Recaps

Mo Hua helped establish the Artifact Refining and Alchemy Guilds, drew the Qian Family’s hostility, and supported An Xiaofu’s new dining pavilion. After New Year celebrations and a fireworks display, Mo Hua solved the Riddle Arrays in his Sea of Consciousness and advanced to Seventh-Layer Qi Refining, though Mr. Zhuang warned that Foundation Establishment would be difficult.

• Master Chen and the Artifact Refiners opened the South City Artifact Refining Guild, whose furnaces produced Spirit Artifacts that could withstand the Qian Family’s price cuts.
• Mo Hua helped Elder Feng forge and inscribe an alchemy furnace, whose improved flames strengthened the pills made inside it.
• Qian Hong sent cultivators to ambush Mo Hua, but Old Zhao and the Monster Hunters defeated them, and Master Luo later recognized Mo Hua as the Little Array Master.
• Mo Hua helped An Xiaofu open Fortune Meal Pavilion, which became popular, while Master Qian and Master Luo accepted that Mo Hua should not be targeted.
• Mo Hua spent the New Year with family and friends, watched his Fireworks Compound Array light up Immortal City, and resolved to use Array Techniques to help Rogue Cultivators escape poverty.
• At thirteen, Mo Hua solved the Five Elements Riddle Arrays in his Sea of Consciousness and advanced from Sixth-Layer to Seventh-Layer Qi Refining.
• Mo Hua asked Mr. Zhuang what to study next, and Mr. Zhuang advised him to continue with Compound Arrays while warning that Foundation Establishment would be difficult.

Mo Hua strengthened his arrays and helped the Monster Hunters in the Inner Mountain, where he protected Ji Qingbai’s family and helped capture several Sinful Cultivators. After learning the Kong Family was involved and Kong Sheng had vanished, Mo Hua agreed to help catch Bald Ascetic but refused to help rescue Kong Sheng.

• Mr. Zhuang taught Mo Hua that unraveling complex arrays could strengthen his divine sense, then gave him a Reverse Spirit Array and Array Dissection manual to help him train.
• Mo Hua practiced the Reverse Spirit Array, gained permission from Mo Shan to enter the Inner Mountain, and helped Monster Hunters hunt late first-grade monsters using reusable Earth Fire Array Compasses.
• Mo Hua guided Ji Qingbai, Ji Li, and Fu Lan to Immortal City after rescuing them from attackers, and learned the Kong Family had driven them from Qingxuan City.
• Mo Shan helped Ji Qingbai’s family, while Mo Hua received an iron rod from Master Chen, drew a Thousand-Jun Array on it, and named it the Thousand-Jun Rod.
• Mo Hua and the Monster Hunters fought Sinful Cultivators in the Inner Mountain, where Mo Hua helped defeat a burly attacker and stop an attempt on Ji Qingbai’s life.
• Mo Hua helped lead the Monster Hunters into a trap for the returning Sinful Cultivators, who had been hired by the Kong Family, and they captured Diao Laosan while Bald Ascetic and the One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator escaped.
• Mo Hua learned the Concealment Technique and Water Prison Technique from manuals belonging to Diao Laosan, then practiced both spells while Ji Li recovered.
• Yu Chengyi told Mo Hua that Kong Sheng had vanished after following a caravan toward Immortal City, and Mo Hua refused to help rescue him but agreed to help the Dao Court Office catch Bald Ascetic.

Mo Hua helped the Dao Court capture Bald Ascetic, uncovered clues that led him to a hidden route into Deep Mountain, and infiltrated Black Mountain Stronghold. He began mapping the lair and learning that it held at least four Foundation Establishment evil cultivators.

• Mo Hua helped Zhang Lan’s search party attack Bald Ascetic’s valley, then used his Water Prison Technique to trap Bald Ascetic while Mo Shan fought him.
• Mo Hua and Zhang Lan arranged for Lu Hui to die during a demon-beast attack, and the Dao Court later found a hidden cache and map in the Sinful Cultivators’ cave.
• Mo Hua earned a Dao Court Office Waist Token and learned from Zhang Lan that the map pointed toward Great Black Mountain and a rumored ritual for entering it.
• Mo Hua searched the mountain with Elder Yu, then used a Concealment Array with his Concealment Technique to hide from cultivators who had previously detected him.
• Mo Hua found a concealed stone bridge across an abyss and crossed into Deep Mountain, where a killer used his companion’s severed head to reveal Black Mountain Stronghold’s gate.
• Mo Hua dissected the stronghold’s arrays and crawled inside, discovering cages of captives and Evil Cultivators draining their blood and Lingli.
• Mo Hua slipped into the Rear Stronghold, evaded its Foundation Establishment Array Master and Fourth Leader, and overheard that the stronghold had four leaders.
• Mo Hua began mapping the stronghold and its arrays while secretly observing its cultivators, including a Pale-Faced Man whose Fireball Technique proved unusually powerful.

Mo Hua infiltrated Black Mountain Stronghold, freed a chained tiger demon, and stole a Visualization Diagram that brought a Green-Faced Imp into his Sea of Consciousness. After refining it and escaping, he revealed the stronghold’s crimes and began preparing to build his Dao Foundation around his exceptional divine sense.

• Mo Hua freed the chained Tiger Monster, then told a captive woman that Scarface had killed her husband and resolved to kill him.
• Mo Hua’s schemes led Scarface to kill the Pale-Faced Man and Kong Sheng, while Mo Hua followed Scarface into Rear Stronghold and stole the Third Leader’s Visualization Diagram.
• The Green-Faced Imp entered Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, but Mo Hua weakened it with an Earth Fire Array and let the Dao Stele refine it into green qi.
• Mo Hua’s divine sense reached Foundation Establishment, and he bluffed the Third Leader and Eighth Leader before escaping and breaking Scarface’s limbs.
• Mo Hua reunited with his parents and the Monster Hunters, then reported Black Mountain Stronghold’s location, leaders, and human pill-making to Zhang Lan and Elder Yu.
• Mr. Zhuang explained the danger of Visualization Diagrams and helped Mo Hua understand that his exceptional divine sense should guide his Dao Foundation.
• Mo Hua told the Bai siblings about the Evil Cultivators and revealed that his divine sense had reached Foundation Establishment, while withholding the details of the Visualization Diagram.
• Mo Hua practiced the Reverse Spirit Array and began planning for Foundation Establishment as Bai Zisheng asked Old Kui how much longer he could hide.