Recaps

Fang Mo returned to the Divine Capital with a chariot full of heads from the Western Desert and found White Tiger Hall sealed. An imperial decree dismissed him from the Punishment Department and assigned him and his staff to guard a cell in the Heavenly Prison.

• Fang Mo entered the Divine Capital in his White Bone War Chariot and presented the heads of evil sect leaders and elders as his City Entry Token.
• Qian Dagui worried that Fang Mo's dramatic return would attract trouble, while Old Yan said their show of force would make hidden enemies hesitate.
• Fang Mo brought the chariot to White Tiger Hall and found its doors sealed and the Seventh Squad's lantern missing.
• A eunuch arrived with an imperial decree dismissing Fang Mo as a Hundred Households and transferring him and his staff to the Heavenly Prison as wardens of Block C, Room Shen.

Fang Mo accepted the imperial decree stripping him of his post at White Tiger Hall and ordering him back to the Heavenly Prison. He set out for the prison with his companions, treating the place as both home and hunting ground.

• Fang Mo snatched the imperial decree from the eunuch without kneeling and threatened to add the eunuch's head to his chariot.
• The eunuch retreated and fled with his party after seeing the heads piled inside the White Bone War Chariot.
• Qian Dagui lamented that the group had lost their posts at White Tiger Hall and would have to serve in the death prison.
• Old Yan argued that the chariot's heads would be valuable leverage once they reached Block C, Room Shen prison.
• Fang Mo boarded the chariot and led his companions toward the Divine Capital Heavenly Prison.

Fang Mo returned to the Heavenly Prison after his time in the Western Desert and asserted his authority over the jailers. He left to inspect Block C, Room Shen prison, his new territory.

• Fang Mo arrived at the Heavenly Prison with Qian Dagui and presented his prison warden token to the young gate jailer.
• Fang Mo entered the prison after the jailer ordered the gate opened, while Prison Overseer Li Yan was nowhere to be seen.
• Blind Zhao mocked Fang Mo and challenged his authority in the gate enclosure.
• Fang Mo grabbed Blind Zhao by the throat, threatened him, and released him after forcing him to back down.
• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui they would inspect their new home.

Fang Mo returned to Cell Block C, Room 9, where the guards offered him a bribe and welcomed him back. After taking the bundle and settling into Wang Youan’s old Duty Room, he questioned Old Huang about Wang’s departure, leaving the guard on his knees.

• Old Huang and Liu Heng nervously welcomed Fang Mo and offered him a bundle of gold leaves.
• Fang Mo accepted the bundle and ordered the guards to show Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Li Mingyue the prison’s rules.
• Fang Mo called Old Huang into Wang Youan’s former Duty Room and took the warden’s chair.
• Fang Mo challenged Old Huang’s story that Wang Youan had left to wander the four seas and demanded to know what he had heard.
• Old Huang dropped to his knees before Fang Mo.

Fang Mo learned that rumors about Blood Soul had stirred up the Divine Capital and that he was being pushed into the Block C Prison Overseer Election as a target for rival factions. He decided to turn the election into a larger fight, then gathered Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Li Mingyue to discuss cutting off the factions’ influence in the prison.

• Old Huang told Fang Mo that rumors claimed Blood Soul held the secret to reaching the God King Realm and had drawn powerful factions’ attention.
• Old Huang explained that Wang Youan had left to spare Fang Mo’s allies from becoming targets and that the Chief Prison Warden planned to reopen the Block C Prison Overseer Election with Fang Mo as a leading contender.
• Fang Mo recognized the election as a trap intended to make him the focus of those seeking Blood Soul.
• Fang Mo summoned Jie Se’s remnant soul and declared that he would make his own play for control of the Heavenly Prison.
• Qian Dagui, Iron Bull, and Li Mingyue entered, and Fang Mo told them to prepare to cut off the factions reaching into Block C.

Fang Mo learned the ranks of the Heavenly Prison’s wardens and asked whether advancing to Meridian Opening would prevent him from containing more God Kings. Li Mingyue explained that only the legendary Perfected Circulation could keep his body open to additional Viscera Gods, and Fang Mo smiled at the prospect.

• Fang Mo asked Old Yan about Li Yan’s strength and learned the prison’s hierarchy, including that Prison Overseers needed Meridian Opening cultivation.
• Fang Mo considered whether he could defeat Li Yan and decided he needed greater strength to control the Heavenly Prison.
• Fang Mo asked Li Mingyue whether he could invite more God Kings into his Viscera Temples after entering Meridian Opening.
• Li Mingyue explained that ordinary Meridian Opening fixed the body’s structure and closed the Viscera Temples to new gods.
• Li Mingyue described Perfected Circulation, a legendary realm that opened all 365 hidden meridians and could let Fang Mo contain many more God Kings.
• Fang Mo smiled with greed after hearing about Perfected Circulation.

Fang Mo used the souls of Western Desert enemies and the life force of Block C’s prisoners to force open his meridians. He pushed past the ordinary limit of 108, and his cultivation sent a pillar of light through the Duty Room roof.

• Fang Mo ordered Qian Dagui to keep everyone away from the Duty Room and told Old Yan to bring him the prison roster.
• Fang Mo summoned the souls of the Western Desert enemies and the Grievance Fiend Qi beneath the prison, feeding them into Prison Suppressor to produce Soul Power.
• Fang Mo forced the prisoners’ True Qi and Blood Qi from their bodies and drew it into himself as Li Mingyue watched in shock.
• Fang Mo’s five Divine Treasuries processed the energy as he broke through successive meridian barriers, opening 108 meridians and continuing beyond them.
• Fang Mo’s past-life power stirred, forcing hidden meridians open and reshaping his body.
• A dark red pillar of light burst from the Duty Room roof, startling Qian Dagui outside.

Fang Mo completed Meridian Opening in the Heavenly Prison and demonstrated the immense strength his body could now withstand. When Zhao Kuo arrived with armed jailers to accuse and seize him, Fang Mo answered by stepping forward and unleashing a wave of force.

• Fang Mo completed his circulation of three hundred and sixty-five Acupoints and Hidden Meridians, strengthening his body enough to bear the God Kings’ power.
• Fang Mo emerged from his cultivation as the force of his breakthrough shook the prison and damaged the Duty Room.
• Zhao Kuo arrived with dozens of jailers, accused Fang Mo of rebellion and sorcery, and ordered his men to seize him.
• Fang Mo dismissed Zhao Kuo’s accusations and warned him against insubordination.
• Fang Mo stamped the floor, sending an invisible ripple of force through the surrounding jailers.

Fang Mo crushed Deputy Prison Overseer Zhao Kuo’s attempt to intimidate him and declared control over the Block C, Room Shen prison. He ordered Old Yan to take over Zhao Kuo’s most troublesome areas and Qian Dagui to rebuild the Duty Room, setting his sights on the rest of the Heavenly Prison.

• Fang Mo sent Zhao Kuo’s armored jailers flying with a burst of physical strength, then forced Zhao Kuo to his knees with his overwhelming presence.
• Fang Mo humiliated Zhao Kuo and told him to warn Li Yan that Fang Mo had the final say in Block C, Room Shen prison.
• Zhao Kuo and his injured jailers fled, and Qian Dagui emerged to praise Fang Mo for standing up to him.
• Fang Mo and Li Mingyue concluded that Li Yan had sent Zhao Kuo to test Fang Mo and now regarded him as a threat.
• Fang Mo ordered Old Yan to learn which areas Zhao Kuo controlled so he could take over the most profitable and disobedient prisoners.
• Fang Mo told Qian Dagui to fund the Duty Room’s reconstruction, then declared his intention to establish himself as master of the Heavenly Prison.

Fang Mo confronted and killed Sun Bue, the Poison Hand Medicine King, after learning that Li Yan had supplied him with children for his alchemy. He ordered Old Yan to deliver Sun Bue’s head to Li Yan, then prepared to settle another debt.

• Old Yan told Fang Mo that Sun Bue was one of Zhao Kuo’s strongest allies and enjoyed protection from Li Yan.
• Fang Mo went with Old Yan to Cell Block C, Room 1 and incapacitated the guards outside Sun Bue’s cell.
• Fang Mo learned that Sun Bue expected more children to be sent for his pill-making and declared himself the new warden.
• Fang Mo tore down Sun Bue’s steel gate and absorbed the Five Poisons Powder without harm.
• Fang Mo killed Sun Bue and ordered Old Yan to cut off his head and place it on Li Yan’s desk the next morning.
• Fang Mo said he was ready to collect another debt.

After Fang Mo forced Zhao Kuo to kneel, Li Yan received Sun Bue’s severed head and recognized Fang Mo’s threat. Li Yan responded by publicly rewarding Fang Mo and assigning him the dangerous prisoner Mo Qianshan, whom Fang Mo went to meet.

• A jailer told Li Yan that Fang Mo had subdued Zhao Kuo with the force of his blood and Qi alone.
• A servant delivered Sun Bue’s severed head in a red-lacquered box, along with Fang Mo’s taunting note.
• Li Yan rejected a plan to kill Fang Mo and ordered a public commendation while assigning him the case files of the prison’s most dangerous inmates.
• Old Yan warned Fang Mo that Mo Qianshan had killed or broken three wardens, but Fang Mo welcomed the challenge and set off to meet him.

Fang Mo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to uncover why Mo Qianshan had been imprisoned and offered him freedom in exchange for becoming his blade. Mo Qianshan accepted, and Fang Mo prepared to take him out that night to collect a debt.

• Fang Mo entered the deepest part of Block C, Room Shen prison and ordered the guards to open the Demon Suppressing Formation gate.
• Mo Qianshan lunged at Fang Mo, but Fang Mo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to see a red Karma Thread leading to Minister of War Zhang Tao.
• Fang Mo told Mo Qianshan that Zhang Tao had betrayed him and risen in rank while Mo Qianshan remained imprisoned.
• Fang Mo offered to free Mo Qianshan in exchange for his life and obedience, and Mo Qianshan agreed in exchange for a chance to kill Zhang Tao.
• Fang Mo used the Record of Punishing Crimes to suppress the formation’s power in Mo Qianshan’s body, then told him to wash up for their nighttime debt collection.

Fang Mo used a prison order to lead Mo Qianshan and his men into an ambush against a Ministry of War convoy carrying illicit goods. Mo Qianshan recognized Zhang Tao’s steward Liu San and began taking revenge as Iron Bull smashed the convoy.

• Mo Qianshan revealed that Zhang Tao’s convoy would use Willow Slope that night to transport privately forged armor and stolen riches.
• Fang Mo issued a special interrogation order and gathered men and equipment for an official investigation outside the city.
• Fang Mo’s party ambushed the convoy at Willow Slope, where Mo Qianshan identified Liu San as the man who had imprisoned him.
• Fang Mo blocked the convoy and claimed authority to inspect it, then revealed Mo Qianshan to Liu San.
• Mo Qianshan attacked Liu San and the guards while Iron Bull destroyed the carts, and Fang Mo absorbed the fear and exhilaration released in the slaughter.

Fang Mo uncovered evidence that Minister of War Zhang Tao was trafficking military supplies and colluding with foreign enemies, then devised a plan to use the ledgers as leverage and ignite conflict among Zhang Tao’s rivals. The group left the battlefield with Mo Qianshan following Fang Mo, while a political storm loomed over the Divine Capital.

• Mo Qianshan grieved after killing Liu San, while Fang Mo absorbed the dead guards’ remnant souls.
• Fang Mo discovered military crossbows, Kirin Pattern Iron Armor, and treasure hidden among the carriages.
• Fang Mo found ledgers documenting Zhang Tao’s dealings with foreign enemies and military supply trafficking.
• Fang Mo ordered Qian Dagui to copy the ledgers and deliver them to Zhang Tao’s enemies, while Old Yan guarded the originals as leverage.
• Fang Mo told Mo Qianshan that his life belonged to him, and Mo Qianshan silently followed him.

Fang Mo used ledgers stolen from Zhang Tao to stir up his enemies in the Divine Capital, then returned to the Heavenly Prison as the resulting political storm began. The Prison Overseer summoned him just as morning court started.

• Fang Mo burned useless papers, kept the incriminating ledgers, and ordered Qian Dagui to set aside valuable gems while they hid the gold and silver.
• Fang Mo hired impoverished scholars at the Pavilion of Listening to Rain to copy the ledgers and prepare them for delivery to Zhang Tao’s political enemies.
• Fang Mo sent the copied ledgers to senior officials through beggars, and Lord Li and Censor Wang reacted by preparing to attack Zhang Tao.
• Fang Mo returned to the Heavenly Prison, where Qian Dagui had transformed Cell Block C, Room 9 into a lavish chamber.
• A jailer summoned Fang Mo to meet Prison Overseer Li Yan, and Fang Mo recognized that Li Yan could no longer wait.

Fang Mo accepted Li Yan’s assignment to deal with Liu Sanbian, the protected prisoner known as the Jade Faced Young Master. Using his Netherworld Ghost Eye, Fang Mo saw that Liu was a murderous rapist tied to Marquis Yongding by a thread of disgust and killing intent, then confronted him as the marquis’s bastard son.

• Li Yan gave Fang Mo Liu Sanbian’s file, hoping the dangerous assignment would provoke a clash with Marquis Yongding.
• Fang Mo learned Liu had raped and murdered seventy-two women but had received preferential treatment because of his powerful connections.
• Fang Mo ordered Old Yan to prepare for a visit to Liu, bringing only Mo Qianshan with him.
• Fang Mo entered Liu’s lavish cell and used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to see the vengeful spirits bound to Liu and the karma thread leading to Marquis Yongding’s Estate.
• Fang Mo called Liu the marquis’s bastard son, causing Liu to freeze.

Fang Mo exposed Liu Sanbian’s illegitimate birth and revealed that Marquis Yongding planned to have him killed, then remade him into a shapeshifting servant named Wumian. Fang Mo left with Wumian to repay Li Yan for the gift he had received.

• Fang Mo confronted Liu Sanbian with the truth about his birth and defeated his Hundred Flowers Chaotic Dance technique.
• Fang Mo showed Liu Sanbian Marquis Yongding’s letter ordering Li Yan to ensure Liu Sanbian’s corpse remained intact, convincing him that his father intended to kill him.
• Liu Sanbian begged Fang Mo to save his life, and Fang Mo remade him using the Fear Skeleton Dispersing Form God King’s power.
• Liu Sanbian gained the ability to change his face and became Wumian, Fang Mo’s shadow and servant.
• Fang Mo left with Wumian, saying he would return a surprise to Li Yan.

Fang Mo learned that Li Yan had forced the Prison Overseer Election to begin early, turning it into a trap aimed at eliminating him. As the first test began, Fang Mo entered the rioting Block D prison, calling its starving prisoners his meal.

• Fang Mo told Old Yan that Li Yan’s plan to kill him with a borrowed blade had failed, then received an invitation announcing the election in three days.
• Fang Mo realized Li Yan had rushed the election to remove him, while Qian Dagui warned that wardens from other prison blocks would also compete.
• Fang Mo spent the next two days secluded as rumors spread against him and rival factions gathered at the Demon Suppressing Platform.
• Li Yan announced that the first test required contenders to suppress a riot among a thousand Block D prisoners within two hours without killing anyone.
• Fang Mo walked toward the Block D iron gate, saying the prisoners were delivering his meal.

Fang Mo faced more than a thousand rioting prisoners in the first assessment round and subdued them without killing anyone. After the Python Robe Eunuch declared him the winner, Fang Mo sensed more dangerous observers beyond the gate into the deeper Heavenly Prison.

• Block D prisoners stormed toward the candidates, and Zhao Kuo organized his men to hold them back with shields and blunt weapons.
• Fang Mo walked alone toward the rioters and stopped a bandit with Prison Suppressor · Intimidation.
• Fang Mo counted to three as the prisoners fell to their knees, dropped their weapons, or surrendered in terror.
• The Python Robe Eunuch declared Fang Mo the winner, while Li Yan watched his trap fail.
• Fang Mo sensed dangerous figures watching him from behind the gate leading deeper into the Heavenly Prison.

Fang Mo won the interrogation assessment by making the Mute Daoist speak and expelling the Devil Creature inside him. The Python Robe Eunuch awarded Fang Mo first place, while Fang Mo warned Li Yan to use his remaining tricks quickly.

• Li Yan introduced the Mute Daoist, a prisoner who had refused to speak for thirty years, and challenged the candidates to make him say a word.
• Several competitors tried torture, fire, venomous insects, and loud sounds, but none could make the Mute Daoist react.
• Fang Mo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to see the Devil Creature inside the Mute Daoist and threatened to remove it if he opened his mouth.
• The Mute Daoist cried out, vomited the beast, and thanked Fang Mo for saving his life, offering to confess the treasure map's location.
• The Python Robe Eunuch declared Fang Mo the winner of the second round, and Fang Mo warned Li Yan to hurry with his remaining tricks.

Fang Mo anticipated Li Yan’s assassination attempt and resisted the poison Li Yan used to incapacitate his companions. As twelve Corpse Puppets attacked him with a lethal formation, Fang Mo invoked Prison Suppressor, unleashing the prison’s authority.

• Qian Dagui and Old Yan suspected Li Yan was planning a trap after Fang Mo’s easy victory in the second round.
• Li Yan’s Soul Chasing Smoke incapacitated Iron Bull and Qian Dagui, while Mo Qianshan fought its effects and Fang Mo absorbed the poison.
• Li Yan entered with twelve Corpse Puppets and revealed that powerful figures wanted Fang Mo dead because he had touched the ledger.
• Li Yan ordered the Corpse Puppets to kill Fang Mo and his men using the Twelve Earthly Branches Soul Annihilation Array.
• Fang Mo remained seated as the Corpse Puppets attacked, then called on Prison Suppressor and released the prison’s authority.

Fang Mo searched Li Yan’s soul and uncovered a conspiracy to feed prisoners to a God Scourge beneath the Heavenly Prison. After arranging to blame Li Yan’s death on an escaped demon, Fang Mo entered the restricted West Underground Level and used Li Yan’s token to open its sealed door.

• Fang Mo searched Li Yan’s memories and saw Helian Cheng sacrificing prisoners in a Blood Pool beneath the Heavenly Prison.
• Fang Mo realized that high officials, including Marquis Yongding and the Minister of War, were using the prison to raise a God Scourge.
• Old Yan woke and panicked over Li Yan’s death, but Fang Mo said they would claim an escaped demon had killed him.
• Fang Mo ordered Iron Bull to hang Li Yan’s head at the Training Ground and Mo Qianshan to lock up the twelve Corpse Puppets as witnesses.
• Fang Mo sneaked into the West Underground Level and pressed the token taken from Li Yan into the Bronze Giant Door’s recess.

Fang Mo defeated Helian Cheng and contained the Blood Infant Rakshasa, gaining its Flesh and Blood Rebirth ability. After stopping Helian Cheng’s attempt to destroy the prison, Fang Mo killed him and claimed victory.

• Helian Cheng unleashed the Blood Infant Rakshasa against Fang Mo and revealed that he had created it with prisoners’ blood and a fragment of Ancient Blood Demon bone.
• Fang Mo summoned Mo Qianshan’s Dharma Aspect and used Nine Nether Yellow Springs to tear apart the Rakshasa’s tentacle before wounding Helian Cheng with Ten Thousand Terrors Geng Gold Slash.
• Fang Mo used Prison Suppression to contain the Blood Infant Rakshasa and acquired the Flesh and Blood Rebirth ability.
• Helian Cheng crushed his Bone Staff to trigger the underground formation’s self-destruction, but Fang Mo suppressed the formation and stopped the magma.
• Fang Mo rejected Helian Cheng’s question about his identity and killed him with a slash of his blade.

Fang Mo plundered Helian Cheng’s hidden treasures and absorbed the residue from the Blood Pool, then staged the battle to make Helian Cheng’s death appear justified. He emerged before the gathered officials, claimed Helian Cheng had raised a demon and plotted rebellion, and gained the Python Robe Eunuch’s support.

• Fang Mo took Helian Cheng’s brocade pouch, ancient heretical cultivation books, and token, deciding the books could help control the jailers.
• Fang Mo devoured the black sediment from the dried Blood Pool and recovered from the strain of opening the Double Palace Divine Treasury.
• Fang Mo arranged the underground scene to support a story that Helian Cheng had fed himself to the Blood Infant Rakshasa and died after Fang Mo suppressed it.
• Fang Mo emerged carrying Helian Cheng’s head and told the gathered prison officials that he had killed Helian Cheng for colluding with demons and plotting rebellion.
• A Block B Deputy Warden challenged Fang Mo but refused to enter the passage, while the Python Robe Eunuch praised Fang Mo and promised to report the events to His Majesty.

Fang Mo took control of the Heavenly Prison, imposed new rules, and demanded records about his father’s past. He learned that Li Fuguo wanted his father’s grave moved, and reacted with fury.

• Fang Mo announced that all interrogations, punishments, and executions required his approval, banned underground Blood Pools, and ordered the records about Fang Dashan sent to Block C, Room Shen prison.
• The Fire Judge challenged Fang Mo’s authority, but Fang Mo’s Prison Suppressor power forced him to back down.
• Old Yan told Fang Mo that the Imperial Decree naming him acting head of the Heavenly Prison was on its way.
• Eunuch Liu visited Fang Mo and offered Li Fuguo’s help securing Helian Cheng’s position in exchange for moving Fang Dashan’s grave.
• Fang Mo crushed his teacup and confronted Eunuch Liu over Li Fuguo’s demand.