Recaps

Jiang Zhu explained how cultivators could become Immortal King Giants by perfecting their bodies, Primordial Spirits, and Great Daos, then faced four Immortal King Giants in the Boundary Sea. He unleashed his strongest techniques against them, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Jiang Zhu explained that the Sixth Secret Realm had to be comprehended individually and that cultivators could temper their Primordial Spirits to advance without it.
• Jiang Zhu showed his ascension to Immortal King, and the Black Emperor was overwhelmed after swallowing a wisp of Immortal King essence before Great Emperor Wushi refined it for him.
• Ye Fan and the others tempered their bodies with the Immortal King essence, while Jiang Zhu explained that perfecting the body, Primordial Spirit, and Great Dao could make someone an Immortal King Giant.
• Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and their companions hunted three Fallen Immortal Kings in the Boundary Sea as four Immortal King Giants confronted Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu used Disordered Time and Space to turn the Gray-Robed Elder's War Halberd against the Red-Haired Burly Man's Crimson Furnace and wounded the two scale-covered giants.
• Jiang Zhu attacked with the Chaos Bell and his strongest techniques, but the four giants avoided meeting his blows head-on and fought cautiously.

Jiang Zhu fought his way out of an ambush by the World-Destroying Army, killing one Dark titan and capturing another before escaping the remaining pursuers. He left the red-haired titan, the Variant Beast titan, and more than twenty Dark Immortal Kings behind, furious and unable to stop him.

• Jiang Zhu intercepted four Dark titans and evaded their attacks while trying to keep Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and their companions concealed.
• Jiang Zhu used his temporal art and True Spirit Fist to kill the gray-robed Dark Giant, then detonated the Giant's broken War Halberd to hinder the pursuit.
• Jiang Zhu wounded the Variant Beast titan, captured its Primordial Spirit with a Divine Furnace, and fled as his own body neared collapse.
• Jiang Zhu taunted the pursuing titans and struck down a black-haired Immortal King who challenged him, then escaped the remaining Dark forces.

After learning that the dark forces were erasing traces of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Zhu followed a coordinate from a defeated giant’s memories to a hidden temple complex in an Immortal Domain Fragment. He began searching the temples for a connection to Above the Heavens and a way to preserve the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s path back.

• News spread that Jiang Zhu had slain two of four Dark Giants, and the Divine Bird Immortal King abandoned its plans for revenge and fled into the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Zhu questioned the captured Variant Beast giant, drew the Dark Matter from his body, then refined his Primordial Spirit and searched its memories.
• Jiang Zhu learned that dark forces had ordered their subordinates to find traces of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and erase them, and he followed a set of coordinates from the giant’s memories.
• Jiang Zhu arrived at a bustling ancient city and used his Heavenly Eye to discover a hidden complex of temples that he believed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had established.
• Jiang Zhu explored the abandoned temples and found shattered divine statues and a few damaged remnants of the Immortal Kings once worshipped there.

Jiang Zhu found the Willow Deity’s remains and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s statue in the central Divine Temples, where a drop of emperor blood revealed the battle in which the Corpse Immortal Emperor killed Shi Hao across time. The blood scattered through the River of Time, leaving Shi Hao’s remnants and blood essence in many eras, while a force of cause and effect blocked them from reaching the distant future.

• Jiang Zhu collected the Willow Deity’s remains as a possible way to contact the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and his companions.
• Jiang Zhu entered the central temple, packed away the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s statue, and discovered a drop of the emperor’s blood.
• The drop of blood showed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor fighting the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who trapped him with the Great Luo Sword Embryo and struck him through time.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor and the sword shattered Shi Hao, scattering his blood into countless drops across different times and spaces.
• Shi Hao’s blood remnants took form and cultivated outside the worlds, but a power of cause and effect prevented them from flowing into the distant future.

Jiang Zhu witnessed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor use the He Transforms into Freedom Art to defeat and destroy the Corpse Immortal Emperor, then carried the emperor blood into the River of Time to explore the past. His journey stirred the power of great cause and effect, awakening a supreme existence who recognized Desolate’s handiwork.

• Shi Hao returned as a true Immortal Emperor and confronted the restored Corpse Immortal Emperor beyond the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Shi Hao used the He Transforms into Freedom Art to summon multiple incarnations, overwhelm the Corpse Immortal Emperor, and destroy his body and soul.
• Jiang Zhu realized that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had rewritten the ages and decided to travel into the past with the emperor blood.
• Jiang Zhu entered the River of Time, using the emperor blood as a guide to cross its vast currents.
• The power of great cause and effect awakened a supreme existence in a blood-soaked realm, who wondered whether the disturbance was Desolate’s handiwork.

Jiang Zhu followed the emperor blood through the River of Time as the Crimson King crossed from the distant past to kill Shi Hao. Jiang Zhu intervened and effortlessly erased the Crimson King's attacks, leaving the Female Immortal horrified by his power.

• A Quasi-Immortal Emperor of the Soul River sent more than a dozen pinnacle Immortal Kings upstream to kill whoever was disrupting the ages.
• Jiang Zhu saw darkness and cages consuming the River of Time, then followed the emperor blood toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal King's Daoist Arena.
• The Crimson King appeared across time and revealed that he had come from the distant past to erase Shi Hao, while the Female Immortal warned him about the karmic dangers.
• Jiang Zhu arrived on the River of Time, and Shi Hao recognized the great bell above his head from encounters beneath the Burial Realm Black Abyss and in the Immortal Ancient World.
• The Crimson King unleashed countless divine abilities against Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu's aura dissolved every attack and left the Female Immortal stunned.

Jiang Zhu slew the Crimson King's Dharma Body, but the Crimson King then summoned powerful black demon shadows from the Foreign Realm's Origin Ancient Artifact. After battling them, Jiang Zhu severed the River of Time to stop further attacks, though he was left badly wounded.

• Jiang Zhu shattered and killed the Crimson King's Dharma Body with two powerful punches as it tried to kill Shi Hao.
• The Female Immortal explained that only the Crimson King's Dharma Body had crossed time, and his defeat threatened his true body in the past.
• The Crimson King's true body appeared in an Ancient Temple upstream and used a scripture to summon immense black demon shadows from the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Jiang Zhu fought the first shadow, but a second joined it and the Crimson King summoned a third.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed his strongest strike, then severed the River of Time to stop the shadows from attacking again, leaving himself covered in blood.

Shi Hao witnessed Jiang Zhu flee a host of Soul River Immortal Kings, then reflected on the horrors awaiting in the future. At Imperial Pass, its defenders sacrificed themselves to unleash the First Slaughter Formation against Anlan, but he destroyed it, leaving the last surviving King to strike back through the Heavenly Abyss.

• Radiant rain shielded Shi Hao from cause and effect, and Jiang Zhu said he would recover and no longer face attacks from the River of Time.
• A dozen Soul River Monsters at the Immortal King Pinnacle attacked Jiang Zhu, who used the True Phoenix Divine Flame, the Chaos Bell, and the Gu Race Precious Technique to escape downstream.
• Shi Hao watched the clash vanish into the River of Time and resolved that the future could still be changed and that Jiang Zhu would survive.
• At Imperial Pass, the oldest Supreme activated a fragment of the First Slaughter Formation, sacrificing himself and the elders who powered it, but the silent figure in Anlan’s war chariot destroyed the formation.
• As Anlan supported the Primordial Imperial City and suppressed the Heavenly Abyss, the last surviving King attacked him with the Heavenly Abyss’s power and the five Imperial Edicts.

A bloodied figure and a colossal bell emerged from the River of Time as Anlan attacked the Primordial Imperial City, and the figure’s True Dragon Dharma Body nearly beheaded him. Yu Tuo rescued Anlan while Jiang Zhu fought the other ancient beings who had reached through the Heavenly Abyss, leaving the battle raging amid temporal backlash.

• A colossal bell and the bloodied Jiang Zhu appeared from the River of Time, forcing the golden-backed Mighty Bull to its knees and drawing the witch’s recognition of the bell.
• Shi Hao watched from the Imperial Pass as a blurred figure appeared on the right flower of his Great Dao, while Anlan judged that fighting Jiang Zhu could unleash disastrous temporal consequences.
• Anlan attacked the Primordial Imperial City, but Jiang Zhu’s quiet snort dispelled his attack and shattered the golden-backed Mighty Bull’s bones.
• Jiang Zhu formed a True Dragon Dharma Body and struck Anlan, whose head was severed as the Foreign Realm’s army retreated.
• Yu Tuo reached in to rescue Anlan as several other beings attacked Jiang Zhu through the Heavenly Abyss; Jiang Zhu fought them and suffered cause-and-effect backlash.
• Yu Tuo pulled Anlan from the dragon claw, and Anlan’s head rejoined his neck as his wound rapidly healed.

Jiang Zhu fought the Soul River Immortal Kings as the Heavenly Abyss collapsed, trapping Anlan and Yu Tuo beneath a flood of laws and the burning Primordial Imperial City. As the battle left the Imperial Pass exposed, Anlan reached through the chaos to seize something from the city, tearing away its gate tower and killing tens of thousands of defenders.

• Jiang Zhu battled the Soul River Monsters while Anlan entered the Heavenly Abyss and attacked him with the Crimson Peak Spear.
• Jiang Zhu’s Chaos Bell shattered Anlan’s spear, shield, and immortal body, leaving only Anlan’s damaged Primordial Spirit as Yu Tuo tried to rescue him.
• The Heavenly Abyss collapsed into a sea of blood-colored laws, suppressing Jiang Zhu, the Soul River Monsters, Anlan, and Yu Tuo.
• The Primordial Imperial City pinned Anlan and Yu Tuo beneath the law-ocean and began burning as its last king chose to perish with his enemies.
• Anlan ignored Jiang Zhu and reached toward the Imperial Pass to retrieve an object connected to the Origin Ancient Artifact.
• Anlan’s Primordial Spirit tore away the gate tower, killing tens of thousands of defenders before the Imperial Pass’s runes protected the rest of the city.

Shi Hao used a mysterious drop of blood to manifest three forms and battle Anlan, Yu Tuo, and the Foreign Realm’s Immortal Kings. As Jiang Zhu fought in the Heavenly Abyss, he grasped the beginnings of his own Dao, “Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin,” and began merging his powers.

• Shi Hao’s drop of blood merged his Reincarnation Seals and transformed him, allowing him to block Anlan’s attack at the Imperial Pass.
• Shi Hao manifested three powerful forms that overwhelmed Anlan and Yu Tuo, while the Foreign Realm’s experts identified his technique as the He Transforms into Freedom Art.
• Several Immortal Kings and their Imperial Edicts attacked Shi Hao together, while Jiang Zhu continued fighting more than a dozen enemies in the Heavenly Abyss.
• Jiang Zhu understood that his own path differed from Shi Hao’s and named it “Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin,” seeking to unify all spirits and powers within himself.
• Jiang Zhu drew Thunder Emperor Origin Blood and Golden Crow Origin Blood from the Demon-Refining Pot and began merging them as his flames shattered the surrounding void.

Jiang Zhu completed the transformation of his twelve peerless bloodlines while battling more than a dozen Soul River Immortal Kings, then overwhelmed his attackers with newly heightened strength. He killed one Immortal King and faced the leading monster as it unleashed a power that froze time and space.

• Jiang Zhu’s bloodlines transformed as his blood qi shook the universe, drawing the attention of Immortal Kings across the realms.
• Soul River Immortal Kings attacked Jiang Zhu during his transformation, and he fought back with seals and secret arts despite his wounds.
• Jiang Zhu activated his sixth secret realm and killed an Immortal King, then completed the refinement of the Golden Crow and Thunder Emperor Origin Blood to unite twelve peerless bloodlines.
• Jiang Zhu’s transformed strength let him maim three pinnacle Immortal Kings, including tearing off the leader’s arm and severing another’s head.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the headless Immortal King’s body and Primordial Spirit with the power of his sixth secret realm.
• The leading Soul River Immortal King froze time and space and aimed its silver blade arms at Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Zhu killed the attacking Soul River Immortal Kings despite his severe injuries, while the remaining monsters fled through the River of Time and tried to distract him with self-detonations. Their actions kept him from reaching Shi Hao in time, and Anlan broke through the Imperial Pass and sent a vast hand toward the Three Thousand Provinces, destroying everything in its path.

• Jiang Zhu destroyed the Soul River monster in body and spirit, then fought off the remaining Immortal Kings despite his injuries.
• The Soul River Immortal Kings fled through the River of Time, but Jiang Zhu blocked their escape and killed those who remained behind.
• Two Soul River monsters detonated their primordial spirits to distract Jiang Zhu and impede the turbulent currents of order.
• At the Imperial Pass, Yu Tuo and the Imperial Edicts held Shi Hao back as Anlan broke through and reached toward the Three Thousand Provinces.
• Anlan's great hand swept across the Three Thousand Provinces, crushing the land and killing every being in its path.

Anlan tore Sin Province from the Three Thousand Provinces and carried it toward the Foreign Realm, prompting Shi Hao to attack him desperately. As Shi Hao tried to pursue across the Heavenly Abyss, Jiang Zhu briefly sheltered him from the Sea of Laws before fading from that time and space.

• Anlan's Primordial Spirit hand crossed the Three Thousand Provinces, restrained its destructive power, and seized the whole of Sin Province because he suspected it held a clue to the object he sought.
• Shi Hao recognized Sin Province in Anlan's grasp and charged after him alongside two allies, striking the enormous hand with his Sword Embryo despite Yu Tuo and five Imperial Edicts attacking him.
• Shi Hao saw crimson fire mulberry petals and a young girl in Sin Province, then roared at Anlan and pursued him through the Heavenly Abyss, but the fading power of the drop of blood could not sustain him.
• Jiang Zhu stirred the Sea of Laws and used the Chaos Bell to hold open a stable expanse of sky for Shi Hao, then began disappearing under the backlash of his actions.

Shi Hao survived the final battle at the Heavenly Abyss and rescued Fire Spirit'er, while the Primordial Imperial City and its last king vanished. In the Immortal Ancient Ruins, Willow Deity intercepted four fleeing Soul River Immortal Kings, giving Jiang Zhu the chance to catch up with them.

• Shi Hao and the two manifestations attacked Anlan with the Nine-Story Pagoda and great bell, while the five imperial edicts unleashed the imprints of the Immortal Kings.
• After the final clash, Jiang Zhu's manifestation carried away Fire Nation territory from Sin Province and reunited Shi Hao with Fire Spirit'er.
• Anlan tried to strike Shi Hao across the Heavenly Abyss, but the boiling laws shattered his hand and turned the abyss into a deadly sea of cause-and-effect flames.
• The Primordial Imperial City burned away with its heroic spirits, and the last surviving king dissipated before Jiang Zhu departed from the era.
• Willow Deity struck four Soul River Immortal Kings who were traveling upstream through time, delaying their escape as Jiang Zhu caught up and destroyed one of them.

Jiang Zhu defeated the Soul River Immortal Kings, revealed his Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Blood to Willow Deity, and received Willow Deity's precious technique. Elsewhere, his old friends continued fighting the darkness and wondering where he had gone, while Jiang Zhu discovered the Sun God Tree in the age of Emperor's Fall.

• Jiang Zhu killed and sealed the four Soul River Immortal Kings, then told Willow Deity his name and explained his bloodline cultivation method.
• Jiang Zhu showed Willow Deity his Myriad Spirits Return to the Origin Blood, and Willow Deity gave him a branch containing a precious technique for him to refine.
• The Black Emperor, Duan De, Ye Fan, Wang Bo, and the Azure Emperor endured brutal battles against the forces of darkness, while Ye Fan and the Azure Emperor fought back.
• The white-robed Empress battled a Dark Immortal King and dismissed his certainty that darkness could not be resisted, invoking Jiang Zhu's strength.
• Yan Ruyu waited in the Immortal Domain Fragment, worried about her old friends and asking when Jiang Zhu would return.
• In the age of Emperor's Fall, Jiang Zhu recognized the Sun God Tree rising from a vast sea of magma.

Jiang Zhu reached the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral land in the Emperor's Fall Era, where he found a Golden Crow woman hatching atop World Mountain and studied the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s records. The records revealed how the earliest Immortal Kings founded the Heavenly Court, uncovered the Land of Darkness, and were later destroyed, while the Golden Crow bloodline survived through the Heavenly Emperor’s preparations.

• Jiang Zhu arrived at the Golden Ancient Tree and found World Mountain beside the Chaos Ancient Hall, where a golden-winged woman was hatching inside a Sun God Flower.
• The woman mistook Jiang Zhu for a powerful member of the Golden Crow Clan and directed him to the Chaos Ancient Hall.
• Jiang Zhu entered the hall, memorized the Original True Explanation and the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s incomplete method for reaching the quasi-immortal emperor realm, and found that the complete method was in the Ultimate Ancient Land.
• Jiang Zhu released his Golden Crow aura and activated records showing the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and other early Immortal Kings creating the Immortal Domain Cultivation Method and founding the Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Zhu learned that the Immortal Kings discovered the Reception Ancient Hall led to the Land of Darkness, angered its dark quasi-immortal emperors, and were destroyed, while the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor saved some of his clan by sending them to the lower realm.

Jiang Zhu created the Kindling Flame Scripture, a cultivation method that let anyone strengthen their origin, then left the past era and survived a nine-year Law-Creation Tribulation in the Boundary Sea. He emerged greatly strengthened, and the Dark Immortal Kings recognized the Heavenly Court Descendant who had killed two Giants.

• Jiang Zhu studied the Immortal Ancient, Chaotic Ancient, and other cultivation methods, then weakened the Demon-Refining Divine Flame into the Kindling Flame and created the Kindling Flame Scripture.
• Jiang Zhu sent the Golden Crow Woman a method for strengthening her origin before returning to his own era.
• Jiang Zhu faced a devastating Law-Creation Tribulation in the Boundary Sea, while Immortal Kings and Giants watched from afar and identified the calamity.
• After nine years of tribulation and a year of recovery, Jiang Zhu emerged with vastly improved Dao cultivation and Great Dao comprehension.
• Dark Immortal Kings recognized Jiang Zhu as the Heavenly Court Descendant who had killed two Giants and feared the strength he had gained.

Jiang Zhu returned from the past and annihilated twenty Dark Immortal Kings on the Boundary Sea, revealing power that stunned the Heavens and Myriad Worlds. After reuniting with Yan Ruyu and his old companions, he warned them that darkness was stronger than expected and explained that opening the sixth secret realm could free them from system erosion.

• Jiang Zhu stopped the fleeing Dark Immortal Kings, defeated their coalition, and killed their Giants and Immortal Kings across the Boundary Sea.
• Jiang Zhu collected the fallen Dark Giants’ weapons and treasures, then planned to forge a supreme weapon from the spoils.
• News of Jiang Zhu’s return spread through the Heavens and Myriad Worlds; Black Emperor, Great Emperor Wushi, Duan De, Ye Fan, and Ruthless Great Emperor reacted to it.
• A hidden figure learned that someone from Desolate’s cultivation system was approaching another breakthrough and ordered dark beings to accelerate their plans to destroy that system.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Yan Ruyu and told her that darkness was more powerful than he had expected.
• Jiang Zhu recounted his past journey and explained system erosion to Ye Fan and the others, saying that opening the sixth secret realm could free them from contamination.

Jiang Zhu discussed the threat of dark matter and shared cultivation systems with Ye Fan and the others, then opened the Nine-Layer Coffin and awakened the God Emperor. The God Emperor emerged in ten-colored immortal light, with an eleventh color faintly appearing.

• Jiang Zhu estimated that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor could hold back the corruption of the cultivation system for at least a million years and offered his own system and the Darkness Faction's methods for study.
• Ye Fan, Great Emperor Wushi, the Azure Emperor, Ruthless Great Emperor, Duan De, and the others examined Jiang Zhu's system while he cultivated nearby.
• Jiang Zhu concluded that he needed to refine a thirteenth bloodline and brought out the Nine-Layer Coffin to consult the God Emperor about perfecting his scripture.
• Jiang Zhu used ten fiends origin blood to open all nine layers of the coffin, releasing the God Emperor and awakening his Primordial Emperor's Battle Garment.
• The Divine Silkworm Daoist recognized the God Emperor as his father, and Jiang Zhu's call awakened him fully.
• The God Emperor opened his eyes as ten-colored immortal light surged around him, with a faint eleventh color flickering within it.

The God Emperor discussed his life-and-death transformations with Jiang Zhu, then cultivated Jiang Zhu’s True Spirit Method and gained a clearer path toward the Immortal King Realm. He then announced that he would test the method on dark origin blood, alarming everyone as the chapter ended before the dangerous experiment began.

• The Divine Silkworm Daoist reunited with his father, the God Emperor, who showed stern affection toward him but doted on Little Divine Silkworm.
• Jiang Zhu and the God Emperor discussed their cultivation methods, and Jiang Zhu identified flaws in the God Emperor’s life-and-death transformation.
• The God Emperor agreed to cultivate the True Spirit Method, and Jiang Zhu planted a crimson-gold kindling flame within him.
• Several hundred years later, the God Emperor’s kindling flame had smelted his bloodlines, and he shared insights that made his path toward a breakthrough clearer.
• The God Emperor announced that he would smelt dark origin blood, prompting Ye Fan, Wushi, the Azure Emperor, Ruthless, the Divine Silkworm Daoist, and others to warn him against the danger.

The God Emperor chose to absorb Jiang Zhu’s dark origin blood and, after a century of refining it, learned to control its power. He sacrificed a Dark Immortal King to complete his transformation, then survived the Immortal King Tribulation and became the second Immortal King of the Shrouding the Heavens Realm.

• The God Emperor rejected the others’ warnings and asked Jiang Zhu to help him attempt to refine the dark origin blood.
• Jiang Zhu placed a drop of dark origin blood on the God Emperor, who used his kindling flame to resist and smelt its power.
• After a hundred years, the God Emperor gained control over the darkness and used it to devour a Dark Immortal King.
• Twelve-colored immortal light erupted around the God Emperor, and the Immortal King Tribulation descended upon him.
• The God Emperor endured the tribulation and became the second Immortal King of the Shrouding the Heavens Realm after Jiang Zhu.

After the God Emperor became a peak Immortal King by refining darkness with Jiang Zhu’s True Spirit Method, Jiang Zhu helped the others cultivate the same way. A thousand years later, they invaded a dark realm and clashed with its Immortal Kings near a World Tree, beginning a battle that left the True Immortals fighting below.

• The God Emperor survived the dark origin blood, broke through to become a peak Immortal King, and thanked Jiang Zhu for the True Spirit Method.
• Ye Fan, the Azure Emperor, Wushi, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and others volunteered to refine darkness, and Jiang Zhu planted kindling flames within them.
• After a thousand years of cultivation, Ye Fan and the Ruthless Great Emperor became Immortal Kings, while several former emperors reached the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Jiang Zhu led the group into a dark great realm, where Ye Fan attacked its World Tree and drew out the Black Sun Saint Ancestor and the realm’s Dark Immortal Kings.
• Ye Fan and the other Immortal Kings engaged the dark forces in battle, while the True Immortals of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands charged at the realm’s True Immortals.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands army overwhelmed the dark forces, and Jiang Zhu killed Black Sun Saint Ancestor. After the Dark Immortal Kings summoned the Soul River, its creature devoured six of them, then recoiled at the extraordinary darkness within Jiang Zhu and his companions.

• The Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors slaughtered dark True Immortals, while Black Emperor hunted weaker opponents and refined dark Origin Blood.
• Duan De and the others battled the Dark Immortal Kings, and Jiang Zhu cleaved Black Sun Saint Ancestor apart before destroying him and both of his suns.
• The Dark Immortal Kings lit Soul-Summoning Incense, bringing a tributary of the Soul River into their realm.
• Ye Fan, Ruthless, Wushi, Duan De, and the others examined the tributary as a Twelve-Winged Soul River Creature emerged from it.
• The Twelve-Winged Soul River Creature devoured six Dark Immortal Kings as sacrifices, then discovered that Jiang Zhu and his companions held more Dark Matter than it did.

Jiang Zhu and the others were mistaken for descendants of Immortal Emperors by a Twelve-Winged Soul River Immortal King, who then killed the Dark Immortal Kings and revealed that the Underworld and Soul River were preparing the Heavens Sacrifice. Jiang Zhu explained the threat posed by the dark powers and their many Quasi-Immortal Emperors, leaving the group to consider hiding within the darkness until they could fight back.

• The Twelve-Winged Creature mistook Ye Fan, Wushi, the God Emperor, and the others for exalted descendants of Immortal Emperors and knelt before Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu questioned the Twelve-Winged Creature, which explained that Soul-Summoning Incense summoned Soul River forces to kill enemies and collect souls or offerings.
• The Twelve-Winged Creature killed the remaining Dark Immortal Kings to demonstrate its loyalty, then feared Jiang Zhu’s rebuke after mentioning the Heavens Sacrifice.
• The Twelve-Winged Creature revealed that the Underworld presided over the Heavens Sacrifice with the Soul River assisting, while Jiang Zhu explained that the dark powers controlled supposed reincarnation.
• Jiang Zhu told the group that the dark powers had at least fifteen Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level beings and even stronger forces above the heavens.
• Jiang Zhu proposed that the group hide among the darkness until they could turn against its rulers, and Ye Fan and the others reluctantly accepted the strategy.