stones with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, then decided to trade the Demonic Path pills to Fairy Eastern Six.
• Song Shuhang shared pictures of the tribulation formation with the Nine Provinces Number One Group, and Fairy Eastern Six explained how its pillars and buried baleful energy helped resist Heavenly Tribulations.
• Song Shuhang and Doudou repaired the formation’s illusion and removed its Spirit Stones before returning to Medicine Master’s building.
• After meditating that night, Song Shuhang learned that Doudou had experienced Aperture Opening after cultivating and could no longer suppress his Heavenly Tribulation.

Song Shuhang rushed Doudou to Devil Lord Anzhi’s Tribulation-Crossing Formation and helped him prepare for his imminent Fifth-Grade tribulation. As Doudou modified the formation, Senior Yellow Mountain warned Song Shuhang to stay clear and revealed a burst spell hidden in Doudou’s collar; Fairy Eastern Six and Dharma King Creation hurried to the battlefield.

• Song Shuhang flew Doudou to the Tribulation-Crossing Formation, where Doudou used Song Shuhang’s Spirit Stones and his own supplies to adapt it for his tribulation.
• Song Shuhang gave Doudou dantian liquid made from the Seven Radiant Wonderfruit to strengthen his Demon Core after he advanced.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword inspected Doudou’s progress and warned Song Shuhang that his habit of getting caught in friends’ tribulations might endanger him again.
• Song Shuhang messaged Fairy Eastern Six and the Nine Provinces Number One Group about Doudou’s sudden tribulation.
• Senior Yellow Mountain warned Song Shuhang to keep his distance and told him that Doudou could activate a burst spell in his collar using his birthday as the code.
• Fairy Eastern Six drove toward the formation with Dharma King Creation.

Doudou began his fourth-to-fifth advancement tribulation using Devil Lord Anzhi’s modified formation and handled each wave with ease. As the final stages arrived, he asked Song Shuhang to make the heavenly tribulation stronger so he could defy heaven.

• Fairy Eastern Six brought Dharma King Creation to help Doudou in case a heart demon tribulation arose, while Copper Trigram divined that Doudou faced an ordinary ill omen.
• Doudou completed the formation’s modifications, transformed into a giant dog, and used the six Demon God Pillars to block the opening waves of tribulation.
• Song Shuhang recorded Doudou’s tribulation for Venerable Yellow Mountain, with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword helping him see through the illusion formation.
• Fairy Eastern Six arrived in her airborne off-road vehicle and accidentally ran over Song Shuhang after he jumped to avoid it.
• Fairy Eastern Six and Dharma King Creation joined the others as Doudou continued to block the escalating tribulation, while Fairy Eastern Six began assembling Song Shuhang’s Immortal Ark components.
• At five in the morning, Doudou called to Song Shuhang and asked him to power up the heavenly tribulation.

Doudou’s heavenly tribulation intensified because he used a formation originally set up by Devil Lord Anzhi, but Doudou remained confident and asked to make it stronger. After Venerable Yellow Mountain told him to choose for himself, Doudou decided to risk pushing his limits, while Song Shuhang still had no control over the tribulation.

• Doudou asked Song Shuhang to strengthen his heavenly tribulation, and it doubled in power because his tribulation-crossing formation had been based on Devil Lord Anzhi’s formation.
• Fairy Eastern Six explained that outside help during a tribulation made it stronger, while Doudou resisted the cannons with the formation and used dog-hair clones to block them.
• Fairy Eastern Six finished modifying Song Shuhang’s Immortal Ark, and Song Shuhang considered testing a Pet-Type Avatar Core in her vehicle before she warned him off.
• Doudou’s Blood God Diamond activated within the formation, and he insisted he still had strength to spare as he fought the final waves.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain called to check on Doudou, then told him to decide for himself and accept the consequences of his choice.
• Doudou chose to risk strengthening the tribulation and called on Song Shuhang to do it, though Song Shuhang knew he could not control it.

Doudou asked Song Shuhang to strengthen its Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement Tribulation so it could face the challenge without regrets. Doudou successfully completed the tribulation, but Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar unexpectedly triggered another Heavenly Tribulation.

• Doudou insisted that it wanted to risk everything and asked Song Shuhang to strengthen its Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Shuhang mounted a Pet-Type Avatar Core on his Mecha Immortal Ark and activated its Core Reactor to draw down a Second-to-Third Advancement Tribulation.
• The Steel Avatar’s tribulation merged with Doudou’s, increasing the Heavenly Tribulation’s power as the onlookers retreated.
• Doudou fought the strengthened tribulation with its treasures and shattered the final wave and Tribulation Clouds with its fur.
• After Doudou completed its tribulation, the Steel Avatar’s Core Reactor turned silver-white and began gathering a Third-to-Fourth Advancement Tribulation.

Doudou survived the Third-to-Fourth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation, but the Steel Avatar immediately drew a Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation that kept Doudou locked in its range. Song Shuhang hid Doudou in the Core World, leaving the Steel Avatar to face the tribulation alone.

• Doudou endured the Third-to-Fourth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation while Song Shuhang and Fairy Eastern Six prepared to get him out of the area afterward.
• The Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation began as soon as the previous tribulation ended, and Song Shuhang's Steel Avatar drew its attention.
• Song Shuhang used the [Ancestral Shaman's Blessing] to carry Doudou away, but the Heavenly Tribulation remained locked onto him.
• Song Shuhang sent Doudou into the Core World, successfully breaking the Heavenly Tribulation's lock on him.
• Song Shuhang returned to Fairy Eastern Six and Dharma King Creation, while his Steel Avatar remained behind to face the Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement Heavenly Tribulation.

Song Shuhang tried to keep his Steel Avatar alive through the Heavenly Tribulation by switching it into Immortal Ark form and activating its shield. The Core Reactor’s manufacturers arrived and attacked, but their cannon backfired; the avatar then detected their weapon and asked Big Papa—Song Shuhang—to arm it.

• Song Shuhang ordered the Steel Avatar to put its Core Reactor back inside and resist the Heavenly Tribulation, then told it to switch into Immortal Ark form and raise its shield.
• The Steel Avatar’s shield held against the tribulation using the Core Reactor’s energy, since all the Spirit Stones had been given to Doudou.
• A group traveling in a disguised container truck detected the Core Reactor and approached, intending to recover it and capture the people nearby.
• The group fired an electromagnetic cannon at Song Shuhang, Dharma King Creation, and Fairy Eastern Six, but the weapon misfired and blew up their truck.
• The Steel Avatar scanned the area, detected a compatible weapon, and requested that Big Papa arm it; Song Shuhang approved and searched his Prayer-Bead Space for equipment.

Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar equipped itself with an Electromagnetic Cannon and used it to fight the Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement Tribulation, whose sword attacks eventually overwhelmed it. After the Avatar picked up Senior White’s phone-shaped artifact, it activated a spell that destroyed the Heavenly Tribulation Swords, revealing a new way for it to cast magic.

• Song Shuhang let the Steel Avatar choose weapons, and it retrieved an Electromagnetic Cannon from the wrecked truck and fused it to its mecha form.
• The Steel Avatar fired the cannon at the Heavenly Tribulation’s Great Treasure Swords, while Fairy Eastern Six rescued the unconscious researchers and warned other cultivators about the Tribulation’s changing forms.
• The sword formation intensified and wounded the Steel Avatar, which requested more weaponry support from Song Shuhang.
• The Steel Avatar chose Senior White’s phone-shaped artifact, activated its runes, and released a golden whip spell that shattered the Heavenly Tribulation Swords attacking it.

Song Shuhang’s battered Steel Avatar survived its Fourth-to-Fifth Advancement tribulation, then Doudou condensed a Seven-Colored Demon Core with eight Core Markings. Venerable Yellow Mountain discovered a strange mark resembling Song Shuhang’s metallic head on Doudou’s Demon Core.

• The Steel Avatar’s final tribulation attack destroyed its upper body after its phone-like magical treasure ran out of Overseas Mana Flow, but its Core Reactor survived and it passed the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang praised the Steel Avatar, changed it back into a half-bodied human form, and transferred it and the phone-like magical treasure into the Core World.
• Doudou drank the Seven Radiant Wonderfruit Elixir and began condensing his Demon Core while Song Shuhang, Fairy Eastern Six, and Dharma King Creation watched.
• Doudou condensed a Seven-Colored Demon Core with eight Core Markings, and Venerable Yellow Mountain arrived to inspect it.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain noticed a mark resembling Song Shuhang’s metallic head at the bottom of Doudou’s Demon Core.

After Doudou’s advancement, Song Shuhang and the others discovered that Doudou and Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar had gained matching Tribulation Marks from their joint tribulation. Venerable Yellow Mountain took Doudou home to consolidate its realm, while Song Shuhang prepared to leave and found Creation Fairy had stayed behind.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain found a glowing portrait of Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar on Doudou’s Demon Core, and Doudou activated it to reveal a matching mark on the Steel Avatar.
• Song Shuhang used the Appraisal Secret Method to identify the marks as Tribulation Marks, which would disappear if Doudou and the Steel Avatar underwent another tribulation together.
• Doudou refused to risk another group tribulation, and Venerable Yellow Mountain took it home to spend a year consolidating its realm in a specially made dog cage.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain gave Song Shuhang, Dharma King Creation, and Fairy Eastern Six Celestial One Hunt Event crystal pillars before flying away with Doudou.
• Dharma King Creation and Fairy Eastern Six departed with the research scholars, and Song Shuhang prepared to return after surveying the tribulation site.
• Song Shuhang discovered that Creation Fairy had stayed behind instead of leaving with Dharma King Creation.

Song Shuhang returned to Jiangnan University Town, tended to his Core World, and arranged to have his captured Celestial Ones collected. Meanwhile, Senior White emerged from seclusion and called Song Shuhang before four strange aircraft approached him.

• Song Shuhang appraised the phone-shaped device and learned it was an exhausted Mana Charger from the Black Dragon World.
• Song Shuhang tended his spirit plants and beasts, then reviewed the Celestial One Hunt exchange list and noted the saber art Three Slashes of Immortal Severing.
• Song Shuhang called Fairy Xiaoke and arranged collection of his live Sixth-Grade Celestial One along with his other captured Celestial Ones.
• Song Shuhang decided to buy phones for Puppet Fairy, Li Yinzhu, Pavilion Master Chu, Senior Turtle, and Onion Lady, then jumped out of his building to go shopping.
• Senior White emerged from a Space Gate above Tiantian Island and called Song Shuhang to ask the date and whether he had exploded.
• Song Shuhang told Senior White he had left a clone on Lanxi Island, and Senior White hung up when four strange aircraft approached.

Senior White and Song Shuhang discovered that the Celestial Ones who had passed Senior White were targeting Song Shuhang for his unusual Golden Cores. The Celestial Ones surrounded his restaurant, only to find Senior White there as well, and Song Shuhang welcomed them as their confrontation began.

• Senior White mistook four hostile flying craft for guests seeking him, but the Celestial Ones avoided him and headed for Lanxi Island to capture Song Shuhang.
• Senior White called Song Shuhang, then traveled to the restaurant where Song Shuhang's clone was helping Chu Chu practice the Immortal Chef Secret Art.
• Senior White tasted Chu Chu's steak and praised its flavor and neat arrangement before noticing danger overhead.
• Chu Chu entered Song Shuhang's Core World as the four Celestial Ones' flying craft surrounded the restaurant with a barrier and illusion array.
• The Celestial Ones lifted the restaurant roof and recognized Song Shuhang as their target, but were shocked to see Senior White beside him.
• Song Shuhang laughed and invited the Celestial Ones to stay, while Senior White explained that they had circled back to their original target.

Song Shuhang and Senior White trapped more than a hundred Fifth-Grade Celestial Ones in Senior White’s True Illusion. Song Shuhang’s failed spell and the two Sage Seals left the Celestial Ones helpless, and they ended up captured in neat rows.

• Song Shuhang asked Senior White to stop the Celestial Ones as they fled in their aircraft.
• Senior White transformed the area into his Passionate Desert True Illusion, and Song Shuhang’s main body joined his clone.
• Song Shuhang used four King's Walls to crush the aircraft and force the Celestial Ones to escape into the desert.
• The Merit Snake Beauty and the Creation Fairy sang the Confucian Sage’s Three Pregnancy Questions, disrupting Song Shuhang’s attempt to cast the Lightning-Calling Art.
• Song Shuhang revealed his Tyrant Song Sage Seal and Tyrant Confucian Demon Seal, frightening the Celestial Ones.
• Senior White’s Invisible Sword Gu immobilized the Celestial Ones and dropped them into neat rows on the desert.