Recaps

Su Mo took Frost, escaped the Phoenix Race, and restored his Seven Thoughts before returning to Du Pingsheng and confronting the cost of reaching Spirit Transformation. He chose to perfect the Confucian Dao and Plants and Trees Dao together, then began refining himself as the Cloud and Thunder Sects moved to kill him and allies gathered to help.

• Yutian summoned the Rain Spirit to defend the Rain Sect, and Yu Chen used Frost and the Rain Spirit’s sacrifice to destroy the Cloud and Thunder Ancestors.
• Su Mo claimed Frost, sealed the three sects with the lingering Rain Realm, and fled the Phoenix Carriage before trading Frost for a Phoenix Feather and carrying the wounded Phoenix Woman into the Void Land Between Realms.
• Su Mo restored his Seven Thoughts, completed the Human Scroll, and opened the Punishment Scroll before leaving the Phoenix Woman in his Spirit Sea.
• Su Mo reunited with Du Pingsheng on Medicine Mountain and followed him to his ancestral home, where repeated attempts at Spirit Transformation failed.
• After sensing Dao Hua and helping Cheng An'an stabilize her inheritance, Su Mo rejected casting off his mortal attachments and chose to perfect both the Confucian Dao and the Plants and Trees Dao.
• Du Pingsheng set Su Mo the task of refining the Pill of Nothingness, while he called on people across the world who owed him gratitude to support them.
• Su Mo made heaven and earth his pill furnace, declared himself the medicine, and began refining his Dao as the Heavenly Dao gathered thunderclouds.
• The Cloud and Thunder Sects joined forces to attack Su Mo, while Yu Gu and the Rain Sect Master decided to go to his aid.

Su Mo survived his failed Spirit Transformation through Nirvana, but returned as a child and entered the Forbidden Lands with Phoenix to gather Divine Seals. The pair repeatedly ambushed rival cultivators, then taught the sects to leave seals as offerings while they continued collecting them.

• Su Mo endured the furnace and forced his way toward Spirit Transformation, but repeated tribulation strikes drove him back until he swallowed the Heaven-Defying Pill and faced a massive lightning strike alone.
• Su Mo appeared to die, prompting mourning across the Ninth Realm, but half a year later a Phoenix Bird carried a sleeping child to a hot spring, where Phoenix helped Su Mo complete Nirvana.
• Su Mo awoke as a child with his cultivation reduced to Qi Refining, and he and Phoenix entered the Forbidden Lands to collect Divine Seals and help him grow.
• Su Mo and Phoenix ambushed Xu Lin, the Cloud Sect Young Master, the Thunder Sect, and other cultivators, stealing their Divine Seals and provoking fights between the Cloud and Thunder Sects.
• Su Mo took more than twenty Divine Seals from Daoist Mude and Monk Zhixuan, while the terrified cultivators began spreading stories of ghostly child thieves.
• Mude and Zhixuan tried disguising themselves as evil spirits to demand Divine Seals, but the Cloud and Thunder Sects drove them away.
• Su Mo and Phoenix repeatedly knocked out the Cloud Sect and left three Divine Seals as a message, but the Young Master refused to understand it and continued resisting.
• The Cloud Sect began leaving Divine Seals in a ring as an offering, and Su Mo and Phoenix took most of them while leaving three behind, and the Thunder Sect and others adopted the same approach.

Su Mo reunited with the Academy group, discovered the Forbidden Lands were the ruined Divine Realm, and met Yuan Yuan, the remnant soul who had waited for him. After restoring his body and leaving her a promise to return, he found the human prodigies slaughtered, parted from his senior brothers and sisters, and returned to Du Pingsheng.

• Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman found the Academy group, and Su Mo reunited with his senior brothers and sisters before learning that they were not human.
• Su Mo and the Academy group joined their maps and discovered that the Forbidden Lands matched the Divine Realm, where Divine Seals gathered and called him toward the golden wall.
• Su Mo met Yuan Yuan on Divine Mountain and witnessed memories of her waiting for her family, surviving the World-Toppling Calamity, and preserving the mountain until he arrived.
• Su Mo brought Yuan Yuan to meet his friends, then stayed with her for half a year before absorbing her tens of thousands of Divine Seals and restoring his body and cultivation.
• Su Mo left an incarnation of the Flower of the Other Shore with Yuan Yuan and promised in a letter to find a way to restore her and return with his wife.
• Su Mo and the Academy group found the Forbidden Lands deserted and learned that the Demon Race had killed the human prodigies, and Su Mo then parted from the group as they set out to seek greater strength.
• Su Mo found the dying Luo Qing Yi, gave her the Jade Pendant of her dead sister, and challenged her to reach a destination within two months if she wanted to become his disciple.
• Su Mo returned to Du Pingsheng, recounted his death and survival, and agreed to remain at the Bamboo Hut until he reached the Inquiry Realm and could refine the Twin Perching Pill.

Su Mo tested Little Qing Yi, accepted her as his disciple, and agreed to become the Rain Sect’s young master before accompanying Phoenix Woman to restore her cultivation. Their journey ended at the sealed Phoenix Nest, where Peng Venerable revealed his plan to create a Sage through mass sacrifice.

• Little Qing Yi endured the mountain journey, refused Yu Jing’s offer of another master, and delayed her travels to treat a plague-stricken village.
• Su Mo revealed the village as an illusion after Little Qing Yi resolved to cultivate to relieve illness and pain, and she completed her journey to become his disciple.
• Su Mo gave Little Qing Yi Frost and protective talismans while discovering that the Soul Incense Volume strengthened him through deaths and forced him to endure the dead’s suffering.
• Su Mo accepted Yu Gu’s proposal to become the Rain Sect’s young master and sent Du Pingsheng and Little Qing Yi to the Rain Sect.
• Su Mo disguised himself and Phoenix Woman as flower demons and accompanied her into the Demon Realm to restore her cultivation.
• Su Mo and Phoenix Woman settled temporarily in a riverside teahouse, where Su Mo used Flowers of the Other Shore across the realms to search unsuccessfully for Ning Baixue and Great Peng.
• Su Mo discovered that Great Peng had arranged deaths to seal the Phoenix Nest against Phoenix Woman and sent her away before confronting the gate.
• Peng Venerable barred Su Mo from the Phoenix Nest and claimed that sacrificing living beings to create a new Sage could save the world from the Calamity of the Nine Heavens.