Recaps

Leng Qingsong met Ou Ye and his brother at the orphanage, secretly placing a Sword Formula in Ou Ye’s mind to protect his brother when danger arose. After helping the boys bring home sweet potatoes, Leng Qingsong watched them disappear inside the orphanage, still standing outside its gates like a stray dog that had found a home.

• Ou Ye asked Leng Qingsong to teach him Sword Qi so he could help his brother, and Leng Qingsong learned that many other children lived at the orphanage.
• Leng Qingsong decided the orphans were connected to his eldest martial uncle and secretly placed a Sword Formula in Ou Ye’s mind, which would emerge only in danger.
• The boy finished digging up sweet potatoes, and Ou Ye abandoned thoughts of learning Sword Qi to help his brother carry them.
• Leng Qingsong gathered the remaining sweet potatoes and walked with the boys to the orphanage gates.
• The boy politely refused to let Leng Qingsong enter, and Leng Qingsong urged the boys to go to bed before watching them run inside.

Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng had spent five years searching Maple City for Ouyang, or Ouyezi, without success. After learning that the directionally challenged fool had visited Azure Cloud Orphanage and headed north, they realized he knew where their Eldest Senior Brother was and rushed after him.

• Bai Feiyu reviewed his fruitless search through Maple City while managing its largest transportation enterprise.
• Chen Changsheng visited Bai Feiyu and demanded news of Eldest Senior Brother, while Bai Feiyu criticized his increasingly violent searches.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Feiyu that the directionally challenged fool had left Maple City and seemed to have gotten lost.
• Three Land Gods reported that the fool had stayed at Azure Cloud Orphanage and then headed north.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng realized the fool had been concealing his knowledge and leaped through the window to pursue him.

Leng Qingsong reunited with his junior brothers, Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu, after visiting the Orphanage and promised to take them to see their Eldest Senior Brother (Ouyezi). He made them wait hidden in the grass until the Orphanage woke.

• Leng Qingsong left the Orphanage and returned to his youthful form as he walked toward Maple City.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu rushed at Leng Qingsong, who tackled them into a sweet potato field and thanked them for never giving up on finding their Eldest Senior Brother (Ouyezi).
• Leng Qingsong told the two he could take them to see him, but insisted they promise not to disturb him.
• Leng Qingsong threatened to stop one of them with his bow and arrow, then led Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to hide in the grass across from the Orphanage.
• The three Sages waited quietly for the Orphanage to wake.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu discovered that their Eldest Senior Brother had reincarnated as a cheeky boy in the Orphanage. Leng Qingsong revealed that the children gathered around him, not the boy himself, were the difficult problem they had come to face.

• Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong watched the Orphanage wake up and saw Mu Yunhai caring for the children.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu realized Eldest Senior Brother was likely among the Orphanage's children, though none seemed to match his poor aptitude.
• A mischievous boy ran from the kitchen with roasted sweet potatoes, and Mu Yunhai scolded him before he shared the food with the other children.
• The boy told Mu Yunhai that an old beggar had brought the sweet potatoes and money to the Orphanage the night before.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu recognized the boy as Eldest Senior Brother, but Leng Qingsong pointed out that the children around him were the difficult problem.

Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong devised a way to loosen the children’s karmic ties to Ouyang by inviting Great Cultivators to recruit them as disciples. Their plan brought the cultivators to the orphanage, where Xie Xinzhi realized its closure might soon be inevitable.

• Leng Qingsong asked Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu to find a way to dismantle the orphanage without disturbing the karmic ties between Ouyang and the children.
• Chen Changsheng proposed inviting Great Cultivators with their own worlds to take the talented children as disciples and assume their karmic ties with Ouyang.
• The Three Sages invited Great Cultivators from the Myriad Immortal Domains and warned them not to reveal their cultivation, deceive, or abduct anyone.
• Great Cultivators flocked to the orphanage, eager to recruit its exceptionally talented children.
• Xie Xinzhi sat at the orphanage entrance and suspected that the Three Sages’ plan would soon bring about the orphanage’s closure.

As powerful cultivators arrived at the orphanage to adopt the children, the boy encouraged Ou Ye to accept an opportunity while choosing to stay behind and watch over their home. That night, he signed Ou Ye’s adoption papers, and Xie Xinzhi reflected on the boy’s familiar, painful kindness.

• Great Cultivators repeatedly visited the orphanage to adopt children, while the director angrily tried to drive them away.
• Ou Ye told the boy that a white-robed swordsman wanted to take him as a disciple, but the boy urged Ou Ye to go without him.
• Ou Ye refused to leave unless the boy came too, and the boy explained that someone needed to stay and look after the orphanage.
• The boy visited Xie Xinzhi at night and said he wanted to handle Ou Ye’s adoption paperwork, while he planned to remain at the orphanage.
• The boy signed Ou Ye’s adoption document, and Xie Xinzhi watched him leave before sighing over his familiar gentleness.

As the orphanage emptied, the boy prepared to part from Ou Ye and let Song Mu take him away to become his disciple. Ou Ye secretly stayed awake through the farewell, and Song Mu carried him off with the Firewood Stick as the boy watched them go.

• The boy reassured a frightened Ou Ye that the children who had left would meet them again, then tucked him in after dinner.
• Song Mu arrived and took the sleeping Ou Ye and a suitcase, while the boy gave him Ou Ye’s carefully smoothed Firewood Stick.
• The boy challenged Song Mu to ensure Ou Ye was happy, and Song Mu promised to teach him everything he knew and pass on his mantle.
• After Song Mu left the orphanage, Ou Ye admitted he had pretended to sleep because his brother did not want him to know about the departure.
• Ou Ye asked to learn skills greater than the heavens, and Song Mu introduced himself as the Sword Dao Leader, Number One Under Heaven, before flying away with him.

Six months after the children left the Orphanage, Mu Yunhai sent the boy to pray for them at the City God temple. There, after reflecting on his transmigration and his brother Ou Ye, the boy entered the temple at the urging of a mysterious man in white.

• Mu Yunhai gave the boy incense and fruit offerings and asked him to pray for the children who had left six months earlier.
• The boy recalled that his previous life had been ordinary and that this world already had advanced technology and people with extraordinary powers.
• The boy thought about Ou Ye, who had been taken away, and wondered whether his younger brother was doing well or blamed him.
• At the quiet temple, the boy turned to leave after realizing he had eaten the offerings, but a handsome man in white persuaded him to enter and pray without them.

At Maple City’s City God temple, Bai Feiyu encountered a wary boy and watched him pray at an empty altar. Hearing the boy wish only for the children in his care, Bai Feiyu realized the boy had never changed; his own view of him had.

• The boy mistook Bai Feiyu, who had followed him through the quiet temple, for a child trafficker and then feared he might be a ghost.
• Bai Feiyu reassured the boy and persuaded him to enter the Main Hall and offer incense.
• The boy discovered that the City God’s statue was missing and wondered who they could worship.
• Bai Feiyu prayed to Heaven and Earth, then invited the boy to pray at the empty altar.
• Bai Feiyu heard the boy wish for the children at home to be safe and healthy, and realized he had been the one who had changed.

Bai Feiyu realized he had unfairly expected Ouyang to remain an all-powerful hero and recognized how much Ouyang had sacrificed for others. He accepted the boy’s wishes for the Orphanage and prompted him to wish for his own safety, then granted it.

• Bai Feiyu reflected that Ouyang had never changed and that he had mistakenly judged him by an idealized image of a hero.
• Bai Feiyu offered to take the boy home and gave him a folding fan as fare.
• The boy realized Bai Feiyu was a deity and nervously asked whether his wishes for the Orphanage would still count.
• Bai Feiyu told the boy that he had forgotten to make a wish for himself, so the boy prayed for his own safety.
• Bai Feiyu declared, “May your wish come true!”

Bai Feiyu watched over the boy’s prayer at the temple and reflected on the million-year-delayed wooden hairpin he had meant to give Ouyang. He left the boy a warm folding fan, then watched him depart while deciding the time to return the hairpin had not yet come.

• Bai Feiyu’s divine power failed to settle on the boy, whose status matched the Divine Sovereign’s, so Bai Feiyu let it bless the temple instead.
• Bai Feiyu remembered making the wooden hairpin for Ouyezi in his past life as Li Taibai and realized that the person he had forgotten for a million years was his Eldest Senior Brother, Ouyang.
• Bai Feiyu considered giving Ouyang the hairpin but saw that the boy had close-cropped hair, then vanished from the temple and left his folding fan behind.
• The boy finished his prayers, found the folding fan in his basket, mistook it for a gift from the City God, and left the temple.
• Bai Feiyu watched from a tree with the wooden hairpin in his hand and murmured that the time had not yet come.

Chen Changsheng prepared dinner for his Eldest Senior Brother, but seeing Ouyang’s reincarnation filled him with guilt and fear of approaching him. When Ouyang’s can rolled to his feet, the boy asked Chen Changsheng to kick it back.

• Chen Changsheng led animated cookware and ingredients toward the Orphanage to prepare a fresh dinner for his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Chen Changsheng saw a boy carrying a basket and kicking a can, and recognized him as his Eldest Senior Brother’s reincarnation, Ouyang.
• Chen Changsheng hid his cookware and ingredients, then watched Ouyang leave without daring to approach him.
• Chen Changsheng blamed himself for failing to save Ouyang, forgetting him for a million years, and fearing that his gentle forgiveness would deepen his guilt.
• Ouyang’s can rolled to Chen Changsheng’s feet, and Ouyang asked him to kick it back.

Chen Changsheng met a wary boy who mistook him for a demon heading toward the Orphanage. After recognizing the boy’s folding fan as the Divine Dao’s Mountains and Rivers State Boundary Diagram, Chen Changsheng took it into safekeeping and offered to take the boy home.

• The boy doubled back to confront Chen Changsheng, suspecting he was heading to the Orphanage to take Little Auntie.
• Chen Changsheng claimed he was taking a stroll, but the boy tried to drive him away with a folding fan and an incantation.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the fan as the Mountains and Rivers State Boundary Diagram and became angry that Bai Feiyu had given it to the boy.
• The boy stood his ground to protect the Orphanage, and Chen Changsheng told him he would keep the fan safe.
• Chen Changsheng offered to take the boy home, and the boy felt strangely familiar with him before suspecting he was being bewitched.

Chen Changsheng walked Ouyang back to the Orphanage, but Ouyang mistook him for a man-eating monster and raised the alarm. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, Chen Changsheng returned Ouyang’s fan with a copper coin as a gift, while Bai Feiyu realized Chen Changsheng had used a Xiantian Talisman against his Mountains and Rivers State Boundary Diagram.

• Chen Changsheng held Ouyang’s hand as they walked toward the Orphanage, while both nervously misunderstood the other’s behavior.
• Ouyang fled inside and shouted that a man-eating monster was coming, prompting Xie Xinzhi and Mu Yunhai to protect him.
• Xie Xinzhi confronted Chen Changsheng, but Ouyang learned he had mistaken Chen Changsheng’s intentions and admitted he had been putting on a show.
• Ouyang asked for his folding fan back, and Chen Changsheng returned it with a copper coin threaded onto a red string as a gift.
• Bai Feiyu saw the repaired window and accused Chen Changsheng of using a Xiantian Talisman to suppress his Mountains and Rivers State Boundary Diagram.

After realizing Chen Changsheng was the cook he had mistaken for a monster, the boy joined him in the kitchen and learned to prepare dinner. Watching the boy act like the child Eldest Senior Brother had once been helped Chen Changsheng accept the present, and the chapter ended with Xie Xinzhi reminding him that children grow up.

• The boy apologized inwardly for mistaking Chen Changsheng for a monster and offered to help him cook.
• Chen Changsheng remembered how Eldest Senior Brother had once tried to cook and blown up a pot on Little Mountain Peak.
• Chen Changsheng accepted the boy as both Eldest Senior Brother and a child, then taught him to cook as they cleaned the kitchen together.
• The boy carried out his first homemade meal, and Mu Yunhai praised the food while Chen Changsheng and Xie Xinzhi watched from the shadows.
• Xie Xinzhi told Chen Changsheng that the boy and he would both grow up.

Hu Tutu confronted her three senior brothers for approaching Eldest Senior Brother, and Chen Changsheng explained that they had come to resolve karmic ties planted around his reincarnation. Hu Tutu approved of their work but ordered them to leave, while Maple City prepared for Su Daji’s concert.

• Maple City welcomed spring and prepared for Su Daji’s concert, with crowds gathering at the city’s largest hotel for her arrival.
• Hu Tutu found Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong in the hotel and scolded them for approaching Eldest Senior Brother against her instructions.
• Chen Changsheng claimed the three had come to resolve karmic ties around Eldest Senior Brother’s reincarnation, not to visit him.
• Chen Changsheng explained that they had asked Great Cultivators across the Myriad Immortal Domains to share the karmic burden.
• Hu Tutu praised the three for their work, then demanded that they leave.

Hu Tutu retired from her life as the star Su Daji and went to the Azure Cloud Orphanage, where she met the reincarnated Eldest Senior Brother. She introduced herself to the boy as if they were meeting for the first time.

• Hu Tutu reflected on Eldest Senior Brother's reincarnation and hoped he could live safely and happily.
• Hu Tutu announced at her concert that Su Daji would leave the entertainment industry, then slipped away from the hotel.
• Hu Tutu arrived at the Azure Cloud Orphanage and saw a boy singing to his dog, Liang Zai.
• The boy told Hu Tutu he planned to become a star and surpass Su Daji within three years.
• Hu Tutu placed her hand on the boy's head, introduced herself, and asked him to look after her.

Hu Tutu visited the orphanage and realized the boy had already deduced that supernatural people would come to take him away. After she called him her Eldest Senior Brother and broke down in tears, he comforted her, though he still did not know who he was to her.

• The boy showed Hu Tutu around the orphanage and introduced her to Liang Zai and the little Tibetan fox, Handsome Guy.
• Hu Tutu called the boy her Eldest Senior Brother, then claimed she had been speaking to Handsome Guy.
• The boy told Hu Tutu he had worked out that the people adopting the orphanage's children had supernatural powers and that someone would eventually come for him.
• Hu Tutu denied being there for the boy, but he pressed her about whether she was a superhuman or an immortal cultivator.
• Hu Tutu called him Eldest Senior Brother again, then grabbed him and wept, asking whether he had lost his memories.
• The boy freed his arms, guessed he might be someone's reincarnation, and gently patted Hu Tutu's head to comfort her.

Hu Tutu insisted on becoming the boy’s master, while he doubted she could teach him anything. Xie Xinzhi brought another child for Hu Tutu to take, and the boy and the newcomer recognized an inexplicable familiarity in each other.

• Hu Tutu tearfully insisted that she was there to be the boy’s master, while Mu Yunhai tried to slip away from their confrontation.
• The boy questioned Hu Tutu’s abilities, and she shattered his handmade stool to demonstrate her strength before promising to call powerful allies to protect him.
• Xie Xinzhi arrived with a little tot and told Hu Tutu to take him along.
• The boy and the little tot froze when they met each other’s eyes, overcome by a strange sense of familiarity.
• Hu Tutu gathered the little tot into her arms and exclaimed that she had found them all.

The boy discovered that White Cloud was another transmigrator, and the two learned that cultivators planned to send them to different places. Mu Yunhai offered White Cloud a choice of two girls on Penglai Immortal Mountain, and he eagerly asked when they would leave.

• The boy recognized White Cloud as someone from his former world after White Cloud cried out a familiar phrase, and they confirmed their shared origins with a passphrase.
• The boy and White Cloud discussed their transmigrations and learned at dinner that Xie Xinzhi and Mu Yunhai were cultivators who had taken the orphanage’s other children away.
• Xie Xinzhi said the boy and White Cloud would go to separate places, but Hu Tutu demanded they both come with her until Mu Yunhai overruled her.
• White Cloud objected to being assigned a destination, and Mu Yunhai asked his name before teasing him about wanting a beauty in each arm.
• Mu Yunhai offered White Cloud a choice between the reincarnations of Mu Yunge and Chang Suzhen on Penglai Immortal Mountain, and White Cloud asked when they would leave.

The boy prepared to leave the orphanage with Hu Tutu, while White Cloud departed with the boy’s little Auntie. After the boy said goodbye to the director, Hu Tutu carried him away on a Paper Crane, and Xie Xinzhi watched him go with an invitation to return if life treated him badly.

• The boy agreed to go with Hu Tutu after she said she would take him by force if he refused.
• After a restless night, the boy found a Wooden Hairpin, a Wooden Plaque, a doll, and a green stone beside his pillow and packed them away.
• The boy watched his little Auntie fly off with White Cloud, who promised they would meet again and conquer the world together.
• The boy thanked the director at the orphanage gates and joked that he would find him eight or ten wives when he returned.
• Ivy rapidly covered the orphanage as Hu Tutu and the boy flew away on a Paper Crane.
• Xie Xinzhi watched the Paper Crane disappear and told the boy he could always come back if life did not treat him well.

Hu Tutu walked her new disciple up Little Mountain Peak and admitted she had no idea how to teach cultivation, though she reassured him that other masters awaited them. As they continued toward the mountain, the boy accepted her invitation to come home with her.

• Hu Tutu described Little Mountain Peak to the boy and recalled walking its path with Ouyang, prompting the boy to tease her about her laughter.
• Hu Tutu denied caring about Ouyang but bristled when the boy called him a liar.
• When the boy asked how she would teach him, Hu Tutu admitted she did not know how to teach cultivation and revealed she had once been a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.
• Hu Tutu told the boy that several other powerful masters were waiting on the mountain, then held out her hand and invited him to come home.
• The boy took Hu Tutu's hand, and they walked together up Little Mountain Peak.

Ouyang recounted his life as a transmigrated orphan, from parting with his twin brother Ou Ye to being taken to Little Mountain Peak, where his Masters gave him a home. He ended by embracing his new life and revealing his name as Ouyang.

• Ouyang described growing up in an orphanage with his twin brother Ou Ye and watching the other children get adopted by cultivators.
• Ou Ye left the orphanage, and Ouyang let him go without facing their farewell.
• Little Master arrived to take Ouyang away, convinced he was the person the Masters had been waiting for.
• Ouyang settled into Little Mountain Peak with Little Master, three other Masters, and Little Little Master, who all treated him warmly.
• Ouyang considered his past life unimportant, rejected the idea that he would be anyone's Eldest Senior Brother, and revealed his name as Ouyang.

After twelve years with his master, Wang Yu learned that the Great Daoist planned to send him down the mountain to study at White Cloud Temple. The Great Daoist gave him a letter for the temple’s abbot, then prepared a painful shortcut to help him find it.

• Wang Yu asked his master to teach him Daoist arts, and the Great Daoist admitted he had never learned any.
• The Great Daoist told Wang Yu it was time to leave the mountain and see the world, but Wang Yu initially refused because he worried about leaving his master alone.
• The Great Daoist gave Wang Yu a letter addressed to the abbot of White Cloud Temple and told him to seek instruction there.
• Wang Yu asked where White Cloud Temple was, and the Great Daoist pulled out a wooden stick and raised it to strike him.

Ouyezi and Big Bai traveled from Chao Ge, where Ouyezi challenged the rigid hierarchy that kept commoners kneeling before their betters. He taught Big Bai that learning to kneel turned a person’s life into fate, and Big Bai began to grasp the idea.

• Ouyezi and Big Bai left Chao Ge and walked without a destination, with Big Bai trusting Ouyezi to have a reason for the journey.
• As they traveled, farmers in ragged clothes knelt beside the road when they saw the two men.
• Ouyezi angrily condemned the hierarchy that forced commoners to kneel, while Big Bai insisted that the Immortals’ ancient rules must be right.
• Ouyezi wrote 人 in the dirt and explained that a person should stand, then added strokes to show how kneeling became 命, or fate.
• Big Bai’s pupils contracted as he stared at the characters for person and fate, seemingly beginning to understand Ouyezi’s lesson.