Old Kui sighed, "I did not expect his ’Planting Devil in Taoist Heart’ to be cultivated to this extent..."
Mr. Zhuang remained silent.
Old Kui said, "You’re in big trouble now."
Mr. Zhuang replied, "Debts many worry not, lice plenty itch not, it doesn’t matter anymore."
Old Kui let out a cold snort, then frowned, asking curiously, "What on earth did he do?"
"How would I know?"
"He is your senior brother, how could you not know?"
"I’ve never cultivated ’Planting Devil in Taoist Heart’..."
After thinking for a while, Old Kui said, "Tell me the principles of ’Planting Devil in Taoist Heart’, and I’ll grant you one request."
Mr. Zhuang was taken aback, "Really?"
Old Kui looked at him and spoke indifferently, "Didn’t you say you didn’t know?"
Mr. Zhuang said, "I might know."
"My word is my bond," said Old Kui.
Mr. Zhuang pondered for a moment, his gaze growing somber, and explained:
"The so-called ’Planting Devil in Taoist Heart’ is a demon spell that utilizes Divine Sense."
"This spell allows one to split their Divine Thought and nurture a Demon Seed, planting it atop someone else’s Sea of Consciousness, destroying their Taoist Heart, driving them into the Demon Path, or causing their Taoist Heart to collapse, turning into a Walking Corpse, to be toyed with at will..."
Old Kui frowned, "It doesn’t sound difficult."
"Things concerning Divine Sense always sound easy, but are extremely difficult in practice. Otherwise ’Planting Devil in Taoist Heart’ wouldn’t be one of the ten great Forbidden Techniques of the Demon Path," Mr. Zhuang stated.
"So what’s the deal with Feng Xi? What has Gui Tao’s people done?"
Mr. Zhuang spoke lightly, "It’s quite simple. He first implanted a Demon Thought in someone, had them go to Black Mountain Stronghold to die, and after their corpse fed the pigs, this strand of Demon Thought naturally entered the body of the Pig Monster."
"Ordinarily within the body of Monster Beasts, a human’s Demon Thought wouldn’t last long. But someone kept feeding the pigs with humans, and this strand of Demon Thought survived by devouring human Divine Senses, so while it appeared to have one face, in truth it had many, and though it seemed to have one voice, there were many speaking."
"Once the timing was ripe, it took over and commanded the entire Big Demon."
"Within the state boundary, the Big Demon is invincible. With his Demon Thought controlling the Big Demon, he could do almost anything he wished, and even the Taoist Court and the Great Clans could not thwart him..."
Old Kui remarked, "Your senior brother is far smarter than you."
Mr. Zhuang faltered, then quickly thought again, "He is smarter than me, but it’s a pity that he fell into my disciple’s hands... Well, in other words, it’s as good as falling into my own hands."
After saying this, Mr. Zhuang nodded to himself.
Lucky for him to have had the foresight to accept Mo Hua as his nominal disciple and teach him the Great Formation.
And indeed, Mo Hua actually learned and established the Great Formation himself and exhausted the Big Demon’s Blood Qi using the Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Formation, forcing Gui Tao to reveal his Demon Thought.
Therefore, he considered this a victory for himself.
Old Kui couldn’t help but say, "Have some shame."
Mr. Zhuang ignored the comment.
Old Kui furrowed his brow again, "The Great Formation killed the Big Demon, but now it’s alive again, shrouded in death energy, half-corpse and half-ghost. The cultivators of Tongxian City alone can’t cope with it, can they?"
Mr. Zhuang sighed, "We can only delay."
"Waiting for the Taoist Court to take action?" Old Kui’s gaze grew sharp.
Mr. Zhuang nodded, "Within this half-dead Feng Xi’s body is the Demon Thought planted by Gui Tao’s people. The Taoist Court is bound to want to capture its Demon Thought for research, but..."
But he did not know whether Tongxian City could hold out...
Once the half-corpse, half-ghost Feng Xi entered the city, the cultivators of Tongxian City would likely still face a great calamity.
Mr. Zhuang did not spell it out, but both men knew it well.
Old Kui’s gaze also grew somber.
"So..." Mr. Zhuang’s eyebrows arched as he spoke again, "about the request I just made."
Old Kui had a bad premonition.
"If Feng Xi enters the city, you die once and give a hand," Mr. Zhuang said.
Talking in circles, it turned out he was scheming against himself here.
Old Kui looked conflicted, "You Formation Masters have such filthy hearts."
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Mo Hua’s demeanor was too composed, her tone imbued with an undeniable calmness, and Zhang Lan and the others, with no reason to doubt her, nodded and did as Mo Hua instructed.
Within the Great Formation, there were still cultivators operating it, including Formation Masters and Taoist Soldiers.
They needed to maintain the formations and also transport Spirit Stones to provide Spiritual Power for the operation of the Great Formation.
Most of the Spirit Stones had been consumed in the attempt to kill Feng Xi, leaving only a small portion, which Mo Hua had meticulously saved while controlling the Great Formation.
These Spirit Stones were intentionally kept by Mo Hua.
Lighting firecrackers requires a spark.
Triggering the Great Formation’s dissolution also requires Spiritual Power as a primer.
These Spirit Stones were the "spark" for the Great Formation’s dissolution.
She intended to use these Spirit Stones as a lure, initiating the dissolution of the Great Formation, to eradicate the Big Demon completely!
If she had said she would use the Great Formation to slay the Big Demon, then she must keep her word.
She didn’t know what this Big Demon now was.
But regardless of whether the Big Demon was alive or dead, a body or a ghost, wrapped in Blood Qi or dead air, since it had entered her Great Formation, it was doomed!
It would never leave the Great Formation to consume another person.
Within the Great Formation, cultivators were gradually evacuating.
Mo Hua, who had already calculated everything in advance, began to prepare to draw on the Formation Pivot, penning the Reversed Spirit Formation that would trigger the Great Formation’s dissolution.
Before she put pen to paper, Mo Hua hesitated for a moment, feeling a profound reluctance in her heart.
This was the first Great Formation she had ever constructed... and yet it could not be preserved in the end.
Mo Hua sighed with a tinge of regret, then her small hand moved to draw, and she penned the first Reversed Spirit Formation.
Almost simultaneously, Mr. Zhuang in his mountain dwelling felt a pang in his heart, suddenly perceptive, and murmured in bewilderment,
"What is this child Mo Hua trying to do..."
...
Four hours later, the evacuation of the cultivators was complete.
Mo Hua had also finished drawing the Reversed Spirit Formation.
With a sweep of her Divine Sense, Mo Hua found that within the Great Formation, no one remained except herself, and the mountains were desolate and silent with no trace of cultivators, allowing her to feel at ease.
The resurrected Feng Xi was still trapped within the Great Formation.
Lacking Spirit Stones, Mo Hua had not activated the Killing Formation but merely used a trapping formation to confine it, preventing it from escaping the Great Formation.
However, even the trapping formation would not last much longer.
Within the Great Formation, many formations also began to fade due to the lack of Spirit Stones for sustenance.
The pressure on Feng Xi was significantly reduced and, at that moment, he sensed the only cultivator’s presence within the Great Formation.
That presence was Mo Hua’s.
Feng Xi, as large as a small mountain and wrapped in deathly aura, staggered forward, inching closer to Mo Hua with each thundering step.
Its eyes were pitch-black wells of fear.
Eventually, Feng Xi stood before Mo Hua.
Tiny Mo Hua looked down from her higher position, staring into the large, terrifyingly dark eyes of Feng Xi.
Feng Xi’s face was human, with various expressions and continued struggles and changes, finally revealing a Taoist’s face. It began to speak, but it was as if different people were talking at the same time:
"Your aura?"
"Quite courageous..."
"Formation Master?"
"Very familiar..."
All voices eventually merged into one question:
"Who are you?"
The light in Mo Hua’s eyes turned icy as she crisply replied,
"The one who will send you to heaven!"
Then Mo Hua slightly closed her eyes, with one thought of her Divine Sense, she manipulated the Formation Pivot, reversing the Spiritual Power, triggering the dissolution of the Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Formation!