Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua fought off the Killing Intent that was erasing his memories and learned that the force corrupting his Fate was made of karmic Fierce Ghosts from the Demonic Cultivators who died in the Wild Heaven Blood Sacrifice Array. He restored his sense of self, but his discovery that someone had deliberately forged the ghosts into a weapon left him wondering who had plotted against him.

• Mo Hua’s memories and Dao Heart were consumed by Killing Intent, while Liu Ruhua, Mo Shan, and Elder Xun sensed that something was wrong; Elder Xun tried and failed to activate the Void Two Poles Lock because it had been locked by an unknown force.
• A Phecda Pattern reset Mo Hua’s Fate, and he used memories of his parents, master, Senior Martial Sister, and others as anchors to recover his Humanity and Dao Heart.
• Mo Hua recognized that the common people were the people he loved and had met, and he rejected the idea that aiding them could mean slaughtering them.
• Mo Hua saw that the Killing Intent concealed karmic Fierce Ghosts formed from Demonic Cultivators who died in the Wild Heaven Blood Sacrifice Array.
• Mo Hua realized someone had used a karmic technique to merge those Fierce Ghosts into his Fate and wondered whether that person had also caused the deaths of Mr. Tu, Shangguan Wang, the Gold Corpse elder, and the Sword Slave Elder.

Mo Hua realized that a terrifying Heavenly Calculation expert, likely his Martial Uncle, had tied the Killing Intent from the Demonic Cultivators he killed to his Fate, making each act of killing risk destroying his memories and Humanity. He left the cave and headed toward the Great Wilderness, determined to form his Golden Core and learn deeper Causality Arts before his Martial Uncle could find him.

• Mo Hua hid in the sealed mountain cave until the ghostly chill passed, then reasoned that his Martial Uncle had exposed his killing karma and bound it to a Fierce Ghost of Balefulness.
• Mo Hua feared that losing his memories and Humanity could let his Martial Uncle seize his body and turn him into a Flesh Puppet, but he questioned whether the scheme was truly meant for him.
• Mo Hua wondered whether his Martial Uncle knew his identity, then stopped speculating in case his thoughts themselves had been influenced by Dao Heart Planting Demon.
• Mo Hua resolved to form his Golden Core and learn profound Causality Arts so he could survive his Martial Uncle and contain the backlash triggered by killing.
• Mo Hua confirmed that his Balefulness and Sea of Consciousness were stable, erased traces of his Array Technique, and fled toward the Great Wilderness after finding the Corpse Valley Elders gone.

Mo Hua reached Great Wind Ferry and struggled to obtain a Ship Pass for crossing the Sand Sea into the war-torn Great Wilderness. After divining that a page in Elder Xu’s Strange Corpse Canon mentioned a “Little Flying Spirit Corpse,” he resolved to strengthen his divine sense and preserve his memories, then found a fleet recruiting guards as another way to cross.

• Mo Hua arrived at Great Wind Ferry, where shipping firms refused to sell him a Ship Pass without local connections or an influential endorsement.
• Mo Hua studied Elder Xu’s Strange Corpse Canon and learned about rare zombies, including Ksitigarbha Corpses, Beauty Corpses, Drought Demons, and Flying Zombies.
• Mo Hua used Karma Divination to recover the erased words “Little Flying Spirit Corpse,” but the discovery stirred a troubling sense of familiarity and exposed gaps in his memories.
• Mo Hua recognized that the Fierce Ghost of Balefulness threatened to erase his memories or turn him into a fiend, and he planned to find anchors while strengthening his divine sense before entering the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua failed to obtain a Ship Pass, then spotted a notice recruiting guards for a fleet crossing the Sand Sea and went to the shipping house to inquire.

After shipping companies rejected Mo Hua as a spirit cultivator and an array master, he disguised himself as a Qi Refining body cultivator and secured work on a small sand ship bound for Great Desert City. Working alongside the boatmen brought him an unexpected sense of peace and strengthened his connection to ordinary cultivators.

• Shipping company stewards rejected Mo Hua as a spirit cultivator, while local monopolies kept him from joining a ship as an outside array master.
• Mo Hua decided to pose as a Qi Refining body cultivator, changed his appearance, and learned simple martial arts moves.
• After larger companies rejected him for being too thin, Mo Hua impressed the captain of a small shipping line with a punch that marked a stone pillar and was hired as a laborer.
• Three days later, Mo Hua boarded the small sand ship and took on exhausting work alongside its boatmen.
• The boatmen treated Mo Hua kindly, and their generosity gave him a rare sense of peace and deepened his appreciation for their humanity.

Mo Hua traveled across the Sand Sea, learning about its dangers and secretly studying the sand ship’s Array Technique. The captain told him that Great Wilderness Sect controlled Great Desert City and explained its origins as the fighting in the Great Wilderness intensified.

• Mo Hua worked alongside the boatmen and observed how they navigated Sand Monsters, hidden reefs, and Sand Bandits.
• Mo Hua used the Heavenly Calculation to reverse-engineer the sand ship’s Array Technique and learned from the captain that shipping companies controlled its maintenance, burdening low-level operators with costs.
• The captain told Mo Hua that the Great Wilderness uprising had grown fiercer, with reports of demon soldiers riding Wang Hu and the Dao Court losing several passes.
• The captain explained that Great Desert City was a strategic stronghold of Great Wilderness Sect, a powerful Fourth-Grade sect established by the Dao Court to control the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua remembered that Da Hu and his two childhood companions had joined Great Wilderness Sect and wondered whether he would meet them in Great Desert City.

Mo Hua traveled toward Great Desert City aboard a Sand Ship, reflecting on his old friends and surviving a Sand Bandit attack. Just as the city came into view, the ship’s hull broke open and began sinking, leaving everyone aboard in danger.

• Mo Hua wondered whether Da Hu and his brothers could have joined the Great Wilderness Sect despite their modest backgrounds, but he lacked enough information to understand how they had been chosen.
• The boat captain told Mo Hua that poor cultivators had little reason to fear the coming war, since life in the Sand Sea could end at any time.
• A large band of Sand Bandits attacked the Sand Ship, and Mo Hua fought them with a club while secretly helping the guards defeat their leader.
• The boat captain celebrated the victory and praised Mo Hua, then the Sand Ship continued toward Great Desert City.
• As Great Desert City came into view, the Sand Ship stopped after its damaged hull broke open, and the passengers panicked as it began to sink.

Mo Hua repaired the Sand Ship’s core Array Technique and secretly slipped into Great Desert City, where he began searching for Big Tiger and gathering information about the war. He learned that the city had an enormous underground Monster Fighting Arena, which might hold clues about Big Tiger.

• Mo Hua examined the Sand Ship’s Level Sand Array and repaired it, allowing the ship to sail faster to Great Desert City.
• Mo Hua disappeared after the ship docked, and the captain later learned from a shipyard master that the Array Technique was Second-Grade High-Tier and could secure his livelihood for decades.
• The captain poured wine into the sand and offered Mo Hua a blessing for a smooth voyage.
• Mo Hua secretly entered Great Desert City, avoided contacting Da Hu and the others, and began searching for Big Tiger while gathering information about the Dao Court and the Great Wilderness war.
• Mo Hua learned that Great Desert City had an enormous underground Monster Fighting Arena.

Mo Hua infiltrated the Monster Fighting Arena by posing as a starving Qi Refining worker, hoping to find his captured Big Tiger. He settled into life as a slave worker but had not yet located Big Tiger among the beasts in the arena’s cells.

• Mo Hua sensed a burst of bloody aura and several deaths inside the Monster Fighting Arena, then used the apparent shortage of workers to enter the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
• Mo Hua convinced the steward to hire him, ate a meal, and followed him blindfolded into the underground Monster Fighting Arena.
• The steward assigned Mo Hua to replace a dead slave worker, and Mo Hua began performing exhausting chores while learning how harshly the workers were treated.
• Mo Hua grew concerned about the normalized treatment of cultivators as livestock in Great Wilderness but focused on finding Big Tiger before it was forced to fight.
• Mo Hua searched the beast pens for Big Tiger but found only other Tiger Monsters, while guarded hidden cells remained beyond his reach.

Mo Hua entered the Monster Fighting Arena’s inner grounds to search for Big Tiger, but found no trace of him until Young Master Tuoba arrived with a chained, heavily restrained tiger. Big Tiger sensed Mo Hua and looked straight at him.

• Mo Hua used Demon Bone Divination and learned only that the Karma involved the Monster Fighting Arena, then waited for a chance to investigate further.
• When the steward sought a replacement servant for the inner grounds, Mo Hua volunteered in exchange for better food and was assigned to serve the nobles.
• Mo Hua observed the bloody monster fights and the mix of Great Desert City disciples and Great Wilderness cultivators, but found no sign of Big Tiger.
• Young Master Tuoba arrived with golden-armored guards, and Mo Hua hid among the servants and cultivators rather than kneeling.
• Eight Foundation Establishment Peak Stage Body Cultivator brutes dragged in a massive black-and-white tiger, which stopped, sensed Mo Hua, and turned its gaze toward him.

Mo Hua secretly visited the battered Big Tiger in its prison and gave it a dried fish, then began seeking a way to rescue it despite Young Master Tuoba’s power and the danger of the Great Wilderness Sect. After taking a position serving Young Master Tuoba, Mo Hua recognized two unexpected banquet guests: Li San and the short, stout Golden Core Cultivator he suspected was Elder You.

• Young Master Tuoba whipped Big Tiger until it was badly injured, then ordered it taken away while Mo Hua watched.
• Mo Hua used the blood he had collected to follow karmic clues to Big Tiger’s hidden dungeon, where he gave it a dried fish and resolved to find a way to rescue it.
• Mo Hua learned that Young Master Tuoba was likely connected to the Tuoba Clan and the Great Wilderness Sect, and agreed to serve him after the steward offered him the position.
• Mo Hua discovered two servants dead after Young Master Tuoba had slapped them, then took their place serving him.
• Young Master Tuoba hosted a banquet for a short, stout Golden Core Cultivator and a tall, thin Foundation Establishment Cultivator whom Mo Hua recognized as Li San.
• Mo Hua suspected that Li San’s companion was Elder You, who still owed him one million eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

Mo Hua infiltrated a banquet at the Monster Fighting Arena, where Young Master Shi recognized something familiar about him and Miss Hua also demanded him as a servant. Forced to escape before he could rescue Big Tiger, Mo Hua heard the sounds of Dao Soldiers nearby.

• Mo Hua recognized Young Master Shi from Small Post City at Miss Hua’s welcoming banquet and lowered his head to avoid being identified.
• Young Master Shi asked Young Master Tuoba for Mo Hua, but Young Master Tuoba refused after suspecting Mo Hua might be connected to his Black and White King Tiger.
• Miss Hua also claimed Mo Hua, and Elder You persuaded her to postpone the matter until after the banquet.
• A steward led Mo Hua away, but Mo Hua vanished using Stealth; Young Master Tuoba then ordered the Monster Fighting Arena sealed and Mo Hua captured.
• Mo Hua escaped outside the arena and decided he could not safely rescue Big Tiger yet, then heard the sounds of Dao Soldiers approaching.

Mo Hua watched the Dao Court’s vast army enter Great Desert City and realized the Great Wilderness war had begun in earnest. Unable to rescue Big Tiger without support, he found Commander Yang and gained entry to the Yang Family’s military camp, where Yang Jiyong recognized him, though Yang Jishan struggled to remember him.

• Mo Hua saw tens of thousands of Dao soldiers march into Great Desert City as the Dao Court prepared to suppress the Great Wilderness rebellion.
• Mo Hua considered how to rescue Big Tiger, but concluded that getting him out of the city safely would require a backer.
• Mo Hua spotted the Yang Family banner among the Dao soldiers and waited until he encountered the wounded Commander Yang Jishan.
• Mo Hua introduced himself to Yang Jishan, who eventually remembered him from Nanyue City and escorted him to the guarded military camp.
• Yang Jiyong recognized Mo Hua from their time together in Immortal City, while Yang Jishan wondered why his memories of Mo Hua remained so unclear.

Mo Hua toured the Yang Family camp with Yang Jiyong, learned about the Great Wilderness rebellion and the chance to earn military merit, and agreed to join the campaign. Yang Jiyong planned to secure him an ordinary place among the Dao Soldiers, where Mo Hua could begin building a path toward official standing and possibly a Ranked Title.

• Yang Jishan let Yang Jiyong show Mo Hua around the camp, then returned to prepare for the suppression campaign while wondering how Mo Hua was connected to the old Nanyue City corpse disaster.
• Yang Jiyong guided Mo Hua through the Yang Family camp and explained that the rebels and Dao Soldiers faced each other near Langya Mountain, with small battles and local dangers shaping frontline warfare.
• Mo Hua learned that the Great Wilderness Sect might earn promotion to fifth-grade by helping suppress the rebellion, while the Yang Family's ties to the sect made it unlikely to act against it over Big Tiger.
• Yang Jiyong urged Mo Hua to use his Second-Grade Array Master skills to earn military merit, explaining that exceptional service could win him a Ranked Title and let him establish his own clan.
• Mo Hua agreed to join the campaign, and Yang Jiyong said he would use the Yang Family's connections to place him among the Dao Soldiers in an ordinary position.

Mo Hua joined the Dao Court army as it marched into Great Wilderness, intending to use the campaign to rescue Big Tiger and pursue the Great Shaman’s array inheritance. After leaving camp with Yang Jiyong’s permission, he raced back to Great Desert City to attack the Monster Fighting Arena before dawn.

• Mo Hua obtained a Dao Soldier Token and prepared for the campaign, planning to rescue Big Tiger when Great Wilderness Sect’s forces left Great Desert City.
• At the Military Banquet, Young Master Tuoba questioned Mo Hua about his identity, while Mo Hua sensed a familiar aura from Great Wilderness Sect’s Grand Elder.
• Five days later, the Dao Court army marched out, and Mo Hua left with the Yang Family’s Dao Soldiers toward Great Wilderness.
• After the army made camp, Mo Hua told Yang Jiyong he had forgotten his parents’ protective Jade Pendant in Great Desert City and received permission to retrieve it.
• Mo Hua slipped out of camp, changed into a black robe, and hurried toward Great Desert City to destroy the Monster Fighting Arena and free Big Tiger.

Mo Hua discovered that the Great Wilderness Sect had taken Big Tiger and was trying to tame it, then returned to the army after failing to find a safe way to rescue it. At Wind Wave Ridge, he saw a Death Omen on Yang Jiyong and realized the Great Wilderness Sect might be plotting a rebellion, leaving him to warn Yang Jiyong.

• Mo Hua followed Big Tiger's causal thread into the Great Wilderness Sect's camp and found it chained and being tortured by cultivators trying to tame it.
• Mo Hua left Big Tiger behind and returned to the Dao soldiers' camp, where he struggled to devise a way to rescue it without provoking the Great Wilderness Sect.
• Seven days later, Mo Hua secretly returned to check on Big Tiger and found it alive, while Golden Core Cultivators said it was becoming more docile and might soon be tamed by Young Master Tuoba.
• Mo Hua noticed a Death Omen on Yang Jiyong and questioned him, but learned he had done nothing unusual during the march or camp patrol.
• Mo Hua connected Young Master Tuoba's efforts to tame Big Tiger with the Great Wilderness Royal Clan's use of fierce tigers as mounts, suspected Tuoba had royal blood, and warned Yang Jiyong that the Great Wilderness Sect might have rebelled.

Mo Hua foresaw the Great Wilderness Sect’s mutiny and helped Yang Jishan prepare, but the battle spread across Wind Wave Ridge and the Yang Family forces were driven into danger. He lured three Great Wilderness Sect Golden Core Cultivators away from Yang Jishan’s soldiers, leaving his own fate uncertain.

• Mo Hua warned Yang Jiyong and Yang Jishan that the Great Wilderness Sect would mutiny, and Yang Jishan recognized Mo Hua as the boy who had subdued Nanyue City’s Corpse King.
• Yang Jishan ordered his camp to prepare, and Mo Hua spotted approaching Great Wilderness Sect attackers before they ambushed the soldiers.
• Mo Hua helped Yang Jishan kill a Great Wilderness Sect Golden Core Cultivator, while Feather Transformation experts joined the battle and devastated both sides.
• Yang Jishan led the Yang Family Dao Soldiers east to escape the Feather Transformation fighting, but three Great Wilderness Sect Golden Core Cultivators blocked their way.
• The three cultivators targeted Mo Hua at the Young Master’s order, and Mo Hua taunted them into abandoning their attack on Yang Jishan’s soldiers and chasing him alone.

Mo Hua infiltrated the Great Wilderness Sect camp to rescue Big Tiger, but Young Master Tuoba trapped them both. Big Tiger recognized Mo Hua, bowed to him, and unleashed a mysterious power that let them escape into the night.

• Mo Hua escaped three Great Wilderness Sect Golden Core Cultivators, then decided to rescue Big Tiger before rejoining Yang Jishan and the Dao soldiers.
• Mo Hua crossed the battlefield, entered the Great Wilderness Sect camp, and defeated the Foundation Establishment guards outside Big Tiger's tent.
• Young Master Tuoba revealed that he had recognized Mo Hua and trapped him and Big Tiger in a Golden Prison Array, but Mo Hua reversed the array and maimed the attacking cultivators.
• As reinforcements surrounded them, Big Tiger bowed to Mo Hua, who mounted it and provoked Young Master Tuoba into ordering an attack.
• Big Tiger unleashed black-and-white demon power, wounded Young Master Tuoba, and escaped with Mo Hua through a breach in the tent.

Mo Hua and Big Tiger fought through the Great Wilderness Sect’s pursuit and escaped the battlefield, while Mo Hua recognized the scarred warrior Meng Bohu, who secretly let them go. Big Tiger continued running into the wilderness beneath the rising red sun, ignoring Mo Hua’s attempts to turn back.

• Young Master Tuoba ordered the Great Wilderness Sect to kill Mo Hua and reclaim Big Tiger after the tiger submitted to Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua and Big Tiger broke through the Sect’s battle lines, but ten Foundation Establishment Peak Heavenly Prides blocked their escape at a gorge.
• Mo Hua recognized Meng Bohu as Da Hu, and Meng Bohu let them pass before killing the Great Wilderness Sect prodigies who challenged him and forcing the survivors to conceal what happened.
• Mo Hua and Big Tiger escaped into the three-sided battle, where Mo Hua guided Big Tiger toward the Great Wilderness barbarian soldiers, who revered it as their King Beast.
• After they reached safety, Mo Hua tried to stop Big Tiger and return to the Dao Soldiers, but Big Tiger kept running across the wilderness under the rising red sun.

Mo Hua wandered through the Great Wilderness with Big Tiger, hunting for food and a way to learn where he was. After months of travel, he reached a mountain range and overheard a Barbarian Tribe grandfather and grandson mention a ritual sacrifice.

• Mo Hua fed Big Tiger dried fish, then rode on its back to search the empty Gobi for food and a way forward.
• Big Tiger hunted a monster beast, and Mo Hua roasted meat for it; the two traveled across the Great Wilderness for several months, living by hunting.
• Mo Hua and Big Tiger reached a mountain range where Mo Hua sensed people, and Mo Hua left his Storage Bag with Big Tiger while he went to investigate invisibly.
• Mo Hua watched a Barbarian Tribe grandfather and grandson walking through the mountains and heard them mention a ritual sacrifice.

Mo Hua followed a Barbarian elder and his grandson to a ritual where the tribe offered children to the Barbarian God, then watched the elder fight the god to save his last grandson. Just as the elder was about to be killed, Mo Hua struck down the Barbarian God and devoured his remains.

• Mo Hua secretly followed the elder and child into a cave, where they performed a ritual that opened a passage to an illusory hall.
• The elder bound his grandson to an offering table and prayed, while the child accepted his fate because he believed the Barbarian God would help their starving tribe.
• The Barbarian God emerged and accused the elder of losing faith, then revealed that he had been eating the tribe's children.
• The elder summoned demon souls with a Witch Flag and used a Sacrificial Blade to fight the Barbarian God, but the god defeated him and foiled his attempt at mutual destruction.
• Mo Hua punched through the Barbarian God's chest, tore him apart, burned his remains, and devoured him.