Recaps

Mo Shang, Liu Ruyan, and Jiang Shuyu returned to Falling Cloud Sect after Liu Ruyan called off her engagement, where Liu Zhengyang confronted his daughter. Liu Ruyan left after he refused to explain her mother's past, while Mo Shang later told Gu Qingzhou that he had invested in Xiao Yan.

• In a clothing shop in Purple Sun City, Mo Shang joined Liu Ruyan and Jiang Shuyu, suggested purple clothing, and confirmed that he had delivered everything, including the rings.
• The three returned to Falling Cloud Sect, where Liu Zhengyang confronted Liu Ruyan for secretly breaking off her engagement and ordered her to restore it.
• Liu Ruyan argued that the engagement was already over and demanded to know what had happened to her mother, but Liu Zhengyang fell silent and she left in tears to find the answer herself.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu tried to slip away, but Gu Qingzhou startled Mo Shang and got kicked despite apologizing.
• Gu Qingzhou asked about the broken engagement, and Mo Shang said Xiao Yan had taken it well and that he had invested in him.

Mo Shang learned more about Liu Ruyan’s family history and urged Liu Zhengyang to listen to her reasons for breaking off the engagement. He decided Falling Cloud Sect’s many exceptional figures and Children of Fortune made it a promising place, but wondered how to find even more.

• Mo Shang told Liu Zhengyang that he had been wrong to arrange Liu Ruyan’s marriage and urged him to hear her out; Liu Zhengyang agreed to speak with her again.
• Mo Shang asked Gu Qingzhou about Liu Ruyan’s mother, and Gu Qingzhou explained that she had been taken away by her powerful family after Liu Zhengyang was badly injured.
• Mo Shang realized Liu Ruyan was a Child of Fortune and counted her alongside Gu Qingzhou, Jiang Shuyu, and Chen Tian as one of Falling Cloud Sect’s four.
• Mo Shang reflected on the sect’s powerful peak masters and talented disciples, then decided to seek out more Children of Fortune for the sect.
• Mo Shang wondered how he could search the vast Mystic Heaven Continent for Children of Fortune more efficiently.

Mo Shang’s long-lost parents came to see him after nineteen years, but he met them with calm indifference and invited them into his courtyard. Jiang Shuyu joined them and served her first attempt at cooking, whose dishes left Mo Shang and his father struggling to describe the experience.

• Mo Shang returned to the courtyard and settled down to rest while Jiang Shuyu went to cook.
• Mo Shang’s biological parents arrived, and he let them into the courtyard despite feeling no strong emotions toward them.
• Mo Shang’s parents explained that they had searched for him but could not locate him, and Mo Shang guessed his unusual tags might have hidden him.
• Jiang Shuyu met Mo Shang’s parents, and Mo Shang introduced her as his Dao companion.
• Jiang Shuyu served her cooking, and Mo Shang and his father found the braised pork ribs so awful that they described feeling trapped in the void.
• Mo Shang gently encouraged Jiang Shuyu, who brightened and promised to cook for him again.

Mo Shang's parents welcomed Jiang Shuyu with rare treasures, then showered their son with wealth and a Ninth-grade Spirit Artifact. They invited Mo Shang home, and he learned his family lacked the disastrous tropes he feared, though his father's promise to destroy anyone who bullied him alarmed him.

• Mo Shang's mother gave Jiang Shuyu a Ninth-grade Yin-Yang Demon-Suppressing Diagram, which recognized Jiang Shuyu as its master, while Mo Shang's father added more treasures.
• Mo Shang's parents realized they had overlooked their son and gave him treasures and two trillion spirit stones.
• Mo Shang's mother gave Mo Shang a Ninth-grade Star Tower, which he immediately refined.
• Mo Shang asked whether his family had a genius whose bones were dug out, a fake young master, or a sick relative, and his parents denied all three.
• Mo Shang's mother embraced him in tears, and his father vowed to destroy the family of anyone who bullied him, leaving Mo Shang alarmed.

Mo Shang returned to the vast Mo Clan ancestral grounds with his parents and Jiang Shuyu, where he learned that the clan’s territory was so extensive that newcomers needed maps. At the ancestral hall, he warned the gathered clansmen about dangerous protagonist archetypes, and they unanimously agreed to follow his instructions.

• Mo Shang’s father brought Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu through a portal to the Mo Clan’s independent ancestral grounds, and Mo Shang’s mother gave them maps to navigate the enormous territory.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu reached the ancestral hall, where Mo Shang discovered that many clansmen were his juniors, including a nephew and a grandson older than him.
• Mo Shang’s father introduced him to the gathered clansmen as his returned son, and they welcomed him as the Young Master.
• Mo Shang told the clansmen to avoid provoking people surnamed Ye, Lin, Xiao, or Chu, as well as former geniuses who had become worthless.
• Mo Shang instructed the clansmen to suppress and kill anyone who provoked those dangerous figures or contact him, and the clansmen unanimously agreed.

Mo Shang settled into the lavish courtyard his parents had prepared and reunited with his younger sister, Mo Li, while learning his parents’ names. The family’s warm reunion ended with Mo Yuntian and Shen Qiuyue discussing the mysterious attackers who had once forced Mo Shang to grow up away from home.

• Mo Shang’s family dispersed after the clan meeting, and his parents brought him to a luxurious courtyard built for his return.
• Mo Shang asked his parents’ names, and Mo Chen told him they were Mo Yuntian and Shen Qiuyue.
• Mo Li arrived, hugged Mo Shang, and teased Mo Chen about not having a girlfriend before Mo Shang promised to find him one.
• Mo Yuntian and Shen Qiuyue discussed the attackers who had once threatened them, noting that they had left no trace and that a mysterious person had helped them.

Mo Shang and Mo Li discover that Jiang Shuyu’s blue chicken soup tastes good but makes drinkers fall asleep, then Mo Shang is asked to represent the Mo Clan at a first birthday banquet. Mo Li joins him, and Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Elder Qin set out through a spatial rift.

• Mo Li arrives while Mo Shang faces Jiang Shuyu’s cooking, and they taste her blue chicken soup, which repeatedly makes Mo Li fall asleep until Mo Shang revives her with All Things Return to Spring.
• Mo Li tells Mo Shang that their father summoned them, and the three go to a hall where they meet their Second Uncle.
• Mo Yuntian asks Mo Shang to attend the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land master’s child’s first birthday banquet in his stead, and assigns Elder Qin to accompany and protect him.
• Mo Li insists on joining the trip and rushes through the spatial rift before Mo Yuntian can finish warning her.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu follow Mo Li through the rift with Elder Qin.

Mo Shang, Mo Li, Elder Qin, and Jiang Shuyu arrived at the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land for a banquet and met the Immortal Spirit Dao Lord. After welcoming Mo Shang as an old friend’s son, the Dao Lord hesitated to accept Jiang Shuyu’s greeting, leaving his reason unclear.

• Mo Shang stopped Mo Li from chasing an immortal crane and led the group through the Sacred Land’s teleportation gate with Elder Qin’s invitation.
• The group reached the banquet platform, where Mo Li enjoyed the Immortal Spirit Fruits and Mo Shang whispered to her about Jiang Shuyu’s cooking, earning a pinch from Jiang Shuyu.
• The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord appeared at the banquet, greeted the guests, and then invited Mo Shang’s group to meet him privately.
• Mo Li greeted the Dao Lord and the woman beside him as Uncle Zhang and Aunt Luo, while Mo Shang introduced himself and was invited to call the Dao Lord Uncle Zhang.
• The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord asked whether Jiang Shuyu was Mo Shang’s Dao companion, then said he could not bear the weight of being called Senior by her.

Mo Shang discovered that Immortal Spirit Dao Lord’s twins had powerful traits, including a boy who was a fellow transmigrator, and teased the boy with a phrase from their shared world. As Mo Shang accepted tea from Immortal Spirit Dao Lord, he learned that the Dao Lord’s unfilial son had been tricked by a girl from the future.

• Mo Li poked the boy in the cradle, making him cry, and Mo Shang scolded her before Aunt Luo explained that the child disliked being touched by strangers.
• Mo Shang inspected the twins’ traits and found that the boy had Transmigrator and Crouching Dragon, while the girl had Innately Close to Dao and Young Phoenix.
• Mo Shang asked the system to add the Transmigrator trait to his own panel, and the system also gave him Wealth Beyond Measure as decoration.
• Mo Shang whispered a familiar phrase to the boy, who excitedly reached toward him, though Mo Shang pretended not to know why the baby reacted.
• Immortal Spirit Dao Lord served Mo Shang Immortal Spirit Dao Tea and offered him a box, then complained that his unfilial son had been fooled by a girl from the future.

Mo Shang proposed a scheme to make Zhang Tianming believe he was not the Immortal Spirit Dao Lord’s son, hoping to break his attachment to a young girl. The plan began in the sacred land’s main hall, where Zhang Tianming was told he had been switched at birth, and Aunt Luo confirmed the claim.

• The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord told Mo Shang that Zhang Tianming had become infatuated with a young girl and had threatened to take his life when his father tried to stop him.
• Mo Shang suggested pretending Zhang Tianming had been switched at birth so he would lose confidence in his position and resources.
• The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord agreed to the plan, and Mo Shang proposed temporarily severing Zhang Tianming’s bloodline resonance.
• Zhang Tianming returned to the main hall, impatient to leave for Ling'er’s birthday, and the Immortal Spirit Dao Lord told him he was not his son.
• Mo Shang removed a drop of blood from Zhang Tianming and made his bloodline resonance disappear, frightening him.
• Aunt Luo arrived and confirmed that someone had secretly switched Zhang Tianming and another child while his parents were away.

Mo Shang arranged for Zhang Tianming to be cast out of the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land so he might confront his failings. Alone in Immortal Spirit City, Zhang Tianming was beaten and told Zhao Ling'er was using him, but he refused to believe it as he stood in the rain.

• Mo Shang persuaded Aunt Luo to send Zhang Tianming away, and she declared that he no longer belonged to the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land.
• After Zhang Tianming left, Mo Shang reassured Aunt Luo and confirmed with the Immortal Spirit Dao Lord that preparations had been made for Zhang Tianming to seek Zhao Ling'er.
• Zhang Tianming wandered through Immortal Spirit City before deciding that Zhao Ling'er would not abandon him.
• A young man and his companions mocked Zhang Tianming, beat him, and claimed Zhao Ling'er had only approached him for his resources.
• Zhang Tianming defended Zhao Ling'er, then struggled to his feet in the pouring rain while insisting she would not abandon him.

After losing his position as the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land’s young master, Zhang Tianming went to Zhao Ling'er, only to learn she had used him and loved Lin Mochen all along. Betrayed and defeated, he let go of his resentment, reached a new understanding, and broke through into the Spirit Condensation Realm as an unseen voice complained about his sudden enlightenment.

• Zhang Tianming arrived at the Zhao estate and told Zhao Ling'er that the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land had stripped him of his position and expelled him.
• Zhao Ling'er dismissed Zhang Tianming and revealed that she had always loved Lin Mochen and had only been using him.
• Zhang Tianming charged at Zhao Ling'er and Lin Mochen, but Lin Mochen knocked him into a wall with a kick.
• Zhao Ling'er and Lin Mochen went back inside, leaving Zhang Tianming outside in the rain.
• Zhang Tianming reconsidered his past, attained enlightenment, and broke through from the peak of the Spirit Gathering Realm into the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• An unseen voice complained that Zhang Tianming had answered a question about winning or losing by attaining enlightenment.

Mo Shang revealed that Zhang Tianming’s apparent expulsion and the story of a switched son had been an elaborate scheme to make him recognize his mistakes. Zhang Tianming returned to the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land, reconciled with his father, and joined Mo Shang for a meal of Jiang Shuyu’s cooking.

• Mo Shang told Zhang Tianming that his father had sent him to bring him home and revealed that the switched-son story had been fabricated.
• Zhang Tianming realized his parents and Mo Shang had staged the deception to make him understand his failings, and he thanked Mo Shang.
• Mo Shang escorted Zhang Tianming back into the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land, where Zhang Tianming apologized to his father and promised to change.
• Zhang Tianming joined his father, Mo Li, and Mo Shang at the table, where he learned Jiang Shuyu had made the strange-looking dishes.
• Mo Shang described Jiang Shuyu’s cooking as familiar-looking but nearly tasteless, and Zhang Tianming praised him for enduring it.

After dinner with Zhang Tianming, Mo Shang decided to gather allies before helping him seek revenge on Lin Mochen. He returned to the Falling Cloud Sect and recruited Chen Tian and Gu Qingzhou, then took them away with Elder Qin.

• After Jiang Shuyu's meal left everyone speechless, Mo Shang warned Zhang Tianming that Lin Mochen seemed unusual and urged him to recruit evenly matched teammates before taking revenge.
• Zhang Tianming agreed to Mo Shang's plan, and Mo Shang returned to the Falling Cloud Sect with Elder Qin.
• Mo Shang found Chen Tian looking haggard and invited him to join a fight; Chen Tian agreed after Mo Shang gave him ten million spirit stones.
• Mo Shang recruited Gu Qingzhou with another ten million spirit stones, and Gu Qingzhou eagerly agreed to fight.
• Mo Shang revealed that his family had given him two trillion spirit stones, then Elder Qin opened a spatial rift and took Mo Shang, Chen Tian, and Gu Qingzhou away.

Zhang Tianming brought Mo Shang, Gu Qingzhou, and Chen Tian to confront Zhao Ling'er and Lin Mochen at the Zhao Family. Chen Tian and Lin Mochen fought to a standstill, and Chen Tian revealed a Human Emperor Banner whose golden merit light came from his massacre in the Sakura Kingdom.

• Elder Qin returned to the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land with Mo Shang, Gu Qingzhou, and Chen Tian, and Mo Shang introduced the two fighters to Zhang Tianming.
• Zhang Tianming and his companions reached the Zhao Family and called out Zhao Ling'er and Lin Mochen, who came out with dozens of people.
• Chen Tian interrupted Zhang Tianming and attacked Lin Mochen, and the two exchanged blows without either gaining the upper hand.
• Chen Tian and Lin Mochen unleashed their full strength, destroying the Zhao Family estate while emerging unharmed from their stalemate.
• Chen Tian summoned a Human Emperor Banner, and Mo Shang learned that its golden merit light followed Chen Tian's actions in the Sakura Kingdom.

Chen Tian and Gu Qingzhou joined forces to overpower Lin Mochen, but a mysterious giant hand rescued him from the arena. Elder Qin destroyed the hand, and an unseen voice invited its master to stay for tea.

• Chen Tian sacrificed the Human Emperor Banner to boost his power and ambushed Lin Mochen, but Lin Mochen gradually gained the upper hand.
• Gu Qingzhou intervened to save Chen Tian, and the two attacked Lin Mochen together until he was badly wounded and overwhelmed.
• When Gu Qingzhou asked Lin Mochen for his last words, a vast pressure filled the arena and a giant hand reached through a rift to seize them.
• Elder Qin shielded the others and destroyed the giant hand, but Lin Mochen disappeared with it.
• An ethereal voice spoke from the void and invited the unseen visitor to stay for a cup of tea.

The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord destroyed the black shadow’s incarnation after Lin Mochen’s death, and Zhang Tianming took Zhao Ling’er away. Back at the Immortal Spirit Sacred Land, Chen Tian explained to Mo Shang that something had happened between him and Shen Qingyao, though they had not fought.

• The Immortal Spirit Dao Lord attacked the black shadow, dispersed its incarnation, and left Lin Mochen’s corpse behind.
• Zhang Tianming suggested Zhao Ling’er might know about Lin Mochen’s hidden protector, and Mo Shang left her in Zhang Tianming’s care.
• Zhang Tianming had guards take Zhao Ling’er away after she begged him for forgiveness.
• Mo Shang and Gu Qingzhou found Chen Tian drinking alone and assumed he had broken up with Shen Qingyao.
• Mo Shang offered Chen Tian a pill formula, which Chen Tian accepted, then asked what had happened with Shen Qingyao.
• Chen Tian said the situation was complicated and began explaining what had happened a few days earlier.

Chen Tian learned that Shen Qingyao might be recoverable if he awakened the memories of her soul fragment, and he resolved to improve his cultivation. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianming revealed that Lin Mochen had directed Zhao Ling'er’s schemes and was linked to the Heaven-Burying Sect, which Gu Qingzhou warned them to kill on sight.

• Mo Shang and Gu Qingzhou comforted Chen Tian after he showed them Shen Qingyao’s farewell letter.
• Immortal Spirit Dao Lord explained that awakening Shen Qingyao’s memories might give Chen Tian a chance to bring her back.
• Chen Tian decided to strengthen his cultivation so he could reach Shen Qingyao, and Mo Shang offered his support.
• Gu Qingzhou asked Mo Shang about a pill formula, but Zhang Tianming interrupted and reported what he had learned about Zhao Ling'er and Lin Mochen.
• Zhang Tianming revealed that Lin Mochen was connected to the Heaven-Burying Sect, and Gu Qingzhou warned everyone to kill its members without mercy.

Mo Shang accepted a mission to help Falling Cloud Sect recruit new disciples, with Jiang Shuyu and four outer sect disciples assigned to accompany him. As the group prepared to depart, Mo Shang questioned why he had never seen Li Changsheng before.

• Gu Qingzhou explained that Mo Shang’s courtyard gate connected to the Mo Clan’s ancestral grounds and asked him to join a disciple recruitment mission.
• Mo Shang agreed to the mission and received its scroll, which listed him and Jiang Shuyu, along with pills and herbs to distribute to villagers.
• The next morning, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived late at the plaza, where four outer sect disciples were waiting beside the final flying vessel.
• Mo Shang recognized one disciple as Li Changsheng, who said he had just entered the inner sect and had kept to himself.

Mo Shang discovered that Li Changsheng was an exceptionally cautious, talented disciple and took him and the others aboard a flying boat. He shared Immortal Spirit Dao Tea with the group, leaving three disciples asleep while Li Changsheng remained awake after drinking his cup.

• Mo Shang used the system to inspect Li Changsheng and found his Ninety-Eight Percent fortune trait, incarnation mastery, and broad talents.
• Li Changsheng politely let Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu board first, then joined them in taking the stairs to the flying boat.
• The disciples departed from the Falling Cloud Sect, and Mo Shang brewed Immortal Spirit Dao Tea for everyone.
• Three disciples drank the tea and promptly fell asleep as Mo Shang explained its effects.
• Li Changsheng hesitated before drinking his tea, then felt a warm current spread through his body without falling asleep.

Mo Shang and Li Changsheng arrived at New Moon City to help the Falling Cloud Sect recruit disciples, and Li Changsheng began testing the children’s spiritual roots. Mo Shang left the square with Jiang Shuyu while the testing continued.

• Mo Shang explained why Li Changsheng had not fallen asleep after drinking Immortal Spirit Dao Tea, then refilled his cup despite its enormous cost.
• The flying boat reached New Moon City, where Li Changsheng woke the three sleeping disciples and they realized they had each broken through.
• Mo Shang landed the flying boat in the city square and asked the city lord to begin the recruitment test before holding a banquet.
• Li Changsheng used a crystal ball to test the first child, found his dual earth-and-wood spiritual roots too weak for sect admission, and sent him to collect a basic cultivation method.
• Mo Shang told the others to contact them through their jade pendants if needed, then left the square with Jiang Shuyu.

Mo Shang discovered that Divine Workshop had brought web novels and Pear Phones to Mystic Heaven Continent, tested the phone with Jiang Shuyu, and ran into Xiao Yan. The chapter left Mo Shang and Xiao Yan adding each other as friends before heading to a tavern.

• Mo Shang heard people discussing Divine Workshop’s popular novels and rumors of a Spirit Flame near the neighboring desert.
• Mo Shang asked a hidden guard to buy Dao Venerable's Son-in-Law and discovered that Divine Workshop had created phones.
• Mo Shang bought a Pear Phone, explored its functions, and added Jiang Shuyu as a friend.
• Mo Shang met Xiao Yan, learned that Xiao Yan had reached the Spirit Gathering Realm, and invited him to a tavern.
• Mo Shang discovered that Xiao Yan also owned a Pear Phone and added him as a friend.

Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Xiao Yan heard that a Spirit Flame had appeared in the desert, and Mo Shang offered to help Xiao Yan pursue it. When a group of burly men tried to take their food and then harassed Jiang Shuyu, Mo Shang killed their leader and left the others terrified.

• At a restaurant, Mo Shang and Xiao Yan heard burly men say that cultivators were gathering near the desert to seek a Spirit Flame.
• Mo Shang offered to help Xiao Yan pursue the Spirit Flame, but Xiao Yan refused to risk Mo Shang's safety.
• The burly men demanded Mo Shang's group's food, and Mo Shang initially told them to take it.
• One of the burly men harassed Jiang Shuyu, so Mo Shang slammed him through a table and burned him to nothing with starfire flames.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Ling recognized that Mo Shang was especially ruthless when Jiang Shuyu was threatened, while the remaining burly men trembled in fear.

Mo Shang gathered information and a map about a possible Spirit Flame in the desert, then led Xiao Yan and Gu Ling into the sands. After getting lost because he held the map upside down, Mo Shang rescued a fallen cultivator from a Sandscale Venomous Scorpion.

• Mo Shang questioned two surviving bandits about the desert disturbance and received their map before letting them go.
• Mo Shang, Xiao Yan, and Gu Ling entered the desert, where Xiao Yan sensed dense fire-attribute spiritual energy.
• Mo Shang misread the map and led the group in the wrong direction until Xiao Yan noticed it was upside down.
• The group spotted a fleeing Body Tempering Realm cultivator who fell in the sand as a Sandscale Venomous Scorpion attacked him.
• Mo Shang struck the scorpion with a palm of starfire, burning it to ash and saving the fallen cultivator.

Xiao Yan, Mo Shang, and Jiang Shuyu rescued a wary rabbit-eared beastfolk girl in the desert and learned she was seeking Li Changsheng at the Falling Cloud Sect. Mo Shang invited her to travel with them, and the group prepared to continue their search for the Spirit Flame together.

• Xiao Yan approached the rabbit-eared girl after he burned the giant scorpion, then offered her water and food before pointing her toward a way out of the desert.
• The girl asked Xiao Yan, Mo Shang, and Jiang Shuyu to take her out of the desert, but Xiao Yan initially refused because they had other matters to handle.
• The girl asked where the Falling Cloud Sect was, and Mo Shang realized she was looking for someone connected to his sect.
• The girl said she was searching for Li Changsheng, and Mo Shang offered to take her to him after the group finished its business.
• Xiao Yan and Jiang Shuyu agreed to bring the girl along, and Mo Shang reassured her that the desert was too dangerous for her to wait alone.