Recaps

After improving his physical strength through meditation, Su Mu taught the group to cultivate at the Moon-Gazing Stone and discovered he could guide others into meditation. The group owner and Ming Lan began absorbing Spiritual Power, and Su Mu told them to continue until they experienced its benefits.

• Su Mu woke after a night of meditation and noticed his stamina, strength, and endurance had improved.
• Su Mu led the group to the Moon-Gazing Stone and explained that they needed to empty their minds and sense Spiritual Power.
• After the group struggled to meditate, Su Mu entered meditation and found he could not sense them in that state.
• Su Mu guided the group owner into meditation, and the group owner began absorbing Spiritual Power.
• Su Mu helped Ming Lan enter meditation, then told the group owner to keep absorbing Spiritual Power until he experienced its benefits.

Su Mu discovered that Xiao Guan and Wu You could not cultivate, then sensed concentrated spiritual power on a nearby cliff and found an old wild mountain ginseng. After the group owner dug it up, Su Mu asked him to help sell it, and the group owner offered to buy it himself.

• Su Mu found that Xiao Guan and Wu You could not absorb spiritual power, while Ming Lan and the group owner had to stop cultivating after feeling full.
• Su Mu sensed concentrated spiritual power on a cliff and led the others to investigate.
• The group owner recognized a wild mountain ginseng and carefully dug it up, estimating it was fifty or sixty years old.
• Su Mu asked the group owner to help sell the ginseng, and the group owner offered to buy it.

Su Mu sold the wild ginseng, left the mountain, and became the owner of the cultivation group. On his way back to his rented apartment, he sensed something ominous around an overpass under construction.

• Su Mu sold the wild ginseng to the group owner for five hundred thousand and said he would leave the mountain the next day.
• Su Mu added Ming Lan and the others on WeChat, then explained that they would need to build up Spiritual Power before he could teach them to circulate it.
• The next morning, the group owner drove Su Mu down the mountain and transferred ownership of the group to him; Su Mu renamed it the Immortal Cultivation Squad.
• Ming Lan told the group that Su Mu was a real cultivator, and Su Mu said he hoped to discuss cultivation with everyone in the future.
• After returning to the city by train, Su Mu sensed a golden field with traces of black around an overpass under construction and asked the taxi driver to stop.

Su Mu sensed resentment at a construction site on Earth and learned from Xiao Wu that the black Qi came from an enraged Dragon Vein. He realized the workers might be in mortal danger and resolved not to ignore it.

• Su Mu noticed resentful black Qi at the construction site, warned a worker to be careful, and left without persuading the crew to stop working.
• Su Mu returned to the cultivation world and found Xiao Wu waiting with gold from their calligraphy sales.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mu the Academy of Righteousness wanted him to join, but he declined, and she agreed to turn down the invitation.
• Su Mu described the Qi at the construction site, and Xiao Wu identified it as an enraged Dragon Vein that could kill people within a hundred li.
• Su Mu realized the workers faced grave danger and decided he could not leave them unaided.

Su Mu learned how to invite the dragon to leave and obtained a prescription for strengthening the body and healing injuries, which he checked for ingredients available on Earth. Xiao Wu later told the eldest princess that Su Mu would not attend the Academy of Righteousness, prompting her to secretly decide to refine a body for him.

• Xiao Wu taught Su Mu how to invite the dragon to leave and gave him a prescription for treating physical injuries.
• Xiao Wu explained the prescription’s ingredients and medicinal properties while Su Mu copied them down.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mu about a spirit who had escaped after an immortal cultivator discovered her inside a restored painting.
• Xiao Wu reported to the eldest princess that Su Mu would not go to the Academy of Righteousness and confirmed that he wanted a body again.
• The eldest princess decided to refine a body for Su Mu but ordered Xiao Wu to keep it secret.
• Su Mu checked the prescription’s ingredients online, found substitutes for the three with unfamiliar names, and decided to test the medicine before giving it to his father.

Su Mu brewed a medicinal mixture with Spiritual Power and planned to check the dragon's resentment that night. At the overpass construction site, a strange burst of flying debris badly injured Xiao Chen, leaving the workers fearing the pile was cursed.

• Su Mu bought herbs and a clay pot, then brewed the medicine according to Xiao Wu's instructions and sensed Spiritual Power blending into it.
• Su Mu drank the finished brew and decided to wait two days for side effects while planning to revisit the dragon's resentment that night.
• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm as construction crews struggled to drive a pile at the overpass before their deadline.
• After a third drill bit broke, the supervisor berated Xiao Chen, and a sudden burst of sand and stones sent a rock through the cab window and into Xiao Chen's head.
• The supervisor accompanied Xiao Chen in the ambulance, while the workers speculated that the construction site demanded a human sacrifice.

Su Mu left the palace with Xiao Wu and wandered through the city, where he encountered a woman being revealed from a painting for a crowd. Xiao Wu explained why the onlookers were examining her, and the crowd began bidding for the painting.

• Su Mu asked Xiao Wu to accompany him outside the palace, and she took him to the Righteous Pavilion where she sold calligraphy.
• After Xiao Wu entered the pavilion, Su Mu wandered nearby and found that cultivators left him alone when they saw his imperial token.
• Su Mu heard a burly man advertise a fairy in a painting and floated over to watch.
• The burly man threatened to burn the painting, prompting the veiled woman inside to step out before the crowd.
• Xiao Wu returned and explained that the crowd was checking whether the woman had ever served a man.
• Several onlookers began bidding for the painting, exciting the burly seller.

Su Mu bought a spirit-lady’s painting, then brought her back to teach him how to read. The Eldest Princess learned the real reason for his purchase and let the matter go.

• Su Mu changed his mind and bought the painting for five taels of gold, despite Xiao Wu criticizing the price.
• After returning to his courtyard, Su Mu sent Xiao Wu away and called the woman out of the painting.
• Xiao Wu reported Su Mu’s purchase to the Eldest Princess, who used her Divine Sense to investigate.
• Su Mu asked the woman whether she could read, then admitted he wanted her to teach him.
• The woman agreed to teach Su Mu, while the Eldest Princess withdrew her Divine Sense and dismissed the purchase as a trivial matter.

Su Mu returned to Earth after practicing writing with the lady in the painting and discovered that videos of strange activity at the overpass had spread. He secretly drew the Dragon Vein away from the construction site, then fled when workers approached, leaving deep footprints behind.

• The lady taught Su Mu to write, laughed at his poor handwriting, and returned to the painting.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, noticed the medicine had made him feel stronger, and decided to get some for his father.
• Su Mu saw that videos of the overpass’s abnormal phenomena had spread and went to the construction site to deal with the Dragon Vein.
• Su Mu used the Seven Stars footwork to reveal the Dragon Vein and struggled to draw it away with his Spiritual Power.
• Workers arrived after hearing something, but Su Mu escaped and they found his unusually deep footprints.

Su Mu returned to his hometown with medicinal herbs for his ailing father and reunited with his parents. After giving his father a dose, he faced his parents’ worries about his marriage and urged them to stop exhausting themselves with work.

• Su Mu traveled home with herbs he had obtained to treat his father.
• Su Mu’s mother found him brewing medicine and learned he had returned to help his father.
• Su Mu went to meet his father on the hill and carried the heavy firewood home for him.
• Su Mu persuaded his wary father to drink the medicinal decoction he had brewed.
• At dinner, Su Mu’s parents urged him to find a girlfriend and marry, while he told them not to wear themselves out working.

Su Mu returned home and saw that his father’s medicine had eased his coughing, then went back to the cultivation world to learn about gathering literary essence from calligraphy. He began planning to sell calligraphy for Spirit Stones and use them to open a passage between Earth and the cultivation world.

• Su Mu’s parents noticed that his father was breathing more easily and had not coughed that night after taking the medicine.
• Su Mu returned to the cultivation world and found the lady gathering literary essence from his calligraphy.
• The lady explained that repeated copies of a calligraphy work gradually lost their righteous Qi and eventually could no longer yield literary essence.
• Su Mu decided to have the lady gather literary essence from more calligraphy so he could earn back the gold he had spent on her.
• Su Mu planned to sell calligraphy for Spirit Stones and use them to form a small passage between Earth and the cultivation world.

Su Mu tried to use the Tao Te Ching to earn the eldest princess’s protection, but the painted maid could not hear him and his attempt to write the text burned the paper. His recitation caused a mysterious star to brighten, drawing the attention of Great Liang’s court and giving the Nine-Tailed Fox a new thread of hope.

• Su Mu weighed the risks of producing more Righteous Qi calligraphy and decided to seek the eldest princess’s protection by offering her something valuable.
• Su Mu recited the opening of the Tao Te Ching, but the painted maid could not hear it, so he sent her back into the painting.
• Su Mu tried writing the Tao Te Ching in private, but the paper burst into flames as soon as the characters appeared.
• A dim star brightened in the night sky, and the State Preceptor found that its appearance had slightly strengthened Great Liang’s National Fortune.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox divined that a thread of hope had appeared for her Heavenly Tribulation, with the turning point still expected on her birthday.

Su Mu continued learning to read and write the Tao Te Ching, then brewed medicine for his parents before returning to the cultivation world to propose sharing profits from his calligraphy with the eldest princess. She rejected the offer, leaving Su Mu to realize his earnings were insignificant to her.

• Su Mu asked the painted lady to keep teaching him, learned her name was Xiao Lian, and practiced writing before returning to Earth.
• Su Mu brewed medicine for his father and persuaded his mother to drink some too; his father said the medicine had stopped his coughing and helped him sleep.
• After his parents left for the mountain, Su Mu returned to the cultivation world and met Xiao Wu in the courtyard.
• Su Mu asked Xiao Wu to have the eldest princess assign people to help with his calligraphy business in exchange for a share of the profits.
• The eldest princess declared she had no interest in his earnings, and Xiao Wu explained that even many calligraphy works would bring only pocket money to the princess.

Su Mu learned that his six-inch calligraphy was worth thirteen thousand Spirit Stones and produced another six-inch piece with Xiao Lian’s help. The eldest princess bought it, gave him a Storage Bag containing ten thousand Spirit Stones, and warned him that others would seek him out.

• Xiao Wu explained that Su Mu’s first six-inch calligraphy was worth about thirteen thousand Spirit Stones and could attract greedy cultivators.
• Su Mu asked Xiao Lian to help him compose another piece of calligraphy, and she wrote it as Righteous Qi gathered.
• Xiao Wu and Xiao Lian confirmed that Su Mu had produced another six-inch piece, leaving both astonished.
• The eldest princess offered Su Mu thirteen thousand Spirit Stones for the calligraphy, and he accepted.
• The eldest princess gave Su Mu a Storage Bag with ten thousand Spirit Stones inside and warned him to be careful when going out.
• Su Mu stored his Spirit Stones and gold in the Storage Bag while Xiao Wu and Xiao Lian wondered at his ability.

Su Mu learned that his repeated six-inch calligraphy treasures had attracted attention and continued producing secondary copies while hearing about the dangers of the Ten-Thousand-Li Withered Bones Wasteland. The chapter ended when the Eldest Princess admitted a visitor from Green Hollow to her residence.

• Xiao Wu explained that Core Formation Cultivators might seek to befriend Su Mu for his calligraphy treasures, while scholars from the Academy of Righteousness disliked Yin souls.
• Su Mu asked Xiao Lian and Xiao Wu to keep writing secondary copies, then learned they were disposable wards against minor demons and ghosts.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mu that Great Liang stored the copies to defend against ghosts from the Ten-Thousand-Li Withered Bones Wasteland and warned him not to go there.
• Su Mu considered the Spirit Stone he was holding and regretted that Earth had none.
• A maid reported that someone from Green Hollow wanted to see the Eldest Princess, and she ordered the visitor admitted.

The Eldest Princess considered the Nine-Tailed Fox’s invitation for Su Mu and demanded Immaculate Lotus as payment, while explaining why the fox’s survival would benefit Great Liang. Back on Earth, Su Mu cared for his parents until his father’s hospital tests showed that his previous illnesses had cleared up.

• A tiger demon asked the Eldest Princess to invite Su Mu to the Nine-Tailed Fox’s birthday banquet, and she requested Immaculate Lotus in return.
• The Eldest Princess told her maid that helping the Nine-Tailed Fox survive would keep Green Hollow’s lesser demons in check, then sent a bamboo slip to her imperial father.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, prepared medicine for his parents, and arranged for several household appliances to be replaced.
• Su Mu declined the cultivation group’s request to teach them, then continued brewing medicine for his parents and studying with Xiao Lian.
• Su Mu took his father to the hospital after the medicine ran out, and the test results showed that his father’s previous conditions had cleared up.

Su Mu learned that he had to attend the Demon King’s birthday banquet and that the eldest princess had obtained an Immaculate Lotus to help him form a body. He went with Xiao Wu to the Ten Thousand Books Pavilion to buy books, leaving the palace to search for basic medicinal formulas.

• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, where Xiao Wu told him the Demon King had invited him to her birthday banquet in three days.
• Xiao Wu explained that the eldest princess had accepted the invitation and reassured Su Mu that she would ensure he returned unharmed.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mu that the eldest princess had obtained an Immaculate Lotus to help him form a physical body.
• Su Mu took Xiao Wu to the Ten Thousand Books Pavilion, leaving Xiao Lian behind to gather literary works.
• Su Mu bought books about Dragon Veins and astrology, then searched the medicine refining section for basic medicinal formulas.

After Su Mu produced a second calligraphic treasure within a month, scholars and influential figures flocked to meet him and seek his works. Xiao Wu helped him fend them off, and Su Mu returned to the courtyard to read, wary that more calligraphic treasures could attract danger.

• Li Sheng of the Academy of Righteousness visited Su Mu, acknowledged his literary talent, and then left.
• Scholars and other visitors crowded around Su Mu, so he told them his calligraphic treasures would be sold through the eldest princess.
• At the palace gate, a court official and an armored man approached Su Mu, but Xiao Wu sent them to ask the eldest princess instead.
• Xiao Wu explained that Su Mu's second six-inch calligraphic treasure made people think he could produce another, and said the eldest princess had kept most cultivators away.
• Su Mu returned to the courtyard, settled down to read his new books, and had Xiao Lian hold the book and help explain difficult passages.

Su Mu learned how Great Liang's declining National Fortune benefited great demons and decided to investigate Huaxia's Dragon Veins to restore its Spiritual Power. After bidding farewell to the Eldest Princess, he departed for the demon king's birthday banquet under a tiger demon's escort.

• Su Mu read that great demons could seize National Fortune as it declined, improving their cultivation and chances of passing tribulations, and wondered why the demon king had invited him.
• Back on Earth, Su Mu concluded that Huaxia's Dragon Veins might be causing its thin Spiritual Power and decided to investigate and nourish them.
• When Su Mu returned to the cultivation world, Xiao Wu told him that his escort had arrived and took him to bid farewell to the Eldest Princess.
• The Eldest Princess told Su Mu to invoke her name if he encountered danger, reassuring him that the journey was not meant to be fatal.
• At the palace gates, Su Mu met the burly escort, entered a sedan chair, and set off for the demon king's birthday banquet.

Su Mu traveled with Yu Shan toward the demon king’s birthday banquet, then returned to Earth to search for Dragon Veins and improve his cultivation. He found that the first Dragon Vein on his map was already ruined, leaving him to continue his search.

• Su Mu learned that his companion was Yu Shan and that their journey to the demon king’s lair would take about ten days.
• Yu Shan described the banquet’s rare delicacies, reminding Su Mu that his soul body could not eat, so Su Mu returned to Earth and went to a barbecue restaurant.
• After eating, Su Mu set out to clear Dragon Vein blockages because strengthening his cultivation could help protect his life if his soul body were destroyed.
• Su Mu entered the mountains and used Spiritual Power to search for the Dragon Vein marked on his map.
• Su Mu consulted his notes and confirmed that the Dragon Vein was ruined and had become a Dead Dragon.

Su Mu awakened the Dragon Vein beneath a ruined dragon lair and guided it to turn over, causing the surrounding mountain ridge to shift. Officials recorded the event, confirmed it with satellite maps, and classified the footage as S-class.

• Su Mu found that ruined Dragon Veins could be gathered to nurture a main Dragon Vein.
• Su Mu offered incense at the dragon lair and used Dragon-Treading Footwork to awaken the Dragon Vein's spirituality.
• Su Mu completed nine steps and began guiding the Dragon Vein, which protected him as the mountain ridge moved.
• Earthquake bureau staff detected the surface tremors and flew by helicopter to investigate, recording the shifting mountains.
• Su Mu left before the helicopter crew reached the altar-like site.
• Officials compared the footage with satellite maps and placed the recording in the S-class classified archives.

After the authorities investigated the Dragon Vein’s tremors, Su Mu left the area and returned to the cultivation world, where he obtained a method to hide from mortals. He joined Yu Shan at a cold pool to fish for Spirit Frost Fish as other anglers gathered beneath the full moon.

• Su Mu feared the authorities would trace him after the Dragon Vein’s tremors, so he took a roundabout route to a county town and checked into a hotel.
• Back in the cultivation world, Su Mu asked Yu Shan for a method to conceal himself from mortals, and Yu Shan gave him a Jade Slip in exchange for gold.
• Yu Shan explained that the invisibility method also lowered body temperature, and Su Mu studied it on their way to a large cold pool.
• Yu Shan struggled to catch Spirit Frost Fish and handed his fishing rod to Su Mu, who admitted he had never fished before.
• Several cultivators arrived to fish beneath the full moon, and Yu Shan told Su Mu that the fish were valuable, delicious, and especially beneficial to infants.

Su Mu discovered he could catch Spirit Frost Fish with ease and kept fishing for Yu Shan, who promised to let him keep the catch. After Yu Shan scared off would-be robbers by invoking the eldest princess of Great Liang, he suggested Su Mu try catching a Koi.

• Yu Shan gave Su Mu his fishing rod, and Su Mu caught a Spirit Frost Fish on his first awkward cast.
• Yu Shan urged Su Mu to keep fishing and offered ten Spirit Stones for each fish, but Su Mu demanded to keep the catch and the seasonings instead.
• Su Mu caught more than a dozen Spirit Frost Fish, and Yu Shan froze them and gave him some seasonings and spirit fruit to store.
• Several men demanded Su Mu's next catch, but Yu Shan said Su Mu belonged to the eldest princess of Great Liang, and the men fled.
• Yu Shan told Su Mu that Koi could bring good fortune and suggested he try catching one.

Su Mu mastered the Invisibility Art and used it to secretly awaken Dragon Veins across Huaxia, evading the Security Bureau’s searches. The bureau learned that the shifting mountain ranges were Dragon Veins that feng shui masters believed had come alive.

• Yu Shan told Su Mu that koi could sometimes be caught in the Qin River, and the two fished through the night, catching around a hundred Spirit Frost Fish.
• Su Mu practiced the Invisibility Art on Earth, confirmed that people and mirrors could not see him, and used it to evade surveillance cameras.
• Su Mu awakened another Dragon Vein, but a helicopter arrived with a search team, so he concealed himself and escaped.
• Su Mu continued clearing and nurturing Dragon Veins while the Security Bureau struggled to find the person causing the mountain shifts.
• A report informed the Security Bureau that the affected mountains were Dragon Veins, and feng shui masters believed the veins had come alive.

The Security Bureau learned that the person moving Dragon Veins might act near Xiaoshan and prepared an ambush, while Su Mu traveled with Yu Shan to the demon king’s territory for the king’s birthday banquet. Su Mu arrived at the bustling gathering, received his accommodations and a jade token, and began his stay among the gathered cultivators.

• The Security Bureau team leader ordered his people to set up an ambush around Xiaoshan after learning that the Dragon Veins might be moved there next.
• Su Mu returned to the cultivation world and traveled with Yu Shan toward the demon king’s territory.
• Yu Shan led Su Mu through a peach grove formation to a crowded street where cultivators traded treasures before the king’s birthday banquet.
• Yu Shan left to browse the stalls, and Su Mu gave his name to the women arranging guests’ accommodations.
• A maid led Su Mu to a prepared room and gave him a jade token that would warn him away from places he could not enter and summon assistance if tapped twice.