Recaps

Huang Xiao and his allies escaped after battling the Tomb Clan, while Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan prepared to gather forces opposed to the Demon Hall. With nowhere safe to go, Huang Xiao considered Ou Jin’s hidden ice island in the Extreme Cold Ice Sea.

• Huang Xiao refused Demon Phoenix’s suggestion to pursue the retreating Tomb Clan, and he left with Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan.
• Pang Yi, enraged that Huang Xiao had escaped, attacked Huo Lian with the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan told Huang Xiao they would return to gather members of their Heavenly Demon Hall and Ten Thousand Demons Hall lines who planned to leave the Demon Hall.
• Huang Xiao promised to try to free Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan from the Supreme Demon Token’s influence, and the two elders departed.
• Huang Xiao rejected the Three Immortal Mountains and the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency as destinations, then considered Ou Jin’s concealed island in the Extreme Cold Ice Sea.

Huang Xiao and his companions planned to hide the saber materials at Ou Jin's secret refuge while Huang Xiao suppressed the swelling essence blood he had strengthened by killing Tomb Clan experts. Huo Lian arrived without the Supreme Demon Saber and confronted Ou Jin over the failure that let Pang Yi and the others take it.

• Huang Xiao decided to take the saber materials to Ou Jin's former hiding place because the Supreme Demon Saber was too difficult to reclaim from Pang Yi and the other experts.
• Huang Xiao's essence blood swelled after he killed Tomb Clan experts, so he sat beneath a tree and suppressed its power while Wei Yidao and the others kept watch.
• Huo Lian appeared and told Huang Xiao that Pang Yi and the others had taken the Supreme Demon Saber before withdrawing.
• Huo Lian sensed Huang Xiao's strengthened essence blood, then learned the group planned to go to the Craftsman God's former hiding place.
• Huo Lian accused Ou Jin of failing to neutralize the Hidden Saber Soul in time, allowing Pang Yi and the others to seize the Supreme Demon Saber.

Huo Lian demanded the Ou Family's Saber Blank after losing the Supreme Demon Saber, threatening Ou Jin when he refused. Huang Xiao persuaded Huo Lian to let him speak with Ou Jin privately, and warned him that Kui Yong's emergence could bring a calamity worse than any Thousand-Year Period.

• Ou Jin apologized to Huo Lian for the loss of the Supreme Demon Saber, but Huo Lian said recovering it from Pang Yi was nearly impossible.
• Huo Lian demanded the Ou Family's Saber Blank so he could reforge the Supreme Demon Saber, and threatened to kill Ou Jin's family when Ou Jin refused.
• Ou Jin challenged Huo Lian's threat, saying the Ou Family had dispersed and could not be wiped out, so Huo Lian seized him by the throat.
• Huang Xiao stopped Huo Lian from killing Ou Jin, and Huo Lian released him and gave Huang Xiao a quarter of an hour to persuade him.
• Huang Xiao spoke privately with Ou Jin, accepted that Ou Jin had wanted to help reforge the saber, and warned him that Kui Yong could devastate the Jianghu.
• Ou Jin questioned whether Kui Yong could truly be so dangerous given the strength of Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and the awakened experts.

Huang Xiao persuaded Ou Jin to consider using the Ou Family's Saber Blank and the Minghong Saber Soul to forge a divine weapon capable of opposing Kui Yong. Ou Jin remained undecided as Huang Xiao weighed how to protect the Martial World from Kui Yong.

• Huang Xiao told Ou Jin that Kui Yong was likely too powerful for the experts to defeat together.
• Ou Jin explained that the Saber Blank's blade was strong, but its saber soul needed far longer to mature into a peerless divine weapon.
• Huang Xiao suggested that the Minghong Saber Soul could complete the Saber Blank and promised the weapon would ultimately belong to the Ou Family.
• Ou Jin struggled with the offer, tempted by the chance to forge a renowned divine weapon and help the world.
• Huang Xiao waited without pressing Ou Jin and considered how he could fight Kui Yong while protecting his friends and the Central Plains.

Huang Xiao persuaded Ou Jin to lend the Ou Family’s Saber Blank for reforging the Minghong Saber, with the condition that Huang Xiao alone would wield it. The group reached the Extreme Cold Ice Sea and found the island where the forging work would begin.

• Huang Xiao promised Ou Jin he would recover the reforged Minghong Saber from Huo Lian if necessary, and Ou Jin agreed to lend the Saber Blank on the condition that Huang Xiao alone would wield it.
• Huo Lian agreed to Ou Jin’s condition and said he would first borrow the saber after it was reforged.
• Huo Lian split from Huang Xiao’s group to retrieve the Three Ancient Evil Blades, then caught up with them three days later.
• Huang Xiao and the others traveled north for seven days and reached the Extreme Cold Ice Sea, where they flew over the frozen waters with Ou Jin.
• Ou Jin pointed out the ice-covered island, and the group flew toward it.

Huang Xiao and the others followed Ou Jin to the Ou Family’s hidden chamber, where the legendary Saber Blank was being tempered by cold flame different flames. The Saber Blank resonated with their Divine Weapons, and the group learned that its flames gave off no heat.

• Ou Jin led Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and Demon Phoenix through a snow-covered cliff entrance and a maze of passages toward the Saber Blank.
• Ou Jin explained that ten thousand Ou Family disciples had spent ten years hollowing out the island and remained there until they died to protect the secret.
• Huo Lian opened the stone gate, revealing the Saber Blank suspended above blue flames in a vast chamber.
• Huang Xiao sensed the Minghong Saber Soul and the Three Ancient Evil Blades resonating with the Saber Blank.
• Huo Lian identified the flames as cold flame different flames, and Ou Jin confirmed they gave off no heat.

Huo Lian proposed strengthening the Minghong Saber Soul by destroying the saber souls of the Three Ancient Evil Blades. When Ou Jin warned that he lacked materials, Huo Lian proposed sacrificing Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui to help break down the blades’ souls.

• Ou Jin explained that his family tempered the saber blank with alternating blazing and icy flames, and Huo Lian judged the Minghong Saber Soul too weak.
• Huo Lian said the lost hidden saber soul could no longer restore the Minghong Saber Soul, then proposed using the Three Ancient Evil Blades instead.
• Ou Jin confirmed the blades could be used but warned that breaking down their saber souls would destroy their divine-weapon status, while Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui protested.
• Huo Lian insisted that the three saber souls be broken down and devoured by the Minghong Saber Soul, ignoring the protests.
• When Ou Jin said he lacked materials, Huo Lian proposed using Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui as blood sacrifices to help break down the ancient blades’ saber souls.

Huo Lian insisted on sacrificing Wang Jiu and the others to strengthen the Minghong Saber, while Huang Xiao opposed his plan. Ou Jin proposed a way to draw power from the Three Ancient Evil Blades’ Saber Souls without destroying them, leaving Huo Lian to consider the alternative.

• Huo Lian handed Ou Jin written instructions for using Wang Jiu and the others in a Blood Sacrifice.
• Huang Xiao openly opposed the sacrifice, and he and Huo Lian clashed until Ou Jin urged them to calm down.
• Ou Jin explained that the three Saber Souls could strengthen the Minghong Saber if Wang Jiu and the others persuaded them to willingly pay a price.
• Huang Xiao urged Huo Lian to try the voluntary method first and resort to destroying the Saber Souls only if they refused.

Huo Lian spared the Three Ancient Evil Blades from being erased and ordered their Saber Souls to strengthen the Minghong Saber before it was forged. As the forging preparations began, Huang Xiao asked to test whether he could dissolve the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao.

• The Three Ancient Evil Blades agreed to give up part of their Saber Souls to strengthen the Minghong Saber, and Huo Lian warned them to cooperate or face erasure later.
• Ou Jin said forging the Minghong Saber would take at least a year, while Wang Jiu and the others began communicating with the Saber Souls.
• Demon Phoenix followed Ou Jin to the Saber Blank and received permission to use some of the different flames.
• Huang Xiao asked to try dissolving the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao, and Huo Lian allowed him to proceed.
• Wei Yidao realized that Kui Yong used the Demon Refining Formula to control the Demon Hall's members.

Huang Xiao began testing his method for undoing the Demon Refining Formula on Wei Yidao. As the essence-blood aura separated from Wei Yidao’s true qi and returned to his own essence blood, Wei Yidao realized the method was reversing the formula’s effects.

• Huang Xiao explained that he had devised a way to undo the Demon Refining Formula and asked Wei Yidao to be his first test subject.
• Huang Xiao kept his own Demon Refining Formula intact so he could avoid suspicion from Kui Yong and continue strengthening his essence blood.
• The Patriarch watched over the Minghong Saber while the Three Ancient Evil Blades’ saber souls helped it grow stronger, and Ou Jin supplied materials.
• Demon Phoenix swallowed cold flames and celebrated their unusual chill.
• Huang Xiao channeled his heart fire aura through Wei Yidao’s meridians, where it tempered his true qi.
• Wei Yidao sensed his essence-blood aura separating from his true qi and returning to his own essence blood, leaving him more vigorous.

Huang Xiao neutralized the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao, while Ou Jin used the Three Ancient Evil Blades to strengthen the Minghong Saber Soul. The three saber souls fell into slumber for six months to a year, and Huo Lian remained concerned about the Hidden Saber Soul’s hold on the Minghong Saber.

• Wei Yidao said his true qi had weakened slightly but his essence blood had increased, and Huang Xiao confirmed that the Demon Refining Formula had been neutralized.
• Huo Lian promised to teach Wei Yidao a method to refine his true qi, and Wei Yidao sat down to adjust to the change.
• Ou Jin stopped the Three Ancient Evil Blades from lending their power to the Minghong Saber, and their saber souls withdrew.
• Ou Jin told Wang Jiu and the others that the three saber souls needed to slumber for six months to a year and urged them to nurture the sabers with essence blood.
• Ou Jin assured Huang Xiao that the three saber souls had not suffered lasting harm, while Huo Lian warned him not to have weakened the Minghong Saber Soul to protect them.
• Huo Lian worried that the Hidden Saber Soul still had the advantage inside the Minghong Saber because it had occupied the saber’s body for so long.

Ou Jin prepared to fuse the Minghong Saber Soul with a newly tempered Saber Blank, but discovered the soul had been contaminated by supreme demonic qi. Huang Xiao used his heart fire to remove it, leaving the stronger, purer Saber Soul ready to fuse with its new body.

• Ou Jin asked Huang Xiao to release the Minghong Saber Soul, which emerged as a scorching scarlet bird.
• Ou Jin identified the supreme demonic qi mixed into the Saber Soul as a later, useless contamination.
• Huo Lian tried to remove the demonic qi with the Supreme Demonic Art but could not dissolve it.
• Huang Xiao enveloped the Saber Soul in his heart fire and dissolved the contamination, making the Saber Soul stronger.
• Ou Jin extinguished the different flames, took up the Saber Blank, and prepared to guide the Saber Soul into its new body.

Ou Jin began reforging the Minghong Saber by merging its Saber Soul with the soul in a saber blank, then used Different Flames and Huang Xiao’s heart-fire aura to aid the process. The aura would remain as a catalyst after Huang Xiao stopped, and the reforging continued with its success still ahead.

• Ou Jin sent the Minghong Saber Soul into the saber blank, where the two Saber Souls merged without the blank’s soul being erased.
• Ou Jin raised more Different Flames and set the Minghong Saber among them to begin the reforging process.
• Ou Jin gave the Demon Phoenix clumps of Different Flames, and the Demon Phoenix absorbed them.
• Ou Jin asked Huang Xiao to infuse the Different Flames with his heart-fire aura for a day, and confirmed that it helped the Saber Soul merge with the saber blank.
• After a day, Huang Xiao stopped activating his heart fire, while the Demon Phoenix finished absorbing the flames Ou Jin had given him.

Huo Lian sealed Ou Jin, Wei Yidao, and the others on the island before leaving with Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix. After learning that the Demon Hall had split, they headed to the Divine Beast Holy Land so Demon Phoenix could search for his parents.

• Huo Lian trapped Wei Yidao and the others in a formation around the stone chamber, left Ou Jin able to pass through the outer formation, and departed with Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix.
• Huang Xiao and his companions heard that Shi Hen and the other experts had left the Demon Hall after fighting Pang Yi's followers, while Pang Yi threatened to punish them as traitors.
• Demon Phoenix celebrated the Demon Hall's weakened state, but Huo Lian warned that Kui Yong remained a threat.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix they were going to the Divine Beast Holy Land and warned that Demon Phoenix might be trapped there until Kui Yong's seal collapsed.
• Huo Lian led Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix to the Holy Land's weakening seal, and Demon Phoenix resolved to enter and find out whether his parents were alive.

Huo Lian brought Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix into the Divine Beast Holy Land, where the Four Clan Chiefs learned Huang Xiao had become the new Demon Hall Master before leaving the Demon Hall. Demon Phoenix reunited with a Phoenix Clan elder, who examined his unusually powerful Nirvana Flame.

• Huo Lian opened the formation and led Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix into the Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Huo Lian met the Four Clan Chiefs, who recognized Huang Xiao as the former Demon Hall Master and learned he had left the Demon Hall.
• The Third Clan Chief recognized Demon Phoenix as the child his parents had spoken about and assured him they were well.
• The Third Clan Chief asked Demon Phoenix to show his flames, and the clan chiefs were surprised by the strength of his Nirvana Flame.
• The Third Clan Chief suspected Huo Lian had supplied the flames that helped Demon Phoenix grow so powerful, and Huo Lian said his strength came partly from himself and partly from Huang Xiao.

Huo Lian demanded the Supreme Divine Tower after presenting a token containing Xuan Tu’s divine sense, and explained that he wanted the Seven Treasures to help defeat Kui Yong. The First Clan Chief agreed to hand over the tower on the condition that Huo Lian return it if he failed to gather all seven, leaving the other clan chiefs objecting.

• Demon Phoenix asked to see his parents, while the clan chiefs told Huo Lian to visit Zhu Fancheng on his own.
• Huo Lian demanded the Supreme Divine Tower and showed the clan chiefs a scale token from Xuan Tu.
• The First Clan Chief confirmed the token’s authenticity, and the clan chiefs sensed Xuan Tu’s divine sense inside it.
• Huo Lian had Huang Xiao reveal the Supreme Ghost Stele and explained that it could resonate with the Supreme Divine Tower to locate it.
• Huo Lian said he wanted the Seven Treasures to help defeat Kui Yong and promised to return the Supreme Divine Tower if he could not gather them.
• The First Clan Chief agreed to give Huo Lian the tower, but the other three clan chiefs objected.

Huo Lian secured the Supreme Divine Tower from the Divine Beast Clan, while Huang Xiao learned that another human might have entered the Divine Beast Holy Land. Huo Lian planned to question the clan chiefs about the newcomer before pursuing the Soaring Immortal Fruit.

• Huo Lian refused to delay collecting the Supreme Divine Tower, and the First Clan Chief agreed to hand it over.
• The four clan chiefs went to retrieve the tower while Huo Lian and Huang Xiao waited; the Divine Beasts discussed Demon Phoenix and Hong Yi.
• Huang Xiao heard the Divine Beasts mention another human, and Huo Lian doubted anyone else could have entered the Holy Land.
• The clan chiefs summoned Huo Lian and Huang Xiao to a hall, where the First Clan Chief tossed Huo Lian the Supreme Divine Tower.

Huo Lian verified the Supreme Ghost Stele, learned that Xuan Tu had survived, and discussed the threat posed by Kui Yong with the Four Clan Chiefs. After discovering that Hong Yi had entered the Divine Beast Holy Land through the Dragon Burial Ground, Huang Xiao asked to meet him after their return from the Soaring Immortal Land.

• Huo Lian confirmed that Huang Xiao's Supreme Ghost Stele was genuine and told the Four Clan Chiefs that Xuan Tu had escaped Imperial Remnant Manor and was at the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao warned the Four Clan Chiefs that Kui Yong was as powerful as another Immortal Alchemist and would require everyone to join forces.
• Huo Lian asked about other humans in the Divine Beast Holy Land, and the First Clan Chief explained that Hong Yi had arrived there by accident through the Dragon Burial Ground.
• Huang Xiao identified Hong Yi as likely being Baili Zhen's missing disciple and asked to meet him after returning from the Soaring Immortal Land.
• The First Clan Chief agreed to arrange a meeting with Hong Yi, who was currently cultivating.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian visited Zhu Fancheng at the Soaring Immortal Land to learn whether he could break its formation seal. Huo Lian gave Zhu Fancheng at most a year before Kui Yong’s formation dissipated, and Zhu Fancheng began making arrangements in case he failed and was killed.

• Huang Xiao left Demon Phoenix to visit his parents and followed Huo Lian through the guarded route to the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Zhu Fancheng told Huo Lian that the formation seal would soon disappear on its own if he could not break it.
• Huang Xiao told Zhu Fancheng that he had won the Hall Master's Seat and defected from the Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian warned Zhu Fancheng that he would show no mercy if the seal remained unbroken when Kui Yong’s formation dissipated, at most a year later.
• Zhu Fancheng asked Huo Lian to find more Formation Masters, but Huo Lian refused and told him to rely on himself.
• Zhu Fancheng told Huo Lian he had a request to make before his likely death.

Zhu Fancheng persuaded Huo Lian to find him a gifted disciple, and Huang Xiao recommended his wife Zhao Yunhui. Huang Xiao then suggested studying Kui Yong’s formation to help unravel the seal in the Soaring Immortal Land, leaving Zhu Fancheng encouraged but unable to say how much it would help.

• Zhu Fancheng insisted that Huo Lian find him a disciple to inherit his formation knowledge, and Huo Lian agreed.
• Huang Xiao recommended Zhao Yunhui, explaining that she had guided him in formation arts, and Huo Lian agreed to bring her to Zhu Fancheng.
• Huang Xiao suggested that Kui Yong’s formation outside the Divine Beast Holy Land might draw on the formation in the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Zhu Fancheng studied Kui Yong’s formation and found that it clarified several puzzles in his research.
• Zhu Fancheng said the formation could help him unravel the seal, but warned Huo Lian that its usefulness was uncertain.

Zhu Fancheng confirmed that Kui Yong had based his outer formation on the Immortal Alchemist’s formation and believed he might break through it before it failed. As blurry figures appeared in the formation, Qingfeng saw three human shadows from inside the Soaring Immortal Land and worried that people were watching outside.

• Zhu Fancheng tested the formation around the Soaring Immortal Land and confirmed its connection to Kui Yong’s outer formation.
• Huo Lian, Zhu Fancheng, and Huang Xiao saw shifting shadows in the formation, including shapes resembling a plant, a fruit, and a person.
• Qingfeng spoke with the sentient plant and asked it to restrain the fragrance it released, which had been strengthening him.
• Qingfeng noticed three human figures in the mist and wondered whether they were people outside the formation.

Qingfeng began cultivating to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit from the experts seeking it, while Huang Xiao and Huo Lian left Zhu Fancheng and returned to the reception hall. There, Huang Xiao reunited with Hong Yi and revealed that he, like them, came from the Central Plains.

• Qingfeng resolved to strengthen his internal power and began studying the Upper Clarity Scripture to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• The figures outside the formation vanished, and Huang Xiao and Huo Lian prepared to leave Zhu Fancheng.
• Zhu Fancheng hoped Huo Lian would bring Huang Xiao's wife, Zhao Yunhui, so he could assess her talent in formations.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian returned to the reception hall, where Huang Xiao recognized Hong Yi.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian to create a soundproof formation, then told him Hong Yi was Baili Zhen's disciple and came from the Central Plains.

Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that his wives and companions had come from the Central Plains to the Martial World, and Huo Lian agreed to bring Zhao Yunhui into the Divine Beast Holy Land to study formations. They discussed the ancient grand formations and the message at the Minghong Saber’s pool, where Huo Lian revealed he had erased it before; Huang Xiao then asked why.

• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that Zhao Yunhui and his other wives, along with Hong Yi’s wife and Dugu Sheng’s wife, had come to the Martial World from the Central Plains.
• Hong Yi explained how they had been swept into the Martial World, and Huang Xiao described where Dugu Sheng and the women had appeared.
• Huo Lian agreed to take Zhao Yunhui into the Divine Beast Holy Land so she could learn Zhu Fancheng’s formation techniques.
• Huo Lian explained that the Central Plains grand formation and the Dragon Mountain Grand Formation likely resonated because they had been created by the same ancient person.
• Huang Xiao asked about the warning at the Minghong Saber’s pool, and Huo Lian said he had erased it before; Huang Xiao asked why.

Huo Lian explained why he had concealed the way back to the Central Plains and assessed the power Hong Yi could gain from the Dragon Crystal. After Hong Yi revealed his dragon-claw gauntlets, Huo Lian offered to help him absorb the Dragon Crystal as they prepared for the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period.

• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that he had hidden the sentence about returning to the Central Plains so no one else would know it was possible.
• Huo Lian recognized that Hong Yi had not finished absorbing the Dragon Crystal and said it could raise him to the level of someone newly entered into the Void Realm.
• Hong Yi showed Huang Xiao the dragon-claw gauntlets given to him by the First Clan Chief and explained that they complemented his Subduing Dragon Palm.
• Huang Xiao urged Hong Yi to grow stronger for the coming Thousand-Year Period, and Hong Yi said he hoped to qualify to take part.
• Huo Lian pressed his hand onto Hong Yi's head and offered to help him.

Huo Lian helped Hong Yi absorb the Dragon Crystal's aura more quickly, and Huang Xiao prepared to leave the Divine Beast Holy Land to bring Zhao Yunhui there to study formation arts. Demon Phoenix chose to stay with his parents until Kui Yong's formation collapsed, while his father confronted Huo Lian over his past interest in Demon Phoenix.

• Huo Lian used his internal power to help Hong Yi absorb the Dragon Crystal's aura, greatly improving his absorption rate.
• Huo Lian, Huang Xiao, and Hong Yi discussed Dugu Sheng's prospects with the Xuanyuan Sword and the prominence of people from the Central Plains in the Martial World.
• Huang Xiao told Hong Yi he was leaving to bring Zhao Yunhui to study formation arts under Zhu Fancheng.
• Demon Phoenix arrived with his parents and said he would stay until Kui Yong's formation collapsed so he could spend time with them.
• Huang Xiao introduced Hong Yi to Demon Phoenix, who offered to exchange pointers with him.
• Demon Phoenix's father warned Huo Lian not to set his sights on Demon Phoenix, and Huo Lian replied that he probably had no need for him now.