Recaps

Xuan Tu told Huo Lian that his age likely prevented him from fully mastering the Longevity Chapter and awakening Heart Fire, then proposed using Huang Xiao’s healing ability to endure a higher stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration against Kui Yong. The chapter ended with Xuan Tu believing Huang Xiao could withstand the forbidden art’s seventh stage.

• Xuan Tu explained that age and affinity for Different Flames affected whether someone could awaken Heart Fire, and said Huo Lian was too old to master the Longevity Chapter fully.
• Huo Lian admitted he had failed to awaken Heart Fire and was unlikely to do so before Kui Yong recovered his peak strength.
• Xuan Tu proposed a way to fight Kui Yong and confirmed that Huo Lian had taught Huang Xiao the entire Heavenly Demon Disintegration method.
• Huo Lian explained that its sixth stage had nearly killed him, while Huang Xiao had only advanced slightly beyond its fifth layer.
• Xuan Tu argued that Huang Xiao’s stronger Wound Healing and potential mastery of the Longevity Chapter could let him survive the seventh stage.

Xuan Tu argued that Huang Xiao could use the Longevity Chapter and Longevity Pills to survive Kui Yong’s attacks, since the chapter could counter the Imperishability Chapter when both were fully mastered. The group settled on concentrating the pills on Huang Xiao, though Huo Lian recognized that persuading the others would be difficult.

• Huang Xiao told Xuan Tu and Huo Lian that he could not master the Longevity Chapter quickly enough to face Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian admitted that Kui Yong’s power had left him with little hope of defeating him.
• Xuan Tu explained that the Longevity Chapter could counter the Imperishability Chapter and protect Huang Xiao if he advanced far enough.
• Xuan Tu proposed refining the Soaring Immortal Fruit into Longevity Pills and concentrating them on Huang Xiao.
• Xuan Tu said Huang Xiao should use the pills and Longevity Chapter to endure Kui Yong and withstand the later stages of Huo Lian’s Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Huo Lian agreed that the group would have to consider Xuan Tu’s plan, but warned that the others might not accept it easily.

Xuan Tu, Huo Lian, and Huang Xiao discussed how Huang Xiao’s Longevity Chapter could eventually help defeat Kui Yong, then revealed it to the others as the group considered its plans. The chapter left Huang Xiao burdened with the responsibility of becoming strong enough to face Kui Yong.

• Xuan Tu and Huo Lian weighed the risks of telling the others that Huang Xiao possessed the Longevity Chapter, and agreed not to reveal its cultivation method.
• Xuan Tu explained that Huang Xiao could use the Longevity Chapter to grow stronger and wear Kui Yong down, while Huo Lian said obtaining the Soaring Immortal Fruit remained crucial.
• Xuan Tu asked whether the Demon Refining Formula inside Huang Xiao could be neutralized, and Huo Lian assured him it could be handled when the time came.
• After returning, Xuan Tu told the group that Huang Xiao—not Huo Lian—had the best chance of defeating Kui Yong and revealed that Huang Xiao possessed the Longevity Chapter.
• Wu Xuancang and the others realized the Longevity Chapter explained Huang Xiao’s unusually rapid recovery from injuries.

Xuan Tu argued that the group should give Huang Xiao the Soaring Immortal Fruit and Longevity Pills so the Longevity Chapter could help him prepare to face Kui Yong. The others remained hesitant, but Xuan Tu warned that Kui Yong must not obtain the fruit because it could let him unleash the full power of the Imperishability Chapter.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly proposed sharing the Longevity Chapter to improve everyone's chances against Kui Yong, but Xuan Tu said only Huang Xiao could master it because of its age requirements.
• Wu Xuancang asked whether the Soaring Immortal Fruit should go to Huang Xiao, and Xuan Tu argued that divided shares or pills would do little to strengthen the others against Kui Yong.
• Fan Zhuolang questioned whether their sacrifices would simply benefit Huang Xiao, while Xuan Tu insisted that Huang Xiao was their best chance of survival.
• After the group failed to suggest a better plan, Xuan Tu warned that Kui Yong could use Longevity Pills to counter the aftereffects of the Imperishability Chapter and become even more powerful.
• Leng Guhan learned that Kui Yong might not master the Longevity Chapter even if he obtained it, but the Soaring Immortal Fruit could give him tangible benefits once refined into pills.

The group agreed to guard the Soaring Immortal Fruit and prepare for their fight against Kui Yong. Huo Lian and Huang Xiao planned to enter the Ghost Capital with Feng He, while Huo Lian revealed his plans to forge a powerful demon saber; Leng Guhan also agreed to retrieve Seven-Star Dragon Abyss for a suitable wielder.

• Leng Guhan, Wu Xuancang, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Fan Zhuolang, Zuo Qiu Shu, and the others accepted Xuan Tu's proposal and agreed to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Fan Zhuolang stayed to guard the fruit, while Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and Wu Xuancang planned to return after handling other affairs; Huo Lian said he needed time to heal and deal with other matters.
• Huo Lian revealed that he and Huang Xiao planned to take Feng He into the Ghost Capital using the Supreme Ghost Stele and recover the Ghost Spirit Sect's possessions.
• Huo Lian said he was reforging a demon saber using the Ou Family's Saber Blank and claimed he had preparations to address the challenge of creating a powerful saber soul.
• Wu Xuancang proposed that the alliance borrow Seven-Star Dragon Abyss from the Heavenly Sword Sect, and Leng Guhan agreed to retrieve it.
• Xuanyuan Xing claimed he could master Seven-Star Dragon Abyss, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly warned him not to underestimate the divine weapon.

Zhu Fancheng and Zhao Yunhui devised a way to borrow power from the Soaring Immortal Land formation while protecting the Divine Beast Holy Land from Kui Yong. Outside the Holy Land, Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that the Minghong Saber was still far from being reforged.

• The Divine Beasts asked Zhu Fancheng to stop Kui Yong, but Zhu warned that his formations could only delay him and that he would have to abandon work on the Soaring Immortal Land formation.
• Zhao Yunhui suggested using the Soaring Immortal Land formation as a source of power for a defensive formation, and Zhu agreed to try it.
• Zhu asked the Four Clan Chiefs to supply formation materials and support, and they mobilized the Divine Beasts to prepare.
• The Demon Phoenix worried that Kui Yong would target Huang Xiao and seek the Longevity Chapter.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian about the Minghong Saber, and Huo said its reforging was still far from complete and that Ou Jin’s imitation saber had helped him face Kui Yong.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao brought Feng He toward the Ghost Capital, intending to use him to enter while keeping him under control. At the entrance, Huo Lian demanded that Feng He place a strand of Divine Sense in the Supreme Ghost Stele, and Feng He warned that killing him would make their plan impossible.

• Feng He agreed to take Huo Lian and Huang Xiao into the Ghost Capital, though he secretly hoped to escape their control once they arrived.
• Yan Youwang and Fan Liya met the group near the Ghost Spirit Sect, and Feng He left Yan Youwang in charge while Huo Lian allowed Fan Liya to accompany them.
• Feng He said he needed the Supreme Ghost Stele to summon the Ghost Capital, but Huo Lian refused to let him take possession of it and had Huang Xiao produce it.
• Huo Lian ordered Feng He to place a strand of his Divine Sense in the Supreme Ghost Stele so Huang Xiao could control his life and death.
• Feng He angrily resisted and warned that if they pushed him too far and he died, they would lose their chance to enter the Ghost Capital.

Feng He rejected Huo Lian’s attempt to control him and fled into the Ghost Capital, where Huang Xiao and Huo Lian pursued him using the Supreme Ghost Stele. They reached Feng He’s Land of Slumber but found that the stele could not open its stone gate, leaving Huo Lian wondering whether Feng He had another escape route.

• Feng He revealed that he had only pretended to cooperate with Huo Lian and chose to risk neutralizing the poison rather than submit to him.
• Feng He rushed into the Ghost Capital, and Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to use the Supreme Ghost Stele to find the safe route inside.
• Huang Xiao entered the Ghost Capital with Huo Lian, leaving Fan Liya outside, and led them to Feng He’s Land of Slumber.
• Huang Xiao found that the Supreme Ghost Stele could not open the stone gate, while Feng He challenged them from beyond it.
• Huo Lian examined the gate and privately asked Huang Xiao whether Feng He had another way out.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao used the Supreme Ghost Stele to return from the Tomb Chamber and set a trap for Feng He, who tried to escape through a formation. Huo Lian captured Feng He as he emerged, and Huang Xiao arrived moments later.

• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian about the formation that could take them out of the Tomb Chamber, and Huo Lian took the Supreme Ghost Stele to return outside.
• Huo Lian waited by the Main House while Huang Xiao stayed behind and imitated their voices to make Feng He believe they were still trapped behind the Stone Gate.
• Feng He overturned his Stone Coffin, retrieved a book from a hidden recess, and entered the formation to escape while planning to trigger the Ghost Capital's formations behind him.
• Huang Xiao broke through the Stone Gate and rushed into the fading formation after noticing Feng He's overturned Stone Coffin.
• Huo Lian appeared before Feng He as he emerged and struck him down, then Huang Xiao arrived and found Feng He pinned beneath Huo Lian's foot.

Feng He tricked Huang Xiao into lowering his guard, then unleashed a devastating divine sense attack that collapsed Huang Xiao’s divine sense. Huo Lian wounded Feng He too late to save Huang Xiao, while Feng He survived and withdrew his divine sense from Huang Xiao.

• Feng He agreed to place a strand of his divine sense in the Supreme Ghost Stele after Huo Lian sealed his acupoints.
• Huang Xiao detected and crushed Feng He’s strand of divine sense, but Feng He attacked him directly with a powerful divine sense technique.
• Huang Xiao’s divine sense began collapsing despite his efforts to repair it with heart fire, and he fell with his aura fading.
• Huo Lian caught Huang Xiao and realized his divine sense had collapsed, then pierced Feng He’s heart with a blast of finger force.
• Feng He survived the wound and withdrew his divine sense from Huang Xiao, while Huo Lian realized he had acted too late.

Feng He’s Divine Sense attack killed Huang Xiao’s apparent consciousness but failed to overcome Huo Lian, who kept Feng captive in hopes of obtaining his cultivation method. As Huo Lian reached for the Supreme Ghost Stele, he sensed Huang Xiao’s faint Divine Sense and realized he might still be alive.

• Feng He attacked Huo Lian with his powerful Divine Sense, but Huo Lian countered and drove it back.
• Huo Lian questioned Feng He about his unusual cultivation method, and Feng He offered to hand it over after recovering if Huo Lian let him leave.
• Huo Lian kicked Feng He and threatened him, but agreed to let him heal while keeping his acupoints sealed.
• Feng He offered Huo Lian the Supreme Ghost Stele, which Huang Xiao still held.
• Huo Lian sensed a faint trace of Huang Xiao’s Divine Sense and called to him, while Feng He exclaimed that Huang Xiao should be dead.

Huang Xiao survived Feng He's attack with a fragment of his divine sense sheltered in the Supreme Ghost Stele, and the Longevity Chapter began restoring him. Huo Lian kept the Longevity Chapter secret from Feng He, claiming Heavenly Demon Indestructible had preserved Huang Xiao, and waited for Huang Xiao to awaken so Feng He could be questioned.

• Feng He realized Huang Xiao had hidden a fragment of his divine sense inside the Supreme Ghost Stele, while Huo Lian moved Huang Xiao's body out of Feng He's reach.
• Huo Lian observed Huang Xiao's divine sense slowly recovering under the Longevity Chapter and expected him to awaken after several days.
• Feng He guessed Huang Xiao had the Longevity Chapter, but Huo Lian denied it and attributed Huang Xiao's survival to Heavenly Demon Indestructible.
• Huo Lian explained that he had combined his cultivation method with the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art to strengthen divine sense, and Feng He mostly believed him.

Feng He explained to Huo Lian that his Divine Sense Attack Method came from the Blood God Conversion Great Method, which he had adapted into the Blood Exhaustion Method to strengthen his divine sense with absorbed essence blood. Huo Lian realized the method could work with the Longevity Chapter and wondered whether it might let him challenge Kui Yong’s Imperishability Chapter.

• Feng He revealed that using his Divine Sense Attack Method nearly collapsed his divine sense and that he had kept it secret because of its cost and power.
• Feng He said he had found the Blood God Conversion Great Method and used some of its principles to create the Blood Exhaustion Method.
• Feng He explained that the Blood God Conversion Great Method used essence blood to strengthen divine sense, but he could not benefit from its reciprocal effect because the blood he consumed was not his own.
• Huo Lian reasoned that the Longevity Chapter could regenerate essence blood and make the Blood God Conversion Great Method sustainable.
• Huo Lian said he saw the Blood God Conversion Great Method as a potential match for Kui Yong’s Imperishability Chapter, while Feng He believed he had correctly guessed Huo Lian’s motive.

Feng He told Huo Lian that he had found the Blood God Conversion Great Method in the Ancient Battlefield and hinted that he knew its location. He withheld the location until Huo Lian could guarantee his safety, leaving Huo Lian with no useful details yet.

• Feng He explained that his secretive cultivation method let him unleash great Divine Sense power for a brief moment.
• Feng He revealed that he had found a clue to the Ancient Battlefield when he was young and discovered the Blood God Conversion Great Method there.
• Huo Lian asked Feng He where the Ancient Battlefield was, hoping to find an opportunity against Kui Yong.
• Feng He refused to reveal the location until Huo Lian ensured his safety and agreed to suitable terms.
• Huo Lian realized Feng He was using his secrets to protect himself and would be difficult to manipulate.

After Huang Xiao recovered, Huo Lian agreed to let Feng He go in exchange for the secrets he could reveal about the Blood God Conversion Great Method and the Ancient Battlefield. Just as Huo Lian was about to release him, Huang Xiao confronted Feng He about something he had taken from his stone coffin.

• Feng He used his secrets to persuade Huo Lian to spare him, and Huo Lian agreed to wait until Huang Xiao woke before settling the matter.
• Huang Xiao woke three days later, having survived through the combined effects of the Longevity Chapter and Heavenly Demon Indestructible.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao about Feng He's secrets and his demand to leave, and Huang Xiao reluctantly agreed to let him go.
• As Huo Lian prepared to unseal Feng He's acupoints, Huang Xiao stopped him and asked Feng He about the overturned stone coffin and what he had taken from it.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao searched Feng He despite his attempts to protect his secrets, and discovered the Blood-Spirit Conversion Scripture he had used to develop the Blood God Conversion Great Method. Huang Xiao found a passage about converting essence blood into Divine Sense, leaving them to examine the scripture’s secrets.

• Feng He bluffed Huo Lian into backing away from searching his personal possessions by invoking the secrets he held.
• Huang Xiao urged Huo Lian to stop trusting Feng He and kill him if he would not reveal his secrets.
• Huo Lian searched Feng He and found a book, then recognized it as a cultivation manual.
• Huang Xiao identified the book as the Blood-Spirit Conversion Scripture and learned Feng He’s Blood God Conversion Great Method came from it.
• Huang Xiao found a passage about converting one's own essence blood into Divine Sense, and Huo Lian recognized it as the method’s known effect.

Huang Xiao questioned Feng He about how the Blood-Spirit Conversion Scripture turned essence blood into Divine Sense, then decided to test the process using Feng He’s essence blood. Feng He believed Huang Xiao intended to control him, but Huang Xiao denied it and left his true purpose unclear.

• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that he and Huang Xiao could practice the Blood God Conversion Great Method because the Longevity Chapter could replenish their essence blood.
• Huang Xiao asked Feng He whether converted essence blood became the donor’s Divine Sense before being absorbed, and Feng He explained that he used the resulting Divine Sense to strengthen his own.
• Huo Lian pressured Feng He to answer by warning that the secret of the Ancient Battlefield might not be valuable to them.
• Huang Xiao said he wanted to try the conversion using the essence blood in Feng He’s body.
• Feng He accused Huang Xiao of planning to use the converted Divine Sense to control him through the Supreme Ghost Stele, but Huang Xiao denied that was his intention.

Huang Xiao tested whether Feng He's essence blood could be converted into Divine Sense and succeeded after two attempts. He forced the resulting unfamiliar strand of Divine Sense out of his body, while Huo Lian sensed that the experiment had worked.

• Huang Xiao asked Feng He to provide essence blood so he could test the Blood God Conversion Great Method, and Feng He agreed to give him a few drops.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian practiced the method for two days, with Huo Lian sharing his insights.
• Huang Xiao failed to convert the first drop of Feng He's essence blood when his True Qi lost its rhythm.
• Huang Xiao converted a second drop into a strand of Divine Sense that did not belong to Feng He.
• Huang Xiao forced the unfamiliar Divine Sense out of his body, and Huo Lian recognized that he had succeeded.

Huang Xiao tested whether divine sense converted from essence blood could control someone through the Supreme Ghost Stele. The test worked on a Ghost Spirit Sect disciple, leaving Feng He and his remaining followers in greater danger.

• Huang Xiao explained to Huo Lian that he needed to confirm whether converted divine sense could control someone through the Supreme Ghost Stele, while Feng He mistakenly thought he was the target.
• Huo Lian suggested testing the method on someone brought in by Fan Liya, and Feng He protested when he feared Fan Liya would be harmed.
• Huang Xiao ordered Fan Liya to find a Ghost Spirit Sect disciple who had killed many people, and Fan Liya returned half an hour later with one.
• Huang Xiao drained the disciple's essence blood, converted it into divine sense, and placed it in the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• The disciple collapsed after suffering a burst of pain, and Huo Lian concluded that the converted divine sense could control a person's life and death.

Huang Xiao revealed that he had secretly refined a drop of Kui Yong’s essence blood and hoped to convert it into Divine Sense to use against him through the Supreme Ghost Stele. Huo Lian warned that the plan was too risky and unlikely to work with only one drop, so Huang Xiao agreed to wait until he had mastered the Blood God Conversion Great Method.

• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian set aside further study of the Blood God Conversion Great Method until they left the Ghost Capital.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian to speak privately while Feng He remained immobilized and wondered how they would deal with him.
• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that he had refined roughly one drop of Kui Yong’s essence blood after Kui Yong teleported him out.
• Huang Xiao explained that he wanted to convert the drop into Divine Sense and place it in the Supreme Ghost Stele to try to defeat Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian cautioned that Kui Yong might resist the Supreme Ghost Stele and that Huang Xiao had only one chance to convert the rare essence blood.
• Huang Xiao agreed to wait until he had mastered the cultivation method, though Huo Lian doubted one drop would be enough to defeat Kui Yong.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao decided to conceal the Supreme Ghost Stele’s secrets, even if that meant killing Feng He, Fan Liya, and leaving the sleeping Ghost Spirit Sect experts undisturbed. Facing death, Feng He revealed that the Ancient Battlefield held another powerful aura that had been drawn into the Supreme Ghost Stele.

• Huo Lian warned Huang Xiao that converting Kui Yong’s essence blood into Divine Sense might affect Kui Yong, and they agreed to keep the method secret until the final battle.
• Huo Lian decided Feng He had to die to prevent him from revealing the Blood God Conversion Great Method, and he chose not to awaken the experts in the burial chambers.
• Huang Xiao realized Fan Liya also knew too much, and Huo Lian ordered him killed despite the loss of an ally.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao confronted Feng He and demanded the Ancient Battlefield’s location, while concealing that they had already decided to kill him.
• Feng He claimed the Ancient Battlefield contained another powerful aura connected to his Ghost Dao, which had been drawn into the Supreme Ghost Stele.

Feng He claimed that an aura he encountered in the Ancient Battlefield had awakened the Supreme Ghost Stele’s power, persuading Huo Lian and Huang Xiao that the other Supreme Treasures might also be awakened there. The chapter revealed that Feng He had deceived them: the Stele had absorbed the aura from a fingernail-sized Mysterious Crystal, and he doubted they would find another.

• Feng He offered to prove that the Ancient Battlefield had changed the Supreme Ghost Stele, but admitted Huo Lian and Huang Xiao could not sense the vanished aura.
• Feng He argued that the Supreme Treasures might hide powerful abilities that could be awakened by corresponding auras in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Feng He urged Huo Lian to take the Supreme Divine Tower there, suggesting its power could help their side face Kui Yong.
• Huang Xiao found Feng He's explanation credible and looked to Huo Lian as they considered the possibility of awakening their Supreme Treasures.
• Feng He privately revealed that he had found a fingernail-sized Mysterious Crystal, whose aura the Supreme Ghost Stele absorbed, and that he had lied about sensing an aura directly.

Huo Lian killed Feng He rather than pursue the uncertain treasures of the Ancient Battlefield, urging Huang Xiao to focus on the methods they already had to face Kui Yong. After they left the Ghost Capital, Huang Xiao destroyed Fan Liya’s divine sense through the Supreme Ghost Stele, killing him without warning.

• Feng He tried to persuade Huo Lian to let him go by offering more secrets and a chance to learn about the Ancient Battlefield.
• Huo Lian drew his Imitation Saber, killed Feng He, and reduced his corpse to dust with Palm Force.
• Huang Xiao regretted losing their lead to the Ancient Battlefield, but Huo Lian told him to focus on the Blood God Conversion Great Method, Kui Yong’s essence blood, the Longevity Chapter, and Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao decided not to search Feng He’s tomb chamber and left the Ghost Capital.
• Huo Lian signaled Huang Xiao, who destroyed Fan Liya’s divine sense through the Supreme Ghost Stele, killing him with its mysterious aura.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao tested a method that killed Fan Liya and planned to use it against Kui Yong after Huang Xiao cultivated in seclusion. At the Demon Hall, Pang Ji summoned Formation Masters to pursue greater strength, while Mo Pozheng watched him closely.

• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao saw Fan Liya die almost instantly and concluded their method might badly injure Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian persuaded Huang Xiao to go to Ou Jin's place to cultivate, assuring him that Kui Yong would need months to recover.
• Pang Yi and the other Demon Hall leaders returned and gathered the disciples, who expected the Thousand-Year Period to begin soon.
• Pang Ji brooded over Huo Lian's strength and Kui Yong's return, then summoned several Formation Masters to his Cultivation Chamber.
• Mo Pozheng learned of Pang Ji's meeting and continued watching him, suspecting he planned a dangerous cultivation method.

Pang Ji ordered five Inner Hall Elders to devise a Five Elements Voidspace Formation that could isolate both cultivation-method auras and divine sense, hoping to escape Kui Yong’s control. After a day of study, the Elders prepared to set it up, estimating that it could block divine sense for up to two hours depending on the opponent’s strength.

• Pang Ji learned that Kui Yong had summoned Pang Yi after nearly half a month in seclusion recovering from his injuries.
• Pang Ji summoned five Inner Hall Elders and tasked them with creating a body-worn formation that could isolate cultivation auras and divine sense.
• The Elders warned that blocking divine sense was dangerous and difficult, so Pang Ji gave them an incomplete formation diagram as a reference.
• Pang Ji revealed that he planned to use the Five Elements Voidspace Formation to resist Kui Yong’s control through the Demon Refining Formula and ordered the Elders to finish their research in one day.
• The five Elders devised a method and gathered the required materials, estimating that the formation could block divine sense for up to two hours depending on the opponent’s strength.