Recaps

Su Mu watched Ye Weixiao and three other Spirit Transformation Cultivators break a mountain-guarding array while thousands of cultivators attacked the Nine Fires Spirit-Devouring Array. He returned to the gate after its array vanished and found the four Spirit Transformation Cultivators pale and weakened.

• Old Freak Wu proposed that Ye Weixiao and the newcomers work together to break the mountain-guarding array, and the four Spirit Transformation Cultivators began attacking it.
• Su Mu retreated from the battle, while Hua Yunze urged the cultivators at the Nine Fires Spirit-Devouring Array to attack together before the seniors claimed the treasures.
• Thousands of cultivators bombarded the Nine Fires Spirit-Devouring Array, but Su Mu saw it absorb their Spiritual Power and quietly left before they realized what was happening.
• Su Mu returned to the massive gate, found its array gone, and saw Ye Weixiao and the other three Spirit Transformation Cultivators looking pale and feeble.
• Su Mu rushed over and asked what had happened.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao entered the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land inside True Person Fire Cloud’s cave abode, where three Spirit Transformation Cultivators set off to claim its core. Su Mu and Ye Weixiao instead gathered spirit medicines and discovered that many similar medicine gardens were scattered across the land.

• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao passed through the enormous gate and found themselves in a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• The three Spirit Transformation Cultivators left to find the land’s core, while Ye Weixiao told Su Mu they should avoid competing for it and search for treasures instead.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao found a medicine garden and gathered its many rare, old spirit medicines, noting that much had been wasted without regular collection.
• After leaving the garden, Su Mu and Ye Weixiao found another nearly identical one nearby.
• Ye Weixiao spread her Divine Sense and discovered that many medicine gardens were scattered throughout the land, then she and Su Mu continued gathering medicines.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao reached True Person Fire Cloud’s cave abode and discovered that three Spirit Transformation Cultivators were competing to refine the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land’s control core. Ye Weixiao, drawn by the treasures beneath them, considered joining the contest despite the danger of antagonizing the three.

• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao continued toward the central region, while cultivators who broke through the Nine Fires Spirit-Devouring Array flooded into the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to gather spirit medicines.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao found a hall marked as True Person Fire Cloud’s cave abode and entered in search of his supreme treasure.
• Inside, they found three Spirit Transformation Cultivators refining the control core, which would let its refiner control the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Weixiao asked the three to let her take some of the treasures beneath them, but they dismissed her and told her to leave if she would not compete for the core.
• Ye Weixiao weighed the risks and decided she might refine a little of the core to open the vault and take some treasures.

Ye Weixiao and three other Spirit Transformation Cultivators struggled to refine the core of True Person Fire Cloud's Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land as cultivators converged on the central cave. Su Mu accepted ten million Spirit Stones to guard the entrance, where thousands of cultivators mocked him for standing in their way.

• Cultivators discovered numerous hidden cave abodes containing cores, and rivalries over refining them turned murderous.
• Green Bamboo Sect disciples led cultivators toward True Person Fire Cloud's central cave after claiming treasures from the surrounding area.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that she needed more time to refine the core as approaching cultivators threatened to interrupt them.
• Old Freak Wu asked Su Mu to stop the approaching cultivators, and Su Mu demanded ten million Spirit Stones before agreeing.
• Su Mu took the Spirit Stones and blocked the cave entrance, but the crowd of thousands laughed at the Mid Core Formation cultivator.

Su Mu sensed a terrifying presence inside the jade stele and urged Ye Weixiao to abandon the control center and flee. Before they could escape, the stele activated a formation that trapped everyone in the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, while a shadow emerged and confronted the injured Old Freak Wu.

• Su Mu showed the cultivators outside a water mirror revealing four Spirit Transformation Cultivators in the great hall, causing most of them to abandon their attempt to enter.
• Su Mu spotted a black shadow with a scarlet eye inside the jade stele, felt the Buddha Lotus react, and urged Ye Weixiao to leave.
• Ye Weixiao stopped refining the control center and prepared to take Su Mu away, but the jade stele turned red and beams of light formed a barrier around the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Su Mu asked Ye Weixiao if she could break through the formation, but she warned that it was no simple matter.
• Old Freak Wu emerged from the torn-open hall, gravely injured and warning that two Spirit Transformation Cultivators had been controlled.
• A pitch-black figure stepped out of the jade stele and approached Old Freak Wu, who demanded to know who it was.

True Person Fire Cloud revealed that he had survived for centuries and trapped the cultivators in the Nether Sea Blood Formation to avenge the destruction of the Mysterious Yang Sect. The cultivators attacked him while Ye Weixiao and Old Freak Wu held off his Spirit Transformation puppets, but Fire Cloud evaded their strikes and began killing them.

• True Person Fire Cloud identified himself as the surviving disciple of the Mysterious Yang Sect and explained that he had spent centuries preparing a trap to take revenge.
• Fire Cloud killed a Zhou Household cultivator who begged to be spared, and another cultivator identified the Nether Sea Blood Formation as a formation that grew stronger by refining living beings.
• Fire Cloud activated the formation, causing blood rain to dissolve Spiritual Power and corrode Law Treasures as a bloody opening formed in the distance.
• Hua Yunze called for the cultivators to break the formation, but an informed cultivator warned that they had to kill Fire Cloud instead.
• Old Freak Wu and Ye Weixiao agreed to hold off Fire Cloud’s two Spirit Transformation puppets while the other cultivators attacked Fire Cloud with their Law Treasures.
• Fire Cloud escaped their attacks by teleporting between stone steles, killed several cultivators, and crushed a Nascent Soul, leaving the rest afraid to attack.

Su Mu watched as True Person Fire Cloud controlled two Spirit Transformation cultivators and forced Old Freak Wu to use his Spirit Transformation Spike to kill one. True Person Fire Cloud revealed that the formation connected to the Netherworld, and a giant toad-like creature emerged and attacked Old Freak Wu and Ye Weixiao.

• Old Freak Wu warned the cultivators that Netherworld creatures would kill them all if they failed to stop True Person Fire Cloud, but the cultivators hesitated.
• True Person Fire Cloud drove two controlled Spirit Transformation cultivators into a frenzy and sent them to attack Old Freak Wu and Ye Weixiao.
• Old Freak Wu used his Spirit Transformation Spike to pin Fellow Daoist Zhao, then destroyed his soul and Nascent Soul at the cost of his strength and vitality.
• True Person Fire Cloud retreated and reminded Old Freak Wu what kind of formation they were in, prompting Old Freak Wu to notice something emerging from a dark doorway.
• A giant toad-like Netherworld creature dragged away the fallen cultivator and attacked Old Freak Wu and Ye Weixiao with its whip-like tongue, which Ye Weixiao's Law Treasure could not harm.

Su Mu confronted True Person Fire Cloud with his restored Dao Lotus as a nether creature slaughtered cultivators in the grotto-heaven. He forced True Person Fire Cloud to teleport him and Ye Weixiao out, leaving the remaining cultivators behind.

• The nether creature attacked the cultivators with its tongue and Weak Water, killing many while the Spirit Transformation Cultivators failed to stop it.
• Su Mu asked True Person Fire Cloud to let him leave, but True Person Fire Cloud tried to kill him and Ye Weixiao intervened.
• Su Mu revealed his Dao Lotus and his identity as a cultivator from the Youtian Realm, drawing the attention of Hua Yunze and the others.
• True Person Fire Cloud demanded that Su Mu kill the Haotian Realm cultivators in exchange for escape, but Su Mu struck the nether creature with azure light and overturned it.
• Su Mu insisted that Ye Weixiao leave with him, and True Person Fire Cloud teleported them away after seeing the Dao Lotus's power.

Su Mu escaped True Person Fire Cloud’s cave abode with Ye Weixiao and learned that unsuspecting cultivators were flocking into its deadly traps. Back on Earth, he discovered that a drawing of him flying on a sword had gone viral, while Luan Mingjun’s sudden online fame left her focused on the immortal she had seen.

• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao left the cave abode as cultivators rushed inside, and Ye Weixiao apologized for nearly getting him killed.
• Su Mu went to Ninghua City, where he heard low-level cultivators excitedly discussing plans to enter True Person Fire Cloud’s cave abode, unaware that its formation trapped them.
• Su Mu rented a cave abode in the city, then returned to Earth and saw Zhou Jianhua’s message saying he had gone viral.
• Su Mu recognized himself in a popular drawing posted by Luan Mingjun, the woman he had seen on the plane, who captioned it that she had really seen an immortal.
• Luan Mingjun watched her follower count and collaboration offers rise, but she remained preoccupied with the sight of Su Mu on the plane.

Su Mu learned that Huaxia’s teleportation trains had begun operating, while foreign reporters and online commentators reacted angrily after being barred from the station. The chapter left the train’s first run and its true capabilities still unshown.

• Luan Mingjun remained preoccupied with the sword immortal she had seen, while Su Mu admired her viral painting.
• Zhou Jianhua warned Su Mu to use Sword Flight more discreetly, and Su Mu agreed to be more careful.
• Zhou Jianhua told Su Mu that Huaxia’s teleportation trains had started running, with access initially limited to young people.
• Passengers gathered for the train’s first run, and a man in a baseball cap speculated that its one-minute travel time might enable trips to Mars.
• Foreign reporters tried to interview passengers but were ignored, then were stopped from entering the station and accused Huaxia of unfairness.

Foreign reporters were barred from boarding a train that could travel several hundred kilometers in a minute, while passengers learned that special ingredients in Huaxia’s latest rice helped them withstand the acceleration. The passengers confirmed the train’s extraordinary speed after arriving in Ning'an City, where reporters were waiting.

• The ticket inspector told foreign reporters they could not board because passengers needed special rice to withstand the train’s acceleration.
• The foreign reporters contacted colleagues at the destination to verify the train’s arrival, while passengers boarded the silver-gray train.
• The passengers felt a brief pressure as the train started, then heard an announcement that it had arrived.
• Passengers checked their phones and confirmed they had reached Ning'an City, more than five hundred kilometers away, in about a minute.
• The passengers left the station as reporters gathered outside to meet them.

After Huaxia’s train carried passengers from Yanggu City to An Ning City in one minute, the journey’s reality was confirmed and celebrated online. Su Mu cultivated in the Qinling Mountains while scientists at a secret base examined a crystal tower capable of containing nuclear-fusion temperatures, though its origins remained classified.

• Reporters questioned arriving passengers, and Xia Feijing showed a photo from Yanggu City that included a reporter’s colleague, confirming the train’s speed.
• News and passenger photos spread online, prompting excitement about travel and concern over the rice that helped passengers tolerate G-forces.
• Su Mu cultivated with a spirit flame, sensed his Spiritual Power condensing toward a core, and then returned to the Haotian Realm to study the Dao Scripture.
• At a secret Huaxia base, Elder Yang learned that a crystal tower could theoretically contain nuclear-fusion temperatures, but the middle-aged man said its origin was covered by confidentiality regulations.

The eldest princess and Yu Guyue learned that sea demons had allied with the Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts, threatening Great Liang’s newly won territory, and planned to investigate the enemy’s Nascent Soul strength. Meanwhile, Su Mu studied the Dao Scripture until Ye Weixiao summoned him to a secret cave abode for a teleportation to the Youtian Realm, warning that he could not choose his destination.

• At Formless City, the eldest princess asked Yu Guyue whether the sea demons had joined forces with the Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts, and Yu Guyue confirmed that cultivators had been ambushed.
• Yu Guyue warned that the alliance could shatter their forces and said her divination with Su Mu’s bronze mirror indicated great misfortune.
• The eldest princess ordered scouts to find out how many Nascent Soul Realm sea demons had entered the Savage Wilderness, and Yu Guyue went to arrange the investigation.
• In the Haotian Realm, Su Mu continued studying the Dao Scripture as two Golden Lotus petals and one Merit Lotus petal opened.
• After nearly a month, Ye Weixiao summoned Su Mu to her secret cave abode and warned that the teleportation might send him to an uncertain location in the Youtian Realm.

Su Mu took the Youtian Realm’s Fortune and escaped the Haotian Realm before its great powers could find him. He arrived in the Youtian Realm and set off to find a city and confirm where he was.

• Ye Weixiao warned Su Mu to teleport away quickly after taking the Fortune and explained that he must not bring other Youtian Realm cultivators to the Haotian Realm.
• Zhang Yan activated the Teleportation Array, and Su Mu promised Ye Weixiao that he would return before using the jade pendant to reach the Immortal Ascension Steps.
• Su Mu took the Youtian Realm’s Fortune, alerting powerful cultivators across the Haotian Realm, but he escaped through the Teleportation Array before they could locate him.
• Ye Weixiao breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhang Yan destroyed the Teleportation Array to conceal their location.
• Su Mu arrived in a forest in the Youtian Realm, sensed the thin Spiritual Power, and flew off to find a city and confirm his location.

Su Mu met three cultivators in the Savage Wilderness and agreed to travel with them toward Great Liang after learning the region was full of dangerous Demon Beasts and sea demons. Just before they reached safety, patrols spotted the group, and Wu ordered them to kill the pursuers and flee.

• Su Mu flew through the desolate wilderness, then approached three cultivators who had killed a tiger demon.
• Su Mu learned from the elderly cultivator Wu that he was in the Savage Wilderness and that Great Liang lay farther ahead.
• Wu invited Su Mu to travel with his group, while privately planning to use him as an extra target if danger arose.
• Su Mu accompanied the three cultivators as they cautiously detoured around Demon Beast patrols and sea demon territory.
• A patrol spotted the group near Great Liang, and Wu ordered everyone to kill the pursuing Demon Beasts and run.

Su Mu and the cultivators encountered powerful Demon Beasts while fleeing, and Su Mu killed the Thunder Leopard with one palm after absorbing its lightning attack. He intimidated the remaining beasts and escaped with the elder surnamed Wu and the others, leaving the elder fearful of having once planned to use him as bait.

• The Mountain Ape and Thunder Leopard confronted Su Mu, the elder surnamed Wu, and two other cultivators, and the Thunder Leopard threatened to eat them.
• Su Mu absorbed the Thunder Leopard’s lightning attack with the Hundred Flowers Fairy Ranking and struck it down with a Buddha palm, shattering its inner core.
• The elder surnamed Wu noticed more Demon Beasts approaching and urged the group to flee.
• Su Mu’s glare intimidated the Mountain Ape into moving aside, allowing the group to escape.
• Su Mu threatened the Mountain Ape as he passed, and the elder surnamed Wu resolved to hide his earlier plan to use Su Mu as bait.

Su Mu returned to Formless City as the Grand Princess struggled to persuade the cultivators to defend it against the coming Demon Beast and sea demon attack. He entered the city lord’s hall and confronted the Nascent Soul Cultivators who were demanding more payment to fight.

• A Great Demon learned that Su Mu had severely wounded the Thunder Leopard and ordered the Mountain Ape to bring him to the coming battle, while the Mountain Ape killed the crippled Thunder Leopard.
• Su Mu returned to Formless City, parted ways with Wu and the other cultivators, and used the Grand Princess’s imperial jade token to enter the city lord’s residence.
• The Grand Princess argued with cultivators who wanted to withdraw or demand additional rewards before defending Great Liang’s territory.
• Su Mu entered the hall and rebuked the Nascent Soul Cultivators for letting greed guide them.

Su Mu returned from the Haotian Realm and disrupted negotiations between the Grand Princess and the Nascent Soul Cultivators demanding greater rewards to fight the sea demons. He then took the Grand Princess and Yu Guyue outside Formless City, where he released a crystal filled with immense Fortune.

• Su Mu entered the hall and stopped a cultivator from attacking him when the Grand Princess defended him with her red silk Law Treasure.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators left after insisting on being paid with a large Spirit Stone mine, and the Grand Princess explained that the sea demons had made the Savage Wilderness campaign more dangerous.
• Su Mu told the Grand Princess he had escaped from the Haotian Realm, while she worried that they could not face the sea demons without the cultivators’ help.
• Yu Guyue arrived, recognized Su Mu, and rejoiced at his return.
• Su Mu led the two women away from Formless City and shattered a crystal, releasing a vast amount of Fortune that the Grand Princess recognized.

Su Mu returned the world's Fortune to the Youtian Realm and gained enough merit to restore his damaged Dao Lotus. He returned to Five Images City, where the carp spirit, Di Xingchun, and others were waiting to see him.

• Su Mu received a vast amount of merit as his Merit Lotus bloomed fully and a second one opened twenty petals.
• Su Mu spent the merit to repair his Dao Lotus, restoring it completely, while Yu Guyue and the eldest princess watched.
• The returned Fortune began restoring Spiritual Power across the Youtian Realm, and cultivators who had faced Core Formation tribulations formed golden cores.
• Su Mu asked the eldest princess how his distributed Spirit Plants were faring, and she explained that they had lowered spirit rice prices and helped more people cultivate.
• Su Mu and the two women returned to Five Images City, where the carp spirit, Di Xingchun, and others greeted him outside the city lord's residence.

Su Mu learned that the sea demons and Savage Wilderness would bring eighteen Nascent Soul experts and overwhelming numbers of lower-realm forces to the battle near Five Images City. The Eldest Princess feared a defeat and an endless war, but Su Mu insisted he would handle the coming battle.

• Su Mu learned that Lin Hongbin had reached Late Core Formation through years of cultivation and Perfect Foundation Establishment, and Lin planned to pursue Perfect Nascent Soul Formation.
• Di Xingchun admitted he could not match Lin Hongbin, and the carp spirit told Su Mu that the catfish spirit had died a month earlier.
• The Eldest Princess told Su Mu that eighteen Nascent Soul experts, nearly three hundred thousand Foundation Establishment sea demons, and nearly ten thousand Core Formation sea demons threatened the humans.
• The Eldest Princess explained that the battle would take place on a plain a hundred li from Five Images City and worried that the sea demons would keep sending troops if they lost.
• Su Mu told the Eldest Princess to leave the battle to him, but she remained anxious about the sea demons’ vast forces and the prospect of a prolonged war.

Su Mu faced a vastly superior alliance of sea demons and Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts while the human cultivators feared defeat. As the enemy prepared to attack, Su Mu noticed a change in their formation and ordered everyone to retreat.

• Sea demons and Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts gathered before Five Images City while watching Nascent Soul Cultivators mocked Xiao Luanji for refusing their terms.
• Yu Guyue questioned Su Mu's secret weapon, and Daoist Jixu, Extreme Ice Old Man, and Xiao Luanji worried that their four Nascent Soul Cultivators could not withstand the enemy.
• A silver three-eyed fish demon and a Savage Wilderness Demon Beast taunted the humans, while Extreme Ice Old Man identified powerful enemies including a Xuangui, a Lu, and a Xingxing.
• As the enemy formation stirred and something appeared among the sea demons, Su Mu ordered the cultivators and army to retreat.

Su Mu ordered a retreat after revealing two concealed thousand-ton hydrogen bombs among the sea demons, and the blasts devastated their forces. The human army won the battle, while the fate of the missing Nascent Soul experts remained uncertain and Su Mu planned to demand resources from the sea demons.

• Su Mu grabbed the eldest princess and Yu Guyue and fled, warning that he had left a dangerous gift among the enemy ranks.
• Two concealed bombs detonated among the sea demons, creating enormous mushroom clouds and killing or wounding more than half the Demon Beasts caught in the explosions.
• Yu Guyue and the watching cultivators were shocked by the blasts' power as the human army weathered the shock wave.
• The surviving sea demons and Demon Beasts fled, while the Nascent Soul experts disappeared and Su Mu could not tell whether they had survived.
• The eldest princess declared victory, and Su Mu proposed demanding rare resources from the sea demons and threatening further bombings.

Su Mu revealed that a mushroom bomb had destroyed the enemy army, forcing the surviving Nascent Soul experts to flee. After returning to the city, he learned that the Buddhist Sect had grown stronger while studying his scriptures and prepared to write more.

• Su Mu showed the Eldest Princess and Yu Guyue his remaining mushroom bomb and said it was the last one he had.
• The Eldest Princess ordered her army to clear the battlefield and eliminate the surviving Demon Beasts.
• Xuangui and Xingxing assessed their severe injuries and damaged treasures, then fled with the other surviving Nascent Soul experts.
• Su Mu, the Eldest Princess, and the others returned to the city as the army prepared to advance farther into the Savage Wilderness.
• Yu Guyue told Su Mu that Buddhist monks had been studying his scriptures and that the Buddhist Sect had grown stronger, so Su Mu took out his brush and ink to write more.

Su Mu wrote a Buddhist scripture that caused Buddhist statues across the Youtian Realm to glow, then gave Yu Guyue first place on the Hundred Flowers Ranking and collected Spirit Stones from her. He told her he planned to return to the Haotian Realm to retrieve his Fallen Star Sword, but she could not accompany him without exposing them.

• Wuren recognized the Buddhist light as a sign that Su Mu had written another extraordinary scripture and hurried out to find him.
• Su Mu wrote Yu Guyue’s name in first place on the Hundred Flowers Ranking, and she was pleased until he explained that the other names belonged to women from the Haotian Realm.
• Yu Guyue gave Su Mu a Storage Bag containing nearly thirty million Spirit Stones and told him more were still being mined.
• Su Mu said he would have to return to the Haotian Realm because the coming Great Tribulation involved its cultivators and the Mysterious Yin Cult still had his Fallen Star Sword.
• Yu Guyue offered to go with Su Mu, but he knew her presence would expose them as cultivators from the Youtian Realm.

Su Mu and the eldest princess met with sea demon envoys who demanded Great Liang surrender, but the negotiations turned hostile. When Niyu used his Nascent Soul pressure to crush Su Mu, Su Mu summoned the Azure Lotus to suppress him.

• Su Mu refused Yu Guyue’s request to return with him and spent several days studying the restored Dao Scripture while Great Liang advanced into the Savage Wilderness.
• The eldest princess continued negotiating with the Nascent Soul Cultivators over their reduced stipends as Great Liang mined newly discovered mineral veins.
• After sea demons arrived in Formless City, Su Mu told the eldest princess he could obtain more mushroom bombs if they chose to fight.
• Niyu boasted that the sea demons ruled the four seas and demanded that Great Liang surrender, while the eldest princess refused to yield.
• Niyu attacked Su Mu with his Nascent Soul pressure, and Su Mu summoned the Azure Lotus above him to suppress him.