Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang followed his intuition to Black-Eye XIII’s castle, where he discovered that his karmic connection was with Scarlet Eyes, Black-Eye XIII’s younger brother. As Scarlet Eyes collapsed after another fruitless training session, the eyes on Song Shuhang’s Merit-drilling-ball Golden Core Formation Diagram opened.

• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword entered Black-Eye XIII’s castle, and Song Shuhang sensed his karma centered on a frail boy practicing with a spear.
• Song Shuhang learned the boy was Scarlet Eyes, Black-Eye XIII’s younger brother, and watched his parents encourage him despite his lack of cultivation talent.
• Scarlet Eyes ate a Wing Bucket, asked when he could obtain a magic terminal, and returned to practicing his spear while his parents worried about his lack of progress.
• After completing two hundred repetitions, Scarlet Eyes collapsed and called himself a fool, while the eyes of the Dharma-Preaching Saint opened on Song Shuhang’s Golden Core Formation Diagram.

Song Shuhang appraised Scarlet Eyes and discovered the nine-year-old had extremely poor talent in nearly every area. He told Scarlet Eyes that his brother had gone to another world and offered to teach him a blacksmithing skill, but Scarlet Eyes still wanted to become a battle mage.

• The Confucian Sage briefly focused on Scarlet Eyes through Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit, then withdrew his attention.
• Song Shuhang approached Scarlet Eyes and tried to learn about his talents, but Scarlet Eyes refused to change from spear practice and rejected Song Shuhang’s offer to appraise him.
• Song Shuhang promised to reveal Black-Eye XIII’s whereabouts if Scarlet Eyes cooperated, and Scarlet Eyes agreed to the appraisal.
• The Appraisal Secret Method revealed that Scarlet Eyes was nine years old, was a mixed-blood child of Black-Eye the Twelfth and a human woman, and had extremely poor talent and physical growth.
• Song Shuhang told Scarlet Eyes that Black-Eye XIII had gone to the Present World, then offered to teach him Steel Hand; Scarlet Eyes said he still wanted to become a battle mage but would learn it if it could make him stronger.

Song Shuhang traded the Steel Hand instruction for Scarlet Eyes’ protective sachet and began teaching him its basic fist technique. Seeing how poorly the boy took to cultivation, Song Shuhang planned to ask Senior White for a Top Student System to guide his training, and promised to bring Scarlet Eyes something the next day.

• Song Shuhang accepted Scarlet Eyes’ protective sachet as payment and learned that its Dragonbone Powder could help a Primordial Spirit briefly form a physical body.
• Scarlet Eyes challenged Song Shuhang to prove his strength, and Song Shuhang knocked him back with a controlled burst of spiritual energy.
• Song Shuhang taught Scarlet Eyes the preliminary Basic Fist Technique, but the boy struggled to perform its movements smoothly.
• Song Shuhang told Scarlet Heaven Sword he planned to ask Senior White to create a Top Student System with lessons to help Scarlet Eyes cultivate.
• At dusk, Song Shuhang finished teaching the technique’s moves and told Scarlet Eyes to practice before promising to bring him something the next day.

Song Shuhang used Senior White's Clone to create a Top Student System rune for Scarlet Eyes, then returned to the youth the next day to continue teaching him. His cultivation also brought his First Little Golden Core and Core Reactor close to adding the Finishing Touch.

• Song Shuhang returned to the Scarlet Dragon Cave and told Senior White's Clone that he had found an opportunity to add the Finishing Touch to his Merit Diamond's Golden Core Formation Diagram.
• After seeing Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword energized by Blade-Nourishing Arts, Song Shuhang used nearly twelve of them on Senior White's Clone, waking him and making him energetic.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White's Clone to create a Top Student System rune with Steel Hand lessons, Palm Thunder, lightning-strike punishments, and a Gatling Gun icon.
• Song Shuhang resumed cultivation and asked Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword to escort his Primordial Spirit to Scarlet Eyes again the next day.
• Song Shuhang's Primordial Spirit visited Scarlet Eyes, who was practicing the Basic Fist Technique of Steel Hand, and the youth greeted him happily.

Song Shuhang gave Scarlet Pupil a Super Scholar System rune that taught him cultivation through lessons enforced with electric shocks. After Scarlet Pupil asked what death felt like because of recurring dreams, Song Shuhang claimed his experience was unmatched.

• Song Shuhang gave Scarlet Pupil a rune that installed the Super Scholar System on his arm.
• Scarlet Pupil entered learning mode and was shocked when he failed to follow a Steel Hands fist movement.
• Song Shuhang felt pleased that Scarlet Pupil was now sharing his experience of being electrocuted during lessons.
• Song Shuhang explained that the system would teach Scarlet Pupil fist forms, cultivation fundamentals, and more advanced techniques as he progressed.
• Scarlet Pupil told Song Shuhang that he often dreamed of dying and asked what death felt like.
• Song Shuhang said that none of his peers could match his experience with death.

Song Shuhang recounted his many deaths to Scarlet Eyes, accidentally forming an embryonic Real Illusion that made Scarlet Eyes experience their terror. The lesson left Scarlet Eyes yearning to die, and Song Shuhang worried that something was wrong with him after his appraisal still recommended registering a new account.

• Song Shuhang's memories of dying formed an embryonic Real Illusion that drew Scarlet Eyes into repeated deaths in the Confucian School Golden Lotus World.
• Song Shuhang recounted several other deaths, including being used to refine an artifact, self-detonating, being cut apart by a senior, and dying beneath heavenly tribulation, before the illusion collapsed.
• Scarlet Eyes said he wanted to experience death and admitted he felt an impulse to die alongside Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang warned Scarlet Eyes that resurrection was difficult and reappraised him, but the result again recommended registering a new account.
• Song Shuhang wondered whether he could let Scarlet Eyes die with a Resurrection Coin, then worried that his urge to kill teammates had become a disease.

Song Shuhang helped Scarlet Eyes commit to cultivating, then Senior White's Clone used the Silent Bell to help Song Shuhang calm his mind. After half a day of meditation, inspiration from his main body and Steel Avatar surged, drawing him into the Minor Golden Core Space to finish two Golden Cores.

• Song Shuhang told Scarlet Eyes to keep cultivating and promised to bring him Body Tempering Liquid and Blood Qi Pills.
• Song Shuhang returned to Scarlet Dragon Cave and tried to test whether his Primordial Spirit could cast Blade-Nourishing Art, but Senior White's Clone caught him.
• Senior White's Clone kneaded Song Shuhang's Primordial Spirit into a ball and put him inside the Silent Bell to temper his state of mind.
• Song Shuhang calmed himself amid the bell's sounds and entered meditation, while half a day passed.
• Song Shuhang's inspiration erupted, and he entered the Minor Golden Core Space as the first and sixth Little Golden Cores awaited their finishing stroke.

Song Shuhang completed the Stroke of Illumination for his First and Fifth Small Golden Cores, turning both into Glazed Cores and strengthening himself. Unable to find the right enemy concept for his Second Small Golden Core, he left seclusion and asked Senior White's clone to connect him with Senior White Two.

• Song Shuhang prayed and completed the First Small Golden Core's Stroke of Illumination, forming an enemy's reflection in the giant's eye and awakening a brief tremor in his natal whale core.
• Song Shuhang completed the Core Reactor's Stroke of Illumination by drawing the planet-destroying artifact's massive target, transforming the Fifth Small Golden Core into a Glazed Core.
• Song Shuhang could not decide what enemy to depict for the Second Small Golden Core because its protagonist stood with the Netherworld against the myriad heavens and worlds.
• Song Shuhang considered possible leads for the Third and Fourth Small Golden Cores, then withdrew his consciousness from the small dantian.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword praised Song Shuhang's Stroke of Illumination, and Song Shuhang asked Senior White's clone to help him contact Senior White Two.

Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit entered the Ancient Nether World to meet Senior White and Senior White Two, where the Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective immediately attacked and demanded him. She claimed that Song Shuhang originally belonged to her and that they had once been one, leaving Senior White questioning her claim.

• Song Shuhang used Lotus Steps to make a Black Lotus pillow for Senior White’s Clone, then persuaded him to send Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit to Senior White’s main body.
• A One-Time Flying Sword—Black-Room-Breaker Version carried Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit into the Ancient Nether World.
• The Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective appeared, and Song Shuhang called out to Senior White and Senior White Two for help.
• Senior White and Senior White Two arrived as the Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective tried to seize Song Shuhang; the Meteor Sword blocked her, while Senior White Two caught and kneaded Song Shuhang’s Primordial Spirit.
• The Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective demanded Song Shuhang, claiming they had originally been one, and Senior White told her that Song Shuhang was not from this world.

Song Shuhang and the two Senior Whites confronted the Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective, whose authority was challenged by a powerful newcomer. Afterward, Song Shuhang asked Senior White Two for help with his Golden Core Formation Diagram and revealed its QR code before being sent back.

• Song Shuhang convinced the Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective that she had mistaken him for Song Blockhead, while Senior White Two calmed the Ancient Nether World’s raging power.
• A mysterious figure wielding a Demon God Pillar attacked and split the Ancient Nether Chaos Will Collective, while Senior White Two deflected her Karmic Cause Spear at Song Shuhang.
• Song Shuhang appraised and kept a usable fragment of the Karmic Cause Spear, and the Senior Whites suspected the newcomer was a powerful Longevity Immortal close to the Sage’s level.
• Song Shuhang told the Senior Whites about the Sun Ship ritual, the Heavenly Emperor taking his Steel Avatar, and his alliance with the Black Dragon World Dragon Network, and Senior White warned him not to roam the Ancient Nether World.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White Two for inspiration for his second Golden Core Formation Diagram, declined to seek trouble with Fat Ball, and prepared to return to the present world.
• Song Shuhang projected his QR Code Golden Core Formation Diagram and asked the two Senior Whites to test whether they could add him as a friend.

Song Shuhang and the two Senior Whites tested adding him as a friend through his QR Code Golden Core Formation Diagram, but Senior White Two forcibly switched Song Shuhang to a special line. After Senior White added him as a close friend, Song Shuhang saw countless cause-and-effect threads and began identifying what they represented.

• Senior White and Senior White Two scanned Song Shuhang's QR code, but the prompt said he needed to switch lines before they could add him as a friend.
• Senior White Two forced Song Shuhang to switch to a special line, and a prompt asked whether to add Little Friend Shuhang as a close friend.
• Senior White accepted the prompt, establishing a close-friend relationship with Song Shuhang, though neither noticed an immediate change.
• Song Shuhang's vision revealed golden cause-and-effect threads connecting him to Senior White and many other colored threads extending into the void.
• Song Shuhang identified the blue threads as family members and suspected the greatly increased white threads came from his Manifestation Before All and Pregnancy Gaze.

Song Shuhang examined the Causal Threads connected to him and found that his Glazed-Gold thread with Senior White had begun to resonate with his first Little Golden Core. The chapter left the change just beginning as the thread touched the Overlord Blade core.

• Song Shuhang identified the white threads as passerby connections, the broken blood-red threads as departed enemies, and the black threads as living enemies.
• Song Shuhang saw that his Causal Threads with Senior White and Senior White Two were turning Glazed-Gold.
• Senior White Two accepted Song Shuhang as a close friend after considering the awkward prompt that offered to name him a pet.
• Senior White suggested the golden Causal Threads might evolve further, while Senior White Two doubted they could be studied often.
• The Glazed-Gold thread between Song Shuhang and Senior White pierced into his Small Dantian and touched his Overlord Blade Little Golden Core, producing resonance.

Song Shuhang’s causal threads with Senior White and Senior White Two activated his second golden core’s formation diagram, inspiring him to complete its final stroke. The demon core evolved into a glazed demon core that flattened into portraits of both Senior Whites, revealing that even this seemingly ordinary formation diagram was a mosaic puzzle.

• Senior White’s causal thread wrapped around Song Shuhang’s first golden core, while Senior White Two’s thread wrapped around his second seven-colored demon core.
• Senior White Two’s causal thread activated the formation diagram Sword That Brings the End to the World and filled Song Shuhang with inspiration to complete it.
• Song Shuhang entered the formation diagram and drew the final boss, whose image shifted from Senior White’s form into Boss Fat Ball’s.
• The completed formation diagram evolved the seven-colored demon core into a glazed demon core and flattened it into a portrait of Senior White on one side and Senior White Two on the other.

Song Shuhang returned from completing the finishing touch on his Golden Core Formation Diagram, but his causal threads remained unchanged. Back in the Scarlet Dragon Cave, he discovered that one of his seven-colored threads connected to Melon-Eating Sage, leaving him wondering what Melon-Eating Sage and Onion Lady had in common.

• Song Shuhang completed the finishing touch, but his causal threads did not change, and Senior White Two sent his primordial spirit flying back toward the Scarlet Dragon Cave.
• The Ancient Nether chaos will tried and failed to intercept Song Shuhang, while White and Senior White Two agreed to finish planting pillars and avoid intervening in other Ancient Nether affairs.
• Song Shuhang found Senior White's Clone struggling to keep Creation Fairy from biting his black lotus, so he offered to make her a lotus of the same size.
• Song Shuhang noticed causal lines linking him to Creation Fairy and Scarlet Heaven Sword, and two Blade-Nourishing Art spells slightly deepened Scarlet Heaven Sword's dark-gold thread.
• Song Shuhang traced his seven-colored causal thread and discovered that it connected to Melon-Eating Sage, prompting him to wonder what Melon-Eating Sage and Onion Lady had in common.

Song Shuhang traced his third Seven-Colored Causal Thread to Boss Fat Ball in the Netherworld and nearly provoked a long-distance attack, though Fat Ball mistook the shifting coordinates for one of Senior White Two’s traps. Back in Scarlet Dragon Cave, Song Shuhang planned to stabilize his realm and finish his Golden Core Formation Diagrams, but hoped his Natal Whale Core’s diagram would form automatically.

• Song Shuhang followed his third Seven-Colored Causal Thread and discovered that it led to Boss Fat Ball in the Netherworld.
• Boss Fat Ball locked onto Song Shuhang’s changing coordinates, mistook them for a trap leading into the Tribulation World, and angrily threatened Senior White Two.
• Senior White Two denied setting a trap, then gleefully taunted Boss Fat Ball and challenged it to carry out its next grand plan.
• Song Shuhang returned to Scarlet Dragon Cave, told Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword he had nearly been attacked, and wondered why a Causal Thread connected him to Boss Fat Ball.
• Song Shuhang planned to stabilize his realm and visit Scarlet Eyes to finish the Sage’s Eye, then wished the Natal Whale Core’s Golden Core Formation Diagram would complete automatically.

Song Shuhang searched his causal threads, discovered he had no pink threads, and learned they represented partners who had practiced dual cultivation. He entered Man-and-Sword Unity with Scarlet Heaven Sword to study the Cause-and-Effect Saber, where the sword noticed the Karmic Cause Spear on his back.

• Song Shuhang looked for pink causal threads and found none, worrying that something was abnormal about him.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword explained that pink threads connected people who had actually practiced dual cultivation, and the seniors teased Song Shuhang about having children someday.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword urged Song Shuhang to use his fresh understanding of causal threads to study the Cause-and-Effect Saber technique.
• Song Shuhang and Scarlet Heaven Sword entered Man-and-Sword Unity and formed a shared mental space.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword spotted the Karmic Cause Spear strapped to Song Shuhang's back.

Song Shuhang practiced the Cause-and-Effect Saber under Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword’s guidance while they were trapped in a mental space. In the group chat, Soft Feather revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had taken Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar, possibly explaining why Doudou’s demon core portrait kept heating up.

• Song Shuhang told the Scarlet Heaven Sword that Senior White Two had knocked away the Ancient Nether Chaos Will’s Karmic Cause Spear, and he planned to turn it into a weapon for Scarlet Eyes.
• The half spear transformed into a Ghost-Head Saber, and the Scarlet Heaven Sword began teaching Song Shuhang the Cause-and-Effect Saber technique.
• Song Shuhang practiced in Man-and-Sword Unity, enjoying how the Scarlet Heaven Sword trained him while he relaxed.
• Doudou and the others discussed Song Shuhang and Senior White’s continued absence from the group chat, while Doudou complained that his demon core portrait mark was scorching hot.
• Soft Feather joined the chat and said the Heavenly Emperor had taken Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar, causing Doudou to feel uneasy.

Soft Feather explained her rapid cultivation and shared Song Shuhang’s QR-code golden-core formation diagram with the group, but only Fairy Lychee managed to add him as a friend. Song Shuhang received her request while practicing the Cause-and-Effect Saber, then saw a notification that Fairy Cheng Lin had used Friend Cloning to make him heir to the throne.

• Soft Feather told the group that the Heavenly Emperor’s possession of her spirit ghost was sending her cultivation insights, and that she had condensed eight immortal bones.
• Yellow Mountain decided to visit Soft Feather on Spirit Butterfly Island, while Doudou asked to go and was reminded he was confined.
• Soft Feather shared Song Shuhang’s QR-code golden-core formation diagram, but most members’ attempts to scan it with mental energy failed.
• Fairy Lychee successfully added Song Shuhang as a friend, and he received her request while practicing the Cause-and-Effect Saber with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Song Shuhang received a notification that Fairy Cheng Lin had used the Friend Cloning function to add him as heir to the throne.

Song Shuhang tested whether the Cause-and-Effect Saber could connect people to his QR Code Golden Core Formation Diagram, but Scarlet Heaven Sword could not add him even after switching to the Causality Network. After consolidating his Glazed Cores, Song Shuhang went to visit Scarlet Eyes and found him training so hard that he spat blood because his nutrition could not keep up.

• Song Shuhang used the Cause-and-Effect Saber while Scarlet Heaven Sword scanned his QR Code, triggering a switch to the Causality Network, but the friend request still failed.
• Song Shuhang ended his Man-and-Blade Unity practice, while members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group studied the QR Code after Fairy Lychee successfully added him as a friend.
• Two days later, Song Shuhang's clone finished stabilizing his five Glazed Cores and prepared to seek Scarlet Eyes' help with the Finishing Touch on Sage Constructive Force.
• Song Shuhang's Primordial Spirit, Scarlet Heaven Sword, and Creation Fairy traveled through the fog to the Dragonblood Clan Castle, where Scarlet Eyes practiced Steel Hand's Basic Fist Technique.
• Scarlet Eyes drank a Blood Qi potion and resumed training, but after two moves he spat blood, and Scarlet Heaven Sword said his nutrition could not keep up.

Song Shuhang discovered that Scarlet Eyes had trouble absorbing potions and healing, yet recovered unusually quickly and was drawn to death. Creation Fairy recognized his resemblance to one of the Confucian Sage’s old acquaintances, and Scarlet Eyes’s wish to experience death led her to stab him.

• Song Shuhang appraised Scarlet Eyes and learned that his mixed ancestry made him poor at absorbing magic potions and healing spells.
• Song Shuhang told Scarlet Eyes to slow his training, but Scarlet Eyes resumed the Basic Fist Technique and coughed up blood halfway through the third move.
• Creation Fairy’s second personality emerged, explaining that Scarlet Eyes’s death-seeking nature and self-healing reminded her of a long-blue-haired senior known to the Confucian Sage.
• Scarlet Eyes said he wanted to become stronger, find Brother Black-Eye, and experience death for himself.
• Creation Fairy formed a spiritual-energy sword and stabbed Scarlet Eyes, fulfilling his wish as he cried out in pain and his eyes dimmed.