Recaps

Su Mo endured Phoenix Woman’s cooking and tended the Flowers of the Other Shore, while Luo Yin heard the world condemn him based on rumors. A Sacred Artifact Banner reached the Demon Realm to accuse Su Mo, and Phoenix Woman confronted the old man leading it.

• Su Mo ate Phoenix Woman’s awful cooking, then brushed snow from the Flowers of the Other Shore as he anticipated a world covered in their blooms.
• Luo Yin left the Academy after meeting the Confucian Sage Remnant Soul, carrying his warning that the Omen would arrive before the Calamity of the Nine Heavens.
• At a teahouse and along the streets, Luo Yin heard people accuse Su Mo of devouring Divine Souls and conspiring with the Demon Realm, and she continued toward the Demon Realm in grief.
• A blood-red Sacred Artifact Banner crossed the sky toward the Demon Realm, proclaiming that heaven and earth would not tolerate Su Mo.
• The Demon Realm’s protective light stopped the Banner, and Phoenix Woman appeared to confront the old man standing upon it.

Phoenix Woman confronted the Blood Sect Ancestor and Han Ye, who accused Su Mo of colluding with Great Peng and demanded that she hand him over. As she prepared to defend Su Mo by force, a third powerful elder arrived in a dragon carriage.

• The Blood Sect Ancestor arrived on the Blood-Soul Banner and accused Su Mo of bringing calamity to the world.
• Phoenix Woman summoned the Phoenix Palace, but Han Ye appeared and joined the Blood Sect Ancestor.
• Han Ye claimed Su Mo had colluded with Great Peng and demanded that Phoenix Woman surrender him.
• The Green-Robed Attendant defended Su Mo, but Phoenix Woman told her to stand down and refused to keep explaining.
• A dragon carriage arrived beside the two sect Ancestors, and an old man in imperial robes stepped out to address Phoenix Woman.

Phoenix Woman refused to surrender Su Mo to the Cold Sect Ancestor, Blood Sect Ancestor, and Great Xia Imperial Dynasty Ancestor, despite their threats against the Demon Realm. The Old Tree Demon and Divine Crow emerged as reinforcements, but the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor remained determined to capture Su Mo, setting the stage for a battle between six Difficult Realm experts.

• The Great Xia Imperial Dynasty Ancestor joined the Cold Sect Ancestor and Blood Sect Ancestor in demanding that Phoenix Woman hand over Su Mo for his Dao Arts.
• Phoenix Woman refused, and the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor threatened the Demon Realm's people if she continued to resist.
• The Old Tree Demon and Divine Crow appeared from within the Demon Realm Barrier and stood with Phoenix Woman.
• The Old Tree Demon warned the three intruders that a battle would devastate their own realm, but the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor insisted they would capture Su Mo even if many people died.

Su Mo emerged from Phoenix Palace as Phoenix Woman and the Demon Realm’s elders faced down the Cold Sect, Blood Sect, and Imperial Dynasty. While the crowd branded him a calamity and the elders demanded he surrender, a hundred-zhang figure burst from the void with a roar.

• Phoenix Woman released Su Mo from Phoenix Palace after he asked her to end the standoff.
• The people below cursed Su Mo, while a hidden woman in white watched and wondered if he had prepared for this.
• Phoenix Woman explained that the Demon Realm’s support would show the world Su Mo had a home, and the Old Tree Demon offered to kill his enemies.
• The Imperial Dynasty elder accused Su Mo of evil deeds and demanded that he surrender for an investigation, as the crowd’s hatred grew.
• A hundred-zhang figure burst from the void and roared, silencing the people below.

Su Mo refused the elders’ demands and prepared to leave with Big Strong after the crowd’s hostility drove him away. As the Blood Sect’s Ancestor moved to stop them, an unseen speaker from above declared that they wanted to see who dared bully Su Mo.

• Big Strong arrived in a fury but calmed when Su Mo called him back, and Su Mo refused to go with the Imperial Dynasty’s elder and the other two.
• The Blood Sect’s Ancestor attacked Su Mo with a curse, but Phoenix Woman’s divine crow destroyed it, while Big Strong turned savage again.
• Su Mo said he was leaving for the Divine Realm, then mounted Big Strong as the Green-Robed Attendant tearfully defended him and wished him well.
• The Blood Sect’s Ancestor struck the Blood-Soul Banner to stop Su Mo, but a voice from above asked who dared bully its little brother.

Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden appeared as Su Mo was preparing to leave, and Great Calamity comforted him before confronting the Imperial Dynasty elder and his companions. Divine Tree and Divine Crow recognized the women as the Netherworld Lord and Spirit Lord, and Mysterious Maiden revealed cultivation close to the Sage realm.

• Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden emerged from the void, and the Void Beast rushed to them while Su Mo greeted them as his elder sisters.
• Great Calamity embraced Su Mo, then told him to watch as she dealt with the people who had hurt him.
• Great Calamity demanded that the Imperial Dynasty elder and his two companions sever their arms and cripple half their cultivation, while Mysterious Maiden warned them to comply.
• Divine Crow and Divine Tree bowed to Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden, recognizing them as the Netherworld Lord and Spirit Lord.
• Mysterious Maiden released a trace of her cultivation aura, leaving the Imperial Dynasty elder and his companions pale at its nearness to the Sage realm.

The Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden revealed themselves as Su Mo’s older sisters and confronted the three Difficult Realm cultivators who had mistreated him. The Great Calamity sent her Ghost Guards to slaughter their blood relatives and sects, leaving the three men desperate as they realized her threat was real.

• The Great Calamity warned the Imperial Dynasty's elder, the Blood Sect Ancestor, and the Cold Sect Ancestor that she would target their families and clans if they continued to bully Su Mo.
• The Mysterious Maiden said she would help the Great Calamity, and the Great Calamity summoned over a hundred Inquiry Realm Ghost Guards.
• The Ghost Guards knelt before the Great Calamity, who ordered them to find and kill every blood relative and clansman of the three cultivators.
• The Imperial Dynasty's elder sensed that some of his bloodline ties had been severed, while the Blood Sect Ancestor and the Cold Sect Ancestor received pleas for help from their sects.
• The Imperial Dynasty's elder shouted for the Great Calamity to stop, and she asked whether he now believed her threat.

Great Calamity forced the Imperial Dynasty elder and the Cold Sect and Blood Sect Ancestors to choose between dying and endangering their clansmen, and all three sacrificed themselves. Their Soul Incense raised Su Mo's cultivation to Spirit Transformation perfection and led him to question sentiment, bringing him into the Sentiment-Questioning Realm.

• Great Calamity refused the Imperial Dynasty elder's plea to spare their clansmen unless he and the other Ancestors took their own lives.
• The Imperial Dynasty elder performed Liberation by Violence, dispersing his cultivation and vanishing.
• The Cold Sect and Blood Sect Ancestors warned Su Mo that devouring Divine Souls could expose him to their sentiments, and the Blood Sect Ancestor gave him the Blood-Soul Banner as a safeguard.
• The Cold Sect and Blood Sect Ancestors performed Liberation by Violence and asked Great Calamity to spare their clansmen.
• Su Mo absorbed the three Ancestors' Soul Incense, which contained attachment and concern for their clans and raised his cultivation to Spirit Transformation perfection.
• Su Mo pondered the meaning of sentiment and entered the Sentiment-Questioning Realm.

After killing the three Ancestors and reaching the Inquiry Realm, Su Mo left for the Nine Realms with Great Calamity, Mysterious Maiden, Luo Yin, and the Void Beast, while leaving Little Fish with Phoenix Woman. As the group headed toward the Rain Sect, the world continued to fear Su Mo, and Red Mist began pouring out of a desolate Divine Realm.

• The three Ancestors’ deaths helped Su Mo enter the Inquiry Realm, but the people below remained terrified of his ability to absorb the Divine Soul power of the dead.
• Su Mo decided to return to the Nine Realms, and Phoenix Woman asked him to leave Little Fish with her; Su Mo agreed and entrusted Little Fish to her care.
• Luo Yin approached Su Mo and said that she, Gu Yu, and the others had met someone and learned a few things, but she did not explain further.
• Su Mo and his companions set off toward the Rain Sect, while people along their route avoided them and the Void Beast roared at those who feared Su Mo.
• Red Mist surged through a desolate Divine Realm, drove several Exotic Beasts mad, and forced open a crack through which it poured out.

Su Mo visited the Rain Sect and asked Du Pingsheng what love was, then told his master he planned to withdraw from the world’s affairs. Before leaving, he learned Little Qing Yi had gone traveling to defend his reputation, while Du Pingsheng chose to remain at the sect.

• Su Mo asked Du Pingsheng what love was, and Du Pingsheng told him to question his own heart.
• Su Mo said he wanted to find a secluded place and live in isolation, but Du Pingsheng declined to leave the Rain Sect with him.
• Du Pingsheng told Su Mo that Little Qing Yi had been upset by the rumors against him and went to fetch her.
• Du Pingsheng returned with Little Qing Yi’s letter, which explained that she had left to travel and prove Su Mo was not evil.
• Du Pingsheng promised to have someone find and secretly protect Little Qing Yi, while Su Mo put away her letter.
• Su Mo and Luo Yin left the Rain Sect together, and Du Pingsheng remained behind.

Prince Ying told his pregnant Princess Consort that Su Mo had disappeared and the National Fortune Power had fallen asleep, leaving rebellions in the former nations beyond the Hundred Ghosts’ reach. Prince Ying planned to lead a campaign against the rebels, and his Princess Consort insisted on going with him, leaving them set to depart together.

• Prince Ying returned from court and tried to hide the unrest from his Princess Consort, but she sensed his worry.
• Prince Ying explained that Su Mo had disappeared, the National Fortune Power was asleep, and princes of former nations were rebelling.
• Prince Ying said the Hundred Ghosts could not judge the rebels’ actions or the violence carried out through their soldiers while National Fortune slept.
• Prince Ying decided to lead troops against the rebellious princes, and his pregnant Princess Consort insisted on accompanying him.
• Prince Ying agreed to let her go with him, provided she did not intervene unless necessary.

After Prince Ying and his pregnant princess consort marched to suppress Yang Kai’s rebellion, Yang Kai claimed Su Mo was dead and challenged the legitimacy of Prince Ying’s rule. Prince Ying summoned the National Fortune Token and called on the sleeping National Fortune Power as he prepared to fight Yang Kai.

• Prince Ying and his princess consort worried over Su Mo’s long absence and the National Fortune Power’s slumber.
• Prince Ying issued a proclamation announcing that he would personally suppress the rebellions led by Yang Li, Yan Kai, and Zhuo Ji.
• At Cold Pass, a general explained that Yang Kai’s Spirit Transformation cultivation and the million civilians inside made an assault impossible.
• Prince Ying declared that he would face Yang Kai, and his princess consort insisted on accompanying him despite her pregnancy.
• Yang Kai argued that the National Sacrifice Bell and the National Fortune Power’s slumber proved Su Mo was dead, enraging Prince Ying’s princess consort.
• Prince Ying summoned the Holy King Spear, then poured Spiritual Power into the National Fortune Token and asked it to lend him the National Fortune Power.

Prince Ying awakened national fortune power to fight Yang Kai, while seeing the brutality of Yang Kai’s rule and condemning him. Though Yang Kai proved stronger in Spirit Transformation intent, Prince Ying summoned the Holy King’s power and continued attacking as the backlash rapidly drained him.

• Prince Ying used national fortune power to reach Spirit Transformation and saw the slaughter of civilians in Yang Kai’s territory, then condemned Yang Kai.
• Yang Kai said the Human Emperor was dead and defended his actions, while Prince Ying realized awakening national fortune was rapidly consuming his Divine Soul.
• Prince Ying attacked with the Holy King Spear, but Yang Kai countered with a saber strike that showed his superior understanding of Spirit Transformation.
• Prince Ying’s Princess Consort recognized his worsening condition but did not intervene after seeing his resistance.
• Prince Ying summoned the Holy King’s phantom, which shattered Yang Kai’s saber and struck at him; Yang Kai blocked the attack with his Cold Domain.
• Prince Ying shouted the Holy King Second Form despite the backlash draining him.

Prince Ying’s Princess Consort borrowed National Fortune Power to battle Yang Kai, despite its deadly backlash to her and her unborn child. As Yang Kai resisted her forbidden arts, National Fortune awakened fully and destroyed him, just as the Human Emperor returned.

• Yang Kai shattered Prince Ying’s Divine Soul Spear, forcing Prince Ying’s Princess Consort to take the National Fortune Token and borrow its power.
• Prince Ying’s Princess Consort reached late-stage Spirit Transformation, while the backlash began harming her Divine Soul and the unborn child.
• She attacked Yang Kai with Mount Sumeri’s forbidden arts, but he escaped Shared Destruction and resisted A Grain of Sumeri.
• The unborn child’s aura vanished, and Prince Ying’s Princess Consort coughed blood as Yang Kai realized she could no longer hold on.
• National Fortune fully awakened, turning her power into a force that drove the starlight into Yang Kai and erased him.
• The Human Emperor returned to Prince Ying and his princess consort on an Exotic Beast.

Su Mo returned to the Ninth Heaven and used his Inquiry Realm cultivation and the vitality of the Ninth Realm to revive the lifeless fetus in Prince Ying's Princess Consort's womb. After healing the fetus's injured Divine Soul with a seed of the Flower of the Other Shore, he assured Prince Ying and his wife that everything would be all right.

• Su Mo's return awakened the National Fortune Power, and the Hundred Ghosts entered the world to settle karmic accounts.
• Su Mo discovered that the fetus in Prince Ying's Princess Consort's womb had lost all signs of life and gently tried to revive it with the power of plants and trees.
• Su Mo formed a Heaven and Earth Pill Furnace and drew in the vitality of the Ninth Realm's plants and trees, restoring the fetus's life.
• Su Mo sensed that the fetus's Divine Soul remained injured and sent a seed of the Flower of the Other Shore into the womb to help it recover.
• The fetus stirred faintly, and Su Mo reassured Prince Ying and his wife that everything would be all right.

Su Mo returned to the Imperial Palace after saving the unborn child in Prince Ying's Princess Consort's womb, and the Human Emperor's return restored order across the Nine Heavens. After tending to the child and sharing a quiet meal with Prince Ying and his wife, Su Mo went to the spirit sea, where the Great Calamity asked how his pill refining was going.

• Su Mo reassured Prince Ying and his wife that the unborn child was safe, and the Void Beast nuzzled him and the child.
• Su Mo's return awakened national fortune, allowing the Hundred Ghosts to punish rebellious vassal princes and settle karmic debts.
• Su Mo returned to the Imperial Palace with Prince Ying and his wife, ate the thin noodles Prince Ying's Princess Consort had prepared, and checked on the child.
• Su Mo sensed that the unborn child was well and had gained cultivation power, then returned to his Sleeping Palace and entered the spirit sea.
• The Great Calamity pulled Su Mo onto the Rocking Chair beside her and asked how his pill refining was going.

The Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden revealed that they had found only emptiness at the end of the Long Corridor, despite feeling a deep familiarity with it, and suspected the encounter was tied to their lost memories. They urged Su Mo to leave the conflict behind, but he remained unable to let go and ended by asking Hui Kong’s corpse what feeling was.

• The Great Calamity told Su Mo that he and the Mysterious Maiden had only pretended to restore some cultivation outside the Demon Realm to avenge him, and that summoning the Ghost Guard did not require cultivation.
• The Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden explained that the end of the Long Corridor held nothing, yet felt profoundly familiar and might be connected to their lost memories.
• Su Mo connected their discovery to the Divine Race’s passage through the World Barrier and the Confucian Sage’s Stone Steles bearing the words “Heavenly Cataclysm.”
• The Mysterious Maiden told Su Mo that she and the Nether Maiden thought the matter too dangerous for him and advised him to take those he cared about to the Underworld or Spirit Realm.
• Su Mo considered the Ninth Realm, Luo Yin’s unspoken knowledge, and his inability to relinquish the Human Emperor’s position, then decided to wait until the Flowers of the Other Shore bloomed.
• Su Mo sat beside Hui Kong’s corpse at the riverbank and asked whether Hui Kong knew what feeling was.

Su Mo reunited with Dao Hua and questioned what feeling meant after learning Cheng An'an had feelings for him. He remained unable to understand the many bonds and emotions in his life, leaving Dao Hua speechless.

• Dao Hua visited Su Mo in the Imperial Garden with stolen Green Bamboo Wine, and Su Mo welcomed him warmly.
• Su Mo noticed Dao Hua had reached Spirit Transformation, and the two drank wine together.
• Dao Hua told Su Mo that Cheng An'an had feelings for him, though she remained in seclusion trying to break through.
• Su Mo admitted he did not understand feeling and asked Dao Hua how love, friendship, family ties, fear, and hatred arose.
• Su Mo reflected on the many complicated bonds in his life, while Dao Hua could offer no answer.

Luo Yin told Su Mo that the Confucian Sage Remnant Soul had warned of an approaching Heavenly Cataclysm that he could barely hold back, but neither he nor Su Mo knew what it was. The chapter then showed a child secretly feeding herbs to a large snake that had become his protector.

• Luo Yin told Su Mo that the Confucian Sage Remnant Soul had called the coming omen the Heavenly Cataclysm and said he was nearly unable to hold it back.
• Su Mo tried to calculate what the Heavenly Cataclysm was but found no answers, while Luo Yin stayed beside him despite intending to leave.
• In the forest, a child fed herbs to a large snake while his grandfather continued gathering herbs nearby.
• The child remembered that a white-robed, white-haired man had once made the snake vegetarian, and that the snake had since protected him from other beasts.
• As the child and his grandfather headed home, the child secretly bid farewell to the snake, which slipped away into hiding.

A little boy and his grandfather found their village burning beneath a blood-red mist, and the mist turned the grandfather into a murderous creature. After seeing the mist spread and drive another village into slaughter, the boy asked the great serpent to take him to the Human Emperor.

• The old man and the child reached a hilltop and saw their village engulfed in red mist and flames.
• The old man returned from the village with blood-red eyes and attacked the child, but the great serpent rescued him.
• The child saw bloody gashes on the old man's chest as the serpent carried him away, then asked why his grandfather had changed.
• The serpent and the child watched red mist engulf another village, driving its inhabitants to madness and violence.
• The serpent scratched “Mist” and “White-Clad One” into the ground, and the child asked to find the Human Emperor.
• The great serpent carried the child toward the Imperial City as the red mist swept over the place they had left.

Su Mo felt a persistent foreboding that the Heavenly Cataclysm Luo Yin had warned about was approaching, though his powers detected no signs of it. After Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden considered possible explanations, they urged him to set aside his burden and leave for another realm.

• Su Mo visited Prince Ying's Princess Consort in the Imperial Garden, reassured her that court affairs were troubling him, and left to attend to them.
• Back in his Sleeping Palace, Su Mo sensed an ominous danger but found no unusual activity through his national fortune power or Soul Incense Volume.
• Su Mo entered the Spirit Sea and asked Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden what they knew about the Heavenly Cataclysm.
• Great Calamity proposed that the cataclysm had not arrived, lay outside the Ninth Realm, or could evade his powers without causing deaths; Su Mo ruled out the second possibility.
• Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden urged Su Mo to rest and suggested he leave for the First Realm or the Second Realm.

Su Mo struggled with his growing unease about the Heavenly Cataclysm and ordered the court to monitor events throughout the Nine Heavens. As the officials carried out his decrees, an enormous spirit serpent carrying a little boy headed toward the Imperial City.

• The Great Calamity teased the Mysterious Maiden about winning Su Mo over, then suggested they become sisters and claimed the senior-wife position.
• Su Mo left the Spirit Sea and wondered aloud what the Heavenly Cataclysm was, addressing his unseen master.
• Su Mo summoned the civil and military officials and asked whether they had heard of unusual events in the Nine Heavens.
• Su Mo ordered Liang Yi to appoint three hundred observers and Xu An to dispatch three thousand scouts carrying Divine Feather Birds to report regularly.
• Su Mo watched the officials leave, still uneasy because National Fortune Power had revealed nothing unusual.
• An enormous spirit serpent carried a little boy toward the Imperial City.

A wounded giant snake carried a dying boy toward the Human Emperor to warn him that red mist was killing people. After the snake leaped from a cliff to escape the mist and the boy died, it continued onward with his body, determined to keep its promise.

• The giant snake carried the exhausted boy toward the Human Emperor while red mist spread behind them and swallowed their pursuers.
• The boy asked whether they had arrived as the snake reached a cliff with the red mist closing in behind them.
• The giant snake wrapped itself around the boy and leaped off the cliff, shielding him as they crashed below.
• The snake woke to find the boy dead, nuzzled him, and placed his body on its back.
• As the red mist began descending beneath the cliff, the wounded snake continued toward the Human Emperor carrying the boy.

A wounded snake carrying a dead boy alerted a Human Emperor scout to poisonous Red Mist, prompting an urgent report to Su Mo. As Su Mo’s unease grew and he considered leaving, a report revealed that hundreds of his scouts had vanished, and Luo Yin asked to accompany him.

• A great snake carried the dead boy toward safety, but a Foundation Establishment scout stopped it and asked whether it could understand him.
• The snake wrote “Mist” and “Poison” in the dirt, and the scout sent an urgent report through a Divine Feather Bird.
• Su Mo struggled with growing unease as Luo Yin played the zither and recognized that he was considering leaving.
• Luo Yin told Su Mo to rest if he was tired, while Su Mo admitted that the people of the world had disappointed him.
• Courtiers reported that contact had been lost with six hundred scouts and that an urgent report had arrived, and Luo Yin asked Su Mo to let her go with him.

Su Mo arrived at Broken Cliff, found the great snake dying beside the boy it had tried to protect, and healed the snake before taking it and the boy’s corpse into his Spirit Sea. He failed to stop the Red Mist from spreading and entered a city engulfed by it, where a mother exposed to the mist shut herself away from her children as she began to transform.

• The scout showed Su Mo the Red Mist at Broken Cliff, where the wounded great snake guarded the dead boy and had written a warning to run.
• Su Mo remembered how he had once awakened the great snake’s intelligence, healed its wounds, and took it and the boy’s corpse into his Spirit Sea.
• Su Mo used the Confucian Dao True Words to try to seal the Red Mist, but the mist quickly broke free and continued spreading.
• Su Mo and Luo Yin entered a city swallowed by the Red Mist, where people wailed and chaos filled the streets.
• A woman told Huanhuan and Xixi to stay inside, but after Red Mist entered through a window and began changing her, she locked herself in the kitchen and fell silent after a sound of flesh being pierced.