Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Emperor Soft Feather secretly listened as Song Shuhang arranged to buy and shrink three Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragments from Everything Can Be Sold. After Everything Can Be Sold left the banquet to arrange the delivery, Soft Feather quietly followed him.

• Heavenly Emperor Soft Feather used a spell to blend into the banquet crowd, where only Sage Spirit Butterfly noticed anything unusual.
• Song Shuhang asked Everything Can Be Sold about the size and transport of three Eastern Spring Pavilion Fragments.
• Senior White's Clone explained that he could not shrink the fragments, and Song Shuhang agreed to pay for Everything Can Be Sold's method with borrowed spirit stones.
• Fairy General Store revealed a lower price, but Everything Can Be Sold settled on three ninth-grade spirit stones for the transaction.
• Everything Can Be Sold left the banquet to arrange the delivery, and Heavenly Emperor Soft Feather quietly followed him.

Song Shuhang asked the Dragon Network to research a one-use feature that could bring its Will across worlds, while Doudou’s comic antics ended with Venerable Yellow Mountain knocking him unconscious. After the meteor shower stopped, the Scarlet Heaven Sword’s scabbard summoned Fairy Soft Feather as the sword arrived through space.

• Doudou challenged Song Shuhang to act as though he had been sucked into a cup, and ＠＃％× Fairy performed the trick by shrinking into merit light and falling inside.
• Song Shuhang approved research into a cross-world descent feature for the Dragon Network Will, despite learning it might work only once.
• Doudou asked Song Shuhang to name his first daughter Chu Chu, then Venerable Yellow Mountain knocked him out with a hammer-shaped magical treasure.
• Su Clan's Sixteen learned from the Scarlet Heaven Sword's scabbard that the meteor shower and the battle between Master Scarlet Firmament and the Southern Great Emperor had ended.
• The Scarlet Heaven Sword's scabbard called for Fairy Soft Feather, and the sword's main body arrived through space.

Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword returned in a bizarre evolved form and joined Soft Feather to plan a Heart Demon Incarnation using the Time Box. The group joked about Doudou’s Chu Chu Complex and marriage, while outside Tiantian Island, the big shot who could sell anything saw Soft Feather emerge.

• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword startled Song Shuhang with an evolved form featuring white arms, a neck, and a pommel resembling Song Shuhang’s face, then reverted to an ancient sword.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword and Soft Feather entered Song Shuhang’s Core World to plan a Heart Demon Incarnation with Pavilion Master Chu and the Time Box, while Onion Lady was brought in to activate it.
• Senior Turtle jokingly speculated about Scarlet Heaven Sword’s gender and Doudou’s Chu Chu Complex, then theorized that Doudou’s behavior came from premarital anxiety.
• Young Master Phoenix Slayer suggested Doudou might want to marry Song Shuhang, and Venerable Yellow Mountain said Doudou already had a betrothed.
• Outside Tiantian Island, the big shot who could sell anything ended a phone call and saw Soft Feather emerge from the island.

Fairy Soft Feather paid the three Ninth-Grade Spirit Stones owed for shrinking the fragments of [Everything Can Be Sold], asking Everything Can Be Sold to keep her feelings for Tyrant Song secret. After shrinking the fragments, Everything Can Be Sold delivered them to Tyrant Song’s Steel Avatar because Tyrant Song’s main body was inside the Core World.

• Fairy Soft Feather gave Everything Can Be Sold three Ninth-Grade Spirit Stones to cover Tyrant Song’s bill and asked him not to reveal that she had paid.
• Fairy Soft Feather admitted she had feelings for Tyrant Song and happily returned to Tiantian Island.
• Everything Can Be Sold collected and shrank the three fragments of [Everything Can Be Sold] into iron-ball-sized objects.
• Everything Can Be Sold found Tyrant Song’s Steel Avatar digging for crabs on the beach and learned that Tyrant Song’s main body was inside the Core World.
• Everything Can Be Sold handed the three shrunken fragments to Tyrant Song’s Steel Avatar to complete the transaction.

The Heavenly Emperor took Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar and the Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments after paying Everything Can Be Sold to shrink them. When Song Shuhang and Everything Can Be Sold realized they had been fooled, Everything Can Be Sold set out to retrieve the fragments under his Seven-Day Return Guarantee.

• Everything Can Be Sold gave Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar the three shrunken Ancient Heavenly Court Fragments after an unknown buyer paid for the service.
• The Heavenly Emperor emerged from the sea, took the powered-off Steel Avatar and fragments, and escaped through a series of teleports.
• At the Tiantian Island banquet, Song Shuhang received images from his Steel Avatar and learned that the Heavenly Emperor had taken the fragments.
• Everything Can Be Sold arrived at the kitchen and discovered that the buyer had deceived him and that Song Shuhang’s Steel Avatar had been taken.
• Everything Can Be Sold found a trace of Imperial Script on one of the payment stones and announced he would retrieve the fragments using his Seven-Day Return Guarantee.

Everything Can Be Sold promised to deal with the Eastern Spring Pavilion fragments within seven days, while Song Shuhang and the other cultivators discussed the Heavenly Emperor and Spirit Butterfly’s seaside gathering. The chapter ended with Black-Skinned Soft Feather reporting that Soft Feather and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword had successfully developed a Heart Demon Incarnation.

• Everything Can Be Sold told Song Shuhang he would retrieve the Eastern Spring Pavilion fragments or find replacements within seven days, then left with Fairy General Store.
• Song Shuhang reflected on how several seniors had mentioned seven days and heard Everything Can Be Sold vow to blacklist him after their transaction.
• On Tiantian Island, Song Shuhang and the others discussed the Heavenly Emperor and learned that Spirit Butterfly and Eternal Fire had gone to the seaside to play the zither, with Senior Creation following them.
• Song Shuhang offered to send Creation Fairy to help Spirit Butterfly, but she refused while she and Merit Snake Beauty ate.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather told Song Shuhang that Soft Feather and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword had successfully developed a Heart-Demon Incarnation, so he transferred them out of the Core World.

Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword revealed its Heart Demon Incarnation, which first appeared as a bizarre sword-hilt, muscular body, and shield before transforming into a Black-Skinned Scarlet Heaven Sword. Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword left the incarnation with Song Shuhang and departed, and the Black-Skinned Scarlet Heaven Sword greeted him in a delicate loli voice.

• Song Shuhang and the others questioned what kind of heart demon Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword had, while Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword explained that its influence was changing Song Shuhang’s behavior.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword summoned its Heart Demon Incarnation from its shadow, revealing a sword hilt, a muscular human torso, and a massive shield for its lower half.
• The group puzzled over the incarnation’s strange form, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword said it was a half-evolved form before transforming it into a Black-Skinned Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword opened a spatial passage, left its Heart Demon Incarnation with Song Shuhang, and departed.
• The Black-Skinned Scarlet Heaven Sword spoke to Song Shuhang in a delicate loli voice.

Song Shuhang walked along the beach with Su Clan's Sixteen after leaving the seniors as Northern River's Loose Cultivator prepared to form his Heart Demon Incarnation. Sixteen invited Shuhang to the Heavenly River Su Clan Annual Gathering in December, and he agreed he could make time to attend.

• Song Shuhang let the pitch-black Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword hang behind his waist while the seniors focused on Northern River's nearly formed Heart Demon Incarnation.
• Sage Seven Cultivations asked Soft Feather to help Northern River's Loose Cultivator manifest his Heart Demon Incarnation, and Song Shuhang went outside for fresh air with Su Clan's Sixteen.
• Song Shuhang and Sixteen walked along the beach, where they encountered Su Clan's Seven, who said he had been there all along and left to find Three Waves.
• Su Clan's Seven privately told Sixteen to invite Song Shuhang to the Heavenly River Su Clan Annual Gathering in December, noting that his reputation as Profound Sage Tyrannical Song would bring the clan prestige.
• Sixteen invited Song Shuhang to the gathering, and he said he could make time to attend.

Song Shuhang agreed to attend Su Clan's gathering with Su Clan's Sixteen before Dharma King Creation's impending performance drew the group into preparations. Senior Cloud-Swallowing Monk dragged Song Shuhang toward the concert to help rescue him if his audio-mixing attempt failed.

• Song Shuhang accepted Su Clan's Sixteen's invitation to the Heavenly River Su Clan's annual gathering and joked about borrowing spirit stones with his Profound Sage title.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen heard True Lord Eternal Fire singing with Senior Spirit Butterfly playing the zither, and Song Shuhang sent Creation Fairy and ＠＃％× Fairy to help control Dharma King Creation's singing.
• Soft Feather arrived eager to hear Dharma King Creation perform, sent Black-Skinned Soft Feather to help Senior Northern River in the kitchen, and ran toward the concert herself.
• Song Shuhang remarked that Soft Feather seemed to have no natural enemies because she enjoyed dangers that frightened other cultivators.
• Senior Cloud-Swallowing Monk seized Song Shuhang and took him toward the concert, asking him to pull a rope and rescue him if his audio-mixing dharma artifact failed.

Song Shuhang joined the Nine Provinces Number One Group on Tiantian Island for True Lord Eternal Fire’s concert, which ended safely despite fears of Dharma King Creation’s singing. A new passage opened above the island, and ghostlike beings emerged demanding their test subject, Vane.

• Cloud-Swallowing Monk brought Song Shuhang to the crowded beach and set up sound equipment, while Song Shuhang held a rope tied to the monk’s ankle.
• True Lord Eternal Fire finished his song as Sage Spirit Butterfly and ＠＃％× Fairy accompanied him, and the audience applauded.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly and True Lord Eternal Fire noticed a world passage forming above Tiantian Island.
• Sage Spirit Butterfly ordered the island’s cultivators to evacuate weaker disciples and activate the Island-Protecting Formation.
• Ghostlike heads appeared in the black smoke and demanded that the island return their test subject, Vane.

Song Shuhang and his companions encountered ghostly heads searching for someone named Vane, and the heads mistook Song Shuhang for him. When Song Shuhang’s Pregnancy Gaze failed to harm them, Dharma King Creation appeared to perform a new song.

• Song Shuhang and his companions wondered who Vane was as ghostly heads demanded that he return something precious.
• The ghostly heads identified Song Shuhang as Vane and threatened to destroy the world unless he returned a woman they claimed belonged to them.
• True Lord Eternal Fire recalled that the Confucian Sage had killed members of the creatures while searching for the woman.
• Song Shuhang realized Vane was connected to the Dragon Eye Gemstone and tried the Confucian Sage’s Pregnancy Gaze on the ghostly heads, but it had no effect.
• Creation Fairy played her zither, and Dharma King Creation appeared on Tiantian Island to introduce his song, “Die Without Regrets.”

Dharma King Creation made a dramatic entrance and unleashed a devastating new song against the black smoke and ghost-like heads over Tiantian Island. His singing knocked out most of the cultivators and left the smoke rapidly dispersing.

• A cultivator from Tiantian Island recognized the song’s name, while Song Shuhang wondered why a beam of Moonlight was spotlighting Dharma King Creation.
• Dharma King Creation sang his new song, and his Soul Voice knocked out cultivators of Fourth-Grade and below.
• Su Clan’s Seven called for Cloud-Swallowing Monk’s sound-mixing equipment, but Cloud-Swallowing Monk had already passed out over it.
• Creation Fairy accompanied Dharma King Creation, who took her pipa and performed with it while Soft Feather cheered and Song Shuhang endured the singing.
• Dharma King Creation’s performance dispersed the smoke over Tiantian Island and destabilized the ghost-like heads.

Song Shuhang and the others watched Dharma King Creation’s singing devastate the evil-ghost-head creatures above Tiantian Island. Song Shuhang concluded that Creation might be a weapon the Confucian Sage had left to counter them as the creatures began falling from the sky.

• Onion Lady revealed that she had accidentally pinched off her head but could still hear, and she became a fan of Dharma King Creation’s singing.
• Su Clan's Sixteen fainted from the singing, and Song Shuhang caught her and covered her with a blanket.
• Dharma King Creation’s pipa performance weakened the evil-ghost-head creatures, while their attacks failed and their black smoke covering Tiantian Island broke apart.
• Song Shuhang suspected that Dharma King Creation was a contingency the Confucian Sage had created to suppress the evil-ghost-head creatures, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword agreed that the Sage had likely left him a mission.
• Dharma King Creation reached his final dolphin note, and the evil-ghost-head creatures began dropping from the sky.

Song Shuhang and the Nine Provinces Number One Group survived Dharma King Creation’s devastating song, which destroyed many Evil Ghost Head Creatures. As Song Shuhang investigated the fallen creatures, his Pseudo-Immortal state awakened the will of the Lord of Imperishability, freezing everyone on the beach.

• Dharma King Creation finished singing and collapsed, while the surviving members of the Nine Provinces Number One Group fell around him.
• Song Shuhang handed Su Clan's Sixteen to Headless Onion Lady and went to check whether the Evil Ghost Head Creatures were still alive, with Soft Feather following.
• Song Shuhang used his Black Panther Commander Banner to activate the Appraisal Secret Method on one creature and learned that the Evil Ghost Head Creatures were tentacles formed from the sleeping Lord of Imperishability’s demonic thoughts.
• Song Shuhang’s Pseudo-Immortal state triggered the tentacles’ reaction to Immortality, and the Lord of Imperishability’s will arrived and froze time across the beach.

Black-Skinned Soft Feather and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword fought to stop the Evil Ghost Head from possessing Song Shuhang while a Time Freeze immobilized everyone else. Song Shuhang broke free of the freeze and intervened just as Black-Skinned Soft Feather was in danger.

• A violent will used a Time Freeze to immobilize Song Shuhang, Soft Feather, and the others, then sent the ruined Evil Ghost Head to possess Song Shuhang.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather emerged from Song Shuhang's shadow, grabbed the Evil Ghost Head, and threw it away from him.
• Black-Skinned Soft Feather drew the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and attacked the skull, but her strikes could not damage it.
• The violent will empowered the skull and formed an energy monster, whose tentacle cracked the Scarlet Heaven Sword and knocked Black-Skinned Soft Feather away.
• Song Shuhang broke free of the Time Freeze through his false immortal body and spirit ghost, then used the Overlord Expert Shield to protect Black-Skinned Soft Feather from the monster's attack.

Song Shuhang tried to draw the tentacled will away from the immobilized Nine Provinces Number One Group and used a severed snow-white hand to lure it into a trap. Calamity Giant Tortoise appeared, but another will pried the hand from its jaws, and the tortoise recognized Song Shuhang and threatened to call its dad.

• Song Shuhang canceled Pseudo-Immortal Smoke Mode, told Black-Skinned Soft Feather to check on Senior White's Clone, and prepared to lure the tentacled monster away from the group.
• The will attacked Song Shuhang from behind and buried him in a crater, but his many defenses kept him from being badly hurt.
• Song Shuhang used the Ancestral Shaman's Blessing to jump to the sea and threw a severed snow-white hand to draw the will's attention.
• Song Shuhang summoned Calamity Giant Tortoise, which bit down on the hand and the tentacles, but another will forced its mouth open and took the hand.
• Calamity Giant Tortoise recognized Song Shuhang and said it would call its dad.

Song Shuhang protected Tiantian Island from the Disaster Giant Tortoise’s attack while a tentacle monster fought it and its father, who identified the creature as a fixation of the Lord of Imperishability. After the monster vanished, Senior White’s Clone pulled a tentacle-shaped object out of Song Shuhang.

• A Disaster Giant Tortoise fired more than ten thousand beams at the tentacle monster, and the attack pierced Tiantian Island’s protective formation.
• Song Shuhang used the Never-Falling Holy City and his Turtle Shield to withstand the beams and protect Tiantian Island.
• The tentacle monster attacked the Disaster Giant Tortoise while sending the white hand through a Spatial Passage.
• A dragon-headed Giant Tortoise Dad arrived, identified the monster as a fixation of the Lord of Imperishability, and fled with the Disaster Giant Tortoise.
• The tentacle monster pursued the Giant Tortoise Dad, and the Time Freeze ended as Black-Skinned Soft Feather brought Senior White’s Clone to Song Shuhang.
• Senior White’s Clone woke, pressed a hand to Song Shuhang, and pulled a tentacle-shaped object out of his body.

Song Shuhang and the others dealt with the Lord of Imperishability’s parasitic tentacle, which Senior White’s Clone flattened and temporarily secured. After dawn, the group collected the defeated Evil Ghost Heads, while Northern River's Loose Cultivator revealed that his Heart Demon had finally taken shape.

• Senior White's Clone swung the tentacle around, then flattened it with a clap when it lunged at Song Shuhang.
• Senior White's Clone compressed the tentacle and stuck it to his arm, agreeing to keep it secured for now.
• Song Shuhang retrieved the Evil Ghost Heads and stored them in a Celestial One Storage Bottle.
• Northern River's Loose Cultivator said his Heart Demon had finally taken shape while looking deathly pale and unwell.

Northern River's Loose Cultivator accidentally formed a heart demon resembling Black-Skinned Creation Dharma King, whose hypnotic singing knocked out nearly everyone and caused the incarnation to shatter. While the group recovered, Song Shuhang's sleeping thoughts produced an illusion that revealed his growing power and a nightmare of himself burning on Demon God Pillars.

• Northern River's Loose Cultivator pulled a muscular, black-skinned version of Dharma King Creation from his shadow as his Heart Demon Incarnation.
• Black-Skinned Creation sang "Die Without Regrets," hypnotizing the Nine Provinces Number One Group and putting nearly everyone, including Northern River's Loose Cultivator, to sleep.
• Black-Skinned Creation shattered after singing, leaving Northern River's heart demon as an embryo that he would have to nurture again.
• Venerable Yellow Mountain and the other conscious members carried the unconscious group to Tiantian Island's resting area, while Soft Feather led Onion Lady and Su Clan's Sixteen away.
• Song Shuhang's first rays of sunlight stirred spiritual energy that created an illusion of a forest, which turned into Demon God Pillars bearing burning figures resembling him.

While Song Shuhang slept, his death-themed Real Illusion turned into a nightmare that replayed his first encounters with Soft Feather before burning him on a Demon God Pillar. The pillar became real and floated beside him, prompting the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword to recognize Demon Emperor Hezhi’s divine ability.

• Song Shuhang’s nightmare illusion burned the bound versions of him to ashes on the Demon God Pillar, and Venerable Yellow Mountain told the others not to wake him.
• The illusion expanded into Jiangnan Region and showed Soft Feather arriving in the city for the first time.
• The illusion revealed that Soft Feather and Song Shuhang had passed each other once before their remembered meeting, but Song Shuhang had barely noticed her.
• The nightmare recreated their meeting near the Glory Beef Restaurant, then suddenly hung Song Shuhang on a Demon God Pillar and set him ablaze.
• The Demon God Pillar tore free from the ground, became real, and floated beside Song Shuhang, and the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword identified it as Demon Emperor Hezhi’s divine ability.