Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua and Cheng Mo’s group ambushed Duanjin Gate disciples, recaptured River-Crossing Dragon, and delivered him to the Dao Court Office for their reward. On the ride home, Mo Hua connected the Blood-Sworn List and Jiang Laoda’s stolen Jade Slips to Young Master Jin and suspected that powerful figures in Duanjin Gate were behind the trafficking of cultivators.

• Mo Hua arranged a masked ambush with Cheng Mo and the others, using an Earth Fire Array to overwhelm two Duanjin Gate disciples escorting River-Crossing Dragon.
• The group subdued River-Crossing Dragon and left the injured Duanjin Gate disciples unconscious, while Mo Hua concealed his identity behind Black Cloth and ordered River-Crossing Dragon taken away.
• Mo Hua and the others delivered River-Crossing Dragon to the Dao Court Office, claimed their Merit Points, and found the White Wave Art and its accompanying techniques in his Storage Bag.
• On the ride back to Void Gate, Mo Hua reasoned that Jiang Laoda had stolen the Gold-Breaking Imperial Sword Art and Blood-Sworn List from Young Master Jin, who might have used Jiang Laoda to traffic cultivators.
• Mo Hua began to suspect that Young Master Jin was one of the black-clothed Human Traffickers and that powerful sects and clans might be connected to a larger conspiracy.

Mo Hua warned Gu Changhuai that River-Crossing Dragon and Duanjin Gate were tied to black-clothed human traffickers and suspected that Evil Gods were behind the demonic corruption. While Mo Hua waited for Gu Changhuai to investigate, Mr. Tu sensed someone threatening the God Lord’s plans and ordered a search for the person obstructing them.

• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that Young Master Jin of Duanjin Gate had instructed River-Crossing Dragon to enter Dao Prison, fake his death, and emerge under a new identity, and Gu Changhuai agreed to watch him and investigate the Dao Court Office mole.
• Mo Hua suspected that prominent-clan disciples who had fallen to demons were working as human traffickers and asked whether Evil Gods could be involved, but Gu Changhuai dismissed the idea and warned him to avoid the dangerous investigation.
• Mo Hua continued cultivating and practicing formations, reflected on how demons and Divine Marrow could strengthen his divine sense, and decided to wait for River-Crossing Dragon to lead Gu Changhuai to further clues.
• Mr. Tu felt someone coveting the God Lord and was ordered to find them, then reported losses among the God Lord’s followers and feared that the hidden adversary might use the Divine Thought Sword Technique.
• Mr. Tu vowed to identify the one obstructing the God Lord, left the altar, and concealed his ruined appearance beneath human skin.

Mo Hua investigated River-Crossing Dragon’s staged death and tracked him to a Small Fishing Village after following his traces along the Yanshui River. When River-Crossing Dragon vanished behind a hut, Mo Hua sensed a sinister aura as crimson Blood Mist appeared over the village.

• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that River-Crossing Dragon had faked his death, escaped in an empty coffin, and returned to the Yanshui River.
• Mo Hua negotiated for support and received a Gu Family Secret Order from Gu Changhuai, allowing him to seek help from Gu family cultivators in nearby Dao Court Offices.
• Mo Hua examined the empty grave and followed River-Crossing Dragon’s faint traces along the Yanshui River while studying his cultivation manuals.
• River-Crossing Dragon emerged from the river in disguise, and Mo Hua secretly followed him to a Small Fishing Village.
• River-Crossing Dragon vanished behind a secluded hut, and Mo Hua sensed a sinister aura as crimson Blood Mist covered the village.

Mo Hua watched the mysterious Small Fishing Village for River-Crossing Dragon, then entered the village and learned from Old Yu how its poor Fisher Cultivators were exploited. When Wang Family cultivators tried to take Old Yu’s Golden Lotus Tricolor Carp without paying, Mo Hua intervened and defeated them all with spells.

• Mo Hua resisted the Blood Mist’s lure, kept watch on the Small Fishing Village overnight, and found no sign of River-Crossing Dragon by morning.
• Mo Hua visited Old Yu’s home, shared fish soup, and learned about the hardship and exploitation faced by the village’s Fisher Cultivators.
• Steward Wang and the Wang Family cultivators arrived to take Old Yu’s Golden Lotus Tricolor Carp, promising to pay him eight thousand Spirit Stones later.
• When Old Yu refused to hand over the fish, Steward Wang’s men struck him and threatened to take it by force.
• Mo Hua posed as a young master of the Gu Family, but his hesitation made Steward Wang suspect the lie and order his men to seize him.
• Mo Hua unleashed a series of spells, defeated the Wang Family cultivators, and left Old Yu stunned.

Mo Hua protected Old Yu from the Wang Family, bought his fish, and carried a lingering suspicion about the poverty-stricken village as he returned to his cultivation. That night, an Evil God’s influence entered Mo Hua’s dream, but he woke and destroyed the blood-red Fish Demon hiding in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Mo Hua drove off Steward Wang and the Wang Family Cultivators, then paid Old Yu eight thousand Spirit Stones for the Golden Lotus Tricolor Carp and accepted his gift of Silver-Scaled White Fish.
• Mo Hua left Small Fishing Village with the fish, wondering whether its poverty was the soil of an Evil God, and went to Qingzhou City to give the carp to Wenren Wan.
• Mo Hua returned to Void Gate, sent Gu Changhuai the information about River-Crossing Dragon’s disappearance, and later fell into an unusually deep sleep while studying Array Techniques.
• Mo Hua dreamed of several bitter lives as a Fisher Cultivator with Senior Sister, then woke when he heard a prayer to the River God.
• Mo Hua used divine sight to find a blood-red Fish Demon and tiny red fish in his Sea of Consciousness, crushed the demon, and burned away the remaining Evil Spirits.

Mo Hua discovered that blood-red fish offered by Old Yu were contaminating Small Fishing Village’s well and causing the villagers’ Divine Consciousness to be invaded by the Evil God. After confronting Old Yu at the well, Mo Hua promised to keep the secret if Old Yu explained who had taught him to raise the fish.

• Mo Hua checked Yu'er’s Sea of Consciousness and found no sign of Evil Thought, then suspected the fish soup he had drunk at Old Yu’s home had caused his own invasion.
• Mo Hua returned to Small Fishing Village and observed the villagers’ blank, numb expressions, but found no obvious altar or Evil God stronghold.
• Mo Hua watched from a tree until night, then followed Old Yu as he carried a sealed fish tank to a courtyard well.
• Old Yu offered blood-red fish into the well and prayed to the River God, revealing that the fish were part of a vow he believed would protect his grandsons.
• Mo Hua realized the villagers drank contaminated water from the well and confronted Old Yu, who first pleaded with him to stay silent and then tried to attack him.
• Mo Hua promised not to tell anyone if Old Yu explained who had taught him to raise the blood-red fish, and Old Yu agreed to talk.

Mo Hua investigated Old Yu’s River Sacrifice Disaster Relief method and discovered that a well in Small Fishing Village contained a dangerous Fish Demon connected to the Evil God. After following River-Crossing Dragon back to the well, Mo Hua watched him draw an array that released the Evil God’s aura and realized it might be a nearly lost Divine Dao Array.

• Old Yu told Mo Hua that River-Crossing Dragon had saved his life and taught him the River Sacrifice Disaster Relief method, which brought blessings to his family.
• Mo Hua promised not to reveal Old Yu’s secret, persuaded him to stop raising Blood Fish, then secretly returned to investigate the well.
• Mo Hua sent a Little Tiger puppet into the well, where something swallowed it, and suspected the Blood Fish were being raised into a Fish Demon that spread the Evil God’s corruption.
• Mo Hua spotted River-Crossing Dragon in disguise, followed him into Yanshui River, and requested an extra day of leave from Gu Changhuai.
• River-Crossing Dragon returned to the well at night and drew an array with a Human Hair Brush and Blood Ink, causing Blood Mist to spread across Small Fishing Village.
• Mo Hua recognized that the array had sealed the Evil God’s aura and suspected it was a nearly lost Divine Dao Array.

Mo Hua prepared to investigate the Blood-Colored Well, suspecting it led to the vanished fishing village polluted by an evil god, and assembled a small team to descend. As Mo Hua and his companions entered the well, Elder Xun sensed that Mo Hua was doing something dangerous but could not see what.

• Mo Hua contacted Gu Changhuai, who sent Gu An and Gu Quan with spirit-protecting artifacts, summoned Gu family reinforcements, and requested two days of leave from Void Gate for Mo Hua.
• Elder Xun approved Mo Hua’s leave and privately worried that a hidden conspiracy threatened Void Gate, while sensing that Mo Hua was acting outside his usual Array Technique work.
• Gu An and Gu Quan arrived at Small Fishing Village with a Clear Heart Mirror, Soul-Calming Jade, and Evil-Warding Hairpin, and Mo Hua gathered more than twenty Gu family cultivators to guard the village.
• Yu Dahe pleaded to join the descent so he could help save his sons, Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui, and Mo Hua agreed.
• Mo Hua revealed the well’s true entrance with an Array Technique, obtained three Dead-Spotted Fish like the ones River-Crossing Dragon had carried, and warned his companions to follow his instructions.
• Gu An and Gu Quan jumped into the Blood-Colored Well first, followed by Yu Dahe and then Mo Hua.

Mo Hua led Gu An, Gu Quan, and Yu Dahe through a monster-guarded passage and into a vanished Fishing Village shrouded in Blood Mist. He discovered that buried Divine Dao Array slabs formed a safe path through the Blood Leeches, and the group reached the village’s blood-soaked ground.

• Mo Hua detected a powerful Water Monster in a deep pool and worked out that Dead-Spotted Fish could numb it briefly, allowing the group to cross.
• The Water Monster attacked Gu An and Gu Quan as they neared shore, but Mo Hua, the two guards, and Yu Dahe drove it off long enough to escape the water.
• Mo Hua led the group through a cave into a Blood Mist-covered landscape, where he spotted Blood Leeches that Gu An and the others could not see.
• Mo Hua unearthed fragments of a Divine Dao Array and pieced together that its linked slabs formed a safe path through the Blood Leeches.
• Following Mo Hua’s footprints, Gu An, Gu Quan, and Yu Dahe crossed the infested ground and reached the vanished Fishing Village.

Mo Hua discovered that River-Crossing Dragon used Divine Dao Array patterns to open a hidden well connected to the Evil God, then replicated the technique with his transformed Divine Consciousness. Unable to overcome the force lurking below, he returned to Void Gate and continued investigating, until Gu Changhuai reported that River-Crossing Dragon had abducted Old Yu’s two grandsons.

• Mo Hua watched River-Crossing Dragon open the well with blood-drawn arrays and jump into the Blood Mist, then memorized the patterns before they vanished.
• Mo Hua deduced that the patterns were Divine Dao Arrays and used his pale-gold Divine Thought to reopen the well, but a powerful force destroyed his Little Tiger scout below.
• Mo Hua erased his traces, waited near the well for River-Crossing Dragon, then returned to Void Gate when he failed to appear.
• Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai that he had tracked River-Crossing Dragon to Small Fishing Village, and Gu Changhuai arranged for the Dao Court Office to keep watch there.
• Mo Hua studied Divine Dao Arrays and considered how they might transform Divine Consciousness to restrain gods, while concluding that entering the well remained too dangerous.
• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that River-Crossing Dragon had abducted two children from Small Fishing Village, Old Yu’s grandsons.

Mo Hua learned that Old Yu had resumed sacrificing blood-red fish to the River God, and that his grandsons had vanished after a human trafficker abducted them. After destroying a Fish Demon and restoring Old Yu’s hope, Mo Hua concluded that the well led to an ancient village consumed by an Evil God and planned to investigate it.

• Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua that Old Yu’s two grandsons had disappeared, and Mo Hua decided to search Small Fishing Village during his break.
• Mo Hua found Old Yu despairing over his missing grandsons, and Old Yu confessed that a nightmare had driven him to seek the River God’s help again.
• A village elder warned that blood-red fish had once preceded a village’s disappearance and recounted a sword-bearing cultivator’s warnings about the Blood Mist and the fish.
• Mo Hua destroyed the Fish Demon that emerged from Old Yu’s fish tank, then crushed its manifestation in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Mo Hua told Old Yu that the River God was fake and that a human trafficker had taken the boys, restoring Old Yu’s hope while asking him to keep the investigation secret.
• Mo Hua realized the Bottom of the Well was an entrance to the ancient village that had been polluted by an Evil God.

Mo Hua entered the Blood-Colored Fishing Village to rescue Old Yu’s two grandsons and uncovered the village’s bloody past, a lingering sword mark, and the cultists’ plan to use their offerings for pill refinement. He found an evil alchemist working in a bone-filled room, with the children’s fate still unknown.

• Mo Hua glimpsed the fishing village’s massacre through Karma and realized its pale-golden deity had been polluted by the Evil God.
• Mo Hua gave Gu An, Gu Quan, and Yu Dahe mind-protecting Spirit Artifacts, then went ahead alone using Stealth.
• Mo Hua studied a centuries-old sword mark and briefly experienced the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art before its trace vanished.
• Mo Hua overheard River-Crossing Dragon and the black-robed cultivators discuss Gu Changhuai, their hidden Young Master, and the River God consuming offerings before the captives were used to refine pills.
• Mo Hua searched deeper into the village and saw an evil alchemist refining pills beside a White Bone Alchemy Furnace in a room filled with dissected bones.

Mo Hua led the Gu Family cultivators in ambushing the Human Traffickers at the fishing house, rescuing Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui and capturing the surviving enemies. Their victory was thrown into doubt when Master She claimed the children were already corpses.

• Mo Hua found Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui bound before a River God Statue in the Alchemy Room and mapped the fishing house and its guards.
• Mo Hua gathered Gu An, Gu Quan, and ten Gu Family cultivators, then quickly learned and set up a Second-Grade Sixteen-Pattern Earth Kill Array.
• Master She warned the Human Traffickers to avoid disturbing the River God and revealed that he planned to use the children as ingredients for another pill furnace.
• Mo Hua detonated the Earth Kill Array as two Gu Family cultivators rescued the children, and the Gu Family overwhelmed the wounded Human Traffickers.
• The Gu Family killed two Human Traffickers and captured seven, including River-Crossing Dragon and Master She, while Yu Dahe held the unconscious children.
• Master She laughed and told Mo Hua that he had rescued two corpses, leaving Mo Hua to question the children’s condition.

Mo Hua forced Master She to reveal that two replacement sacrifices might save Yu Dahe’s sons, then led a group into the Fishing Village’s forbidden Back Village. The group crossed a Blood Bridge into the ruined village, where Mo Hua sensed something inside luring him onward.

• Mo Hua threatened Master She until he explained that two living people could be offered at the Altar to exchange for the children’s souls, and said the Altar was in Back Village.
• Mo Hua agreed to go to Back Village, searched the area for Divine Dao Array Patterns and traces of sword qi, and arranged the group’s personnel and replacement sacrifices.
• Master She used human blood to draw a seal-lifting Array Pattern on the stones before an Arch Bridge, while Mo Hua secretly memorized it.
• Mo Hua and the others crossed the Blood Bridge and entered Back Village, where Yu Dahe recognized it as the Fishing Village said to have been destroyed by the River God.
• Mo Hua sensed a craving drawing him toward the depths of the village and used a Derivation Calculation, which left him anticipating what lay ahead.

Mo Hua led the group across the Blood Leech Pool and into the Preaching Ground, where he discovered that the fishing huts concealed an ancient Blood Refining Array. Master She transformed and activated the array, unleashing an army of Fish-Man Demons; Mo Hua helped the group retreat while Master She escaped toward the River God Temple.

• Mo Hua recognized the bog as a Blood Leech Pool and made Master She lead the group safely across its stone path.
• At the Preaching Ground, Mo Hua noticed the fishing huts were arranged like coffins and realized they formed an evil array resembling the Ten Thousand Corpse Array.
• Master She transformed into a demon, but Mo Hua restrained him with Water Prison Techniques as Gu An and the others attacked.
• Master She stabbed himself with a Sacrificial Dagger and exploded into Blood Mist, activating the array beneath the ground.
• The fishing huts opened and released hordes of grotesque Fish-Man Demons that could devour divine sense, forcing Mo Hua and the others to retreat.
• Mo Hua detonated a Second-Grade Sixteen-Pattern Earth Kill Array to clear their path, while Master She fled toward the River God Temple.

Mo Hua discovered that a Divine Dao Array could seal a cultivator’s Divine Consciousness against the Demons’ draining attacks, then led the group in a desperate charge across the Preaching Ground toward the River God Temple. He escaped the Blood Refining Array with Gu An and Gu Quan, but the effort left his Divine Consciousness severely strained.

• Mo Hua realized the Demons consumed Divine Consciousness and tested a crude Divine Dao Array on a bound black-clothed man, confirming that it protected him.
• Mo Hua prepared forehead arrays for the group and used blood-smeared Little Tigers with Fireworks Formations to draw many Demons away from their route.
• Gu An and Gu Quan led the group through the Preaching Ground while Mo Hua supported them with spells, and Yu Dahe carried Xiao Shun and Xiao Shui.
• As exhausted cultivators fell behind near the River God Temple, Mo Hua stayed at the rear and divided his Divine Consciousness to form and detonate a Second-Grade Sixteen-Pattern Earth Kill Array.
• Gu Quan caught Mo Hua when his strength gave out, and Gu An and Gu Quan helped him retreat beyond the Blood Refining Array, where the Demons stopped pursuing them.

After escaping the Blood Refining Dao Field, Mo Hua followed traces of ancient Sword Intent into the River God Temple, where he captured Master She and forced him to prepare a ritual to save two children. Mo Hua uncovered a sword hidden beneath the temple’s Blood Pool and recognized it as a fragment of a Golden Core realm Natal Magic Treasure.

• Mo Hua recovered from using Heavenly Ghost Calculation and wondered whether Ghostly Thought-Forces resembled the Divine Remains into which gods divided themselves.
• Mo Hua sensed corrupted Sword Intent outside the River God Temple and used Heavenly Calculation to trace its Causality Lines into the temple.
• Mo Hua’s group found Master She healing in a Blood Pool, overpowered him, and threatened to kill him until he agreed to perform a ritual to save two children.
• While Master She prepared the altar, Mo Hua searched the temple and concluded that its secrets and the ancient sword were connected to the Blood Pool.
• Mo Hua forced Master She to retrieve a bloodstained Broken Sword from the pool, and recognized it as part of a Golden Core realm Natal Magic Treasure.

Mo Hua traced the broken sword’s history and learned fragments of the Void Gate’s Divine Thought Sword Transformation, then used its ritual to enter a dream realm where he sensed the hidden Evil God. The chapter ended with Mo Hua finding the true River God temple within the dream.

• Gu An identified the broken sword as an unusual Natal Magic Treasure, and Master She explained that the River God had broken and buried it after defeating a Void Gate Sword Cultivator.
• Mo Hua calculated the sword’s causality and saw the Sword Cultivator wound the River God before being ambushed by a more powerful Evil Thought.
• Mo Hua recovered fragments of the Supreme Void Divine Sense Sword Transformation Art and manifested a small golden sword from his Divine Thought.
• Master She secretly completed an Array Technique during the sacrifice, drained the two men in black of their Divine Sense, and caused the group to fall unconscious.
• Master She drew everyone’s Divine Sense into a dream, where Mo Hua found the true River God temple and sensed the hidden Evil God.

Mo Hua followed Master She into the River God’s dream temple and discovered that the Evil God trapped Small Fishing Village’s cultivators in a collective nightmare, draining their faith and divine sense before turning their bodies into demons. After Master She’s trap failed, Mo Hua prepared to confront the monsters while seeking a way to free the villagers.

• Mo Hua forced Master She to open the entrance to the dream temple and lead him inside.
• Mo Hua found the villagers, including Gu An and Old Yu, kneeling in the temple as Blood Fish drained their divine sense and their suffering fed the Evil God.
• Master She revealed that he had planted Blood Fish in the villagers, sacrificed their faith, and planned to refine their bodies into monsters.
• Master She bound Mo Hua with a Blood Sacrifice Array and released the demons, but Mo Hua broke free and incinerated them with a Mountain Fire Trapping Array.
• Mo Hua demanded that Master She explain how to free the villagers, but Master She admitted that only River God could send them out of the nightmare.

Mo Hua confronted the River God in its temple, resisting its divine abilities with powerful Array Techniques, spells, and Divine Thought. He was swallowed by the Boundless Blood River, leaving his companions and the Fisher Cultivators in danger.

• Mo Hua devoured the Evil Thoughts of the demons he had incinerated, then dragged Master She deeper into the River God Temple.
• Master She knelt before the River God, while Mo Hua demanded that it release the two children and let him take the Fisher Cultivators from the plaza.
• The River God attacked Mo Hua with Blood Thorns and its demonic claw, but Mo Hua fought back with Fireballs, Flowing Water Step, and punches infused with Divine Marrow.
• The River God unleashed its Divine Ability, Boundless Blood River, and engulfed Mo Hua in a vast river of blood.