Recaps

Jiang Liu moved the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation to Silent Valley and continued investigating the Halls of Yama while learning to forge and inscribe formations. He gave trusted allies tokens for entering the secret realm, then received word that King Chujiang Hall’s forces were heading to Yun Province to attack by sea.

• Jiang Liu ordered Dongling Rui to send forces against the Fifth Judge Palace and later directed Hao Zhuang and Wind Hall to help investigate the Halls of Yama.
• Jiang Liu relocated the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation to Silent Valley and brought Gongsun Haoyue, Murong Yin, Feng Yue, Cuier, and Xiao He into its inner world.
• Jiang Liu learned forging at Star Cloud Saint Sect and refined Star Iron and Celestial Frost Branches with Gong Mo and Tian Ling.
• Jiang Liu mastered the Entrapment Formation and carved formations into eight branches, making tokens and ornaments for his companions.
• Jiang Liu warned Gong Mo, Tian Ling, and Flowing Cloud Matriarch that the Heavenly Dao was targeting Saint Realm martial artists and withheld formation knowledge until its dangers could be removed.
• Jiang Liu inscribed Gathering Qi Formations into cold-iron tokens and sealed fragments of his Divine Sense into the eight Celestial Frost Branches.
• Jiang Liu gave his companions and Flowing Cloud Matriarch tokens that allowed them to enter the secret realm, and taught them to store their auras in the tokens.
• Jiang Liu received a Wind Hall transmission that King Chujiang Hall’s forces had assembled and were heading to Yun Province to go out to sea.

Jiang Liu pursued the assassins to the islands, where he uncovered the Wheel King Palace and fought the Fifth Judge Palace while discovering the Source of the Netherworld. After crushing the island forces and East Wo Country, he prepared to seal the Source, then destroyed corrupted King Wuguan statues that triggered images in his Divine Sea.

• Jiang Liu tracked the assassins to the sea and learned they belonged to the Wheel King Palace, which had become the Assassin Alliance.
• Jiang Liu joined Dongling Rui and his forces at Seven Stars Island, capturing the Fifth Judge Palace fighters and sweeping through its islands.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue found the Source of the Netherworld beneath the sea, and Jiang Liu slowed it with layered formations before reuniting with his allies.
• Jiang Liu’s forces crushed the Five Islands, pursued the fleeing families, and sailed to East Wo Country, where they devastated the country and captured its king.
• Jiang Liu’s forces intercepted the fleeing people from Dubhe Island and defeated Baili Qiang, Baili Ji, and Baili He.
• Jiang Liu uncovered Void Iron among the Fifth Judge Palace’s hidden treasures, forged five formation pieces, and decided to reseal the Source before pursuing the Wheel King Palace.
• Jiang Liu confronted three corrupted King Wuguan statues, destroyed their Divine Souls with Divine Sense blades, and saw images flash through his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu investigated the Source of the Netherworld, destroyed the Assassin Alliance headquarters, and joined the Donglings in battle against Wheel King Palace. After absorbing Wheel King’s statue, he endured a Dark Primal Qi corruption that brought him to the brink before the Fire-Winged Monkey and Gongsun Haoyue helped him recover, leaving him stronger and considering a Saint Realm advancement.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue reached the ice-encased Source of the Netherworld, reinforced its Entrapment Formation, and broke the Primal Qi Barrier to stabilize it.
• As foreign assassins spread across the continent, the authorities launched a nationwide hunt, while Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue traveled to the Assassin Alliance headquarters and killed Dongyang Yu.
• Jiang Liu enlisted Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing to attack Wheel King Palace, and their forces fought the palace’s Peak Grandmasters as the Fire-Winged Monkey advanced through a lightning tribulation.
• Jiang Liu and the Fire-Winged Monkey defeated Dongyang Cheng and Dongyang Wei, while Jiang Liu discovered that the monkey’s mental avatar had formed inside his Divine Sea and could communicate with him.
• Jiang Liu devoured Wheel King’s statue and was overcome by Dark Primal Qi, which corrupted his Divine Sea and drove him to fight the Heavenly Dao in a Saint Realm tribulation.
• After Jiang Liu fell unconscious, the Fire-Winged Monkey fought him to suppress the corruption, and Gongsun Haoyue used a Warm Spirit Jade to help awaken him.
• Jiang Liu recovered the next day, found the corruption gone and his cultivation greatly improved, and considered preparing to advance to the Saint Realm.

Jiang Liu forged Gongsun Haoyue a Voidmetal Talisman, then confronted Dark Primal Qi spreading from the Abyssal Hell and advanced to the Saint Realm. As he and Gongsun Haoyue headed back toward the mainland, Nether began searching for the Saint Heaven Sect disciple who had reached that realm, while unrest spread across the provinces.

• Jiang Liu freed the Fire Dragon Beast Emperor, forged the Voidmetal Talisman with Gongsun Haoyue, and set sail to hunt the Haotian Sect survivors who had ambushed Ming Chengyun’s group.
• Jiang Liu captured the Haotian Sect survivors, then investigated Dark Primal Qi spreading among sea beasts and fought Nether Hu with the Fire-Winged Monkey.
• Jiang Liu purified the corrupted sea and ship, then endured the fusion of his two dantians and advanced to the Saint Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao struck Jiang Liu with lightning, but he resisted its attempt to seize his Divine Sea and attacked its enormous face before it vanished.
• Jiang Liu discovered his upgraded Data Panel and learned that Nether was seeking a Saint Heaven Sect disciple, while Murong Yin received reports of returned martial artists causing chaos across the provinces.