Recaps

Mo Hua revealed himself as Void Gate’s prodigy to escape the Dao Court elders’ attempt to kill him, while Yan Zhu remained convinced he was also the Divine Shaman. At the Four Symbols Palace, Mo Hua protected Dan Ling and gathered the sect prodigies and their elders around him, leaving Elder Xuanyuan facing a sudden show of strength.

• Elder Xuanyuan ordered Mo Hua killed and Dan Ling taken, but Mo Hua stepped forward and challenged the Dao Province elders.
• Mo Hua named himself and cited his reputation and victories over the Dao Province prodigies, making Elder Xuanyuan hesitate to act against him.
• Yan Zhu insisted Mo Hua was the Divine Shaman, then recognized Mo Hua’s familiar bearing and concluded that he was both the Divine Shaman and Void Gate’s prodigy.
• The Dao Court forces continued their purge through the Four Symbols Palace, killing surviving Royal Soldiers as Dan Ling obeyed Mo Hua and stayed silent.
• At the central plaza, Elder Xuanyuan ordered Dan Ling seized, but Mo Hua declared that no one could touch her and challenged him.
• Situ Jian joined Mo Hua, followed by the Situ Clan elders and the prodigies Mo Hua summoned, drawing their Dao-protecting elders behind them and leaving Elder Xuanyuan stunned.

Mo Hua rallied the Eight Great Provinces’ prodigies and elders against Elder Xuanyuan, insisting that they protect Dan Ling and seek Golden Core Formation in the Dragon Pool. After the factions split up to search the Four Symbols Palace for a way forward, Mo Hua waited with his companions, and the others returned when the palace’s ancient killing intent blocked their escape.

• Elder Xuanyuan tried to intimidate the gathered elders, but Mo Hua challenged him and persuaded the Eight Great Provinces’ clans to stand with him.
• Elder Xuanyuan accused Mo Hua of sheltering Dan Ling for personal reasons and threatened to report him, but Mo Hua exposed the Xuanyuan Family’s own ties to Great Wilderness figures and refused to hand her over.
• Mo Hua declared that he would lead those who followed him into the Dragon Pool and warned opponents not to interfere, leaving the hall divided between Dao Province and the Eight Great Provinces.
• After the elders went to search for a way deeper into the Imperial Court, Mo Hua told Situ Jian to bring Situ Fang and instructed his companions to stay close to him and Dan Ling.
• Half an hour later, the Four Symbols Palace trembled and its sacred patterns stirred with ancient killing intent, forcing Elder Xuanyuan and the others to retreat into the main hall.
• Mo Hua opened his eyes and told Elder Xuanyuan that he could not get out.

Mo Hua revealed that the Four Symbols Palace trapped the elders through a sacrificial array, then made them follow his instructions to trigger and withstand its defenses. As the elders worked through the labyrinth, Mo Hua used Heavenly Calculation to study the Four Symbols Array and pursue its lost Absolute Array Diagram.

• Mo Hua demanded that the elders obey him, but Elder Xuanyuan and the other Dao Province elders rejected his authority and joined forces with the elders of the Eight Great Provinces to search the labyrinth.
• The elders returned injured, and Mo Hua explained that the Four Symbols Royal Soldiers had sacrificed themselves to activate the maze and trap anyone coveting the Great Wilderness Royal Court.
• Elder Xuanyuan agreed to follow Mo Hua’s directions within the palace, and Mo Hua assigned the elders positions and strict rules for responding to the Four Symbols patterns.
• The Golden Core elders began following Mo Hua’s instructions to activate and break the array while the Foundation Establishment prodigies stayed in the main hall.
• Mo Hua observed the array’s reactions with Divine Consciousness and used Heavenly Calculation to record its patterns and deduce the Four Symbols Absolute Array Diagram.

Mo Hua finished deriving the Four Symbols Palace array and led the elders safely through its labyrinth, though he had to bluff his way past their doubts. The group reached the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where Mo Hua expected the real danger to begin with Shentu Ao.

• Mo Hua recorded the Four Symbols array knowledge he could derive before exhausting his Divine Consciousness.
• Mo Hua convinced the elders that the array had been broken and guided them along a safe path out of the labyrinth.
• Elder Xuanyuan rallied the elders to attack the Great Wilderness Imperial Clan, while Mo Hua warned Bai Zisheng, Dan Ling, Situ Fang, Situ Jian, and the others to stay close.
• Mo Hua and the elders climbed the silent stone stairs and arrived before the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall.

Mo Hua and the others found Shentu Ao transformed into a monstrous being in the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where the elders attacked him and he revived by absorbing blood and flesh. As the battle continued, Mo Hua suspected his Martial Uncle was behind Shentu Ao’s unnatural powers and feared the group might not survive long enough to reach Dragon Bone Path and the Dragon Pool.

• Elder Xuanyuan led the elders into the ruined Great Wilderness Dragon Hall and found Shentu Ao standing in a black Blood Pool.
• The elders bombarded Shentu Ao, but the black blood and flesh restored his body, and its array patterns killed several charging elders.
• Shentu Ao awoke, killed and devoured two Golden Core Sword Cultivators, then declared his intent to conquer the Great Wilderness and destroy the Dao Court.
• Mo Hua led the younger cultivators out of the hall while the elders continued fighting Shentu Ao, and Dan Ling explained what she knew about Dragon Bone Path and the Dragon Pool restrictions.
• Mo Hua recognized traces of his Martial Uncle in Shentu Ao’s voice and Four Symbols Ghostly Path Dragon Map, and feared Shentu Ao could slaughter everyone if he fought without restraint.

After Shentu Ao repeatedly repelled the Dao Court elders’ attempts to kill him, Mo Hua began deducing the Four Symbols Ghostly Path Dragon Map, fearing it connected to his martial uncle. As the exhausted elders regrouped, demonic phenomena erupted around the Dragon Hall and zombie hands attacked the gathered prodigies.

• Shentu Ao forced Elder Xuanyuan and the other elders out of the Dragon Hall after killing and devouring many of them.
• Elder Xuanyuan rallied the elders to destroy Shentu Ao, while he ordered the prodigies to wait for their chance to form Golden Cores in the Dragon Pool.
• The elders launched two more heavily prepared assaults, but Shentu Ao recovered by drinking the Blood Pool’s black blood and killed more elders before they retreated.
• Mo Hua began using Heavenly Calculation to deduce the Four Symbols Ghostly Path Dragon Map, despite fearing that it would lead him back to his martial uncle.
• As Elder Xuanyuan’s group rested after another failed assault, silver-white zombie hands emerged and attacked Yuwen Hua while pink aura, falling skulls, and an eye-bearing Demon Sword appeared around them.

The Demonic Path ambushed the Dao Court expedition, unleashing blood swords, poison corpses, beguiling powder, and ghosts while Mo Hua and the righteous cultivators fought to protect their prodigies. The ambushers revealed a formidable host led by the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, and both sides prepared to fight over the Dragon Pool of the Great Wilderness.

• Demonic shadows and blood-drop swords attacked the Dao Court party as zombies rose from the ground, and Mo Hua warned the prodigies about the poison and subdued their bewitched companions with Ao Zheng and Shi Tiangang.
• Mo Hua destroyed the ghost children tormenting the crowd, prompting the Skull-Necklace Big Man to attack before a Longding Sect elder intercepted him.
• Lady Rui marked Mo Hua with her Hehuan Stamen but found his mind unaffected, while the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master emerged and injured Mo Hua before Bai Zisheng and Dao Court elders intervened.
• The Xuanyuan sword art struck at the Evil Eye Demon Sword, and a Sword Slave withdrew it, ending the attacks as the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master escaped the elders' encirclement.
• The sinister mist lifted to reveal the Demonic Path elders and prodigies, who demanded the Dragon Pool of the Great Wilderness and declared that the righteous and demonic factions would fight for it.

The orthodox and demonic cultivators joined forces to attack Shentu Ao after discovering the monster in the Dragon Hall could not be overcome alone, but their repeated assaults failed. Mo Hua realized the battles were feeding the evolving Ghostly Path Dragon Map and ended the chapter by openly mocking the Golden Core elders.

• The orthodox and demonic Golden Core cultivators battled outside the Dragon Hall until Elder Xuanyuan and the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master halted the fight and tested the danger within.
• A Ten Thousand Monster Mountain cultivator entered the Dragon Hall and was immediately killed, prompting Elder Xuanyuan to propose that both sides join forces to defeat Shentu Ao.
• The orthodox and demonic elders agreed to cooperate, then launched repeated joint assaults on Shentu Ao, but disunity and mistakes caused each attack to fail.
• Mo Hua deduced that slaughter and injury were helping the Ghostly Path Dragon Map evolve, making Shentu Ao increasingly dangerous and turning the campaign into a trap for everyone inside.
• After the fifth joint assault failed, Mo Hua mocked the Golden Core elders for being unable to kill Shentu Ao.

Mo Hua led the righteous and devil path Golden Cores through repeated attempts to suppress Shentu Ao, eventually disabling the Ghostly Path Dragon Map and killing him. As the elders began to fear Mo Hua’s growing power, he slipped into the passage inside the revealed White Bone dragon head, ahead of everyone else.

• Mo Hua insulted the devil path Golden Cores, then claimed he could kill Shentu Ao by breaking the Array Technique formed by the Evil Demon Dragon Pattern.
• Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master allowed Mo Hua to lead an encirclement, and Mo Hua devised tactics that exposed Shentu Ao’s weaknesses despite the first attempt failing.
• Mo Hua scolded both sides for their poor coordination, and the Golden Cores gradually improved their tactics through repeated failed assaults that weakened Shentu Ao.
• During the fifth encirclement, the Golden Cores exhausted Shentu Ao and exposed the Ghostly Path Dragon Map in his back, allowing Mo Hua to inscribe an array inside him and stop him.
• The elders developed killing intent toward Mo Hua, but he vanished and entered the bone passage inside the White Bone dragon head behind the Blood Pool.

Mo Hua entered the Dragon Bone Path, where Golden Core cultivators could not follow, so the righteous and demonic factions sent their prodigies after him while preparing to kill him when he emerged. As the factions’ heirs battled through the path toward the Dragon Pool, they encountered Mo Hua, and their fighting stopped.

• Golden Core cultivators were repelled by the Dragon Bone Path’s imperial restriction, so the righteous and demonic elders ordered their Foundation Establishment prodigies to pursue Mo Hua and seek Golden Cores at the Dragon Pool.
• Bai Zisheng entered the path, while Dan Ling stayed with Situ Fang and grieved over Shentu Ao; Elder Xuanyuan sent Yan Zhu and an elder to search for Qing Zhu.
• The elders burned Shentu Ao’s corpse and waited outside the path, intending to kill Mo Hua when he returned.
• Yan Zhu ambushed and killed the Xuanyuan Family elder, burned the body and bloodstains, then fled through the Four Symbols Labyrinth while lamenting his betrayal of Mo Hua.
• The righteous and demonic prodigies fought as they raced through the Dragon Bone Path toward the Dragon Pool.
• Mo Hua appeared ahead of the battling prodigies, and both sides immediately stopped to stare at him.

Mo Hua stopped the righteous and demonic prodigies from killing one another and led them through the Dragon Bone Path, where a powerful restriction suppressed their cultivation. The group reached the Dragon Pool entrance, and Mo Hua sensed the aura of a Golden Core within.

• The prodigies attacked Mo Hua, but he evaded their attacks, and Bai Zisheng intervened, fighting off those who tried to kill him.
• Mo Hua threatened the group with his killing intent and warned them not to interfere with his Golden Core formation, so they agreed to proceed together.
• Young Master Tuoba rebuked Meng Bohu for entering the Dragon Bone Path and ordered him to follow, while Mo Hua resolved that he could only help Da Hu indirectly.
• Mo Hua studied the Dragon Bone Path’s restriction and realized it suppressed cultivators’ power and might be part of a vast, unfinished array technique.
• Mo Hua led the prodigies to the Dragon Pool entrance, where a Bone Stele bore its name and an ancient Golden Core aura drifted out.

Mo Hua and the other prodigies entered a vision of the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where many revealed they carried traces of imperial blood and sought the Dragon Pool’s Qi Destiny. After the Dragon Emperor denounced Mo Hua’s common birth, Mo Hua killed him, breaking the bloodline barrier and opening the Dragon Pool gates.

• Mo Hua touched the Dragon Pool gates and was transported with the other prodigies into the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where the Dragon Emperor confronted them.
• Xuanyuan Jing and many righteous and Demonic Path prodigies claimed traces of Great Wilderness Imperial Clan blood, and Mo Hua realized their bloodlines had been cultivated as a means to claim the Great Wilderness’s Qi Destiny.
• The Dragon Emperor condemned the prodigies without imperial blood and insulted Mo Hua’s common-born parents, so Mo Hua seized him and killed him and the assembled imperial nobles.
• The Dragon Hall collapsed, and the prodigies returned to the Dragon Pool as Mo Hua opened its gates, revealing darkness lit by golden fire.

Mo Hua entered the Great Wilderness Dragon Pool, discovered a sealed Coffin and an erased stone stele, then began preparing to form his Golden Core. During his breakthrough, he was drawn into a dreamlike Dragon Pool where he opened the Coffin, saw Shentu Ye, and deciphered the strange patterns on the stele before Shentu Ye appeared behind him.

• Mo Hua and the other prodigies entered the Dragon Pool, where they saw the dissected Azure Dragon and its many chambers for Golden Core Formation.
• Mo Hua found a sealed Coffin and a blank stone stele near one of the altars, but could not discover what had been erased or what sealed the Coffin.
• Mo Hua, Situ Jian, and Bai Zisheng chose nearby chambers and prepared to form their Golden Cores.
• Mo Hua began his breakthrough, but his supplies and spiritual energy vanished as he found himself in a hazy, empty version of the Dragon Pool.
• Mo Hua opened the Coffin and recognized the young boy inside as Shentu Ye, then studied the patterns that had appeared on the stone stele.
• Mo Hua understood the patterns as a continuous chain, and Shentu Ye appeared behind him and said he had expected Mo Hua to understand them.

Mo Hua learned from Shentu Ye that the Dragon Pool Stele described the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array, a forbidden creation built from the power of a slain true dragon. After memorizing its array diagram, Mo Hua returned to the real Dragon Pool and began his Golden Core breakthrough, determined to test whether he could transform his own fate.

• Mo Hua explained that the stele depicted a Taotie Law Chain and Great Wilderness' sages' creation of the Four Holy Beasts.
• Shentu Ye revealed that the stele was the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array Diagram, made using a true dragon's power, and described how the Imperial Clan betrayed the sages' vow.
• Mo Hua memorized the diagram as the dream collapsed, while Shentu Ye faded away after telling Mo Hua he was the first person who had truly spoken with him.
• Mo Hua awoke in the real Dragon Pool, recorded his insights in a Jade Slip, and resolved to forge a high-grade or supreme-grade Golden Core.
• Mo Hua began refining the Lesser Heavenly Cycle and swallowed his first mouthful of Dragon Qi.

Mo Hua used the Taotie Spirit Bone Array, the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array, and True Dragon Qi to overcome his spiritual-root limits and form an upper-upper grade Great Five Elements Golden Core. Just as he began its final condensation, the Heavenly Dao found him and began draining his Golden Core’s power and lowering its grade.

• Mo Hua used the Taotie Spirit Bone Array as the foundation for Golden Core Formation, relying on Humanity rather than his shattered and sealed Divinity.
• Mo Hua studied the Dragon Pool’s Taotie laws and learned to manipulate its True Dragon Qi.
• Mo Hua repeatedly fed lingli from his Natal Spirit Remains into his Golden Core and used True Dragon Qi to lock its rising grade in place.
• Mo Hua raised his Golden Core through successive grades until it became an upper-upper grade Great Five Elements Golden Core.
• Mo Hua began condensing the Golden Core, but the Heavenly Dao tore into his Sea of Consciousness and started draining its lingli and lowering its grade.

Mo Hua formed a Low-Grade Golden Core after the Heavenly Dao stripped away the grade he had raised through the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array, then resisted its suppression by devouring its laws as a Taotie. His Divine Consciousness surged toward the Golden Core Realm’s limit as Golden Core Phenomena filled the sky above Dragon Pool, where an enormous Ancestral Dragon phantom began to rise.

• The Heavenly Dao reduced Mo Hua’s Golden Core from highest-high grade to low-high grade, and he completed core condensation with a Small Five Elements Golden Core.
• Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness rose to Twenty-Seven-Pattern before the Heavenly Dao suppressed it back to Twenty-Four-Pattern.
• Mo Hua transformed into a Taotie, tore apart and devoured the Heavenly Dao Laws, and broke free of their suppression.
• Mo Hua’s accumulated Divine Consciousness surged past Twenty-Seven-Pattern and reached Twenty-Nine-Pattern as pressure spread throughout Dragon Pool.
• Golden Core Phenomena from righteous and demonic sects appeared across the sky while cultivators watched in astonishment.
• A colossal Ancestral Dragon phantom rose from underground and overshadowed the Golden Core Phenomena.

After the Dragon Pool’s Dragon Qi ran dry and its ancient restrictions shattered, righteous and demonic Golden Core cultivators clashed over Bai Zisheng’s True Dragon bloodline. When Mo Hua emerged from forming a Low-Grade Golden Core and three powerful demons attacked him, his Taotie Eye killed them with a single glance.

• The peerless geniuses depleted the Dragon Pool’s Dragon Qi, exhausting the Great Wilderness’s Qi Destiny and breaking the ancient restrictions.
• The righteous and demonic Golden Core cultivators rushed into the Dragon Pool and fought amid the chaos, targeting newly formed Golden Core cultivators and fighting over Bai Zisheng.
• The Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Elder Xuanyuan, the Silver Corpse Elder, the Yuwen Clan Elder, and others fought over Bai Zisheng, while Bai Zisheng repeatedly defended himself from attacks.
• The Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master transformed into a powerful demonic flood dragon and pursued Bai Zisheng, who took repeated blows to protect the Secret Chamber where someone was forming a Golden Core.
• Mo Hua emerged from the Secret Chamber with a Low-Grade Golden Core, and the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Ghost Child Loose Cultivator, and Silver Corpse Elder attacked him together.
• Mo Hua opened his Taotie Eye and killed all three demonic elders by destroying their Divine Consciousness.

Mo Hua’s uncontrolled Golden Core power killed three demonic elders, and his presence kept the cultivators in the Dragon Pool at bay. The drained Dragon Qi then exposed the dead Great Wilderness Dragon Lords, whose accumulated resentment began hatching into a Fourth-Grade Dao Sin that threatened to kill everyone.

• Mo Hua regained his senses after killing the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Silver Corpse Elder, and Ghost Child Loose Cultivator, and regretted using three Life-Art Straw Dogs.
• Blood Bat Elder demanded an explanation for the elders’ deaths, but Mo Hua admitted killing them and frightened Blood Bat Elder into backing down when he prepared to attack.
• Mo Hua and the other cultivators discovered six dead Feather Transformation Dragon Lords above the Dragon Pool, and the Dragon Lords warned that the Great Wilderness had perished and everyone must die.
• Mo Hua realized Martial Uncle had used the Dragon Lords’ resentment and the Great Wilderness’s accumulated killing intent to nurture Dao Sin, with the Dragon Pool’s drained True Dragon Qi triggering its emergence.
• A Blood Moon appeared as a half-human, half-dragon Ghostly Path deity began transforming within it, and Mo Hua recognized the creature as a Fourth-Grade Dao Sin poised to kill everyone.

True Person Zhuge used the Central Ziwei Big Dipper Seven Star Kill Array to destroy the Great Wilderness Dao Sin before it fully formed, ending the calamity. After the demonic cultivators were driven from Dragon Pool, True Person Zhuge asked who had killed the Demonic Flood Dragon, and everyone looked toward Mo Hua.

• The Blood Moon Dao Sin awakened, spreading terror and chaos as Mo Hua realized he could not defeat it and prepared to flee with Bai Zisheng and Situ Jian.
• The Imperial Observatory's Seven Stars pierced the bloody sky, and True Person Zhuge used the Central Ziwei Big Dipper Seven Star Kill Array to destroy the Dao Sin embryo and its Karma.
• True Person Zhuge descended into Dragon Pool and attacked the demonic cultivators, but the Gold-Faced Elder and his Jade-Spotted Gold Corpse intervened and persuaded him to let them leave.
• The Gold-Faced Elder sealed the demonic cultivators in Coffins and withdrew underground, briefly glancing at Mo Hua as he departed.
• True Person Zhuge told the righteous cultivators they could return home, then recognized the dead Demonic Flood Dragon and asked who had killed it; the crowd looked toward Mo Hua.

After the Great Wilderness battle, True Person Zhuge learned that Mo Hua had killed three powerful Demonic Path cultivators and arranged protection for Bai Zisheng. As the survivors prepared to leave, Mo Hua’s unease deepened, and a vision of Shentu Ye pleading with him as the Little Divine Lord left the story unresolved.

• Xuanyuan Jing told True Person Zhuge that Mo Hua had killed the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, and Mo Hua later admitted to Zhuge that he had killed three Demonic Path cultivators.
• True Person Hua failed to take Bai Zisheng, and True Person Zhuge ordered the survivors to leave the Great Wilderness while keeping Bai Zisheng under Imperial Observatory protection.
• Mo Hua told True Person Zhuge that Bai Zisheng was his Senior Martial Brother, then was ordered to return to the Void Gate at dawn.
• Mo Hua failed to visit Bai Zisheng, warned Situ Jian, Situ Fang, and Dan Ling to leave, and remained unsure whether he should depart with them.
• Young Master Tuoba recruited Da Hu to go to Dao Province, while Da Hu privately thought of someone familiar from his childhood.
• Mo Hua recalled the events in the Royal Court, then saw Shentu Ye appear in a vision and plead with him as the Little Divine Lord.

Mo Hua followed Qing Zhu’s Divine Path token to the Four Symbols Palace and found her dead beside her unborn child. He used a transformed Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation to revive her briefly, allowing her to bring the infant back to life and entrust it to him before she died again.

• Mo Hua realized Shentu Ye’s dreams and Qing Zhu’s fate were tied to secrets he had overlooked, then used Qing Zhu’s Qingqiu Silk to trace her karma.
• Mo Hua slipped past the Dao Soldiers guarding the Four Symbols Palace and found Qing Zhu dead, with her unborn child also lifeless.
• Mo Hua used the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation and his understanding of life and death to create an array that briefly reversed Qing Zhu’s death.
• Qing Zhu revived, cut the dead infant from her womb, and used her heart’s blood to restore the child’s life.
• Qing Zhu entrusted the infant to Mo Hua, who promised to care for it, and then died again.

Mo Hua rescued Qing Zhu’s newborn daughter after Qing Zhu died, concealed her body and escaped the Four Symbols Palace. He entrusted the child to Dan Ling and Situ Fang, who prepared to leave the Royal Court with her.

• Mo Hua wrapped the newborn in protective Arrays, erased evidence of the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation, and hid Qing Zhu’s body inside the shifting Four Symbols Palace.
• True Person Feather Transformation sensed that something had gone wrong but chose not to return to the scene or send anyone to investigate.
• Elder Ge sensed Mo Hua’s life-and-death reversal and secretly arranged Karma to conceal his tracks, then noticed the water in his fishpond turning black and murky.
• Mo Hua passed the Dao Soldier guards and returned to the Situ Clan’s encampment with the child.
• Mo Hua gave the newborn to Dan Ling and told her and Situ Fang to take the child away from the Royal Court and forget what they knew.

Mo Hua sent Situ Jian and the others away together, then returned alone to the Dragon Pool to find True Person Zhuge. His search led him through a hidden Dragon Bone Cave to the sealed gates of the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court, where he discovered Zhuge had entered and closed the gates with a Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array.

• Mo Hua instructed Situ Jian to protect Dan Ling and travel with the Ganxue Prefecture prodigies while he stayed behind to handle other matters.
• Mo Hua failed to see Bai Zisheng or find True Person Zhuge at the Imperial Observatory, so he went to investigate the Dragon Pool.
• Mo Hua noticed that the Dragon Pool's restrictions had vanished and found it deserted, with the corpses of the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master and two others still there.
• Mo Hua followed traces of Zhuge's Karma tracing and Seven Star Array to a concealed Dragon Bone Cave and entered after sensing a vast, unfamiliar array aura.
• Mo Hua emerged before an ancient gate marked Ancestral Court and realized Zhuge had opened it, entered, and sealed it with a Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array.

Mo Hua found that he could not break True Person Zhuge’s Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array, so he followed an Imperial Observatory Sili through the gate and entered the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court. There he saw the spreading Endless Abyss and discovered True Person Zhuge and dozens of Imperial Observatory cultivators assembling a huge, unfamiliar structure.

• Mo Hua studied the Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array but could not open it because he lacked foundational Third-Grade array knowledge.
• Mo Hua noticed traces showing that the Alioth Star Gate had been opened before and decided to wait for someone with access to pass through.
• An Imperial Observatory Sili emerged from the gate, collected array materials at the Dragon Palace, and returned with his Jade Token.
• Mo Hua used the Sili’s access to slip through the Alioth Star Gate and enter the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court.
• Mo Hua was shaken by the Endless Abyss’s pull but suppressed the Taotie instincts and Ghost Daoist’s call within him.
• Mo Hua followed the Sili to a White Bone Plaza, where he found True Person Zhuge, True Person Hua, and dozens of Imperial Observatory cultivators assembling a colossal structure.

Mo Hua was caught sneaking into the Ancestral Court to see Bai Zisheng and study its enormous array, but he revealed to True Person Zhuge that he had pieced together the Dao Court’s role in the Great Wilderness’s disasters. True Person Zhuge confirmed the court’s scheme and disclosed that the weakened daoist behind the calamities was hiding in the Ancestral Court and had to be killed.

• Mo Hua approached the Ancestral Court’s gigantic array, but True Person Zhuge detected him and nearly struck him with Seven Star Sword light before recognizing him.
• True Person Hua called for Mo Hua to be interrogated or killed to protect the Dao Court’s secrets, but True Person Zhuge took Mo Hua to a sealed chamber and refused to hand him over.
• Mo Hua explained that he had sneaked in to see Bai Zisheng, then questioned True Person Zhuge about the array and the daoist behind the Great Wilderness’s disasters.
• Mo Hua laid out how the Dao Court and its clans had exploited war and famine to seize the Great Wilderness and use the suffering to bring forth and destroy Dao Sin.
• True Person Zhuge admitted that he had been used in the scheme and revealed that the weakened daoist was hiding in the Ancestral Court, where the Dao Court intended to kill him.