Recaps

Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue married in a modest Lantern Festival ceremony at his ink shop, while fragments of a dream suggested they had wed before. After the guests left, Su Jingyan lifted Ning Baixue’s veil and told her about the dream, then the newlyweds spent the night together.

• Neighbors gathered at Su Jingyan’s ink shop to celebrate his marriage to Ning Baixue.
• Ning Baixue arrived in a bridal sedan chair, and Su Jingyan helped her into the ink shop for the wedding ceremony.
• During the wedding bows, Su Jingyan saw fleeting memories of marrying Ning Baixue in the Imperial Palace and felt she was familiar.
• After the guests left, Su Jingyan lifted Ning Baixue’s veil and told her he had dreamed they were already married once.
• Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue went to bed together after their wedding.

Ning Baixue received a summons from her Sect and left Su Jingyan, promising to return while he agreed to wait at home. Half a year later, Su Jingyan still waited in Jiangnan without hearing from her.

• Su Jingyan asked Ning Baixue for pills and then asked her to have a child with him; she agreed, but said they would wait until that night.
• A message from Ning Baixue's Sect summoned her to return, and she explained that she could not refuse without risking the discovery of their marriage.
• Ning Baixue asked Su Jingyan what he had asked her before, and he repeated that he wanted them to have a child.
• Ning Baixue left for her Sect, promising to return, and Su Jingyan promised to wait at home for her.
• Su Jingyan remained alone in Jiangnan as the Divine Realm reopened and the seasons passed; after half a year without news from Ning Baixue, he wondered why she had not returned.

Su Jingyan reflected on his connection to Su Mo and the reality of reincarnation while waiting for Ning Baixue. A year later, Su Mo went to Ning Baixue’s tomb after she failed to return from the Divine Realm.

• Su Jingyan played chess alone and told Master Hui Kong that he was still waiting for Ning Baixue.
• Su Jingyan and Master Hui Kong discussed whether Su Jingyan or Su Mo was the true self, and Su Jingyan said both were real, as was Ning Baixue.
• Su Jingyan defeated Master Hui Kong by leaving him no legal move.
• Master Hui Kong asked why Su Jingyan had not gone back, and Su Jingyan said he was waiting for his wife.
• A year later, the Divine Realm had closed, but Ning Baixue still had not returned, and Su Mo set out in his golden-patterned robe.
• Su Mo reached Ning Baixue’s tomb and said that her tomb was his home.

Su Mo entered the Divine Realm and used the Book of Life and Death to alter the Ghost Gate’s restrictions so he could descend into it despite his Nascent Soul cultivation. There he found the strange man dead before the altar and offered to take him up.

• Su Mo entered the Divine Realm through the Ghost Gate and sensed that Ning Baixue had come there.
• He traveled to Nine Dragons Paying Homage and asked the black dragon to summon the Ghost Gate, which it did without resisting.
• Su Mo discovered that the Ghost Gate’s teleportation array barred anyone above Core Formation from entering.
• He invoked the Human Book and used its power to alter the array’s rules, then plunged into the Ghost Gate.
• Su Mo found the strange man’s corpse facing the altar and asked whether he should take the senior up to it.

Su Mo reached the Ghost Gate's Altar and reunited with Ning Baixue, who had been trapped there after entering the Reincarnation Mirror in her true body. When he learned she would die if she left the mirror, he revealed he could use his own Divine Race bloodline to restore her body.

• Su Mo used the Confucian Dao True Words to bring himself and the Strange Man's corpse to the Ghost Gate's Altar.
• Ning Baixue waited alone at the Altar until Su Mo appeared and told her he had been awake since their marriage.
• Su Mo and Ning Baixue confessed their feelings and agreed that they were husband and wife, whether they were Su Mo or Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue or Yunxue.
• Ning Baixue told Su Mo she had been gravely injured before entering the Reincarnation Mirror and would die if she left it.
• Su Mo said he could use his own Divine Race bloodline power to restore Ning Baixue's physical body.

Su Mo used the Altar’s Divine Race inheritance to transfer a trace of his Giant God Blood to Ning Baixue and heal her fatal injuries. The inheritance ended before it could sever her mortal intent, and the Giant God remnants disappeared.

• Su Mo explained how he could use his own Giant God Blood and the Altar’s inheritance technique to restore Ning Baixue’s body.
• Su Mo shielded Ning Baixue from the Giant God Blood’s pressure and began the inheritance, summoning the Giant God remnants.
• The remnants began severing Ning Baixue’s bloodline, while Su Mo’s trace of Giant God Blood replenished it and healed her injuries.
• Su Mo withdrew the Giant God Blood as soon as Ning Baixue recovered, stopping the inheritance before the second severing.
• The Giant God remnants grew angry at Su Mo, but the sword-wielding remnant looked at them and disappeared, ending the inheritance.

Su Mo rejected the Reincarnation Mirror’s offer to create a life without sorrow because Girl was absent from its world. He left the reincarnation with Ning Baixue, carrying the mirror as an ordinary object.

• Ning Baixue questioned Su Mo about becoming the Human Emperor, and he said they would understand once they left the mirror.
• Su Mo called the Reincarnation Mirror forth and recognized that it could construct a real reincarnated world where he could escape suffering.
• Su Mo realized Girl was absent because she came from the end of the Long River and had not appeared in this reincarnation.
• Su Mo refused the mirror’s offer, explaining that the life it showed was not what he wanted without her.
• Su Mo ordered the Reincarnation Mirror to send them out, and it became an ordinary mirror in his hand as the reincarnation vanished.

Su Mo and Ning Baixue emerged from the Forbidden Land and met the First Elder, who had destroyed the Holy Sect and dealt with the Upper Realm forces after learning of their betrayal. The Reincarnation Mirror joined Su Mo, and his return as Human Emperor shook the world after he had been gone for a year.

• The First Elder welcomed Ning Baixue and told her and Su Mo that the Holy Sect and the Upper Realm forces were gone.
• The First Elder explained that he had destroyed the Holy Sect himself after confirming its betrayal and had dealt with the Upper Realm forces.
• Su Mo began telling Ning Baixue what had happened while she was in hiding, but she asked him to continue after they left the Forbidden Land.
• The Reincarnation Mirror shrank and chose to accompany Su Mo, and the First Elder let him keep it.
• The First Elder brought Su Mo and Ning Baixue to the Holy Sect's deserted grounds, where Su Mo's return as Human Emperor stirred the world.

Su Mo returned to the world and reunited with Ning Baixue and the Void Beast. After he left, the First Elder examined Ning Baixue and revealed that she had only three months left before her Divine Sense would be erased and her body would return to Dao Arts.

• Su Mo reunited with the Void Beast, soothed it, and left for the Imperial Palace in Great Hua while Ning Baixue stayed with the First Elder.
• Ning Baixue told the First Elder that Su Mo was her husband and explained that she was Shi Jiuxuan's Dao Arts Incarnation, but wanted to live as herself.
• The First Elder said he would examine Ning Baixue's Dao Arts before returning to seclusion, and Ning Baixue sat for his examination.
• After a day, the First Elder told Ning Baixue that she had three months left before her Divine Sense would be erased and her body would return to Dao Arts.
• Ning Baixue decided to spend her remaining three months as Su Mo's wife.

After a year away, Su Mo returned to the Imperial City and reunited with Prince Ying's Princess Consort and Prince Ying. He toured the rebuilt palace prepared for him, then agreed to establish the nation's name and era name, leaving the imperial clan ready to arrange the rites.

• Su Mo appeared above the Imperial City and reunited with Prince Ying's Princess Consort, Prince Ying, and Eunuch Ji.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort led Su Mo through the renovated Imperial Palace and showed him the sleeping palace and its Jiangnan-style stream, bridges, and loft.
• Su Mo told Prince Ying's Princess Consort that he liked the palace she had prepared for him.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort urged Su Mo to establish a national name and era name so the people could feel secure.
• Su Mo agreed to let his mother arrange the matter, and an imperial clan elder presented the Clan Genealogy and asked him to choose the names.

Su Mo unified the nations as Various Xia, kept the Yuanqing era name, and ascended the throne as the Peerless Emperor. After establishing his government and clearing the Liu Household’s name, he visited their graves and wondered whether the flourishing age fulfilled Liu Cheng’s wish.

• Su Mo named the unified nation Various Xia and kept the Yuanqing era name unchanged.
• Su Mo completed his unfinished bow to his master during the ceremony at Ancestral Mountain, then ascended the throne as the people hailed him as the Peerless Emperor.
• Su Mo established a centralized government, appointed officials from the former nations, and cleared the Liu Household’s name.
• Su Mo visited the graves of Liu Cheng, Liu Feng, and Liu Cheng’s wife, poured out wine, and asked whether the flourishing age was as Liu Cheng had wished.

Su Mo faced pressure from Prince Ying's Princess Consort and the imperial clan to marry and appoint an Empress, then revealed that he had already married Ning Baixue through the events of the Reincarnation Mirror. The mirror showed that Ning Baixue was one of three thousand incarnations of a woman seeking to break through a cultivation bottleneck.

• Prince Ying's Princess Consort and imperial clansmen urged Su Mo to appoint an Empress and have children, suggesting Cheng An'an as a match.
• Su Mo told them he was already married and explained his connection with Ning Baixue through the illusion and the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort accepted Su Mo's choice and asked when Ning Baixue would come to the Imperial City.
• The Reincarnation Mirror showed Su Mo that Ning Baixue was one of three thousand incarnations of a woman who had split herself to experience the Three Thousand Great Dao.
• The mirror displayed scenes of Ning Baixue at the Holy Sect's ruins, including her desolate smile, then returned to Su Mo's hair.

After realizing Ning Baixue’s memories could be erased when her Three Thousand Great Dao avatars reunited, Su Mo used a Divine Race technique to bind her memories, body, and Dao Arts together. He appointed her empress and made sure she would remain herself when her avatars returned.

• After Prince Ying and his consort left, Su Mo reasoned that Ning Baixue might lose her memories when the avatars merged, but realized the Divine Race technique could prevent it.
• Su Mo brought Ning Baixue to him with national fortune power and kept his plan to protect her memories to himself.
• Su Mo told Ning Baixue that Prince Ying and his consort wanted him to appoint an empress, and he announced that he would appoint her.
• That night, Su Mo used the Divine Race technique to fuse Ning Baixue’s memories with her body and Dao Arts so they could not be separated when she returned.

Su Mo announced Ning Baixue as his empress and spent a month at her side while secretly strengthening the fusion of her Divine Soul memories and Dao Foundation. As he prepared to leave the Ninth Realm, he bid farewell to Cheng An'an and Dao Hua, who chose to remain until they reached Nascent Soul.

• Su Mo named Ning Baixue empress at morning court, then returned to the Sleeping Palace and sat quietly with her.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort kept Dao Hua and Cheng An'an from disturbing Su Mo and Ning Baixue, and arranged for them to stay in the Imperial Palace.
• For a month, Su Mo strengthened the fusion of Ning Baixue's Divine Soul memories and Dao Foundation while spending time with her and his friends.
• Su Mo asked Dao Hua and Cheng An'an whether they would leave the Ninth Realm with him, but both decided to wait until they reached Nascent Soul.
• Dao Hua and Cheng An'an prepared to return to their respective paths, and Su Mo recited a farewell poem as they departed.

Su Mo said goodbye to Prince Ying and his Princess Consort, then accompanied Ning Baixue as she returned Beyond the Realm, having ensured she would remain herself and awaken within three years. Left alone, he used national fortune power to create the Hundred Ghosts' Procession at Night, a force that judged and punished the guilty while protecting the innocent.

• Su Mo visited Prince Ying and his Princess Consort, ate the noodles she had made, and received their worried farewells before leaving the palace.
• Su Mo took Ning Baixue away from the imperial capital and traveled with her as her incarnation neared its end.
• Su Mo told Ning Baixue he had fused her memories, Dao Arts, and body so she would remain herself after returning Beyond the Realm, and promised she would awaken within three years.
• Ning Baixue returned Beyond the Realm as starlight after telling Su Mo that she was his wife and would wait for him in the Upper Realm.
• Su Mo released national fortune power across the land and summoned a hundred Ghost Spirits to judge and punish people guilty of grave crimes.
• Another hundred Ghost Spirits hid in the Imperial Palace, the Dao Sect, and the Demon Sect to guard Su Mo's ties to the world.

After reaching Beyond the Realm, Su Mo focused on cultivating the Human Scroll so he could attain Spirit Transformation and search for his missing senior brothers and sisters. He sought Great Calamity’s advice, but she bristled when she realized he had come to her with a problem.

• Su Mo meditated by a river in Beyond the Realm, where he lacked the Ninth Realm’s National Fortune Power and could not locate his Academy companions.
• Su Mo struggled with the Human Scroll’s method of separating seven emotion-bearing consciousnesses and decided to ask Great Calamity about it.
• Great Calamity teased Su Mo for staying away after getting a wife, then softened when he looked dejected.
• Su Mo told Great Calamity he did not know how to find his senior brothers and sisters, and she advised him to cultivate until he was strong enough to search.
• Su Mo began to ask Great Calamity about the Human Scroll, but she realized he had returned because he needed help and withdrew in irritation.

Su Mo began cultivating the Human Scroll, which sent his Seven Thoughts out into the world to cultivate separately. Left without his emotions, he grew listless and waited for them to return, unaware of where they had gone.

• Su Mo asked Great Calamity about Dao Arts, and she recommended the Book of Life and Death while warning that every Dao Art had flaws.
• Su Mo examined the withered Flower of the Other Shore in his Spirit Sea, then returned to the Floating Bridge to cultivate the Human Scroll.
• Su Mo read the Human Scroll's verses and began cultivating its Seven Thoughts, triggering strange phenomena across the world.
• Seven colored streaks emerged from Su Mo's Radiant Mark and flew away to cultivate separately in the sky, earth, water, plants, soil, and unknown destinations.
• Su Mo woke without his Seven Thoughts, found himself uninterested in everything, and lazily waited for the emotions to return.

Su Mo remained detached after the Seven Thoughts left him, while a little golden fish brought pearls and treasures to cultivate beside him and the Void Beast. A group led by Yu Mu entered the forest searching for treasure and, followed by an uncanny sense of being watched, reached the river and spotted a house and an old man.

• The little golden fish visited Su Mo each day with pearls, and the Void Beast played with them while sharing its cultivation with the fish.
• The fish grew more intelligent, began bringing strange treasures, and sometimes received help from Su Mo's aura as well.
• The Void Beast and Su Mo sensed something in the forest, but Su Mo soon closed his eyes again.
• Yu Mu led a group through the forest as its members increasingly felt watched, though their divine senses revealed nothing.
• Yu Mu decided to follow the river in search of treasure, and the group spotted a house with an old man by the river.

Yu Mu and her companions found Su Mo beside a river and learned that he had seen the phenomenon they sought, but warned them they could not obtain its source. When a golden fish delivered an ancient bronze cauldron, Yu Mu accepted it and chose to remain with Su Mo for half a year, despite his warning that she would regret it.

• Yu Mu and the other cultivators approached Su Mo, mistaking his silence and the Void Beast’s presence for signs of a reclusive senior.
• Su Mo confirmed he had seen the phenomenon and warned the group to leave without pursuing what lay behind it.
• A golden fish brought an ancient bronze cauldron, and Su Mo helped the fish cultivate with his aura.
• Yu Mu asked to exchange half a year of service for the cauldron, but Su Mo gave it to her and said he did not need anyone to attend to him.
• Yu Mu stayed after the others departed, insisting she would keep her word, and Su Mo warned that she would regret her decision.

Su Mo remained detached while a radiant phenomenon drew cultivators to a hidden entrance beneath the river, and Yu Mu warned them not to disturb him. When Rain Clan elders arrived to investigate, Yu Mu’s grandfather greeted Su Mo as an old acquaintance.

• Su Mo spent months sitting silently by the river while the little golden fish brought treasures that the Void Beast devoured.
• Rosy light erupted downstream, and Yu Mu sensed that more than a dozen cultivators had come to investigate.
• Yu Mu flew downstream and warned the arrivals that a terrifying senior lived nearby, keeping them away from Su Mo’s cottage.
• More cultivators, including Spirit Transformation experts, gathered and entered an apparent passage in the riverbed, while the Void Beast restrained its ferocity.
• Rain Clan elders arrived at Su Mo’s cottage and failed to sense his cultivation; Yu Mu’s grandfather then sat beside Su Mo and asked how he had been lately.

Su Mo reconciled with Yu Gu, the Rain Clan’s Ninth Elder, over the old grudge between them as they watched the river and its strange rosy light. The little fish brought Su Mo a familiar sword for several days, but on the final evening it did not appear.

• Su Mo asked Yu Gu if he had come to seek revenge, and Yu Gu said he had let go of the grudge over Yu Qi’s death.
• Yu Gu asked Su Mo to put aside their wider conflict, and Su Mo agreed so long as the Rain Clan did not trouble him.
• Yu Gu declined to pursue the opportunity beneath the rosy light and sent the Rain Clan party away, while Yu Mu stayed beside her grandfather.
• The little fish brought Su Mo a long sword, which he kept instead of giving to the Void Beast, then cultivated near him.
• Several days later, Su Mo looked toward the rosy light as dusk fell, and the little fish failed to arrive.

Su Mo, still without the Seven Thoughts, finally left the river after the little fish failed to appear and followed the rosy light with the Void Beast. Beneath the water, he found a familiar submerged town and realized it was Ziyu’s home from the first illusion of the Divine Realm Ghost Gate.

• Su Mo said the little fish had not come, but at first refused to go look for it.
• The next day, Su Mo stood for the first time in months and decided to go with the Void Beast toward the rosy light.
• Yu Gu warned Su Mo that the place seemed dangerous, then advised Yu Mu to stay out of the sect struggle and focus on cultivating.
• Su Mo and the Void Beast dove beneath the river and discovered an ancient town on its bed.
• Su Mo entered a familiar house and remembered it was Ziyu’s home from the first illusion of the Divine Realm Ghost Gate.

Su Mo and the Void Beast entered the Ancient Well and found the little fish trapped in a porcelain vase inside an immense underwater palace. After freeing the fish, Su Mo followed the steps beyond the palace, where he emerged from the water and discovered a stele bearing the words, “What is gained from all living beings shall be returned to all living beings...”

• Su Mo searched the riverbed for the little fish, then followed the Void Beast into the Ancient Well.
• Su Mo and the Void Beast descended through a deep passage and found an enormous palace filled with treasures.
• Su Mo found the little fish trapped in a porcelain vase and broke the vase to free it.
• The little fish swam out of the palace, while Su Mo and the Void Beast continued up the steps beyond it.
• Su Mo and the Void Beast emerged from the water and saw a stone stele engraved with the words, “What is gained from all living beings shall be returned to all living beings...”

Su Mo reached the Death River and learned that only golden duckweed could carry Inquiry Realm experts across. After he summoned a patch from midriver, the Thunder Sect elder pressured him into yielding it and crossed with a young man, leaving Su Mo on the bank.

• Su Mo and the Void Beast reached the Death River, where Hong Qing explained that the steps could not be descended, the river was deadly, and ordinary duckweed could not support Inquiry Realm experts.
• Hong Qing told Su Mo that the Cloud Sect’s young master and elder and the Green Gate’s Dao maiden had already crossed, and that golden duckweed could carry Inquiry Realm cultivators.
• Su Mo summoned one of the two unreachable patches of golden duckweed to the bank with a single word.
• The Thunder Sect elder asked Su Mo to summon the other patch, but Su Mo said he could use his Dao Art only once within a short span of time.
• The Thunder Sect elder invoked his sect’s authority and pressured Su Mo to give him the golden duckweed, promising to bring back the other patch.
• Su Mo stepped aside, and the Thunder Sect elder crossed with the finely dressed young man without looking back at the remaining patch.

Su Mo led the stranded group across the Death River, revealing that duckweed appeared beneath every step he took, and reached the opposite bank with the Void Beast. The Great Calamity recognized the place as the Burial Ground of someone from its generation and warned Su Mo that it was dangerous.

• Su Mo called the river's duckweed back to the bank, then yielded the last golden duckweed to a woman so she could cross.
• The woman promised to return the golden duckweed after reaching the far bank, and Su Mo watched her and the others depart.
• Su Mo stepped onto the Death River, where a new duckweed appeared beneath every step, and crossed with the Void Beast on his shoulder.
• Su Mo reached the opposite bank, and the duckweeds that had supported him withdrew into the riverbed.
• The Great Calamity recognized the place's aura as belonging to the Burial Ground of someone from its generation and warned Su Mo that it was no benign place.