“Still considering it familiar?”

Yang Jishan didn’t understand what “still considering it familiar” exactly meant. He then tentatively asked again:

“Little brother, do you know how to break this Wan Shi Zhen (Ten Thousand Corpses Array)?”

The cultivators present all looked at Mo Hua when they heard the words.

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, looked at everyone, estimated the strength of the Dao Court cultivators, and then nodded:

“I have a method.”

Yang Jishan was overjoyed, “What method?”

Mo Hua asked, “Do you still have the map of the stone hall?”

“Yes!”

Yang Jishan immediately ordered someone to spread the map on the stone table in the great hall.

Mo Hua marked several points on the map. These points were located in the deeper parts of the stone hall, in slightly remote and inconspicuous places. The stone walls were firm and there was nothing special about them.

Yang Jishan’s face showed doubt.

Mo Hua then explained:

“These places are sealed warehouses, storing many spirit stones…”

“Spirit stones?” Yang Jishan frowned.

“Yes,” Mo Hua nodded.

“Lu Chengyun enslaved zombies to dig mines and earn spirit stones. A large part of them are hidden in these sealed warehouses in the Corpse Mine.”

He had scouted this out by hiding and eavesdropping everywhere the previous night.

“Then?” Yang Jishan asked again.

“Destroy these spirit stones, and you can break the Wan Shi Zhen,” Mo Hua replied.

Yang Jishan was silent.

Everyone’s expressions were also a bit complicated.

Some people’s faces showed disappointment.

Mo Hua was somewhat puzzled.

An old array master, out of good intentions, reminded him:

“Little brother, you are young, perhaps you don’t understand that evil arrays are different from normal arrays…”

“Normal arrays refine spirit stones, convert spirit power, and activate the array…”

“While evil arrays use evil powers such as blood energy, flesh, divine souls, resentment of living beings, and the filthy energy of heaven and earth to drive the array.”

“In this way, the array is evil and strange, its power is greatly increased, and the pollution to the cultivators’ flesh and spirit power is also greater…”

“Lu Chengyun’s Wan Shi Zhen is also like this.”

“This array is not activated by spirit power, so even destroying the warehouses and spirit stones is useless. At most, it will just cause him to lose some spirit stone property…”

Mo Hua shook his head, “It’s not like that.”

The old array master was slightly startled.

The other array masters were also all a bit astonished.

Mo Hua explained:

“Lu Chengyun’s Wan Shi Zhen is derived from the Wan Shi Da Zhen (Ten Thousand Corpses Great Array), it has the structure of a great array, but not the scale of a great array, so it’s just a replica array…”

“But even so, the evil power required is still vast.”

“He cannot slaughter a city, unable to refine evil power from blood, flesh, resentment, and hatred, so he used a compromise method.”

“Build a replica array eye, refine spirit stones, use spirit power to drive the array, and then mix it with blood energy and filthy spirit power to form evil power and drive the entire Wan Shi Zhen.”

The old array master’s expression was shocked. The other array masters also showed surprise in their eyes and looked at each other.

“So…”

Mo Hua continued:

“Destroying the warehouses and spirit stones is equivalent to cutting off the supply of the Wan Shi Zhen, crippling the array eye of the Wan Shi Zhen, and naturally also breaking the Wan Shi Zhen.”

“And the array eye has already been formed, it cannot be changed in a short time.”

“Once there are no spirit stones, even if Lu Chengyun wants to kill people and slaughter a city again and use blood and evil power to drive the array, it is impossible.”

After Mo Hua finished speaking, everyone’s expressions changed, but they still remained silent.

Ordinary cultivators either didn’t understand arrays at all or only roughly understood them and couldn’t understand completely.

As for the few array masters who could understand, after Mo Hua’s explanation, they also felt that what Mo Hua said was very reasonable, but they were also a bit unsure…

This matter concerned the orders of the Dao Court, suppressing the Corpse Mine, eliminating the Corpse King, and strangling the Dao evil.

This kind of matter was absolutely not child’s play.

They dared not be negligent in the slightest.

The old array master deliberately asked:

“Little brother… little mister, how do you know?”

Because I drew the array eye myself…

Of course, Mo Hua couldn’t say this.

He then vaguely said, “I was trapped in the Corpse Mine by Lu Chengyun, and by chance, I saw the diagram of the Wan Shi Zhen…”

The diagram of the Wan Shi Zhen?

The old array master’s heart trembled, “Really?”

If he knew the diagram of the Wan Shi Zhen, the situation would be different again.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and nodded, “How about I draw it for you to see…”

The old array master was startled, “Draw…”

You saw it, and you can draw it?

Yang Jishan immediately instructed, “Bring paper and brush.”

The old array master immediately said:

“I have it, I have it!”

After he finished speaking, he personally took out paper and brush, and with the help of other array masters, spread the array paper neatly on the table and ground the spirit ink.

Everything was ready, and everyone looked at Mo Hua eagerly.

Mo Hua was a bit uncomfortable, but he still dipped the brush in ink and drew the array patterns on the paper.

His brushwork was pure, naturally flowing, stroke by stroke, following his heart’s desire and forming rules of its own.

The array masters in the seats were shocked. They looked at each other and praised in low voices:

“Though young, he already has the demeanor of a master!”

“Without long years of painstaking practice, there would be absolutely no such pure brushwork…”

“Rare, rare…”

Even Young Master Yun beside him, looking at Mo Hua, had unusual colors in his clear and handsome eyes.

Of course, Mo Hua did not draw the complete diagram of the Wan Shi Zhen.

He only simply outlined the trend of the array hub to facilitate everyone’s understanding of the flow of spirit power.

He also drew the center of the array eye, letting everyone know how the spirit power passed through the array eye, how it fit with the Wan Shi Zhen, and how it mixed with blood energy and filthy energy to form evil power…

Mo Hua didn’t finish drawing and stopped.

The array masters, who hadn’t seen enough, saw Mo Hua stop and said:

“Keep drawing, why are you not drawing?”

Mo Hua scratched his head and said guiltily:

“I only remember this much…”

He couldn’t draw any more. If he continued drawing, he would draw the entire array eye…

Everyone looked around again, examining the simple diagram of the Wan Shi Zhen drawn by Mo Hua, and they all frowned.

An array master sighed:

“Lu Chengyun is indeed quite talented…”

Someone snorted coldly, “So what if he is talented? Isn’t he still a heartless person?”

“I didn’t say he wasn’t…”

“Lack of talent and virtue is just mediocre, while having talent without virtue often leads to big trouble.”

“As long as one’s character is corrupt, no matter how talented one is, one should still be despised!”

“It’s a pity that Lu Chengyun has a body of talent but didn’t use it on the right path. The construction of this array eye is extremely exquisite…”

The old array master shook his head and said, “This array eye may not have been built by Lu Chengyun…”

“Not Lu Chengyun?” Everyone was astonished.

The old array master nodded and said:

“Although this is a first-grade array eye, it uses the framework of a great array. Its basic pattern uses the five elements together in an orderly manner. This is a method of the highly authentic and righteous path of array…”

“Those who have this understanding of array methods should disdain to learn evil arrays and associate with Lu Chengyun.”

“So, although this Wan Shi Zhen was built by Lu Chengyun, this array eye might be from someone else’s hand…”

Mo Hua was slightly shocked to hear this.

This old grandpa array master with a beard, although only a first-grade array master, had very sharp eyesight.

He could even see this…

The other array masters nodded when they heard this.

Someone else asked, “Who exactly drew this array eye? Perhaps behind Lu Chengyun, there is another high person in array methods?”

“Is this high person in array methods also a first-grade array master?”

“No, this array eye uses the technique of a great array, estimated to be a second-grade…”

As soon as these words came out, everyone’s expressions became somewhat solemn.

A formation that could seal space and a Wan Shi Zhen were already troublesome enough.

If there was another high person in array methods standing behind Lu Chengyun, the situation would be even more severe.

The old array master suddenly asked Mo Hua:

“Little mister, do you know whose hand this array eye is from? Or, do you know who this high person is?”

Mo Hua’s small face tensed, and he shook his head seriously, “I don’t know.”

I can’t possibly say it was me…

Even if I said it, you probably wouldn’t believe it.

Seeing everyone still dwelling on this matter, with worried faces and heavy hearts, Mo Hua had to say:

“I didn’t see any other array masters inside the Corpse Mine…”

“It’s possible that this array master was threatened by Lu Chengyun and was killed like a donkey after he finished drawing the array.”

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi both silently glanced at Mo Hua.

The old array master was startled and immediately nodded.

Lu Chengyun was very suspicious, so this kind of thing was not impossible.

He sighed somewhat, “If that’s the case, it’s really too much of a pity…”

Yang Jishan saw them drawing and talking for a long time and was still a bit confused, so he simply asked straightforwardly:

“Sirs, can this Wan Shi Zhen be broken?”

The old array master hesitated for a moment and slowly said:

“If the array eye is indeed like this, then this plan is indeed feasible.”

“Then is this array eye real?” Yang Jishan asked again.

The old array master hesitated and didn’t speak.

The other array masters also frowned and didn’t say a word.

They felt it was real, but this array eye involved knowledge of arrays that far exceeded their level of arrays, so they dared not jump to conclusions.

If the actual situation was wrong, they couldn’t bear the responsibility.

Yang Jishan looked at Young Master Yun again.

Young Master Yun was still hesitating. He thought for a moment and then slowly nodded:

“It should be correct.”

He thought for a moment and explained again:

“This array matches the currently known situation of the Corpse Mine, and the level of the array is very high. Lu Chengyun alone could not fabricate it.”

Yang Jishan breathed a sigh of relief.

He patted Mo Hua on the shoulder and said with a smile, “Little brother, you’ve helped a great deal again!”

Mo Hua also smiled happily.

“Since the array is real, it’s easy to handle. Let’s discuss how to destroy these spirit stones and cut off the supply of the Wan Shi Zhen…”

After that, Yang Jishan discussed the specific methods with everyone.

How to deploy cultivators, when and where, who will be the main attackers, who will cover, and how to destroy these several spirit stone warehouses…

These spirit stones could not be moved out.

They could only be destroyed.

Let them turn into spirit energy and scatter into heaven and earth, not letting Lu Chengyun use them for evil.

After the discussion, Mo Hua left.

Young Master Yun stared at Mo Hua’s retreating figure for a long time, somewhat lost in thought. After a long time, his eyes brightened slightly.

Mo Hua was then arranged to stay in a quiet stone room.

The furnishings in the stone room were simple, only a stone table, a stone stool, and a stone bed. Obviously, the matter was urgent, so they didn’t pay too much attention to it.

Mo Hua didn’t care either. What he cared about was a table of food.

There were spirit fruits and spirit meats of chicken and duck.

He had been locked in the coffin for many days and was starving at this time. His stomach was rumbling, so he ate heartily, holding a fruit in one hand and a chicken leg in the other, eating happily.

Cultivators could go without food for a long time, but they would still get hungry and lose blood energy.

If they didn’t eat for too long, they would still starve to death.

Bai Zisheng sat on one side, cross-legged, shaking his head and thinking about something.

Bai Zixi quietly read a book, occasionally lifting her eyes to see Mo Hua eating fragrantly. Her long eyelashes moved slightly, and her eyes were also quiet.

Mo Hua raised his head and asked, “Aren’t you eating?”

“You eat.”

“Oh.”

Mo Hua was not polite. After finishing his meal, he lay comfortably on the bed, patting his full belly.

Bai Zisheng said, “After eating, you need to digest. Don’t lie down directly.”

“Oh.”

Mo Hua responded lazily, but still lay down without moving.

Bai Zisheng shook his head. After a moment, he thought of something else and asked:

“Do you want to go back and see Master?”

Mo Hua blinked his eyes and said, “After resolving the matters here, I’ll go back and see Master!”

Bai Zisheng’s eyes lit up, “Do you want to kill Lu Chengyun?”

He disliked most those who were sanctimonious, bullied people with power, cultivated demon arts, killed and harmed lives, and bullied his sister and little junior brother.

And Lu Chengyun almost fit all of these points.

“Yes,” Mo Hua nodded.

Bai Zisheng thought for a moment and then frowned, “It’s not easy to make a move, is it? There are so many walking corpses, iron corpses, and the Corpse King…”

Mo Hua sat up and lowered his voice, “Let’s take it one step at a time. First weaken Lu Chengyun’s forces, force him to a dead end, and then contact that Corpse King… He is bound to die!”

“Corpse King?” Bai Zisheng was startled, “What are you going to do to his Corpse King?”

Mo Hua shook his finger and corrected him, “Not ‘his’ Corpse King…”

“What do you mean?” Bai Zisheng didn’t understand.

Mo Hua was mysterious and said quietly:

“If you want to keep it a secret, then just don’t know.”

Bai Zisheng was not too happy.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then took a step back, saying, “Then, I promise to let you kill Lu Chengyun.”

“Really?”

Bai Zisheng was somewhat disbelieving.

“Yes,” Mo Hua nodded, “You are my senior brother, I won’t deceive you!”

Bai Zisheng immediately became happy again.

Bai Zixi glanced at her brother, shook her head slightly, and was a bit helpless.

The next day at Mao time (5-7 am), the Dao soldiers began to attack the stone hall.

Yang Jishan led the charge at the front, restraining most of the iron corpses, but this was just a feint attack.

Another two teams of elite cultivators, guided by Mo Hua, bypassed and invaded, breaking the defense array of the warehouses, piercing the stone walls, and indeed seeing a warehouse full of dazzling spirit stones.

With military orders in hand, they did not hesitate. Spirit tools, talismans, and Dao methods were all unleashed, destroying the large quantities of spirit stones stored in the warehouses.

After the spirit stones were destroyed, they turned into majestic spirit energy, overflowing from the Corpse Mine and returning to heaven and earth.

Mo Hua, outside the Corpse Mine, could also perceive this thick spirit power breath.

“This is spirit energy…”

Mo Hua murmured, his mind slightly moved.

According to legend, more than twenty thousand years ago, there was still dense spirit energy between heaven and earth.

Only after the Dao Court unified and the cultivation world developed rapidly, was the spirit energy extracted without limit. Gradually, the natural spirit energy between heaven and earth dried up.

Only from the spirit mines buried underground could spirit stones be mined.

Cultivators relied on spirit stones to cultivate.

There were still mountains and secrets where heaven and earth spirit energy remained, but they were very few, like phoenix feathers and qilin horns, and were occupied by major cultivation forces.

Spirit stones were also the same.

In the more than twenty thousand years of the Dao calendar, up to now, almost all the spirit mines in the cultivation world have been divided and occupied by the Dao Court, world families, large clans, and large sects.

Most of the spirit stones were also gathered in their hands.

Most of the cultivators at the bottom could only obtain a few spirit stones.

Not to mention, being able to breathe true heaven and earth spirit energy…

Now the spirit energy overflowing from the Corpse Mine, although dense, was also short-lived. It would dissipate in a moment.

Although this was spirit energy, it was not true spirit energy.

After it dissipated, the spirit energy between heaven and earth was still dry.

Mo Hua sighed somewhat.

He raised his head, looked at the sky, and couldn’t help but silently think in his heart:

“I wonder if this piece of heaven and earth will ever see the day when spirit energy recovers…”

And when the warehouses were blasted, the spirit stones were destroyed, and the spirit energy was full and dissipating into heaven and earth, Lu Chengyun also felt it.

His heart ached as if it had been pricked by a needle.

These were spirit stones!

These were spirit stones that he had painstakingly earned by enslaving mine cultivators, commanding zombies, and mining mountains!

Relying on these spirit stones, he could buy through the departments of the Dao Court, buy through various forces, allow the Lu family to expand, and also exchange for various cultivation resources, allowing his own cultivation to improve!

But now, they were all destroyed!

What made it even harder for him to accept was the Wan Shi Zhen!

If the spirit stones were destroyed, the array eye of the Wan Shi Zhen would be cut off from supply.

Although the array could still barely operate by relying on the remaining evil power, in less than ten days, the evil power would be exhausted, and the Wan Shi Zhen would stop.

If the Wan Shi Zhen could not operate, and he could not continuously refine zombies, how could he contend with the Dao soldiers?

Lu Chengyun’s eyes were slightly cold, “It seems I need to find another way…”

But immediately he was also somewhat puzzled.

How did the Dao Court know that his set of evil arrays relied on spirit power to operate?

How did they know that his spirit stones were hidden in secret warehouses?

Was there a traitor in the Corpse Mine who leaked all the secrets of the Corpse Mine?

“Impossible…”

Lu Chengyun shook his head.

The people who knew were either killed by him or sacrificed by him.

The rest were all corpse cultivators.

These corpse cultivators had all followed him for a long time, killed people and refined corpses, their hands stained with blood.

As long as they cultivated the corpse path arts, they had already fallen into the demon path and could no longer rely on the Dao Court.

Even relying on the Dao Court was a capital crime.

They couldn’t possibly leak secrets…

“Then did someone from the Dao Court see through the virtual reality of the Corpse Mine and also see through the array I set up?”

Cultivators who had this kind of ability and array attainments must be a high person.

But who exactly was this high person?

When did he start to target me?

Lu Chengyun was puzzled.

Suddenly, he had a premonition.

It seemed that someone had woven a net early on, trapping him tightly, and then, like a tiger, approached him step by step…

Who exactly was this person?

What exactly was this net?

Lu Chengyun was puzzled.

Behind him, the fierce, dignified, and loyal Corpse King was also silently silent.

(End of this chapter)