Recaps

Su Mo united Rouge Pass with Peach Mountain and held Peach Blossom Pass through a prolonged Beast Tide, while the people's worship transferred the pass's fortune to him. At the fallen Floating Life Pass, he discovered his father's message and Peach Blossom Haven, then learned that the Demon Sage had recently lost half her divine soul.

• Yanzhi merged Rouge Pass into Peach Mountain and restored the Book Sage's cultivation, and the Book Sage accepted Su Mo's invitation to remain at Peach Mountain.
• Su Mo arranged a formation with three openings and divided their defense among himself, Yanzhi, and the Peach Mountain disciples alongside Ten Thousand Swords Pass's soldiers.
• Su Mo sealed Ten Thousand Swords Pass's opening after heavy losses and defended Peach Blossom Pass for half a year, sustained by the people's incense wishes until the Beast Tide retreated.
• The Book Sage revealed that the people's worship had transferred Desolate Demon Pass's fortune from the Li Clan to Su Mo, and Wu Qian reported that three Saint Beasts had broken Floating Life Pass.
• Su Mo reached Floating Life Pass with the Book Sage and Yanzhi, found his father's letter identifying him as Pei Min’an, and entered Peach Blossom Haven to gain control over the pass.
• The Book Sage, Yanzhi, Li Yunbai, and Wu Nian blocked four Saint Beasts from reaching Peach Blossom Haven while the Demon Sage drew Su Mo into her Demon Domain.
• Su Mo resisted the Demon Sage's enchantment and put her Divine Soul to sleep, and the Brush of All Living Beings mistakenly identified her as a fifth Saint Beast.
• Su Mo examined the Demon Sage with Hui Kong's Undecaying Golden Body and discovered that another Buddhist object had recently taken half her divine soul.

Su Mo restored the Pei Clan’s claim to half the Imperial Fortune, recovered the Demon Sage’s soul-thoughts, and debated Revered Master Withered Leaf. He then climbed Mount Sumeru carrying Hui Kong’s Golden Body, confronting doubts, memories, and resentment as he sought the Bodhi Fruit.

• Su Mo awakened the Pei Clan’s inheritance at Floating Life Pass, while the Emperor used the Jade-Stone Great Formation to thwart Ji Ting’s attempt to seize all the Imperial Fortune.
• The Emperor gave Su Mo half the world’s Imperial Fortune, and Floating Life Pass joined him as Ji Ting became Emperor with the other half.
• Su Mo told Yanzhi that he was Pei Min'an and that Pei Hongyan had loved her, then went with her and the Book Sage to confront Revered Master Withered Leaf.
• Su Mo debated Withered Leaf about fate, no-self, and compassion, and Withered Leaf released all four of the Demon Sage’s soul-thoughts to him.
• Su Mo asked Withered Leaf to take him to Mount Sumeru so he could seek a Bodhi Fruit for Hui Kong, then began the climb carrying Hui Kong’s Golden Body.
• On the Doubt-Cleansing and Slow Purification Platforms, Su Mo faced his past self’s questions while the Brush of All Living Beings confronted its own arrogance.
• At the Delusion Purification Platform, Su Mo learned from Liu Feng that the Liu Household’s sacrifices had been part of the Emperor’s plan, apologized for judging and killing him, and learned that the household’s name had been cleared.
• Su Mo crossed the Aversion Purification Terrace after Huanhuan defended him, then reached the Greed Purification Terrace and collapsed at the broken end of its bridge.

Su Mo overcame the Greed Purification Terrace, restored Hui Kong, and helped Shi Jiuxuan seek reincarnation at the cost of his vitality. While Ji Ting prepared to attempt the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, Su Mo answered the Hairpin’s call and discovered why Ji Shuang had fled the Ji Clan.

• Su Mo brought the Dean a flower of the other shore to awaken Girl, then escaped the Greed Purification Terrace through his greed for all living beings.
• Su Mo overcame the Buddhas blocking Mount Sumeru’s summit and transformed Hui Kong’s Golden Body into an Ancient Bodhi Tree that restored Hui Kong.
• Su Mo uncovered a crystal coffin beneath the Bodhi Tree, and the Divine Maiden fell asleep after pouring divine power into the woman who became Yueyue.
• Ji Shuang learned that the Ji Clan intended to use her spirit body through marriage to Ji Ting, and the Hairpin carried her away.
• Wu Qian deceived the three Sages into abandoning their attack on Floating Life Pass and told Su Mo that the Black-Clothed Elder behind the Ji Clan had arranged his death trap.
• Su Mo helped Shi Jiuxuan cross the River of Forgetfulness toward reincarnation and suffered karmic backlash that aged him and drained his vitality.
• Ji Ting announced his ascent in two years, while Su Mo vowed to reach the Immortal Domain despite the Demon Sage’s warning about the dangerous path.
• Su Mo followed the Hairpin’s call, healed the poisoned Ji Shuang, and realized that the Ji Clan had planned her marriage for her Innate Spirit Body.

Su Mo fostered contact between humans and demons while Ji Ting's failed ascent exposed the danger of the Immortal Path. Su Mo revealed the Immortal Venerable's harvesting of Sages, overcame the attempt to erase him from memory, and gathered allies as the demon beasts approached the Immortal Gate.

• Su Mo visited Ji Shuang beneath the Red Mulberry Trees and left her Spirit Jade after she chose to remain in the forest.
• Su Mo rejected the Demon Sage's offer to unite through intimacy and devised staged opposition to human-demon romance that led to contact between their peoples.
• Ji Ting entered the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road with Su Mo's secret warning to beware his Master, and every Incense Heavenly Prodigy on the road eventually died.
• Su Mo prepared the Four Sages for battle, said goodbye to the Demon Sage and Ji Shuang, and received Ji Ting's final warning not to ascend.
• Su Mo entered the Immortal Gate and broadcast Three Pure Ones confessing that he had harvested Sages for pills and that the Desolate Realm's people had destroyed their realm by detonating his technique.
• Su Mo returned to the mortal world as the Heavenly Dao Sword erased memories of him, but the Scholar's image in the Memory-River Spirit Jade helped him recover his plan.
• Su Mo called on the world's myriad spirits, restored people's memories of him, and gained the Heavenly Dao Sword when it merged with his Star Sword.
• Su Mo let the demon beasts approach the Immortal Gate as the Sages gathered beside him, and Yanzhi revealed that the beasts had once been people of the Desolate Realm.