Chapter Summaries

After recovering from the banquet, Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City for Sea-Suppressing City, where he planned to meet the Chen Family before crossing the Tianyuan Sea Region to the Supreme Continent. Long Wave Sword God told Feng Changtian not to follow or summon Jiang Liu, leaving him free to pursue his own affairs and seek greater strength while Eternal Joy City prepared to face Crimson Flare.

• Jiang Liu woke in the afternoon after resting and found that the banquet had improved his mental state and musical attainments.
• Jiang Liu strolled through Eternal Joy City, found little to interest him, and returned to his inn instead of the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jiang Liu recalled the Chen Family's message asking him to meet them in Sea-Suppressing City and agreed to travel there as the nearest route to the Supreme Continent.
• Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City without triggering its City Defense Array, while Long Wave Sword God and Feng Changtian watched him depart.
• Feng Changtian asked whether they should follow Jiang Liu or enlist his help against Crimson Flare, but Long Wave Sword God told him to let Jiang Liu act freely.
• Feng Changtian went to adjust the supervision team's forces and send them to deal with Crimson Flare.

Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City and joined the Chen Family aboard their Divine Artifact Starship to travel to the Supreme Continent. There, he proposed targeting the Shang family's Control Guard first, and the Chen Family gathered to refine their plan against the Shang family.

• Jiang Liu left Eternal Joy City and flew toward Sea-Suppressing City, avoiding involvement in its struggle against Chihuang for now.
• Jiang Liu met Chen He, Chen Fang, and the Chen Family at a remote village, keeping his identity concealed behind a mask.
• Jiang Liu and the Chen Family boarded a Divine Artifact Starship and set out for the Supreme Continent.
• Chen Fang and Chen He discussed revising the Chen Family's original plan to attack the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild and the Nether River Commerce Guild branch.
• Jiang Liu joined the Chen Family's Divine Realm martial artists and proposed taking down the Shang family's Control Guard first.

Jiang Liu agreed to help the Chen Family lure out and attack the Commerce Guild’s Control Guard, while both sides secretly plotted to exploit and eventually betray each other. Two days later, their Divine Artifact Starship neared Tianyuan City and continued toward Supreme City, drawing attention along the way.

• Chen He asked Jiang Liu to deal with the Control Guard, and Jiang Liu agreed on the condition that the Chen Family help lure them out.
• Jiang Liu and the Chen Family worked out an operation to separate the Control Guard and attack them in the Supreme Continent.
• After Jiang Liu left, Chen Fang and Chen He hoped he would die fighting the Control Guard so they could seize the Commerce Guild’s treasures without sharing them.
• Jiang Liu returned to his room, aware of the Chen Family’s ill intent and secretly plotting against them in turn.
• Two days later, the Chen Family’s Divine Artifact Starship neared Tianyuan City and continued toward Supreme City as its arrival attracted attention.

Jiang Liu used the Chen Family’s conspicuous arrival on the Supreme Continent to draw out the Shang Family’s Control Guard while the Chen Family continued toward Supreme City. He ambushed Shang Yu and left him alive, setting up an opportunity to manipulate the conflict between the families.

• Shang Yu learned that the Chen Family’s Divine Artifact Starship was heading toward Supreme City and sent a warning to Shang Sheng before going to investigate.
• Chen Fang and Chen He discussed how the starship’s appearance might lure Shang Sheng away from Supreme City, while Jiang Liu planned to kill or exploit whoever the Control Guard sent.
• After sensing the Control Guard’s approach, Jiang Liu left the starship and waited as the Chen Family accelerated toward Supreme City without him.
• Shang Yu rushed toward the starship, but Jiang Liu struck him from the air and drove him into the ground.
• Shang Yu demanded to know who Jiang Liu was, and Jiang Liu answered cryptically while watching the starship disappear into the distance.

Jiang Liu killed Shang Yu after allowing him to alert Li Fei to the Chen Family’s hidden strength and supposed rebellion. Li Fei reported the encounter to Shang Sheng, setting the Control Guards in motion against the Chen Family.

• Shang Yu recognized Jiang Liu as an unknown Second-Order Divine Realm expert and feared the Control Guards were unprepared for the Chen Family’s strength.
• Jiang Liu let Shang Yu call out that the Chen Family had rebelled, prompting Li Fei to realize Shang Yu wanted him to warn Shang Sheng.
• Jiang Liu killed Shang Yu with the Godslayer Blade, seized his divine soul, and took his Space Pouch.
• Jiang Liu left for Supreme City while Li Fei waited until he was gone, then used a Transmission Stone to report the encounter.
• Shang Sheng received Li Fei’s message and began mobilizing the Control Guards.

Shang Sheng mobilized the Control Guard to stop Chen Family’s rebellion before its starship reached Supreme City. Chen Fang learned that Huang Jinyu had not committed Huang Family, but Chen He believed their plan could succeed once the Control Guard’s main forces were lured away.

• Shang Sheng learned that Chen Family had rebelled and concealed Second-Order Divine Realm experts, then ordered Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang to intercept its starship.
• Shang Sheng sent half the gathered Control Guard elites toward Supreme City and regretted that his family had previously followed a conciliatory policy toward the other families.
• Chen Fang asked Chen He whether Huang Jinyu would join Chen Family’s challenge to Shang Family.
• Chen He said Huang Jinyu wanted Huang Family to discuss the matter first, and Chen Fang accused him of waiting to benefit from their actions.
• Chen He and Chen Fang expected to lure away the Control Guard’s main forces and overcome the defenders remaining in Supreme City.

Jiang Liu abandoned the Chen Family’s plan and secretly watched as the Control Guards intercepted the Chen Family’s starship. The battle left both sides fighting for their lives, and Jiang Liu departed expecting the Chen Family to have the advantage.

• Jiang Liu hid his trail, cut off contact with the Chen Family, and continued toward Supreme City instead of carrying out their plan.
• Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang intercepted the Chen Family’s starship in a remote mountain range.
• Chen He and Chen Fang led the Chen Family members out of the starship, and both sides fought fiercely in midair.
• Jiang Liu secretly watched from the forest and criticized the Divine Realm cultivators’ coordination and combat techniques.
• Jiang Liu left, judging that the Control Guards lacked their leader and that the Chen Family likely had hidden strength.

Chen He called on the Qi Family after the Chen Family’s battle against the Control Guards proved harder than expected. Qi Feng agreed to attack Supreme City, aiming to seize the continent, while the Chen Family secretly focused on obtaining the Shang Family’s breakthrough secret.

• Chen He sent a message through his Transmission Stone and summoned more than a dozen powerful reinforcements as Shang Fei, Shang Yu, and Shang Xiang grew anxious.
• Qi Feng told the Qi Family that he had let the Chen Family operate on the Neutral Continent while waiting for a chance to move against the Shang Family.
• Chen He contacted Qi Feng and agreed to his conditions in exchange for the Qi Family intercepting Shang Sheng.
• Qi Feng rallied the Qi Family to attack the remaining Control Guards and claim the Supreme Continent, despite Qi Kong’s concern that the Hong Family might exploit their losses.
• More than thirty Qi Family Divine Realm martial artists left the satellite city in scattered groups and headed toward Supreme City.

Shang Ji intercepted Qi Feng and the Qi Family outside Supreme City, hoping to claim credit by suppressing them before Shang Sheng could intervene. Qi Feng pretended to accept a withdrawal, then launched a surprise attack, and the clash alerted Shang Sheng.

• Shang Ji learned that the Qi Family was approaching Supreme City and assembled the Shadow Guards to stop them.
• Shang Ji accused Qi Feng of rebellion and surrounded the Qi Family outside the city gates.
• Qi Feng tried to persuade Shang Ji to let them pass so they could eliminate Shang Sheng, but Shang Ji demanded that they withdraw.
• Qi Feng agreed to leave, then attacked Shang Ji by surprise as the Qi Family joined the fight.
• The battle grew loud enough for news of it to reach Shang Sheng.

Jiang Liu watched the Qi Family overwhelm the Shang Family’s Shadow Guards outside Supreme City while Shang Sheng withheld reinforcements. Shang Ji was left badly injured, and his troops began to falter as the battle turned toward the Qi Family.

• Shang Sheng ignored the Transmission Stone and decided to draw out the Shang Family’s hidden enemies rather than immediately support Shang Ji.
• Jiang Liu arrived outside Supreme City and watched the Qi Family fight the Shadow Guards, while Shang Sheng still did not send reinforcements.
• Shang Ji asked Hou Fang and Liu Tianming to have their families help the Shang Family, but neither had agreed to intervene.
• Qi Feng hurled a single-use explosive artifact at Shang Ji, severely injuring his clone and catching Jiang Liu by surprise.
• The Qi Family gained the upper hand as Shang Ji vomited blood and his Shadow Guards began to collapse.

The Chen Family’s hidden Divine Realm warriors turned the battle against the Control Guard into a rout, and Chen He defeated Shang Yu. Shang Fei was nearing defeat while Shang Xiang, alarmed by Shang Yu’s fading aura, prepared to fight to the death.

• Chen Fang and Chen He intensified their attacks on Shang Fei as more than a dozen Chen Family Divine Realm warriors emerged from ambush and overwhelmed the Control Guard.
• Shang Fei continued fighting despite his weakening aura, while Shang Yu and Shang Xiang struggled with depleted Heaven and Earth Essence and fading clones.
• Chen He’s hidden clone pierced Shang Yu after Chen He sent him flying, causing Shang Yu’s clone to vanish and his true body to fall.
• Chen Fang abandoned his attempt to make Shang Fei surrender and pressed his attack, while worrying that the Chen Family might face further threats from Supreme City.
• Shang Xiang sensed Shang Yu’s defeat, surged with killing intent, and caused the surrounding Chen Family warriors to retreat and encircle him from a distance.

Shang Xian led more than twenty Control Guard reinforcements from the satellite cities to the battlefield, rescuing the beleaguered guards and turning the fight against the Chen Family into an evenly matched showdown. Shang Yu had apparently fallen, while Qi Feng’s forces had nearly wiped out the Shadow Guards at Supreme City’s gates.

• Shang Xian hurried toward the battlefield with more than twenty Divine Realm Control Guards after receiving Shang Sheng’s order.
• A Control Guard arrived in time to block Chen Fang’s attack on Shang Fei, and the reinforcements rescued guards in danger and moved to aid Shang Xiang.
• Shang Fei told Shang Xian that he was still able to fight but that Shang Yu probably would not survive, and Shang Xian urged him to focus on avenging their comrade.
• Shang Xian attacked Chen Fang, and the reinforcements shifted the battle’s balance as the Control Guard and Chen Family began an evenly matched, furious showdown.
• Qi Feng’s forces nearly slaughtered the Shadow Guards surrounding the Qi Family at Supreme City’s gates.

Huang Jinyu led the Huang Family in an attack on the Shang Family’s hidden headquarters, blocking Shang Sheng from aiding Shang Ji. The chapter ended with Shang Sheng and Huang Jinyu fighting while the Huang Family and Control Guards clashed around them.

• Qi Feng killed Shang Ji, causing the Shadow Guards to fall into chaos.
• Huang Jinyu blocked Shang Sheng at the village entrance and revealed that the Huang Family had long investigated the Shang Family’s hidden headquarters.
• Huang Jinyu explained that the Huang Family intended to eliminate Shang Sheng and seize the Shang Family’s wealth while the Chen and Qi Families took the blame.
• The Huang Family attacked the Control Guards, and Shang Sheng summoned his divine battle-axe to fight Huang Jinyu, who drew his divine longsword.
• Shang Sheng and Huang Jinyu began fighting with their clones as the more than thirty Control Guards battled the larger Huang Family force to a standstill.

Shang Sheng killed Huang Jinyu and wiped out the Huang Family attackers, but the surviving Control Guards were badly depleted. He then learned that the Qi Family had fought its way to the Nether River Commerce headquarters, leaving him urgently called to reinforce it.

• Qi Feng led the Qi Family into Supreme City after slaughtering the Shadow Guards, while Jiang Liu watched and collected souls.
• Shang Sheng overwhelmed Huang Jinyu, whose clone collapsed before Shang Sheng severed his head and split his corpse in two.
• Huang Jinyu’s death threw the Huang Family members into chaos, and Shang Sheng killed them all with the Control Guards’ help.
• The battle left fewer than twenty Control Guards alive after several Huang Family members self-detonated.
• Shang Sheng received a Transmission Stone message that the Qi Family had reached headquarters and was asked to come reinforce them.

After the Qi Family raided the Nether River Commerce headquarters, Shang Sheng led the remaining Control Guards to Supreme City to confront Qi Feng. Qi Feng realized Shang Sheng had fought Huang Jinyu and suspected the Huang Family had been wiped out, leaving him wary as the two sides prepared to battle.

• Shang Sheng concluded that the Qi Family had breached the headquarters and ordered the remaining Control Guards to follow him to Supreme City.
• Qi Feng searched the ruined headquarters for goods and clues to the Shang Family's true headquarters, but found little and chose to stay despite the danger.
• A Qi Family member warned Qi Feng that Shang Sheng was approaching with a small group of Control Guards, and Qi Feng ordered his people to fight and capture someone alive if possible.
• Shang Sheng attacked the headquarters with an axe-light and accused Qi Feng of killing Huang Jinyu.
• Qi Feng avoided Shang Sheng's attack, flew into the sky with his remaining fighters, and grew solemn as he inferred that Huang Jinyu and the Huang Family might have been killed.

Jiang Liu watched Shang Sheng’s Control Guard defeat Qi Feng and the Qi Family, then seized Qi Feng’s escaping divine soul. He left the battle with the Nether River Commerce in chaos and his plan to weaken the God Realm underway.

• Jiang Liu noticed Hou Fang, Liu Tianming, and other hidden factions watching the battle, and considered how the Nether River Commerce’s downfall could plunge the God Realm into chaos.
• Shang Sheng struck Qi Feng into the ruins as the Control Guard overwhelmed the Qi Family, and Jiang Liu assessed the leaders’ injuries and recalled that Shang Sheng had killed Huang Jinyu.
• Shang Sheng struck Qi Feng down again, and Qi Feng vomited blood as his aura grew unstable.
• Shang Sheng cleaved Qi Feng in half, and Jiang Liu captured Qi Feng’s escaping divine soul before it could flee.
• Shang Sheng saw Jiang Liu appear and regarded him solemnly.

Jiang Liu confronted Shang Sheng and the seven remaining Control Guards after taking Qi Feng’s soul. The guards used the Seven Stars Combination Formation to withstand Jiang Liu’s strike, but he judged the formation too flawed to be useful and prepared to end the fight.

• The Qi Family fighters sensed Qi Feng’s death and fought desperately to escape while the Control Guards surrounded Jiang Liu and Shang Sheng.
• Shang Sheng cautiously questioned Jiang Liu, who drew the Godslayer Blade instead of answering.
• Shang Ke, Shang Lei, and Shang Min led the seven surviving Control Guards in forming the Seven Stars Combination Formation.
• Jiang Liu struck the formation with the Godslayer Blade, and the guards endured his full-powered blow as chaotic essence tore through the ruins.
• Jiang Liu assessed the formation’s flaws and decided not to waste more time as the Control Guards prepared their second attack.

Jiang Liu broke the Seven Stars Combination Formation, killed Shang Ke and Shang Sheng, and captured both of their divine souls. With Shang Sheng dead and the Flute Avatar controlling the battle, the remaining Control Guards fled, but Jiang Liu pursued them.

• Jiang Liu used suppressive pressure to break the Seven Stars Combination Formation and beheaded Shang Ke, then collected his divine soul.
• Shang Sheng and the remaining Control Guards attacked Jiang Liu, who evaded them while summoning his Flute Avatar.
• Jiang Liu's Divine Strike cut through Shang Sheng's axe attack, and the Flute Avatar's music left Shang Sheng unable to defend himself.
• Jiang Liu killed Shang Sheng and captured his divine soul as the remaining Control Guards realized the Flute Avatar had controlled him.
• The Control Guards scattered and fled, while Jiang Liu pursued them with Nebula Shrunken Earth.

Jiang Liu left Supreme City after looting the dead, while news of his destruction of the Control Guards and the Nether River Commerce headquarters plunged the Shang Family’s enterprise into chaos. As Chen Fang learned that Qi Feng and Shang Sheng were dead, he realized an unknown ally might be responsible.

• Jiang Liu searched the dead Qi and Shang Family members, took their belongings, and left Supreme City to devour the souls he had gathered.
• News spread across the Supreme Continent that Jiang Liu had killed Shang Sheng and wiped out the Control Guards, leaving the Nether River Commerce without its strongest protectors or a leader.
• Forces coveting the Nether River Commerce began seizing opportunities in the satellite cities, while the Shang Family’s direct-line members remained unable to control the growing chaos.
• Shang Fei and Chen Fang continued fighting, unaware of the destruction in Supreme City, until Chen Fang received a message reporting Qi Feng’s death, the Qi Family’s destruction, and Shang Sheng’s death.
• Chen Fang concluded that their missing partner, rather than Qi Feng, was likely responsible for Shang Sheng’s death.

Chen Fang abandoned his plan to prolong the battle as he worried that his partner had already obtained the Shang Family’s secrets. After leaving Supreme City, Jiang Liu devoured Qi Feng’s soul and discovered that his Divine Sea’s growth had hit an obstruction at the Third-Tier Divine Realm, while he remained uncertain how to advance further.

• Chen Fang realized the battle had unfolded beyond his plans and decided to end it quickly, fearing his partner had gained the Shang Family’s secrets.
• Jiang Liu found a secluded place and assigned First-Tier Divine Realm souls to his two clones to devour.
• Jiang Liu drew Qi Feng’s soul into his Divine Sea and swallowed it, causing his Divine Sea to expand slightly.
• Jiang Liu sensed an obstruction preventing further growth of his soul at the Third-Tier Divine Realm and wondered whether advancing required raising his essence cultivation.
• Jiang Liu considered that the Three Great Cities might have invaded the Nether Realm after Yang Hao’s group returned with news about the White Feather Sword God.