Recaps

Jiang Liu prepared to sail for Pinghai City with Gongsun Haoyue to attack the Fifth Judge Palace, but learned that the three assassins had moved toward Yun Province. He left for Jiqun to meet Xingyue, while Flowing Cloud Matriarch stayed behind to oversee the Star Cloud Saint Sect.

• Jiang Liu learned that Dongling Rui had mobilized three Peak Grandmasters and eighteen Grandmasters, and decided to entrust him with investigating the forces behind the three assassins.
• Jiang Liu agreed to let Gongsun Haoyue accompany him, prepared the Sea Turtle for the voyage, and departed with her and the Fire-Winged Monkey.
• A Wind Hall messenger delivered Xingyue's report that the three assassins had set out together toward Yun Province, and Jiang Liu ordered Xingyue not to alert them.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue left Murong Yin and Feng Yue behind, while Flowing Cloud Matriarch remained at the Star Cloud Saint Sect to maintain order.
• A day later, Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue met Xingyue at Jiqun, where she had used concealment medicine to track the assassins.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue traveled to Pinghai City to reunite with the people of King Chujiang Hall while Xingyue tracked a group of assassins heading toward Yun Province. Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing tried to test Jiang Liu, but his formation stopped them and left them terrified.

• Xingyue told Jiang Liu that the assassins had met an unknown person in Qian Province and were heading toward Yun Province, and Jiang Liu ordered her to keep tracking them.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue entered Yun Province, learned the assassins had turned toward Qi County, and continued toward Pinghai City to meet Dongling Rui and the others.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue found Pinghai City flourishing under the supervision of Exotic Weapon Valley and Listening Wind and Gentle Rain Pavilion.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue went into the woods, where Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing launched a test attack and were thrown back by Jiang Liu's Entrapment Formation.
• Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing begged Jiang Liu for mercy, and he warned them not to try it again.

Jiang Liu learned that the assassins were preparing to flee by sea and hurried to the Sea Gazing Strait to intercept them. He and Gongsun Haoyue hid there overnight, and Jiang Liu sensed their ship approaching at last.

• Dongling Rui told Jiang Liu that the ships were nearly ready, and Jiang Liu gave him a sea chart and ordered him to set out once preparations were complete.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue shopped in Pinghai City, then returned to the City Lord's Mansion with a large haul of goods.
• After Xingyue reported that the assassins had started preparing to go out to sea, Jiang Liu decided to intercept them at the Sea Gazing Strait.
• Jiang Liu took Gongsun Haoyue and the Fire-Winged Monkey aboard the Sea Turtle and raced toward the strait through the night.
• Jiang Liu concealed the Sea Turtle among the woods beside the strait and waited until deep into the night, when he sensed a ship approaching.

Jiang Liu intercepted a ship carrying four Grandmasters who were trying to flee the mainland and interrogated them. He learned they belonged to the Wheel King Palace, descended from people who had fled the Halls of Yama and settled on islands overseas.

• Jiang Liu caught up with the ship and subdued its Grandmasters, stopping one from escaping and hauling Dongyang Hu back aboard after he fell into the sea.
• Jiang Liu gathered the four Grandmasters on deck and demanded to know where they came from and where they were going.
• The messenger tried to claim they were ordinary practitioners seeking a way to survive overseas, but Jiang Liu sealed his Yuan Qi and searched his spiritual sea.
• The messenger confessed, and the other Grandmasters quickly followed, revealing that they belonged to the Wheel King Palace.
• The Grandmasters explained that their ancestors had fled the mainland from the Halls of Yama and settled on large islands, but they knew nothing about the calamity that had befallen the Halls.

Jiang Liu captured four members of the Wheel King Palace’s Assassin Alliance and learned that they had been gathering intelligence for a possible mainland invasion and had identified the Fifth Judge Palace. He sent Xingyue to return with the prisoners and handle the traitors, then discussed visiting the Alliance’s lair with Gongsun Haoyue, who promised to accompany him.

• The four prisoners revealed that their sect had considered invading the mainland for cultivation resources but lacked Saint Realm martial artists, and that they had identified the Fifth Judge Palace through its use of the Blood Saint Art.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Wheel King Palace had become the publicly named Assassin Alliance and had placed its members on the Assassination List.
• Xingyue arrived with Wind Hall members, and Jiang Liu ordered her to take the prisoners back, send a message discouraging an attack, and leave the next steps to Flowing Cloud Matriarch.
• Jiang Liu sealed the true qi of Dongyang Hu and the other two prisoners, then flew back to Gongsun Haoyue.
• Jiang Liu told Gongsun Haoyue what he had learned, and they agreed to visit the Assassin Alliance’s lair after dealing with the Fifth Judge Palace.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue waited for the people from King Chujiang Hall, then traveled to the Seven Stars Island outpost defense island. Jiang Liu found the island still occupied, and Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing arrived in time to capture fleeing members of Fifth Judge Palace.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue waited on Sea Turtle near the deserted Seven Stars Island outpost until Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing arrived by ship.
• Jiang Liu sent Dongling Rui and the others ahead at full speed while he and Gongsun Haoyue traveled on Sea Turtle toward Seven Stars Island.
• Jiang Liu reached the outpost defense island and learned from a captured martial artist that the island had not been abandoned but lacked manpower.
• Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing arrived and captured several people from Fifth Judge Palace who had tried to flee.

Jiang Liu followed King Chujiang Hall toward Seven Stars Island, restoring his Divine Sea by devouring divine souls from King Wuguan’s statues along the way. At Yao Guang Island, Dongling Heng attacked its defenders, and Jiang Liu spotted Situ Guang among the island’s leaders.

• King Chujiang Hall’s people swept through the small island and left it silent before Jiang Liu resumed his journey behind their ship.
• Jiang Liu and the others passed several islands, where Jiang Liu destroyed King Wuguan’s statues and devoured their divine souls, nearly restoring his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu identified the large island ahead as Yao Guang Island, the main island of Seven Stars Island.
• Dongling Heng flew ahead and knocked out the martial artists who approached from Yao Guang Island.
• Situ Guang led a group out to confront the newcomers, then sensed three Peak Grandmasters and urgently searched for a response.

Jiang Liu and the Halls of Yama forces conquered Yao Guang Island, capturing Situ Guang and many other martial artists. Dongling Rui drained Situ Guang’s blood and promised to release him if he revealed how to keep blood pure, while secretly planning to prolong his suffering.

• Dongling Heng and Dongling Rui attacked Situ Guang as their forces surrounded Yao Guang Island, while Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue watched.
• Dongling Rui brought the wounded Situ Guang to Jiang Liu, who ordered that he not be allowed to die too quickly.
• Jiang Liu’s forces spent two days capturing martial artists across Yao Guang Island before departing without any response from the other islands.
• Dongling Rui drained Situ Guang’s blood to cultivate the Blood Saint Art and discovered that it was unusually pure.
• Situ Guang offered to explain how to purify blood in exchange for his release, and Dongling Rui pretended to accept while intending to keep him suffering.

After destroying the temples on Yao Guang Island, Jiang Liu watched King Chujiang Hall fight the forces of the Five Islands amid a strange fog. He discovered the fog came from qi and dove into unusually cold water to investigate its source.

• Jiang Liu destroyed the seven King Wuguan temples on Yao Guang Island, devoured their divine souls, and meditated as his Divine Sea recovered and expanded.
• The fleets of the Five Islands surrounded King Chujiang Hall’s ship, and Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, Dongling Qing, Fire-Winged Monkey, and the others attacked them.
• Dense fog covered the sea, and several ships tried to escape while Jiang Liu sensed the fog’s source.
• Gongsun Haoyue burned away the qi fog with heavenly fire, while Jiang Liu gathered more fog into a formation and fed it to Sea Turtle.
• Jiang Liu followed the fog to a colder stretch of water, dove beneath the sea, and went looking for its source.

Jiang Liu was ensnared by invisible threads while investigating the hostile waters near Yao Guang Island, and was dragged toward the seabed as his vital energy froze. Gongsun Haoyue and the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle rushed after him, while he continued sinking in grave danger.

• Jiang Liu descended into the dark, freezing sea and found his Divine Sense and vital energy increasingly suppressed.
• Jiang Liu created a Gathering Qi Formation, easing the cold and helping his vital energy flow, but more threads appeared in his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu tried to flee, but invisible threads immobilized him and dragged him toward the seabed.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle noticed Jiang Liu’s disappearance and rushed toward the place where he had sunk.
• Gongsun Haoyue followed them after finding no trace of Jiang Liu, while the Chujiang King Hall fighters continued battling the Fifth Judge Palace.
• Jiang Liu’s vital energy froze completely as the threads dragged him deeper, leaving his enhanced body to endure the cold for now.

Jiang Liu fought the threads emanating from a black hole and rescued Gongsun Haoyue from being dragged into it. The chapter left them facing the opening as Gongsun Haoyue wondered whether it was the Source of the Netherworld.

• Jiang Liu used a spiritual manifestation to cut the threads binding his Divine Sea, then traced Entrapment Formations to escape their grasp.
• Jiang Liu saw that the threads came from a vast black hole and wondered whether it was the entrance to Abyssal Hell.
• Jiang Liu sensed the threads pulling someone toward the black hole and discovered that Gongsun Haoyue was trapped in them.
• Jiang Liu blocked the threads around Gongsun Haoyue and used the Star Cloud Saint Art to restore her vitality and wake her.
• Gongsun Haoyue joined Jiang Liu, saw the black hole, and asked whether it was the Source of the Netherworld.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue tried to contain the Source of the Netherworld, which Jiang Liu suspected was an entrance to Abyssal Hell. Jiang Liu finally trapped it with a huge formation, buying them time to escape while the qi around them was drained away.

• Gongsun Haoyue told Jiang Liu she had read about the Source of the Netherworld in Record of Strange Tales and Miscellanea, leading them to suspect it connected to Abyssal Hell.
• Jiang Liu tried to block the Source with an Entrapment Formation, but it was swallowed and its Divine Sense was devoured.
• Gongsun Haoyue used the Skyfire Staff to ignite the qi near the Source, but her flames went out before reaching it.
• Jiang Liu enlarged an Entrapment Formation to cover the Source, then layered a Stabilizing Formation and a Gathering Qi Formation over it.
• The formations slowed the Source and freed Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue from their immediate predicament, while the Gathering Qi Formation drained the surrounding qi.

Jiang Liu reinforced the seal around the Source of the Netherworld and escaped to the surface with Gongsun Haoyue. King Chujiang Hall defeated the Five Islands of Seven Stars Island, leaving Jiang Liu to rest as the battle ended at dawn.

• Gongsun Haoyue helped Jiang Liu recover his Primal Qi, and he reinforced the Source of the Netherworld's seal with additional Gathering Qi Formations.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue passed through a hidden Primal Qi Barrier and reunited with the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey rushed into the battle to vent its frustration while Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue returned to Sea Turtle's back.
• Jiang Liu rested as King Chujiang Hall's forces finished clearing the battlefield and Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing tried to capture the remaining Grandmasters.
• The battle ended at dawn with the Five Islands of Seven Stars Island crushed, while those who had not escaped were left behind.

Jiang Liu and King Chujiang Hall swept through the islands after defeating the Five Islands, while Jiang Liu devoured the divine souls within their temples. After clearing Tian Xuan Island, his Divine Sense reached 40.01 kilometers, saving him years of cultivation.

• Dongling Rui reported the battle results, and King Chujiang Hall sailed to Kai Yang Island, where the remaining Yuwen Family members had fled.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue visited the temples on Yao Guang Island, and Jiang Liu devoured the divine souls within their statues.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue rested and cultivated for two days before Jiang Liu ordered the group to continue toward Yu Heng Island.
• Over the following days, King Chujiang Hall celebrated its gains as it swept through the islands.
• After devouring the final statue's divine soul on Tian Xuan Island, Jiang Liu saw that his Divine Sense had grown to 40.01 kilometers.

After Jiang Liu revealed his overwhelming power on Tian Xuan Island, he led King Chujiang Hall to Dubhe Island and found it abandoned and stripped bare. Suspecting the Haotian Sect might have allied with Wheel King Palace’s Assassin Alliance, Jiang Liu decided to head east to East Wo Country to recruit guides and investigate.

• Jiang Liu’s aura crushed the temple on Tian Xuan Island, frightening King Chujiang Hall’s people and earning their wary respect.
• Jiang Liu ordered King Chujiang Hall to leave Tian Xuan Island and travel to Dubhe Island.
• Jiang Liu found Dubhe Island deserted, with bloodstains showing that the Bai family had killed those who refused to flee and removed the island’s people and valuables.
• Jiang Liu weighed pursuing Wheel King Palace’s Assassin Alliance or the fleeing Fifth Judge Palace and wondered whether the Assassin Alliance had joined forces with the Haotian Sect.
• Jiang Liu chose to rest on Dubhe Island before sailing east to East Wo Country for guides and to settle accounts.

Jiang Liu led his forces to attack East Wo Country while the Source of the Netherworld broke free of its formations and released Ming Kun. Ming Kun was driven back by Huang Cang, and Jiang Liu’s assault left East Wo Country in chaos.

• Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui to sail east past the scattered islands toward East Wo Country’s main island.
• The Source of the Netherworld drained the formations’ primal qi, broke free, and released Ming Kun, who sensed the Saintly Sky Art and left the underwater space.
• Huang Cang attacked Ming Kun with Thunder, blasting him into the seabed and forcing him to return through the Primal Qi Barrier.
• Jiang Liu told Dongling Rui and the others to act as they pleased, and they led their forces in an assault that plunged East Wo Country into chaos.
• Jiang Liu killed national preceptor Kishida Kixiong with an Ice Blade and killed the dozen Minor Grandmasters who followed him with Annihilation by Thought.

Jiang Liu confronted the Wo King of East Wo Country over the attempted invasion of the mainland and demanded a reason to spare him. The Wo King offered national treasures in exchange for his life, and Dongling Rui took him to the royal palace to retrieve them.

• Dongling Rui brought the captured Wo King before Jiang Liu, who asked whether he had forgotten Koinu Jun'ichirō's invasion plan.
• The Wo King blamed Koinu Jun'ichirō for persuading him to support the invasion and begged Jiang Liu to spare his life.
• After Jiang Liu rejected the Wo King's offer of beauties, the Wo King promised to reveal East Wo Country's national treasures.
• Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui to take the Wo King to retrieve the treasures and warned him to deal with the king if he failed to produce them.
• Dongling Rui carried the Wo King toward the royal palace, deciding to keep him alive as a Grandmaster's cultivation resource.

Jiang Liu searched East Wo Country’s islands and discovered that the people of Dubhe Island were hiding on a remote island. He returned to gather Dongling Rui and the others, while Dongling Rui arrived with the Wo King and two boxes of national treasures.

• Jiang Liu found a disguised ship from Seven Stars Island and searched the northern island for the people who had fled there.
• Jiang Liu captured Nanmen Hong, learned he was from Tian Xuan Island, and discovered that a ship from Dubhe Island had landed on a nearby small island.
• Jiang Liu killed Nanmen Hong and returned to the main island to tell Gongsun Haoyue he had found the people from Dubhe Island.
• Jiang Liu sent Dongling Qing to fetch Dongling Rui from the underground palace, where he was searching for East Wo Country’s national treasures with the Wo King.
• Dongling Rui and Dongling Qing arrived, with Dongling Rui carrying the Wo King and two brocade boxes.

Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui and his forces to pursue the survivors from Dubhe Island while leaving a few East Wo Country locals alive for his purposes. As Jiang Liu’s fleet sailed away from East Wo Country’s burning ruins, Baili Qiang worried about the approaching danger after his family fled Seven Stars Island and were spotted by Nanmen Hong.

• Dongling Rui handed Jiang Liu a brocade box, and Dongling Qing took the Wo King to Dongling Rui’s Second Brother.
• Jiang Liu told Dongling Rui to gather his forces and capture the people from Dubhe Island, while sparing a few locals familiar with the waters.
• Dongling Rui gathered Dongling Heng and Dongling Qing, and Jiang Liu ordered the forces aboard ships to sail north.
• Jiang Liu and his forces left East Wo Country’s main island in ruins, with its martial artists above Entry Grade wiped out and its royal palace burning.
• Baili Qiang recalled fleeing Seven Stars Island after learning that Jiang Liu’s allies had destroyed Yao Guang Island, and he realized Nanmen Hong had spotted his family as they escaped north.

Jiang Liu and King Chujiang Hall ambushed three ships carrying people from the Fifth Judge Palace near the islands north of East Wo Country. The battle left Baili Qiang gravely wounded after Jiang Liu intercepted his escape, while Dongling Rui saw how powerful Jiang Liu was.

• Jiang Liu spotted three ships fleeing from Dubhe Island and told Dongling Rui, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle to intercept them.
• The three ships split apart, and Dongling Rui and his companions engaged Baili Qiang, Baili Ji, and Baili He in three separate battles.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey attacked Baili Qiang from above as Dongling Rui struck him, sending him beneath the sea.
• Baili Qiang fled underwater after realizing Jiang Liu was nearby, but Jiang Liu blocked his path and struck him with a great blade.
• Baili Qiang burst from the sea vomiting blood, and Dongling Rui recognized that Jiang Liu had dealt him a devastating blow.

Jiang Liu’s forces overwhelmed the Baili family fighters as he moved from one battlefield to another, using his Saint Grade spiritual-power avatar to inflict decisive injuries. Baili Qiang and Baili Ji were left near defeat while the battles aboard King Wuguan Hall’s ships continued.

• Dongling Rui and the Fire-Winged Monkey trapped Baili Qiang, and Jiang Liu struck him with his spiritual-power avatar when he tried to flee.
• Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui to restrain Baili Qiang, then flew to help Gongsun Haoyue and Dongling Heng against Baili Ji.
• Jiang Liu’s avatar slashed Baili Ji from behind, and Jiang Liu followed with Nebula Extinction.
• Gongsun Haoyue burned the gravely wounded Baili Ji with her skyfire, leaving Dongling Heng stunned by Jiang Liu’s strength.

Jiang Liu killed Baili Ji and Baili He, ending the threat from Blood Demon Island, while Dongling Rui and the others went to aid King Chujiang Hall on the ships. The Fire-Winged Monkey’s attempted breakthrough was halted, and the fighting at the ships soon ended.

• Jiang Liu cut Baili Ji in half, and Dongling Heng captured his body and subdued him.
• Jiang Liu used Star Godfall to destroy Baili He's spiritual consciousness before he could self-detonate, and Dongling Qing retrieved his corpse.
• Jiang Liu checked that Gongsun Haoyue was unharmed, then watched Dongling Rui and Dongling Heng head to help King Chujiang Hall.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey nearly lost control while attempting to advance, but Jiang Liu calmed it with the Saintly Sky Art, ending its chance to break through for the time being.
• The fighting on the three great ships subsided after Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing joined the battle.

Jiang Liu investigated the Fifth Judge Palace’s hidden treasure vault and brought its chests back to Sea Turtle. His Divine Sea led him to a concealed block of Void Iron, which the Fifth Judge Palace had disguised as an iron chest.

• Dongling Rui told Jiang Liu that the Fifth Judge Palace had left its treasures on the island, and Jiang Liu went there with Gongsun Haoyue.
• Dongling Heng and Dongling Qing directed the excavation of the underground vault, where the group uncovered more than twenty iron chests.
• Jiang Liu had Dongling Rui move the chests to his place, and his friendly response to Dongling Heng troubled Dongling Rui and worried Dongling Qing.
• Jiang Liu sealed the area and searched the chest that disturbed his Divine Sea, then sliced away its outer layer to reveal a block of Void Iron.

Jiang Liu examined the Fifth Judge Palace’s spoils, found Void Iron and materials for an Entrapment Formation, and considered how to pursue the Assassin Alliance and Wheel King Palace. He left the next operation for later and spent five days preparing the formation pieces, impressing Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing with his skills.

• Jiang Liu recognized the Void Iron’s potential for forging three offensive and defensive Voidmetal Talismans, but could not make them without Frost Jade Crystal.
• Jiang Liu gave the Void Iron to Gongsun Haoyue for safekeeping and selected materials to support a massive Entrapment Formation.
• Jiang Liu weighed the dangers of searching for the Wheel King Palace’s hidden headquarters and decided to reseal the Source of the Netherworld before pursuing the enemy.
• Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui to let the group rest on nearby islands, then spent five days forging and engraving five formation pieces.
• Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing were astonished by Jiang Liu’s weapon-forging and formation skills and became even more reverent toward him.

Jiang Liu discovered that the three abandoned statues of King Wuguan contained powerful Divine Souls corrupted by darkness. He destroyed them, but the unexplained corruption raised concerns about the other statues held by King Chujiang Hall.

• Jiang Liu perfected the five formation-base materials and ordered Dongling Rui and the others to remain on the island while he went to retrieve the three King Wuguan statues.
• Jiang Liu probed the smallest statue, and the Divine Souls inside all three statues attacked his Divine Sense and dispersed his vital-energy hand.
• Jiang Liu summoned vital-energy and mental-power attacks, but the three blackened faces of King Wuguan repelled them and absorbed his attacks.
• Jiang Liu told Gongsun Haoyue, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle to stay back as he determined the statues had been corrupted by darkness.
• Jiang Liu pierced the three Divine Souls with Divine Sense blades, making them vanish and causing the statues to shatter; images then flashed through his Divine Sea.