Chapter Summaries

Su Mu was struck by lightning while fishing and transmigrated to an unfamiliar river with a River Guardian System. After surviving on a golden carp, he fell asleep as strange crackling sounds began around him.

• Su Mu showed Fishing Enthusiasts his permit, then told his colleague that Xiao Li was his ex-girlfriend.
• Su Mu accidentally cast his fishing rod into a utility pole, was struck by lightning, and fell into the river.
• Su Mu woke in another world, learned the River Guardian System could control water and refine water beasts, and found himself alone beside a river.
• After days without food, Su Mu used his Water Manipulation ability to catch a golden carp and ate half of it raw.
• Su Mu saved the rest of the carp, fell asleep on a rock, and heard crackling sounds in his dream.

After being struck by lightning while fishing, Su Mu awakened in another world with the River Guardian System. He survived his first week by eating a golden carp and fell asleep as a strange crackling sound echoed around him.

• Su Mu showed fishing enthusiasts his permit, then told his colleague that Xiao Li was his ex-girlfriend.
• Su Mu accidentally cast his fishing rod onto a power pole, was struck by lightning, and fell into the river.
• Su Mu awoke in another world, learned about his River Guardian System, and discovered he could barely control a drop of water.
• After wandering for days without finding people or food, Su Mu prayed for help and a golden carp leaped onto the bank.
• Su Mu ate half the carp, found it delicious and filling, saved the rest, and fell asleep to the sound of crackling.

Su Mu struggled to survive in a river with no fish or spiritual energy until he encountered Han Xiaopao on a strange boat. When the boat stopped and Su Mu's system forbade him from leaving the river, he demanded a crossing fee and began writing Han Xiaopao a plan instead.

• Su Mu discovered that eating a golden carp had raised his cultivation to Qi Refining Fifth Stage, but he still could not catch fish or control more than one drop of water.
• After a month of starvation, Su Mu spotted Han Xiaopao on a drifting boat and swam over to join him.
• Su Mu and Han Xiaopao found that the boat bore the name Tiannan, which Han Xiaopao could not see, and agreed to travel together.
• When the boat stopped, Su Mu's system told him he could not leave the river until he refined it.
• Su Mu claimed he could repair the boat and demanded a repair fee and River Crossing Fee, then took Han Xiaopao's A4 Paper and began writing him a plan.

After a month of starvation, Su Mu found Han Xiaopao drifting on a Small Boat and tried to leave the river with him. The system stopped the boat and told Su Mu he had to refine the river first, so he charged Han Xiaopao a crossing fee and began writing him a plan.

• Su Mu reached Qi Refining Fifth Stage after eating a golden carp but could control only one drop of water and found no more fish.
• Su Mu spent a month starving in a place without spiritual energy, then spotted Han Xiaopao on a Small Boat and swam to him for help.
• Su Mu and Han Xiaopao agreed to travel together, but the Small Boat stopped moving, and Su Mu's system told him he could not leave the river until he refined it.
• Su Mu claimed he could repair the boat and demanded a repair fee and River Crossing Fee, then took Han Xiaopao's A4 Paper and began writing a designated plan.

Su Mu made Han Xiaopao sign a debt contract for the toll before sending him through, then settled by the river and began using River Favor Points to draw treasures. His first lottery yielded the Imperial Jade Seal, while he discovered that protecting the river also earned him points.

• Su Mu made Han Xiaopao sign a loan agreement for ten treasures at 15.4% annual interest and sent him away across the river.
• Su Mu received 200 Favor Points for maintaining river order, built a simple house on the riverbank, and resolved to refine the river and escape.
• Su Mu learned that guarding the river for a day earned ten River Favor Points and used one point on an Ordinary Lottery.
• Su Mu drew the Imperial Jade Seal from the Qin Dynasty World and stored it despite its lack of divine abilities.
• Su Mu returned a stranded carp to the river, gained five Favor Points, and spent ten points on ten more Ordinary Lotteries.

Su Mu improved his river-related mystical powers and worked to earn Favor Points, then rescued a stranded Little Turtle. He soon found another turtle that looked exactly like the one he had just returned to the river.

• Su Mu spent Favor Points to raise Separation, Stillness, Acceleration, Backflow, and Swimming to Level 1, but found that further upgrades required 0.1% River Affinity.
• Su Mu diligently maintained the river for several days, saving enough Favor Points to raise his River Affinity from 0.013% to 0.016%.
• Su Mu patrolled the riverbank and found a dark green Little Turtle overturned on the shore.
• Su Mu tossed the Little Turtle back into the river and received five Favor Points.
• Su Mu soon found another stranded Little Turtle that looked exactly like the first one.

Su Mu continued rescuing stranded creatures for Favor Points, then encountered Yang Huan, a woman transmigrating from Blue Star to the Great Yong Dynasty. After learning that she hoped to marry into the imperial family and become empress, he asked what she could offer him in return.

• Su Mu repeatedly tossed Little Turtle back into the river and earned increasing amounts of Favor Points.
• A Golden Scale Sacred Fish named Jin'er ascended from the Mystic Heaven Divine Sect a century after his master urged him to follow the Black Tortoise Old Ancestor to the Upper Realm.
• Su Mu found a stranded Small Golden Fish and tossed it downstream, then continued patrolling the riverbank.
• Su Mu stopped Yang Huan's boat with Water Manipulation and learned she was transmigrating from Blue Star to the Great Yong Dynasty.
• Yang Huan said she planned to marry into the imperial family and become empress, so Su Mu asked what she could give him after arriving.

Su Mu helped Yang Huan leave by having her sign an IOU, then spent River Favor Points on affinity and lottery draws until he obtained and leveled a cultivation method. After reaching Qi Refining Completion Stage, he found a dolphinfish tangled in riverbank plants and began trying to contract it.

• Yang Huan signed Su Mu's IOU, and Su Mu cleared the water so her boat could depart.
• Su Mu raised his River Affinity and spent Favor Points on lottery draws, receiving several items and the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Su Mu struggled to cultivate the art until he added points to it and advanced to Qi Refining Completion Stage.
• Su Mu found a dolphinfish tangled in aquatic plants and began forming a contract with it.

Su Mu contracted the Dolphinfish and earned Favor Points while Han Xiaopao traveled to the Ink Sea to investigate a divine treasure. As cultivators gathered around a trembling stone gate, an elder rushed toward the Immortal Light and the others moved to follow.

• Su Mu contracted the Dolphinfish, ordered it to catch treasure fish, and earned Favor Points clearing weeds and stones along the riverbank.
• Han Xiaopao recalled his mysterious encounter with a dark river and traveled alone from the Fallen Cloud Sect to the Land of the Far West.
• At the Ink Sea, Wu Zhongkui claimed the stone gate stood on Bone Profound Sect territory, but a blue-robed cultivator and the crowd challenged his claim.
• Han Xiaopao assessed the assembled Nascent Soul cultivators and waited with them for someone to approach the stone gate.
• The stone gate trembled and formed dark-purple Immortal Light, prompting a mid-stage Nascent Soul elder to charge toward it as the others began to act.

Nascent Soul cultivators fought over the Immortal Light in the Ink Sea until a terrifying Black Dragon-like beast appeared and swallowed it. The creature vanished, and Su Mu realized Little Mahi had quickly found something before it spat out what it carried at the riverbank.

• Wei Guang and Wu Zhongkui fought over the Immortal Light while Han Xiaopao waited for a chance to seize it.
• Wei Guang and Wu Zhongkui wounded each other in a fierce exchange, leaving Han Xiaopao poised to act.
• A gigantic Black Dragon-like creature emerged from the clouds and froze the cultivators with its overwhelming aura.
• The creature swallowed the Immortal Light, vanished into the void, and left the stone gate shattered.
• Su Mu sensed Little Mahi had found something, went to the riverbank, and watched it spit out what it was carrying.

Su Mu’s No-Loach Dragon brought him treasure fish and a strange flesh pellet, while eating the Silver Arowana raised his cultivation to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment. After he suppressed a dangerous whirlpool and earned 3,000 Favor Points, Su Mu converted them into River Affinity and continued searching for more whirlpools.

• Su Mu rejected Little Mahi’s iron bead, then praised it for bringing him a Silver Arowana and grilled the fish for a meal.
• After sleeping, Su Mu woke at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment and saw that the system had named Little Mahi the No-Loach Dragon.
• Little Mahi returned badly wounded with a contracting flesh pellet, and Su Mu spent 2 Favor Points to heal it before offering it fish bait.
• Su Mu spotted a new whirlpool, stopped it with Water Domain Stasis, and received 3,000 Favor Points for repairing it.
• Su Mu converted the 3,000 Favor Points into River Affinity and went on patrolling in search of more whirlpools.

Su Mu met Xiao Huo, a newly arrived transmigrator, and let him cross the river after making him sign a loan contract. Afterward, Su Mu rushed to rescue Little Mahi from a Water Snake.

• On New Moon Continent, a Black-haired Man saw time rewind to the day he named the little fellow, ending their endless reincarnation cycle.
• Su Mu spotted Xiao Huo’s boat, learned that Xiao Huo had transmigrated, and let him pass after he signed a loan contract.
• Su Mu earned 800 Favor Points for maintaining order and continued patrolling the river.
• Su Mu received a distress signal from Little Mahi and found a Water Snake coiling around him in a small pond.
• Su Mu leaped into the pond as the Water Snake was about to swallow Little Mahi.

Su Mu rescued Little Mahi from a water snake, then cooked and ate the snake meat, which rapidly raised his cultivation to Golden Core Perfection. After a quiet month of patrolling the river and accumulating Favor Points, he planned to spend four thousand points to raise his river affinity to 0.1%.

• Su Mu dragged the water snake ashore after it attacked him, while giant hands seized a Devouring Heaven Holy Python in the Unrivaled Continent's Kunlun Domain Sea.
• Su Mu dissected the snake and fed a large piece of its meat to Little Mahi, whose wounds healed, then cooked and ate the rest.
• Su Mu refined the snake meat's energy for three days and reached Golden Core Ninth Level, later advancing to Golden Core Perfection by eating more.
• Su Mu spent the next month patrolling the river and earning Favor Points while Little Mahi remained missing.
• Su Mu checked his status at 4325 River Favor Points and planned to spend 4000 to raise his river affinity to 0.1%.

Su Mu upgraded his water-manipulation and swimming abilities after raising his River Affinity, then confronted Li Qi Ye, who was traveling upstream to find his sheep. The chapter ended with Li Qi Ye trying to persuade the mysterious River Warden to let him pass.

• Su Mu raised his Separation, Stillness, and Backflow abilities to Level 2, then used Favor Points to upgrade Acceleration and Swimming as well.
• Su Mu discovered that Little Mahi had gone far upstream but was still alive through their mental connection.
• Su Mu encountered Li Qi Ye walking upstream across the river and blocked his path, claiming the river as his territory.
• Li Qi Ye said he had come to find his sheep, while Su Mu demanded a toll because he was the River Warden.
• Li Qi Ye, unable to determine Su Mu's cultivation, introduced himself and asked for a favor.

Su Mu demanded a toll from Li Qi Ye as he crossed the River of Time, and Li Qi Ye paid with an origin fragment and a refined heart. Su Mu then helped Li Qi Ye travel upstream faster, leaving Li Qi Ye awed by his power and regretting that he had not befriended him.

• Su Mu demanded a toll, and Li Qi Ye reluctantly agreed rather than risk confronting him on the River of Time.
• Li Qi Ye offered Su Mu an origin fragment, but Su Mu dismissed it as scrap metal.
• Li Qi Ye pulled out and offered his refined golden heart, which Su Mu accepted as the toll.
• Su Mu let Li Qi Ye pass and asked where he had lost Sheep, but Li Qi Ye said he had already found traces of it.
• Su Mu accelerated the water beneath Li Qi Ye, and Li Qi Ye realized he could control the River of Time.
• Li Qi Ye continued upstream, regretting that he had not asked Su Mu’s name or tried to befriend him.

After swallowing the golden heart Li Qi Ye gave him, Su Mu reached Purple Mansion Great Perfection but discovered his body could refine only a tiny portion of it. He strengthened himself with Water Snake meat, upgraded his cultivation art, and ended the chapter spending 1,000 River Favor Points on a Golden Lottery draw.

• Su Mu swallowed the golden heart, which joined his body and raised his cultivation to Purple Mansion Great Perfection while greatly strengthening his physique.
• Su Mu learned that his body could connect only a fraction of the heart’s blood vessels, so he ate Water Snake meat to strengthen himself and gradually refine more of it.
• Su Mu missed Little Mahi, sensed that it had left the area, and lamented that he could no longer rely on it to bring him treasure fish.
• Su Mu spent River Favor Points to raise Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art to Level 2 and improve his spiritual power.
• Su Mu used 1,000 River Favor Points to start a Golden Lottery draw.

Su Mu used Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength to grow far stronger and break through to the Great Ascension Initial Stage, then spent half a month earning Favor Points and consolidating his progress. During a patrol, he spotted a mysterious pitch-black object drifting downstream and rushed to investigate.

• Su Mu spent Favor Points to raise Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength to Level 2, transforming thousands of particles into Divine Elephant Particles and greatly strengthening his body.
• Su Mu broke through to the Great Ascension Initial Stage, then began saving Favor Points because the next level required one thousand points.
• Su Mu patrolled the river for half a month, earning Favor Points while reviewing his cultivation art and increasing his Divine Elephant Particles to ten thousand one hundred.
• Su Mu saw a pitch-black object floating downstream, moved into the river channel, and reacted with alarm when he recognized what was approaching.

Su Mu stopped a black coffin drifting down his river, heard knocking from inside, and sent it back upstream when he could not open it. In the Black Central Realm, Bone Shadow and three other powerful beings realized their coffin had been returned from the River of Time by an unknown figure, but they sent it out again anyway.

• Su Mu halted the coffin with his Water Domain, heard two knocks from inside, and failed to open it or damage it with his sword.
• Su Mu recalled the taboo of water burial and used his Water Domain to send the coffin back upstream.
• Bone Shadow and three black shadows discovered that their coffin had been returned and concluded that someone had interfered with its passage through the River of Time.
• Bone Shadow used their combined power to deduce the unknown figure, but saw only its back before the strain forced him to stop.
• Bone Shadow and the three shadows decided to try again, sent the coffin into the void, and left Bone Shadow weakened.

Su Mu sent a black coffin floating down the River of Time back upstream twice, unknowingly foiling Bone Shadow and the three shadows’ attempts to change the past. After recovering for a thousand years, they tried again, and Su Mu returned the coffin with a warning.

• Su Mu controlled the river to send the coffin back upstream, angered by whoever kept throwing bodies into the water.
• Bone Shadow and the three shadows saw the coffin return and realized the Mysterious Figure on the River of Time had thwarted them again.
• The four shadows retreated into the Lord of Chaos to recover for a thousand years before attempting to send the coffin through time again.
• Su Mu spotted the coffin after only ten days, wrote “You dare try that again?” on it, and sent it upstream once more.
• Su Mu returned to the bank and continued clearing weeds along the river.

After another attempt to send the Black Coffin through the River of Time failed, Bone Emperor and the other three emperors received a mission from Your Excellency to travel five thousand years into the past and target Su Mu. They began recovering in preparation, while Su Mu sensed that Little Mahi had returned.

• The Black Coffin returned to the Black Central Realm with the warning, "You dare try again?", frightening Bone Emperor and the other three emperors.
• Bone Emperor decided the emperors should contact the Main Battlefield, and fifty years later they received a will from Your Excellency.
• Your Excellency ordered the four emperors to absorb the will, restore their bodies, and take the Black Coffin to the HuaiNan Realm of five thousand years ago to erase Su Mu or at least leave the coffin there.
• Bone Emperor warned the others that the Main Battlefield was in danger and urged them to recover quickly and complete their mission despite the unknown force on the River of Time.
• Su Mu sneezed, sensed a mental connection from the riverbank, and went to find the returning Little Mahi.