Recaps

Little Xuanji decided to refine pills to protect himself from heavenly punishment, while Su Mo met with Suzhan and Canye. They told Su Mo that the Immortal Furnace wanted to cultivate him and another alchemy prodigy as potential Wonders ahead of a dangerous competition among the thirteen grotto-heavens, leaving him to begin Wu Xun Mountain training in three days.

• Little Xuanji said he wanted to refine pills that would keep him from suffering heavenly punishment, and the Brush of All Living Beings told Su Mo that he needed such pills more.
• Suzhan and Canye visited Su Mo, praised the Immortal Furnace, and said they had matters to discuss with him.
• Canye explained that the Immortal Furnace lacked a Wonder of its own, and Suzhan said they wanted to raise one to restore the disciples’ morale.
• Suzhan revealed that a competition among the thirteen grotto-heavens would take place in a year and that it was more dangerous than an ordinary grand competition.
• Suzhan said Su Mo and another alchemy prodigy would become direct disciples taught by the Immortal Furnace elders, with the elders deciding which of them might become its Wonder.
• Suzhan told Su Mo to go to Wu Xun Mountain in three days to learn the Wu Xun Elixir Art, and Su Mo agreed.

Su Mo learned that Bai Zhi was the last survivor of the Bai Ze Clan and resolved to make her the Immortal Furnace’s Wonder so she could benefit from the position. After Xuanji reported that Bai Zhi had fallen asleep, Su Mo vanished, apparently intending to treat her poison in secret.

• Su Mo worried about being named the Immortal Furnace’s Wonder and decided to help Bai Zhi become the chosen one instead.
• Su Mo persuaded Xuanji to visit Bai Zhi without telling her that he had sent him, and Xuanji went to keep her company.
• Xuanji returned and told Su Mo that Bai Zhi had been sealed away after a calamity, lost her entire family, and had deadly poison planted in her body.
• After Xuanji said Bai Zhi had fallen asleep, Su Mo resolved to help her and disappeared from his perch.

Su Mo secretly used Giant God Blood to weaken Bai Zhi’s poison, then hurried back to his cave abode when she nearly woke. There, he gave Little Xuanji a large stash of Jarred Milk, while Bai Zhi awoke sensing that someone had been helping her.

• Su Mo infused Bai Zhi with Giant God Blood again, and the Brush of All Living Beings warned that doing so might worsen his own problem.
• Bai Zhi called out for her parents in her sleep, and Su Mo and the Brush of All Living Beings fled when she nearly woke.
• Su Mo found Little Xuanji hiding Jarred Milk and gave him a pile of bottles from his Spirit Sea.
• Little Xuanji considered divining why Su Mo had so much Jarred Milk but stopped when he remembered the heavenly punishment.
• Bai Zhi woke and sensed that the poison had weakened, realizing that someone had secretly helped her.

Bai Zhi’s health improved after Su Mo secretly used his heart’s blood to dispel her poison, and Little Xuanji helped her realize someone had saved her. After overhearing Su Mo and another person treat her again, Bai Zhi looked forward to meeting the other alchemy Heavenly Prodigy at the lecture in two days.

• Little Xuanji visited Bai Zhi and found her feeling much better, then divined that the change in her fortune came from the southwest, near Su Mo’s cave abode.
• Little Xuanji told Bai Zhi that Su Mo was gravely ill and had come to the Immortal Furnace for treatment, but stopped himself before revealing that Su Mo had saved her on the Herb and Wood Ancient Path.
• Bai Zhi pretended to fall asleep after realizing Su Mo might have rescued her, then waited for him to return.
• Su Mo secretly infused Bai Zhi with his heart’s blood to dispel more of her poison, while another person worried about how often he was giving it.
• Bai Zhi’s aura wavered, so Su Mo and his companion fled using the Power of Law, and she opened her eyes with tears and anticipation for meeting him at the lecture.

Su Mo went to Wu Xun Mountain to begin learning Immortal Lord Wuxun’s alchemical cultivation art and found Bai Zhi recovered and joining the lesson. Wuxun introduced the two as fellow direct disciples, and Bai Zhi greeted Su Mo as her senior brother.

• Su Mo left for Wu Xun Mountain after confirming Bai Zhi had not yet emerged from her cave abode.
• Immortal Lord Wuxun welcomed Su Mo and said he would teach him the Wu Xun Elixir Art after they waited for someone.
• Bai Zhi arrived with her complexion restored, and Wuxun introduced her and Su Mo as the Immortal Furnace’s two direct disciples.
• Bai Zhi called Su Mo Senior Brother, and Su Mo accepted the title by greeting her as Junior Sister Bai.
• Wuxun urged Su Mo and Bai Zhi to support and complement each other, and both agreed.

Immortal Lord Wuxun taught Su Mo and Bai Zhi the five searches of the Wuxun Elixir Art and warned them that Alchemy Obsession was a tragic final hurdle. Su Mo’s memories of Du Pingsheng carried him through the first three searches and into Intent Search, where he could not find his own alchemical intent, leaving Wuxun and Bai Zhi staring at him in shock.

• Immortal Lord Wuxun explained the five searches of the Dao of Alchemy and warned Su Mo and Bai Zhi to guard their true hearts and avoid Alchemy Obsession.
• Immortal Lord Wuxun gave Su Mo and Bai Zhi the Wuxun Elixir Art cultivation method, and Su Mo’s Divine Race Pattern absorbed his copy.
• Su Mo’s memories of discovering alchemy through Du Pingsheng surfaced and guided him through the first three searches into Intent Search.
• Su Mo failed to find his own alchemical intent and opened his eyes to see Immortal Lord Wuxun and Bai Zhi staring at him in shock.

Su Mo worried that his extraordinary alchemy talent would draw unwanted attention, while Bai Zhi promised to keep it secret. When they returned, they found Little Xuanji drunk after drinking the Divine Brew Su Mo had hidden among his milk, and Su Mo tried to conceal the cause.

• Immortal Lord Wuxun told Su Mo and Bai Zhi to study the Wu Xun Elixir Art and meet at Suzhan Mountain in six months to seek Alchemical Intent.
• Su Mo asked Bai Zhi to hide his alchemy talent so the Immortal Furnace's Old Madman would not take him away to refine elixirs, and Bai Zhi agreed.
• Su Mo and Bai Zhi returned to Central Peak and found Little Xuanji flushed and imagining a winged blade of grass.
• Bai Zhi discovered Little Xuanji was burning hot, and Su Mo realized he had given him milk mixed with Divine Brew.
• Su Mo sent Bai Zhi away and found the wine bottle in his cave, while Little Xuanji asked whether Su Mo had any more of the tasty “milk.”

Su Mo shared Peach Blossom Brew and refined immortal-herb delicacies with Little Xuanji, Bai Zhi, and the Brush of All Living Beings beneath the moon. After the others left tipsy, Su Mo drank alone, troubled by his inability to get drunk or condense an avatar; half a year later, it was time for him to seek the Old Madman and follow Suzhan in search of Alchemical Intent.

• Su Mo invented the name “nine-milk” for Peach Blossom Brew to explain Little Xuanji’s drunkenness, then dispelled its effects with his power of law.
• Little Xuanji gathered immortal herbs from the senior sisters of the Immortal Furnace, and Su Mo refined them into pill-shaped delicacies.
• Su Mo invited Bai Zhi to join them, and the three of them and the Brush of All Living Beings drank together beneath the moon.
• Bai Zhi recounted how the Bai Ze Clan had sealed her away during its upheaval, while Little Xuanji spoke of being the last survivor of his former sect.
• After Bai Zhi and Little Xuanji returned to their cave abodes, Su Mo drank alone and wondered what was wrong with his body, which could no longer condense an avatar or become drunk.
• Half a year passed, and Su Mo’s time came to seek the Old Madman and follow Suzhan in search of Alchemical Intent.

Su Mo visited Old Madman to offer his heart's blood and learn what he had discovered about Su Mo’s perfect body and Divine Soul. Old Madman warned that the problem might be greater than Su Mo imagined, and Su Mo left to seek elixir intent with Bai Zhi and Granny Su Zhan, unsettled by doubts about his own identity.

• Su Mo arrived at Old Madman's cave for their half-year appointment, gave him heart's blood, and watched his research into plants that could hold feelings fail.
• Old Madman noticed that Su Mo had reached the intent-seeking realm of the Wu Xun Elixir Art and said he had found clues about Su Mo’s problem.
• Old Madman warned Su Mo to prepare to face himself, questioning how a perfect body and Divine Soul could exist in a world where perfection had never appeared.
• Su Mo recalled his passage through different identities and admitted he did not know whether his perfect body belonged to Su Mo or Su Jingyan.
• Old Madman urged Su Mo to pursue elixir intent and search for the truth within himself, then told him to return when he had found what troubled him.
• After Su Mo left, Old Madman wondered how Su Mo could have seen a Strange Flower that had never existed in this world.

After Bai Zhi reached the Pill-Intent-Seeking Realm, Granny Su Zhan took her and Su Mo to the Ancestral Image World so they could seek their alchemical intent and earn the Immortal Furnace’s Wonder title. As they headed for the Immortal Furnace’s Ancestral Grounds, Su Mo spotted the Book Wonder and Sword Wonder nearby.

• Bai Zhi teased Su Mo in front of Granny Su Zhan, who then agreed to take both disciples to seek alchemical intent.
• Granny Su Zhan brought Su Mo and Bai Zhi through a passage and stone gate into the Ancestral Image World.
• Granny Su Zhan explained that the Immortal Domain’s Wonders had earned their titles in their sects’ Ancestral Grounds, and that ancestral steles could sense Wonder Prodigies.
• Su Mo warned Bai Zhi not to let anyone else claim the Immortal Furnace’s Wonder title, while Bai Zhi rejected his suggestions of Grass Wonder or Wood Wonder.
• Granny Su Zhan led Su Mo and Bai Zhi along the ancient street toward the Immortal Furnace’s Ancestral Grounds, where Su Mo spotted the Book Wonder and Sword Wonder.

Su Mo and Bai Zhi joked about becoming the Wonder of the Immortal Furnace as they headed for the Ancestral Courtyard. Meanwhile, Hong Xia and Wen Ge investigated disappearances in their sects, suspected the Evil Spirit Immortal Emperor Rouyun’s followers, and left the Ancestral Origin Land without finding clues.

• Su Mo teased Bai Zhi about becoming the Wonder of the Immortal Furnace, and she tattled to Granny Su Zhan that he did not want the title.
• Granny Su Zhan considered Su Mo’s suggestion that the title might make Bai Zhi more composed, and the three continued toward the Ancestral Courtyard.
• Wen Ge told Hong Xia that people had gone missing from their sects while training alone, and they suspected the Evil Spirit Immortal Emperor Rouyun’s followers were involved.
• Hong Xia and Wen Ge searched the Ancestral Origin Land but found no abnormalities near the Heart Tree.
• Hong Xia and Wen Ge decided to return to their Ancestral Grounds to seek other leads, while the Heart Tree swayed in the breeze.

Su Mo and Bai Zhi entered the Pill Furnace Ancestral Courtyard as Suzhan’s personal disciples and met their fellow Immortal Furnace disciples. As Rou'er led them to their lodgings, Bai Zhi asked for rooms close together.

• Su Mo and Bai Zhi learned that Taowu’s statues warned alchemy cultivators, and that Taowu remained sealed by Immortal Emperor Rouyun.
• Su Mo remembered Big Strong and felt lonely thinking they might never meet again, but teased Bai Zhi about continuing the Bai Ze lineage and lifted his spirits.
• Suzhan opened the gates to the Pill Furnace Ancestral Courtyard and introduced Su Mo and Bai Zhi as her personal disciples.
• The Immortal Furnace disciples warmly welcomed Su Mo and Bai Zhi, and Suzhan asked Rou'er to help them settle in.
• Rou'er asked whether Su Mo and Bai Zhi wanted lodgings close together or far apart, and Bai Zhi chose close together.

Su Mo and Bai Zhi settled into neighboring rooms at the Immortal Furnace Ancestral Grounds, where Su Mo felt at home among the peaceful disciples. The Brush of All Living Beings began to reveal its abilities, ending by declaring its power was creation.

• Senior Sister Rou'er led Su Mo and Bai Zhi to neighboring rooms beside the lotus ponds and offered to help them if needed.
• Bai Zhi blushed at the disciples' teasing, then angrily entered her room and slammed the door when Su Mo glanced at her.
• Su Mo admired the Immortal Furnace and told the Brush of All Living Beings that he liked the place at first sight.
• The Brush of All Living Beings realized it had never explained its wondrous uses to Su Mo and called itself an Emperor Artifact.
• The Brush of All Living Beings noticed Su Mo could not hear the words “Eternal Life,” then claimed it was joking and announced its power: creation.

Su Mo learned that the Brush of All Living Beings could create things by consuming its spiritual energy, but decided not to use it that way. After Bai Zhi replaced his tea-stained bedding and Senior Sister Rou'er teased them, Su Mo reflected on the coming New Year's Eve and his hopes for Baixue.

• The Brush of All Living Beings explained that the Pen Lord could draw things into existence by using its accumulated spiritual energy, and Su Mo refused to risk consuming its consciousness.
• Bai Zhi brought replacement bedding to Su Mo's room, swapped out his tea-stained bedding, and returned to dry and make the bed.
• Senior Sister Rou'er saw Bai Zhi making Su Mo's bed and teased them before delivering Immortal Lord Suzhan's message about New Year's Eve and Alchemical Intent.
• After Bai Zhi left, Su Mo sat by the window and reflected on New Year's Eve, while the Brush of All Living Beings mentioned his place as Emperor and his devotion to Baixue.

Su Mo joined the Immortal Furnace Ancestral Courtyard’s New Year celebration and was asked to write couplets for more than three hundred doorways. As he and Bai Zhi worked, Senior Sister Rou'er explained that the Ancestral Image World kept the custom because a late Immortal Emperor had loved New Year’s Eve, when the Heart Tree bestowed blessings.

• Bai Zhi woke Su Mo and brought him to the courtyard’s New Year celebration.
• Senior Sister Rou'er asked Su Mo to write a couplet, and he composed one praising the new year and the Pill Furnace.
• Impressed by his writing, Senior Sister Rou'er assigned Su Mo couplets for every doorway in the Ancestral Courtyard, while Bai Zhi offered to grind ink.
• Su Mo asked why the Ancestral Image World celebrated the Mortal Realm’s New Year, and Senior Sister Rou'er said the late Immortal Emperor had cherished the custom and that the Heart Tree released blessings each New Year’s Eve.
• Bai Zhi asked how Su Mo had learned to write, and he jokingly claimed to be the Star of Literary Excellence descended to the mortal world.

Su Mo celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Immortal Furnace disciples, and the sight of Kongming Lanterns helped him realize his alchemical intent was in his heart. He visited Rouyun in the Heart Tree world to offer New Year’s greetings, leaving her smiling beneath the couplets he pasted there.

• Su Mo and Bai Zhi finished writing more than three hundred sets of New Year Couplets and joined Senior Sister Rou'er and the other disciples for a festive dinner.
• The Immortal Furnace disciples celebrated by exploding Pill Furnaces, then led Su Mo and Bai Zhi to a mountain summit to release Kongming Lanterns.
• Watching the lanterns, Su Mo realized his alchemical intent was his dan chu and folded leftover red paper into flowers for Bai Zhi and Senior Sister Rou'er.
• Su Mo left Bai Zhi with the others and entered the world of the Heart Tree to visit Rouyun.
• Su Mo pasted New Year Couplets on the Heart Tree and told Rouyun that being happy today was enough; Rouyun smiled joyfully.

Su Mo celebrated New Year with Rouyun in the Heart Tree, then released a Kongming Lantern with Bai Zhi outside. When Senior Sister Rou'er failed to return, Su Mo searched the surrounding lands but could not sense her aura.

• Su Mo and Rouyun celebrated New Year with the tree spirits inside the Heart Tree before Su Mo returned to the outside world.
• Bai Zhi gave Su Mo a Kongming Lantern, and they released it after writing their wishes; Bai Zhi wished she would not become the Pill Wonder.
• Su Mo noticed Senior Sister Rou'er had not returned, and a disciple reported that her Voice Transmission Slip received no response.
• Su Mo sent the other disciples back to the Ancestral Courtyard to look for Rou'er while he waited on the mountaintop.
• After Bai Zhi reported that Rou'er was not at the Ancestral Courtyard, Su Mo carved a message in the void and searched hundreds of thousands of miles with his Divine Sense, finding no trace of her.

Su Mo searched the Ancestral City after Senior Sister Rou'er vanished and realized someone might be using living sacrifices for a forbidden alchemy. He used the paper flower he had given her to summon her back through the laws, but a sword strike wounded him, and he glimpsed a horrifying figure beyond the closing rift.

• Su Mo searched the Ancestral Image World for Senior Sister Rou'er but found no trace of her.
• Hong Xia and Wen Ge told Su Mo that disciples across the Ancestral Grounds had gone missing, and suspected Taowu's followers.
• The Brush of All Living Beings suggested the disappearances might be connected to alchemy and a forbidden art involving living sacrifices.
• Su Mo used the alchemical intent and karma tied to Rou'er's paper flower to call her back through the power of law.
• A frail figure fell through a rift, and a sword-ray pierced Su Mo before a Divine Talisman blocked most of its force.
• Su Mo saw a horrifying scene beyond the rift and realized the person on the other side was not the Three Pure Ones.

Su Mo survived a devastating sword strike from a mysterious realm beyond the rift and brought the dying Senior Sister Rou'er back to the Immortal Furnace Ancestral Courtyard. He learned that the Ancestral Image World had been cut off from the outside, leaving its young Heavenly Prodigies isolated as danger closed in.

• Su Mo glimpsed horned, red-eyed figures performing a bloody sacrifice beyond the rift, and a white-haired swordsman struck him with a Sword-Ray that the Book of Life and Death barely stopped.
• Su Mo asked the Brush of All Living Beings to check Senior Sister Rou'er and learned that her vitality was nearly exhausted.
• Su Mo carried Senior Sister Rou'er to the Immortal Furnace Ancestral Courtyard, where the anxious disciples saw her near death and Su Mo wounded.
• Su Mo asked whether anyone had notified the Cave Heaven, and a senior brother told him that communication and the ancient Teleportation route had both been severed.
• Su Mo carried Senior Sister Rou'er toward her quarters while the disciples silently made way, recognizing that her essence had been stripped away and could not be restored.

Su Mo used his Giant God Blood to briefly restore Senior Sister Rou'er after her essence was stripped away, but she remained close to death. Before she died, Rou'er entrusted the Immortal Furnace disciples to Su Mo and lamented that she had never properly enjoyed the New Year.

• Su Mo laid Senior Sister Rou'er on her bed and fed her drop after drop of Divine Heart Blood despite the Brush of All Living Beings warning that she would still die.
• Senior Sister Rou'er awoke, saw Su Mo's wounds, and asked what had happened to them both.
• Rou'er gave Su Mo the damaged Pill Furnace she had obtained as a New Year's gift for him and Bai Zhi, and Su Mo assured her that Jing Yan liked it.
• Su Mo told Rou'er that someone had taken her to an unknowable place and Jing Yan had brought her back too late; Rou'er urged him not to blame himself.
• Rou'er asked Su Mo to look after the trapped Immortal Furnace disciples, and he promised to lead them out of the sealed Ancestral Grounds.
• Rou'er held Su Mo's hand as she died, regretting that she had not properly enjoyed the New Year.

After Senior Sister Rou'er died, Su Mo stitched his wound and prepared to lead the Immortal Furnace disciples through the coming calamity. A white-haired, horned old man emerged from a vast rift but was blocked by the Ancestral Grounds’ rules, and said he had found someone in Ancestral City.

• Su Mo covered Rou'er's body and grieved her death, then stitched his chest wound so his Divine Body could heal.
• Su Mo suspected the people who had stolen others’ source were planning to take the Ancestral Image World’s Power of Origin, and remembered the white-haired old man’s promise to return.
• Su Mo told the Brush of All Living Beings that he felt awful, was angry, and wanted to kill; the Brush urged him to call forth a long-waiting presence.
• A vast rift opened at the edge of the Ancestral Image World, and the white-haired, horned old man emerged with a blood-colored Divine Sword.
• The old man could not enter because the Ancestral Grounds’ rules blocked him, but he looked toward Ancestral City and said he had found someone.

Seven blood-colored banners enclosed the Ancestral Image World, allowing eerie black figures to drain disciples of their power of origin. As Wen Ge and Hong Xia led survivors toward the Ancestral Courtyards, Bai Zhi entered Senior Sister Rou'er's room and found her dead while Su Mo stood nearby with a strange black book floating behind him.

• Seven banners landed around the Ancestral Image World, spreading azure mist and a power of law that let black figures seize the disciples' power of origin.
• A black figure drained an Ancient Scroll disciple, and its kind proved immune to ordinary sword attacks until Wen Ge and Hong Xia protected the survivors.
• The black figures admitted they had caused the Ancestral Grounds' disappearances to gather power of origin and spoke of the Ancestral Origin Land and the Heart Tree.
• Wen Ge warned that only the power of rules could counter the black figures, then ordered everyone to retreat into the Ancestral Courtyards.
• Bai Zhi entered Senior Sister Rou'er's room and found Rou'er dead, while Su Mo stood at the doorway with a pitch-black book floating behind him.

After Eldest Senior Sister died, Su Mo accepted responsibility for the Immortal Furnace disciples and sent them to stay in the Ancestral Courtyard while he faced the danger outside. Reunited with the Book of Life and Death, he resolved to fight through slaughter.

• Su Mo asked the Immortal Furnace disciples to let him take up Eldest Senior Sister's burden, and they agreed.
• When the disciples proposed fighting their way out, Su Mo used the golden Dragon-Pattern Laws to imprison them and told them to stay in the Ancestral Courtyard and keep contacting the Immortal Furnace.
• Su Mo left the rear courtyard and remembered the New Year's Eve celebration and Eldest Senior Sister, who had died.
• Su Mo greeted the Book of Life and Death, acknowledging that it had repeatedly saved him despite his fear and avoidance of it.
• Su Mo faced the Ancestral Courtyard's gateway and declared that gentleness could not save anyone, choosing slaughter instead.

Su Mo confronted the Black Figures attacking the Ancestral Grounds and used the Book of Life and Death to identify and kill them. He drew the Evil-Slaying Sword and cleared the street, while the slaughter continued elsewhere in the mist.

• Su Mo left the Ancestral Courtyard, raised a barrier around it, and summoned the Book of Life and Death.
• The Book of Life and Death revealed the Black Figures’ names in their own script, and Su Mo killed one who ambushed him.
• The Black Figures exploited Su Mo’s chest wound and attacked, but his divine bones remained unharmed.
• Su Mo summoned the Evil-Slaying Sword and unleashed Mortal Realm Purgatory, killing dozens of Black Figures.
• The names in the air took shape and the remaining Black Figures on the street fell, while the wider battle continued beyond it.

Su Mo crossed the Ancestral Grounds as the seven Banners gathered the essence of the dead, killing the invading other race with the Book of Life and Death and the Sword of Evil-Slaying. Survivors returned to the Ancestral Courtyard and recognized him from the descriptions as a disciple of the Immortal Furnace.

• Su Mo reflected on the mysterious white-haired old man's words and suspected the Ancestral Image World hid truths he did not understand.
• The other race slaughtered people across the Ancestral Grounds, while the seven Banners absorbed the essence of the dead and threatened the realm's destruction.
• Su Mo arrived at a besieged group and killed the attackers with his eerie runes and divine sword before continuing through the snow.
• The survivors returned to the Ancestral Courtyard and told Hong Xia and Wen Ge that a white-haired man in bloodstained white robes had killed the other race in the streets.
• Wen Ge and Hong Xia recognized the description as Su Mo, and Hong Xia said he was a disciple of the Immortal Furnace.