Recaps

Mo Hua and the Demon Hunters raided the Qian Family’s hidden mine tunnels at Nameless Peak, driving off the Qian Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivator and routing the rest. While hiding nearby, Mo Hua ambushed small groups of fleeing cultivators and took their Storage Bags.

• Mo Hua showed Elder Yu where he sensed hidden mine tunnels beneath Nameless Peak, and Elder Yu marked additional entrances on the map.
• Elder Yu ordered the Demon Hunters to enter through the tunnels and cripple or kill any Qian Family cultivators they found, while Mo Shan told Mo Hua to stay hidden.
• The Demon Hunters attacked the mine, and the Qian Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivator fled before the remaining cultivators scattered down the mountain.
• Mo Hua hid in a pit and knocked out two exhausted Qian Family cultivators with Fireball Techniques, then took their Storage Bags.
• Mo Hua stayed in hiding and ambushed more small groups of fleeing Qian Family cultivators, filling his clothes with their Storage Bags as the battle ended.

After the demon hunters seized the Spirit Mine, Mo Hua kept the Storage Bags he had taken from isolated Qian Family cultivators, while Elder Yu and the Dao Court Office failed to settle the dispute. Zhang Lan told Mo Hua that both sides would now be allowed to fight over Nameless Peak without the Dao Court Office intervening.

• Elder Yu let Mo Hua keep the Storage Bags he had picked up after defeating lone Qian Family cultivators, and the demon hunters secured the mine and tended to their wounded.
• Mo Hua and Mo Shan counted the loot at home, finding hundreds of Spirit Stones and other valuables, and Mo Shan took the weapons and supplies in preparation for the Qian Family's retaliation.
• The Chief Administrator of the Dao Court Office met with Elder Yu, but they left looking displeased after failing to reach an agreement.
• Mo Hua asked Zhang Lan what the meeting had been about, and Zhang Lan explained that the Qian Family had demanded the Spirit Mine in exchange for ending the dispute.
• Zhang Lan told Mo Hua that the Dao Court Office would allow both factions to fight on Nameless Peak, while forbidding them from killing each other without cause elsewhere.

With the Qian Family attacking the Nameless Peak Spirit Mine, Mo Hua stayed with the Monster Hunters and supplied them with Golden Armor Arrays. The arrays turned the battle in the Monster Hunters’ favor, and the Qian Family paused its assault after repeated defeats.

• Elder Yu gathered the Monster Hunters to defend the mine and allowed Mo Hua to stay after learning he could draw Golden Armor Arrays.
• Mo Hua drew about thirty Golden Armor Arrays over three days while the Qian Family prepared to attack.
• The Qian Family’s first assault collapsed when the array-protected Monster Hunters charged through their weapons and drove them back.
• The Qian Family returned with vine armor, iron armor, and first-grade blades, but the Golden Armor Arrays let the Monster Hunters defeat them again and again.
• The Qian Family halted its offensive after its morale crumbled, and Elder Yu realized the Golden Armor Array was a first-grade array.

Elder Yu discovered that Mo Hua could draw First-Grade Array Techniques and warned the Monster Hunters to protect him and keep the skill secret from the Qian Family. Yu Chengyi then took Mo Hua through the mine, explaining how Spirit Mine was processed and why its surrounding qi was unsafe to cultivate with.

• Elder Yu counted the nine Array Patterns in Mo Hua's Golden Armor Array and realized Mo Hua could draw First-Grade Array Techniques.
• Elder Yu told Yu Chengyi, Mo Shan, and the other Monster Hunters to protect Mo Hua and conceal his abilities from the Qian Family.
• Mo Hua sensed Yu Chengyi watching him and persuaded him to take a break from drawing and visit the Spirit Mine.
• Yu Chengyi explained how raw Spirit Mine was exchanged for standardized Spirit Stones and why only the Dao Court could refine them.
• Mo Hua asked about cultivating with the dense energy in the mine, and Yu Chengyi warned him that impure qi could harm cultivators.

Mo Hua helped the Demon Hunters counter the Qian Family’s harassment by laying hidden Earth Fire Compound Arrays around Nameless Peak. The traps devastated the Qian Family’s night raid, leaving their leader stunned as the surviving cultivators fled.

• Mo Hua worried that the Spirit Mine would let the Qian Family dominate Immortal City, while the Qian Family repeatedly ambushed and harassed the Demon Hunters.
• Mo Hua proposed a plan to Elder Yu, then drew Seven-Pattern Earth Fire Compound Arrays for the Demon Hunters to plant around the mountain.
• The Demon Hunters lured the Qian Family away and secretly laid the arrays before withdrawing.
• Mo Hua waited near a concealed mine entrance as the Qian Family gathered beneath Nameless Peak and planned a raid with a returning-horse spear feint.
• The Qian Family cultivators triggered the hidden arrays as they advanced, and explosions blasted them into panic and retreat.
• The huge Qian Family man realized his schemes had failed and that he had become the clown he had mocked.

Mo Hua’s Earth Fire Arrays repeatedly drove back the Qian Family’s attempts to seize the Spirit Mine, leaving Qian Zhuang’s forces battered and demoralized. After the Qian Family retreated, Elder Yu explained to Mo Hua how large groups of experienced Qi Refining cultivators could threaten even a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Mo Hua and the demon hunters watched Earth Fire Compound Arrays blast the Qian Family cultivators, while demonic beasts later killed some of the wounded on their way back.
• Qian Hong ordered Qian Zhuang to take the Spirit Mine, and Qian Zhuang learned that the demon hunters were using seven-pattern Earth Fire Arrays.
• Qian Zhuang repeatedly rallied his cultivators to attack, but Mo Hua’s stock of Arrays kept driving them back until the Qian Family abandoned the offensive.
• Mo Hua asked Elder Yu what they would do if the Qian Family sent Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Elder Yu explained how numbers could allow Qi Refining cultivators to wear one down.

Mo Hua learned why the Qian Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators had held back, while Elder Yu explained how their divided interests and guarded holdings limited their response. When Qian Zhuang finally broke through the Earth Fire Arrays with armored cultivators, Yu Chengyi’s Demon Hunters met them openly and drove them back, seizing several suits of armor.

• Elder Yu explained that the Qian Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators avoided committing themselves because they feared the risks and had competing interests and holdings to protect.
• A few nights later, Qian Zhuang led earth-type body-refining cultivators in iron armor through the Earth Fire Arrays, destroying the formations at great cost.
• Qian Zhuang realized the Demon Hunters had been waiting in formation, turning his planned sneak attack into an open confrontation.
• Yu Chengyi ordered the Demon Hunters to charge, and they quickly routed the exhausted Qian Family cultivators and seized several suits of iron armor.
• Qian Hong returned to camp with the battle report, and Qian Zhuang bitterly wondered who had drawn the Earth Fire Array.

Qian Zhongxuan arrived to take over the Qian Family’s campaign against the demon hunters and prepared Qian Zhuang for another attack. He and Elder Yu agreed that neither side’s Foundation Establishment cultivators would join the coming fight, while Mo Hua continued practicing arrays and watched their confrontation from safety.

• Qian Zhongxuan stripped Qian Zhuang of command but encouraged him to regain the Qian Family’s honor in a future attack.
• Elder Yu warned the demon hunters that Qian Zhongxuan’s arrival might lead to a hard battle and told Mo Hua to stay inside.
• Mo Hua learned the First-Grade Earth Fire Array and practiced drawing it while saving the completed arrays.
• Qian Zhongxuan met Elder Yu outside the mine and proposed that Foundation Establishment cultivators on both sides stay out of the Spirit Mine fight.
• Elder Yu agreed after Qian Zhongxuan said the Chief Administrator of the Dao Court Office would witness the arrangement, then mocked him until he left.
• Mo Hua admired Elder Yu’s cursing, and Elder Yu warned him not to imitate it.

The Qian Family used a formation of powerful Spirit Cultivators to drive the Monster Hunters back, leaving Elder Yu searching for a counter. When he asked whether any Monster Hunter was a Spirit Cultivator, Mo Hua raised his hand and said he was.

• The Monster Hunters initially pushed back the larger Qian Family force through their experience and teamwork, but Qian Zhongxuan ordered them to withdraw.
• The next day, the Qian Family protected more than twenty late-stage Qi Refining Spirit Cultivators, whose spells overwhelmed the Monster Hunters and forced Elder Yu to retreat to the cave entrance.
• Elder Yu and the others discussed ways to break through the Qian Family's defenses, but rejected risky attacks and recruiting Spirit Cultivators as ineffective.
• Elder Yu asked who among the Monster Hunters was a Spirit Cultivator, and Mo Hua raised his hand and said he was.

Mo Hua helped the Demon Hunters turn the battle against the Qian Family by using his long-range Fireball Techniques to disrupt their Spirit Cultivators. Qian Zhongxuan ordered a retreat after Elder Yu blocked his attempt to locate Mo Hua.

• Elder Yu agreed to let Mo Hua disrupt the Qian Family's Spirit Cultivators from inside the mine tunnel while he protected him.
• During the next battle, Mo Hua hit Qian Family Spirit Cultivators with fast, accurate Fireball Techniques, interrupting their spells and injuring them.
• The Qian Family's spells dispersed before reaching Mo Hua because he stood beyond their divine sense range.
• With the Qian Family Spirit Cultivators suppressed, Yu Chengyi led the Demon Hunters in a fierce attack that forced the Qian Family to retreat.
• Qian Zhongxuan tried to locate Mo Hua with his divine sense, but Elder Yu blocked him, and Qian Zhongxuan ordered a withdrawal.

Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique drove the Qian Family to retreat, and the next day his Golden Armor Array helped the Monster Hunters win a decisive battle at Nameless Peak. The Qian Family regrouped at the foot of the peak vowing revenge, while Elder Yu celebrated the victory and Mo Hua wondered how long the Spirit Mine would need guarding.

• Mo Hua’s distant Fireball Technique helped force Qian Zhongxuan and the Qian Family to retreat, earning praise from Elder Yu.
• The Qian Family returned at daybreak and fought the Monster Hunters head-on at Nameless Peak.
• Elder Yu sent more than a dozen iron-armored Monster Hunters into the melee, and Qian Zhongxuan realized Mo Hua had inscribed Golden Armor Arrays on the armor.
• The Qian Family’s lines collapsed under the armored fighters’ attack, and Qian Zhongxuan ordered a retreat after suffering severe casualties.
• Elder Yu let the Monster Hunters celebrate with meat and wine, while Mo Hua declined their offerings and worried about how long the group would remain at the Spirit Mine.

The Qian Family hired outside cultivators to reinforce its fight for the Spirit Mine, and their concealed attacker threatened the Monster Hunters despite their growing advantage. Mo Hua recognized the danger when the attacker nearly killed Mo Shan and vowed to remember him.

• Qian Zhongxuan hired a large group of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from outside the city to fight alongside the Qian Family.
• Elder Yu and Qian Zhongxuan argued over whether the hired cultivators counted as Qian Family fighters before both sides began battling.
• The Monster Hunters adapted to the hired cultivators' methods and gradually gained the upper hand with their Iron Armor.
• A concealed attacker sliced an Iron-Armored Monster Hunter's throat, and Elder Yu identified the technique as concealment magic.
• Mo Hua sensed the concealed attacker targeting Mo Shan, who dodged the dagger but suffered a minor cut and escaped a potentially fatal blow.

Mo Hua used his divine sense and Fireball Technique to repeatedly disrupt a concealed black-clad cultivator’s ambushes during the battle. When the attacker’s Concealment Technique faltered, Mo Shan seized him and slammed him to the ground.

• Mo Hua hid at the edge of the battlefield and used his divine sense to locate a faint, pale-blue figure moving among the fighters.
• Mo Hua struck the black-clad cultivator with a Fireball Technique, interrupting his attempt to stab a Monster Hunter.
• The black-clad cultivator returned to ambushing Monster Hunters, but Mo Hua repeatedly interrupted his attacks with precise Fireball Techniques.
• The black-clad cultivator searched for Mo Hua and grew enraged as his attacks kept failing, while the Monster Hunters gained ground against the Qian Family cultivators.
• The black-clad cultivator’s Concealment Technique briefly failed, and Mo Shan seized him, broke his bones, and threw him to the ground.

Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique exposed the Qian Family’s concealed cultivator, allowing Mo Shan, Yu Chengyi, and the monster hunters to defeat him and drive Qian Zhongxuan’s forces back. The wounded black-clad cultivator later woke, desperate to learn who had ambushed him with the Fireball Technique, but fainted again before finding out.

• Mo Shan noticed Mo Hua’s Fireball Technique repeatedly reveal the concealed black-clad cultivator and seized him when his spiritual power became disordered.
• Yu Chengyi kicked the black-clad cultivator into a group of monster hunters, who hacked him down before the Qian Family could rescue him.
• Qian Zhongxuan tried to identify the Fireball Technique’s user, but Elder Yu blocked his spiritual sense and Qian Zhongxuan ordered a retreat.
• Elder Yu carried Mo Hua into the mine tunnel and warned him to avoid taking risks, while Mo Hua repeated his father’s advice to strike decisively.
• Qian Zhongxuan ordered the wounded treated and vented his anger at Qian Zhuang as the black-clad cultivator recovered from his injuries.
• The black-clad cultivator woke, demanded to know who had used the Fireball Technique, then fainted again when his wounds reopened.

Qian Hong arrived to take charge of the Qian Family’s failing campaign for the Spirit Mine, criticizing Qian Zhongxuan while hiding his own ambition to claim the credit and spoils. Qian Zhongxuan yielded command but privately doubted Qian Hong could overcome the demon hunters.

• Elder Yu told Mo Hua that Qian Hong was coming to take advantage of Qian Zhongxuan’s losses, and the two discussed escaping after taking what they could from the Spirit Mine.
• Qian Hong arrived at the Qian Family camp, and Qian Zhongxuan reported the failed attacks and their losses.
• Qian Hong rebuked Qian Zhongxuan for mishandling the campaign and took over the Spirit Mine matter, claiming he would answer to the clan himself.
• Qian Zhongxuan explained that an Array Master and one or more Spirit Cultivators had thwarted his forces, but Qian Hong mocked his account and questioned his excuses.
• Qian Zhongxuan agreed to follow Qian Hong’s orders while privately expecting him to fail against the demon hunters.

Mo Hua learned the First-Grade Earth Stone Array so the demon hunters could seal the mine tunnel and escape the Qian Family. After mastering it sooner than expected, he began considering a First-Grade Earth-Wood Compound Array to study next.

• Elder Yu provoked Qian Hong and Qian Zhongxuan, then explained that the demon hunters needed to escape rather than fight the better-supplied Qian Family head-on.
• Elder Yu asked Mo Hua if he knew an Array Technique that could seal the mine tunnel, and Mo Hua said he could learn one by the next morning or the morning after.
• Mo Hua found the First-Grade Earth Stone Array in the Thousand Array Catalog and studied its nine earth-element Array Patterns.
• Mo Hua practiced drawing the Earth Stone Array on paper and succeeded before nightfall.
• Mo Hua noticed a First-Grade Earth-Wood Compound Array in the manuals and wondered what to learn next.

Mo Hua learned the First-Grade Earth-Wood Compound Array and helped the demon hunters secretly reinforce and seal the mine entrances while Elder Yu kept the Qian Family distracted. Qian Hong remained convinced that the sealing was a ruse, leaving the fate of the mine and the looming confrontation unresolved.

• Mo Hua practiced through the night and learned the First-Grade Earth-Wood Compound Array, then told Elder Yu he was ready to help seal the caves.
• Elder Yu led the demon hunters in repeated feigned charges, making Qian Hong believe they were desperate to fight and discouraging him from engaging them.
• The demon hunters blocked cave entrances with crushed stone as Mo Hua layered Earth-Wood Compound Arrays onto the walls, while Elder Yu kept Qian Hong's attention with curses.
• When Qian Hong sent a small group to investigate, Mo Shan, Yu Chengyi, and other demon hunters ambushed them and drove them away.
• Qian Zhongxuan warned Qian Hong that Yu Changlin might truly be sealing the cave, but Qian Hong dismissed the danger and planned to break in or intercept the demon hunters if they fled.

Mo Hua’s layered Earth-and-Wood Compound Arrays stalled the Qian Family’s assault on the mine, while Elder Yu guarded against Qian Hong’s interference. With the escape tunnel still underway and several walls holding, Mo Hua and Elder Yu decided to mine the remaining Spirit Stones rather than leave them behind.

• Mo Hua used Spirit Stones to activate three Earth-and-Wood Compound Arrays sealing the cave entrances, while Elder Yu ordered the demon hunters to dig an escape tunnel.
• Qian Hong’s cultivators failed to break the reinforced barricade, and Qian Hong sensed it was a first-grade Array Technique.
• Elder Yu warned Qian Hong not to let Foundation Establishment cultivators attack; Qian Hong held back and sent Qi Refining cultivators against the walls instead.
• After days of attacks, the Qian Family broke through one wall only to find another array-reinforced wall behind it, and Qian Hong ordered his cultivators to rest.
• Mo Hua explained that the three-layer compound array could hold for a long time, and he and Elder Yu decided to mine all the remaining Spirit Stones.

Elder Yu had the Monster Hunters dig escape tunnels while Qian Hong’s forces searched for them and repeatedly fell into monster-beast lairs. Unable to find the real tunnels, Qian Hong ordered a frontal assault, only to uncover yet another array behind the latest stone wall.

• Elder Yu prioritized digging escape tunnels and secretly collected every scrap of Spirit Mine, while Mo Hua admired his ruthlessness.
• Qian Zhuang led Qian Family cultivators into a false tunnel, where they disturbed a late first-grade monster beast and suffered severe injuries and deaths.
• Qian Hong sent another team to investigate a different tunnel, but monster beasts injured and killed more Qian Family cultivators.
• Qian Hong realized he could not reliably find Yu Changlin’s tunnels and stopped risking his disciples on further searches.
• Qian Hong ordered the Qian Family to attack the mine entrances directly, and after breaking through another wall, they found a third stone wall and another array.

Elder Yu led the Monster Hunters out of the emptied Spirit Mine with all the Spirit Stones, hoping to reach Immortal City before the Qian Family caught up. The Qian Family discovered the mine had been stripped and pursued them, leaving the Monster Hunters racing toward the protection of the Dao Court Office.

• After confirming that every Spirit Stone had been removed, Elder Yu led nearly a thousand Monster Hunters through a hidden passage out of the mine.
• Qian Hong realized the Monster Hunters had escaped, broke through the array sealing the tunnel, and found the Spirit Mine empty.
• The Qian Family discovered the Monster Hunters' escape tunnel, cleared its rubble, and pursued them under Qian Hong's order to kill any they found.
• Elder Yu sensed the pursuit and told Mo Hua that the Qian Family would risk a fight to the death to reclaim the Spirit Stones.
• Elder Yu explained that the Qian Family would face severe punishment if it attacked inside Immortal City, and Mo Hua was shocked by the possibility that the Dao Court could destroy the entire clan.

Mo Hua joined the demon hunters holding the rear and used a cache of Earth Fire Arrays to prepare an ambush for the pursuing Qian Family. The arrays exploded as the Qian Family advanced, stopping their formation while Qian Hong realized Mo Hua had set another trap.

• Elder Yu selected Yu Chengyi, Mo Shan, and several demon hunters to delay the Qian Family, but Mo Hua insisted that his prepared Array Techniques could keep anyone from having to risk their lives.
• Mo Shan and Elder Yu agreed to use Mo Hua’s stored First-Grade Earth Fire Arrays, while Elder Yu ordered Mo Shan to get Mo Hua to safety if the situation turned bad.
• Mo Hua and the demon hunters hid Earth Fire Arrays around a narrow mountain pass and waited for the Qian Family’s nearly two thousand cultivators to arrive.
• Elder Yu taunted Qian Hong and stalled while the Qian Family advanced, honoring the agreement not to attack first.
• Mo Hua’s Earth Fire Arrays exploded beneath the front of the Qian Family’s formation, engulfing cultivators in flames and halting their advance.

Qian Hong and Qian Zhongxuan tried to clear the Demon Hunters’ Earth Fire Arrays blocking the mountain path to the Spirit Mine. After Qian Zhuang’s failed attempt, the two elders detonated the arrays themselves, leaving them battered but clearing the way.

• Qian Hong demanded to meet the Demon Hunters’ Array Master, while Yu Changlin denied knowing who had laid the arrays and stalled him.
• Qian Zhongxuan urged Qian Hong to probe the trapped path, but Qian Zhuang volunteered and explained how he had broken an Earth Fire Array before.
• Qian Hong sent armored Qian Family cultivators to trigger the arrays, but the first blast badly injured one and revealed that the arrays were much stronger than Qian Zhuang expected.
• Qian Zhongxuan proposed sacrificing cultivators to clear the path, so Qian Hong instead persuaded him to help detonate the arrays by promising to erase his prior mistake.
• Qian Hong and Qian Zhongxuan forced their way along the mountain path and triggered the Earth Fire Arrays, clearing the route while suffering internal injuries.

Mo Hua and the Monster Hunters escaped the Qian Family’s pursuit with the mined Spirit Stones by using Earth Fire Arrays to slow them down. The group reached Immortal City safely, leaving Qian Hong furious and threatening revenge.

• Qian Hong ordered the Qian Family cultivators to pursue the Monster Hunters while Elder Yu kept him and Qian Zhongxuan occupied.
• Mo Hua and the Monster Hunters planted more Earth Fire Arrays along the pursuit route, repeatedly frightening and delaying the Qian Family cultivators.
• The Monster Hunters carried the Spirit Stones out of Great Black Mountain and entered Immortal City before the Qian Family could catch them.
• Elder Yu checked that Mo Hua was unharmed as Qian Hong and Qian Zhongxuan arrived and saw the Monster Hunters carrying the Spirit Stones into the city.
• Qian Hong threatened Elder Yu and Mo Hua, and Elder Yu mocked him for losing his composure.

After the Qian Family withdrew, Mo Hua returned home and learned he would receive a first-class share of the Spirit Mine proceeds. Remembering the Monster Hunters who died, he resolved to make his Array Techniques strong enough that no cultivator would bleed or die within them.

• The Dao Court Office arrived, and Qian Hong led the Qian Family away while suspecting the Monster Hunters but overlooking Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua returned home with Mo Shan, reunited with Liu Ruhua, ate a meal, and slept to recover from the fighting.
• Elder Yu, Yu Chengyi, and Mo Shan discussed dividing the Spirit Mine proceeds, and Elder Yu told Mo Hua he had earned a first-class share.
• Mo Hua grieved for the Monster Hunters who had died and vowed to strengthen his Array Techniques so no cultivator would bleed or die within them.

Mo Hua received his share of the Spirit Mine’s wealth but worried that the Monster Hunters’ relief would last only ten years, so he proposed that the Guild start artifact refining and alchemy businesses. Elder Yu realized Mo Hua’s formation skills could solve the main obstacle to making the plan work.

• Mo Hua visited Mr. Zhuang, who praised him, then told Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi about his time in the Spirit Mine and promised to bring them food.
• Mo Hua collected more than three hundred Spirit Stones from the Monster Hunting Guild’s storehouse and worried about what would happen when the Guild’s reserves ran out in ten years.
• Mo Hua asked Elder Yu how the Qian Family had built its wealth, and Elder Yu explained that the family’s ancestor had used ruthless and criminal methods to earn its initial capital.
• Mo Hua proposed that the Monster Hunting Guild use its Spirit Stones to open artifact refining and alchemy businesses, hiring Rogue Cultivators to work there.
• Elder Yu realized that Mo Hua’s formation skills could provide the furnace formations needed for the businesses, and saw that the Guild had everything it needed to begin.