Recaps

The Voidfolk drove the Jiang Clan disciples into a desperate retreat while Jiang He challenged Xu Wu and began using the Soul-Seizing Bell to unite his people’s power. Xu Wu ordered the Void Annihilation Array formed, and its black Law Power clashed with the bell’s might.

• The Voidfolk intercepted the fleeing Jiang Clan disciples, and chaotic Void Turbulence shattered several of their Divine Bodies.
• Jiang He asked Xu Wu who the Voidfolk were, but Xu Wu refused to explain and declared that the Jiang Clan could not escape defeat.
• Jiang He made the Soul-Seizing Bell ring strangely, causing the Jiang Clan members’ emotions to fade as their auras synchronized and converged.
• Xu Wu ordered the Voidfolk to set up the Void Annihilation Array to crush the Jiang Clan’s likely final counterattack.
• The Void Annihilation Array’s pitch-black Law Power collided with the power of the Soul-Seizing Bell in the void.

Jiang Liu entered the Jiang Clan Domain with a Divine Sense Avatar after his Soul-Seizing Lamp reacted to powerful Living Soul Power in the battle. He discovered Jiang He using the Soul-Seizing Bell to repel the Jiang Clan’s attackers, while Jiang Wang saw that the clan lands were close to falling.

• Jiang Liu noticed his Soul-Seizing Lamp trembling as the Soul-Seizing Bell’s power surged, and Jiang Wang released his aura to prevent Jiang Liu’s true body from entering the Jiang Clan Domain.
• Jiang Liu sent a Divine Sense Avatar into the domain, and Jiang Wang followed with an avatar of his own.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp spun and glowed when Jiang Liu brought it out, and he recognized the clash below as Divine Soul Power against Void Laws.
• Jiang He used the Soul-Seizing Bell to rip Divine Souls from nearby cultivators and strengthen his resistance against the Void Annihilation Array.
• Jiang Liu refused to interfere, while Jiang Wang saw the clan lands had lost their defensive formation and were nearly breached.

Jiang Liu realized that the Jiang Clan was secretly the Death God Clan, whose members had drained the Void Realm’s living beings and vanished experts for cultivation. He left the battle to the Voidfolk, while Jiang Wang worried that Jiang Liu had discovered the clan’s secret.

• Jiang Liu sensed the Jiang Clan’s Soul-Seizing Bell draining the cultivators around the Jiang Clan Lands and recognized the clan’s use of Death Law.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Jiang Clan was the hidden Death God Clan and that its power had grown by secretly harvesting life across the Void Realm.
• Jiang Liu chose not to reveal his discovery or intervene further, leaving Xu Wu and the Voidfolk to deal with the Jiang Clan.
• Jiang Liu departed and expected Xu Wu to hand over the Soul-Seizing Bell after winning, treating it as a test.
• Jiang Wang watched Jiang Liu leave and worried that he had uncovered the Jiang Clan’s deepest secret.

Jiang Wang let Jiang Liu leave without provoking another fight, then withdrew from the unstable Jiang Clan Domain. Jiang He fell to Xu Wu and the Voidfolk, leaving the Jiang Clan Lands defenseless as the Voidfolk entered.

• Jiang Wang judged that Jiang Liu had not discovered the Jiang Clan’s identity as the Death God Clan and avoided attacking Xu Wu or the Voidfolk.
• Jiang Wang left the Jiang Clan Domain to keep his presence from adding pressure to the already damaged domain.
• Xu Wu’s cries freed the controlled fighters, who joined the assault on Jiang He as the Void Annihilation Array overwhelmed the Soul-Seizing Bell.
• Jiang He fell in an explosion, and Jiang Wang realized the Jiang Clan Lands had lost their final protective force.
• Xu Wu seized the fleeing Soul-Seizing Bell and sent the Voidfolk into the Jiang Clan Lands.

Xu Wu captured the Soul-Seizing Bell during the breach of the Jiang Clan Lands and presented it to Jiang Liu, hoping to demonstrate his loyalty and secure protection for the Void Race. Jiang Liu accepted the artifact and allowed Xu Wu and the other races to plunder the lands.

• Xu Wu examined the Soul-Seizing Bell, sensed that its artifact spirit remained, and decided to present it to Jiang Liu rather than risk claiming it himself.
• Xu Wu reflected that Jiang Liu’s victory over Jiang Wang would deter other Main Gods and races from targeting the Void Race.
• Xu Wu flew to Jiang Liu and reported that the Jiang Clan Lands had been breached, offering him the Soul-Seizing Bell.
• Jiang Wang watched Jiang Liu accept the bell and worried that he might discover something hidden within it.
• Jiang Liu praised Xu Wu and let him return to the Jiang Clan Domain to take its spoils.
• Xu Wu and members of other races flew toward the Jiang Clan Domain to plunder its contents.

Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp against the Soul-Seizing Bell, and the two divine artifacts battled to devour each other. After the struggle, the Soul-Seizing Lamp’s Artifact Spirit told Jiang Liu it had finally advanced.

• Jiang Liu invaded the Soul-Seizing Bell’s Consciousness Sea Space, while Jiang Wang watched anxiously and feared the clan’s secret would be exposed.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Soul-Seizing Lamp, provoking the Soul-Seizing Bell to ring urgently.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp and Soul-Seizing Bell clashed, each trying to devour the other as Jiang Liu sealed them inside a light screen.
• After a series of explosions, the Soul-Seizing Lamp’s Artifact Spirit thanked Jiang Liu and announced that it had advanced.

Jiang Liu learned the Soul-Seizing Lamp had become a Transcendent Divine Artifact and examined memories recovered from the Soul-Seizing Bell. He discovered how the bell had empowered and controlled the Jiang Clan, and began to suspect the Voidfolk had hidden strengths of their own.

• The Soul-Seizing Lamp told Jiang Liu it had found something in the Soul-Seizing Bell's memories and transmitted them to him.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Soul-Seizing Bell predated the Void Realm and had helped the Jiang Clan grow powerful by providing cultivation techniques and accelerating cultivation.
• Jiang Liu discovered the Soul-Seizing Bell had controlled the Jiang Clan, which plundered souls to sustain its cultivation and keep the bell from devouring its members.
• Jiang Liu learned that some Jiang Clan members had sent newborns away to cultivate other techniques, helping the clan gradually escape the bell's control and conceal its ties to Death God.
• Jiang Liu wondered how the Voidfolk had resisted the powerful Jiang Clan and concluded that their long survival in the Void Rift—and their existence before the Void Realm—showed they were no ordinary race.

Jiang Liu reflected on the fallen primordial gods and the Soul-Seizing Lamp’s origins after it devoured the Soul-Seizing Bell. He left Jiang Wang’s secret unchallenged and began cultivating, while Jiang Wang believed the Jiang Clan’s past would remain hidden.

• Jiang Liu considered whether other fallen gods, like the Death God, still lurked in the shadows, then decided the current Main Gods would deal with them if they appeared.
• Jiang Liu wondered which Main God had originally owned the Soul-Seizing Lamp and resolved to keep the transcendent divine artifact for himself.
• Jiang Liu put away the Soul-Seizing Lamp and glanced at Jiang Wang, who feared he had discovered the Jiang Clan’s secret.
• Jiang Liu ignored Jiang Wang and began cultivating, leaving Jiang Wang relieved that the secret seemed concealed.
• Jiang Wang expected the True Realm races to finish plundering the Jiang Clan Domain and leave because its laws could not support them permanently.

The True Realm races plundered the Jiang Clan Domain, blaming the disaster on the Jiang Clan’s past invasion, while Jiang Liu gave them time to withdraw. Their sincere submission strengthened Jiang Liu’s cultivation, and the chapter ended with the domain in ruins as Jiang Wang watched them leave, relieved that Jiang Liu seemed not to have found the Jiang Clan’s secrets.

• The Jiang Clan’s members fled the domain after elders warned them, leaving local families and factions exposed to the invading True Realm races.
• The True Realm races plundered the domain and told its inhabitants they had come to avenge the Jiang Clan’s earlier invasion, provoking fury against the clan.
• Jiang Liu ordered the True Realm races to withdraw within three hours, and they accepted his command without objection.
• The creatures’ submission sent mysterious auras toward Jiang Liu and strengthened his cultivation of the Chaos True Canon.
• Jiang Liu led the True Realm races away aboard the Divine Artifact Starship, and Jiang Wang felt relieved before seeing the ruined domain.

News of Jiang Liu’s crushing defeat of Jiang Wang reshaped the Void Realm’s view of the True Realm and drove the other Main Gods to prepare for the Forbidden God War. Meanwhile, Zou Yan decided to receive information from the previous cycle, and the True Realm’s people gained protection from widespread mockery and plundering.

• Word spread that Jiang Liu had defeated Jiang Wang and led the True Realm’s races in looting the Jiang Clan Domain, alarming the Void Realm’s Main Gods.
• Li Fan, Yao Ben, Ying Jue, and the Void Overlord returned to their Heavy Domains and hurried to strengthen themselves for the Forbidden God War.
• Zou Yan went to the Heavenly Evolution Myriad Transformations Deduction Array instead of cultivating, while the Void Realm Heavenly Dao watched him.
• The Void Realm Heavenly Dao told Jiang Liu that Zou Yan was preparing to receive information from the previous cycle, and Jiang Liu wondered whether his display of strength had prompted Zou Yan’s decision.
• Beings across the Void Realm began treating the True Realm’s races with respect, and those who had plundered the True Realm stopped appearing there.

After hearing that Jiang Liu had utterly defeated Jiang Wang, the Fierce Demon Ancestor struggled to accept the news and reflected on the devils’ long-standing disadvantage against the Void Realm’s races. The chapter revealed that this weakness came from the races’ innate home-realm advantage, rooted in the Three Great Forbidden Lord Gods, and left the Demon Ancestors facing an even more daunting Forbidden God War.

• News of Jiang Liu’s crushing victory over Jiang Wang reached the Devil Realm and stunned the Fierce Demon Ancestor.
• The Fierce Demon Ancestor concluded that only the Three Great Forbidden Lord Gods could subdue Jiang Liu and resumed recovering his strength for the coming Forbidden God War.
• The chapter explained that the Demon Ancestors had long searched for a way to overcome the devils’ persistent combat disadvantage against the Void Realm’s races.
• The chapter revealed that the Void Realm’s races gained an innate home-realm advantage because Dao and Hun-Dun belonged to their side, while only Tribulation stood with the devils.
• The Demon Ancestors faced the added threat of Jiang Liu, whose strength stood nearly a tier above the other Main Gods.

Blood River learned that Jiang Liu had displayed overwhelming combat power against Jiang Wang and called the Devil Race’s Demon Ancestors together to reconsider their plans for the Forbidden God War. The seven Demon Ancestors gathered in the Blood Demon Domain, with their alliance united and Yi Tong’s information about the Light of the Demon Domain secured.

• Blood River received news of Jiang Liu’s battle with Jiang Wang and dismissed the Blood Demon clan chiefs and elders to focus on strengthening their clans.
• Blood River concluded that Jiang Liu’s true power could make their preparations ineffective and summoned the Devil Race’s Demon Ancestors to discuss a new strategy.
• E Yan revealed himself as the Demon Clan’s inheritor of the Devil Ancestor’s legacy, reached the Demon Ancestor Realm, and joined Blood River’s alliance.
• Xiong joined the alliance after escaping the Other Shore Sea of Blood and acknowledged Blood River as its leader.
• Yi Tong joined the alliance and offered the location and timing of the Light of the Demon Domain’s birth as proof of sincerity.
• Blood River, Xiong, Ying Ge, Xie Feng, E Yan, An Mi, and Yi Tong gathered in the Blood Demon Domain to discuss Jiang Liu’s combat power.

The Devil Ancestors discussed how to counter Jiang Liu and decided to accelerate the birth of the Light of the Demon Domain using a method Blood River said came from Tribulation. The method required a blood sacrifice using the bloodlines of their own clansmen.

• Blood River asked the Devil Ancestors for a way to deal with Jiang Liu, but none of them had a solution.
• Blood River proposed refining the Light of the Demon Domain early, and Yi Tong warned that doing so might weaken its power.
• Blood River claimed Tribulation had given him a foolproof method that would not weaken the Light of the Demon Domain.
• Xiong accepted that Tribulation was supporting the Devil Race before the Forbidden God War.
• Blood River said they needed to prepare for the method with a blood sacrifice using Devil Race bloodlines from the clansmen of those who participated.

Blood River and the other Devil Ancestors agreed to sacrifice their own blood kin to accelerate the birth of the Light of the Demon Domain and strengthen themselves against Jiang Liu. Three days later, the seven Devil Ancestors gathered their relatives and began arranging the sacrificial formation.

• The Devil Ancestors suspected Tribulation wanted to exploit the Devil Race for his own aims, but Blood River said they had no better way to face the crisis.
• Blood River ordered the Devil Ancestors to prepare and set out together in three days, with each clan providing an equal number of blood kin for the sacrifice.
• Three days later, the seven Devil Ancestors assembled with their grim and unwilling relatives in a dark void.
• Blood River counted the gathered people, then he and the other six Devil Ancestors released their auras and sent their blood kin toward seven separate locations to begin setting up the formation.

The seven Demon Ancestors activated the Blood Race Refinement Array and sacrificed their own blood relatives to bring forth the Light of the Demon Domain. Tribulation destroyed the void’s attempt to stop the forbidden ritual, and the light began to grow, tainted with traces of blood-red.

• Blood River and the other six Demon Ancestors formed the Blood Race Refinement Array around their blood relatives.
• The relatives’ divine souls tried to escape and pleaded with or cursed the Demon Ancestors, but the seven shut off their divine senses and continued the sacrifice.
• A faint Light of the Demon Domain appeared, and the Demon Ancestors suppressed their desire to claim it while they nurtured it further.
• The void summoned thunder to stop the forbidden blood sacrifice, but Tribulation scattered the forming thunderclouds with his will.
• The Demon Ancestors accelerated the formation, causing the Light of the Demon Domain to brighten as wisps of blood-red appeared within it.

The seven Devil Ancestors used a Blood Sacrifice Formation to ripen the Light of the Demon Domain while Tribulation watched and suppressed its unrest. After their blood relatives died and the formation vanished, the Devil Ancestors each used a domain to claim a portion of the light.

• The seven Devil Ancestors accelerated the Blood Sacrifice Formation, draining their blood relatives to enlarge the Light of the Demon Domain.
• Blood River briefly slowed the formation after sensing malicious intent, but Ying Ge and Xie Feng challenged him, and he resumed his work.
• Tribulation observed that the Light of the Demon Domain had changed and covered the void with black light.
• Blood River warned that the light was about to riot, but Tribulation suppressed its unrest before it erupted.
• The Light of the Demon Domain expanded to fill the void, and the blood relatives died as the Blood Sacrifice Formation disappeared.
• The seven Devil Ancestors deployed their own domains to claim separate portions of the Light of the Demon Domain.

Tribulation observed the Seven Devil Ancestors refining newly ripened Obliteration Light and explained how the Three Great Forbidden Lord Gods’ true canons produced distinct forms of law power. After gaining confidence in his next move, Tribulation left the area.

• Tribulation watched the Seven Devil Ancestors refine the Obliteration Light, seeking to learn its origins, differences, and potential power.
• Tribulation recalled that he had created the Obliteration Light to seal fissures in the Demon Domain, while the Devil Race had mistaken it for Demon Domain Light.
• The narration revealed that Jiang Liu had entered the Chaos True Canon with Tribulation, Dao, and Rong shielding him from Hun’s detection.
• The narration explained that the Light of Chaos could control, destroy, and absorb power, while the Obliteration Light specialized in destruction and the Light of Dao Evolution could evolve things and sustain vitality.
• Tribulation sensed the newly ripened Obliteration Light, decided his plan could proceed, glanced at the Seven Devil Ancestors, and departed.

Zou Yan entered the Heavenly Evolution Myriad Transformations Deduction Array to investigate the visions in his memories and learned that his true inheritance had always been within his body. As a remnant soul began to take over his consciousness, he was left struggling to understand who would control his Divine Physique.

• Zou Yan used the deduction array to revisit the scenes that had appeared in his Consciousness Sea Space and concealed his discoveries from Jiang Wang.
• Zou Yan recalled how Jiang Liu had defeated Jiang Wang and killed Ji Tuo before breaking through to the Lord God Realm with Ji Tuo's Godhead.
• Zou Yan saw that his true inheritance had always been within his body, while the inheritance he had previously obtained had been a smokescreen to hide his background.
• The scenes surged into Zou Yan's consciousness and caused him intense pain as a remnant soul began swallowing his independent awareness.
• Zou Yan realized the remnant soul appeared to be trying to seize control of his Divine Physique, leaving him uncertain whether it or his current soul would rule.

Zou Yan learned that the Forbidden God Wars were meant to help the three Forbidden Main Gods obtain the Tianming Godhead, then fought to erase the remnant soul’s independent consciousness. His aura finally stabilized, and he began to rise in power as Unity Realm remnant souls gathered around the Heavenly Derivation Myriad Transformations Formation.

• Zou Yan learned that the three Forbidden Main Gods used the Forbidden God Wars to obtain the Tianming Godhead, which might appear in this cycle.
• Zou Yan fought the remnant soul inside his Consciousness Sea Space, determined to erase its independent consciousness before accepting its information.
• The Heavenly Derivation Myriad Transformations Formation contained the battle’s destructive pressure as Zou Yan’s aura fluctuated.
• Unity Realm remnant souls gathered around the formation after sensing the changes within Zou Yan.
• Zou Yan’s aura stabilized, and he snorted as his power began to rise.

Zou Yan used the Heavenly Derivation Compass to give the Unity Realm remnant souls temporary spiritual presence and gathered them into the Heavenly Derivation Myriad Transformations Formation. With his long preparations complete, he headed to the Zou Family Grounds to prepare for the Forbidden God War.

• Zou Yan recalled how successive Fate-Causality Sovereigns had secretly captured powerful remnant souls from other domains over several cycles.
• Zou Yan released yellow light from the Heavenly Derivation Compass and formed small yellow swords.
• The swords gave each Unity Realm remnant soul temporary spiritual presence, allowing them to act in unison.
• Zou Yan placed the remnant souls in the Heavenly Derivation Myriad Transformations Formation and flew toward the Zou Family Grounds to make further preparations for the Forbidden God War.

The chapter introduced the Immortal Realm Domain and explained how Dao’s protection had let the Immortal Race grow stronger while the other realms suffered. As the Forbidden God War approached, the Mysterious Wind Immortal Lord considered how to improve his odds of survival and summoned his clan elders, who feared he might sacrifice them as a previous lord had done.

• The chapter described how Dao’s care had made the Immortal Realm Domain peaceful and prosperous, while the Void Realm and Devil Realm had become hostile and barren.
• The Immortal Race’s upper ranks knew about the coming Forbidden God War, and the Seven Immortal Lords understood they would have to rely on themselves to survive.
• The Mysterious Wind Immortal Lord convened a meeting to discuss the war and considered making the Demon Ancestors, Main Gods, and other Immortal Lords perish first.
• The Mysterious Wind Immortal Lord told the Xuanfeng Race elders that it was time for them to contribute to him and their clan.
• The Xuanfeng Race elders feared that Xuanqi would sacrifice them, recalling that a previous Mysterious Wind Immortal Lord had vented his anger on his clan before the war.

Xuan Feng punished an elder for offering an obvious suggestion, but another elder, Xuan Qian, proposed an untested method that might help advance the Forbidden God War. Xuan Feng accepted the idea and dismissed the elders, then remained behind contemplating the God-Burying Domain.

• An elder suggested that the Xuanfeng Race seize other Main Gods’ and Demon Ancestors’ Tianming Value early, and Xuan Feng crushed him with pressure for stating the obvious.
• Xuan Qian called Xuan Feng “my lord” and offered an untested method that he claimed could help achieve the Forbidden God War’s required Tianming Value.
• Xuan Feng approved of the proposal and dismissed the clan elders, ordering them not to cause trouble before the war.
• After leaving the Council Great Hall, the elders questioned whether Xuan Qian’s method would work, then hurried away before Xuan Feng could change his mind.
• Xuan Feng stayed in the Council Great Hall and gazed toward the God-Burying Domain as he considered the matter.

The Redfire Immortal Lord studied reports about Jiang Liu, the newly ascended Chaos Void Lord God, and considered whether he might be destined to face the Tribulation. He wondered about Jiang Liu’s secrets and Tianming Value as the Reincarnation Forbidden God War approached.

• The Redfire Immortal Lord learned that a true Chaos Void Lord God had appeared in the ninth Reincarnation Forbidden God War and realized the Three Great Forbidden Lord Gods expected the war to yield substantial Tianming Value.
• He considered whether Jiang Liu might be destined to face the Tribulation, since such a person could greatly increase the Tianming Value of Lord Gods, Demon Ancestors, and Immortal Lords.
• The Redfire Immortal Lord concluded that Jiang Liu was stronger than previous Chaos Void Lord Gods after he defeated Jiang Wang, whom the Void Realm’s Lord Gods trusted to defend them from the devils.
• He compared Jiang Liu’s strength with the Three Great Forbidden Lord Gods and recalled that the Void Realm Heavenly Dao was another powerful exception.
• The Redfire Immortal Lord wondered what secrets Jiang Liu held and how high his Tianming Value had risen.

The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord reviewed reports about the new Lord Gods of the Void Realm, especially the powerful Chaos Void Lord God, Jiang Liu. He learned that the new Life and Light Lord Gods had unusual paths to power, leaving him to expect a different Forbidden God War.

• The chapter described how the Purple Thunder Immortal Domain was saturated with Thunder Law Power and why the Immortal Clans had little interest in invading the Void Realm or Devil Realm.
• An attendant brought the Purple Thunder Immortal Lord news from the Void Realm, where Immortal Lords were investigating their future opponents in the Forbidden God War.
• The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord asked whether the attendant had found the origins of the new Chaos Void Lord God, but learned the report concerned the Life and Light Lord Gods instead.
• The attendant reported that the Life Lord God broke through by sharing a body with another, while the Light Lord God devoured the previous Lord God's remnant soul.
• The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord concluded that the new Life and Light Lord Gods might match their predecessors and that this cycle's Forbidden God War would be different.

The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord learned that the Demon Ancestors had formed an alliance and were seeking something together, while the Annihilation Devil Race had entered the God-Burying Domain. Seeing the many changes in this cycle’s Forbidden God War and the Immortal Lords’ failure to adapt, he feared they would not survive as they had in past cycles.

• The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord received news that the Demon Ancestors had united and traveled to an unknown place.
• He reviewed how the deaths of Main Gods and Demon Ancestors, along with the rise of powerful replacements, had changed the coming Forbidden God War.
• He learned that the Devil Race Alliance included surviving and newly ascended Demon Ancestors, as well as Xiong, and that they were seeking treasures to grow stronger.
• The Purple Thunder Immortal Lord discovered that the Annihilation Devil Race had entered the God-Burying Domain and suspected it had its own plans.
• He reflected that the Immortal Lords remained divided and recalled that the Profound Earth Branch’s Immortal Lord had survived the previous cycle.