Recaps

Su Mu raised his River Affinity, survived a month-long dissolution into the Long River, and returned with new powers while investigating the river’s decline. Meanwhile, enemies prepared to reach him through the sealed River of Time, and the Chaos Figure assigned Lu Chen, An Daoshan, and Yuan Yun a new task.

• The White-Brow Old Man gave Su Mu a Transparent Fish, showed him an abyss draining the Long River, and Su Mu stopped the flow with Reverse Flow before sealing the abyss in ice.
• Su Mu raised his River Affinity to 90% and dissolved into the Long River, drifting through lives as a fish, shark, reef, sand, grass, and fish before an immortal figure placed him in a pool.
• Nannan and the others found Su Mu after thirty-three days, and Su Mu healed the injured searchers before discovering that his River Affinity had advanced him to the sixth level of the Immortal Realm.
• Su Mu found that the Long River replenished his spiritual power and healed his wounds, repaired problems along its course, and released the contracted Transparent Fish into the Main River Channel.
• The Tall Thin Man defeated the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, who survived by escaping into an Immortal Domain and sent a warning about the enemy’s plans to Ye Fan and the others.
• An Daoshan tried to recruit Li Qi Ye to deliver a Small Porcelain Bottle to Senior Su, but Li Qi Ye resisted, learned that the enemy planned to target Su Mu, and was blocked from reaching the River of Time.
• Lu Chen, Yuan Yun, and An Daoshan sent Fang Yuan to deliver a black Wooden Box to Su Mu, but Lu Chen killed Fang Yuan after he defied the mission.
• The Chaos Figure deduced that the River Warden had acted through the River of Time, reclaimed the Wooden Box, and offered Lu Chen, An Daoshan, and Yuan Yun a new task they could refuse.

Su Mu uncovered the Chaos Figures’ role in the threat to the River of Time and traced a hidden formation that was draining it. Jiang Li escaped the destruction of his forces by faking his death and chose to live as a mortal.

• Lu Chen, Yuan Yun, and An Daoshan left Chaos Space to undertake their mission, while their lord promised to protect An Ran and Yuan Keke.
• Su Mu rescued Fang Yuan from Jiang Bai, searched Jiang Bai’s fragmented memories, and discovered the Chaos Figure behind the attacks.
• The Chaos Figure confronted Su Mu, but fled after Su Mu blocked his attack and erased the damage from the river, and Fang Yuan then told Su Mu about the Wooden Box and its eyeballs.
• Su Mu found the Wooden Box missing, sheltered Fang Yuan on a Floating Island, and gave him Fetal Origin Refines Heaven, three Golden Cicadas, and a Time Droplet.
• Su Mu returned to the cemetery, found a blank stele and a sealed Ice Coffin beneath a mound, and left an item inside it before departing.
• The Chaos Figures discussed the falling water level and vanishing worlds, while Su Mu investigated a hidden vortex that was pulling fish into a stone gate.
• Jiang Li led five thousand members of the Third Hall through the God Punishment Gate, but Su Mu froze and destroyed them, and Yue Ying escaped with the World Stone.
• Jiang Li emerged from a golden fruit thirteen years later, revealed he had faked his death, and arranged for three companions to be reborn before settling into mortal life.

Su Mu found the master blacksmith Wu Di and helped him prepare to forge a weapon powerful enough for the coming war. Seeking a Coordinate Bone for the artifact, Su Mu learned the Transparent Fish was the sole Coordinate and heard the White-Brow Old Man recount Wu Di’s legendary battles for the supreme treasures of the Myriad Mines Realm.

• Su Mu restored damaged tributaries, destroyed several Chaos Halls, and refined the Long River before discovering a reclusive blacksmith in remote waters.
• Su Mu met Wu Di, admired the treasures he had forged by hand, and offered him the Azure Cauldron in exchange for friendship and help with artifact forging.
• Wu Di tested Su Mu’s Silver Dagger, sparred with Su Mu, and decided Su Mu should wield the strongest weapon he hoped to forge.
• Su Mu created a ninth tributary and built a platform at the convergence of nine tributaries so Wu Di could establish his forge.
• Wu Di identified Su Mu’s Coordinate Fish as the Artifact Spirit needed for the weapon, but Su Mu refused to sacrifice his contracted Spirit Pet.
• The White-Brow Old Man explained that Coordinate was unique, had chosen Su Mu, and might mean Su Mu had contracted the Myriad Realms.
• Su Mu said Wu Di would forge the weapon, and the White-Brow Old Man recalled Wu Di’s battles for treasures in the Myriad Mines Realm.
• After Wu Di took fifty of the realm’s hundred supreme treasures, he left when the final treasure appeared, while the White-Brow Old Man and the remaining contenders were immobilized by a tremendous pressure.

Su Mu prepared to protect Nannan and the people he loved, but the Three Pure Ones trapped him while a Chaos Figure attacked his home. Nannan escaped with Old Green Ox and Little Fox, while Su Mu found his household destroyed and raced after them.

• The White-Brow Old Man warned Su Mu that Nannan could become a weakness, but Su Mu chose to protect those he loved and resolved to refine the Long River so they could leave.
• Su Mu took Nannan along his patrol route, introduced her to trusted allies, and gave her a bone chain made from his rib before returning home.
• After Coordinate disappeared, Old Man Zero led Su Mu into a trap and warned him that the water was part of a Killing Game aimed at him.
• The Three Pure Ones confronted Su Mu and sealed him inside a starry battlefield, but he defeated them and broke free after they used their strongest power to hold him.
• While Su Mu was trapped, the Gray-robed Man attacked his home, and Nannan escaped through an Underground Passage with Old Green Ox and Little Fox as the household defenders fell.
• The Willow Tree and the Realm Origin Phoebe sacrificed themselves to protect Nannan and the eggs they had hidden, while the Little Killer Whale carried the three escapees along That Road.
• Su Mu sensed the attack, escaped the starry void, and found his home destroyed and his companions dead, but he sensed Nannan fleeing and vowed to revive the fallen.
• Su Mu raced after Nannan as the Gray-robed Man learned that Su Mu had defeated the Three Pure Ones in fifty-five breaths and sensed him approaching.