Chapter Summaries

Su Mu rescued Little Mahi, then discovered a Golden Skeleton that fused with him and raised his cultivation to Great Ascension Completion. After helping Little Mahi grow and setting a Fish Trap, he pulled up a heavy catch and was stunned by what he found.

• Su Mu spent a hundred Favor Points to heal Little Mahi, then pulled a human skeleton from the river by the aquatic grass wrapped around its tail.
• The skeleton turned golden and, after Su Mu fell onto it, fused into his body, strengthening him and raising his cultivation to Great Ascension Completion.
• Su Mu spent a hundred Favor Points on Little Mahi, causing it to grow to one meter long.
• Su Mu wove a Fish Trap, placed it in a shallow stretch of river, and returned the next morning to find it heavy with a catch.
• Su Mu pulled up the Fish Trap and was dumbfounded by what was inside.

Su Mu caught and contracted a Kong Yao, which brought him an unusual emerald-green sapling. After the sapling grew into a powerful willow tree overnight, Su Mu discovered its branches could serve as weapons and noticed something growing on another branch.

• Su Mu wove five Fish Traps, then found a purplish-red Kong Yao in one and formed a contract with it.
• The Kong Yao brought Su Mu an emerald-green sapling, and he used 20 Favor Points to heal its wound.
• Su Mu tried to swallow the sapling, but spat it out when he could not digest it; it rooted in the soil and grew rapidly.
• By the next morning, the sapling had become a three-meter willow tree beside Su Mu's stone house.
• The willow tree gave Su Mu a branch, and his casual strike with it split Captain America's Shield in two.
• The willow lowered another branch with something growing on it, leaving Su Mu wondering what it was.

Su Mu ate a spirit fruit from the intelligent willow tree, which greatly strengthened his Divine Sense, then resumed patrolling. In the Spirit Realm, Han Xiaopao prepared to attempt ascension and entrusted the realm’s stability to twelve former regional rulers, while recalling an ancient contract to deliver ten treasures.

• A fruit fell from the willow tree into Su Mu's hand, and he ate it to strengthen his Divine Sense.
• Su Mu found that his Divine Sense could reach two kilometers after the fruit, thanked the willow tree for the gift, and went out to patrol.
• Han Xiaopao told twelve former rulers that he would return their territories because he planned to leave the Spirit Realm.
• The twelve rulers mistook Han Xiaopao's announcement for a test of loyalty, but he explained that he intended to attempt ascension after a thousand years of preparation.
• Han Xiaopao instructed the twelve to take over their former territories and maintain stability if he was gone.
• At the cliff, Han Xiaopao recalled making a contract with a mysterious man on a river and owing him ten treasures.

Han Xiaopao warned the twelve about a powerful creditor and left them a contingency before entering a century of seclusion to prepare for ascension. Meanwhile, Su Mu rested after repairing the River of Time, then sensed something and went to the shore.

• Han Xiaopao told the twelve that his creditor might be stronger than him and could threaten the Spirit Realm after he ascended.
• Han Xiaopao gave the twelve a blurry portrait and instructed them to tell his creditor he had ascended and left what he owed somewhere in the Spirit Realm.
• Han Xiaopao entrusted the Spirit Realm's affairs to the twelve and announced he would enter seclusion for a hundred years to undergo his tribulation.
• Su Mu checked the five hundred Favor Points he had earned, fell asleep beneath a willow tree, and was fanned by a drooping branch.
• After nearly two hours of sleep, Su Mu sensed something in his dreams, opened his eyes, and walked toward the shore.

Su Mu stopped Little Mahi and Kong Yao from fighting over a treasure and made the two water beasts reconcile. Their clash had nearly destroyed a Secret Realm Small World, where a Purple-Clad Woman survived and spent five years reflecting on the Void Hands that had stopped them before setting out to grow stronger.

• Su Mu slapped Little Mahi and Kong Yao to stop their fight, then explained that they were both his beloved generals and made them reconcile.
• In a Secret Realm Small World, over a hundred cultivators watched two creatures fight in the Chaotic Black Mist as their battle nearly shattered the world.
• The Purple-Clad Woman prepared to face the creatures, but a pair of Void Hands struck them, ended the fight, and saved the world.
• After the barrier opened, the Purple-Clad Woman sent the Black Armor Middle-Aged Man and the others away, then wandered the Sea of Chaos for five years.
• The Purple-Clad Woman retrieved her sword and resolved to grow stronger so she could learn who stood behind the Void Hands.
• Su Mu learned that Little Mahi and Kong Yao had fought over a treasure and asked them to show it to him.

Su Mu used a mysterious Night-Shining Pearl to strengthen his qi and blood, then spent his Favor Points improving his affinity and cultivation until he broke through into the Transformation Spirit Realm and cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury. The chapter ended with him losing nearly all his remaining points on failed lottery draws and making one final draw with his last point.

• Kong Yao and Little Mahi found a Night-Shining Pearl, and Su Mu discovered that it contained energy that loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Su Mu healed and fed Kong Yao and Little Mahi, whose bodies changed as they grew stronger, and he sent them off to explore while warning them to avoid larger beasts.
• Su Mu spent Favor Points to raise his River Affinity and advance the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art and Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.
• Su Mu broke through into the Transformation Spirit Realm and found that he had already cultivated the Heart Divine Treasury, making him a potential Five Viscera Ascensionist.
• Su Mu wasted nearly all his Favor Points on failed lottery draws, then spent his final point on one last draw.

Su Mu transplanted the Supreme Bone and merged it with his Golden Bone, strengthening his body and Kidney Divine Treasury. Later, he caught a family of unusual crabs in his Fish Traps and brought them back to his hut, intending to try crab for the first time.

• Su Mu transplanted the Supreme Bone into his chest, where it clashed with his Golden Bone.
• Su Mu used Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength and threatened the bones until they stopped rejecting each other and fused.
• The fused bones strengthened Su Mu's body and enhanced his Kidney Divine Treasury, while his Favor Points ran out.
• Su Mu found a large four-pincer crab and a smaller six-pincer crab in his Fish Traps, then tied them up and set them ashore.
• A small crab pinched Su Mu, so he caught and tied it up with the other two before carrying the crab family back to his hut.

Su Mu discovered that the crabs he had caught were Treasure Crabs and spent two days cooking them with Spirit Fire. Eating them completed his Spleen Divine Treasury, and he then sensed a faint pulse of life inside the female crab’s shell.

• Su Mu tried to steam the three crabs, but ordinary fire left them unharmed, so he used Spirit Fire until they were cooked on the third day.
• Su Mu found golden claw meat and black, crystal-like roe inside the female crab, while the male crab’s claws proved too tough to open and its belly was empty.
• Su Mu ate the edible crab meat and roe, then cultivated for a day as he digested their energy and completed his Spleen Divine Treasury.
• Su Mu examined the female crab’s shell after sensing a faint fluctuation of life inside it and spotted something that surprised him.

Su Mu contracted and saved a baby Stone Yue Beast after eating its family, then raised it in a water pit outside his stone house. Elsewhere, a ruler discovered that the Yuan Kui Realm had vanished and was horrified to realize his descendants had disappeared with it.

• Su Mu found a baby crab that had survived days of Spirit Fire and decided to contract it as a Stone Yue Beast.
• Su Mu spent 500 Favor Points to restore the Stone Yue Beast’s life force and placed it in a water pit he dug beside his house.
• A Gray-robed Man learned that the Yuan Kui Realm had disappeared and sent Jiang Cheng to investigate.
• Jiang Cheng returned in terror, and the Gray-robed Man traveled with him to find only empty space where the realm had been.
• The Gray-robed Man realized that his disciples and descendants had been cultivating in the vanished Yuan Kui Realm.

The Gray-robed Man investigated the disappearance of the Yuan Kui Realm and glimpsed a terrifying figure connected to its removal. He ordered the Eight Realms to be treated as Seven and forbade anyone from investigating further.

• The Gray-robed Man mourned Lin Feng and the vanished Yuan Kui Realm, then asked Jiang Cheng to guard him while he performed a deduction.
• The Gray-robed Man burned one-tenth of his Essence Blood and saw Void Hands seize the Yuan Kui Realm before glimpsing a figure standing on a riverbank.
• The deduction abruptly ended, and the Gray-robed Man spat blood and ordered Jiang Cheng to take him away.
• The Gray-robed Man declared that the Eight Realms would henceforth be the Seven Realms and ordered that anyone investigating the Yuan Kui Realm's disappearance be executed.

Lin Tong revealed that a distant, immensely powerful being had moved the Yuan Kui Realm, and feared the Gu You Immortal Domain faced a calamity. He confronted six Realm Lords who had come to test his condition and declared that Ancient You would now have seven great realms.

• Lin Tong told Jiang Cheng that the Gu You Immortal Domain might face a calamity and urged him to leave, but Jiang Cheng refused to abandon him.
• Lin Tong disclosed that someone had moved the Yuan Kui Realm from afar and warned Jiang Cheng not to discuss it further.
• Lin Tong went out to meet six Realm Lords who had gathered outside the Domain Lord Palace after the Yuan Kui Realm disappeared.
• Lin Tong announced that Ancient You would have seven great realms from then on.
• Zhang Gushan questioned Lin Tong about the Yuan Kui Realm, and Jiang Cheng angrily accused the Realm Lords of pretending to be concerned.
• Lin Tong released his aura and stopped the argument.

After Yuan Kui Realm disappeared, Lin Tong’s warnings went unheeded until mysterious Void Hands seized three more realms, leaving Gu You Immortal Domain on the verge of collapse. Lin Tong set out for the Azure Domain to begin again, while Su Mu noticed several people approaching in boats.

• Lin Tong warned the six World Lords that Yuan Kui Realm had been moved by a powerful being and ordered them to stop investigating, but they dismissed his account.
• Su Mu found Little Crab much larger and the pool half empty, refilled it, and fed it fish and shrimp.
• Void Hands seized Flame Cave Realm, Li Yuan Realm, and Zheng Yu Realm, driving four frightened World Lords to seek Lin Tong’s help.
• Lin Tong told the four World Lords he could not protect them and urged them to flee Gu You Immortal Domain.
• Lin Tong chose to leave for the Azure Domain, resolved to grow stronger and someday confront the figure responsible.
• Su Mu saw several people approaching in Small Boats and walked across the water toward them.

Su Mu stopped Ye Fan and his four companions as they traveled across the river, demanding a toll from the five transmigrators. They discovered that money from Blue Star was useless to him, and Su Mu insisted they pay with treasures.

• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Liu Yiyi, Li Xiaoman, and another companion traveled aboard a coffin-like boat pulled by nine black snakes.
• Su Mu walked across the river to meet the group and learned from Ye Fan that they had come from another distant place.
• Su Mu stopped the boat and demanded a River Crossing Fee, but rejected Ye Fan’s cash and Pang Bo’s bank card.
• Li Xiaoman offered to stay behind and keep Su Mu company, but he threatened to throw her into the river and demanded treasures instead.

Su Mu made the five travelers sign Loan Contracts as their River Crossing Fee, charging Ye Fan far more than the others. After letting their boat depart, he spotted something on its stern and stopped it again.

• Ye Fan offered to sign an IOU, but Su Mu prepared contracts for the other four travelers first, each demanding ten treasures and ten billion spirit stones.
• Su Mu handed Ye Fan a special contract demanding one thousand treasures and ten trillion spirit stones, and Ye Fan signed it under pressure.
• Su Mu warned the five that the contracts carried interest and deadlines, then lifted the Stillness and opened the waters for their boat.
• The nine Little Black Snakes fled when Su Mu threatened to summon Little Mahi and Kong Yao, but Su Mu noticed words on the stern and stopped the boat again.
• Ye Fan asked Su Mu what he wanted this time, struggling to contain his anger.

Su Mu earned a large reward for letting Ye Fan and the other Transmigrators cross the river, then spent most of it increasing his River Affinity. In the Black Central Realm, four Emperors learned that their mission had changed: they had to travel seven thousand years into the past and kill a weaker version of their target.

• Su Mu inspected the Small Boat, released the Stillness on the river, and let Ye Fan and the other Transmigrators continue toward Big Dipper.
• The system awarded Su Mu 5,500 Favor Points, and he spent 5,000 to raise his River Affinity from 0.15% to 0.2%.
• In the Black Central Realm, the Dark Emperor, Bone Emperor, and two other Emperors restored their true bodies after eight hundred years and faced the phantom figure.
• The phantom figure ordered the four Emperors to travel to the Small Thousand Realm seven thousand years in the past and kill their target before his Future Self could intervene.
• The phantom figure explained the Time-Causality Effect, and Bone Emperor began to raise his suspicion that the Black Coffin had previously been reversed through time.

The Four Emperors traveled along the River of Time aboard the Black Coffin to deliver it into the past, but they encountered dangerous Time Mist. A mysterious figure appeared through the mist and walked toward them.

• Bone Emperor and the other three Emperors set out to carry the Black Coffin into the past along the River of Time.
• The Four Emperors reached the river and stood on the Black Coffin, which was made of Time Wood and protected them from the water.
• Bone Emperor noted that the River of Time was unusually deserted as the coffin drifted downstream.
• Time Mist rose around them, and Bone Emperor ordered the others not to move, breathe, or use spiritual power.
• The Four Emperors saw a vague human figure walking across the water toward them through the mist.

Su Mu confronted the Four Emperors on the River of Time over their repeated disposal of coffins in his river. He agreed to let them continue downstream, but demanded a fee before moving aside.

• Bone Emperor and the other Three Emperors were terrified when Su Mu walked through the Time Mist and stood on the River of Time.
• Su Mu recognized the Black Coffin and accused the Four Emperors of throwing corpses into his river.
• Bone Emperor apologized, and Dark Emperor claimed his father's corpse was inside the coffin, though the Four Emperors did not know its contents.
• Su Mu told them to bury the coffin farther downstream, and the Four Emperors thanked him.
• Bone Emperor asked Su Mu to move aside, and Su Mu said he would do so for a fee.

Su Mu charged the Four Emperors a fee to cross the River of Time and an additional fee to bury the Dark Emperor’s father. The Bone Emperor offered a Boundless Leaf, which Su Mu accepted as only half a treasure, leaving the Four Emperors still owing him.

• Su Mu calculated the River Crossing Fees and burial charges, demanding three fees for the coffin in addition to the four Emperors’ crossing fees.
• The Bone Emperor questioned the new charge, and Su Mu declared that everyone crossing the river had to pay one treasure per person.
• Su Mu told the Dark Emperor to pay four treasures in total because he was responsible for his father’s burial.
• The Bone Emperor offered a Boundless Leaf as payment, but Su Mu counted it as only half a treasure.
• The Bone Emperor endured the loss, while Su Mu reminded him that he still owed half a treasure.

Su Mu collected the Four Emperors’ treasures as their River Crossing Fee, then sent them and the coffin downstream. He earned 9,000 Favor Points, while the Four Emperors found themselves in an unfamiliar place.

• Bone Emperor reluctantly handed Su Mu his Everlasting Pure Bottle, and Su Mu demanded payment from the Three Emperors as well.
• Cosmos Emperor gave up his Mourning Blood Embryo, and South Emperor surrendered three treasures.
• Dark Emperor gave Su Mu his Space Ring, keeping only his two Natal Magic Treasures.
• Su Mu lifted the restriction on the river and used his Water Control Mystical Power to send the coffin and the Four Emperors far downstream.
• The system rewarded Su Mu with 9,000 Favor Points, and the Four Emperors realized they had arrived somewhere unfamiliar.

The Four Emperors found themselves stranded in a barren world after losing the Black Coffin and its Time Wood, with no way to tell how far they had traveled through time or space. They began searching for Time Wood, agreeing to reunite every hundred years, and their first search ended with no results.

• The Four Emperors searched the barren surroundings and discovered that the Black Coffin was gone and no living creatures could be sensed nearby.
• After three days of despair, South Emperor suggested waiting until they reached the normal timeline, but Bone Emperor warned they might be hundreds of thousands of years in the past or in another world.
• Bone Emperor proposed that they search for Time Wood and set a meeting point, leaving blood marks to track whether each Emperor survived.
• Bone Emperor headed north while the other Emperors searched east, south, and west, agreeing to return every hundred years.
• A hundred years later, the Four Emperors reunited without finding Time Wood and resumed their search.