Recaps

Su Mo entered Rouyun’s Reincarnation to save the Mortal Realm without sacrificing her, then escaped the collapsing world at the cost of the Brush of All Living Beings. He and Little Xuanji emerged in Su Mo’s homeland at an unknown time, where Su Mo settled into a tavern and began searching for his path and the Confucian Sage.

• Su Mo left Cold Azure Cave Heaven alone, rejected the Immortal Furnace’s protection, and entered the Ancestral Image World to confront the forces seeking the Heart Tree.
• The Xu Tribe elder revealed how the Thirteen True Immortals had destroyed the Xu Realm and killed Rouyun, while the Three Pure Ones explained that they needed the Heart Tree’s origin to save the declining Mortal Realm.
• Su Mo refused to let Rouyun die for the Mortal Realm and entered her Reincarnation, repeatedly sacrificing himself until the little tree spirits remembered him and the cycle collapsed.
• As the Ancestral Image World crumbled, Rouyun sent Su Mo through a rift, Little Xuanji followed him, and the Brush of All Living Beings plunged in after them.
• The Brush of All Living Beings used its remaining consciousness to create the Reincarnation Mirror, which carried Su Mo and Little Xuanji out of the Reincarnation Gap before the brush fell silent.
• Su Mo recognized the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as his homeland but found no familiar people, then settled in a tavern after failing to find the Confucian Sage.
• Su Mo buried the old storyteller and lived through the seasons with Little Xuanji, while Liu Nian and the Phoenix Venerable visited and Su Mo grew peach trees into Peach Mountain.
• Su Mo told Liu Nian that his people should work for regular wages to grow crops, then buy grain from the treasury, after Liu Nian explained that distributing silver had not eased poverty.

Su Mo followed the path that made him the Confucian Sage, then crossed into the Third Heaven and joined the Divine Race’s struggle against Annihilation. After his companions were lost to the Long River, he took up the work of relighting its lamps and returned to it alone.

• Su Mo sent Little Xuanji out into the world, waited through years of solitude, and learned from Liu Nian that the Heavenly Dao was changing.
• Su Mo revealed his identity and memories to the Phoenix Venerable, then sealed her in the Phoenix Nest to protect her unborn child until its time to be born.
• When the Heavenly Cataclysm began taking life souls, Su Mo used the Human Emperor Sword to sever the Divine Realm from the Nine Heavens, then crossed into the Divine Realm and sealed the calamity gate.
• Su Mo met Yuan Yuan on Peach Mountain, gave her the Divine Seal, and let reincarnation carry him away after recognizing his place in the events he had witnessed.
• Su Mo twisted reincarnation to return briefly to the Capital City, but was pulled out of the cycle and rescued at the Long River in the Third Heaven, where the Immortal Emperors named him Eternal Life.
• Long Robe taught Su Mo about the Floating Life Lamps and the need to remember three things, while he watched her and the other Lantern Lighters face Annihilation across the Long River.
• After Chang Ding and the others disappeared into the river, Su Mo marked their names on steles, and Long Robe eventually vanished as well, leaving him alone.
• White-Clad One entered the Long River and relit its lamps, losing his identity to Annihilation before remembering to go home and returning to relight his own lamp.

Su Mo returned from the Long River, reunited with his family and loved ones, and prepared the Book of Life and Death to guide the dead into Reincarnation. After promising to lead those dear to him across the river, he found his old companions and reunited with Luo Yin.

• The White-Clad One created an incarnation from the Strange Flower and sent him into the Long River to find the lost Divine Race members, and Su Mo emerged in the Third Heaven to tell Eternal Life he had found them.
• Su Mo discovered the Book of Life and Death, but Eternal Life could not enter reincarnation and instead gave Su Mo his cultivation and life force before dispersing.
• Su Mo mourned Eternal Life, created Su Jingyan as another self, and prepared a plan to bring the Immortal Domain and Mortal Realm toward the world's reincarnation.
• Su Jingyan returned to his parents in Capital City, reunited with Emperor Ying and his consort, and asked them to keep his return secret.
• Su Jingyan gathered a thread of life soul from every living being, recorded their names and deeds in the seventh volume, and reunited with Little Girl after she had waited for him for a thousand years.
• Great Peng died after helping Little Girl wait for Su Jingyan, and Su Jingyan guided Great Peng's soul across the Stone Bridge while explaining that rebirth would come in time.
• Su Jingyan reunited with his master Du Pingsheng and the Phoenix Woman, then told her that all people would cross the River of Forgetfulness and promised to see her across when they met again.
• Great Calamity and Mysterious Maiden reunited with Su Mo and saw souls crossing the River of Forgetfulness in his Spirit Sea, while Little Girl and two men searched for the river's source.
• Su Mo reunited with Gu Yu and his senior siblings at the Great Tomb, opened the Tomb Cave with his Confucian Dao True Words, and returned with them to the Academy.
• Su Mo found Luo Yin on a mountaintop, and she restored her Ink Zither strings so they could play music together again.