Chapter Summaries

After rewarding the Shockwave Sea Alliance leaders with divine-grade secret manuals, Jiang Liu stayed on Mingyun Island and waited for the sea beasts to return. A new assault began with five Second-Order Divine Realm sea beasts, leaving the Alliance at risk of defeat as Jiang Liu arrived at the battlefield.

• Jiang Liu gave Yu Chenghai and the others divine-grade secret manuals, and they chose manuals suited to their cultivation.
• Yun Tianlan invited Jiang Liu to stay in a prepared courtyard, while Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan resolved to work harder to earn his favor.
• Jiang Liu remained on Mingyun Island and ordered the Shockwave Sea Alliance to stay vigilant after sea beasts passed by without attacking for two days.
• When a large group of sea beasts approached, Jiang Liu ordered the Unicorn Divine Ox to attack and flew to the battlefield.
• Jiang Liu found five Second-Order Divine Realm sea beasts fighting the Unicorn Divine Ox and the Shockwave Sea Alliance, whose forces risked defeat without reinforcements.

Jiang Liu helped the Shockwave Sea Alliance defeat the sea beast invasion, showcasing his newly powerful Divine Strike and collecting Beast Souls as his summoned beasts fought. With the battle over and the remaining sea beasts manageable, he began considering a return to the Human Realm.

• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp and Divine Strike to kill a Second-Order Divine Realm sea beast in one blow, then sent Yu Chenghai and the others to reinforce the remaining battles.
• Jiang Liu realized his mental power had strengthened Divine Strike and that Phantom Stomp could focus its aura attack on a single target.
• Jiang Liu and Blade Avatar helped the Unicorn Divine Ox battle two Second-Order Divine Realm sea beasts, and Jiang Liu promised it the bodies as food.
• The Unicorn Divine Ox killed one of its opponents, then joined Jiang Liu and Blade Avatar in turning the other battles into a one-sided slaughter.
• The battle ended after a little over an hour with few casualties for the Shockwave Sea Alliance, and Jiang Liu decided it was time to consider returning to the Human Realm.

Jiang Liu traveled to the deep sea near Tranquil Sea Island to investigate the secret that had frightened the Unicorn Divine Ox and drawn Crimson Flare. As he descended into the increasingly empty, unusually cold waters, he found no clear sign of what lay ahead.

• Jiang Liu rode the Unicorn Divine Ox toward Tranquil Sea Island, while the beast carried several sea beasts it had not finished eating.
• Chen Fang and Chen He escaped the Control Guards after three days of fighting, then realized their forces had suffered heavy losses and blamed Jiang Liu for abandoning them.
• The surviving Control Guards, led by Shang Fei, Shang Xiang, and Shang Xian, rushed toward Supreme City, unaware that the Shang Family headquarters had already been robbed and destroyed.
• The Unicorn Divine Ox hesitated to approach the deep-sea location, so Jiang Liu asked it to wait while he dove alone toward the place that had frightened it.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the waters were far colder than above and found fewer and fewer sea beasts as he carefully descended.

Jiang Liu investigated a vast, glowing stone in a silent stretch of the deep sea, sensing a threat and finding his Divine Sense forced to contract. When he tried to retreat, the stone vanished and revealed a gigantic, transparent sea beast.

• Jiang Liu cautiously followed a faint light through the silent deep sea, finding no sea beasts nearby.
• Jiang Liu briefly saw what looked like a sea-beast phantom, checked his Divine Sea, and confirmed he had not fallen into an illusion.
• Jiang Liu discovered the light came from an enormous stone and sensed a warning of danger, but decided to approach it.
• Jiang Liu's Divine Sense began contracting as he neared the stone, and his Divine Sea warned him of imminent danger.
• Jiang Liu activated Nebula Shrunken Earth and retreated as the stone blazed, shrank, and vanished, revealing a gigantic transparent sea beast.

Jiang Liu encountered a Third-Tier Divine Realm deep-sea octopus and was overwhelmed by its icy tentacles. He escaped to the vicinity of Tranquil Sea Island, while the enraged beast unleashed ice and tsunamis across the sea.

• Jiang Liu sensed the transparent sea beast’s Third-Tier Divine Realm aura and attacked it with Divine Strike, but his blade seemed to have no effect.
• Jiang Liu fled with Nebula Shrunken Earth, then was struck by an invisible tentacle that disrupted his Primal Qi and covered his Godslayer Blade in frost.
• The octopus’s six tentacles caught Jiang Liu, battered him with Extreme Icechill, and dragged him toward its gaping maw.
• Jiang Liu vanished and returned to the vicinity of Tranquil Sea Island before the octopus could devour him.
• The enraged octopus spread ice and caused enormous tsunamis, while the Unicorn Divine Ox sensed that Jiang Liu was safe through their spiritual bond.
• Jiang Liu saw the approaching waves and decided to return to Tranquil Sea Island to heal his injuries.

Jiang Liu went to Tranquil Sea Island’s Back Mountain to heal his injuries in secret. In the Human Realm, an urgent report that a mysterious place in Yun Province had changed sent Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, and Han Yi to investigate, while Murong Yin worried over the danger.

• Jiang Liu hid in a dense forest on Tranquil Sea Island and circulated the Saintly Sky Art to heal the damage from the octopus’s attacks.
• Murong Yin and the others gathered in the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and talked about missing and worrying about Jiang Liu in the God Realm.
• After receiving an urgent message from a Wind Hall messenger, Gongsun Haoyue summoned Flowing Cloud Matriarch and Han Yi and flew toward Yun Province.
• Han Yue followed them, while Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang went to the imperial palace to ask Lin Chi what had happened.
• Murong Yin told Feng Yue and Zheng Yunshang that the mysterious place Jiang Liu had discovered in Yun Province had changed, and she hoped nothing would happen as she held his Cultivation Pearl.

Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue rushed to Yunzhou to investigate a mysterious land that had become a deadly zone and was spreading black demonic gas. After sensing the gas’s connection to the Devil Race, they prepared to strike it before it reached Yun City.

• Gongsun Haoyue explained that Wind Hall’s investigators had vanished after the mysterious land began changing, so Lin Chi had asked her for help.
• The four arrived in Yunzhou and saw black gas spreading from the mountain range toward Yun City.
• Han Yi sensed that the gas was connected to her Devil Race bloodline, and Han Yue sensed its demonic energy as well.
• Gongsun Haoyue feared the gas might be connected to the Demon God Avatar Jiang Liu had destroyed, while Flowing Cloud Matriarch felt a strong urge to destroy it.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch drew her sword and began gathering energy, and Gongsun Haoyue, Han Yi, and Han Yue readied their weapons to attack.

After recovering in the God Realm, Jiang Liu rewarded the Shockwave Sea Alliance’s island masters, chose a small island for his residence, and warned Eternal Joy City about the Ferocious Beasts’ plans. He then teleported from the God Realm to the Human Realm imperial palace.

• Yu Chenghai reported the Shockwave Sea Alliance’s battle casualties and gains, and Jiang Liu awarded secret manuals to ten island masters.
• Jiang Liu ordered Yu Chenghai to prepare an unassigned island as his residence and told the Unicorn Divine Ox to guard it.
• Jiang Liu visited Eternal Joy City and told Feng Changtian about the eight-tentacled Ferocious Beast and the threat posed by Crimson Flare and the other Ferocious Beasts.
• Feng Changtian returned to Eternal Joy City to inform the Long Wave Sword God as Jiang Liu teleported to the Human Realm imperial palace.

Jiang Liu’s attempt to shuttle from the God Realm to the Human Realm was interrupted by an unknown threat, leaving him stranded in a dark passage before he emerged in the void. After learning the Fixed-Point Shuttle would need three days of maintenance, he suspected the God Realm had a powerful guardian and flew toward the Human Realm aboard the Saint Artifact Spaceship.

• Lightning struck the place Jiang Liu had vanished from in Eternal Joy City, then searched for him before dispersing.
• Jiang Liu awoke in a dark, silent passage and found that the Data Panel’s Fixed-Point Shuttle function was grayed out.
• A wave of dizziness sent Jiang Liu into the void, where he summoned the Saint Artifact Spaceship and found himself near the Human Realm.
• The Data Panel reported that an unidentified threat had forcibly terminated Fixed-Point Shuttle and that maintenance would take three days.
• Jiang Liu suspected a powerful guardian of the God Realm had interrupted his journey, then flew toward the Human Realm aboard the Saint Artifact Spaceship.

Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue entered the Cloud City Mountains to clear the demonic qi but disappeared beneath a cliff when it swallowed them. Lin Chi and Qin Bailian learned of their disappearance and set out to respond, while Murong Yin heard Qin Bailian’s report in the Imperial Study.

• Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue used lightning and flames to clear the demonic qi as they advanced into the Cloud City Mountains.
• The four women vanished beneath a cliff, and the demonic qi began spreading again; the Wind Hall personnel reported what happened.
• Heaven's Dao awakened and forced the demonic qi to retreat beneath the cliff, but it did not notice that the four women were gone.
• Lin Chi learned of the disappearance in Qian City, sent a message to Murong Yin, and flew toward Yun Province.
• Qin Bailian received the Wind Hall's report, went to the Imperial Study, and explained what he knew to Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang.

Jiang Liu returned to the Human Realm and learned that Gongsun Haoyue and three others had disappeared inside the mysterious place beneath the Cloud City Mountains. He went to rescue them but found the ravine filled with demonic Qi and no sign of anyone, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Qin Bailian told Murong Yin that he had explored the place beneath the cliff many times but had never found anything unusual beyond denser essence.
• Jiang Liu returned to the imperial palace, where Murong Yin told him that Gongsun Haoyue and the others had gone missing.
• Murong Yin explained that Gongsun Haoyue and three others had entered the mysterious place in the Cloud City Mountains, and Jiang Liu left to bring them back.
• Jiang Liu descended into the ravine and found that its essence had become demonic Qi, the temperature had fallen, and the area was silent.
• Jiang Liu sensed no auras from the missing Wind Hall personnel or Gongsun Haoyue and the others, then reached the bottom to investigate.

Jiang Liu purified the demonic qi at the bottom of the cliff, then discovered that the place was an illusion array hiding Gongsun Haoyue and the others. He began using an array-breaking technique to reach the other side.

• Jiang Liu spread his Divine Sense and found it suppressed, so he circulated the Saintly Sky Art to purify the demonic qi.
• Jiang Liu cleared enough demonic qi to see his surroundings, but found no trace of Gongsun Haoyue, the others, or the missing Wind Hall members.
• Jiang Liu expanded his Divine Sense across the cliff bottom and grew anxious when he detected no sign that the missing people had been there.
• Jiang Liu struck the cliff bottom with the Godslayer Blade and sensed the space twist, confirming he had entered an illusion array.
• Jiang Liu concluded that Gongsun Haoyue and the others were likely trapped beyond the illusion and began drawing an array-breaking technique.

Jiang Liu reached the cliff’s demonic-qi-filled depths and rescued Gongsun Haoyue and Flowing Cloud Matriarch by purging the demonic qi from their bodies. After seeing the dead Wind Hall members nearby, he turned his cold gaze toward the distance.

• Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue remained trapped beneath the cliff as Han Yi and Han Yue helped the others resist the demonic qi.
• Flowing Cloud Matriarch feared she would not survive until Jiang Liu returned, but Gongsun Haoyue urged her to hold on and trust him.
• Jiang Liu broke through the formation and found the four women, then used Saintly Sky Art to purge the demonic qi from Gongsun Haoyue and Flowing Cloud Matriarch.
• Jiang Liu saw the corpses of Wind Hall members and realized the women might have suffered the same fate if he had arrived later.
• Jiang Liu looked into the distance with cold eyes.

Jiang Liu sent his four women out of the cliff bottom, then confronted the hidden Demon God Avatar. He cleaved the avatar in two with the Godslayer Blade.

• Jiang Liu purified the demonic qi while Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue recovered.
• Jiang Liu comforted the four women and sent them along a path out of the Human Realm's cliff bottom.
• After the women left, Jiang Liu drew the Godslayer Blade and attacked the black shadow hiding in the darkness.
• The shadow revealed itself as a Demon God Avatar wielding a trident, and Jiang Liu suppressed it with Phantom Stomp.
• Jiang Liu struck the Demon God Avatar once with the Godslayer Blade and cleaved it in two.

Jiang Liu destroyed the second Demon God Avatar and extracted and sealed the two halves of its soul, then began purifying the demonic energy at the cliff. The avatar was defeated, but the source of the growing demonic energy and the suspected conspiracy against the Human Realm remained unexplained.

• The Demon God Avatar fused itself back together and attacked Jiang Liu as the cliff vanished behind dense mist, leaving Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue unable to see the battle.
• Jiang Liu dodged the avatar’s attacks, cut it apart repeatedly, and discovered that it depended on the surrounding demonic energy to recover.
• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp to pin the avatar’s halves in place and pull out its two soul fragments, then sealed them before the avatar dissipated.
• Jiang Liu found that the demonic energy at the cliff was still gathering and began purifying it with the Saintly Sky Art.
• Gongsun Haoyue and the others saw Jiang Liu emerge above the mist, and Wind Hall personnel sent word to Qian Province.

Jiang Liu destroyed the formation producing demonic qi, then returned to Qian Province with Gongsun Haoyue and the others. The Demon God behind the lost avatar realized his backup plan had been destroyed, while Jiang Liu prepared to discuss what happened at the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation.

• Jiang Liu purified nearly all the demonic qi, destroyed the miniature formation, and collected its materials.
• A black shadow in the Nether Realm sensed the loss of a backup plan, while another Demon God Avatar reacted to its destruction and withdrew from a battle with a Void Exotic Beast.
• Jiang Liu collapsed the cliff and sealed its bottom with a mountain before leaving with Gongsun Haoyue, Flowing Cloud Matriarch, Han Yi, and Han Yue.
• Jiang Liu piloted the Saint Artifact Spaceship back to Qian Province, where Murong Yin, Feng Yue, and Zheng Yunshang welcomed the group.
• Jiang Liu dismissed the officials and took the women to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation to talk.

After returning to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, Jiang Liu reunited with his family and gave them gifts from the God Realm. He showed them how to use Space Pouches and introduced essence stones, leaving them eager to use the stones to cultivate faster.

• Jiang Liu returned to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, where Cuier and Xiao He greeted him, and Feng Yue asked about the demonic energy that had appeared.
• Jiang Liu said he did not yet know why demonic energy had appeared and promised to explain once he learned the truth.
• Jiang Liu gave nine Space Pouches to the women and taught them how to open them; they delighted in storing and retrieving objects.
• Cuier tried to put Xiao He inside a Space Pouch, but Jiang Liu warned that the pouches could not hold living things.
• Jiang Liu showed the women essence stones and explained that their pure essence could be absorbed directly to speed up cultivation.

Jiang Liu helped the women choose Divine Realm cultivation manuals and planned to establish a Technique Repository in Qian City for manuals and other books. He promised the Frost Race and other qualified martial artists access to Divine Realm manuals, then left the women to cultivate with essence stones.

• Jiang Liu displayed more than one hundred Divine Realm manuals and offered to explain their difficult points.
• Jiang Liu sorted the manuals by essence-energy attributes and helped each woman choose a suitable primary cultivation art.
• Jiang Liu planned to forge weapons for the women and establish a Technique Repository in Qian City with the unchosen manuals and books on other disciplines.
• Han Yi asked whether her clansmen could cultivate Divine Realm manuals, and Jiang Liu said the Frost Race could access the repository under rules requiring sufficient merit or Saint Realm cultivation.
• Jiang Liu left the women to divide the essence stones and cultivate using their chosen manuals.

Jiang Liu devoured the Demon God Avatar’s divine soul in the Star Cloud Saint Sect’s mountains and extracted its complete memories. The violent reaction in his Divine Sea left him wondering whether he had reached a limit, though he found no lasting abnormalities.

• Jiang Liu took the imprisoned Demon God Avatar’s divine soul into a secluded forest and used the Saintly Sky Art to draw it into his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu subdued and refined the divine soul, stripping away its demonic energy before devouring it.
• Jiang Liu’s aura erupted uncontrollably, breaking trees and prompting nearby Star Cloud Saint Sect disciples to flee and elders to search for an exotic beast.
• Jiang Liu suppressed the disturbance and questioned whether devouring divine souls had become dangerous or his Divine Sea had reached its limit.
• Jiang Liu extracted the Demon God Avatar’s complete memories, learned that its true body was cultivating in the endless void, and found no lasting abnormalities in his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu went to Forging Peak to craft divine artifacts and invited Gong Mo and Tian Ling to observe and learn. After explaining the God Realm materials and adjusting the scarce supplies for several weapons, he began forging the first silk ribbon.

• Jiang Liu learned that taking the Cultivation Pearl had caused the demonic qi beneath the cliff to erupt and blamed the Heavenly Dao for failing to contain it.
• Jiang Liu went to Forging Peak, where Gong Mo and Tian Ling greeted him as the Saint Lord.
• Jiang Liu told Gong Mo and Tian Ling that he planned to craft divine artifacts and invited them to watch.
• Jiang Liu explained the God Realm materials and sorted supplies for four swords, a fan, a Skyfire Staff, and two silk ribbons.
• Jiang Liu adjusted the material proportions to compensate for the Human Realm's shortages and began smelting materials for a silk ribbon.