Recaps

Jiang Shu and the Human Race Venerables explored the battlefield ruins, uncovered the fallen Demon Court’s secrets, and pursued the Ba Snake inheritance as the Demon Race sought its own power. The Golden Crow World began absorbing the ruins, while Empress Xi'e revealed the Immortal Embryo and Jiang Shu disclosed that he had found Jianmu.

• Jiang Shu entered the Land of Annihilation with the sect leaders, fought off Demon Race forces, and found a hidden Jianmu Sapling with the Heavenly Puppet Sect Leader.
• Ao Qing led the Demon Venerables to the Golden Crow Feather, where the Human and Demon Races clashed before the feather vanished into a Black Hole.
• Jiang Shu and Dao Venerable Tai Wu learned that the ruins belonged to the fallen Demon Race Heavenly Court and that Old Ancestor Fentian might have absorbed a fallen fire Demon Lord’s remains.
• Empress Xi'e recruited the Human Race Venerables to oppose the rebels, gave them a map, and led them through Myriad Gods Cave toward the Tomb of the Golden Crow.
• Jiang Shu and Gold Horn endured Ba Snake’s devouring trial, earned equal shares of its inheritance, and received Ba Snake’s remaining guidance through a tattoo on Gold Horn.
• The White Tiger Demon Lord attacked the Human Race, but a summoned Dao Master exhausted much of its power before Jiang Shu helped fight the White Tiger Demon Venerable.
• The Ba Snake and White Tiger Worlds began merging into the Golden Crow World, and Xi'e explained that the Golden Crow World was erasing traces of the rebels.
• Xi'e revealed that she and her husband had found the Immortal Embryo, which might let a dying powerful figure place their will in a new body, and Jiang Shu admitted that Jianmu was inside his Chaos Cave Space.

Xi'e and the Human Race Venerables fought alongside shifting allies as the Golden Crow World fell and the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor returned. The Emperor fused with the Immortal Embryo, while Jiang Shu ventured alone to seek the Dao essence that might break the maze surrounding it.

• Xi'e revealed the damaged Immortal Embryo and negotiated the Human Race Venerables’ help, offering Heavenly Court treasures as the Demon Race began eroding the Golden Crow World.
• The Human Race and Heavenly Court forces battled the Demon Race, but Old Ancestor Fentian attacked the allies as Xi'e tried to make them sacrifices for the Immortal Embryo.
• The First Fiend emerged in the collapsing Golden Crow World, and Old Ancestor Fentian burned himself and the world to destroy it, supplying the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s revival with sacrificial power.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor fought the Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord, then Xi'e and Jiang Shu joined forces against the Demon Race Imperial Palace and the Demon Lords.
• Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to bring Five Decays Poison into the Ninth Layer, helping drive the Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord from their battle with the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor.
• Gold Horn and Ao Qing allied the Demon Race with Jiang Shu’s group, and the Human Race Venerables broke into the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s hidden palace and disrupted his defenses with Five Decays Poison.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor merged his soul with the Human Race infant Immortal Embryo as Jiang Shu entered a spatial maze and went alone to seek the Beyond the Domain Dao essence.
• Jiang Shu reached an underground palace where the Dao essence weakened him, and he found the Forbidden Law Token on an altar.

Jiang Shu defeated the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and Ba Snake, rose to the Mid-stage Venerable Realm, and helped the Human Race uncover the Black Stone’s link to a Pseudo Universe. The expedition reached Cangyu Star, where Jiang Shu became its governor and helped restore the human colony before a Star Beast arrived.

• Jiang Shu escaped the Golden Crow’s destruction after crushing the Immortal Embryo and its two Demon Lords, then recovered in the Eternal Tower and returned to the War Alliance.
• Jiang Shu defeated the Insectoid Emperor Guard and a Mech Clan Venerable, then exposed Fen Wu as an Underworld Race powerhouse and fought off the forces attacking him with War Alliance reinforcements.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao negotiated with the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan over the Black Stone, while Gold Horn defeated the White Tiger Demon Venerable and spared him.
• Jiang Shu cleared the Eternal Tower’s Ninth Layer, and the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan revealed that the Black Stone might unlock a Pseudo Universe preserving prehistoric Laws.
• Jiang Shu used a Dao Pattern to open the Pseudo Universe’s gate, and the expedition found Cangyu Star, a human colony isolated from the Federation for decades.
• Jiang Shu promised to restore Cangyu Star, became its governor, and coordinated with the Mech Clan and War Alliance to rebuild the colony and replenish its energy.
• Jiang Shu and Huang Xuesheng exchanged insights on the Devouring Great Dao before Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng subdued a rapidly regenerating Star Beast that approached Cangyu Star.

Jiang Shu connected isolated Human Race factions, established the Torch and a trade network, and uncovered the Doomsday Cult and a Saint-backed Beastman threat. The arc ended with Jiang Shu seizing a newly formed beastman embryo to learn the race’s methods from within.

• Jiang Shu rescued stranded Human Race crews, defeated the Insectoid Clan forces threatening Canglan Kingdom, and helped the isolated Human factions establish contact and an alliance.
• Jiang Shu investigated the Insectoid Clan’s distorted-time navigators, while Gold Horn agreed to a marriage alliance with the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord and helped secure cooperation with the True Martial Sect.
• The Doomsday Cult attacked Star City, compromised the Mech Clan’s Coronation Protocol, and escaped through a gate to a Minor Universe after Fen Wu sacrificed himself to delay Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu returned with the Saint’s reforged Desolate Star Halberd, helped repair Star City, and established the Torch in Canglan Kingdom to guide lost factions toward the Human Race.
• Factions gathered around the Torch, where Jiang Shu organized a merchant association and trade routes, while he and his allies repelled Spirit Race provocations and an invading Insectoid swarm.
• Beastmen hidden aboard Fang Zhenghua’s ships attacked the fleet, and Jiang Shu defeated their Venerable before discovering that the Eternal Slayer, a Beastman Saint, stood behind them.
• Jiang Shu and Electric Current entered the Beastman Starfield, where Jiang Shu evaded a faith-powered Venerable until its supporting faith subsided and observed beastmen gaining strength through slaughter and inheritance.
• Jiang Shu used Body Seizing on a newly formed beastman embryo, gaining its instincts and knowledge and demonstrating superior technique against the tribe’s leader.