Chapter 653: Steal Home

Flames of the Fire Buddha burned on his body, evil fire raged.

Gu Changhuai had just thought to warn everyone to be careful when he heard Xiao Tianquan laugh coldly:

"Evil demon thief, just one person, no matter how great your ability, you can't do it alone."

"Everyone attack together and surround and kill this demon thief!"

"Slaying the Fire Buddha can earn great merit!"

Gu Changhuai frowned.

Some executive officers, greedy for merit, heard the words "great merit" and their eyes revealed a sharp light. They mobilized their spiritual power and charged towards the Fire Buddha with full force.

No matter how strong the Fire Buddha was, he was only at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

While most of them were at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, their cultivation difference was not significant. Even if they were not his match, they could entangle him for a while and would not be defeated in a short time.

If they were lucky enough to slay the Fire Buddha directly, the position of executive officer would be within reach in the future.

Several bold executive officers took the lead and rushed towards the Fire Buddha.

The Fire Buddha was covered in flames, unmoving like a mountain.

Suddenly, his expression turned cold, and killing intent was revealed in his gaze. His entire aura also changed abruptly.

Gu Changhuai's expression changed. "Not good!"

Before he finished speaking, he flashed his folding fan, stirring up streaks of wind blades, and sent them towards the Fire Buddha to interrupt his killing move.

A cold smile appeared at the corner of the Fire Buddha's mouth. His red kasaya fluttered, condensing into a wall of fire.

The wind blades struck the wall of fire.

The wall of fire shattered, and the wind blades also completely dissipated.

Gu Changhuai, unable to use his Golden Core power, was stronger than the Fire Buddha at the peak of Foundation Establishment, but not by much.

In the initial exchange, the two were evenly matched.

After the wall of fire blocked the wind blades, the Fire Buddha's gaze turned blood-red, and his killing intent soared.

Like a fierce beast, he revealed his bloodthirsty fangs.

Blazing fires burned on his body, and these flames instantly turned a turbid gray-black. His entire aura also began to twist.

In the void, there were painful low murmurs and terrified wails.

It was as if all the people who had died under his techniques had turned into "killing karma".

Deep killing karma transformed into strange baleful aura.

The baleful aura integrated into his techniques, rising with the flames, gradually spreading, and covering the entire great hall.

Everyone's hearts were covered with a layer of gloom. Their Dao hearts fluctuated, and they involuntarily felt fear.

This time, the Fire Buddha was like a demon from purgatory, entangled in endless karmic fire, a demon head who had created countless killing karma.

Especially the several Dao Court executive officers who were close to the Fire Buddha.

In their eyes, the Fire Buddha suddenly transformed from a benevolent and kind-eyed "Buddha" into a man-eating "demonic thing", his aura ferocious and terrifying.

The baleful aura in the flames invaded their minds.

A bone-piercing fear covered their hearts.

Their limbs went soft, and although they gritted their teeth, they still couldn't help but shiver.

Their bodies and spiritual power were all out of control due to the fear brought by the baleful aura.

The fear of "death" led them towards death.

The Fire Buddha laughed coldly and made a virtual grasp with his palm, condensing a fire knife. He swung it forcefully, drawing a blood-red fiery light, and chopped down these several executive officers who were filled with baleful aura, felt fear in their hearts, and dared not resist!

Gu Changhuai was extremely angry, but also felt a chill in his heart.

"Baleful aura?!"

Gu Changhuai's gaze was icy cold as he said, "Evil beast, how did the Magic Baleful Sect's 'Leading Baleful Aura into Technique' fall into your hands?"

The Fire Buddha put his palms together and said, "My Buddha is compassionate, allowing me to cultivate this technique and 'universally save all beings' with karmic fire."

Gu Changhuai angrily scolded, "You bald thief, you're spouting nonsense!"

The Fire Buddha's expression was cold and indifferent, not angry, but he calmly looked at Gu Changhuai.

Under the illumination of the firelight in his gaze, a hint of excitement and hatred appeared.

"In the past, my heart meridian was severely wounded by you, and my life hung by a thread..."

"That panic and pain between life and death are unforgettable..."

"Now my Falling Fire Technique has been cultivated to success, again transforming killing into balefulness, refining balefulness with techniques, suppressing balefulness with Buddha, the evil heart technique is one, the forbidden technique is greatly successful!"

"How will you kill me?"

The Fire Buddha laughed coldly in a low voice:

"The day I break through and enter the Golden Core realm, I must use a thousand ways and a hundred plans to slaughter all the people close to you, Gu Changhuai, and cultivate the true... Golden Core Fire Balefulness with your flesh and resentment, Gu Changhuai!"

Gu Changhuai's anger turned into bone-piercing killing intent:

"Then today, I will execute you by lingering death and dismember you into ten thousand pieces!"

Gu Changhuai's entire body's spiritual power surged, stirring up terrifying strong winds. Above the strong winds, the blades of knives were arranged like fish scales, dense like wings.

The Fire Buddha's face changed slightly, and a hint of dread appeared in his gaze.

"The Gu family's superior Dao technique, Lingfeng Huayu Jue!"

In the past, he had his heart meridian shredded by this Dao technique, his life like a flickering candle.

After so many years, the power of this superior Dao technique was even more astonishing.

The Fire Buddha was not afraid, and the fighting intent in his gaze was even more abundant.

Today, he would use the Leading Baleful Aura into Technique and the greatly successful Falling Fire forbidden technique to confront this Dao technique of the Gu family, Lingfeng Huayu Dao technique, which is a generation of dogs for the Dao Court!

He wanted to cut off the old grudges and break his heart demon!

The Fire Buddha's eyes were turbid and evil, and the baleful aura on his entire body reached its peak.

Within a radius of several zhang, all the Dao Court executive officers were shocked by the baleful aura, felt terror in their hearts, and were unable to move.

Then the Fire Buddha spread his arms, and the kasaya on his body burned with fierce fire, condensing into hundreds of points of fire rain.

These fire rain points condensed terrifying evil power. In an instant, they scattered outwards like a violent rain of fire sparks, killing the Dao Court executive officers who were frightened by the baleful aura.

Gu Changhuai's eyebrows furrowed.

He was also affected by the baleful aura, but after all, his cultivation was deep, and his determination to kill the Fire Buddha was firm, so there was no major problem.

Seeing the Fire Buddha display the fire rain, intending to slaughter the Dao Court executive officers.

Gu Changhuai's expression turned cold, he swept his fan horizontally, and the wind blades on the side, like feathers, swept towards these fire rain points.

For a time, wind blades and fire rain collided with each other, light and darkness rising and falling.

Spiritual power surged everywhere.

Most of the fire rain was offset by Gu Changhuai's wind blades.

A minority of fire rain overflowed and fell onto the officers' bodies, like sowing fire seeds. Fire seedlings instantly surged violently, the compressed evil power was released, and the flames with baleful aura swallowed that officer.

The officer burned by the Falling Fire fell to the ground struggling.

Wails rose one after another.

Just at this time, the demonic cultivators within the bronze labyrinth also rushed over.

They had killed not a few Dao Court executive officers, but at the same time, not a few had been killed by Gu Changhuai. Now there were only less than a hundred people.

Mo Hua recognized the three leading people.

They were precisely the three who had chased Mo Hua: Blood Woodcutter, Yin Lei Zi, and Ghost Face Baleful.

"Big Brother! We're here to help you!"

"Slaughter this group of Dao Court executive dogs!"

A group of demonic cultivators joined the battlefield with ferocious laughter.

Gu Changhuai instructed the executive officers: "Leave the Fire Buddha to me, you all stay far away and guard against the baleful aura!"

After speaking, Gu Changhuai leaped forward alone and engaged the Fire Buddha.

The other executive officers then scattered fearfully from the Fire Buddha's side and engaged in a desperate mixed battle with the group of demonic cultivators led by Blood Woodcutter.

The scene became even more bloody and chaotic for a time.

Techniques were numerous, and it was a battle of flesh and blood.

Spiritual tools and evil tools collided, and spiritual power and evil power intertwined.

The demonic cultivators were wounded, with blood in their eyes. The Dao Court executive officers were also fighting with red eyes.

At this time, no one dared to escape.

They fought desperately to the death. If they fought with one breath, they could still live. If they had the heart to escape, perhaps as soon as they turned around, they would be buried under the knives of the demonic cultivators...

Mo Hua could only watch from the side, fundamentally unable to intervene...

He was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and his spiritual power was also limited.

While this group of Dao Court executive officers and demonic cultivators were all at least at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, and many were at the late stage.

His fireball technique was not very threatening.

Especially some demonic cultivators, either wearing armor, or displaying evil "blood armor technique" or "poison armor technique" to protect their bodies.

His fireball technique could only give them "scratches".

As for control...

This kind of multi-person mixed battle, a hard fight with real knives and guns, actually didn't lack his bit of control.

He still had a bit of "self-knowledge". It was better to hide his figure and honestly stay at the side, not coming out to "attract hate".

In case he acted rashly and was accidentally stared at by the Fire Buddha or caught by the demonic cultivators, that would add big trouble to Uncle Gu and the others...

Moreover...

Mo Hua secretly glanced again at the center of the great hall, where the Fire Buddha, who was fighting a technique battle with Uncle Gu and whose entire body was surging with Falling Fire like a purgatory "flame demon", couldn't help but click his tongue.

This Fire Buddha... is too strong...

He was much stronger than he had thought before.

Baleful aura, fire kasaya, and the Falling Fire forbidden technique...

Baleful aura can deter and control the enemy.

Once "frightened" by the baleful aura, the Dao heart is unstable, and if one's heart nature is weak, one may instantly lose the ability to resist and become fish on a chopping board, allowing the Fire Buddha to slaughter them.

In this way, surrounding the attack is meaningless.

As long as the baleful aura is released, all enemies are frightened, and then the Fire Buddha can activate the forbidden technique and kill them at will.

It's really a bit outrageous...

Unless one's Dao heart is firm and righteous, or one carries a spiritual tool to expel balefulness, otherwise general cultivators of the same level are fundamentally not the Fire Buddha's opponent.

But spiritual tools to expel balefulness should be very niche, and their cost is probably not cheap.

The Dao Court side also couldn't distribute one to everyone...

That kasaya on his body is also probably not an ordinary spiritual tool.

And then the Falling Fire technique...

The Fire Buddha exchanged blows with Uncle Gu, going all out, with full force, without reservation.

This also gave Mo Hua an opportunity to research.

Mo Hua secretly observed and pondered for a long time at the side, and discovered that this Falling Fire technique was very different from what he had guessed before.

First, although this is a forbidden technique, its power might be even stronger than a superior technique, but it is only a technique with a "general" principle.

It is a "technique variation" technique, not a "spirit variation" technique.

This Falling Fire technique has a positive direction technique structure, where spiritual power forms the technique through the technique style.

It does not reverse through the technique, causing the technique style to collapse and the spiritual power structure to change.

It's just that the spiritual power integrated into this technique is too strong, the power is too great, and it's easy to lose control, and it's probably also easy to make one's heart nature abnormal and arbitrarily create killing karma, so it is only listed as a "forbidden technique".

Mo Hua sighed.

He probably couldn't learn the original version of the Falling Fire technique.

Because the spiritual power needed to constitute the technique was indeed too much.

The Fire Buddha in front of him, with his evil power surging like an ocean, his whole person like a fire element beast, and the power within his Qi sea seemed endless.

In comparison, his spiritual power was like a small stream...

Although not so exaggerated, it was almost there.

Without a superior spiritual root, without cultivating a superior technique, without massive spiritual power in the Qi sea, one cannot cultivate this kind of forbidden technique with great destructive power...

And not only that.

According to the observation of the spiritual power flow on the Fire Buddha's body, Mo Hua discovered that the Fire Buddha's body was equivalent to having two Qi seas.

Just that they were two "flame hearts".

Two flame hearts, burning blazing fire, both accumulated spiritual power and urged techniques.

Complementing each other, the Fire Buddha's fire element techniques were even more terrifying...

But the principle behind it, Mo Hua was still completely confused.

He couldn't understand how this kind of technique was constituted.

After all, although his eyesight was good, some things were very difficult to see all the mysteries of just by looking with the eyes...

"Falling Fire technique..."

Mo Hua felt envy in his heart.

If only he had such a good spiritual root, such deep spiritual power, he could also learn this kind of superior technique or forbidden technique that consumes extreme spiritual power but also has extreme power...

Not to mention using small fireballs to point at people every day...

But Mo Hua was not discouraged.

Although he couldn't learn the original version of the Falling Fire technique, it should be no problem to refer to the technique style structure and the principle of technique constitution.

This was also his original plan.

Thinking of this, Mo Hua was startled, and then his heart was shocked.

He almost forgot a key problem.

If the Fire Buddha was caught or killed now, then his Falling Fire technique would fall into the hands of the Dao Court executives, and he would never get it...

What to do?

He couldn't possibly secretly cause trouble and let the Fire Buddha escape, could he?

In case the Fire Buddha escaped and then went around killing people everywhere, his sin would be even greater.

Moreover, looking at the current situation, it was still uncertain whether Uncle Gu could kill the Fire Buddha...

This is the territory of a second-grade immortal city, and Uncle Gu dared not act recklessly.

It was definitely not okay to just let the Fire Buddha run away.

Mo Hua looked at the Fire Buddha, who was fiercely burning and fighting fiercely, and gradually frowned.

"Will the formula for the Falling Fire technique be on the Fire Buddha?"

If he had it on him, then it seemed he couldn't get it no matter what...

If he didn't have it on him, where would he hide it?

Mo Hua shifted his gaze, secretly sizing up the entire great hall.

This great hall was majestic and grand, ancient and gloomy, looking like it was used by demonic cultivators for gathering and worship.

But according to Mo Hua's experience and intuition, he always felt that there should still be a similar "altar" place inside this great hall...

Many corpse cultivators, evil cultivators, and demonic cultivators he knew all liked to place altars.

The Fire Buddha should also be no exception.

Moreover, with the Fire Buddha's character, who liked to hide and tuck things away, the fact that he intercepted everyone and started fighting in the great hall indicated that this great hall was not the true secret of the inner hall.

Within the great hall, there was still a deeper layer of secret...

Or should he look around and see?

Anyway, here, he couldn't help much either.

Mo Hua secretly glanced at the Fire Buddha again, seeing that he and Uncle Gu were already fighting with red eyes, then slowly nodded.

Relying on his hidden technique, Mo Hua's whereabouts were unknown to anyone.

He hid his body, kept far away from the Fire Buddha and other demonic cultivators, and walked towards the deeper part of the great hall...

They fought their battle.

He was going to steal home...

The great hall was very large, and it was dimly lit in the back.

But after walking all the way to the end, there were no other suspicious places, only in the innermost part, a huge mural was still carved.

Borrowing the hazy lights of the magic hall, Mo Hua could vaguely see that on the mural, there were ten thousand wild and barbaric mountains carved, with thorns everywhere, dangerous terrain, and numerous demons.

"This is... a map of the wild and barbaric mountains?"

"What does it mean..."

Mo Hua frowned, not understanding.

He looked around again and found that there was only this one mural. Everything else, including statues, buildings, or other furnishings, had either been removed or destroyed, leaving no clues.

The only clue was possibly this grand and broad mural.

"A mural..."

Mo Hua thought again of the mural inside the great hall of the Lu family's corpse mountain stone hall in Li State, South Yue City.

On that mural, the zombie head of the Lu family's old ancestor was carved.

The big mouth of the zombie was the entrance to the altar.

Generally speaking, these corpse cultivators and demonic cultivators always left traces...

"Then this mural also hides an entrance?"

Having experienced many things, there were indeed benefits...

Mo Hua released his divine sense to check if there was an array on the mural.

The entire mural, every point and every millimeter, was seen by Mo Hua. The demons were deformed and ferocious, the mountains were dangerous and rugged, and the forests were quiet and deep...

But after searching for a long time, he did not detect a trace of array breath.

Mo Hua was startled. "No array?"

It seemed so...

The best way to guard against arrays is not to draw arrays.

Without drawing an array, in the eyes of a powerful array master, there is no trace, no flaw, and it cannot be breached.

But there was no array, but there seemed to be other breaths.

Mo Hua closed his eyes and felt it. He did indeed perceive a trace of breath, very obscure, and with several traces of a familiar feeling.

Mo Hua followed this trace of breath to a corner.

Here on the mural, it was very simple, only a few patches of grass, a few trees, and a narrow mountain path.

The mountain path wound backwards, shuttling through the mountains and forests, seemingly passing through the entire wild and barbaric mountains.

While the place in front of his eyes seemed to be the starting point of the mountain path, and also the entrance to the mural.

Mo Hua thought for a moment, then tried to reach out and push.

The moment he pushed, his vision inverted, and a wild and barbaric breath came, as if the scenery on the mural had become real.

When he reopened his eyes, Mo Hua found himself in a mountain.

Mo Hua's heart was slightly cold, and he looked around. Only then did he realize that this mountain was a fake mountain.

It seemed to have been specially carved, but the scale was not small.

The entire magic hall was built on this fake mountain.

The fake mountain was intricate and complex, with mountainous terrain, and its style was very similar to the wild and barbaric mountains on the mural outside.

It seemed to be built to imitate the "wild and barbaric mountains".

Mo Hua then looked around again at the situation of the mountain and found that this large mountain also subtly conformed to the pattern of the "Mystery Heaven Array".

This inherent mountain situation echoed the labyrinth outside, inside and out.

It had quite the feeling of "mystery within a mystery, array within an array".

"There are many strange things inside this magic hall..."

Mo Hua was a bit at a loss for a while.

Could these things really be built by the Fire Buddha?

What exactly was the magic hall built for?

Sacrifice? How to sacrifice?

What exactly was the Fire Buddha's identity in this matter? What was he doing?

Mo Hua couldn't figure it out, shook his head, and continued walking along the fake mountain towards the inside.

Since it conformed to the "Mystery Heaven Array", the pattern of this fake mountain and the intricate mountain paths could not block Mo Hua.

In the fake mountain, every mountain and stone, every blade of grass and every tree, all emanated a strange breath.

But in Mo Hua's eyes, they were all just some shallow phenomena.

Mo Hua hid his body and kept walking towards the inside of the mountain.

It took about a cup of tea's time to reach the middle of the fake mountain.

As Mo Hua expected, in the middle of the fake mountain's mysterious array, there was indeed an altar.

(End of this chapter)