Recaps

Su Mu played Go against AlphaGo while competing with an unseen opponent in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and AlphaGo resigned in both games. As officials learned about Su Mu and agreed to support him, he grew impatient to reach the palace before someone else claimed its treasures.

• Su Mu accepted Zhou Jianhua's request and began a Go game against AlphaGo, relaying each move between the computer and the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Zhou Jianhua and other high-ranking officials reviewed Su Mu's background and agreed to meet his requests and help him avoid hardship.
• Su Mu beat AlphaGo in the first game, leaving the American employees shocked when he sent a question mark in the chat.
• Su Mu began a second game while cultivators gathered in the Immortal Cultivation Realm to watch his match against an unseen opponent.
• After nearly forty minutes, AlphaGo resigned again, and Su Mu worried that others would reach the palace and take its treasures first.

Su Mu had Alpha upgrade and adapt after losing three games, while he continued playing against the Go opponent in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. He won and secured permission to bring the eldest princess and Gu Yu inside, leaving the surrounding cultivators astonished.

• The white people ordered Alpha's system upgraded after Su Mu defeated it, and the upgraded Alpha played a much closer game against him.
• The eldest princess and Gu Yu rested and considered how to counter their opponent after their exhausting games.
• Gu Yu and the eldest princess noticed Su Mu playing and realized he appeared to have a winning position.
• Su Mu placed his final stone, and the board disappeared as the aged voice announced that the victor could enter.
• Su Mu asked to bring the eldest princess and Gu Yu inside, received permission, and beckoned them over as Old Monster Pang and the others stared in disbelief.

Su Mu explored the ancient palace with the eldest princess and Gu Yu, collecting Trees of Pure Spirit and meditation cushions before they began trying to break into the Pill-Refining Pavilion. He returned to Earth, conceded the computer match, and left the Security Bureau after exchanging contact information with Zhou Jianhua.

• Su Mu entered the palace with Gu Yu and the eldest princess, who noticed the dense Spiritual Power and explained the Trees of Pure Spirit and the Qi of the Five Turbidities and Five Purities.
• Su Mu collected the Trees of Pure Spirit and several meditation cushions, then followed the eldest princess and Gu Yu to search for the Pill-Refining Pavilion.
• The eldest princess and Gu Yu attacked the formation at the Pill-Refining Pavilion while Su Mu returned to Earth.
• Su Mu conceded the computer match, and people on the other side of the ocean celebrated receiving his reply.
• Zhou Jianhua exchanged contact information with Su Mu and escorted him out of the building.

Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu broke into an alchemy pavilion and used jade plaques as keys to search its rooms. They gathered valuable pills, pill furnaces, and pill formulas, then left to seek more valuable loot elsewhere.

• The eldest princess and Gu Yu broke the formation outside the alchemy pavilion, and Su Mu found jade plaques that opened its protected rooms.
• Gu Yu tested the jade plaques and opened a room containing an alchemy chamber, but its low-grade pills had crumbled to powder.
• Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu climbed the pavilion, collecting well-preserved pills and pill furnaces from rooms they could unlock.
• The eldest princess found a Body-Sculpting Pill and said they now had nearly all the materials needed to rebuild a physical body for Su Mu.
• The three collected usable pill formulas and left the pavilion without searching its lower floors, choosing to pursue more valuable treasures.

Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu entered a spirit medicine field after the Jade-Eyed Beast allowed those with a Dao Lotus to pass, leading the two to believe Su Mu possessed one. They gathered rare medicines and treasures, and Gu Yu concluded that Su Mu was the source of the good fortune predicted by her divination.

• Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu encountered a Jade-Eyed Beast with Qilin bloodline, but it opened a passage when it sensed a Dao Lotus.
• The eldest princess and Gu Yu concluded that Su Mu had a Dao Lotus and explained its rarity and cultivation difficulties to him.
• The three entered the spirit fields and began gathering abundant thousand-year-old medicines after the eldest princess spotted snow ginseng.
• Su Mu carefully collected three drops of precious stone spirit dew while the group gathered other rare spirit medicines.
• Gu Yu credited Su Mu with bringing them good fortune, and the group continued deeper toward even rarer and extinct medicines.

Su Mu’s group left the spirit medicine grounds with a valuable haul and entered the battered artifact-refining hall, where Old Monster Pang tried to seize a bronze mirror Su Mu had found. The Eldest Princess and Gu Yu attacked Old Monster Pang, who escaped to the entrance, and the Eldest Princess prepared to continue the fight.

• Su Mu estimated that the group’s spirit medicine haul was worth around ten million Spirit Stones before they headed to the artifact-refining hall.
• Su Mu’s group encountered several great cultivators who had passed the first trial, then hurried to the damaged artifact-refining hall after the Eldest Princess warned that Nascent Soul Cultivators were breaking through.
• Old Monster Pang and the other cultivators followed Su Mu’s group into the hall, hoping to search a place the others had not already looted.
• Su Mu found a broken bronze mirror beneath charred wood, and Old Monster Pang used his power to snatch it from him.
• The Eldest Princess and Gu Yu attacked Old Monster Pang with the Immortal-Locking Silk and Five-Colored Flame, but he escaped to the entrance.
• The Eldest Princess confronted Old Monster Pang and readied the Immortal-Locking Silk for another attack.

Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu drove Old Monster Pang away and searched the ruins, finding rare fallen star ore among the remnants. They left to seek the treasury, but two mysterious passages appeared before them, one leading to death and one to life, and the group faced a test of intellect or divination.

• The eldest princess and Gu Yu forced Old Monster Pang to retreat, and Gu Yu took the bronze mirror Su Mu had found to examine it.
• Su Mu and his companions searched the ruins, found fallen star ore, and left after collecting what they could.
• The eldest princess suggested they search for the treasury before other cultivators entered the ruins.
• Two passages appeared after a cultivator triggered a formation, and the group found a stele declaring that one passage led to death and the other to life.
• Su Mu noticed the test called for divination and teased Gu Yu, whose reaction strengthened Su Mu’s suspicion that Gu Yu was the Demon King.

Su Mu solved the passage trial by asking a Yin-Yang Harrier a question that made either answer point to the wrong passage, then entered with Gu Yu and the eldest princess. There, an old soul revealed that Su Mu possessed an Azure Dao Lotus and had already begun cultivating the orthodox Daoist path.

• Su Mu learned that the Yin-Yang Harriers consisted of one truth-teller and one liar, and that the passages were obscured by a formation.
• Su Mu asked one harrier which passage the other would call the gate of life, then led Gu Yu and the eldest princess through the opposite passage.
• Su Mu and his companions reached a jade platform, where an old soul appeared and said he had been waiting because Su Mu possessed a Dao Lotus.
• The old soul drew an Azure Lotus from Su Mu and explained that orthodox Daoist cultivators cultivated Dao Lotuses, while orthodox Buddhist cultivators cultivated golden Buddha Lotuses.

Su Mu learned that orthodox immortal cultivators were rare and tied to an uncertain great calamity, then entered a sect treasury with Gu Yu and the eldest princess. He collected nearly eighty million Spirit Stones and received a medium spirit spring, while the others searched the remaining treasures.

• Su Mu asked the old Daoist about orthodox immortal cultivators, but the old Daoist remembered little beyond their rarity and their ability to unleash extraordinary strength when enraged.
• The old Daoist offered Su Mu access to the sect treasury to help him prepare for a great calamity, though he admitted he did not know when it would come.
• Su Mu, Gu Yu, and the eldest princess entered the teleportation formation after Gu Yu checked it for danger.
• Su Mu found a vast pile of Spirit Stones and collected nearly eighty million of them while Gu Yu and the eldest princess examined other treasures.
• Gu Yu gave Su Mu a medium spirit spring and said they would not contest the Spirit Stones but would keep most of the other treasures.

Su Mu obtained the ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array instructions but realized he could not use them on Earth without Spirit Stones, so Gu Yu suggested asking a formation master to modify the array. After the group left the treasury, the old Daoist warned Su Mu that a great calamity was approaching before finally dissipating.

• Gu Yu gave Su Mu a Law Treasure garment, and the eldest princess handed him a Jade Slip containing an ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array.
• Su Mu discovered the array required Spirit Stones at both ends, which he did not have on Earth, and Gu Yu suggested asking the eldest princess to find a formation master to modify it.
• Su Mu, Gu Yu, and the eldest princess finished collecting the treasures and returned to the platform, where Su Mu found no other cultivators.
• The old Daoist explained that cultivators who entered were sent to different places to protect orthodox cultivators from being hunted, then warned Su Mu that a great calamity was near and dissipated.

Su Mu, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu left the palace and set off to search for more treasures. Elsewhere, Old Monster Pang teleported into a chamber, where a mysterious prisoner killed him and escaped.

• The eldest princess led Su Mu and Gu Yu away from the palace after they heard other cultivators fighting the Jade-Eyed Beast.
• The eldest princess carried Su Mu toward a distant flash of spiritual light to hunt for more treasures.
• Old Monster Pang used a damaged Jade Slip to find a Teleportation Array in an ancient palace and teleported away from the others.
• Old Monster Pang discovered a chained figure and tried to escape, but the figure’s profound yin iron chains pierced his body and captured his Nascent Soul.
• The mysterious man swallowed Old Monster Pang’s Nascent Soul, searched his storage ring, and learned that someone had tried to rescue him from the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The man left through the Teleportation Array, taking the chains he had refined with him.

After discovering that Su Mu’s group had taken nearly all the spirit medicine, the cultivators tried to hunt them down but were ambushed by a terrifying man. Meanwhile, Gu Yu’s divination gave Su Mu and the eldest princess a blood-red omen of catastrophic danger, leaving them rushing to escape the ruin.

• The cultivators found the spirit medicine fields mostly stripped bare and blamed Su Mu, Gu Yu, and the eldest princess for taking the herbs.
• Three great cultivators allied with the others and set out to confront Su Mu’s group, but chains suddenly skewered and bound many of them at the palace gates.
• A young man used inscribed, flame-covered chains to capture the fleeing Fellow Daoist Zhong and Fellow Daoist Qian, terrifying the surviving cultivators.
• Su Mu celebrated collecting spirit medicine and wild spirit rice, which he planned to use for crossbreeding after returning to Earth.
• At the eldest princess’s request, Gu Yu divined their next path and saw the tortoise shell’s inscriptions turn blood-red.
• The eldest princess urged Su Mu and Gu Yu to leave the ruin immediately because the divination foretold terrible danger.

Ancestor Wuwang, a cultivator freed from long imprisonment, slaughtered Gu Qingyun and pursued Su Mu, Gu Yu, and the Eldest Princess. He overwhelmed Gu Yu and the Eldest Princess, then prepared to kill Su Mu and take the other two as cultivation furnaces.

• Ancestor Wuwang revealed his name to Gu Qingyun, killed him, and sensed two Nascent Soul Cultivators fleeing nearby.
• Su Mu, Gu Yu, and the Eldest Princess noticed the other cultivators had vanished, but Ancestor Wuwang appeared before them.
• Ancestor Wuwang identified the Eldest Princess and Gu Yu as suitable cultivation furnaces and declared his intent to use them to restore his strength.
• The Eldest Princess and Gu Yu attacked Ancestor Wuwang with their Law Treasures, but he broke their techniques and turned the Eldest Princess's lightning against them.
• Ancestor Wuwang said he would kill Su Mu and take the Eldest Princess and Gu Yu with him, leaving all three unable to escape.

Su Mu used the Azure Lotus to bluff Ancestor Wuwang into withdrawing, but when the ancestor realized Su Mu could not control it, he attacked again. Su Mu tore off a lotus petal and destroyed Ancestor Wuwang, leaving himself, the eldest princess, and Gu Yu safe.

• Su Mu revealed the Azure Lotus, frightening Ancestor Wuwang into backing away and agreeing to let them leave if the eldest princess and Gu Yu stayed behind.
• Su Mu refused to abandon the two women, but Ancestor Wuwang realized Su Mu did not know how to use the lotus and threatened to imprison and refine him.
• As Ancestor Wuwang sent his chains toward Su Mu, Su Mu managed to tear a petal from the Azure Lotus and throw it.
• The petal erased Ancestor Wuwang's chains and then destroyed him completely, while Su Mu and the two women survived.

Su Mu and the Eldest Princess destroyed Ancestor Wuwang’s body and remnant soul, but Su Mu remained suspicious that the ancestor had survived. The three returned to the area later to flush him out, found no sign of him, and left again.

• Su Mu used a petal from the lotus to suppress Ancestor Wuwang, then asked Gu Yu and his companion to scour the area with Law Techniques.
• Ancestor Wuwang revealed himself as a remnant soul when Su Mu tried to tear off another lotus petal, and protested that doing so harmed Su Mu’s Dao foundation.
• Su Mu urged the Eldest Princess and her companion to attack, and the Eldest Princess’s lightning-charged sword destroyed Ancestor Wuwang’s remnant soul.
• The Eldest Princess and her companion searched the area with Divine Sense, found no trace of Ancestor Wuwang, and left with Su Mu.
• Su Mu returned with the other two at sunset and called for Ancestor Wuwang to come out, but when nothing appeared, they departed again.

As the High Antiquity ruins neared closing, Su Mu kept testing the place where Ancestor Wuwang had fallen before finally leaving with the eldest princess and Gu Yu. Ancestor Wuwang survived and escaped after they departed, while Su Mu returned to the imperial capital and began seeking a way to restore the missing Dao Lotus petal.

• Su Mu used an illusion conjured by the eldest princess to test the area where Ancestor Wuwang had fallen, then left the ruins with her and Gu Yu.
• After the three departed, Ancestor Wuwang emerged as a remnant soul and fled the ruins, shaken by Su Mu's repeated tests.
• The eldest princess piloted the group safely back to the imperial capital and promised to refine a body for Su Mu and help find an array master.
• Su Mu summoned the Dao Lotus in the courtyard and worried over its missing petal, but he and Gu Yu knew of no way to restore it.
• Gu Yu suggested searching ancient texts from High Antiquity for a method to repair the Dao Lotus.

Su Mu arranged to modify a teleportation array so it could use electricity, then returned to Earth and agreed to revive the remaining Dragon Veins. A Security Bureau agent explained that accidents outside the Dragon Veins’ reach had prompted the urgent request.

• Su Mu asked an array master to modify the teleportation array to activate with stable lightning power, and the master took the Jade Slip to make the changes.
• Su Mu asked Xiao Wu to collect spirit rice plants from different places for research, then returned to Earth to rest.
• Su Mu showered, threw out his rubbish, and went to a barbecue restaurant, where a Security Bureau agent approached him.
• The agent asked when Su Mu could revive the remaining Dragon Veins, and Su Mu agreed to start the next day.
• The agent explained that the Dragon Veins had prevented serious harm in southern accidents, but a more distant accident near the northwest had shown the limits of their protection.

Su Mu revived the final Dragon Vein, completing the revival of Huaxia’s Dragon Veins and seeing the weakened golden dragon that emerged. He then met Zhou Jianhua to collect his service fees and warned that his next request could cause major blackouts across several provinces.

• Su Mu traveled around Huaxia reviving Dragon Veins, with the Security Bureau supplying materials and arranging helicopter rides.
• Xiao Wu bought spirit rice plants and a small spirit spring in the Immortal Cultivation Realm for an experiment.
• Su Mu revived the last Dragon Vein, causing Huaxia’s mountains and terrain to stir as the golden dragon fully revived.
• Su Mu saw the weakened golden dragon and promised to rebuild it once the necessary supplies arrived.
• Su Mu met Zhou Jianhua, asked for his service fees, and warned that his next request might require diverting electricity from several provinces.

Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua to help supply the power needed to open a Teleportation Array and bring treasures from another world. After Zhou reported the risks and benefits, senior officials debated whether Huaxia should approve the attempt, including the possibility of gaining control of the Array.

• Su Mu explained that the modified formation could open a Teleportation Array but might require an enormous amount of electricity.
• Zhou Jianhua placed the area under a level-one alert and questioned Su Mu about the Array’s purpose, risks, and the people on the other side.
• Su Mu said the treasures could nourish Huaxia’s Dragon Vein and support research, and assured Zhou that no one would come through.
• Zhou Jianhua left to report the matter, prompting senior officials to convene a secret meeting.
• The officials debated whether to trust Su Mu and considered the potential benefits of controlling the Teleportation Array.

Su Mu secured the higher-ups’ approval for a teleportation array project and agreed on a five-day setup period with Zhou Jianhua. After receiving ten million in payment, he celebrated with Wang Peng, whose idea for spending a fortune gave Su Mu a laugh.

• Zhou Jianhua told Su Mu that the higher-ups had approved the collaboration, and Su Mu gave him the wiring requirements while explaining that he would install the Spiritual Power guide himself.
• Zhou Jianhua estimated that the equipment and site would be ready in five days, and Su Mu agreed to use the time to consult the array master.
• Zhou Jianhua told Su Mu that ten million had been approved as payment, and Su Mu left the Security Bureau after accepting it.
• Su Mu received the ten-million transfer while eating, then dismissed a bank employee’s inquiry after she checked who had sent the money.
• Su Mu invited Wang Peng to dinner, and Wang Peng said he would hold a press conference if he ever made ten million.

Su Mu learned how to set up the teleportation formations while Huaxia prepared for a blackout across five provinces by forming emergency response teams. A newly powerful catfish spirit also entered a tributary of the Qin River, driving away the local river demons.

• Huaxia announced that five provinces would experience a large-scale blackout on November 9 and urged residents and organizations to prepare.
• Authorities established an emergency response team and directed local agencies to coordinate preparations, while emergency teams appeared across the affected areas.
• Su Mu listened to a formation master explain how to set up and test the teleportation formations, then began practicing the setup himself.
• A powerful catfish spirit charged into a tributary of the Qin River, frightening the nearby river monsters and demons into fleeing.
• The author defended Su Mu’s ten-million service fee by comparing it with ordinary salaries and the earnings of important researchers.

The catfish spirit, now a Core Formation greater demon, brought lesser demons to retrieve thousand-year spirit milk as a gift for Su Mu. After testing and dismantling his teleportation arrays, Su Mu asked Gu Yu to guard him when he built the array connecting the Immortal Cultivation Realm to Earth, and the catfish spirit arrived to offer its treasure.

• The catfish spirit found the lesser demons who knew where thousand-year spirit milk could be found and persuaded them to lead the way, promising they might gain a chance to survive their tribulations.
• Su Mu tested both teleportation arrays by sending a stone between them, then collected their Spirit Stones and dismantled them.
• Su Mu asked Gu Yu to help guard him in a few days while he built the teleportation array connecting the Immortal Cultivation Realm to Earth, and Gu Yu agreed without asking why.
• A maid told Su Mu that a catfish spirit was requesting an audience to offer him a treasure, and Su Mu agreed to receive it.
• The catfish spirit arrived with several river demons, and Gu Yu recognized that it had survived its tribulation and realized it had truly understood Su Mu’s guidance.

The catfish spirit thanked Su Mu for helping him survive his Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation by offering thousand-year spirit milk, and Su Mu’s offhand remark sent a carp spirit searching for a Dragon Gate. The other demons left hoping to find more treasures to offer, while Gu Yu continued wondering what Su Mu’s words meant.

• The catfish spirit gave Su Mu thousand-year spirit milk in gratitude for surviving his Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation after receiving Su Mu’s earlier guidance.
• When a carp spirit asked Su Mu for guidance, Su Mu casually told him to look for the Dragon Gate and leap over it.
• The carp spirit took Su Mu’s attempt to retract his words as a hidden instruction, declared that he had comprehended, and hurried away to find the Dragon Gate.
• Su Mu told the remaining demons to leave, and Gu Yu drove them out with a trace of his presence.
• Outside the imperial palace, the demons complained that only the carp spirit had received enlightenment, and the catfish spirit urged them to bring Su Mu more treasures.

Su Mu stored the thousand-year spirit milk and rejected Gu Yu’s request for guidance on the Demon King’s coming tribulation, telling her to find her own chance at survival. Back on Earth, he reviewed blackout preparations and inspected the teleportation array site to ensure everything was ready.

• Su Mu learned from Gu Yu that the thousand-year spirit milk should be dissolved in clear water and used while sitting in it, preferably with a spirit spring, then stored it with his other supplies.
• Gu Yu asked Su Mu for hints to help the Demon King survive Tribulation Transcendence, explaining that divination had placed the chance of survival with him.
• Su Mu told Gu Yu to find the chance herself, and she misunderstood his words as meaning he could not explain the answer directly.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, checked the teleportation array preparations, and read about emergency plans for the coming blackout.
• Su Mu reviewed measures including designated routes for special-purpose vehicles and requests for nonessential institutions to close, then inspected the array site for errors.

Su Mu activated the teleportation formation on Earth as the planned power outage began across several provinces. The formation started glowing, while people stayed calm and lit the darkened cities with car headlights.

• Su Mu finished building a concealed teleportation formation in the Immortal Cultivation Realm with Gu Yu observing.
• Authorities organized a large-scale power outage, and residents went home peacefully as foreign reporters watched.
• At six, Zhou Jianhua gave the signal, and Su Mu activated the formation's core with his Spiritual Power.
• Workers supplied electricity to the formation, which began to glow blue-white as the surrounding provinces lost power.
• Residents stayed calm and sang and danced, while car owners illuminated the streets with their headlights.