The Xiao family’s old ancestor was torn apart.

A thread, a wisp of black gas, followed his incarnation through its seven orifices, drilling into his divine thought, seeping towards his divine soul, little by little eroding, polluting, and corrupting him.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor didn’t understand.

Exactly how did his good, great-great-grandson provoke such a terrifying existence?

This terrifyingly venerable existence greatly resembled the “evil gods” or “heavenly demons” of legends, even something he, this Cave Void old ancestor, extremely dreaded: a “forbidden” entity.

And when exactly did this kind of existence begin spreading within the borders of Qian Xue State?

The Xiao family’s old ancestor couldn’t figure it out.

But under this kind of life-threatening crisis, there was fundamentally no time for him to think carefully.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor exhausted his lifelong heavenly mechanism learning, urging a divine thought method.

His divine thought incarnation, like shedding skin, began to crack from the surface, then shed its entire outer divine thought body, thereby escaping the pollution of the evil thought and ensuring the purity of his own divine soul.

Divine Molting Technique!

This was the last and most difficult-to-cultivate divine path secret technique among the heavenly mechanism techniques he had obtained through great fortune.

Through this secret technique, he could molt the divine body, retaining the divine soul, like a flood dragon or snake shedding its skin.

Although his divine consciousness would be greatly damaged, he would also shed the polluted divine thought, retaining the purest origin.

This was a divine thought method created to cope with all sorts of unknowable existences within divine thought, as well as various strange pollutions, a method of “breaking an arm to seek life.”

It was also the most difficult secret technique to practice in his inheritance.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor originally thought he would never use it in his lifetime.

Yet he didn’t expect that his most beloved good great-great-grandson would bring him such a shocking “big surprise,” making him directly face this kind of existence, which could be called “great terror,” in a situation with almost no defense.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor’s divine thought began to molt.

Skin cracked inch by inch, shedding together with most of the divine thought and the polluting black gas that had already seeped into the divine thought.

A “smaller version” of the pure Xiao family old ancestor broke out from the abdomen of the original molted body, then without looking back, neither looking at that little ghost nor spying on the source of that “terrifying” entity, directly escaped outwards towards the karma.

The situation was extremely urgent.

Time was also very pressing.

He needed the decisiveness of a “hero breaking his wrist” and also needed to seize this rare opportunity; every minute, every second, could not be missed.

Hesitate a little, and he would die without a burial ground.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor’s divine molting body desperately escaped outwards towards the karma.

That little ghost no longer looked at him; it seemed to be attracted by his molted, majestic divine thought of the Cave Void realm.

That venerable “terrifying” existence was still only spreading the polluting black gas.

It seemed to be at the edge of awakening, lacking some ceremony or missing some dwelling medium, about to awaken, but seemingly not yet awakened.

Otherwise, it only needed one glance to pollute a Cave Void.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor felt fortunate in his heart.

He was very unlucky, but also very lucky.

Otherwise, just a little bit, and he would have been ten thousand calamities without return.

And this encounter, he also finally witnessed exactly what the “great terror” in heavenly mechanism was.

This would be greatly beneficial for his future cultivation of the karma path.

“First escape out…”

The Xiao family’s old ancestor spared no effort to escape outwards, escaping farther and farther, his eye seeing that he could jump out of the karma and detach from this nightmare.

But just at this moment, a wave suddenly distorted, and the Xiao family’s old ancestor seemed to have collided head-on with some venerable being.

A foul stench came.

It seemed to be a corpse.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor, after divine molting, lifted his head and then saw a venerable “copper corpse” with eyes like a sea of blood, a body like ancient copper, tall and fierce.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor’s heart tightened.

A copper corpse was not fearful.

In the eyes of a Cave Void old ancestor like him, a mere copper corpse was nothing more than a low-end zombie at the Foundation Establishment realm.

But, this was in the karma, in the heavenly mechanism deduction…

Where did a copper corpse come from?

The Xiao family’s old ancestor slightly examined and saw the disdainful majesty in the copper corpse’s eyes, the surging blood qi, as well as the vaguely appearing scene of corpse mountains and a sea of blood behind it. A cold qi surged in his heart, and his five viscera and six bowels all trembled with cold.

“This is not an ordinary copper corpse, this is… leading a group of corpses, born with a sea of blood… a corpse king?”

“This is damn it… Dao sin?!”

Like the dead of winter, a basin of cold water was poured over his head.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor’s entire body was ice cold, his face like dead ash.

He never thought in his lifetime that he could encounter this kind of situation.

A strange evil fetus little ghost, a dormant ancient evil god, a corpse king Dao sin blocking the road…

The Xiao family’s old ancestor didn’t know exactly how he escaped from this kind of situation.

When his divine thought struggled back to his own sea of consciousness, there was no bit of post-disaster survival luck in his heart, only endless unease and fear.

In his divine soul, there was a wound from Dao sin, pollution from the evil god, and also the tooth mark of the evil fetus.

His forehead was blackened, both eyes were spiritless, his face was white like paper, and there were blood threads at the bottom of his eyes.

He was clearly alive, yet looked like a “living corpse.”

His divine thought had already been “molted” off like a skin sac by him using the divine molting technique, therefore the loss was extremely severe.

But although his divine thought was extremely weak, his desires were very abundant.

His heart seemed to be filled with countless thirsts and desires.

The Xiao family’s old ancestor’s expression was numb, like someone mourning, sitting dry in front of Xiao Tianquan’s blood-drenched corpse, muttering:

“It’s over…”

“The Xiao family is over, everything, it’s all over…”

“I… I am no longer I, what exactly am I…”

The Cave Mansion door was tightly closed, and no one answered.

Several days later.

On the Xia family’s spirit boat.

Supervisor Xia was writing a letter.

The first letter was written to within the clan, addressed to a certain elder with real power in the Xia family, but he did not leave his name, only writing the four words “Elder, personally open”:

“The plan has changed.”

“Xiao Tianquan died violently and vanished, the cause of death unknown. The plan to dominate the Xiao family needs to be renegotiated.”

“If it really doesn’t work, we can only infiltrate step by step through the Gui Water Gate, control the Dao Court Division, and thereby further conduct infiltration, utilizing the time when the Lun Dao Assembly and each sect are distracted competing, to plot the big plan.”

“Xia Rong’er does not know the big picture, is not of great use, hereafter the clan’s supply will be reduced by three tenths…”

Supervisor Xia paused for a moment, then added another stroke, “…suspend Xia Rong’er’s marriage discussions.”

Afterward, he once again concisely described the recent situation within the borders of Qian Xue State and the movements of each aristocratic family, selecting the essentials, then sealed the letter and called a trusted subordinate to transmit it back to the clan through the Xia family’s Yuan Magnetic secret letter channel.

After that, he began to write the second letter again:

This letter, he did not know who it was written to, had no heading, and he did not sign his name.

“Xiao Tianquan’s corpse was transported back to the Xiao family.”

“The Xiao family’s old ancestor sealed the Cave Mansion. According to his habit, he should be deducing karma and calculating the murderer, but…”

Supervisor Xia’s expression was somewhat solemn, “After the Cave Mansion was sealed, it has already been three days until now, and it still hasn’t opened. Not only so, the Xiao family’s old ancestor also ordered that all Xiao family cultivators are not allowed to approach the Cave Mansion by half a step, and he has also been in seclusion until now, without any more news…”

“The Xiao family’s old ancestor is very likely to have already been ‘polluted’.”

Writing down the two words “polluted,” Supervisor Xia only felt cold sweat break out all over his back.

“Although the situation is unexpected, one Cave Void of the Xiao family can be considered wasted…”

“The Cabinet Elder’s guess was also not wrong, the borders of Qian Xue State are indeed covered by evil thoughts, giving birth to yin filthy darkness…”

“It’s just that the aristocratic families exclude outsiders, and the sects have different intentions, so for now they cannot intervene and do not know the inside story.”

“If the matter cannot be done, plans should be made early…”

Supervisor Xia finished writing, sealed the letter, and placed it inside a golden sword hilt. With a gentle flick of his finger, the golden sword suddenly annihilated between them.

And then he let out a long breath, his heart filled with lingering fear.

“The old ancestor indeed did not deceive me, ‘if you cannot calculate, then do not calculate.’ Only a little bit of difference, and the ‘polluted’ one might be myself.”

No, not just “polluted.”

The Xiao family’s old ancestor, with Cave Void cultivation and quite deep attainment in heavenly mechanism, all fell to such an end. Ominous was more than auspicious. If it were him, perhaps he would have lost his life on the spot.

Supervisor Xia sighed, wrinkling his brow.

The path of cultivation was treacherous, and heavenly mechanism was especially terrifying.

He also didn’t know what kind of fearsome existence this Xiao Tianquan had provoked…

Inside Tai Xu Gate.

This venerable “fearsome” existence was in the transmission room, teaching his little junior brothers and sisters how to learn array methods.

“These several array patterns must be remembered, the sect’s examination should test them…”

“These several array diagrams must be memorized firmly. When you usually go out on tasks, they will surely be useful…”

Mo Hua said seriously.

He taught diligently, and the little junior brothers and sisters underneath listened attentively.

Under Mo Hua’s guidance, the disciples of this session of Tai Xu Gate made very fast progress in array methods.

A little senior brother from the same session, even one or two years younger than them, could still teach array methods on the lecture platform. This also invisibly encouraged the fighting spirit of these disciples.

At the beginning, the disciples of the same sect all followed Mo Hua to learn array methods with the ambitious spirit of “we must surpass little senior brother.”

Later they discovered that the more they “surpassed,” the bigger the gap became. After that, they recognized the reality.

Their goal changed from “surpassing little senior brother” to “standing shoulder to shoulder with little senior brother.”

And then it became “cannot fall behind little senior brother too much.”

Finally, the situation forced them all to “cannot not understand the lesson little senior brother teaches”…

And Mo Hua’s status in Tai Xu Gate was also quite transcendent.

The Old Ancestor was partial, the elders indulged, and among the disciples, he also had quite a bit of prestige.

Therefore, he went on a trip to Dragon King Temple, “skipped classes” for a long time, and came back as if nothing had happened, cultivating and attending classes normally, and no one felt anything wrong.

There were also disciples who were really curious where Mo Hua went and what he did, always asking endlessly.

Mo Hua arranged some array methods homework, and then they had no time to ask again.

Just like this, sect life stepped into normalcy.

But in Mo Hua’s heart, there was more or less a thorn.

That was the “evil fetus” of the Great Wilderness Lord fused in his divine soul.

Several days ago, he didn’t know why, the evil fetus in his divine soul seemed particularly excited, just like it had eaten a good meal from somewhere…

Mo Hua was therefore startled.

He still thought that the evil fetus had broken through the divine path array he had laid and had begun to devour his divine soul.

Later he carefully checked it once, only to discover that it wasn’t.

This “evil fetus” didn’t know what it had eaten.

He also didn’t know which unlucky egg had delivered it to its mouth and fed it full.

Although it hadn’t “eaten” him, this also gave Mo Hua a wake-up call.

This “evil fetus,” even if sealed by him, still had some immeasurable means to slowly become stronger.

Once one day, it was powerful enough to break through his divine path array, then it was possible to further pollute his divine thought without him knowing, thereby seriously threatening his divine soul.

Once his divine soul was thoroughly polluted, then he and it would be indistinguishable, and he would truly become a “little evil god.”

“Troublesome…”

“Evil gods are indeed not good to provoke.”

Mo Hua’s brows were tightly furrowed.

But he had no good method now to eradicate this parasite and purify this “pollution.”

He also didn’t dare to tell Old Mister Xun.

If Old Mister Xun suddenly had a “great righteousness exterminate relatives” moment, then he would really cry without tears.

He didn’t know what the situation would be in the future, but at least currently, he could still suppress the evil fetus and not let it spread and grow.

He was still himself, not the embryo of an evil god.

But the problem was, he didn’t know what the future would be like.

Mo Hua pondered for a long time, without any clue, then decided to just forget about it for now and take one step at a time.

When the cart reaches the mountain front, there must be a road.

Since the evil fetus was sealed, he only needed to be a little careful during this period.

The current urgent matter was to first prepare well for the “dishes” he had pointed at the altar of Dragon King Temple, the many demon monsters, which would be a big meal soon.

Before this, Mo Hua specifically went to ask Elder Xun Zi Xian, beating around the bush, verifying several times, exploring the relationship between divine soul and divine consciousness, confirming that devouring pure divine thought would not affect the divine soul, would not make the divine soul change, and would not help the evil fetus grow. Only then was he relieved.

But along with that came another problem:

He had pointed too many.

So many demon monsters would all invade Yu’er’s nightmare.

He himself could cope, anyway, it wasn’t that easy for demon monsters to harm him.

But if he wasn’t careful and couldn’t control the situation, causing the demon monsters to riot, Yu’er would be in danger.

He could lay a divine path array, but he felt that a pure divine path array was not too safe.

It would be best to have someone who could help him check for leaks and fill in gaps at the divine thought level and suppress the scene a bit, so that he would be completely at ease.

But this kind of matter was not easy to talk about with others.

Moreover, not all cultivators’ divine consciousness could withstand fighting with demon monsters like his.

Seeing the day of “delivery meal” approaching, Mo Hua was a bit troubled.

After class that day, he walked and pondered this matter.

Passing by the waterside book pavilion on the north side of the disciples’ residence, Mo Hua’s corner of the eye caught sight of the bored big white dog lying on the ground.

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment, then involuntarily his eyes lit up.

He ran to the front of the big white dog.

The big white dog was very alert. Detecting someone approaching, its fluffy ears pricked up, its momentum suddenly became majestic, it slowly stood up, and a low growl also emitted from its mouth.

But the growl stopped halfway. Discovering it was Mo Hua, it listlessly “wang”ed once and lay back down spiritlessly.

“How is there no spirit at all?” Mo Hua muttered.

The big white dog lay on the ground, its eyelids slightly lifted, giving Mo Hua a resentful glance.

Then it drooped its eyelids again, continuing to nurture its spirit.

Mo Hua moved closer to it and said in a low voice: “I invite you to eat a big meal, will you eat or not?”

The big white dog’s ears moved, but it still ignored Mo Hua.

It was tired of eating chicken legs.

Moreover, it didn’t actually love eating chicken legs that much; it was entirely for Mo Hua’s sake that it reluctantly ate them.

“Not chicken legs.”

Mo Hua understood the big white dog’s meaning and said quietly, “It’s better things…”

The big white dog turned its head, looking at Mo Hua with a pair of big eyes, somewhat not understanding.

Mo Hua thought, not knowing how to explain, and suddenly an idea struck him. He took out a handful of bone swords from his storage bag.

“This thing…”

The big white dog was stunned, then involuntarily sniffed, sniffing out wisps of demonic strange smell from the swords.

Demon monster!

The big white dog’s eyes suddenly shone, and saliva couldn’t help but drip down.

It suddenly opened its big mouth, about to swallow the bone swords into its belly.

Fortunately, Mo Hua’s eyes and hands were quick, and he rapidly put the bone swords away.

The bone that was at its mouth was gone, and the big white dog glared fiercely at Mo Hua.

Mo Hua glared back.

Touched by Mo Hua’s gaze, the big white dog’s momentum gradually extinguished, and it lay back down on the ground, but its eyes couldn’t help but glance towards Mo Hua’s hand.

At this time, the cheap bone head寄身 in the bone sword was almost scared out of its wits.

It was really afraid that Mo Hua would forget old loves and embrace new ones, and on a whim, take its bone to feed the dog.

This little ancestor tossing about suddenly without warning was really fatal…

The cheap bone head secretly wiped away a cold sweat.

And at this time, Mo Hua also instructed the big white dog: “This bone cannot be eaten, I still have a use for it.”

The big white dog whined, very unhappy.

Mo Hua then tempted: “I’ll take you to eat a big meal, much fatter than this bone, will you go or not?”

As soon as the big white dog heard this, it immediately perked up, sticking out its tongue, nodding frequently towards Mo Hua.

“Good!” Mo Hua said happily.

Then he just wanted to take the big white dog away, but found that it was tied by a chain made of some unknown material and could not leave this book pavilion.

Mo Hua wrinkled his brow, then remembered that this seemed to be the Sect Master’s dog.

“Sect Master…”

Mo Hua rubbed his chin.

He wasn’t too familiar with the Sect Master. Up to now, he had only seen him a few times at the annual Open Door Grand Ceremony.

Also, the last time at the doorway of the book pavilion, when he was “bullying” the big white dog, he was caught red-handed by him.

However, even so, the Sect Master didn’t blame him.

Moreover, he was gentle and refined, with a scholarly demeanor, looking very easy to talk to.

“Or, find the Sect Master to borrow the dog?”

Mo Hua thought for a moment and decided to try.

But he didn’t know where the Sect Master lived, so later when he had free time, he squatted at the doorway of the book pavilion, hoping he would be lucky enough to run into the Sect Master.

Two days later, he indeed did.

The Tai Xu Sect Master, with a slightly plump figure, ruddy face, and a full head of thick black hair, just arrived at the book pavilion when he discovered Mo Hua squatting at his doorway and couldn’t help but freeze.

“Mo Hua?”

“Um um.” Mo Hua nodded.

“Is there something?” The Tai Xu Sect Master said gently.

“Sect Master,” Mo Hua said in a low voice, “I have a small request, I don’t know if you can agree…”

The Tai Xu Sect Master was a bit surprised, then became interested.

He had been the Sect Master for so many years, and it was still rare for disciples to muster the courage to make a request to him face to face.

“You say.” The Tai Xu Sect Master nodded.

Mo Hua pointed to the big white dog outside the door, “This dog, can you lend it to me for two days? One day is also fine…”

Borrow a dog?

The Tai Xu Sect Master was stunned, not reacting for a while.

Mo Hua said in a low voice: “Not possible…”

“Not not possible, it’s just…” The Tai Xu Sect Master was a bit puzzled, “What do you borrow this dog for?”

“To watch the door!” Mo Hua said righteously.

The Tai Xu Sect Master was speechless for a moment.

This child actually treated this only exotic beast with divine beast bloodline as a “watchdog”…

“This only… dog, is very dangerous.” The Tai Xu Sect Master reminded.

“It doesn’t matter, my relationship with it is still okay, I still fed it chicken legs.” Mo Hua said.

The Tai Xu Sect Master’s expression was then somewhat subtle.

He carefully considered it once, but still shook his head.

This dog might not be an ordinary beast. Its temperament was too unruly, and in the family, except for a few old ancestors and a minority of elders who fed it, it didn’t give face to anyone else.

Once it went crazy, ordinary cultivators would be helpless against it.

Therefore, lending it to disciples could easily cause big trouble.

The Tai Xu Sect Master originally wanted to refuse, but looking at Mo Hua and thinking of Old Mister Xun’s value and hope for him, his mind suddenly turned, and surprisingly, as if possessed by a ghost, he nodded:

“Okay.”

Mo Hua’s expression brightened.

Then the Tai Xu Sect Master personally untied the big white dog’s chain and handed the leash to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua hurriedly smiled:

“Thank you, Sect Master! Sect Master, you are truly a great good person!”

The Tai Xu Sect Master laughed, then just wanted to instruct Mo Hua, “This beast is unruly, its wild nature is hard to tame, you must be a little careful…”

But turning his head, he discovered that this only “unruly,” “wild nature hard to tame,” big dog, having gotten rid of the chain restraint, was docilely following behind Mo Hua, even wagging its tail…

The Tai Xu Sect Master silently swallowed the words at the edge of his mouth, his expression complex to the extreme.