Chapter 563: Don

As expected!

The Deceiver looked dazed, yet still found it hard to believe.

Could the Heavenly Mechanism Deception really be so easily stolen and mastered?

This little thing, having seen it only a few times, has actually put it to use—with such proficiency?

Moreover, right before my eyes, with my Dao Heart Seed of Demons piercing his life force to a thread, he still dares to steal my Heavenly Mechanism Deception…

What kind of thing has my younger brother raised…

He looks harmless, yet is profoundly strange…

The Deceiver's gaze turned icy.

No matter what, having mastered the Heavenly Mechanism Deception, he must die without fail!

Mo Hua's expression also grew solemn.

He sensed the intense killing intent in the Deceiver's eyes.

But this situation, to begin with, is one of mutual annihilation.

Dao Heart Seed of Demons, eroding the consciousness sea.

Judging by his uncle's expression, he never intended to spare me.

I must find every possible way to survive his grasp…

Within the consciousness sea, silence reigned, pierced only by congealed killing intent.

The Deceiver's expression was cold; he raised the Sui Mi Sword, gathering eerie sword qi.

Mo Hua's gaze was clear and sharp; he pressed two fingers together, focusing his mind to manifest a technique.

In Mo Hua's consciousness sea, the true battle of spiritual awareness began…

The Deceiver's demonic seed, at the peak of Foundation Establishment, possessed formidable spiritual awareness and profound Deception Dao.

Mo Hua, though his spiritual awareness was only thirteen纹, had tightly condensed spiritual energy, numerous spiritual techniques, and had endured many perilous spiritual battles—he could勉强 be called battle-hardened.

Spiritual warfare erupted instantly.

Black sword qi surged; crimson fireballs flew in all directions.

After several rounds, Mo Hua realized a terrifying truth:

We're done…

He was no match for his uncle…

His uncle was simply too strong!

His aura was as deep as an abyss, as towering as a mountain, wreathed in eerie qi, his methods unfathomable.

His fireball technique, the arrays he manifested—none could harm him even slightly; every attack barely reached him before being dismantled with two or three strokes of his sword.

His sword qi was immensely powerful—touch it and you were wounded.

Mo Hua dared not meet it head-on.

He could only distract, delay, and seek a way to survive…

The two continued exchanging blows.

After dozens of rounds, Mo Hua remained on the defensive, his form disheveled, fleeing wildly as sword qi chased him—but to his surprise…

He had actually held out against his uncle…

Though still battered, he had barely survived.

He had not been slain in a single sword strike…

"Am I this strong?"

Mo Hua froze, his thoughts shifting—he suddenly understood.

His speed was faster than his uncle's!

He realized his manifestation speed for techniques and arrays was slightly quicker than his uncle's…

His uncle moved fast because his raw power was immense.

My speed comes from the Great Expansion Scripture's enhancement of spiritual awareness, from the Ling Shu Array's application of spiritual awareness, from years of daily array-drawing and accumulated spiritual refinement.

My movements were just a fraction faster than my uncle's.

That tiny edge was precisely what allowed me to barely hold out against him.

In all under heaven, speed breaks all techniques!

"Old Kui was right after all!"

Mo Hua's heart steadied slightly; he focused entirely, engaging the Deceiver in a duel of wits.

The Deceiver's expression remained as cold as ever, yet inwardly he felt a flicker of surprise.

"This little thing… why is his speed so fast? Is it because of Old Kui…"

This set of technique methods bore near-identical lineage to Old Kui's.

In all techniques under heaven, their mastery lies in the mind alone.

When mastered deeply, they become fast and elusive…

Just like this little thing…

Fireball technique: fast and fierce;

Water Prison technique: fast and precise;

Flowing Water Step: fast and unpredictable…

Just how many more techniques does he know?

The Deceiver's gaze sharpened.

These techniques could all have been resolved with the Deception Dao Seal Heaven array.

But he never imagined that this young junior disciple had uncovered his Dao Heart Seed Demon, and stolen the Heavenly Mechanism Deception.

Now, with this array sealing him, he can unravel it with deception.

Truly slippery as oil…

"Must we really just waste time like this?"

The moment this thought surfaced, the Deception Daoist was stunned, then anger surged.

He, fighting a mere Qi Condensation junior disciple, couldn't crush him effortlessly with raw power—now he had to rely on "wearing him down"?

The Deception Daoist found this utterly absurd!

The Deception Daoist's expression turned solemn, but suddenly sensed something amiss; his anger gradually faded, replaced by a furrowed brow.

This junior disciple of his… was bizarre…

In the clash of spiritual senses, he moved with ease; though his techniques still showed immaturity, they were extremely proficient—as if he'd endured countless spiritual sense battles.

But how… could this be…

How old is he?

Spiritual form manifestation, spell projection, array projection…

Put yourself in his place—if not for encountering my own demonic thought, born of Heavenly Mechanism Deception and Dao Heart Seed Demon…

A normal Foundation Establishment spiritual body wouldn't stand a chance against this little thing…

Does such a spiritual sense really need the Mysterious Heaven Array to protect it?

Is the Mysterious Heaven Array meant to protect this little thing's spiritual sense from being killed—or to protect others' spiritual senses from being killed by him?

To guard against Dao Heart Seed Demon?

That doesn't make sense…

If it were meant to counter Dao Heart Seed Demon, my younger brother could've used other methods to guard against me—he wouldn't have needed to expend such immense effort to set up the Mysterious Heaven Array…

Besides…

Could my younger brother even have the ability to set up the Mysterious Heaven Array?

The Deception Daoist's mind conjured the image of his younger brother—pale as paper, breath faint, utterly lifeless…

Exhausted, on the verge of death—even with the utmost Heavenly Mechanism Calculations, he couldn't possibly have set up such an array, even if it were only a first-rank one, yet so vast in scale!

The Deception Daoist's heart trembled.

"Have I… guessed wrong?"

This Mysterious Heaven Array wasn't set up by my younger brother to protect his little disciple…

It was already inside this little thing's spiritual sea!

The moment this occurred to the Deception Daoist, he felt a faint shock.

"Inside the spiritual sea… always there?"

That's even more impossible…

Whose spiritual sea would contain the Mysterious Heaven Array?

What purpose was this array meant for?

Countless cultivation experiences and scriptures passed through his mind, one by one…

The Deception Daoist looked at Mo Hua, recalling his cultivation level, and suddenly had a flash of insight:

Qi Condensation Ninth Layer, breaking into Foundation Establishment…

If the spiritual sea truly contained the Mysterious Heaven Array, it was most likely the bottleneck for Foundation Establishment!

The Deception Daoist was stunned.

My younger brother wanted me to help his little disciple break through the Foundation Establishment bottleneck?!

For a moment, he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.

But then, his heart grew icy.

The cultivation technique…

What kind of cultivation technique would use the "Mysterious Heaven Array" as its Foundation Establishment bottleneck?

Is a cultivation technique that uses the Mysterious Heaven Array as its bottleneck meant to be learned?

What kind of person could possibly continue studying such a technique…

The Deception Daoist watched Mo Hua—barely ten years old, face serious—as he performed the Flowing Water Step, condensed a fireball spell, projected the Earth Fire Array, trying to restrain him; though clumsy under his sword qi, Mo Hua remained calm, unhurried, moving with perfect rhythm—and muttered to himself:

"This little thing… is a… little monster…"

Not just that…

The cultivation technique he learned is no simple matter…

The Deception Daoist's gaze turned solemn.

"Then… I can't just kill him simply…"

"I must capture him, and question him thoroughly."

"I must uncover every detail of this cultivation technique!"

The Deception Daoist suddenly stopped, sheathing his ancient copper-colored Sumeru Long Sword.

Mo Hua was stunned, then his expression grew even more solemn.

Sure enough, moments later, the Deception Daoist's aura changed drastically.

Thick black qi, interwoven with dense array patterns, brimming with potent and eerie power, rose from his entire body.

Mo Hua was startled.

"Bad! Uncle is angry!"

He immediately activated the Flowing Water Step, toes tapping the ground, flashing away in several leaps to put distance between them.

Then Mo Hua fixed his gaze and saw the black qi rise, then contract, condensing around the Guǐ Dàorén.

The Guǐ Dàorén had donned a strange, pitch-black robe.

This robe was utterly different from his previous one.

The robe seemed woven from black mist, covered with countless faces, writhing in agony, sinister and terrifying.

Mo Hua's spiritual sense stirred slightly, his heart shocked.

This robe contained a deeper level of "Heavenly Mechanism Deception," devouring souls and stealing spirits, violating the harmony of heaven.

But this Heavenly Mechanism Deception was too profound.

Mo Hua couldn't understand a single bit of it…

He only knew that his uncle was furious—likely ready to kill him by any means necessary!

"What do I do?"

Mo Hua's gaze turned solemn, then he suddenly froze.

He sensed a familiar aura…

At the same time, the Guǐ Dàorén, draped in the black robe woven from human faces and residual souls, his aura terrifying and about to strike Mo Hua, also froze.

In Mo Hua's spiritual sea, a vast aura spread.

The Guǐ Dàorén trembled all over—with excitement, exhilaration, and fear.

This is…

It's…

The primordial aura of the Great Dao?!

How is this possible?

The Guǐ Dàorén whirled around and saw, at the center of the spiritual sea, a stone tablet had appeared—when, he did not know.

The stone tablet was insubstantial, a chaos of mist.

Broad, ancient, crude, incomplete, as if vast and obscure energies drifted within it; in a haze, it seemed empty, silent, void…

The Guǐ Dàorén's pupils shuddered violently.

So this is it…

The true secret on this brat's body is this…

This mysterious, broken tablet, imbued with the primordial aura of the Great Dao!

Mo Hua's expression changed drastically, his face pale.

The Guǐ Dàorén sneered, abandoned Mo Hua, and walked toward the stone tablet.

The stone tablet trembled; an ancient, mysterious, primordial aura instantly spread around.

This aura was suppressing and erasing the Guǐ Dàorén.

The Guǐ Dàorén looked solemn; his black robe swelled with the wind, black-and-gray array patterns crawling across the sinister faces, interweaving into one after another, strange demonic thoughts.

He seemed to be using Heavenly Mechanism Deception to conjure residual souls, transforming them into human thoughts, obscuring the primordial essence, concealing heavenly fate, to evade the erasure of the Great Dao's aura.

His robe was slowly wearing down.

The dark qi around him was seeping away strand by strand.

One by one, the faces were ground to ash by the Great Dao…

Yet the Guǐ Dàorén's figure still advanced step by step toward the stone tablet…

He wanted to see what secret lay upon this brat's spiritual sea's broken tablet.

Why did this broken tablet possess the primordial aura of the Great Dao!

Mo Hua was stunned, quickly shouting:

"Uncle, don't look!"

But the Guǐ Dàorén ignored him entirely; his figure flickered between solid and insubstantial, stepping closer to the stone tablet…

Mo Hua gritted his teeth, fingers tapping rapidly; fireballs howled, trying to drive back the Guǐ Dàorén.

But all the fireball spells, upon touching the Guǐ Dàorén's black soul robe, vanished instantly, gone without a trace.

Mo Hua then cast the Water Prison spell.

The Water Prison spell, too, could only momentarily hinder the Guǐ Dàorén's steps, with negligible effect.

Mo Hua's gaze sharpened; he began forming an array.

Moments later, he pointed a finger at the Guǐ Dàorén.

Gold and crimson array patterns spontaneously curled beneath the Guǐ Dàorén's feet, interlocking, coalescing into the Golden Lock, Three Lotus Ground Fire Reversal Array.

The Golden Lock array trapped the Guǐ Dàorén.

The Three Lotus Ground Fire array echoed one another, blooming like three fire lotuses, engulfing the Guǐ Dàorén in Xiong Xiongliehuo.

This reversal array, Mo Hua had been unable to use before, suppressed by the Guǐ Dàorén.

Now, with the Guǐ Dàorén fixated on the stone tablet and ignoring Mo Hua, Mo Hua finally had the opening to fully manifest this trapping and killing reversal array.

The Guǐ Dàorén normally feared no such array's power—but all his focus, all his Deception, was devoted to resisting the stone tablet's aura.

Caught off-guard, with no way to evade, he was still wounded by the Golden Lock, Three Lotus Ground Fire Reversal Array.

The robe shuddered; the dark qi flickered.

The Guǐ Dàorén stepped back several paces, then was forced back again by the overwhelming Great Dao aura of the stone tablet, compelled to retreat another dozen steps.

The Guǐ Dàorén raised his head, black qi swirling on his face, yet his eyes held a flicker of shock.

Manifesting a trapping and killing reversal array…

This brat's array cultivation is indeed unexpectedly skilled.

Being able to draw a reversal array and being able to manifest it are vastly different; the understanding of array Dao they imply is as distant as heaven and earth.

This brat's array skills far exceed his age.

Could it be… all of this is due to this broken stele?

Guidao Ren looked up, gazing at the Dao Stele.

Mo Hua had somehow stood before the Dao Stele, arms outstretched, face tense, as if trying to block it from Guidao Ren's view.

But his small body could not possibly shield the stele.

"Uncle, you must not look!"

Mo Hua said solemnly, his young face serious.

Guidao Ren sneered, yet inwardly he was certain.

This stele must hold a great secret—and it must be tied to arrays!

This is likely also why my younger brother, using Heavenly Mechanism Calculations, concealed it so carefully, so this little disciple wouldn't be discovered by me…

"If that's the case, then I must see it all the more!"

Guidao Ren's pupils turned pitch black, his aura surging higher.

Mo Hua gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, focused his spirit, and pushed his spiritual awareness to its limit, beginning to manifest the Five Elements Protect-Mountain Array.

This array was derived from the Wuxing Sect's Five Elements Protect-Mountain Great Array.

But it was only a Rank One version.

Moreover, it was only a portion of the Protect-Mountain Great Array—Mo Hua had devised it himself while studying the Rank Two Five Elements Protect-Mountain Great Array.

Yet this was already the strongest defensive compound array he possessed.

As Mo Hua manifested it, he unconsciously applied the Heavenly Mechanism Deceit Technique, so the compound array manifested with astonishing speed.

Five-colored array patterns layered upon one another, forming a spiritual curtain that shielded the Dao Stele in its center.

Guidao Ren's eyes flashed with malice.

A mere Five Elements Protect-Mountain Array dares to block me?

As he stepped forward as always, ghostly faces emerged from the black Dao robe on his back, scattering in all directions, incessantly "gnawing" at Mo Hua's Five Elements Protect-Mountain Array.

It looked like "eating," but in essence it was "unraveling."

The Five Elements Protect-Mountain Array was slowly eroded…

Yet Mo Hua's gaze remained calm, still continuously manifesting arrays, as if determined to match wits with his "uncle" through arraycraft…

One after another, Five Elements arrays formed.

Each was swiftly devoured by Guidao's ghostly soul.

Guidao Ren, clad in his black soul Dao robe, withstood the erosion of the Great Dao, dismantling Mo Hua's arrays while advancing step by step toward the Dao Stele.

Mo Hua's array patterns, the moment they manifested, were instantly shattered; the arrays retreated in defeat after defeat.

With his spiritual awareness strength, spirit-narrative arts, and arraycraft mastery, even confronting just a single Foundation Establishment demonic thought from Guidao Ren was excruciatingly difficult.

Mo Hua's brows were tightly furrowed, his face as pale as paper.

And no one knew how long the stalemate lasted.

The Five Elements Protect-Mountain Array was finally completely eroded, shattered into fragments…

The Dao Stele now lay fully exposed before Guidao Ren.

Mo Hua still tried to form a spell, but Guidao Ren's expression turned cold; with a sweep of his robe, ghostly souls with snarling faces lunged at Mo Hua.

The ghostly souls were ferocious and steeped in sinister aura.

Mo Hua had no choice but to activate the Flowing Water Step to evade the ghostly souls.

But the souls would not relent, continuing to pounce upon Mo Hua, forcing him back several zhang…

Mo Hua had retreated far away, and at this moment, Guidao Ren stood mere inches from the Dao Stele.

"Uncle…"

Mo Hua's face wore an expression of "despair."

Having been repeatedly obstructed by Mo Hua, Guidao Ren, seeing the "despair" on the boy's young face, completely dropped his guard, no longer suspicious, and glanced casually at the Dao Stele…

The surface of the Dao Stele was dim yet bright, illusory yet real, seemingly embracing all, yet containing nothing at all.

Guidao Ren froze for a moment, then stared closely—his expression instantly turned horrifying.

For upon the void-churning surface of the stele, a single stroke stood out: a crimson, terrifying array pattern!

This stroke emitted an aura of annihilation, erasing all existence!

Thin strands of crimson calamity lightning, startlingly vivid, flickered and pulsed upon it, imbued with the supreme Great Dao law of utter destruction…

This was a single stroke…

The Immortal Heaven Thunder Pattern… that erases everything?!!

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