Chapter 248: Magic Spell

After the matter of Xingxiu's decline was announced, Mo Hua spent his time learning two magical techniques.

One was a concealment technique, and the other was a water prison technique.

In the Mo family courtyard.

Since the restaurant was a bit idle, Liu Ruhua had time to sit in the courtyard and sew clothes for Mo Hua.

Mo Hua was learning the concealment technique on the side.

After a while, Mo Hua asked, "Mother, can you see me?"

He didn't know what the concealment technique looked like after he learned it, so he wanted his mother to help him see.

Liu Ruhua found it interesting, so she said while sewing clothes and looking up, "I can see you."

"Now?"

"I can see you."

"Can you still see me now?"

"Yes."

"Can you see me now?"

Liu Ruhua looked up, her expression astonished, and she said in surprise,

"Hua'er, I can't see you!"

Mo Hua was happy in his heart, but immediately realized something was wrong. His mother was looking at him but said she couldn't see him.

He lowered his head and could still clearly see his own body and the clothes on his body.

Mo Hua said somewhat helplessly, "Mother..."

Liu Ruhua covered her mouth and laughed, her eyes full of amusement. "You continue practicing, I won't trick you anymore."

Mo Hua sighed, feeling both annoyed and amused, but seeing his mother happy, he also felt happy in his heart.

After that, he tried the concealment technique several more times, but it had no effect.

Mo Hua then picked up the book on concealment technique again, carefully recalled the key points and the meridians for spiritual power circulation according to the book, and then cast the concealment technique again.

Spiritual power flowed out from the qi sea, penetrated the meridians, and covered the skin and the clothes on his body.

Mo Hua's figure also gradually changed.

Liu Ruhua watched and showed a surprised expression.

This time, the surprise didn't seem fake.

Mo Hua then asked, "Mother, can you still see me?"

Liu Ruhua frowned, "It's like I see you, and it's also like I don't see you..."

"What does that mean?"

Mo Hua didn't understand. He raised his hands and saw that his arms had turned into a faint blue transparent appearance.

It looked like they were made of water.

One could say it was invisible, but it wasn't completely invisible.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then understood.

The key to the concealment technique lay in the spiritual root.

A single-element water spiritual root was suitable for learning the concealment technique and could fully utilize its effects.

Mo Hua had a small five-element spiritual root. The five elements included water, but it wasn't pure, so he could also learn the concealment technique, but the effect was weaker. His figure seemed to have turned into a flow of water, but it couldn't be completely concealed.

Mo Hua was somewhat disappointed.

Liu Ruhua thought for a moment, her eyes brightening. "If you hide in water, others just can't see you."

That seemed to be the case, but there weren't many places with water near Dahei Mountain...

Mo Hua sighed. "I'll think of another way."

At least this concealment technique wasn't useful for now.

Since the concealment technique wasn't very useful, Mo Hua learned another magical technique — the water prison technique.

The water prison technique wasn't very powerful, and one could even say it was dispensable.

But this magical technique was originally used to trap enemies, so the power level wasn't so important.

After casting the water prison technique, spiritual power would turn into water-shaped chains, temporarily binding the enemy cultivator and preventing them from escaping.

The binding time was generally around three breaths. Against low-realm cultivators, it could bind for longer, but against high-realm cultivators, it could often only trap them for one or two breaths.

It seemed not very useful, but in a life-or-death struggle or a desperate pursuit, this obscure magical technique was extremely important.

The difficulty of the water prison technique lay in its difficulty to learn, difficulty to use, and difficulty to aim.

Casting the water prison technique involved complex spiritual power circulation and numerous acupuncture points, making it very difficult to learn.

And because the spiritual power circulation was complex, the technique was cast very slowly. And because it was slow, it was hard to hit the target.

Especially many cultivators with good movement techniques would have already escaped by the time your magical technique condensed.

So very few spiritual cultivators would spend time learning this kind of obscure magical technique that was difficult to learn, difficult to use, and had no power.

But for Mo Hua, these were not problems.

Mo Hua's divine sense was inherently strong, and his cultivation method was Tianyan Jue, which was good at controlling divine sense. Kui Lao had also taught him divine sense locking, so his techniques were both fast and accurate.

This water prison technique was very suitable for him to learn.

Moreover, because his divine sense was too strong, Mo Hua learned it with almost no effort.

Mo Hua wanted to test the effect of the water prison technique. He casually threw a wild fruit into the air, then locked onto it with his divine sense, held his right hand in a virtual grip, and then spiritual power condensed into faint blue chains, locking the wild fruit in the air.

After several breaths, the wild fruit fell to the ground.

The effect was still not bad, but he still needed to find some living things to try it on.

So Mo Hua thought of the fish in Mr. Zhuang's pond again.

The next day, Mo Hua woke up early, arrived at Zuowangju, greeted Mr. Zhuang, and then went to the pond to cast the water prison technique on the swimming fish inside.

The water grass was green and lush, and the pond water was clear.

The fish leisurely swam at the bottom of the pond. Suddenly, a faint blue water light appeared, trapping a fish and making it thrash around, unable to escape.

The bottom of the pond suddenly became chaotic.

The other fish were startled and swam faster and more urgently.

Mo Hua's fingers pointed frequently, and one by one, the fish were locked by the water light.

After playing for a while, Mo Hua became a bit tired of it, finding it too simple.

Mo Hua released the fish one by one. The escaping fish swam frantically. After a while, they detected no danger and began to swim leisurely again. The bottom of the pond gradually returned to calm.

After harassing the fish in the pond, Mo Hua felt that he was still not proficient in using the water prison technique, so he went under the big locust tree and found Bai Zisheng.

Under the towering big locust tree, Bai Zixi was quietly reading, while Bai Zisheng was still idle.

"I've just learned a new magical technique," Mo Hua secretly told Bai Zisheng.

Bai Zisheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately glanced at Bai Zixi.

Bai Zixi's gaze did not leave the book pages, but she just said lightly in a clear voice, "Finish your homework first, then go play."

"I'm just a little bit short. In less than half an hour, I can finish it," Bai Zisheng said.

Bai Zixi gently "um"了一声.

Bai Zisheng's expression brightened, and he said to Mo Hua, "Come on, let's spar a bit and see."

Mo Hua and Bai Zisheng ran to the side so as not to disturb Bai Zixi's reading.

"What magical technique did you learn?" Bai Zisheng asked.

"Water prison technique."

Bai Zisheng frowned, "It sounds a bit strange, but it doesn't seem particularly powerful."

"This magical technique can trap the enemy, but it has no offensive power."

"Then it's not very interesting," Bai Zisheng said, losing some interest. He asked again, "Then how do we compare?"

Mo Hua said, "You use movement techniques to run, and I use magical techniques to trap you."

"That's not called sparring," Bai Zisheng looked at Mo Hua doubtfully. "Isn't it just me getting hit?"

"Sparring with a purpose is called sparring. Sparring without a purpose is just fighting," Mo Hua said confidently. "This is to practice my magical technique and also practice your movement techniques."

"Alright, you have a point," Bai Zisheng nodded.

It was better to have something to play than nothing. He also wanted to see the effect of the water prison technique.

Mo Hua circled a large area of grass. "Just within this circle, I'll use the water prison technique on you."

"Okay."

The two of them then practiced magical techniques and movement techniques on the grass under the big locust tree. Bai Zisheng dodged, and Mo Hua tried to trap him with the water prison technique.

They probably practiced for an hour before stopping to rest on the grass.

Casting the water prison technique involved complex spiritual power circulation, so the casting speed was actually slower than the fireball technique.

At the beginning, Mo Hua could trap Bai Zisheng once every three times he cast the water prison technique. After gradually becoming familiar, he could trap him once every two times.

Bai Zisheng was a prodigy of his family, and both his cultivation method and dao techniques were top-notch. If it were a general cultivator, they basically couldn't escape Mo Hua's water prison technique lock.

"Your magical technique, to be honest, is a bit disgusting," Bai Zisheng couldn't help but say.