Mo Hua was calculating in his heart.

First, he couldn’t kill the Fire Buddha by himself.

Unless there was a first-grade great array that could disintegrate him, and he also had to get the Fire Buddha inside the great array, wait for him to complete drawing the reversed spirit array, and then collapse him to death…

Otherwise, even if the Fire Buddha stood there and let him hit, he would exhaust his spiritual power and still not necessarily kill him.

After all, the cultivation difference was too big…

Since that was the case, he could only “borrow a knife to kill someone.”

Borrow Gu Uncle, this “knife,” to kill the Fire Buddha, this demon cultivator.

As long as the Fire Buddha could be killed, Gu Uncle probably wouldn’t mind being treated as a “knife”…

He was also helping him!

Mo Hua once again sized up the two people who were fighting.

Gu Uncle’s cultivation was higher than the Fire Buddha’s, but he had to suppress his cultivation, so the fight was tied.

The Fire Buddha, on the other hand, could exert his full strength and display his techniques without restraint.

Flames blazed, filling the mountains and plains.

The Fire Buddha’s cultivation was at the peak of Foundation Establishment, seemingly only one step away from Golden Core.

And his spiritual power, under the blessing of the two flame hearts in his chest, was actually not much inferior to Gu Uncle’s…

He had also taken a blood pill earlier, restoring his blood energy and spiritual power.

At the same time, his baleful aura, although it couldn’t make Gu Uncle feel fear, subtly influenced Gu Uncle’s mind.

If they continued fighting like this, it was truly hard to say who would win…

Mo Hua pondered for a while, calculated slightly in his heart, then continued to conceal himself and approached Gu Changhuai and the Fire Buddha who were fighting.

“First, break his baleful aura…”

Mo Hua silently pondered.

Baleful aura seemed to have no effect on him.

His divine sense had undergone qualitative change, his divine thought body had gone through a hundred battles, and he had swallowed quite a few ghosts, corpses, and demons. He wouldn’t be influenced by baleful aura.

But Gu Uncle was different.

He wasn’t an array master. Although his divine sense was strong, without tempering, it was easily eroded by baleful aura, making his heart restless and irritable, thus affecting his strength.

Breaking the baleful aura would make the Fire Buddha a bit weaker and Gu Uncle a bit stronger.

And the key to breaking the baleful aura… lay in the eyes.

This was Mo Hua’s guess.

What baleful aura was, he still didn’t quite understand.

But based on his research on divine sense and divine thought, and some causal qi mechanisms.

Since baleful aura could make people feel fear, it was a kind of qi mechanism between “heaven and earth qi” and “divine sense thought.”

And it could turn killing karma into baleful aura.

That meant it contained a trace of causal rules.

In Mo Hua’s perception, the Fire Buddha’s whole body flame techniques all carried baleful aura. This should be what the Fire Buddha meant by “transforming killing into balefulness, refining balefulness with techniques…”

But he had to rely on cultivating Buddha to suppress the baleful aura and avoid baleful aura backlash and abnormal divine sense.

That meant baleful aura itself was also related to “divine thought.”

Divine sense existed in the sea of consciousness.

The eyes were the window of divine thought.

So the part where baleful aura gathered the most and fluctuated the strongest was the eyes.

Mo Hua again secretly looked at the Fire Buddha’s eyes.

Inside the Fire Buddha’s eyes, a fierce fire burned. Within the flames, there was a thick gray turbid qi, which made people feel fear just by looking at it.

Ordinary cultivators, being looked at by him, would most likely feel fear and become “lambs” waiting to be slaughtered…

Gu Uncle, in the fight, also didn’t dare to look at the Fire Buddha’s eyes for a long time, obviously still quite fearful of this pair of fiery baleful eyes.

Mo Hua patiently waited for an opportunity.

On the other side, the battle between Gu Changhuai and the Fire Buddha was still in a stalemate, with fire rain and wind blades flying everywhere.

Gu Changhuai displayed the Lingfeng Huayu Technique, waving his folding fan, transforming into streams of wind blades that went to kill the Fire Buddha.

All the wind blades, upon approaching a zhang from the Fire Buddha, would be blocked by a “fire wall.”

This fire wall, with fire as “bricks,” had streams of gold lines crisscrossing, looking like a huge flame kasaya.

It should be the defensive method inherent in the Fire Buddha’s kasaya.

The fire wall would offset most of the wind blades.

The remaining wind blades, the Fire Buddha would then evade with his body technique.

But the Fire Buddha’s body technique was not considered flexible.

And his kasaya defense also had gaps.

After another ten-odd rounds.

Mo Hua finally caught a flaw.

The Fire Buddha had just used the fire wall to offset dozens of wind feathers, and then used his body technique to evade several wind blades. His spiritual power had not yet circulated back, and his footsteps had just stopped for a moment.

Mo Hua reached out and pointed.

An extremely brilliant gold light instantly shot out, stabbing the Fire Buddha in the eyes.

This was a basic technique: Gold Light Technique.

It was something Mo Hua had learned incidentally before when he was “plucking wool” from Sin Xiu, as it wasn’t considered difficult.

Mo Hua still remembered Elder Yi, who taught Dao methods in the Taixu Sect, guiding him.

Ten thousand techniques merge into one body.

The wonder of application exists in one heart.

This was the insight of “all laws are interconnected.”

Techniques not only emphasized power but also function.

This Gold Light Technique didn’t have much power, but it contained pure gold element spiritual power and was extremely dazzling, causing significant damage to a cultivator’s eyes.

Hitting other parts was like scratching an itch.

But hitting the eyes was very painful.

It was an insidious technique with strong destructive ability in a specific “part.”

The Fire Buddha fundamentally didn’t think there were others inside this altar, much less that he would be sneak-attacked.

Even if he thought so, in a situation where his spiritual power circulation was stagnant and his body technique was stopped, he couldn’t evade.

And Mo Hua’s technique was extremely fast.

The Fire Buddha’s eye pupils were instantly stabbed by the gold light, leaving two rows of bloody tears. Every blink was painful, and his line of sight was also a bit blurry.

A considerable amount of his whole body’s sinister baleful aura also scattered.

The Fire Buddha was both shocked and angry.

“What despicable villain? How dare you sneak attack?”

His vision was inconvenient, so he just swept with his divine sense, but the surroundings were empty, with only Gu Changhuai’s wild wind-like spiritual power, and no traces of other cultivators.

“No one?”

The Fire Buddha was shocked in his heart.

Gu Changhuai’s vision similarly focused, and he felt stern in his heart.

That technique just now was… Gold Light Technique?

Mo Hua?

Gu Changhuai’s divine sense swept slightly and indeed found a vague, sneaky small figure in a nearby corner.

He was a Golden Core divine sense, but he could only see a rough outline.

Gu Changhuai felt somewhat inconceivable in his heart.

This child…

He also knew the Gold Light Technique?

And the timing was also too good…

Gu Changhuai was startled, and then perceived the retreat of the baleful aura around the Fire Buddha. He also understood Mo Hua’s intention.

Gu Changhuai’s vision sank. Without hesitation, he directly manipulated his technique and continued to attack the Fire Buddha.

In this evenly matched fight, any weak variable could change the situation.

Now with Mo Hua’s help, the balance was broken. Battle-hardened Gu Changhuai understood what to do next without needing to be told.

Moreover, only by completely suppressing the Fire Buddha could Mo Hua be safer.

Otherwise, with Mo Hua’s small body, if he were discovered by the Fire Buddha and slightly affected by a technique wave, he could easily be in danger.

With this thought, Gu Changhuai’s aura suddenly increased, and the wind blades were like arrow rain, breaking through the air one after another towards the Fire Buddha.

The Fire Buddha suddenly felt the pressure double.

He released his divine sense outwards, still wanting to find the “insidious villain” who had sneak-attacked him, but Gu Changhuai was now going all out, forcing him to hastily counterattack and not dare to have a trace of distraction. He simply had no time to find trouble with Mo Hua.

Mo Hua nodded.

As expected of Gu Uncle, he understood what to do without speaking.

The Fire Buddha’s eyes were stinging with pain.

Although relying on his profound cultivation, deep spiritual power, and fast flesh recovery, he could see things again soon, he still couldn’t condense baleful aura with both eyes.

Once he condensed baleful aura, his eyes felt like they were being pricked by needles.

Moreover…

He would still be sneak-attacked!

As long as his gaze condensed baleful aura, unluckily, a stream of gold light would surely come and sting his eyes.

“Damn it!”

Anger surged in the Fire Buddha’s heart.

Without baleful aura, Gu Changhuai would be less fearful, and he would be at a bit of a disadvantage.

But he could still fight…

In a life-and-death fight, there were a myriad of changes in an instant. Until the last moment, no one could assert victory or defeat.

The Fire Buddha’s killing intent became even fiercer.

He wanted to kill Gu Changhuai.

Even if he couldn’t kill Gu Changhuai, he also wanted to slaughter that “insidious villain” hiding in the dark.

This person’s technique power wasn’t strong, so he should only be in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

He didn’t know by what means he was hiding there, but as long as he dared to show his head, he would be burned by meteor fire and would undoubtedly die!

The Fire Buddha sneered.

Afterwards, he continued to fight with Gu Changhuai.

But as the fight progressed, the Fire Buddha discovered something was wrong again.

There were still other techniques…

Not only the Gold Light Technique, but also the Water Prison Technique, Quicksand Technique, and various other Five Elements techniques, which were both fast and accurate, like a needle inserted into a seam, “secretly shooting cold arrows” at him.

These techniques weren’t powerful, and because their grade was low, their restrictive effects were also limited.

But even if limited, they would still have an effect.

Every time he wanted to evade or resist Gu Changhuai’s techniques, he would be restricted a bit by these “disgusting” techniques.

The Fire Buddha was extremely annoyed and cursed inwardly.

What kind of despicable person was this?

He didn’t learn proper techniques; how did he become so proficient in all these disgusting things…

“It’s good that these techniques are still low-grade and don’t pose a big threat, otherwise…”

As the Fire Buddha’s thoughts moved, his feet suddenly sank, and the mountain stones shook.

He lowered his head to look, and his pupils shrank.

Under his feet, at some point, there was a pool of ink seeping into the ground surface, automatically drawing out lines of earth-gray, forming a…

Array?!

The Fire Buddha found it hard to believe.

Where did the array come from?!

The ground was just empty, how did an array suddenly appear?

As if ghosts were drawing the array…

Moreover, looking at the array patterns… was this a second-grade mid-tier array?

The Fire Buddha’s heart sank.

A second-grade mid-tier array could already threaten late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

He just thought of displaying his body technique to escape from the array, when he saw a flash of gray light under his feet. Spiritual power quickly flowed, instantly activating the array. Mountain stones bulged, forming a cage, trapping the Fire Buddha in place.

Eight Trigrams Gen Mountain Trap Array!

This trap array could trap late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators. Although the control time would be shortened, it was still enough to restrict him for five or six breaths.

Just at this moment, Gu Changhuai seized the opportunity, urged his spiritual power, and continuously displayed hundreds of wind blades, like a storm, bombarding the Fire Buddha.

The Fire Buddha could only grit his teeth, unfold his kasaya, and fully condense it into a “fire wall.”

The wind blades and fire wall collided, and spiritual power exploded, one after another.

But there were too many wind blades; the fire wall couldn’t block them all.

After a moment, the fire wall was continuously bombarded and scattered by the wind blades. The remaining wind blades then engulfed the Fire Buddha.

Where the wind blades bombarded, the mountain stones shattered, and thick gray smoke rose.

After the smoke and dust dissipated, the Fire Buddha’s body was revealed.

His body was extremely battered, with many new scratches on his kasaya. Blood was spitting from the corner of his mouth, but his aura hadn’t weakened too much.

Seeing this, Mo Hua couldn’t help but sigh secretly:

“This Fire Buddha is really tough…”

His evil power was deep, and his kasaya defense was also strong…

He had been fighting for so long, and still couldn’t completely kill him.

The Fire Buddha spat blood with a “peh” sound and sneered sinisterly:

“Surname Gu, didn’t expect you to still find a helper?”

Gu Changhuai didn’t answer.

The Fire Buddha’s vision was gloomy, and he was also a bit puzzled, “When exactly did you set up the array…”

Gu Changhuai was expressionless, but couldn’t help but say in his heart:

“How would I know…”

The array wasn’t set up by him.

He hadn’t seen earlier how Mo Hua had set up the array under the Fire Buddha’s feet.

This kid’s array methods were really evil…

The Fire Buddha still wanted to say something, but Gu Changhuai had already held his folding fan, manipulated his technique, and continued to attack him.

The Fire Buddha could only continue to fight.

But the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him.

On one hand, he had to fight squarely with Gu Changhuai, this Golden Core official, and at the same time, he still had to guard against various insidious techniques.

Moreover, he had to pay attention to his feet to avoid stepping on those unbelievable arrays that appeared out of nowhere…

“The defeat is already set…”

The Fire Buddha instantly judged in his heart.

In a cultivator’s fight, if it’s a stalemate, the most feared thing is the appearance of some variables, which become the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

And now, there was far more than one straw.

Moreover, there were more and more.

If this continued, he would really be pitted to death by that despicable villain hiding in the dark, and then die at the hands of Gu Changhuai.

“Leave the green mountains, and there’s no fear of no firewood to burn…”

Take advantage of his energy not being exhausted yet and escape early!

The Fire Buddha suddenly stirred his evil power, rolling up surging blood rain, and attacked Gu Changhuai.

Gu Changhuai’s face sank, and he had to retreat.

Taking this gap, the Fire Buddha displayed his body technique, transformed into a stream of fire light, and came to the front of the altar.

He used his hand to pry the ground, wanting to take away the secret book hidden in the bricks, but his divine sense swept and found the bricks were empty…

The Fire Buddha was shocked in his heart.

“Gone?!”

He raised his head again, looked around, and his pupils suddenly widened in shock.

At some point, the surroundings had already been constructed with blue and green spiritual ink, forming a complex array.

This array was different from all the previous arrays, obviously more profound.

Moreover, within the array, the water qi was dense, and it faintly had a restraining effect on his whole body’s fire spiritual power.

The Fire Buddha’s face was pale.

Mo Hua, however, had bright eyes, and a successful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Second-grade sixteen patterns, Yi Wood Water Poison Compound Array.

This was a set of arrays that Mo Hua had carefully selected and prepared for the Fire Buddha early on, specifically for this crucial moment to play a trick on him.

This set of compound arrays was exchanged by Mo Hua from the Taixu Merit Pavilion.

It could be considered the set of arrays that could restrain the Fire Buddha the most among those Mo Hua could currently learn.

Yi Wood Water Poison combined water and wood, the Five Elements merged, using water as poison, infused into Yi Wood spiritual power.

Water restrained fire, and wood generated fire.

The so-called “water poison” was not true poison but referred to the yin-cold water spiritual power, which was like maggots on the tarsal bones, difficult to eliminate, like “poison.”

And infusing “water poison” into “Yi Wood,” on one hand, could use the water poison to restrain the Fire Buddha’s evil fire power.

On the other hand, infusing “water poison” into Yi Wood spiritual power, while nurturing fire spiritual power, would plant “water poison” deeply inside the fire spiritual power.

In this way, the water poison would be endless.

And water and fire were incompatible, repelling each other.

The Fire Buddha would then endure the torment of water yin and fire heat, and it would be difficult to eradicate in a short time.

The only problem with this set of arrays was that it was too slow to draw.

A second-grade sixteen patterns compound array slightly exceeded Mo Hua’s divine sense standard.

But fortunately, Mo Hua’s divine sense was powerful and tough after its qualitative change, and he could also draw difficult arrays.

The array was difficult, so drawing it with ink would be very slow.

Drawing slowly definitely made it easy for the Fire Buddha to notice, thus causing him to evade in advance.

Moreover, with Mo Hua’s divine sense, he only had one chance.

If he missed, then all his previous efforts would be wasted.

So Mo Hua took a “gamble.”

He speculated that the Fire Buddha would definitely return to the altar to retrieve the Meteor Fire Technique secret book.

So he predicted in advance and constructed this set of compound arrays near the storage bricks.

And the Fire Buddha did not “disappoint” Mo Hua’s expectation. He really returned to get that book, the Meteor Fire Technique secret book that had already been taken by Mo Hua.

The storage space was empty, nothing, only the ambush array.

While the Fire Buddha was stunned and shocked for a moment, Mo Hua pointed a finger, detonating the Yi Wood Water Poison Compound Array.

Blue and green spiritual power of water and wood suddenly exploded.

Yi Wood spiritual power surged, and water poison spiritual power swept, like two spiritual snakes, merging into one, continuously tearing and biting the Fire Buddha within the array.

In imminent danger, the Fire Buddha hurriedly activated his kasaya to protect himself.

But his kasaya already had quite a few cracks.

The water and wood spiritual power was then like poisonous snakes, tearing at his flesh and injecting “spiritual power poison” into his blood.

The Fire Buddha only felt a chill throughout his body.

The torment of water and fire was hard to endure.

At the same time, his body’s evil fire was stimulated by the “Yi Wood spiritual power,” making it more vigorous.

But this Yi Wood spiritual power was mixed with water poison.

So the more vigorous his evil fire was, the deeper the water poison was.

The Fire Buddha’s face turned green for a while, then blue for a while, and occasionally red, looking very strange.

But he did, after all, have the cultivation of Foundation Establishment peak and surging evil power, so he forcibly suppressed the water poison within his body with his cultivation.

Although he suppressed the water poison, he could still feel that his movements had become sluggish, his reaction was also half a beat slower, and the water poison within his body was also slowly eroding his spiritual power.

The Fire Buddha was both shocked and fearful in his heart.

“The Five Elements restrain each other, the array circulates…”

“This is an extremely profound application of arrays…”

“Exactly who?!”

The Fire Buddha’s vision suddenly became fierce. At this moment, he finally noticed that someone was not far away, seeming to have exposed a few wisps of aura due to excessive divine sense consumption.

The Fire Buddha gritted his teeth, waved his hand, and a stream of fire light broke through the air.

Mo Hua had just used his divine sense to control the ink and draw several arrays.

At this time, having also completed drawing the Yi Wood Water Poison Compound Array, his divine sense was a bit sluggish, and his hiding technique also exposed a flaw, which was seen by the Fire Buddha.

Since that was the case, he didn’t hide anymore.

The fire light hit the mountain stones, but Mo Hua had already displayed the Passing Water Step to evade, then landed lightly, revealing his body.

The Fire Buddha saw it was a small figure and frowned tightly.

“Dwarf cultivator?”

When Mo Hua’s figure gradually became clear, the Fire Buddha looked again, and his pupils couldn’t help but widen in shock.

“Not a dwarf, is a… child?!”

Moreover…

He still recognized this child?!

The Fire Buddha instantly thought of something.

It was that small cultivator he had seen at the teahouse outside Bi Mountain City, who had seen through the identities of the four of them!

The Fire Buddha’s vision paused, and he murmured:

“How is this possible…”

Using various disgusting techniques and profound arrays, forcing him to a desperate road, how could it be…

That inconspicuous small ghost in the Foundation Establishment stage at that time?!

Simply a joke!

The Fire Buddha trembled in his heart.

He stared intently at Mo Hua, “Your hiding technique, is it Yin Lao Er’s Five Elements Concealment Technique? Did Yin Lao Er also fall into your hands?”

Mo Hua smiled and squinted his eyes: “You guess.”

The Fire Buddha’s brows furrowed.

Just at this moment, he suddenly startled, lowered his head to look, and discovered that at the edge of his feet, spiritual ink was flowing again, and an array was being built…

Boundless anger surged in his heart, the Fire Buddha’s face was ashen, and baleful aura overflowed, almost breaking his Buddhist cultivation heart realm.

“This small ghost… is he bullying people too much?!”

Mo Hua was indeed drawing an array again.

His divine sense recovered quickly. In this short time, his divine sense had recovered a bit. Thinking that being idle was being idle, he took advantage of the Fire Buddha’s speaking time to secretly draw another array.

It was a pity that the Fire Buddha discovered it…

This Fire Buddha was indeed very alert.

The Fire Buddha suppressed the water poison within his body, held his breath, and flashed his body away.

Mo Hua sighed, and could only shout: “Gu Uncle!”

Before his words fell, Gu Changhuai’s wind blades arrived again.

Gu Changhuai’s heart was also in turmoil.

He didn’t know what array Mo Hua was setting up.

But now the Fire Buddha’s face was sometimes blue and sometimes green, seemingly in a bad state. It was just the right time to take advantage of his weakness and take his life.

Gu Changhuai fought with the Fire Buddha again.

Mo Hua watched from the side, calculating clearly in his heart.

Relying solely on the Yi Wood Water Poison Compound Array could not kill the Fire Buddha.

But the water poison would slow down his speed, delay his reaction, and at the same time, the mutual restraint of water and fire would also inflict pain and cause the Fire Buddha’s spiritual power operation to be disordered.

In this way, it would be much easier for Gu Uncle to kill the Fire Buddha.

And he only needed to hide far away and watch the Fire Buddha die.

There was no need for him to make a move, to avoid the Fire Buddha desperately retaliating like a cornered dog and lashing out at him before death…

The situation was indeed like that.

The Fire Buddha was suppressed by Gu Changhuai and couldn’t breathe.

He hated endlessly in his heart but was also helpless.

He never thought that he would actually fall into the hands of a small ghost he had only seen once…

If it weren’t for him, even if he weren’t Gu Changhuai’s opponent, the means he had prepared would have been enough for him to escape.

He wouldn’t be like this now, blocked inside this altar, having his eyes stabbed by techniques, being trapped by arrays, and even being poisoned…

“Damn small ghost!!”

The Fire Buddha’s face was filled with killing intent.

But his anger was useless. With Mo Hua “watching covetously” from the side, he couldn’t escape from the altar. His injuries gradually worsened, and the water poison also gradually became unbearable…

The Fire Buddha could only rely on his deep evil power to bitterly hold on.

Seeing that in another half an hour, he would be like a lamp running out of oil, dying inside the altar.

Just at this moment, a strong shock came from above the demon hall again.

Among them, there were also countless conflicting array patterns and the aura of exploding arrays.

Mo Hua’s expression changed.

The demon hall activated its self-destruct array?

He turned his head to look at the Fire Buddha, only to see the Fire Buddha’s face, an expression of viewing death as returning home.

The Fire Buddha, whose aura was weak, had a face full of blood and smiled ferociously:

“You’ll be buried here with me…”

(End of Chapter)