Chapter 1288

"Shu Gu Curse Art... Causal locking..."

Inside the tall, empty, and magnificent Witch Doctor's Holy Temple.

The big tiger used its body to "guard" Mo Hua on the high seat, its large head hanging by Mo Hua's hand, quietly closing its eyes to rest.

The cold-faced Mo Hua slowly opened the bone slip presented to him by "Tie Shu Gu," which was to say, the Shu Gu ancestor, and read it quietly.

The Shu Gu Tribe's Curse Art uses causal locking to kill invisibly.

But it requires a descendant with blood relations to serve as a "sacrifice," acting as a bargaining chip for the exchange between life and death.

This kind of "exchange" is not worth mentioning to Mo Hua.

With the strength of his spiritual sense, he can simply erase whatever he wants to kill.

What his spiritual sense cannot erase, this kind of Curse Art cannot kill either.

The so-called "Curse Art" is ultimately just a kind of "spiritual sense killing art"; it just looks like a "curse."

But it is not a true "curse" that possesses the power of "rules" that transcend cultivation.

At least, the Shu Gu Tribe's "Curse Art" is like this.

As for whether there is a true "rule-level" causal curse power, that will probably have to wait until his cultivation is higher and he can touch higher levels of cultivation power to know.

For now, the Shu Gu Tribe's Curse Art is enough to provide Mo Hua with a reference.

He "bought the box but returned the pearls," discarding the core of the Shu Gu Curse Art and only studying the techniques of curse locking.

Mo Hua, with his pure divinity, had a heart like a mirror, and his comprehension of cause and effect had reached a higher level.

It took only about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea for Mo Hua to learn most of the "locking" techniques in the Shu Gu Curse Art. Combined with the theory of the "causal line" mentioned by the Shu Gu ancestor earlier, Mo Hua's understanding of the application of this causal locking was as clear as a mirror.

Afterward, he planned to use "Curse Art locking" to lock onto Elder You and break the Hua family's trap.

This was the only solution he had thought of after a long time of deliberation.

The key to this is "Tie Shu Gu."

Mo Hua could have guessed earlier that Tie Shu Gu would have problems after leaving the Bone Mausoleum, but he hadn't figured out exactly what those problems would be.

Until the divinity in his personality suppressed his humanity.

Pure divinity made him observe and penetrate everything external—people, events, and objects—with absolute clarity.

Only then did he discover that the Shu Gu ancestor's remnant soul was parasitizing Tie Shu Gu's sea of consciousness.

This "dead-and-returned-to-life" Shu Gu ancestor had actually been lurking by his side all along, "serving" him with all his might.

Mo Hua had thus "extorted" these causal secrets and techniques from the Shu Gu ancestor's mouth.

In the Bone Mausoleum, Mo Hua would still give him some face.

But now that he was following by his side, Mo Hua would not be polite.

And looking at it now, this Shu Gu ancestor really knew quite a lot.

He also revealed a great secret to him... the Great Wilderness Straw Dog Life Art...

Mo Hua's gaze narrowed slightly.

It is still uncertain whose hands this Straw Dog Life Art is in.

But that is a matter for later; the current priority is still the Hua family and Elder You.

Mo Hua already knew the "Curse Art locking" technique. The next problem was to find a "causal line" to locate Elder You and find a way to "knife" this Elder You.

Once Elder You dies, the Hua family's chessboard in the Great Wilderness will inevitably fall into chaos.

Once the situation is in chaos, he can take the opportunity to strike, uprooting the Hua family's forces in the Great Wilderness and slaughtering their lackeys.

Anyone who hinders him from playing this "big game" must die.

Mo Hua condensed a Golden Blade Art, cut his finger, and used his blood to draw a curse seal in the shape of a bone mountain demon in front of him.

Once the curse seal was drawn, a pale red light flickered, and a small causal "curse demon" was stirring.

Mo Hua pressed his hand onto the causal curse seal, recalling every detail of his contact with Elder You in his mind, searching for a causal line that could be used to "lock on."

But he failed after several attempts.

Either the cause and effect were unstable—the causal line would just condense, and before it could trace over, it would break.

Or the cause and effect were too obvious; as soon as he tried to lock on, it would be cut off by something.

This either meant Elder You had protective heavenly treasures.

Or the Hua family's ancestor was secretly using means to protect Elder You's cause and effect.

Of course, it could be both.

A chess player, especially a master, cannot fail to take "protective measures" for their pieces before moving one.

Otherwise, if your piece is eaten by someone else, the situation will instantly take a turn for the worse.

Mo Hua tried for a long time but couldn't find a "causal line" on Elder You that was stable, hidden, hard to break, and could deceive the heavenly secrets to lock onto him, so he couldn't help but slowly frown.

After thinking for a moment, Mo Hua decided to keep looking into the past.

Since the situation here in the wilderness was already "open cards," many of Elder You's causes and effects were protected.

Then he would look further back.

He would look back to when he first met Elder You.

But as Mo Hua's spiritual sense backtracked, he was suddenly startled, his mind blank; he seemed to have completely forgotten what intersections he had had with Elder You when he was in the Ganxue State boundary...

Mo Hua's frown deepened.

He knew this meant his "humanity" had been extinguished to a certain extent, and his past memories were even beginning to show large "blanks."

This situation was already very serious.

Mo Hua felt some anxiety and sorrow in his heart.

But on the other hand, he actually felt a bit of "secret joy"...

This was the divinity feeling joy, joy that he was gradually detaching from his mortal identity, severing past memories, extinguishing his human past, and thus step by step, moving closer to a true "deity"...

Mo Hua turned his head to look at the big tiger.

Under the prompt of the "Dao Heart Planting Demons," the memories with the big tiger surfaced bit by bit in his mind. Mo Hua was silent for a long time before he remembered his name again:

"Mo Hua."

As soon as this name surfaced, Mo Hua felt a little better, as if his humanity finally had a tiny "anchor point."

But at the same time, Mo Hua could also feel that this anchor point was gradually loosening.

It seemed that he was becoming somewhat numb to this name as well.

He was already a bit indifferent to who he was, and indifferent to whether he... was called "Mo Hua"...

Mo Hua pressed his lips tightly together.

The big tiger seemed to notice something, opened its eyes, and looked at Mo Hua with a melancholic gaze, but it couldn't do anything either, so it could only rub its head against Mo Hua, not letting Mo Hua feel too lonely.

Mo Hua took a deep breath, gently touched the big tiger, and sighed:

"I... am fine..."

The big tiger clearly didn't believe him, its big eyes blinking.

Mo Hua shook his head, then stopped being distracted and continued to consider Elder You's matter.

He concentrated his spirit, trying hard to recall every bit of his time in the Ganxue State boundary, searching for clues from his contact with Elder You.

But his mind remained a blank.

Those people and events of the past all seemed like bubbles, existing in an illusory and unreal state.

And in that blank space, once he tried to think, his spiritual sense would begin to ache faintly; this was his divinity rejecting the backtracking of his humanity.

Mo Hua patiently endured the stinging in his mind and tried to think bit by bit.

After thinking for a long time, he finally remembered one thing:

Debt!

This Elder You, when he was in the Ganxue State boundary, "hired" him to draw arrays and owed him 1.8 million spirit stones!

1.8 million spirit stones!

This was not a small amount.

Mo Hua, with his indifferent humanity, had almost forgotten this.

Owed debt is inherently owed cause and effect; owing a large debt and not repaying it is even more of a "great cause and effect" owed.

In other words, he is now Elder You's "creditor," and Elder You is a "deadbeat."

This "debt" cause and effect is both objective and solid, almost unbreakable, and it is heavy—as heavy as 1.8 million spirit stones.

What's more wonderful is that this is Elder You's "private debt" to him.

It is a private debt across large states, and others don't know about it.

It's even hard to say whether Elder You himself knows he owes this debt.

After all, people who owe money usually have no self-awareness.

This means that this "causal line" is very hidden.

Every injustice has its perpetrator, every debt has its debtor.

As long as he follows this established and certain causal line to lock onto Elder You's whereabouts, he can not only make him unable to escape causal tracking but also make him unable to notice...

There was a hint of danger in Mo Hua's gaze.

"If you don't pay back what you owe me, you have to pay interest..."

Third-grade, Ghost Cry Mountain boundary.

A place outside the control of the Divine Blessing's forces.

A land of deep deserts and howling sinister winds.

In a stronghold in a certain mountain, Elder You, who was originally lying on the bed resting and nourishing his spirit, suddenly sat up in shock.

The expression on his face changed, and he muttered to himself:

"What's going on? How could I... suddenly have such palpitations?"

Elder You's heart was pounding, as if he had done something terribly wrong and was about to face retribution...

"What on earth... is going on..."

"Is someone... trying to harm me with... cause and effect?"

Elder You hurriedly took out a sword talisman and hung it over his heart, while setting up twelve golden money-jade mouse statues to protect himself.

Even the heavenly secret heart-protecting copper mirror given to him by the ancestor was worn on his chest.

After doing all this, Elder You felt a little more at ease, but he still didn't understand who could be "plotting" against him.

With the ancestor protecting him, who has the ability to plot against him?

Elder You shook his head, thinking it was a false alarm, and continued to lie down, closing his eyes to rest.

During this period, he and that barbarian Divine Blessing had been fighting back and forth, and his spirit was too exhausted; he occasionally needed to rest well and plan some methods, preferably to solve that damned Divine Blessing once and for all.

As long as the Divine Blessing is dead, without this greatest enemy.

Their Hua family can manipulate the entire wilderness, and then use the wilderness as a foundation to control the entire Great Wilderness, in order to plot for bigger "business"...

"Kill the Divine Blessing..."

"Kill the Divine Blessing..."

Elder You lay on the bed, repeating this sentence in his heart, fantasizing about that high and mighty Divine Blessing dying in his hands, being skinned and cut, and the anger and resentment in his heart gradually subsided, and he felt a little comfort.

For these days, Elder You had been falling asleep like this.

With huge losses in business, he felt like he was mourning his parents, a pain that cut to the bone.

If he didn't fantasize like this, he couldn't close his eyes at all.

He hated the Divine Blessing so much he wanted to kill him quickly. In this hatred, Elder You's mood slowly calmed down.

He could also nourish his spirit well.

Time passed bit by bit...

I don't know how long it had been, but when Elder You opened his eyes again, he suddenly felt that the air in the room had become a bit colder.

It was like... a room where corpses were kept.

At the same time, a cold, almost breathless chill was crawling up his back.

It was clearly very cold and eerie, but it made people unable to notice it.

If it weren't for the sword talisman trembling at his neck, the heart-protecting mirror on his chest glowing, and the surrounding money mice also chirping, Elder You wouldn't have even realized the problem.

But at this moment, everything was wrong.

After Elder You released his spiritual sense, his eyes suddenly widened, "Not good!"

He immediately wanted to get up.

Almost the moment he got up, a cold, corpse-like claw suddenly drilled up from under him and gripped his throat.

The corpse's claw gripped Elder You's throat tightly, and its long nails pierced into the flesh of his neck.

There was even corpse poison slowly seeping into Elder You's blood.

"Late-stage Jin Dan corpse?!"

Elder You's face turned pale. The next moment, his skin and flesh actually began to deform and expand, finally turning into a humanoid "balloon."

The corpse's claw tore suddenly.

The balloon was torn, and the human skin exploded into dust, flying all over the sky.

But Elder You's figure appeared five feet away.

He used some unknown, strange means, using the human skin to self-destruct, and escaped from the claw.

The escaped Elder You was covered in blood, and the human skin was also slowly healing.

At the same time, his face, amidst the bloody flesh, was also slowly recovering its original appearance.

A "Human Skin Shedding Talisman" was wasted.

Anger and shock grew in his heart.

Who on earth is it?!

Who calculated his residence and could send such a ferocious "corpse" to assassinate him?

Under the protection of the ancestor's sword talisman and the heavenly treasure, all prying into him would either be cut off by the sword of heavenly secrets in advance or isolated by the heavenly heart-protecting mirror.

It is impossible for anyone to calculate his cause and effect under the protection of the Hua family ancestor and the heavenly treasure.

At least here in the Great Wilderness, it is absolutely impossible...

"Impossible..."

Elder You's gaze was ferocious.

And just at this moment, the ground bulged, and earth and stones flew, revealing a tall corpse.

The corpse was covered in layers of pitch-black heavy armor, and on the heavy armor, earth-type arrays were depicted, its aura blending into the earth, making it difficult to be noticed.

And the corpse's right hand was still dragging a layer of human skin, looking very creepy.

In its eye sockets, deep and eerie blue light revealed the cruelty of slaughter.

The moment he met the corpse's gaze, Elder You's scalp went numb, and at the same time, he recognized it in an instant.

The Divine Blessing's undead servant!

General Shi Gu!

It's that Divine Blessing!

He calculated his location, sent his corpse general, lurking and tunneling in the dark night, to kill him!

Elder You's heart was cold. He had been in the cultivation world for so long, and this was the first time in his life that he had encountered a situation where he was calculated, his territory was found, and a corpse general was sent to block him in the room to "kill" him...

And at this time, on the mountain ridge in the distance.

Mo Hua, dressed in Divine Blessing robes, stood on the mountain peak, with the Jin Dan Holy Tiger accompanying him.

Lu Gu led a group of heavy barbarian soldiers, following behind Mo Hua.

A strange blue light flashed across Mo Hua's eyes, and then he waved his hand gently, "Kill!"

Lu Gu gave a low shout, "Kill!"

Afterward, he took the lead, drew his bone-slaying knife, and led a group of barbarian soldiers, like demon soldiers in the dark night, charging toward the Hua family's core stronghold in the Ghost Cry Mountain boundary.

And in Mo Hua's eyes, the moment the blue light flashed, inside the stronghold, the blue light of killing intent in the eyes of the corpse "Shi Gu" also suddenly surged.

Ferocious Taotie patterns emerged one by one from within the heavy armor.

With a roar, "Shi Gu" carried a wind of death and evil, killing toward Elder You.

It followed the orders of its master, who was "of the same origin" and also bore the Taotie pattern, to slaughter all enemies.

It seemed that the two Taotie arrays resonated.

Shi Gu's movements were more skillful.

The operation of spiritual power was faster.

Its aura was also "amplified" to a certain extent, and the Taotie's ferocity was even greater.

A hint of fear flashed across Elder You's face.

(End of chapter)