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Huang Xiao’s strengthened essence blood accelerated his cultivation, while Mo Pozheng waited for news from the secluded chamber and sought an audience with the Ancestor. Inside, Pang Ji continued absorbing Kui Yong’s internal power and realized how much stronger Huo Lian was than he had once understood.

• Huang Xiao assessed that the strengthened essence blood might let him reach the Sixth Stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration in about a month.
• Mo Pozheng continued reshuffling the Demon Hall and wondered why the Ancestor and Pang Ji had remained in seclusion for over half a month.
• After learning Huo Lian had returned to the Divine Beast Holy Land and Huang Xiao was missing, Mo Pozheng decided to seek the Ancestor’s instructions about preparing for possible trouble.
• Mo Pozheng went to the sealed chamber, dismissed the guards, and called out that he requested an audience on a matter.
• Pang Ji reflected that he had converted about thirty percent of Kui Yong’s internal power and believed absorbing it all could make him the Number One Under Heaven.

Pang Ji continued converting Kui Yong’s internal power and impersonated him when Mo Pozheng came to report on Huo Lian’s movements. After Mo Pozheng left, he sensed traces of Pang Ji’s greatly strengthened aura inside the secret chamber.

• Pang Ji grew dizzy from overtaxing his mind but kept pressing on to absorb Kui Yong’s internal power.
• Pang Ji answered Mo Pozheng through Kui Yong’s body, disguising his altered voice as a sign of injury.
• Mo Pozheng reported that Huo Lian and others were guarding the Divine Beast Holy Land and that Huo Lian had returned there alone.
• Pang Ji told Mo Pozheng to trust his reinforced formation and hold position rather than pursue Huo Lian.
• As Mo Pozheng withdrew, he sensed Pang Ji’s powerful aura inside the secret chamber.

Mo Pozheng grew suspicious that Pang Ji had harmed or subdued Kui Yong, and returned to test the voice coming from the secret chamber. After Pang Ji, impersonating Kui Yong, demanded the Supreme Demon Token, Mo Pozheng decided to use the token to test his suspicions.

• Mo Pozheng noticed the contrast between Kui Yong's weak aura and Pang Ji's powerful one, and recalled that the voice from the chamber had sounded like Pang Ji's.
• Mo Pozheng returned to the chamber and asked Kui Yong for permission to go to the Divine Beast Holy Land to watch Huo Lian.
• Pang Ji, controlling Kui Yong's body, agreed and warned Mo Pozheng not to act rashly against Huo Lian.
• Pang Ji asked Mo Pozheng to leave the Supreme Demon Token behind, deepening Mo Pozheng's suspicions.
• Mo Pozheng considered whether Pang Ji had subdued Kui Yong and decided to use the Supreme Demon Token to test what was happening.

Pang Ji tried to take the Supreme Demon Token from Mo Pozheng while concealing that he had taken control of Kui Yong. Mo Pozheng tested the token, discovered Pang Ji could resist its suppression, and fled after losing their fight, while Pang Ji chose to pursue his own strength instead of chasing him.

• Pang Ji persuaded Mo Pozheng to hand over the Supreme Demon Token and used Kui Yong's voice to explain why he was retrieving it.
• Mo Pozheng struck the blocked secret-chamber entrance to deliver the token, but Pang Ji stopped him from entering.
• Mo Pozheng activated the Supreme Demon Token and realized Pang Ji had escaped its suppression, then rushed into the chamber and saw Pang Ji controlling Kui Yong.
• Pang Ji seized the Supreme Demon Token and struck Mo Pozheng, sending him flying before Mo Pozheng escaped.
• Pang Ji considered pursuing Mo Pozheng but decided to focus on strengthening himself, believing his strike had badly injured him.

Pang Ji concealed his control of the Ancestor and continued cultivating in secret while the Demon Hall assumed Mo Pozheng had been punished for opposing the Pang Family. Badly injured and unable to return, Mo Pozheng decided to seek Huo Lian, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Wu Xuancang and their allies to help rescue the Ancestor before Pang Ji's power reached its peak.

• Pang Ji took Kui Yong's body to his secret chamber, claimed he and Pang Yi had moved into seclusion, and hid the truth about the Ancestor.
• Demon Hall disciples speculated about Mo Pozheng's disappearance, while Pang Family members claimed he had been punished for opposing their family.
• Mo Pozheng escaped Pang Ji, rested for two hours, and realized his injuries would take months to heal.
• Mo Pozheng concluded that Pang Ji had stolen the Ancestor's internal power and that the Ancestor would die if Pang Ji drained it all.
• Mo Pozheng rejected seeking the Former Hall Masters and decided to ask Huo Lian, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Wu Xuancang and the others to help rescue the Ancestor.

Mo Pozheng sought Huo Lian’s help to save the Ancestor, while Huo Lian persuaded the others to use divine beasts and prepare Huang Xiao to face Kui Yong. The chapter ended with the gravely wounded Mo Pozheng arriving at the Divine Beast Holy Land.

• Mo Pozheng decided to find Huo Lian and the others, hoping to save the Ancestor and take revenge on Pang Ji.
• Huo Lian proposed giving Huang Xiao their shares of the Soaring Immortal Fruit and using divine beasts from the Divine Beast Holy Land to help defeat Kui Yong.
• Xuan Tu agreed to handle the divine beasts’ involvement, while Huo Lian promised Huang Xiao would become strong enough to satisfy the others in a few months.
• Huo Lian left to focus on forging the saber, then heard someone approach and recognized Mo Pozheng, who appeared gravely wounded.

Mo Pozheng arrived before Huo Lian and the others, badly injured, and revealed that Kui Yong was near death after Pang Ji ambushed him and began stealing his power. He urged them to use the brief window before Pang Ji seized all of Kui Yong’s cultivation, leaving them to consider his account and the chance to eliminate Pang Ji.

• Huo Lian and the others questioned Mo Pozheng’s sudden appearance, and he said he had come because he cherished his life and had both good and bad news.
• Mo Pozheng revealed that Kui Yong was on the verge of death, and Huo Lian and the others began to believe him after considering his condition and Kui Yong’s injuries.
• Mo Pozheng explained that Pang Ji had ambushed Kui Yong while he was recovering and was using a special method to seize his internal power, which had already greatly increased Pang Ji’s strength.
• Mo Pozheng told them Pang Yi had also defected from the Demon Hall and suggested the escape might have been connected to Pang Ji’s plot against Kui Yong.
• After Mo Pozheng recounted what he knew, he said Pang Ji still needed time to seize Kui Yong’s cultivation method completely, giving Huo Lian and the others an opportunity to kill him.

Mo Pozheng asked Huo Lian and the others to help rescue Kui Yong and stop Pang Ji, offering his knowledge of the Demon Hall’s formations. The group doubted him but privately leaned toward believing his account, leaving their decision pending.

• Mo Pozheng told Fan Zhuolang, Zuo Qiu Shu, Huo Lian, Xuan Tu, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly that Pang Ji had crippled Kui Yong and threatened them all, and offered to guide them into the Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian challenged Mo Pozheng to die as proof of his sincerity, but Mo Pozheng refused and explained that his knowledge of the Demon Hall’s changed formations made him valuable.
• Xuan Tu concealed the group while they discussed whether to trust Mo Pozheng, and Mo Pozheng sat down to recover from his worsening injuries.
• Fan Zhuolang supported believing Mo Pozheng, while Zuo Qiu Shu, Huo Lian, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly warned that they had no proof.
• Xuan Tu and the others reasoned that Pang Ji’s ambition made Mo Pozheng’s account plausible, and the group privately leaned toward believing him.

Huo Lian and the others agreed to attack the Demon Hall and eliminate Pang Ji before he could absorb more of Kui Yong’s internal power. They set out quickly, leaving Xuanyuan Xing, Li Bai, and Shi Hen to follow, while Leng Guhan and Wu Xuancang were to meet them near the Demon Hall.

• Huo Lian and the others decided to contact Wu Xuancang and plan an assault on the Demon Hall, with their main target being Pang Ji.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly argued that Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu should stay behind, but they insisted on joining the mission.
• The group chose Xuanyuan Xing, Li Bai, and Shi Hen to remain at the Divine Beast Holy Land, and agreed to add Leng Guhan to the attacking party.
• Huo Lian and the others told Mo Pozheng they intended to kill Kui Yong and accepted his gamble that he might still rescue the Patriarch.
• Huo Lian’s party set out for the Demon Hall, while Wu Xuancang and Leng Guhan were to meet them nearby.
• The eight experts reached the vicinity of the Demon Hall without being detected by its guards.

Huo Lian told Wu Xuancang and Leng Guhan that the allies planned to attack the Demon Hall, explaining that the situation had changed and revealing Mo Pozheng as their guide. After the group agreed to act together, Mo Pozheng led them toward the Demon Hall’s defenses.

• Huo Lian waited outside the Demon Hall with his allies until Leng Guhan and then Wu Xuancang arrived.
• Huo Lian revealed that the group planned to attack the Demon Hall, and Wu Xuancang warned that Kui Yong might still be too strong to defeat.
• Huo Lian explained the changed situation, and Xuan Tu revealed Mo Pozheng, who had been concealed nearby.
• Wu Xuancang agreed to the attack after seeing Mo Pozheng, while Leng Guhan said he had long wanted to storm the Demon Hall.
• Xuan Tu urged the group to hurry because Pang Ji’s strength might have increased, and Mo Pozheng led them toward the Demon Hall.

Huo Lian told the others he had taken Feng He’s belongings and obtained a dangerous cultivation method, while concealing how much they knew about it. The group reached Pang Ji’s former seclusion chamber and found it empty, so they planned to capture a Demon Hall Elder and learn where Pang Ji had gone.

• Wu Xuancang asked Huo Lian what he had done with Feng He, and Huo Lian said he and Huang Xiao had killed him after taking his belongings in the Ghost Capital.
• Huo Lian said Feng He’s belongings included a dangerous cultivation method that he might use against Kui Yong, though he probably could not prepare it in time to face Pang Ji.
• Huo Lian kept Huang Xiao’s role in the method’s potential use secret from Mo Pozheng and remained wary that Kui Yong might have another trick.
• Mo Pozheng led the group to Pang Ji’s former seclusion chamber, but they found it empty and realized Pang Ji had moved elsewhere.
• Mo Pozheng explained that Demon Hall members should know Pang Ji’s location, and Huo Lian agreed that they should seize an Elder and question them.

Pang Ji rapidly absorbed Kui Yong’s internal power but grew uneasy before Huo Lian and his allies infiltrated the Demon Hall. He faced the group outside his secret chamber, and Huo Lian ordered everyone to attack together after witnessing Pang Ji’s overwhelming power.

• Pang Ji realized he had converted half of Kui Yong’s remaining internal power in ten days and expected to finish absorbing the rest within two.
• Pang Ji felt an unexplained sense of danger but dismissed the possibility that Huo Lian’s group could reach him inside the Demon Hall.
• Pang Ji discovered that the guards outside his secret chamber were gone and rushed out to find Huo Lian and seven others waiting.
• Mo Pozheng demanded that Pang Ji release Kui Yong, while Huo Lian asked to see Kui Yong’s condition.
• Pang Ji claimed that Kui Yong was already dead and warned the group against challenging him inside the Demon Hall.
• Pang Ji’s laughter made the gathered masters uncomfortable, and Huo Lian ordered everyone to attack together.

Pang Ji emerged from the secret chamber carrying the weakened Kui Yong after repelling Huo Lian and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly. Surrounded by their allies, Pang Ji faced their attempt to stop him before he could escape into the Demon Hall’s formations.

• Huo Lian and the others pursued Pang Ji into the secret chamber, where Huo Lian saw Kui Yong reduced to a frail, nearly unconscious state.
• Pang Ji released Kui Yong to fight Huo Lian and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly with both palms, sending them flying backward.
• Pang Ji grabbed Kui Yong and charged out of the chamber, where Wu Xuancang and the others blocked his escape.
• Mo Pozheng cried out at the sight of Kui Yong, while Xuan Tu urged everyone to defeat Pang Ji before he could reach the Demon Hall’s formations.
• Pang Ji regretted leaving the Supreme Demon Saber behind and dismissed Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly’s threat.
• Wu Xuancang and Fan Zhuolang argued that Pang Ji’s borrowed power and Kui Yong’s survival gave them their best chance to defeat him.

Pang Ji tried to escape with Kui Yong while absorbing the Ancestor’s internal power, but Huo Lian and the others blocked him. After a fierce fight, Pang Ji was driven back to the entrance of the secret chamber.

• Mo Pozheng cursed Pang Ji for ambushing Kui Yong and ruining his hopes for the Demon Hall.
• Pang Ji began absorbing Kui Yong’s true qi, and Huo Lian warned the others to stop him.
• Pang Ji leaped into the air with Kui Yong and tried to break through the group, but they forced him back and attacked in succession.
• Pang Ji sent Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu flying, while Leng Guhan’s sword strikes forced him to dodge.
• Xuan Tu and Wu Xuancang joined forces to drive Pang Ji back to the entrance of the secret chamber.

Pang Ji abandoned Kui Yong’s remaining internal power and escaped after shattering Kui Yong’s Dantian, while Mo Pozheng seized the corpse and fled. Huo Lian pursued Mo Pozheng, but Mo vanished into the Demon Hall’s formations after losing an arm to Huo Lian’s saber.

• Pang Ji shattered Kui Yong’s Dantian, broke through the blockade, and escaped after injuring Leng Guhan, Zuo Qiu Shu, and Fan Zhuolang.
• Mo Pozheng seized Kui Yong’s corpse and fled using a secret art, prompting Huo Lian and Wu Xuancang to chase him.
• Huo Lian caught up with Mo Pozheng, but Mo Pozheng used his knowledge of the Demon Hall to evade him.
• Huo Lian struck Mo Pozheng with a saber, severing one of his arms before Mo Pozheng vanished from sight.
• Huo Lian rushed over and seized Mo Pozheng’s severed arm.

Huo Lian and the other six escaped the Demon Hall after Mo Pozheng and Pang Ji got away, leaving them uncertain whether their mission had been a success. They stopped a hundred li from the Demon Hall and debated Kui Yong’s fate and the value of his severed arm.

• Huo Lian told Wu Xuancang that Mo Pozheng had escaped, and warned the others to withdraw before Pang Ji activated the Grand Formation.
• Huo Lian, Wu Xuancang, Xuan Tu, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Zuo Qiu Shu, and Fan Zhuolang fled the Main Hall as its formations activated.
• The seven reached safety and called the outcome a partial success, noting that Pang Ji had inherited most of Kui Yong’s internal power but remained a threat if they were separated.
• Huo Lian and Xuan Tu argued that Kui Yong was probably dead or permanently crippled, while Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said the explanation eased her worries.
• The group questioned Huo Lian about keeping Kui Yong’s severed arm and its essence blood, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly offered ice crystals to preserve it.

Huo Lian and the others destroyed the God-Burying Hall to obtain profound ice for preserving Kui Yong’s severed arm, then brought the arm back for Huang Xiao to use against Pang Ji. Huang Xiao learned that Pang Ji had become their final opponent, and the chapter ended as he recognized the clothes in Huo Lian’s box as possibly Kui Yong’s.

• Leng Guhan proposed taking profound ice from the nearby God-Burying Hall, and Huo Lian agreed to destroy it along the way.
• Huo Lian found thousand-year profound ice, preserved Kui Yong’s severed arm inside it, and refused to divide the arm because its remaining essence blood might help defeat Pang Ji.
• Huo Lian asked the others to track Mo Pozheng and Pang Yi and returned to Huang Xiao with the preserved arm.
• Huang Xiao learned that Kui Yong was dead or crippled and discussed how Pang Ji’s rise and defections had weakened the Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian opened the box he had brought, and Huang Xiao suspected the clothes inside had belonged to Kui Yong.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian tried to use the essence blood in Kui Yong's severed arm to strengthen Huang Xiao's Divine Sense and discover Kui Yong's secrets. The blood proved much weaker and different from the drop Huang Xiao already possessed, leaving them uncertain about whose essence blood it was.

• Huo Lian showed Huang Xiao Kui Yong's severed arm and asked him to use its essence blood to seek memories and preserve a strand of Divine Sense in the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to use the arm's essence blood before the drop he already carried, since the arm's blood might not remain preserved.
• Huang Xiao found little essence blood in the arm and sensed that it was far weaker and different from the drop inside him.
• Huo Lian realized the mismatch meant either their understanding was wrong or the blood Huang Xiao already had did not come from Kui Yong.
• Huang Xiao converted a drop from the severed arm into Divine Sense and placed it in the Supreme Ghost Stele, but saw no memories.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian investigated a severed arm and concluded that Kui Yong might be a divine beast who had taken over someone else’s body. They feared their plan had targeted only Kui Yong’s weakened shell and decided they needed to verify their suspicions with Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others.

• Huang Xiao sensed fragmented memories in the severed arm and found traces of both Kui Yong’s memories and another person’s.
• Huang Xiao compared the arm’s essence-blood aura with the powerful essence blood beneath the power-enhancement site and questioned whether Kui Yong was human.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian considered how Kui Yong could have fooled Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others, then proposed that the real Kui Yong had seized another person’s body.
• Huo Lian concluded that the dead Kui Yong may have been only a shell and said they needed to consult Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian realized their plan had targeted a weakened body and feared the real Kui Yong was far stronger than they had imagined.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian discussed the danger posed by Kui Yong’s surviving true body and planned to strengthen Huang Xiao before the Soaring Immortal Fruit ripened. Huo Lian left to seek allies and search for Kui Yong’s hidden resting place, while Huang Xiao prepared to train toward the seventh stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration.

• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that the severed arm’s scant essence blood had revealed little, and Huo Lian warned him to handle Kui Yong’s essence blood cautiously.
• Huo Lian urged Huang Xiao to train in Heavenly Demon Indestructible, and Huang Xiao said he would avoid using Kui Yong’s Supreme Demonic Art against him.
• Huang Xiao asked whether Pang Ji could join them against Kui Yong, but Huo Lian said Pang Ji would not believe them and suggested Pang Ji had broken free of the Demon Refining Formula.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to demonstrate his strength to Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others before the Soaring Immortal Fruit ripened, and Huang Xiao agreed to aim for the seventh stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Huo Lian said he would visit Xuan Tu, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, and the others and search for the place where Kui Yong’s true body was slumbering.

Huo Lian gathered Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others to discuss whether Kui Yong had been a body snatcher ten thousand years ago. Xuan Tu explained that both accounts could be true: Kui Yong had already been using a stolen body then, while his true body had survived from the Ancient War in slumber.

• Huang Xiao believed finding Kui Yong's Land of Slumber could weaken him, while Huo Lian left to seek clues from Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others.
• Huo Lian summoned Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Xuan Tu, Zuo Qiu Shu, Fan Zhuolang, Wu Xuancang, and the others, then asked whether they had sensed a divine beast's aura on Kui Yong ten thousand years ago.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, Zuo Qiu Shu, and Fan Zhuolang insisted the Kui Yong they had fought was the real man, while Huo Lian said Huang Xiao had confirmed that the current Kui Yong occupied a human body.
• Xuan Tu recalled Huang Xiao's Memory Images showing that Kui Yong had lived since the Ancient War and suggested his divine beast nature could have let him survive through slumber.
• Xuan Tu proposed that Kui Yong had already snatched a body before the group met him ten thousand years ago, and Huo Lian and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly connected this to Kui Yong's recovered memories and sudden rise in strength.

Huo Lian gathered the others to discuss Kui Yong’s hidden true body and search for its Land of Slumber, but they found no direct clues. Xuan Tu proposed investigating the Tomb Clan, and the group set out for the Land of Slumber of the Hall Masters of Every Generation.

• Fan Zhuolang and the others concluded that the Kui Yong they had known had taken over another body, and they discussed whether his true body might be stronger or still injured.
• Huo Lian explained that Kui Yong’s Thousand-Year Period and the Hall Masters’ essence blood had likely helped him recover from his injuries.
• Huo Lian said the Demon Hall’s Main Hall contained a formation leading to Kui Yong’s Land of Slumber, but Pang Ji’s Grand Formation prevented them from entering.
• After failing to recall any clues about Kui Yong’s hiding place, Xuan Tu suggested investigating the Tomb Clan and the Land of Slumber of the Hall Masters of Every Generation.
• Fan Zhuolang said the Tomb Clan’s site might be accessible, and Zuo Qiu Shu led the group in agreeing to set out there.

Huo Lian led six others to the Tomb Clan’s territory on Mist Mountain and used a weak point in Kui Yong’s formation to enter. They arrived safely, though Huo Lian admitted he did not know the way out and relied on the Demon Hall Thousand-Year Period to make escape possible.

• Huo Lian explained that he had helped Mo Pozheng escape the Land of Slumber early to keep Pang Ji in check and support Huang Xiao’s bid for Hall Master.
• Huo Lian led the group to the pool on Mist Mountain, where he found that the formation’s weak point remained but Supreme Demonic Qi no longer leaked out.
• Huo Lian assigned the seven people positions and had them strike the pool’s bottom simultaneously, causing the formation to ripple and shudder.
• Huo Lian jumped through the ripples, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and the others followed him into a lit stone chamber in the Tomb Clan Territory.
• Huo Lian admitted that he did not know how to leave, but said the Demon Hall Thousand-Year Period gave him confidence they could get out.

Huo Lian explained that the stone doors stood at the core of the Land of Slumber and that their seal was still linked to Kui Yong. The group studied the doors for clues to Kui Yong’s true body, but Huo Lian could not yet discern anything from the formation alone.

• Huo Lian told the group that the stone doors were the Tomb Clan’s controlled exit from the Land of Slumber, despite being in its core area.
• Huo Lian explained that the seal on the doors was linked to Kui Yong and might reveal the direction of his location.
• The group debated whether that direction would point to Kui Yong’s true body or to the body he had seized, then agreed to study the doors.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly mocked Zuo Qiu Shu, and Wu Xuancang intervened to keep the group focused.
• After nearly an hour of examining the formation, Huo Lian said he could not discern any clues from the doors alone and asked whether anyone else had found anything.

Huo Lian led the group to the chamber where the former Demon Hall Masters had been frozen, hoping to find clues to Kui Yong’s true body. Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly discovered that captive divine beasts had supplied the essence blood for a power-restoring formation and considered using it to strengthen herself, while Huo Lian warned that Kui Yong might sense their presence.

• Huo Lian opened the secret chamber with the Supreme Demonic Art, and the group found shattered ice where the former Hall Masters had slumbered.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly examined the formation and realized divine beasts had supplied the essence blood used to restore the Hall Masters’ power.
• Xuan Tu condemned the Imperial Remnant Manor for providing divine beasts, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly defended the sacrifice as necessary to repair the Xuanyuan Sword and oppose Kui Yong.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said she might use the formation’s method to increase her strength, and Xuan Tu protested that more divine beasts could die.
• Huo Lian supported gaining strength from the discovery, then warned that Kui Yong might sense the group had entered the chamber.