Dark clouds like ghosts edge the sky, distant mountains and rivers resemble evil spirits, blood flows like streams on both sides, and white bones pave the road beneath their feet.

Mo Hua’s demeanor was relaxed, his footsteps light.

Jian Gu Tou’s heart was full of anxiety, following closely step by step.

After walking for a while, Mo Hua turned his head to look at Jian Gu Tou, his tone somewhat contemptuous, “Didn’t you say there were numerous evil spirits inside the Refining Demon Diagram? Where are the evil spirits?”

He had already walked a distance, yet hadn’t seen a single evil spirit.

Could this Refining Demon Diagram be fake?

Will he have come for nothing? …

Jian Gu Tou awkwardly said, “How would I know…”

This was its first time here too.

If it had a choice, it would never want to come in its lifetime.

Mo Hua looked around again for a while, shook his head, and thought to himself:

“Alright, let’s save the people first. The temple is already here, where else can the ‘monk’ run?”

He then focused his mind, sensing the aura on the white bone road.

Among these auras, some were impure, mixed with demonic qi and evil thoughts, but similarly, there were also several pure, clean strands of cultivator thought force.

Xiao Mu Tou and the other two, if they were “sacrificed” inside the Refining Demon Diagram, should have been escorted to the depths of the Refining Demon Diagram by demon cultivators along the white bone path under their feet.

Mo Hua involuntarily quickened his steps.

Fortunately, although the scenery was gloomy all the way, it was safe and smooth.

They continued walking like this until the end of the white bone road, where before them lay a valley. The mouth of the valley was like the giant split-open maw of a demon beast.

Mo Hua was startled and frowned slightly.

He continued walking inside, entered the valley, and before him was a main road, then some demon beast sculptures, and also some interlocking jagged peaks and valleys.

The more Mo Hua looked, the more familiar it felt. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized.

Wan Yao Gu!

The terrain of the Refining Demon Diagram was actually very similar to the Wan Yao Gu outside.

Although there were many differences, the overall layout was like it was carved from the same mold.

Mo Hua then recalled the words Elder Xun Zi Xian had said:

“The Wan Yao Gu array is virtual and real intermingled…”

“…Borrowing some great power, it reflects and fuses the present world and divine thought, and constructs it through the array.”

Only now did Mo Hua understand the meaning of this sentence.

Virtual and real intermingled.

Present world and nightmare fuse.

The River God Temple in the small fishing village also seemed to be like this.

Through the real present world, construct some nightmares, and then through the nightmares, in turn influence the present world.

“The present world is the foundation of the nightmare, and the nightmare then counteracts upon the present world?”

“Is this the high-end usage of an evil god’s thought force?”

Mo Hua raised his head again, looking at the surrounding scenery.

The nightmare within the current Refining Demon Diagram was derived from reality, but it seemed to have very little influence on the ‘present world’.

Was it because Wan Yao Gu had not yet been truly constructed completely?

Or was it because… the true evil god had not yet awakened, so it still couldn’t use the power of the true evil god?

Mo Hua involuntarily thought:

Suppose the Great Wilderness evil god truly awakened…

And it also truly succeeded in constructing a demon hell in some place, wouldn’t it be able to directly descend the ‘demon hell’ to the human world through surging evil thoughts?

At that time, wouldn’t it truly be living beings suffering, the human world like a prison?!

Mo Hua was startled by his own guess, a huge chill surging in his heart.

Could an evil god truly… have such terrifying ability?

If it were truly so… if an evil god were truly resurrected, and evil thoughts spread rampantly in the dark.

That outwardly prosperous Nine Provinces cultivation world, which seemed fine, could instantly be swallowed by the boundless terrifying nightmare, fall apart, with corpses everywhere.

Outwardly prosperous, inwardly rotten.

The collapse of a towering building is also just an instant…

Mo Hua’s gaze was heavy, and he finally let out a sigh.

The more clearly he saw the truth of this world, the more terrifying he felt. And in such a crisis, ordinary cultivators were very likely still in peaceful times, singing and dancing.

“Born in worry and hardship, die in ease and comfort…”

Mo Hua shook his head, but then thought, these matters were currently beyond his power.

When the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up.

Currently, it shouldn’t be his turn as a small Foundation Building cultivator to worry about such big matters of the Nine Provinces.

Saving people first is important…

Mo Hua comforted himself a bit, then temporarily pushed these matters to the back of his mind, and continued to search for traces of Xiao Mu Tou and the other two who had been “sacrificed”.

So he walked for a while longer, to a stone path, where Mo Hua’s divine thought stirred.

“Found!”

There were obvious traces of demon cultivators having walked there, with thick evil qi.

The aura of the cultivators’ divine thought was also very obvious.

Mo Hua raised his head.

On a wide stone path in the distance, several demon cultivators were carrying three pitch-black, strange coffins engraved with demon patterns, walking forward step by step.

At the front of the team, there was a tall demon cultivator manager leading the way.

And this manager was exactly Jin Gui.

Or rather, it was Jin Gui’s demon cultivator divine soul.

Mo Hua did not hide his figure, and Jian Gu Tou did not restrain its aura even more.

Both sides detected each other.

Jin Gui, who was walking in front, suddenly waved his hand and said, “Stop!” then turned his head to look at Mo Hua, and of course, mainly at the “Jian Gu Tou” beside Mo Hua.

Jian Gu Tou, in front of Mo Hua, was humble and submissive.

But in its life, it was an old demon cultivator proficient in forging evil swords, with sinister techniques throughout its body.

After death transformation, it was even more so an evil sword made of white bones all over, with a tall bone structure and majestic demonic qi, a “Sword Demon”.

Just by appearance, it was very “terrifying”.

Jin Gui’s eyes involuntarily flashed a trace of wariness, but he also didn’t fear, and coldly laughed:

“Young Master said that there’s a mouse inside Wan Yao Gu, secretly sabotaging, disrupting Young Master’s big plan… I just didn’t expect you could actually chase here…”

Jin Gui’s gaze burned, staring intently at Jian Gu Tou.

Jian Gu Tou was solemnly silent for a moment, then suddenly startled, its pale bones showing a stunned expression.

Mouse?

“No, I’m just a guide, it has nothing to do with me…”

It wanted to clarify a bit.

But thinking that Mo Hua was right beside it, if this little ancestor didn’t speak, it naturally wouldn’t dare to speak on its own.

More importantly, it looked at its own tall body, its rugged bone swords, and its solemn demonic qi, and then looked at the beside it, the slightly larger, child-like Mo Hua.

It felt that its clarification seemed to have no persuasive power at all.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, Mo Hua looked like the “guide”.

And it, didn’t it look like the “behind-the-scenes mastermind”.

Jian Gu Tou only felt a huge black pot, directly stuck on its head.

As expected, all the demon cultivators’ gazes sinisterly gathered on it.

Jian Gu Tou’s eyes went black.

Of course, it was bones, its eye sockets were empty, they were originally just black.

Jin Gui’s gaze was vigilant, looking at the Sword Demon in front, seeing that for some reason, it was motionless and didn’t say a word, feeling a little doubt.

At this time, he only saw the “unremarkable” Mo Hua standing beside Jian Gu Tou.

He just glanced at him and then skipped over.

One Sword Demon, one little ghost, this combination was somewhat strange, but as long as they were killed, it didn’t matter.

But soon he was startled, looked back again, and was suddenly shocked, his emotions somewhat out of control, pointing at Mo Hua and saying:

“You… don’t you have a brother?”

Mo Hua was also startled by his question.

Jin Gui said hatefully again, “Isn’t your brother called ‘Mo Hua’?”

Mo Hua: “…”

Jin Gui looked carefully at Mo Hua again, looked at his appearance and demeanor, his eyes suddenly widened, “Wrong!”

“You… you are Mo Hua!”

He finally recognized him.

But soon, he frowned again, “You… how did you become small?”

Mo Hua’s gaze involuntarily became somewhat cold.

Jin Gui stared at Mo Hua again for a while, his expression suddenly showing realization, and he muttered:

“This is not the present world. Entering here, one exists in the form of one’s divine thought, which means…”

Jin Gui let out a cold laugh, “No matter how old you are, how your outer appearance changes, your inner self is still a naive, childish little ghost who hasn’t grown up!”

Mo Hua looked at Jin Gui, his gaze icy cold, as if looking at a dead person.

And Jin Gui was still unaware.

He was still immersed in his past “hatred”.

He remembered clearly, at that time, he was leading a crowd of disciples to hunt a pig demon.

Unfortunately, this pig demon, for some unknown reason, fell into the hands of several small disciples of Tai Xu Gate.

He just logically took the pig demon, yet therefore suffered an unspeakable humiliation.

This little ghost called “Mo Hua”, together with his several fellow disciples, plotted against him.

After that, they even stripped him of his clothes, hung him on a tree, drew turtles, and made him lose all face.

“Mo Hua…”

This little ghost, even if he turned to ashes, he would never forget.

If he weren’t cut into a thousand pieces, ten thousand pieces, it would be hard to vent the hatred in his heart!

“Good, good!” Jin Gui’s expression was twisted, and he laughed ferociously, “Breaking iron shoes requires no seeking, you get it without effort!”

“I’ve long wanted to quietly kill this little ghost to wash away the previous shame, but I never found an opportunity.”

“Today, you actually delivered yourself to my door! Then don’t blame me for slaughtering you one knife at a time, and swallowing and peeling your divine thought alive!”

Mo Hua’s expression was calm, his face showed no joy or anger, even, he didn’t even put this Jin Gui in his eyes.

Jin Gui instead thought Mo Hua was afraid, and smiled sinisterly, waved his hand, and instructed:

“Go up!”

The group of demon cultivators beside him then put down the coffins and rushed towards Mo Hua.

Mo Hua stood with his hands clasped, without moving, but looked at Jian Gu Tou beside him.

Jian Gu Tou was startled a bit.

What does that mean? Want me to go up?

This little ancestor, not even willing to move a little finger?

Seeing a group of demon cultivators about to rush forward, Jian Gu Tou had no choice but to draw out two bone swords, urge forth layers of demonic qi, and fight with this group of demon cultivators.

After fighting for more than ten rounds, the demon cultivators were killed and retreated steadily.

Jian Gu Tou suddenly was startled again.

It suddenly realized that as a “Sword Demon”, it seemed… quite strong?

The battle with Mo Hua had made it almost shatter its dao heart.

It almost thought it was a humble, incompetent, ant-like waste demon.

But now, fighting with other demon cultivators, it suddenly discovered that it didn’t seem to be too weak, was it really because some people were too strong?

Jian Gu Tou’s spirit was roused, its demonic qi rose, and its aura instantly became arrogant.

It swung one sword behind it, cutting a demon cultivator into two halves.

Then its body swelled, and the bone swords on its body were like limbs, thoroughly strangling another demon cultivator.

Jin Gui saw the situation, his expression suddenly heavy.

He looked at Mo Hua again, thinking:

“No wonder, this little ghost is so confident, he originally has such a powerful ‘Sword Demon’ as his guard.”

“But…” Jin Gui frowned, “Isn’t this Sword Demon a demonic object?”

“He is a righteous path disciple of Tai Xu Gate, how can he have a demonic object as his guard? Perhaps the self-proclaimed upright Tai Xu Gate has also begun to fall?”

He saw that Jian Gu Tou was about to kill all the demon cultivators.

Jin Gui finally couldn’t watch anymore.

He still needed to complete Young Master’s instructions and send the divine souls of these three little ghosts to the depths of the Refining Demon Diagram, he couldn’t delay too much time.

Jin Gui’s gaze showed killing intent, like a wild beast, emitting a low roar, which gradually grew bigger, like a fierce tiger.

The Four Symbols Profound Tiger Demon Array lit up.

At the same time, his body also gradually swelled, growing yellowish-brown fur, transforming into a bloodthirsty and powerful fierce tiger.

After that, his figure flashed, a bloody wind blew, and in an instant, he pounced towards Jian Gu Tou.

One tiger demon and one Sword Demon thus fought together.

Demonic qi and demonic qi intertwined.

Tiger claws clashed with bone swords.

Demon wind howled, demonic qi whimpered, both demons stirred up ferocity, and for a time they fought hard to separate.

Mo Hua watched silently from the side.

At the same time, he was also silently deriving in his heart.

Taking advantage of Jian Gu Tou, who was a “Sword Demon”, and the “demonized” Jin Gui fighting with all their might, evenly matched, he silently derived the Four Symbols Tiger Pattern on Jin Gui’s back.

He had been eyeing this tiger pattern for a long time.

The tiger is the king of a hundred beasts, and among many kinds of demon beasts, its strength is also among the top.

Demon cultivators engraved with “tiger patterns” are also rare in Wan Yao Gu.

Up to now, Mo Hua had only seen one on Jin Gui’s body.

This was a rare demon pattern.

To get it, he either killed Jin Gui, stripped his clothes, and copied it from his corpse.

Or let him exert his full strength, activate the demon pattern, fight with others, and he himself spent some time to derive and record these “demon patterns”.

Both of these methods were quite troublesome, and there had always been no opportunity before.

Now that Jian Gu Tou was here, it and this Jin Gui, two evil spirits, were evenly matched, “weak chickens pecking at each other”, which was just right for him to have an opportunity to “derive”.

Mo Hua’s gaze was slightly deep, and he quietly derived.

Jian Gu Tou and Jin Gui then transformed, one into a Sword Demon, one into a tiger demon, their aura vast, fighting fiercely as if in a life-and-death duel.

Mo Hua was calculating the time they were fighting.

When Mo Hua finished calculating the time, they were still fighting.

Mo Hua silently remembered the complete “Four Symbols Profound Tiger Demon Pattern Array” in his heart, raised his head to look at the two evil spirits fighting again, and inevitably felt a bit bored, even somewhat sleepy.

And the two sides fighting were obviously not doing well either.

Jian Gu Tou had been “bullied” by Mo Hua before, hurting its origin, so a short-term fight was still acceptable, but a long-term battle would easily lead to insufficient demonic power.

Jin Gui then realized that he simply couldn’t take down this “powerful” Sword Demon in a short time.

He had to end the battle quickly!

Jin Gui, with a tiger claw, swung away one of Jian Gu Tou’s swords, and loudly said:

“This dao friend, having such a dao cultivation, why do you want to bend under others and protect this little ghost?”

Jian Gu Tou was startled, speechless in his heart.

What idiotic words was this fool saying?

How could it have dao cultivation, going to protect this little ancestor?

It felt ashamed listening to these words.

But its body was made of bones, even if it had many inner emotions, its surface was still gloomy, cold, and cruel, not revealing anything at all.

Jin Gui persuaded again, “Dao friend, why not abandon the darkness and embrace the light, give up this little ghost, join my Wan Yao Gu, perhaps in the future, you can even become a great demon head commanding heaven and earth!”

Jian Gu Tou scoffed in his heart.

Ignorant and fearless, still commanding heaven and earth great demon head?

You know nothing!

Jin Gui frowned, sighing in his heart:

What a loyal old demon!

He tried to provoke it with words, yet it didn’t budge at all? It must protect this little ghost?

What exactly was the origin of this little ghost, that could make a Sword Demon so loyal?

“Since that’s the case, I’ll have to think of another way…” Jin Gui said silently in his heart.

Then he gritted his fangs together, and suddenly let out a fierce roar, his voice like an evil tiger.

The tiger pattern on his body spread throughout his body, bright and dazzling, demon power surged, surging under the bloody skin, even supporting the breaking of flesh and seeping out blood.

Jian Gu Tou’s heart was alerted.

This beast, does it want to fight to the death?

“Damn it, really bad luck, encountered such a stubborn one, no grudge no hate, can’t you just pretend a bit? Why are you fighting to the death?”

“Demon cultivators indeed have bad brains!”

Jian Gu Tou cursed in his heart, but it didn’t dare to slacken in the slightest.

Along with a surge of demonic qi, the white bones on Jian Gu Tou’s body became rugged, also transforming into the final “Sword Demon” form.

This battle was to decide life and death.

But just as Jian Gu Tou was strictly guarding and about to engage in a life-and-death battle with Jin Gui, he saw Jin Gui feint one move, bypass himself, and directly body like a fierce tiger, pounce towards the slightly distant Mo Hua.

Jian Gu Tou was stunned.

Not fighting to the death with itself, wanting to go kill that little ancestor?

He looked at Jin Gui’s eyes, with a trace of confusion, then turned to deep “admiration”.

The aura surging from Jin Gui’s body, this kind of disregard for everything, perhaps it could be called “courage”…

On the other side, Jin Gui detected that Jian Gu Tou had not chased after him, and thought in his heart:

“Sure enough, this Sword Demon’s strength is not bad, it can tie with the demonized me, it’s definitely impossible for it to bend under others.”

“Its ‘protection’ of this little ghost is presumably due to some inner story, involuntary.”

“Since that’s the case, then ‘capture the thief by first capturing the king’, first kill this little ghost, and this Sword Demon might even be grateful to me…”

With this thought, Jin Gui’s figure became faster.

Mo Hua’s hateful little face was getting closer and closer.

Jin Gui’s smile was even more ferocious.

He could even imagine that this blow would shatter the little face, and be torn apart by his sharp claws.

Soon, he approached Mo Hua’s body, then laughed ferociously, and his tiger claws brought a bloody wind, suddenly tearing towards Mo Hua.

However, in the next instant, the scene he imagined did not appear.

Mo Hua was safe and sound, and did not even move a little.

Instead, he himself, felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.

Jin Gui turned his head to look, only to see that he didn’t know when, his arm had already been completely cut off!

Even, he didn’t see how it was cut off!

“Who?”

“Who cut off my arm?!”

Jin Gui’s pupils violently shook.

The next moment, he discovered the calm-faced Mo Hua standing in front of him, as if looking at an ant.

An unbelievable thought surfaced in his heart.

“This… how is this possible?!”

“Outside, killing you would still take some effort…” Mo Hua’s voice was crisp, and his tone was indifferent:

“But here, killing you is no more difficult than crushing an ant…”

Then Mo Hua gently pointed a finger.

A wisp of gold thread swept over.

An irresistible killing intent descended.

Jin Gui’s ferocious expression was still on his face, but in the next instant, he was cut into pieces by layers of golden light, scattered and completely dissipated.

Less than three breaths of time passed before and after.

Jin Gui’s divine soul was then completely extinguished.

Mo Hua didn’t even move his footsteps.

The surroundings instantly quieted down a lot.

Jian Gu Tou watched, its whole body of bones couldn’t help but tremble a little.

Its strength was not superior or inferior to this Jin Gui.

This little ancestor killed Jin Gui in three breaths. To truly kill it, it definitely wouldn’t need two breaths.

It was estimated to be just an instant…

Jian Gu Tou’s expression was solemn, and he silently warned himself in his heart:

“My attitude towards this little ancestor before was indeed still too arrogant, I must be more ‘polite’ in the future…”

(End of this chapter)