Recaps

Bai Qingcheng recognized Mo Hua as her long-lost junior martial nephew and learned about his cultivation and journey to Kun Province. She revealed that Zhuang was being kept alive by a failing array, while Mo Hua offered to help despite her warning that he could not grasp the danger.

• Bai Qingcheng recognized Mo Hua, discovered he had formed a Low-Grade Golden Core, and questioned him about Void Gate and his journey from the Great Wilderness to Houtu City.
• Mo Hua asked how his master was, and Bai Qingcheng told him that Zhuang's life was being held in place by the Mysterious Fire Everlasting Array, powered by Mysterious Mechanism Valley's Qiankun Clear Light Lamp.
• Bai Qingcheng explained that the lamp was wearing out and that the array would fail when it was ruined, leaving Zhuang's life beyond saving.
• Mo Hua offered to help using his studies of Phecda and Karma, but Bai Qingcheng refused and warned him that he could not understand how dangerous the matter was.

Bai Qingcheng warned Bai Zixi that her feelings for Mo Hua could expose him to deadly political and familial dangers, while Mo Hua remained determined to save his master. The chapter ended with True Person Rong asking whether Mo Hua was truly Zhuang Daoling’s disciple.

• Bai Qingcheng told Mo Hua to focus on cultivation and promised to protect him while she handled matters concerning his master.
• Bai Qingcheng confronted Bai Zixi about Mo Hua, and Bai Zixi admitted she did not know what she felt for her Junior Martial Brother.
• Bai Qingcheng warned Bai Zixi that a relationship with Mo Hua could bring the Old Matriarch, the Bai Family, the Dao Court, and others against him.
• After Bai Qingcheng left, Bai Zixi took out the childhood gifts Mo Hua had made for her and wept over their growing distance.
• Bai Qingcheng visited True Person Rong, who revealed she suspected Mo Hua was Zhuang Daoling’s disciple.

Bai Qingcheng and True Person Rong discussed Zhuang Daoling’s death and the danger surrounding Mo Hua, then learned how much Mo Hua had achieved in Kun Province. Bai Qingcheng planned to arrange a safe marriage for him, but the chapter ended with her revealing that she had come to Kun Province to visit a certain place.

• Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that Mo Hua was only an ordinary disciple of Zhuang Daoling and insisted that Zhuang Daoling was dead.
• Bai Qingcheng warned True Person Rong to keep Mo Hua’s master secret and considered finding him a marriage match far from Zi Xi.
• True Person Rong explained that Mo Hua had a Wealth-Ban Order against him after disputes with the Earth Sect and several major clans.
• True Person Rong listed Mo Hua’s accomplishments and titles, surprising Bai Qingcheng, who had assumed he was still an obscure, struggling child.
• Bai Qingcheng resolved to find Mo Hua an exceptional bride, then admitted that she had come to Kun Province to visit a certain place.

Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that she planned to seek help reaching Square Inch Mountain to learn whether her old friend Qingyin could be saved. She then brought Mo Hua to the Lu Family estate, where he met Lu Zhenming, who still resented him.

• Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that Qingyin's karma had become corrupted and her life was in danger after she helped quell the Calamity of Evil Disasters.
• Bai Qingcheng decided to ask influential people in Kun Province to pass a request to Square Inch Mountain, which barred outsiders.
• Bai Qingcheng summoned Mo Hua and took him from Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land to the Lu Family estate, while he and Bai Zixi remained awkwardly distant.
• Madam Lu welcomed Bai Qingcheng and recognized Mo Hua as the young cultivator her son Lu Zhenlong often mentioned.
• Mo Hua encountered Lu Zhenming, who glared at him with resentment, but Madam Lu ordered her son to behave courteously.

Madam Lu introduced Mo Hua to Lu Zhenlong and left them alone together. Lu Zhenlong beat Mo Hua three times at Eight Trigrams Chess, then stopped while he wondered why he kept losing.

• Lu Zhenming insulted Mo Hua, but Madam Lu reprimanded him and urged him to preserve good relations between their families.
• Madam Lu took Mo Hua to a pavilion, introduced him to Lu Zhenlong, and asked her to entertain him while she left to speak with Aunt Bai.
• Lu Zhenlong challenged Mo Hua to Eight Trigrams Chess, and she crushed him in their first game.
• Lu Zhenlong won their second and third games, realizing Mo Hua was genuinely bad at chess rather than letting her win.
• Lu Zhenlong declined Mo Hua's request for another game, while Mo Hua wondered whether something was wrong with the way he played.

Mo Hua warned Lu Zhenlong that the Earth Sect Eldest Young Master was a brothel regular and questioned whether her family would sacrifice her in a marriage alliance. Lu Zhenlong revealed two secret characters connected to a joint plan between the Lu Family and Earth Sect, and the chapter ended with Mo Hua returning to Little Luan Mountain alongside True Person Bai.

• Mo Hua told Lu Zhenlong that the Earth Sect Eldest Young Master frequented brothels and was obsessed with a courtesan, making her question the proposed marriage.
• Mo Hua argued that the Lu Family might knowingly sacrifice Lu Zhenlong's future for its interests, and she asked whether he would help her.
• Lu Zhenlong agreed to share what she had overheard from her father and Earth Sect seniors, then wrote two secret characters on Mo Hua's palm.
• Mo Hua burned away the wine and thanked Lu Zhenlong, and they formed a temporary alliance to exchange help and crucial information.
• Madam Lu arrived and escorted Mo Hua to True Person Bai, who then departed with him for Little Luan Mountain.

Madame Lu considered possible marriages for Lu Zhenlong while warning Lu Zhenming to focus on the Lu family’s affairs. Meanwhile, Mo Hua connected the Lu family’s secretive references to Breath Soil with old array drafts and suspected the Earth Sect and four great clans planned to build an Earth-Element Breath Soil Grand Array.

• Lu Zhenlong asked Madame Lu about the Earth Sect’s Eldest Young Master, while Madame Lu weighed him against Mo Hua as a possible match for her daughter.
• Lu Zhenming objected to Mo Hua as a husband for Lu Zhenlong, and Madame Lu rebuked him and ordered him to focus on practical work for the Lu family.
• Bai Qingcheng and True Person Rong discussed Mo Hua’s marriage prospects and the risks posed by his poor spirit-root inheritance and striking appearance.
• Mo Hua sealed his guest room, examined Lu Zhenlong’s message about Breath Soil, and compared it with the name in Elder Tian’s array drafts.
• Mo Hua inferred that the Earth Sect and the four great clans might be jointly constructing an Earth-Element Breath Soil Grand Array.

Mo Hua investigated the Breath Soil Grand Array while Bai Qingcheng arranged marriage introductions, but learned that Uncle Gu had gone missing amid worsening unrest in the Great Spirit Field Realm. After divining Uncle Gu’s whereabouts and seeing visions of death and suffering, Mo Hua decided to leave Houtu City.

• Mo Hua destroyed the paper bearing the words “Breath Soil” and concealed his traces as karmic probing stopped at Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land.
• Bai Qingcheng introduced Mo Hua to prominent clan women, who praised his appearance but doubted his value as a marriage match because of his Spirit Root and cultivation.
• Mo Hua secretly sought clues to the Breath Soil Grand Array among the great lineages but found none, while growing troubled by the distance between him and his junior martial sister.
• Yu Cangming told Mo Hua that Uncle Gu remained in the Great Spirit Field Realm, communications had been cut off, and demonic unrest had spread to Houtu City.
• Mo Hua used Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination to seek Uncle Gu and saw visions of suffering, Demonic Cultivators, and Dao Court Office members dying before he stopped the divination.
• Mo Hua told Bai Qingcheng that he would not stay in Houtu City and was leaving.

Mo Hua rejected Bai Qingcheng’s offer of a future among the Great Clans and left Little Luan Mountain for the Great Spirit Field Realm. His departure went unnoticed by most of Houtu City, but Bai Qingcheng glimpsed a terrifying shadow behind him as he vanished.

• Bai Qingcheng tried to persuade Mo Hua to stay in Houtu City and accept the resources and protection of a Great Clan, but he insisted on following his own path.
• Mo Hua said goodbye to Bai Zixi, who asked whether he would return, and he could only answer that he did not know.
• Mo Hua gave True Person Rong a booklet on causality techniques as thanks for protecting him, and True Person Rong told him he could return if the outside world proved too dangerous.
• Bai Qingcheng, Bai Zixi, and Xiao Ju saw Mo Hua off as he left Little Luan Mountain the next morning for the Great Spirit Field Realm.
• After Mo Hua disappeared from sight, Bai Qingcheng saw a fleeting black shadow that reminded her of a terrifying person, then lost track of him with her divine sense.
• Mo Hua disguised himself, concealed his Heavenly Secrets, and left Houtu City; the chapter declared that the Great Spirit Field Realm would receive the Living Yama.

Mo Hua traveled through the famine-stricken Great Spirit Field Realm, saved Spirit Farmers from a slaughterhouse, and continued toward the chaotic Azure Fields State Boundary to investigate the Breath Soil Grand Array and find Uncle Gu. The driver ignored Mo Hua’s warning to take the southern road and was killed after entering a desolate forest.

• A driver diverted Mo Hua and a carriage of Spirit Farmers to a relay station, where butchers tried to slaughter them as rations.
• Mo Hua defeated the butchers with Gold Blade and Fireball Techniques, spared the driver, and ordered him to continue toward the Southern Grain State Boundary.
• After the Spirit Farmers left for home, Mo Hua told the driver to take him to the border of Azure Fields, where Mo Hua planned to investigate the Breath Soil Grand Array and search for Uncle Gu.
• Mo Hua entered Azure Fields alone and warned the driver to take the southern road back.
• The driver ignored Mo Hua’s warning, took the northern road through a desolate forest, and was later found dead beside his broken carriage.

Mo Hua searched the famine-stricken Azure Fields State Boundary for Gu Changhuai and learned that Dao Court Office cultivators had been seen near a ruined temple. At the forested hills, he found a strange web infused with Thought Power and suspected it was a Left Path technique.

• Mo Hua traveled through the devastated Azure Fields State Boundary, where he found rotting soil and corpses, while following the Causality Art toward Gu Changhuai.
• Mo Hua entered a refugee stronghold and questioned its Stronghold Master, who claimed he knew nothing about the Dao Court Office cultivators.
• A starving woman told Mo Hua she had seen several dozen Dao Court Office cultivators near a ruined temple about a hundred miles southeast, in exchange for food for her child.
• Mo Hua gave the child a meal, gave the woman an Inedia Pill, and entrusted two bottles of Inedia Pills to the Stronghold Master to distribute among the refugees.
• Mo Hua reached the forested hills, found a broken web carrying strange Thought Power, and suspected it was a Left Path technique.

Mo Hua studied the Spider Demon Thought Power behind the Left Path maze and traced it to a wild temple hidden in Thousand-Spider Forest. He forced open a hidden gate and entered the forest beyond, where he found blood he recognized as Uncle Gu’s.

• Mo Hua identified the forest’s spiderweb Thought Power as Spider Demon Monster Consciousness and deduced that the woods formed a Left Path maze.
• Mo Hua followed the Thought Power through the forest, found the Thousand-Spider Forest stele, and reached a hidden wild temple.
• Mo Hua entered the temple’s secret chamber and discovered a Nine-Colored Spider Diagram and a dial that opened a hidden gate through a ritual.
• Unable to decipher the gate’s password, Mo Hua repeatedly turned the dial, endured its backlash, and eventually opened the gate.
• Mo Hua crossed into the deeper forest beyond the gate and found a bloodstain that his intuition identified as Uncle Gu’s blood.

Mo Hua followed Uncle Gu’s blood trail through Thousand-Spider Old Forest and infiltrated a band of cannibalistic rioters by pretending to serve Master Wu. He led them to Gu Changhuai’s defenses, where the rioters’ attacks were devastated by hidden arrays, and the Azure-Faced Leader asked whether Mo Hua understood Array Techniques.

• Mo Hua followed the bloodstains with his Causality Method but became lost when the forest distorted his divine sense and calculations.
• Mo Hua encountered the Azure-Faced Leader and his rioters, then pretended to be Master Wu’s envoy to gain their trust.
• Mo Hua persuaded the Azure-Faced Leader to gather his men and hunt the Dao Court cultivators, including Gu Changhuai.
• The Azure-Faced Leader tracked Gu Changhuai’s group to a defensive position filled with hidden arrays.
• The rioters charged into the arrays several times, suffering heavy casualties as Mo Hua stayed silent among them.
• The Azure-Faced Leader asked Mo Hua whether he understood Array Techniques, and Mo Hua replied that he knew a little.

Mo Hua disguised himself as a black-robed master and guided the Azure-Faced Leader’s tribesmen through Gu Changhuai’s array, then watched as the Azure Fields High Person attacked Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office cultivators. When the black-robed master finally struck, Gu Changhuai recognized the incoming Fireball and was stunned.

• Mo Hua pretended to make mistakes while guiding the Azure-Faced Leader’s tribesmen through the killing array, killing and injuring many along the way.
• The Azure-Faced Leader led his tribesmen to Gu Changhuai’s camp and ordered them to attack the wounded Dao Court Office cultivators.
• Gu Changhuai fought the Azure Fields High Person while trying to protect his comrades, and the two sides traded spells across the forest.
• The Azure Fields High Person called on the black-robed Senior Master to help him, and Gu Changhuai noticed the figure looked like Mo Hua.
• The black-robed Senior Master pointed at Gu Changhuai and sent a Fireball toward him, leaving Gu Changhuai shocked.

Mo Hua joined Gu Changhuai’s fight against the Azure Fields High Person, using rapid spells to give Gu Changhuai time to unleash his Wind-Feather Transformation Art and seemingly kill their enemy. The Azure Fields High Person revived through a mysterious pattern in his body, leaving Mo Hua suspecting it was connected to puppet control or an Array Technique.

• Mo Hua attacked Gu Changhuai with fireballs while the Azure Fields High Person pressed him, driving Gu Changhuai into a mountain hollow.
• Gu Changhuai began charging the Gu Family’s Wind-Feather Transformation Art, and the Azure Fields High Person rushed to kill him before it was complete.
• Mo Hua repeatedly bound the Azure Fields High Person with Water Prison, giving Gu Changhuai time to finish his technique.
• Gu Changhuai unleashed a torrent of Luan Feather Wind Blades that mangled the Azure Fields High Person and left him apparently dead.
• Mo Hua struck the corpse with a fireball, revealing a glowing pattern that repaired the Azure Fields High Person’s body and revived him.
• The Azure Fields High Person said he had died again, and Mo Hua suspected the pattern resembled a puppet-control thread or Array Technique.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai fought Azure Fields High Person after he revived through a mysterious array, but the enemy escaped after stealing a lock of Mo Hua’s hair. As they left the dangerous forest, Mo Hua hinted that he had an unusual plan or insight about what lay ahead.

• Mo Hua recognized Azure Fields High Person’s revival as a high-grade Spirit Pivot Absolute Array, but could not decipher its structure before its threads vanished into the man’s body.
• Azure Fields High Person revived, killed and devoured fleeing Azure-Faced Tribesmen, then repeatedly attacked Mo Hua, who evaded his blows with Movement Techniques.
• Mo Hua restrained Azure Fields High Person with Water Prison Techniques and forced him to turn away from Gu Changhuai with precise Fireball Techniques while Gu Changhuai recovered his strength.
• Azure Fields High Person feinted toward the Dao Court Office cultivators and nearly struck Mo Hua, tearing his cloak and stealing a lock of his hair before fleeing from Gu Changhuai’s attack.
• Gu Changhuai checked that Mo Hua was unharmed, and the two decided to leave Thousand-Spider Old Forest as Mo Hua gave an inscrutable smile.

Azure Fields High Person reached the Thousand-Spider Daoist Temple and told Master Wu that a black-robed cultivator had betrayed him and rescued Gu Changhuai. Master Wu used three strands of Mo Hua’s hair to begin a Gu Sorcery ritual, and his Divine Thought finally revealed a black-robed figure with a fair, handsome face.

• Azure Fields High Person followed a Five-Pattern Venom Spider through the Miasma Fog to the Thousand-Spider Daoist Temple.
• Azure Fields High Person forced his way into the main hall and asked Master Wu whether he had sent someone to harm him.
• Master Wu denied sending anyone and confirmed that Gu Changhuai still had to die within the Azure Fields State Boundary.
• Azure Fields High Person described the black-robed cultivator and gave Master Wu three strands of Mo Hua’s hair.
• Master Wu prepared a Gu Sorcery ritual with venomous creatures and Mo Hua’s hair, then used his Divine Thought to probe the cultivator’s Karma.
• Master Wu saw a slender black-robed figure with a fair, handsome face.

Master Wu traced Mo Hua’s karmic Fate and mistook his false Fate body for a young novice of the Left Path, then used the Five Ghosts Human-Faced Curse-Killing Technique to destroy it. When he glimpsed the truth hidden behind Mo Hua’s Fate, he was driven mad, and Azure Fields High Person broke the ritual but could not stop Master Wu from trying to gouge out his eyes.

• Master Wu found Mo Hua’s Fate manifestation and discovered that its questions followed a rule of equivalent exchange.
• Mo Hua asked Master Wu about the Left Path and Thousand Spider Goddess, then persuaded him to promise to teach him Thaumaturgy.
• Master Wu pressed the Five Ghosts Human-Faced Curse-Killing Technique into Mo Hua’s forehead, believing he had exposed and killed Mo Hua’s false Fate body.
• Master Wu peered through the shattered Fate body and glimpsed something incomprehensible, which plunged him into a terrifying nightmare.
• Azure Fields High Person shattered the ritual jars and crushed the Gu insects, but Master Wu continued writhing and trying to gouge out his eyes.

Master Wu was possessed by a terrifying Evil Thought and nearly swallowed the cursed strand of hair, while Azure Fields High Person struggled to stop him. The Thousand Spider Goddess intervened and removed the contamination, and Mo Hua later told Gu Changhuai that something vicious and chaotic had taken his place.

• Master Wu mutilated his face and eyes, but an eerie black-blood face appeared and he broke free of Azure Fields High Person’s blades.
• Possessed Master Wu searched the hall, found the poisoned strand of hair, and tried to swallow it as darkness gathered around the temple.
• Azure Fields High Person restrained Master Wu and shouted him partly back to his senses, but Master Wu’s Heart-Protecting Mirror shattered as he fought the Evil Thought.
• Master Wu invoked the Thousand Spider Goddess, whose purple spiders consumed his Thought Power and drew the contamination from him.
• After the darkness receded, Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that something complicated, vicious, and chaotic had taken his place.

Mo Hua sensed a disturbing change in his Fate but chose to leave Thousand-Spider Forest with the injured Gu Changhuai and Dao Court Office cultivators rather than pursue Azure Fields High Person and Master Wu. In Thousand Spider Temple, Master Wu recovered from his ordeal, struggled to suppress memories of Mo Hua, and concluded that a Tai Sui had passed through.

• Mo Hua considered the strange disturbance in his Fate and decided he needed deeper knowledge of the Divine Path.
• Gu Changhuai explained that Azure Fields High Person was the chief culprit behind the uprising and described his connection to the mysterious Alchemist Master Wu.
• Mo Hua connected Master Wu to the Thousand Spider Goddess but postponed visiting Thousand Spider Temple, choosing to lead the wounded group out of the forest.
• Azure Fields High Person found Master Wu injured and unable to remember what had happened, while Master Wu panicked at the return of memories of Mo Hua.
• Master Wu calmed himself and told Azure Fields High Person that he feared a Tai Sui had passed through.

Master Wu concluded that the black-robed youth had carried a deadly curse rather than being Tai Sui, and ordered Azure Fields High Person to capture him unharmed while continuing the hunt for Gu Changhuai. Mo Hua brought Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office cultivators out of Thousand-Spider Forest, but their reunion turned serious when Gu Changhuai revealed that Yu'er had changed greatly since Mo Hua left.

• Master Wu considered whether he had encountered an immature Tai Sui, then decided his ordeal had been a curse and told Azure Fields High Person to capture the black-robed youth without injuring him.
• Azure Fields High Person agreed to continue hunting Gu Changhuai, then privately vowed to devour every Left Path cultivator one day.
• Mo Hua led Gu Changhuai and the surviving Dao Court Office cultivators out of Thousand-Spider Forest and found them a place to rest.
• Gu Changhuai recovered somewhat while Mo Hua kept watch, and they discussed Mo Hua leaving Houtu City and rumors about Yu Nujiao.
• Mo Hua asked after Aunt Wan and Yu'er, and Gu Changhuai said Yu'er had become almost unrecognizable in temperament.

Mo Hua learned that Yu'er’s talent and temperament had changed frighteningly, then joined Gu Changhuai in assessing the worsening riot in Azure Fields State Boundary. After seeing the starving cultivators gathered near Azure Fields City, Mo Hua proposed feeding them instead of suppressing them, but Gu Changhuai warned that this would be harder than killing them.

• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that Yu'er’s talent had surged, his moods had become erratic, and those who tried to treat him had gone mad, though he settled somewhat around Aunt Wan.
• Mo Hua concealed his knowledge that Yu'er was the Evil God's Evil Fetus and worried that the Great Wilderness Evil Fetus matter was not over.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai discussed why their enemies wanted Gu Changhuai dead and how the riot could make him a scapegoat if it spread through the Great Spirit Field Realm.
• Gu Changhuai planned to gather the remaining Dao Court Office cultivators and suppress the riot before requesting Dao Soldiers became necessary.
• Mo Hua led Gu Changhuai and the others in gray robes through famine-stricken Azure Fields State Boundary and observed the varied groups gathered near Azure Fields City.
• Mo Hua said the rebellion could be resolved by giving the starving people food, but Gu Changhuai warned that feeding them would be far harder than killing them.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai crossed the starving, riot-torn outskirts to investigate Azure Fields City, while Mo Hua worried that he could not find wild grass for making Straw Dogs. They secretly infiltrated the city, whose condition inside remained unknown.

• Mo Hua realized the Dao Court might be letting disaster victims die before suppressing the riot, and Gu Changhuai said the upper ranks’ inaction could be deliberate.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai set out for Azure Fields City while Gu An, Gu Quan, and the other Dao Court Office cultivators stayed behind to recover.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai passed through the starving refugees and reached Azure Fields City’s sealed, bloodstained walls.
• Mo Hua searched for wild grass to make Straw Dogs but found none, leaving him without a way to offset karmic killing tribulations.
• Mo Hua identified flaws in the damaged city-wall array and guided Gu Changhuai over the defenses into Azure Fields City.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai surveyed the devastated Azure Fields City, found its Dao Court Office overrun and its people in danger, and realized they lacked the manpower to stop the riots. They encountered Bai Xiaosheng disguised as a beggar, and Mo Hua challenged him to help despite his claim that the suffering was beyond his power to remedy.

• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai explored Azure Fields City, where rioters preyed on survivors and Mo Hua could save only those in immediate danger.
• Mo Hua noticed activity inside Fortune Pavilion, while one of its cultivators sensed an unexplained presence but continued the pavilion’s business.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai found the Azure Fields Dao Court Office occupied, its prison opened, its records burned, and its personnel missing or dead.
• Gu Changhuai and Mo Hua concluded that they lacked the forces to suppress the widespread riots and feared that calling in Dao Soldiers would also harm innocent people.
• Mo Hua recognized Bai Xiaosheng disguised as a blind, lame beggar and urged him to do something for the suffering people, but Bai Xiaosheng said he could not feed so many victims.

Mo Hua persuaded Bai Xiaosheng to join him and Gu Changhuai in addressing the rebellion in the Azure Fields State Boundary. With no resources or backing, Mo Hua proposed infiltrating the rioters and using their own strength to confront Azure Fields High Person and resolve the turmoil from within.

• Mo Hua convinced Bai Xiaosheng to abandon his beggar disguise and join him and Gu Changhuai.
• Bai Xiaosheng learned that Mo Hua had no army, supplies, or official support to quell the rebellion.
• Mo Hua revealed that he wanted to kill Azure Fields High Person because he suspected the rebel leader was hiding a secret.
• Bai Xiaosheng warned that killing Azure Fields High Person could worsen the rebellion and increase the suffering of refugees.
• Mo Hua proposed that he, Bai Xiaosheng, and Gu Changhuai join the rioters and guide them from within.