Recaps

Huang Xiao survived the destruction of Liu Qiang’s stronghold, a deadly fall, and a battle between the Golden-Winged Roc and a giant python before becoming Xuanzhenzi’s disciple at Green Ox Temple. He began learning the Everlasting Spring Art and traveled toward the Huaqing Sect, while the Jade Thumb Ring he had lost resurfaced in Boss Wu’s hands.

• Huang Xiao joined Liu Qiang’s stronghold as a teacher and studied Coiling Snake Hand, but Liu Gui’s betrayal led to the stronghold’s destruction and Liu Qiang’s fatal battle with Zhang Ma.
• Huang Xiao defeated Liu Gui, then fell from Yama Ridge with Zhang Ma during a landslide and was saved from death by the Golden-Winged Roc.
• Huang Xiao helped the Golden-Winged Roc fight the giant python, swallowed its crest’s essence blood, and was taken to Green Ox Temple after the roc fed him a Blazing Sun Fruit.
• Xuanzhenzi treated Huang Xiao with a five-hundred-year-old lingzhi, explained how the Blazing Sun Fruit and the python’s essence had altered his meridians, and accepted him as a disciple named Qingxiao.
• Huang Xiao returned to Liu Qiang’s ruined village, then resumed his studies at Green Ox Temple and began learning the Everlasting Spring Art from Xuanzhenzi.
• Xuanzhenzi agreed to give Qinghe’s Origin-Enhancing Pill to Liu Dacheng, and he traveled to the Huaqing Sect with Huang Xiao, Hu Guyi, Liu Dacheng, and Hu Qingqing.
• At the Huaqing City branch, Chen Gui showed Boss Wu a Jade Thumb Ring that Boss Wu first dismissed as ordinary before reacting with surprise.

Huang Xiao lost his master and became the new leader of the Green Ox Gate after Bai Tianqi’s attack, then met Zhao Xin’er while recovering from his injuries. He left the mountains hungry and encountered Hong Yi and Princess Yunya near Prince Jin’s Manor.

• Boss Wu recognized the engraved “Huang” on Huang Xiao’s pawned jade thumb ring and sent men to find its owner.
• In Huaqing City, Huang Xiao met Dugu Sheng and Wu Yong at Elegant Abode, where Dugu Sheng drove off three Ten Thousand Blades Sect disciples.
• Bai Tianqi demanded Xuanzhenzi’s Sixty-Year Pill, then pursued him and Huang Xiao after Xuanzhenzi escaped the Huaqing Sect.
• Xuanzhenzi fought Bai Tianqi, Hu Guyi, and Zhang Ming while poisoned, and Huang Xiao absorbed Hu Guyi’s internal power as it threatened his meridians.
• At a ruined temple, Xuanzhenzi transferred much of his internal power to Huang Xiao, taught him the Death Seal, and named him the new Green Ox Gate sect leader before dying.
• Huang Xiao met Zhao Xin’er in an abandoned temple, where she fought Du Tianchou after he poisoned her and demanded the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion’s Bliss Canon.
• Zhao Xin’er drove Du Tianchou off, then ordered Huang Xiao to leave before vanishing, and Huang Xiao later crossed the mountains and reached the area outside Huaqing Sect territory.
• Hungry in the city, Huang Xiao met Hong Yi at Princess Yunya’s almsgiving and learned that Liu Xia and his disciples belonged to the Rich Beggar Faction, unlike Hong Yi’s Poor Beggar Faction.

Huang Xiao became a Six Gates reserve constable, joined the Yellow Gate, and set out with Mu Qiang and Du Ge on an escort mission. The journey turned dangerous when Zhang Jin’s old friend died warning them of a threat, and Zhang Jin’s party faced an attack by the Demonic Path.

• Huang Xiao stayed with Hong Yi in Jin City, survived an attack by Huaqing Sect disciples, and agreed to apply as a Six Gates reserve constable.
• Huang Xiao endured Yun Feng’s tests and became the sole reserve constable, while Hong Yi and Tuoba Xing fought to a draw and Tuoba Xing joined the Six Gates as a retainer.
• Dugu Sheng told Huang Xiao that the Huaqing Sect had been destroyed amid rumors about the Scripture of Great Peace, and he and Hong Yi agreed to investigate the forces behind it.
• Princess Yunya appointed Huang Xiao, Mu Qiang, and Du Ge as constables and assigned them an escort mission to the Capital City.
• On the road, a dying man named Hu Yang gave Zhang Jin the words “heaven,” “earth,” “fortune,” and “way,” then died after warning him.
• Zhu He and more than thirty Demonic Path members confronted the party, and Zhang Jin ordered Huang Xiao to guard the carriage while he fought Zhu He.
• Zhang Jin and Zhu He exchanged powerful blows as Chen Ao and the guards fought the other attackers.

Huang Xiao helps the Third Princess escape a Demonic Path attack, then seeks treatment for a deadly poison and is led to Poison God Valley by his Black Token. He becomes the Valley Master's disciple and begins learning about the valley as Fang Du travels to Green Ox Temple to fetch Huang Xiao's senior brothers.

• Gu Yi and Pan Lang attacked Uncle Yan and the Imperial Guards, but Lü Ling helped Huang Xiao get the Third Princess away from the Demonic Path fighters.
• Huang Xiao was poisoned while driving the carriage, and the Third Princess gave him a Life-Prolonging Pill before they fled on foot and reunited with the surviving guards.
• Uncle Yan identified Huang Xiao's poison as Life-Severing Hour, so the Third Princess sent him to seek a cure at Medicine God Valley and gave him a personal letter.
• Huang Xiao followed a switched trail marker into Poison God Valley's Five Poisons Formation, where Li Yuncong found his Black Token and carried him to the valley elders.
• The Valley Master recognized Huang Xiao's Black Token and Everlasting Spring True Qi, revealed the connection between Green Ox Gate and Poison God Valley, and accepted Huang Xiao as his disciple.
• Huang Xiao settled into Lingyun Court, learned about the valley's cultivation and poison arts, and considered how his altered meridians might let him absorb power more effectively than practitioners of the Power-Devouring Poison Force.
• Fang Du took Huang Xiao to the Cultivation Archive and agreed to bring his three senior brothers to Poison God Valley, while Huang Xiao gave him Godslayer and a letter for them.
• Fang Du arrived at Green Ox Temple, where Jiang Ying identified him as an expert from Poison God Valley and heard that he had come for his three junior brothers.