Chapter 745: Little Woodhead

After both sides exchanged greetings, they each went their separate ways.

Mo Hua and Ouyang Feng bid farewell. Mo Hua strolled around the mountain for a while, selected a black-headed eagle, used his flying sword to kill it, and then processed the materials.

When the sky gradually darkened, Mo Hua went down the mountain and exchanged the materials for merit points at the mountain gate.

Killing two flying bird demon beasts with a single flying sword earned him nearly eighteen hundred merit points.

Mo Hua was pleased.

Only when going down the mountain, he turned back to look at Refining Demon Mountain and noticed that not only was there a constant flow of people at the mountain gate, but the number of disciples hunting demon beasts inside Refining Demon Mountain had also increased considerably.

"It's getting more and more lively..."

Mo Hua smiled slightly and thought to himself.

After Mo Hua left, another figure appeared at the mountain gate a while later.

The disciples guarding the mountain gate saw this and immediately cupped their hands, saying:

"Elder Xun."

"Mm."

Xun Zi You nodded in acknowledgment.

Another Elder of Tai'a Gate stationed at the mountain gate was familiar with Xun Zi You and had a good relationship with him. Seeing this, he couldn't help but say strangely:

"Zi You, why are you always running to the mountain these days? This isn't like you at all..."

He knew Xun Zi You was a lazy person.

He spent his days guarding the mountain gate, drinking tea, enjoying the breeze, and chatting. If there were no important matters, he was always too lazy to move.

Unexpectedly, he had recently changed his nature, acting as if he lived on the mountain every day.

Xun Zi You sighed deeply, feeling helpless.

There was no alternative. Since the "little ancestor" had entered the mountain, he had to follow.

It was fine if his legs were broken from running.

But if that little ancestor lost even a single hair, then he would be in big trouble.

Xun Zi You sat down helplessly, poured himself a cup of hot tea, and silently suppressed his shock.

He didn't know why, but every time Mo Hua entered the mountain, he felt a bit nervous.

Especially that controlling sword, it made his heart tremble.

He didn't expect that this "little ancestor," who clearly didn't cultivate swords and wasn't a sword cultivator, could actually produce this kind of technique – something that looked "half-baked," and strictly speaking, a "pseudo sword method," but was inexplicably mysterious and astonishingly effective – this "controlling sword technique."

Was this child too audacious in his thinking?

Or had he himself grown old and too conservative in his thinking?

Especially this controlling sword technique, its speed was strangely fast, the distance was also far, and it didn't consume much spiritual power, nor did it depend on sword qi attainment.

It was truly somewhat ridiculous.

Mid-stage Foundation Building, a distance of one hundred seventy or eighty zhang, with not the slightest attenuation, fast and accurate controlling sword, what kind of concept was this?!

Xun Zi You's eyelids twitched.

Fortunately, this little ancestor's spirit sword was mediocre, and he hadn't yet mastered the art of sword arrays.

Otherwise, in the Foundation Building realm, he could truly kill randomly.

If this kind of controlling sword technique were cultivated to great success, a sword would fly out in the blink of an eye. Others might not even see his shadow before their lives were gone.

Xun Zi You was both shocked and emotional.

Old Ancestor not guilty is Old Ancestor, indeed sharp eyes, far-sighted.

To actually see Mo Hua's extraordinary potential from a middle-low grade spirit root with waste material qualifications, indeed, ginger is still old and spicy...

Xun Zi You shook his head, sat down, and took a sip of tea.

"There are too many Tai Xu Gate disciples inside the mountain, I have to keep an eye on them."

He casually offered an excuse.

The Tai'a Gate elder was not suspicious and nodded, saying:

"This is true..."

In Refining Demon Mountain, several outer mountain peaks were now full of Tai Xu Gate disciples.

He was there to observe and watch.

"Speaking of which," the Tai'a Gate elder said somewhat strangely, "your disciples this session are quite peculiar, they have a completely different style compared to previous sessions..."

Xun Zi You held the teacup, a mouthful of tea unfinished, and sighed again in his heart:

This was all because of Mo Hua!

The style of the entire group of disciples was led astray by him.

Tai Xu Gate disciples from before, where were they like this...

Although generally, the sect atmosphere was still considered peaceful.

But each and every one of them was a family genius, arrogant, and unwilling to concede to anyone.

When they entered Refining Demon Mountain, they also competed and compared with each other, none wanting to fall behind.

Unlike now, they were all obedient, wearing the same armor, carrying the same spirit tools, following the same "strategy," and neatly entering the mountain to hunt demon beasts.

Even the atmosphere of daily cultivation and activities was much more unified and harmonious because they had this "senior brother" to take charge and make decisions.

In contrast, other sects hadn't changed much.

Sect disciples basically still thought of standing out, competing with a crowd of prodigies to determine who was superior, and striving for a future for themselves.

Xun Zi You was startled and thought of Mo Hua's calm and gentle appearance. A sentence suddenly emerged in his mind:

"Water, good at benefiting all things without contending, because of its not contending, hence no one can contend with it..."

Killing like a sword, gentle like water.

Xun Zi You silently savored this, secretly shocked in his heart.

The Tai'a Gate elder saw Xun Zi You hadn't spoken for a long time and looked at him somewhat doubtfully.

Xun Zi You noticed this gaze and then vaguely said: "This I don't know..."

"But speaking of which, this is also a good thing. Arrays, spirit tools, these were originally for use. Being able to make full use of things, making full use of arrays, is also a kind of ability."

The Tai'a Gate elder pondered for a moment and couldn't help but nod slightly: "What you say does indeed make sense."

Xun Zi You suddenly thought of something and said to the Tai'a Gate elder:

"Some of your Tai'a Gate disciples seem to have been walking a bit close with Duan Jin Gate these past few days?"

The Tai'a Gate elder silently looked at Xun Zi You with a meaningful gaze.

Xun Zi You was startled and frowned, saying: "Do you have any plans?"

The Tai'a Gate elder slightly turned to the side.

Xun Zi You understood.

The two stood up and entered the inner secret room, activating the sound isolation array.

The Tai'a Gate elder looked around, lowered his voice and said:

"Zi You, you and I have interacted for many years, and I won't hide it from you, but these words, you only listen here, they cannot be spread outside."

Xun Zi You's gaze sank slightly, and he nodded.

The Tai'a Gate elder said solemnly: "My Tai'a Gate wants to advance further!"

Xun Zi You's gaze became slightly serious, and he nodded slightly, "You... want to enter the four great sects?"

The Tai'a Gate elder had a matter-of-course expression.

Xun Zi You frowned, "Impossible. The four great sects and eight great gates are fixed, they cannot be easily changed because of the results of one or two Dao discussions."

The Tai'a Gate elder smiled slightly, "To reform."

Xun Zi You's gaze narrowed.

He had heard this news before, but hadn't taken it seriously.

Sect reform was a big matter, and true implementation would face heavy resistance.

In the past hundreds of years, it had been mentioned before, but it was mostly thunder with little rain, and ultimately nothing came of it.

"Really?"

"Before the dust settles, it's hard to say, but supposedly the possibility is very high."

The Tai'a Gate elder continued: "Suppose there really is sect reform, breaking the original pattern of the four great sects and eight great gates, then our Tai'a Gate's opportunity will also come!"

"This opportunity is hard to come by in a thousand years!"

"As you said, the four great sects and eight great gates are fixed and will not change due to the temporary strength or weakness of the sect."

"Even if our Tai'a Gate's strength truly surpasses the four great sects, we cannot truly rise."

"But as long as there is sect reform, everything is possible!"

Xun Zi You pondered slightly, then said solemnly: "So, you plan to collude with Duan Jin Gate?"

"Not 'collude'," the Tai'a Gate elder said somewhat speechless, "Why say it so unpleasantly... This is called mutual support and watching out for each other."

"Our Tai'a Gate wants to advance further, from the eight great gates to the four great sects."

"Their Duan Jin Gate naturally also wants to progress, from the twelve streams to the eight great gates."

"Although on the surface, the eight great gates and the twelve streams are not divided into high or low, in the sect system and the outside world's evaluation, there is still a big difference."

Xun Zi You's face was somewhat ugly, and he said helplessly:

"Then if someone progresses, someone must regress..."

"If their Duan Jin Gate advances one step and enters the eight great gates, won't our Tai Xu Gate regress one step and fall into the twelve streams..."

The Tai'a Gate elder sighed, "This depends on your Tai Xu Gate yourselves."

"When it comes to sect interests, everything else is unreliable, you can only rely on yourselves."

"To put it bluntly, if your Tai Xu Gate is truly strong, taking this opportunity, it's also possible to step directly into the four great sects."

"If you yourselves don't strive, and fall from the eight great gates, who can you blame?"

Xun Zi You sighed slightly.

Qian State Dao Discussion, a great competition of prodigies, how could it be so easy to strive...

The Tai'a Gate elder looked at Xun Zi You, took a sip of tea, and slowly said:

"My Tai'a Gate Sect Master has already chatted with Duan Jin Gate's Great Elder. I'm not sure what they specifically discussed, but I assume it was about sect reform, mutual support, and other such matters."

"Duan Jin Gate's connections are still broad."

"Some things are also not possessed by our three sects of Tai'a, Chong Xu, and Tai Xu."

"The sect intends to be on good terms, and there will naturally be more interactions among the disciples below."

He sighed again, "You and I have been friends for so many years, and I'm not hiding anything from you, I'm also giving you a heads-up. Tai Xu Gate should also put in some effort."

"The truly important thing is the Dao Discussion Assembly."

"Our three sects are of the same lineage, our ancestors are from the same branch. I also don't hope that at that time our Tai'a Gate rises to the four great sects, Chong Xu Gate advances further, while your Tai Xu Gate, on the contrary, falls from the eight great gates..."

The Tai'a Gate elder looked at Xun Zi You with a complex expression.

Xun Zi You's expression was serious, and in the end, he sighed deeply: "I know..."

The matter of reform stirred up waves of undercurrents among the high levels of each sect.

But Mo Hua was currently completely unaware and basically no one mentioned it to him, this little disciple.

He still cultivated silently, attending classes every day.

At the same time, he also drew arrays day and night, wanting to break through his realm early, make his divine sense reach eighteen patterns, and then go learn eighteen patterns arrays.

But the restrictions of the heavenly dao law were still there.

His divine sense couldn't grow.

When Mo Hua was free, he would also research this "heavenly dao law" in his sea of consciousness, wanting to spy on its mystery.

Unfortunately, after thinking hard for a long time, there was still nothing.

After all, things at the level of "law" were very far away from him, this small cultivator in the Foundation Building realm.

Mo Hua then realized that he had been a bit arrogant before.

He could only retreat to the second best option.

He didn't seek to understand the mystery of the law, only to feed it "full" early and get it to leave, so it wouldn't delay his divine sense realm breakthrough.

As Mo Hua tempered his divine sense, this law also gradually loosened.

He just didn't know when he could truly feed it "full" and lift its restrictions...

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On a rest day, Mo Hua still went to practice controlling sword, kill eagles, and earn merit points as usual.

One sword flew out, golden light flashed, and a blue eagle fell.

Mo Hua rushed over with his knife, bled it, plucked its feathers, peeled its skin, deboned it, and took various materials.

By noon, he was a bit tired. He drank some fruit wine, ate some spirit meat, then climbed up a big tree, closed his eyes to rest, and prepared to rest for a while.

But he hadn't rested long before he noticed some movement.

Mo Hua opened his eyes and looked down from the dense forest leaves, only to see a group of five people fighting with a demon beast.

These five people were wearing Tai'a Gate dao robes.

Mo Hua hadn't seen the other four.

But one was an "acquaintance," exactly the younger brother named "Ouyang Mu" whom Senior Brother Feng had entrusted him to look after.

Completely different from the sword-browed, star-eyed, tall and heroic Senior Brother Feng.

This younger brother looked thin, with skin the color of ancient bronze, really looking a bit like "little wood."

And what they were facing was a second-grade initial stage demon beast.

It had red skin with flames, long fangs, black sharp claws, brown-yellow eyes with fire-red pupils, and its movements had traces of fire. It was a fire-attribute demon beast named "fire demon wolf."

The fire demon wolf's strength was neither weak nor strong; among the crowd of second-grade initial stage demon beasts, it was considered standard.

In Mo Hua's eyes, it was nothing.

But these newcomers from Tai'a Gate were having an extremely difficult time coping.

There were five of them in total, including "little wood" Ouyang Mu. Each held a red and yellow spirit sword, engaging in close combat with the fire demon wolf.

Tai'a Gate was good at casting sword techniques, and their spirit swords were of extremely high quality.

And matching these casting sword techniques, the sword methods they cultivated were all close-combat methods.

Their flesh was strong, their spirit swords were sharp, and with their body cultivation strength and sword dao sword qi, their fighting power was truly strong.

Although they were not like spirit cultivators or controlling sword cultivators who relied on accumulating power to cast powerful superior dao methods or controlling sword techniques.

But this kind of martial arts-like sword method was fast, with flexible movements, and could advance and retreat freely.

Engaging in close combat had a big advantage, so they couldn't be underestimated.

Senior Brother Feng Ouyang Feng cultivated this kind of sword method.

When carrying out rewards before, they all relied on Senior Brother Feng's attack and defense in one, facing the evil cultivator alone to entangle him.

Only then did Senior Sister Murong and himself, these two spirit cultivators, have space to cast spells calmly.

However, these several Tai'a Gate "junior brothers" were completely incomparable to Senior Brother Feng.

Not only their overall body cultivation, cultivated sword method, fighting experience, but also the quality of their hand spirit swords were all far inferior.

Especially "little wood," he was clumsy and completely clueless when fighting.

When he shouldn't have made a move, he went forward to stab with his sword, exposing his own flaw and giving the demon beast an opportunity.

When he should have made a move, he hesitated instead, not daring to use his sword, wasting the opportunity.

The other several Tai'a Gate disciples were still okay.

But they were just "so-so."

They only relied on their cultivation foundation and youthful spirit, daring to fight and kill.

There was no consideration in their advance, retreat, and defense, and their timing was quite rough.

Compared to Si Tu and the others, they were far inferior.

They weren't even as clever as Hao Xuan.

At their level, they definitely couldn't kill the fire demon wolf.

Indeed, after several people fought for a while, the fire demon wolf revealed a flaw, luring two Tai'a Gate disciples to make a move.

It then stimulated its demon power, flames surged from its body, and taking advantage of the gap when the two disciples were eager for merit, had no reserved power, and were unable to change their moves, it suddenly rushed out, turned into a flame, and disappeared in the distance.

Not pursuing a desperate foe, these several Tai'a Gate disciples still understood this principle.

Moreover, this was in Refining Demon Mountain.

And their spiritual power was also not much remaining.

Several people sat on the spot, restoring their spiritual power, while complaining:

"This beast got away again!"

"Several times, how can we not surround it."

Someone then blamed Ouyang Mu, "Wood, you always make mistakes, too many errors, otherwise we would have killed this wolf demon early."

Someone else said: "We told you, do you remember it or not?"

"If you don't make progress like this, how will we bring you into the mountain later?"

Ouyang Mu lowered his head, somewhat ashamed, and didn't speak.

A disciple looked angry, "Speak up!"

"If it weren't for your brother..."

"Okay!" A slightly taller disciple interrupted, "Saying these things now is meaningless."

That disciple swallowed his words, but his anger was obviously still there.

"If this continues, we won't catch a single demon beast, and we won't earn any merit points, it's purely a waste of time..."

Although he didn't say it clearly, everyone knew who he was talking about.

The scene was somewhat quiet.

Mo Hua shook his head slightly.

Although little wood did indeed lack experience, his sword method was unfamiliar, and he repeatedly made mistakes and dragged them down.

But this team itself had limited strength, and hunting a demon was difficult. Even without little wood, if they changed to someone with equivalent strength, they would similarly not be able to kill the fire demon wolf.

Failing to hunt a demon, it was understandable that little wood should bear some of the blame for being the one who dragged them down.

But blaming everything on little wood was a bit unreasonable.

People always easily shift their own faults onto others, thus not realizing their own shortcomings.

But this was a matter of Tai'a Gate itself, and Mo Hua also didn't need to intervene.

After the five people from Tai'a Gate searched for a while on the mountain but couldn't find any trace of the fire demon wolf, and since it was getting late, they could only return.

On the way back, the other four people's gazes towards little wood were more or less filled with some blame.

Ouyang Mu only lowered his head dumbly.

Mo Hua watched them go down the mountain and didn't meddle.

The next day, Mo Hua still entered the mountain to practice controlling sword.

He probably practiced until noon. Mo Hua rested on the big tree again, and after a while, as expected, he saw Ouyang Mu again.

Ouyang Mu's group was still five people, but this time the people beside him had changed.

The four people in his team were no longer the ones from yesterday.

He didn't know if Ouyang Mu was embarrassed to involve them, so he changed teams himself.

Or if the other four people disliked Ouyang Mu dragging them down, so they didn't bring him along.

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

Their target this time seemed to be the fire demon wolf again.

But for this kind of newcomer demon hunting team, wanting to hunt a second-grade initial demon beast was originally very difficult.

As expected, they still failed.

Although all five people were unskilled, all the faults would certainly be borne by the most "unskilled" person.

Ouyang Mu received another round of blame.

But his character was wooden, and he wasn't good with words.

The other several people argued for a bit, then before they went down the mountain, the team dispersed.

Mo Hua could see that among these five people, Ouyang Mu had the worst strength, but he was the one who most wanted to hunt demon beasts.

As for the other four people, it was less like they were hunting demons and more like they were scrambling to perform and show off. There was almost no collaboration.

At this time, the other four had all left, and only Ouyang Mu remained on the spot by himself.

He clutched the sword in his hand, his expression firm, but looking around, he was also somewhat pained.

He seemed to want to continue hunting demon beasts, but he also knew his own strength was low and he was fundamentally no match for demon beasts.

But just going down the mountain like this, he was also somewhat unwilling.

Ouyang Mu stood dumbly on the spot, hesitating endlessly, his expression already somewhat lost, not knowing what to do...

Mo Hua looked on and sighed, then shouted from the high branches of the big tree:

"Little wood!"

The dazed Ouyang Mu was startled by the sound, looked up, and saw not far away on a big tree, a small cultivator who was not much older than him, with red lips and white teeth, standing straight on the big tree and walking down step by step.

Ouyang Mu was startled for a moment, then recognized him.

This was the Tai Xu Gate disciple he had seen that day in Refining Demon Mountain, who was clearly almost the same age as himself, but who could talk and laugh freely with his brother. His name seemed to be...

"Ink... Senior Brother Ink is good!"

Ouyang Mu said in a restrained but very polite manner.

Mo Hua was a little surprised, then asked: "What are you doing here?"

"I..." Ouyang Mu said dumbly, "I'm hunting demons..."

Saying this sentence, he was somewhat ashamed.

Because his strength in hunting demons was truly a mess.

Two days, not a single demon beast killed.

Mo Hua asked again: "All your fellow disciples have left, aren't you going back?"

Ouyang Mu was startled, then realized that Mo Hua had seen the entire process of his group hunting demons just now.

Ouyang Mu's expression drooped, but he still shook his head and said firmly: "I'm not going, I want to kill the fire demon wolf."

"Why?" Mo Hua didn't understand.

Ouyang Mu said softly: "I want the fire demon wolf's spine bone..."

"What do you want the spine bone for?"

"Casting a sword..."

Mo Hua was startled, then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he exclaimed: "You know how to cast swords?!"

He had heard people mention long ago that the three sects of Tai'a, Chong Xu, and Tai Xu had origins, and Tai'a Gate was most famous for its Tai'a casting sword technique!

Ouyang Mu felt somewhat flustered by Mo Hua's gaze and nodded woodenly.

Mo Hua smiled brightly, "What did you just say you wanted?"

Ouyang Mu was startled and softly repeated: "The fire demon wolf's... spine bone."

Mo Hua nodded and blew a whistle.

After a while, a Tai Xu Gate disciple in the distance hurriedly ran over to Mo Hua: "Little Senior Brother!"

Mo Hua said: "Kill a fire demon wolf and extract a spine bone for me."

"Good!"

That disciple then hurriedly ran off again.

Then after a moment, there was a commotion in the distant mountain forest, followed by successive sounds of array explosions, cultivator shouts, and demon beast roars.

Finally, everything calmed down, and that disciple ran back again, handing Mo Hua a root of blood-stained, red, flame-wrapped spine bone.

Ouyang Mu looked at the spine bone and slowly opened his mouth wide.

The fire demon wolf's spine bone!

These past few days, he had tried every way, begged countless people, endured great hardship, finally formed a team with great difficulty, and fought with the demon beast with great difficulty, but until the team dispersed, he still hadn't gotten this spine bone.

But in just a moment's effort, he didn't even understand what had happened.

A fresh fire demon wolf spine bone, still stained with blood and fire, was just placed in front of him like this?

Ouyang Mu's face was full of disbelief.

He slowly looked up, staring dumbly at Mo Hua, his heart endlessly shocked: What kind of divine being is this Senior Brother Ink...

(End of this chapter)

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