Recaps

Su Mu and the engineers poured an unprecedented amount of electricity into the Teleportation Array until it linked with the array in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. After Su Mu retrieved his storage ring, he ordered the power shut off, leaving the array’s future use uncertain.

• Zhou Jianhua and the engineers struggled to supply enough electricity as the Teleportation Array continued absorbing power without activating.
• Zhou Jianhua questioned Su Mu about the immense power costs, and Su Mu explained that he had asked the country for help because he did not know how much electricity the array required.
• After more than a hundred billion kilowatt-hours had been supplied, the Teleportation Array released a pillar of light that illuminated much of Earth and alarmed people across the world.
• Su Mu confirmed the link was established, traveled to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and threw his prepared storage ring into its Teleportation Array.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, retrieved the ring, and ordered the engineers to stop the power supply, causing the pillar of light to fade.

After returning to Earth, Su Mu gave Zhou Jianhua spirit rice plants and a small spirit spring for the country to study, asking for help developing higher-yield spirit rice. The chapter ended with Zhou Jianhua ordering their urgent transport to Azure Dragon Base.

• A chemical defense squad examined and disinfected Su Mu and the Teleportation Array, and Su Mu removed the array's core.
• Su Mu showed Zhou Jianhua a robe from the High Antiquity ruins, while Zhou Jianhua asked him to provide something for the country to study.
• Su Mu gave Zhou Jianhua spirit rice plants and asked him to arrange research into developing higher-yield hybrid spirit rice.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua to provide money or other help if he needed it later, and Zhou Jianhua agreed.
• Su Mu explained that the spirit rice needed water from a small spirit spring and handed both over to Zhou Jianhua.
• Zhou Jianhua ordered a special forces squad to transport the spirit rice and spring to Azure Dragon Base under level-one alert.

Su Mu agreed to help Zhou Jianhua establish a Teleportation Array for a lunar base, offering Spirit Stones and spirit medicine to solve power and health concerns. After Su Mu left, the pillar of light’s footage spread online, stirring excitement at home and alarm among foreign governments.

• Su Mu told Zhou Jianhua he would return to the Qinling Mountains and asked him to reserve land for his cultivation.
• Zhou Jianhua asked Su Mu to teach them how to build a Teleportation Array for a base on the moon, and Su Mu agreed once preparations were complete.
• Su Mu offered Spirit Stones to power the lunar array and spirit medicine to strengthen the people who would use it.
• Su Mu left, while Zhou Jianhua issued orders to secure the area and worried about how to explain the pillar of light.
• Power returned to the affected provinces, and footage of the pillar spread online as people debated its meaning.
• Foreign presidents convened urgent meetings to learn what the country had developed.

Su Mu planted a spirit spring and Trees of Pure Spirit on the Qinling Dragon Vein, then asked the Dragon Vein Spirit to use its power to help purify Huaxia’s polluted air. During a press conference explaining the previous night’s pillar of light, the spokesperson was interrupted by news that dark clouds were spreading across the country.

• Su Mu reached the Dragon Vein and installed a spirit spring, allowing the Dragon Vein Spirit to grow stronger as it absorbed Spiritual Power.
• Su Mu planted the Trees of Pure Spirit and asked the Dragon Vein Spirit to gather polluting gases for them to filter.
• The Dragon Vein Spirit confirmed that it could help and began reshaping the area around the spring and trees.
• Huaxia’s citizens tuned in to a press conference about the pillar of light and the widespread blackouts.
• The spokesperson claimed the pillar of light was a harmless lighting device, but he and the reporters received messages as dark clouds spread across Huaxia.

Dark clouds covered all of Huaxia as the Dragon Vein began using its newly nourished power to repair the country’s environment. Su Mu explained what was happening to Zhou Jianhua, while officials and the public reacted to the unprecedented spectacle.

• Dark clouds and powerful but gentle winds spread across Huaxia, and officials received instructions to continue their work as Zhou Jianhua suspected the Dragon Vein was involved.
• Zhou Jianhua called Su Mu, who had been cultivating, to ask about the clouds covering the country.
• Su Mu saw the Dragon Vein moving through the clouds and learned it was using its power to clean up pollution, restore greenery, and address other environmental problems.
• Su Mu explained the Dragon Vein’s intentions to Zhou Jianhua, who welcomed the news and hurried to report it to the higher-ups.
• Netizens across Huaxia shared reports of the darkened skies, while satellite images at an international press conference showed the whole country blacked out.

At a press conference, Huaxia’s spokesperson claimed the dark clouds were part of a “night mode” experiment connected to the previous night’s pillar of light. After the clouds dispersed, foreign satellites detected that Huaxia’s carbon dioxide levels had fallen almost to zero, alarming officials abroad.

• Reporters questioned Huaxia’s spokesperson about the dark clouds and their possible connection to the pillar of light, and he said Huaxia was setting up a “night mode.”
• A reporter from Sakura Country asked Huaxia to produce the pillar of light for observation, but the spokesperson refused and ended the press conference.
• Strong winds and torrential rain continued across Huaxia for several hours before the dark clouds slowly dispersed.
• Satellite photographs showed little visible change in Huaxia, but carbon-monitoring satellites recorded a drastic drop in its carbon dioxide levels.
• Foreign officials reacted with alarm and suspected Huaxia was using highly advanced technology.

Su Mu returned from the Qinling Mountains to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and learned that Gu Yu’s Heavenly Tribulation was near, leaving him searching for a way to help her survive. He also learned that demons were growing bolder across Great Liang, but chose to focus on Gu Yu’s tribulation.

• Zhou Jianhua reported that the Dragon Vein had driven Huaxia’s carbon dioxide emissions below the satellite’s detection threshold, and his superior stressed the need to build trust with Penglai.
• Su Mu left the Qinling Mountains after the Dragon Vein Spirit plunged into the spirit spring, then asked Zhou Jianhua to build him a furnished house there.
• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, where Gu Yu questioned the Teleportation Array and told him her Heavenly Tribulation was approaching.
• Gu Yu said she planned to try a sacrificial invocation to seek an opening from the Heavenly Dao, while refining a defensive Law Treasure.
• Xiao Lian told Su Mu that demons had become increasingly brazen and were attacking people across Great Liang, but Su Mu decided to focus on helping Gu Yu survive her tribulation.

Gu Yu had no way to survive her approaching Heavenly Tribulation as demons grew more violent, while Ancestor Wuwang secretly encouraged them to attack Great Liang. The carp spirit finally learned that Dragon Gate Mountain was the Dragon Gate it had been seeking.

• Xiao Lian told Gu Yu that demons had become fiercer and were slaughtering villages, and Gu Yu suspected they were testing whether she could intervene before her Heavenly Tribulation.
• The eldest princess asked Gu Yu whether she had found hope of survival, but Gu Yu and Su Mu had no solution, leaving the princess to prepare for the consequences of Gu Yu's death.
• Ancestor Wuwang beguiled a greater demon into devouring commoners to gain strength and steal Great Liang's National Fortune, then sent demons to attack villages.
• The carp spirit searched in vain for the Dragon Gate until it overheard a fisherman describe carp gathering at Dragon Gate Mountain during carp season.
• The carp spirit remembered that it had once tried to leap at Dragon Gate Mountain and realized that the mountain was the place it had been seeking.

Su Mu encouraged Gu Yu to face Righteous Qi, which exposed and destroyed the Heart Demon hidden inside her before she withdrew to recover. After returning to Earth, Su Mu met Wang Peng, who told him how he discovered that his ex-girlfriend had moved on.

• Su Mu discussed having the Fallen Star Ore forged into a flying sword, but learned that Great Liang's artifact refiners were busy.
• Gu Yu prepared to return the bronze mirror, but Su Mu urged her to keep it and encouraged her not to fear the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xiao Wu wrote down Su Mu's words, and their Righteous Qi drove Gu Yu to approach it and confront the Heart Demon inside her.
• Righteous Qi pierced Gu Yu and destroyed the Heart Demon, after which Gu Yu set up a formation to recover.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, replied to Zhou Jianhua about the house construction, and went to meet Wang Peng.
• Wang Peng told Su Mu that he had discovered his ex-girlfriend was seeing another man by checking her Ant Forest activity.

Su Mu showed Wang Peng his sudden wealth and promised to help him earn money, then returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm. There, Gu Yu sensed her Heavenly Tribulation was imminent and left the imperial city with Su Mu, the eldest princess, and trusted demons to prepare for it on a mountain peak.

• Su Mu encouraged Wang Peng after his breakup and showed him a bank transfer confirming his wealth, promising to help him make money.
• Wang Peng was moved by Su Mu's offer and set aside his heartbreak to discuss how he could earn money.
• After returning home, Su Mu swallowed a pill and cultivated through the night, refining its Spiritual Power.
• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and found Gu Yu emerging from the formation, where she said the Heavenly Tribulation was coming.
• Gu Yu asked Su Mu to stand guard, and the eldest princess and trusted demons joined them as they traveled to a mountain peak.
• Gu Yu sat down to prepare for Tribulation Transcendence while the demons guarded the perimeter and Su Mu and the eldest princess watched over her.

Yu Guyue faced a four-nine heavenly tribulation, and its thunder-fire and mind-attacking wind left her badly wounded and unable to defend herself. As purple empyrean divine lightning descended, the eldest princess feared Yu Guyue was doomed.

• Three days later, a four-nine heavenly tribulation gathered over Yu Guyue, and Su Mu and the eldest princess retreated beyond its reach.
• The eldest princess identified the tribulation as a four-nine heavenly tribulation while demons and humans watched from a distance.
• Yu Guyue addressed the heavens, but the Heavenly Dao struck her defensive formation before she could finish speaking.
• Yu Guyue sent her Law Treasures against the tribulation flames, but they disintegrated as the flames scorched her body and Spiritual Power.
• The wind disaster attacked Yu Guyue's mind, forcing her to transform into a wounded white Nine-Tailed Fox and leaving her unable to use Law Techniques.
• Purple empyrean divine lightning gathered above the clouds and struck toward Yu Guyue, prompting the eldest princess to realize the danger.

Su Mu stopped the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning from killing Yu Guyue, then took the entire Heavenly Tribulation into his Dao Lotus and nearly closed all its petals. Yu Guyue survived and offered herself to him, but she mocked him for being unable to act on her offer in his current state.

• Su Mu shouted for the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning to stop, and it halted above Yu Guyue.
• Su Mu agreed to help Yu Guyue undergo Tribulation Transcendence, causing the Heavenly Tribulation to turn toward him.
• The Heavenly Tribulation struck Su Mu's azure Dao Lotus for over half an hour, leaving only one petal open.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, Yu Guyue healed and advanced in cultivation, and the onlookers fled.
• Yu Guyue thanked Su Mu by offering to share his pillow, then teased him that he could not do it in his current state.

Su Mu used the Dao Lotus to help Yu Guyue survive her tribulation, leaving it with only one petal, and returned with her and the eldest princess to the imperial capital. He then went back to Earth, moved into a new villa in the Qinling Mountains, and learned that Huaxia’s environment was improving as foreign officials began investigating the changes.

• Su Mu explained that the Dao Lotus had spent two petals to help Yu Guyue pass her tribulation, and Yu Guyue clarified that she had only reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• The eldest princess took Su Mu and Yu Guyue back to the imperial capital, where Yu Guyue went into seclusion to stabilize her cultivation.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, accepted Zhou Jianhua’s completed villa in the Qinling Mountains, and asked him to arrange fruit tree seeds and planting.
• Reports presented to Zhou Jianhua showed that pollution in Huaxia was falling and the environment was improving.
• A group of foreign officials examined the reports and suspected Huaxia had acquired some kind of black technology.

Foreign leaders sent the Delta squad to investigate the secrets in Huaxia’s Qinling Mountains, while Su Mu absorbed thousand-year spirit milk and continued tending to his mountain. In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Great Liang’s National Fortune stabilized after the Demon King’s successful tribulation, and Yu Guyue challenged the Eldest Princess over making Su Mu a physical body.

• Foreign leaders ordered the Delta squad to infiltrate Huaxia and explore the Qinling Mountains.
• Su Mu soaked in the spirit spring, then asked the Spirit of the Dragon Vein to water the newly planted fruit trees with Spiritual Power.
• Ancestor Wuwang realized the Demon King’s successful Tribulation Transcendence had stabilized Great Liang Kingdom’s National Fortune, so he fled its backlash while the demons in his cave were wiped out.
• The Eldest Princess sensed that the thieves who had stolen from Great Liang were executed and that its National Fortune had stabilized.
• Yu Guyue demanded that the Eldest Princess finish shaping Su Mu’s physical body or hand over the materials, and threatened to make one herself.

Yu Guyue promised Su Mu that his physical body would soon be ready, while the eldest princess fumed over their growing closeness. Su Mu turned away visiting nobles and asked Yu Guyue for cultivation methods and soul-strengthening treasures, but she refused to settle for anything less than the best.

• The eldest princess resented Yu Guyue's closeness with Su Mu and struggled with her decision to create his physical body.
• Yu Guyue told Su Mu his physical body would be ready soon, and he gave fallen star ore to a master artifact refiner to make a flying sword.
• Xiao Wu brought visiting cards from princes and other powerful figures, but Su Mu declined their invitations to avoid Great Liang's court politics.
• Su Mu explained that he wanted to strengthen his soul and asked Yu Guyue about Dao cultivation methods and soul-strengthening treasures.
• Yu Guyue searched for cultivation methods but found them inadequate and insisted that Su Mu would receive only the best.

A carp spirit joined the carp’s attempt to swim up the rain curtain at Dragon Gate Mountain, but heavenly fire struck it down before it reached the summit. The fire transformed it into a dragonfish, while Yu Guyue said the eldest princess’s prepared physical body would be ready within days.

• The carp spirit realized the carp had to swim up the rain curtain and joined their coordinated charge toward Dragon Gate Mountain.
• The carp spirit conserved its strength as the school’s leaders took turns clearing the way, and it surged ahead as the others fell back.
• Heavenly fire scorched the carp spirit and forced it to fall, but its body and Demon Power changed as it became a dragonfish.
• Yu Guyue said the eldest princess expected the physical body to be finished within days, after which they would merge the carp spirit into it.

Su Mu learned that he would soon receive a physical body and continued preparing to merge with it while rumors spread about his ability to aid tribulation survivors. A cultivator named Brother Fu headed for Great Liang to seek Su Mu’s help with perfect foundation establishment, while Su Mu remained focused on understanding the Dao Lotus.

• Yu Guyue told Su Mu that he would have a body of his own within the next few days and taught him how to merge with it.
• Cultivators in the imperial capital praised Su Mu for helping the Nine-Tailed Demon King survive her Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and discussed the Emperor of Liang’s failed attempt to summon him.
• A man in Daoist robes heard that Su Mu might help him achieve perfect foundation establishment and hurried toward Great Liang’s imperial capital.
• Xiao Wu showed Su Mu visiting cards from people hoping for his help, but Su Mu told her to ignore them.
• Su Mu considered whether the Scripture of Salvation, the Tao Te Ching, or his help during a tribulation had caused the Dao Lotus to bloom, but he could not identify the cause.

Su Mu gained a fleshly body shaped by the Eldest Princess, then learned that Great Liang’s vassal states might target him during their tribute visit. After agreeing to help the Eldest Princess for payment, he returned to his courtyard and received a grateful carp spirit bearing gifts and a Daoist companion seeking his guidance.

• The Eldest Princess and Yu Guyue helped Su Mu merge into a fleshly body, and he dressed and tested his new senses.
• Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess argued over taking Su Mu away, but he stayed to eat and learned that vassal states might challenge Great Liang and hold a grudge against him.
• The Eldest Princess asked Su Mu to help Great Liang deal with the vassal-state envoys through calligraphy or strategy, and he agreed in exchange for payment.
• Back at the courtyard, Su Mu let in the carp spirit after hearing it had brought treasures.
• The carp spirit thanked Su Mu for his guidance and described its improved cultivation prospects, while its Daoist companion wondered whether Su Mu could help him reach Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

Su Mu accepted spirit-refined fish scales and three million Spirit Stones from visitors seeking his guidance, then agreed to let Lin Hongbin stay while pursuing perfect Foundation Establishment. After returning to Earth to eat and bathe in Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, Su Mu learned the mountain’s fruit trees were thriving and heard that Wei Zhonghao had arrived.

• The carp spirit recounted leaping through the Dragon Gate and gave Su Mu several dozen scales refined by heavenly fire, which Yu Guyue said could make armor able to withstand Core Formation attacks.
• Lin Hongbin offered Su Mu a Storage Bag containing three million Spirit Stones as a deposit and explained his pursuit of perfect Foundation Establishment, so Su Mu agreed to let him stay nearby.
• Lin Hongbin asked Yu Guyue about her Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and she described her experience while he recorded it on a Jade Slip.
• Su Mu went to meditate, returned to Earth, ate and bathed in Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, then learned from the Spirit of the Dragon Vein that the fruit trees were growing well.
• Wei Zhonghao arrived at the entrance and called for Su Mu.

Su Mu supplied spirit medicine for Huaxia’s planned crewed moon landing and prepared to protect his villa, while refusing the crown prince’s invitation in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. As Great Liang’s vassal states gathered in the capital, their scholars learned that the courtesans admired Su Mu’s calligraphy, leaving them angered and resentful.

• Wei Zhonghao told Su Mu that Huaxia planned a January moon landing and would activate the Teleportation Array, and Su Mu prepared diluted spirit medicine for the participants.
• Wei Zhonghao warned Su Mu that a foreign team had infiltrated the country and was targeting his location, so Su Mu decided to set up protective arrays around his villa.
• Su Mu bought arrays with Yu Guyue and Lin Hongbin, then refused the crown prince’s invitation and said the crown prince should seek the eldest princess’s approval first.
• The vassal states arrived in Great Liang’s capital with tribute, and their scholars went to the Entertainment Bureau hoping to challenge Great Liang’s scholars.
• A courtesan praised Su Mu’s two calligraphic treasures and recited his line about the mortal world’s breathtaking banquet, angering the visiting scholars.

Su Mu finished protecting his villa with a formation on Earth and set out to meet his old university friends after Wang Peng called. At the foot of the mountain, a captured infiltrator attacked him with an explosive, but Su Mu walked out of the flames unharmed.

• At the Entertainment Bureau, Deng Tianping left with the other scholars after hearing courtesans praise Su Mu.
• Xiao Wu told Su Mu about the incident, and Su Mu discussed his Dao Lotus and cultivation with Yu Guyue.
• On Earth, Su Mu completed the villa’s formation and accepted Wang Peng’s invitation to meet him and their university friends.
• Su Mu remembered how Wang Peng and the others had helped pay his tuition after his father’s accident, then hurried down the mountain to meet them.
• An infiltrator under Wei Zhonghao’s guard fired an explosive at Su Mu, who emerged from the flames and asked who had thrown the firecracker.

Su Mu survived an attack by infiltrators thanks to his treasured robe, while Wei Zhonghao and the squad secured the attackers and reported the incident to Zhou Jianhua. Su Mu boarded his flight, where the flight attendants’ attention made it difficult for him to rest.

• Su Mu emerged unharmed from an explosion, and the infiltrators realized he was cultivating immortality rather than working with black technology.
• Wei Zhonghao called Su Mu “big bro,” explained that infiltrators had targeted his location, and arranged a car to take him to the airport.
• Wei Zhonghao ordered the captured infiltrators searched and taken away, then reported the explosion and the treasured robe to Zhou Jianhua.
• Zhou Jianhua ordered strict confinement and confidentiality, then considered asking Su Mu to steal restricted equipment from abroad.
• Su Mu reached the airport, boarded his first-class flight, and asked the flight attendant to leave him to rest.
• The flight attendants whispered about Su Mu’s looks and repeatedly checked on him, drawing envious attention from nearby passengers.

Su Mu reunited with Wang Peng, Monkey, and Leizi over an expensive seafood dinner and learned that Leizi was struggling to pay for his mother's treatment. Su Mu sent Leizi one million yuan and left the friends to enjoy their meal, with Monkey celebrating that someone from their dorm had finally made it.

• Su Mu booked a seafood restaurant and invited Wang Peng, who brought Monkey and Leizi along.
• Su Mu met Monkey and Leizi in a private room and ordered an extravagant meal after they hesitated over the menu.
• Monkey explained that Leizi's mother was ill and that Leizi had been trying to borrow money for her treatment.
• Su Mu insisted that Leizi give him his account number and transferred two payments of five hundred thousand yuan.
• Leizi thanked Su Mu, who reminded him of their past friendship and told him to ask for help again if needed.
• Monkey celebrated that someone from their dorm had made it, though he did not know Su Mu's full circumstances.

Su Mu agreed to help Wang Peng start a fruit business and accepted Zhou Jianhua’s request to bring restricted technology back for the country. After returning to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, he watched Great Liang and its vassal states clash during a tribute ceremony, where Fallen God Sand left several envoys wounded and some cultivators dead.

• Wang Peng asked Su Mu to let him try the business opportunity first, and Su Mu said they could begin in January.
• After Leizi called home about his mother’s surgery, Zhou Jianhua asked Su Mu to steal restricted equipment abroad; Su Mu accepted but said he would go later.
• Su Mu returned to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, where Yu Guyue took him to watch Great Liang’s tribute ceremony.
• An envoy from Great Zhou challenged Great Liang over its refusal to help the vassal states, and officials and envoys began fighting.
• A Great Liang cultivator unleashed Fallen God Sand, injuring foreign envoys and leaving several corpses before both sides stopped fighting and resumed their assembly.

After watching the foreign envoys settle down, Su Mu returned to the palace and spent the evening with Lin Hongbin, whose pursuit of Perfect Foundation Establishment led him to mistake Su Mu's casual remarks about the moon for guidance. Ancestor Wuwang divined a sign of flourishing yin and set out for the Wasteland of Withered Bones, while Lin Hongbin and Yu Guyue were left pondering Su Mu's words.

• Su Mu and Yu Guyue left the tribute presentation after the foreign envoys and Great Liang's court officials stopped fighting.
• Su Mu returned to the palace with street snacks and promised Lin Hongbin he would try to bring him along when he went out.
• Ancestor Wuwang divined that yin was flourishing and yang waning, then flew toward the Wasteland of Withered Bones.
• Su Mu told Lin Hongbin that a crescent moon had its own beauty, and Lin Hongbin mistook the remark for guidance about Perfect Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Hongbin apologized for failing to comprehend Su Mu's guidance, but Su Mu went to his room, leaving Lin Hongbin ashamed and Yu Guyue wondering what he had meant.