Chapter 909: Mutual Fishing

At Zi hour, disciples are resting.

It’s late at night.

Mo Qing is meditating on the bed, his divine sense sinking into the sea of consciousness, summoning the Dao Stele. He is borrowing the tribulation thunder on the Dao Stele to erase the evil god's will in the divine remains, refining out the precious divine marrow, which looks like molten gold.

Mo Qing swallowed and absorbed every drop of this divine marrow.

The divine marrow deepened the degree of daoization of Mo Qing's divine sense.

His divine sense condensed further, but the "divinity" within the divine marrow was also swallowing the "humanity" within Mo Qing's dao heart.

Mo Qing upheld his original heart, absorbing divinity while preserving humanity, and fusing divinity with humanity to alleviate the drawbacks of swallowing "divine marrow".

This was a kind of "insight" he had previously comprehended regarding the divine dao and the human dao.

Now, having received what he doesn't know is the "Dugu Old Ancestor" transmission from Dugu Old Ancestor, he cultivates the Supreme Severing Emotions (Taishang Wangqing), severing emotions but not forgetting them, severing the small self and preserving the true self, severing human desires but not extinguishing humanity. On the contrary, this deepened his understanding of the divine and human dao.

He also doesn't know if it's because of cultivating "Severing Emotions" and the introduction of new laws into his divine thoughts, but when Mo Qing now swallows divine marrow, the repulsion between divinity and humanity is lessened, and the absorption is also better.

After thoroughly absorbing the divine marrow, the gold color above Mo Qing's divine thought became purer.

The wounds on his divine sense also healed considerably.

His Taixu Sword Intent (Taixu Jianyi) and divine soul fused a bit deeper.

His divine sense's daoization also progressed a step further.

The bottleneck within his sea of consciousness, which was caused by cultivating the Tianyan Jue (Tianyan Jue) and the variation of spiritual power interwoven with the gold-colored divine thought into a mysterious array, also showed signs of loosening.

Mo Qing nodded with satisfaction.

Divine marrow is indeed a good thing. As long as he consumes more, all current bottlenecks and obstacles can be easily resolved.

And this time hunting down Crane Old Seven (He Laoqi) also verified that his plan is feasible.

Even if his own cultivation is insufficient and he cannot go out, he can still use the thunder magnetic array (leici zhen) to eavesdrop on intelligence, plan strategies, and then borrow the hands of the Dao Court Division (Dao Ting Si) to hunt down gold core realm (jin dan jing) demon heads and obtain the divine marrow he needs.

It's like playing chess.

He is the "chess player," while others are the "chess pieces."

He makes the plans, and the Dao Court Division "acts."

Of course, calling them "chess pieces" is a bit excessive.

His relationship with Uncle Gu (Gu Shu) is essentially mutually beneficial.

In this chess game, he gets the divine marrow, and Uncle Gu and the others get merits.

Besides, the demon cultivators also gain an opportunity for "rebirth," and the evil god's remains are "purified." So, in calculation, everyone has a bright future; it can be said that everyone is happy.

A game of chess where "everyone is happy" should naturally be played more often.

Afterward, Mo Qing began monitoring the Demon Sect's (Mo Sect) yuan magnetic complex array (yuan ci fu zhen) again.

Crane Old Seven died, and according to reason, this would definitely cause some disturbances within the Demon Sect.

And indeed, as Mo Qing expected, because of Crane Old Seven's death, for several days afterward, the Demon Sect's yuan magnetic fluctuations were abnormally frequent. Low-level disciples' hearts were shaken, and they discussed everywhere:

"Elder Crane actually died!"

"...Killed by the Dao Court Division!"

"How could that be?"

"Elder Crane's cultivation was not weak. Moreover, he was titled 'Crane,' and the demon patterns carved all over his body were also crane-shaped. His body was light as a crane, his steps like flying. Ordinary gold core cultivators wouldn't find it easy to catch him, let alone kill him..."

"It's said that someone leaked information, revealing Elder Crane's whereabouts and cultivation flaws."

"With all his abilities targeted to death, there was naturally only one word: 'death'."

"So that's it... Once the bottom is leaked, with the Dao Court Division's forces and means, there is indeed no chance of survival..."

"This group of running dogs of the Dao Court Division usually acts aloof, but when they get serious, they are indeed troublesome."

"It is said that the leader was still that cold-faced Canon Si (Canon Si) Gu Changhuai (Gu Changhuai)."

"This guy surnamed Gu truly deserves to die. Sooner or later, one day, his bones will be ground to dust!"

"Grinding bones to dust isn't good. Live flaying is better!"

Mo Qing shook his head.

Being a Canon Si of the Dao Court Division and suffering such hatred is truly tough for Uncle Gu.

And to put it bluntly, Uncle Gu actually, in a disguised way, took the blame for him.

Mo Qing couldn't help but sigh, then continued to look down, wanting to know if his actions using the Demon Sect Order's (Mo Ling) yuan magnetic order (yuan ci zhi xu) had raised any suspicions.

"But then again, Elder Crane's death cannot be blamed on others..."

"The head of the 'color' word is on a knife."

"Rabbits still don't eat grass near their burrow. As an elder, he actually desired human wives and only targeted disciples' dao companions..."

"Although I am also a demon cultivator and have no shame, and have done many bad things, I still feel this is a bit shameless..."

"Indeed..."

"Color blinds wisdom. He deserves to die."

"Mind your words, this is an elder. How dare you be so disrespectful..."

"Anyway, he's already dead."

"A dead elder is also an elder."

"It doesn't matter. Chatting within the Demon Sect Order, no one will see it anyway, unless you report it to the elders..."

"You and I have many years of friendship and hold leverages against each other. I wouldn't report your shortcomings for such a small matter..."

"Then what are you still afraid of?"

Mo Qing was a bit surprised to see this.

These demon cultivators, do they not know that their chats will be "monitored"?

Is it because they don't understand the yuan magnetic array and don't know the intricacies within?

Or did the Demon Sect not mention it to them?

Or, does the Demon Sect itself not have the means to monitor yuan magnetic information?

Mo Qing touched his chin.

"I need to find a way to clarify this matter..."

According to Elder Zheng (Zheng Laode) saying, if within the Demon Sect there are only "application" level yuan magnetic array masters but no deeper level thunder magnetic array masters, then he can greatly reduce his constraints and completely act boldly.

Cultivation knowledge is power.

In terms of array core attainment, if he has an absolute advantage, he can completely "do as he pleases."

Mo Qing again stealthily peeked at the chats of other demon cultivator disciples and generally understood a bit.

Most demon cultivators are truly completely ignorant of the yuan magnetic array, let alone the deeper layer thunder magnetic array.

They think Crane Old Seven's death was due to an internal ghost leaking information, and thus they suspect each other, their hearts in panic.

"No one suspects me," Mo Qing's eyes flickered slightly, "then..."

"Let's kill two more and see!"

Afterward, Mo Qing continued monitoring and found clues, finally allowing him to find two more gold core demon cultivators.

It's quite simple to dig out messages from within.

Unless the demon cultivators do nothing, they will necessarily reveal their weaknesses.

These two gold core cultivators, one ranked tenth, and one ranked sixth, one was called "Scorpion Elder" (Xie Laode), and the other "Zhu Elder" (Zhu Laode).

This Zhu Elder was nothing, but this "Scorpion Elder" had strong poison in his body and, like Crane Old Seven, also carried demon patterns.

Mo Qing couldn't help but doubt.

"Demon patterns... How is this so similar to the Ten Thousand Demons Valley (Wan Yao Gu)..."

"Perhaps some of these gold core elders within the Demon Sect are just demon cultivators who condensed gold core in the Ten Thousand Demons Valley over the past several hundred years and then 'smuggled' out?"

The more Mo Qing thought, the more he felt it was possible.

But no matter if their origin is the Ten Thousand Demons Valley or the Demon Sect, those who should die must die. Mo Qing didn't care too much either.

He collected the intelligence on this "Scorpion Elder" and "Zhu Elder" and then passed it all to Gu Changhuai.

Afterward, Mo Qing simply acted as a "hands-off boss."

Anyway, he only provided intelligence and offered some suggestions. How to kill them was entirely the Dao Court Division's business.

If they were killed, he would get the divine marrow.

If they weren't killed, there was nothing he could do.

Fortunately, things went quite smoothly afterward.

Exterminating the Demon Sect, led by the Dao Court, the Qian Xue (Qian Xue) Dao Court Division did not dare to be lax.

And Gu Changhuai and Canon Si Xia (Xia Canon Si) themselves had high cultivation, carried family inheritances, were experienced, and were all "workaholics" who relentlessly pursued and killed demon cultivators.

Add to that the "striving to improve" Fan Jin (Fan Jin).

After a little over half a month, these two gold core demon heads were also successively caught. They were surrounded and attacked by the Dao Court Division, beaten into heavy injuries, and finally executed on the spot by Gu Changhuai with a five elements diagram (wu xing tu) covering their faces.

Mo Qing, sitting steadily on the fishing platform, just like this, "without effort," harvested two more sets of divine remains.

The Dao Court Division's plan went smoothly.

But the Demon Sect side, however, was stirred up by huge waves because of this.

In just over a month, three gold core elders died consecutively!

Three gold core elders!

This was undoubtedly an extremely huge loss for the Demon Sect, enough to make the morale of the entire Demon Sect low and its vitality damaged.

Most crucially, they still didn't understand how these three gold core elders died.

The Demon Sect's actions were always secretive. How were three gold core realm great demon cultivators precisely found by the Dao Court Division, had their weaknesses grasped, and were even surrounded and killed without them knowing?

Thinking about it again and again, there were still only the two words "internal ghost."

Thus, within the Demon Sect, unexpectedly but not surprisingly, a "great purge" began.

The Demon Sect started a thorough investigation from within to find out exactly who had betrayed the sect, leaked messages, and harmed the three deceased elders.

As long as the investigation was strict, then strictly speaking, no one would be "innocent."

No matter what this sin was.

Some demon cultivator disciples were strictly interrogated, subjected to torture, and even dismembered, or subjected to death by a thousand cuts by knives and swords.

Even a gold core realm demon cultivator elder also died within this purge.

It seemed he had an affair with the top-quality "forbidden spoil" raised by another respected gold core demon head and was also stealthily sucking blood. After being discovered, it was difficult to defend himself. He just happened to be framed by a few sentences from others. Knowing his reasons were weak, he wanted to forcibly escape and was directly struck dead by the angry Demon Sect leader.

For a time, within the Demon Sect, there was the sound of wind and cranes, every blade of grass and every tree was a soldier, and everyone was in panic.

This development greatly surprised Mo Qing.

He himself didn't expect that human hearts are actually so easy to provoke...

This even made him vaguely feel that he, like his master uncle, was "playing" with human hearts.

Of course, he felt that he didn't seem to have done anything.

The Demon Sect's suspicions are also a result of their own doing.

Moreover, these demon cultivators cultivated demonic arts and all carried human lives. Their deaths are not worth sympathy.

Mo Qing was happy to watch the show.

But after watching for a few days, he suddenly discovered something was wrong.

The entire Demon Sect seemed to suddenly quiet down.

Messages between demon cultivators were also very few, and even if there was chatting, it was very short and mostly used "black talk," making it very laborious to look at.

Mo Qing frowned.

"Perhaps they have... detected that the Demon Sect Order's yuan magnetic array has problems?"

Afterward, it was like this for some time. Demon cultivators rarely used the Demon Sect Order to transmit messages.

Even if they transmitted messages, they spoke very obscurely.

Even some words were completely wrong. Mo Qing could see at a glance that they were fabricated randomly. Obviously, they were deliberately spread out to deceive "outsiders."

But they could deceive "outsiders," but not Mo Qing.

Mo Qing had listened to too much information. Regarding the internal matters of this Demon Sect, he was now perhaps more "expert" than most Demon Sect disciples.

It's just that the Demon Sect was too alert, and he couldn't inquire about anything useful for a while.

"A bit troublesome..."

Mo Qing thought about it and decided to first stabilize things a bit, temporarily avoid the wind, and observe the changes quietly for a while.

He took out his message transmission order and sent a message to Gu Changhuai: "Uncle Gu, the situation has changed. The Demon Sect is too vigilant, and it's temporarily difficult to gather intelligence."

Gu Changhuai: "Okay, you pay attention to safety."

In Gu Changhuai's heart, intelligence was always not as important as Mo Qing's safety.

Only he did not learn arrays and did not understand the intricacies within. He also did not know that this "hard-to-get" intelligence was actually tossed out by Mo Qing who was sitting inside the mountain gate (shan men) and fiddling with order cards every day, which actually posed no danger.

Thereafter, Mo Qing temporarily put aside the Demon Sect Order.

Because there were fewer chat magnetic patterns in the Demon Sect and the authenticity was difficult to distinguish, he no longer needed to stare at it often. He just had to take a quick look when he had time.

He now had more important things to do.

Solve the mysterious array, break the bottleneck!

After continuously swallowing three "divine remains," Mo Qing discovered that his divine sense's daoization realm was barely enough to support him in solving the array.

Whether he could fully solve it was unknown, but a thousand-mile journey starts with a single step. It would be good to solve a part first.

Thus, his cultivation was also not considered stagnant.

As long as he began to solve the array and break the bottleneck, he was advancing step by step towards the late stage of Foundation Building (zhu ji hou qi).

Mo Qing sighed.

With only a middle stage of Foundation Building (zhu ji zhong qi) cultivation, being called "little senior brother" by a group of late stage Foundation Building junior brothers every day was very stressful.

No one could understand his pain. The taste of it could only be experienced by him, the person who personally acted as "little senior brother."

"Break through early, reach the late stage of Foundation Building early."

Mo Qing encouraged himself in his heart.

Afterward, besides his daily classes, cultivation, and sword practice, he spent most of his other time solving the divine thought mysterious array and breaking the bottleneck of the late stage of Foundation Building.

This process was quite tedious, but purely from the array level, it was not considered difficult.

After all, his current array standard, especially his deep attainments in second-grade arrays, was enough to overlook all mountains small even in the talent-rich Qian Xue state boundary.

In the days that followed, Mo Qing peacefully solved the array.

Half a month passed like this, and he solved one-third of it. But the further back he went, the slower he solved the array, and the more laborious it became for him.

Mo Qing knew in his heart that this was because his divine sense's daoization was still insufficient.

Mo Qing was silent for a moment, then flipped open the Demon Sect Order again, thinking about whether to kill a few more gold core cultivators, eat a few more divine remains, and elevate his own daoization realm a bit.

According to his estimation, two more would be enough.

Killing two more gold core demon cultivator elders, eating the parasitic divine remains within their bodies, and refining out the divine marrow should be just enough for him to break through to the late stage of Foundation Building.

"The previous movements were too big. The Demon Sect is already alert. I don't know if the wind has passed or not..."

Mo Qing pondered for a moment, thinking to himself, "Let's try it."

He manipulated the thunder magnetic little person (leici xiao ren) to sink into the Demon Sect Order and observe the wind direction a bit.

Indeed, after a little over half a month, the wind seemed to have passed a bit, and everything seemed to be fine again.

Demon cultivators also began to chat through the Demon Sect Order, although not frequently, it was already much better compared to the period when the wind was tight before.

Moreover, the chat content was not taboo either.

Mo Qing's heart was slightly happy.

Opportunity came.

He then manipulated the thunder magnetic little person, familiar with the bottom layer of the Demon Sect Order, within the information-woven yuan magnetic sea, stealing magnetic patterns, deciphering information, observing trends, and selecting which gold core cultivators could be slaughtered to eat divine marrow...

After searching like this for two days, Mo Qing finally, through the magnetic pattern information, selected a suitable target:

This was an elder with dog patterns on his body.

Within the Demon Sect, he was called "Dog Elder" (Gou Laode). His cultivation did not seem particularly strong, yet he was a trusted aide of the Demon Sect leader, skilled in scheming, and many matters were pushed by him in the dark.

"Dog-patterned demon head..."

"Dog-headed military advisor?"

Mo Qing muttered a sound.

He then continued to manipulate the thunder magnetic little person, stealing magnetic patterns, wanting to find more clues about this "dog-headed military advisor."

But as he searched, Mo Qing was suddenly startled and frowned.

Something was wrong...

A dog-headed military advisor, skilled in scheming... How could such a character be easily exposed?

Moreover, the Demon Sect was still in a "great purge" before. Although a short half a month had passed, even if the wind had passed, it was impossible for anyone to dare to casually discuss gold core elders and give out such obvious clues.

There was something strange...

Mo Qing became alert.

He thought about it and let the thunder magnetic little person hide within the yuan magnetic sea, then he quietly perceived the obscure thunder magnetic flow between the yuan magnetic patterns.

Initially, it was calm with no abnormalities. Mo Qing patiently continued to perceive.

Concentrating like this, he perceived for a full hour. Mo Qing finally detected a stock of unusual "thunder magnetic" flow between the magnetic patterns.

His divine sense was daoized, proficient in derivation and trickery, and he even had the Return to Source Algorithm (Gui Yuan Suan Fa) to return to the source of a thunder magnetic source pattern prototype, which was that thunder magnetic little person.

Therefore, his perception of thunder magnetic was also more sensitive than that of ordinary array masters.

This stock of unusual "thunder magnetic" had fundamentally not existed in the Demon Sect Order before.

Things out of the ordinary must have demons.

Mo Qing could almost affirm:

"Someone is using me as a fish, and he wants to fish me!"

The wind passing was just an illusion. The Demon Sect perhaps also realized that there were problems with the bottom layer array of their Demon Sect Order.

But this Demon Sect Order was important and involved many matters, so they couldn't abandon it. Therefore, they invited an array master to investigate the problems with the yuan magnetic array.

And this person, who could cause changes in the deeper layer of thunder magnetic, must be a "thunder magnetic array master" with quite deep attainments.

An expert!

Mo Qing's heart felt slightly cold.

He then checked his thunder magnetic little person again and only then discovered that the body of the "thunder magnetic little person" he had returned to the source was, unknowingly, already stained with some other "secondary thunder patterns."

These secondary thunder patterns were not originally derived from the Return to Source Algorithm.

But just now, within the magnetic sea, when encountering the unusual thunder magnetic, they were stained on.

This was a kind of "mark," or it could be said to be a kind of "virus."

Someone wanted to force his thunder magnetic little person to "appear," or, they wanted to use some thunder magnetic means to "erase" it...

Mo Qing's eyes narrowed, and he immediately manipulated the thunder magnetic little person to leave the yuan magnetic sea, closed the interfaces, erased the sequence magnetic patterns within the Demon Sect Order, cut off contact with the yuan magnetic complex array, and isolated all thunder magnetic flow. Only then did he feel slightly relieved.

Thereafter, Mo Qing took out a clean jade slip, placed the thunder magnetic little person inside, and inspected the "secondary thunder patterns" on its body one by one.

Unusual thunder magnetic patterns were directly erased.

Blurred secondary thunder patterns were returned to the source.

Thus, the secondary thunder patterns of the thunder magnetic little person from head to tail were all "reset" once, re-"cleaned" once, confirming that it was "clean and tidy," "dry and clean." Only then was he completely relieved.

Subsequently, Mo Qing's expression became solemn.

He realized that he had perhaps, unknowingly, stepped into another domain:

The domain of confrontation between thunder magnetic array masters.

Among proficient thunder magnetic array masters, they use arrays to control thunder magnetic, interfere with each other, attack and defend each other, conduct confrontation between microscopic magnetic patterns, and begin a war of thunder magnetic invasion and counter-invasion...

(End of this chapter)