Chapter 896: Slaying the God Path

What I am walking is the path of divine consciousness validation, I am a cultivator who transforms with divine thought.

I must be strict with myself.

To become stronger.

To use the evil fetus as a trial stone.

To use the evil god as the final opponent.

To chop and kill the evil fetus is considered a small success, to chop and kill the evil god is only considered a great success.

If I do not reach this standard, it does not count as qualified.

Mo Hua nodded.

Looking at it now, with the Ten Thousand Sword Array, transforming divine thought into sword, iterating the "Transforming Sword Style", it is indeed strong, but the power of the original source involved is relatively weak.

For general evil spirits, the killing power is huge.

But facing an existence of the evil god class, even if I can defeat it, I may not necessarily be able to kill it.

Therefore, I still need to learn again, learn more advanced sword moves, so that the power of my divine thought transforming into sword can go up another level.

And in the Divine Thought Transforming Sword True Formula, the move with the most killing power is also the final Divine Thought Sword Style...

Chop God Sword.

"Only..."

Mo Hua wrinkled his brow, took out the sword dao bamboo slip given to him by Old Ancestor Du Gu, observed the ancient and clumsy sword patterns on it, perceived the sword intent within, and muttered in a low voice:

"Quench the divine with the sword, chop the life soul yourself..."

I am indeed cultivating like this.

Using the sword intent in the bamboo slip to quench and refine my divine thought, to chop my own life soul.

I chop every day, one sword a day, never interrupting.

But after chopping for so long, besides chopping the evil fetus into a "shrink-head turtle" and chopping my own life soul until it is covered in scars, I haven't gained any other special comprehension.

Mo Hua only vaguely has a feeling that he is cultivating the "Chop God Sword".

But whether this method is right or not, whether it has any effect or not, where the essence of the Chop God Style lies, he actually still doesn't quite understand...

Mo Hua researched this problem for several days.

But temporarily there were no other ideas.

Finally, Mo Hua had to admit that this kind of unknown, profound sword dao method is definitely not something he can create behind closed doors, just by thinking about it.

It's better to be honest and go ask Old Ancestor Du Gu for guidance.

To avoid getting it wrong again if I'm not careful.

Before, the old ancestor didn't tell him the specific method of the Chop God Sword, because his divine thought transforming into sword hadn't reached a certain level yet.

But now it's different.

His Transforming Sword Style, with the sword array as the structural base, has already undergone a metamorphosis.

If he goes to ask the old ancestor again, he should teach him a bit more...

Thus, several days later, in the back mountain of Taixu.

The forbidden area of the Sword Tomb.

Old Ancestor Du Gu's complexion was as usual, without any illness, and Mo Hua slightly relaxed.

After that, Old Ancestor Du Gu explained the sword dao to Mo Hua as usual.

After explaining the sword dao, Mo Hua took advantage of the free time and softly asked:

"Old Ancestor, how exactly do you cultivate the Chop God Sword?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu was slightly startled, then calmly looked at Mo Hua, his eyes revealing thought.

Perhaps when Mo Hua asked about the Chop God Sword before, it was just out of curiosity.

But now that Mo Hua asked again, how could he not understand that this child had already started to learn the Chop God Style.

Old Ancestor Du Gu sighed in his heart.

Having lived for so long, this was the first time he had seen someone in this world who could learn the Divine Thought Transforming Sword True Formula and progress so quickly, almost like a thousand miles in a day...

This is the Taixu Divine Thought Transforming Sword True Formula.

It is the most profound divine thought sword method of the Taixu Gate, and even more so, it is a forbidden technique of the sword dao...

Old Ancestor Du Gu shook his head.

Forget it...

Monsters are probably just like this.

He had already started to get used to it.

Now that things had reached this point, there was no need to hide this final sword move.

Old Ancestor Du Gu's gaze condensed slightly, and he asked: "The bamboo slip I gave you, have you looked at it?"

"I have." Mo Hua nodded.

"What did you see?"

"There are sword patterns on the bamboo slip, and there is sword intent within the sword patterns."

"Do you know what kind of sword intent that is?"

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, shook his head, "Disciple only knows that this sword intent is very ancient and profound. It doesn't look strong, but it seems to contain... a kind of sword dao original source?"

Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to injure the evil fetus.

Old Ancestor Du Gu frowned slightly.

He can even see the original source of the sword dao...

Who exactly is this child from? How can he have such broad insight?

Old Ancestor Du Gu pondered for a moment, slowly nodded, and asked again: "Then do you know what kind of sword dao original source this is?"

Mo Hua shook his head.

This he simply did not know.

He was originally a "sword blind man", although recently he has been learning the sword with Old Ancestor Du Gu and knows a lot of sword dao knowledge.

But he is still far from reaching the level where he can see through the original source of the sword dao...

Old Ancestor Du Gu nodded, his expression solemn, and he slowly opened his mouth and said:

"The origin of this sword dao original source is very great. It is what our Taixu Gate, from the time when the three sects were not divided, intercepted from an ancient 'god sword' in a certain place, a thread of dao essence classified as sword law."

"Afterwards, the generations of ancestors and predecessors of the Taixu Gate poured all their lifelong sword dao learning into this dao essence."

"Dozens of generations of cultivators, several thousand years of painstaking effort, this finally hatched out this extremely precious 'sword dao original source'."

Old Ancestor Du Gu said in a deep voice, "And this sword dao original source can also be called..."

Mo Hua heard this, his heart trembled, and a term, as if by a ghost, floated up in his mind:

"Sword Flow?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu raised his eyes and looked at Mo Hua, his gaze slightly trembled, and then he nodded in approval:

"Correct, it is Sword Flow, it is the great success of the collection of sword dao in this sect... the source flow of sword law!"

Mo Hua was shocked in his heart.

Sword Flow...

The thing he has been comprehending every day and using to chop his divine soul these days, is actually the extremely precious... Sword Flow?

No wonder this thing is ancient and obscure, profoundly abnormal, and can even injure the original source of the evil fetus.

And such a precious Sword Flow, Old Ancestor Du Gu actually passed it to him.

Of course, it's not passed, to be precise, it's "borrowed", temporarily borrowed for him to comprehend—but this is enough to show the old ancestor's value to him.

Mo Hua was moved beyond words in his heart.

At the same time, his mood was also somewhat complex.

He is an array master, and until now, he hasn't learned the "Array Flow", but instead learned the "Sword Flow" first.

More or less, it feels a bit like "going against the Heavenly Gang".

"Then what is the relationship between this Sword Flow and the 'Chop God Style'?" Mo Hua asked.

Old Ancestor Du Gu asked: "You are walking the path of divine consciousness validation, you should know about evil spirits and ghosts, but do you know about 'gods'?"

Mo Hua slowly nodded.

He is too familiar with gods.

Counting it up, he has several god "friends":

One "old friend", Yellow Mountain Lord, one little friend, Little Silver Fish, and one "bad friend", the Great Wilderness Evil God.

Now this bad friend's evil fetus is just parasitizing in his life soul.

How would Old Ancestor Du Gu know that Mo Hua's "connections" with gods were so wide.

He just nodded slightly and said:

"It's good that you understand, it saves me from explaining more. There are countless things related to divine thought in this world, evil spirits and ghosts are numerous, and above evil spirits, there are even higher existences, such as heaven and earth gods, fallen evil gods, ancient dao essence, and as for the domain..."

Old Ancestor Du Gu paused for a moment, didn't say anything further, but was silent for a moment, then continued:

"Demons and ghosts, malevolent spirits and evil things, confuse people's minds, and devour people's divine consciousness."

"This kind of evil thing is composed of thought power, blood energy, spiritual power, and cannot injure it in the slightest."

"Cultivating divine thought to transform into sword can chop it."

"But above evil things, there are also heaven and earth gods. Gods will also degenerate and harm the human world."

"People can chop demons, chop evil, chop ghosts... but can they chop and kill gods?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu looked at Mo Hua.

Mo Hua hesitated and said: "Should... should be able to chop, right?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu still shook his head and said: "People are people, gods are gods. The divine thought power of people cannot chop gods."

Mo Hua was startled.

He thought for a moment, and felt something was wrong.

If the divine thought power of people cannot chop and kill gods, then how was Yellow Mountain Lord chopped?

If that's really the case, then are the evil gods in this world not invincible?

No matter how they harm the human world, cultivators cannot resist them.

The old ancestor couldn't possibly not know this...

Mo Hua thought about Old Ancestor Du Gu's words again and slowly said:

"The divine thought power of people cannot chop gods, so... people need to make their divine thought, by borrowing some methods, transcend the limits of 'people', like this... they can chop and kill gods?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu raised an eyebrow, looked deeply at Mo Hua, nodded and said:

"Correct!"

"People are just people, gods are just gods. The divine thought of the two has a difference as vast as heaven and earth."

"But a gentleman's nature is no different either, also good at borrowing from things."

"Since people cannot chop gods, then go borrow, go comprehend, go borrow the way of this heaven and earth, borrow the laws of these myriad things, create methods, reverse and change one's divine thought, and chop and kill gods!"

"This is the Chop God Style!"

Old Ancestor Du Gu's tone was sonorous.

Mo Hua pondered in silence.

Gods are born inherently with a strong connection to heaven and uphold the way.

Cultivators, however, are innately insufficient, but by learning the way, comprehending the way, and borrowing the way through acquired effort, they can be sufficient to chop and kill gods.

In some sense, this is truly winning the strong with the weak, killing gods with humans, and people determining victory over heaven...

Mo Hua's heart and spirit were shocked.

But exactly how to "comprehend the way and chop gods", Mo Hua was still a little confused.

To comprehend the Taixu Sword Flow, borrow the original source of sword dao, to chop fallen gods?

How to comprehend? How to borrow?

Old Ancestor Du Gu saw his expression and said: "Do you still remember what I told you about the secret of cultivating the Chop God Sword?"

Mo Hua nodded, "Quench the divine with the sword, chop the life soul yourself."

"These eight words are the key," Old Ancestor Du Gu said. "The divine thought of people cannot chop gods, so they need to 'borrow', to 'borrow' the great dao laws, to 'borrow' powerful original source power."

"But the original source of sword dao, no matter how wonderfully profound, is not something you can just have."

"The 'Sword Flow' of the Taixu Gate is based on a section of dao essence from the ancient god sword, after generations of ancestors and cultivators poured in their sword dao insights, it was nurtured into a sword dao original source that possesses the 'power to chop and kill gods'!"

"With this dao original source, the god dao sword cultivators of the Taixu Gate can then 'borrow' the original source of sword dao to chop and kill some gods that originally, by human power, could not be injured in the slightest."

"And the current form of this dao original source is the Taixu Sword Flow."

"Cultivators of the Taixu Gate comprehend the Taixu Sword Flow, borrow the original source of sword dao, and quench and refine their own divine soul. This is called 'quench the divine with the sword'..."

Mo Hua suddenly nodded and asked again: "Then 'self chop life soul'?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu asked: "What have you comprehended from the Taixu Sword Flow?"

Mo Hua was a little ashamed, "Nothing..."

He only perceived a thread of ancient sword intent. If the old ancestor hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have realized that this was actually the source flow of sword dao.

And he had been comprehending for a long time, but actually hadn't comprehended any sword dao at all.

"This is not your fault..." Old Ancestor Du Gu sighed and said, "Not to mention you, when I was your age, even when I reached the Golden Core realm, I couldn't comprehend it."

"Not only couldn't I comprehend it, but I fundamentally couldn't understand it..."

Old Ancestor Du Gu sighed and said, "This is the ancient Sword Flow of the Taixu Gate, it is a sword dao original source whose skill is close to the dao..."

"Those who found and nurtured this dao original source were at least the generations of old ancestors above the Cave Void realm in the Taixu Gate."

"How could ordinary disciples possibly learn such profound sword dao?"

"Even a sword dao genius, if young, hasn't invested enough time in sword dao, has a low realm, and limited perspective, it is fundamentally impossible to comprehend the true wonderful meaning of the Sword Flow."

"If no disciples in a sect's inheritance can learn it, and it requires the foundation of Feathering or Cave Void to comprehend clearly, then no matter how exquisite or powerful it is, it will eventually be lost."

"Therefore, the predecessors of the Taixu Gate took another approach and came up with a method close to 'cheating'... Self chop life soul!"

Mo Hua's heart was shocked.

Old Ancestor Du Gu continued slowly with his old voice:

"An ordinary person wants to learn from a saint. But a saint has high virtue and far-reaching vision, while an ordinary person's thoughts are shallow and vulgar, entangled by common desires, with barriers to cognition. No matter how they learn, they cannot become a saint, so what should they do?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu said, "The only method is to chop myself and become a saint!"

"Chop off the small self, achieve the big self."

"Completely forget oneself, cut off one's shallow and vulgar foundation, give up common desires, abandon prejudice, and directly transform the body into a 'saint'."

"How the saint thinks, I will think; how the saint does, I will do, then naturally, I can become a saint."

"This is chopping the small self and achieving the big self."

"Self chop life soul in sword dao is the same..."

"You are a sword dao 'common person' and want to achieve a sword dao 'saint'."

"But your insight is too shallow, miscellaneous thoughts entangle your body, your dao heart is not firm, and you have all kinds of wrong and erroneous obsessions towards sword dao. If you want to 'become a saint', it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. Even one wrong step will lead you completely astray, and you will never reach the peak of sword dao again."

"Since that's the case, then you can only go and chop yourself!"

"Chop away miscellaneous thoughts, chop away obsessions, chop away errors, chop away ignorance, chop away one's own small dao, to imitate the 'saint', to visualize the 'Sword Flow', to approach the original source of sword dao, to imprint this original source into the divine soul, to achieve a true unity of person and sword, soul and dao, and make the divine soul undergo a complete metamorphosis of sword dao."

"Chop the small self, achieve the saint."

"Chop the end of the dao, achieve the great dao of sword law!"

"Chop myself to become a saint, chop the soul to become dao!"

Old Ancestor Du Gu's words lingered in his ears, deafening.

Mo Hua was suddenly enlightened, as if understanding had been poured over his head. His heart was shocked beyond words, and he could not calm down for a long time.

He kept Old Ancestor Du Gu's words in his heart and pondered them carefully.

But before he could think deeply, he heard a burst of violent coughing.

Mo Hua looked up and saw Old Ancestor Du Gu covering his mouth and nose with his withered hand, his brows tightly furrowed, coughing very severely.

Mo Hua immediately realized what was happening and said anxiously:

"Old Ancestor, your old injury..."

Old Ancestor Du Gu waved his hand and gradually calmed down, but his gaze dimmed a lot, and his voice was hoarse as he said: "No harm, this is a common occurrence..."

He said it was a common occurrence, but Mo Hua had never seen the old ancestor so exhausted and coughing as he was today.

Just like... an old man who has exhausted his heart and strength and is terminally ill.

Mo Hua's heart felt slightly sore.

He was clearly a Cave Void old ancestor, possessing heaven-reaching cultivation, yet for the sect, he had exhausted his mind and body. Although he was alive, he was only like the broken swords all over the ground, buried alive in the sword tomb...

Mo Hua felt very unpleasant in his heart.

Old Ancestor Du Gu perceived Mo Hua's mood, and his gaze gradually softened. He said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter."

Mo Hua's expression was somewhat worried.

Old Ancestor Du Gu paused slightly, then asked: "What I just said, do you understand?"

Mo Hua then shifted his thoughts and gently nodded. After a moment, doubt inevitably arose in his heart.

Mo Hua frowned and asked: "Old Ancestor, to chop myself and become a saint, to chop the soul and become dao, the 'small self' must be chopped, one's minor sword dao must be chopped, then won't all the previous sword laws be learned in vain?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu shook his head: "Without the small self, there is nothing to chop, so where does the big self come from?"

"Similarly, if you don't go and learn the sword, and you don't even have a minor sword dao, you naturally cannot chop from it, and it's impossible to go further and comprehend the original source of sword dao."

"In other words, without the small self, there is no big self; without one's thin sword dao, one cannot comprehend the Sword Flow."

"Although the small self is a shallow and vulgar foundation, with demon barriers in the heart, desires flowing, full of ignorance and prejudice, it is still the premise of 'becoming a saint'."

"One's own cultivated sword dao, although minor and shallow, is also a ladder to achieve the original source of sword dao..."

"Even, all the basic sword dao of the Taixu Gate were originally just for disciples to cultivate the 'small self', and finally use it to chop off, to approach the original source of sword dao, and achieve the great dao..."

"So that's how it is..." Mo Hua's heart and spirit were shocked, and he suddenly realized again.

This kind of reason, if the old ancestor hadn't told him, and he relied on himself, it would be ten thousand times impossible to think of.

Cultivating one's own sword dao is just for chopping off...

The wisdom of the old ancestor of the sect is truly profound and vast.

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, yet his expression changed, and he suddenly reacted:

Not right!

Is 'self chop life soul' this kind of "chop" method?

Then I...

Mo Hua weakly asked: "Old Ancestor, 'self chop life soul', isn't it... directly using sword intent to 'chop' one's own life soul?"

"Using sword intent to chop one's own life soul?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu was startled, then frowned and said, "A person's life soul is extremely fragile, how can it withstand being chopped?"

"Which fool in this world would actually go and 'chop' their own life soul?"

Mo Hua: "..."

He was a little unwilling to admit that he was that "fool".

He had been messing around for half a day, and it turned out he had cultivated it wrong again.

Self chop life soul is not really self "chopping" the life soul.

He had "taken it literally" and messed it up...

Mo Hua couldn't help but sigh.

Old Ancestor Du Gu looked at Mo Hua like this, pondered slightly, then was startled, and said incredibly: "You won't..."

"No!"

Mo Hua denied it, firmly refusing to admit that he was a "fool".

Old Ancestor Du Gu looked at Mo Hua silently, not speaking.

Mo Hua weakly asked again: "Old Ancestor, suppose someone really 'chopped' their life soul, what would happen?"

"Really self chopping the life soul..."

Old Ancestor Du Gu took a breath of cool air, frowned, and just as he was about to open his mouth, his expression suddenly lagged.

On his old face, his five senses instantly turned into nothing, like human skin on white paper.

All kinds of shadows of human faces constantly appeared.

But this change was silent and soundless, and it lasted for an extremely short time, just an instant, and soon returned to normal.

By the time Mo Hua perceived something strange and looked up, Old Ancestor Du Gu still had the same face as before, and even the expression on his face hadn't changed at all.

"Self chopping the life soul is nothing..." Old Ancestor Du Gu said.

Mo Hua was startled, "No problem?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu nodded, "I said before, you are different from others. Some things others cannot learn, but you can; some roads others cannot walk, but you can walk; similarly, others cannot chop their life soul, but you can..."

"The only problem is, self chopping the life soul is not that easy to chop, you need to comprehend some special methods."

"Special methods?"

"Correct," Old Ancestor Du Gu nodded and said, "You need to comprehend a kind of dao."

"Comprehend dao?" Mo Hua was curious, "What dao?"

Old Ancestor Du Gu's gaze was solemn, and he slowly said: "'No emotion' dao."

"No emotion dao?"

Mo Hua's brows gradually furrowed, and he heard more and more confusion.

Old Ancestor Du Gu's expression was indifferent, without sorrow or joy, and he said:

"The most important thing about the Taixu Chop God Sword is the word 'chop'. The reason it can chop gods is because it contains original source power and fuses the dao of 'chopping and extinguishing'."

"The dao of chopping and extinguishing, as the name implies, is to chop emotions and extinguish desires."

"To chop off all one's worldly emotions, reach a state of no emotion, no desires, no self, no thought, no wants, no obsessions, only then can one truly chop and exhaust everything, comprehend the most supreme sword dao, and chop and kill gods with mortal thought."

"This is called the Supreme Chop Emotion Dao..."

Mo Hua was shocked in his heart.

Supreme Chop Emotion Dao...

Before he could think carefully, Old Ancestor Du Gu said again:

"This is a great 'dao' law. If you truly cultivate it successfully and fuse this dao into the sword dao, your heart will be empty, and you will chop even yourself. Then you can achieve the unity of person and dao, fuse the law of 'chopping and extinguishing', use your body as a sword, your soul as a sword, and your edge will be unmatched. There will be nothing in this heaven and earth that cannot be chopped!"

Old Ancestor Du Gu looked at Mo Hua: "Do you want to learn?"

Mo Hua's mood surged, and he slowly nodded.

"Good!" Old Ancestor Du Gu's eyes lit up, and he praised, "Your talent is shocking, it cannot be wasted. I will now pass on to you the dao of Supreme Chop Emotion and teach you how to comprehend this supreme great dao law..."

Old Ancestor Du Gu stretched out his withered finger and pointed it below Mo Hua's forehead.

Instantly, a deep comprehension, mixed with the changes of the great dao, mixed with the Sanskrit sounds from outside the domain, surged into Mo Hua's brain.

Among them contained all sorts of unbelievable methods of comprehending the way.

Mo Hua only felt his heart and spirit clear, with a kind of profound and mysterious comprehension that was close to the original source and fused into the great dao.

A boundless and wonderful dao method was imprinted in his heart.

Mo Hua meditated and comprehended in his body, not knowing how long, slowly opened his eyes, and for an instant, there was nothing in his eyes, then he gradually came back to himself.

"Do you remember it all?" Old Ancestor Du Gu asked.

Mo Hua nodded, "I remember it all."

Old Ancestor Du Gu's eyes were lowered, placing high hopes on Mo Hua. He said in a deep voice, "Study well, comprehend well. What I have passed on to you is the supreme great dao. Comprehend this dao, transform the dao with the sword, and your sword law will reach its peak, chopping and exhausting all things in the world!"

Mo Hua's spirit was stirred, and he bowed three times to Old Ancestor Du Gu, respectfully saying: "Thank you, Old Ancestor, for the grace of passing on the dao."

Old Ancestor Du Gu nodded, then his expression was gratified, and he sighed: "Besides you, I have no one else to pass it on to."

Mo Hua bowed to Old Ancestor Du Gu again.

Old Ancestor Du Gu then said, "Good, go back. Comprehend it well."

"Yes." Mo Hua said.

Old Ancestor Du Gu tore open the void and sent Mo Hua back to the disciple's residence.

After Mo Hua left, in the forbidden area.

The night was deep, the moonlight was cold, and the sword tomb was desolate.

Old Ancestor Du Gu still sat alone in his original place, not moving, like a clay sculpture or stone mold.

After a moment, Old Ancestor Du Gu suddenly came back to himself, looked around, looked at the sky, realized that Mo Hua had already been sent away, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

"What exactly... did I just teach him?"

"No... what exactly did those 'things' teach this child..."