Recaps

Su Mu grew stronger as River Warden, collected strange companions and treasures, and repeatedly sent a mysterious black coffin back upstream. The arc left him investigating a treasure that had sparked a fight between Little Mahi and Kong Yao.

• Su Mu was struck by lightning while fishing and woke in another world, where the River Guardian System gave him control over water and bound him to the river.
• Su Mu met Han Xiaopao, charged him for passage, and took a loan agreement in exchange for letting him cross.
• Su Mu earned Favor Points by maintaining the river, improved his abilities, and began contracting creatures such as Little Mahi and Kong Yao to help him find treasures.
• Han Xiaopao and other cultivators gathered at a stone gate, where a gigantic Black Dragon-like creature swallowed the Immortal Light and vanished.
• Su Mu survived encounters with a water snake and Li Qi Ye, gained strength from the snake meat and a golden heart, and reached Great Ascension cultivation.
• Su Mu stopped a black coffin on the river and repeatedly sent it upstream, frustrating Bone Shadow and the emperors who were trying to transport it through time.
• Su Mu found Little Mahi again, absorbed a golden skeleton, and raised a rapidly growing willow tree whose fruit strengthened his Divine Sense.
• Han Xiaopao prepared to ascend and warned his successors about his debt to Su Mu, while Su Mu stopped Little Mahi and Kong Yao from fighting and asked to see the treasure they had found.

Su Mu strengthened his cultivation and charged travelers and the Four Emperors for crossing the River of Time, while the Four Emperors returned home after fifty thousand years away. The arc left Su Mu exploring a strange stone bridge and tasting a petal from an unusual flower.

• Su Mu broke through into the Transformation Spirit Realm, discovered he had cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury, and fused the Supreme Bone with his Golden Bone.
• Su Mu raised the Stone Yue Beast from a crab egg, while the Gray-robed Man’s deduction revealed that a powerful figure had seized the Yuan Kui Realm and led to the declaration of the Seven Realms.
• Lin Tong warned the Realm Lords not to investigate the vanished realms, then left for the Azure Domain as Void Hands seized three more realms.
• Su Mu charged Ye Fan and the other travelers a River Crossing Fee, then opened the way for their boat toward Big Dipper.
• Su Mu met the Four Emperors on the River of Time, charged them for crossing and burying their coffin, and sent them far downstream.
• The Four Emperors spent fifty thousand years searching for Time Wood, and the Bone Emperor gave Li Changtan a piece before departing with the others for the River of Time.
• Su Mu caught a Treasure Silver Carp, comprehended the Law of Space from its bone and his green leaf, completed his Transformation Spirit Five Treasures, and broke through to the Second Tribulation Realm.
• The Four Emperors returned to Su Mu’s river and paid him to clear their passage home, after which Su Mu investigated a stone bridge, tasted an ant, and ate a petal from a strange flower.

Su Mu grew stronger through rare plants, river creatures, and encounters on the River of Time, while emperors and cultivators elsewhere pursued ascension. The arc ended with Su Mu facing Xu Que after Xu Que attacked him with three worlds.

• Su Mu killed the Treasure Crocodile, found an unquenchable Fire Brazier inside it, and used its meat to advance through the Tribulations Realm.
• Su Mu contracted the Chaos Golden Spirit, rescued creatures lost in the fog, and found a peach tree beyond the waterfall.
• Su Mu ate a Spirit Peach, gained a second dantian, and helped the Golden Ant cross the stone bridge before Little Mahi and Kong Yao brought him a mysterious compass.
• Su Mu bonded with the Black and White Compass, while Xiao Liuyun and Emperor Xiao ascended after encountering treasures linked to the Upper Realm.
• Su Mu caught and ate a Treasure Shark, reached the Ascension Realm, and then interrupted Yang Kai's fight with the White-Haired Man on the River of Time.
• Su Mu absorbed the Alternate Space, raised his River Affinity and cultivation, and gained Law Power from blood beads left by an injured Silver Cobra.
• Xu Que explained the River of Time to Duan Jiude, and they encountered Su Mu, who demanded a crossing fee.
• Xu Que paid Su Mu six treasures, then demanded one hundred treasures and claimed Su Mu's stone house before launching three worlds at him.

Su Mu strengthened his household, took in Little NanNan, and explored a strange cemetery while the Heavenly Dao spared Wang Lin’s world because of NanNan. The arc ended with Su Mu meeting Zero, who questioned how long he would guard the river.

• Su Mu was swept away by Su Mu’s attack on the River of Time, while Su Mu let Duan Jiude leave after collecting his crossing fee.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed its plan to devour the living, but two colossal beings seized it and took it to their master.
• Su Mu contracted Silver Snake and Little Koi, helped Little Koi reach the top of the waterfall, and broke through to the Human Immortal Realm.
• Su Mu fought the fisherman Jiang Yuan, then rode Old Green Ox upstream and found a fog-shrouded cemetery filled with frozen body parts and a mysterious box.
• Su Mu returned home, reunited with his beasts, and took in a baby girl he named Nannan, who grew into a powerful three-year-old.
• The Heavenly Dao spared Wang Lin’s world because Little NanNan had made it happy, while Wang Lin chose to spend the peaceful years with his family before pursuing higher realms.
• Nannan caught a Wild Boar stealing spirit plants, and Su Mu planted the vital seed it had dropped in his garden.
• After Nannan reached the Great Ascension Stage, Su Mu went to meet Zero, who gave him a fishing rod and asked how long he intended to guard the river.