Recaps

Su Mo used the emperor’s decree to evacuate Snow City and traveled with Little Girl to rescue people across the Snow Domain. After using the Fate Token to command Hua Kingdom’s national fortune and transport a town’s people to safety, he suffered severe backlash that further damaged his divine soul.

• Su Mo ordered Liang Yi to lead Snow City’s defenders and residents out of the Snow Domain, then set off with Little Girl for another settlement.
• Su Mo warned a town’s residents that another heavy snowfall was coming and offered to take them out, despite their lack of provisions.
• Su Mo activated the Fate Token and discovered that national fortune let him perceive all of Hua Kingdom and use his Confucian Dao True Words without spending spiritual power.
• Su Mo used national fortune and his Confucian Dao True Words to send the townspeople to the banks of the Bian River.
• The backlash worsened the cracks in Su Mo’s divine soul, and Little Girl rushed to support him as he realized how powerful a Confucian practitioner could become by wielding national fortune.

Su Mo and Little Girl searched the Snow Domain for survivors and helped evacuate them, while Su Mo grew weaker from using National Fortune Power. After Master Hui Kong joined them, Su Mo and Little Girl built snowmen together before the three left for Jiangnan.

• Su Mo and Little Girl traveled from town to town, and he persuaded or sent the survivors away while growing weaker each time he used National Fortune Power.
• After more than half a month, Master Hui Kong returned and told Su Mo that he had evacuated everyone in the Snow Domain beyond Great Hua.
• Su Mo reassured Master Hui Kong that he did not suffer with Girl by his side, then invited her to build snowmen.
• Su Mo and Little Girl built snowmen of each other, and Su Mo made an especially ugly snowman modeled after Master Hui Kong.
• Su Mo, Little Girl, and Master Hui Kong left the Snow Domain to find a boat and travel down to Jiangnan, leaving three snowmen behind.

While traveling through Jiangnan, Su Mo learned that Ning Baixue had refused an arranged marriage because she considered him her husband, stirring complicated feelings as he continued to weaken. The chapter ended with news that outsiders heading for the Demon Sect had been killed on the way.

• Su Mo, Little Girl, and Master Hui Kong traveled south by boat and stopped at a Jiangnan teahouse.
• Su Mo overheard that outsiders had attacked the Dao Sect and sought an alliance and marriage with the Holy Sect.
• Su Mo learned Ning Baixue had refused the marriage, claiming she already had a husband from the Ghost Gate illusion.
• Su Mo heard that Ning Baixue had left the Holy Sect and was being pursued, and he worried over her fate.
• A teahouse patron said outsiders bound for the Demon Sect had been killed on the way.

Su Mo overheard mortals turn his deeds into legend and mistakenly credit him with killing the outsiders, while Master Hui Kong noticed his troubled mind. As Su Mo’s Divine Soul weakened and the Upper Realm’s cultivators flooded into the Ninth Realm, a mysterious figure carrying a Flower of the Other Shore found his boat.

• Pockmarked Face told a man from Great Xing that Su Mo had killed the outsiders in the Snow Domain, then recounted an embellished account of Su Mo’s deeds to the gathered listeners.
• Su Mo realized that someone appeared to be deliberately spreading stories about him and wondered whether the emperor was building momentum.
• The man suggested that Su Mo should be their emperor, startling the others, and the group left the teahouse.
• Master Hui Kong told Su Mo that his mind was troubled, and the three returned to their boat and continued downriver.
• Su Mo’s Divine Soul grew weaker as heavy snow returned to the Snow Domain and countless Upper Realm Immortal Cultivators entered the Ninth Realm.
• A terribly weak, uncanny figure carrying a Flower of the Other Shore found Su Mo’s boat as he seemed near death.

The Upper Realm cultivators descended into the Ninth Realm, and their leaders set out to seize its power while searching for a mysterious artifact. Lei Li attacked the Dao Sect, and Dao Twelve called for the ancestor as the sect’s defenses began to fail.

• Yu Gu and Lei Li argued over past failures and the deaths of their descendants before a middle-aged Cloud Sect leader urged them to focus on their mission.
• Lei Li claimed the Dao Sect for her clan, while Yu Gu vowed to find the killer of his grandson and began leading the Rain Sect toward the Demon Sect in Great Hua.
• The Cloud Sect leader sent his cultivators toward the Holy Sect and urged the descending clans to obtain the Ninth Realm’s National Fortune Power.
• Lei Li demanded the Dao Sect submit to her, but Dao Twelve and his elders refused.
• Lei Li struck the Dao Sect’s barrier with her Thunder Sword, injuring Dao Twelve and killing ordinary disciples with the force of the lightning.
• Dao Twelve ordered the sect to summon its ancestor, and a sigh sounded across heaven and earth.

The Dao Sect's ancestor sacrificed himself to shield the sect long enough for Emperor Xing to evacuate its people to Great Hua, while Old Woman Lei Li took control of the sect and began refining its fortune vein. At Great Hua Academy, the Dean admitted he had forgotten to consider healing Little Su Su's shattered Divine Soul, then assured Gu Yu and Luo Yin that Little Seven would survive and said he would rest for two more days.

• The Dao Sect's ancestor told Dao Twelve and the elders to evacuate, and Emperor Xing offered to send them to the border of Great Xing to meet the Emperor of Great Hua.
• The ancestor used the Hundred Fragrances Bell to shield the Dao Sect from Old Woman Lei Li's thunder, then turned to ashes after the lightning passed.
• Emperor Xing used national fortune power to carry the Dao Sect's people away as the Thunder Spirit shattered the ancestor's barriers.
• Old Woman Lei Li claimed the Dao Sect and decided to refine its fortune vein before pursuing the evacuated people.
• At Great Hua Academy, Gu Yu reminded the Dean that Little Su Su's Divine Soul was shattered, and the Dean realized he had forgotten to find a way to heal it.
• The Dean told Luo Yin and Gu Yu that Little Seven would not die, then said he would rest for another two days despite the Upper Realm's cultivators having descended.

The Great Calamity brought the Flower of the Other Shore to save Su Mo, but Little Girl revealed that the flower would turn him into a puppet and that she herself was the flower. Little Girl sacrificed herself to save Su Mo, leaving the Great Calamity restored and Su Mo seeing her in a dream.

• The Great Calamity arrived with the Flower of the Other Shore as Su Mo lay near death, and Little Girl remembered who she was and where she came from.
• Little Girl refused to let the Great Calamity give Su Mo the flower, explaining that its poison would take over his Divine Soul and make him a puppet.
• Little Girl told the Great Calamity that she was the Flower of the Other Shore and that her death could save Su Mo; she absorbed the flower, causing the Great Calamity's body to solidify.
• Little Girl asked the Great Calamity to tie Su Mo's hair after she was gone, then turned into starlight and merged into his forehead.
• Su Mo wept as a withered Flower of the Other Shore remained on his chest, and Little Girl appeared before him in a white dreamscape.

Yu Gu tracked Su Mo’s aura to the river and confronted Master Hui Kong, while Su Mo learned the Little Girl had sacrificed herself to save him. As she faded away, she revealed that he could bring her back by reviving a withered Flower of the Other Shore and filling the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with flowers.

• Yu Gu killed everyone in a Jiangnan city except Pockmarked Face, searched his soul, and learned that Su Mo was connected to the deaths of the Rain Clan in the Snow Domain.
• Yu Gu sensed Su Mo’s aura near the river and found the little boat, where Master Hui Kong confronted him and urged him to stop killing.
• The Little Girl told Su Mo that she had traveled upstream to find her big brother, and that her longing had made the Flowers of the Other Shore poisonous.
• The Little Girl explained that she had saved Su Mo by sacrificing herself, and revealed that Su Mo was her big brother whom she had met downstream.
• Su Mo promised not to give the Little Girl’s withered Flower of the Other Shore to the people from the world above and vowed to prevent the world from suffering because of her sacrifice.
• The Little Girl said Su Mo could bring her back by reviving the withered flower and filling the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with Flowers of the Other Shore, then faded away.

After Little Girl vanished, Su Mo grieved for her and fell into memories of their life together as his consciousness drifted into the River of Forgetfulness. Elsewhere, Master Hui Kong confronted Yu Gu, who remained determined to avenge his grandson and attacked the monk.

• Su Mo realized Little Girl was gone and searched the empty expanse for her, pleading for her to answer him.
• Su Mo remembered Little Girl’s words and their time together, then sank into the River of Forgetfulness with her image in his mind.
• Yu Gu questioned Master Hui Kong after discovering he could not see through the monk’s cultivation.
• Master Hui Kong urged Yu Gu to abandon his revenge, but Yu Gu refused and demanded that the monk step aside.
• Yu Gu invoked “Rainfall!” and changed the color of heaven and earth.

Master Hui Kong endured Yu Gu’s rain arts and guided him to a new understanding of rain and reincarnation, but Yu Gu threatened to kill ordinary people unless he could pursue revenge against Su Mo. Hui Kong let Yu Gu kill him with an ordinary sword, and Yu Gu left in a state of Buddhist awakening while Hui Kong died aboard the boat.

• Yu Gu summoned his Life-Bound Spirit Artifact and used Rain Fate to make people age, but Master Hui Kong’s Buddhist light protected them and himself.
• Master Hui Kong explained that rain encompassed both life and reincarnation, prompting Yu Gu to gain insight into the Dao.
• Yu Gu threatened to kill ordinary people if Master Hui Kong continued to protect Su Mo, forcing Hui Kong to choose between them.
• Master Hui Kong offered Yu Gu the chance to kill him with an ordinary sword, and Yu Gu pierced his heart.
• As he died, Master Hui Kong recited Buddhist teachings, and Yu Gu reached a state of awakening before leaving.
• Master Hui Kong returned to the boat, sat in meditation, and died without resolving his debate with Su Mo.

Su Mo woke from a dream after Great Calamity urged him to live on and care for Little Girl, then asked her to explain her past and the history of the Ten Heavens and Ten Earths. Great Calamity revealed that she had been the Netherworld Lord, ruler of the First Heaven, and began recounting the ancient world’s history.

• Great Calamity found that Su Mo’s shattered Divine Soul had recovered, but he remained trapped in a dream within a dream.
• Great Calamity reached Su Mo in a field of Flowers of the Other Shore and persuaded him to wake for Little Girl’s sake.
• Su Mo woke in the boat beside the withered Flower of the Other Shore and asked Great Calamity to tell him everything she knew.
• Great Calamity explained that she had been called the Netherworld Lord, the leader of the Nether Clan and ruler of the First Heaven.
• Great Calamity described the Ten Heavens and Ten Earths before the gods fell, saying that she ruled the First Heaven and Earth while the Confucian Sage ruled Su Mo’s realm.
• Great Calamity said the Confucian Sage had been the exception among immortal cultivators who treated mortals as insignificant.

Great Calamity told Su Mo how the first Flower of the Other Shore led to the Tenth Realm’s catastrophe and revealed how she had survived and been trapped in the Ninth Realm. After thanking her for saving him, Su Mo asked how he could keep Girl safe, and Great Calamity said he needed to develop his spirit sea into an independent world.

• Great Calamity explained that the first Flower of the Other Shore appeared in the Tenth Realm, setting off a struggle that ended with the Confucian Sage slaughtering its maddened inhabitants.
• Great Calamity recalled a later battle in which the gods fell and she died beside the Confucian Sage, though she could no longer remember who their enemy was.
• Great Calamity said her divine soul survived through a Flower of the Other Shore, but she became trapped in the Ninth Realm after the Confucian Sage sealed it away.
• Great Calamity revealed that she had used the flower sustaining her to save Su Mo, and Su Mo thanked her for it.
• Su Mo asked how he could keep Girl beside him without carrying her on his person, and Great Calamity told him to develop his spirit sea into an independent world.

Su Mo asked the Great Calamity to force open his Spirit Sea so he could protect the Flower of the Other Shore and keep Little Girl safe. As the painful process began, the Book of Life and Death awakened and changed the opening of his Spirit Sea into something stranger: transformation.

• Su Mo insisted on opening his Spirit Sea before Spirit Transformation, and the Great Calamity warned him that the method would bring unbearable pain and could not be stopped once begun.
• The Great Calamity summoned the towering Ghost Guards to protect the little boat while she worked on Su Mo.
• The Great Calamity sent black mist into Su Mo, causing him agonizing pain as he held the Flower of the Other Shore and remembered Little Girl.
• The black mist began opening space within Su Mo's Spirit Sea, and the Book of Life and Death awakened, released blue-black smoke, and altered the process into a transformation.

Su Mo opened his Spirit Sea while Great Calamity explained the Inquiry Realm and the powerful cultivators beyond Spirit Transformation. Inside, they discovered an eerie, living world shaped by the Book of Life and Death, where Su Mo planted the withered Flower of the Other Shore and vowed to resolve the suffering tied to Girl while waiting for her to recover.

• As Great Calamity infused black mist into Su Mo, she explained that the realms after Spirit Transformation formed the Inquiry Realm, whose three layers differed according to each cultivator’s questions.
• Great Calamity told Su Mo that only a few people in the Ninth Realm had reached the first or second Inquiry layer, while the People of the Lower Realms had reached the second or even third layer.
• When the black mist stopped flowing sooner than expected, Su Mo opened his Spirit Sea and found an ancient black door, which he and Great Calamity entered.
• Su Mo and Great Calamity discovered a vast, dim Spirit Sea containing the Book of Life and Death, a river, and living grass; Great Calamity said the space and its strange spiritual power were highly unusual.
• Su Mo planted the withered Flower of the Other Shore by the river, told Girl he would resolve the world’s suffering and wait for her recovery, then decided he would no longer tie up his hair.

Su Mo mourned Master Hui Kong, who had died saving him, then demanded control of the Book of Life and Death and learned its first cultivation scroll. He left ready to fulfill his promise to Girl and confront the matter of cause and effect.

• Su Mo learned that Master Hui Kong had died ferrying the Rain Sect's Ninth Elder across, retrieved his body, and laid it beside the Flower of the Other Shore.
• Su Mo mourned Master Hui Kong and bowed before him, while the Great Calamity told him to pursue his plans and offered the Ghost Guards' help.
• The Great Calamity discovered an old stone stele beside the river bearing the words, "The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, Thoughts linger on the Other Shore..."
• Su Mo summoned the Book of Life and Death and demanded that it obey his control or be removed from his Spirit Sea.
• The Book of Life and Death yielded and revealed the Human Scroll, which described seven emotions and the cultivation method behind Human One.
• Su Mo studied the scroll, put the Book of Life and Death away, and prepared to fulfill his promise to Girl by pursuing cause and effect.

Cheng An'an learned that Su Mo was believed to be beyond saving and resolved to find him, but the Demon Sect decided to seal itself off from the coming calamity. Cheng An'an sent her incarnation out before the Sect was cut off from the world.

• Cheng An'an and Dao Hua discussed the Upper Realm threat and the Dao Sect's destruction while the Sects' leaders debated how to protect the Demon Sect.
• Dao Hua told Cheng An'an that Su Mo's divine soul had shattered and that even the Dao Sect's Divine Spring could not save him.
• Cheng An'an rejected the news and told Cheng Hongye she wanted to leave the Sect.
• Cheng Hongye said the Elder Council had ordered the Demon Sect to seal itself off, but allowed Cheng An'an's incarnation to leave.
• Cheng An'an's incarnation flew out of the Sect, and ten thousand seals rose to isolate the mountain range.

As Upper Realm cultivators arrived to slaughter a small city, the white-haired Top Scholar Su appeared and declared he had come to settle karma. He transported everyone out of the city, leaving them to watch as he faced the invaders.

• A martial artist and a swordsman discussed fleeing the calamity, and the martial artist mourned his destroyed sect and slain junior sister.
• Upper Realm cultivators entered the city to kill its people and refine Fortune Vein Power, including a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The swordsman invited the tavern owner to flee, but the owner refused to abandon his ancestral tavern.
• Top Scholar Su appeared above the city, told the Upper Realm cultivators to withdraw, and marked them with bloody phantoms.
• Golden dragon-pattern divine radiance transported everyone in the city to an open space outside it, where they recognized Top Scholar Su as their savior.

Su Mo confronted Yu Wendong and the Rain Clan members after they slaughtered the people of a small city, seeking an explanation for their killing of mortals. He took Yu Wendong’s sword strike without dodging, survived through his Divine Race body, and told Yu Wendong he would endure one more strike before fighting back.

• Su Mo rescued the small city’s people and asked Yu Wendong why the Rain Clan had slaughtered mortals after descending to the lower realm.
• Yu Wendong refused to answer and attacked Su Mo with a sword strike powered by his Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Su Mo took the blow head-on, leaving a deep chest wound, while the rescued townspeople watched from afar.
• Su Mo revealed his Divine Race will and healed his wound, surprising Yu Wendong.
• Su Mo told Yu Wendong he would take one more sword strike before making his move, and the alluring figure in his Spirit Sea sighed at his choice.

Su Mo tested the limits of his Divine Race body against Yu Wendong, then used Confucian Dao and Nether Arts to bind Yu Wendong and the Rain Clan cultivators. He identified himself as Great Hua’s Peerless Marquis and Top Scholar Su Mo, then demanded answers from Yu Wendong, who refused to cooperate.

• Su Mo survived Yu Wendong’s giant-sword strike and concluded that his Core Formation Giant God body could withstand attacks up to Nascent Soul level.
• Su Mo summoned icy chains with Imprison and used Restrict to stall Yu Wendong and his Rain Clan followers.
• Yu Wendong stabbed Su Mo, but Su Mo seized his hands, stopped his Rain Sword with Restrict, and let the chains bind him.
• Su Mo bound the remaining Rain Clan cultivators and assessed that his body and arts could contend with Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Su Mo told Yu Wendong he was the Confucian Cultivator Su Mo, Great Hua’s Peerless Marquis and the mortals’ Top Scholar, then threatened him for refusing to answer questions.

Su Mo tortured and killed the Rain Clan cultivators who had slaughtered mortals, then learned they were seeking fortune vein power. A Spirit Transformation elder arrived and struck Su Mo down, while the people he had saved resolved to stand with him.

• Su Mo admitted killing the Ninth Elder’s descendant and tortured Yu Wendong, who died without revealing anything.
• Su Mo killed the Core Formation cultivators one by one until the last confessed that the elder was searching for something using fortune vein power extracted from sects or mortal blood.
• A Spirit Transformation elder arrived with five others and razed the city with a sword strike, grievously wounding Su Mo.
• The mortals who had watched Su Mo save and avenge them decided to return and face the enemies alongside him.
• The swordsman asked the martial artist whether he would keep running, and the martial artist answered, “No more running.”

The Martial Artist and the Swordsman prepared to join Su Mo against the Upper Realm, but a golden light took them and the mortals away. Outmatched by a Spirit Transformation elder and unable to rely on the Great Calamity or the Book of Life and Death, Su Mo escaped through a stone gate and ended the chapter recovering in her embrace.

• The Martial Artist and the Swordsman set out to fight beside Su Mo, but a golden light bound them and made them and the mortals vanish.
• The Great Calamity told Su Mo she could not intervene because an old nemesis had descended, and she warned him not to use the Book of Life and Death before reaching Spirit Transformation.
• The Spirit Transformation elder erased Su Mo’s Confucian Dao True Words and sent an enormous sword crashing down on him.
• Su Mo escaped the sword strike through a pitch-black stone gate and appeared inside his Spirit Sea while the elder ordered the others to search for him.
• Su Mo told the Great Calamity he had been testing a vague suspicion, and she began healing his wounds.

While healing Su Mo in the safety of his Spirit Sea, the Great Calamity told him about an ancient rival who had come to the lower realm looking for her. She advised Su Mo to hide for several days and consolidate his gains, then let him sleep in her arms.

• Su Mo asked about the old woman, and the Great Calamity explained that she had survived the Battle of Ten Thousand Years Ago through her Cultivation Method and had returned to the lower realm to find her.
• The Great Calamity said the old woman had recovered to at least the third layer of the Inquiry Realm but would not harm anyone who did not provoke her.
• The Great Calamity explained that the old woman wanted to defeat her to affirm her Dao and recalled using a powerful aphrodisiac to disrupt her cultivation.
• Su Mo asked how long he needed to hide, and the Great Calamity advised him to stay in the Spirit Sea for a few more days and build her a house.
• The Great Calamity finished healing Su Mo and let him sleep in her arms, gently stroking his frost-white hair.

After leaving his Spirit Sea, Su Mo investigated signs that Great Hua’s national fortune power had intervened and questioned the motives behind the Upper Realm’s descent. As he tried to return to the Academy, a powerful woman appeared and demanded that he release Great Calamity from his Spirit Sea.

• Su Mo left his Spirit Sea after telling Girl he would return in a couple of days, while Great Calamity continued restoring her cultivation.
• At the ruined city, Su Mo sensed traces of national fortune power and suspected that Great Hua had anticipated the Upper Realm’s arrival.
• Su Mo considered why the Upper Realm had descended, what happened in the battle ten thousand years ago, and what the various powers were waiting for.
• Su Mo used the Fate Token and Confucian Dao True Words to travel to Great Hua Academy, but someone forcibly interrupted the power carrying him away.
• A woman in white appeared before Su Mo and ordered him to let the woman in his Spirit Sea come out.

Su Mo tried to escape the powerful woman in white, but she pursued him and forced the Great Calamity to emerge from his Spirit Sea. The two women traded insults, leaving Su Mo caught between them as the Great Calamity challenged the woman to name anyone who loved her.

• Su Mo denied that a woman was inside his Spirit Sea, then repeatedly used Ten Thousand Zhangs Contract to a Chi to flee the woman in white.
• The woman in white appeared ahead of Su Mo after each escape and threatened to kill him if he ran again.
• The Great Calamity came out of Su Mo's Spirit Sea and shielded him from the woman in white's pressure.
• The Great Calamity called Su Mo her little brother, while the woman in white mocked their relationship and their ages.
• The Great Calamity pulled Su Mo into her embrace and asked the woman in white whether anyone cherished or loved her.

Great Calamity taunted the woman in the white dress, who wanted a fair fight to prove her Dao, but Great Calamity refused because her cultivation had fallen. She proposed that they compete by guiding Su Mo to Nascent Soul first.

• Great Calamity and the woman in the white dress traded insults while Su Mo listened in embarrassment.
• The woman in the white dress challenged Great Calamity to fight her, but Great Calamity pointed out that her cultivation was only at Foundation Establishment.
• The woman in the white dress offered to seal her cultivation and fight, but Great Calamity dismissed the idea as unsatisfying.
• Great Calamity revealed that Su Mo had entered the Dao only three years ago and had reached late-stage Core Formation through the Confucian Dao.
• Great Calamity suggested that she and the woman in the white dress take turns guiding Su Mo and compete to see who could help him reach Nascent Soul first.