Chapter Summaries

Huo Lian brought Zhu Fancheng to the Divine Beast Holy Land, where Zhu Fancheng discovered that its outer formation seal had been damaged. Huo Lian privately asked Zhu Fancheng to enter the land and break an inner formation before the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period, while keeping the divine beasts inside from escaping.

• Huo Lian told Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu that divine beasts, including powerful ones, were still alive inside the sealed Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Zhu Fancheng examined the outer formation seal and found it had been damaged by a tremendous impact.
• Huo Lian revealed that he knew a way into the Holy Land and asked Zhu Fancheng to discuss a separate formation with him in private.
• Huo Lian explained that Zhu Fancheng would need to break an inner formation and could leave by the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period, whether he succeeded or not.
• Zhu Fancheng agreed to try and promised not to tamper with the outer formation seal, and Huo Lian began explaining how to enter.

Huo Lian and Zhu Fancheng entered the Divine Beast Holy Land after Zhu Fancheng devised a safer way through its formation. The four clan chiefs met them, and Huo Lian revealed that Zhu Fancheng was a formation master, leaving the chiefs interested in why he had brought him.

• Zhu Fancheng refined Huo Lian's method for entering the formation, while Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu waited outside.
• Huo Lian warned the three men to wait three days and said Zhu Fancheng might remain inside for years; Zhu Fancheng entrusted them with searching for the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art.
• Huo Lian and Zhu Fancheng passed through the formation and were surrounded by divine beasts, who recognized Huo Lian and summoned the four clan chiefs.
• The four clan chiefs questioned Zhu Fancheng's presence, and Huo Lian introduced him as a descendant of the Zhu Family and a formation master.
• Huo Lian told the clan chiefs that Zhu Fancheng's formation expertise explained why he had brought him into the Divine Beast Holy Land.

Huo Lian brought Zhu Fancheng to the Soaring Immortal Land to study its seal, explaining its history and the Immortal Alchemist along the way. Zhu Fancheng began examining the formation while Huo Lian warned the four clan chiefs not to target him.

• Huo Lian introduced Zhu Fancheng as the Number One Formation Master Under Heaven and persuaded the First Clan Chief to let them visit the Soaring Immortal Land.
• As they traveled, Zhu Fancheng asked about the land and its seal, and Huo Lian explained the Soaring Immortal Grass, the Soaring Immortal Fruit, and the Immortal Alchemist’s history.
• Huo Lian and Zhu Fancheng discussed the Immortal Alchemist’s disappearance and whether people could become immortals or live forever.
• At the Soaring Immortal Land, Zhu Fancheng began examining the formation seal while Huo Lian and the four clan chiefs watched.
• Huo Lian stayed near Zhu Fancheng and warned the four clan chiefs not to get any ideas about him.

Huo Lian warned the four clan chiefs that the seal protecting the Divine Beast Holy Land also shielded them from outside powers, while Zhu Fancheng agreed to study it until the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period. After Huo Lian left, Hong Yi demonstrated his strengthening Subduing Dragon Palm and dragon-scaled hand to the Third Elder.

• Huo Lian told the clan chiefs that the seal protected them from the outside world's hostile powers and said it might dissipate around the Thousand-Year Period.
• Zhu Fancheng reported that he had found no way to unravel the intricate seal yet, but would keep studying it until the Thousand-Year Period.
• Zhu Fancheng asked Huo Lian to look after Zhu Fanjiang and the other two, and Huo Lian said he would help if he had time.
• Huo Lian left after urging the clan chiefs not to disturb Zhu Fancheng or pursue their plans to break the seal.
• Hong Yi used Subduing Dragon Palm and claw force to smash a boulder and a cliff face as the Third Elder watched.
• The Third Elder praised Hong Yi's progress, and Hong Yi inspected the faint bluish-green, dragon-scale pattern on his right hand.

Hong Yi learned that he would remain trapped in the Divine Beast Holy Land for years, but the Third Elder brought him to the Dragon Pool to cultivate. Though the divine beasts objected to an outsider being allowed near the sacred pool, the First Clan Chief’s orders prevailed, and Hong Yi began training on its bank.

• Hong Yi discussed the formation seal and his cultivation with the Third Elder, who urged him to settle down while he was unable to leave.
• The Third Elder told Hong Yi that the First Clan Chief had authorized him to cultivate at the Dragon Pool because the Dragon Vein’s return had replenished its dragon qi.
• The Third Elder brought Hong Yi to the Dragon Pool, where Hong Yi saw many divine beasts gathered to cultivate.
• Several divine beasts protested Hong Yi’s presence, but the Third Elder silenced them by citing the First Clan Chief’s orders.
• The Third Elder warned Hong Yi to acclimate to the intense dragon qi on the bank before attempting to enter the pool, then left him there.

Huo Lian brought Fan Tianhui and the three elders of the Three Great Families to his village in Qing Province, seeking the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art and clues connected to Inugami. They found the village abandoned and the ancestral hall empty, and Huo Lian asked Fan Tianhui where else might be unusual.

• Huo Lian told Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu that Zhu Fancheng was breaking a seal inside the Divine Beast Holy Land, then said they would search Fan Tianhui's village for the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art.
• Huo Lian returned to the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency and brought Fan Tianhui along, while the three elders recognized him as a descendant of the Three Great Families.
• Fan Tianhui traveled with Huo Lian and the elders to Qing Province, worrying that his cooperation might be the only way to protect his village from disaster.
• Fan Tianhui led them to his village and recalled that the entire village had relocated, though some elderly villagers had refused to leave their ancestral homeland.
• Huo Lian and the others searched the empty ancestral hall, where Inugami had once been enshrined, and found only the saber stand it had rested on.
• Huo Lian asked Fan Tianhui whether there were any other unusual places in the village.

Fan Tianhui led Huo Lian, Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong to a strange pool where an exotic fruit had raised his cultivation. After finding no clues around the pool, Huo Lian followed its feeding stream to a spring, while the others hurried after him to investigate.

• Fan Tianhui told the group that eating a strange fruit from an underwater plant had raised him to the Half-Step Martial Realm.
• Huo Lian and the others searched the pool and its surroundings but found no sign of the treasures they sought.
• Fan Xiu suggested searching underwater, but Zhu Fanjiang noticed Huo Lian following a stream upstream.
• Fan Tianhui explained that a spring beyond a cliff supposedly flowed even through severe droughts.
• Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong hurried to join Huo Lian at the spring.

Huo Lian suspected the pool was man-made and connected to the ancient treasure, but he warned the others that danger might lie beyond its bottom. Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu began investigating the pool, and after finding nothing unusual in the water near the surface, they prepared to dive deeper.

• Huo Lian told Zhu Fanjiang and the others that the pool appeared to have been dug by human hands and might be connected to the treasure.
• Wang Mizong argued that the treasure was probably at the bottom of the pool, while Huo Lian warned the group not to be careless.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu returned to the pool to investigate, with Zhu Fanjiang and Fan Tianhui staying above.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu dove about thirty feet, surfaced without finding anything unusual, and said they would continue toward the bottom.

Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu descended into the pool and were overwhelmed by a powerful suction that disrupted their command of the Heaven and Earth Momentum. They were swept into a submerged underground river, where they faced being carried through its caverns until they died.

• Zhu Fanjiang waited anxiously while Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu remained underwater longer than expected.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu descended nearly eighty zhang and found that a powerful suction below destabilized their Heaven and Earth Momentum.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu clasped hands as the suction dragged them rapidly toward the bottom of the pool.
• The suction changed direction at the bottom and shoved Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu into a flooded underground cavern.
• Wang Mizong and Fan Xiu realized they had been swept into an underground river and were carried away by its current.

Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong escaped the underground river’s circular current and climbed back toward the pool, while Zhu Fanjiang sought Huo Lian’s help. Huo Lian suspected the pool was a false treasure site designed to conceal the real one, but the two men had not yet surfaced.

• Fan Xiu realized he and Wang Mizong were trapped in a circular underground river and urged him to use the repeated route to reach the pool opening.
• Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong caught the rock wall at the opening, climbed against the weakening suction, and shot toward the surface.
• When Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong did not appear, Zhu Fanjiang called Huo Lian for help as the pool began to churn.
• Huo Lian said the two had likely lost their way in the underground river and warned Zhu Fanjiang that going down would only leave him trapped too.
• Huo Lian proposed that the underground river protected the treasures and that the pool was a false site meant to mislead outsiders.

Huo Lian explained that the dangerous pool concealed an underground river and that the real treasure cache was likely near its spring. After Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong escaped the current, the group found a hidden passage behind a section of artificial cliff, leaving them poised to search inside.

• Huo Lian guessed the pool had been dug to conceal the real cache and said finding it might slow the underground river enough for Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong to escape.
• Fan Xiu and Wang Mizong burst out of the pool after being swept through an underground river and finding a circular passage back.
• Wang Mizong confronted Huo Lian for knowing about the river, but Fan Xiu admitted they had been careless and Huo Lian urged them to proceed to the cache.
• The group followed the stream to its spring, where Huo Lian identified the cliff face as the likely hiding place.
• Huo Lian broke open a man-made section of the cliff, revealing a passage, and explained why the Fan Family ancestor had avoided leaving a formation at its entrance.

Huo Lian led the group to an underground chamber beneath the spring, where a formation sealed an underground river and a central rock pillar appeared to conceal the Fan Family treasure. As the others hesitated to cross the formation, Fan Xiu volunteered, and Huo Lian explained how he might use the Heaven and Earth Momentum to return or be rescued.

• Huo Lian and the others descended a spiral staircase and found a transparent formation separating them from a rushing underground river.
• Huo Lian inferred that the treasure was hidden inside a rock pillar in the middle of the river.
• Wang Mizong and Zhu Fanjiang questioned the danger of crossing the formation, while Huo Lian gave them time to decide.
• Wang Mizong suggested sending Fan Tianhui through first, but Fan Xiu objected that the younger man might be too weak to return.
• Fan Xiu volunteered to cross the formation himself, and Huo Lian advised him to command the Heaven and Earth Momentum to try to return or hold near the entrance for rescue.

Fan Xiu confirmed that a hidden chamber lay beyond the formation, and Huo Lian and the three family members entered to search it. While the others painstakingly memorized decaying manuals, Huo Lian found and secretly read a manual marked “Second,” then replaced it with another book before the chapter ended.

• Fan Xiu crossed the formation, confirmed the treasure vault was real, and returned to tell the others.
• Huo Lian, Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu entered the small chamber inside the stone pillar, while Zhu Fanjiang left Fan Tianhui behind.
• Wang Mizong touched a manual and reduced it to powder, so Huo Lian warned the group to turn the decayed pages using heaven and earth momentum.
• Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu began carefully memorizing the manuals while Huo Lian searched the stone boxes.
• Huo Lian found a manual marked “Second,” secretly read it, and replaced it with another manual before returning the box to its place.

Huo Lian and the three family elders searched the chamber for the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art but failed to find it, then left with manuals and treasures. Fan Xiu suspected Huo Lian might have found the missing part despite his show of frustration.

• Huo Lian and Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu memorized the chamber’s manuals, then searched its stone boxes and hidden compartments for the second part.
• The group found only three manuals among the treasures, and Huo Lian wondered whether Wang Mizong had destroyed the missing part when he touched a book earlier.
• After hours of searching, Huo Lian left the chamber with Fan Tianhui, while Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu took several stone boxes of treasures.
• Wang Mizong and Zhu Fanjiang lamented that the second part was still lost, but Fan Xiu said he suspected Huo Lian had obtained it and might have pretended to be frustrated.

Fan Xiu, Zhu Fanjiang, and Wang Mizong suspected that Huo Lian had secretly replaced the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, but chose to honor their promise and return to the Sword Pavilion to prepare cultivation manuals for their descendants. Meanwhile, Zhou Daohang failed to meet Huang Xiao and planned to approach Wu Cang, while Huang Xiao continued his seclusion and attempted to break through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill.

• Fan Xiu proposed that Huo Lian had replaced the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art with another manual while the three men were distracted.
• Wang Mizong wanted to confront Huo Lian, but Fan Xiu and Zhu Fanjiang persuaded him that they had no evidence and should focus on the future of the Three Great Families.
• Zhu Fanjiang urged the group to organize cultivation manuals before the Demon Hall's thousand-year period arrived, and the three men left for the Sword Pavilion.
• Chao Lingyi refused Zhou Daohang's request to see Huang Xiao, saying that he was in seclusion preparing for the Hall Master's Seat.
• Zhou Daohang rebuked his subordinate for suggesting that Chao Lingyi be killed and decided to tell Wu Cang about the Supreme Evil Crystal.
• Huang Xiao remained in a secret chamber, attempting to break through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill.

Huang Xiao broke through to the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill and the Enlightenment Realm, then resumed practicing the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques. Wu Cang arrived with new information about Zhou Daohang’s search for the Supreme Evil Crystal, which Huang Xiao agreed to hear.

• Huang Xiao cultivated the eleventh layer, advanced to the Enlightenment Realm, and spent three days stabilizing his breakthrough.
• Huang Xiao began training for the Eighth Form of the Heavenly Demon Demon Saber Techniques and found his strength and understanding had improved.
• Chao Lingyi told Huang Xiao that Zhou Daohang had visited several times while he was in seclusion, and Huang Xiao told her to turn him away if he returned.
• Wu Cang met with Huang Xiao and said Zhou Daohang had obtained information suggesting the Supreme Evil Crystal’s location, though it was not entirely certain.

Huang Xiao learned that rumors about the Supreme Evil Crystal being held by an injured Ghost Spirit Sect expert were false and suspected they were meant to lure Yan Youwang out. He and Wu Cang chose to ignore the treasure and use the opportunity to deal with Zhou Daohang, leaving Wu Cang to prepare and check the latest information.

• Wu Cang told Huang Xiao that the Pang Family was likely involved in targeting him, though their exact aim remained unclear.
• Wu Cang reported that the Supreme Evil Crystal was supposedly with an injured Ghost Spirit Sect expert, and that Yan Youwang had been gravely wounded and gone missing.
• Huang Xiao reasoned that the treasure rumor was likely false information intended to help locate Yan Youwang or lure Huang Xiao out.
• Wu Cang offered to pursue the crystal, but Huang Xiao told him the information was false and proposed focusing on Zhou Daohang instead.
• Wu Cang agreed to set aside the Supreme Evil Crystal, and Huang Xiao decided that only the two of them would take part.
• Wu Cang rose to make preparations and check the latest information.

Huang Xiao pretended to be tempted by Zhou Daohang’s offer of information about the Supreme Evil Crystal so he could draw out the Pang Family’s plot. He planned to leave with Wu Cang that night, while Yin Huju was tasked with alerting the Hall Master if they had not returned by noon.

• Huang Xiao met Zhou Daohang and listened as he claimed the Supreme Evil Crystal’s bearer was in Liangzhou and offered the information as a gesture of reconciliation.
• Huang Xiao sent Zhou Daohang away without committing, then let him see Wu Cang arrive so he would believe Huang Xiao had been tempted.
• Huang Xiao told Wu Cang they would leave that night to pursue the Supreme Evil Crystal without informing the Hall Master.
• Wu Cang, uneasy about the danger, summoned Yin Huju and asked him to inform the Hall Master if Huang Xiao and Wu Cang had not returned by noon the next day.
• Yin Huju offered to join them, but Wu Cang insisted he stay behind to carry out the warning if they failed to return.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang left the Heavenly Demon Hall to draw out Zhou Daohang, but they followed a mysterious Ghost Dao practitioner into a formation and met Zhou Daohang and five Entering Dao Realm experts. Zhou Daohang revealed that the Supreme Evil Crystal story was a trap, while the man Huang Xiao and Wu Cang had chased was someone else, leaving both sides confused about the unexpected change of course.

• Wu Cang warned Yin Huju to act excited about the Supreme Evil Crystal so Zhou Daohang's people would believe the deception.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang secretly left the Heavenly Demon Hall and traveled into Liangzhou, expecting Zhou Daohang's side to ambush them.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang pursued a weak Ghost Dao practitioner who vanished into a formation, then discovered Zhou Daohang and five Entering Dao Realm experts waiting nearby.
• Zhou Daohang denied arranging the lure and told Huang Xiao that the Supreme Evil Crystal affair had been fabricated to exploit his greed.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Cang realized they had pursued the wrong person and changed course away from Zhou Daohang's planned ambush site.

Huang Xiao and Wu Cang faced six Entering Dao Realm experts, but Huang Xiao revealed his Enlightenment Realm strength and fought Zhou Daohang. The chapter ended with Huang Xiao crushing Zhou Daohang’s chest before Zhou could use his full strength.

• Wu Cang urged Huang Xiao to escape while he held off the six attackers, but Huang Xiao charged into battle instead.
• Zhou Daohang attacked Huang Xiao and boasted that he would kill him in five moves.
• Huang Xiao unleashed the eleventh layer of the Heavenly Demon Skill and overwhelmed Zhou Daohang’s control of heaven and earth momentum.
• Huang Xiao’s punch forced Zhou Daohang back, and he followed up before Zhou could recover.
• Huang Xiao stunned Zhou Daohang with a mental assault and broke the ribs over his heart with a heavy punch.
• Wounded and coughing blood, Zhou Daohang protested that he had not used his full strength.