Chapter Summaries

Su Mu returned to his village, cared for his parents, and reassured them about a neighbor’s request for help finding work. At dinner, his parents pressed him about getting a girlfriend, while Su Mu reflected that his cultivation made a relationship in this world impractical.

• Su Mu's mother returned from working on the mountain and was delighted to find him home; Su Mu's father came back soon after.
• Su Mu brewed medicine with spirit medicine for his parents, and they drank it.
• Su Mu told his parents he had declined the neighbor's request to arrange a job but had offered the cousin a position at a company.
• Su Mu agreed with his parents that they should prepare for possible visitors, including Zhang Hualing.
• Su Mu's parents asked about his work and pressed him about finding a girlfriend, but he thought of Yu Guyue and the difficulties of dating while cultivating immortality.

Su Mu returned home for the winter holidays and used Spiritual Power to dry his damp bedding. He secretly cleaned the ancestral hall with magic, then deflected the villagers’ questions about his confidential career.

• Su Mu’s parents turned away neighbors seeking help finding jobs, and his mother prepared a bed for him.
• Su Mu dried his damp quilt with Spiritual Power and got up early the next morning.
• Su Mu burned incense for the new year, then agreed to help clean the ancestral hall for the coming ceremonies.
• Su Mu secretly cleaned the ancestral hall with magic before the villagers arrived.
• The villagers were amazed by the spotless hall, and Su Mu said his career was confidential when they asked about it.

Su Mu arranged for an opera troupe to perform at the ancestral hall and gave Father Su a bank card containing several hundred million. He flew to a distant market to buy food for visiting relatives, who were impressed by the rare fruit he brought home.

• Su Mu offered to pay for an opera troupe, and the old village chief went to contact one.
• Su Mu gave Father Su a bank card with several hundred million and reassured him that the money came from a company he started with a friend.
• Su Mu flew by sword to a distant market and bought groceries, including live prawns and rare fruit.
• Su Mu returned home to find relatives gathered, and his younger female cousin praised the fruit he had brought.

Su Mu spent the New Year holiday welcoming relatives and helping his cousin secure a civil-service position, while Zhang Hualing and provincial government officials visited his family. On New Year’s Eve, Zhou Jianhua called Su Mu urgently and asked if he could spare some time.

• Su Mu agreed to help his cousin join a civil-service organization and sent a message to arrange it.
• Su Mu welcomed successive groups of relatives, choosing to spend his time with his family instead of cultivating.
• Zhang Hualing arrived with his wife and son, and his wife went to help Su Mu’s mother in the kitchen.
• Provincial government officials brought gifts for Su Mu’s parents, then left without staying.
• Su Mu’s family and guests shared a New Year’s Eve meal as fireworks and firecrackers sounded outside.
• Zhou Jianhua called Su Mu and anxiously asked whether he had time to spare.

Su Mu left home on New Year’s Eve after Zhou Jianhua summoned him to an emergency at a secret mountain base. As Su Mu flew toward the base, a powerful beast broke out of its cage, leaving Zhou Jianhua and the others trapped beneath its pressure.

• Zhou Jianhua called Su Mu and asked him to come to the base because an experiment had gone wrong.
• Su Mu said goodbye to his parents, drove away, and switched to his flying sword to hurry toward the base.
• At the base, Zhou Jianhua and the person in charge watched the beast batter and bend its aerospace-grade cage.
• The person in charge ordered everyone to prepare to fire, but the beast shattered the cage and emerged as a nearly three-meter-tall striped monster.
• Zhou Jianhua and the others found themselves unable to move as the beast’s immense pressure filled the area.

Su Mu arrived just in time to stop an enhanced tiger from attacking Zhou Jianhua and the others, then beat it into submission after it charged him. The tiger retreated to its cage, while the base personnel witnessed Su Mu’s overwhelming strength.

• Zhou Jianhua and the others nearly died when the giant tiger broke free and attacked them.
• Su Mu arrived and slapped the tiger away, then learned that Spiritual Power had helped it make progress in cultivation.
• The tiger charged Su Mu, but he struck it hard and sent it crashing to the ground.
• When the tiger kept roaring and resisting, Su Mu mounted it and punched it until it was afraid to fight back.
• The tiger tucked its tail between its legs and hurried back into its cage.

Su Mu subdued an evolved giant tiger at the base, spared it, and placed a restriction on it with a jade token to keep it under control. After warning the staff to handle Demon Cultivator experiments carefully, he flew Zhou Jianhua home and disappeared into the night.

• Su Mu beat the giant tiger and agreed to let the person in charge keep it rather than kill it.
• Su Mu placed a restriction on the tiger and gave the person in charge a jade token that could protect him and kill the tiger if needed.
• Su Mu warned the person in charge that experiments on Demon Cultivators could cause dangerous surges in strength, then left with Zhou Jianhua.
• The person in charge agreed to keep the incident confidential and require everyone present to sign confidentiality agreements.
• Su Mu flew Zhou Jianhua home on his flying sword, then concealed himself and vanished into the horizon.

Su Mu returned home for the New Year before resuming his cultivation in the Haotian Realm, where Ye Weixiao invited him to explore an ancient site beneath the West Sea. After agreeing, he studied a Dao Scripture and returned to Earth when his cousin called him to dinner, eager to awaken the Dao Lotus’s final unopened petal.

• Su Mu came home for the New Year, observed the holiday customs, and kept his younger cousins occupied while his family watched an opera.
• Su Mu returned to the Haotian Realm and found messages from Mi Hongling and Ye Weixiao, replying to Mi Hongling and asking Ye Weixiao about the ancient site she had found.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that the site was a sunken immortal island in the West Sea, and Su Mu agreed to explore it with her in hopes of finding a Law Treasure.
• Su Mu examined his Dao Lotus, saw that only one petal remained unopened, and began studying his Dao Scripture.
• Su Mu returned to Earth when his younger cousin called him to dinner, then hurried back to his room to continue trying to make the final petal bloom.

Su Mu left Earth and met Ye Weixiao near the West Sea to prepare for a trip to the recently revealed immortal island. While watching her market stall, he noticed a cultivator react strangely to a black hairpin and kept it, planning to ask Ye Weixiao about it.

• Su Mu left his parents after reminding them to drink the Chinese medicine he had brewed, then returned to the Haotian Realm.
• Su Mu met Ye Weixiao at a city near the West Sea, where she prepared to buy supplies before they headed for the immortal island.
• Ye Weixiao left Su Mu to watch her stall and gave him a Jade Slip listing the prices of her goods.
• A cultivator bought incense and Concentrate Mind Pills but showed a subtle reaction when he tried to include a black hairpin.
• Su Mu refused to sell the hairpin and kept it, suspecting it was unusual despite being unable to detect anything with his Divine Sense.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao left the city after discovering that someone was following them because of a hairpin. When the pursuers demanded the hairpin, Ye Weixiao revealed her Spirit Transformation Cultivation and trapped them with the Eye of Inkstone.

• Ye Weixiao packed up her stall and led Su Mu out of the city to search for the immortal island, warning that others were looking for it too.
• Su Mu told Ye Weixiao that a buyer had shown unusual interest in a hairpin, and she decided they would examine it outside the city.
• Ye Weixiao sensed they were being watched and led Su Mu away, reasoning that the pursuers were weaker than she was.
• Three pursuers caught up with them, including the buyer, who demanded that Su Mu hand over the hairpin.
• Ye Weixiao took the hairpin and questioned the pursuers, but Wu Li refused to explain what it was.
• Ye Weixiao revealed her Spirit Transformation Cultivation and used the Eye of Inkstone to freeze the pursuers' Spiritual Power.

Ye Weixiao defeated the Wu Household cultivators and learned through soul searching that the hairpin had belonged to Fairy Yunmeng. She explained that Fairy Yunmeng’s personal belongings could open her cave abode, leaving Su Mu wondering how the Wu Household had identified the hairpin.

• The Wu Household patriarch and elder begged Ye Weixiao for mercy and offered thirty million Spirit Stones, but she continued attacking them.
• The Wu Household elder threatened to detonate his Nascent Soul, and Ye Weixiao secretly struck it apart with a Law Treasure.
• Ye Weixiao asked Su Mu to choose whether to search the captives’ souls, and he let her do it.
• Ye Weixiao searched the souls of Wu Li and the other two cultivators, burned their bodies, and left with Su Mu.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that the hairpin had belonged to Fairy Yunmeng, the most recent female cultivator to ascend after Tribulation Transcendence, and that her belongings could open her cave abode.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao traveled toward the immortal island, learning that Jade Dew there might revive Su Mu’s parasol tree seed. They reached a deep strait where sea demons and human cultivators had gathered, but Ye Weixiao could not sense the seabed below.

• Su Mu tested Fairy Yunmeng’s hairpin, and Ye Weixiao explained that it had lost its spirituality but remained difficult to destroy.
• Ye Weixiao said the hairpin might help them locate Fairy Yunmeng’s cave abode and its cultivation manuals.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu that Jade Dew could revive the dead, and Su Mu revealed he wanted it to bring his parasol tree seed to life.
• Ye Weixiao hurried toward the immortal island while Su Mu studied the Dao Scripture aboard their flying vessel.
• After a day of flight, Ye Weixiao and Su Mu arrived at a strait, where her Divine Sense could not reach the seabed and sea demons and human cultivators had gathered.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao sought entry to the sunken immortal island, where Ao Min tried to bar the human cultivators from entering. Su Mu used his connection to Ao Zhenjun to gain passage, and they headed inside after many others had already entered.

• Ao Min confronted the human cultivators and summoned hundreds of thousands of sea demons to block their way.
• A disciple of the Immortal Hidden Sect challenged Ao Min, but the gathered cultivators hesitated to fight his forces.
• True Person Pinghai invoked his friendship with Senior Ao, and Ao Min reluctantly let him enter.
• Other cultivators entered using Dragon Pearls, dragon-race connections, or Divine Abilities, frustrating Ao Min.
• Ye Weixiao asked Su Mu how they would get in, and he brought out the Hundred Flowers Ranking to call to Ao Zhenjun.
• Ao Zhenjun recognized Su Mu and welcomed him and Ye Weixiao into the immortal island.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao entered the immortal island and found its Spiritual Power far denser than expected. As they searched for the Jade Dew and considered taking the island away, the ordinary-looking lotuses in a pond suddenly showed Su Mu affection.

• Ao Zhenjun let Su Mu and Ye Weixiao pass despite Ao Min's objections.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao descended through the seabed formations and found the entrance to the immortal island.
• Ye Weixiao explained that the island's Spiritual Power was dense and that it had once belonged to someone.
• Su Mu proposed finding the Jade Dew and then trying to take the immortal island away, and Ye Weixiao agreed to search with him.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao passed a pond, and its lotuses suddenly rubbed against Su Mu as if they recognized him.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao continued searching the immortal island for Jade Dew after an Indeterminate Mystery Lotus offered Su Mu a piece of lotus root. Su Mu tried using his Fortune to choose a direction, and after they headed southwest for a while, a rumble shook the island.

• The Indeterminate Mystery Lotus offered Su Mu a piece of lotus root, and Ye Weixiao identified it as a rare treasure that favored the deeply blessed.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao discussed where Jade Dew might be found, and Ye Weixiao said she did not know divination because revealing heavenly secrets brought harm.
• Su Mu dropped a branch and took the wind's push toward the southwest as Fortune's guidance, then set off with Ye Weixiao.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao explored the island, found spirit beasts, herbs, and fruits, and detected no other cultivators because the island's restrictions blocked their Divine Senses.
• After they had walked southwest for a quarter of an hour, a rumble sounded in the distance and shook the island.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao investigated a clash between cultivators, suspecting the dispute might involve Jade Dew. They met Old Monster Pang, whose arrival prompted the hidden onlookers to reveal themselves, leaving the two groups’ conflict unresolved.

• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao flew toward a fight, wondering whether the cultivators were battling over Jade Dew.
• The two groups argued over an item, while a Nascent Soul Great Late Stage cultivator warned that hidden onlookers could take advantage if anyone was injured.
• Old Monster Pang arrived and asked to see the disputed item; Ye Weixiao explained his history of prolonging his life by transferring his cultivation and Divine Sense into other cultivators.
• Old Monster Pang looked toward the concealed cultivators, so Su Mu and Ye Weixiao came out, followed by the other hidden observers.
• The original two groups realized they had been surrounded, while Old Monster Pang smiled, revealing that he had already noticed the onlookers.

Su Mu confronted Old Monster Pang after the old cultivator threatened him, while Ye Weixiao stepped in to prevent a fight that could expose the Dao Lotus. Su Mu’s final Dao Lotus petal opened, and Old Monster Pang turned back to question the cultivators who had originally been arguing over a treasure.

• Old Monster Pang asked Su Mu and Ye Weixiao what treasure they were fighting over, and Su Mu insulted him after learning that his body-seizing method caused him to age rapidly.
• Su Mu released his killing intent and threatened Old Monster Pang, who recognized the aura of fallen Nascent Soul cultivators but still vowed to remember him.
• Ye Weixiao intervened and warned Old Monster Pang not to target Su Mu, but Old Monster Pang dismissed her warning and postponed the confrontation.
• Su Mu’s Dao Lotus opened its final petal after his thoughts about Old Monster Pang’s cultivation method stirred it.
• Old Monster Pang asked the original disputing cultivators to identify their treasure so he could decide whether to seize it.

Old Monster Pang and another great cultivator prepared to fight over a hidden formation, but the formation revealed a trapped Spirit of the Earth and drew every cultivator’s attention. Su Mu and Ye Weixiao decided to claim it, while Old Monster Pang made the first move.

• Old Monster Pang threatened the silent cultivators, and a Nascent Soul Great Late Stage cultivator challenged him with the Ten Thousand Witherings Sword Formation.
• A tremor exposed a concealed formation containing a rabbit-like yellow creature, and the great cultivator tried to hide it before Old Monster Pang stopped him.
• Old Monster Pang recognized the creature as the Spirit of the Earth, a priceless treasure believed to greatly extend lifespan.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao agreed to seize the Spirit of the Earth, but Ye Weixiao told Su Mu to hold off on using the Dao Lotus.
• Old Monster Pang declared the treasure was his as other cultivators summoned their Law Treasures.

Ye Weixiao used the Karma Mirror to drive off the cultivators competing for the Spirit of the Earth. She captured the yellow rabbit and fled with Su Mu, while Old Monster Pang and the others returned after they had left.

• The cultivators argued over who would claim the Spirit of the Earth, and Old Monster Pang threatened anyone who challenged him.
• Ye Weixiao revealed the Karma Mirror, alarming Old Monster Pang and the other cultivators with its Karmic Fire.
• Old Monster Pang and several others gave up and left, and Ye Weixiao's display of power drove away the remaining cultivators.
• Ye Weixiao broke the formation, captured the yellow rabbit in a jade box, and escaped with Su Mu.
• Several cultivators, including Old Monster Pang, returned after Ye Weixiao and Su Mu had vanished.

Ye Weixiao revealed that the Karma Mirror she used to escape Old Monster Pang was an imitation made with a fragment of the genuine treasure. She and Su Mu hid themselves with a floral parasol and continued searching for Jade Dew while groups of angry cultivators pursued them.

• Old Monster Pang realized the Karma Mirror was an imitation after Su Mu and Ye Weixiao had already escaped with it.
• Ye Weixiao told Su Mu the mirror was made from a fragment of the genuine Karma Mirror and could kill a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• Su Mu examined the mirror and asked Ye Weixiao about its power, then she questioned him about provoking Old Monster Pang.
• Ye Weixiao checked that the spiritual object was safe in her jade box, concealed them with a floral parasol, and resumed the search for Jade Dew with Su Mu.
• Several groups of cultivators flew through the area looking for Su Mu and Ye Weixiao, while Old Monster Pang especially resented their escape and deception.