Recaps

Fang Mo hosted the mysterious Western Regions monk Jie Se, who claimed he had come to repay a karmic debt and warned of impending danger. After the others retired, Jie Se admitted that the debt would not be easy to repay.

• Jie Se told Fang Mo that he sought a destined benefactor to help him overcome a coming tribulation, and Fang Mo suspected he might be connected to the Blood God Temple.
• Fang Mo invited Jie Se to drink with the squad, deciding it was safer to keep the powerful monk close and potentially recruit him.
• Jie Se warned Fang Mo of a peach blossom tribulation and a blood disaster, then tried to sell him a protective jade token for four hundred taels.
• Fang Mo rejected the token and kicked Jie Se away, then sent the drunken guests to bed.
• After the courtyard fell quiet, Jie Se watched Fang Mo's door and said the karmic debt would not be easy to repay.

Fang Mo watched as Jie Se faced five assassins who infiltrated the Seventh Squad Barracks to kill him and seize the ledger. Jie Se revealed the power of his Joyful Zen techniques and killed their leader, while the other assassins remained at large.

• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bone Liu to watch the approaching guests without interfering.
• Five skilled assassins entered the Seventh Squad Barracks and split up to attack Fang Mo and search for the ledger.
• Jie Se rose to meet the leader and told Fang Mo to watch his Pledge of Allegiance.
• Jie Se used Blissful Palm to dissolve the leader's defenses and crush his chest, leaving him smiling as he died.

Jie Se defeated a group of assassins who attacked Fang Mo, and Fang Mo learned they had been sent by the son of the Ministry of Justice’s left vice minister, a backer of Fourth Brother Zhao. Fang Mo let Jie Se clean up the bodies and prepared to pursue the feud with his new enemies.

• Jie Se killed the black-clad leader and swiftly disabled the four other assassins with his techniques.
• Fang Mo examined the leader’s corpse, killed an assassin rendered useless by Jie Se’s Bewitching Powder, and used the Netherworld Ghost Eye to interrogate another survivor.
• Fang Mo learned the attack came from the son of the Ministry of Justice’s left vice minister, who wanted to reclaim territory and a fictitious ledger.
• Fang Mo left Jie Se to loot and dispose of the bodies, and Jie Se absorbed their vital essence.
• The Record of Punishing Crimes awarded Fang Mo five wisps of soul power and one mass of Sha Qi for taking the five wandering souls into custody.
• Fang Mo resolved to settle the score with Fourth Brother Zhao and the Young Master Shilang.

Fang Mo accepted a dangerous assignment to hunt a spirit tiger on Black Wind Ridge after an explosion at White Tiger Hall revealed Lei Heng was under pressure. Before leaving the city, Fang Mo prepared to collect the five thousand taels Zhao Fourth Brother owed for medical expenses.

• Fang Mo ate a lavish breakfast arranged by Qian Dagui, who had bought out the Gathering Immortals Tower to provide their meals.
• Wu Er delivered Lei Heng’s order for Fang Mo’s Seventh Squad to hunt a spirit tiger on Black Wind Ridge.
• An explosion rocked White Tiger Hall, and Fang Mo suspected Lei Heng was sending him out of the city to keep him away from the chaos.
• Fang Mo told Wu Er he would accept the assignment, while Old Yan warned that enemies might be waiting beyond the city.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to bring his gear and Old Yan to prepare the carriage so they could collect Zhao Fourth Brother’s debt before leaving.

Fang Mo stormed into Four Seas Gambling House and forced Fourth Brother Zhao to pay compensation and surrender control of most of the gambling house’s earnings. He left with the money and a spiritual jade pendant, warning Zhao’s hidden backer to come for the ledger himself.

• Fang Mo kicked down the gambling house’s door, and Qian Dagui paid off the gamblers to clear the hall.
• Fang Mo confronted the injured Fourth Brother Zhao and slapped him down when Zhao threatened him with Young Master Shilang’s backing.
• Fang Mo demanded five thousand taels for the damage and distress caused the previous night, and Fourth Brother Zhao ordered his accountant to pay.
• Fang Mo took Zhao’s jade pendant and ordered the gambling house to send seventy percent of its takings to the Seventh Squad.
• Fang Mo warned Fourth Brother Zhao to tell his master to come for the ledger himself, then left the gambling house.

Fang Mo led the Seventh Squad toward Wild Dog Slope while several hostile groups followed, and he deliberately staged a carriage breakdown to draw them out. As the hidden attackers waited for an opening, army scouts fired poisoned arrows at Qian Dagui.

• Fang Mo detected three groups following the carriage: unorthodox practitioners, army scouts, and a hidden figure with a corpse odor.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to remove a wheel at Wild Dog Slope so the group would appear vulnerable.
• The bandaged man and Old Woman decided to let the army scouts attack first, wary of Jie Se and Iron Bull.
• The army leader targeted Qian Dagui for his valuable flesh and ordered his men to wait until the fire lit him up.
• The army scouts loosed three poisoned Bone-Piercing Arrows at Qian Dagui from behind.

Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Jie Se stopped an ambush on the imperial highway while Fang Mo waited for the threat from Black Wind Ridge to reveal itself. A Daoist from the Corpse-Driving Sect sent a zombie tiger after Fang Mo, who charged at it head-on.

• Three poisoned arrows struck Qian Dagui’s Myriad Treasure Golden Silk Armor and failed to harm him.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to act, and Iron Bull hurled a carriage axle that smashed the rock shelter and killed the three archers.
• Jie Se intercepted the Old Woman and her bandaged companion in the woods, then released Joyful Zen poison against them.
• A zombie tiger and its corpse-riding Daoist emerged from Black Wind Ridge, and the Daoist attacked Fang Mo with the tiger.
• Fang Mo charged straight at the lunging zombie tiger.

Fang Mo killed a Corpse Herding Cult Daoist and devoured his Zombie Tiger, using its essence to break through to the mid organ refining realm. He ordered his companions to dispose of the evidence and rested while the [Record of Punishing Crimes] awaited new sins.

• Fang Mo used his Blood Shadow Clones and saber strikes to kill the Daoist and sever his head.
• Black Fiend went berserk, but Fang Mo kicked the Zombie Tiger into a boulder and crushed its jaw.
• Fang Mo activated Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation and absorbed Black Fiend, breaking through to the mid organ refining realm.
• Qian Dagui, Monk Jie Se, and Iron Bull reacted to Fang Mo’s feat, and Fang Mo assigned them to repair the carriage and clean up the scene.
• Fang Mo leaned against a bluestone to nap as the [Record of Punishing Crimes] opened to a new page.

Fang Mo tortured the Yin Mountain Daoist in Prison Suppressor and uncovered memories linking Lei Heng to the crimes at Black Wind Ridge. The Daoist’s memories also revealed Fang Mo’s father, Fang Dashan, had destroyed the Corpse Herding Cult with a single saber strike, leaving Fang Mo questioning his father’s death before turning his attention back to Black Wind Ridge.

• Fang Mo ordered Wang Ergou to interrogate the Yin Mountain Daoist, and the Record of Punishing Crimes sentenced the Daoist to the Oil Pot.
• Fang Mo chained the Daoist into the boiling oil and extracted memories that showed Lei Heng had colluded with him to murder merchants and nurture bandits.
• Fang Mo saw memories of Fang Dashan destroying the Corpse Herding Cult with a single saber strike ten years earlier.
• Fang Mo questioned how his father had died and resolved to speak with Wang Youan and grow stronger before pursuing the truth.
• Fang Mo turned his attention toward Black Wind Ridge and prepared to settle accounts.

Fang Mo led his companions to Black Wind Ridge, where they destroyed the Corpse Herding Cult’s zombies and defeated its Black Robe Figure. After learning that Lei Heng was tied to a mysterious incident from ten years earlier, Fang Mo burned the temple and vowed to settle accounts with him.

• Fang Mo ordered Qian Dagui and the others to accompany him into Black Wind Ridge to eliminate the Corpse Herding Cult.
• Fang Mo’s group reached the ruined Sanqing temple and Iron Bull and Jie Se cleared away dozens of green haired zombies.
• Inside the temple, the Black Robe Figure summoned three Bronze Armored Corpses, but Fang Mo shattered them while Jie Se and Iron Bull crippled their master.
• Fang Mo questioned the Black Robe Figure, who revealed that Lei Heng held the Cult’s lives through restrictions placed in their souls by a mysterious man ten years earlier.
• Fang Mo took the Black Robe Figure’s soul into custody for punishment in Oil Pot Hell and burned the temple, declaring that he would settle accounts with Lei Heng.

Fang Mo burned the Sinful Daoist Temple at Black Wind Ridge, gathered the spoils, and returned to the Divine Capital with the Black Robe Figure’s head. He took Qian Dagui to White Tiger Hall to confront Lei Heng and present the head as a gift.

• Fang Mo ordered Qian Dagui to collect the golden bones from the Bronze Armored Corpses, while Iron Bull eagerly agreed to eat them.
• Fang Mo said Lei Laohu had tried to kill him with a borrowed blade and decided to bring the Black Robe Figure’s head back to White Tiger Hall.
• On the ride to the Divine Capital, Fang Mo explained that Lei Heng feared the nonexistent ledger and would have to commend them if they delivered the murderer.
• Fang Mo sent Jie Se, Old Yan, and Iron Bull back to the Barracks, then made Qian Dagui pose as a rescued hostage and witness.
• Fang Mo and Qian Dagui arrived at White Tiger Hall, where Fang Mo announced that he had won a great victory at Black Wind Ridge and brought Lei Heng a gift.

Fang Mo returned from Black Wind Ridge with the head of Lei Heng’s Corpse Herding Cult contact, then used the dead man’s accusations to extort compensation and bloodsteel from Lei Heng. After sending Qian Dagui to plunder the storehouse, Fang Mo headed for the Heavenly Prison to visit an elder and settle old accounts.

• Lei Heng learned that Fang Mo had survived Black Wind Ridge and summoned him to White Tiger Hall.
• Fang Mo presented the head of Lei Heng’s contact and said he had wiped out the Corpse Herding Cult remnants and Zombie Tiger.
• Fang Mo warned Lei Heng that the dead cultist had named a court patron, then demanded a share of the spoils, compensation, and bloodsteel.
• Lei Heng gave Fang Mo a token to collect the goods and ordered him to leave.
• Fang Mo handed the token to Qian Dagui to clear out the storehouse and went to the Heavenly Prison to visit an elder.

Fang Mo questioned Wang Youan about his father Fang Dashan’s legendary saber strike, but Wang Youan dodged his questions. Fang Mo searched his father’s courtyard for a weapon and found nothing, leaving him wondering whether the memory of the sky-cleaving strike had been real.

• Fang Mo confronted Wang Youan in the Heavenly Prison and asked whether his father had cleaved the heavens with a saber in the Northern Border ten years earlier.
• Wang Youan denied knowing anything and instead bragged about his and Fang Dashan’s exploits at Yihong Pavilion.
• Fang Mo returned to his courtyard and used his [Netherworld Ghost Eye] to search his father’s belongings for a weapon.
• Fang Mo found only worn-out possessions and junk, and a kitchen knife shattered when he tested it with his Qi and Blood Power.
• Fang Mo recalled the black-clad figure and saber strike from the Yin Mountain Daoist’s memories and wondered whether the scene had been false.

Fang Mo found his childhood wooden saber beneath his bed and awakened it by feeding it his blood and Qi. The saber revealed itself as Blood Soul, passed a fragment of its former master’s memory to him, and accepted Fang Mo as its new master before an urgent visitor called from outside.

• Fang Mo recognized the saber in a vision and searched beneath his bed, where he found the wooden saber he had played with as a child.
• Fang Mo pressed his blood to the blade, awakening its power as it transformed into a blood-crystal saber and drew on his Qi and blood.
• Fang Mo fed Blood Soul with his Qi and blood until it revealed its name and transmitted a memory of its former master performing Heaven Slash.
• Fang Mo recovered from the vision, recognized Blood Soul’s strength and sentience, and swung it as urgent knocking came from outside the courtyard gate.

Fang Mo killed a disguised Five-Venom Cult attacker who came to his courtyard with poisoned centipedes and daggers, and [Blood Soul] devoured the man’s blood and essence. Realizing the blade had drawn the attention of powerful enemies and that his old feud ran deep, Fang Mo headed back to the government office.

• A man bearing a basket of eggs approached Fang Mo’s courtyard, but Fang Mo used [Netherworld Ghost Eye] to expose the intruder’s Sha Qi and the poisonous creatures hidden in the basket.
• Fang Mo seized the man and dragged him inside, where the attacker unleashed poisonous centipedes and lunged with poisoned daggers.
• Fang Mo’s Sha Qi burned the centipedes, and a strike from [Blood Soul] cut the attacker down and drained his blood, essence, Qi, and spirit.
• Fang Mo found a waist token bearing the Five-Venom Cult’s emblem on the dried corpse and realized the cult had already sent a probe after the Corpse Herding Cult’s destruction.
• Fang Mo told Old Yan to use the corpse as flower fertilizer, reflected on the enemies drawn to [Blood Soul], and set off for the government office.

Fang Mo inspected the spoils from Black Wind Ridge and confronted Old Yan in the rear courtyard. Old Yan and Iron Bull knelt and revealed that they recognized Fang Mo as the Soldier Lord.

• Fang Mo arrived at the Seventh Squad's barracks and found Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Monk Jie Se sorting the spoils from Black Wind Ridge.
• Qian Dagui told Fang Mo that Lei Heng had received his share and ordered the squad to rest indefinitely.
• Fang Mo absorbed the Yin Sha Qi from a Ghost Mask Jade Pendant and said that being shelved was good.
• Fang Mo went to the rear courtyard to ask Old Yan to appraise an item, then drew [Blood Soul] when he noticed Old Yan's fleeting surprise.
• Iron Bull blocked the Moon Gate as Old Yan straightened and knelt before Fang Mo.
• Old Yan identified himself as Yan Wangchou of the Heavenly Prison Bingchen Prison, and he and Iron Bull paid their respects to the Soldier Lord.

Fang Mo questioned Old Yan about his father and learned that [Blood Soul] was a Prison Suppressing Divine Weapon once wielded by a mysterious Soldier Lord. The Soldier Lord vanished in a fire eighteen years earlier, and Fang Mo suspected Yihong Pavilion might conceal one of his father's unfinished affairs.

• Fang Mo threatened Old Yan and demanded an explanation of the Soldier Lord and his father.
• Old Yan explained the Heavenly Prison's ten levels, the divine weapons forged to suppress them, and how a recognized wielder could become a Soldier Lord.
• Old Yan revealed that [Blood Soul] belonged to Block C Prison and that its former Soldier Lord had vanished during a Divine Capital riot eighteen years earlier.
• Old Yan said the masked Soldier Lord's identity was unknown even to Divine Weapon Hall's officers, and that Wang Youan had once served as the hall's Deputy Hundred Households.
• Fang Mo connected the Soldier Lord's Raksha Mask to his own [Bloodthirsty Rakshasa] Authority and recalled Wang Youan's boast about Yihong Pavilion.
• Fang Mo asked about Yihong Pavilion, heard that it had stood untouched for a century, and concluded that it might hold a secret tied to his father.

Fang Mo prepared weapons and a mask before going to Yihong Pavilion in the middle of the day to settle an account. He reached Miss Nu’er’s chamber, where the chapter left him about to enter.

• Fang Mo learned that Iron Bull had broken his years-long vow of silence to acknowledge him as master, sacrificing three years of cultivation.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to forge him a heavy pair of weapons, an armguard for Da Gui, and a hideous Rakshasa mask.
• Fang Mo set out alone for Yihong Pavilion, saying that some accounts were clearer to settle by day.
• A blue-robed attendant kicked aside a doorman who tried to stop Fang Mo, then welcomed him inside.
• Fang Mo paid Mama Feng with a gold ingot and went upstairs toward Miss Nu’er’s ajar chamber.

Fang Mo confronted Nian Nu'er in the Heavenly Chamber and pressed her for information about the Blood Soul Soldier Lord. After the Blood Soul blade burned her when she touched it, she admitted information would cost him, leaving them to negotiate a price.

• Fang Mo entered Nian Nu'er's room and asked whether she had known the Blood Soul Soldier Lord eighteen years earlier.
• Nian Nu'er dodged the question with flirtation and touched the wooden blade [Blood Soul].
• [Blood Soul] burned Nian Nu'er's fingertips, and Fang Mo took the reaction as proof that she knew the Soldier Lord.
• Nian Nu'er said she would not give information for free, so Fang Mo sat down with her and asked her to name her price.

Fang Mo bargained with Nian Nu'er for information about the Divine Capital’s past in exchange for retrieving a Succubus Heart from a prisoner in the Heavenly Prison. After Nian Nu'er tried to use her charm on him, Fang Mo resisted, took her Pure Yin Qi, and left to fulfill the bargain.

• Nian Nu'er said information about the events eighteen years ago was taboo and demanded that Fang Mo retrieve a Succubus Heart from the man in Heavenly Prison Block C, Room Shen, Number Nineteen.
• Fang Mo accepted the deal but demanded interest before doing the job, then carried Nian Nu'er to the bed.
• Nian Nu'er tried to control Fang Mo with her Charm Technique, but Fang Mo used Still Water Mirror to resist her soul assault and plunder her Pure Yin Qi.
• Fang Mo got dressed and told Nian Nu'er that the interest had been collected and it was time to get down to business.

Fang Mo concealed his cultivation progress behind a wastrel’s routine while secretly advancing his Stomach Viscera Temple. After reaching the peak of the Organ Refining Realm, he told Nian Nu'er that the time she had been waiting for would come tonight.

• Fang Mo left after accepting instructions from the languid figure on the couch.
• Fang Mo spent his days eating at Yihong Pavilion and his nights with the Seventh Squad, while rumors spread that he had lost his edge.
• Lei Heng dismissed reports of Fang Mo’s behavior as evidence that the young General Flag was no threat.
• Fang Mo secretly nourished his Viscera Temple, and the Gluttony Rakshasa statue grew clearer as it craved more Blood Food and sins.
• After eating a lavish breakfast at Yihong Pavilion, Fang Mo broke through to the peak of the Organ Refining Realm.
• Nian Nu'er reminded Fang Mo of the heart he had promised her, and he said the time would come tonight.

After cultivating with Nian Nu'er, Fang Mo went to the Heavenly Prison to investigate the bleeding heart sealed in Block C, Room Shen. Wang Youan warned him of the danger but gave him the key, and Fang Mo entered the darkness.

• Fang Mo cultivated with Nian Nu'er, strengthening his Viscera Temple and sharpening his perception of desire.
• Fang Mo left Yihong Pavilion and headed to the Heavenly Prison instead of returning to the Barracks.
• Wang Youan blocked Fang Mo from entering Block C and warned him that its depths held calamities.
• Fang Mo revealed that he knew a still-bleeding heart was locked in Room Shen, startling Wang Youan.
• Wang Youan gave Fang Mo a rune-covered Copper Key and warned him not to answer any voices or look back.
• Fang Mo entered the prison's darkness as Wang Youan watched, worried that he would repeat his father's recklessness.

Fang Mo entered Block C, Room Shen to retrieve the heart Nian Nu'er wanted and fought the chained corpse guarding it. He defeated the corpse, but the Record of Punishing Crimes captured no soul, leaving him to examine the floating heart.

• Fang Mo opened cell Number Nineteen with the Copper Key and found a chained corpse and a beating heart floating above a White Jade Bed.
• The corpse awakened and trapped Fang Mo in a seductive illusion, but Fang Mo used [Still Water Mirror] to see through it and break the illusion.
• The corpse transformed into a spiked monster and charged Fang Mo, who cut through its claws and body with [Blood Soul].
• [Blood Soul] devoured the monster's mutated essence blood and Sha Qi, and Fang Mo used [Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation] to drain its strength until it returned to a motionless corpse.
• Fang Mo waited for the Record of Punishing Crimes to capture the corpse's soul, but nothing happened, so he looked toward the floating red heart.

Fang Mo suppressed the Heart of the Succubus Progenitor in his prison rather than consuming it, deciding to use it as leverage over Nian Nu'er. He left the ruined cell with the heart safely stored and told Wang Youan he would decide what to do with it.

• The Heart of the Succubus Progenitor tried to enter Fang Mo's body, but his Black Prison bound and suppressed it.
• Fang Mo learned the heart's identity and potential power, then chose to keep it as leverage over Nian Nu'er instead of consuming it.
• Fang Mo emerged from Number Nineteen cell and found Wang Youan pretending to read an upside-down book.
• Fang Mo confirmed that he had obtained the heart and warned Wang Youan not to assume he was the tiger's prey.
• Wang Youan watched Fang Mo leave and lamented that he would have to repair the ruined cell door.

Fang Mo met Nian Nu'er at Yihong Pavilion and used the Ancestor's Heart as leverage while demanding something in return. Nian Nu'er explained the Twelve Divine Kings and revealed that a God King's limb was suppressed beneath the pavilion, but said further help would cost him.

• Fang Mo went to Yihong Pavilion, where Nian Nu'er waited for him in the Heavenly Chamber.
• Fang Mo briefly revealed the Ancestor's Heart, making Nian Nu'er collapse, but refused to let her taste its power.
• Nian Nu'er told Fang Mo about the Twelve Divine Kings and their connection to the body's organs and acupoints.
• Nian Nu'er revealed that the remains of a God King's limb lay suppressed beneath Yihong Pavilion and demanded payment for more information.