Recaps

Jiang Liu and the Frost Race elders ambushed Ming Qu after discovering he had left his encampment to investigate the Frost Race’s mobilization. They cornered him with four Saint Realm fighters, but Ming Qu resisted their attacks and remained determined to fight.

• Jiang Liu searched Ming Qu’s encampment but found him absent, then spotted Ming Qu returning with a Nether disciple.
• Ming Qu saw Jiang Liu and the Frost Race elders approaching, froze the Nether disciple to delay them, and fled as Han Yue, Han Shuang, and Han Yi pursued him.
• Jiang Liu chased Ming Qu while Han Yue and Han Shuang tried to slow and intercept him, but Ming Qu used the Judge’s Brush to deflect their attacks.
• Han Shuang blocked Ming Qu beyond a mountain ridge, and Jiang Liu immobilized him with Yin-Yang Five Elements Steps before trying to control him with the Soul-Seizing Lamp.
• Ming Qu broke free of the Soul-Seizing Lamp’s control, so Jiang Liu attacked with Heaven and Earth One Blade Chop as Han Yue and Han Yi closed in to surround him.
• Ming Qu recognized that he faced four Saint Realm experts and might not escape, but he refused to surrender.

Jiang Liu and Han Yue, Han Shuang, and Han Yi overwhelmed Ming Qu, but Ming Xuan arrived and tried to intervene. Jiang Liu wounded Ming Xuan’s spiritual sea twice, leaving him dazed as the fight continued.

• Han Yue, Han Shuang, Han Yi, and Jiang Liu combined their attacks to bind, freeze, and knock Ming Qu into the snow.
• Ming Xuan arrived to help Ming Qu, and the three women tightened their assault while Jiang Liu flew to confront him.
• Jiang Liu struck Ming Xuan’s spiritual sea with Illusory God Slaughter, interrupting his flute and making him retreat.
• Jiang Liu intercepted Ming Xuan’s escape and attacked him with Starfall, injuring his spiritual sea again and blurring his vision.

Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp to make Ming Xuan play the Soul-Seizing Tune, recorded the technique, and then severely injured and captured him. He returned to the battle and began purifying the Dark Primal Qi around Ming Qu as the three women continued attacking him.

• Jiang Liu searched the illusion-bound Ming Xuan for the Soul-Seizing Tune’s score, then carried him beyond a mountain ridge to avoid affecting the women fighting Ming Qu.
• Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp to guide Ming Xuan into playing the Soul-Seizing Tune, which Jiang Liu recorded before Ming Xuan awoke.
• Jiang Liu attacked Ming Xuan with the Yin-Yang Five Elements Steps and Saintly Sky Strike, leaving him near death, then took his dongxiao flute.
• Jiang Liu returned with Ming Xuan and sealed his acupoints, frightening Ming Qu and ending his hope that Ming Xuan would help him escape.
• Han Shuang, Han Yue, and Han Yi continued attacking Ming Qu, while Jiang Liu purified the Dark Primal Qi around them.

Jiang Liu purified the Dark Primal Qi around Ming Qu and trapped him in a barrier, cutting off the Nether Saint’s ability to replenish his power. With Jiang Liu supplying the Frost women with pure Primal Qi, they wore Ming Qu down until he died.

• Jiang Liu enclosed the fighters in a Primal Qi Barrier and purified the Dark Primal Qi, preventing Ming Qu from replenishing his supply.
• Jiang Liu sent purified Primal Qi to Han Yue and Han Shuang, allowing them to keep attacking alongside Han Yi.
• Han Yue and Han Shuang realized they could use Jiang Liu as a source of combat Primal Qi and intensified their attacks on Ming Qu.
• As his Primal Qi ran low, Ming Qu weakened, lost his defenses, and suffered increasingly heavy blows from the three women.
• After nearly an hour of attacks, Ming Qu collapsed and died with his eyes fixed on Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu captured Ming Xuan and gave him and Ming Qu to Han Yue and Han Shuang, who pretended to fight so he would not see them cultivate. After secretly swapping their captives, the two began using special medicines and their cultivation arts on the Nether Race elders while Jiang Liu watched with his Divine Sense.

• Jiang Liu placed Ming Xuan beside Ming Qu and let Han Yue and Han Shuang decide how to deal with them.
• Han Yue seized Ming Xuan and Han Shuang took Ming Qu, then they argued over which elder each could use for cultivation.
• Han Shuang suggested Jiang Liu join in, so Jiang Liu took Han Yi away and watched the women with his Divine Sense.
• Han Yue and Han Shuang staged a noisy fight while carrying the two elders away, then stopped and agreed on what to do.
• Han Yue and Han Shuang swapped Ming Qu and Ming Xuan, sat apart, and began their cultivation with special medicines.

Jiang Liu observed Han Yue and Han Shuang absorbing Ming Qu and Ming Xuan’s essence, then assessed the Frost Race’s cultivation methods and the dangers of their mixed qi. After two days, the group prepared to set out again, with Jiang Liu carrying a newly reforged flute and the Nether Race likely alerted to the battle.

• Han Yue and Han Shuang extracted and absorbed essence from Ming Qu and Ming Xuan, then used medicinal substances to counter the foreign qi.
• Jiang Liu considered the regions of Abyssal Hell, the Frost Race’s limited strength, and the likelihood that fleeing Nether Race disciples had reported the battle.
• Jiang Liu and the others waited two days while the Frost Race drew the Nether Race’s attention and Han Yue and Han Shuang refined their gains.
• Jiang Liu melted Ming Qu’s Judge’s Brush and Ming Xuan’s Dongxiao Flute together and reforged them into a new Dongxiao Flute.
• Han Yue and Han Shuang returned with stronger but more chaotic qi, and Jiang Liu told them they were preparing to set out.

Frost God’s forces found evidence that Jiang Liu and his companions had captured Ming Xuan and killed two Nether Race elders, while Frost God worried that Nether God would retaliate in person. Nether God summoned his remaining Saint Realm fighters and led a campaign against the Frost Race, offering major rewards for kills.

• Frost God’s forces searched Ming Xuan’s encampment, found signs of battle, and learned that Ming Xuan, Ming Qu, and the Nether Race elders had disappeared.
• The Frost Race elders realized Jiang Liu, Han Yi, Han Yue, and Han Shuang had attacked ahead of them and killed two Nether Race elders, then urged Frost God to pursue further victories.
• Frost God ordered his forces to camp overnight and continue the next day, seeking out and eliminating any Nether Race elders separated from the others.
• Nether God learned that Jiang Liu had allied with the Frost Race and ordered Nether Que to summon every mobile elder and protector.
• Two days later, Nether God offered an elder’s position and a sacred artifact as rewards for killing Frost Race members, then led his assembled forces toward the Frost Race.

Jiang Liu and the three Han women found that Ming Gan had left, then crossed toward the Shallow Ice Layer Zone while Jiang Liu practiced the Soul-Seizing Tune. They reached the battlefield where the Nether Race had attacked the Frost Race, and the women joined the fight as Jiang Liu prepared to use his flute.

• Jiang Liu found Ming Gan gone and led Han Yi, Han Yue, and Han Shuang in killing the Nether Race disciples left behind.
• Jiang Liu practiced combining the Soul-Seizing Tune with the Soul-Seizing Lamp while the group traveled toward the Shallow Ice Layer Zone.
• The group heard fighting and realized the Nether Race had intercepted the Frost Race; Jiang Liu recognized that the two races were weakening each other as planned.
• Jiang Liu and the three women flew to the battlefield and saw the Nether Race holding the upper hand against the Frost Race.
• Han Yi followed Han Luo's order to help Han Hao, while Han Yue and Han Shuang joined the fight to relieve the Frost Race elder besieged by three opponents.

Jiang Liu joined Frost God and Han Bai in their battle against Nether God, using flute music to create a black dragon and trap Nether God in an illusion formation. Nether God broke free and turned his attention to Jiang Liu, surrounding him with spiritual force to stop the music.

• Jiang Liu saw Frost God and Han Bai struggling against Nether God and decided to aid them.
• Jiang Liu played the Dongxiao Flute, forming a black dragon from Dark Primal Qi, but Nether God shattered it.
• Jiang Liu's dragon fragments formed an illusion formation that briefly dazed Nether God, allowing Frost God and Han Bai to attack.
• Nether God broke the illusion with a shout, shattering Jiang Liu's dragon and interrupting his flute music.
• Jiang Liu resumed playing, and Nether God shifted his focus to him, using the Skull Scepter to surround him with spiritual force.

Jiang Liu injured the divine soul inside the Nether God's staff, weakening the Nether God's attacks, while the Frost Race struggled against the Nether Race on the battlefields. The battle turned sharply against the Frost Race when Han Luo betrayed Han Yi by stabbing her during the fighting.

• Jiang Liu lured the staff's divine soul into exposing itself, then used his Divine Sense to injure it and shatter the mental-power barrier.
• Frost God and Han Bai attacked the Nether God, then retreated to recover as the Nether God withdrew and found the staff's divine-soul aura unstable.
• Jiang Liu saw that the Frost Race was being suppressed in both the Saint Realm and Grandmaster Realm battles, partly because Dark Primal Qi and the Nether Race's cultivation techniques weakened them.
• Han Luo, his eyes veiled by blackness, broke away from two Nether Race Saint Realm warriors and flew toward Han Yi.
• Han Luo stabbed Han Yi in the waist, forcing her back and giving the Nether Race an opening to overwhelm the Frost Race's Saint Realm fighters.

Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp and Soul-Seizing Tune to subdue Han Luo and disrupt the Nether God during the battle between the Frost Race and the Nether Race. The Nether God was left reeling under the combined attack as the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Han Luo attacked Han Yi, but Jiang Liu stopped him and used the Soul-Seizing Lamp to bewilder him before sealing his acupoints.
• Han God checked Han Yi, found her injuries superficial, and returned to help Han Bai keep the Nether God away from the Frost Race elders.
• The Nether God attacked Han Bai and tried to strike Han Qi, but Han God intervened and joined Han Bai against him.
• Jiang Liu sent the Soul-Seizing Lamp toward the Nether God and played the Soul-Seizing Tune, causing many fighters across the battlefield to falter.
• The Nether God tried to reclaim the lamp, suffered a painful backlash in his spiritual sea, and became dizzy under the combined power of the lamp and tune.

Jiang Liu trapped Nether God in an illusion with the Soul-Seizing Tune while the Frost Race turned the battle against the Nether Race. The arrival of two unusually powerful, expressionless figures left Jiang Liu alarmed.

• Jiang Liu’s Soul-Seizing Tune reached beginner proficiency and deepened Nether God’s illusion, forcing Jiang Liu to keep playing as his spiritual power drained.
• Han Shuang and Han Bai stopped attacking Nether God and joined Han Yi and Han Yue in the Saint Realm battle, helping defeat Nether Race protectors and relieve pressure on the Frost Race.
• Nether Yao held back her strength while fighting Han Bing, and Ming Gan was surrounded by Han Yi, Han Yue, and Han Shuang.
• Two powerful auras arrived, and Jiang Liu noticed that the two expressionless figures who appeared had unusual auras.

Jiang Liu’s attempt to keep Nether God under the Soul-Seizing Tune ended when Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He disrupted the melody and restored Nether God’s awareness. Nether God sent the puppets into the battle and pressed the attack against Jiang Liu, Frost God, and Han Bai, while Jiang Liu’s blade strike appeared to have little effect.

• Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He reached Nether God and broke Jiang Liu’s Soul-Seizing Tune with their shrieks, allowing Nether God to regain consciousness and attack Jiang Liu.
• Nether God ordered Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He to help his forces, and they engaged Han Yue and Han Shuang, whose attacks could not stop the puppets.
• With Han Yi left to face Ming Gan, Frost Race elders came to her aid, while Frost God and Han Bai joined Jiang Liu against Nether God.
• Nether God restrained Jiang Liu, Frost God, and Han Bai with his spatial power, but Frost God restored the space and sent a Lieshen Tongguang shadow clone toward him.
• Jiang Liu broke free, attacked Nether God with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Steps and Heaven and Earth One Blade Chop, but Nether God kept advancing and aimed his staff at Han Bai.

The Nether God repelled the Frost God's attempt to control him, then broke the Frost God's Shadow Clone and left him badly injured. As the Frost God struggled against Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He, Jiang Liu and Han Bai faced the Nether God with the battle growing dire.

• Jiang Liu purified the Nether God's Dark Primal Qi with Saintly Sky Art and forced him to retreat from the counterattack.
• The Frost God's Shadow Clone entered the Nether God's spiritual sea, but the Nether God turned the attack back on him.
• Han Bai and Jiang Liu attacked the Nether God to interrupt his assault on the Frost God, and Jiang Liu's spiritual attack forced the Nether God to withdraw his invading awareness.
• The Frost God's Shadow Clone broke, leaving him dizzy and injured as he tried to retreat from the battlefield.
• The Nether God sent Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He after the Frost God while he resumed fighting Jiang Liu and Han Bai.
• Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He attacked the weakened Frost God, who suspected they were combat puppets, while Jiang Liu watched the Nether God break his Starfall.

Nether Yao tried to flee with Han Yi while the battle turned against the Nether Race, but Han Xiao arrived and helped Han Yi attack her. Nether Yao revealed the Ice Soul Warm Jade and killed Han Xiao, leaving Han Yi flying toward the main battlefield.

• Nether Yao recognized the Nether God's Saint Realm puppets and began planning an escape, while Han Yi feared Nether Yao would drag her along as a scapegoat.
• Han Xiao broke free from his injured Nether Race opponent and rushed to help Han Yi against Nether Yao.
• Han Xiao recognized Nether Yao's Ice Soul Warm Jade, and Nether Yao intensified her attacks before he could explain what it was.
• Nether Yao's jade-enhanced Dark Primal Qi poisoned Han Xiao's arm, and she beheaded him as he tried to stop the poison from spreading.
• Han Yi seized the chance to fly toward the main battlefield.

Nether Yao fled the battlefield with Han Xiao’s corpse as the Nether Clan’s position collapsed. Ming Gan escaped with Han Luo, and Nether God and the remaining Nether Clan fighters withdrew, leaving Jiang Liu and the Frost Race victors in control of the battlefield.

• Nether Yao left the battlefield carrying Han Xiao’s corpse while Nether God continued fighting Jiang Liu and Han Bai.
• Jiang Liu used purified Dark Primal Qi to protect himself and supply Han Bai, as Frost Race forces gained the advantage across both battlefields.
• Han Yue and other Frost Race elders surrounded Ming Gan, but he faked a self-detonation and fled with Han Luo.
• The Nether Clan protectors followed Ming Gan’s retreat, and Nether God ordered Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He to withdraw as well.
• Jiang Liu and Han Bai let Nether God escape, while Frost God stopped Han Yi from pursuing the Dongyang brothers.

The Frost Race defeated the Nether Race but suffered devastating casualties, and Frost God ordered the survivors to return home. As Jiang Liu and Han Yi traveled together, Han Yue considered asking to join them in cultivating.

• Frost God and the elders acknowledged the victory and credited Jiang Liu's Soul-Seizing Tune for helping capture all six Nether Race Saint Realm experts.
• Han Yi checked on Jiang Liu, while Frost God privately grumbled about her concern for him and approved of their relationship.
• Han Bai reported that the battlefield count was complete, and Frost God ordered the Frost Race to clean up and return to its territory without discussing the missing Han Luo.
• The Frost Race departed with fewer than a hundred survivors from the nearly two hundred who had set out, and Jiang Liu reflected that their victory had been costly.
• Han Yue noticed Han Yi's strength and resistance to Dark Primal Qi after cultivating with Jiang Liu, then considered asking to join them.

After the Nether Race’s defeat, Nether God punished Ming Gan lightly while beginning to plan how to turn more warriors into battle puppets. He decided to test his method on captured Frost Race Saint Realm warrior Han Luo, then use it on disobedient Nether Race elders if it worked.

• Nether God questioned Ming Gan for fleeing first, and Ming Gan pleaded for mercy by presenting captured Han Luo as a merit.
• Nether God examined Han Luo and discovered he had already been corrupted, then spared Ming Gan’s life but ordered him to face the dangers of Azurefall Cliff before relenting.
• Nether Yao sensed Nether God’s suspicion, left the hall, and decided to pack her belongings and avoid trouble.
• Nether God considered refining Han Luo into a battle puppet and planned to use the method on disobedient elders if the test succeeded.

After the Frost Race celebrated its victory over the Nether Race, Jiang Liu and Han Yi enjoyed a peaceful period together before Jiang Liu decided to return to the outside world. Han Yi stayed behind because of an ancestral commandment, while Han Yue followed Jiang Liu as he departed.

• The Frost Race returned to its base with six captured Nether Race Saint Realm elders and many Nether Race warriors, and the survivors celebrated their victory.
• Frost God entered urgent seclusion to recover from his injuries, while Jiang Liu and Han Yi continued cultivating together.
• Jiang Liu told Han Yi he planned to return to the outside world, and she explained that an ancestral commandment forbade her from leaving the underground world.
• Jiang Liu said goodbye to Han Yi and flew toward the mountains' outer reaches.
• Han Yue followed Jiang Liu, who took her into a dense forest before leaving alone and vanishing with his spiritual power.
• Han Yue searched for Jiang Liu's aura and wondered whether his strength had improved.

After traversing back to the imperial palace, Jiang Liu collapsed and slept until the next day, then found that his vital energy and spiritual power had increased. He reunited with Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang, and brought them to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, where Gongsun Haoyue greeted him.

• Jiang Liu returned to the underground chamber in the imperial palace, collapsed from exhaustion, and slept until noon the next day as white light enveloped him.
• Jiang Liu examined himself, found no abnormalities, and discovered that his vital energy and spiritual power had increased, possibly through the Data Panel's feedback.
• Jiang Liu found Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang chatting in the Imperial Garden, teased them, and joined them for lunch.
• Jiang Liu took the three women to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and noticed that its accelerated flow of time had returned to normal.
• Gongsun Haoyue came out from the Yang Ring to greet Jiang Liu, whose assessment was that she was close to advancing to the Saint Realm.

Jiang Liu told the women about Nether’s threat and warned them to cultivate, then discussed Gongsun Haoyue’s imminent attempt to advance to the Saint Realm. He promised to help her withstand the Heavenly Dao, and learned that the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation’s time flow began returning to normal three days after he left.

• Jiang Liu recounted the Frost Race’s battle with Nether, explaining the danger Nether posed to the continent and urging the women to cultivate.
• Zheng Yunshang realized how far her strength was from the Saint Realm, while Feng Yue and Gongsun Haoyue considered their own cultivation.
• Gongsun Haoyue told Jiang Liu that she could no longer suppress her advancement and expected to be forced to advance within days.
• Jiang Liu reassured Gongsun Haoyue that he would help her advance and face the Heavenly Dao’s attack.
• Gongsun Haoyue told Jiang Liu that the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation’s time flow began returning to normal on the third day after he left.

Gongsun Haoyue began advancing to the Saint Realm while Jiang Liu and the others cultivated inside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation. As her Divine Sense drifted toward the boundless horizon, Jiang Liu realized the formation had not fully blocked the Heavenly Dao’s probing.

• Jiang Liu cultivated with Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang while Gongsun Haoyue stayed away, fearing she might begin advancing.
• Jiang Liu wondered whether the Joyous Meditation Art had changed him, then focused on refining his gains and increasing his strength.
• Jiang Liu took the women, Cuier, and Xiao He to Qian City, then led everyone in several days of cultivation inside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch moved into the formation to cultivate, and Murong Yin and Feng Yue handed more government affairs to the Hall of Governmental Affairs.
• When Gongsun Haoyue’s aura rose rapidly, Jiang Liu sent the others into the Ruyi Celestial Palace and told her to relax rather than control her energy and Divine Sense.
• Gongsun Haoyue’s Divine Sense began drifting toward the boundless horizon, and Jiang Liu sensed that the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation had not completely isolated the Heavenly Dao.

Jiang Liu guarded Gongsun Haoyue as she underwent the dangerous fusion of origin energy and spiritual power to advance to the Saint Realm. He repelled the Heavenly Dao’s apparent attack, but its hidden strands slipped through the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and targeted Gongsun Haoyue.

• Jiang Liu pulled Gongsun Haoyue’s Divine Sense back from a gigantic face, which then faded away.
• Gongsun Haoyue began fusing her origin energy with her spiritual power, while Jiang Liu watched for interference from the Heavenly Dao.
• Gongsun Haoyue shattered her dantian and expelled foul blood as she prepared to transform her body into a Saint Body.
• The Heavenly Dao sent countless consciousness needles toward the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, and Jiang Liu blocked them and devoured part of its consciousness.
• The Heavenly Dao’s concealed strands entered through a breach and attacked Gongsun Haoyue.

Jiang Liu prevented the Heavenly Dao from disrupting Gongsun Haoyue’s advancement, devoured its consciousness, and helped her reach the Saint Realm safely. Her breakthrough devastated the surrounding area and stirred old tensions between the merged sects, while she returned to Jiang Liu and celebrated her success with him.

• Jiang Liu drove the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness out of Gongsun Haoyue’s spiritual sea and devoured it in his own Divine Sea, weakening the Thunder baptism.
• Gongsun Haoyue passed the Thunder baptism and advanced to the Saint Realm, so Jiang Liu moved her outside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation to protect those within.
• Gongsun Haoyue’s breakthrough devastated Silent Valley and alarmed Qian City, while Grandmasters retreated after being warned not to approach.
• Elders from the former Star Moon Sect began stirring as they considered how Gongsun Haoyue’s new strength could affect the merged sects.
• After Gongsun Haoyue controlled her surging power, Jiang Liu brought her back into the formation, where she embraced and kissed him.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Murong Yin, and the others emerged from the Ruyi Celestial Palace and marveled at Gongsun Haoyue’s transformed appearance.

After Gongsun Haoyue advanced to the Saint Realm, Jiang Liu reassured the sect and celebrated with the others, while noticing unrest among some elders. That night, Flowing Cloud Matriarch visited him and asked him to help her advance as he had helped Gongsun.

• Gongsun Haoyue accepted Jiang Liu's advice to recover inside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, and she let go of her doubts about him.
• Jiang Liu announced Gongsun Haoyue's successful advancement to the people outside and noticed that some Star Cloud Saint Sect elders seemed to be plotting over power.
• Cuier and Xiao He prepared a celebration meal, and Jiang Liu fell asleep after the others gathered around Gongsun Haoyue with questions.
• After dinner, Jiang Liu cultivated alone in the Yang Ring while the women went to rest.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch entered the Yang Ring late at night and asked Jiang Liu to help her advance as he had helped Gongsun Haoyue.