Recaps

Pang Ji and Mo Pozheng left after the gathered experts declined to challenge them, while Wu Xuancang warned Huo Lian that his pursuit of the Longevity Pill threatened their alliance against the Demon Hall. Huo Lian rejected Feng He’s offer to resume their transaction and walked toward Huang Xiao.

• Pang Ji asked Mo Pozheng whether he would return to the Tomb Clan or visit the Demon Hall, and Mo Pozheng chose to go to the Demon Hall to assess its situation.
• Pang Ji and Mo Pozheng departed, followed by Leng Guhan, Baili Zhen, and Du Fuzhou, leaving Wu Xuancang with Huo Lian and Feng He.
• Wu Xuancang criticized Huo Lian for nearly destroying Imperial Remnant Manor and warned that their cooperation could end if Huo Lian acted that way again.
• Huo Lian defended his actions as a way to improve his chances of survival, and Feng He agreed that relying on personal strength mattered most.
• Feng He asked Huo Lian to continue their earlier transaction, but Huo Lian refused and walked toward Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao explained how the Longevity Pill’s aura let him survive his prolonged fight with Chao Hun, while concealing how much aura remained inside him. Feng He then offered Huo Lian information about the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter in exchange for Chao Hun’s cultivation method, leaving the choice to Huo Lian.

• Huo Lian praised Huang Xiao for holding out against Chao Hun, and Huang Xiao credited the Longevity Pill’s aura with rapidly healing his injuries.
• Huang Xiao concealed the true amount of aura within him, and Huo Lian showed no interest in examining or claiming it.
• Huang Xiao asked whether the ancestor of Imperial Remnant Manor was still alive, but Huo Lian told him not to concern himself with the matter.
• Huang Xiao compared his recovery to an undying cultivation method, prompting Feng He to recall the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter.
• Feng He offered Huo Lian guidance about the Imperishability Chapter in exchange for Chao Hun’s cultivation method, saying the decision depended on Huo Lian.

Feng He agreed to provide Huo Lian with powerful essence blood in exchange for learning about Chao Hun’s incomplete cultivation method, though he could not practice it without the Supreme Demonic Art. Feng He explained what he knew of the Imperishability Chapter and the Immortal Alchemist, then admitted he had been less prominent than the era’s leading figures.

• Huo Lian told Feng He that Chao Hun’s cultivation method was incomplete and that Feng He could not practice it without the Supreme Demonic Art.
• Huo Lian offered to supply Feng He with people whose essence blood was as powerful as Chao Hun’s, and Feng He accepted the arrangement.
• Huo Lian asked Feng He about the Imperishability Chapter, and Feng He said it had greatly increased Old Demon’s strength but did not make anyone literally immortal.
• Feng He explained that the Imperishability Chapter focused on strength while the Longevity Chapter was said to prolong life, though he knew little about the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huo Lian suggested Feng He had been unimpressive in his era, and Feng He admitted the Immortal Alchemist, Old Demon, Madwoman, and the Three Old Things of the Heavenly Evil Sect had been the leading figures.

Feng He told Huo Lian and Huang Xiao about the Immortal Alchemist’s mysterious lineage and the powers of the Longevity Chapter. Huo Lian revealed that Old Demon was still alive, prompting Feng He to demand his whereabouts.

• Feng He said the Immortal Alchemist had mastered many disciplines, leaving his lineage impossible to identify, and suggested Madwoman or Old Demon might know his origins.
• Feng He speculated that the Longevity Chapter focused on extending life and making Longevity Pills, while Huang Xiao privately recalled its role in his endurance and recovery.
• Huo Lian said Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly might know about the Longevity Chapter, and Feng He warned him against asking Madwoman about the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huo Lian revealed that Old Demon, the Demon Hall's First Hall Master, was still alive.
• Feng He accepted that Old Demon might have found a way to survive and urgently asked Huo Lian where he was.

Huo Lian and Feng He discussed which ancient Jianghu powers still had survivors from ten thousand years ago and why they were preparing to oppose the Demon Hall’s First Hall Master. Feng He doubted their chances, warning that the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter had once put him far beyond his peers.

• Huo Lian confirmed that the Demon Hall’s First Hall Master was still alive, and Feng He revealed that he had endured great hardship for an opportunity tied to ten thousand years ago.
• Feng He said no one from that era had survived in the Three Immortal Mountains or the Demon Spirit Sect, but Huo Lian argued that the Three Immortal Mountains still had powerful elders who had lived for several thousand years.
• Feng He realized that Huo Lian, the Three Immortal Mountains, and Imperial Remnant Manor were joining forces to confront the First Hall Master when he emerged during the current thousand-year period.
• Huo Lian invited Feng He to join the alliance and seek revenge, citing Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly as a reason they might succeed.
• Feng He warned that the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter had made him vastly stronger than his peers, and questioned how much Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly could improve their odds.

Huo Lian and Feng He agreed to cooperate in cultivating people like Chao Hun by having them slaughter experts to strengthen their essence blood. Huang Xiao returned to the Heavenly Demon Hall with the Supreme Ghost Stele, while Du Fuzhou hurried toward the Demon Spirit Sect with the Longevity Bottle.

• Huo Lian urged Feng He to join forces against the first Hall Master, but Feng He refused to reveal his plans and instead asked Huo Lian to cultivate more people like Chao Hun.
• Huo Lian explained that mass slaughter by powerful fighters would strengthen their essence blood, and Feng He agreed to help produce a group of them and divide them equally.
• Huang Xiao realized that Huo Lian had used Chao Hun's killings to test the Supreme Demonic Art, then left for the Heavenly Demon Hall while keeping the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Du Fuzhou hurried toward the Demon Spirit Sect, excited by the Longevity Pill aura contained in his Longevity Bottle.

Du Fuzhou returned to the Demon Spirit Sect with the Longevity Bottle, hoping to release the Longevity Pill’s aura. After ten days of failure, he went to the sect’s forbidden Rock Cave to try opening it there.

• Du Fuzhou returned safely to the Demon Spirit Sect and sealed himself inside his secret chamber with the Longevity Bottle.
• Du Fuzhou opened the bottle, but the Longevity Pill’s aura remained trapped inside despite the unobstructed opening.
• After ten days of failed attempts, Du Fuzhou decided he had to try opening the bottle in another place.
• Demon Spirit Sect disciples speculated about Du Fuzhou’s displeasure and traded rumors about Imperial Remnant Manor’s Longevity Pill.
• Du Fuzhou entered the sect’s forbidden gorge, touched the stele marked “Forbidden,” and revealed a hidden entrance in the cliff.
• Du Fuzhou entered the Rock Cave and was struck by a chill that affected even his divine sense.

Du Fuzhou activated the platform to force the Longevity Pill’s aura out of the Longevity Bottle, but a formation blocked him from taking it. As two ice coffins rose from beneath the platform, he wondered whether his Demon Spirit Sect had living Ancestors.

• Du Fuzhou placed the Longevity Bottle in the platform’s hole and activated its formation, causing emerald points of Longevity Pill aura to appear.
• Du Fuzhou tried to seize the aura, but the formation hurled him out of the chamber and then blocked his return.
• The platform rose to about five feet, and Du Fuzhou feared the events resembled those at Imperial Remnant Manor.
• The ground around the platform sank, revealing two ice coffins, and Du Fuzhou wondered if they held living Demon Spirit Sect Ancestors.

Du Fuzhou watched two people awaken in the Demon Spirit Sect’s forbidden ground after the Longevity Pill’s motes entered their ice coffins. The woman and white-haired man recognized a junior outside but chose to wait until they recovered more strength.

• Du Fuzhou saw the motes of light enter two ice coffins and realized the Longevity Pill’s aura was being used to revive their occupants.
• Du Fuzhou hoped the two sleepers would awaken as Demon Spirit Sect Ancestors, while formations trapped him between the stone chamber and the passage.
• After three shichen, the ice melted enough for Du Fuzhou to see an old white-haired man and a woman who looked about thirty inside the coffins.
• The pair’s auras briefly surged to terrifying power, then faded as they sat up and returned to the appearance of ordinary people.
• The woman wondered how long they had slept, and the man noticed Du Fuzhou outside; the woman asked to wait until they had recovered more strength.

Du Fuzhou’s Ancestor, Zuo Qiu Shu, and Old Fan recovered after awakening and learned that ten thousand years had passed. Old Fan mourned the ruin of the Three Great Families and vowed to seek revenge against the Demon Hall, while Zuo Qiu Shu urged caution and wondered how her big brother was doing.

• After three days of recovering, Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan dispelled the formation and Du Fuzhou knelt to greet them.
• Old Fan introduced himself, and Du Fuzhou recognized him as the former Clan Chief of the Fan Family from the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Du Fuzhou told them that ten thousand years had passed and recounted major events, including the near extinction of the Three Great Families and Huo Lian’s possession of the Three Evil Blades.
• Old Fan expressed his grief and hatred toward the Demon Hall, while Zuo Qiu Shu warned him not to seek revenge recklessly.
• Old Fan proposed joining the Jianghu’s powers against the Demon Hall, and Zuo Qiu Shu agreed that their combined strength might succeed but wondered about her big brother.

Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan discussed their recovery and the dangers awaiting them, while Du Fuzhou left convinced the Demon Spirit Sect’s fortunes were rising. Meanwhile, Huang Xiao returned toward the Heavenly Demon Hall and was met by its disciples outside Liangzhou.

• Old Fan reminded Zuo Qiu Shu that Du Fuzhou’s Longevity Pill had helped them awaken, and Zuo Qiu Shu postponed rewarding Du Fuzhou until she had recovered.
• Du Fuzhou left the forbidden area, ordered guards to keep people away, and resolved to prepare for his Ancestor’s emergence.
• Old Fan said he wanted to meet Huo Lian, reclaim the Three Evil Blades, and see the remaining descendants of the Three Great Families; Zuo Qiu Shu urged him to recover longer before leaving.
• Huang Xiao headed back to the Heavenly Demon Hall to learn whether the Hall Master had returned and whether reinforcements had arrived.
• Wu Cang, Yin Huju, Liu Jiong, and a large group of Heavenly Demon Hall disciples waited for Huang Xiao ten li outside the hall.

Huang Xiao returned safely to the Heavenly Demon Hall and learned that Shi Hen was considering who should lead it. Shi Hen named Huang Xiao as the best choice for Hall Master, leaving him surprised but facing the role as part of his preparation to manage the Demon Hall.

• Huang Xiao returned to the Heavenly Demon Hall, where Wu Cang explained that Shi Hen had been there and that Fan Liya was being held.
• Huang Xiao told Wu Cang, Yin Huju, and Liu Jiong that Fan Liya deserved to die, though they agreed Shi Hen would decide his fate.
• Huang Xiao entered the main hall alone and found Shi Hen seated beside the Hall Master's throne.
• Shi Hen said he wanted someone suitable to occupy the Hall Master's seat because Zhu Xing E lacked the strength to protect Huang Xiao.
• Shi Hen pointed to Huang Xiao as the best choice for Hall Master and explained that serving as a hall master would prepare Hall Master Candidates to command the entire Demon Hall.

Shi Hen explained that Huang Xiao would manage a hall to prepare for becoming Demon Hall Master and reassured him that the Supreme Ghost Stele was unlikely to draw attacks from most powers. He decided to stay at the Heavenly Demon Hall to protect Huang Xiao, who remained focused on securing his own strength and preparing for the contest for Hall Master.

• Shi Hen explained that managing a hall would help Huang Xiao learn to command subordinates and adapt to his future role as Demon Hall Master.
• Huang Xiao told Shi Hen that the Hall Master had suggested he go to the Main Hall for safety because the Heavenly Demon Hall lacked experts and he possessed the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Shi Hen said most powers would avoid targeting the Supreme Ghost Stele because it offered them little benefit and would provoke the Demon Hall, the Hall Master, and Feng He.
• Huang Xiao decided to remain at the Heavenly Demon Hall, intending to use the Supreme Ghost Stele to reach Ghost Capital and awaken Ghost Spirit Sect experts.
• Shi Hen chose to stay at the Heavenly Demon Hall and have the Hidden Demon Guard report there, while warning Huang Xiao not to underestimate the old fellows joining forces.
• Huang Xiao recognized that the Pang Family would obstruct him if he became Demon Hall Master, just as its influence had caused trouble during the Patriarch's tenure.

Huang Xiao discussed the Blood Exhaustion Method’s weakness with Shi Hen and considered how to use Pang Yi’s possible misjudgment to his advantage in the contest for Hall Master. He also learned Shi Hen planned to exploit Fan Liya’s captivity, then recounted the struggle for the Longevity Pill on Mist Mountain.

• Shi Hen warned Huang Xiao that Pang Ji might discover the Blood Exhaustion Method’s flaw and that Pang Yi could exploit it in a prolonged fight.
• Huang Xiao explained that Feng He had hinted at a weakness in front of Pang Ji but had not revealed its specifics.
• Huang Xiao privately decided to keep the method’s flaw secret and potentially mislead Pang Yi, while concealing the Longevity Chapter.
• Shi Hen said he would keep Fan Liya imprisoned to extract benefits and suggested Huang Xiao study his Ghost Dao aura for insight into the Blood Exhaustion Method’s aftereffects.
• Huang Xiao told Shi Hen about the struggle for the Longevity Pill on Mist Mountain, and Shi Hen remarked that Huang Xiao had been lucky to touch it.

Shi Hen announced Huang Xiao as the new Heavenly Demon Hall Master after dismissing Zhu Xing E. Huang Xiao accepted the position, then entered seclusion to study the Longevity Pill's aura and the heart fire method.

• Huang Xiao told Shi Hen that the Longevity Pill's aura had helped him survive his encounter with Chao Hun.
• Shi Hen summoned the Heavenly Demon Hall and announced that Zhu Xing E had been relieved of his position as Hall Master.
• Shi Hen appointed Huang Xiao as the new Heavenly Demon Hall Master, and Wu Cang, Yin Huju, Liu Jiong, and the other disciples paid their respects.
• Huang Xiao took the Hall Master's throne and left the inauguration arrangements to Wu Cang and the others.
• Huang Xiao entered seclusion to study the Longevity Pill's aura, the body's acupoints, and the heart fire method in the Longevity Chapter.

Huang Xiao repeatedly tried to temper his acupoints with Heart Fire, but each attempt shattered his acupoints and ruptured his meridians, forcing him to spend much of the Longevity Pill’s aura on recovery. After five days in seclusion, he emerged and agreed to hold his Enthronement Ceremony the next day, then asked who had arrived from the Main Hall and the Ten Thousand Demons Hall.

• Huang Xiao used Heart Fire to temper his acupoints, but his acupoints shattered and his meridians ruptured before the Longevity Pill’s aura repaired them.
• Huang Xiao repeated the dangerous experiment over a hundred times, consuming more than half the Longevity Pill’s aura without mastering the technique.
• Huang Xiao recognized that his impatience was worsening his state of mind and left the secret chamber to calm himself.
• Wu Cang told Huang Xiao that he had been in seclusion for five days and that preparations for the Enthronement Ceremony were complete.
• Huang Xiao agreed to hold the ceremony the next day, and Wu Cang reported that guests from the Main Hall and the Ten Thousand Demons Hall were waiting with Lord Shi.

After becoming Heavenly Demon Hall Master, Huang Xiao met with senior leaders who discussed his growing strength and the coming contest with Pang Yi for the Demon Hall Master’s Seat. Chu Fanyin decided to resign as Ten Thousand Demons Hall Master and join the Hidden Demon Guard, while Huang Xiao confirmed his accession ceremony would take place the next day.

• Huang Xiao visited Shi Hen and greeted Shi Hen, Liu Tengfan, and Chu Fanyin, who treated him as a fellow hall master but accepted seniority over status.
• Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan urged Huang Xiao to consolidate his strength and warned that Pang Yi and Pang Ji remained serious opponents in the contest for Hall Master.
• Chu Fanyin said he would resign as Ten Thousand Demons Hall Master and asked Shi Hen to let him join the Hidden Demon Guard, and Shi Hen welcomed him.
• Huang Xiao told Liu Tengfan that his accession ceremony had been set for the next day, and Liu Tengfan said he hoped to witness Huang Xiao become Demon Hall Master in the future.
• After Liu Tengfan and Chu Fanyin left, Shi Hen asked Huang Xiao whether he had questions about his cultivation method.

Huang Xiao asked Shi Hen about weakening an opponent’s true qi with sound arts, and learned that Shi Hen had created Sound Art Qi Transformation. Shi Hen agreed to teach it despite its dangers, then demonstrated how it weakened Huang Xiao’s punch by at least eighty percent.

• Huang Xiao asked Shi Hen whether Sound Art Qi Control could weaken an opponent’s true qi, and Shi Hen said it was possible but much harder than strengthening one’s own.
• Shi Hen revealed that he had recently created Sound Art Qi Transformation, and Huang Xiao knelt and asked to learn it.
• Shi Hen warned Huang Xiao that the art was extremely difficult and dangerous, but agreed to teach him because the aura of the Longevity Pill could help keep him alive.
• Shi Hen took Huang Xiao to a secret chamber and asked him to attack, then used Sound Art Qi Transformation to weaken Huang Xiao’s true qi.
• Huang Xiao’s punch lost at least eighty percent of its force before Shi Hen blocked it, and Huang Xiao marveled at the art’s power.

Shi Hen taught Huang Xiao about Sound Art Qi Transformation and its relationship to Sound Art Qi Control, then gave him the technique’s mental formulas. Huang Xiao’s first attempt injured him, but the Longevity Pill’s aura quickly restored him, and he decided to keep practicing despite the risk.

• Shi Hen explained that Sound Art Qi Control could counter Sound Art Qi Transformation and let Huang Xiao experience the weakening technique in combat.
• Huang Xiao used Sound Art Qi Control against Shi Hen’s Sound Art Qi Transformation and gradually overcame its effects.
• Shi Hen taught Huang Xiao the mental formulas for Sound Art Qi Transformation after Huang Xiao shared his insights.
• Huang Xiao tried circulating the technique, spat blood, and suffered uncontrolled true qi that battered his meridians.
• The Longevity Pill’s aura rapidly stabilized Huang Xiao, and Shi Hen warned that he might need to give up once its restorative power ran out.
• Huang Xiao resolved to keep practicing, believing the effort would deepen his understanding of Sound Art Qi Control and help him face Dao Realm experts.

Huang Xiao completed his grand Enthronement Ceremony as Hall Master of the Heavenly Demon Hall, while Pang Yi was enthroned in the God-Burying Hall on the same day. Shi Hen revealed that Pang Yi had used the Ten-Thousand Interception Method to suppress his strength to the Half-Step Martial Realm, leaving the others to wonder how powerful he would become if he unleashed it.

• Shi Hen warned Huang Xiao to conserve the Longevity Pill’s aura, and Huang Xiao said he would postpone cultivating Sound Art Qi Transformation until after the ceremony.
• Huang Xiao completed his Enthronement Ceremony with Shi Hen, Liu Tengfan, and Chu Fanyin in attendance.
• Wu Cang reported that Pang Yi had also been enthroned as Hall Master of the God-Burying Hall that day.
• Chu Fanyin discussed how the Ten Thousand Demons Hall’s Hall Master Candidate compared poorly with Huang Xiao and Pang Yi.
• Shi Hen said Pang Yi’s strength was very weak because he had cultivated the Ten-Thousand Interception Method, which suppressed him to the Half-Step Martial Realm.
• Liu Tengfan and Chu Fanyin concluded that Pang Yi could rise to at least the Dao Realm if he unleashed his strength.

Shi Hen explained that Pang Yi’s Ten-Thousand Interception Method might let him reach Shattering-Void Realm strength, so Huang Xiao made that his goal for their coming contest. As Shi Hen reflected on his long life, he revealed that Sound Art was the reason he had lived so long.

• Huang Xiao asked whether Pang Yi could use the Ten-Thousand Interception Method to reach Shattering-Void Realm strength, and Shi Hen said they had to prepare for that possibility.
• Shi Hen urged Huang Xiao to aim for Shattering-Void Realm strength, and Huang Xiao firmly accepted the challenge.
• Liu Tengfan reflected that his generation was nearing the end of its time in the Jianghu, while Shi Hen said he hoped to live long enough to see the Thousand-Year Period.
• Liu Tengfan asked how Shi Hen had lived for over a thousand years, and Shi Hen revealed that his longevity was connected to Sound Art.

Shi Hen explained that Sound Art Qi Control had strengthened his body and prolonged his life through a thousand years of steady practice. He urged Huang Xiao to survive and use the method to build strength, then Huang Xiao tried it in his secret chamber and felt its effect on his first attempt.

• Shi Hen revealed that he had created a new Sound Art cultivation method and planned to combine it with Sound Art Qi Control.
• Shi Hen explained that Sound Art Qi Control resonated with his body, healed hidden injuries, and gradually increased his lifespan and strength.
• Shi Hen told Huang Xiao that survival and time could overcome talent, and advised him to practice Sound Art Qi Control whenever possible.
• Shi Hen agreed to guide Huang Xiao while staying at the Heavenly Demon Hall, whose allies hoped Huang Xiao would compete for the Hall Master's Seat.
• Huang Xiao tried Sound Art Qi Control in his secret chamber and detected the body-strengthening sensation on his first attempt.

Huang Xiao struggled to cultivate Sound Art Qi Control and reflected on the limited time he had to prepare for his life-or-death Hall Master Contest against Pang Yi. After days of comparing the technique with Sound Art Qi Transformation, he crossed the latter’s threshold but knew it was not yet strong enough for combat.

• Huang Xiao maintained Sound Art Qi Control for three shichen before fatigue forced him to stop, and he realized how demanding it was on his divine sense.
• Huang Xiao considered Senior Shi’s formidable divine sense and the potential power of combining divine sense attacks with Sound Art.
• Huang Xiao worried that he had too little time to master his cultivation methods before the Hall Master Contest, while Pang Yi continued building strength with the Pang Family’s support.
• Huang Xiao began studying Sound Art Qi Transformation and conserved his Longevity Pill’s aura by relying on Imperishable True Qi to recover from his injuries.
• After several days of comparing Sound Art Qi Control with Sound Art Qi Transformation, Huang Xiao crossed the latter’s threshold and decided to find someone to practice with.

Huang Xiao sought a strong sparring partner to test Sound Art Qi Transformation, and Shi Hen agreed to prepare Fan Liya for the role. After setting up a formation that kept Fan Liya from attacking anyone outside it, Shi Hen brought Huang Xiao to confront him.

• Huang Xiao found that the disciples he used for practice were too weak and badly injured, so he chose the imprisoned Fan Liya as a sparring partner.
• Wu Cang, Yin Huju, and Liu Jiong warned Huang Xiao about the risks, and Huang Xiao decided to consult Shi Hen.
• Shi Hen approved the plan and took Huang Xiao to Fan Liya's secluded courtyard, explaining how to pass through its existing formations.
• Shi Hen spent two hours setting up a formation that prevented Fan Liya from attacking anyone outside it, allowing Huang Xiao to practice from a safe distance.
• Shi Hen entered Fan Liya's room and offered him a chance to stretch his limbs, enraging Fan Liya, whose acupoints remained sealed.

Shi Hen brought Fan Liya to a formation and restored his ability to move so Huang Xiao could practice his sound art on him. Fan Liya realized Huang Xiao’s technique weakened true qi and began plotting to exploit him if Shi Hen left.

• Fan Liya refused to serve as Huang Xiao’s sparring partner, but Shi Hen moved him into a formation prepared for Huang Xiao.
• Shi Hen unsealed Fan Liya’s acupoints, restoring his strength, and told Huang Xiao to begin practicing.
• Huang Xiao used Sound Art Qi Transformation from outside the formation, and Fan Liya felt his true qi being affected.
• Fan Liya recognized that Huang Xiao’s sound art could weaken true qi and hoped to use Huang Xiao against Shi Hen if he got the chance.