Chapter Summaries

Ji Shuang learned that the barren grave held her real mother and built a home beneath a Red Mulberry Tree. At Floating Life Pass, Wu Qian continued waiting for Su Mo while opposing the Ji Clan’s demand for Peach Blossom Haven.

• Ji Shuang confirmed through the Hairpin that the unknown grave was her real mother’s and decided to make her home beneath the Red Mulberry Tree.
• Ji Shuang used the Hairpin to fell trees and built a wooden hut, then tried and failed to heal her wounded hands with a leaf.
• Wu Qian, now in the Inquiry Realm, waited for Su Mo at Floating Life Pass, where Peach Blossom Haven had united the pass under the Sage clans and its guardians.
• Wu Pangzi visited Wu Qian on the temple roof, learned she had guessed his connection to Wu Sage, and left after she teased his ostentatious appearance.
• After a disciple delivered the Imperial Dynasty’s edict demanding Peach Blossom Haven, Wu Qian ordered Floating Life Pass to accuse the Ji Clan of rebellion and the Pei Clan to demand the Imperial Dynasty’s surrender.

Su Mo helped the newly revived Yueyue out of her coffin and discovered that she had lost her memories, though she believed she was powerful. After feeding her, he persuaded her to come with him because she liked his aura, but she struggled to remember his name.

• Su Mo and Hui Kong watched Yueyue climb out of the coffin while the Brush of All Living Beings trembled in fear.
• Su Mo helped Yueyue up, and she said she could talk but could not remember her name or past.
• Su Mo gave Yueyue food, and she ate until she was full while Hui Kong and Su Mo wondered why Mount Sumeru had suppressed her.
• Su Mo invited Yueyue to come with him and promised her delicious food, and she agreed because she liked his aura.
• Su Mo told Yueyue to call him Su Eternal Life, but she could only repeat “Su,” leaving the Brush of All Living Beings despairing.

The three Sages from Saddle Mountain, the Yan Household, and Qingliang River came to the Hanging Temple seeking Su Mo and the world’s fortune, but Kuye revealed that they had underestimated the extraordinary woman at Floating Life Pass. The Book Sage arrived to protect Eternal Life and disclosed that the Sages’ locations had been arranged to leave the attackers guessing.

• The three Sages demanded that Kuye hand over Su Mo, but Kuye said Buddha Child Eternal Life had left two days earlier and urged them to abandon their plan.
• The three Sages explained that they sought the world’s fortune to reach the Immortal Domain before their remaining lifespans ran out.
• Kuye deduced that the visitors were avatars and that the three Sages’ true bodies had gone to Floating Life Pass to seize Peach Blossom Haven.
• Kuye revealed that the extraordinary woman at Floating Life Pass had seen through their scheme and had not sent the Four Sages to the Hanging Temple.
• The Book Sage appeared and said Qian'er had sent him to protect Eternal Life, then revealed that three Sages guarded Floating Life Pass while another three had gone to the Imperial Dynasty.

Wu Qian used a convincing illusion to draw the three Sages away from Floating Life Pass and confronted Ji Ting at the Imperial Dynasty, warning him not to threaten Su Eternal Life. She and her companions vanished as incarnations, leaving Ji Ting and the returning Sages humiliated and uncertain.

• Wu Qian’s strategy made the three Sages fear that the Imperial Dynasty was under attack, so they turned back from Floating Life Pass.
• At the Ji Clan, Ji Shuang’s disappearance left the patriarch grim while the Woman quietly welcomed her escape.
• Wu Qian and three Sages confronted Ji Ting at the palace and told him Su Eternal Life did not need to act against him.
• Wu Qian identified Ji Ting’s hidden ally as possibly an Immortal and warned him not to trouble her young master.
• Wu Qian and the three Sages vanished as incarnations, and Ji Ting later told the returning Sages that they had been deceived.

After the Demon Sage regained her anger thought, she chased Su Mo into his Spirit Sea, where Hui Kong’s Buddhist power calmed her fury. Wu Qian arrived with two discoveries from the Imperial Dynasty, while Xiaoyueyue said she was hungry.

• Su Mo hid behind Hui Kong as the Demon Sage pursued him, furious over memories from the Demon Domain but unwilling to kill him.
• The Four Sages left Peach Blossom Haven after realizing the Demon Sage posed no real danger, and Su Mo fled into his Spirit Sea with Hui Kong and Xiaoyueyue.
• Su Mo asked Hui Kong and Xiaoyueyue to recite the Mind-Cleansing Mantra, but neither could recite it.
• Hui Kong summoned a thousand-zhang Golden Buddha Phantom, whose light eased the Demon Sage’s anger and made her sword disappear.
• Wu Qian entered the Spirit Sea to tell Su Mo about two discoveries from the Imperial Dynasty, and Xiaoyueyue asked her for food.

In Peach Blossom Haven, Wu Qian told Su Mo that a Saint Realm black-clothed elder behind the Ji Clan had arranged the death trap in the Forbidden Land and might be using the Ji Clan to pursue a hidden scheme. Su Mo suspected the plot was connected to the Immortal Gate’s closure and waited for Ji Ting to attempt ascension, while Xiaoyueyue learned the fruit Su Mo gave him was sour.

• Su Mo pulled Wu Qian out of the Spirit Sea and sat with her in Peach Blossom Haven.
• Wu Qian revealed that the Black-Clothed Elder behind the Ji Clan had laid the death trap for Su Mo and possessed cultivation above the Saint Realm.
• Wu Qian suggested the black-clothed man might be using the Ji Clan and that his scheme could be connected to the Immortal Gate remaining closed.
• Su Mo and Wu Qian speculated about why the Immortal Gate had vanished, and Su Mo said Ji Ting's attempt to ascend might reveal the answers.
• Su Mo handed Xiaoyueyue a sour fruit, and Xiaoyueyue shed tears after tasting it.

Su Mo struggled with whether to use the bridge in his Spirit Sea to seek Ning Baixue’s reincarnation, fearing the consequences of the Life-and-Death Forbidden Art. After Hui Kong urged him to let Ning Baixue choose for herself, Su Mo awakened her soul, and she said she wanted to try.

• Wu Qian took the sleepy Xiaoyueyue to the Divine Nest, while the Brush of All Living Beings chased after them to teach her to curse.
• Su Mo entered the Spirit Sea and stood beside the River of Forgetfulness, where Hui Kong spoke with him about his hesitation and the suffering of keeping Ning Baixue’s soul trapped.
• Su Mo admitted he could not be sure the bridge in his Spirit Sea led to reincarnation and feared wasting his one chance to bear the forbidden art’s karma.
• Hui Kong urged Su Mo to let Ning Baixue make her own choice, and Su Mo went to the Redwood Coffin to awaken her soul.
• The Book of Life and Death opened the coffin, and Ning Baixue appeared before Su Mo and said she wanted to try.

Su Mo sent Shi Jiuxuan’s remnant soul across the River of Forgetfulness in hope that she could reincarnate and return to him, sacrificing much of his vitality as he composed a poem for her. Shi Jiuxuan vanished into the mist beyond the bridge, leaving Su Mo collapsed on the riverbank, determined to find her again.

• Su Mo and Shi Jiuxuan agreed that she would attempt to cross the River of Forgetfulness and seek reincarnation.
• Su Mo gave Shi Jiuxuan a strand of his heart-soul and promised to find her if she remembered him after reincarnating.
• Shi Jiuxuan stepped onto the stone bridge as the fifth volume of the Book of Life and Death opened, and its rules began draining Su Mo’s vitality.
• Su Mo recited a poem for Shi Jiuxuan as she crossed the bridge, growing older with every step.
• Shi Jiuxuan reached the far end of the bridge, called on Su Mo to find her, and disappeared into the mist.
• Su Mo promised to find Shi Jiuxuan and collapsed on the riverbank.

Su Mo endured severe karmic backlash after sending Shi Jiuxuan across the River of Forgetfulness, but took the pain as evidence that his wife might be reborn. As he hid in the Spirit Sea to recover, the Demon Sage panicked about the four Saints outside and convinced him to close the Spirit Sea Gate.

• Su Mo told Hui Kong that he believed he had succeeded in sending Shi Jiuxuan toward rebirth, and refused to stop the karmic backlash despite its cost to his vitality.
• Su Mo asked Hui Kong to tell the people outside that he was contemplating Dao Arts in seclusion, then concealed the blood he coughed up and used his Giant God Blood to sustain himself.
• Su Mo discovered the Demon Sage hiding in the Spirit Sea, where she warned that four Saint Realm cultivators outside might seize his throne.
• The Demon Sage insisted that even a one-in-ten-thousand chance of danger meant certain death and urged Su Mo to hide with her and distrust Hui Kong.
• Su Mo closed the Spirit Sea Gate at the Demon Sage's urging, leaving Hui Kong outside bewildered.

Su Mo and the Demon Sage remained trapped together inside the sealed Spirit Sea, where her fear-driven thoughts made her suspect he intended to violate her. As Su Mo continued resisting the death energy, he worried about the Demon Sage’s suppressed aversion thought and what it might unleash.

• The Demon Sage explained that the Four Sages would kill her first if they wanted to harm Su Mo, and she relaxed after he sealed the Spirit Sea Gate.
• The Demon Sage asked how Su Mo had recovered her divine soul, and he said he debated the Dao with Revered Master Withered Leaf and brought two Sages to collect a debt.
• The Demon Sage feared Su Mo would take advantage of their isolation, and his attempt to reassure her with Buddhist radiance only made her accuse him of lying.
• The Demon Sage ordered Su Mo to sit beneath the Bodhi Tree and keep away from her, while she hid in a corner of the Spirit Sea.
• Su Mo resumed circulating his giant god blood to resist the death energy and worried about the Demon Sage’s suppressed aversion thought.

After recovering enough to leave the Spirit Sea, Su Mo returned to Peach Mountain, where Wu Qian arranged for him to recuperate in private while his aged appearance lasted. The Demon Sage remained behind, mourning her feelings for Su Mo, and Xiaoyueyue tried to learn curses from the Brush of All Living Beings.

• The Demon Sage’s Fear Thought faded, and she spent her time at the River of Forgetfulness lamenting that Su Mo had seen her at her most vulnerable and wondering whether he cared for her.
• Su Mo left the Spirit Sea and found Hui Kong meditating outside; the two sat together beneath a peach tree.
• Wu Qian saw Su Mo’s aged appearance, comforted him, and arranged for Peach Mountain to become his private place of recuperation so the disciples would not see him.
• Su Mo used his Divine Sense to find Xiaoyueyue, who was drawing with the Brush of All Living Beings and told it that she liked listening to people talk.
• The Brush of All Living Beings offered to teach Xiaoyueyue to curse, but she could only repeat fragments of its curse.

Su Mo learned that Ji Ting had summoned Incense Heavenly Prodigies and Sages to ascend the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road in two years, and urged Wu Qian to stop concealing her talent. The chapter ended with Hui Kong warning that a calamity awaited Su Mo before the Demon Sage summoned him into the Spirit Sea Gate.

• Wu Qian told Su Mo that Ji Ting had proclaimed his intention to walk the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road in two years and invited Incense Heavenly Prodigies and Sages to join him.
• Wu Qian explained that the proclamation would drive the Incense Heavenly Prodigies to seek opportunities in Blessed Lands and prepare for the ascent.
• Su Mo said he would eventually walk the ancient road but would not visit the Blessed Lands, then encouraged Wu Qian to reveal her talent and pursue her own path.
• Wu Qian refused to seek the Great Dao for herself, saying she only wanted to remain Su Mo's maid and would become his keen sword if he needed her.
• Hui Kong told Su Mo that he could no longer discern his Fate Pattern and feared a calamity awaited him.
• The Demon Sage emerged from Su Mo's Spirit Sea Gate and beckoned him inside to speak.

At the River of Forgetfulness, the Demon Sage warned Su Mo about the perilous path he planned to take and revealed that her father had died on it. Su Mo remained determined to reach the Immortal Domain, whether through Ji Ting’s attempt in two years or by finding his own way.

• The Demon Sage spoke with Su Mo about the exhaustion and consequences of ruling, recalling how her father taught her that those in power affected the lives of ordinary people.
• The Demon Sage asked whether Su Mo was ready to take a dangerous path, and Su Mo admitted he did not know but would eventually take it.
• The Demon Sage revealed that she had discovered Su Mo was suppressing his breakthrough into the Inquiry Realm and promised to keep his plans secret.
• The Demon Sage warned Su Mo that her father had died on the path and urged him not to follow it.
• Su Mo said Ji Ting would attempt the path in two years, but vowed to reach the Immortal Domain even if Ji Ting failed.

Su Mo left the Spirit Sea before the Demon Sage could say something she might regret, then followed the Hairpin’s call to a hillside hut where Ji Shuang had collapsed from poison. After healing her, he learned the Hairpin had preserved his aura because it trusted him to protect Ji Shuang.

• The Demon Sage hinted that the Pei Clan’s line might end again, but Su Mo cut her off and fled the Spirit Sea to avoid her speaking under the influence of Sorrow Thought.
• Hui Kong told Su Mo that he had faced the calamity head-on, and Su Mo sensed a call through the aura he had left on the Hairpin and departed Floating Life Pass.
• Little Yueyue arrived looking for Su Mo and demonstrated her newly learned insult by ordering the Brush of All Living Beings to attack.
• Su Mo followed the Hairpin’s call to a red mulberry tree and found Ji Shuang unconscious and suffering from poison inside the hut.
• Su Mo treated Ji Shuang and confirmed that the Hairpin had sealed itself to hide from the Ji Clan and had kept his aura because it trusted him not to harm her for her Innate Spirit Body.

Su Mo found Ji Shuang living alone in the mountains, recovered her from poisoning, and cared for her as she woke. Beneath the Red Mulberry Tree, Ji Shuang revealed she was not a member of the Ji Clan by blood, and Su Mo realized they had protected her to marry her to Ji Ting for the benefit of her Innate Spirit Body.

• Su Mo found Ji Shuang's hut and garden, planted more crops, and quietly watched the Red Mulberry Tree with the Hairpin.
• Ji Shuang woke and found Su Mo waiting outside; she told him she had been poisoned after eating an unfamiliar fruit.
• Su Mo healed the wounds on Ji Shuang's hands and warned her to eat only what she recognized.
• Ji Shuang thanked Su Mo for returning the Hairpin and keeping it from the Ji Clan, then asked whether he had known about her origins.
• Ji Shuang told Su Mo she was not a member of the Ji Clan, and he realized the clan had planned to marry her to Ji Ting for the sake of her Innate Spirit Body.

Ji Shuang rejected Su Mo’s offer of shelter and chose to build a life for herself among the Red Mulberry Trees, while Su Mo reassured her that he valued her as a person rather than for her Innate Spirit Body. Su Mo accepted her invitation to stay, hoping to hide from the awakening Demon Sage’s aversion thought, though he felt he had forgotten something important.

• Su Mo sympathized with Ji Shuang’s betrayal, but Ji Shuang declined to return to Floating Life Pass and said she wanted to grow on her own beside the Red Mulberry Trees.
• Ji Shuang asked whether Su Mo had ever wanted to claim her Innate Spirit Body, and Su Mo compared her to beautiful clouds that could not be owned.
• Ji Shuang understood that Su Mo saw her as Ji Shuang rather than as an Innate Spirit Body, and she teased him as they sat together beneath a mulberry tree.
• Su Mo recalled his dream of eventually living quietly with the people he loved, away from the burdens of the world.
• Ji Shuang invited Su Mo to stay with her, and he accepted because he wanted to avoid the awakening Demon Sage’s aversion thought.

Su Mo spent an evening with Ji Shuang in her mountain refuge, listening as she described her new, independent life and longing for freedom. He left after giving her Spirit Jade to call him, while Ji Shuang stayed behind to build a future beneath the Red Mulberry Tree.

• Ji Shuang served Su Mo vegetables she had cooked, and they ate together beneath the Red Mulberry Tree.
• Su Mo suggested naming the place “Beneath the Mulberry Tree,” but Ji Shuang decided she would think of a name herself.
• Ji Shuang told Su Mo about building her hut, tending a garden, gathering fruit, and living alone in the mountain forest.
• Su Mo said he could not stay for several days and asked whether Ji Shuang would return with him to Floating Life Pass.
• Ji Shuang refused, choosing to remain free in the forest and one day honor her parents in a grove of Red Mulberry Trees.
• Su Mo gave Ji Shuang Spirit Jade so she could call him, then departed, leaving her alone beneath the tree.

Su Mo sheltered from the autumn rain in a mountain cave, where he refined an aphrodisiac pill for an aging tiger. He discovered the Demon Sage had been inside his Spirit Sea all along, and she confronted him after her Aversion Thought took hold.

• Su Mo left Ji Shuang to her solitude and waited for Ji Ting to ascend to immortality, while avoiding a return to Floating Life Pass.
• As autumn rain fell, Su Mo found a cave occupied by two tigers and decided to shelter there for several days.
• Su Mo refined and gave the male tiger a pill that restored its vitality, then watched it reunite with the female tiger.
• Su Mo sensed something wrong and realized the Demon Sage had remained inside his Spirit Sea and had reached the point where her Aversion Thought took hold.
• The Demon Sage immobilized Su Mo with her power, approached him, and remarked that their emperor knew how to refine pills.

The Demon Sage’s calm Aversion Thought confronted Su Mo in a cave and forced him to refine Reconciliation Pills for the Demon Pagoda. She then revealed that she had once attempted the Path to Immortality but had not even reached its halfway point.

• Su Mo tried to escape the Demon Sage, but she had sealed off his route and demanded that he refine more pills.
• Su Mo claimed he had made pills to help two childless tigers and used the excuse to resist the Demon Sage’s demand.
• The Demon Sage pointed out that Su Mo still had herbs in his Spirit Sea and ordered him to refine Reconciliation Pills for the Demon Pagoda.
• Su Mo began refining the pills slowly while the two tigers tried to creep toward the cave entrance, but the Demon Sage stopped them with a glance.
• Su Mo asked whether the Demon Sage felt unwell, then praised her and asked if she feared him.
• The Demon Sage said she had entered the Path to Immortality when she first entered Sainthood Entry but had failed to reach its halfway point.

Demon Sage Piaomiao revealed that the Demon Pagoda was nearing collapse and that its people refused to integrate with humans. She proposed that she and Su Mo unite as the rulers of their races to overcome the divide.

• Demon Sage Piaomiao told Su Mo she had walked the Path to Immortality to retrieve her father's remains, and Su Mo promised to bring them back if he found them.
• The Demon Sage showed Su Mo an illusion of the nine-story Demon Pagoda collapsing and explained that she had gone to Floating Life Pass because the Demon Race needed a place in the world.
• The Demon Sage told Su Mo that the Demon Pagoda's people resisted leaving because they believed humans and demons followed different paths.
• The Demon Sage returned with Su Mo to the cave and proposed that they unite as the sovereigns of the Human Race and ruler of the Demon Race.