Recaps

Su Mo's cautious words about cultivating repeatedly distort the Ruins, but the War King decides to teach him after his recovery. When the War King's Wife visits, Su Mo calls her “Mother,” and the Ruins warp again as she leaves in tears.

• Su Mo's tentative refusal to cultivate warps the Ruins, so he quickly says he wants to cultivate before taking it back, restoring the world to normal.
• The War King tells Su Mo he will teach him to cultivate once his body recovers, and Su Mo discovers that a strange power has sealed his cultivation.
• The War King's Wife visits and asks whether Su Mo has finally decided to cultivate; his answer triggers another brief distortion of the Ruins.
• The War King's Wife says Su Mo's decision will ease the War King's worries, and Su Mo unexpectedly calls her “Mother.”
• The Ruins warp again as the War King's Wife covers her face and leaves, and Su Mo finds cold tears on his hand.

Su Mo rejected the nine elders’ refusal to teach him and insisted that he would not let his mother beg for his sake. His defiance twisted the ruins again, leaving the elders staring at him as outsiders faced another frightening disturbance.

• The War King's Wife told Su Mo that his father had gone to the Imperial City to seek a Sea-Splitting Pill, then took him to the drum tower to try to secure a master for him.
• The War King's Wife knelt before the nine elders and asked them to take Su Mo as their disciple so the Pei Clan could continue guarding the world.
• When the elders silently rejected her plea, Su Mo tried to help her up, but she ordered him to kneel.
• Su Mo refused to kneel and told his mother she did not need to beg for Yan'er, declaring that he could do without strength if it had to be begged for.
• The ruins twisted with an eerie aura, the nine elders opened their eyes and stared at Su Mo, and Wu Pangzi complained as the outside world was shaken again.

Su Mo swallowed the Sea-Splitting Pill and awakened a second cultivation and Fate Pattern, causing upheaval throughout the Ruins. An old monk sensed the birth of Dual Fate and the first appearance of the Emperor's Fate.

• The War King's Wife accompanied Su Mo as he waited in the Ruins, and the War King returned from the imperial capital with a Sea-Splitting Pill.
• The War King gave Su Mo the pill, which could open a Spirit Sea and bring him directly to Spirit Transformation, and warned that he would need to fight to stabilize his foundation.
• Su Mo swallowed the pill, triggering a disturbance that left people throughout the Ruins insubstantial and alarmed Wu Pangzi.
• Su Mo gained a second cultivation and a second Fate Pattern, while the power accumulated by the Book of Life and Death surged into his new cultivation and carried it into the Inquiry Realm.
• The landscape in Su Mo's Spirit Sea changed as new words appeared on the stone and a bridge emerged beside it.
• An old monk sensed the birth of Dual Fate and declared that the Emperor's Fate had first revealed itself.

Su Mo gained a new strand of cultivation in the Inquiry Realm and agreed to join the War King on the front lines after inspecting the Floating Life Sect’s recruits. He arrived at the disciple trials, where Wu Pangzi and Ji Yue were among those seeking entry.

• The War King's Wife celebrated Su Mo’s new cultivation and said the Pei Clan could continue guarding the world.
• The War King told Su Mo to temper a Dao Art at the front lines, and Su Mo asked to inspect the disciple trials before going to war.
• The War King assigned dozens of golden-armored guards to obey Su Mo’s commands.
• Wu Pangzi searched the outside world’s Heavenly Prodigies on the Ascension Stairway but found no sign of Su Mo, while Ji Yue climbed with her elder.
• Su Mo arrived at the trial with the guards, and the trial elder bowed as the recruits, including Ji Yue and Wu Pangzi, reacted to his presence.

Su Mo watched the Floating Life Sect disciple selection and recruited Wu Pangzi to help identify spies among the candidates. He arranged to question each participant individually after the current trial, then took his seat above the steps to begin the interrogations.

• Su Mo arrived with his Golden Armor Guards and authorized the selection elder to begin the second trial, a free-for-all for three hundred places.
• Wu Pangzi joined the melee without revealing his supreme treasures, while Su Mo observed the contestants.
• Su Mo had Wu Pangzi removed from the arena and asked whether he could identify spies among the trial participants.
• Su Mo told the selection elder to arrange a separate round in which every candidate would answer his questions, and Wu Pangzi agreed to help find the spies.
• Su Mo followed the selection elder to a platform and sat above the steps, preparing to question the candidates one by one.

Su Mo used the Floating Life Sect’s spy investigation to force Ji Yue to reveal and surrender all her belongings. He let her proceed while claiming the items would be examined, leaving their fate—and whether Ji Yue would discover his true intent—unresolved.

• Su Mo told Wu Pangzi to identify suspected spies among the selection candidates, and the first newcomer passed after Wu Pangzi signaled they were not an outsider.
• Ji Yue arrived, and Su Mo challenged her to prove she belonged within the ruins; she admitted she had no such proof but denied being a spy.
• Su Mo demanded that Ji Yue name her home and warned that the sect could verify her claim, leaving her unable to provide a convincing answer.
• Ji Yue offered to let Su Mo inspect her possessions, and he agreed to check whether they contained anything from beyond the pass.
• Ji Yue laid out her belongings, including supreme treasures, and Su Mo sent her on while delaying their return pending an examination.

Su Mo collected the possessions of the Ruins entrants while directing the selection elder to continue the trials and watch the disciples. Back at the palace, he began to suspect the Ruins were tied to Pei Hongyan’s regret, then learned the War King would take him to fight beyond the Border Pass the next day.

• Su Mo and Wu Pangzi screened the entrants, and the golden-armored guards compelled them to surrender their belongings.
• Su Mo told the selection elder to continue the trials, granted Wu Pangzi direct entry into the Sect, and ordered surveillance of the new disciples.
• At the palace, Su Mo wondered whether the Ruins embodied Pei Hongyan’s dream and regret, though he remained unsure whose regret it was.
• The War King announced that Su Mo would accompany him beyond the Border Pass the next day to build a Dao Foundation through battle.
• The War King told his wife that Su Mo had to grow strong enough to bear the burden of the Border Pass and the world, while she wished for his peace and joy.

At Floating Life Pass, the War King showed Su Mo why the peach blossoms represented the soldiers’ wish for peace and happiness, prompting Su Mo to recite the Four Sentences of Hengqu and trigger a great change in the ruins. Ji Yue and an old man realized the ruins’ story had changed, abandoned their plan to steal a Taboo Technique, and decided to leave.

• The War King led Su Mo into Floating Life Pass and explained that the peach blossoms carried the soldiers’ wish for peace to those who died defending it.
• Su Mo thought of Li Wudi and understood the conviction behind his choice to walk the Invincible Dao.
• The War King challenged Su Mo to name an emperor’s convictions, and Su Mo recited the Four Sentences of Hengqu, awakening a vast aura across the ruins.
• An old man told Ji Yue that the ruins had changed and that the heir’s survival had disrupted the original story and their plan to obtain the Taboo Technique.
• Despite Ji Yue’s concern that her Supreme Treasures remained with the heir, she agreed with the old man to leave the ruins and report back to the clan.

Su Mo spent nearly a year slaughtering beasts beyond Floating Life Pass, forging a new Dao before the War King recalled him. Wu Pangzi’s letter told him the reincarnation was nearing its end, and the lady asked whether he was leaving.

• The War King gave Su Mo the Cold Spear and sent him beyond the pass to find a Dao through battle.
• Su Mo fought among the beasts and gradually formed a new Dao that immersed him in slaughter.
• As the ruins’ closing approached, Wu Pangzi left a letter for Su Mo and departed the Floating Life Sect.
• After nearly a year, the War King ordered the gong sounded, and Su Mo returned to the pass.
• The lady gave Su Mo Wu Pangzi’s letter, which said reincarnation neared its end, and asked if he was leaving.

Su Mo learned that the War King and his wife knew he was an outsider, and that the reincarnation was tied to his own regret rather than Pei Hongyan’s. As the secret realm dissolved, he witnessed the memory of his birth as Pei Min'an, twin brother of Pingle, and his mother’s death.

• The War King and his wife revealed that they knew Su Mo was not their child and questioned his belief that he was only a passerby.
• The lady told Su Mo that the reincarnation was his regret, and the secret realm vanished into his memories.
• The War King recalled returning to the Imperial City with his gravely wounded wife after defending Floating Life Pass.
• Pei Hongyi and the empress welcomed twins, and the empress named their daughter Pingle and their son Min'an before she died.
• Su Mo recognized the infant boy as Pei Min'an and realized the scene was the dream he had seen at the Divine Realm Ghost Gate.

Su Mo witnessed the Ruins’ original history unfold and watched Min’an grow up, recognizing Pingle as his Third Senior Sister. Determined not to let the cycle repeat his failure toward Yunxue, Su Mo waited outside her sect and intervened when she flew toward the Imperial Palace.

• Su Mo appeared as an outsider in the palace’s reincarnated history, where the empress died after recognizing him.
• He watched Min’an grow up from the palace roof, unseen by the child, who developed a fondness for white robes.
• At Min’an’s coming-of-age ceremony, Pingle urged him to attend, and he received the courtesy name Jing Yan as the palace saw Su Mo descend from the roof for the first time.
• Su Mo recalled that he had failed Yunxue, Ning Baixue, and brought out the Redwood Coffin while resolving to change events within the dream.
• Su Mo waited outside Yunxue’s sect, then used a golden light to make the woman in white vanish as she flew toward the Imperial Palace.

Su Mo showed Yunxue a vision of beasts fighting over driftwood and warned her not to become involved with Min'an, while questioning whether he was trapped in an illusion or a cycle of reincarnation. When Yunxue later met Min'an in the Imperial Palace, she remembered that she was Ning Baixue and Shi Jiuxuan, then chose to marry him despite Su Mo’s warning.

• Su Mo used the Memory-River Spirit Jade to show Yunxue beasts fighting over driftwood and warned her that Min'an would ruin her life if she became entangled with him.
• Min'an told Pingle that he wanted to leave the Imperial City, see the world, and search for answers.
• Su Mo watched the emperor and Yunxue meet again and wondered whether he could change what Jiuxuan had thought before.
• Yunxue saw Min'an, remembered that she was Ning Baixue and Shi Jiuxuan, and realized their situation was an illusion of the Ghost Gate.
• Yunxue declared that she would marry Min'an, leaving the emperor and the Cloud Sect elder stunned.

Su Mo searched the dreamlike Ruins for the regrets behind his Three Questions and returned to Jiangnan, where he found Peach Mountain but not Peach Sage. As he played chess alone among the blossoms, someone asked why he was playing by himself.

• Yunxue chose to follow Min'an in secret despite knowing the Calamity of the Nine Heavens might await him.
• The emperor told Su Mo to seek his Three Questions and wondered whether he could find his regrets.
• Su Mo wandered through Floating Life Pass and the peaceful realm, questioning whether he had any regrets in the illusion.
• Su Mo traveled to Jiangnan and found Peach Mountain empty of both blossoms and Peach Sage.
• Su Mo awakened the peach trees with All Things Have Spirits and played chess alone until someone asked him why he was playing by himself.

Su Mo realized that he had been the old man who taught him to play chess alone, but he remained unable to identify his regret. After the emperor died, his lingering obsession accompanied Su Mo as they watched Min'an and the others pass away, leaving no one to guard the people.

• Su Mo explained to Min'an that playing chess alone meant competing against his past self, then realized he had been the old man all along.
• Su Mo discovered that Peach Mountain's blossoms had appeared because of him, but he could not determine what his regret was.
• After the emperor returned gravely wounded, Min'an rushed to the palace, where the emperor died after asking whether Su Mo had found his regret.
• The dead emperor's obsession took his appearance and accompanied Su Mo as they watched Min'an ascend the throne with Yunxue's help.
• Yunxue died after her divine soul mysteriously dissipated, and Pingle and Min'an later died after Min'an's second journey to Jiangnan.
• With their deaths, the world no longer had anyone to guard its people.

The emperor's lingering obsession revealed that the Pei Clan's extinction had doomed Floating Life Pass and trapped the world in a reincarnation born from his regret over losing his child. Su Mo reunited with his parents, resolved the emperor's regret, and completed his Imperial Fate cultivation as the ruins prepared to release him.

• The emperor's lingering obsession remembered that the Pei Clan's deaths had erased Imperial Fortune, leaving Floating Life Pass vulnerable and the world to face war.
• Su Mo witnessed how the obsession became reincarnation, endlessly seeking the lost Imperial Fortune and waiting for his child to return.
• The reincarnation reset to a scene of Su Mo with the empress and emperor, who revealed that the emperor's regret was having no successor and never seeing his son inherit his legacy.
• The emperor told Su Mo that resolving the regret would let him leave the ruins, then brought him and the empress to the top of Floating Life Pass.
• The emperor asked Su Mo three questions about the mandate of heaven, an emperor, and all living beings, bringing Su Mo's Imperial Fate cultivation to perfection.

Su Mo reunited with his parents in the reincarnation and fought alongside his father before receiving the Imperial Heirloom Jade Seal. Accepting it ended the reincarnation, leaving him back in the Ruins before the withered bones he had once buried.

• Su Mo asked the Emperor to let him fulfill his own regret by fighting enemies alongside his father.
• The Emperor and Su Mo fought shoulder to shoulder beyond the pass while Su Mo's mother beat the war drum.
• The Emperor gave Su Mo the nine Pass Seals and showed him the Imperial Heirloom Jade Seal, which could awaken Imperial Fortune and grant its bearer the Imperial Mandate.
• Su Mo's mother told him to carry their hopes and live well, revealing that they had wished to name him Pingle.
• The Emperor sent the jade seal into Su Mo, and Su Mo bowed to his parents as the reincarnation shattered.
• Su Mo returned to the Ruins, where the decaying Imperial Mausoleum and the withered bones he had buried were all that remained.

Su Mo emerged from the Ruins believing his experiences in Reincarnation had been Pei Hongyi’s dream, but the peach pit he carried proved the dream’s gifts were real. The imperial fortune awakened and gave him Emperor’s Fate cultivation, the Three Questions, a second Fate Pattern, and nine pass seals, while the Ji Clan began planning to claim the fortune.

• Su Mo concluded that Pei Min'an and everything he gained in Reincarnation had been part of Pei Hongyi’s lingering dream, until he found the peach pit in his robes.
• The jade seal released eight golden characters that entered Su Mo’s forehead and restored his Emperor’s Fate cultivation, Three Questions, second Fate Pattern, and nine pass seals.
• Su Mo bowed to the two skeletons, left the Ruins, and caused the world to tremble as he stepped outside.
• Ji Yue told her parents that the Ruins’ reincarnation had changed and that she and the elder had failed to find the thing they sought.
• The Middle-aged Man ordered Ji Shuang found and imprisoned, then celebrated when the imperial fortune awakened, believing the Ji Clan could claim it because the ancient Pei Clan’s line had ended.

Su Mo left the ruins of the Ancient Forbidden Land and reunited with Wu Pangzi and Ji Shuang, who had followed him in hopes of reclaiming her hairpin. After promising to return it once she rested, Su Mo heard Wu Pangzi warn that the Ji Clan was making plans for a terrifying heavenly prodigy.

• Su Mo left the Ancient Forbidden Land after resolving the lingering obsession within it.
• Su Mo found Wu Pangzi waiting beside Ji Shuang, who had followed him into the forbidden land to get her hairpin back.
• Su Mo learned Ji Shuang had gone without rest for over a year and promised to return the hairpin after she slept.
• Ji Shuang gave Su Mo her ring in exchange for the hairpin and fell into a deep sleep.
• Wu Pangzi warned Su Mo that the Ji Clan was laying plans to clear the way for a terrifying heavenly prodigy.
• Su Mo recalled the Immortal-Slaying Net that had nearly killed him.

After leaving the Ruins, Su Mo returned Ji Shuang’s Hairpin and made her promise to hide it and their meeting from her family. He learned that Wu Pangzi had waited for him for over a year, leaving Su Mo to wonder why.

• Su Mo healed the sleeping Ji Shuang, returned her ring, and studied the sealed Hairpin while considering the strange events in the Ruins.
• When Ji Shuang woke, Su Mo returned the Hairpin on the condition that she conceal it and keep their meeting secret from her family.
• Ji Shuang hid the Hairpin in her Spirit Sea space and left using a Teleportation Talisman.
• Wu Pangzi told Su Mo he had been out of the Ruins for over a year, and Su Mo realized Wu Pangzi had been waiting for him that whole time.

Su Mo and Wu Pangzi split the Supreme Treasures Su Mo collected from the Ruins, with Su Mo counting Wu Qian as a third share and taking two items for every one Wu Pangzi chose. Wu Pangzi then explained why people remained in the Forbidden Land and revealed that he had brought a foul-mouthed pen out of a sealed ruined temple.

• Wu Pangzi eagerly asked Su Mo to divide the loot, and Su Mo brought out all the Supreme Treasures and Spirit Artifacts he had collected.
• Su Mo and Wu Pangzi agreed to take turns choosing items, but Su Mo took two each time because he was also choosing a share for Wu Qian.
• Wu Pangzi reluctantly accepted the uneven division, and Su Mo gave him the one extra item left at the end.
• When Su Mo asked why people had stayed in the Forbidden Land, Wu Pangzi said they were looking for him and trying to catch something.
• Wu Pangzi explained that he had traced the Forbidden Land's protective rules to a sealed ruined temple, entered it with taboo methods, and found nothing inside.
• Wu Pangzi said he had unknowingly brought an unclean thing out of the temple: a wretched pen with a filthy mouth.

Su Mo learned that Wu Pangzi had angered a mind-reading divine brush whose insults had made him a target in the Forbidden Land. As Su Mo and Wu Pangzi prepared to leave, the brush appeared and immediately began mocking Wu Pangzi.

• Wu Pangzi told Su Mo that a strange brush had insulted him and others, then blamed him for freeing it from the Ruined Temple.
• Wu Pangzi explained that everyone remaining in the Forbidden Land was seeking the brush, which had a spirit and was considered a great opportunity.
• Su Mo declined to pursue the brush and offered to take Wu Pangzi out of the Forbidden Land.
• Wu Pangzi bragged that he would trade insults with the brush, but it suddenly spoke from a boulder atop the Rock Pile.
• The Dragon Whisker Divine Brush stood up and relentlessly mocked Wu Pangzi for stuttering and boasting.

Su Mo and Wu Pangzi encountered an uncanny pen that read their personalities and exposed Su Mo’s grief over his parents’ early deaths. They fled as major factions pursued the pen, but it caught up with them and tried to persuade Su Mo to become its master.

• Wu Pangzi cursed the pen for eavesdropping, and it taunted him before inspecting Su Mo.
• The pen identified Su Mo’s two Fate Patterns and Three Questions, then declared that he was starved of love because his parents had died young.
• As major factions charged toward them, Su Mo threw the pen away and fled with Wu Pangzi while the pursuers chased the pen.
• The pen reappeared beside Su Mo and Wu Pangzi, explained that it needed a karmic bond to escape the Forbidden Land, and chose to follow Su Mo.
• The pen tried to become Su Mo’s Life-Bound Spirit Artifact, but Su Mo refused and sped away; the pen caught up and asked him to acknowledge it as his master.

Su Mo and Wu Pangzi fled from their pursuers with the Broken Brush, which kept following Su Mo and exposing their private thoughts. The chase continued as the brush turned to insult the people pursuing them.

• Su Mo tried to shake off the Broken Brush, but it followed him and begged him to become its master.
• Su Mo sealed the brush and threw it toward the pursuers, but it vanished and reappeared beside him.
• Su Mo used the Power of Law to take Wu Pangzi ten thousand li away, but the Broken Brush followed and claimed Su Mo as its human pet.
• The Broken Brush mocked Wu Pangzi for collecting treasures belonging to the dead, then revealed that Su Mo collected coffins.
• More pursuers caught up and attacked, so Su Mo carried Wu Pangzi onward while the Broken Brush taunted them and exposed their secrets.

Broken Brush exposed the pursuers’ private thoughts, then became an unlikely weapon as Su Mo hurled it at their attackers. Afterward, Broken Brush forcibly acknowledged Su Mo as its master and began draining his spiritual power, prompting Su Mo to teleport away with Wu Pangzi.

• Broken Brush read aloud the pursuers’ private thoughts, provoking their anger and throwing the group into disarray.
• When an old man in black attacked Su Mo with Sword Qi, Su Mo hurled Broken Brush at him, and the brush struck his face.
• Su Mo repeatedly threw Broken Brush at the pursuing major powers, while the brush cheered and struck down several people.
• As its aura weakened, Broken Brush said it needed spiritual power and forcibly acknowledged Su Mo as its master, draining his power.
• Su Mo activated teleportation and vanished with Wu Pangzi, leaving the pursuers unable to sense them or Broken Brush.

Su Mo returned to Wu Qian with Wu Pangzi and endured the Broken Brush’s forced contract until it awakened. The Broken Brush revealed its intrusive, outspoken nature, then rejected Su Mo’s offer to free it after they left the Forbidden Land.

• Su Mo and Wu Pangzi appeared before Wu Qian, and Su Mo sat down to meditate as the Broken Brush drained his spiritual power to complete their contract.
• Wu Pangzi told Wu Qian about the Broken Brush’s mind-reading ability, and she worried over Su Mo until he recovered.
• The Broken Brush awakened, identified Wu Qian as the spirit of all spirits, and teased her and Su Mo about their relationship.
• Su Mo told the Broken Brush he would help it leave the Forbidden Land and then undo their contract, but the brush said a masterless spirit artifact would be like a stray dog.