On the grave mountain, the *shao shi zhen* fire roared.

Except for the little zombie, all walking corpses and iron corpses, including the corpse king, had to be thoroughly refined in the *shao shi zhen* to end the evil results.

There were too many walking corpses, so their ashes were mostly buried together.

The Lu family was raided and fell apart.

Among the iron corpses, no one inquired about the elders of the Lu family. After being burned, they were casually buried and a simple grave mound was set up. Not only was there no one to worship them, but they also received disdain from people. Every time cultivators from *Nan Yue* City passed by, they would all spit a few times.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators from other families or sects would be claimed after incineration and buried in their own ancestral graves.

Mo Hua also solemnly collected the ashes of the successive elders of the Little *Ling Yin* Sect and would later hand them over to Teacher Yan for proper burial.

Having learned the *Ling Shu zhen*, he could be considered to have received favor from the Little *Ling Yin* Sect.

So, he wanted to do something thoughtful.

The *shao shi zhen* continued for more than ten days. All walking corpses and iron corpses were incinerated. Finally, only the corpse king remained.

However, the corpse king could not be incinerated.

Although the array used to refine the corpse king in the *shao shi zhen* was a second-grade array, and the flames were stagnant, nearly melting iron, they still couldn’t handle the corpse king.

The corpse king closed its eyes, with its hands crossed on its chest. Its body was in the surging flames, allowing the fierce fire to burn. Its body was a deep red copper color, but there were no signs of incineration.

Several days passed completely, but the corpse king’s body remained unchanged, and the fierce fire did not invade.

Yang Ji Shan frowned.

The crowd also had solemn expressions.

Cultivators who knew the inside story were even more alarmed.

The corpse king was the disaster embryo of a *Dao sha*, and there was hope that it could transform into a *Dao sha*, which was originally very troublesome.

Now it had submitted to Mo Hua, lost the qualification to advance to a *Dao sha*, and was temporarily dormant. However, if it was not killed off, whether it would undergo changes later was something no one could say.

Yang Ji Shan and others tried various methods again.

Spiritual tools, spells, talismans, and other powerful second-grade arrays were used, but at most they could only injure the corpse king’s skin and flesh. It was fundamentally impossible to incinerate it thoroughly.

Having no choice, Yang Ji Shan still had to go find Mo Hua, wanting to see if Mo Hua had any method.

The matter of the *shao shi zhen* was handled by the *Dao Ting*, so Mo Hua didn’t inquire much.

He only controlled the corpse king and walked into the *shao shi zhen*. He didn’t manage other things.

At this time, when Yang Ji Shan asked him, Mo Hua then specially went to take a look.

On the grave mountain, fierce flames were like a sea.

The corpse king was just immersed in the sea of fire, enduring the burning of the fierce flames, and its flesh was not damaged.

Mo Hua also frowned a bit, feeling somewhat puzzled.

According to reason, with the power of a second-grade array, and being refined for so long, even if the corpse king was a copper corpse, it would be refined into a pool of “copper water”.

Mo Hua released his divine sense to perceive. After a moment, he discovered that on the corpse king, there seemed to be a thread of vague Dao essence entwined.

A copper corpse could not withstand the incineration of the *shao shi zhen*.

But this corpse king was not only a copper corpse, it was also a corpse king.

This thread of Dao essence was similar to the earth’s Dao essence Mo Hua had perceived before.

But it was distorted, mutated, ferocious, and evil.

This was the *Dao sha*’s twisted “Dao essence”.

It was also the root of the *Dao sha*.

This thread of twisted Dao essence made the corpse king’s flesh impossible to refine, and at the same time, it also nurtured the corpse king’s autonomous consciousness.

The moment Mo Hua clearly perceived this thread of Dao essence, the corpse king suddenly opened its eyes.

Its eyes became pitch black and empty, coldly looking towards Mo Hua.

At the same time, a ferocious illusion appeared in Mo Hua’s sea of consciousness.

This illusion was both the corpse king and not entirely the corpse king.

On its body, a layer of faint, profound, and terrifying aura was entwined, carrying deep hatred, staring at Mo Hua with full of hate intent.

This was the *Dao sha*’s aura.

It seemed to resent Mo Hua for making it end prematurely.

Mo Hua remained calm and unafraid, confronting it calmly.

The “corpse king” met Mo Hua’s gaze and suddenly became somewhat bluffing but inwardly panicked. In its resentful expression, deep fear was hidden.

It was like a fierce servant wanting to devour its master, but its hidden evil intent was discovered by the master.

So, under its ferocity, cowardice was secretly hidden.

Mo Hua understood in his heart.

The corpse king submitted to him, and this thread of Dao essence on the corpse king’s body naturally also feared him.

It wanted to devour its master.

Only by devouring its master could the Dao essence be nurtured, and the corpse king could become a *Dao sha*.

But as long as it could not devour its master, it could only obey his orders!

Since it had to listen to his words, it was easy to handle.

Mo Hua’s gaze became slightly cold, and his voice was cold, commanding without allowing resistance:

“Evil beast, go die.”

Yang Ji Shan and others trembled upon hearing this.

And the corpse king’s eyes showed even more fear.

The ruler commands the minister to die, and the minister has to die!

The moment Mo Hua commanded, the Dao essence on the corpse king’s body turned into a ferocious corpse shadow, with red eyes and a ferocious face, twisting, roaring, and howling.

But no matter how unwilling it was, how it struggled, the rules of the great Dao dictated that it had to obey Mo Hua’s command to die.

Its figure gradually dimmed, and the *Dao sha*’s aura also gradually dissipated.

At the same time, the corpse king also roared, causing the *shao shi zhen* fire to rush to the sky. Then, under the shocked gazes of the crowd, its skin and flesh withered, its face collapsed, and it was gradually turned into ashes by the blazing fierce fire…

The corpse king really died…

The eyes of the crowd of cultivators looking at Mo Hua then carried a trace of fear.

The lord of ten thousand corpses, the corpse king that embodied a *Dao sha*, actually died just because of a single sentence from Mo Hua…

But what exactly this was all about, the crowd was completely unaware.

They wanted to ask, but were temporarily intimidated by Mo Hua’s momentum in commanding the corpse king to death, and did not dare to ask too much.

Only the thin old man had a solemn gaze and showed a thoughtful expression.

However, no matter what, with the corpse king’s death, the corpse disaster truly subsided.

This matter finally came to an end.

Everyone lightly breathed a sigh of relief.

These days, they had experienced twists and turns, successive fierce battles, and several changes, wandering between life and death, witnessing one frightening and unbelievable scene after another. Now, they could finally feel as if a heavy burden had been lifted, and they could relax their hearts.

Mo Hua also relaxed a breath.

He turned around and left with light footsteps.

Just as he turned, his heart suddenly throbbed.

In the darkness, there was a thread of premonition.

It was as if something ferocious had parasitized on his body.

This thing was distorted and violent, like Dao essence, but extremely twisted, like the corpse king’s ferocious thoughts, full of hatred, eyeing him covetously.

But once he went to perceive it, it was startled, without a trace, and he didn’t know where it had hidden…

This feeling was exactly the same as the evil Dao essence on the corpse king’s body.

“But didn’t it already dissipate?”

Mo Hua was puzzled.

As the matter concerned a *Dao sha*, Mo Hua had to be more cautious.

When he went back, he went to consult Mister Zhuang.

“Master, the dead *Dao sha* seems to be entangled with me…”

Mister Zhuang was a little surprised, but not unexpectedly, lying on the bamboo chair, he said leisurely:

“You ruined its opportunity, it cannot become a *Dao sha*, naturally it hates you, so its Dao essence then fused into your karma.”

“Fused into karma?”

Mo Hua didn’t understand.

Mister Zhuang then explained:

“All things in the world have karma. Every blade of grass, every tree, every drink, every peck, all cannot escape the category of karma.”

Mo Hua felt that what Mister Zhuang said was as if he understood, but after thinking carefully, he was still very confused.

Mister Zhuang sighed: “Don’t think too complex. Karma is just one kind of the rules of the great Dao. All things operate according to their own rules, which is karma.”

“People are the same.”

“A person’s past, actions, thoughts, all are constituted by the cycle of karma.”

“And all of a person’s past constitutes the cause, and all of the future is based on the cause of the past, forming the fruit.”

“So, karma also constitutes a person’s fate.”

“The fate of the past is fixed, unchangeable, but the fate of the future has ten thousand changes according to your past fate…”

Mo Hua seemed to have some enlightenment and nodded.

Mister Zhuang looked at Mo Hua, with some hope in his gaze, “It’s good that you know about karma now. Thinking more is of no benefit…”

“In the future, when your divine sense is stronger, your experiences are more, and your horizons are broader, when you understand the great Dao, arrays, and all things more thoroughly, then go research…”

Mo Hua couldn’t help but ask: “Master, is this ‘karma’ thing really useful?”

Mister Zhuang said: “It can be useless, but it can also be of great use. It all depends on the degree to which you can comprehend it.”

Mo Hua’s eyes turned, and he asked:

“Master, is that *Dao sha* fused into karma a good thing or a bad thing?”

“Not a good thing,” Mister Zhuang said.

Mo Hua’s heart jumped.

“But also not a bad thing,” Mister Zhuang said again.

Mo Hua opened his mouth and couldn’t help but mutter:

“Master, what you said is the same as not saying anything…”

Mister Zhuang gently knocked Mo Hua’s head and laughed:

“In this world, all things have pros and cons, and fortune and misfortune are interdependent. There are originally no absolute good things and bad things.”

“Then what should I do?” Mo Hua asked.

Mister Zhuang said indifferently: “Just maintain a normal heart is good. Guard your Dao heart. No need to worry, no need to be afraid, don’t even think about it. Wait until your divine sense is powerful, and everything will be easily solved…”

Mo Hua’s eyes brightened, and he thought of what Mister Zhuang had said before:

“Dao heart clear, divine thought powerful, then ten thousand evils will not invade… Is that so, Master?”

Mister Zhuang nodded with pleasure.

Mo Hua then relaxed.

But he didn’t notice that Mister Zhuang’s gaze drooped, a little heavy, and his expression was also a little solemn.

Mo Hua got up to bid farewell, and Mister Zhuang suddenly said:

“Mo Hua.”

Mo Hua looked at Mister Zhuang somewhat puzzled.

Mister Zhuang paused for a moment, then asked:

“How did this thread of evilized Dao essence fuse into your karma?”

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said truthfully:

“It seems that… I commanded it to go die, and it died, but it didn’t die completely, so it hated me…”

Mister Zhuang’s gaze slightly froze, his fingers hidden in his sleeve trembled, and his heart also inevitably felt a palpitation.

“Commanded it… to go die?”

“Mm.” Mo Hua nodded, and said worriedly, “Master, is there trouble?”

Mister Zhuang’s gaze was restrained, and he smiled faintly:

“It doesn’t matter, just remember what I just told you.”

“Okay, Master!”

Since Master said it didn’t matter, then it should be fine.

Mo Hua then relaxed and left happily.

After Mo Hua left, Mister Zhuang sighed deeply and frowned tightly.

Kui Lao’s figure appeared and sighed softly:

“Too bold…”

Mister Zhuang unusually didn’t retort, but nodded in agreement:

“Yes, too bold…”

He actually commanded a *Dao sha* to go die…

Ignorance is fearless.

The key was that this *Dao sha* actually listened to his words and died…

Mister Zhuang said helplessly:

“The corpse king is not yet a *Dao sha*. Making the corpse king kneel is just staining a large karma. But now he faced the *Dao sha* and commanded it to go die. This is equivalent to swallowing this large karma in one gulp. He is truly… bold to the extreme…”

Kui Lao looked at Mister Zhuang contemptuously, “Weren’t you very proud before? Do you know how to regret now? What do we do now?”

Mister Zhuang sighed.

He had calculated that when the corpse king was subdued, everything would end.

He didn’t expect that there would be unexpected problems in the end.

If he had known earlier, he should have put down his face and not put on expert airs, and admonished Mo Hua more, letting him mind less about other affairs.

Let the people on the *Dao Ting* side worry about the incineration of the corpse king.

Kui Lao frowned again:

“But, even if the *Dao sha* fused into karma, this also doesn’t matter, right? It’s not a true *Dao sha*, just a thread of twisted aura.”

“The problem is precisely here…”

Mister Zhuang sighed, “Mo Hua is walking the path of ‘divine sense proving the Dao’. When his divine sense is strong enough in the future, and his comprehension of heaven and earth is deep enough, he will inevitably nurture his own Dao essence.”

“But there is the aura of a *Dao sha* entangled in his karma.”

“What he nurtures out may not be Dao essence, but… with his flesh body, he may nurture his own ‘Dao sha’…”

As soon as this word was spoken, Kui Lao’s face also turned a little pale.

Body transforming into a *Dao sha*!

Then he might truly be more terrifying than the strange Daoist devil.

Kui Lao frowned: “Mo Hua’s character is clear and pure. He should not go to that extent, right?”

“It looks like this now…” Mister Zhuang slowly lay down, his gaze uncertain, “But who can say for sure about future matters?”

“Especially… he is still young now and can be single-minded.”

“But when he grows up in the future, and sees more things, his thoughts will inevitably become mixed. If his character changes due to feelings, and a single thought leads him to become a demon, then…”

Mister Zhuang’s voice gradually became inaudible.

Kui Lao raised his eyebrows, “You mean, the Bai family?”

Mister Zhuang raised his eyebrows but didn’t say clearly.

But both knew.

The two children were together day and night. Their hearts might be ignorant, and their feelings unclear, but they, the elders, clearly saw the feelings that were gradually being born.

“The Bai family…”

Mister Zhuang shook his head, a little disdainfully, but in his eyes, there was also deep caution.

Kui Lao’s expression was also as cold and stern as if carved by a knife.

The water of the Bai family was really unfathomably deep…

Mister Zhuang looked into the distance, sighed, “Mo Hua is a very emotional person. The more so, the easier it is to get hurt. Even without that little girl, if his parents or friends have accidents, it’s estimated that it will also make his character change…”

Kui Lao furrowed his brows, looked at Mister Zhuang, and shook his head:

“I don’t see it that way. Although this child’s nature is upright, he is not a straightforward character. As a person, he is clever, occasionally has a belly full of bad ideas, and is meticulous in his thoughts. He knows how to adapt and should not reach this step.”

“Hope so…” Mister Zhuang sighed.

“You didn’t tell him about this matter clearly?” Kui Lao asked.

“It’s useless to tell him clearly…” Mister Zhuang shook his head.

“Matters like *Dao sha* Dao essence, if told clearly, will instead make him hesitate, mess up his thoughts, and ruin his heart realm.”

“Rather, just let him believe that with a clear Dao heart, ten thousand evils will not invade. If his heart is without distractions and he tempers his divine thought, he might truly not be invaded by ten thousand evils…”

“Anyway, the things he has to do are the same. He will cultivate his divine sense to the extreme, without worries, and it will be easier for him to move forward without hesitation.”

Kui Lao nodded slightly.

Mister Zhuang closed his eyes in thought. After a moment, he thought of something and opened his eyes again:

“Moreover, this is not necessarily a bad thing…”

Kui Lao’s heart connected and he slowly said:

“You mean, the strange Daoist?”

The strange Daoist, a demonic Daoist who cultivates a strange Dao.

One cannot think of him, cannot speak of him, and even more cannot say his name taboo.

But Kui Lao had no scruples and directly called out the strange Daoist’s Dao title, and his whole body showed no trace of anomaly.

Mister Zhuang nodded, his gaze profound:

“A *Dao sha* has form and spirit.”

“The corpse king was the embryo of a *Dao sha*. After its form was destroyed and its spirit died, its heart held resentment, and the remaining *Dao sha* aura fused into karma.”

“A *Dao sha* at the karma level is nearly indestructible and extremely difficult to deal with.”

“Even for my senior brother, it’s the same.”

“But for Mo Hua, it’s a little different.”

“Although there were some fateful encounters, he made the *Dao sha* submit by his own ability, and then commanded the *Dao sha* to die.”

“Mo Hua is the master of the *Dao sha*.”

“The *Dao sha* latent in Mo Hua’s karma must still harbor the intention of counter-devouring. It racks its brains wanting to devour its master, but as long as it cannot devour its master, it has to protect its master!”

“So, this is a sharp sword.”

“The sword blade is inward, and it may ruin Mo Hua’s Dao essence. But the sword blade is outward, and it is really possible that it will allow Mo Hua to be immune to ten thousand evils in his karma!”

“Because his fate pattern hides the most evil and most ferocious *Dao sha*!”

“The *Dao sha* is the most ferocious and most evil, so ten thousand evils cannot invade!”

Mister Zhuang’s gaze was sharp.

Kui Lao was also shocked.

If this were true, then this seemingly unremarkable little cultivator, in the heavenly mechanism deduction, was the true great terror.

His karma fate pattern, where the *Dao sha* was latent, was a huge abyss that could not be peeked into, deduced, or invaded!

(End of this chapter)