Recaps

Huang Xiao returned to the besieged Wild Ox Sect, defeated the traitors and the Jianghu forces surrounding it, then learned about the coming Spirit Land competition. Ren Dongju arranged for him to train at the Wood Demon Sect for six months as he prepared to seek Spirit Land Cold Jade.

• Senior Ji gave Huang Xiao the Cold Jade Key and taught him how to seal and release its chilling energy before departing.
• At Wild Ox Peak, Liu Wangtai poisoned Ke Zhenyi and Mu Fucheng and tried to seize the Wild Ox Sect, but Huang Xiao returned and killed Liu Wangtai and his followers.
• Huang Xiao challenged the experts surrounding the sect, killed most of them, and defeated Bi Hu before Liu Bu intervened and sent him into the sect’s formation.
• Liu Bu warned Bi Hu about the coming Spirit Land selection and revealed that candidates had to be under five hundred and reach the Barbarian Desolate Realm.
• After Huang Xiao told Ren Dongju he had held back against Liu Bu, Ren Dongju said Huo Lian was likely alive and explained the Spirit Lands, their entry places, and the value of Spirit Land Cold Jade.
• Ren Dongju gave Huang Xiao pills as emergency aids and asked him to seek Spirit Land Cold Jade, while explaining that Huo Lian might be unable to return freely.
• Huang Xiao returned to the Wild Ox Sect, took the Supreme Demon Pearl and Cold Jade Key, and left the Bronze Key and map behind before going to the Wood Demon Sect.
• Ren Dongju arranged six months of training for Huang Xiao in a fifth-layer Spirit-Gathering Divine Formation, and Huang Xiao asked whether a sect could relocate its headquarters.

Huang Xiao entered the Slaughter Domain Spirit Land seeking Spirit Land Cold Jade, then took the Slaughter Domain’s hoard and defeated Meng Li and his allies. A formation transported him to a strange place where he reunited with Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit, which believed the Cold Jade Key might help them escape.

• Ren Dongju explained the vast formations spanning the Immortal Spirit Domain and offered to help Huang Xiao pursue a fifth-layer formation as Huang Xiao cultivated in the formation.
• Fang Qian led Huang Xiao, Chen De, and Liu Zhi Da to the Slaughter Domain to seek Spirit Land Cold Jade, where they learned that killing inside the Spirit Land went unpunished.
• Huang Xiao and his companions entered the Spirit Land, collected jade, and watched Meng Li and the Slaughter Domain seize most of the first wave.
• Huang Xiao collected twenty-two pieces of jade in the dangerous area, then ambushed and killed the Slaughter Domain guardian to take the group's hoard.
• Meng Li and several peak experts pursued Huang Xiao, who gave his jade to Chen De and Liu Zhi Da before luring the pursuers into unfamiliar formations.
• Huang Xiao killed the formation master, Yang Zhongge, Xu Guang, and Meng Li, using the Cold Jade Key’s chilling effect to gain the final opening against Meng Li.
• A formation eruption swept Huang Xiao away, and he later woke in a strange place beside Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit said the Cold Jade Key might help them escape, sensed powerful vitality beneath the ground, and watched with Huang Xiao as a broken stem emerged.

Huang Xiao helped the Soaring Immortal Fruit merge with the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root before leaving the Spirit Land and facing questions from the Slaughter Domain. He met Zuo Qiu Yi, learned more about the cultivation chapters and the fruit, then traveled with the old man and Huo Lian, who discovered the unusual value of his Vitality Pill.

• Huang Xiao helped the Soaring Immortal Fruit absorb vitality from the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root, using the Spirit Land Cold Jade to keep its swelling under control and the Supreme Ghost Stele to shelter its Divine Sense.
• Huang Xiao deciphered the Cold Jade Key’s formation, left Qingfeng with the Soaring Immortal Fruit, and returned from the Spirit Land to find the Wood Demon Sect and Slaughter Domain groups waiting.
• Huang Xiao told Ren Dongju and He Zhe that he had killed Meng Li and the others, but He Zhe searched him and found the jade pendant Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had given him.
• The Slaughter Evil Lord summoned Huang Xiao and recognized the Jade Pendant, then questioned him about the Longevity Chapter, the Imperishability Chapter, and the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Zuo Qiu Yi discussed the Cold Jade Key, the dangers of the Imperishability Chapter, and the Longevity Pills with Huang Xiao, then gave him a token and let him return to the Demon Domain.
• After Huang Xiao left the Holy City with Ren Dongju, the old man and Huo Lian took him aside to hear about the Spirit Land, and Huang Xiao kept the pendant’s connection to the Immortal Alchemist secret.
• The old man examined Huang Xiao’s pills and recognized that the Vitality Pill contained extraordinarily rare vitality, while Huo Lian asked him for the Treatise on Enlightenment in exchange for the method of making more.
• Huo Lian revealed that he and Huang Xiao already possessed the Treatise on Seeking the Dao, and the old man asked whether they knew about the ultimate of the Dao.

Huang Xiao helped Senior Xuanyuan reclaim his sword and reunite with Xuan Yuanxiang, then joined him in tracing a network of mysterious formations across the Desolate Domain. The search led them to the preserved Creation Sect, where Zhao Yunhui sensed something familiar inside its main hall.

• The old man traded guidance for Huang Xiao’s Vitality Pill and considered teaching him the Treatise on Enlightenment after hearing that Huang Xiao’s method was connected to the final Spirit Land.
• Senior Xuanyuan led Huang Xiao and Huo Lian to the Radiant Sun Sect, defeated Xu Zhiru, reclaimed the Xuanyuan Sword, and rescued Dugu Sheng.
• Senior Xuanyuan allied with Senior Immortal Alchemist, then traveled with Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and Dugu Sheng to find Xuan Yuanxiang and revealed that his name was Xuan Yuanjun.
• Xuan Yuanjun studied the refuge’s formation and suspected it was linked to formations in the Desolate Domain and Spirit Lands, so he joined Huang Xiao in investigating the region.
• Huang Xiao, Dugu Sheng, and Xuan Yuanjun found Zhao Yunhui, Yan Xi, and the others on a hidden island, where Xuan Yuanjun uncovered a map and recognized a connection to the Creation Sect.
• Xuan Yuanjun, Huang Xiao, and Dugu Sheng joined Zhao Yunhui and Pei Lingsha at Lake Heart Island, where they found incompatible formations laid by the Longevity Daoist and the master of the Ji Residence.
• The group reached the Creation Sect, which a damaged formation had preserved, and Xuan Yuanjun searched its main hall before Zhao Yunhui sensed something familiar inside.