Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang drank Lady Kuna’s powerful wine at a growing Blood Dragon Tribe banquet, while his drunken consciousness struggled to remain in the Merit Network. The chapter ended with Song Shuhang and Kuna both still awake, as Kuna’s eyes turned reddish-gold with vertical pupils.

• Song Shuhang learned that White Dragon Sister was using Su Clan's Sixteen’s account and that Soft Feather’s Spirit Ghost had been feeding her spiritual energy and insights.
• Song Shuhang realized that his drunken body was affecting his consciousness in the Merit Network, tried unsuccessfully to add Soft Feather through his QR code, and sent the code to her and White Dragon Sister.
• Song Shuhang messaged Pregnant Lay Buddhist about his possible tribulation, then was forcibly ejected from the Merit Network before reading the senior’s offer of a blessed land for his tribulation.
• Song Shuhang returned to find the banquet had grown to include much of the Blood Dragon Tribe, with the old tribal chief and most guests knocked out by Lady Kuna’s potent wine.
• Song Shuhang and Lady Kuna continued drinking and called for more food; when none remained, Song Shuhang exhaled pure white lotus flowers, and Kuna’s eyes turned reddish-gold with vertical pupils.

While drunk, Song Shuhang watched Lady Kuna transform into a golden-eyed presence who healed his wounds and identified herself as Fat Ball, then left a mark of Boss Fat Ball on his palm. Elsewhere, the Hamster Fiend kept fighting to delay its breakthrough, while Melon-Eating Sage began his Ninth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation.

• Creation Fairy and Merit Snake Beauty secretly ate the white lotuses as Lady Kuna, with golden vertical pupils, ate one and demanded something from Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang gave Lady Kuna the seed containing a wisp of Ancient Nether Chaos Will, and she healed his waist and back wounds with wine and an incantation.
• Song Shuhang recognized Lady Kuna as the will of the Black Dragon World, but she said she was Fat Ball, called them allies, and placed a miniature Boss Fat Ball mark in his palm.
• Lady Kuna's eyes returned to normal, and Li Yinzhu told Song Shuhang she wanted to advance to Fifth Grade before falling asleep against his shoulder.
• The Hamster Fiend slew fiendish beasts for Black Dragon Spirit Stones and Mana Flow while trying to suppress its impending Fifth-Grade breakthrough.
• Melon-Eating Sage prepared his tribulation treasures and drew down the Heavenly Tribulation, which swept him into the Ninth-Grade Tribulation Space.

Melon-Eating Sage began his Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, but his attempt to share his excitement with Song Shuhang accidentally pulled Song and Li Yinzhu into the Tribulation Space. Song Shuhang was struck by the tribulation’s first bolt and activated his Resurrection Coin, leaving the watching powerhouses convinced he was finished.

• Melon-Eating Sage entered the Tribulation Space and blocked the first strike of his heavenly tribulation with a Dragon-Scale Greatshield.
• Song Shuhang, drunk beside Li Yinzhu, received Melon-Eating Sage’s invitation to share his joy, and the system accepted it automatically when Song made no choice.
• Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu were transported into the Tribulation Space, where the heavenly tribulation targeted them with two bolts of lightning.
• Song Shuhang and Melon-Eating Sage tried to protect Li Yinzhu, and the Merit Snake Beauty shielded her from the lightning.
• Song Shuhang took a direct hit from the other bolt, fell unconscious, and triggered his Resurrection Coin.
• Powerhouses watching the tribulation concluded that Song Shuhang had died to its first greeting attack.

Song Shuhang was killed by the first strike of Melon-Eating Sage’s Eighth-to-Ninth Grade Heavenly Tribulation, but Lady Kuna’s mark triggered his Resurrection Coin and returned him to the Tribulation Space. He protected Li Yinzhu through the next lightning barrage, but the true Ninth Grade First Tribulation began by draining his lifespan.

• Several big shots suspected the current Heaven had interfered when Melon-Eating Sage appeared to die beneath the first Heavenly Tribulation strike, and they ordered investigations and warnings for cultivators preparing to advance.
• Song Shuhang’s Resurrection Coin landed on tails, but a rune on his Mana Charger made it explode and revive him immediately.
• Song Shuhang returned to the Tribulation Space and found Li Yinzhu protected by Merit Snake Beauty, the Never-Falling Holy City, and Dragon-Scale Shields.
• Song Shuhang explained that Melon-Eating Sage’s prompt had pulled him into the Tribulation Space, then joined Li Yinzhu’s defenses as the first true lightning barrage descended.
• Song Shuhang, Merit Snake Beauty, and their artifacts endured the lightning barrage, but Melon-Eating Sage warned that the real Ninth Grade First Tribulation was only beginning.
• Song Shuhang felt the tribulation endlessly siphoning away his lifespan.

Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu faced the lifespan-draining first tribulation of the Eighth-to-Ninth Ascension. The Merit Snake Beauty used the Merit Diamond and strands of Senior White and Senior White Two’s hair to give Li Yinzhu new vitality, while Song Shuhang found a possible breakthrough in his own understanding of life and death; Melon-Eating Sage still could not find its opportunity.

• Melon-Eating Sage explained that the first Ninth-Grade tribulation drained a cultivator’s lifespan while they sought new vitality, then began its own breakthrough.
• Song Shuhang saw Li Yinzhu’s lifespan rapidly draining and prepared to kill her with a Resurrection Coin so she could revive.
• The Merit Snake Beauty stopped Song Shuhang and placed the Merit Diamond necklace on Li Yinzhu, using its luck and guidance to awaken Tribulation Immortal Vitality in her.
• Li Yinzhu’s new vitality restored her lifespan and raised it to the thousand-year level, while she slept through the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang reflected on his many deaths and resurrections, saw a vision of the Confucian Sage, and felt new vitality emerge from his abdomen.
• Melon-Eating Sage continued burning lifespan but still could not find the opportunity for new vitality.

Song Shuhang used Pregnancy Gaze to help Melon-Eating Sage break through to tribulation immortal vitality, ending the first stage of the ninth-grade heavenly tribulation. The second wave began with powerful Palm Thunder attacks, while Melon-Eating Sage’s shields protected Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu.

• Melon-Eating Sage remained stuck at 99% comprehension and rapidly burned through his lifespan as he struggled to awaken tribulation immortal vitality.
• Song Shuhang agreed to help Melon-Eating Sage and used the Confucian Sage’s Eye to strike him with Pregnancy Gaze.
• Melon-Eating Sage endured the spell’s effects, gained the insight he needed, and awakened true tribulation immortal vitality, restoring his lost lifespan.
• Melon-Eating Sage deployed six Dragon-Scale Shields over Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu as the first tribulation ended and the second wave formed.
• The heavenly tribulation attacked with elemental Palm Thunder, and the Dragon-Scale Shields absorbed the two strikes aimed at Song Shuhang and Li Yinzhu.

Song Shuhang and Melon-Eating Sage faced an enormous Heavenly Tribulation Palm Thunder that threatened to wipe out a city. Melon-Eating Sage’s merit power failed to stop it after a strange voice interfered, leaving Song Shuhang preparing to use Fairy Promise and Waiting’s merit possession mode.

• Song Shuhang used the Never-Falling Holy City and Dragon-Scale Shields to block two blasts of Heavenly Tribulation Palm Thunder, while lamenting his lack of spiritual energy and other useful trump cards.
• Melon-Eating Sage used Merit—Great Sun to detonate more than three hundred blasts of Palm Thunder without being harmed.
• The tribulation clouds gathered into a city-sized hand charged with multiple forms of tribulation power, and Melon-Eating Sage warned Song Shuhang that its strength rivaled a veteran Ninth-Grade Tribulation Immortal’s strike.
• Melon-Eating Sage unleashed his merit light as a giant sun to meet the falling Palm Thunder, but a strange voice interfered with him and the Palm Thunder crushed through his defense.
• Song Shuhang told Fairy Promise and Waiting to prepare for merit possession mode as Melon-Eating Sage and the Palm Thunder fell from the sky.

Melon-Eating Sage and Song Shuhang survived the Ultra-Giant Palm Thunder after Merit Snake Beauty took control and attacked with the Merit Great Sun and twin sabers. As the next stage of the Ninth Grade tribulation began, Melon-Eating Sage endured the painful formation of tribulation bone, while Merit Snake Beauty shared the pain and began forming some bone of her own.

• Melon-Eating Sage was driven downward by the Ultra-Giant Palm Thunder, and Song Shuhang sent Merit Snake Beauty to help him.
• Merit Snake Beauty merged her Merit Little Fat Whale with Melon-Eating Sage and took control of his merit body instead of supporting him from the side.
• Merit Snake Beauty spun Melon-Eating Sage’s Merit Great Sun, wielded Song Shuhang’s twin blades with the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber, and shattered the Ultra-Giant Palm Thunder.
• The next tribulation wave gathered as spiritual energy flowed into Melon-Eating Sage and began forming tribulation bone inside him.
• Merit Snake Beauty shared Melon-Eating Sage’s pain through their connection, and a small segment of tribulation bone began forming in her Merit Little Fat Whale.

Melon-Eating Sage completed the second tribulation and began the Thousand-Day Tribulation, facing an overwhelming storm of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. Merit Snake Beauty summoned the Jade Lake Immortal Realm to absorb the lightning, but the attacks rapidly escalated, leaving the ordeal underway.

• Melon-Eating Sage formed his Tribulation Bone, and Merit Snake Beauty formed a smaller one inside his whale body.
• Melon-Eating Sage explained that the final tribulation would last about a thousand days and warned Song Shuhang that failure meant total destruction.
• The Purple Firmament Divine Thunder descended in vast numbers, destroying ＠＃％× Fairy's Merit Hall projections.
• Merit Snake Beauty summoned Empress Cheng Lin's Jade Lake Immortal Realm projection, which swallowed the incoming thunderbolts.
• The tribulation escalated to tens of millions and then over a hundred million Purple Firmament Divine Thunderbolts, prompting Merit Snake Beauty to shout in anger.

Song Shuhang and the Melon-Eating Sage endured the Ninth-Grade heavenly tribulation with help from the Jade Lake Immortal Realm Projection, which Fairy Promise and Waiting restored once before its ten-hour cooldown began. As another wave of purple firmament divine thunder fell, their attempt to use the Head-Hugging Crouch Defense technique failed, leaving them blasted away.

• The first waves of purple firmament divine thunder shattered the Jade Lake Immortal Realm Projection, but a lotus-born woman restored it and strengthened its defenses.
• The restored projection devoured successive waves of lightning, while the Merit Snake Beauty taunted the Heavenly Tribulation Big Shot into unleashing nearly a billion bolts at once.
• Fairy Cheng Lin's projection appeared and absorbed the remaining lightning after the Jade Lake collapsed, but the projection entered a ten-hour cooldown.
• The Merit Snake Beauty attempted the Head-Hugging Crouch Defense technique when the next lightning wave formed, but she and the Melon-Eating Sage were blasted away.

Melon-Eating Sage used his Merit Network and burned his lifespan to hold back Song Shuhang’s overwhelming Heavenly Tribulation, but the tribulation shifted into a ground-based eruption that shattered the Holy City and forced Song Shuhang to consider detonating a Golden Core. Outside the Black Dragon World, Hamster Unit received a request to reinforce Tyrant Song and chose No.

• Merit Snake Beauty and Melon-Eating Sage were struck by Purple Sky Divine Thunders, and Merit Snake Beauty transferred control to Melon-Eating Sage so she could prepare a secret technique.
• Melon-Eating Sage burned five thousand years of lifespan to activate the Merit Network, which captured and absorbed successive waves of Purple Sky Divine Thunders.
• Melon-Eating Sage burned another ten thousand years of lifespan to reinforce the network and block a billion Divine Thunders.
• Song Shuhang sensed an earthquake, grabbed Li Yinzhu, and rose into the air as flames and magma erupted from beneath the ground and destroyed the Never-Falling Holy City.
• Song Shuhang activated his defensive techniques and Golden Body secret techniques, then considered detonating one of his seven little Golden Cores as the sixth and seventh cores began to flare.
• Hamster Unit received a request to reinforce Tyrant Song and chose No.

Hamster Unit chose to answer Song Shuhang’s distress signal and was sent into Melon-Eating Sage’s Tribulation World, where the Sword of the End helped Song Shuhang suppress the Tribulation Fire. Hamster Unit arrived in the Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, and Song Shuhang covered it with a protective bedsheet.

• Hamster Unit hesitated over Song Shuhang’s distress signal until Senior White Two told it to choose “Yes” and sent it the Sword of the End.
• Hamster Unit chose “Yes” and vanished with the Sword of the End, prompting Senior White Two and Senior White to suspect Song Shuhang had been dragged into a Tribulation World.
• Senior White sent his clone to the Black Dragon World to search for Song Shuhang while Senior White Two worried that Hamster Unit could not survive a Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Sword of the End appeared beside Song Shuhang and released countless Sword Qi strands that sealed the Tribulation Fire beneath him.
• Song Shuhang recognized the Sword of the End’s backup heart and used a protective bedsheet to shield Hamster Unit when it appeared and began burning.
• Hamster Unit cursed Song Shuhang after he revealed that they were in the Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation.

Song Shuhang tried to save Hamster Unit from the Tribulation of Thousand Days by killing it with a Resurrection Coin, then faced a split Tribulation World that unleashed vastly stronger attacks on his side. Merit Snake Beauty returned to protect Song Shuhang, and the Heavenly Tribulation Nuclear Bombs began to weaken.

• Hamster Unit revealed that it had entered the Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation after accepting an invitation, and Song Shuhang promised to take responsibility for it.
• Song Shuhang tried to kill Hamster Unit so it could escape the tribulation with a Resurrection Coin, but its defensive artifacts blocked his first strike.
• After the Cleanfire Pillar descended and strengthened the tribulation, Song Shuhang stabbed Hamster Unit, which died and began resurrecting through the coin.
• The Tribulation World split around the Cleanfire Pillar, leaving Song Shuhang and Little Yinzhu separated from Melon-Eating Sage and Merit Snake Beauty.
• Melon-Eating Sage endured weakened Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, while Song Shuhang's side was targeted by nearly a hundred Heavenly Tribulation Nuclear Bombs that the Cleanfire Pillar further strengthened.
• Merit Snake Beauty used Merit Star Sea to protect Melon-Eating Sage, then returned to Song Shuhang; as she protected him, the strengthened Heavenly Tribulation began to weaken.

Song Shuhang used the Merit Snake Beauty’s protection to survive two waves of heavenly tribulation, then formed a destructive Steel Giant to fight the third wave. After the Hamster Fiend resurrected, Song Shuhang discovered its luck coin had landed on its edge.

• The Merit Snake Beauty used the Heaven-Leveling Crown’s stored energy to summon Merit Hall projections that blocked two waves of Heavenly Tribulation Nuclear Bombs.
• Song Shuhang collapsed his Never-Falling Holy City formation and combined the Sword of the End with two sets of Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifacts to form the giant who destroys all things.
• The giant who destroys all things fought the third wave of Heavenly Tribulation Nuclear Bombs with attacks such as the Giant Bear Iron Lady and King's Guillotine.
• The Merit Snake Beauty warned Song Shuhang that the tribulation’s power might rise sharply only during its final-day stage, and Song Shuhang vowed to become a Counterfeit Tribulation Immortal.
• The Hamster Fiend resurrected at full health ten minutes later and told Song Shuhang that its luck coin had landed on its edge.

Song Shuhang protected the Hamster Fiend from the Cleanfire Pillar by using Smoke Mode, then endured the first day of the Tribulation of Thousand Days. On the second day, he realized the missing detail in his First Golden Core Formation Diagram was the giant's right eye.

• Song Shuhang learned that the Cleanfire Pillar's Scorching Domain kept burning the Hamster Fiend and prevented its wounds from healing.
• Song Shuhang discovered that his Smoke Mode could shield the Hamster Fiend from the Scorching Domain, so he swallowed it to protect it.
• The Hamster Fiend used a water-type healing spell to recover while Song Shuhang maintained Smoke Mode, though he admitted he could not sustain it for a thousand days.
• Song Shuhang and the giant who destroys all things endured the first day of the Tribulation of Thousand Days as the Heavenly Tribulation's power stopped increasing.
• On the second day, Song Shuhang realized the missing finishing touch in his First Golden Core Formation Diagram was the giant's blank right eye.

During the Tribulation of Thousand Days, Song Shuhang exhausted his spiritual energy while gaining insights into the Finishing Touch for two Golden Core Formation Diagrams. When Lady Kuna’s energy request unexpectedly brought Boss Fat Ball online, Fat Ball sent him a vast supply of pure energy and told him to end the situation with the Clone Secret Art.

• On the third day, Song Shuhang noticed the Tribulation World’s spiritual energy dwindling and caught a fleeting insight into his Mechanical Core Reactor’s formation diagram.
• Over the next two days, Song Shuhang gained complementary insights about the enemy reflected in the Giant Who Destroys All Things’ right eye and the enemy targeted by the Star of Destruction.
• On the sixth day, Song Shuhang ran low on energy and accepted the prompt to request support from Lady Kuna.
• Lady Kuna selected the request, appeared at a dragon network node, and changed an account’s ID to “Fat Ball.”
• Lady Kuna went offline, and Fat Ball came online, accepted Song Shuhang’s request, sent him pure energy, and told him to use the Clone Secret Art to end everything happening.

Song Shuhang accepted Fat Ball’s help to escape the eighth-to-ninth heavenly tribulation, but Lady Kuna pulled out only his clone and left his main body behind. Lady Kunbi said the main body could last another thirty days, giving Shuhang that long to reach the Sixth-Grade realm and try to rescue it.

• Fat Ball sent Song Shuhang pure power and instructed him to transfer part of his consciousness to his clone to prepare for escape.
• Song Shuhang told the Melon-Eating Sage he had found a way out, then transferred part of his consciousness into his clone.
• Lady Kuna used the Dragon Network to pull Song Shuhang’s clone from the Tribulation Space, leaving his main body, Little Yinzhu, the Merit Snake Beauty, and the Dharma Artifact behind.
• Song Shuhang realized he was only a clone, while the Melon-Eating Sage remained confused when Song Shuhang’s presence persisted in the tribulation.
• Lady Kunbi told Song Shuhang that his main body could survive for thirty more days and that reaching the Sixth-Grade realm might let him draw it out.

Song Shuhang learned that Lady Kuna was a distinct being called Fat Ball, born partly because of the seed tied to him, and she brought his clone back to the Black Dragon World. There, he reunited with Senior White's Clone and Scarlet Heaven Sword while his main body remained trapped in the Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Space.

• Lady Kuna promised to pull Song Shuhang's main body and its companions out within thirty days, once he reached the Sixth-Grade Realm, so they could undergo their tribulations together.
• Song Shuhang appraised Lady Kuna and discovered she was in a Divine Descent State, then asked about her identity and learned that her old name had been erased and she was called Fat Ball.
• Lady Kuna explained that she was different from the Liquid Metal Ball Boss and had been born partly because of the seed connected to Song Shuhang.
• Lady Kuna took Song Shuhang back to the Black Dragon World, where she fell asleep after her golden eyes faded.
• Song Shuhang found Senior White's Clone and Scarlet Heaven Sword at the Dragon Blood Branch Tribe, wrapped himself in a bedsheet, and explained that his main body was still undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword pointed out that the heavens showed Song Shuhang's main body was in the Eighth-to-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Space, leaving them wondering how it had entered the Ninth-Grade Tribulation Space.

Song Shuhang prepared to enter seclusion for the first time so his clone could advance to the Sixth-Grade Realm and rescue his main body from the heavenly tribulation. The chapter ended with him beginning his retreat in Scarlet Dragon Cave, protected by Senior White's Clone's formations.

• Song Shuhang said his main body could last thirty more days and planned to advance his clone to the true Sixth-Grade Realm within that time.
• Senior White's Clone advised Song Shuhang on preparing for seclusion, including finding a spiritually rich location and bringing Scarlet Heaven Sword and Creation Fairy.
• The old chief offered the tribe's energy-rich sites, and Song Shuhang chose Scarlet Dragon Cave, a fire-filled Trial Grounds behind the Blood Dragon Tribe.
• Song Shuhang brought Creation Fairy, Scarlet Heaven Sword, and Senior White's Clone into the cave, then reassured the old chief that his clone would not starve.
• Senior White's Clone set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation, a mind-nourishing formation, a Soundproof Barrier, and thirty-three defensive layers, giving the tribe an Eighth-Grade shelter.
• Song Shuhang nervously began his first period of seclusion.

Song Shuhang entered seclusion in Scarlet Dragon Cave with help from Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, Creation Fairy, and Senior White's Clone, and felt his cultivation advancing rapidly. After his primordial spirit unexpectedly left his clone's body, he decided to travel with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword and reached a castle inhabited by the Dragonblood Clan.

• Song Shuhang began meditating in Scarlet Dragon Cave while Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, Creation Fairy, and Senior White's Clone aided his cultivation.
• Song Shuhang grew absorbed in seclusion as his realm advanced and inspiration for several Golden Core Formation Diagrams came to him.
• The old tribal chief visited the cave, wondered whether Song Shuhang's clone needed a toilet, and realized the tribe's younger members had taken over most of his work.
• Song Shuhang felt ready to break through, leaped, and unexpectedly sent his primordial spirit out of his clone's body.
• Song Shuhang asked to travel with his primordial spirit, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword manifested a sword spirit to guard him.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword traveled for half a day and arrived at a castle inhabited by the Dragonblood Clan.