Chapter 1272: God Slave

During his lifetime, Shi Gu was the strongest general of the Shu Bone Tribe, dying from the betrayal of his subordinates, dying from the evil god, and dying from the famine; he was a victim of the Great Wilderness's bad luck.

Even though he was dead, his physical body remained strong and still possessed an awe-inspiring majesty.

Likewise, he was also a corpse puppet controlled by Mo Ce with the Small Spirit Pivot Absolute Array.

But the Small Spirit Pivot Absolute Array was of too low a grade, and its control was too weak, so the lethality of Shi Gu as an "Undying General" could not be exerted. And Shi Gu's corpse, without the pollution of the evil god and without the desire for flesh and blood, also lacked "energy supply," so it could only be a decoration.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Mo Ce decided to first carve the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array onto Shi Gu's body.

He wanted the dead Shi Gu to become the most loyal "slave" of the God Lord, becoming an undying war general of the Great Wilderness, and achieving immortal merits with a body of death.

At the same time, Shi Gu would also be the best "material" for him to practice the Bone Carving Spirit Bone Array.

It was truly too dangerous to carve a fierce beast absolute array on the bones of a "living person"—especially his own bones. Without something to practice on and lacking sufficient experience, even Mo Ce didn't dare to act rashly.

But using other "living people" to practice, if he accidentally killed them—and it was highly probable that he really would kill them—Mo Ce couldn't bear it either.

Therefore, Mo Ce could only start with a "dead person."

This dead person was Shi Gu.

However, using Shi Gu, this general, to practice was extremely difficult.

Shi Gu was a Jin Dan late-stage barbarian cultivator, and even after death, his flesh, blood, and bones were all of third-grade high-level strength.

And Shi Gu's physical strength during his lifetime was far stronger than that of ordinary barbarian cultivators.

The Small Spirit Pivot Array was fine, because it was just a simple control of actions without high-intensity fighting.

So drawing the array on the surface of the flesh and blood didn't require such high fit, and it didn't have much impact. Moreover, Mo Ce had handled many details very sloppily.

But the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array was different.

This absolute array had to be deeply integrated with Shi Gu's corpse bones to the greatest extent.

Because this Spirit Bone Absolute Array was something he was going to use as a life-bound magic treasure.

In the future, when carved on his own bones, it must perfectly integrate with his own meridians and bones to be cultivated with his life and become an aid to his Jin Dan.

Otherwise, it would definitely cause big problems and ruin his foundation.

Therefore, using Shi Gu's corpse bones as an "experiment" at this time could not be sloppy in the slightest.

If experiments went wrong on the dead Shi Gu, then the problems of the Spirit Bone Array would only be more serious when placed on himself—

But this was also a threshold that had to be faced, basically unavoidable—

Moreover, Mo Ce was not without corresponding expectations.

Mo Ce was silent for a moment, went through all the array backups he had made before in his mind, and then started to act.

He first took out a large pile of cultivation spiritual objects, including various types of gold powder, copper jade, spirit wood roots, blood-transforming stones—and so on.

These materials were all prepared in advance when he was at the Grand Void Gate.

Some were exchanged with sect contribution points, and some were specially sought for him by Elder Xun and the Grand Void Sect Master through the back door.

Elder Xun and the Sect Master were actually more concerned about Mo Ce forming the core than anyone else.

But this child Mo Ce didn't follow the usual path in cultivation, and they didn't know what kind of strange core he was forming, so neither of them could interfere too much.

They could only prepare the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that Mo Ce might need in advance. This was to avoid Mo Ce running around and wasting time looking for some materials.

Therefore, Mo Ce's core formation, although time-consuming, had its spiritual objects prepared by Elder Xun long ago when he was at the Grand Void Gate.

Because it determined Mo Ce's future, Elder Xun calculated based on karma, predicted based on experience, and prepared them very thoroughly and sufficiently with the mentality of "better too many than too few, better safe than sorry."

Mo Ce was very grateful for Elder Xun's intentions and also very grateful for the sect's care.

Therefore, even though he was in the barbarian wilderness, with different customs and different inheritances, the spiritual objects Mo Ce needed for core formation were all available.

Even the materials used for practice beforehand were very sufficient.

Of course, Mo Ce couldn't bear to use the truly precious "Wood White Essence" and "Jin Yu Marrow," which were spiritual objects used to shape wood-white-gold-jade bones.

What he used for practice were some second-tier "substitutes."

Anyway, there were not so many requirements for using them on a dead person like Shi Gu.

Shi Gu's corpse was dissected again.

Mo Ce began to follow the White family's "Wood White Jin Yu" method, trying to shape a layer of "Jin Yu" bone quality on Shi Gu's bones.

Because it was his first time practicing, it was shaped somewhat roughly, and many places were not shaped evenly, but on the whole, there was no problem.

After shaping a layer of "Jin Yu" bone, Mo Ce used a "bone carving" knife to carve the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array patterns on the gold jade coating.

Mo Ce drew the Small Spirit Pivot Array.

But the Taotie Spirit Bone Array wouldn't work; it had to be "carved" on so that the array patterns could be more stable.

Shi Gu's bones were the bones of a Jin Dan barbarian cultivator, which Mo Ce couldn't carve, but after covering them with a layer of gold jade bone, there was no problem carving on the gold jade bone.

If it were carved on a living person, cutting at this time would be accompanied by a large loss of blood qi.

Mo Ce planned to solve this problem by adding another "carved" Wood-Earth Spring-Returning Array.

But it couldn't be used now.

Because Shi Gu was already a dead person, the corpse was cold, and there was no problem of blood qi loss, so carving the Wood-Earth Spring-Returning Array was useless.

Moreover, Mo Ce was not yet skilled in carving bones inside a human body; carving a Twelve Meridians Spirit Bone Array was already very reluctant, and it might not necessarily succeed.

Adding another Wood-Earth Spring-Returning Array would be too difficult. This kind of thing could only be considered later.

One must eat one mouthful at a time; now he still had to familiarize himself with "Jin Yu Bone Shaping," "Spirit Bone Carving," and the specific application of the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.

Mo Ce began to concentrate on carving the Spirit Bone Array on Shi Gu's corpse bones according to his own ideas.

This whole set of operations and arrays was too complex and extremely strange and profound.

Mo Ce spent two whole days on it, but in the end, he still failed.

There were many reasons for the failure, such as Shi Gu's bones being too hard, the corpse's temperature being too low, the poor integration between gold jade and the dead corpse, the bone carving knife not being easy to use, the Taotie array patterns being difficult to draw, and the array pivot not being particularly compatible with the human meridians—and so on.

Mo Ce sighed, but he wasn't too disappointed.

This kind of thing could never be accomplished in one go.

Any success must go through countless failures.

Finding the root of the failure, thinking about them one by one, solving them one by one, and finally eliminating all "failures," one would naturally succeed.

Therefore, "success" and "failure" are two sides of the same coin, the same thing.

Mo Ce adjusted his mentality, summarized his experience patiently, and then continued to try.

In this attempt, constantly discovering problems, constantly solving problems, constantly overcoming failures—

Mo Ce's understanding of bone shaping, bone carving, and the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array was also constantly deepening, and his operations were becoming more and more skilled.

At the same time, in another direction, his research on corpses, his experience in "corpse control," and his ability to perform array "remodeling" on human meridians and bones were also unexpectedly deepening—

Although this experience and ability were a bit—not like what a proper cultivator should have.

Mo Ce was also very resistant to it from the bottom of his heart.

But there was no way; he walked this path of core formation and studied bone shaping, bone carving, and Spirit Bone arrays, so the experience naturally came.

Mo Ce wanted to refuse, but couldn't—

And while Mo Ce was performing array applications and remodeling on Shi Gu's corpse bones.

The unification and rectification of the major tribes in the Zhu Que Mountain boundary were also constantly advancing.

These plans, in the name of the God Lord, were authorized by Mo Ce, fully responsible by Seeing Dan Zhu, assisted by great chieftains like Lu Cheng and Dan Lie, and implemented from top to bottom in almost all tribes in the entire Zhu Que Mountain boundary—

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This matter was Seeing Dan Zhu's responsibility.

Seeing Dan Zhu had a heart of sincerity, was upright and kind, had a firm Dao heart, and had followed Mo Ce the longest; he was also the person Mo Ce trusted most and recognized most in the Great Wilderness.

Whether now or in the future, Mo Ce hoped that Seeing Dan Zhu could grow into an excellent tribal leader.

Whether he was there or not, he could independently govern the various barbarian tribes well and let the living beings of the barbarian wilderness have a foundation to settle down.

It was just that Seeing Dan Zhu was only in the early stage of Jin Dan, his realm was a bit lacking, and his foundation was not solid.

Therefore, Mo Ce let Dan Lie and Lu Cheng come forward, relying on the prestige of the Great Alliance Leader and Great Chieftain, to do this together with Seeing Dan Zhu.

In name, everyone was working for the "God Lord," serving in the name of the "Witch Doctor."

But Mo Ce's expectations for Seeing Dan Zhu were the deepest.

Because Mo Ce could see that among the barbarian cultivators of the various tribes in the Great Wilderness, only Seeing Dan Zhu's heart, like the flowing fire of the Vermilion Bird, was the "brightest red" and most enthusiastic.

And the main purpose of these things Mo Ce implemented was to "align with those who agree and eliminate those who disagree."

Those who follow will prosper, those who oppose will perish.

Taking advantage of the previous Battle of Zhu Que Mountain, the "divine power" of the God Lord showing holiness and beheading the Witch Vulture God had not yet faded.

Taking advantage of the timing when the belief in the God Lord reached its peak in the hearts of all barbarian cultivators.

Mo Ce had to strike while the iron was hot, take this opportunity, in the name of the God Lord, with the order of the Witch Doctor, to forcibly implement rectification within the major tribes and completely unify power.

For those who sincerely submit, Mo Ce gives them higher status and positions.

For those who harbor different intentions, he suppresses and squeezes them out, gradually marginalizing them and keeping them away from the center of power.

And for those who harbor rebellious intentions or even intend to rebel, he directly suppresses and kills them.

The struggle for power has always been cold and cruel, and it cannot tolerate a trace of childish warmth; otherwise, the only one who dies is oneself.

In addition, Mo Ce began to set about unifying the beliefs of the various tribes.

Forcibly obliterating the original beliefs of the various tribes was too radical and easily caused resistance and backlash, so while allowing the various tribes to retain their own beliefs, Mo Ce uniformly required them to all believe in the "God Lord."

And he placed the belief in the God Lord above the local beliefs of the various tribes.

In this way, "God Lord" truly meant the "Lord of All Gods" of the Great Wilderness.

Any tribe's belief must not conflict with the belief in the God Lord; otherwise, it would be regarded as heresy and suppressed.

Their tribal gods would also be found by Mo Ce when there was an opportunity to descend, and he would personally "eat" them.

And the "belief" in the God Lord was not just simple superstition or belief.

Mo Ce personally formulated the doctrine, and through the doctrine, he transformed this "belief" into an "ideal."

These doctrines included, but were not limited to, the God Lord protecting the Great Wilderness, protecting the people of the Great Wilderness, and no tribe being allowed to damage the unity and stability of the Great Wilderness.

Among barbarian cultivators, because of belief, they are equal. At least in basic rights such as life, they are equal.

Power and status may be different, but the belief in the God Lord is unique and supreme.

As long as one believes in the God Lord, regardless of status, one is not allowed to be arbitrarily killed or harmed.

High-level barbarian cultivators are not allowed to arbitrarily kill, bully, insult, or defile ordinary tribal barbarian cultivators; otherwise, they will inevitably be punished by the God Lord.

All barbarian cultivators have the right to learn cultivation.

All barbarian cultivators should be loyal to their tribes.

Within the tribe, all barbarian cultivators who believe in the God Lord should be united, friendly, and live in harmony—

All kinds of things like this, concepts that were fundamentally impossible to realize in the wild barbarian wilderness, were "swapped" by Mo Ce and poured into the "belief" in the God Lord, and utilized divine power to be forcibly implemented.

Most barbarian cultivators are ignorant, fierce, greedy, and seek private interests.

Normal "enlightenment" could not be realized at all.

Mo Ce also had no way to let these barbarian cultivators pursue fairness, pursue justice, seek truth, and seek goodness.

The word "morality" did not exist in the world of these barbarian cultivators at all; no matter how they were explained and promoted, it was useless, and they could not understand.

If they were really allowed to understand, by the time they understood from the infighting for fame and profit, it would be too late.

The great disaster would have already descended, and everyone in the barbarian wilderness would die.

Therefore, the only means was to use "belief," to use a method similar to "superstition," to carry out governance in the form of divine sense.

Use "belief" to shape their Dao heart.

Everything is the instruction of the God Lord, everything is the foreshadowing of the God Lord.

Belief is everything.

The cultivators of the barbarian wilderness just need to do as they are told.

This was almost the only way Mo Ce could think of and could do.

It was even more the only lifeline for the Great Wilderness in the nightmare of Heavenly Dao.

And at the same time, Mo Ce also followed the trend and did one thing he had wanted to do before but had never had the power to do:

Liberate the barbarian slaves.

All barbarian slaves in the Great Wilderness no longer belong to any tribe or any force, but are uniformly classified under the name of the "God Lord."

They are no longer slaves of people, but slaves of gods.

And all barbarian slaves gather together to form a new large tribe, and this tribe is named "God Slave Tribe."

Mo Ce didn't really want to use this name originally.

He didn't like the word "slave," and his original intention was to let all barbarian slaves in the Great Wilderness gain freedom.

But considering from a realistic perspective, this wish was too advanced; at least it was fundamentally impossible now.

In the barbarian wilderness, barbarian slaves are indeed miserable.

But what is even more miserable is barbarian slaves without masters.

Barbarian slaves without masters mean that they are barbarian slaves of everyone.

Because they are "ownerless objects," any tribe or any individual can arbitrarily possess, bully, or even kill them.

If what Mo Ce does in the Great Wilderness and all the efforts he has made succeed, it's fine; barbarian slaves can turn over.

But if it fails, barbarian slaves will instantly return to their original state.

And in this situation, their situation will only be more miserable than before.

Therefore, Mo Ce must think of a retreat for them and leave them a "master."

In this way, even if it eventually fails and the situation becomes more cruel, these barbarian slaves can still unite under the name of "God Slave."

No tribe dares to openly snatch barbarian slaves from the "God Lord."

The two words "God Slave" are their final protective talisman.

Ideals are beautiful, reality is cruel.

To change reality, one can only accept a part of reality first, and then change another part.

Therefore, Mo Ce must think of a retreat for them and leave them a "master."

In this way, even if it eventually fails and the situation becomes more cruel, these barbarian slaves can still unite under the name of "God Slave."

No tribe dares to openly snatch barbarian slaves from the "God Lord."

The two words "God Slave" are their final protective talisman.

Ideals are beautiful, reality is cruel.

To change reality, one can only accept a part of reality first, and then change another part.

Accept another part, and then change another part.

Only in this way, bit by bit, step by step, through generations of unremitting efforts, can reality eventually be turned into the appearance of an ideal—

Up to this point, this Witch Doctor, Mo Ce, in the name of the "God Lord," completed the preliminary liberation of the barbarian slaves of the Great Wilderness.

And the God Slave Tribe also became the force with the largest number of people, the greatest power, the widest range, the most far-reaching influence, and at the same time the most pious force toward the God Lord and Mo Ce, this Witch Doctor, in the entire Great Wilderness.

It was Mo Ce who liberated them in the name of the "God Lord."

They have nothing, only faith.

At the same time, precisely because they have nothing, they have fearless courage and iron-blooded belief. ===== CHAPTER 1273 =====