Recaps

Su Mu secured the Spirit Marrow vein, recovered the Fallen Star Sword, and evaded the Demonic Sect’s hunt while pursuing his cultivation. After returning to the Haotian Realm, he was trapped in an ambush aimed at Wu Daozi, but the Fallen Star Sword overwhelmed Yu Xingxiu and forced him to offer Su Mu a way out.

• The eldest princess and Yu Guyue uncovered a Spirit Marrow river beneath a shadow iron vein, and Su Mu confirmed its benefits before the eldest princess arranged for it to be mined.
• Yellow Springs True Person and four Nascent Soul cultivators demanded the deposit, but Su Mu used the Golden Lotus and binding characters to defeat them, and the eldest princess forced the captives to submit to restrictions.
• Su Mu met Ye Weixiao, recovered the Fallen Star Sword from the Mysterious Yin Cult’s stolen treasury, and spent a month nurturing it with the Azure Lotus’s Dao resonance.
• Su Mu shared his Dao Scripture insights with Ye Weixiao, forming a second Dao Lotus as nearby cultivators listened, before Devil Lord Ye summoned him to Everlasting Cloud City.
• Devil Lord Ye sent Su Mu and Mi Hongling to search for Su Mu and True Person Fire Cloud, but Su Mu warned Ye Weixiao about the search and later helped set an interception for Fire Cloud that failed.
• Su Mu returned to seclusion for six months, advanced his Dao Lotus and Fallen Star Sword, visited Earth, and completed an Invisibility Formation around the second Floating Island before advancing to Mid Core Formation.
• After returning to the Haotian Realm and opening another Dao Lotus petal, Su Mu was caught in the Crimson Soul Grand Formation with Wu Daozi, who fought Yu Xingxiu and the other ambushers.
• Yu Xingxiu refused to let Su Mu leave after Wu Daozi was bound, but Su Mu’s Fallen Star Sword shattered Yu Xingxiu’s defenses and intrinsic Law Treasure, forcing him to apologize and offer to open the array.

Su Mu entered the Heaven-Burying Land with Ye Weixiao, negotiated with the trapped demonesses, and uncovered a village full of hidden treasures. Sheng Fanhong’s attack caused spatial rifts that trapped Su Mu, who returned to Earth with the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate while planning to open more Dao Lotuses.

• Su Mu killed Wu Daozi and several cultivators, then fled after collecting their loot as rumors accused Han Feiyu of further killings.
• Su Mu met Sheng Fanhong and joined his expedition into the Heaven-Burying Land with Ye Weixiao, where the group survived an attack by Jade Gold Bees.
• The demonesses recognized Su Mu’s Dao Lotus and asked him to help their clan escape, offering Spirit-Stabilizing Dew in return for his future assistance.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao traveled with Sheng Fanhong’s group, collected spiritual liquid from the Cangyu Ancient Tree, and reached the ruins of True Person Cen Tian’s cave abode.
• The group passed through an illusory gate into a village, where Su Mu and Ye Weixiao secretly collected objects they suspected were treasures.
• Su Mu took the village’s four archways, which he suspected were the Southern Heavenly Gate, before the group was transported outside and Sheng Fanhong attacked him.
• Spatial rifts killed the cultivators surnamed Wu, Ye Weixiao escaped, and Su Mu remained trapped until he returned to Earth with the gate.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Huajian to arrange a Teleportation Array transfer, then Zhou Sihan joined them for dinner as her father tried to set them up.