Chapter 1282: Engraving the Life-Bound Array

Third-grade Green Yushan Realm, Gao Tu Headquarters, Chieftain's Great Hall.

Mo Hua sat on the high throne, his face as handsome as white jade, his pale golden eyes cold and indifferent, looking down as if detached from the mortal world.

The heavily wounded Gao Tu Great General, Gao Du, was being held down by Lu Gu and forced to kneel on the ground.

Gao Du was in the late stage of Jin Dan. As a Great General, he possessed the pride of a powerhouse. Now, being forced to kneel to a "Divine Dao Puppet" who was only at the Foundation Establishment realm, he naturally felt venomous resentment in his heart.

Not to mention, this "Divine Dao Puppet" looked only twenty years old, looking absurdly "young."

Gao Du suddenly raised his head, just about to spit out insults, when he suddenly felt a tyrannical demonic aura. His expression changed, and as he turned his head to look, he saw that beside him, standing there at some unknown time, was a beastly tiger demon with a body of white jade mixed with black markings.

This tiger demon was massive, with a domineering "King" character on its forehead. Its aura was overbearing and its demonic energy was vigorous, yet it carried an air of holiness. Its eyes were like thunder, majestic and imposing, making anyone who saw it feel fear.

A third-grade King Demon...

Moreover, there were no chains on its body, no shackles, no holy patterns, not a single trace of "binding" methods.

It just walked back and forth in the great hall as it pleased.

Gao Du had only looked at this tiger from afar before, thinking it was a "fake." But now that he was close, feeling the pressure of a third-grade Jin Dan demon beast and that holy, majestic aura, he finally realized that it was truly different...

This King Demon was no mere showpiece.

Its bloodline aura was truly unimaginably strong.

And the big tiger didn't seem to like this "toad-like" Gao Du either; it stretched out a fluffy big paw and patted Gao Du's head in disgust.

Its big paw looked fluffy, but it was made of copper skin and iron bones, as hard as a sledgehammer.

Gao Du's head was buzzing from the tiger's pat, but he could only keep his head down, not daring to make a sound.

Just then, a cold yet majestic voice came from above:

"Come back."

Hearing Mo Hua call it, the big tiger finally left Gao Du, paced its way to the high throne, and lay down beside Mo Hua, resting its head under Mo Hua's hand.

Mo Hua reached out and gently stroked the big tiger's head.

Seeing this scene, Gao Du's heart suddenly shrank.

In front of this Foundation Establishment "Divine Invoker," this unruly, terrifyingly powerful third-grade tiger demon was actually as docile as a kitten.

Gao Du finally realized that his previous guess might have been completely wrong...

He pressed his head even lower, not daring to look up at Mo Hua.

Just then, Mo Hua spoke.

While stroking the big tiger, he said indifferently to Gao Du:

"Submit to the Divine Lord, work for me, and I will spare your life."

Gao Du's gaze was startled, his heart in turmoil.

But he didn't answer whether he was willing or not; instead, he asked the question that was his greatest obsession:

"I just want to know, that monster that eats Jin Dan and fought with me... what exactly is it..."

Mo Hua said: "It is an... Undying Great General under the Divine Lord's command."

"Undying Great General..."

Gao Du's heart trembled, and the brutal scenes of that day floated before his eyes again. That monster that could never be killed, that could "come back to life" by eating a Jin Dan even when it was almost dead, still made him shiver all over whenever he thought of it.

"How is that possible..." Gao Du muttered in a daze.

"It is a 'creation' of the Divine Lord, existing between life and death, using its undying body to fight in all directions for the Divine Lord," Mo Hua said calmly.

Gao Du's expression was shaken, as if he wanted to ask something else, but when he looked up, he didn't dare to speak again.

He could feel that this "Lord Divine Invoker's" gaze was becoming increasingly cold, as if he was losing patience with him. If he asked any further, he might provoke the Divine Invoker's anger.

Sure enough, Mo Hua only said coldly:

"I will ask you one more time, are you willing to submit?"

Gao Du lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, and gritted his teeth:

"Gao Du... as a Great General of the Gao Tu Tribe, I am loyal to the tribe, loyal to the Great Chieftain, and dare not betray..."

"No matter," Mo Hua said: "You are now the Gao Tu Great Chieftain."

You are the Great Chieftain, so naturally, you don't need to be loyal to any Great Chieftain anymore.

You only need to be loyal to yourself.

Gao Du was stunned, somewhat incredulous, "I... Great Chieftain, but... I... my name is not justified..."

Mo Hua said indifferently: "The greatest 'name' in the Great Wilderness is the 'name' of the Divine Lord. I serve in the name of the Divine Lord; I say you are the Great Chieftain, and you are the Great Chieftain."

Gao Du realized, and immediately kowtowed three times to Mo Hua:

"Gao Tu Tribe Great Chieftain—Gao Du, is willing to serve Lord Divine Invoker, to give my all, to work myself to the bone, and to die for the cause."

Mo Hua nodded slightly, "The Divine Lord will bestow blessings upon you. From now on, as the Gao Tu Great Chieftain, you must remember the teachings of the Divine Lord. Apart from that, you shall decide all matters within the Gao Tu Tribe yourself."

Gao Du kowtowed and said: "Yes, thank you for your grace, Lord Divine Invoker. From now on, the Gao Tu Tribe will surely honor the name of the Divine Lord and will only look to Lord Divine Invoker for guidance."

Mo Hua nodded, "Go down."

Lu Gu released Gao Du.

Gao Du looked at Lu Gu with some resentment, then looked at Mo Hua with awe, as well as the holy beast tiger beside Mo Hua, which was being petted, docile as a cat, yet brutal and domineering.

Gao Du bent his waist and bowed as he retreated.

After Gao Du left, only Mo Hua and Lu Gu remained in the great hall, along with the big tiger that could not speak.

The great hall was very quiet for a while.

Lu Gu did not leave, but looked at Mo Hua with a complex gaze. After hesitating for a long time, he slowly said:

"Lord Divine Invoker... my brother, he..."

Mo Hua's voice was calm, with no emotion visible: "He has already received the Divine Lord's blessing and has embarked on the path of his 'destiny'."

Lu Gu remained silent.

Mo Hua looked at Lu Gu and asked: "Do you... have any dissatisfaction?"

Lu Gu remained silent. After a moment, he shook his head, bowed to Mo Hua, and said with a resolute voice:

"If one day, Lu Gu dies on the battlefield, I also ask Lord Divine Invoker to bestow a blessing and refine my corpse into an undying Great General. Let me, after death, be able to fight side by side with my brother. With a decaying, rotten body, I will serve Lord Divine Invoker, fight in all directions, unify the Great Wilderness, and forge an immortal great achievement..."

A look of surprise appeared in Mo Hua's eyes. After a moment, he nodded somewhat complexly and said:

"I promise you."

Lu Gu knelt before Mo Hua and said solemnly, "Lu Gu, many thanks to you, my Lord Divine Blessing, for your grace."

In the following days, Gao Du officially became the Gao Tu Great Chieftain and worked for Mo Hua.

The first thing he did was to capture the former Great Chieftain of the Gao Tu Tribe, cut off his head, and offer it to Mo Hua to show his loyalty.

The Gao Tu Tribe could only have one Great Chieftain.

Gao Du was now the Great Chieftain appointed by Lord Divine Invoker, so the previous Great Chieftain could no longer exist.

Otherwise, it would tarnish the prestige of Lord Divine Invoker.

Mo Hua acknowledged Gao Du's "loyalty."

Afterwards, Gao Du led the Gao Tu Tribe to act as Mo Hua's vanguard, flattening all the large and small tribes in the entire Green Yushan Realm, achieving the unification of the entire third-grade Green Yushan Realm.

All barbarian slaves were liberated by Mo Hua and incorporated into the Divine Slave Tribe.

And all the high-level members of the tribes were also "cleansed" by Mo Hua.

Those who believed in the Divine Lord, submitted to the Divine Invoker, and swore to act according to the "teachings" of the Divine Lord from then on, could be spared.

If they were stubborn and unyielding, they would be dealt with according to their crimes.

Those with light sins were demoted to commoners, and those with deep sins were executed on the spot.

Thus, the third-grade Green Yushan Realm was also conquered and "transformed" by Mo Hua, and incorporated into the territory unified by the Divine Lord.

Afterwards, taking advantage of the unification of the mountain realm and the rest period of the Divine Invoker's army, Mo Hua found a closed and quiet valley for himself within the Green Yushan Realm.

He prepared to engrave the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array for himself right here.

Green Yushan Realm.

Bone Miasma Mountain.

Inside a secret cave in the mountain, Mo Hua sat cross-legged, surrounded by dense arrays.

This was a place Mo Hua had specially chosen using Heavenly Secret deduction, to shield the profound mysteries and not leak karma.

And on the outskirts of the cave, Dan Zhu and Lu Gu were guarding.

The third-grade holy beast big tiger, as well as a group of tiger demons led by the third-grade Hanging-Eyebrow Black Tiger, were also guarding Mo Hua outside.

This was a place of fate on the Divine Invoker's path of personal conquest; the location was extremely secret, untainted by karma, the defense was very tight, and Mo Hua's calculations were extremely thorough.

Because this was the most important step for his Core Formation.

He wanted to draw the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array on his own body as his life-bound array.

This act was the foundation of Core Formation, the key to entering the peak of Foundation Establishment, and it concerned the success or failure of Core Formation and the future of his cultivation.

Likewise, this was also the result Mo Hua had obtained after exhausting all his efforts and enduring long torment.

For this, Mo Hua had exhausted his calculations in the Great Wilderness, planned and laid out, paid a lot, and plotted for a long time.

Now, he had finally reached this step.

He should have felt excited about this.

However, Mo Hua's emotions at this moment were somewhat cold.

Because divinity had already overridden his humanity, and he was no longer able to feel emotional fluctuations from his own successes and losses.

This matter had both advantages and disadvantages.

The disadvantage was that Mo Hua knew his humanity had become a bit thinner again.

The advantage was that the "thinness" of humanity and the coldness of emotions also gave him absolute calmness.

What he was about to do was a very "dangerous" and difficult task; the process involved extremely complex and precise cutting and manipulation of his own human flesh, meridians, and bones.

Any emotional fluctuation would affect his heart, affect his divine sense, and further interfere with his manipulation.

There could not be a single trace of emotional fluctuation.

Expectation, excitement, agitation, nervousness, unease, apprehension... none of these were good things.

He had to possess absolute rationality and absolute calmness, like a "god."

Mo Hua closed his eyes slightly to rest his mind.

After a cup of tea, he opened his eyes, with golden light shining in the depths of his eyes, his divinity solemn.

Afterwards, Mo Hua took out two glass jade bottles that were tightly sealed with strips.

Inside the jade bottles were the two extremely precious heavenly materials that were most important for the Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone:

Wood-White Essence and Gold-Jade Marrow.

Like the casting method of the Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone, this was also something the Grand Void Sect Master had painstakingly sought for Mo Hua from the Bai family.

Every drop was precious.

Using Gold-Jade Marrow to strengthen the bone quality, making the whole skeleton as hard as gold and jade. Only then could he use his own bones as the array medium for the absolute array.

Using Wood-White Essence to integrate into the blood energy, turning blood into ink, and drawing the array. Only then could the ink, blood, array, and bone be thoroughly integrated into one.

At the same time, the "Wood" essence contained in the Wood-White Essence itself could also fit with the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array used to "lock blood."

In this way, a perfect closed loop was formed.

Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone, Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array, Taotie Spirit Bone Pattern.

Between the three, there was a common underlying logic, bound together, jointly constituting Mo Hua's life-bound array system.

Mo Hua realized that he seemed to have practiced it a bit wrong again.

He had made simple things too obscure and complex again.

His original intention was just to simply use the "Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array" as his life-bound array.

But using the "Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array" alone as a life-bound array was simply impossible for Mo Hua.

His body could not support the bone-engraving array.

His already weak blood energy would flow away in large quantities.

The Taotie's laws also lacked nourishment.

Mo Hua could only find ways to solve these problems one by one, and finally, after racking his brains, piecing things together, and "mending and patching," he finally "stitched" together such a "weird thing":

A life-bound array framework of the "Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone - Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array - Taotie Spirit Bone Pattern" trinity.

On the surface, the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array was naturally his life-bound array.

But in order to support this absolute array, Mo Hua also used two other key "inheritances."

Mo Hua didn't know if doing this would cause other problems.

But at this point, there was no turning back.

There is no turning back once the bow is drawn; on this path of "Core Formation," he could only rely on himself, bite the bullet, and keep walking forward to the end...

But this set of cultivation theory was ultimately just a concept.

Many times, truly implementing the concept and turning the cultivation theory from virtual to real was the most difficult thing.

And in order to perfectly build this "array system" where bone, blood, and array were integrated on his own body, Mo Hua had also spent too much effort.

In the Ganxue State Realm, he had browsed through the Core Formation traditions of the three Grand Void gates, entered the Great Wilderness to become a Divine Invoker, and read countless tribal classics.

At this moment, integrating all of this, Mo Hua had again neglected sleep and food, almost exhausted his divine sense, and deduced it countless times, only then finally constructing a complete set of "surgery and array engraving" plans that were most practical for him at present.

First, the foundation of the Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone, Mo Hua had started preparing long ago.

Since the beginning of the Divine Invoker war, before Mo Hua's personal conquest, he had already started to continuously take some gold and wood spiritual objects to nourish his body, preparing for the "surgery" of his life-bound array.

Now, his body had been initially nourished.

Inside his bones, a gold and jade color had already faintly appeared.

With the help of Lu Gu, he had also completed the verification of the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Array.

Mo Hua had truly reached the time to start "surgery" on himself.

At this time, in the center of the secret cave, a complex array "torture bed" was placed.

This was prepared by Mo Hua for himself.

He had to perform "surgery" on himself, which would definitely be accompanied by severe pain, and his body would uncontrollably tremble, so he had to use an array to forcibly fix his body.

Secondly, being able to endure the severe pain and draw the array on his own body was also a huge difficulty.

He could not delegate this matter to others.

He could only draw it himself; no one could help him.

One reason was that, as far as Mo Hua knew, he was the only "living person" who could draw the second-grade twenty-four-pattern Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.

And it had to be added with a special "bone engraving" method.

He could not find a second person in the world who could help him engrave this Taotie absolute array on his body.

Even if there was such a person who also mastered the Taotie absolute array, Mo Hua could not let this person draw it for him.

Because this was a "life-bound array," the foundation of his Core Formation, and his future path of cultivation.

This was the most confidential and fundamental secret of a cultivator, which could not be told to anyone, and the whole process, unless absolutely necessary, must never pass through the hands of a second person.

Even if it was Old Mr. Xun, his Master, or his own parents, it was best not to get them too deeply involved.

This was not because of distrust, but because the karma was truly too great.

The life-bound array was cultivated with his own life; it was both his "Dao" and his "Life."

His own life could only be held in his own hands.

Handing one's life to others would carry huge risks and would implicate the karma of others.

Especially Mo Hua, who knew that his life and karma were different from ordinary people, and the dangers and crises within were like a boundless abyss, difficult to fathom.

If his karma, his Dao, and his life were only held in his own hands, then if others wanted to harm his Dao or hurt his life, they would only come for him.

But if he told his parents, his relatives, his friends, and his teachers about the life-and-death matters in his cultivation.

Then they would also bear this karma for him.

Others would "harm" him through them.

Conversely, it would be him "harming" them.

Especially since Mo Hua knew that his parents were just ordinary cultivators.

He only hoped that his parents could live a happy, peaceful, and smooth life, and did not want them to bear too much of his karma and attract some accidents and disasters.

Therefore, some things could only be known to himself.

Some lives could only be held in one's own hands.

This was not because of distrusting others, but precisely because he did not want to implicate others and did not want to hurt others.

And the current situation of being "alone" was actually the best situation.

In the entire wilderness, Mo Hua, this mysterious Lord Divine Invoker, was actually a "person fallen from the sky," a complete "stranger."

Almost no one really knew his background.

Therefore, all the karma of his Core Formation could be gathered on himself without implicating others.

All the arrays, methods, karma, and specific processes involved in his Core Formation were also almost known only to himself.

From another perspective, the Divine Invoker was the Divine Invoker, and Mo Hua was Mo Hua.

It was actually the "Divine Invoker" of the wilderness who was casting the life-bound array and preparing for Core Formation.

Not Mo Hua.

Not that "Mo Hua" who was a disciple of Mr. Zhuang, a small array master in Xiancheng, a small senior brother of the Grand Void Sect, the "little ancestor" of the three Grand Void branches, the dual leader of the Ganxue array path, and the number one person in the Ganxue sword discussion...

Mo Hua calmed his mind and took a bottle of medicinal juice brewed with the "Numbing Divine Grass" of the Great Wilderness as the base.

Numbing Divine Grass had a numbing effect, which could numb perception and suppress the pain of the body.

Afterwards, Mo Hua took off the Divine Invoker's holy robe. His body was fair and slender, but the bones inside emitted a moist luster like gold and jade, transparent and holy.

Mo Hua mixed the Wood-White Essence and Gold-Jade Marrow and poured them into a jade vessel.

Afterwards, he lay on the array "torture bed" he had made for himself.

As the light flowed, the array operated, and the torture instruments matched, firmly pinning Mo Hua to the bed, so that even if he suffered great pain, he could not move.

At the same time, the shackles on his hands and feet also grew dense, fine spikes, which pierced into Mo Hua's skin and flesh. Amidst the blood and gore, they pierced into his twelve main meridians, including the three yin and three yang of the hands, and the three yin and three yang of the feet...

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