Recaps

After leaving the Ji Clan, Su Mo remained wary of them and used his connection with the Ancient Forbidden Land to guide Wu Qian toward its center. After half a month of an effortless journey, they encountered a fat man fleeing an Inquiry Realm Frenzied Spirit Giant Bird, and Su Mo told Wu Qian to run.

• Su Mo parted ways with Ji Yue and left the Ghost-Eyed Divine Flood Dragon's territory with Wu Qian.
• Su Mo warned Wu Qian to stay on guard around the Ji Clan, though he admitted his suspicion was only a guess.
• Su Mo used All Things Have Spirits to ask the ancient trees for directions and agreed to accompany Wu Qian toward the center without asking her reasons.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian traveled for half a month as the Forbidden Land's plants and creatures seemed to help them along their way.
• A fat man in a golden robe fled toward Su Mo and Wu Qian with a stolen bird egg while a Frenzied Spirit Giant Bird pursued him.
• When the fat man called for help, Su Mo grabbed Wu Qian's hand and told her to run.

Su Mo and Wu Qian fled from the Frenzied Spirit Giant Bird with Wu Pangzi, who had stolen one of its eggs. After Wu Pangzi tricked Su Mo into drawing the bird’s attention and ran off, Su Mo teleported back to collect the remaining eggs while the bird chased the fat man away.

• Su Mo warned Wu Qian not to help Wu Pangzi, but the fat man caught up with them while carrying the stolen egg and drew the Frenzied Spirit Giant Bird after them.
• Wu Pangzi tried to recruit Su Mo by claiming the bird’s eggs could not hatch and offering to share one, while Su Mo left flowers blooming in his wake.
• Su Mo agreed to help Wu Pangzi, but Wu Pangzi immediately fled alone and left Su Mo to face the bird.
• Su Mo teleported with Wu Qian back to where they had first met Wu Pangzi, sending the giant bird after the fleeing fat man.
• Su Mo set off to take the remaining eggs, and Wu Qian joked that he was scheming too.

Su Mo and Wu Qian found two Yunying Eggs in the giant bird’s nest and cooked them, while the fatty continued to distract the bird. After the bird discovered the eggs were gone, it blamed the fatty and resumed its pursuit as he shouted for help.

• Su Mo and Wu Qian found two lifeless Yunying Eggs in the nest and took them, planning to let the fatty take the blame.
• Su Mo cooked the eggs over a fire, and he and Wu Qian ate them while the fatty continued leading the giant bird away.
• The fatty returned an egg to the giant bird and sat down to meditate beneath the moon.
• The giant bird returned to its nest, discovered the other eggs were missing, and charged after the fatty again.
• The fatty realized the bird blamed him for the theft and fled, shouting that Su Mo and Wu Qian had robbed the nest.

Su Mo and Wu Qian traveled toward the center of the Forbidden Land as the full moon approached, while Wu Qian warned him that the other Emperor Throne Incense would fight over the Moon Essence. They hid near the center on the night of the full moon, planning to wait until the others had fought before making their move.

• Su Mo and Wu Qian ignored the fatty’s cries and continued toward the center of the Forbidden Land.
• Wu Qian explained the rumors about the Demon Moon Great Emperor and the Moon Essence, then urged Su Mo to avoid the dangerous contest.
• Su Mo continued toward the center partly because he knew Wu Qian wanted to go, and she followed him despite her concern.
• After several days, Su Mo and Wu Qian reached the center and hid among rocks while he concealed their auras with his Divine Sense.
• Wu Qian spotted the Ji Clan, led by Ji Yue, among the groups occupying the massive rocks.
• Su Mo told Wu Qian they would wait for the others to fight and then seize the Moon Essence.

Su Mo and Wu Qian waited for nightfall while watching a mysterious fat man bury one of two linked Clay Jars. As the full moon rose and the factions prepared for the coming drop of moonlight, a silver-armored man arrived and demanded to know who Su Eternal Life was.

• Su Mo warned Wu Qian to be wary of the Ji Clan and told her they would wait until nightfall before deciding what to do.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian secretly watched a fat man hide a Clay Jar beneath the rocks, and Su Mo predicted there would be a good show that night.
• The full moon rose, and the Heavenly Prodigies prepared for the moonlight to fall while the fat man dozed nearby.
• A silver-armored young man descended, causing Wu Qian to tremble with resentment, and Su Mo reassured her that she would be safe with him.
• The silver-armored man looked across the factions and asked who Su Eternal Life was.

Li Wudi arrived and demanded to know who Su Eternal Life was, but Su Mo chose to stay hidden with Wu Qian. When the Moon Essence began to form, Li Wudi drove off a rival and claimed it for himself, prompting Han Mo and Ji Yue to challenge his claim.

• Li Wudi searched the crowd for Su Eternal Life, while Wu Qian identified him to Su Mo as the Li Clan heir and one of the Emperor Throne Incense.
• Su Mo dismissed Li Wudi and stayed hidden, while Wu Qian considered leaving and quietly reached for a piece of jade before letting it go.
• As the Moon Essence began to gather beneath the full moon, a man rushed to seize some of its power before it formed completely.
• Li Wudi intercepted the man with his spear, wounded him, and declared that the Moon Essence belonged to him.
• Han Mo challenged Li Wudi’s claim and pointed out that he had come without his Dao guardian, while Ji Yue announced that the Ji Clan would also contend for the Moon Essence.

Su Mo and Wu Qian hid beneath scattered rocks while Li Wudi fought rival factions over the Moon Essence. When the Moon Essence formed and elders joined the battle, Su Mo noticed a possible source of the Forbidden Land’s protective rules, while Wu Pangzi prepared to take advantage of the chaos.

• Li Wudi challenged the factions, and Su Mo warned Wu Qian that his invincible Dao Heart could be shaken by a peer like Wu Pangzi.
• The battle’s flying debris battered Su Mo, Wu Qian, and Wu Pangzi while they hid without using their cultivation.
• The Moon Essence formed, and the factions and their elders rushed to seize it, leaving Li Wudi at a disadvantage until his black-robed elder appeared.
• Su Mo sensed a possible source of the Forbidden Land’s protective rules, then pointed Wu Qian toward Wu Pangzi, who was watching the fighting with a grin.

Wu Pangzi used a Clay Jar and a Golden Talisman Paper to steal the Moon Essence, then mocked Li Wudi and the other cultivators before fleeing. After everyone chased him, Su Mo retrieved a second buried Clay Jar containing another drop of Moon Essence.

• Wu Pangzi sent a Clay Jar into the sky, and it drew the descending Moon Essence toward it.
• A Golden Talisman Paper blocked the Dao-Guarding Elder’s strike and then shattered under the cultivators’ combined attacks as the Moon Essence fell into the jar.
• Wu Pangzi took the jar, taunted Li Wudi and the others, and fled while they chased him.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian emerged from hiding after the cultivators disappeared, and Su Mo dug up the second Clay Jar Wu Pangzi had buried.
• Su Mo opened the buried jar and found another drop of Moon Essence inside.

Su Mo uncovered Wu Pangzi’s trick for teleporting the Moon Essence between connected jars, took the drop, and left an empty jar as bait. After Wu Pangzi used the jar in his hand to distract his pursuers, he returned to retrieve the buried jar and froze when he opened it.

• Su Mo explained to Wu Qian how Wu Pangzi had teleported the Moon Essence into a connected jar, then took the essence and buried the empty jar with a note inside.
• Wu Pangzi taunted the cultivators chasing him as he fled through the Forbidden Land.
• A Frenzied Spirit Giant Bird blocked Wu Pangzi’s path, so he threw his jar toward the horizon and escaped while his pursuers chased it.
• Wu Pangzi returned to his hiding place, dug up the buried jar, and opened it, causing his smug expression to freeze.

Su Mo and Wu Qian watched Wu Pangzi discover that Su Mo had taken the Moon Essence, then slipped away before he could catch them. After they headed deeper into the Forbidden Land and Su Mo tried to absorb the Moon Essence, he found that its purifying power had no effect on his already-pure Dao Foundation and Spiritual Root.

• Wu Pangzi found Su Mo's note in the empty jar and realized Su Mo had taken the Moon Essence and eaten the bird eggs.
• Wu Pangzi left, returned to check whether Su Mo was watching him, then departed again without finding him.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian left the rocks and traveled deeper into the Forbidden Land, planning to use the Moon Essence somewhere quiet.
• Su Mo used his Divine Sense to draw the Moon Essence's aura into his Divine Rune and tried to purify his Dao Foundation and Spiritual Root.
• Su Mo found that his Dao Foundation and Spiritual Root did not respond to the Moon Essence because they were already pure.

Su Mo gave the Moon Essence to Wu Qian and protected her while she absorbed it, drawing Li Wudi to them. Li Wudi challenged Su Mo for the Moon Essence, but Su Mo stopped his spear with the Power of Law.

• Su Mo decided the Moon Essence was useless to him and gave it to Wu Qian, telling her to grow strong enough to be useful on the Emperor Road.
• Wu Qian absorbed the Moon Essence, creating a radiant phenomenon that Su Mo sensed would attract others.
• Su Mo shielded Wu Qian with the Power of Law as Li Wudi arrived, drawn by the Moon Essence's light.
• Li Wudi mistook Su Mo for a follower of Wu Pangzi and threatened to kill him to claim the Moon Essence.
• Li Wudi attacked with his Cold Spear, but Su Mo's Power of Law effortlessly dissolved the strike.

Su Mo defeated Li Wudi by wielding the Myriad Spirits Law of the Ancient Forbidden Land, shattering Li Wudi’s strongest attack and his confidence in his invincible Dao Heart. When Li Wudi accused him of killing members of the Li Clan, Su Mo realized something was wrong and felt an unprecedented danger.

• Su Mo formed a true Myriad Spirits Law into a droplet that destroyed Li Wudi’s setting-sun attack.
• Li Wudi learned Su Mo was Su Eternal Life and launched his strongest technique, Immortal-Slaying.
• Su Mo shaped the droplet into a Human Emperor Sword and shattered Li Wudi’s thousand-zhang spear, leaving him badly wounded.
• Su Mo challenged Li Wudi’s belief in his invincibility, and Li Wudi’s Dao Heart collapsed.
• Li Wudi accused Su Mo of killing members of the Li Clan, and Su Mo suddenly sensed a grave danger.

Su Mo and Li Wudi were trapped beneath the Immortal-Slaying Net, which suppressed their cultivation and threatened to kill them. Li Wudi suspected the Desolate Realm had staged the attack to weaken Floating Life Pass, while Su Mo questioned whether the net was really aimed at him; as it descended, he tried to contact the aura the Divine Maiden had left within him, and a phantom began to appear behind him.

• Su Mo sent Wu Qian into his Spirit Sea and tried to retreat, but the Immortal-Slaying Net appeared and sealed him and Li Wudi beneath it.
• Li Wudi identified the artifact and explained that the Desolate Realm might have used it to provoke conflict between his clan and Su Mo's Eternal Life Sect.
• Li Wudi told Su Mo that Floating Life Pass guarded the frontier between their lands and the Desolate Realm, and that war between their forces would weaken its defenses.
• Su Mo doubted Li Wudi's explanation and suspected the Immortal-Slaying Net might have been intended for him.
• As the net's slaughtering power grew stronger, Su Mo tried to contact the Divine Maiden's aura, and a phantom began to emerge behind him.

A mysterious woman appeared after Su Mo reached out with the Myriad Spirits Law, effortlessly subdued the Immortal-Slaying Net, and gave it to him. Before vanishing, she warned Su Mo that “they” had noticed him, and Li Wudi identified her as the Demon Moon Great Emperor.

• A woman’s phantom appeared behind Su Mo, and the Immortal-Slaying Net’s killing power vanished from him and Li Wudi.
• The woman pointed at the Immortal-Slaying Net, quelled its power, and placed it in Su Mo’s hand.
• She brought Wu Qian out of Su Mo’s Spirit Sea and sent a drop of Moon Essence into her body.
• Before disappearing, the woman warned Su Mo to be careful because “they” had noticed him.
• Li Wudi collapsed after his Great Dao broke, then identified the woman as the Demon Moon Great Emperor.

After the Demon Moon Great Emperor’s remnant addressed Su Mo as Eternal Life, Su Mo and Li Wudi spoke about defeat and the broken Dao that left Li Wudi begging to die. Li Wudi revealed why Wu Qian followed Su Mo, leaving Su Mo to face the truth of Li Wudi’s past as his life faded.

• The Demon Moon Great Emperor’s remnant spoke of Eternal Life and warned that others had noticed him, leaving Su Mo confused about his identity.
• Li Wudi asked Su Mo who he was, and Su Mo admitted that he no longer knew.
• Li Wudi asked Su Mo to kill him because his Dao Heart had collapsed and his Great Dao was shattered, but Su Mo refused.
• Li Wudi explained that he had slaughtered Wu Qian’s sect while seeking its Beast Taming Art to end the Desolate Demon Beast attacks on Desolate Demon Pass.
• Li Wudi said he had spared Wu Qian, the sect’s last surviving girl, and insisted that Su Mo had reason to avenge her as Li Wudi’s life dwindled.

Su Mo granted Li Wudi’s request to die by his hand, and Li Wudi used his final strength to warn him about a hidden male Heavenly Prodigy of the Ji Clan. Su Mo killed him with the Book of Life and Death, and Li Wudi’s name vanished from the Incense Divine Steles.

• Li Wudi told Su Mo he could not hold on and asked him to kill him before his Great Dao shattered.
• Su Mo agreed, accepted Li Wudi’s Pass Lord Token, and heard his warning about a terrifying male Heavenly Prodigy of the Ji Clan.
• Li Wudi burned his remaining vitality and asked to see Su Mo’s Life-Bound Spirit Artifact.
• Su Mo summoned the Book of Life and Death and used its Life and Death Scroll to form Li Wudi’s name from three runes.
• Li Wudi thanked Su Mo, warned him to beware the Ji Clan, and died as his Dao dissipated.
• The names on the Incense Divine Steles trembled, and witnesses saw that Li Wudi’s name had disappeared.

After killing Li Wudi, Su Mo learned why he had massacred Wu Qian’s sect and listened as she revealed she had intended to give him the Beast Taming Art. As dawn broke, Wu Qian smiled and asked Su Mo whether he wanted to know her secret.

• Su Mo sat beside Li Wudi’s corpse and wondered about the Ji Clan’s hidden prodigy and the Immortal-Slaying Net.
• Wu Qian woke, saw Li Wudi’s body, and mourned him as Su Mo explained their fight and repeated Li Wudi’s warning about Floating Life Pass and the dangers beyond it.
• Wu Qian recounted how Li Wudi had killed her parents and the people of Spirit Beast Mountain while demanding the Beast Taming Art, but had spared her.
• Wu Qian told Su Mo that she had entered the Forbidden Land intending to give Li Wudi the Beast Taming Art, even though she still wanted revenge for her family and sect.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian remained together through the night, and at dawn she laughed at the filth on his head before asking whether he wanted to know her secret.

Wu Qian revealed the origin of Spirit Beast Mountain’s wondrous stone and explained why she followed Su Mo. She showed him the stone and its matching mark, leaving her personal secret exposed to him.

• Su Mo admitted he was curious, and Wu Qian explained that she followed him because his aura resembled hers.
• Wu Qian revealed an aura that silenced spirit beasts across a vast area of the Forbidden Land.
• Wu Qian told how a wondrous stone gained spiritual awareness, left its body, and began a bloodline whose descendants inherited its power.
• Wu Qian explained that Spirit Beast Mountain concealed the stone because it could bring strife back to the world.
• Wu Qian showed Su Mo the wondrous stone, revealed its mark on her chest, and identified it as her secret.

Wu Qian revealed that she and the Wonder Stone were one, making her the Spirit of All Spirits, and explained her clan’s long-guarded secret to Su Mo. When she offered him the stone, Su Mo refused and urged her to keep it safe and remember that she belonged only to herself; the chapter ended with Wu Qian bathing in a stream while still feeling she ought to belong to him.

• Su Mo realized Wu Qian’s bond with the Wonder Stone explained why Li Wudi had abandoned his plans to kill or abduct her.
• Wu Qian told Su Mo that she and the Wonder Stone were one and that she had considered giving Li Wudi the stone to help him.
• Wu Qian offered Su Mo the Wonder Stone, but he refused and told her no one should belong to anyone else.
• Wu Qian merged the Wonder Stone into the Divine Seal on her chest and agreed to keep it hidden and safe.
• Wu Qian entered a stream to bathe while Su Mo turned away, and she privately continued to feel that she belonged with him.

After Wu Qian absorbed the Moon Essence, Su Mo and she headed deeper into the Forbidden Land, where numerous factions had gathered before a vast mountain range. While hiding among rocks, they unexpectedly encountered Wu Pangzi, who feared Su Mo and Wu Qian as persistent nightmares.

• Wu Qian told Su Mo that the Moon Essence had strengthened her cultivation and brought her close to entering Inquiry.
• Su Mo decided to explore the Forbidden Land's depths and warned Wu Qian not to reveal the strange stone's power unless her life was in danger.
• Su Mo sensed a familiar presence entering the Forbidden Land but left without telling Wu Qian who it was.
• After traveling for half a month, Su Mo and Wu Qian found numerous factions gathered before an imposing mountain range and a bottomless abyss.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian hid among a pile of rocks, where they discovered Wu Pangzi already hiding.
• Wu Pangzi recognized Su Mo and Wu Qian and quietly cried out, asking why they kept haunting him.

Su Mo and Wu Pangzi encountered each other while hiding near the Great Force Mountain Range and agreed to work together. Wu Pangzi revealed that the moving mountain range contained the Forbidden Land’s Ancient Ruins, where countless opportunities and deadly dangers awaited.

• Wu Pangzi accused Su Mo of repeatedly stealing his opportunities, while Su Mo insisted their meeting was a coincidence.
• Su Mo asked Wu Pangzi to work together, and Wu Pangzi agreed after they settled on an equal split of the spoils.
• Su Mo, Wu Pangzi, and Wu Qian hid together and watched the major powers gathered outside the Great Force Mountain Range.
• Wu Pangzi identified the moving mountain range as Ancient Ruins within the Forbidden Land and said that every Heavenly Prodigy who entered during one era had died there.
• Su Mo asked whether the Nine Heavens’ Difficult Realm experts had also died in the ruins.

Wu Pangzi explained that the Ancient Ruins were a dangerous tomb where people relived the same brief stretch of history whenever the Forbidden Land opened. Su Mo learned the rules for surviving there and that the ruins might hold a forbidden art, while the crowd gathering outside suggested someone had found a way to obtain it.

• Wu Pangzi recognized Su Mo as Su Eternal Life and warned him that the Ji Clan still had terrifying hidden forces despite its compromise.
• Wu Pangzi revealed that the Ancient Ruins were a supreme tomb whose inhabitants appeared alive and repeated the same plot whenever the Forbidden Land opened.
• Wu Pangzi explained that visitors had to follow the inhabitants’ predetermined history and avoid revealing their origins, harming anyone, or changing events, or they would face deadly consequences.
• Wu Pangzi said that blending in with the inhabitants could give someone a chance to learn their Sect’s inherited forbidden art.
• Wu Pangzi observed the many people gathered outside the Great Force Mountain Range and suspected someone had found a way to obtain the forbidden art, drawing others hoping to benefit.

Su Mo devised a plan for him and Wu Pangzi to impersonate people from the Ruins and rob the outsiders entering it without triggering its taboo rules. Wu Pangzi revealed he could disguise himself too, using a Strange Dagger that transformed him into a skinny man.

• Wu Pangzi proposed that Su Mo and he blend in with the Ruins' living people, find the treasury, and take its contents.
• Su Mo realized they could pretend to be living people and rob outsiders who feared violating the Ruins' taboo rules.
• Wu Qian identified that they would need to hide their identities and distinguish outsiders from the Ruins' inhabitants.
• Wu Pangzi said he could recognize the world's Heavenly Prodigies, while Su Mo planned to change his appearance and aura.
• Wu Pangzi revealed he had a way to avoid recognition, stabbed his thigh with a Strange Dagger, and transformed from a fat man into a pale, skinny man.

Su Mo and Wu Pangzi entered the Ancient Ruins after Wu Qian went to wait at the Ghost-Eyed Divine Flood Dragon's territory, but the passage sent them to separate locations. Wu Pangzi headed toward the sect, while Su Mo woke in a peach-blossom realm beside a beautiful woman and a formidable man in golden robes.

• Wu Pangzi used the Strange Dagger to drain his blood energy and slim down, and Wu Qian suggested combining his disguise with Su Mo's plan to pose as people from inside the Ruins.
• The Ruins opened, and Su Mo sent Wu Qian to wait at the Ghost-Eyed Divine Flood Dragon's territory before he and Wu Pangzi approached the entrance.
• Su Mo changed his appearance with the Spirit Jade River Moon, and he and Wu Pangzi entered the passage together.
• Wu Pangzi emerged alone in a world of peach-covered mountains and headed toward the golden palace, expecting to meet Su Mo inside the sect.
• Su Mo awoke among peach blossoms beside a beautiful woman, while a tall man in golden python robes stood nearby.

Su Mo awakened in the Ruins as the heir apparent, inheriting the memories of a troubled prince whose father was the War King. After realizing how much his parents cared for him, Su Mo told the War King that he wanted to cultivate, and the declaration shook heaven and earth.

• Su Mo woke in a palace beside a gentle woman and the stern War King, who reproached him for neglecting cultivation and told him to forget Hong'er.
• The woman left Su Mo to rest, and he discovered in a mirror that he had the heir apparent’s face rather than his own.
• The Book of Life and Death opened to reveal a Reincarnation Scroll, and Su Mo dreamed through the heir apparent’s life, including his beloved’s death at the War King’s hand.
• After awakening, Su Mo recognized the War King’s care beneath his coldness, and the War King left him a bottle of pills.
• Su Mo called the War King “Father” and said he wanted to cultivate, causing heaven and earth to change color.