Recaps

Huang Xiao survived a succession of battles over the Jade Slip, relying on his new flame-refined true qi before the Masked Old Man claimed him as a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Hall. The arc ended with Demon Phoenix battling Jiang Wei and the Heavenly Evil Sect beside the lava lake.

• Huang Xiao killed Jia Kong and several attackers, then crippled Xiang Guiqing before Elder Gu took Xiang Guiqing’s Jade Slip.
• Yue Cheng and Yin Huju arrived to aid Huang Xiao, but more factions targeted him for his Jade Slip and he fought Hu Kelie, Yong Xing, and Xiang Guiqing.
• Sword God Yi challenged Huang Xiao, wounded him badly, and drove him to draw on Flame Essence to refine his true qi.
• Wang Jiu arrived and killed Sword Pavilion experts while Huang Xiao and Fan Zhongkun escaped, but a God-Burying Hall elder soon demanded Inugami from Fan Zhongkun.
• The Masked Old Man stopped the Demon Hall elders, revealed that he was the former Hall Master, and declared Huang Xiao one of his disciples.
• The Masked Old Man instructed Huang Xiao to refine his true qi in secret, took the Minghong Saber for safekeeping, and brought Demon Phoenix to the lava lake to absorb Flame Essence.
• The Masked Old Man argued that the Ancient Evil Blades belonged to the Three Great Evil Dao Lineages, while Demon Phoenix summoned a magma phoenix against the crowd.
• Demon Phoenix used the magma phoenix to kill Heavenly Evil Sect experts, then attacked Jiang Wei as the Masked Old Man told Wang Jiu not to intervene.

Huo Lian revealed his identity and sought a way home while keeping Demon Phoenix under his control. Huang Xiao joined the Heavenly Demon Hall, survived the Demon Refining Valley, and reached the Void Martial Realm in time to continue competing with Pang Yi for the Hall Master's Seat.

• The Masked Old Man protected Wang Jiu and Fan Zhongkun and promised to reveal their families' secret site after they gathered all three Ancient Evil Blades.
• The Masked Old Man revealed himself as Huo Lian, tested both Minghong Sabers in a hidden formation, and sought Ou Jin's help to make the formation take him home.
• Huo Lian confined Demon Phoenix for cultivation after admitting his role in capturing its elders and urged Li Bai to have his ancestor search for a way back.
• Huang Xiao entered the Demon Hall, received recognition as a Heavenly Demon Hall candidate for the Hall Master's Seat, and gained permission to enter Demon Refining Valley.
• Huang Xiao used heart fire to refine the valley's demonic qi and reached closer to the Supreme Demon Wall than Pang Yi had.
• Wei Yidao defended Huang Xiao against Pang Ruhuo and Pang Ruyuan, then gave him one month to match Pang Yi's breakthrough to the Void Martial Realm.
• Huang Xiao refined his true qi with Demon Blood Pills but suffered cultivation deviation during a premature breakthrough attempt and recovered with Yue Cheng and Yin Huju's help.
• Huang Xiao steadied his state of mind, reached the Void Martial Realm by the deadline, and received the tenth and eleventh volumes of the Heavenly Demon Skill from Wei Yidao.

Huang Xiao cultivated with the Replica Wall and trained under Yue Cheng and Yin Huju while preparations began for a contest over the Longevity Pill Manual’s Jade Slips. Wei Yidao appointed him master of Free and Easy Hall and ordered him to compete, then sent him to claim supreme-grade Demon Spirit Armor.

• Wei Yidao withheld the twelfth stage pending Huang Xiao’s proof of worthiness and granted him access to a Replica Wall rich in supreme demonic qi.
• Huang Xiao used heart fire to extract the Previous Hall Master’s essence blood aura from Supreme Demonic Qi and partially refined the remaining qi.
• Yue Cheng and Yin Huju trained Huang Xiao with a heavy saber, and Huang Xiao consolidated the first five forms without depending on recovery pills.
• Chao Lingyi confessed that the Mixed Demon Sect had ordered her to spy on Huang Xiao, and he promised to destroy it if he became Hall Master.
• Li Bai confirmed Huo Lian’s survival to Pei Lingsha and proposed a Jade Slip contest to lure Huang Xiao out and obtain his broken saber.
• Bishui Palace agreed to surrender its Jade Slip for a younger disciples’ contest, and Li Bai offered to guide Zhangsun Youyue before her one-month strength test.
• Wei Yidao approved Huang Xiao’s Free and Easy Hall, ordered him to pursue Liu Chongming’s Jade Slip, and assigned Qin Lu, Yin Huju, and Yue Cheng to protect him.
• Huang Xiao presented the Heavenly Demon Order at the Nine-Story Pavilion and requested supreme-grade Demon Spirit Armor, leaving Liu Chen struggling to respond.

Huang Xiao pursued the Jade Slip of the Longevity Pill Manual while the Heavenly Demon Hall uncovered Chao Hun’s treachery and Chao Hun sought a way to seize Huang Xiao’s Heavenly Demon Skill. In Yizhou, Huang Xiao confronted the God-Burying Hall after one of its disciples killed a woman.

• Qin Lu reclaimed the supreme-grade Demon Spirit Armor from Liu Chen, and Yin Huju became overseer of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion while Huang Xiao chose instruments and learned about the Heavenly Demon Hall’s sound arts.
• Huang Xiao traveled with Yin Huju and Yue Cheng to the Mixed Demon Sect, where Chao Jin resisted their requests and the group rescued a woman whom Huang Xiao chose as his maidservant.
• Qin Lu investigated the Mixed Demon Sect’s blood-pool sacrifices and confronted Chao Hun, who killed him, refined his blood, and began using essence blood to strengthen his Supreme Demonic Qi.
• Chao Hun slaughtered his own disciples and followers, then sent Chao Huo, Chao Tu, and sixteen Mixed Demon Sect fighters with Huang Xiao while privately plotting to obtain Huang Xiao’s Heavenly Demon Skill.
• Huang Xiao learned that Liu Chongming planned to trade the Jade Slip of the Longevity Pill Manual and traveled toward Yizhou, where he mastered the sixth form of his saber technique and disciplined a disrespectful King Yama Sect elder.
• At the gathering town, Huang Xiao found a woman dead beside a God-Burying Hall disciple, killed the disciple, and challenged Lu Yi when he objected to the killing.
• Pang Yi arrived with Ye He and other God-Burying Hall members, and Huang Xiao blamed Lu Yi for failing to supervise a disciple who had neglected their mission and killed the woman.