Recaps

Fang Mo had Monkey brutally beaten and forced Han Niu to summon Li Mingyue, then continued the beating when she arrived. Li Mingyue confronted Fang Mo but did not stop him, leaving the two to face each other as Monkey was dragged into the next room.

• Qian Dagui beat Monkey until Fang Mo ordered him to stop, then Fang Mo told Han Niu to fetch Li Mingyue.
• Fang Mo invoked his rank as a Hundred Households of the Punishment Department and threatened to hang Monkey’s hide at Yihong Pavilion if Li Mingyue did not come.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to keep beating Monkey while he waited for Li Mingyue.
• Li Mingyue arrived and warned Fang Mo to consider Monkey’s master when beating him.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to drag Monkey into the next room and continue the beating, while Li Mingyue watched with anger and helpless concession.

Li Mingyue confronted Fang Mo over his men beating Monkey, but accepted that their cooperation had to be based on equality and asked Fang Mo to spare her subordinate. She then revealed that something had happened at Fang Dashan’s Burial Ground, the Mass Grave outside the Divine Capital.

• Li Mingyue entered Fang Mo’s room and demanded that he stop his men from beating Monkey.
• Fang Mo insisted that Li Mingyue treat him as an equal and said Monkey’s fate depended on whether she regarded him as a person or a dog.
• Li Mingyue asked Fang Mo to spare Monkey, and Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to stop using the hammer and continue with his hands.
• Li Mingyue sat with Fang Mo and spread a map across the table, revealing that something had happened at Fang Dashan’s Burial Ground.

Fang Mo pressed Li Mingyue for the source of her claim that his father's grave was in danger, learning that the information came from an informant deep within the Imperial Palace. He remained suspicious of a trap but learned the Demon Suppression Division wanted him involved because he was Fang Dashan's son.

• Fang Mo challenged Li Mingyue to reveal who had told her about the threat to his father's grave.
• Li Mingyue said the information came from an informant deep within the inner palace, whose identity she could not disclose.
• Fang Mo questioned whether the report was true or bait meant to draw him into a trap.
• Li Mingyue said the Demon Suppression Division had to investigate because of the grave's importance and the possible consequences.
• Li Mingyue explained that Fang Mo was being drawn in because he was Fang Dashan's son.
• Fang Mo laughed coldly at her explanation.

Li Mingyue told Fang Mo about the God King Remains, an Immortal Object stolen from the Divine Capital eighteen years ago, and indicated that it was connected to the Ember Vein Burning Passion God King. Fang Mo chose to investigate with Li Mingyue immediately, leaving his companions behind with orders not to kill the Monkey next door.

• Li Mingyue recounted how a mysterious powerhouse seized the God King Remains during the bloodshed in the Divine Capital eighteen years earlier.
• Fang Mo learned that the Demon Suppression Division's higher-ups knew more about the unknown powerhouse than Li Mingyue could reveal.
• Li Mingyue pointed to her chest, and Fang Mo recognized the Remains' connection to the Ember Vein Burning Passion God King.
• Fang Mo and Li Mingyue agreed to leave immediately and keep the investigation secret.
• Fang Mo told Old Yan, Iron Bull, Monk Jie Se, and Qian Dagui not to kill the Monkey next door before heading for the door.

Fang Mo led his group into Yin Mountain Burial Ground, where they found signs of the Blood God Temple and were surrounded by a tide of Living Corpses. He ordered everyone to cut their way through as the corpses surged toward them.

• Fang Mo led Qian Dagui, Li Mingyue, Monk Jie Se, Old Yan, and Iron Bull off the official road and into Yin Mountain Burial Ground.
• Monk Jie Se spotted bloodied cloth and black, poisonous blood beneath a dead tree, and Li Mingyue identified the traces as the work of Blood God Temple.
• Old Yan warned the group of danger, and Iron Bull struck at a Living Corpse hidden in the mist.
• Hundreds upon thousands of corpses crawled from the graves and surrounded the group.
• Fang Mo drew Blood Soul and ordered the group to cut their way in.

Fang Mo and his companions fought through the Living Corpse horde to reach Fang Dashan’s burial ground, where they found the grave dug up and the stele broken. The Blood God Temple’s Four Great Blood Monks revealed themselves and raised a Blood River Purgatory array, leaving Fang Mo and his companions surrounded.

• Fang Mo, Iron Bull, Jie Se, Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Li Mingyue fought their way through the Living Corpses toward the heart of the Mass Grave.
• Fang Mo found his father Fang Dashan’s grave replaced by a pit, with his hand-carved stele broken nearby.
• A heartbeat and glowing patterns emanated from the pit, awakening a dormant power in Fang Mo as Li Mingyue and Jie Se sensed Fire Toxin within it.
• The Blood God Temple’s Four Great Blood Monks emerged from underground and admitted they had retrieved a sacred relic from Fang Dashan’s grave.
• Fang Mo confronted the monks, and they formed the Blood River Purgatory array around him and his companions.

Fang Mo fought the Blood Monks’ Blood River Great Formation but was trapped by their suicidal attacks and dragged toward the Big Pit. As the surviving Array Eye intensified the pull, Fang Mo tried to freeze his restraints with Nine Nether Black Water, but the blood surge overwhelmed him and pulled him into the abyss.

• Fang Mo charged the northern Array Eye with his Ten Thousand Terrors Geng Gold Slash, but the Blood Monk detonated himself and bound Fang Mo with Blood-Colored Chains.
• Iron Bull killed one Blood Monk and tried to reach Fang Mo, while the remaining Blood Monks also detonated themselves to block the others.
• The surviving old monk revealed that he controlled the formation and said Fang Mo would pay for Fang Dashan’s seizure of the Sacred Object.
• The old monk opened the furnace, and the Big Pit’s suction dragged Fang Mo toward its depths while the chains drained his Essence Blood.
• Fang Mo froze a chain with Nine Nether Black Water, but the old monk strengthened the formation and pulled him into the abyss.

Fang Mo and his companions struggled against the Big Pit’s suction as the Blood River Great Formation dragged them toward the Abyss. Qian Dagui sacrificed himself and his wealth to launch himself at the pit, hoping to save the Seventh Squad.

• Li Mingyue grabbed Fang Mo and used her Ice Art to slow the Blood Chains, but the pit’s suction pulled her toward him.
• Iron Bull anchored himself with his hammer and caught Fang Mo and Li Mingyue, while Old Yan and Monk Jie Se joined the chain of rescuers.
• Fang Mo urged Qian Dagui to escape and find Wang Youan, but Qian Dagui refused to abandon the Seventh Squad.
• Qian Dagui smashed his Warm Jade and invoked the Qian Family’s secret art, offering his body and wealth in exchange for his companions’ safe landing.
• Qian Dagui became a golden meteor and charged toward the Big Pit, promising Fang Mo that he would carry them all away.

Qian Dagui spent his wealth and life force to free Fang Mo and the others from the Blood River Great Formation, then sent them plunging into the Dark Pit. They landed inside a strange, living structure, where Fang Mo spotted a young man in a loose brocade robe standing above them.

• Qian Dagui converted his body and treasures into golden energy, breaking the Blood-Colored Chains and shielding Fang Mo, Li Mingyue, Iron Bull, Old Yan, and Jie Se.
• Qian Dagui sent the group into the Dark Pit, insisting they would fight their way down because the path above was sealed.
• The group fell through darkness and landed in a tangled pile, with Li Mingyue briefly colliding with Fang Mo before pulling away in embarrassment.
• Fang Mo and the others found themselves inside a gigantic creature, surrounded by living, dark-red tissue walls coated in viscous liquid.
• Fang Mo noticed a young man in a loose brocade robe standing atop the human pile.

Fang Mo and the others discovered that Qian Dagui had sacrificed his fat to save them, gaining a Golden Jade Glazed Body. After learning they were likely inside a poisonous creature, Li Mingyue urged the group to move on, while Fang Mo sensed a familiar presence.

• Qian Dagui revealed himself to Fang Mo and explained that he had used the Qian Family’s life-saving technique, shedding his flesh to survive.
• Old Yan identified Qian Dagui’s technique and said it had given him a Golden Jade Glazed Body.
• Fang Mo praised Qian Dagui’s strength and loyalty, but Qian Dagui immediately demanded compensation for the costly fight and his lost flesh.
• Li Mingyue found that the cavern’s living walls were poisonous and concluded that the group might be inside a giant creature.
• Fang Mo sensed a familiar presence through [Prison Suppressor] as the group prepared to leave.

Fang Mo’s group was swallowed into the living God King’s body, where Jie Se was dragged away after giving Fang Mo a Sarira that could track him. Fang Mo split the others among three passages and continued with Li Mingyue toward the heartbeat below, intending to find and kill the creature’s primary consciousness.

• Jie Se’s divination warned that the passage would leave no survivors, then the floor opened and scarlet flesh tongues dragged him into the abyss.
• Jie Se threw Fang Mo a bloodstained Sarira, and Fang Mo determined that Jie Se was still alive and could be rescued by killing the creature’s primary consciousness.
• Fang Mo discovered grotesque embryos in sacs along the passage and identified them as provisions for the God King’s revival.
• At a three-way junction, Iron Bull entered the fiery passage, Old Yan entered the dark passage, and Qian Dagui plunged into the golden one.
• Fang Mo and Li Mingyue found a bone-spiked stairway leading toward a heartbeat beneath them.

Iron Bull fought a skinless giant in the blazing left passage, while Old Yan battled swarms of parasites in the icy middle passage. Fang Mo left them to their chosen trials and began climbing the Bone Stair toward the core with Li Mingyue.

• Iron Bull entered a furnace-like passage and confronted a giant forging black metal with its fists.
• The giant hurled a red-hot piece of metal at Iron Bull, who struck it back with his Cast Iron Great Hammer and then charged into battle.
• Old Yan detected parasites following him, killed the first attacker, and used his Yama Veil to fight through the swarm.
• Old Yan spotted a larger shadow awakening deeper in the passage and charged toward it, recognizing an old enemy.
• Fang Mo left the three fighters to face their own battles and stepped onto the Bone Stair with Li Mingyue.

Qian Dagui discovered that the golden passage replenished his strength, then faced a Golden Man demanding a toll. At the Core Area entrance, Li Mingyue used a costly forbidden technique to freeze the arterial valve long enough for Fang Mo to pass through, leaving her injured behind.

• Qian Dagui absorbed power from the golden liquid and began recovering his depleted essence.
• A Golden Man formed from the liquid and demanded a toll from Qian Dagui.
• The Golden Man sent a rain of coins at Qian Dagui, who sucked them toward himself with his cultivation technique.
• Fang Mo and Li Mingyue were pinned on the Bone Stair by the arterial valve's deadly heat blasts.
• Li Mingyue used Ice-Sealing Thousand Li to freeze the valve despite the damage it would cause her meridians.
• Fang Mo charged through the frozen valve, and the melting ice shattered and threw Li Mingyue against the bone wall.

Fang Mo entered the God King’s ventricle and endured the heart’s crushing pressure by joining the powers of his Kidney and Lung Palaces. He summoned Prison Suppressor to bind the heart, but it began preparing a soul-burning counterattack.

• Fang Mo entered the vast, living ventricle and was injured by the God King Heart’s first beats.
• Fang Mo used [God King Huichuanliu Yu] and [Fear Skeleton Dispersing Form God King] to stabilize his body against the heart’s pressure.
• The God King Heart declared Fang Mo’s intrusion punishable by death and unleashed a destructive heat wave.
• Fang Mo summoned [Prison Suppressor] and ordered its chains to bind the God King Heart.
• The chains restrained the heart’s pulses, but it turned its divine radiance into dark purple fire and began preparing an attack aimed at Fang Mo’s soul.

Fang Mo swallowed the God King Heart’s Karma Fire and converted it into nourishment and energy, then charged along a chain and stabbed his hand blade into the heart to devour its divine blood. The heart screamed and convulsed as the underground palace began collapsing.

• The God King Heart unleashed Karma Fire that pursued Fang Mo through the sealed Ventricle Cage.
• Fang Mo opened his Stomach Divine Treasury and swallowed the Karma Fire, enduring severe pain as he transformed its power into soul nourishment and energy.
• Fang Mo sprinted along a chain connected to the heart and turned his hand into a blade.
• Fang Mo pierced the heart’s surface with his hand blade and began devouring its divine blood.
• The God King Heart screamed in agony, convulsed, and shook the underground palace as its walls began collapsing.

Fang Mo petrified the God King Heart and faced the lingering phantom of the Red Armored Man, who knelt and called him his lord. Before the phantom could name the traitor, blue flames silenced him, and Fang Mo absorbed the last drop of his essence blood.

• Fang Mo drained the God King Heart until it petrified into dead stone.
• A phantom of the Red Armored Man appeared and knelt before Fang Mo, calling him his lord and saying the Prison Suppressor had awaited its master.
• The Red Armored Man said a past betrayal had not been their intention, then warned Fang Mo that the betrayer was nearby.
• Deep blue flames destroyed the Red Armored Man before he could reveal the traitor's name, leaving behind a drop of essence blood.
• Fang Mo realized the phantom had been a remnant of the Ember Vein Burning Passion God King's obsession, then seized and absorbed the essence blood.

Fang Mo absorbed the God King's Divine Blood, reached the Organ Refining Realm Peak, and opened his Heart Divine Treasury, forming a cycle with his other two Divine Treasuries. As the collapsing heart chamber began to fall apart, he sensed that Li Mingyue and the others were still alive and raced toward the exit.

• Fang Mo's body endured the Divine Blood's destructive power as it rebuilt his heart and opened the Heart Divine Treasury, Ember Vein Burning Emotion.
• Fang Mo's Heart Fire united his Kidney Palace and Lung Palace Divine Treasuries in a cycle that strengthened his meridians and refined his killing aura.
• Fang Mo tested his new strength and realized he could defeat an opponent like Lei Heng with a single punch.
• The God King's heart petrified, causing the surrounding space to collapse, and Fang Mo sensed Li Mingyue, Iron Bull, Old Yan, and Qian Dagui were still alive.
• Fang Mo charged toward the exit through the collapsing world.

Fang Mo and his badly wounded companions escaped the collapsing God King's Ventricle and emerged from the Yin Mountain Burial Ground. There, Eunuch Liu and armed Imperial Guard Death Warriors confronted them, leaving Fang Mo facing a new threat while protecting Li Mingyue.

• Fang Mo poured the God King's stolen vitality into Li Mingyue, then carried her as the tomb collapsed around them.
• Fang Mo called for his companions, and Monk Jie Se, Iron Bull, Qian Dagui, and Old Yan answered from the rubble.
• At Fang Mo's command, Iron Bull smashed through a hundred-zhang layer of rock, allowing the group to escape the collapsing tomb.
• Fang Mo and his companions burst from the pit at Yin Mountain Burial Ground and found Eunuch Liu waiting with twenty Imperial Guard Death Warriors armed with Breaking Qi Crossbows.
• Fang Mo stepped in front of Li Mingyue, traded barbs with Eunuch Liu, and asked whether the eunuch had come to see him off.

Eunuch Liu ordered his Death Warriors to attack Fang Mo’s group at the Mass Grave, but Qian Dagui and Iron Bull stopped the crossbows and sabers with their transformed bodies. Fang Mo then charged toward Eunuch Liu’s sedan and challenged him to come down.

• Eunuch Liu ordered twenty Imperial Guard Death Warriors to fire Breaking Qi Crossbows at Fang Mo’s group.
• Qian Dagui used his Golden Body to withstand the volley and shielded the others from the bolts.
• Eunuch Liu ordered the Death Warriors to attack with sabers in a Moon Slicing Slash formation.
• Iron Bull let three sabers lodge in his heated body, crushed the attackers in an embrace, and hurled the burning men into the formation.
• Fang Mo charged toward Eunuch Liu’s sedan and challenged him to come down and fight.

Fang Mo, Monk Jie Se, and Old Yan slaughtered the Imperial Guard Death Warriors, then Fang Mo confronted Eunuch Liu outside the sedan. Eunuch Liu showed a formidable presence, and Fang Mo demanded to know what he wanted after so many people had died.

• Monk Jie Se killed a death warrior with Red Lotus Karma Fire while Old Yan ambushed and beheaded another from the shadows.
• Fang Mo crushed the weapons of three junior officers, killed them, and left all twenty Imperial Guard Death Warriors dead.
• Eunuch Liu emerged from the Zitan Soft Sedan and praised Fang Mo’s fighting skills.
• Fang Mo mocked Eunuch Liu and suggested taking his position at the Imperial Stable Bureau.
• Eunuch Liu struck Fang Mo with an overwhelming pressure that made him lean back, and Fang Mo demanded to know what Eunuch Liu wanted.

Fang Mo confronted Eunuch Liu over the buried object, and Liu revealed that someone else intended to seize it before staging a muddy fall to explain his failure. Fang Mo took the injured Li Mingyue and his surviving men back toward the Barracks, leaving the story poised for the players Liu said were about to enter.

• Eunuch Liu asked Fang Mo whether he had the object buried underground, which Liu described as a source of life greater than heaven.
• Fang Mo challenged Liu, and Liu said he had not come to seize the object because someone else might be after it.
• Eunuch Liu threw himself into the muddy ground, then claimed Fang Mo had been too fearsome for him to retrieve the object and departed, saying the stage was set for the players to enter.
• Fang Mo said Liu was pretending to be mad for others to see, then forced the injured Li Mingyue into Liu's sedan and ordered Qian Dagui to take the group back to the Barracks.
• Fang Mo crushed the cold remnant of God King's Essence Blood into powder, scattered it outside the sedan, and called for food and wine.

Fang Mo returned to the Divine Capital and took control of Lei Heng’s former territory, renaming it the Prison Suppression Division. As he settled in, he suspected Eunuch Liu had deliberately made his defeat look humiliating to send a message.

• Fang Mo’s bloodied procession entered the Divine Capital, drawing fearful whispers from the people along the streets.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to smash the Punishment Department’s gates and announced that Lei Heng’s belongings should be removed.
• Fang Mo renamed the Punishment Department the Prison Suppression Division and declared that it answered to him rather than the Imperial Court.
• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui to bring the cooks and prepare a banquet in the courtyard.
• Fang Mo reviewed his encounters with the God King Heart and Eunuch Liu, then suspected Liu had deliberately displayed his defeat so others would learn he had failed to retrieve something.

At a lavish feast in Lei Heng’s former residence, Fang Mo questioned Old Yan about the emperor’s reign after suspecting Eunuch Liu had deliberately returned without the item. Old Yan revealed that His Majesty had held the throne for 170 years, leaving Fang Mo intrigued by the emperor’s extraordinary longevity.

• Fang Mo recalled how Eunuch Liu, despite his germophobia, had deliberately thrown himself into a muddy pit after confirming the item was not in Fang Mo’s hands.
• Fang Mo suspected Eunuch Liu had dirtied himself to create an excuse for failing his mission and to ensure the item had not reached certain people.
• Fang Mo called Old Yan over and asked how long the person in the palace had occupied the Dragon Throne.
• Old Yan said His Majesty had ascended the throne 170 years ago.
• Fang Mo considered how a Divine Treasure Realm Martial Artist could live for up to two hundred years.

Fang Mo let Li Mingyue stay and eat at the Punishment Department while reflecting on the Old Emperor’s pursuit of immortality through Flesh Spirit Pills and the God King’s Heart. He hinted that the Emperor might be preying on the people, leaving Li Mingyue alarmed and demanding to know what he meant.

• Li Mingyue refused Fang Mo’s demand that she leave, explaining that returning to the Demon Suppression Division would put her life at risk, and joined the meal.
• Fang Mo considered the link between the Old Emperor, Flesh Spirit Pills, and the God King’s Heart, and condemned the dynasty’s pursuit of eternal life.
• Fang Mo asked Qian Dagui whether his father wanted to live forever, and Qian Dagui admitted that he used ordinary supplements but would not try anything wicked.
• Fang Mo suggested that the Emperor might be involved in the pursuit of immortality, causing Qian Dagui to choke and Li Mingyue to drop her meat and question him.
• Fang Mo asked whether people would kneel to the Emperor if everyone under heaven became discarded remains after being used as medicine.

After the banquet, Fang Mo let Li Mingyue stay in his room because she had nowhere safe to go, then arranged to sleep in Qian Dagui’s room instead. He ordered Qian Dagui to share with Jie Se, leaving him horrified at the prospect.

• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui to clear away the banquet leftovers and prepared to rest while the God King's Essence Blood still troubled his body.
• Li Mingyue said she had nowhere to go and could not return to the Demon Suppression Division without being killed that night.
• Li Mingyue insisted on sleeping in Fang Mo’s room because its killing intent made it the safest place, and Fang Mo reluctantly gave it to her.
• Fang Mo decided to sleep in Qian Dagui’s room and ordered Qian Dagui to share with Jie Se.
• Qian Dagui protested that sharing with the monk would sully Jie Se’s cultivation.