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Chapter 561: Secretly Learning
Chapter 561: Secretly Learning
Corrupting the Heart with Demons?!
"Senior Brother, are you planning to... pull out the weed by its roots?" Bai Qingcheng's heart trembled. What a ruthless decision!
At this moment, several other Feathered Fairy cultivators also arrived.
Although Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi were instructed not to move, their worries got the better of them, and they couldn't help but follow.
They all saw Mo Hua.
They saw his unusual expression, pitch-black and hollow pupils, youthful face, and the eerie aura surrounding him.
Realizing this, Master Situ was shocked:
"Deeply planted demonic thoughts!"
How long has this young cultivator been in contact with the heretic? Why does he have such deep-rooted demonic thoughts? Moreover, this strand of demonic thought...
It actually carries a hint of the aura of a primordial demon seed!
Master Situ was astonished.
Just what kind of deep connection does this heretic have with this young cultivator that he would plant such deep demonic thoughts, intending to kill him thoroughly?!
The other Feathered Fairy cultivators also wore grave expressions.
"Senior Situ, what should we do?"
"This young cultivator carries a demon seed..."
"To prevent it from spreading and causing endless disasters, should we... get rid of him first?"
There was a hint of killing intent in his eyes.
Bai Zixi's eyes turned cold, and she snapped, "Who dares?!"
The group of Feathered Fairy cultivators was startled by Bai Zixi's imposing manner. They hesitated for a moment, then glared at her with displeasure.
They were all highly accomplished cultivators, each a venerable ancestor of their own sect. When had they ever been treated so impolitely by a young girl in the Qi Refining Realm? They glared at Bai Zixi, their faces full of displeasure.
Bai Zisheng stepped forward and stood in front of Bai Zixi, his anger evident as he asked, "Who dares to bully my sister? Who dares to touch my junior martial brother?"
"You insolent child! How dare you...?"
One of the Feathered Fairy cultivators flew into a rage and was about to reprimand them when someone next to him pulled him back.
He turned his head and saw the frosty expression and sharp gaze of Bai Qingcheng, and he quietly swallowed his words...
The Bai family and that Bai cultivator were not people he could afford to offend.
And these two children were rumored to possess heavenly spirit roots.
Do not despise the young simply because they are poor...
He couldn't afford to let his temper get the better of him and bring trouble upon himself.
But this young cultivator couldn't be left unattended...
"Senior Situ, what do you think we should do?"
He passed the problem to Master Situ.
Bai Qingcheng also looked at Master Situ, her eyes carrying a hidden message as she implicitly asked if there was a way to save Mo Hua...
Master Situ was caught in a dilemma.
Save him? How could he do that? The heretic's method of corrupting the heart with demons damaged the heart and soul, leaving it incurable and beyond anyone's help...
The best course of action would be to end the suffering quickly and put him out of his misery to prevent the spread of demonic thoughts.
But...
Master Situ tugged at his beard.
He couldn't bring himself to kill such a young cultivator.
If he didn't, there was a risk of endless future troubles.
Moreover, even if they decided to kill him, who would do it?
This child may seem to have no notable background or origin, but he was a disciple of that Mr. Zhuang.
Although he appeared to have a mediocre spirit root and average talent, most likely just a token disciple, his connection to Mr. Zhuang meant that there was a significant cause and effect at play.
He didn't dare to take the initiative to kill him...
Furthermore, if this child were truly that simple, the heretic wouldn't have gone to such lengths to plant demonic thoughts in his heart, using it as a diversion while aiming for something else. There must be something special about this child.
Master Bai was right; the heretic's actions must have been intentional.
There was definitely something unusual about this situation.
Master Situ frowned deeply, glancing at Mo Hua before sighing helplessly, "This child has deep-rooted demonic thoughts, but he doesn't seem to have gone insane yet. His consciousness is still intact, and he's only at the Qi Condensation stage with limited cultivation. Even if he goes crazy, he won't be able to harm anyone..."
"In my opinion, we should first restrain this child and observe the situation."
If all else fails, they could only stop the demonic thoughts at their source.
Master Situ didn't explicitly say this last part, but everyone present understood what he meant.
Bai Qingcheng's eyes narrowed slightly as she sighed, "Then let's follow Senior Situ's suggestion."
She truly had no solution for the demonic corruption of the heart, so she could only think of a way to stall for time.
She hoped that Mo Hua would be blessed with good fortune and turn danger into safety...
Master Situ's Qiankun Clear Light Lamp was being used for lighting, so Bai Qingcheng summoned her Brocade Mountain River Umbrella and covered Mo Hua with it, isolating his aura.
This was to prevent Mo Hua from going crazy and leaking demonic thoughts.
It was also to protect Mo Hua.
Master Situ then set up the Grand Array of Sealing Gods from the Mysterious Valley around Mo Hua, trapping him and the heretic's demon seed in the middle, preventing any unexpected changes.
"Zisheng, Zixi, go back first..." Bai Qingcheng said softly.
However, Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi both shook their heads.
They wanted to stay here and guard their junior martial brother! They had promised their master that they would take care of him!
Bai Qingcheng had no choice but to stay with the two children, guarding Mo Hua.
"Junior martial brother..."
Bai Zixi looked at Mo Hua's pitch-black pupils, her heart aching as she tightly pressed her lips together, her face turning pale.
...
Mo Hua was confined under the Brocade Mountain River Umbrella, remaining quiet and still.
The Grand Array of Sealing Gods surrounded him, isolating his aura. His pupils were pitch-black, and his expression was slightly dazed, as if he were oblivious to everything.
However, within his sea of consciousness, Mo Hua frowned deeply.
He sensed a profound terror.
A powerful, pitch-black, eerie, black-gray shadow, like a swirling mist of ink, suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness.
Then, a vague and distorted figure gradually emerged.
His face was very unfamiliar, blurry, and accompanied by a faint afterimage.
But his aura was extremely familiar.
Mo Hua knew without having to see.
This person was his senior martial uncle.
He was the true... Heretic!
Or perhaps, a strand of heretical thought close to its origin!
Mo Hua was a little tense but not panicked.
Because at that moment, the Heretic was still outside the boundaries of his sea of consciousness.
Between them was the grand, vast, intricate, ever-changing, and intricate Mystery Heaven Grand Array!
The bottleneck of the Tian Yan Formula was an obstacle to foundation building, but now it had become a natural barrier in Mo Hua's sea of consciousness, keeping the Heretic "out."
The eerie aura swirled as the Heretic solidified from nothingness.
As soon as he condensed, he looked up and saw countless arrays standing between him and Mo Hua, causing him to pause in surprise.
Within the cultivator's sea of consciousness, how could the Mystery Heaven Grand Array have formed...
This completely took him by surprise.
Beyond the Mystery Heaven Grand Array, the profound gaze of the Eccentric Daoist looked towards Mo Hua, his expression cold and indifferent, yet with a hint of confusion.
Who had the ability to set up this Mystery Heaven Grand Array in a cultivator's sea of consciousness? And why?
The Eccentric Daoist glanced at Mo Hua, his brow furrowed in thought.
At such a young age, he could already manifest divine sense...
His sea of consciousness was resilient, and his divine sense was powerful...
To be accepted as a disciple by his junior martial brother, he must have had exceptional talent.
There must be an incredible secret hidden within his sea of consciousness...
Junior martial brother...
In order to conceal this secret, protect his young disciple, and prevent me from discovering the truth, he went to great lengths to set up this Mystery Heaven Grand Array...
He wanted to use this grand array to keep his junior disciple's secret safe...
"So that's how it is..."
"He actually used his Heaven's Secret Derivation Technique for this..."
"To... create the Mystery Heaven Grand Array!"
The larger the array, the bigger the secret it hides...
The Eccentric Daoist's black pupils trembled slightly, and his expression became excited.
Mo Hua did not know what he was thinking, but he also knew that he was no match for this eccentric and almighty senior martial uncle. He said, "Senior martial uncle, you can see that with this grand array separating us, I can't get out, and you can't come in."
"I won't be entertaining you, so you may as well leave now..."
The Eccentric Daoist coldly smiled, "A mere first-grade Mystery Heaven Grand Array, and you think you can stop me? Junior martial brother, you truly underestimate me!"
Mo Hua was stunned.
Did his senior martial uncle's words mean that he could break through the Mystery Heaven Grand Array? But... this was the Mystery Heaven Grand Array they were talking about...
Even if he spent a decade or more, it would still take at least a year or two to unravel each layer of the array...
Did his senior martial uncle intend to linger in his sea of consciousness?
Mo Hua couldn't afford to host him...
Just then, Mo Hua's expression changed as he stared intently, his heart trembling.
The Eccentric Daoist's face gradually blurred and distorted, transforming into a strange shadow that then divided into multiple eerie, pitch-black humanoid figures.
These shadows spread out and then began to...
Corrupt the Mystery Heaven Grand Array!
Mo Hua was shocked.
What was this?
This was... Demon Heart Seeding?
No, that wasn't right...
According to Mo Hua's previous observations and understanding, the so-called Demon Heart Seeding was essentially a special technique based on divine sense manipulation.
Mo Hua looked more carefully.
Now, within his sea of consciousness, without the influence of external objects, everything was presented in its most original divine sense state, so Mo Hua could see clearly.
These divided shadows were derivatives based on divine sense algorithms...
"The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things..."
And the essence of these divided shadows was not to "corrupt" the Mystery Heaven Grand Array, but to utilize the strengths and weaknesses of the array patterns to counteract and devour each other...
So, in essence, they were...
Unraveling the array!
The Eccentric Daoist, right before his eyes, was unraveling the Mystery Heaven Grand Array!
And the foundation for unraveling it was that special Eccentric Dao algorithm...
Mo Hua had eavesdropped on White-robed Martial Uncle and that old man surnamed Situ discussing how his senior martial uncle's divine sense algorithm was from the same origin as his master's but with unique differences.
This divine sense algorithm was the...
Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation!
In other words... his senior martial uncle was using the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation to unravel the bottleneck of his own Heaven's Secret Derivation Technique—the Mystery Heaven Grand Array!
Mo Hua's heart trembled, and suddenly, an idea occurred to him.
Could this...
Be his master's arrangement as well...?
Perhaps his master thought that he was too slow in unraveling the array, so he asked his senior martial uncle to help him unravel it and break through the bottleneck of Foundation Establishment!
Maybe his master wanted him to...
Establish his foundation sooner...
Mo Hua's heart ached, and his eyes stung.
"Master..."
Mo Hua murmured.
Suddenly, another thought struck him, and he was stunned again.
No, it wasn't that simple...
His master's intention might not just be to have his senior martial uncle help him unravel the Mystery Heaven Grand Array and break through the bottleneck of Foundation Establishment, but also to have him...
Learn the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation?!
Mo Hua's heart skipped a beat, and then it started pounding wildly.
By learning the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation, he could know himself and his opponent, so that in the future, when facing his senior martial uncle, he wouldn't be clueless and at his mercy, manipulated by him...
Moreover, the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation could unravel the Mystery Heaven Grand Array!
Then, in the future, he could use the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation to unravel the Mystery Heaven Grand Array himself!
Mo Hua was a little dazed.
Had his master... considered this far ahead for him...?
Mo Hua felt a pang of sadness, but then his spirit lifted.
He must not disappoint his master's expectations!
He would follow his master's instructions and learn diligently! He would master his senior martial uncle's techniques to the last detail!
Mo Hua's eyes gradually lit up, shining like the stars.
This was the best opportunity to learn the "Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation"!
Within his sea of consciousness, his senior martial uncle did not hide anything, dividing his eccentric thoughts and unraveling the Mystery Heaven Grand Array right before his eyes.
The Mystery Heaven Grand Array contained tens of thousands of arrays.
Unraveling each one meant unraveling tens of thousands of arrays...
Every time the Eccentric Daoist unraveled an array, it was equivalent to providing Mo Hua with a practical example, personally demonstrating how to master the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation and use it to break through the heavenly arrays!
Tens of thousands of times! Even if Mo Hua were a fool, he would be able to grasp the basics.
But he wasn't a fool.
He possessed exceptional divine sense, was a direct disciple of Mr. Zhuang, and was proficient in derivation techniques, profound in array techniques, and insightful in array theory. He had even experienced the essence of the Dao and comprehended the ultimate array.
After "previewing" the Demon Heart Seeding and the Eccentric Dao Seal earlier during their journey, he now had a basic understanding of the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation.
With this prior knowledge, learning it now would be twice as effective.
The Eccentric Daoist was unraveling the Mystery Heaven Grand Array right in front of him.
It was as if a meal had been delivered directly to Mo Hua's table...
Or even directly into his mouth.
Mo Hua was invigorated and stared intently as the eccentric shadows "corrupted" and unraveled the arrays one by one.
He imprinted this scene deeply into his mind, constantly remembering, comprehending, deriving, and replicating...
Until he finally achieved a profound understanding.
Mo Hua was hungry for knowledge, learning with single-minded devotion.
He was like a fat cat that had fallen into a fish tank, indulging to its heart's content, wanting to fill its belly to the brim...
...
The Mystery Heaven Grand Array was profound and complex, with countless layers, and unraveling it was no easy task.
The little guy's appearance... was very strange...
His small face was taut, his eyes shining as he focused intently, as if he were "deriving" something...
But upon closer inspection, he seemed to be "afraid."
The Eccentric Daoist was taken aback.
Was it an illusion...
How could a little cultivator in his teens possibly derive anything?
How could he possibly learn the ways of divine sense?
Even his extraordinarily talented junior martial brother relied on the blood of the heavens and an innate connection to the Dao to achieve this...
What gave this little guy the ability to do so?
The Eccentric Daoist's eyes turned cold.
"Regardless, once I break through the Mystery Heaven Grand Array and take a look inside his sea of consciousness, I'll know everything..."
"...and I'll understand why my junior martial brother has hidden this little disciple so deeply..."
The Eccentric Daoist's divine sense stirred, and his eccentric qi surged.
Countless eccentric thoughts accelerated their "corruption" of the Mystery Heaven Grand Array, akin to silkworm cocoons made of spirit threads.
One by one, the array patterns and formations were unravelled by his Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation.
As the Eccentric Daoist unravelled more, Mo Hua saw, learned, and comprehended more, gaining a deeper understanding.
All the eccentricities and variations of the Eccentric Dao, as well as the profound mysteries of the Grand Dao, were absorbed into his divine sense.
Time passed slowly...
Outside Mo Hua's sea of consciousness, Bai Qingcheng, Bai Zisheng, Bai Zixi, and the group of Feathered Fairy cultivators waited anxiously.
Mo Hua remained quiet and motionless, his pupils pitch-black.
The situation had not worsened, but there was no improvement either.
Inside his sea of consciousness, the Eccentric Daoist was unraveling the array, and Mo Hua was learning from it...
An unknown amount of time passed.
Mo Hua's sea of consciousness trembled, and his divine sense became clear.
The Mystery Heaven Grand Array, with its myriad of formations and techniques, was swept away, and the delicate spirit threads that resembled cocoons had all been unravelled.
Mo Hua clearly sensed that the bottleneck to Foundation Establishment had vanished!
The eccentric qi coalesced once more into the figure of the Eccentric Daoist, who stepped into Mo Hua's sea of consciousness and stood before him.
Before Mo Hua could feel relieved, his eyes narrowed, and his heart grew solemn.
This was the Eccentric Daoist...
This was the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation...
The intricate and complex Mystery Heaven Grand Array had been unravelled just like that...
The array that would have taken him years, or even a decade or more, to unravel had been solved by his "Senior Martial Uncle"...
The Eccentric Daoist's expression was cold, and he raised his right hand, summoning a bronze-colored longsword.
It was the same sword that had pierced Mr. Zhuang's chest and extracted his Heavenly Dao Bones—the Sumeru Sword.
Mo Hua's eyes widened.
His Senior Martial Uncle... truly intended to kill him!
If his divine sense perished, his spiritual consciousness would be annihilated, and even if his physical body remained, he would be as good as dead!
The Eccentric Daoist revealed his murderous intent.
Without hesitation, Mo Hua lifted his hand and cast a Fireball Spell directly at the Eccentric Daoist.
The Sumeru Sword swept through the air, slicing the fireball in half and dissipating the spell, but a hint of surprise flashed in the Eccentric Daoist's eyes.
The spell had manifested...
Moreover, the power of the spell was quite extraordinary, indicating that Mo Hua's divine sense power and control far exceeded that of an average cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage.
Mo Hua continued his assault, focusing his divine sense into a fiery red array pattern that soon exploded.
The Earthfire Array detonated, engulfing the Eccentric Daoist in flames, but it failed to inflict any damage.
However, the Eccentric Daoist was taken aback once more.
A formation had manifested...
He glanced at Mo Hua, his eyebrows furrowing.
Who taught him these things?
How could he, at such a young age, already be able to utilize these divine sense techniques?
No wonder his junior martial brother valued him so highly...
It seemed he had underestimated this little guy...
"However, your techniques are still too crude..."
The Eccentric Daoist's expression remained cold.
The demonic seed within him was only at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.
This was done both to deceive the Feathered Fairy cultivators and to avoid the possibility of a stronger demonic seed shattering Mo Hua's sea of consciousness upon entry, which would prevent him from discovering his junior martial brother's secrets.
If Mo Hua's sea of consciousness were to shatter, his physical body would die, and he would be unable to uncover the mysteries his junior martial brother had hidden within this young disciple.
It didn't matter if the little guy died, but if his sea of consciousness were destroyed, he wouldn't be able to find out what secrets his junior martial brother had concealed.
This demonic seed at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage contained a strand of the Eccentric Daoist's eccentric origin.
It was more than enough to deal with this little cultivator!
"You're just showing off your array techniques. It's like bringing coals to Newcastle..."
The Eccentric Daoist pointed his sword, and eccentric qi surged, forming a dark grey eccentric array pattern that trapped Mo Hua, slowly eroding his divine sense.
This eccentric array technique was powerful, continuously generating, and there was no way to escape.
His divine sense was gradually being "corrupted"...
Mo Hua's heart sank, but his peripheral vision caught sight of the array pattern, and inspiration struck. He immediately put his newfound knowledge to use, manifesting his own array pattern to counter and neutralize the Eccentric Daoist's, before finding an opening and breaking free.
Having escaped, Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the Eccentric Daoist stood frozen, his face filled with disbelief.
"Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation?!?!"
He stared at Mo Hua, his black pupils quivering as if he had witnessed something utterly incomprehensible. "How... do you know the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation?!"
Mo Hua felt a bit guilty and quickly replied, "My master taught me!"
"Nonsense!" The Eccentric Daoist gritted his teeth. "Your master doesn't even know it himself!"
The Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation was the ultimate divine sense technique, a secret art that only he possessed.
The Eccentric Daoist's eyes narrowed dangerously, but then the scenes from their journey together flashed through his mind.
Mo Hua's focused expression, his shining eyes, his thoughtful demeanor...
And all the little moments they had shared...
The Eccentric Daoist's pupils quivered as he thought, "You actually... secretly learned the Heaven's Secret Eccentric Calculation?!"
"It wasn't 'secretly'!" Mo Hua retorted, standing his ground.
He had learned it openly and honestly, right in front of his Senior Martial Uncle!
How could something so aboveboard be considered "secret"?
(End of Chapter)
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