Chapter 1071: Enlightenment

Seeing the pity and sorrow in his daughter Wenren Wan's soft, beautiful eyes, Wenren Jingxuan's heart ached. A bitter expression crossed his face, and though he had a belly full of advice, he couldn't utter a single word.

Shangguan Ce breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Naturally, he hoped Wenren Wan would agree.

This matter was decided by the Cave Void Ancestors of Qian Xue territory, and as the head of the Shangguan family, he certainly didn't want to go against the wishes of the Ancestors.

To put it simply, this matter concerned the life of the direct son of the Shangguan family and the reputation of the Shangguan family.

To put it broadly, it concerned the safety of the entire Qian Xue territory.

As long as Wenren Wan agreed, it would be a favor.

No matter the final outcome – whether Yu'er could be saved or what happened to Wenren Wan – it would be a good thing for the Shangguan family.

He was the head of the family, and he was also weighing the pros and cons.

However, this kind of 'weighing' was somewhat selfish and indifferent, and Shangguan Ce didn't want to say it out loud to avoid angering the Wenren family.

Fortunately, Wenren Wan, with her deep love for her son, made the decision herself. Otherwise, if she hadn't considered this bloodline affection and had clearly protected herself, Shangguan Ce wouldn't have been able to persuade her.

Given the current situation, he was naturally pleased.

Shangguan Ce folded his sleeves, his face calm as he stood to the side, watching everything with indifference.

But at this moment, Shangguan Yi stepped forward.

Seeing his wife's sorrowful appearance, his heart ached.

"I am Yu'er's father. Father and son are bound by blood. Since someone must enter the dream, why not let me go—"

As soon as these words were spoken, Shangguan Ce's face immediately turned green, and he angrily rebuked,

"Nonsense! What business do you have here?"

He had been romantic his whole life, with many women, but only this one son.

He relied on this only son to inherit the family business.

Once his sea of consciousness was damaged, his Dao body would be flawed, his Great Dao cut off, and his cultivation would be difficult to advance. Then, he shouldn't even think about this position as family head.

He had struggled his whole life, painstakingly built his connections, and exhausted his mind to establish his foundation – it would all be for naught.

Wenren Jingxuan coldly glanced at Shangguan Ce, then turned his head to look at the sorrowful Shangguan Yi. In his heart, he felt both gratified and disgusted.

He was gratified that this Shangguan Yi truly loved his daughter.

His daughter hadn't married the wrong person.

He was disgusted that if she hadn't married this Shangguan Yi, his beloved daughter, whom he held in his palm, could have lived a carefree, sweet life. She wouldn't have had to endure these hardships in the Shangguan family, nor would she have to face the difficult choice of life and death separation and the hopelessness of her own cultivation Dao.

"Forget it, it's all fate, not determined by people at all—"

Wenren Jingxuan's face was grim, and he finally sighed.

"Wan'er, you—"

Wenren Jingxuan looked deeply at Wenren Wan. His myriad words only turned into a deep sigh.

But this was his own biological daughter, and as a father, he couldn't ignore her.

"You come with me to report to the Ancestors."

Wenren Jingxuan reached out and supported Wenren Wan as they walked outside.

Wenren Wan walked a few steps, then turned her head to look at her husband, her eyes showing some reluctance. A moment later, she turned to a look of sorrowful determination, and finally followed Wenren Jingxuan out of the secret room.

Inside the secret room, there was no one else except the Shangguan father and son.

Shangguan Yi's face was pale as he stood rooted to the spot.

Seeing his son like this, even with Shangguan Ce's deep composure, he couldn't help but feel a fire in his heart. He rebuked,

"Is this your only ambition?"

"As my son, Shangguan Ce's son, is your head full of nothing but these childish affections?"

"Without your wife and child, you become so lost and disheartened, looking like you want to die. How can you achieve great things like this?"

Shangguan Yi's face was calm as he received his father's rebuke. Finally, he only said softly,

"Dad, I am Yu'er's father, and Wan'er's husband. If I can't even protect my son and my wife, can I truly achieve, the so-called great things?"

"If I can't even protect my own small family, how can I bear the responsibility of being the head of the entire Shangguan clan?"

Shangguan Ce paused. "This is two different things."

Shangguan Yi shook his head. "Family and clan. There is a 'clan' because there is a 'home'."

Shangguan Ce was angry. "Then you can't abandon your own cultivation future for your small family. Your divine sense entering the dream will waste your sea of consciousness. Is this something you should do?"

Shangguan Yi's face was calm. "It's only wasting my sea of consciousness. If I can truly save Yu'er and protect Wan'er,

I am willing to be a cow or a horse, what harm is there?"

Shangguan Ce was so angry his chest ached, but seeing his son's 'useless' appearance, he could only sigh angrily in the end.

"This is all retribution, ah."

He, who had been romantic his whole life, had unexpectedly given birth to a 'love seed' filled with childish affection.

Shangguan Ce's face was cold, and he flicked his sleeve and left.

Leaving Shangguan Yi alone in the secret room, thinking of his child whose fate was unknown, and his wife who had to abandon her Dao path to save their child, he felt both ashamed and powerless, his face full of regret.

Inside Jian Guan Tower.

Wenren Wan was brought by Wenren Jingxuan before Situ Zhenren and a group of Cave Void Ancestors.

Situ Zhenren asked, "Have you thought it through?"

Wenren Wan nodded, her gentle face revealing a mother's firmness.

"As long as I can save Yu'er, I don't care about my sea of consciousness, I don't care about my cultivation."

Situ Zhenren's expression shifted, and a hint of respect was born in his heart. But even more so, he felt a sigh in his heart.

If things didn't work out, this mother and child might not survive.

In this world, the kinder people are, the more they seem to endure the torment of fate.

The other Cave Void Ancestors also nodded slightly, and a weight was lifted from their hearts.

Although they were Cave Void cultivators with high cultivation and great power, capable of pressuring people with their might, even if Wenren Wan didn't agree, they would still find a way to coerce the Shangguan family and the Wenren family to agree. However, the 'Great Dream Guiding Heaven Technique' involved the sea of consciousness.

If Wenren Wan resisted in her heart and truly didn't agree, the process of the Great Dream Guiding Heaven Technique would definitely not go smoothly.

Now that she was determined to save her son and was willing to risk her Dao path being cut off by personally agreeing, it was naturally a good thing.

It was just that this was truly too unfair to this girl from the Wenren family—

The group of Ancestors present all frowned.

Xun Laoxian thought for a moment, his turbid gaze shifted slightly, and he slowly opened his mouth and said,

"Your trip is both to save your child and to save this Qian Xue territory from crisis."

"The details of this, I cannot explain clearly to you."

"But no matter if the matter succeeds or not in the end, all of us Cave Void Ancestors from each family and each sect will owe you a favor."

Wenren Wan lifted her sorrowful and beautiful face and bowed to Xun Laoxian. "Many thanks, Xun Laoxian."

Then she turned around and bowed to the other Cave Void Ancestors. "Many thanks, various Ancestors."

The other Cave Void Ancestors were slightly satisfied, but after thinking about it, they all remained silent, tacitly agreeing to this 'favor'.

The matter was thus decided.

Situ Zhenren finally sighed in a low voice, "Twelve days from now is when the great calamity will descend. Before then, everyone should make preparations early."

A group of Cave Void Ancestors nodded.

Wenren Wan was worried about Yu'er, her face pale.

Xun Laoxian raised his head and looked towards the blood-colored great array on the horizon, frowning. He couldn't help but worry about Mo Hua's safety.

He had calculated before.

In the past few days, he had calculated many times.

But this matter was too big, seemed to involve too much karma, too many unspeakable existences, and the great power cultivated on the earth, making the heavenly secrets obscure and extremely complex. He couldn't calculate any omen at all.

Xun Laoxian also didn't know what the Desolation Heaven Blood Sacrifice great array would be like in twelve days.

He didn't know if he would ever see Mo Hua again.

He didn't know what Mo Hua would look like when he saw him again. Xun Laoxian sighed slightly.

Throughout the entire Qian Xue territory, demon troubles were rising everywhere.

Gu Changhuai still led the Dian Si of the Dao Court Division, appearing in various territories to suppress demon cultivators, especially evil array masters.

However, the demon cultivators were becoming more and more guarded, and it was becoming more and more difficult for him.

But he still didn't give up, instead doing everything he could, killing as many as possible.

After all, this was the only thing he could do.

In a demon cultivator base point, Gu Changhuai, stained with blood, used wind blades to kill a group of corpse cultivators and blood slaves.

He raised his head and looked towards the horizon.

The blood sacrifice great array on the horizon was still there.

Moreover, in the depths of the great array, the blood color was even thicker, as if something was being incubated. Between heaven and earth, a momentum was brewing, like a coming storm, weighing heavily on his heart.

"Mo Hua.—"

Gu Changhuai's brow was tightly furrowed, his heart full of worry.

At the same time, in various places, Xun Zixian and Xun Ziyou, a group of elders from Tai Xu Sect, including Zhang Lan who had come from afar, were all fighting with the demon sect.

But besides fighting, they were also worried about the unclear situation and the lack of news about Mo Hua.

Outside Yanluo Mountain.

The heaven-blessed disciples of the four sects, eight gates, and twelve streams were also still 'waiting' for Mo Hua.

However, as the great array spread, they had to retreat more than twenty li and enter the Qian Xue territory.

And as the situation worsened, they held less and less hope for Mo Hua.

The disciples of Tai Xu Sect were even more worried.

Although they trusted their little senior brother, in front of them was a quasi-third grade evil path great array, with countless demon cultivators and high-ranking great demon heads inside.

"Little senior brother, can he really return safely without harm?"

In the hearts of Linghu Xiao and others, a heavy stone seemed to be pressing down.

Inside the Desolation Heaven Blood Sacrifice great array.

Mo Hua's brow was also tightly furrowed.

However, what he was worried about was something completely different.

"This great array, can I really blow it up?"

How to hide from Mr. Tu?

How to control the hub of the Desolation Heaven Blood Sacrifice array?

How to maximize the use of the reverse spirit array, unleash greater power, and 'bury' everything?

In the past few days, Mo Hua had been thinking day and night, but he couldn't come up with any good idea.

He only pretended to be drawing the array, drawing until he was too tired, then lying on the ancient beast's skeleton to rest, closing his eyes, his divine sense rapidly turning, recalling all the array principles and knowledge he had learned in his life, like a 'horse lantern'.

But no matter how he recalled, he gained nothing.

He was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a second-grade array master, and at most, he had only lived for twenty-something years.

While Mr. Tu was at the Feather Transformation realm, a fourth-grade array master, and looking at his current appearance of wearing human skin, neither human nor ghost, he didn't know how many years he had lived.

Mo Hua fundamentally didn't have the confidence to believe that his array methods could hide from an 'old monster' like Mr. Tu.

"Since that's the case, I can only start from what I understand, while Mr. Tu definitely doesn't understand—"

Mo Hua wrinkled his brow, racking his brains, pondering bit by bit.

"What I understand, while Mr. Tu doesn't understand——"

"Thick Earth Absolutely Solid Array? Spirit Hub Absolutely Solid Array? Flash Line Source Array?"

Mr. Tu might not understand these, but it wasn't certain.

It was just that he hadn't used them in front of him before. If he just concluded that he didn't understand based on that, it was a bit too hasty.

Moreover, in the current situation, these arrays didn't seem to be useful.

"Reverse Spirit Absolutely Solid Array—"

This kind of destructive array. Even if Mr. Tu didn't understand it, he definitely knew about it. As long as he drew it, he fundamentally couldn't hide it from Mr. Tu.

"What else is there?"

Mo Hua thought hard for a long time, suddenly feeling a jolt. "Puzzle Saw Array."

Puzzle Saw Array was the opposite. Mo Hua could conclude that Mr. Tu definitely understood Puzzle Array, but he definitely wasn't as 'proficient' as he was, after all, this was an array born of divine transformation.

Mr. Tu was just a 'lackey' of the Saw Desolate Evil God.

While he, on the other hand, was 'half-divine' transformed by the Primordial Chaos Heavenly Calculation Method.

Mr. Tu might understand, but he definitely didn't understand as much as he did.

"But how to use Puzzle Saw Array?"

Mo Hua frowned and thought for a moment, suddenly recalling some words Mr. Tu had said to him before:

"Puzzle Array is used to let the array master discern the real from the false—"

"The puzzle surface of Puzzle Array is 'false', the puzzle bottom is 'true'. Seeing through the surface reveals the essence of the array."

"The puzzle surface is 'apparent', the puzzle bottom is 'real', and between the virtual and the real, it contains extremely profound Great Dao laws of turning apparent into real and turning real into apparent."

The true and false of Puzzle Array!

Mo Hua's expression changed, and in an instant, he felt enlightened and suddenly understood.

He finally knew how to hide from Mr. Tu!

This was something Mr. Tu had taught him!

But after hiding from Mr. Tu, what then?

Mo Hua frowned again.

Could a second-grade reverse spirit array pattern really detonate a quasi-third grade blood sacrifice saw array?

If it was a second-grade saw array, Mo Hua would still have some confidence.

But the current saw array was quasi-third grade, and Mo Hua's past 'array explosion' experience simply couldn't be used as a reference.

A second-grade reverse spirit array could only reverse and solve a second-grade array.

It was impossible to expect a second-grade reverse spirit array to cause the disintegration of a third-grade array hub, thereby triggering a strong saw spiritual power reversal, thus destroying everything within the saw array.

Within the Desolation Blood Sacrifice saw array, there were indeed some 'mixed pattern' second-grade array hubs, many of which were drawn by Mo Hua himself.

But whether the power generated by reversing and solving the second-grade array hub could destroy the stability of the third-grade array hub, thus causing the saw array to collapse or produce a saw-scale explosion, was still an unknown number.

This kind of thing couldn't be tested or verified.

There was only one chance. If it failed, Mr. Tu wouldn't give him a second chance.

"What to do—"

Mo Hua lay there for a while, feeling lost, then flipped over and lay on the skeleton of the giant saw, looking at the array eye heart of the giant saw and the leaking underground vein.

Blood was still flowing.

The leaking vein was still wailing.

Mo Hua couldn't bear it, but as he looked and looked, his heart was suddenly moved, receiving the pull of the Dao essence, his mind filled with thoughts.

"Leaking vein—"

"The leaking position is Kun, bearing everything with thick virtue, the saw leakage tolerates everything——"

"Life and death, spiritual power and evil power——intertwine in the leaking vein, dissolve——"

"Righteous and demonic, it is also the same——"

Mo Hua only felt his heart tremble. A surge of profound insight that couldn't be clearly described, intertwined and inseparable, yet clearly divided, grew in his heart bit by bit.

An ancient, simple law dissolved a corner in Mo Hua's heart.

The Saw Dao was clearly divided, yet blended like light and dust.

Amidst a thousand threads of thought, he suddenly remembered the sentence Elder Zheng had said to him: "Righteous and demonic are originally one body. The so-called demon is not born of the womb, not born of the egg, but transformed—"

Righteous and demonic are one body, opposite and intertwined, mutually transforming.

Mo Hua's pair of eyes, black and white clearly divided.

Elder Zheng was talking about people, but it was also reason, it was Dao. Since it was Dao, then it was also a law operating within the leaking veins of the array.

In Mo Hua's heart, a glimmer of enlightenment gradually appeared.

He had a preliminary idea.

Although he wasn't sure how effective it would be in the end, it was worth a try.

After all, he didn't have any other better way.

It was just that this kind of idea wasn't easy to implement.

He needed to conduct a deeper understanding of the Desolation Blood Sacrifice saw array in order to complete the full reproduction of the leak and more profound deconstruction.

Afterwards, he would still need to spend a lot of saw heart energy and massive divine sense to derive it. Only in this way could he derive the spiritual power trajectory he truly wanted and, based on this spiritual power trajectory, trigger a change from imbalance to balance, and then to destructive spiritual power change through 'reverse transformation'. Mo Hua nodded slightly, then looked towards the depths of the leaking vein, which was polluted by the evil array, the blood-colored leaking vein wailing in the depths, and murmured in a low voice:

"All killing karma will eventually vanish; all evil and strange things will also be wiped out——"

"Rest assured, I will help you wash it clean——"

In the depths of the leaking vein, blood color churned, and a hint of life trembled slightly. It seemed as if the Dao essence of the saw leak was responding to Mo Hua——

After that, Mo Hua began to be 'lazy'.

Every time he drew the array in a chaotic manner, he would procrastinate, not drawing many strokes, just pretending his divine power was severely depleted, lying down by the leak, closing his eyes to rest. In his heart, he was silently sensing the Dao essence of the saw leak.

And in his sea of consciousness, he was also deriving the overall pattern of the Desolation Blood Sacrifice array.

This was a bit beyond Mo Hua's standard.

But he didn't make excuses for himself.

If he could figure it out, he would; if not, he would just derive and use his strange abilities together,

to 'force' a breakthrough.

And with this, some things that Mo Hua originally felt were difficult unexpectedly gradually became easy to understand.

Many things weren't as difficult as he thought.

Mo Hua suddenly realized this.

He suddenly noticed that his current divine sense was already at the ten-pattern level.

This was genuine Golden Core divine sense.

Before, his mindset hadn't changed, he still considered himself a 'Foundation Establishment' cultivator, and his divine sense wasn't fully utilized.

And now, with the saw array as a 'whetting stone', Mo Hua exhausted all his strange abilities and derivations, pushing his divine sense to the extreme, finally fully releasing the 'potential' of his Golden Core realm divine sense bit by bit.

His array level, without him realizing it, was still climbing step by step.

And his derivation and strange levels were also soaring further under this kind of 'grinding'.

The entire framework of the Desolation Blood Sacrifice saw array began to be reconstructed bit by bit in Mo Hua's sea of consciousness, and gradually mastered by Mo Hua.

After so many days of learning, comprehending, and researching, the fruit was ripe and fell, water flowed into the canal.

Mo Hua's understanding of the Desolation Chaos Blood Sacrifice saw array finally underwent a thorough qualitative change.

Although the saw array involved specific third-grade arrays that he still didn't understand, the use of these arrays, the parallel structure, the control of the array hubs, and the flow of array power were all meticulously observed under the insight of his divine sense.

Mo Hua suddenly felt as if he had become the 'master' of the Desolation Blood Sacrifice saw array, controlling everything.

Although he didn't know how to define it, Mo Hua vaguely felt that his array level had risen another step.

A step towards being a 'main array master'.

He already preliminarily possessed the qualifications and attainment to become the 'main array master' of the Blood Sacrifice saw array.

It was just that due to his cultivation realm and bloody methods, he couldn't truly build a Desolation Chaos Blood Sacrifice saw array.

And once he truly mastered the pattern and overall structure of the Desolation Heaven Blood Sacrifice saw array, the following things would be easy.

He just needed to consume divine sense, patiently derive, and carefully lay out.

Mo Hua settled his heart and bit by bit perfected the grand structure he had never attempted before.

During this period, Mr. Tu didn't come to find Mo Hua often.

He was being targeted by Situ Zhenren and suppressed by the Xuan Chaos North Flow Seven Star Array, his strength was insufficient.

But even so, he still noticed that Mo Hua was being 'lazy'.

Because the progress of the saw array was obviously leaking and slowing down again.

Mr. Tu originally turned a blind eye to this, but as the Seven Star light became like a thorn in his back and the demon cultivators leaked out and surged, he finally couldn't endure Mo Hua's behavior.

"Don't play small tricks, finish drawing the array as soon as possible," Mr. Tu said coldly.

It seemed his 'little scheme' had been exposed. Mo Hua felt a bit guilty and nodded. "Yes, Mr. Tu—."

After that, he no longer procrastinated and began to work at full speed, following the array map he had derived, building the Blood Sacrifice saw array.

This time, he listened to Mr. Tu's words and was no longer lazy, drawing very quickly.

He didn't stop for a moment, drawing overtime. Moreover, he fully utilized his ten-pattern Golden Core Dao transformation divine sense, drawing faster and faster, fundamentally not leaving Mr. Tu with too much opportunity to react.

By the time Mr. Tu noticed, the progress of the Blood Sacrifice saw array was already 'a thousand li in a day'.

This progress made Mr. Tu somewhat confused for a while.

Mo Hua was clearly following his 'intention', finishing the Blood Sacrifice saw array as early as possible.

Clearly, with the completion of the Blood Sacrifice saw array, the divine master could be revived.

Clearly, Mo Hua was helping him with the saw.

The progress was also faster than expected.

Mr. Tu felt that he should be happy, but for some reason, he couldn't be happy. Even in his heart, there was still a hint of inexplicable 'panic'.

He really didn't understand what this little ghost, Mo Hua, was doing.

But no matter how he thought about it, the situation was being 'pushed' forward by Mo Hua.

In a blink of an eye, everything was already too late.

Twelve days later.

The Desolation Chaos Blood Sacrifice saw array, through the hands of Mo Hua, the 'leader of array Dao' in Qian Xue, was thoroughly perfected and completed.

The sound of ancient heartbeats spread to every corner of the Blood Sacrifice saw array.

The Saw Desolate Lord was about to wake up———·