Chapter Summaries

Fan Zhuolang agreed to guide the eight women in their Combined Strike Method, while he and the others considered whether to teach it to potential recruits from the Three Immortal Mountains. Huang Xiao remained unable to reach the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill and faced a difficult choice about how much strength to use against Pang Yi without exposing the Longevity Chapter.

• Fan Zhuolang warned the eight women that his guidance could disrupt their harmony, but they firmly asked him to teach them.
• Zuo Qiu Shu urged the women to learn the Heavenly Evil Sect's Combined Strike Method and suggested that the Three Immortal Mountains might provide suitable candidates to master it.
• Zhu Fanjiang objected to teaching outsiders the sect's secret art, while Fan Zhuolang said he would consider younger candidates such as Li Bai or Leng Guhan's generation.
• Huang Xiao failed to break through to the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill and worried that fighting Pang Yi at full strength would reveal the Longevity Chapter.

Huang Xiao learned that Pang Ji had arranged his spar with Pang Yi to mislead Huo Lian and weaken support for Huang Xiao. Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao a Blood Overflow Pill to help him endure the aftereffects of the Blood Exhaustion Method during the fight.

• Huang Xiao worried that he could no longer explain his unusual progress by blaming the Longevity Pill and decided he might have to fight Pang Yi with everything he had.
• Shi Hen brought Huang Xiao to meet Huo Lian, who explained that Pang Ji believed Pang Yi could defeat Huang Xiao and had arranged the spar to create a false impression of Pang Yi's strength.
• Huo Lian said Pang Yi might conceal some of his strength but would not deliberately go easy on Huang Xiao, and he encouraged Huang Xiao to fight without holding back.
• Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao a jade vial containing a Blood Overflow Pill that temporarily increased the body's essence blood and could lessen the impact of the Blood Exhaustion Method's aftereffects.

Huo Lian and Shi Hen arranged Essence Blood for Huang Xiao to use with a Blood Overflow Pill before his match. The match against Pang Yi was suddenly scheduled for two hours later, leaving Huang Xiao and his allies wondering what Pang Ji was planning.

• Huo Lian explained that Huang Xiao needed Essence Blood from three Dao Realm experts to double his supply, and Shi Hen planned to gather contributions from the Hidden Demon Guard and Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao two bottles of Essence Blood and privately asked him to hand over the Supreme Demon Wall later.
• Zhu Xing E arrived with the Supreme Elder's order that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi's match would begin in two hours.
• Shi Hen was shocked by the sudden schedule, and Huo Lian wondered what Pang Ji was playing at.

Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and Shi Hen hurried to Supreme Demon Peak for Huang Xiao’s rematch with Pang Yi after Pang Ji gave them only an hour’s notice. They reached the summit before Pang Ji arrived, joining a crowd of Demon Hall experts gathered to watch.

• Shi Hen questioned the short notice, but Huo Lian agreed to the match because waiting would not improve Huang Xiao’s chances.
• Zhu Xing E said the match would take place at Supreme Demon Peak, and Huo Lian realized Pang Ji had chosen the location so he could attend without entering the dangerous Main Hall formations.
• Huang Xiao said he was prepared to fight whether the match happened in an hour or several days, and Huo Lian praised his composure.
• Demon Hall experts headed toward Supreme Demon Peak, with more of them favoring Huang Xiao than before, while still more backed Pang Yi.
• Huang Xiao and the others reached the summit, where over a hundred experts had gathered; Pang Ji had not yet arrived.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi prepared to fight on Supreme Demon Peak, but Pang Ji proposed that everyone retreat halfway down the mountain so the duelists could keep their trump cards secret. The chapter left Huo Lian accepting the arrangement while challenging Pang Ji over a possible flaw in the Ten-Thousand Interception Method.

• Huo Lian waited with Huang Xiao and the other Demon Hall experts on Supreme Demon Peak, while Huang Xiao reflected on the danger of judging strength by aura alone.
• Pang Ji arrived with Pang Yi and several Pang Family experts, and Huo Lian accused him of arranging the match at the peak to make him witness Huang Xiao's defeat.
• Pang Ji proposed that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight alone on the summit while everyone else retreated halfway down the mountain.
• Pang Ji explained that watching the duel could reveal the fighters' secret techniques and give their elders an advantage in preparing them for the Hall Master's Seat contest.
• Huo Lian said he trusted Huang Xiao, then accused Pang Ji of fearing that he would discover a fatal flaw in the Ten-Thousand Interception Method.

Pang Ji and Huo Lian agreed to let Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight without witnesses so neither side would reveal their secret techniques before the contest for the Hall Master's Seat. After Huo Lian inspected the mountain for hidden formations, everyone withdrew, leaving the two rivals alone to spar.

• Pang Ji proposed that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fight unwatched to protect the secrets of their supreme forbidden arts, and Huo Lian agreed.
• Pang Ji predicted Pang Yi would win and warned him not to kill Huang Xiao, while Huo Lian challenged his confidence.
• Huang Xiao accepted the match and noted that fighting without the elders present would make it easier to conceal his secrets from Pang Yi.
• Huo Lian searched the surroundings for formations that could let Pang Ji monitor the fight and found no evidence of tampering.
• Pang Ji ordered everyone down the mountain, leaving Huang Xiao and Pang Yi to fight alone.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi faced off on the mountain summit, trading boasts and revealing that Pang Yi’s family had concealed the extent of his strength. As their match began, Huang Xiao swallowed a Blood Overflow Pill and drank the essence blood from two bottles.

• Huo Lian and the others left Huang Xiao and Pang Yi alone on the summit.
• Huang Xiao and Pang Yi taunted each other over their strength, family resources, and the coming match.
• Pang Yi explained that the Supreme Elder had suppressed his cultivation in the past, limiting the strength he could display.
• Pang Yi warned Huang Xiao that Huo Lian might be using him and could kill him to silence him.
• Huang Xiao urged Pang Yi to restore his true strength, but Pang Yi remained in the Half-Step Martial Realm as they prepared to fight.
• Huang Xiao swallowed a Blood Overflow Pill and drank the essence blood from two bottles.

Huang Xiao absorbed the essence blood’s aura and fought Pang Yi, who used a forbidden art to temporarily raise his strength from the half-step martial realm to the Dao Realm. Huang Xiao recognized the technique and pressed his attack, while Pang Yi’s brief power boosts and their limits shaped the ongoing battle.

• Huang Xiao refined the foreign essence blood’s aura with his heart fire, increasing his own essence blood by a little less than twice its previous amount.
• Pang Yi attacked Huang Xiao while appearing to remain at the half-step martial realm, and Huang Xiao answered with his combat techniques and secretly burned essence blood.
• Their palms collided, and Huang Xiao discovered that Pang Yi could briefly raise his strength to the Dao Realm before returning to the half-step martial realm.
• Huang Xiao realized Pang Yi’s technique was a forbidden art devised by Pang Ji, and Pang Yi admitted that Huang Xiao’s caution had thwarted his attempt to subdue him in one move.
• Huang Xiao launched a fierce attack, while Pang Yi raised his strength for longer and used quick exchanges to force Huang Xiao back before returning to the half-step martial realm.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi continued their mountaintop battle, each pushing his strength higher and testing how long his Forbidden Art could last. Both suffered minor injuries, and Pang Yi promised to inflict wounds Huang Xiao could not heal.

• Pang Yi revealed Peak Dao Realm strength during exchanges with Huang Xiao, then returned to the Half-Step Martial Realm when he was safe.
• Huang Xiao challenged Pang Yi to keep using his Forbidden Art, and the two acknowledged their fight would come down to whose power boost lasted longer.
• Huang Xiao increased his strength by burning more essence blood, and he and Pang Yi resumed their fierce, head-on battle across the mountaintop.
• Their blows battered the mountaintop and sent Huang Xiao staggering near the cliff, while Demon Hall experts below heard the clash.
• Huang Xiao spat blood and Pang Yi's mouth bled, but Huang Xiao trusted his Imperishable True Qi to heal him.
• Pang Yi dismissed Huang Xiao's healing ability as a petty trick and vowed to make his injuries impossible to heal.

Huang Xiao struggled to withstand Pang Yi’s steadily increasing strength, relying on his Imperishable True Qi while saving the Longevity Pill’s remaining aura. When Pang Yi pushed his Ten-Thousand Interception Method toward its limit, Huang Xiao realized Pang Yi was likely concealing strength and had not yet been driven into a desperate corner.

• Huang Xiao recognized that Pang Yi’s strength had risen beyond his expectations, while his own power was nearly exhausted from burning his essence blood.
• Huang Xiao continued resisting Pang Yi’s attacks and used his Imperishable True Qi to heal, keeping the Longevity Pill’s remaining aura in reserve.
• After an hour of fighting, Huang Xiao and Pang Yi acknowledged that each was nearing a limit, though Huang Xiao’s injuries were severe.
• Pang Yi unleashed another surge of power, and Huang Xiao sensed that his aura was becoming difficult to control.
• Huang Xiao abandoned his attempt to wait for Pang Yi’s method to collapse, realizing Pang Yi still had strength or techniques in reserve.

Huang Xiao fought Pang Yi, relying on the Longevity Pill’s aura and his Indestructible cultivation method to recover from severe injuries. As a thunderstorm intensified over Supreme Demon Peak, both fighters paused after lightning struck nearby, but Huang Xiao challenged Pang Yi to continue.

• Huang Xiao used a trace of the Longevity Pill’s aura to recover and clashed with Pang Yi, who realized his Indestructible cultivation method was unusually powerful.
• Pang Yi wounded Huang Xiao repeatedly and drove his fingers into Huang Xiao’s chest over his heart, but Huang Xiao blocked the attack with his hand and Imperishable True Qi.
• Pang Yi withdrew, and Huang Xiao stopped the bleeding as Pang Yi noted that Huang Xiao’s extra essence blood had nearly run out.
• Thunderclouds gathered over Supreme Demon Peak, and Pang Yi returned to the Peak Dao Realm as he resumed fighting Huang Xiao in the wind and rain.
• Lightning struck a nearby boulder and pine tree, prompting both fighters to withdraw; Huang Xiao then told Pang Yi to come at him again.

Huang Xiao and Pang Yi fought through a thunderstorm on Supreme Evil Peak until Huo Lian and Pang Ji arrived to stop them. A lightning strike shattered the cliff edge beneath Huang Xiao, and he fell with the collapsing rock when he could not control the momentum of heaven and earth.

• Huang Xiao and Pang Yi continued fighting while dodging lightning strikes, and Huang Xiao considered conceding rather than spending more of the Longevity Pill's aura.
• Pang Yi announced his final move, but Huo Lian and Pang Ji arrived with the Demon Hall experts before he could use it.
• The group saw that Huang Xiao and Pang Yi were both battered, and Huang Xiao felt relieved that Pang Yi had not defeated him.
• A storm of lightning bolts swept over the summit, and Huo Lian rushed toward Huang Xiao as Pang Ji followed.
• Lightning struck the cracked rock beneath Huang Xiao near the cliff, breaking it away; Huang Xiao leaped but fell with the rock when he could not command the momentum of heaven and earth.

Huang Xiao was swallowed by a descending net of lightning, and the Demon Hall experts believed he had died. A powerful surge from beneath the cliff revealed a grand formation, while Huo Lian insisted Huang Xiao was still alive.

• Huang Xiao regained control of the Heaven and Earth Momentum, but the lightning net descended and swallowed him as he fell.
• Huo Lian tried to break the lightning with Palm Force but failed, while Pang Ji and the other Demon Hall experts watched Huang Xiao disappear.
• A tremendous wave of air erupted from beneath the cliff, pulverizing rock fragments and revealing a grand formation below.
• The lightning and rain subsided, and the experts speculated that the formation had been left by a past Demon Hall expert and triggered by the lightning.
• Pang Ji suggested Huang Xiao might still be alive, and Huo Lian declared that he was definitely alive.

Pang Ji, Huo Lian, and the others searched for Huang Xiao at the foot of the cliff and discovered that they stood inside a hidden formation. Huo Lian concluded that multiple layers of formations concealed a secluded retreat, but said he could not break through them.

• Pang Ji and Huo Lian debated whether the lightning that struck Huang Xiao could have been part of the formation.
• The group searched the forest below the cliff but found no trace of Huang Xiao.
• Huo Lian revealed that the group stood inside a formation and briefly exposed another scene with a palm strike.
• Huo Lian explained that the upheaval had broken only the outer formation and that further layers might conceal the true retreat.
• Pang Ji suspected Huo Lian of exaggerating the formations' difficulty to return alone, but Huo Lian said breaking through could take years or prove impossible.

Huo Lian and Pang Ji argued over whether Huang Xiao had entered a seclusion site and how his return could affect the contest for the Hall Master's Seat. After leaving, Huo Lian admitted to Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E that Huang Xiao’s survival was uncertain and that he had only claimed otherwise to preserve the Heavenly Demon Hall’s unity.

• Huo Lian suggested that Huang Xiao might have entered Kui Yong’s seclusion site, giving him a major advantage over Pang Yi in the coming contest.
• Pang Ji argued that the weakening formation could be broken in a few years and said Pang Yi would become Hall Master if Huang Xiao did not return by the Thousand-Year Period.
• Pang Yi declared that Huang Xiao would not catch up to him, and Huo Lian mocked his confidence while warning that the Thousand-Year Period would bring more than Pang Ji expected.
• Huo Lian left, and the gathered Demon Hall experts dispersed.
• Shi Hen asked whether Huang Xiao had entered, and Huo Lian admitted that he was unsure and had used the claim to prevent the Heavenly Demon Hall’s alliance from falling apart.
• Huo Lian estimated Huang Xiao had about a fifty-percent chance of survival, while Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E hoped he would gain treasures from the seclusion site.

Huo Lian explained that Kui Yong was unlikely to have left behind his most valuable teachings, though Huang Xiao could still find useful resources in the seclusion site. He reassured Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E that Huang Xiao had hidden potential and the means to advance, then began to reveal a secret about the Three Great Demonic Arts.

• Huo Lian explained that Kui Yong had remained alive and probably kept his core cultivation methods and treasures rather than leaving them in his seclusion site.
• Huo Lian said Huang Xiao could still benefit from lesser things Kui Yong had left behind, though Zhu Xing E and Shi Hen worried Pang Yi would gain more under the Supreme Elder’s guidance.
• Huo Lian recalled that Huang Xiao had surprised him by possessing the Supreme Evil Crystal and the Supreme Demon Pearl, and believed Huang Xiao still had secrets of his own.
• Huo Lian said Huang Xiao would need to rely on himself from now on, but the mental formula Wei Yidao taught him for the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill should let him break through inside.
• Huo Lian hinted that the Three Great Demonic Arts held a secret, and Shi Hen guessed that practicing them made it easier to learn the Supreme Demonic Art.

Huo Lian explained that the Heavenly Demon Skill’s twelfth level prepared Hall Master Candidates to master the Supreme Demonic Art quickly, then arranged for Shi Hen to watch the formation. He planned to search the Heavenly Demon Hall for Huang Xiao’s Supreme Treasures while Huang Xiao was away, leaving Huang Xiao to rely on the Supreme Demon Wall as he cultivated.

• Huo Lian told Shi Hen and Zhu Xing E that mastering the twelfth level of the Heavenly Demon Skill let a Hall Master master the Supreme Demonic Art in ten days to half a month, and that the three halls’ cultivation methods prepared their candidates.
• Huo Lian ordered Shi Hen to stay at the Main Hall, monitor the formation, and notify him through the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency if its power weakened.
• Huo Lian told Shi Hen that Pang Yi had been stronger than Huang Xiao in their contest, though Huang Xiao had also left Pang Yi badly battered.
• Huo Lian said he would search the Heavenly Demon Hall for Huang Xiao’s three Supreme Treasures because Huang Xiao had taken away the better box that sealed their auras.
• Huo Lian and Shi Hen set off for the Heavenly Demon Hall, where Huo Lian would retrieve the treasures and Shi Hen would later guard the formation against the Pang Family.

Huang Xiao survived his fall from Supreme Demon Peak and discovered that he was trapped inside a powerful formation that concealed him from the Demon Hall. Believing the formation might surround a senior’s seclusion site, he searched the valley and learned how it hid him from the wild animals around him.

• Huang Xiao woke at the bottom of the cliff, healed by his Imperishable True Qi, and realized no one had come looking for him.
• Huang Xiao sensed a powerful formation around the valley and suspected it had kept the Patriarch and the others from finding him.
• Huang Xiao searched the vast, distorted valley for a senior’s seclusion site but found no signs of one after two hours.
• Huang Xiao roasted a pheasant and reasoned that the valley’s wild animals were real despite the formation.
• Huang Xiao approached a wild boar without hiding his aura, discovered it could not sense him, and killed it with Hidden Force.
• Huang Xiao concluded the formation concealed him from others and wondered which Hall Master in the Demon Hall’s history had created it.

Huang Xiao used his understanding of the formation to search for the true place of seclusion and discovered that a foul ravine concealed a cave. He entered the cave and reached a carved stone gate.

• Huang Xiao realized the formation could disguise people and places, then decided to search for dangerous-looking locations that might conceal the truth.
• Huang Xiao found a foul-smelling ravine and leaped into it, believing the place of seclusion lay beneath it.
• After Huang Xiao took a step at the bottom, the ravine vanished and a cave appeared in a cliff face.
• Huang Xiao entered the cave, walked through its dark passages, and stopped before a stone gate with frightening reliefs.

Huang Xiao opened an ancient stone chamber expecting to find treasures, but discovered only empty shelves and fragments of pottery. He sat down to collect himself, unable to understand why the remarkable secret chamber held nothing useful.

• Huang Xiao recognized the weapons carved into the stone door as resembling the Xuanyuan Sword and Minghong Saber and wondered about the ancient battle they depicted.
• Huang Xiao pressed the stone door and found it opened easily, revealing a vast chamber carved into the cliff.
• Huang Xiao searched the chamber and found empty shelves, porcelain shards, and fragments of earthenware jars, but no treasures or weapons.
• Huang Xiao questioned whether he was the unluckiest disciple in Demon Hall history and sat at a stone table to calm himself.