Recaps

Jiang Liu cleared the Halls of Yama’s forces, protected his companions through a perilous breakthrough, and returned to Abyssal Hell to aid the Frost Race. After Frost God died and Han Yi inherited his strength, Jiang Liu defeated the Nether God’s control over the Battle Puppets and made Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He his own.

• Jiang Liu subdued or killed the Halls of Yama’s fighters, then returned to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and prepared Gongsun Haoyue to control it.
• The Flowing Cloud Matriarch advanced to the Saint Realm while Jiang Liu fought off the Heavenly Dao, and he later removed its remnant consciousness from Gongsun Haoyue.
• Jiang Liu left for Abyssal Hell as the Nether God set out to attack the Frost Race with Han Luo and two other Battle Puppets.
• Frost God evacuated most of the Frost Race and led the remaining defenders into the Yin-Yang Profound Soul Grand Formation to prepare an ambush.
• The Nether God tracked the Frost Race to the formation and attacked, but Jiang Liu arrived and fought him as the formation battered them both.
• Frost God died transferring his Source Essence to Han Yi, who emerged as a second-rank Saint Realm expert and left with Han Yue to join Jiang Liu.
• The Nether God fled toward the Dark Primal Qi region, and Jiang Liu rescued Han Yi before confronting the weakened Battle Puppets.
• Jiang Liu destroyed the Nether God’s remnant soul inside Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He, took control of both, and began recovering while they went to help Han Yi and Han Yue.

Jiang Liu subdued Han Luo and the Dongyang Brothers, helped the Frost Race establish a new settlement, and learned that Nether Yao had seized the Nether Race temple. After returning to the Frost Race, he went to rescue Han Yue from the Void Illusion Formation near the Source of the Netherworld, but became lost inside it.

• Jiang Liu subdued Han Luo by devouring the Nether God's remnant soul and made him his Battle Puppet, then returned with Han Yi and Han Yue to the Frost Race.
• Nether Yao revealed herself as Bu Yao, took control of the Nether Race temple, and bound Ming Xu, Ming Ji, Ming Yu, Ming Xia, and Ming Kong with sigils.
• The Frost Race chose a new settlement, and Jiang Liu forged and installed a Gathering Qi Formation while the wounded Nether God was swallowed by the Azurefall Beast and ended up working in a mine.
• Jiang Liu left the Frost Race with Han Luo and the Dongyang Brothers, then led them out of Abyssal Canyon as the Source of the Netherworld erupted and Dark Primal Qi spread through the sea.
• Jiang Liu returned to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, learned Buddhism had reappeared in Kun Province, and later went back to the Frost Race to help it adapt to the growing Dark Primal Qi.
• After finding Han Xie's account of the Azurefall Beast, Jiang Liu established five small Gathering Qi Formations, then set out when Han Yue went missing.
• Jiang Liu captured Ming Gong and learned the Nether God had fled to Azurefall Cliff, then subdued Ming Ji after Ming Ji alerted Nether Yao.
• Ming Ji told Jiang Liu that Han Yue was trapped in the Void Illusion Formation, so Jiang Liu rushed to the Source of the Netherworld and entered the formation, where he could not find her or see the Source.

Jiang Liu uncovered the Source of the Netherworld’s nature, helped the Frost Race prepare for the spreading Dark Primal Qi, and reached the second stage of the Saint Realm. As he crushed the Halls of Yama’s operation, he traced their Dark Cloud Pills to the Physician Pavilion and began testing how they worked.

• Jiang Liu rescued Han Yue from the Source of the Netherworld, but his healing qi poisoned her before he carried her away and returned to investigate the source.
• Jiang Liu learned from an ancient miscellany that the Source of the Netherworld was a sealed demon god’s eyeball, and warned Han Yi that Dark Primal Qi could overrun Abyssal Hell within a few years.
• Jiang Liu and Han Yi left Abyssal Hell, and Jiang Liu broke through to the second stage of the Saint Realm after enduring Heavenly Dao lightning.
• Jiang Liu sent Qin Bailian and the Battle Puppets to investigate corrupted martial artists in Zhen Province, where they defeated Yuwen Kuo and captured Yuwen Gao.
• Jiang Liu discovered that the Physician Pavilion had researched Dark Primal Qi and that Huyan Yi and Chen Xia had made the Dark Cloud Pill, then assigned Qin Bailian and Dongling Rui to deal with the Nether King Palace remnants.
• Jiang Liu questioned Yuwen Su at the burning Nether King Palace headquarters and learned that its leaders had colluded with the Physician Pavilion, which possessed several Saint Realm martial artists.
• Jiang Liu had Qin Bailian retrieve sealed Dark Primal Qi and a restrained Minor Grandmaster, then tested a Dark Cloud Pill and found that it protected the man’s Sea of Consciousness and heart meridians while letting the black substance enter.

Jiang Liu uncovered the conspiracy behind the Dark Cloud Pills, defeated the plotters who attacked Silent Valley, and discovered the source of the Netherworld’s corruption. After reaching the Third-Order Saint Realm, he returned to face the political forces that had taken advantage of his absence.

• Jiang Liu traced Huyan Yi and Chen Xia to the Physician Pavilion’s Dark Cloud Pill scheme and learned that the plotters planned to target his wives.
• Tianming, the Celestial Doctor, Yun Qi, and Ye Junsheng attacked Silent Valley, but Jiang Liu defeated them and the defenders captured the assaulting forces.
• Jiang Liu uncovered the Celestial Doctor’s role in the conspiracy, arrested the Physician Pavilion’s leaders, and sent its members for investigation.
• Jiang Liu opened the Boundless Secret Chamber, witnessed the battle that created the Source of the Netherworld, and was forged into a Third-Order Saint by the chamber’s power.
• The Azurefall Beast repelled the Heavenly Dao’s attacks on the Source of the Netherworld as blood-red threads escaped toward the continent.
• Jiang Liu left the chamber and returned to his allies, while Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing captured Ji Mo Ya and the forces of King Biancheng Hall.
• Jiang Liu learned that Physician Pavilion members and other factions had exploited his absence, ordered a grand court assembly, and tasked Lin Chi with monitoring suspects and preparing to destroy the Nether King Palace’s stronghold.