Recaps

Huang Xiao prepared for and lost his match against Pang Yi, while secretly concealing his healing ability and full strength. After gaining limited support from the Ten Thousand Demons Hall, he traveled to the Mixed Demon Sect, where the Heavenly Demon Hall launched an invasion.

• Shi Hen arranged a match between Huang Xiao and Pang Yi, then taught Huang Xiao Sound Arts and Controlling Qi Through Sound Art to strengthen his true qi.
• Huang Xiao fought Pang Yi in the arena, endured severe injuries, and deliberately allowed Pang Yi to win without revealing his full healing ability.
• Huang Xiao recovered in secret, gave Wei Yidao pills for the Heavenly Demon Hall, and learned from Shi Hen about the struggle over the Hall Master’s Seat.
• Chu Fanyin secured limited Ten Thousand Demons Hall support for Huang Xiao, while a dispute over Yao Renwu’s appointment delayed Wei Yidao’s plans.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang traveled toward the Mixed Demon Sect, where they encountered Pang Rushan and reunited with Liu Jiong’s force.
• Huang Xiao ordered the group to spare Chao Lingyi’s father, then led the Heavenly Demon Hall forces in an assault on the Mixed Demon Sect.
• Chao Mu hurried to meet the invaders, fearing the sect’s defection to the God-Burying Hall had been exposed.

Huang Xiao destroyed the Mixed Demon Sect despite Pang Rushan’s intervention, while Wei Yidao’s breakthrough reshaped the struggle with the God-Burying Hall faction. Huang Xiao then sought his own breakthrough under a newly imposed Regent Elder, as the six women learned his whereabouts and faced uncertainty at the convent.

• Huang Xiao wounded Pang Rushan and forced his withdrawal, then destroyed the Mixed Demon Sect as Chao Lingyi killed her father.
• Huang Xiao distributed the sect’s treasures and kept an incomplete sheepskin map found among its possessions.
• Wei Yidao defeated Ma Jing, Pang Ruyuan, and Wu Renping, revealed his Shattering-Void Realm breakthrough, and secured punishment for those implicated in Yao Renwu’s affair.
• Huang Xiao gave Spirit-Restoring Pills to Wu Cang, Yin Huju, and Yue Cheng, and Yin Huju reached the Enlightenment Realm.
• Wei Yidao returned with Zhou Daohang’s imposed appointment and warned Huang Xiao that Pang Yi had reached the tenth stage of the God-Burying Demonic Art.
• Huang Xiao forced Zhou Daohang to acknowledge his authority, appointed Yin Huju to Liang Chenghao’s former post, and warned his allies of Zhou Daohang’s allegiance to the Pang Family.
• Huang Xiao resumed his tenth-stage cultivation attempts, reached the threshold of the Martial Realm, and instructed Chao Lingyi to keep his breakthrough secret.
• Fanlin told the six women about Huang Xiao, and Li Bai confirmed his identity while asking a hesitant Abbess Jingluo to let them remain at the convent.

Huang Xiao advanced into the Martial Realm while Huo Lian drew Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Zhongkun into a plan involving the Evil Water Region and the three Ancient Evil Blades. The arc left Huang Xiao traveling with Huo Lian toward Mist Mountain, while an old man took the trapped Demon Phoenix away.

• Abbess Jingluo agreed to keep Huang Xiao’s six wives in the Penglai Mystic Domain and teach them, while Senior Wu planned to seek out Huo Lian and Imperial Remnant Manor.
• Tan Ming revealed Dugu Sheng’s connection to the Xuanyuan Sword, and Dugu Sheng accepted Tan Ming as his master.
• Huo Lian sent Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Zhongkun into the Evil Water Region to seek the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art and ordered them to kill Zhangsun Youyue and Jiang Liuli.
• The three families’ forebears intervened, and Old Man Zhu persuaded the others to hide the women instead of killing them, and Jiang Liuli and Zhangsun Youyue then wounded Fan Zhongkun when he attacked.
• Huang Xiao broke through to the Martial Realm, refined three strands of Supreme Demonic Qi, and received a Dao Realm-level Imitation Saber from the Demon Hall.
• Huang Xiao practiced the Seventh Form, then left with Wei Yidao through a secret passage to meet Huo Lian, who concealed his departure and took him along.
• Huo Lian identified Huang Xiao’s map as pointing toward Mist Mountain, connected it to Chao Hun’s supreme demonic qi, and burned it, and meanwhile, an old man stopped Demon Phoenix from escaping and offered to take it away.

Huo Lian revealed the Demon Hall’s hidden powers to Wu Xuancang and secured support for Huang Xiao, whose formation training strengthened his Divine Sense. Huo Lian then confronted the Tomb Clan and offered to help its experts escape confinement while questioning the Pang Family’s control of the Demon Hall.

• Huo Lian told Wu Xuancang about surviving Demon Hall Masters and the Tomb Clan, and warned that the first Hall Master might still be alive at full strength.
• Wu Xuancang offered the Three Immortal Mountains’ support for Huang Xiao after Huo Lian warned of the danger facing their forces during the Thousand-Year Period.
• Huo Lian agreed to teach Huang Xiao the later stages of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and explained that their two Minghong Sabers contained the saber body and its original soul.
• Huo Lian brought Huang Xiao to a hidden formation that could enable a return to the Central Plains and used its pressure to train his Divine Sense.
• Huang Xiao repaired and strengthened his injured Divine Sense with the Upper Clarity Scripture and Heart Fire, then surpassed Huo Lian’s formation endurance test.
• Huo Lian arranged outside support for Huang Xiao’s cultivation, while Demon Phoenix warned Huang Xiao that his patriarch might threaten Zhangsun Youyue and Jiang Liuli.
• Huo Lian followed a fragmentary map through Mist Mountain, discovered Chao Hun cultivating beside leaking supreme demonic qi, and reached the Tomb Clan’s hidden valley.
• Huo Lian challenged Mo Pozheng over the Pang Family and the leaking formation, and Mo Pozheng admitted that the Tomb Clan had distributed maps to attract outsiders and seek escape.