Recaps

Huang Xiao became entangled in the fight over Zhang Hu and the Heavenly Demon Canon, then used its forbidden arts to defend the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion from the Peaceful Heaven Sect. After falling from a cliff and surviving with the Golden-Winged Roc’s help, he woke with his injuries healed but his internal power gone.

• Huang Xiao left Zhao Xin'er after she rejected him, then rescued Li Yuncong and learned that Medicine King Hall had attacked him.
• Huang Xiao found You Lian'er and Zhang Hu, killed Zhang Hu twice after the Heavenly Demon Canon revived him, and discovered the hidden text in the Fierce Tiger Fist manual.
• Huang Xiao learned the Heavenly Demon Canon’s arts, including Heavenly Demon Disintegration, and destroyed the manual before finding the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion’s survivors surrounded by Du Tianchou and Liang Lie.
• Huang Xiao fought Du Tianchou while Jiang Ying faced Liang Lie, then used the Power-Devouring Poison Force and Heavenly Demon Disintegration to gain the upper hand.
• Du Tianchou used a forbidden art and drove Huang Xiao to the cliff, then punched him into the abyss as Zhao Xin'er charged to intervene.
• The Golden-Winged Roc caught Huang Xiao and carried him to a secluded ledge, where Huang Xiao used the Everlasting Spring Youth-Restoring Art to repair his shattered meridians and Dantian.
• Huang Xiao woke in a cave beside the Golden-Winged Roc and its family, discovered he had lost his internal power, and began planning to return to Poison God Valley to help Li Xia with Li Yuncong’s father’s poison.

Huang Xiao mastered the Heavenly Demon Skill, then reached Xiping Prefecture to help Wang Yuantu treat Li Jiqian’s poison. After Consort Ying destroyed the final antidote, Huang Xiao saved the king by absorbing and neutralizing the poison, and learned that the Valley Master had summoned him back to Poison God Valley.

• Huang Xiao cultivated the Heavenly Demon Skill until he generated heavenly demon true qi and reached initial mastery, then began merging it with the Everlasting Spring Youth-Restoring Art using the Northern Darkness Absorption Method.
• Madam You learned that Zhang Hu’s Fierce Tiger Fist was part of the Heavenly Demon Canon and began seeking a way to recover the manual from the sects that might have found it.
• Huang Xiao reached Xiping Prefecture and reunited with Li Yuncong and Wang Yuantu, who identified Li Jiqian’s illness as a slow-acting poison and prepared an antidote.
• Liu Chuang’s accomplices stole what they believed was the antidote, but Wang Yuantu gave Li Deming a second vial and warned that the stolen one was incomplete and poisoned.
• Huang Xiao treated Li Jiqian with the first two antidote pills as Li Deming and the Princess Consort prepared for the thieves’ demands and concealed their plan to save the king.
• Consort Ying seized and destroyed the final Antidote Pill, then fled after demanding Li Deming’s life in revenge for her family.
• Huang Xiao used the Northern Darkness Absorption Method to draw Li Jiqian’s remaining poison into himself, saving the king while his Heavenly Demon Skill broke down the poison in his own body.
• Huang Xiao told Wang Yuantu how he had cured Li Jiqian, then learned that the Valley Master had ordered him to return to Poison God Valley and received an invitation from Miss Zhang.

Huang Xiao met You Lian'er, learned how the You Family’s Jade Maiden Purity Heart Sutra related to the Heavenly Demon Skill, and secretly advanced his cultivation using the Demon-Attracting Formula. At the Martial Arts Tournament, the Fang Family unleashed Ghost Gu Miasma and moved against You Lian'er, leaving her and Huang Xiao fighting together against their attackers.

• Wang Yuantu urged Huang Xiao to meet Zhang Lian despite the dangers surrounding her, and Huang Xiao discovered that she was You Lian'er.
• You Lian'er offered Huang Xiao the Jade Maiden Purity Heart Sutra’s secrets in repayment for saving her, while Auntie Guo attacked him and was driven off by First Rank Hall experts.
• Huang Xiao chose the Demon-Attracting Formula from the Li Family Armory and used it to advance his Heavenly Demon Skill to the third level, concealing its aura as northern darkness true qi.
• At the Martial Arts Tournament, Zhang Pu told the gathered Great Song sects that the King of Xia would reveal his clues to the Seven Spirit Atlas, while the sect leaders debated whether to pursue the You or Fang Family.
• You Lian'er played her imitation zither to test Huang Xiao, and Ghost Gu Miasma swept through the gathering, killing many martial artists and forcing her and Huang Xiao to flee together.
• Fang Family attackers revealed their plan to seize You Lian'er and kill Huang Xiao, whom Consort Ying blamed for ruining their poisoning plot.
• You Lian'er's zither disrupted the attackers as Huang Xiao fought Fang Yi, and she killed Consort Ying with her own sword.
• You Lian'er resumed playing while Huang Xiao prepared to use Second Layer Force against Fang Yi, leaving the remaining Fang Family fighters in peril.

Huang Xiao and You Lian'er fought off the Fang Family and Xu Wuyu, then escaped to join Master Kongming's group as it faced another ambush. Huang Xiao helped turn the battle against the pursuers and stood against Batou Dharma Master, restoring his strength after taking a severe blow.

• Huang Xiao and You Lian'er fled the Fang Family pursuers, then fought them with the Netherworld Demon Eight Tones and the Heavenly Demon Skill until Xu Wuyu arrived and forced them to escape into a cave.
• You Lian'er taught Huang Xiao the middle volume of the Demon-Attracting Formula, and helped him break through to the fourth layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill.
• The Black-Robed Envoy let Huang Xiao and You Lian'er go, revealed his Golden Banner Guard identity, and warned them about Cao Wuxin before they rejoined Master Kongming and the surviving sect members.
• You Lian'er proved her strength to the gathered Jianghu fighters, but the group soon came under attack and fled toward Great Song's borders.
• Envoy Fang and Xu Wuyu confronted the Great Song group, and Huang Xiao joined the fighting as the attackers surrounded them.
• Huang Xiao killed multiple enemies and rallied the Great Song fighters, then drove the Black-Robed Envoy back with his Third Layer Force.
• When Batou Dharma Master injured Lu Ting, Huang Xiao fought him, absorbed his sixth-layer palm force, repaired his meridians, and charged back at him.