Recaps

Huang Xiao faced Wu Renping, a Shattering-Void Realm elder aligned with the Pang Family, while cultivating with the Supreme Demon Wall's supreme demonic qi. Wu Renping stayed nearby to distract him, leaving Huang Xiao wary as he tried to cultivate.

• Huang Xiao greeted Wu Renping without bowing, and Wu Renping expressed displeasure at the slight.
• Huang Xiao said he would defeat Pang Yi, while Wu Renping said he looked forward to their contest.
• Wu Renping chose to cultivate at the far end of the stone wall, and Huang Xiao felt relieved by the distance.
• Huang Xiao began cultivating while keeping part of his attention on Wu Renping.
• Wu Renping watched Huang Xiao and intended to pressure him and interfere with his cultivation during the final day.

Huang Xiao kept Wu Renping from discovering the hidden demonized Divine Beast core while Wu Renping assessed his strength and reported that he had Dao Realm power. After Wu Renping left, Shi Hen returned with news that the Supreme Elder wanted Huang Xiao to spar with Pang Yi again before the Hall Master Contest.

• Huang Xiao endured Wu Renping's observation in Demon Refining Valley without letting him discover anything unusual about the core.
• Wu Renping concluded that Huang Xiao had Dao Realm strength and left to report his findings to the Pang Family.
• Huang Xiao told Zhu Xing E that Wu Renping had entered the valley, and Zhu warned him that the Pang Family might still target him through secret means.
• Huang Xiao reflected that he could use the Supreme Demonic Core to cultivate once he returned to the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Shi Hen returned from meeting the Supreme Elder and told Huang Xiao that he was expected to spar with Pang Yi again before the Hall Master Contest.

Shi Hen explained why Pang Ji had arranged another spar between Huang Xiao and Pang Yi, and warned Huang Xiao that his Blood Exhaustion Method could leave him exposed in a prolonged fight. The outcome remained uncertain, depending on whether Huang Xiao could outlast Pang Yi’s temporarily restored strength.

• Zhu Xing E questioned Shi Hen about allowing Huang Xiao and Pang Yi to spar again before the Hall Master's Seat contest, and Shi Hen said Pang Ji had insisted.
• Shi Hen explained that Pang Ji's Ten-Thousand Interception Method could temporarily restore Pang Yi's suppressed cultivation so he could prepare for his future strength.
• Shi Hen suspected Pang Ji wanted Pang Yi to defeat Huang Xiao and calm Demon Hall members who had begun to doubt Pang Yi after Huang Xiao's recent achievements.
• Shi Hen warned Huang Xiao that his depleted essence blood could make his strength collapse during a long fight and reveal the aftereffects of the Blood Exhaustion Method.
• Zhu Xing E pointed out that Pang Yi's restored strength might also be temporary, and Shi Hen said this would only become a weakness if Huang Xiao proved strong enough to exploit it.

Shi Hen explained why Huang Xiao needed to treat his upcoming spar with Pang Yi as a crucial test of strength and support ahead of the Hall Master Contest. Huang Xiao accepted that he had to fight hard, while Shi Hen set a narrow defeat as the minimum acceptable result and hoped Huang Xiao would surprise them with a win.

• Zhu Xing E and Shi Hen noted that Huang Xiao remained disadvantaged against Pang Yi, and Shi Hen said he would seek treasures to store essence blood while Huang Xiao cultivated in seclusion.
• Shi Hen proposed claiming that Huang Xiao used a forbidden art from the Hall Master to explain replenishing his essence blood.
• Shi Hen told Huang Xiao to treat the spar as the actual Hall Master Contest because the result could change which factions supported him.
• Huang Xiao realized that losing badly could cost him crucial allies and said he had to win.
• Shi Hen set Huang Xiao's minimum goal as forcing Pang Yi into a desperate fight before narrowly losing, while hoping Huang Xiao would instead shock the Pang Family with a victory.

Huang Xiao entered Shi Hen’s secret chamber to cultivate, while Wu Renping reported his assessment of Huang Xiao to the anxious Pang Family. At a family assembly, Pang Tiangang said Pang Yi was stronger for now but believed Huang Xiao would surpass him in the future.

• Shi Hen sent Huang Xiao to cultivate in his secret chamber and offered him access to its pills.
• Wu Renping told the Pang Family that Huang Xiao had Entering Dao Realm strength and might reach Dao Realm through special means.
• Pang Family members pressed Pang Tiangang to assess Pang Yi’s strength and the threat Huang Xiao posed.
• Pang Tiangang said Pang Yi remained stronger than Huang Xiao but predicted Huang Xiao would surpass him.
• Pang Tianjiu rejected Pang Tiangang’s prediction, and Pang Tiangang recalled that Pang Yi had once been considered invincible among his peers and the likely next Hall Master.

Pang Tiangang warned the Pang Family that Huang Xiao’s rapid growth could soon threaten Pang Yi, but urged them to obey the Supreme Elder’s ban on interfering. At the Three Immortal Mountains, Zuo Qiu Shu wanted to confront Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, while Fan Zhuolang persuaded her to wait and invited her to meet the Heavenly Evil Sect’s successor.

• Pang Tiangang told Pang Juyi and the other Pang Family members that Huang Xiao might surpass Pang Yi within ten years, and warned them not to act against him.
• Pang Tiangang compared the current rivalry to the Supreme Elder’s past contest with Huo Lian, and Pang Juyi agreed that the family should wait for the sparring match’s result.
• Pang Tianjiu angrily left after Pang Juyi supported Pang Tiangang’s advice to do nothing.
• Zuo Qiu Shu insisted on confronting Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly for harming the Demon Spirit Sect, but Fan Zhuolang warned that she might be baiting Zuo Qiu Shu to draw out her big brother.
• Fan Zhuolang invited Zuo Qiu Shu to see the successor found for the Heavenly Evil Sect.

Zuo Qiu Shu and Fan Zhuolang reflected on how ten thousand years of slumber had given them a chance to begin anew, then went to visit month-old Little Xie. The elders doted on the baby, while Zhangsun Youyue watched Wang Mizong reveal a gentler side than she had known.

• Zuo Qiu Shu told Fan Zhuolang that the long-lived pair had grown distant from younger generations and felt their hearts had grown old.
• Fan Zhuolang persuaded Zuo Qiu Shu to visit Little Xie in the Penglai Mystic Domain, and they agreed that waking after ten thousand years felt like living anew.
• You Lian'er soothed Little Xie by slapping his bottom, then made him giggle by rubbing her cheek against his.
• Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong arrived and took turns holding Little Xie, who grabbed Zhu Fanjiang's beard.
• Wang Mizong carried Little Xie around and cooed to him, surprising Zhangsun Youyue, who remembered him as the most hot-tempered of the three men.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu visited the women and Little Xie, and both were quickly charmed by the baby. After Little Xie urinated on Fan Zhuolang, Zuo Qiu Shu took over diapering him and began teaching the women how to care for a child.

• Zhu Fanjiang introduced Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu as ancestors from ten thousand years ago, and the women bowed respectfully.
• Zuo Qiu Shu held Little Xie and delighted in him, then reluctantly let Fan Zhuolang hold him too.
• Little Xie peed on Fan Zhuolang's chest, leaving the mighty expert stunned while Zhao Yunhui offered to wipe him clean.
• Fan Zhuolang passed Little Xie to Xiao Yan and declined Zhao Yunhui's handkerchief.
• Zuo Qiu Shu corrected the women's diapering and began teaching them her childcare experience, leaving Fan Zhuolang astonished by her change in temperament.

Fan Zhuolang questioned Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong about the women’s Blade and Sword Combined Strike Technique and learned that Zhao Yunhui’s formation skills had made it possible for six women to fight together, with an eight-person formation still in development. He watched the six demonstrate against Fan Xiu and saw that their combined strength could challenge experts in the Entering Dao Realm.

• Fan Zhuolang asked Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong about the women’s Combined Strike Method, and Zhu Fanjiang explained how Zhao Yunhui’s formation expertise had shaped it.
• Fan Zhuolang compared the women’s developing formation with the powerful three-person Combined Strike Method he had once practiced and asked to see the women perform.
• Zhao Yunhui said that Jiang Liuli and Zhangsun Youyue had only recently joined, so the six original members demonstrated instead.
• Fan Xiu attacked the six women, who shifted formation and exchanged moves with him.
• Zhu Fanjiang and Wang Mizong judged that the six women could contend with experts in the Entering Dao Realm.

Fan Zhuolang assessed the six women's Combined Strike Method and offered to guide them in improving its moves. After seeing that adding Jiang Liuli and Zhangsun Youyue made their formation much weaker, he urged them to keep refining their approach and help them develop its potential.

• Fan Xiu escaped the six women's encirclement, and he and Fan Zhuolang praised their ability to restrain an entering Dao realm expert.
• Fan Zhuolang recognized Zhao Yunhui's formation insights and agreed to guide the women in areas beyond formations.
• Jiang Liuli and Zhangsun Youyue joined the six women to demonstrate an eight-person formation, but their lack of practice left them far weaker than the six-person team.
• Fan Zhuolang suggested splitting into smaller groups, while Zhao Yunhui explained her goal of layering the Eight Trigrams and Four Symbols.
• Fan Zhuolang told the women their formation ideas suited them but their combined moves needed improvement, and offered guidance on those moves.

Fan Zhuolang agreed to guide the eight women in their Combined Strike Method, while he and the others considered whether to teach it to potential recruits from the Three Immortal Mountains. Huang Xiao remained unable to reach the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill and faced a difficult choice about how much strength to use against Pang Yi without exposing the Longevity Chapter.

• Fan Zhuolang warned the eight women that his guidance could disrupt their harmony, but they firmly asked him to teach them.
• Zuo Qiu Shu urged the women to learn the Heavenly Evil Sect's Combined Strike Method and suggested that the Three Immortal Mountains might provide suitable candidates to master it.
• Zhu Fanjiang objected to teaching outsiders the sect's secret art, while Fan Zhuolang said he would consider younger candidates such as Li Bai or Leng Guhan's generation.
• Huang Xiao failed to break through to the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill and worried that fighting Pang Yi at full strength would reveal the Longevity Chapter.

Huang Xiao learned that Pang Ji had arranged his spar with Pang Yi to mislead Huo Lian and weaken support for Huang Xiao. Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao a Blood Overflow Pill to help him endure the aftereffects of the Blood Exhaustion Method during the fight.

• Huang Xiao worried that he could no longer explain his unusual progress by blaming the Longevity Pill and decided he might have to fight Pang Yi with everything he had.
• Shi Hen brought Huang Xiao to meet Huo Lian, who explained that Pang Ji believed Pang Yi could defeat Huang Xiao and had arranged the spar to create a false impression of Pang Yi's strength.
• Huo Lian said Pang Yi might conceal some of his strength but would not deliberately go easy on Huang Xiao, and he encouraged Huang Xiao to fight without holding back.
• Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao a jade vial containing a Blood Overflow Pill that temporarily increased the body's essence blood and could lessen the impact of the Blood Exhaustion Method's aftereffects.

Huo Lian and Shi Hen arranged Essence Blood for Huang Xiao to use with a Blood Overflow Pill before his match. The match against Pang Yi was suddenly scheduled for two hours later, leaving Huang Xiao and his allies wondering what Pang Ji was planning.

• Huo Lian explained that Huang Xiao needed Essence Blood from three Dao Realm experts to double his supply, and Shi Hen planned to gather contributions from the Hidden Demon Guard and Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao two bottles of Essence Blood and privately asked him to hand over the Supreme Demon Wall later.
• Zhu Xing E arrived with the Supreme Elder's order that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi's match would begin in two hours.
• Shi Hen was shocked by the sudden schedule, and Huo Lian wondered what Pang Ji was playing at.

Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and Shi Hen hurried to Supreme Demon Peak for Huang Xiao’s rematch with Pang Yi after Pang Ji gave them only an hour’s notice. They reached the summit before Pang Ji arrived, joining a crowd of Demon Hall experts gathered to watch.

• Shi Hen questioned the short notice, but Huo Lian agreed to the match because waiting would not improve Huang Xiao’s chances.
• Zhu Xing E said the match would take place at Supreme Demon Peak, and Huo Lian realized Pang Ji had chosen the location so he could attend without entering the dangerous Main Hall formations.
• Huang Xiao said he was prepared to fight whether the match happened in an hour or several days, and Huo Lian praised his composure.
• Demon Hall experts headed toward Supreme Demon Peak, with more of them favoring Huang Xiao than before, while still more backed Pang Yi.
• Huang Xiao and the others reached the summit, where over a hundred experts had gathered; Pang Ji had not yet arrived.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi prepared to fight on Supreme Demon Peak, but Pang Ji proposed that everyone retreat halfway down the mountain so the duelists could keep their trump cards secret. The chapter left Huo Lian accepting the arrangement while challenging Pang Ji over a possible flaw in the Ten-Thousand Interception Method.

• Huo Lian waited with Huang Xiao and the other Demon Hall experts on Supreme Demon Peak, while Huang Xiao reflected on the danger of judging strength by aura alone.
• Pang Ji arrived with Pang Yi and several Pang Family experts, and Huo Lian accused him of arranging the match at the peak to make him witness Huang Xiao's defeat.
• Pang Ji proposed that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight alone on the summit while everyone else retreated halfway down the mountain.
• Pang Ji explained that watching the duel could reveal the fighters' secret techniques and give their elders an advantage in preparing them for the Hall Master's Seat contest.
• Huo Lian said he trusted Huang Xiao, then accused Pang Ji of fearing that he would discover a fatal flaw in the Ten-Thousand Interception Method.

Pang Ji and Huo Lian agreed to let Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight without witnesses so neither side would reveal their secret techniques before the contest for the Hall Master's Seat. After Huo Lian inspected the mountain for hidden formations, everyone withdrew, leaving the two rivals alone to spar.

• Pang Ji proposed that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight unwatched to protect the secrets of their supreme forbidden arts, and Huo Lian agreed.
• Pang Ji predicted Pang Yi would win and warned him not to kill Huang Xiao, while Huo Lian challenged his confidence.
• Huang Xiao accepted the match and noted that fighting without the elders present would make it easier to conceal his secrets from Pang Yi.
• Huo Lian searched the surroundings for formations that could let Pang Ji monitor the fight and found no evidence of tampering.
• Pang Ji ordered everyone down the mountain, leaving Huang Xiao and Pang Yi to fight alone.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi faced off on the mountain summit, trading boasts and revealing that Pang Yi’s family had concealed the extent of his strength. As their match began, Huang Xiao swallowed a Blood Overflow Pill and drank the essence blood from two bottles.

• Huo Lian and the others left Huang Xiao and Pang Yi alone on the summit.
• Huang Xiao and Pang Yi taunted each other over their strength, family resources, and the coming match.
• Pang Yi explained that the Supreme Elder had suppressed his cultivation in the past, limiting the strength he could display.
• Pang Yi warned Huang Xiao that Huo Lian might be using him and could kill him to silence him.
• Huang Xiao urged Pang Yi to restore his true strength, but Pang Yi remained in the Half-Step Martial Realm as they prepared to fight.
• Huang Xiao swallowed a Blood Overflow Pill and drank the essence blood from two bottles.

Huang Xiao absorbed the essence blood’s aura and fought Pang Yi, who used a forbidden art to temporarily raise his strength from the half-step martial realm to the Dao Realm. Huang Xiao recognized the technique and pressed his attack, while Pang Yi’s brief power boosts and their limits shaped the ongoing battle.

• Huang Xiao refined the foreign essence blood’s aura with his heart fire, increasing his own essence blood by a little less than twice its previous amount.
• Pang Yi attacked Huang Xiao while appearing to remain at the half-step martial realm, and Huang Xiao answered with his combat techniques and secretly burned essence blood.
• Their palms collided, and Huang Xiao discovered that Pang Yi could briefly raise his strength to the Dao Realm before returning to the half-step martial realm.
• Huang Xiao realized Pang Yi’s technique was a forbidden art devised by Pang Ji, and Pang Yi admitted that Huang Xiao’s caution had thwarted his attempt to subdue him in one move.
• Huang Xiao launched a fierce attack, while Pang Yi raised his strength for longer and used quick exchanges to force Huang Xiao back before returning to the half-step martial realm.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi continued their mountaintop battle, each pushing his strength higher and testing how long his Forbidden Art could last. Both suffered minor injuries, and Pang Yi promised to inflict wounds Huang Xiao could not heal.

• Pang Yi revealed Peak Dao Realm strength during exchanges with Huang Xiao, then returned to the Half-Step Martial Realm when he was safe.
• Huang Xiao challenged Pang Yi to keep using his Forbidden Art, and the two acknowledged their fight would come down to whose power boost lasted longer.
• Huang Xiao increased his strength by burning more essence blood, and he and Pang Yi resumed their fierce, head-on battle across the mountaintop.
• Their blows battered the mountaintop and sent Huang Xiao staggering near the cliff, while Demon Hall experts below heard the clash.
• Huang Xiao spat blood and Pang Yi's mouth bled, but Huang Xiao trusted his Imperishable True Qi to heal him.
• Pang Yi dismissed Huang Xiao's healing ability as a petty trick and vowed to make his injuries impossible to heal.

Huang Xiao struggled to withstand Pang Yi’s steadily increasing strength, relying on his Imperishable True Qi while saving the Longevity Pill’s remaining aura. When Pang Yi pushed his Ten-Thousand Interception Method toward its limit, Huang Xiao realized Pang Yi was likely concealing strength and had not yet been driven into a desperate corner.

• Huang Xiao recognized that Pang Yi’s strength had risen beyond his expectations, while his own power was nearly exhausted from burning his essence blood.
• Huang Xiao continued resisting Pang Yi’s attacks and used his Imperishable True Qi to heal, keeping the Longevity Pill’s remaining aura in reserve.
• After an hour of fighting, Huang Xiao and Pang Yi acknowledged that each was nearing a limit, though Huang Xiao’s injuries were severe.
• Pang Yi unleashed another surge of power, and Huang Xiao sensed that his aura was becoming difficult to control.
• Huang Xiao abandoned his attempt to wait for Pang Yi’s method to collapse, realizing Pang Yi still had strength or techniques in reserve.

Huang Xiao fought Pang Yi, relying on the Longevity Pill’s aura and his Indestructible cultivation method to recover from severe injuries. As a thunderstorm intensified over Supreme Demon Peak, both fighters paused after lightning struck nearby, but Huang Xiao challenged Pang Yi to continue.

• Huang Xiao used a trace of the Longevity Pill’s aura to recover and clashed with Pang Yi, who realized his Indestructible cultivation method was unusually powerful.
• Pang Yi wounded Huang Xiao repeatedly and drove his fingers into Huang Xiao’s chest over his heart, but Huang Xiao blocked the attack with his hand and Imperishable True Qi.
• Pang Yi withdrew, and Huang Xiao stopped the bleeding as Pang Yi noted that Huang Xiao’s extra essence blood had nearly run out.
• Thunderclouds gathered over Supreme Demon Peak, and Pang Yi returned to the Peak Dao Realm as he resumed fighting Huang Xiao in the wind and rain.
• Lightning struck a nearby boulder and pine tree, prompting both fighters to withdraw; Huang Xiao then told Pang Yi to come at him again.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fought through a thunderstorm on Supreme Evil Peak until Huo Lian and Pang Ji arrived to stop them. A lightning strike shattered the cliff edge beneath Huang Xiao, and he fell with the collapsing rock when he could not control the momentum of heaven and earth.

• Huang Xiao and Pang Yi continued fighting while dodging lightning strikes, and Huang Xiao considered conceding rather than spending more of the Longevity Pill's aura.
• Pang Yi announced his final move, but Huo Lian and Pang Ji arrived with the Demon Hall experts before he could use it.
• The group saw that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi were both battered, and Huang Xiao felt relieved that Pang Yi had not defeated him.
• A storm of lightning bolts swept over the summit, and Huo Lian rushed toward Huang Xiao as Pang Ji followed.
• Lightning struck the cracked rock beneath Huang Xiao near the cliff, breaking it away; Huang Xiao leaped but fell with the rock when he could not command the momentum of heaven and earth.

Huang Xiao was swallowed by a descending net of lightning, and the Demon Hall experts believed he had died. A powerful surge from beneath the cliff revealed a grand formation, while Huo Lian insisted Huang Xiao was still alive.

• Huang Xiao regained control of the Heaven and Earth Momentum, but the lightning net descended and swallowed him as he fell.
• Huo Lian tried to break the lightning with Palm Force but failed, while Pang Ji and the other Demon Hall experts watched Huang Xiao disappear.
• A tremendous wave of air erupted from beneath the cliff, pulverizing rock fragments and revealing a grand formation below.
• The lightning and rain subsided, and the experts speculated that the formation had been left by a past Demon Hall expert and triggered by the lightning.
• Pang Ji suggested Huang Xiao might still be alive, and Huo Lian declared that he was definitely alive.

Pang Ji, Huo Lian, and the others searched for Huang Xiao at the foot of the cliff and discovered that they stood inside a hidden formation. Huo Lian concluded that multiple layers of formations concealed a secluded retreat, but said he could not break through them.

• Pang Ji and Huo Lian debated whether the lightning that struck Huang Xiao could have been part of the formation.
• The group searched the forest below the cliff but found no trace of Huang Xiao.
• Huo Lian revealed that the group stood inside a formation and briefly exposed another scene with a palm strike.
• Huo Lian explained that the upheaval had broken only the outer formation and that further layers might conceal the true retreat.
• Pang Ji suspected Huo Lian of exaggerating the formations' difficulty to return alone, but Huo Lian said breaking through could take years or prove impossible.

Huo Lian and Pang Ji argued over whether Huang Xiao had entered a seclusion site and how his return could affect the contest for the Hall Master's Seat. After leaving, Huo Lian admitted to Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E that Huang Xiao’s survival was uncertain and that he had only claimed otherwise to preserve the Heavenly Demon Hall’s unity.

• Huo Lian suggested that Huang Xiao might have entered Kui Yong’s seclusion site, giving him a major advantage over Pang Yi in the coming contest.
• Pang Ji argued that the weakening formation could be broken in a few years and said Pang Yi would become Hall Master if Huang Xiao did not return by the Thousand-Year Period.
• Pang Yi declared that Huang Xiao would not catch up to him, and Huo Lian mocked his confidence while warning that the Thousand-Year Period would bring more than Pang Ji expected.
• Huo Lian left, and the gathered Demon Hall experts dispersed.
• Shi Hen asked whether Huang Xiao had entered, and Huo Lian admitted that he was unsure and had used the claim to prevent the Heavenly Demon Hall’s alliance from falling apart.
• Huo Lian estimated Huang Xiao had about a fifty-percent chance of survival, while Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E hoped he would gain treasures from the seclusion site.