Chapter Summaries

Mo Hua and the seven Dao Court Ancestors descended into the Endless Abyss to confront the Ghost Daoist, while Ancestor Hua questioned Mo Hua about his motives in the Great Wilderness. At the abyss’s bottom, Mo Hua realized the group’s assumptions about the Ghost Daoist might all be false, and a hidden Ghostly Path Demon Statue and Grand Array were revealed.

• The Dao Court Ancestors noticed Mo Hua’s reaction to the Return to Ruins Heavenly Burial Diagram, but stopped probing his Karma after sensing danger.
• The seven Ancestors led Mo Hua through the Endless Abyss, where they killed ten Flying Ghostly Slaves and prepared to descend on the Ascension Bamboo.
• Ancestor Hua accused Mo Hua of being a Divine Shaman and questioned why he had saved the people of the Great Wilderness; Mo Hua challenged whether exploiting their suffering could count as cultivating immortality.
• The Ancestors descended to the abyss’s bottom, where Mo Hua remembered that he had known since Qi Refining that the Ghost Daoist was at Feather Transformation and warned everyone to turn back.
• The Ancestors realized they had never questioned their assumptions about the Ghost Daoist, and a hidden Ghostly Path Demon Statue and vast Grand Array appeared as the black curtain parted.

Mo Hua and seven Dao Court Void Insight Ancestors entered the Endless Abyss to kill Ghost Daoist, but Ghost Daoist deceived them with illusions and secretly infected them through their Karma. As they escaped, Ghost Daoist appeared behind Mo Hua and called him his little martial nephew.

• Ghost Daoist’s illusory Demon Statue made the seven Void Insight Ancestors mistake one another for him and clash, allowing Ghost Daoist to erode their Dharma Images through the Ghostly Path Grand Array.
• Ancestor Hua realized the Demon Statue had never attacked, and the Ancestors used their treasures and origins to cleanse the Ghostly Path contamination before trying to leave the Abyss.
• The Ghostly Path Grand Array sealed the void, and Ghostly Daoist avatars blocked the Ancestors; when the Ancestors killed them, Ghost Daoist tainted them with Killing Karma, so they stopped fighting and cleansed themselves.
• Ancestor Hua led the group out under the protection of the Immeasurable Bright Fire Lotus Lamp, but Mo Hua noticed their shadows had become Ghost Daoists.
• The Ancestors traced their infection to the curse they had cast on the Wilderness Divine Shaman over a year earlier, when Ghost Daoist had planted seeds of Ghostly Thought-Force in their Karma.
• A black hand settled on Mo Hua’s shoulder, and Ghost Daoist revealed himself, calling Mo Hua his little martial nephew.

Mo Hua escaped Ghost Daoist during the ancestors’ desperate battle, but lost Ancestor Hua’s protective sword light and was corrupted by the Abyss. His Taotie Spirit Bone Array mutated as he fled, and he emerged from the Endless Abyss before True Person Zhuge and the other True Persons.

• Ghost Daoist pinned Mo Hua and fought the seven Void Insight Ancestors in a battle of Great Dao origins.
• A golden sword light severed three of Ghost Daoist’s fingers and freed Mo Hua, who fled while Ghost Daoist entered his true slaughtering stance.
• Mo Hua escaped the abyss’s heart and climbed the Ascension Bamboo, using Ancestor Hua’s lingering sword light to repel its creatures.
• The sword light vanished, leaving Mo Hua exposed to Abyss Power, which corrupted his body and mutated his Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.
• Mo Hua’s Taotie aura frightened the Abyss Creatures as he ran through the darkness and leapt out of the Endless Abyss.
• True Person Zhuge recognized the strange creature that emerged as Mo Hua.

Mo Hua warned the Dao Court cultivators that Ghost Daoist had reached Void Insight, and they fled as the Endless Abyss erupted across the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court. The group escaped through the Alioth Star Gate, but Mo Hua was left behind, captured by Ghost Daoist, who opened his Sea of Consciousness to uncover the Dao hidden within his flesh and blood.

• True Person Zhuge treated Mo Hua's Abyss-corroded body, and Mo Hua warned him that the ancestors were in grave danger and Ghost Daoist was Void Insight.
• True Person Zhuge ordered everyone to withdraw, and the Endless Abyss surged across the Ancestral Court, swallowing the All Heavens Star Great Displacement Ancient Array.
• A Broken Sword Ghostly Slave killed True Person Cui and attacked the others, but Mo Hua recognized it as Dugu Xuan and disrupted its Ghostly Thought-Force Sword Transformation Art with the Void Gate's sword technique.
• True Person Zhuge and True Person Hua helped the cultivators escape through the Alioth Star Gate, but Mo Hua stayed behind and told them to take his Senior Martial Brother away.
• True Person Hua sealed the gates with Mo Hua and Ghost Daoist still inside, and Ghost Daoist seized Mo Hua and returned with him to the bottom of the abyss.
• Ghost Daoist declared that Mo Hua's Dao was hidden in his flesh and blood, then tore open Mo Hua's Sea of Consciousness as golden light filled the abyss.

Mo Hua fought Ghost Daoist in the Endless Abyss, but after defeating one incarnation, he was nearly killed by another. The Ancestor of the Yang Family sacrificed himself to send Mo Hua to Kun Province, while the Endless Abyss spread across the Great Wilderness and began a catastrophe that would engulf the Nine Provinces.

• Mo Hua battled Ghost Daoist with his Divine Thought, Pixiu and Taotie powers, and God-Slaying Sword, eventually cleaving him in two with the Broken Sword’s Nirvana Extinction intent.
• A new Ghost Daoist appeared as Mo Hua exhausted his strength, and the Ancestor of the Yang Family used his Military Immortal Dharma Image to tear open the illusory realm and carry Mo Hua to the damaged Starry Ancient Array.
• The Ancestor of the Yang Family reversed the array to send Mo Hua away, but Ghost Daoist attacked; a mysterious white Phecda Pattern appeared on Mo Hua’s brow and severed Ghost Daoist’s fingers before Mo Hua vanished.
• The Ancestor of the Yang Family accepted his death as retribution for his greed, and Ghost Daoist turned him into a Void Insight Ghostly Slave.
• The Endless Abyss broke through the Great Wilderness Ancestral Court, spread into the Great Wilderness, and raised the dead as Ghostly Slaves while Dao Soldiers fled.
• The reversed Starry Ancient Array sent Mo Hua to Kun Province, where it shattered beneath a great sect; nearby, a woman drawing an Immortal Heaven Array sensed the spatial upheaval.

As the Ghost Dao spread into the Wilderness, Danzhu resisted infection by tempering his Dao Heart with Mo Hua’s teachings and survived, inspiring the tribes to rally around their faith. Survivors and captives arrived in the Wilderness, while Ghost Daoist continued refining the Void Insight Ancestors and an eerie evil infant appeared before Ancestor Hua.

• After the Nianluo Tribe fell to Ghostly Slaves, Danzhu ordered the Wilderness tribes to stop fighting and defend themselves while he studied Mo Hua’s manuscripts for ways to resist Ghostly Thought-Force.
• Infected by Ghostly Thought-Force, Danzhu went to the Vermilion Bird Altar and asked Lugu to kill him if he became a Corpse Slave, but he used Mo Hua’s teachings to endure the dark flames and purify his Dao Heart.
• Danzhu emerged from the altar able to resist Ghostly Thought-Force, and Lugu and the tribal leaders pledged to follow the Divine Shaman Lord’s teachings.
• Huainu entered the Wilderness with a treasured Array Manual and recognized Mo Hua as the Divine Shaman Lord; meanwhile, Feng Zichen, Shi Tiangang, Ao Zheng, and other Ganxue Prefecture disciples were captured and recognized Mo Hua’s statue among their captors.
• In the Endless Abyss, Ghost Daoist observed the Divine Dao faith spreading through the Wilderness and continued refining the Void Insight Ancestors, but Ancestor Hua held firm against him.
• Ancestor Hua heard eerie laughter and saw a pitch-black, evil infant with a familiar face staring at him.

The Ghostly Fire Infant tricked Hua Family Ancestor into exposing his Dao Heart, accelerating its corruption and ruining his path to immortality. Meanwhile, Earth Sect treated the unconscious Mo Hua and argued with Kun Province’s clans over his secrets; a gathering to decide his fate ended with True Person Rong and a veiled woman in white arriving.

• The Ghostly Fire Infant taunted Hua Family Ancestor about his sins and persuaded him to inspect his Dao Heart, causing it to crack and his origin to be corrupted by the Ghostly Path.
• The Ghost Daoist noticed Hua Family Ancestor’s sudden collapse and watched the Ghostly Fire Infant vanish without learning what it was.
• Earth Sect elders treated the unconscious Mo Hua, discovered extraordinary vitality and strange power in his bones, and decided against dissecting him while he lived.
• Earth Sect leaders debated using an Earth-Vein Great Restoration Pill to revive Mo Hua and extract his secrets, while Kun Province’s major clans pressured the sect for access to him.
• Earth Sect and the clans gathered in the main hall to decide Mo Hua’s fate, where True Person Rong arrived, followed by a veiled woman in white.

Kun Province’s clans argued over who would take the gravely injured Mo Hua, until Bai Zixi claimed him as a member of the Bai Family. True Person Rong arranged to take Mo Hua to her Small Blessed Land for treatment, leaving the clans to question him once he recovered.

• The Right Sect Master described Mo Hua’s severe injuries and weak cultivation, prompting the assembled patriarchs to doubt Earth Sect’s account and speculate about his origins.
• Patriarch Lu and other clan leaders offered to treat Mo Hua, but the Right Sect Master refused to give him up and eventually agreed to let them see him.
• Earth Sect disciples brought Mo Hua, unconscious and sealed inside an ice-stone bed, into the hall, where the clans continued competing to claim him.
• Bai Zixi declared that she wanted Mo Hua and identified him as belonging to her Bai Family.
• True Person Rong decided to take Mo Hua to her Small Blessed Land, and the Right Sect Master agreed that the clans could question him after he recovered.

Bai Zixi brought the gravely injured Mo Hua to Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, where True Person Rong discovered the Law of Vitality and a terrifying hidden secret within him. Bai Zixi treated him for ten days, and as Mo Hua's consciousness began to recover, he reached out and caught her hand.

• True Person Rong brought Mo Hua to the Alchemy Room and learned from Bai Zixi that he was her junior disciple brother.
• True Person Rong examined Mo Hua's flesh and discovered both the Law of Vitality and a deeper, frightening presence, then destroyed the Spirit Mirror to avoid seeing more.
• True Person Rong recorded a treatment plan and instructed Bai Zixi to heal Mo Hua with medicines rather than cutting him open.
• Bai Zixi and Xiao Ju treated Mo Hua, and his injuries gradually improved over ten days.
• Mo Hua's Sea of Consciousness began to recover, and he recognized Bai Zixi beside him before catching her hand as she stirred to leave.

After Mo Hua woke beside Bai Zixi, he struggled to recover memories of his near-death ordeal in the Great Wilderness and feared for the people he had left behind. He used demon-bone divination to learn that many faced grave danger but were still alive, then collapsed from exhaustion as Bai Zixi watched over him.

• Mo Hua woke holding Bai Zixi's hand, received medicine from her, and spent the following days recovering while she cared for him.
• Mo Hua pieced together memories of the Endless Abyss, the Ghostly Path, his Martial Uncle's plan, and the people who had helped him escape.
• Mo Hua asked Bai Zixi for a quiet room and brought out objects tied to Karma before using Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination to check the fates of people he knew.
• Bai Zixi and True Person Rong sensed Mo Hua's powerful divination, and True Person Rong withdrew her spiritual sense rather than intrude on its dangerous Karma.
• Mo Hua's divination showed that many people in the Great Wilderness faced ill omens but remained alive, and he collapsed after exhausting his Divine Thought.
• Bai Zixi supported Mo Hua as he fell asleep and gently stroked the furrow between his brows.

After recovering enough to speak with True Person Rong, Mo Hua learned that the Dao Court claimed the Great Wilderness war was nearly over and chose not to reveal what he had witnessed. While he recuperated in the Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, he discovered natural Spirit Energy and asked Bai Zixi for Third-Grade Array Manuals to study.

• Mo Hua met True Person Rong, thanked her for saving him, and realized she had examined a piece of his flesh beneath a Spirit Mirror.
• True Person Rong told Mo Hua that the Great Wilderness Royal Court had fallen but that the Dao Court was still pacifying the remaining rebels; Mo Hua hid what he knew and claimed he had forgotten how he reached the Earth Sect.
• True Person Rong warned Mo Hua that the Earth Sect might question him and urged him to rest until his complicated injuries healed.
• Mo Hua recuperated in the Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land with Bai Zixi nearby and realized that natural Spirit Energy felt alive compared with Spirit Stones.
• Mo Hua asked Bai Zixi for Array Manuals, and she questioned his request for Third-Grade techniques because his Divine Thought had not recovered.

Mo Hua studied Bai Zixi’s notes and quickly mastered the foundations of Third-Grade Array Techniques, then sought her help with difficult concepts. After losing focus during her explanation, he blamed the Heart-Binding Love-Inducing Desire-Falling Golden Needle and resolved to spend more time with Bai Zixi to strengthen his self-control.

• Bai Zixi gave Mo Hua her detailed notes on Third-Grade Array Techniques, while True Person Rong’s divine consciousness interrupted her before she could say more to him.
• Mo Hua studied the notes for less than half a month, gained a solid grasp of introductory Third-Grade Array Techniques, and successfully drew several arrays.
• Mo Hua visited Bai Zixi with questions about Third-Grade Array Techniques, and she patiently explained the difficult concepts to him.
• Mo Hua became distracted by Bai Zixi’s closeness, but answered her follow-up questions well enough to show that he understood the material.
• Mo Hua returned to his room, blamed the Heart-Binding Love-Inducing Desire-Falling Golden Needle for his distraction, and vowed to spend more time with Bai Zixi to train his self-control.

Mo Hua discussed Array Techniques with Bai Zixi and confided what he had learned about the Great Wilderness, his martial uncle, and their missing master. After returning to his room, he remembered an old scroll and revealed that it contained the Five Elements Sect’s Five Elements Origin.

• Mo Hua continued studying Array Techniques with Bai Zixi while True Person Rong watched over their meetings and reluctantly left them alone.
• After True Person Rong went out, Mo Hua told Bai Zixi he had seen her elder brother in the Great Wilderness but had been unable to bring him out, and Bai Zixi believed the Bai Family would not let him die.
• Mo Hua told Bai Zixi he had encountered the real Martial Uncle, escaped after the Ancestor of the Yang Family saved him, and feared the other Dao Court Old Ancestors might have died; Bai Zixi urged him to keep the Great Wilderness secrets hidden.
• Mo Hua asked about their master, and Bai Zixi promised to take him to the Bai Family to see him, though she suspected her mother would refuse.
• Bai Zixi offered to teach Mo Hua the Immortal Heaven Array School, but Mo Hua declined because Master had forbidden him to learn it; she then questioned his Low-Grade Golden Core, and he said the Heavenly Dao had targeted him.
• That night, Mo Hua sealed his room and retrieved the Zhang Family’s old Zombie Diagram, revealing that the Five Elements Sect’s Five Elements Origin was sealed inside it.

Mo Hua studied the Five Elements Source Pattern, suspected it concealed a living creation of law, and used it to decipher Third-Grade array diagrams while recovering. After more than a month, he tried to leave Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land but felt overwhelming killing intent outside, and Bai Zixi warned him to be careful of women.

• Mo Hua reopened the Five Elements Array School Diagram and realized the Five Elements Source Pattern might be an Eye of Law with a life of its own.
• Mo Hua used his Twenty-Nine-Pattern Divine Consciousness to decipher a Third-Grade Twenty-Two Pattern Soil Cultivation Array and a Third-Grade Twenty-Four-Pattern Golden Blade Formation.
• Mo Hua reviewed the many items and unresolved secrets in his Storage Ring, including Dugu's Broken Sword and the possibility that Dugu Xuan had become Martial Uncle's puppet.
• Mo Hua spent more than a month recovering, studying array techniques with Bai Zixi, and deciphering Five Elements Array Diagrams.
• Mo Hua obtained Bai Zixi's Access Token and stepped outside Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, but immediately sensed many people in the Karma wanted to kill him.
• Bai Zixi warned Mo Hua to be careful of women, leaving him confused about what she meant.

Mo Hua recovered in Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, practiced Third-Grade arrays, and helped Xiao Ju plant Spirit Orange seeds by improving the soil with arrays. After True Person Rong allowed his work to stand, an elaborately dressed young woman arrived to see Bai Zixi and found Mo Hua in her courtyard.

• Bai Zixi warned Mo Hua to be careful around women before leaving to cultivate, and Mo Hua decided to remain in the Small Blessed Land until his injuries and divine thought recovered.
• Mo Hua met Xiao Ju, learned she treasured Spirit Orange seeds, and offered to help her grow them.
• Xiao Ju told Mo Hua that arrays could disrupt the Small Blessed Land’s hidden spiritual-energy system, but Mo Hua sensed the underground array and judged his Soil Cultivation Arrays would not interfere with it.
• Mo Hua drew Third-Grade Soil Cultivation Arrays, enriched a patch of ground, and helped Xiao Ju plant several Spirit Orange seeds.
• True Person Rong inspected Mo Hua’s work, recognized his array talent, and let the harmless Soil Cultivation Arrays remain; Mo Hua continued studying ways to improve the soil and speed the oranges’ growth.
• An elegantly dressed young woman arrived to visit Bai Zixi, entered the courtyard, and reacted with shock and murderous intent when she saw Mo Hua.

Hua Ping visited Bai Zixi and found Mo Hua staying in her Small Blessed Land, then sent him a cryptic warning disguised as a blessing. As gifts carrying threats from other Kun Province clans followed, True Person Rong told Mo Hua that the Earth Sect wanted to meet him in its grand hall.

• Hua Ping confronted Mo Hua in Bai Zixi's Small Blessed Land, grew flustered around Bai Zixi, and learned Mo Hua was her junior martial brother and a childhood companion.
• Hua Ping left after warning Mo Hua to recover, then sent valuable gifts to Bai Zixi, Xiao Ju, and Mo Hua; Mo Hua found that her encrypted jade slip threatened to kill him if he touched Bai Zixi.
• Mo Hua received more gifts from unknown young women of Kun Province, whose encrypted messages demanded to know his relationship with Bai Zixi and threatened him.
• True Person Rong told Mo Hua that the Earth Sect had heard his injuries were nearly healed and wanted to meet him in its grand hall.

Mo Hua prepared for his visit to Earth Sect, reflecting on its secrets and worrying about his dwindling supply of Straw Dogs. True Person Rong brought him and Bai Zixi to Earth Sect, where Mo Hua arrived to find a vast sect and a crowd of young women staring at him.

• Mo Hua agreed to visit Earth Sect in three days and considered its Houtu Diagram, array inheritances, and the mysterious Tomb-Raiding Talisman.
• Mo Hua explained to True Person Rong that he needed rough wild grass to make Straw Dogs, but Little Luan Mountain's grasses were too precious and Houtu City had little soil.
• Mo Hua searched the Small Blessed Land for suitable grass, failed to find any, and worried that his two remaining Straw Dogs would not be enough for the dangers ahead.
• Bai Zixi insisted on accompanying Mo Hua to Earth Sect, and True Person Rong took them there by carriage while Xiao Ju stayed behind.
• Mo Hua saw Earth Sect's immense grounds and learned that many people were waiting for him.
• Mo Hua arrived at Earth Sect's main hall with True Person Rong and Bai Zixi, where a crowd of beautiful young women fixed their gazes on him.

Mo Hua faced Earth Sect’s inquiry with a carefully constructed account, then used his reputation as a Void Gate prodigy to turn the interrogation into a banquet. As True Person Rong escorted Mo Hua and Bai Zixi away, Mo Hua noticed a strange, musty smell around Earth Sect that suggested something had rotted.

• True Person Rong brought Mo Hua and Bai Zixi into Earth Sect’s main hall, where the Sect Masters questioned Mo Hua over a banquet.
• Mo Hua claimed he had gone to the Great Wilderness on Dao Court orders, been wounded, and returned to Kun Province through a disrupted teleportation array.
• When Mo Hua could not produce proof of his Void Gate identity, the Zhu Family Patriarch and Patriarch Lu recognized his name and confirmed his reputation, prompting the clan elders to welcome him warmly.
• Mo Hua offered to become an Earth Sect guest elder, but the Right Sect Master said the sect needed time to discuss it.
• Outside the hall, Bai Zixi told the female disciples that Mo Hua was her distant relative and junior martial brother, easing their hostility toward him.
• As True Person Rong escorted Mo Hua and Bai Zixi away, Mo Hua detected an overpowering earthy scent and a faint musty odor near Earth Sect.

The Earth Sect’s Left and Right Sect Masters discussed the missing Dao Court Ancestors and the sect’s old grievance over the divided Imperial Heaven and Earth Diagram. As Mo Hua recovered in Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, he examined the strange forces in his Sea of Consciousness and discovered Heavenly Calculation and Heavenly Ghost Calculation revolving together as a Black and White Taiji.

• The Left and Right Sect Masters suspected Mo Hua had not told them everything and considered whether the Dao Court Ancestors had met with misfortune in the Great Wilderness.
• The Left Sect Master recalled how the Dao Court had divided the Earth Sect’s inheritance and said the sect should prepare to avoid suffering that humiliation again.
• Mo Hua studied array techniques with Bai Zixi, then returned to recovering from his injuries while thinking about the Earth Sect’s mysterious scent of rot and the Thick Earth Absolute Array he needed.
• Mo Hua examined his Sea of Consciousness and found it clouded by Abyssal corrosion, Ghost Dao Thought Power, and a white current carrying his master’s Heavenly Calculation aura.
• Mo Hua saw Heavenly Calculation and Heavenly Ghost Calculation intertwining and revolving together like a Black and White Taiji.

Mo Hua discovered that the Heavenly Dao Seal had fused the Ghostly Thought-Force left by his Martial Uncle with the Heavenly Thought-Force left by his master, disrupting his Sea of Consciousness. He used the Taotie Law to begin digesting the powers, achieved a way to guide them in balance, and summoned the Dao Stele to seek another solution.

• Mo Hua deduced that the Heavenly Dao Seal had forced the Ghostly Thought-Force and Heavenly Thought-Force to coexist in his Sea of Consciousness, creating a dangerous imbalance.
• Mo Hua judged that he could not comprehend either thought-force directly and decided to use the Taotie Law to digest all three powers: ghost calculation, Heavenly Calculation, and the Heavenly Dao Laws.
• Mo Hua repeatedly transformed his Divine Thought into Taotie and practiced digesting the powers, gradually deepening his understanding of both calculations and Taotie's laws.
• Mo Hua recognized Heavenly Calculation and ghost calculation as inverse expressions of one algorithm and learned to guide their thought-forces in harmony, though he had not yet fully digested them.
• Mo Hua worried that his Sea of Consciousness would remain chaotic and summoned the Dao Stele, wondering whether it could store the powers troubling him.