Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua learned the Shugu Curse Technique’s causality-locking method and traced Elder You through an unpaid debt of 1.8 million spirit stones. He sent Bone Slaughter to attack Elder You’s stronghold in the Ghost Cry Mountain Realm and led Lugu and the troops in an assault on the Hua family’s central stronghold.

• Mo Hua studied the Shugu Curse Technique and learned how to lock onto targets through causality.
• Mo Hua struggled to recall his past in Ganxue Prefecture as his humanity eroded, then remembered that Elder You owed him 1.8 million spirit stones.
• Mo Hua used the debt as a concealed causality line to locate Elder You in the Ghost Cry Mountain Realm.
• Elder You sensed danger and prepared his protective treasures, but Bone Slaughter burst from underground and attacked him.
• Mo Hua ordered the attack, and Lugu led the heavily armored troops toward the Hua family’s central stronghold while Bone Slaughter fought Elder You.

Mo Hua’s forces seized the Hua Family stronghold while Elder You escaped after Bone Slaughter nearly killed him. Mo Hua took control of the site and gathered the Hua Family’s resources and Bone Carving inheritances to investigate their secrets.

• Elder You’s spells barely affected Bone Slaughter, which tore off his arm and nearly ripped out his Golden Core before three Black Robe Guards came to his aid.
• Elder You ordered the guards to capture Bone Slaughter, but it feigned exhaustion, devoured one guard’s Golden Core, and forced Elder You to flee.
• Elder You escaped through the burning stronghold and fled from Mo Hua’s forces, while Mo Hua chose not to pursue him.
• Mo Hua rode Big Tiger into the stronghold, where Ghost Cry Mountain cultivators submitted to him and the remaining Hua Family defenders surrendered.
• Mo Hua ordered Lugu and the others to gather the stronghold’s Spirit Stones and Bone Carving inheritances so he could investigate why the Hua Family had collected them.

Mo Hua discovered that the Hua Family had studied ways to strip human bones and meridians, then used his Divine Shaman authority to dismantle their Wilderness strongholds and collect Spirit Stones while preparing to nourish one meridian of his Taotie Spirit Bone Array. His pursuit of Elder You led to a clash with the returning Wujiu Young Master, which Mo Hua sensed might become the final battle to unify the Wilderness.

• Mo Hua found that the Hua Family had carefully studied human-bone carving methods that seemed intended to strip bones and meridians from the body.
• Lugu reported the stronghold's supplies and Spirit Stones, and Mo Hua kept half the stones for his cultivation while assigning the rest to Lugu and Danzhu for Wilderness preparations.
• After refining five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, Mo Hua decided to nourish only the first meridian of his Taotie Spirit Bone Array before forming his Golden Core, rather than drain the Wilderness of resources.
• Mo Hua pursued Elder You through multiple mountain realms, using the causal link between them to destroy Hua Family strongholds and seize their resources.
• Elder You realized Mo Hua was using him as bait to uncover Hua Family foundations and resolved to fight back rather than keep fleeing.
• Mo Hua tracked Elder You to a hiding place, where the Wujiu Young Master ambushed him with powerful forces; Mo Hua foresaw that their battle could decide the unification of the Wilderness.

Mo Hua’s Divine Shaman Army broke the Wujiu Alliance’s Monster Cavalry with a hundred armored Tiger Monsters and pushed into the Great Witch Wind Mountain Realm, but Hua Family supplies and the region’s terrain stalled the campaign. The Wujiu Young Master’s strength then shook Mo Hua’s forces, and a serious rebellion began to spread within the Divine Shaman faction.

• Mo Hua sent Big Tiger and a hundred armored Tiger Monsters against the Wujiu Tribe’s nearly thousand Monster Cavalry, whose beasts turned on their riders as the cavalry collapsed.
• Lugu rallied the Divine Shaman Army, which broke through the Great Witch Wind Mountain Realm’s gateway and advanced toward the Wujiu Tribe’s headquarters.
• The Hua Family supplied the Wujiu Tribe with provisions and armor, while fog, shaman winds, and difficult terrain trapped Mo Hua’s army in a prolonged stalemate.
• The Wujiu Young Master fought several battles and proved too powerful for Danzhu, Dan Lie, Lugu, and even Mo Hua’s Bone Slaughter to defeat.
• Fear of the Wujiu Young Master spread among Mo Hua’s followers, and wavering cultivators began plotting against the Divine Shaman faction in a rebellion that lasted for months.

Mo Hua suppressed rebellions within his forces and led the conquest of Wujiu Peak, where the Wujiu Young Master escaped but the Divine Shaman army won. As the war spread into the Wuji heartland, Tie Shugu uncovered an ancient forbidden ground that connected the Wuji Young Master’s Dragon Patterns and the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique to Mr. Tu.

• The Bifang grand elder and the Flame Wing Great Chieftain rebelled, but Mo Hua’s Divine Punishment weakened them and Dan Lie killed the Flame Wing leader.
• Dan Bie defected to the Wujiu Tribe, but Lugu captured him; Mo Hua spared him at Danzhu’s request while stripping him of his status as young master.
• Mo Hua used the rebellions and half a year of warfare to consolidate his forces and refine his causal deductions before launching the Battle of Wujiu Peak.
• The Wujiu Young Master broke through Mo Hua’s encirclement using the Great Wilderness Dragon Array, but Mo Hua’s army captured Wujiu Peak and advanced into the Great Witch Wind Mountain Realm.
• Tie Shugu met Mo Hua on a Wild Mountain and revealed that it was an ancient Wujiu forbidden ground tied to the Wujiu Young Master’s Dragon destiny.
• Mo Hua connected the Wujiu Young Master’s Dragon Patterns and the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique to Mr. Tu, sensing an old acquaintance’s presence within the mountain.

Mo Hua entered the ancient Wujiu forbidden ground to uncover the secrets behind the Great Wilderness disaster and found the Taotie Famine Disaster Array, a living grand array beyond his ability to comprehend. After steadying his Divine Thought with his remaining Humanity, he began tracing and studying its structure.

• Mo Hua placed the Wujiu Death Eye on the stone disk, opened the ancient gate, and entered the forbidden ground alone while Tie Shugu and Big Tiger stayed behind.
• Mo Hua crossed the ghost-filled halls and defeated the Demons guarding the way, recognizing them as creations of Mr. Tu.
• Mo Hua broke the Four Symbols Array and discovered blood-vessel-like Taotie Patterns spanning the hollowed mountain, identifying them as the Taotie Famine Disaster Array behind the Great Wilderness famine.
• Mo Hua failed to calculate the grand array and nearly lost control of his Divine Thought, but his remaining Humanity restored balance to his Divinity.
• Mo Hua followed the array's veins, recording its framework and beginning to study it with the curiosity of a novice.

Mo Hua explored the Taotie Famine Disaster Array, recognized it as a living array sustained by Ghostly Thought-Force, and discovered the demonized Mr. Tu inside. While searching Mr. Tu for the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique, Mo Hua found a gigantic, blood-red eye beneath the array and felt his own Taotie Spirit Bone Array begin to be assimilated.

• Mo Hua studied the Famine Disaster Array and connected its living-array principles to the Wild Heaven Blood Sacrifice Array, his Natal Array, and the Great Shaman’s synthetic beasts.
• Mo Hua continued deeper into the array, sensing that its Taotie laws treated him as one of their own because of the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array in his body.
• Mo Hua found the demonized Mr. Tu, whose body had become a vessel for the Ghost Daoist’s Ghostly Thought-Force and the array’s ongoing calculations.
• Mo Hua realized his senior uncle had manipulated Mr. Tu and weighed killing him, but held back to avoid awakening the Ghostly Thought-Force and jeopardizing his search for the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique.
• Mo Hua searched near Mr. Tu and saw a gigantic bloody eye beneath a crack in the ground, whose gaze made his Taotie Spirit Bone Array begin to be assimilated.

Mo Hua escaped the Taotie Eye’s attempt to assimilate him and encountered Mr. Tu, who warned him that a Ghostly Path power was waking. Mr. Tu gave Mo Hua a bloodstained Straw Dog before losing control, and Mo Hua fled as the Ghostly Thought-Force awakened.

• The Taotie Eye drew Mo Hua toward the fissure, but deathly qi from his Natal Array disrupted the assimilation and let him escape.
• Mo Hua discovered that Mr. Tu was lucid and learned that his martial uncle’s true body was beginning to awaken inside him.
• Mr. Tu told Mo Hua to flee and pulled a blue-green Straw Dog from his chest, entrusting it to him.
• Mo Hua took the Straw Dog and escaped through the grand array using Taotie Array Patterns to retrace his path.
• Mr. Tu struggled against the spreading black blood threads until his sanity vanished and the Ghostly Thought-Force awakened.

Mo Hua escaped the Wujiu Forbidden Ground after confronting the consequences of his Martial Uncle’s schemes, then examined Mr. Tu’s straw dog and began studying the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique. He asked Tie Shugu to weave a sacrificial straw dog, hoping to uncover the technique’s deeper secrets.

• Mr. Tu awakened within the Taotie Array, realized the array was protecting Mo Hua, and identified him as the Great Wilderness’ Divine Shaman.
• Mo Hua fled the Taotie Array, sealed the Wujiu Forbidden Ground, and ordered Tie Shugu to prevent anyone from entering.
• Mo Hua considered his Martial Uncle’s influence over the Wilderness and concluded that Mr. Tu had used the straw dog as a last attempt to escape the Ghostly Path’s control.
• Mo Hua examined the straw dog and discovered that its woven grass incorporated subtle Causality Lines, though he could not discern its deeper mysteries.
• Tie Shugu explained that ancient Great Wilderness people had woven straw figures for offerings before later turning to living sacrifices, then agreed to weave a sacrificial straw dog for Mo Hua.

Mo Hua studied the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique, discovered that straw dogs contained a replica of the human Twelve Meridians, and tried to transfer a minor curse onto one. After repeated failures, he realized the technique’s vessel—the Human-Clothing Grass itself—might hold a crucial secret and called Tie Shugu back.

• Tie Shugu taught Mo Hua how to weave a straw dog from Human-Clothing Grass, and Mo Hua quickly copied his method.
• Mo Hua dismantled his straw dog and found that its hidden nodes formed the human Twelve Meridians, leading him to infer how a straw dog could be bound to a person’s life.
• Mo Hua wove a new straw dog using his essence blood to trace his meridians, but Tie Shugu’s minor Hair-Loss Curse affected Mo Hua without harming the straw dog.
• Mo Hua spent days studying and weaving straw dogs, yet failed to make one transfer even a minor disaster and realized his method consumed too little Divine Sense.
• Mo Hua reconsidered the importance of vessels and Human-Clothing Grass, then asked Big Tiger to summon Tie Shugu.

Mo Hua searched for a grass medium that could let him master the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique, exhausting himself before realizing the technique required the most humble wild grasses. He successfully wove his fate into a straw dog, while Tie Shugu privately declared him the most suitable candidate.

• Mo Hua ordered Tie Shugu to gather Human-Clothing Grass varieties, then tested them with Tie Shugu’s advice, but none could bear his causality.
• Mo Hua had Tie Shugu find other rare ancient grasses and kept testing them until depleted blood and vitality made him faint.
• After recovering with Big Tiger’s help, Mo Hua reflected on his own frailty and the humble lives of independent cultivators, then realized the technique required ordinary wild grasses rather than precious plants.
• Mo Hua wove straw dogs from the lowliest grasses, binding his Fate to the straw dog and deepening his grasp of causality.
• Tie Shugu secretly offered incense at an empty altar and said Mo Hua was the one most like the figure he addressed and the most suitable candidate.

Mo Hua completed the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Technique and returned to the war at Wujiu Peak, where he killed the Wujiu Young Master with the Void God-Slaying Sword and transferred the resulting Fate Balefulness to a straw dog. The Wujiu Alliance collapsed, and the Wilderness was unified, though the Divine Shaman camp also began to fear Mo Hua.

• Mo Hua finished weaving a Life-Art Straw Dog, gaining a way to transfer causality and bear the backlash from killing.
• The Wujiu Alliance drove the Divine Shaman Army back to Wujiu Peak, where both sides gathered their forces for a decisive battle.
• The Wujiu Young Master fought through the Divine Shaman defenders and confronted Mo Hua, declaring that he would kill him.
• Mo Hua used the Void God-Slaying Sword to erase the Wujiu Young Master's soul, while the straw dog absorbed the resulting Fate Balefulness.
• The Wujiu Alliance lost heart and fled after its leader died, and the Battle of Wujiu Peak ended with the Wilderness unified.
• The Divine Shaman camp also began to fear Mo Hua after witnessing his power.

After unifying the Wilderness, Mo Hua reformed its society, suppressed rebellions backed by the Hua Family, and returned to the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm to prepare for Core Formation. As he weighed the limits imposed by his Spirit Root and cultivation technique, he remained unconcerned about forming only a mid-low-grade Golden Core.

• Mo Hua abolished the Barbarian Slave system, expanded faith in the God Lord, built academies, and accelerated construction of the Thick Earth Grand Array.
• The Hua Family backed rebel forces, and Lugu struggled to suppress uprisings while Mo Hua was occupied with reforms.
• Mo Hua joined the campaigns with Bone Slaughter and the reanimated Wujiu Young Master, routed the rebels, and restored a brief peace.
• Mo Hua returned to the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm and prepared to form his core after nurturing the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian as his Natal Array Formation.
• Mo Hua considered how Spirit Roots and cultivation techniques constrained Core Grade and accepted that his Golden Core could be no better than mid-low-grade.

Mo Hua secretly began forming his Golden Core in the Vermilion Bird Temple, fearing that the breakthrough would strengthen his Divinity and erase his humanity. His enemies stormed the temple as his allies fought to protect him, and the attackers advanced toward his secluded chamber.

• Mo Hua resolved to risk forming a Golden Core despite fearing that his Divinity might overwhelm his human self.
• In the second month of the Fourteenth Year of the New Great Wilderness Calendar, Mo Hua began forming his Golden Core in secret beneath the Vermilion Bird Temple.
• After seven days, a golden aura signaled that Mo Hua's Golden Core was about to condense, and black-robed Golden Core Cultivators attacked the temple.
• Lugu exposed an Angu General, Dan Lie confronted the Fire Eagle Great Chieftain, and Danzhu fought Bi Jie as each attacker questioned Mo Hua's rule and transformation.
• Wujiu Great Chieftain and Elder You joined the assault, and the attackers broke through the temple defenses toward Mo Hua's chamber.

Mo Hua’s enemies stormed the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple while he formed his Golden Core, battling his defenders and breaking through to the Divine Shaman Main Hall. They found no sign of Mo Hua there, only a mocking Straw Dog on his meditation cushion.

• Angu General and the black-robed cultivators entered the Inner Palace, where Mo Hua’s disintegration arrays crippled intruders and Bone Slaughter devoured their Golden Cores.
• Wujiu Great Chieftain broke past Bone Slaughter and fought his son’s corpse until Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu helped seal it, revealing that Yan Zhu intended to stop Mo Hua’s breakthrough.
• Wujiu Great Chieftain led the rebels against Big Tiger and the tiger monsters guarding the Divine Shaman Main Hall as the two forces fought a bloody battle.
• The rebels broke through the arrays and defenders and stormed the main hall, but Elder You’s Compass pointed only to a Straw Dog on Mo Hua’s meditation cushion.

Mo Hua used a straw dog to divert the killing tribulation while he formed his Golden Core, but powerful forces across the Wilderness and Dao Province struck through Karma and shattered his core. True Person Feather Transformation then sealed his Divine Consciousness and carried him away, leaving the Divine Shaman Lord missing.

• Wujiu Great Chieftain, Elder You, and Yan Zhu discovered Mo Hua’s straw-dog substitute in the Vermilion Bird Divine Temple, and Elder You had the Money Mouse destroy it.
• Mo Hua began forming his Golden Core in a remote cave, using his prepared Natal Array and a second straw dog to draw danger away from him.
• As Mo Hua’s Golden Core took shape, powerful figures across the Wilderness and Dao Province sent karmic attacks toward him, destroying the second straw dog and shattering his newly formed core.
• Mo Hua stabilized his damaged cultivation with pills and his remaining Divine Thought, then tried to flee the cave.
• True Person Feather Transformation appeared, sealed Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness and Divinity with a Golden Needle, and carried him away through a screen.

After Divine Shaman Lord disappeared, Danzhu resolved to uphold Mo Hua’s teachings and protect the Wilderness through the turmoil that followed. In an unknown prison, Mo Hua slowly regained his senses and learned that a True Person had captured him and brought him back to Ancient Li Prefecture, where the captors discussed his identity and the losses he had caused.

• Danzhu remembered Mo Hua’s advice to follow his own Dao Heart and vowed to preserve the Divine Path and guide the Wilderness in his master’s absence.
• Big Tiger mourned beside Divine Shaman Lord’s empty throne, hoping Mo Hua would return.
• Mo Hua began recovering in an unknown prison and recognized the guards’ accents as those of the Nine Provinces when they mentioned Ancient Li Prefecture.
• The prisoners identified Mo Hua as Divine Shaman Lord and debated how a young Foundation Establishment cultivator could have unified the Wilderness and harmed the Hua Family’s interests.
• A gorgeously robed True Person appeared in the prison and turned his attention toward Mo Hua.

After his Golden Core breakthrough failed, Mo Hua awoke imprisoned by the Hua Family, his Divine Consciousness and memories damaged. As his memories returned and his Divinity faded, he resolved to survive and distance himself from the Divine Shaman identity while remaining wary of the Hua Family’s intentions.

• True Person Hua Robe questioned Mo Hua about his name and the Divine Path, then left without receiving answers.
• True Person Hua Robe reviewed Elder Ge’s Jade Slip and wondered whether Mo Hua was truly the Divine Shaman, considering how to uncover his secrets.
• Mo Hua recovered his name and memories, realized his Divinity had shattered with his Golden Core, and felt his Humanity returning.
• Mo Hua assessed his injuries, confirmed his important possessions were safe in his Storage Ring, and accepted that he needed to survive captivity in the Hua Family’s hands.
• The Hua Family gradually eased Mo Hua’s confinement and tended his injuries, but Mo Hua suspected they were preparing to exploit him.
• Mo Hua resolved to correct the Divine Shaman’s lingering habits and separate himself from the identity of the Divine Shaman of the Great Wilderness.

Mo Hua was kept prisoner by the Hua Family, who force-fed him restorative Pills so he would recover enough to be dissected for research. True Person Hua brought him to a hall full of powerful clan members, leaving Mo Hua to face an unknown gathering.

• Mo Hua deliberately slowed his recovery, but True Person Hua took him to a blood-filled chamber where Bandage Persons prepared to dissect him.
• A Bandage Person judged Mo Hua too frail to survive repeated dissections and advised True Person Hua to nourish him first.
• True Person Hua forced Mo Hua to take restorative Pills, and Mo Hua realized the Hua Family intended to investigate him and the Divine Shaman through dissection.
• Mo Hua suspected the Hua Family was using the Great Wilderness's wars and Bone-Carving Method to conduct research on corpses and cultivators.
• True Person Hua later took Mo Hua to an unfamiliar assembly hall, where powerful cultivators from Great Clans stared at him in his prison clothes and shackles.

Mo Hua was brought before noble heirs who challenged the Hua Family’s claim that he was the Divine Shaman and tried to seize him for interrogation. As tensions rose between True Person Hua and the other cultivators, Mo Hua claimed he was a disciple of Void Gate after hearing True Person Zhuge mention it, and declared that Zhuge was from the same sect.

• The Golden-Clad Noble Young Master and other heirs doubted that Mo Hua was the Divine Shaman and demanded that the Hua Family hand him over for torture and interrogation.
• True Person Qingmu recognized Mo Hua’s Yi Wood aura, pressed him about his cultivation, and tried to take him, while True Person Hua blocked him.
• True Person Zhuge refused to join the dispute, saying that he had studied at Void Gate in Gan Province rather than receiving his enlightenment in the Dao Prefecture.
• Mo Hua suddenly claimed he remembered being a disciple of Void Gate and announced that he and True Person Zhuge belonged to the same sect.