Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua questioned Shen Xiuyan about the Shen Family’s abandoned mine, its dealings in Lone Mountain City, and Shen Qingsheng, then asked him to search the family records. Two days later, Shen Qingsheng demanded that Shen Shouxing avenge his humiliation, but admitted Mo Hua had only looked at him once.

• Mo Hua learned that Shen Xiuyan was an Elder of Xiaoling Sect and reminded him that he had saved his life in the Dilapidated Temple, persuading him to answer questions about the Shen Family.
• Shen Xiuyan told Mo Hua that the Shen Family’s mined-out mountain was sealed for safety, denied that the family openly massacred households, and explained how powerful heirs could shift blame onto collateral branches.
• Shen Xiuyan identified Shen Qingsheng’s father as Shen Shouxing, warned Mo Hua that Shen Qingsheng was vindictive, and agreed to find ordinary records about Lone Mountain City and its mines.
• Mo Hua returned to Void Gate with Master Gu, while Shen Xiuyan departed for the Shen Family.
• Two days later, Shen Qingsheng demanded revenge from Shen Shouxing, but revealed that Mo Hua had only looked at him once.

Shen Shouxing warned Shen Qingsheng not to provoke Mo Hua and ordered him watched, while Mo Hua investigated Fan Jin’s stalled transfer and learned about geomancy and tomb construction from Xie Ling. After realizing his peers were improving while he stood still, Mo Hua set out for Lone Mountain City again, with Elder Xun allowing him to go.

• Shen Shouxing rebuked Shen Qingsheng for insulting Mo Hua, forbade him from provoking Mo Hua again, and ordered a trusted subordinate to keep watch on him.
• Mo Hua asked Gu Changhuai why Fan Jin could not transfer and learned that someone influential might be keeping Lone Mountain City's officials from leaving; Gu Changhuai also judged Fan Jin capable but poorly backed.
• Mo Hua resolved to repay Fan Jin's kindness and asked Gu Changhuai about the missing Leader of the Demon Sect, but Gu Changhuai had no leads.
• Mo Hua asked Xie Ling about tomb raiding, and Xie Ling explained how geomancy, tomb layouts, and secret arrays could conceal and protect cultivators' tombs.
• Mo Hua concluded that he needed to improve before the Sword Discussion Assembly and left Void Gate for Lone Mountain City during the ten-day break.
• Elder Xun allowed Mo Hua to go, saying that a shallow pool could not raise a True Dragon.

Elder Xun arranged for Xun Ziyou to secretly protect Mo Hua as he investigated Lone Mountain, while warning that Mo Hua would have to face his own dangers. In Lone Mountain, Mo Hua found suspicious gaps in Shen Family records, and Shen Xiuyan mysteriously planted a fatal prophecy about Shen Shouxing's only son before forgetting their conversation.

• Elder Xun gave Xun Ziyou a karmic Jade Pendant to track Mo Hua's safety and ordered him to intervene in a life-threatening crisis, using the Void Sword Token if necessary.
• Mo Hua reached Lone Mountain City, collected scattered Shen Family mining records from Shen Xiuyan, and found that the city's sudden rise in orphans had gone unexplained.
• Mo Hua decided to investigate the Shen Family's mountain alone, concealed himself, and entered Lone Mountain.
• Shen Shouxing asked Shen Xiuyan about a divination predicting he would have only one son, and Shen Xiuyan suddenly told him that his family line would end if that son died.
• Shen Xiuyan and Shen Shouxing parted as if nothing had happened, while Shen Xiuyan forgot their strange exchange and traveled back to Xiaoling Sect.

Mo Hua investigated the Shen Family’s abandoned mines, learned from a disguised tomb raider that Earth Arrays concealed tombs there, and was captured by the raiders for a mysterious task. As they approached a mine shaft, Shen Qingsheng arrived with Shen Family cultivators and recognized Mo Hua.

• Mo Hua searched the Shen Family’s mine mountains but found no clues, then followed a faint qi mechanism while attempting to sense the mountains’ Earth Veins.
• Mo Hua met an old man in plain clothes, who taught him that Earth Arrays concealed tombs beneath the abandoned mines.
• The old man revealed himself as a tomb raider and had three Golden Core cultivators surround Mo Hua, intending to use him for a task requiring his body to remain unharmed.
• Mo Hua accepted a cold black Jade Pendant as an advance and let the raiders put Second-Grade shackles on him.
• The raiders led Mo Hua toward a mine shaft, but Shen Qingsheng arrived with Shen Family cultivators and threatened him.

Shen Qingsheng tried to seize Mo Hua from Mr. Pi’s group, but the tomb raiders killed his guards, captured him, and took Mo Hua into a tomb beneath Lone Mountain. As they reached a sealed sluice gate, Mo Hua spotted the flaw in Mr. Pi’s array and helped him open it, leaving Mr. Pi wary of the boy’s skill.

• Shen Qingsheng demanded that Mr. Pi hand over Mo Hua, then refused to pay the promised Spirit Stones and threatened the group with his Shen Family connections.
• Mr. Pi’s companions ambushed Shen Qingsheng’s guards, killed them, and bound Shen Qingsheng, while Mo Hua pretended to fall to avoid the fight.
• Mr. Pi led the group through a hidden passage into a tomb, where Shen Qingsheng awoke and was knocked unconscious again after his cry nearly disturbed something in the tunnels.
• Mo Hua watched Mr. Pi use a Compass to navigate the tomb and secretly studied his Array Techniques.
• At a sealed sluice gate, Mo Hua identified a faulty Array Pattern in Mr. Pi’s work, allowing Mr. Pi to correct the array and raise the gate.
• The group entered through the opened gate, and Mr. Pi looked at Mo Hua with a grim expression.

Mo Hua recognized the Water Prison Sect’s influence in the tomb gate, then killed Mr. Pi when the Earth Array Master tried to murder him. After disposing of Mr. Pi’s body and searching his belongings, Mo Hua discovered that Mr. Pi’s inheritance came from the Earth Sect.

• Mo Hua recognized the tomb gate as resembling a Water Prison Forbidden Gate, while Mr. Pi’s group debated its prison-like design and decided to proceed.
• Mr. Pi sent Second Master Hui and two Golden Core Cultivators to fetch their guests, leaving Mo Hua and the unconscious Shen Qingsheng with him.
• Mr. Pi tried to kill Mo Hua, but Mo Hua evaded his attacks until Mr. Pi trapped him in a concealed Earth Array.
• Mo Hua used a water-mist decoy and the Small Meteorite Technique to kill Mr. Pi, then warned the awakened Shen Qingsheng to stay silent.
• Mo Hua stripped Mr. Pi’s possessions and used a tomb mechanism to destroy his corpse before returning to the tomb gate.
• Mo Hua searched Mr. Pi’s Storage Bag and realized that his Array Master inheritance came from the Earth Sect.

Mo Hua studied Mr. Pi’s Earth Array inheritance and opened the tomb gate for Second Master Hui and the four black-robed guests. The group faced the tomb’s darkness and the growls of the Evil Spirits within.

• Mo Hua found Mr. Pi’s Tomb-Raiding Talisman, hid it in his Storage Ring, and blamed Mr. Pi’s death on a tomb mechanism when Second Master Hui’s group returned with four black-robed guests.
• Mouse suspected Mo Hua and searched his Storage Bag, but Second Master Hui let Mo Hua live because they needed an Array Master to open the tomb gate.
• Mo Hua studied Mr. Pi’s Array Manuals and learned enough about Earth Arrays to break the formation on the tomb gate.
• Mo Hua opened the tomb gate and claimed Mr. Pi’s Storage Bag, while the black-robed guests watched in surprise.
• Second Master Hui pulled the tomb gate open, and the group heard growls and smelled the Evil Spirits inside.

Mo Hua led Second Master Hui’s group deeper into the strange Lone Mountain tomb, while Fan Jin and Master Gu discovered that Mo Hua and Shen Qingsheng were missing. Shen Shouxing initially barred outsiders from the Shen Family mine shafts, but a strange voice made him agree to let Master Gu and Xun Ziyou enter with him.

• Mo Hua sensed a dense, despairing Evil Spirit aura and led Second Master Hui, the tomb robbers, and the four black-robed cultivators through the tomb’s passages.
• Mo Hua used a restrained Derivation Calculation on the black-robed cultivators and sensed that all four had some past connection with him.
• Mo Hua broke the complex array on a sluice gate, while Second Master Hui secretly planned to force him into becoming a tomb-raiding Array Master.
• Fan Jin and Master Gu found Shen Family cultivators dead and learned that Mo Hua and Shen Qingsheng were missing; they traced the trail to sealed, blocked mine shafts.
• Shen Shouxing arrived and refused to let Master Gu and Xun Ziyou enter the Shen Family mines, but a strange voice reminded him that Shen Qingsheng was his only son, and he agreed to go down with them.

Xun Ziyou and Shen Shouxing led a group into the mine while Mo Hua guided Second Master Hui and the black-robed cultivators deeper into the tomb. After two Corpse Spirits attacked Second Master Hui, Mo Hua secretly used him to study the monsters’ Evil Thought poison and considered how he might weaponize it.

• Shen Shouxing gathered Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and a reluctant Fan Jin and led them toward the Shen Family's Mine Mountain as cultivators converged on Lone Mountain.
• Mo Hua sensed something following the tomb party, and a Corpse Spirit clung to Second Master Hui before the Black-Robed Young Master and Stone destroyed it.
• A second Corpse Spirit dropped from the ceiling and bit Second Master Hui, who tore it apart and treated his wounds while the group discussed the creatures’ origins and concealed Corpse Qi.
• Mo Hua broke the next gate’s Array Technique, and the party continued deeper into the tomb on high alert.
• Second Master Hui realized Mo Hua had sensed the Corpse Spirits and resolved to keep the boy under his control, while Mo Hua revealed that the creatures had actually targeted him and had mistaken Second Master Hui for him.
• Mo Hua saw that a strand of Corpse Spirit Evil Thought had entered Second Master Hui’s Sea of Consciousness and planned to study its effects and potentially use Evil Thought poison against powerful enemies.

Mo Hua led the tomb-raiding party through the Underground Palace, where misleading Earth Arrays and deadly mechanisms tested his newly learned skills. After a swarm of Corpse Spirits scattered the group, Mo Hua reunited with Mouse, who suddenly attacked him and demanded he hand something over.

• Mo Hua identified the far-right branch using Mr. Pi's notes, but Second Master Hui's group found a dead end and returned to the crossroads.
• Second Master Hui led the group down the middle passage, where they endured a series of dangerous mechanisms before becoming lost in its branching corridors.
• Mo Hua used Mr. Pi's Compass and his knowledge of Earth Arrays to guide the group back toward the main path.
• Mo Hua sensed a Corpse Spirit, and the group was overwhelmed by a horde that scattered them through the passages.
• Mo Hua found Mouse after fighting off Corpse Spirits, but Mouse turned on him and demanded that he hand something over.

Rat pursued Mo Hua for Mr. Pi’s Tomb-Raiding Talisman, but Mo Hua escaped and rejoined the group. Using his Array Technique knowledge, Mo Hua led the Golden Core cultivators through a hidden route and uncovered a vast Underground Palace with a huge golden coffin.

• Rat revealed that he wanted Mr. Pi’s Tomb-Raiding Talisman to contact the Earth Sect’s Dark Division, and Mo Hua noticed Rat had been bitten by a Corpse Spirit.
• Mo Hua escaped Rat’s grasp when a Corpse Spirit attacked, but Rat tracked Mo Hua by his scent and chased him through the passages until Second Master Hui arrived.
• Mo Hua regrouped with Second Master Hui, Rat, and the other cultivators, then guided them out of the maze-like side passage while secretly resolving to use Rat to study Evil Thoughts.
• Mo Hua identified the five forks as a Pseudo-Array with four false paths and one true path, then led the group back to the apparent dead end.
• The cultivators dug through a man-made false mountain while Mo Hua detected and broke hidden arrays, eventually opening a passage into an Underground Palace.
• The group entered the Underground Palace and saw a huge golden Coffin made of Bright Yellow Copper Ore at the bottom of a deep pit.

Mo Hua watched Second Master Hui prepare to open the Bright Yellow Bronze Coffin while secretly turning him against the mouse over the Tomb-Raiding Talisman. The coffin revealed a heap of corpses that began merging into a gigantic Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue as Mo Hua sensed Dao Sin.

• Second Master Hui examined the coffin, judged that a powerful sinister being was sealed inside, and prepared to open it with the group.
• Mo Hua noticed Evil Thought growing in Second Master Hui and observed his elaborate coffin-opening preparations.
• Second Master Hui questioned Mo Hua about the Tomb-Raiding Talisman, and Mo Hua claimed he had seen the mouse hide it.
• Second Master Hui concluded the mouse had framed Mo Hua and stolen the talisman, then grew greedier as Evil Thought spread.
• Second Master Hui and the others removed the coffin nails and lifted the lid, revealing a pile of rotten corpses instead of treasure.
• Mo Hua sensed Dao Sin in the coffin and warned the group as the corpses gathered into a gigantic Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue.

Second Master Hui and the others fought the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue, whose emerging Dao Sin aura and regenerating body forced them to retreat as it unleashed a tide of Corpse Spirits. Mo Hua escaped the horde and Mouse, but Mouse reappeared at the tunnel entrance, badly mauled and blaming Mo Hua for his near-death.

• Second Master Hui, Stone, and the black-robed cultivators attacked the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue, destroying its arms, while Mo Hua sheltered inside a formation and recognized a trace of Dao Sin aura.
• The statue regenerated and released waves of Corpse Spirits, so Second Master Hui and the others launched a final assault and fled after the broken formation allowed the statue to recover faster.
• Mouse pursued Mo Hua through the tunnels, but Mo Hua stunned him with the Soul-Startling Sword and the Corpse Tide engulfed him.
• Mo Hua reached the entrance tunnel and reunited with Second Master Hui, Stone, and the black-robed cultivators, who asked where Mouse was.
• Mouse arrived drenched in blood and covered in wounds, fixed his hatred-filled gaze on Mo Hua, and accused him of getting him killed.

Mo Hua provoked Mouse’s Evil Thoughts until he began to corpseify, and Second Master Hui and Stone killed him. The group began battling the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue, where Mo Hua recognized the black-robed strongman as the Demon Sect Commander and started deducing the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array Diagram tattooed on his back.

• Mo Hua toyed with the Tomb-Raiding Talisman, reigniting Mouse’s Evil Thoughts until Mouse broke free and lunged at him.
• Second Master Hui and Stone restrained Mouse, but Second Master Hui decided he had to die once he began to corpseify, and Stone beheaded him.
• Second Master Hui presented the group with choices, and the Black-Robed Elder proposed suppressing the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue’s Sin Qi to kill it.
• Second Master Hui, Stone, and the black-robed cultivators attacked the statue, which repeatedly shattered and revived stronger.
• The Black-Robed Elder used a bone to lock onto the statue’s heart, and a burly black-robed man struck it with a dragon-shaped punch.
• Mo Hua recognized the man as the Demon Sect Commander and began deducing the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array Diagram tattooed on his back.

Mo Hua copied most of the Four Symbols Azure Dragon Array before reaching the limits of his Divine Consciousness, then watched the Demon Sect Commander destroy the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue. The group found the bronze coffin empty, recovered Shen Qingsheng, and the Black-Robed Elder revealed he had investigated Second Master Hui’s Maoshan origins.

• Mo Hua calculated and recorded the eighteen-pattern body of the Azure Dragon Array, but could not decipher its head and recognized the array as evil.
• The Demon Sect Commander used his Evil Dragon Array to destroy the Flesh and Blood Corpse Statue while the Black-Robed Elder’s Dragon Bone suppressed its Sin Qi.
• The group opened the Bright Yellow Bronze Coffin and found it empty, prompting Young Master Xuan and the Second Elder to question whether they had searched the wrong tomb.
• Mo Hua led everyone through the side passages to find Shen Qingsheng, whom Second Master Hui rescued from Corpse Spirits; Shen Qingsheng revealed his contempt for Mine Cultivators and denied knowing about the tomb.
• The Black-Robed Elder confronted Second Master Hui, saying he had traced Hui’s origins through Maoshan’s genealogical records and knew he had been expelled from the sect’s direct lineage.

Second Master Hui explained that the Bright Yellow Bronze Coffin concealed a true tomb, then opened its sealed entrance under the Black-Robed Elder’s orders. Mo Hua and the others descended into the grave pit, while Xun Ziyou and Shen Shouxing followed; Pale Human Demon slaughtered the Shen Family guards and entered after them.

• Second Master Hui revealed that the Ten Thousand Corpse Sealing Coffin Tomb used the Bright Yellow Bronze Coffin as a false coffin and seal over a more dangerous true tomb.
• Second Master Hui performed Maoshan Dao Arts to melt the bronze coffin and open the Earth Gate, then tried to escape and take Mo Hua but was captured by the Black-Robed Elder and Elder Bear.
• The Black-Robed Elder forced Second Master Hui and the others, including Mo Hua, Shen Qingsheng, Young Master Xuan, and the Third Prince, to descend into the grave pit.
• Xun Ziyou’s group followed the trail to the opened grave pit, and Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin entered before Shen Shouxing joined them with two Shen Family Golden Core Cultivators.
• Pale Human Demon revealed itself among the Shen Family guards, killed them, drew a crimson Evil Array around the grave pit, and jumped inside.

Mo Hua and the Demonic Cultivators crossed the Ten Thousand People Pit, where they discovered the hidden scale of a concealed mining disaster and used Shen Qingsheng as a Human Lamp to pass through a ghost-filled path. The Demon Sect Commander’s blood led them to a hidden Divine Temple, and Mo Hua recognized its carved deity as Lord Yellow Mountain.

• Mo Hua and the others encountered a human-faced Pangolin Demon, which the Bear Demon Cultivator killed.
• The group found a vast pit filled with the corpses of Mine Cultivators, and Mo Hua realized the Shen Family had concealed a disaster that had left generations of orphans in Lone Mountain City.
• The Demon Sect Commander used his blood to lead the group into the pit, where Mo Hua noticed the corpses had been drained of their deathly qi and resentment.
• When ghosts blocked their path, Second Master Hui made Shen Qingsheng wear a Golden Hoop lamp that burned his Divine Consciousness and distracted the ghosts as the group passed.
• The Demon Sect Commander broke through a bare mountain wall and revealed a magnificent Divine Temple, where Mo Hua recognized the relief of Lord Yellow Mountain.

Mo Hua and the other cultivators reached the Divine Temple, where a battle between the Shen Family, Void Gate, and Demon Sect erupted before the Demon Sect Commander opened the gates. Inside, Young Master Xuan used an Amber Token to plant a Demon Seed in Mo Hua, attempting to make him his servant.

• Mo Hua connected the Divine Temple's Guhuang Mountain God to Lord Yellow Mountain, while the Black-Robed Elder and Demon Sect Commander tried to open its gates.
• Shen Shouxing and Xun Ziyou arrived with their allies and fought the Demon Sect group, but the battle stalled after the Black-Robed Elder seized Shen Qingsheng as a hostage.
• The Demon Sect Commander opened the Divine Temple, and Mo Hua and the others rushed inside while he held Shen Shouxing and Xun Ziyou back.
• The Divine Temple's gates closed, leaving Mo Hua inside a golden hall with Young Master Xuan, who claimed he had come to find him.
• Young Master Xuan used an Amber Token to cast Dao Heart Planting Demon on Mo Hua, commanding that Mo Hua become his obedient servant.

Mo Hua pretended to be controlled by Young Master Xuan’s Dao Heart Planting Demon while secretly studying the technique as the group crossed a ghost-filled Dao Field in the Great Wilderness Divine Temple. When Young Master Xuan used Mo Hua as a Human Lamp, Mo Hua’s unusually pure Divine Thought triggered a tremendous reaction, leaving the group facing a sudden surge of Yin Qi.

• Young Master Xuan planted Dao Heart Planting Demon in Mo Hua twice, unaware that Mo Hua was only pretending to be his puppet and was studying the method.
• Young Master Xuan led Mo Hua to the other controlled cultivators, and the group set out through the Divine Temple with Shen Qingsheng held as a captive.
• The Black-Robed Elder identified the kneeling Copper People as the dead who guarded the Dao Field and used the God Fog Lamp to conceal the group from its ghosts.
• Young Master Xuan and the Black-Robed Elder repeatedly used Shen Qingsheng, Second Master Hui, and stone as Human Lamps to distract the ghosts while crossing the Dao Field.
• With the others nearly exhausted, Young Master Xuan placed the Golden Hoop on Mo Hua and tried to light him as a Human Lamp.
• Mo Hua released some of his Daoized Divine Thought, causing the Human Lamp to blaze with golden smoke as Yin Qi surged like a tsunami.

Mo Hua and his companions survived a wraith riot in the Lone Mountain Dao Field and reached the Divine Temple, while rescuers entered through its mysteriously opened doors. Inside, Shentu Ao revealed himself as the Great Wilderness Third Prince and opened the Imperial Mausoleum, releasing a surge of Karma Dragon energy.

• Mo Hua’s golden Divine Thought drew hordes of ghosts into a frenzy, forcing the Black-Robed Elder and the others to flee the Dao Field under the Mist Lamp’s protection.
• The group escaped the wraiths and climbed toward the Divine Temple as Mo Hua’s divine sense dimmed from serving as a Human Lamp.
• Shen Shouxing, Xun Ziyou, Master Gu, and Fan Jin failed to break open the Divine Temple’s doors until they suddenly opened; after they entered, a Pale Human Demon followed and the doors closed behind them.
• The Black-Robed Elder’s party reached the innermost hall, where Shentu Ao offered his blood to the dragon head and invoked his Great Wilderness royal lineage.
• Shentu Ao asked his ancestors to open the Imperial Mausoleum and grant him the Great Wilderness Dragon Vein so he could restore the imperial dominion.
• The ancestors’ Dragon Qi subdued the dragon head, and the Imperial Mausoleum’s doors opened as Karma Dragon energy surged out.