Recaps

Huo Lian exchanged knowledge with Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu about Kui Yong and the flames needed to reforge the Supreme Demon Saber. His investigation of Huang Xiao's treasures confirmed that they retained different flames, while the secret behind the seven Supreme Treasures remained unresolved.

• Huo Lian withheld the Three Evil Blades while Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu shared cultivation knowledge and linked the needed flames to the Supreme Treasures.
• Fan Zhuolang met Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui, taught them cultivation methods, and let them remain with Huo Lian.
• Fan Zhuolang described Kui Yong's overwhelming strength, and Huo Lian revealed how Kui Yong used the Demon Refining Formula to control successive Demon Hall Masters and harvest their essence blood.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu postponed seeking Senior Xuan Tu's release and left for the Three Immortal Mountains after Fan Zhuolang explained the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art to Huo Lian.
• Huo Lian secured Yan Youwang's agreement to return to the Ghost Spirit Sect and then borrowed Huang Xiao's Supreme Ghost Stele to investigate its flame.
• Huo Lian used his essence blood to discover Hellfire within the Supreme Ghost Stele after Huang Xiao suggested the approach.
• Huang Xiao revealed the Supreme Evil Crystal and Supreme Demon Pearl, and Huo Lian confirmed that they contained the Netherworld Flame and the Flame of Annihilation.
• Huo Lian kept the Supreme Evil Crystal's whereabouts secret, taught Huang Xiao the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, and said the seven Supreme Treasures held an earth-shattering secret.

Huang Xiao’s allies gathered around Jiang Liuli’s newborn son while the Imperial Remnant Manor destroyed the Demon Spirit Sect and seized its survivors. Huo Lian then set Huang Xiao to replace the Supreme Demon Wall’s core, and Huang Xiao completed the swap before Wu Renping appeared.

• Jiang Liuli gave birth to a boy and named him Jiang Xie, while Wu Xuancang nicknamed him Xiaoxie and Fan Zhuolang agreed to nurture him at the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu allied with Wu Xuancang’s group and decided to help preserve the Heavenly Evil Sect by raising Little Xie.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly led the Imperial Remnant Manor’s attack on the Demon Spirit Sect, captured Du Fuzhou and other disciples, and ordered the sect burned.
• Huang Xiao and Shi Hen learned that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had destroyed the Demon Spirit Sect to draw out Zuo Qiu Shu, and Huang Xiao resolved to pursue the Demon Hall Master’s Seat.
• Ou Jin examined the Supreme Ghost Stele and found Hellfire, but said they needed more of it to reforge the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao a demonized divine beast core and ordered him to replace the Supreme Demon Wall’s core without being detected.
• Huang Xiao entered Demon Refining Valley, freed the Supreme Demon Core, and installed the demonized core in its place.
• Huang Xiao hid the stolen core and prepared to use his remaining time for Demonic Qi infusion, but Wu Renping appeared behind him.

Huang Xiao prepared for a rematch with Pang Yi that could determine support for the Hall Master's Seat contest. Their duel ended without a victor when lightning sent Huang Xiao into a hidden formation, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Wu Renping assessed Huang Xiao's strength in Demon Refining Valley, and Shi Hen warned Huang Xiao that his rematch with Pang Yi could decide which factions supported him.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu visited Little Xie, and Fan Zhuolang agreed to guide the women's Combined Strike Method after watching their formations.
• Huang Xiao failed to reach the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill, and Huo Lian supplied a Blood Overflow Pill and Essence Blood to sustain his forbidden art.
• Pang Ji abruptly scheduled the match at Supreme Demon Peak, and Huo Lian agreed to leave Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fighting without witnesses.
• Huang Xiao burned essence blood against Pang Yi, who repeatedly raised his suppressed cultivation to Peak Dao Realm strength during their prolonged battle.
• Huo Lian and Pang Ji interrupted before Pang Yi's final move, but lightning shattered the cliff beneath Huang Xiao and swallowed him as he fell.
• Huo Lian and the other experts discovered layered formations below the cliff but found no trace of Huang Xiao.
• Huo Lian suggested that Huang Xiao had entered Kui Yong's seclusion site to preserve his alliance, then privately admitted that Huang Xiao's survival remained uncertain.

Huang Xiao uncovered Kui Yong’s recorded memories in a hidden chamber while Hong Yi risked his life to absorb the Dragon Crystal, and Dugu Sheng formed a deep connection with the Xuanyuan Sword. Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly learned that Xuan Tu did not know Zuo Qiu Yi’s whereabouts, and Xuan Tu fled to protect the Divine Beast Holy Land’s surviving juniors.

• Huo Lian explained that Huang Xiao would have to rely on himself in the formation, then went with Shi Hen to search for the Supreme Treasures at the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Huang Xiao survived in the concealed valley, found a hidden cave, and activated its chamber using Supreme Demonic Qi.
• Huang Xiao watched Kui Yong’s memories of ancient battles, his founding of the Demon Hall, and the Righteous-Demon War, learning how the Supreme Demon Saber’s soul became tied to the imitation Minghong Saber.
• Huo Lian recovered the Supreme Demon Pearl and Supreme Evil Crystal but could not find the Supreme Ghost Stele, while Demon Phoenix traveled with him toward Mist Mountain.
• The Divine Beast Holy Land’s Big Brother and Second Brother decided to let Hong Yi use the Dragon Crystal, and Hong Yi endured its power while advancing Subduing Dragon Palm and developing dragon-scale patterns.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly discovered that Dugu Sheng had formed a mind-to-mind connection with Xuanyuan Sword and warned that surviving its Sword Dao imprints would not guarantee he could absorb them.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly pressed Xuan Tu about Zuo Qiu Yi, but Xuan Tu said he did not know where he had gone and believed he had followed the ruthlessness Dao after learning of the coming Great Upheaval.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly attacked Xuan Tu, but he escaped toward Huo Lian to protect the Divine Beast Holy Land’s surviving juniors.