Recaps

Huo Lian brought Fan Tianhui and the three elders of the Three Great Families to his village in Qing Province, seeking the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art and clues connected to Inugami. They found the village abandoned and the ancestral hall empty, and Huo Lian asked Fan Tianhui where else might be unusual.

• Huo Lian told Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu that Zhu Fancheng was breaking a seal inside the Divine Beast Holy Land, then said they would search Fan Tianhui's village for the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art.
• Huo Lian returned to the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency and brought Fan Tianhui along, while the three elders recognized him as a descendant of the Three Great Families.
• Fan Tianhui traveled with Huo Lian and the elders to Qing Province, worrying that his cooperation might be the only way to protect his village from disaster.
• Fan Tianhui led them to his village and recalled that the entire village had relocated, though some elderly villagers had refused to leave their ancestral homeland.
• Huo Lian and the others searched the empty ancestral hall, where Inugami had once been enshrined, and found only the saber stand it had rested on.
• Huo Lian asked Fan Tianhui whether there were any other unusual places in the village.

Fan Tianhui led Huo Lian, Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong to a strange pool where an exotic fruit had raised his cultivation. After finding no clues around the pool, Huo Lian followed its feeding stream to a spring, while the others hurried after him to investigate.

• Fan Tianhui told the group that eating a strange fruit from an underwater plant had raised him to the Half-Step Martial Realm.
• Huo Lian and the others searched the pool and its surroundings but found no sign of the treasures they sought.
• Fan Xiu suggested searching underwater, but Zhu Fanjiang noticed Huo Lian following a stream upstream.
• Fan Tianhui explained that a spring beyond a cliff supposedly flowed even through severe droughts.
• Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong hurried to join Huo Lian at the spring.

Huo Lian suspected the pool was man-made and connected to the ancient treasure, but he warned the others that danger might lie beyond its bottom. Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu began investigating the pool, and after finding nothing unusual in the water near the surface, they prepared to dive deeper.

• Huo Lian told Zhu Fanjiang and the others that the pool appeared to have been dug by human hands and might be connected to the treasure.
• Wang Mizong argued that the treasure was probably at the bottom of the pool, while Huo Lian warned the group not to be careless.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu returned to the pool to investigate, with Zhu Fanjiang and Fan Tianhui staying above.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu dove about thirty feet, surfaced without finding anything unusual, and said they would continue toward the bottom.

Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu descended into the pool and were overwhelmed by a powerful suction that disrupted their command of the Heaven and Earth Momentum. They were swept into a submerged underground river, where they faced being carried through its caverns until they died.

• Zhu Fanjiang waited anxiously while Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu remained underwater longer than expected.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu descended nearly eighty zhang and found that a powerful suction below destabilized their Heaven and Earth Momentum.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu clasped hands as the suction dragged them rapidly toward the bottom of the pool.
• The suction changed direction at the bottom and shoved Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu into a flooded underground cavern.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu realized they had been swept into an underground river and were carried away by its current.

Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong escaped the underground river’s circular current and climbed back toward the pool, while Zhu Fanjiang sought Huo Lian’s help. Huo Lian suspected the pool was a false treasure site designed to conceal the real one, but the two men had not yet surfaced.

• Fan Xiu realized he and Wang Mizong were trapped in a circular underground river and urged him to use the repeated route to reach the pool opening.
• Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong caught the rock wall at the opening, climbed against the weakening suction, and shot toward the surface.
• When Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong did not appear, Zhu Fanjiang called Huo Lian for help as the pool began to churn.
• Huo Lian said the two had likely lost their way in the underground river and warned Zhu Fanjiang that going down would only leave him trapped too.
• Huo Lian proposed that the underground river protected the treasures and that the pool was a false site meant to mislead outsiders.

Huo Lian explained that the dangerous pool concealed an underground river and that the real treasure cache was likely near its spring. After Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong escaped the current, the group found a hidden passage behind a section of artificial cliff, leaving them poised to search inside.

• Huo Lian guessed the pool had been dug to conceal the real cache and said finding it might slow the underground river enough for Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong to escape.
• Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong burst out of the pool after being swept through an underground river and finding a circular passage back.
• Wang Mizong confronted Huo Lian for knowing about the river, but Fan Xiu admitted they had been careless and Huo Lian urged them to proceed to the cache.
• The group followed the stream to its spring, where Huo Lian identified the cliff face as the likely hiding place.
• Huo Lian broke open a man-made section of the cliff, revealing a passage, and explained why the Fan Family ancestor had avoided leaving a formation at its entrance.

Huo Lian led the group to an underground chamber beneath the spring, where a formation sealed an underground river and a central rock pillar appeared to conceal the Fan Family treasure. As the others hesitated to cross the formation, Fan Xiu volunteered, and Huo Lian explained how he might use the Heaven and Earth Momentum to return or be rescued.

• Huo Lian and the others descended a spiral staircase and found a transparent formation separating them from a rushing underground river.
• Huo Lian inferred that the treasure was hidden inside a rock pillar in the middle of the river.
• Wang Mizong and Zhu Fanjiang questioned the danger of crossing the formation, while Huo Lian gave them time to decide.
• Wang Mizong suggested sending Fan Tianhui through first, but Fan Xiu objected that the younger man might be too weak to return.
• Fan Xiu volunteered to cross the formation himself, and Huo Lian advised him to command the Heaven and Earth Momentum to try to return or hold near the entrance for rescue.

Fan Xiu confirmed that a hidden chamber lay beyond the formation, and Huo Lian and the three family members entered to search it. While the others painstakingly memorized decaying manuals, Huo Lian found and secretly read a manual marked “Second,” then replaced it with another book before the chapter ended.

• Fan Xiu crossed the formation, confirmed the treasure vault was real, and returned to tell the others.
• Huo Lian, Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu entered the small chamber inside the stone pillar, while Zhu Fanjiang left Fan Tianhui behind.
• Wang Mizong touched a manual and reduced it to powder, so Huo Lian warned the group to turn the decayed pages using heaven and earth momentum.
• Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu began carefully memorizing the manuals while Huo Lian searched the stone boxes.
• Huo Lian found a manual marked “Second,” secretly read it, and replaced it with another manual before returning the box to its place.

Huo Lian and the three family elders searched the chamber for the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art but failed to find it, then left with manuals and treasures. Fan Xiu suspected Huo Lian might have found the missing part despite his show of frustration.

• Huo Lian and Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu memorized the chamber’s manuals, then searched its stone boxes and hidden compartments for the second part.
• The group found only three manuals among the treasures, and Huo Lian wondered whether Wang Mizong had destroyed the missing part when he touched a book earlier.
• After hours of searching, Huo Lian left the chamber with Fan Tianhui, while Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu took several stone boxes of treasures.
• Wang Mizong and Zhu Fanjiang lamented that the second part was still lost, but Fan Xiu said he suspected Huo Lian had obtained it and might have pretended to be frustrated.

Fan Xiu, Zhu Fanjiang, and Wang Mizong suspected that Huo Lian had secretly replaced the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, but chose to honor their promise and return to the Sword Pavilion to prepare cultivation manuals for their descendants. Meanwhile, Zhou Daohang failed to meet Huang Xiao and planned to approach Wu Cang, while Huang Xiao continued his seclusion and attempted to break through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill.

• Fan Xiu proposed that Huo Lian had replaced the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art with another manual while the three men were distracted.
• Wang Mizong wanted to confront Huo Lian, but Fan Xiu and Zhu Fanjiang persuaded him that they had no evidence and should focus on the future of the Three Great Families.
• Zhu Fanjiang urged the group to organize cultivation manuals before the Demon Hall's thousand-year period arrived, and the three men left for the Sword Pavilion.
• Chao Lingyi refused Zhou Daohang's request to see Huang Xiao, saying that he was in seclusion preparing for the Hall Master's Seat.
• Zhou Daohang rebuked his subordinate for suggesting that Chao Lingyi be killed and decided to tell Wu Cang about the Supreme Evil Crystal.
• Huang Xiao remained in a secret chamber, attempting to break through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill.

Huang Xiao broke through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill and the Enlightenment Realm, then resumed practicing the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques. Wu Cang arrived with new information about Zhou Daohang’s search for the Supreme Evil Crystal, which Huang Xiao agreed to hear.

• Huang Xiao cultivated the eleventh layer, advanced to the Enlightenment Realm, and spent three days stabilizing his breakthrough.
• Huang Xiao began training for the Eighth Form of the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques and found his strength and understanding had improved.
• Chao Lingyi told Huang Xiao that Zhou Daohang had visited several times while he was in seclusion, and Huang Xiao told her to turn him away if he returned.
• Wu Cang met with Huang Xiao and said Zhou Daohang had obtained information suggesting the Supreme Evil Crystal’s location, though it was not entirely certain.

Huang Xiao learned that rumors about the Supreme Evil Crystal being held by an injured Ghost Spirit Sect expert were false and suspected they were meant to lure Yan Youwang out. He and Wu Cang chose to ignore the treasure and use the opportunity to deal with Zhou Daohang, leaving Wu Cang to prepare and check the latest information.

• Wu Cang told Huang Xiao that the Pang Family was likely involved in targeting him, though their exact aim remained unclear.
• Wu Cang reported that the Supreme Evil Crystal was supposedly with an injured Ghost Spirit Sect expert, and that Yan Youwang had been gravely wounded and gone missing.
• Huang Xiao reasoned that the treasure rumor was likely false information intended to help locate Yan Youwang or lure Huang Xiao out.
• Wu Cang offered to pursue the crystal, but Huang Xiao told him the information was false and proposed focusing on Zhou Daohang instead.
• Wu Cang agreed to set aside the Supreme Evil Crystal, and Huang Xiao decided that only the two of them would take part.
• Wu Cang rose to make preparations and check the latest information.

Huang Xiao pretended to be tempted by Zhou Daohang’s offer of information about the Supreme Evil Crystal so he could draw out the Pang Family’s plot. He planned to leave with Wu Cang that night, while Yin Huju was tasked with alerting the Hall Master if they had not returned by noon.

• Huang Xiao met Zhou Daohang and listened as he claimed the Supreme Evil Crystal’s bearer was in Liangzhou and offered the information as a gesture of reconciliation.
• Huang Xiao sent Zhou Daohang away without committing, then let him see Wu Cang arrive so he would believe Huang Xiao had been tempted.
• Huang Xiao told Wu Cang they would leave that night to pursue the Supreme Evil Crystal without informing the Hall Master.
• Wu Cang, uneasy about the danger, summoned Yin Huju and asked him to inform the Hall Master if Huang Xiao and Wu Cang had not returned by noon the next day.
• Yin Huju offered to join them, but Wu Cang insisted he stay behind to carry out the warning if they failed to return.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang left the Heavenly Demon Hall to draw out Zhou Daohang, but they followed a mysterious Ghost Dao practitioner into a formation and met Zhou Daohang and five Entering Dao Realm experts. Zhou Daohang revealed that the Supreme Evil Crystal story was a trap, while the man Huang Xiao and Wu Cang had chased was someone else, leaving both sides confused about the unexpected change of course.

• Wu Cang warned Yin Huju to act excited about the Supreme Evil Crystal so Zhou Daohang's people would believe the deception.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang secretly left the Heavenly Demon Hall and traveled into Liangzhou, expecting Zhou Daohang's side to ambush them.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang pursued a weak Ghost Dao practitioner who vanished into a formation, then discovered Zhou Daohang and five Entering Dao Realm experts waiting nearby.
• Zhou Daohang denied arranging the lure and told Huang Xiao that the Supreme Evil Crystal affair had been fabricated to exploit his greed.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang realized they had pursued the wrong person and changed course away from Zhou Daohang's planned ambush site.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang faced six Entering Dao Realm experts, but Huang Xiao revealed his Enlightenment Realm strength and fought Zhou Daohang. The chapter ended with Huang Xiao crushing Zhou Daohang’s chest before Zhou could use his full strength.

• Wu Cang urged Huang Xiao to escape while he held off the six attackers, but Huang Xiao charged into battle instead.
• Zhou Daohang attacked Huang Xiao and boasted that he would kill him in five moves.
• Huang Xiao unleashed the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill and overwhelmed Zhou Daohang’s control of heaven and earth momentum.
• Huang Xiao’s punch forced Zhou Daohang back, and he followed up before Zhou could recover.
• Huang Xiao stunned Zhou Daohang with a mental assault and broke the ribs over his heart with a heavy punch.
• Wounded and coughing blood, Zhou Daohang protested that he had not used his full strength.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang fought the five Pang Family attackers, who unleashed forbidden arts to kill them. As Huang Xiao sent Wu Cang flying and chased after him, both suddenly vanished, leaving the attackers unable to find them.

• Huang Xiao killed Zhou Daohang with a Divine Sense assault and shattered his heart as Wu Cang fought the five attackers.
• Wu Cang unleashed a second forbidden art, severely wounding one attacker, but the others turned their assault toward Huang Xiao.
• Huang Xiao used a Divine Sense assault and his Imitation Saber against the four attackers, while Wu Cang joined the fight and urged him to escape.
• All five attackers unleashed forbidden arts, and Huang Xiao and Wu Cang fought desperately as Huang Xiao was wounded and driven to his knees.
• Huang Xiao took two attacks to reach Wu Cang, struck him away with a palm, then chased after him, and both suddenly vanished from the attackers' sight.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang were cornered by five pursuers inside a concealed formation, where Yan Youwang emerged and killed their attackers. Yan Youwang stopped Wu Cang’s forbidden art from killing him, but Wu Cang needed months to recover, and Yan Youwang then killed the Martial Realm disciple beside him.

• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang entered the concealed formation, followed by five pursuers who attacked them when they refused to flee.
• As Wu Cang stood between Huang Xiao and the attackers, Huang Xiao called for help, and an unseen person killed all five with a blast of palm force.
• Huang Xiao urged Wu Cang to stop his double forbidden art, but Wu Cang could no longer control it, so Huang Xiao asked the hidden senior to save him.
• Yan Youwang revealed himself and suppressed the violent aura in Wu Cang, preserving his life but leaving him to recuperate for six months to a year.
• Yan Youwang killed the Martial Realm disciple standing beside him with a blast of palm force.

Huang Xiao reunited with the badly injured Yan Youwang in Liangzhou and learned that his junior brother and the Jiang Family were pursuing him. Yan Youwang planned to leave for Mist Mountain, but Huang Xiao persuaded him to stay in Liangzhou under the Heavenly Demon Hall’s protection.

• Yan Youwang killed a Martial Realm disciple who had exposed his whereabouts, and Huang Xiao questioned why Yan Youwang had come to Liangzhou.
• Yan Youwang said he had barely escaped his junior brother and explained that the rumors about the Supreme Evil Crystal were meant to conceal the pursuit.
• Huang Xiao told Yan Youwang that the Pang Family had spread rumors to lure him out, and Yan Youwang criticized Huang Xiao for underestimating their threat.
• Yan Youwang said he hoped to reach Mist Mountain but feared his pursuers would watch the routes and find him while he was injured.
• Huang Xiao urged Yan Youwang to remain in Liangzhou, offering the Heavenly Demon Hall’s protection and rare healing medicines.
• Yan Youwang considered Huang Xiao’s offer and acknowledged that Liangzhou was under the Heavenly Demon Hall’s control.

Huang Xiao arranged a quiet place near the Heavenly Demon Hall for the injured Yan Youwang and promised to supply healing pills. After returning, Huang Xiao took responsibility for leaving without permission and faced Wei Yidao’s anger, while Wei Yidao asked who had killed Zhou Daohang’s five companions.

• Huang Xiao arranged lodgings and healing pills for Yan Youwang near the Heavenly Demon Hall, with Wu Cang tasked to assist him.
• Yin Huju told Huang Xiao and Wu Cang that he had informed Wei Yidao of their departure, and that Wei Yidao had ordered them to appear before him.
• Huang Xiao told Wu Cang to keep handling Yan Youwang’s arrangements and said he would take responsibility for their actions.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang knelt before Wei Yidao, who scolded them for risking Huang Xiao’s life to deal with Zhou Daohang.
• Wei Yidao noted that Zhou Daohang’s five companions had not been killed by Huang Xiao and Wu Cang and asked who had killed them.

Huang Xiao explained Yan Youwang’s rescue and his connection to the Ghost Capital Token to Wei Yidao, who ordered Yan’s presence kept secret and restricted Huang Xiao’s movements because of the Pang Family’s threat. Huang Xiao returned to find that the Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Flute and Heavenly Demon Soul-Severing Zither had been completed.

• Huang Xiao told Wei Yidao that Yan Youwang had saved him, explained their past connection, and recounted how Yan had been wounded.
• Wei Yidao removed Wu Cang from his Heavenly Demon Hall duties and assigned him to oversee Yan Youwang’s affairs, while promising to keep Yan hidden from his enemies.
• Wei Yidao warned that the Pang Family was increasingly anxious about Huang Xiao, ordered him to remain in the Heavenly Demon Hall, and said he would report the matter to Lord Shi.
• Huang Xiao told Wu Cang to focus on healing and to take care of Yan Youwang, whose support could help him in the future.
• Huang Xiao returned to his residence, reassured Chao Lingyi that he would rest, and learned that the Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Flute and Heavenly Demon Soul-Severing Zither were finished.

Huang Xiao tested the Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Flute and found that it greatly amplified his Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Sound. The sound overwhelmed the courtyard’s formations and left Chao Lingyi and the others shaken as they considered how few opponents could withstand it.

• Huang Xiao hurried to see the Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Flute and Heavenly Demon Soul-Severing Zither, which Liu Mu and Hu Chu had prepared for him to inspect.
• Chao Lingyi asked to play the zither, but Liu Mu warned that her insufficient internal power could cause a dangerous backlash.
• Huang Xiao took the flute to a soundproof courtyard and asked everyone else to withdraw before he tested it.
• Huang Xiao played the Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Sound through the flute and found it far easier to use and several times more powerful than before.
• The flute’s music overwhelmed the courtyard’s formations, causing Chao Lingyi to collapse and forcing the others to retreat beyond its reach.
• Hu Chu explained that Huang Xiao could be practically invincible while playing without interruption, and Chao Lingyi delighted in his strength.

Huang Xiao tested the newly made Heavenly Demon Soul-Destroying Flute and Heavenly Demon Soul-Severing Zither, then realized he could develop ways to weave sound art and divine sense attacks into his regular moves. He praised the instruments and took them with him, warning Chao Lingyi that she lacked the strength to withstand the zither’s aura.

• Huang Xiao played the flute and zither, finding the flute powerful but discovering he was not skilled enough to play the zither well.
• Huang Xiao considered using formations to trap enemies and began planning to combine Sound Art Qi Control, sound art, and divine sense attacks with his regular moves.
• Huang Xiao noticed Chao Lingyi and the others had moved away because his flute music had passed through the courtyard’s formation.
• Huang Xiao praised the instruments made by Hu Chu, Liu Mu, and the disciples, and said Senior Shi would be satisfied.
• Chao Lingyi tried to carry the zither, but Huang Xiao took it back after warning that her internal power could not withstand its aura.

Huang Xiao tested the Qin Xiao while Wei Yidao discussed the threat from the Pang Family with Zhu Xing E. Shi Hen refused to move Huang Xiao to the Main Hall, but ordered Zhu Xing E to secretly support Wei Yidao at the Heavenly Demon Hall.

• Huang Xiao said he could conceal the Qin Xiao's aura with his own formation.
• Zhu Xing E arrived on Shi Hen's orders and learned that Pang Family agents had recently attacked Huang Xiao.
• Wei Yidao warned that the Pang Family might storm the Heavenly Demon Hall, and Zhu Xing E agreed they needed to prepare for the worst.
• Zhu Xing E told Wei Yidao that Shi Hen rejected his request to send Huang Xiao to the Main Hall because Huang Xiao needed to remain available to the Hall Master.
• Shi Hen's reply ordered Zhu Xing E to stay at the Heavenly Demon Hall in secret, easing Wei Yidao's concerns.

Pang Ruyuan told Pang Tiangang that Huang Xiao had grown far stronger and described two failed attempts to kill him. Pang Tiangang condemned Ruyuan for changing orders without authorization and sent him back with a warning, while exposing his jealousy of Wei Yidao as a motive.

• Pang Ruyuan reported to Pang Tiangang that Huang Xiao had reached entering Dao realm strength and grown stronger still.
• Pang Ruyuan described two attempts to kill Huang Xiao, and Pang Tiangang angrily rebuked him for acting beyond his orders.
• Pang Tiangang dismissed fears about Huang Xiao, arguing that Pang Yi had the Supreme Elder's guidance and that his strength remained unknown.
• Pang Tiangang ordered Pang Ruyuan to warn the others against acting without authorization again.
• Pang Tiangang confronted Pang Ruyuan about targeting Huang Xiao out of jealousy and a desire for revenge against Wei Yidao.

Pang Tiangang learned from Pang Ji that Pang Yi was currently weaker than Huang Xiao, but Pang Ji remained confident that Pang Yi could catch up before the contest for the Hall Master's Seat. Pang Ji revealed Pang Yi enduring a secret and painful cultivation method, leaving Pang Tiangang shocked by his condition.

• Pang Tiangang warned Pang Ruyuan to stop scheming against Wei Yidao, but Pang Ruyuan left still determined to eliminate him.
• Pang Tiangang visited Pang Ji to ask about Pang Yi's progress and described Huang Xiao's strength.
• Pang Ji told Pang Tiangang that Pang Yi was currently inferior to Huang Xiao, though there was still time before the contest for the Hall Master's Seat.
• Pang Ji revealed Pang Yi concealed in the pool, where he endured a painful cultivation process that made his meridians bulge and his aura fluctuate.