Recaps

Mo Hua used a public document to turn opposition to opening Lü Chongshan’s tomb into support, forcing the Lü Family to welcome the excavation. As Mo Hua prepared to open the tomb himself, Gu Changhuai recognized him as the legendary Black-Faced Fiend, a renowned tomb robber.

• Gu Changhuai revised Mo Hua’s document and distributed it around Azure Fields City, winning public sympathy for moving Lü Chongshan’s grave.
• The White-Haired Elder warned Lü Jingxiu that resisting Mo Hua would destroy the Lü Family’s good reputation, so Lü Jingxiu agreed to welcome the excavation while questioning whether the tomb held his father’s remains.
• The Lü Family invited Mo Hua to dig up the grave, and the disaster victims left the tomb after hearing that he would help Lü Chongshan rest in peace.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai and Bai Xiaosheng that he would open the sinister tomb himself, prompting Bai Xiaosheng to suspect he had extensive tomb-robbing experience.
• Gu Changhuai recited the Black-Faced Fiend’s fearsome reputation and recognized Mo Hua as the legendary tomb-robbing leader, leaving Bai Xiaosheng and Mo Hua stunned.

Mo Hua learned that Gu Changhuai had investigated his Black-Faced Fiend identity and uncovered Shopkeeper Zhao’s ties to Fortune Pavilion’s powerful head shopkeeper, who might be connected to the Breath Soil Grand Array. After discovering irregularities in Great Benefactor Lü’s Corpse Dissolution exemption, Mo Hua prepared to open the tomb, and seven Golden Core cultivators gathered there the next day.

• Bai Xiaosheng and Gu Changhuai realized Mo Hua was the Black-Faced Fiend, and Gu Changhuai explained how the Dao Court Office had investigated him.
• Gu Changhuai revealed that Shopkeeper Zhao was a formidable underworld middleman and the trusted aide of Fortune Pavilion’s Feather Transformation Realm head shopkeeper; Mo Hua suspected the head shopkeeper might be involved with the Breath Soil Grand Array.
• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that Great Benefactor Lü had received a Corpse Dissolution Exemption through an irregular, undocumented process, making him eager to inspect the tomb.
• Mo Hua divined a murky, disconnected omen about the tomb and became more curious about its hidden karma.
• Mo Hua set the tomb opening for the next day, when seven Golden Core cultivators, including Gu Changhuai, Bai Xiaosheng, General Chang, and members of the Lü Family, assembled outside Azure Fields City.

Mo Hua entered Lü Chongshan’s tomb with the local Golden Core cultivators and questioned Elder Pei Tang about the ghost figures carved on its gate. After Pei Tang described ghost-control practices and identified the figures as a Five Ghosts Transporting Wealth Diagram, Gu Changhuai tested a shattered earth figurine, and Mo Hua asked whether its mixed flesh included human flesh.

• Mo Hua met Elder Pei Tang, Village Master Wen, and Lü Jingxiu outside the tomb, then led the group into the pit.
• At the tomb gate, Mo Hua questioned Lü Jingxiu about the ghost carvings, and Elder Pei Tang explained that ghosts could be benevolent or evil and described ways to control them.
• Elder Pei Tang identified the carvings as a Five Ghosts Transporting Wealth Diagram, but could not explain the shattered earth figurine beside the gate.
• Gu Changhuai tested the figurine’s dried flesh slurry with a silver needle and found it was a complicated mixture.
• Mo Hua asked whether the figurine contained human flesh, and Lü Jingxiu, Elder Pei Tang, and Village Master Wen reacted uneasily.

Mo Hua used a secret earth array to open Great Benefactor Lü’s tomb, then led the group inside and found a palace carved from a single enormous spirit stone. The lavish tomb left Lü Jingxiu uncertain about his father’s burial place and made Mo Hua wonder whether the palace was the great fortune foretold by his karmic divination.

• Gu Changhuai found that the earth figurine contained tortured animal and livestock meat, but no human flesh.
• Mo Hua used the Earth-Breaking Mountain-Opening Array and his supposed Ascendant Immortal Dao Arts to breach and open the tomb, astonishing the others.
• Mo Hua warned the group to stay close as they entered, and his authority dispersed a burst of yin wind and black mist at the gate.
• Mo Hua led the group through the tomb’s passages and minor mechanisms into a chamber containing a palace carved from one enormous spirit stone.
• Mo Hua asked Lü Jingxiu whether his father had built the palace, but Lü Jingxiu said he did not know where the spirit stone came from.
• Mo Hua suspected Elder Pei Tang and Village Master Wen recognized the stone’s origin, then wondered whether the palace was his foretold great fortune.

Mo Hua and the others entered the Great Spirit Stone Tomb and encountered eight powerful Golden-Armored Warriors guarding its passage. After a failed attempt to rush past the warriors and the tomb’s mechanisms, the group retreated into a dangerous melee while Mo Hua watched from safety.

• Mo Hua saw the enormous Spirit Stone Tomb and struggled to restrain his Taotie hunger, then urged the group to continue deeper into the tomb.
• The group found eight Third-Grade Middle Tier Golden-Armored Warriors blocking the passage and decided to use their Movement Techniques to rush past them.
• The Golden-Armored Warriors attacked as the group passed, and Mo Hua warned everyone as flaming arrows and other deadly mechanisms filled the passage.
• The mechanisms slowed the group, allowing the Golden-Armored Warriors to catch up; the cultivators retreated from the passage and fought them in the open area.
• Bai Xiaosheng and the others struggled against the warriors’ powerful armor, weapons, and uncanny killing instincts, while Mo Hua withdrew from the melee and watched with growing interest.

Bai Xiaosheng realized the Golden-Armored Warriors drew endless power from the Great Spirit Stone Tomb and deduced that their weaknesses lay in complex, puppet-specific acupoints. Mo Hua revealed that he had already calculated each warrior’s fatal weak point and told the cultivators where to strike.

• Bai Xiaosheng and the other Golden Core cultivators struggled to hold off the eight tireless Golden-Armored Warriors as their own strength began to fade.
• Bai Xiaosheng discovered that the warriors absorbed spiritual energy through tiny holes in their armor, arranged like acupoints, and concluded that particular points in their power circulation must be vulnerable.
• Bai Xiaosheng and Gu Changhuai tested human acupoints on the puppets, but their attacks failed and seemed to strengthen the warriors instead.
• Bai Xiaosheng realized Mo Hua might have calculated the puppets’ weaknesses and called on him to stop watching and help.
• Mo Hua named the fatal acupoint for each Golden-Armored Warrior and instructed the cultivators where to attack.