Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yingluo offered Mo Hua an advantageous marriage alliance with the Earth Sect, but he declined and left after she warned him that refusing could bring the sect’s sanctions. After Mo Hua departed, Jiang Yingluo’s cousin urged her to kill him rather than try to control him.

• Jiang Yingluo presented Mo Hua with a roster of Earth Sect daughters and promised him status, resources, and a chance at the Third-Grade Array Master assessment if he joined the sect through marriage.
• Mo Hua refused to consider a marriage alliance, while Jiang Yingluo lectured him about planning his cultivation and explained that his low-grade Golden Core and modest standing weakened his prospects.
• Jiang Yingluo warned Mo Hua that accepting would reconcile his enemies and secure the Earth Sect’s support, while refusal could leave him unable to earn resources or remain in Houtu City.
• Mo Hua thanked Jiang Yingluo, left Kunhua Courtyard, and drew wary attention from the Earth Sect disciples gathered there.
• Jiang Yingluo’s cousin arrived and said Mo Hua should be killed rather than made into a dog.

Jiang Yingluo questioned the Earth Sect Eldest Young Master about his hostility toward Mo Hua and discovered that his bloodline instinct warned him not to kill Mo Hua because of an unknown magical artifact. After the Eldest Young Master made lewd remarks about a Bai Family daughter, Jiang Yingluo unleashed a terrifying bloodline aura, then left for secluded cultivation, leaving him shaken by how much her bloodline had grown.

• The Eldest Young Master told Jiang Yingluo he wanted Mo Hua driven out because Mo Hua threatened his plans to claim Yu Nujiao and purge the fire in his bloodline.
• Jiang Yingluo pointed out that the Eldest Young Master had avoided attacking Mo Hua even when they were both on Earth Sect grounds, and he admitted his bloodline instinct warned him he could not kill Mo Hua.
• The Eldest Young Master suspected Mo Hua was hiding a magical artifact that was either too weak to reveal or powerful enough to exact a great price.
• The Eldest Young Master questioned Jiang Yingluo about the beauty of a direct-line daughter of the Bai Family, and Jiang Yingluo erupted with a powerful bloodline aura and threatened to kill him if he entertained certain thoughts.
• Jiang Yingluo urged the Eldest Young Master to focus on the Earth Sect, then left Kunhua Courtyard to cultivate in seclusion.
• After Jiang Yingluo departed, the Eldest Young Master wondered how her bloodline had suddenly matured so far beyond what he remembered.

Mo Hua rejected Jiang Yingluo’s proposal that he marry into an Aristocratic Clan, while Bai Zixi urged him to follow his Dao Heart despite the dangers surrounding him. As the unrest in Kun Province worsened, Mo Hua learned that the Demon Suppression Office’s Merit Point rewards included the Seven Star Array.

• Mo Hua told Bai Zixi he would not marry into an Aristocratic Clan, and she urged him to follow the path he knew he should walk.
• Mo Hua found himself shut out of work and resources in Houtu City as the Earth Sect controlled the region’s opportunities.
• Yu Cangming told Mo Hua that unrest in several regions was worsening and that the Dao Court might deploy Dao Soldiers to suppress an uprising.
• Yu Cangming asked Mo Hua to approve Tu Sheng joining the Demon Suppression Office and offered to train him in assassination techniques; Mo Hua agreed if Tu Sheng consented.
• Mo Hua learned that Demon Suppression Office Merit Points could be exchanged for Array Techniques, including the Seven Star Array, and dropped his cup in shock.

Mo Hua learned that the Demon Suppression Office preserved fragments of Seven Star Array inheritances and tried unsuccessfully to join so he could study them. As he weighed whether to leave Houtu City or reconcile with the Earth Sect, his divination triggered a powerful karmic resonance, while a mysterious female True Person aboard a hidden stellar skiff sensed a response from her sect.

• Yu Cangming explained how the Dao Court had restricted the Seven Star lineage and left only scattered, incomplete inheritances in the Demon Suppression Office’s Merit Record.
• Mo Hua asked to join the Demon Suppression Office, but Yu Cangming refused because Mo Hua’s background was unclear and his presence seemed too risky.
• Mo Hua examined Tu Sheng, urged him to follow Yu Cangming and cultivate diligently, then left the Dao Court Office as hostile watchers followed him through the market.
• At the Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land, Mo Hua considered going to the Great Spirit Field Realm or compromising with the Earth Sect, weighing both choices against leaving or staying near his Senior Martial Sister.
• Mo Hua used his master’s copper coin to divine the future, sensed a powerful Karma observing him, and stopped the calculation before the counter-scrying faded.
• A hidden stellar skiff headed toward Houtu City, where a female True Person sensed a resonance from her sect and wondered how it could be possible.

Bai Qingcheng followed a sect-related karmic disturbance to Houtu City, then went to Little Luan Mountain to investigate rumors about Zi Xi. There she discovered Mo Hua and recognized him, while Mo Hua realized the terrifying visitor was his Junior Martial Aunt.

• Bai Qingcheng sensed that an unknown Phecda cultivator had stirred the sect's karmic resonance, but she abandoned her investigation and continued toward Houtu City.
• Bai Qingcheng arrived secretly at Houtu City and met a palace-robed woman from her past, who denied hearing rumors about Zi Xi while mentioning Zhenlong's likely arranged marriage.
• Bai Qingcheng inferred that the palace-robed woman was concealing something about Zi Xi and went directly to Little Luan Mountain to investigate for herself.
• Bai Qingcheng sensed a man's aura within Little Luan Mountain and, believing Zi Xi had hidden a lover there, descended with killing intent.
• Mo Hua sensed Bai Qingcheng approaching and prepared to defend himself, but both recognized each other before either attacked.

Bai Qingcheng recognized Mo Hua as her long-lost junior martial nephew and learned about his cultivation and journey to Kun Province. She revealed that Zhuang was being kept alive by a failing array, while Mo Hua offered to help despite her warning that he could not grasp the danger.

• Bai Qingcheng recognized Mo Hua, discovered he had formed a Low-Grade Golden Core, and questioned him about Void Gate and his journey from the Great Wilderness to Houtu City.
• Mo Hua asked how his master was, and Bai Qingcheng told him that Zhuang's life was being held in place by the Mysterious Fire Everlasting Array, powered by Mysterious Mechanism Valley's Qiankun Clear Light Lamp.
• Bai Qingcheng explained that the lamp was wearing out and that the array would fail when it was ruined, leaving Zhuang's life beyond saving.
• Mo Hua offered to help using his studies of Phecda and Karma, but Bai Qingcheng refused and warned him that he could not understand how dangerous the matter was.

Bai Qingcheng warned Bai Zixi that her feelings for Mo Hua could expose him to deadly political and familial dangers, while Mo Hua remained determined to save his master. The chapter ended with True Person Rong asking whether Mo Hua was truly Zhuang Daoling’s disciple.

• Bai Qingcheng told Mo Hua to focus on cultivation and promised to protect him while she handled matters concerning his master.
• Bai Qingcheng confronted Bai Zixi about Mo Hua, and Bai Zixi admitted she did not know what she felt for her Junior Martial Brother.
• Bai Qingcheng warned Bai Zixi that a relationship with Mo Hua could bring the Old Matriarch, the Bai Family, the Dao Court, and others against him.
• After Bai Qingcheng left, Bai Zixi took out the childhood gifts Mo Hua had made for her and wept over their growing distance.
• Bai Qingcheng visited True Person Rong, who revealed she suspected Mo Hua was Zhuang Daoling’s disciple.

Bai Qingcheng and True Person Rong discussed Zhuang Daoling’s death and the danger surrounding Mo Hua, then learned how much Mo Hua had achieved in Kun Province. Bai Qingcheng planned to arrange a safe marriage for him, but the chapter ended with her revealing that she had come to Kun Province to visit a certain place.

• Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that Mo Hua was only an ordinary disciple of Zhuang Daoling and insisted that Zhuang Daoling was dead.
• Bai Qingcheng warned True Person Rong to keep Mo Hua’s master secret and considered finding him a marriage match far from Zi Xi.
• True Person Rong explained that Mo Hua had a Wealth-Ban Order against him after disputes with the Earth Sect and several major clans.
• True Person Rong listed Mo Hua’s accomplishments and titles, surprising Bai Qingcheng, who had assumed he was still an obscure, struggling child.
• Bai Qingcheng resolved to find Mo Hua an exceptional bride, then admitted that she had come to Kun Province to visit a certain place.

Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that she planned to seek help reaching Square Inch Mountain to learn whether her old friend Qingyin could be saved. She then brought Mo Hua to the Lu Family estate, where he met Lu Zhenming, who still resented him.

• Bai Qingcheng told True Person Rong that Qingyin's karma had become corrupted and her life was in danger after she helped quell the Calamity of Evil Disasters.
• Bai Qingcheng decided to ask influential people in Kun Province to pass a request to Square Inch Mountain, which barred outsiders.
• Bai Qingcheng summoned Mo Hua and took him from Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land to the Lu Family estate, while he and Bai Zixi remained awkwardly distant.
• Madam Lu welcomed Bai Qingcheng and recognized Mo Hua as the young cultivator her son Lu Zhenlong often mentioned.
• Mo Hua encountered Lu Zhenming, who glared at him with resentment, but Madam Lu ordered her son to behave courteously.

Madam Lu introduced Mo Hua to Lu Zhenlong and left them alone together. Lu Zhenlong beat Mo Hua three times at Eight Trigrams Chess, then stopped while he wondered why he kept losing.

• Lu Zhenming insulted Mo Hua, but Madam Lu reprimanded him and urged him to preserve good relations between their families.
• Madam Lu took Mo Hua to a pavilion, introduced him to Lu Zhenlong, and asked her to entertain him while she left to speak with Aunt Bai.
• Lu Zhenlong challenged Mo Hua to Eight Trigrams Chess, and she crushed him in their first game.
• Lu Zhenlong won their second and third games, realizing Mo Hua was genuinely bad at chess rather than letting her win.
• Lu Zhenlong declined Mo Hua's request for another game, while Mo Hua wondered whether something was wrong with the way he played.

Mo Hua warned Lu Zhenlong that the Earth Sect Eldest Young Master was a brothel regular and questioned whether her family would sacrifice her in a marriage alliance. Lu Zhenlong revealed two secret characters connected to a joint plan between the Lu Family and Earth Sect, and the chapter ended with Mo Hua returning to Little Luan Mountain alongside True Person Bai.

• Mo Hua told Lu Zhenlong that the Earth Sect Eldest Young Master frequented brothels and was obsessed with a courtesan, making her question the proposed marriage.
• Mo Hua argued that the Lu Family might knowingly sacrifice Lu Zhenlong's future for its interests, and she asked whether he would help her.
• Lu Zhenlong agreed to share what she had overheard from her father and Earth Sect seniors, then wrote two secret characters on Mo Hua's palm.
• Mo Hua burned away the wine and thanked Lu Zhenlong, and they formed a temporary alliance to exchange help and crucial information.
• Madam Lu arrived and escorted Mo Hua to True Person Bai, who then departed with him for Little Luan Mountain.

Madame Lu considered possible marriages for Lu Zhenlong while warning Lu Zhenming to focus on the Lu family’s affairs. Meanwhile, Mo Hua connected the Lu family’s secretive references to Breath Soil with old array drafts and suspected the Earth Sect and four great clans planned to build an Earth-Element Breath Soil Grand Array.

• Lu Zhenlong asked Madame Lu about the Earth Sect’s Eldest Young Master, while Madame Lu weighed him against Mo Hua as a possible match for her daughter.
• Lu Zhenming objected to Mo Hua as a husband for Lu Zhenlong, and Madame Lu rebuked him and ordered him to focus on practical work for the Lu family.
• Bai Qingcheng and True Person Rong discussed Mo Hua’s marriage prospects and the risks posed by his poor spirit-root inheritance and striking appearance.
• Mo Hua sealed his guest room, examined Lu Zhenlong’s message about Breath Soil, and compared it with the name in Elder Tian’s array drafts.
• Mo Hua inferred that the Earth Sect and the four great clans might be jointly constructing an Earth-Element Breath Soil Grand Array.

Mo Hua investigated the Breath Soil Grand Array while Bai Qingcheng arranged marriage introductions, but learned that Uncle Gu had gone missing amid worsening unrest in the Great Spirit Field Realm. After divining Uncle Gu’s whereabouts and seeing visions of death and suffering, Mo Hua decided to leave Houtu City.

• Mo Hua destroyed the paper bearing the words “Breath Soil” and concealed his traces as karmic probing stopped at Little Luan Mountain Blessed Land.
• Bai Qingcheng introduced Mo Hua to prominent clan women, who praised his appearance but doubted his value as a marriage match because of his Spirit Root and cultivation.
• Mo Hua secretly sought clues to the Breath Soil Grand Array among the great lineages but found none, while growing troubled by the distance between him and his junior martial sister.
• Yu Cangming told Mo Hua that Uncle Gu remained in the Great Spirit Field Realm, communications had been cut off, and demonic unrest had spread to Houtu City.
• Mo Hua used Great Wilderness Demon Bone Divination to seek Uncle Gu and saw visions of suffering, Demonic Cultivators, and Dao Court Office members dying before he stopped the divination.
• Mo Hua told Bai Qingcheng that he would not stay in Houtu City and was leaving.

Mo Hua rejected Bai Qingcheng’s offer of a future among the Great Clans and left Little Luan Mountain for the Great Spirit Field Realm. His departure went unnoticed by most of Houtu City, but Bai Qingcheng glimpsed a terrifying shadow behind him as he vanished.

• Bai Qingcheng tried to persuade Mo Hua to stay in Houtu City and accept the resources and protection of a Great Clan, but he insisted on following his own path.
• Mo Hua said goodbye to Bai Zixi, who asked whether he would return, and he could only answer that he did not know.
• Mo Hua gave True Person Rong a booklet on causality techniques as thanks for protecting him, and True Person Rong told him he could return if the outside world proved too dangerous.
• Bai Qingcheng, Bai Zixi, and Xiao Ju saw Mo Hua off as he left Little Luan Mountain the next morning for the Great Spirit Field Realm.
• After Mo Hua disappeared from sight, Bai Qingcheng saw a fleeting black shadow that reminded her of a terrifying person, then lost track of him with her divine sense.
• Mo Hua disguised himself, concealed his Heavenly Secrets, and left Houtu City; the chapter declared that the Great Spirit Field Realm would receive the Living Yama.

Mo Hua traveled through the famine-stricken Great Spirit Field Realm, saved Spirit Farmers from a slaughterhouse, and continued toward the chaotic Azure Fields State Boundary to investigate the Breath Soil Grand Array and find Uncle Gu. The driver ignored Mo Hua’s warning to take the southern road and was killed after entering a desolate forest.

• A driver diverted Mo Hua and a carriage of Spirit Farmers to a relay station, where butchers tried to slaughter them as rations.
• Mo Hua defeated the butchers with Gold Blade and Fireball Techniques, spared the driver, and ordered him to continue toward the Southern Grain State Boundary.
• After the Spirit Farmers left for home, Mo Hua told the driver to take him to the border of Azure Fields, where Mo Hua planned to investigate the Breath Soil Grand Array and search for Uncle Gu.
• Mo Hua entered Azure Fields alone and warned the driver to take the southern road back.
• The driver ignored Mo Hua’s warning, took the northern road through a desolate forest, and was later found dead beside his broken carriage.

Mo Hua searched the famine-stricken Azure Fields State Boundary for Gu Changhuai and learned that Dao Court Office cultivators had been seen near a ruined temple. At the forested hills, he found a strange web infused with Thought Power and suspected it was a Left Path technique.

• Mo Hua traveled through the devastated Azure Fields State Boundary, where he found rotting soil and corpses, while following the Causality Art toward Gu Changhuai.
• Mo Hua entered a refugee stronghold and questioned its Stronghold Master, who claimed he knew nothing about the Dao Court Office cultivators.
• A starving woman told Mo Hua she had seen several dozen Dao Court Office cultivators near a ruined temple about a hundred miles southeast, in exchange for food for her child.
• Mo Hua gave the child a meal, gave the woman an Inedia Pill, and entrusted two bottles of Inedia Pills to the Stronghold Master to distribute among the refugees.
• Mo Hua reached the forested hills, found a broken web carrying strange Thought Power, and suspected it was a Left Path technique.

Mo Hua studied the Spider Demon Thought Power behind the Left Path maze and traced it to a wild temple hidden in Thousand-Spider Forest. He forced open a hidden gate and entered the forest beyond, where he found blood he recognized as Uncle Gu’s.

• Mo Hua identified the forest’s spiderweb Thought Power as Spider Demon Monster Consciousness and deduced that the woods formed a Left Path maze.
• Mo Hua followed the Thought Power through the forest, found the Thousand-Spider Forest stele, and reached a hidden wild temple.
• Mo Hua entered the temple’s secret chamber and discovered a Nine-Colored Spider Diagram and a dial that opened a hidden gate through a ritual.
• Unable to decipher the gate’s password, Mo Hua repeatedly turned the dial, endured its backlash, and eventually opened the gate.
• Mo Hua crossed into the deeper forest beyond the gate and found a bloodstain that his intuition identified as Uncle Gu’s blood.

Mo Hua followed Uncle Gu’s blood trail through Thousand-Spider Old Forest and infiltrated a band of cannibalistic rioters by pretending to serve Master Wu. He led them to Gu Changhuai’s defenses, where the rioters’ attacks were devastated by hidden arrays, and the Azure-Faced Leader asked whether Mo Hua understood Array Techniques.

• Mo Hua followed the bloodstains with his Causality Method but became lost when the forest distorted his divine sense and calculations.
• Mo Hua encountered the Azure-Faced Leader and his rioters, then pretended to be Master Wu’s envoy to gain their trust.
• Mo Hua persuaded the Azure-Faced Leader to gather his men and hunt the Dao Court cultivators, including Gu Changhuai.
• The Azure-Faced Leader tracked Gu Changhuai’s group to a defensive position filled with hidden arrays.
• The rioters charged into the arrays several times, suffering heavy casualties as Mo Hua stayed silent among them.
• The Azure-Faced Leader asked Mo Hua whether he understood Array Techniques, and Mo Hua replied that he knew a little.

Mo Hua disguised himself as a black-robed master and guided the Azure-Faced Leader’s tribesmen through Gu Changhuai’s array, then watched as the Azure Fields High Person attacked Gu Changhuai and the Dao Court Office cultivators. When the black-robed master finally struck, Gu Changhuai recognized the incoming Fireball and was stunned.

• Mo Hua pretended to make mistakes while guiding the Azure-Faced Leader’s tribesmen through the killing array, killing and injuring many along the way.
• The Azure-Faced Leader led his tribesmen to Gu Changhuai’s camp and ordered them to attack the wounded Dao Court Office cultivators.
• Gu Changhuai fought the Azure Fields High Person while trying to protect his comrades, and the two sides traded spells across the forest.
• The Azure Fields High Person called on the black-robed Senior Master to help him, and Gu Changhuai noticed the figure looked like Mo Hua.
• The black-robed Senior Master pointed at Gu Changhuai and sent a Fireball toward him, leaving Gu Changhuai shocked.

Mo Hua joined Gu Changhuai’s fight against the Azure Fields High Person, using rapid spells to give Gu Changhuai time to unleash his Wind-Feather Transformation Art and seemingly kill their enemy. The Azure Fields High Person revived through a mysterious pattern in his body, leaving Mo Hua suspecting it was connected to puppet control or an Array Technique.

• Mo Hua attacked Gu Changhuai with fireballs while the Azure Fields High Person pressed him, driving Gu Changhuai into a mountain hollow.
• Gu Changhuai began charging the Gu Family’s Wind-Feather Transformation Art, and the Azure Fields High Person rushed to kill him before it was complete.
• Mo Hua repeatedly bound the Azure Fields High Person with Water Prison, giving Gu Changhuai time to finish his technique.
• Gu Changhuai unleashed a torrent of Luan Feather Wind Blades that mangled the Azure Fields High Person and left him apparently dead.
• Mo Hua struck the corpse with a fireball, revealing a glowing pattern that repaired the Azure Fields High Person’s body and revived him.
• The Azure Fields High Person said he had died again, and Mo Hua suspected the pattern resembled a puppet-control thread or Array Technique.