Recaps

After Mo Hua abandoned attempts to calculate Elder You, an overlooked scout exposed the Shugu Tribe to an invasion by the Wujiu Tribe. Mo Hua held the mountain pass at terrible cost until the Wujiu army withdrew, leaving him determined to strengthen his forces and avoid another battle with such losses.

• Mo Hua concluded that Elder You and the Hua family were too dangerous to investigate directly, and he set the matter aside for the time being.
• Mo Hua failed to account for a scout whose information leaked, and the Wujiu Tribe's main force launched an attack on the Shugu Tribe.
• Mo Hua evacuated the tribespeople across a mountain valley and ordered his soldiers to defend the narrow pass against the larger-equipped Wujiu army.
• As the battle turned brutal, Mo Hua sent Barbarian Slaves into the fighting with a promise of freedom if they survived, while the Shugu Tribe suffered heavy casualties.
• The Wujiu Tribe failed to break through and withdrew after supply shortages and attacks from other tribes made continuing too costly.
• Mo Hua vowed to make the Wujiu Tribe pay and began reviewing the battle so he could build greater strength and prevent similar losses.

After the Shugu Tribe captured Chi Yan, Mo Hua learned that the Danjue Tribe might be nearby and arranged for Danzhu to reunite with his father. The group reached the Danjue Tribe’s hidden encampment, where Danzhu prepared to face his family and the choice between his ideals and his kin.

• Mo Hua weighed the Shugu Tribe’s devastating losses and spent several days studying the tangled conflicts and dangers across the Great Wilderness.
• The Shugu Tribe captured Chi Yan during a night raid, and Danzhu recognized him as a Barbarian General of the Danjue Tribe.
• Mo Hua deduced that Chi Yan had likely been sent to scout the Shugu Tribe and warned Danzhu that reuniting with his father would force him to choose between his ideals and his family.
• Mo Hua pressured Chi Yan into leading him to the Danjue Great Chieftain, and Danzhu, Chi Feng, Bashan, Bachuan, and others joined the journey.
• Chi Yan led the group through a hidden entrance behind an inverted sandfall, and Danzhu entered the encampment with Mo Hua close behind.

Mo Hua and Danzhu returned to the Danque Tribe, where Mo Hua persuaded Great Chieftain Dan Lie to let the Shugu Tribe join an alliance against the Wujiu Tribe. Dan Lie agreed to let Mo Hua and Lugu attend the Tribal Alliance Meeting, then warned Mo Hua that two Shamans from the Royal Court would also be there.

• Chi Yan led Danzhu and Mo Hua into the Danque Tribe, where Danzhu reunited with his father, Great Chieftain Dan Lie.
• Dan Lie and Dan Bie questioned whether Danzhu had joined the Shugu Tribe and challenged Mo Hua's claims about his role as its Shaman.
• Mo Hua recognized that the Danque Tribe was planning an alliance against the Wujiu Tribe and offered for the Shugu Tribe to join.
• Mo Hua argued that the Danque and Shugu Tribes needed to set aside old grievances, and Dan Lie agreed to let Mo Hua and Lugu attend the Tribal Alliance Meeting.
• Dan Lie warned Mo Hua that two Shamans from the Royal Court would attend the meeting.

Mo Hua attended the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm alliance meeting as a Shaman, where the Royal Court Shamans Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu challenged his credentials. He denied following the Royal Court’s rules and claimed the God Lord had personally appointed him, leaving the assembled leaders stunned.

• The major tribes gathered in the ruined great hall, where Mo Hua sat beside Lugu in a seat nearly equal to the Great Chieftains.
• Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu arrived, and the tribal leaders greeted the two Royal Court Shamans with respect.
• Yan Zhu questioned Mo Hua about his Shaman rank, Royal Court appointment, and lineage, and Mo Hua admitted he knew none of those details.
• Mo Hua argued that a Shaman should revere the gods’ will rather than human-made rules, and Yan Zhu challenged his claim to the title.
• Mo Hua said the God Lord had personally named him a Shaman and delivered a grand account of his divine mission, astonishing Yan Zhu and the gathered leaders.

Mo Hua faced Yan Zhu’s accusation of impersonating a Shaman, but Yan Zhu’s divine punishment had no effect, and the gathered tribes let Mo Hua remain at the alliance. After the tribes began planning their campaign against the Wujiu Tribe, Dan Lie revealed that the Wujiu invasion might be tied to a planned God Descent.

• Yan Zhu accused Mo Hua of blaspheming the gods, and the Flame Wing Great Chieftain tried to seize him until Lugu intervened.
• Yan Zhu invoked divine punishment against Mo Hua, but Mo Hua remained unharmed, so Yan Zhu claimed he had decided to spare him.
• Qing Zhu urged the gathered chieftains and elders to resume their urgent alliance discussions, and Mo Hua listened without speaking.
• The tribes debated concessions and army arrangements for a campaign against the Wujiu Tribe while Mo Hua observed their rivalries.
• Dan Lie announced that the Wujiu Tribe’s invasion might serve a greater purpose, and Yan Zhu named it the Wujiu God Descent.

Yan Zhu explained that the Wujiu Tribe planned to use its ancient deity and Vermilion Bird Mountain’s Ancient Altar to reshape the mountain realm’s faith, and the tribes formed an alliance to stop the ritual. Afterward, Mo Hua questioned Danzhu about his sister Dan Ling and confirmed Danzhu’s resolve to follow his own Dao Heart, while privately considering whether he could devour the Wujiu Great God.

• Yan Zhu revealed that the Wujiu Tribe intended to perform a God Descent ritual at Vermilion Bird Mountain’s Ancient Altar and warned that the Wujiu Great God could alter every tribe’s faith.
• Yan Zhu nominated Dan Lie as Grand Alliance Leader, and Dan Lie accepted after Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu both sought to take Dan Lie’s daughter, Dan Ling, as a disciple and offer her to the gods.
• The tribal leaders swore to unite against the Wujiu Tribe, destroy its Shaman forces, and prevent the God Descent ritual.
• Mo Hua asked Danzhu about Dan Ling’s beauty, then asked whether Danzhu had considered his future path.
• Danzhu declared that he would stand by his own Dao Heart even if his father and elder brother chose a different path, and Mo Hua approved his resolve.
• Mo Hua privately wondered whether he could devour the Wujiu Great God and reach Twenty-Four-Pattern.

As the Vermilion Bird Mountain Tribal Alliance fought the Wujiu Tribe, Mo Hua used his Array Techniques to support the campaign and gather talented Witch Cultivators. Yan Zhu then explained the Royal Court’s Shaman hierarchy and Zhu Names, prompting Mo Hua to consider how Divine Consciousness, gods, Dao, and laws might connect.

• Dan Lie directed the Vermilion Bird Mountain Tribal Alliance’s war against the Wujiu Tribe while Mo Hua worried over the growing Death Omen and focused on Array Techniques.
• Mo Hua became the campaign’s de facto chief Array Master, covertly gaining control over the alliance’s array designs and earning Witch Cultivators’ respect as Mr. Wu.
• Mo Hua studied Witch Cultivators from different tribes and marked promising ones as potential recruits for his future plans.
• Yan Zhu approached Mo Hua unseen and questioned his Sacred Patterns and Shaman status; he concluded Mo Hua was a deeply blessed wild God-Favored One.
• Yan Zhu explained Royal Court recognition, the meaning of a Zhu Name, and how Shaman titles reflected the Dao of a deity.
• Mo Hua connected Yan Zhu’s explanation to his own understanding of Divine Consciousness, gods, Dao, and laws, and suspected the Nine Provinces’ orthodox inheritance had excluded an important part of cultivation.

Mo Hua noticed that divine sense had been removed from the cultivation system, then used the ongoing tribal war to study and secretly collect powerful array techniques. As the conflict with the Wujiu Tribe intensified, he gained access to ancestral armor arrays and observed life-and-death cycles through the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation.

• Yan Zhu tried to recruit Mo Hua into the Royal Court’s orthodox divine lineage and asked him to draw Sacred Patterns for the coming war.
• Qing Zhu warned Yan Zhu against pursuing Dan Ling, and she privately revealed that her pregnancy was her last chance in life.
• Mo Hua improved the Tribal Alliance Meeting’s war arrays, equipping armor, weapons, siege engines, and other defenses while the fighting against the Wujiu Tribe escalated.
• As the tribes entrusted him with high-grade and damaged ancestral Barbarian Armor, Mo Hua used his techniques to deconstruct and reconstruct their arrays, secretly acquiring their inheritance.
• Mo Hua built Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formations to treat wounded soldiers and studied their circulation of life force and death aura to prepare for his own Golden Core Formation.

Mo Hua prepared to use the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation and Wood White Gold Jade Bone to make his dangerous bone-carved Natal Array, while discovering that the Hua Family was secretly acquiring tribal bone-carving methods. After reassuring Little Zhatu about his grandfather and resolving to return to the Wutu Mountain Realm when he could, Mo Hua watched the war reach its final confrontation at Vermilion Bird Mountain.

• Mo Hua planned to combine Wood White Gold Jade Bone, the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation, and the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array into his Natal Magic Treasure for Golden Core Formation.
• Mo Hua learned that the Hua Family had covertly traded Inedia Pills for bone-carving methods from multiple tribes and suspected the methods were central to the Hua Family's plans.
• Little Zhatu told Mo Hua he was worried about his grandfather and the Wutu Mountain Realm, and Mo Hua reassured him that Elder Zhamu should be safe.
• Mo Hua resolved to return to the Wutu Mountain Realm and check on Little Zhatu's people and Big Tiger once the Wujiu Tribe conflict was settled.
• After three months of brutal fighting, the Wujiu Tribe broke through the blockade and advanced into the Vermilion Bird Ancient Mountain Range's deepest reaches.
• The Wujiu Tribe launched its final charge before the ancient Altar beneath the red clouds, setting the stage for a decisive battle under threat of the Wujiu Great God's descent.

Mo Hua watched the battle for the Vermilion Bird Altar, where the Wujiu Tribe and Vermilion Bird Mountain alliance raced to claim its divine throne. As the fighting reached the altar, the Wujiu Young Master revealed a terrifying dragon totem hidden beneath his cloak.

• Mo Hua observed the slaughter across Vermilion Bird Mountain as the Wujiu Tribe broke through the alliance’s defenses and uncovered the ancient Vermilion Bird Altar.
• The Vermilion Bird Statue and throne appeared, drawing both armies toward the plaza, where the Vermilion Bird Fire burned the Divine Consciousness of Foundation Establishment soldiers and many Golden Core cultivators.
• Dan Lie ordered the alliance’s Foundation Establishment soldiers to retreat, while the Wujiu Young Master likewise halted his weaker troops and the Golden Cores fought on in the plaza.
• The Wujiu Young Master struck back the late Golden Core Fire Eagle Great Chieftain with one punch and demanded that the alliance leaders submit to him.
• Dan Lie and the other Great Chieftains rejected the Wujiu Young Master’s demand, and both sides clashed as the Vermilion Bird Fire continued to scorch their Divine Consciousness.
• The Wujiu Young Master broke the seal on his black cloak, revealing a fearsome black dragon totem across his body.

The Wujiu Young Master revealed the Dragon Pattern, transformed into a powerful half-dragon, and drove the allied Great Chieftains back before trying to claim Vermilion Bird Mountain’s altar. When the Vermilion Bird Fire rejected him, the Black Vulture Elder began climbing in his place, but Dan Lie’s arrow failed to kill him, and he continued toward the altar to summon the Wujiu Great God.

• The Wujiu Young Master revealed his Dragon Pattern and claimed the Great Wilderness Dragon Vein had recognized him, while Yan Zhu and Dan Lie denounced him as a traitor.
• The Wujiu Young Master transformed into a half-dragon and fought off Dan Lie, Lugu, and the other Great Chieftains, forcing them to retreat.
• The Wujiu Young Master attempted to ascend the altar, but the Vermilion Bird Fire burned his consciousness and drove him back.
• The Black Vulture Elder prayed to the Vermilion Bird and climbed the altar while using black wings of Thought Power to endure its Divine Fire.
• Dan Lie fired a Vermilion Bird Arrow at the Black Vulture Elder; the Wujiu Young Master and two Great Generals tried to stop it, but the Elder survived with half his body destroyed.
• The Black Vulture Elder crawled farther up the altar to summon the Wujiu Great God.

Yan Zhu, Qing Zhu, and the Black Vulture Elder fought atop the Vermilion Bird Altar, each trying to place their Divine Path Token on its golden tray and summon their own god. Their struggle exhausted all three, and as the altar fell silent, a slender, frail figure appeared above it.

• Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu ascended the altar, where their witchcraft killed two Wujiu Great Generals and let them confront the Black Vulture Elder.
• Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu fought the wounded Black Vulture Elder, but Yan Zhu abandoned the battle and climbed toward the Divine Throne before divine majesty drove him back.
• Yan Zhu tried to offer his Candle Fire Crystal Jade, Qing Zhu tried to offer her Qingqiu Silk, and the Black Vulture Elder tried to offer his Wujiu Eye; each repeatedly interrupted the others.
• The three Shamans fought until they were badly wounded and exhausted, leaving their Divine Path Tokens scattered and the altar in silence.
• A slender, frail figure suddenly appeared atop the altar as the watching tribes looked on.

Mo Hua secretly took the Divine Path Tokens and placed the Wujiu Eye on the altar, enabling the God of Wujiu to descend upon Vermilion Bird Mountain. When the god demanded that Mo Hua kneel, Mo Hua defied him and invoked the God Lord’s descent to destroy the gods and heretics.

• Mo Hua took the Candle Fire Crystal Jade and Qingqiu Silk for himself, then carried the Wujiu Eye to the offering tray despite the others’ pleas.
• The Wujiu Eye ignited the golden tree and the ring above it, opening a path for the God of Wujiu to descend upon Vermilion Bird Mountain.
• The God of Wujiu’s divine pressure forced nearly everyone to kneel, while Danzhu and a few others resisted.
• The God of Wujiu demanded that Mo Hua kneel, but Mo Hua insulted the god and stood firm before him.
• Mo Hua declared himself the God Lord’s Shaman and invoked the God Lord’s descent, filling the mountain with golden light.

Mo Hua manifested as the God Lord and defeated the Wujiu Great God, bringing the Vermilion Bird Mountain war to an end while establishing a new faith across the Wilderness. Afterward, he secured the submission of three Shamans and turned his attention to refining the fallen god to advance his Divine Thought.

• Mo Hua slaughtered the Wujiu Great God, secretly devoured Chi's power, and inspired the tribes gathered at Vermilion Bird Mountain to worship the God Lord.
• The Wujiu Tribe's army routed, and the Wujiu Young Master escaped Vermilion Bird Mountain with loyal followers as other leaders defected or fled over their faith in Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua declared that the God Lord's path would spread through the Great Wilderness, and the kneeling tribes echoed his prayers as the ancient faith revived.
• The Black Vulture Elder, Yan Zhu, and Qing Zhu pledged to serve Mo Hua, who promised to return their Divine Path Tokens when the time was right.
• Mo Hua discovered that Qing Zhu was carrying a child, promised to keep it secret, and then planned to refine the Wujiu Great God and advance to Twenty-Four-Pattern Divine Thought.

Mo Hua devoured the Wujiu Great God's Thought Power, beat him into submission, and questioned him about the former Lord of the Great Wilderness. After learning that the ancient God Lord had a human body, Sheep Horns, and a White Bone face, Mo Hua brought the stripped-down Wujiu God to the sealed Divine Temple, where Wujiu recognized the Pixiu Holy Beast.

• Mo Hua secretly ate the Wujiu Great God's Thought Power while the god tried and failed to parasitize Mo Hua's solid Sea of Consciousness.
• Wujiu God formed an incarnation and challenged Mo Hua, who knocked him down and beat him until he submitted.
• Mo Hua questioned Wujiu God about the former Lord of the Great Wilderness, and Wujiu recalled seeing an Ancient God with a human body, Sheep Horns, and a White Bone face several thousand years earlier.
• Wujiu God speculated that the God Lord Society might have been sealed, gravely injured, or erased by an unknowable power, but said he could not reveal the truth.
• Mo Hua made Wujiu God separate his divine will from his Thought Power, preserving the Thought Power for Mo Hua to absorb.
• Mo Hua took Wujiu God to the Divine Temple, where Wujiu recognized the Pixiu Holy Beast and left Mo Hua wondering how he knew it.

Mo Hua captured the Wujiu Great God and left him under the Pixiu’s paw with the Heavenly Demon and Evil God True Fetus, then consumed the god’s stored Thought Power. He broke through to Twenty-Four-Pattern, allowing him to begin learning the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array and prepare to advance toward the Golden Core.

• Mo Hua gave the Wujiu Great God to the Pixiu, which pinned him beneath its paw alongside the Lesser Faceless Heavenly Demon and Evil God True Fetus.
• Mo Hua decided not to cut the Evil God True Fetus for meat after seeing the Pixiu’s distress, then left the Pixiu guarding the three captives.
• The imprisoned Wujiu Great God realized that being sealed by Mo Hua might be his only way to preserve his Divine Path and survive the coming Great Calamity of the Weird Heavens.
• Mo Hua inspected the Thought Power shed by the Wujiu Great God, found no traps or tainted Karma, and began consuming and refining it.
• Mo Hua broke through the Twenty-Three-Pattern bottleneck and raised his Divine Sense to Twenty-Four-Pattern.
• Mo Hua recognized that he could now begin learning the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array and advance toward the Golden Core.

After reaching Twenty-Four-Pattern Divine Consciousness, Mo Hua emerged from seclusion and cowed the Shamans who had gathered outside. He began studying the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array and prepared to test it on Bone Slaughter, the Shugu Tribe General.

• Mo Hua emerged from seclusion, warned Yan Zhu not to interfere again, and unintentionally forced Yan Zhu, the Black Vulture Elder, Qing Zhu, and the gathered crowd to kneel with his newly strengthened Divine Consciousness.
• Yan Zhu and the Black Vulture Elder left shaken by Mo Hua’s power, while Mo Hua considered how to secure lasting control over the tribes’ leaders.
• Mo Hua examined the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array and, with his Divine Consciousness at Twenty-Four-Pattern, perceived its complete form.
• Mo Hua studied the array for days, learned that it could store Lingli in his bones, and saw it as a way to overcome his shortage of Lingli and prepare for Golden Core Formation.
• After gaining enough insight to begin drawing the array patterns, Mo Hua went to the lowest level of the Shaman Great Hall to test it on the sealed corpse of Bone Slaughter, the Shugu Tribe General.

Mo Hua experimented on Bone Slaughter’s corpse, refining his methods for molding gold-jade bone and carving a Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array intended for his own Golden Core. Meanwhile, he used the God Lord’s authority to unify the tribes and their faiths, and established the Divine Slave Tribe to protect and organize the Wilderness’s barbarian slaves.

• Mo Hua used prepared materials to mold gold-jade bone over Bone Slaughter’s skeleton and tried carving the Taotie Spirit Bone Array, but his first attempt failed after two days.
• Mo Hua studied the causes of failure and continued practicing, gradually improving his bone molding, Bone Carving, and corpse-control skills.
• Danzhu led the reorganization of the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm’s tribes under Mo Hua’s direction, with Dan Lie and Lugu supporting him.
• Mo Hua used the God Lord’s name to consolidate authority, suppress dissent, and place worship of the God Lord above the tribes’ other beliefs.
• Mo Hua established the Divine Slave Tribe, placing barbarian slaves under the God Lord’s protection so they could unite and avoid returning to ownerless bondage.

Mo Hua designed a Thick Earth pseudo-grand array to counter the Famine Disaster without disturbing Martial Uncle’s hidden array, but the tribal leaders opposed its enormous cost. He invoked the God Lord’s authority to command the tribes to build it, declaring that the disaster would spread until it consumed the Great Wilderness.

• Mo Hua used his authority over the Divine Slave Tribe and the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm to gather the people and resources needed for a vast array project.
• Mo Hua chose a locally adapted Thick Earth pseudo-grand array to balance the Famine Disaster’s deathly aura with vitality, since he could not safely destroy Martial Uncle’s suspected array.
• The tribal leaders at Vermilion Bird Mountain’s ancient council hall argued that the disaster had stopped spreading and opposed spending the realm’s remaining resources on the array.
• Danzhu, Lugu, Chi Feng, and Great Chieftain Dan Lie remained silent despite their doubts because they trusted Mo Hua’s judgment.
• Mo Hua told the council that the Famine Disaster would continue until it consumed the Great Wilderness, then ordered every tribe that believed in the God Lord to devote its efforts to building the Sacred Pattern Grand Array.

Mo Hua expanded the Thick Earth Grand Array toward Wutu Mountain Realm, teaching Witch Cultivators the Sacred Patterns needed to resist the Famine Disaster. After reuniting Little Zhatu with Elder Zhamu, Mo Hua realized that his Humanity had begun to fade, perhaps already partly extinguished.

• Mo Hua learned from Tie Shugu that an ancient Shugu Tribe prophecy had led Lugu eastward to Wucha Mountain Realm, and he gathered Witch Cultivators to teach them the Thick Earth Absolute Array and related techniques.
• Mo Hua organized Witch Cultivators and Divine Slave Tribe members to build the first Thick Earth Array Ground, extending a Sacred Pattern road through the Famine Disaster toward Wutu Mountain Realm.
• Mo Hua and his companions reached Wutu Mountain Realm, where the tribes remained peaceful and the arrangements Mo Hua had made were still functioning.
• Little Zhatu reunited with his grandfather, Elder Zhamu, and the two wept as they embraced.
• Watching their reunion, Mo Hua felt a warmth he recognized as Humanity and realized that his Humanity had begun to fade or had already been partly extinguished.

Mo Hua struggled to preserve his Humanity as divine faith and political power made him increasingly cold, then discovered Big Tiger was near death from suppressing its breakthrough. He brought Big Tiger to the Third-Grade Mountain Realm to break through, but the tiger monsters turned on the mountain as the breakthrough began.

• Mo Hua realized that his growing divinity and power were corroding his Humanity, and he feared losing his connection to his loved ones.
• Mo Hua found Big Tiger in Deep Mountain, where prolonged suppression of its breakthrough had damaged its monster meridians.
• Mo Hua ordered Tie Shugu to transport Big Tiger to the Third-Grade Mountain Realm, while a Third-Grade Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and tigresses followed them.
• Mo Hua had Lugu and more than thirty Golden Core Barbarian Cultivators guard Big Tiger as it ate and regained strength.
• As Big Tiger began breaking through, the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and the tigresses grew enraged and charged toward the mountain.

Mo Hua guarded Big Tiger as it broke through, discovering that its Holy Beast bloodline appeared to use Array Patterns to construct and transform living flesh. Big Tiger formed its Monster Core beneath a White Holy Tiger phenomenon, while the Tiger Monsters and Barbarian cultivators bowed before the holy aura.

• Lugu and the Golden Core cultivators fought off the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and the other Tiger Monsters as Big Tiger began its breakthrough.
• The Third-Grade Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger wounded Lugu and charged for the cave, but Mo Hua struck its Monster Consciousness with Divine Thought and drove it back.
• Mo Hua realized the Tiger Monsters sought Big Tiger’s Holy Beast bloodline and guarded the cave while studying how the bloodline fused its flesh, bones, and meridians like an Array Pattern.
• Mo Hua understood that Big Tiger had waited for him both for protection and so he could witness its bloodline inheritance as it formed its Monster Core.
• Big Tiger’s breakthrough unleashed a White Holy Tiger phenomenon over the mountaintop, and the cultivators and Tiger Monsters bowed beneath its holy pressure.

After Big Tiger became a Third-Grade Golden Core monster with an awakened Holy Beast bloodline, Mo Hua deduced that the Great Shaman may have created the Wilderness’s Holy Beast array system and wondered whether a hidden force had guided events around him. He brought Big Tiger back to the Danque Tribe and turned his attention to the ancient Divine Throne in Vermilion Bird Mountain.

• Big Tiger formed its monster core, completed its Holy Beast bloodline transformation, and emerged from the cave as a powerful Third-Grade Golden Core monster.
• Mo Hua studied Big Tiger’s transformed bloodline and suspected that Holy Beast bloodlines were ancient life Array Patterns, leading him to connect the Great Shaman to the Wilderness’s Holy Beast arrays and their creation.
• Mo Hua questioned whether someone had arranged the events that brought him to the Wilderness, but concluded that chance and an unseen force might both have shaped his path.
• Mo Hua recorded the changes he observed in Big Tiger’s bloodline and left the cave with it after Lugu and the others had kept watch.
• Mo Hua offered the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger a chance to become holy if it served him, and the tiger and the other Tiger Monsters submitted to him.
• Mo Hua returned to the Danque Tribe with Big Tiger and prepared to deal with the ancient Divine Throne in Vermilion Bird Mountain.

Mo Hua took the ancient Divine Throne at Vermilion Bird Mountain and discovered that the altar had once sealed the Evil God of the Great Wilderness, possibly through the Great Shaman’s design. At a grand ceremony seven days later, he declared the final War of Deities and named himself the Divine Shaman, acting in the God Lord’s name.

• Mo Hua suppressed his urge to summon and devour more gods, then endured the Divine Throne’s ancient will and saw a vision of the Vermilion Bird sealing the Evil God of the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua concluded that the altar was a seal created by the Vermilion Bird, likely as part of the Great Shaman’s effort to suppress the Evil God, and worried that his own path resembled both the Great Shaman’s and the Evil God’s.
• Mo Hua sat upon the Divine Throne, revived its Authority, and became the new master of Vermilion Bird Mountain while Big Tiger remained his closest reminder of his Humanity.
• Seven days later, Mo Hua presided over the God Sacrifice Ceremony as the tribes and millions of warriors knelt before him.
• Mo Hua announced that the final War of Deities would begin and declared himself the Divine Shaman, exercising Divine Authority on behalf of the God Lord.

After establishing the Divine Shaman faith and binding the tribal leaders through the Stele of the Divine Shaman, Mo Hua unified Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm and launched a war across the Wilderness. His advance stalled at the Poisonous Insect Swamp, where he awakened Black Steed to face the Gaotu Tribe.

• Mo Hua made the tribal leaders swear blood oaths and write their names on the Stele of the Divine Shaman, binding their Life Souls while leaving Danzhu independent as a safeguard for the Divine Path.
• The Grand God Sacrifice Ceremony ended with Mo Hua alone on the Divine Throne, where he quietly reminded himself that he was also Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua’s followers built the Thick Earth Grand Array across Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm, improving the land and supporting crops and the realm’s people.
• Mo Hua began the War of the Divine Shaman, and his forces conquered nearly half of the Wilderness before their advance slowed against powerful tribes allied with the Hua Family.
• In the Second Year of the Divine Shaman, Mo Hua’s army became stalled at the Poisonous Insect Swamp by the Gaotu Tribe’s poisonous creatures and ambushes.
• Mo Hua opened Black Steed’s coffin in his military tent, and the savage corpse awakened with a hunger for food.