Recaps

Jiang Chen and the Netherworld forces fought the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage’s Quasi-Yama leaders and six Half-Kings as coffins emerged from the Long River. The battle remained perilous, with one Half-King still unopposed and a stone coffin beginning to shake.

• The Son of the River God ambushed Jiang Chen, who repeatedly dodged its Quasi-Yama attacks above the Long River.
• Six Half-King coffins surfaced, and Zou Lianshan used Mountain-Moving to fight Lady River Earl as the Netherworld Messengers formed their Netherworld Messenger Formation against an ancient Water Monkey.
• Two River Gods emerged from coffins, and Jiang Chen summoned two Half-Kings from within himself to intercept them.
• Xiaoyaozi of the Spirit Treasure Sect attacked a fully formed blood corpse, which pierced him before he revealed a straw-man decoy and resumed their fight.
• The Netherworld forces still faced an unopposed Half-King as the stone coffin shook as if something terrifying were about to emerge.

Jiang Chen used the Samadhi Divine Wind and his steel fork to cripple and repeatedly suppress the Dead-Fetus Female Ghost while holding off the enemy leaders, though the Nine Provinces' forces were close to breaking. Yuan Tiansuan of the Yuan Family arrived with the Six Ren Pan and immediately helped the Green-Skinned Vicious Ghost catch the Water-Monkey Ancestor.

• The Dead-Fetus Female Ghost emerged from her coffin, and the King of the Metropolis was swallowed by the River Earl's son's ink-black dragon when he tried to stop her.
• Jiang Chen saved Zou Lianshan, wounded the Dead-Fetus Female Ghost with the Samadhi Divine Wind, and destroyed her head with his steel fork.
• Jiang Chen kept blocking the Son of the River God and Blood Shadow while claiming he could still fight, and the Nine Provinces' forces struggled against the surrounding enemies.
• Yuan Tiansuan arrived and directed the Green-Skinned Vicious Ghost to catch the Water-Monkey Ancestor, who was crushed in its grasp.

Yuan Tiansuan entered the battle and used his divinations to guide the Nine Provinces' fighters, but Jiang Chen's unexpected movements shattered his certainty and drove him to despair. Jiang Chen then killed the stillborn female ghost and taunted the Son of the River God after being invited to join the enemy.

• Yuan Tiansuan warned the King of the Metropolis of a sneak attack, helping him wound the Son of the River Earl and save Zou Lianshan.
• Yuan Tiansuan used the Tui Bei Tu to repel the water monkey ancestor and directed the Nine Provinces' fighters, though his divinations caused him severe karmic backlash.
• Yuan Tiansuan's prediction that Jiang Chen would be attacked proved wrong, prompting him to frantically search the past and future for any trace of Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen demonized and killed the stillborn female ghost with Samadhi Divine Wind, annihilating her body and soul.
• The Son of the River God offered to forgive Jiang Chen's sins if he joined the evil side, and Jiang Chen asked whether that included killing the Son of the River God.

Jiang Chen taunted the Son of the River God and claimed that King Wei Wu was coming to reinforce the Nine Provinces. A River God confirmed King Wei Wu’s terrifying power, leaving the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage shaken as the battle continued.

• The Son of the River God demanded that Jiang Chen kill the King of the Metropolis and join the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage, but Jiang Chen mocked him.
• Jiang Chen told the Nine Provinces’ forces that King Wei Wu had abandoned the border and was coming to reinforce them, making the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage uneasy.
• Jiang Chen praised King Wei Wu as a rare prodigy who had badly wounded a Dark Alliance Ghost King and driven King You away.
• Jiang Shenzi summoned a River God who confirmed that King Wei Wu had forced back the Dark Alliance’s red-robed female Ghost King and left her with permanent injuries.
• The River God revealed that King You and three other Dark Alliance kings had withdrawn after King Wei Wu broke through, leaving the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage stunned.

Jiang Chen turned the tables on the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage’s attack by using Quasi-King Mist Ghost’s ghost domain to bring two Half-King river gods within reach. He destroyed both river gods with his thunder methods and Samadhi Divine Wind, while the battle against the King of the Metropolis continued.

• Jiang Shenzi ordered his allies to attack the King of the Metropolis, and Lady River Earl, the Water-Monkey Ancestor, and the Son of the River Earl coordinated their assault.
• The River God’s Son killed the Half-King Wielding a Blade and attacked Quasi-King Mist Ghost, who had transported both Half-King river gods to the same spot before he crushed her skull.
• Jiang Chen impaled both river gods with his fork and blasted them with Samadhi Divine Wind, forcing them to expend their incense power to withstand it.
• Jiang Chen invoked Divine Firmament, Purple Palace, Taiyi, and God-Slaying, unleashing a vast sea of lightning that charred both river gods.
• Jiang Chen blew the surviving scraps of the river gods to dust with Samadhi Divine Wind.

Jiang Chen killed two more Half-Kings, then turned Jiang Shenzi’s Ghost Domain against him with a powerful Thunder Method and the Mountain-Moving Spell. A true River God intervened, struck Jiang Chen into the Long River, and left his fate unknown.

• Jiang Chen’s lightning and demonic wind annihilated two River Gods, frightening the watching Half-Kings and impressing Xiaoyaozi with his Thunder Method.
• Jiang Shenzi denounced Jiang Chen and covered a vast stretch of the Long River with his Wraith-Born Blood River Ghost Domain.
• Jiang Shenzi formed a colossal blood-red hand to crush Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen’s incantation and Mountain-Moving Spell forced the hand downward and damaged the Ghost Domain.
• Jiang Shenzi summoned towering blood wraiths to hold back the giant hand, while his Ghost Domain’s power was drawn into the clash.
• A voice from the riverbed shattered Jiang Shenzi’s Ghost Domain, and the Long River turned red across the Half-Kings’ view.
• The true River God appeared and blasted Jiang Chen into the bottom of the Long River, leaving his fate unknown.

The River God summoned the Dark Alliance’s forces and then attacked the Nine Provinces, overwhelming the Half-Kings with a wave of blood. The King of the Metropolis held the wave back long enough for the others to flee, while Jiang Shenzi’s fate remained uncertain.

• The River God confirmed that Xu Fu and the Dark Alliance had arrived, and a Mirage Tower projection revealed their Kings and fleet facing a much smaller Nine Provinces force.
• Uncle Wei mocked the Dark Alliance’s leaders, while the Nine Provinces’ experts recognized him as the formidable King Wei Wu.
• The River God recalled the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage’s history and decided to seize the opportunity to reclaim its former power.
• The River God sent a colossal wave of blood crashing down on the Nine Provinces’ forces.
• The King of the Metropolis used his Companion Ghost to hold back part of the wave and ordered the others to flee.
• Zou Lianshan asked about Bureau Chief Jiang, but Xiaoyaozi and the King of the Metropolis feared Jiang Shenzi had died beneath the Long River.

Uncle Wei decided to leave the East Sea to help his friends, despite the risk of provoking the Dark Alliance. As the River God threatened the Netherworld forces, the King of the Metropolis sacrificed himself to protect them, but Jiang Chen suddenly appeared and struck the River God away.

• Xu Fu denied that the Dark Alliance was behind the new King-Level aura and showed images of attacks on the Long River and the Dragon-Locking Well.
• Uncle Wei announced he had to go help his friends, and the Dark Alliance's Kings prepared to stop him.
• The image showed the River God overpowering the King of the Metropolis and preparing to attack the Netherworld Messengers.
• The King of the Metropolis began Ghost Devouring and sent the Netherworld Messengers away so he could face the River God alone.
• Jiang Chen emerged from beneath the Long River, struck the River God through a distant mountain, and told the King of the Metropolis, "You shelter the world. I'll protect you."

Jiang Chen stopped the King of the Metropolis’s ghost devouring by draining away its Yin Qi, then fought the River God while preventing it from reaching the Long River. The River God sacrificed its body and returned to the river, where it challenged Jiang Chen to follow.

• Jiang Chen kissed the King of the Metropolis and used a powerful suction to drain the Yin Qi and Companion Ghost power, stopping the ghost devouring.
• Jiang Chen fed the injured King of the Metropolis Blood Ginseng Pills, then rushed off to attack the River God.
• Jiang Chen used his Great Sage Who Covers the Seas transformation to overpower the River God and repeatedly stop it from returning to the Long River.
• The River God accepted Jiang Chen’s hammer blow without resisting, and its body began to decay.
• The King of the Metropolis warned Jiang Chen that the River God might use Incense Power to return to the Long River, and the River God reappeared there and challenged Jiang Chen to fight it.

The River God and River Earl trapped Jiang Chen’s companions and unleashed a towering wave, expecting him to choose between fleeing and saving them. Jiang Chen used a Sea-Calming Pearl to turn the river’s power against the two kings, then smashed the River God’s head with his hammer.

• The River God raised a massive blood-colored wave while the River Earl imprisoned Jiang Chen’s companions in a cage of black water.
• The Mount Tai King, the King of Equality, and Uncle Wei pretended that the Nine Provinces had hidden plans, unsettling the Dark Alliance.
• Jiang Chen’s companions urged him to escape, but he tried and failed to break the cage before the wave crashed down.
• Jiang Chen struck the wave with his hammer and was swallowed, but the water suddenly flowed backward and the black-water cage dissolved.
• Jiang Chen revealed a Sea-Calming Pearl that stopped the River God and River Earl from controlling the water, then smashed the River God’s head with his hammer.

Jiang Chen overwhelmed the River God and River Earl with the Sea-Calming Pearl, but the River Earl seized and hurled it away, restoring his control over the Long River. As the kings attacked Jiang Chen with a barrage of black dragon spears, Jiang Chen formed a Rain Edict that stopped them in midair.

• Jiang Chen used the Sea-Calming Pearl and his enhanced strength to pin down and repeatedly smash the River God and River Earl.
• The River God trapped Jiang Chen with Incense Power while the River Earl seized the Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Jiang Chen devoured the River God's Incense Power, but the River Earl threw the pearl away and regained the Long River's power.
• The River Earl summoned nearly a hundred black-water dragon spears and attacked Jiang Chen while the River God restrained him with crimson water.
• Jiang Chen formed a Rain Edict and halted the dragon spears just before they struck him.

Jiang Chen used the Flood Demon King's divine abilities to seize control of the Long River, overpower the River Earl, and devour the power within nearly fifteen kilometers. The River God and the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage were left helpless as Jiang Chen struggled to contain the immense energy in his body.

• Jiang Chen used the Rain Edict to take control of the river water, turning the River Earl's Blackwater Dragon Spears against him and piercing him with water arrows.
• The River God attacked Jiang Chen in a rage, but Jiang Chen drove the God-Suppressing Nail into the River God's forehead, tore off both arms, and lifted him by the neck.
• Jiang Chen unleashed Heaven Swallowing and Earth Devouring, sucking in spiritual energy, yin qi, and other sources of power from the surrounding area.
• Zou Lianshan led the others away, while Xiaoyaozi warned them to keep running as the devouring spread beyond ten kilometers.
• Jiang Chen's divine ability drained a region nearly fifteen kilometers wide, killing most of the water ghosts and leaving the four Half-Kings powerless.
• Jiang Chen hovered above the river, trembling with the immense energy he had absorbed, while the River God feared that Jiang Chen would use it to kill him.

Jiang Chen killed the River God with the Six Paths Thunder Method, then used his command of water to pursue the fleeing River Earl. The witnesses on both sides were left stunned by his hidden strength and the fall of a veteran King.

• Jiang Chen unleashed the Divine Firmament Thunder Pool, destroying the River God beyond recovery.
• Jiang Chen pulled in the surviving Son of the River God and Half-Kings, killed them with the Yin God Hammer, and learned the River Earl had escaped.
• Jiang Chen summoned rain and used Dragon Transformation Swim to vanish in pursuit of the River Earl.
• The Nine Provinces and Dark Alliance witnesses reacted with shock, while Uncle Wei realized Jiang Chen had concealed his power even more thoroughly than he had.

Jiang Chen returned with the captured River Earl and used a Purple Yang Pill to recover from his injuries before revealing the weight of the Sea-Calming Pearl. The chapter ended with the shocked kings realizing that he was holding up nearly a quarter of the Long River.

• Uncle Wei and the King of Equality reacted to Jiang Chen's hidden strength, while the Mount Tai King asked whether he was connected to the mysterious group.
• Jiang Chen reappeared above the Long River with the wounded River Earl, prompting King You to suspect that another Nine Provinces king had intervened.
• Xu Fu found no other kings nearby, and King You agreed to wait and see how Jiang Chen would handle the River Earl.
• Jiang Chen swallowed a Purple Yang Pill to restore his demonic power and heal his cracked body.
• Jiang Chen threw the Sea-Calming Pearl into the Long River, causing nearly a quarter of its water to vanish, then struggled to lift the pearl back up.

Jiang Chen used the Sea-Calming Pearl to crush the River Earl after binding it to an altar in the Long River. He then preserved a fragment of its remnant soul, claiming he had only just realized he needed the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage, and left the River Earl furious and devastated.

• Jiang Chen used the Rain Edict and the Sea-Calming Pearl to draw down the Long River and bind the River Earl to a sacrificial platform.
• The River Earl pleaded for its life and offered the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage's service, but Jiang Chen said it should make that case to the King of Reincarnation.
• Jiang Chen dropped the Sea-Calming Pearl onto the River Earl, crushing its body, then used black river water to scatter its remnant soul.
• Jiang Chen preserved a tiny fragment of the River Earl's remnant soul and apologized, claiming he had just remembered that he needed it.
• The River Earl realized Jiang Chen had crippled it over a misunderstanding and broke down, shouting at him as Jiang Chen worried about its usefulness in the Yin God Hammer.

Jiang Chen battered the River Earl with the Yin God Hammer until it began to crumble, then enhanced it and demonstrated his ability to disappear. The Kings saw him vanish from the river and then reappear near the Dragon-Locking Well, where the Dark Alliance had unleashed a terrifying black Flood Dragon.

• Jiang Chen pinned the River Earl to a river altar and struck it more than a hundred times with the Yin God Hammer, killing another King.
• Jiang Chen enhanced the damaged hammer with ghost qi, then decided to save further repairs for later.
• Xu Fu warned that Jiang Chen must not attack again, while Uncle Wei tried to contact him.
• Jiang Chen gestured toward the Mirage Tower Pearl, fell into the river, and vanished before the watching Kings.
• The Dark Alliance's seven Half-Kings overwhelmed the Nine Provinces' four Half-Kings, mortally wounded the Shangqing Sect's purple-robed Daoist, and released a powerful black Flood Dragon from the Dragon-Locking Well.
• A figure abruptly appeared in the long river beside the Dragon-Locking Well, shocking the Kings.

Jiang Chen arrived at the Dragon-Locking Well and destroyed the Flood Dragon and the Dark Alliance’s seven Half-Kings with only seven steps. The Nine Provinces observers were left stunned by his overwhelming power.

• King You and Xu Fu developed murderous intent toward Jiang Chen, while Mount Tai King warned them that he would fight back if they attacked.
• The Nine Provinces’ Half-Kings abandoned their plan to target the Third Ward and gathered at the Dragon-Locking Well to stop the Flood Dragon from becoming a King-Level Weird Object.
• Jiang Hongyu recognized Jiang Chen and worried that the outnumbered Nine Provinces group could not save him.
• Jiang Chen walked toward the Flood Dragon, which exploded after he glanced at it, and the river rose around him.
• Jiang Chen blocked the Dark Alliance’s seven Half-Kings from escaping and killed them with Blackwater Dragon Spears in the space of seven steps.

Jiang Chen’s overwhelming display left the onlookers in awe, while the Martial Sect disciples recognized him as the companion who had recited a poem at Qishan Village. After the Flood Dragon restored his body, Jiang Chen demanded its submission, and the frightened beast wondered whether he was the same person it remembered.

• Jiang Hongyu and the other disciples from Qishan Village recognized Jiang Chen after Zheng Yuan recited his poem, and Jiang Chen winked at them.
• The Martial Sect elder learned that Jiang Hongyu had challenged Jiang Chen and jokingly approved of their marriage, while the Purple-Robed Old Daoist and others praised the poem.
• The Flood Dragon reassembled its body after Jiang Chen killed the seven Half-Kings, since Jiang Chen had not destroyed its soul.
• Jiang Chen inferred that the Flood Dragon might once have been meant to replace the Ghost-Sacrificing Clan in overseeing the rivers and seas, and asked it to submit.
• The terrified Flood Dragon recognized Jiang Chen but questioned how he could have become so weak.

Jiang Chen killed the defiant Flood Dragon, then vanished with it into the water. At the East Sea, the Dark Alliance’s kings battled the Nine Provinces’ kings, but an immense shadow began rising beneath the sea as Jiang Chen’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Jiang Chen crushed the Flood Dragon repeatedly, but it refused to submit, so he dragged it into the water and disappeared with it.
• King You attacked Mount Tai King while Earth Bodhisattva, Zuo Yi, Wei Wu, and a red-robed Ghost King engaged the other Nine Provinces kings.
• Xu Fu remained on the ship, absorbed in divining Jiang Chen’s fate as the battles unfolded.
• The Nine Provinces’ three kings suffered heavy injuries, while several Dark Alliance kings also took damage.
• The Dark Alliance’s kings paused their fights when Jiang Chen appeared to leave, and Earth Bodhisattva suggested he had fled.
• King You noticed a vast shadow rising beneath the sea, and the other kings realized an abyss was approaching.

Jiang Chen’s demonized incarnation swallowed the ancient ship and forced the four Dark Alliance kings to flee after they sacrificed powerful substitutes to escape. The transformation left Jiang Chen drained, and the Nine Provinces kings believed his realm had fallen below the King Realm.

• Jiang Chen’s enormous flood-dragon incarnation attacked the four Dark Alliance kings and used Heaven Swallowing and Earth Devouring to drag them toward its mouth.
• Ghost King Earth Bodhisattva, Zuo Yi, the faceless man, and the red-robed female ghost each sacrificed a substitute or part of themselves to escape.
• Xu Fu used a Talisman Formation and white mist to make the fleet disappear, while King You withdrew with the remaining Dark Alliance kings.
• Jiang Chen’s incarnation vanished, and Flood Dragon caught him as he fell; Uncle Wei, Mount Tai King, and King of Equality rushed to his aid.
• The three kings concluded that Jiang Chen’s realm had dropped, and Jiang Chen reacted in despair when they said he would need to return to the King Realm.

Jiang Chen reassured the three kings that his apparent loss of power might only be exhaustion, then left with Flood Dragon to return to the battlefield. Flood Dragon’s extraordinary scars and strange behavior left Jiang Chen eager to uncover the serpent’s origins.

• Jiang Chen accepted incense offerings and Yellow Paper Money from the Mount Tai King and the King of Equality, while Uncle Wei promised to find him more treasures.
• Jiang Chen claimed his realm might not have fallen and stood up after taking a Blood Ginseng Pill, easing the three kings’ concern.
• Flood Dragon called Jiang Chen his father and complained about the kings standing on his head, then boasted about his strength and the scars left by powerful enemies.
• Jiang Chen joked that he might cook Flood Dragon, who eagerly offered to let him cut off some meat for soup.
• Jiang Chen refused the three kings’ attempts to stop him from returning to the battlefield and declined Uncle Wei’s offer to accompany him, intending to question Flood Dragon about his origins.

Jiang Chen traveled down the Long River with Flood Dragon, who followed him in hopes of becoming a true dragon and claimed they were father and son. Flood Dragon revealed his name was Tie Zhu and began explaining the mysterious ruins where he had once taken shelter.

• The Mount Tai King persuaded Uncle Wei not to follow Jiang Chen, trusting Jiang Chen to investigate the Dark Alliance’s next move alone.
• Flood Dragon told Jiang Chen he was following him to become a true dragon, while Jiang Chen tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to eat him for his bloodline.
• Flood Dragon said his name was Tie Zhu and claimed he was a rare Nine Luminaries Black-Scaled Python whose flesh was prized for its taste.
• Tie Zhu recounted being chased by hunters into a hidden place with ruined stone doors carved with giant black pythons, where the humans pursuing him died mysteriously.

Jiang Chen heard Tie Zhu recount how an ancient underground palace and its iron pillar had helped set him on the path to becoming a Flood Dragon, though Tie Zhu had forgotten where the palace was. Jiang Chen kept Tie Zhu with him and asked him to identify several gifts from the kings.

• Tie Zhu described an Ancient Hall where fierce creatures died among traps, and an altar bearing an iron pillar encircled by nine dragons.
• Tie Zhu said he had tried to swallow the pillar, injured himself, and escaped as the palace sank; afterward, he began transforming into a Flood Dragon.
• Jiang Chen asked where the Ancient Hall was, but Tie Zhu admitted he could not remember its location.
• Jiang Chen decided to keep Tie Zhu nearby as a source of knowledge about ancient times and had him stop at a riverbank.
• Jiang Chen showed Tie Zhu a candle, incense, lamp oil, and paper money, and Tie Zhu identified them as valuable treasures.

Jiang Chen enhanced a damaged candle into a High-Grade Sacrificial Offering and discovered that lighting it restored his power, healed his injuries, and increased his strength. Tie Zhu explained how Grand Sacrifices could empower cultivators and revealed that Reincarnators relied on them to sustain successive lives, leaving Jiang Chen wary of their origins and power.

• Jiang Chen enhanced the half-candle into a Fine Sacrificial Offering-Soul Candle and lit it, restoring his Demonic Power and healing his injuries.
• Tie Zhu recognized the candle as a High-Grade Sacrificial Offering and warned Jiang Chen that he had used it extravagantly.
• Tie Zhu explained that Grand Sacrifices combined High-Grade and ordinary Sacrificial Offerings to produce extraordinary effects, including raising young cultivators to the Half-King realm.
• Jiang Chen connected Grand Sacrifices to the planned power increases of the Dao Alliance's Six Giants' Contemporary Successors and the Yama Successor.
• Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen that Reincarnators used Grand Sacrifices as fuel for successive lives and initially needed a ritual approaching the scale of a Divine Sacrifice.

Jiang Chen learned from Tie Zhu that a Divine Sacrifice could alter fate or kill even a Nine-Step King, while Reincarnators pursued a way to become gods. Tie Zhu recounted how a Heavenly Sacrifice had stopped a Yin God a thousand years ago, leaving Jiang Chen shaken by the scale of that ancient calamity.

• Jiang Chen questioned Tie Zhu about Divine Sacrifices, and Tie Zhu described their power to resurrect the dead, reverse the past, or erase powerful enemies.
• Tie Zhu explained that becoming a Supreme Powerhouse was only part of what the Reincarnators sought, then began recounting an ancient upheaval.
• Tie Zhu revealed that a Yin God had emerged during the Disorder of the Ultimate Number and devastated the world, killing a Supreme Powerhouse.
• Tie Zhu said humanity’s strongest factions had performed a Heavenly Sacrifice to kill the Yin God and seal her remains.
• Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen that the Reincarnators sought the highest-order Heavenly Sacrifice to become gods.