Recaps

Mr. Zhuang explained that Mo Hua’s unusually strong divine sense made the Heavenly Derivation Art’s bottleneck increasingly difficult, requiring him to exceed the Qi Refining limit before he could unravel the next Riddle Array. The chapter left Mo Hua understanding that he must reach Foundation Establishment-level divine sense before he can become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua that the Heavenly Derivation Art’s bottleneck grew stronger with divine sense, while its benefits also increased.
• Mr. Zhuang explained that the more complex arrays Mo Hua unraveled, the more his divine sense control would improve, speeding up his array drawing and spellcasting.
• Mr. Zhuang said that Qi Refining divine sense could reach Nine-Pattern, while Foundation Establishment divine sense was Ten-Pattern and twice as strong.
• Mo Hua realized he needed to possess Foundation Establishment-level divine sense to unravel the Riddle Array and break through the Heavenly Derivation Art’s bottleneck.

Mo Hua learned that reaching Foundation Establishment might require strengthening his unusually powerful divine sense, so Mr. Zhuang gave him Array Dissection theories and an incomplete Reverse Spirit Array to study. As Mo Hua began practicing, Mr. Zhuang revealed his hope that the Heavenly Derivation Art could let him achieve Foundation Establishment Divine Sense before Foundation Establishment.

• Mo Hua asked how to strengthen his divine sense, and Mr. Zhuang warned him against relying on dangerous Visualization Diagrams.
• Mr. Zhuang gave Mo Hua a manual on Array Dissection and a Reverse Spirit Array with nine and a half patterns, explaining that its complete ten-pattern form was a Heavenly Dao anomaly.
• Mr. Zhuang explained that Array Dissection could train divine sense, covertly break arrays, and shake an Array Master's Dao Heart.
• Mo Hua took the materials to study, while Mr. Zhuang and Old Kui discussed whether he could gain Foundation Establishment Divine Sense before Foundation Establishment.
• Mr. Zhuang said the Heavenly Derivation Art was worth any price if it could break through, and watched Mo Hua with expectation.

Mo Hua studied array dissection and practiced the Reverse Spirit Array to strengthen his divine sense as he prepared for Foundation Establishment. After demonstrating that his improved Movement Technique let him evade Mo Shan, he won permission to enter the Inner Mountain.

• Mo Hua reviewed array dissection theory, then began learning the Reverse Spirit Array and practiced it on the Dao Stele to temper his divine sense.
• After practicing through the night, Mo Hua found that the Reverse Spirit Array strengthened his divine sense more effectively than his previous methods.
• Mo Hua decided he needed Late First-Grade Monster Blood from the Inner Mountain to improve the quality of his Spirit Ink, and asked Mo Shan for permission to go there.
• Mo Shan challenged Mo Hua to evade him in a spar, and Mo Hua used his Flowing Water Step to avoid being caught for most of the hour.
• Mo Shan concluded ordinary Ninth-Layer Qi Refining cultivators could not catch Mo Hua and agreed to let him enter the Inner Mountain.

Mo Hua received a special Monster Hunting Token from Elder Yu and entered Great Black Mountain’s Inner Mountain with Mo Shan to learn its terrain. After mapping the main paths, he began setting up Sinan arrays to help himself and the Monster Hunters navigate and detect danger.

• Elder Yu gave Mo Hua a Monster Hunting Token made from the center of a Bone Tree and explained how the tokens recorded Monster Hunters’ merits.
• Mo Hua entered the Inner Mountain with Mo Shan, carrying pills and supplies to protect himself from the stronger miasma and poison.
• Mo Shan guided Mo Hua along the main mountain paths and warned him about the shifting fog and the danger of unfamiliar routes.
• Mo Hua spent about half a month learning the Inner Mountain’s terrain and adding details to its topographical map.
• Mo Hua asked Monster Hunters to help place Stone Needles for two Sinan Parent-Child Compound Array sets, and Yu Chengyi welcomed the added safety and coordination.

Mo Hua joined Yu Chengyi, Mo Shan, and six Monster Hunters to hunt a Late First-Grade Red-Eyed Sheep Monster using his reusable Earth Fire Array Compasses. The team killed the monster with an ambush and coordinated attacks, demonstrating the array’s power.

• Yu Chengyi led the team into the Inner Mountain, where Mo Hua used a Topographical Map to locate the Red-Eyed Sheep Monster beyond the range of the hunters’ divine sense.
• Mo Hua explained that Master Chen had refined iron Compasses to serve as reusable mediums for his Earth Fire Arrays.
• The Monster Hunters set traps with three array Compasses, baited the sheep monster with Monster-Scented Grass, and waited as it tested the trap before returning.
• Yu Chengyi fired an arrow that shattered the Spirit Stones and activated all three Earth Fire Arrays, grievously injuring the Red-Eyed Sheep Monster.
• The eight Monster Hunters surrounded the injured monster and took turns attacking until it fell in less than half an hour.

The Monster Hunters killed a Red-Eyed Sheep demon after Mo Hua exposed its feigned death with Fireball Techniques. Back at camp, Mo Hua improved the array on the gate and showed Yu Chengyi the Earth Fire Array compass, which promised safer hunts despite its crude appearance.

• Mo Shan recognized that the wounded Red-Eyed Sheep demon was feigning death, and the Monster Hunters waited for it to weaken.
• Mo Hua repeatedly struck the demon with Fireball Techniques until it rose, prompting Yu Chengyi to order the Monster Hunters to attack and then scatter from its blood mist.
• The Monster Hunters killed the exhausted demon, and Mo Hua collected its blood and learned how its demonic power changed after death.
• Back at camp, Mo Hua painted a first-grade Earth Stone Array on the stone gate using the demon's blood.
• Yu Chengyi praised the reusable Earth Fire Array compass, and Mo Hua explained that it could be used seven or eight times before Master Chen could rework it.

Mo Hua’s arrays made the Monster Hunters’ hunts safer and more efficient, while their growing trade in monster materials brought prosperity to Immortal City. With the hunters’ help, Mo Hua gathered more Monster Blood and Spirit Ink as he prepared to strengthen his divine sense for Foundation Establishment, even as more outsiders arrived in the prosperous city.

• Yu Chengyi taught the late-stage Qi Refining Monster Hunters to use Mo Hua’s First-Grade Earth Fire Array, and the hunters began equipping Iron Armor and weapons enhanced with arrays.
• Mo Hua drew Golden Armor Arrays on the hunters’ armor and learned the First-Grade Golden Blade Array, while the Sinan Parent-Child Compound Array helped detect threats.
• Mo Hua searched the Inner Mountain for battles, gathered Monster Blood from slain late first-grade monsters, and occasionally helped hunters with Fireball Techniques.
• The hunters’ growing strength brought in more late first-grade monster materials, which the Artifact Refining Guild and Alchemy Guild turned into goods that enriched Immortal City’s Rogue Cultivators.
• As Immortal City became more prosperous, increasing numbers of outside cultivators of unclear origins arrived.

Mo Hua found Ji Qingbai, Ji Li, and two other cultivators surrounded by seven outsiders and decided to help them survive. He used fireworks to make it seem that Immortal City's Monster Hunters were approaching, then attacked one of the outsiders with a Fireball Technique.

• Mo Hua noticed that outside cultivators and violent clashes had become more common in Great Black Mountain’s Inner Mountain.
• Mo Hua recognized Ji Qingbai, Ji Li, and a burly cultivator among four people struggling against seven outsiders, while an injured female cultivator was close to collapse.
• Mo Hua fired fireworks from three locations to make the attackers believe Monster Hunters were coming to help.
• When the outsiders hesitated but did not retreat, Mo Hua struck one of them with a Fireball Technique, startling their leader.

Mo Hua rescued Ji Qingbai and his companions from seven outsider cultivators, then led them to a campsite to recover. As they rested, Ji Qingbai explained that his family had left Qingxuan City because they could no longer make a living there.

• The seven outsider cultivators fled after Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique made them believe a Monster Hunting Squad was nearby.
• Mo Hua revealed himself to Ji Qingbai and urged the group to leave before their attackers returned.
• Mo Hua guided Ji Qingbai, Ji Li, and the injured female cultivator through the Inner Mountain with their Storage Boxes in tow.
• At a campsite, Mo Hua gave the group healing Pills refined by Elder Feng, and Ji Li stayed beside the unconscious female cultivator.
• Mo Hua teased Ji Li about marrying the female cultivator, and Ji Qingbai promised to invite Mo Hua to their wedding.
• Ji Qingbai told Mo Hua that his family had come from Qingxuan City because they could no longer survive there.

Ji Qingbai explained why he and the children fled Qingxuan City, where the Kong Family oppressed Rogue Cultivators and the Dao Court Office ignored their crimes. As they rested, Mo Hua discovered that the quiet, burly Yu Chengwu was Elder Yu’s son and learned he disliked Mo Shan because he could not beat him.

• Ji Qingbai told Mo Hua that Rogue Cultivators in Qingxuan City had lost their Foundation Establishment protector and suffered worsening oppression from the Lineages.
• Ji Qingbai explained that the Kong Family killed Fu Lan’s mother after she refused to let Young Master Kong take Fu Lan as a concubine, so Ji Qingbai and Ji Li retaliated and fled with the children.
• Ji Qingbai said the Kong Family had bought off Qingxuan City’s Dao Court Office, leaving Rogue Cultivators without justice, and Mo Hua reassured him that Immortal City was safer.
• Mo Hua recognized Yu Chengwu as Elder Yu’s son and learned that Yu Chengwu had a grudge against Mo Shan because he could not beat him.
• Yu Chengwu told Mo Hua he had watched Qian Xing’s trouble with Da Zhu but intervened when later-stage Qian Family cultivators bullied Rogue Cultivators.
• Mo Hua dismissed Yu Chengwu’s rivalry with his father as adult business and asked whether Yu Chengwu had a Wolf-Tooth Mace.

Mo Hua inspected Yu Chengwu’s Wolf-Tooth Mace and decided he wanted one, then led Yu Chengwu, Ji Qingbai, and the others safely back to Immortal City. Yu Chengwu was stunned by the city’s Iron-Armed Monster Hunters and the community-run Artifact Refining Guild and Alchemy Guild, unsure whether what he saw was real.

• Mo Hua examined Yu Chengwu’s heavy Wolf-Tooth Mace and said he wanted to get one himself.
• Mo Hua treated Yu Chengwu to fruit wine, and the group resumed traveling after their injuries had stabilized.
• Mo Hua sensed Monster Hunters nearby and told everyone they could slow down; successive groups greeted Mo Hua first and many wore Iron Armor.
• Yu Chengwu and Ji Qingbai wondered why Immortal City had so many Iron-Armed Monster Hunters and why they treated Mo Hua with such respect.
• The group entered Immortal City and saw its enormous Artifact Refining Guild and Alchemy Guild, which Mo Hua explained belonged to everyone.
• Yu Chengwu struggled to believe the city had changed so much and wondered whether he was dreaming or seeing an illusion.

Mo Hua helped Ji Qingbai’s group find support in Immortal City, then discussed growing dangers for monster hunters with Elder Yu and commissioned Master Chen to forge a weapon for him. Afterward, Mo Shan explained how powerful groups profited by squeezing Rogue Cultivators.

• Mo Hua suggested that Fu Lan seek work making tofu at Fortune Meal Pavilion once her injuries healed, and told Ji Qingbai to ask Mo Shan for help if needed.
• Mo Hua accompanied Yu Chengwu to Elder Yu and warned that increasing numbers of unknown outside cultivators could lead to more disputes and danger for monster hunters.
• Elder Yu said he had already discussed the problem with the Chief Administrator of the Dao Court Office, while Yu Chengwu reunited with his father.
• Mo Hua asked Master Chen to forge a sturdy, lightweight club without spikes so he could draw formations on it, and selected a design to modify.
• Mo Hua told Mo Shan about Ji Qingbai’s plight, and Mo Shan explained that clans and sects often gained strength by taking benefits from weaker Rogue Cultivators.

Mo Shan helped Ji Qingbai’s family settle in Immortal City, while Mo Hua’s growing reputation helped Fu Lan find work. Mo Hua completed a heavy iron rod fitted with a Thousand-Jun Array and tested its smashing power.

• Mo Shan visited Ji Qingbai and gave him Spirit Stones to help his family through their financial difficulties.
• Fu Lan found work at Fortune Meal Pavilion after mentioning Mo Hua, and Ji Qingbai resolved to repay Mo Hua and protect him.
• Ji Qingbai suggested that Ji Li and Fu Lan start a family and become cultivation partners, leaving them both embarrassed.
• Mo Hua received a sturdy iron rod from Master Chen and drew a Thousand-Jun Array on it.
• Mo Hua tested the rod at Great Black Mountain, smashed a large stone, and named the weapon the Thousand-Jun Rod.

Mo Hua practiced two Thousand-Jun Rod techniques and gathered Monster Blood in the Inner Mountain, where he encountered Yu Chengwu searching for the Cultivators who had ambushed him. Yu Chengwu captured two of them, and Mo Hua urged the Demon Hunters to break their arms to prevent them from attacking.

• Mo Hua practiced smashing and sweeping with the Thousand-Jun Rod, naming the moves Force of a Thousand Jun and Sweeping Thousand Jun.
• Mo Hua asked Fu Lan to make tofu and shared it with his family, Mr. Zhuang, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi.
• Mo Hua collected Monster Blood in the Inner Mountain and ran into Yu Chengwu and several Demon Hunters searching for the Cultivators who had attacked Yu Chengwu.
• Mo Hua parted from the Demon Hunters, then encountered them again at dusk escorting two captured Cultivators who had ambushed them.
• Mo Hua noticed the captives still had abundant spiritual power and advised Yu Chengwu to have their arms broken so they could not attack.

After learning that the captured attackers belonged to a band of wanted Sinful Cultivators, Mo Hua and the Monster Hunters grew more cautious in the Inner Mountain. When fog isolates Mo Hua, he encounters the wounded Ji Li and lures a pursuing Sinful Cultivator onto a hidden formation, leaving the man realizing he is in danger.

• Yu Chengwu learned from the two captured cultivators that they were Sinful Cultivators in a group of more than twenty, while Elder Yu ordered them sent to the Dao Court Office and warned the Monster Hunters to stay alert.
• Yu Chengwu suspected the prisoners had concealed the true size and purpose of their group, so Elder Yu told the hunters to patrol carefully and cautioned Mo Hua against entering the Inner Mountain alone.
• Mo Hua waited out a sudden bank of thick fog after secretly drawing and concealing several Array Techniques around himself.
• Ji Li, badly wounded, ran toward Mo Hua and warned him to run, but a burly black-clad man struck Ji Li down and approached Mo Hua.
• The black-clad man stepped on Mo Hua’s hidden formation and realized too late that Mo Hua had calmly lured him into danger.

Mo Hua outmaneuvered the black-clad burly man with an array, a Blazing Flame Talisman, and his Thousand-Jun Rod, then rushed to save the gravely wounded Ji Li. Ji Li briefly regained consciousness but began to lose focus, so Mo Hua appealed to his feelings for Fu Lan and his father to keep him holding on while he awaited help.

• The black-clad burly man survived Mo Hua’s Earth Fire Arrays with one arm badly injured, then pursued him when he appeared to flee and fall.
• Mo Hua used Flowing Water Step to circle behind the burly man and hit him with the Blazing Flame Talisman Old Zhao had given him.
• Mo Hua struck the scorched burly man repeatedly with the Thousand-Jun Rod, then used a Fireball Technique and broke all four of his limbs to ensure he could not fight back.
• Mo Hua treated Ji Li’s wounds with pills and sent up fireworks to signal for help, while Ji Li briefly opened his eyes before his divine sense began to scatter.
• Mo Hua urged Ji Li to think of Fu Lan and his father’s wedding feast, and Ji Li’s eyelids trembled as tears ran down his face.

Mo Hua found Ji Li and sent him down the mountain for treatment, then hurried south to help Ji Qingbai and two Monster Hunters who were losing a fight against sinful cultivators. He exposed the concealed attacker with a Fireball Technique, interrupting another attempt on Ji Qingbai’s life.

• Zhou Cheng and two Monster Hunters arrived, carried the injured Ji Li down the mountain, and left Mo Hua behind.
• Mo Hua used the Sinan Parent-Child Compass to locate a battle to the south and hurried to help Ji Qingbai.
• Mo Hua recognized a concealed cultivator from the Spirit Mine conflict as the hidden attacker who had been helping the sinful cultivators overwhelm Ji Qingbai and the other Monster Hunters.
• Mo Hua set off Signal Flares to call for help, but the sinful cultivators dismissed them and resumed their attack after revealing that the Kong Family had hired them to kill Ji Qingbai and his son.
• The concealed cultivator tried to stab Ji Qingbai, but Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique struck his arm and stopped the attack.

Mo Hua used Fireball Techniques and his superior Movement Technique to stall the Sinful Cultivators and help Ji Qingbai’s group hold their ground. He restored Ji Qingbai’s hope by saying Brother Ji was alive, then showed the One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator Zhao Hu’s half-charred Storage Bag.

• After Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique interrupted the fight, Diao Laosan admitted that the same cultivator who had exposed his Concealment Technique before was targeting him again.
• The One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator found Mo Hua behind a tree, but Mo Hua evaded his attacks and burned him with repeated Fireball Techniques.
• Diao Laosan and two other Sinful Cultivators came to support the One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator, giving Ji Qingbai and the other Monster Hunters time to recover and forcing the battle into a stalemate.
• The One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator taunted Ji Qingbai about his missing son, but Mo Hua said Brother Ji was not dead, renewing Ji Qingbai’s resolve.
• Mo Hua questioned the One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator about Zhao Hu, then showed him Zhao Hu’s half-charred Storage Bag.

Mo Hua helped Ji Qingbai and the other Monster Hunters survive an attack, while the Sinful Cultivators regrouped and decided to strike again. Just as Mo Hua and the gathered Monster Hunters prepared to leave, he sensed their return and announced that the big fish had taken the bait.

• The One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator ordered a retreat, and Mo Hua mocked Diao Laosan as the Sinful Cultivators withdrew into the forest.
• Mo Hua gave healing Pills to Ji Qingbai and the two injured Monster Hunters, while reinforcements arrived after the fog cleared.
• The One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator and Diao Laosan met their bald Big Brother, who agreed to lead the group back to kill Ji Qingbai and the Monster Hunters for the Kong Family's remaining Spirit Stones.
• Nearly a hundred Monster Hunters gathered on the hill after a rumor spread that Mo Hua was injured; Yu Chengyi arrived, confirmed Mo Hua was safe, and heard what had happened.
• As Ji Qingbai and the others prepared to descend the mountain, Mo Hua sensed the Sinful Cultivators returning and said the big fish had been hooked back.

Mo Hua and the injured cultivators waited as the Sinful Cultivators returned, only for more than two hundred Monster Hunters to spring an ambush and overwhelm them. After most of the attackers were captured, Mo Hua singled out Diao Laosan and demanded the formula for his Concealment Technique.

• Bald Sinful Cultivator led more than twenty Sinful Cultivators up the hill, where an Earth Fire Array blasted one attacker and halted their advance.
• One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator detected a vast force of Monster Hunters surrounding them, and Mo Hua revealed that the attackers were the ones at death’s door.
• Bald Sinful Cultivator ordered his men to seize Mo Hua, but the Earth Fire Array, Ji Qingbai, Yu Chengyi, and Mo Hua stopped their attacks as the Monster Hunters charged.
• Mo Hua exposed Diao Laosan’s hiding place with a Fireball, and the Monster Hunters captured him while One-Eyed Sinful Cultivator and Bald Sinful Cultivator escaped.
• Yu Chengyi recognized Diao Laosan from the attack on the Spirit Mine, and Mo Hua demanded that he hand over the formula for his Concealment Technique.

Mo Hua interrogated Diao Laosan to obtain the Concealment Technique and found its incantation hidden inside an ordinary manual. Searching the rest of Diao Laosan’s books, Mo Hua also discovered the Water Prison Technique.

• Mo Hua demanded that Diao Laosan reveal the Concealment Technique, but Diao Laosan refused.
• Mo Hua searched Diao Laosan’s Storage Bag and found no incantation, so Yu Chengyi’s Monster Hunters beat Diao Laosan until he reconsidered.
• As a Monster Hunter dragged him away to be killed, Diao Laosan panicked and agreed to talk.
• Diao Laosan revealed that the Concealment Technique was hidden on pages nineteen through fifty-four of Blazing Flame Fist, and Mo Hua found the incantation there.
• Mo Hua searched Diao Laosan’s other manuals and discovered the Water Prison Technique concealed in Quicksand Palm.

Mo Hua learned about the Water Prison Technique while interrogating Diao Laosan and heard how the Sinful Cultivators had been hired by the Kong Family to pursue Ji Qingbai and his son. After the survivors were delivered to the Dao Prison, Mo Hua visited the recovering Ji Li and left after Ji Qingbai promised to invite him to the wedding.

• Mo Hua questioned Diao Laosan about the Water Prison Technique and learned that the bald fugitive was known as Bald Ascetic, the current eldest brother of the Sinful Cultivators.
• The Monster Hunters delivered the captured Sinful Cultivators to the Dao Court Office, where Yu Chengyi completed the handover and locked them in Dao Prison.
• Yu Chengyi told Mo Hua that the Kong Family had hired the Sinful Cultivators to kill Ji Qingbai and his son and enslave Fu Lan, but the accusation could not be pursued without evidence.
• Mo Hua learned that the escaped Sinful Cultivators were being watched for and that he would receive a bounty for his role in their capture.
• Mo Hua visited Ji Li, who had been stabilized by Elder Feng, and Ji Qingbai agreed to invite Mo Hua to the wedding.

Mo Hua learned the Concealment Technique and Water Prison Technique, discovering that his impure water spirit root made concealment ineffective while his strong divine sense suited the binding spell. After testing the Water Prison Technique on fish and Bai Zisheng, he continued practicing to improve its accuracy.

• Mo Hua practiced the Concealment Technique while Liu Ruhua teased him, then turned partly translucent and realized his impure water spirit root made the spell ineffective for hiding.
• Mo Hua studied and quickly learned the Water Prison Technique, using his strong divine sense to bind a wild fruit in midair.
• Mo Hua tested the Water Prison Technique on fish in Mr. Zhuang's pond, trapping them before releasing them.
• Mo Hua asked Bai Zisheng to practice with him, using the Water Prison Technique while Bai Zisheng trained his Movement Technique.
• After an hour of practice, Mo Hua was trapping Bai Zisheng more often, and Bai Zisheng called the spell disgusting.

Mo Hua received a dietary manual from Bai Zixi, enjoyed Emerald Bamboo Rice with his friends, and continued studying arrays while struggling to strengthen his divine sense. Yu Chengyi then told him that Sinful Cultivators had wiped out a merchant caravan carrying Kong Family young master Kong Sheng, escalating the threat.

• Bai Zixi gave Mo Hua a dietary manual for Liu Ruhua as thanks, and Liu Ruhua used it to make Emerald Bamboo Rice.
• Mo Hua shared the bamboo rice with Mr. Zhuang and the Bai siblings, and he and Bai Zixi ate several portions together beneath the Big Locust Tree.
• Mo Hua practiced Compound Arrays and the Reverse Spirit Array, but wondered how long it would take for his divine sense to reach Foundation Establishment strength.
• Yu Chengyi told Mo Hua that Sinful Cultivators had raided a merchant caravan, leaving more than twenty cultivators missing and only bloodstains behind.
• Yu Chengyi revealed that Kong Sheng, a direct-line young master of the Kong Family, had been in the caravan.

Mo Hua learned that Kong Sheng had disappeared in Great Black Mountain and that the Kong Family suspected the Ji father and son. Zhang Lan explained that the Dao Court Office planned to search for Kong Sheng and capture the Sinful Cultivators, and Mo Hua agreed to help catch Bald Ascetic in exchange for promised benefits.

• Yu Chengyi told Mo Hua that Kong Sheng had secretly followed a caravan toward Immortal City to kill the Ji father and son and take Fu Lan, but had vanished in Great Black Mountain.
• Yu Chengyi said the Kong Family suspected Ji and wanted the group to hand him over, while Mo Hua and Yu Chengyi prepared to resist their pressure.
• Zhang Lan told Mo Hua that the Dao Court Office believed Sinful Cultivators had abducted Kong Sheng and planned to search the mountains with help from Qingxuan City's Dao Court Office.
• Mo Hua refused to help rescue Kong Sheng but agreed to help catch Bald Ascetic after Zhang Lan promised the Dao Court Office would reward him.