Chapter Summaries

Song Shuhang summoned the Shadow Lord to taste his Heart Demon Sashimi Slices and asked for help dealing with the Heavenly Emperor. The Shadow Lord lent him the Shadow Holy Land, a bracelet that could turn powerful figures’ lingering obsessions into shadows that possessed its wearer.

• Song Shuhang summoned the Shadow Lord to appraise the Heart Demon Sashimi Slices, and the Shadow Lord praised their flavor while explaining they differed from the traditional dish.
• The Shadow Lord explained that authentic Heart Demon Sashimi Slices used heart demon tribulations captured during heavenly tribulations, and warned Song Shuhang not to eat the raw heart demons he had sliced.
• The Shadow Lord agreed to trade for Song Shuhang’s dish despite its not meeting their original agreement, and Senior White continued eating the slices with his clone.
• Song Shuhang asked the Shadow Lord to take on the Heavenly Emperor, but the Shadow Lord refused to fight her while she was recovering.
• The Shadow Lord lent Song Shuhang the Shadow Holy Land bracelet, which could draw on powerful lingering obsessions in the Confucian School and turn them into shadows that possessed its wearer.

Song Shuhang learned how to use the Shadow Holy Land as danger gathered around the Confucian School. With the Heavenly Emperor taken away, Nine Nether Demons approaching, and Sovereign Fat Ball changing course toward him, he considered drawing out the Sage’s obsessions.

• Song Shuhang asked the Shadow Lord about the Shadow Holy Land and learned that its power depended on the strength of the obsession he activated.
• Senior White admitted that Heart Demon Sashimi had left him hallucinatory and drunk, while True Lord White Crane offered to support him.
• White Dragon Sister and Pavilion Master Chu explained that the Heavenly Emperor had been taken away and warned that a hidden Longevity Immortal could seize the Heavenly Court Fragments.
• Song Shuhang messaged Senior Eternal Fire to move the Heavenly Court Fragments into the Golden Lotus World and learned that Nine Nether Demons were approaching the Confucian School.
• The little sun warned Song Shuhang that Sovereign Fat Ball was heading to the Present World because of intelligence concerning the Confucian School.
• Song Shuhang warned Pavilion Master Chu to alert Chu Two and wondered whether he could draw out obsessions left by the Sage.

Song Shuhang asked the Shadow Lord to locate the strongest Fire of Obsession in the Confucian School so he could activate the Sage's power. At an eastern rift, he used Senior Skylark's head and Creation Fairy to draw out the obsession and began activating the Shadow Holy Land.

• Song Shuhang asked how long the Shadow Holy Land could last and learned that its duration depended on the amount of activated obsession.
• The Shadow Lord agreed to search the Confucian School with his True Sight Eye of Obsession and found the strongest Fire of Obsession in a great rift at its eastern edge.
• Song Shuhang, Su Clan's Sixteen, Senior White, and True Lord White Crane traveled to the rift.
• Song Shuhang took Senior Skylark's head from his Inner World and had Creation Fairy carry it to the rift's center.
• The rift's temperature soared as the obsession stirred, and Song Shuhang shouted, "Explode, Sage's Obsession!" while activating the Shadow Holy Land.

Song Shuhang activated the Shadow Holy Land to summon the Confucian Sage’s obsession, but instead drew in the enormous shadow of the Lord of Imperishability. As the power flooded into him, Song Shuhang feared the encounter would kill him.

• The Shadow Lord watched Song Shuhang activate the Confucian Sage’s powerful obsession and hoped he could turn his unusual cooking talent toward greater delicacies.
• Song Shuhang summoned the Calamity Giant Tortoise while retrieving Skylark’s head, and she threatened to bring her father after him before disappearing into the void.
• Song Shuhang used the Shadow Holy Land Bracelet to resonate with the obsession, and the magical treasure gathered it into a gigantic shadow over the Confucian School.
• The shadow poured into Song Shuhang, who learned it was the obsession of the Lord of Imperishability, a Primordial Era being he had crossed before.

Song Shuhang struggled to withstand the Lord of Imperishability’s Obsession Shadow without entering Pseudo-Immortal Smoke Mode. Senior White’s Clone used a purified Demon Thought to help him activate Obsession Shadow Possession Mode, leaving Song Shuhang feeling invincible.

• Song Shuhang endured the Obsession Shadow’s power with help from the Sacred Apes, the Merit Snake Beauty, Heart-Demon Scarlet Heaven Sword, and Pavilion Master Chu’s dull hair.
• Song Shuhang began cracking and prepared to enter Smoke Mode, but Senior White’s Clone stopped him.
• Senior White’s Clone revealed that he had purified the Lord of Imperishability’s Demon Thought and gave it to Song Shuhang.
• The Merit Fat Whale swallowed the Demon Thought and merged it into Song Shuhang as a tattoo.
• The tattoo activated the Lord of Imperishability’s Obsession Shadow Possession Mode, and Song Shuhang felt invincible.

Song Shuhang faced the Longevity Immortal with eyes covering his arms, who appeared above the Confucian School while Song Shuhang’s Shadow Holy Land possession was counting down. After learning the visitor was an incarnation whose true body remained imprisoned, Song Shuhang attacked with the Lord of Imperishability’s power, but the Longevity Immortal shattered his flame blade and descended to strangle him.

• Pavilion Master Chu warned Song Shuhang that a Longevity Immortal was plundering the Heavenly Court Fragment, and the Longevity Immortal soon tore open the sky above them.
• The Longevity Immortal recognized Song Shuhang and bitterly addressed Merit Snake Beauty, who defended Song Shuhang and threatened to call her dad.
• Song Shuhang asked Pavilion Master Chu to summon Chu Two, then armed himself with Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.
• White Dragon Sister identified the attacker as an external incarnation, while the Longevity Immortal’s true body remained imprisoned in Spotted Dragon Two’s little black room.
• Song Shuhang infused Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword with the Lord of Imperishability’s power and launched a Heaven-Burning Flame Saber attack, but the Longevity Immortal shattered it and descended to strangle him.

Song Shuhang used the Lord of Imperishability’s Obsession Shadow to attack the Longevity Immortal with Eyes on His Arms, then baited him into a trap with a substitute skill. He emerged from the shadow’s black hole and prepared to finish the fight with Scarlet Heaven Sword and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber.

• Song Shuhang struck the Longevity Immortal with Eyes on His Arms with the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber, the Vajra Divine Punishment Great Hand Seal, and Five Thunders Overhead.
• The Longevity Immortal dispersed the attacks, seized Song Shuhang by the neck, and tried to throw him away when he realized something was wrong.
• Song Shuhang’s apparent body stuck to the Longevity Immortal’s hands, then shattered into flesh and blood that covered and corroded the eyes on his arms.
• Song Shuhang’s true body emerged from the Obsession Shadow’s black hole, protected by a shell formed from the Shadow’s power and the purified Demon Thought.
• Song Shuhang attacked the Longevity Immortal with Scarlet Heaven Sword and the Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber while using the Death Proclamation skill.

Song Shuhang and the Eye Immortal fought inside the Jadewater Pavilion World, where Song Shuhang used the Lord of Imperishability’s shadow powers to battle the Longevity-level incarnation. The Eye Immortal eventually found an opening and thrust his banner toward Song Shuhang, but a seven-colored spear pierced the Eye Immortal’s abdomen.

• Pavilion Master Chu Two drew Song Shuhang and the Eye Immortal into the Jadewater Pavilion World and sealed its space.
• Song Shuhang combined the Scarlet Heaven Sword and Nine-Rebirth Phoenix Saber to wound the Eye Immortal and restrict his movements.
• The Eye Immortal summoned the Heavenly Court Immortal-Slaying Banner and broke through Song Shuhang’s combined attack to strike his Giant King Robe.
• Song Shuhang and the Eye Immortal fought a prolonged close-quarters battle, with Song Shuhang faintly suppressing his opponent.
• The Eye Immortal knocked aside Song Shuhang’s defense and thrust toward his abdomen, but a seven-colored spear pierced the Eye Immortal’s abdomen.

Song Shuhang and Pavilion Master Chu Two sealed the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar in Jadewater Pavilion using weapons that suppressed both of his powers. After the unexpected Steel Song Shuhang vanished, Song Shuhang wondered whether the metallic figure had been his avatar.

• The Eye Immortal’s spear thrust turned back on him, and Pavilion Master Chu Two stabbed him with the Heavenly Court Immortal-Slaying Banner, suppressing his Monster Catcher source power.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two summoned the metal giant tree and the Tree of Life and Death, Withering and Flourishing to swallow and seal the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar.
• The Monster Catcher Immortal drew on a hidden power and began breaking free while firing beams at Song Shuhang and Pavilion Master Chu Two.
• Steel Song Shuhang appeared, stabbed the Monster Catcher Immortal’s forehead with a short blade that sealed his hidden power, and stomped him back into the tree.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two confirmed the avatar was sealed, and Song Shuhang wondered whether Steel Song Shuhang had been his Steel Avatar.

Song Shuhang learned that the Heavenly Emperor had controlled his Steel Avatar and used it to help Pavilion Master Chu Two seal the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar, while hinting that she had a hidden plan. After Chu Two confirmed the seal was secure and departed with Jadewater Pavilion, Song Shuhang and White Dragon Sister were left baffled by the Heavenly Emperor’s actions.

• Pavilion Master Chu Two explained that a steel version of Song Shuhang had stabbed and kicked the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar into her seal.
• The Heavenly Emperor sent Song Shuhang messages confirming she had controlled his Steel Avatar and deliberately helped seal her own vanguard general, then challenged him to guess her plan.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two checked the seal and confirmed it had no loopholes and would weaken the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar until it could be killed within a year.
• Pavilion Master Chu Two returned Jadewater Pavilion to the gap between the Nine Netherworld and the Present World, leaving Song Shuhang above the Confucian School’s great rift.
• Song Shuhang told White Dragon Sister that the Heavenly Emperor had stabbed the Monster Catcher Immortal’s avatar, and White Dragon Sister was stunned by the news.

Song Shuhang’s Obsession Shadow reacted to the Lord of Imperishability adding him as a friend and carried him into a hidden Netherworld Passage. There he found traces of Senior Skylark and provoked a waiting enemy before the Obsession Shadow faded, leaving him to face it.

• White Dragon Sister tried to scan Song Shuhang’s Golden Core QR Code, but the Lord of Imperishability added him as a friend instead.
• After Song Shuhang placed the Lord of Imperishability on his unfamiliar friends list, its obsession detected an immortal object and seized control of him.
• The Obsession Shadow carried Song Shuhang through a hidden Netherworld Passage, and Senior White’s Clone decided to wait with Su Clan’s Sixteen and True Lord White Crane near the entrance.
• Song Shuhang called Su Clan’s Sixteen and told her to wait at the passage entrance because he had found some of Senior Skylark’s parts.
• The Obsession Shadow charged at a strange presence and blasted it with flames, then dissipated and left Song Shuhang facing the provoked enemy.

Song Shuhang, controlling the Lord of Imperishability's Obsession Shell, encountered Boss Fat Ball and prepared to fight for the Immortal Bone. With Senior White Two secretly nearby, Boss Fat Ball turned its Nine Nether power against the sleeping Lord of Imperishability.

• The Lord of Imperishability's flames engulfed Boss Fat Ball's mercury-bodied clone, but could not harm it, and Song Shuhang recognized him.
• Boss Fat Ball accused Song Shuhang of helping the blue-haired woman take the Immortal Bone and threatened to kill him after learning Senior White was not visible.
• Song Shuhang received a message from White Rabbit revealing that Senior White was lurking nearby and urging him to fight without exposing the plan.
• Boss Fat Ball summoned an army of powerful Nine Nether Demons and challenged Song Shuhang to attack him.
• The Lord of Imperishability's demonic thoughts charged Boss Fat Ball through spatial passages, but his Nine Nether Evil Energy devoured them.
• Boss Fat Ball sent two colossal swords of Nine Nether Evil Energy through the passages toward the sleeping Lord of Imperishability.

Boss Fat Ball attacked the sleeping Lord of Imperishability and tried to move his enormous body into the Netherworld, but Lord of Imperishability resisted and sought Song Shuhang’s help. Song Shuhang blacklisted him, yet the power already sent into Song Shuhang’s Obsession Shadow enabled him to unleash Reincarnation Destruction against Boss Fat Ball.

• Boss Fat Ball sent two giant swords of Nine Nether Evil Energy into Lord of Imperishability’s Slumbering Grounds, where they pierced his body and exploded without waking him.
• Boss Fat Ball decided Lord of Imperishability’s enormous body was only a layer of defense and built a door to pull him into the Netherworld.
• Lord of Imperishability’s subconscious resisted by summoning a giant beast that attacked the door, then asked Song Shuhang for help.
• Song Shuhang rejected Lord of Imperishability’s request and blacklisted him, interrupting the power transmission.
• The power Lord of Imperishability had already transmitted merged with Song Shuhang’s Obsession Shadow, and Song Shuhang attacked Boss Fat Ball with Reincarnation Destruction.

Song Shuhang used the Lord of Imperishability’s power to thwart Fat Ball’s attempt to capture the Lord, then tried to flee the Netherworld passage. Fat Ball redirected the passage and caught him, despite White’s intervention.

• Song Shuhang unleashed Reincarnation Destruction, which severed Fat Ball’s connection to the Immortal Lord’s Slumbering Grounds and helped the Lord of Imperishability escape with his slumbering grounds.
• Fat Ball discovered that the Lord of Imperishability had vanished and that Song Shuhang had used up the power within him.
• Song Shuhang tried to escape on the Squid Tyrant Twin Blades, but Fat Ball sent elite Nine Nether Demons after him and blocked the passage.
• White emerged from within Song Shuhang and forced the pursuing demons to collapse before they could attack.
• Fat Ball reversed its spatial passage, pulled Song Shuhang before it, and grabbed him by the throat.

Song Shuhang died after Boss Fat Ball crushed his neck, while the Dragon Rune Rebirth rune absorbed a small amount of Lord of Imperishability’s knowledge. Fat Ball then read Song Shuhang’s memories and became trapped in information about transcending the Immortality Realm.

• As Boss Fat Ball strangled him, Song Shuhang noticed the Dragon Rune Rebirth rune was becoming more complete from information Lord of Imperishability had transmitted.
• Song Shuhang tried to remove Lord of Imperishability from his blacklist, but Lord of Imperishability refused.
• Boss Fat Ball crushed Song Shuhang’s neck and scattered Senior White Two’s phantom while Senior White Two’s true body remained blocked.
• Boss Fat Ball used a special glove to read Song Shuhang’s memories and opened the information about Immortality Realm transcendence.
• Fat Ball became completely trapped in the profound information as it continued reading.

Senior White Two tricked Boss Fat Ball into reading overwhelming Immortal Transcendence knowledge, leaving its clone in an unwakeable slumber. He revived Song Shuhang from a convincing fake death, then revealed that he had cut off Song Shuhang’s head to stage the deception.

• Boss Fat Ball became absorbed in the Immortal Transcendence information and fell into an endless slumber.
• Senior White Two ended the deception, and Song Shuhang’s head fell from his body as he asked whether he was dead.
• Senior White Two explained that Song Shuhang was only in a fake death state and demonstrated that his own severed head would not reattach yet.
• Senior White Two explained that Boss Fat Ball’s clone had become like Lord of Imperishability after reading knowledge beyond its comprehension.
• Senior White Two took Song Shuhang’s head from his bundle and admitted he had cut it off for the act, though Song Shuhang did not remember consenting.
• Senior White Two placed Song Shuhang’s head back on his neck, but it fell off again.

After Senior White Two cut off Song Shuhang’s head, he helped him adjust to being a Headless Knight and defeated Fat Ball’s incarnation. Senior White Two removed the Immortal Bone, while Song Shuhang escaped toward the Present World with Senior Skylark’s scattered parts.

• Senior White Two tied Song Shuhang’s head to his body, revived him, and told him the separation would heal in time.
• Song Shuhang used Thought Power to make his head float and practiced moving it independently.
• Senior White Two approached Fat Ball’s sleeping incarnation and removed the Immortal Bone from its body.
• Senior White Two opened an exit and told Song Shuhang to return to the Present World while he stayed in the Nine Netherworld.
• Song Shuhang flew toward the exit on the Squid Tyrant’s twin blades and gathered Senior Skylark’s scattered parts along the way.

Song Shuhang escaped the Netherworld Passage with Fairy Skylark’s body parts and returned to True Lord White Crane’s Immortal Ark. As the group headed toward the Confucian School, Giant Tortoise Dad and his daughter ambushed them, leaving Song Shuhang taunting the father to attack.

• Su Clan’s Sixteen carried Song Shuhang aboard True Lord White Crane’s Immortal Ark, and White Dragon Sister sealed the Netherworld Passage.
• Song Shuhang explained that Fairy Skylark had been killed and was likely resurrecting, then set aside her body parts in case they were needed.
• Song Shuhang proposed returning to the Confucian School’s Golden Lotus World and planned to return Senior Shadow Lord’s bracelet.
• Giant Tortoise Dad and Miss Disaster Giant Turtle tracked Song Shuhang to the Immortal Ark and tried to ambush it.
• Senior White’s Clone sped up the Immortal Ark, dodging Giant Tortoise Dad’s bite, while Song Shuhang challenged him to twist his head off.

Song Shuhang taunted Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad, who used a curse to twist his head, while the group pretended the attack had defeated him. Before Shuhang could summon help, a mysterious powerhouse emerged from a black vortex, attacked Miss Disaster Giant Turtle, and revealed the Skylark Parts she had swallowed; Shadow Lord then saw an immense obsession engulf the Confucian School.

• Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad used the Thousand-Thread Head-Turning Curse to twist Song Shuhang's head twice, but Shuhang mocked him instead of surrendering.
• Senior White's Clone suggested they pretend the curse had worked, and Merit Snake Beauty and the others acted as if Shuhang had been defeated.
• Song Shuhang challenged Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad to twist his head off and gripped his Insurance Voucher to summon Everything Can Be Sold.
• A mysterious figure emerged from a black vortex, kicked Miss Disaster Giant Turtle, and made her vomit a mountain of Skylark Parts.
• Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad repaired his daughter's body and confronted the mysterious figure as Shadow Lord saw a vast obsession engulf the Confucian School.

Boss Fat Ball's avatar appeared in the Confucian School amid the Sage's overwhelming fire of obsession and targeted Song Shuhang. Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad attacked the avatar, but spatial interference left Song and his companions exposed as Fat Ball charged at him.

• The Shadow Lord recognized the spreading obsession as the Confucian Sage's and realized his Shadow Holy Land could not safely convert it.
• Song Shuhang recognized Boss Fat Ball's avatar and lost his telepathic connection to Senior White Two.
• The Heavenly Emperor sent Song Shuhang ten seconds of power and suggested that he retreat.
• Boss Fat Ball pulled at True Lord White Crane's Immortal Ark, but Disaster Giant Tortoise Dad struck it with a beam cannon.
• Spatial interference disrupted Song Shuhang's attempt to move everyone into his Core World, and Senior White's Clone ordered them to retreat.
• Boss Fat Ball repaired its damaged body, abandoned Turtle Dad, and charged Song Shuhang, who fired his Sage's Eye at it with the Powerhouse Appraisal Technique.