Recaps

Su Mu used the Fallen Star Sword to destroy the cultivators’ Law Treasures and refused their offer of compensation, deciding to kill them because they had seen him fight with it. Wu Daozi recognized Su Mu and the sword, leaving Yu Xingxiu and the others horrified as Su Mu charged at them.

• Wu Daozi realized Su Mu was far stronger than a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator and regretted attacking him.
• Su Mu rejected Yu Xingxiu’s plea to part ways and slashed at the group, shattering their Law Treasures with Sword-Ray.
• Yu Xingxiu and the other cultivators offered eighty million Spirit Stones to make peace, but Su Mu refused to spare them because they had seen him fight.
• Wu Daozi recognized Su Mu as the cultivator from the Youtian Realm and identified his weapon as the Fallen Star Sword.
• Yu Xingxiu and the others recognized Su Mu as the feared great devil as he charged at them.

Su Mu killed Wu Daozi and the other cultivators who recognized him, then took their Storage Bags and escaped. After counting more than thirty million Spirit Stones, he set up an ambush for passing Rogue Cultivators while continuing to read the Dao Scripture.

• Su Mu used the Dao Lotus to seal the cultivators’ Spiritual Power and slew several Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators with the Fallen Star Sword.
• Su Mu killed Wu Daozi, including his Nascent Soul, despite Wu Daozi offering him the treasures in his cave abode.
• Su Mu collected the cultivators’ Storage Bags, burned their corpses, and flew away from the scene.
• Su Mu counted more than thirty million Spirit Stones among the seized loot and considered ambushing Rogue Cultivators.
• Su Mu set up a formation on a mountain peak, concealed himself in the clouds, and focused on reading the Dao Scripture.

Su Mu, disguised as Han Feiyu, trapped Deng Zongguang and took his Storage Bag before letting him go. After learning that four other cultivators had escaped his ambush, Su Mu changed locations, and the righteous cultivators who arrived later found he had already left.

• Su Mu's formation trapped Deng Zongguang, and Su Mu demanded his Storage Bag.
• Deng Zongguang recognized Su Mu's disguised face as the Demonic Sect's holy son and handed over his Storage Bag out of fear.
• Su Mu released Deng Zongguang, who fled, then decided to leave because four other cultivators had escaped and news of the ambush could spread.
• Su Mu put away his formation and flew off to a random location.
• More than half a day later, several cultivators searched the ambush site and concluded Su Mu had already left.
• A man in a long white robe complained that Han Feiyu had escaped again after killing many cultivators, including righteous ones.

Su Mu left the ambush site and heard that hundreds of deaths had been blamed on him, leading him to suspect someone was framing him. He sold his stolen Law Treasures for 13.28 million Spirit Stones, while the black-market old man warned his accomplices not to target him.

• The search party failed to find Su Mu and left, while rumors spread that Han Feiyu had been killing cultivators in the area.
• Su Mu returned to a city and heard cultivators blame him for killing members of the Wu Household and Tang Household, along with hundreds of others.
• Su Mu suspected someone was framing him and left the marketplace conversation without learning who was responsible.
• Su Mu sold his Law Treasures through a black-market broker and received 13.28 million Spirit Stones.
• Two cultivators proposed ambushing Su Mu, but the old man warned them that he was too dangerous to attack, and they gave up the idea.

Su Mu studied the Dao Scripture while Ye Weixiao warned him that cultivators were being blamed on him and urged him to hide under another identity. He offered her Heavenly Thunder Bamboo to make up for the trouble caused by his enemies, and she suspected it was the piece that had gone missing.

• Su Mu left the market without being pursued, changed his appearance, and began studying the Dao Scripture.
• Ye Weixiao asked whether Su Mu had been ambushing cultivators, and he admitted to some killings but said others had been pinned on him.
• Ye Weixiao warned Su Mu that someone seemed to be targeting him and urged him to keep a low profile and use another identity.
• Su Mu asked whether Ye Weixiao had safely moved from her cave abode, and she said they had taken most things but left the spirit fields and fruits behind.
• Su Mu offered Ye Weixiao his Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, and she recalled the missing piece that had caused a commotion.

Su Mu gave Ye Weixiao the mature Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and admitted he had stolen it, then continued traveling while contemplating the Dao Scripture. He agreed to hear Sheng Fanhong and several cultivators out, and they invited him to enter the Heaven-Burying Land with their supposed safe method.

• Su Mu told Ye Weixiao that the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo was already mature and admitted he had stolen it.
• Ye Weixiao accepted the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, agreeing to give Su Mu a suitable treasure later.
• Su Mu resumed traveling on his cloud while contemplating the Dao Scripture and nurturing the Fallen Star Sword.
• Sheng Fanhong stopped Su Mu and invited him to a pavilion where several cultivators were gathered.
• Sheng Fanhong told Su Mu that the group had a way to enter and leave the Heaven-Burying Land safely and promised riches from the forbidden land.

Su Mu questioned Sheng Fanhong and his companions about their route into the forbidden land and why they wanted him to join them. After learning that a female demon would let them pass only if a special object reacted to a suitable cultivator, Su Mu remained hesitant but became interested when they mentioned ancient spirit flames and lifespan-increasing herbs.

• Su Mu doubted Sheng Fanhong's account of a safe route through the forbidden land, so Sheng explained that his injured friend had brought it out on a Jade Slip and that the others had verified part of it.
• Sheng Fanhong revealed that a female demon blocked the route and wanted a mouthful of vital essence from a cultivator who met her requirements.
• Sheng showed Su Mu an object given by the female demon, which flashed brighter as it came closer to Su Mu.
• Su Mu declined to join the group, but the cultivators urged him with promises of treasures, lifespan-increasing herbs, ancient spirit flames, and methods.
• Su Mu remained wary but considered entering because he wanted lifespan-increasing spirit medicines and was interested in the ancient spirit flames.

Su Mu agreed to enter the forbidden land with Sheng Fanhong’s group after arranging to bring Ye Weixiao along. Sheng Fanhong and the other cultivators secretly resolved to force Su Mu inside if he refused, unaware that Ye Weixiao was a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

• Sheng Fanhong offered to let Su Mu bring one person, and Su Mu decided to ask Ye Weixiao to join him.
• Ye Weixiao agreed that entering the forbidden land was worthwhile and set out to meet Su Mu.
• While Su Mu was away, Sheng Fanhong and the others decided they would force him to enter if he refused.
• Su Mu returned and agreed to enter the forbidden land while insisting on bringing a cultivator along.
• Sheng Fanhong accepted Su Mu’s condition, assuming his companion would be no stronger than a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Su Mu agreed to enter the forbidden land with Sheng Fanhong’s group and waited for Ye Weixiao to arrive, concealing her Spirit Transformation cultivation so the group would not flee. As they set out, Ye Weixiao said the forbidden land held rare things, but neither of them knew what the demonesses there were or why one needed Su Mu’s essence Qi.

• Sheng Fanhong arranged for the group to leave in half a day after Su Mu said his friend would arrive then.
• Ye Weixiao arrived with her cultivation concealed, and Su Mu told her to keep it hidden while they traveled with the group.
• Sheng Fanhong led everyone toward the forbidden land after Su Mu agreed to set out.
• Su Mu asked Ye Weixiao about the forbidden land’s treasure, and she said its rare contents could benefit them both.
• Su Mu asked what Ye Weixiao knew about the demoness that wanted his essence Qi, but she said her research had revealed nothing.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao entered the forbidden land with Sheng Fanhong and his group, finding a verdant landscape despite its deadly reputation. Sheng Fanhong then changed the route he had previously given the others, prompting suspicion as the group followed him.

• Ye Weixiao reassured Su Mu that she could protect him if the forbidden land proved dangerous.
• Sheng Fanhong used a compass to lead the group to an entrance through the chaos, then entered first.
• Ye Weixiao confirmed Sheng Fanhong was alive, and she and Su Mu followed him into the forbidden land.
• Su Mu found the land full of birdsong and flowers, while Ye Weixiao warned him that its danger came from the many cultivators who never escaped.
• Sheng Fanhong led the group along a route different from the one he had previously provided, and the other cultivators questioned him.
• Ye Weixiao stopped warily as Sheng Fanhong smiled and told the group not to panic because he was leading the way.

Sheng Fanhong explained that he changed the group’s route because it led to rare Flourishing Yang Fruits, drawing the cultivators’ interest despite their doubts about his trustworthiness. Su Mu and Ye Weixiao followed cautiously, intent on competing for the fruit if it was real, and the group continued onward without finding any treasures.

• Sheng Fanhong told the cultivators that he had chosen a different, previously explored route because Flourishing Yang Fruits could be found farther ahead.
• The cultivators grew eager to claim the fruits after Sheng Fanhong confirmed their identity, while Su Mu and Ye Weixiao stayed quiet but planned to compete for them.
• Su Mu told Ye Weixiao that Sheng Fanhong was probably mostly truthful but may have withheld the real route earlier to prevent the others from leaving without him.
• Ye Weixiao warned Su Mu to stay wary of Sheng Fanhong and wondered what the female demon had wanted from him.
• The group continued carefully through the forbidden land but found no treasures along the route.

Su Mu and the others were attacked by a swarm of Jade Gold Bees, which devoured Law Techniques and damaged Law Treasures. Su Mu’s Heavenly Thunder Bamboo proved effective against them, but the swarm kept replenishing its numbers as the cultivators struggled to hold out.

• A bee-like Demon Beast struck a cultivator’s Law Treasure, and Sheng Fanhong warned everyone not to assume their route was entirely safe.
• A swarm of Jade Gold Bees appeared, and Ye Weixiao warned that they resisted Law Techniques and could counter some Law Treasures.
• The bees overwhelmed one cultivator’s Law Treasure, while Ye Weixiao drove them back with a willow branch.
• Su Mu’s Law Technique fed the bees, but his Heavenly Thunder Bamboo electrocuted many of them.
• The swarm continued filling the gaps left by the fallen bees, and Su Mu worried that Sheng Fanhong might not survive the attack.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao suspected Sheng Fanhong had drawn the bee insects in to test and weaken the group, so they concealed their strength while enduring the attack. After the cultivators began losing Law Treasures, Sheng Fanhong led everyone away, and the group followed him while fighting off the bee insects.

• Ye Weixiao sensed that Sheng Fanhong was holding back and suspected he had lured the bee insects to test the cultivators.
• Su Mu noticed Sheng Fanhong's Divine Sense sweep over them and reduced the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo's power to make their defense seem weak.
• Ye Weixiao observed that the other cultivators were also concealing their strength, though several had already lost Law Treasures.
• A cultivator urged Sheng Fanhong to lead them out before the bee insects trapped them.
• Sheng Fanhong led the cultivators away, and Su Mu and Ye Weixiao followed while fending off the bee insects.

Su Mu and the cultivators escaped the Jade Gold Bees by passing through hidden spatial rifts, then continued toward the she-demons’ territory. They arrived at a village of beautiful women, where Sheng Fanhong tried to reassure the wary she-demons by showing them an object they had given him.

• Sheng Fanhong led the group past overhead spatial rifts that killed many of the pursuing Jade Gold Bees.
• Su Mu and the others finished off the remaining bees and continued toward the she-demons’ territory.
• Ye Weixiao reassured Su Mu that she could protect him if the she-demons had a hidden scheme, and Su Mu drew comfort from the Fallen Star Sword.
• The group crossed a hill and found houses filled with women who looked like ordinary female cultivators despite being she-demons.
• Several she-demons appeared and challenged the group, and Sheng Fanhong asked whether they remembered him while showing them an object they had given him.

Sheng Fanhong brought Su Mu to the female demons, who recognized him as the person they had been seeking and swore not to harm him. After Su Mu gave one of them some essence Qi, she reacted with intense excitement and began to explain that they had finally found him.

• Sheng Fanhong revealed Su Mu to the female demons and asked them to let the cultivators pass after taking his essence Qi.
• A female demon recognized Su Mu and invited him to speak privately, while the other cultivators stood aside and Ye Weixiao advised him to go.
• The female demon set up a formation and asked Su Mu for some essence Qi, promising not to force him.
• Su Mu gave her a small amount of his blue-green and white essence Qi, which she swallowed as the other female demons watched eagerly.
• The female demon reacted with relief and excitement, then apologized for her behavior and said they had finally found him.

Su Mu learned that the demonesses wanted someone with a Dao Lotus to alter the local laws and free them from their forbidden land, and he agreed to return once his second Dao Lotus bloomed in exchange for Spirit-Stabilizing Dew. He returned to Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong, concealing the serious details and claiming the demoness had only taken a mouthful of his essence Qi.

• The demoness revealed that her clan had been trapped in the forbidden land for millions of years and sought Su Mu because his Dao Lotus could help them escape.
• She explained that two Dao Lotuses could alter the local laws, and Su Mu agreed to return when his second bloomed in exchange for Spirit-Stabilizing Dew.
• Su Mu warned the demoness not to reveal that he had a Dao Lotus and declined her offer to deal with Sheng Fanhong and the others.
• The demoness offered additional rewards, including letting Su Mu choose some of the demonesses to take with him, and Su Mu turned away.
• Su Mu returned to Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong, then told them the demoness had only taken a mouthful of his essence Qi.

Su Mu left the demonesses’ territory with Sheng Fanhong’s group after agreeing to help the demonesses escape once he had two Dao Lotuses in bloom. On the way, he sensed the forbidden land’s Principle of Heaven and Earth, while Sheng Fanhong’s companions grew suspicious that Su Mu might betray them over their future treasures.

• Su Mu refused to reveal what he had discussed with the demonesses, and Sheng Fanhong led the group through their territory as the demonesses let them pass.
• A demoness questioned why they had not kept Su Mu there, but their leader said his strength made confronting him too dangerous.
• Su Mu told Ye Weixiao that the demonesses wanted him to help them leave and that he needed two Dao Lotuses in bloom to do so.
• Su Mu briefly sensed the forbidden land’s Principle of Heaven and Earth, then told Ye Weixiao that a third Dao Lotus might be needed to control the stronger Principle outside.
• Sheng Fanhong’s companions worried Su Mu might attack them for their treasures, but Sheng Fanhong rejected killing him and decided they should wait and see.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao joined Sheng Fanhong’s group, who discovered what appeared to be a Cangyu Ancient Tree and tested it with a spiritual flame. The tree proved genuine, while the flame’s strange response to Su Mu heightened the group’s suspicion and left tensions unresolved.

• Ye Weixiao sensed hostility from Sheng Fanhong’s group, but Su Mu said they could deal with them if necessary.
• Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong identified a great tree as a possible Cangyu Ancient Tree, whose spiritual liquid could help cultivators see through illusions and formations.
• When the cultivator surnamed Wu summoned his spiritual flame, it drifted toward Su Mu as though drawn to him, and Ye Weixiao suspected he had taken the Glazed Tower of Ten Thousand Fires.
• Sheng Fanhong’s group pressed Su Mu for an explanation, and the cultivators nearly confronted him before Sheng Fanhong called off the standoff.
• The cultivator surnamed Wu sent his spiritual flame toward the tree, whose leaves suppressed it and confirmed that it was the Cangyu Ancient Tree.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao learned about the powerful Law Treasures rumored to be in True Person Cen Tian’s cave abode and followed Sheng Fanhong to its hidden entrance. After they arrived, the group prepared to break open the hollow, while Su Mu and Ye Weixiao kept their strength concealed.

• The cultivators collected spiritual liquid from the great tree, and Sheng Fanhong consulted a Jade Slip to choose their next destination.
• Ye Weixiao claimed she knew little about True Person Cen Tian, but privately told Su Mu about the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, Sinking Star Sand, and other treasures in his cave abode.
• Su Mu decided that he and Ye Weixiao would take the Law Treasures, and the two followed Sheng Fanhong more closely as the group traveled toward the ruins.
• Sheng Fanhong led the group to a mountain hollow and said the cave abode lay beneath it.
• The cultivator surnamed Wu’s spell failed to change the hollow, so Sheng Fanhong proposed that everyone attack together; Su Mu and Ye Weixiao produced ordinary-looking Law Treasures.

The cultivators uncovered the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and Sheng Fanhong offered to break its formation in exchange for choosing one treasure. Fan Yongqi tested the gate with his Five Elements Flags, but the gate countered their power, while Su Mu saw a chance to take it from Sheng Fanhong later.

• Sheng Fanhong and the others broke open the hollow and uncovered a great gate that Ye Weixiao and Su Mu suspected was the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate.
• Sheng Fanhong said he could break the gate's formation if he was allowed to take one treasure, and invited the others to try first.
• Fan Yongqi brought out his Five Elements Flags, which Ye Weixiao recognized as a powerful formation treasure capable of reversing the five elements.
• Fan Yongqi deployed the flags over the gate, but the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate restored the disrupted order of yin, yang, and the five elements.
• Su Mu decided that Sheng Fanhong might break the formation for him, leaving an opportunity to seize the gate, and his glance made Sheng Fanhong uneasy.

Sheng Fanhong opened the formation around the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate with instructions from a Jade Slip, leading the cultivators into an empty village where they searched in vain for Law Treasures. Su Mu suspected the village’s water was not ordinary and secretly stored a water vat in his Storage Ring.

• Fan Yongqi’s five-element formation failed to affect the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and the other cultivators declined to try breaking it.
• Sheng Fanhong used the Jade Slip’s instructions to open a passage through the formation, and the cultivators entered a peaceful, deserted village.
• Ye Weixiao explained to Su Mu that the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate they had passed was an illusion and that they needed to find the formation’s core to locate the real gate.
• The cultivators searched the village for Law Treasures but found only ordinary-looking furnishings and no Spiritual Power.
• Su Mu examined a water vat, decided its water was not ordinary, and put the entire vat into his Storage Ring.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao realized that ordinary-looking objects in the village might be hidden treasures, and that each hut restricted how many items could be taken. They searched the huts while Sheng Fanhong and the others grew suspicious and began checking behind them.

• Su Mu concluded that the village’s water and other unremarkable objects might be treasures, so he and Ye Weixiao split up to search while keeping their discovery quiet.
• Su Mu collected old writing tools, a broken pot, burned wood, and incense from the huts, then realized that taking a limited number of items prevented him from moving others.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao confirmed that each hut restricted how many objects they could take, strengthening their suspicion that the objects were treasures.
• Sheng Fanhong and the others noticed the pair repeatedly entering huts and decided to inspect the huts after they left.
• Sheng Fanhong and his group entered a hut Su Mu had just searched, while Su Mu stayed calm and continued toward the remaining huts.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao searched the village for treasures while Fan Yongqi and the other cultivators realized the hut furnishings were unusual. Su Mu found the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate in the form of four village archways and took them, leaving the others to discover that he had also stripped away the objects outside.

• Fan Yongqi and the other cultivators noticed that bedding, a teapot, and other hut furnishings were missing and realized the objects had remained strangely preserved.
• The cultivators surnamed Wu and the others hurried to search the remaining huts, while Su Mu watched them and left the huts’ remaining objects untouched.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao agreed to search outside; Su Mu picked the plants from a vegetable patch and took other objects around the village.
• Su Mu spotted an archway at the village entrance, recognized it as the likely Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and collected it along with the three matching archways in other directions.
• Fan Yongqi and the others emerged from the huts and found the vegetable patch bare, along with lanterns, the stone mill, and other outside objects missing.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao emerged from the village with strange treasures, including a gate Sheng Fanhong identified as the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate. Sheng Fanhong attacked, unleashing a divine light that shattered the surrounding space and left Su Mu trapped inside spreading spatial cracks.

• Sheng Fanhong demanded that Su Mu hand over the archway, while Ye Weixiao revealed she had found a pearl-like object in the well.
• The cultivators discovered their Law Treasures and Law Techniques could not be used inside the village, then were suddenly transported outside the mountain hollow with their collected items transformed.
• Su Mu took out the archway, and Sheng Fanhong recognized it as the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate; Su Mu suspected its inscription instead read Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Sheng Fanhong attacked Su Mu after seeing the gate, and Ye Weixiao revealed her Spirit Transformation cultivation and countered him with her jade bracelet.
• Sheng Fanhong crushed a jade pendant and sent divine light at Su Mu; Su Mu used the Dao Lotus to resist as the light shattered space around him.
• Spatial cracks killed the cultivators with the surname Wu, Ye Weixiao escaped, and Sheng Fanhong fled, while Su Mu remained trapped as the Dao Lotus struggled to hold the cracks back.

Su Mu became trapped among spatial rifts when retrieving his Dao Lotus, so he returned to Earth to arrange a Teleportation Array and bring back the gates he had obtained. While discussing preparations over dinner with Zhou Huajian, he met Zhou Huajian’s daughter, Zhou Sihan, and Zhou Huajian began hinting at a match between them.

• Ye Weixiao’s attempt to stabilize the rifts failed, and Su Mu discovered he could not leave without abandoning his Dao Lotus, so he decided to remain and open more Dao Lotuses to calm the rifts.
• Ye Weixiao left the dangerous area, while Su Mu returned to Earth with the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate he suspected was the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Su Mu visited the Security Bureau and asked Zhou Huajian to arrange a Teleportation Array transfer, and Zhou Huajian confirmed the preparations would be less disruptive than before.
• Zhou Huajian and Su Mu discussed the transfer’s schedule and security measures over dinner, then Zhou Sihan arrived and joined them.
• Zhou Huajian asked Su Mu about his romantic life, prompting Zhou Sihan to realize her father was trying to set them up.