Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan returned to the River of Time to repay Su Mu for letting him cross years earlier, presenting him with the culmination of his efforts. After Su Mu accepted the treasure, Fang Yuan declined his invitation to shore and tea, hoping to become worthy of it someday.

• Fang Yuan returned to the River of Time, and Su Mu recognized him as the young man who had once crossed on a single bamboo pole.
• Fang Yuan explained that he had spent years searching for a worthy gift to repay Su Mu’s kindness.
• Fang Yuan gave Su Mu a transparent cicada forged from all his Gu, treasures, and fortunate opportunities.
• Su Mu accepted the supreme treasure, and Fang Yuan felt the debt of gratitude between them had finally been repaid.
• Su Mu invited Fang Yuan ashore for tea, but Fang Yuan declined because he could not reach the bank.
• Fang Yuan asked Su Mu to answer a question that had troubled him for a long time.

Su Mu answered Fang Yuan’s doubts about good and evil, then refined Fang Yuan’s transparent cicada and advanced to the Immortal King Overlord Realm. After improving his river affinity and abilities, Su Mu prepared to work, but Nannan returned with an injured white animal and asked him to save it.

• Fang Yuan asked Su Mu whether good and evil truly existed, and Su Mu said they depended on ideals and circumstances.
• Fang Yuan thanked Su Mu, gave him a slip identifying his world and faction, and departed.
• Su Mu refined Fang Yuan’s transparent cicada overnight and advanced from the Peerless Immortal King Realm to the Immortal King Overlord Realm.
• Su Mu spent Favor Points to raise his River Affinity to 30% and his Water Control and swimming Mystical Powers to Level 7.
• Nannan returned early in her wooden boat carrying a white animal and urgently asked Su Mu to save it.

Su Mu healed an injured immortal crane with 10,000 Favor Points after Nannan brought it to him. The crane chose to stay with Nannan as her friend, and the group continued patrolling the river before returning to Su Mu with Nannan’s catch.

• Nannan told Su Mu she and Old Green Ox had found the wounded immortal crane after it flew out of the river.
• Su Mu discovered the arrow was draining the crane’s life force and spent 10,000 Favor Points to heal it.
• The immortal crane thanked Su Mu and Nannan, then offered to stay by Nannan’s side to repay her kindness.
• Su Mu let Nannan ask the crane whether it wanted to follow her, and the crane agreed.
• Nannan named the crane Little Crane and continued patrolling the river with her and Old Green Ox.
• Nannan returned to Su Mu with a large wooden bucket and showed him what she had caught.

Su Mu discovered that Nannan and the immortal crane had brought home a bucket of rare treasure fish, then took the crane along when he went fishing to relax. After two hours without a bite, his rod finally trembled, and he sensed that something was wrong.

• Nannan told Su Mu that the immortal crane had caught the bucket of treasure fish, and Su Mu made them into dinner.
• Su Mu cooked a nourishing meal, then cultivated while Nannan slept and digested the food.
• Su Mu reflected that he would help Nannan find her biological parents after he refined the river and escaped.
• The next day, Su Mu borrowed Nannan's immortal crane and went fishing at a lake formed by his floodwaters.
• After two hours without a bite, Su Mu's fishing rod began to tremble, and he pulled it up in confusion.

Su Mu's immortal crane helped him catch a haul of giant lake creatures, while his Taoist Temple saved the wounded Qin Yu and its Immortal Light restored him. After rising to become the Hidden Dragon Continent's ruler and earning the Shepherd Heaven Alliance's recognition, Qin Yu arrived in the Azure Origin Immortal Domain, where Han Xiaopao hired him to work by his side.

• Su Mu and the immortal crane caught a meter-long Red Lobster and nine other huge catches before heading home.
• Wounded Qin Yu fled into the Heavenly Crow Mountain Range and collapsed inside a Taoist Temple dedicated to Lord God, causing his pursuers to retreat rather than violate its sacred rules.
• Qin Yu worshiped before Su Mu's statue, and a particle of Immortal Light restored his shattered dantian, healed his injuries, and gave him a renewed purpose.
• Qin Yu rose through the Hidden Dragon Continent, becoming its Human Emperor before passing the Shepherd Heaven Alliance's assessment and ascending to the Upper Realm.
• In the Azure Origin Immortal Domain, Han Xiaopao met Qin Yu and told him to work by his side.

Han Xiaopao appointed Qin Yu as a newcomer to train and assigned him to follow Jun Moxie on missions. Jun Moxie took Qin Yu beyond the Azure Origin Immortal Domain to subdue the Douluo World, which he described as weak enough to make Qin Yu “explode.”

• Han Xiaopao told Qin Yu to run rather than die pointlessly if he encountered an enemy he could not defeat.
• Jun Moxie met Qin Yu, showed him his luxurious Cave Abode, and told him to meet at the main gate for a mission.
• Jun Moxie took Qin Yu aboard a silver ark and explained that the God Alliance lacked neither geniuses nor worlds to conquer.
• Qin Yu said he wanted to become a general, and Jun Moxie encouraged him while warning that the Alliance was vast and full of talented people.
• Jun Moxie revealed that their mission was to subdue a world and explained the Alliance’s goal of conquering the Myriad Realms for Master.
• After three days of travel, Jun Moxie and Qin Yu reached the Douluo World, which Jun Moxie had chosen as an extremely weak first target.

Jun Moxie guided Qin Yu through his first mission to subdue Douluo World, teaching him to identify and locate its strongest figure, Asura God Tang San. They learned Tang San lived with his family and companions on Small Divine Island in Rakshasa Sea, and Jun Moxie prepared to take him down.

• Jun Moxie and Qin Yu entered Douluo World, where their Time-Space Holy Ark shattered the fragile space and Jun Moxie explained that Qin Yu had to complete the mission himself.
• Jun Moxie told Qin Yu to find the continent's strongest person, then ordered him to slap a city lord who was lecturing Soul Masters.
• After Qin Yu struck the city lord, Jun Moxie forced him to reveal that Asura God Tang San was the strongest person on the continent.
• Jun Moxie and Qin Yu questioned a holy city's sect master, who said Tang San and his family and companions lived on Small Divine Island in Rakshasa Sea.
• Jun Moxie told Qin Yu that the next step was to take down Tang San, whom he called Little Sugar Man.

Jun Moxie and Qin Yu challenged Tang San on Divine Island, then left after Qin Yu effortlessly withstood his attacks and Jun Moxie judged the world too weak for the God Alliance. Back on the Long River, Su Mu enjoyed the immortal crane’s bountiful catches and learned that Little NanNan had reached the Human Immortal Realm before following a strange cry along an unfamiliar stretch of water.

• Jun Moxie and Qin Yu arrived at Divine Island and told Tang San that the God Alliance intended to take over his continent.
• Tang San refused to submit and attacked Qin Yu, but his own hand shattered against Qin Yu’s body.
• Jun Moxie and Qin Yu departed, leaving Tang San and the others stunned after hearing that their world was too weak to join the alliance.
• Su Mu reflected that the immortal crane’s treasure fish had improved his meals, while Little NanNan had broken through to the Human Immortal Realm before turning five.
• Su Mu patrolled upstream to an unfamiliar, fast-flowing stretch of water and followed a strange, mournful cry.

Su Mu followed a miserable cry through a strange landscape, cutting through layers of tree walls despite a group of small animals trying to stop him. He opened the final wooden door and froze at the sight beyond it.

• Su Mu concealed his aura and cut through the first healing tree wall to investigate the cry.
• A Little Marmot bit Su Mu and repeatedly tried to block his path, but he continued onward.
• Su Mu used his Silver Dagger to cut through another tree wall, and the Little Marmot and a Little Brown Bear clung to his legs.
• Su Mu passed through eight tree walls as Groundhogs, Little Brown Bears, Little Squirrels, and Little Monkeys tried to stop him.
• Su Mu reached a ninth tree wall with a wooden door, pushed it open, and froze at what he saw beyond it.

Su Mu discovered a White-Haired Woman sealed in an Ice Bed and learned that Little Fox was pleading for him to revive its master. Though he knew she was beyond his ability to save, he returned to the Ice Bed and decided to try.

• Su Mu entered the chamber and found Little Fox guarding a frozen grave at its center.
• Su Mu examined the White-Haired Woman sealed beneath the ice and confirmed that she had been dead for a long time.
• Little Fox knelt before Su Mu and nodded when he asked whether the woman was its master.
• Su Mu told Little Fox he could not revive her and started to leave.
• Su Mu saw the Little Marmots and Little Brown Bears waiting hopefully outside the door, then returned to Little Fox and said he would give it a try.

Su Mu tried every method he knew to revive the White-Haired Woman, but found no trace of life and could not bring her back. He preserved her body in the Ice Bed and left Little Fox with a promise to help revive her if he ever gained the ability.

• Su Mu examined the White-Haired Woman for two hours and found her body intact but entirely without life force.
• Su Mu used several Healing Holy Medicines on the White-Haired Woman, but none had any effect.
• Little Fox gave Su Mu her precious red Inner Core, but he returned it and said he had not helped her for a treasure.
• Su Mu reinforced the Ice Bed with Main River Channel water and his Solidification divine ability so it would never melt and the White-Haired Woman would remain preserved.
• Su Mu told Little Fox she could leave and live freely, then promised to help revive her master if he gained the ability one day.
• Su Mu left through the parting tree walls, heard cautious footsteps behind him, and turned around.

Su Mu agreed to take in the Little Fox and five other clever animals after they offered him a chest full of precious cultivation supplies. He brought them home, where Nannan welcomed them and Su Mu put them in charge of guarding his medicinal garden.

• The Little Fox followed Su Mu to the riverbank with five little animals, and Su Mu told them he could not adopt them.
• The animals presented Su Mu with a chest of storage artifacts filled with Immortal Spirit Stones, spiritual plants, and medicinal herbs, and he agreed to raise them for ten years.
• Su Mu counted the six animals and led them home, where Nannan welcomed them to dinner.
• Su Mu told the animals which herbs they could eat and assigned them to guard his medicinal garden from thieves.
• After dinner, Nannan tried to pet the Little Fox, but it avoided her and hid behind Su Mu.

Su Mu settled into a routine of patrolling with Xiao Bai, who quietly followed him and helped recover his lost Silver Dagger. After the Five Little Ones filled his traps with thousands of animals stealing from the medicinal garden, Su Mu rewarded them and traveled to a new stretch of water, where he was stunned by what he saw.

• Nannan accepted that Little Fox was wary and solitary, while Little Fox stayed close to Su Mu as he cultivated.
• Su Mu built five Golden Phoebe Wood houses for the diligent Five Little Ones, then headed out to patrol with Little Fox following at a distance.
• Little Fox repeatedly found Su Mu's lost Silver Dagger, and Su Mu gave her the pet name Xiao Bai.
• Su Mu found all three Iron Cages full of animals caught stealing from the medicinal garden and rewarded each of the Five Little Ones with five hundred Favor Points.
• Su Mu followed a large tributary for four or five hours to explore a new stretch of water, where the roaring current and the sight ahead left him frozen.

Su Mu investigated a Bottomless Cave that drained a tributary and descended into its depths, where he discovered a chamber lined with skeletal carvings of rare beasts. A sealed figure emerged from a rock and told Su Mu that he had finally come.

• Su Mu stopped the tributary's flow and descended into the Bottomless Cave to investigate where its water went.
• Su Mu found a dry passage thousands of meters below the river and followed it to a vast chamber.
• Su Mu discovered that the chamber's Hundred Beast Diagram was carved from the bones of Ferocious Beasts.
• Su Mu noticed a figure sealed inside a central rock, which broke apart and revealed a man.
• The man rose, smiled at Su Mu, and said, "You finally came."

Su Mu confronted the Black-haired Man over a Cave Abode blocking the river channel and agreed to a chess match to settle whether it would be moved. After Su Mu narrowly won, the man revealed a formation designed to trap and kill him, claiming they had a deep grudge.

• Su Mu found the Black-haired Man's Cave Abode obstructing the tributary and asked him to move it.
• The Black-haired Man challenged Su Mu to chess, wagering that he would move if he lost and Su Mu would leave if he won.
• Su Mu and the Black-haired Man played nine games on a pool of water, and Su Mu won the last game by one Chess Piece.
• The Black-haired Man activated a grand formation that weighed Su Mu down and summoned phantom Divine Beasts.
• The Black-haired Man declared that he had waited years for a chance to kill Su Mu and insisted their grudge was greater than Su Mu could imagine.

Su Mu defeated and killed the Black-haired Man, then returned to the river surface and learned that Little Fox had slain the Spirit Beasts ambushing him. As Su Mu tried to bury the cave beneath River Sand, Little Fox pointed toward the entrance after he noticed the cave seemed impossibly deep.

• Su Mu shattered the Black-haired Man's Sacred Hundred Beasts Diagram with one punch and destroyed his dantian.
• Su Mu questioned the Black-haired Man, then killed him and suppressed his body and will beneath the Riverbed.
• Su Mu destroyed the formation cores, searched the Cave Abode, and returned to the river surface.
• Little Fox told Su Mu that she had killed the dozens of Spirit Beasts that tried to follow him into the cave.
• Su Mu began filling the cave with River Sand but realized its depth did not match what he had seen below.
• Little Fox rubbed Su Mu's thigh and pointed toward the cave entrance.

Su Mu repaired the river breach and gained enough Favor Points to raise his River Affinity to 33%, but the Black-haired Man's severed head escaped into the Main River Channel. In a distant Chaos Space, three mysterious beings revived the Black-haired Man, who asked what they wanted from him.

• A mysterious force carried the Black-haired Man's severed head toward the Main River Channel while crocodiles delayed Su Mu's pursuit.
• Su Mu failed to find the head, filled the breach, restored the river's flow, and received 200,000 Favor Points as a karmic reward.
• Su Mu spent his saved Favor Points to raise his River Affinity to 33% and took the slain Spirit Beasts and crocodiles home for food.
• Three vague beings in a Chaos Space restored the Black-haired Man's body and temporarily revived him.
• The Black-haired Man asked the three beings why they had saved him and what they wanted him to do.

Yang Feng learned that his vision of the future had been falsified and that his battle with the River Warden had been engineered by a being in the chaos. As his borrowed life faded, he accepted that he had been used as a pawn and wished for the player behind the scheme to win.

• A supreme being in the chaos read Yang Feng’s memories of his battle with the man on the River of Time, then began withdrawing the energy sustaining him.
• Yang Feng demanded an explanation, and the being revealed that it had interfered with his divination, making him and the River Warden enemies when they had never been enemies.
• The three beings departed as Yang Feng’s vitality faded, and he laughed at how his life and choices had been manipulated.
• Yang Feng recalled his rise from a prophesied God Child to the Lord of Ten God Domains and how his false vision led him to prepare for a battle with the River Warden.
• As he was about to die, Yang Feng accepted his role as a pawn and said he hoped the player behind the scheme could win.

The Black-haired Man gave up reincarnation to send his will toward a certain time and space, hoping Su Mu would win the Grand Chess Game. Su Mu found the tributary restored and continued his patrol until a mysterious figure on a stone bridge drew him closer.

• The Black-haired Man turned himself into Immortal Light and sent his will toward a certain time and space, choosing Su Mu's side before dying completely.
• Su Mu returned to the tributary and found its ecosystem restored overnight, with the water creatures now friendly toward him.
• Su Mu patrolled the tributary, cleared silt and harmful algae, and repaired damaged riverbanks before continuing along the main channel.
• Dense fog rose over the river, and Su Mu heard rhythmic hammering and saw a figure striking a stone bridge.
• Su Mu told the Little Fox to stay back and approached the bridge, where the figure stopped hammering.

Su Mu met a gaunt old man repairing a gap in the stone bridge damaged by the great flood. After Su Mu retrieved the old man’s fallen hammer from the River of Time, it slipped from his hands again, leaving the repair work unresolved.

• Su Mu reached the stone bridge and met a gaunt old man holding an iron hammer.
• The old man thanked Su Mu for stopping the flood and explained that he had helped build the bridge and was repairing the gap it had washed into it.
• Su Mu offered to help, but the old man refused, saying the work would take another three or four years.
• The old man dropped his heavy hammer into the River of Time, and Su Mu lifted it from the river and returned it to him.
• The old man dropped the hammer again just as Su Mu started to leave.