Recaps

Eternal Life created a second self from life, death, and his own memories, then sent him into the Long River to find the lost Divine Race members. After Su Mo learned that he was not simply Eternal Life’s incarnation, he told the dying Eternal Life that he had found them, bringing him comfort.

• The White-Clad One forged a seven-volume book from life, death, and other powers, then transformed the Strange Flower into a second self.
• The incarnation agreed to search for Chang Ding, Chang Ling, Long Robe, Chang Feng, Chang Shui, and Chang Zhi, despite the risk of losing his way and dying.
• The incarnation took a lamp into the Long River, lit the extinguished floating lanterns, and followed the lost Divine Race members.
• After a long wait, Eternal Life saw Su Mo emerge in the Third Heaven and explained that the incarnation had died, while Su Mo was now himself.
• Su Mo told Eternal Life that he had found the others, and Eternal Life wept with relief.

Su Mo learned that he was Eternal Life’s Incarnation and that their memories connected them to the Divine Race and the Yanhuang Clan. Eternal Life pointed out that Su Mo’s Spirit Sea might hold the missing key to Reincarnation, and they entered it to investigate.

• Su Mo realized he was the Incarnation Eternal Life had created and understood how the lost Divine Race members had reached the Nine Heavens.
• Su Mo asked why they remembered their previous lives and belonged to the Divine Race, and Eternal Life suggested they were Yanhuang descendants born with divinity.
• Su Mo urged Eternal Life to see the Mortal Realm, but Eternal Life said he could no longer light lamps and explained that Reincarnation might deliver the world.
• Eternal Life told Su Mo that he had overlooked his Spirit Sea and asked why it had appeared.
• Su Mo opened his Spirit Sea Gate, and Eternal Life followed him inside, where they saw the Book of Life and Death, the River of Forgetfulness, and a stone bridge that Eternal Life said seemed like a product of the world's consciousness.

Eternal Life revealed that Su Mo was the means to deliver the world and urged him to unlock the Book of Life and Death’s final volumes. After Eternal Life transferred his power and life force to Su Mo, he dispersed, leaving Su Mo grieving beside the Long River as a person and a beast arrived.

• Eternal Life told Su Mo that the world’s fate might have been ordained and that Su Mo could deliver it by opening the Book of Life and Death’s final volumes.
• Su Mo found the sixth volume, the Rebirth Scroll, blank, and discovered that the seventh volume was blank as well.
• Su Mo offered to let Eternal Life enter reincarnation and seek a way home, but Eternal Life said he could not return and chose to give Su Mo his accumulated cultivation and remaining life force.
• Eternal Life transferred his power to Su Mo, then spoke of his longing for his parents before dispersing into the wind.
• Su Mo mourned Eternal Life beside the Long River until a person and a beast emerged from the void and embraced him.

Su Mo reunited with the Divine Maiden at the Long River after learning that Eternal Life had only been a dream and that he was born in Jiangnan. He offered to tell her the truth of her origins, but she said it no longer mattered, and Su Mo realized that perhaps she had never truly wanted to know.

• Su Mo grieved over the revelation that Eternal Life had been his dream, while the Divine Maiden and the Void Beast stayed beside him.
• Su Mo reflected that he and the Divine Maiden had both become people distinct from who they had been before losing their memories.
• Su Mo told the Divine Maiden that he had discovered where he came from and learned her origins, leaving her to decide whether she wanted to know.
• The Divine Maiden said the answer no longer mattered and explained that pursuing a truth could matter more than obtaining it.
• Su Mo realized that the Divine Maiden might never have truly wanted to learn the reason for her existence.

Su Mo learned that his past-life memories belonged to Eternal Life and created an incarnation so he could return to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. As Su Jingyan and Big Strong set off for home, Su Mo left with the Divine Maiden to begin a plan aimed at destroying and reincarnating the world.

• Su Mo mourned the loss of his connection to Eternal Life’s memories as Big Strong tried to comfort him.
• Su Mo created Su Jingyan from a Flower of the Other Shore, linking their Divine Senses so they shared one consciousness.
• Su Jingyan asked Big Strong to take him home, and the Void Beast carried him through the void toward the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Su Mo prepared to carry out a scheme across the Immortal Domain and Mortal Realm to bring destruction before the world’s reincarnation.
• The Divine Maiden opened a rift, and she and Su Mo left the desolate Third Heaven.

Two scholars discussed the Riverboat Pavilion and the Music Immortal’s devotion to the legendary scholar who died a thousand years earlier, while an unseen observer watched from the crowd. At court, Emperor Ying faced renewed demands to name an heir, and Minister Xu urged him to summon the missing princess.

• A scholar from Capital City explained that the Riverboat Pavilion honored the dead scholar and had been established by the Music Immortal, who never played her life-bound zither again after his death.
• The two scholars left to attend to the approaching Spring Examination as an unidentified person watched the pleasure boat and disappeared into the crowd.
• At court, Emperor Ying let the Ministry of Rites decide the Spring Examination questions instead of changing them himself.
• Minister Xu and the other ministers petitioned Emperor Ying to designate an heir, and Emperor Ying challenged them to say whom he should choose.
• Minister Xu suggested that Emperor Ying summon his missing daughter, the princess, and designate her as heir.

Emperor Ying’s ministers urged him to name Princess Shitong heir, but Elder Xu reminded him that Emperor Jing Yan had been dead for over a thousand years. As Emperor Ying and his wife mourned Mo’er beside the lotus pond, the long-lost wanderer returned.

• Emperor Ying refused to discuss naming Princess Shitong heir, then erupted when Xu Xixi pressed him and declared that Emperor Jing Yan was dead.
• Xu Xixi explained that he had urged Emperor Ying to name an heir because the emperor was still grieving his son and waiting for his return.
• Emperor Ying left court and went to the Imperial Garden, where his wife was sewing another dragon robe for Mo’er.
• Emperor Ying and his wife spoke of how much they missed Mo’er and feared he might return only after they were gone.
• Emperor Ying sensed a familiar presence and saw Mo’er standing beside the lotus pond in white, weeping as he looked at them.

Su Mo returned to the Imperial Garden after a thousand years and reunited with his parents, Emperor Ying and Prince Ying's Princess Consort. As they welcomed him home, Elder Xu arrived and knelt before him, addressing him as his emperor.

• Su Mo knelt before his parents, and Prince Ying's Princess Consort rushed across the pond to embrace him.
• Su Mo assured his mother that he had not suffered and told her he had traveled until he found a way to return.
• Emperor Ying joined Su Mo and, after struggling to show his feelings, embraced his son.
• A guard announced Elder Xu's arrival, and Emperor Ying ordered that he be summoned.
• Elder Xu saw Su Mo, knelt before him, and paid his respects as his emperor.

Su Jingyan reunited with Emperor Ying, his consort, and Xu Xixi after returning in secret, and he asked Xu Xixi to rest while he quietly resumed his place among them. The chapter ended with Su Jingyan asleep peacefully beside his parents in the pavilion as the lights of the Capital City shone outside.

• Xu Xixi knelt before Su Jingyan and revealed his enduring loyalty to the White-Clad One, whom he recognized as Su Mo.
• Su Jingyan thanked Xu Xixi for serving Emperor Ying, told him to rest, and asked him not to reveal his return.
• Su Jingyan reassured Emperor Ying and his consort that he knew where Girl was and asked them to keep his return secret.
• Su Mo changed into the white robe Emperor Ying's consort had sewn for him and reunited with his parents in the little pavilion.
• Su Jingyan fell asleep peacefully with his head on his mother's lap while Emperor Ying reviewed memorials beside them.

Su Jingyan reunited with his parents, then studied the Longevity Stele and discovered that the Nine Heavens’ calamity stemmed from a failed attempt at eternal life. He concluded that saving everyone required gathering their life souls and beginning the world’s true reincarnation, a power he had not yet mastered.

• Su Jingyan woke beside his parents, promised he would not leave again, and departed to prepare before visiting Little Girl and his old acquaintances.
• Emperor Ying Consort told Emperor Ying that Xu Xixi seemed to be missing part of his life soul after Su Jingyan had asked him to resign and wait at home.
• Su Jingyan went to the Longevity Stele and read how alchemy cultivators had used strands of people’s life souls in a failed attempt to grant eternal life.
• Su Jingyan realized that the missing life souls had been taken to sustain the Eternal Life Elixir Art, which left people trapped between life and death and could not stop the world’s destruction.
• Su Jingyan concluded that he needed everyone’s life souls and the true reincarnation of the world before he could send all living beings across the River of Forgetfulness.

Su Jingyan used the Longevity Stele and Book of Life and Death to preserve the life souls of everyone in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, then reunited with Green Robe in a vision. A thousand years later, Little Girl waited for Su Mo’s return, and he appeared among the blooming flowers of the other shore.

• Su Jingyan used the Longevity Stele to gather a thread of life soul from every living being, and Green Robe appeared before him before fading away.
• Su Jingyan merged the life-soul threads into the seventh volume of the Book of Life and Death, recording everyone’s names and deeds.
• People near death began reporting visions of a stone gate and a flower of the other shore leading to another world.
• Little Girl gathered the flower of the other shore power to preserve her appearance until Su Mo returned, while her black-robed master warned that Su Mo might be dead.
• Little Girl said her incarnation had traveled upstream along the Long River and that Su Mo would return soon.
• Flowers of the other shore bloomed across the hillside, and Su Mo appeared among them with his arms open to Little Girl.

Little Girl reunited with Su Jingyan after waiting a thousand years and told him why she had remained a child. Su Jingyan then spoke with Great Peng, who revealed that taking Little Girl as his disciple had been a way to see whether Su Jingyan’s devotion was worth it.

• Little Girl rushed into Su Jingyan’s arms, and the two embraced as she wept and called him Older Brother.
• Little Girl told Su Jingyan about the past thousand years, including becoming Great Peng’s disciple and sending an incarnation to the Long River.
• Little Girl said she had stayed a child because she feared Su Jingyan would not recognize her if she grew up, and Su Jingyan promised he would not leave again.
• Little Girl fell asleep in Su Jingyan’s arms, and he recognized the black-robed elder as Great Peng.
• Su Jingyan asked why Great Peng had taken Little Girl as his disciple, and Great Peng said he wanted to know whether Su Jingyan’s devotion was worth it before answering that it was.

Great Peng told Su Jingyan how his solitary pursuit of sainthood gave way to a desire for an ordinary life after he witnessed mortal kindness and took Su Jingyan’s younger sister as his disciple. With Su Jingyan returned and Little Girl safe, Great Peng accepted his approaching death and passed away beneath the moon.

• Great Peng recalled planning to refine half the world’s people to gain sainthood and buy time for the Nine Heavens, despite becoming a condemned sinner.
• After Su Jingyan died, Great Peng wandered the Mortal World and was moved by an ordinary woman who lived a peaceful, contented life.
• Great Peng sought to recover his discarded mortal intent and found Su Jingyan’s younger sister, who became his disciple and waited for her Older Brother to return.
• Great Peng regained his mortal intent, relinquished his supreme cultivation, and devoted himself to guiding Little Girl and fulfilling her wish to reunite with Su Jingyan.
• Su Jingyan offered to let Great Peng live another thousand years, but Great Peng refused and chose to die after learning Su Jingyan had returned.
• Great Peng let Little Girl sleep undisturbed and passed away beneath the moon, calling the Mortal World a temporary lodging and himself a traveler.

Su Jingyan understood that reincarnation let the dead leave their regrets behind as flowers of the Other Shore, and he began guiding souls across the River of Forgetfulness. After Great Peng crossed, the little Peng Bird warned that Su Jingyan might never be able to lay his own cares to rest, then departed into the unknown.

• Su Jingyan realized that souls should leave their thoughts on the Other Shore, where they would become flowers, and changed the Soul Incense Volume so he could guide the dead across the River of Forgetfulness.
• After Great Peng died, his soul took the form of a little Peng Bird, and Su Jingyan guided him through a stone gate toward the River of Forgetfulness.
• The little Peng Bird questioned whether souls would truly be reborn, and Su Jingyan assured him that rebirth would come with time as countless souls crossed the bridge.
• The little Peng Bird told Su Jingyan that he would suffer most because he would have to send his loved ones across while remaining unable to lay his own cares to rest.
• The little Peng Bird crossed the Stone Bridge, said that he and Su Jingyan would never meet again, and left a flower of the Other Shore bearing his regrets.

Su Jingyan reviewed the seventh volume of the Book of Life and Death, which recorded the lives of everyone whose Life Souls he had obtained, and faced his duty to send them into Reincarnation. Little Girl urged him to meet the women waiting for him, but he fled in another direction, while she returned to the palace with Big Strong.

• Su Jingyan found Great Peng and the people he knew recorded in the seventh volume and considered the regrets that would come with sending them across the River of Forgetfulness.
• Little Girl asked whether her master could be reborn, and Su Jingyan assured her that he could.
• Little Girl urged Su Jingyan to visit his waiting confidantes and tell them how he felt, mentioning Luo Yin's illness and Phoenix Woman's near-failed Nirvana.
• Su Jingyan agreed to go but vanished in another direction because he did not know how to face the women.
• After seeing Su Jingyan's name on the final page of the seventh volume, Little Girl rode Big Strong back to the palace.

A woman told the old man that a dream during her nirvana showed a white-clad man protecting her before birth and suggested he was her parents’ close friend. She hoped the dream meant he had survived and might return, but the old man could only tell her she missed him too much.

• The old man asked the woman why her last nirvana had caused such a tremendous upheaval, and she said she had dreamed of her deceased parents.
• The woman described a white-clad man who had sealed her and her mother in the Phoenix Nest and used the Phoenix Feather to protect her.
• The woman realized the man was familiar with the Phoenix Nest because he had entered it with her and had undergone nirvana using her Phoenix Feather.
• The woman told the old man that the white-clad man had been her parents’ close friend and wondered whether he had survived and could return.
• The old man watched the woman lower her head over the man’s teacup and told her she missed him too much.

A woman and an old man mourned Jing Yan and recalled the pain and sacrifices that had driven him away. Jing Yan returned to the bamboo hut, proved himself real by restoring the Flowers of the Other Shore, and told his master that all was well.

• The woman blamed herself for asking Jing Yan to go to the Demon Realm and lamented that the world had turned against him.
• The old man remembered Jing Yan as his only disciple and believed his plans had come from caring for others, not disappointment in the world.
• The old man saw a white-robed figure approach and thought he was dreaming until the figure touched his face.
• Jing Yan told his master, “It's me, Jing Yan,” and said that he had really returned.
• Jing Yan made the Flowers of the Other Shore bloom across the ground before the hut, and the woman and old man recognized him.
• The old man asked Jing Yan how it had been, and Jing Yan smiled through his tears and answered, “All right.”

After a thousand years, Su Jingyan reunited with Du Pingsheng and shared tea with his master, while the Phoenix Woman returned to the Demon Realm. Du Pingsheng urged Su Jingyan to face his complicated feelings, and Su Jingyan left for the Demon Realm at dusk.

• The Phoenix Woman saw Su Jingyan again, then flew back to the Phoenix Palace in the Demon Realm.
• Su Jingyan brewed tea for Du Pingsheng, and the two shared a quiet reunion after a thousand years apart.
• Du Pingsheng urged Su Jingyan to tell the women in his life how he felt, even if he could not promise them a future together.
• Su Jingyan asked about Qing Yi, and Du Pingsheng said she was still practicing medicine and that he would bring her back soon.
• After spending the day together, Su Jingyan took his leave and headed toward the Demon Realm.

Su Jingyan returned to the Demon Realm after a thousand years and reunited with the Phoenix Woman in the Phoenix Palace. He took her through the Spirit Sea Gate and said that perhaps everything would have a perfect ending if he survived what was coming.

• Su Jingyan entered the Phoenix Palace, where the Green-Robed Attendant and the other attendants recognized him and welcomed him back.
• Su Jingyan learned that the Phoenix Venerable had returned and went alone to the Sleeping Hall.
• The Phoenix Woman told Little Fish that its father was back, and Little Fish flew off toward the Ninth Heaven to find him.
• Su Jingyan tasted the Phoenix Woman's cooking, called the dishes bad, and said he still liked them before sharing a meal with her.
• Su Jingyan summoned the Spirit Sea Gate, took the Phoenix Woman by the hand, and said that perhaps they would have a perfect ending if he survived.

Su Mo explained to Phoenix Woman that he would send the world through Reincarnation to avert its catastrophe, while a mysterious force had stopped anyone from being born. After admitting that he liked her, he left her behind, knowing their next meeting would be her crossing into Reincarnation.

• Su Mo told Phoenix Woman that the world's people had to cross the River of Forgetfulness and enter Reincarnation, where they would begin again without Destiny.
• Phoenix Woman asked whether people would remain themselves and whether everyone could cross; Su Mo revealed that no one could have children and that the Book of Life and Death had stopped recording new names.
• Su Mo said an unknown will or the world itself might be helping his plan, and Phoenix Woman foresaw a Mortal Realm emptied of ordinary people before hope arrived.
• Phoenix Woman understood Su Mo's fear of forming ties and asked whether he liked her; Su Mo said that he did.
• Phoenix Woman asked Su Mo to see her across the river when they met again, and Su Mo left, knowing their next meeting would be her passage into Reincarnation.

Su Mo reunited with Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden after a thousand years apart, and all three embraced as they shared how much they had missed one another. Great Calamity then pulled Su Mo away from Mysterious Maiden to catch up with him, leaving the two women poised to vie for his attention.

• Su Mo sensed Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden approaching and greeted them in the void.
• Great Calamity embraced Su Mo and recalled how she had accompanied and protected him throughout his growth.
• Su Mo admitted how much he had missed Great Calamity, and they held each other for a long time.
• At Great Calamity's urging, Su Mo embraced Mysterious Maiden, who confessed that she had missed him too.
• Great Calamity pulled them apart and teased Mysterious Maiden while leaning against Su Mo.

Su Mo reunited with Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden, whose teasing gave way to concern when they saw the souls and flowers in his Spirit Sea and realized he was preparing something for the dead. The scene then shifted to a rainy forest at the Waterside of Sky and Water, where a group gathered beside a river to carry out a task.

• Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden teased Su Mo for not visiting them first after his return.
• Great Calamity revealed she had been spending time with Emperor Ying Consort, and Mysterious Maiden and Great Calamity argued over their ties to Su Mo.
• Mysterious Maiden entered Su Mo’s Spirit Sea, followed by Great Calamity, and they found souls crossing the River of Forgetfulness as Flowers of the Other Shore bloomed along its banks.
• Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden realized Su Mo was making plans involving the departed, while Su Mo gazed silently at the moon.
• At the Waterside of Sky and Water, a little girl and two men stood in the rain beneath umbrellas and complained that their target was in a river they could only see when it rained.

The group followed the rainy river’s clues to a hidden opening beneath a broken rock face, where they believed the Great Tomb lay. As they wondered how to enter, a voice spoke of the Other Shore and Eternal Life, and a sudden boom shook them.

• The group debated whether to follow the river upstream or downstream, and a vote ended in a tie.
• Little Girl proposed deciding by the number of bites she took from a chicken drumstick, then declared they should go upstream.
• The group found a cliffside opening where the water curved around a rock face and mist blew outward, matching the clue about waters turning and mist clearing.
• Red-Clad One asked how they could dig into the mountainside without disturbing the Great Tomb, and the two men lamented that Little Junior Brother was absent.
• A voice nearby said, “This Shore is the Other Shore. I am... Eternal Life...,” and a boom made everyone turn toward it.

Su Mo reunited with Gu Yu and his fellow disciples in the rain, then joined them in continuing their exploration of the Great Tombs. When Su Mo hesitated over how to open the next tomb without inviting bad luck, his companions began chiseling an entrance into the cliff.

• Gu Yu recognized Su Mo, and he confirmed that he was alive.
• Sixth Senior Sister, Fourth Senior Brother, and Fifth Senior Brother rushed to embrace Su Mo, while First Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother watched.
• Gu Yu straightened Su Mo's clothes and told him to live properly now that he had returned.
• Su Mo agreed to keep exploring the Great Tomb and tried to open it by saying, "This Shore..."
• Sixth Senior Sister stopped Su Mo from calling the tomb his home, and the group discussed how to make the Laws of Heaven and Earth open it.
• Fourth Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, and Sixth Senior Sister began chiseling an entrance into the cliff.

Su Mo accidentally made a tomb skeleton emerge when he opened a tomb with his Confucian Dao True Words, so he and his companions abandoned the exploration and decided to return to the Academy. He then found Luo Yin on a mountaintop and reunited with her through music.

• Su Mo opened the Tomb Cave with his Confucian Dao True Words, and a skeleton came out under the control of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Gu Yu and the others decided not to enter the tomb, and the skeleton returned inside after Su Mo apologized and said goodbye.
• The group chose to return to the Academy, and Gu Yu asked Su Mo to bring Luo Yin back with him.
• Su Mo found Luo Yin alone on a mountaintop, and she wept when she heard his familiar voice and saw him again.
• Luo Yin restored the broken strings of her Ink Zither, and she and Su Mo played music together with the Jade Flute.