Recaps

Long Wave Sword God realized that he needed to pursue the Supreme God Realm after witnessing its overwhelming power, while Jiang Liu continued to pursue and attack the Demon God. The Demon God found himself badly wounded and forced to stop fleeing, fearing that Jiang Liu’s Time Rule and blade could kill him.

• Long Wave Sword God stayed behind as Jiang Liu chased the black light, and he resolved to cultivate toward the Supreme God Realm.
• Jiang Liu caught up with the Demon God, who asked why he was being pursued and realized his earlier Divine Sense had drawn Jiang Liu’s attention.
• The Demon God reflected on his recent rise to power, his escape from control, and his suspicion that Tian Lan knew who was watching him.
• Jiang Liu attacked without answering, and the Demon God retreated while using the Dark Light Rule to defend himself.
• Jiang Liu’s Godslayer Blade repeatedly cut through the Demon God’s defenses, and its Time Rule worsened one wound until the Demon God stopped fleeing in fear.

Jiang Liu used his Time Rule and Godslayer Blade to overwhelm the Demon God Avatar, whose Power of Rule ran out and whose body was nearly destroyed. After revealing his identity, Jiang Liu left the defeated avatar wondering why he had been hunted.

• Jiang Liu continued slashing at the Demon God Avatar, and his Time Rule inflicted wounds that could not heal.
• The Demon God Avatar's aura weakened, and the black radiance from the White Bone faded as his Power of Rule was exhausted.
• Jiang Liu struck the retreating Demon God Avatar, severed the arm holding the White Bone, and caused half his body to wither.
• Jiang Liu withdrew his blade and revealed himself to the Demon God Avatar, who recognized the youngster he had once dismissed.
• Jiang Liu asked whether the Demon God Avatar wondered why he had pursued him, and the helpless avatar nodded.

Jiang Liu revealed that the Demon God Avatar was itself an avatar, then drained its Soul Force and destroyed its body. The distant Demon God sensed its death and feared it would expose him to the Three Rule Lords during the approaching War of Rules, while Jiang Liu examined the avatar’s memories.

• Jiang Liu told the Demon God Avatar that it was an avatar, and the Demon God Avatar searched its memories before accepting the truth.
• The Demon God Avatar asked whether Jiang Liu had seen its true body and tried to end its own life.
• Jiang Liu froze the Demon God Avatar, extracted its Soul Force, and burned its body to ash.
• The distant Demon God sensed the avatar’s death and worried that he would be discovered by the Three Rule Lords when the War of Rules began.
• Jiang Liu examined the Demon God Avatar’s memories and uncovered more about the Nether Realm and the Demon God’s secrets.

Jiang Liu analyzed the Demon God Avatar’s memories and considered the threats posed by the Demon God and the Three Realms’ factions. He met the Long Wave Sword God, discovered Tian Lan’s control over him still remained, and offered to remove it.

• Jiang Liu reviewed the Demon God Avatar’s memories and concluded that dealing with the Demon God was more urgent than dealing with Zhao Hao.
• Jiang Liu considered the Three Realms’ factions and wondered why the beast race had not joined the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu assessed his strength and suspected he had only just entered the Path of Rules, despite his growing command of its power.
• Jiang Liu used his speed to appear before the Long Wave Sword God, who was astonished by his traversal.
• The Long Wave Sword God explained in writing that Tian Lan’s control over him had weakened but remained, and Jiang Liu offered to try to remove it.

Jiang Liu removed Tian Lan’s control over the Long Wave Sword God and captured the consciousness Tian Lan had placed inside him. After devouring it, Jiang Liu gained information about the Mind Control Rule and Tian Lan’s reasons for controlling the Long Wave Sword God.

• The Long Wave Sword God agreed to cooperate as Jiang Liu prepared to remove Tian Lan’s control.
• Jiang Liu told the Long Wave Sword God to circulate his cultivation method while he waited for Tian Lan’s aura to appear.
• An unusual aura emerged from the Long Wave Sword God, and Tian Lan’s Power of Rules began influencing Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu trapped and extracted the translucent consciousness from the Long Wave Sword God, freeing him from Tian Lan’s control.
• Jiang Liu devoured the consciousness and learned how Tian Lan had controlled the Long Wave Sword God and why he had done so.

Jiang Liu watched Long Wave Sword God attempt to use his newly awakened rule rudiments to break through to the Supreme God Realm, but the attempt failed. Long Wave Sword God recovered his fighting spirit and went to Jiang Liu, while Jiang Liu remained aware that breaking through carried dangers beyond what Long Wave Sword God understood.

• After refining Tian Lan’s fragment of rule consciousness, Jiang Liu noticed faint Power of Rule Light surrounding Long Wave Sword God and realized he had begun to comprehend rule rudiments.
• Jiang Liu watched as Long Wave Sword God tried to grasp the Power of Rule at once and break through to the Supreme God Realm.
• Long Wave Sword God’s burst of Power of Rule Light faded, and his breakthrough failed, leaving him dejected.
• Long Wave Sword God regained his confidence, resolving to learn more about the Power of Rule and try again when another opportunity came.
• Jiang Liu refrained from forcing the scattered rule light into Long Wave Sword God, and Long Wave Sword God moved beside him with his strength improved despite the failure.

Jiang Liu chose to remain in the void rather than return to the God Realm, while Long Wave Sword God prepared to face Tian Lan again. After Jiang Liu explained the Power of Rule, Long Wave Sword God left confident that he might resist Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule and turn it against him.

• Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu when he planned to return to the God Realm, but Jiang Liu said he would keep cultivating in the void and avoid confronting Tian Lan for now.
• Jiang Liu warned Long Wave Sword God that Tian Lan might control him again when he returned to the God Realm.
• Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu about the Power of Rule, and Jiang Liu explained its forms, origins, and uses in detail.
• Long Wave Sword God left believing he could resist Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule and perhaps control Tian Lan in return, despite still being a Third-Tier Divine Realm expert.

Jiang Liu returned to the Human Realm to investigate a sealed Secret Passage and discovered that the realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence had grown denser and higher in quality. He met with Yuchi Yue at the Hall of Governmental Affairs and summoned its other members, leaving the cause of the change unexplained.

• Jiang Liu checked himself for signs of Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule, then traveled to the Human Realm Imperial Palace.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the primal energy in Qian City and the imperial palace had become much denser, and confirmed that the Human Realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence had improved.
• Jiang Liu went to the Hall of Governmental Affairs, where Yuchi Yue greeted him and he congratulated her on reaching the first rank of the Saint Realm.
• Yuchi Yue reported routine matters to Jiang Liu, then summoned the other members of the Hall of Governmental Affairs.

Jiang Liu reorganized the Wind Hall and discussed the Human Realm’s surging Heaven and Earth Essence with his officials, then gave them Human Race cultivation techniques, including Divine Grade ones. The officials learned that Yun Kong was thriving in the God Realm and looked ahead to the Human Realm’s improved cultivation prospects.

• Jiang Liu gave Lin Chi a public role equal to the Hall of Governmental Affairs and assigned the Wind Hall to monitor the dynasty’s martial artists.
• Qin Bailian reported that Heaven and Earth Essence had begun surging from famous rivers and mountains about ten days earlier, and Jiang Liu suspected the change was linked to his control over the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Liu allowed Jianghu forces to cultivate freely as long as they obeyed the Holy Dynasty’s laws.
• Jiang Liu gave Meteor a Space Pouch of Human Race cultivation techniques, including Divine Grade techniques, and ordered him to place them in the Technique Repository.
• Jiang Liu told Yun Yue and the others that Yun Kong had reached the second stage of the Saint Realm in the God Realm, prompting them to anticipate their own progress as the Human Realm’s cultivation environment improved.

Jiang Liu’s recovered Human Race manuals astonished the officials, who began planning how to sort and restrict access to them. He then found the Heavenly Dao unresponsive inside the Human Realm and discovered that its Consciousness Sea Space was unusually vast and was extracting emotions from his Divine Sense.

• Jiang Liu left the Hall of Governmental Affairs after ordering the officials to handle the cultivation manuals he had brought back.
• Qin Bailian and the others counted more than a thousand manuals covering cultivation, artifact refinement, formations, and other subjects, and discussed carefully controlling access to them.
• Jiang Liu flew to the Human Realm’s boundary wall and found the Golden Giant sitting motionless instead of greeting him.
• Jiang Liu sent his Divine Sense toward the Golden Giant, and it was suddenly pulled into a golden space with no discernible aura.
• Jiang Liu realized the Golden Giant’s Consciousness Sea Space was nearly as vast as his own and was gradually extracting emotions from his Divine Sense.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Golden Giant, the Human Realm's Heavenly Dao, had been ambushed and sealed, leaving it unconscious and without primal qi. He used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw out a strand of black Primal Qi, but the attacker’s identity and motive remained unknown.

• Jiang Liu tried to awaken the Golden Giant through their spiritual bond, but it did not respond, and he severed his Divine Sense connection when it began to feel assimilated.
• Jiang Liu inspected the Golden Giant and realized that its primal qi had vanished, suggesting its strength had been sealed.
• Jiang Liu decided to use the Heavenly Evolution Codex to absorb the force affecting the Golden Giant.
• Jiang Liu drew out a thin strand of black Primal Qi hidden within the Heaven and Earth Essence and recognized it as the culprit behind the Golden Giant’s condition.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the Nether Demon Lord could be responsible, but concluded that he lacked the strength to ambush the Golden Giant and found no clear lead.

Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw Dark Primal Qi and hidden black rays of the Power of Rule out of the Golden Giant, gradually restoring its strength. The Golden Giant awakened at the Second-Order Divine Realm, while Jiang Liu contained the extracted black motes and considered who had attacked it.

• Jiang Liu carefully circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to extract Dark Primal Qi from the Golden Giant without draining it too forcefully.
• The Golden Giant trembled and briefly stirred, then went still as Jiang Liu continued drawing out its hidden power.
• Jiang Liu discovered that black rays of the Power of Rule had been concealed by the Dark Primal Qi and were responsible for the Golden Giant's condition.
• Jiang Liu suspected a Demon Martial Practitioner from either the Nether Realm or the Three Great Power Alliance and continued removing the remaining black rays.
• The Golden Giant's Primal Qi stabilized and rose to the Second-Order Divine Realm, and it opened its eyes as Jiang Liu covered the trapped black motes with a white sphere of light.

Jiang Liu trapped the black Power of Rule that had attacked the Golden Giant, hoping to learn about its owner and identify the mastermind. The struggle revealed a loophole in his Time-Space Rule, and he ended with the black sphere secured in his hand.

• Jiang Liu enclosed the scattered black Lights of Rule with his Divine Sense after they tried to flee.
• Jiang Liu clashed with the black rule-transformed saber and drove it back, then stopped its attempt to escape by scattering.
• Jiang Liu compressed the black lights inside a sphere of Time-Space Rule, and the black sphere nearly cracked its rules’ intersection point in a desperate collision.
• Jiang Liu repaired the damaged intersection, exhausted the black sphere’s resistance, and shrank it to thumb-size.
• Jiang Liu recognized that his Time-Space Rule had a loophole and held the captured black sphere wrapped in white light.

Jiang Liu questioned the Golden Giant about the ambush and the Human Realm’s surging Heaven and Earth Essence, but learned that the Giant knew nothing about its cause. At the Yin-Yang Fish, Jiang Liu discovered a transformed space filled with dense Essence and began investigating how it had triggered the revival.

• The Golden Giant recovered his strength, told Jiang Liu he did not know who had ambushed him, and could not explain the Human Realm’s growing Heaven and Earth Essence.
• Jiang Liu ordered the Golden Giant to guard the Human Realm and flew to the mountain range where he had found the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Jiang Liu noticed the Yin-Yang Fish’s eyes seemed alive and passed through it, finding that the space beneath his array had changed and filled with dense Heaven and Earth Essence.
• Jiang Liu realized the Essence’s revival likely originated beneath the Yin-Yang Fish and wondered how it had spread to the famous rivers and mountains.

Jiang Liu discovered that the passage held only Divine Race skeletons and that its conditions had changed, so he began sealing it against intruders. After setting up a Sealing Formation and a Stabilizing Formation, he sensed an unusually dense concentration of qi outside the Mist Grand Formation.

• Jiang Liu entered the passage and found it bright, filled with Heaven and Earth Essence, and missing all the Demon Martial Practitioners’ skeletons.
• Jiang Liu suspected someone had collected the Demon Race’s skeletons and decided the passage could no longer be left open.
• Jiang Liu used Power of Rule and Divine Race skeletons to refine formation materials, then spent three hours setting up a powerful Sealing Formation.
• Jiang Liu set up a Stabilizing Formation behind the Sealing Formation and sat down to recover before continuing.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex and sensed that the qi was especially dense in one area outside the Mist Grand Formation.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Dark Light Rule on the Mist Grand Formation’s materials came from the Demon God, and he suspected the Demon God had used two rules to evade the Three Rule Lords’ control. He began replacing the old rule and preparing a new formation to seal the Secret Passage, while the identity of the Gods’ leader and the Demon God’s motives remained uncertain.

• Jiang Liu restored his Power of Rule Light, then refined the Mist Grand Formation’s materials and found Dark Light Rule left on them.
• Jiang Liu replaced the Dark Light Rule with his own Power of Time-Space Rule so that only he could control the formation.
• Jiang Liu recognized the Dark Light Rule as sharing its source with the Demon God Avatar and reasoned that the Demon God’s true body had also cultivated it.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Demon God had likely laid the Mist Grand Formation and led the Devil Race in the ancient war, but he could not determine who had led the God Race.
• Jiang Liu began laying down the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation to guard and seal the Secret Passage.

Jiang Liu secured the secret passage with a powerful formation and followed a surge of Heaven and Earth Essence deep underground. He discovered a vast underground ruin marked with the Saint Heaven Sect’s inscription and suspected it was the sect’s true headquarters.

• Jiang Liu activated the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and tested its powerful attack, which drew in essence to replenish its energy.
• Jiang Liu left the passage and followed unusually dense Heaven and Earth Essence deeper underground.
• Jiang Liu reached a vast underground space where the essence was so dense that it obscured the surroundings.
• Jiang Liu created a light, found the remains of a collapsed stone gate, and recognized part of the Saint Heaven Sect’s inscription.
• Jiang Liu suspected that the underground ruin was the Saint Heaven Sect’s true headquarters.

Jiang Liu searched the Saint Heaven Sect’s headquarters and fought off a growing swarm of flying ants. He discovered that the ants were devouring their dead to grow stronger, and a tremendous buzzing sounded in the distance.

• Jiang Liu entered the Saint Heaven Sect headquarters to investigate who had hunted the sect and whether the Demon God had entered through the Secret Passage.
• A swarm of Beast King Realm flying ants attacked Jiang Liu, and his essence shield killed them as they collided with him.
• Jiang Liu moved deeper into the ruins, intending to exterminate the ants before they could threaten the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu found signs that the ants had gnawed through the ruins, while some ants devouring their dead broke through to the Beast Emperor Realm.
• Jiang Liu reached the sect plaza, where a tremendous buzzing sounded from the distance.

Jiang Liu battled a massive Flying Ant Swarm in the underground plaza, using his Phantom Soul Flute to make the ants attack one another. As the swarm adapted and its Saint Realm members formed organized ranks, he switched to Essence blades, while the swarm’s leader and generals remained unseen.

• Jiang Liu heard a huge swarm approaching and realized that the deeper parts of the nest held increasingly powerful flying ants, including Saint Realm individuals.
• Jiang Liu played the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation on his Phantom Soul Flute, causing the flying ants to slaughter one another across the plaza.
• After half an hour, stronger waves of flying ants arrived, and Jiang Liu struggled to maintain his flute attack as his spiritual power dwindled.
• The Saint Realm flying ants organized into formations that resisted the flute music and reduced the number of ants attacking each other.
• Jiang Liu stopped playing and attacked the formations with Essence blades, while the flying ants dodged and their leader and generals remained hidden.

Jiang Liu slaughtered the Saint Realm worker ants and examined the ruins of the destroyed Saint Heaven Sect. The Ant Queen then arrived with a group of flying ants and ordered them to attack, leaving Jiang Liu facing a more organized threat.

• Jiang Liu killed the Saint Realm worker ants after their formation fell apart and they lost their guides.
• Jiang Liu surveyed the ruined underground city and reflected on how the Saint Heaven Sect had been destroyed.
• Jiang Liu sensed the approaching Flying Ant Swarm and recognized the Ant Queen’s aura as nearing the Divine Realm.
• The Ant Queen’s Saint Realm flying ants stopped short, spread into smaller groups, and sprayed streams of mist at Jiang Liu after her shriek.

Jiang Liu killed the mutated Ant Queen and wiped out the Flying Ant Swarm. He found a Spirit-Binding Grand Formation containing liquid Heaven and Earth Essence, chose not to risk damaging it, and continued searching elsewhere.

• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp to halt the fleeing Ant Queen, then killed her with a single strike of the Godslayer Blade.
• The Flying Ants attacked Jiang Liu with corrosive mist, but he protected himself with an essence shield and killed every last one.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to replenish his energy and mental power after the battle.
• Jiang Liu found a profound Spirit-Binding Grand Formation trapping liquid Heaven and Earth Essence near what he believed was a passage to the Human Realm Core.
• Jiang Liu decided not to disturb the formation and flew into another area to continue searching.

Jiang Liu searched the ruins of the Saint Heaven Sect and found no clues to its destruction, while worrying that other mutated Flying Ant Swarms might threaten the Human Realm. He concluded the sect had likely discovered the Secret Passage before it was destroyed, but could not determine who had found its hiding place or why.

• Jiang Liu examined the transformed Flying Ants and feared that other swarms might escape into the Human Realm and cause a major calamity.
• Jiang Liu searched the remains of the Saint Heaven Sect's central hall and found no useful clues.
• Jiang Liu continued through the underground ruins, where the Flying Ants and dense Heaven and Earth Essence had erased traces, and noticed there were no bodies or bones.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Secret Passage had existed before the Saint Heaven Sect was destroyed and that the sect had likely hidden nearby after discovering it.
• Jiang Liu wondered how the sect's persecutor had found its concealed refuge, since entering through the Yin-Yang Fish Array would not have been easy.

Jiang Liu connected the Saint Heaven Sect’s destruction, Insect Valley, the Moon Devouring Clan, and the Flying Ant Swarm to a likely Devil Race conspiracy against the Human Race. He found a faint formation fluctuation beside the Flying Ant nest and approached it, hoping to uncover who had raised the swarm.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the person behind the Saint Heaven Sect’s destruction may also have cultivated the Soul-Devouring Insects and used Insect Valley to bring them into the Nether Realm.
• Jiang Liu considered how the God Race, Devil Race, and Human Race had related to one another, and concluded that the wars and secret passage pointed to a conspiracy targeting humanity.
• Jiang Liu inferred that someone from the Devil Race had likely targeted the Saint Heaven Sect, noting that the corpses in the Secret Passage had disappeared and could have been used as resources or turned into Battle Puppets.
• Jiang Liu searched the area with his Divine Sense and found a small, cocoon-like cave that appeared to be the Flying Ant Clan’s nest.
• Jiang Liu sensed a faint formation fluctuation near the nest and suspected that someone had deliberately raised and mutated the Flying Ants.

Jiang Liu recovered a black array stone at the Flying Ant nest and recognized the Demon God's true-body Dark Light Rule in it, strengthening his suspicion that the Demon God was behind the Flying Ant Swarm and the destruction of the Saint Heaven Sect. After destroying the nest and finding the Human Realm Core’s protective array intact, he left for the Yin-Yang Fish Array.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to pull a black stone from the Flying Ant nest and suppress it when it tried to flee.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Demon God’s true-body Dark Light Rule in the stone and concluded that the Demon God had likely set up the array to nurture the Flying Ants.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the Demon God might be one of the Three Rule Lords, then rejected the idea because the Demon God had previously used the Ice Rule.
• Jiang Liu resolved to confront the Demon God and learn why the Human Race and God Race had gone to war.
• Jiang Liu cleaved the Flying Ant nest apart, confirmed the array protecting the Human Realm Core remained intact, and flew toward the Yin-Yang Fish Array.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had activated and suspected it was connected to the looming crisis he had sensed. After checking the Secret Passage, he set off for Cloud City to investigate whether its Yin-Yang Fish Array had changed as well.

• Jiang Liu saw that the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s central eyes had opened when viewed from outside and sensed that its transformation was connected to an impending crisis.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the array likely predated the Secret Passage and that its creator had intended it to detect the crisis.
• Jiang Liu entered the array and felt watched, but could not perceive its changes from within.
• Jiang Liu checked the Secret Passage and confirmed that the Devil God had entered it, raised Soul-Devouring Insects there, and targeted the Saint Heaven Sect.
• Jiang Liu left the array and traveled toward Cloud City using the Power of Space Rule while practicing his control of the Power of Rule.