Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2432: Chapter 1102: Leaving the Sect (2)

Mo Hua’s gaze was sorrowful.

Patriarch Dugu glanced at Mo Hua, hesitated for a moment, and handed the broken sword, stained with rust and blood, to Mo Hua.

”This broken sword, I give it to you, you take it out of the Sword Tomb for me.”

”It has followed me my entire life, and I don’t want it to end up like me, buried here forever, never to see the light of day again.”

Mo Hua frowned, ”Patriarch... and you, without a sword...”

”It doesn’t matter...” Patriarch Dugu shook his head, ”Whether I have a sword or not, it makes no difference now, but... you must promise me one thing.”

Patriarch Dugu’s eyes were bright as he looked at Mo Hua:

”After you leave, never return to this Sword Tomb. Cultivate well, advance your cultivation, if one day you reach the Heaven Void and have the ability to break the restriction I set, then return, and use this sword I give you... to kill me!”

Mo Hua’s expression changed, ”Patriarch!”

Patriarch Dugu shook his head, grasping Mo Hua’s arm and forcibly placing the warm broken sword into Mo Hua’s hand:

”Remember what I said, no matter what!”

”Also, what I’ve told you and the matter of giving you the sword, don’t mention it to anyone, including my junior brother, your Elder Master Xun.”

Mo Hua tightly pursed his lips.

Patriarch Dugu patted Mo Hua’s shoulder, comforting:

”You are a good child, kind-hearted, with great talent, but many things, you don’t yet have the ability for, don’t rush, take it step by step...”

”This broken sword, named ’Dugu’, you keep it, this is the last thing I can give you...”

Mo Hua’s gaze was dim, ”Patriarch, what about me in the future...” He couldn’t finish before his expression changed, seeing that Patriarch Dugu’s face, the features began to disappear, and even the whole person, was exuding silent, emotionless demon thoughts.

”Go now...”

Patriarch Dugu, face disappeared, like a formidable ”Faceless” Celestial Demon, murmured to Mo Hua in a strange voice, ”I will soon... no longer be your patriarch...”

Mo Hua felt a bit desolate in his heart, yet also reluctant.

Seeing Mo Hua still hesitating, the ”Celestial Demon” transformed Patriarch Dugu with one hand tore open a void crack, then pushed Mo Hua into the space crack without hesitation.

”Cultivate well, cherish everything.”

These were the last words Patriarch Dugu said to Mo Hua.

With the cultivation at the Heaven Void, Mo Hua could not resist at all.

He only had time for one last look back at Patriarch Dugu.

Unfortunately, what he saw was no longer the once aged and proud face of Patriarch Dugu, but a blank faceless visage, with no features or emotions.

After sending off Mo Hua, the empty Sword Tomb was again left with only Patriarch Dugu.

He remained all alone.

A moment later, Patriarch Dugu sighed softly:

”No wonder people pursue immortality, as long as you live, keep living, you will eventually encounter one or two good things, there will always be some... hope...”

Patriarch Dugu’s body was like the broken sword, yet his eyes were alight with cold fire.

The Faceless Celestial Demon Path, was devouring him.

Patriarch Dugu exhausted a lifetime of Sword Dao, refined a lifetime of Sword Intent, also reversed the void to reality, forming a seal, sealing off his Taoist Heart, sealing his Dao Body, even spreading outward, weaving into a sword net, sealing the entire Sword Tomb, isolating it from the world...

...

In the Elder’s Residence.

Elder Master Xun, while flipping through classics, carefully deducing something, was suddenly startled, stood up, and looked towards the Back Hill Forbidden Area.

All the aura in the Back Hill was tranquil, returning to the boundary of reality, isolated from the world.

This is a means only a power at the Peak of Void could possess.

”Senior Brother...”

Elder Master Xun’s gaze was desolate, a sorrow grew in his heart, murmuring with a sigh, ”In the end... it has come to this, hasn’t it...”

...

In the Disciple’s Residence.

Mo Hua was also pushed by Patriarch Dugu, falling from the void crack into his room.

Afterwards, a flash of black, the void crack closed on its own, all aura dissipated, all space completely sealed.

As Mo Hua turned back to look, it was all empty, nothing remained.

Only the heavy broken sword in his hand still retained the hot temperature instigated by Sword Qi, along with a trace of Patriarch Dugu’s profound Divine Thought.

”Patriarch...”

Thinking of Patriarch Dugu, with his aged demeanor, alone suppressing the demon, Mo Hua felt a bitter taste in his heart.

Yet he could do nothing.

Not even breaking the void again, returning to the Sword Tomb, meeting Patriarch Dugu once more, was very likely impossible...

Mo Hua’s expression was desolate, but suddenly he felt something, his face slightly changed, and he immediately sat down cross-legged, letting his Divine Sense sink into his Sea of Consciousness.

As soon as he submerged into the Sea of Consciousness, Mo Hua’s Divine Thought incarnation shivered with cold, then opened his mouth, spewing from his seven orifices demon thoughts like black blood, finally transforming once more into the Little Faceless Celestial Demon.

It let out a mocking laugh that was neither male nor female, neither yin nor yang, neither old nor young, mixed with countless human emotions:

”To dare swallow a Celestial Demon, you...”

It hadn’t finished speaking before being choked by Mo Hua.

Outside, it was no match for Mo Hua.

In Mo Hua’s Sea of Consciousness, it couldn’t stir any trouble.

Mo Hua dragged this Little Faceless Celestial Demon to meet his good friend, the big-headed ”Pixiu.”

The Pixiu, having only taken a nap, had received another rare ”prisoner,” genuinely delighted beyond measure, looking at Mo Hua with eyes full of approval and joy.

Mo Hua tossed the Little Faceless Celestial Demon to the Pixiu.

The Little Faceless Celestial Demon shrieked in terror, but it was no use.

Being in its juvenile stage, not yet having parasitized and hatched to a high-level demon of human semblance, it could not resist the Pixiu’s power of repelling evil.

Thus, the Pixiu held the Celestial Demon under its left paw, while its right paw controlled the Evil God, mightily enjoying its dominance.