Recaps

Mo Hua investigated Ye Jin’s death, uncovered a network linking Hundred Flowers Valley, Guishui Gate, Water Yama, and the Xiao Family, and helped expose Water Prison Sect survivors. With Inspector Xia and Gu Changhuai, he launched an assault on Water Yama’s island stronghold, where the battle began as the arc ended.

• Mo Hua entered Hundred Flowers Valley in disguise, destroyed the Fierce Ghost haunting Hua Qianqian, and concluded that Hua Ruyu might be connected to Ye Jin’s death.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai traced Hua Ruyu’s flower carriage to a hidden route and fought Water Yama, who escaped into the Yanshui River.
• Mo Hua discovered that Water Yama’s powers came from the Water Prison Sect and learned that Yu Canghai had returned to Gan Province to find surviving Yu family descendants.
• Mo Hua helped Yu Canghai fight masked pursuers and found an Executive Inspector Token marked with the Xiao character among the dead.
• Mo Hua connected the Xiao Family, Guishui Gate, Water Yama, and Hundred Flowers Valley, then worked with Inspector Xia and Gu Changhuai to hunt Water Yama.
• Mo Hua followed Little Silver Fish to Water Island, where the group found a large bandit camp protected by an Eight Trigrams Eight Gates Array.
• Mo Hua designed a plan to trap the bandits on the island, and Inspector Xia assembled forces from the Xia, Gu, and Xiao Families for the assault.
• Inspector Xia’s forces surrounded Water Island, Mo Hua’s team set traps and lured Water Monsters to block an escape route, and the Dao Court Office attacked the stronghold as its Eight Gates shifted.

Mo Hua infiltrated the Rouge Boat gathering to rescue Hua Qianqian and uncover the Evil God’s altar, then became entangled in a pursuit through the Dragon King Temple. The group reached the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s Altar, where Inspector Xiao revealed his allegiance to Water Yama and trapped Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia in a Dead Water Dao Prison.

• Mo Hua stole Water Yama’s Water Prison Forbidden Box, escaped Stone Stronghold, and learned from Yu Canghai and Xun Zixian about the box’s Pupil Technique and Soul Projection.
• Mo Hua fused Sword Intent with the Water Prison visualization to create the Sword Fiend, then agreed to help Gu Changhuai investigate the Rouge Boats during the Lantern Festival.
• Mo Hua found Ye Hong and helped him pursue revenge for Ye Jin, then infiltrated a Rouge Boat and discovered Water Yama, Hua Ruyu, and Senior Brother Ma’s schemes.
• Mo Hua and Ouyang Feng rescued Hua Qianqian, but Water Yama and Xie Liu captured them and took them to the Dragon King Temple as the Dao Court Office pursued them.
• A transformed monster stole Water Yama’s Fish Bone Token, and Mo Hua helped the rival cultivators work together to subdue it and restore Mr. Wu to human form.
• Mr. Wu revealed another token hidden in the altar, and Mo Hua overheard Inspector Xiao questioning Water Yama about the Forbidden Box before the group opened the Horned Gate to the Sea of Blood.
• Mr. Wu led the group across the Blood Pool in a Bone Boat, and at the altar Inspector Xiao attacked Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia after Inspector Xia took the Fish Bone Token.
• Mo Hua fled Inspector Xiao’s attack, but Inspector Xiao used the superior Water Prison Art to trap Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia in the Dead Water Dao Prison.

Mo Hua won the Array Discussion Assembly, helped unite three sects under Void Gate, and developed his sword arts while confronting the Evil Fetus. After saving Gu Changhuai and uncovering a Demon Sect token, he exposed an imminent ambush and sent its conspirators a warning, though the trapped Dao Court cultivators remained in danger.

• Mo Hua won the Array Discussion Assembly by passing every examination, including the final Capping array, and was named Array Dao Champion.
• Void Gate, Ta'a Gate, and Chongxu Gate united as Void Gate of Three Mountains One Lineage, and Mo Hua became Senior Martial Brother to their disciples.
• Mo Hua trained in Sword Transformation and the Supreme Emotion-Severing Dao under Old Ancestor Dugu, then struck the Evil Fetus with his divine sense sword but could not destroy its origin.
• Mo Hua entered Gu Changhuai’s Sea of Consciousness, defeated and refined the Sheep Horn Divine Remains, and removed the Evil Baleful Intent threatening Gu Changhuai.
• Mo Hua purified the Divine Remains into Divine Marrow and strengthened his divine soul, then studied Demon Sect token arrays with Elder Zheng.
• Mo Hua used a Thunder-Magnetic Figurine to alter a Demon Sect Token, exposed its owner Chi Fei, and accessed the sect’s larger compound array.
• Mo Hua discovered the Demon Sect was preparing a Blood Feast and had lured Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, and around a hundred Dao Court Office cultivators into an ambush.
• Mo Hua realized he could not reach the trapped cultivators in time, so he used Heavenly Ghost Calculation to anonymously warn the Demon Sect conspirators to abort the plan.