Recaps

Yang Xiao took up his post as a Demon Suppression General and hunted down several Demon Kings across Qingzhou, uncovering Lady Musk’s ties to the Hundred-Thousand Demon Mountains. The Yellow Wind Demon King sought Master Xuanzhen’s help, while Yang Xiao confronted the Flame-Tailed Lion King after rescuing a town from a fire.

• Qin Lie appointed Yang Xiao Qingzhou’s fourteenth Demon Suppression General and sent him with Lu Zhengyi to investigate the Gloom-Patterned Mystic Leopard, which Yang Xiao killed before joining Lu to defeat the White-Forehead Hanging-Eyed Tiger brothers.
• Yang Xiao studied new martial arts, advanced his cultivation with the demons’ cores, and killed the Mystic Turtle Demon King after it blocked a mountain pass in Fuyu Commandery.
• Yang Xiao followed the Golden-Mane Boar Demon King to Lady Musk’s cave, killed the boar, and learned that Lady Musk served the Crimson Refinement Demon Emperor and had traded a Longevity-Extending Treasure Lotus to the Yellow Wind Demon King.
• Yang Xiao reported Lady Musk’s death and the other Demon Kings’ fates to Li Hanguang, while the Yellow Wind Demon King ordered his remaining followers out of Qingzhou and went to Lotus Flower Temple to seek Master Xuanzhen.
• Master Xuanzhen agreed to accompany the Yellow Wind Demon King to Qingzhou to meet Pei Xuance, though he refused to act on the demon king’s behalf.
• Yang Xiao rescued people from a burning house at Wuquan Post Town, used his Qi-Gathering Bottle to trace the demon behind the fire, and headed alone into the mountains.
• Yang Xiao found the Flame-Tailed Lion King at a ruined temple, learned it had set the fire, and used his Core Illumination Domain and three kinds of light to suppress its fire domain.

Yang Xiao hunted the demons threatening Qingzhou, reached the Dao-Infant Realm, and killed the Yellow Wind Demon King and Xuan Zhen. With Qingzhou recovering and Pei Xuance unable to leave, Yang Xiao set out with Governor Qin for Cuiyun Circuit to seek Spiritual Roots.

• Yang Xiao killed the Flame-Tailed Lion King, reported his findings to Pei Xuance, and then joined Lu Changgeng at Cold Frost Pool to kill the Ice Toad King.
• Yang Xiao refined demon cores from the Ice Toad King and other demons, advanced to Core Illumination Late-Stage, and continued hunting until his Dao embryo took an infant’s shape.
• Yang Xiao broke through to the Dao-Infant Realm just as the Yellow Wind Demon King and Black Rock attacked Guanlan Commandery.
• Yang Xiao killed Black Rock and the Yellow Wind Demon King, destroyed the king’s escaping Demon Infant, and flew toward Qingzhou City.
• Yang Xiao arrived at the ruined Demon Suppression Division and fought Xuan Zhen, shattering his Lotus Platform before killing him and his Dao Infant.
• Yang Xiao synthesized and tested new traits, then learned from Pei Xuance that he needed Five Elements Spiritual Roots to advance further.
• Pei Xuance asked Yang Xiao to take Governor Qin to headquarters for treatment, and Yang Xiao set out for Cuiyun Circuit with Li Hanguang offering to accompany him.