Chapter Summaries

Su Mo refused the Demon Sage’s plan to offer herself in exchange for the demons’ acceptance of integration, and proposed winning them over through gradual exposure to the human world. He began outlining his strategy, leaving its three crucial final steps unexplained.

• Su Mo realized the Demon Sage’s Aversion Thought had passed and challenged her claim that it was driving her to approach him.
• Su Mo refused to accept the Demon Sage’s offer, explaining that he would not trade intimacy for peace because it violated his Dao Heart.
• The Demon Sage asked Su Mo to explain his alternative method after he told her that she herself was the exception to the apparent best solution.
• Su Mo proposed temporarily setting aside integration, developing trade between the Demon Pagoda and the human world, and spreading stories about human forebears among the demons.
• Su Mo announced that the fourth, fifth, and sixth steps of his plan were crucial, but had not yet explained them.

Su Mo explained how the Demon Sage could turn a forbidden human-demon romance into support for integration, but she teased him and drugged him after confessing interest in him. Su Mo sealed his Divine Sense as the pill overwhelmed him, and an enchanting figure returned to his fallen body.

• Su Mo told the Demon Sage to spread a tragic human-demon love story through the Demon Pagoda, then ban such romances and secretly stir up opposition until the demons forced her to retract the decree.
• Su Mo added that demons should face obstacles to entering human society and earn acceptance through their own efforts.
• The Demon Sage told Su Mo she might have developed feelings for him and said his story had made her long for human-demon romance.
• The Demon Sage fed Su Mo a pill, teased him, and left him struggling against its effects.
• Su Mo sealed his Divine Sense and collapsed; afterward, an enchanting figure returned to the cave.

Su Mo awoke after enduring the Spring Pill’s effects and returned to Peach Blossom Haven, where the Demon Sage had already come back and was discussing cooperation on the Demon Pagoda. The others left Su Mo, Wu Qian, and the Demon Sage together, and the chapter ended with Xiaoyueyue sensing that the Demon Sage seemed different from the day before.

• Su Mo woke in the woods, concluded that he had faced the Spring Pill’s effects himself, and returned to Peach Blossom Haven.
• Su Mo found the Demon Sage with the Four Sages and Wu Qian, then sat with Xiaoyueyue in his arms.
• Wu Qian explained that the group had been discussing how to cooperate with the Demon Sage on a Great Human Drama among the Demon Race.
• The Four Sages and Yanzhi left Peach Mountain, followed by Wu Qian and the Demon Sage, leaving Su Mo alone with Xiaoyueyue, Hui Kong, and the Brush of All Living Beings.
• Xiaoyueyue remarked that the Demon Sage seemed different from the day before, and the Brush of All Living Beings wondered whether her Four Thoughts had passed.

Over two years, Su Mo and the Demon Sage used conflicting decrees about human-demon relationships to reshape opinion and negotiate contact between the Demon Pagoda and the world. The two sides began a cautious era of exchange, while Ji Ting prepared to enter the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road.

• Wu Qian managed Floating Life Pass as Su Mo remained in Peach Blossom Haven, while the Demon Sage began a scheme to integrate the Demon Race into the world.
• The Demon Sage imprisoned demons involved with humans and ordered them to marry demons, prompting unrest in the Demon Pagoda; Su Mo issued a decree forbidding human-demon relations as well.
• The Demon Sage withdrew his decree after protests, but Su Mo kept his in force, leaving the Demon Pagoda and the world more isolated than before.
• Demons petitioned Su Mo to restore relations, and he demanded that people and demons be allowed to cross between their lands to foster contact.
• The Demon Sage accepted Su Mo's demands, and Su Mo withdrew his decree, beginning a period of preliminary contact between the Demon Pagoda and the world.
• Two years passed, and Ji Ting was about to set foot on the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road.

As Ji Ting prepared to lead the Incense Heavenly Prodigies onto the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, Su Mo waited at Floating Life Pass, hoping Ji Ting could reach the Immortal Domain. Su Mo remained troubled by mysteries surrounding the Immortal Gate as Xiaoyueyue clung to him and asked Wu Qian for food.

• Ji Ting's upcoming ascent stirred the world, and the Incense Heavenly Prodigies gathered to follow him on the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road.
• At Floating Life Pass, Su Mo watched the horizon with Wu Qian and counted down to the second day of the second month.
• Su Mo told Wu Qian he hoped Ji Ting would reach the Immortal Domain, since he had given Ji Ting half the world's fortune and wanted to avoid further trouble.
• Su Mo admitted he did not know whether Ji Ting would succeed, though he believed there was hope, while unease about the Immortal Gate lingered in his heart.
• Xiaoyueyue clung to Su Mo and said she was hungry, so Wu Qian agreed to bring her something to eat.

As Ji Ting prepared to ascend the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, Su Mo sent an incarnation to see him off. After their brief exchange, Ji Ting stepped onto the stone bridge, determined to reach the Immortal Domain.

• People celebrated the second day of the second month and prayed to Su Mo, while his Peach Mountain Disciples worked to bring favorable weather.
• Ji Ting approached the stone bridge with the Ji Clan and other forces, preparing to ascend despite feeling burdened by their expectations.
• Ji Ting saw that Su Eternal Life ranked first on the Incense Divine Stele and regretted that Su had not appeared before his departure.
• The White-Clad One arrived, confirmed he was an incarnation of Su Eternal Life, and told Ji Ting he had come to see him off.
• Ji Ting declared that he was not inferior to Su Eternal Life and strode onto the stone bridge as Su Mo's incarnation disappeared.

Su Mo explained that he had visited Ji Ting to give him a reason to reach the Immortal Domain, then watched the Incense Divine Stele as Incense bearers began dying on the Immortal Path. Ji Ting continued his ascent with a warning from Su Mo to beware his Master weighing on his mind.

• Su Mo told Wu Qian that he had given Ji Ting the desire to prove himself Su Eternal Life’s equal, and had secretly passed him something else.
• Three days after Ji Ting began his ascent, the first of the sixty-six Incense names vanished from the Divine Steles, revealing that an Incense bearer had fallen.
• Su Mo asked the Brush of All Living Beings what it knew about the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, and it recited a cryptic verse about three realms and the Immortal Path.
• After two days on the mountaintop, Su Mo saw another Incense name disappear from the Divine Stele.
• Ji Ting recalled an Incense Heavenly Prodigy dying after stepping ahead too quickly, then gripped the Jade Slip Su Mo had secretly given him with the warning to beware his Master.

Ji Ting and the Incense Heavenly Prodigies traveled the perilous Path to Immortality, guided by Sages through dangers and mist that eroded their souls. When a Sword-Ray struck, an elderly Sage died protecting the young girl, who wept over his bones and said they should stop trying to ascend to immortality.

• A lively young girl asked an elderly Sage about the Path to Immortality, and he told her that Zhuang Shu had once traveled farther than he had.
• The group followed the Sages’ guidance through the mist and around dangers, but several Heavenly Prodigies died along the way.
• After a month, the elderly Sage stopped at the point where he had turned back before, and Ji Ting offered to lead the others using his Innate Fortune.
• A Sword-Ray erupted from the mist and grazed Ji Ting before shattering the girl’s Quasi-Sacred Artifact mirror.
• The elderly Sage stepped in front of the girl and took the Sword-Ray, dying without ever seeing the Immortal Domain.
• The girl gathered the Sage’s bones and wept, saying she would take him home and that they should no longer ascend to immortality.

Su Mo reflected on the older generation’s sacrifices as more Incense names vanished, then arranged for Demon Race members to marry out into the world. Half a year later, with the Immortal Path claiming many more lives, Yanzhi asked what Su Mo knew about the fate of her homeland.

• Su Mo saw that the vanished Incense names belonged to older-generation Heavenly Prodigies and thought of the elders who had protected him in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Su Mo approved a Demon Race wedding celebration and decreed that Demon Race members of either sex could marry out into the world.
• Xiaoyueyue played hide-and-seek with Su Mo, while the chapter noted that she had grown livelier since arriving in Peach Blossom Haven.
• Half a year after Ji Ting ascended to immortality, thirty-three of the sixty-six Incense names had vanished, and the world mourned the losses.
• At Floating Life Pass, Yanzhi admitted she longed for home and questioned Su Mo about what he was waiting for; he said someone had to speak for those dying on the Immortal Path, and she asked what he knew.

Su Mo considered the truth behind the Immortal Path as Ji Ting remained the sole Heavenly Prodigy still advancing toward the Immortal Domain. After speaking with Wu Qian, Su Mo declared that he would attempt to ascend to immortality at the autumn equinox.

• Su Mo urged Yanzhi to tell Jing Yan the truth and vowed to expose what the Immortals had hidden, while Yanzhi watched him leave and apologized to the fallen beyond the pass.
• Another half year passed, leaving Ji Ting as the only one of the sixty-six Incense Heavenly Prodigies still on the Immortal Path.
• Su Mo suspected that a hidden power of rules was making ascension harder for those most likely to succeed, and believed Ji Ting would reveal the truth within half a year.
• Wu Qian brought Xiaoyueyue to Su Mo on Peach Blossom Mountain, where Su Mo played hide-and-seek with the child and asked Wu Qian whether she wanted to return to Spirit Beast Mountain.
• Wu Qian promised to remain Su Mo’s maid even if his next step was dangerous, and Su Mo announced that Su Eternal Life would attempt to ascend to immortality at the autumn equinox.

Su Mo ordered the Four Sage elders to prepare for a great battle and announced that he would ascend to immortality in six months. After visiting Hanging Temple and meeting the Demon Sage, he hinted that the Immortal Path might be more dangerous than people knew and began to explain in private.

• Su Mo told Wu Qian to instruct the Four Sage elders to prepare for a great battle, then asked Hui Kong whether he was right to act; Hui Kong urged him to follow his own heart.
• Floating Life Pass proclaimed that Su Mo would ascend to immortality in six months, renewing the world's hope while the Four Sages remained silent.
• Su Mo visited Hanging Temple for two days, after which Revered Master Withered Leaf left to travel the world and many powerful factions shut their gates.
• After another six months passed, Su Mo went to the Demon Pagoda and told the Demon Sage he had to ascend, though he might never return.
• Su Mo persuaded the Demon Sage to let him into the Holy Palace, where he said the Path to Immortality might not be as simple as they believed.

Su Mo resolved his uncertainty about what happened with the Demon Sage, then visited Ji Shuang to say goodbye before ascending to immortality. After a Jade Slip warned him not to ascend and shattered, Su Mo left anyway, while Ji Shuang named the hillside Stay and watched him disappear.

• Su Mo asked the Demon Sage about the night she left him in the tiger's den, and she explained that she had only removed the Spring Pill's effects and pinned up her hair after Yueyue spilled juice on it.
• Su Mo left the Demon Pagoda and found Ji Shuang beneath the Red Mulberry Tree, where she had lived for over three years.
• Su Mo told Ji Shuang he had come to say goodbye and confirmed that he intended to ascend to immortality, despite her asking him to stay.
• Ji Shuang cooked for Su Mo, and after he finished eating, a Jade Slip in his sleeve displayed the words “Do not ascend” before shattering.
• Su Mo left, and Ji Shuang told him she had named the hillside Stay; after he vanished, she sank to the ground.

After Ji Ting died on the Immortal Path, Su Mo approached the Stone Bridge intending to ascend and root out future trouble, but the Immortal Gate appeared and issued a decree to guide him to immortality. Su Mo rose toward the Gate, wary of the killing intent behind its opening, and stopped before the towering figure within.

• Ji Ting's name vanished from the Ninety-Nine Incense Divine Steles after he died on the Immortal Path.
• Su Mo approached the Stone Bridge and prepared to step onto the Immortal Path to root out future trouble.
• A Golden Giant Gate appeared in the sky, and a voice from above decreed that Su Eternal Life be guided to ascend to immortality.
• Su Mo withdrew his foot from the Immortal Path, recognized that the Gate had appeared to stop him from reaching the Immortal Domain by that route, and began ascending toward it.
• The Brush of All Living Beings warned Su Mo that it sensed killing intent, and Su Mo continued toward the Gate as a Golden Divine Dragon appeared behind him.
• The Immortal Gate opened a narrow crack, and Su Mo reached it and looked up at the towering figure within.

Su Mo entered the Immortal Domain to learn the truth about the Immortal Gate, the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, and the Desolate Realm’s destruction, broadcasting his conversation to the world through the Power of All Spirits. Three Pure Ones revealed that he had refined immortal pills using the Desolate Realm’s Sages and said the realm was destroyed when its people detonated his pill-refining technique.

• Su Mo resisted the Immortal Venerable’s urging but entered the Immortal Gate, believing his public ascension gave him a chance to uncover the truth.
• Su Mo asked the elderly Immortal Venerable about the Immortal Gate, the Ascend to Immortality Ancient Road, and the Desolate Realm’s destruction.
• Using a Wonder Stone and the Power of All Spirits, Su Mo spread his conversation throughout the world, and its people learned that the Desolate Realm had been destroyed.
• The Immortal Venerable identified himself as Three Pure Ones and said the Immortal Gate and Desolate Realm fell under his rule.
• Three Pure Ones confessed that he had refined immortal pills in the Desolate Realm every ten thousand years using Sages as the medicinal primer, and that the Desolate Realm’s people had destroyed their realm by detonating his technique.

Su Mo questioned Three Purities Immortal Venerable and learned how he had secretly blocked ascension and harvested Sages to refine pills. Three Purities revealed that the world would forget the truth once it forgot Su Mo, leaving the people unaware of what had happened.

• Three Purities Immortal Venerable admitted he had tampered with the Immortal Path and drawn Su Mo into the Immortal Gate to stop him reaching the Immortal Domain.
• Three Purities explained that Su Mo had chosen to enter the Immortal Gate rather than let the Immortal Venerable kill the people he had left behind.
• Three Purities revealed that he had closed the Immortal Gate because there were too few Sages in the mortal world to harvest, and said he was already prepared for another round of pill refining.
• Three Purities showed Su Mo that the Heavenly Dao of the mortal world was a sword under his control.
• Three Purities told Su Mo that the people would forget the truth when they forgot Su Mo.

Su Mo accepted that the Three Purities Immortal Venerable would erase him from the memories of everyone in the mortal world using the Heavenly Dao Sword, so the world could forget the truth about the Desolate Realm. As the erasure began, Ji Shuang tried to preserve her feelings for Su Mo by carving them into the Red Mulberry Tree.

• Su Mo realized that the Three Purities Immortal Venerable needed him in the mortal world to use the Heavenly Dao Sword to erase his existence from everyone’s memories.
• Su Mo returned through the Immortal Gate, accepting that the world would forget him and the truths he had revealed.
• Yanzhi watched Su Mo from Floating Life Pass and mourned that his defense of the dead beings of the Desolate Realm would soon be forgotten.
• The Brush of All Living Beings warned Su Mo that its consciousness was fading, while Su Mo continued walking away from the Immortal Gate.
• Ji Shuang grabbed the Hairpin and carved “Ji Shuang loves Older Brother Eternal Life” into the Red Mulberry Tree so she would not forget Su Mo.

Su Mo descended from the Immortal Gate as the Heavenly Dao Sword began erasing him from the world's memories. As people fought to preserve what they remembered of him, a Peach Mountain disciple defied the Heavenly Dao, while Su Mo still seemed to be waiting for something.

• Su Mo and the Brush of All Living Beings agreed to resist the Immortal Venerable, though neither knew how they could fight back.
• An old man in Peach Blossom Pass painted Su Mo from the Eternal Life Statue, fearing the world would forget him and return to its former chaos.
• A little boy told his father he did not want to forget the Emperor, and his father promised they would remember what Su Mo had done for them.
• Hong Shi ordered the Beast Taming Sect to seal their divine senses and release their spirit beasts, hoping to protect their memories of Su Mo.
• The Heavenly Dao Sword altered memories throughout the world as Su Mo watched, and a Peach Mountain disciple shouted that it would not tamper with his memories.

The Heavenly Dao erased Su Eternal Life from everyone’s memories, leaving Su Mo isolated as he struggled to recall his plan. As he remembered that the solution lay beyond the world, a vast tide of Demon Beasts surged toward the Immortal Gate.

• The Heavenly Dao’s sword caused people throughout the world to forget Su Eternal Life, though traces of him remained everywhere.
• Ji Shuang found his name carved into the Red Mulberry Tree but could no longer remember who he was.
• Su Mo felt the world forgetting him and began losing his own memories, until a vision from the Spirit Jade brought him face-to-face with the Scholar, another version of himself.
• The Scholar helped Su Mo remember that his plan was to make the beings beyond Border Pass stop fearing his existence.
• The Brush of All Living Beings sensed it was about to forget Su Eternal Life as countless Demon Beasts, led by Saint Realm beasts, charged toward the Immortal Gate.

Su Mo spoke with the image of Scholar he had planted in the Memory-River Spirit Jade and recovered the purpose behind his scheme: use the Demon Beasts’ hatred to challenge Three Purities Immortal Venerable and the Immortal Gate. He then called on the world’s myriad spirits to help him write himself anew in people’s hearts.

• Scholar revealed that Su Mo had arranged for the world and the Demon Beasts to forget him, and had left an image in the Memory-River Spirit Jade to guide him.
• Su Mo and Scholar reasoned that the Demon Beasts’ origins and history held the key to Su Mo’s forgotten plan.
• Su Mo remembered that he intended to unleash the Demon Beasts’ hatred against Three Purities Immortal Venerable and tear apart the Immortal Gate.
• Su Mo said he would make the world remember him by writing a new Su Eternal Life in its people’s hearts.
• Su Mo awoke, declared that the Heavenly Dao could not make all things forget him, and called on the world’s myriad spirits for aid.

Su Mo’s plea awakened memories of him throughout the world, restoring everyone’s recollection of the White-Clad One. As the Three Purities Immortal Venerable prepared to erase those memories again, the Heavenly Dao Sword joined Su Mo’s Star Sword, and the human sages gathered beside him; Yanzhi revealed that the demon beasts had once been people of the Desolate Realm.

• Spiritual beings across the world manifested memories of Su Mo, and Shuang'er cried out that she had not forgotten Older Brother Eternal Life.
• The phantoms vanished as people remembered Su Mo and recognized him as the Eternal Life Emperor.
• The Heavenly Dao Sword broke free of the Three Purities Immortal Venerable and merged with Su Mo’s Star Sword, giving it a spirit.
• Su Mo moved aside when the demon beasts pleaded with him not to stop them, and the saint beasts approached him.
• The Four Sages, Revered Master Withered Leaf, the Ji Clan’s sage ancestor, and other sages gathered beside Su Mo.
• Yanzhi told the Book Sage that the demon beasts had once been people of the Desolate Realm.