Chapter Summaries

Feng He and the other experts attacked the formation around Imperial Remnant Manor while Xuanyuan Xing believed its second layer could hold them for a year. The formation suddenly contracted and vanished, leaving Xuanyuan Xing and his companions face to face with the attackers.

• Feng He dismissed the treasures between the formation layers and said he wanted the Longevity Pill, while threatening to kill Imperial Remnant Manor's disciples to pressure Xuanyuan Xing.
• Xuanyuan Xing told Tan Ming, Jiang Pandong, and the others that the second layer should take Feng He and the others a year to break, and said he would make them pay for Imperial Remnant Manor's losses.
• Feng He and the others continued attacking the formation, then stopped when a thunderous boom shook the area.
• Xuanyuan Xing saw the second layer contract into the first, then watched the formation shrink onto Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly's gravestone and disappear.
• Feng He and the other experts reached Xuanyuan Xing and his companions, and Xuanyuan Xing said Imperial Remnant Manor was finished.

Pang Ji, Feng He, and the other experts demanded the Longevity Pill and threatened to destroy Imperial Remnant Manor, while Xuanyuan Xing denied having it and prepared to sacrifice himself so the disciples could escape. The graveyard split open and revealed Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly on a white jade bed, and the chapter ended as Feng He lunged toward her and a cold voice challenged him.

• Pang Ji and Feng He threatened Xuanyuan Xing and Imperial Remnant Manor unless he handed over the Longevity Pill.
• As the formations collapsed, Xuanyuan Xing urged the disciples to flee and entrusted Xuanyuan Song with leading them away.
• A crack split the gravestone and cleaved open the graveyard, from which a white jade bed bearing Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly rose in a halo.
• Feng He sensed the Longevity Pill's fading aura around Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and charged toward her, prompting the gathered experts to move.
• An unseen speaker shouted at Feng He for daring to run wild in Imperial Remnant Manor.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly awakened and drove the Demon Hall and other factions away, then revealed to Xuanyuan Xing that the half Longevity Pill had been sealed in the Tortoise Shell Inscription. She entered seclusion and began explaining why the pill could not be taken ten thousand years earlier.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly sprang from the white jade bed and struck Feng He, prompting Huo Lian and several others to leave.
• Xuanyuan Xing and the Imperial Remnant Manor disciples paid their respects to Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, who recognized them as descendants of Xuanyuan Yulong.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly dismissed the formation, sent the others away, and asked Xuanyuan Xing to remain with her.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly requested a quiet place to enter seclusion and explained that three inscriptions had been needed to activate the aura within the half Longevity Pill.
• Xuanyuan Xing asked why she had waited ten thousand years to take the pill, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said it could not have been taken then.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly recovered from her injuries in seclusion while Xuanyuan Xing began rebuilding Imperial Remnant Manor’s alliances ahead of the Demon Hall’s Thousand-Year Period. Meanwhile, Huang Xiao hurried toward the Heavenly Demon Hall but sensed someone approaching.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly explained that the Immortal Alchemist had hidden half of the flawed Longevity Pill inside the False Tortoise Shell Inscription, then entered seclusion to heal and restore her strength.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly suspected Old Demon was behind the Demon Hall’s Thousand-Year Period and vowed to find him despite calling him a heartless man.
• Xuanyuan Song reported that Imperial Remnant Manor had suffered almost no losses, and Xuanyuan Xing ordered the formations rebuilt because Mo Pozheng knew the old ones.
• Jiang Pandong agreed that the Heavenly Evil Sect would follow Imperial Remnant Manor, and Xuanyuan Xing sent Xuanyuan Song to ask Du Fuzhou and the Demon Spirit Sect to do the same.
• Huang Xiao headed for the Heavenly Demon Hall to retrieve his belongings and find a place to cultivate, but stopped when he sensed someone nearby.

Huang Xiao encountered Chao Hun, who pretended to offer a spar but attacked him with the intent to kill. After Huang Xiao unleashed the Third Layer of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and was badly wounded, he charged back at Chao Hun, who discovered that Huang Xiao’s Meridians had been severed.

• Huang Xiao and Chao Hun met, and Chao Hun asked him to spar while concealing his hostile intentions.
• Chao Hun attacked Huang Xiao, who unleashed the Third Layer of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and struck with Supreme Demonic Qi.
• Chao Hun blocked Huang Xiao’s punch and blasted him back, but Huang Xiao fled before Chao Hun gave chase.
• Chao Hun caught Huang Xiao and struck him in the chest, leaving him coughing blood and badly injured.
• Huang Xiao charged at Chao Hun again, and Chao Hun discovered that Huang Xiao’s Meridians had been severed.

Huang Xiao used the Longevity Pill’s aura to recover from Chao Hun’s attacks and repeatedly healed the meridians severed by Heavenly Demon Disintegration. After fighting for hours, Huang Xiao realized the aura might help perfect his Imperishable True Qi, while Chao Hun weakened and tried to retreat.

• Huang Xiao discovered the Longevity Pill’s aura was healing his injuries and repairing his severed meridians, allowing him to keep using Heavenly Demon Disintegration.
• Chao Hun repeatedly injured Huang Xiao, but Huang Xiao recovered and returned to the fight, leaving Chao Hun unable to find a way to kill him.
• After more than two hours, Chao Hun’s strength and aura declined as Huang Xiao continued fighting without regard for his life.
• Huang Xiao studied the Longevity Pill’s aura and considered using it to perfect his Imperishable True Qi.
• After more than four hours, Chao Hun decided to leave, but Huang Xiao attacked and made it difficult for him to retreat.

Huang Xiao kept Chao Hun fighting so he could study how the Longevity Pill’s aura healed his injuries and improve his Imperishable True Qi. Feng He arrived badly wounded, and after deciding to keep Huang Xiao alive as leverage, he turned his attention to Chao Hun as a source of essence blood.

• Huang Xiao refused to let Chao Hun escape, using the Longevity Pill’s aura while seeking insight into how to strengthen his Imperishable True Qi.
• Chao Hun gave up trying to kill Huang Xiao and stalled, but Huang Xiao welcomed the continued fight and deliberately let himself be injured to sense the healing aura more clearly.
• Huang Xiao and Chao Hun both noticed Feng He approaching from Imperial Remnant Manor, his aura disordered after a fierce battle.
• Feng He considered keeping Huang Xiao under control as leverage against Huo Lian, then chose Chao Hun as the target from whom to absorb essence blood.

Feng He crippled Chao Hun and began absorbing his essence blood to recover, prompting Huo Lian to attack him. Huo Lian revealed greater strength but seized Chao Hun for reasons other than saving him, leaving Chao Hun caught between the two men.

• Feng He blocked Chao Hun's escape, shattered his sinews and bones, and refused Huo Lian's demand to release him.
• Feng He began absorbing Chao Hun's essence blood despite Huo Lian offering to find him other people to heal with.
• Huo Lian attacked Feng He, who found Chao Hun's unusual essence blood greatly benefiting him and sensed Huo Lian's hidden strength.
• Huo Lian grabbed Chao Hun's other hand and said he had not come to save him.
• Feng He and Huo Lian each held one of Chao Hun's hands and pulled against each other as Chao Hun screamed in pain.

Feng He and Huo Lian drained Chao Hun's essence blood after tearing him apart, restoring Feng He's strength and exposing that Chao Hun's blood had been artificially enhanced. Feng He offered to trade Huo Lian's method for the secret of Huang Xiao's flaw, but Pang Ji and the others arrived and pressed him to reveal what he knew.

• The Patriarch and Feng He tore Chao Hun in half, and Huang Xiao reflected on Chao Hun's rise and the consequences of killing Hall Master Candidates.
• Feng He said Chao Hun's essence blood had temporarily healed his injuries and restored his strength, while Huo Lian privately judged his own method of enhancing essence blood less effective.
• Feng He accused Huo Lian of secretly altering Chao Hun's essence blood and offered to trade the method for the secret of Huang Xiao's flaw.
• Pang Ji and the others arrived, and Feng He suggested that Huang Xiao had a flaw that could be traded for Huo Lian's method.
• Pang Ji asked Feng He to explain the flaw, while Mo Pozheng looked at Huang Xiao with renewed interest.

Feng He weighed keeping the secret of Huang Xiao’s Blood Exhaustion Method as leverage over Huo Lian while seeking the secret art that could strengthen his essence blood. Pang Ji asserted control over the Demon Hall and warned of Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, while Wu Xuancang questioned whether the Hall’s thousand-year cycle would continue unchanged.

• Feng He rejected the idea of trading Huang Xiao’s secret for Pang Ji’s help and decided to pursue Huo Lian’s essence-blood method instead.
• Pang Ji claimed the Demon Hall stood behind him, prompting Huo Lian to tell Mo Pozheng that Pang Ji treated the Hall as private property.
• Mo Pozheng stayed neutral and said his loyalty belonged to the Hall Master, while Pang Ji insisted he had final authority until a new Hall Master was chosen.
• Feng He told Pang Ji that he could not meet his terms, and Pang Ji vowed to investigate Huang Xiao for a flaw.
• Pang Ji said Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had gained the Longevity Pill’s benefits and suggested she was dangerous; Wu Xuancang challenged the Demon Hall and its Thousand-Year Period.

Pang Ji and Mo Pozheng left after the gathered experts declined to challenge them, while Wu Xuancang warned Huo Lian that his pursuit of the Longevity Pill threatened their alliance against the Demon Hall. Huo Lian rejected Feng He’s offer to resume their transaction and walked toward Huang Xiao.

• Pang Ji asked Mo Pozheng whether he would return to the Tomb Clan or visit the Demon Hall, and Mo Pozheng chose to go to the Demon Hall to assess its situation.
• Pang Ji and Mo Pozheng departed, followed by Leng Guhan, Baili Zhen, and Du Fuzhou, leaving Wu Xuancang with Huo Lian and Feng He.
• Wu Xuancang criticized Huo Lian for nearly destroying Imperial Remnant Manor and warned that their cooperation could end if Huo Lian acted that way again.
• Huo Lian defended his actions as a way to improve his chances of survival, and Feng He agreed that relying on personal strength mattered most.
• Feng He asked Huo Lian to continue their earlier transaction, but Huo Lian refused and walked toward Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao explained how the Longevity Pill’s aura let him survive his prolonged fight with Chao Hun, while concealing how much aura remained inside him. Feng He then offered Huo Lian information about the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter in exchange for Chao Hun’s cultivation method, leaving the choice to Huo Lian.

• Huo Lian praised Huang Xiao for holding out against Chao Hun, and Huang Xiao credited the Longevity Pill’s aura with rapidly healing his injuries.
• Huang Xiao concealed the true amount of aura within him, and Huo Lian showed no interest in examining or claiming it.
• Huang Xiao asked whether the ancestor of Imperial Remnant Manor was still alive, but Huo Lian told him not to concern himself with the matter.
• Huang Xiao compared his recovery to an undying cultivation method, prompting Feng He to recall the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter.
• Feng He offered Huo Lian guidance about the Imperishability Chapter in exchange for Chao Hun’s cultivation method, saying the decision depended on Huo Lian.

Feng He agreed to provide Huo Lian with powerful essence blood in exchange for learning about Chao Hun’s incomplete cultivation method, though he could not practice it without the Supreme Demonic Art. Feng He explained what he knew of the Imperishability Chapter and the Immortal Alchemist, then admitted he had been less prominent than the era’s leading figures.

• Huo Lian told Feng He that Chao Hun’s cultivation method was incomplete and that Feng He could not practice it without the Supreme Demonic Art.
• Huo Lian offered to supply Feng He with people whose essence blood was as powerful as Chao Hun’s, and Feng He accepted the arrangement.
• Huo Lian asked Feng He about the Imperishability Chapter, and Feng He said it had greatly increased Old Demon’s strength but did not make anyone literally immortal.
• Feng He explained that the Imperishability Chapter focused on strength while the Longevity Chapter was said to prolong life, though he knew little about the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huo Lian suggested Feng He had been unimpressive in his era, and Feng He admitted the Immortal Alchemist, Old Demon, Madwoman, and the Three Old Things of the Heavenly Evil Sect had been the leading figures.

Feng He told Huo Lian and Huang Xiao about the Immortal Alchemist’s mysterious lineage and the powers of the Longevity Chapter. Huo Lian revealed that Old Demon was still alive, prompting Feng He to demand his whereabouts.

• Feng He said the Immortal Alchemist had mastered many disciplines, leaving his lineage impossible to identify, and suggested Madwoman or Old Demon might know his origins.
• Feng He speculated that the Longevity Chapter focused on extending life and making Longevity Pills, while Huang Xiao privately recalled its role in his endurance and recovery.
• Huo Lian said Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly might know about the Longevity Chapter, and Feng He warned him against asking Madwoman about the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huo Lian revealed that Old Demon, the Demon Hall's First Hall Master, was still alive.
• Feng He accepted that Old Demon might have found a way to survive and urgently asked Huo Lian where he was.

Huo Lian and Feng He discussed which ancient Jianghu powers still had survivors from ten thousand years ago and why they were preparing to oppose the Demon Hall’s First Hall Master. Feng He doubted their chances, warning that the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter had once put him far beyond his peers.

• Huo Lian confirmed that the Demon Hall’s First Hall Master was still alive, and Feng He revealed that he had endured great hardship for an opportunity tied to ten thousand years ago.
• Feng He said no one from that era had survived in the Three Immortal Mountains or the Demon Spirit Sect, but Huo Lian argued that the Three Immortal Mountains still had powerful elders who had lived for several thousand years.
• Feng He realized that Huo Lian, the Three Immortal Mountains, and Imperial Remnant Manor were joining forces to confront the First Hall Master when he emerged during the current thousand-year period.
• Huo Lian invited Feng He to join the alliance and seek revenge, citing Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly as a reason they might succeed.
• Feng He warned that the First Hall Master’s Imperishability Chapter had made him vastly stronger than his peers, and questioned how much Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly could improve their odds.

Huo Lian and Feng He agreed to cooperate in cultivating people like Chao Hun by having them slaughter experts to strengthen their essence blood. Huang Xiao returned to the Heavenly Demon Hall with the Supreme Ghost Stele, while Du Fuzhou hurried toward the Demon Spirit Sect with the Longevity Bottle.

• Huo Lian urged Feng He to join forces against the first Hall Master, but Feng He refused to reveal his plans and instead asked Huo Lian to cultivate more people like Chao Hun.
• Huo Lian explained that mass slaughter by powerful fighters would strengthen their essence blood, and Feng He agreed to help produce a group of them and divide them equally.
• Huang Xiao realized that Huo Lian had used Chao Hun's killings to test the Supreme Demonic Art, then left for the Heavenly Demon Hall while keeping the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Du Fuzhou hurried toward the Demon Spirit Sect, excited by the Longevity Pill aura contained in his Longevity Bottle.

Du Fuzhou returned to the Demon Spirit Sect with the Longevity Bottle, hoping to release the Longevity Pill’s aura. After ten days of failure, he went to the sect’s forbidden Rock Cave to try opening it there.

• Du Fuzhou returned safely to the Demon Spirit Sect and sealed himself inside his secret chamber with the Longevity Bottle.
• Du Fuzhou opened the bottle, but the Longevity Pill’s aura remained trapped inside despite the unobstructed opening.
• After ten days of failed attempts, Du Fuzhou decided he had to try opening the bottle in another place.
• Demon Spirit Sect disciples speculated about Du Fuzhou’s displeasure and traded rumors about Imperial Remnant Manor’s Longevity Pill.
• Du Fuzhou entered the sect’s forbidden gorge, touched the stele marked “Forbidden,” and revealed a hidden entrance in the cliff.
• Du Fuzhou entered the Rock Cave and was struck by a chill that affected even his divine sense.

Du Fuzhou activated the platform to force the Longevity Pill’s aura out of the Longevity Bottle, but a formation blocked him from taking it. As two ice coffins rose from beneath the platform, he wondered whether his Demon Spirit Sect had living Ancestors.

• Du Fuzhou placed the Longevity Bottle in the platform’s hole and activated its formation, causing emerald points of Longevity Pill aura to appear.
• Du Fuzhou tried to seize the aura, but the formation hurled him out of the chamber and then blocked his return.
• The platform rose to about five feet, and Du Fuzhou feared the events resembled those at Imperial Remnant Manor.
• The ground around the platform sank, revealing two ice coffins, and Du Fuzhou wondered if they held living Demon Spirit Sect Ancestors.

Du Fuzhou watched two people awaken in the Demon Spirit Sect’s forbidden ground after the Longevity Pill’s motes entered their ice coffins. The woman and white-haired man recognized a junior outside but chose to wait until they recovered more strength.

• Du Fuzhou saw the motes of light enter two ice coffins and realized the Longevity Pill’s aura was being used to revive their occupants.
• Du Fuzhou hoped the two sleepers would awaken as Demon Spirit Sect Ancestors, while formations trapped him between the stone chamber and the passage.
• After three shichen, the ice melted enough for Du Fuzhou to see an old white-haired man and a woman who looked about thirty inside the coffins.
• The pair’s auras briefly surged to terrifying power, then faded as they sat up and returned to the appearance of ordinary people.
• The woman wondered how long they had slept, and the man noticed Du Fuzhou outside; the woman asked to wait until they had recovered more strength.

Du Fuzhou’s Ancestor, Zuo Qiu Shu, and Old Fan recovered after awakening and learned that ten thousand years had passed. Old Fan mourned the ruin of the Three Great Families and vowed to seek revenge against the Demon Hall, while Zuo Qiu Shu urged caution and wondered how her big brother was doing.

• After three days of recovering, Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan dispelled the formation and Du Fuzhou knelt to greet them.
• Old Fan introduced himself, and Du Fuzhou recognized him as the former Clan Chief of the Fan Family from the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Du Fuzhou told them that ten thousand years had passed and recounted major events, including the near extinction of the Three Great Families and Huo Lian’s possession of the Three Evil Blades.
• Old Fan expressed his grief and hatred toward the Demon Hall, while Zuo Qiu Shu warned him not to seek revenge recklessly.
• Old Fan proposed joining the Jianghu’s powers against the Demon Hall, and Zuo Qiu Shu agreed that their combined strength might succeed but wondered about her big brother.