Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua rescued Yu'er from the traffickers and secretly took him toward Qingzhou City, while a black-clad gang and Young Master Gu arrived too late to find the child. After a violent battle, Young Master Gu continued the search, unaware that Yu'er was already with Mo Hua.

• Mo Hua comforted Yu'er, promised to find his parents, and claimed he had merely stumbled upon the traffickers' corpses.
• Mo Hua concealed Yu'er, erased the traces of his arrays, destroyed the other storage boxes, and left for Qingzhou City with him.
• Black-clad cultivators found the ruined eatery and concluded that someone had ambushed Jiang Laoda's gang and taken their captive.
• Young Master Gu and the Dao Court Office surrounded the black-clad cultivators, fought them, and drove their injured leader to flee.
• Young Master Gu found that demonic poison had made the dead cultivators unidentifiable and ordered the search for Yu'er to continue.

Mo Hua brought Yu'er to Qingzhou City and waited at its main gate, hoping to reunite him with his family. He learned Yu'er was the son of Shangguan Yi and Wan'er, whose families suspected a powerful schemer had arranged the abduction.

• Mo Hua rested with Yu'er overnight in the mountains, comforting him through a nightmare tied to the horrors of his past.
• Mo Hua and Yu'er entered Qingzhou City, where an Executive Inspector mentioned the Gu Family's missing young master.
• Mo Hua learned Yu'er had relatives in Qingzhou City but could not identify them, so he decided to wait with him at the city gate for his family.
• After several days of waiting, Mo Hua sensed a carriage and face faintly appearing in his thoughts as a possible lead.
• At the Gu Family, Wan'er confronted Shangguan Yi about their missing son, and he revealed that the Shangguan and Wenren families suspected a powerful figure had orchestrated Yu'er's abduction.

After Yu'er was abducted again, Wenren Wan defied Shangguan Yi's pleas and left Qingzhou City to search for him. Mo Hua and Yu'er crossed her path near the city gate, and mother and son were reunited; Mo Hua then prepared to visit the Qiandao Sect.

• Shangguan Yi told Wenren Wan that another group had taken Yu'er, and that a powerful, mysterious cultivator had likely defeated the traffickers.
• Shangguan Yi recounted how Elder Mei of Mysterious Mechanism Valley went mad while calculating Yu'er's abductor, but Wenren Wan remained determined to search for her son.
• Wenren Wan refused to accept Shangguan Yi's suggestion that they have another child, and she left the Gu Family to look for Yu'er.
• Shangguan Ce urged Shangguan Yi to put the Shangguan Family before his wife and son, then studied the strange Celestial Pivot patterns left by Yu'er's abductor.
• Near the city gate, Wenren Wan sensed Yu'er nearby, spotted him at a noodle stall with Mo Hua, and ran to embrace him when he called her mother.
• Mo Hua was relieved that Yu'er had found his mother and planned to visit the gates of the Qiandao Sect.

Mr. Tu mourned the failure of his plan to capture Shangguan Yu’s mother, while Mo Hua reunited Yu'er with Wenren Wan and asked her to take him to the Qiandao Sect. The chapter ended with Wenren Wan stunned when Mo Hua revealed he had a Qiandao Sect Entry Token.

• Mr. Tu learned that someone had ruined his plans and feared the Dao Sin he sensed, but the statue’s Evil Thought convinced him it was a trick by a cunning, elderly Array Master.
• Wenren Wan treated Mo Hua, Yu'er, and Shangguan Yi to a meal after Yu'er was found, while Shangguan Yi thanked Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai visited and eyed him suspiciously.
• Wenren Wan learned that Mo Hua had traveled alone from Li Prefecture and accepted his explanation that he had found Yu'er by chance and that Yu'er had Deep Fortune.
• Wenren Wan offered Mo Hua a reward for saving Yu'er, and he asked her to take him to the Qiandao Sect.
• Wenren Wan assumed Mo Hua wanted help entering the sect, but he revealed that he already had a Qiandao Sect Entry Token, leaving her astonished.

Mo Hua learned that his Qiandao Sect Entry Token was exceptionally valuable and traveled to the sect, hoping to gain admission. The elders recognized the token as genuine but marked his application “pending discussion,” leaving his entry into the sect unresolved.

• Wenren Wan explained that the Qiandao Sect was one of Ganxue Prefecture’s Four Great Sects and warned Mo Hua to keep his entry token secret.
• Mo Hua asked Wenren Wan to conceal that he had saved Yu'er, and she promised to keep the matter quiet.
• The Wenren Family’s carriage took Mo Hua to the Qiandao Sect, where he presented his token and filled out a record of his background and aptitude.
• Elder Shen and the other elders recognized the token as an old, genuine one, but mocked Mo Hua’s humble origins, weak spirit root, and claimed skill in arrays.
• Elder Shen decided not to refuse Mo Hua outright and instead marked his application “pending discussion,” then buried the record beneath his desk.

Mo Hua was rejected by Qiandao Sect and every other sect he approached because his Spirit Root did not meet their requirements, while Elder Zheng condemned Qiandao Sect’s preference for elite disciples and its ties to the great clans. After Wenren Wan learned of Mo Hua’s predicament, she became angry on his behalf.

• Qiandao Sect returned Mo Hua’s Sect Entry Token and left his admission pending, so Mo Hua assumed he had been refused and left the mountain gate.
• Elder Zheng arrived at Qiandao Sect’s council meeting and fiercely challenged Elder Shen’s policy of admitting only disciples with Top-Grade Spirit Roots, accusing the Shen Family and great clans of monopolizing cultivation opportunities.
• Elder Zheng argued that Qiandao Sect had abandoned its founding mission of spreading the Dao to all cultivators, while Elder Shen defended the sect’s focus on talent and threatened that it might not tolerate Elder Zheng.
• Mo Hua applied to the Four Great Sects, the Eight Great Sects, and the Twelve Streams, but each rejected him for his Mid-Low Grade Spirit Root; Wanzhen Sect’s instructor praised his Array Technique talent but could not make an exception.
• Some of the Hundred Sects of Gan Province were willing to accept Mo Hua, but their tuition was too expensive, so he considered earning Spirit Stones by drawing arrays and seeking other opportunities.
• After Yu’er was found safe and well, Wenren Wan learned that Mo Hua had been rejected by Qiandao Sect and the other sects, and angrily complained that they had failed to recognize his worth.

Wenren Wan and Shangguan Yi secured Mo Hua invitations to three of Gan Province’s Eight Great Sects after deciding to repay him for saving Yu'er. Mo Hua chose Void Gate, where a faint thread of Karma connected him to a powerful Lord Yellow Mountain and the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art.

• Wenren Wan persuaded Shangguan Yi to help Mo Hua enter one of the Eight Great Sects, and Shangguan Yi agreed despite the political cost.
• Shangguan Yi suspected that Mo Hua's rescue of Yu'er was linked to mysterious Karma, while Gu Changhuai remained wary of Mo Hua and the suspicious deaths of the traffickers.
• Wenren Wan and Shangguan Yi used family connections, Spirit Stones, and favors to obtain three sect-entry invitations, despite opposition from members of both families.
• Wenren Wan presented Mo Hua with invitations to Ta'a Gate, Chongxu Gate, and Void Gate, and Mo Hua chose Void Gate because it sounded handsome and offered sufficient resources.
• Mo Hua showed Wenren Wan his First-Grade Array Master credentials, then privately sensed a thread of Karma linking Void Gate to Lord Yellow Mountain and the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art.

Mo Hua entered Void Gate after his admission was approved, hoping to learn more about the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art and the secrets of Lord Yellow Mountain. As he crossed the mountain gate, its hidden Sword Intent stirred, leaving the Sect Master astonished by smoke rising above the gate.

• Mo Hua resolved to investigate the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art and suspected Lord Yellow Mountain had concealed its former power and history.
• The Void Gate Sect Master approved Mo Hua's admission without extra fees, and Wenren Wan brought him to the sect three days later.
• Wenren Wan and Yu'er said goodbye to Mo Hua, who promised to make Yu'er a majestic Big Tiger when he visited.
• Shangguan Xu escorted Mo Hua up Void Mountain, explained Void Gate's relatively lenient rules, and warned him about a strict Elder who taught Array Technique.
• Mo Hua sensed Sword Intent in the characters above Void Gate's mountain gate and entered the sect with Shangguan Xu.
• The mountain gate's hidden Sword Intent refined clouds into wisps of smoke, and the Void Gate Sect Master saw them and exclaimed that the gate was giving off green smoke.

Mo Hua completed his admission to Void Gate, received his disciple token and residence, and attended the sect-opening ceremony. With classes about to begin, he resolved to study Array Techniques, cultivate toward Golden Core, and eventually save his master.

• Mo Hua passed the Elders’ inspections and had his Storage Bag checked before receiving his Void Gate disciple robes, pills, classics, and Void Token.
• Shangguan Xu explained how the Void Token worked, including its sealed Array Technique logic and its use for course schedules, sect permissions, and messages.
• Mo Hua learned that he had been randomly assigned to Taiyi Residence, found room fifty, and settled into his new quarters.
• Three days later, Mo Hua attended Void Gate’s sect-opening ceremony and officially became a disciple; the Sect Master wondered why green smoke had risen from the mountain gate.
• Mo Hua set his next goal as reaching Golden Core while studying Array Techniques and preparing to save his master.

Mo Hua learned about Void Gate’s cultivation teachings and hierarchy while exploring the sect, then nearly fell asleep in Elder Xun’s array class. When Elder Xun tested him, Mo Hua rapidly drew all four arrays on the board, leaving the stern elder quietly impressed.

• Mo Hua listened to an Inner Sect true inheritance Elder explain Foundation Establishment cultivation and realized the lesson did not address his path of Divine Sense.
• Mo Hua spent a month exploring Void Gate and asking Shangguan Xu and other disciples about its grounds, grand array, and Inner and Outer Sect structure.
• Mo Hua learned that Elder Xun taught array fundamentals, but grew bored in class and used his time to calculate and practice more advanced arrays.
• Mo Hua exhausted much of his Divine Consciousness and fell asleep during Elder Xun’s lesson, then was called to draw the array the elder had discussed.
• Mo Hua could not tell which of the four arrays Elder Xun meant, so he drew all four at remarkable speed and with no errors.
• Elder Xun warned Mo Hua against becoming proud or slack, dismissed the class, and privately examined Mo Hua’s flawless array work with a gleam in his eyes.

Elder Xun investigated Mo Hua’s background and then tried to test and correct the boy’s array foundations by assigning him progressively harder arrays. Mo Hua quickly mastered a Wood-Gen Mountain Compound Array, leaving Elder Xun impressed and determined to change his teaching approach.

• Elder Xun read Mo Hua’s native-place record and learned that he was a Rogue Cultivator from Li Prefecture with a low-mid-grade spiritual root and skill in arrays.
• Mo Hua’s fellow disciples warned him about Elder Xun, then mistakenly assumed his admission proved he had a powerful backer and eagerly tried to befriend him.
• Elder Xun gave Mo Hua increasingly difficult array assignments, while Mo Hua completed each one with ease.
• Elder Xun assigned Mo Hua a Wood-Gen Mountain Compound Array containing Eight Trigrams patterns, which Mo Hua had never studied before.
• Mo Hua learned the unfamiliar Gen patterns and drew the complete compound array in less than two hours, astonishing Elder Xun.
• Elder Xun admitted he needed to change how he taught Mo Hua and resolved to see how quickly the boy could learn.

Elder Xun taught Mo Hua and the other disciples that true mastery of arrays required looking beyond standardized forms and understanding the many array traditions and their patterns. He gave them the Void Gate Array Pattern Compendium, and Mo Hua began practicing its patterns obsessively, laying the groundwork for his future mastery.

• Elder Xun explained that arrays had many forms and traditions, and that standardized Dao Court arrays were not the original or only path to understanding array principles.
• Elder Xun introduced eight major array categories and described their origins, uses, and dangers, while advising the disciples to focus on the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams.
• Elder Xun distributed the Void Gate Array Pattern Compendium and assigned the disciples to study and practice its patterns.
• Mo Hua treasured the compendium and practiced its patterns constantly, including on the Dao Stele through his Divine Consciousness.
• Mo Hua's repeated practice made the patterns feel like part of his Divine Thought, though he did not understand the experience and continued training.

Mo Hua rapidly mastered increasingly advanced Second-Grade arrays under Elder Xun’s guidance, culminating in four Thirteen-Pattern techniques. When Mo Hua asked whether he could learn Fourteen-Pattern arrays, Elder Xun realized his Divine Consciousness might exceed his current grade.

• Mo Hua memorized the array patterns in the Void Gate Array Pattern Compendium, and Elder Xun was astonished by the flawless, extensive set he drew during a spot check.
• Elder Xun began teaching Second-Grade Arrays and gave Mo Hua a Ten-Pattern Golden Light Array, which Mo Hua completed before class ended.
• Elder Xun seated Mo Hua beside him and provided increasingly advanced Second-Grade Five Elements and Eight Trigrams arrays, while Mo Hua mastered them with remarkable speed.
• Elder Xun gave Mo Hua four Thirteen-Pattern arrays used in cultivation production, and Mo Hua learned the Rain Transformation Array, Moist Soil Array, Lesser Li Fire Array, and Water Marsh Array.
• Mo Hua told Elder Xun he had learned all four Thirteen-Pattern arrays and asked whether there were Fourteen-Pattern techniques; Elder Xun was shaken by the possibility that Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness surpassed his grade.

Elder Xun discovered that Mo Hua had Fourteen-Pattern Divine Consciousness and agreed to teach him more advanced Array Techniques, while resolving to guide and protect him. Mo Hua mastered the Fourteen-Pattern Mountain-Binding Array and continued studying, slowly advancing his Divine Consciousness toward Fifteen-Pattern.

• Elder Xun marveled at Mo Hua’s extraordinary Divine Consciousness, considered whether he was connected to mysterious figures, and decided that the Void Gate should teach and protect him.
• Elder Xun agreed to teach Mo Hua Fourteen-Pattern Array Techniques and later gave him the Eight Trigrams Gen-trigram Mountain-Binding Array.
• Mo Hua studied the Mountain-Binding Array, adapted to the Eight Trigrams system, and mastered the Second-Grade Fourteen-Pattern technique after half a month.
• Elder Xun arranged for Mo Hua to study a mix of Thirteen- and Fourteen-Pattern Array Techniques, believing Fourteen-Pattern lessons would keep him occupied.
• Mo Hua practiced Array Techniques intensely, and his Divine Consciousness slowly climbed toward Fifteen-Pattern.

Mo Hua continued studying at Void Gate, where his weak spirit root and physical abilities left him poor at most disciplines but his divine sense and Array Techniques advanced rapidly. After his divine sense reached Fifteen-Pattern and he asked Elder Xun about learning the corresponding arrays, Elder Xun worried that Mo Hua's extraordinary growth would leave him exposed to powerful enemies; when the Back Mountain summoned Elder Xun, he unexpectedly told Mo Hua to teach the class.

• Mo Hua attended Void Gate's cultivation, craft, and Dao Method classes, discovering that his weak lingli, lack of strength, and limited wealth made him far better suited to Array Techniques.
• Mo Hua learned about the Golden Body Technique and Divine Consciousness lock-on, then began attending Body Cultivator and Sword Cultivator classes to study their combat methods and weaknesses.
• Mo Hua's divine sense quietly broke through to Fifteen-Pattern, and he asked Elder Xun whether he could learn Fifteen-Pattern Array Techniques.
• Elder Xun agreed that Mo Hua could learn them after stabilizing, then worried that his rapid growth could draw the hostility of noble clans and the Demon Sect while leaving him without reliable allies.
• When an Inner Sect Elder summoned Elder Xun to the Back Mountain during class, Elder Xun told Mo Hua to teach the other disciples.

Elder Xun had Mo Hua teach Array Techniques to the other disciples, who challenged him before accepting his skill and lessons. After Void Gate Elders objected to Mo Hua teaching without proper status, Elder Xun made him their Senior Martial Brother in the Lecture Hall.

• Elder Xun assigned Mo Hua to teach two Array Technique lessons, and Cheng Mo and the other disciples challenged his qualifications.
• Mo Hua defeated the disciples in contests of speed, precision, and difficulty, then learned Zheng Fang's secret Thunder Array after seeing it drawn once.
• Mo Hua began teaching the disciples, who gradually listened and accepted his instruction; Elder Xun returned, saw the class, and left without interrupting.
• Elder Xun increasingly had Mo Hua substitute-teach, prompting Void Gate Elders and Gan Province families to object to the arrangement.
• Elder Xun rejected the Elders' objections to Mo Hua's teaching and secured agreement to grant him the title of Senior Martial Brother.
• Elder Xun told the disciples that they must call Mo Hua Senior Martial Brother in the Lecture Hall.

Mo Hua became accepted as Senior Martial Brother while teaching his fellow disciples and studying increasingly difficult Array Techniques. Elder Xun explained Void Gate’s Merit Points system and secretly unlocked Mo Hua’s Void Token authority early, leaving Mo Hua eager to explore sect tasks and rewards.

• Mo Hua used Elder Xun’s authority to assign extra Array Technique coursework to disciples who challenged him, then taught his classmates patiently and grew closer to them.
• Mo Hua studied a Rain-Nurture Array and other advanced Array Techniques until Elder Xun told him that further instruction required Merit Points.
• Elder Xun explained how Merit Points rewarded contributions, determined access to sect inheritances, and influenced disciples’ advancement within Ganxue Prefecture’s sects.
• Mo Hua wondered whether Merit Points could earn him powerful inheritances, including the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art and a Second-Grade Absolute Array.
• Elder Xun explained that Void Token authority normally opened after a year, then used his Divine Consciousness to unlock Mo Hua’s authority early.
• Elder Xun warned Mo Hua to take only safe, low-level tasks, and Mo Hua obediently agreed while anticipating the rewards he could obtain.

Mo Hua discovered that the Void Token was connected to an immense Grand Array, then began taking sect bounties to earn merit and buy Array Techniques. After exhausting most entry-level array work, he applied to join a dangerous mission pursuing a Sinful Cultivator.

• Mo Hua used Heavenly Calculation to see that the Void Token’s words and images were formed by Array Patterns controlled by a vast Great Array Hub, and wondered whether he could someday take control of similar arrays.
• Mo Hua tried to accept various sect tasks but was rejected for most because he was young, inexperienced, or lacked the required credentials, so he took First-Grade Array Technique bounties instead.
• Mo Hua completed six First-Grade arrays in an hour and earned nineteen merit points, surprising the Merit Elder with his speed and accuracy.
• Mo Hua kept drawing arrays, but the work dwindled and earned merit too slowly, so he searched the Bounty Record for missions he could join as a helper.
• Mo Hua found a recruitment notice seeking an Array Master to help pursue a Sinful Cultivator in Diancang Prefecture and applied, claiming he knew Stealth and could protect himself.

Mo Hua spent most of the chapter buying and mastering the Second-Grade Water Prison Technique before joining a team pursuing a wanted Sinful Cultivator in Diancang Prefecture. The group reached Diancang Mountain, where they planned to capture or kill Bald Eagle, a dangerous Foundation Establishment Middle Stage criminal.

• After accepting the bounty, Mo Hua spent 260 merit points on the orthodox Water Prison Technique and practiced it until he could use the Second-Grade spell effectively.
• On the ninth, Mo Hua met Ouyang Feng, Murong Caiyun, and Hua Qianqian at the rendezvous point and convinced them to take him along after demonstrating his Array Technique knowledge and meeting Shangguan Xu.
• Mo Hua traveled with the four senior disciples through Qingzhou City to Diancang Prefecture, hoping to prove himself and earn a place on future missions.
• The team reached Diancang Prefecture and learned that Bald Eagle was hiding in Diancang Mountain; the Dao Court Office ordered them to capture him if possible or kill him if necessary.

Mo Hua helped Murong Caiyun and the others expose Bald Eagle’s hidden arrays, then used the Water Prison Technique from hiding to turn the fight in their favor. Bald Eagle was revealed as truly bald, with a Four Symbols Demon Pattern Array tattooed on his head.

• Mo Hua detected and memorized Bald Eagle’s concealed arrays, including the Small Primal Magnetism Array, and warned the group that several powerful cultivators were nearby.
• Bald Eagle and five accomplices attacked; Mo Hua hid while Ouyang Feng and the others fought them.
• Mo Hua trapped a fleeing sinful cultivator with the Water Prison Technique, allowing Murong Caiyun and Hua Qianqian to kill him, and then repeatedly bound enemies to aid the group.
• Mo Hua identified Bald Eagle’s obsession with protecting his head and urged Ouyang Feng and Shangguan Xu to cut off his hair.
• Bald Eagle’s wig fell away, revealing a bald head marked with a Four Symbols Demon Pattern Array.