Recaps

Jiang Liu entered the God Realm, where its dense Heaven and Earth Essence stirred and strengthened his essence without causing lasting harm. After arriving on a remote island, he lured a group of Saint Realm bandits into a secluded place and overwhelmed them with his Divine Sense.

• Jiang Liu concealed himself with the Shadowveil Robe and approached the God Realm, where its Heaven and Earth Essence briefly sent his essence surging before the Saintly Sky Art calmed it.
• Jiang Liu entered the God Realm without facing any rejection and flew down to a nearby island.
• Several Saint Realm martial artists followed Jiang Liu, mistaking his concealed appearance for that of a vulnerable Rogue Cultivator.
• Jiang Liu locked onto the group with his Divine Sense and flashed into a secluded spot, drawing the bearded middle-aged leader and his subordinates inside.
• Jiang Liu plunged the leader and his subordinates into darkness and confusion, and the lookout eventually entered the secluded spot as well.

Jiang Liu learned about the Island Alliance’s struggle against the rampant sea beasts and how essence stones supported trade and cultivation in the God Realm. He visited the island’s Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, where his strength became apparent after Zhang Han crashed into him.

• Jiang Liu learned that the Island Alliance and Neutral City fought the sea beasts while the major factions neglected their spread.
• Jiang Liu learned how essence stones and sea-beast flesh aided cultivation and replenished essence.
• Jiang Liu went to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild after sparing the Saint Realm sea-beast hunters who had tried to rob him.
• Zhang Han rushed into Jiang Liu and was knocked back, prompting the guild’s visitors to recognize Jiang Liu as a formidable expert.

Jiang Liu visited the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild to obtain a nautical chart, while shopkeeper Tang Chengyuan mistook him for a competitor seeking the Heaven Gathering Flower. After learning the chart cost five essence stones, Jiang Liu hesitated to pay, and Tang Chengyuan began to see a chance to acquire the flower through him.

• Tang Chengyuan hurriedly welcomed Jiang Liu upstairs, and the onlookers fled after seeing the shopkeeper act so deferentially.
• Jiang Liu asked Tang Chengyuan for a nautical chart of the nearby waters, and Tang Chengyuan assumed he had come for the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• Tang Chengyuan brought Jiang Liu the chart and explained that it cost five essence stones.
• Jiang Liu frowned at the price, and Tang Chengyuan guessed he was short on essence stones and considered buying the Heaven Gathering Flower from him.

Jiang Liu negotiated with Tang Chengyuan over the Heaven Gathering Flower and agreed to sell it to him for 3,500 origin stones and a map of the God Realm after collecting it. Tang Chengyuan grew suspicious of Jiang Liu's strength and purpose, while Jiang Liu went to an inn to rest before searching for the flower.

• Jiang Liu asked Tang Chengyuan about a map of the God Realm and learned it cost fifty origin stones but was not available at the guild.
• Tang Chengyuan stopped Jiang Liu from leaving and asked whether he planned to seize the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• Jiang Liu negotiated Tang Chengyuan's offer up to 3,500 origin stones and a map, agreeing to sell him the flower once he collected it in exchange for all the information Tang Chengyuan had gathered.
• Tang Chengyuan gave Jiang Liu his written information and became concerned after watching Jiang Liu leave without any detectable fluctuation in origin energy.
• Jiang Liu arrived at an inn to rest before setting out to find the Heaven Gathering Flower.

Jiang Liu learned about the Heaven Gathering Flower and the God Realm’s expedition to the Nether Realm while considering his goals in the God Realm. After resting for two days, he left the inn and noticed several people following him.

• Jiang Liu rented a room at the Zheng Family’s inn and discovered that many visitors had gathered on the island to pursue the Heaven Gathering Flower, which was guarded by a God Realm Sea Beast.
• Jiang Liu overheard diners discussing the Three Great Cities’ expedition to the Nether Realm and learned that the Venerables and many Rogue Cultivators had been gone for several months.
• Jiang Liu reflected on his three goals in the God Realm: learning about it, finding cultivation techniques for the Human Race, and gathering resources to strengthen his subordinates.
• Jiang Liu considered how the dense Heaven and Earth Essence in essence stones could help him and his subordinates advance, and wondered what prevented God Realm experts from reaching the Third-Tier Divine Realm.
• After resting for two days, Jiang Liu left the inn and noticed several figures following him, but he suspected they were seeking to exploit him and paid them little attention.

Jiang Liu searched the God Realm waters for the Heaven Gathering Flower and learned how aggressively sea beasts hunted martial artists. He found the flower’s location and drew the attention of the powerful God Realm Sea Beast guarding it.

• Jiang Liu flew to the reported Heaven Gathering Flower site, found the waters strangely empty, and dove below the surface.
• Sea beasts attacked Jiang Liu, and he killed five before fleeing from the larger swarm drawn by their blood.
• Jiang Liu continued toward the flower, evading the sea beasts and realizing that lone martial artists likely had been eaten.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Heaven Gathering Flower’s fragrance and the powerful aura of its guardian, while other sea beasts kept their distance.
• The God Realm Sea Beast rushed toward Jiang Liu at great speed, apparently unwilling to let its prey escape.

Jiang Liu fought a Second-Order Divine Realm octopus beneath the sea while other people gathered above the Heaven Gathering Flower, hoping to profit from the battle. After grievously wounding the beast with his clone, Jiang Liu cleaved it in two, unaware of what its final cries might have done.

• Jiang Liu discovered that the octopus guarding the Heaven Gathering Flower had reached the Second-Order Divine Realm and attacked it with his saber and clone.
• The octopus resisted with poisonous ink, powerful tentacles, and spiritual-force attacks, but Jiang Liu and his clone wounded it and cut off most of its tentacles.
• People who had followed Jiang Liu gathered at the surface and waited for him and the sea beast to exhaust each other, while more Heaven Gathering Flower seekers appeared.
• The wounded octopus let out several unusual cries, then blocked the clone's strike with its remaining tentacles.
• Jiang Liu followed with a powerful saber strike and cleaved the octopus in two.

After killing the octopus, Jiang Liu tried to reach the Heaven Gathering Flower, but the octopus’s allies tracked him down and surrounded him. With the sea beasts closing in, he drew his sacred artifact broadsword and prepared to fight.

• Jiang Liu collected the octopus’s remains and hurried toward the Heaven Gathering Flower as sea beasts gathered at the site of the battle.
• The sea beasts followed several powerful leaders and tracked Jiang Liu’s aura toward the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• Jiang Liu sensed the approaching God Realm Sea Beasts and tried to flee toward the surface before they could surround him.
• An Earth Sea Dragon slowed Jiang Liu with a mental attack, and five powerful sea beasts blocked his ascent as a vast mass of beasts closed in.
• Jiang Liu slashed at the Earth Sea Dragon while a giant crab, giant jellyfish, giant shrimp, and giant sea turtle attacked him.

Jiang Liu fought five coordinated God Realm Sea Beasts in the deep sea, using his two avatars and Five Elements Yin-Yang Steps to turn the battle in his favor. He pierced the giant jellyfish, but its deadly poison spread through the water and forced him and the nearby Saint Realm Sea Beasts to retreat.

• The Earth Sea Dragon, giant crab, giant sea shrimp, Sea Turtle, and giant jellyfish attacked Jiang Liu together, but he broke free of the jellyfish’s control and summoned his Blade Avatar and Flute Avatar.
• Jiang Liu stunned the Earth Sea Dragon and struck its tail, knocking it back, while the Blade Avatar cut off several of the giant sea shrimp’s feelers.
• The Flute Avatar was badly damaged by the giant crab’s currents, so Jiang Liu recalled him and struck the crab with his broadsword, forcing it out of the battle.
• Jiang Liu pierced the Sea Turtle’s essence-draining bubbles and had his two avatars cut off all the giant sea shrimp’s feelers.
• Jiang Liu used the Five Elements Yin-Yang Steps to subdue the giant jellyfish and stabbed through its body, releasing deadly poison that drove him and the nearby Saint Realm Sea Beasts away.

Jiang Liu escaped the Earth Sea Dragon and the other sea beasts after the giant crab unleashed a devastating storm, then surfaced to guard the Heaven Gathering Flower. Six Saint Realm martial artists attacked him to seize the flower, but he killed them instantly while a hidden Divine Realm presence remained concealed nearby.

• Jiang Liu attacked the giant crab, but retreated when it unleashed a tornado-like current that devastated the surrounding sea.
• The Earth Sea Dragon saw the jellyfish's corpse and the injured sea shrimp, then hesitated to pursue Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu surfaced and spread his Divine Sense, sensing a concealed presence and anticipating another attack.
• Six Fourth-Tier Saint Realm martial artists appeared and demanded that Jiang Liu surrender the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• The sharp-faced man and the other five attacked Jiang Liu, who killed all six with Starfalls before they could reach him.

Jiang Liu killed six Saint Realm warriors who tried to rob him, then faced six Divine Realm warriors who had arrived for the Heaven Gathering Flower. After one attacked him over the death of Xuan'er, Jiang Liu killed him with a single saber strike, leaving the others frightened and trying to retreat.

• Jiang Liu's Starfall attack killed six Fourth Tier of the Saint Realm warriors and drove away a hidden Divine Realm observer.
• Jiang Liu searched the corpses for valuables, then realized he had to find his way back to the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• Sea beasts gathered to feed on the corpses as six first-tier Divine Realm warriors approached Jiang Liu.
• One of the Divine Realm warriors found Xuan'er's head, blamed Jiang Liu, and attacked him.
• Jiang Liu dispelled the man's spatial pressure and killed him with one saber strike, while two of the remaining warriors began retreating.

Jiang Liu killed Old Fan after Old Fan attacked him, then faced the five surviving island elders. The elders negotiated for their lives by offering him origin stones, and Jiang Liu heard their offer of two thousand stones each.

• Jiang Liu searched Old Fan's corpse and hid the items he found in his System Space.
• The five surviving elders surrounded Jiang Liu, then Yu Chenghai tried to negotiate after realizing they might not survive a fight.
• Jiang Liu challenged the elders' claim that the attack was a misunderstanding and asked what compensation they would offer.
• The five elders discussed the matter through voice transmission and agreed to give Jiang Liu two thousand origin stones each.
• Yu Chenghai offered the stones to Jiang Liu and anxiously awaited his response.

Jiang Liu spared five old men in exchange for ten thousand origin stones and an invitation to Beast Taming Island, then returned to search for the Heaven Gathering Flower. He found Divine Realm Sea Beasts gathered around it and watched the flower begin to mature.

• Jiang Liu accepted the five old men's offer of ten thousand origin stones and let them leave after recording their names.
• Yu Chenghai invited Jiang Liu to visit Beast Taming Island, and Jiang Liu planned to use him as a future helper.
• Jiang Liu left the bloodied stretch of sea and dove toward the Heaven Gathering Flower's location.
• Jiang Liu concealed his aura with the Shadowveil Robe and approached the flower, which was surrounded by several Divine Realm Sea Beasts.
• The Heaven Gathering Flower suddenly grew from about a meter tall to more than two meters, showing Jiang Liu that it was about to mature.

Jiang Liu stole the mature Heaven Gathering Flower from beneath a sea full of fighting beasts and returned to the island. A white-haired elder from the Zheng Family sensed his arrival and wondered whether he had come to take the family's property.

• Jiang Liu watched the Heaven Gathering Flower mature as its bud changed colors and a storm of Heaven and Earth Essence formed.
• Jiang Liu used the Shadowveil Robe to approach the flower while the sea beasts fought, then cut it down with an Ice Blade and stored it in the System Space.
• Jiang Liu escaped the pursuing sea beasts and flew back to the small island, wondering about the flower’s true uses.
• A white-haired old man atop a five-story pavilion sensed Jiang Liu’s arrival and feared that a Second-Order Divine Realm expert had come to seize his Zheng Family’s property.

Jiang Liu returned to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild with the Heaven Gathering Flower, while Zheng Yunhao feared the guild’s arrival threatened the Zheng Family’s control of Tianyun Island. After considering his family’s dwindling prospects and the island’s essence stone mine, Zheng Yunhao decided he could no longer delay.

• Jiang Liu returned to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, and Tang Chengyuan welcomed him inside, convinced the Heaven Gathering Flower would help him break through.
• Zheng Yunhao watched them enter and suspected the guild had sent a Second-Order Divine Realm expert to take control of Tianyun Island.
• Zheng Yunhao reflected on his failed attempts to split his divine soul and the Heaven Gathering Flower’s value in helping with breakthroughs.
• Zheng Yunhao considered how the Island Alliance controlled the island’s essence stone mine and how the Zheng Family might lose the alliance’s protection after his death.
• Zheng Yunhao saw the guild’s intervention as an urgent threat and resolved to act quickly.

Jiang Liu accepted Tang Chengyuan’s extra payment after Tang confessed the Heaven Gathering Flower’s true effects. When Tang brought out the spirit stones in a Space Pouch, Jiang Liu became interested in the pouch, which Tang said he could not give up.

• Tang Chengyuan confessed that the Heaven Gathering Flower could help God Realm martial artists break through to the Second-Order Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu showed no anger, and Tang offered him an additional ten thousand spirit stones for the flower.
• Jiang Liu agreed to Tang’s offer, deciding he could settle matters later if he learned the flower was worth more.
• Tang Chengyuan placed thirteen thousand five hundred spirit stones and a bolt of silk on the table from his Space Pouch.
• Tang Chengyuan told Jiang Liu that the one-cubic-meter Space Pouch belonged to the guild headquarters and was worth one hundred thousand spirit stones.

Jiang Liu completed his transaction with Tang Chengyuan, who then explained the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild’s feud with the Míng Hé Merchant Guild and asked Jiang Liu to help the Tong Family. The chapter ended with Jiang Liu hearing Tang Chengyuan’s request, before agreeing or refusing.

• Jiang Liu dismissed Tang Chengyuan’s Space Pouch and collected the origin stones and God Realm map into his System Space.
• Tang Chengyuan stopped Jiang Liu from leaving and asked him to hear a request.
• Tang Chengyuan explained that the Míng Hé Merchant Guild and the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild had split after a Tong Family heir violated the Shang Family head’s daughter and refused to marry her.
• Tang Chengyuan said the Míng Hé Merchant Guild had grown powerful, pushed the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild onto small sea islands, and now sought to destroy it.
• Tang Chengyuan asked Jiang Liu to lend his strength to the Tong Family and help protect the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild.

Jiang Liu declined to commit to helping the struggling Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, but accepted a Transmission Stone so Tang Chengyuan could contact him later. Tang Chengyuan reported Jiang Liu to the guild’s headquarters, where Guild Master Tong Chuchu received news from Tianyun Island.

• Jiang Liu weighed the danger of opposing the powerful Míng Hé Merchant Guild and told Tang Chengyuan he would discuss the request later.
• Tang Chengyuan gave Jiang Liu a Transmission Stone, which Jiang Liu stored in his System Space before leaving to meet Yu Chenghai.
• Tang Chengyuan sent Jiang Liu’s information to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild’s headquarters in Eternal Joy City.
• Tong Chuchu surveyed the guild’s deserted headquarters and heard that news had arrived from Tianyun Island.

Tong Chuchu learned from Tang Chengyuan about a young Second-Order Divine Realm warrior on Tianyun Island who had defeated six First-Order Divine Realm warriors. Seeing him as a potential ally against the Míng Hé Merchant Guild, she decided to visit Tianyun Island in secret, and left Eternal Joy City with Xiao Yue.

• Tong Chuchu received Tang Chengyuan’s report through a Transmission Stone about the warrior’s astonishing strength and youth.
• Tong Chuchu considered the warrior’s potential and resolved to meet him before the Míng Hé Merchant Guild could recruit him.
• Tong Chuchu remembered how the Míng Hé Merchant Guild had ambushed her father and driven the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild into decline.
• Tong Chuchu told Xiao Yue to prepare for a quiet trip to Tianyun Island, and the two left Eternal Joy City disguised as men.

Jiang Liu traveled to Beast Taming Island, where Yu Chenghai welcomed him and explained the island’s factions and its ore veins. After Jiang Liu rejected Yu Chenghai’s attempt to arrange women from his family for him, Yu Chenghai asked him to help kill the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts.

• Zheng Yunhao sensed Jiang Liu leaving Tianyun Island and risked attempting another breakthrough to protect the Zheng Family.
• Jiang Liu reached Beast Taming Island, and Yu Chenghai greeted him and brought him inside.
• Yu Chenghai explained that Beast Taming Island had an ore vein and that Tianyun Island held a miniature essence-stone mine.
• Yu Chenghai hosted a banquet and summoned his female descendants to seek Jiang Liu’s cultivation guidance, but Jiang Liu sent them away.
• Yu Chenghai bowed to Jiang Liu and asked him to kill the Ge and Feng families’ First-Order Divine Realm experts so he could unite Beast Taming Island under the Yu Family.

Jiang Liu considered helping Yu Chenghai and the other families on Beast Taming Island resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance, which controlled them and exploited their Star Sand Mine. He asked Yu Chenghai to bring the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts to meet him before he decided what to do.

• Jiang Liu released his Second-Order Divine Realm aura to reprimand Yu Chenghai for treating him like a weapon, and Yu Chenghai kowtowed and begged forgiveness.
• Jiang Liu asked Yu Chenghai about the forces backing the Ge and Feng families, and Yu Chenghai explained that all three families were marginal members of the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Yu Chenghai revealed that the Tranquil Sea Alliance took seventy percent of the Star Sand Mine’s output, leaving the three families little profit and motivating their desire to resist.
• Jiang Liu considered using the families’ resistance to establish his own foothold among the islands and proposed speaking with the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts.
• Yu Chenghai hurried to invite the two experts to Jiang Liu’s residence.

Jiang Liu and Yu Chenghai tried to persuade Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance, but the two men feared the alliance’s retaliation. Jiang Liu declared that he would handle the alliance’s response to the withheld Star Sand Mine delivery and asked them not to warn it.

• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan entered Yu Chenghai’s estate and were restrained by Jiang Liu’s aura until he let them proceed.
• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan bowed to Jiang Liu, then heard Yu Chenghai ask whether they wanted to break away from the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan hesitated because they feared Song Wei and the alliance would destroy their families.
• Yu Chenghai told them that Jiang Liu had killed Fan Changyin after defeating six First-Order Divine Realm experts.
• Yu Chenghai said he would not hand over the Star Sand Mine delivery, and Jiang Liu promised to deal with any forces the alliance sent while asking the two men not to alert it.

Jiang Liu persuaded Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan to join Yu Chenghai in resisting the Tranquil Sea Alliance, then learned about its forces and planned their next move. He left the three to prepare for the Alliance’s Star Sand Mine collectors arriving in three days, while his frighteningly undetectable departure strengthened their confidence in him.

• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan agreed to stop handing over the Star Sand Mine and side with Yu Chenghai against the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Jiang Liu asked the three to explain the Alliance, and they described Song Wei’s rise and the forces under his command.
• Jiang Liu assessed the Alliance’s strength and concluded that killing Song Wei and controlling or eliminating its other Second-Order Divine Realm experts could dismantle it.
• Jiang Liu told the three to plan how to deal with the Alliance’s collectors arriving in three days, then vanished without any detectable vital energy fluctuation.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan were shocked by Jiang Liu’s departure and grew more confident that he could defeat Song Wei.

Jiang Liu inspected the spoils from his enemies and concluded that the remote islands were unlikely to provide good cultivation arts, though they could help him gather Origin Stones and build his forces. He cultivated on Beast Taming Island, creating a massive disturbance that left Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan eager to obtain better cultivation arts through him.

• Jiang Liu examined the items taken from a Divine Realm martial artist and six Saint Realm warriors, found nearly twenty thousand Origin Stones and seven Saint Grade weapons, but no cultivation manuals.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the sea region’s lack of Second-Order Divine Realm experts likely stemmed from poor access to cultivation arts, and decided to use the remote islands to gather Origin Stones and strengthen his forces.
• Jiang Liu began cultivating the Saintly Sky Art on a beach, drawing in Heaven and Earth Essence until sand and seawater formed enormous swirling phenomena around him.
• The people of Beast Taming Island reported the disturbance, and Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan arrived but stayed back after recognizing Jiang Liu was cultivating.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan marveled at Jiang Liu’s cultivation and hoped he could help them obtain higher-level cultivation arts.

Jiang Liu cultivated on the remote island, gauged his progress toward the Third-Tier Divine Realm, and approved the Shockwave Sea Alliance's name while refusing to become its public leader. Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan were left in charge, with Jiang Liu promising to step in if the alliance faced threats they could not handle.

• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan hoped that following Jiang Liu would earn them cultivation arts that could help them break through to the Second-Order Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu cultivated with the Saintly Sky Art until he could no longer refine the Heaven and Earth Essence, gaining thousands of experience points.
• Jiang Liu saw that the beach and seawater around him had lost some of their spirituality and noticed fewer sea beasts nearby.
• Yu Chenghai asked Jiang Liu to choose a name for their force, and Jiang Liu approved the name Shockwave Sea Alliance.
• Jiang Liu appointed Yu Chenghai alliance leader and Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan vice alliance leaders, promising to handle any enemies they could not defeat.