Recaps

Mo Hua uncovered the links between Hua Ruyu, Guishui Gate, the Xiao Family, and Water Yama while helping Yu Canghai and learning more of the Water Prison Sect’s inheritance. With Inspector Xia’s help, he located Water Yama’s hidden island and volunteered to break its arrays before the planned assault.

• Mo Hua learned that Ye Jin may have become a Fierce Ghost, entered Hundred Flowers Valley in disguise with Hua Qianqian, and destroyed the ghost after promising to avenge her.
• Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai traced Hua Ruyu’s flower carriage to Water Yama, but he escaped their attack into the Yanshui River.
• Mo Hua discovered that Old Yu’s family had ties to the Yu Family Water Stronghold and found Yu Canghai secretly teaching Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui.
• Mo Hua helped Yu Canghai fight masked pursuers and found an Executive Inspector Token marked with the character “Xiao,” while Gu Changhuai concealed the incident and brought Yu Canghai to safety.
• Yu Canghai taught Mo Hua the superior Water Prison Art, and Mo Hua rapidly increased its Spirit Locks from three to six.
• Mo Hua connected the Xiao Family, Guishui Gate, Water Yama, and Hundred Flowers Valley to the Rouge Boat, then recruited Hao Xuan, Cheng Mo, and Situ Jian to investigate Guishui Gate.
• Mo Hua learned that the Central Dao Court was intervening in Ganxue Prefecture and persuaded Inspector Xia to join the hunt for Water Yama.
• Mo Hua, Gu Changhuai, and Inspector Xia followed Little Silver Fish to Water Yama’s hidden island, confirmed a force of about four hundred bandits, and began planning an assault as Mo Hua offered to break the island’s arrays.

Mo Hua helped the Dao Court Office raid the Water Bandits, stole Water Yama’s Forbidden Box, and infiltrated a Rouge Boat to rescue Hua Qianqian with Ouyang Feng. The group was trapped in the Dragon King Temple, where they subdued Mr. Wu and learned the way through the Ram-Head Gate, while Inspector Xiao discovered that Mo Hua had the box.

• Mo Hua led Inspector Xia’s forces against Water Yama’s island stronghold, stole the Water Prison Forbidden Box, and escaped while Water Yama fled.
• Mo Hua learned from Yu Canghai and Xun Zixian about the box’s Pupil Technique and the dangers of Soul Projection, then forged a Sword Punishment Diagram and developed the Soul-Startling Divine Sword.
• Mo Hua agreed to infiltrate a Rouge Boat during the Lantern Festival, discovered that Hua Ruyu and Water Yama were involved in the scheme, and freed Hua Qianqian with Ouyang Feng.
• Mo Hua set the Rouge Boat ablaze to signal the Dao Court Office, but Xie Liu and Water Yama captured him, Ouyang Feng, and Hua Qianqian and took them to the Dragon King Temple.
• A blood-covered monster attacked the temple, stole Water Yama’s Fish Bone Token, and sealed the group inside, forcing Inspector Xiao, Gu Changhuai, Inspector Xia, Mo Hua, and their enemies to cooperate.
• Mo Hua tracked the monster to its hiding place, helped the cultivators exhaust and bind it, and used Blood Extraction Technique to restore Mr. Wu to human form.
• Mr. Wu revealed another token hidden inside the altar and began opening the Ram-Head Gate, while Inspector Xiao privately questioned Water Yama about the Forbidden Box and learned Mo Hua had taken it.

Mo Hua exposed Inspector Xiao and escaped the Dragon King Temple, then used its altar to punish the listed Sinful Cultivators while concealing the temple’s secrets. Back at Void Gate, he learned sword arts and confronted the Evil Infant fused with his Life Soul, ending the stretch by attempting the dangerous God-Slaying technique.

• Inspector Xiao betrayed the group in the Bone Labyrinth, but Mo Hua’s hidden arrays and golden sword intent helped Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia kill him before Mo Hua was trapped inside with Mr. Wu.
• Mo Hua killed Mr. Wu in the God Lord’s realm, took control of the altar and Tree of Divine Authority, and fought the Evil Infant that had been left at the altar.
• Mo Hua sealed the Evil Infant in his soul, returned from the Dragon King Temple, and hid its Dragon Bone Life-Bound Divine Statue before leaving with Gu Changhuai and Inspector Xia.
• Mo Hua exposed Xiao Tianquan as the real Water Yama and the man responsible for Ye Jin’s death, then used the altar to kill Xiao Tianquan and the other Sinful Cultivators on Jiang Laoda’s list.
• Mo Hua enlisted the Big White Dog to protect Shangguan Yu from demons, then returned Senior Dugu Xuan’s Broken Sword to the Long-Bearded Elder and asked to learn swordsmanship.
• Old Ancestor Dugu taught Mo Hua the Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art while Elder Xun required him to master Second-Grade arrays, and Mo Hua kept the two teachings secret from each other.
• Mo Hua opened the Water Prison Forbidden Box, learned its contents included the Water Prison True Art, and stored away the dangerous Forest of Yama Water Prison manuscript without attempting to learn it.
• The Evil Infant merged into Mo Hua’s Life Soul and threatened to possess him, so Mo Hua borrowed the God-Slaying manual and sent its Sword Intent toward his Life Soul, drawing the Evil Infant’s warning that he would die.

Mo Hua won the Array Discussion, helped unite three sects under Void Gate, and advanced his sword arts while pursuing the Evil Fetus. After saving Gu Changhuai from a baleful creature, he turned to studying a Demon Sect Token and its hidden array principles.

• Mo Hua secretly cultivated through months of sect turmoil, then completed Elder Xun’s difficult array examination and entered the Dao Discussion Assembly.
• Mo Hua passed the increasingly difficult array tests, deciphered the final capping array’s Reverse Transformation, and won the Array Dao Champion title for Void Gate.
• Elder Xun and the leaders of Ta'a Gate and Chongxu Gate agreed to unite their sects with Void Gate, and Mo Hua became Senior Martial Brother to disciples from all three mountains.
• Mo Hua learned sword techniques from Old Ancestor Dugu, formed divine sense swords through Sword Arrays, and struck the Evil Fetus with his Gold-Breaking Sword.
• Mo Hua began cultivating the God-Slaying Divine Sword and Supreme Emotion-Severing Dao while trying to preserve his Humanity, then learned that Gu Changhuai had been badly wounded by a Demon Sect attack.
• Mo Hua entered Gu Changhuai’s Sea of Consciousness, trapped and cut apart the Sheep Horn creature, and removed the Evil Baleful Intent threatening Gu Changhuai.
• Mo Hua purified the creature’s remains into Divine Marrow and strengthened his divine soul, then examined a token seized from Evil Cultivators and asked Elder Zheng to teach him its secret array principles.