Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua tried to lead Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian out of the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons while Elder Xun and Shangguan Xuanjian fought their way in. As Jin Yixuan pursued the escaped prisoners, he discovered that Mo Hua had activated several Primal Magnetism Spirit Vision Arrays to watch the prison.

• Xun Ziyou told Mo Hua that demon cultivators were blocking the White Bone Path and that their Four Symbols Demon Patterns made them explode or go berserk, then joined Shangguan Xuanjian to force a path into the valley.
• Mo Hua left the Array Technique Stone Chamber, returned to the prison, gave Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian their Storage Bags, and disguised them in Black Robes stained with Monster Blood.
• Mo Hua warned the three that they might be captured again and guided them toward the valley gates, using spirit-vision arrays to avoid demon cultivators and directing the group to kill those who challenged them.
• The young master deduced that a rat had entered the valley to gather intelligence and rescue someone, then ordered Jin Yixuan to capture the intruder and bring him back alive.
• Jin Yixuan found the prison empty and pursued the escapees, then discovered several activated Primal Magnetism Spirit Pivot Arrays watching the Ten Thousand Demon Prison.

Mo Hua’s escape plan failed when Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian were captured and taken to a sacrificial ritual at the Monster Refining Map. After Mo Hua brought Golden Core elders Xun Ziyou, Xun Zixian, and Shangguan Xuanjian to rescue them, he found their souls had been sacrificed and declared that he would enter the map to save them.

• Jin Yixuan discovered that the spirit-vision arrays had been altered, but his attempt to reclaim the central hub triggered an explosion that destroyed it.
• Jin Gui transformed through his Tiger Monster Pattern and overwhelmed Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian, who surrendered when Jin Yixuan and his reinforcements arrived.
• Mo Hua contacted Xun Ziyou and led him, Xun Zixian, and Shangguan Xuanjian through the valley in pursuit of the captured trio.
• Mo Hua and the three elders found Demon Cultivators performing a sacrifice at the Monster Refining Map; Xun Ziyou and the elders killed the guards and subdued the ritual’s witch-like steward, who died by destroying her Sea of Consciousness.
• Xun Zixian opened the three coffins and found Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian apparently lifeless, but Mo Hua said their recently sacrificed souls could still be saved.
• Mo Hua announced that he would enter the Monster Refining Map to rescue the three youths.

Mo Hua entered the Monster Refining Map through a Divine Dao Array Pattern bridge, using Sword Bone to draw out his Divine Thought. He set out to find Linghu Xiao and the other two children, leaving his physical body under the protection of three late-stage Golden Core elders.

• Xun Zixian agreed to let Mo Hua enter the Monster Refining Map, and Shangguan Xuanjian promised him a tremendous favor if he rescued Xiao'er.
• Mo Hua enlisted Sword Bone to lead him into the map and found a weak point in its Divine Dao Array Pattern.
• Mo Hua linked the White Bone Broken Sword to the map with interlocking array patterns, creating a bridge between the two.
• Xun Ziyou, Xun Zixian, and Shangguan Xuanjian guarded Mo Hua's physical body while Sword Bone used Soul Hooking to draw out his Divine Thought.
• Mo Hua forced Sword Bone to accompany him across the bridge and entered the Monster Refining Map.
• Seeing no demons nearby, Mo Hua followed a White Bone Path to search for Xiao Mutou and the other two children.

Mo Hua and Sword Bone entered the Monster Refining Map to rescue Xiao Mutou and the other two, finding a Nightmare landscape modeled on the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. After Mo Hua memorized Jin Gui’s Tiger Pattern during Sword Bone’s battle with him, Mo Hua annihilated Jin Gui and left Sword Bone even more wary of him.

• Mo Hua and Sword Bone followed the White Bone Path and found that the Monster Refining Map’s terrain resembled the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Mo Hua spotted Jin Gui’s demon soul escorting three black coffins and recognized the captives as the people he had come to rescue.
• Jin Gui recognized Mo Hua and ordered his demon cultivators to attack, but Sword Bone fought them off.
• Jin Gui transformed into a tiger demon and battled Sword Bone while Mo Hua deduced and memorized the Four Symbols Profound tiger Monster Pattern Array.
• Jin Gui feinted past Sword Bone and lunged at Mo Hua, but Mo Hua killed him with golden light in less than three breaths.
• Sword Bone watched Mo Hua destroy Jin Gui and resolved to treat Mo Hua with greater respect.

Mo Hua rescued Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian from the Monster Refining Map, then stayed behind to search for its hidden Demon Specters. He killed Jin Gui, Jin Yicai, and the demon cultivators sent after him, while the young master in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons discovered that every Soul Lamp had gone out.

• Mo Hua ordered Sword Bone to devour the Demon Cultivators’ lingering Evil Thoughts, then found Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian imprisoned in Coffins and confirmed they were unharmed.
• Mo Hua left the three unconscious cultivators protected in the Blood Pool and returned to the Monster Refining Map with Sword Bone to search for the hidden Demon Specters.
• After Jin Gui’s Soul Lamp went out, Jin Yixuan suspected an intruder in the map, and Jin Yicai entered with four stewards to pursue him.
• Jin Yicai attacked Sword Bone, but Mo Hua killed the four stewards and ordered Sword Bone to kill Jin Yicai; Sword Bone then devoured their Evil Thoughts.
• Jin Yixuan led more than ten stewards into the Monster Refining Map to surround Mo Hua, but the young master later found that all the Soul Lamps in the hall had gone out.

Mo Hua found the Demon Specter Prison at the heart of the Monster Refining Map and began devouring its imprisoned demon specters. As Mr. Tu escorted the young master toward the map’s central hub to sever the Divine Bridge, Mo Hua reached the sealed Horned Gate and prepared to break through with his Divine Sense Sword.

• Mr. Tu possessed Jin Yixuan’s corpse and told the young master that a Fierce God had invaded the Monster Refining Map as part of a War of Deities.
• Mr. Tu and the young master decided to enter the map, reach its central hub, and sever the Divine Bridge before the Fierce God could reach the Divine Homeland.
• Mo Hua deduced that the map’s sealed demon specters served as Array Eyes and found a hidden Monster Refining Map mural inside the Nightmare.
• Mo Hua broke through the mural and entered the Demon Specter Prison, where he tore apart Divine Dao Chains and devoured the imprisoned demon specters.
• Mo Hua reached the Horned Gate, sensed someone behind it, and formed a Divine Sense Sword to break through.
• Mr. Tu recognized Mo Hua’s sword as the Void Gate’s Divine Sense Sword and realized that the Void Gate had arranged everything.

Mr. Tu ordered the Great Prison’s tens of thousands of Demon Specters released to delay Mo Hua, who turned the attack into a chance to study the Heavenly Dao Seal’s laws. After killing and absorbing the Specters, Mo Hua erased the seal and broke through two Divine Consciousness realms, reaching Nineteen-Pattern.

• Mr. Tu persuaded the Young Master to release every Demon Specter in the Great Prison to hold back the Fierce God outside the gate.
• Mo Hua faced the swarming Demon Specters with the Lishan Cremation Array, Fireball Techniques, and God Lock Arrays, repeatedly killing them and replenishing his Divine Thought.
• Mo Hua realized that feeding Thought Power to the Heavenly Dao Seal revealed its laws, and he used the Demon Specters’ attacks to deepen his understanding of the sealing laws.
• Mo Hua gradually fed and erased the seal in his Sea of Consciousness, breaking through to Eighteen-Pattern Divine Consciousness as his power continued to rise.
• Xun Zixian sensed Mo Hua’s successive breakthroughs outside the Monster Refining Map, while Mo Hua finished devouring the Demon Specters and advanced to Nineteen-Pattern Divine Consciousness.

Mo Hua slaughtered the Demon Specters, broke through the Horned Gate, and rescued Linghu Xiao, Ouyang Mu, and Song Jian from the Monster Refining Map. After the Young Master escaped and Elder Shen sensed the loss of his remnant soul, Mo Hua found a mysterious blank mural and hinted that another door was nearby.

• Mo Hua used his improved understanding of Divine Dao Arrays to shatter the Horned Gate and kill Mr. Tu, while the Young Master escaped the Nightmare.
• Elder Shen felt his remnant soul die and concealed his distress from his disciples by claiming that studying an ancient array scroll had exhausted him.
• Mo Hua found a blank mural with an aura close to the source of deities, but could not discover what had been hidden there.
• Mo Hua returned to the Blood Pool and ordered Sword Bone to restore Linghu Xiao's, Ouyang Mu's, and Song Jian's souls to their bodies.
• Shangguan Xuanjian promised to help Mo Hua in the future, and Mo Hua told Xun Ziyou that another door should be nearby.

Mo Hua and the Xun elders uncovered a hidden route from the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons and found evidence of a powerful Void Insight Array Master, but Mo Hua was overcome by demonic thoughts and was taken back to Void Gate. Two days later, he awoke in an Alchemy Room with Elder Xun beside him.

• Mo Hua guided Xun Ziyou and Xun Zixian through the broken Monster Refining Map mural, where they found dead Demon Cultivators, including Jin Gui, Jin Yicai, and Jin Yixuan, and discovered the Young Master's empty study.
• Mo Hua suspected the Young Master had escaped through a hidden passage, and Xun Zixian found a powerful array behind the study wall.
• The elders excavated around the array and found a destroyed fifth-grade Void Array Technique, leading them to suspect a Void Insight Array Master was involved.
• Mo Hua was seized by demonic thoughts and bit Xun Ziyou before Xun Zixian subdued him; Xun Ziyou carried him back to Void Gate for the ancestor to examine.
• Two days later, Mo Hua woke in a quiet Alchemy Room as Elder Xun sat beside him marking Array Technique homework.

After recovering from the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, Mo Hua learned why the incident was being concealed and received Elder Xun’s guidance and a Visualization Diagram to help purify his Divine Thought. The chapter ended with Elder Xun discovering that Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness had reached the Nineteen-Pattern level.

• Elder Xun told Mo Hua that the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons would be kept secret to protect the disciples and prevent the scandal from harming Ganxue Prefecture.
• Mo Hua reasoned that the prefecture’s ancestors would cover up the scandal while Dao Court officials might exploit it, and Elder Xun urged him to understand others’ interests without abandoning his own principles.
• Elder Xun said Void Gate had secured an exchange of inheritances with Duanjin Gate, allowing Mo Hua to use the sword arts and arrays he possessed, and warned him to keep a low profile while the factions contended.
• Mo Hua told Elder Xun that Evil Thoughts had tainted his Divine Thought, so Elder Xun lent him Soul-Calming Incense and a treasured Visualization Diagram to aid his meditation.
• Elder Xun sensed that Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness had grown stronger, then learned that Mo Hua had advanced to Nineteen-Pattern and reacted with disbelief.

Elder Xun reflected on Mo Hua’s extraordinary Divine Thought and the dangers of the path he was walking, while Mo Hua recovered, began using Void Gate’s clean Visualization Diagram, and kept Sword Bone sealed in a broken sword. Xun Ziyou reported the political fallout from the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, and Elder Xun ordered harsh negotiations with Duanjin Gate before setting aside some of its ceded assets under Mo Hua’s name.

• Elder Xun concluded that Mo Hua’s mentor had intended him to follow the Dao of Divine Sense and worried that his path resembled that of the terrifying Ghost Daoist.
• Elder Murong treated Mo Hua’s lingering physical discomfort, and Mo Hua began visualizing Void Gate’s ancient diagram, which clarified his Dao Heart and cleansed distracting thoughts.
• Mo Hua sealed Sword Bone inside the White Bone Broken Sword, made it agree to call him “Young Master,” and considered using it as a medium for Divine Thought invasion and artifact refining.
• Xun Ziyou told Elder Xun that the Dao Court knew about the Monster Refining Mountain affair and that the Jin Family had lost power at Duanjin Gate to the Song Family.
• Elder Xun rejected Xun Ziyou’s suggestion that the Song Family might become friendly with Void Gate and ordered him to demand a large concession from Duanjin Gate.
• Elder Xun instructed Xun Ziyou to put a separate portion of Duanjin Gate’s ceded assets under Mo Hua’s name.

Elder Xun arranged to reward Mo Hua with Void Gate properties while keeping their income in reserve, and warned Xun Ziyou not to probe Mo Hua’s hidden inheritance. After Mr. Tu vowed to hunt the juvenile Fierce God, Mo Hua stabilized his divine sense at Nineteen-Pattern and secured Elder Xun’s permission to leave Ganxue Prefecture after the new year to seek further growth.

• Elder Xun instructed Xun Ziyou to transfer several cultivation properties to Mo Hua but save their profits until Mo Hua truly needed them.
• Elder Xun told Xun Ziyou not to ask about Mo Hua’s unusual abilities or discuss them with anyone, then reflected on the karmic secrets hidden around Mo Hua.
• Mr. Tu endured the God Lord’s Divine Punishment, identified Void Gate and its allies as protectors of a juvenile Fierce God, and vowed to hunt it as a sacrifice.
• Mo Hua purified his Sea of Consciousness, stabilized his divine sense at Nineteen-Pattern, and considered how he might eventually learn true Divine Thought Sword Transformation.
• Elder Xun gave Mo Hua Eighteen-Pattern Array Diagrams and, after Mo Hua said he needed to seek opportunities outside Ganxue Prefecture, lifted his confinement after the new year.

After Elder Xun lifted his confinement, Mo Hua visited the Gu Family for the New Year, where he learned that Gu Changhuai had lost authority over the Yu Family Water Stronghold case. The chapter ended with Elder Gu Hong telling Gu Changhuai he would go on blind dates after the New Year, drawing Mo Hua’s eager attention.

• Elder Xun lifted Mo Hua’s confinement, and Mo Hua planned to strengthen his divine sense by finding Water Yama and an Evil God altar.
• Mo Hua caught up on his sect studies, passed the assessments, and traveled with Yu'er to the Gu Family for the holiday.
• Mo Hua and Yu'er made and released a Fish-Dragon Lantern, and Mo Hua celebrated the New Year with the Gu Family.
• Mo Hua learned from Gu Changhuai that Water Yama had been linked to similar murders, but the Xiao Family had taken over the Yu Family Water Stronghold case after Gu Changhuai lost authority.
• Elder Gu Hong found Gu Changhuai and told him he would go on blind dates after the New Year, and Mo Hua stayed to listen.

Mo Hua struck a deal with Gu Changhuai to help him investigate Water Yama in exchange for handling Elder Gu Hong’s matchmaking pressure. After returning to Void Gate, Mo Hua learned that his Dan Jade drew Elder Murong’s concern, then met several Hundred Flowers Valley disciples, including Senior Sister Ye, whose death by suicide left the story on a grim note.

• Elder Gu Hong urged Gu Changhuai to meet Hua Ruyu after the New Year, while Mo Hua persuaded him to investigate Water Yama in exchange for help with his aunt’s matchmaking efforts.
• Mo Hua returned to Void Gate, resumed studying Array Techniques, and visited Elder Murong for a checkup; she told him he could stop taking his previous pills and gave him digestive medicine.
• Elder Murong recognized Mo Hua’s pendant as Dan Jade and warned him not to reveal it to certain Alchemists outside the sect.
• Mo Hua met Murong Caiyun and several Hundred Flowers Valley disciples, including Hua Qianqian and the reserved Senior Sister Ye.
• Several days later, Mo Hua heard that Senior Sister Ye had killed herself.

After hearing that Senior Sister Ye had died by suicide, Mo Hua learned from Murong Caiyun that she was Ye Jin of the Ye Family in Yanshui City. The connection to the Yanshui River stirred his suspicions, and he decided to investigate the Ye Family before setting out to visit Lord Yellow Mountain.

• Hao Xuan spent the New Year at Void Gate after receiving a poor swordsmanship grade, and Hao Se brought him food and joined him and Mo Hua for a meal.
• Hao Se told Mo Hua and Hao Xuan that a female disciple at Hundred Flowers Valley had died in a fire that the sect concluded was suicide.
• Hao Se identified the dead disciple as a Senior Sister surnamed Ye, and Mo Hua feared she was the Senior Sister Ye he had met.
• Murong Caiyun confirmed that the disciple was Ye Jin and explained that rumors about her death included family pressure to arrange her marriage.
• Murong Caiyun located the Ye Family in Yanshui City, and Mo Hua decided to investigate the connection to the Yanshui River.
• After the New Year and the start of a new academic year, Mo Hua planned to visit Yanshui City, first stopping at the Dilapidated Temple on Withered Mountain to see Lord Yellow Mountain and ask about the Way of the Deities and Divine Sense Sword.

Mo Hua visited Lord Yellow Mountain and learned more about Divine Sense sword arts and the deities’ path of Daoization. As Mo Hua prepared to leave, he asked whether Lord Yellow Mountain was hiding from something, and the Mountain God reacted in alarm.

• Mo Hua brought food and incense to Lord Yellow Mountain, but the Mountain God could not bear Mo Hua’s incense and ate the offerings with him instead.
• Mo Hua questioned Lord Yellow Mountain about Divine Sense sword arts, and Lord Yellow Mountain recalled a Sword Cultivator who had once released killing Sword Intent through his eyes.
• Lord Yellow Mountain explained that a deity’s Divine Sense advanced through Daoization, then became suspicious that Mo Hua might have undergone it himself.
• Mo Hua concealed his knowledge and considered silencing Lord Yellow Mountain if the Mountain God discovered too much.
• Mo Hua offered to have the Dilapidated Temple repaired, but Lord Yellow Mountain refused, and Mo Hua asked whether he was hiding from something.

Mo Hua helped Lord Yellow Mountain conceal himself with a Divine Dao Array, then learned that an ancient Evil God might awaken through a grand Blood Sacrifice. In Yanshui City, Mo Hua investigated the guarded Ye Family and heard of a dead Ye Family Young Master whose fate might connect to his inquiries.

• Mo Hua drew a Divine Dao Array on Lord Yellow Mountain’s bronze statue, leaving an opening so the Mountain God could hide inside it.
• Lord Yellow Mountain warned Mo Hua that an ancient Evil God in Ganxue Prefecture might awaken soon and that its revival could involve a grand Blood Sacrifice.
• Mo Hua traveled to Yanshui City and found the Ye Family’s residence tightly guarded, so he chose not to force his way inside.
• Mo Hua questioned the owner of Wang’s Noodle Shop and learned that the Ye Family bullied independent cultivators, married off daughters to curry favor, and concealed deaths.
• The noodle shop owner told Mo Hua that a direct-line Ye Family Young Master had died on the Yanshui River after indulging in wine and women.

Mo Hua investigated the drowned Young Master Ye and visited the Small Fishing Village, where Old Yu told him about the mysterious Rouge Boats that traveled through the river fog. Before leaving, Mo Hua learned the villagers had begun worshipping a Little Immortal Child, leaving him puzzled about who it was.

• Mo Hua learned in Yanshui City that Young Master Ye had drowned when his boat sank, possibly after someone arranged the attack.
• Mo Hua detoured to the Small Fishing Village, reunited with Old Yu's family, and gave Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui water-repelling Jade Pendants.
• Mo Hua asked Old Yu about the drowned young master and learned the Rouge Boat was a pleasure boat carrying female cultivators engaged in flesh trade.
• Old Yu described seeing seven or eight Rouge Boats sail through thick river fog, unlike the single Flower Boat Mo Hua had seen with a group of young masters.
• Mo Hua confirmed there was no Evil God's aura in the village, then learned the villagers had begun worshipping a Little Immortal Child.

Mo Hua discovered that the Little Immortal worshipped by the fishing village was a statue of him, and that a surviving River God had taken refuge in the shrine and consumed his incense. Back at Void Gate, he asked Gu Changhuai to investigate a connection between River-Crossing Dragon, a murdered Young Master Ye, and a Hundred Flowers Valley disciple who died by suicide, then continued his cultivation while waiting for news.

• Mo Hua visited the shrine in Back Village and learned that the villagers’ Little Immortal statue resembled him and was credited with protecting them.
• After Old Yu left, Mo Hua summoned the Little Silver Fish hiding in the shrine and learned it was the former River God whose corrupted body Mo Hua had severed while sparing its pure Divine Sense.
• Mo Hua allowed the Little Silver Fish to consume his incense and ordered it to protect the fishing village and avoid the evil path.
• Mo Hua returned to Void Gate and asked Gu Changhuai about River-Crossing Dragon, then linked the killer of Young Master Ye to the Hundred Flowers Valley disciple surnamed Ye who had died by suicide; Gu Changhuai agreed to investigate.
• Mo Hua practiced trying to wield the Divine Sense Sword through his eyes and reflected on his unusual Divine Consciousness Daoization, but made no progress.
• After several days without news from Gu Changhuai, Mo Hua considered investigating Hundred Flowers Valley himself, then doubted he could sneak inside.

Mo Hua learned that Ye Xiu, Ye Jin’s elder brother, had been killed by River-Crossing Dragon after visiting the Rouge Boat, while the circumstances of Ye Jin’s death remained unclear. He enlisted Hua Qianqian to investigate secretly, and she reported that Ye Jin had once asked whether people could become ghosts after they died.

• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that River-Crossing Dragon had killed a young master surnamed Lin and could not speak about the Rouge Boat without risking his life.
• Gu Changhuai found that Ye Xiu, Ye Jin’s elder brother, had been officially recorded as dying of Water Poison, and Mo Hua concluded that Ye Xiu had likely been the murdered Young Master Lin.
• Mo Hua met Hua Qianqian at Void Gate and learned that she doubted Ye Jin had killed herself for no reason.
• Mo Hua offered to investigate Ye Jin’s death and instructed Hua Qianqian to gather information secretly within Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Hua Qianqian later told Mo Hua that Ye Jin had once asked a senior sister whether people could become ghosts after they died.