Recaps

Fang Mo used his Liver Palace Divine Ability to overwhelm the soldiers guarding Yumen Pass with grief, then cut open the gates and walls with Blood Soul. He escaped into Great Qian and continued east toward the Divine Capital, newly aware that others’ sorrow could replenish his strength.

• The One-Eyed Deputy General prepared to fire the God Breaking Bed Ballistas at Fang Mo’s carriage.
• Fang Mo activated Liver and Intestines Shattered, forcing the deputy general and the soldiers on the walls to relive their deepest sorrows and weep.
• Fang Mo absorbed the soldiers’ sorrow, restoring his depleted strength as the Azure-Gray Mist Dragon settled in his Liver Palace.
• Fang Mo used Blood Soul to slice through Yumen Pass’s iron gates and adjoining walls, opening a road into Great Qian.
• Fang Mo rode away in the Golden Chariot and headed east toward the Divine Capital, considering how he might use sorrow to replenish himself again.

After the Great Thunderclap Temple was destroyed, Old Ancestor Kongji revived by draining the life essence of twenty thousand worshippers. He then set out for Great Qian to pursue Fang Mo and recover the Heart of Sorrow.

• Kongji emerged from the pit beneath the ruined temple, appearing near death after his battle with Fang Mo.
• Kongji drained the life essence of twenty thousand worshippers, restoring his body to a youthful appearance.
• A deeper-buried Martial Uncle rebuked Kongji for sacrificing the worshippers and warned him about Great Qian.
• Kongji told his Martial Uncle that capturing Fang Mo could provide them both with another five hundred years of life.
• Kongji flew toward Great Qian to pursue Fang Mo and reclaim the Heart of Sorrow.

Fang Mo sensed the recovered Monk Jie Se pursuing them and sent his companions toward Black Mountain while he flew off alone to draw the threat away. His companions argued over whether to follow, but Old Yan held them back and insisted they obey Fang Mo.

• Fang Mo sensed the old bald donkey approaching with renewed strength and ordered the carriage to stop at a three-way junction.
• Fang Mo told his companions to head south into Black Mountain while he went east to lure the pursuer away.
• Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Monk Jie Se refused to leave Fang Mo, and Li Mingyue protested his plan.
• Fang Mo used Ember Emotion Soaring Step to launch into the sky and challenge anyone who wanted to die to follow him.
• Li Mingyue realized Fang Mo had deliberately provoked them, but Old Yan stopped Qian Dagui from chasing him and directed everyone toward Black Mountain.

Qian Dagui sacrificed himself to help Li Mingyue and the others escape the approaching True Buddha. He used his family’s Golden Abacus to conjure a golden mountain and demanded toll from the monster, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Li Mingyue drove the failing Golden Chariot onward while the True Buddha’s pressure closed in behind them.
• Qian Dagui jumped from the carriage and stabbed the lead horse with Blood Burning Powder, forcing the horses to carry the carriage faster as he fell behind.
• Qian Dagui urged Monk Jie Se and the others to escape, jokingly naming the debts they owed him.
• Facing the approaching True Buddha alone, Qian Dagui used his Golden Abacus to summon an illusory golden mountain.
• Qian Dagui declared that anyone who wanted to pass had to pay his toll.

Qian Dagui spent the Qian Clan’s wealth and invoked the karma tied to its public works and military supplies to hold back Old Ancestor Kongji, buying time for the fleeing carriage. Kongji overwhelmed him with the Palm Buddha Kingdom and crushed him into the ground.

• Kongji confronted Qian Dagui, who stood in his way with a phantom Golden Mountain and his Golden Abacus.
• Qian Dagui shattered abacus beads and called out the public good each sum of money had funded, using its karmic ties to resist Kongji’s attack.
• Qian Dagui sacrificed the Qian Clan’s holdings and held Kongji back for three breaths, giving the fleeing carriage time to escape.
• Kongji opened the Palm Buddha Kingdom and smashed the Golden Mountain, burying Qian Dagui deep in the earth.

Jie Se stayed behind to confront Kongji and buy time for the others to escape across the Five Hundred Li Wasteland. As Kongji arrived, Jie Se prepared to challenge his Withered Wood Zen with sensual allure.

• Jie Se drank Old Yan’s cheap liquor while the exhausted chariot carried the unconscious Qian Dagui toward Black Mountain.
• Jie Se left the chariot and faced the golden pressure of Kongji, the Great Thunderclap Temple expert pursuing them.
• Jie Se told the others to go ahead and stood alone in the road to delay Kongji.
• Jie Se painted his lips with rouge and marked a plum blossom between his brows, intending to test Kongji’s Withered Wood Zen.
• Kongji arrived, condemned Jie Se as a demonic heretic, and declared that he must die.

With their carriage destroyed and the pursuer closing in, Li Mingyue fled toward Black Mountain while Old Yan and Iron Bull stayed behind to delay Old Ancestor Kongji. They struck the Dharma Aspect Golden Body together and remained standing as the clash shook the Gobi.

• The carriage axle broke after the Qilin Horses died from the journey, leaving Li Mingyue, Old Yan, and the injured Iron Bull stranded far from the Divine Capital.
• Old Yan told Li Mingyue to take Iron Bull south toward Black Mountain and built a crude stone wall across the road to make his stand.
• Iron Bull awoke, refused Li Mingyue's help, and sat beside Old Yan behind the wall as the two shared his pipe.
• Li Mingyue bowed to Old Yan and Iron Bull, then ran toward the Southern Black Mountain Forest Sea with the time they had bought her.
• As Old Ancestor Kongji approached, Old Yan attacked with his Boning Knife Intent and Iron Bull charged the Dharma Aspect Golden Body, knocking its palm upward and holding their ground.

Li Mingyue faced Kongji alone after her companions fell, then sacrificed the Imperial Jade Pendant to awaken the Demon Suppressing Stele and bind him. As she lost consciousness, the world fell silent and someone stepped out of the void.

• Li Mingyue continued toward Kongji with a broken leg and rejected the chance to use the Imperial Jade Pendant to save herself.
• Kongji appeared and told Li Mingyue that Qian Dagui, Jie Se, Old Yan, and Iron Bull were dead.
• Li Mingyue broke the jade pendant, drove it into her chest, and used her heart’s blood to awaken the Demon Suppressing Stele.
• The Stele dismantled itself into golden chains that bound Kongji for ten breaths.
• Li Mingyue collapsed and called Fang Mo’s name as her consciousness faded.
• The wind stopped, Kongji fell silent, and a footstep sounded as someone stepped out of the void.

With his allies seemingly fallen, Fang Mo learned from Nian Nu’er that Prison Suppressor’s prisoners could empower him at the cost of their souls. He opened the prison, absorbed their power into his Colorless Karma Fire, and descended toward Kongji for a final battle.

• Fang Mo sensed that Qian Dagui, Jie Se, Old Yan, Iron Bull, and Li Mingyue had fallen, but held back from charging down to face the Dharma Aspect Realm enemy without more power.
• Nian Nu’er revealed that she could open Prison Suppressor and extract its prisoners’ essence and laws, though everyone inside, including herself, would fall into eternal slumber afterward.
• Nian Nu’er returned to Fang Mo’s heart to protect his meridians, and Fang Mo ordered her to open the prison.
• Wang Ergou, Iron Bone Liu, Yuantong, Yuanjue, Yuanji, Luo Changfeng, Gu Yichuan, and the other prisoners poured their power into Fang Mo.
• Fang Mo’s heart divine treasure transformed the gathered power and emotions into Colorless Karma Fire, and he plunged toward Kongji.

Fang Mo arrived as Kongji was about to kill Li Mingyue and unleashed Colorless Karma Fire, overwhelming the monk with power drawn from the sins of the dead. After blasting Kongji into the Gobi Desert, Fang Mo turned to confront him again while Li Mingyue lay badly wounded.

• Kongji pressed down on Li Mingyue with his golden palm, but an unnatural silence stopped his attack.
• Fang Mo emerged from a void in the sky, surrounded by the vengeful spirits contained within him.
• Fang Mo confronted Kongji over killing his horses, hurting his people, and threatening Li Mingyue.
• Fang Mo struck Kongji with an ordinary punch wreathed in Colorless Karma Fire, shattering his golden protection and hurling him into the desert.
• Fang Mo checked on Li Mingyue, then faced Kongji as the monk struggled out of the rubble.

Fang Mo broke Kongji’s Palm Buddha Kingdom and overwhelmed him with the power of his Divine Treasuries. He left Kongji helpless and began tearing out his bones one by one.

• Fang Mo summoned Wang Ergou’s Pitch-Black Chains to drain Kongji’s Origin Power, while Iron Bone Liu blocked Kongji’s counterattack.
• Kongji unleashed Palm Buddha Kingdom, but Fang Mo devoured the golden barriers and Arhat phantoms, shattering the Buddhist world and leaving Kongji gravely wounded.
• Fang Mo seized Kongji and suppressed him before he could recover his Spiritual Qi.
• Fang Mo clawed into Kongji’s chest, snapped off a rib, and began dismantling his Golden Body bone by bone.

Fang Mo killed Kongji by stripping away his borrowed Buddhist power and devouring him through the Rotten Sac Returning to Truth Divine Treasury. After the power that sustained him receded and badly injured him, Fang Mo turned toward the still-kneeling Li Mingyue.

• Fang Mo discovered that Kongji’s Golden Body was borrowed and that his black Demon Heart was the true source of his power.
• Fang Mo summoned the black maw and devoured Kongji, erasing him completely.
• Prison Suppressor recorded Kongji’s crimes and awarded Fang Mo Golden Body Liquid, a Demon Buddha Sarira, and a Divine Ability Fragment.
• After Kongji’s borrowed power faded, Fang Mo suffered severe backlash and collapsed forward but forced himself back to his feet.
• Fang Mo saw Li Mingyue still kneeling among the rubble and walked toward her as night fell.

Fang Mo found Li Mingyue barely alive and used Kongji’s Sarira to keep her from dying. He sent Wang Ergou to retrieve the others, then found Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Iron Bull gravely injured while Jie Se was missing.

• Fang Mo checked Li Mingyue and found a faint trace of life despite her shattered heart meridians and disintegrating Divine Soul.
• Fang Mo placed Kongji’s Sarira in Li Mingyue to force her body to begin recovering, then set out toward the others.
• Fang Mo sent Wang Ergou to bring back Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Iron Bull using Soul Debris from the Record of Punishing Crimes.
• Wang Ergou returned with Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Iron Bull, all badly wounded, but could find no trace of Jie Se beyond his cracked Human Bone Prayer Beads.
• Fang Mo concluded Jie Se had survived and refused to let the other three die before repaying what they owed him.

Fang Mo used the remnants of Kongji’s power to save Qian Dagui, Old Yan, and Iron Bull after the battle, though the treatment left him exhausted and his sealed companion remained silent. Old Yan woke in the Gobi and learned that Fang Mo had consumed Kongji, as Fang Mo looked toward the Divine Capital and Great Thunderclap Temple.

• Fang Mo used a heated copper strip and Golden Body Liquid to force Qian Dagui’s shattered spine back together.
• Fang Mo used his Lung Divine Treasury and Golden Body Liquid to restore Old Yan’s breathing, then forced the last Golden Body Liquid and Demon Buddha Sarira into Iron Bull.
• Fang Mo’s companion remained sealed and silent after overdrawing her essence, and he vowed to repay his debt by giving her a flesh-and-blood body.
• Old Yan woke and asked where they were and what had happened to Kongji.
• Fang Mo said he had eaten Kongji, and Old Yan approved before lighting a cigarette.

Fang Mo recovered Jie Se’s surviving soul from the battlefield and bound him to the Human Bone Prayer Beads. He continued toward Great Thunderclap Temple with Jie Se protesting that the monks there would capture him.

• Fang Mo used Prison Suppressor to seize Jie Se’s hidden wisp of pink gas and force it into the largest prayer bead.
• The bead drew in Jie Se’s scattered pink dust and formed his soul into a tiny figure, who mourned the loss of his body and Dharma Aspect.
• Fang Mo gave Jie Se flatbread, then declared that Jie Se owed him for being brought back from death.
• Fang Mo made Jie Se his accessory and sealed him inside the prayer beads to recover.
• Jie Se panicked when Fang Mo said they were still going to Great Thunderclap Temple, but Fang Mo said he needed a lamp.

Fang Mo turned the fallen Dragon Blood Qilin Horses into a bone carriage and led the survivors across the Gobi Desert. As Qian Dagui woke to find his fortune gone, Fang Mo looked toward the blood-red Western Desert and prepared to face whatever awaited them.

• Fang Mo fed raw horse meat to the injured Old Yan, while Iron Bull recovered and Qian Dagui remained unconscious beside Li Mingyue.
• Old Yan warned that they could not escape the desert on foot with the wounded, but Fang Mo said they would not have to walk.
• Fang Mo used his Divine Treasury powers to transform eight Dragon Blood Qilin Horse skeletons into a fast, many-legged Bone Carriage.
• Iron Bull carried Qian Dagui and Li Mingyue into the carriage, and Old Yan took the driver's seat as Fang Mo guided it across the desert.
• Qian Dagui woke, panicked at the bone carriage, and learned from Fang Mo that his money was gone and his life was now on credit.
• Fang Mo watched the Western Desert turn crimson and vowed to stop the Buddha if it reached out to them.

Fang Mo turned west instead of returning to the Divine Capital, planning to raid the Joyful Sect’s Pure Land Temple for soul debris to awaken Nian Nu’er. He reached the temple in Black Stone Forest and prepared to attack its abbot, Meat Futon, and his followers.

• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui that they would head west to strike the heretical sects sheltered by the Great Thunderclap Temple, rather than return to the Divine Capital.
• Fang Mo ordered Old Yan to take the bone carriage to the Joyful Sect’s Pure Land Temple in Black Stone Forest.
• Jie Se slipped into the temple to scout while Fang Mo used Netherworld Ghost Eye to count its fighters and identify the half-step Meridian Opening abbot, Meat Futon.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to help slaughter everyone in the temple, burn it, and loot it, while Fang Mo claimed Meat Futon as his target.

Jie Se infiltrated the Pure Land Temple and used his soul art to turn its monks’ feast into a slaughter. Fang Mo and Iron Bull arrived as Meat Futon confronted them, and Fang Mo declared that the abbot would die by a thousand cuts.

• Meat Futon celebrated Kongji’s death and claimed the Black Stone Forest as his own while his monks feasted at the temple.
• Jie Se slipped into the hall and planted a suggestion in the incense, driving the monks to attack one another.
• Meat Futon noticed Jie Se and lunged for him, but Jie Se dissolved into red smoke.
• Iron Bull blasted through the temple doors and advanced toward Meat Futon as the fighting monks were caught in the debris.
• Fang Mo followed Iron Bull into the hall, accused Meat Futon of sheltering fugitives and defiling Buddhism, and declared his sentence.

Fang Mo and Iron Bull attacked the Pure Land Temple, where Meat Futon and his monks had tried to rob and kill them. Fang Mo slaughtered the temple’s forces and absorbed their souls, then set out for his next destination.

• Meat Futon ordered his monks to attack Fang Mo and Iron Bull and threatened to turn Fang Mo’s skin into a lantern.
• Fang Mo deployed the Prison Suppressor and forced the charging monks to their knees while Iron Bull killed them with a Flood Dragon Horse leg bone.
• Fang Mo summoned Wang Ergou to bind Meat Futon, then killed him and used the Record of Punishing Crimes to strip his soul and copper-skin talent.
• Fang Mo ordered the remaining monks killed, and Old Yan finished off the last one pretending to be dead.
• Fang Mo absorbed the souls from the Pure Land Temple’s dead, recovered some strength, and told the others to move on.

Fang Mo raided several heretical sects on the way back to Great Qian, gathering treasure and souls as Nian Nu'er began to revive. At One Line Sky, he encountered Wang Youan waiting alone to block the road to Yumen Pass.

• Fang Mo fed souls taken from Pure Land Temple to Jie Se and learned of more sects to raid.
• Over the next three days, Fang Mo and his companions plundered several heretical sects, and Nian Nu'er's icy seal began to melt.
• Fang Mo gathered a solid Soul Pearl and led the overloaded White Bone War Chariot toward Yumen Pass.
• Fang Mo stopped at One Line Sky after spotting blood-red karma threads across the gorge.
• Wang Youan turned to face Fang Mo and his companions, blocking their way home.

Fang Mo met Wang Youan in One Line Sky, where Wang first threatened to collect Fang Mo’s corpse for a gambling payout. After testing each other’s resolve, they dropped the confrontation and Wang asked what Fang Mo had brought back from the Western Desert.

• Fang Mo left the carriage and faced Wang Youan in the canyon.
• Wang Youan said he had wagered everything on bringing back Fang Mo’s head and revealed a dangerous power beneath his harmless manner.
• Fang Mo and Wang Youan prepared to fight while assessing each other’s strength and intentions.
• Wang Youan abandoned the threat, picked up his finger bone, and asked Fang Mo about his haul.
• Fang Mo said the Western Desert trip had nearly cost him his life but that he had collected the full interest.

Fang Mo shared the Western Desert spoils with Wang Youan, who warned him that enemies were closing in and offered to hold them back. Wang Youan disappeared into the night to clear Fang Mo’s route to the Divine Capital, while Fang Mo and his companions prepared to leave.

• Wang Youan dropped his threatening act and asked Fang Mo for a share of the treasure, and Fang Mo agreed to let him choose what he wanted.
• Qian Dagui asked whether Wang Youan would take more for extra payment, prompting Wang Youan to admit his greed and pocket half the Red Goods.
• Wang Youan warned Fang Mo that surviving enemies and forces from the Divine Capital were pursuing him, and told him to return to the capital.
• Wang Youan said he would sweep the wilderness and protect the Fang family’s escape route, then vanished into the night with his Bamboo Lantern.
• Fang Mo mounted the White Bone War Chariot and ordered the others to go, while Old Yan remarked that Wang Youan had been worth half their fortune.

Wang Youan ambushed and killed the Shadow Weavers who had followed him to Rubble Beach, then lit the boundary lantern with corpse oil. As more powerful enemies approached, he prepared to fight and entrusted the rest of his debt to Fang’s son, who was heading toward the Divine Capital.

• Wang Youan confronted the Shadow Weavers at Rubble Beach and declared that he would collect the debt owed by the Fang Family boy.
• Wang Youan endured the assassins’ attacks, killed their leader with his bare hands, and cut down the others with his Boning Knife.
• Wang Youan found little silver and a Black Iron Waist Token on the leader, then fueled the Dead Air Lantern with corpse oil and hung it as a boundary marker.
• Wang Youan drank Shao Daozi and reflected that Fang’s son intended to overturn the heavens, surpassing what Old Fang had dared to do.
• Wang Youan sensed the approaching guardian vajras of the Great Thunderclap Temple and steadied his Boning Knife, vowing to repay half the debt while leaving the rest to the boy.

Fang Mo reached Yumen Pass in a White Bone War Chariot, where the gate captain tried to seize the carriage and its valuables. Fang Mo awakened the carriage’s ghostly power and frightened the soldiers into opening the gates, then continued toward the Divine Capital.

• Fang Mo presented his Punishment Department token to the captain guarding Yumen Pass.
• The captain claimed the White Bone War Chariot violated the law and ordered it impounded so its valuables could be inspected.
• Fang Mo activated the chariot’s soul debris, unleashing ghost fire and Sha Qi that terrified the captain and soldiers.
• Fang Mo reclaimed his token and warned the captain about the resentful spirits aboard the carriage.
• The captain ordered the gates opened, and Fang Mo drove the White Bone War Chariot through Yumen Pass toward the capital.

At Yumen Pass, Fang Mo and the wounded Li Mingyue prepare to return to the Divine Capital despite the enemies waiting there. Three days later, they set off in the White Bone War Chariot as Fang Mo vows to confront those who wronged his family.

• Fang Mo waited at the deserted post station while Iron Bull tended the bone chariot and Qian Dagui counted the stolen goods.
• Li Mingyue warned Fang Mo that Li Fuguo and the authorities had marked him for death, but Fang Mo vowed to settle his family’s debts in the Divine Capital.
• Fang Mo offered to take responsibility for Kongji, but Li Mingyue insisted on accompanying him and facing the Divine Capital herself.
• Three days later, Fang Mo and Li Mingyue departed Yumen Pass in the White Bone War Chariot, heading toward the Divine Capital.