Recaps

Jiang Liu traveled across the provinces to purify corrupted martial artists and seal passages to Abyssal Hell, defeating several Nether Race fighters along the way. After the Frost Race’s Han Yi helped dispel Ming Heng’s chaotic qi, Jiang Liu prepared to enter Abyssal Hell and asked officials to report on the Black Tide’s aftermath.

• Flowing Cloud Matriarch and Yun Chao raided the Ye manor, capturing Ye Bolun’s family and incapacitating Ye Guyun and Ye Gucheng.
• Jiang Liu and the Fire-Winged Monkey defeated Ming Yan, and Jiang Liu learned that Abyssal Hell’s elders were preparing to invade before sealing the passage near Sea Gazing City.
• Jiang Liu traveled through several provinces, purifying corrupted martial artists and sealing passages while the Heavenly Dao struck down Nether Jue and took his soul.
• Jiang Liu fought Ming Heng near a passage in Yan Prefecture, where Han Yi joined the battle and Ming Heng’s chaotic qi trapped Jiang Liu in an illusion before Ming Heng destroyed himself.
• After Jiang Liu recovered, Zheng Yunshang helped dispel his anomalous qi, and he sealed the collapsed passage before taking her to Mountain City to deal with more corrupted martial artists.
• Jiang Liu told Gongsun Haoyue, Murong Yin, and Feng Yue that he planned to enter Abyssal Hell to find the Frost Race, then taught Murong Yin and Feng Yue the Joyous Meditation Art.
• Jiang Liu revealed his Saint Realm aura to the Hall of Governmental Affairs and asked its officials to report on the Black Tide’s aftermath.

Jiang Liu mastered the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation’s control over time, then entered Abyssal Hell and took the Soul-Seizing Lamp from Ming Lang. After proving himself to the Frost Race, he helped secure an alliance against the Nether Race and set out with Han Yi, Han Yue, and Han Shuang to attack Ming Qu.

• Jiang Liu learned to slow and accelerate time inside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, helped Zheng Yunshang advance, and watched Murong Yin reach Grandmaster.
• Jiang Liu entered Abyssal Hell with the Fire-Winged Monkey, defeated three Beast Emperors, and found the vortex leading deeper into the realm.
• Jiang Liu outmaneuvered Ming Lang, devoured the Nether God’s Divine Sense Avatar, and claimed the Soul-Seizing Lamp before carrying Ming Lang toward the Frost Race’s border.
• Jiang Liu met Han Yi and Han Xiao, proved his strength, and was brought to the Frost God, where he offered Ming Lang and proposed joining forces against the Nether Race.
• Han Yue and Jiang Liu prepared a separate plan while the Frost God and elders agreed to attack the Nether Race, using Jiang Liu’s strategy of targeting its elders one by one.
• Nether learned that four elders had been killed and the Soul-Seizing Lamp lost, while Dongyang Yi and Dongyang He awakened as Saint Realm puppets under his control.
• Jiang Liu joined the Frost Race’s march but left its main force with Han Yi, then welcomed Han Yue and Han Shuang into their group and chose Ming Qu as their first target.
• Jiang Liu, Han Yi, Han Yue, and Han Shuang concealed their auras and traveled toward Ming Qu’s stronghold to prepare their attack.

Jiang Liu helped the Frost Race defeat the Nether forces, then returned to the outside world and protected Gongsun Haoyue through her breakthrough to the Saint Realm. The arc ended with Flowing Cloud Matriarch asking Jiang Liu to help her advance as well.

• Jiang Liu and the Frost Race elders captured Ming Qu and Ming Xuan, and Han Yue and Han Shuang cultivated with the elders’ essence while Jiang Liu reforged their weapons into a flute.
• Jiang Liu joined the Frost Race’s battle against the Nether Race and used the Soul-Seizing Tune to disrupt Nether God, helping the Frost Race turn the fight around.
• Nether Yao killed Han Xiao and fled with his corpse, while Ming Gan escaped with Han Luo and Nether God withdrew his forces.
• The Frost Race won at great cost and captured six Nether Race Saint Realm elders, then returned to its territory as Jiang Liu prepared to leave the underground world.
• Jiang Liu returned to the imperial palace and learned that Gongsun Haoyue could no longer suppress her advancement, so he helped her prepare inside the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation.
• Jiang Liu blocked the Heavenly Dao’s attacks and drove its consciousness from Gongsun Haoyue as she passed the Thunder baptism and advanced to the Saint Realm.
• Jiang Liu brought Gongsun Haoyue back into the formation, announced her success, and noticed Star Cloud Saint Sect elders plotting over power.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch entered the Yang Ring late at night and asked Jiang Liu to help her advance.

Jiang Liu rescued Gongsun Haoyue from Nether God’s ambush, uncovered the Frost Race’s history and a way to counter battle puppets, then returned with her to Dui Province. The arc ended as he disrupted a battle in the Changyun Mountains and turned the combatants against one another with an illusion formation.

• Jiang Liu acknowledged his relationship with Flowing Cloud Matriarch, then left with Gongsun Haoyue for the Abyssal Hell and was ambushed by Nether God, Ming Gan, and the Dongyang brothers.
• After Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue escaped, she found him unconscious in the snow and helped him recover before he purged the Dark Primal Qi from her spiritual sea.
• Nether Yao warned Jiang Liu that Nether God was turning Frost and Nether Race experts into battle puppets, though she secretly hoped to use a coming conflict to seize Nether God’s position.
• Jiang Liu told Frost God about the puppets and learned the Frost Race’s origins, then studied its records and deduced that he could break a puppet’s source energy and take control of it.
• Jiang Liu healed Frost God, agreed that Gongsun Haoyue should return outside the Abyssal Hell, and prepared to leave while promising Han Yi he would find a way to bring her out later.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue returned to Dui Province, where he received intelligence about a likely Halls of Yama branch in the Changyun Mountains.
• Jiang Liu reached the battle involving Dongling Heng and Tuo Baqi, ordered Gongsun Haoyue to block escape, and used the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation to make everyone except the Dongling siblings attack those around them.