Recaps

Jiang Liu learned to cultivate the Power of Rule, reached the Supreme God Realm, and uncovered more about the Human Realm’s lost inheritance. He then confronted the Demon God’s soul avatar while Long Wave Sword God watched.

• Jiang Liu approached the Shadowed Starstone and met Zhao Hao, who gave him Human Race manuals and explained the coming War of Rules and the Three Rule Lords’ fears.
• Jiang Liu returned to Xingyun Island, mastered the Time-Space Rule, and broke through to the Supreme God Realm without alerting the Three Rule Lords.
• Jiang Liu studied Zhao Hao’s records and learned how the God Realm had oppressed the Human Realm and how the Saint Heaven Sect’s inheritance had been erased.
• Jiang Liu met Yu Chenghai and arranged for Long Wave Sword God to meet him at coordinates near the God Realm.
• Jiang Liu hid near the meeting place as Long Wave Sword God left the God Realm, then attacked the approaching Demon God’s starship and soul avatar.
• Jiang Liu pursued the weakened Demon God through the void while Long Wave Sword God recognized him and recalled how Tian Lan had repeatedly controlled him.

Jiang Liu killed the Demon God’s avatar, freed Long Wave Sword God from Tian Lan’s control, and investigated the forces changing the Human Realm. He uncovered evidence that the Demon God had entered the Secret Passage and targeted the Saint Heaven Sect, then set out toward Cloud City to confront him.

• Jiang Liu pursued and killed the Demon God Avatar, then learned from its memories about the Nether Realm and the Demon God’s secrets.
• Jiang Liu removed Tian Lan’s control from Long Wave Sword God, who failed to break through but resolved to keep studying the Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu returned to the Human Realm, distributed cultivation manuals, and discovered that the Golden Giant had been weakened by hidden Dark Primal Qi and black Lights of Rule.
• Jiang Liu restored the Golden Giant, captured the black rule lights, and traced the Human Realm’s rising Heaven and Earth Essence to the depths beneath the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Jiang Liu sealed the Secret Passage with formations and found a vast underground ruin that he suspected was the Saint Heaven Sect’s headquarters.
• Jiang Liu fought through the Flying Ant Swarm, killed the Ant Queen, and found evidence that the Demon God had used an array to nurture the mutated ants.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Demon God had targeted the Saint Heaven Sect and confirmed that he had entered the Secret Passage and raised Soul-Devouring Insects there.
• Jiang Liu left the Yin-Yang Fish Array and traveled toward Cloud City while practicing his control of the Power of Rule.

Jiang Liu traced the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays to Zhuge Cheng and learned about Heaven's Mandate Pavilion as a crisis erupted across the Human Realm. After helping the Heavenly Dao subdue the Human Realm Core’s consciousness, Jiang Liu followed Zhuge Cheng overseas to seek its true form, uncertain what a confrontation would do to the realm.

• Jiang Liu entered the restored Yin-Yang Fish Array beneath the sea and deduced that the three arrays were linked by a shared formation and its three spirits.
• Zhuge Cheng investigated the array, found signs of the Devil Race, and teleported to Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu trapped him in the teleportation space and severed his arm.
• After they stopped fighting, Zhuge Cheng offered Jiang Liu a place in Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and explained the coming War of Rules, while Jiang Liu accepted a Star Source Stone warily.
• A violent disaster struck the Human Realm, and Jiang Liu left the array to help the Heavenly Dao, killing a sea dragon that carried a fragment of the attacker’s divine soul.
• Jiang Liu and the Heavenly Dao fought the attacker, and Jiang Liu weakened it with the Phantom Soul Flute so the Golden Giant could strike and trap it.
• The Golden Giant identified the trapped consciousness as the Human Realm Core, and Jiang Liu realized destroying it could destroy the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu stored the consciousness body in his System Space and followed Zhuge Cheng overseas to find the Human Realm Core’s true form, but hesitated when Zhuge Cheng asked if he was sure.

Jiang Liu pursued the corrupted Human Realm Core and uncovered the Nether Realm plot hidden beneath the desert. He destroyed the Netherworld Master's consciousness, captured the Soaring Sky Mirror, and watched the awakened Core fly back to its former home.

• Jiang Liu fought the Human Realm Core, whose Nether Realm-tainted consciousness attacked him, and his mastery of the Time and Space Rules grew under the pressure.
• Jiang Liu followed the Core into the disaster-struck wasteland while Qin Bailian mobilized the Holy Dynasty to aid survivors and investigate the missing Iron Blood Army.
• Jiang Liu found an underground altar beneath the desert, trapped a Nether Realm black beast's consciousness, and discovered a corrupted Fire-Winged Monkey guarding the hidden formation.
• Jiang Liu entered the formation space and learned through the Soaring Sky Mirror that the Nether Realm Ghost Lord had marked the Human Realm Core and prepared an invasion before abandoning the plan.
• Jiang Liu resisted the mirror's illusions, confronted the Netherworld Master's consciousness, and destroyed it with the Godslayer Blade.
• Jiang Liu captured the Soaring Sky Mirror in the System Space as Heaven's Dao struck its escaping black light, while Zhuge Cheng subdued the aberrant beast's soul.
• The Human Realm Core appeared, frightened Zhuge Cheng into fleeing, and flew toward its former home after glancing at Jiang Liu.