Chapter 1086: Holding the Emperor Hostage

“Four Featherizations… what to do?” Mo Hua's thoughts raced.

If it were just Tu Mister, he could still use this time to exploit Tu Mister's vulnerabilities, his loyalty to the "Great Wilderness Lord," his lack of clarity about the situation, and add a little bit of the Dao Heart Seed Demon to "bluff" his way through.

But now, three more Featherizations had arrived.

One traitor from the Shangguan family, a former powerful elder, one Corpse Demon who raised Golden Corpses from Yin Corpse Valley, and one Featherization Old Demon from Demon Sword Sect. The situation instantly became much more complex and dangerous...

Mo Hua's gaze narrowed slightly. He controlled his facial expression with his divine sense, feigning a calm demeanor, but in his heart, he was racking his brain, thinking of what to "deceive" them with.

On the other side, as soon as Shangguan Wang and the others entered the great hall, their pupils also shrank instantly, and their faces became ashen.

Inside the great hall, blood was splattered like ink.

The Golden Core Demon Heads from each sect were either dead or injured. Looking around, they had all killed and gnawed at each other until death, presenting an extremely miserable sight.

It was clear they had been brutally killed by a miserable and inhuman "Great Demon Head."

The Yin Corpse Valley Featherization's expression immediately turned ice cold. Suppressing his anger, his eyes revealed a deathly silent killing intent as he stared at Tu Mister:

"Tu Mister... though it has only been a few hours, why are all the Golden Core disciples of my Yin Corpse Valley miserably dead?"

"Are you not... going to give this old man an explanation?"

His anger and killing intent stirred the golden coffin beside him. Inside the coffin, thick corpse qi emanated again, along with the ear-piercing sound of the Golden Corpse scratching the coffin.

The Featherization from Demon Sword Sect on the other side also urged his Demon Sword, locking onto Tu Mister with killing intent, and sneered:

"It's not easy for my Demon Sword Sect to raise some sword slave disciples, especially those in the Golden Core realm. Now, not a single one remains. Tu Mister, are you not going to give this old man an explanation as well?"

Shangguan Wang's face was indifferent, watching from the sidelines with cold eyes.

He was now a traitor, without a Demon Gate or disciples. Therefore, the matter did not concern him, and he did not want to wade into this muddy water.

Tu Mister's face was also ugly.

Clearly, he had also been schemed against. The ceremony was interrupted, his soul lamp was extinguished, his flesh body was almost completely gnawed away. In the blink of an eye, these rotten debts were unexpectedly being calculated against him.

"The deaths of these Demon Cultivators have nothing to do with me." Tu Mister said coldly.

The Yin Corpse Valley Featherization sneered, obviously not believing Tu Mister's unilateral words.

The Golden Corpse inside the golden coffin began to roar excitedly, about to emerge from the coffin.

The Featherization Old Demon from Demon Sword Sect also opened his sword casket. One by one, pitch-black eyeballs grew on the Demon Sword.

They were about to strike Tu Mister with killing intent.

Tu Mister's brows furrowed tightly.

Under normal circumstances, he would not fear these two Old Demons. But now, his divine thought had suffered backlash, his flesh body was gnawed, his vital energy was greatly injured. He truly might not be a match for these two Featherization Old Demons.

Furthermore, the most thorny character at the moment was fundamentally not these two Demonic Path Featherizations, but...

Tu Mister's tone softened slightly, and he patiently explained:

"The ceremony had a flaw, and I also suffered a dark scheme. The deaths of these fellow Demon Cultivators were not caused by me. The true culprit is someone else..."

"Who?"

Tu Mister raised his head and looked towards the high platform of the altar. Above the white bone throne, it was Mo Hua who was pinching Yu Er's neck.

Shangguan Wang, the Yin Corpse Valley Corpse Demon, and the Demon Sword Sect Old Demon, the three Featherizations, all looked at Mo Hua with three pairs of gloomy eyes. For a moment, their pupils shrank slightly, and their expressions varied.

Shangguan Wang's gaze was vicious, and a trace of covetousness appeared in his eyes as he looked at Yu Er.

The Featherization Old Demons from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect, however, frowned, their hearts full of doubts.

The matter of the Evil God was mysterious, evil, strange, and unfathomable. Although they were Featherizations, they did not know the specifics of this matter in detail.

And the scene before them made them even more puzzled.

They had seen this young man named "Mo Hua" before.

They also knew his identity: he was the leader of the array path in Tai Xu Gate, a genius who, despite his inferior spiritual root, was strangely strong in arrays and was extremely unconventional.

But the problem was precisely here.

Wasn't this young man controlled by Tu Mister?

Why would he appear here?

Could Tu Mister, a dignified Featherization Great Demon and the Great Witch Priest of the Evil God, actually not be able to control a little Foundation Establishment period kid?

Also, why could he climb the altar?

Isn't this altar the forbidden ground of the Evil God? Once a flesh and blood body touches this forbidden ground, lightly, the divine soul will be stripped, heavily, the flesh body will explode and die. They had personally witnessed all these scenes.

The most absurd thing was, why could he still pinch the neck of that child from the Shangguan family?

They did not fully understand the core ceremony of the entire Vast Heaven Blood Sacrifice, but they were not completely ignorant either.

The child from the Shangguan family was the "God Fetus" for the descent of the Great Wilderness Lord.

Several hours ago, they had all detected an extremely strong and extremely evil divine thought fluctuation that even made them, these Featherizations, feel a terrifying sense of evil and falling faith in their hearts.

Obviously, after painstaking planning and bloody killing, the God Lord of the Great Wilderness had already descended upon the world.

Then this child from the Shangguan family was the flesh fetus for the descent of the Great Wilderness God Lord. In other words, he was now the true body of the "God Lord."

But now, the "true body" of the Great Wilderness God Lord was actually having his neck pinched by a youngster in the Foundation Establishment realm.

What did this mean?

Was the God Lord of the Great Wilderness being held hostage?

Was someone using the God Lord of the Great Wilderness to threaten Tu Mister?

As this thought arose, the two Featherization Old Demons from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect both felt it was inconceivable.

The situation instantly became somewhat tense and subtle.

The Yin Corpse Valley Old Demon's gaze sank, and he asked Mo Hua: "My Yin Corpse Valley and all the Golden Core Demon Cultivators here, were all harmed to death by you?"

Mo Hua seemed to smile but not smile, "This you should go ask Tu Mister..."

He neither said yes nor no.

Saying "yes" would transfer all the hatred and suspicion of these Featherization Demon Heads onto himself, and it would not be easy for him to escape afterwards.

But saying "no" would inevitably lower his status as a "Tai Xu Fierce God" and would also destroy the mysterious and fearsome god image in Tu Mister's heart.

Therefore, it was better to kick this "ball" back and let Tu Mister find reasons and excuses himself.

The god did not answer, only countered with a question.

The Yin Corpse Valley Featherization and the Demon Sword Sect Old Demon indeed looked towards Tu Mister again.

Tu Mister's face was ugly.

He guessed that all of this was very likely related to Mo Hua.

But he was not sure if Mo Hua was truly behind all of this.

The biggest loophole was that even if "Mo Hua" was a god, the flesh body he parasitized was only in the Foundation Establishment realm.

How could a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator kill so many Golden Core Demon Cultivators?

Moreover, these Golden Core realm Demon Heads before them, without exception, had blurred flesh and blood and died miserably. It was obvious they died under more ferocious Demonic Path hands.

"Mo Hua" himself was a righteous path disciple of Tai Xu Gate.

These two points were fundamentally mismatched.

Even with the blessing of "god power," how could a Foundation Establishment disciple from a righteous path sect use miserable, inhuman, evil, and strange methods to slaughter all the hundreds of Golden Core Demon Heads in this hall?

Tu Mister racked his brain but could not think of an explanation.

Even an excuse to "frame" someone, he could not conjure up.

Therefore, Tu Mister remained silent.

The more silent Tu Mister was, the greater the suspicion against him.

After all, compared to the "harmless to humans and animals" Mo Hua, Tu Mister, this Featherization Great Demon, was more likely the prime culprit for killing so many fellow Demon Gate cultivators.

He had the ability and the motive.

The two Featherization Demon Heads from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect looked at Tu Mister with increasingly cold gazes. The suspicion in their hearts also deepened.

The atmosphere in the field was stagnant, with swords drawn and bows bent.

Mo Hua sat high above the altar, his gaze flickering slightly.

The situation was developing in the direction he expected.

As long as suspicion arose in the hearts of Tu Mister and these other Featherization Demon Heads, and they started fighting among themselves, then he could seize the opportunity, fish in troubled waters, and find a way to take Yu Er and secretly leave this Blood Sacrifice great array.

After all, others did not know, but as the "prime mover," Mo Hua was clearer than anyone else.

This Blood Sacrifice great array before them might be an unknown "dynamite barrel."

Up to now, Mo Hua had exploded quite a few arrays, but the Blood Sacrifice great array was an exception.

This was a quasi-third grade great array, an evil path great array, and it also involved the mystery of god path arrays and the conversion of righteous and evil spiritual power.

The difficulty was too high, the scope was too large, the changes were too complex, and it could not follow the conventional "collapse" laws.

Exploding this kind of array was Mo Hua's first attempt.

Although after studying arrays day and night in Tai Xu Gate and practicing a massive number of arrays, Mo Hua had laid a terrifyingly deep array foundation, and on this basis, he had gradually formed a set of his own understanding of arrays and perception of the essence of arrays.

Through his hands, this quasi-third grade Vast Heaven Blood Sacrifice great array should still be able to be exploded.

But there were too many uncertainties here.

Mo Hua himself had no idea how the final explosion effect would be.

So, he wanted to run early.

Moreover, precisely because of the high grade, large scope, broad range, and overly complex spiritual power changes of this great array's explosion, Mo Hua's divine thought calculation power was fundamentally unable to calculate where the "birth gate" would be after the explosion. So, he could only leave early.

If he didn't run, he would also die.

The situation was still in a deadlock.

The situation was also becoming more and more tense.

The suspicion between Tu Mister and the other three Featherizations was also deepening.

Cultivators who reached the Featherization realm were all deeply experienced, and they all had their own cognition and judgment. The suspicion here could not be resolved by Tu Mister saying a few perfunctory words to shirk responsibility.

But none of the Featherizations dared to act rashly.

Their city was deep, their thoughts fluctuated, and they seemed to be still considering something.

Mo Hua frowned, wishing in his heart that they would quickly fight to the death. But just at this moment, a wave of light murmuring sounds rang out. Mo Hua's heart "thumped," and he felt greatly uneasy.

Yu Er, this child, woke up!

The only leverage in his hand now was Yu Er, this "Great Wilderness Lord."

If Yu Er woke up and said the wrong words, revealing the trap, letting Tu Mister and these other Featherization Demon Heads detect that their Great Wilderness God Lord was actually not in Yu Er's body, then he would also have no "reliance," and things would become extremely passive.

His and Yu Er's lives and deaths would, in all likelihood, be manipulated by others.

And at the instant Yu Er let out a murmuring sound, the expressions of Tu Mister, Shangguan Wang, the Yin Corpse Valley Featherization, and the Demon Sword Sect Old Demon, the four Featherization Demon Heads, all changed. Then they all revealed shocked ecstasy, their gazes like torches, looking towards Yu Er.

Even Shangguan Wang's eyes revealed blazing greed and ambition. He seemed to want to make a move and snatch Yu Er immediately.

Mo Hua's scalp tingled slightly. He immediately twisted Yu Er's white and tender throat and sneered sinisterly:

"Don't move!"

Tu Mister and the others immediately trembled. Shangguan Wang's face was also ugly.

Just at this moment, Yu Er slowly opened his eyes.

He saw the bloody great hall before him, he saw several strange and evil-looking Demon Heads, and even among them, there was that Wang Elder who had snatched him away from his mother's hand. His heart was afraid.

And then, he heard a familiar voice.

"You all best not act rashly, otherwise, I will just wring this child to death!"

This was Brother Mo's voice.

Yu Er's heart was filled with joy. Then he heard Mo Hua's words clearly, and he was a little sad again.

Brother Mo... wants to wring me to death?

Brother Mo... how is that possible?

He...

Yu Er frowned, and instantly understood.

"Oh, Brother Mo wants to deceive people again..."

Yu Er blinked his eyes. He himself did not want to deceive people, but he also did not want to delay Brother Mo in deceiving people, nor could he expose Brother Mo:

"How should I do?"

Just at this time, Yu Er felt his neck being wrung by Brother Mo again. But Brother Mo's hand was soft and warm, and it didn't hurt when he wrung it. And then he heard Mo Hua say:

"Your God Lord is in my hands..."

"He has just descended now. He is currently fusing with the flesh fetus. His divine sense is like a fetus. It won't take long. Once he completely fuses, he will truly descend upon the world. At that time, the first person he sees will be me, and he will truly consider me as his close kin..."

Yu Er was startled, and then suddenly realized. He knew that Brother Mo was reminding him, telling him his current "setting."

He was just born, what God Lord.

He was not yet born, his divine sense was like a "fetus."

Fetus...

"I understand."

Yu Er nodded slightly, and then his eyes became vacant, his expression dazed. He pretended to have just woken up from a nightmare, muddled, not knowing anything about the people and matters in the world.

Seeing this, Mo Hua was overjoyed in his heart and secretly praised Yu Er for being clever.

This child had stayed by his side for so long. He indeed had comprehension and was very tacit with him.

Near ink is black.

His belly was black.

And Tu Mister's expression was shocked, and he didn't doubt him either.

Because at the instant Yu Er opened his eyes, he did tremble inside and had an impulse to kneel down and worship.

This meant that the God Lord had indeed awakened in Yu Er's body.

Even at this moment, he could feel a wave of "Evil God" aura surrounding Yu Er.

However, he was not sure of the God Lord's current "state of existence."

The God Lord seemed to have descended, but also seemed to have disappeared, the aura present and not present.

And if, according to Mo Hua, the God Lord was in the stage of fusing with the God Fetus after descending, then all of this could be explained.

Because he was "fusing," dispelling cause and effect, so the aura was very faint.

Once completely fused, the God Lord would truly "open his eyes" and see this human world full of flesh sacrifices.

Thinking of this, Tu Mister was uncontrollably excited.

And then, his expression turned cold. He said in his heart:

"I must absolutely not let the God Lord fall into the hands of this Fierce God from Tai Xu Gate. Otherwise, the God Lord will be beguiled by him, recognize the enemy as family, and all my thousand years of painstaking effort will be ruined."

His piety towards the Great Wilderness God Lord made his blood boil.

Tu Mister looked at Mo Hua, his eyes revealing deep killing intent:

"Let go of the God Lord. The God Lord is noble. He is not someone like you, an outsider god, who can touch him."

Mo Hua pinched Yu Er's white and small face and sneered coldly, "And what if I touch him?"

Tu Mister only felt that his lifelong faith had been greatly defiled. Anger surged, and evil arose from his seven orifices.

And just when Tu Mister was unable to bear his anger, Mo Hua was still thinking rapidly. Suddenly, he saw Shangguan Wang on the side, his eyes immediately lit up, and he pointed:

"Shangguan Wang!"

Shangguan Wang was startled.

To be pointed at from above and directly called by name by a small cultivator in the Foundation Establishment realm, he should have been angry. But at this time, Mo Hua's temperament was mysterious, his gaze was profound, and his every word and action were different from the past.

It seemed as if another, more powerful "existence" was hidden in his body, and even Tu Mister seemed quite apprehensive of him.

This made Shangguan Wang fundamentally dare not act rashly, nor dare to haggle over such small matters.

Mo Hua directly ordered him:

"You, go and kill Tu Mister. Once the God Lord revives, he will awaken. I will then plead for you and grant you eternal life!"

God Lord's bestowal, eternal life!

Shangguan Wang was stunned, his eyes instantly turned red.

But he was still somewhat hesitant about actually killing Tu Mister.

Mo Hua did not give him a chance to think. He looked at the Featherizations from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect again and said:

"If you kill Tu Mister, I can also let the God Lord bestow upon you, granting you eternal life."

"There is only one opportunity."

"There is also only one servant of the God Lord."

"Whoever kills Tu Mister will be the only slave and servant of the God Lord, enjoying the exclusive bestowal of the God Lord and receiving the worship of ten thousand believers."

The Featherization Old Demons from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect frowned. They also did not act easily.

They were all old monsters who had lived for so many years. How could they be easily instigated by Mo Hua's few words?

Mo Hua sneered coldly and began to put more pressure on them:

"Don't blame me for not reminding you all. The great fortune the God Lord gives you is only this one time."

"If you obey my command, 'clear the monarch's side, chop the treacherous ministers,' I will not blame you whether you finally kill Tu Mister or not."

"But if you do not act and just stand by, then don't blame me for holding a grudge..."

Mo Hua's sneer was sinister, his words cold and vicious:

"Soon after, once the God Lord fuses with the God Fetus, he will awaken. I will then report to the God Lord, saying that your loyalty is not enough, your faith is not firm, you do not obey His command, and you even collude with Tu Mister to seek private gain while betraying the God Lord."

"At that time, even if you are Featherizations, you will be stripped of your primordial spirit by the God Lord, subjected to cruel punishment, suffer the gnawing of countless evil spirits in the three thousand black mountains of the Great Wilderness, and your primordial spirit will shatter, and you will fall and die..."

Mo Hua wrung Yu Er's neck with his right hand, his face vicious, acting completely like a treacherous villain who "used the emperor to command the dukes."

The Featherization Old Demons from Yin Corpse Valley and Demon Sword Sect were angry in their hearts, but they also felt a vague fear.

The Great Wilderness Evil God had a notorious reputation.

And the terrifying aura that made their hearts palpitate when the Evil God descended, they, these Featherizations, had personally felt it.

Accompanying a monarch is like accompanying a tiger.

Accompanying a god is even more so.

Furthermore, the god lord they worshipped was the Evil God, and the Evil God was originally ferocious and bloody.

Once a deeply trusted but vengeful and despicable "villain" appeared on the God Lord's side, then these Featherizations might not have a good end.

Of course, it was also possible that Mo Hua was deceiving them.

But this youngster, Mo Hua, who could "hold the God Lord hostage," was similarly very evil and could not be underestimated.

The two Featherizations from Demon Sword Sect and Yin Corpse Valley thought slightly. A glint flashed in their eyes, and they did not know what thoughts they harbored. Then one broke open his coffin and summoned the Golden Corpse, and the other untied the seal of the sword casket and sacrificed his Demon Sword. The two joined forces and killed towards Tu Mister together.

Tu Mister's eyes were blood red, and he cursed angrily in his heart.

Inside the great hall, three Featherizations warred together. Their methods were evil and strange, vicious and ruthless. Corpse qi, sword qi, and blood qi strangled together.

They fought for a moment, the battle was intense, and the situation was in a stalemate.

Seeing this, Mo Hua looked towards Shangguan Wang again and sent out a low and strange voice:

"Elder Shangguan... if you escort me and the God Lord out, I will exempt you from all your crimes and seal you as the only 'servant' of the God Lord, granting you the grace of the God Lord, protecting you forever, even if your flesh and blood are extinguished, your primordial spirit will not die..."