Chapter Summaries

Huang Xiao promised to ask Huo Lian to refine a Blood Overflow Pill for Jiang Pannan, giving the Heavenly Evil Sect hope of improving his condition and helping against the Demon Hall. After leaving with Wu Xuancang, Huang Xiao headed for Imperial Remnant Manor and agreed to raise Du Fuzhou’s situation with Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly.

• Huang Xiao told Jiang Pandong, Jiang Panxi, and Jiang Panbei that a Blood Overflow Pill might increase Jiang Pannan’s essence blood, though it could not reverse the damage.
• Huang Xiao offered to ask Huo Lian to refine the pill without conditions, and Jiang Pandong and his brothers bowed in gratitude.
• Wu Xuancang and Jiang Pandong discussed gathering rare materials for more pills and agreed their allies needed to unite against the Demon Hall and Kui Yong.
• Huang Xiao and Wu Xuancang left the Heavenly Evil Sect, and Huang Xiao chose to go to Imperial Remnant Manor while Wu Xuancang planned to visit other sects.
• Wu Xuancang asked Huang Xiao to raise Du Fuzhou’s situation with Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, and Huang Xiao agreed to seek a resolution that could preserve unity among their allies.

Huang Xiao hurried toward Imperial Remnant Manor while Huo Lian brought eight young women into the Divine Beast Holy Land, claiming they had come to seek Zhu Fancheng’s guidance. Their arrival drew the attention of the Divine Beasts and Demon Phoenix.

• Huang Xiao left Wu Xuancang and hurried toward Imperial Remnant Manor, hoping to see Dugu Sheng and tell him about Hong Yi.
• Xuanyuan Xing questioned Huo Lian about bringing eight women, and Huo Lian said they were talented prospects for Zhu Fancheng to take as disciples.
• Huo Lian brought the eight women into the Divine Beast Holy Land despite the formation backlash.
• Two Divine Beasts approached Huo Lian and the women, then withdrew after he rebuked them.
• Demon Phoenix appeared, eager to see the eight women, and Zhangsun Youyue recognized him.

Huo Lian brought eight women to the Divine Beast Holy Land to help Zhu Fancheng break a formation, and Hong Yi was joyfully reunited with Zhao Yunya. After the group left, Hong Yi and Demon Phoenix discussed Zhao Yunhui’s abilities and the possible reasons Huo Lian had brought them.

• Demon Phoenix greeted Huo Lian and the eight women, then realized Zhao Yunya and Hong Yi had not known they would meet.
• Zhao Yunya ran to Hong Yi, and the two embraced in tears while Demon Phoenix and the others watched in surprise.
• Zhao Yunya explained that the women had come to help Zhu Fancheng break the formation, and Zhao Yunhui said they also needed to continue practicing their Blade and Sword Combined Strike Technique.
• Huo Lian led the eight women away, and the First Clan Chief dismissed their mission as futile before the Divine Beasts dispersed.
• Hong Yi and Demon Phoenix returned to Hong Yi’s lodgings, where they discussed Zhao Yunhui’s formation skills and Demon Phoenix regretted not asking Jiang Liuli about Little Xie.

Huo Lian brought Zhao Yunhui and her seven sisters to Zhu Fancheng to help study the formation protecting the Soaring Immortal Land. As the others failed to understand it, Zhao Yunhui focused on the formation, which began to reveal faint shadows.

• Huo Lian introduced Zhao Yunhui and her seven sisters to Zhu Fancheng, who questioned why the whole group had come.
• Zhao Yunhui explained that the eight women practiced a combined strike technique together and promised not to interfere with Zhu Fancheng’s work.
• Zhu Fancheng agreed to let all eight examine the formation and hoped one of them might become his successor.
• Huo Lian left to pursue Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly's Supreme Imperial Cauldron, while Zhao Yunhui and the seven women studied the formation.
• You Lian'er and the others admitted they could not understand the formation, but Zhu Fancheng watched Zhao Yunhui as faint shadows appeared within it.

Zhao Yunhui examined the formation and told Zhu Fancheng that it could not be broken by ordinary means, though it might collapse when the Soaring Immortal Fruit ripened. Zhu Fancheng dismissed her conclusions as obvious and was disappointed when she did not yet explain how to make it collapse early.

• The formation changed briefly, and Zhao Yunhui studied it while Zhu Fancheng watched her make calculations.
• Zhao Yunhui told Zhu Fancheng that his years of efforts had not significantly affected the formation and that human effort could not break it.
• Zhu Fancheng asked Zhao Yunhui to explain, and she said the formation was closely connected to the Soaring Immortal Fruit and would likely collapse when it ripened.
• Zhao Yunhui clarified that someone with Senior Immortal Alchemist's level of formation skill could break the formation, but Zhu Fancheng had no time to reach that level.
• Zhao Yunhui said they could make the formation collapse ahead of time, but Zhu Fancheng said he already knew that and was disappointed by her empty generalities.

Zhao Yunhui proposed hastening the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s ripening instead of trying to break the formation directly. After she claimed divination had revealed the fruit was inside and nearly ripe, Zhu Fancheng explained that dragon qi could help nurture it, and Zhao Yunhui said this confirmed what she had sensed.

• Zhao Yunhui suggested that hastening the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s ripening might break the formation more easily than attacking it.
• Zhu Fancheng warned that no one knew whether the Soaring Immortal Land still contained Soaring Immortal Grass or fruit, since Senior Immortal Alchemist had harvested it before.
• Zhao Yunhui said her divination indicated that Soaring Immortal Fruit was inside and nearly ripe, and that its ripening was connected to the Divine Beast Holy Land.
• Zhu Fancheng asked whether Zhao Yunhui meant dragon qi, then explained how dragon qi from the Dragon Burial Ground was connected to the formation and the fruit’s cultivation.
• Zhao Yunhui said the explanation confirmed her divination, while Zhu Fancheng questioned how certain she had really been.

Zhao Yunhui became Zhu Fancheng’s disciple, and they planned to use dragon qi and a formation to hasten the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s ripening. She proposed using divination to predict when the formation’s moving weak point would appear, leaving Zhu Fancheng hopeful that they could find a way to channel the dragon qi.

• Zhao Yunhui admitted she had gambled by speaking boldly, and Zhu Fancheng offered to take her as his disciple.
• Zhao Yunhui bowed to Zhu Fancheng, who praised her talent and said her divination insights had helped him understand the connection between divination and formation arts.
• Zhao Yunhui and Zhu Fancheng discussed gathering dragon qi from the Dragon Clan and channeling it into the Soaring Immortal Land to speed the fruit’s ripening.
• Zhao Yunhui suggested that the formation’s weak point appeared when shadows emerged and offered to use observation and divination to predict the shadows and the weak point’s path.
• Zhao Yunhui revealed that she had learned divination from the Fuxi Emperor Chapter, and Zhu Fancheng recognized it as a supreme canon of divination.

Zhao Yunhui revealed to Zhu Fancheng that she had obtained the Scripture of Great Peace and offered to share it so he could help her understand it and break the Grand Formation. Meanwhile, Huang Xiao encountered Demon Hall experts pursuing Shi Hen and his companions near a valley.

• Zhao Yunhui told Zhu Fancheng she had obtained the Scripture of Great Peace and offered to share what she knew.
• Zhu Fancheng accepted her offer, learned that Huang Xiao was her husband, and discovered that several other women were also Huang Xiao's wives.
• Zhu Fancheng left to ask the First Clan Chief about treasures containing dragon qi before returning to study the Scripture of Great Peace.
• Huang Xiao traveled toward Imperial Remnant Manor, hoping to obtain the Supreme Imperial Cauldron from Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly.
• Huang Xiao secretly followed five Demon Hall experts from the God-Burying Hall faction and overheard them saying they were pursuing Shi Hen and his companions.

Huang Xiao reached the valley where Pang Ji had cornered Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan’s group. Pang Ji exposed Zhu Xing Ku as his longtime spy and prepared to destroy the trapped men, who chose to fight back rather than surrender.

• Huang Xiao killed five men pursuing him and absorbed their essence blood before approaching the valley.
• Huang Xiao found Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan surrounded by more than thirty of Pang Ji’s men.
• Pang Ji revealed that Zhu Xing Ku had served as his spy for over a hundred years, and Zhu Xing E denounced his younger brother.
• Pang Ji ordered Zhu Xing Ku to fight Zhu Xing E, but Zhu Xing Ku protested that he was no match before reluctantly agreeing.
• Shi Hen called on his men to fight Pang Ji’s forces, and Liu Tengfan and the others agreed.

Huang Xiao arrived as Pang Ji threatened Shi Hen and the others, then took on the Supreme Elder himself. Their battle began while the others fought the Pang Family, and Huang Xiao’s redirected punch killed a Pang Family expert.

• Shi Hen charged Pang Ji, but Pang Ji sensed Huang Xiao’s arrival and struck at him instead.
• Huang Xiao told Shi Hen to leave Pang Ji to him, and Shi Hen agreed before leading the others into battle.
• Huang Xiao unleashed the fifth layer of Heavenly Demon Disintegration and fought Pang Ji, who recognized his strength exceeded Pang Yi’s.
• Shi Hen attacked a Pang Family expert, while Zhu Xing E and Zhu Xing Ku fought each other.
• Huang Xiao changed the course of his punch and sent its force into a Pang Family expert, killing him before the man could react.

Huang Xiao fought Pang Ji while their allies battled Pang Ji’s forces, discovering that his Supreme Demonic Art could not suppress Pang Ji’s cultivation. Huang Xiao’s healing and endurance kept him in the fight, and he ended by challenging Pang Ji to risk more for the Demon Hall and Kui Yong.

• Liu Tengfan urged an injured ally to keep fighting, while Huang Xiao continued to hold Pang Ji off as Shi Hen and the others battled nearby.
• Pang Ji used multiple figures to deceive Huang Xiao, but Huang Xiao sensed the trap and charged toward Pang Ji’s true position.
• Huang Xiao and Pang Ji exchanged powerful blows; both were injured, but Huang Xiao quickly recovered with his true qi and Longevity Chapter.
• Pang Ji grew alarmed by Huang Xiao’s healing and suspected Huo Lian had taught him hidden methods, while Huang Xiao continued meeting Pang Ji’s attacks head-on.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Huang Xiao told Pang Ji that killing him would require a price and asked whether Pang Ji feared Kui Yong would hold him accountable.

Huang Xiao persuaded Pang Ji to stop the battle by warning that further losses would weaken the Pang Family against the Tomb Clan and Mo Pozheng. After Zhu Xing E killed his traitorous younger brother, Zhu Xing Ku, Pang Ji privately questioned Huang Xiao about a way to resist the Supreme Demon Token, leaving Huang Xiao to press him to separate the Pang Family from Kui Yong.

• Huang Xiao warned Pang Ji that continuing the fight would cost both sides heavily and leave the Pang Family vulnerable to the Tomb Clan and Mo Pozheng’s Supreme Demon Token.
• Pang Ji ordered his experts to withdraw, and Shi Hen’s side stopped pursuing them.
• Zhu Xing E killed his wounded younger brother Zhu Xing Ku when he tried to flee, and Shi Hen comforted Zhu Xing E afterward.
• Pang Ji took Huang Xiao away from the others and asked whether Huo Lian’s method could counter the Supreme Demon Token.
• Huang Xiao refused to provide proof and urged Pang Ji to stop tying the Pang Family to Kui Yong, while Pang Ji responded with a cold snort.

Huang Xiao persuaded Pang Ji to keep the Pang Family neutral by revealing that the Demon Refining Formula let Kui Yong control the Demon Hall and promising proof through Wei Yidao. After arranging a possible refuge for Shi Hen’s survivors, Huang Xiao traveled to Imperial Remnant Manor, where Xuanyuan Song met him, shocked by his strength.

• Huang Xiao asked Pang Ji to keep the Pang Family neutral and explained that the Demon Refining Formula enabled Kui Yong’s control, while Wei Yidao could prove it had been broken.
• Pang Ji agreed to wait for confirmation from Wei Yidao and departed with the Demon Hall members, sparing Shi Hen and Liu Tengfan.
• Huang Xiao advised Shi Hen and the others to seek refuge at the Three Immortal Mountains or hide in Mist Mountain while they contacted their scattered companions.
• Huang Xiao agreed on a meeting place with Shi Hen, then headed for Imperial Remnant Manor to see the Supreme Imperial Cauldron and Dugu Sheng.
• Xuanyuan Song met Huang Xiao at Imperial Remnant Manor’s entrance and was shocked to sense that Huang Xiao had become stronger than him.

Huang Xiao waited for Huo Lian before entering Imperial Remnant Manor, where Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly agreed to hand over the Supreme Imperial Cauldron once Huo Lian arrived. After Huang Xiao described the deal that secured the Supreme Immortal Bell, Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly condemned the benefits Zuo Qiu Shu and Fan Zhuolang had received and recalled her hope of seeing the Immortal Alchemist again.

• Huang Xiao declined Xuanyuan Song’s invitation to enter Imperial Remnant Manor until Huo Lian arrived.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly appeared and asked whether Huang Xiao and Huo Lian had obtained the Supreme Immortal Bell.
• Huang Xiao confirmed that Huo Lian held the bell, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly promised to give them the Supreme Imperial Cauldron when he arrived.
• Xuanyuan Song protested the plan, but Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly silenced him.
• Huang Xiao recounted the deal with the Three Immortal Mountains, prompting Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly to criticize the benefits Zuo Qiu Shu and Fan Zhuolang gained and remember her hope of finding the Immortal Alchemist.

Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly barred Fan Zhuolang from seeing her Supreme Imperial Cauldron, then exchanged it with Huo Lian for the Supreme Immortal Bell. She revealed that handing over the cauldron had also tested whether Huo Lian and Huang Xiao could act decisively as they prepared to deal with Kui Yong.

• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly learned Fan Zhuolang had survived by sharing Zuo Qiu Shu’s ten-thousand-year slumber benefits and forbade him from seeing her Supreme Imperial Cauldron.
• Huo Lian arrived and agreed that Fan Zhuolang had no right to see the cauldron.
• Huo Lian handed the Supreme Immortal Bell to Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, and she gave him the Supreme Imperial Cauldron in return.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly revealed that her exchange had tested Huo Lian and Huang Xiao’s decisiveness and dependability for the coming confrontation with Kui Yong.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly began examining the Supreme Immortal Bell while Huo Lian and Huang Xiao inspected the Supreme Imperial Cauldron.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian examined Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly’s Supreme Treasures, then left Imperial Remnant Manor with the three treasures she had promised them. They realized they had gathered all seven Supreme Treasures and traveled to Mist Mountain, where Huo Lian said they had come to pick something up.

• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian let Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and Xuanyuan Song examine their Supreme Ghost Stele and Supreme Divine Tower while Huang Xiao studied the Supreme Imperial Cauldron.
• Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly and Xuanyuan Song found nothing useful in the treasures, and Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly returned the three Supreme Treasures to Huang Xiao and Huo Lian.
• Huo Lian declined Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly’s invitation to Imperial Remnant Manor, and he and Huang Xiao left without asking to see Dugu Sheng.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian realized they had gathered all seven Supreme Treasures and headed toward Mist Mountain to find somewhere quiet.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao they had arrived at their destination to pick something up.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian gathered the Seven Treasures at Huo Lian’s old refuge in Mist Mountain and prepared to examine them. Before Huo Lian opened the final box, Huang Xiao revealed that he had concealed the Supreme Ghost Stele’s ability to control the life and death of those whose divine senses were inside it, and worried that assembling the treasures might affect them.

• Huo Lian retrieved two hidden boxes containing the remaining Supreme Treasures and explained why he had stored them separately.
• Huo Lian strengthened an old formation at his former refuge, then led Huang Xiao inside its protected wooden hut.
• Huo Lian brought out several Supreme Treasures and started to open the box holding the Supreme Demon Core and Supreme Demon Pearl, but Huang Xiao stopped him.
• Huang Xiao admitted that he had not told the truth at the Three Immortal Mountains and explained that he could decide the life or death of people whose divine senses were inside the Supreme Ghost Stele when they stood before him.
• Huang Xiao told Huo Lian that divine senses belonging to other Ghost Spirit Sect experts remained alive within the Ghost Capital and asked whether gathering the Seven Treasures might affect them.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian gathered all Seven Treasures, which resonated and revealed a formation diagram. They realized the diagram might point toward the ultimate secret, but it showed no location yet.

• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian discussed how the Supreme Ghost Stele might help them enter the Ghost Capital and awaken Feng He's sleeping subordinates.
• Huo Lian promised to accompany Huang Xiao to the Ghost Capital if the Divine Sense within the Supreme Ghost Stele remained intact after they unraveled the Seven Treasures.
• Huo Lian opened the box and placed the Supreme Demon Core and Supreme Demon Pearl with the other five treasures on the table.
• The Seven Treasures released powerful auras, destroyed the wooden house, and floated above the table as colored beams linked them into a seven-pointed shape.
• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian watched the treasures form a complex diagram and realized they would need to find more clues before reaching the ultimate secret.

Huo Lian and Huang Xiao studied a formation diagram revealed by the Seven Treasures, hoping to discover its purpose or location. After the treasures repeatedly activated the diagram, the pair found no further clues and remained unsure what to do next.

• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao watched the formation diagram become complete and speculated that it depicted a powerful Grand Formation with something—or nothing—at its center.
• A ball of light appeared in the diagram’s center and erupted into a pillar of light that pierced the sky before the Seven Treasures fell back onto the table.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao examined the treasures and decided to wait for their auras to recover so they could activate them again.
• Ten days later, the pair saw the diagram activate without the ball of light or pillar, but they gained no new information.
• Huo Lian and Huang Xiao repeated the activation until two months had passed and they had tried seven times, still finding no clues.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian failed to uncover the Seven Treasures’ secret and turned their attention to other plans for opposing Kui Yong. Meanwhile, Zhao Yunhui’s divination revealed that the formation Zhu Fancheng was trying to overcome might undergo an unusual change.

• Huang Xiao and Huo Lian concluded that they could not explore the Seven Treasures’ secret further without finding the formation site, so Huo Lian placed his hopes on the Minghong Saber.
• Huo Lian set out to check on Ou Jin, while Huang Xiao went to find Shi Hen and the others; Huo Lian gave Huang Xiao the Supreme Ghost Stele and said he would return within a month.
• Huo Lian told Huang Xiao that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had agreed to join forces against Kui Yong and Demon Hall and would release Du Fuzhou and the other Demon Spirit Sect experts.
• Zhu Fancheng asked Zhao Yunhui to calculate the Phantom Images’ next appearance and the formation’s weak point after their earlier attempt to channel spiritual energy and Dragon Qi had nearly succeeded.
• Zhao Yunhui’s divination revealed that an unusual change might occur in the formation.