Chapter 1065: Xuanji Valley

Mo Hua pinched his fingers, did a quick calculation, and his eyebrows furrowed again. He realized that these matters were not that simple.

Saving Yu'er was not easy.

Getting the Evil God's image was also not easy.

Even escaping from the hands of the Transformation Realm cultivator Tu Laoye in this place and leaving this Evil God Temple, where demons danced wildly, was extremely difficult.

These matters still required a large amount of spiritual sense and effort to properly deduce and plan.

He needed to think carefully about how to break the situation...

Mo Hua furrowed his brows, his eyes fixed on the leftover array patterns that Tu Laoye had given him. From time to time, he casually drew a few strokes, pretending to study array formations, but his thoughts were surging in his sea of consciousness, his spiritual sense constantly pouring out, meticulously analyzing the cause and effect over and over again.

He didn't know how much time had passed when Tu Laoye came again.

Tu Laoye's arrival, accompanied by a cold Yin energy, interrupted Mo Hua's thoughts, but Mo Hua pretended not to notice. He waited until Tu Laoye walked up to him before suddenly acting surprised, standing up and cupping his hands in greeting, saying:

"Tu Laoye."

Tu Laoye saw Mo Hua's previous appearance of "deep contemplation" and studying array formations. He nodded slightly and asked:

"How is the learning coming along?"

Mo Hua presented the few array formation sketches to Tu Laoye, his expression bitter as he said:

"It's too difficult. I don't understand it very well. I can only draw it to this extent based on its appearance..."

Tu Laoye roughly scanned it, his heart skipped a beat, and he felt slightly amazed.

He truly was the leading figure in Qianxue State's array formations, a recognized array formation prodigy. In such a short time, he could actually learn this ancient array formation to this extent.

Even if it was just imitating without grasping the true essence of the array formation, it was still enough to show his astonishing comprehension.

Tu Laoye said: "Not bad, keep drawing. Draw the array formation a hundred times, and its meaning will naturally appear."

"Yes."

Then, according to Tu Laoye's instructions, Mo Hua continued to start from the basics and draw the ancient array patterns at the core of the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice Great Array.

Mo Hua also controlled his "learning" progress step by step.

He simulated a "step-by-step" process, presenting his progress little by little to Tu Laoye, from shallow to deep.

Tu Laoye's face was ashen, and his expression was indifferent, but the occasional flicker in his eyes still revealed appreciation and joy.

As he learned the array formation better, Mo Hua also became more respectful towards Tu Laoye.

It was as if Tu Laoye was a respectable "teacher."

And he himself was a diligent "disciple" learning.

The two of them, one teaching and one learning, had a harmonious atmosphere.

Taking advantage of this harmonious period, Mo Hua then asked Tu Laoye:

"Mister, these ancient array patterns, exactly belong to which array formation category, and what is their meaning?"

Regarding the Mi Tian Great Array, Mo Hua always had some confusion.

Although an entire Mi Tian Great Array formation was now fused in Mo Hua's sea of consciousness.

Most of the array patterns, he was very familiar with, and it wasn't difficult to even draw them out.

But this level truly was just following the example, knowing it but not knowing why.

The array patterns of the Mi Tian Great Array were too unconventional, obscure, strange, and full of confusion, like one "riddle" after another woven into a huge "mist of mystery," covering some unknown terrible truth.

This was Mo Hua's impression of the Mi Tian Great Array.

If his Master was still here, he could, as usual, ask his Master for guidance and resolve some doubts.

But now he was alone, and he absolutely dared not reveal a single bit of this life-threatening "secret."

And now, Mo Hua discovered that the Great Huang Evil God was also constructing a "Mi Tian Great Array" with the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice as its outer layer.

That is to say, besides him, there were "gods" and "people" researching Mi Tian Array Formations, and they had already truly practiced and applied this set of Mi Tian Great Array.

Although this was the construction of an evil path array, it was also a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity.

He had to seize this opportunity and find a way to understand some deeper secrets.

The Mi Tian Great Array was of great importance, not only concerning the current situation but also the future of his cultivation path.

Mo Hua always had a faint worry in his heart.

His cultivation method was the ancient Tian Yan Jue.

The bottleneck of Tian Yan Jue cultivation was not in spirit stones, not in spirit objects, and did not require various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, but it had a hard threshold:

Spiritual sense.

Or rather, the array formations transformed by spiritual sense.

When he broke through the Foundation Establishment stage, the bottleneck in his sea of consciousness was an entire Mi Tian Great Array.

Now that he was in the late Foundation Establishment stage, yearning for the Golden Core, the bottleneck for forming the Core would inevitably still be related to this Mi Tian Great Array.

The Tian Yan Jue, this ancient cultivation method, was very unconventional.

The stronger the spiritual sense, the stronger the Tian Yan Jue, and correspondingly, the stronger the bottleneck.

Mo Hua's spiritual sense was now dao-ized, and his divine thoughts were powerful enough to be comparable to gods.

Therefore, cultivating the Tian Yan Jue and breaking through the Golden Core bottleneck would definitely not be simple.

Now that he had the opportunity, he had to properly comprehend this Mi Tian Great Array to avoid unpredictable changes when forming the Core, being unable to achieve the Golden Core, and being stuck in the late Foundation Establishment stage for a lifetime.

Tu Laoye looked at Mo Hua, seeing that Mo Hua was asking with full sincerity. After a moment of contemplation, he also decided not to conceal anything.

Tu Laoye first asked Mo Hua a question in return:

"Do you know riddle arrays?"

Mo Hua nodded, "Array formations used for guessing riddles and solving riddles are used by aristocratic families in the mundane world for children's array formation enlightenment, amusement, and education."

Mo Hua thought his answer was very good.

Who knew that Tu Laoye was startled, "Who taught you this?"

Master told me this since I was little...

Mo Hua swallowed this sentence back and said doubtfully, "Isn't that right?"

Tu Laoye frowned, "How is that possible? What kind of aristocratic families would use riddle arrays for education and amusement?"

Mo Hua was also startled.

Not like this?

Did Master deceive me?

The common knowledge of array formations that he had silently believed for over ten years was actually wrong?

Tu Laoye said solemnly: "Riddle arrays, like word riddles and lantern riddles, look similar but are completely different things."

"Other riddles are used for education and amusement. But riddle arrays have more important uses..."

Tu Laoye's gaze was solemn, "So-called riddle arrays are actually used to allow array masters to distinguish between virtual and real, true and false."

Mo Hua's pupils shrank slightly, "Distinguish... virtual and real, true and false?"

Tu Laoye nodded, "The riddle surface of a riddle array is 'false', and the riddle bottom is 'true'. By penetrating the appearance, one can see the essence of the array formation."

"The riddle surface is 'virtual', and the riddle bottom is 'real', and between virtual and real, there are extremely profound great dao laws contained, transforming from virtual to real, and from real to virtual..."

Penetrating truth and falsehood, transforming virtual and real.

Mo Hua's expression was shaken, and in an instant, he had an epiphany, a sudden realization. His sea of consciousness surged as if he vaguely grasped the "tail" of a more profound great dao law, catching a glimpse of a corner of the glorious divine great dao...

But when he traced back to the source to think, he still couldn't, he didn't have any truly concrete comprehension and understanding.

Mo Hua knew that this was because his realm was too low.

With a low realm and no cultivation support, many comprehensions of the great dao could not be realized and transformed, and he could not truly master the power of the "dao."

Mo Hua could only temporarily bury this comprehension in his heart, as if planting a seed at the bottom of his heart.

In the future, if he had related experiences, he would slowly verify and comprehend it little by little.

Mo Hua digested it for a moment, then asked Tu Laoye again:

"Specifically, what is 'true', what is 'false'? What is 'real', what is 'virtual'? How to distinguish between true and false? How to transform between virtual and real?"

Tu Laoye looked at Mo Hua deeply, shook his head, "It's still too early for you to ask these questions. This is fundamentally not something you can comprehend at this realm."

He then pointed to the array patterns Mo Hua had drawn, "The reason I am telling you this is because the core array patterns of the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice that you are learning now are a type of 'riddle array' that involves true and false, virtual and real..."

"You see, only the surface array patterns are the 'riddle surface'. The true 'riddle bottom', which involves the laws of gods, has virtual and real coverings, and you cannot see through it."

"And all you have to do is learn these 'riddle surfaces'. By learning these 'riddle surfaces', the laws of the riddle bottom are naturally contained within them, and you can also use a part of them, approaching the power of 'gods'."

"But you can use this power, don't dig to the root."

"Don't pry into the gods, don't explore... the domain of gods. This will touch upon taboos and bring disaster."

Tu Laoye stared directly into Mo Hua's eyes, his tone serious and stern.

Mo Hua's face was slightly pale, and he nodded:

"I understand."

After that, Mo Hua no longer asked any more questions, but followed Tu Laoye's instructions, honestly learning only the array patterns of the "riddle surface," honestly knowing it but not knowing why.

And Mo Hua's "learning" was also very fast.

At first, it might have been very raw, but soon, Mo Hua could draw most of the array patterns of the riddle array intact, although it still only had the form and no essence.

Tu Laoye was secretly shocked, but when he thought of Mo Hua's talent in array formations, he was no longer surprised.

After the basic array patterns, then came the array hubs of the riddle array.

Tu Laoye also didn't hide anything and began to pass on the core second-grade array hubs within the veins of the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice Great Array to Mo Hua, one by one.

These array hubs were drawn on human skin with human blood as ink.

Tu Laoye handed the human skin map of the array hubs to Mo Hua and simply said: "You learn it properly yourself. If you don't understand something, you can ask me again."

After saying that, Tu Laoye left.

Only Mo Hua was left alone in the flesh prison.

He endured the discomfort, spread out the human skin, and flipped through the array hubs on it, his eyebrows furrowed instantly.

"Something's not right..."

These array hubs were quite different from what he had expected, and even had significant differences from the structure of the "Mi Tian Great Array" in his sea of consciousness.

"Why?"

Mo Hua's eyebrows were tightly furrowed. He looked at the human skin map, compared it with the Mi Tian Great Array in his mind, pondered for a long time, and gradually understood.

The Mi Tian Great Array was the core, the central hub, the essence of the entire Huangtian Blood Sacrifice Great Array. It was a "great dao model" that contained the laws of true and false, virtual and real.

This "great dao model," although it contained extremely profound and powerful laws, could not "supply energy" to itself in terms of array formation structure.

The "Mi Tian Great Array" in Mo Hua's sea of consciousness was formed with his own great dao foundation, with his spiritual power and spiritual sense as the "source," and by borrowing the profoundness of the Tian Yan Jue.

But if this Mi Tian Great Array were to be applied in the present world, then one would have to consider how to build the "array eyes" to "supply energy" to the great array.

This was the most basic logic of array formations.

Any array formation, from a single array to a complex array, or even a vast great array, must have an "array eye" as its core.

With the supply of spiritual power, thought power, or evil power, the array formation could operate.

And Tu Laoye's approach was the "Huangtian Blood Sacrifice."

Creating slaughter, pouring blood into the earth veins.

Using human flesh and bones as mediums, refining the pain, shrieks, fear, despair, and other thought powers of human divine souls, melting them all together, refining them into evil power, and "supplying energy" to the Mi Tian Great Array that the Evil God was born from.

The "Huangtian Blood Sacrifice" was the form, the means, the foundation, the medium, and a complete system for refining evil power, activating the great array, and ensuring the operation of the great array, a central system for the flow of power.

The "Mi Tian Great Array" was the core, the laws, an "incubator" that absorbed the evil power obtained from the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice, transformed it using laws, and reversed the virtual and real, allowing the Evil God to be born in the world.

This entire great array, the two parts were tightly integrated and indispensable.

Mo Hua's heart trembled slightly.

"Is this... Tu Laoye's work?"

The Huangtian Blood Sacrifice should be the taboo inheritance of the Great Huang Witch Blessings.

The Witch Blessings had the inheritance of Great Huang array formations.

This Tu Laoye, as the Witch Blessings of the Great Huang Royal Clan, certainly had profound array formation attainment.

Perhaps the Great Huang Evil God valued this point, which is why he chose Tu Laoye to be his most intimate servant?

Allowing Tu Laoye to perfectly fuse the "Huangtian Blood Sacrifice" of Great Huang with the "Mi Tian Great Array" of virtual and real, and put it into practice, thus realizing the resurrection of the Great Huang Lord?

"How many years must have been planned for this, how many people must have been involved, how much effort must have been spent..."

Mo Hua sighed in his heart.

Then his heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but think again: "Can I use this great array?"

He definitely couldn't use the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice, because this was an evil array that would cause the death of many, many people and sacrifice countless flesh, blood, and divine souls.

But what if he didn't sacrifice "human lives"?

Borrowing the principle of the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice, sacrificing other things to supply energy to the Mi Tian Great Array, and then he himself in the Mi Tian Great Array...

Fleshly body sealing god?

Mo Hua furrowed his eyebrows.

These four words vaguely and suddenly popped out from his sea of consciousness.

But... did "fleshly body sealing god" exist in the cultivation world?

After fleshly body sealing god, what happens next?

Mo Hua was a bit confused.

It was just a pity that the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice Great Array constructed by Tu Laoye used evil power. Mo Hua couldn't personally try it, otherwise, if he wasn't careful, he might replace the Great Huang Lord and become a ferocious "Evil God."

Or perhaps, he wouldn't replace the Great Huang Lord, but would merge into one with the Great Huang Lord, indistinguishable.

This kind of "seeking death" matter, it was better not to try easily.

Mo Hua pondered in his heart.

But even if he didn't take the risk of trying it with his body, this whole set of profound and complex great array systems used for the resurrection of the Evil God must be mastered.

He wanted to research the laws of the Mi Tian Great Array.

He also wanted to learn the array hubs of the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice.

Not to mention, as an array master, Mo Hua could not resist the temptation of the "great array."

Even if it was for "knowing oneself and knowing the enemy" and checking and balancing the Evil God, these things he simply couldn't not understand.

What's more, this set of great array systems might not be unusable in the future.

Mo Hua aspired to become an array master who could penetrate all heavens, and when it came to array formations, he naturally upheld only one principle:

"Whatever array formation I encounter, I will learn it. I may not use it, but I absolutely cannot not know it."

Mo Hua nodded, then put all his thoughts aside for the time being and invested all his attention into comprehending the Huangtian Blood Sacrifice array hubs that Tu Laoye had given him...

At the same time, the great array was still operating, the righteous and evil were still fighting, the situation was full of hidden currents, and the future was unknown.

Outside the border of Qianxue State.

A carriage slowly drove from a distance along the main road.

There were a total of six or seven people inside the carriage.

Leading them was an emaciated old man with profound clothes, skilled in calculations, and a head full of white hair.

And he was precisely the great elder of Xuanji Valley, the Transformation Realm cultivator Si Tu Zhenren.

At this time, Si Tu Zhenren was sitting solemnly, his eyes closed and cultivating.

The other people in the carriage were all disciples of Xuanji Valley. Some had young faces, some were middle-aged, some had square eyebrows and eyes, and some had half-white beards and hair. Most of them had steady temperaments and divine light in their eyes.

The carriage was quiet, with incense curling, and no one spoke.

After a moment, subtle whispers broke the solemnity inside the carriage. A slightly younger boy said:

"Are we really going to the border of Qianxue State? Is there no problem?"

Someone beside him whispered "shh" and said: "Don't disturb the great elder's pure cultivation."

The boy lightly "oh"ed.

The cultivator with half-white beard and hair opened his eyes and slowly comforted him, saying: "With the great elder here, there's no need to worry."

The boy felt a little relieved, but his expression was still somewhat uneasy: "I heard... there's an evil path great array, and many Void Soul stage old ancestors, they all couldn't..."

"Each has its specialty. Some matters, even if the cultivation is high, cannot necessarily be solved," an elder cultivator said.

"How to decide, the great elder naturally has his own plan."

"Okay." The boy then nodded.

The tense atmosphere inside the carriage also eased slightly.

But as the carriage continued to drive towards the border of Qianxue State, the blood color in the sky became deeper and deeper, and a thick evil energy covered the sky and the sun.

Thousands of miles of red earth, desolate and empty, with occasional pieces of flesh and blood rotting on the ground.

Seeing the surrounding scenes, the cultivators in the carriage all changed color, knowing that the future was unknown, and their hearts also sank.

Si Tu Zhenren, who had been cultivating with his eyes closed all the way, as if Mount Tai, also slowly opened his eyes at this time, looked at the scenes of this heaven and earth, and slowly sighed.

And the carriage also continued to move forward, towards the depths of the blood color.

The bloody and magnificent Huangtian Blood Sacrifice Great Array also became closer and closer in their eyes. Even this huge great array was still constantly spreading outwards, "swallowing" all living beings in the border of Qianxue State and the surrounding land, corrupting all vitality.

Everyone's expression was solemn.

They had previously calculated that the disaster in Qianxue State must be extremely serious, otherwise it would be impossible for dozens of Void Soul stage old ancestors to jointly send letters inviting the great elder of Xuanji Valley to come out.

But at this time, seeing this blood-colored great array in person, everyone then knew that the situation was much worse than they had imagined...

Even so, the people of Xuanji Valley did not retreat.

But just as the carriage wheels rolled over a section of white bones, crossing over the invisible blood river below the earth veins.

Si Tu Zhenren in the carriage suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart.

It was as if he was suddenly in the middle of a severe winter, and boundless chill surged into his heart.

"Stop the carriage," Si Tu Zhenren said.

The carriage stopped, Si Tu Zhenren looked around at the crowd, and slowly opened his mouth and said: "Give me all the Heaven's Secret treasures."

Everyone didn't understand the reason, but the great elder spoke, and they dared not resist. They then presented all the precious jade boxes, compasses, Eight Trigrams mirrors, etc., that they carried with them to Si Tu Zhenren.

Si Tu Zhenren received them one by one, stepped down from the carriage alone, then turned his head, and solemnly ordered the crowd:

"You all return to Xuanji Valley now, don't stop for a moment, and absolutely don't turn back!"

"Great elder!" Everyone was startled.

Si Tu Zhenren shook his head, "No need to say more."

That young cultivator from Xuanji Valley said urgently: "Great elder, I will go with you."

Si Tu Zhenren's old eyes revealed a trace of gratification, but he still gently said: "Go back, the heaven's secrets cannot be reversed."

Everyone's faces were pale, and their gazes were full of pain.

But they were all from Xuanji Valley and had comprehended the way of cause and effect since childhood. They understood Si Tu Zhenren's meaning and also understood what Si Tu Zhenren's words meant.

The people of Xuanji Valley successively got off the carriage, knelt on the ground, and solemnly kowtowed three times towards Si Tu Zhenren.

Then, with red eyes and full of pain and unwillingness, they boarded the carriage, stepped onto the road back, and left the border of Qianxue State.

Si Tu Zhenren stood in place, watching these elite disciples of Xuanji Valley gradually go far away and finally disappear in the distance. He had broken some terrible cause and effect, and only then did he deeply relax a breath.

Without the burden, Si Tu Zhenren turned his head and walked alone towards the border of Qianxue State, towards the blood-colored great array that covered the sky and the sun.

His profound eyes contained a trace of unwillingness and a trace of destined calm:

"This old man's 'death tribulation' has arrived..."