Chapter Summaries

While Song Shuhang endured another Heavenly Tribulation wave, his fifth glazed core transformed into a nine-layered spirit lake, and Mad Saber Three Waves accidentally joined the Dragon Network and added him as a kindred spirit. In the Nine Provinces Number One Group, Copper Trigram claimed he had solved the QR code mystery by disguising himself as Fairy Lychee, but Three Waves prepared to reveal an even simpler method.

• Mad Saber Three Waves registered on the Dragon Network and accepted the prompt to add Song Shuhang as a kindred spirit.
• Another Heavenly Tribulation wave struck Song Shuhang, and his Mechanical Core Reactor transformed into a divided, nine-layered spirit lake with its metal core at the bottom.
• Song Shuhang realized Three Waves had added him through an old QR code and instructed the Dragon Network Assistant not to send help requests during his tribulation without confirmation.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master joined the Nine Provinces Number One Group and demonstrated that disguising himself as Fairy Lychee let him scan Song Shuhang's QR code.
• Three Waves announced that he had discovered a simpler way to scan the QR code and add Song Shuhang as a friend.

Mad Saber Three Waves discovered that stuffing padding into his clothes let the group members scan Song Shuhang’s Dragon Network QR Code, prompting a wave of friend requests and comic list assignments. As Song Shuhang endured his tribulations, Venerable Yellow Mountain began investigating the Dragon Network and suspected it had deeper layers.

• Mad Saber Three Waves explained that stuffing padding into his clothes let him scan Song Shuhang’s QR Code and add him as a friend.
• Snow Wolf Cave Master, Sunbreaker Halberd Guo Da, Northern River's Loose Cultivator, and other group members tried the method and added Song Shuhang to various friend lists.
• Fairy Flowing Firefly revealed that the padding was unnecessary, and several members confirmed that simply scanning the QR Code worked.
• Song Shuhang completed two more tribulations, turning his third and fourth golden cores into nine-layer spirit lakes while friend notifications flooded his vision.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain added Song Shuhang as a friend, then explored the Dragon Network and suspected it had another level.

Song Shuhang used his Dragon Network administrator privileges to share energy and QR codes with his friends, while Venerable Yellow Mountain tested the network’s advancement trials. The Nine Provinces Number One Group began racing through the network’s layers, and Yellow Mountain appeared to begin ascending as he entered the level-five region.

• Song Shuhang allocated five million Dragon Network energy to each of his friends and arranged for QR code projections to reach Onion Lady, Chu Chu, Xiao Cai, and others.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain advanced through the Dragon Network’s second and third layers, defeating its black dragon tribulations and noting that the layers corresponded to cultivation realms.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain shared his findings in the Nine Provinces Number One Group, prompting its members to enter the Dragon Network and test how far they could advance.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain reached the advancement region from level four to level five and rose into the air above a bank of white clouds.

Venerable Yellow Mountain was pulled into Song Shuhang’s Heavenly Tribulation after the Dragon Network’s Ascension phenomenon transported his primordial spirit to the Black Dragon World. Their strange connection then helped Song Shuhang unleash the Heaven-Forged Profound-Yellow Sword against the strengthened Flood Dragon Tribulation.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain repeatedly broke apart Ascension clouds so he could keep watch over Soft Feather and Doudou’s Tribulation Transcendence.
• Ascension drew Venerable Yellow Mountain’s primordial spirit through a spatial passage and into Song Shuhang’s Heavenly Tribulation zone.
• The Flood Dragon Tribulation grew stronger when Venerable Yellow Mountain arrived, and Song Shuhang’s Merit Hall Projection was destroyed by its attack.
• Song Shuhang wielded the Sword of the End against the Flood Dragon Tribulation as his connection with Venerable Yellow Mountain intensified.
• Song Shuhang unleashed the Heaven-Forged Profound-Yellow Sword, channeling streams of Profound-Yellow Qi into his strike.

Song Shuhang destroyed the Flood Dragon Tribulation with the Heaven-Forged Profound-Yellow Sword, but realized his Heavenly Tribulation still had one final wave. As the Dragon Network drew more members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group to him during their ascensions, their arrivals outpaced the Assistant's attempt to change the transfer destination.

• Song Shuhang used the Heaven-Forged Profound-Yellow Sword to destroy the Flood Dragon Tribulation and carve through the Tribulation Cloud.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain urged Song Shuhang to end their Primordial Spirit Resonance, but Song Shuhang said one final wave of his Heavenly Tribulation remained.
• Mad Saber Three Waves arrived as a primordial spirit and explained that his blocked ascension had drawn him into a Spatial Passage.
• Song Shuhang asked the Dragon Network Assistant to redirect any arriving seniors five hundred meters away, and it agreed to patch the problem.
• True Lord Flood Dragon Overlord, True Lord White Crane, and True Lord Eternal Fire arrived, followed by numerous other members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group.

Song Shuhang’s heavenly tribulation drew the primordial spirits of nearly the entire Nine Provinces Number One Group together, despite a patch meant to keep them away. The group discovered Copper Trigram’s disguise, then thunder answered Northern River’s threat as Copper Trigram cursed the tribulation.

• Song Shuhang’s fellow daoists gathered in primordial spirit form, and Fairy Lychee spun Mad Saber Three Waves until he was helpless.
• The group saw powerful tribulation clouds forming over Song Shuhang and learned they had been caught in his tribulation.
• The Dragon Network Assistant’s patch failed to keep Su Clan’s Seven and other group members from being pulled beside Song Shuhang.
• Copper Trigram emerged in a red dress and mask, then revealed his male identity by showing his pectoral muscles.
• Northern River’s Loose Cultivator threatened Copper Trigram with lightning, thunder sounded overhead, and Copper Trigram shouted, “Fuck you, heavenly tribulation!”

Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group were pulled into a newly created Group Tribulation Space after their combined heavenly tribulation reached eighth-grade-plus intensity. The tribulation eventually entered the space as purple flames and tribulation clouds, and Song Shuhang used primordial spirit resonance to lessen the group’s pain as the ordeal began.

• Copper Trigram Immortal Master and the other seniors realized they had been swept into Song Shuhang’s heavenly tribulation, while Song Shuhang prepared his defenses.
• The heavenly tribulation opened a new Group Tribulation Space and transported Song Shuhang, Li Yinzhu, and the seniors inside, leaving the tribulation clouds outside.
• Song Shuhang used intermittent Dragon Network connections to track the tribulation and discovered it had not initially entered the Group Tribulation Space.
• The Dragon Network offered to convert the eighth-grade-plus tribulation into a Black Dragon World Tribulation, but the clouds vanished before the conversion completed.
• Song Shuhang warned everyone as the tribulation clouds entered the space and purple flames erupted, burning the group with intense pain.
• Song Shuhang resonated his primordial spirit with the seniors’ primordial spirits, greatly reducing the pain they felt from the flames.

Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group endured the purple fire by sharing his pain tolerance through resonance, but their group tribulation was interrupted when the Heavenly Emperor and Steel Song were dragged into the space. The Heavenly Emperor warned that the final tribulation meant certain death, then left through an equivalent exchange, bringing the real Soft Feather and Doudou into the space in her place.

• Song Shuhang explained that resonance let him share his pain tolerance with the Nine Provinces Number One Group, making the purple fire manageable.
• Violet-gold lightning struck the Sun Ship, and the little sun absorbed the lightning and more than half of the tribulation clouds.
• The Heavenly Emperor emerged from the little sun and told Song Shuhang that his group tribulation had pulled her and Steel Song into the Tribulation Space.
• The Heavenly Emperor warned Song Shuhang that the final tribulation was certain death and said she could leave only through an equivalent exchange.
• The Heavenly Emperor, the little sun, and Steel Song vanished, while the genuine Soft Feather and Doudou appeared before Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and Doudou fought a Buddhist heavenly tribulation that stripped away their senses, then faced the final trial, Invisible Death. The Dragon Network Assistant revealed that its light would erase anything it touched, leaving Song Shuhang without a clear way to resist it.

• Soft Feather and Doudou joined Song Shuhang as a new heavenly tribulation descended in the form of an upside-down Buddha that began stripping away their senses.
• Soft Feather and Doudou attacked the Buddha while Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group combined their techniques to destroy it.
• The Buddha's lingering spell stripped away the group's sight and touch, so Song Shuhang gathered Soft Feather and Doudou inside the Never-Falling Holy City.
• The Group Tribulation Space froze, and the Dragon Network Assistant announced the final heavenly tribulation, Invisible Death.
• The Dragon Network Assistant showed Song Shuhang a radiance that turned everything it touched to ash, but offered no way to resist it.

Song Shuhang tried to save himself and the frozen cultivators from the lethal Invisible Death tribulation, but every escape plan failed. As the destructive light approached and the others began to recover, Onion Lady fell into the Tribulation World, and Song Shuhang gave her a Resurrection Coin.

• Song Shuhang learned that Invisible Death would kill anyone who failed its appearance-based appraisal, while the Dragon Network Assistant warned that it could offer no further guidance.
• Song Shuhang tried to protect the group by using Resurrection Coins, transferring their primordial spirits, and moving them into the Core World, but the time freeze thwarted each plan.
• Song Shuhang scattered Senior Skylark's hair over the group to lure the Disaster Giant Turtles, but a familiar tortoise recognized his trick and left without rescuing them.
• Onion Lady fell through the Core World's doorway, and Song Shuhang kicked her back toward it, accidentally breaking the tip of her sprout before the doorway vanished.
• As Invisible Death approached and the seniors, Soft Feather, Doudou, and Yinzhu began to recover, Song Shuhang gave Onion Lady a Resurrection Coin and promised her freedom if she survived.

Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group faced the invisible-death Final Tribulation as its light swept through the Group Tribulation Space. After Onion Lady passed its assessment, Song Shuhang spread into smoke to shield everyone, while Onion Lady used her awakened ability to wrap them in green onion shoots.

• Song Shuhang explained that the growing radiance was indestructible before blooming and that anything failing its assessment would die when touched by its light.
• The invisible-death radiance bloomed, sealed the Group Tribulation Space, and released Soft Feather, Doudou, and the Nine Provinces Number One Group from the Time Freeze.
• Onion Lady charged into the radiance with the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber and survived its assessment, while Skylark's Long Hair briefly slowed the light's advance.
• True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey tested the protection of Skylark's Long Hair, but his eight-armed dharma form began crumbling; Onion Lady destroyed the ash cloud pursuing him with the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• The radiance overwhelmed the hair barriers and sealed everyone's divine sense, so Song Shuhang turned into smoke and tried to envelop the group as the light swept over them.
• Onion Lady passed her green onion shoots around the group members, Doudou, Soft Feather, and Li Yinzhu as Skylark's scattered hair began burning around them.

With the group trapped and unable to sense the outside world, Soft Feather used her knowledge of the future to secretly protect three seniors from the heavenly tribulation. Song Shuhang awoke from a nightmare in which they died, unaware that Soft Feather had changed the past.

• Onion Lady exhausted herself protecting everyone and fell unconscious, while the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber supported her.
• Soft Feather woke, recalled that True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey, Vice Island Master Tian Tian, and Copper Trigram Immortal Master had died in her memories, and decided to intervene.
• Soft Feather used Time Reversal to remove the tribulation mark from True Lord Ancient Lake Abbey.
• Soft Feather linked Vice Island Master Tian Tian to Tiantian Island Lord so she could conceal her damaged primordial spirit, then marked Copper Trigram Immortal Master's mask without removing it.
• Soft Feather returned to Doudou and closed her eyes as Song Shuhang continued praying for everyone's safety.
• Song Shuhang woke from a nightmare in which the three seniors turned to ash, cried out, and heard Doudou tease him about the sound.

After the group survived the heavenly tribulation, Song Shuhang awoke from a nightmare in which three seniors had died and found everyone safe. The group remained trapped in the unfinished Tribulation Space, so Song Shuhang prepared to take them to the Sage Space in the Black Dragon World.

• Song Shuhang woke beside Doudou and confirmed that the group, including the three seniors from his nightmare, had survived the tribulation.
• Song Shuhang found Onion Lady withered from exhaustion, and Fairy Eastern Six explained that Onion Lady had protected the group.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain confirmed that the tribulation had ended, but the group could not leave the unfinished Tribulation Space.
• The group joked about their near-death experiences and planned a celebratory banquet at Song Shuhang's restaurant.
• After the group discussed how long they might remain trapped, Song Shuhang said he had a way out and set the destination to the Sage Space in the Black Dragon World.

Song Shuhang moved the Nine Provinces Number One Group from the Group Tribulation World through Sage Space and into the Black Dragon World. As Doudou stepped out first, everyone sensed that a new Profound Sage might be manifesting.

• Song Shuhang used his Dragon Network administrator privileges to open Sage Space and transfer the group’s primordial spirits and selected physical bodies there.
• Song Shuhang explained that Sage Space was the Black Dragon World’s Eighth-Grade tribulation space and promised they could leave without facing another tribulation.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain repeatedly silenced Mad Saber Three Waves, Doudou, and Copper Trigram, then silenced Fairy Dongfang Jingxue despite claiming he had reached his daily limit.
• The group fell into Sage Space, where flight was prohibited, but Song Shuhang opened a door that let them exit.
• Doudou jumped through the door first, and everyone felt a familiar stirring that suggested a new Profound Sage manifestation was beginning.

Doudou’s appearance triggered a new Sage Manifestation in both the Black Dragon World and the Present World, leaving Song Shuhang and the group scrambling to find lecture manuscripts. As Doudou’s manifestation began, the group realized Fairy Mingyue was also eager to become a Sage, while cultivators across both worlds watched the unprecedented event.

• Venerable Yellow Mountain and Song Shuhang realized that Doudou’s impending Manifestation Before All could force the group to give Profound Sage Lectures, and the Dragon Network assistant confirmed that the Black Dragon World had imported the relevant laws.
• Song Shuhang produced two lecture-manuscript gift packs containing fourteen manuscripts, but the group had thirty-two potential lecturers and no clear solution for the rest.
• Fairy Lychee identified Bright Moon, When Will You Be as Fairy Mingyue, who had just added Song Shuhang as a friend and had long wanted to perform a Manifestation Before All.
• Soft Feather delighted in the prospect of becoming a Sage before her father, Venerable Spirit Butterfly, as Doudou prepared to condense the Sage Seal.
• Cultivators in the Black Dragon World watched Doudou’s projection with curiosity, while cultivators in the Present World recognized the fluffy Pekingese as the ninth manifestation’s new Profound Sage.
• Sage Seven Cultivator, Fairy Six Cultivations, and Drunken＊Lay Buddhist recognized Doudou in the sky and suspected Song Shuhang was involved.

Doudou accidentally became the Eighth Sage of the Millennium during a manifestation before all and was forced to give an Ancient Sage Lecture. Song Shuhang sent it a lecture manuscript, but Doudou got nervous and opened with barking.

• Drunk＊Layman watched a Pekingese appear during the manifestation and tried to convince himself it was not Doudou.
• A black dragon phantom gave Doudou a pair of wings, which transformed into a Dragon Seal bearing its sacred names, Doudou and Lass Lass.
• Doudou realized it was manifesting before all and panicked at the prospect of an Ancient Sage Lecture.
• Song Shuhang contacted Doudou through the Dragon Network Assistant and sent it a lecture manuscript to use.
• Doudou began its lecture, forgot its prepared lines, and barked at the watching cultivators.

Doudou overcame his nerves and delivered a heart sutra lecture that improved his cultivation and earned him a permanent mental-protection blessing. As the group prepared for Mad Saber Three Waves to give the next lecture, a mysterious force pulled Song Shuhang and the other seniors toward the Space Gate after him.

• Doudou panicked during his lecture, but Song Shuhang and Venerable Yellow Mountain helped him regain his composure by telling him to imagine the audience as Chu Chus.
• Song Shuhang used the Dragon Network Assistant to send lecture phenomena to Doudou, then guided him through a heart sutra about the limits of the world and the heart.
• Doudou became immersed in the lecture, improved his mental state, and advanced his demon core from eight markings to nine.
• The lecture gave Doudou a permanent blessing that protected him from mental attacks below Level Eight, and he returned to Song Shuhang's Core World.
• Soft Feather chose to wait for a possible lecture script from the Heavenly Emperor, while Mad Saber Three Waves entered the Space Gate to give the next lecture.
• A mysterious magnetic force dragged Song Shuhang, Little Yinzhu, and the other Nine Provinces Number One Group seniors toward the Space Gate and Three Waves.

The Nine Provinces Number One Group was pulled into the Black Dragon World's manifestation before all, and the gentle force arranged them around Song Shuhang as Soft Feather appeared as the Ninth Millennium Sage. Spirit Butterfly Island's Liu Jianyi saw Soft Feather's manifestation and mistakenly concluded that Venerable Spirit Butterfly was secretly a woman.

• Mad Saber Three Waves watched as the Nine Provinces Number One Group emerged together, ending his hope of manifesting alone.
• A gentle force arranged Soft Feather, Li Yinzhu, Song Shuhang, Onion Lady, and the group's seniors in rows for the manifestation.
• The group realized the seniors were primordial spirits who had not yet transcended tribulation, and Three Waves joked that they looked like monkeys above Song Shuhang's head.
• The Ninth Millennium Sage appeared before the myriad heavens and realms, and spectators recognized her as a fairy.
• Liu Jianyi saw Soft Feather manifesting and decided that Venerable Spirit Butterfly must secretly be her mother.

Soft Feather began her Sage Manifestation as the Nine Provinces Number One Group watched Song Shuhang and twenty-eight companions appear in a massive group tribulation broadcast. Meanwhile, Venerable Spirit Butterfly finished his own tribulation expecting to become the next Sage, only to discover that his daughter Soft Feather had manifested first.

• The Sage Manifestation shifted to Soft Feather, and cultivators across the Myriad Heavens and Realms wondered whether she would lecture on the Dao.
• Fairy Six Cultivations and the Nine Provinces Number One Group members discussed the recent Sage Manifestations, while Cloudborne Immortal Guest returned from seclusion and struggled to catch up.
• Song Shuhang appeared in a middle-aged form, prompting confusion before twenty-eight companions appeared behind him and revealed an unprecedented group Sage Manifestation.
• Soft Feather stood up to condense her Dragon Seal but hesitated over which Daoist title to use.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly survived the final wave of his Heavenly Tribulation and prepared to become the Eighth Sage, but his Sage Manifestation was delayed.
• Venerable Spirit Butterfly watched a live broadcast and realized that Soft Feather was manifesting as a Sage before him.

Soft Feather delivered a lecture on combined spells, became a Fifth-Grade Golden Core Spirit Emperor, and discovered her golden core had no markings. Meanwhile, Li Yinzhu began manifesting before all while still asleep, leaving Song Shuhang unsure whether she could give her lecture.

• Venerable Spirit Butterfly realized Soft Feather was manifesting before all and tried to send her a lecture manuscript by reciting it remotely.
• Soft Feather chose the sage title Spirit Butterfly Ancient Sage, then delivered a lecture on combined spells after Doudou's manuscript failed to open.
• Soft Feather formed a golden core and replaced her true essence with spiritual energy, but later found that her core had no markings and became dejected.
• Soft Feather and Doudou appeared in Song Shuhang's Core World, where Doudou tried to comfort her.
• Song Shuhang learned that Li Yinzhu was still unconscious as her manifestation began, and the Dragon Network Assistant said he could not lecture in her place.