Chapter Summaries

Su Mu watched the White-Brow Old Man catch a rare treasure fish, then accepted his offer to fish in the pond. After failing with his own bait and discovering that the fish responded to the Old Man’s aura, Su Mu produced a leaf from the Black and White Divine Tree, leaving the Old Man stunned by its familiar aura of origin.

• The White-Brow Old Man caught a rare, powerful treasure fish and explained that fewer than five remained in the Long River.
• The White-Brow Old Man invited Su Mu to fish in his pond and keep whatever he caught.
• Su Mu repeatedly failed to catch fish while the White-Brow Old Man caught ten using an ordinary locust tree leaf.
• Su Mu realized that the locust tree leaf worked because it carried the White-Brow Old Man’s aura.
• Su Mu summoned a leaf from the Black and White Divine Tree, and the White-Brow Old Man froze at its familiar aura of origin.

The White-Brow Old Man recognized the black-and-white leaf as a form of Origin Energy and reflected on the River of Time’s supremacy and the growing anxiety surrounding Su Mu. As Su Mu cast the leaf into the pond as bait, the White-Brow Old Man watched tensely to see what he would catch.

• The White-Brow Old Man sensed pure Innate Rule Energy in the black-and-white leaf and recognized it as Origin Energy.
• The White-Brow Old Man recalled how he had obtained a trace of Innate Time Energy, escaped his pursuers through nine reincarnations, and used it to remain above the River of Time.
• The White-Brow Old Man considered the River of Time the Supreme Origin and reflected on its possible role in the birth and rebirth of the Myriad Worlds.
• The White-Brow Old Man noted that powerful figures were testing Su Mu, who had become River Warden, while he preferred to befriend him and live quietly.
• Su Mu hung the black-and-white leaf on a hook and cast it into the pond, while the White-Brow Old Man watched the float with solemn tension.

Su Mu hooked an unusually powerful fish in the White-Brow Old Man’s pond, only to find a palm-sized Transparent Fish with a crystal-clear body. The White-Brow Old Man urged Su Mu to release it, while hiding how desperately he wanted the fish returned to the pond.

• Su Mu noticed the White-Brow Old Man acting restlessly as they fished, but the old man claimed he was only sleepy.
• Su Mu’s float plunged underwater, and he played a powerful fish for about ten minutes as the pond’s treasure fish leapt into the air in panic.
• Su Mu hauled the catch from the pond and discovered it was a tiny Transparent Fish with visible bones and translucent flesh.
• The White-Brow Old Man concealed his alarm, offered Su Mu several treasure fish, and suggested that the Transparent Fish be returned to the pond.

Su Mu visited the White-Brow Old Man’s pond, caught a precious Transparent Fish, and refused the Old Man’s attempts to give him other treasures. The White-Brow Old Man realized Su Mu might be the person who would change his fate and chose to place his hopes in him.

• Su Mu thanked the White-Brow Old Man and said he would take only the Transparent Fish he had caught.
• The White-Brow Old Man anxiously urged Su Mu to accept more treasure fish, explaining that he lived on Su Mu’s river and wanted to show him respect.
• Su Mu prepared to return the Transparent Fish to the pond, alarming the White-Brow Old Man, who feared losing the fish he had built the pond to protect.
• Su Mu reassured the White-Brow Old Man that he considered him a friend and would visit to fish again, but insisted on taking only the Transparent Fish.
• The White-Brow Old Man recalled his master’s words about someone changing his fate and concluded that Su Mu was fate itself to him.
• The White-Brow Old Man made the most important decision of his life and chose to trust in Su Mu.

Su Mu accepted the White-Brow Old Man’s Transparent Fish and promised to keep his whereabouts secret. The White-Brow Old Man showed Su Mu a newly formed abyss that might explain the Water Level Decrease, leaving Su Mu questioning when it had appeared.

• The White-Brow Old Man gave Su Mu his first and most special fish, asking him to raise it and never release it into the river.
• The White-Brow Old Man asked Su Mu to conceal where he lived because he had many enemies, and Su Mu agreed.
• The White-Brow Old Man offered to show Su Mu a possible cause of the Water Level Decrease, and the two walked into the water’s depths.
• The White-Brow Old Man led Su Mu to an enormous abyss swallowing water from ten tributaries and said it had appeared roughly three months earlier.
• Su Mu, who believed his Divine Sense should have detected the abyss’s creation, asked the White-Brow Old Man to recall exactly how many days ago it happened.

Su Mu discovered that an enemy had secretly created a vast abyss in the River of Time, draining water and threatening countless worlds. He reversed the flow to stop the immediate loss, but the bottomless abyss remained open as he considered how to fill it.

• White-Brow Old Man recalled that the abyss had appeared about ninety-six days earlier, when enemies trapped Su Mu in a barrier during a supposed Killing Game.
• Su Mu realized the enemies had used the attack to hide their creation of the abyss and connected it to another bottomless abyss he had seen two years earlier.
• White-Brow Old Man warned that the abyss was swallowing Time Water and could devastate worlds, and Su Mu agreed to deal with it.
• Su Mu told White-Brow Old Man to move away, then used Reverse Flow to send the water rushing into the abyss back across the river.
• Su Mu stopped the water from draining but continued to ponder how to fill the bottomless abyss permanently.

Su Mu sealed a bottomless abyss in the River of Time with an ice lid, restoring the tributaries and earning a huge reward from the system. He learned that Brother Yang knew of no similar problems and resolved to keep gathering Favor Points until he could complete his refinement.

• Su Mu failed to redirect the ten tributaries around the abyss and could not fill it with riverbed mud.
• Su Mu covered the abyss with a solid ice lid, reinforced it with ice cones, and released the tributaries to flow normally again.
• The White-Brow Old Man praised Su Mu, who called him Brother Yang and received 100,000 Favor Points from the system.
• Su Mu asked Brother Yang about other similar problems, but Brother Yang said he rarely left home because he feared being found by his old pursuers.
• Su Mu concluded he still needed one million Favor Points for complete refinement and estimated he could finish within a year.

Su Mu returned home after visiting the White-Brow Old Man and spent the night considering the Long River’s accelerating decline. He suspected hidden causes and deliberate sabotage were keeping him trapped there, but he still could not find the source.

• The White-Brow Old Man waved Su Mu goodbye, convinced that following him was the best way to learn the truth about the myriad worlds.
• Su Mu returned home late, and the exhausted Barrier Beasts fell asleep once they saw him safely back.
• Su Mu watched the Long River while the little ones slept and reasoned that the abyss he had filled could not account for the river’s falling water level.
• Su Mu concluded that other, more severe abnormalities were draining the river, even though his Divine Sense had found nothing across more than half its length.
• Su Mu worried that the river might dry up within decades and wondered whether his enemies were causing the decline to keep him from leaving.

Su Mu raised his River Affinity to ninety percent, only for the Long River to consume his body and soul. After losing his memories and becoming a little fish, he encountered a gigantic creature charging toward him.

• Su Mu spent 100,000 Favor Points to raise his River Affinity from 89% to 90%.
• Su Mu's vitality, blood, spiritual power, flesh, bones, and soul flowed into the Long River as he watched helplessly.
• Su Mu worried about Nannan and the little ones before his body fell into the river and his consciousness dissipated.
• Su Mu drifted through the river as a drop of water, gradually forgetting his identity and memories.
• Su Mu became a little fish, swam freely, and froze when a gigantic shadow charged toward him.

Su Mu repeatedly died and awoke as different creatures, losing his memories as he lived as a fish, a shark, a riverbed stone, and a blade of grass. After a flood left him stranded as a small fish on a dry riverbed, an immortal figure picked him up.

• Su Mu was swallowed by a Big Black Fish, then awoke in its body and began eating smaller creatures.
• A Sharp-Toothed Shark ate Su Mu, and he awoke as the shark with his memories and mind in disarray.
• After dying again, Su Mu awoke as a reef and endured long loneliness at the riverbed until he became River Sand and was eaten by a shrimp.
• Su Mu awoke as a blade of grass on a riverbank, accepted that life, and was swept away by a flood.
• Su Mu awoke as a small fish on a dry riverbed and began to die from lack of water.
• An immortal figure approached, picked Su Mu up, and spoke in an ethereal voice.

Su Mu awoke after being unconscious for thirty-three days, remembering only a mysterious voice and a blurred figure who had saved him in a dream. Nannan and the others told him how they had searched tirelessly along the Long River, and Su Mu asked where they had found him.

• An immortal shadow placed Su Mu in a pool in a dried riverbed and told him to live well before leaving; Su Mu then dissolved into the water as the river and its life seemed to rewind around him.
• Su Mu awoke on the riverbank with Nannan supporting him, while his exhausted companions and the aquatic creatures watched with relief.
• Nannan told Su Mu he had been missing for thirty-three days, though he remembered only an ethereal voice and a blurred departing figure from a long dream.
• Nannan recounted how she searched for Su Mu with the Iron-Eating Beast and the others, then called First Brother, Second Brother, and the other seven to join the search.
• The Five Little Ones sent hundreds of small animals to search the River of Time, and more than a hundred went missing; the Iron-Eating Beast and the Barrier Beasts also faced deadly attacks together.
• After hearing Nannan's account, Su Mu asked where they had found him.

After being found unconscious in the river, Su Mu thanked and healed the little ones who had searched for him, then returned home with his growing family. He examined his cultivation after discovering his River Affinity had reached 90%, and was startled by changes in his body.

• Nannan explained that she had found Su Mu floating in the river and that everyone had worked for hours to pull him ashore.
• Su Mu spent Favor Points to heal the injured little ones, including Little Black Dragon, Little Killer Whale, and the other river beasts who had searched for him.
• Su Mu introduced the river beasts to the Iron-Eating Beast and the others, then let Little Black Dragon and the others return to their lives in the river.
• Su Mu returned home with Nannan and the others, explained his disappearance, and spent his remaining Favor Points on the little ones in the medicinal garden.
• Su Mu revisited the place where he had cultivated thirty-three days earlier and found that his River Affinity had reached 90%.
• Su Mu examined his body with his spiritual power and suddenly noticed changes.

After Su Mu’s River Affinity transformed his body and Sea of Consciousness, his cultivation surged to the sixth level of the Immortal Realm. He discovered that standing on the Long River restored his spiritual power and healed his injuries instantly, then spread his Divine Sense across the river.

• Su Mu discovered that his Sea of Consciousness and blood had taken on an essence resembling the Long River’s water.
• Su Mu sensed that he had advanced from the Half-Step Immortal Realm to the sixth level of the Immortal Realm.
• Su Mu resolved to leave the Long River, establish a sect, and quickly build up his power in the outside world.
• Su Mu found that touching the Long River’s surface instantly replenished his spiritual power, no matter how much he expended.
• Su Mu tested the river’s healing effect by severely injuring himself with the Black Axe and found that his wounds healed as soon as he touched the water.
• Su Mu felt merged with the Long River and spread his Divine Sense across it.

Su Mu’s Divine Sense expanded enough for him to detect and repair hundreds of problems along the Long River, though the system still penalized him for failing to find the cause of the falling water level. After Nannan welcomed him home with an elaborate feast, Su Mu placed the Transparent Fish from Old Man Yang into his Water Cellar, where a strange scene began.

• Su Mu’s Divine Sense reached across much of the Long River and revealed hundreds of incidents that needed his attention.
• Su Mu repaired and purified stretches of the river but remained unable to locate the cause of the Main River Channel’s decreasing water level, so the system reduced his rewards.
• Nannan prepared thirty-three dishes to celebrate Su Mu’s safe return and cooked a lavish feast for the Backyard’s little ones and the household’s other companions.
• Su Mu remembered the Transparent Fish Old Man Yang had given him and placed it in the Water Cellar among the Treasure Fish.
• A strange scene appeared after Su Mu put the Transparent Fish in the Water Cellar.

Su Mu contracted the Transparent Fish for ten thousand Favor Points and released it into the Main River Channel after its presence frightened the other fish in his Water Cellar. On the Holy Plateau, a powerful figure decided the time had come to go see him.

• Su Mu told Nannan to care for the Transparent Fish, but she later found the other treasure fish hiding from it and refusing to eat.
• Su Mu decided the Transparent Fish could not stay in the Water Cellar and contracted it for ten thousand Favor Points despite the cost.
• Su Mu released the fish into the Main River Channel, where its body seemed to merge with the water, and told it to find treasures and stay safe.
• A figure seated on the Holy Plateau declared that the time was ripe and said he had to go see Su Mu.

After guarding the Holy Plateau for more than a hundred thousand years, Huang prepared to leave and meet the powerful figure above the River of Time who had ended the dark upheaval. Before he could depart, a powerful stranger appeared and asked him to deliver a gift to that figure.

• Huang reflected on how the unseen figure above the River of Time had helped end the dark upheaval while he stood guard over the plateau.
• Believing the Source of the Strange had been completely annihilated, Huang decided to enter the River of Time, thank that figure, and then seek the ultimate end of cultivation.
• A Tall Thin Man emerged from a Space Crack, and Huang sensed that the stranger had reached a far higher cultivation realm than his own.
• Huang questioned the Tall Thin Man, who claimed he had come to befriend him and asked him to deliver a gift to the person Huang planned to meet.

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor refused the Tall Thin Man’s offer to carry a gift to a senior and chose to fight rather than betray him. He moved their battle far from Huang’s world, but the Tall Thin Man overwhelmed his strongest attack and brought a golden sword down on him.

• The Tall Thin Man offered to help Huang break through to Dao Severing if he delivered a gift, then threatened to kill him if he refused.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor summoned the Black Tower and fled into the void to keep their battle from endangering Huang’s world.
• The Tall Thin Man caught up and demanded that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor either die or join him.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor attacked with a giant axe phantom formed from the Black Tower’s Xuan Se Immortal Radiance, but the Tall Thin Man crushed it with an Annihilating Sky Seal.
• The Tall Thin Man formed a golden divine sword from gale force and Law Seals, then slashed it down at the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Huang survived the Tall Thin Man’s divine sword by using the final level of He Transforms Freely, but lost the technique as a life-saving escape. Suspecting that powerful enemies were scheming against the senior in the River of Time, he sent a Little Flying Dragon to warn Ye Fan and the others.

• The Tall Thin Man’s divine sword destroyed Huang’s Black Tower and seemingly annihilated Huang, then left after confirming his death.
• Huang revealed himself alive in an Immortal Domain, having escaped through He Transforms All Things, though he could no longer use the technique.
• Huang suspected the Tall Thin Man’s allies had sealed off the River of Time and would target Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Ruthless, and others close to the senior.
• Huang recorded the enemy’s plans in a Memory Crystal and entrusted it to a Little Flying Dragon, ordering it to deliver the message to Ye Fan and the others at once.

Li Qi Ye was fishing in a secluded minor world when An Daoshan appeared and tried to recruit him as a friend. An Daoshan then offered him a wish in exchange for delivering a gift to Senior Su, admitting he wanted to exploit Li Qi Ye’s trust with Senior Su.

• Li Qi Ye caught a Great River Turtle from the Boundary Sea he used as a pond, while An Daoshan remarked on his strange choice of fishing spot.
• Li Qi Ye dismissed An Daoshan, who introduced himself and tried to intimidate him with his Dao Severing Fourth Realm aura.
• Li Qi Ye began counting down for An Daoshan to leave, but stopped when An Daoshan mentioned Senior Su.
• An Daoshan offered Li Qi Ye one wish if he personally delivered a gift to Senior Su.
• An Daoshan admitted he wanted to use Li Qi Ye’s trust with Senior Su to deliver something on their behalf.

Li Qi Ye discovered that An Daoshan was carrying a dangerous Small Porcelain Bottle meant to control him, and seized it instead of accepting An Daoshan’s offer. After An Daoshan fled and Li Qi Ye caught up with him, Li Qi Ye demanded to learn the plan against Senior Su.

• An Daoshan asked Li Qi Ye to put a drop of blood essence into the Small Porcelain Bottle as a test of allegiance.
• Li Qi Ye sensed the bottle’s danger and snatched it from An Daoshan, then mocked him with his own words.
• An Daoshan attacked Li Qi Ye but was blasted away and realized Li Qi Ye had reached Dao Severing Completion.
• An Daoshan fled through multiple worlds, but Li Qi Ye caught up with him while holding the bottle.
• Li Qi Ye told An Daoshan that anyone who opposed Senior Su was his enemy and demanded the full plan in exchange for considering sparing his life.
• An Daoshan burst into crazed laughter after hearing Li Qi Ye’s demand.