Chapter 895: Sword Dao Transformation

Back in the disciple residence, Mo Hua was still contemplating the matter of using sword arrays as a medium to merge array methods and sword methods.

He had already gained an initial understanding of the rules for fusing arrays and swords. Now, he needed to capitalize on this momentum and collect more different types of sword arrays. By comprehending these sword arrays, he could derive more types of sword qi to deepen his understanding of the sword dao and enhance the techniques and power of his divine sense transformation into a sword.

"More sword arrays..."

Mo Hua thought for a moment, took out the white bone remnant sword from his storage ring, and knocked on the table a few times to wake up the sword bone head inside.

"Sword bone head, do you know any sword arrays? Tell me all of them!"

The sword bone head's previous life was the evil sword master of Ten Thousand Demons Valley. In his lifetime, he had forged countless evil swords and naturally collected quite a few sword array diagrams. Mo Hua remembered that he had once used a sword array to lure over the little wooden head.

"This..." The sword bone head seemed hesitant.

It didn't want to agree so quickly. Otherwise, whatever Mo Hua said, it would do, which would be very undignified. It needed to at least delay a bit, hesitate for a moment, to maintain some leverage...

Seeing its hesitation, Mo Hua's face immediately darkened:

"If you don't tell me, I'll take you to feed the dog!"

The sword bone head shivered and hurriedly said:

"Yes! Yes! I have sword arrays!"

It secretly cursed itself:

Truly a spineless bone head!

In the past few days, this little ancestor hadn't paid attention to it or given it any pressure, so it had a period of peaceful days. It had healed its scars and forgotten the pain, almost forgetting what kind of ruthless character this little ancestor was.

Indeed, born in hardship, die in comfort. This principle applied to evil spirits as well.

The sword bone head eagerly said: "You wait a moment, let me recall, I'll tell you soon."

Mo Hua said coldly: "One incense stick of time."

The sword bone head repeatedly nodded, "Yes, yes, one incense stick is enough."

Then the sword bone head didn't dare to delay. It immediately recalled its lifetime of learning and transmitted its most proficient sword array diagrams to Mo Hua's mind in the form of evil thoughts, without missing a single detail.

Mo Hua then copied down these array diagrams one by one. These array diagrams were all considered "wool" that he had anticipated collecting. Because he hadn't used them before, he hadn't thought of them temporarily. Now the timing was perfect, so he came to pluck a bit.

The sword bone head transmitted, and Mo Hua recorded.

After a while, Mo Hua stopped writing. In front of him were several sword array diagrams with fierce sword patterns and intertwined sword qi.

There were three sword array diagrams in total.

The first one was the Tai'a Open Mountain Sword Array from Tai'a Gate. Its name contained "Open Mountain," but unlike the Eight Trigrams Gen Array, it had a different origin. It was actually a five elements earth system sword array. Earth is thick and bears all things, endlessly generating. This sword array also emphasized continuous, thick, and peaceful sword qi, not hurried or slow, and was good at frontal consumption and entanglement with enemies. Forging a spirit sword with this sword array was suitable for close combat sword cultivators and close-quarters killing. This was considered one of the orthodox sword array inheritances of Tai'a Gate.

The sword bone head was once a disciple of Tai'a Gate. This sword array was personally transmitted to it by clan elders when it was still cultivating in the sect. All sword arrays were sect secrets. The clan elders personally transmitting him the sword array likely had high hopes for him at one time. But fate played tricks, and the sword bone head mistakenly entered Ten Thousand Demons Valley, became an evil sword master, aided tyrants, and was now not even human, degenerating into a sword demon.

The second one was the Gui Water Sword Array. Gui Water Gate secretly colluded with evil cultivators, so it was estimated that this sword array was leaked to Ten Thousand Demons Valley by cultivators from Gui Water Gate and then reached the hands of the evil sword master within Ten Thousand Demons Valley.

The Gui Water Sword Array was one of Gui Water Gate's core sword arrays. It was obscure and a bit sinister, but its power was not bad. During the time in Dragon King Temple, Xiao Zhen Hai's display of Gui Water Sword was quite fierce, leaving a deep impression on Mo Hua. And Gui Water Gate was one of the twelve flows. Although it committed all sorts of shameful acts and was despised by people, its own inheritance had origins within Water Prison Gate and was clearly not ordinary.

If one were to speak of its exquisiteness, this Gui Water Sword Array was indeed inferior to the Tai'a Open Mountain Sword Array of Tai'a Gate by a notch. But honestly speaking, it was also considered a first-rate sword array. The Qian Xue State boundary itself, with its four great sects, eight great gates, and twelve flows, were all considered "elite" sects. The things they could inherit down were all good. If this sword array were released in a small immortal city like Tong Xian City, which had many scattered cultivators, it would likely cause everyone to covet it and immediately stir up a bloody storm. After all, the aristocratic families dense five-grade Qian Xue State boundary and the scattered cultivators mixed two-grade small immortal city were completely different in the foundation of their inheritance.

If he hadn't had a Master's guidance and coincidentally joined Tai Xu Gate, even something like the Gui Water Sword Array would be something he sought but couldn't obtain. Mo Hua sighed a little, then carefully put away the Gui Water Sword Array.

The last one was an unknown Li Fire Sword Array. It was even inferior to the Gui Water Array but was still barely usable. According to the sword bone head, when it was in Ten Thousand Demons Valley, a demon cultivator foolishly offended it, so it killed that demon cultivator and searched out this Li Fire Sword Array from his storage bag. It looked like it should be an inheritance from some small family outside the Qian Xue State boundary. Sword arrays were originally rare, and this Li Fire Sword Array was of decent quality, so the sword bone head kept it.

"Total three, Tai'a Open Mountain Sword Array, Gui Water Sword Array, Li Fire Sword Array..."

Mo Hua pondered for a moment and asked the sword bone head: "Just this little?"

"Just this little..." The sword bone head's scalp felt numb, and it said bitterly, "My little ancestor, you might know how rare this sword array is? I forged swords in Ten Thousand Demons Valley, unaware of day and night, muddled for several hundred years. All in all, I only accumulated these three pieces of family fortune..."

Mo Hua said: "Really that rare?"

"That's natural," the sword bone head sighed, "Sword dao inheritance has three parts: sword method, sword qi cultivation, and forging spirit swords."

"Sword qi and sword method need to match the spirit sword to play their maximum power. No sword cultivator doesn't want a good sword."

"Forging swords is also related to a vast cultivation industry. Sometimes, the method of forging swords is even more important than the inheritance of sword qi and sword method."

"And the core secret of forging swords is precisely the sword array within the sword weapon. How can it be easily leaked?"

"Once a sword array flows into the hands of outsiders, even the most extreme sects will issue a kill order."

The sword bone head's tone was heavy. Mo Hua's heart was also secretly shocked. He had thought "sword array" was a simple matter.

"Since sword arrays are so important, then the origins of these sword arrays on me..."

Mo Hua pondered for a bit... The Break Gold Sword Array was something he had secretly learned. But in the matter of Ten Thousand Demons Valley, Break Gold Gate "ceded territory and paid indemnities," opening up a small part of the Break Gold Sword Array's inheritance to Tai Xu Gate. Like this, his Break Gold Sword Array also had an "official channel" and he wasn't afraid of people knowing.

As for the sword arrays obtained from the sword bone head... The Tai'a Open Mountain Sword Array was from Tai'a Gate. Now Tai'a Gate had merged into Tai Xu Gate, so Tai'a Gate's was also Tai Xu Gate's. They were all one family, so it didn't matter if he learned a bit. Even if discovered, at most he would make up some merit points, which should also pass. According to the sect master, his merit points had already reached the upper limit for Foundation Building disciples. No matter how you looked at it, it was enough to buy this sword array. Of course, this was the worst-case scenario. With his identity as "array dao chief," these merit points should also be unspendable.

The Gui Water Sword Array... also didn't matter. After the Rouge Boat incident, Gui Water Gate had already changed hands. The sect system, elders, and disciples were all rectified by the central Dao Court. At this time, they couldn't even protect themselves, let alone care about him. If it really didn't work, he could find Uncle Gu, who was the Si Dian Si of the Dao Court, to help him endorse it. Because according to Wang Chen, the rectification of Gui Water Gate was handled by Uncle Gu in cooperation with Si Dian Si Xia. Uncle Gu still had some say in Gui Water Gate.

The last one was the Li Fire Sword Array. This one was even less of an issue. This sword array wasn't even necessarily an inheritance from within the Qian Xue State boundary, so learning it wouldn't hurt...

Mo Hua sorted out the causes and effects of these sword arrays from beginning to end, and then he felt relieved. There was no other way; matters of inheritance could be big or small. If no one managed it, you could learn whatever you wanted, but if someone investigated and wanted to make things difficult for you, then it would really be a matter of gravity, a thousand jin wouldn't be enough. It was better to be careful.

Mo Hua nodded. Now that he had no worries, he planned to continue his research. But after a moment, he suddenly remembered something and asked the sword bone head:

"You were once a disciple of Tai'a Gate, right?"

The sword bone head nodded.

Mo Hua said again: "Do you have any unfinished wishes in Tai'a Gate? Now the three sects have merged, and Tai'a Gate and Tai Xu Gate are together. If you have any wishes, perhaps I can help you fulfill a little."

At that instant, the sword bone head's heart was actually a little moved. This little ancestor was actually quite humane... But it was silent for a moment, looked at its sword blade body forged full of white bones, and its pitch-black empty eye sockets revealed a trace of complex expression.

"No need. The me that was human is already dead."

"Dead people, peacefully dead, is best..."

Mo Hua didn't force it. "Okay!" He was just being polite. He was so busy, where would he have that much free time to settle the causes and effects and grievances for this sword bone head? Next, he still needed to wholeheartedly cultivate divine sense transformation into a sword and not waste a bit of time.

Mo Hua resealed the sword bone head and threw it into his storage bag, then began to research the three sword arrays he had obtained from the sword bone head. The sword arrays were all second-grade. Mo Hua's divine consciousness was now at the peak of nineteen patterns, and his attainment in second-grade array methods was incomparably deep. Learning these sword arrays was not considered difficult. He comprehended them for two days and practiced several hundred times on the Dao Stele, and basically mastered them. After learning the sword arrays, he could continue to restructure his divine sense transformation into a sword based on the sword arrays.

In his sea of consciousness, Mo Hua closed his eyes and concentrated, introspecting his divine soul. His body appeared with strange calculation heavy shadows, and with his vast divine consciousness calculation power, he captured the opportunity for the fusion of array method and sword dao and began to use the sword arrays he had just learned to derive the divine sense of the sword.

After an unknown amount of time, Mo Hua opened his eyes and stretched out his palm. Strands of dark earth-colored patterns spread, intertwined, and condensed into a thick, continuous divine sense of the sword. This was the Tai'a Open Mountain Sword. Mo Hua flipped his hand, and the earth-system Open Mountain Sword disappeared. An obscure and sinister sword qi appeared, constituted by array patterns, transforming into a water-blue long sword. Gui Water Sword!

Then the Gui Water Sword disappeared again. Mo Hua gripped his empty hand, and blazing flames burned in his palm. These flames condensed into explosive patterns and finally manifested into a fire-light rampant Li Fire Sword. Wielding the sword, he drew a fresh red fire light. In just a few short instants, Mo Hua manifested divine sense swords of earth, water, and fire systems. The interior of each sword was constituted by sword arrays, containing powerful divine sense power, adhering to different rules, and possessing vastly different killing power of the dao path.

With the divine sense sword in hand, Mo Hua's gaze was bright and brilliant. Each sword array could manifest one sword. Others' divine sense transformation into a sword could only transform into one sword. But his own divine sense transformation into a sword could change in myriad ways. The more sword arrays he comprehended, the more profound the changes in his transformed sword style...

"Dugu old ancestor is indeed the sword dao old ancestor of Tai Xu Gate. His sword method has reached the peak. Just pointing me a little made my divine sense transformation into a sword so powerful..." Mo Hua sighed again and praised. His respect for Dugu old ancestor was like a surging river, endless.

But he didn't know that this actually had some differences from Dugu old ancestor's idea. Dugu old ancestor himself didn't think that Mo Hua could practice in this way, or that he could practice to this level... Several days later, when Mo Hua was in the sword tomb and personally displayed the several "transform sword" means he had just learned to Dugu old ancestor.

Dugu old ancestor's pupils shrunk, and his whole person was stunned. "One sword array is one transform sword..." Dugu old ancestor, through Mo Hua's bright, star-like eyes, perceived the five elements flowing and the ever-changing sword intent in his divine sense. His heart was vaguely horrified. He was thinking of letting Mo Hua fuse array dao and sword dao, open another path, learn faster, and cultivate a divine sense of the sword with not bad power. But he didn't think Mo Hua would learn this way. And now, the fundamental problem was not whether this divine sense of the sword was strong or not, but this kind of unheard-of, transforming sword variation was truly unprecedented.

Divine sense transformation into a sword is the embodiment of a sword cultivator's lifetime sword dao. A sword cultivator fuses through only one kind of sword dao in their lifetime. Mo Hua was not a sword cultivator; he didn't have a sword dao. He just used sword arrays to construct a nascent sword dao and derive a divine sense of the sword. But precisely because of this, he would instead have an "infinite" sword dao. Use it for its benefits, don't use it for its drawbacks...

If in the future, this child Mo Hua comprehended enough sword arrays, had a profound enough understanding of sword dao, and a thorough enough fusion of array dao and sword dao, then his divine sense transformation into a sword would also be strong to an inconceivable degree. And like array methods in general, it could encompass myriad things, contain countless great daos, and have endless variations... This... how could others compete?

Dugu old ancestor, from an orthodox sword cultivator origin, frowned tightly. He carefully pondered again... This process seemed simple, but the intricacies within were profound like the sea. It required top-level comprehension of rules, a deep foundation in array method, powerful divine consciousness, as well as powerful divine consciousness control power, divine consciousness derivation calculation power, divine consciousness perception power... and extremely skilled means of manifesting array method through divine consciousness. This could manifest sword arrays with divine sense and, with sword arrays as the core, manifest divine sense swords with different rules.

Dugu old ancestor's brows trembled. He completely didn't think that the fusion of array method and sword method could evolve into this terrifying thing in Mo Hua's body... It was just like he had only conducted a small experiment and added a little change. Not even a few days later, this little disciple with dull sword method aptitude suddenly became a "perverted" sword dao monster. This monster was still "growth type." The bottleneck for transforming swords with sword arrays was not in the sword but in the "array." The more terrifying the array method, the more terrifying the divine sense transformation into a sword. And speaking of array method... this child is the array dao chief who horizontally suppresses the ten thousand array method geniuses in the Qian Xue State boundary... If he truly becomes a great grandmaster of array method, proficient in myriad laws, then what kind of evolution will his divine sense transformation into a sword undergo... Myriad arrays returning to one? Myriad swords... returning to the sect?

Dugu old ancestor only felt his body trembling uncontrollably. At this time, he deeply realized that his junior brother was not wrong at all. Truly the ancestors manifested spirits; he, Tai Xu Gate, picked up a treasure, and also picked up a "monster"... Dugu old ancestor's heart also began to fluctuate violently. To the point where his mind began to oscillate unstable, and his divine consciousness also became a little disordered. Dugu old ancestor's divine consciousness changed, and he hurriedly covered his face with his hand. No one saw that as he covered his face with his hand, it turned pale as paper, and his facial features gradually disappeared...

Mo Hua was startled and hurriedly asked:

"Old ancestor, what's wrong?"

Dugu old ancestor's voice was hoarse, like being cut by a knife, "Old injury relapsed. Today's practice ends here. I'll send you back first..."

Mo Hua's expression was worried, "Old ancestor..."

"It's alright, I'll meditate for a while," Dugu old ancestor said.

"Um..." Mo Hua nodded. Then Dugu old ancestor didn't wait for Mo Hua to say anything else, he reached out and tore, tearing open the void and sending Mo Hua away.

The pitch-black void flashed instantly. Mo Hua's eyes blurred and he returned to the disciple residence. But his heart was not stable, and he was very uneasy.

"Old ancestor he... what exactly happened?"

Mo Hua frowned. "Old injury relapsed?" Mo Hua pondered for a moment, then shook his head helplessly. He couldn't help with the old ancestor's affairs, even if he wanted to. Cave Void and Foundation Building were as different as clouds and mud. His cultivation was too far from the old ancestor's. Moreover, he didn't even know what exactly happened to Dugu old ancestor's body, or what the "old injury" was...

The more he cultivated, the more he could feel his own insignificance. Mo Hua sighed.

"Still do what I can first, and steadily practice the sword..." Mo Hua put this matter in his heart, then practiced his sword arrays transformation into sword means in his sea of consciousness several times.

Several days later, in the sea of consciousness. Looking at the Break Gold Sword, Open Mountain Sword, Gui Water Sword, and Li Fire Sword circulating in his hand, Mo Hua couldn't help but have a thought:

"I want to find something to chop... otherwise, my sword will be practiced in vain."

Chop what? For the first time, Mo Hua thought of the evil fetus. There was no other way; the evil fetus was like a fishbone stuck in his throat, making him uncomfortable if he didn't chop it. Moreover, Mo Hua now felt that his divine sense transformation into a sword was much stronger than before and should be able to cause a certain threat to the evil fetus.

Mo Hua gripped his palm, sword patterns spread like spider silk, then condensed into a sharp Break Gold of sword with gold qi. He gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and chopped directly towards his life soul. This sword descended, golden light dazzling, splitting the soul.

A miserable scream sounded. The evil fetus's voice echoed in his sea of consciousness again.

"Stinky little ghost, what are you messing with again?!"

Mo Hua's eyes brightened. This evil fetus hadn't spoken for a long time? Ever since it was last chopped by the ancient sword intent inside the bamboo sword, and then schemed against by him again, this evil fetus had been much more honest, like a turtle, shrinking and not showing its head, nor making any sound. But now, being chopped by this sword, it finally cried out again. This indicated that it was hurting. It also indicated that his sword was stronger!

Mo Hua was greatly happy, then chopped it several more swords. The evil fetus angrily shouted: "Damn little ghost, stop quickly!" Mo Hua couldn't possibly listen to its words and stabbed another sword backhanded. The evil fetus had no choice and finally said resentfully: "Stinky boy, ignorant and fearless, you will regret it..." Its voice was gloomy. After saying that, it shrank into the divine soul like a turtle again, and like before, it didn't make a sound.

The evil fetus stopped screaming. Mo Hua chopped several swords without feedback, gradually losing some interest. Afterward, he pondered a bit more and gradually felt something was wrong. His current "transform sword style," which fused array method and sword method, was indeed stronger and more painful when chopping on the evil fetus's body, but it seemed the harm to it wasn't that great... Otherwise, this evil fetus would have been anxious and jumped the wall long ago.

Mo Hua felt a bit again and discovered that although his sword was a bit painful when chopping on his own divine soul, the injury caused to the divine soul was not as great as that wisp of ancient sword intent inside the bamboo sword. That is to say, his current transform sword style, although powerful, was just strong in a general sense. It was strong at the "divine consciousness" level, not at the "divine soul" level. The harm to the "origin" was still minimal, and it was unable to thoroughly erase it. This wouldn't work... At least for himself, it was still far from enough.

Mo Hua frowned. "I need to find a way to become stronger, at least strong enough to chop this evil fetus to death..."