Recaps

Jiang Liu helped the Flowing Cloud and Star Moon Sects cultivate the Star Cloud Saint Art while the sect leaders pursued a marriage alliance between them. Fleeing the match, he returned to Yun Province with Tang Wanyu and Chen Xiaoyun, where reports of human trafficking raised suspicions that Corpse Valley had returned.

• Jiang Liu strengthened the Flowing Cloud Matriarch and his senior sisters by guiding Star Power into their bodies as they cultivated the revised Star Cloud Saint Art.
• Jiang Liu visited Old Man Luo, learned of conflicts spreading across Great Qian, and flew to the Star Moon Sect to help its disciples cultivate.
• Gongsun Haoyue proposed a marriage alliance between the Star Moon and Flowing Cloud Sects, and the sect leaders agreed to pursue it if Jiang Liu consented.
• Gongsun Haoyue selected Chu Heyu, Chen Yuwen, and Zheng Yunxiu as possible matches, but Chu Heyu was chosen after the elders mistook her meeting with Jiang Liu for mutual interest.
• When Chu Heyu asked Jiang Liu about their marriage, he avoided answering and fled back to the Flowing Cloud Sect.
• The Flowing Cloud Matriarch told Jiang Liu she supported the alliance, so he left for Yun Province to avoid the marriage and Tang Wanyu and Chen Xiaoyun followed him.
• Jiang Liu waited near Kan County for Tang Wanyu and Chen Xiaoyun, then traveled with them into Yun Province and learned from Jiang Yun that a local faction was trafficking people.
• Jiang Liu suspected the trafficking was connected to Corpse Valley and wondered whether it had returned to Yun Province.

Jiang Liu uncovered and destroyed Corpse Valley’s base and its evolved Corpse Golem, then returned to Cloud City as the conflict among the Jianghu factions intensified. The Martial Prohibition Hall destroyed the Ji Family and pursued its fleeing Grandmasters, while Liu Yihang and Wang Dali escaped into the desert.

• Jiang Liu traced the disappearances to Corpse Valley, raided its bases with Tang Hui, then led Tang Wanyu and Chen Xiaoyun to attack Bai Lei and the remaining fighters.
• A Grandmaster Realm Corpse Golem emerged from the ruined chamber, but Jiang Liu, Chen Xiaoyun, and the Fire-Winged Monkey destroyed it and uncovered a King Yama Statue that Jiang Liu shattered before hiding the site.
• Jiang Liu returned to Cloud City, resumed ties with Murong Yin and Feng Yue, and agreed to Qin Bailian’s plan while arranging for the Vast Righteous Sect to settle in Yun Province.
• As the factions fought over territory, Lu Tianheng’s Martial Prohibition Hall exterminated the Ji Family, and Jiang Liu suspected Lu Tianheng was hunting Grandmasters to cultivate an evil art.
• Jiang Liu completed strengthening his bones and began tempering his blood vessels, while Old Master Feng replaced Feng Boxing with Feng Boyun as family head.
• Lu Tianheng captured Ji Qiang and Ji Xingfeng after the Ji Family’s defeat, then led his pursuers after Liu Yihang and Wang Dali into the desert.
• Sand Devouring Serpents attacked both fleeing groups, forcing He Chu and Liu Changxing to suffer severe injuries as Liu Yihang and Wang Dali escaped uncaught.

Lu Tianheng’s Bloodfiend Art exposed the Martial Prohibition Hall to the Three Sects and the imperial family, leading to his capture and the Hall’s disbandment. As the Three Sects hunted Bloodfiend Sect agents, Jiang Liu uncovered a network of infiltrators while rival powers exploited the upheaval.

• Liu Yihang and Wang Dali escaped the Sand Devouring Serpent King after losing a leg and a hand, while Lu Tianheng devoured Ji Xingfeng and Ji Qiang to cultivate the Bloodthirsty Evil Art.
• Jiang Zongquan exposed Lu Tianheng’s cultivation method, prompting martial artists and the Three Sects to demand action as Jiang Lan sought to use the crisis against the Martial Prohibition Hall.
• Duanmu Haotian, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Gongsun Haoyue, and Dao Fan Shangren captured Lu Tianheng, and Jiang Liu interrogated him before the Three Sects announced his execution.
• The Martial Prohibition Hall’s Grandmasters divided its resources and disbanded, while Jiang Lan reestablished the Tianwu Army with Chen Qianliu and Liu Changxing in command.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch convened the Flowing Cloud Sect elders, announced the return of the Bloodfiend Sect and the imperial family’s hidden Peak Grandmaster, and used Star Cloud Saint Art lessons to check for infiltrators.
• Jiang Liu helped uncover Bloodfiend Sect agents in the Flowing Cloud Sect, learned that they had arranged for Lu Tianheng to find the cultivation manual, and exposed sleeper agents across the Jianghu.
• The Three Sects began a wider purge, while Wang Dali and Liu Yihang planned to frame Liu Changxing and Yamagami Ichiro and Isonobe Jiro prepared to exploit the disorder.
• The Ghost School Five Great Families Alliance spread accusations against Buddhism, but Xuan Wen, Xuan Jian, Xuan Zhi, and Xuan Xing killed Ji Xingyu before he could self-destruct, ending the Ji Family’s line of Grandmasters.

After the Daoist and Buddhist conflict erupts into war, Jiang Liu intervenes, defeats the rival factions, and reorganizes Xun Province under his allies. Back in Yun Province, he shelters Soul Valley as evidence points to a wider campaign abducting people skilled in mental power.

• After Feng dies and the Lotus Sect’s alliance defeats its enemies in Kui City, Jiang Liu learns that Xun Province’s factions are divided and prepares to join the alliance against the Bloodfiend Sect.
• Jiang Liu returns to Yun Province, welcomes Li Moran’s Vast Righteous Sect, and arranges for Martial Prohibition Hall Grandmasters to support Qi and Tian Counties.
• As the Buddhist and Daoist Sects battle, Jiang Liu sends Li Xuewu’s forces to Xun Province, then follows with Qin Bailian, Yi Yue, and more reinforcements.
• Jiang Liu’s forces join the fight against the Buddhist alliance, where Xiahou Yi and the Sun Moon Sect flee, the Fire-Winged Monkey kills Xuan Zhi, and Jiang Liu’s allies defeat the remaining fighters.
• Jiang Liu orders the captured leaders’ dantians sealed, but Lin Chi, Chen Qiansong, and Li Xuewu kill Xuan Jian, Xuan Wen, and Qi Shengyuan while they are imprisoned, claiming the prisoners self-detonated.
• Jiang Liu assigns his allies to govern and police Xun Province, accepts Hundred Craft Hall’s allegiance, and returns to Yun City to reorganize its intelligence groups.
• Old Man Tianhun brings Soul Valley survivors to Cloud City and tells Jiang Liu that an unknown force has been abducting its disciples.
• Jiang Liu investigates Blood Demon Island as a possible culprit, while Old Man Tianhun links the abductions to reports of Ghost School disciples disappearing in Xun Province.