Recaps

Mo Hua learned that Qing Lan was being targeted by a gray-robed cultivator and discovered how the Lu Family’s mines fed the brothels on Jinhua Street. He planned to draw out the cultivator on the fourth and report him to the Dao Court Office, while preparing to take advantage if the arrest failed.

• Qing Lan told Mo Hua that the gray-robed cultivator had targeted her after Sister Yu Lan died, and that the brothel madam had arranged for her to meet a customer.
• Qing Lan explained that her Mine Cultivator parents had sold her to the Brothel before starving to death, and said the Lu Family owned it and many other businesses on Jinhua Street.
• Mo Hua learned that the gray-robed cultivator might be at Foundation Establishment and visited the Brothel on the fourth and fourteenth of each month; he told Qing Lan to hide Elder Su’s Jade Bracelet and said he would return on the fourth.
• Elder Su said that poverty in Mine Mountain drove families to sell their children and sustained the brothels, leaving Mo Hua to consider the problem’s deeper cause.
• Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi discussed capturing the gray-robed cultivator, then decided to report him to the Dao Court Office and rely on Situ Fang for information.

Mo Hua and Situ Fang arranged a secret operation to capture the gray-robed cultivator, using a stolen-bracelet accusation to get inside the Hundred Flowers Pavilion. The operation began when a Foundation Establishment fight erupted upstairs, and Situ Fang led the hidden inspectors into action.

• Mo Hua reported the gray-robed cultivator's crimes to Situ Fang, who decided to bring a Situ Clan Foundation Establishment elder and avoid alerting the possibly compromised Dao Court Office.
• Mo Hua told Situ Fang everything he knew about Qing Lan, and they planned the arrest for the fourth; he also prepared a Sinan Parent-Child Array.
• Mo Hua and Situ Fang entered the Hundred Flowers Pavilion on the fourth, where Mo Hua accused Qing Lan of stealing his Jade Bracelet to force the madam to summon her.
• Qing Lan confirmed the bracelet was still there, and Situ Fang smashed a wine jug to signal the hidden inspectors.
• A Foundation Establishment fight broke out upstairs, so Situ Fang drew her blade and led the inspectors to suppress it while Mo Hua and the Bai siblings protected Qing Lan.

Mo Hua helped Cautious Si pursue the grey-robed corpse buyer by using his powerful divine sense to expose the man’s Earth Evasion Technique. After the man swallowed Corpse Blood Pills and transformed into a corpse-like fighter, he attacked Mo Hua and the others, but Mo Hua vanished before the furious cultivator could find him.

• Situ Fang and the Dao Court inspectors attacked the grey-robed cultivator at Hundred Flowers Pavilion while Cautious Si fought him.
• The grey-robed cultivator used Earth Evasion to disappear, but Mo Hua tracked him with his divine sense and repeatedly revealed his position with Fireball Techniques.
• The grey-robed cultivator swallowed pills from a bronze bottle and transformed into a powerful, corpse-like figure, then struck Cautious Si down.
• The transformed cultivator charged Mo Hua, but Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi fought him on the second floor, piercing and burning his flesh.
• Mo Hua disappeared, leaving the grey-robed cultivator unable to locate him as the Corpse Blood Pill’s power began to run out.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings drove the drug-enhanced gray-clothed cultivator into a secret passage, but its mechanisms sealed the route behind him. After the Dao Court Office took over the investigation and Situ Fang agreed to protect Qing Lan, Mo Hua left Hundred Flowers Pavilion wondering whether the Lu Family and the missing Instructor Yan were connected to the other mysteries.

• Mo Hua used Concealment Technique to stall the gray-clothed cultivator until the Corpse Blood Pill's effect faded, then chased him with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi.
• Bai Zixi found the secret passage beneath a bed, where the gray-clothed cultivator had killed Young Master Zhao and fled before the passage sealed itself.
• Mo Hua learned that Bai Zisheng had planted three needles on the gray-clothed cultivator, leaving them a way to track him later.
• Cautious Si and Situ Fang arrived with law-enforcement cultivators, and Situ Fang explained how the Dao Court Office would identify and pursue the fugitive.
• Situ Fang promised to take Qing Lan from Hundred Flowers Pavilion by obtaining her indenture contract, while Mo Hua and the Bai siblings left the wrecked building.
• Mo Hua wondered whether the Lu Family's inaction connected Hundred Flowers Pavilion to Mine Mountain, the Absolute Array, the dead Mine Cultivators, and the missing Instructor Yan.

Mo Hua learned that the gray-robed cultivator was Zhang Quan, a coffin-shop owner suspected of buying Mine Cultivator corpses and using them to make a sinister pill. After tracking Zhang Quan’s Sinan needles to an abandoned Mine Mountain, Mo Hua and the Bai siblings arrived there and sensed a number of sinister auras.

• Mo Hua told Bai Zisheng that his divine sense had stalled at Twelve-Pattern, and Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi ruffled his hair in disbelief at his complaint.
• Mo Hua checked the Sinan Parent Array compass, but it showed no trace of the gray-robed cultivator, so he and the Bai siblings waited, suspecting an escape technique was blocking the connection.
• Situ Fang identified the gray-robed cultivator as Zhang Quan, a Nanyue City coffin-shop owner whose shop had been burned out after he fled.
• Three days later, Mo Hua saw the compass light up and used a map to locate Zhang Quan’s remaining child needles at an abandoned Mine Mountain outside the city.
• Mo Hua and the Bai siblings concealed themselves and reached the Mine Mountain, where Mo Hua sensed several sinister auras.

Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi trapped and cornered the injured Zhang Quan at his hideout in a Mine Mountain. Just as Zhang Quan seemed out of options, he revealed a hidden threat among the rocks: dozens of black coffins began to stir.

• Mo Hua prepared Earth Prison Arrays and planned with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi to prevent Zhang Quan from using pills or escaping underground.
• Mo Hua found Zhang Quan recovering in a mine chamber, set Earth Fire Arrays, and collapsed the mine shaft to force him out.
• Bai Zisheng attacked Zhang Quan as he emerged, while Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique exposed him after he tried to escape with Earth Evasion.
• Mo Hua and Bai Zisheng repeatedly used Earth Prison Arrays to trap Zhang Quan, and Bai Zisheng knocked away the medicine bottle when Zhang Quan tried to take pills.
• Zhang Quan declared that he would kill them all, then rang bells that revealed dozens of black coffins among the rocks, where something began to awaken.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings fought Zhang Quan and the Walking Corpses he controlled on Mine Mountain. After discovering an Absolute Array hidden beneath a Zombie’s skin, Mo Hua ordered Bai Zisheng to help him catch the Zombies.

• Zhang Quan rang his bronze bell and sent dozens of Walking Corpses to attack Mo Hua and the Bai siblings, but Mo Hua dodged while Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng fought them off.
• Bai Zisheng drove Zhang Quan beneath a dilapidated shed, where Zhang Quan summoned a half-step Iron Corpse from an Iron Coffin.
• Bai Zisheng battled the Iron Corpse while the Walking Corpses swarmed him, and he noticed Array Patterns on one of them.
• Mo Hua restrained a Walking Corpse, and Bai Zixi cut through its skin to reveal hidden Blood Patterns forming an Absolute Array.
• Mo Hua recognized the array and told Bai Zisheng to help him catch Zombies, alarming Zhang Quan when he realized Mo Hua was an Array Master.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings fought Zhang Quan and discovered that he used arrays to control and refine Zombies, but Zhang Quan escaped while destroying much of the evidence. Mo Hua suspected Zhang Quan had other Zombie caches and an array expert behind him, while Zhang Quan remained unsure whether Mo Hua could understand the surviving arrays.

• Zhang Quan realized Mo Hua was an Array Master and decided to destroy the evidence rather than risk fighting the three cultivators.
• Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi helped Mo Hua capture Walking Corpses, but Zhang Quan used his bronze bell to make the Zombies attack one another and destroy their arrays.
• Mo Hua spotted an array inside Zhang Quan's bell, prompting Bai Zisheng to try to seize it, but Zhang Quan concealed the bell and escaped behind the Iron Corpse.
• Mo Hua argued that Zhang Quan likely had other Zombie caches and that an array expert who might have mastered Evil Absolute Arrays was helping him.
• After finding and discarding another tracking needle, Zhang Quan fled to a new hiding place and worried that Mo Hua might understand the arrays left on the surviving Zombies.

After the battle at Mine Mountain, Mo Hua secretly took two Coffins of Walking Corpses to study their Array Techniques while Situ Fang investigated the case. The Chief Administrator later destroyed all the evidence, but Mo Hua revealed through his thoughts that he had preserved the Coffins.

• Situ Fang told Mo Hua that the Mine Mountain case was serious and suspected the Chief Administrator wanted to suppress it to avoid responsibility.
• Mo Hua and Bai Zisheng secretly transported two Coffins containing Walking Corpses to the Cave Abode and hid them in a protected room.
• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua to study the Coffins carefully and dispose of them afterward.
• Situ Fang visited Mo Hua the next day and said the Chief Administrator had burned the Zombies, destroyed the Coffins, and erased all the evidence.
• Mo Hua comforted Situ Fang while privately noting that he had kept the Coffins.

After the Dao Court Office destroyed the evidence against Zhang Quan, Mo Hua secretly kept several zombies and examined them with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi. He reconstructed the twelve-pattern Absolute Array embedded in their heart meridians, but suspected it was a Demonic Path corpse-refining array and hesitated to learn it.

• Situ Fang apologized to Mo Hua for failing to protect the zombie evidence, and Mo Hua reassured her that they could keep searching for clues.
• Mo Hua told Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi they would keep the stolen zombies secret from Situ Fang because she was too weak to face Zhang Quan directly.
• Mo Hua layered numerous formations around the coffins before asking Bai Zixi about zombie behavior, Corpse Poison, and corpse-refining methods.
• Mo Hua examined the Corpse Raising Coffins and the formations on the zombies, while Bai Zisheng opened a corpse's chest for him to inspect.
• Mo Hua spent a day comparing the formations and reconstructed a twelve-pattern Absolute Array, then worried that learning it would mean studying a Demonic Path corpse-refining technique.

Mo Hua learned from Mr. Zhuang why evil arrays relied on shortcuts and began studying the Absolute Array through proper principles. After the Dao Stele partly recovered, Mo Hua mastered the array and realized it was incomplete, leading him to suspect its missing portion was in Zhang Quan’s Bronze Bell and that it might be the Little Spirit Hidden Sect’s Spirit Pivot Formation.

• Mo Hua asked Mr. Zhuang whether he could learn the reconstructed array, and Mr. Zhuang explained that evil arrays used human lives and materials as shortcuts when cultivators could not master proper techniques.
• Mr. Zhuang warned Mo Hua to disdain crooked paths, and Mo Hua resolved to study the array’s fundamental principles without its evil methods.
• Mo Hua practiced the Twelve-Pattern Absolute Array for days until the Dao Stele partly recovered and increased his practice speed.
• Mo Hua successfully drew the array but found it incomplete and could not determine its purpose.
• Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng suggested that the array helped Zhang Quan control many Zombies, with its missing portion possibly inside his Bronze Bell.
• Mo Hua suspected the array might be the Little Spirit Hidden Sect’s Spirit Pivot Formation and wondered whether its creator was the sect’s traitor or Instructor Yan.

Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi followed a Sinan Child Needle to Zhang Quan in the Wild Mountains, hoping to uncover his corpse-refining lair and learn more about Instructor Yan's whereabouts. After watching Zhang Quan spend days testing whether he was being followed, Mo Hua concluded the hidden corpse site was nearby and decided they would search for it themselves.

• Mo Hua locked the Walking Corpse in its coffin, then went with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi to the Wild Mountains west of Nanyue City, guided by the Sinan Parent-Child Compass.
• The three found Zhang Quan hiding among shrubs and watched him lay subtle trap arrays near caves and trails as he repeatedly changed routes to check for pursuers.
• Zhang Quan suspected Mo Hua was following him invisibly, though Mo Hua and the others were watching from afar without disturbing his arrays.
• Mo Hua and the Bai siblings realized Zhang Quan's excessive caution suggested he feared someone discovering the place where he refined and hid corpses.
• After Zhang Quan continued wandering through the mountains for three or four days, Mo Hua decided they would search for the corpse nest themselves instead of waiting for him to lead them to it.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings found a hidden Walking Corpse Stronghold concealed by an illusion array, and Mo Hua infiltrated it to scout its defenses and inhabitants. Inside, he discovered that several arrays bore the distinctive patterns of Instructor Yan.

• Mo Hua used Zhang Quan’s movements and the terrain map to identify a likely search area, then found an illusion array hidden among bare rocks.
• Mo Hua calculated the array pattern and led Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi through the illusion to a gate marked Walking Corpse Stronghold.
• Mo Hua persuaded the Bai siblings to wait outside while he concealed himself and entered the stronghold to investigate.
• Mo Hua found many coffins and corpses, a few gray-robed corpse controllers, other cultivators resembling bandits, and several protective arrays.
• Mo Hua recognized the stronghold’s array patterns as ones drawn by Instructor Yan.

Mo Hua secretly found Instructor Yan in Walking Corpse Stronghold and confirmed that he was drawing orthodox arrays rather than helping the Corpse Cultivators make Evil Arrays. After reuniting with Instructor Yan, Mo Hua revealed that he was searching for Zhang Quan, Zombies, and the Spirit Pivot Formation.

• Mo Hua used his Divine Consciousness to find Instructor Yan drawing a Spirit Gathering Array in a secluded room.
• When a Corpse Cultivator summoned Instructor Yan to inspect a broken array, Mo Hua entered the locked room and found only ordinary Five Elements Arrays and materials for First-Grade Array Master assessments.
• Instructor Yan returned, sensed that someone had entered his room, and was startled when Mo Hua appeared behind him.
• Mo Hua told Instructor Yan that he had come to find him, Zhang Quan, Zombies, and an Array Technique.
• Instructor Yan recognized that Mo Hua was searching for the Spirit Pivot Formation, and Mo Hua realized it was the Absolute Array associated with the Zombies.

Mo Hua learned from Instructor Yan that the Spirit Pivot Formation was a nearly impossible Twelve-Pattern technique for controlling Lingli, and that Zhang Quan likely possessed its diagram. After promising to rescue Instructor Yan from the Walking Corpse Stronghold, Mo Hua left him wondering whether the boy might be able to master the legendary formation.

• Instructor Yan explained that the Little Spirit Hidden Sect inherited the profound Spirit Pivot Formation, which no one had comprehended, and that it controlled Lingli on a scale useful for puppets, machinery, and cultivation projects.
• Mo Hua told Instructor Yan that he had already angered Zhang Quan, and the two suspected Zhang Quan kept the Spirit Pivot Formation Diagram and hid its use on his corpses.
• Instructor Yan recounted how he had come to Nanyue City seeking a sect traitor, discovered corpse transport near Mine Mountain, and been captured and forced to draw formations at the Walking Corpse Stronghold.
• Mo Hua promised to return in a few days and rescue Instructor Yan, then reminded him to live for himself and find a Dao companion, repeating advice from Manager Mo.
• Mo Hua vanished using Stealth, and Instructor Yan realized the boy's Divine Consciousness might be strong enough to learn the Spirit Pivot Formation.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings planned to identify the array master helping Zhang Quan before attacking the Walking Corpse Stronghold. Mo Hua secretly watched Zhang Quan return and learned how the stronghold operated, but the only lead he overheard was Zhang Quan refusing to send out uncontrollable zombies.

• Mo Hua reunited with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi, then explained that someone besides Zhang Quan must be drawing the corpse-refining arrays.
• Mo Hua proposed secretly tracking Zhang Quan to find the array master, while the group prepared to involve Situ Fang and the Dao Court Office.
• After Zhang Quan spent five days hiding in the Wild Mountain, Mo Hua returned to the stronghold and secretly mapped it while waiting for him.
• Mo Hua hid in Zhang Quan's secret chamber and listened as corpse cultivators reported on the stronghold's crimes, corpse supplies, and refining work.
• A corpse cultivator asked Zhang Quan whether they should deliver some corpses, but Zhang Quan ordered him to destroy the uncontrollable zombies instead.

Mo Hua watched Zhang Quan inside the Walking Corpse Stronghold, but Zhang Quan discovered a hidden needle and ordered a search. After Instructor Yan advised him to install Dust-Revealing Arrays, Mo Hua faced a new obstacle, while Yan realized Mo Hua had dismantled his Array Technique.

• Mo Hua gave Zhang Quan one more chance to deliver corpses while secretly watching him from the stronghold’s rooftops.
• Zhang Quan found the third Sinan Child Needle in a wound and ordered the Walking Corpse Stronghold sealed and searched.
• The searchers found an altered Array Technique on a wall, and Mo Hua followed Zhang Quan to inspect the flaw he had left behind.
• Instructor Yan claimed he had reinforced the wall’s Array Technique and assured Zhang Quan that no intruder could silently break his arrays.
• Instructor Yan recommended Dust-Revealing Arrays to expose intruders using Stealth, and Zhang Quan asked him to install them around the stronghold.
• After Zhang Quan left, Instructor Yan recognized that Mo Hua had dismantled his Array Technique and wondered how skilled Mo Hua had become.

Mo Hua discovered Instructor Yan was deceiving Zhang Quan with a fake Dust-Revealing Array, then joined Bai Zixi and Situ Fang to plan an attack on Walking Corpse Stronghold. After revealing the stronghold’s defenses and forces, Mo Hua said he had a way to improve their chances.

• Instructor Yan prepared a useless Five-Pattern Earth Array while pretending it was a Dust-Revealing Array for Zhang Quan.
• Mo Hua left Walking Corpse Stronghold and met Bai Zixi, then told her he had been discovered and they needed to strike first.
• Situ Fang told Mo Hua that the Situ Clan would provide over two hundred cultivators for an attack under the Dao Court Office’s name.
• Mo Hua explained that Zhang Quan, four or five Iron Corpses, more than two hundred inhabitants, controllable corpses, and defensive arrays made the stronghold dangerous to attack.
• Situ Fang worried the force could suffer heavy casualties, but Mo Hua smiled and said he had a way.

Mo Hua infiltrated Walking Corpse Stronghold, dismantled most of its defensive arrays, and helped Situ Fang’s forces launch an attack while Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi escorted Instructor Yan away. Unable to steal Zhang Quan’s Corpse Control Bell or reach the Iron Corpses, Mo Hua overheard Zhang Quan preparing a ritual for the Blood Corpse Control Bell and wondered whether the ritual might give him a chance to seize it.

• Mo Hua outlined a plan to rescue Instructor Yan and disable Walking Corpse Stronghold’s arrays, then joined Situ Fang and two elders in preparing an assault.
• Mo Hua secretly entered the stronghold, rescued Instructor Yan, and dismantled or sabotaged most of its arrays, but found Zhang Quan’s bell and the guarded Iron Corpses out of reach.
• Situ Fang’s cultivators attacked Walking Corpse Stronghold, and the battle began after the guards discovered them.
• Mo Hua sent Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi to escort Instructor Yan out while he returned to Zhang Quan’s Secret Chamber to watch the chief.
• Zhang Quan ordered the Walking Corpses and Iron Corpses awakened and announced that he would perform a ritual for the Blood Corpse Control Bell, prompting Mo Hua to consider stealing it.

Mo Hua watched Zhang Quan secretly consecrate a Corpse Control Bell in a hidden altar chamber, discovering that the Zhang Family ancestor’s portrait was a Visualization Diagram sustained by offerings of human Divine Consciousness. When the stronghold’s arrays were reported broken, Zhang Quan left to investigate, giving Mo Hua a chance to approach the sealed chamber, but Mo Hua could not yet open its screen.

• Zhang Quan revealed a hidden chamber behind a screen, where he worshipped a Zhang Family ancestor and prepared to consecrate a Bronze Bell with blood.
• Zhang Quan sacrificed a bandit in a Bone Coffin, consuming the bandit’s Divine Consciousness to empower the ancestor’s Visualization Diagram and aid corpse control.
• Mo Hua recognized the Bronze Bell as the Corpse Control Bell he wanted and inferred that the altar’s true offering was human Divine Consciousness.
• A Corpse Cultivator reported that all the arrays in Walking Corpse Stronghold had been broken, so Zhang Quan took the others outside and sealed the chamber behind him.
• After confirming Zhang Quan had gone, Mo Hua descended from the beam and tried to open the screen, then discovered its concealed Array Patterns and copied them down for later study.

Mo Hua broke into Zhang Quan’s Secret Chamber, stole the Corpse Control Bells and the ancestor portrait, and escaped. Zhang Quan discovered the ruined arrays and ransacked chamber, then realized Mo Hua might have witnessed his ritual and roared over his losses.

• Mo Hua destroyed the arrays on the screen, smashed it, and entered the Secret Chamber.
• Mo Hua stole the blood-refined Bronze Bells and valuables, resisted the ancestor portrait’s attempt to influence him, then took the portrait and escaped.
• Zhang Quan found Walking Corpse Stronghold’s arrays ruined and discovered Instructor Yan had escaped from his sealed room.
• Zhang Quan suspected Mo Hua had infiltrated the stronghold and rushed back to his Secret Chamber.
• Zhang Quan found the screen and Altar wrecked and the Corpse Control Bells and ancestor portrait missing, then shouted in fury.

Mo Hua stole Zhang Quan’s Corpse Control Bells and ancestral corpse, helping the Situ Clan overwhelm Walking Corpse Stronghold. Zhang Quan was captured after Mo Hua and the Bai siblings stopped his escape, and Mo Hua searched the stronghold while the others dealt with its aftermath.

• Mo Hua revealed that he had stolen the Corpse Control Bells, and Situ Fang and the Situ Elders intensified their assault on Walking Corpse Stronghold.
• Mo Hua found Zhang Quan trying to escape in disguise, and Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi wounded him as he fled.
• Zhang Quan attempted to use Earth Escape Technique and swallow a Blood Variant Pill, but Mo Hua’s attacks thwarted him.
• Zhang Quan collapsed after Mo Hua taunted him, and Mo Hua confirmed he had only fainted before ordering him captured and kept alive.
• Bai Zisheng helped the Situ Clan handle the aftermath while Mo Hua and Bai Zixi searched the stronghold again.

After the Situ Clan captured Walking Corpse Stronghold, Mo Hua searched it for array-bearing objects and learned how the clan would report the victory and distribute merit. As he returned to Nanyue City, he realized Zhang Quan’s zombie operation was larger than the stronghold suggested and saw the Mine Cultivators’ brutal conditions.

• Mo Hua and Bai Zixi searched Walking Corpse Stronghold again, collecting array-bearing objects in Bai Zixi’s Storage Bag while leaving the other spoils for the Situ Clan.
• Cautious Si told Mo Hua that the Situ Clan would report the victory through Nanshan City and have the merit credited to Situ Fang and Mo Hua; the clan also promised Mo Hua ancestral Array Manuals.
• Cautious Si detained Zhang Quan and arranged for the Dao Court Office to handle the walking corpses and destroy the Corpse Refining Coffins, while Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi left for Nanyue City.
• Mo Hua refused to let Bai Zisheng kill Zhang Quan because he wanted to learn who stood behind him, and said the five Iron Corpses and 637 walking corpses at the stronghold were fewer than Zhang Quan’s operation should have produced.
• Mo Hua suspected Zhang Quan had sold or moved corpses elsewhere, then saw Mine Cultivators laboring under brutal conditions and reflected that Nanyue City’s waters ran deep.

Mo Hua and his companions searched the Corpse Control Bell and the Walking Corpse Stronghold’s seized items for the Spirit Pivot Formation, but found no trace of it. He concluded that the formation was probably inscribed on the Iron Corpses, obtained one from Situ Fang, and prepared to open its coffin.

• Mo Hua caught a wild boar with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi, then cooked it for them, Instructor Yan, and Mr. Zhuang.
• Bai Zixi dismantled Zhang Quan’s Corpse Control Bell, but Mo Hua found only a blood-based formation rather than the Spirit Pivot Absolute Array he sought.
• Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi searched the Walking Corpse Stronghold’s seized formation-related items for a Spirit Pivot Absolute Array but found none.
• Mo Hua reasoned that the Iron Corpses might carry the Spirit Pivot Formation that let Zhang Quan control the walking corpses, and he asked Situ Fang for one to study.
• Situ Fang gave Mo Hua an Iron Corpse, and he secretly hauled its coffin back to the Cave Abode and reinforced the side room with First-Grade Compound Arrays before preparing to open it.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings discovered that an Iron Corpse bore a Spirit Pivot Formation and subdued it after its hidden controller made it lose control. Mo Hua mastered the formation and realized it belonged to a tiered system, leaving him to wonder what powerful being or object held the highest Authority over all the zombies.

• Mo Hua found a Blood Array beneath the Iron Corpse’s skin, and it activated as someone forced the corpse to lose control.
• Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and Mo Hua fought the Iron Corpse and destroyed the Blood Array on its chest to stop it.
• Mo Hua sealed the subdued Iron Corpse and concluded that its controller had feared him discovering the Array Technique.
• Mo Hua studied the Spirit Pivot Formation and learned to control a wooden tiger with Divine Consciousness.
• Mo Hua realized the Spirit Pivot Formations on Walking Corpses and Iron Corpses belonged to different Authority tiers, and he suspected a higher-level controller commanded them all.