Chapter Summaries

Su Jingyan drank alone in Jiangnan until Ning Baixue visited and stayed the night after the guest room became damp from a torn window. He shared his bed with her, and while asleep edged beneath her thicker quilt, leaving them close together as the moonlit night passed.

• Su Jingyan drank light wine alone before Ning Baixue arrived and joined him.
• Ning Baixue asked to stay, then found that the torn guest-room window had dampened the bedding.
• Ning Baixue chose to sleep in Su Jingyan's room, and he sat by the window until she invited him to share the bed.
• Su Jingyan fetched a thin quilt and lay down beside Ning Baixue.
• While asleep, Su Jingyan moved close to Ning Baixue and burrowed beneath her thicker quilt; she opened her eyes, sighed, and closed them again.

Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue shared a bed after she stayed at his home, then parted the next morning. When Ning Baixue returned in winter, they shared food and wine before sleeping under the same quilt again, and Su Jingyan fell asleep beside her.

• Su Jingyan woke to find Ning Baixue gone and realized they had shared a bed and quilt the night before.
• Su Jingyan bought breakfast for Ning Baixue, who ate mostly sweets before giving him a pill and departing.
• When winter came, Ning Baixue returned to Su Jingyan's loft and joined him for a meal he had cooked.
• Ning Baixue asked for wine, and Su Jingyan brought out Apricot Blossom Village, warmed it, and drank with her.
• Ning Baixue chose to sleep in Su Jingyan's room after pointing out the torn guest-room window paper, and Su Jingyan joined her beneath the quilt.
• Su Jingyan gradually moved closer to Ning Baixue for warmth, and she allowed him to stay beside her as he fell asleep.

Su Jingyan opened an Ink Shop to sell his calligraphy and paintings, and the townspeople eagerly bought his work. Ning Baixue returned on the eve of New Year's Eve and told Su Jingyan that she was not leaving, leaving them to plan for her stay together.

• After waking to find Ning Baixue gone, Su Jingyan opened a street-facing Ink Shop and began selling calligraphy, paintings, and Spring Couplets.
• A fabric shop owner bought Su Jingyan's couplets for a tael of silver, and townspeople soon flocked to the shop for his work.
• As Su Jingyan prepared to close the shop, Ning Baixue returned, and they shared hot pot and Apricot Blossom Village wine.
• Ning Baixue stayed in Su Jingyan's room while he wrote more couplets for the next day's customers.
• Ning Baixue told Su Jingyan she was not leaving, and he said he would buy daily necessities for her the next day.

On New Year’s Eve, Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue worked together at the Ink Shop, shared a quiet dinner, and grew closer. The chapter ended with Su Jingyan asking Ning Baixue to marry him and the two embracing in bed.

• Su Jingyan served Ning Baixue her favorite breakfast and told her where to find money for necessities.
• When the Ink Shop’s door couplets sold out, Su Jingyan wrote new ones outside while a crowd gathered to watch.
• Ning Baixue returned and ground ink for Su Jingyan, allowing the crowd to mistake her for his wife and introducing herself by name.
• Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue shared New Year’s Eve dinner and wine, then prepared for bed.
• Su Jingyan asked Ning Baixue to marry him, and she agreed before he embraced her.

Su Jingyan asked Ning Baixue to marry him, and she agreed; together they visited his parents’ graves and set their wedding for the Lantern Festival. On the eve of the wedding, Ning Baixue dressed with him in their red robes and left for her Sect, promising to come back for him herself.

• Su Jingyan proposed to Ning Baixue, and she agreed to marry him.
• Su Jingyan took Ning Baixue to his parents’ graves, introduced her as his wife, and told them they planned to wed on the Lantern Festival.
• Su Jingyan told Ning Baixue that a fortune-telling Daoist had predicted he would always be alone, but meeting her had proved the prediction wrong.
• The day before the wedding, Ning Baixue asked Su Jingyan to put on his wedding robe, then changed into her own and inspected their clothes.
• Ning Baixue said she was returning to her Sect before the wedding, and promised to come back herself so Su Jingyan could fetch his bride.

Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue married in a modest Lantern Festival ceremony at his ink shop, while fragments of a dream suggested they had wed before. After the guests left, Su Jingyan lifted Ning Baixue’s veil and told her about the dream, then the newlyweds spent the night together.

• Neighbors gathered at Su Jingyan’s ink shop to celebrate his marriage to Ning Baixue.
• Ning Baixue arrived in a bridal sedan chair, and Su Jingyan helped her into the ink shop for the wedding ceremony.
• During the wedding bows, Su Jingyan saw fleeting memories of marrying Ning Baixue in the Imperial Palace and felt she was familiar.
• After the guests left, Su Jingyan lifted Ning Baixue’s veil and told her he had dreamed they were already married once.
• Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue went to bed together after their wedding.

Ning Baixue received a summons from her Sect and left Su Jingyan, promising to return while he agreed to wait at home. Half a year later, Su Jingyan still waited in Jiangnan without hearing from her.

• Su Jingyan asked Ning Baixue for pills and then asked her to have a child with him; she agreed, but said they would wait until that night.
• A message from Ning Baixue's Sect summoned her to return, and she explained that she could not refuse without risking the discovery of their marriage.
• Ning Baixue asked Su Jingyan what he had asked her before, and he repeated that he wanted them to have a child.
• Ning Baixue left for her Sect, promising to return, and Su Jingyan promised to wait at home for her.
• Su Jingyan remained alone in Jiangnan as the Divine Realm reopened and the seasons passed; after half a year without news from Ning Baixue, he wondered why she had not returned.

Su Jingyan reflected on his connection to Su Mo and the reality of reincarnation while waiting for Ning Baixue. A year later, Su Mo went to Ning Baixue’s tomb after she failed to return from the Divine Realm.

• Su Jingyan played chess alone and told Master Hui Kong that he was still waiting for Ning Baixue.
• Su Jingyan and Master Hui Kong discussed whether Su Jingyan or Su Mo was the true self, and Su Jingyan said both were real, as was Ning Baixue.
• Su Jingyan defeated Master Hui Kong by leaving him no legal move.
• Master Hui Kong asked why Su Jingyan had not gone back, and Su Jingyan said he was waiting for his wife.
• A year later, the Divine Realm had closed, but Ning Baixue still had not returned, and Su Mo set out in his golden-patterned robe.
• Su Mo reached Ning Baixue’s tomb and said that her tomb was his home.

Su Mo entered the Divine Realm and used the Book of Life and Death to alter the Ghost Gate’s restrictions so he could descend into it despite his Nascent Soul cultivation. There he found the strange man dead before the altar and offered to take him up.

• Su Mo entered the Divine Realm through the Ghost Gate and sensed that Ning Baixue had come there.
• He traveled to Nine Dragons Paying Homage and asked the black dragon to summon the Ghost Gate, which it did without resisting.
• Su Mo discovered that the Ghost Gate’s teleportation array barred anyone above Core Formation from entering.
• He invoked the Human Book and used its power to alter the array’s rules, then plunged into the Ghost Gate.
• Su Mo found the strange man’s corpse facing the altar and asked whether he should take the senior up to it.

Su Mo reached the Ghost Gate's Altar and reunited with Ning Baixue, who had been trapped there after entering the Reincarnation Mirror in her true body. When he learned she would die if she left the mirror, he revealed he could use his own Divine Race bloodline to restore her body.

• Su Mo used the Confucian Dao True Words to bring himself and the Strange Man's corpse to the Ghost Gate's Altar.
• Ning Baixue waited alone at the Altar until Su Mo appeared and told her he had been awake since their marriage.
• Su Mo and Ning Baixue confessed their feelings and agreed that they were husband and wife, whether they were Su Mo or Su Jingyan and Ning Baixue or Yunxue.
• Ning Baixue told Su Mo she had been gravely injured before entering the Reincarnation Mirror and would die if she left it.
• Su Mo said he could use his own Divine Race bloodline power to restore Ning Baixue's physical body.

Su Mo used the Altar’s Divine Race inheritance to transfer a trace of his Giant God Blood to Ning Baixue and heal her fatal injuries. The inheritance ended before it could sever her mortal intent, and the Giant God remnants disappeared.

• Su Mo explained how he could use his own Giant God Blood and the Altar’s inheritance technique to restore Ning Baixue’s body.
• Su Mo shielded Ning Baixue from the Giant God Blood’s pressure and began the inheritance, summoning the Giant God remnants.
• The remnants began severing Ning Baixue’s bloodline, while Su Mo’s trace of Giant God Blood replenished it and healed her injuries.
• Su Mo withdrew the Giant God Blood as soon as Ning Baixue recovered, stopping the inheritance before the second severing.
• The Giant God remnants grew angry at Su Mo, but the sword-wielding remnant looked at them and disappeared, ending the inheritance.

Su Mo rejected the Reincarnation Mirror’s offer to create a life without sorrow because Girl was absent from its world. He left the reincarnation with Ning Baixue, carrying the mirror as an ordinary object.

• Ning Baixue questioned Su Mo about becoming the Human Emperor, and he said they would understand once they left the mirror.
• Su Mo called the Reincarnation Mirror forth and recognized that it could construct a real reincarnated world where he could escape suffering.
• Su Mo realized Girl was absent because she came from the end of the Long River and had not appeared in this reincarnation.
• Su Mo refused the mirror’s offer, explaining that the life it showed was not what he wanted without her.
• Su Mo ordered the Reincarnation Mirror to send them out, and it became an ordinary mirror in his hand as the reincarnation vanished.

Su Mo and Ning Baixue emerged from the Forbidden Land and met the First Elder, who had destroyed the Holy Sect and dealt with the Upper Realm forces after learning of their betrayal. The Reincarnation Mirror joined Su Mo, and his return as Human Emperor shook the world after he had been gone for a year.

• The First Elder welcomed Ning Baixue and told her and Su Mo that the Holy Sect and the Upper Realm forces were gone.
• The First Elder explained that he had destroyed the Holy Sect himself after confirming its betrayal and had dealt with the Upper Realm forces.
• Su Mo began telling Ning Baixue what had happened while she was in hiding, but she asked him to continue after they left the Forbidden Land.
• The Reincarnation Mirror shrank and chose to accompany Su Mo, and the First Elder let him keep it.
• The First Elder brought Su Mo and Ning Baixue to the Holy Sect's deserted grounds, where Su Mo's return as Human Emperor stirred the world.

Su Mo returned to the world and reunited with Ning Baixue and the Void Beast. After he left, the First Elder examined Ning Baixue and revealed that she had only three months left before her Divine Sense would be erased and her body would return to Dao Arts.

• Su Mo reunited with the Void Beast, soothed it, and left for the Imperial Palace in Great Hua while Ning Baixue stayed with the First Elder.
• Ning Baixue told the First Elder that Su Mo was her husband and explained that she was Shi Jiuxuan's Dao Arts Incarnation, but wanted to live as herself.
• The First Elder said he would examine Ning Baixue's Dao Arts before returning to seclusion, and Ning Baixue sat for his examination.
• After a day, the First Elder told Ning Baixue that she had three months left before her Divine Sense would be erased and her body would return to Dao Arts.
• Ning Baixue decided to spend her remaining three months as Su Mo's wife.

After a year away, Su Mo returned to the Imperial City and reunited with Prince Ying's Princess Consort and Prince Ying. He toured the rebuilt palace prepared for him, then agreed to establish the nation's name and era name, leaving the imperial clan ready to arrange the rites.

• Su Mo appeared above the Imperial City and reunited with Prince Ying's Princess Consort, Prince Ying, and Eunuch Ji.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort led Su Mo through the renovated Imperial Palace and showed him the sleeping palace and its Jiangnan-style stream, bridges, and loft.
• Su Mo told Prince Ying's Princess Consort that he liked the palace she had prepared for him.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort urged Su Mo to establish a national name and era name so the people could feel secure.
• Su Mo agreed to let his mother arrange the matter, and an imperial clan elder presented the Clan Genealogy and asked him to choose the names.

Su Mo unified the nations as Various Xia, kept the Yuanqing era name, and ascended the throne as the Peerless Emperor. After establishing his government and clearing the Liu Household’s name, he visited their graves and wondered whether the flourishing age fulfilled Liu Cheng’s wish.

• Su Mo named the unified nation Various Xia and kept the Yuanqing era name unchanged.
• Su Mo completed his unfinished bow to his master during the ceremony at Ancestral Mountain, then ascended the throne as the people hailed him as the Peerless Emperor.
• Su Mo established a centralized government, appointed officials from the former nations, and cleared the Liu Household’s name.
• Su Mo visited the graves of Liu Cheng, Liu Feng, and Liu Cheng’s wife, poured out wine, and asked whether the flourishing age was as Liu Cheng had wished.

Su Mo faced pressure from Prince Ying's Princess Consort and the imperial clan to marry and appoint an Empress, then revealed that he had already married Ning Baixue through the events of the Reincarnation Mirror. The mirror showed that Ning Baixue was one of three thousand incarnations of a woman seeking to break through a cultivation bottleneck.

• Prince Ying's Princess Consort and imperial clansmen urged Su Mo to appoint an Empress and have children, suggesting Cheng An'an as a match.
• Su Mo told them he was already married and explained his connection with Ning Baixue through the illusion and the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort accepted Su Mo's choice and asked when Ning Baixue would come to the Imperial City.
• The Reincarnation Mirror showed Su Mo that Ning Baixue was one of three thousand incarnations of a woman who had split herself to experience the Three Thousand Great Dao.
• The mirror displayed scenes of Ning Baixue at the Holy Sect's ruins, including her desolate smile, then returned to Su Mo's hair.

After realizing Ning Baixue’s memories could be erased when her Three Thousand Great Dao avatars reunited, Su Mo used a Divine Race technique to bind her memories, body, and Dao Arts together. He appointed her empress and made sure she would remain herself when her avatars returned.

• After Prince Ying and his consort left, Su Mo reasoned that Ning Baixue might lose her memories when the avatars merged, but realized the Divine Race technique could prevent it.
• Su Mo brought Ning Baixue to him with national fortune power and kept his plan to protect her memories to himself.
• Su Mo told Ning Baixue that Prince Ying and his consort wanted him to appoint an empress, and he announced that he would appoint her.
• That night, Su Mo used the Divine Race technique to fuse Ning Baixue’s memories with her body and Dao Arts so they could not be separated when she returned.

Su Mo announced Ning Baixue as his empress and spent a month at her side while secretly strengthening the fusion of her Divine Soul memories and Dao Foundation. As he prepared to leave the Ninth Realm, he bid farewell to Cheng An'an and Dao Hua, who chose to remain until they reached Nascent Soul.

• Su Mo named Ning Baixue empress at morning court, then returned to the Sleeping Palace and sat quietly with her.
• Prince Ying's Princess Consort kept Dao Hua and Cheng An'an from disturbing Su Mo and Ning Baixue, and arranged for them to stay in the Imperial Palace.
• For a month, Su Mo strengthened the fusion of Ning Baixue's Divine Soul memories and Dao Foundation while spending time with her and his friends.
• Su Mo asked Dao Hua and Cheng An'an whether they would leave the Ninth Realm with him, but both decided to wait until they reached Nascent Soul.
• Dao Hua and Cheng An'an prepared to return to their respective paths, and Su Mo recited a farewell poem as they departed.

Su Mo said goodbye to Prince Ying and his Princess Consort, then accompanied Ning Baixue as she returned Beyond the Realm, having ensured she would remain herself and awaken within three years. Left alone, he used national fortune power to create the Hundred Ghosts' Procession at Night, a force that judged and punished the guilty while protecting the innocent.

• Su Mo visited Prince Ying and his Princess Consort, ate the noodles she had made, and received their worried farewells before leaving the palace.
• Su Mo took Ning Baixue away from the imperial capital and traveled with her as her incarnation neared its end.
• Su Mo told Ning Baixue he had fused her memories, Dao Arts, and body so she would remain herself after returning Beyond the Realm, and promised she would awaken within three years.
• Ning Baixue returned Beyond the Realm as starlight after telling Su Mo that she was his wife and would wait for him in the Upper Realm.
• Su Mo released national fortune power across the land and summoned a hundred Ghost Spirits to judge and punish people guilty of grave crimes.
• Another hundred Ghost Spirits hid in the Imperial Palace, the Dao Sect, and the Demon Sect to guard Su Mo's ties to the world.