Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua worried about Gu Changhuai’s safety and grew suspicious of Old Ancestor Dugu’s sword teachings after receiving a warning to guard his true heart. Yu’er’s nightmares revealed a frightening prophecy about mass death and his role in it, while Gu Changhuai returned to duty injured; the chapter ended with Cheng Mo giving Mo Hua a token.

• Mo Hua considered ways to help the Dao Court Office hunt Golden Core demonic cultivators and keep Gu Changhuai safe, but could find no way to act.
• Old Ancestor Dugu made Mo Hua repeat his sword training, warned him not to trust everything he taught, then later urged him to sever his self and all bonds.
• Mo Hua comforted Yu'er about his nightmares, but a sinister voice returned in Yu'er's dream and told him he was the greatest demon and would cause his loved ones to die.
• Mo Hua pondered Yu'er's ominous dream about blood, bones, and human flesh, but found no new clues about the Evil God's plan.
• After more than a month of recovery, Gu Changhuai returned to Dao Court Office duty despite lingering injuries, while Mo Hua remained unable to stop events from worsening.
• Cheng Mo gave Mo Hua a token.

The Demon Sect abandoned its ambush after a warning exposed the possibility of a mole, allowing Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office cultivators to survive. Back in Void Gate, Mo Hua erased his traces in the Demon Sect’s array, then forged a new Sequence Magnetic Pattern to regain access to its Primal Magnetism Array.

• The Golden Core demon heads suspected a hidden mole after receiving a message to cancel their plan, and the Demon Sect Leader ordered them to withdraw from the ambush.
• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia prepared to fight their way out, but the Demonic Cultivators retreated, and the Dao Court Office group later discovered the scale of the ambush.
• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia found Mo Hua’s warnings in their Storage Bags and realized he had known about the danger before they entered the trap.
• Mo Hua restored the Magnetic Patterns he had altered, sealed his access to the Demon Sect array, and tried to resume his routine at Void Gate.
• After the Demon Sect disabled his token, Mo Hua forged a replacement Sequence Magnetic Pattern and successfully reconnected to the Demon Sect’s Primal Magnetism Array.

Mo Hua secretly gathered intelligence from the Demon Sect and arranged with Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia for the Dao Court Office to hunt its Golden Core cultivators. The chapter ended with the operation against He Laoqi underway, while Mo Hua remained hidden at Void Gate as the plan’s unseen force.

• The Dog Pattern cultivator concluded that a trusted insider had warned the Dao Court Office about the Demon Sect’s ambush, and the Demon Sect Leader ordered a secret investigation before entering the Blood Pool to strengthen his Azure Dragon array.
• Mo Hua continued infiltrating the Demon Sect’s Primal Magnetism system, then accepted Gu Changhuai’s invitation to dine with Inspector Xia and admitted that he had sent the warning message.
• Mo Hua offered Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia intelligence to help eradicate the Demon Sect, and gave them a painting to seal the Evil Spirits released when Golden Core demon cultivators died.
• Mo Hua found information on He Laoqi, a depraved Golden Core demon cultivator, and sent Gu Changhuai details of his movements so the Dao Court Office could prepare an ambush.
• The Dao Court Office began organizing the hunt for He Laoqi while Mo Hua continued attending classes and cultivating at Void Gate, concealing his role in the operation.

Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, and Fan Jin used Mo Hua’s precise intelligence to ambush and kill He Laoqi, then returned the Five Elements Map to Mo Hua. When Mo Hua opened it in a secluded place, a Second-Grade peak Divine Remains possessed him, only to discover that Mo Hua could easily destroy it and planned to refine its Evil Thought after midnight.

• Fan Jin asked Gu Changhuai whether earning merit against the Demon Sect could help him transfer out of Lone Mountain City, and Gu Changhuai explained that a transfer was possible if he distinguished himself.
• He Laoqi arrived at the red-bannered house at the exact time Mo Hua had predicted, and Gu Changhuai ordered the Dao Court Office to close the net.
• Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, and Fan Jin attacked He Laoqi while his cultivation technique was weakened, crippled him, and killed him after sealing the Evil Spirit inside the Five Elements Map.
• Gu Changhuai returned the Five Elements Map to Mo Hua the next day and thanked him for his help.
• Mo Hua opened the map on a secluded peak, and a Second-Grade peak Ox Demon Divine Remains fled into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Mo Hua decapitated and destroyed the Ox Demon, stored its Evil Thought for purification by heavenly lightning at midnight, and headed back toward Void Mountain.

Mo Hua used intelligence gathered through the Demon Sect Tokens to help the Dao Court Office kill three Golden Core elders and gain their Divine Remains, but the Demon Sect’s purge made its members wary. When he later searched for another target, he discovered a skilled Thunder-Magnetic Array Master was baiting and marking his Thunder-Magnetic Figurine, leaving Mo Hua alert to a new conflict.

• Mo Hua absorbed Divine Marrow from He Laoqi’s Divine Remains, deepening his Divine Consciousness Daoization and easing his bottlenecks.
• Mo Hua found information on Elder Scorpion and Elder Zhu in the Demon Sect Token and sent it to Gu Changhuai, whose team captured and killed both elders.
• The Demon Sect blamed an insider for the deaths of three elders and began a violent purge, then restricted its messages and spread false information.
• Mo Hua paused his intelligence gathering and worked on the Riddle Array, solving one-third of it before his progress slowed.
• Mo Hua resumed monitoring the Demon Sect Token and identified Elder Dog as a possible target, but noticed unusual thunder-magnetism and realized someone was baiting him.
• Mo Hua found unfamiliar Sub-Thunder Patterns attached to his Thunder-Magnetic Figurine, cleansed them, and recognized that he had entered a clash between Thunder-Magnetic Array Masters.

Mo Hua learned about thunder-magnetic offense and defense from Elder Zheng, then traced the enemy Thunder-Magnetic Array Master's location and arranged a Dao Court Office operation to kill him. During the operation, Mo Hua exposed the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine to draw the enemy's attention, and the Array Master mistook it for a supreme inheritance.

• Mo Hua asked Elder Zheng to explain thunder-magnetic arrays and learned how array masters fought over Magnetic Patterns through thunder currents.
• Mo Hua concluded that he could not defeat the enemy Array Master in a direct thunder-magnetic contest and decided to locate and kill him instead.
• Mo Hua used the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine and Demon Sect Token to trace the enemy's thunder-magnetic flow to an unnamed mountain southeast of Ganxue Prefecture.
• Mo Hua sent the location and warnings to Gu Changhuai, and the Dao Court Office prepared an operation against the hidden Demon Sect Golden Core Array Master.
• Mo Hua joined the operation with Elder Xun Ziyou and openly sent the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine into the Demon Sect's Primal Magnetism Array.
• The black-clad Array Master captured the Figurine's image, mistook it for a living Thunder-Magnetic inheritance, and vowed to obtain it at any cost.

Mo Hua lured a black-clad Thunder-Magnetic Array Master into a trap, where Gu Changhuai and four other Golden Core inspectors killed him. Mo Hua took the recovered thunder-magnetic inheritance back to Void Gate, and the chapter ended with him recognizing a stolen token as a Demon Sect Guest Elder Token.

• The black-clad array master used Primal Magnetic Positioning to track the Thunder-Magnetic Shadow, only to realize that he had been lured into revealing his own location.
• Gu Changhuai and four other Golden Core inspectors ambushed and killed the array master while Mo Hua watched from safety beside Elder Xun Ziyou.
• After the Dao Court Office searched the area, Mo Hua and Elder Xun Ziyou claimed the Thunder-Magnetic Array Disk and array diagrams as stolen Void Gate inheritance.
• Elder Xun warned Mo Hua to keep the thunder-magnetic techniques secret, then removed some of their Karma and allowed him to study them.
• Mo Hua inspected the incomplete Third-Grade inheritance and found that its array techniques mixed Second-Grade and Third-Grade structures.
• Mo Hua examined a bloodstained token Gu Changhuai had secretly passed to him and identified it as a Demon Sect Guest Elder Token.

Mo Hua took the dead array master Yuan’s Guest Elder Token and impersonated him to investigate the Demon Sect’s Thunder-Magnetic array while hiding his death. With Gu Changhuai’s help, he staged a successful exchange of intelligence to earn Elder You’s trust and prepare to lure Golden Core Demonic Cultivators to their deaths.

• Mo Hua found that Yuan’s Guest Elder Token had open permissions, then received messages from Elder You and pretended to be the dead Mr. Yuan.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai to keep Yuan’s death secret and planned to use the token to infiltrate the Demon Sect as Yuan.
• Mo Hua learned of a Demon Sect Blood Feast, leaked its location to the Dao Court Office, and then warned the Demon Sect so both sides would believe the intelligence was accurate.
• Mo Hua sent Elder You magnetic patterns and annotations that appeared to expose a mole leaking Demon Sect secrets, and Elder You deciphered them to uncover the Blood Feast intelligence.
• The Dao Court Office and Demon Sect narrowly missed each other at the Blood Feast site, convincing Elder You that Mr. Yuan’s investigation had helped the sect evade a trap.
• Mo Hua continued feeding Elder You magnetic patterns to deepen his trust while preparing to exploit his role as Mr. Yuan.

Mo Hua manipulated Elder You into suspecting Eighth Brother, then arranged for Eighth Brother to escape a staged encounter with the Dao Court Office and secretly warned him that the Demon Sect had exposed his crimes. He urged Elder You to send a Golden Core elder after the fleeing Eighth Brother, hoping to kill two demons and gather enough Divine Marrow to advance his cultivation.

• Mo Hua gave Elder You clues pointing to a hidden Array Master, and Elder You investigated several Demon Sect elders before uncovering Eighth Brother’s secret array skills and corruption.
• When Elder You prepared to punish Eighth Brother, Mo Hua persuaded him to test the suspected mole by sending him on a mission and leaking its details to the Dao Court Office.
• Eighth Brother entered the Dao Court Office’s encirclement, but Gu Changhuai and the others let him escape without killing him.
• Mo Hua anonymously warned Eighth Brother that Elder You had exposed his crimes, then told Elder You that someone had urged Eighth Brother to flee.
• Mo Hua urged Elder You to send a Golden Core elder to hunt Eighth Brother, aiming to kill two Golden Core demons and gain enough Divine Marrow to advance.

Mo Hua manipulated the Demon Sect and the Dao Court Office into cornering Eighth Elder and Elder Blood, then waited for Gu Changhuai to deliver the Five Elements Map containing the sealed Evil Spirit. After receiving it, Mo Hua headed to a secluded mountain peak, eager to refine the two Divine Remains and advance his cultivation.

• The Demon Sect elders ordered Fourth Brother, Elder Blood, to hunt Eighth Elder, and Elder You hired Mo Hua to track him for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Mo Hua convinced Eighth Elder that he was helping him escape while secretly steering him toward Elder Blood and the Dao Court Office forces led by Gu Changhuai.
• Elder Blood and Eighth Elder fought until Eighth Elder tried to flee, but Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office surrounded them; both Golden Core fiends were killed.
• Mo Hua told Elder You that Elder Blood had killed Eighth Elder and later collected his promised reward arrangements, while Gu Changhuai prepared the Five Elements Map for him.
• Two days later, Gu Changhuai gave Mo Hua the map containing the sealed Evil Spirit, and Mo Hua went to a secluded peak to refine the two Divine Remains.

Mo Hua attempted to break through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, but the Five Elements Map brought him face-to-face with a powerful Third-Grade Divine Remains that had devoured its counterpart. After a brutal battle, Mo Hua combined his sword arts and ancient Void Sword Intent into a God-Slaying Sword and brought it down on the Divine Remains.

• Mo Hua opened the Five Elements Map and found a Third-Grade Divine Remains in his Sea of Consciousness, which revealed that it had eaten the other Divine Remains.
• The Divine Remains overwhelmed Mo Hua with its speed and strength, shattered his Gold-Breaking Sword, and wounded him before Mo Hua fought back with the Ta'a Mountain-Opening Sword.
• Mo Hua realized the Divine Remains was wearing down his physical body and that he had little time to defeat it.
• Mo Hua gathered his Array Techniques, Five Elements Dao, and sword arts into a God-Slaying Sword, then used the Soul-Startling Sword to immobilize the Divine Remains.
• The Divine Remains formed a Blood-Slaughtering Blade as Mo Hua added the ancient Void Sword Intent to his weapon and cried, "Sever!!"

Mo Hua defeated the Third-Grade Divine Remains, but the Evil Fetus seized the chance to use Fetal Transformation and create Black Mo Hua, who shared his abilities. As Mo Hua struggled to survive until midnight, Black Mo Hua saw through his bluff and prepared to settle their fight with a deadly sword strike.

• Mo Hua killed the Third-Grade Divine Remains with the Void God-Slaying Sword, then discovered the Evil Fetus had escaped its seal and spread Black Water through his body.
• The Evil Fetus used Fetal Transformation to create Black Mo Hua, who copied Mo Hua’s appearance and techniques and fought him while Mo Hua was exhausted.
• Mo Hua repeatedly escaped Black Mo Hua’s killing blows by secretly preserving and eating Divine Marrow, then challenged him to a final sword strike.
• Black Mo Hua recognized that Mo Hua’s challenge was a bluff meant to stall until midnight, but he also realized Mo Hua was trying to make him hesitate.
• Black Mo Hua decided to risk everything before the Dao Stele appeared and condensed his Evil Sword arrays into a sword for their final clash.

Mo Hua completed the God-Slaying Sword by combining Void Sword Intent with Heavenly Demon Severing Emotion, then killed the Evil Fetus with the Dao Stele’s Tribulation Lightning. After Elder Murong and Elder Xun rescued him from collapse, a new Black Mo Hua formed within his Karmic Fate, leaving a hidden threat behind.

• Mo Hua tricked Black Mo Hua into facing his Supreme Emotion-Severing Dao and cut him down with the completed God-Slaying Sword.
• Mo Hua sealed the wounded Evil Fetus and fed him to the Dao Stele’s Tribulation Lightning, which destroyed him and left behind abundant Divine Marrow.
• Mo Hua returned to his body and found himself gravely weakened, but Elder Murong treated him after Elder Xun had him brought to her.
• Elder Xun questioned Mo Hua about the Evil Spirit and the strange Sword Intent, then worried that the boy had drawn too much Karma.
• As Mo Hua slept, the dead Evil Fetus’s hatred followed his Causal Chain and formed a Black Mo Hua inside his Karmic Fate.

Mo Hua recovered from his injuries and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, bringing his Divine Consciousness close to the Twenty-Pattern realm. Meanwhile, Elder Xun and Old Ancestor Murong sealed the Sword Graveyard after Old Ancestor Dugu was corrupted by heavenly demons, and Elder Xun feared a coming calamity for the Nine Provinces.

• Elder Murong treated Mo Hua and told him he could return to class after two or three days of rest.
• Elder Xun found Old Ancestor Dugu transformed into a Faceless Person and sealed the Sword Graveyard with Old Ancestor Murong’s help.
• Elder Xun warned Old Ancestor Murong that the decay of people’s hearts could bring a death tribulation to the Nine Provinces.
• Mo Hua recovered, continued cracking Riddle Arrays, and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Mo Hua realized his Divine Consciousness was close to Twenty-Pattern and his divine sense had become nearly pure gold.
• Mo Hua wondered whether the blood-colored Divine Remains’ Dao differed from the Evil God of the Great Wilderness, then set the question aside.

After reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Mo Hua celebrated with his fellow disciples, worried when Old Ancestor Dugu stopped contacting him, and began searching for a suitable Natal Magic Treasure before Golden Core Formation. Elder Xun advised him to choose something that compensated for his weak body or thin Lingli, but Mo Hua still could not decide.

• Mo Hua's breakthrough to Foundation Establishment Late Stage prompted celebrations and gifts from his junior martial brothers, Wenren Wan, and other acquaintances.
• Mo Hua realized Old Ancestor Dugu had missed several seven-day sword-training appointments, tried to reach the forbidden Back Mountain, and returned without learning what had happened.
• Mo Hua considered what he needed before Golden Core Formation and dismissed the Dao Stele, Tribulation Lightning, the Void Bamboo Sword, and a copper coin as choices for his Natal Magic Treasure.
• Mo Hua asked his junior martial brothers and the Teaching Elders for advice, but their suggestions depended on resources and inheritance that did not suit his circumstances.
• Elder Xun advised Mo Hua to prioritize a Natal Magic Treasure that replenished Lingli or strengthened his body, with stealth or escape as other options.
• Mo Hua read manuals about magic treasures after returning to the Disciple Quarters, but remained unable to choose.

Mo Hua chose Copper Skin and Iron Bone as the Natal Magic Treasure he wanted to use to strengthen his frail body, but Elder Xun could not provide a suitable inheritance and promised to search for one. Mo Hua then resumed contact with Elder You under the guise of being pursued by the Dao Court Office and demanded eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones before going into hiding.

• Mo Hua compared Natal Magic Treasure inheritances and decided that Copper Skin and Iron Bone best suited his need to strengthen his physical body.
• Elder Xun warned that Void Gate lacked a suitable low-burden Copper Skin and Iron Bone inheritance and agreed to seek one from other cultivators.
• Mo Hua studied how Copper Skin and Iron Bone might work with other cultivation methods and continued preparing for his future Natal Magic Treasure.
• Mo Hua found Elder You's unanswered messages on his Demon Sect Guest Elder Token and decided to withdraw from his dealings with the Demon Sect.
• Mo Hua told Elder You that the Dao Court Office was tracking him and blamed the Demon Sect for exposing his whereabouts.
• Mo Hua claimed he needed to hide and demanded eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones as payment.

Mo Hua tried to collect 800,000 Spirit Stones from Elder You, but received a box of rotten stones and agreed to continue working for the Demon Sect for a promised 1,800,000. While probing the sect’s Primal Magnetism Array for deeper permissions, he uncovered fragments about a Blood Refining inheritance, a mysterious daoist, and a rebellion against a figure called Big Brother, whose dragon tattoo startled him.

• Mo Hua arranged for Xun Ziyou to retrieve the buried payment, but Xun Ziyou found two Golden Core demonic cultivators lying in ambush and brought back a box of rotten stones.
• Mo Hua confronted Elder You, who offered him 1,800,000 Spirit Stones if he extended his contract with the Demon Sect for three years, and Mo Hua accepted while suspecting the promise was false.
• Mo Hua used the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine to probe the Guest Elder Token’s Primal Magnetism Array and decoded fragments about the Blood Refining School and a mysterious daoist.
• Mo Hua intercepted a separate exchange in which Demon Sect members discussed rebelling against Mr. Tu and taking out Big Brother.
• Mo Hua read that Big Brother had a dragon tattooed on his body, and the detail triggered a sudden realization.

Mo Hua decided to pursue the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array as his Natal Magic Treasure, but his attempt to access the Demon Sect’s Merit Treasury failed because his cultivation and array mastery were too low. He then asked Elder Zheng about mixed-grade arrays and learned that array masters used a technique called Pattern Reduction to make powerful arrays easier to operate.

• Mo Hua learned that the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons had been used to develop the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array and considered whether it could become his Natal Magic Treasure.
• Mo Hua decided to seek the Azure Dragon Array Diagram, but he found no viable way to obtain it from Mr. Tu or the Demon Sect Leader.
• Mo Hua tried to infiltrate the Demon Sect’s Merit Treasury with Primal Magnetism arrays, but his Foundation Establishment cultivation and Second-Grade array mastery prevented him from entering.
• Mo Hua told Elder Zheng that he had obtained a Thunder-Magnetic inheritance after the Dao Court Office killed a demonic cultivator, and Elder Zheng warned him to keep the matter secret.
• Mo Hua asked Elder Zheng why the Thunder-Magnetic Array Disk combined Third-Grade and Second-Grade arrays, and Elder Zheng explained that Pattern Reduction lowered costs and difficulty while helping lower-realm array masters operate high-grade arrays.

Mo Hua activated the Thunder-Magnetic Array Disk and used the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine to infiltrate the Demon Sect’s Merit Treasury, hoping to find the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array Diagram. The diagram was absent, but the final encrypted entry revealed the Second-Grade Twenty-Pattern Reverse Spirit Array.

• Elder Zheng explained pattern reduction, gave Mo Hua a Jade Slip of his insights, and urged him to remember the value of low-grade arrays and cultivators as he pursued the Dao.
• Mo Hua reflected on the difference between seeking the Dao and pursuing grades, then began experimenting with the Thunder-Magnetic Array Disk.
• Mo Hua spent hundreds of Spirit Stones to activate the Quasi-Third-Grade disk and opened a gap in the Demon Sect’s magnetic-pattern defenses for the Thunder-Magnetic Figurine.
• Mo Hua infiltrated and decoded the Demon Sect’s Merit Treasury, but found no Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array Diagram among its entries.
• Mo Hua decrypted the treasury’s final, highly encrypted item and discovered it was the Second-Grade Twenty-Pattern Reverse Spirit Array.

Mo Hua devised a way to obtain the Reverse Spirit Array Diagram by manipulating Li San through Yuan Magnetic messages. After cultivating Li San’s loyalty with promises of advancement and rewards for killing fellow sect members, Mo Hua ordered him to redeem the array and deliver it to a designated location.

• Mo Hua decided to obtain the Reverse Spirit Array Diagram and devised a plan to guide a Demon Sect disciple through Yuan Magnetic communications.
• Mo Hua selected Li San, posed as Elder You, and tempted him with the possibility of becoming an elder.
• Mo Hua convinced Li San to prove his loyalty by killing a fellow Skill Transmission disciple, then rewarded him with two thousand Demon Merit Points.
• Li San repeatedly killed fellow sect members on Mo Hua’s orders, growing convinced that Elder You was secretly grooming him for advancement.
• Mo Hua finally ordered Li San to exchange Demon Merit Points for the Reverse Spirit Array and bring it to the previously designated place.