The Quest for Immortality

”What is... this thing?”

Mo Hua furrowed his brows in thought for a moment, suddenly recalling that he had seen this thing before.

The first time he ’ordered a dish’ on the altar of the Blood-colored Fishing Village, he had perceived this peculiar and malformed yet very powerful node.

At that time, it was his first attempt at ordering, he was uncertain and wary of the strong evil Qi of this node, so he didn’t dare to choose it.

He never thought he would encounter it again now.

”What exactly hides in the nightmare of this node... should I order it to take a look?”

Mo Hua rested his chin in his hand, pondering for a moment, somewhat indecisive.

He sensed the node once again.

Previously, his perception was not deep, but now having achieved a small success in the Divine Way, and having the Evil Embryo ’possess’ him, he was considered a rare expert of the Divine Way in the Second Grade Realm.

Although this expert of the Divine Way had a very complex nature, half-human, half-god, and now a small part was an Evil God.

But it was precisely because of this that his perception of the ’Demon’ within this chaotic anomaly was clearer.

The Demon in this node had an evil and intricate aura, seemingly a mix of various types of flesh, diverse creatures, different demon monsters, all amalgamated with some embryo as the core.

It carried the aura of the Evil God, an aura so intense, it was, in some respects, not weaker than the Evil Embryo.

Yet simultaneously, it was filled with all sorts of filthy flesh, malformed evil thoughts, remnants of demon monsters, and even a wisp of... karmic mutation aura.

Mo Hua furrowed his brows again.

Before, he only thought of it as a ’big guy’.

But unexpectedly, this ’big guy’ might be much stronger than he had anticipated.

It seems he was right to be cautious before.

If back at the small fishing village altar, before his Divine Way was accomplished, without mastering Divine Thought into sword and the Divine Tao Array, rashly provoking this ’big guy’ would surely have spelled disaster...

Mo Hua sighed.

As expected, the Divine Way hides countless dangers, even with powers comparable to deities, he must still be cautious in the future.

Especially with this little lamb that caused him a big loss, he must learn from this for sure.

As for this ’big guy’, he’ll leave it be for now and deal with it when he becomes more powerful in the future...

Mo Hua silently told himself.

What’s more, when ordering dishes, he used Yu Er as ’bait’.

If the Demon is too strong, Yu Er’s danger increases accordingly.

It’s best to be more prudent.

With this thought, Mo Hua suddenly felt a bit of regret.

”Acting on impulse, I ordered too much...”

This time he fell into a scheme, got possessed by the Evil Embryo, acted out of anger, and ordered too many demon monsters.

These demon monsters would invade Yu Er’s nightmare, putting pressure on Yu Er.

Mo Hua felt a bit of heartache, ”Should I cancel some?”

He sat on the altar again, communicating with the Divine Authority Tree, only to find that placing an order was easy, but cancellation was difficult, and altering the established nightmare path, reversing cause and effect, involved certain heavenly secret ways, even consuming a great deal of Divine Thought.

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Mo Hua felt a bit dumbfounded.

But then he thought again and figured it should be alright.

Although his Divine Soul was polluted, and his Soul-Shocking Sword was ’sealed’, unable to exert its original power for the time being.

But the ones invading Yu Er’s nightmare were just ordinary demon monsters.

With the Dao Hua power of his Nineteen Patterns Divine Sense, even without relying on the complex Divine Thought into sword, and without utilizing the power of Divine Soul, he could easily crush these evil spirits.

Ordinary demon monsters didn’t deserve for him to use the Soul-Shocking Sword.

At that time, fighting and eating simultaneously, nurturing battle with battle, could also solve the consumption problem.

He just needed to think of ways to ensure Yu Er’s safety, it should not be a big issue.

Mo Hua nodded, preparing to leave the altar.

But just as he was about to leave, he suddenly noticed something peculiar about the altar.

Previously busy fighting with the Evil Embryo and ordering dishes, he had been focused and preoccupied.

Now that everything calmed down and the orders were finished, Mo Hua suddenly realized that there was something inherently odd about this altar.

When sitting on the altar, it seemed as if streams of evil desires were nourishing him.

But these desires weren’t strong.

Having practiced meditation techniques often, cleansing himself of evil thoughts, his Taoist Heart was clear, so upon encountering clinging desires, his instinct was to discard them.

But savoring them now in detail, these desires felt peculiar.

Lush and luxurious, greedy and murderous, angry and confused, unlike the evil thoughts of evil spirits, resembling more the manifestation of various inner desires of humans.

These desires, through certain cause and effect, flowed into the altar, nourishing Mo Hua.

No, it would be accurate to say they nourished the Evil Embryo, that had already merged into his Divine Soul.

Mo Hua pondered briefly before realizing.

He understood the causal logic behind how the Dragon King Temple’s altar operated.

The Evil Embryo was the owner of the Dragon King Temple.

Everything in this temple was meant to nurture this Evil Embryo, to transform and allow it to hatch into deity.

The Blood Pool was this Evil Embryo’s ’amniotic fluid’.

The temple guards and Mr. Witch were this Evil Embryo’s servants.

The Rouge Boat was this Evil Embryo’s ’rice bowl’.

And on the Rouge Boat, the various desires, greed, lust, delusion, karma, love, and hatred of the cultivators... all were ’bait’ for the Evil Embryo.

Now that the Evil Embryo had merged into his Divine Soul, these ’baits’ refined from human desires were now nourishing him.

Not only that...

Mo Hua tasted carefully, discovering that what nourished him wasn’t just desire, but also some distinctly more bloody, more brutal, more cold, laden with sins and cause-effect.

It was as if someone, acting upon his ’command’, committed various killings.