Recaps

Mo Hua manipulated Elder Zhao and the Azure Wolf Sect Master into a confrontation, then revealed his own power when the battle turned against him. The Sect Master was crippled, Mr. Wu died by his own hand under Mo Hua’s Ghostly Thought-Force, and the conflict remained unresolved.

• Elder Zhao persuaded Mo Hua to help lure the Azure Wolf Sect Master into a trap, and Mo Hua agreed.
• Mo Hua challenged Elder Zhao to an array contest, using it to bring the Sect Master to the Artifact Refining Guild, where Elder Zhao attacked him.
• The Sect Master avoided Elder Zhao’s Kill Arrays because Mo Hua had secretly warned him, then transformed with his followers and gained the advantage.
• Mo Hua used a strange Array Technique to erase part of the Sect Master’s arm and leg, leaving him crippled and exposed to Elder Zhao.
• Mr. Wu used his Wolf-Head Xun to turn the Azure Wolf Sect elders into Werewolves and send them after Elder Zhao and Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua appeared behind Mr. Wu and unleashed Ghostly Thought-Force, driving him to tear out his own heart and die.

After Mr. Wu and the Azure Wolf Sect Master died, Mo Hua helped Elder Zhao claim the sect leadership and uncovered the sect ancestors’ transformation into Demon Specters. He killed and devoured them, then gave Elder Zhao a Sect Master Mandate bearing a seal he had drawn himself.

• Elder Zhao killed the crippled Azure Wolf Sect Master, and the Azure Wolf Sect took charge of the aftermath.
• Mo Hua searched Mr. Wu’s Storage Bag, found a Wolf-Head Xun, and followed Elder Zhao to the Azure Wolf Sect Ancestral Hall.
• The ancestral masters rejected Elder Zhao’s blood-written mandate, so Mo Hua entered the mausoleum and found the ancestors in a hall of Azure Wolf Sect Demon Specters.
• The ancestors attacked Mo Hua after he questioned their altar and cultivation, and he slaughtered them with his divine sense techniques before absorbing their purified Evil Qi.
• Mo Hua returned with the mandate, told Elder Zhao he had killed the ancestors and made him Sect Master, and Elder Zhao collapsed in shock.

Mo Hua explored the Azure Wolf Sect’s forbidden area and found Mr. Wu’s secret chamber, where he recovered a foundational manual on Great Wilderness demon bone divination. After refining the sect’s ancestors to strengthen his divine sense, he studied the manual and began to understand how causality shaped fate, ending with his thoughts turning toward Celestial Pivot.

• Mo Hua made Elder Zhao the Azure Wolf Sect’s Sect Master and had him lead the way into the forbidden area.
• Mo Hua searched the sect’s inheritances, followed Mr. Wu’s aura to a hidden chamber, and took the Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination manual and the other research materials.
• Mo Hua returned to his room and gently refined the Azure Wolf Sect’s ancestors, absorbing their Thought Power and raising his divine sense to Twenty-One-Pattern.
• Sect Master Zhao sensed Mo Hua’s immense divine thought sweeping over Azure Wolf Mountain and wondered whether Mo Hua was even human.
• Mo Hua studied the divination manual, reasoned through how causes and effects formed a person’s fate, and concluded that changing fate through causality could lead toward Celestial Pivot.

Mo Hua studied the Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination and used its methods to investigate the mysterious Mr. Wu, whose past and reason for coming to Azure Wolf City puzzled him. His impromptu divination revealed a terrifying causal chain, and he immediately destroyed the ritual materials.

• Mo Hua distinguished ordinary causality from Heavenly Secret and identified tracing, projection, and calculation as basic applications of Causality Art.
• Mo Hua shifted his cultivation toward Demon Bone Divination, which consumed large amounts of Divine Thought and might offer a new way to temper it.
• Sect Master Zhao reported enforcing Mo Hua’s suggestions, while Mo Hua ordered further restrictions and explained that coercive authority would control the Azure Wolf Sect’s predatory members.
• Mo Hua used confiscated gifts to fund relief work, an Artifact Refining Guild, and provincial roads to help connect Azure Wolf City with Immortal City.
• Mo Hua questioned why Mr. Wu had traveled from the Great Wilderness to Azure Wolf City and decided to divine his past using his relics.
• Mo Hua’s divination produced a blazing, terrifying causal chain, so he overturned the brazier, destroyed the wolf bone, and burned the remaining evidence.

Mo Hua uncovered a sealed Great Wilderness Dragon Flag in Mr. Wu’s Secret Chamber and accidentally activated it, igniting a rebellion against the Dao Court. The flag’s beacon spread across the world as Yinghuo fell in the south, heralding war and chaos.

• Mo Hua divined his own future, realized the unknown omen was tied to the empty Altar in Mr. Wu’s Secret Chamber, and returned to investigate.
• Mo Hua recognized the chamber’s demon patterns as a Ten Thousand Demons Transforming into Dragon array lock and completed the patterns to open it.
• The Altar revealed a Great Wilderness Dragon Flag bearing the words “Heaven is dead” and “Wild Heaven shall rise,” along with a call to annihilate the Dao Court.
• The Dragon Lord learned that the Wild Heaven Dragon Flag had been lit ahead of time and ordered the Great Wilderness clans to rebel against the Dao Court.
• The Overseer and powerful cultivators across the Nine Provinces saw Yinghuo blaze across the sky as the southern heavens caught fire and war approached.

Yang Jishan and Yang Jiyong discovered that the Great Wilderness had launched a full-scale rebellion, while unrest spread through Li Prefecture. Mo Hua realized that his actions had lit the Wild Heaven Dragon Flag and set the rebellion in motion, leaving him to flee the Azure Wolf Sect with the flag hidden in his Storage Ring.

• Yang Jishan and Yang Jiyong spotted Ghost Night Wolf Soldiers and, after lighting the Bright Fire Formation, saw a vast Barbarian Tribe army with forbidden troops and Monster Cavalry approaching the pass.
• Yang Jishan ordered the beacon fires lit and messages sent to the Dao Soldier Bureau and the Yang Family before he and Yang Jiyong joined the defense against the assault.
• Situ Xiu fought rebels in Shaoshan City, then escaped with the Situ Clan as unrest and violence spread across Li Prefecture.
• Elder Xun tried to calculate Mo Hua's fate and saw omens of war, then worried that Mo Hua's actions might bring trouble to Void Gate.
• Mo Hua hid the Wild Heaven Dragon Flag in his Storage Ring after destroying the Azure Wolf Sect's Secret Chamber, Ten Thousand Monster Dragon Pattern, and Altar.
• Mo Hua decided that he and his companions had to leave the Azure Wolf Sect as the rebellion and war spread.

Mo Hua left Azure Wolf City after warning Sect Master Zhao to prepare for the coming calamity and giving him valuable array insights. Before departing, Mo Hua interrogated Elder Ji about a Tiger Monster captured in Great Black Mountain and learned that it had been delivered to a mysterious guest in Small Post City, where Mo Hua set out to investigate.

• Mo Hua told Sect Master Zhao that war and disaster would soon threaten Li Prefecture, urged him to finish preparations, and gave him a Jade Slip of array diagrams and insights.
• Mo Hua left Azure Wolf City after inspecting the Artifact Refining Guild and provincial roads, reflecting that Sect Master Duan had built them to support a planned rebellion.
• Mo Hua met Elder Ji outside the city and questioned him about the wound on his chest and the Tiger Monster he claimed to have killed.
• Under Mo Hua's array torture, Elder Ji admitted that he had captured the Tiger Monster and sold it to a mysterious honored guest about ten years earlier.
• Elder Ji told Mo Hua that he had delivered the Tiger Monster to a steward at a post station in Small Post City, and Mo Hua ordered him to lead the way there.

Mo Hua and Elder Ji reached the ruined Half-Mountain City, where Elder Ji learned that a rebellion fueled by Demon Sect methods had destroyed the city. After Mo Hua and Elder Ji killed Corpse Valley cultivators who were raising the dead, they burned the corpses and left the city as turmoil spread across the cultivation world.

• Mo Hua and Elder Ji entered a devastated Immortal City, where starving survivors fought over scraps and Elder Ji drove them off.
• Elder Ji learned that the Dao Court Office had massacred innocent Rogue Cultivators after a failed uprising, prompting a demonic bloodlust-fueled revolt that destroyed the city.
• Elder Ji tried to flee Mo Hua, but terrifying visions drove him back to the inn with information about Half-Mountain City.
• Mo Hua woke Elder Ji when Bronze Bell sounds revealed Corpse Valley cultivators raising corpses into Zombies.
• Elder Ji fought the Corpse Valley group, and Mo Hua joined in; together they killed the cultivators and cremated the corpses with a Burning Fire Array.
• Mo Hua and Elder Ji left Half-Mountain City by night and continued south into the increasingly chaotic world.

Mo Hua and Elder Ji reached the unusually lively Small Post City and searched for Steward Wang, who had handled a sealed shipment ten years earlier. After Mo Hua traced Wang through a Jade Pendant, Wang found records showing where the cargo had gone, leaving Mo Hua and Elder Ji with a lead to pursue.

• Elder Ji drove Mo Hua through war-torn Li Prefecture, where refugees and dangerous cultivators crowded the roads, until they reached Small Post City.
• Elder Ji used his Azure Wolf Sect status to get past the guarded city gates and learned that Steward Wang had left the Post Station years earlier.
• Mo Hua gave Elder Ji three days to find Wang, and Elder Ji tracked down Wang's former mistress, where Mo Hua recognized Wang's Jade Pendant and followed its Karma aura.
• Mo Hua and Elder Ji found Steward Wang at a warehouse, and Elder Ji demanded to know where he had sent a sealed demon beast shipment ten years before.
• Steward Wang recalled that the shipment had traveled by Sand Ship across the Sand Sea toward the Great Wilderness, then found its whereabouts in four days by checking Post Station records.

Mo Hua learned that the tiger had been sent toward Great Desert City and obtained a map to pursue it, despite the dangers of the Great Wilderness. After he saw death omens over nearly every cultivator in Small Post City, he tried to leave with Elder Ji but found the city sealed off.

• Steward Wang told Mo Hua that the tiger had been transported to Great Desert City, beyond the deadly Sand Sea, and Mo Hua asked him to obtain a map.
• Elder Ji explained that a powerful tiger could serve the Great Wilderness Royal Clan as a mount or be bred for its White Tiger bloodline.
• Mo Hua spent several days waiting for the map while Elder Ji secretly visited women and befriended the pale-faced Young Master Shi.
• Steward Wang delivered the map, and Mo Hua saw a death omen darken his glabella and warned him of a coming calamity.
• Mo Hua noticed death omens over nearly every cultivator in Small Post City and urged Elder Ji to leave with him.
• Mo Hua and Elder Ji reached the city gate but learned that Small Post City had been sealed for three days amid nearby riots.

Mo Hua discovered that Small Post City was sealed for a planned massacre by Corpse Path cultivators and tried to save people while navigating the chaos. After finding Elder Ji dead in a Joyous Union Sect pavilion, Mo Hua confronted Young Master Shi, but a Demonic Immortality Talisman bound to Shi’s fate warned him of danger.

• Mo Hua told Elder Ji that Golden Core Cultivators had sealed Small Post City, then surveyed the city’s arrays and made limited changes before returning to the inn.
• At night, Golden Core Corpse Cultivators activated blood-colored arrays and unleashed Zombies, beginning a massacre across Small Post City.
• Mo Hua fought Zombies while following a causality trail to a pavilion, where he found Elder Ji drained to death by a Joyous Union Sect cultivator.
• Mo Hua confronted Young Master Shi in the pavilion and saw him summon a gilded Bronze Corpse, which froze when Mo Hua rebuked it.
• Mo Hua prepared to attack Young Master Shi, then recognized a hidden Demonic Immortality Talisman bound to Shi’s life.

Mo Hua escaped Young Master Shi and watched Corpse Valley slaughter Small Post City while secretly manipulating its sealing array. The array’s reverse flow finally destroyed the North Gate, opening a way out for the trapped cultivators.

• Mo Hua recognized the Demonic Immortality Talisman in Young Master Shi’s Fate Palace, restrained his killing intent, and fought off Shi’s corpse transformation before vanishing.
• Elder Fu joined Young Master Shi and reported that Corpse Valley had sealed Small Post City, slaughtered its residents, and planned to turn it into a Corpse Path stronghold.
• Mo Hua watched from hiding as the corpse calamity spread, then waited for the moment he had anticipated.
• An Evil Array Master discovered that the city-sealing array’s power was flowing in reverse at several gates, and Elder Fu sent Golden Core cultivators to investigate.
• Elder Fu realized too late that the gate anomalies had misled him, while the North Gate’s array power continued to exceed its critical threshold.
• The array’s reverse flow blasted apart the North Gate and nearby walls, opening a breach in Corpse Valley’s seal.

Mo Hua helped Small Post City’s cultivators escape by sabotaging Corpse Valley’s blockade, then drew four Golden Core elders away from the city. He failed to shake their pursuit and realized Corpse Valley had a way to track him, leaving him to face the relentless chase.

• Elder Fu ordered Corpse Valley to slaughter the fleeing cultivators and sent Elder Xu and other Golden Core elders to capture Mo Hua alive.
• Mo Hua found Steward Wang dead beside the opened storehouse full of Coffins, then continued toward the North Gate.
• At the North Gate, Mo Hua disrupted the Corpse Wall with Earth Fire Compound Arrays and injured Corpse Valley cultivators so the trapped people could flee.
• Mo Hua taunted Elder Xu and lured four Golden Core elders away from Small Post City to give more cultivators a chance to escape.
• After pursuing Mo Hua for hundreds of li, the elders repeatedly found him despite his concealment, and Mo Hua stopped to ask how they were tracking him.
• Mo Hua escaped an array blast and fled again, but Elder Xu used a small earth-colored zombie to locate him and resume the pursuit.

Mo Hua weighed ways to kill the four Corpse Valley Golden Core cultivators but fled while he was uncertain whether he could safely use his Divine Sense Sword. After Elder Xu threatened villagers and planned further massacres to force Mo Hua to surrender, Mo Hua decided to lure the pursuers toward a Third-Grade State Boundary, where he believed he could wield his Golden Core-level divine sense without triggering Heavenly Dao restrictions.

• Mo Hua ruled out arrays, Dao Heart Planting Demon, and the Meteor Fire Forbidden Technique, then suppressed his killing intent and continued fleeing from Elder Xu and the other Golden Core cultivators.
• Elder Xu used his Ksitigarbha Corpse to track Mo Hua, and the Corpse Valley elders decided to exploit his apparent kindness by killing villagers along his route.
• After the elders threatened more slaughter, Mo Hua escaped their ambush with an illusion and resolved to kill them with his Divine Sense Sword.
• Mo Hua reasoned that using his Golden Core-level divine sense in a Second-Grade State Boundary might draw Heavenly Retribution, so he headed for the nearest Third-Grade State Boundary.
• Elder Xu and the others recognized that Mo Hua had exposed his trail to draw them away from the villagers and continued pursuing him.

Mo Hua lured the Corpse Valley elders into a Third-Grade State Boundary and killed Elder Xu instantly with the God-Slaying Sword, then escaped with his Storage Bag. Hidden in a mountain cave, Mo Hua faced the double Killing Intent backlash from his forbidden attack.

• Mo Hua sped through a Second-Grade State Boundary, then entered a Third-Grade region as the four Corpse Valley elders pursued him.
• Elder Xu used the Ksitigarbha Corpse to track Mo Hua into a gorge, where Mo Hua triggered Array Techniques that collapsed the cliffs and separated the elders.
• Following the Ksitigarbha Corpse's directions, Elder Xu found Mo Hua, who killed him instantly with the God-Slaying Sword and took his Storage Bag before vanishing.
• Elder Ma and the other Corpse Valley elders found Elder Xu dead, abandoned their pursuit, and carried his corpse away as the Ksitigarbha Corpse began to turn violent.
• In a hidden mountain cave, Mo Hua meditated as the double backlash from Killing Intent seeped into his Sea of Consciousness and began to overwhelm him.

Mo Hua fought off the Killing Intent that was erasing his memories and learned that the force corrupting his Fate was made of karmic Fierce Ghosts from the Demonic Cultivators who died in the Wild Heaven Blood Sacrifice Array. He restored his sense of self, but his discovery that someone had deliberately forged the ghosts into a weapon left him wondering who had plotted against him.

• Mo Hua’s memories and Dao Heart were consumed by Killing Intent, while Liu Ruhua, Mo Shan, and Elder Xun sensed that something was wrong; Elder Xun tried and failed to activate the Void Two Poles Lock because it had been locked by an unknown force.
• A Phecda Pattern reset Mo Hua’s Fate, and he used memories of his parents, master, Senior Martial Sister, and others as anchors to recover his Humanity and Dao Heart.
• Mo Hua recognized that the common people were the people he loved and had met, and he rejected the idea that aiding them could mean slaughtering them.
• Mo Hua saw that the Killing Intent concealed karmic Fierce Ghosts formed from Demonic Cultivators who died in the Wild Heaven Blood Sacrifice Array.
• Mo Hua realized someone had used a karmic technique to merge those Fierce Ghosts into his Fate and wondered whether that person had also caused the deaths of Mr. Tu, Shangguan Wang, the Gold Corpse elder, and the Sword Slave Elder.

Mo Hua realized that a terrifying Heavenly Calculation expert, likely his Martial Uncle, had tied the Killing Intent from the Demonic Cultivators he killed to his Fate, making each act of killing risk destroying his memories and Humanity. He left the cave and headed toward the Great Wilderness, determined to form his Golden Core and learn deeper Causality Arts before his Martial Uncle could find him.

• Mo Hua hid in the sealed mountain cave until the ghostly chill passed, then reasoned that his Martial Uncle had exposed his killing karma and bound it to a Fierce Ghost of Balefulness.
• Mo Hua feared that losing his memories and Humanity could let his Martial Uncle seize his body and turn him into a Flesh Puppet, but he questioned whether the scheme was truly meant for him.
• Mo Hua wondered whether his Martial Uncle knew his identity, then stopped speculating in case his thoughts themselves had been influenced by Dao Heart Planting Demon.
• Mo Hua resolved to form his Golden Core and learn profound Causality Arts so he could survive his Martial Uncle and contain the backlash triggered by killing.
• Mo Hua confirmed that his Balefulness and Sea of Consciousness were stable, erased traces of his Array Technique, and fled toward the Great Wilderness after finding the Corpse Valley Elders gone.

Mo Hua reached Great Wind Ferry and struggled to obtain a Ship Pass for crossing the Sand Sea into the war-torn Great Wilderness. After divining that a page in Elder Xu’s Strange Corpse Canon mentioned a “Little Flying Spirit Corpse,” he resolved to strengthen his divine sense and preserve his memories, then found a fleet recruiting guards as another way to cross.

• Mo Hua arrived at Great Wind Ferry, where shipping firms refused to sell him a Ship Pass without local connections or an influential endorsement.
• Mo Hua studied Elder Xu’s Strange Corpse Canon and learned about rare zombies, including Ksitigarbha Corpses, Beauty Corpses, Drought Demons, and Flying Zombies.
• Mo Hua used Karma Divination to recover the erased words “Little Flying Spirit Corpse,” but the discovery stirred a troubling sense of familiarity and exposed gaps in his memories.
• Mo Hua recognized that the Fierce Ghost of Balefulness threatened to erase his memories or turn him into a fiend, and he planned to find anchors while strengthening his divine sense before entering the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua failed to obtain a Ship Pass, then spotted a notice recruiting guards for a fleet crossing the Sand Sea and went to the shipping house to inquire.

After shipping companies rejected Mo Hua as a spirit cultivator and an array master, he disguised himself as a Qi Refining body cultivator and secured work on a small sand ship bound for Great Desert City. Working alongside the boatmen brought him an unexpected sense of peace and strengthened his connection to ordinary cultivators.

• Shipping company stewards rejected Mo Hua as a spirit cultivator, while local monopolies kept him from joining a ship as an outside array master.
• Mo Hua decided to pose as a Qi Refining body cultivator, changed his appearance, and learned simple martial arts moves.
• After larger companies rejected him for being too thin, Mo Hua impressed the captain of a small shipping line with a punch that marked a stone pillar and was hired as a laborer.
• Three days later, Mo Hua boarded the small sand ship and took on exhausting work alongside its boatmen.
• The boatmen treated Mo Hua kindly, and their generosity gave him a rare sense of peace and deepened his appreciation for their humanity.

Mo Hua traveled across the Sand Sea, learning about its dangers and secretly studying the sand ship’s Array Technique. The captain told him that Great Wilderness Sect controlled Great Desert City and explained its origins as the fighting in the Great Wilderness intensified.

• Mo Hua worked alongside the boatmen and observed how they navigated Sand Monsters, hidden reefs, and Sand Bandits.
• Mo Hua used the Heavenly Calculation to reverse-engineer the sand ship’s Array Technique and learned from the captain that shipping companies controlled its maintenance, burdening low-level operators with costs.
• The captain told Mo Hua that the Great Wilderness uprising had grown fiercer, with reports of demon soldiers riding Wang Hu and the Dao Court losing several passes.
• The captain explained that Great Desert City was a strategic stronghold of Great Wilderness Sect, a powerful Fourth-Grade sect established by the Dao Court to control the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua remembered that Da Hu and his two childhood companions had joined Great Wilderness Sect and wondered whether he would meet them in Great Desert City.

Mo Hua traveled toward Great Desert City aboard a Sand Ship, reflecting on his old friends and surviving a Sand Bandit attack. Just as the city came into view, the ship’s hull broke open and began sinking, leaving everyone aboard in danger.

• Mo Hua wondered whether Da Hu and his brothers could have joined the Great Wilderness Sect despite their modest backgrounds, but he lacked enough information to understand how they had been chosen.
• The boat captain told Mo Hua that poor cultivators had little reason to fear the coming war, since life in the Sand Sea could end at any time.
• A large band of Sand Bandits attacked the Sand Ship, and Mo Hua fought them with a club while secretly helping the guards defeat their leader.
• The boat captain celebrated the victory and praised Mo Hua, then the Sand Ship continued toward Great Desert City.
• As Great Desert City came into view, the Sand Ship stopped after its damaged hull broke open, and the passengers panicked as it began to sink.

Mo Hua repaired the Sand Ship’s core Array Technique and secretly slipped into Great Desert City, where he began searching for Big Tiger and gathering information about the war. He learned that the city had an enormous underground Monster Fighting Arena, which might hold clues about Big Tiger.

• Mo Hua examined the Sand Ship’s Level Sand Array and repaired it, allowing the ship to sail faster to Great Desert City.
• Mo Hua disappeared after the ship docked, and the captain later learned from a shipyard master that the Array Technique was Second-Grade High-Tier and could secure his livelihood for decades.
• The captain poured wine into the sand and offered Mo Hua a blessing for a smooth voyage.
• Mo Hua secretly entered Great Desert City, avoided contacting Da Hu and the others, and began searching for Big Tiger while gathering information about the Dao Court and the Great Wilderness war.
• Mo Hua learned that Great Desert City had an enormous underground Monster Fighting Arena.

Mo Hua infiltrated the Monster Fighting Arena by posing as a starving Qi Refining worker, hoping to find his captured Big Tiger. He settled into life as a slave worker but had not yet located Big Tiger among the beasts in the arena’s cells.

• Mo Hua sensed a burst of bloody aura and several deaths inside the Monster Fighting Arena, then used the apparent shortage of workers to enter the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
• Mo Hua convinced the steward to hire him, ate a meal, and followed him blindfolded into the underground Monster Fighting Arena.
• The steward assigned Mo Hua to replace a dead slave worker, and Mo Hua began performing exhausting chores while learning how harshly the workers were treated.
• Mo Hua grew concerned about the normalized treatment of cultivators as livestock in Great Wilderness but focused on finding Big Tiger before it was forced to fight.
• Mo Hua searched the beast pens for Big Tiger but found only other Tiger Monsters, while guarded hidden cells remained beyond his reach.

Mo Hua entered the Monster Fighting Arena’s inner grounds to search for Big Tiger, but found no trace of him until Young Master Tuoba arrived with a chained, heavily restrained tiger. Big Tiger sensed Mo Hua and looked straight at him.

• Mo Hua used Demon Bone Divination and learned only that the Karma involved the Monster Fighting Arena, then waited for a chance to investigate further.
• When the steward sought a replacement servant for the inner grounds, Mo Hua volunteered in exchange for better food and was assigned to serve the nobles.
• Mo Hua observed the bloody monster fights and the mix of Great Desert City disciples and Great Wilderness cultivators, but found no sign of Big Tiger.
• Young Master Tuoba arrived with golden-armored guards, and Mo Hua hid among the servants and cultivators rather than kneeling.
• Eight Foundation Establishment Peak Stage Body Cultivator brutes dragged in a massive black-and-white tiger, which stopped, sensed Mo Hua, and turned its gaze toward him.

Mo Hua secretly visited the battered Big Tiger in its prison and gave it a dried fish, then began seeking a way to rescue it despite Young Master Tuoba’s power and the danger of the Great Wilderness Sect. After taking a position serving Young Master Tuoba, Mo Hua recognized two unexpected banquet guests: Li San and the short, stout Golden Core Cultivator he suspected was Elder You.

• Young Master Tuoba whipped Big Tiger until it was badly injured, then ordered it taken away while Mo Hua watched.
• Mo Hua used the blood he had collected to follow karmic clues to Big Tiger’s hidden dungeon, where he gave it a dried fish and resolved to find a way to rescue it.
• Mo Hua learned that Young Master Tuoba was likely connected to the Tuoba Clan and the Great Wilderness Sect, and agreed to serve him after the steward offered him the position.
• Mo Hua discovered two servants dead after Young Master Tuoba had slapped them, then took their place serving him.
• Young Master Tuoba hosted a banquet for a short, stout Golden Core Cultivator and a tall, thin Foundation Establishment Cultivator whom Mo Hua recognized as Li San.
• Mo Hua suspected that Li San’s companion was Elder You, who still owed him one million eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones.