Chapter Summaries

Huo Lian broke through the seven former Hall Masters’ combined attack and tried to seize the Supreme Demon Saber from Pang Yi. The hidden saber soul empowered Pang Yi, forcing Huo Lian back as Mo Pozheng and the others surrounded him.

• Huo Lian’s aura surged, and he shattered the seven former Hall Masters’ combined palm strike before escaping their encirclement.
• Pang Yi anticipated Huo Lian’s attempt to take the Supreme Demon Saber and attacked him with saber force.
• Huo Lian dodged Pang Yi’s strike and knocked the Eighth Hall Master back, but the others, Pang Yi, and Mo Pozheng joined the battle.
• Huo Lian charged at Pang Yi, but the hidden saber soul dispelled Pang Yi’s fear and helped him repel Huo Lian with the Supreme Demon Saber Technique.
• Mo Pozheng and the other seven surrounded Huo Lian and told him he could not escape into the formation.

Huang Xiao left the formation with the Minghong Saber to help Huo Lian fight Pang Yi and the eight other Demon Hall experts. As the people inside watched through the adjusted formation, Huang Xiao was assigned to face Pang Yi.

• Pang Yi ordered the seven Former Hall Masters to join him and Mo Pozheng in attacking Huo Lian, forcing Huo Lian to retreat away from the formation.
• Huang Xiao summoned the Minghong Saber and charged out of the formation, leaving Demon Phoenix to explain the battle to Wei Yidao, Wang Jiu, and the others.
• Wei Yidao recognized Pang Yi's companions as the Demon Hall's Previous Hall Masters, and Demon Phoenix realized the Demon Hall Thousand-Year Period had arrived.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to deal with Pang Yi.

Huang Xiao fought Pang Yi with the Minghong Saber while Mo Pozheng and the seven Former Hall Masters kept Huo Lian occupied. Though Pang Yi's genuine Supreme Demon Saber damaged Huang Xiao's saber, Huang Xiao struck back with enough force to send Pang Yi crashing into the ground, and Pang Yi retaliated with a massive upward slash.

• Pang Yi stopped Mo Pozheng from joining his fight with Huang Xiao, so Mo Pozheng went to help contain Huo Lian instead.
• Huang Xiao and Pang Yi exchanged more than a hundred blows with the Supreme Demon Saber Technique, while Pang Yi's genuine saber began notching the Minghong Saber's blade.
• Huang Xiao checked with the Minghong Saber's soul, which urged him to defeat Pang Yi and recover its true saber body from the hidden saber soul.
• Huang Xiao knocked Pang Yi out of the air and drove his legs into the earth with a powerful slash.
• Pang Yi shot back into the air and swung his Supreme Demon Saber upward, sending an enormous saber silhouette at Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao overwhelmed Pang Yi in their saber battle despite Pang Yi wielding the Supreme Demon Saber, and declared that Pang Yi was only a substitute for the Demon Hall Master he might have been. Huang Xiao aimed to badly wound Pang Yi before the Thousand-Year Period, while Mo Pozheng rushed in to warn him.

• Huang Xiao shattered Pang Yi's saber phantom, kicked him out of the air, and pursued him through a series of fierce exchanges.
• Huang Xiao evaded Pang Yi's attack and struck his chest with a punch and Palm Force, forcing him to retreat and cough blood.
• Huang Xiao reminded Pang Yi that he had defeated him before and called him a substitute, then said Pang Yi would be buried there.
• Huang Xiao resolved to seriously injure Pang Yi rather than kill him, hoping to delay the Thousand-Year Period.
• Mo Pozheng noticed that rage had clouded Pang Yi's judgment and rushed toward the two fighters to warn him.

Mo Pozheng used the Supreme Demon Token to stop Huang Xiao from killing Pang Yi, leaving Huang Xiao unable to approach them while the token’s influence lasted. Huo Lian urged Huang Xiao to retreat, but Huang Xiao chose to join him against the seven Former Hall Masters, and Mo Pozheng pursued.

• Huang Xiao attacked Pang Yi with deadly force as Mo Pozheng rushed to intervene.
• Mo Pozheng activated and hurled the Supreme Demon Token, disrupting Huang Xiao’s and Pang Yi’s control over their true qi and forcing Huang Xiao to retreat beyond its range.
• Mo Pozheng supported the injured Pang Yi while Huang Xiao realized he could no longer attack them or reclaim the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Huo Lian warned Huang Xiao to retreat within the Formation, but Huang Xiao refused to leave him facing the seven Former Hall Masters alone.
• Huang Xiao charged toward Huo Lian’s opponents, and Mo Pozheng followed him.

Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to escape with the materials for reforging the Supreme Demon Saber while concealing that he had already broken free of the Demon Refining Formula. Left facing Pang Yi and the others, Huo Lian offered to explain how to resist the Supreme Demon Token, but they remained suspicious and kept him surrounded.

• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao to leave with Ou Jin and the others, keep his freedom from the Demon Refining Formula secret, and take the saber-reforging materials.
• Huang Xiao escaped toward the formation as Pang Yi and the others watched, then Pang Yi ordered them to attack Huo Lian.
• Huo Lian stopped the group by claiming he could explain how to break free of the Supreme Demon Token's influence.
• Mo Pozheng argued that Huo Lian was lying to get the Supreme Demon Saber, and the Second Hall Master accused Huo Lian of sowing discord.
• Pang Yi decided to consult Pang Ji about countering the Supreme Demon Token, while treating Huo Lian's offer as a ploy to escape.

Huang Xiao prepared to evacuate with his allies after the Demon Hall exposed their hidden base, packing up the refined materials and bringing Ou Jin along. The group left carrying the huge bundle as Huo Lian stayed behind to hold off the Demon Hall’s experts.

• Huang Xiao told Wei Yidao and the others to prepare to withdraw, explaining that Huo Lian would hold off their pursuers and that they should take anything important.
• Huang Xiao found Ou Jin refining materials and hurriedly packed the treasures into a large cloth bundle before they could be refined again.
• Demon Phoenix questioned whether Huang Xiao and Huo Lian could defeat the Demon Hall’s forces, and explained to Ou Jin that seven former Hall Masters had joined the battle.
• Huang Xiao said he would deal with anyone who pursued them and might try to win over Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan if they caught up.
• Huang Xiao invited Ou Jin to leave with them and used Heaven and Earth Momentum to carry the bundle as the group departed the base.

Huang Xiao led his group out of the formation with Ou Jin, but Pang Yi and his allies caught up while Huo Lian remained surrounded by the Demon Hall experts. The pursuers confronted Huang Xiao’s group, and Pang Yi focused on the bundle they carried.

• Demon Phoenix introduced Ou Jin as the Craftsman God, and Huang Xiao led the group out of the formation while Huo Lian battled the Demon Hall experts.
• Pang Yi learned that Huang Xiao’s group was escaping and ordered Mo Pozheng, Shi Hen, and Liu Tengfan to pursue them.
• Huo Lian tried to stop the pursuers, but the Second Hall Master and six others surrounded him again.
• Pang Yi and his companions caught up with Huang Xiao’s group, which had been slowed by the need to protect Ou Jin and the others.
• Pang Yi recognized Wei Yidao, dismissed him as a threat, and asked Huang Xiao if he was moving house as he eyed the large bundle.

Pang Yi moved to seize Huo Lian’s treasures and attacked Huang Xiao, while Huang Xiao tried to protect his companions from the Demon Hall and Tomb Clan forces. The chapter ended with Huang Xiao blocked from reaching them as Shi Hen, Liu Tengfan, and the Tomb Clan’s experts closed in.

• Pang Yi claimed Huo Lian’s possessions as his own and ordered Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan to attack Huang Xiao.
• Huang Xiao told Pang Yi that the Demon Hall’s members were controlled by the First Hall Master, and Demon Phoenix urged Pang Yi to take the Supreme Demon Token from Mo Pozheng.
• Pang Yi ordered the others killed and joined Mo Pozheng in attacking Huang Xiao.
• Huang Xiao evaded Pang Yi’s strike and moved toward Demon Phoenix and the others while carrying the bundle of materials.
• Demon Phoenix urged Huang Xiao to escape with Old Man Ou, but Huang Xiao refused to abandon the group.
• Shi Hen, Liu Tengfan, and the Tomb Clan’s experts closed in as Pang Yi and Mo Pozheng blocked Huang Xiao from reaching his companions.

Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan betrayed Pang Yi and helped Huang Xiao fight the Tomb Clan, while Mo Pozheng used the Supreme Demon Token to suppress Shi Hen. The battle remained unresolved as Pang Yi withdrew, unable to face Huang Xiao alone.

• Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan turned on Pang Yi’s forces and revealed that they had arranged for Demon Hall factions to withdraw.
• Mo Pozheng charged Shi Hen, while Huang Xiao agreed to keep Pang Yi occupied and warned Shi Hen about the Supreme Demon Token.
• Huang Xiao attacked the retreating Tomb Clan experts, killing several and prompting Mo Pozheng to use the Supreme Demon Token against Shi Hen.
• Liu Tengfan avoided the token’s range and joined Huang Xiao in attacking the Tomb Clan members.
• Pang Yi held back from fighting Huang Xiao and finally ordered a retreat.

Huang Xiao and his allies escaped after battling the Tomb Clan, while Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan prepared to gather forces opposed to the Demon Hall. With nowhere safe to go, Huang Xiao considered Ou Jin’s hidden ice island in the Extreme Cold Ice Sea.

• Huang Xiao refused Demon Phoenix’s suggestion to pursue the retreating Tomb Clan, and he left with Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan.
• Pang Yi, enraged that Huang Xiao had escaped, attacked Huo Lian with the Supreme Demon Saber.
• Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan told Huang Xiao they would return to gather members of their Heavenly Demon Hall and Ten Thousand Demons Hall lines who planned to leave the Demon Hall.
• Huang Xiao promised to try to free Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan from the Supreme Demon Token’s influence, and the two elders departed.
• Huang Xiao rejected the Three Immortal Mountains and the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency as destinations, then considered Ou Jin’s concealed island in the Extreme Cold Ice Sea.

Huang Xiao and his companions planned to hide the saber materials at Ou Jin's secret refuge while Huang Xiao suppressed the swelling essence blood he had strengthened by killing Tomb Clan experts. Huo Lian arrived without the Supreme Demon Saber and confronted Ou Jin over the failure that let Pang Yi and the others take it.

• Huang Xiao decided to take the saber materials to Ou Jin's former hiding place because the Supreme Demon Saber was too difficult to reclaim from Pang Yi and the other experts.
• Huang Xiao's essence blood swelled after he killed Tomb Clan experts, so he sat beneath a tree and suppressed its power while Wei Yidao and the others kept watch.
• Huo Lian appeared and told Huang Xiao that Pang Yi and the others had taken the Supreme Demon Saber before withdrawing.
• Huo Lian sensed Huang Xiao's strengthened essence blood, then learned the group planned to go to the Craftsman God's former hiding place.
• Huo Lian accused Ou Jin of failing to neutralize the Hidden Saber Soul in time, allowing Pang Yi and the others to seize the Supreme Demon Saber.

Huo Lian demanded the Ou Family's Saber Blank after losing the Supreme Demon Saber, threatening Ou Jin when he refused. Huang Xiao persuaded Huo Lian to let him speak with Ou Jin privately, and warned him that Kui Yong's emergence could bring a calamity worse than any Thousand-Year Period.

• Ou Jin apologized to Huo Lian for the loss of the Supreme Demon Saber, but Huo Lian said recovering it from Pang Yi was nearly impossible.
• Huo Lian demanded the Ou Family's Saber Blank so he could reforge the Supreme Demon Saber, and threatened to kill Ou Jin's family when Ou Jin refused.
• Ou Jin challenged Huo Lian's threat, saying the Ou Family had dispersed and could not be wiped out, so Huo Lian seized him by the throat.
• Huang Xiao stopped Huo Lian from killing Ou Jin, and Huo Lian released him and gave Huang Xiao a quarter of an hour to persuade him.
• Huang Xiao spoke privately with Ou Jin, accepted that Ou Jin had wanted to help reforge the saber, and warned him that Kui Yong could devastate the Jianghu.
• Ou Jin questioned whether Kui Yong could truly be so dangerous given the strength of Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and the awakened experts.

Huang Xiao persuaded Ou Jin to consider using the Ou Family's Saber Blank and the Minghong Saber Soul to forge a divine weapon capable of opposing Kui Yong. Ou Jin remained undecided as Huang Xiao weighed how to protect the Martial World from Kui Yong.

• Huang Xiao told Ou Jin that Kui Yong was likely too powerful for the experts to defeat together.
• Ou Jin explained that the Saber Blank's blade was strong, but its saber soul needed far longer to mature into a peerless divine weapon.
• Huang Xiao suggested that the Minghong Saber Soul could complete the Saber Blank and promised the weapon would ultimately belong to the Ou Family.
• Ou Jin struggled with the offer, tempted by the chance to forge a renowned divine weapon and help the world.
• Huang Xiao waited without pressing Ou Jin and considered how he could fight Kui Yong while protecting his friends and the Central Plains.

Huang Xiao persuaded Ou Jin to lend the Ou Family’s Saber Blank for reforging the Minghong Saber, with the condition that Huang Xiao alone would wield it. The group reached the Extreme Cold Ice Sea and found the island where the forging work would begin.

• Huang Xiao promised Ou Jin he would recover the reforged Minghong Saber from Huo Lian if necessary, and Ou Jin agreed to lend the Saber Blank on the condition that Huang Xiao alone would wield it.
• Huo Lian agreed to Ou Jin’s condition and said he would first borrow the saber after it was reforged.
• Huo Lian split from Huang Xiao’s group to retrieve the Three Ancient Evil Blades, then caught up with them three days later.
• Huang Xiao and the others traveled north for seven days and reached the Extreme Cold Ice Sea, where they flew over the frozen waters with Ou Jin.
• Ou Jin pointed out the ice-covered island, and the group flew toward it.

Huang Xiao and the others followed Ou Jin to the Ou Family’s hidden chamber, where the legendary Saber Blank was being tempered by cold flame different flames. The Saber Blank resonated with their Divine Weapons, and the group learned that its flames gave off no heat.

• Ou Jin led Huang Xiao, Huo Lian, and Demon Phoenix through a snow-covered cliff entrance and a maze of passages toward the Saber Blank.
• Ou Jin explained that ten thousand Ou Family disciples had spent ten years hollowing out the island and remained there until they died to protect the secret.
• Huo Lian opened the stone gate, revealing the Saber Blank suspended above blue flames in a vast chamber.
• Huang Xiao sensed the Minghong Saber Soul and the Three Ancient Evil Blades resonating with the Saber Blank.
• Huo Lian identified the flames as cold flame different flames, and Ou Jin confirmed they gave off no heat.

Huo Lian proposed strengthening the Minghong Saber Soul by destroying the saber souls of the Three Ancient Evil Blades. When Ou Jin warned that he lacked materials, Huo Lian proposed sacrificing Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui to help break down the blades’ souls.

• Ou Jin explained that his family tempered the saber blank with alternating blazing and icy flames, and Huo Lian judged the Minghong Saber Soul too weak.
• Huo Lian said the lost hidden saber soul could no longer restore the Minghong Saber Soul, then proposed using the Three Ancient Evil Blades instead.
• Ou Jin confirmed the blades could be used but warned that breaking down their saber souls would destroy their divine-weapon status, while Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui protested.
• Huo Lian insisted that the three saber souls be broken down and devoured by the Minghong Saber Soul, ignoring the protests.
• When Ou Jin said he lacked materials, Huo Lian proposed using Wang Jiu, Zhu Yang, and Fan Tianhui as blood sacrifices to help break down the ancient blades’ saber souls.

Huo Lian insisted on sacrificing Wang Jiu and the others to strengthen the Minghong Saber, while Huang Xiao opposed his plan. Ou Jin proposed a way to draw power from the Three Ancient Evil Blades’ Saber Souls without destroying them, leaving Huo Lian to consider the alternative.

• Huo Lian handed Ou Jin written instructions for using Wang Jiu and the others in a Blood Sacrifice.
• Huang Xiao openly opposed the sacrifice, and he and Huo Lian clashed until Ou Jin urged them to calm down.
• Ou Jin explained that the three Saber Souls could strengthen the Minghong Saber if Wang Jiu and the others persuaded them to willingly pay a price.
• Huang Xiao urged Huo Lian to try the voluntary method first and resort to destroying the Saber Souls only if they refused.

Huo Lian spared the Three Ancient Evil Blades from being erased and ordered their Saber Souls to strengthen the Minghong Saber before it was forged. As the forging preparations began, Huang Xiao asked to test whether he could dissolve the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao.

• The Three Ancient Evil Blades agreed to give up part of their Saber Souls to strengthen the Minghong Saber, and Huo Lian warned them to cooperate or face erasure later.
• Ou Jin said forging the Minghong Saber would take at least a year, while Wang Jiu and the others began communicating with the Saber Souls.
• Demon Phoenix followed Ou Jin to the Saber Blank and received permission to use some of the different flames.
• Huang Xiao asked to try dissolving the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao, and Huo Lian allowed him to proceed.
• Wei Yidao realized that Kui Yong used the Demon Refining Formula to control the Demon Hall's members.

Huang Xiao began testing his method for undoing the Demon Refining Formula on Wei Yidao. As the essence-blood aura separated from Wei Yidao’s true qi and returned to his own essence blood, Wei Yidao realized the method was reversing the formula’s effects.

• Huang Xiao explained that he had devised a way to undo the Demon Refining Formula and asked Wei Yidao to be his first test subject.
• Huang Xiao kept his own Demon Refining Formula intact so he could avoid suspicion from Kui Yong and continue strengthening his essence blood.
• The Patriarch watched over the Minghong Saber while the Three Ancient Evil Blades’ saber souls helped it grow stronger, and Ou Jin supplied materials.
• Demon Phoenix swallowed cold flames and celebrated their unusual chill.
• Huang Xiao channeled his heart fire aura through Wei Yidao’s meridians, where it tempered his true qi.
• Wei Yidao sensed his essence-blood aura separating from his true qi and returning to his own essence blood, leaving him more vigorous.