Chapter Summaries

The Wujiu Young Master revealed the Dragon Pattern, transformed into a powerful half-dragon, and drove the allied Great Chieftains back before trying to claim Vermilion Bird Mountain’s altar. When the Vermilion Bird Fire rejected him, the Black Vulture Elder began climbing in his place, but Dan Lie’s arrow failed to kill him, and he continued toward the altar to summon the Wujiu Great God.

• The Wujiu Young Master revealed his Dragon Pattern and claimed the Great Wilderness Dragon Vein had recognized him, while Yan Zhu and Dan Lie denounced him as a traitor.
• The Wujiu Young Master transformed into a half-dragon and fought off Dan Lie, Lugu, and the other Great Chieftains, forcing them to retreat.
• The Wujiu Young Master attempted to ascend the altar, but the Vermilion Bird Fire burned his consciousness and drove him back.
• The Black Vulture Elder prayed to the Vermilion Bird and climbed the altar while using black wings of Thought Power to endure its Divine Fire.
• Dan Lie fired a Vermilion Bird Arrow at the Black Vulture Elder; the Wujiu Young Master and two Great Generals tried to stop it, but the Elder survived with half his body destroyed.
• The Black Vulture Elder crawled farther up the altar to summon the Wujiu Great God.

Yan Zhu, Qing Zhu, and the Black Vulture Elder fought atop the Vermilion Bird Altar, each trying to place their Divine Path Token on its golden tray and summon their own god. Their struggle exhausted all three, and as the altar fell silent, a slender, frail figure appeared above it.

• Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu ascended the altar, where their witchcraft killed two Wujiu Great Generals and let them confront the Black Vulture Elder.
• Yan Zhu and Qing Zhu fought the wounded Black Vulture Elder, but Yan Zhu abandoned the battle and climbed toward the Divine Throne before divine majesty drove him back.
• Yan Zhu tried to offer his Candle Fire Crystal Jade, Qing Zhu tried to offer her Qingqiu Silk, and the Black Vulture Elder tried to offer his Wujiu Eye; each repeatedly interrupted the others.
• The three Shamans fought until they were badly wounded and exhausted, leaving their Divine Path Tokens scattered and the altar in silence.
• A slender, frail figure suddenly appeared atop the altar as the watching tribes looked on.

Mo Hua secretly took the Divine Path Tokens and placed the Wujiu Eye on the altar, enabling the God of Wujiu to descend upon Vermilion Bird Mountain. When the god demanded that Mo Hua kneel, Mo Hua defied him and invoked the God Lord’s descent to destroy the gods and heretics.

• Mo Hua took the Candle Fire Crystal Jade and Qingqiu Silk for himself, then carried the Wujiu Eye to the offering tray despite the others’ pleas.
• The Wujiu Eye ignited the golden tree and the ring above it, opening a path for the God of Wujiu to descend upon Vermilion Bird Mountain.
• The God of Wujiu’s divine pressure forced nearly everyone to kneel, while Danzhu and a few others resisted.
• The God of Wujiu demanded that Mo Hua kneel, but Mo Hua insulted the god and stood firm before him.
• Mo Hua declared himself the God Lord’s Shaman and invoked the God Lord’s descent, filling the mountain with golden light.

Mo Hua manifested as the God Lord and defeated the Wujiu Great God, bringing the Vermilion Bird Mountain war to an end while establishing a new faith across the Wilderness. Afterward, he secured the submission of three Shamans and turned his attention to refining the fallen god to advance his Divine Thought.

• Mo Hua slaughtered the Wujiu Great God, secretly devoured Chi's power, and inspired the tribes gathered at Vermilion Bird Mountain to worship the God Lord.
• The Wujiu Tribe's army routed, and the Wujiu Young Master escaped Vermilion Bird Mountain with loyal followers as other leaders defected or fled over their faith in Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua declared that the God Lord's path would spread through the Great Wilderness, and the kneeling tribes echoed his prayers as the ancient faith revived.
• The Black Vulture Elder, Yan Zhu, and Qing Zhu pledged to serve Mo Hua, who promised to return their Divine Path Tokens when the time was right.
• Mo Hua discovered that Qing Zhu was carrying a child, promised to keep it secret, and then planned to refine the Wujiu Great God and advance to Twenty-Four-Pattern Divine Thought.

Mo Hua devoured the Wujiu Great God's Thought Power, beat him into submission, and questioned him about the former Lord of the Great Wilderness. After learning that the ancient God Lord had a human body, Sheep Horns, and a White Bone face, Mo Hua brought the stripped-down Wujiu God to the sealed Divine Temple, where Wujiu recognized the Pixiu Holy Beast.

• Mo Hua secretly ate the Wujiu Great God's Thought Power while the god tried and failed to parasitize Mo Hua's solid Sea of Consciousness.
• Wujiu God formed an incarnation and challenged Mo Hua, who knocked him down and beat him until he submitted.
• Mo Hua questioned Wujiu God about the former Lord of the Great Wilderness, and Wujiu recalled seeing an Ancient God with a human body, Sheep Horns, and a White Bone face several thousand years earlier.
• Wujiu God speculated that the God Lord Society might have been sealed, gravely injured, or erased by an unknowable power, but said he could not reveal the truth.
• Mo Hua made Wujiu God separate his divine will from his Thought Power, preserving the Thought Power for Mo Hua to absorb.
• Mo Hua took Wujiu God to the Divine Temple, where Wujiu recognized the Pixiu Holy Beast and left Mo Hua wondering how he knew it.

Mo Hua captured the Wujiu Great God and left him under the Pixiu’s paw with the Heavenly Demon and Evil God True Fetus, then consumed the god’s stored Thought Power. He broke through to Twenty-Four-Pattern, allowing him to begin learning the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array and prepare to advance toward the Golden Core.

• Mo Hua gave the Wujiu Great God to the Pixiu, which pinned him beneath its paw alongside the Lesser Faceless Heavenly Demon and Evil God True Fetus.
• Mo Hua decided not to cut the Evil God True Fetus for meat after seeing the Pixiu’s distress, then left the Pixiu guarding the three captives.
• The imprisoned Wujiu Great God realized that being sealed by Mo Hua might be his only way to preserve his Divine Path and survive the coming Great Calamity of the Weird Heavens.
• Mo Hua inspected the Thought Power shed by the Wujiu Great God, found no traps or tainted Karma, and began consuming and refining it.
• Mo Hua broke through the Twenty-Three-Pattern bottleneck and raised his Divine Sense to Twenty-Four-Pattern.
• Mo Hua recognized that he could now begin learning the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array and advance toward the Golden Core.

After reaching Twenty-Four-Pattern Divine Consciousness, Mo Hua emerged from seclusion and cowed the Shamans who had gathered outside. He began studying the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array and prepared to test it on Bone Slaughter, the Shugu Tribe General.

• Mo Hua emerged from seclusion, warned Yan Zhu not to interfere again, and unintentionally forced Yan Zhu, the Black Vulture Elder, Qing Zhu, and the gathered crowd to kneel with his newly strengthened Divine Consciousness.
• Yan Zhu and the Black Vulture Elder left shaken by Mo Hua’s power, while Mo Hua considered how to secure lasting control over the tribes’ leaders.
• Mo Hua examined the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array and, with his Divine Consciousness at Twenty-Four-Pattern, perceived its complete form.
• Mo Hua studied the array for days, learned that it could store Lingli in his bones, and saw it as a way to overcome his shortage of Lingli and prepare for Golden Core Formation.
• After gaining enough insight to begin drawing the array patterns, Mo Hua went to the lowest level of the Shaman Great Hall to test it on the sealed corpse of Bone Slaughter, the Shugu Tribe General.

Mo Hua experimented on Bone Slaughter’s corpse, refining his methods for molding gold-jade bone and carving a Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array intended for his own Golden Core. Meanwhile, he used the God Lord’s authority to unify the tribes and their faiths, and established the Divine Slave Tribe to protect and organize the Wilderness’s barbarian slaves.

• Mo Hua used prepared materials to mold gold-jade bone over Bone Slaughter’s skeleton and tried carving the Taotie Spirit Bone Array, but his first attempt failed after two days.
• Mo Hua studied the causes of failure and continued practicing, gradually improving his bone molding, Bone Carving, and corpse-control skills.
• Danzhu led the reorganization of the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm’s tribes under Mo Hua’s direction, with Dan Lie and Lugu supporting him.
• Mo Hua used the God Lord’s name to consolidate authority, suppress dissent, and place worship of the God Lord above the tribes’ other beliefs.
• Mo Hua established the Divine Slave Tribe, placing barbarian slaves under the God Lord’s protection so they could unite and avoid returning to ownerless bondage.

Mo Hua designed a Thick Earth pseudo-grand array to counter the Famine Disaster without disturbing Martial Uncle’s hidden array, but the tribal leaders opposed its enormous cost. He invoked the God Lord’s authority to command the tribes to build it, declaring that the disaster would spread until it consumed the Great Wilderness.

• Mo Hua used his authority over the Divine Slave Tribe and the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm to gather the people and resources needed for a vast array project.
• Mo Hua chose a locally adapted Thick Earth pseudo-grand array to balance the Famine Disaster’s deathly aura with vitality, since he could not safely destroy Martial Uncle’s suspected array.
• The tribal leaders at Vermilion Bird Mountain’s ancient council hall argued that the disaster had stopped spreading and opposed spending the realm’s remaining resources on the array.
• Danzhu, Lugu, Chi Feng, and Great Chieftain Dan Lie remained silent despite their doubts because they trusted Mo Hua’s judgment.
• Mo Hua told the council that the Famine Disaster would continue until it consumed the Great Wilderness, then ordered every tribe that believed in the God Lord to devote its efforts to building the Sacred Pattern Grand Array.

Mo Hua expanded the Thick Earth Grand Array toward Wutu Mountain Realm, teaching Witch Cultivators the Sacred Patterns needed to resist the Famine Disaster. After reuniting Little Zhatu with Elder Zhamu, Mo Hua realized that his Humanity had begun to fade, perhaps already partly extinguished.

• Mo Hua learned from Tie Shugu that an ancient Shugu Tribe prophecy had led Lugu eastward to Wucha Mountain Realm, and he gathered Witch Cultivators to teach them the Thick Earth Absolute Array and related techniques.
• Mo Hua organized Witch Cultivators and Divine Slave Tribe members to build the first Thick Earth Array Ground, extending a Sacred Pattern road through the Famine Disaster toward Wutu Mountain Realm.
• Mo Hua and his companions reached Wutu Mountain Realm, where the tribes remained peaceful and the arrangements Mo Hua had made were still functioning.
• Little Zhatu reunited with his grandfather, Elder Zhamu, and the two wept as they embraced.
• Watching their reunion, Mo Hua felt a warmth he recognized as Humanity and realized that his Humanity had begun to fade or had already been partly extinguished.

Mo Hua struggled to preserve his Humanity as divine faith and political power made him increasingly cold, then discovered Big Tiger was near death from suppressing its breakthrough. He brought Big Tiger to the Third-Grade Mountain Realm to break through, but the tiger monsters turned on the mountain as the breakthrough began.

• Mo Hua realized that his growing divinity and power were corroding his Humanity, and he feared losing his connection to his loved ones.
• Mo Hua found Big Tiger in Deep Mountain, where prolonged suppression of its breakthrough had damaged its monster meridians.
• Mo Hua ordered Tie Shugu to transport Big Tiger to the Third-Grade Mountain Realm, while a Third-Grade Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and tigresses followed them.
• Mo Hua had Lugu and more than thirty Golden Core Barbarian Cultivators guard Big Tiger as it ate and regained strength.
• As Big Tiger began breaking through, the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and the tigresses grew enraged and charged toward the mountain.

Mo Hua guarded Big Tiger as it broke through, discovering that its Holy Beast bloodline appeared to use Array Patterns to construct and transform living flesh. Big Tiger formed its Monster Core beneath a White Holy Tiger phenomenon, while the Tiger Monsters and Barbarian cultivators bowed before the holy aura.

• Lugu and the Golden Core cultivators fought off the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger and the other Tiger Monsters as Big Tiger began its breakthrough.
• The Third-Grade Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger wounded Lugu and charged for the cave, but Mo Hua struck its Monster Consciousness with Divine Thought and drove it back.
• Mo Hua realized the Tiger Monsters sought Big Tiger’s Holy Beast bloodline and guarded the cave while studying how the bloodline fused its flesh, bones, and meridians like an Array Pattern.
• Mo Hua understood that Big Tiger had waited for him both for protection and so he could witness its bloodline inheritance as it formed its Monster Core.
• Big Tiger’s breakthrough unleashed a White Holy Tiger phenomenon over the mountaintop, and the cultivators and Tiger Monsters bowed beneath its holy pressure.

After Big Tiger became a Third-Grade Golden Core monster with an awakened Holy Beast bloodline, Mo Hua deduced that the Great Shaman may have created the Wilderness’s Holy Beast array system and wondered whether a hidden force had guided events around him. He brought Big Tiger back to the Danque Tribe and turned his attention to the ancient Divine Throne in Vermilion Bird Mountain.

• Big Tiger formed its monster core, completed its Holy Beast bloodline transformation, and emerged from the cave as a powerful Third-Grade Golden Core monster.
• Mo Hua studied Big Tiger’s transformed bloodline and suspected that Holy Beast bloodlines were ancient life Array Patterns, leading him to connect the Great Shaman to the Wilderness’s Holy Beast arrays and their creation.
• Mo Hua questioned whether someone had arranged the events that brought him to the Wilderness, but concluded that chance and an unseen force might both have shaped his path.
• Mo Hua recorded the changes he observed in Big Tiger’s bloodline and left the cave with it after Lugu and the others had kept watch.
• Mo Hua offered the Suspended-Eye Profound Tiger a chance to become holy if it served him, and the tiger and the other Tiger Monsters submitted to him.
• Mo Hua returned to the Danque Tribe with Big Tiger and prepared to deal with the ancient Divine Throne in Vermilion Bird Mountain.

Mo Hua took the ancient Divine Throne at Vermilion Bird Mountain and discovered that the altar had once sealed the Evil God of the Great Wilderness, possibly through the Great Shaman’s design. At a grand ceremony seven days later, he declared the final War of Deities and named himself the Divine Shaman, acting in the God Lord’s name.

• Mo Hua suppressed his urge to summon and devour more gods, then endured the Divine Throne’s ancient will and saw a vision of the Vermilion Bird sealing the Evil God of the Great Wilderness.
• Mo Hua concluded that the altar was a seal created by the Vermilion Bird, likely as part of the Great Shaman’s effort to suppress the Evil God, and worried that his own path resembled both the Great Shaman’s and the Evil God’s.
• Mo Hua sat upon the Divine Throne, revived its Authority, and became the new master of Vermilion Bird Mountain while Big Tiger remained his closest reminder of his Humanity.
• Seven days later, Mo Hua presided over the God Sacrifice Ceremony as the tribes and millions of warriors knelt before him.
• Mo Hua announced that the final War of Deities would begin and declared himself the Divine Shaman, exercising Divine Authority on behalf of the God Lord.

After establishing the Divine Shaman faith and binding the tribal leaders through the Stele of the Divine Shaman, Mo Hua unified Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm and launched a war across the Wilderness. His advance stalled at the Poisonous Insect Swamp, where he awakened Black Steed to face the Gaotu Tribe.

• Mo Hua made the tribal leaders swear blood oaths and write their names on the Stele of the Divine Shaman, binding their Life Souls while leaving Danzhu independent as a safeguard for the Divine Path.
• The Grand God Sacrifice Ceremony ended with Mo Hua alone on the Divine Throne, where he quietly reminded himself that he was also Mo Hua.
• Mo Hua’s followers built the Thick Earth Grand Array across Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm, improving the land and supporting crops and the realm’s people.
• Mo Hua began the War of the Divine Shaman, and his forces conquered nearly half of the Wilderness before their advance slowed against powerful tribes allied with the Hua Family.
• In the Second Year of the Divine Shaman, Mo Hua’s army became stalled at the Poisonous Insect Swamp by the Gaotu Tribe’s poisonous creatures and ambushes.
• Mo Hua opened Black Steed’s coffin in his military tent, and the savage corpse awakened with a hunger for food.

Lugu fought Gao Du in the Poison Swamp and was poisoned before Bone Slaughter’s corpse intervened on Mo Hua’s side. After Gao Du and his men subdued the corpse, it suddenly revived, killed a Gaotu Tribe Golden Core Barbarian General, and devoured his Golden Core.

• Lugu and Gao Du fought in the Poison Swamp, where Gao Du used the terrain and his Hundred Vipers Poison Technique to poison Lugu.
• Bone Slaughter’s corpse ambushed Gao Du, but Gao Du escaped its grip and fought back after identifying its stiff movements and heavy Lingli consumption.
• Gao Du wore Bone Slaughter down until its blue light faded, then joined two Gaotu Tribe Golden Core cultivators to bind and subdue it.
• Bone Slaughter’s blue light rekindled, and it broke its chains and punched through a Gaotu Tribe Golden Core Barbarian General’s abdomen.
• Bone Slaughter tore out the general’s Golden Core, chewed it, and swallowed it before the horrified warriors.

Bone Slaughter’s corpse devoured Golden Cores and grew into a Taotie-patterned killing machine, breaking the Gaotu Tribe’s forces and enabling Vermilion Bird Mountain to invade. After the Gaotu Tribe was conquered, Mo Hua confirmed the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array’s potential and planned to make it his Natal Array Formation.

• Bone Slaughter tore out and devoured Golden Cores from successive Gaotu Tribe generals, replenishing its power and growing stronger as the Hundred Gu Thousand Poison Net failed to stop it.
• Bone Slaughter slaughtered the Gaotu Tribe soldiers, while Gao Du fled and the tribe’s forces collapsed.
• Mo Hua ordered Vermilion Bird Mountain’s soldiers to put on Poison-Repelling Armor and advance through the Poisonous Insect Swamp, with Lugu leading the army.
• After another half month of fighting, Vermilion Bird Mountain breached the Gaotu Tribe’s stronghold, captured the wounded Gao Du, and forced the remaining tribe members to surrender.
• Mo Hua used the battle to verify the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array and resolved to make it his Natal Array Formation.

Mo Hua secured Gao Du’s submission and brought the Third-Grade Green You Mountain Realm under the God Lord’s rule. In a hidden cave, he began the dangerous process of engraving the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array as his Natal Array Formation, leaving himself restrained as the operation started.

• Mo Hua made Gao Du the Great Chieftain of Gaotu, and Gao Du pledged loyalty to the Divine Shaman Lord.
• Lugu asked Mo Hua to make him an Undying General if he died in battle, and Mo Hua promised to grant his wish.
• Gao Du executed the former Great Chieftain, then led Gaotu forces as Mo Hua’s vanguard while Mo Hua unified and remade the Third-Grade Green You Mountain Realm.
• Mo Hua entered a hidden cave in Bone Miasma Mountain with Danzhu and Lugu guarding the entrance, and prepared to engrave his Natal Array Formation.
• Mo Hua drank a numbing medicinal brew, mixed Wood-White Essence with Gold-Jade Marrow, and secured himself to an Array Technique Torture Bed.
• The Torture Bed’s restraints pierced Mo Hua’s flesh and began cutting into his twelve primary meridians.

Mo Hua completed carving the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array into his bones and added the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation to heal and protect his body. The formations fused successfully, though the Wood-Ether Array briefly changed in an unexplained way, and Elder Ge suddenly realized the array formation he had given Mo Hua was gone.

• Mo Hua used Wood-White Essence, Blood Poison, and Gold-Jade Marrow to carve the twenty-four Taotie Patterns into his bones, enduring severe pain by suppressing his Humanity with divinity.
• Mo Hua completed the Taotie array, which joined his Twelve Meridians and fused with his body as his Natal Array.
• Mo Hua carved the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation beside the Taotie array, and its patterns twisted briefly as he sensed an ancient, boundless feeling before it vanished.
• Mo Hua inspected his body, found no apparent problems, and sealed the completed Natal Array Formation by cutting off its connections to the outside world.
• Elder Ge opened his eyes in a remote courtyard in Dao Province and wondered where the array formation he had given Mo Hua had gone.

Elder Ge discovered that Mo Hua had incorporated the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Array he gave him into his Natal Array Formation and realized his hidden schemes had entangled him in immense causality. Mo Hua completed his Natal system in the Great Wilderness and reached Foundation Establishment Peak Stage, but awoke to Money Mice gnawing at his Dao body.

• Elder Ge calculated that Mo Hua had refined the ancient Yin-Yang Reincarnation Array into part of his Natal Array Formation, despite never fully understanding the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation.
• Elder Ge traced how Mo Hua had swallowed the bait he left behind and feared that the Dao Court and other powers would blame him for aiding Mo Hua's rebellion in the Great Wilderness.
• Elder Ge considered letting Mo Hua die to sever their karmic connection, but ultimately chose not to abandon him and looked over the endgame on his chessboard.
• Mo Hua completed his Natal system in a hidden cave in the Third-Grade Green You Mountain Realm and advanced to Foundation Establishment Peak Stage.
• Mo Hua noticed strange creatures gnawing at his Dao body and recognized them as Money Mice.