Chapter 1283: Yin and Yang

The Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array took the twelve main meridians in the cultivator's body—the hand and foot taiyin, jueyin, shaoyin, taiyang, yangming, and Shao Yang—as the core framework.

Taking the blood vessels in the main meridians as points, the meridians as lines, spirit as qi, blood as essence, and the internal organs as vessels, it inherited the ghostly craftsmanship of creation, complex and precise yet natural, connecting the entire body, and finally integrating into one.

The flesh-and-blood body generated by heaven and earth was now like a "human-flesh machine" constructed by the Great Dao.

And at this moment, the "array torture instruments" customized by Mo Hua for himself were, according to the process he had planned and formulated, piercing fine silver needles into his body along the acupoints of his hands and feet.

These silver needles were also connected to his twelve main meridians.

The Wood-White Essence and Gold-Jade Marrow, these two heavenly materials, were also, according to Mo Hua's prior arrangement, infiltrating into Mo Hua's meridians along the silver needles.

First to infiltrate was the Gold-Jade Marrow.

These Gold-Jade Marrow, belonging to the metal element in the five elements, fluid like jade, once entered the body, infiltrated from the flesh and blood downwards, landing on Mo Hua's bones.

Mo Hua's bones had already been pre-nourished with the foundation of "Wood-White Gold-Jade."

At this time, the Gold-Jade Marrow just happened to complete the final step of fusion, wrapping around Mo Hua's trunk bones, as if "gold-plating" his bones.

After "gold-plating," the Gold-Jade Marrow would not solidify for several hours.

This stage was the only opportunity for "engraving the array."

At this time, the Wood-White Essence, mixed with wood qi, half clear and half white, slowly infiltrated into Mo Hua's body along the silver needles.

The Wood-White Essence contained vitality and melted upon contact with blood, making it impossible to perceive.

If it could not be perceived, it could not be manipulated with divine sense.

Therefore, Mo Hua had mixed a little "blood poison" from the Great Wilderness into the Wood-White Essence in advance.

These blood poisons would also melt into the blood and would have a very obvious pain sensation.

As long as there was a distinct "pain sensation," Mo Hua could perceive it.

If he could perceive it, his divine sense could "identify" it.

If his divine sense could identify it, Mo Hua could manipulate these Wood-White Essences, using them as "spirit ink" to engrave the Taotie array on his own bones.

And this blood poison itself also possessed a certain "corrosiveness," capable of corroding bones.

In this way, using the poison itself to replace the "engraving knife," he could leave the traces of the array on his own bones.

This was the "poison engraving" method that Mo Hua had pondered for a long time before coming up with.

Without cutting open the skin and flesh, without dissecting the limbs, without "exposing the bones," he could draw array patterns on his own bones inside his body using the means of controlling ink with divine sense.

As for these blood poisons themselves, although they could "corrode" bones, the toxicity was not strong, and the harm was not great.

What was corroded was mostly just the "gold-plated" bone surface.

Afterwards, the Wood-White Essence would naturally heal, and it would take these blood poisons away with it, leaving no traces.

All processes were in Mo Hua's "plan" and had been deduced thousands of times by him, confirmed to be correct, and only then would he implement them at this time.

The silver needles pierced into the twelve meridians, and the Wood-White Essence melted into the blood. But because it was mixed with "poison" and had pain, it was easily "identified" by Mo Hua's divine sense.

Mo Hua began to manipulate these Wood-White Essences, following the array diagram of the Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array, starting from the hand taiyin lung meridian, entering the meridians from the blood, entering the collaterals from the meridians, and after connecting the meridians, he drew the first stroke of the Taotie Spirit Bone array pattern on the corresponding radial side of the thumb.

The Wood-White Essence melted into blood as ink and landed on the bones "gold-plated" by the Gold-Jade Marrow.

It outlined the first stroke of the brutal Taotie array pattern.

As soon as this Taotie pattern was drawn, it felt as if a fierce beast had bitten into the radial bone of his thumb, the pain penetrating deep into the bone marrow.

Even though he had taken "Numbing Divine Grass" and used Gold-Jade Marrow to plate his bones.

But this pain sensation still clung like a maggot on a tarsal bone, penetrating the Numbing Divine Grass and the Gold-Jade Bone, branding itself onto Mo Hua's divine sense.

This pain was not the pain of flesh and blood or bones.

It was more like a pain of "law."

It was the "backlash" suffering brought about by a "mortal" with a flesh-and-blood body boldly attempting to use his own body and bones to carry the Taotie fierce and evil laws.

This pain could penetrate all surface defenses and act directly on the "divine soul" itself.

Mo Hua only felt the biting of a rootless and nameless fierce beast, the pain unbearable, and his bones, even his meridians and skin and flesh, began to tremble.

Fortunately, before drawing the life-bound array, he had "nailed" his body down.

Otherwise, if he had moved around, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

But the iron chains and shackles were deeply embedded in Mo Hua's body, leaving obvious blood bruises and marks on his fair hands and feet.

This was the pain of the body, but it didn't matter.

The real pain was still the pain brought by bearing the "Taotie" law.

And this pain was still intensifying.

The biting of the Taotie was still deepening.

The various pains brought by this stroke of the array pattern far exceeded the limit that ordinary cultivators could bear.

Even Mo Hua could not bear it and could only actively mobilize his powerful divinity to suppress his humanity.

Putting his life and death, his flesh and blood, his sea of consciousness, all his pain... all out of his mind.

Using divinity to look down from a high position and see through all the various sufferings of himself as a human.

Gods are not benevolent, treating all living things as straw dogs.

Mo Hua himself was also one of the living things.

He treated himself as a "straw dog," and lodged all his sorrow and suffering in the body of the straw dog.

At the same time, he also treated himself as a "god," looking down on himself as a straw dog.

Under this powerful divinity, cold and rational insight and overriding, Mo Hua's "humanity" was further suppressed to a negligible level.

And this weakness of "humanity" also caused the "pain" in his divine sense to be greatly reduced.

In the concept of divine sense, the less one is attached to one's identity as a "human," and the less one is attached to the gains and losses of one's own life, safety, fame, and fortune, the more one can approach divinity.

Mo Hua's eyes almost completely turned golden.

Many of the feelings of being a human, along with the pain of being a human, were diluted together.

Only in this way could he grit his teeth and continue to draw, continue to engrave the life-bound array on his own bones...

Afterwards, the Wood-White Essence mixed with blood poison flowed within the twelve main meridians along with the movement of blood and qi, and under Mo Hua's fine and subtle divine sense manipulation, it continued to meander on the bones, forming the second stroke of the array pattern.

This time, the pain was much lighter.

Mo Hua was also able to continue drawing.

His divine sense continued to flow, the Wood-White Essence like "spirit ink" continued to flow, outlining downwards...

Third stroke, fourth stroke...

Just like this, I don't know how long it took, the first Taotie pattern was finally drawn by Mo Hua.

On Mo Hua's thumb radial bone, a Taotie pattern like a young fierce beast condensed, trembling constantly with the flow of blood qi, as if it were breathing.

The first Taotie pattern was formed.

Almost at the same time, the pain of being bitten by the Taotie suddenly became more intense.

Mo Hua could only mobilize his divinity again, continuing to suppress the pain in his divine sense with absolute rationality and cold cognition.

This was a very tormenting process.

This was a torment to Mo Hua's divine soul and a test of his Dao heart.

Mo Hua forcibly endured this severe pain.

Finally, I don't know how long it took, until the pain subsided slightly, Mo Hua's gaze was firm, and he continued to draw the second Taotie pattern.

Second-grade twenty-four-pattern, Taotie Spirit Bone Array.

He had only drawn one now, and he still had to draw twenty-three more array patterns, and finally connect them all together to form the final Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.

This process was incomparably painful and long, so long that he could almost see no dawn.

In the boundless darkness condensed by pain, Mo Hua didn't know how long he had been drawing, or how much long-lasting pain he had endured.

He didn't even know how many times he had forcibly mobilized his divinity to suppress his humanity...

Mo Hua could only, with cold rationality, like a "Dao machine," follow the array memory he had practiced countless times, patiently, enduring the torment, drawing stroke by stroke, pattern by pattern...

He only had to persist, concentrating his mind to the extreme, without any distractions, and apart from that, there were no other thoughts.

Only in this way could he continue to draw. By the end, Mo Hua even had a feeling of "certainty."

His bones were just withered stones.

His body was just mud.

He no longer had the concept of "I."

He was not engraving the Spirit Bone Array on his own body.

But was drawing this Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array on the natural stones and earth and wood between heaven and earth.

Mo Hua completely erased the "small self," and also transcended "pain." Mo Hua, who was infinitely close to divinity, had only the array in his eyes, only heaven and earth, and that indescribable, self-operating, eternal and unchanging "Dao"...

In this state of extreme "divinity," Mo Hua's consciousness became increasingly clear.

The array under his pen also seemed to have divinity.

He seemed to be born according to the Dao of heaven and earth, breathing with the laws.

In this long contradiction between divinity and humanity, the generation of pain and the dissolution of self, Mo Hua insisted on the end by relying on his Dao heart.

Finally, when Mo Hua's divine sense was about to be exhausted, he finally outlined the last stroke of the Taotie array pattern on his own bones.

He also finally engraved this Great Wilderness Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array, which he had practiced countless times and deduced countless times, completely on his own bones.

At that moment, the blue light was blindingly bright.

One by one, ferocious Taotie patterns began to emerge on Mo Hua's skin.

A ray of ancient array light lit up inside Mo Hua's body, along the meridians, from the hand taiyin lung meridian, to the hand yangming large intestine meridian, to the foot yangming stomach meridian... and finally to the hand Shao Yang triple burner meridian, foot Shao Yang gallbladder meridian, foot jueyin liver meridian, and finally back to the hand taiyin lung meridian, forming a complete twelve-meridian heavenly cycle.

On the cycle of the twelve main meridians, twenty-four Taotie patterns were connected.

And these twenty-four Taotie patterns, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, constantly emerged, as if they had come alive, constantly wriggling and merging on Mo Hua's bones, his internal organs, his meridians, and his flesh and blood, finally connecting into one piece...

The Taotie array and his body were integrated into one.

The Taotie's laws also seemed to have melted into his body.

On Mo Hua's skin, the ancient and ferocious Taotie patterns rose and fell, glowing with an eerie blue light.

Making Mo Hua look like a "human-shaped Taotie."

It was as if a Taotie had been integrated into a human body.

It was also as if a Taotie had turned into a "human shape."

This was the Great Wilderness Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array, which came from the hands of a mysterious Great Divine Invoker and was sealed in the skull of an evil god.

It could be called seizing the creation of heaven and earth, exhausting the absolute secrets of humanity, and transforming the fierce methods of the Taotie.

Mo Hua slowly opened his eyes.

As his eyes opened and closed, it was as if an ancient "spiritual fierce beast" had awakened, taking its first look at this world.

"Success..."

Even though Mo Hua's divinity had multiplied to its peak and his humanity was already very indifferent, he still could not suppress a trace of joy in his heart.

This was not only the joy born from the shaping of the life-bound array and the paving of the Core Formation path within "humanity."

It was even more the joy born from the longing for Dao and laws within "divinity."

Mo Hua could feel the feeling of the Taotie's laws hatching and growing in his body, using the array as a medium, as the life-bound array was shaped.

This joy for the ancient "laws" was something even gods could hardly refuse.

And at this point, the most difficult, most dangerous, and most core part of Mo Hua's life-bound array construction could be considered successfully engraved.

Mo Hua slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, all that remained was to use the "Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array" to lock blood.

In addition to making up for the damage to blood energy during bone engraving, this Ethyl-Wood array was also used to provide a bottom line and save his life.

The Taotie Spirit Bone Array was a fierce beast absolute array, extremely overbearing and dangerous.

Once the Taotie Spirit Bone Array lost control, overloaded, or became disordered, causing a rampage.

Then the meridians, bones, internal organs, etc., that were fused with the Taotie array inside Mo Hua's body would be severely damaged, and it would be very difficult to make up for it.

If there were no corresponding "blood locking" and "vitality replenishing" means, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, he had to build another "vitality" type array inside his body to make up for blood energy.

And to a certain extent, offset the risk of his body being damaged due to the "loss of control" of the Taotie Spirit Bone Array in the future.

Only in this way could he truly leave no future troubles.

To meet these requirements, Mo Hua counted and counted, and only the "Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array" was the most suitable.

This was also almost his best and only choice.

Fortunately, the array patterns of the "Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array" itself were not difficult, at least much simpler than the twenty-four-pattern Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.

Mo Hua used the Wood-White Essence as spirit ink and engraved the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array near his twelve main meridians, that is, beside the Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array.

There were actually quite a lot of bones on his body.

He drew the Taotie array on the main places, and Mo Hua used the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array to fill in the remaining blank spaces.

But this casual filling of his caused a problem.

I don't know if it was a problem with the "ink" of the Wood-White Essence, or a problem with the Wood-White Gold-Jade bone-forging method, or a problem with the ancient laws contained in the Taotie Spirit Bone Array.

When Mo Hua drew the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array on his bones, some "reaction" suddenly occurred.

The Ethyl-Wood array patterns suddenly began to distort, as if some "illusion" had shattered, becoming a bit different.

Vaguely, Mo Hua seemed to see two black and white snakes biting each other's tails, fighting, circling, and weaving something...

At the same time, an ancient and vast feeling surged in Mo Hua's heart.

Mo Hua felt as if he were standing on some boundary of the Great Dao, in eternal life, seemingly alive and seemingly dead, both virtual and real, as if in a dream.

But after that, everything disappeared.

Mo Hua couldn't feel anything anymore.

The Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array had already been drawn by Mo Hua, melted into his bones, and transformed into vitality, silently repairing the injuries in Mo Hua's body caused by engraving the life-bound array.

And every time his injury healed a bit, and every time the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array nourished his vitality, his fusion with his body became deeper...

Mo Hua's brows slowly furrowed.

"What is... this thing... that has melted in..."

He wanted to investigate further, but there was nothing left to investigate.

Even the array patterns of the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array had melted into his bones, and he couldn't "see" them anymore.

The Taotie patterns would glow, and he could still vaguely see some.

But the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array was an array hidden within his twelve main meridians; once drawn, it was silent while operating, and he couldn't see it himself.

Unless he cut open his skin and flesh and picked out his bones, he couldn't see what was engraved on the bones.

He couldn't see what changes had happened to the Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array.

But that would have to wait until he "died" one day, and his corpse was dissected and bones picked.

Mo Hua constantly looked inside with his divine sense, checking the flow of spiritual power in his body and the operation of the array.

He checked it ten or so times and still didn't notice any problems.

The Wood-White Gold-Jade Bone was healing.

The Taotie Spirit Bone Array was also slowly merging while breathing.

The Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation Array was also silently nourishing vitality in the dark.

It looked "peaceful."

"No problem..."

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, still didn't find anything unusual, and stopped worrying about this problem.

This set of life-bound arrays was not an orthodox inheritance to begin with; it was a weird thing he had "stitched" together, so it was normal for some unexpected changes to appear.

As long as the operation didn't go wrong, it would be fine.

Or rather, Mo Hua only "prayed" that this array system wouldn't go wrong when it was operating.

He couldn't hope for anything else.

And now that the life-bound array had been engraved, the wood was already a boat, integrated with his bones, meridians, internal organs, and flesh and blood, pulling one hair and moving the whole body, so he couldn't change it even if he wanted to.

Even if there really was a problem, he could only treat it as if there was no problem.

Even if he really had to die, he could only wait for death.

Mo Hua hardened his heart, stopped worrying about so much, checked the array patterns again, found that the array patterns were correct, the array was operating, and the blood poison, Wood-White Essence, Gold-Jade Marrow, and other residual spiritual medicine properties were not left in his body.

He began to use his divine sense to cut off the interface between the outside world and the twelve meridians in his body, and used his divine sense to control the life-bound array, urging the Ethyl-Wood vitality to heal his flesh and blood.

In this way, his life-bound array completed its final closure.

This life-bound array system of his, with the Great Wilderness Twelve Meridians Taotie Spirit Bone Absolute Array as the core, Wood-White Gold-Jade as the bone, and Ethyl-Wood Rejuvenation as the auxiliary, was completely finalized...

The whole process did not have any more accidents.

However, countless miles away.

Daozhou.

In a remote small courtyard.

The Cabinet Elder, who was sitting by the small river, closing his eyes, dozing off, and fishing, suddenly opened his eyes, looking astonished:

"Where is my array..."

"Where is that array... that I gave him?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1284 =====