Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu reached the Sky Beast Mountain Range and sensed black primal qi flowing toward a single point, while Bu He and Bu Yao entered from the opposite side to investigate. Deep in the range, the Nether Colossus noticed that the primal qi it absorbed had grown denser for half a month and worried that something had changed in a dangerous hidden place.

• Jiang Liu learned that Bu He's alliance was pushing the Seven Great Clans toward their central stronghold, though its advance had slowed near the target.
• Jiang Liu entered the Sky Beast Mountain Range after sensing black primal qi flowing unnaturally in one direction.
• Bu Yao accompanied Bu He into the mountain range, and Bu He led his group toward the flow of primal qi.
• The Nether Colossus woke and realized that the primal qi it had absorbed had grown denser for more than half a month.
• The Nether Colossus looked toward a hidden place it feared to approach and wondered whether something had changed there.

Jiang Liu followed the strange flow of Dark Primal Qi into the Sky Beast Mountain Range, then discovered that Bu He and the Nether Colossus were fighting near the colossus's cavern. As the battle began, Bu Yao fled into the forest without noticing that Jiang Liu was hiding there.

• Jiang Liu pursued the Dark Primal Qi, sensed powerful beast clans watching him, and briefly feared the Nether Colossus was luring him into a trap.
• An explosion drew the beast clans away, and Jiang Liu used the Shadowveil Robe to approach the clash between two Third-Tier Divine Realm auras.
• Jiang Liu identified the fighters as Bu He and the Nether Colossus and realized the Dark Primal Qi's flow had not been caused by the colossus.
• Bu He attacked the Nether Colossus at its cavern, and the colossus countered by sending Dark Primal Qi toward the Bu Clan members as the beasts joined the fight.
• Bu Yao fled the battle into the forest, unaware that Jiang Liu was hiding where she was heading.

Jiang Liu watched Bu He battle the Nether Colossus and realized the beast had become far more cunning and dangerous. The fight continued as the Nether Colossus pressed its advantage, while Bu He remained unaware of its hidden weakness.

• Jiang Liu arrived and saw the Bu Clan fighting the Beast Race, then spotted Nether Yao, who had reached the Fourth Tier of the Saint Realm.
• Nether Yao hid in a tree after entering the forest, cursing Bu He for bringing her into danger.
• The Nether Colossus attacked Bu He, who struck its back with his saber, only for the weapon to break against its hardened body.
• Bu He avoided further direct clashes, while the Nether Colossus exploited his caution and concealed the dent left by his saber.
• Jiang Liu observed the Nether Colossus's changing nature and judged it most dangerous now that it had learned to use its brain.

Bu He used the Bu Clan’s Soul-Reaping Sound to pressure the Nether Colossus, but its roars disrupted his attack and it exploited a newly gained talent from the Voidfiend Beast to strike him. Bu He disappeared into the Nether Colossus’s mist, leaving the Bu Clan unable to approach the battlefield.

• Bu He entered the Nether Colossus’s black cage and unleashed the Soul-Reaping Sound, making the colossus abandon its cage and defend against the spiritual attack.
• Bu Yao recognized the Soul-Reaping Sound, while Jiang Liu saw Bu He use hand gestures to produce the sonic attacks.
• The Nether Colossus roared to disrupt Bu He’s rhythm, then charged him as Bu He struggled to maintain the technique.
• The Nether Colossus used a newly acquired talent from the Voidfiend Beast to surprise Bu He with strange roars and struck him with its palm.
• Bu He vanished into the mist, and the Bu Clan members who rushed to help were pinned in place by the battlefield’s pressure.

Bu He proposed an alliance with the Nether Colossus to take down the Nether Demon Lord, and the two negotiated until they reached an agreement. While the beast race and Bu Clan watched them reconcile, Jiang Liu secretly entered the Nether Colossus’s cavern to investigate the strange Dark Primal Qi.

• The Nether Colossus blocked Bu He’s blade-light, and Bu He emerged from the mist to propose that they cooperate against the Nether Demon Lord.
• The Nether Colossus considered Bu He’s strength and its own desire to capture the Nether Demon Lord, but remained wary because the White Feather Sword God had previously betrayed it.
• Bu He and the Nether Colossus communicated and negotiated for about half an hour until their hostility faded and they reached an agreement.
• Jiang Liu noticed that the Dark Primal Qi had grown unusually dense, established a traversal point, and secretly approached the cavern while everyone watched Bu He and the Nether Colossus.
• Jiang Liu ventured deep into the Nether Colossus’s cavern as laughter spread across the mountain range.

Jiang Liu explored the Nether Colossus's cavern and found a hidden barrier where the Dark Primal Qi disappeared. After his Saintly Sky Art interacted with the Dark Primal Qi, the wall turned transparent and let him enter a strange space filled with gaseous partitions and indistinct figures.

• Jiang Liu cautiously followed the Dark Primal Qi deeper into the cavern and found that it flowed toward a wall.
• Jiang Liu heard the commotion outside fade and suspected that Bu He and the Nether Colossus had left to attack the Seven Great Clans' strongholds.
• Jiang Liu explored the wall with his Divine Sense but could not find a way through or break it.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Saintly Sky Art, causing the gathered Dark Primal Qi and his Qi to turn into smoke that drifted toward the wall.
• Jiang Liu watched the wall become transparent, passed through it, and saw semitransparent gaseous partitions reflecting countless indistinct figures.

Jiang Liu found a hidden formation inside the Dark Primal Qi barriers and realized it had trapped and killed four God Realm experts. As his consciousness began to clear, he remained trapped in the formation, though he could still escape using his traversal coordinates.

• Jiang Liu tested the barriers and learned his Saintly Sky Art Primal Qi could dissolve them, but the Dark Primal Qi slowly restored them.
• Jiang Liu cut through several barriers with the Godslayer Blade and discovered motionless silhouettes that appeared to be dead experts.
• Jiang Liu found four lifelike corpses and sensed a hidden formation beneath them, realizing the formation had trapped its victims and made escape difficult.
• Jiang Liu identified the corpses as people from the God Realm and searched one, but found nothing on it.
• A buzz sounded in Jiang Liu's Divine Sea, and a cool sensation suddenly cleared his muddled consciousness.

Jiang Liu looted four dead God Realm cultivators and considered entering the formation’s more dangerous central area, suspecting the two figures there were the White Feather Sword God and the previous Nether Demon Lord. After surviving a stronger formation attack with the Data Panel’s help, he gained confidence, but the formation began spinning him and the corpses away.

• Jiang Liu recovered from the formation’s first attack, searched four corpses, and found a Space Pouch on each one.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the dead cultivators had been peak Second-Order Divine Realm experts and studied two figures battling in the formation’s central area.
• Jiang Liu suspected the figures were the White Feather Sword God and the previous Nether Demon Lord, and weighed the danger against the chance of finding a valuable cultivation technique or secret manual.
• A second, stronger formation attack struck Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea, but the Data Panel blocked it and restored his consciousness.
• The formation began spinning Jiang Liu in place, and two corpses vanished as he sensed something unusual about the rotating formation.

Jiang Liu reached the central region of the Samsara Formation and found a box suspended inside a pillar of light, but the formation immediately immobilized him and drained his Primal Qi. He escaped by traversal, then suspected the treasure and the formation were part of a sinister trap.

• Jiang Liu broke through the remaining Primal Qi Barriers as the formation attacked his Divine Sea, and he resisted without help from the Data Panel.
• Jiang Liu entered the central region, saw the box in the pillar of light, and was unable to move when the formation's pressure struck him.
• Jiang Liu left a traversal point and escaped as the space compressed around the White Feather Sword God and Nether Demon Lord.
• Jiang Liu recovered outside the central region and concluded that its treasure might be bait in a conspiracy.
• The Palace Lantern above the Demon God Hall flickered, and the Demon God stood up tensely before calming down.

Jiang Liu repeatedly tested the weakening Samsara Formation as he pursued the treasure inside its pillar of light. Meanwhile, Bu He secretly joined forces with the Nether Colossus and the beast race to attack the Seven Great Clans, whose leaders were divided and preparing to confront the approaching threat.

• Jiang Liu returned to the Samsara Formation, confirmed that its power had weakened, and retreated to recover before trying again.
• Bu He gathered with the Nether Colossus and the organized beast horde outside the Sky Beast Mountain Range, hoping to defeat the Seven Great Clans and the Nether Demon Lord.
• The Nether Colossus led the beast horde toward the Seven Great Clans' encampment while Bu He followed behind to conceal the Bu Clan's alliance with the beasts.
• The Seven Great Clans' elites hid outside their encampment as the Qi, Chi, and Bo Clans challenged the Nether Demon Lord over their losses and his role in the failed Human Realm expedition.
• The Nether Demon Lord faced growing discord among the Seven Great Clans while refusing to accept sole blame for the invasion or be controlled by the other clans.

The Nether Demon Lord learned that a Third-Tier Divine Realm Nether Colossus was leading the Beast Race out of the mountains. He spread a claim that the Bu Clan had allied with the Beast Race, turning many small and medium-sized races against the Bu Clan Alliance and leaving Bu He wondering how the secret had leaked.

• A messenger reported that the Beast Race had come out of the mountains, and the Nether Demon Lord ordered his people to investigate.
• The Seven Great Clans confirmed that a Third-Tier Divine Realm Nether Colossus led the Beast Race.
• Elder Xing suggested that the Bu Clan might have invited the Beast Race, and the Nether Demon Lord ordered the alliance rumor spread throughout the Nether Realm.
• Angered by the prospect of the Bu Clan joining forces with the Beast Race, many small and medium-sized racial alliances abandoned plans to attack the Seven Great Clans and went after the Bu Clan Alliance instead.
• Bu He was bewildered by the leaked rumor and wondered whether a traitor or Bu Yao had exposed the alliance.

Jiang Liu broke through the pillar of light with the Saintly Sky Art and took the box, triggering a violent reaction in the Demon God Hall and the River Ming. As the formation collapsed and the corpses of the White Feather Sword God and Nether Demon Lord were annihilated, Jiang Liu traversed away from the tearing force.

• Jiang Liu discovered that traversing consumed substantial spirit power and spent hours restoring it before returning to the central area.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the pillar of light, but the Godslayer Blade bounced off its defenses and the formation’s pressure forced him to retreat.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Saintly Sky Art might dissolve the pillar’s defenses as it had the Primal Qi Barrier.
• Jiang Liu used the Saintly Sky Art to open a hole in the pillar and took the unexpectedly light box, storing it in the System Space.
• The Demon God Hall trembled, its Palace Lantern turned red, and the River Ming churned as the pillar and Primal Qi Barriers collapsed.
• Jiang Liu saw the White Feather Sword God and Nether Demon Lord’s corpses undergo Annihilation, felt his body being torn apart, and traversed away.

Jiang Liu escaped the spreading collapse and opened a box that contained a beast hide bearing an unknown cultivation manual. The Data Panel identified it as the Heavenly Evolution Codex, leaving Jiang Liu with the option to record it.

• Jiang Liu fled as the ground collapsed into a vast pit that released Dark Primal Qi and drew Devil Race investigators.
• Jiang Liu opened four Space Pouches and collected Primal Stones, White Radiance Stones, and six divine artifacts.
• Jiang Liu cleared the Dark Primal Qi from the box with Saintly Sky Art primal qi, causing it to open.
• Jiang Liu found a beast hide whose pressure suggested it came from an exotic beast stronger than a Third-Tier Divine Realm Nether Colossus.
• Jiang Liu read the unfamiliar symbols, and the Data Panel identified the ungraded cultivation manual as the Heavenly Evolution Codex.

Jiang Liu recorded the Heavenly Evolution Codex and discovered that it let him cultivate both primal qi and Dark Primal Qi, but its power began draining the surrounding trees. When he sensed the Nether River Lord’s aura and realized the Lord was searching for the one who had disrupted his formation, Jiang Liu escaped beyond the Nether Realm as the growing upheaval drew every faction toward the Sky Beast Mountain Range.

• Jiang Liu recorded the Heavenly Evolution Codex and fused it with his Saintly Sky Art through the Data Panel.
• Jiang Liu tested the Heavenly Evolution Codex, stopped when it began draining the trees, and realized it let him cultivate primal qi and Dark Primal Qi without distinction.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Nether River Lord’s aura in the expanding pit and concluded that the Lord was seeking whoever had destroyed the formation.
• Jiang Liu used Fixed-Point Shuttle to escape beyond the Nether Realm’s boundary wall.
• The exotic beasts, Devil Race, Seven Great Clans, and other clan alliances stopped fighting and rushed toward the Sky Beast Mountain Range.

Jiang Liu reentered the Nether Realm to search for a passage to the Human Realm while the Nether Realm panicked over the enormous pit and the being inside it. The Nether Colossus connected the pit to the deaths of the former Nether Demon Lord and White Feather Sword God as a great fire erupted in the forest above.

• Jiang Liu tore through the Nether Realm's boundary wall and entered again to search for the secret passage.
• Bu He, the Nether Demon Lord, and the Nether Colossus gathered around the enormous pit, where a powerful presence frightened them.
• The Nether Colossus suspected that a hidden demon god had lured the former Nether Demon Lord and White Feather Sword God into a deadly trap.
• A gigantic face formed from a black cloud above the pit, while White Bones resembling the former Nether Demon Lord and White Feather Sword God emerged below it.
• A great fire appeared in the forest above the pit and rapidly spread, threatening to become impossible to extinguish.

Jiang Liu flew toward the place where the Nether God had once been forced to mine as a supernatural fire spread across the Sky Beast Mountain Range. White Bone emerged from a pit, absorbed the flames’ power, and began hunting the beast race and Devil Race, forcing their leaders to flee.

• Jiang Liu followed the Sacred Insect Compendium’s route toward the area where the Nether God had once been thrown into the Nether Realm.
• Bu He, the Nether Demon Lord, the alliances, and the beast race tried to extinguish the spreading fire, but even Bu He and the Nether Demon Lord could only weaken it.
• The Nether Colossus recognized that the fire came from the Nether River Lord’s fury and knew it would stop only when the Nether River Lord’s anger subsided.
• Ranks of White Bone crawled from a pit, entered the flames, and emerged stronger, with two Third-Tier Divine Realm leaders among them.
• The White Bone split into two groups and hunted the Devil Race and beast race, prompting the Nether Colossus and the beasts to flee.
• Bu He and the Nether Demon Lord ordered their forces to retreat, while leaving the smaller alliances without warning.

Jiang Liu found a mine he believed might conceal the passage between the Human Realm and the Nether Realm, then captured a thieving Sky Devouring Cat that could turn invisible. After learning the mine produced Space Gems, he ordered the frightened cat to use one to lure the mine’s powerful guards into the dark forest.

• Jiang Liu located a heavily guarded mine in the Sky Beast Mountain Range and suspected the passage between the Human Realm and the Nether Realm lay there.
• Jiang Liu pursued a nearly invisible cat-shaped exotic beast after seeing it sneak out of the mine.
• The Sky Devouring Cat tried to escape by turning invisible, but Jiang Liu sensed its elemental energy, captured it, and used the Spirit Control Art to bond with it.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Sky Devouring Cat had been stealing Space Gems from the mine, and the cat spat one out to please him.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Space Gems could confirm the passage’s location and ordered the Sky Devouring Cat to lure the mine’s guards into the forest with a gem.

Jiang Liu lured You Mingfeng out of the mine and killed him, then went to the mine himself when the Sky Devouring Cat failed to bring out another target. He launched a direct assault on the mine’s protective formation after the cat was exposed and the guards mobilized.

• Jiang Liu promised the Sky Devouring Cat most of the mine’s ore if it lured the guards out, and the cat went to the mine.
• You Mingfeng chased a Space Gem fluctuation out of the mine and into the Dark Forest, where Jiang Liu used the Phantom Soul Flute to distract him and killed him with one strike.
• Jiang Liu collected You Mingfeng’s divine soul and possessions, then waited for the Sky Devouring Cat to lure out another target.
• When the cat did not return, Jiang Liu put on the Shadowveil Robe and headed for the mine, intending to kill another Second-Order Divine Realm expert himself.
• Jiang Liu saw that the mine’s guards had mobilized and activated its protective grand formation, so he drew the Godslayer Blade and struck the formation with Divine Strike.

Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to strengthen the Godslayer Blade and shatter the mine’s defensive formation. He defeated You Mingji and captured his soul, then turned toward the remaining guards as if preparing to wipe them out.

• You Minghan and You Mingji rushed to the mine wall after Jiang Liu attacked, while You Mingfeng remained missing.
• Jiang Liu drew in Dark Primal Qi with the Heavenly Evolution Codex and struck the defensive formation with Divine Strike, breaking it.
• Jiang Liu entered the mine and fought You Minghan, You Mingji, and their guards, with his Blade Avatar helping him keep the upper hand.
• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp to create an opening, beheaded You Mingji, and captured his soul.
• Jiang Liu looked toward You Mingji’s subordinates with an apparent intent to exterminate them.

After defeating You Mingji, Jiang Liu forced the mine’s guards to submit and took control of the site. The Sky Devouring Cat led him to the hidden treasury, where Jiang Liu began breaking the Void Concealment Formation.

• Jiang Liu killed You Mingji and stopped a guard from fleeing, forcing the remaining guards to stay put.
• You Minghan abandoned his fight with the Blade Avatar and submitted to Jiang Liu, who spared him on the condition that he keep the guards from causing trouble or leaking news.
• You Minghan organized the guards and monitored his subordinates while Jiang Liu left Divine Sense on him.
• The Sky Devouring Cat told Jiang Liu it had found the treasury and led him to a secluded corner of the mine.
• The Sky Devouring Cat revealed a hidden building protected by a Void Concealment Formation, and Jiang Liu began tracing the formation-breaking method.