Chapter Summaries

Huang Xiao used his connection to the Supreme Ghost Stele to trap and overwhelm Fan Liya’s divine sense. He agreed to let Fan Liya cast the Soul-Imprisoning Ghost Curse, and Fan Liya separated a small piece of his divine sense for Huang Xiao to control.

• Fan Liya recognized the Supreme Ghost Stele’s aura, and Huang Xiao used his connection to the stele to trap Fan Liya’s divine sense.
• Huang Xiao began annihilating Fan Liya’s divine sense despite Fan Liya’s pleas for him to stop.
• Fan Liya offered to cast the Soul-Imprisoning Ghost Curse on himself so Huang Xiao could control his life and death.
• Huang Xiao agreed to the offer but kept the Supreme Ghost Stele’s aura suppressing Fan Liya.
• Fan Liya cast the curse and separated a small piece of his divine sense, which Huang Xiao moved in front of his own using the Supreme Ghost Stele.

Huang Xiao tested Fan Liya’s claim that a separated portion of his divine sense could control his life, then placed that portion inside the Supreme Ghost Stele rather than absorbing it. Fan Liya’s scheme to reverse the Soul-Imprisoning Ghost Curse failed, and Huang Xiao returned to his body before leaving the formation.

• Huang Xiao nearly destroyed Fan Liya’s separated divine sense, then stopped and confirmed that weakening it also weakened Fan Liya’s larger portion.
• Huang Xiao decided not to incorporate Fan Liya’s divine sense into his own and instead placed it inside the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Fan Liya realized he could no longer sense the separated portion and understood that Huang Xiao had gained control of his life.
• Fan Liya revealed that he had planned to reverse the Soul-Imprisoning Ghost Curse if Huang Xiao absorbed his divine sense, but Huang Xiao’s choice thwarted the scheme.
• Huang Xiao suppressed Fan Liya’s remaining divine sense, returned his own divine sense to his Sea of Consciousness, and moved away from the formation.

Huang Xiao used the connection between Fan Liya’s Divine Sense and the Supreme Ghost Stele to punish him for attempting to seize control, then made him cooperate with his cultivation practice. After restoring most of his own strength and training with Fan Liya for ten days, Huang Xiao gave him a pill through the formation.

• Huang Xiao tested the Soul-Imprisoning Ghost Curse by tormenting Fan Liya’s Divine Sense and forced Fan Liya to submit.
• Huang Xiao left the Small Courtyard, returned to his secret chamber, and spent five days recovering his damaged Divine Sense.
• Huang Xiao visited Fan Liya and made him help practice Sound Art Qi Transformation, despite Fan Liya’s lingering weakness.
• Huang Xiao trained with Fan Liya for ten days and learned to affect Fan Liya’s true qi.
• Huang Xiao tossed Fan Liya a pill, and Fan Liya used his force to pass it through the formation.

Huang Xiao gave Fan Liya another Ghost Dao pill and learned that Feng He's supreme technique was called Reincarnation Ghost Force. Huang Xiao revealed that he had taken Feng He's cultivation manuals from the Ghost Capital, leaving Fan Liya tempted but unsure whether Huang Xiao would share the technique.

• Huang Xiao used the brief gap in the formation to send Fan Liya a pill, which Fan Liya swallowed and praised for restoring his divine sense and strengthening his Ghost Dao power.
• Fan Liya learned that the pills came from the Ghost Capital and that Feng He may have prepared them for himself.
• Huang Xiao asked about Feng He's strongest cultivation method, and Fan Liya named it Reincarnation Ghost Force, also known as Supreme Ghost Power.
• Fan Liya explained that Reincarnation Ghost Force was the Ghost Spirit Sect's supreme technique, but that it had not been passed down.
• Huang Xiao revealed that he had obtained Feng He's cultivation manuals along with the Supreme Ghost Stele, and Fan Liya struggled to hide his interest in the technique.

Huang Xiao taught Fan Liya the first part of the Reincarnation Ghost Force, keeping him under his control while offering him future benefits. Shi Hen then announced Fan Liya’s release from the Heavenly Demon Hall after Ancestor Feng He asked for him, leaving Fan Liya poised to return to the Ghost Spirit Sect.

• Huang Xiao taught Fan Liya the first part of the Reincarnation Ghost Force and said he would decide later whether to teach him the second part.
• Huang Xiao told Fan Liya that he would keep their arrangement secret and could provide him with pills and cultivation methods.
• Huang Xiao warned Fan Liya that Yan Youwang might take control of the Ghost Spirit Sect with Ancestor Feng He's support.
• Shi Hen appeared and told Fan Liya he could leave the Heavenly Demon Hall because Ancestor Feng He had put in a good word for him.
• Shi Hen confirmed that the Hall Master had sent Feng He's message, and Huang Xiao realized Fan Liya could help him influence the Ghost Spirit Sect.

Huang Xiao freed Fan Liya and gave him pills as payment for sparring, while Shi Hen arranged for Hidden Demon Guard experts to train Huang Xiao. After Huang Xiao returned to seclusion, Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan arrived at the Sword Pavilion and disagreed about whether to approach it openly.

• Shi Hen removed the formation imprisoning Fan Liya and prepared to take him away from Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Huang Xiao gave Fan Liya a vial of pills, calling them payment for serving as his sparring partner.
• Shi Hen warned Fan Liya that he could tell Feng He about the pills, then left with him.
• Shi Hen arranged for Hidden Demon Guard members to take turns sparring with Huang Xiao and discussed Huang Xiao's pills from the Ghost Capital.
• Huang Xiao returned to his secret chamber to study in seclusion while Shi Hen arranged the training.
• Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan arrived at the Sword Pavilion, where Old Fan argued against barging in because Leng Guhan and the Zhanlu Sword made it a formidable power.

Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan visited Leng Guhan at the Sword Pavilion and asked about Zhu Fancheng. Leng Guhan revealed that Zhu Fancheng was in the Divine Beast Holy Land, then laughed when Zuo Qiu Shu urged them to go there immediately.

• Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan arrived at the Sword Pavilion and asked its guards to summon Leng Guhan.
• Leng Guhan met the pair, sensed their great strength, and dismissed the Sword Pavilion disciples.
• Old Fan asked to see Zhu Fancheng and three others, but Leng Guhan said all four had left the Sword Pavilion.
• Leng Guhan realized that Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan were from ten thousand years ago and told them Zhu Fancheng was in the Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Zuo Qiu Shu urged Old Fan to go there at once, and Leng Guhan laughed that she knew nothing.

Leng Guhan learned that Huo Lian was trying to enter the sealed Soaring Immortal Land, then speculated about the identities of the two ancient figures who had come looking for Zhu Fancheng and the others. Troubled by his own lack of strength, he summoned the Grand Supreme Great Elder.

• Leng Guhan told Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu that Huo Lian could enter the Divine Beast Holy Land and was trying to break the seal on the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Old Fan assured Leng Guhan that the seal could not be broken by force, but Zuo Qiu Shu proposed going there with Zhu Fancheng to try anyway.
• After the pair left, Leng Guhan guessed that Old Fan was the surviving Fan Family Ancestor and that Zuo Qiu Shu might be the Demon Spirit Sect's long-ago Sect Master.
• Leng Guhan reflected that his strength was inadequate and considered taking a ruthless step, then returned to the Sword Pavilion.
• Leng Guhan called for a disciple and ordered him to invite the Grand Supreme Great Elder to his study.

Leng Guhan and Zhou Fuqu reminisced about their long history as fellow disciples, sharing the real motives behind their support for and challenge against Elder Lin. After three days and nights of laughter, Zhou Fuqu said he was ready to die and asked Leng Guhan to do it.

• Leng Guhan summoned Zhou Fuqu for a private chat and recalled how their fellow disciples had dwindled until only the two of them remained.
• Leng Guhan remembered Zhou Fuqu as the only disciple who supported his challenge against Elder Lin, and explained that he had chosen Lin to expose his abuses of power.
• Zhou Fuqu admitted that he supported Leng Guhan mainly because Elder Lin had unfairly punished him, and Leng Guhan revealed that he had also wanted to bring Lin down.
• Leng Guhan and Zhou Fuqu spent three days and nights trading stories from their youth while disciples outside overheard them.
• Zhou Fuqu said he had no regrets left and asked Leng Guhan to kill him.

Leng Guhan killed Zhou Fuqu to sever his last attachment and advance his Heartless Sword Dao, then announced Zhou Fuqu had died of old age. The Sword Pavilion mourned, while Xuanyuan Song Chao hurried to see Xuanyuan Xing at Imperial Remnant Manor.

• Zhou Fuqu urged Leng Guhan to kill him himself so Leng Guhan could test whether his Heartless Sword Dao had become free of guilt and regret.
• Leng Guhan activated a Soundproof Formation, killed Zhou Fuqu, and ordered the Grand Supreme Second Elder to succeed him.
• Leng Guhan left the study, resolved to surpass Huo Lian, Pang Ji, Wu Xuancang, and the other powerful figures, and emerged with an even more unfathomable aura.
• The Sword Pavilion accepted Zhou Fuqu's supposed death from old age and mourned him, while Leng Guhan did not attend the burial.
• Xuanyuan Song Chao hurried to Xuanyuan Xing's residence as Imperial Remnant Manor's disciples discussed their resurrected Ancestor and the confidence she had restored.

Xuanyuan Xing and Xuanyuan Song suspected the Demon Spirit Sect might be backed by another expert from ten thousand years ago. Meanwhile, Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan failed to break the seal around the Divine Beast Holy Land and considered seeking Huo Lian’s help.

• Xuanyuan Song told Xuanyuan Xing that Du Fuzhou had rejected Imperial Remnant Manor’s demand for the Demon Spirit Sect to submit.
• Xuanyuan Xing inferred that Du Fuzhou’s confidence might come from a surviving expert from ten thousand years ago and ordered continued surveillance of the Demon Spirit Sect.
• Xuanyuan Xing said their ancestor would soon emerge from seclusion and might know more about the Demon Spirit Sect’s possible ancient survivor.
• Zuo Qiu Shu and Old Fan examined the seal around the Divine Beast Holy Land, but Old Fan could not break it.
• Zuo Qiu Shu proposed forcing Huo Lian to reveal how to pass through the seal, while Old Fan warned that threatening him could provoke the Demon Hall.

Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu went to the Heavenly Demon Hall to find Huang Xiao and learn where Huo Lian was. Their arrival triggered the hall’s defenses, and they encountered Shi Hen as Huang Xiao came to investigate.

• Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu decided they needed to find Huo Lian and chose to ask Huang Xiao where he stayed.
• Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu traveled to the Heavenly Demon Hall in Liangzhou and barged in, triggering its formations.
• Huang Xiao was roused from secluded cultivation and hid the Supreme Ghost Stele, the Supreme Evil Crystal, and the Supreme Demon Pearl, assuming the intruders wanted the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Wu Cang warned Huang Xiao that two powerful strangers had invaded and that Shi Hen had gone to confront them.
• Huang Xiao went to the Heavenly Demon Hall Main Hall despite Wu Cang’s warning, while Old Fan recognized Shi Hen as Commander of the Hidden Demon Guard.

Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu confronted Shi Hen at Heavenly Demon Hall and revealed that they had emerged from ten thousand years ago. They asked about Huo Lian’s whereabouts, and the chapter ended as Huang Xiao arrived, astonishing them with his strength.

• Shi Hen challenged Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu for entering Heavenly Demon Hall, while Zuo Qiu Shu proposed destroying it to avenge the Three Great Families.
• Old Fan reminded Zuo Qiu Shu that they needed to ask Huo Lian for something and said Shi Hen had once guided Huo Lian onto his path.
• Shi Hen asked who the visitors were, and Zuo Qiu Shu confirmed that they were figures from ten thousand years ago.
• Zuo Qiu Shu asked to see Huang Xiao, and Old Fan said they wanted to ask him about Huo Lian’s whereabouts.
• Huang Xiao arrived, and Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu were shocked by the young man’s strength.

Huang Xiao refused to reveal where Huo Lian stayed, but offered Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu information about Zhu Fanjiang and his companions. He told them the group had gone to the Three Immortal Mountains, leaving Huo Lian’s whereabouts undisclosed.

• Huang Xiao told Old Fan and Zuo Qiu Shu that he did not know Huo Lian’s current whereabouts and refused to reveal his usual places of stay.
• Old Fan explained that he wanted to ask Huo Lian how to enter the Divine Beast Holy Land so he could find Zhu Fancheng, while Zuo Qiu Shu threatened Huang Xiao.
• Huang Xiao said Huo Lian would not disclose the Holy Land’s secrets and refused to give away his residence.
• Huang Xiao remembered that Zhu Fanjiang had once asked him to pass a message to Huo Lian and revealed that Zhu Fanjiang and the other two had gone to the Three Immortal Mountains.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu headed for the Three Immortal Mountains to find Zhu Fancheng and the other descendants of their families, while Huang Xiao and Shi Hen considered how the ancient survivors could reshape the Jianghu. On the road, they encountered Heavenly Evil Sect juniors fighting, and a Jiang Family member taunted the fleeing Linghu Xiang.

• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu decided to visit the Three Immortal Mountains rather than seek out Huo Lian, who was focused on the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Shi Hen identified Fan Zhuolang as the ancient Fan Family Ancestor and Zuo Qiu Shu as the Demon Spirit Sect's ancestor, and he and Huang Xiao discussed the balance of power shifting as old figures returned.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu hurried toward the Three Immortal Mountains to find Zhu Fancheng and the other descendants of their Three Great Families.
• A day later, Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu sensed a fight ahead and found Heavenly Evil Sect members battling.
• A Jiang Family member taunted the fleeing Linghu Xiang, claiming the Jiang Family had wiped out the other Three Great Families and taken control of the Heavenly Evil Sect.

Linghu Xiang faced the Jiang Family’s executioners after they destroyed the Heavenly Evil Sect’s other families and hunted down those who opposed them. As Linghu Xiang gave up resisting, an unknown figure intervened and sent the Entering Dao Realm expert flying.

• Linghu Xiang accused the Jiang Family of weakening the Heavenly Evil Sect by wiping out its other three families, while the Entering Dao Realm expert defended the purge and threatened him.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu arrived and realized that the wounded Linghu Xiang’s strength had been raised through a costly transfer of power from senior experts.
• Linghu Xiang charged the Jiang Family’s Martial Realm fighters, then stopped just short of killing one, saying he would not further diminish the sect’s strength.
• The Entering Dao Realm expert prepared to kill Linghu Xiang as he mourned failing the seniors who had helped him escape.
• An unknown figure told the Jiang Family men to scram and sent the Entering Dao Realm expert crashing several zhang away.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu rescued Linghu Xiang from the Jiang Family and learned that he knew where Wang Jiu and Zhu Yang were cultivating. They decided to head to Mist Mountain to find them, with the Three Great Evil Blades also on Fan Zhuolang’s mind.

• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu drove off the Jiang Family members who were hunting Linghu Xiang.
• Linghu Xiang explained that the Jiang Family had turned against his group after destroying the other three families, leaving him as the sole survivor.
• Linghu Xiang told Fan Zhuolang that Wang Jiu and Zhu Yang were likely cultivating behind a formation at Mist Mountain, which he believed Huo Lian had established.
• Fan Zhuolang chose to seek out Wang Jiu and Zhu Yang at Mist Mountain before traveling to the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Fan Zhuolang wondered whether the Three Great Evil Blades were at Mist Mountain, and Zuo Qiu Shu realized this was another reason he wanted to go there.

Linghu Xiang led Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu to Huo Lian’s formation in Mist Mountain, hoping they could reach Wang Jiu and the others. After Zuo Qiu Shu’s strike triggered a backlash, Fan Zhuolang studied the formation and estimated that breaking it would take ten days to half a month.

• Linghu Xiang guided Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu into Mist Mountain to investigate the formation protecting Wang Jiu and the others.
• Zuo Qiu Shu struck the formation and was hurt by its backlash, while Fan Zhuolang realized it reacted to stronger attacks.
• Zuo Qiu Shu concluded that the formation absorbed attackers’ energy, making brute force an ineffective way to break it.
• Fan Zhuolang examined the formation and said he was confident he could break it, but estimated the work would take ten days to half a month.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu waited for him to break a formation when Huo Lian arrived and challenged him. Their battle revealed that Huo Lian had learned the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, and the chapter ended with him asking which generation of the Three Great Families Fan Zhuolang belonged to.

• Fan Zhuolang studied the formation for a day before beginning to break it, while Zuo Qiu Shu and Linghu Xiang waited nearby.
• On the third day, Huo Lian appeared and attacked Fan Zhuolang, who welcomed the chance to test the former Demon Hall master.
• Fan Zhuolang recognized that Huo Lian was using the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, and Zuo Qiu Shu suspected Huo Lian had only learned its first part.
• Huo Lian and Fan Zhuolang exchanged divine sense attacks, forcing Linghu Xiang to retreat from the dangerous backlash.
• After the two fighters separated, Huo Lian acknowledged Fan Zhuolang's authentic technique and asked which generation of the Three Great Families he came from, and Fan Zhuolang gave his name.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu revealed their identities and explained how they had survived for ten thousand years, including Zuo Qiu Shu’s connection to the Immortal Alchemist. Huo Lian then questioned Fan Zhuolang about the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art and the refuge where Inugami had been left.

• Fan Zhuolang identified himself, and Huo Lian recognized him as the ancient chief of the Fan Family.
• Fan Zhuolang identified Zuo Qiu Shu as the Demon Spirit Sect’s ancestor and revealed that her elder brother was the Immortal Alchemist.
• Fan Zhuolang explained that the Immortal Alchemist’s pills had helped Zuo Qiu Shu and allowed him to survive, while Zuo Qiu Shu insisted her brother was still alive.
• Huo Lian asked whether the Immortal Alchemist had emerged, but Zuo Qiu Shu and Fan Zhuolang said they did not know his fate.
• Fan Zhuolang asked how Huo Lian obtained the second part of the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art, and Huo Lian said Inugami’s discovery had exposed the hidden refuge.