Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua visited Fortune Pavilion with Xiao Ju to secure work as an Array Master and travel funds. After proving his Second-Grade High-Level credentials, he accepted several lucrative commissions and persuaded Shopkeeper Zhao to advance him five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, while learning that Third-Grade commissions required a Tianshu Ring.

• Mo Hua entered Fortune Pavilion with Xiao Ju and went to the Array Technique counter, where he revealed his Golden Core pressure and Second-Grade High-Level Tianshu Ring to Shopkeeper Zhao.
• Shopkeeper Zhao verified Mo Hua's ring and explained that Fortune Pavilion relied on Tianshu Rings to certify Array Masters and bind contracts.
• Mo Hua chose several expensive Second-Grade High-Level Array Technique commissions and signed a short-term Spirit Contract using his Tianshu Ring.
• Mo Hua asked about Third-Grade commissions for his senior sister, and Shopkeeper Zhao explained that a Third-Grade Tianshu Ring was required.
• Mo Hua requested an advance on his payment, and Shopkeeper Zhao agreed to provide five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, astonishing Xiao Ju.

Mo Hua borrowed five hundred thousand Spirit Stones from Shopkeeper Zhao, cared for Xiao Ju’s Orange Tree, and began feeding Spirit Stones to his Taotie Spirit Remains. True Person Rong sensed the savage aura of Mo Hua’s cultivation and sealed the Small Blessed Land to contain it.

• Shopkeeper Zhao advanced Mo Hua five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, explaining that Fortune Pavilion could not sell Third-Grade earth-element Array Techniques because the Earth Sect controlled them.
• Mo Hua and Xiao Ju bought Spirit Planting books and Spirit Liquid, then returned to the Small Blessed Land, where True Person Rong warned them to come back earlier.
• Mo Hua gave Bai Zixi Candied Hawthorn, then read about Spirit Planting and set up nourishing arrays for Xiao Ju’s still-un sprouted Orange Tree.
• Mo Hua set aside seventy thousand Spirit Stones and began refining the remaining four hundred thousand to strengthen his Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array.
• True Person Rong sensed Mo Hua’s fierce new aura and activated the Small Blessed Land’s array to keep its energy from escaping.

Mo Hua used hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones to awaken a second Taotie Spirit Remains and tested how it sustained an unbroken barrage of Five Elements spells. After considering how to strengthen his combat abilities at Golden Core, he began developing a Third-Grade Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique.

• Mo Hua spent four hundred thousand Spirit Stones nurturing the Hand Taiyin Pericardium Meridian, awakening its spirit remains to about one-fifth completion.
• Mo Hua tested his Taotie Spirit Remains in a training room, using its spiritual power to continue casting spells after his Golden Core ran dry.
• Mo Hua's sustained Five Elements barrage briefly disrupted the Spell Puppet's internal arrays, showing the suppressive force of his rapid spellcasting.
• Mo Hua considered sparring with Junior Martial Sister but decided against it and instead remembered the Meteor Fire Technique.
• Mo Hua reviewed Fire Buddha's manual and his old research, then began deducing spell forms and Spirit Power Fusion for a Third-Grade Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique.

Mo Hua’s calculations for the Third-Grade Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique failed to account for the power of his Golden Core and spiritual sense, and his test wrecked the training room while injuring his arms. After recovering, he delivered Shopkeeper Zhao’s Array Technique commission and accepted more work to repay his advance.

• Mo Hua developed a preliminary model for the Third-Grade Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique and tested it in the training room, where the spell exploded and left the room in ruins.
• True Person Rong found that the blast had knocked Array Patterns out of alignment inside the Mystic Jade Puppet, while Bai Zixi treated Mo Hua’s injured arms and told him they were grown up and should know their limits.
• True Person Rong blacklisted Mo Hua from the training room, so he recovered for several days and put his forbidden-technique research on hold.
• Mo Hua remembered Shopkeeper Zhao’s commission, completed its Second-Grade High-Tier Array Techniques, and delivered them to Fortune Pavilion before the deadline.
• Shopkeeper Zhao praised Mo Hua’s work and, believing he had labored over it for a month, gave him more commissions after Mo Hua said he wanted to repay the remaining advance.

Mo Hua rapidly completed Fortune Pavilion commissions and paid off his debt, but he still needed far more Spirit Stones to feed his array. Shopkeeper Zhao finally brought him into a sealed chamber and asked whether he would risk going underground.

• Mo Hua finished successive batches of commissions for Shopkeeper Zhao, repaid his five-hundred-thousand-Spirit-Stone debt, and earned a further hundred and seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• Mo Hua kept asking for work, but Shopkeeper Zhao explained that high-tier Second-Grade commissions were scarce and Fortune Pavilion could not give him Third-Grade orders without the required ring.
• Mo Hua returned to Small Blessed Land, shared candied hawthorn with Xiao Ju and Bai Zixi, and continued practicing while worrying over his Spirit Stone shortage.
• Mo Hua repeatedly visited Fortune Pavilion for commissions, and Shopkeeper Zhao eventually dismissed everyone and led him into a heavily sealed Secret Chamber.
• Shopkeeper Zhao asked whether Mo Hua was willing to go into the earth, and Mo Hua froze in surprise.

Mo Hua considered Shopkeeper Zhao’s secretive offer to join a tomb-diving expedition, divined an unclear result, and decided to go despite the danger. Meanwhile, Situ Fang and Situ Xiu set out to bring the Great Wilderness Imperial Clan’s child to Mo Hua’s family in Immortal City, while Mo Hua left to meet the expedition group.

• Shopkeeper Zhao offered Mo Hua a place in a risky, profitable expedition beneath the earth and gave him three days to decide while warning him to keep it secret.
• Mo Hua used Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination to assess the expedition but got an unclear result, then tried and failed to divine the fate of Qing Zhu’s child.
• Situ Fang and Situ Xiu, fleeing the chaos in the Great Wilderness with the child, decided to travel to Immortal City and entrust him to Mo Hua’s family.
• Mo Hua chose to join the expedition and said goodbye to True Person Rong, Xiao Ju, and Bai Zixi.
• Mo Hua went to Fortune Pavilion, where Shopkeeper Zhao began introducing him to the people who would go into the earth.

Mo Hua joined Old Mo’s crew on an expedition to find a hidden tomb outside Houtu City. Old Mo revealed that the abandoned village concealed the real burial place of a powerful Golden Core cultivator who had evaded the Dao Court’s Corpse Dissolution decree.

• Shopkeeper Zhao introduced Mo Hua to Old Mo, Dashan, scholar, and Qian Jin, warned the crew to protect him, and told Mo Hua to avoid their schemes.
• The group prayed to Ksitigarbha before setting out, but Mo Hua’s incense snapped, leaving Shopkeeper Zhao worried that it foretold danger.
• Mo Hua and the others traveled through Houtu City’s impoverished outskirts to an abandoned village, where Old Mo sent the crew to search for the tomb entrance.
• Old Mo explained that the village’s residents had left for Houtu City as it expanded, while the crew searched for the grave of an outsider buried in the area.
• Old Mo told Mo Hua that the hidden tomb belonged to a powerful cultivator who had evaded Corpse Dissolution by concealing the true corpse in a fake-tomb scheme.

Mo Hua joined Old Mo and the others on an expedition to rob the hidden tomb of a Kun Province Golden Core who had evaded Corpse Dissolution. After they entered the tomb, Mo Hua was asked to identify weak points in its arrays, a task he pretended would be difficult despite his greater abilities.

• Old Mo told Mo Hua that the tomb likely belonged to an influential Kun Province Golden Core who had evaded Corpse Dissolution, and Mo Hua agreed to continue despite the dangers.
• The scholar used the Compass to locate the tomb, and Dashan dug through its stone wall while Mo Hua searched the wasteland for suitable wild grass.
• Dashan opened an entrance, and Old Mo led the group into the tomb after checking the air and assigning everyone their places.
• The scholar guided the group past mechanisms until they reached a wall covered by interconnected arrays, where Old Mo asked Mo Hua to help.
• Mo Hua claimed he could not unravel the Third-Grade arrays, and Old Mo explained that he only needed to mark their weak points for Dashan to break through.
• Old Mo offered Mo Hua an extra ten percent of the Spirit Stones, and Mo Hua agreed to do his best while concealing how easy the task was for him.

Mo Hua helped Old Mo’s group break into a tomb and uncover its burial goods, then noticed a hidden stone in a Floor Palace Lamp. Old Mo recognized it as a Heaven Crystal, leaving the group stunned by their discovery.

• Mo Hua identified weak points in the stone wall’s array, and Dashan destroyed them so the scholar could dismantle the mechanisms.
• Old Mo unlocked the Bronze Tomb Gate, and Dashan lifted it open so the group could enter the main tomb chamber.
• Old Mo warned Qian Jin not to approach the gilded coffin, and the group gathered burial goods worth an estimated four or five hundred thousand Spirit Stones per person.
• Old Mo examined the tomb’s records but could not identify its owner, while the group debated whether to open the coffin.
• Mo Hua pointed out something embedded atop a Floor Palace Lamp, and Dashan dug out a glowing stone that Old Mo identified as a Heaven Crystal.

Old Mo and the others discovered four Heaven Crystals hidden in the Floor Palace Lamps, then opened the coffin hoping to find greater treasures. The coffin was empty, and Old Mo identified the tomb as an Earth Sect tomb whose hidden Array Technique might bring the dead back to life.

• Old Mo explained that the Heaven Crystal he found was a crystallization of Innate Spiritual Energy, valued for breakthroughs above Feather Transformation.
• Mo Hua pointed out that the four Floor Palace Lamps might each contain a Heaven Crystal, and Dashan, the scholar, and Qian Jin found the other three.
• Old Mo promised to divide the Heaven Crystals with Mo Hua later, then decided to open the coffin despite Mo Hua's apparent warnings.
• Old Mo and the others prepared safeguards, confirmed the tomb's Array Patterns were ineffective, and opened the coffin, only to find it empty.
• Old Mo identified the site as an Earth Sect tomb and said its secret Array Technique could potentially bring the dead back to life, shocking Mo Hua.

Mo Hua and the others entered the Earth Sect tomb, where Mo Hua secretly studied and recorded its Earth Arrays before opening the main tomb door. As they entered, Old Mo killed Qian Jin over the Heaven Crystals and handed one to Mo Hua.

• Old Mo and the others chose to descend into the tomb, and Dashan smashed through the coffin to reveal a deeper passage.
• Mo Hua realized the tomb’s structure had blocked his earlier divination and recognized the Earth Arrays protecting the next tomb door.
• Mo Hua secretly recorded the Earth Arrays, then marked their hubs so Dashan could break them and open the door.
• The group entered the bloodlit passage toward the main tomb, with Mo Hua walking near the front.
• Old Mo noticed Qian Jin had no shadow, stabbed him to death, took his Heaven Crystal, and offered it to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua and the tomb raiders continued through a dangerous mechanism passage, where the scholar used his Mechanism Arts to guide them. Illusion Powder made the scholar lose control near the exit, and after Mo Hua briefly snapped him out of it, a sachet lured him into the traps and killed him; Old Mo stood safely on the other side with a Storage Bag hidden in his robes.

• Old Mo, Dashan, and the scholar accepted Qian Jin’s death, while Mo Hua kept the Heaven Crystal and continued deeper into the tomb with them.
• The scholar identified a Third-Grade Mechanism Array and calculated a safe route through the passage, leading the others step by step.
• Near the passage’s end, the scholar discovered Illusion Powder and sent a Mechanism Mouse ahead while the group used items to steady their minds.
• Dashan faltered at the exit, so Mo Hua kicked him to safety; Mo Hua then used a faint Soul-Startling Sword to briefly wake the scholar.
• A pink sachet lured the scholar into a wrong step, triggering the passage’s mechanisms and killing him as Mo Hua watched.
• Old Mo silently hid a Storage Bag in his robes and looked calmly at Mo Hua from the far side of the passage.

Mo Hua watched Old Mo kill Dashan after revealing that Old Mo had secretly orchestrated the scholar’s death. Old Mo kept the Heaven Crystals and refused to open the final tomb door, leaving Mo Hua alone with him in the tomb.

• Dashan woke and learned that the scholar had died in the mechanism passage, then agreed to continue toward the final tomb door with Mo Hua and Old Mo.
• Old Mo and Dashan failed to lift the heavy tomb door, and Dashan suddenly attacked Old Mo, accusing him of killing the scholar and stealing his Storage Bag.
• Dashan and Old Mo fought, but Old Mo’s poisoned dagger eventually wounded Dashan and killed him.
• Old Mo revealed that he had secretly been a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, took Dashan’s Storage Bag, and told Mo Hua he would not open the tomb door because he was content with the three Heaven Crystals.

Mo Hua persuaded Old Mo to open the Earth Sect tomb’s burial chamber, then discovered a mutilated corpse in the coffin. Old Mo stabbed what he thought was Mo Hua, but the figure dissolved into mist, and the chapter ended with the corpse sitting up behind him.

• Old Mo offered Mo Hua a poisonous pill and promised wealth and women in exchange for joining him, but Mo Hua insisted that Old Mo open the coffin first.
• Mo Hua used Spirit Ink to dismantle the tomb door’s Array Technique, and Old Mo opened the door with his Mechanism Arm.
• Mo Hua and Old Mo entered the burial chamber, where Old Mo opened the coffin and found a mutilated corpse inside.
• Old Mo stabbed Mo Hua from behind, but Mo Hua’s body dissolved into watery mist and he reappeared unharmed at a distance.
• Old Mo asked whether Mo Hua was human or a ghost, then saw the corpse sit up and stare at him.

Old Mo was trapped by Mo Hua and the Tomb Master Zombie, then died after the zombie tore him apart. Mo Hua killed the zombie with a command, collected the Heaven Crystals and clues from the tomb, and began searching the zombie’s opened abdomen for a hidden secret.

• Old Mo used fire powder and Talismans to wound the Tomb Master Zombie, but Mo Hua’s restraints prevented him from escaping.
• Old Mo pleaded with Mo Hua to spare him, then succumbed to Corpse Poison and was eaten alive by the Tomb Master Zombie.
• Mo Hua pointed at the Tomb Master Zombie and commanded it to die, instantly extinguishing its life as Old Mo watched.
• Mo Hua found the Earth Coffin empty, retrieved Old Mo’s Storage Bags and the three remaining Heaven Crystals, and gathered the others’ belongings and tomb Array Techniques.
• After searching the tomb chamber and finding no valuable inheritance, Mo Hua sensed he had missed something and began probing the Tomb Master Zombie’s opened abdomen.

After returning from the underground expedition, Mo Hua collected an advance of one and a half million Spirit Stones from Shopkeeper Zhao and went to the market to buy gifts. There he encountered a hostile White-Clad Cultivator whose identity and connection to him remained unclear, and Mo Hua headed home wondering about their Karma.

• Mo Hua gave Shopkeeper Zhao a Heaven Crystal, accepted one and a half million Spirit Stones in advance, and bathed before leaving Fortune Pavilion.
• Shopkeeper Zhao wondered how Mo Hua had survived the tomb and obtained the Heaven Crystal, then reassured himself that Mo Hua must have been fortunate.
• Mo Hua went to the market to buy sweets for his junior martial sister and oranges for Xiao Ju, where he noticed the White-Clad Cultivator staring at him with hostility.
• The White-Clad Cultivator tried to outbid Mo Hua for the oranges, but fled after sensing Mo Hua's killing intent.
• Mo Hua bought the oranges, found no sign of the White-Clad Cultivator following him, and wondered who the man was and how they were connected.

Mo Hua returned to Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land with spoils from an underground tomb, shared his gains with Bai Zixi, and began studying the Earth Sect’s hidden Array Techniques. His quiet days ended when the boastful White-Clad Cultivator appeared in Bai Zixi’s courtyard and addressed her as his Great-aunt.

• True Person Rong gave Mo Hua Clear Bath Powder to wash away the deathly qi he had brought back from underground.
• Mo Hua offered Bai Zixi three Heaven Crystals, but she returned them and told him to save them until he neared Feather Transformation.
• Mo Hua examined a strange Array Pattern on a bone shard and copied three Single Arrays from an incomplete Compound Earth Array, deciding to study them in secret.
• Mo Hua studied the Earth Arrays, fed a million Spirit Stones to his Spirit Skeleton, and kept the Heaven Crystals for later.
• The White-Clad Cultivator arrived in Bai Zixi’s courtyard and challenged Mo Hua’s presence in the Blessed Land.
• Bai Zixi emerged, and the White-Clad Cultivator bowed to her and called her his Great-aunt.

Mo Hua met Bai Xiaosheng, who struggled to understand Mo Hua’s relationship with Bai Zixi, then settled the proceeds from the tomb with Shopkeeper Zhao. As a distinguished guest left Fortune Pavilion, a beautiful woman recognized Mo Hua and angrily called him out.

• Mo Hua realized Bai Xiaosheng had lost a bet on him at the Ganxue Sword Debate Assembly, and Bai Xiaosheng fled after questioning Mo Hua’s relationship with Bai Zixi.
• Mo Hua continued cultivating with Bai Zixi until the agreed day to discuss payment with Shopkeeper Zhao arrived.
• Shopkeeper Zhao showed Mo Hua the sales ledger, paid him another two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and gave him an encrypted Message Token.
• Mo Hua and Shopkeeper Zhao stepped aside as a group of distinguished guests left Fortune Pavilion.
• A beautiful woman recognized Mo Hua, turned back, and angrily called him the one surnamed Mo.

Mo Hua encountered Lu Zhenlong at Fortune Pavilion, where she threatened to take him to the Lu Family over an old grudge, then later learned that she had begun targeting him. When Wu, Jin, and Zhu clan heirs challenged him in Houtu City, Mo Hua agreed to spar with Young Master Wu for fifty thousand Spirit Stones.

• Lu Zhenlong confronted Mo Hua at Fortune Pavilion, accused him of an old offense, and ordered her guards to seize him before a Golden-Robed Elder dismissed the crowd and led her away.
• Shopkeeper Zhao escorted Mo Hua out, and Mo Hua slipped away from the people watching him.
• In a carriage, Lu Zhenlong learned that Mo Hua earned Spirit Stones by drawing Array Techniques and vowed to make him pay for what happened between them.
• Several days later, Young Master Wu and other Great Clan heirs blocked Mo Hua in the street and claimed they wanted justice for Lu Zhenlong, but they could not attack him because fighting was forbidden in Houtu City.
• Young Master Wu persuaded Mo Hua to spar at a Dao Field, and Mo Hua agreed after raising the stake to fifty thousand Spirit Stones.

Mo Hua defeated Jin An, Zhu Xian, and Wu Gui in private duels at the Sword Discussion Arena, winning 150,000 Spirit Stones. He returned to Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, filled his second Taotie Spirit Remains, and found that the third would require about four million Spirit Stones.

• Wu Gui, Jin An, and Zhu Xian challenged Mo Hua to private duels, and Mo Hua set the stakes at 50,000 Spirit Stones per match.
• Jin An and Zhu Xian each lost quickly to Mo Hua and could not explain how he had defeated them.
• Wu Gui lost when Mo Hua repeatedly struck him with Fireball Technique before he could counter, and Mo Hua collected all 150,000 Spirit Stones in stakes.
• Mo Hua declined to fight Wu Gui again without new stakes, encouraged the three young masters to challenge him another time, and returned to Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land.
• Mo Hua spent 600,000 Spirit Stones to fill his second Taotie Spirit Remains and estimated that the third would require about four million Spirit Stones.