Recaps

Mo Hua overheard Inspector Xiao, also known as Xiao Zhenhai, reveal his resentment toward the Xiao Family and a proposed marriage between Xiao Tianquan and Inspector Xia. After Mo Hua warned Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia that Xiao Zhenhai had inherited Water Yama’s techniques, the Gate of Living Sacrifice opened and revealed the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s Altar.

• Inspector Xiao learned that Water Yama had reached the fourth level of his technique and dismissed him.
• Xiao Tianquan met Inspector Xiao, who accused the Xiao Family of discarding him and revealed the proposed marriage between Xiao Tianquan and Inspector Xia.
• After Inspector Xiao and Xiao Tianquan left, Mo Hua returned to Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia and reported Inspector Xiao’s connection to Water Yama’s techniques, withholding the Water Prison Forbidden Box secret.
• Inspector Xia gave Gu Changhuai her Mind-Calming Jade, but Gu Changhuai passed it to Mo Hua, who persuaded him to keep it.
• After the three sacrificial hearts were drained, Mr. Wu prayed at the Horned Gate, which opened to reveal a vast Sea of Blood and the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s Altar.

Mo Hua and the others crossed the Blood Pool by Bone Boat and retrieved the Fish Bone Token from the Altar, but Inspector Xiao betrayed the group in an attempt to capture Mo Hua. He unleashed the Water Prison Sect’s superior Water Prison Art, trapping Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia while Mo Hua escaped its reach.

• Mr. Wu led the group to a Fish Demon statue and revealed that it transformed into a Bone Boat capable of crossing the Blood Pool.
• Mo Hua suspected Mr. Wu intended to use an Evil Array against them, but Inspector Xiao ordered the group to board the boat and had Xie Liu watch Mr. Wu.
• The group reached the Altar, where Mr. Wu retrieved the Fish Bone Token from a hidden compartment beneath the offering table.
• Inspector Xiao offered the token to Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia, then attacked when Inspector Xia picked it up; Mo Hua turned invisible and fled before Inspector Xiao could strike him.
• Inspector Xiao pursued Mo Hua with Water Prison Techniques and accused him of taking the Water Prison Forbidden Box, while Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia intervened to protect him.
• Inspector Xiao cast the Water Prison Sect’s superior Water Prison Art, trapping Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia in the Dead Water Dao Prison as Mo Hua watched from a distance.

Inspector Xiao and Xie Liu fought over the Water Prison Forbidden Box, but Mr. Wu consumed Xie Liu and vanished into the Blood Pool as the Dragon King Temple transformed into a Bone Labyrinth. After Inspector Xiao agreed to a temporary alliance with Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia, he betrayed them and attacked Mo Hua, who pretended to be incapacitated by his Blood Pupil Technique.

• Mo Hua admitted he had the Water Prison Forbidden Box and traded it for Inspector Xiao releasing Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian and curing their Gui Water Poison.
• Xie Liu seized the box and fled, but Inspector Xiao struck him with the Blood Prison Pupil Technique and severed his arm before reclaiming the treasure.
• Mr. Wu attacked the injured Xie Liu, consumed his flesh and blood, transformed into a scaled creature, and dragged Xie Liu into the Blood Pool.
• The Blood Pools and Altar shifted as the Array Technique activated, trapping everyone inside a vast Bone Labyrinth.
• Inspector Xiao proposed a temporary alliance with Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia, then secretly joined Water Yama in attacking them and Mo Hua.
• Inspector Xiao's Blood Pupil Technique froze Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia, while Mo Hua pretended to be overcome by its effects.

Mo Hua pretended Inspector Xiao’s Blood Prison Pupil Technique had knocked him unconscious, allowing Inspector Xiao to seize him and force Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia to hand over the Fish Bone Token. As the group became trapped in the White Bone Labyrinth and fought Blood Corpses, Inspector Xiao discovered Mo Hua had recovered and reacted with alarm when Mo Hua mentioned the Meditation Technique.

• Mo Hua faked being unconscious after Inspector Xiao struck him with the Blood Prison Pupil Technique, and Inspector Xiao bound him as a hostage.
• Inspector Xiao demanded the Fish Bone Token, and Inspector Xia handed it over to protect Mo Hua while Gu Changhuai and the others reluctantly continued with him.
• The group wandered deeper into the White Bone Labyrinth, where their direction-finding artifacts failed and Blood Corpses attacked them.
• The group retreated from the Blood Corpses and rested in a defensible alley, where Gu Changhuai supported the exhausted Inspector Xia and Xiao Tianquan watched them jealously.
• Inspector Xiao gave Water Yama the Water Prison Forbidden Box and ordered him to use his essence blood to open it, prompting the supposedly unconscious Mo Hua to reveal that he was awake.
• Inspector Xiao questioned Mo Hua about resisting his Pupil Technique, and Mo Hua credited a teacher’s Meditation Technique, making Inspector Xiao’s pupils tremble.

Mo Hua led the group through the Bone Labyrinth, but Mr. Wu blocked the exit with an army of Blood Corpses. As Water Yama opened the Water Prison Forbidden Box and turned on Mo Hua, Hua Qianqian and Ouyang Feng intervened, only for Mo Hua to reveal golden eyes to Water Yama.

• Inspector Xiao agreed to let Mo Hua see the Water Prison Forbidden Box in exchange for the Meditation Technique, while Water Yama began opening it with his blood essence.
• Mo Hua used his knowledge of the Riddle Array to guide Inspector Xiao, Inspector Xia, Gu Changhuai, Ouyang Feng, Hua Qianqian, and the others toward the labyrinth's exit.
• Mr. Wu appeared at the exit with a horde of Blood Corpses, including the newly refined Xie Liu, and attacked the group.
• Water Yama led Mo Hua away from the battle, used red incense to repel the Blood Corpses, and opened the Water Prison Forbidden Box before threatening Mo Hua for the Meditation Technique.
• Hua Qianqian and Ouyang Feng found Water Yama and fought him to protect Mo Hua, until Mo Hua called Water Yama by name and revealed a pair of golden eyes.

Mo Hua helped the group defeat Water Yama and weaken Mr. Wu by destroying the Blood Arrays, but the escape attempt exposed Inspector Xiao as Xiao Zhenhai and sparked a fight over the Fish Bone Token. As Xiao Zhenhai gained the upper hand, Mo Hua trapped him in a barrage of powerful Second-Grade arrays.

• Mo Hua took the Water Prison Forbidden Box from Water Yama, whose Killing Intent backfired; Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian wounded him, and Xiao Tianquan killed him.
• Mo Hua destroyed the Blood Arrays near the gate, causing the Blood Corpses to collapse and allowing the Golden Core cultivators to subdue Mr. Wu.
• The group found the Fish Bone Token and opened the gate, but Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia attacked Inspector Xiao, who tried to seize Xiao Tianquan and the token.
• Mo Hua and the others joined the fight against Inspector Xiao, who was revealed as Xiao Zhenhai and fought to reclaim the Water Prison Forbidden Box.
• Xiao Zhenhai wounded Gu Changhuai and nearly killed Inspector Xia, but Mo Hua's hidden arrays restrained and bombarded him.

Mo Hua helped Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia defeat Xiao Zhenhai, but after retrieving the Fish Bone Token from the Bone Labyrinth, he was trapped inside with Mr. Wu as the monster attacked. The chapter ended with Mo Hua swallowed by a mass of blood-red shadow while the closing gate cut him off from the others.

• Mo Hua's hidden arrays injured Xiao Zhenhai, and Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia broke his defenses with wind blades and a Golden-Breaking Talisman.
• Xiao Zhenhai unleashed his Blood Prison Pupil Technique, but Mo Hua countered with the golden sword intent of the Soul-Startling Sword Technique, leaving Xiao Zhenhai vulnerable.
• Gu Changhuai struck with the Wind-Feather Transformation Art while Inspector Xia pierced Xiao Zhenhai with her ice sword, killing him.
• The group fled the Bone Labyrinth, but Mo Hua returned through the closing gate to retrieve the Fish Bone Token needed to leave the Dragon King Temple.
• Mr. Wu devoured Xiao Zhenhai's corpse and grew stronger, then attacked Mo Hua as the gate closed; Mo Hua threw the token outside before the blood-red shadow swallowed him.

Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia were trapped outside the sealed Inner Palace while Mo Hua was carried by Mr. Wu to the Altar as a living sacrifice. Mo Hua revealed himself as the God Lord’s great enemy, entered the God Lord’s realm, and killed Mr. Wu.

• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia failed to open the Inner Palace doors and decided to seek help to rescue Mo Hua without yet informing Void Gate.
• Mr. Wu carried Mo Hua through the Bone Labyrinth, and Mo Hua questioned him about his Yaksha form, the Temple Guardians, and the God Lord.
• Mr. Wu brought Mo Hua to the Blood Pool’s Altar, bound him, and began the sacrificial ritual.
• After the ritual drew them into the God Lord’s realm, Mo Hua revealed that he was the God Lord’s great enemy and that Mr. Wu had led him to the Altar.
• Mr. Wu attacked Mo Hua, but Mo Hua stopped his punch and killed him with a single blow before destroying his soul.

Mo Hua took control of the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s Tree of Divine Authority and discovered a newly hatched Horned Evil Infant waiting for him on the Altar. After a fierce battle, he trapped the Divine Fetus with the Soul-Startling Sword and stabbed its skull with a golden sword, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Mo Hua burned away Mr. Wu’s remaining Divine Thought and seated himself on the Altar, where he stole control of the Lord of the Great Wilderness’s Tree of Divine Authority.
• Mo Hua searched the Nightmare nodes for Yu’er, noticed that Yu’er’s aura had grown more eerie, and ordered demons to devour for their Thought Power.
• A black-blooded Horned Evil Infant appeared behind Mo Hua, declared that he had been left to be eaten, and attacked him.
• Mo Hua and the Evil Infant fought across the Altar as the infant’s inherited memories awakened and its attacks grew stronger.
• Mo Hua pretended to consider submitting, then trapped the Evil Infant in the Lishan Cremation Compound Array and followed with the Soul-Startling Sword.
• Mo Hua formed a golden sword, seized the Divine Fetus by the neck, and drove the blade through its skull.

Mo Hua defeated the Evil Infant in his Sea of Consciousness, but it fused with his Fu Shi soul and began corrupting him, leaving him unable to use the Soul-Startling Sword safely. After returning to the Altar, he took revenge by ordering Demons through the Tree of Divine Authority, then found a terrifying, familiar presence at one node.

• Mo Hua destroyed the Evil Infant's body, but discovered it had secretly attached itself to him and fought him again in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Mo Hua subdued the Evil Infant repeatedly but could not destroy its true soul, so he brought it before the Dao Stele.
• The Evil Infant used the Evil Soul Fusion Technique to merge with Mo Hua's Fu Shi soul and announced its plan to transform him into a vessel.
• Mo Hua failed to cleanse the corrupted soul, sealed his soul to contain the Evil Infant, and returned from his Sea of Consciousness to the intact Altar.
• Mo Hua found Mr. Wu dead, reentered the Nightmare, and ordered Demons at many nodes on the Tree of Divine Authority as revenge.
• Mo Hua discovered a node surrounded by the aura of a strange, powerful creature that seemed part Demon, monster, and human.

Mo Hua discovered how the Dragon King Temple’s altar used the Rouge Boat’s desires and Sinful Cultivators’ blood-oath pact to nourish the Evil Fetus, which had fused with his divine soul. He emerged as the temple’s apparent master, reunited with his companions, and decided to search the temple further.

• Mo Hua recognized a powerful Demonic Beast within a Nightmare node but chose not to provoke it, then realized canceling his many orders would be difficult and resolved to protect Yu'er.
• Mo Hua discovered that the altar absorbed human desires and sinful Karma, and identified the Wordless Blood Stele as a Soul Pact that bound the Sinful Cultivators’ lives and fed their crimes to the Evil Fetus.
• Mo Hua found that the altar carried him upward and opened the Dragon King Temple’s gate, realizing the temple seemed to obey him because the Evil Fetus had merged with his soul.
• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia welcomed Mo Hua back, and Mo Hua claimed Mr. Wu had suddenly died during a ritual before he could be sacrificed.
• Ouyang Feng and Hua Qianqian reunited with Mo Hua, who warned them to keep the Rouge Boat and Dragon King Temple secret before they returned to their sects.
• Mo Hua asked Gu Changhuai to help search the Dragon King Temple, intending to inspect the place he now considered his own.

Mo Hua helped the Dao Court Office clear the Dragon King Temple and discovered a hidden Dragon Bone Statue that only he could perceive. As he and the others sailed away, a powerful Inspector from the Central Dao Court arrived on a Xia Family ship.

• Mo Hua persuaded Gu Changhuai to investigate and clean the Dragon King Temple carefully, then confirmed that the temple had originally been built to worship the River Dragon King.
• Mo Hua entered a concealed hall, overcame a perception-distorting effect, and found a Dragon Bone Life-Bound Divine Statue that no one else could see or notice.
• Mo Hua hid the statue, concealed the Altar behind the Bone Labyrinth, and left the temple with Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, and Xiao Tianquan.
• Mr. Tu reflected on his failed scheme at the Dragon King Temple and believed Mo Hua had been gravely wounded by the Evil God Fetus’s contamination.
• A large Xia Family spirit boat approached Mo Hua’s group on the Yanshui River, and Inspector Xia identified its passenger as his uncle, an Inspector of the Feather Transformation Realm from the Central Dao Court.

Inspector Xia planned to pin the Rouge Boat crimes on Xiao Zhenhai and use the Xiao Family, while pressuring Inspector Xia toward a marriage alliance with Xiao Tianquan. After Hua Ruyu appeared aboard the ship and Mo Hua discovered that Water Yama’s name remained on his list, Mo Hua returned to shore and suspected Xiao Tianquan was the real Water Yama.

• Inspector Xia told Inspector Xia that the Xiao Family would be useful because its past crimes gave the Xia Family leverage, and proposed Xiao Tianquan as her future husband.
• Hua Ruyu appeared aboard the ship, revealed that a powerful Young Master had protected her from Dao Prison, and threatened Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, and Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua noticed that Hua Ruyu’s title had not dimmed on Jiang Laoda’s list and realized Water Yama’s name remained unchanged despite his apparent death.
• At the pier, Ye Hong thanked Mo Hua for destroying the Rouge Boat and held a memorial for Ye Jin and Ye Xiu by the Yanshui River.
• Mo Hua saw Xiao Tianquan crush Ye Jin’s Shuixian flower and confronted him, asking whether he was the real Water Yama.

Mo Hua exposed Xiao Tianquan as the real Water Yama and learned that he had abused and killed Ye Jin, but Inspector Xia protected Xiao Tianquan for political reasons and left him alive. Inspector Xia rejected her uncle’s plan to marry her to Xiao Tianquan, while Ye Hong mourned that he might never get justice.

• Mo Hua pieced together the clues and accused Xiao Tianquan of being the real Water Yama and the man responsible for Ye Jin’s death.
• Xiao Tianquan admitted that he had arranged for Ye Jin to be brought aboard the Rouge Boat and abused her, then fought Ye Hong and tried to kill him.
• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia subdued Xiao Tianquan, but Inspector Xia stopped Gu Changhuai from killing him and ordered that Xiao Tianquan be taken aboard the Xia Family spirit boat.
• Inspector Xia told her uncle that Xiao Tianquan should be executed, but Inspector Xia explained that the Xia Family needed the Xiao Family’s support and urged her to marry Xiao Tianquan.
• Inspector Xia refused the marriage alliance and threatened to kill Xiao Tianquan and herself if forced; Inspector Xia withdrew his demand and left her behind.
• At a restaurant in Yanshui City, Ye Hong grieved over the lack of justice, and Mo Hua said that Heaven might someday punish Xiao Tianquan.

After returning to Void Gate, Mo Hua used his authority over the Great Wilderness Evil Fetus’s Soul Pact to kill every Sinful Cultivator on Jiang Laoda’s list, including Water Yama. His purge killed Hua Ruyu and Xiao Tianquan as well, leaving Inspector Xia and the Xiao Family stunned at the banquet.

• Gu Changhuai returned Mo Hua to Void Gate, and Mo Hua went alone to a remote peak with Jiang Laoda’s list.
• Mo Hua summoned the Dragon King Temple altar and crushed the Life Souls of every Sinful Cultivator on the list, ending with Water Yama.
• Across Ganxue Prefecture and nearby regions, listed Sinful Cultivators died suddenly, including Hua Ruyu, who was tormented by the Fierce Ghosts of the women she had harmed.
• At a banquet aboard the Xia Family spirit boat, Inspector Xia advised Xiao Tianquan and promised the Xia Family’s support for his rise in the Xiao Family.
• After drinking with Inspector Xia, Xiao Tianquan was overwhelmed by the returning Killing Intent and died in terror before the gathered Xia and Xiao Family cultivators.

After Xiao Tianquan died mysteriously at a banquet, Inspector Xia concealed the circumstances and suspected a master of heavenly calculation had killed him. The Xiao Family's ancestor tried to trace the cause, uncovered Xiao Tianquan's crimes, and drew the attention of a terrifying presence.

• Xiao Tianquan's corpse showed no trace of an outside attack, and Inspector Xia sensed a sinister calamity when he tried to calculate its cause.
• Inspector Xia agreed to keep Xiao Tianquan's death quiet, and the Dao Court Office reported that he had died in the line of duty.
• Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia connected Xiao Tianquan's death and other sudden deaths to Mo Hua's earlier words, while Ye Hong thanked Mo Hua from afar for avenging his children.
• The Xiao Family's ancestor began a forbidden deduction, discovered Xiao Tianquan's hidden crimes, and saw a strange little ghost at the Dragon King Temple.
• The Xiao Family's ancestor saw the ghost turn toward him and sensed an ancient, terrifying presence awakening around him.

The Xiao Family Ancestor survived a terrifying divination encounter but returned polluted and gravely weakened, while Inspector Xia concluded that the Xiao Family had lost a Void Insight cultivator. Mo Hua worried about controlling the demons he had ordered for Yu'er’s Nightmare, so he borrowed the Big White Dog from the Void Gate Sect Master to help guard it.

• The Xiao Family Ancestor shed his polluted divine form to escape an Evil Fetus, then encountered a Corpse King Dao Sin before returning to his Cave Abode severely wounded and overwhelmed by strange desires.
• Inspector Xia reported Xiao Tianquan’s death and the Xiao Family Ancestor’s likely pollution, revised the Xia Family’s plans, and sent a warning about the evil gathering in Ganxue Prefecture.
• Mo Hua continued teaching array formations at Void Gate and worried that the Evil Fetus sealed in his soul was growing stronger.
• Mo Hua planned to feed the demons he had ordered to Yu'er in her Nightmare, but decided he needed help controlling them and keeping her safe.
• Mo Hua persuaded the Void Gate Sect Master to lend him the Big White Dog, which followed him docilely after its chain was removed.

Mo Hua prepared Yu'er’s room for the demons he had summoned, using layered Divine Dao Arrays and the Big White Dog to protect Yu'er while turning the demons into a feast. As the demons flooded Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, Old Ancestor Dugu secretly searched Void Mountain for the hidden cause of the demonic disturbances.

• Mo Hua brought the Big White Dog to Yu'er’s room, warned Wenren Wei of a possible demon attack, and instructed him to guard the door.
• Mo Hua restrained the dog’s hostility toward Yu'er, then set up God Fog Arrays and three layers of Divine Dao Arrays around the room.
• After night fell, demons emerged from the Void and charged at Mo Hua, while the Big White Dog watched eagerly for its feast.
• Old Ancestor Dugu’s Divine Consciousness swept across Void Mountain, alarming the Void Gate’s high-ranking cultivators and prompting Elder Xun to check on him.
• Elder Xun found Old Ancestor Dugu unharmed, but Dugu later sent a tiny strand of Divine Sense to search the mountain in secret.
• Mo Hua, unaware of Dugu’s search, slaughtered the invading demons in his Sea of Consciousness.

Mo Hua and the Big White Dog defeated the Demons threatening Shangguan Yu, and Mo Hua refined their Thought Power until his Divine Sense reached the peak of Nineteen-Pattern. A powerful elder accidentally dragged Mo Hua into the Void Gate’s Sword Graveyard, where Mo Hua tried to return Senior Dugu Xuan’s Broken Sword and the elder recognized it as Xuan’er’s sword.

• Mo Hua and the Big White Dog killed the Demons attacking Shangguan Yu, while Wenren Wei guarded the door.
• Mo Hua refined the Demons’ Thought Power, but his Divine Sense stopped growing at the peak of Nineteen-Pattern, the Foundation Establishment limit.
• Mo Hua accidentally revealed traces of Evil Qi while practicing arrays, and the Long-Bearded Elder seized him through a spatial rift.
• The Long-Bearded Elder learned that Mo Hua had borrowed the Big White Dog to protect Shangguan Yu and, after questioning him, agreed to let him leave.
• Mo Hua recognized the Sword Graveyard and asked to return a Broken Sword belonging to a deceased sword cultivator.
• Mo Hua planted Senior Dugu Xuan’s Broken Sword in a fresh grave, and the Long-Bearded Elder recognized it as Xuan’er’s sword.

Mo Hua returned a broken sword to the Long-Bearded Elder, who recognized it as his grandson Xuan’er’s relic and offered to repay the favor. After Mo Hua insisted on learning the forbidden Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art, the elder agreed to teach him, and the chapter ended as Mo Hua’s name on a Bamboo Sword awakened the Sword Graveyard’s ancient sword intent.

• Mo Hua explained that he had found the broken sword in a Blood Pool at an abandoned River God Temple, and the Long-Bearded Elder realized it had belonged to his grandson Xuan’er.
• The Long-Bearded Elder promised Mo Hua one wish in return, and Mo Hua asked to learn swordsmanship.
• After rejecting several sword arts, Mo Hua requested the forbidden Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art and revealed that his divine sense had reached the peak of Nineteen-Pattern.
• The Long-Bearded Elder agreed to teach Mo Hua the art every seven days, warning him to keep their arrangement secret and never use the technique for evil.
• The Long-Bearded Elder carved Mo Hua’s name onto a Bamboo Sword and placed it in the Sword Graveyard, awakening the buried swords’ ancient intent into a magnificent Sword Cloud.

Mo Hua began learning the Void Gate’s Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art from Old Ancestor Dugu, but his weak sword foundation left him struggling to cultivate Sword Qi. After Elder Xun discovered that Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness had reached peak Nineteen-Pattern, he ordered him to focus on mastering Second-Grade arrays within a year, treating the task as vital to Void Gate.

• Mo Hua returned to the Back Mountain Forbidden Area, where Old Ancestor Dugu named himself and began teaching him the Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art.
• Mo Hua explained the art’s principles with surprising insight, and Old Ancestor Dugu gave him Introduction to Sword Dao to study and practice.
• Seven days later, Old Ancestor Dugu found that Mo Hua understood the sword theory but had cultivated almost no Sword Qi, so he patiently sent him back to keep practicing.
• Mo Hua continued studying sword dao alongside formations, and Elder Xun noticed a change in him after formation class.
• Elder Xun sensed that Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness had reached peak Nineteen-Pattern and ordered him to stay in the sect and master Second-Grade arrays across all categories within a year.

Mo Hua continued intensive array and sword training, then uncovered a plot to cripple rival sects’ Dao Discussion Assembly candidates through the Rouge Boat scandal. He entrusted a Dragon Bone Statue to the Little Silver Fish for safekeeping and returned to Void Gate, where his studies continued through the end of his fifth year.

• Mo Hua balanced array lessons from Elder Xun with sword training from Old Ancestor Dugu, while keeping their separate teachings secret from each other.
• Mo Hua asked Gu Changhuai about the Rouge Boat and realized its scandal had likely been used to eliminate gifted disciples from rival sects before the Dao Discussion Assembly.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that true immortality required keeping Heavenly Dao in one’s heart and acting on Heaven’s behalf, easing Gu Changhuai’s despair over the Dao Court’s affairs.
• Mo Hua visited Small Fishing Village and entrusted the Dragon Bone Statue to the Little Silver Fish, hiding it in a mountain cave behind Divine Dao Arrays.
• Mo Hua returned to Void Gate and continued studying arrays and swordsmanship until the end of the year, completing his fifth year at the sect.

After receiving a letter from his parents, Mo Hua heard that Da Hu and the others had joined the Great Wilderness Sect, then learned about changes at Guishui Gate from Wang Chen. He opened the Water Prison Forbidden Box and discovered the Water Prison Sect’s inheritances, including a manuscript for a forbidden technique called Forest of Yama Water Prison.

• Mo Hua received and treasured a letter from his parents, then wondered whether Da Hu and the others were safe at the Great Wilderness Sect.
• Wang Chen thanked Mo Hua for helping him escape the Rouge Boat scandal and explained how the Dao Court had restructured Guishui Gate.
• Wang Chen warned Mo Hua that Ta'a Gate and Chongxu Gate faced trouble at the Dao Discussion Assembly, and Mo Hua asked him to share news from Guishui Gate.
• Mo Hua remembered the Water Prison Forbidden Box, studied its Pupil Technique lock, and opened it to find the Water Shadow Phantom Body, Water Prison True Art, and Water Prison Art.
• Mo Hua deciphered the final Jade Slip and discovered it contained notes for developing the forbidden technique Forest of Yama Water Prison.

Mo Hua discovered that the Water Prison Sect’s unfinished forbidden technique fused its pupil art with the Water Prison Art, but he decided not to learn it and began practicing Water Shadow Phantom Body instead. As Void Gate grew tense and the Evil Infant threatened to take over his body, Mo Hua asked Old Ancestor Dugu about the final forms of the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art.

• Mo Hua studied the Forest of Yama Water Prison manuscript, recognized its dangerous fusion of soul and Lingli techniques, and stored it away without attempting to learn it.
• Mo Hua learned Water Shadow Phantom Body and sparred with Situ Jian, where his poor control left him unable to evade or attack effectively.
• Mo Hua continued cultivating as Elder Xun urged him to focus on mastering Array Techniques for Void Gate’s sake amid growing tension among the sects.
• The Evil Infant appeared in Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, declared that it intended to transform and possess him, then merged into his Life Soul.
• Mo Hua spent the night considering the Evil Infant’s threat, then met Old Ancestor Dugu for their appointment and asked how to cultivate the God-Breaking Style and God-Slaying Style.

Old Ancestor Dugu explained the four styles of Divine Sense Sword and lent Mo Hua a bamboo slip containing the secret God-Slaying technique. Mo Hua studied the sword mark and attempted to temper his soul with the sword, striking the Evil Infant lodged in his Life Soul.

• Old Ancestor Dugu explained how the Sword Transformation, Soul-Startling, God-Breaking, and God-Slaying styles progressed, warning Mo Hua that God-Slaying could damage his soul.
• Mo Hua persuaded Old Ancestor Dugu to lend him the God-Slaying secret manual, though he claimed he only wanted to study it and not practice it.
• Mo Hua examined the bamboo slip and realized its sword mark conveyed an inheritance through visualization.
• Mo Hua decided to try the God-Slaying technique because the Evil Fetus lodged in his Life Soul had to be removed.
• Mo Hua visualized the sword mark and commanded it to slash, sending Sword Intent into his Sea of Consciousness toward his Life Soul.
• The Evil Infant appeared through Mo Hua's face, shrieked at him, and warned that he would die.