Recaps

Pang Ji had the Five Elements Voidspace Formation placed on his body to help him resist Kui Yong and the Supreme Demon Token, but he secretly killed the five formation masters who created it. He staged their deaths as a fatal backlash during cultivation, leaving his new trump card concealed.

• Pang Ji learned that the formation would last two hours per activation and could be used only three times before failing, then agreed to have it laid.
• The five formation masters used the Five Elements to transfer the formation into Pang Ji, leaving him and themselves exhausted.
• After the five masters left the secret chamber, Pang Ji killed them to keep the formation’s effects secret.
• Pang Ji moved the corpses back to the formation positions and pretended that a cultivation accident had killed the five and injured him.
• The guard summoned people to carry out the corpses, while Pang Ji recovered and planned to claim he needed several days to recuperate.

Pang Yi struggled to calm his mind while learning Kui Yong’s method for strengthening divine sense, and Kui Yong gave him three days to master himself or lose the Hall Master’s Seat. Afterward, Pang Yi went to meet Pang Ji, hoping to ask for advice despite resenting Pang Ji’s attempts to command him.

• Pang Ji worried that Kui Yong’s return to full strength would leave him powerless in the Demon Hall, so he considered relying on the Five Elements Voidspace Formation to protect himself.
• Kui Yong taught Pang Yi a method that could strengthen his divine sense, but Pang Yi failed three times to settle into cultivation because he was excited by the prospect of gaining more from Kui Yong.
• Kui Yong gave Pang Yi three days to calm his mind and warned that he would no longer be Demon Hall Master if he still could not cultivate afterward.
• Pang Yi left the secret chamber, resenting Pang Ji’s demand that he come over, but decided to ask Pang Ji for advice about practicing Kui Yong’s method.

Pang Yi sought Pang Ji’s advice on the Divine Sense-strengthening method Kui Yong had taught him, hoping to master it and secure his position as Demon Hall Master. Pang Ji declined to guide him for now but promised to think it over, while privately suspecting Kui Yong had an ulterior purpose.

• Pang Yi visited Pang Ji in the secret chamber and learned that Pang Ji’s cultivation backlash had killed five Inner Hall Elders.
• Pang Yi described the Divine Sense-strengthening method Kui Yong had taught him and asked Pang Ji for guidance because he could not calm his mind enough to cultivate.
• Pang Ji questioned whether Kui Yong planned to teach Pang Yi further methods and privately wondered why Kui Yong had taught him this one.
• Pang Yi decided Pang Ji was jealous and wanted to control the Demon Hall, and he planned to grow stronger, outlast Kui Yong, and avoid the slumber required of Previous Hall Masters.
• Pang Ji said he could not yet advise Pang Yi and told him to consult Kui Yong, then offered to think it over for a day.
• Pang Yi thanked Pang Ji and left, planning to return the next day.

Pang Ji suspected Kui Yong was cultivating Pang Yi’s divine sense to restore his own strength, and he considered using the opportunity to seize control of the Demon Hall. Searching an ancient book, Pang Ji found two secret arts that could form a dangerous plan, and he settled on a suitable person to carry it out.

• Pang Ji suspected Kui Yong intended to use Pang Yi’s strengthened divine sense to regain his peak strength, and he imagined taking control of the Demon Hall if Kui Yong failed.
• Pang Ji retrieved an ancient book hidden in his secret chamber and returned the fragmentary formation diagram to its missing page.
• Pang Ji read the Divine Sense Binding Method, which could cripple an invading divine sense at the cost of gravely injuring or killing its practitioner.
• Pang Ji found the Self-Administered Empowerment Method, which let a weaker person forcibly seize internal power from a subdued stronger person.
• Pang Ji combined the two secret arts in a bold plan and decided he already had a suitable practitioner in mind.

Pang Ji decided to teach Pang Yi part of a Divine Sense Defense Method while keeping his larger plan concealed. Pang Yi accepted the instruction, though he suspected Pang Ji was still withholding something.

• Pang Ji studied two secret arts and considered how to use them without anyone discovering his plan.
• Pang Yi asked Mo Pozheng about the five Inner Hall Elders who died during Pang Ji's cultivation, and Mo Pozheng suspected Pang Ji had killed them to protect a secret.
• Mo Pozheng dismissed Pang Yi's ambitions to seize the Demon Hall, believing Pang Yi would eventually enter slumber while the Ancestor regained his strength.
• When Pang Yi returned the next day, Pang Ji offered to teach him a Divine Sense Defense Method he had obtained from Ancient Ruins and practiced himself.
• Pang Ji said Pang Yi could learn a portion of the method over two days to strengthen his divine sense before practicing the Ancestor's method.
• Pang Yi agreed eagerly but suspected Pang Ji was still guarding the rest of the method from him.

Pang Ji taught Pang Yi the Divine Sense Binding Method, claiming it was only part of a cultivation method, while secretly giving him the complete art to lower his guard. After Pang Yi mastered it, Pang Ji warned him to keep it secret and gave him a Sound Transmission Jade Slip before sending him to the Ancestor.

• Pang Ji explained that the Divine Sense Binding Method could bind divine sense attacks and warned that using it would injure Pang Yi as well.
• Pang Ji taught Pang Yi the method, concealing that it was complete and intending to pass off other defensive arts as its remaining portion if needed.
• Pang Yi cultivated the method for two days, asking Pang Ji questions and becoming more convinced that Pang Ji's attitude toward him had changed.
• Pang Yi emerged from cultivation having mastered the method, and Pang Ji cautioned him not to use it except in a critical moment or tell the Ancestor about it.
• Pang Ji gave Pang Yi a Sound Transmission Jade Slip and told him to contact him if anything went wrong; Pang Yi declined to test it and left for the Ancestor's place.

Pang Ji went to Kui Yong’s place of seclusion so he could stay close if Pang Yi needed help, while concealing his purpose from Mo Pozheng. Inside, Pang Yi began cultivating his divine sense under Kui Yong’s supervision, as Kui Yong worried that he would not recover his strength before the Soaring Immortal Fruit ripened.

• Pang Ji learned that Pang Yi had entered seclusion with the voice-transmission Jade Slip and went to wait near Kui Yong’s chamber.
• Mo Pozheng questioned Pang Ji about the deaths of five Inner Hall Elders, but Pang Ji gave him no answers and continued on his way.
• Pang Ji confirmed Mo Pozheng was not following him, then told the guards he would wait outside Kui Yong’s chamber.
• Kui Yong noticed Pang Yi’s stronger divine sense and told him to begin cultivating, unaware that Pang Ji’s Divine Sense Binding Method had caused the improvement.
• Pang Yi began cultivating in earnest while Kui Yong realized he needed decades to recover fully, but the Soaring Immortal Fruit was close to ripening.

Kui Yong’s injuries proved far worse than expected, and he planned to use Pang Yi’s growing divine sense to recover while seeking the Longevity Chapter to address the underlying damage. Pang Yi, unaware of Kui Yong’s scheme, continued strengthening his divine sense in hopes of learning methods to defeat Huang Xiao.

• Kui Yong’s coughing revealed that the injuries Huo Lian inflicted had aggravated hidden damage caused by his premature emergence and the Imperishability Chapter.
• Kui Yong concluded that Pang Yi’s divine sense was essential to his recovery and resolved to obtain the Longevity Chapter from Huang Xiao.
• Pang Yi mastered Kui Yong’s cultivation method and grew excited as his divine sense strengthened, thinking of using it to take revenge on Huang Xiao.
• When Pang Yi reported further progress after ten days, Kui Yong told him to continue practicing, claiming his divine sense was still insufficient.
• Kui Yong reassured Pang Yi that he needed to grow stronger and privately estimated that about ten more days would be enough.

Kui Yong revealed that he had strengthened Pang Yi’s divine sense to prepare his body for a possession, then attacked him. Pang Yi died after using Pang Ji’s Divine Sense Binding Method, leaving Kui Yong trapped and forced to wait.

• Kui Yong watched Pang Yi’s divine sense grow for twenty days, then entered his Sea of Consciousness under the pretense of teaching him a secret technique.
• Kui Yong told Pang Yi he had strengthened his divine sense so his body could withstand Kui Yong’s possession.
• Pang Yi realized Kui Yong was trying to erase his divine sense and take over his body, then activated the Divine Sense Binding Method he had learned from Pang Ji.
• The binding stopped Kui Yong, but the method caused Pang Yi’s already injured divine sense to collapse, and Pang Yi cried that Pang Ji had lied to him before dying.
• Kui Yong found that the binding remained even after Pang Yi’s divine sense dispersed, so he chose to wait rather than damage his own divine sense to break it.

Pang Ji entered the secret chamber after Pang Yi sent a plea for help and attacked Kui Yong, revealing that he had prepared a formation and a divine sense trap. He took control of Kui Yong’s body, while Kui Yong’s remaining divine sense stayed trapped inside Pang Yi’s sea of consciousness.

• Pang Yi sent Pang Ji a message saying Kui Yong was trying to erase his divine sense and begging to be saved.
• Pang Ji burst into the secret chamber, killing the two guards at its entrance, and attacked Kui Yong.
• Pang Ji activated the Five Elements Voidspace Formation, preventing Kui Yong from controlling his true qi.
• Pang Ji struck Kui Yong and shattered the divine sense remaining in his body, leaving most of Kui Yong’s divine sense trapped in Pang Yi’s sea of consciousness.
• Pang Ji took control of Kui Yong’s body and preserved its vitality, then prepared to destroy Kui Yong’s trapped divine sense.

Pang Ji tried to kill Kui Yong while he controlled Pang Yi, but Kui Yong escaped by burning Pang Yi’s essence blood. Pang Ji returned to the secret chamber and found Mo Pozheng confronting him about the destroyed entrance and dead guards.

• Pang Ji attacked Pang Yi, but Kui Yong broke free of the Divine Sense binding and was badly wounded while controlling Pang Yi’s body.
• Kui Yong feigned a desperate last stand, then fled the secret chamber at great speed by burning Pang Yi’s essence blood.
• Kui Yong warned Pang Ji that he would return, and Pang Ji stopped pursuing him to protect Kui Yong’s body.
• Pang Ji headed back to the secret chamber and encountered Mo Pozheng, who accused him of disturbing the Ancestor’s cultivation.

Kui Yong blamed Pang Yi for his worsening injuries and ordered the Demon Hall to keep the betrayal secret while he recovered. Mo Pozheng took charge of the hall’s affairs, while Pang Ji was ordered to remain with Kui Yong.

• Pang Ji claimed Pang Yi had attacked Kui Yong and escaped, and Kui Yong confirmed his account to Mo Pozheng.
• Kui Yong revealed that Pang Yi had worsened his injuries and said he would enter seclusion to heal.
• Kui Yong ordered Mo Pozheng to keep Pang Yi’s escape secret and delayed pursuing him until after his recovery.
• Kui Yong assigned Mo Pozheng to manage the Demon Hall and told Pang Ji to stay and assist him.
• Kui Yong privately assured Mo Pozheng of his trust in the Tomb Clan, while Pang Ji’s request to share the hall’s duties was refused.

Pang Ji deceived Mo Pozheng into leaving him alone with Kui Yong, then began using the Self-Administered Empowerment Method to absorb Kui Yong’s immense internal power. The chapter ended as Pang Ji converted Kui Yong’s supreme demonic qi into his own peerless demonic qi.

• Mo Pozheng left Pang Ji in charge of the Demon Hall after believing Kui Yong had appointed him to take temporary command.
• Pang Ji reflected that Mo Pozheng had suspected something was wrong with Kui Yong but had been too loyal to question him.
• Pang Ji decided to exploit Kui Yong’s cooperating body and absorb his internal power before Huo Lian and the others could interfere.
• Pang Ji placed his hands on Kui Yong’s head and dantian and began the Self-Administered Empowerment Method.
• Pang Ji discovered that converting Kui Yong’s supreme demonic qi was difficult but possible, and the qi began transforming into his own peerless demonic qi.

Pang Ji absorbed Kui Yong’s internal power while Mo Pozheng took charge of the Demon Hall, and Kui Yong fled toward Mist Mountain. Huang Xiao and Huo Lian told Ou Jin that Kui Yong had emerged, prompting him to speed up the Minghong Saber’s reforging.

• Pang Ji used the Self-Administered Empowerment Method to absorb Kui Yong’s true qi and planned to spend months making it his own.
• Mo Pozheng assumed control of the Demon Hall, reassigned many Pang Family members, and faced no resistance after Pang Ji ordered them to cooperate.
• Kui Yong fled toward Mist Mountain with a damaged divine sense and a weakened body, intending to return to his true self and reveal a secret.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian returned to Ou Jin’s island, where Huang Xiao checked on the Minghong Saber’s reforging.
• Huang Xiao revealed that Kui Yong had emerged and that Huo Lian had wounded him, so Ou Jin promised to finish reforging the Minghong Saber ahead of time.

Ou Jin warned that the reforged Minghong Saber would be weaker than the Supreme Demon Saber unless its saber soul was strengthened with a Phoenix’s essence blood and divine sense. Huo Lian decided to seek a powerful Phoenix from the Divine Beast Holy Land as a sacrifice and set a six-month deadline for the reforging.

• Ou Jin explained that the Minghong Saber's saber soul was too weak to match the hidden saber soul in the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Ou Jin proposed sacrificing a Phoenix Divine Beast to rapidly strengthen the Minghong Saber's saber soul, and Huang Xiao objected to using Demon Phoenix.
• Huo Lian revealed that he had once considered using Demon Phoenix but now wanted a stronger Phoenix from the Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Huo Lian said he would speak with Xuan Tu and have him persuade one of the Four Clan Chiefs to become the sacrifice.
• Ou Jin said the sacrifice could be carried out after the saber was reforged, and agreed to Huo Lian's six-month deadline.

Huang Xiao struggled to strengthen his cultivation enough to face Kui Yong, using the Blood God Conversion Great Method to improve his divine sense before testing the limits of Heavenly Demon Disintegration. He sought Huo Lian’s advice about advancing the Longevity Chapter, but Huo Lian admitted Huang Xiao understood it better than he did.

• Huang Xiao worried that Kui Yong would threaten the Divine Beast Holy Land again and resolved to protect the Longevity Chapter from him.
• Huang Xiao practiced the Blood God Conversion Great Method for three days, consuming and regenerating his essence blood to strengthen his divine sense.
• After resting, Huang Xiao pushed Heavenly Demon Disintegration beyond its fifth layer, but stopped when his body could not safely withstand more.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian for guidance on the Longevity Chapter, but Huo Lian said Huang Xiao’s understanding surpassed his own.

Huo Lian advised Huang Xiao to find a way to store Heart Fire so he could use stronger Forbidden Arts and endure a prolonged fight with Kui Yong. Inspired by the Longevity Pill, Huang Xiao tried storing Heart Fire in his acupoints, but the aura dissipated from each one.

• Huo Lian suggested that Huang Xiao gather and store Heart Fire like True Qi to increase the power of his Forbidden Arts.
• Huo Lian said storing Heart Fire might mean storing Longevity Qi, which Huang Xiao would need to face Kui Yong in a prolonged battle.
• Huo Lian's mention of the Longevity Pill reminded Huang Xiao of its appearance at Mist Mountain and his earlier efforts to temper his acupoints.
• Huang Xiao tried channeling Heart Fire into his major acupoints and found that it entered them successfully.
• Huang Xiao discovered that the Heart Fire Aura dissipated from each acupoint, even after he tried more than a dozen.

Huang Xiao struggled to understand Senior Immortal Alchemist’s hints and find a way to store more power to fight Kui Yong. He began to suspect that the vortices and heart fire belts described an alchemy technique involving a person as a pill.

• Huang Xiao failed to store heart fire aura in his acupoints and searched for another way to contain it.
• He recalled the vortices and heart fire belts at Mist Mountain, where he had found half a Longevity Pill, and tried to match that scene within his body.
• Huang Xiao converted his heart fire into Longevity True Qi but could store only a small amount in his dantian and meridians.
• After finding no extra capacity in his tempered acupoints, Huang Xiao worried that he had lost his chance to face Kui Yong.
• Huang Xiao realized the hints might describe an alchemy technique and wondered if he could use it to make a miraculous pill from a person.

Huang Xiao used heart fire to refine his body like a pill, transforming Longevity True Qi into vitality throughout his flesh and blood. He confirmed that the process worked and began a second attempt to infuse his body with more true qi.

• Huang Xiao concluded that the Immortal Alchemist’s clues pointed to using heart fire and his major acupoints to refine his body into a Longevity Pill.
• Huang Xiao connected his one hundred and eighty major acupoints with heart fire and unleashed it to temper his entire body.
• Huang Xiao observed Longevity True Qi leaving his meridians and seeping into his flesh and blood as the heart fire continued tempering him.
• Huang Xiao discovered that the true qi had transformed into vitality that could heal injuries without him needing to activate it.
• Huang Xiao finished his first attempt after half his true qi had merged into his body, rested, and then began the process again.

Huang Xiao spent five days using Using a Person as a Pill to temper his body and build vitality, but his progress was limited by the recovery of his essence blood. After Huo Lian cautioned him not to underestimate Kui Yong and suggested Kui Yong might have a method to counter the backlash of the Imperishability Chapter, Huang Xiao reconsidered his confidence.

• Huang Xiao repeatedly tempered his body, converting large amounts of true qi into vitality, but found that his essence blood recovered too slowly to continue without breaks.
• Huang Xiao concluded that his strengthened body and vitality would help him survive most attacks, though he still needed to strengthen his Divine Sense and prepare for Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian visited Huang Xiao and noticed the change in him after five days.
• Huang Xiao explained his method to Huo Lian, who said that only Huang Xiao could use it because he could ignite Heart Fire.
• Huo Lian warned Huang Xiao that the method's early results might diminish and that he should not underestimate Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian said he believed Kui Yong had a method of his own related to the Imperishability Chapter and its astonishing backlash.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian discussed how Huang Xiao could survive the backlash of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and become strong enough to fight Kui Yong. Huo Lian concluded that only the eighth stage offered a chance, and suggested using divine beasts’ essence blood to help Huang Xiao reach it.

• Huo Lian warned Huang Xiao that Kui Yong’s healing and cultivation methods could make him far stronger once his injuries healed.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian agreed that the seventh stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration would not be enough to defeat Kui Yong, while the eighth stage might offer a chance.
• Huo Lian urged Huang Xiao to aim for the ninth stage, though Huang Xiao had only mastered the fifth layer and feared the technique’s deadly backlash.
• Huo Lian suggested using the essence blood of powerful divine beasts to strengthen Huang Xiao, and rejected relying on the blood of countless ordinary people as too impure.

Huo Lian prepared to return to the Divine Beast Holy Land while Huang Xiao stayed behind to train and grow strong enough to earn Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others’ recognition over the Soaring Immortal Fruit. The chapter ended with Huang Xiao continuing to temper himself as Huo Lian departed.

• Huo Lian said he would return alone to the Divine Beast Holy Land, leaving Huang Xiao to continue training and warning that Kui Yong’s next moves remained uncertain.
• Huo Lian planned to secure the Soaring Immortal Fruit for refining the Longevity Chapter and keep Huang Xiao’s condition secret as a trump card against Kui Yong.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to demonstrate enough strength to win Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others’ recognition, and Huang Xiao agreed he could shock them with more training.
• Huo Lian left the next day, easing Wei Yidao, Wang Jiu, and the others’ fear that he would target their Three Evil Blades again.
• Huang Xiao resumed tempering himself through Using a Person as a Pill and wondered whether he could ultimately defeat Kui Yong.

Huang Xiao visited Ou Jin as he reforged the Minghong Saber and realized the different flames around it felt comfortable to him. Suspecting they could help temper his body and conserve essence blood, Huang Xiao drew their auras toward himself and prepared to test the idea.

• Huang Xiao stopped cultivating to relax and watched Ou Jin reforge the Minghong Saber.
• Ou Jin said the Minghong Saber resonated most strongly with Huang Xiao, who agreed that he was best suited to wield it against Kui Yong.
• Huang Xiao felt comfortable near the different flames and suspected his Using a Person as a Pill method had changed how his body responded to them.
• Huang Xiao considered using the flames to temper his body and save essence blood for the Blood God Conversion Great Method.
• Huang Xiao guided the flames' auras toward himself, while Ou Jin watched anxiously and refrained from interrupting.

Huang Xiao discovered that Different Flames could turn his Longevity True Qi into vitality and temper his body. The Minghong Saber Soul then exchanged its scorching aura with Huang Xiao’s Heart Fire, strengthening both the aura and Huang Xiao’s tempering ability, and Ou Jin realized this could speed up reforging the saber.

• Huang Xiao used Different Flames to convert his Longevity True Qi into vitality, though more slowly and weakly than his Heart Fire.
• The Minghong Saber Soul sent a crimson manifestation from the blade and infused its scorching aura into Huang Xiao’s acupoints.
• At the Saber Soul’s prompting, Huang Xiao activated his Heart Fire, and the two auras mingled and strengthened each other before the Saber Soul’s aura returned to the Minghong Saber.
• Ou Jin noticed that the Minghong Saber’s aura had grown stronger, while Huang Xiao found that his Heart Fire tempered his body more effectively afterward.
• Huang Xiao learned that he and the Minghong Saber could repeat the exchange a few times each day, and Ou Jin said it would help him finish reforging the saber sooner.

Huang Xiao asked Ou Jin whether he could absorb the escaping aura of the different flames being used to reforge the Minghong Saber, and Ou Jin agreed when he had enough to spare. Huang Xiao cultivated beside the saber, using the flames to temper his body while strengthening his Divine Sense with the Blood God Conversion Great Method.

• Huang Xiao explained that he had only recently gained insight into his cultivation method, and Ou Jin praised its promise.
• Huang Xiao asked whether absorbing escaping flame aura would hinder the Minghong Saber’s reforging, and Ou Jin said he could use the aura when certain flames were plentiful.
• Ou Jin observed that the Minghong Saber was in better condition and agreed to let Huang Xiao cultivate nearby.
• Huang Xiao began absorbing the escaping aura and planned to alternate between the different flames, his heart fire, and strengthening the Saber Soul Aura.
• Ou Jin reflected that the Minghong Saber, Huang Xiao, and his own forging work would each contribute to a weapon capable of defeating the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Huang Xiao used the different flames to temper his body while practicing the Blood God Conversion Great Method, which strengthened his Divine Sense.