Recaps

Su Mu killed Niyu and rejected the West Sea’s demands, prompting its leader to threaten Great Liang with invasion and annual sacrifices. Expecting a major war, Su Mu returned to Earth and arranged for Huaxia to supply about a hundred mushroom bombs.

• Su Mu suppressed Niyu with the Azure Lotus, killed him after the sea demons hesitated to intervene, and burned away his remains.
• A projection from the West Sea threatened the Eldest Princess, demanding Su Mu’s head and a yearly sacrifice of a million people; she refused.
• After the projection warned that the West Sea might invade Great Liang, Su Mu and the Eldest Princess judged that its leader was likely beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Su Mu returned to Earth and asked Zhou Jianhua for about a hundred mushroom bombs to prepare for a major war.
• Zhou Jianhua secured Huaxia’s backing, and the logistics department began gathering the bombs as Su Mu prepared to fight the West Sea.

Su Mu prepared to send over a hundred mushroom bombs through a Teleportation Array to strike the West Sea, while accepting Spirit Stones from Wuren in exchange for Buddhist scriptures. As Earth prepared for the transfer, Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua discussed replenishing the bombs and the Spirit of the Dragon Vein’s possible role in improving marine resources.

• Su Mu reassured her that the mushroom bombs would teach their opponents in the West Sea a lesson, then gave Wuren more than ten Buddhist scriptures in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Wuren asked Su Mu to join the Buddhist Sect, but Su Mu warned that he would stop providing scriptures if Wuren kept trying to recruit him.
• Earth scheduled a power outage for the Teleportation Array transfer, and Su Mu collected over a hundred mushroom bombs from a secret base.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua to arrange more mushroom bombs, and Zhou Jianhua said production was underway to replenish reserves.
• Zhou Jianhua asked about the Spirit of the Dragon Vein, and Su Mu said he might have gone into the sea while refining the Dragon Pearl’s Spiritual Power.
• Zhou Jianhua noted that seafood resources had recovered and become profitable, suggesting the Spirit of the Dragon Vein might be responsible.

Huaxia’s seafood industry prospered as overseas buyers paid more for seafood certified safe, while Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua activated the Teleportation Array to exchange supplies. After Su Mu brought Thunder Crystals to Huaxia, he returned to the Youtian Realm and prepared with Yu Guyue and her companion to deploy mushroom bombs across the West Sea.

• Huaxia’s seafood sold at several times the usual price after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported no contamination in its waters.
• Zhou Jianhua’s team switched off power across many cities to supply the Teleportation Array, which charged and opened beneath a pillar of light.
• Su Mu transported Storage Rings through the array, then gave Zhou Jianhua Thunder Crystals to study before returning to the Youtian Realm.
• Su Mu, Yu Guyue, and her companion reviewed their marked West Sea targets and agreed to deploy the bombs quickly without lingering.
• Su Mu demonstrated how to use the mushroom bombs and distributed forty each to Yu Guyue and her companion, keeping twenty for himself.
• The three set out to deploy the bombs, with Yu Guyue and her companion taking the farther targets and Su Mu handling the closer ones.

Yu Guyue, the Eldest Princess, and Su Mu planted concealed mushroom bombs at several points in the West Sea. The bombs devastated the seabed and its sea demons, and the enraged West Sea King set out to find those responsible.

• Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess reached their first drop point, prepared a mushroom bomb, and concealed it in the sea with a formation.
• Su Mu planted bombs at successive drop points, setting them to detonate around the same time as the others’ bombs.
• Sea demons at an underwater marketplace discussed the coming war and their plans to capture cultivators before a concealed bomb detonated nearby.
• The explosion destroyed the marketplace and killed many sea demons, while blasts at other locations sent water columns skyward and churned the West Sea.
• The West Sea King sensed the destruction, saw the vast losses among his sea demons, and plunged into the sea to hunt down the attackers.

Su Mu and the two women devastated the West Sea with mushroom bombs, leaving the sea demons badly crippled and the West Sea King enraged. Back in Formless City, Su Mu contemplated the Tao Te Ching and caused a petal of his Dao Lotus to bloom, bringing him closer to the three flowers gathering at the crown.

• The West Sea King raced between bombed locations, furious that he could not find his attackers and that the explosions were killing sea demons across the West Sea.
• Su Mu dropped the final mushroom bomb, checked the destruction through a water mirror, and flew to the jade cliff to meet Yu Guyue and the eldest princess.
• Yu Guyue and the eldest princess reported that they had dropped nearly all their bombs and that the sea demons had suffered many deaths and severe injuries.
• Su Mu led the two women back to Formless City, where the eldest princess returned to work and Yu Guyue asked why his Dao Scripture appeared blank to her.
• Su Mu recited a passage from the Tao Te Ching, strengthening his Dao resonance and causing a petal of his Dao Lotus to bloom.

The Eldest Princess admitted to destroying much of the West Sea, and the West Sea King came to threaten her and Great Liang. Su Mu revealed his Dao Lotus, cowed the West Sea King, and demanded compensation, leaving the king afraid to resist.

• The West Sea King confronted the Eldest Princess and accused her of attacking the West Sea, and she admitted that she had done it.
• The West Sea King threatened to kill the Eldest Princess and destroy Great Liang, but Su Mu stepped in to stop him.
• Su Mu revealed a Dao Lotus, frightening the West Sea King into backing down and asking to settle the matter peacefully.
• The Eldest Princess persuaded Su Mu to hear the West Sea King out, and Su Mu put away the Dao Lotus.
• Su Mu admitted that he had attacked the West Sea and demanded nearly a hundred billion Spirit Stones in compensation for the mushrooms he had used.
• The West Sea King protested, and Su Mu threatened to kill him and take his possessions, leaving him afraid to fight back.

Su Mu and the Grand Princess forced the West Sea King to accept compensation and press the other Sea Kings to open marketplaces with Great Liang. Back on Earth, Su Mu learned that his best friend was getting married and planned to attend.

• The West Sea King agreed to pay compensation after Su Mu threatened him, and the Grand Princess gave him a list demanding Spirit Stones and precious treasures.
• The Grand Princess ordered the West Sea King to persuade the other Sea Kings to open marketplaces with Great Liang and arrange Teleportation Arrays throughout the West Sea.
• The West Sea King left to speak with the other Sea Kings, while Su Mu and the Grand Princess discussed making the marketplaces open even if they resisted.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, told Zhou Jianhua that matters were mostly settled, and read the Dao Scripture while Yu Guyue continued cultivating.
• Su Mu received a message saying his best friend was marrying the girlfriend he had introduced to him, and he planned to attend the wedding in a few days.

Su Mu agreed to the West Sea King's trade proposals while refusing to spend Dao Lotus petals helping the sea kings endure their Heavenly Tribulations. He urged the eldest princess to take the throne, and as the markets began construction, she considered making the emperor abdicate; Su Mu then returned to Earth for his best friend's wedding.

• The eldest princess told Su Mu that the four sea kings had accepted the market proposal and offered favorable terms, which he suspected were meant to win his help with their Heavenly Tribulations.
• Su Mu told the eldest princess he would not use the Dao Lotus to help the sea kings and urged her to make the emperor abdicate in her favor.
• The eldest princess said she would raise the matter herself, while Su Mu agreed to let her handle it.
• Workers and array masters began building four large sea markets and Teleportation Arrays, drawing interest from merchants and smaller states.
• The eldest princess became busy arranging the markets and began considering asking her imperial father to abdicate.
• Su Mu returned to Earth and took a teleportation train toward his best friend's wedding.

Su Mu arrived for Wang Peng’s wedding and joined his former university classmates at a dinner, where they were struck by how much he had changed. Yuxuan drew him into conversation and sat beside him, while the reunion continued around them.

• Su Mu took the teleportation train to the city and checked into the five-star hotel Wang Peng had booked for him.
• Wang Peng invited Su Mu to a dinner with wedding guests and old university classmates.
• Su Mu arrived at the private room, and his classmates remarked on his changed appearance; he recognized Yuxuan and complimented her.
• Wang Peng thanked the guests and fielded questions about how he and his friends had become wealthy through their company.
• Yuxuan seated Su Mu beside her, poured him a drink, and asked why he rarely appeared in the class group chat.
• Yuxuan joked that Su Mu looked like he was cultivating immortality, and Su Mu agreed while she felt unexpectedly comfortable sitting beside him.

Su Mu attended his friends’ reunion and wedding, where his classmates learned that he had founded the company Wang Peng and the others ran. At the wedding, a woman recognized Su Mu and nervously approached him, ending the chapter with her greeting.

• Yuxuan and the other classmates spoke with Su Mu at the reunion, and he said he was unemployed.
• Wang Peng and Leizi revealed that Su Mu had started their company, surprising the classmates and drawing Yuxuan’s interest.
• Wang Peng arranged a night out for the classmates and paid the expenses.
• The next morning, Wang Peng and his two friends picked up their brides, and Su Mu watched their wedding.
• A woman in the wedding crowd recognized Su Mu, approached him, and nervously said hello.

Luan Mingjun recognized Su Mu as the sword immortal she had seen flying from a plane and pressed him for answers. Su Mu confirmed her guess but warned her to keep quiet, leaving her convinced that immortal cultivation explained the incredible changes happening in Huaxia.

• Luan Mingjun introduced herself to Su Mu and said she recognized him as the sword immortal she had seen from a plane.
• Su Mu initially denied being the person she had seen, then admitted she was right and told her not to spread the secret or investigate him.
• Luan Mingjun explained that confirming her sighting mattered because other people had made her doubt herself.
• Luan Mingjun asked Su Mu a stream of questions about cultivation, his age, Sword Flight, and immortality.
• Su Mu threatened to erase her memory, so Luan Mingjun stopped questioning him.
• Luan Mingjun connected Su Mu to recent extraordinary events in Huaxia and grew excited about her country's future.

After attending Wang Peng’s wedding, Su Mu returned to the Youtian Realm and discovered that the market had earned him merit and opened more of his Golden Lotus. He spent two months in secluded cultivation, reaching Late Core Formation before emerging with several lotuses further opened.

• Su Mu toasted Wang Peng and his friends at the wedding banquet, then declined Wang Peng’s offer to share the bridesmaids’ WeChat contacts.
• Su Mu returned to the Qinling Mountains and found that his Golden Lotus had opened five petals and his Merit Lotus twenty-three, thanks to the market with the West Sea.
• Su Mu set up a formation and began secluded cultivation, using the Golden Lotus to strengthen his Spiritual Power while contemplating the Dao Scripture.
• After two months, Su Mu emerged at Late Core Formation, with his Dao Lotus at eighteen petals and one Merit Lotus Flower fully opened.

After emerging from seclusion at Late Core Formation, Su Mu learned that the new markets were thriving and that the Eldest Princess had become ruler of Great Liang. He obtained thirty million Spirit Stones from her to build a Teleportation Array and prepare to return to the dangerous Haotian Realm.

• Su Mu emerged from seclusion at Late Core Formation, and Yu Guyue told him the new markets were operating and had drawn enormous trade on their first day.
• Su Mu told Yu Guyue he planned to return to the Haotian Realm, despite her warning that it was dangerous.
• Su Mu saw that the Eldest Princess had become ruler of Great Liang and asked her for Spirit Stones to build a Teleportation Array.
• The Eldest Princess questioned Su Mu's decision to return, but he explained that he wanted to investigate the Haotian Realm's cultivators and prepare for their attack.
• The Eldest Princess gave Su Mu thirty million Spirit Stones, and Su Mu left to build a Teleportation Array under his own control.

Su Mu returned to the Haotian Realm after learning that the Youtian Realm’s Spiritual Power and cultivation conditions had improved. Ye Weixiao told him that True Person Fire Cloud had escaped and that news of Su Mu’s survival had spread.

• Su Mu discussed the Youtian Realm’s increased Spiritual Power and cultivation progress with Yu Guyue, then said he would leave the next day.
• Su Mu told Yu Guyue to destroy one Teleportation Array and keep the other, and urged the eldest princess to recruit more cultivators before he departed.
• Su Mu arrived in the Haotian Realm, where Ye Weixiao explained that True Person Fire Cloud had escaped after high-level cultivators broke his array.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that True Person Fire Cloud was on the bounty list and that cultivators from the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had spread word that Su Mu was still alive.

Su Mu learned that the righteous sects were still hunting him and that True Person Fire Cloud had grown powerful by killing cultivators. After searching for treasures and assessing a sect, Su Mu decided his plan was too uncertain until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Mu dismissed Ye Weixiao’s warning that the Holy Son and Holy Maiden intended to kill him, and said he would try to achieve Nascent Soul Formation.
• Su Mu left Ye Weixiao’s cave abode and went to a market to learn what people were saying about him.
• Su Mu read that the bounty on him had risen and that True Person Fire Cloud had killed ten thousand cultivators and received a fifty-million Spirit Stone bounty.
• Su Mu examined records of treasures in the Haotian Realm but found that major sects concealed their locations and guarded them with powerful formations.
• Su Mu studied the strength of the Cloud Ravine Sect and concluded that his plan had too many variables while his cultivation remained below the Nascent Soul Realm.

After months in seclusion, Su Mu met Mi Hongling and learned that the Demonic Sect planned to rescue a High Antiquity patriarch sealed beneath a great Buddha. Worried about the consequences if the Demonic Sect obtained the patriarch’s body, Su Mu told Ye Weixiao about the plan and waited for her response.

• Su Mu ended his seclusion after several months and met Mi Hongling, who was surprised that he had reached Late Core Formation.
• Mi Hongling revealed that the Demonic Sect intended to rescue the body of a patriarch sealed for over ten thousand years beneath a great Buddha.
• Mi Hongling told Su Mu to stay out of seclusion and keep the operation secret, promising that he could absorb Buddhist Sect Fortune if the mission succeeded.
• Su Mu returned to his cave abode and sent Ye Weixiao a voice message about the Demonic Sect’s plan.
• Ye Weixiao replied quickly, fell silent after hearing Su Mu’s account, and then responded.

Su Mu learned that the Mysterious Yin Cult and other demonic experts planned to find Ancestor Litian, but he and Ye Weixiao decided not to interfere for fear of exposing themselves. At Heaven-Severing Valley, Devil Lord Ye revealed that the sect had leaked false versions of its plans to identify spies, leaving the assembled cultivators under suspicion.

• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that Ancestor Litian had been a powerful figure who may have been sealed away, but warned that opposing the Mysterious Yin Cult's operation could expose Su Mu and the remaining Youtian Realm cultivators.
• Su Mu decided not to notify the major sects or interfere, then spent five days studying the Dao Scripture until Mi Hongling summoned him to Heaven-Severing Valley.
• On the way into the valley, Su Mu nearly fell under the influence of Mi Hongling's alluring scent but cleared his mind with the Life-Claiming Brahma Sound.
• Mi Hongling led Su Mu into a gathering where Devil Lord Ye announced that news of the Demonic Sect's planned operation had leaked.
• Devil Lord Ye said he had spread different false accounts of the sect's plans to determine which cultivators were spies.

Devil Lord Ye exposed spies among the gathered cultivators, and the accused fought back as the others hunted them down. After reading the final name, he let the matter rest despite suspecting more spies remained, since he lacked evidence to attack them.

• Mi Hongling questioned Su Mu about whether the spy purge had been planned, and Su Mu calmly said the spies had to be cleared out before they could act.
• Devil Lord Ye accused Zhuo Feng of the Compassionate Ferry Sect of sending secret messages and revealed evidence linking him to the fallen Zhu Yu of the Azure Wood Sect.
• Zhuo Feng attacked and killed two Devil Cultivators, but the gathered cultivators fought him and crushed his Nascent Soul.
• Devil Lord Ye read out more names, prompting spies to attack or resist as the Devil Cultivators killed them across the grounds.
• Devil Lord Ye read the final name and stopped the purge, wary that attacking suspected spies without evidence could turn the other sects against him.

Devil Lord Ye led the Devil Cultivators to Kashyapa Temple and demanded the release of their patriarch, but the abbot refused and the two sides began a battle. Su Mu watched the fighting and observed that the temple’s golden light shielded the Buddhist Sect experts and strengthened their techniques.

• Devil Lord Ye removed the formation, gathered the cultivators onto a giant gourd, and flew toward Kashyapa Temple.
• Devil Lord Ye demanded that the temple topple its Buddha statue and release the Devil Dao patriarch, while the abbot claimed the patriarch was a lay devotee who wished to remain there.
• Devil Lord Ye revealed that the Devil Dao had blocked the Buddhist Sect’s reinforcements and ordered an attack when the abbot refused to yield.
• The Devil Dao and Buddhist Sect experts began fighting, with Devil Lord Ye facing the abbot and Mi Hongling confronting a monk.
• Su Mu watched instead of joining the battle and noticed that Kashyapa Temple’s golden light protected the Buddhist Sect disciples and boosted their strength.

Mi Hongling used her bewitching technique against Kashyapa Temple’s defenders, but an elder bhikkhu broke it and injured her. Su Mu joined the fight and confronted a bhikkhu whose Buddhist palm technique echoed his own, while the battle around the temple grew increasingly chaotic and Kashyapa Temple’s forces fell behind.

• Mi Hongling’s dance entranced the novice monks, allowing Devil Cultivators to kill them, until an older bhikkhu used the temple’s golden light to break her technique and wound her.
• Mi Hongling asked Su Mu to fight, and he blocked a bhikkhu’s attack with a dark palm imprint that carried a powerful Buddhist resonance.
• Su Mu identified himself as the Demonic Sect’s holy son and began fighting the confused bhikkhu.
• The fighters remained crowded around the temple, where the bhikkhus gained strength, and the chaotic battlefield left cultivators vulnerable to attacks from multiple directions.
• Su Mu avoided numerous Law Techniques and hidden Law Treasures as the fighting continued and Kashyapa Temple’s defenders dwindled.

Su Mu used his Life-Claiming Brahma Sound to disrupt Kashyapa Temple’s Vajra Demon-Subduing Incantation and break its grand formation. The Devil Cultivators turned back to attack the novice monks while Su Mu rested and Mi Hongling pressed on toward the temple.

• Kashyapa Temple’s novice monks summoned a colossal Buddha and used Sanskrit characters to overwhelm the Devil Cultivators, forcing even Mi Hongling to flee.
• Su Mu found that his pitch-black Buddha palm could cancel out the Sanskrit characters, and Mi Hongling urged him to use his Life-Claiming Brahma Sound.
• Mi Hongling cleared the characters near Su Mu while he sat down and chanted, disrupting the monks’ scriptures and breaking the grand formation.
• The Devil Cultivators charged back at the novice monks, and Mi Hongling told the drained Su Mu to rest before rejoining the battle.
• Mi Hongling hurried toward the temple with the others, aiming to destroy the great Buddha statue and rescue the patriarch trapped beneath it.

The Devil Cultivators defiled Kashyapa Temple with blood-soaked Law Treasures, weakening its protection as Su Mu absorbed the Buddhist Fortune leaking from its damaged Buddha statue. He moved the statue aside and entered the sealed chamber beneath it, where a bound figure was being suppressed by golden arhat statues.

• The Devil Cultivators poured blood from their sinister Law Treasures over Kashyapa Temple, extinguishing its golden barrier and cracking the Buddha statue.
• Su Mu absorbed the Buddhist Fortune escaping from the damaged statue as the abbot called for the Devil Cultivators to be slain.
• Mi Hongling urged the Devil Cultivators to kill the remaining monks and rescue their patriarch.
• Su Mu pushed aside the Buddha statue, revealing an opening that the Sanskrit inscription prevented Mi Hongling from entering.
• Su Mu entered the chamber below and found a dark figure bound by chains connected to golden arhat statues.
• The chains flared red and burned the bound figure, releasing wisps of black vapor.

Su Mu confronted the sealed Ancestor Litian and pretended to rescue him while testing whether he was still alive. After revealing his true intentions, Su Mu used the Golden Lotus to empower the Arhat statue and burn Ancestor Litian, who begged for mercy as the attack continued.

• Su Mu claimed to be the Demonic Sect's Holy Son and offered to free Ancestor Litian, who promised to take him as a disciple.
• Su Mu touched the Arhat's golden body, activating the seal and causing Sanskrit flames to burn Ancestor Litian.
• Ancestor Litian urged Su Mu to stop and wait for other Demonic Sect experts, but Su Mu continued and revealed that he had seen through the deception.
• Su Mu used the Golden Lotus to pour Buddhist Fortune into the Arhat, which spoke a sacred word and fired divine light at Ancestor Litian.
• Ancestor Litian begged Su Mu to stop and offered to agree to anything, but Su Mu ignored him and intensified the attack.

Su Mu tried to ensure Ancestor Litian had died before Mi Hongling discovered the sealed body and considered claiming it. When sect elders arrived, they confirmed Ancestor Litian was dead and prepared to take his body.

• Su Mu continued burning Ancestor Litian with Brahma flames, but the cave entrance seal broke and Mi Hongling appeared.
• Mi Hongling admitted she coveted Ancestor Litian's body, then failed to break the golden body with her blood blade, which was damaged in the attempt.
• Mi Hongling gave up on claiming the body and waited with Su Mu for the seniors to arrive.
• Old Monster Fentian and elders from other sects descended into the cave and recognized Ancestor Litian.
• An elder of the Compassionate Ferry Sect confirmed with Divine Sense that Ancestor Litian had perished, and Su Mu felt relieved.

Su Mu left the elders to dispute who would claim Ancestor Litian’s body and absorbed the Fortune from the ruined temple. Fearing a clash among the demonic elders and a righteous-path counterattack, he fled, and Mi Hongling followed.

• The elders argued over whether Ancestor Litian’s body belonged to the Mysterious Yin Cult or should go to whoever claimed its treasures.
• Su Mu left the elders and saw that the temple’s monks had been killed, then absorbed Fortune from its Buddhist statues.
• Mi Hongling joined Su Mu and asked who would claim the body, while Su Mu decided not to interfere.
• Su Mu warned that fighting and a righteous-path attack could trap them, then left after absorbing the temple’s Fortune.
• Mi Hongling followed Su Mu as he flew away.