Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword studied Demon Emperor Hezhi’s recipe for Braised Heavenly Tribulation and worked out how to turn Second-to-Third-Grade Tribulation Lightning into a dish. They planned to seek help from Senior White and an alchemist before trying the recipe, then arrived at Tiantian Island, where the Nine Provinces Number One Group had gathered for a banquet.

• Song Shuhang found that the menu included Braised Heavenly Tribulation and Smoked Heart Demon Tribulation Slices, making Black-Skinned Soft Feather retreat into his shadow.
• Song Shuhang explained that Demon Emperor Hezhi’s recipe was inspired by a legendary gourd that could transform absorbed Heavenly Tribulation into energy-filled Golden Cores.
• Song Shuhang described how to seal Second-to-Third-Grade Tribulation Lightning, process it through thirty-six procedures, and braise the resulting ingredient.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword considered testing the recipe with a Heavenly Tribulation, with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword advising them to use an enemy and seek help from Senior White and an alchemist.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword arrived at Tiantian Island, where the Nine Provinces Number One Group was holding a banquet, and Northern River's Loose Cultivator welcomed him.

Song Shuhang joined the banquet and learned that Northern River's Loose Cultivator was cultivating a heart demon he planned to resemble someone in the group, whom he could repeatedly slice up. After Copper Trigram Immortal Master fled the conversation, Lady Kuna's potent wine intoxicated the guests and turned the gathering into a lively performance; Song Shuhang stayed sober and prepared to show off a special skill.

• Song Shuhang arrived with food and wine from the Black Dragon World, and Mad Saber Three Waves explained that Northern River's Loose Cultivator had learned Soft Feather's Heart Demon Manifestation spell on his first try.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master teased Northern River about his first heart demon, while Three Waves recalled that Northern River had slain the blonde heart demon years earlier.
• Northern River revealed a wisp of gray mist and said he planned to cultivate it into someone in the group so he could slice it up repeatedly; Song Shuhang suggested making smoked heart demon slices.
• Copper Trigram Immortal Master excused himself to get food after Song Shuhang and Young Master Phoenix Slayer showed interest in eating the heart demon.
• Lady Kuna's wine got many members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group drunk, and Fairy Eastern Six danced while Dharma King Creation played guitar.
• Song Shuhang remained sober, then stood up and announced that he was ready to show off a special skill.

Song Shuhang left Tiantian Island hoping to catch a Rank Two to Rank Three tribulation, but turned toward Lanxi Island after hearing from Su Clan's Sixteen. There, Sixteen waited with a young boy whose imminent tribulation she suppressed, revealing that he had followed her secret route out of the Su Clan Lands.

• Song Shuhang took Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword out to search for a Rank Two to Rank Three tribulation, leaving Chu Chu to record the dancing and sending Onion Lady with her.
• Soft Feather called Song Shuhang to ask for his Hamster Wheel, and he sent it to her with the Overlord Shatter Saber.
• Su Clan's Sixteen told Song Shuhang she had arrived at Lanxi Island, so he changed course to meet her.
• On Lanxi Island, Su Clan's Sixteen walked with a young boy who said he needed to advance and undergo a tribulation.
• Su Clan's Sixteen suppressed the boy's aura and dispersed the Tribulation Cloud, then learned he had escaped the Su Clan Lands through the secret passage she had used.

Su Clan's Sixteen brought her younger brother to Lanxi Island as he worried his rapidly advancing cultivation would soon trigger a tribulation, but Su Clan's Seven was too drunk to help. Song Shuhang arrived and the brother recognized him as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song, just as two men approached Sixteen to flirt with her.

• Sixteen's younger brother asked her to call Su Clan's Seven for help with his impending tribulation, but Seven answered in song because he was drunk.
• Sixteen took her brother to an ice cream shop on Lanxi Island and told him she would help in Seven's absence.
• Song Shuhang arrived at the shop and Sixteen recognized him, while her brother realized he was Profound Sage Tyrannical Song.
• The younger brother secretly asked Sixteen whether Song Shuhang was the same person she had been speaking to and admitted he feared him.
• Two men approached Sixteen and tried to persuade her to have a drink with them, while her brother remarked that something seemed wrong with her constitution.

Song Shuhang led Su Clan's Sixteen and Su Kongyun away from the restaurant, then flew with them toward the coast on an Eighth-Grade Dharma Artifact. The group left the coast under illusion and headed off to find ingredients.

• Song Shuhang took Su Clan's Sixteen by the hand and calmly left the restaurant, teasing the two men who had hit on her instead of using Pregnancy Gaze.
• After Song Shuhang and the others left, the two men broke down crying in the empty restaurant, and the owner offered them liquor.
• Song Shuhang cast an illusion to conceal the group at the coast, then summoned the Cat-Demon Fairy's Divine Gate and flew with Su Clan's Sixteen and Su Kongyun.
• Su Clan's Sixteen introduced her younger cousin Su Kongyun, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword discussed the strange family relationships that could arise among long-lived cultivators.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword praised Su Kongyun's aptitude and encouraged him to keep an open mind as he approached his advancement from Second Stage to Third Stage.
• When Su Clan's Sixteen asked where they were going, Song Shuhang said they would look for ingredients.

Song Shuhang helped Su Kongyun prepare for his imminent Second-to-Third Grade heavenly tribulation, supplying a storage artifact and arranging a suitable island and formation. As Su Kongyun began setting up the array, he realized it seemed specially tailored to him.

• Song Shuhang recognized that Su Kongyun was about to face his heavenly tribulation, and Su Kongyun explained that his cultivation had become impossible to suppress.
• When the Nine Provinces Number One Group's seniors proved too drunk to help, Su Clan's Sixteen supplied materials for a Second-to-Third Grade tribulation formation.
• Song Shuhang gave Su Kongyun a storage bottle and gave Su Clan's Sixteen a Resurrection Coin.
• Song Shuhang led Su Kongyun and Su Clan's Sixteen to an island near Lanxi Island and drew a tribulation-crossing array for Su Kongyun to set up himself.
• Su Kongyun began laying out the formation and realized it felt tailor-made for him, then looked at Profound Sage Tyrannical Song.

Song Shuhang arranged for Senior Turtle to adapt a Tribulation-Transcending Formation for Su Kongyun, who began his Second-to-Third Heavenly Tribulation while Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen watched from a distance. The tribulation was underway when Su Kongyun's sword light unexpectedly became a tortoiseshell and reflected lightning toward the observers.

• Su Kongyun wondered whether Senior Tyrannical Song had arranged his recent fortuitous encounters, while Su Clan's Sixteen told him to focus on setting up the formation.
• Song Shuhang explained that he had asked Senior Turtle to modify the Hezhi Demon Emperor's all-purpose Tribulation-Crossing Diagram for Su Kongyun.
• Su Kongyun completed the formation, activated it, and drew Heavenly Tribulation lightning by gathering his true qi in his Dragon Horn Dantian.
• Su Kongyun's sword strike dispersed the opening bolt, then he turned three powerful bolts aside with a sword-light tortoiseshell.
• The reflected lightning flew toward Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen, and Song Shuhang grabbed Sixteen and dodged.

Song Shuhang stopped Su Kongyun’s reflected Rank-2-to-Rank-3 tribulation lightning and shaped it into strips to use as an ingredient for Braised Heavenly Tribulation. Senior White sent a clone to seal the three bolts, leaving Song Shuhang with the lightning secured for the recipe.

• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword explained that Su Kongyun’s three reflected bolts were ordinary tribulation aftershocks and could be collected.
• Song Shuhang halted the three bolts with Thought Power and rubbed them into long strips, while Su Clan’s Sixteen wondered whether he was making a magical artifact.
• Song Shuhang contacted Senior White and explained that he wanted to seal the lightning for Braised Heavenly Tribulation.
• Senior White sent a clone on a Disposable Flying Sword to help Song Shuhang.
• Senior White’s Clone sealed all three strips of tribulation lightning without letting them deform.

Song Shuhang prepared to cook sealed heavenly tribulation lightning and considered collecting more from Su Kongyun’s tribulation. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Emperor planned to reclaim the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments, beginning with the Confucian School.

• Senior White handed Song Shuhang three differently sealed bolts of heavenly tribulation, which Song Shuhang transferred into his Core World for cooking.
• Song Shuhang invited Su Clan's Sixteen to help, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword warned that the recipe’s many steps would greatly shrink the lightning.
• Senior White proposed sealing more Second-to-Third Heavenly Tribulation Lightning from Su Kongyun, who overheard them and lost some of his fear of tribulations.
• At Tiantian Island, True Lord Eternal Fire looked for his phone so he could contact Song Shuhang about transferring Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments into the Golden Lotus World.
• The Heavenly Emperor decided to sever her spirit ghost’s connection to Soft Feather temporarily and revealed her plan to reclaim the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments, with the Confucian School as her next target.

While Su Kongyun endured the third wave of his Heavenly Tribulation, Song Shuhang and Senior White's Clone handled the lightning and investigated three approaching figures. After the figures withdrew, an attacker emerged from the shadows and stabbed at Song Shuhang, blaming his body’s connection to Cheng Lin.

• Su Kongyun blocked six bolts of Tribulation Lightning with his Sword Qi and the Tribulation-Crossing Array, while sensing his Sword Force nearing Sword Intent.
• Song Shuhang caught the six bolts, kneaded them into rods, and let Senior White's Clone seal them.
• Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword went to meet three approaching figures: He Ren, Tree Person, and Ding Qingyun.
• The three figures recognized Song Shuhang as Tyrant Song and agreed to leave when he asked them to stop approaching the tribulation site.
• A gigantic sword emerged from the shadows and stabbed toward Song Shuhang as its wielder blamed him for being the reincarnation of Cheng Lin.

Song Shuhang faced a leather-armored Ancient Heavenly Court survivor who mistook him for Cheng Lin’s reincarnation and attacked him. As their fight began, she dodged his Powerhouse Appraisal Technique and thrust her burning giant sword at him.

• The leather-armored woman tried to stab Song Shuhang in the back, but Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword blocked her strike.
• Song Shuhang offered to contact the Heavenly Emperor to prove his identity, but the woman refused to listen and ignited blood-red flames around herself.
• Song Shuhang sent Su Clan's Sixteen into the Core World and learned from Senior Turtle that he could not identify the woman.
• After ＠＃％× Fairy emerged and wrapped around Song Shuhang, the woman accused him of being Cheng Lin’s reincarnation and told He Ren, Tree Person, and Cosmic Person Ding Qingyun to retrieve their target.
• He Ren, Tree Person, and Cosmic Person Ding Qingyun flew toward Su Kongyun’s tribulation site while Song Shuhang and the woman prepared to fight.
• Song Shuhang used his Powerhouse Appraisal Technique, but the woman dodged it and thrust her burning giant sword at him.

Song Shuhang used a telekinetically curved Powerhouse Appraisal Technique against the woman in leather armor, then fought to survive her powerful sword attack. After his allies and artifacts were destroyed or damaged protecting him, he unleashed the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber and emerged unharmed, shielded by Pavilion Master Chu’s hair.

• Song Shuhang used telekinesis to curve his Powerhouse Appraisal Technique around and hit the woman in leather armor, interrupting her attack.
• The woman in leather armor realized the technique had not made her pregnant and launched a furious assault, which Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword struggled to block.
• Merit Snake Beauty summoned the Merit Divine Temple and Merit—Great Sun, while Song Shuhang prepared the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber.
• Creation Fairy kicked the miniature Never-Falling Holy City into the woman’s sword strike, and Merit Snake Beauty shielded Song Shuhang with her body before being cut apart.
• Song Shuhang and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword unleashed the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber, colliding with the woman’s attack in an explosion that tore through space.
• Song Shuhang survived unharmed beneath Pavilion Master Chu’s long black hair after the flames and spatial cracks subsided.

Song Shuhang faced a badly wounded armored woman while weighing his allies’ limited strength and trying to summon help. White Dragon Sister urged him to attack, and he prepared to use the Cause-and-Effect Saber as Senior White’s Clone called to him about an explosion at the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment.

• Song Shuhang replenished Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword with the Blade-Nourishing Art and considered retreating because his other allies were weakened or restricted.
• Song Shuhang contacted Senior White Two and offered him Braised Heavenly Tribulation, but Senior White Two angrily cut off their communication.
• The armored woman revealed that she had sensed Senior White Two’s presence and had held back from attacking Song Shuhang.
• Senior Turtle commented on the armored woman’s collarbones, and Song Shuhang’s retort drew her laughter and prompted Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword to warn that he was attracting her attention.
• White Dragon Sister told Song Shuhang to face the armored woman head-on, so he advanced with Scarlet Heaven Sword and prepared the Cause-and-Effect Saber.
• Senior White’s Clone contacted Song Shuhang and invited him to see an explosion at the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment.

Song Shuhang wounded the leather-armored woman with a Cause-and-Effect Saber guided by the Confucian Sage’s Eye, but she grew stronger from the pain and counterattacked. Daoist Scarlet Firmament appeared through a Space Gate to block her punch, leaving Song Shuhang’s fight poised to continue.

• Song Shuhang learned from Senior White that the survivors of the Ancient Heavenly Court sought a fragment guarded by Senior White’s Clone, then attacked the leather-armored woman with Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Song Shuhang used Cause-and-Effect Saber and connected half a Causal Thread to the Confucian Sage’s Eye, which analyzed the woman and briefly stunned her with the Sage’s will.
• Guided by the Confucian Sage’s Eye, Song Shuhang struck through the woman’s defenses and cut a deep wound across her waist and abdomen.
• The leather-armored woman healed by drawing her blood back into the wound, enjoyed the pain, and grew more violent as Song Shuhang called for White Dragon Sister.
• The leather-armored woman attacked Song Shuhang with a flame-wreathed fist, but Daoist Scarlet Firmament emerged from a Space Gate and blocked her punch.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament arrived to help Song Shuhang when a powerful leather-armored woman attacked him, then agreed to stay for Scarlet Heaven Sword’s Heavenly Tribulation banquet. He let the woman escape after secretly marking her, intending to track her later.

• Daoist Scarlet Firmament crossed space to check on Scarlet Heaven Sword and blocked the leather-armored woman’s attack on him.
• Song Shuhang explained that the woman mistook him for Cheng Lin’s reincarnation and had attacked him again.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament assured the woman that Song Shuhang was not Cheng Lin’s reincarnation, but she remained hostile toward him.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament initially ordered Scarlet Heaven Sword to return home, then agreed to stay after it mentioned Braised Heavenly Tribulation, a banquet, and fine wine.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament released the leather-armored woman, who fled through a spatial gate, while he secretly tracked her with a mark.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament followed the woman in leather armor to a pale space containing a grand palace and the ruins of Jadewater Pavilion, then tried to enter but was affected by the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room. Song Shuhang reunited with Senior White's Clone as Su Kongyun faced the final wave of his tribulation.

• Daoist Scarlet Firmament tracked the woman in leather armor to a pale space and saw a magnificent palace that might be the Heavenly Emperor's Palace.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament took Scarlet Heaven Sword through a Space Gate, leaving its scabbard with Song Shuhang, who used the Blade-Nourishing Art on it.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament and Scarlet Heaven Sword spotted the original Jadewater Pavilion's ruins inside the pale space, and Scarlet Heaven Sword informed Song Shuhang.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament tried to force his way into the pale space, but the Heavenly Dao Little Black Room erased his memory of what he was pursuing, so he marked the location instead.
• Song Shuhang met Senior White's Clone while Su Kongyun faced the final wave of his Second-to-Third Stage Heavenly Tribulation.

Senior White's Clone sealed Su Kongyun's earlier tribulations, while an accidental explosion left three Ancient Heavenly Court survivors unconscious near a newly revealed fragment. Su Kongyun faced his final Artifact-Form Tribulation as Song Shuhang sought advice about Senior White's poker face, and the chapter ended with Su Kongyun repelling the Iron Lady.

• Senior White's Clone sealed the Tribulation Lightning and gave the strips to Song Shuhang for making Braised Heavenly Tribulation.
• Senior White's Clone explained that his Tribulation Lightning had blasted out an Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment, whose Artifact Tribulation had knocked He Ren, the Tree Person, and the unnamed Cosmic Person unconscious.
• Senior White's Clone said Su Kongyun could handle his final tribulation and proposed inspecting the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment afterward.
• Su Kongyun faced an Iron Lady Artifact-Form Tribulation and told Song Shuhang that he had long wanted to touch one.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White's Clone whether his poker face was innate, then tried to get him to imitate a gesture; Su Clan's Sixteen hurriedly intervened.
• Su Kongyun condensed a prototype of Sword Intent and bounced away the Iron Lady tribulation.

Su Kongyun successfully advanced to the Third-Grade Realm, and Senior White's Clone brought the group to explore the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment. When they prepared to cut the island-sized fragment apart, a frightened voice begged the Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Hero to spare it.

• Song Shuhang kicked the Iron Lady Dharma Artifact Tribulation into the sea, where it triggered a reaction from the Heavenly Court Fragment beneath the water.
• Su Kongyun completed his tribulation and advanced to the Third-Grade Realm, celebrating his good fortune with Su Clan's Sixteen and the others.
• Senior White's Clone carried Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, and Su Kongyun to the Heavenly Court Fragment island and asked Song Shuhang to move it into his Core World.
• Song Shuhang brought out the Doomsday Sacred Sword, and Senior White's Clone prepared to cut the fragment into pieces.
• A terrified voice from within the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment begged the Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Hero not to kill it and promised to cooperate.

Song Shuhang used the Blade-Nourishing Art to help the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment recover and shrink, then gave the Scarlet Heaven Sword an enthusiastic treatment. The chapter left Daoist Scarlet Firmament puzzled as the sword sensed someone approaching.

• The Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment shrank only slightly and said it could reach a five-meter radius after recovering, but might need help to do so.
• Song Shuhang used the Blade-Nourishing Art on the fragment, rapidly shrinking it to one-third of its original size before it asked for a rest.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword Scabbard asked Song Shuhang to use the Blade-Nourishing Art on the Scarlet Heaven Sword, and he cast it continuously with both hands.
• At Daoist Scarlet Firmament's location, the Scarlet Heaven Sword vibrated and said someone had arrived.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament faced the Southern Great Emperor while Song Shuhang gathered intelligence and relayed it as outside assistance. Song Shuhang also brought a Heavenly Court Fragment into the Core World, where Senior Turtle recognized the revealed palace as the Southern Great Emperor’s lair.

• The Southern Great Emperor appeared before Daoist Scarlet Firmament, and the two Longevity Immortals began a battle that filled the sky with their clashing auras.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior Turtle about the Southern Great Emperor, and Senior Turtle warned that his Dao of Longevity involved temptation and that his pagoda held sealed strikes from the Heavenly Emperor.
• Song Shuhang passed Senior Turtle’s information to the Scarlet Heaven Sword Scabbard to relay to Daoist Scarlet Firmament.
• Song Shuhang used the Blade-Nourishing Art on the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragment until it shrank, then transferred it into the Core World.
• Song Shuhang opened the fragment’s defensive barrier, revealing Southern Autumn Temple, and Senior Turtle realized Song Shuhang had taken the Southern Great Emperor’s lair.