Chapter Summaries

Little Su Mo and little Phoenix Woman followed the Reincarnation Mirror through the Forbidden Lands, where a Divine Seal flew into Su Mo’s hand. They found the Thunder Sect’s group and struck down its leader, after which a Jade Slip appeared before him.

• Little Phoenix Woman led little Su Mo through the Forbidden Lands, explaining that she had visited before and had named the Nirvana Pool herself.
• A stationary Divine Seal floated down and entered little Su Mo’s hand when he reached for it.
• Little Su Mo and little Phoenix Woman found the Thunder Sect’s group and decided to attack its leader when their pursuers drew near.
• Little Phoenix Woman carried little Su Mo behind the leader, and Su Mo struck the man unconscious with the Stone Stele.
• The leader’s Storage Ring vanished, a Jade Slip appeared before him, and the ring returned to his hand.

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman used the yin aura of the Stone Stele to frame the Thunder Sect and provoke a battle with the Cloud Sect. After the children vanished, both sects became convinced that evil spirits were harming people in the Forbidden Lands.

• A Thunder Sect leader woke after being struck, found a Jade Slip blaming the Cloud Sect, and discovered that his Divine Seals and belongings were missing from his Storage Ring.
• The Cloud Sect's Young Master saw the Thunder Sect leader taking his belongings and attacked him, starting a fierce battle between the sects.
• Little Phoenix Woman explained that the Stone Stele's yin aura could affect people's minds when it struck them, and Little Su Mo watched as both sides suffered serious injuries.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman appeared atop the Stone Stele, frightening the fighters before vanishing with it.
• A Cloud Sect disciple cried that evil spirits were harming people, and the Young Master of the Cloud Sect and the other disciples grew fearful.

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman discovered that absorbing Divine Seals barely accelerated his growth, so they continued deeper into the Forbidden Lands to steal more. An ethereal figure watched them affectionately before vanishing.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman wondered why the Cloud and Thunder Sects’ disciples and the Rogue Cultivator had looked terrified after being tricked.
• Little Su Mo absorbed more than twenty Divine Seals, but felt he had grown only five or six days older.
• Little Su Mo estimated that he needed tens of thousands of Divine Seals to return to age twenty, and he and Little Phoenix Woman agreed to keep collecting them.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman set off to ambush lone people and take their Divine Seals, while sparing those they had no grudge against.
• After the children left, an ethereal figure appeared, watched them affectionately, and vanished.

Daoist Mude and Monk Zhixuan entered the Forbidden Lands disguised as wealthy merchants, but Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman knocked them out and took their Divine Seals. The children continued deeper into the forest with the seals and Stone Stele, while the Divine Seal followed them.

• Daoist Mude and Monk Zhixuan discussed hiding their identities as people from the Ninth Realm and mourned Su Mo, whom they believed had died in a heavenly tribulation.
• Daoist Mude and Monk Zhixuan spotted a Divine Seal and ran toward it, but Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman knocked them unconscious.
• Little Su Mo searched Mude's Storage Bag and found more than twenty Divine Seals, which he took while he and Little Phoenix Woman accused the men of robbing people.
• Little Su Mo used the Reincarnation Mirror to record the unconscious men's appearances and asked it to knock them out again if they woke.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman headed deeper into the Forbidden Lands to collect more Divine Seals, and the floating seal followed Little Su Mo.

Zhixuan and Mude woke to find their Storage Bags and Divine Seals stolen, then learned that two terrifying childlike evil spirits had been robbing people across the Forbidden Lands. Mude proposed disguising themselves as evil spirits to frighten others into handing over their Divine Seals.

• Zhixuan and Mude woke with painful injuries and discovered their Storage Bags, holding more than twenty Divine Seals, were gone.
• A man emerging from the grass told Zhixuan and Mude that two childlike ghostly creatures had been knocking people unconscious and stealing their Divine Seals.
• The man said the Cloud and Thunder Sects had lost nearly half their people trying to slay the creatures, leaving everyone in the Forbidden Lands afraid.
• Zhixuan and Mude suspected the evil spirits had attacked them and discussed how the pair had treated Mude more roughly than Zhixuan.
• Mude suggested that he and Zhixuan disguise themselves as evil spirits to scare people into surrendering their Divine Seals, and Zhixuan agreed.

The Young Master of the Cloud Sect was knocked down again by Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman, who had stolen the Divine Seals from his Storage Ring. After he passed the ring to a disciple, the children struck him once more, took the seals, and returned the ring to him before leaving.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman knocked the Young Master of the Cloud Sect down for the third time and stole the Divine Seals from his Storage Ring.
• The Young Master of the Cloud Sect made a disciple wear the ring and continued searching for Divine Seals.
• Two days later, the children knocked the Young Master of the Cloud Sect down again and searched his finger for the ring.
• The disciple threw the ring to Little Su Mo, who took the Divine Seals and put the ring back on the Young Master of the Cloud Sect.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman carried away the Stone Stele and disappeared.

After the Cloud Sect was attacked again, Mude and Zhixuan tried impersonating Evil Spirits to steal Divine Seals but were chased away by both the Cloud Sect and the Thunder Sect. The chapter ended with the Thunder Sect’s Senior Brother Diao collapsing after another eerie gust, leaving his group fearing the Evil Spirits would keep targeting them.

• Junior Brother Xiang returned the ring to himself and let another disciple knock him unconscious so the Cloud Sect group could explain the attack to their Young Master.
• The Cloud Sect mistook Mude and Zhixuan’s Evil Spirit disguise for deliberate mockery and chased them away.
• Mude and Zhixuan encountered the Thunder Sect and tried the same Divine Seal scam, but the Thunder Sect blasted them with Thunder Arts and drove them off.
• Senior Brother Diao lamented that he had no Divine Seals and still needed opportunities to claim the young master position.
• An eerie wind swept through the Thunder Sect group, and Senior Brother Diao fell to the ground convulsing.

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman worried that their repeated thefts had stopped cultivators from collecting Divine Seals, so they planned to trick people into searching again. They tested their plan on the Cloud Sect, knocking out the entire group.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman realized cultivators had stopped collecting Divine Seals because they feared being robbed.
• Little Su Mo proposed promising not to steal seals, then robbing cultivators after they had gathered more.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman decided to try their plan on the Cloud Sect.
• The Young Master of the Cloud Sect smugly believed he was safe without Divine Seals and planned to collect some near the end of the year.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman struck the Cloud Sect group from behind, leaving everyone unconscious.

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman knocked out the Cloud Sect members and left them three Divine Seals, hoping to show they would not steal from them again. When the Cloud Sect misunderstood the gesture and ignored the Seals, the children returned and knocked everyone out once more, leaving the Seals again.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman knocked out the Cloud Sect members, left three Divine Seals before the Young Master of the Cloud Sect, and went to find the Thunder Sect.
• A phantom appeared and lamented that the last little seedling of the Divine Race had to find ways to grow without anyone to rely on.
• The Cloud Sect members woke and misread the Seals as a warning to search for more; the Young Master of the Cloud Sect refused to submit and ordered them to ignore the Seals.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman returned, saw the Seals untouched, and decided the Cloud Sect still did not understand their message.
• The children knocked out the Cloud Sect members again, noticed the Young Master of the Cloud Sect's head was bleeding, left three more Divine Seals, and hid nearby.

The Cloud Sect devised a way to appease the supposed evil spirits by dragging a Storage Ring filled with Divine Seals behind them, while Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman secretly collected the seals and spared them further blows. The method spread to the Thunder Sect and other groups, who began using it too.

• After being struck unconscious again, the Young Master of the Cloud Sect agreed to a disciple’s plan to place Divine Seals in a Storage Ring and drag it behind the group as an offering.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman approached the Cloud Sect’s ring, took most of its Divine Seals, and left three behind.
• The Cloud Sect concluded that the spirits would take the seals instead of attacking them, and continued collecting more to put in the ring.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman decided to keep taking the Cloud Sect’s seals at intervals without hitting them again, then went to check on the Thunder Sect.
• The Thunder Sect copied the Cloud Sect’s method, and the approach spread among other sects and individuals.

Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman grew bored as people voluntarily handed over Divine Seals, until the Reincarnation Mirror showed them a group of Academy disciples whom Little Su Mo recognized as his senior brothers and sisters. They rushed to find them while the Academy group discussed the Evil Spirits, and an eerie wind rose as they prepared to defend themselves.

• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman asked the Reincarnation Mirror to find people who had not voluntarily offered Divine Seals.
• Little Su Mo recognized the seven people in the mirror as his senior brothers and sisters, and he and Little Phoenix Woman hurried toward them with the Stone Stele.
• Gu Yu and the Academy disciples discussed why Evil Spirits had appeared, and Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother suggested the spirits were connected to the Forbidden Lands.
• Second Senior Brother suggested Seventh Senior Brother might have accidentally awakened the Evil Spirits, and the group agreed to look for him only if he found them first.
• Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother displayed their anti-spirit tools, but an eerie wind suddenly swept over the group.

Little Su Mo reunited with his Academy senior brothers and sisters, who first mistook him and Phoenix for evil spirits before recognizing him through private details. After hearing how he died while reaching Spirit Transformation and was reborn as a child, he realized that none of the six Academy members were human.

• Fourth Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, and Third Senior Sister attacked Little Su Mo and Phoenix, mistaking them for evil spirits, until Gu Yu called them to stop.
• Little Su Mo proved his identity by recalling private facts about his senior brothers and sisters, and Gu Yu embraced him.
• Little Su Mo introduced Phoenix to the Academy group and began recounting what had happened since he left the Ninth Realm.
• Little Su Mo explained that he died while trying to reach Spirit Transformation and underwent Nirvana as a child.
• After his senior brothers and sisters dismissed Spirit Transformation as ordinary, Little Su Mo realized that none of the six Academy members were human.

Little Su Mo told his Academy seniors that people in the Forbidden Lands willingly collected Divine Seals for him, and they followed him to see for themselves. After watching a group stop and let the children take the seals from their Storage Bag, Second Senior Brother remarked on Seventh Senior Brother’s uncanny nature.

• Gu Yu explained that she and the other Academy disciples had reached Spirit Transformation by absorbing unconscious Heavenly Dao Fragments, while Luo Yin confirmed she had reached the same realm without explaining how.
• Little Su Mo said he could return to his original age by absorbing enough Divine Seals, and defended taking them from people who mistook him and Little Phoenix Woman for Evil Spirits.
• Sixth Senior Sister offered Little Su Mo a dozen Divine Seals, but he indicated he needed over twenty thousand; Luo Yin suggested the Academy help him collect them.
• Little Su Mo claimed that people in the Forbidden Lands now gathered Divine Seals and waited for him to collect them, and Little Phoenix Woman pointed out an approaching group.
• Little Su Mo and Little Phoenix Woman carried the Stone Stele toward the group, whose members stopped with their eyes shut while the children took Divine Seals from a Storage Bag tied behind them.
• Second Senior Brother watched the group willingly surrender the Divine Seals and said there was something uncanny about Seventh Senior Brother.

A group searching the Forbidden Lands discovered that a monstrous emerald serpent and other creatures were slaughtering humans, suggesting the Demon Realm’s new ruler had brought a dangerous change. Meanwhile, the Academy group investigated the source of Divine Seals, and Little Su Mo realized the Forbidden Lands might be connected to the Divine Realm.

• A woman’s group found a Divine Seal beside more than a dozen tortured corpses, then an emerald-eyed beast killed her fellow disciples and pierced her chest with its tail.
• As she died, the woman recalled that the Great Peng had taken control of the Demon Realm after Phoenix vanished, and feared the human prodigies in the Forbidden Lands were in danger.
• The Academy group discussed how Little Su Mo could collect twenty thousand Divine Seals and questioned whether enough Seals existed or where they came from.
• Fourth Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother showed the group a map and hinted that the Forbidden Lands’ connection to eight realms resembled a familiar place.
• Little Su Mo trembled and identified that place as the Divine Realm.

Su Mo concluded that the Forbidden Lands were likely another side of the Divine Realm and realized the Forbidden Lands consciousness was waiting for him. He led the Academy group into the depths, while a phantom watched over them and destroyed several giant snakes.

• Su Mo and the others joined their maps and saw that the Forbidden Lands fit into the Divine Realm's Nine Dragons Paying Homage terrain.
• Su Mo considered the Divine Realm's mysteries and the Divine Race's destruction, then realized the Forbidden Lands consciousness held the most Divine Seals and was waiting for him.
• The Divine Seals flew together to form the word "Come," and Su Mo gathered them before leading the group toward the consciousness.
• As the Academy group left camp, several enormous green snakes followed them, but a beautiful phantom appeared and killed the snakes.
• The phantom watched the group depart, said she had waited a long time for Su Mo, and dissolved into the void.

After learning that the Demon Race was killing human prodigies in the Forbidden Lands, the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s girl warned the others to band together and stay alert. Su Mo’s group reached the golden stone wall deep in the Forbidden Lands, and his call opened a crack in it.

• The Great Xia Imperial Clan’s girl identified the wounds on several dead prodigies as the work of the Demon Race and warned that humans could be wiped out while trapped in the Forbidden Lands.
• She urged the human groups to share the news, unite, and guard against the Demon Race, and many sects began traveling together.
• Su Mo’s group spent two months traveling deeper into the Forbidden Lands without searching for Divine Seals.
• The group reached the heaven-high golden stone wall, where the Radiant Marks resonated with Little Su Mo’s Divine Rune.
• Little Su Mo told the wall, “I’m here,” and it roared as a crack opened, flooding the area with golden light.

Little Su Mo and his companions crossed a golden passage into Divine Mountain, where a golden-robed woman recognized him as one of her race. She called him home and began showing him around, promising to explain everything in time.

• Little Su Mo followed a familiar pull into the golden passage, and Divine Runes lit along the walls as he walked.
• Little Phoenix Woman held Little Su Mo's hand, while Gu Yu and Luo Yin reacted to their closeness.
• The group emerged onto a golden mountain covered in peach blossoms, where a golden-robed woman waited beneath the trees.
• Little Phoenix Woman stopped the others from following Little Su Mo after a matching Divine Rune appeared on the woman's forehead.
• The golden-robed woman told Little Su Mo she had planted the peach trees while waiting for their Divine Race to return, then asked him to call her big sister.
• The woman took Little Su Mo's hand and led him up Divine Mountain, saying she would show him around and change his clothes.

Little Su Mo explored Divine Mountain with the goddess, who gave him a Spirit Robe and welcomed him as the last member of the Divine Race. At the summit, she revealed that the Longevity Stele preserved her remnant soul.

• The Academy party arrived at Divine Mountain, where First Senior Brother fell asleep and the others wandered among the peach blossoms.
• The goddess led Little Su Mo to Peach Cove and gave him a Spirit Robe that changed to fit him.
• She showed Little Su Mo the God-Showing Bridge, and he crossed it as a newly welcomed child of the Divine Race.
• The goddess told Little Su Mo that the Divine Race had only him left, and he decided not to reveal the origins of his Divine Body.
• At the summit, the goddess identified the Longevity Stele as a monument to the race's forebears and the reason her remnant soul remained.

Little Su Mo learned that the Forbidden Lands were the Divine Realm and joined the Remnant Soul of the Goddess in witnessing memories of its past. The memories ended with Granny Heavenly Secrets revealing two Divine Seals to Little Yuanyuan.

• The Remnant Soul of the Goddess confirmed that the Forbidden Lands were the Divine Realm, home of the Divine Race.
• Little Su Mo and the Remnant Soul of the Goddess joined their Divine Senses and entered a memory of the Divine Realm as it once was.
• They watched Little Yuanyuan visit Granny Heavenly Secrets and ask when her absent Father God and Mother Goddess would return.
• As time passed, the Divine Mountain emptied while Little Yuanyuan continued waiting for her parents.
• Granny Heavenly Secrets told Little Yuanyuan that her parents had returned, reminded her of the Divine Race's mission, and revealed two Divine Seals.

Little Su Mo witnessed the vision of Yuan Yuan losing her family and Granny Heavenly Secrets as the Divine Race went out to confront the calamity. Left alone on Divine Mountain, Yuan Yuan planted a peach pit in the hope of gaining the little brother Granny promised, and began spreading peach trees across the mountain.

• Little Su Mo and the Remnant Soul of the Goddess saw Yuan Yuan recognize the Divine Seals as the transformed Father God and Mother God.
• As blood rain fell and the Divine Realm faced catastrophe, Granny Heavenly Secrets told Yuan Yuan she would leave to help clean up the calamity.
• Granny Heavenly Secrets gave Yuan Yuan a peach pit and promised a little brother would come when peach blossoms covered Divine Mountain, then left and sealed the mountain off.
• Yuan Yuan realized her family and Granny Heavenly Secrets would never return, and that they had become Divine Seals to protect the world.
• Yuan Yuan planted the peach pit, watched it sprout and grow, then began planting peach-tree shoots across Divine Mountain.