Chapter Summaries

Huang Xiao neutralized the Demon Refining Formula in Wei Yidao, while Ou Jin used the Three Ancient Evil Blades to strengthen the Minghong Saber Soul. The three saber souls fell into slumber for six months to a year, and Huo Lian remained concerned about the Hidden Saber Soul’s hold on the Minghong Saber.

• Wei Yidao said his true qi had weakened slightly but his essence blood had increased, and Huang Xiao confirmed that the Demon Refining Formula had been neutralized.
• Huo Lian promised to teach Wei Yidao a method to refine his true qi, and Wei Yidao sat down to adjust to the change.
• Ou Jin stopped the Three Ancient Evil Blades from lending their power to the Minghong Saber, and their saber souls withdrew.
• Ou Jin told Wang Jiu and the others that the three saber souls needed to slumber for six months to a year and urged them to nurture the sabers with essence blood.
• Ou Jin assured Huang Xiao that the three saber souls had not suffered lasting harm, while Huo Lian warned him not to have weakened the Minghong Saber Soul to protect them.
• Huo Lian worried that the Hidden Saber Soul still had the advantage inside the Minghong Saber because it had occupied the saber’s body for so long.

Ou Jin prepared to fuse the Minghong Saber Soul with a newly tempered Saber Blank, but discovered the soul had been contaminated by supreme demonic qi. Huang Xiao used his heart fire to remove it, leaving the stronger, purer Saber Soul ready to fuse with its new body.

• Ou Jin asked Huang Xiao to release the Minghong Saber Soul, which emerged as a scorching scarlet bird.
• Ou Jin identified the supreme demonic qi mixed into the Saber Soul as a later, useless contamination.
• Huo Lian tried to remove the demonic qi with the Supreme Demonic Art but could not dissolve it.
• Huang Xiao enveloped the Saber Soul in his heart fire and dissolved the contamination, making the Saber Soul stronger.
• Ou Jin extinguished the different flames, took up the Saber Blank, and prepared to guide the Saber Soul into its new body.

Ou Jin began reforging the Minghong Saber by merging its Saber Soul with the soul in a saber blank, then used Different Flames and Huang Xiao’s heart-fire aura to aid the process. The aura would remain as a catalyst after Huang Xiao stopped, and the reforging continued with its success still ahead.

• Ou Jin sent the Minghong Saber Soul into the saber blank, where the two Saber Souls merged without the blank’s soul being erased.
• Ou Jin raised more Different Flames and set the Minghong Saber among them to begin the reforging process.
• Ou Jin gave the Demon Phoenix clumps of Different Flames, and the Demon Phoenix absorbed them.
• Ou Jin asked Huang Xiao to infuse the Different Flames with his heart-fire aura for a day, and confirmed that it helped the Saber Soul merge with the saber blank.
• After a day, Huang Xiao stopped activating his heart fire, while the Demon Phoenix finished absorbing the flames Ou Jin had given him.

Huo Lian sealed Ou Jin, Wei Yidao, and the others on the island before leaving with Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix. After learning that the Demon Hall had split, they headed to the Divine Beast Holy Land so Demon Phoenix could search for his parents.

• Huo Lian trapped Wei Yidao and the others in a formation around the stone chamber, left Ou Jin able to pass through the outer formation, and departed with Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix.
• Huang Xiao and his companions heard that Shi Hen and the other experts had left the Demon Hall after fighting Pang Yi's followers, while Pang Yi threatened to punish them as traitors.
• Demon Phoenix celebrated the Demon Hall's weakened state, but Huo Lian warned that Kui Yong remained a threat.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix they were going to the Divine Beast Holy Land and warned that Demon Phoenix might be trapped there until Kui Yong's seal collapsed.
• Huo Lian led Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix to the Holy Land's weakening seal, and Demon Phoenix resolved to enter and find out whether his parents were alive.

Huo Lian brought Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix into the Divine Beast Holy Land, where the Four Clan Chiefs learned Huang Xiao had become the new Demon Hall Master before leaving the Demon Hall. Demon Phoenix reunited with a Phoenix Clan elder, who examined his unusually powerful Nirvana Flame.

• Huo Lian opened the formation and led Huang Xiao and Demon Phoenix into the Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Huo Lian met the Four Clan Chiefs, who recognized Huang Xiao as the former Demon Hall Master and learned he had left the Demon Hall.
• The Third Clan Chief recognized Demon Phoenix as the child his parents had spoken about and assured him they were well.
• The Third Clan Chief asked Demon Phoenix to show his flames, and the clan chiefs were surprised by the strength of his Nirvana Flame.
• The Third Clan Chief suspected Huo Lian had supplied the flames that helped Demon Phoenix grow so powerful, and Huo Lian said his strength came partly from himself and partly from Huang Xiao.

Huo Lian demanded the Supreme Divine Tower after presenting a token containing Xuan Tu’s divine sense, and explained that he wanted the Seven Treasures to help defeat Kui Yong. The First Clan Chief agreed to hand over the tower on the condition that Huo Lian return it if he failed to gather all seven, leaving the other clan chiefs objecting.

• Demon Phoenix asked to see his parents, while the clan chiefs told Huo Lian to visit Zhu Fancheng on his own.
• Huo Lian demanded the Supreme Divine Tower and showed the clan chiefs a scale token from Xuan Tu.
• The First Clan Chief confirmed the token’s authenticity, and the clan chiefs sensed Xuan Tu’s divine sense inside it.
• Huo Lian had Huang Xiao reveal the Supreme Ghost Stele and explained that it could resonate with the Supreme Divine Tower to locate it.
• Huo Lian said he wanted the Seven Treasures to help defeat Kui Yong and promised to return the Supreme Divine Tower if he could not gather them.
• The First Clan Chief agreed to give Huo Lian the tower, but the other three clan chiefs objected.

Huo Lian secured the Supreme Divine Tower from the Divine Beast Clan, while Huang Xiao learned that another human might have entered the Divine Beast Holy Land. Huo Lian planned to question the clan chiefs about the newcomer before pursuing the Soaring Immortal Fruit.

• Huo Lian refused to delay collecting the Supreme Divine Tower, and the First Clan Chief agreed to hand it over.
• The four clan chiefs went to retrieve the tower while Huo Lian and Huang Xiao waited; the Divine Beasts discussed Demon Phoenix and Hong Yi.
• Huang Xiao heard the Divine Beasts mention another human, and Huo Lian doubted anyone else could have entered the Holy Land.
• The clan chiefs summoned Huo Lian and Huang Xiao to a hall, where the First Clan Chief tossed Huo Lian the Supreme Divine Tower.

Huo Lian verified the Supreme Ghost Stele, learned that Xuan Tu had survived, and discussed the threat posed by Kui Yong with the Four Clan Chiefs. After discovering that Hong Yi had entered the Divine Beast Holy Land through the Dragon Burial Ground, Huang Xiao asked to meet him after their return from the Soaring Immortal Land.

• Huo Lian confirmed that Huang Xiao's Supreme Ghost Stele was genuine and told the Four Clan Chiefs that Xuan Tu had escaped Imperial Remnant Manor and was at the Three Immortal Mountains.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao warned the Four Clan Chiefs that Kui Yong was as powerful as another Immortal Alchemist and would require everyone to join forces.
• Huo Lian asked about other humans in the Divine Beast Holy Land, and the First Clan Chief explained that Hong Yi had arrived there by accident through the Dragon Burial Ground.
• Huang Xiao identified Hong Yi as likely being Baili Zhen's missing disciple and asked to meet him after returning from the Soaring Immortal Land.
• The First Clan Chief agreed to arrange a meeting with Hong Yi, who was currently cultivating.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian visited Zhu Fancheng at the Soaring Immortal Land to learn whether he could break its formation seal. Huo Lian gave Zhu Fancheng at most a year before Kui Yong’s formation dissipated, and Zhu Fancheng began making arrangements in case he failed and was killed.

• Huang Xiao left Demon Phoenix to visit his parents and followed Huo Lian through the guarded route to the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Zhu Fancheng told Huo Lian that the formation seal would soon disappear on its own if he could not break it.
• Huang Xiao told Zhu Fancheng that he had won the Hall Master's Seat and defected from the Demon Hall.
• Huo Lian warned Zhu Fancheng that he would show no mercy if the seal remained unbroken when Kui Yong’s formation dissipated, at most a year later.
• Zhu Fancheng asked Huo Lian to find more Formation Masters, but Huo Lian refused and told him to rely on himself.
• Zhu Fancheng told Huo Lian he had a request to make before his likely death.

Zhu Fancheng persuaded Huo Lian to find him a gifted disciple, and Huang Xiao recommended his wife Zhao Yunhui. Huang Xiao then suggested studying Kui Yong’s formation to help unravel the seal in the Soaring Immortal Land, leaving Zhu Fancheng encouraged but unable to say how much it would help.

• Zhu Fancheng insisted that Huo Lian find him a disciple to inherit his formation knowledge, and Huo Lian agreed.
• Huang Xiao recommended Zhao Yunhui, explaining that she had guided him in formation arts, and Huo Lian agreed to bring her to Zhu Fancheng.
• Huang Xiao suggested that Kui Yong’s formation outside the Divine Beast Holy Land might draw on the formation in the Soaring Immortal Land.
• Zhu Fancheng studied Kui Yong’s formation and found that it clarified several puzzles in his research.
• Zhu Fancheng said the formation could help him unravel the seal, but warned Huo Lian that its usefulness was uncertain.

Zhu Fancheng confirmed that Kui Yong had based his outer formation on the Immortal Alchemist’s formation and believed he might break through it before it failed. As blurry figures appeared in the formation, Qingfeng saw three human shadows from inside the Soaring Immortal Land and worried that people were watching outside.

• Zhu Fancheng tested the formation around the Soaring Immortal Land and confirmed its connection to Kui Yong’s outer formation.
• Huo Lian, Zhu Fancheng, and Huang Xiao saw shifting shadows in the formation, including shapes resembling a plant, a fruit, and a person.
• Qingfeng spoke with the sentient plant and asked it to restrain the fragrance it released, which had been strengthening him.
• Qingfeng noticed three human figures in the mist and wondered whether they were people outside the formation.

Qingfeng began cultivating to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit from the experts seeking it, while Huang Xiao and Huo Lian left Zhu Fancheng and returned to the reception hall. There, Huang Xiao reunited with Hong Yi and revealed that he, like them, came from the Central Plains.

• Qingfeng resolved to strengthen his internal power and began studying the Upper Clarity Scripture to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• The figures outside the formation vanished, and Huang Xiao and Huo Lian prepared to leave Zhu Fancheng.
• Zhu Fancheng hoped Huo Lian would bring Huang Xiao's wife, Zhao Yunhui, so he could assess her talent in formations.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian returned to the reception hall, where Huang Xiao recognized Hong Yi.
• Huang Xiao asked Huo Lian to create a soundproof formation, then told him Hong Yi was Baili Zhen's disciple and came from the Central Plains.

Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that his wives and companions had come from the Central Plains to the Martial World, and Huo Lian agreed to bring Zhao Yunhui into the Divine Beast Holy Land to study formations. They discussed the ancient grand formations and the message at the Minghong Saber’s pool, where Huo Lian revealed he had erased it before; Huang Xiao then asked why.

• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that Zhao Yunhui and his other wives, along with Hong Yi’s wife and Dugu Sheng’s wife, had come to the Martial World from the Central Plains.
• Hong Yi explained how they had been swept into the Martial World, and Huang Xiao described where Dugu Sheng and the women had appeared.
• Huo Lian agreed to take Zhao Yunhui into the Divine Beast Holy Land so she could learn Zhu Fancheng’s formation techniques.
• Huo Lian explained that the Central Plains grand formation and the Dragon Mountain Grand Formation likely resonated because they had been created by the same ancient person.
• Huang Xiao asked about the warning at the Minghong Saber’s pool, and Huo Lian said he had erased it before; Huang Xiao asked why.

Huo Lian explained why he had concealed the way back to the Central Plains and assessed the power Hong Yi could gain from the Dragon Crystal. After Hong Yi revealed his dragon-claw gauntlets, Huo Lian offered to help him absorb the Dragon Crystal as they prepared for the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period.

• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that he had hidden the sentence about returning to the Central Plains so no one else would know it was possible.
• Huo Lian recognized that Hong Yi had not finished absorbing the Dragon Crystal and said it could raise him to the level of someone newly entered into the Void Realm.
• Hong Yi showed Huang Xiao the dragon-claw gauntlets given to him by the First Clan Chief and explained that they complemented his Subduing Dragon Palm.
• Huang Xiao urged Hong Yi to grow stronger for the coming Thousand-Year Period, and Hong Yi said he hoped to qualify to take part.
• Huo Lian pressed his hand onto Hong Yi's head and offered to help him.

Huo Lian helped Hong Yi absorb the Dragon Crystal's aura more quickly, and Huang Xiao prepared to leave the Divine Beast Holy Land to bring Zhao Yunhui there to study formation arts. Demon Phoenix chose to stay with his parents until Kui Yong's formation collapsed, while his father confronted Huo Lian over his past interest in Demon Phoenix.

• Huo Lian used his internal power to help Hong Yi absorb the Dragon Crystal's aura, greatly improving his absorption rate.
• Huo Lian, Huang Xiao, and Hong Yi discussed Dugu Sheng's prospects with the Xuanyuan Sword and the prominence of people from the Central Plains in the Martial World.
• Huang Xiao told Hong Yi he was leaving to bring Zhao Yunhui to study formation arts under Zhu Fancheng.
• Demon Phoenix arrived with his parents and said he would stay until Kui Yong's formation collapsed so he could spend time with them.
• Huang Xiao introduced Hong Yi to Demon Phoenix, who offered to exchange pointers with him.
• Demon Phoenix's father warned Huo Lian not to set his sights on Demon Phoenix, and Huo Lian replied that he probably had no need for him now.

Huang Xiao left the Divine Beast Holy Land after learning that Demon Phoenix’s parents had been stabilized and that the Third Clan Chief would help Demon Phoenix grow stronger. Outside, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly demanded entry, but Huo Lian refused because he suspected her real goal was the Soaring Immortal Fruit, and he revealed that he had failed to break the Immortal Alchemist’s Formation seal.

• Demon Phoenix told Huang Xiao that the Third Clan Chief had stabilized his parents’ injuries and would teach him Phoenix Clan secret arts and provide treasures.
• Huo Lian led Huang Xiao out of the Divine Beast Holy Land, where the Patriarch blocked Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly’s sudden attack.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly demanded that Huo Lian take her into the Divine Beast Holy Land, but he refused because he had promised Xuan Tu and believed she sought the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Huang Xiao understood that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had been waiting outside to stop Huo Lian from claiming the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Huo Lian told Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly that he had found no Soaring Immortal Fruit and could not break the Immortal Alchemist’s Formation seal.

Huo Lian tried to persuade Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly to join forces against Kui Yong, arguing that Kui Yong had grown stronger and that the Jianghu needed to unite. Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly acknowledged Huo Lian and Huang Xiao had dealt Kui Yong two setbacks, but made her agreement conditional on receiving the Soaring Immortal Fruit.

• Huo Lian warned Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly that Kui Yong might target her and Imperial Remnant Manor, and urged her to join forces against him.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly became furious when Huo Lian brought up her past connection to the Immortal Alchemist.
• Huo Lian argued that Kui Yong had grown stronger during his ten thousand years of slumber while Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly's strength had barely improved.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly praised Huo Lian for escaping Kui Yong's control and helping Huang Xiao evade him, noting that they had dealt Kui Yong two setbacks.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said she would join Huo Lian only if he gave her the Soaring Immortal Fruit, then questioned whether he could refine a Longevity Pill with it.

Huo Lian, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, and Huang Xiao negotiated how to share the Longevity Pills that could be made from the Soaring Immortal Fruit, while agreeing to focus first on securing the fruit from the Demon Hall. Their agreement was interrupted when Feng He appeared and demanded a share for himself.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly explained that a fully ripened Soaring Immortal Fruit could yield three or more Longevity Pills and offered to help Huo Lian improve his chances of refining them.
• Huo Lian and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly argued over how to divide the pills and whether the Three Immortal Mountains would also claim a share.
• Huang Xiao urged them to keep the Soaring Immortal Fruit from the Demon Hall, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly asked Huo Lian to take her inside to help break the formations.
• Huo Lian refused to bring Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly inside but agreed that she would receive a share of the pills, and Xuanyuan Xing supported accepting the deal.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly sensed someone nearby, and Feng He emerged, saying he had come to claim a share of the Soaring Immortal Fruit and Longevity Pills.

Feng He demanded a share of the future Longevity Pills, using the threat of joining the Demon Hall to secure the others’ agreement. The factions agreed to unite against Kui Yong and recruit allies, while Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly kept Xuanyuan Xing at the Divine Beast Holy Land to guard the formation.

• Feng He demanded a share of the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s benefits and threatened to side with the Demon Hall if the others refused.
• Huo Lian argued that they would need to divide any Longevity Pills among the factions to keep their alliance against Kui Yong intact.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly reluctantly accepted Feng He’s demand, and Huang Xiao proposed gathering the world’s factions under the promise of Longevity Pills.
• Huo Lian said the formation in the Divine Beast Holy Land would remain for at least a year, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly ordered Xuanyuan Xing to keep watch.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and Huo Lian agreed that the Three Immortal Mountains should rally the other factions, with Huo Lian tasked with contacting them.

Huo Lian planned to visit the Three Immortal Mountains, while Huang Xiao indirectly questioned Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly about the Xuanyuan Sword’s wielder and its ability to counter the Supreme Demon Saber. Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly explained Dugu Sheng’s role in suppressing the saber, leaving Huang Xiao to understand that he would weaken Kui Yong rather than face him directly.

• Huo Lian said he would go to the Three Immortal Mountains to meet Wu Xuancang and the others, despite Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly suggesting he send a message through people already there.
• Huang Xiao asked who would wield the Xuanyuan Sword and revealed that the Supreme Demon Saber had fallen into the Demon Hall’s hands.
• Huo Lian admitted that Mo Pozheng and the Tomb Clan used a treasure left by Kui Yong to seize the Supreme Demon Saber from a distance.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly said Dugu Sheng resonated strongly with the Xuanyuan Sword and had grown powerful, though he remained weaker than Huang Xiao and the Demon Hall Master.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly explained that Dugu Sheng’s presence would let the Xuanyuan Sword suppress the Supreme Demon Saber, weakening Kui Yong without requiring Dugu Sheng to fight him directly.