Recaps

After unlocking the Ember Emotion Soaring Step, Fang Mo investigated the disappearance of his father Fang Dashan’s corpse and questioned Nian Nu'er about the traitor. Nian Nu'er offered no answer, but revealed that Fang Mo’s stomach temple was unsettled by the Rakshasa remnant soul inside it.

• Fang Mo tested the Ember Emotion Soaring Step, folding distance to reach a window thirty feet away and scorching its wooden frame.
• Fang Mo recalled that Fang Dashan’s body had vanished from the Mass Grave and wondered whether his father had been involved in a hidden scheme.
• Fang Mo entered the Prison Suppressor and demanded that Nian Nu'er identify the traitor mentioned by the Red Armored God King Phantom.
• Nian Nu'er refused to reveal the traitor’s identity and suggested that forgetting was more terrifying than betrayal.
• Nian Nu'er pointed out that Fang Mo’s stomach temple was in turmoil because the Rakshasa remnant soul did not belong alongside the origins in his other three palaces.

Fang Mo learned that the three God Kings’ powers were crushing his Stomach Temple and identified the Corpse Sac True God King as a possible source of strength to stabilize it. After waking, he asked Li Mingyue when the Demon Suppression Division’s Corpse Bone Urn would reach the Divine Capital.

• Nian Nu'er warned Fang Mo that the three God Kings’ powers could tear apart his Stomach Temple as they awakened.
• Nian Nu'er told Fang Mo that the Corpse Sac True God King’s Corpse Bone Urn was expected to arrive in the Divine Capital within two days.
• Fang Mo left his room and found Qian Dagui exhausted after Monk Jie Se kept him awake discussing the Joyous True Scripture.
• Fang Mo saw Li Mingyue on the terrace and asked when the Demon Suppression Division’s Corpse Bone Urn would enter the Divine Capital.

Fang Mo learned that the Corpse Bone Urn held the God King's Stomach Sac and insisted on claiming it, while Life Reaper Envoys closed in on the Divine Capital. After his Rakshasa Statue shattered and his hunger ran wild, he learned the urn was at the Guixu Inn and raced toward it.

• Fang Mo told Li Mingyue that he wanted the Corpse Bone Urn, and she warned him that its Greed Curse was a forbidden danger.
• Fang Mo pointed out the Life Reaper Envoys in Changle Ward and urged Li Mingyue to follow him to escape the powers surrounding the Divine Capital.
• Fang Mo's Stomach Temple collapsed, shattering the Rakshasa Statue and sending his Gold Swallowing Stone Transformation out of control.
• Li Mingyue told Fang Mo that the Corpse Bone Urn was at the Guixu Inn in East City.
• Fang Mo burst through the wall and raced toward East City, knocking Iron Bull aside as Li Mingyue watched him go.

Fang Mo and his companions attacked the Guixu Inn to reclaim the Corpse Bone Urn, defeating Qingyunzi’s attempt to stop them. Fang Mo bound the urn and began absorbing the remnant of the Corpse Sac True God King, gaining a new Stomach Divine Treasury.

• Fang Mo led Iron Bull, Old Yan, Qian Dagui, and Jie Se into the alley where the Guixu Inn stood, refusing to report the matter to Demon Suppression Division headquarters.
• Qingyunzi confronted Fang Mo and struck at him with his sword, but Iron Bull shattered the Sword Qi with the Wrought Iron Cudgel.
• Fang Mo ordered Old Yan to attack, and Old Yan severed Qingyunzi’s left arm before he fled; Fang Mo told his companions not to pursue him.
• Fang Mo entered the inn and found the Corpse Bone Urn on the counter, while Nian Nu'er warned him it held a wisp of the God King’s appetite.
• Fang Mo bound the struggling urn with black-and-gold chains, and the Record of Punishing Crimes began reforging his Stomach Divine Treasury as the urn’s power flowed into him.

Fang Mo absorbed the Corpse Bone Urn’s God King remnant, stabilizing his Four Palaces and awakening the Taotie Mark. He learned that the final Five Elements remnant lay beneath a Buddha in the Western Desert and prepared to travel there, where Li Fuguo and the Crown Prince’s plans awaited.

• The Corpse Bone Urn shattered, and its greed aura destroyed Fang Mo’s Stomach Temple and formed the Rotten Sac Returning to Truth, completing his Four Palaces.
• Fang Mo returned to the Prison Suppression Division, where Li Mingyue saw that his transformation had succeeded and Nian Nu’er identified the last remnant as the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King beneath the Great Sun Golden Buddha in the Western Desert.
• Fang Mo revealed that the Crown Prince’s message named a Western Desert Dharma Assembly led by Li Fuguo, whose past connection to the Flesh Spirit Pills and Liuxi Village stirred Fang Mo’s Divine Treasuries.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull, Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Jie Se to prepare for the Western Desert journey.
• Fang Mo offered Li Mingyue a chance to follow him to the Western Desert and investigate the crimes hidden beneath the Buddhas’ golden forms.

Fang Mo and his companions traveled west from the Divine Capital and found a road blocked by thousands of refugees who had starved to death. They uncovered signs of an organized harvest of the dead and were confronted by the imperial Life Intercepting Division.

• Qian Dagui drove Fang Mo, Li Mingyue, and Monk Jie Se out of the Divine Capital in an extravagant carriage bound for the Western Desert.
• As the group traveled west, they passed abandoned farmland and ruined villages, revealing worsening signs of famine.
• Fang Mo and his companions found a mountain of starved corpses on the road, including a child killed for food.
• Fang Mo sensed lingering Grievance Qi and severed Karma Threads, while Monk Jie Se detected the stench of human fat boiled dry.
• Fang Mo struck the ground and exposed a bloodstained path, drawing out 108 masked members of the Life Intercepting Division.
• Li Mingyue recognized the imperial cleaners, and their leader ordered them to kill Fang Mo's group.

Fang Mo and his companions fought the Life Intercepting Division’s Death Warriors, who summoned an Underworld God’s Dharma Aspect after their formation failed. Fang Mo devoured the god and its surrounding Blood Fiend Qi, leaving the surviving attackers dead.

• Li Mingyue recognized the Widowmaker Formation and warned that it drained their lifespans, while Iron Bull charged into the mist and killed three Death Warriors with his cudgel.
• Monk Jie Se sprayed liquor that became lust-inducing flames, disrupting the Death Warriors as Iron Bull broke apart the formation.
• The gray-robed leader ordered the surviving Death Warriors to sacrifice themselves, summoning an Underworld God’s Dharma Aspect that tried to seize the group’s souls.
• Fang Mo manifested Taotie and devoured the Dharma Aspect, its Blood Fiend Qi, and the Grievance Qi from the fallen Death Warriors.
• The summoning backlash killed the remaining Death Warriors, and Fang Mo complained that the god’s power was tough and stuck in his teeth.

Fang Mo refined a Yin God's soul fragment, strengthening his spiritual sense and Netherworld Ghost Eye as his party reached the sinister Pure Land Village. He exposed the village's human-eating skeletons, and its villagers attacked him and his companions.

• Fang Mo used the powers of his Four Palaces to subdue the Yin God's remnant soul and absorb its energy, expanding his spiritual sense beyond five hundred zhang.
• Fang Mo saw death lines with Netherworld Ghost Eye and noticed a Buddha-lit village that showed no signs of ordinary life or death.
• An Old Woman welcomed Fang Mo's party to Pure Land Village and offered them a bowl that appeared to contain rice and meat but looked like maggots and an infant's heart to Fang Mo.
• Fang Mo severed the Old Woman's wrist and crushed her skull, revealing that she was a skeleton wearing human skin.
• The village doors opened, and the villagers revealed their skeletal forms and lunged at Fang Mo and his companions.

Fang Mo and his companions battled the White Bone Skeletons and found their master, Withered Bone Venerable, inside the village ancestral hall. As the old monk attacked them with monstrous claws made from human hands, Fang Mo charged forward to confront him.

• Iron Bull smashed through the White Bone Skeletons while Li Mingyue identified Buddhist scriptures carved into their bones.
• Jie Se unleashed a blood-colored light that burned the skeletons’ scriptures, then fought through the horde and pointed Fang Mo toward the ancestral hall.
• Fang Mo, Li Mingyue, Jie Se, and Iron Bull reached the hall and found Withered Bone Venerable seated atop a lotus platform made from sewn-together corpses.
• Withered Bone Venerable offered to turn the group into guardian vajras, and monstrous claws made from human hands reached out to seize them.
• Fang Mo revealed the three divine markings on his chest and vanished forward, declaring that he had come to collect the rent.

Fang Mo killed Withered Bone Venerable and left Pure Land Village with his party, then learned that people were being driven west as offerings for the Buddhas. On the road, he sensed the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King trapped beneath a vast Buddha and spotted Li Fuguo’s imperial procession, but held Li Mingyue back as the feast began.

• Fang Mo burned Withered Bone Venerable’s soul with Tribulation Fire, allowing Monk Jie Se to behead him, then devoured his remnant soul and gained an incomplete White Bone View and corpse poison resistance.
• Fang Mo ordered Qian Dagui to search the ruined Pure Land Village before the party continued west.
• Fang Mo’s party saw ragged commoners being driven west as tribute, and Monk Jie Se explained that the Buddhas used them as offerings to sustain their Golden Bodies.
• Fang Mo sensed the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King pinned beneath a giant Buddha in the Western Desert.
• Li Mingyue recognized Li Fuguo’s lavish imperial procession, but Fang Mo stopped her from acting and declared that the feast had only begun.

Fang Mo confronted Li Fuguo’s Imperial Guard procession on the Western Desert road and forced the eunuch to let his party pass. Afterward, Li Fuguo recognized Fang Mo as someone who had eaten the God King’s flesh and secretly ordered the Shadow Weaver to kill him before sunrise.

• Zhang Biao demanded that Fang Mo’s party kneel, but Qian Dagui refused and Iron Bull crushed Zhang Biao’s spear.
• Fang Mo accused Li Fuguo of owing a debt for the deaths at Liuxi Village, the missing Flesh Spirit Pills, and the Heart of Sorrow.
• Fang Mo crossed the distance in an instant and threatened Li Fuguo, forcing him to order his guards to make way.
• Qian Dagui drove the chariot through the parted procession as Iron Bull and Jie Se followed.
• Li Fuguo told his subordinate that Fang Mo carried the scent of the God King and ordered the Shadow Weaver to kill him at Blackwater Oasis before sunrise.

At Blackwater Oasis, Fang Mo resisted the Shadow Weavers’ illusion and killed their assassins with Karma Fire. After searching their leader’s memories, he learned Li Fuguo planned to use a curse-filled black box to corrupt the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King, so Fang Mo urged his companions to hurry to the Great Thunderclap Temple.

• The Shadow Weavers’ illusion trapped Qian Dagui, Li Mingyue, and Iron Bull in visions of their desires and nightmares, while Fang Mo and Monk Jie Se resisted.
• Fang Mo used his Still Water Mirror talent to see through the illusion and spotted twelve Shadow Weaver assassins closing in.
• Fang Mo ignited the assassins’ strongest emotions with Karma Fire, killing all twelve and leaving their leader alive long enough to question.
• Fang Mo searched the leader’s soul and discovered that Li Fuguo meant to deliver a rune-covered black box to the Great Thunderclap Temple to corrupt the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King.
• Fang Mo broke the illusion, roused Qian Dagui and Li Mingyue, and told his companions to hurry so he could stop Li Fuguo from taking what was his.

Fang Mo and his party escaped a deadly sandstorm by taking refuge in the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, where they encountered Monk Hui Ke of the Great Thunderclap Temple. Fang Mo exposed the monk as something disguised beneath a false face, leaving the group facing a hidden threat.

• Fang Mo recognized the sandstorm as part of the Sky Locking Mad Sand Formation and ordered Qian Dagui to steer toward a cave.
• The party entered the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave and found ruined Buddha statues with blackened faces and human eyeballs embedded in their eyes.
• Monk Hui Ke appeared with two novices and invited Fang Mo's party deeper into the cave to rest.
• Fang Mo questioned the blackened Buddha statues and then confronted Monk Hui Ke, saying he could smell the stench beneath the monk's ill-fitting skin.

After learning that Li Fuguo planned to corrupt Great Thunderclap Temple’s Golden Buddha and drain millions of believers, Fang Mo headed for the temple with his companions. He reached the mountain gate and confronted the monk soldiers, declaring that he would speak with the abbot.

• Fang Mo forced Hui Ke to reveal that Li Fuguo planned to plant the Evil Dragon Curse in the Golden Buddha’s Lotus Platform, corrupt the God King, and drain the Western Desert’s believers.
• Fang Mo devoured Hui Ke and two Corpse-Eating Ghouls, gaining a map of the underground passages beneath Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Fang Mo saw that the Golden Buddha siphoned the believers’ souls and vitality while suppressing the sorrow mist beneath it.
• Fang Mo and his companions arrived at Great Thunderclap Temple’s mountain gate, where the Martial Monk Commander barred their carriage.
• Fang Mo showed the commander Hui Ke’s painted human skin and demanded that he let them pass so Fang Mo could confront the abbot.

Fang Mo used the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King's power to break the Great Thunderclap Temple's formation and force its gate open. Inside, he met Abbot Guangzhi, whose connection to the golden Buddha Fang Mo saw through his Netherworld Ghost Eye.

• The Martial Monk Commander destroyed Hui Ke's skin and ordered the monk soldiers to trap Fang Mo and his companions in the Immovable Wisdom King Formation.
• Fang Mo drew on the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King's presence, overwhelming the commander and monk soldiers with grief and collapsing their formation.
• Fang Mo ordered the weeping commander to open the gate, and the commander opened the Great Thunderclap Temple's sealed Main Gate.
• Fang Mo and his companions saw the temple's eminent monks and met Abbot Guangzhi, whom Fang Mo identified as bound to the golden Buddha by black karma threads.
• Fang Mo questioned how much of Guangzhi's plump body he had grown himself.

Fang Mo and his companions entered the Great Thunderclap Temple and discovered that its golden splendor concealed a system that drained pilgrims and exploited women. He resisted the three Living Buddhas’ attempt to subdue them, devoured the temple’s feast and imposing presence, and demanded that the hidden Li eunuch appear.

• Fang Mo used the [Netherworld Ghost Eye] to see red tubes draining pilgrims’ vitality and souls into the Golden Buddha.
• Fang Mo mocked the temple’s fake golden offerings, while Abbot Guangzhi defended them as outward appearances.
• At the Ten Thousand Buddhas Hall, Fang Mo found drugged women branded as livestock and confronted Guangzhi about their treatment.
• The Child Living Buddha invited Fang Mo and his companions to join the feast, and the Arhat Golden Bodies exerted pressure to make them kneel.
• Fang Mo sat in the host’s seat, used the [Rotten Sac Returning to Truth] Divine Treasury to swallow the feast and the temple’s pressure, and began consuming the hall’s splendor.
• Fang Mo taunted the Child Living Buddha and demanded that the hidden eunuch surnamed Li come out.

Li Fuguo unleashed the Sin Dragon to consume the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King's remnant soul beneath Great Thunderclap Temple. Fang Mo kicked Li Fuguo into the Blood Pool and faced the Sin Dragon with his Chaos Grindstone Phantom, intent on devouring it himself.

• Li Fuguo emerged from a hidden chamber with the Purple-Black Wooden Box and revealed his plan to use the Evil Dragon Curse to awaken a God King.
• Li Fuguo shattered the box, releasing the Sin Dragon, while the three Living Buddhas dragged it toward the underground cavern with Blood-Colored Chains.
• Li Fuguo sent the Shadow Weavers against Fang Mo and the others, and Fang Mo followed him into the underground passage as Iron Bull and Monk Jie Se fought off their attackers.
• Li Fuguo sent the Sin Dragon plunging toward the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King's remnant soul in the Inverted Lotus Pool.
• Fang Mo kicked Li Fuguo into the Blood Pool and manifested his Chaos Grindstone Phantom to confront and devour the Sin Dragon.

Fang Mo devoured the sin dragon’s grudge energy and redirected its power into a stomp that broke the seal at the Center of the Blood Pool. The released sorrow mist overwhelmed the Great Thunderclap Temple, while Fang Mo remained unaffected and seized the Azure-Gray Light Orb.

• Fang Mo swallowed the black sin dragon and used his four divine treasuries to suppress its grudge energy, but the power nearly overwhelmed his body.
• Fang Mo channeled the sin dragon’s energy into his right leg and stomped the seal at the Center of the Blood Pool.
• Fang Mo’s strike snapped the three thickest Demon Suppressing Golden Nails and released the sorrow mist trapped beneath the seal.
• Li Fuguo and the people across the Great Thunderclap Temple succumbed to despair, and Li Fuguo clawed at his face while weeping over his life.
• Fang Mo endured the mist as the divine treasury of Sorrowful Mist Locking the Liver took shape, then seized the Azure-Gray Light Orb.

Fang Mo freed the Sorrowful Mist Locking Liver God King from the Great Thunderclap Temple’s underground Blood Pool and absorbed it, establishing a preliminary Five Elements cycle. He then shattered the temple’s Sakyamuni Golden Body before the horrified people of the Western Desert.

• Fang Mo used the Four Divine Treasuries to bind the God King’s remnant soul and wrench it free, while the underground cavern began collapsing.
• The three Living Buddhas sent animated Arhats toward the underground entrance, but Iron Bull, Li Mingyue, and Jie Se fought to hold them back.
• Fang Mo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to overcome the God King’s resistance, and the final seventy-eight Golden Nails exploded.
• The God King entered Fang Mo beneath his right ribs, forming a Liver Viscera Temple and strengthening Fang Mo’s Five Elements cycle.
• Fang Mo burst through the floor of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Hall and shattered the Sakyamuni Golden Body with a touch.

Fang Mo discovered that the Great Thunderclap Temple sustained its power through the Kushan Dharma, a vast underground cycle that fed generations of sleeping monks with the vitality of its followers. As Fang Mo and his companions retreated, the Child Living Buddha sacrificed himself to awaken the buried ancestors, forcing them to run.

• Fang Mo saw that the collapsed Sakyamuni Golden Body had concealed an enormous abyss filled with golden-body monks, whose life force was sustained by the Buddhist Kingdom’s offerings.
• Monk Jie Se identified the secret practice as the Kushan Dharma and feared the powerful ancestors sleeping below.
• Fang Mo decided to retreat with Iron Bull and the others after collecting their debt rather than fight the awakened monks.
• The wounded Child Living Buddha emerged from the ruins and drove a Bone Flute into his heart, using his life to call the Great Thunderclap Temple’s ancestors.
• The sleeping golden-body monks opened their eyes, and a terrifying pressure surged from underground as Fang Mo shouted for everyone to run.

Fang Mo and his companions escaped the old monk’s Palm Buddha Kingdom by exploiting its flaw and using Qian Dagui’s Crimson Gold Tickets to disrupt its power. The old monk pursued them and nearly stopped Fang Mo, but Fang Mo’s sorrow mist bought them a moment to flee east toward the Divine Capital.

• The old monk trapped Fang Mo and Iron Bull beneath his Palm Buddha Kingdom, crushing them with its pressure.
• Fang Mo used [Rotten Sac Returning to Truth] to bite a gap in the domain, and Qian Dagui scattered Crimson Gold Tickets to weaken it.
• Fang Mo escaped as the old monk’s palm destroyed the Great Thunderclap Temple’s mountain gate and halls.
• The old monk appeared behind the fleeing group and used the word “Halt” to freeze them in place.
• Fang Mo unleashed [Sorrowful Mist Locking the Liver], distracting the old monk long enough to break free.
• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui to keep throwing money, and the group fled toward the Divine Capital.

Fang Mo used his Liver Palace Divine Treasure to inflict overwhelming sorrow on Old Ancestor Kongji and escape with Qian Dagui and Li Mingyue. He left Kongji wounded and screaming in the Western Desert as the group fled east.

• Qian Dagui burned the family’s Crimson Gold Tickets to propel Fang Mo and the others through space while Old Ancestor Kongji pursued them with golden Prayer Beads.
• Fang Mo released the sorrow mist within his liver and stopped running, telling Li Mingyue and the others to go ahead.
• Fang Mo used Liver and Intestines Shattered to force Old Ancestor Kongji to relive his regrets and despair.
• Old Ancestor Kongji fell from his Golden Lotus, vomiting black blood and fragments of his internal organs.
• Fang Mo seized Qian Dagui and Li Mingyue and fled east, leaving the wounded Kongji behind.

After escaping the Dharma Aspect Realm pursuer, Fang Mo collapsed with severe injuries and entered an emotionless state from overusing his Divine Ability. The group reunited with Old Yan and the badly wounded Iron Bull, then fled east as the pursuer tracked Fang Mo through his liver’s karmic bond.

• Fang Mo collapsed after burning away his emotions to escape the old monster, while [Nine Nether Spring Surge] began repairing his injuries.
• Qian Dagui blew his Pure Gold Whistle, summoning his escape carriage, and Li Mingyue and Jie Se carried Fang Mo toward it.
• Old Yan appeared with the gravely wounded Iron Bull and warned that the old monster’s sandalwood scent was closing in.
• Fang Mo sensed a golden karmic thread linking his liver to the Great Thunderclap Temple and ordered the group to head east through the pass.

After the Divine Treasury’s effects stripped Fang Mo of his emotions, he concealed the tracking karma tied to his liver by coating the Sorrowful Mist God King in Great Qian’s Sin Dragon Grievance Qi. The carriage continued toward the Divine Capital with the seal only a temporary fix, Iron Bull unconscious, and Old Yan coughing blood.

• Fang Mo traveled with Qian Dagui, Old Yan, Li Mingyue, and the unconscious Iron Bull while the aftereffects of [Ember Vein Burning Emotion] left him emotionally numb.
• Old Yan warned that the golden Karma Thread from the Old Bald Donkey still connected to Fang Mo’s liver and allowed the pursuer to track them.
• Fang Mo gathered the roaming Sin Dragon Grievance Qi in his body and forced it into his Liver Palace to cloak the Sorrowful Mist God King.
• The Grievance Qi dimmed the Karma Thread and hid the group from the pursuer, though Fang Mo recognized the seal was temporary and had damaged the Liver Palace.
• Fang Mo went to sleep as the carriage continued east toward the Divine Capital, while Old Yan coughed blood and the sealed God King wept.

At Yumen Pass, Li Mingyue and Fang Mo were denied entry by a greedy deputy general who mistook them for fleeing bandits. Fang Mo effortlessly destroyed the first volley of arrows, then stepped toward the walls as the soldiers prepared siege weapons.

• Li Mingyue identified herself as a Demon Suppression Division Battalion Commander and demanded that the sealed Yumen Pass open.
• The One-Eyed Deputy General accused Li Mingyue and her companions of being bandits and ordered his soldiers to shoot them.
• Li Mingyue’s wounds stopped her from gathering her Qi, but Fang Mo reached from the carriage and rotted the incoming arrows into scrap metal.
• Fang Mo stepped out and demanded to know whether the soldiers would open the gates or die.
• The deputy general ordered Demon-Breaking Crossbows and Siege Crossbows brought to the parapet, and Fang Mo took a step toward the walls.