Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang planted Gem Fruit seeds in the Core World with the help of eight little bee light clusters, then began treating another batch of infected Beast Cultivators. When one petite armored figure attacked Su Clan's Sixteen, Sixteen asked Song Shuhang to let her handle it.

• Song Shuhang and the Core Assistant guided eight little bee light clusters in planting and tending eighty Gem Fruit seeds near the Living Spring.
• The Core Assistant asked to keep the little spirits as assistants, and Song Shuhang agreed before transferring more than two hundred treated Beast Cultivators back to China.
• Song Shuhang confirmed the first batch had been purged of Evil Energy and asked Fairy Azure Luan to bring over more patients for treatment.
• Song Shuhang used his Powerhouse Appraisal Technique on a frenzied Beast Cultivator, causing the patients to remember him and enter the Merit Hall willingly.
• A petite armored figure resisted being pulled into the Merit Hall, drew a bone sword, and attacked Su Clan's Sixteen, who told Song Shuhang to leave her to her.

Su Clan's Sixteen fought a petite, silver-haired opponent who looked exactly like her, while Song Shuhang extracted Nine Nether Evil Energy from infected patients and processed another batch. After Sixteen defeated the opponent, White Dragon Sister revealed that the unconscious girl was also Su Clan's Sixteen, leaving Song Shuhang to wonder how to address the awkward resemblance.

• Su Clan's Sixteen unleashed a lightning-charged saber strike that sent the petite girl crashing into a pit, but the girl rose and resumed fighting.
• White Dragon Sister told Song Shuhang she would not interfere, and Song Shuhang used the Lotus Projection to extract Nine Nether Evil Energy from the second batch of infected patients.
• Song Shuhang transferred the treated patients out, brought in a third batch, and used the Powerhouse Appraisal Technique on their strongest member to keep them obedient.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and the petite girl exchanged nearly a thousand attacks before Sixteen's Heavenly Saber Buries the Star River shattered the girl's bone swords and defeated her.
• Song Shuhang caught the unconscious girl and saw that she looked identical to Su Clan's Sixteen; White Dragon Sister confirmed that she was also Su Clan's Sixteen, and Sixteen said the fight was over.

Song Shuhang witnessed Su Clan’s Sixteen Two die and learned that Sixteen was undergoing a secret Heavenly River Su Clan trial connected to her past tribulation injuries. Sixteen placed Sixteen Two in a Crystal Coffin in the Heavenly River space, and Song Shuhang was left reassured that outsiders could intervene if needed.

• Sixteen Two mistook Song Shuhang for the person who made Sixteen want to live again, then died after gently threatening to kill him if she saw him next time.
• Su Clan’s Sixteen said she had wanted to keep Song Shuhang from seeing the scene, but he comforted her and promised to act as though he had seen nothing.
• White Dragon Sister helped Sixteen open a Heavenly River space and place Sixteen Two’s body inside a Crystal Coffin.
• Sixteen’s spiritual energy recovered and her vitality and strength increased, prompting Song Shuhang to connect the change to her Fourth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation.
• Sixteen explained that the Crystal Coffin and Sixteen Twos were part of a resurrection trial for members of the Su Clan who followed the Numerical Dao, and reassured Song Shuhang that she would not disappear even if she failed.

Song Shuhang gave Su Clan's Sixteen an emergency rescue insurance voucher and continued helping cure infected beast cultivators. While the recovery operation ran automatically, he learned and practiced the sixth volume of the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art, gaining a new sacred ape.

• Song Shuhang gave Su Clan's Sixteen a spatial rescue insurance voucher from the Everything Can Be Sold big shot and the Fairy who sold all kinds of wares.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen continued the infected cultivators' recovery operation, while Song Shuhang messaged Tiantian Island Lord to look after Overlord Shatter Saber and Chu Chu.
• Song Shuhang read the sixth volume of the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art and learned how sacred ape counts compared among Beast Cultivator World cultivators.
• Song Shuhang swallowed two Dragon Ape Pellets and practiced the sixth volume while Fairy Azure Luan was nearby to advise him.
• Song Shuhang formed a new Lesser Sacred Ape, which received a Confucian scripture and robes before joining the sacred ape choir.

Song Shuhang strengthened his body, practiced his techniques, and asked Fairy Azure Luan to explain his accumulated questions about the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art. After her guidance deepened his understanding and expanded his Sacred Ape Formation, he helped cure infected Beast Cultivator World members until the Core World was full, then called Senior White Two for urgent assistance.

• Song Shuhang tested his newly strengthened body and practiced his fists while hoping to learn a powerful close-combat technique at the Confucian School.
• Song Shuhang asked Fairy Azure Luan to answer questions he had accumulated while practicing the Sacred Ape Dragon Force Divine Art.
• Fairy Azure Luan explained the technique as she teleported infected Beast Cultivator World members to Song Shuhang for treatment.
• Song Shuhang's understanding deepened, and five Sacred Apes joined his formation, bringing its total to forty-eight.
• After the Core World filled up, Song Shuhang and Fairy Azure Luan stopped the treatments, and Song Shuhang called Senior White Two for urgent assistance.

Song Shuhang checked whether Boss Fat Ball’s curse had affected him, then searched for a way to obtain Heart Demon Tribulations as future trump cards. He returned to the Core World, where the first Gem Fruits ripened, and planned to bring some to Senior White.

• Song Shuhang repeatedly contacted Senior White Two, who sent him an ordinary husky and later explained that Fat Ball’s curse had vanished after striking the Core World.
• Song Shuhang asked Senior White Two about Heart Demon Tribulations, but failed to remember what else he had meant to tell him.
• Fairy Azure Luan bid farewell to Song Shuhang and promised to contact him when Sacred Mountain opened.
• Song Shuhang repaired the battle-scarred land, boarded the Shrimp Dragon Swift Chariot, and asked White Dragon Sister how to obtain a normal Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Song Shuhang returned to Medicine Master's Building and learned that the first batch of Gem Fruits had ripened in the Core World.

Song Shuhang brought Gem Fruits and honey from the Core World to Senior White’s Clone, who was building a mechanical magical treasure. After a smoke bomb knocked Song Shuhang unconscious, he dreamed of Gongzi Hai declaring his determination to become stronger than anyone.

• Song Shuhang harvested Gem Fruits and received honey from the little bee light-orbs, then used Blade-Nourishing Art on them.
• Song Shuhang brought the Gem Fruits to Senior White’s Clone, who was assembling a mechanical fist from dismantled armor.
• Senior White’s Clone explained the fist’s functions and accidentally fired a sedative smoke bomb that knocked Song Shuhang unconscious.
• Song Shuhang dreamed that Gongzi Hai broke through a pass with an Eight-Dragon Patterns Golden Core and vowed never to be weaker than anyone.

Song Shuhang entered Gongzi Hai’s dream and learned that Gongzi Hai planned to discard his body and identity, leaving an incarnation to face Tyrant Song. He also watched Gongzi Hai forge his Natal Flying Sword into a sword-shaped Natal Demon God Pillar, before the dream ended with Gongzi Hai beneath the sea preparing to draw Tyrant Song to him.

• Song Shuhang experienced Gongzi Hai’s excitement at forming an Eight-Dragon-Pattern Golden Core and regretted that advancing to the Sixth-Grade Realm had spoiled his chance for a fated Fifth-Grade duel.
• Gongzi Hai watched the Ancient Sage lectures and felt deep resentment when Ancient Sage Tyrant Dragon appeared as Song Shuhang.
• Gongzi Hai decided to discard his physical body, identity, and some impurities in his soul, using an incarnation to face Tyrant Song’s coming tribulation.
• Gongzi Hai returned to the Limitless Demon Sect and began forging his Natal Flying Sword, fused with the Natal Blood God Saber, into a sword-shaped Natal Demon God Pillar.
• After the forging was complete, Gongzi Hai’s life accelerated to a scene beneath the sea, where he planned to make Tyrant Song find him.

After waking from a long sleep, Song Shuhang learned that Senior White and True Lord Eternal Fire had been sent to Mars, then set out with Su Clan's Sixteen to find Gongzi Hai. He left a gift for Xiao Cai and used a thunder technique to punish a dishonest man before quietly departing.

• Song Shuhang woke at seven on November 19 after Senior White's hypnotic smoke bomb kept him asleep, and Su Clan's Sixteen, Senior Turtle, and Onion Lady emerged from the Core World.
• Su Clan's Sixteen called True Lord Eternal Fire and learned that he and Senior White were at a secret base on Mars after an operational error.
• Song Shuhang decided to visit Gongzi Hai using information he had obtained from entering Gongzi Hai's dream, and left treasures for Xiao Cai at the Medicine Master's Building.
• Song Shuhang left with Su Clan's Sixteen, Senior Turtle, and Onion Lady, then recognized a man Sixteen had beaten up before.
• Song Shuhang cast Thunder-Attracting Chapter, One Thunder, after the man swore falsely that he loved only his girlfriend, then walked away holding Sixteen's hand.

Gongzi Hai prepared to stage his own death to escape Tyrant Song, but Su Clan's Sixteen's call led Song Shuhang straight to him. The chapter ended with Song Shuhang confronting Gongzi Hai after launching a barrage of powerful Dharma artifacts.

• Su Clan's Sixteen completed Song Shuhang's five thunderclaps, then she and Song Shuhang vanished, leaving a man to be slapped by his girlfriend.
• Gongzi Hai emerged from the seabed and planned to lure Song Shuhang into killing his substitute tribulation avatar so he could feign death and escape.
• Gongzi Hai answered his private phone and spoke with Su Clan's Sixteen, believing their conversation was proceeding according to his plan.
• Su Clan's Sixteen told Gongzi Hai to look up as Song Shuhang's Dharma artifacts struck the sea around him.
• Song Shuhang appeared above Gongzi Hai on a golden war chariot with Su Clan's Sixteen and a Great Sea Turtle, and called him his lifelong enemy.
• Song Shuhang recalled the launched Dharma artifacts, including components of the Thirty-Three Beasts Composite Dharma Artifact and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.

Song Shuhang arranged for Su Clan's Sixteen to settle her karma with Gongzi Hai, weakening his incarnation before their duel. Sixteen unleashed a powerful saber strike, but Gongzi Hai blocked it until a dragon claw grabbed him and launched him skyward.

• Song Shuhang offered Gongzi Hai a year without interference if he survived a duel with Su Clan's Sixteen, while Gongzi Hai secretly tried to escape using an empty shell.
• Song Shuhang's Powerhouse Appraisal Technique struck Gongzi Hai's hidden incarnation and weakened him with Pregnancy Gaze.
• Su Clan's Sixteen accepted the duel, and Song Shuhang gave her Saber Intent armor before she descended to face Gongzi Hai.
• White Dragon fed Sixteen a piece of Braised Heavenly Tribulation, drawing storm clouds and lightning around her as she fought on the sea.
• Sixteen struck Gongzi Hai with Heavenly Saber Buries the Star River, but he blocked it with five Demon God Pillars.
• A dragon claw seized Gongzi Hai through the pillars and hurled him into the sky as a woman shouted, "Earth Uppercut!"

Su Clan's Sixteen overwhelmed Gongzi Hai's incarnation with the white dragon's power and a relentless barrage of attacks. As he struggled to fight back, Gongzi Hai let Demon Emperor Hezhi's power take control of the incarnation.

• Gongzi Hai used a demonic bridge spell to stop himself after the white dragon claw hurled him into the sky.
• Su Clan's Sixteen struck Gongzi Hai with sixteen punches, breaking his defenses and landing four blows on his abdomen.
• Su Clan's Sixteen followed up with a dragon-powered breath attack that blasted Gongzi Hai away.
• Senior Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword and Senior Turtle discussed Sixteen's fighting rhythm while Song Shuhang watched.
• Su Clan's Sixteen continued to dominate Gongzi Hai with dragon claws, tail strikes, saber light, and close-range attacks.
• Gongzi Hai released his incarnation's restraints and allowed Demon Emperor Hezhi's power to take control.

Gongzi Hai allowed the Demon Emperor’s power to possess him, but Demon Emperor Hezhi recognized Song Shuhang and retreated after threatening him. Gongzi Hai realized Hezhi had truly been defeated by Song Shuhang, leaving his ambition to become a second Demon Emperor shattered.

• Gongzi Hai let his demonic energy take over and accepted the Demon God Pillar Projection’s power.
• Su Clan's Sixteen and White Dragon Sister waited as Gongzi Hai’s Burst Mode neared completion.
• Gongzi Hai erupted from the sea, recognized Song Shuhang, and threatened to kill him and hang his head from the Demon God Pillar.
• Song Shuhang challenged the possessor, but Demon Emperor Hezhi’s consciousness vanished and Gongzi Hai returned to normal.
• Gongzi Hai recalled Song Shuhang saying he had crushed Demon Emperor Hezhi and realized the legacy vision had been real.
• Gongzi Hai understood that his goal of becoming a second Demon Emperor had been destroyed.

Song Shuhang and Su Clan's Sixteen defeated Gongzi Hai's incarnation, but Sixteen deliberately spared his life. Song Shuhang revealed that he had known Gongzi Hai's plan for a month, shocking him into forming a heart demon.

• Gongzi Hai steadied his resolve after Demon Emperor Hezhi escaped, while Song Shuhang returned to the chariot and joked with the Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword.
• White Dragon Sister noted that Gongzi Hai was nearly out of strength, and Su Clan's Sixteen prepared to finish the fight with a powerful punch.
• Sixteen's punch hurled Gongzi Hai across the sea, but its force passed through him and left him alive and unconscious.
• Song Shuhang thanked Sixteen, then told Gongzi Hai that he had known about the Calamity-Substitute Incarnation plan from the beginning.
• Song Shuhang claimed that everything about Gongzi Hai had been within his grasp for the past month, causing Gongzi Hai to develop a heart demon.

Song Shuhang and his companions discovered a heart demon on Gongzi Hai Incarnation and decided to seek Pavilion Master Chu’s advice on removing it. Before returning home, Song Shuhang agreed to let Senior Turtle build an amusement park in his Core World.

• The Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword sensed a heart demon on Gongzi Hai Incarnation, and the group discussed how to draw it out.
• Song Shuhang decided to transfer Gongzi Hai Incarnation to Pavilion Master Chu so she could advise them about the heart demon.
• Song Shuhang realized Gongzi Hai no longer seemed like an overwhelming opponent, but said he would still hack Gongzi Hai’s main body over his grudge with Sixteen.
• Song Shuhang transferred Gongzi Hai Incarnation into his Core World and prepared to return with Senior Turtle.
• Senior Turtle asked to build an amusement park in Song Shuhang’s Core World, and Song Shuhang agreed.
• Song Shuhang joked that they could make sea turtle soup for lunch, and Senior Turtle roared that he was courting death.

Song Shuhang welcomed three disciples from the Floating Starlight Sect, who had come to pay their respects before Ding Gan’s tribulation. After wishing Ding Gan success, Song Shuhang smelled spirit stones in the gift he offered, while Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword warned that the boy had a heart demon.

• Song Shuhang returned to Medicine Master's Building with the others and lamented that he had forgotten to charge Fairy Azure Luan for treating her patients.
• When three unfamiliar cultivators arrived, Song Shuhang went downstairs to meet them after deciding not to jump out the window.
• Xi, Naiqi, and Ding Gan introduced themselves as disciples of the Floating Starlight Sect and said they had come to pay their respects to Senior Tyrant Song.
• Naiqi explained that she and Xi had brought Ding Gan to the Jiangnan Region for his Second-to-Third Advancement tribulation.
• Song Shuhang wished Ding Gan success, and Ding Gan offered him a small gift that smelled of spirit stones.
• Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword warned Song Shuhang that Ding Gan had a heart demon.

Song Shuhang asked Pavilion Master Chu whether she could extract a cultivator’s Heart Demon and brought her attention to Ding Gan, who planned to undergo tribulation on November 22. Pavilion Master Chu revealed Ding Gan’s hidden Heart Demon in a water mirror and identified the squid-like tentacles as love.

• Ding Gan told Song Shuhang he planned to undergo Tribulation Transcendence on November 22 and presented gifts, which Song Shuhang stored in his Core World.
• Song Shuhang asked Pavilion Master Chu whether she could extract Gongzi Hai’s Heart Demon, and she explained that she could only reflect it for now but might be able to extract a Heart Demon Tribulation with further experiments.
• Pavilion Master Chu agreed to examine Ding Gan, and her long hair emerged from Song Shuhang’s head, overwhelming the three young cultivators with its pressure.
• Pavilion Master Chu detected a Heart Demon within Ding Gan and used water as a mirror to reveal its squid-like tentacles.
• Pavilion Master Chu identified Ding Gan’s Heart Demon as love, leaving Song Shuhang incredulous.

Pavilion Master Chu identified Ding Gan’s Heart Demon as a faint, unnoticed flaw related to love and gave him Song Shuhang’s hair as a confidence-boosting charm. After Ding Gan and his companions left, an Immortal Shuttle arrived and True Lord Eternal Fire invited Song Shuhang and the others to the Confucian School.

• Pavilion Master Chu explained that the approaching Heaven Tribulation could magnify Ding Gan’s hidden Heart Demon, while Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword advised him to strengthen his mental defenses.
• Ding Gan said he had a stable Dao companion and no idea what his Heart Demon involved, and Song Shuhang’s fairies’ antics briefly made him fear it concerned maternal love.
• Pavilion Master Chu gave Ding Gan a strand of Song Shuhang’s hair as a supposed protective charm, then revealed she had marked it so they could observe his tribulation on the twenty-second.
• Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen set out to go shopping, but an Immortal Shuttle appeared at the doorway and knocked Song Shuhang into the courtyard without injuring him.
• True Lord Eternal Fire explained that he had taken over piloting after Senior White stopped the shuttle to space out, then asked the group to head to the Confucian School and find another driver.

Song Shuhang and his companions hired a designated driver to take Senior White’s high-speed Immortal Shuttle to the Confucian School. They arrived safely, but the driver vanished before True Lord Eternal Fire could pay him.

• Song Shuhang and his companions failed to find anyone among themselves who could pilot the Immortal Shuttle, so True Lord Eternal Fire hired a designated driver.
• A disheveled man with a familiar-looking generic face arrived, claimed he knew Song Shuhang and the Confucian School, and took the controls.
• The driver pushed Senior White’s Immortal Shuttle to extreme speed, frightening Song Shuhang and Onion Lady while expertly avoiding a plane.
• The group reached the outskirts of White Cloud Academy, where Creation Fairy caught Song Shuhang as he lost his balance getting out.
• True Lord Eternal Fire looked for the driver to pay him, but the man had disappeared from the driver’s seat.

Song Shuhang and his companions returned to White Cloud Academy, where Creation Fairy mourned the Confucian School’s lost past before diving into Song Shuhang. As they settled in, Shuhang encountered Zhou Li and Lady Jade Zither, but Senior White’s Clone stopped him from teasing them and decided to divine their relationship.

• True Lord Eternal Fire led Song Shuhang and the others into White Cloud City, where Shuhang noticed that the First Tribulation Immortal’s face had been erased and learned that the Confucian School could no longer remember him.
• Creation Fairy played and sang before the thirteen Tribulation Immortal statues, then performed a backflip dive into Song Shuhang while the gathered disciples applauded.
• True Lord Eternal Fire told Song Shuhang that Skylark had not arrived at White Cloud Academy and that he had sent disciples to search the other academies.
• Onion Lady spotted Zhou Li talking with Lady Jade Zither, and Song Shuhang recognized them and prepared to tease Zhou Li before deciding he could not act like Doudou.
• Senior White’s Clone stopped Song Shuhang with a Disposable Flying Sword and said he would send anyone who meddled with Zhou Li and Lady Jade Zither to Mars, then asked for a divination slip.