Recaps

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman grew bored as people voluntarily handed over Divine Seals, until the Reincarnation Mirror showed them a group of Academy disciples whom Little Su Mo recognized as his senior brothers and sisters. They rushed to find them while the Academy group discussed the Evil Spirits, and an eerie wind rose as they prepared to defend themselves.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman asked the Reincarnation Mirror to find people who had not voluntarily offered Divine Seals.
• Little Su Mo recognized the seven people in the mirror as his senior brothers and sisters, and he and Little Phoenix Woman hurried toward them with the Stone Stele.
• Gu Yu and the Academy disciples discussed why Evil Spirits had appeared, and Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother suggested the spirits were connected to the Forbidden Lands.
• Second Senior Brother suggested Seventh Senior Brother might have accidentally awakened the Evil Spirits, and the group agreed to look for him only if he found them first.
• Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother displayed their anti-spirit tools, but an eerie wind suddenly swept over the group.

Little Su Mo reunited with his Academy senior brothers and sisters, who first mistook him and Phoenix for evil spirits before recognizing him through private details. After hearing how he died while reaching Spirit Transformation and was reborn as a child, he realized that none of the six Academy members were human.

• Fourth Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, and Third Senior Sister attacked Little Su Mo and Phoenix, mistaking them for evil spirits, until Gu Yu called them to stop.
• Little Su Mo proved his identity by recalling private facts about his senior brothers and sisters, and Gu Yu embraced him.
• Little Su Mo introduced Phoenix to the Academy group and began recounting what had happened since he left the Ninth Realm.
• Little Su Mo explained that he died while trying to reach Spirit Transformation and underwent Nirvana as a child.
• After his senior brothers and sisters dismissed Spirit Transformation as ordinary, Little Su Mo realized that none of the six Academy members were human.

Little Su Mo told his Academy seniors that people in the Forbidden Lands willingly collected Divine Seals for him, and they followed him to see for themselves. After watching a group stop and let the children take the seals from their Storage Bag, Second Senior Brother remarked on Seventh Senior Brother’s uncanny nature.

• Gu Yu explained that she and the other Academy disciples had reached Spirit Transformation by absorbing unconscious Heavenly Dao Fragments, while Luo Yin confirmed she had reached the same realm without explaining how.
• Little Su Mo said he could return to his original age by absorbing enough Divine Seals, and defended taking them from people who mistook him and Little Phoenix Woman for Evil Spirits.
• Sixth Senior Sister offered Little Su Mo a dozen Divine Seals, but he indicated he needed over twenty thousand; Luo Yin suggested the Academy help him collect them.
• Little Su Mo claimed that people in the Forbidden Lands now gathered Divine Seals and waited for him to collect them, and Little Phoenix Woman pointed out an approaching group.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman carried the Stone Stele toward the group, whose members stopped with their eyes shut while the children took Divine Seals from a Storage Bag tied behind them.
• Second Senior Brother watched the group willingly surrender the Divine Seals and said there was something uncanny about Seventh Senior Brother.

A group searching the Forbidden Lands discovered that a monstrous emerald serpent and other creatures were slaughtering humans, suggesting the Demon Realm’s new ruler had brought a dangerous change. Meanwhile, the Academy group investigated the source of Divine Seals, and Little Su Mo realized the Forbidden Lands might be connected to the Divine Realm.

• A woman’s group found a Divine Seal beside more than a dozen tortured corpses, then an emerald-eyed beast killed her fellow disciples and pierced her chest with its tail.
• As she died, the woman recalled that the Great Peng had taken control of the Demon Realm after Phoenix vanished, and feared the human prodigies in the Forbidden Lands were in danger.
• The Academy group discussed how Little Su Mo could collect twenty thousand Divine Seals and questioned whether enough Seals existed or where they came from.
• Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother showed the group a map and hinted that the Forbidden Lands’ connection to eight realms resembled a familiar place.
• Little Su Mo trembled and identified that place as the Divine Realm.

Su Mo concluded that the Forbidden Lands were likely another side of the Divine Realm and realized the Forbidden Lands consciousness was waiting for him. He led the Academy group into the depths, while a phantom watched over them and destroyed several giant snakes.

• Su Mo and the others joined their maps and saw that the Forbidden Lands fit into the Divine Realm's Nine Dragons Paying Homage terrain.
• Su Mo considered the Divine Realm's mysteries and the Divine Race's destruction, then realized the Forbidden Lands consciousness held the most Divine Seals and was waiting for him.
• The Divine Seals flew together to form the word "Come," and Su Mo gathered them before leading the group toward the consciousness.
• As the Academy group left camp, several enormous green snakes followed them, but a beautiful phantom appeared and killed the snakes.
• The phantom watched the group depart, said she had waited a long time for Su Mo, and dissolved into the void.

After learning that the Demon Race was killing human prodigies in the Forbidden Lands, the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s girl warned the others to band together and stay alert. Su Mo’s group reached the golden stone wall deep in the Forbidden Lands, and his call opened a crack in it.

• The Great Xia Imperial Clan’s girl identified the wounds on several dead prodigies as the work of the Demon Race and warned that humans could be wiped out while trapped in the Forbidden Lands.
• She urged the human groups to share the news, unite, and guard against the Demon Race, and many sects began traveling together.
• Su Mo’s group spent two months traveling deeper into the Forbidden Lands without searching for Divine Seals.
• The group reached the heaven-high golden stone wall, where the Radiant Marks resonated with Little Su Mo’s Divine Rune.
• Little Su Mo told the wall, “I’m here,” and it roared as a crack opened, flooding the area with golden light.

Little Su Mo and his companions crossed a golden passage into Divine Mountain, where a golden-robed woman recognized him as one of her race. She called him home and began showing him around, promising to explain everything in time.

• Little Su Mo followed a familiar pull into the golden passage, and Divine Runes lit along the walls as he walked.
• Little Phoenix Woman held Little Su Mo's hand, while Gu Yu and Luo Yin reacted to their closeness.
• The group emerged onto a golden mountain covered in peach blossoms, where a golden-robed woman waited beneath the trees.
• Little Phoenix Woman stopped the others from following Little Su Mo after a matching Divine Rune appeared on the woman's forehead.
• The golden-robed woman told Little Su Mo she had planted the peach trees while waiting for their Divine Race to return, then asked him to call her big sister.
• The woman took Little Su Mo's hand and led him up Divine Mountain, saying she would show him around and change his clothes.

Little Su Mo explored Divine Mountain with the goddess, who gave him a Spirit Robe and welcomed him as the last member of the Divine Race. At the summit, she revealed that the Longevity Stele preserved her remnant soul.

• The Academy party arrived at Divine Mountain, where First Senior Brother fell asleep and the others wandered among the peach blossoms.
• The goddess led Little Su Mo to Peach Cove and gave him a Spirit Robe that changed to fit him.
• She showed Little Su Mo the God-Showing Bridge, and he crossed it as a newly welcomed child of the Divine Race.
• The goddess told Little Su Mo that the Divine Race had only him left, and he decided not to reveal the origins of his Divine Body.
• At the summit, the goddess identified the Longevity Stele as a monument to the race's forebears and the reason her remnant soul remained.

Little Su Mo learned that the Forbidden Lands were the Divine Realm and joined the Remnant Soul of the Goddess in witnessing memories of its past. The memories ended with Granny Heavenly Secrets revealing two Divine Seals to Little Yuanyuan.

• The Remnant Soul of the Goddess confirmed that the Forbidden Lands were the Divine Realm, home of the Divine Race.
• Little Su Mo and the Remnant Soul of the Goddess joined their Divine Senses and entered a memory of the Divine Realm as it once was.
• They watched Little Yuanyuan visit Granny Heavenly Secrets and ask when her absent Father God and Mother Goddess would return.
• As time passed, the Divine Mountain emptied while Little Yuanyuan continued waiting for her parents.
• Granny Heavenly Secrets told Little Yuanyuan that her parents had returned, reminded her of the Divine Race's mission, and revealed two Divine Seals.

Little Su Mo witnessed the vision of Yuan Yuan losing her family and Granny Heavenly Secrets as the Divine Race went out to confront the calamity. Left alone on Divine Mountain, Yuan Yuan planted a peach pit in the hope of gaining the little brother Granny promised, and began spreading peach trees across the mountain.

• Little Su Mo and the Remnant Soul of the Goddess saw Yuan Yuan recognize the Divine Seals as the transformed Father God and Mother God.
• As blood rain fell and the Divine Realm faced catastrophe, Granny Heavenly Secrets told Yuan Yuan she would leave to help clean up the calamity.
• Granny Heavenly Secrets gave Yuan Yuan a peach pit and promised a little brother would come when peach blossoms covered Divine Mountain, then left and sealed the mountain off.
• Yuan Yuan realized her family and Granny Heavenly Secrets would never return, and that they had become Divine Seals to protect the world.
• Yuan Yuan planted the peach pit, watched it sprout and grow, then began planting peach-tree shoots across Divine Mountain.

Yuan Yuan waited tens of thousands of years for her little brother beneath the peach trees she planted, but the trees never bloomed. When blood-red rain threatened the grove and the Divine Realm, she fought to protect it, returned mortally wounded, and asked the Divine Stele to keep her alive; it transformed her into a remnant soul trapped between life and death.

• Yuan Yuan planted peach trees across the Divine Mountain and waited through the years for them to bloom so her little brother would come.
• Yuan Yuan sealed herself beneath a peach tree, and tens of thousands of years passed before blood-red rain awakened her and began killing the trees.
• Yuan Yuan absorbed the Divine Seals in the mountain, took up a divine sword, and left through the Divine Wall to fight amid the blood clouds.
• Yuan Yuan returned grievously wounded, found only a few peach trees alive, and feared she would die before her little brother arrived.
• Yuan Yuan begged the Divine Stele to keep her alive, and it turned her body into a remnant soul trapped within the Divine Mountain.

Yuan Yuan remained alone on the Divine Mountain after an unknown force stopped the Calamity, and the Confucian Sage gave her Divine Seals that could make the peach trees blossom. She used the Divine Stele to arrange for people to bring more seals, continuing to cover the mountain in peach blossoms as she waited for her little brother.

• The Little Girl watched the Calamity return, then saw unknown figures battle the blood clouds for decades until the sky became peaceful again.
• The gravely wounded Confucian Sage entered the Divine Mountain and told Yuan Yuan he had only temporarily shut the door through which the Calamity descended.
• The Confucian Sage gave Yuan Yuan Divine Seals, whose divinity made a peach blossom bloom when she released it into a tree.
• After exhausting the seals, Yuan Yuan asked the Divine Stele to draw people to collect Divine Seals and deliver them to the mountain in exchange for opportunities.
• People brought Divine Seals every ten years, and Yuan Yuan used them to make more peach trees blossom as she waited for her little brother.

Little Su Mo learned that the Divine Race and the Confucian Sage had sacrificed themselves to delay the World-Toppling Calamity, but memories revealed that the Calamity descended again after the heavens were severed. He shared Yuan Yuan’s peach blossom wine and decided to invite his friends to the Divine Mountain, leaving her touched by his kindness.

• Yuan Yuan showed Little Su Mo how the Divine Race had been destroyed by the World-Toppling Calamity and how the Confucian Sage severed the heavens to protect the Divine Realm.
• Little Su Mo saw memories of another Calamity descent and battle after the Confucian Sage had left, but he could not discover why the event had been erased from history.
• Yuan Yuan asked Little Su Mo whether he liked her peach blossoms, then unearthed the peach blossom wine she had brewed while waiting for him.
• Little Su Mo tasted the wine and told Yuan Yuan it was delicious.
• Little Su Mo asked whether he could invite his friends to drink with them, and Yuan Yuan welcomed the idea; realizing he wanted to bring her company, she shed tears.

Little Su Mo brought Peach Blossom Brew to the Academy group and introduced them to Yuan Yuan's remnant soul as his older sister. As they drank and shared stories beneath the peach blossoms, he summoned his Battle Beast to show her.

• Little Su Mo took jars of Peach Blossom Brew to the Academy group, bringing Yuan Yuan's remnant soul with him.
• Little Su Mo introduced Yuan Yuan's remnant soul to the Academy group as his older sister, moving her to tears.
• The group woke First Senior Brother and gathered to drink and trade stories about their past exploits.
• Little Su Mo told Yuan Yuan's remnant soul about his happy adventures, leaving out his sorrows and hardships.
• Little Su Mo boasted about his Battle Beast and summoned it, and a round body burst out of the void.

Little Su Mo reunited with Big Strong on the Divine Mountain, where Yuan Yuan's remnant soul identified it as the legendary Void Beast and described its powers. The timid beast showed off its fierce appearance before remembering something and spitting out a heap of strange things.

• The Void Beast appeared on the Divine Mountain, then shrank and nestled against Little Su Mo when he called it Big Strong.
• The Void Beast hid behind Little Su Mo from the others, and he insisted that it was actually fierce.
• Yuan Yuan's remnant soul recognized the Void Beast and recounted legends about its many forms and abilities.
• Little Su Mo confirmed that the Void Beast's temperaments, keen ears, and ability to travel through space matched the legends.
• After Yuan Yuan mentioned food, the Void Beast opened its mouth and spat out a heap of strange things.

Little Su Mo and his companions spent months enjoying a peaceful stay with Yuan Yuan on the Divine Mountain, delaying their departure and his growth. When the day to leave finally arrived, Yuan Yuan began explaining the Divine Seal and led him somewhere.

• The Void Beast showed off a mound of useless things it had collected, and Little Su Mo praised it before letting it eat the whole pile.
• Little Su Mo chose to remain on the Divine Mountain until the Forbidden Lands opened, reluctant to leave Yuan Yuan alone or grow up yet.
• Yuan Yuan spent her days showing Little Su Mo around the Divine Mountain and telling him stories of the Divine Race.
• After half a year passed, the group sensed that their time together was nearing its end, and the day of parting arrived.
• Yuan Yuan explained that a Divine Seal formed from a deceased Divine Race member's Divine Sense and was their legacy to descendants, then took Little Su Mo by the hand.

Yuan Yuan revealed tens of thousands of Divine Seals she had saved for Su Mo and persuaded him to accept them before he left. Su Mo absorbed the seals through the night, regaining his cultivation and body as dawn rose over Divine Mountain.

• Yuan Yuan led Little Su Mo to Peach Blossom Cove and released tens of thousands of Divine Seals from a golden bag.
• The Academy members watched the glowing seals fill the sky, while Luo Yin, Little Phoenix Woman, and the others reacted in silence.
• Yuan Yuan told Little Su Mo the seals were his and asked him to stay until he had grown up; he agreed.
• Little Su Mo sat beneath the peach tree and absorbed the Divine Seals as Yuan Yuan watched.
• At dawn, the final Divine Seal merged into Su Mo, who opened his eyes with his cultivation and body restored.

Su Mo said farewell to Yuan Yuan on the Divine Mountain, but stayed with her for several more days before secretly leaving behind an incarnation as a white Flower of the Other Shore. Yuan Yuan found his letter and learned that he planned to return, restore her to life, and introduce her to his wife.

• Yuan Yuan gave Su Mo her Divine Seal and urged him to leave the Divine Mountain, and he finally walked away while she wept beneath the peach tree.
• Su Mo returned to Yuan Yuan and spent another day with her, listening as she continued telling him about Father God.
• Su Mo promised to return when the Forbidden Lands opened again, but kept delaying his departure until Yuan Yuan fell into a deep sleep.
• Yuan Yuan awoke to find Su Mo gone, a white Flower of the Other Shore beside the Divine Stele, his name newly engraved on it, and a letter held down by a peach branch.
• Yuan Yuan read Su Mo's letter explaining that the flower was his incarnation and that he would carry her Divine Seal, seek a way to restore her, and return with his wife; she smiled and promised to water the flower every day.

Su Mo left an incarnation of the Flower of the Other Shore at the Divine Stele to keep Yuan Yuan's remnant soul company, then departed the Divine Mountain with the Academy group. Outside, they found signs that the Demon Realm had entered the Forbidden Lands, and Little Phoenix Woman explained that Peng Bird had led the demons to prepare for war against humanity.

• Su Mo left an incarnation of the Flower of the Other Shore with Yuan Yuan's remnant soul because he could not take her or the Divine Stele away.
• Su Mo and the Academy group emerged from the Divine Mountain and found the Forbidden Lands reeking of blood and deserted.
• Little Phoenix Woman sensed the Demon Race's aura and warned that demons had entered the Forbidden Lands to slaughter human prodigies.
• Little Phoenix Woman explained that Peng Bird had pushed for war against humanity as the Demon Realm ran short of resources, and that he had hunted her during her nirvana.
• Little Phoenix Woman said the demons were targeting human prodigies because of providence.

Su Mo and the Academy group crossed the Forbidden Lands and found the remains of a massacre that had killed every human trapped there. The Reincarnation Mirror confirmed three people had escaped, but no one else remained alive.

• Phoenix Woman explained that the Demon Race was slaughtering human prodigies to weaken humanity's fortune, and Su Mo gave her a Jade Pendant to conceal her aura.
• Su Mo led Phoenix Woman and the Academy group on foot toward the outskirts, where they passed corpses and found no living people or sign of the Demon Race.
• At a riverbank, Sixth Senior Sister sensed the strongest smell of blood, and the group found thousands of corpses, including Thunder Sect Members and the Cloud Sect Young Master.
• Su Mo found the woman who had once called him Senior among the dead and asked the Reincarnation Mirror whether anyone else survived.
• The Reincarnation Mirror confirmed that everyone in the Forbidden Lands was dead and reported that three people had forcibly escaped using forbidden arts.

Su Mo left the Forbidden Lands as its last survivor and parted from the Academy group, who set off to seek Heavenly Dao Fragments and grow stronger for the coming Great Calamity. He watched them go with Little Phoenix Woman beside him, unaware that they had chosen to leave so they could one day help bear the burden on his shoulders.

• Su Mo took a jade pendant from a dead woman, then left the Forbidden Lands with Big Strong after Luo Yin convinced him no one else remained alive.
• Outside the Forbidden Lands, Su Mo told Gu Yu he planned to find someone and then return to refine pills, while Gu Yu said the Academy group would separate from him to seek Heavenly Dao Fragments.
• Luo Yin chose to travel with Gu Yu to pursue the Way of Heavenly Music, and Su Mo gave Gu Yu two hairs from Big Strong so the Void Beast could locate the group later.
• The Academy group left, and Su Mo watched them go as Little Phoenix Woman took his hand.
• Sixth Senior Sister worried about leaving Su Mo, but Gu Yu explained that they needed to grow stronger to help him carry his burden, then urged the group not to look back.

After the Academy group departed, Su Mo traveled with the Phoenix Woman and the Void Beast to find the younger sister of a woman who had died in the Forbidden Lands. He cured the girl’s illness, but she woke, learned her sister was dead, and grieved over her Jade Pendant.

• Su Mo watched the Academy group leave, then set off with the Phoenix Woman and Void Beast to find the Jade Pendant owner’s younger sister.
• Su Mo arrived at a poor hut in an ancient city and found the girl unconscious and gravely ill.
• Su Mo used his power to remove the gloomy force inside the girl and placed her sister’s Jade Pendant beside her bed.
• The girl woke and recognized Su Mo as the kind senior her sister had described, saying he had saved her sister three times.
• The girl saw the Jade Pendant, realized her sister would not return, and mourned her loss as Su Mo watched in silence.

Su Mo saved Luo Qing Yi and eased her fears that her sister had died in exchange for her life. When Qing Yi asked to become his disciple, Su Mo gave her a destination and promised to accept her if she reached it within two months.

• After recovering, Luo Qing Yi thanked Su Mo and asked whether her sister had bargained with him to save her.
• Su Mo explained that he had come because he remembered meeting her sister, and assured Qing Yi that her sister’s death had not been caused by her.
• Qing Yi asked to cultivate and become Su Mo’s disciple so she could help others and repay him.
• Su Mo learned that Qing Yi had studied herbs and plants while her sister gathered medicine to keep her alive.
• Su Mo gave Qing Yi directions and told her to reach the destination within two months if she wanted him to accept her as his disciple.
• After Su Mo vanished, Qing Yi clutched the Jade Pendant and wept for her sister.

Su Mo returned to Du Pingsheng after a year and a half away, reuniting with his master and promising to help refine the Twin Perching Pill. He recounted his death, Nirvana, and escape from the Forbidden Lands, while Du Pingsheng thanked Phoenix Woman for saving him.

• Su Mo left Qing Yi's rundown house and set out with Phoenix Woman to seek the Dao in the Mortal World, leaving Big Strong a task.
• After waiting a year and a half, Du Pingsheng saw Su Mo return and shared cold tea with him as Su Mo promised to help refine his pill.
• Su Mo told Du Pingsheng how he died in the Heavenly Tribulation, achieved Nirvana with the Phoenix Feather, and survived the Forbidden Lands with Phoenix Woman.
• Su Mo called Phoenix Woman over, and Du Pingsheng bowed to her and expressed his gratitude for saving his disciple.

Su Mo reunited with Du Pingsheng at the Bamboo Hut and spent a warm evening reminiscing with him and Phoenix Woman. He planned to stay for a long time, help Du Pingsheng refine the Twin Perching Pill once he reached the Inquiry Realm, and let Phoenix Woman stay with him while she recovered.

• Su Mo helped Du Pingsheng up, and the three sat together at the Bamboo Hut, talking about life in the Cloud Sect.
• Du Pingsheng and Su Mo recalled Su Mo's antics in the Cloud Sect, and Du Pingsheng explained that Su Mo had revealed his identity because he could not bear to keep deceiving him.
• Phoenix Woman listened as Du Pingsheng praised Su Mo's honesty, while Su Mo kept her identity as Demon Realm sovereign secret to spare Du Pingsheng discomfort.
• Su Mo told Du Pingsheng he would stay for a long time, and Du Pingsheng said they should wait until Su Mo reached the Inquiry Realm before refining the Twin Perching Pill.
• Su Mo said Phoenix Woman would stay with him while she dealt with her cultivation trouble, and Du Pingsheng accepted without asking further questions.
• After chatting late into the night, Du Pingsheng returned to his room, whose door had gathered cobwebs during Su Mo's long absence.