Recaps

Mo Hua experimented with Grandpa Kui’s method for strengthening the Fireball Technique, eventually forcing two simultaneous fireballs to collide and unleash a catastrophic blast. The chapter ended with Mo Hua unconscious, the Spell Puppet obliterated, and the Daoist Arts Chamber badly damaged.

• Mo Hua rented a private Daoist Arts Chamber and tested compressing a Fireball Technique, but his fist-sized fireball was slow and only modestly stronger.
• Mo Hua used Heavenly Ghost Calculation to cast two Fireball Techniques simultaneously, then tried and failed to fuse them through careful pressure and rotation.
• After studying spell structures, Mo Hua concluded that the fireballs’ shared origin might allow fusion despite their repelling structures.
• Mo Hua drove the two fireballs together at high speed, triggering a violent explosion of uncontrolled Lingli that knocked him unconscious.
• The Elder of Daoist Arts found Mo Hua injured, the chamber scorched and cracked, and the Spell Puppet completely destroyed.

Mo Hua recovered from the injuries he suffered when his improvised Fireball Technique destroyed a Spell Puppet, while Elder Murong and his visitors helped him recuperate. The Elder of Daoist Arts explained the principles behind Mo Hua’s dangerous spell experiment, revealing a connection to Array Disintegration, and finally told Mo Hua that his surname was Yi.

• An elder alchemist treated Mo Hua’s wounds and warned the Elder of Daoist Arts that Old Master Xun would blame him, while they puzzled over how Mo Hua had destroyed the Spell Puppet.
• Mo Hua woke in Elder Murong’s care and learned he could not use spiritual power for half a month or hold a brush for seven days; Yu'er, Murong Caiyun, Shangguan Xu, and fellow disciples visited him.
• Elder Xun urged Mo Hua to focus on Array Techniques rather than dangerous spells, and the Elder of Daoist Arts later asked what Mo Hua had cast in the Daoist Arts Chamber.
• Mo Hua explained that he had tried to fuse two Fireball Techniques, prompting the Elder of Daoist Arts to describe how forced aggregation could collapse spell formulas and unleash destructive spiritual energy.
• Mo Hua recognized the principle as akin to Array Disintegration, and the Elder of Daoist Arts ended their conversation by revealing that his surname was Yi.

After injuring himself while experimenting with Fireball Fusion, Mo Hua sought Elder Yi’s advice and learned that spells involving Lingli transformation were dangerous forbidden arts. He found a hidden title in Jiang Laoda’s list that seemed connected to such an inheritance: “Fire Buddha.”

• Mo Hua recovered from his injuries and realized his unstable Fireball Fusion needed ideas from existing spell structures.
• Mo Hua asked Elder Yi about dangerous spells, and Elder Yi explained that Lingli-transformation techniques were sealed as forbidden arts with serious risks and strict sect prohibitions.
• Mo Hua decided to study forbidden-art principles without secretly learning any Void Gate technique, then searched Jiang Laoda’s list for a possible inheritance.
• Mo Hua noticed a faint causal sign on the Jade Slip and suspected that a hidden forbidden-art inheritance had been concealed in the list.
• Mo Hua found concealed seals among the list’s blank spaces and spent three days decrypting them, uncovering the title “Fire Buddha.”

Mo Hua questioned Gu Changhuai about the elusive Fire Buddha and learned that the dangerous Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator practiced the forbidden Meteor Fire Technique. He then joined Murong Caiyun and the others in Luanshan City, where they tracked the Flower-Plucking Thief, Flower Young Master, to the bedroom of the Wang Family patriarch’s lawful wife.

• Mo Hua asked around about Fire Buddha and learned nothing until he questioned Gu Changhuai at the Dao Court Office.
• Gu Changhuai explained that Fire Buddha was a murderous Foundation Establishment Late Stage Evil Cultivator who practiced the forbidden Meteor Fire Technique, then warned Mo Hua not to pursue him.
• Mo Hua waited for Murong Caiyun and joined her, Senior Brother Feng, and the others on an assignment to catch Flower Young Master in Luanshan City.
• Murong Caiyun told Mo Hua that Flower Young Master had harvested several female disciples who still defended him despite their injuries.
• Mo Hua used his Divine Consciousness and a Derivation Calculation of Karma to follow Flower Young Master’s trail to the bedroom of the Wang Family patriarch’s lawful wife.

After Mo Hua and his companions captured Flower Young Master, he overheard a group at a tea house discussing the missing Hua Liulang. He recognized their leader as the Fire Buddha, leaving him to face a dangerous new discovery while waiting for his companions.

• Murong Caiyun and Hua Qianqian exposed the Wang Family Matriarch's affair with Flower Young Master, while Wang Family cultivators obstructed Ouyang Feng and Shangguan Xu as the thief escaped.
• Mo Hua tracked Flower Young Master to a cave outside Luanshan City, where he trapped him with Water Prison Technique and helped his companions capture him.
• The group confiscated Flower Young Master's belongings, escorted him toward the Dao Court Office, and returned stolen personal items to the women he had harmed.
• While waiting at a tea house outside the city, Mo Hua overheard four cultivators complain that Hua Liulang had missed an appointment.
• Mo Hua examined the group's kindly-faced leader and recognized the red kasaya markings and burn scars associated with the Fire Buddha.

Mo Hua encountered Fire Buddha and three other wanted Sinful Cultivators at a tea house, then used deception and his Movement Technique to evade them. The four pursued him into the mountain woods, where he disappeared from sight.

• Mo Hua recognized Fire Buddha as a dangerous Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator and tried to leave the tea house without drawing attention.
• Fire Buddha’s companions questioned Mo Hua, and Mo Hua identified them as Blood Woodcutter, Yin Thunder Child, and Ghost-Faced Baleful from Jiang Laoda’s list.
• Fire Buddha ordered Qiao the Fifth to kill Mo Hua, but Mo Hua dodged the attackers’ strikes and escaped their encirclement with a burst of Fireball Techniques.
• Fire Buddha blocked Mo Hua’s path in the woods and showed the two fireball-like cores of his Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique.
• Mo Hua feigned a powerful dual-fireball attack, used the resulting dust to escape, and vanished into the mountain woods despite the four cultivators pursuing him.

Mo Hua escaped an encounter with Fire Buddha and three other dangerous cultivators, then reported them to Gu Changhuai at the Dao Court Office. Several days later, Murong Caiyun told Mo Hua that Fire Buddha had wiped out the Xie Family of Bishan City.

• Fire Buddha and the other three searched the forest for Mo Hua, then left without finding him and wondered how he had recognized them.
• Mo Hua reached Luanshan City, met up with Murong Caiyun, Hua Qianqian, Ouyang Feng, and Shangguan Xu, and returned with them to Ganxue Prefecture.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that he had encountered Fire Buddha and identified the four cultivators, prompting Gu Changhuai to dispatch inspectors to investigate.
• Mo Hua returned to the sect and asked Murong Caiyun to gather information about Fire Buddha's plans.
• Murong Caiyun told Mo Hua that Fire Buddha had burned the Xie Family of Bishan City alive, leaving no survivors.

After learning that Fire Buddha had exterminated the Xie Family, Mo Hua became determined to obtain the forbidden Meteor Fire Technique and decided to seek Gu Changhuai’s help. He accompanied Yu'er home to visit Wenren Wan, then asked Gu Changhuai to bring him along on the hunt and revealed that he had a Dao Court Office identity.

• Murong Caiyun told Mo Hua that Fire Buddha had exterminated the Xie Family, while the Dao Court Office kept the investigation secret and would not issue a sect mission against him.
• Mo Hua resolved to obtain Fire Buddha’s Meteor Fire Technique and settled on using Gu Changhuai to get involved in the hunt, despite the danger.
• Mo Hua went to Gu Changhuai’s Inspector Office but found that Gu Changhuai had left to apprehend Sinful Cultivators.
• During the ten-day break, Mo Hua accompanied Yu'er to visit Wenren Wan, who was delighted to see her son healthy and free of nightmares.
• After Wenren Wan left them alone, Mo Hua asked Gu Changhuai to bring him along to hunt Fire Buddha, then showed him a Bronze Waist Token and claimed he also had a Dao Court Office identity.

Mo Hua convinced Gu Changhuai to let him assist the Dao Court Office in hunting Fire Buddha, then identified Flower Young Master as a possible link to the massacre of the Xie Family. When they reached Luanshan City to question him, they found Flower Young Master dead in his cell, suggesting the Dao Court Office had a mole.

• Mo Hua showed Gu Changhuai his Dao Court Office token and negotiated permission to help pursue Fire Buddha in exchange for Dao Court Office Merit Points.
• Gu Changhuai explained how Fire Buddha and dozens of Sinful Cultivators had trapped and slaughtered the Xie Family, then vanished from the sealed Binding Array.
• Mo Hua revealed that Flower Young Master, who had been captured after encountering Fire Buddha, might have been connected to the Xie Family massacre.
• Gu Changhuai took Mo Hua to Luanshan City to question Flower Young Master, but they found him dead in his Dao Prison cell.
• Mo Hua asked Gu Changhuai whether the Dao Court Office had a mole, and Gu Changhuai said nothing.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai investigated Flower Young Master’s suspicious death, then traveled to Bishan City to examine the Xie Family ruins. After Mo Hua identified how the estate’s Array Technique had been altered, Gu Changhuai let him enter, where Mo Hua suddenly saw a horrifying vision of the massacre.

• Mo Hua secretly used Ghost Derivation Calculation on Flower Young Master but found no trace of Karma, while Gu Changhuai questioned the Dao Prison Inspectors about the death.
• Gu Changhuai searched Flower Young Master’s belongings and discovered a clue on a Jade Slip, but refused to tell Mo Hua what he had found.
• Mo Hua persuaded Gu Changhuai to take him to Bishan City, and they set out the next morning for the Xie Family ruins.
• Mo Hua identified the estate’s original Second-Grade Metal-Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array and deduced that its altered patterns had turned it into a Second-Grade “Burial” Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array.
• Gu Changhuai used his Gold Waist Token to let Mo Hua enter the sealed estate, where Mo Hua saw a vision of the Xie Family’s slaughter in a sea of fire.

Mo Hua witnessed the Xie Family’s slaughter through lingering memories and saw their corpses undergo a trace of Great Dao Sinful Mutation before the Corpse King destroyed them. After searching the ruins with Gu Changhuai, he found black residue carrying the aura of an evil god, suggesting the massacre concealed a deeper secret.

• Mo Hua used Heavenly Calculation to witness the Xie Family’s massacre and saw the slain cultivators transform into sin-corrupted Demons beneath a sea of fire that concealed the truth.
• The sin-corrupted Demons attacked Mo Hua, but his Corpse King and its horde annihilated them before Mo Hua ordered the restless corpses to stand down.
• Mo Hua woke beside Gu Changhuai and concealed what he had seen, then searched the burned Xie Family estate with him.
• Mo Hua used his memory of the vision to locate a hidden pavilion courtyard on the Xie Family’s architectural map.
• Mo Hua followed a faint scent to black residue in the courtyard, recognized the aura of an evil god, and Gu Changhuai sealed samples for the Dao Court Office to examine.

After leaving the Xie Family estate, Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai returned to the Gu Family, where Gu Changhuai gave Mo Hua a Message Token. Back at Void Gate, Mo Hua used it to question Gu Changhuai about the erased Message Token from Flower Young Master and decided to study how to restore its Magnetic Patterns.

• Mo Hua poured strong liquor before the Xie Family gates and vowed to make Fire Buddha die alongside the slaughtered Xie Family cultivators.
• Wenren Wan scolded Gu Changhuai for returning late, then took Mo Hua and Yu'er back to Void Gate after dinner.
• Gu Changhuai gave Mo Hua a custom Second-Grade Message Token, and Mo Hua quickly tucked it away before Gu Changhuai could reconsider.
• After returning to Void Gate, Mo Hua repeatedly messaged Gu Changhuai and asked about the black residue and Flower Young Master's erased Message Token.
• Gu Changhuai explained that he had sent Flower Young Master's Message Token to Heavenly Pivot Pavilion for restoration, and Mo Hua inferred how the process worked.
• Mo Hua decided to study Primal Magnetism Arrays and learn to restore Magnetic Patterns himself.

Mo Hua learned to interpret Fixed-Formula Magnetic Patterns and used them to restore erased messages from Message Tokens. After Uncle Gu asked him to visit the Gu Family for news about Fire Buddha, Mo Hua restored Bald Eagle’s token and found records of spirit livestock purchases that raised a disturbing suspicion.

• Mo Hua dismantled Uncle Gu’s Message Token, studied its magnetic patterns, and asked Elder Xun about the meanings of Fixed-Formula Magnetic Patterns.
• Elder Xun secretly gave Mo Hua a booklet of annotations and explained that Fixed-Formula Magnetic Patterns worked like encoded writing.
• After studying for half a month, Mo Hua reconstructed Uncle Gu’s erased messages and confirmed his method worked.
• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua to visit the Gu Family on the ten-day rest to hear about clues concerning Fire Buddha.
• Mo Hua restored Bald Eagle’s Message Token and found records of spirit livestock being acquired in several cities, prompting a chilling suspicion.

Mo Hua restored Flower Young Master's Message Token and uncovered clues linking Fire Buddha's gang to a meeting at a Rouge Shop in Bishan City. While watching the suspicious shop with Gu Changhuai, Mo Hua recognized its supposed customers as one cultivator he had previously caught and sent to the Dao Prison.

• Mo Hua concealed Bald Eagle's Message Token after realizing its accounts recorded a large-scale cultivator-trafficking operation, and decided to investigate only when he was stronger.
• Mo Hua proved to Gu Changhuai that he could restore erased messages, then restored Flower Young Master's Message Token and found references to Hua Laoliu, a Young Master, and a Rouge Shop in Bishan City.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai went to Bishan City and watched a suspicious Rouge Shop, where Mo Hua realized its different customers were actually the same cultivator.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that he had previously caught the cultivator posing as customers and thrown him into the Dao Prison.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai tracked down Jia Ren, a shapeshifting Duanjin Gate cultivator suspected of involvement in the Xie Family massacre and Fire Buddha’s disappearance. They captured him and found bloodstained weapons and discarded Xie Family belongings, but Jia Ren refused to talk until he recognized Mo Hua.

• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that Jia Ren had once been arrested for the Xie Family theft and Duanjin Gate betrayal, but Gu learned Jia Ren had been released according to the rules after both accusations were withdrawn.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai watched Jia Ren discard Storage Bags in ravines, then followed him into the northern mountains when a patrol disrupted his routine.
• Gu Changhuai trapped and subdued Jia Ren with poisoned shackles and Sonic Blast Arrays, preventing him from escaping or killing himself.
• Gu Changhuai and Mo Hua searched Jia Ren’s Storage Bags and found bloodstained weapons and everyday Spirit Artifacts that Mo Hua identified as belonging to the Xie Family.
• Gu Changhuai questioned Jia Ren and used a branding iron when he stayed silent, but Jia Ren erupted in fury after recognizing Mo Hua and shouted at him.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai tortured Jia Ren with Mo Hua’s improved Iron Plate, but a Silence Curse kept him from revealing anything about Fire Buddha or the Xie Family. They found Jia Ren’s hidden storage chamber and unsealed a message token whose recovered words pointed to “Bishan Demon Cave, Heavenly Outer Grotto-Heaven.”

• Mo Hua recognized Jia Ren as the first person he had tested his Iron Plate on, and Gu Changhuai forced Jia Ren to kneel on its improved Five Elements Array until he agreed to talk.
• Jia Ren’s Silence Curse prevented him from speaking or writing about Fire Buddha and the Xie Family, but he revealed that his real Storage Bag was hidden behind the Secret Chamber in Bishan City’s Rouge Shop.
• Gu Changhuai’s Gu Family Inspectors took custody of Jia Ren, while Gu Changhuai and Mo Hua searched the Rouge Shop and Mo Hua dismantled the array sealing its secret chamber.
• Mo Hua identified a hidden Earth Seal Array concealing a Primal Magnetism Array mechanism, then safely retrieved Jia Ren’s Storage Bag from the hidden compartment.
• Gu Changhuai found a sealed Message Token among the Storage Bag’s contents, and Mo Hua deciphered it to reveal the words “Bishan Demon Cave, Heavenly Outer Grotto-Heaven.”

Mo Hua deduced that Fire Buddha and his followers were hiding in a concealed Demon Den in Bishan City, and Gu Changhuai’s investigation found its entrance at Hanging Lone Mountain. Gu agreed to let Mo Hua help inspect the arrays, and Mo Hua secured seven days away from class to join the effort, determined to capture Fire Buddha and obtain the Meteor Fire Technique.

• Mo Hua ruled out teleportation and reasoned that Fire Buddha had escaped the Xie Family massacre using a Concealment Array, possibly to hide in the Bishan Demon Cave.
• Gu Changhuai explained how Storage Bags gained their space from Azure Sky Silkworm silk, and Mo Hua drew on his experience with hidden strongholds to suggest where the Demon Den might be.
• Gu Changhuai initially sent Mo Hua back to Void Gate, but later admitted that the Dao Court Office had found the Demon Den’s entrance at Hanging Lone Mountain and could not safely enter because of its arrays and Demonic Cultivators.
• Mo Hua persuaded Gu Changhuai to let him help inspect the Demon Den’s arrays, then convinced Elder Xun to approve five days of leave by saying the Dao Court Office had invited him to draw a difficult array.
• Mo Hua received his leave approval and resolved to help capture Fire Buddha within seven days so he could obtain the Meteor Fire Technique formula.

Mo Hua joined Gu Changhuai’s mission to capture Fire Buddha and discovered that a Second-Grade High-Level Array Master guarded the Demon Den. He persuaded Gu Changhuai to let him accompany the team across the hidden bridge, and they set out under concealment.

• Mo Hua met Gu Changhuai at the Dao Court Office, changed into oversized standard robes, and overheard Inspector Xiao pressure Gu Changhuai to close Fire Buddha’s case by arresting people.
• Mo Hua learned that the Dao Court Office’s Array Masters could not handle the hidden routes and arrays around the Demon Den, and he assured Gu Changhuai he could help.
• Gu Changhuai led Mo Hua, Gu An, and Gu Quan to Sky-Line Gorge, where Mo Hua detected a Second-Grade Nineteen-Pattern Concealment Array and concluded Fire Buddha had a Second-Grade High-Level Array Master.
• Mo Hua warned that a Small Primal Magnetism Array on the hidden bridge could alert Fire Buddha, then convinced Gu Changhuai that his array skills were needed on the mission.
• Gu Changhuai gave each of them a Water Stealth Jade, reminded Mo Hua to protect himself, and led the concealed group onto the stone bridge toward the Demon Den.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai infiltrated the Demon Den, discovered it was a Demon Sect stronghold, and searched its Demon Palace for Fire Buddha. After patrols repeatedly returned as if alerted to their presence, Mo Hua found a concealed Primal Magnetism Array and realized the palace was being monitored by a network of such arrays.

• Mo Hua guided Gu Changhuai, Gu An, and Gu Quan across the array-filled stone bridge and reconstructed the Demon Den’s outer arrays to find a quiet way inside.
• Mo Hua used Mountain-Opening Arrays to tunnel through a weak point in the rock, and the group entered a vast Demon Palace built inside the mountain.
• Gu Changhuai identified the site as a Demon Sect stronghold and decided to investigate for Fire Buddha rather than return for reinforcements.
• Mo Hua and the others cautiously searched the Outer Palace but found dense patrols and demon dogs blocking their way toward the Inner Palace.
• After patrols returned twice to search their hiding place, Mo Hua discovered a concealed Primal Magnetism Array and inferred that a network of arrays was monitoring the Demon Palace.

Mo Hua discovered the Yuan Magnetic Compound Array monitoring the Demon Palace and found its secret control chamber, where an Evil Array Master guarded the main hub. He returned to Gu Changhuai and the others, and they prepared to assassinate the array master so they could take control of the compound array.

• Mo Hua realized the Demon Palace’s Primal Magnetism Arrays were coordinated by a Yuan Magnetic Compound Array, then proposed locating its hub instead of withdrawing.
• Mo Hua traced the array’s magnetic flows to a hidden passage and crawled through it to find the secret chamber containing the main control Array Hub.
• Mo Hua spotted a Second-Grade High-Tier Evil Array Master monitoring the Demon Palace and decided he had to be killed before they could tamper with the compound array.
• Mo Hua returned to Gu Changhuai, Gu An, and Gu Quan and reported the chamber’s location and its guard.
• Gu Changhuai prepared a poisoned Short Blade, while Mo Hua gave Gu An a Thousand-Jun Rod and instructed the group on how to assassinate the Evil Array Master.
• The three Dao Court Office cultivators followed Mo Hua toward the secret chamber to carry out the assassination.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai’s group assassinated the Evil Array Master guarding the Demon Palace’s Primal Magnetism Array Hub, then Mo Hua studied the compound arrays and took control of the hub. The chapter ended with Mo Hua seeing the entire Demon Palace through its array network and declaring it his.

• Mo Hua led Gu Changhuai, Gu An, and Gu Quan through the patrols and unlocked the Array Hub Privy Chamber.
• Gu Changhuai stabbed the Evil Array Master while Gu An disrupted his attacks, and Mo Hua used an Array School Diagram to devour the Evil Array Master’s projected Divine Consciousness before Gu Changhuai killed him.
• Mo Hua and the others secured the chamber, and Gu Changhuai sealed away the strange eye steeped in the Evil Array Master’s wine.
• Mo Hua examined the Evil Array Master’s Primal Magnetism manuals and learned the principles of the Spirit-Vision compound array.
• Mo Hua forced his Divine Consciousness through the array hub’s chaotic Magnetic Flow and took control of the Demon Palace’s Primal Magnetism network.

Mo Hua used the Demon Palace’s Primal Magnetism array to guide Gu Changhuai, Gu An, and Gu Quan in secretly killing Demonic Cultivators and planned to surround the Inner Palace. While impersonating the dead array master and juggling the victims’ message tokens, he accidentally cursed at someone who appeared to be Fire Buddha.

• Mo Hua discovered that Fire Buddha and the Inner Palace were hidden from the array’s surveillance, while more than four hundred Demonic Cultivators occupied the Demon Palace.
• Mo Hua proposed clearing the Outer and Middle Palaces through stealth killings before Gu Changhuai summoned reinforcements to surround the Inner Palace.
• Mo Hua used the Spirit-Vision Compound Array to guide Gu Changhuai, Gu An, and Gu Quan as they silently killed Demonic Cultivators and concealed the deaths.
• Mo Hua monitored the Book Demon Tokens, impersonated Master Yuan, and sent replies through the tokens of dead Demonic Cultivators to keep their disappearance secret.
• Mo Hua began cursing Demonic Cultivators through their tokens using insults he had learned from Elder Yu.
• A correspondent addressed Mo Hua as Master Yuan and spoke of greed, anger, delusion, purity, and evil consequences, leading Mo Hua to suspect he had just cursed Fire Buddha.

Mo Hua impersonated Master Yuan to speak with Fire Buddha, then worked with Gu Changhuai to retreat from the Demon Palace after their assassinations were noticed. Fire Buddha discovered the dead cultivators and revealed that he wanted to absorb their Killing Intent to cultivate Fire Baleful Qi.

• Mo Hua convinced Fire Buddha he was Master Yuan by discussing arrays, wine, and Buddhist Dharma, while Fire Buddha offered to send him blood wine made from High-Grade Spirit Root sacrifices.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that Fire Buddha had contacted him, and Gu Changhuai ordered an immediate retreat while their group continued killing Demonic Cultivators.
• Mo Hua intercepted Fire Buddha's message about growing Killing Intent and warned Gu Changhuai, then locked the Compound Array and left the Demon Palace with Gu Changhuai and the other two.
• Mo Hua and his companions escaped through a mountain cave after killing the gate guards and tampering with the gate array.
• Qiao the Sixth found the Outer Palace empty and discovered the dead cultivators' remains in the Rotting River, then alerted Fire Buddha.
• Fire Buddha emerged from the Inner Palace, sensed the dense Killing Intent, and lamented that he had not killed the cultivators himself so he could absorb it and cultivate Fire Baleful Qi.

Fire Buddha discovered that Gu Changhuai had killed Master Yuan and ordered the Inner Palace destroyed before the Dao Court Office could uncover its secrets. Mo Hua helped the inspectors reach the Demon Den, where Xiao Tianquan led the breach; after they opened the Inner Palace, Mo Hua recognized the maze’s Array Technique as the Mystery Heaven Array.

• Qiao the Sixth reported that the Outer Palace was empty and its Demonic Cultivators were dead, and Fire Buddha’s group found Master Yuan’s body in the Array Hub chamber.
• Fire Buddha identified Golden Core wind-element Lingli in the corpse and suspected Gu Changhuai, then ordered the Demonic Cultivators to retreat to the Inner Palace and destroy everything there.
• Gu Changhuai arrived with more than four hundred Executive Inspectors, including Xiao Tianquan and the Xiao Family, and told Mo Hua that he had once fought Fire Buddha and killed his brothers.
• Xiao Tianquan led the inspectors in breaking through the Demon Den’s gates, and they found the Outer and Middle Palaces deserted while the Demonic Cultivators barricaded themselves in the Inner Palace.
• After the inspectors forced open the Inner Palace gates, Mo Hua saw a maze of stone walls and realized the Array Technique built over it was the Mystery Heaven Array.

Mo Hua guided Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office through the Mystery Heaven Array labyrinth and its deadly traps, where they fought their way to Fire Buddha. The chapter ended as Fire Buddha unleashed the forbidden Meteor Fire Technique and the two sides prepared to clash.

• Mo Hua recognized the labyrinth’s hidden Riddle Array, and Gu Changhuai ordered the Dao Court Office to follow him inside after Mo Hua offered to guide the way.
• Mo Hua secretly directed Gu Changhuai through the labyrinth and warned him that a Kill Array and Demonic Cultivators waited ahead.
• Demonic Cultivators ambushed the Dao Court Office with concealed Evil Arrays, and Gu Changhuai covered the rear while Mo Hua led the group through the fighting.
• The Dao Court Office emerged into a great hall and found Fire Buddha waiting at its center.
• Gu Changhuai confronted Fire Buddha, who unleashed the forbidden Meteor Fire Technique.