Chapter 1300

From the first year of the Divine Blessing, only five years had passed, yet the wilderness, under the spread of the famine, had already achieved unification.

In the history of the wilderness, this was an unprecedented event.

The title "Divine Blessing" also left a heavy, colorful mark in the history of the wilderness, and even the Great Wilderness, achieving an indelible legacy.

And after the unification of the wilderness, Mo Hua's personal power and prestige also reached their peak.

Added to this was the faith he controlled as the acting Divine Master, as well as the power of "Divine Punishment" he possessed after unsealing his divine sense into a sword.

The entire famine-stricken wilderness, all supreme power over both the divine path and the secular world, was entirely in Mo Hua's grasp.

Mo Hua became the wilderness's true and supreme person.

He was the "God" in faith, and also the "King" in the secular world.

With supreme power in his hands, Mo Hua also began to comprehensively promote the transformation of the wilderness.

All the barbarian slaves in the wilderness were liberated and incorporated into the "Divine Slave Force."

From now on, in the entire wilderness, no tribe and no individual was allowed to privately keep "barbarian slaves."

People could only be the slaves of "Gods," the servants of faith.

And no longer the slaves of any faction or any "person."

Mo Hua used faith in the gods to swap the concept of divine sense, temporarily suppressing the contradictions of the wilderness and severing the relationship between barbarian slaves and tribes.

The barbarian slave system prevalent in the Great Wilderness was basically substantially abolished.

The liberation of a large number of barbarian slaves, who transformed into "Divine Slaves," also meant that a large amount of human labor was liberated.

And these Divine Slaves held the most pious faith and the most fervent gratitude toward the Divine Master and Mo Hua, this Divine Blessing.

Because of this, Mo Hua also extremely quickly accelerated the construction of the Thick Earth Great Array.

The entire wilderness, spread across every mountain region, across the mountains and plains, was filled with Divine Slaves building the Great Wilderness, and formation-wielding shaman cultivators carving holy tattoos according to Mo Hua's intentions.

The Thick Earth Great Array was spreading, the famine was contained to a certain extent, and the death energy in the sky began to fade.

And near the Thick Earth Great Array, some vegetation began to grow, and crops like beans and millet were planted one by one.

The barren land of the wilderness began to emerge with vitality, gradually taking on a new atmosphere.

At the same time, Mo Hua also promoted faith reform in the entire wilderness to the greatest extent, placing faith in the Divine Master above secular power.

Replacing the power of tribal chiefs with divine power.

And incorporating precious qualities such as "fairness, righteousness, ethics, morality, fraternity, harmony, and selflessness" into the faith in the Divine Master in the form of doctrines.

In this way, through divine war and comprehensive faith in the Divine Master, the comprehensive "civilization" of the wilderness was completed.

Allowing the barbaric, selfish, and cruel barbarian tribes to also have a certain level of faith and morality, and to have some heart for seeking fairness and righteousness.

Afterward, Mo Hua also established some schools.

All young barbarian cultivators had to enter schools to study.

The first thing to study was not the barbarian tribes' cultivation techniques and inheritance, but first to recite some basic enlightenment on righteousness, understand the principles of human relations, and shape a heart for seeking the Dao.

Children were the future.

In this way, Mo Hua carried out a reconstruction of faith and a reshaping of the "Dao heart" in the entire wilderness from top to bottom, from old to young.

Although at this time, this "Dao heart" was still very weak, only in the budding stage.

But under Mo Hua's promotion, it truly took root and sprouted on the land of the wilderness, and was constantly growing...

In the period that followed, Mo Hua successively promulgated a series of measures for the reform of the wilderness, allowing the entire wilderness to gradually begin to take on a new look.

But at the same time, rebellions in various places also emerged one after another.

Some opposed the system Mo Hua promoted, some had committed heinous crimes and feared Mo Hua would settle accounts later, some were angry because Mo Hua had cut off too many of their interests, and some had performed meritorious service but were punished by Mo Hua for being addicted to pleasure and luxury, thus harboring resentment...

Among them were also the remnants of rebellious tribes from various places, including the old chief of the Witch Vulture Force, the young master of the Bi Fang Force, Bi Zhou Jie, the son of the original great chief of the Gao Tu Force, the young master of the Ghost Cry Force... and so on.

Of course, most importantly, there was still the secret support of the Hua family.

When the Witch Vulture Force was defeated, Elder You saw the situation was not good and escaped early. Afterward, it was unknown what means he used, or what other reliance he had; the cause and effect were obscure and unclear, and Mo Hua could not find him for a time.

And while Mo Hua was reforming the wilderness and establishing the Dao heart.

The Hua family still subsidized rebel forces everywhere, sparking quite a few rebellions.

Although the entire wilderness was temporarily unified, undercurrents were surging in various places, and there were still hidden dangers of division.

Mo Hua could only send troops to continue to suppress them.

Dan Zhu was responsible for governing internal affairs and promoting the Divine Blessing reform, while such matters of suppressing rebellions were handled by Lu Gu.

Lu Gu led the barbarian soldiers of the Shu Gu Force to launch a war to quell the rebellion, and the originally unified wilderness began to ignite with the flames of war again.

The enemy was in the dark, and he was in the light; Lu Gu was constrained everywhere.

Added to this was a great family like the Hua family obstructing from within, and the war situation was very difficult for a time.

It was not until two months later that Mo Hua freed up his hands and once again, in the capacity of Divine Blessing, personally led the expedition.

At the same time, he brought two "great generals" by his side.

One was the immortal great general "Shi Gu," whose body was like a mountain and whose flesh was indestructible.

The other was covered in dragon patterns, like the incarnation of a black dragon, with noble bloodlines and a physical body so strong it was nearly "invincible at the Golden Core stage"...

The "Witch Vulture Young Master."

In the previous battle, the Witch Vulture Young Master's divine soul was wiped out by Mo Hua with a sword of divine sense, so his physical body naturally fell into Mo Hua's hands.

The Witch Vulture Young Master was also a talent of a generation of heroes.

Originally, if there were no war and the wilderness was stable, Mo Hua did not want to lay hands on his physical body again.

But now, the Witch Vulture Force and other remnants of rebellious tribes repeatedly caused trouble and disrupted the overall situation, so Mo Hua could no longer afford to be polite.

Shi Gu was a killing machine that could make the enemy tremble with fear.

And the Witch Vulture Young Master was an invincible god of war, with a body like a dragon, sweeping away all obstacles; his strength was well-known.

Therefore, when the dead, invincible Witch Vulture Young Master, in the form of a "servant," submitted to Mo Hua's orders and constantly slaughtered the enemies in front of Mo Hua, the blow to the morale of the rebel army was almost devastating.

A body full of dragon patterns was enough to deter all directions.

No one dared to be an enemy of the Witch Vulture Young Master.

Not to mention that behind the Witch Vulture Young Master stood that terrifying Divine Blessing who possessed the terrifying power of "Divine Punishment."

Mo Hua only needed a cold look to make a group of Golden Core rebel generals feel fear in their divine souls, tremble all over, and lose all will to fight.

They could only flee; if they didn't flee, they would only die.

Wherever Mo Hua went, the rebel army would flee at the sight of him and collapse without a fight.

In less than a month, Mo Hua wiped out the rebel army with the momentum of crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood, and quelled the rebellion in the wilderness.

Since then, the wilderness had gained a brief peace.

After quelling the rebellion, Mo Hua returned to the Zhu Que Mountain region.

Another month later, after preliminary preparations, he was ready to form his Golden Core.

The 14th year of the Great Wilderness New Calendar, the 6th year of Divine Blessing, spring.

Third-grade Zhu Que Mountain region, Divine Altar Great Hall.

Mo Hua was alone, pondering the matters of forming his Golden Core.

The bones of wood, white, gold, and jade had been shaped.

The Yi Mu Rejuvenation Array, although somewhat indescribably strange, was also operating normally, nourishing Mo Hua's vitality.

After continuous efforts over these days, Mo Hua had consumed millions of spirit stones and finally successfully nurtured the first regular spirit skeleton:

The Hand Tai Yin Lung Meridian.

Mo Hua had tried the subsequent regular meridians, but at the current stage, they simply couldn't be fed.

With the current spirit stone reserves of the wilderness, it was simply impossible to nurture even one more Taotie spirit skeleton.

If he used the name of Divine Blessing to wantonly engage in "exploitation" and seize a large amount of supplies, he could indeed nurture one or two more.

But this would greatly delay the reform of the wilderness system and the construction of the Thick Earth Great Array.

Moreover, seizing the benefits of the wilderness for his own selfish interests—if he really did that, he would be no different from the Hua family.

Mo Hua did not want to find excuses for his own selfishness.

What's more, from the current point of view, nurturing one more Taotie meridian did not provide any "essential" improvement for him.

Therefore, Mo Hua could only use the Hand Tai Yin Lung Meridian—this Taotie spirit skeleton array that was only one-twelfth complete—as his natal formation to form his Golden Core.

Apart from the natal formation, Mo Hua had already prepared everything else. Even as early as when he was at the Tai Xu Gate, Elder Xun had already prepared them for him.

High-quality spirit liquid, jade pendants to protect the heart meridians, elixirs to repair blood and vitality, sandalwood to calm the mind... and so on.

These were all essential items for a general Golden Core formation.

Elder Xun had arranged them meticulously, as if he were caring for his own grandson.

He hadn't even been this attentive to his own grandson.

This also greatly relieved Mo Hua's worries.

With these, it was basically enough.

He cultivated the Tian Yan Jue, and the bottleneck for the Tian Yan Jue's breakthrough was in divine sense, without needing too many heavenly spirit treasures, which saved a lot of trouble.

Mo Hua himself had chosen the "money-saving" Tian Yan Jue as his cultivation technique precisely because he was "poor" and lacked heavenly spirit treasures.

As it turned out, the Tian Yan Jue did save "money," but it didn't save "divine sense" at all; it was still a bottomless pit.

Fortunately, Mo Hua had already formed his Golden Core with divine sense beforehand, breaking the bottleneck of the Tian Yan Jue at the Golden Core stage.

As long as he solved the matter of the natal formation, he wouldn't need to suffer too much in the matter of forming his Golden Core.

In addition, regarding the Golden Core formation, there was a very critical issue of "Pill Grade."

But this was a problem that was very, very important to other cultivators, especially the direct descendants and geniuses of large sects and families, but to Mo Hua, it was a problem not worth mentioning.

The so-called "Pill Grade" was the grade of the Golden Core formed when a cultivator broke through their realm, as well as the appearance presented by the Golden Core.

Pill Grade was closely related to a cultivator's spirit root and cultivation technique.

Mo Hua knew deeply that in the current cultivation system of the cultivation world, spirit roots determined the upper limit of cultivation techniques.

A spirit root of a certain grade could only cultivate techniques of the corresponding grade at most.

For example, Mo Hua himself had a mid-low grade spirit root, so he could only cultivate "mid-low grade" techniques at most; he could cultivate downward, cultivating lower-high grade, lower-mid grade, lower-lower grade...

But he was unable to move upward to cultivate mid-mid grade or even some high-grade techniques.

This was the limitation of the spirit root at birth.

If the birth spirit root was poor, the technique grade would be poor, and naturally, cultivation would also be limited.

In the cultivation world, especially in some large families and sects, there had always been serious "spirit root discrimination" and "technique discrimination."

Mo Hua hadn't felt much of this at the Tai Xu Gate; firstly, because Elder Xun advocated "education without discrimination," and the Tai Xu Gate's style was upright.

Secondly, because Mo Hua had a very good reputation at the Tai Xu Gate, his identity was very special, and his formation arts were also heaven-defying.

No one discriminated against him, and no one dared to discriminate against him.

But outside the Tai Xu Gate, in the vast Gan Xue Prefecture, among the major sects, discrimination based on spirit roots and techniques was an extremely common phenomenon. The comparison among disciples was severe.

If the spirit root was poor, one was naturally inferior to others.

If the technique was poor, one couldn't even hold their head up.

This was already the case for genius disciples, let alone loose cultivators.

Within truly large sects, the admission rate for loose cultivators was lower with each generation, almost to the point of being "extinct."

Mo Hua had been somewhat ignorant about this problem before.

Now that he had arrived at the Great Wilderness and had come into contact with many tribal inheritances from top to bottom, and had personally promoted cultivation education, this problem had gradually become clear.

This was largely a means for families to monopolize inheritance and build academic barriers.

This was a whole "system" of the cultivation society.

First, bind spirit roots to cultivation techniques.

What kind of spirit root could only be matched with what kind of cultivation technique.

Then, according to spirit root genetics, carry out marriages within the family to continuously "cultivate" descendants with high-grade spirit roots.

Family descendants had better and better spirit roots.

While loose cultivators could only marry among those with mid-grade, and more often lower-grade, spirit roots, their aptitude naturally became worse and worse.

Given time, it truly achieved the state where there were no poor families among the high-grade, and no families among the low-grade.

Even if high-grade techniques were leaked out, loose cultivators with low-grade spirit roots, because their spirit root grade didn't meet the standard, simply didn't have the qualifications to learn them.

And the grade of the cultivation technique was directly related to the number of cycles in cultivation and the upper limit of the cultivation realm.

Added to this was the discrimination against spirit roots and techniques spread in the cultivation world.

In this way, loose cultivators at the lower level could only marry among loose cultivators with low-grade spirit roots and could only learn low-grade inheritances.

The spirit root itself was the class.

Cultivation techniques also formed barriers.

Between the upper and lower levels of the cultivation world, from marriage, childbirth, spirit roots, and cultivation techniques, to various cultivation inheritances, "isolation" naturally formed.

This was the problem of spirit roots and cultivation techniques.

The problem of Pill Grade was actually the same.

Spirit roots determined the upper limit of cultivation techniques, and cultivation techniques determined the upper limit of Pill Grade.

Mo Hua himself had a mid-low grade spirit root, and the Tian Yan Jue he cultivated was equivalent to "mid-low grade," so the Golden Core he cultivated would be "mid-low grade" at most.

This was still the most ideal situation.

Because this was the "upper limit."

If one wasn't careful and the Pill Grade slipped, it wasn't impossible to cultivate a low-grade Golden Core.

Of course, Mo Hua felt his luck wouldn't be that bad.

Moreover, he actually didn't take this problem too much to heart.

Because his spirit root basically determined the upper limit of his Pill Grade; it was impossible to have any breakthrough.

He only needed to be careful not to let his Pill Grade slip to low-grade; he couldn't hope for anything else.

Although he also wanted to cultivate a "high-grade" Golden Core, his aptitude didn't allow it; it was simply impossible to cultivate one.

In general cultivation, Mo Hua knew that he would never be able to catch up with those true genius disciples.

Even for ordinary geniuses, whether they had high or low-grade spirit roots, he couldn't catch up.

So in terms of spiritual power cultivation, he had always had a "broken jar, broken jar" mentality; as long as he could form a Golden Core, it didn't matter if the Pill Grade was rotten or not.

But just because he didn't care didn't mean others didn't care.

Basically, all geniuses were extremely cautious, even "panicked," about the matter of Pill Grade.

Especially the geniuses with top-high grade and high-low grade spirit roots.

The top geniuses, with top-high grade spirit roots and cultivating top-high grade techniques, must form a top-high grade Golden Core and were absolutely not allowed to fail.

If the quality was even a little bit worse, even if it slipped by one rank, it would be a nightmare for these top geniuses.

A top-high grade Golden Core and a high-mid grade Golden Core were completely different concepts.

One was the top-level Golden Core, while the other could only be a "medium" genius Golden Core.

Therefore, top geniuses with top-high grade spirit roots who wanted to form a top-high grade Golden Core all bore immense pressure, even fear, when forming their Golden Core.

The Pill Grade could not drop at all!

And geniuses with high-low grade spirit roots were equally extremely nervous.

Because if a high-low grade dropped by one rank, it would fall to mid-high grade.

This one rank was the boundary between high-grade and mid-grade, and even more so, a world of difference.

If their luck was too bad and they really fell, then the foundation of being a "high-grade spirit root genius" would be completely gone.

This point was equally extremely severe.

Therefore, there wasn't a single genius forming a Golden Core who wouldn't rack their brains, exhaust their efforts, and be restless over the matter of "Pill Grade."

On the contrary, Mo Hua, whose spirit root was rotten to begin with, didn't care that much.

(End of chapter)