Chapter Summaries

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao suspected Sheng Fanhong had drawn the bee insects in to test and weaken the group, so they concealed their strength while enduring the attack. After the cultivators began losing Law Treasures, Sheng Fanhong led everyone away, and the group followed him while fighting off the bee insects.

• Ye Weixiao sensed that Sheng Fanhong was holding back and suspected he had lured the bee insects to test the cultivators.
• Su Mu noticed Sheng Fanhong's Divine Sense sweep over them and reduced the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo's power to make their defense seem weak.
• Ye Weixiao observed that the other cultivators were also concealing their strength, though several had already lost Law Treasures.
• A cultivator urged Sheng Fanhong to lead them out before the bee insects trapped them.
• Sheng Fanhong led the cultivators away, and Su Mu and Ye Weixiao followed while fending off the bee insects.

Su Mu and the cultivators escaped the Jade Gold Bees by passing through hidden spatial rifts, then continued toward the she-demons’ territory. They arrived at a village of beautiful women, where Sheng Fanhong tried to reassure the wary she-demons by showing them an object they had given him.

• Sheng Fanhong led the group past overhead spatial rifts that killed many of the pursuing Jade Gold Bees.
• Su Mu and the others finished off the remaining bees and continued toward the she-demons’ territory.
• Ye Weixiao reassured Su Mu that she could protect him if the she-demons had a hidden scheme, and Su Mu drew comfort from the Fallen Star Sword.
• The group crossed a hill and found houses filled with women who looked like ordinary female cultivators despite being she-demons.
• Several she-demons appeared and challenged the group, and Sheng Fanhong asked whether they remembered him while showing them an object they had given him.

Sheng Fanhong brought Su Mu to the female demons, who recognized him as the person they had been seeking and swore not to harm him. After Su Mu gave one of them some essence Qi, she reacted with intense excitement and began to explain that they had finally found him.

• Sheng Fanhong revealed Su Mu to the female demons and asked them to let the cultivators pass after taking his essence Qi.
• A female demon recognized Su Mu and invited him to speak privately, while the other cultivators stood aside and Ye Weixiao advised him to go.
• The female demon set up a formation and asked Su Mu for some essence Qi, promising not to force him.
• Su Mu gave her a small amount of his blue-green and white essence Qi, which she swallowed as the other female demons watched eagerly.
• The female demon reacted with relief and excitement, then apologized for her behavior and said they had finally found him.

Su Mu learned that the demonesses wanted someone with a Dao Lotus to alter the local laws and free them from their forbidden land, and he agreed to return once his second Dao Lotus bloomed in exchange for Spirit-Stabilizing Dew. He returned to Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong, concealing the serious details and claiming the demoness had only taken a mouthful of his essence Qi.

• The demoness revealed that her clan had been trapped in the forbidden land for millions of years and sought Su Mu because his Dao Lotus could help them escape.
• She explained that two Dao Lotuses could alter the local laws, and Su Mu agreed to return when his second bloomed in exchange for Spirit-Stabilizing Dew.
• Su Mu warned the demoness not to reveal that he had a Dao Lotus and declined her offer to deal with Sheng Fanhong and the others.
• The demoness offered additional rewards, including letting Su Mu choose some of the demonesses to take with him, and Su Mu turned away.
• Su Mu returned to Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong, then told them the demoness had only taken a mouthful of his essence Qi.

Su Mu left the demonesses’ territory with Sheng Fanhong’s group after agreeing to help the demonesses escape once he had two Dao Lotuses in bloom. On the way, he sensed the forbidden land’s Principle of Heaven and Earth, while Sheng Fanhong’s companions grew suspicious that Su Mu might betray them over their future treasures.

• Su Mu refused to reveal what he had discussed with the demonesses, and Sheng Fanhong led the group through their territory as the demonesses let them pass.
• A demoness questioned why they had not kept Su Mu there, but their leader said his strength made confronting him too dangerous.
• Su Mu told Ye Weixiao that the demonesses wanted him to help them leave and that he needed two Dao Lotuses in bloom to do so.
• Su Mu briefly sensed the forbidden land’s Principle of Heaven and Earth, then told Ye Weixiao that a third Dao Lotus might be needed to control the stronger Principle outside.
• Sheng Fanhong’s companions worried Su Mu might attack them for their treasures, but Sheng Fanhong rejected killing him and decided they should wait and see.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao joined Sheng Fanhong’s group, who discovered what appeared to be a Cangyu Ancient Tree and tested it with a spiritual flame. The tree proved genuine, while the flame’s strange response to Su Mu heightened the group’s suspicion and left tensions unresolved.

• Ye Weixiao sensed hostility from Sheng Fanhong’s group, but Su Mu said they could deal with them if necessary.
• Ye Weixiao and Sheng Fanhong identified a great tree as a possible Cangyu Ancient Tree, whose spiritual liquid could help cultivators see through illusions and formations.
• When the cultivator surnamed Wu summoned his spiritual flame, it drifted toward Su Mu as though drawn to him, and Ye Weixiao suspected he had taken the Glazed Tower of Ten Thousand Fires.
• Sheng Fanhong’s group pressed Su Mu for an explanation, and the cultivators nearly confronted him before Sheng Fanhong called off the standoff.
• The cultivator surnamed Wu sent his spiritual flame toward the tree, whose leaves suppressed it and confirmed that it was the Cangyu Ancient Tree.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao learned about the powerful Law Treasures rumored to be in True Person Cen Tian’s cave abode and followed Sheng Fanhong to its hidden entrance. After they arrived, the group prepared to break open the hollow, while Su Mu and Ye Weixiao kept their strength concealed.

• The cultivators collected spiritual liquid from the great tree, and Sheng Fanhong consulted a Jade Slip to choose their next destination.
• Ye Weixiao claimed she knew little about True Person Cen Tian, but privately told Su Mu about the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, Sinking Star Sand, and other treasures in his cave abode.
• Su Mu decided that he and Ye Weixiao would take the Law Treasures, and the two followed Sheng Fanhong more closely as the group traveled toward the ruins.
• Sheng Fanhong led the group to a mountain hollow and said the cave abode lay beneath it.
• The cultivator surnamed Wu’s spell failed to change the hollow, so Sheng Fanhong proposed that everyone attack together; Su Mu and Ye Weixiao produced ordinary-looking Law Treasures.

The cultivators uncovered the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and Sheng Fanhong offered to break its formation in exchange for choosing one treasure. Fan Yongqi tested the gate with his Five Elements Flags, but the gate countered their power, while Su Mu saw a chance to take it from Sheng Fanhong later.

• Sheng Fanhong and the others broke open the hollow and uncovered a great gate that Ye Weixiao and Su Mu suspected was the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate.
• Sheng Fanhong said he could break the gate's formation if he was allowed to take one treasure, and invited the others to try first.
• Fan Yongqi brought out his Five Elements Flags, which Ye Weixiao recognized as a powerful formation treasure capable of reversing the five elements.
• Fan Yongqi deployed the flags over the gate, but the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate restored the disrupted order of yin, yang, and the five elements.
• Su Mu decided that Sheng Fanhong might break the formation for him, leaving an opportunity to seize the gate, and his glance made Sheng Fanhong uneasy.

Sheng Fanhong opened the formation around the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate with instructions from a Jade Slip, leading the cultivators into an empty village where they searched in vain for Law Treasures. Su Mu suspected the village’s water was not ordinary and secretly stored a water vat in his Storage Ring.

• Fan Yongqi’s five-element formation failed to affect the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and the other cultivators declined to try breaking it.
• Sheng Fanhong used the Jade Slip’s instructions to open a passage through the formation, and the cultivators entered a peaceful, deserted village.
• Ye Weixiao explained to Su Mu that the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate they had passed was an illusion and that they needed to find the formation’s core to locate the real gate.
• The cultivators searched the village for Law Treasures but found only ordinary-looking furnishings and no Spiritual Power.
• Su Mu examined a water vat, decided its water was not ordinary, and put the entire vat into his Storage Ring.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao realized that ordinary-looking objects in the village might be hidden treasures, and that each hut restricted how many items could be taken. They searched the huts while Sheng Fanhong and the others grew suspicious and began checking behind them.

• Su Mu concluded that the village’s water and other unremarkable objects might be treasures, so he and Ye Weixiao split up to search while keeping their discovery quiet.
• Su Mu collected old writing tools, a broken pot, burned wood, and incense from the huts, then realized that taking a limited number of items prevented him from moving others.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao confirmed that each hut restricted how many objects they could take, strengthening their suspicion that the objects were treasures.
• Sheng Fanhong and the others noticed the pair repeatedly entering huts and decided to inspect the huts after they left.
• Sheng Fanhong and his group entered a hut Su Mu had just searched, while Su Mu stayed calm and continued toward the remaining huts.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao searched the village for treasures while Fan Yongqi and the other cultivators realized the hut furnishings were unusual. Su Mu found the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate in the form of four village archways and took them, leaving the others to discover that he had also stripped away the objects outside.

• Fan Yongqi and the other cultivators noticed that bedding, a teapot, and other hut furnishings were missing and realized the objects had remained strangely preserved.
• The cultivators surnamed Wu and the others hurried to search the remaining huts, while Su Mu watched them and left the huts’ remaining objects untouched.
• Su Mu and Ye Weixiao agreed to search outside; Su Mu picked the plants from a vegetable patch and took other objects around the village.
• Su Mu spotted an archway at the village entrance, recognized it as the likely Heaven-Stabilizing Gate, and collected it along with the three matching archways in other directions.
• Fan Yongqi and the others emerged from the huts and found the vegetable patch bare, along with lanterns, the stone mill, and other outside objects missing.

Su Mu and Ye Weixiao emerged from the village with strange treasures, including a gate Sheng Fanhong identified as the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate. Sheng Fanhong attacked, unleashing a divine light that shattered the surrounding space and left Su Mu trapped inside spreading spatial cracks.

• Sheng Fanhong demanded that Su Mu hand over the archway, while Ye Weixiao revealed she had found a pearl-like object in the well.
• The cultivators discovered their Law Treasures and Law Techniques could not be used inside the village, then were suddenly transported outside the mountain hollow with their collected items transformed.
• Su Mu took out the archway, and Sheng Fanhong recognized it as the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate; Su Mu suspected its inscription instead read Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Sheng Fanhong attacked Su Mu after seeing the gate, and Ye Weixiao revealed her Spirit Transformation cultivation and countered him with her jade bracelet.
• Sheng Fanhong crushed a jade pendant and sent divine light at Su Mu; Su Mu used the Dao Lotus to resist as the light shattered space around him.
• Spatial cracks killed the cultivators with the surname Wu, Ye Weixiao escaped, and Sheng Fanhong fled, while Su Mu remained trapped as the Dao Lotus struggled to hold the cracks back.

Su Mu became trapped among spatial rifts when retrieving his Dao Lotus, so he returned to Earth to arrange a Teleportation Array and bring back the gates he had obtained. While discussing preparations over dinner with Zhou Huajian, he met Zhou Huajian’s daughter, Zhou Sihan, and Zhou Huajian began hinting at a match between them.

• Ye Weixiao’s attempt to stabilize the rifts failed, and Su Mu discovered he could not leave without abandoning his Dao Lotus, so he decided to remain and open more Dao Lotuses to calm the rifts.
• Ye Weixiao left the dangerous area, while Su Mu returned to Earth with the Heaven-Stabilizing Gate he suspected was the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Su Mu visited the Security Bureau and asked Zhou Huajian to arrange a Teleportation Array transfer, and Zhou Huajian confirmed the preparations would be less disruptive than before.
• Zhou Huajian and Su Mu discussed the transfer’s schedule and security measures over dinner, then Zhou Sihan arrived and joined them.
• Zhou Huajian asked Su Mu about his romantic life, prompting Zhou Sihan to realize her father was trying to set them up.

Su Mu used the teleportation array to bring four gates back from the Haotian Realm, intending to have Zhou Jianhua study the characters on them. The gates flew into the sky and appeared over Huaxia, where people recognized their names as the Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Heavenly Gates.

• Zhou Jianhua regretted that Su Mu had shown no interest in Zhou Sihan, but refused to tell her who Su Mu was.
• Huaxia announced a new light experiment, and people around the world speculated about what it would bring.
• Su Mu and Zhou Jianhua activated the teleportation array after it had charged, and Su Mu sent a Storage Bag through from the Haotian Realm.
• Su Mu retrieved the Storage Bag and told Zhou Jianhua it contained four gates whose ancient characters he wanted studied.
• The four gates escaped Su Mu's control, flew into the sky, and appeared above Huaxia as people heard a strange, familiar summons.
• People in Huaxia read the gates' names aloud, while foreigners watched in confusion.

Su Mu returned the Southern Heavenly Gate to its place, triggering a powerful defensive formation and a public uproar before he concealed it. He then went back to the Haotian Realm to cultivate, where his pursuers found him trapped in a deadly region and mocked him.

• Su Mu regained limited control of the Southern Heavenly Gate and warned Zhou Jianhua that incoming aircraft would have to follow designated routes.
• The gates stayed visible until the next day, prompting speculation that Huaxia was cultivating immortality and drawing foreign interest in passing through them.
• Zhou Sihan guessed that Su Mu might be an immortal cultivator, but Zhou Jianhua warned her not to reveal his special identity.
• Su Mu returned to the Haotian Realm, where spatial rifts surrounded him, and prepared to study the Dao Scripture while protected by his Dao Lotus.
• Sheng Fanhong and other cultivators arrived, including the holy maidens of the Demonic Dao and the Righteous Dao and the holy son of the Righteous Dao, and mocked Su Mu for being trapped.
• Su Mu dismissed the holy son’s threats and said a single Dao Lotus could suppress and kill him if Su Mu were not trapped.

Su Mu spent ten years trapped among spatial rifts, comprehending the Dao Scripture and developing his Dao Lotuses while the sects abandoned their attempt to kill him. He returned to Earth, discovered the passage of time, and reunited with his parents, whom he told about his experiences and gave life-extending pills; his unfinished business in the Haotian Realm remained.

• The holy son urged the sect elders to kill Su Mu, but they refused to pay the enormous cost of calming the rifts and risk fighting him afterward.
• The sects cleared the area around the rifts and left Su Mu isolated, while years passed and people gradually stopped talking about him.
• Su Mu awoke after a blade of grass grew beside him, saw that he had formed a third Dao Lotus, and returned to Earth.
• Su Mu found Earth transformed and learned that it was year 33, meaning he had been in seclusion for ten years.
• Su Mu reunited with his mother, gave her a life-extending pill, and was soon joined by his father.
• Su Mu told his parents about his cultivation and otherworldly experiences, gave his father a life-extending pill, and said he would resolve his remaining affairs once he advanced further.

Su Mu returned home after ten years away, reassured his parents, and caught up with Zhou Jianhua about Huaxia’s technological and interstellar advances. He then reunited with Wang Peng, Leizi, and their friend at the company, where they welcomed him and began catching up over a meal.

• Su Mu told his parents he could handle matters and called Zhou Jianhua to bring him a phone.
• Zhou Jianhua visited Su Mu and described Huaxia’s advances, including its Mars colony and exploration beyond the star system; Su Mu said he could handle the trouble in the Haotian Realm himself for now.
• After spending a few days at home, Su Mu visited Wang Peng’s company, found his picture still on the employee wall, and entered the conference room.
• Wang Peng, Leizi, and their friend recognized Su Mu, welcomed him back, and forgave him after he explained that he could not contact them.
• Wang Peng canceled the meeting and took Su Mu downstairs to eat and drink with the others, who discussed the company’s growth and its business on Mars.

After returning from a reunion with his old friends, Su Mu helped Zhou Jianhua address Huaxia’s affairs before resuming cultivation in the Haotian Realm. Ye Weixiao told him the realms had been at war for a year, and Su Mu chose to keep cultivating toward Three Flowers Gather at the Crown while the Youtian Realm held out.

• Su Mu bid farewell to his friends’ wives after their husbands drank too much, then gave Zhou Jianhua Spirit Stones and discussed the Floating Island’s power source and the Little Dragon Vein’s help with interstellar colonization.
• Su Mu reviewed Huaxia’s accumulated requests with Zhou Jianhua, granted permissions for the Little Dragon Vein to assist on colonized planets, and returned to the Haotian Realm to cultivate.
• Ye Weixiao reached Su Mu and explained that the Haotian Realm and Youtian Realm had converged a year earlier and that the Youtian Realm was close to defeat.
• Su Mu summoned his three Dao Lotuses, showing Ye Weixiao that only two petals remained unopened, and asked her side to hold out while he pursued Three Flowers Gather at the Crown.
• Ye Weixiao returned to report Su Mu’s progress, and Su Mu resumed studying the Tao Te Ching in seclusion.

The Haotian Realm launched its final assault on the nearly defeated Youtian Realm, while its defenders waited for Su Mu to return with the power to turn the battle. The ancient survivors unleashed their hidden abilities, but the fighting went badly for the Youtian Realm, and Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess were left close to defeat.

• Mi Hongling and the Haotian Realm’s leaders demanded the Youtian Realm’s surrender and offered to take the Phoenix, which refused to leave its home.
• Yu Guyue and the other defenders waited for Su Mu, while Ye Weixiao said he had only two Dao Lotus petals left before reaching Three Flowers Gather at the Crown.
• Fairy Zhie and the other cultivators who had survived since High Antiquity restored themselves to their peak and attacked the Haotian Realm forces.
• The Mysterious Yin sect master restrained the Youtian Realm cultivators with a jade treasure, and both sides began a fierce battle as the Phoenix burned Haotian Realm cultivators to ash.
• The Youtian Realm forces suffered heavy losses, and the holy son and holy maiden of the righteous factions overwhelmed Yu Guyue and the Eldest Princess.

Su Mu emerged from seclusion with three blooming Dao Lotuses, saved the Youtian Realm cultivators, punished the Haotian Realm attackers, and began merging the surviving worlds. After returning to Earth with Yu Guyue and Ye Weixiao, he protected Huaxia from an interstellar invasion and prepared to leave for the Immortal Realm.

• Su Mu emerged at the Youtian Realm battlefield, healed the injured cultivators, and exposed the Haotian Realm figures hiding nearby.
• Su Mu turned the Five Decays of a Celestial Person back on its caster, then declined the guiding fairies’ invitation to ascend immediately.
• Su Mu and the Heavenly Dao agreed to reduce the Haotian Realm attackers to mortals, and Su Mu sent them back to their realm.
• Su Mu set the surviving worlds in motion to merge, then took Yu Guyue and Ye Weixiao back to Earth after the eldest princess settled her affairs.
• Hundreds of thousands of years later, Su Mu destroyed the fleets of three civilizations threatening Huaxia and told them not to disturb him.
• Su Mu said he had more or less severed his Three Corpses, then entered a ray of golden light with Yu Guyue and his companion.