Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua stopped the righteous and demonic prodigies from killing one another and led them through the Dragon Bone Path, where a powerful restriction suppressed their cultivation. The group reached the Dragon Pool entrance, and Mo Hua sensed the aura of a Golden Core within.

• The prodigies attacked Mo Hua, but he evaded their attacks, and Bai Zisheng intervened, fighting off those who tried to kill him.
• Mo Hua threatened the group with his killing intent and warned them not to interfere with his Golden Core formation, so they agreed to proceed together.
• Young Master Tuoba rebuked Meng Bohu for entering the Dragon Bone Path and ordered him to follow, while Mo Hua resolved that he could only help Da Hu indirectly.
• Mo Hua studied the Dragon Bone Path’s restriction and realized it suppressed cultivators’ power and might be part of a vast, unfinished array technique.
• Mo Hua led the prodigies to the Dragon Pool entrance, where a Bone Stele bore its name and an ancient Golden Core aura drifted out.

Mo Hua and the other prodigies entered a vision of the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where many revealed they carried traces of imperial blood and sought the Dragon Pool’s Qi Destiny. After the Dragon Emperor denounced Mo Hua’s common birth, Mo Hua killed him, breaking the bloodline barrier and opening the Dragon Pool gates.

• Mo Hua touched the Dragon Pool gates and was transported with the other prodigies into the Great Wilderness Dragon Hall, where the Dragon Emperor confronted them.
• Xuanyuan Jing and many righteous and Demonic Path prodigies claimed traces of Great Wilderness Imperial Clan blood, and Mo Hua realized their bloodlines had been cultivated as a means to claim the Great Wilderness’s Qi Destiny.
• The Dragon Emperor condemned the prodigies without imperial blood and insulted Mo Hua’s common-born parents, so Mo Hua seized him and killed him and the assembled imperial nobles.
• The Dragon Hall collapsed, and the prodigies returned to the Dragon Pool as Mo Hua opened its gates, revealing darkness lit by golden fire.

Mo Hua entered the Great Wilderness Dragon Pool, discovered a sealed Coffin and an erased stone stele, then began preparing to form his Golden Core. During his breakthrough, he was drawn into a dreamlike Dragon Pool where he opened the Coffin, saw Shentu Ye, and deciphered the strange patterns on the stele before Shentu Ye appeared behind him.

• Mo Hua and the other prodigies entered the Dragon Pool, where they saw the dissected Azure Dragon and its many chambers for Golden Core Formation.
• Mo Hua found a sealed Coffin and a blank stone stele near one of the altars, but could not discover what had been erased or what sealed the Coffin.
• Mo Hua, Situ Jian, and Bai Zisheng chose nearby chambers and prepared to form their Golden Cores.
• Mo Hua began his breakthrough, but his supplies and spiritual energy vanished as he found himself in a hazy, empty version of the Dragon Pool.
• Mo Hua opened the Coffin and recognized the young boy inside as Shentu Ye, then studied the patterns that had appeared on the stone stele.
• Mo Hua understood the patterns as a continuous chain, and Shentu Ye appeared behind him and said he had expected Mo Hua to understand them.

Mo Hua learned from Shentu Ye that the Dragon Pool Stele described the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array, a forbidden creation built from the power of a slain true dragon. After memorizing its array diagram, Mo Hua returned to the real Dragon Pool and began his Golden Core breakthrough, determined to test whether he could transform his own fate.

• Mo Hua explained that the stele depicted a Taotie Law Chain and Great Wilderness' sages' creation of the Four Holy Beasts.
• Shentu Ye revealed that the stele was the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array Diagram, made using a true dragon's power, and described how the Imperial Clan betrayed the sages' vow.
• Mo Hua memorized the diagram as the dream collapsed, while Shentu Ye faded away after telling Mo Hua he was the first person who had truly spoken with him.
• Mo Hua awoke in the real Dragon Pool, recorded his insights in a Jade Slip, and resolved to forge a high-grade or supreme-grade Golden Core.
• Mo Hua began refining the Lesser Heavenly Cycle and swallowed his first mouthful of Dragon Qi.

Mo Hua used the Taotie Spirit Bone Array, the Commoners Transforming into Dragons Array, and True Dragon Qi to overcome his spiritual-root limits and form an upper-upper grade Great Five Elements Golden Core. Just as he began its final condensation, the Heavenly Dao found him and began draining his Golden Core’s power and lowering its grade.

• Mo Hua used the Taotie Spirit Bone Array as the foundation for Golden Core Formation, relying on Humanity rather than his shattered and sealed Divinity.
• Mo Hua studied the Dragon Pool’s Taotie laws and learned to manipulate its True Dragon Qi.
• Mo Hua repeatedly fed lingli from his Natal Spirit Remains into his Golden Core and used True Dragon Qi to lock its rising grade in place.
• Mo Hua raised his Golden Core through successive grades until it became an upper-upper grade Great Five Elements Golden Core.
• Mo Hua began condensing the Golden Core, but the Heavenly Dao tore into his Sea of Consciousness and started draining its lingli and lowering its grade.

Mo Hua formed a Low-Grade Golden Core after the Heavenly Dao stripped away the grade he had raised through the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array, then resisted its suppression by devouring its laws as a Taotie. His Divine Consciousness surged toward the Golden Core Realm’s limit as Golden Core Phenomena filled the sky above Dragon Pool, where an enormous Ancestral Dragon phantom began to rise.

• The Heavenly Dao reduced Mo Hua’s Golden Core from highest-high grade to low-high grade, and he completed core condensation with a Small Five Elements Golden Core.
• Mo Hua’s Divine Consciousness rose to Twenty-Seven-Pattern before the Heavenly Dao suppressed it back to Twenty-Four-Pattern.
• Mo Hua transformed into a Taotie, tore apart and devoured the Heavenly Dao Laws, and broke free of their suppression.
• Mo Hua’s accumulated Divine Consciousness surged past Twenty-Seven-Pattern and reached Twenty-Nine-Pattern as pressure spread throughout Dragon Pool.
• Golden Core Phenomena from righteous and demonic sects appeared across the sky while cultivators watched in astonishment.
• A colossal Ancestral Dragon phantom rose from underground and overshadowed the Golden Core Phenomena.

After the Dragon Pool’s Dragon Qi ran dry and its ancient restrictions shattered, righteous and demonic Golden Core cultivators clashed over Bai Zisheng’s True Dragon bloodline. When Mo Hua emerged from forming a Low-Grade Golden Core and three powerful demons attacked him, his Taotie Eye killed them with a single glance.

• The peerless geniuses depleted the Dragon Pool’s Dragon Qi, exhausting the Great Wilderness’s Qi Destiny and breaking the ancient restrictions.
• The righteous and demonic Golden Core cultivators rushed into the Dragon Pool and fought amid the chaos, targeting newly formed Golden Core cultivators and fighting over Bai Zisheng.
• The Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Elder Xuanyuan, the Silver Corpse Elder, the Yuwen Clan Elder, and others fought over Bai Zisheng, while Bai Zisheng repeatedly defended himself from attacks.
• The Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master transformed into a powerful demonic flood dragon and pursued Bai Zisheng, who took repeated blows to protect the Secret Chamber where someone was forming a Golden Core.
• Mo Hua emerged from the Secret Chamber with a Low-Grade Golden Core, and the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Ghost Child Loose Cultivator, and Silver Corpse Elder attacked him together.
• Mo Hua opened his Taotie Eye and killed all three demonic elders by destroying their Divine Consciousness.

Mo Hua’s uncontrolled Golden Core power killed three demonic elders, and his presence kept the cultivators in the Dragon Pool at bay. The drained Dragon Qi then exposed the dead Great Wilderness Dragon Lords, whose accumulated resentment began hatching into a Fourth-Grade Dao Sin that threatened to kill everyone.

• Mo Hua regained his senses after killing the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, Silver Corpse Elder, and Ghost Child Loose Cultivator, and regretted using three Life-Art Straw Dogs.
• Blood Bat Elder demanded an explanation for the elders’ deaths, but Mo Hua admitted killing them and frightened Blood Bat Elder into backing down when he prepared to attack.
• Mo Hua and the other cultivators discovered six dead Feather Transformation Dragon Lords above the Dragon Pool, and the Dragon Lords warned that the Great Wilderness had perished and everyone must die.
• Mo Hua realized Martial Uncle had used the Dragon Lords’ resentment and the Great Wilderness’s accumulated killing intent to nurture Dao Sin, with the Dragon Pool’s drained True Dragon Qi triggering its emergence.
• A Blood Moon appeared as a half-human, half-dragon Ghostly Path deity began transforming within it, and Mo Hua recognized the creature as a Fourth-Grade Dao Sin poised to kill everyone.

True Person Zhuge used the Central Ziwei Big Dipper Seven Star Kill Array to destroy the Great Wilderness Dao Sin before it fully formed, ending the calamity. After the demonic cultivators were driven from Dragon Pool, True Person Zhuge asked who had killed the Demonic Flood Dragon, and everyone looked toward Mo Hua.

• The Blood Moon Dao Sin awakened, spreading terror and chaos as Mo Hua realized he could not defeat it and prepared to flee with Bai Zisheng and Situ Jian.
• The Imperial Observatory's Seven Stars pierced the bloody sky, and True Person Zhuge used the Central Ziwei Big Dipper Seven Star Kill Array to destroy the Dao Sin embryo and its Karma.
• True Person Zhuge descended into Dragon Pool and attacked the demonic cultivators, but the Gold-Faced Elder and his Jade-Spotted Gold Corpse intervened and persuaded him to let them leave.
• The Gold-Faced Elder sealed the demonic cultivators in Coffins and withdrew underground, briefly glancing at Mo Hua as he departed.
• True Person Zhuge told the righteous cultivators they could return home, then recognized the dead Demonic Flood Dragon and asked who had killed it; the crowd looked toward Mo Hua.

After the Great Wilderness battle, True Person Zhuge learned that Mo Hua had killed three powerful Demonic Path cultivators and arranged protection for Bai Zisheng. As the survivors prepared to leave, Mo Hua’s unease deepened, and a vision of Shentu Ye pleading with him as the Little Divine Lord left the story unresolved.

• Xuanyuan Jing told True Person Zhuge that Mo Hua had killed the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master, and Mo Hua later admitted to Zhuge that he had killed three Demonic Path cultivators.
• True Person Hua failed to take Bai Zisheng, and True Person Zhuge ordered the survivors to leave the Great Wilderness while keeping Bai Zisheng under Imperial Observatory protection.
• Mo Hua told True Person Zhuge that Bai Zisheng was his Senior Martial Brother, then was ordered to return to the Void Gate at dawn.
• Mo Hua failed to visit Bai Zisheng, warned Situ Jian, Situ Fang, and Dan Ling to leave, and remained unsure whether he should depart with them.
• Young Master Tuoba recruited Da Hu to go to Dao Province, while Da Hu privately thought of someone familiar from his childhood.
• Mo Hua recalled the events in the Royal Court, then saw Shentu Ye appear in a vision and plead with him as the Little Divine Lord.

Mo Hua followed Qing Zhu’s Divine Path token to the Four Symbols Palace and found her dead beside her unborn child. He used a transformed Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation to revive her briefly, allowing her to bring the infant back to life and entrust it to him before she died again.

• Mo Hua realized Shentu Ye’s dreams and Qing Zhu’s fate were tied to secrets he had overlooked, then used Qing Zhu’s Qingqiu Silk to trace her karma.
• Mo Hua slipped past the Dao Soldiers guarding the Four Symbols Palace and found Qing Zhu dead, with her unborn child also lifeless.
• Mo Hua used the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation and his understanding of life and death to create an array that briefly reversed Qing Zhu’s death.
• Qing Zhu revived, cut the dead infant from her womb, and used her heart’s blood to restore the child’s life.
• Qing Zhu entrusted the infant to Mo Hua, who promised to care for it, and then died again.

Mo Hua rescued Qing Zhu’s newborn daughter after Qing Zhu died, concealed her body and escaped the Four Symbols Palace. He entrusted the child to Dan Ling and Situ Fang, who prepared to leave the Royal Court with her.

• Mo Hua wrapped the newborn in protective Arrays, erased evidence of the Wood-Ether Rejuvenation Formation, and hid Qing Zhu’s body inside the shifting Four Symbols Palace.
• True Person Feather Transformation sensed that something had gone wrong but chose not to return to the scene or send anyone to investigate.
• Elder Ge sensed Mo Hua’s life-and-death reversal and secretly arranged Karma to conceal his tracks, then noticed the water in his fishpond turning black and murky.
• Mo Hua passed the Dao Soldier guards and returned to the Situ Clan’s encampment with the child.
• Mo Hua gave the newborn to Dan Ling and told her and Situ Fang to take the child away from the Royal Court and forget what they knew.

Mo Hua sent Situ Jian and the others away together, then returned alone to the Dragon Pool to find True Person Zhuge. His search led him through a hidden Dragon Bone Cave to the sealed gates of the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court, where he discovered Zhuge had entered and closed the gates with a Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array.

• Mo Hua instructed Situ Jian to protect Dan Ling and travel with the Ganxue Prefecture prodigies while he stayed behind to handle other matters.
• Mo Hua failed to see Bai Zisheng or find True Person Zhuge at the Imperial Observatory, so he went to investigate the Dragon Pool.
• Mo Hua noticed that the Dragon Pool's restrictions had vanished and found it deserted, with the corpses of the Demon Flood Dragon Mountain Master and two others still there.
• Mo Hua followed traces of Zhuge's Karma tracing and Seven Star Array to a concealed Dragon Bone Cave and entered after sensing a vast, unfamiliar array aura.
• Mo Hua emerged before an ancient gate marked Ancestral Court and realized Zhuge had opened it, entered, and sealed it with a Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array.

Mo Hua found that he could not break True Person Zhuge’s Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array, so he followed an Imperial Observatory Sili through the gate and entered the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court. There he saw the spreading Endless Abyss and discovered True Person Zhuge and dozens of Imperial Observatory cultivators assembling a huge, unfamiliar structure.

• Mo Hua studied the Fourth-Grade Seven Star Array but could not open it because he lacked foundational Third-Grade array knowledge.
• Mo Hua noticed traces showing that the Alioth Star Gate had been opened before and decided to wait for someone with access to pass through.
• An Imperial Observatory Sili emerged from the gate, collected array materials at the Dragon Palace, and returned with his Jade Token.
• Mo Hua used the Sili’s access to slip through the Alioth Star Gate and enter the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court.
• Mo Hua was shaken by the Endless Abyss’s pull but suppressed the Taotie instincts and Ghost Daoist’s call within him.
• Mo Hua followed the Sili to a White Bone Plaza, where he found True Person Zhuge, True Person Hua, and dozens of Imperial Observatory cultivators assembling a colossal structure.

Mo Hua was caught sneaking into the Ancestral Court to see Bai Zisheng and study its enormous array, but he revealed to True Person Zhuge that he had pieced together the Dao Court’s role in the Great Wilderness’s disasters. True Person Zhuge confirmed the court’s scheme and disclosed that the weakened daoist behind the calamities was hiding in the Ancestral Court and had to be killed.

• Mo Hua approached the Ancestral Court’s gigantic array, but True Person Zhuge detected him and nearly struck him with Seven Star Sword light before recognizing him.
• True Person Hua called for Mo Hua to be interrogated or killed to protect the Dao Court’s secrets, but True Person Zhuge took Mo Hua to a sealed chamber and refused to hand him over.
• Mo Hua explained that he had sneaked in to see Bai Zisheng, then questioned True Person Zhuge about the array and the daoist behind the Great Wilderness’s disasters.
• Mo Hua laid out how the Dao Court and its clans had exploited war and famine to seize the Great Wilderness and use the suffering to bring forth and destroy Dao Sin.
• True Person Zhuge admitted that he had been used in the scheme and revealed that the weakened daoist was hiding in the Ancestral Court, where the Dao Court intended to kill him.

Mo Hua realized the Dao Court planned to kill Martial Uncle while his failed breakthrough left him vulnerable, and True Person Zhuge explained how the Ghost Dao could be restrained. True Person Zhuge brought Mo Hua to the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court to oversee the trap, where Mo Hua discovered that the array master was drawing fifth-grade Array Patterns through an extraordinary Array Flow.

• Mo Hua recognized that Martial Uncle's failed attempt to advance into Void Insight had left him vulnerable to the Dao Court's killing plan.
• True Person Zhuge told Mo Hua that constellation and divine powers, combined with precise calculations of Celestial Pivot and Karma, could restrain and kill the Ghost Daoist.
• Mo Hua warned True Person Zhuge about the danger, but True Person Zhuge brought him along to the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court and ordered him to behave.
• Mo Hua saw True Person Zhuge's Seven Star Arrays across the Ancestral Court and concluded they were insufficient to kill Martial Uncle without another method.
• True Person Zhuge began completing the enormous Grand Array at White Bone Plaza, and Mo Hua recognized that he was using Array Flow to draw fifth-grade Array Patterns.

Mo Hua observed True Person Zhuge use Array Flow to activate an ancient star array in the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court. When the array stirred the Endless Abyss, Ghost Daoist sent waves of Ghostly Slaves against the Dao Court’s forces, and the battle began.

• Mo Hua watched True Person Zhuge draw fifth-grade Array Patterns and inferred that Array Flow let him draw on Star Power to activate an ancient array beyond his realm.
• True Person Zhuge refused to explain the array’s secrets but let Mo Hua observe, and Mo Hua used his Divine Consciousness to record every detail.
• True Person Zhuge completed the ancient star array, whose power stirred the Endless Abyss and drew forth Ghost Daoist’s will.
• True Person Zhuge ordered the Imperial Observatory and Dao Soldier Bureau cultivators into the Seven Star Arrays to fight the Ghostly Slaves crawling from the abyss.
• True Person Zhuge powered the ancient array as stronger Ghostly Slaves emerged, forcing True Person Hua and the other Feather Transformation cultivators to join the battle.

Mo Hua watched the Dao Court fight Ghostly Slaves from the Endless Abyss while True Person Zhuge activated the Starry Ancient Array. The array summoned hidden Void Insight Ancestors, whose arrival shifted the battle against the Ghost Daoist’s forces.

• Third-Grade Ghostly Slaves infected and killed several Imperial Observatory cultivators and Golden Core commanders, forcing True Person Hua, True Person Jiang, and True Person Cui to join the fight.
• A Feather Transformation royal corpse emerged as a Flying Ghostly Slave and attacked True Person Zhuge, while Mo Hua watched the Starry Ancient Array take shape.
• A second Flying Ghostly Slave appeared, and a third began awakening in the Abyss, overwhelming the three True Persons’ defenses.
• True Person Zhuge completed the array’s operation and called down a beam of starlight that opened a passage through space.
• A silver-haired Void Insight Ancestor appeared and destroyed one Flying Ghostly Slave with a strike of Nine Splendor Heavenly Mystery Sword.
• The Starry Ancient Array summoned more hidden Void Insight Ancestors into the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court.

Seven Void Insight Ancestors descended on the Great Wilderness ancestral court and annihilated the ghostly slave horde before setting out to hunt the Ghost Daoist in the Endless Abyss. Ancestor Hua took Mo Hua with him, leaving True Person Zhuge behind to guard the ancient array, and Mo Hua arrived at his martial uncle’s hiding place.

• Seven Void Insight Ancestors destroyed the Flying Ghostly Slaves and swept away the remaining ghostly slave horde, restoring silence to the ancestral court.
• Ancestor Hua recognized Mo Hua, while the golden needle in Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness and his suppressed Divinity stirred in response to him.
• True Person Zhuge asked Ancestor Hua to remove the golden needle, but Ancestor Hua postponed it until after the Ghost Daoist was dealt with.
• Ancestor Hua took Mo Hua along to the Endless Abyss and ordered True Person Zhuge to stay behind and guard the All Heavens Star Great Displacement Ancient Array.
• Mo Hua crossed the void with Ancestor Hua and arrived in the Endless Abyss at his martial uncle’s hiding place.

Mo Hua followed seven Dao Court Ancestors into the Endless Abyss as they searched for his Martial Uncle, Ghost Daoist, and a mysterious painting. The Ancestors revealed that Mo Hua might be the Great Wilderness Divine Shaman, then disclosed that the painting could hold the secret to becoming immortal, and Mo Hua recognized it as the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial Diagram.

• Ancestor Hua protected Mo Hua with Void Insight Sword Intent as the Dao Court Ancestors led him into the Endless Abyss to find Ghost Daoist.
• The Ancestors lost Ghost Daoist’s direction, calculated his hidden Karma, and chose the path indicated by most of their results.
• Mo Hua overheard the Ancestors discussing a painting and a sect that had accepted both his Master, Zhuang, and his demon-fallen Martial Uncle.
• Ancestor Hua identified Mo Hua as the Great Wilderness Divine Shaman, but Mo Hua invoked his ties to the Yang Family, whose Ancestor argued that he could not be the traitor.
• The Xia Family Ancestor said the painting was essential to breaking the limit of heaven and earth and becoming immortal, and Mo Hua recognized it as the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial Diagram.