Recaps

Su Mu browsed the cultivators’ stalls but decided not to risk spending his Spirit Stones on goods he could not appraise. He then joined a gathering where demons complained about the difficulty of transcending tribulations, and a thunderclap from the Heavenly Dao left him chastened after he joined their complaints.

• Su Mu browsed the stalls, saw an expensive spiritual spring he could not afford, and decided not to buy anything because he could not distinguish genuine goods from fakes.
• Su Mu found cultivators and demons gathered by the river to discuss plant spirits and the Demon Race’s difficulty in transcending tribulations.
• A sharp-faced man asked how demons could weaken the Heavenly Tribulation, and the demons protested that humans had more ways to survive it.
• A thunderclap startled the demons, who feared the Heavenly Dao had sensed their complaints; many reverted to their original forms.
• Su Mu complained about the Heavenly Dao, and a cultivator angrily warned him to be silent and fear a Heavenly Tribulation.

Su Mu’s words about the Great Dao and its thread of hope convinced the Demon King that he was the key to surviving her tribulation. She welcomed him as an honored guest and left him in the care of her maids.

• The Heavenly Dao struck the old Daoist with lightning after he mocked its unfairness, and the Demon King appeared and slapped him underground for threatening Su Mu.
• The Demon King asked Su Mu about the demons’ difficult tribulations, and he said the Great Dao left a thread of hope for survival.
• Lightning dispersed as an azure lotus blossomed within Su Mu’s soul, and the Demon King recognized him as the hope revealed by her divination.
• The old Daoist crawled out and praised Su Mu’s words, but the Demon King slapped him underground again and ordered her maids to attend to Su Mu.

Su Mu was escorted to the Demon King's banquet, where he tried to avoid attention and secretly stored the food for later. When the Demon King arrived and guests presented congratulatory gifts, he realized he had brought nothing and did not know what he could offer.

• The Demon King's maids insisted on accompanying Su Mu, while the demons asked him to explain how to find a chance of surviving the heavenly tribulation.
• Su Mu said the workings of fate could not be sought or spoken of, then went with a maid to lodgings the Demon King had arranged for him.
• When the banquet was about to begin, a maid led Su Mu to the palace, where guests were seated according to their status.
• Su Mu tried to sit in a corner, but the maid guided him to a prominent place in the main hall.
• As the maids served unfamiliar dishes, Su Mu quietly stored them away for a time when he had a body.
• The Demon King arrived, and the guests presented congratulatory gifts, leaving Su Mu stunned that he had prepared nothing.

Su Mu presented the Demon King with a flattering piece of calligraphy at her birthday banquet, prompting her to unveil her face and praise him. After the banquet, she summoned him privately to discuss the matter the eldest princess had mentioned, leaving Su Mu apprehensive and unsure what would happen next.

• When his turn came to offer a congratulatory gift, Su Mu wrote the Demon King a couplet praising the mortal world's flourishing beauty.
• The Demon King delighted in the calligraphy, removed her veil, and revealed her breathtaking face to the assembled cultivators.
• Su Mu poured out his wine as an offering to the dead, then secretly stored away the dishes brought to him while the banquet continued.
• After the banquet ended, a maid told Su Mu that the Demon King wished to see him, and he followed her through a corridor.
• The Demon King met Su Mu alone and said she had summoned him for the matter he already knew about; Su Mu acknowledged it, still bewildered.

After leaving Green Hollow, Su Mu traveled with Gu Yu and several lesser demons. They met a water ghost named He by a river, and the catfish demon praised Su Mu as someone who might have advised He before his death.

• The Demon King played Go with Su Mu, then let him leave while wondering how he could help her survive the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Su Mu returned to Earth for food, then came back and received the Demon King's permission to depart.
• Gu Yu escorted Su Mu from Green Hollow, joined by lesser demons hoping to hear more of Su Mu's advice.
• The group walked toward a river, where the catfish demon called for his friend, a water ghost named He.
• The catfish demon introduced Su Mu to He and praised his understanding, leading He to lament that he had not met Su Mu sooner.

Su Mu accidentally inspired a water ghost surnamed He to save a drowning person, earning the ghost a chance to become an underworld officer. The others misread the coincidence as a secret lesson about fated opportunity, leaving another water ghost furious after his own rescue attempt failed.

• Su Mu offered to catch fish, then released the small fish he caught, confusing the cultivators and prompting the water ghost surnamed He to bow in gratitude.
• The water ghost surnamed He hurried into the river to rescue someone and returned dry, radiant, and transformed.
• The water ghost surnamed He explained that saving a life had earned him credit with the City God, who had summoned him to become an underworld officer.
• Another water ghost heard the explanation, tried rescuing someone, and returned still a water ghost, angrily demanding to know why he had failed.
• The catfish spirit claimed that hearing the lesson directly had spoiled the other ghost's fated opportunity, and the group accepted his explanation while Su Mu remained bewildered.

Su Mu’s accidental guidance convinced the demons that his actions held secret meaning, while he tried to avoid their questions and resumed his journey with Gu Yu. Back on Earth, the officers waiting at the hill remained unaware that Su Mu had been delayed, and the demons watched him play a board game badly, mistaking his moves for wisdom.

• A water ghost sank back into the river, and the nearby demons concluded that Su Mu could not explain how to find a chance of survival because the guidance would stop working if spoken.
• Su Mu stopped fishing, pretended to contemplate, and returned to Earth to eat and sleep while the demons resolved to study his actions.
• Plainclothes officers continued their stakeout at the hill and decided that Su Mu was probably delayed or resting.
• After breakfast, Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and asked Gu Yu to speed up their trip toward the imperial capital.
• Gu Yu enlarged his painted fan and let Su Mu and the demons ride it, while Su Mu played a board game with him to quiet the demons.
• The demons watched Su Mu miss obvious opportunities in the game and grew anxious, while Su Mu continued playing without noticing.

Su Mu reached Great Liang’s imperial city and bought pancakes for famine victims, unintentionally inspiring a catfish spirit to believe he had learned not to eat people. Gu Yu stayed near Su Mu with the eldest princess’s permission, while the catfish spirit flew away convinced he had found a way to survive his Heavenly Tribulation.

• Su Mu arrived at the imperial city and, moved by the famine victims’ condition, paid a pancake seller to feed them.
• The catfish spirit decided Su Mu’s kindness had taught him not to eat people, thanked Su Mu, and departed to face his Heavenly Tribulation.
• The other little demons suspected Su Mu was displeased that they had learned nothing and scattered to search for treasures to offer him.
• Gu Yu followed Su Mu to the palace grounds, where the eldest princess summoned him and allowed him to stay near Su Mu with restrictions.

Su Mu returned to his courtyard to find that his poetic praise had made him famous among women in the imperial capital, then went back to Earth to revive another Dragon Vein. After he began the revival, the Security Bureau rushed into the mountains to catch him, unaware that he had already avoided their ambush.

• Xiao Wu complained that Su Mu had stayed away, and Xiao Lian teased her about being jealous of the women who admired Su Mu’s poetry.
• Xiao Lian showed Su Mu embroidered handkerchiefs sent by women hoping to meet him, and Su Mu asked her to put them away.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, ate, and went to a mountain to revive its Dragon Vein, unknowingly avoiding a Security Bureau ambush by taking a different route.
• Su Mu located the Dragon Vein by following its Qi field, set up an altar, and began the revival.
• The mountain shook as the Dragon Vein stirred, and the Security Bureau personnel realized their target was already at work and ran into the mountains.

Su Mu evaded Security Bureau personnel who were tracking him and hurried to the Qinling Mountains to connect its living dragon vein with one he had previously revived. As he began, the mountains’ clouds surged in waves before stunned tourists, while the Security Bureau feared he had started tampering with the vein.

• Su Mu turned invisible after overhearing the Security Bureau’s plan to capture him, then learned they had traced his dragon-vein revivals and identified Qinling as his next target.
• Su Mu rushed to the Qinling Mountains, found its dragon vein, and reached out to it with his Spiritual Power.
• The Security Bureau followed Su Mu to Qinling but, unable to locate the dragon vein, called in a helicopter to search the mountains.
• Su Mu rose above the mountain on the dragon vein’s field of presence and connected it to a dragon vein he had previously revived.
• The clouds and mist rolled in waves across the mountains, astonishing tourists and alarming the Security Bureau personnel.

Su Mu connected the Dragon Veins, causing them to realign and revive as clouds and mist spread across the coastal region and torrential rain fell. He explained the event to the Security Bureau before leaving, and the rain left fresh shoots growing nearby.

• Su Mu connected the final Dragon Vein, and the clouds and mist began spreading rapidly as the Dragon Veins’ Spiritual Power revived.
• The Security Bureau ordered tourists off the mountain and sent personnel to find Su Mu while unstable air currents delayed a helicopter.
• Su Mu vanished when the Security Bureau confronted him, then explained that the Dragon Veins were realigning and that the rain carried Spiritual Power to nourish them.
• Su Mu told the team leader he would answer further questions in the future, then left.
• After the rain stopped and the clouds cleared, the Security Bureau personnel saw tender green shoots growing nearby.

After returning to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Su Mu discovered that he could command the Spiritual Qi restored by the Dragon Veins and considered ways to earn Spirit Stones. He left his plan to open a shop undecided and wondered whether he could make money by fishing for Koi.

• Su Mu found that his Spiritual Power had recovered and that he could command the Spiritual Qi around him.
• Gu Yu told Su Mu that the Demon King had ordered him to stay by Su Mu’s side, and Su Mu decided to let him follow.
• Su Mu asked about visiting the Eldest Princess, but Xiao Wu warned that his praise of the Demon King might have offended her.
• Su Mu told Gu Yu he wanted to move out of the palace grounds and open a shop to earn Spirit Stones for rebuilding a body.
• Xiao Wu described profitable businesses, and Su Mu asked about illegitimate ones before joking that he wanted to crack down on them.
• Su Mu decided that earning money through a shop or fishing for Koi might not be reliable.

Su Mu learned that starvation persisted in Great Liang because cultivators were needed to fight demons and ghosts, and he considered bringing high-yield crops from Earth. After returning to Earth, he discovered a powerful typhoon was approaching his coastal city.

• Su Mu asked Xiao Wu why Great Liang had so many starving people, and she explained that cultivators were occupied fighting monsters and the court would provide disaster relief.
• Su Mu considered opening a passage between worlds to bring over high-yield crops and eventually develop hybrid spirit rice.
• Su Mu rejected the invitations piled up at home and spent the day reading while Gu Yu quietly watched him.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, noticed missed calls from Wang Peng and messages from Qingfeng, and arranged to meet Wang Peng for a drink.
• On his way to the restaurant, Su Mu learned from his taxi driver that a typhoon with winds above force ten was approaching and looked up at the darkening sky.

Su Mu met Wang Peng for dinner and learned that Wang Peng had broken up with his girlfriend over the cost of buying an apartment. Su Mu accepted Qingfeng’s request to examine a sick child the day after tomorrow for a fee, then left the restaurant unaware that the cashier had admired him and regretted not asking for his contact information.

• Su Mu declined Qingfeng’s invitation to a dinner gathering, then met Wang Peng at the restaurant.
• Wang Peng said he had broken up with his girlfriend because he could not afford the apartment she wanted, and Su Mu offered to keep him company while he drank.
• Qingfeng called to ask Su Mu to examine a friend’s sick child, and Su Mu agreed to visit the day after tomorrow for compensation.
• Su Mu paid the bill, and the cashier texted her friend that he was handsome and regretted not asking for his contact information.

Su Mu learned that ruins from High Antiquity were about to open, but Gu Yu warned him that entering them would be too dangerous for him. The eldest princess then asked Gu Yu to join her in exploring the ruins, leaving him to consider her offer.

• Su Mu agreed to treat Qingfeng's acquaintance, while a powerful typhoon approached Huaxia's coast and prompted emergency preparations.
• Su Mu cultivated in the park, then went online and asked Xiao Wu to accompany him on an outing; when she could not, Gu Yu went with him.
• Gu Yu sensed that the imperial city was unsettled and explained that cultivators had gathered for the opening of ruins from High Antiquity.
• Su Mu heard that the ruins held valuable treasures but gave up on entering after Gu Yu warned him about the danger.
• The eldest princess invited Gu Yu to explore the valley ruins with her, and Gu Yu questioned why she had chosen him and whether she trusted him.

Gu Yu divined great fortune for the expedition into the ruins of High Antiquity and insisted that Su Mu join, earning Su Mu a twenty-percent share of the gains. Meanwhile, an enormous cyclone headed toward the coast of Huaxia on Earth, leaving disaster preparations underway.

• Gu Yu performed a divination and determined that the auspicious position lay due south, where Su Mu was standing.
• The eldest princess and Gu Yu argued over how to divide the expedition's gains, and Su Mu asked for a share.
• Gu Yu secured Su Mu twenty percent of the gains, while he and the eldest princess each took forty percent.
• Su Mu wondered whether Gu Yu had a hidden motive and worried about whether he would be useful in the ruins.
• An enormous cyclone approached Huaxia, disrupting transport and prompting disaster preparations.

The dragon veins across Huaxia joined into a golden dragon and drove a powerful typhoon away from the coast, while Su Mu remained unaware of the full impact. The Security Bureau linked the storm’s sudden change to him, assigned him the codename Penglai, and prepared to make contact as an animated image went viral online.

• Su Mu returned to Earth, saw the red alert, and left the authorities to handle it.
• The dragon veins joined into a golden dragon that struck the typhoon, weakened it, and sent it north away from Huaxia’s coast.
• The meteorological bureau noticed the typhoon’s sudden change and lifted the red alert while keeping transportation suspended.
• Wei Zhonghao received evidence that an external force had struck the typhoon and ordered Su Mu’s classification raised to Penglai.
• The higher-ups instructed Wei Zhonghao to contact Su Mu, maintain goodwill, and accommodate his needs where possible.
• An animated image appeared online in Huaxia and quickly went viral.

After the typhoon abruptly left Huaxia, a birthday-themed animation went viral, and Su Mu wondered whether the Dragon Vein had driven the storm away. In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Gu Yu explained the dangers and uncertain origins of the High Antiquity ruins as Su Mu prepared to visit them with Gu Yu and the eldest princess.

• Huaxia residents celebrated the typhoon’s sudden departure, and an animation showing it fleeing after being told to get lost on the Motherland’s birthday spread across social media.
• Su Mu watched the animation and wondered whether the Dragon Vein had caused the typhoon to turn away, then set the thought aside.
• Su Mu went to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, where Gu Yu told him that cultivators were gathering in the imperial capital to prepare for the High Antiquity ruins.
• Gu Yu explained that the ruins held both valuable treasures and obsolete cultivation methods, while ancient pills could lose their potency or become poisonous.
• Gu Yu described a widely accepted theory that the ruins came from a devastating war, and reassured Su Mu that he and the eldest princess would protect him inside.

Su Mu met Qin Feng and Zhang Hualing for dinner before going to Zhang Hualing’s home to examine his young son, whose strange condition had baffled doctors and spirit mediums. Su Mu sensed something was wrong as soon as he reached the villa, and the chapter ended with him studying the boy’s vacant expression.

• Su Mu met Qin Feng at an upscale restaurant, where Qin Feng introduced him to Zhang Hualing.
• Zhang Hualing asked Su Mu to visit his home and examine his son after dinner.
• Zhang Hualing explained that his son became dazed outside the house and responded sluggishly at home.
• Zhang Hualing’s wife brought their five- or six-year-old son downstairs, and Su Mu focused on the boy’s dull, vacant eyes.

Su Mu investigated the boy’s vacant state, returned with a lead, and brought him back from a strange obstruction in the villa’s study. He explained that the villa’s field had trapped part of the boy’s soul, and the boy was expected to wake shortly.

• Su Mu asked Zhang Hualing for a room and returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm to research the boy’s condition.
• Su Mu touched the boy’s brow, briefly restoring his awareness, and learned that he liked the study on the second floor.
• Su Mu took the boy to the study and instructed him to return to his body when an opening appeared.
• Su Mu sensed and tore open an obstruction in the room, allowing the boy to return to his body before collapsing.
• Su Mu told Zhang Hualing and Qin Feng that the villa’s field had trapped part of the boy’s soul after he was frightened or fell.

After saving Zhang Hualing’s son, Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and joined Gu Yu and the Eldest Princess on their journey to the High Antiquity ruins. The ruins opened, and the trio arrived as cultivators gathered outside, leaving Su Mu among powerful figures and potential opportunities.

• Su Mu accepted Zhang Hualing’s thanks and a bank card containing six hundred thousand yuan after advising him to cut down the backyard trees.
• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, where Gu Yu prepared Law Treasures for the approaching High Antiquity ruins.
• Three days later, Gu Yu led Su Mu to the ruins with the Eldest Princess, who explained that she needed no guards.
• The skiff reached the ruins as the barrier between worlds shattered and revealed a lush, unfamiliar landscape.
• Cultivators recognized the Eldest Princess and speculated about the powerful arrivals, while some wondered why Su Mu was with them.

Su Mu accompanied Xiao Luanji and Gu Yu into the ruins from High Antiquity, where cultivators tested one another’s strength and competed to choose their routes. The trio found an ancient cave abode, and Xiao Luanji shattered its formation to open the way inside.

• Cultivators recognized Su Mu and hoped to befriend him for his calligraphy, while Old Monster Pang probed Xiao Luanji’s strength before leaving.
• Gu Yu explained that the cultivators were arranged by rank and that Old Monster Pang had tested Xiao Luanji because she had only recently entered Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Luanji led the group into the painting, where great cultivators released their pressure and claimed different routes through the ruins.
• Gu Yu and Xiao Luanji gathered spirit medicine as they traveled, giving some to Su Mu and silencing beasts with spiritual attacks.
• The group stopped at a cave abode recorded as belonging to a late Core Formation cultivator, and Xiao Luanji broke its formation with her round fan.

Su Mu, the Eldest Princess, and Gu Yu explored an ancient cultivator’s cave abode, then found Bodhi Fruits guarded by a pangolin Demon Beast. The Eldest Princess obtained heartwood to help protect Su Mu’s soul when his body was reforged, and the group flew toward a distant pillar of light that signaled a newly emerged treasure.

• The Eldest Princess, Gu Yu, and Su Mu entered the cave abode and found a request for a Spirit-Transmuting Immortal Pill, but recovered only a spirit spring and several spirit pills.
• Gu Yu used a compass to lead the group southeast, where he spotted Bodhi Fruits beneath a tree guarded by a huge pangolin Demon Beast.
• Gu Yu negotiated with the pangolin, which gave them four Bodhi Fruits and, after the Eldest Princess asked, a piece of golden heartwood.
• Gu Yu told Su Mu that the Eldest Princess had obtained the heartwood to weaken soul-targeting demonic arts when his body was reforged, and Su Mu thanked her.
• The group collected several thousand-year-old spirit medicines before a pillar of light appeared in the distance, prompting the Eldest Princess to carry Su Mu toward the apparent treasure.

Su Mu and the Eldest Princess reached a palace where an invisible opponent challenged cultivators to Go, but everyone was decisively defeated. Seeking a stronger opponent, Su Mu traveled to Earth and asked Zhou Jianhua to let him play against AlphaGo.

• Su Mu, the Eldest Princess, Gu Yu, and other cultivators arrived at a newly revealed palace and learned that winners of its Go games could enter.
• Gu Yu and the Eldest Princess played against an invisible opponent but suffered crushing defeats as more cultivators gathered outside.
• Su Mu sat down to play, repeatedly logging off to consult a computer opponent on Earth before resigning.
• Su Mu slipped into the Security Bureau on Earth and approached Zhou Jianhua, who recognized him as the person who had revived the Dragon Vein.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua for help and said he needed to play against AlphaGo.

Su Mu met with Zhou Jianhua and explained the dragon veins’ abilities and limitations while asking the country for compensation for reviving them. Once AlphaGo was ready, Su Mu agreed to play it but insisted that nobody enter the room while he played.

• Zhou Jianhua arranged for Su Mu to play AlphaGo online and watched as Su Mu ended his Invisibility Technique and appeared.
• Su Mu told Zhou Jianhua that dragon veins could help prevent disasters and bring rain, but needed energy and had not yet reached northern China.
• Su Mu said he was still searching for a way to nurture dragon veins and would revive the northern ones after finishing his current work.
• Su Mu asked the country to compensate him for reviving dragon veins, and Zhou Jianhua promised to discuss it with higher-ups.
• Zhou Jianhua informed Su Mu that AlphaGo was online, and Su Mu asked to play alone while others watched from outside the room.