Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang and Senior White claimed Southern Autumn Temple, the Southern Great Emperor’s palace, and began exploring it with Su Kongyun. Meanwhile, Scarlet Heaven Sword sensed that it was about to evolve during Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s battle with the Southern Great Emperor.

• Senior White’s Clone agreed to keep Southern Autumn Temple after its Artifact Spirit explained that its former master could still control it through the palace’s restrictions.
• Song Shuhang brought Su Kongyun into the Core World, where Su Kongyun marveled at the palace and its talking Artifact Spirit.
• Senior White’s Clone led the group into Southern Autumn Temple, while Song Shuhang left to take Su Kongyun to Tiantian Island and deal with sealed Heavenly Tribulations.
• Song Shuhang gave Southern Autumn Temple and Scarlet Heaven Sword’s scabbard Blade-Nourishing Arts before leaving the Core World.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament retreated from the Southern Great Emperor as Scarlet Heaven Sword revealed it felt ready to evolve.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament prepared for the Southern Great Emperor’s attack while the Scarlet Heaven Sword evolved into a greatsword and began taking human form. As the Southern Great Emperor unleashed a sealed Heavenly Emperor’s Strike, Daoist Scarlet Firmament readied himself to test his strength against it.

• The Scarlet Heaven Sword announced that it was ready to evolve, and Daoist Scarlet Firmament urged it to take the form of a greatsword.
• The Southern Great Emperor agreed to wait for the weapon’s advancement to finish, though Daoist Scarlet Firmament expected him to attack at a critical moment.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword grew into a massive greatsword, then began transforming its hilt, guard, and pommel into human features.
• The Southern Great Emperor launched the sealed Heavenly Emperor’s Strike, Star Suppression God, from his pagoda.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament gripped the Scarlet Heaven Sword and prepared to meet the strike, while a head resembling Song Shuhang grew atop its neck.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s clash with the Southern Great Emperor unexpectedly fused their attacks into a stable small sun, but the Emperor blocked his escape and forced him to prepare for a larger battle. Meanwhile, Song Shuhang flew toward Tiantian Island, where his drunken seniors asked him to bring them a meteor shower.

• Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s Heaven-Burning Fire collided with the Heavenly Emperor’s Strike and merged with it into a stable small sun.
• The Southern Great Emperor disrupted space and destroyed Daoist Scarlet Firmament’s Spatial Passage, preventing his retreat.
• Daoist Scarlet Firmament and the Scarlet Heaven Sword prepared to destroy the starfield and fight the Southern Great Emperor.
• Song Shuhang answered Young Master Phoenix Slayer’s video call while flying toward Tiantian Island and heard Soft Feather and the other seniors ask for a meteor shower.
• Song Shuhang told the seniors he could not make a meteor shower and said he would cook the ingredients he had brought when he arrived.

Song Shuhang returned to Tiantian Island with sealed Tribulation Lightning and announced that he would use it to make Braised Heavenly Tribulation. The seniors agreed to help him prepare the dish, and they began loading the lightning into a sealed Dharma artifact.

• Song Shuhang arrived at Tiantian Island and found Mad Saber Three Waves running inside the Hamster Wheel while Soft Feather asked him to create a meteor shower.
• Song Shuhang showed the seniors the sealed Two-to-Three Tribulation Lightning and explained that a clone of Senior White had sealed it for him.
• Song Shuhang declared that the Tribulation Lightning was the ingredient for his Braised Heavenly Tribulation, leaving the seniors doubtful of his sobriety.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain agreed to help Song Shuhang, and Song Shuhang assembled parts of the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact into a sealed box.
• The group began loading the Tribulation Lightning into the box, and Dharma King Creation accidentally added a piece of Heavenly Dipper.

Song Shuhang prepared the sealed Heavenly Tribulation for braising, using Medicine Master's medicinal liquid and six auxiliary formations. After listing the remaining ingredients, he took out a Trade Voucher.

• Dharma King Creation tossed the Heavenly Dipper and the Tribulation Lightning into the box, and Medicine Master poured in medicinal liquid before Jiang Ziyan carried him away to rest.
• Fairy Six Cultivations gave Jiang Ziyan pills to increase her chances of conceiving, while Sage Spirit Butterfly and Soft Feather joined forces to tease Sage Seven Cultivations.
• Song Shuhang completed six auxiliary formations that let the medicinal liquid affect the sealed Tribulation Lightning.
• Song Shuhang listed the remaining ingredients, and Su Clan's Seven noted that several spices were still missing.
• Song Shuhang took out a Trade Voucher.

Song Shuhang gathered purchase requests from the Nine Provinces Number One Group and prepared to summon Fairy General Store with his Trade Voucher. She appeared by chance before he used it, and agreed to trade with the group.

• Song Shuhang explained that his Trade Voucher could summon Fairy General Store, and Venerable Yellow Mountain offered to advance the Spirit Stones for the group’s purchases.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly admitted defeat in his competition with Sage Seven Cultivations and learned that Soft Feather had created a Heart-Demon Clone who called him Dad.
• Fairy Lychee collected and organized the purchase requests from the seniors in the group for Song Shuhang.
• A Space Gate opened and Fairy General Store appeared before Song Shuhang used his Trade Voucher, explaining that she had randomly traveled through Earth on her way to the Beast Realm.
• Song Shuhang put away the unused voucher and invited Fairy General Store to trade, and she agreed.

Song Shuhang bought rare treasures from Fairy General Store, using Spirit Stones supplied by Senior Yellow Mountain and other seniors. After the goods arrived, he asked Fairy General Store about higher-grade resurrection Dharma artifacts while looking for a chance to learn more about the Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragment.

• Song Shuhang handed Fairy General Store a list of treasures, including ingredients for his Braised Heavenly Tribulation project, and she calculated the price.
• Fairy General Store recorded Song Shuhang’s Heavenly Tribulation menu on the Merit Network and told him the total cost.
• Song Shuhang admitted he had no Spirit Stones, so Senior Yellow Mountain handed him nine Heaven-and-Earth Bags to pay the bill.
• Fairy General Store accepted payment and delivered the goods, which Fairy Lychee and Phoenix Slayer helped inspect.
• Song Shuhang asked Fairy General Store whether she had resurrection Dharma artifacts that a Sixth-Grade cultivator could use.

Song Shuhang sought resurrection protection, learned about the Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragment, and prepared Braised Heavenly Tribulation while discovering that Senior Skylark planned to return to the Netherworld. The chapter left Song Shuhang intending to contact Senior White Two to help keep Skylark safe.

• Fairy General Store offered Song Shuhang a discounted life-insurance plan, but he demonstrated that his Core World let him escape danger and declined.
• Song Shuhang asked about the Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragment, but declined to pay for information and planned to ask Senior Turtle instead.
• Fairy General Store told her master that Song Shuhang had supplied the Braised Heavenly Tribulation recipe, prompting her master to come meet him about a long-pending transaction.
• Song Shuhang completed the preparation of the Tribulation Lightning, and Sage Seven Cultivations offered to refine it when it was ready.
• Mad Saber Three Waves revealed that Senior Skylark planned to enter the Netherworld to recover what had been stolen from her, and Song Shuhang decided to contact Senior White Two.

Song Shuhang failed to reach Senior White Two directly and learned that Senior Skylark planned to enter the Netherworld to retrieve her Immortal Bone. After Song Shuhang revealed that the bone had left Skylark’s old body, You're Busy T233 warned that Sovereign Fat Ball and the Immortal Bone were heading for the Present World in a new body.

• Song Shuhang tried to contact Senior White Two, received only automated replies about exercising, and realized his own actions had led Senior White Two to lose weight.
• Mad Saber Three Waves called Senior Skylark, who said she planned to enter the Netherworld and retrieve something from her old body.
• Song Shuhang told Mad Saber Three Waves that Skylark’s old body was no longer with Fat Ball and that the Immortal Bone had returned to the Netherworld.
• Mad Saber Three Waves relayed Song Shuhang’s warning to Skylark, who fell silent.
• You're Busy T233 warned Song Shuhang that Sovereign Fat Ball’s divine sense and the Immortal Bone were concealed in a new body heading for the Present World.

Song Shuhang learned that Senior White Two was preparing to trap Sovereign Fat Ball and arranged for Skylark to join the operation. Meanwhile, the group’s braised tribulation lightning bubbled into strange foam after a heavenly dipper ended up in the box.

• Go About Your Business T2333 told Song Shuhang that Senior White Two expected Sovereign Fat Ball’s split consciousness to enter the Present World within a week, and Song Shuhang asked to join the hunt with Skylark.
• Song Shuhang tricked Su Clan's Seven and Dharma King Creation into carrying Copper Trigram Immortal Master off to the kitchen as a penguin.
• Mad Saber Three Waves called Skylark and asked her to return to the Present World for Song Shuhang’s operation, and she agreed to send her main body back.
• Mad Saber Three Waves lay down to sleep, and Fairy Dongfang Jingxue turned him into a big macaque with an illusion.
• Song Shuhang checked the bubbling foam in the box and used the Appraisal Secret Method, which revealed liquefied tribulation lightning mixed with heavenly dipper.
• Song Shuhang searched the box with his thought power and pulled out a pale, soaked heavenly dipper.

Song Shuhang and the others discovered that the Time Box in Southern Autumn Temple used the same Temporal Law techniques as Pavilion Master Chu’s Time City. Their discussion raised the possibility that Song Blockhead and the Heavenly Emperor had a deeper connection.

• Senior White's Clone explained that the Time Box had a small interior space with time acceleration and deceleration, and Song Shuhang arranged to use it for the tribulation lightning ingredients.
• Senior Turtle, Puppet Fairy, and the others examined the Time Box and noticed its Temporal Law was nearly identical to the one in Time City.
• Pavilion Master Chu borrowed Onion Lady’s body to inspect the box and confirmed that its techniques matched those of the treasure Song Blockhead had used to build Time City.
• Puppet Fairy pointed out the Heavenly Emperor’s seal on the box, and Su Kongyun cautiously touched the artifact.
• Senior White's Clone wondered whether Song Blockhead had once served as a Heavenly Emperor because he and the Heavenly Emperor used the same techniques.

Pavilion Master Chu activated the Time Box and sent Su Kongyun inside to test its time functions. The box appeared to run without consuming Spirit Stones or the Southern Autumn Temple’s energy, prompting Senior Turtle to wonder whether it was a time perpetual motion machine.

• Pavilion Master Chu wondered whether Song Blockhead had once been the Heavenly Emperor, but White Dragon Sister said he had been too weak at the time.
• Pavilion Master Chu used the control method for Time City to activate the Time Box and said she could adjust its time settings.
• Su Kongyun volunteered to test slower time passage, and Su Clan's Sixteen offered Spirit Stones for the experiment.
• Senior Turtle slapped Su Kongyun into the Time Box, where Pavilion Master Chu’s spell drew him inside before the lid closed.
• Pavilion Master Chu found no indication that the Time Box needed Spirit Stones, and the Southern Autumn Temple's artifact spirit confirmed it was using none of its energy.

Daoist Scarlet Firmament battled the Southern Great Emperor while Scarlet Heaven Sword and its scabbard discovered that the Time Box drew energy from the Great Emperor. Song Shuhang prepared refined Tribulation Lightning to use in the box, while a being in the Shadow Realm stirred and Boss Fat Ball readied a clone for the Beast Cultivator World.

• Daoist Scarlet Firmament and the Southern Great Emperor fought across the starfield, and the Great Emperor briefly faltered before healing himself with a precious artifact.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword deduced that the Time Box was drawing energy from the Southern Great Emperor and urged Daoist Scarlet Firmament to keep attacking.
• Pavilion Master Chu increased the Time Box's time-flow ratio tenfold, drawing more energy from the Southern Great Emperor.
• Song Shuhang prepared to send Sage Seven Cultivations' refined Tribulation Lightning into the Time Box to reduce its one-month cooldown.
• A voice in the Shadow Realm discussed the Heavenly Tribulation Feast with Everything Can Be Sold, and the realm's lone creature began to stir.
• Boss Fat Ball prepared to send his newly created clone into the Beast Cultivator World.

Song Shuhang and the others recovered Su Kongyun from the Time Box, then fed more Tribulation Lightning into it to create Heavenly Tribulation while draining the Southern Great Emperor’s energy. As they waited for thirty-six days to pass inside, Pavilion Master Chu noticed the Time Box’s operating power had dropped considerably.

• Song Shuhang brought the refined Two-to-Three Tribulation Lightning to the group and learned Su Kongyun was still inside the Time Box.
• Pavilion Master Chu opened the Time Box, and Su Kongyun emerged weak and hungry after experiencing up to a month inside.
• Su Clan's Sixteen gave Su Kongyun a Grain-Repelling Pill, and he explained he had been afraid to interrupt the Time Secret Realm.
• Song Shuhang stopped Senior Turtle from eating the Tribulation Lightning, and the group joked about his eighteen-year break from using the restroom.
• Pavilion Master Chu loaded the Two-to-Three Tribulation Lightning into the Time Box so it could form Heavenly Tribulation over thirty-six days inside.
• As the group waited and drank tea, Pavilion Master Chu noticed the Time Box’s operating power had dropped considerably.

Song Shuhang used his Blade-Nourishing Art to restore the Time Box, then prepared to cook the tribulation lightning stored inside it. The Heavenly Emperor traced Soft Feather’s location and discovered that Song Shuhang had her treasure box and was slicing heavenly tribulation with a kitchen knife.

• Song Shuhang massaged the Time Box with his Blade-Nourishing Art, restoring its output and improving its efficiency until Senior White's Clone told him to stop.
• Su Clan's Sixteen said her cold fingers were caused by her awakening bloodline, and Song Shuhang reassured her.
• The Heavenly Emperor recovered from Soft Feather's forced bliss, reconnected her spirit ghost to Soft Feather, and secretly tracked her to Tiantian Island.
• The Heavenly Emperor recognized the box carried by Northern's pet sea turtle as her treasure box and wondered what had happened at Southern Autumn Temple.
• Song Shuhang called for Chu Chu's Immortal Chef utensils and sliced a strip of heavenly tribulation into thin pieces.

Song Shuhang prepared heavenly tribulation for his dish, and his precise knife work brought his second saber intent close to awakening. With Su Clan's Sixteen supplying more heavenly thunder, he kept cooking as the Heavenly Emperor watched in disbelief.

• Song Shuhang used his knife to identify the heavenly tribulation's weak points and cut it into bite-sized chunks, advancing his saber comprehension.
• Senior White's Clone and the others arrived, and he stopped Onion Lady from disturbing Song Shuhang while Creation Fairy and Merit Snake Beauty boosted his comprehension with song and merit power.
• Song Shuhang sliced the heavenly tribulation with increasingly precise strokes, but his second saber intent still did not fully form.
• Su Clan's Sixteen supplied another bolt of heavenly thunder, and Song Shuhang continued cutting it while concentrating on his cooking.
• The Heavenly Emperor watched secretly and was astonished that Song Shuhang intended to cook and eat heavenly tribulation.

While preparing Braised Heavenly Tribulation, Song Shuhang forged his second saber intent, an attack that targeted weaknesses and killed without pain. He finished the first batch of the dish, but an unseen voice asked to taste it as Tiantian Island plunged into darkness.

• The Heavenly Emperor considered disguising herself as Soft Feather to sneak a taste of the Braised Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Shuhang combined his saber techniques while slicing the heavenly tribulation, and his second saber intent took shape as a rainbow-colored Blade of Mercy that struck enemies' weaknesses without causing pain.
• Soft Feather and Chu Chu prepared a pot while Soft Feather discussed making a Heart Demon Incarnation for the Scarlet Heaven Sword Scabbard.
• Song Shuhang blanched the heavenly tribulation, then finished the first batch of Braised Heavenly Tribulation forty minutes later.
• A voice from the void asked to taste the dish, and Tiantian Island suddenly fell into darkness.

Song Shuhang traded a dish of Braised Heavenly Tribulation to the newly arrived Shadow Venerable One, who praised it and revealed he had tasted it before. Song Shuhang suspected the shadowy senior knew Demon Emperor Hezhi and wondered whether to stab him while he was eating.

• Shadow Lord shrouded half of Tiantian Island in darkness, then reduced it after asking the gathered cultivators not to worry.
• Everything Can Be Sold arrived through a Space Gate and explained that Shadow Lord wanted to trade for Song Shuhang's Braised Heavenly Tribulation.
• Soft Feather renamed Shadow Lord as Shadow Venerable One, while Sage Spirit Butterfly guarded his daughters from getting too friendly with the newcomer.
• Song Shuhang consulted Senior White's Clone, Sage Seven Cultivator, and Senior Spirit Butterfly, then offered Shadow Venerable One the dish to taste.
• Shadow Venerable One ate the Braised Heavenly Tribulation, praised it, and said it was even better than the one he remembered.
• Song Shuhang realized Shadow Venerable One had eaten the dish before and wondered if he knew Demon Emperor Hezhi and should be stabbed while eating.

Song Shuhang completed his transaction with Shadow Venerable One by serving Braised Heavenly Tribulation and asked for fragments of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Eastern Spring Pavilion. After the feast grew into a lavish banquet, a drunken Everything Can Be Sold granted Soft Feather’s wish by producing a meteor shower.

• Shadow Venerable One approved Song Shuhang’s Braised Heavenly Tribulation and agreed to trade for more dishes from the Heavenly Tribulation Menu.
• Song Shuhang asked Shadow Venerable One for Eastern Spring Pavilion fragments, and Everything Can Be Sold agreed to acquire them through other channels.
• Shadow Venerable One gave Song Shuhang a black cup that could summon him once and departed into the Shadow Realm.
• Song Shuhang hosted a banquet where Everything Can Be Sold shared a collection of immortal delicacies with the Nine Provinces Number One Group.
• Drunk Soft Feather asked to see a meteor shower, and Everything Can Be Sold made one appear across the sky.

Song Shuhang and the others watched a meteor shower caused by the battle between Master Scarlet Firmament and Southern Great Emperor, while Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot mistakenly blamed Scarlet Heaven Sword's scabbard for stealing his business. After Soft Feather kissed Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen, Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot asked when Song Shuhang wanted the Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragment, catching Soft Feather's attention.

• Soft Feather enjoyed the meteor shower, and Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot complained that someone had stolen his business.
• Scarlet Heaven Sword's scabbard suggested Master Scarlet Firmament and Southern Great Emperor's fight had caused the meteor shower, and Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot shook the scabbard in anger.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer teased Scarlet Heaven Sword's scabbard, while Soft Feather ate Braised Heavenly Tribulation and thanked Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen for the evening.
• Soft Feather mistook Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen pointing at her face for requests for goodnight kisses and kissed them both.
• Everything Can Be Sold Big Shot asked Song Shuhang when he wanted the Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragment, and Soft Feather perked up at the name.