Recaps

Jiang Liu tried to free Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian from the Voidnether Worm’s control by using his flute and attempting to construct a Phantom Sound Space. His first attempt at forming the space collapsed under the strain, leaving him vulnerable to Feng Changtian’s sword thrust.

• The Voidnether Worm strengthened its control over Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian as Jiang Liu’s flute briefly interrupted their attacks.
• Jiang Liu evaded the two martial artists while playing God Fills the World and considered how to rescue them without feeding the beast’s control.
• Jiang Liu decided to build a Phantom Sound Space to isolate his flute attacks and shield the two from the Voidnether Worm.
• Jiang Liu tried to assemble the space from countless vital-energy blocks, but they collapsed before he could gather enough.
• Feng Changtian seized the opening and thrust his sword at Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu experimented with forming a Phantom Sound Space while fighting Feng Changtian and Long Wave Sword God, but the Voidnether Worm disrupted his attempt. After replenishing his Primal Qi and spiritual power, he successfully tested the technique on a sea beast and became confident he could use it to trap the two men.

• Jiang Liu dodged Feng Changtian and Long Wave Sword God's attacks while attempting to control Primal Qi blocks with the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation.
• The Voidnether Worm compressed the space around Jiang Liu and shattered his Primal Qi blocks, forcing him to use traversal to escape.
• Jiang Liu replenished his Primal Qi and spiritual power by circulating the Heavenly Evolution Codex outside the hidden space.
• Jiang Liu used the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation to surround a fish-like sea beast with Primal Qi blocks and seal it inside an isolated space.
• Jiang Liu found that he could not sense what happened inside the sealed space unless he controlled the blocks, and grew confident he could trap Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian.

Jiang Liu returned to the insect beast’s secret space to free the Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian, but they and the Ray Worms attacked him while the insect beast remained hidden. After struggling to form a Phantom Sound Space around Feng Changtian, Jiang Liu changed tactics and successfully trapped the Long Wave Sword God.

• Jiang Liu practiced constructing the Phantom Sound Space on the sea beasts, then recovered and used Traversal to return to the secret space.
• The Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian attacked Jiang Liu alongside the converging Ray Worms, while their improved combat abilities suggested the insect beast was recovering.
• Jiang Liu tried to enclose Feng Changtian in a Phantom Sound Space, but Feng Changtian shattered the essence-energy cubes and disrupted Jiang Liu’s formation.
• Jiang Liu reduced the number of cubes he controlled and redirected them toward the Long Wave Sword God.
• Jiang Liu formed a Phantom Sound Space around the Long Wave Sword God, trapping him inside without the space collapsing.

Jiang Liu used his Phantom Sound Space to restrain Long Wave Sword God and sever the Voidnether Worm’s control over him, but Feng Changtian’s strength surged to the full level of a Third-Tier Divine Realm expert. Jiang Liu struggled to contain Feng Changtian while maintaining the space, as the recovering insect beast joined the attack and threatened to overwhelm him.

• Jiang Liu realized his Phantom Sound Space had improved his control over mental power, vital energy, and space, and planned to use it to rescue Feng Changtian and Long Wave Sword God.
• Feng Changtian attacked Jiang Liu, who dodged with Nebula Shrunken Earth and tried to surround him with vital-energy cubes.
• Feng Changtian erupted with power, shattered the cubes, and destabilized the Phantom Sound Space before reaching the battle power of a true Third-Tier Divine Realm expert.
• Jiang Liu maintained the xiao music to defend against Feng Changtian and keep Long Wave Sword God restrained while the Voidnether Worm coordinated attacks through the surrounding space.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the Voidnether Worm was recovering and realized he needed to subdue Feng Changtian quickly, even as his understanding of the Space Rule continued to grow.

Jiang Liu battled Feng Changtian with repeated essence-qi sword attacks while the Voidnether Worm stirred Soul-Devouring Insects in the cracks around them. Feng Changtian briefly regained his senses, warned Jiang Liu to flee, and died after striking at the beast, leaving Jiang Liu grief-stricken over his failed attempt to save him.

• Jiang Liu switched to God Fills the World and Phantom Stomp, repeatedly sending Divine Strike against Feng Changtian.
• The Voidnether Worm stirred, causing evolved Soul-Devouring Insects to emerge from the cracks, but they hesitated to attack Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu's relentless attacks weakened Feng Changtian while the Voidnether Worm reached a critical point in recovering its strength.
• Feng Changtian regained consciousness, ignored Jiang Liu's sword, and struck at the Soul-Devouring Insects and Voidnether Worm.
• Feng Changtian warned Jiang Liu to leave, then died as his aura vanished; Jiang Liu stopped attacking and mourned that he had failed to save him.

After Feng Changtian died, Long Wave Sword God mourned his longtime friend and recalled how they had built Eternal Joy City together. His grief triggered a breakthrough to the Third-Tier Divine Realm, and Jiang Liu turned his attention to a figure appearing by the boundary wall.

• Long Wave Sword God emerged from the shattered Phantom Sound Space and found Feng Changtian's corpse, while Jiang Liu suspected Feng Changtian had chosen to die to reveal the insect beast's weakness.
• Long Wave Sword God recalled meeting Feng Changtian and how they had become friends and partners in establishing Eternal Joy City's rule over the Neutral Continent.
• Long Wave Sword God realized the insect beast had controlled him and Feng Changtian, and understood that Jiang Liu had tried to save them both.
• Long Wave Sword God's grief unleashed elemental energy, alarming Jiang Liu, who feared the insect beast might control him again.
• Long Wave Sword God broke through to the Third-Tier Divine Realm, crushing nearby Ray Worms and Soul-Devouring Insects with his aura.
• Jiang Liu looked toward a figure that appeared by the boundary wall.

Jiang Liu attacked the recovering Voidnether Worm while the Sky Devouring Cat devoured the Soul-Devouring Insects. The chapter ended with Long Wave Sword God completing his breakthrough as the Sky Devouring Cat began refining its meal.

• Jiang Liu struck the Voidnether Worm to stop it from recovering, and it sent the Soul-Devouring Insects to delay him.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Sky Devouring Cat, which frightened the Soul-Devouring Insects and chased them down to eat them.
• The Voidnether Worm created an illusion, but Jiang Liu broke through it and landed attacks that made the worm fight more cautiously.
• The Sky Devouring Cat ate every Soul-Devouring Insect, grew stronger, and curled up to refine them.
• Long Wave Sword God stabilized his aura and completed his breakthrough.

Jiang Liu realized the Voidnether Worm was using the fighters’ attacks to weaken the restriction sealing it, so he tried to escape with the Long Wave Sword God instead of fighting. At the spatial wall, Jiang Liu discovered that the Voidnether Worm controlled only part of the enormous web of cages.

• The Long Wave Sword God attacked the Voidnether Worm, but its spatial pressure forced him into a Void Rift’s force and badly wounded him.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the space and its hazards grew stronger as the Voidnether Worm recovered, and suspected it was using their power to break its restriction.
• Jiang Liu stored the Sky Devouring Cat, warned the Long Wave Sword God not to attack again, and headed for the spatial wall to find a way out.
• The Voidnether Worm tightened the space into a cage woven from threads, but Jiang Liu saw that many of the threads came from sources beyond the beast.
• Jiang Liu placed his hand on the threads, causing the Voidnether Worm to tremble.

Jiang Liu escaped the black hole with Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian’s corpse after discovering he could break through its spatial barrier. After explaining Feng Changtian’s sacrifice, Jiang Liu and Long Wave Sword God were confronted by a consciousness from above.

• Jiang Liu opened a breach in the black hole and hurled Long Wave Sword God through it, and Long Wave Sword God carried Feng Changtian’s corpse out with him.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Voidnether Worm’s fear, but the worm vanished and the black hole disappeared, leaving Jiang Liu beneath the sunlight over the seawater.
• Long Wave Sword God flew to Jiang Liu and waited for an explanation about what had happened.
• Jiang Liu recounted how the Voidnether Worm had controlled Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian, and Long Wave Sword God realized Feng Changtian had sacrificed himself to warn them.
• A consciousness from high in the sky locked onto Long Wave Sword God.

The Divine Realm Guardian, Tian Lan, used his consciousness to control Long Wave Sword God after he broke through to the Third-Tier Divine Realm, while Jiang Liu remained undetected. Jiang Liu returned to Xingyun Island to seek answers in the Celestial Evolution Record, and Tian Lan continued absorbing Soul Force from phantoms at the God Realm’s boundary wall.

• Tian Lan’s probing consciousness appeared, and Long Wave Sword God realized the Guardian was hostile toward Third-Tier Divine Realm experts and had likely controlled them.
• Jiang Liu concealed his aura and waited; when Tian Lan failed to detect him, Long Wave Sword God took Feng Changtian’s corpse and left without explanation.
• Jiang Liu considered how rules might relate to the Supreme God Realm, found the insect beast’s travel coordinates unavailable, and returned to Xingyun Island to study the Celestial Evolution Record.
• Feng Changsheng arrived at the site, sensed Long Wave Sword God’s aura and Tian Lan’s consciousness, and realized Feng Changtian had died.
• Tian Lan stood atop the God Realm’s boundary wall as phantoms appeared and vanished, allowing him to absorb their Soul Force.

Tian Lan worried that Bai Tong’s appearance could disrupt his plan to survive the Age Tide, while Jiang Liu returned to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and searched the Celestial Evolution Record for clues about the Supreme God Realm. Finding no answers, Jiang Liu concluded that he would need to visit the Nether Realm as the three domains continued drawing closer.

• Tian Lan reflected on his imprisoned Divine Realm third-tier phantoms, worried about Bai Tong, and anticipated an anomaly that could extend his life.
• Jiang Liu returned to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, where Gongsun Haoyue asked how things had gone and noticed that his aura had changed.
• Jiang Liu reassured Gongsun Haoyue, then entered the Ruyi Celestial Palace to read in the study.
• Jiang Liu read the Celestial Evolution Record but found no useful insight into the Supreme God Realm.
• Jiang Liu decided he would need to visit the Nether Realm, while the Human Realm, Nether Realm, and God Realm slowly moved closer together.

After stabilizing his power through three years of secluded cultivation, the Demon God prepared to attack Bai Ming and Bai Mang. He gathered the Nether Realm’s races and ordered them to assemble before heading to the Northern Continent, while also summoning the beast races as cannon fodder.

• The Demon God completed his cultivation and resolved to seek revenge on Bai Ming and Bai Mang.
• He united the Nether Realm’s races under his rule and restored order in the Central Continent, while forbidding war between the Devil Race and beast races.
• The Demon God summoned the race leaders and ordered them to gather their forces at the base the next day to march to the Northern Continent.
• He went to the Sky Beast Mountain Range, sent an order to the recovering Nether Colossus, and left as the mountains began to tremble.

The Devil God led the Devil Race’s elites and the beast clans toward the Northern Continent, while Jiang Liu arrived in the Nether Realm and discovered their destination. After questioning a Devil Race scout, Jiang Liu suspected the Devil God was heading for the Nether River Lord’s territory.

• The Devil God ordered the Devil Race’s gathered experts to board starships and set out for the Northern Continent, and the Nether Colossus led the beast clans after them.
• Jiang Liu arrived in the Nether Realm and saw the beast clans flying toward the Northern Continent without opposition from the Devil Race.
• Jiang Liu sensed Heaven and Earth Essence in a furtive Devil Race member and followed him toward a concealed mountain location.
• Jiang Liu captured the man and searched his sea of consciousness, learning that the beast clans and Devil Race elites were traveling under the Devil God’s command.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Devil God was likely heading for the only place in the Northern Continent worth such a large expedition.

Jiang Liu hid in the Yellow Springs Mountains to witness the Demon God’s expected clash with the Nether River Lord and learn how Supreme God Realm experts wield the rules. The Demon God arrived with a fleet, revealed a scepter bearing the Demon God Hall’s aura, and opened a fissure in the Nether River’s land.

• Jiang Liu learned that Rì Yuè Honored One’s whereabouts remained unknown, killed the God-Demon Hybrid, and traveled to the Yellow Springs Mountains.
• Jiang Liu hid in the mountains and waited for the Demon God, hoping to observe a battle between Supreme God Realm experts.
• Two days later, the Demon God arrived with elite Devils and beasts and surrounded the land where the Nether River flowed.
• The Demon God revealed a scepter topped with a Palace Lantern, and Jiang Liu suspected the Demon God had a grudge against the Hall Master of Demon God as well as the Nether River Lord.
• The Demon God waved the scepter, causing the land to rumble and a massive fissure to open.

The Demon God forced the Devil Race and beast race to fight the skeletons emerging from the rift, while using the Palace Lantern to halt their advance. Below, the Nether River Lord sent more skeletons toward the surface, and Bai Ming confronted Bai Mang over his failure to deal with Bai Tong.

• The Demon God used Dark Primal Qi to restrain the Palace Lantern as powerful auras emerged from the rift, frightening the Devil Race and beast race.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master of Demon God and wondered whether they would join forces against the Demon God.
• The Demon God threatened to execute anyone who retreated, and the Nether Demon Lord struck down the first skeleton to emerge.
• The Devil Race attacked the skeletons while the beast race held back, and the Demon God used the Palace Lantern to turn emerging skeletons blue before destroying them.
• The Nether River boiled as the Nether River Lord sent ranks of skeletons toward the rift, while Bai Mang took the Palace Lantern and Bai Ming challenged him about his plan to deal with Bai Tong.

The Demon God and the beast race fought the evolving skeletons until the Nether River surged through the mountain range, sweeping away Demon Martial Practitioners. As the river continued to boil, a gigantic head began to rise from its waters.

• Bai Mang reclaimed the Palace Lantern from the Demon God, while the Demon God built a Dark Primal Qi barrier to destroy the skeletons climbing from the fissure.
• The beast race joined the Demon Martial Practitioners in fighting the skeletons, which proved stronger and more intelligent than those seen before.
• The Nether River surged over the battlefield, and its corrosive waters swept away Demon Martial Practitioners who could not escape.
• The Demon God found that even his Dark Light Rule could not stop the river, while Jiang Liu sensed that its waters were more powerful than before.
• A gigantic head rose from the seething Nether River.

The Demon God and the Nether River Lord exchanged attacks, while Jiang Liu watched and tried to understand their laws. He deduced that the Nether River Lord wielded the law of life as its power turned Demon Martial Practitioners into White Bones, but he still did not know how to master it.

• The Demon God attacked the emerging Nether River Lord with black light, and the Nether River Lord blocked it with a similar ray.
• The Demon God and Nether River Lord traded black-light attacks as Jiang Liu, the Nether Demon Lord, and the Nether Colossus each gained insights from watching them.
• The Nether River Lord spread his black light through the Nether River, and the water swept up Demon Martial Practitioners and rapidly turned them into White Bones.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Nether River Lord's black light draining vitality and guessed that his law was the law of life.
• The Demon God surrounded himself with black light from his scepter to guard against the Nether River Lord's attacks.

The Hall Master of Demon God appeared with the Soul-Seizing Lamp and secretly used its blue radiance to drain the life from Demon Martial Practitioners and Devil Beasts. Jiang Liu recognized the lamp and realized the Hall Master of Demon God had mastered the Time Rule.

• The Nether River Lord blocked the Demon God's attack, then submerged in the Nether River rather than continue fighting while Bai Mang watched.
• The Hall Master of Demon God appeared with a Palace Lantern and spread its blue radiance across the battlefield unnoticed.
• Jiang Liu recognized the Hall Master of Demon God and deduced that both he and the Palace Lantern were clones after his own Soul-Seizing Lamp awakened.
• The Hall Master of Demon God's blue light enveloped Demon Martial Practitioners and Devil Beasts, rapidly draining their auras and withering their bodies.
• Jiang Liu realized that the Hall Master of Demon God was using the Time Rule.

Jiang Liu recognized that the Hall Master of Demon God used the Time Rule to drain primal qi, and the Hall Master clashed with the Demon God while the Nether River Lord exploited the battle to grow its White Bones. The Demon Martial Practitioners and Devil Beasts were overwhelmed as the two powerful opponents continued fighting.

• Jiang Liu realized the Hall Master of Demon God's Time Rule rapidly depleted the primal qi of its targets, causing survivors to flee in terror.
• The Hall Master of Demon God attacked the Demon God with the Soul-Seizing Lamp, and the Demon God blocked the blue light with his scepter.
• The clash tore open Void Rifts, and the Nether River Lord stopped the spreading Void Force with its black Life Rule light.
• The Nether River Lord sent out White Bones to pursue the fleeing Demon Martial Practitioners and Devil Beasts, seeking to strengthen them with more prey.
• The White Bones overwhelmed the Devil Race and the Devil Beasts while the Demon God and the Hall Master of Demon God continued their destructive battle.

Jiang Liu watched the Hall Master of Demon God fight the Demon God and considered the rules and hidden motives governing the Hall Master’s conflict with the Nether River Lord. The Hall Master then unleashed a powerful Time Rule attack that drained the Demon God’s life force, forcing him to flee.

• Jiang Liu observed the Hall Master of Demon God’s clone battle the Demon God and suspected the Hall Master was concealing his true strength to avoid provoking the Nether River Lord.
• Jiang Liu noticed that the Nether River Lord seemed to draw his power from the Nether River, whose water level and concentration had fallen.
• The Hall Master of Demon God declared that he had had enough and returned to the Demon God Hall, where a presence infused his clone outside.
• The Hall Master of Demon God’s clone sent blue light from the Soul-Seizing Lamp past the Demon God’s defenses and struck him with the Time Rule.
• The attack drained much of the Demon God’s life force, and the injured Demon God fled without regard for his subordinates.

After the Hall Master of Demon God defeated the Demon God, the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master maintained their wary standoff before withdrawing. Jiang Liu realized that the two ancient rivals were bound by mutual life-and-death restraint, and the Hall Master could not kill the Nether River Lord without endangering himself.

• The fleeing Demon Martial Practitioners and Devil Beasts scattered after sensing the Demon God's retreat, while White Bone dragged those left behind into the Nether River.
• The Nether River Lord watched the Hall Master of Demon God warily and wondered whether Bai Mang's sudden strength came from deeper comprehension of the laws.
• The Hall Master of Demon God recognized that he and Bai Ming both wanted to devour the other, but killing Bai Ming would likely bring about his own downfall.
• The Hall Master of Demon God sensed an approaching danger to the Nether Realm and spared the Demon God, then vanished with his clone as the Nether River Lord continued devouring its spoils.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Hall Master of Demon God had not killed the Nether River Lord because their fates were mutually bound.

After escaping the battle between the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord, Jiang Liu returned to the Moon Devouring Clan's settlement to study the rules he had witnessed. As he meditated, he realized rules were a further evolution of elemental energy, and his aura began to change.

• Jiang Liu left the chaotic battlefield after gaining insights into rules and flew to the Moon Devouring Clan's settlement.
• Jiang Liu found the settlement deserted and climbed into the tree where the Devouring Insects had lived.
• Jiang Liu chose to comprehend rules in the Nether Realm, avoiding the God Realm and the Human Realm because he feared drawing dangerous attention or bringing a crisis upon others.
• Jiang Liu replayed the battle in his mind and studied how the fighters used rules and transformed elemental energy.
• Jiang Liu realized that rules were elemental energy evolved beyond its current forms, and his aura changed as enlightenment came to him.

Jiang Liu tried to imitate the Demon God's Dark Light Rule, but his attempt failed and destroyed his treehouse. While studying primordial energy again, he unexpectedly sensed the Time Rule and continued pursuing it; an hour later, a powerful pressure shattered the tree beneath him as figures began to appear in the dust.

• Jiang Liu's uncontrolled primordial energy leaked out, but the martial artists flying toward the Dark River largely ignored him.
• Jiang Liu imitated the Demon God's Dark Light Rule, but the incompatible energies clashed and blasted a hole through his treehouse.
• Jiang Liu realized his imitation was not the Power of Rule and resumed studying a new way to use primordial energy.
• Jiang Liu sensed traces of the Time Rule in the mutated energy and began studying it instead.
• An hour later, Jiang Liu's aura released an invisible pressure that snapped the great tree, and martial artists of various races began appearing in the dust.

Jiang Liu discovered that his strange power was the embryonic Time-Space Rule, not the Time Rule, and found that the completed Heavenly Evolution Codex infused his Primal Qi with its Power of Rule. He tested the transformed energy with a saber strike, but something went wrong and he fell from midair.

• Jiang Liu emerged from his meditation in The Pit and found the giant tree gone and the nearby trees aged as if centuries had passed.
• Jiang Liu used the Data Panel and learned that the embryonic form of the Time-Space Rule was evolving.
• Jiang Liu realized the Heavenly Evolution Codex had completed and sensed traces of the Time-Space Rule within his Primal Qi.
• Jiang Liu drew in Dark Primal Qi, formed a Primal Qi saber, and attacked while using Phantom Stomp.
• Jiang Liu felt his imposing aura freeze and plummeted from midair.

Jiang Liu discovered that he could not yet control the Power of Time-Space Rule within his body. As five unknown Supreme God Realm experts appeared in the Nether Realm and attacked the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord, Jiang Liu stayed back to observe their battle.

• Jiang Liu realized he could no longer summon the Power of Rule, despite still sensing it within his body, and concluded his strength was not yet sufficient to wield it.
• Five unfamiliar Supreme God Realm experts appeared in the Nether Realm, and Jiang Liu sensed their hostility toward the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord.
• Jiang Liu abandoned his plan to leave so he could watch the clash and learn more about the Power of Rule, while keeping his distance from the fighters.
• The Nether River erupted as white-bone warriors and flying Devil Beast bones attacked the five experts, who blocked the attacks and countered.
• The Nether River Lord emerged from the water and immediately attacked the five experts.