Recaps

Jiang Liu left the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild to test his newly learned god-grade techniques and discovered that God Fills the World could target a victim’s consciousness with a private illusion. He killed a black ape using the flute score, then concluded that anyone who could not break free would die in comfort.

• Tong Chuchu explained why she had not told Jiang Liu about the Long Wave Sword God's call, while Jiang Liu showed no interest in joining the sea-beast purge.
• Jiang Liu used the Shadowveil Robe to evade the watchers outside the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and left Eternal Joy City to test his techniques.
• Jiang Liu entered the nearby mountains and found that the strongest strange beast was a Saint Realm First-Tier holy beast.
• Jiang Liu played God Fills the World into the black ape's consciousness, making it see beautiful female apes until it died in the illusion.
• Jiang Liu realized that anyone unable to escape the flute's attack would die comfortably.

Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City under the Shadowveil Robe, but the city's hidden defense array detected his departure and alerted Long Wave Sword God. After realizing he had avoided leaving an elemental energy imprint, Jiang Liu pursued the familiar figure who had left the city earlier.

• Jiang Liu recognized a familiar aura near the city gates and let its owner pass without reacting.
• Jiang Liu concealed himself with the Shadowveil Robe and flew out of Eternal Joy City, triggering its City Defense Array.
• The array's watchers reported the incident to Feng Changtian, who relayed it to Long Wave Sword God.
• Long Wave Sword God suspected an unfamiliar Second-Order Divine Realm expert might be targeting the Three-City Alliance Oath Seal.
• Jiang Liu realized the array had exposed him, but felt relieved that he had not left an elemental energy imprint on it.
• Jiang Liu identified the direction the earlier figure had gone and flew after him.

Jiang Liu followed Chen Yun to a hidden village and discovered that Chen Fang and Chen He were guarding a secret group with possible ambitions against the Nether River Commerce. He chose to aid the force, attacked the village, and ended up surrounded by its members.

• Jiang Liu secretly followed Chen Yun from Eternal Joy City to a remote village.
• Chen Fang and Chen He sensed that Chen Yun might have been followed and went to meet him after he returned with important information.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the hidden group might be a family within the Nether River Commerce plotting against the Shang Family and the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild.
• Jiang Liu concealed his face, flew back to the village, and destroyed its thatched huts with his aura.
• Chen Fang, Chen He, and a dozen others emerged from an underground chamber and surrounded Jiang Liu, and Chen Fang asked why he had come.

Jiang Liu confronted the Chen Family and used his overwhelming strength to establish his prestige before future cooperation. After he destroyed three of their weapons, Chen He persuaded him to stop fighting, leaving both sides wary but willing to talk.

• Jiang Liu questioned the gathered Chen Family members, and Chen Yun angrily demanded that he reveal his identity.
• Jiang Liu slapped Chen Yun out of the air, then told Chen He he wanted to test his skills in a spar.
• Jiang Liu's aura clashed with the combined auras of five Second-Order Divine Realm Chen Family cultivators, sending all six flying backward.
• Jiang Liu attacked Chen He with his Godslayer Blade, and the clash broke the weapons of Chen Feng, Chen Liu, and Chen Ji.
• Chen He asked Jiang Liu to stop and talk, and Jiang Liu sheathed his blade after making his strength clear.

Jiang Liu fought the Chen Family before learning that they were secretly preparing to resist the Merchant Family, and Chen He sought to recruit him as an ally. Their discussion turned tense when Chen He asked why Jiang Liu had visited the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild.

• Chen He identified himself as a member of the Chen Family and asked Jiang Liu what brought him to them.
• Jiang Liu agreed to speak with the Chen Family, and Chen He led him and the others into their vast underground base.
• Jiang Liu explained that he had followed Chen Yun out of curiosity after leaving the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, clearing up the misunderstanding behind their fight.
• Chen He asked Jiang Liu why he had gone to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, and Jiang Liu's aura rose as he glared at him.
• Chen He hurriedly insisted that the Chen Family only wanted to cooperate with Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu heard the Chen Family’s plan to target the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and learned of a rumored treasure that could help someone reach the Third-Tier Divine Realm. After hearing the Chen Family’s account of the Shang Family’s split from the Guild, he asked what the name Nether River Commerce meant.

• Jiang Liu calmed Chen He and the other Chen Family experts, who proposed that he cooperate with them against the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild.
• Chen He offered Jiang Liu ten percent of the Chen Family’s gains, but Jiang Liu said origin stones could not persuade him to join their conflict with the Shang Family.
• Chen Fang revealed that the Chen Family believed the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild held a treasure capable of helping someone break through to the Third-Tier Divine Realm.
• Chen Fang told Jiang Liu that the Shang Family had left the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild after the Tong Family refused to share the rumored treasure, and that the Shang Family had entered the Nether Realm to seek it.
• Jiang Liu asked Chen He and the others what the Shang Family had meant by naming their enterprise the Nether River Commerce.

Jiang Liu urged the Chen Family to question its plan to attack the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and suggested that the Shang Family’s secret mission in the Nether Realm was connected to the Nether River. He left the Chen Family suspicious of the Shang Family and asked Chen He what he would say if Jiang Liu also wanted to learn what the Shang Family sought.

• Jiang Liu said the Shang Family was likely searching for the Nether River, which he claimed had given birth to the Nether Realm, but admitted he did not know what they sought there.
• The Chen Family considered attacking the Shang Family’s headquarters on the Supreme Continent instead of targeting the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and the Nether River Commerce’s Neutral Continent branch.
• Jiang Liu pointed out that no one from the Tong Family had reached the Third-Tier Divine Realm, making the Chen Family doubt the claim that the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild possessed a breakthrough treasure.
• The Chen Family suspected the Shang Family had leaked the claim to provoke a fight between them and the Tong Family, and they concluded that they needed to act quickly against the Shang Family.
• Jiang Liu privately hoped to use the Chen Family to draw the Nether River Commerce’s conflict away from the Neutral Continent, then told Chen He that he was also interested in the Shang Family’s objective.

Jiang Liu persuaded Chen He and the Chen Family to cooperate in attacking the Shang family, while secretly recognizing that the Shang family’s supposed breakthrough treasure was likely bait. The group agreed to attack in two days, and Jiang Liu left with information about the Shang family as the Chen Family prepared their forces.

• Jiang Liu agreed to cooperate with Chen He and asked to inspect anything they found and receive the Chen Family’s information on the Shang family.
• Chen He accepted Jiang Liu’s terms, and Jiang Liu secretly concluded that the Shang family’s treasure story was probably bait meant for the Chen Family.
• Chen He proposed that they travel to the Supreme Continent and attack the Shang family in two days, and Jiang Liu agreed.
• A Chen Family member gave Jiang Liu a stack of papers and a Transmission Stone, and Jiang Liu left the hall without revealing his aura to their Divine Senses.
• Chen He reassured the Chen Family that Jiang Liu’s participation benefited them, and they began preparing to attack the Shang family.

Jiang Liu left the Chen Family after agreeing to a wary alliance, then approached Eternal Joy City and triggered its defenses. He introduced himself to the Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian, who cautiously asked why he had come.

• Jiang Liu concealed himself and left the Chen Family's underground palace, while the Chen Family members who had followed him lost his trail.
• Chen Fang dismissed the report about Jiang Liu, warned everyone to stay alert around him, and urged the Chen Family to advance its plan against the Shang Family before Shang Yan returned.
• Jiang Liu approached Eternal Joy City, triggering the City Defense Array and drawing the city's guards and powerful leaders to meet him.
• The Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian arrived and examined Jiang Liu, while he identified himself and greeted them.
• The Long Wave Sword God sensed that Jiang Liu was a Second-Order Divine Realm martial artist and asked through voice transmission why he had come.

Jiang Liu negotiated a wager with the Long Wave Sword God after seeking entry to Eternal Joy City, and the two flew off to fight. Feng Changtian hoped Jiang Liu could match the Long Wave Sword God and eventually take over as city lord.

• Jiang Liu challenged Feng Changtian's demand to explain his visit and raised his aura as if prepared to fight.
• The Long Wave Sword God offered to spar with Jiang Liu, promising him free passage through the city if he remained undefeated.
• Jiang Liu refused the city lord's token and proposed that the wager instead be the removal of his aura from the City Defense Array.
• The Long Wave Sword God agreed that Jiang Liu would accept the token if he lost, then flew off with him to fight.
• Feng Changtian realized the two had taken a liking to each other and hoped Jiang Liu could succeed the Long Wave Sword God as city lord.

Jiang Liu battled the Long Wave Sword God in his cultivation space, where both unleashed their full strength. Their weapons clashed in a single strike, leaving both swords dimmed and the duel unresolved.

• The Long Wave Sword God brought Jiang Liu to his private cultivation space and warned him that he would attack with full strength.
• The Long Wave Sword God drew his sword, filling the space with sword cries and sealing Jiang Liu in a storm of Sword Qi and sword shadows.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Godslayer Blade, whose spirit awakened and released blade aura to protect him.
• Jiang Liu entered a new understanding of Divine Strike and stepped into the Long Wave Sword God's attack with a powerful slash.
• Jiang Liu's Godslayer Blade clashed with the Long Wave Sword God's sword, extinguishing their attacks and leaving both weapons dimmed.
• Jiang Liu and the Long Wave Sword God stopped fighting, with neither side victorious.

Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu to become the next city lord of Eternal Joy City, but Jiang Liu refused to take the position now because he wanted to avoid its burdens and cultivate in hiding. Long Wave Sword God offered to wait, and Jiang Liu agreed to reconsider in thirty years.

• Long Wave Sword God praised Jiang Liu after their fight and joked about Crimson Haze’s wounded sword spirit.
• Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu to take over Eternal Joy City, but Jiang Liu refused.
• Jiang Liu considered the trouble the position would bring and focused on completing his deal with the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild before cultivating in seclusion.
• Long Wave Sword God offered to wait ten, twenty, or thirty years for Jiang Liu to become his successor.
• Jiang Liu agreed to consider taking over Eternal Joy City thirty years later.

Jiang Liu agreed to become the lord of Eternal Joy City in thirty years, and Long Wave Sword God introduced him to the city’s Divine Realm martial artists. The chapter ended with Jiang Liu’s position established and his identity ordered kept secret.

• Long Wave Sword God brought Jiang Liu to a plaza where Feng Changtian and Eternal Joy City’s Divine Realm martial artists had gathered.
• Long Wave Sword God announced that his bout with Jiang Liu had ended in a draw, impressing Feng Changtian and the assembled martial artists.
• Feng Changtian and the others congratulated Long Wave Sword God, assuming Jiang Liu had already accepted the city lord position.
• Long Wave Sword God clarified that Jiang Liu would take over in thirty years, but that his status already equaled the current city lord’s.
• Long Wave Sword God ordered the martial artists to keep Jiang Liu’s information secret and told Feng Changtian to erase Jiang Liu’s elemental aura from the City Defense Array.

Jiang Liu attended a banquet at Eternal Joy City, where Long Wave Sword God introduced him to the city's powerful musicians and their formation. The feast turned toward dancing, and Long Wave Sword God looked to Feng Changtian before deciding how to respond.

• Jiang Liu reflected on the challenge of earning the same loyalty and prestige as Long Wave Sword God when he eventually became City Lord.
• Long Wave Sword God brought Jiang Liu to the central hall and ordered a banquet where his subordinates gathered to drink.
• The Musicians of Eternal Joy arrived, and Long Wave Sword God explained that their formation could kill Divine Realm warriors and strengthen listeners' spiritual power.
• Jiang Liu recognized the danger of the musicians' performance and resolved to stay alert.
• A Second-Order Divine Realm warrior asked Long Wave Sword God to include dancing, and Long Wave Sword God looked to Feng Changtian for a decision.

At Feng Changtian’s banquet in Eternal Joy City, the Musicians of Eternal Joy and Rainbow Skirt performed a ballad and dance that drew in the hall’s Heaven and Earth Essence and trapped the guests in an illusion. Jiang Liu resisted the music’s influence, while Feng Changtian and nearly everyone else fell under its spell.

• Feng Changtian ordered Rainbow Skirt to be invited, then Long Wave Sword God raised a toast and Jiang Liu praised the wine.
• The Musicians of Eternal Joy played a ballad that gathered Heaven and Earth Essence and strengthened the wine’s refining effects, prompting Jiang Liu to study the changes for insight into musical law.
• Rainbow Skirt entered through the hall’s haze of essence and danced, while Jiang Liu noticed that her presence subtly changed the essence around them.
• The music shifted into a cacophony that made the guests rise, drink, and dance wildly, and Jiang Liu nearly succumbed before a chill in his Divine Sea cleared his mind.
• Long Wave Sword God was astonished that Jiang Liu remained conscious as Feng Changtian and the other guests stared or danced under the illusion.

After recovering from the banquet, Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City for Sea-Suppressing City, where he planned to meet the Chen Family before crossing the Tianyuan Sea Region to the Supreme Continent. Long Wave Sword God told Feng Changtian not to follow or summon Jiang Liu, leaving him free to pursue his own affairs and seek greater strength while Eternal Joy City prepared to face Crimson Flare.

• Jiang Liu woke in the afternoon after resting and found that the banquet had improved his mental state and musical attainments.
• Jiang Liu strolled through Eternal Joy City, found little to interest him, and returned to his inn instead of the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jiang Liu recalled the Chen Family's message asking him to meet them in Sea-Suppressing City and agreed to travel there as the nearest route to the Supreme Continent.
• Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City without triggering its City Defense Array, while Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian watched him depart.
• Feng Changtian asked whether they should follow Jiang Liu or enlist his help against Crimson Flare, but Long Wave Sword God told him to let Jiang Liu act freely.
• Feng Changtian went to adjust the supervision team's forces and send them to deal with Crimson Flare.

Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City and joined the Chen Family aboard their Divine Artifact Starship to travel to the Supreme Continent. There, he proposed targeting the Shang family's Control Guard first, and the Chen Family gathered to refine their plan against the Shang family.

• Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City and flew toward Sea-Suppressing City, avoiding involvement in its struggle against Chihuang for now.
• Jiang Liu met Chen He, Chen Fang, and the Chen Family at a remote village, keeping his identity concealed behind a mask.
• Jiang Liu and the Chen Family boarded a Divine Artifact Starship and set out for the Supreme Continent.
• Chen Fang and Chen He discussed revising the Chen Family's original plan to attack the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and the Nether River Commerce Guild branch.
• Jiang Liu joined the Chen Family's Divine Realm martial artists and proposed taking down the Shang family's Control Guard first.

Jiang Liu agreed to help the Chen Family lure out and attack the Commerce Guild’s Control Guard, while both sides secretly plotted to exploit and eventually betray each other. Two days later, their Divine Artifact Starship neared Tianyuan City and continued toward Supreme City, drawing attention along the way.

• Chen He asked Jiang Liu to deal with the Control Guard, and Jiang Liu agreed on the condition that the Chen Family help lure them out.
• Jiang Liu and the Chen Family worked out an operation to separate the Control Guard and attack them in the Supreme Continent.
• After Jiang Liu left, Chen Fang and Chen He hoped he would die fighting the Control Guard so they could seize the Commerce Guild’s treasures without sharing them.
• Jiang Liu returned to his room, aware of the Chen Family’s ill intent and secretly plotting against them in turn.
• Two days later, the Chen Family’s Divine Artifact Starship neared Tianyuan City and continued toward Supreme City as its arrival attracted attention.

Jiang Liu used the Chen Family’s conspicuous arrival on the Supreme Continent to draw out the Shang Family’s Control Guard while the Chen Family continued toward Supreme City. He ambushed Shang Yu and left him alive, setting up an opportunity to manipulate the conflict between the families.

• Shang Yu learned that the Chen Family’s Divine Artifact Starship was heading toward Supreme City and sent a warning to Shang Sheng before going to investigate.
• Chen Fang and Chen He discussed how the starship’s appearance might lure Shang Sheng away from Supreme City, while Jiang Liu planned to kill or exploit whoever the Control Guard sent.
• After sensing the Control Guard’s approach, Jiang Liu left the starship and waited as the Chen Family accelerated toward Supreme City without him.
• Shang Yu rushed toward the starship, but Jiang Liu struck him from the air and drove him into the ground.
• Shang Yu demanded to know who Jiang Liu was, and Jiang Liu answered cryptically while watching the starship disappear into the distance.

Jiang Liu killed Shang Yu after allowing him to alert Li Fei to the Chen Family’s hidden strength and supposed rebellion. Li Fei reported the encounter to Shang Sheng, setting the Control Guards in motion against the Chen Family.

• Shang Yu recognized Jiang Liu as an unknown Second-Order Divine Realm expert and feared the Control Guards were unprepared for the Chen Family’s strength.
• Jiang Liu let Shang Yu call out that the Chen Family had rebelled, prompting Li Fei to realize Shang Yu wanted him to warn Shang Sheng.
• Jiang Liu killed Shang Yu with the Godslayer Blade, seized his divine soul, and took his Space Pouch.
• Jiang Liu left for Supreme City while Li Fei waited until he was gone, then used a Transmission Stone to report the encounter.
• Shang Sheng received Li Fei’s message and began mobilizing the Control Guards.

Shang Sheng mobilized the Control Guard to stop Chen Family’s rebellion before its starship reached Supreme City. Chen Fang learned that Huang Jinyu had not committed Huang Family, but Chen He believed their plan could succeed once the Control Guard’s main forces were lured away.

• Shang Sheng learned that Chen Family had rebelled and concealed Second-Order Divine Realm experts, then ordered Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang to intercept its starship.
• Shang Sheng sent half the gathered Control Guard elites toward Supreme City and regretted that his family had previously followed a conciliatory policy toward the other families.
• Chen Fang asked Chen He whether Huang Jinyu would join Chen Family’s challenge to Shang Family.
• Chen He said Huang Jinyu wanted Huang Family to discuss the matter first, and Chen Fang accused him of waiting to benefit from their actions.
• Chen He and Chen Fang expected to lure away the Control Guard’s main forces and overcome the defenders remaining in Supreme City.

Jiang Liu abandoned the Chen Family’s plan and secretly watched as the Control Guards intercepted the Chen Family’s starship. The battle left both sides fighting for their lives, and Jiang Liu departed expecting the Chen Family to have the advantage.

• Jiang Liu hid his trail, cut off contact with the Chen Family, and continued toward Supreme City instead of carrying out their plan.
• Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang intercepted the Chen Family’s starship in a remote mountain range.
• Chen He and Chen Fang led the Chen Family members out of the starship, and both sides fought fiercely in midair.
• Jiang Liu secretly watched from the forest and criticized the Divine Realm cultivators’ coordination and combat techniques.
• Jiang Liu left, judging that the Control Guards lacked their leader and that the Chen Family likely had hidden strength.

Chen He called on the Qi Family after the Chen Family’s battle against the Control Guards proved harder than expected. Qi Feng agreed to attack Supreme City, aiming to seize the continent, while the Chen Family secretly focused on obtaining the Shang Family’s breakthrough secret.

• Chen He sent a message through his Transmission Stone and summoned more than a dozen powerful reinforcements as Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang grew anxious.
• Qi Feng told the Qi Family that he had let the Chen Family operate on the Neutral Continent while waiting for a chance to move against the Shang Family.
• Chen He contacted Qi Feng and agreed to his conditions in exchange for the Qi Family intercepting Shang Sheng.
• Qi Feng rallied the Qi Family to attack the remaining Control Guards and claim the Supreme Continent, despite Qi Kong’s concern that the Hong Family might exploit their losses.
• More than thirty Qi Family Divine Realm martial artists left the satellite city in scattered groups and headed toward Supreme City.

Shang Ji intercepted Qi Feng and the Qi Family outside Supreme City, hoping to claim credit by suppressing them before Shang Sheng could intervene. Qi Feng pretended to accept a withdrawal, then launched a surprise attack, and the clash alerted Shang Sheng.

• Shang Ji learned that the Qi Family was approaching Supreme City and assembled the Shadow Guards to stop them.
• Shang Ji accused Qi Feng of rebellion and surrounded the Qi Family outside the city gates.
• Qi Feng tried to persuade Shang Ji to let them pass so they could eliminate Shang Sheng, but Shang Ji demanded that they withdraw.
• Qi Feng agreed to leave, then attacked Shang Ji by surprise as the Qi Family joined the fight.
• The battle grew loud enough for news of it to reach Shang Sheng.

Jiang Liu watched the Qi Family overwhelm the Shang Family’s Shadow Guards outside Supreme City while Shang Sheng withheld reinforcements. Shang Ji was left badly injured, and his troops began to falter as the battle turned toward the Qi Family.

• Shang Sheng ignored the Transmission Stone and decided to draw out the Shang Family’s hidden enemies rather than immediately support Shang Ji.
• Jiang Liu arrived outside Supreme City and watched the Qi Family fight the Shadow Guards, while Shang Sheng still did not send reinforcements.
• Shang Ji asked Hou Fang and Liu Tianming to have their families help the Shang Family, but neither had agreed to intervene.
• Qi Feng hurled a single-use explosive artifact at Shang Ji, severely injuring his clone and catching Jiang Liu by surprise.
• The Qi Family gained the upper hand as Shang Ji vomited blood and his Shadow Guards began to collapse.