Recaps

Su Mo outmaneuvered Great Peng but was exposed as a cultivator who absorbed the souls of the dead, leaving him with nowhere safe to go. Phoenix Woman restored her power, brought him to the Phoenix Palace, and stood against sects demanding his surrender as Su Mo admitted he feared endangering those close to him.

• Su Mo revealed that Great Peng had swallowed a poisoned clone, but Great Peng exposed Su Mo’s soul-consuming cultivation and fled, leaving Su Mo convinced the world would reject him.
• Su Mo freed the vengeful spirits trapped at the Phoenix Nest and entered the Nest with Phoenix Woman, where they discussed their pasts and she restored her cultivation.
• After her recovery, Phoenix Woman took Su Mo to the Demon Realm and confined him in her Sleeping Hall while she purged demons who had supported Great Peng.
• Phoenix Woman refused to let Su Mo leave, even as she learned that the Cold Sect and other powers were coming to demand him and the Sacred Artifact Frost.
• The Cold Sect and Blood Sect accused the Demon Realm and Su Mo of crimes, but Phoenix Woman refused to hand him over and ordered the demon forces to drive the sects away.
• Phoenix Woman told Su Mo that the sects had come for him, and he explained that he planned to retreat to the Divine Mountain because he feared his presence would harm those close to him.
• Phoenix Woman told Su Mo that the human heart mattered beyond Karma and chose not to fear becoming entangled with him, while they argued over his sealed cultivation and the powerful enemies approaching.

Su Mo left the Demon Realm and returned to the Ninth Realm, where his return restored national fortune and saved Prince Ying’s unborn child. As he searched for the Heavenly Cataclysm, Red Mist spread through the realm, and Su Mo and Luo Yin went to confront its effects.

• Phoenix Woman defended Su Mo against three sect Ancestors, but Su Mo chose to leave for the Divine Realm with Big Strong.
• Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden arrived, forced the Ancestors to sacrifice themselves, and Su Mo absorbed their Soul Incense and entered the Inquiry Realm.
• Su Mo left the Rain Sect with Luo Yin, while Little Qing Yi traveled to prove he was not evil.
• Prince Ying and his pregnant Princess Consort fought Yang Kai, and the awakened National Fortune Power erased him after the Princess Consort’s strength failed.
• Su Mo returned and restored the life of Prince Ying’s unborn child, then learned that the Heavenly Cataclysm might be connected to the end of the Long Corridor.
• Red Mist engulfed villages and drove people to madness, while a great serpent carried a boy toward the Human Emperor before the boy died.
• A scout brought Su Mo a warning about Red Mist at Broken Cliff, and Su Mo failed to seal it with Confucian Dao True Words.
• Su Mo and Luo Yin entered a city overwhelmed by Red Mist, where a woman shut herself in a kitchen after the mist began changing her.

Su Mo sacrificed the Ninth Heaven’s National Fortune to split the spreading Red Mist, then crossed the barrier to free those trapped inside it. After returning to the Imperial City, he withdrew to recover with his loved ones and resolved to defy the fate awaiting him in nine years.

• Su Mo exhausted the Nine Heavens’ National Fortune evacuating people from the Red Mist, then answered their pleas by swinging the National Fortune Sword and splitting the Ninth Realm, though countless people died.
• Su Mo crossed the World Barrier with Great Calamity and the Mysterious Maiden, discovered that the Red Mist’s victims could not be cured, and spent months killing them to free their souls and absorb their Soul Incense.
• Su Mo returned to the Imperial Palace weakened by the sword strike and Soul Incense backlash, entrusted the government to Ning Wuya, and left to recuperate with Prince Ying, his pregnant Princess Consort, and Luo Yin.
• Prince Ying’s Princess Consort gave birth to a daughter bearing the Flower of the Other Shore Divine Seal, and Su Mo recognized the baby as his sister, Girl.
• After learning that the Calamity of the Nine Heavens would come in nine years, Su Mo vowed to protect his loved ones and break the fate that would make Girl suffer again.
• Cheng An’an joined Su Mo’s household and told him that a woman in her dream had linked the Mist to the Longevity Stele and said she was above the cataclysm.
• Outside cultivators entered the Ninth Heaven and questioned Su Mo’s actions, but a little girl whose parents had died defended him and urged them to look beyond the severed heavens at the endless Red Mist.

Su Mo sacrificed himself to stop the Calamity of the Nine Heavens, and the White-Clad One gave up his existence to keep the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths afloat. Su Mo awakened in a smaller world, recovered his identity, and set out to find a way back.

• Su Mo grew weak as the Flowers of the Other Shore spread, then died during the calamity while Little Girl and his companions watched over him.
• The Black-Clothed Elder fought the invading cultivators in the Forbidden Lands as the calamity began.
• The White-Clad One faced Shi Jiuxuan and learned that the calamity was the sinking of two floating worlds toward one another.
• Shi Jiuxuan and the Difficult Realm experts died as the White-Clad One used the Life and Death Scroll, then he restored the Floating Leaf by sacrificing himself and the Flowers of the Other Shore.
• Su Mo’s companions received his farewell letters, and the Reincarnation Mirror restored Little Girl’s memories of him and helped her set out to find him.
• Su Mo awakened in a smaller world, learned that the woman there had restored him, and recovered his memories and Divine Race identity.
• Su Mo learned that the Longevity Stele’s attempt to create eternal life had produced the Red Mist, then resolved to find the Floating Leaf and seek a way home.
• Wu Qian found the White-Clad One among prostrating spirit beasts, called him Ancestor, and led the sect members away at his request.