Chapter Summaries

Su Mu returned from the Haotian Realm and disrupted negotiations between the Grand Princess and the Nascent Soul Cultivators demanding greater rewards to fight the sea demons. He then took the Grand Princess and Yu Guyue outside Formless City, where he released a crystal filled with immense Fortune.

• Su Mu entered the hall and stopped a cultivator from attacking him when the Grand Princess defended him with her red silk Law Treasure.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators left after insisting on being paid with a large Spirit Stone mine, and the Grand Princess explained that the sea demons had made the Savage Wilderness campaign more dangerous.
• Su Mu told the Grand Princess he had escaped from the Haotian Realm, while she worried that they could not face the sea demons without the cultivators’ help.
• Yu Guyue arrived, recognized Su Mu, and rejoiced at his return.
• Su Mu led the two women away from Formless City and shattered a crystal, releasing a vast amount of Fortune that the Grand Princess recognized.

Su Mu returned the world's Fortune to the Youtian Realm and gained enough merit to restore his damaged Dao Lotus. He returned to Five Images City, where the carp spirit, Di Xingchun, and others were waiting to see him.

• Su Mu received a vast amount of merit as his Merit Lotus bloomed fully and a second one opened twenty petals.
• Su Mu spent the merit to repair his Dao Lotus, restoring it completely, while Yu Guyue and the eldest princess watched.
• The returned Fortune began restoring Spiritual Power across the Youtian Realm, and cultivators who had faced Core Formation tribulations formed golden cores.
• Su Mu asked the eldest princess how his distributed Spirit Plants were faring, and she explained that they had lowered spirit rice prices and helped more people cultivate.
• Su Mu and the two women returned to Five Images City, where the carp spirit, Di Xingchun, and others greeted him outside the city lord's residence.

Su Mu learned that the sea demons and Savage Wilderness would bring eighteen Nascent Soul experts and overwhelming numbers of lower-realm forces to the battle near Five Images City. The Eldest Princess feared a defeat and an endless war, but Su Mu insisted he would handle the coming battle.

• Su Mu learned that Lin Hongbin had reached Late Core Formation through years of cultivation and Perfect Foundation Establishment, and Lin planned to pursue Perfect Nascent Soul Formation.
• Di Xingchun admitted he could not match Lin Hongbin, and the carp spirit told Su Mu that the catfish spirit had died a month earlier.
• The Eldest Princess told Su Mu that eighteen Nascent Soul experts, nearly three hundred thousand Foundation Establishment sea demons, and nearly ten thousand Core Formation sea demons threatened the humans.
• The Eldest Princess explained that the battle would take place on a plain a hundred li from Five Images City and worried that the sea demons would keep sending troops if they lost.
• Su Mu told the Eldest Princess to leave the battle to him, but she remained anxious about the sea demons’ vast forces and the prospect of a prolonged war.

Su Mu faced a vastly superior alliance of sea demons and Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts while the human cultivators feared defeat. As the enemy prepared to attack, Su Mu noticed a change in their formation and ordered everyone to retreat.

• Sea demons and Savage Wilderness Demon Beasts gathered before Five Images City while watching Nascent Soul Cultivators mocked Xiao Luanji for refusing their terms.
• Yu Guyue questioned Su Mu's secret weapon, and Daoist Jixu, Extreme Ice Old Man, and Xiao Luanji worried that their four Nascent Soul Cultivators could not withstand the enemy.
• A silver three-eyed fish demon and a Savage Wilderness Demon Beast taunted the humans, while Extreme Ice Old Man identified powerful enemies including a Xuangui, a Lu, and a Xingxing.
• As the enemy formation stirred and something appeared among the sea demons, Su Mu ordered the cultivators and army to retreat.

Su Mu ordered a retreat after revealing two concealed thousand-ton hydrogen bombs among the sea demons, and the blasts devastated their forces. The human army won the battle, while the fate of the missing Nascent Soul experts remained uncertain and Su Mu planned to demand resources from the sea demons.

• Su Mu grabbed the eldest princess and Yu Guyue and fled, warning that he had left a dangerous gift among the enemy ranks.
• Two concealed bombs detonated among the sea demons, creating enormous mushroom clouds and killing or wounding more than half the Demon Beasts caught in the explosions.
• Yu Guyue and the watching cultivators were shocked by the blasts' power as the human army weathered the shock wave.
• The surviving sea demons and Demon Beasts fled, while the Nascent Soul experts disappeared and Su Mu could not tell whether they had survived.
• The eldest princess declared victory, and Su Mu proposed demanding rare resources from the sea demons and threatening further bombings.

Su Mu revealed that a mushroom bomb had destroyed the enemy army, forcing the surviving Nascent Soul experts to flee. After returning to the city, he learned that the Buddhist Sect had grown stronger while studying his scriptures and prepared to write more.

• Su Mu showed the Eldest Princess and Yu Guyue his remaining mushroom bomb and said it was the last one he had.
• The Eldest Princess ordered her army to clear the battlefield and eliminate the surviving Demon Beasts.
• Xuangui and Xingxing assessed their severe injuries and damaged treasures, then fled with the other surviving Nascent Soul experts.
• Su Mu, the Eldest Princess, and the others returned to the city as the army prepared to advance farther into the Savage Wilderness.
• Yu Guyue told Su Mu that Buddhist monks had been studying his scriptures and that the Buddhist Sect had grown stronger, so Su Mu took out his brush and ink to write more.

Su Mu wrote a Buddhist scripture that caused Buddhist statues across the Youtian Realm to glow, then gave Yu Guyue first place on the Hundred Flowers Ranking and collected Spirit Stones from her. He told her he planned to return to the Haotian Realm to retrieve his Fallen Star Sword, but she could not accompany him without exposing them.

• Wuren recognized the Buddhist light as a sign that Su Mu had written another extraordinary scripture and hurried out to find him.
• Su Mu wrote Yu Guyue’s name in first place on the Hundred Flowers Ranking, and she was pleased until he explained that the other names belonged to women from the Haotian Realm.
• Yu Guyue gave Su Mu a Storage Bag containing nearly thirty million Spirit Stones and told him more were still being mined.
• Su Mu said he would have to return to the Haotian Realm because the coming Great Tribulation involved its cultivators and the Mysterious Yin Cult still had his Fallen Star Sword.
• Yu Guyue offered to go with Su Mu, but he knew her presence would expose them as cultivators from the Youtian Realm.

Su Mu and the eldest princess met with sea demon envoys who demanded Great Liang surrender, but the negotiations turned hostile. When Niyu used his Nascent Soul pressure to crush Su Mu, Su Mu summoned the Azure Lotus to suppress him.

• Su Mu refused Yu Guyue’s request to return with him and spent several days studying the restored Dao Scripture while Great Liang advanced into the Savage Wilderness.
• The eldest princess continued negotiating with the Nascent Soul Cultivators over their reduced stipends as Great Liang mined newly discovered mineral veins.
• After sea demons arrived in Formless City, Su Mu told the eldest princess he could obtain more mushroom bombs if they chose to fight.
• Niyu boasted that the sea demons ruled the four seas and demanded that Great Liang surrender, while the eldest princess refused to yield.
• Niyu attacked Su Mu with his Nascent Soul pressure, and Su Mu summoned the Azure Lotus above him to suppress him.

Su Mu killed Niyu and rejected the West Sea’s demands, prompting its leader to threaten Great Liang with invasion and annual sacrifices. Expecting a major war, Su Mu returned to Earth and arranged for Huaxia to supply about a hundred mushroom bombs.

• Su Mu suppressed Niyu with the Azure Lotus, killed him after the sea demons hesitated to intervene, and burned away his remains.
• A projection from the West Sea threatened the Eldest Princess, demanding Su Mu’s head and a yearly sacrifice of a million people; she refused.
• After the projection warned that the West Sea might invade Great Liang, Su Mu and the Eldest Princess judged that its leader was likely beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Su Mu returned to Earth and asked Zhou Jianhua for about a hundred mushroom bombs to prepare for a major war.
• Zhou Jianhua secured Huaxia’s backing, and the logistics department began gathering the bombs as Su Mu prepared to fight the West Sea.

Su Mu prepared to send over a hundred mushroom bombs through a Teleportation Array to strike the West Sea, while accepting Spirit Stones from Wuren in exchange for Buddhist scriptures. As Earth prepared for the transfer, Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua discussed replenishing the bombs and the Spirit of the Dragon Vein’s possible role in improving marine resources.

• Su Mu reassured her that the mushroom bombs would teach their opponents in the West Sea a lesson, then gave Wuren more than ten Buddhist scriptures in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Wuren asked Su Mu to join the Buddhist Sect, but Su Mu warned that he would stop providing scriptures if Wuren kept trying to recruit him.
• Earth scheduled a power outage for the Teleportation Array transfer, and Su Mu collected over a hundred mushroom bombs from a secret base.
• Su Mu asked Zhou Jianhua to arrange more mushroom bombs, and Zhou Jianhua said production was underway to replenish reserves.
• Zhou Jianhua asked about the Spirit of the Dragon Vein, and Su Mu said he might have gone into the sea while refining the Dragon Pearl’s Spiritual Power.
• Zhou Jianhua noted that seafood resources had recovered and become profitable, suggesting the Spirit of the Dragon Vein might be responsible.

Huaxia’s seafood industry prospered as overseas buyers paid more for seafood certified safe, while Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua activated the Teleportation Array to exchange supplies. After Su Mu brought Thunder Crystals to Huaxia, he returned to the Youtian Realm and prepared with Yu Guyue and her companion to deploy mushroom bombs across the West Sea.

• Huaxia’s seafood sold at several times the usual price after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported no contamination in its waters.
• Zhou Jianhua’s team switched off power across many cities to supply the Teleportation Array, which charged and opened beneath a pillar of light.
• Su Mu transported Storage Rings through the array, then gave Zhou Jianhua Thunder Crystals to study before returning to the Youtian Realm.
• Su Mu, Yu Guyue, and her companion reviewed their marked West Sea targets and agreed to deploy the bombs quickly without lingering.
• Su Mu demonstrated how to use the mushroom bombs and distributed forty each to Yu Guyue and her companion, keeping twenty for himself.
• The three set out to deploy the bombs, with Yu Guyue and her companion taking the farther targets and Su Mu handling the closer ones.

Yu Guyue, the Eldest Princess, and Su Mu planted concealed mushroom bombs at several points in the West Sea. The bombs devastated the seabed and its sea demons, and the enraged West Sea King set out to find those responsible.

• Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess reached their first drop point, prepared a mushroom bomb, and concealed it in the sea with a formation.
• Su Mu planted bombs at successive drop points, setting them to detonate around the same time as the others’ bombs.
• Sea demons at an underwater marketplace discussed the coming war and their plans to capture cultivators before a concealed bomb detonated nearby.
• The explosion destroyed the marketplace and killed many sea demons, while blasts at other locations sent water columns skyward and churned the West Sea.
• The West Sea King sensed the destruction, saw the vast losses among his sea demons, and plunged into the sea to hunt down the attackers.

Su Mu and the two women devastated the West Sea with mushroom bombs, leaving the sea demons badly crippled and the West Sea King enraged. Back in Formless City, Su Mu contemplated the Tao Te Ching and caused a petal of his Dao Lotus to bloom, bringing him closer to the three flowers gathering at the crown.

• The West Sea King raced between bombed locations, furious that he could not find his attackers and that the explosions were killing sea demons across the West Sea.
• Su Mu dropped the final mushroom bomb, checked the destruction through a water mirror, and flew to the jade cliff to meet Yu Guyue and the eldest princess.
• Yu Guyue and the eldest princess reported that they had dropped nearly all their bombs and that the sea demons had suffered many deaths and severe injuries.
• Su Mu led the two women back to Formless City, where the eldest princess returned to work and Yu Guyue asked why his Dao Scripture appeared blank to her.
• Su Mu recited a passage from the Tao Te Ching, strengthening his Dao resonance and causing a petal of his Dao Lotus to bloom.

The Eldest Princess admitted to destroying much of the West Sea, and the West Sea King came to threaten her and Great Liang. Su Mu revealed his Dao Lotus, cowed the West Sea King, and demanded compensation, leaving the king afraid to resist.

• The West Sea King confronted the Eldest Princess and accused her of attacking the West Sea, and she admitted that she had done it.
• The West Sea King threatened to kill the Eldest Princess and destroy Great Liang, but Su Mu stepped in to stop him.
• Su Mu revealed a Dao Lotus, frightening the West Sea King into backing down and asking to settle the matter peacefully.
• The Eldest Princess persuaded Su Mu to hear the West Sea King out, and Su Mu put away the Dao Lotus.
• Su Mu admitted that he had attacked the West Sea and demanded nearly a hundred billion Spirit Stones in compensation for the mushrooms he had used.
• The West Sea King protested, and Su Mu threatened to kill him and take his possessions, leaving him afraid to fight back.

Su Mu and the Grand Princess forced the West Sea King to accept compensation and press the other Sea Kings to open marketplaces with Great Liang. Back on Earth, Su Mu learned that his best friend was getting married and planned to attend.

• The West Sea King agreed to pay compensation after Su Mu threatened him, and the Grand Princess gave him a list demanding Spirit Stones and precious treasures.
• The Grand Princess ordered the West Sea King to persuade the other Sea Kings to open marketplaces with Great Liang and arrange Teleportation Arrays throughout the West Sea.
• The West Sea King left to speak with the other Sea Kings, while Su Mu and the Grand Princess discussed making the marketplaces open even if they resisted.
• Su Mu returned to Earth, told Zhou Jianhua that matters were mostly settled, and read the Dao Scripture while Yu Guyue continued cultivating.
• Su Mu received a message saying his best friend was marrying the girlfriend he had introduced to him, and he planned to attend the wedding in a few days.

Su Mu agreed to the West Sea King's trade proposals while refusing to spend Dao Lotus petals helping the sea kings endure their Heavenly Tribulations. He urged the eldest princess to take the throne, and as the markets began construction, she considered making the emperor abdicate; Su Mu then returned to Earth for his best friend's wedding.

• The eldest princess told Su Mu that the four sea kings had accepted the market proposal and offered favorable terms, which he suspected were meant to win his help with their Heavenly Tribulations.
• Su Mu told the eldest princess he would not use the Dao Lotus to help the sea kings and urged her to make the emperor abdicate in her favor.
• The eldest princess said she would raise the matter herself, while Su Mu agreed to let her handle it.
• Workers and array masters began building four large sea markets and Teleportation Arrays, drawing interest from merchants and smaller states.
• The eldest princess became busy arranging the markets and began considering asking her imperial father to abdicate.
• Su Mu returned to Earth and took a teleportation train toward his best friend's wedding.

Su Mu arrived for Wang Peng’s wedding and joined his former university classmates at a dinner, where they were struck by how much he had changed. Yuxuan drew him into conversation and sat beside him, while the reunion continued around them.

• Su Mu took the teleportation train to the city and checked into the five-star hotel Wang Peng had booked for him.
• Wang Peng invited Su Mu to a dinner with wedding guests and old university classmates.
• Su Mu arrived at the private room, and his classmates remarked on his changed appearance; he recognized Yuxuan and complimented her.
• Wang Peng thanked the guests and fielded questions about how he and his friends had become wealthy through their company.
• Yuxuan seated Su Mu beside her, poured him a drink, and asked why he rarely appeared in the class group chat.
• Yuxuan joked that Su Mu looked like he was cultivating immortality, and Su Mu agreed while she felt unexpectedly comfortable sitting beside him.

Su Mu attended his friends’ reunion and wedding, where his classmates learned that he had founded the company Wang Peng and the others ran. At the wedding, a woman recognized Su Mu and nervously approached him, ending the chapter with her greeting.

• Yuxuan and the other classmates spoke with Su Mu at the reunion, and he said he was unemployed.
• Wang Peng and Leizi revealed that Su Mu had started their company, surprising the classmates and drawing Yuxuan’s interest.
• Wang Peng arranged a night out for the classmates and paid the expenses.
• The next morning, Wang Peng and his two friends picked up their brides, and Su Mu watched their wedding.
• A woman in the wedding crowd recognized Su Mu, approached him, and nervously said hello.

Luan Mingjun recognized Su Mu as the sword immortal she had seen flying from a plane and pressed him for answers. Su Mu confirmed her guess but warned her to keep quiet, leaving her convinced that immortal cultivation explained the incredible changes happening in Huaxia.

• Luan Mingjun introduced herself to Su Mu and said she recognized him as the sword immortal she had seen from a plane.
• Su Mu initially denied being the person she had seen, then admitted she was right and told her not to spread the secret or investigate him.
• Luan Mingjun explained that confirming her sighting mattered because other people had made her doubt herself.
• Luan Mingjun asked Su Mu a stream of questions about cultivation, his age, Sword Flight, and immortality.
• Su Mu threatened to erase her memory, so Luan Mingjun stopped questioning him.
• Luan Mingjun connected Su Mu to recent extraordinary events in Huaxia and grew excited about her country's future.

After attending Wang Peng’s wedding, Su Mu returned to the Youtian Realm and discovered that the market had earned him merit and opened more of his Golden Lotus. He spent two months in secluded cultivation, reaching Late Core Formation before emerging with several lotuses further opened.

• Su Mu toasted Wang Peng and his friends at the wedding banquet, then declined Wang Peng’s offer to share the bridesmaids’ WeChat contacts.
• Su Mu returned to the Qinling Mountains and found that his Golden Lotus had opened five petals and his Merit Lotus twenty-three, thanks to the market with the West Sea.
• Su Mu set up a formation and began secluded cultivation, using the Golden Lotus to strengthen his Spiritual Power while contemplating the Dao Scripture.
• After two months, Su Mu emerged at Late Core Formation, with his Dao Lotus at eighteen petals and one Merit Lotus Flower fully opened.