Mo Hua eradicated the zombie disciple, "ate" its evil thoughts, and then began to sit in meditation to refine them.
Within the evil thoughts, there were some mottled memories.
All were about corpse refinement, corpse raising, and corpse control.
The Zhang Family's legacy throughout the generations was all about such sinister activities, ostensibly selling coffins but secretly practicing corpse refinement.
This disciple was the same.
He was also an ancestor of Zhang Quan.
But his talent was mediocre; he was only in the Qi Refinement Realm, and he hadn't been exposed to zombies for long before the corpse poison seized his heart and turned him into a Walking Corpse.
Fearing exposure, the Zhangs killed him and sealed his Divine Thought in the Ancestral Master Picture.
Just like many other ancestors of the Zhang Family.
While it was alive, it became a Zombie, and in death it remained a Zombie; thus, the evil thoughts it manifested posthumously were also those of a Zombie.
The Zhang Family members themselves were half-human, half-zombie.
As Mo Hua refined its evil thoughts, a cold, putrid, and deathly desire also tainted his Divine Sense.
Mo Hua felt a bloodthirsty desire awaken in his heart.
It was as if he had become a zombie himself, craving flesh and blood, with an urge to consume a living person.
Once the evil thoughts entered his heart, Mo Hua immediately entered a state of Mental Concentration, meditated in stillness, and discarded all worldly desires.
Mo Hua was far from panicked.
As Mr. Zhuang had said, every time evil thoughts intruded, it was a test of one's Taoist Heart.
Whether one can uphold their original intentions and maintain their Taoist Heart amid worldly desires and entanglements of evil thoughts is crucial for a cultivator.
Once the Taoist Heart is breached and the original intentions are extinguished, it's easy to stray and deviate from the Heavenly Dao.
People aren't born resistant to all evils.
The Taoist Heart also needs to be strengthened bit by bit.
Mo Hua planned to start with the smaller evil thoughts, to cultivate his will, enlighten his mind gradually.
Bit by bit, to firm up his Taoist Heart.
Until one day, he would be impervious to all evils.
Even if an Evil God invaded his brain or a Heavenly Demon disrupted his mind, he would remain clear and untainted, like a flawless mirror.
The zombie disciple was quickly refined by Mo Hua.
Its minor evil thoughts were also discarded by Mo Hua.
Mo Hua's Divine Sense had also noticeably increased.
This was the most pronounced increase in Mo Hua's Divine Sense in the past few months.
But it still wasn't enough.
Mo Hua smacked his lips with a sense of incompleteness lingering.
The zombie disciple was only in the Qi Refinement Realm, and its Divine Thought wasn't strong; after refining out the evil thoughts, the Divine Sense obtained was minimal.
That amount of Divine Sense was hardly enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
Mo Hua felt it was a pity, so he opened his eyes.
Bai Zisheng was staring at him intently and promptly asked when Mo Hua opened his eyes,
"How's it going?"
Mo Hua replied, "It's fine."
Bai Zisheng let out a sigh of relief and then asked,
"What's next?"
Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "Let me take another look, and you do what I told you earlier..."
"Mhm mhm." Bai Zisheng nodded and said, "Knock you out, call for the master, burn the drawing, and scatter the ashes..."
Although it differed slightly from what Mo Hua had said, it was more or less the same.
Mo Hua then reopened the Contemplation Map, which appeared to be the Ancestral Master Picture on the surface, but was actually the Zombie Image.
He looked at it again.
The same figure in the picture looked back at him with a zombie's face.
Similarly, the zombies left their seats and leaped out of the painting, entering Mo Hua's Sea of Consciousness.
This time Mo Hua released two zombies and then closed the drawing again.
These two zombies were still only in the Qi Refinement Realm; regarded as Disciples of the Zhang Family in human terms and only as Walking Corpses in zombie terms.
After leaping into Mo Hua's Sea of Consciousness, the two zombie disciples looked at each other, both showing ecstatic expressions.
This Sea of Consciousness was too vast.