Recaps

Fang Mo and his companions were led into a silent village, where an old woman offered them living Tai Sui Meat and demanded they overlook the village’s affairs. Fang Mo rejected the meal and attacked her, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Fang Mo followed the Black Tooth Old Woman through Liuxi Village as its silent villagers trailed the group.
• The Black Tooth Old Woman served a strange, fragrant meat soup in a decaying house, and Qian Dagui nearly reached for it before Fang Mo stopped him.
• Fang Mo questioned the old woman about her absent husband and the village’s crops, and she revealed that eating Tai Sui Meat would make them accomplices.
• Yan Wangchou readied a short blade as Fang Mo threw a slice of meat at the old woman, hurled the table and soup at her, and drew his saber to strike her neck.

Fang Mo and his companions fought their way through Liuxi Village’s Bone Puppets after Fang Mo beheaded the Old Woman. Fang Mo traced the puppets’ source to the ancestral hall and led the group toward it, carving a path through the village.

• Fang Mo attacked the Old Woman, and she summoned the Bone Puppets surrounding the house.
• Iron Bull smashed through the wall as Fang Mo used Still Water Mirror to discover the villagers were rune-covered skeletons animated by ghostly flames.
• Qian Dagui blasted the Bone Puppets with Golden Light Talismans while Yan Wangchou severed their limbs and Iron Bull smashed through their ranks.
• Fang Mo saw underground red veins converging beneath the ancestral hall and realized the puppets’ power came from there.
• Fang Mo ordered the group toward the ancestral hall, and Iron Bull, Yan Wangchou, and Qian Dagui helped him force a path through Liuxi Village.

Fang Mo and his companions fought their way to the village’s ancestral hall, which concealed a Blood Well fed by underground Red Veins. They discovered a white fleshy lotus blooming in the well, but its purpose remained unknown.

• Fang Mo identified the village’s Red Veins as pipes feeding an enormous underground alchemy furnace.
• Fang Mo, Yan Wangchou, and Iron Bull confronted four Iron Corpse Puppets guarding the ancestral hall, and Fang Mo destroyed one with Blood Burst and a strike to its Spinal Dragon.
• Qian Dagui blew open the ancestral hall’s gates with Thunderclap Hall’s Sky-shattering Thunder.
• Fang Mo and Yan Wangchou entered the hall and found a sinister three-headed, six-armed statue resembling the Bloodthirsty Rakshasa.
• Fang Mo and his companions discovered a funnel-shaped pit where the village’s Red Veins fed a Blood Well, with a pure-white fleshy lotus blooming at its center.

Fang Mo and his companions discovered a Flesh Spirit Pill being cultivated in a Blood Well and confronted the Blood God Temple’s Red Robe Man, who wanted Fang Mo’s golden bones to hasten its growth. Fang Mo ordered his allies to seal the hall and fight off intruders as he faced the Red Robe Man’s ghost attack with the Prison Suppressor.

• Yan Wangchou recognized the giant lotus in the Blood Well as a Flesh Spirit Pill, and Qian Dagui explained that it was a life-extending medicine made from the flesh and vital essence of hundreds of people.
• The Red Robe Man emerged from the shadows, revealed his connection to the Blood God Temple, and announced that Fang Mo’s golden bones could make the Flesh Tai Sui mature early.
• Fang Mo drew his saber and ordered Yan Wangchou and Iron Bull to keep the bone puppets outside while Qian Dagui sealed the hall with his array flags.
• The Red Robe Man attacked Fang Mo with the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, releasing a torrent of vengeful souls from his fan.
• Fang Mo advanced into the ghostly attack and summoned the phantom Black Prison, calling on the Prison Suppressor to open its gates.

Fang Mo used Prison Suppressor to devour the ghosts from Red Robe Man’s Hundred Ghosts Fan, then defeated and crippled Red Robe Man with his saber and Bloodthirsty Rakshasa abilities. As Fang Mo stood over him, Red Robe Man bit off half his tongue and sprayed his blood into the Blood Well.

• Fang Mo opened Prison Suppressor, and the ghosts from Red Robe Man’s Hundred Ghosts Fan rushed into the prison and were devoured.
• Fang Mo fought Red Robe Man, using his strength, Rakshasa Body, and pressure on Red Robe Man’s blood and Qi to gain the advantage.
• Iron Bull smashed a pillar into the Bone Puppets while Yan Wangchou attacked their joints and Qian Dagui defended himself with talismans and Thunder Fire Beads.
• Fang Mo used Blood Burst to make Red Robe Man’s blood and Qi run wild, then slammed him to the floor and shattered the joints in his limbs.
• Red Robe Man bit off half his tongue and sprayed blood into the Blood Well as he declared that Fang Mo had not won.

Fang Mo and Yuanjue battled the Cannibal Rakshasa, a Red Robe Man empowered by the ancestral hall’s statue. Iron Bull destroyed the statue, severing the creature’s power as Fang Mo moved in to finish him.

• The Red Robe Man invoked the Rakshasa Venerable and transformed into the heavily armored Cannibal Rakshasa, whose hide resisted Fang Mo’s saber.
• Fang Mo summoned Yuanjue, whose true Rakshasa authority let him fight the Cannibal Rakshasa and pierce his hide from within using the Blood Scripture.
• Fang Mo recognized that the monster’s strength came from the statue and ordered Iron Bull to destroy it.
• Yuanjue restrained the Cannibal Rakshasa while Iron Bull smashed the statue, cutting off the monster’s power and causing him to shrink.
• Fang Mo seized the opening and charged into the weakened Cannibal Rakshasa’s fight.

Fang Mo killed the Cannibal Rakshasa and absorbed its power, transforming his golden bones into legendary jade bones. The remaining force drove him into a dangerous attempt to break through to organ refining, a realm that required a deity to be invited into a prepared inner temple.

• Fang Mo tore the Cannibal Rakshasa's fleshy tumor from its chest and killed it, then gave the tumor to Yuanjue as a reward.
• Fang Mo examined the fully bloomed Flesh Lotus and its blood-red lotus seed, while Yan Wangchou warned that the lotus was only a half-finished product.
• The Record of Punishing Crimes purified the Cannibal Rakshasa's essence, and Fang Mo's golden bones shattered and remade themselves as jade bones.
• Yan Wangchou explained that jade bones were legendary and superior in spirituality, while Qian Dagui watched Fang Mo's transformation.
• The excess power inside Fang Mo began damaging his organs and forcing a breakthrough, and Yan Wangchou warned that organ refining required inviting a deity into an inner temple.

Fang Mo forced the Cannibal Rakshasa authority into his stomach to control the power of his Inner Fire, then gave in to its hunger and devoured the Flesh Lotus raw. The Great Medicine stabilized his cultivation and strengthened his body, leaving him having achieved the Organ Refining Realm.

• Fang Mo used the Record of Punishing Crimes to bind the Cannibal Rakshasa authority and force it onto the Divine Throne in his Viscera Temple.
• Fang Mo awoke with blood-red eyes and nearly attacked Qian Dagui, but resisted the urge and turned toward the Flesh Lotus in the Blood Well.
• Fang Mo knocked Yan Wangchou and Iron Bull aside, uprooted the Flesh Lotus, and ate half of it raw despite Yan Wangchou's warning about its poison.
• Fang Mo absorbed the Flesh Lotus's life force, stabilized his cultivation, strengthened his muscles and Jade Bones, and achieved the Organ Refining Realm.

Fang Mo destroyed the Blood Well compound and secured evidence implicating the Ministry of War and a powerful palace figure. As his group returned to the city, he gained the Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation ability, while Yan Wangchou noticed something unusual near the gates.

• Fang Mo ordered Yan Wangchou to search the compound and Iron Bull to collect inscribed armor from the Iron Corpse Puppets.
• Yan Wangchou found letters recording shipments and allocations, along with a token marked for the Military Selection Department; Fang Mo kept the evidence despite its danger.
• Fang Mo had Liuxi Village and the ancestral hall burned, then explained to Qian Dagui that the letters and token were evidence while the destroyed site was a liability.
• Fang Mo took armor stamped with the words “military armory” and hid it with the Sandalwood Box in the carriage before heading back to the city.
• Fang Mo received the Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation divine ability after containing the Cannibal Rakshasa, and Yan Wangchou warned that something seemed wrong near the city gates.

Fang Mo returned to the city carrying the Red Robe Demon's severed head, and Lei Heng summoned him to White Tiger Hall while trying to learn what had happened at Liuxi Village. The chapter ended with Fang Mo revealing the transformed demon's head as his proof that he had completed the mission.

• Fang Mo noticed the Punishment Department had sealed the city gate and suspected Lei Heng was waiting to confirm his fate or seize what he had brought back.
• Fang Mo identified himself at the gate and warned the captains that the Sandalwood Box contained important testimony they would be responsible for protecting.
• Lei Heng heard that scouts sent to Liuxi Village had vanished and concluded Fang Mo might have died in the fire or destroyed the evidence.
• A captain reported Fang Mo's return, and Lei Heng ordered him brought into White Tiger Hall.
• Lei Heng sensed that Fang Mo had advanced into the organ refining realm and asked whether he had found the people from Liuxi Village.
• Fang Mo opened the Sandalwood Box and revealed the Red Robe Demon's severed head.

Fang Mo confronted Lei Heng with the head of the Blood God Temple contact and hinted that he knew about Lei Heng’s connection to the Ministry of War and an armory. Lei Heng decided to make Fang Mo famous to draw the attention of powerful figures, while Fang Mo set out for Yihong Pavilion to gather information.

• Fang Mo told Lei Heng that his men had slain the fiend at Liuxi Village and burned the villagers’ remains, then presented the fiend’s head as proof.
• Lei Heng begrudgingly rewarded Fang Mo with five hundred taels and three days of rest, while Fang Mo hinted that the fiend had mentioned the Ministry of War and an armory.
• After Fang Mo left, Lei Heng rejected a plan to kill him and ordered Shadow to publicize Fang Mo’s victory so powerful figures would take notice of him.
• Fang Mo reassured Yan Wangchou and Qian Dagui, then chose to visit Yihong Pavilion to seek information rather than return to the barracks.

Fang Mo led officers from the Punishment Department to Yihong Pavilion, where Mama Feng expected a shakedown but instead recognized her troublesome former customer. He introduced Qian Dagui as a wealthy patron, leaving the brothel staff to face an unexpected visit that Fang Mo framed as an opportunity for business.

• A Punishment Department procession arrived at Yihong Pavilion, and a frightened attendant alerted Mama Feng that the officers had come.
• Mama Feng ordered Liu Hong to bring three thousand taels in banknotes so she could placate the officers.
• Mama Feng recognized Fang Mo and complained that his previous visits had damaged her doors and windows.
• Qian Dagui defended Fang Mo, and Fang Mo stopped him from worsening the argument.
• Fang Mo introduced Qian Dagui of the Jiangnan Qian Family as a wealthy patron who could pay for wine, food, and even the whole building’s destruction.

Fang Mo brought Qian Dagui and his companions to Yihong Pavilion, then went upstairs to see Nian Nu'er and immediately fell asleep in her bed. Nian Nu'er watched over him, recognizing something unusual about his body.

• Qian Dagui paid Mama Feng to open Yihong Pavilion and bring out its girls, while Fang Mo told him to make a show of spending money.
• Fang Mo left Qian Dagui, Yan Wangchou, and Iron Bull downstairs and went to Nian Nu'er's room.
• Nian Nu'er complained that Fang Mo had kept her waiting, then embraced him and teased him about his scent.
• Fang Mo said he was tired, got into bed, and fell asleep almost at once, leaving Nian Nu'er dumbfounded.
• Nian Nu'er refrained from striking Fang Mo and studied his face, wondering about his Jade Bones.

Fang Mo sentenced the captured Blood God Temple disciple Luo Changfeng to a thousand cudgel strikes in Prison Suppressor and extracted a memory about his mysterious master. The memory revealed a connection to someone in the palace, leaving Fang Mo to realize the plot extended beyond the Divine Capital.

• Fang Mo entered Prison Suppressor and found Wang Ergou, Gu Yichuan, Yuanjue, Yuantong, Yuanji, and Iron Bone Liu at work disciplining prisoners and cleaning up ghost remnants.
• Fang Mo confronted the captured Red Robe Man, who identified himself as the reincarnation of the Cannibal Rakshasa and threatened him with his master's revenge.
• The Record of Punishing Crimes exposed Luo Changfeng's history of murder, cannibalism, and using people to make human pills, then sentenced him to a thousand cudgel strikes.
• Wang Ergou struck Luo Changfeng with the Water-Fire Cudgel, while Fang Mo absorbed the cultivation energy returned by the Record of Punishing Crimes.
• Fang Mo extracted a memory in which Luo Changfeng's master demanded haste with the Flesh Spirit Pill because someone in the palace could not wait, and warned that the Blood God Temple's abbot would suffer if the larger plan failed.

Fang Mo learned that Li Fuguo was connected to the Blood God Temple’s pill operation and gained the Blood Shadow Clone ability, but found no answers about his father’s death. He returned to his body at Yihong Pavilion, where Nian Nu'er warned him that someone was watching outside.

• Fang Mo punished Luo Changfeng, recorded his crimes, and gained the Blood Scripture: Blood Transformation Chapter and the Blood Shadow Clone ability.
• Fang Mo learned from Luo Changfeng that the seal-bearing eunuch Li Fuguo had arranged the pill operation, but Luo knew nothing about Fang Dashan.
• Fang Mo suspected that whoever had caused his father’s death was beyond the Blood God Temple’s reach and considered investigating Block C, Room Shen prison.
• Fang Mo sensed an attempt on his life and withdrew his consciousness to his body at Yihong Pavilion.
• Nian Nu'er teased Fang Mo with a goose feather and told him that a watcher outside had been observing them.

Fang Mo discovered and killed an assassin spying on him at the Yihong Pavilion, absorbing the man’s Qi and blood. The next morning, he left for the bureau with Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Yan Wangchou after Qian paid the pavilion’s bill for the damaged room.

• Fang Mo sensed a hidden watcher on the roof while embracing Nian Nu'er, then burst through the window and attacked him.
• Fang Mo wounded the black-clad assassin and used Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation to stop his escape and pin him in the alley.
• Fang Mo removed the assassin’s poisoned false tooth, recognized him as a death warrior, and drained his Qi and blood.
• Nian Nu'er teased Fang Mo about his appetite, and he replied that he might eat her too.
• Qian Dagui complained about the five-thousand-tael bill and paid Mama Feng for the damage as Fang Mo prepared to return to the bureau.

Fang Mo confronted Zhao Gang and the Ministry of War soldiers, who demanded the armor fragments and letters from Liuxi Village. As Zhao Gang ordered his men to seize Fang Mo, Li Mingyue arrived with the Demon Suppression Division and challenged his authority.

• Fang Mo rode to the Punishment Department Barracks as passersby whispered about his growing reputation and the danger he faced.
• Zhao Gang demanded that Fang Mo hand over the armor fragments and letters recovered from Liuxi Village.
• Fang Mo denied having the evidence and told Zhao Gang to leave unless he had a proper arrest warrant.
• Zhao Gang accused Fang Mo of embezzling military equipment and ordered his soldiers to seize him, killing him if he resisted.
• Li Mingyue arrived with the Demon Suppression Division and rebuked Zhao Gang for trying to arrest someone outside his authority.

Li Mingyue shielded Fang Mo from Zhao Gang’s attempted arrest, and Fang Mo publicly mocked the accusation until the Ministry of War withdrew. In a private teahouse, Li Mingyue pressed Fang Mo about the Cannibal Rakshasa and her accomplices, but he demanded that she exchange information with him first.

• Li Mingyue accused Zhao Gang of trying to silence Fang Mo over the Ministry of War’s possible connection to the sinister formation in Liuxi Village.
• Fang Mo produced a piece of pork head meat as supposed evidence of his theft, provoking the crowd’s laughter and forcing Zhao Gang to withdraw his men.
• Li Mingyue ordered Fang Mo to follow her, and he sent Iron Bull and Yan Wangchou back to the Barracks before riding after her.
• At a secluded teahouse, Li Mingyue asked Fang Mo where the Sandalwood Box was and whether the Cannibal Rakshasa had accomplices.
• Fang Mo refused to answer until Li Mingyue agreed to exchange information, and she ordered him to sit down.

Fang Mo negotiated with Li Mingyue for protection and access to the Demon Suppression Division’s Scripture Pavilion in exchange for a lead about the Sandalwood Box. After naming Li Fuguo as a suspect, he noticed someone watching him from across the street.

• Li Mingyue told Fang Mo that a fire at the Pavilion of Listening to Rain had killed the man surnamed Li and erased the trail at Red Sleeve Beckons.
• Fang Mo refused to hand over the box and bargained with Li Mingyue for protection from the Ministry of War and entry to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Li Mingyue agreed to let Fang Mo visit the first three floors of the Scripture Pavilion for one hour if his intelligence proved true.
• Fang Mo named Imperial Stable Bureau’s Li Fuguo as a lead and suggested the eunuch might covet the Flesh Spirit Pill.
• Fang Mo saw an emotionless watcher observing him from the second floor of the restaurant across the street.

Fang Mo bluffed Eunuch Liu into backing down by claiming he possessed a ledger implicating Li Fuguo, then learned from Liu’s reaction that such a ledger may once have existed. Li Mingyue warned Fang Mo that he had made an enemy of Li Fuguo and ordered him to stay within her sight.

• Eunuch Liu brought Fang Mo food and ten thousand taels in banknotes, then demanded to know where the Sandalwood Box was.
• Fang Mo claimed the box contained a ledger and threatened to expose its contents if he was harmed, making Eunuch Liu withdraw.
• After Eunuch Liu left, Fang Mo realized his bluff had revealed that a damaging ledger might once have been kept in the Liuxi Village cellar.
• Li Mingyue emerged from hiding, questioned Fang Mo about the ledger, and arranged to meet him at the Demon Suppression Division’s rear gate.
• Fang Mo offered Li Mingyue half the banknotes for the Demon Suppression Division; she refused, warned him about Li Fuguo, and told him not to leave her sight.

Fang Mo met Li Mingyue at the Demon Suppression Division and entered its underground Scripture Pavilion to study martial knowledge. He began reading a complete copy of Martial Scripture: General Outline and frowned as he examined its account of the Organ Refining Realm.

• Fang Mo concluded that Li Fuguo, the Ministry of War, and the Demon Suppression Division would keep one another in check, making him safer as their key witness.
• Fang Mo met Li Mingyue in a back alley, and she led him through a hidden entrance to the Demon Suppression Division's Scripture Pavilion.
• Li Mingyue used a Jade Token to open the pavilion's guarded stone doors and explained that Fang Mo could access only its first three floors.
• Li Mingyue warned Fang Mo that the third floor held dangerous cultivation methods, but he dismissed her concern and chose to explore the pavilion.
• Fang Mo stopped on the first floor and read the complete Martial Scripture: General Outline, becoming increasingly troubled by its explanation of Organ Refining.

Fang Mo learned that Organ Refining required inviting dangerous Dirty Gods into the body, while Li Mingyue warned him that pursuing more gods could ruin his potential and life. He followed her to the sealed third level of the Demon Suppression Division’s collection, where he became interested in an inheritance from a Demon Lord.

• Fang Mo questioned Li Mingyue about the organ-refining method and learned that she had perfected all five organs and their divine powers.
• Li Mingyue explained that the five gods had formed a closed loop in her body and warned Fang Mo against inviting more gods.
• Fang Mo thanked Li Mingyue while privately believing his Record of Punishing Crimes could turn Sin Prisoners and Gods and Devils into vitality for himself.
• Fang Mo followed Li Mingyue up to the sealed third level, where she warned him not to cultivate or touch the Demon inheritances with his Divine Sense.
• Fang Mo examined a human-skin book titled Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord · Thousand-Eyed Uncanny Art.

Fang Mo took the Netherworld Ghost Eye despite Li Mingyue’s warning and was attacked by the ghost seed’s remnant soul. Prison Suppressor appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and subdued the intruder, leaving it at the mercy of Wang Ergou and the others.

• Fang Mo chose the Netherworld Ghost Eye, hoping its abilities would help him deal with ghosts and spirit bodies.
• Li Mingyue warned Fang Mo that the eye could possess him, but he demanded her warrant and charged through the sealing barrier.
• Fang Mo seized the eye, and its remnant soul invaded his body and tried to devour his consciousness.
• Prison Suppressor appeared in Fang Mo’s Sea of Consciousness, where he ordered its chains to capture and weaken the remnant soul.
• Wang Ergou gathered Gu Yichuan and the others around the captured soul, eager to attack it.

Fang Mo absorbed the Netherworld Ghost Eye, gaining the ability to see through things and detect spirits, while Li Mingyue witnessed his alarming power. He left the Demon Suppression Division with a warning about palace enemies and a newly loosened door in Prison Suppressor’s Black Tower.

• Fang Mo used Prison Suppressor to extract the Netherworld Ghost Eye’s essence and erase the remnant soul’s intelligence.
• Fang Mo swallowed the ghost eye, endured its pain, and gained spectral vision that let him see through Li Mingyue and detect a Yinhun Whistle spying nearby.
• Li Mingyue was shocked that Fang Mo had devoured a Ghostly Being, and he asked her to describe the incident as him suppressing its Ghost Qi.
• Li Mingyue warned Fang Mo that Li Fuguo and the palace could still target him, but Fang Mo said he was ready to fight them.
• Fang Mo sensed that the first-floor door of Prison Suppressor’s Black Tower had loosened after absorbing the Ghost Path essence, then left Li Mingyue behind.

After swallowing a Netherworld Ghost Eye, Fang Mo used Through Nether to see hidden ghosts, corruption, and signs of fate in the Divine Capital. He returned to the Seventh Squad’s renovated barracks and found Qian Dagui and the others feasting with a mysterious red-robed monk named Master Jie Se.

• Fang Mo let the Netherworld Ghost Eye’s power run through him and saw Death Qi, Pink Foulness, and strange signs around the city’s residents and estates.
• Fang Mo spotted a black cat made of Vengeful Spirits, and his shadow swallowed it, earning three wisps of soul force from Prison Suppressor.
• Fang Mo arrived at the Seventh Squad’s renovated barracks and found Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Old Yan drinking and eating with a monk.
• Fang Mo used the Netherworld Ghost Eye to examine the monk and saw a dark-golden glow filled with twisting Sanskrit characters and faces.
• Qian Dagui introduced the monk as Master Jie Se, his friend who had supposedly shared life and death with him.