Recaps

Mo Hua studied the Five Elements Sect’s Second-Grade Mountain-Protecting Grand Array and searched its Array Hub for the Life Gate under Mr. Zhuang’s guidance. When the Five Elements Sect tried to block access to its sect-guarding array, Mr. Zhuang accepted a Dao Discussion Meeting, where Mo Hua alone would compete against the sect’s disciples and invited array geniuses.

• Mo Hua studied the Mountain-Protecting Grand Array, learned its general structure from Mr. Zhuang, and began deriving the Life Gate in a section of its Array Hub.
• Mr. Zhuang demanded that Sect Leader Liao honor the agreement to let his disciples study the Five Elements Absolute Array, and Sect Leader Liao yielded after feeling Mr. Zhuang’s Divine Consciousness pressure.
• The Grand Elder refused to let outsiders learn the array and arranged a Dao Discussion Meeting where Mo Hua would face the Five Elements Sect’s disciples, with array geniuses from across the Great Lishan State Boundary invited to compete.
• Mr. Zhuang accepted the proposed contest, then told Mo Hua that he alone would compete and represent his senior martial brother, senior martial sister, and teacher.

Mr. Zhuang prepared Mo Hua to represent his disciples in a Five Elements Sect array competition, while the sect’s elders recruited outside help and plotted how to keep the Five Elements Spirit Array from being learned. The Dao Discussion Meeting began as Mr. Zhuang arrived with Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi, and the assembled elders were astonished by how young Mo Hua looked.

• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua to compete in First-Grade Array Techniques, recover his master's lost face, and act arrogantly; Mo Hua agreed to serve as the threshold before anyone could challenge Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi.
• In the days before the meeting, Sect Leader Liao and the Five Elements Sect’s elders secretly arranged support while Mr. Zhuang watched their preparations calmly.
• At the Array Repository, the grand elder negotiated with Sect Leader Chu and the Shen Family’s ancestor, offering benefits and access to the First-Grade mountain-protecting array diagram in exchange for help defeating Mr. Zhuang’s disciples.
• Sect Leader Chu and the grand elder planned to use their disciples’ specialties to overcome the visitors, while the Shen Family’s ancestor questioned whether Mr. Zhuang’s disciples were truly worth such precautions.
• Mr. Zhuang entered the Array Repository with Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi, and the three Golden Core elders were stunned to see that the First-Grade Array Master was a child.

At the Five Elements Sect’s Dao Discussion Meeting, Mr. Zhuang challenged the gathered Qi Refining disciples to surpass Mo Hua in any aspect of arrays before they could learn the Five Elements Spirit Array. Mo Hua won the Heavy Water Array contest and then stunned the elders by drawing a Sharp Metal Array almost instantly, leaving them under pressure to choose the next contest.

• Mr. Zhuang dismissed the formalities and challenged every Qi Refining disciple present to outperform Mo Hua before his group would learn the Five Elements Spirit Array.
• Mo Hua accepted a contest against a blue-robed Five Elements Sect disciple to draw the obscure Heavy Water Array within an hour.
• The great elder declared Mo Hua the narrow winner after discovering that he had drawn the Heavy Water Array with exceptional precision.
• The great elder chose brush speed for the next contest, matching Mo Hua against a golden-robed disciple in the Sharp Metal Array.
• Mo Hua finished the Sharp Metal Array in moments, astonishing the Golden Core elders and asking what they would compete in next.

Mo Hua defeated the Great Lishan State Boundary’s array geniuses in contests covering array drawing, dismantling, and derivation. After the stunned elders conceded the contests, Mr. Zhuang declared that they would study the Five Elements Absolute Array the next day.

• The Array Profound Sect sent Chu Xuan to compete with Mo Hua, and Mo Hua won by drawing a genuine First-Grade Ten-Pattern Absolute Array.
• The elders mistook Mo Hua’s achievement for proof that he had inherited the supreme Innate Array Dao from Mr. Zhuang.
• Mo Hua quickly dismantled a Compound Array and defeated the other First-Grade Array Masters who challenged him.
• The Shen Family Old Ancestor sent Shen Wen to compete in derivation, but Mo Hua finished first and won decisively.
• Mr. Zhuang ended the contests and announced that everyone would study the Five Elements Absolute Array the next day.

After Mo Hua defeated the Five Elements Sect at the Dao Discussion Meeting, Mr. Zhuang revealed the secret Immortal Heaven Array School and warned Mo Hua not to learn it, urging him to develop his own understanding of arrays. The next day, they entered the Five Elements Sect’s Array Repository to learn the Five Elements Spirit Array, where the grand elder began explaining a shrine-based visualization method.

• Mr. Zhuang praised Mo Hua for winning the array contests and told him the Five Elements Sect had to honor its agreement to teach him the Five Elements Spirit Array.
• Mr. Zhuang explained that he, Ghost Daoist, and Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi’s mother belonged to a secret sect, and that he was its forty-ninth Sect Master.
• Mr. Zhuang revealed the name and purpose of the Immortal Heaven Array School, but warned Mo Hua that its Karma was too great for him to touch and advised him to study arrays independently.
• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua that his powerful Divine Consciousness meant he did not need the Immortal Heaven Array School, and Mo Hua accepted his advice to walk his own path.
• The next day, Mr. Zhuang brought Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi to the fourth floor of the Five Elements Sect’s Array Repository.
• The grand elder said the Five Elements Spirit Array was hidden in a Spirit Shrine and that sitting on the Prayer Mats to visualize it would reveal its Array Diagram to those with sufficient comprehension.

Mo Hua failed to perceive the Five Elements Spirit Array through the Five Elements Sect’s Spirit Shrine, while Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi learned parts of the inheritance and agreed to teach him. The chapter ends with the sect’s grand elder believing Mo Hua learned nothing, unaware that the Elder Wood Carving had opened its eyes.

• The grand elder set strict rules for studying the Five Elements Spirit Array, then left Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi alone before the Spirit Shrine.
• Mo Hua saw array patterns appear on the shrine’s Array Disk, but rejected an ancient voice as an illusion and lost sight of the inheritance.
• Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi learned the Fire Spirit Array and the complete Wood Spirit Array, while Mo Hua could not perceive either through the shrine.
• Mr. Zhuang explained that Mo Hua’s powerful Divine Consciousness and clear Dao Heart might have prevented him from seeing the inheritance, and the siblings offered to teach him what they learned.
• Mo Hua studied their array patterns and insights, but he and the siblings could not determine why only the wood and fire arrays had appeared.
• The grand elder checked the incense and concluded that Mo Hua had learned nothing, while the Elder Wood Carving opened its eyes inside the Spirit Shrine.

Mo Hua and the Bai siblings learned the Five Elements Spirit Arrays from the Prayer Mats, but their experiments showed they had not grasped the arrays’ deeper power. Mo Hua deduced that the Spirit Shrine’s true inheritance was hidden in the arrangement of the mats and began mapping its layout to calculate the secret.

• Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi discovered that different Prayer Mats revealed different Five Elements Spirit Arrays, and Bai Zixi quickly learned the Metal Spirit Array.
• Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng learned the remaining arrays while Mo Hua watched, completing their basic knowledge of the Five Elements Spirit Array.
• Mo Hua and the siblings tested the arrays on a Spirit Sword and with spells, but found their effects negligible.
• Mo Hua practiced the Five Elements Spirit Array on the Dao Stele and reasoned that the Spirit Shrine must contain a deeper inheritance beyond its Array Patterns.
• On the third day, Mo Hua deduced that the Prayer Mats’ orientations, rather than the mats themselves, might reveal the Spirit Shrine’s hidden essence.
• Mo Hua sketched the Spirit Shrine and the five Prayer Mats, then began using Divine Sense Derivation to investigate their array relationship.

Mo Hua derived the hidden Five Elements Riddle Array, opened the Spirit Shrine’s great door, and sent his Divine Consciousness into the shrine. There, he encountered the Twenty-third Generation Preaching Elder of the Five Elements Sect.

• Mo Hua derived a hidden sixth convergence point in the Array Repository and discovered the Riddle Array on the Spirit Shrine’s great door.
• Mo Hua showed Mr. Zhuang the array, and Mr. Zhuang explained that the Five Elements Sect’s ancestors had concealed their inheritance to guard it from future disciples and outsiders.
• Mo Hua spent the night calculating the Riddle Array’s spirit paths, then restored its patterns on the final day of the Five Elements Sect’s deadline.
• The great door opened, and its pull drew Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness out of his body and into the Spirit Shrine; Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng gave his body pills and waited beside him.
• Mo Hua awoke in the shrine’s Dao Field and met an old man who identified himself as the Twenty-third Generation Preaching Elder of the Five Elements Sect.

Mo Hua exposed the fake Teaching Elder as a Five Elements Imp that had been deceiving cultivators about the Five Elements Spirit Array. He discovered the true array patterns and a mysterious divine thought within the meditation cushion, then learned that an obscure Elder had once said, “Divine sense... transforms into the Dao!”

• The Elder of Transmission agreed to teach Mo Hua the Five Elements Spirit Array, but Mo Hua recognized his explanations as false and blasted him until he revealed himself as a Five Elements Imp.
• The Five Elements Imp admitted it had been placed in the Spirit Shrine to impersonate the Teaching Elder and said it knew nothing about the array’s inheritance.
• Mo Hua discovered that the cushion where the Imp had sat was a Preaching Meditation Cushion and used it to see the true Five Elements Spirit Array patterns carved at the other cushions’ positions.
• Mo Hua derived the correct array patterns and manifested the array, causing a pure divine thought from the cushion to merge into it and produce brilliant five-colored light.
• Mo Hua questioned the Five Elements Imp about where it had heard its teachings, and it recalled an obscure Elder saying, “Divine sense... transforms into the Dao!”

Mo Hua learned how to draw the Five Elements Spirit Array by fusing divine sense with Lingli, then was lured onto a hidden prayer mat and trapped in another dojo. Outside the Spirit Shrine, Mr. Zhuang delayed the Five Elements Sect’s great elder while Old Kui arrived, and Mr. Zhuang realized Mo Hua had uncovered an extraordinary secret.

• Mo Hua inferred that Divine Sense Dao Transformation fused divine sense with Lingli, then successfully drew a glowing Metal Spirit Array.
• The Five Elements Imp tried to bite Mo Hua, was trapped and blasted with fireballs, and offered information about a hidden Inheritance Dojo.
• The Five Elements Imp showed Mo Hua how to flip the prayer mat to reveal the hidden dojo entrance, then suddenly attacked and knocked him into it.
• The Five Elements Imp escaped the Spirit Shrine as the incense burned out, believing Mo Hua would be trapped forever.
• Mr. Zhuang stopped the great elder from entering the Spirit Shrine, and Old Kui’s presence frightened the elder into waiting.
• Mr. Zhuang sensed that Mo Hua had discovered something extraordinary and wondered what secrets the Five Elements Sect’s ancestors had concealed.

Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng discovered that the person who emerged from the Spirit Shrine was the Five Elements Imp impersonating Mo Hua, while the real Mo Hua remained inside and uncovered the Five Elements Sect’s inheritance. Mo Hua realized the inheritance was a method for deriving the Origin of a Five Elements Array School.

• Bai Zixi recognized the impostor Mo Hua and knocked it unconscious, and Bai Zisheng recalled Mo Hua’s warning to do so if anything seemed wrong.
• Bai Zixi decided she and Bai Zisheng should wait outside the Spirit Shrine because Mo Hua had likely discovered its hidden secret, while the grand elder had not yet arrived.
• The Five Elements Imp realized Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness held a terrifying aura and planned to escape using Mo Hua’s body before that power awakened.
• Mo Hua explored the true dojo and found wooden Array Masters recording transformed Five Elements arrays, including techniques beyond his current skill.
• Mo Hua recognized that the dojo’s demonstrations taught a special method for deriving and summarizing variations in Array Patterns, and he began learning it.
• Mo Hua concluded that the method derived the Origin of an Array School and that the Five Elements Sect’s true inheritance was the Five Elements Array School.

Mo Hua escaped the Five Elements Sect’s Spirit Shrine and confronted the Five Elements Imp in his Sea of Consciousness. He realized the imp had stolen the Five Elements Array School’s Origin, leaving him poised to claim both the inheritance and the imp.

• Mo Hua used the Five Elements Sect’s Derivation Calculation method to escape the Inheritance Dojo, then disintegrated the Spirit Shrine’s arrays and blasted open its doors.
• Mr. Zhuang and Old Kui discussed Mo Hua’s progress while the grand elder remained unaware that anything had gone wrong in the Spirit Shrine.
• Mo Hua found the Five Elements Imp in his Sea of Consciousness and confronted it about trapping him and plotting to escape.
• The Five Elements Imp transformed into a Five Elements Fierce Ghost using the Five Elements Spirit Array, but Mo Hua questioned how a creature ignorant of arrays could manifest it.
• Mo Hua deduced that the imp had stolen the Origin of Five Elements Arrays from the Inheritance Dojo and realized it likely carried the Five Elements Array School within it.

Mo Hua defeated the Five Elements Fierce Ghost by controlling it with the Spirit Pivot Formation, then learned it had damaged the Five Elements Sect’s ancient inheritance. He realized the ghost had been deceived and parasitized by the Five Elements Source Pattern, which appeared on its forehead as it began to transform.

• The Five Elements Fierce Ghost empowered itself with the Five Elements Spirit Array, but Mo Hua trapped it with the Gold Lock Three-Lotus Earth Fire Compound Array.
• When the fierce ghost survived the attack and broke free, Mo Hua secretly placed five Gold Lock Arrays around it and drew the Spirit Pivot Formation on its chest, taking control of its body.
• Mo Hua forced the fierce ghost to injure itself and answer questions, and it revealed that it had destroyed the Five Elements Sect’s Source Pattern in the Inheritance Dojo.
• Mo Hua realized the fierce ghost could not have known the name Source Pattern unless the pattern itself had told it, and suggested it had been parasitized.
• The Five Elements Source Pattern lit up at the fierce ghost’s Heaven Gate, and Mo Hua recognized it as the ancient inheritance derived by the Five Elements Sect.

Mo Hua suppressed the Five Elements Source Pattern in his Sea of Consciousness, captured it with the Dao Stele’s protection, and placed it in Zhang Quan’s blank Ancestor Portrait. The portrait became a Five Elements Array School Diagram, and its sudden aura alarmed the Five Elements Sect’s elders and Mr. Zhuang.

• The Five Elements Source Pattern took control of the Five Elements Fierce Ghost and spread parasitic Array Patterns through Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Mo Hua used the Five Elements Sect’s derivation method to reverse the spreading patterns and seal them back into the Source Pattern.
• The Fierce Ghost began to crack as a powerful, malicious Divine Thought threatened Mo Hua, but the Dao Stele appeared and suppressed it.
• Mo Hua seized the Source Pattern and decided to store it in Zhang Quan’s blank Ancestor Portrait.
• The Source Pattern entered the portrait, transforming it into a Five Elements Array School Diagram whose aura startled the Sect Masters, elders, and Mr. Zhuang.

Mo Hua secretly learned the Five Elements Spirit Array and escaped the Five Elements Sect’s Spirit Shrine after Mr. Zhuang erased the elders’ memories of what happened. Mr. Zhuang explained the nature of Array Schools and discovered that the Five Elements Source Pattern contained the Five Elements Sect’s accumulated array inheritance, including a rare ancient Absolute Array lineage.

• Mr. Zhuang severed the elders’ memories of the disturbance, then let the grand elder believe Mo Hua had failed to learn the Five Elements Spirit Array.
• Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi left the Spirit Shrine, and Bai Zixi explained that she had knocked Mo Hua unconscious when the Five Elements Imp threatened him.
• Mo Hua admitted to Mr. Zhuang that he had learned the Five Elements Spirit Array and described the Source Pattern and its apparent will.
• Mr. Zhuang explained that Array Schools were methods for understanding array formations, not the Dao itself, and warned Mo Hua against blindly venerating any one school.
• Mr. Zhuang examined the Five Elements Array School Diagram and realized its Source Pattern held thousands of years of the Five Elements Sect’s array inheritance.
• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua that reverse Derivation Calculation could dismantle the Source Pattern and recover the sect’s array diagrams, including its ancient Five Elements Spirit Array inheritance.

Mo Hua safely reverse-calculated the Five Elements Source Pattern until it tried to merge with the Dao Stele, whereupon the Immortal Pattern’s tribulation lightning drove it back. Meanwhile, the Five Elements Sect’s grand elder discovered the Spirit Shrine’s door was gone and feared its inheritance had been stolen.

• Mr. Zhuang warned Mo Hua that studying the Source Pattern required suppressing it, strong Divine Consciousness, and secrecy, and told him to rename the Five Elements Spirit Array to avoid revealing ties to the Five Elements Sect.
• Mo Hua prepared safeguards, asked Bai Zixi to stop him if he acted strangely, and waited until midnight before using the Dao Stele to reverse-calculate the Source Pattern.
• Mo Hua derived many familiar Five Elements arrays and realized his Divine Consciousness limited him to patterns below thirteen marks.
• The Source Pattern made Mo Hua drowsy and sent array patterns into his Sea of Consciousness, attempting to assimilate with the Dao Stele.
• The Dao Stele’s Immortal Pattern released tribulation lightning that erased the invading patterns, forcing the Source Pattern to retreat into the diagram.
• The grand elder found the Spirit Shrine’s main door missing and the little ghost gone, and feared the Five Elements Sect’s inheritance had been taken.

The Grand Elder and Sect Leader Liao discovered that the Spirit Shrine had been emptied, and Sect Leader Liao secretly planned to exploit the crisis before abandoning the Five Elements Sect. Mr. Zhuang agreed to stay, then prepared Mo Hua to attempt Foundation Establishment; a month later, Mo Hua reached the peak of Ninth-Layer Qi Refining and touched the bottleneck.

• The Grand Elder and Sect Leader Liao found the Spirit Shrine missing a door and its hidden inheritance, and Sect Leader Liao persuaded the Grand Elder to keep Mr. Zhuang and his disciples at the sect while investigating.
• After the meeting, Sect Leader Liao revealed that he intended to flee with his accumulated wealth and leave the declining Five Elements Sect behind.
• Two days later, Sect Leader Liao invited Mr. Zhuang to stay at the sect, and Mr. Zhuang accepted.
• Mr. Zhuang told Mo Hua to prepare for Foundation Establishment with Thirteen-Pattern Peak divine sense, since reaching Fourteen-Pattern was too difficult.
• Mo Hua cultivated intensively for a month while Bai Zixi and Bai Zisheng protected him, and he reached the peak of Ninth-Layer Qi Refining and touched the Foundation Establishment bottleneck.

Mo Hua reached the Foundation Establishment bottleneck and discovered a vast Mystery Heaven Array enclosing his Sea of Consciousness, while Mr. Zhuang realized the Heavenly Derivation Art might not have been created for humans. As Mo Hua began studying the array, Aunt Xue arrived at Mr. Zhuang’s summons, and he ordered her to take Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi away from the Five Elements Sect and Lishan City.

• Mo Hua’s cultivation reached perfected ninth-level Qi Refining, but a cocoon-like Grand Array of countless Riddle Arrays formed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Mo Hua asked Mr. Zhuang for advice, and Mr. Zhuang identified the array as the Mystery Heaven Array and urged him to keep his Dao Heart steady.
• After examining Mo Hua’s array, Mr. Zhuang suspected the Heavenly Derivation Art was intended for a monstrous Sin rather than humans and sought a dangerous opportunity to help Mo Hua.
• Mr. Zhuang gave Mo Hua records and diagrams of the Mystery Heaven Array, while Mo Hua grew concerned that his master was preparing for an impending separation.
• Aunt Xue came to Mr. Zhuang’s room after receiving his summons, and he told her to take Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi away from the Five Elements Sect and Lishan City.

As the Five Elements Sect came under attack, Mo Hua realized Master was the real target and the sect’s mountain-protecting array had been secretly changed into a demonic trap. Xuan Sanren demanded an audience with Mr. Zhuang, who reversed the corrupted array and restored the Five Elements Sect’s defenses.

• Mr. Zhuang ordered Mo Hua, Bai Zisheng, and Bai Zixi to leave the next day, and Aunt Xue confirmed that their mother was coming to see him.
• Mo Hua sensed that something had covered the sky, and Aunt Xue recognized the approaching blood-red Soul Refining Banner as a demonic supreme treasure.
• A Demon Sword attacked the Five Elements Sect, whose Grand Elder activated the Five Elements Mountain-Protecting Grand Array to defend the sect.
• The Grand Elder discovered that the array had been secretly altered into the Five Elements Blood-Baleful Grand Array and suspected that Liao Tiande had helped the Demon Sect target Mr. Zhuang.
• Xuan Sanren, a Feather Transformation Realm demonic cultivator, demanded an audience with Mr. Zhuang, who refused and reversed the array back into the Five Elements Mountain-Protecting Grand Array.

As Xuan Sanren’s Demonic Path forces prepared to trap Lishan City, Mr. Zhuang arranged for the Five Elements Sect and his disciples to escape, entrusted them with inheritances and warnings, and privately sent Mo Hua away. Mr. Zhuang watched Mo Hua leave, entrusting the Five Elements Sect’s future to him.

• Xuan Sanren declared that the Underworld Dao Heavenly Secret Lock, Soul Refining Banner, and Chaos Demon Sword would trap Lishan City and leave Mr. Zhuang no escape.
• Mr. Zhuang promised to save the Five Elements Sect, offered to return its inheritance through his disciple, and ordered the grand elder to keep Mo Hua’s connection to the sect secret.
• Mr. Zhuang directed the Five Elements Sect to evacuate Lishan City and gave Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi Jade Slips containing the complete Array Diagrams of the Immortal Heaven Array School.
• Mr. Zhuang gave Mo Hua a Storage Ring, reviewed his array lessons, warned him about Ghost Daoist, and told him to forge his own path in Array Techniques.
• Mr. Zhuang sent Mo Hua away with Aunt Xue, Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and the Five Elements Sect; Mo Hua left in tears while Mr. Zhuang watched unseen and entrusted the sect’s future to him.

Mo Hua and the Five Elements Sect escaped Lishan City after Old Kui drove off Xuan Sanren, but Mo Hua left still grieving for his master. As Mo Hua traveled with Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and Aunt Xue, they discovered Great Lishan’s communications were sealed and were confronted by Golden Core Demonic Cultivators led by a blood-robed Holy Son.

• Old Kui forced Xuan Sanren and the Demonic Cultivators to retreat, then opened a way through the Blood Banner so the Five Elements Sect could leave Lishan City.
• Mo Hua said goodbye to Old Kui, vowed to avenge his master, and parted from the Five Elements Sect with Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and Aunt Xue.
• Xuan Sanren discovered that the Underworld Dao Heavenly Secret Lock had trembled and failed to deduce what it feared.
• Mo Hua declined Bai Zisheng’s invitation to go directly to the Bai Family and chose to return to Immortal City to see his parents first.
• Aunt Xue revealed that the Underworld Dao Heavenly Secret Lock had sealed Great Lishan’s heavenly secrets and cut off communications.
• As the group neared the edge of Great Lishan, Liao Tiande identified Mo Hua and the others to a blood-robed Holy Son among a group of Golden Core Demonic Cultivators.

The Devil Path Holy Son tried to seize Mo Hua to use as leverage against Mr. Zhuang, but Bai Zixi triggered her Life-Bound Longevity Talisman to protect him, killing five Golden Core Demonic Cultivators before the Dharma Image was erased by tribulation lightning. The Holy Son still targeted Mo Hua, but Bai Zisheng triggered his own talisman, and a second Void Insight Dharma Image appeared.

• The Devil Path Holy Son demanded that the Bai siblings leave Mo Hua behind so he could use the boy to bargain with Mr. Zhuang.
• Aunt Xue failed to stop the Golden Core Demonic Cultivators, and Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi stood between them and Mo Hua.
• Bai Zixi threatened to trigger her Life-Bound Longevity Talisman, then summoned its Void Insight Dharma Image and ordered it to kill; it slew five Golden Core Demonic Cultivators before tribulation lightning erased it.
• The Holy Son saw Bai Zixi's revealed appearance and, consumed by jealousy, renewed his order to capture Mo Hua.
• Bai Zisheng appeared beside the Holy Son and stabbed toward his own heart, triggering his Life-Bound Longevity Talisman and summoning another Golden Body Dharma Image.

Bai Zisheng and the Devil Path Holy Son each spent a life-saving talisman in a clash of Dharma Images, drawing attention from Liyuan City and the Central Dao Court. After the Holy Son summoned reinforcements and trapped Mo Hua, Bai Zixi, and Bai Zisheng, a filthy, mysterious figure appeared at the western road junction.

• Bai Zisheng shattered his Life-Bound Longevity Talisman to unleash the Golden Body Dharma Image, while the Holy Son’s Undying Talisman summoned the blood-colored Void Insight Blood Shadow; Heavenly Tribulation erased both Dharma Images.
• The white-robed Chief Administrator in Liyuan City sensed the talisman’s destruction and the Dharma Image clash, then ordered Golden Core cultivators to accompany him to Lishan City after the local Dao Court Office failed to respond.
• At the Central Dao Court, Elder Ge and the Overseer discussed the upheaval in Lishan City, and Elder Ge warned that scheming against Mr. Zhuang and his Senior Martial Brother would be disastrous.
• The Holy Son discovered his Undying Talisman had shattered, while Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi realized their own talismans had been spent; Mo Hua urged them to flee.
• The Holy Son’s reinforcements arrived: more than twenty Golden Core Demonic Cultivators led by a Blood-Robed Old Devil surrounded Mo Hua, Bai Zixi, Bai Zisheng, and Aunt Xue.
• Mo Hua and the Blood-Robed Old Devil sensed someone approaching from the western road junction, where a filthy, unkempt figure appeared in an ill-fitting Taoist robe.

Ghost Daoist arrived and used Dao Heart Planting Demon to drive the Golden Core demonic cultivators into slaughter, then nearly killed the Holy Son before sparing him after learning of his Blood Daoist lineage. He tried to take Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi to find his junior brother, but Mo Hua offered to lead him there and went with him.

• Mo Hua recognized the eerie newcomer as Ghost Daoist, whose aura matched the demons he had encountered before.
• After a Red-Faced Demon Cultivator attacked Ghost Daoist, the phrase “become the daoist” drove the Golden Core demonic cultivators into a deadly frenzy against one another.
• Ghost Daoist’s influence drove Blood-Robed Old Devil to attack the Holy Son, but he regained enough control to destroy his own Golden Core and die without harming him.
• Ghost Daoist stopped short of killing the Holy Son when he claimed descent from the Blood Daoist, then demanded that Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi take him to their junior brother.
• Mo Hua offered to guide Ghost Daoist to his master, and the two left together as Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and Aunt Xue watched helplessly.

Mo Hua followed Ghost Daoist toward Lishan City, hoping to reach his master while relying on his dangerous martial uncle for protection. As they neared the city, they entered a bloody clash between Dao Court and Demon Sect forces, and Mo Hua wondered whether he could learn Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon.

• Mo Hua reasoned that Ghost Daoist would keep him alive until they reached his master, so he continued following him toward Lishan City.
• Mo Hua persuaded Ghost Daoist to stop at a roadside noodle shop, paid for two bowls, and ate both after Ghost Daoist told him to eat.
• Ghost Daoist wondered what secret and Karma Mo Hua’s master had concealed in the boy, while deciding that meeting his junior brother would explain everything.
• Near Lishan City, Mo Hua saw Dao Court and Demon Sect cultivators fighting and scheming against one another amid growing Demonic Qi.
• When cultivators threatened Mo Hua on the road, he hid behind Ghost Daoist, who used Dao Heart Planting Demon to make them collapse or kill one another.
• Watching Ghost Daoist defeat his attackers, Mo Hua wondered whether he could learn Dao Heart Planting Demon.