Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2928: Chapter 168: Divine Priest Era (Part 2)

Dan Zhu was also devout internally, his expression respectful.

He left his name and his blood on the Divine Blessing stele.

His heart was like the blood of the Vermilion Bird, fervent and sincere. His faith was also the purest among everyone.

And he was the only one whose Life Soul Mo Hua did not restrain.

Among all the tribal upper echelons, Dan Zhu was the only cultivator whose Divine Soul was intact, faith independent, and not subjected to Mo Hua’s ”control”.

In the flux of all things, the human heart is the least trustworthy.

But sometimes, the human heart is precisely the most worthy of trust.

Some people’s hearts are like duckweed, moving with the wind, changing with the water.

Yet some people have hearts like goldstone, steadfast despite wind and rain, sun and frost, and even when burned by fierce fire or beset by hardship, they become increasingly brilliant and resilient.

Mo Hua could see Dan Zhu’s heart, hence he trusted Dan Zhu.

But now, Mo Hua found his own heart hard to discern.

He was unsure of what his ”heart” would become once he embarked on the Divine Way, wielding overwhelming divine power, controlling life and death.

He had a faint fear of his own divinity transforming.

Fear that one day, his divinity would indeed extinguish his humanity.

Fear that his Divine Way would lose control, and even fear becoming an Evil God like the Master of the Great Wilderness.

At that time, his existence itself might be a calamity for the Great Wilderness.

Ignorance is fearless.

Before, Mo Hua didn’t know many things, and thus he wasn’t afraid.

But now, having experienced so much, Mo Hua had learned of great terrors, and could no longer help feeling fearful.

Hence, he had to keep a contingency.

Within this Divine Way system, he preserved an independent ”humanity” capable of repair and ”correction,” which was Dan Zhu.

Thus, in case his divinity truly encountered issues.

Or if anything unexpected happened to him, if he wasn’t in the Great Wilderness, Dan Zhu could rely on his Taoist Heart and faith to maintain the stability of the Divine Way system, to lead the people of the Great Wilderness to continue living well...

This was Mo Hua’s true expectation for Dan Zhu.

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Time passed, the grand divine ritual continued, attended by all the worshippers.

Mo Hua sat alone on the high divine throne, overlooking the multitude bowing in homage to him.

He couldn’t quite describe his feelings.

There was greatness in becoming a deity, yet also an undertone of humanity’s fading melancholy.

And so it was until the grand divine ritual ended, and everyone left the divine altar.

Dan Zhu also bid farewell to Mo Hua face full of admiration, with some complexity.

Mo Hua remained alone, sitting on the divine throne, like a ”lonely sovereign” of power and faith.

The Big Tiger, who had been lying on the ground for most of the day, seemed to sense the loneliness emanating from Mo Hua, slowly rising, walking to Mo Hua’s side, nudging Mo Hua with its fluffy head.

Only then did Mo Hua return to his senses.

In his indifferent eyes, a trace of complex emotion appeared.

He gently stroked the Big Tiger’s head, softly murmuring, seemingly confirming to himself:

”I am the Divine Blessing of the Barbaric Wilderness... but I am also...”

”...Mo Hua.”

The words ”Mo Hua,” though spoken, his tone was very faint, as if he himself was not quite sure.

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After the grand divine ritual, Mo Hua became the supreme ”Divine Blessing.”

The entire Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm truly achieved complete and comprehensive ”divine power” unification from inside to outside.

And this unified, mighty ”Divine Way machine” began to operate at full capacity.

The first task was to accelerate the construction of the Thick Earth Formation with all efforts.

Mo Hua’s planned Thick Earth Formation expanded without resistance across the entire Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm.

Apart from the barbarian soldiers responsible for warfare, almost all tribal resources and mobilizable barbarian cultivators were invested in the formation’s construction.

In every corner of Vermilion Bird Mountain, construction of formation media began.

Adhering to Mo Hua’s ”man follows the earth” teachings, the witch cultivators painted formation patterns imbued with earth energy throughout the Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm.

The famine was kept outside the Mountain Realm by the Thick Earth Formation.

And under the formation’s ”transformation,” the entire Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm experienced great changes from inside to outside.

With a large accumulation of Thick Earth Ultimate Formations, triggering the earth’s Taoist Meanings, plus the support of numerous Earth Series and Gen-series formations, the quantitative change in Laws brought about a qualitative change.

The Vermilion Bird Mountain Realm’s earth vitality continuously permeated outward, causing changes in the Barbaric Wilderness’s soil.

The originally barren land gradually became moist and fertile, capable of growing certain types of millet crops.

These millet crops, planted as famine food in the soil of the Barbaric Wilderness, connected with the breath of the Thick Earth Formation, nourished by the land, while bringing vitality to the land.

The cycle among formation, land, and crops sustained indefinitely, revitalizing the entire Mountain Realm of the Barbaric Wilderness.

Even to a certain extent, the civilization ecology of the Barbaric Wilderness was changed.

The Thick Earth Formation also became the first prototype of a ”livelihood” type large formation in Barbaric Wilderness history, capable of changing every barbarian cultivator’s destiny and the entire Barbaric Wilderness civilization.

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With the Thick Earth Formation solidifying the livelihood at the rear.

The subsequent ”Divine Blessing War” swiftly unfolded.

Following the Divine Lord’s teachings and Divine Blessing’s gifts, various advanced, secretive, and unfathomable Four Symbols Barbarian Armor formation patterns, as well as methods for casting Barbarian Armor, were disseminated, unified in casting by the elders from various tribes.