Recaps

Su Mu discovered ominous black Qi gathering around a busy building and tried to evacuate everyone before the calamity inside could erupt. After using his credentials and setting off the fire alarm, he faced the furious restaurant manager as diners streamed out.

• Su Mu spotted black Qi rising from a building and saw it darken on the faces of people entering.
• Su Mu warned Lin Feng and his family to stay away, then called his operator to send a nearby team and clear the building.
• Lin Feng chose to take his wife and son elsewhere and told his relatives not to come to the restaurant.
• Su Mu showed his credentials to a server, entered the building, and ordered the customers out.
• Su Mu set off the fire alarm, prompting servers and diners to evacuate while law enforcement officers headed to his location.
• The manager turned off the alarm, reassured the diners, and angrily confronted Su Mu for causing trouble.

Su Mu sensed a deadly calamity at a restaurant and forced its evacuation just before the building collapsed, saving everyone inside. After returning to the Qinling Mountains, he arranged with Zhou Jianhua to prepare spirit springs and large mushroom bombs for his next teleportation in half a month.

• Su Mu ordered the restaurant evacuated, and law enforcement officers cleared the building and sealed off the area.
• Su Mu left the building, and it collapsed moments later; he realized the calamity Qi had warned him of the disaster and slipped away.
• Lin Feng and the other witnesses realized Su Mu’s warning had saved the diners, while Zhou Jianhua discussed the collapse with Su Mu.
• Zhou Jianhua told Su Mu that spirit spring power could support future space travel, and Su Mu promised to bring back more spirit springs.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua to prepare large mushroom bombs for his next teleportation, planned within half a month.
• Su Mu returned to the Qinling Mountains, and an official announcement attributed the collapse to construction defects after an emergency evacuation.

Su Mu learned that the Green Bamboo Sect planned to attack the Demon Cultivators of Thunder Spirit Marsh to cultivate heavenly thunder bamboo, and he considered whether its lightning could be useful on Earth. He then visited Myriad Treasures Pavilion to buy a flying Law Artifact and a formation, where he examined several options.

• Su Mu read that the Green Bamboo Sect was preparing a major operation against the Demon Cultivators of Thunder Spirit Marsh to obtain a place to cultivate heavenly thunder bamboo.
• Su Mu wondered whether Earth’s electricity could cultivate heavenly thunder bamboo and studied a map of the area around Thunder Spirit Marsh.
• Su Mu entered Myriad Treasures Pavilion and paid the required eight million Spirit Stones to access its third floor.
• Su Mu asked an elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator for a flying Law Artifact and a formation capable of trapping a Late Core Formation cultivator.
• The old man showed Su Mu a Three-Ring Windward Boat and Wind and Thunder Wings, but Su Mu doubted he could sustain the wings with his Spiritual Power.

Su Mu bought the Windward Boat and Heaven-Stealing Diagram, then began targeting caravans crossing the Red Wilds Plain. During an ambush, he chased down Fang Yu and killed him with his Buddhist cultivation method before escaping with the Storage Bags.

• Su Mu bought the Windward Boat and Heaven-Stealing Diagram at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for nearly sixteen million Spirit Stones.
• Su Mu observed caravan ambushes on the Red Wilds Plain and decided to target caravans with weak escorts.
• Su Mu joined an ambush on a caravan carrying treasures for the Green Bamboo Sect as its cultivators fled and the attackers gave chase.
• Su Mu used the Windward Boat to catch up with the fast-fleeing Fang Yu, then killed him with a Buddha's palm after Sanskrit chanting disrupted his concentration.
• Su Mu took Fang Yu's Storage Bags and escaped, leaving the pursuing cultivators wary of his speed and strength.

Su Mu continued ambushing caravans to gather resources, then received a message from Devil Lord Ye and went to a guarded valley. There, he discovered that Mi Hongling, the Demonic Sect's holy maiden, had come to meet him.

• Su Mu counted his spoils, then spent more than half a month cultivating and ambushing caravans for resources.
• Rogue cultivators discussed Su Mu's reputation and learned that his holy-son title brought him little support because he belonged to no sect.
• Su Mu amassed ores, Spirit Stones, and other treasures, and postponed activating the Teleportation Array to gather more.
• After receiving a message and an address from Devil Lord Ye, Su Mu traveled to a valley protected by an array.
• Mi Hongling appeared outside the valley, surprising Su Mu and remarking on his recent reputation.

Su Mu learned that the Green Bamboo Sect was transporting Heavenly Thunder Bamboo to Thunder Spirit Marsh, and Mi Hongling asked him to help intercept it. He agreed to join her the next day, while remaining wary of her intentions.

• Mi Hongling told Su Mu that the Green Bamboo Sect planned to plant Heavenly Thunder Bamboo in Thunder Spirit Marsh.
• Mi Hongling explained that Demon Cultivators had sent twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators to intercept the righteous sects, and she proposed that they target the Green Bamboo Sect's Core Formation cultivators.
• Su Mu asked about the Green Bamboo Sect's forces and, after hearing Mi Hongling's estimate, agreed to take part.
• Mi Hongling told Su Mu to leave with her at noon the next day, then entered the valley.
• Su Mu found a place to rest and resolved to stay cautious around Mi Hongling.

Su Mu and Mi Hongling arrived at a standoff between righteous and demonic cultivators, where Mi Hongling confronted the righteous holy maiden, Ruan Wenyou. Su Mu traded insults with Ruan Wenyou, leaving Mi Hongling amused as the confrontation continued.

• Mi Hongling waited for the Nascent Soul Cultivators to approach the encirclement, then led Su Mu toward the disturbance.
• Su Mu and Mi Hongling arrived as the Nascent Soul Cultivators faced off above the grounded Core Formation Cultivators.
• Mi Hongling provoked Ruan Wenyou by mocking her cultivation and asking whether she had perfected her method.
• Ruan Wenyou recognized Su Mu as the Demonic Sect's holy son and condemned his conduct in the Land of the Five Elements and his work with bandit cultivators.
• Su Mu replied that both sides saw sickness in each other, then teased Ruan Wenyou about trying his tongue.
• Ruan Wenyou condemned Su Mu, while Mi Hongling enjoyed his verbal victory and privately resolved to kill him more quickly when the time came.

Su Mu praised Mi Hongling’s beauty in a poem that formed a calligraphic treasure, enraging Ruan Wenyou and delighting Mi Hongling. When Ruan Wenyou ordered an attack, the Green Bamboo Sect disciples fled with the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, and Su Mu pursued the disciple he suspected was carrying it.

• Su Mu compared Ruan Wenyou unfavorably with Mi Hongling and recited a poem praising Mi Hongling, causing Righteous Qi to gather into a calligraphic treasure.
• Mi Hongling gathered the Righteous Qi and told Su Mu she was starting to like him, while Ruan Wenyou grew furious at the comparison.
• Ruan Wenyou ordered her side to attack, then remembered the Green Bamboo Sect had to escort the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and told its disciples to head for Stone Seat Market.
• Mi Hongling charged at Ruan Wenyou and told Su Mu to pursue the Green Bamboo Sect disciple wearing three silver stripes, who might have the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.
• Su Mu set off after the fleeing disciple as the Green Bamboo Sect members escaped from the larger group of Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators.

Su Mu pursued Ning Yun and killed him with the Heaven-Stealing Diagram after Ning Yun’s jade talisman failed to protect him from the Life-Claiming Brahma Sound. Ning Yun had no heavenly thunder bamboo, so Su Mu lamented his costly gamble before flying toward Mi Hongling and Ruan Wenyou’s battle.

• Su Mu caught up with Ning Yun, who blocked his Buddha palm and attacked with green bamboo swords.
• Su Mu disrupted Ning Yun with the Life-Claiming Brahma Sound, but Ning Yun used jade and a fan to escape his follow-up strike.
• Su Mu trapped Ning Yun in the Heaven-Stealing Diagram and wore down the green jade protecting him with continued chanting.
• After the jade shattered, Su Mu’s Brahma Sound drove Ning Yun’s Spiritual Power into chaos, and Su Mu killed him inside the diagram.
• Su Mu found no heavenly thunder bamboo in Ning Yun’s Storage Bag and judged the loot worth only three million Spirit Stones at most.
• Su Mu flew southwest and found Mi Hongling and Ruan Wenyou locked in a fierce battle.

Su Mu disguised himself as Ning Yun and tricked Ruan Wenyou into handing over the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, then escaped the area and returned to Earth. After recovering in a rented cave abode, he arranged with Zhou Jianhua to begin the teleportation the next day.

• Su Mu, disguised as Ning Yun, convinced Ruan Wenyou that he had defeated Han Feiyu and urged her to leave with the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.
• Ruan Wenyou gave Su Mu the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo while fending off Mi Hongling, and Su Mu fled with it.
• Su Mu changed direction and appearance, then traveled to a city and used a Teleportation Array to escape the area.
• Su Mu rented a secure cave abode, recuperated for nearly three days, and returned to Earth.
• Su Mu called Zhou Jianhua, who said preparations were complete but the teleportation would begin the next day.

Su Mu bought spiritual springs and materials to repair Aerospace Island’s formations while Zhou Jianhua prepared a major power outage on Earth. Huaxia announced the next day’s outage, and the public celebrated in anticipation of another light show as foreign officials wondered what Huaxia was testing.

• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and bought spiritual springs and materials for Aerospace Island’s formations.
• Zhou Jianhua coordinated preparations for the next day’s large-scale power outage and ordered security around the transfer site.
• Huaxia announced outages in several provinces, prompting speculation that another light show was coming.
• A university teacher told her students the outage would resemble the previous two, and the students cheered.
• People across Huaxia celebrated the announcement, while foreign officials questioned what Huaxia was testing.

Su Mu collected two nuclear weapons and used a newly built power grid to activate the Teleportation Array during Huaxia’s scheduled blackout. A huge pillar of light appeared, but what it would bring remained unseen.

• Su Mu arranged with Zhou Jianhua for a power grid and collected two nuclear weapons from a secret base.
• Su Mu stored the weapons away, startling the engineer who had shown him how to use them.
• Su Mu met Zhou Jianhua and the engineers at the teleportation site, where they waited for the scheduled blackout.
• Su Mu set up the Teleportation Array, and the engineers cut power across several provinces so it could absorb the electricity.
• The array activated and sent an enormous pillar of light into the clouds as people watched across Huaxia.

Su Mu exchanged a Storage Ring through the formation, brought ores from the Haotian Realm to Zhou Jianhua, and repaired the floating island’s formation. The island then turned invisible, and the commander began training pilots to land on it with guidance from the control tower.

• Su Mu confirmed that the Storage Ring had exchanged correctly, shut down the formation, and gave Zhou Jianhua several piles of ores to study.
• Su Mu flew to the floating island and spent the night repairing its formation.
• After the repair was complete, the commander ordered the floating island to turn invisible, baffling those monitoring it.
• The commander began training pilots to land on the invisible island using guidance from the control tower.

Su Mu tried to cultivate Heavenly Thunder Bamboo on Earth using an electrical grid, but ordinary electricity had no effect until the Spirit of the Dragon Vein summoned real lightning and Spiritual Power. The bamboo absorbed the surge and turned the valley into a vast lightning storm, leaving Su Mu and the others watching from a safe distance.

• Zhou Jianhua told Su Mu that the electrical system was ready, and Su Mu went to the valley where it had been installed.
• Su Mu planted the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and had an engineer increase the voltage, but even ten million kilovolts produced no reaction.
• Su Mu summoned the Spirit of the Dragon Vein and asked it to strike the bamboo with lightning and add Spiritual Power.
• The Spirit of the Dragon Vein lost control of the lightning, and a huge bolt struck the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, which began absorbing the electricity.
• Su Mu sent everyone away as lightning engulfed the valley, warped the surrounding space, and scorched the ground.
• A passenger on a plane watched the lightning storm from above as the blue-white light below began to condense into liquid.

Su Mu’s attempt to cultivate Heavenly Thunder Bamboo unleashed a vast lightning field that consumed enormous amounts of electricity, forcing Zhou Jianhua to warn his superiors and divert flights. Passengers uploaded footage that went viral, and streamers arrived to film the phenomenon as one sent a drone into the storm.

• Passengers aboard a flight saw a distant expanse of liquid-like lightning, and the captain diverted the plane after consulting the control tower.
• Su Mu led Zhou Jianhua and the others farther from the lightning as the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo absorbed electricity at an enormous rate.
• Su Mu said the process might continue for months or years, so Zhou Jianhua contacted his superiors about raising power generation and keeping flights away.
• Passengers uploaded videos of the lightning field, and the footage quickly spread across the internet.
• Nearby streamers reached the area and began livestreaming, and one launched a drone into the lightning field.

A drone was destroyed by a mysterious lightning field near Huaxia, prompting an American fleet to abandon its exercises and flee. The spokesperson learned about the danger and the fleet’s retreat, then laughed at an online animation mocking them.

• The drone approached the lightning field, where a bolt vaporized it and revealed the field’s lethal power.
• Viewers speculated that the lightning field might be a weather weapon capable of striking targets with devastating force.
• Nest warned the American fleet to return to base immediately, and the captain ordered the ships to turn around and flee.
• The captain watched footage of the drone and its iron rod vaporizing near the field and realized the fleet could not withstand a strike.
• Zhou Jianhua told the spokesperson to check online, where he found footage of the lightning field and news that the American fleet had retreated.
• The spokesperson laughed at an animated image depicting a fierce rooster turning the fleet away with a glare.

The spokesperson addressed the endless lightning field at a press conference, denying that it was a weather weapon and claiming Huaxia was using it to restore the ozone layer and fertilize the land. Reporters and netizens reacted with disbelief and amusement as the storm continued.

• The spokesperson watched edited rooster GIFs spread online and worried about explaining the ongoing thundercloud storm.
• The lightning field and the disappearance of the floating island dominated online discussions as Huaxia's press conference began.
• An American reporter asked whether the lightning field was a weather weapon, and the spokesperson denied it.
• A Japanese reporter asked what Huaxia was experimenting with, and the spokesperson said the lightning would produce ozone and nitrogen fertilizer.
• Reporters questioned the explanation, while viewers laughed at the idea of using a powerful weather weapon to fertilize the land.

At a press conference, Huaxia confirmed that its lightning field was connected to the dark clouds that had once covered the country. In the Haotian Realm, Su Mu learned that Confucian scholars had organized the Hundred Flowers Competition to challenge Han Feiyu, while Yu Guyue ordered Di Xingchun to plant the harvested Spirit Plants again as she wondered whether Su Mu was safe.

• Huaxia's spokesperson confirmed that the lightning field had a connection to the dark clouds, though the technology had only recently matured.
• Su Mu heard scholars discussing the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo's disappearance and felt relieved that no one knew he was responsible.
• Scholars explained that the Hundred Flowers Competition was intended to draw out and humiliate Han Feiyu for using calligraphic works and judging holy maidens.
• Su Mu wondered whether the Demonic Sect's holy maiden had arranged the competition, then left to consider selling his calligraphic works.
• Di Xingchun asked Yu Guyue whether to replant the harvested Spirit Plants, and Yu Guyue ordered her to begin a third planting while wondering whether Su Mu was all right.

Su Mu arrived in Kite Ascension City as cultivators gathered for the Hundred Flowers Ranking, where those who placed could receive Fortune. He set up a calligraphy stall, but when a female cultivator tried to buy three pieces from him, a male cultivator demanded that Su Mu honor his claim as the first customer.

• Cultivators in Kite Ascension City discussed how the Hundred Flowers Ranking had drawn female cultivators and could bring Fortune to those who placed.
• Su Mu heard that Confucian scholars hoped Han Feiyu would appear, then considered using Buddhist Fortune to advance his cultivation.
• Su Mu noticed the city was crowded with female cultivators and set up a stall selling calligraphy.
• A male cultivator offered to buy one piece of Su Mu's calligraphy for fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• A middle-aged female cultivator interrupted and offered one hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones for three pieces, prompting the male cultivator to demand that Su Mu sell to him first.

Su Mu sold his calligraphy to the Mysterious Woman Sect and agreed to help Fairy Feng Lan compete in the Hundred Flowers Ranking, then made a second deal with a demonic woman. After leaving her pleasure boat, he saw heaven and earth condense the Hundred Flowers Fairies ranking, which had not yet recorded any names.

• Su Mu sold three pieces of calligraphy to a female cultivator for 160,000 Spirit Stones and followed her to the Mysterious Woman Sect pavilion.
• Fairy Feng Lan paid Su Mu 100,000 Spirit Stones to help her compete for the Hundred Flowers Ranking, and he signed a restrictive agreement for one piece of calligraphy.
• A demonic woman invited Su Mu aboard her pleasure boat, but he offered to make another piece of calligraphy despite his agreement with Fairy Feng Lan covering only one.
• The demonic woman paid Su Mu 200,000 Spirit Stones for a better piece of calligraphy, and he left a strand of his Divine Sense in her restriction.
• Su Mu saw a ranking titled Hundred Flowers Fairies form in the sky as Spiritual Power surged around it, with no names written on it yet.

As the Hundred Flowers Ranking formed, female cultivators competed to climb toward it, while Su Mu earned Spirit Stones by agreeing to help multiple contestants. Mi Hongling and Ruan Wenyou reached the front without seeking his help, and Fairy Feng Lan called on her recruited scholars to begin.

• Su Mu agreed to help several female cultivators compete for the ranking and collected hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones.
• Five days later, the Hundred Flowers Ranking released a ripple, and countless female cultivators flew up to test their strength against its pressure.
• Fairy Feng Lan and the Female Rakshasa of the Heavenly Ghost Sect initially stood at the front of the competitors.
• Mi Hongling and Ruan Wenyou arrived, exchanged attacks, and surged ahead of Fairy Feng Lan, with Ruan Wenyou half a step in front.
• Su Mu realized that Mi Hongling and Ruan Wenyou had not sought his help because they had recruited famous scholars instead.
• Fairy Feng Lan called her scholars to begin helping her compete for the ranking.

Female cultivators used scholars’ calligraphy to climb toward a ranking list, and Ruan Wenyou reached it first. Mi Hongling used Han Feiyu’s calligraphy to gain ground, while Su Mu finally appeared to fulfill his agreement with Fairy Feng Lan.

• The scholars wrote calligraphy whose Righteous Qi helped the female cultivators climb toward the list.
• Ruan Wenyou reached the list first, and Fairy Feng Lan and other cultivators followed as their names appeared.
• Mi Hongling used Han Feiyu’s calligraphy to climb onto the list, drawing surprise and comparisons between Han Feiyu and the Ten Gentlemen.
• Ji Han and the other scholars rejected the comparison to Han Feiyu and said he was afraid to appear.
• Su Mu stepped forward and loudly told Fairy Feng Lan that he had come to fulfill their agreement.

Su Mu used literary masterpieces to raise several female cultivators’ positions on the Hundred Flowers Fairy Ranking, then offered another piece to the highest bidder. As the cultivators began bidding, the ranking rippled as though provoked.

• Su Mu wrote a poem for Fairy Feng Lan, whose position rose from tenth to seventh, then wrote one for the Female Rakshasa, who advanced to sixth.
• Su Mu’s poem helped Fairy in the Clouds enter the ranking at ninety-seventh place, displacing the woman in one hundredth place.
• Su Mu continued writing masterpieces for his clients, raising one cultivator from eightieth to sixty-eighth and changing other positions on the ranking.
• When Fairy Feng Lan questioned why others’ masterpieces seemed stronger, Su Mu said they had paid more.
• Mi Hongling, Ruan Wenyou, and other female cultivators sought Su Mu’s help, so he offered his next masterpiece to the highest bidder, and their bids turned the ranking into an auction.
• As the bids climbed, ripples spread across the Hundred Flowers Fairy Ranking.

Su Mu sold calligraphy to female cultivators bidding for better positions on the Hundred Flowers Ranking, then unexpectedly received the ranking itself. He realized the ranking had chosen him to determine its order.

• Su Mu sold calligraphy to the female cultivators, with Mi Hongling winning one piece for 5.8 million Spirit Stones and Ruan Wenyou winning another for 7.9 million.
• After claiming his previous piece was the last, Su Mu produced another and started a fresh round of bidding.
• Su Mu continued writing while the female cultivators competed, and the Confucian scholars stopped writing to avoid being compared with him.
• The Hundred Flowers Ranking shone, descended as a small scroll, and landed in front of Su Mu.
• Su Mu grasped the ranking and realized it had chosen him to determine the order because he had influenced it so often.

Su Mu kept the Hundred Flowers Fairy Ranking after it descended into his hands, while disciples from several sects demanded the treasure and argued over who should claim it. The cultivators turned against Su Mu and prepared to kill him as more people arrived, leaving him surrounded with the ranking still in his possession.

• Su Mu examined the Hundred Flowers Fairy Ranking as Ji Xin of the Immortal Hidden Sect offered him ten thousand Spirit Stones to surrender it.
• Su Mu refused Ji Xin, and a Green Bamboo Sect disciple and a six-scarred monk also demanded the ranking for their own groups.
• Mi Hongling mocked the monk, while Ji Xin and the other cultivators argued over who should receive the treasure.
• The cultivators ordered Su Mu to put down the ranking, but he said it had descended because of him and called them hypocrites.
• Ji Xin urged the others to kill Su Mu, and countless female cultivators arrived and focused on the ranking in his hands.