Recaps

Su Mo sought answers after witnessing the deaths of a woman and her baby, then confronted a blood-pill operation in a hidden courtyard. There, he encountered the wronged souls and emerged under the influence of a mysterious force, carrying Tongtong home while the surviving cultivators feared him.

• Su Mo arrived in Capital City with the little girl, sold his painting Lotus Pond Skiff to Luo Yin, and met Gu Yu, who revealed that Su Mo had played the Heart Flute.
• After finding a wounded woman and her dead baby in the rain, Su Mo resolved to visit the western courtyard and commissioned parts for a Heavy Crossbow.
• Su Mo entered the courtyard and used the Heavy Crossbow to kill the black-robed leader who was attacking Mude and Zhixuan.
• Su Mo and the two cultivators discovered a hidden cavern where black-robed men were making a blood pill from human lives.
• A ghostly woman drew Su Mo into the red mist and showed him the souls of the dead, including the woman who had urged him to live and seek justice.
• Su Mo comforted the wandering souls and called himself Impermanence as his aura grew stronger, while the Great Calamity possessed him.
• Su Mo emerged carrying Tongtong’s soul and promised to take her home, freezing a sword-wielding black-robed man as the others retreated.
• Tongtong sang the Three Character Classic while Su Mo danced before the immobilized cultivators, and he tapped the attacker’s forehead as his aura drained the man’s vitality.

Su Mo exposed the Liu household’s use of West City’s victims to refine blood pills, renounced the Academy, and entered the Dao through his resolve to carry the Dao in his writing. After Prince Ying avenged Tongtong and the other dead, the souls found peace, but the Holy Sect demanded Su Mo come with them as two mysterious figures arrived.

• Su Mo comforted Tongtong as she faded away, then collapsed outside the courtyard after the Great Calamity released him.
• Mo Shangao revealed himself as the Academy’s dean, made Su Mo his disciple, and set him the trial of taking first place in the Spring Examination.
• Su Mo entered the Dao and formed the Book of Life and Death after declaring he would write to carry the Dao rather than become an official.
• At the palace examination, Su Mo used the Memory-River Spirit Jade to reveal the blood-pill atrocity and renounced the Academy and public office.
• Prince Ying watched Su Mo’s memories of Tongtong, learned that the Liu household had caused her death, and killed Liu Cheng and Liu Feng with the emperor’s support.
• The departed victims thanked Su Mo and faded away, while Tongtong reunited with Prince Ying and her mother.
• Ning Baixue and a Spirit Transformation elder demanded that Su Mo join the Holy Sect, but Prince Ying and the princess consort stood against them.
• Su Mo offered to go with the Holy Sect to protect Prince Ying and his wife, then two figures in blue and red robes appeared.

Su Mo entered the Divine Realm to find the Flower of the Other Shore and save the little girl, surviving illusions and rescuing trapped cultivators along the way. He continued deeper after the others headed for the exit, where a mysterious girl recognized him and revealed the sword in her chest.

• Su Mo returned to the Academy, learned that the little girl’s incomplete soul could not be healed by ordinary means, and devoted himself to searching for a cure.
• After discovering that the Flower of the Other Shore could mend a damaged soul, Su Mo entered the Divine Realm alone to find it.
• Su Mo survived the realm’s dangers and illusions, then brought the Flower of the Other Shore back to the Academy, where the Dean used it to wake the little girl.
• Su Mo realized that the Divine Realm’s apparent happy life with the little girl was an illusion based on reality, and he broke free by provoking a tribulation and forming a Golden Core.
• Su Mo learned that Mude, Zhixuan, and their elders were trapped, then used his Confucian Dao to lead them and Ning Baixue out of a formation filled with ghosts.
• Su Mo continued deeper into the Divine Realm while the others headed for the exit, and used the Deity-Sealing Edict to suppress an old woman who attacked him.
• A small girl emerged from the fog, killed the old woman and the lavishly dressed young man, then recognized Su Mo when their matching stones connected.
• Su Mo noticed the sword embedded in the girl’s chest and asked if it hurt, and she told him that it hurt very much.

Su Mo entered the Divine Realm with Girl and his Academy companions, then discovered that cultivators had slaughtered a village to conceal its entrance. He used the Book of Life and Death to lead the villagers’ vengeful spirits against their killers, and Mortal Will awakened across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• Su Mo returned to the Academy, reunited with Girl, and joined his senior brothers and fellow disciples on an expedition to a blessed land.
• Su Mo and his companions opened an ancient tomb passage and were drawn into the Divine Realm, where they crossed a bridge of Eternal Lamps and encountered the Confucian Sage Remnant.
• Su Mo’s group sought an exit from the Divine Realm, and Su Mo helped a little spirit ginseng bury its mother after cultivators killed her.
• Su Mo and Gu Yu emerged from the Divine Realm into a village whose people had been slaughtered by cultivators, and Su Mo used a spirit jade to uncover the massacre’s memories.
• Su Mo summoned the Book of Life and Death and sent more than a hundred vengeful spirits into the Divine Realm to pursue the cultivators who had killed the villagers.
• Su Mo trapped an elderly sword cultivator and his disciples in a Dragon-Trapping Formation and identified the approaching spirits as the villagers they had murdered.
• The sword cultivator used a Buddhist Fish Life Disk to repel the spirits, but the ghosts kept charging the twin fish until they perished and saluted Su Mo.
• Su Mo bowed back to the ghosts and told Gu Yu that protecting mortals was the meaning of his second Dao as Mortal Will awakened across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.