Chapter Summaries

Su Mu healed and strengthened Silver Snake, then sent his three beasts to seek treasures before returning to a waterfall in search of a cultivation breakthrough. There he helped a persistent Little Koi overcome the final stretch of the waterfall, and the chapter ended as the grateful fish offered him something.

• Su Mu discovered Little Golden was alive but too far away to sense clearly, then introduced Silver Snake to Little Mahi and Kong Yao as their new brother.
• Su Mu spent Favor Points to heal Silver Snake and strengthen him, and Silver Snake resolved to seek a higher-level continent and gather opportunities for his master.
• Su Mu released the three beasts to search for treasures and went to a secluded riverway, where he rescued hundreds of stranded creatures and earned ten thousand Favor Points.
• Su Mu reached the waterfall and watched Little Koi repeatedly attempt to swim upstream, surviving setbacks and dodging falling rocks until it came within one meter of the top.
• Su Mu caught Little Koi and helped it reach the waters above the waterfall, realizing it had needed a benefactor; Little Koi then blew bubbles and something else toward him.

Su Mu followed the Little Koi as it led him to several valuable treasures and recognized its extraordinary fortune. He spent 5,000 Favor Points to contract it, then followed its spiritual message to retrieve another treasure from a whirlpool.

• The Little Koi gave Su Mu a transparent object filled with pure, high-grade energy and led him to a purple patterned shell hidden in the grass.
• The Little Koi guided Su Mu to a wooden box beneath a rock, where he found a pill marked with Sacred Pill Patterns.
• The Little Koi led Su Mu to five treasures over half an hour, and Su Mu decided its luck made it worth contracting.
• Su Mu paid 5,000 Favor Points to contract the Child of Fortune Spirit.
• The Little Koi sensed a treasure in a whirlpool, and Su Mu plunged his hand into it and pulled something out.

Su Mu brought Little Koi home, introduced her to his other spirit beasts, and used her gift and purple bamboo wine to break through into the Human Immortal Realm. Still drunk and dizzy, he saw a person riding a water buffalo on the river and staggered toward them.

• Su Mu found purple bamboo filled with potent wine and fed Little Koi, helping her grow.
• Su Mu guided Little Koi home, used his Water Control Mystical Power to help her swim, and warned her to avoid dangerous waters.
• Su Mu introduced Little Koi to Little Mahi, Kong Yao, and Silver Snake, who became her elder brothers.
• Su Mu absorbed the Colorless Transparent Jelly-like Thing but still could not break through, so he drank wine from the purple bamboo.
• The wine's effects made Su Mu dizzy as he broke through into the Human Immortal Realm.
• Su Mu saw a person riding a water buffalo across the river and staggered toward them.

Drunk Su Mu confronted Jiang Yuan, who was fishing on the River of Time, and claimed the river as his territory. When Jiang Yuan tried to restrain him, Su Mu revealed extraordinary strength and caused the river itself to boil, leaving Jiang Yuan stunned.

• Su Mu, drunk and walking across the River of Time, cursed at Jiang Yuan for fishing there without permission.
• Jiang Yuan introduced himself and explained that his straight hook had no bait, but Su Mu insisted that fishing on his river required payment.
• Jiang Yuan tried to teach Su Mu a lesson by pressing him down with overwhelming force and warned that resisting could destroy his Immortal Foundation.
• Su Mu resisted with his Azure Dragon and Divine Elephant Dharma Image, the Laws of Space and Light, and an unusually powerful physique.
• Su Mu swept his hand and made the River of Time surge and boil around Jiang Yuan, astonishing the old man.

After getting drunk, Su Mu defeated Jiang Yuan with a dragon made from Time Water, then woke to find Old Green Ox left behind and took him in. Su Mu earned Favor Points while patrolling the riverbank, but fell asleep and woke somewhere unfamiliar.

• Su Mu sent Jiang Yuan crashing into the River of Time with a dragon made from Time Water, then passed out drunk on shore.
• Su Mu woke, found Old Green Ox trembling in the river, and brought him back to shore, believing he had beaten the ox's master away.
• Su Mu offered Old Green Ox a place in his household, and the ox agreed out of fear; Willow Tree briefly wrapped him in its branches.
• Su Mu discovered he had gained thirty thousand Favor Points and rode Old Green Ox along the riverbank, returning stranded fish and shrimp to the water.
• Su Mu fell asleep on Old Green Ox's back and woke up in an unfamiliar place, demanding to know where the ox had taken him.

After sleeping for three days while the green ox carried him upstream, Su Mu explored a strange riverbank where no fish appeared and the fog was rising. Drawn into a forest of Crooked Neck Trees, he fought off fear and reached a place beyond the black fog, where he stopped in shock at the sight before him.

• Su Mu woke after three days on the green ox and realized it had carried him far upstream, where the river flowed unusually slowly.
• Su Mu found that his spiritual senses could not reach the local waters and that no fish took the Treasure Fish Meat he lowered into the river.
• Su Mu noticed a strange ripple deep in a forest of Crooked Neck Trees and tied the green ox to a tree before entering alone.
• Su Mu followed the ripple through thickening black fog, leaving markers as a supernatural fear seeped into his mind.
• Su Mu drank a few drops of purple bamboo wine, pushed through the forest, and emerged beyond the fog into an unfamiliar place.

Su Mu explored a mausoleum garden containing three thousand identical Nameless Monuments and dug up one grave after discovering its enormous coffin was made from human cervical vertebrae. He pried the coffin open and froze at whatever he saw inside.

• Su Mu found three thousand uninscribed tombstones arranged in a carefully designed mausoleum garden, where touching one filled him with soul-piercing cold.
• Su Mu chose a grave to excavate, put on gloves and a Ghost Face Mask, and dug until he uncovered a huge white bone coffin.
• Su Mu discovered the coffin was made from thousands of human cervical vertebrae that still held vast Qi and Blood Power.
• Su Mu cut into the coffin with his Silver Dagger, pried it open, and froze as he looked inside.

Su Mu discovered that the cemetery’s bone coffins held frozen pieces of one person rather than ordinary burial goods, and he suspected the tombstones formed a vast array. After finding a tombstone set apart from the others, he uncovered a black wooden box and opened it, but did not recognize what was inside.

• Su Mu found a finger bone sealed inside an Ice Coffin that he could not cut, move, or melt.
• Su Mu opened nine more graves and found different frozen body parts, leading him to suspect the three thousand tombstones contained one person’s remains.
• Su Mu surveyed the cemetery from above and noticed that its tombstones appeared to form an array.
• Su Mu found a larger tombstone set one meter farther from its neighbors and dug nearly ten meters beneath it.
• Su Mu uncovered and easily opened a Black Wood Box, then frowned at its unknown contents.

Su Mu escaped the eerie cemetery with a strange Black Wood Box and discovered that only a few hours inside had cost him three months outside. After returning home, he gained Old Green Ox’s sincere loyalty and reunited with his worried companions, who revealed they had found him a life-saving treasure.

• Su Mu took the Black Wood Box containing the eye-like amber pieces and escaped the cemetery through the black fog.
• Su Mu learned from Old Green Ox that he had been missing for three months, then rode downstream while earning Favor Points by cleaning the river and rescuing fish.
• Su Mu returned to the Stone House, reassured the Willow Tree, and fed Treasure Fish Meat to Old Green Ox, who decided to submit to him.
• Su Mu reunited with Little Mahi, Kong Yao, Silver Snake, and Little Koi, who told him they had found a treasure that could save his life.

Su Mu received a life-saving white embryo from the four beasts, then spent Favor Points to strengthen them, advance his cultivation, and raise his Law of Space. As he heard clear crying coming from the river channel, he went to investigate.

• The four beasts presented Su Mu with a pure white embryo containing immense life force, and he stored it in his Dantian Space as a life-saving treasure.
• Su Mu spent 8,000 Favor Points to feed the four beasts, and Little Koi grew larger as her pupils turned purple and her scales shone gold.
• Su Mu raised his River Affinity to 1.5% and advanced both cultivation methods to the sixth layer, reaching the Third Realm Human Immortal.
• Su Mu raised his Law of Space to Level 2, and the resulting surge in cultivation brought him to Great Perfection Human Immortal.
• Su Mu heard crying from the river channel, confirmed it was real, and walked toward the sound.

Su Mu rescued an abandoned baby girl from a drifting wooden basin and decided to care for her temporarily, despite being trapped and unprepared to raise a child. After the Willow Tree made her a bed, Su Mu noticed something unusual about the sleeping girl and approached her.

• Su Mu followed the baby’s cries upstream and found her alone in a wooden basin drifting down the river.
• After searching upstream for a day without finding anyone, Su Mu considered sending the baby downstream but picked her up when she reached for him.
• Su Mu brought the sleeping baby to the Stone House and decided to raise her for now.
• The Willow Tree wove its branches into a rocking bed for the baby, and Su Mu settled her onto it.
• Su Mu noticed that the baby seemed different from ordinary girls, suddenly stood up, and walked toward her.

Su Mu discovered that the abandoned girl had no heart but possessed an immense Dantian Small World, then raised her as Nannan while searching unsuccessfully for someone suitable to care for her. Two and a half years later, Nannan was a gifted three-year-old cultivator surrounded by Su Mu’s aquatic companions, and she called them to the riverbank as they gathered one by one.

• Su Mu examined the baby and found that she had no heart, then searched ancient books for an explanation without success.
• Su Mu discovered that the girl had a vast Dantian Small World and suspected she had an extraordinary innate physique.
• Two and a half years passed, and Su Mu raised Nannan, who became a considerate three-year-old with Eighth Stage Purple Mansion cultivation.
• Su Mu went out on patrol while Nannan woke, fetched a bucket, and called her aquatic brothers and sister to the riverbank.
• The Dolphinfish, Kong Yao, Little Silver, and a seven-colored koi arrived, while Nannan waited for her Fifth Brother.

Little NanNan persuaded the Golden Python to take her exploring, while Wang Lin chose to defy the Celestial Astral Continent’s Heavenly Dao rather than flee. When the era ended and the Heavenly Dao subdued him, it spared the continent because Wang Lin had once given Little NanNan a gift.

• Little NanNan fed her five beast siblings and asked the Golden Python to take her out to search for treasures and food.
• Wang Lin and the Gray-robed Man discussed the intelligent Heavenly Dao that would devour the era’s living beings, but Wang Lin refused to escape to another world.
• A hundred years later, Wang Lin emerged from death seclusion as the era ended and confronted the Heavenly Dao’s golden eye.
• The Heavenly Dao stopped Wang Lin and spared the living beings because he had made Little NanNan happy with a gift a century earlier.
• Wang Lin recognized the little girl he had met in the mortal world as Little NanNan, and the Heavenly Dao asked if he still wished to defy it.

The Dao of Heaven revealed that it had spared the Celestial Astral Continent for an era because its Little Master, Little NanNan, liked the place. After years of accepting the truth and deciding to spend the peaceful era with his family before leaving the continent to pursue greater power, Wang Lin encountered an unexpected figure in the snow.

• The Dao of Heaven promised Wang Lin that it would spare all living beings, explaining that Little NanNan’s fondness for the continent had changed its plan to sacrifice them.
• The Dao of Heaven erased everyone’s memories of the revelation but left Wang Lin’s memories intact, and Wang Lin realized the continent would face destruction when the era ended.
• Wang Lin spent several years alone in the snow, weighing whether to flee the continent or challenge the Dao of Heaven and the master above it.
• Wang Lin regained his Dao Heart, chose to spend the peaceful era with his family, and resolved to leave the continent afterward to pursue higher realms.
• As Wang Lin turned to leave, he saw a figure standing in the wind and snow, and his pupils contracted.

Wang Lin received a black crystal from the Heavenly Dao that could open a passage to another world, while Su Mu shared a lavish meal with Little NanNan and learned she had gone to a mortal town with Third Brother. Little NanNan gave Su Mu a straw hat and revealed that a strange young man had given her a gift.

• The Heavenly Dao gave Wang Lin a black crystal that could open a passage to another world for one person, and Wang Lin put it away before vanishing into the snow.
• Su Mu urged Little NanNan to eat well, and the energy in the Treasure Fish raised her cultivation to Purple Mansion Great Perfection.
• Su Mu questioned Little NanNan about her outing, and she admitted that Third Brother had taken her to a crowded place and bought her a paper pinwheel.
• Little NanNan gave Su Mu a straw hat she had woven for him, and asked him to take her somewhere fun in the future.
• Su Mu explained that he could not leave their home yet because he needed to protect her, and Little NanNan said she was happy as long as they were together.
• Little NanNan told Su Mu she had met a strange big brother during the outing and held out the gift he had given her.

Su Mu examined the defensive bracelet Little NanNan had received from a powerful stranger and asked her to draw the giver’s face. After Su Mu went out to refine the river, Little NanNan tended the vegetable garden and chased a huge black shadow that burst from the soil.

• Su Mu confirmed Little NanNan’s bracelet contained three defensive arrays, checked that it had no hidden functions, and returned it to her.
• Little NanNan drew a clear portrait of the man who had given her the bracelet, and Su Mu memorized his appearance.
• The next morning, Su Mu left early to work on refining the river, while Little NanNan woke and greeted the Willow Tree.
• Little NanNan watered and trimmed the garden, pulled weeds, and caught a large rat trying to steal vegetables, adding it to her cage of more than one hundred rats.
• After Little NanNan rested and drank from her crystal cup, a huge black shadow burst from the soil and raced into the garden, and she immediately pursued it.

Little NanNan caught a Wild Boar that had uprooted spirit plants in the Vegetable Garden and brought it to Willow Ma. When Su Mu returned, he prepared to deal with the thief, but a metal object fell from the Wild Boar’s mouth.

• Little NanNan set a rope trap and caught the Wild Boar stealing spirit plants from the Vegetable Garden.
• Little NanNan replanted the plants and brought the Wild Boar to Willow Ma, who bound it and lashed it.
• Little NanNan brewed tea for Su Mu and asked to keep the rabbit he brought home.
• Little NanNan told Su Mu about the Wild Boar, and he approached it with a dagger, intent on killing it.
• A metal object fell from the Wild Boar’s mouth and struck the ground.

Su Mu discovered that a Wild Boar had stolen a mysterious seed containing countless spiritual power veins and miniature spaces, then planted it in his Vegetable Garden. After river water failed to make it sprout, he suspected it was either not a seed or was an unprecedentedly powerful one.

• Su Mu picked up the chestnut-shaped object the Wild Boar had dropped and sensed its immense vitality and countless miniature spaces.
• Su Mu questioned the defeated Wild Boar, whose weak Divine Sense implied that it had stolen the seed from somewhere.
• Su Mu went to his Vegetable Garden, where he prepared more land with help from the Azure Bull.
• Su Mu planted the seed and watered it with river water, but it did not sprout after several minutes.

Su Mu cared for Nannan through a freezing night, shared roasted Fire Yang Fish with her, and watched her break through to the Great Ascension Stage. As Nannan slept, a mysterious light approached along the river, and Su Mu went to meet it while the Willow Tree protected her.

• Su Mu covered Nannan with his robe, brought out the Fire Brazier, and roasted two Fire Yang Fish for a late-night meal.
• The Wild Boar realized Su Mu was far beyond its understanding and despaired over its clan's attempt to steal from the Saint Medicine Garden.
• Nannan woke to the smell of fish, shared a meal with Su Mu, and broke through to the Great Ascension Stage after eating.
• Su Mu held the sleeping Nannan and resolved to keep earning Favor Points, refine the river, and take her to a wider world.
• A light appeared at the end of the riverway, so Su Mu placed Nannan on the Willow Bed as the Willow Tree shielded her, then walked toward the approaching light.

Su Mu met Zero, an aged fisherman who had come to learn about the River Warden and offered him a powerful fishing rod. After introducing himself, Zero asked how long Su Mu planned to guard the river.

• Su Mu watched Zero effortlessly catch a treasure fish from his boat on the river.
• Zero recognized Su Mu as the River Warden and offered him a cloth bag as a fishing fee.
• Su Mu admired Zero’s fishing rod, and Zero gave it to him as a gift between friends.
• Su Mu and Zero discussed the order Su Mu maintained along the river, and Zero declined Su Mu’s offer of a ride downstream.
• Su Mu introduced himself, and Zero gave his name as Zero before asking how long Su Mu intended to guard the river.