Recaps

Jiang Liu fought off the Moon Devouring Clan as the Nether River erupted and hurried toward its waters. A powerful presence appeared behind him as he tried to inspect the river.

• Jiang Liu dodged the Devouring Insect and the Moon Devouring Clan’s nets and poisonous attacks, while his Blade Avatar fought the Devouring Insect.
• The Nether River erupted, and the Devouring Insect halted his attack and directed the Moon Devouring Clan members to take their positions.
• Jiang Liu withdrew his Blade Avatar and flew toward the river, unaware of the black shadow that appeared whenever it emerged.
• Jiang Liu dodged the surging Nether River water and noticed stone fragments piercing the pale-yellow terrain as the water splashed toward him.
• A powerful aura appeared behind Jiang Liu, and he retreated when its pressure shook his soul.

Jiang Liu found the Demon God absorbing Nether River Essence and tried to draw some into his own body, only to suffer severe damage to his meridians. As Jiang Liu struggled to contain the essence, the Demon God sensed something and suddenly fled, leaving the reason unclear.

• Jiang Liu spotted the Demon God absorbing Nether River Essence and judged that the Third-Tier Divine Realm cultivator was too powerful to confront directly.
• Jiang Liu tried to absorb Nether River Essence himself, and it resisted before entering his body through his meridians.
• The Nether River Essence badly injured Jiang Liu's meridians, so he used Saintly Sky Art origin energy to consume it and stop further damage.
• The Demon God focused on the unusually abundant Nether River Essence and anticipated a breakthrough that could help him deal with dangers in the darkness and capture his hidden avatar.
• The Demon God's aura trembled, and he abruptly used his movement technique to retreat and disappear.

Jiang Liu absorbed the Nether River Essence, strengthening his meridians and realizing his body needed further transformation to reach the Third-Tier Divine Realm. After the river vanished, he explored its hardened riverbed and unearthed a huge stone, releasing a cloud of corrosive gas.

• Jiang Liu absorbed the Nether River Essence, neutralized its corrosiveness with the Saintly Sky Art, and rapidly strengthened his meridians.
• Jiang Liu concluded that his body was not yet strong enough for the Third-Tier Divine Realm and continued cultivating until the Nether River disappeared.
• Jiang Liu found the riverbed empty and discovered that the Devil Race members had vanished, likely having retreated after collecting what they needed.
• Jiang Liu found pale-yellow soil hardened by the river and spotted glittering fragments embedded in it.
• Jiang Liu used the Godslayer Blade to dig out a massive stone, triggering a burst of highly corrosive gas.

Jiang Liu used increasingly potent corrosive gas from a pit to strengthen his meridians, despite the severe pain and damage it caused. After a day of recovery with the Saintly Sky Art, his meridians were restored and stronger, and he prepared to strengthen them again.

• Jiang Liu decided to dig out the remaining stones before entering the pit he suspected was the source of the Nether River water.
• Jiang Liu uncovered a stronger burst of corrosive gas, sensed danger, and stopped digging to guide some of it into his meridians.
• The black gas nearly dissolved all of Jiang Liu's meridians, but he remained conscious and waited for it to dissipate before using the Saintly Sky Art to heal.
• Jiang Liu spent a day restoring his meridians and found them stronger than before.
• Jiang Liu resolved to proceed with a second round of meridian strengthening.

Jiang Liu strengthened his meridians by drawing corrosive gas from the pits, discovering that it also improved his ability to purify Nether Realm Primal Qi. After two days, the pits were nearly depleted, so he began digging beneath another stone fragment to find a stronger source.

• Jiang Liu used the corrosive gas to strengthen his meridians and found that the Saintly Sky Art purified Primal Qi more efficiently.
• He endured a second round of strengthening and realized the gas damaged his meridians less as they grew stronger.
• Jiang Liu considered using the gas to strengthen his entire body to Third-Tier Divine Realm levels so he could face the Nether Demon Lord.
• After two days, the first two pits had stopped releasing gas, and Jiang Liu headed to another stone fragment.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Godslayer Blade and began digging down along the fragment's edge.

Jiang Liu used the black corrosive gas from the Nether River rubble to risk strengthening his body, and his first test showed that his flesh had become much tougher. He then began drawing gas from the third pit to erode and strengthen all of his internal organs, despite the danger of failing to recover.

• After storing the third piece of rubble, Jiang Liu circulated the Saintly Sky Art and decided he had to strengthen his body to investigate the Nether River's secrets.
• Jiang Liu let the black corrosive gas erode his meridians, muscles, flesh, and internal organs, then used the Saintly Sky Art to restore them.
• Jiang Liu found that his primal qi capacity had increased and tested his strengthened body with the Godslayer Blade, which barely marked his skin.
• Jiang Liu decided to risk further strengthening his internal organs rather than wait for a safer method.
• Jiang Liu began extracting the remaining black corrosive gas from the third pit and pouring it into his body.

Jiang Liu survived the Dark River’s corrosive gas after a hidden consciousness tried to seize his Divine Sea, and his body was strengthened again. He then prepared to explore the Dark River and uncover its origins and the consciousness’s identity.

• Jiang Liu absorbed the black corrosive gas, which overwhelmed his organs and pierced the Saintly Sky Art primal qi protecting his heart.
• The gas engulfed Jiang Liu, while a consciousness entered his Divine Sea and tried to take control.
• Jiang Liu’s divine soul repelled the consciousness, and the Data Panel destroyed it as white light spread from his heart and restored his body.
• After three hours, Jiang Liu rose with his body thoroughly strengthened and judged himself close to the Third-Tier Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu decided to investigate the Dark River’s origins and the consciousness rather than only pursue the Shang Family Patriarch’s secret to breaking through.

Jiang Liu descended beneath the Nether River and discovered the Demon God Hall, a vast underground space, and a black river surging with Hate beneath an ancient bridge. After his Divine Sea warned him away from the hall, he suspected the bridge was suppressing the river and wondered whether he had found the true Nether River.

• Jiang Liu dug through the last rubble with his strengthened body and found that no black corrosive gas remained in the pit.
• Jiang Liu descended through the dark passage and reached a vast underground space, where he shattered a wall of gas with the Godslayer Blade.
• Jiang Liu saw the Palace Lantern and the plaque reading Demon God Hall, but his Divine Sea warned him to look away.
• Jiang Liu noticed empty gas channels and pondered the vanished consciousness he had encountered earlier.
• Jiang Liu saw an ancient arched bridge whose beast sculptures sent black light over a pitch-black river, calming its surging Hate.
• Jiang Liu suspected the bridge was suppressing the river and wondered whether it was the true Nether River.

Jiang Liu discovered that most of the underground landscape was an illusion and found himself before Demon God Hall. When the hall opened and dragged him toward it, he braced himself with the Godslayer Blade, but the Blackwater River began to churn.

• Jiang Liu noticed six empty gas passages instead of the four he had expected and concluded that others had entered the underground space before him.
• Jiang Liu approached the stone houses, realized they were an illusion, and suspected that the surrounding scenery was false.
• Jiang Liu destroyed the illusory mountains and houses, revealing that he had crossed the bridge and arrived before Demon God Hall.
• Jiang Liu tried to retreat when the hall's doors opened, but a powerful suction force dragged him toward them despite his blade strikes.
• Jiang Liu plunged the Godslayer Blade into the ground to slow himself, and the Blackwater River suddenly began to churn.

Jiang Liu escaped onto the arched bridge as the Blackwater River attacked the Demon God Hall with ranks of animated skeletons. After the skeletons broke through the pillars’ defenses, Jiang Liu realized the river was the true Nether River.

• Jiang Liu used Nebula Shrunken Earth to reach the arched bridge and escape the river’s suction and pressure.
• A huge head formed from the Blackwater River tried to flood the bank, but beams from the pillars blocked it with a black net.
• Skeletons of demons and beasts, each bearing a speck of black water in its skull, rose from the river and marched toward the bank.
• The river empowered a towering skeleton, which broke through the black net; several hundred skeletons eventually reached the bank despite being destroyed in the attempt.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the skeletons on the bank had reached the Divine Realm or higher and concluded that the Blackwater River was the true Nether River.

Jiang Liu watched the Nether River's White Bone army attack Demon God Hall and learned that their blows could weaken its Palace Lantern. As the hall destroyed the army and the bridge's beast sculptures attacked him, Jiang Liu escaped from the bridge, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Jiang Liu watched several hundred White Bone march from the Nether River toward Demon God Hall while the bridge pillars allowed them to pass.
• The White Bone struck Demon God Hall's gates, and their blows weakened the Palace Lantern's deep-blue radiance.
• As the Palace Lantern shattered and the White Bone charged the gates, the exotic-beast sculptures on the bridge opened and pounced on Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu vanished from the bridge just before the beasts collided, and they returned to their places as sculptures.
• Demon God Hall released black radiance that pulverized the White Bone, swept their remains back into the Nether River, and restored the Palace Lantern.

Jiang Liu escaped the underground space and concluded that the Demon God Hall had lured him there to kill him, then fled the mountains. The Demon God, who had also escaped the Hall before, lost his fear and hurried toward the Yellow Springs Mountains.

• Jiang Liu returned to his backup transit point, recovered from the Dark Primal Qi, and found that the transit coordinates on the arched bridge had turned gray.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the underground passage and Demon God Hall were part of a trap targeting him, and resolved to avoid the Hall.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the outskirts of the mountains after considering the Nether River's connection to the Demon God Hall.
• The Demon God trembled with fear as Jiang Liu entered the underground space, then calmed down when Jiang Liu landed on the arched bridge.
• The Demon God left his dark space and flew toward the Yellow Springs Mountains.

Jiang Liu infiltrated the Moon Devouring Clan’s territory to learn about its ties to Insect Valley and the Nether Realm. After soul-searching a clan member, he learned that the clan leader who had led the earlier attack was Devouring Insects and flew deeper into the territory.

• Jiang Liu descended into the mountains, suspecting that the Moon Devouring Clan lived there and intending to question its members.
• The Demon God saw Jiang Liu descend but left without approaching him.
• Several Moon Devouring Clan members confronted Jiang Liu at their sacred insect-breeding ground and attacked him with threads from their insects.
• Jiang Liu turned the threads and insects against the clan members, bound them, and soul-searched one of them.
• Jiang Liu learned the clan leader was Devouring Insects and that the clan members who had absorbed Nether River Essence had entered seclusion to cultivate their Tianming companion insects.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the depths of the Moon Devouring Clan’s territory.

Jiang Liu reached the Moon Devouring Clan’s territory and attacked its leader, Devouring Insects, as he cultivated his Soul-Devouring Insects. Devouring Insects’ insect interrupted Jiang Liu’s strike, and after his own clansmen accidentally battered him, he declared his submission to Jiang Liu.

• Jiang Liu arrived in the Moon Devouring Clan’s territory and vanished before its members could confront him.
• Devouring Insects fed yellow smoke from a bottle to a Soul-Devouring Insect, hoping to help it transform and eventually advance him to the Third-Tier Divine Realm.
• Devouring Insects sensed danger and emerged from his treehouse as his Soul-Devouring Insects entered his body.
• Jiang Liu attacked Devouring Insects with the Godslayer Blade while the Moon Devouring Clan members rushed in and attacked Jiang Liu.
• A Soul-Devouring Insect bit Jiang Liu’s wrist and forced him to retreat, while the clan members’ attacks struck Devouring Insects instead.
• Jiang Liu prepared to attack Devouring Insects again, and Devouring Insects shouted that he submitted.

Jiang Liu forced the Devouring Insects to submit and learned that the Moon Devouring Clan descended from Insect Valley survivors who fled the Human Realm for the Nether Realm. He then asked what the Devouring Insects had used to contain the Nether River essence, and the clan leader hesitated to give up his Refining Bottle.

• Jiang Liu crushed an approaching member of the Moon Devouring Clan with the aura of Phantom Stomp, stopping the others from advancing.
• The Devouring Insects first asked to talk, but submitted sincerely when Jiang Liu's aura surged again.
• Jiang Liu lowered the Godslayer Blade and ordered the Devouring Insects to explain the Moon Devouring Clan's origins.
• The Devouring Insects revealed that the Moon Devouring Clan consisted of Insect Valley survivors who had fled the Human Realm and settled in the Nether Realm.
• Jiang Liu asked what the Devouring Insects had used to contain the Nether River essence, and the Devouring Insects reluctantly considered parting with the Refining Bottle.

Jiang Liu examined Devouring Insects’ Refining Bottle, returned it, and learned from the Sacred Insect Compendium that a passage between the Nether Realm and the Human Realm lay in the Sky Beast Mountain Range. He set off for the Central Continent to investigate, while Devouring Insects plotted to take revenge and ordered Devourer Ye to check on the others’ cultivation.

• Devouring Insects reluctantly handed Jiang Liu the Refining Bottle, but Jiang Liu returned it after examining it.
• Jiang Liu asked how Insect Valley’s ancestors had reached the Nether Realm, and Devouring Insects brought him the Sacred Insect Compendium.
• Jiang Liu learned that the passage to the Human Realm was hidden in the Sky Beast Mountain Range and took the compendium with him.
• After Jiang Liu left, Devouring Insects secretly vowed revenge and sent Devourer Ye to check on Devourer Zhi and the others.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the Central Continent to investigate the passage.

Jiang Liu reached the Sky Beast Mountain Range and sensed black primal qi flowing toward a single point, while Bu He and Bu Yao entered from the opposite side to investigate. Deep in the range, the Nether Colossus noticed that the primal qi it absorbed had grown denser for half a month and worried that something had changed in a dangerous hidden place.

• Jiang Liu learned that Bu He's alliance was pushing the Seven Great Clans toward their central stronghold, though its advance had slowed near the target.
• Jiang Liu entered the Sky Beast Mountain Range after sensing black primal qi flowing unnaturally in one direction.
• Bu Yao accompanied Bu He into the mountain range, and Bu He led his group toward the flow of primal qi.
• The Nether Colossus woke and realized that the primal qi it had absorbed had grown denser for more than half a month.
• The Nether Colossus looked toward a hidden place it feared to approach and wondered whether something had changed there.

Jiang Liu followed the strange flow of Dark Primal Qi into the Sky Beast Mountain Range, then discovered that Bu He and the Nether Colossus were fighting near the colossus's cavern. As the battle began, Bu Yao fled into the forest without noticing that Jiang Liu was hiding there.

• Jiang Liu pursued the Dark Primal Qi, sensed powerful beast clans watching him, and briefly feared the Nether Colossus was luring him into a trap.
• An explosion drew the beast clans away, and Jiang Liu used the Shadowveil Robe to approach the clash between two Third-Tier Divine Realm auras.
• Jiang Liu identified the fighters as Bu He and the Nether Colossus and realized the Dark Primal Qi's flow had not been caused by the colossus.
• Bu He attacked the Nether Colossus at its cavern, and the colossus countered by sending Dark Primal Qi toward the Bu Clan members as the beasts joined the fight.
• Bu Yao fled the battle into the forest, unaware that Jiang Liu was hiding where she was heading.

Jiang Liu watched Bu He battle the Nether Colossus and realized the beast had become far more cunning and dangerous. The fight continued as the Nether Colossus pressed its advantage, while Bu He remained unaware of its hidden weakness.

• Jiang Liu arrived and saw the Bu Clan fighting the Beast Race, then spotted Nether Yao, who had reached the Fourth Tier of the Saint Realm.
• Nether Yao hid in a tree after entering the forest, cursing Bu He for bringing her into danger.
• The Nether Colossus attacked Bu He, who struck its back with his saber, only for the weapon to break against its hardened body.
• Bu He avoided further direct clashes, while the Nether Colossus exploited his caution and concealed the dent left by his saber.
• Jiang Liu observed the Nether Colossus's changing nature and judged it most dangerous now that it had learned to use its brain.

Bu He used the Bu Clan’s Soul-Reaping Sound to pressure the Nether Colossus, but its roars disrupted his attack and it exploited a newly gained talent from the Voidfiend Beast to strike him. Bu He disappeared into the Nether Colossus’s mist, leaving the Bu Clan unable to approach the battlefield.

• Bu He entered the Nether Colossus’s black cage and unleashed the Soul-Reaping Sound, making the colossus abandon its cage and defend against the spiritual attack.
• Bu Yao recognized the Soul-Reaping Sound, while Jiang Liu saw Bu He use hand gestures to produce the sonic attacks.
• The Nether Colossus roared to disrupt Bu He’s rhythm, then charged him as Bu He struggled to maintain the technique.
• The Nether Colossus used a newly acquired talent from the Voidfiend Beast to surprise Bu He with strange roars and struck him with its palm.
• Bu He vanished into the mist, and the Bu Clan members who rushed to help were pinned in place by the battlefield’s pressure.

Bu He proposed an alliance with the Nether Colossus to take down the Nether Demon Lord, and the two negotiated until they reached an agreement. While the beast race and Bu Clan watched them reconcile, Jiang Liu secretly entered the Nether Colossus’s cavern to investigate the strange Dark Primal Qi.

• The Nether Colossus blocked Bu He’s blade-light, and Bu He emerged from the mist to propose that they cooperate against the Nether Demon Lord.
• The Nether Colossus considered Bu He’s strength and its own desire to capture the Nether Demon Lord, but remained wary because the White Feather Sword God had previously betrayed it.
• Bu He and the Nether Colossus communicated and negotiated for about half an hour until their hostility faded and they reached an agreement.
• Jiang Liu noticed that the Dark Primal Qi had grown unusually dense, established a traversal point, and secretly approached the cavern while everyone watched Bu He and the Nether Colossus.
• Jiang Liu ventured deep into the Nether Colossus’s cavern as laughter spread across the mountain range.

Jiang Liu explored the Nether Colossus's cavern and found a hidden barrier where the Dark Primal Qi disappeared. After his Saintly Sky Art interacted with the Dark Primal Qi, the wall turned transparent and let him enter a strange space filled with gaseous partitions and indistinct figures.

• Jiang Liu cautiously followed the Dark Primal Qi deeper into the cavern and found that it flowed toward a wall.
• Jiang Liu heard the commotion outside fade and suspected that Bu He and the Nether Colossus had left to attack the Seven Great Clans' strongholds.
• Jiang Liu explored the wall with his Divine Sense but could not find a way through or break it.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Saintly Sky Art, causing the gathered Dark Primal Qi and his Qi to turn into smoke that drifted toward the wall.
• Jiang Liu watched the wall become transparent, passed through it, and saw semitransparent gaseous partitions reflecting countless indistinct figures.

Jiang Liu found a hidden formation inside the Dark Primal Qi barriers and realized it had trapped and killed four God Realm experts. As his consciousness began to clear, he remained trapped in the formation, though he could still escape using his traversal coordinates.

• Jiang Liu tested the barriers and learned his Saintly Sky Art Primal Qi could dissolve them, but the Dark Primal Qi slowly restored them.
• Jiang Liu cut through several barriers with the Godslayer Blade and discovered motionless silhouettes that appeared to be dead experts.
• Jiang Liu found four lifelike corpses and sensed a hidden formation beneath them, realizing the formation had trapped its victims and made escape difficult.
• Jiang Liu identified the corpses as people from the God Realm and searched one, but found nothing on it.
• A buzz sounded in Jiang Liu's Divine Sea, and a cool sensation suddenly cleared his muddled consciousness.

Jiang Liu looted four dead God Realm cultivators and considered entering the formation’s more dangerous central area, suspecting the two figures there were the White Feather Sword God and the previous Nether Demon Lord. After surviving a stronger formation attack with the Data Panel’s help, he gained confidence, but the formation began spinning him and the corpses away.

• Jiang Liu recovered from the formation’s first attack, searched four corpses, and found a Space Pouch on each one.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the dead cultivators had been peak Second-Order Divine Realm experts and studied two figures battling in the formation’s central area.
• Jiang Liu suspected the figures were the White Feather Sword God and the previous Nether Demon Lord, and weighed the danger against the chance of finding a valuable cultivation technique or secret manual.
• A second, stronger formation attack struck Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea, but the Data Panel blocked it and restored his consciousness.
• The formation began spinning Jiang Liu in place, and two corpses vanished as he sensed something unusual about the rotating formation.

Jiang Liu reached the central region of the Samsara Formation and found a box suspended inside a pillar of light, but the formation immediately immobilized him and drained his Primal Qi. He escaped by traversal, then suspected the treasure and the formation were part of a sinister trap.

• Jiang Liu broke through the remaining Primal Qi Barriers as the formation attacked his Divine Sea, and he resisted without help from the Data Panel.
• Jiang Liu entered the central region, saw the box in the pillar of light, and was unable to move when the formation's pressure struck him.
• Jiang Liu left a traversal point and escaped as the space compressed around the White Feather Sword God and Nether Demon Lord.
• Jiang Liu recovered outside the central region and concluded that its treasure might be bait in a conspiracy.
• The Palace Lantern above the Demon God Hall flickered, and the Demon God stood up tensely before calming down.