Recaps

Jiang Liu entrusted Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan with handling the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s arrival while he considered his soul cultivation and the Demon God’s avatars. Three days later, a Huang Family envoy arrived at Beast Taming Island to collect Star Sand Mine and other resources.

• Jiang Liu gave Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan authority to decide how to handle the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s people, while resolving to kill any Divine Realm expert who could not be made to pledge allegiance.
• Jiang Liu reflected on his soul’s slowed growth, his desire to devour more Divine Realm souls, and his plan to visit the Nether Realm once he learned its coordinates.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan returned to the Yu Family estate, consolidated their Star Sand Mine, and sent scouts to watch for the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s arrival.
• The three leaders prepared for the alliance’s visit, recalling how the Huang, Yuan, and Wu families exploited the islands and how Song Wei had crushed a past rebellion.
• Three days later, Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan met a Huang Family fleet at the docks and saw that its newly promoted First-Tier Divine Realm envoy intended to recoup his expenses from the island forces.

Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan ambushed Huang Rui and the Huang Family delegation on Beast Taming Island. Jiang Liu killed Huang Rui by destroying his divine soul, and no one from the delegation survived.

• Huang Rui arrived on Beast Taming Island and expected Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan to cater to him, but they ignored his hints and offered him no banquet.
• Ge Qingsong informed Yu Chenghai that the Huang Family members who stayed aboard the ship had been dealt with, and Yu Chenghai and Feng Dashan attacked Huang Rui while Ge Qingsong fought the other visitors.
• Huang Rui was badly wounded and tried to flee, but Jiang Liu used a Starfall to destroy his divine soul and then left to refine it.
• Yu Chenghai and Feng Dashan watched Jiang Liu depart, while Ge Qingsong finished off the remaining members of Huang Rui's delegation.

After defeating Huang Rui’s group, Jiang Liu accepted the spoils while the three clans prepared to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance together. Two days later, Huang Yaohai learned Huang Rui had vanished on Beast Taming Island and went to report the suspected rebellion to Song Wei.

• Yu Chenghai, Feng Dashan, and Ge Qingsong gathered the spoils and gave Jiang Liu the largest share, including mineral resources he stored in the System Space.
• The three clan leaders distributed the remaining spoils, easing tensions among their clans and strengthening their resolve to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• At Tranquil Sea Island, Huang Yaohai learned that Huang Rui had not returned from Beast Taming Island and suspected its people were rebelling.
• Huang Yaohai flew to the central region to report the matter rather than handle it privately.

Huang Yaohai reported Beast Taming Island’s rebellion to Song Wei, who mobilized the Tranquil Sea Alliance and led its forces to attack. Jiang Liu met the approaching fleet and swiftly killed Song Wei’s three First-Order Divine Realm subordinates, leaving Song Wei wary of his strength.

• Huang Yaohai told Song Wei that Beast Taming Island had rebelled, and Song Wei ordered Yuan Jinhao and Wu Chongshan to gather their forces for an attack.
• Huang Yaohai alerted the Yuan Family and Wu Family, and more than a dozen ships set out from Tranquil Sea Island for Beast Taming Island.
• Jiang Liu sensed the fleet approaching and flew out to meet it, followed by Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan.
• Song Wei sent three First-Order Divine Realm experts to test Jiang Liu, who killed them with three swift blade strikes.
• Jiang Liu used Ice Blades to retrieve and absorb the three Divine Souls, and Song Wei became cautious about his strength.

Jiang Liu killed three First-Order Divine Realm experts and then fought Song Wei and the other leaders of the Tranquil Sea Alliance. As Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan struggled against their own opponents, Jiang Liu’s first counterattack wounded Huang Yaohai’s clone.

• Jiang Liu used his reforged saber to kill three First-Order Divine Realm experts and absorb their souls into his Divine Sea.
• Song Wei, Huang Yaohai, Yuan Jinhao, and Wu Chongshan confronted Jiang Liu with their clones, while Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan faced five First-Order Divine Realm enemies.
• Jiang Liu fought the four leaders and their clones without revealing his own clone, while the sea churned around them.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan used their movement techniques to evade their opponents and seek a chance to strike.
• Jiang Liu dodged attacks from Song Wei, Yuan Jinhao, and Wu Chongshan, then slashed Huang Yaohai’s clone and weakened him.

Jiang Liu absorbed Huang Yaohai’s clone soul and pressed his attack on the remaining opponents, while Song Wei devoured his own clone and gained a glimpse of a breakthrough to the Third-Tier Divine Realm. As Jiang Liu’s clone trapped Yuan Jinhao and Wu Chongshan in a flute illusion, Jiang Liu launched a powerful strike at Song Wei.

• Jiang Liu absorbed Huang Yaohai’s clone’s divine soul into his Divine Sea, and Huang Yaohai discovered that losing his clone had dropped his strength to the First-Tier Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu pursued the six opponents but could not break their coordinated defense, then turned his attack toward Yuan Jinhao’s clone.
• Song Wei merged with his clone, gained a surge of power, and told Yuan Jinhao and Wu Chongshan to go help at Yu Chenghai’s battlefield.
• Jiang Liu’s clone blocked Yuan Jinhao and Wu Chongshan and played the Dongxiao Flute, drawing them into his Xiao Sound Illusion Formation.
• Jiang Liu unleashed Heaven and Earth One Blade Chop at Song Wei, who prepared to meet the strike head-on.

Jiang Liu’s avatars killed Huang Yaohai and intervened to save Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan from the Tranquil Sea Alliance fighters. The battle continued across the ships, where Beast Taming Island’s Saint Realm martial artists were being overwhelmed, while sea beasts waited for corpses to fall.

• Huang Yaohai ambushed Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu’s Blade Avatar blocked him, cleaved him in two, and devoured his divine soul.
• Jiang Liu’s Blade Avatar reached Yu Chenghai’s battlefield, killed the First-Order Divine Realm expert attacking him, and swallowed the man’s divine soul.
• Jiang Liu’s Blade Avatar attacked another enemy as Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan fought the remaining Tranquil Sea Alliance experts.
• Jiang Liu’s Blade Avatar killed his opponent and devoured his divine soul, while casualties mounted across the battlefield.
• The Tranquil Sea Alliance’s Saint Realm fighters suppressed Beast Taming Island’s fighters aboard the ships as sea beasts launched occasional sneak attacks and waited for corpses.

Jiang Liu resisted Song Wei’s soul-affecting technique and defeated him in battle. Song Wei’s divine soul tried to escape, but Jiang Liu trapped it inside an energy barrier.

• Jiang Liu and Song Wei clashed, and Song Wei blocked Jiang Liu’s aura attack with energy barriers.
• Song Wei used Celestial Demon Grudge to summon a phantom that stirred a violent urge in Jiang Liu and attacked his consciousness.
• Song Wei’s phantom swallowed Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu had allowed it to happen and struck back, making the phantom vanish.
• Jiang Liu immobilized Song Wei with Five Elements Yin-Yang Steps and cleaved him in half with a blade radiance.
• Song Wei’s divine soul fled but hit Jiang Liu’s energy barrier, which contracted around it.

Jiang Liu secured Song Wei’s Space Pouch, then withdrew to recover before devouring Song Wei’s Divine Soul. As the Divine Soul vanished, Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea broke through its limit, bringing his mental power to the Third-Tier Divine Realm.

• Jiang Liu searched Song Wei’s corpse, found a hidden Space Pouch, and kept it while holding Song Wei’s Divine Soul captive.
• Jiang Liu saw that his allies and avatars had the remaining Tranquil Sea Alliance fighters under control, then left to recover in a secluded place.
• After an hour, Jiang Liu drew Song Wei’s Divine Soul into his Divine Sea and used it to expand the sea.
• Jiang Liu’s rising aura killed the sea beasts below as Song Wei’s Divine Soul dissipated and a spirit figure appeared above the Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu reached the Third-Tier Divine Realm, and the Flute Avatar and Blade Avatar felt their auras rise as well.

After his Divine Sea breakthrough, Jiang Liu discovered that the Heaven and Earth Essence now drew toward him and learned from Song Wei’s memories that he had once been Zhong Changhe, a Riyue City genius who fled Rì Yuè Honored One’s scheme. The chapter ended with Jiang Liu questioning why a God Realm Revered One had distributed Devil Race cultivation arts and what had happened to the other gifted practitioners.

• Jiang Liu found that his spiritual-power avatar could guard the Spirit Sea Space and protect his other avatars from soul attacks.
• Jiang Liu sensed his Divine Sea had expanded, felt Heaven and Earth Essence gathering around him, and realized this would accelerate his cultivation.
• Jiang Liu read Song Wei’s memories and learned that Song Wei’s real name was Zhong Changhe, once a favored subordinate of Rì Yuè Honored One.
• Zhong Changhe discovered that Rì Yuè Honored One’s cultivation art was turning him into a demonic body, faked his death, and fled to the Endless Sea Domain.
• Jiang Liu recognized Zhong Changhe’s Celestial Demon Grudge as a technique from a Devil Race cultivation art and wondered why Rì Yuè Honored One had given such arts to geniuses.

Jiang Liu deduced that the Rì Yuè Honored One was likely a God Race and Devil Race hybrid who secretly raised people to cultivate and be devoured, but chose not to expose the conspiracy. After the fighting subsided, Jiang Liu looted Zhong Changhe’s Space Pouch and headed toward the ships.

• Jiang Liu connected Zhong Changhe’s ability to use Devil Race techniques with the possibility that God Realm cultivators who used them were hybrids of the God Race and Devil Race.
• Jiang Liu inferred that the Rì Yuè Honored One was likely a hybrid who raised cultivators as a secret source of resources and planned to wait for an opportunity to use the conspiracy to foment chaos.
• The fighting at the distant battlefields quieted as Jiang Liu opened Zhong Changhe’s Space Pouch.
• Jiang Liu found more than two hundred thousand primal stones, ores, and several Devil Race cultivation manuals, then stored the loot in his System Space.
• Jiang Liu hung the Space Pouch at his waist and flew toward the large ships as the sea grew more turbulent.

Jiang Liu arrived to save the remaining Beast Taming Island warriors from a sea-beast attack and discovered that breaking through his Divine Sea’s limit had changed how he wielded essence energy. After rescuing them and recovering his exhausted clones, he found their divine souls had grown stronger, raising the possibility that they could cultivate independently.

• Jiang Liu reached the besieged ships and used his Divine Sense to suppress the sea beasts attacking the remaining Beast Taming Island warriors.
• Jiang Liu slaughtered the sea beasts, noticed his blade and essence energy had become easier to use, and rescued Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, Feng Dashan, and the others.
• The Second-Order Divine Realm sea beasts fled before Jiang Liu reached them, and he recalled his exhausted clones into his Divine Sea to recover.
• Jiang Liu discovered that his clones’ divine souls had grown stronger and wondered whether they could advance on their own, contrary to the usual rules for Divine Realm clones.

After Jiang Liu helped Beast Taming Island destroy Song Wei’s army, he ordered Yu Chenghai and the others to take Tranquil Sea Island, promising to intervene if they faced resistance. As the news spread and island forces prepared to acknowledge Beast Taming Island, the Qin, You, and Xu Families decided to surrender.

• Jiang Liu told Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan to announce the victory and eliminate the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s remaining forces, then agreed to follow them in secret.
• Yu Chenghai and the others led Beast Taming Island’s survivors toward Tranquil Sea Island.
• News of Song Wei’s defeat spread across the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s territory, and smaller island forces began preparing to pay their respects to Beast Taming Island.
• The leaders and eight First-Order Divine Realm experts of the Qin, You, and Xu Families gathered on Tranquil Sea Island to discuss their next move.
• Qin Feng concluded that the families had no chance of resisting Beast Taming Island and said they would surrender when its forces arrived.

Yu Chenghai and his allies peacefully took control of the Tranquil Sea Alliance after You He, Qin Feng, and Xu Jiao chose to submit. Yu Chenghai claimed leadership, and the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s core forces dissolved into his new faction.

• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan met You He, Qin Feng, and Xu Jiao on Tranquil Sea Island and realized the three had come to submit.
• Qin Feng praised Yu Chenghai and his allies for killing Song Wei, while suspecting a powerful unseen figure was watching them.
• The two groups entered the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s council hall together as Jiang Liu watched from the sky.
• Yu Chenghai destroyed the alliance’s plaque, took the central seat, and Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan sat beside him.
• Qin Feng, You He, Xu Jiao, and their followers saluted Yu Chenghai as Alliance Leader, ending the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s independent core.

Yu Chenghai brought the Qin, You, and Xu Families into the Shockwave Sea Alliance and prepared to take control of the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s island forces. Jiang Liu set lighter tribute rules to help the islands grow, leaving Yu Chenghai to organize the takeover while he stayed to cultivate.

• Yu Chenghai welcomed the Qin, You, and Xu Families into the Shockwave Sea Alliance and warned that the Sunset Alliance might resume raiding Mount Island after Song Wei’s death.
• Yu Chenghai ordered the island leaders to gather for a meeting, and the three families handed over Tranquil Sea Island’s financial affairs before their leaders and others departed to visit the islands.
• Yu Chenghai reported to Jiang Liu that preparations were underway and asked how much income each island should pay the alliance.
• Jiang Liu ordered each island to hand over sixty percent of its income, forbade harsh exploitation, claimed half of the alliance’s collections, and let existing forces keep their territories and govern any new islands they conquered.
• Yu Chenghai left excited to carry out Jiang Liu’s orders, while Jiang Liu stayed on the mountain peak to cultivate and let the islands develop.

Yu Chenghai announced the Shockwave Sea Alliance’s rules for the former Tranquil Sea Alliance territory, reassuring its island forces while leaving Han Qi worried about Mount Island’s safety. Jiang Liu summoned Han Qi because he wanted to learn about Mount Island’s Star Iron Stone.

• Yu Chenghai announced that the former Tranquil Sea Alliance territory would join the Shockwave Sea Alliance and that island forces could retain their current balance of power while handing over fewer resources.
• Zheng Yunhao rejoiced that Tianyun Island’s yuanstone mine and family holdings would be protected, while Han Qi worried that Mount Island would be vulnerable to the Sunset Alliance.
• Jiang Liu instructed Yu Chenghai to summon Han Qi, having learned that Mount Island’s Star Iron Stone might help forge divine artifacts.
• Han Qi flew to the highest peak and met Jiang Liu, whose immense pressure convinced him that Mount Island could be saved by gaining the powerful leader’s favor.
• Jiang Liu asked Han Qi whether he had brought any Star Iron Stone.

Han Qi offered Jiang Liu Mount Island’s rare Star Iron Stones, and Jiang Liu planned to use them to forge weapons for himself and his clones. After learning the ore supply and materials needed, Jiang Liu decided to go to Mount Island and asked Han Qi to prepare its earthfire.

• Han Qi presented Jiang Liu with several unusually large chunks of Star Iron Stone, which Jiang Liu found exceptionally dense and hard.
• Jiang Liu asked Han Qi which materials paired best with Star Iron Stone, and Han Qi recommended several ores and Sky Net Pool Water for quenching.
• Han Qi said Mount Island’s Star Iron Stone reserves could forge about two great sabers, and Jiang Liu planned to gather ore across the Shockwave Sea Alliance.
• Jiang Liu asked whether Mount Island had earthfire for forging, then told Han Qi to prepare for his visit.
• Han Qi hurried back to Mount Island, worried the Wu Family might seize its stored Star Iron Stone, while Jiang Liu flew toward the Shockwave Sea Alliance’s main hall.

Jiang Liu collected the ores he needed and traveled to Mount Island to use its Heart-Rending Earth-Fire for forging. Han Qi led him to the Ultimate Furnace, while the island’s smiths wondered what Jiang Liu intended to make.

• Jiang Liu instructed Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan to collect specific ores and exempt the supplying islands from their shares.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan returned the next day with the ores, and Jiang Liu flew from Tranquil Sea Island to Mount Island.
• Han Qi greeted Jiang Liu, escorted him into Mount Island, and arranged patrols to keep others from disturbing him.
• Jiang Liu inspected the forging chamber and judged the smiths’ skills as unimpressive while they worked over the earth-fire furnaces.
• Han Qi led Jiang Liu to the Ultimate Furnace and explained that it contained Mount Island’s Heart-Rending Earth-Fire, which could smelt Star Iron Stone.

Jiang Liu took control of the Heart-Rending Earth-Fire and tested whether his Array Furnace could withstand its heat. After the furnace held firm, he began smelting all the Star Iron Stone Han Qi had provided.

• Han Qi explained the fire-control array to Jiang Liu and left him alone in the underground forge.
• Jiang Liu moved the Ultimate Furnace aside and positioned his Array Furnace over the nine fire outlets.
• Jiang Liu used his Blade Avatar and another avatar to control the Heart-Rending Earth-Fire and assist with smelting.
• The Array Furnace turned scarlet but withstood the flames, its inscribed arrays protecting it from the heat.
• Jiang Liu put all the Star Iron Stone into the Array Furnace to refine it.

Jiang Liu forged a great blade from Star Iron Stone and other precious ores, and its newly born spirit endured his repeated hammering and calcination. The blade advanced to the Divine Realm, recognized Jiang Liu as its master, and demonstrated that others could not wield its full power.

• Jiang Liu divided the purified materials into portions for two great blades and two Dongxiao Flutes, then began forging a great blade in the Array Furnace.
• Jiang Liu melted the ores together, poured the liquid into a blade mold, and hammered the forming weapon with Saint-artifact forging tools.
• A divine soul emerged from the unfinished blade and grew weak as Jiang Liu continued hammering and calcining it.
• Jiang Liu delivered the final hammer blow, and the blade's soul returned to the finished weapon as it advanced to the Divine Realm.
• The blade's divine soul called Jiang Liu its master, and Jiang Liu realized that anyone else could wield it only as an ordinary weapon.

Jiang Liu tested the newly forged Godslayer Blade, then forged a Dongxiao Flute whose Artifact Spirit was born at the Divine Realm. He left the underground space to test the flute’s power.

• Jiang Liu tested the Godslayer Blade on his skin, named its Artifact Spirit Godslayer, and rested to recover his vital energy and mental strength.
• Jiang Liu used the Heart-Rending Earth-Fire and Array Furnace to melt materials for a Dongxiao Flute, then hammered the flute into shape.
• Jiang Liu worried when no Artifact Spirit appeared during the forging, but the finished flute shone with seven-colored light and produced a Divine Realm Artifact Spirit.
• Jiang Liu collected the Array Furnace and remaining materials into the System Space and flew out to test the Dongxiao Flute, while his avatars followed or returned to his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu tested the Dongxiao Flute’s improved Xiao Sound Illusion Formation on the sea, then named the flute the Phantom Soul Flute. He returned to Mount Island and learned from Han Qi that the Wu Family of the Sunset Alliance had come again.

• Jiang Liu played the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation over the sea, drawing a swarm of sea beasts that gathered and listened to his melody.
• A cry from beneath the seabed stirred the sea beasts into a chaotic battle, while Jiang Liu spotted a peak Second-Order Divine Realm beast emerging from the water.
• Jiang Liu stopped playing, left the sea-beast melee, and concluded that the Dongxiao Flute greatly strengthened his formation.
• Jiang Liu named the Dongxiao Flute the Phantom Soul Flute and flew back toward Mount Island.
• Han Qi met Jiang Liu and told him that the Wu Family of the Sunset Alliance had come again.

Jiang Liu killed Wu Family head Wu Wuji in one strike, turning the battle for Mount Island in the Han Family’s favor. Han Qi led the Han Family in wiping out the invaders while Jiang Liu stopped anyone from escaping, leaving only two Wu Family fighters alive after an hour.

• Han Qi told Jiang Liu that Wu Family forces were approaching Mount Island, and Jiang Liu flew out to meet them.
• Jiang Liu froze Wu Wuji and killed him with a single slash, then captured his divine soul in a transparent sphere.
• After discovering Wu Wuji’s corpse, the Wu Family fighters gathered around it as Han Qi ordered the Han Family to surround them.
• Han Qi charged Wu Wufeng, and the Han and Wu Families resumed fighting across the sea.
• Jiang Liu used Ice Blades to stop fleeing Wu Family fighters, and after an hour only two invaders remained.

Jiang Liu killed the Wu Family warriors attacking Mount Island and collected their divine souls, allowing the Han Family to claim the spoils. A He Family scout reported the defeat to the Sunset Alliance, leaving its leaders to learn that Wu Wuji's force had been wiped out.

• Jiang Liu killed Wu Wufeng and the Wu Family's last First-Order Divine Realm warrior, while Han Qi and Han Yu's forces finished their fight.
• Jiang Liu stored the two divine souls and left to have his clones devour them before returning to forge more divine artifacts.
• Han Qi led the Han Family warriors to gather the Wu Family's spoils as a He Family boat quietly departed Mount Island.
• At a Sunset Alliance meeting, He Qianli received a report that everyone Wu Wuji had taken to Mount Island had been killed.

After reports confirmed that Wu Wuji and his party had been killed on Mount Island, the Sunset Alliance’s leaders debated how to respond to the Shockwave Sea Alliance. The other families turned toward sacrificing the Wu Family, and Wu Tianji erupted with power as the meeting continued.

• He Qianli revealed that Wu Wuji’s party had gone to Mount Island and said his subordinate reported they had all been killed.
• The family heads doubted the report at first, then waited for their communication envoys to confirm the news.
• Six envoys arrived and reported the situation, leaving Wu Tianji deathly pale.
• Chen Daying, Luo Tianfei, and Wang Fuzu argued that the Wu Family should give the Shockwave Sea Alliance an explanation, while Hou Bo urged them to communicate first.
• Wu Tianji released a powerful aura that enveloped the hall.