Chapter Summaries

Carefree Loose Immortal completed the fourth-prize drawing, awarding tokens and promising protection to the winners. As the third-prize round began, Mad Saber Three Waves won a pillar of light after praising the senior and asking to be his friend.

• Soft Feather reasoned that Carefree Loose Immortal could manipulate the drawing, so the group should focus on the top prizes rather than the lower-tier treasures.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain unexpectedly won fourth prize alongside Copper Trigram Immortal Master, while two Celestial Ones, a Fourth-Grade independent cultivator, and a paladin won the other tokens.
• The independent cultivator fled with his token as several figures pursued him, and Carefree Loose Immortal promised token holders temporary protection and retaliation against anyone who tried to steal their rewards.
• Carefree Loose Immortal announced three third-prize winners, and Mad Saber Three Waves transformed into Big Macaque and loudly flattered him.
• A pillar of light landed on Mad Saber Three Waves, apparently rewarding his praise.

During the Wealth-Scattering draw, Song Shuhang’s Sage’s Eye unexpectedly struck the hated assassin Jun Bufu with Pregnancy Gaze, and Carefree Loose Immortal then expanded the second-prize draw after mentioning a beautiful supreme treasure. The chapter left Song Shuhang wondering whether the treasure was the Confucian Sage’s eyeball in his left socket.

• Cultivators showered Carefree Loose Immortal with praise in hopes of winning rigged prize slots, and Three Waves and Soft Feather guessed that the flattery was what he wanted.
• Jun Bufu won a third-prize slot, prompting cultivators to denounce him for his cruel, disruptive work as an unsuccessful assassin.
• Soft Feather and Sage Spirit Butterfly said Jun Bufu had targeted their family, while Senior Turtle and Song Shuhang wondered whether he could be changed through love.
• Song Shuhang’s Sage’s Eye unexpectedly used Pregnancy Gaze on Jun Bufu, who endured the swelling belly until he received his prize token and collapsed into a crouch.
• Carefree Loose Immortal increased the second-prize winners from two to three and added treasures after announcing that he had encountered a beautiful supreme treasure.
• Song Shuhang touched his left eye socket and wondered if the Confucian Sage’s eyeball was the treasure Carefree Loose Immortal meant.

The second-prize draw rewarded Soft Feather after she prayed to a statue of Senior White, while Winter Melon Sage Lord and Eye-Catching Lay Buddhist also won. As the first-prize draw began, Song Shuhang finally revealed his tactic by summoning forty-one Sacred Apes to chant “666.”

• Senior Yellow Mountain warned Dharma King Creation not to sing, while Soft Feather revealed that she planned to compete for a prize by offering incense to a statue of Senior White.
• Soft Feather's incense offering appeared to bring her a blessing, and she won one of the second-prize tokens alongside Winter Melon Sage Lord.
• Eye-Catching Lay Buddhist won the final second-prize token, though the crowd largely overlooked him while watching Soft Feather.
• Fairy Lychee announced the first-prize draw, and cultivators began using their strongest tricks to attract Senior Carefree's attention.
• Song Shuhang summoned forty-one Ancient Sacred Apes, who chanted “666” in several languages as the first-prize competition reached its peak.

Song Shuhang added Creation Fairy and Merit Snake Beauty’s music to the Sacred Apes’ performance in the Wealth-Scattering Space. The first-prize pillar of light landed on his entourage and rejected Song Shuhang himself.

• Cultivators noticed that Song Shuhang’s Sacred Apes held Confucian scriptures and chanted together, making his display unusually showy.
• Song Shuhang contacted Creation Fairy in the Core World, where she traded a quiet pipa performance for an energetic heavy metal routine.
• Creation Fairy and Merit Snake Beauty appeared behind Song Shuhang and accompanied the forty-one Sacred Apes with pipa and zither music.
• The cultivators in the Wealth-Scattering Throne were moved by the coordinated performance as the first-prize pillar of light spun toward Song Shuhang.
• The pillar paused on Song Shuhang, then shifted back to envelop Creation Fairy, Merit Snake Beauty, and the Sacred Apes, rejecting Song Shuhang.

Song Shuhang’s choir won first prize at Carefree Loose Immortal’s final Wealth Scattering, but the reward turned out not to be the treasures he desperately wanted. After everyone else was transported away, Song Shuhang, the two fairies, and the forty-one Great Sacred Apes remained behind.

• Song Shuhang and the group wondered how the first prize would be awarded after the pillar of light excluded him and selected the Sacred Apes and fairies.
• Carefree Loose Immortal announced that the Tyrant Song Choir had won first prize, and Merit Snake Beauty passed the resulting token to Song Shuhang.
• The group realized the treasures on levels eight and nine had not been awarded, and Carefree Loose Immortal said the first prize was a unique reward rather than those mundane treasures.
• Carefree Loose Immortal began transferring everyone out of the Wealth-Scattering Throne, leaving Song Shuhang with the two fairies and forty-one Great Sacred Apes.
• After the other cultivators disappeared, Creation Fairy switched to heavy metal, and Merit Snake Beauty played along on the zither.

Carefree Loose Immortal gave Song Shuhang the Wealth-Scattering Throne and explained that mastering it would let him contact the mysterious senior behind his wagers. He taught Song Shuhang the throne’s inheritance technique, Divine Strike, and demonstrated its power by breaking a destructive attack from the world’s will.

• Carefree Loose Immortal awarded Song Shuhang the Wealth-Scattering Throne instead of the Eighth- and Ninth-Grade prizes.
• Carefree Loose Immortal explained that the throne would let Song Shuhang wager twice with the mysterious senior who had guided and funded him.
• Carefree Loose Immortal told Song Shuhang to learn an inheritance technique needed to sever his connection with the throne.
• Song Shuhang used the token to witness Carefree Loose Immortal gather the throne’s treasures into a mote of light and perform Divine Strike.
• Carefree Loose Immortal’s Divine Strike shattered a destructive force that emerged through a spatial rift.

After Carefree Loose Immortal severed his connection to the Wealth-Scattering Throne, Song Shuhang accepted the throne’s contract with Merit Snake Beauty as a protective intermediary. They entered the ninth layer and met the mysterious Senior who had been betting with Carefree Loose Immortal.

• Carefree Loose Immortal explained that Divine Strike consumed layers of treasures to unleash tremendous power, then left through a Space Gate after revealing that wealth scattering was part of a bet.
• Song Shuhang noticed the surveillance had vanished and asked Merit Snake Beauty to check the contract before he signed it.
• Merit Snake Beauty took Song Shuhang’s place in the contract, acting as a buffer between him and the mysterious Senior.
• The Wealth-Scattering Throne contracted with Merit Snake Beauty as an intermediary, and a plain wooden door appeared above the ninth layer.
• Song Shuhang opened the door and met a youth tending a spirit plant in a sunlit garden, who greeted him as though they were old friends.

Song Shuhang met a restricted senior who served him powerful immortal tea and explained that he had deliberately lost bets to Carefree Loose Immortal while clearing out unwanted treasures. The senior left Song Shuhang wondering whether he could get a job sorting through the senior’s immense hoard.

• Song Shuhang greeted the smiling teenager, who said they had never met and invited him to sit in the garden.
• The teenager dispersed the rain with a snap of his fingers and explained that his existence was heavily restricted.
• A diamond-cast eyeball served Song Shuhang and the teenager unnamed immortal tea that greatly refreshed Song Shuhang and increased his lifespan and physique.
• The teenager denied using mind reading and said he had guessed Song Shuhang’s thoughts from his expressions and his conversation with Carefree Loose Immortal.
• The teenager said he had deliberately lost bets to Carefree Loose Immortal to get rid of treasures he considered useless.
• Song Shuhang offered to work for free as the teenager’s regular sanitation worker and clear out his unwanted treasures.

Song Shuhang tried to turn the Senior’s overflowing warehouse into a cleaning job, but learned that most of its rubbish was already gone. The Senior offered him a wager-free bonus gamble with two valuable treasures at stake, then proposed a contest to see who would cry first.

• Song Shuhang offered to clean the Senior’s warehouse and imagined earning money by clearing rubbish from the warehouses of other big shots.
• The Senior said only he could enter his warehouse and revealed that Carefree Little Friend had already taken most of its rubbish.
• Song Shuhang declined to gamble under the current circumstances, but the Senior rewarded him with an extra round that required no wager.
• The Senior presented two Chef’s Hearts and a mechanical core above Ninth Grade, which Song Shuhang wanted for Chu Chu and Puppet Fairy.
• The Senior began the bonus gamble, choosing to compete over who would cry first.

Song Shuhang entered a crying contest with a mysterious youth, who set rules that equalized their abilities and made each other's techniques affect them both. Song Shuhang unleashed his most painful methods, and the chapter ended as his maximum-output Appraisal Secret Method nearly shattered his Smoke Body.

• Song Shuhang used the Heaven's Weeping Canon to cry first, but the youth revealed that he had not yet started the bet or explained its rules.
• The youth established rules that equalized their abilities, shared the effects of attacks, and barred outside advantages; Song Shuhang agreed to the contest.
• After the bet began, Song Shuhang struck the youth with Pregnancy Gaze, causing both of them to suffer pregnancy and childbirth pains.
• The youth used the Great Sorrow Technique on both of them, and Song Shuhang answered by activating a gem containing his grief over the destruction of Jadewater Pavilion.
• Song Shuhang pressed his fingertip against the youth and unleashed the Appraisal Secret Method at maximum output, nearly blasting his Smoke Body apart and inflicting maddening pain on his soul.

Song Shuhang and a mysterious young man endured the pain of the Appraisal Secret Method in a wager, while the young man’s spells failed and backfired. After learning Song Shuhang had cultivated for only a little over half a year, Senior used his third eye to reveal the truth and admitted that Song Shuhang’s words had really affected him.

• Song Shuhang interrupted his appraisal, but the pain caused the young man to explode and rapidly reform as both endured the wager’s soul-deep agony.
• Song Shuhang and the young man lay curled up and trembling, and Creation Fairy used the chance to perform Song’s Four-Cry Technique.
• The young man cast the Profound Meaning of Severing the Afterlife at Song Shuhang, but it failed and its backlash struck them both.
• Song Shuhang explained that he had cultivated for only a little over half a year and hoped to keep advancing toward becoming a Longevity Immortal.
• The young man used his third eye on Song Shuhang and said that the truth had really hit him, calling him little friend Tyrant Song.

Song Shuhang used Embryo Gaze during the Sixth-Grade wager, making flowers grow from both his and the young senior’s heads. The young senior laughed until he cried and lost, leaving Song Shuhang with two boxes of premium treasures and the question of whether to use Wealth Scattering.

• Song Shuhang tried to unsettle the young senior by bringing up his rapid advancement and repeated Sage Manifestations, but the wager remained a stalemate.
• Song Shuhang used Embryo Gaze, causing flowers to sprout from both contestants’ heads.
• The young senior laughed at Song Shuhang’s flower-covered head until laughter brought him to tears, and the Wager Ritual declared Song Shuhang the winner.
• The Wager Ritual cleared their negative states, and Song Shuhang found two boxes beside him.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather congratulated Song Shuhang, who wondered whether and how to use Wealth Scattering on his three premium treasures.

Song Shuhang scattered his winnings by giving Chu Chu a Chef’s Heart and installing a new core in Puppet Fairy, while also receiving a large supply of immortal tea leaves. He kept another Chef’s Heart for himself and pressed it to his chest, leaving its effects unknown.

• Song Shuhang gave Chu Chu a white Chef’s Heart, and the youth warned that accepting it could be dangerous if her mental strength and Dao Heart were insufficient.
• The youth gave Song Shuhang more than twenty catties of homemade immortal tea leaves after Song Shuhang asked to share some with his friends.
• Song Shuhang placed a new core beside Puppet Fairy, who installed it and rebooted.
• Song Shuhang kept a black Chef’s Heart for himself and confirmed it would not conflict with his Saber Intent.
• Song Shuhang pressed the black Chef’s Heart against his chest, then realized he had forgotten to use the Appraisal Secret Method on it.

Song Shuhang’s body finally finished inspecting the black Chef’s Heart, which began imparting the will and skills of an immortal chef. Its original owner’s powerful will then attacked Song Shuhang’s spirit, leaving them facing off in his mental world.

• Song Shuhang found that his body was subjecting the fused Chef’s Heart to a security check before it could release its power.
• The young man explained that Song Shuhang would need to learn immortal culinary arts to use the Chef’s Heart and warned that its will could possess him.
• Song Shuhang learned that the Chef’s Heart had belonged to a Ninth-Stage Tribulation Transcender with exceptional talent in cultivation and immortal cooking.
• The Chef’s Heart’s original owner’s will attacked Song Shuhang, while Merit Snake Beauty, Creation Fairy, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather returned to his body or shadow.
• Song Shuhang confronted the will in his mental world, where it appeared as a Demon Sect big shot and threatened to crush and possess him.

Song Shuhang faced the Demonic Sect Chef's Heart Will, who tried to possess him, and defeated him by revealing what had happened to Demon Emperor Hezhi. The will granted Song Shuhang the Chef's Heart and gave spiritual power to Black-Skinned Soft Feather before Song Shuhang crushed it, leaving open the possibility of meeting another trace of Hezhi's will again.

• Merit Snake Beauty, Creation Fairy, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather joked around with the Demonic Sect Chef's Heart Will while Song Shuhang confronted him.
• The Demonic Sect Chef's Heart Will declared that he would possess Song Shuhang and carry his strength back to Demon Emperor Hezhi.
• Song Shuhang told the will that Hezhi was nearly finished and that he had beaten him, then used Powerhouse Appraisal Technique as Merit Snake Beauty blocked the demonic flames.
• Merit Snake Beauty projected a scene of Song Shuhang defeating Hezhi, and the Demon God Pillar he had taken from Hezhi made the will believe the scene and weaken.
• The Demonic Sect Chef's Heart Will transferred the Chef's Heart's power to Song Shuhang and spiritual power to Black-Skinned Soft Feather.
• Song Shuhang said he might meet another trace of Hezhi's will in his disciple's white Chef's Heart, then crushed the weakening will with Thought Power.

Song Shuhang crushed the Demon Sect Chef's Heart's will, fused with the Chef's Heart, and unlocked the Immortal Chef Legacy in the Demon God Pillar. As he prepared to leave the youth's domain, the youth warned him not to waste his Heavenly Dao Bearing.

• Song Shuhang's Thought Power destroyed the Demon Sect Chef's Heart's weakened will, and Black-Skinned Soft Feather copied one of Merit Snake Beauty and Creation Fairy's lines.
• Song Shuhang returned to the Present World with the Demon God Pillar and told Chu Chu he would arrange a Tribulation-Transcending Formation for her before helping her absorb the Chef's Heart after her breakthrough.
• Song Shuhang discovered that the Chef's Heart let him read the Immortal Chef Legacy encoded in the Demon God Pillar.
• The youth invited Song Shuhang to bring him food next time they met, and Song Shuhang said they would meet the following month.
• Song Shuhang and his companions headed for the wooden door, and the youth told him he had the Heavenly Dao Bearing and should not waste his talent.

Song Shuhang received cryptic advice from the young man about preserving a Netherworld Ruler before returning to the outside world. As he headed to Tiantian Island, Yu Jiaojiao reported that his cipher was connected to Song Blockhead, and an accidental Blade-Nourishing Art triggered a flood of Immortal Chef knowledge.

• The young man told Onion Lady to treat her future Netherworld Ruler incarnation well, and Song Shuhang urged her to cultivate properly.
• After Song Shuhang left, the young man scattered flower seeds into an abyss and learned he needed to defeat sixty-one more fortunate cultivators to control it.
• The young man chose Song Shuhang as his next target and resolved to beat him at least once in their next gambling match.
• Song Shuhang stored the Wealth-Scattering Throne in his Core World and contacted the Nine Provinces Number One Group, learning the seniors were waiting at Tiantian Island.
• Yu Jiaojiao told Song Shuhang that his cipher was related to Song Blockhead, and Song Shuhang accidentally used Blade-Nourishing Art on the Demon God Pillar, receiving Immortal Chef knowledge.

Song Shuhang studied Immortal Chef knowledge from the Demon God Pillar while using Blade-Nourishing Arts on his companions. Black-Skinned Soft Feather felt no effect from the technique, so Song Shuhang tried casting it three times in a row.

• Song Shuhang sorted Demon Emperor Hezhi’s Immortal Chef knowledge and focused on demonic sect cuisine while continuing to nourish the Demon God Pillar with Blade-Nourishing Arts.
• The Merit Snake Beauty asked Song Shuhang to use a Blade-Nourishing Art on her, and she relaxed happily after he did.
• The Creation Fairy asked for the same treatment and also enjoyed the Blade-Nourishing Art.
• Song Shuhang brought out Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword and gave it three Blade-Nourishing Arts, which the sword praised as comfortable maintenance.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather accepted a Blade-Nourishing Art but felt no effect, so Song Shuhang cast three more on her.

Song Shuhang tested the Blade-Nourishing Art on Black-Skinned Soft Feather without noticing that it had affected the original Soft Feather instead. He headed to Tiantian Island to meet the Nine Provinces Number One Group for a banquet, and Su Clan's Sixteen told him she had come out of seclusion.

• Song Shuhang used the Blade-Nourishing Art repeatedly on Black-Skinned Soft Feather, but she showed no reaction and returned to his shadow.
• Song Shuhang realized the technique might have affected the original Soft Feather after she messaged him that his Pregnancy Gaze had made her feel comfortable while Senior Spirit Butterfly trembled.
• Song Shuhang learned from Soft Feather that Senior Spirit Butterfly had insisted on watching the Profound Demon Lecture despite warnings from the group.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword traveled toward Tiantian Island, where the Nine Provinces Number One Group awaited him.
• Song Shuhang confirmed that the Dragon Network Assistant had arranged a transfer of banquet dishes from the Black Dragon World and asked Yu Jiaojiao about the coded text.
• Su Clan's Sixteen messaged Song Shuhang that she had come out of seclusion.

Song Shuhang arrived at Tiantian Island after learning the Demon God Pillar’s foundational immortal-chef knowledge and receiving Demon Emperor Hezhi’s unfinished menu of life. He discovered that the menu really called for dishes made from heavenly tribulations, leaving him and Scarlet Heaven Sword stunned.

• Song Shuhang arranged to pick up Su Clan's Sixteen at Lanxi Island when she left seclusion, then continued flying toward Tiantian Island with Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Cultivators along the way panicked at the sight of Song Shuhang and spread rumors about his appearance, cultivation, and dangerous gaze.
• Song Shuhang finished studying the foundational immortal-chef knowledge and planned to practice after entering Tiantian Island.
• The Demon God Pillar overwhelmed Song Shuhang with Demon Emperor Hezhi’s incomplete menu, causing him intense mental pain before he entered Tiantian Island through the formation’s opened entrance.
• Song Shuhang read Hezhi's Menu of Life—Heavenly Tribulation Feast and confirmed that Braised Heavenly Tribulation was genuinely a dish on it, astonishing Scarlet Heaven Sword.