Recaps

Jiang Liu watched the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master of Demon God fight five envoys of the Holy Master Pavilion, whose master Bai Yu had demanded their submission. After Bai He healed three wounded men and both sides prepared to continue fighting, the confrontation remained unresolved.

• The Nether River Lord cast a vast black web, and the five men scattered to evade it.
• The Hall Master of Demon God ambushed the fleeing men with blue beams, piercing three and leaving them afflicted by his Power of Time Rule.
• Bai He threatened the Hall Master of Demon God with Bai Yu’s retaliation, while the Hall Master challenged him to summon Bai Yu in person.
• Bai He invoked the Holy Master Pavilion and used a white light to heal the three wounded men, weakening himself in the process.
• The Nether River Lord tightened his black web as the White Bones assembled below, and both sides watched each other while Jiang Liu observed from afar.

Jiang Liu reasoned that the powerful Holy Master Pavilion was likely hidden in the void and had anticipated the calamity threatening the Three Realms. Meanwhile, the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord fought Bai He and the other four Pavilion experts, with White Bone aiding them.

• Jiang Liu considered where the Holy Master Pavilion could be hiding and concluded that the void was the likeliest place.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Pavilion had foreseen the coming calamity, though he could not tell whether it had hidden in the void to escape it or for another reason.
• The Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord continued battling Bai He and the other four experts, aided by squads of White Bone, and maintained a slight advantage.
• Bai He and the others unleashed their Powers of Rule in desperation after realizing their mission could end in failure.
• Void Rifts spread Void Force across the battlefield, and the White Bone disintegrated when struck by it, so the Nether River Lord tried to keep the force away from them.

Jiang Liu watched the Holy Master Pavilion and the Nether River Lord’s forces battle in the void, hoping to capture a survivor and learn the Pavilion’s hidden coordinates. As his sense of an approaching crisis in the Three Realms intensified, the Nether River Lord began drawing in the weakened White Bone, prompting the other fighters to retreat.

• Jiang Liu realized the Holy Master Pavilion’s people had cultivated with the Void Force and guessed their stronghold was hidden in the void.
• The seven fighters clashed and separated, all injured, while the Nether River Lord’s White Bone forces suffered heavy losses.
• Jiang Liu focused on the three injured Holy Master Pavilion members, hoping to capture one and learn the Pavilion’s coordinates and more about the Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu sensed that a life-and-death crisis threatened the Three Realms and resolved to reach the Supreme God Realm before it arrived.
• The seven fighters resumed their battle, and Jiang Liu found that watching them helped him understand the Power of Rule.
• The Nether River Lord drew the remaining White Bone toward its enormous mouth as its aura rose, and the other fighters slowly moved away from it.

As the Nether River Lord absorbed the approaching skeletons and grew stronger, the Hall Master of Demon God fought desperately to keep the Holy Master Pavilion members at bay. With his Soul-Seizing Lamp fading, he began drawing on the Demon God Hall, alarming Bai He and the others.

• The first skeleton to reach the Nether River Lord vanished in black light, and the Nether River Lord's aura grew more profound as more skeletons approached.
• The Holy Master Pavilion members and the Hall Master of Demon God fought fiercely while Jiang Liu watched from a distance and wondered about the Nether River Lord's cultivation.
• The Hall Master of Demon God used his Soul-Seizing Lamp to strengthen his blade attacks, but its blue light began to fade as his avatar's Power of Rule ran low.
• Bai He and the others avoided the Hall Master of Demon God's attacks, intending to wear him down.
• The Hall Master of Demon God circulated his cultivation technique, causing the Demon God Hall and the surrounding mountains to tremble.
• Bai He angrily warned Bai Mang that moving the Demon God Hall could bring about a greater disaster.

Bai He and the other four Holy Master Pavilion experts used a Five Elements Foundation Formation to interrupt the Hall Master of Demon God's attack and halt the Nether River Lord's advancement. As both sides weakened, Jiang Liu reflected on the different stages of Power of Rule and wondered whether the master of the Holy Master Pavilion had mastered it fully.

• Bai He and the other four gathered and formed a five-colored figure that stomped into the Nether River, stopping its turmoil and interrupting the Nether River Lord's evolution of his Power of Rule.
• The Hall Master of Demon God stopped circulating his energy and suffered backlash, while the five Holy Master Pavilion experts and their formation also weakened and the figure dispersed.
• Jiang Liu recognized the formation as a powerful use of the basic Five Elements Foundation Formation and realized that its effects could change depending on the users' strength.
• Jiang Liu discerned that the Nether River Lord had only just entered the doorway of rules, while the Hall Master of Demon God had advanced further along the Path of Rules.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the master of the Holy Master Pavilion had mastered the true Power of Rule and began organizing his understanding of its stages.

Jiang Liu analyzed the three stages of Rule Comprehension and concluded that a rudimentary rule was necessary to reach the Supreme God Realm. He considered whether he needed to kill the Nether River Lord and the insect beast to advance, but dismissed the idea of approaching the Divine Realm Guardian before the battle’s atmosphere suddenly changed.

• Jiang Liu divided rule comprehension into three stages and judged the Holy Master Pavilion’s master likely to have mastered the Power of Rule completely.
• Jiang Liu concluded that even long-serving Third-Tier Divine Realm experts could not reach the Supreme God Realm without comprehending a rudimentary form of rules.
• Jiang Liu recalled that the Divine Realm Guardian’s Power of Rule had burdened and frightened him, and wondered whether each kind of rule could be held by only one martial artist.
• Jiang Liu considered killing the Nether River Lord and the insect beast to advance, but recognized that he could not find the insect beast or safely approach the Divine Realm Guardian.
• Jiang Liu dismissed the idea, and the atmosphere of the battle suddenly changed.

As the underground space collapsed, black and deep-yellow Nether River water merged and unleashed a torrent of hostile remnants that trapped the Holy Master Pavilion experts and attacked the Nether River Lord. Jiang Liu sensed that something dangerous was about to emerge from the river.

• The underground space collapsed, spilling black Nether River water into the deep-yellow current, and the Hall Master of Demon God fled beyond its range while the Holy Master Pavilion experts were trapped.
• The Nether River Lord tried to separate the merged waters but could not leave the river that sustained it, while the Hall Master of Demon God stopped nearby rather than go too far away.
• The merged river released clawed, shapeshifted remnants that attacked the Holy Master Pavilion experts and the Nether River Lord, while an invisible barrier and powerful suction prevented escape.
• The remnants revealed themselves as consciousnesses of white bones consumed by the Nether River, and most of them focused their hatred on the Nether River Lord.
• Jiang Liu watched the underground space collapse and sensed an approaching crisis within the turbulent Nether River.

As the underground space collapsed and the two Nether Rivers threatened to merge, the Hall Master of Demon God entered the fissure to save the Demon God Hall, his foundation. The space collapsed completely, destroying the hall and leaving him furious.

• Jiang Liu noticed that the Dark Primal Qi in the Nether Realm had grown thinner, while the others remained focused on the merging Nether Rivers.
• The Hall Master of Demon God realized the collapsing underground space threatened the Demon God Hall, which was essential to his survival, and decided to inspect it.
• Using blue light from the Soul-Seizing Lamp to resist the Nether River's suction, the Hall Master of Demon God broke free and entered the fissure.
• The Hall Master of Demon God saw that most of the pillars had fallen and the Demon God Hall was badly damaged, but he hurried toward it to investigate.
• The underground space collapsed before the Hall Master of Demon God could enter the hall, destroying the Demon God Hall and igniting his fury.

Hall Master of Demon God’s underground hideout collapsed as his Divine Body failed under the violent Power of Rule. He sacrificed his connection to the Soul-Seizing Lamp so it could escape, while he faced destruction.

• Hall Master of Demon God realized an unseen enemy had destroyed the Demon God Hall and left him in a deadly crisis.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp tried to find a way to help Hall Master of Demon God escape as the underground space began collapsing.
• Hall Master of Demon God struck the Soul-Seizing Lamp with the Power of Rule, withdrawing his Divine Sense and sending the lamp out through a crack.
• The underground space and its structures were destroyed, while Hall Master of Demon God’s Divine Body began to crack apart.

The Nether River erupted, and its skeletons killed the Nether River Lord while the Holy Master Pavilion members struggled to escape. Four members got through the light curtain, but Bai Yu was trapped inside, and the barrier sealed shut before Bai He and the others could return for him.

• The underground space collapsed as the Nether River surged, and the Nether River Lord attacked the five Holy Master Pavilion members while facing its own impending death.
• The Holy Master Pavilion members tried to flee, but the light curtain trapped them as stronger vapor creatures and skeletons attacked.
• The skeletons turned on the Nether River Lord, overwhelmed it, and shattered its head into powder.
• The light curtain cracked, allowing four members of the Holy Master Pavilion to escape while the skeletons turned toward the Nether River Lord's powder.
• Bai Yu called for help after skeletons trapped him, but Bai He and the others struck the sealed light curtain when they tried to go back.

After escaping the collapsing underground space, Jiang Liu caught a faint blue light that resembled the Soul-Seizing Lamp and tried to let his own lamp devour it. The attempt left his lamp’s divine soul in danger, and the chapter ended as Jiang Liu realized the strength gap was too great.

• Bai He fled with the other Holy Master Pavilion survivors, leaving Bai Yu surrounded by White Bone.
• Bai Yu self-destructed in hatred, and the White Bone regenerated in the restored, gray Nether River waters as the underground space filled with earth and the river calmed.
• Jiang Liu escaped the collapsing underground space and sensed the Hall Master of Demon God's aura disappear, leading him to suspect the Hall Master had been killed.
• Jiang Liu caught a faint blue light resembling the Soul-Seizing Lamp and summoned his own lamp, whose divine soul immediately wanted to devour it.
• Jiang Liu released control of his Soul-Seizing Lamp, but its attempt to swallow the faint blue light caused intense pain and threatened to let the stronger light devour it instead.

Jiang Liu seized the Hall Master of Demon God's wounded Soul-Seizing Lamp soul, which devoured a blue glimmer and advanced the artifact to divine rank. After learning that the Hall Master of Demon God had died and the Nether River Lord was likely near death, Jiang Liu headed toward the Nether River, where explosions and fleeing Holy Master Pavilion members suggested another powerful figure had fallen.

• Jiang Liu used the Spirit Control Art to calm the blue glimmer and let his Soul-Seizing Lamp devour it, advancing the lamp to divine-artifact rank.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp transmitted information about the Demon God Hall, the underground space, the relationship between the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord, and the Hall Master of Demon God's death.
• Jiang Liu learned that a foreign aura had triggered the underground space's destruction and prevented the Hall Master of Demon God from controlling the Power of Rule.
• An explosion sounded near the Nether River, and Jiang Liu saw four members of the Holy Master Pavilion flee, suspecting that a Supreme God Realm powerhouse had self-detonated.
• After a second explosion, Bai He and the others sped away, while Jiang Liu stopped short of the Nether River, wary of approaching.

After the Supreme God Realm explosion, Jiang Liu pursued and captured a divine-soul fragment that belonged to Bai Yu, the surviving Holy Master Pavilion member. Bai Yu awoke inside Jiang Liu’s vast sea of consciousness, where Jiang Liu began refining him and the consciousness-water surged toward him.

• A fragment of a divine soul escaped from the Nether River after the explosion, and Jiang Liu sensed that the river had opened again.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the fragment belonged to a Holy Master Pavilion survivor and pursued it, hoping to learn the pavilion’s location.
• Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp to capture the fragment and drew it into his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to refine the fragment and erase its hatred and consciousness.
• Bai Yu awoke inside Jiang Liu’s unusually vast sea of consciousness and realized its master was only at the Third-Tier Divine Realm.
• The sea of consciousness churned as waves of consciousness-water surged toward Bai Yu’s shattered soul.

Jiang Liu erased Bai Yu’s consciousness and devoured his shattered soul, gaining powerful Soul Force that expanded his Divine Sea. From Bai Yu’s incomplete memories, Jiang Liu learned that the Rule Realm had four stages, not three.

• Jiang Liu used his Divine Sea and the Data Panel to erase Bai Yu’s consciousness before devouring his shattered soul.
• Jiang Liu refined Bai Yu’s soul fragment with the Heavenly Evolution Codex and endured pain as its high-quality Soul Force entered his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu expanded his Divine Sea and gained a foundation that could hasten his progress toward the Supreme God Realm.
• Jiang Liu obtained incomplete memories from Bai Yu and learned that the Rule Realm had four stages.

Jiang Liu learned from Bai Yu’s memories that the Three Rule Lords governed the Paths of Rules and periodically fought wars through their followers. He realized his embryonic Time-Space Rule might make him a heretic, leaving him uncertain whether to keep cultivating it.

• Jiang Liu reviewed the four stages of the Power of Rule and learned that Bai Yu, Bai He, Bai Ming, and others were at the first stage, while Bai Mang had reached the second.
• Bai Yu’s memories revealed that only three Lords of Rules existed and that practitioners who cultivated their rules could be killed as heretics if they defied them.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Three Rule Lords periodically waged wars, recruiting Supreme God Realm practitioners to fight for their respective sides.
• Jiang Liu connected the Holy Master Pavilion’s recruitment effort to the coming War of Rules and realized the ambush had killed Bai Mang, Bai Ming, and Bai Yu before they could join.
• Jiang Liu considered whether his embryonic Time-Space Rule violated the rule of cultivating a single Path of Rules and feared the Three Rule Lords might hunt him down.
• Jiang Liu remained uncertain whether he should abandon the Time-Space Rule or risk continuing to cultivate it.

Jiang Liu learned about the Holy Master Pavilion’s base on the moving Fallen Star Stone and considered the coming War of Rules and a greater danger threatening the Three Realms. He decided to locate the Fallen Star Stone as a possible refuge, then flew to inspect the Nether River before leaving the Nether Realm.

• Jiang Liu reviewed Bai Yu’s memories and learned that the Holy Master Pavilion occupied the Fallen Star Stone, a vast meteorite drifting through the void.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the void’s forces kept separate bases to protect themselves from ambushes before the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu wondered whether the Three Rule Lords represented the Three Realms and suspected the war could devastate Supreme God Realm warriors.
• Jiang Liu sensed subtle changes in the Nether Realm’s vital energy and suspected a crisis beyond the War of Rules threatened all Three Realms.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Fallen Star Stone moved constantly and that Bai Yu’s memories lacked the method for finding its coordinates again.
• Jiang Liu decided to seek the Fallen Star Stone as a potential refuge, then flew toward the calm Nether River to inspect it.

Jiang Liu discovered that devouring Bai Yu’s remnant soul let him wield some time-space rule power, while the Soul-Seizing Lamp grew powerful enough to tear open void rifts. He reached Nether River and wondered whether it was nurturing a new Nether River Lord, potentially more dangerous than the last.

• Jiang Liu tested the time-space rule power beneath his feet and found that it greatly increased his speed.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp revealed its growth after consuming powerful souls, then unleashed white light that tore open void rifts.
• Jiang Liu estimated that the Soul-Seizing Lamp was nearing the Third-Tier Divine Realm and put it away before continuing toward Nether River.
• Jiang Liu checked his status and considered seeking more remnant souls to advance his Path of Rules, while recognizing he first needed to locate Holy Master Pavilion.
• At Nether River, Jiang Liu noticed its changed color and suspected that it might be breeding a new Nether River Lord after the old one’s disappearance.

The Soul-Seizing Lamp spirit explained the origins of the Nether River and the Demon God Hall, including how their sentience and the Nether River Lord came to prey on Nether Realm martial practitioners. Jiang Liu wondered who had secretly incited the Demon God Hall to ally with the Nether River Lord.

• The Soul-Seizing Lamp spirit explained that the Nether River had existed since the Nether Realm's birth and began emerging aboveground after the Nether River Lord gained control of it.
• The spirit recounted how the ten great Soul-Devouring Races established the Demon God Hall to give Devil Race martial practitioners a spiritual anchor and unite them against the Beast Race.
• The Demon God Hall slowly developed sentience and, after someone incited it, joined forces with the Nether River Lord to hunt Nether Realm martial practitioners and Devil Beasts.
• The spirit said the Demon God Hall eventually barred the Demon God's statue and became the domain of its own sentience, leaving Nether Realm martial practitioners powerless.
• Jiang Liu wondered who had secretly brought the Demon God Hall and the Nether River Lord together despite their apparent enmity.

Jiang Liu investigated the restored Nether River and found that its source remained unreachable, its waters were dangerously abnormal, and the surrounding mountains had transformed. He wondered whether the Nether River concealed a great secret and whether he was still in the Nether Realm.

• Jiang Liu found that the collapsed Nether River had been completely restored and suspected that a powerful force had repaired it.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the river's source, while mist and rising water vapor obscured the changing mountains around him.
• After an hour of flying without finding the source, Jiang Liu noticed lights in the river and his primal-qi hand dissipated when it approached the water, causing pain in his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the surrounding Dark Primal Qi was unexpectedly thin and questioned the information he had received about the Nether River and its rulers.
• Jiang Liu saw that the mountains had changed from barren slopes into lush terrain and wondered whether he was still in the Nether Realm.

Jiang Liu was dragged into the Nether River after suspecting that a powerful hidden enemy had plotted against the Hall Master of Demon God. As the river’s crushing cold began disrupting his Heavenly Evolution Codex, he wondered whether the technique was connected to the unseen enemy.

• Jiang Liu suspected that the hidden attacker had silenced the Hall Master of Demon God to keep him from exposing the attacker to the Holy Master Pavilion, so he tried to flee the Nether River.
• The Nether River erupted, seized Jiang Liu, and slammed him into its waters with a hand of Dark Primal Qi.
• Jiang Liu found that the river was bone-chilling rather than corrosive, and that White Bone was nowhere to be seen.
• The river’s pressure dragged Jiang Liu deeper and began compressing his body and obstructing the Heavenly Evolution Codex, while his traversal coordinates remained available.
• Jiang Liu realized that something in the Nether River seemed to be targeting the Heavenly Evolution Codex and wondered if it was connected to the person hidden in the darkness.

Jiang Liu endured the Nether River’s crushing pressure while reasoning that the current demon god might be the avatar of the Nether Realm’s final demon god, whose true body had hidden in the river. As the danger around him eased, Jiang Liu was pulled into a new underground space.

• Jiang Liu resisted the Nether River’s cold, its growing pull, and the nearby hand of Dark Primal Qi while deciding to stay and investigate the hidden person and the Heavenly Evolution Codex.
• Jiang Liu reconsidered the Codex’s origins and concluded that the Nether River Lord might have been made to believe it belonged to him, while the Samsara Formation had a genuine connection to the Lord.
• Jiang Liu recalled the demon god succession and reasoned that the current demon god might be the final demon god’s avatar, sent out while the true body hid and cultivated in the Nether River.
• Jiang Liu felt the pressure ease and saw a transparent halo as he was pulled into a new underground space.

Jiang Liu realized the Heavenly Evolution Codex was tied to the Demon God's plan to control the Nether Realm and began circulating it under the Demon God's watch. The Demon God had lured powerful figures into the Samsara Formation, hoping one of them would decipher the beast-skin manual and cultivate its secret method.

• Jiang Liu set a teleportation coordinate in the transformed underground space and found that only the stone mountain and some stone houses remained.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Demon God was using the extreme cold to draw out the Heavenly Evolution Codex's hidden meaning and strengthen his connection to the Nether Realm.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Demon God had placed the codex in the Nether River Lord's Samsara Formation to lure him into a trap and find someone who could cultivate it.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the approaching War of Rules had given the Demon God his chance to emerge and eliminate both enemies.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex, shattering the ice around him as the Demon God watched from behind a black halo.
• The Demon God recalled how he had spread news of the beast-skin manual to powerful figures, but none had deciphered it despite the deaths in the Samsara Formation.

The Demon God trapped Jiang Liu in the Nether River, hoping to seize the beast-hide secret manual’s cultivation method and use it to control the Nether Realm. Jiang Liu broke through the Demon God’s elemental wall with the Godslayer Blade, but the Demon God restrained him with the Power of Rule, forcing Jiang Liu to escape through a traversal point.

• The Demon God recalled how Jiang Liu had stolen the beast-hide secret manual and destroyed the Samsara Formation, and he resolved to capture Jiang Liu and search his soul.
• The Demon God sensed Jiang Liu return to the Nether River and lured him into the area he controlled, intending to obtain the manual’s cultivation method.
• Jiang Liu’s movement partially recovered, and he summoned the Godslayer Blade before advancing to confront the Demon God.
• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp and the Power of Time-Space Rule to strengthen Divine Strike and cleave through the Demon God’s elemental wall.
• The Demon God surrounded Jiang Liu with walls of elemental energy, and Jiang Liu escaped by opening a traversal point.

Jiang Liu escaped the Demon God’s hidden space before he could be captured, while the Demon God tried to imitate the Heavenly Evolution Codex and considered why the Three Rule Lords kept holding the War of Rules. The Demon God suspected they were seeking a way to survive an approaching world-destroying crisis, then concealed his space to avoid drawing attention.

• Jiang Liu sensed the Demon God was preparing to attack and fled through traversal, leaving behind coordinates he intended to revisit after reaching the first realm of rules.
• The Demon God searched the underground space, confirmed Jiang Liu had escaped, and worried that searching his soul might yield no useful information.
• The Demon God studied the traces of Jiang Liu’s elemental energy and partially imitated the Heavenly Evolution Codex, but recognized that his version lacked its essence.
• The Demon God reflected that he had prepared the hidden space outside the Nether Realm to evade a coming crisis and believed the Three Rule Lords’ War of Rules might be connected to it.
• The Demon God recalled that Bai Mang had refused the Holy Master Pavilion’s recruitment and suspected the beings of power knew about the crisis.
• The Demon God made his hidden space disappear, hoping to avoid provoking the Three Rule Lords and other forces while seeking safety from the crisis.

Jiang Liu discovered that his cultivation had improved and that the Power of Rule had fused with his Primal Qi, allowing him to wield it before reaching the Supreme God Realm. In the void, he saw strands of rules for the first time and began exploring how they could strengthen his Time-Space Rule.

• Jiang Liu activated the Heavenly Evolution Codex, absorbed Void Force and Dark Primal Qi, and confirmed that the technique worked better than before.
• Jiang Liu realized that the Power of Rule he had used earlier had fused with his Primal Qi, giving him a way to fight Supreme God Realm opponents, though he worried the Three Rule Lords might detect it.
• Jiang Liu noticed that his vision of the void had brightened and revealed tangled threads carrying the Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu approached a pale azure strand he identified as the Speed Rule, but it counterattacked and vanished after their powers clashed.
• Jiang Liu concluded that his nascent Time-Space Rule was already showing its strength and resolved to seek strands of the Time Rule and Space Rule to strengthen it.