Chapter Summaries

Su Mu caught a Golden Scale Sturgeon and made a medicinal hotpot for Nannan, helping her advance several minor realms and breaking through to the Seventh Realm of Heavenly Immortal himself. After reflecting on how his life had changed, he entered meditation and arrived in another world, where he sensed something below the clouds.

• Su Mu whipped the Little Golden Monkey again when it remained defiant, while the Wild Boar suffered in the crossfire.
• Su Mu took a Golden Scale Sturgeon from the Water Cellar and butchered it for dinner.
• Su Mu used Blood Quiet Seeds and other great medicines to make a spicy hotpot broth, and he and Nannan ate the fish together.
• Nannan reached the Great Ascension Stage, and Su Mu advanced to the Seventh Realm of Heavenly Immortal after digesting the meal.
• Su Mu reflected on his life with Nannan and the others, then meditated and arrived high above another world.
• Su Mu sensed something, parted the clouds, and looked down at the land below.

Longevity met Zhao Gu Sheng in the Grand Grief Immortal Domain and revealed that the enemy threatening the domain came from above the River of Time. He promised to save Zhao Gu Sheng and proposed a way to break the crisis, but left the method unexplained.

• Longevity poured Zhao Gu Sheng strong liquor, but Zhao Gu Sheng chose ordinary white tea and said he no longer liked drinking.
• Longevity warned Zhao Gu Sheng that the Grand Grief Calamity was imminent and explained that his master had calculated the enemy resided above the River of Time.
• Zhao Gu Sheng described how the Grand Grief Immortal Domain had been brought to the brink of collapse, with its World Lords dead, betraying them, missing, or struggling to hold on.
• Longevity promised to save Zhao Gu Sheng, then asked whether he would give up his position as Taishang's domain lord for someone else.
• Zhao Gu Sheng agreed, and Longevity said his calculated solution depended on whether Zhao Gu Sheng could accept it.

The white-haired young man urged Zhao Gu Sheng to surrender the Grand Grief Immortal Domain but gave him a Brocade Sack to use if his life was in danger. He left as Ran Qingqing stood alone on the southern Main Battlefield, where a man emerged from a Space Crack above her.

• The white-haired young man told Zhao Gu Sheng to surrender, but Zhao Gu Sheng refused to give up control of the Grand Grief Immortal Domain.
• The white-haired young man gave Zhao Gu Sheng a Brocade Sack that could save his life if he was outmatched in battle.
• The white-haired young man departed, and Zhao Gu Sheng tucked the Brocade Sack into his sleeve and prepared for the enemy's arrival.
• Ran Qingqing stood alone on the southern Main Battlefield, bloodied but holding her White Jade Longsword.
• A man stepped out of a Space Crack and looked down at Ran Qingqing.

Old Three defeated Ran Qingqing but accepted her conditional submission, leaving the Grand Grief Immortal Domain close to conquest. Meanwhile, Su Mu found a fast-moving creature in the River of Time that may have destroyed his fishing gear, and froze it with his Water Fixing Mystical Power.

• Old Three lifted the formation's suppression on Ran Qingqing, but she still could not overcome him and was defeated.
• Ran Qingqing agreed to follow Old Three's master into battle while refusing to attack Taishang's cultivators or Zhao Gu Sheng, and vowed to defeat Old Three someday.
• Old Three noted that one Realm Lord had been killed, two had been subdued, and the remaining one had vanished, leaving the Domain Lord as their next target.
• First Brother told Old Three that a powerful aura from beyond the world had escaped their barrier, and Old Three confirmed a trace of it in the formation.
• Su Mu discovered that three fishing nets and half his fish traps had been damaged, then sensed fast splashing in the river.
• Su Mu used his Water Fixing Mystical Power to freeze the creature moving through the water and hurried toward it.

Su Mu found an empty Water Dragonfly shell, punished the Little Monkey, and repaired his fishing nets. In the Grand Grief Immortal Domain, Old Three defeated Zhao Gu Sheng in a devastating clash, leaving the Domain Lord near death as he reached for a Brocade Sack.

• Su Mu pulled an empty Water Dragonfly shell from the water and suspected the creature had damaged his fishing net.
• Su Mu whipped the Little Monkey five times, then spent two hours repairing three fishing nets and began working on his Fish Traps.
• Old Three faced Zhao Gu Sheng above the ruined Central Saint City, where the Domain Lord had resisted for three days using power drawn from the world core.
• Old Three asked First Brother for strength, transformed the black dragon into a Long Dragon Saber, and met Zhao Gu Sheng's enlarged cauldron seal with a slash.
• Old Three shattered the cauldron seal and left Zhao Gu Sheng gravely weakened, and Zhao Gu Sheng took out the Brocade Sack his Senior Brother had left him.

Old Three defeated Zhao Gu Sheng and claimed Taishang’s World Origin, but a Divine Domain incarnation took over Zhao Gu Sheng and helped him escape. Oldest urged Old Three to focus on stabilizing Taishang and preparing to restore the Grand Grief Immortal Domain.

• After Zhao Gu Sheng’s defeat, his surviving followers severed their Heart Meridians and chose to die alongside their former Domain Lord.
• Old Three raised the Black Dragon saber to kill Zhao Gu Sheng, but Zhao Gu Sheng opened his Senior Brother’s Brocade Sack and found a note that said, “Run.”
• A Divine Domain consciousness possessed Zhao Gu Sheng, gave Old Three Taishang’s World Origin, and asked him to spare Zhao Gu Sheng’s life.
• Old Three refused to spare Zhao Gu Sheng, and the incarnation threatened to self-destruct before escaping with him into the void.
• Old Three wanted to pursue Zhao Gu Sheng, but Oldest advised him to stabilize and restore Taishang before targeting the Ancient Desolate Immortal Domain.

Oldest and Old Three divided the shattered Grand Grief Immortal Domain into rival eastern and western realms, planning to use wars to spur development before their master’s future conquest. Thirty thousand years later, a storyteller began explaining the split to a curious crowd in the East Shang Immortal Domain, but had not yet revealed why the two sides became enemies.

• Old Three admitted that his strike had split the Taishang continent in half, and Oldest proposed creating East Shang and West Shang Immortal Domains from the two sides.
• Oldest and Old Three agreed to pose as enemies and wage wars for ninety thousand years to push their domains to develop.
• Old Three counted their territories, and Oldest told him to watch for gifted people even in lower worlds who might become their master's generals.
• Thirty thousand years later, Mister Qin told a crowd that the two domains had once been the Grand Grief Immortal Domain.
• A child asked why the two sides were enemies, and a teenage boy asked why the continent had been divided as the crowd waited for Mister Qin's explanation.

Mister Qin told a remote town that East Shang and West Shang had split from the Taishang Immortal Domain after their Domain Lords fought, while he and Old Wang discussed the Church and the region’s obscured history. Su Mu then looked down from the sky and realized the land had become two pieces.

• Mister Qin explained that the Domain Lord of the West Shang Immortal Domain split Taishang Continent during a battle with the Domain Lord of the East Shang Immortal Domain thirty thousand years earlier.
• Mister Qin and Old Wang left the town and discussed the Tai Xuan Church, the renewed conflict between East Shang and West Shang, and the blank stretch in Taishang’s history.
• The narration revealed that Oldest and Old Three had erased records of their invasion and altered most cultivators’ memories, while Zhang Taixuan later founded the Tai Xuan Church to spread new beliefs.
• Su Mu sat down to cultivate, arrived high in the sky, and saw that the land below had become two pieces.

Su Mu raised his River Affinity and followed Nannan’s detailed patrol notes, clearing weeds and repairing a damaged riverbank for Favor Points. At the final marked location, he discovered an ancient tree with a squirrel hollow and saw something inside that excited him.

• Su Mu spent 100,000 Favor Points to raise his River Affinity from 8% to 9%.
• Nannan gave Su Mu her scroll of recorded river abnormalities, and he let her go play with Little Black Dragon and the Golden Python.
• Su Mu cleared a weed-choked stretch of water and repaired a washed-out river channel, earning nearly 10,000 Favor Points that morning.
• Su Mu followed Nannan’s final note upstream to an ancient tree and found a half-meter-wide squirrel hollow in its trunk.
• Su Mu peered into the hollow and saw something that made his eyes light up.

Su Mu stole the treasures hidden in Little Squirrel’s tree hollow, then resumed his patrol after the squirrel left. Elsewhere, the Oldest and Old Three watched Little Master play on a newly built Immortal Island, and Old Three was left to look after her for a month.

• Su Mu took the pinecones and Spirit Fruits from Little Squirrel’s hollow, then hid as Little Squirrel returned and discovered its treasures were gone.
• Little Squirrel mourned the loss, replaced a silver pinecone in its hollow, waited for the thief, and eventually left.
• Su Mu took the silver pinecone from the hollow, returned it, covered the entrance, and continued his patrol after completing his tasks.
• On the Immortal Island, Old Three told the Oldest that Little Master seemed to like the place, and the Oldest said she could play there for a month.
• The Oldest left Old Three in charge of Little Master, and Old Three struggled with the task before thinking of someone who could help.

Old Three asked Ran Qingqing to accompany Little Master, explaining that earning her trust could help Ran Qingqing rise within the force. Ran Qingqing accepted and approached Nannan, who called her out of hiding in the ancient forest.

• Ran Qingqing recalled how the force had transformed the Grand Grief Immortal Domain and learned that Old Three wanted her to meet his Little Master.
• Old Three told Ran Qingqing that Little Master was pure-hearted and advised her to play with her and make her happy.
• Old Three said that getting close to Little Master was an opportunity for Ran Qingqing to enter the force's core ranks and go farther.
• Ran Qingqing agreed to try and went toward the ancient forest where Little Master was waiting.
• Nannan called out to the woman hiding nearby, and Ran Qingqing emerged from an ancient tree.

Little NanNan asked Ran Qingqing to take her to eat Sugar-coated Haws, and Ran Qingqing agreed to accompany her while the First Lord and Third Lord handled urgent matters. When the brothers learned the snack was unavailable in their Immortal Domain, they summoned Xiao Sheng to arrange a way to obtain an authentic one.

• Ran Qingqing was stunned by Little NanNan’s beauty and Great Ascension Completion cultivation, then respectfully introduced herself and offered to accompany her.
• Little NanNan asked Ran Qingqing to take her to eat Sugar-coated Haws, and the two grew closer as Little NanNan praised Ran Qingqing’s smile.
• Old Three hurried to Oldest, who feared something had happened to Little NanNan, and reported that she wanted Sugar-coated Haws.
• Old Three explained that Sugar-coated Haws were a mortal-world snack unavailable in their Immortal Domain, and said a magically created version might not taste authentic.
• Oldest ordered Old Three to identify the nearest mortal worlds, and they determined that the Azure Origin Immortal Domain governed the closest ones.
• Oldest ordered Xiao Sheng, the Domain Lord of the Azure Origin Immortal Domain, to come at once, and Old Three sent the supreme command.

Zhao Kuo led Han Xiaopao to No Imprint Palace for an urgent Realm Lord Assembly and warned him to remain loyal to Su Mu. The pair arrived as the assembly was about to begin, with Zhao Kuo telling Han Xiaopao to listen more than he spoke.

• Zhao Kuo rallied the No Imprint Third Vanguard Regiment and urged its soldiers to prepare to fight for Su Mu.
• After receiving a summons, Zhao Kuo put Fu Yu in charge of the drills and headed to No Imprint Palace.
• Zhao Kuo met Han Xiaopao and asked how long he had served in Azure Origin Immortal Domain; Han Xiaopao said he had served Zhao Kuo for forty-six thousand years.
• Zhao Kuo warned Han Xiaopao to follow Su Mu rather than Zhao Kuo or Xiao Sheng, citing Realm Lord Gu's betrayal and death.
• Han Xiaopao promised not to take the wrong path, and Zhao Kuo brought him to his first Realm Lord Assembly.

Xiao Sheng told the seven realm lords that Master had ordered them to find a candied hawthorn skewer, which they suspected meant the long-lost Nine Abyss Sacred Gourd. As Xiao Sheng prepared to divine its location, Han Xiaopao stepped forward to share an idea.

• Xiao Sheng told the gathered realm lords that Master's instruction was to find a treasure called a candied hawthorn skewer.
• The realm lords searched their knowledge for the treasure, and Lord Luo briefly suggested his Three Realms Immortal Gourd before putting it away.
• The old realm lord proposed that the order referred to the missing Nine Abyss Sacred Gourd, the Azure Origin Immortal Domain's only Apex Immortal Weapon.
• Xiao Sheng urged the realm lords to find the Sacred Gourd that day and said he would divine its whereabouts with their help.
• Han Xiaopao stepped forward to offer an immature guess, despite Zhao Kuo warning him through a mental message to stay quiet.

Han Xiaopao recognized the treasure the Realm Lords sought as sugar-coated haws and made a skewer to prove he could find it. Xiao Sheng took him to meet Master, while Realm Lord Zhang watched them leave in frustration.

• Han Xiaopao told Xiao Sheng he could find the desired treasure, then secured a one-shichen search window with no one allowed to leave No Imprint Palace.
• Han Xiaopao made sugar-coated haws from hawthorn fruits in a mountain range and returned to No Imprint Palace with them.
• Han Xiaopao asked to meet Master in exchange for presenting the treasure, and Zhao Kuo defended his claim to the merit.
• Xiao Sheng agreed and left No Imprint Palace with Han Xiaopao, while Zhao Kuo warned Realm Lord Zhang not to rush to prove himself.

Xiao Sheng brought Han Xiaopao to meet First Lord and Third Lord, who praised Han Xiaopao and offered him a chance to rise into the Upper Immortal Domain through the coming Domain Conquest War. After they departed, Han Xiaopao focused on gaining strength and military merit, while Xiao Sheng turned to address him.

• Xiao Sheng told Han Xiaopao that they were going to meet First Lord and Third Lord, and warned him to show absolute respect.
• First Lord and Third Lord arrived through a crack in space, and Xiao Sheng and Han Xiaopao knelt to greet them.
• Han Xiaopao presented the Wooden Box containing the sought-after item, and Xiao Sheng credited him with finding it.
• First Lord and Third Lord praised Han Xiaopao's potential, and First Lord said he might transfer him to the Upper Immortal Domain if he advanced and earned military merit in the Domain Conquest War.
• Oldest ordered Xiao Sheng to oversee preparations for the war against a powerful Upper Immortal Domain, then he and Old Three vanished.
• Han Xiaopao resolved to grow stronger and earn merit, and Xiao Sheng turned to him with a serious expression.

Han Xiaopao accepted Xiao Sheng’s appointment as Deputy Realm Lord of Azure Origin Immortal Domain. Meanwhile, Ran Qingqing took Little NanNan to a pretend town to play, where NanNan saved her last Sugar-coated Haws for her Daddy and gave Ran Qingqing a gift whose contents left her stunned.

• Xiao Sheng appointed Han Xiaopao Deputy Realm Lord, and Han Xiaopao accepted after considering the resources and influence the position would give him.
• Zhao Kuo congratulated Han Xiaopao, who thanked him and promised to remain his soldier.
• Old Three created a small town on the immortal island and gathered powerful figures to pose as its townsfolk so Little NanNan could play there.
• Ran Qingqing accompanied Little NanNan as she bought toys and Sugar-coated Haws, and learned NanNan wanted to save the last one for her Daddy.
• Little NanNan invited Ran Qingqing to visit her home, gave her a Wooden Box as a gift, and left Ran Qingqing stunned when she opened it.

Su Mu wondered whether the Sugar-coated Haws Little NanNan brought him had come from another transmigrator, then promised to tell her more about Blue Star someday. He sent Little Monkey and Wild Boar to find treasures to repay their debts, and they returned injured with an unknown item.

• Little NanNan shared Sugar-coated Haws with Su Mu, whose familiar taste made him suspect the seller might be a Transmigrator from Blue Star.
• Su Mu told Little NanNan about Blue Star and said he would take her there someday, then learned the big sister who had bought the treat was named Ran Qingqing.
• Su Mu let Little Monkey and Wild Boar down from the Willow Tree and ordered them to bring back treasures, placing a restriction on them so they could not escape.
• A few days later, Little Monkey and Wild Boar returned injured, and Little Monkey pulled an unknown object from behind its back.

Su Mu rewarded the Wild Boar and Little Monkey, taught them cultivation arts, and used their Pan Peach to advance to Heavenly Immortal Completion. When strange clamor arose upstream, he headed there to investigate.

• Su Mu healed the Wild Boar and Little Monkey, let them continue searching for treasures, and told them to flee from opponents they could not defeat.
• After the two returned badly injured without a treasure, Su Mu healed them and began teaching the Wild Boar the Saint Abyss Art and the Little Monkey Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.
• The Little Monkey quickly reached the introductory stage and grew stronger, while the Wild Boar also showed clear improvement; Su Mu later found only two pinecones in the Little Squirrel’s hollow and left them there.
• Su Mu ate the Pan Peach and advanced several minor realms to Heavenly Immortal Completion, while gaining a nourishing and healing energy within his body.
• Su Mu heard repeated clamor from upstream, confirmed it was real, and went to investigate.

The wounded Immortal King Overlord Butcher drifted onto the River of Time, where Su Mu stopped him and demanded a crossing fee. Butcher offered his treasured bow, which Su Mu returned, so Butcher prepared to reveal the object that had drawn the Strange Immortal Kings’ pursuit.

• Butcher, badly wounded after escaping dozens of Strange Immortal Kings, drifted helplessly along the River of Time.
• Su Mu approached Butcher, froze the river’s flow, and told him that anyone crossing had to pay a River Crossing Fee.
• Butcher recognized Su Mu’s overwhelming power and asked how the fee was collected.
• Su Mu demanded two worthwhile treasures, and Butcher offered his Bronze Great Bow as his first payment.
• Su Mu returned the bow, and Butcher finally took out the mysterious object that the Strange Immortal Kings had pursued him for.