“Evil Sword……”

Mo Cai’s thoughts shifted slightly.

At this time, two people stood in the sword casting room.

One was Ouyang Mu. He was shackled and stood before the green fire bone furnace and rows of blood-colored long swords, his face slightly pale.

The other person was an old demon cultivator.

He wore a gray robe, had a hunched back, a very long nose, and exuded a whole body of evil aura.

This old demon cultivator was currently casting a sword. His exposed hand from beneath the gray robe was thick, heavy, and rough, covered in black-red blood tumors and burn scars everywhere.

This was an evil artifact master.

Moreover, he was a very experienced evil artifact master who had forged countless evil swords.

He glanced sideways at Ouyang Mu and said hoarsely:

“Today, I will teach you to cast swords.”

Ouyang Mu was shocked.

He looked around at the dense white bones, the fishy-smelling blood pool, and the large number of evil artifact embryos, and immediately refused:

“I won’t learn!”

The evil artifact master smiled sinisterly.

“Foolish boy, this is your opportunity.”

“Others want to learn these skills of mine, but they can’t.”

Ouyang Mu pursed his lips tightly, shook his head, and said: “I won’t learn!”

The evil artifact master glanced at him and coldly snorted, “If it weren’t for the instructions from above, do you think I’d want to teach you? Foolish boy, if you miss this opportunity, you might not have another chance to learn later……”

Ouyang Mu stood like wood, not saying a word, his expression very stubborn.

The evil artifact master walked around Ouyang Mu in a circle, examining him carefully. He nodded slightly, “Stubborn temperament, indeed a good seedling.”

He raised his head slightly and asked, “Are you from the Ouyang family?”

Ouyang Mu’s face was blank, and he didn’t speak.

The evil artifact master coldly snorted, “No need to say, with this stubborn temperament and your ordinary appearance, you are clearly from the Ouyang family.”

“Otherwise, they wouldn’t have let me teach you……”

Ouyang Mu was a little surprised and frowned, asking:

“You…… who are you? What is your relationship with our Ouyang family?”

When the evil artifact master heard this, he suddenly became angry and ashamed, “Don’t mention the ‘Ouyang’ family to me! Say it again, and I’ll tear your mouth!”

Ouyang Mu was startled, thinking: how is this old demon cultivator suddenly happy and suddenly angry? His speech is also jumbled……

However, since he was a demon cultivator, it seemed somewhat normal.

Moreover, looking at his appearance, he was already very old. He didn’t know how long he had stayed in this Wan Yao Gu, and he had probably lost most of his humanity.

The evil artifact master had a malevolent face and was impatient. He picked up a section of white bone and threw it to Ouyang Mu, “Refine this white bone and melt it together with refined iron.”

“Today, you only need to do this one thing.”

“When you are done, you can leave.”

Ouyang Mu subconsciously caught the white bone, but as soon as his hand touched the white bone, he felt the coldness of a dead person and immediately recoiled.

The white bone should have fallen to the ground.

“What, afraid of dead people’s bones?” The evil artifact master grinned, “Don’t have this distinction between righteous and evil cleanliness, otherwise you will never become an outstanding sword casting master.”

Ouyang Mu said solemnly: “Righteous is righteous, evil is evil, how can it not be distinguished?”

The evil artifact master smiled meaningfully, “Can you distinguish clearly?”

Ouyang Mu said: “You harbor evil thoughts in your heart, so you can’t distinguish clearly. If you single-mindedly walk the righteous path and have no evil delusions, how will you not distinguish clearly?”

The evil artifact master let out a cold laugh, “Little brat, you don’t understand anything. I’m too lazy to talk to you.”

“I’ll ask you again,” his expression turned cold, “This white bone, will you refine it or not?”

Ouyang Mu bit his teeth and shook his head.

“Good,” the evil artifact master nodded. From a corner, he took out a wolf-tooth lock stained with blood and clamped it onto Ouyang Mu’s body.

Ouyang Mu wanted to dodge, but he was grabbed tightly by the evil artifact master’s hand, unable to break free.

In an instant, the blood-stained wolf-tooth lock was clamped onto his body.

The wolf-tooth lock instantly came alive. The iron thorns, like fangs, opened like an evil wolf’s mouth and bit deeply into Ouyang Mu’s body.

Ouyang Mu cried out in pain. Afterward, an indomitable energy surged in his heart. He gritted his teeth and desperately endured.

The evil artifact master raised his eyebrows.

This smelly boy looked wooden, but he had a bit of ruthless energy in his heart.

The wolf-tooth lock became tighter and tighter, and Ouyang Mu’s face became paler and paler.

The evil artifact master then said sinisterly:

“This wolf-tooth lock is an evil artifact I specially refined. It is shaped like a wolf’s mouth with inverted thorns like teeth. Once it sees blood, it will not loosen like an evil wolf biting its prey.”

“Not only that, the tip of the wolf’s tooth also has a blood groove. Once it bites into flesh, it will suck your blood like a demonic beast.”

“This is my masterpiece,” the evil artifact master smiled smugly. He looked at Ouyang Mu and asked with a smile:

“How does it taste?”

Ouyang Mu’s body shivered slightly and couldn’t stop trembling.

The evil artifact master said: “You obediently listen to me. I’ll let you refine whatever you refine. This way, you won’t have to suffer, and I can also easily hand over the task.”

“Anyway, you didn’t kill these people, and you don’t know whose these white bones are.”

“You are just an artifact master. Just refine the materials into artifacts. Other things, what do they have to do with you?”

“As long as you loosen your mouth, I will unlock the wolf-tooth lock,” the evil artifact master said again.

Ouyang Mu still gritted his teeth and persisted, silent, but the color of his face was almost gone, and his face was as white as paper.

It looked like he was about to collapse.

Mo Cai’s gaze turned cold. He was prepared to disregard everything and find a way to deal with this evil artifact master first.

Just then, the evil artifact master flicked his hand, and a surge of evil power was transmitted into the wolf-tooth lock.

The wolf-tooth lock trembled, like an evil wolf on a leash, unwilling to loosen its ferocious teeth.

“Dead brain, still stubbornly holding on to the end……”

The evil artifact master shook his head.

But he didn’t look angry; instead, his eyes revealed a cold light, and he became more and more excited.

Those who achieve great things must have an unyielding will to endure.

When reaching a certain height, talent is not rare.

But an unyielding will to endure is often rarer than natural talent.

Especially in the path of refining artifacts and casting swords, one needs extraordinary endurance and powerful willpower.

“Today, you can go back.”

The evil artifact master said faintly, “You will come back tomorrow, however…… don’t blame me for not reminding you, you can survive one day, but not necessarily three days, seven days, let alone a month.”

“Once you arrive at this Wan Yao Yu, it is difficult to escape even with wings. It is impossible for someone to come and save you. You might as well give up and make plans earlier.”

“In this world, although demon cultivators and magic cultivators are in the dark and everyone shouts to kill them, they can still live.”

“You should think carefully and behave well……”

The evil artifact master said a lot in one breath.

Ouyang Mu was about to say something, but he lost too much blood and felt dizzy, then fainted.

The evil artifact master then beckoned, calling a demon cultivator from outside the door and instructed: “Take him down……”

“Yes.”

That demon cultivator took Ouyang Mu down.

Before long, Jin Gui walked in and asked: “How was it?”

The evil artifact master said: “He has too hard a temper. He needs to be ground down for a while.”

Jin Gui nodded and said again: “He has lost too much blood. Take the opportunity to feed him a blood pill to supplement some demon blood and save us trouble.”

The evil artifact master shook his head, “A forcibly twisted melon is not sweet. If you do this, you will only force him to die, not submit from the heart. He cannot become a demon unless he takes this step himself.”

Jin Gui’s face sank.

He also understood the words of this old demon cultivator.

But his own order being denied still made him very unhappy.

“Don’t waste too much time. The young master’s patience is limited, and don’t delay the young master’s big plan.”

Jin Gui coldly glanced at the old demon cultivator, turned around, and left.

The old demon cultivator acted as if he hadn’t heard anything. He turned his head, took out a white bone, and began grinding it himself.

At the same time, he muttered in a low voice that was barely audible:

“Refining artifacts is like this. These demon cultivators only need to use evil artifacts to kill people, but artifact masters have a lot to consider……”

“……The harder the materials, the more precious they are.”

“But no matter how hard the materials are, under a thousand hammers and a hundred refinements, they will deform and be cast into evil artifacts according to my will.”

“……They will always stay with me……”

Mo Cai on the roof slightly frowned when he heard this, then quietly left.

After leaving, Mo Cai recorded the location of the evil artifact room. Along the way, he found several spirit pivot arrays, avoided the patrolling demon cultivators, quietly repaired them, then covered them with mud and stones, covering the array patterns to avoid being discovered.

After doing this, Mo Cai returned to the prison.

Ouyang Mu had already been sent back.

He lay on the ground, his breath weak, his face like white paper, still trembling slightly, obviously enduring severe pain.

The demon cultivators temporarily wouldn’t kill him, but if Xiao Mu didn’t conform to the demon cultivators’ intentions, he would inevitably suffer many hardships.

Moreover, what would happen afterward was hard to say.

These demon cultivators had lost their normal minds, were irritable and easily angered, and didn’t know what crazy things they would do.

Mo Cai sighed.

The dog-headed demon cultivator guarding the prison was not there, and Mo Cai revealed himself.

Song Jian was startled by Mo Cai’s sudden appearance.

On the other hand, Linghu Xiao, who was full of worry, his eyes brightened.

“The demon cultivator gave a pill, but I didn’t dare to feed it to Junior Brother Mu……” Linghu Xiao said.

“En.” Mo Cai nodded.

Although according to the news he overheard, the pill should not have been tampered with, it was always better to be cautious. It was better not to eat it if possible.

Mo Cai took out several blood-returning pills, a small return pill, and several blood and qi-supplementing pills and gave them to Ouyang Mu.

Ouyang Mu’s complexion instantly improved significantly.

His wounds also began to heal gradually.

“Aunt Wan’s pills are really good……” Mo Cai said silently in his heart.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have the spirit stones to buy these famous pills.

After a moment, Ouyang Mu’s lost blood and qi had recovered quite a bit, then he murmured in a low voice:

“Thank you…… Senior Brother Mo……”

Mo Cai shook his head, “It’s nothing.”

“Only……” Mo Cai frowned, “You still need to go over tomorrow. If that evil artifact master forces you to refine evil artifacts again, what will you do?”

Ouyang Mu was startled and realized that everything in the evil artifact room earlier had been seen by Mo Cai.

The demon cultivators’ temporary intention was to take him to the remote evil artifact room, and the door was tightly closed, looking very strict.

Even this could be infiltrated by Senior Brother Mo……

“Senior Brother Mo is really magical……”

Ouyang Mu said silently in his heart.

As for refining evil artifacts.

Ouyang Mu said seriously: “I am a disciple of Tai’a Sect’s Ouyang family. I would rather die than refine evil path magic artifacts!”

Mo Cai thought for a moment and suddenly said:

“Actually, it’s not impossible to refine them……”

Ouyang Mu was stunned: “Senior Brother……”

Mo Cai said in a low voice: “Little fool, let you pretend to refine it once, just casually fool around. Otherwise, with your straightforward temper, and being bitten by that wolf-tooth lock a few more times, you won’t have a life left.”

“But……” Ouyang Mu hesitated.

“No buts. It’s urgent from righteousness, moreover……”

Mo Cai’s mind recalled bits and pieces of the evil artifact master, and he slowly said:

“That evil artifact master clearly has the rich experience of an old sword casting master. His sword casting skills are definitely superb, and his abilities are probably not ordinary.”

“Skill this thing, although there is a division between righteous and demonic, it is not as absolute as you think. Just choose its good and learn it, and abandon its bad.”

Ouyang Mu was still a little worried, “What if I can’t distinguish clearly and learn something bad……”

Learning to refine artifacts from an evil artifact master, he was afraid that he would go astray if he wasn’t careful.

Mo Cai said: “It’s nothing, I am familiar with this.”

He had stolen and learned the heavenly machine strange calculation from that terrifying Uncle Master.

Learning a bit of sword casting technique from an old demon cultivator was naturally not a problem.

Of course, it was mainly for Xiao Mu to learn.

He would just “guide” from the side.

“At that time, I will teach you how to do it.” Mo Cai said.

“Teach me?”

“En.”

Ouyang Mu didn’t understand, “How to teach?”

“You wait first, rest well, I will go back and research……”

Mo Cai said, then in the blink of an eye, he disappeared again.

Only Linghu Xiao and Ouyang Mu were left facing each other, their expressions somewhat blank, not knowing what exactly was in Mo Cai’s gourd.

Song Jian also looked dumbfounded.

Mo Cai quietly climbed back into the array pivot secret room again.

In the array pivot secret room, he rummaged through his storage bag, using up all the available array materials, then “researched” out a secret version of a “transmit book order”.

One end of the transmit book order was a jade slip.

The other end was a square handkerchief.

The magnetic pattern frame in between was built by him as he learned and sold, and it was one-way.

The array involved was the yuan magnetic beacon fire array.

He had learned this yuan magnetic array early on, but this array was easy to learn but difficult to master, and he had never used it much.

Now it came in handy.

Mo Cai climbed back into the prison again and handed the square handkerchief to Ouyang Mu, instructing him:

“You wrap this square handkerchief on your arm. Tomorrow, when you see that evil artifact master, I will teach you what to say and how to do on the spot.”

Ouyang Mu’s mouth widened.

This was possible?

He looked at the square handkerchief in his hand and felt that it was the same as the “small notes” used by someone to cheat during the sect exam.

Moreover, it was giving answers on the spot.

“Then I…… tomorrow just promise that old…… evil artifact master?” Ouyang Mu asked a bit unsurely.

“En.” Mo Cai nodded.

He thought for a moment and said again:

“However, you cannot be too obvious, otherwise if you refuse to yield today and are like a flowing stream of ‘evil’ tomorrow, he will definitely know you have a problem.”

“So, you need to learn to ‘act’ a little……”

“Act?” Ouyang Mu was stunned.

“Act!” Mo Cai nodded, then patiently explained to him how to act this play. “Tomorrow, you go and still refuse first.”

“……After being stubborn for a while, reveal a little longing for the sword path, and your expression should be a little shaky, as if attracted by the profound sword principles of the evil sword……”

“Then, while your mouth refuses, your expression compromises, pretending that you can’t refuse yourself……”

Mo Cai explained in detail and asked:

“Remember?”

Ouyang Mu nodded, then shook his head again.

He seemed to understand, but also didn’t understand what Mo Cai was saying.

After all, he had always been an honest child. Suddenly being asked to learn to act and deceive people was a bit hard to get used to.

Mo Cai patiently explained again, then said:

“You act it out for me to see first.”

Ouyang Mu followed Mo Cai’s instructions and did an expression.

Mo Cai evaluated it and said: “Too stiff, the expression is very unfamiliar, the gaze is not sincere enough, and not natural enough……”

“Like this, I’ll do it first and show you a model.”

Then Mo Cai imitated Ouyang Mu, with a serious face, like Xiao Mu.

Afterward, his eyesight slightly brightened, as if he saw a treasure; then his gaze dodged to show the shaking in his heart; he bit his teeth slightly to show the inner entanglement; afterward, he sighed, seemingly finally making a decision, deciding to compromise……

In just ten breaths, Mo Cai’s expression changed several times, as natural and smooth as drinking water.

Ouyang Mu watched dumbfounded, finally unable to help but murmur:

“As expected of Senior Brother Mo, he’s really powerful……”

Not to mention arrays, even acting, he acted so well.

Linghu Xiao and Song Jian on the side had complex expressions, all not knowing what to say.

“Did you see clearly?” Mo Cai restrained his expression and asked Ouyang Mu.

Ouyang Mu nodded, “Probably understood some……”

“It’s nothing, take your time to practice. Your nature is introverted, a bit wooden, and you don’t know how to be flexible. You will definitely suffer losses like this, so learn some acting skills, you will definitely use them in the future.”

Mo Cai instructed again.

Ouyang Mu nodded as if he understood but also didn’t understand.

Thus, that evening, Ouyang Mu strictly followed Mo Cai’s instructions and kept practicing various subtle expressions.

The next day, indeed, a demon cultivator opened the door again.

Ouyang Mu was pushed by a demon cultivator and sent to yesterday’s evil artifact room.

That old, hunched demon cultivator, who was also the evil array master, was already waiting in the artifact refining room.

It was unclear whether he had come early or had always stayed in the artifact refining room and basically never left.

After Ouyang Mu entered the door, the evil artifact master didn’t waste any words. The same as yesterday, he handed him a section of white bone.

“Refine this white bone……”

The evil artifact master instructed.

Ouyang Mu strictly followed Mo Cai’s instructions and first shook his head in refusal:

“I won’t refine it!”

But his expression was slightly stiff and not smooth enough.

“There are flaws…… but it barely passes.” Mo Cai silently commented in his heart.

This evil artifact master didn’t know or even think that Ouyang Mu had added so many “crooked thoughts” after just one night.

The evil artifact master didn’t suspect him and still gave a cold laugh, “Then you’ll suffer some more.”

He took out the wolf-tooth lock again and bit it onto Ouyang Mu’s body.

Ouyang Mu endured the pain and didn’t make a sound.

After a moment, his expression became more and more painful, more and more ugly.

This wasn’t acting, because it really hurt.

A moment later, the evil artifact master asked again: “Have you thought clearly? If you refine this white bone, you can suffer less.”

“I can also pass my skills to you.”

Ouyang Mu didn’t know what to say, so he lowered his head and flipped his sleeve.

Above were the “lines” that Mo Cai had given him on the spot.

Ouyang Mu then gritted his teeth and read word for word:

“I am a Tai’a Sect cultivator, a disciple of the Ouyang family. What I inherited is the most orthodox sword casting technique. How can I be of the same ilk as you who…… cast evil artifacts and demons?”

“I don’t even put your evil path artifact refining skills in my eyes!”

Ouyang Mu’s tone was not natural enough.

But he was an “honest person,” and when honest people speak, it is most irritating.

The evil artifact master was indeed unconvinced and said with a cold laugh: “Tai’a Sect, sword casting technique? Tai’a Sect is on the wrong path, what can they teach you?”

“Follow me, and I will teach you true sword casting.”

“Teach you how to quench blood, how to nurture evil, how to cast sword bones…… even, I can pass on many sword arrays to you……”

Mo Cai, who was eavesdropping above, was startled when he heard this.

Sword arrays?!

This old evil artifact master actually had sword arrays?

And many sword arrays?!!

Mo Cai took a deep breath.

“Heavenly machine derivation, truly does not deceive me!”

“Master’s copper coin, truly powerful!”

“In this Wan Yao Gu, there can actually be so many things to exploit……”

(End of this chapter)