Chapter Summaries

Huo Lian examined the Supreme Ghost Stele while Huang Xiao explained the divine sense auras inside it, hiding what he knew about their origins. Huo Lian dismissed the strands as unimportant and resumed his search for traces of different flames, but had found none by the time he looked up.

• Huo Lian sensed several divine sense auras inside the Supreme Ghost Stele, including one he recognized as Fan Liya's, and Huang Xiao described Fan Liya's attempt to kill him.
• Huo Lian attributed Huang Xiao's connection to the stele to its absorption of his essence blood and guessed that Feng He had collected the other strands for an unknown purpose.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian to kill Fan Liya, but Huo Lian told him to win back his losses himself and reminded him to strive for the Hall Master's Seat.
• Huo Lian decided the divine sense strands could not harm Huang Xiao inside the stele and began searching it for traces of different flames.
• After half a day, Huo Lian admitted that he had searched everywhere without finding any trace of different flames.

Huo Lian suspected Ou Jin had known the different flames were sealed inside supreme treasures and had withheld the truth, then followed Huang Xiao’s suggestion to use essence blood to investigate the Supreme Ghost Stele. Huo Lian’s blood revealed hidden, room-like spaces inside the stele, but he had not yet discovered what they contained.

• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao he believed Ou Jin knew where the three different flames were and had kept their locations secret.
• Huo Lian reasoned that the flames in the Supreme Imperial Cauldron and Supreme Immortal Bell would be difficult to obtain, and said searching elsewhere had yielded no clues.
• Huang Xiao suggested that essence blood might reveal the hellfire within the Supreme Ghost Stele, based on the connection he had once formed with it.
• Huo Lian sent a drop of his essence blood into the Supreme Ghost Stele and noticed hidden, room-like spaces where he had sensed nothing before.

Huo Lian discovered that the Supreme Ghost Stele still contained Hellfire, though he could not safely draw it out and planned to consult Ou Jin. Huang Xiao then returned with a box containing the Supreme Evil Crystal and Supreme Demon Pearl, preparing to reveal everything to Huo Lian.

• Huo Lian used his essence blood to find Hellfire within the Supreme Ghost Stele and briefly sensed its powerful aura with his divine sense.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that the Hellfire remained, and they reasoned that the other Supreme Treasures likely still contained their different flames.
• Huo Lian said he would not take the Supreme Ghost Stele and explained that disturbing the Hellfire could make it dissipate, so they would need Ou Jin's help.
• Huang Xiao retrieved the Supreme Evil Crystal and Supreme Demon Pearl, decided to tell Huo Lian everything, and returned to his secret chamber with the box.

Huang Xiao revealed that he possessed the Supreme Evil Crystal and the Supreme Demon Pearl, and Huo Lian confirmed that both contained the Different Flames he needed to reforge the Supreme Demon Saber. Huo Lian planned to seek the other two flames while keeping the Supreme Evil Crystal secret, and Huang Xiao reflected on his lack of belonging to the Demon Hall.

• Huang Xiao opened the box and showed Huo Lian the Supreme Evil Crystal and the Supreme Demon Pearl.
• Huang Xiao explained how he had obtained the two treasures, and Huo Lian praised his good fortune.
• Huo Lian confirmed that the Supreme Evil Crystal contained the Netherworld Flame and the Supreme Demon Pearl contained the Flame of Annihilation.
• Huo Lian said he would pursue Zhurong's Fire and the Void Flame to reforge the Supreme Demon Saber, while keeping the Supreme Evil Crystal's whereabouts secret.
• Huang Xiao promised not to reveal the secret and considered why he felt little sense of belonging to the Demon Hall.

Huo Lian left the Supreme Treasures with Huang Xiao and taught him the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art while studying the treasures’ secrets. After two days, Huo Lian suspected the legend that the seven Supreme Treasures held an earth-shattering secret was true, though its nature remained unknown.

• Huo Lian decided Demon Phoenix should remain secluded for a while to keep the secret safe.
• Huo Lian returned the Supreme Demon Pearl and Supreme Ghost Stele to Huang Xiao and left the Supreme Evil Crystal with him temporarily.
• Huo Lian warned Huang Xiao to preserve his essence blood and strengthen his Divine Sense, then taught him the Heavenly Evil Imperishable Art.
• Huang Xiao spent two days trying to understand the art but found it too profound to master yet.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that he believed the seven Supreme Treasures truly held an earth-shattering secret.

Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that ancient texts connected the Seven Treasures to a great secret, though no one knew what it was. After examining three Supreme Treasures, Huo Lian concluded that more were needed to grasp the secret, and Huang Xiao planned to test his own ability once his divine sense grew stronger.

• Huo Lian revealed that scattered ancient references said the Seven Treasures held a great secret, but provided no details.
• Huo Lian said the Immortal Alchemist might know more, and Huang Xiao wondered whether the secret had helped the Alchemist rise to become Number One in the world.
• Huo Lian explained that gathering all Seven Treasures was historically rare because their owners had unequal strength and could distrust one another.
• Huo Lian said his examination of three Supreme Treasures showed that at least one more was needed to roughly deduce what the secret concerned.
• Huang Xiao accepted that his current strength was insufficient and resolved to try sensing the treasures when his divine sense became stronger.

Huang Xiao continued cultivating his divine sense after Huo Lian returned the Supreme Evil Crystal and planned to consult Ou Jin about the Supreme Ghost Stele and reforging the Supreme Demon Saber. Meanwhile, Jiang Liuli gave birth in the Penglai Mystic Domain, and the gathered seniors learned her child was a boy.

• Huo Lian returned the Supreme Evil Crystal to Huang Xiao and said he would bring Ou Jin to examine the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• Huang Xiao resumed secluded cultivation while awaiting Huo Lian and Ou Jin's return.
• You Lian'er, Xiao Yan, Zhao Yunhui, Zhao Xin'er, Zhao Yunya, Yan Xi, and Zhangsun Youyue waited outside as Jiang Liuli went into labor.
• Wu Xuancang, Abbess Jingluo, Zen Master Duheng, Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong also gathered for the birth.
• Jiang Liuli gave birth, and an elderly nun announced that the baby was a boy.

The elders debated Jiang Liuli’s newborn son’s name, settling on Jiang Xie while acknowledging Huang Xie as another name. Wu Xuancang gave him the nickname Xiaoxie and explained that it represented his hope that the child and Huang Xiao would practice restraint rather than become consumed by the Demonic Path or Evil Dao.

• Wang Mizong and the other elders celebrated Jiang Liuli’s son and asked what name she had chosen.
• The old nun said Jiang Liuli had named the child Jiang Xie, prompting You Lian’er to insist he should be called Huang Xie.
• Zhu Fanjiang and Fan Xiu connected the name Jiang Xie to the Evil Water Region, the Supreme Evil River, and the Heavenly Evil Sect, persuading Wu Xuancang that it had a destined fit.
• Wu Xuancang gave the baby the nickname Xiaoxie, which Abbess Jingluo and the others found amusingly simple.
• Wu Xuancang explained that Xiaoxie expressed his hope that Huang Xiao and his son would show restraint and avoid becoming great demons or great evils.

After Jiang Liuli gave birth to Little Xie, the women visited her and gradually reconciled with her, while the seniors agreed to let the Heavenly Evil Sect guide the boy. As the group left the Penglai Mystic Domain, a True Martial Temple disciple reported that two experts outside the Three Immortal Mountains had asked to see Wu Xuancang.

• Wang Mizong challenged Wu Xuancang's criticism of evil, and Zhu Fanjiang insisted that Little Xie's future belonged to the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Xiao Yan and the other women entered to see Jiang Liuli and her newborn son, whom Wu Xuancang had nicknamed Little Xie.
• Jiang Liuli welcomed You Lian'er holding Little Xie, and the two women exchanged smiles that dissolved their grudges.
• Abbess Jingluo and Wu Xuancang led the seniors away, agreeing to return after Jiang Liuli's month of confinement.
• A True Martial Temple disciple reported that two experts outside the Three Immortal Mountains had requested a meeting with Wu Xuancang.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu arrived at the Three Immortal Mountains and met its leaders, revealing that they were ancestors from ten thousand years ago. Fan Zhuolang praised the strength of the Three Immortal Mountains and lamented that the Heavenly Evil Sect had declined across generations.

• Wang Mizong learned that two unknown experts had arrived, so Wu Xuancang and the leaders of the other powers went to meet them.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu reached the Three Immortal Mountains after giving Linghu Xiang cultivation guidance.
• Wu Xuancang and the others emerged from the formation and recognized that Fan Zhuolang’s aura resembled Fan Xiu’s and belonged to the Fan Family.
• Fan Zhuolang revealed his identity, and Zhu Fanjiang, Fan Xiu, and Wang Mizong paid their respects to their ancestor.
• Fan Zhuolang introduced Zuo Qiu Shu as an ancestor of the Demon Spirit Sect and said the Old Demon of the Demon Hall was likely still alive.
• Fan Zhuolang praised the strength of Wu Xuancang and the Three Immortal Mountains, then remarked that each generation of the Heavenly Evil Sect had grown weaker.

Fan Zhuolang confronted Zhu Fanjiang and the others about their weakened state and their failed efforts to protect the Heavenly Evil Sect’s legacy. Fan Xiu revealed that they had devised another plan, but Fan Zhuolang dismissed it before he could explain.

• Wu Xuancang warned Fan Zhuolang that Huo Lian was difficult to fathom and stronger than he might expect.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu followed Wu Xuancang into the Three Immortal Mountains and entered a pavilion with Zhu Fanjiang and the others.
• Fan Zhuolang criticized Zhu Fanjiang and the others for using a slumber method that extended their lives but destroyed their foundations.
• Fan Xiu said they had chosen the Three Immortal Mountains in hopes of preserving the Heavenly Evil Sect’s legacy during the Thousand-Year Period of the Demon Hall.
• Fan Xiu explained that they had considered negotiating with Huo Lian, relying on Wang Jiu and the others, or retrieving the Three Ancient Evil Blades, but had settled on another plan.
• Fan Zhuolang rejected the idea that their plan could preserve the Heavenly Evil Sect without involving Huo Lian.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu learned that Zhu Fanjiang, Wang Mizong, and Fan Xiu intended to raise Huang Xiao and Jiang Liuli’s newborn son, Little Xie, as the Heavenly Evil Sect’s successor. They agreed to keep him at the Three Immortal Mountains and have Fan Zhuolang establish his foundation, while preparing to hide him when the Demon Hall’s Thousand-Year Period arrived.

• Fan Xiu explained the plan to raise Huang Xiao’s newborn son, and Fan Zhuolang accepted their reasoning.
• Zuo Qiu Shu and the others discussed whether the Three Immortal Mountains would try to make Huang Xiao defect from the Demon Hall and worried about Kui Yong’s strength.
• Fan Zhuolang agreed to nurture Little Xie, and he offered to personally establish the baby’s foundation using pills, treasures, and his internal power.
• Fan Zhuolang decided Little Xie should remain at the Three Immortal Mountains because Wu Xuancang’s people would not let them take him away.
• Wang Mizong said they had agreed that Little Xie would hide with younger Three Immortal Mountains disciples when the Demon Hall’s Thousand-Year Period approached.

Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu joined Wu Xuancang’s side at the Three Immortal Mountains to oppose Kui Yong and protect Little Xie. Meanwhile, Du Fuzhou’s confidence in the Demon Spirit Sect was shaken by news that Xuanyuan Song might move the Imperial Remnant Manor against it.

• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu agreed to stay at the Three Immortal Mountains, making their alliance with Wu Xuancang and the others clear.
• Fan Zhuolang and Zuo Qiu Shu settled on the outskirts of the Three Immortal Mountains to await Huang Xiao’s child and judge whether the child could help the Heavenly Evil Sect.
• Wu Xuancang prepared to keep Huang Xiao clearheaded or use his child to awaken the consciousness within him and draw him into their camp.
• Du Fuzhou issued forceful orders at the Demon Spirit Sect and concealed that Zuo Qiu Shu was alive.
• The Demon Spirit Sect received a report that Xuanyuan Song was preparing to have the Imperial Remnant Manor attack them.

Du Fuzhou prepared the Demon Spirit Sect after Imperial Remnant Manor sent a force to attack it. Xuanyuan Xing led the expedition with Jiang Pandong, Jiang Panxi, and Tan Ming, while Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly traveled in a carriage and intended to act personally.

• Du Fuzhou gathered the Demon Spirit Sect’s experts after learning Imperial Remnant Manor was coming, believing the manor would only try to intimidate them.
• Imperial Remnant Manor dispatched a little over a hundred people, including Xuanyuan Xing, Tan Ming, Jiang Pandong, and Jiang Panxi.
• Jiang Pandong, Jiang Panxi, and Tan Ming learned that Xuanyuan Xing planned to attack the Demon Spirit Sect and were shocked by the order.
• Xuanyuan Xing explained inwardly that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had ordered the attack and was accompanying the force in a carriage.
• Xuanyuan Song stayed behind, pleased that the Ancestor’s intervention would teach Du Fuzhou a lesson, while Xuanyuan Xing worried the manor’s display might provoke other Jianghu powers.

Xuanyuan Xing brought the Imperial Remnant Manor to the Demon Spirit Sect, seeking to make it submit, but Du Fuzhou rejected him and condemned the Manor’s attempt to claim leadership. An icy voice from a carriage interrupted Du Fuzhou, leaving him trembling as he turned toward it.

• Xuanyuan Xing reflected on why the Imperial Remnant Manor could not gain the Three Immortal Mountains’ authority and recalled the Ancestor’s order to annihilate the Demon Spirit Sect.
• Xuanyuan Xing and his party reached the Demon Spirit Sect without meeting resistance, then encountered Du Fuzhou and the sect’s disciples.
• Xuanyuan Xing asked Du Fuzhou to join forces against the Demon Hall, while Du Fuzhou refused and mocked the Heavenly Evil Sect for submitting to the Imperial Remnant Manor.
• Du Fuzhou accused the Imperial Remnant Manor of hiding during past Demon Hall attacks and now trying to seize command from the Three Immortal Mountains.
• An icy voice from a carriage interrupted Du Fuzhou, who trembled and turned his gaze toward it.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly led Imperial Remnant Manor in destroying the Demon Spirit Sect’s defenses and ordered its remaining disciples killed. Xuanyuan Xing hesitated at her command, leaving the sect’s fate unresolved.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly arrived and ordered Xuanyuan Xing, Tan Ming, and the others to kill the Demon Spirit Sect’s people.
• Imperial Remnant Manor broke through the sect’s outer formations and slaughtered its defenders as Du Fuzhou watched from behind the inner barriers.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly destroyed the final formation, which Du Fuzhou recognized as one left by the Immortal Alchemist.
• Du Fuzhou attacked Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly to buy time for his people, but Xuanyuan Xing subdued him in three moves.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly ordered everyone except Du Fuzhou killed, and Xuanyuan Xing objected that a wholesale slaughter was inappropriate.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly attacked the Demon Spirit Sect, then revealed that Zuo Qiu Shu was the Immortal Alchemist’s younger sister and had once called her sister-in-law. She explained that she had wanted to destroy the sect ten thousand years ago and still waited for the heartless Immortal Alchemist to return.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly struck Xuanyuan Xing, but he urged her to spare the Demon Spirit Sect because the Demon Hall was their greater enemy.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly ordered the Demon Spirit Sect’s people taken away and asked Du Fuzhou where Zuo Qiu Shu was.
• Du Fuzhou admitted Zuo Qiu Shu was alive but said he did not know where she had gone.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly revealed that Zuo Qiu Shu had once called her sister-in-law, making her the Immortal Alchemist’s younger sister.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said she had wanted to destroy the Demon Spirit Sect ten thousand years earlier, but had been persuaded to stop.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said she had slept for ten thousand years while waiting for the heartless Immortal Alchemist to return, but had found no sign of him.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly revealed that she planned to use Zuo Qiu Shu as bait to draw out the Immortal Alchemist, then walked to the Demon Spirit Sect’s forbidden grounds. There, her memories of the past gave way to her unchanged hatred as she opened the hidden entrance with her demon qi.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly told Du Fuzhou she would use Zuo Qiu Shu to force the Immortal Alchemist to appear, and Du Fuzhou protested.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly ordered Du Fuzhou taken away, while Xuanyuan Xing prepared to seize the Demon Spirit Sect’s cultivation methods and treasures.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly walked alone toward the Demon Spirit Sect’s forbidden grounds and recalled walking there with the Immortal Alchemist ten thousand years earlier.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly declared that her hatred had never changed and opened the cliff entrance with her demon qi.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly found traces in Zuo Qiu Shu's Land of Slumber that convinced her the Immortal Alchemist had been there, then ordered the Demon Spirit Sect burned despite sparing its captured disciples. News of the sect's destruction spread through the Jianghu and was widely blamed on the Demon Hall, whose approaching thousand-year period alarmed the factions; Huang Xiao learned the Demon Spirit Sect had been wiped out.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly found remnants of rare ice crystals and formations in Zuo Qiu Shu's Land of Slumber, and concluded that the Immortal Alchemist had been there.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly decided to let the captured Demon Spirit Sect disciples live, then ordered Xuanyuan Xing to burn the sect to the ground.
• Imperial Remnant Manor's forces left with Du Fuzhou and other captured disciples while the Demon Spirit Sect burned for three days and three nights.
• People in the Jianghu learned that the Demon Spirit Sect had been destroyed, mostly blamed the Demon Hall, and feared its approaching thousand-year period.
• Shi Hen confirmed to Huang Xiao that the Demon Spirit Sect had been wiped out.

Huang Xiao learned that Imperial Remnant Manor had destroyed the Demon Spirit Sect and was holding Du Fuzhou and other disciples, apparently to lure Zuo Qiu Shu to them. As Shi Hen ordered security tightened at the Heavenly Demon Hall, Huang Xiao learned the Hall Master would soon bring Ou Jin to examine the Supreme Ghost Stele’s Hellfire.

• Huang Xiao asked Wu Cang who had destroyed the Demon Spirit Sect, and Wu Cang said Imperial Remnant Manor was responsible.
• Huang Xiao and Shi Hen suspected Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had attacked because of a grudge against Zuo Qiu Shu, while Du Fuzhou and other disciples were taken prisoner.
• Yin Huju and Liu Jiong reported that Imperial Remnant Manor had publicly admitted to destroying the sect and holding its survivors.
• Huang Xiao and Shi Hen concluded Imperial Remnant Manor was trying to draw Zuo Qiu Shu to its stronghold, and Shi Hen told Wu Cang to strengthen security around the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Shi Hen told Huang Xiao that the Hall Master would soon visit with Ou Jin to examine the Supreme Ghost Stele’s Hellfire.