Recaps

Jiang Liu joined Exotic Beast Valley and entered the secret realm, where he uncovered a powerful martial art and fought his way through a contest for a mysterious treasure. He escaped as the realm collapsed, but the surviving Grandmasters confronted one another over their missing disciples.

• Jiang Liu won the Cloud Province tournament, learned the three sects were selecting champions for a secret realm, and began planning the Listening Wind Pavilion with Murong Yin.
• Jiang Liu traveled to Exotic Beast Valley, accepted Mo Han’s offer to become a True Inheritor Disciple, and received the complete Beast Mastery Art.
• After reaching Qi City, Jiang Liu gathered information about the secret realm’s entrants and joined the other champions when the three sects opened its entrance.
• Jiang Liu explored the realm’s courtyards, claimed pills and a black broadsword, and discovered the Saint Grade Saintly Sky Art in the Technique Repository.
• Jiang Liu fought Ye Qiuzhen, Liu Yunhe, and Ji Hao over the pills, killing Liu Yunhe and Ji Hao before moving deeper into the compound.
• Jiang Liu defeated multiple challengers in the arena contest, knocked Li Qiaoyun from the arena, and opened an empty brocade box as the realm began to collapse.
• Jiang Liu found an alternate exit and led the survivors out before the secret realm collapsed, while the Grandmasters outside discovered that many disciples were missing.
• Ye Guhe demanded to search the survivors’ souls for answers, but Tianming, Elder Bai, Li Moran, Zheng Fei, and Chen Bo opposed him as the Grandmasters faced off.

Jiang Liu survived an ambush, exposed Corpse Valley collaborators, healed his injuries, and continued into Qian Province while searching for ways to improve his martial skills. As unrest spread and the Three Sects invited him to join them, he trained with a Three-Eyed Flying Tiger and sent Murong Yin word that he had arrived safely.

• Jiang Liu advanced to Minor Grandmaster in Exotic Beast Valley, then set out for Qian Province and was ambushed by three Corpse Valley Minor Grandmasters.
• Mo Han rescued Jiang Liu after he collapsed, and Jiang Liu later woke in Mist City to expose Xu Nuo as a Corpse Valley spy and discover his mental power had grown stronger.
• Jiang Liu healed his injuries with a Saint Heaven Pill, uncovered the He Family and Zhang Family’s ties to Corpse Valley, and helped Elder Bai defeat their forces in Mist City.
• Jiang Liu traveled to Qilin City, where Luo Shihong advanced to Grandmaster, then heard villagers describe exploitation by gangs and sect disciples in Feiyun Commandery.
• In Azure Dragon City, Jiang Liu watched Pu Tianyuan defeat Li Anyun in a life-and-death arena match and considered how to combine his martial techniques.
• Tianming invited Jiang Liu to join the Haotian Sect and enter the Martial Arts Tournament, while Luo Shiyuan told him that Feng Province’s capital was nearly lost and unrest was worsening.
• Jiang Liu encountered Zuo Mu in the mountains, escaped when Bo Tao arrived, and learned that the Lotus Sect planned to rise openly in Xun Province and Zhen Province.
• Jiang Liu trained with a Three-Eyed Flying Tiger, which began imitating his techniques and bringing him prey, while Murong Yin received his letter confirming his safe arrival in Azure Dragon City.

Jiang Liu won the Great Qian tournament, joined Flowing Cloud Sect, and learned that combining its art with Star Moon Sect’s technique could create the Saint Cloud Art. As factions seized territory across the provinces, he focused on comparing his new technique with the Saintly Sky Art while the sects’ leaders considered what to do next.

• Jiang Liu killed the four men sent by the five great families, then competed in the tournament and defeated every opponent to claim first place.
• Koinu Jun'ichirō brought East W Kingdom disciples to challenge Great Qian, and Jiang Liu killed Koinu Jiro and Abe Jinshan before the Grandmasters let the visitors depart.
• Jiang Liu chose Flowing Cloud Sect as an Inheritor Disciple and visited Star Moon Sect to learn the Star Moon Flowing Fire Art.
• Jiang Liu merged the Flowing Cloud Art, Thundercloud Art, and Star Moon Flowing Fire Art to create the Saint Grade Nebula Art, astonishing Flowing Cloud Matriarch and the elders.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch met Gongsun Haoyue, who revealed that the Star Moon Sect and Flowing Cloud Sect might have once been one sect whose combined arts formed the Star Cloud Saint Art.
• Jiang Liu returned to Flowing Cloud Sect, sent a letter to Wind City, and studied the Saintly Sky Art alongside the Nebula Art as the sects introduced new requirements for their True Inheritor Disciples.
• The Lotus Sect, Ye Family, Wang Family, White Saint Society, Ghost School, and other powers seized territory across the provinces, while the Ji Family and Vast Righteous Sect remained locked in a standoff over Mo Province.
• After one to two years of upheaval, the provinces remained divided, and the Zheng Family, Confucian Sect, and Moonfall Sect began exerting pressure in Tian Province.

Jiang Liu uncovered Corpse Valley’s infiltration of Qi Province, helped Exotic Beast Valley purge its agents, and returned to Yun Province amid worsening turmoil. The arc ended with Jiang Liu confronting Ghost Lord after interrupting his battle with the Ancestor of the Yun Family.

• Jiang Liu broke through to the Grandmaster realm, left Flowing Cloud Sect, and pursued the identity of the person who had put a bounty on him.
• Jiang Liu traced the assassination contract to Koinu Jun'ichirō, killed him at Black Mountain Stronghold, and then killed White Golem while uncovering a Corpse Nurturing Ground.
• Jiang Liu sought Exotic Beast Valley’s help and discovered that Li Chunyang and other agents had infiltrated the valley on Corpse Valley’s behalf.
• Jiang Liu and the Exotic Beast Valley elders captured Corpse Valley operatives across Mountain City and Qi Province, then exposed and killed the spy Ouyang Xiong.
• Jiang Liu returned to Exotic Beast Valley, declined a command role, and arranged support for the women he had rescued before setting out for Yun Province.
• Jiang Liu learned that rival forces were abusing commoners in Yun Province, then went with He Guo to investigate Corpse Valley members in Luo Yun County.
• Jiang Liu flew toward Yun Province, interrupted a fight between Ghost Lord and the Ancestor of the Yun Family with Starfall, and pursued Ghost Lord as his beasts confronted the Ancestor.