Chapter Summaries

Xuan Sanren sensed an ominous karma and took out the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Method, while Young Master Xuan tried to seize Shentu Ao’s Great Wilderness inheritance and imperial bloodline. After coercing the gathered cultivators into attacking Shentu Ao, Young Master Xuan’s plans shifted when Azure Dragon Qi flowed from the Fourth Prince’s corpse into Shentu Ao.

• Xuan Sanren’s Underworld Dao Heavenly Secret Lock trembled in fear when he tried to trace the karma, so he retrieved the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Method.
• Young Master Xuan revealed his plan to refine the Fourth Prince’s body into a Mysterious Demon Fetus and fought Shentu Ao alongside Elder Bear Demon.
• Shen Shouxing, Xun Ziyou, and their group entered the hall, and Young Master Xuan used Shen Qingsheng and Mo Hua as hostages to force their cooperation.
• Young Master Xuan ordered everyone to attack Shentu Ao, who fought until the backlash of his Four Symbols Evil Dragon Pattern began to overwhelm him.
• Azure Dragon Qi emerged from the Fourth Prince’s corpse in the Dragon Coffin and entered Shentu Ao, cleansing some of the Evil Qi as Elder Bear Demon watched greedily.

As Shentu Ao absorbed the Dragon Vein, Mo Hua realized it was completing Mr. Tu’s transformation of the Four Symbols Dragon Pattern into a true Azure Dragon, but the cultivators interrupted the process. Shen Shouxing then betrayed the others and admitted that the Shen Family had buried the Lone Mountain mine workers alive, leaving the survivors confronting his justification for the massacre.

• The Dragon Vein emerged from the Fourth Prince’s coffin, and Shentu Ao fought Elder Bear Demon, Shen Shouxing, and Xun Ziyou while Young Master Xuan demanded that Shen Shouxing seize it.
• Mo Hua recognized that the Dragon Vein was cleansing the Four Symbols Dragon Pattern on Shentu Ao and understood how Mr. Tu had used demon patterns to construct an evil dragon.
• Shen Shouxing, Xun Ziyou, and Elder Bear Demon severed Shentu Ao’s connection to the Dragon Vein, halting the transformation before their battle continued.
• After the fighters weakened Shentu Ao, Shen Shouxing ambushed Xun Ziyou, allowing Shentu Ao to escape their restraint and forcing the combatants to face one another warily.
• Shen Shouxing declared that he would not let Xun Ziyou leave the tomb, and Xun Ziyou accused the Shen Family of causing the mine disaster and burying hundreds of thousands of workers alive.
• Shen Shouxing admitted that he had helped bury the miners, defended the decision as necessary for the Shen Family’s advancement, and called the impoverished workers useless.

Shen Shouxing and the other wounded cultivators fought over the Great Wilderness Dragon Vein, while Young Master Xuan’s schemes turned them against one another. After Young Master Xuan finally secured the Dragon Vein and handed it to Mo Hua, Mo Hua ran off with it.

• Shen Shouxing defended his slaughter of Lone Mountain’s independent cultivators, then attacked Xun Ziyou to silence him.
• Shentu Ao, the Bear Demon Cultivator, and Xun Ziyou joined the fight around the Dragon Coffin as blood mist intensified their greed and killing intent.
• Shen Shouxing seized the Dragon Vein, but its Dragon Qi crippled his arm and forced him to drop it.
• Young Master Xuan revealed that he had used Illusion Demon Sect poison and Dao Heart Planting Demon to provoke the battle, then sealed the Dragon Vein inside a Black Demon Banner.
• Young Master Xuan handed the Dragon Vein to Mo Hua, who slipped away and fled with it.

Mo Hua seized the dragon vein and used promises of array knowledge to turn Elder Xiong Hei against Young Master Xuan, then copied the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array from Shentu Ao. A hidden Pale Human Demon broke the seal holding back the Evil Fetus, which awakened as the chapter ended.

• Young Master Xuan pursued Mo Hua for the dragon vein, but Fan Jin and Master Gu blocked him while Mo Hua refused to return it.
• Mo Hua convinced Elder Xiong Hei that Young Master Xuan could not be trusted and offered to help him with the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array, turning him against Young Master Xuan.
• Elder Xiong Hei restrained Shentu Ao, and Mo Hua began copying the complete Four Symbols Azure Dragon Absolute Array from his back.
• A Pale Human Demon emerged from hiding and attacked the group, but Mo Hua spotted its movements and Xun Ziyou wounded it.
• The Pale Human Demon sent a Blood Spear through the Second Elder's corpse, destroying the seal and awakening the Third-Grade peak Evil Fetus.

Mo Hua entered the Evil Fetus’s Nightmare and searched the divine temple for Elder Xun and the others, rescuing Shen Qingsheng from the Grievous Souls along the way. Shen Qingsheng betrayed him and revealed his contempt for the people his family had killed, but Mo Hua survived the attack and dragged him back toward the vengeful ghosts.

• Mo Hua recognized that the awakened Evil Fetus had trapped everyone in its Nightmare and set out to find Elder Xun, Master Gu, and the others.
• At the Dao Field, Mo Hua saved Shen Qingsheng from Grievous Souls and used God Fog Array Patterns to conceal them as they traveled together.
• Mo Hua asked Shen Qingsheng about the Ten Thousand People Pit, and Shen Qingsheng admitted he knew of the Shen Family’s crimes and dismissed the victims as lowly people.
• As the Grievous Souls broke free and pursued them, Shen Qingsheng escaped the Dao Field, then stabbed Mo Hua and pushed him back toward the ghosts.
• The Grievous Souls and a Third-Grade Fierce Ghost recoiled from Mo Hua, who pulled the sword from his chest, crushed it, and used the Water Prison Technique to drag Shen Qingsheng toward them.

Mo Hua rescued Elder Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin in the Divine Temple nightmare, then went alone to confront the Evil Fetus. He entered the main hall and discovered that the Evil Fetus had become a corrupted Lord Yellow Mountain fused with demonic flesh.

• Mo Hua fed Shen Qingsheng’s strengthened Divine Sense to the Grievous Souls and Fierce Ghosts, easing their resentment and weakening the Evil Fetus.
• Mo Hua found Master Gu and Fan Jin under attack by evil ghosts, explained that they were trapped in a nightmare, and led them to Elder Xun Ziyou.
• A Third-Grade Fierce Ghost fled when Mo Hua arrived, and Xun Ziyou agreed that Mo Hua should seek the nightmare’s root alone.
• Mo Hua placed Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin inside protective Divine Dao Arrays before heading deeper into the Divine Temple.
• Mo Hua entered the main hall and saw Second Elder and Xiong Hei dead, then recognized the grotesque monster before him as the corrupted Lord Yellow Mountain.

Mo Hua fought the powerful Evil Fetus made from Lord Yellow Mountain’s corrupted remains and discovered that a remnant of Lord Yellow Mountain’s consciousness still resisted it. After Mo Hua awakened that consciousness by describing its other self, Lord Yellow Mountain offered to use the Evil God’s power to help him escape the Nightmare.

• Mo Hua’s techniques and weapons failed to stop the Evil Fetus, but his incomplete God-Slaying Sword wounded it.
• Mo Hua realized the Evil Fetus’s strength came from Lord Yellow Mountain and found that golden flashes revealed the Mountain God’s surviving consciousness.
• Mo Hua called to Lord Yellow Mountain and claimed to be a friend, but the Evil Fetus soon regained control and attacked him again.
• Mo Hua fought on while recounting the life and memories of Lord Yellow Mountain’s other self, gradually stirring the Mountain God’s consciousness.
• Lord Yellow Mountain briefly took control, recognized Mo Hua’s connection to his other self, and said he would use the Evil God’s power to help Mo Hua leave the Nightmare.

Mo Hua refused Lord Yellow Mountain’s offer to escape and joined forces with him to weaken the Evil Fetus. After seizing the Tree of Divine Authority and cutting off the Evil Fetus’s support, Mo Hua unleashed the Void God-Slaying Sword, leaving Xun Ziyou outside the temple stunned by the familiar sword art.

• Mo Hua refused to leave without saving Elder Xun and the others, then persuaded Lord Yellow Mountain to help weaken the Evil Fetus from within.
• Mo Hua attacked the Evil Fetus with his Divine Thought Sword while Lord Yellow Mountain fought for control of its body, opening the way for Mo Hua to strike.
• When the Evil God summoned Demons through the Tree of Divine Authority, Mo Hua climbed to its throne and seized its Authority, while Lord Yellow Mountain pinned the Evil Fetus down.
• Mo Hua used the Authority to turn the Demons away, sever the Tree’s connection to Lone Mountain Temple, and cut off the Evil Fetus’s supply.
• Mo Hua bound Lord Yellow Mountain and the Evil Fetus with Array Techniques, then formed the Void God-Slaying Sword and struck the Evil Fetus until its body began to crack apart.
• Outside the temple, Xun Ziyou sensed the sword art and wondered in disbelief whether Mo Hua was wielding the lost Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art.

Mo Hua defeated the Evil Fetus by separating Lord Yellow Mountain from it, but Lord Yellow Mountain sacrificed himself to destroy them both and left Mo Hua a strand of precious Divine Marrow. After the Nightmare began collapsing, Mo Hua awoke in the Divine Temple to find Mr. Tu’s Flesh Puppet flaying Shentu Ao and demanding to know what happened to the God Lord’s Divine Fetus.

• Mo Hua used the God-Slaying Sword and the Heavenly Demon Severing Emotion Path to separate Lord Yellow Mountain from the Evil Fetus, but Lord Yellow Mountain began falling into evil again.
• Lord Yellow Mountain sent Mo Hua out of the hall, sealed himself in with the Evil Fetus, and used his Mountain Burial divine ability to annihilate them both.
• Mo Hua found a strand of pure Third-Grade Divine Marrow among the ruins, then was pulled from the collapsing Nightmare before he could find Elder Xun and the others.
• Second Elder’s consciousness escaped the Nightmare inside a Dragon Bone and memorized Mo Hua’s name as the bone disintegrated.
• The Shen Family Old Ancestor ordered his people to burn the Karma Fruit at Lone Mountain, while Elder Xun sent Xun Zixian and other sects and clans dispatched cultivators there.
• Mo Hua awoke in the Divine Temple as Mr. Tu’s Flesh Puppet flayed Shentu Ao, and Mr. Tu demanded to know where the God Lord’s Divine Fetus had gone.

Mo Hua escaped the shattered Nightmare with Xun Ziyou and the others, then searched the Divine Temple for Lord Yellow Mountain’s Life-Bound Divine Statue. He found a small, inconspicuous statue resembling the mountain lord, but Xun Ziyou could not see what Mo Hua was looking at.

• Mr. Tu deduced that a Void Gate Sword Cultivator might have destroyed the God Lord, then moved to kill the unconscious Xun Ziyou.
• Mo Hua accused Mr. Tu of killing Shen Qingsheng, provoking Shen Shouxing to attack and giving Mo Hua time to wake Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin.
• Mo Hua and the others left the Divine Temple, but Mo Hua realized Lord Yellow Mountain might have hidden his Life-Bound Divine Statue among its many statues and turned back to search.
• Shen Shouxing recognized Mr. Tu as Elder Shen, learned that he had manipulated the Shen Family, and fell into despair and madness as strange gray threads seeped into Mr. Tu’s flesh.
• Mo Hua recalled a hidden statue from Lord Yellow Mountain’s cave and found a small statue resembling him, but Xun Ziyou could not see it.

Mo Hua recovered Lord Yellow Mountain’s invisible Life-Bound Divine Statue and escaped Lone Mountain with Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin, avoiding a dangerous confrontation with Mr. Tu. After Xun Zixian opened a path through the Shen Family’s blockade, the group joined the Void Gate and left as chaos erupted around the mine, while an ominous Karma still lingered over Lone Mountain.

• Mo Hua recognized the invisible statue as Lord Yellow Mountain’s Life-Bound Divine Statue, wrapped it in Black Cloth, and had Xun Ziyou carry it out of the Divine Temple.
• Mo Hua saw Mr. Tu kill Shen Shouxing, but a foreboding vision made him refuse to ask Xun Ziyou to fight Mr. Tu, so the group left the temple.
• Mr. Tu considered pursuing Mo Hua, then disguised himself as a Shen family elder as the Shen Family began burning the Mine Cultivators’ corpses to destroy evidence.
• Xun Ziyou, Mo Hua, Master Gu, and Fan Jin disguised themselves as Shen family cultivators, escaped the tomb, and found the Shen Family’s mine surrounded by rival forces.
• Xun Zixian broke the Shen Family’s array, triggering a rush into the mine; he reunited with Mo Hua and led the group away with the Void Gate elders.
• After Mo Hua left Lone Mountain, Shen Shouxing suddenly opened his pitch-black eyes inside the collapsing Divine Temple.

Shen Shouxing used Ghostly Path arts to send Shentu Ao and Young Master Xuan away, then burned himself and the Divine Temple to erase their causality, only to realize Mo Hua had escaped his calculations. Mo Hua returned safely to Void Gate, where Elder Xun and Xun Ziyou discussed the fallout, and he prepared to consume a strand of third-grade Divine Marrow to advance his Divine Consciousness.

• Shen Shouxing revived, inscribed a Black Dragon Ghostly Pattern on Shentu Ao, and sent him through a crack made with the art of Deceiving Heaven.
• Shen Shouxing awakened Young Master Xuan, ordered him to return to the Mysterious Demon Sect and study the Dao Heart Planting Demon Original Scripture, then burned the Divine Temple and himself to erase all causality.
• As he burned, Shen Shouxing recognized Mo Hua's name and realized his Ghost Calculation had failed to account for him, then vowed to examine their causality when their paths crossed again.
• Mo Hua traveled back to Void Gate with Xun Ziyou and explained the Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art as the work of a Void Gate ancestor who had slain the corrupted Guhuang Mountain God.
• Elder Xun heard Xun Ziyou's account of the Shen Family, the Great Wilderness prince, and the Dragon Vein, and decided to let Mo Hua keep the Dragon Vein for now.
• Mo Hua hid Lord Yellow Mountain's Life-Bound Divine Statue and the Dragon Vein, then entered his Sea of Consciousness to consume the third-grade Divine Marrow and pursue a Twenty-Pattern breakthrough.

Mo Hua refined Third-Grade Divine Marrow and broke through to Twenty-Pattern Divine Consciousness Golden Core Formation, causing a vast golden phenomenon across Void Mountain. Elder Xun discovered the breakthrough, warned Mo Hua to keep it secret, and tried to conceal the event as other Void Insight Ancestors arrived to investigate.

• Mo Hua refined the Third-Grade Divine Marrow, completed the tempering of his divine sense, and broke through to Twenty-Pattern.
• Mo Hua’s breakthrough produced a golden Tree of Divine Authority visible to powerful cultivators across Void Mountain, and Elder Xun recognized the phenomenon as a possible sign of Mo Hua’s achievement.
• Elder Xun confronted Mo Hua, confirmed that his Divine Consciousness had formed a Golden Core despite his Foundation Establishment cultivation, and ordered him to conceal it.
• Elder Xun told the Void Gate Sect Master to keep the phenomenon quiet and not spread word of it.
• The Ta'a Gate Ancestor, the Chongxu Gate Ancestor, and Void Gate's Old Ancestor Murong arrived, leaving Elder Xun to face their questions about the phenomenon.

Elder Xun hid Mo Hua’s breakthrough from three Void Insight ancestors by calling the golden phenomenon an auspicious omen for Void Gate’s reunion. Mo Hua planned how to develop his newly formed Divine Sense Core, then shared a cheerful meal with his fellow disciples while reflecting on their coming separation.

• Ancestor Ouyang, Ancestor Linghu, and Old Ancestor Murong pressed Elder Xun to explain the golden tree phenomenon, but he claimed his heavenly calculation revealed an auspicious omen for Void Gate.
• Ancestor Ouyang and Ancestor Linghu accepted Elder Xun’s explanation and left, though they remained uneasy about an approaching upheaval.
• Mo Hua wondered whether his Divine Sense Core had caused the phenomenon, then planned to keep his breakthrough secret, study Absolute Arrays, and investigate the Dao of divine sense after resolving matters in Lone Mountain City.
• Mo Hua attended classes and joked with Cheng Mo, Situ Jian, and the other disciples, letting them believe his Divine Consciousness had reached Nineteen-Pattern.
• Mo Hua reflected that only a little over a year remained before the disciples might part ways, and felt the bittersweet weight of their fellowship.

Mo Hua told Inspector Xia what he knew about the Shen Family’s crimes at Lone Mountain, prompting the Dao Court to expel the family from Lone Mountain City. He then returned to the city to begin establishing work for its independent cultivators, pursuing his goal of changing their fates.

• Mo Hua fed Big White Dog a bone filled with demons, and the dog overcame its fear of him.
• Mo Hua recounted the Lone Mountain events to Inspector Xia, asked him to keep his identity secret, and recommended Diansi Fan Jin as a source of information.
• After laying low for ten days, Mo Hua traveled with Xun Ziyou to Lone Mountain City, where Inspector Xia’s actions had driven out the Shen Family.
• Mo Hua met Master Gu and confirmed that the Spirit Machinery and workers were ready for his plan to give Lone Mountain City’s independent cultivators a way to make a living.

Mo Hua coordinated construction of a vast compound array on Lone Mountain, using support from the Gu Family, the Dao Court Office, and Void Gate disciples to create work for impoverished cultivators. He then completed a furnace at the Artifact Refining Guild with a hidden Secondary Thunder Current Array, which would produce Magnetic Ink and Secondary Thunder Patterns for his research.

• Mo Hua completed the Lone Mountain Array Diagram, and Elder Xun corrected it before Mo Hua began construction with funding, machinery, and labor from several groups.
• Mo Hua brought Void Gate junior martial brothers to draw arrays at Lone Mountain, where they witnessed his extraordinary skill and helped complete the main formation in under ten days.
• The disciples saw the poverty of Lone Mountain City's independent cultivators, and Mo Hua explained how their work on the arrays could improve lives across generations.
• Mo Hua went to the Artifact Refining Guild and completed a massive furnace designed to refine Lone Mountain's ores.
• Mo Hua secretly inscribed the Second-Grade Twenty-Pattern Secondary Thunder Current Array onto the furnace, creating a Magnetic Ink Furnace that would record Secondary Thunder Patterns for his Thunder-Magnetic research.

Mo Hua finished arranging Lone Mountain City’s furnaces and left the city with its residents’ future entrusted to their own efforts. Back at Void Gate, he began studying a Second-Grade Reverse Spirit Array and set out to derive a Dragon Map himself, then fell asleep and dreamed of a dragon.

• Mo Hua completed the furnaces and gave Master Gu an array booklet, urging Lone Mountain City’s children to learn for the city and its cultivators rather than for personal gain.
• Mo Hua warned Master Gu that the mines and furnaces alone could not secure the city’s future, and insisted that its land and profits belonged collectively to its cultivators.
• Fan Jin thanked Mo Hua for helping him receive a promotion opportunity, and Mo Hua departed Lone Mountain City with Xun Ziyou.
• After returning to Void Gate, Mo Hua began comprehending the Second-Grade Twenty-Pattern Reverse Spirit Array and considered how it could help him face Golden Core cultivators.
• Mo Hua decided to derive his own Dragon Map from the Four Symbols Demon Patterns, but the Dragon Vein’s aura proved too dangerous to study directly.
• Mo Hua copied the demon patterns and began analyzing them; as the Dragon Vein warmed, he grew drowsy, fell asleep, and dreamed of a dragon.

Mo Hua entered the Great Wilderness Inheritance Dojo and refused to kneel before the Dragon Emperor, who tried to force him into submission. After defeating and killing the Dragon Emperor, Mo Hua separated its human soul from its Dragon Soul and swallowed the dragon.

• Mo Hua learned that the Dragon Hall was the Great Wilderness Inheritance Dojo and that he could receive the commoners' inheritance despite lacking imperial bloodline.
• When the Dragon Emperor demanded that Mo Hua kneel, Mo Hua resisted the hall's laws and confronted the Dragon Emperor after it insulted his parents.
• Mo Hua defeated the Dragon Emperor's generals, overturned the Dragon Platform, and trampled the Dragon Emperor beneath the throne.
• Mo Hua snapped the Dragon Emperor's neck and used his Heavenly Demon Sword to separate its human soul from its Dragon Soul.
• Mo Hua crushed the human soul and swallowed the pure Azure Dragon Soul.

Mo Hua devoured the Great Wilderness Dragon Soul, then learned from the dying Second Elder about a forbidden ancient array hidden in an evil god statue and promised to protect a remnant of the Great Wilderness bloodline. He awoke in the Disciple Quarters with the Dragon Vein and unfinished array patterns beside him, determined to pursue the ancient array.

• Mo Hua ground down and swallowed the Dragon Soul, terrifying the Great Wilderness ministers by burping with a Dragon Roar.
• Mo Hua recognized the Dragon Hall guide as the Demon Sect's Second Elder, who explained that he had survived as a remnant soul and had brought Mo Hua there hoping to bind him through the Dragon Emperor's worship rite.
• The Second Elder admitted he had plotted against Mo Hua and asked him to preserve a trace of the Great Wilderness Imperial Clan's bloodline in exchange for revealing an ancient array better suited to Mo Hua than the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array.
• The Second Elder revealed that the ancient array was carved inside a Human-Faced Goat-Horned White Bone Evil God Statue in a forbidden area in Gan Province, and that Mr. Tu did not know it was there.
• Mo Hua promised to help preserve the Great Wilderness bloodline, and the Second Elder vanished as the Dragon Hall and its ministers dissolved around Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua returned to the Disciple Quarters, where he found the Four Symbols Demon Pattern, the incomplete dragon pattern, and the Dragon Vein beside him.

Mo Hua turned over the Dragon Vein to Elder Xun and returned Lord Yellow Mountain’s Life-Bound Divine Statue to Withered Mountain. After hearing what Lord Yellow Mountain remembered about Lone Mountain and the path of Divine Thought, Mo Hua left with new questions to consider.

• Mo Hua wondered whether the Second Elder’s account of the Wilderness Ancient Array was a trap, then set aside the question and examined the Dragon Soul he had swallowed.
• Mo Hua found that the Dragon Soul had only left a faint trace of Dragon Qi in his Divine Sense, and he wrapped the unusable, dangerous Dragon Vein in Black Cloth.
• Mo Hua handed the Dragon Vein to Elder Xun, who agreed to store it in Void Gate until Mo Hua could handle it.
• Mo Hua and Xun Ziyou traveled to Withered Mountain, where Mo Hua returned Lord Yellow Mountain’s Life-Bound Divine Statue and Lord Yellow Mountain’s origin grew more substantial.
• Mo Hua shared food and wine with Lord Yellow Mountain and asked about Lone Mountain, the Void Gate senior who had severed it, and how Divine Thought could grow stronger.