Vol. 3The Emperor Beyond the Realm

Su Mo defeated the Upper Realm forces, reunited with Ning Baixue, and established Various Xia before crossing into the dangerous burial grounds Beyond the Realm. After returning with its treasures and infiltrating the Cloud Sect, he became entangled in the conflict between the Rain, Cloud, and Thunder Sects while seeking Frost.

  • Su Mo destroyed the Thunder Spirit and helped expose and destroy the Holy Sect, but the Heaven-One Mirror carried him away.
  • Living as Su Jingyan, he fell in love with Ning Baixue and prepared to marry her, but she returned to her Sect before their wedding.
  • Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue reunited and married, then Su Mo restored her body and memories before returning to the Ninth Realm and founding Various Xia.
  • Ning Baixue returned Beyond the Realm, and Su Mo followed a golden fish across the Death River toward a dangerous burial ground.
  • Su Mo helped Immortal Ziyu reach the Floating Life Pool, where Ziyu and his mother faded into Flowers of the Other Shore.
  • Su Mo regained his seven thoughts, took the burial ground’s treasures, and entered the Cloud Sect disguised as a worker in its Medicine Garden.
  • Su Mo impressed Cloud Sect elders with his herbal knowledge, advanced into the Inner Sect, and received the Thousand Fragrances Cauldron.
  • After discovering a hidden passage linked to the Rain Sect and arranging for three companions to leave the coming battle, he returned to the Rain Sect as the Cloud and Thunder Sects attacked.
Chapters 201–300 Read from Ch. 201

Arc 9The Human Emperor and Jing Yan

Su Mo defeated the Upper Realm invaders and sought help confronting the Holy Sect, but the Heaven-One Mirror took him away. He then lived as Su Jingyan, met Ning Baixue, and prepared to marry her, though she returned to her Sect before the wedding.

  • Su Mo destroyed the Thunder Spirit and killed dozens of Upper Realm cultivators with the power of the people’s vows, while the survivors fled toward the Snow Domain.
  • After receiving the late Human Emperor’s letter, Su Mo mourned Cheng An’an and found comfort with Prince Ying and his Princess Consort, whom he called Dad and Mom.
  • Su Mo and the Demon Sect’s Ancestor agreed to join forces, and the Demon Sect and Dao Sect accompanied him to confront the Holy Sect.
  • Su Mo broke through the Holy Sect’s formation, but the Heaven-One Mirror pulled him inside, and the First Elder then uncovered the Holy Sect’s crimes, killed the Cloud Sect survivors, and destroyed the sect.
  • As Su Jingyan, Su Mo survived the Provincial Examination after a jade pendant nourished his weak body, then rescued the injured Ning Baixue when she emerged from a rift into the Divine Realm.
  • Ning Baixue repeatedly returned to Su Jingyan’s home, and the two grew close as he opened an Ink Shop and she stayed with him through the winter.
  • Su Jingyan asked Ning Baixue to marry him, and she agreed, and he introduced her to his parents’ graves and planned their wedding for the Lantern Festival.
  • The day before the wedding, Ning Baixue put on her wedding clothes, then told Su Jingyan she was returning to her Sect and promised to come back for the wedding.
Chapters 201–22525 summaries Read

Arc 10The Emperor and the Death River

Su Mo reunited with Ning Baixue, restored her body and memories, and returned to the Ninth Realm to establish Various Xia before she went back Beyond the Realm. Alone there, he cultivated the Human Scroll and followed the missing golden fish to the Death River, crossing toward a dangerous burial ground.

  • Su Jingyan married Ning Baixue in Jiangnan and waited for her after she was summoned back to her Sect, then Su Mo entered the Divine Realm and found her at the Ghost Gate Altar.
  • Su Mo and Ning Baixue affirmed that they were husband and wife, and he used Giant God Blood to restore her injured body before refusing the Reincarnation Mirror’s imagined life without Girl.
  • The First Elder revealed that the Holy Sect and Upper Realm forces were gone, and Su Mo returned to Great Hua as Human Emperor while Ning Baixue learned her incarnation had only three months left.
  • Su Mo named the unified nation Various Xia, took the throne, cleared the Liu Household’s name, and appointed Ning Baixue empress after preserving her memories and Dao Arts in her body.
  • Ning Baixue returned Beyond the Realm as starlight, promising to wait for Su Mo, and Su Mo left a hundred Ghost Spirits to judge criminals and another hundred to guard his ties to the Ninth Realm.
  • Beyond the Realm, Su Mo cultivated the Human Scroll and sent his Seven Thoughts away to develop separately, while Yu Mu and the Rain Clan encountered him beside the river.
  • When the golden fish went missing, Su Mo followed the Void Beast beneath the river, freed the fish from a porcelain vase, and reached the Death River, where he crossed on duckweed that appeared beneath each step.
  • The Great Calamity recognized the aura beyond the river as belonging to the Burial Ground of someone from its generation and warned Su Mo that the place was dangerous.
Chapters 226–25025 summaries Read

Arc 11The Floating Life Pool

Su Mo followed Immortal Ziyu through the Myriad Paths of Barren Graves, where Ziyu reunited with his mother before they both faded into Flowers of the Other Shore. After restoring his seven thoughts and taking the treasures of Floating Life’s End, Su Mo disguised himself to enter the Cloud Sect and began working in its Medicine Garden.

  • Su Mo crossed the Floating Life Bridge with Great Calamity’s help, then reached the Ancient Ship, where Immortal Ziyu revealed his plan to use its yin power to revive his mother.
  • Su Mo gave Immortal Ziyu the yin power of the Ninth Realm’s wronged souls, and the Ancient Ship sailed upstream as Su Mo’s flute quieted the pursuing souls.
  • Immortal Ziyu carried his mother’s coffin through the Myriad Paths of Barren Graves, and Su Mo joined him as the travelers around them vanished under the place’s rules.
  • At the Floating Life Pool, Immortal Ziyu placed his mother in the water, and she briefly awakened before both of them faded into Flowers of the Other Shore.
  • Su Mo merged a Flower of the Other Shore into his Divine Sense, regained his seven thoughts, and took the pool, its flowers, the stone gates, and other treasures into his Spirit Sea before escaping.
  • Su Mo collected more treasures with the Void Beast, concealed his identity with Yu Gu’s jade pendant, and decided to join the Cloud Sect to take its treasures.
  • Su Mo and Chen Meiren passed the Cloud Sect’s trials and Mantra questioning, then were assigned to the Medicine Garden, where Su Mo secretly watered herbs with Divine Spring water.
  • A Cloud Sect woman arrived to collect three Gilt-Ripple Flowers, mocked Chen Meiren, and paused when she saw Su Mo working in the herb fields.
Chapters 251–27525 summaries Read

Arc 12Frost and the Rain Sect

Su Mo advanced in alchemy, entered the Cloud Sect Inner Sect, and uncovered the Rain Sect’s hidden connection to the pool near Dew Mountain. As the Cloud and Thunder Sects moved against the Rain Sect, Su Mo helped secure Frost and arranged for Chen Meiren and two others to be removed from the coming battle.

  • Su Mo delivered Gilt-Ripple Flowers to Elder Xia, then impressed Elder Du with his knowledge of herbs and began learning pill refinement on Medicine Mountain.
  • Su Mo joined the Inner Sect selection, concealed the Flower of the Other Shore, and advanced after Du Pingsheng secured him byes and no elder chose him.
  • Du Pingsheng gave Su Mo the Thousand Fragrances Cauldron, and Su Mo later learned that the Phoenix Race had seized Frost from the Rain Sect.
  • Su Mo and Chen Meiren discovered a hidden passage beneath a pool that showed a mirage from the Rain Sect, and Su Mo warned Chen Meiren to keep it secret.
  • At the Rain Sect, Yu Gu told Su Mo that the Ancestor was near death and offered him Frost in exchange for help against a future calamity.
  • Su Mo arranged for Chen Meiren, Senior Sister Xia, and Bai Senior Sister to be poisoned and taken back to Medicine Mountain before returning to the Rain Sect.
  • Lei Bu accused the Rain Sect of murdering a Thunder Sect disciple, and the Cloud and Thunder Sects joined forces against the Rain Sect.
  • Yu Gu fought Lei Bu while Su Mo watched from a distance, and the Rain Sect Master emerged with Lei Ruo and Yun Huan.
Chapters 276–30025 summaries Read
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