Recaps

Yang Yu refined Qiong, turned the Abyss into a thriving market business, and used its power to rise from the Sixth Step to the Seventh Step. The arc ended with Yang Yu inscribing Abyss on the Hongmeng Dao Wall and reaching the Ancient Illuminating Realm.

• Yang Yu took control of the Abyss, crushed Luo Yan, and sent Huang Yan to recruit Li Cangxu and other cultivators to fight Qiong’s vessels.
• Yang Yu equipped the recruits with Swords of Judgment and sent them against Qiong’s three vessels, then trapped Qiong in the Chaos High-Pressure Cooker and refined him with the Abyss’s power.
• Yang Yu transferred Qiong’s merchant account to himself, bought a Name-Holding Permission Card for Zhi Xing, and opened the Abyss as an Outer Perimeter Agent at Starlight Market.
• Yang Yu sold Experience Coins and opened the Abyss Refresh Service Center, drawing customers whose recognition and Causality raised him to the Sixth Step as a Name Holder.
• Yang Yu granted Abyss Branch Titles to Li Cangxu, Huang Yan, Zhi Xing, Gu Shan, Xuan Jiu, Yang Yan, Little White, and other cultivators, collecting Origin as the Abyss expanded.
• Yang Yu defeated the Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable, turned him into a paid punching-bag attraction, and hired Fairy Red Lotus and Dao Venerable Qingxuan as Abyss employees.
• Yang Yu summoned his River of Ages and began inscribing it on the Hongmeng Dao Wall, cracking the wall until the Myriad Worlds Merchant House reinforced it.
• Yang Yu engraved “Abyss” on the reinforced wall and advanced to the Seventh Step Ancient Illuminating Realm, while Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable begged to become his subordinate.

Yang Yu entered the True God Secret Realm, broke through to the Eighth Step, and devoured its beasts, laws, and Eternal Power. He destroyed Jin Court and then confronted the Gravekeeper, who offered him a place as a Divine Envoy before attacking him.

• Yang Yu erased Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable, negotiated with the Merchant House, and accepted the World-Suppressing Bronze Seal as a deposit for Qiong’s favor.
• Yang Yu bound the Bronze Seal to the Abyss, expanded Abyss Name Holding, reached the peak of the Seventh Step, and killed Gu You after rescuing Little White.
• Yang Yu entered the True God Secret Realm, where he joined the fight against God's Bane and broke through to the Eighth Step using the power of Abyss Name Holders.
• Yang Yu defeated Cang Gu, Feng Qi, Tu Jue, and the other cultivators, then devoured God's Bane and the Godfall Deadlands while refining Eternal Power and mastering Spacetime Seal.
• Yang Yu emerged from the Secret Realm, killed Mingya and Aoshan when they demanded his treasures, and traveled to the Calamity Abyss and Jin Court.
• Yang Yu attacked Calamity Abyss headquarters, then invaded Jin Court and destroyed its arrays, defeated the Supreme Ancestor, and ended Jin Court.
• The Gravekeeper confronted Yang Yu over Jin's Causality and offered him eternal life and a place as the First Divine Envoy, but Yang Yu refused and crushed one of their strands of Eternal Power.
• The Gravekeeper unleashed Primordial Divine Art: Eternal Annihilation against Yang Yu.

Yang Yu strengthened the Abyss, absorbed worlds, and defeated the forces of the Profound Heaven Divine Court while building toward the Primordial Land. The arc ended with Yuanshi and Taishang agreeing to a temporary truce to attack the Abyss.

• Yang Yu killed the Gravekeeper, absorbed its Eternal Power, and destroyed Jin’s Bronze Tablet after rejecting its inheritance, then took in the destabilizing Heavenly Martial Hongmeng Grand World.
• Yang Yu strengthened his followers, established Eternal Crystal trading, and brought Dao Lord Guichen’s Azure Cosmos Branch into the Abyss as its Commerce Department.
• Yang Yu reached one million strands of Eternal Power, rejected a weak Dao Fruit, and ordered the Hongmeng Grand Worlds to submit, then crushed the Skyvault coalition with the Immune Legion and Abyss Players.
• Yang Yu defeated the Nameless Remnant Shadow, raised his Eternal Power to 1.8 million strands, and expanded the Abyss through new layers, dungeons, and recruitment drives.
• Dao Lord Guichen and Deadwood Heavenly Venerable brought the Creation Grand World into the Abyss after its Dao Ancestor witnessed Yang Yu’s power and chose to join.
• Yang Yu sent the Abyss forces against the Guixu Ancient Region, shattered the Divine Court’s defenses, and destroyed Profound Heaven Divine Lord’s incarnation as his armies conquered the realm.
• The Abyss annexed the Profound Heaven Divine Court Grand World and drew in thousands of other worlds, while Yang Yu reached ten million strands of Eternal Power and absorbed the Haotian God Realm.
• Yuanshi and Taishang learned that the Abyss was consuming Hongmeng Grand Worlds, and Taishang prepared Divine Punishment before Yuanshi proposed a joint attack.