Recaps

Huang Xiao traveled with Liu Tengfan to Imperial Remnant Manor, where the gathered factions deciphered the Longevity Pill Manual. The revelation that the fake Tortoise Shell Inscriptions had changed exposed Xuanyuan Song’s interest in their hidden cultivation method, and the arc left his planned ancestral offering under scrutiny.

• Pang Ruyuan entered a hidden formation in Mist Mountain, where a sealed expert took over his body and resolved to recover his strength and seek the Longevity Chapter.
• Zhu Xing E arranged for Huang Xiao to accompany Liu Tengfan to Imperial Remnant Manor, and Huang Xiao secretly settled Chao Lingyi in the Imperial City before departing.
• At Imperial Remnant Manor, Huang Xiao demonstrated his strength to Xuanyuandu and recognized Dugu Sheng, while the visiting experts clashed over their rivalries and the Longevity Jade Slips.
• Liu Tengfan traded the Demon Hall’s nine fake Tortoise Shell Inscriptions for permission for Huang Xiao to see the Xuanyuan Sword, and Xuanyuan Song used the Selection Inscription Stele to reveal the Longevity Pill Manual.
• Huang Xiao sensed that the nine fake inscriptions had changed, but Liu Tengfan said the other experts had detected nothing and learned from Xuanyuan Song that the fakes contained a core Imperial Remnant Manor cultivation method.
• Xuanyuan Song led the experts to the ancestral tombs and offered the Selection Inscription Stele and fake inscriptions in a Different Flames ritual, but the stele melted while the inscriptions remained unchanged.

The False Tortoise Shell Inscriptions released a mysterious aura, and the gathered factions traced the Longevity Pill to Mist Mountain. Huang Xiao strengthened himself near the Xuanyuan Sword and received warnings about the First Hall Master before Pang Ji made him practice the Demon Refining Formula.

• The False Tortoise Shell Inscriptions released a Longevity Pill aura, and a masked intruder escaped after confronting the Sword Master as the formation and aura vanished.
• Huo Lian identified the intruder as likely Pang Ruyuan being used by the First Hall Master and urged the factions to seek clues to opening the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Xuanyuan Xing shared the Longevity Pill Manual and granted Huang Xiao five days near the Xuanyuan Sword after Liu Tengfan traded away his own opportunity.
• Huang Xiao reunited privately with Dugu Sheng and used Heart Fire, the Ten Thousand Demons Skill, and the Upper Clarity Scripture to strengthen his true qi and Divine Sense under the sword’s pressure.
• The Tortoise-Shaped Divine Beast confirmed that the First Hall Master and Imperial Remnant Manor’s female ancestor still lived and warned Huang Xiao that the First Hall Master wanted something he possessed.
• Xuanyuan Xing and the gathered experts traced the Longevity Pill to Mist Mountain, but Huo Lian ended their joint study after accusing them of withholding clues.
• Pang Ji summoned Liu Tengfan and Huang Xiao, ordered the elders to study the manual, and rejected demands to remove Liu Tengfan from his post.
• Pang Ji made Huang Xiao practice the Demon Refining Formula despite Huo Lian’s prohibition, and Huang Xiao reported this to Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan.

Huang Xiao entered the Ghost Capital to find Essence Blood Annihilation and a way to counter the Demon Refining Formula. After surviving the Supreme Ghost Stele’s attack, he discovered the stele held a passage out and Divine Senses tied to the people in the coffins, including the ancient First Sect Master.

• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that Pang Ji had forced him to practice the Demon Refining Formula, and Huo Lian told him to keep practicing while secretly seeking a way to undo it.
• Huo Lian persuaded Yan Youwang to bring forward the Ghost Capital’s opening, and Huang Xiao used its last token to enter while Huo Lian negotiated a truce with Fan Liya and Jiang Pandong.
• Huang Xiao followed the token through the Ghost Capital’s formations to its central buildings, where a hidden passage led him to an underground burial chamber and the Supreme Ghost Stele drained his essence blood.
• The First Sect Master emerged from a stone coffin and attacked the people outside the Ghost Capital, but Huo Lian overpowered him and pursued him when he fled.
• Huang Xiao revived and searched the burial chamber, identifying the Blood Exhaustion Method as the likely Essence Blood Annihilation and suspecting it could reverse the Demon Refining Formula.
• Huang Xiao used the Supreme Evil Crystal and Supreme Demon Pearl to remove the Supreme Ghost Stele from its casing, then sealed its aura in a carved piece of stone.
• Huang Xiao discovered twenty-three Divine Senses within the Supreme Ghost Stele, fought and destroyed the strongest one, and realized it had controlled the other twenty-two.
• Huang Xiao erased one weaker Divine Sense and sensed its coffin’s occupant die, then considered whether controlling the remaining presences could put their lives in his hands.

Huang Xiao survived the Ghost Capital with the Supreme Ghost Stele, but Feng He captured him and took him toward the Longevity Pill contest. As ancient powers prepared for the contest, Du Fuzhou found the Demon Spirit Sect’s Longevity Bottle, while Jiang Liuli and the Heavenly Evil Sect elders planned for her child’s future.

• Huang Xiao escaped the Ghost Capital with the Supreme Ghost Stele, returned to the Heavenly Demon Hall, and used the Blood Exhaustion Method to restore his essence blood.
• Feng He invaded the Heavenly Demon Hall seeking Huang Xiao and the stele, then captured Huang Xiao after Huo Lian arrived and negotiated to borrow the stele for the Longevity Pill contest.
• Shi Hen arrived after Feng He had left, detained Fan Liya, and stayed to guard the damaged Heavenly Demon Hall and its hidden Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Jiang Liuli and the Heavenly Evil Sect elders decided to leave the Sword Pavilion and raise her unborn child as the sect’s successor, while planning to seek protection from the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Leng Guhan set out for the Longevity Pill contest with the Zhanlu Sword, leaving Zhou Fuqu in charge of the Sword Pavilion and asking him to watch over Jiang Liuli.
• Du Fuzhou opened the Demon Spirit Sect’s Stone Box, found the Longevity Bottle, and left for Mist Mountain with it hidden in his robes.
• Li Bai told You Lian'er, Yan Xi, Zhao Yunya, and Zhangsun Youyue that Huang Xiao was doing well and that he had good news for Yan Xi and Zhao Yunya.