Chapter 518: Go Die

Above grave mountain, the firelight of the incinerate corpse array blazed brightly.

Except for the small zombie, all walking corpses, iron corpses, including the corpse king, had to be thoroughly refined in the incinerate corpse array to end their evil consequences.

There were too many walking corpses, so after being burned to ashes, they were mostly buried together in a joint burial.

The Lu family was raided and fell apart.

Among the iron corpses, no one from the Lu family's elders came to inquire. They were burned and buried casually, just a simple grave mound. Not only was there no one to worship, but they were even despised by people. Every time cultivators from Nanyue City passed by, they would spit several times.

Some foundational cultivators from other families or sects would be claimed after incineration and buried in their own ancestral graves.

Mo Hua also solemnly collected the ashes of the successive elders of the Small Lingyin Sect and would hand them over to Instructor Yan later for proper burial.

Having learned the Ling Shu array, he could be considered to have received a favor from the Small Lingyin Sect.

So he wanted to show some gratitude.

The incinerate corpse array continued for more than ten days. All walking corpses and iron corpses were incinerated, leaving only the corpse king in the end.

But the corpse king could not be incinerated.

Although the array used to refine the corpse king in the incinerate corpse array was a second-grade array, the flames were stagnant, almost like molten iron, but they still could not handle the corpse king.

The corpse king closed its eyes, its hands crossed on its chest. Its body was in the surging flames, letting the fierce fire burn, its body a deep red copper color, but without a trace of being incinerated.

Several days passed, and the corpse king's body remained, the fierce fire not invading.

Yang Jishan frowned.

The crowd also had solemn expressions.

Cultivators who knew the inside story were even more alarmed.

The corpse king was a disaster fetus of the Dao evil, hoping to transform into a Dao evil, and was originally very tricky.

Now that it had submitted to Mo Hua, it had lost the qualification to be promoted to Dao evil and was temporarily dormant. But if it was not killed, whether or not it would change later was something no one could say for sure.

Yang Jishan and the others tried various methods again.

Spiritual tools, spells, talismans, and some more powerful second-grade arrays were used, but at most, they could only injure the corpse king's skin and flesh, and were fundamentally unable to thoroughly incinerate it.

There was no other way. Yang Jishan still went to find Mo Hua to see if Mo Hua had any method.

The matter of the incinerate corpse array was the responsibility of the Dao Court, and Mo Hua didn't inquire much.

He only controlled the corpse king to walk into the incinerate corpse array and didn't manage other things.

At this time, when Yang Jishan asked him, Mo Hua specifically went to take a look.

Above the grave mountain, fierce flames were like a sea.

And the corpse king was just immersed in the sea of fire, enduring the fierce flames burning, its flesh body undamaged.

Mo Hua also frowned a bit, somewhat puzzled.

According to reason, with the power of a second-grade array, refined for so long, even if the corpse king was a copper corpse, it would be refined into a pool of "copper water."

Mo Hua released his divine sense to perceive, and after a moment, he discovered that the corpse king's body seemed to be entangled with a trace of vague Dao essence.

A copper corpse could not withstand the incineration of the incinerate corpse array.

But this corpse king was not only a copper corpse, it was also a corpse king.

This trace of Dao essence was similar to the earth's Dao essence Mo Hua had perceived before.

But it was also deformed, mutated, fierce, and evil.

This was the twisted "Dao essence" of the Dao evil.

It was also the root of the Dao evil.

This trace of twisted Dao essence made the corpse king's flesh body unable to be refined, and at the same time, it also nurtured the corpse king's autonomous consciousness.

When Mo Hua clearly perceived this trace of Dao essence, the corpse king suddenly opened its eyes.

Its eyes became pitch black and empty, coldly looking towards Mo Hua.

At the same time, a ferocious illusion appeared in Mo Hua's sea of consciousness.

This illusion was both the corpse king and not entirely the corpse king.

Its body was entangled with a layer of faint, profound, and terrifying aura, carrying deep hatred, full of hate intent, staring at Mo Hua.

This was the aura of the Dao evil.

It seemed to harbor resentment because Mo Hua had made it abort.

Mo Hua was calm and fearless, confronting it calmly.

The "corpse king" touched Mo Hua's gaze and suddenly became somewhat blustering but inwardly panicking. In its resentful expression, there was deep fear.

Like a fierce servant wanting to devour its master, but the hidden evil intent was discovered by the master.

So under the ferocity, there was secret cowardice.

Mo Hua understood in his heart.

The corpse king had submitted to him, and the trace of Dao essence in the corpse king's body naturally also feared him.

It wanted to devour its master.

Only by devouring its master could the Dao essence be nurtured and the corpse king become a Dao evil.

But as long as it could not devour its master, it had to obey his commands!

Since it had to listen to his words, it was easy to handle.

Mo Hua's gaze was slightly cold, his voice cold, and he commanded without allowing resistance:

"Evil beast, go die."

Yang Jishan and the others trembled at the words.

And the corpse king's eyes showed even more fear.

The monarch lets the minister die, and the minister has to die!

At the same time as Mo Hua commanded, the Dao essence in the corpse king's body turned into a ferocious corpse shadow, its eyes red, its face ferocious, twisting, roaring, and howling.

But no matter how unwilling it was, how it struggled, the great Dao rules were in place, and it had to obey Mo Hua's command to die.

Its figure gradually dimmed, and the aura of the Dao evil also gradually dissipated.

At the same time, the corpse king also roared once, causing the incinerate corpse array fire light to rush to the sky, and immediately in the shocked gazes of the crowd, its skin and flesh withered, its face collapsed, and it was gradually turned into ashes by the blazing fierce fire...

The corpse king was truly dead...

The crowd of cultivators looked at Mo Hua's eyes with a trace of fear.

The lord of ten thousand corpses, the corpse king incarnated from the Dao evil, actually died because of Mo Hua's single sentence...

But exactly how this happened, the crowd was completely unaware.

They wanted to ask, but were temporarily intimidated by Mo Hua's momentum in commanding the corpse king to death, and did not dare to ask too much.

Only the skinny old man's gaze was solemn, showing a thoughtful expression.

However, no matter what, once the corpse king died, the corpse disaster was truly pacified.

This matter also finally came to an end.

The crowd all lightly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few days, they had experienced twists and turns, successive fierce battles, and several changes, hovering on the line between life and death, witnessing one frightening and unbelievable scene after another. Now they could finally feel relieved of a heavy burden and put down their hearts.

Mo Hua also breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned and left with light footsteps.

Just as he turned, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

In the dark, there was a trace of premonition.

As if some ferocious thing was parasitizing on his body.

This thing was deformed and violent, like Dao essence, but extremely twisted, like the corpse king's ferocious thought, full of hatred, eyeing him covetously.

But once he perceived it, it would be startled and vanish without a trace, not knowing where it had hidden...

This feeling was exactly the same as the evilized Dao essence in the corpse king's body.

"But didn't it already dissipate?"

Mo Hua was puzzled.

Regarding matters concerning the Dao evil, Mo Hua had to be somewhat cautious.

When he returned, he went to consult Mister Zhuang.

"Master, the dead Dao evil seems to be entangled with me..."

Mister Zhuang was somewhat surprised, but not unexpectedly. He lay on the bamboo chair and said leisurely:

"You ruined its opportunity. It cannot become a Dao evil, so it naturally hates you, and the Dao essence then fused into your karma."

"Fused into karma?"

Mo Hua didn't understand.

Mister Zhuang then explained:

"Everything in the world has karma. Every blade of grass, every tree, every drink, every peck, all cannot escape the category of karma."

Mo Hua felt that what Mister Zhuang said seemed to make sense, but when he thought about it carefully, he was still very confused.

Mister Zhuang sighed: "Don't think too complex. Karma is just one kind of great Dao rule. Everything operates according to its own rules, which is karma."

"People are the same."

"People's past, actions, and thoughts are all constituted by the cycle of karma."

"And all of a person's past constitutes the causes, and all of the future is the fruits formed according to the past causes."

"So karma also constitutes a person's fate."

"Past fate is fixed and unchangeable, but future fate, according to your past fate, has ten thousand changes..."

Mo Hua seemed to have some enlightenment and nodded.

Mister Zhuang looked at Mo Hua, and there was some hope in his gaze, "Karma is something you know well now. Thinking more is of no benefit..."

"In the future, when your divine sense is stronger, your experience is richer, your experience is broader, and you understand the great Dao, arrays, and all things more thoroughly, then go research..."

Mo Hua couldn't help but ask: "Master, is 'karma' really useful?"

Mister Zhuang said: "It can be useless, but it can also be of great use. It all depends on how much you can comprehend."

Mo Hua's eyes turned and he asked:

"Master, is that Dao evil fused in karma a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Not a good thing," Mister Zhuang said.

Mo Hua's heart skipped a beat.

"But it's not a bad thing either," Mister Zhuang said again.

Mo Hua opened his mouth and couldn't help but mutter:

"Master, what you said is the same as not saying anything..."

Mister Zhuang gently knocked Mo Hua's head and laughed:

"In this world, everything has pros and cons, and fortune and misfortune depend on each other. There are originally no absolute good things and bad things."

"Then what should I do?" Mo Hua asked.

Mister Zhuang said calmly: "Maintain a normal heart, guard your Dao heart. No need to worry, no need to fear, don't even think about it. When your divine sense is powerful, everything will be easily resolved..."

Mo Hua's eyes brightened, and he thought of what Mister Zhuang had said before:

"A clear Dao heart and powerful divine thought, then ten thousand evils will not invade... Is that so, Master?"

Mister Zhuang nodded with satisfaction.

Only then did Mo Hua put down his heart.

However, he didn't notice that Mister Zhuang's drooping gaze was solemn, and his expression was also somewhat serious.

When Mo Hua got up to take his leave, Mister Zhuang suddenly said:

"Mo Hua."

Mo Hua looked at Mister Zhuang somewhat puzzled.

Mister Zhuang paused for a moment before opening his mouth to ask:

"How did this thread of evilized Dao essence fuse into your karma?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and said truthfully:

"It seems... I commanded it to go die, and it went to die, but it didn't die thoroughly, so it hated me..."

Mister Zhuang's gaze slightly froze, his fingers hidden in his sleeve trembled, and his heart also couldn't help but palpitate.

"Command it... go die?"

"Um." Mo Hua nodded and said worriedly, "Master, is there any trouble?"

Mister Zhuang's gaze converged, he smiled faintly and said:

"Never mind. Remember what I just told you."

"Okay, Master!"

Since Master said it was fine, then it should be fine.

Mo Hua then felt light-hearted and happily left.

After Mo Hua left, Mister Zhuang sighed deeply and furrowed his brows tightly.

Kui Lao's figure appeared and sighed softly:

"Too bold..."

Mister Zhuang unusually did not retort, but nodded in agreement:

"Yes, too bold..."

He actually commanded a Dao evil to go die...

Ignorance is fearless.

The key was that this Dao evil actually listened to his words and went to die...

Mister Zhuang said helplessly:

"The corpse king doesn't count as a Dao evil yet. Making the corpse king kneel just incurred a great karma. But now he directly commanded a Dao evil to go die, which is equivalent to swallowing this great karma in one bite. Really... bold to the extreme..."

Kui Lao looked at Mister Zhuang contemptuously, "Weren't you very proud before? Do you regret it? What do you do now?"

Mister Zhuang sighed.

He had calculated the karma, and it all ended when the corpse king was subdued.

He didn't expect an unexpected incident at the end.

If he had known earlier, he should have put down his face and not put on a high-and-mighty act, and admonished Mo Hua more, telling him to pay less attention to other matters.

Let the people on the Dao Court side worry about the corpse king incineration.

Kui Lao frowned again and said:

"However, even if the Dao evil is fused into karma, it shouldn't matter. It's not a true Dao evil, just a thread of twisted aura."

"That's the problem..."

Mister Zhuang sighed, "Mo Hua is walking the path of 'divine sense proving the Dao'. In the future, when his divine sense is strong enough and his comprehension of heaven and earth is deep enough, he will inevitably nurture his own Dao essence."

"But there is the aura of Dao evil entangled in his karma."

"What he nurtures may not be Dao essence, but... with his flesh body, he will nurture his own 'Dao evil'..."

As soon as these words were spoken, Kui Lao's face also turned pale.

Body turning into Dao evil!

Then he might really be more terrifying than the strange Daoist demon head.

Kui Lao frowned and said: "Mo Hua's nature is clear and pure. It shouldn't reach that extent."

"It looks like this now..." Mister Zhuang slowly lay down, his gaze dim and uncertain, "But who can say for sure about future matters?"

"Especially... he is still young now and can still be single-minded."

"But in the future, when he grows up and sees more things, his thoughts will inevitably become mixed. If due to emotional changes, one thought becomes a demon, then..."

Mister Zhuang's voice gradually became inaudible.

Kui Lao raised his eyebrows, "You mean, the Bai family?"

Mister Zhuang raised his eyebrows but did not explicitly say.

But both of them understood.

The two children were together day and night. They might be confused and unclear about their feelings, but they were gradually developing emotions that these elders could see clearly.

"Bai family..."

Mister Zhuang shook his head with some disdain, but in his eyes, there was deep apprehension.

Kui Lao's expression was also cold and stern, like it was carved by a knife.

The water of the Bai family was truly bottomless...

Mister Zhuang looked into the distance, sighed, "Mo Hua is a very emotional person. The more so, the easier it is to get hurt. Even without that little girl, if his parents or friends have an accident, it will probably also change his nature..."

Kui Lao furrowed his brows, looked at Mister Zhuang, and shook his head:

"I don't think so. Although this child's nature is upright, he is not that straightforward. He is clever, occasionally full of bad ideas, and meticulous in his thoughts. He knows how to adapt and shouldn't reach this step."

"Let's hope so..." Mister Zhuang sighed.

"You didn't tell him about this matter clearly?" Kui Lao asked.

"Explaining it clearly is also useless..." Mister Zhuang shook his head.

"Matters like Dao evil and Dao essence, explaining them clearly will make him hesitate and mess up his thoughts, ruining his state of mind."

"It's better to let him believe that a clear Dao heart will not be invaded by ten thousand evils. With a clear heart, he can temper his divine thought, and perhaps he really will not be invaded by ten thousand evils..."

"Anyway, the things he needs to do are the same: cultivate his divine sense to the extreme, without worries, and it will be easier to forge ahead."

Kui Lao nodded slightly.

Mister Zhuang closed his eyes and pondered. After a moment, he thought of something and opened his eyes again:

"Moreover, this is not necessarily a bad thing..."

Kui Lao had a tacit understanding and slowly said:

"You mean, the strange Daoist?"

The strange Daoist was a demonic Daoist who cultivated the strange Dao.

One could not think about it, could not think about it, and even more so could not say its name taboo.

But Kui Lao was unscrupulous and directly called out the "strange Daoist's" Dao title, yet his whole body was not abnormal at all.

Mister Zhuang nodded, his gaze profound as he said:

"Dao evil has form and spirit."

"The corpse king is the Dao evil embryo. After its form is destroyed and its spirit dies, its heart holds resentment, and the remaining Dao evil aura fuses into karma."

"Dao evil at the karma level is nearly undying and indestructible, and extremely difficult to deal with."

"Even for my senior brother, it is the same."

"But for Mo Hua, it is somewhat different."

"Although there were some fated encounters, he relied on his own ability to make the Dao evil submit and then commanded the Dao evil to go die."

"Mo Hua is the master of the Dao evil."

"The Dao evil lurks in Mo Hua's karma and will necessarily still harbor the heart of counter-devouring. It racks its brains to devour its master, but as long as it cannot devour its master, it has to protect its master!"

"So, this is a sharp sword."

"The sword blade facing inward may ruin Mo Hua's Dao essence, but the sword blade facing outward, it is really possible that in karma, Mo Hua will not be invaded by ten thousand evils!"

"Because in his fate, the most evil and most ferocious Dao evil is hidden!"

"Dao evil is the most ferocious and most evil, so ten thousand evils will not be invaded!"

Mister Zhuang's gaze was sharp.

Kui Lao was also shocked.

If it were truly so, then Mo Hua, this seemingly unremarkable small cultivator, would be a true great terror in the heavenly mechanism derivation.

His karma fate, harboring Dao evil, was a huge abyss that could not be spied on, could not be derived, and could not be invaded!

(End of chapter)