Chapter 779: Array Formation Stone Hall

Originally, Mo Hua thought that the **Lián Mó Tú** would be a single picture, similar to the visualization diagrams he had seen before. However, he didn't expect it to be such a magnificent mural.

Looking at it from a distance, the blood mist obscured the view, making things somewhat fuzzy.

But he could vaguely discern that the mural depicted a mountain range filled with countless ferocious demons.

"I want to get a closer look..." Mo Hua thought to himself.

He turned his head and looked at the broken bone sword in his hand, asking in a low voice, "Sword Bone Head, how do I get there?"

The "Sword Demon," named Sword Bone Head, spoke with a voice that faintly trembled with fear. It seemed to greatly dread this **Lián Mó Tú**, but it still spoke truthfully:

"The outer perimeter of the **Lián Mó Tú** is guarded by demon cultivators. Avoid them and go around to the back. There's a stone bridge there. After crossing the bridge, there's a patch of thorny stone forest. Pass through that..."

It explained in great detail.

Mo Hua remembered each instruction and followed them precisely.

At the same time, he made a plan in his heart, just in case this "cheap bone head" wasn't honest. If that happened, he would dismantle the Sword Bone, swallow it whole, and have a little tooth festival.

After all, it was a treacherous old schemer in its past life.

Fortunately, Sword Bone Head was very honest.

The path it pointed out was also correct.

Although it took some detours, Mo Hua still smoothly reached the front of the **Lián Mó Tú**.

Getting there so easily surprised Mo Hua somewhat.

He frowned and asked, "The defense around the **Lián Mó Tú** is so lax? I got here so easily?"

Sword Bone Head silently thought to itself, "That's because I'm here guiding you..."

Moreover, to be truthful, it wasn't easy at all.

After all, to truly sneak in, you needed to be completely familiar with the surrounding terrain, possess an exquisite stealth technique, understand the habits of demon cultivators like the back of your hand, have agile movements, and be both bold and cautious.

"This little ancestor is so skilled at sneaking and climbing walls. He must have done quite a few acts of thievery and mischief in the past..." Sword Bone Head silently slandered him in its heart.

Of course, outwardly, it could only flatter against its conscience:

"That's because you, little young master, have skilled movements, exquisite stealth, advance and retreat with measure, and are both bold and cautious... so naturally, it wasn't difficult."

"Hmm," Mo Hua nodded.

This Sword Bone Head's words were strangely pleasing to the ear.

"Also..." Sword Bone Head continued, "This **Lián Mó Tú** is a place where demon cultivators are punished. Countless demon cultivators are buried here, suffering the torment of being devoured by myriad demons. So, once they approach, they will feel panic and often hear the murmurs and roars of demons."

"Therefore, even the guarding demon cultivators only dare to be vigilant on the outer perimeter and don't dare to truly approach the **Lián Mó Tú**."

"So that's how it is..." Mo Hua nodded slightly.

"Demon murmurs..."

He moved closer to the **Lián Mó Tú** again, listening for a moment with his ear tilted. He said doubtfully, "Demon murmurs, you say? Why don't I hear them?"

Sword Bone Head was startled. It summoned its courage and perceived for a moment, suddenly taken aback.

No...

When it had secretly approached before, it could clearly hear them.

The sorrowful roars of myriad demons, fierce and terrifying, made one's spirit tremble.

How were they gone?

It secretly glanced at Mo Hua again and thought, "It can't be that these demon haunts are afraid of this little ancestor, so they dare not make a sound, right?"

It shouldn't be possible...

There has to be a limit to absurdity.

Sword Bone Head laughed inwardly and shook its head.

"Perhaps the time hasn't arrived yet, and the demons are silent."

"Oh," Mo Hua stared at the **Lián Mó Tú** again for a while, then asked, "Right, what about the array patterns?"

"Array patterns?" Sword Bone Head was startled.

"You spent two hundred years just learning that one array pattern," Mo Hua said. "Didn't you say you learned it from the **Lián Mó Tú**?"

Sword Bone Head was startled for a moment. It perceived the **Lián Mó Tú** for a while, then slowly frowned and said, "It seems to be sealed..."

"Sealed?" Mo Hua was slightly surprised.

"Yes..." Sword Bone Head said, "Two hundred years ago, the **Lián Mó Tú** seemed not yet completely built, and some array patterns were exposed. But now..."

Sword Bone Head looked at the **Lián Mó Tú** again, its tone slightly heavy. "This diagram seems completely finished, and all the array patterns are sealed."

Mo Hua's expression was somewhat displeased.

I didn't come, and you weren't finished building it.

As soon as I arrived, you finished building it.

Are you deliberately trying to prevent me from learning?

"Can I blast this diagram open?" Mo Hua asked.

Sword Bone Head trembled with fear and hurriedly said, "My little ancestor, please, please don't mess around!"

"If you really blast it open, you'll be stirring up a massive hornet's nest!"

No one knew what terrible things would happen if this **Lián Mó Tú** was blasted open.

Moreover, once the **Lián Mó Tú** was destroyed, it would definitely attract the attention of the demon cultivators. Once the entire valley was alerted, even with the most exquisite stealth and cautious actions, things would likely turn out badly.

"I was just saying," Mo Hua said.

This Sword Bone Head, being old, had a generation gap. It couldn't even take a little joke.

"Then, can I go into this **Lián Mó Tú**?" Mo Hua asked again.

He had no other intention, just wanted to go in and count how many demons were inside.

"Go in?"

Sword Bone Head was somewhat perplexed, not knowing what exactly Mo Hua wanted to do.

What kind of good place could the inside of the **Lián Mó Tú** be?

Others avoided it like the plague, yet he wanted to go in?

He truly had a big heart.

Go in and do what? Go in and suffer the torment of "myriad demons devouring the body," with one's soul scattering and unable to be reborn?

Or did he truly think that by defeating himself, this Sword Demon, he was invincible and didn't put the myriad demons of the **Lián Mó Tú** in his eyes?

Sword Bone Head sneered in its heart.

Just as it was about to open its mouth to persuade Mo Hua, it was suddenly startled, and a demonic thought in its heart surged uncontrollably.

"This little ancestor... bah, this little brat!"

"This little brat being so ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth is also a good thing."

"As long as I can find a way to send him into the **Lián Mó Tú**, then no matter if his divine thought dies inside or is trapped inside, I can find a way to escape. It's even possible to 'occupy the magpie's nest' and get a fresh young host body..."

A surge of desire brewed in its heart.

Sword Bone Head's tone was still very respectful. It pretended as if nothing had happened and said, "According to what I know, there are only two ways to enter the **Lián Mó Tú**."

"One way is to receive cruel punishment and die tragically in front of the **Lián Mó Tú**. Before the flesh body vanishes, the extreme pain will stimulate the divine thought, causing it to undergo a certain change, thereby allowing it to enter the **Lián Mó Tú** after detaching from the flesh body, suffering even more painful punishment..."

"This is double pain for both the flesh body and divine thought, and it's accompanied by death. It's no different from the torment of purgatory, so the demon cultivators of Ten Thousand Demon Valley, without exception, change color when they hear of the **Lián Mó Tú**."

"Another way is through sacrifice..."

Mo Hua was startled. "Sacrifice?"

"That's right," Sword Bone Head nodded and said, "Through a certain ceremony, people can be sacrificed to the **Lián Mó Tú**."

"But this 'ceremony' is something I've never seen before, let alone know the specific method."

"Within Ten Thousand Demon Valley, there are also very few 'sacrifices,' and ordinary demon cultivators don't even have the qualification to be sacrificed..."

Mo Hua frowned.

This is troublesome.

He still couldn't enter this **Lián Mó Tú**.

If he received punishment, his small life would be gone, and he might even be pained to death.

If it was through sacrifice, he didn't know the method of sacrifice, and no one would take him as a "sacrifice."

His belly was hungry, there was rice in the pot, but it was covered with a lid, and he couldn't eat it.

Mo Hua felt a little uncomfortable.

"Let's look around nearby. Perhaps there are other clues that could allow me to quietly 'infiltrate' the **Lián Mó Tú**..."

Mo Hua's divine thought moved slightly, forming a plan in his heart. He reluctantly glanced at the **Lián Mó Tú**, then silently turned and left.

Just a few **zhàng** away, a strange sound suddenly entered his ear.

Mo Hua turned his head to look and listened intently.

He then discovered that it was the sound of the **Lián Mó Tú** calling.

Like the shouts of various demons mixed together, it was noisy and chaotic, with a very arrogant demeanor, and even carrying a hint of disdain and contempt.

It seemed to be mocking Mo Hua.

Mo Hua's gaze turned slightly cold.

"A bunch of cheap bone heads, wait until I go in, and I'll personally count your heads."

After quietly leaving, Mo Hua began to stroll around the area.

The **Lián Mó Tú** was such a large mural, looking mysterious, but at its root, it was also a type of cultivation structure.

With the mural as the medium, array laws as the bones, and divine souls as the lead.

It was just that the methods were somewhat bloody, evil, and strange, and involved some unknown array law concepts.

But the basic process remained unchanged.

To construct this diagram required a large amount of manpower, many materials, and even more, the establishment of perfect array laws.

This was a long-term project.

Based on his experience and habits as an array master constructing large arrays, there would definitely be a secret room built nearby for array masters to draw array laws.

Furthermore, according to Elder Xun Zixian's speculation, the construction of the array laws within Ten Thousand Demon Valley was a whole. The divine path array laws within the valley were a complete inheritance.

And on this **Lián Mó Tú**, there were divine path array laws.

Then it was very likely that this **Lián Mó Tú** was the central hub of the entire Ten Thousand Demon Valley.

The divine path array laws were the core of the entire **Lián Mó Tú**.

If he could find the divine path array diagram and learn the inheritance of the divine path array laws, he might be able to crack the secret of the **Lián Mó Tú** and further control the entire Ten Thousand Demon Valley.

Of course, this was still just speculation.

What exactly was the inheritance of the divine path array laws?

What exact role did the **Lián Mó Tú** play as the central hub of Ten Thousand Demon Valley?

There should still be a very high level, likely very profound, array law meaning waiting for him to research and uncover.

"I should be able to learn good things..."

Mo Hua nodded.

He circled the huge mural of the **Lián Mó Tú** twice more in the vicinity and finally found a suspicious spot.

This was a large stone hall.

The hall had a very strong array law aura.

Mo Hua saw at a glance that this was the array law stone hall for the entire Ten Thousand Demon Valley.

It was generally used to store array mediums, stockpile array ink, design array diagrams, and serve as a place for array masters to research, rest, and draw arrays.

At this time, the door was tightly shut, locked, and there seemed to be no one inside.

And around it, there were no demon cultivators guarding.

It seemed that like the **Lián Mó Tú**, this array law stone hall was also a "forbidden ground" that demon cultivators avoided.

"Should I go in and take a look?"

Mo Hua's heart stirred.

He released his divine sense and perceived for a moment, not feeling any living person or demon cultivator's aura inside.

It should be safe.

But it was hard to say, a cultivator's perception was occasionally inaccurate...

Mo Hua thought for a while, then took out a copper coin and used the heavenly machine derivation to divinate slightly.

This time, the divination was not like the first time deriving good and bad fortune before, that kind of feeling of seeing through cause and effect and sensing the enlightenment of the heavenly machine.

He didn't see that grand scene of the heavenly and earthly myriad causes and effects converging into the heavenly machine, flowing like a silver river, running through heaven and earth.

There was only a tiny bit of cause and effect touching feeling.

The movement and stillness were also very subtle.

He estimated that the "newbie welfare" was gone, and after this, if he wanted to divinate, he would have to rely on his own insight into the heavenly machine.

But this was also good.

It was always making such a big fuss, and he was a bit overwhelmed.

The copper coin flipped into the air and fell onto his palm.

It was heads up.

This meant there was no danger inside.

Mo Hua's heart couldn't help but yearn, "Heavenly machine derivation, it can be truly useful. If in the future, I'm truly like Master, truly able to see through the heavenly machine, control cause and effect, and turn misfortune into blessing, how powerful would that be..."

He collected the copper coin and approached the stone hall door.

The door had a large beast-shaped lock on it, carved with a four-images canine tooth pattern.

Sword Bone Head said, "This is a specially made array lock within Ten Thousand Demon Valley. With this array lock sealing the door, you won't be able to get in. It's best to look elsewhere..."

But before its words finished, Mo Hua had already begun to push the door.

The door opened without resistance.

Sword Bone Head was startled. It looked intently and then discovered that the array laws on the lock had already been all undone.

Although it was only a few breaths of time while it spoke... undone?

This little ancestor was also an array law expert?!

Sword Bone Head suddenly remembered that when this little ancestor fought with it initially, he had used array laws to bomb it until there was almost nothing left but flesh and blood.

But that's not right...

This was the array law of Ten Thousand Demon Valley, how could he undo it so quickly?

What exactly was his origin?

Had he underestimated this little ancestor?

Sword Bone Head was worried in its heart for a while.

"No way, I must find a way to escape from his hands as soon as possible. Otherwise, even if I turn into a Sword Demon, I will have to suffer his suppression forever, with no hope of turning over."

Mo Hua didn't care what this Sword Demon was thinking. He erased the traces on the door lock, quietly closed the door, then turned and walked into the array law stone hall.

The array law stone hall was very spacious and magnificent.

It was not different from Mo Hua's expectation.

Inside were stockpiled a large amount of array law materials and array pattern drafts.

However, these materials were mostly made from unknown human or demon beast skins, bones, and blood.

The array pattern drafts were messy and complex, but they were roughly all from the same origin as the four-images demon patterns, full of demonic strangeness and oddity.

In the center of the main hall was a large stone table, which should be used for drawing array laws.

Besides that, there were some array law related tools.

And in the deepest part of the main hall, suddenly stood a huge, majestic, and terrifying statue of a demon with sheep horns!

Mo Hua looked at it, his heart and spirit shaken.

Sheep horns!

The evil god of the Great Wilderness!

He had fought with the evil god of the Great Wilderness for so long, so naturally, he knew that these sheep horns were, to a certain extent, the symbol of this evil god!

"Finally, I've caught the evil god by its 'small braid' again!"

Mo Hua stepped towards the statue.

The Sword Demon, parasitic in the broken sword, suddenly felt a great fear in its heart and hurriedly said,

"Don't, ancestor, don't go over!"

Mo Hua completely ignored it. He walked up to the statue, looked left and right, and even reached out to touch it, letting out a sigh of regret.

"It's a fake..."

There was no evil thought parasite above, let alone the evil god.

Sword Demon was then scared into a cold sweat — although it was a bone head and couldn't sweat, it was still trembling with fear.

Mo Hua looked behind the statue again, his eyes brightening.

"Sacrificial altar!"

Behind the huge sheep-horned demon statue, there was a small sacrificial altar hidden.

On the sacrificial altar was placed a sheep's head bone, with some sacrificial offerings around it, lit with yin-green colored candles.

Seeing the sacrificial altar, Sword Bone Head's pupils trembled with fear, and its entire body of bones shook. "Don't... don't..."

But before it finished speaking, Mo Hua leaped lightly onto the sacrificial altar, touched the sheep's head, sniffed the sacrificial offerings, and frowned.

"Still fake?"

What did this mean?

Mo Hua was a little confused.

Ten Thousand Demon Valley was such a large demon valley, with so many demon beasts and cultivators, and they went to such great lengths to create such intricate array laws.

Unexpectedly, they didn't worship a real evil god?

Even a contaminated god, an incarnation of an evil god, or even a divine corpse would do.

Perhaps...

Mo Hua pondered in his heart.

Ten Thousand Demon Valley was located on Refining Demon Mountain.

Refining Demon Mountain was within the boundaries of the fifth-grade Qianxue Prefecture. There were too many powerful cultivators within the prefecture boundaries, so the evil god still didn't dare to descend in its true form?

They only worshipped a sacrificial altar that merely had its form?

Mo Hua felt this was very likely.

He again searched around the stone hall for a while, wanting to see if there were other clues, especially those related to divine path array laws.

However, he was acting secretly now, afraid of being discovered, so he didn't let loose, and it was even more impossible to "dig three feet into the ground" to search, so his harvest was minimal.

Just as he was searching, Sword Bone Head's voice was transmitted from the broken sword:

"Someone's coming!"

Mo Hua also detected it. He scanned his surroundings to confirm that he hadn't left any obvious traces, then relaxed.

Then he flipped his body and jumped onto the top of the sheep-horned demon statue's head. Along the back of the statue, he slid down and quietly hid behind the statue.

At the same time, the stone hall door opened.

In front was a person dressed in black, tall and sturdy, with an extraordinary demeanor.

"This person is the 'head'," Sword Demon quietly transmitted its voice.

Mo Hua was slightly startled.

This black-clothed person wore a hood that covered half of their face, making it difficult to see their appearance. But from their aura, it was clear that this person was absolutely not an ordinary demon cultivator.

Compared to a demon cultivator, they were more like a "sect disciple."

Moreover, they were definitely not an ordinary disciple of a sect.

They were more like a "senior brother" with a high status within a sect.

Behind this black-clothed person followed another person.

This person was also tall, but slightly hunched over, with a respectful attitude.

Mo Hua recognized this person. It was precisely the pig demon who had robbed him, whom he had then hung up, stripped of his clothes, and drawn a turtle on, the Senior Brother of Duan Jinmen, Jin Gui.

At the same time, he had also just recently become a demon cultivator and the new "manager" of Ten Thousand Demon Prison.

Mo Hua silently speculated in his heart:

"This Duan Jinmen Jin Gui is so respectful to this black-clothed person, and it looks like the two are quite familiar."

"Perhaps this black-clothed person is also from Duan Jinmen?"

On the other side, the black-clothed person and Jin Gui were walking into the stone hall.

The two walked side by side, talking in low voices, discussing some secret matter as they walked to the center of the main hall.

Their expressions were focused, and they completely failed to notice that the main hall had already been intruded upon, let alone that there was a Mo Hua hiding behind the sheep-horned statue.

"... What happened?"

"Something's not right..."

"If the matter isn't handled well, I have no way to explain to Young Master..."

"Senior Brother..."

"Don't call me Senior Brother."

Mo Hua, hiding behind the statue, was slightly startled upon hearing this. He thought, indeed.

Duan Jinmen...

This is likely going to end badly.

In the main hall, the two were still talking.

Mo Hua couldn't help but prick up his ears, wanting to hear more secrets, but squatting like this was a little uncomfortable.

Mo Hua turned his head to look, then reached out and pulled over the sheep-horned head bone from the center of the sacrificial altar, placed it under his body, and sat down with a plop.

(End of this chapter)