Recaps

Su Mu used the teleportation array to bring four gates back from the Haotian Realm, intending to have Zhou Jianhua study the characters on them. The gates flew into the sky and appeared over Huaxia, where people recognized their names as the Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Heavenly Gates.

• Zhou Jianhua regretted that Su Mu had shown no interest in Zhou Sihan, but refused to tell her who Su Mu was.
• Huaxia announced a new light experiment, and people around the world speculated about what it would bring.
• Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua activated the teleportation array after it had charged, and Su Mu sent a Storage Bag through from the Haotian Realm.
• Su Mu retrieved the Storage Bag and told Zhou Jianhua it contained four gates whose ancient characters he wanted studied.
• The four gates escaped Su Mu's control, flew into the sky, and appeared above Huaxia as people heard a strange, familiar summons.
• People in Huaxia read the gates' names aloud, while foreigners watched in confusion.

Su Mu returned the Southern Heavenly Gate to its place, triggering a powerful defensive formation and a public uproar before he concealed it. He then went back to the Haotian Realm to cultivate, where his pursuers found him trapped in a deadly region and mocked him.

• Su Mu regained limited control of the Southern Heavenly Gate and warned Zhou Jianhua that incoming aircraft would have to follow designated routes.
• The gates stayed visible until the next day, prompting speculation that Huaxia was cultivating immortality and drawing foreign interest in passing through them.
• Zhou Sihan guessed that Su Mu might be an immortal cultivator, but Zhou Jianhua warned her not to reveal his special identity.
• Su Mu returned to the Haotian Realm, where spatial rifts surrounded him, and prepared to study the Dao Scripture while protected by his Dao Lotus.
• Sheng Fanhong and other cultivators arrived, including the holy maidens of the Demonic Dao and the Righteous Dao and the holy son of the Righteous Dao, and mocked Su Mu for being trapped.
• Su Mu dismissed the holy son’s threats and said a single Dao Lotus could suppress and kill him if Su Mu were not trapped.

Su Mu spent ten years trapped among spatial rifts, comprehending the Dao Scripture and developing his Dao Lotuses while the sects abandoned their attempt to kill him. He returned to Earth, discovered the passage of time, and reunited with his parents, whom he told about his experiences and gave life-extending pills; his unfinished business in the Haotian Realm remained.

• The holy son urged the sect elders to kill Su Mu, but they refused to pay the enormous cost of calming the rifts and risk fighting him afterward.
• The sects cleared the area around the rifts and left Su Mu isolated, while years passed and people gradually stopped talking about him.
• Su Mu awoke after a blade of grass grew beside him, saw that he had formed a third Dao Lotus, and returned to Earth.
• Su Mu found Earth transformed and learned that it was year 33, meaning he had been in seclusion for ten years.
• Su Mu reunited with his mother, gave her a life-extending pill, and was soon joined by his father.
• Su Mu told his parents about his cultivation and otherworldly experiences, gave his father a life-extending pill, and said he would resolve his remaining affairs once he advanced further.

Su Mu returned home after ten years away, reassured his parents, and caught up with Zhou Jianhua about Huaxia’s technological and interstellar advances. He then reunited with Wang Peng, Leizi, and their friend at the company, where they welcomed him and began catching up over a meal.

• Su Mu told his parents he could handle matters and called Zhou Jianhua to bring him a phone.
• Zhou Jianhua visited Su Mu and described Huaxia’s advances, including its Mars colony and exploration beyond the star system; Su Mu said he could handle the trouble in the Haotian Realm himself for now.
• After spending a few days at home, Su Mu visited Wang Peng’s company, found his picture still on the employee wall, and entered the conference room.
• Wang Peng, Leizi, and their friend recognized Su Mu, welcomed him back, and forgave him after he explained that he could not contact them.
• Wang Peng canceled the meeting and took Su Mu downstairs to eat and drink with the others, who discussed the company’s growth and its business on Mars.

After returning from a reunion with his old friends, Su Mu helped Zhou Jianhua address Huaxia’s affairs before resuming cultivation in the Haotian Realm. Ye Weixiao told him the realms had been at war for a year, and Su Mu chose to keep cultivating toward Three Flowers Gather at the Crown while the Youtian Realm held out.

• Su Mu bid farewell to his friends’ wives after their husbands drank too much, then gave Zhou Jianhua Spirit Stones and discussed the Floating Island’s power source and the Little Dragon Vein’s help with interstellar colonization.
• Su Mu reviewed Huaxia’s accumulated requests with Zhou Jianhua, granted permissions for the Little Dragon Vein to assist on colonized planets, and returned to the Haotian Realm to cultivate.
• Ye Weixiao reached Su Mu and explained that the Haotian Realm and Youtian Realm had converged a year earlier and that the Youtian Realm was close to defeat.
• Su Mu summoned his three Dao Lotuses, showing Ye Weixiao that only two petals remained unopened, and asked her side to hold out while he pursued Three Flowers Gather at the Crown.
• Ye Weixiao returned to report Su Mu’s progress, and Su Mu resumed studying the Tao Te Ching in seclusion.

The Haotian Realm launched its final assault on the nearly defeated Youtian Realm, while its defenders waited for Su Mu to return with the power to turn the battle. The ancient survivors unleashed their hidden abilities, but the fighting went badly for the Youtian Realm, and Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess were left close to defeat.

• Mi Hongling and the Haotian Realm’s leaders demanded the Youtian Realm’s surrender and offered to take the Phoenix, which refused to leave its home.
• Yu Guyue and the other defenders waited for Su Mu, while Ye Weixiao said he had only two Dao Lotus petals left before reaching Three Flowers Gather at the Crown.
• Fairy Zhie and the other cultivators who had survived since High Antiquity restored themselves to their peak and attacked the Haotian Realm forces.
• The Mysterious Yin sect master restrained the Youtian Realm cultivators with a jade treasure, and both sides began a fierce battle as the Phoenix burned Haotian Realm cultivators to ash.
• The Youtian Realm forces suffered heavy losses, and the holy son and holy maiden of the righteous factions overwhelmed Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess.

Su Mu emerged from seclusion with three blooming Dao Lotuses, saved the Youtian Realm cultivators, punished the Haotian Realm attackers, and began merging the surviving worlds. After returning to Earth with Yu Guyue and Ye Weixiao, he protected Huaxia from an interstellar invasion and prepared to leave for the Immortal Realm.

• Su Mu emerged at the Youtian Realm battlefield, healed the injured cultivators, and exposed the Haotian Realm figures hiding nearby.
• Su Mu turned the Five Decays of a Celestial Person back on its caster, then declined the guiding fairies’ invitation to ascend immediately.
• Su Mu and the Heavenly Dao agreed to reduce the Haotian Realm attackers to mortals, and Su Mu sent them back to their realm.
• Su Mu set the surviving worlds in motion to merge, then took Yu Guyue and Ye Weixiao back to Earth after the eldest princess settled her affairs.
• Hundreds of thousands of years later, Su Mu destroyed the fleets of three civilizations threatening Huaxia and told them not to disturb him.
• Su Mu said he had more or less severed his Three Corpses, then entered a ray of golden light with Yu Guyue and his companion.