Recaps

Qingfeng protected the frightened Soaring Immortal Fruit and cultivated with it as events moved toward the Demon Hall contest. Huang Xiao emerged from a broken formation with a hidden opportunity, outmaneuvered Pang Ji, and revealed how the memory images had strengthened his martial arts.

• Qingfeng discovered an alchemy chamber and learned that the ripening Soaring Immortal Fruit could be used to refine a Longevity Pill, but he promised the frightened fruit he would protect it.
• Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit began cultivating together, while Zhu Fancheng struggled with the formation seal and the Jianghu anticipated the Demon Hall contest.
• Xuan Tu met Huo Lian and shared information about the formation and the Divine Beast Holy Land, while Huo Lian kept Demon Phoenix in seclusion and the Jianghu settled into a period of peace.
• Fan Xiu put Huang Xie through strict training as Wang Mizong and Jiang Liuli supported him, while Huang Xiao spent four years studying the First Hall Master's memories and reached the Dao Realm.
• Pang Ji broke the weakened formation and confronted Huang Xiao over its supposed treasures, but Huang Xiao claimed there was nothing inside and led Pang Ji and Shi Hen to the Stone Gate Relief.
• Pang Ji claimed the relief for the Demon Hall and barred others from studying it, while Huang Xiao privately told Huo Lian and Shi Hen that the real opportunity lay elsewhere.
• Huang Xiao explained that Supreme Demonic Qi unlocked memory images of the ancient battle and revealed that the First Hall Master had survived it, while Pang Ji remained fixated on the relief.
• Huang Xiao displayed his mastery of the Twelfth Stage of the Heavenly Demon Skill and explained that the memories had helped him refine his techniques, prompting Shi Hen to offer a sparring match.

Huo Lian revealed Kui Yong’s scheme to harvest the Hall Masters’ essence blood and prepared Huang Xiao to win the Hall Master's Seat and resist his control. Huang Xiao and Pang Yi advanced past the contest’s first round, and ghost qi erupted as their final contest was announced.

• Huang Xiao demonstrated his improved moves and fourth stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration to Huo Lian and Shi Hen.
• Huo Lian revealed Kui Yong’s control over the Hall Masters and instructed Huang Xiao to use the Blood Exhaustion Method to break free after winning the seat.
• Huang Xiao gave Huo Lian the Supreme Demon Core and drew Kui Yong’s Memory Images, deepening his understanding while helping Huo Lian and Shi Hen study them.
• Huo Lian learned that the contest had been advanced, granted Wei Yidao an opportunity to gain temporary Pseudo-Void Realm strength, and gave Huang Xiao three Blood Overflow Pills.
• Huang Xiao mastered the Ghost-Riding Technique on the journey to the Main Hall, where Huo Lian was barred from entering.
• Huang Xiao, Pang Yi, and Yang Tun entered Mo Pozheng’s first-round test and endured increasing pressure inside separate barriers.
• Yang Tun struck Huang Xiao and Pang Yi with hidden darts before leaving the arena eliminated, while their armor limited their injuries.
• Mo Pozheng announced the final contest between Huang Xiao and Pang Yi, and ghost qi erupted in the Martial Arts Arena.

Huang Xiao fought Pang Yi for the Hall Master's Seat, overcoming his forbidden arts and surviving a seemingly fatal blow. Mo Pozheng declared Huang Xiao the new Hall Master, and the arena formation sent him to the Mysterious Land as Pang Ji failed to stop his succession.

• Mo Pozheng ruled that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi had to surrender their armor and hidden weapons, then began their duel after Huang Xiao handed over the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Pang Yi used the Supreme Demonic Art and his control of heaven and earth momentum to suppress Huang Xiao, but Huang Xiao countered with Imperishable True Qi, refined techniques, and the Fourth Stage of Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Pang Yi activated the Ten-Thousand Interception Method to reach the pseudo-Shattering-Void Realm, while both fighters endured grave injuries and Huang Xiao repeatedly returned to the attack.
• Mo Pozheng ordered the fighters to demonstrate their saber techniques, and Huang Xiao's improved Ninth Strike forced Pang Yi to expend more power before Pang Yi swallowed the Pang Family's Supreme Demon Pill.
• Huang Xiao restored his strength and refined demonic qi within himself, then used Feng He's Ghost-Riding Technique to disrupt Pang Yi, whose shattered Supreme Demon Pill left him badly damaged.
• Pang Yi struck Huang Xiao over the heart and was knocked out of the arena by Huang Xiao's counterattack, but Huang Xiao rose again and demonstrated the Demon Spirit Sect's Flesh and Blood Regeneration Method.
• Mo Pozheng declared Huang Xiao the winner and new Hall Master, then used the Supreme Demon Token to suppress Pang Ji as the arena formation prepared to transport Huang Xiao.
• Pang Ji broke through much of the token's suppression but stopped when he touched the arena formation, and Huang Xiao vanished into the Mysterious Land as Mo Pozheng prepared for his return and installation.

Huang Xiao gained power in Kui Yong’s Ice Chamber, rejected Kui Yong’s demand for the Longevity Chapter, and allied with Huo Lian to resist the Demon Refining Formula and Kui Yong’s plans. He stayed away from the Demon Hall and joined Demon Phoenix to strengthen his Heart Fire, agreeing that killing might be necessary before they returned to the Jianghu.

• Pang Ji asked Shi Hen to arrange a meeting with Huo Lian, then sacrificed his own life-extending preparation to keep Pang Yi alive in the Cold Pool.
• In Kui Yong’s Ice Chamber, Huang Xiao endured the formation’s body transformation and absorbed powerful essence blood, which greatly increased his strength.
• Kui Yong demanded the Longevity Chapter, but Huang Xiao refused, destroyed Kui Yong’s strand of divine sense, learned the Supreme Demonic Art and Supreme Demon Saber Technique, and returned early from the Ice Chamber.
• Huang Xiao left the Demon Hall without holding his enthronement ceremony, met Huo Lian, and told him about the Longevity Chapter and Kui Yong’s plans.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian agreed to join forces, exchanging the Longevity Chapter for Huo Lian’s complete Heavenly Demon Indestructible method and discussing how Heart Fire might reverse the Demon Refining Formula.
• Huo Lian discovered that old injuries made it unsafe for him to ignite Heart Fire, while Huang Xiao strengthened his own Heart Fire and reversed up to a third of his refined true qi.
• Huang Xiao summoned Demon Phoenix, who nurtured his Heart Fire and increased its quantity by twenty percent, but said further improvement would require greater power.
• Demon Phoenix proposed killing people to strengthen Huang Xiao’s Essence Blood, and Huang Xiao agreed they might have no other choice after he consolidated his strength.