Recaps

Mo Hua secretly studied the Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon and learned how it spread demonic thoughts through the six faculties, but the Ghost Daoist noticed and restrained himself. On the road to Lishan City, they shared a ruined temple with Young Master Yun and his companions, where Mo Hua overheard a secret about his master that made the Ghost Daoist turn murderous.

• Mo Hua decided to observe Dao Heart Planting Demon so he could understand and guard against the Ghost Daoist, and he inferred that it corrupted a victim’s Dao heart by planting demonic thoughts through the six faculties.
• The Ghost Daoist noticed Mo Hua studying his technique and limited his use of it, leaving Mo Hua to reflect on what he had observed.
• Several days later, Mo Hua and the Ghost Daoist spent the night in a ruined temple, where Young Master Yun, an old man surnamed Wen, and a middle-aged cultivator arrived seeking shelter.
• Mo Hua recognized Young Master Yun and his companions from Nanyue City, but none of them recognized him, and he quietly watched to ensure the Ghost Daoist did not attack them.
• Mo Hua overheard Wen say that his lineage’s old Sect Master had revealed that the secret carried by a certain person involved Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial.
• The Ghost Daoist heard the secret and changed the surrounding aura, opening his eyes and preparing to kill.

Mo Hua interrupted Ghost Daoist’s attempt to make three cultivators kill themselves, allowing them to escape the Dilapidated Temple. He later followed Ghost Daoist into a hidden Demon Palace at Withered Wood Cliff, where the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly began and Xuan Sanren appeared among the terrifying figures on the White Bone Thrones.

• Mo Hua altered the Warm Fire Array, disrupting Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon and giving the gaunt old man, the middle-aged cultivator, and Young Master Yun a chance to flee.
• The three cultivators realized Mo Hua had saved them and decided to leave Great Lishan, fearing the Demon Sect’s gathering forces and the danger surrounding the opportunity.
• More than ten days later, Mo Hua followed Ghost Daoist to Withered Wood Cliff, where an Illusion Array concealed a Demon Palace filled with Demonic Cultivators.
• Mo Hua entered the Demon Palace with Ghost Daoist and learned that the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly was being held there.
• The assembly began as Xuan Sanren and several other powerful figures appeared on the White Bone Thrones, leaving Mo Hua to suspect they were Feather Transformation Realm Devil Ancestors.

Mo Hua attended the Ten Thousand Demon Assembly with Ghost Daoist as the demonic leaders planned to wear down Mr. Zhuang’s Five Elements Mountain-Protecting Grand Array and ambush the Dao Court. As the gathering ended, the Ten Thousand Demon Palace was sealed by arrays and a demon began slaughtering the others, leading Mo Hua to suspect Ghost Daoist had activated Dao Heart Planting Demon.

• Mo Hua identified Xuan Sanren, Poison Venerable, Black Arhat, and Lady Miao as the four Feather Transformation experts at the assembly.
• Xuan Sanren and Poison Venerable explained that Mr. Zhuang’s array could only be worn down, while the demons planned to lure in and attack the Dao Court forces.
• The demonic leaders taunted Ghost Daoist and eyed Mo Hua, but Poison Venerable calmed the gathering and the assembly concluded.
• The Ten Thousand Demon Palace was sealed by array techniques as the demons tried to leave.
• A burly Demon Cultivator suddenly killed another demon and went on a rampage, prompting the Feather Transformation leaders to look toward Ghost Daoist.
• Mo Hua saw Ghost Daoist’s pitch-black pupils and wondered whether he had begun killing through Dao Heart Planting Demon.

Ghost Daoist trapped the Feather Transformation Devil Ancestors in Ten Thousand Demon Palace with a Ghostly Path Heaven-Sealing Array and used Dao Heart Planting Demon to turn hundreds of Golden Core cultivators into weapons against them. After claiming Xuan Sanren’s Mysterious Demon Fetus and using the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation to kill the remaining Devil Ancestors, Ghost Daoist revealed his motive: they had dared to covet his junior brother.

• Ghost Daoist sealed Ten Thousand Demon Palace with a Ghostly Path Heaven-Sealing Array, planted demonic thoughts in the Golden Core cultivators, and caused them to slaughter one another.
• Black Arhat destroyed Ghost Daoist’s body, but the spreading eerie force revived the dead Golden Cores as Ghost Daoists, while Mo Hua recognized that the array used Derivation Calculation.
• The revived Golden Cores attacked the four Feather Transformation Devil Ancestors, and Black Arhat was erased by Tribulation Lightning after using Feather Transformation power.
• Lady Miao died to Tribulation Lightning after Poison Venerable tricked her into losing control, while Xuan Sanren revealed himself to be a Mysterious Demon Fetus afflicted by Dao Heart Planting Demon.
• Ghost Daoist took over Xuan Sanren’s Mysterious Demon Fetus, planted a trace of demonic thought in Poison Venerable, and caused the Heavenly Dao to erase him.
• Standing over the dead in Ten Thousand Demon Palace, Ghost Daoist declared that the Devil Ancestors were trash for coveting his junior brother.

Mo Hua watched the Ghostly Path Heaven-Sealing Array and realized its self-generating patterns shared the same Divine Thought Derivation at the core of Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon. Ghost Daoist carried him toward Lishan City, while Bai Qingcheng reunited with Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi and learned that Mo Hua had been taken in their place.

• Mo Hua studied the Ghostly Path Heaven-Sealing Array and concluded that its derivation and Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon came from the same Divine Thought method.
• Ghost Daoist noticed Mo Hua’s insight, knocked him unconscious, annihilated Ten Thousand Demon Palace with the array, and headed toward Lishan City carrying him.
• Chief Administrator Shangguan escorted Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and Aunt Xue to Qingshan City, where Bai Qingcheng arrived to receive them.
• Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi asked Bai Qingcheng to save Mo Hua, and she learned Ghost Daoist had taken him as their substitute.
• Bai Qingcheng decided to leave with the siblings the next day, then tried and failed to calculate Senior Martial Brother’s fate and committed Mo Hua’s name to memory.

Bai Qingcheng joined the Dao Court cultivators gathered outside Lishan City, where they discussed Ghost Daoist’s destruction of powerful Demonic Path cultivators and the danger Feather Transformations faced under the Heavenly Dao. After Bai Qingcheng revealed that her ancestors had told her to stand by, True Person Situ prepared the camp against Ghost Daoist, but a disciple reporting a daoist’s arrival appeared to become one himself.

• Bai Qingcheng left Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi in a guarded residence in Anshan City before traveling to the Cultivation Camp outside Lishan City.
• The gathered Feather Transformation cultivators discussed the tribulation lightning that had erased Demonic Path cultivators and agreed that they could not safely act within the Third-Grade State Boundary.
• True Person Situ privately asked Bai Qingcheng about her family’s plans, and she told him her ancestors had ordered her to stand by with folded arms.
• True Person Situ speculated that the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial and Mr. Zhuang’s death might be the opening moves in a much larger scheme, then ordered defenses against Ghost Daoist.
• A few days later, a disciple told True Person Situ that a daoist had arrived, then turned with pitch-black pupils and said, “I am the daoist?”

The Ghost Daoist’s Dao Heart Planting Demon devastated the cultivators outside Lishan City, but True Person Situ shielded some with the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp. The Ghost Daoist entered the Five Elements Sect with Mo Hua, where Old Kui died and Mo Hua escaped through the mountain array’s Life Gate; the Ghost Daoist then reached Mr. Zhuang in the Array Repository.

• True Person Situ used the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp to protect the unaffected cultivators while Dao Heart Planting Demon drove others to slaughter one another.
• The Ghost Daoist carried Mo Hua past the Dao Court cultivators and entered Lishan City, followed by Bai Qingcheng and three True Person Feather Transformations.
• The Ghost Daoist entered the Five Elements Mountain-Protecting Grand Array with Mo Hua, and Bai Qingcheng and the three True Person Feather Transformations followed before the entrance closed.
• At the Array Repository, the Ghost Daoist used Blood Daoist’s blood to corrode Old Kui until he became a lifeless wooden sculpture.
• Bai Qingcheng took Mo Hua from the Ghost Daoist and entered the Array Repository, while Mo Hua used Mr. Zhuang’s instructions to calculate the Life Gate and escape the mountain array.
• The Ghost Daoist broke into the fourth floor of the Array Repository, where Mr. Zhuang greeted him as his Senior Martial Brother.

Ghost Daoist killed Mr. Zhuang and took his Innate Dao Bone, revealing that their master had raised Mr. Zhuang as a vessel for the Blood of the Celestial and the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial Diagram. As Mr. Zhuang appeared to die, Bai Qingcheng resolved to seek help from True Person Situ and the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp.

• Ghost Daoist confronted Mr. Zhuang, who accepted his fate and said the sect’s end and his death were inevitable.
• Bai Qingcheng arrived and begged Ghost Daoist to spare Mr. Zhuang, but Ghost Daoist accused her of plotting against him and revealed that their master had also used him.
• Ghost Daoist explained that their master had shattered Mr. Zhuang’s Qi Sea and Sea of Consciousness to force the Innate Dao Bone to absorb the Blood of the Celestial and reveal the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial Diagram.
• Ghost Daoist pierced Mr. Zhuang’s chest, removed his Innate Dao Bone, and escaped as a mysterious figure tried to restrain him with golden chains.
• Bai Qingcheng held Mr. Zhuang as his life faded; after he closed his eyes and stopped responding, she remembered True Person Situ and the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp as a possible way to save him.

True Person Situ used the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp to seal Mr. Zhuang’s death and temporarily prolong his life, while Mo Hua and the Bai siblings kept watch over him. Just before the camp’s departure, Bai Qingcheng realized the Ghost Daoist’s scattered Demon Seeds were a trap, but Mo Hua had already been marked by them.

• Bai Qingcheng persuaded True Person Situ to expend the Qiankun Clear Light Lamp’s lifespan and form the Mysterious Fire Everlasting Array around Mr. Zhuang.
• Mo Hua grieved beside his unconscious master, and Mr. Zhuang briefly opened his eyes before silently closing them again.
• Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi arrived and joined Mo Hua in watching over Mr. Zhuang as Bai Qingcheng prepared to leave the camp.
• Several Dao Soldiers suddenly succumbed to Dao Heart Planting Demon, but True Person Situ detected no sign of the Ghost Daoist and initially believed the danger had passed.
• Bai Qingcheng realized the Ghost Daoist had planted the scattered Demon Seeds for a purpose and rushed to check on her children and Mo Hua.
• Bai Qingcheng found Mo Hua awake in his room with pitch-black pupils.

Mo Hua discovered that Ghost Daoist’s Demon Seed had brought a wisp of the Ghost Daoist into his Sea of Consciousness, where the Mystery Heaven Array kept him at bay. As Ghost Daoist dismantled the array with Heavenly Ghost Calculation, Mo Hua secretly learned the technique, but after the array fell, Ghost Daoist confronted him and realized what he had done.

• Bai Qingcheng and the other Feather Transformations found Mo Hua bearing a deeply planted demonic thought, and True Person Situ decided to trap him rather than kill him.
• Bai Qingcheng shielded Mo Hua beneath the Brocade Mountains and Rivers Umbrella while True Person Situ sealed him inside the God-Sealing Array.
• Inside Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, Ghost Daoist appeared beyond the Mystery Heaven Array and began dismantling it with Heavenly Ghost Calculation.
• Mo Hua recognized the technique, studied Ghost Daoist’s every move, and concluded that Master might have arranged for him to learn it.
• Ghost Daoist dismantled the Mystery Heaven Array, removing Mo Hua’s Foundation Establishment bottleneck, then entered his Sea of Consciousness and attacked him.
• Mo Hua countered Ghost Daoist’s Ghostly Path Array with Heavenly Ghost Calculation, and Ghost Daoist realized Mo Hua had secretly learned the technique.

Mo Hua fought Ghost Daoist inside his Sea of Consciousness, where Ghost Daoist discovered the Dao Stele and tried to uncover its secrets. The chapter ended with Ghost Daoist seeing a terrifying Immortal Heaven Lightning Pattern carved into the stele.

• Ghost Daoist recognized that Mo Hua had learned Heavenly Ghost Calculation and attacked him, but Mo Hua used his speed to survive their clash of Divine Sense.
• Ghost Daoist inferred that the Mystery Heaven Array was Mo Hua’s Foundation Establishment bottleneck and decided to capture him and learn about his cultivation method.
• Ghost Daoist summoned a Black Soul Daoist Robe, but a Dao Stele appeared in Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness and its aura began erasing him.
• Mo Hua used a compound array and then the Five Elements Mountain-Protecting Array to hinder Ghost Daoist as he advanced toward the Dao Stele.
• Ghost Daoist broke through Mo Hua’s defenses and looked at the Dao Stele, where he saw a scarlet Immortal Heaven Lightning Pattern that radiated annihilating power.

Mo Hua used the Immortal Heaven Lightning Pattern to destroy Ghost Daoist’s demonic thought, then refined the remaining Divine Thought and advanced to Fourteen-Pattern Foundation Establishment Divine Consciousness. Outside his Sea of Consciousness, the Feather Transformations saw him recover from Dao Heart Planting Demon and noticed an uncanny change in his gaze.

• Ghost Daoist realized Mo Hua’s deceased Martial Uncle had used his plea about his disciples to lure him into Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, where Tribulation Lightning would kill him.
• Mo Hua confirmed that Ghost Daoist’s demonic thought had been erased, then began refining the dense Ghost Dao Divine Thought left behind.
• Mo Hua absorbed Ghost Daoist’s Divine Thought and insights until his Divine Consciousness reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, forming Fourteen-Pattern Divine Consciousness.
• The Feather Transformations outside Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness sensed his breakthrough, while True Person Situ feared Ghost Daoist had taken over him.
• Mo Hua recovered his clear eyes, leaving the onlookers astonished that he had survived Dao Heart Planting Demon.
• True Person Situ noticed that Mo Hua’s gaze had become both limpid and uncanny.

After Mo Hua recovered from Dao Heart Planting Demon, he learned that saving Mr. Zhuang would require a nearly impossible array technique and vowed to bring his master back to life. He then watched Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi depart for the Bai Family, with Bai Zixi reaching the deck too late to see him before the Cloud Ferry vanished into the clouds.

• Mo Hua convinced the gathered cultivators that meditation had driven away the strange daoist, and they released him after observing him for several days.
• True Person Situ told Bai Qingcheng that Mr. Zhuang’s injuries and dead Celestial Pivot made his revival extraordinarily unlikely, but Bai Qingcheng refused to give up.
• Mo Hua overheard their discussion and vowed to learn the necessary array techniques and save Mr. Zhuang himself.
• Bai Qingcheng refused Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi’s request to bring Mo Hua to the Bai Family, warning that they could not protect him there.
• Mo Hua gave Bai Zisheng a winged Big Dragon and said goodbye as Bai Zisheng boarded the Cloud Ferry.
• Bai Zixi finally went to the deck, but the Cloud Ferry had already departed, and she watched Mo Hua disappear behind the clouds.

Mo Hua successfully established his foundation, but the Heavenly Dao suppressed his surging divine sense, forcing him to reconstruct it through the Mystery Heaven Array and undergo a qualitative transformation. As he left Liyuan City, True Person Situ discovered the power of Mo Hua’s divine sense, while a shadow in the void identified Mo Hua and vowed they would meet again.

• Mo Hua prepared for Foundation Establishment, and True Person Situ reviewed his supplies, advised him, and rented him a Cave Abode in Liyuan City.
• Mo Hua refined tens of thousands of Spirit Stones, reached Foundation Establishment, and increased his divine sense from Fourteen-Pattern to Eighteen-Pattern.
• The Heavenly Dao suppressed Mo Hua’s divine sense, but the Mystery Heaven Array reconstructed it and transformed its nature, laying the foundation for his supreme divine sense.
• Mo Hua emerged from the Cave Abode and prepared to return home; after he left, True Person Situ discovered that Mo Hua’s divine sense had crushed the furnishings and stones inside.
• A shadow in the void traced the loss of a sliver of his Dao Heart Planting Demon to Mo Hua, but a Corpse King interrupted his calculations, and the shadow vowed they would meet again.

Mo Hua returned to Immortal City after more than half a year of traveling, meeting familiar Monster Hunters and a Second-Grade tiger he had once saved along the way. The chapter ended with Mo Hua reuniting with his mother, Liu Ruhua, at the city gate.

• Mo Hua traveled toward Immortal City with Old Zheng’s caravan after repairing its carts’ Array Techniques.
• Monster Hunters recognized Mo Hua with delight, and he reassured Old Zheng that he knew them well.
• Mo Hua sensed a Second-Grade Monster Beast and recognized it as Big Tiger, the tiger he had once fed and saved.
• Big Tiger led Mo Hua to its cave and gave him more than ten Storage Bags in gratitude before he continued toward Immortal City.
• Mo Hua reached the city gate late at night and reunited with his waiting mother, Liu Ruhua.

After returning to Immortal City as a fifteen-year-old Foundation Establishment cultivator and First-Grade Array Master, Mo Hua celebrated with the city’s cultivators and encouraged Elder Yu to pursue further cultivation. He later visited old friends, helped Manager Mo consider a Dao companion for Instructor Yan, and promised Elder Feng to remember his original heart.

• Mo Hua’s return and Foundation Establishment spread through Immortal City, and Mo Shan and Liu Ruhua hosted a crowded banquet at Fortune Meal Pavilion.
• Mo Hua spoke with Elder Yu about growing old, inspiring him to renew his resolve to cultivate and aim for Golden Core.
• Mo Hua visited Instructor Yan and the buried remains of Little Spirit Hidden Sect’s ancestors, then helped Manager Mo examine portraits of possible Dao companions for Instructor Yan.
• Instructor Yan caught Manager Mo and Mo Hua discussing the portraits, and later paused over the portrait of a Female Array Master devoted to arrays.
• Mo Hua delivered food and pill books to Elder Feng, who urged him never to forget that even the humblest people were living beings deserving care.

Mo Hua returned to Immortal City, reconnected with old friends, and visited Big Tiger before confronting the loneliness left by the people who had departed. At Zuowang Abode, he reflected on his Foundation Establishment strengths and shortcomings and realized he needed basic second-grade spell and array instruction.

• Mo Hua visited Chief Administrator Zhou, learned Zhang Lan had returned to his clan, and heard that Da Hu and two friends had joined the Great Wilderness Sect.
• Mo Hua brought dried fish to Big Tiger in Great Black Mountain, and Big Tiger secretly ate them before happily accepting the rest.
• Liu Ruhua comforted Mo Hua as he spoke of Zi Sheng, Zi Xi, and Mr. Zhuang being far away, and Mo Hua visited the empty Zuowang Abode the next day.
• Mo Hua assessed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and found his spiritual power, physique, and collection of second-grade spells lacking.
• Mo Hua considered the value of cultivation inheritances, reviewed his advanced array knowledge, and recognized that he needed basic instruction in second-grade arrays to become a Second-Grade Array Master.

Mo Hua obtained inherited materials for Second-Grade Arrays and mastered the Second-Grade Bright Fire Formation on the Dao Stele, but he lacked the supplies to draw it in practice. Master Luo and Master Qian gave him their scarce Second-Grade Spirit Ink and explained that powerful clans and sects controlled its production and kept it expensive.

• Mo Hua visited Manager Mo seeking Second-Grade Array materials, and Manager Mo lent him an ancestral Second-Grade Array Pattern Catalog.
• Instructor Yan returned and gave Mo Hua the Little Spirit Hidden Sect’s Introduction to Second-Grade Arrays and Illustrated Second-Grade Arrays manuals.
• Mo Hua studied the manuals and repeatedly practiced the Second-Grade Bright Fire Formation on the Dao Stele until he completed it.
• Mo Hua searched Immortal City for Second-Grade Spirit Ink but found none, then went to Qian Mansion to ask Master Luo and Master Qian for some.
• Master Luo and Master Qian gave Mo Hua their seven bottles of Second-Grade Spirit Ink and explained that Great Clans and great sects monopolized its formulas and ingredients, keeping it costly and restricting the rise of Array Masters from the lower ranks.

Mo Hua learned how difficult Second-Grade Array mastery was, then practiced the Thorn Array while confronting the shortage of materials needed to draw arrays. After discovering that Big Tiger’s Storage Bags held a trove taken from cultivators who had come seeking Master, Mo Hua found a map pointing to Ganxue Prefecture, a celebrated center of cultivation and learning.

• Master Luo explained the pattern requirements, assessments, and Divine Consciousness needed to advance through the ranks of Second-Grade Array Masters, and Mo Hua wondered whether he could reach the initial tier in Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Mo Hua reunited with Zhou'er, asked Master Qian about his array studies, and brought him home for lunch before Aunt Jiang took him back.
• Mo Hua practiced the Second-Grade Thorn Array on the Dao Stele but ran out of Spirit Ink, Array Paper, and other supplies needed to draw arrays in practice.
• Mo Hua opened the Storage Bags Big Tiger had given him, found cultivation techniques, pills, Spirit Stones, and other goods, and concluded their owners had come to Immortal City seeking Master before dying in a fight on Great Black Mountain.
• Mo Hua found a map of the Nine Provinces marked with Ganxue Prefecture in Gan Province, described as a leading center for pursuing the Dao.

Mo Hua learned that Ganxue Prefecture’s sects favored elite spirit roots and noble backgrounds, making admission seem impossible, but he discovered a Qiandao Sect entry token his master had left in his Storage Ring. After his mother urged him to pursue cultivation and repay his master, Mo Hua decided to prepare for the journey to Ganxue Prefecture.

• Mo Hua asked Chief Administrator Zhou about Ganxue Prefecture and learned that its sects demanded strong foundations, high-grade spirit roots, and often distinguished family backgrounds.
• Mo Hua found a Jade Slip in his Storage Ring bearing the Qiandao Sect’s name and a promise that its holder could not be refused entry, and he realized his master had left it for him.
• Mo Hua worried that leaving Immortal City would separate him from his parents, and Liu Ruhua encouraged him to go, pursue the Dao, and remember his debt to Mr. Zhuang.
• Liu Ruhua told Mo Hua that his parents wanted him to follow his ambitions and live safely, and Mo Hua resolved to enter Qiandao Sect and prepare carefully before departing for Gan Province.

Mo Hua developed a method to control Spirit Ink with Divine Thought and draw arrays directly on the earth, then practiced it until he could draw the Thirteen-Pattern Five Elements Source Array. He sought stronger Second-Grade arrays and finally derived a Thirteen-Pattern Earth Fire Array from the Five Elements Source Pattern.

• Mo Hua renamed the Five Elements Spirit Array the Five Elements Source Array and found that its Fire Source Array amplified his Fireball Technique by nearly twenty percent.
• Mo Hua began practicing Divine Thought Ink Manipulation and Drawing Arrays on Earth in the depths of Great Black Mountain, with Big Tiger nearby.
• Mo Hua learned to draw arrays with Spirit Ink on the ground and, after more than half a month, became proficient enough to draw the Thirteen-Pattern Five Elements Source Array.
• Mo Hua considered using the Heavenly Ghost Calculation to speed up his drawing but could not work out how to apply it.
• Mo Hua burned incense, washed his hands, and used Derivation Calculation on the Five Elements Source Pattern, uncovering a Thirteen-Pattern Second-Grade Earth Fire Array.

Mo Hua learned the Second-Grade Thirteen-Pattern Earth Fire Array, teamed up with Big Tiger to kill a Kui Wood Wolf, and used its blood to make Spirit Ink. After testing the array’s explosive power, he realized that drawing arrays on earth could become a formidable combat technique if he learned to do it quickly.

• Mo Hua learned and practiced the Second-Grade Thirteen-Pattern Earth Fire Array on the Dao Stele, then decided he needed Second-Grade Monster Blood to make Spirit Ink and test it.
• Mo Hua persuaded Big Tiger to help hunt a Kui Wood Wolf, and the pair ambushed it near its lair.
• Big Tiger fought the Kui Wood Wolf while Mo Hua attacked from hiding with Fireball Techniques amplified by a Fire Source Absolute Array, and together they killed it.
• Mo Hua extracted twenty bottles of the Kui Wood Wolf’s blood, while Big Tiger ate its Inner Core Embryo and grew stronger.
• Mo Hua made Second-Grade Spirit Ink from the wolf’s blood and painstakingly drew the Earth Fire Array beside Big Tiger’s cave.
• Mo Hua activated the array, which detonated with enough force to scorch the surroundings and, he realized, could heavily wound an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Mo Hua and Big Tiger hunted Second-Grade Monster Beasts with Earth Fire Array traps, earning Spirit Stones from their leftover materials before the beasts grew scarce. Seeking to set arrays faster, Mo Hua experimented with Heavenly Ghost Calculation and divided his Divine Thought, producing a shadowy robe of ink around himself.

• Mo Hua and Big Tiger trapped and killed Second-Grade Monster Beasts, using their blood for Spirit Ink while Big Tiger ate their meat and swallowed their inner cores.
• Mo Hua collected the beasts’ bones, claws, fangs, hides, and fur, and Mo Shan helped him sell the damaged materials for several thousand Spirit Stones.
• The Monster Hunters realized Mo Hua might have caused the disturbances in the Deep Mountain, and Mo Hua admitted he and Big Tiger had killed eight or nine Second-Grade Monster Beasts.
• Second-Grade Monster Beasts began avoiding Mo Hua and Big Tiger, leaving the Deep Mountain quieter and making hunts safer for the Monster Hunters.
• Mo Hua studied how to draw arrays faster and decided to use Dao Heart Planting Demon as a reference for understanding Heavenly Ghost Calculation.
• Mo Hua divided his Divine Thought using the Ghostly Path method and found a pitch-black Ink Shadow draped over him like a robe.

Mo Hua prepared to leave Immortal City for Gan Province to study, testing how Heavenly Ghost Calculation accelerated his array drawing and receiving a Second-Grade Flowing Water Step manual from Zhang Lan. After saying goodbye to his family, friends, and the big tiger, he departed for Cloud Ferry City.

• Mo Hua used Heavenly Ghost Calculation to separate an Ink Shadow and completed a Second-Grade Earth Fire Array in a dozen breaths, though the effort nearly emptied his divine sense.
• Chief Administrator Zhou gave Mo Hua a Cloud Ferry Token for his journey to Gan Province and advised him about using his Bronze Waist Token and Merit Points.
• Mo Hua discovered that Zhang Lan had left him a sealed scroll containing the Second-Grade Flowing Water Step manual, then began learning the movement technique.
• Instructor Yan married Shen Ru, and Mo Hua attended their wedding, where Shen Ru learned that he was already a First-Grade Array Master.
• Mo Hua said farewell to his parents and the people of Immortal City, then departed toward Cloud Ferry City and waved goodbye to the big tiger in Deep Mountain.

Mo Hua traveled by Cloud Ferry to Gan Province and set out alone for Ganxue Prefecture, where he hoped to enter Qiandao Sect. After learning that his weak foundation and middle-lower-grade Spirit Root might make admission difficult, he continued into the mountains, newly warned about human traffickers targeting young cultivators.

• Mo Hua spent three months aboard the Cloud Ferry studying Array Techniques, practicing on the Dao Stele, and cautiously avoiding suspicious travelers before arriving in Gan Province.
• Mo Hua disembarked at Cangdu City, sensed that Gan Province's Heavenly Dao Grand Array differed from the one over Li Prefecture, and set out alone toward Ganxue Prefecture.
• Mo Hua traveled through safer Second-Grade Prefectures on foot, practicing Flowing Water Step, accepting occasional help from caravans, and avoiding demonic beasts and Evil Cultivators.
• A noodle-shop owner in a small town told Mo Hua that Qiandao Sect was difficult to enter and doubted his chances because of his weak Foundation Establishment and middle-lower-grade Spirit Root.
• The old man warned Mo Hua about human traffickers who targeted young cultivators, and Mo Hua thanked him before continuing alone toward the mountains.