It’s as if...
From a familiar young man, he turned into an unknowable evil monster.
At the same time, a mysterious aura spread from Mo Hua.
Moments later, the strange atmosphere dissipated, and Mo Hua’s expression returned to normal. He pointed to a waterway in front of him and said, "Turn right at the middle, and you can find the owner of the broken sword..."
Xia Canonical Official’s expression slightly shook.
"So this is... finding the way?"
She looked puzzled, thought for a moment, and then her pupils shrank as she exclaimed:
"Heavenly Mechanism Skill?!"
Gu Changhuai was also startled upon hearing this, and quickly looked at Mo Hua.
Mo Hua, however, asked in confusion, "What is the Heavenly Mechanism Skill?"
Xia Canonical Official looked into Mo Hua’s clear eyes, a little surprised, "You don’t know what the Heavenly Mechanism Skill is?"
Mo Hua nodded.
He actually knew a little bit.
But what he knew was something he had guessed and cobbled together, summarized purely from experience.
It’s a wild method, not something elegant or respectable.
The true, systematic, academic Heavenly Mechanism Skill, he had no idea about.
So claiming not to know what the Heavenly Mechanism Skill is wasn’t a false statement.
Xia Canonical Official frowned, "Then what were you just using?"
Mo Hua blinked, "It’s something I learned back home in Li State from an old Taoist who was passing by, wearing tattered clothes but kind-hearted and benevolent-faced."
"It’s a divination pathfinding method that can use divine sense perception to ’divine’ the correct path, making it easier to find people or things lost in the mountains."
Mo Hua spoke with great seriousness.
Xia Canonical Official herself was also clueless about the Heavenly Mechanism Skill, having heard only a little about it, and after some thought, found Mo Hua’s words reasonable.
The so-called "divination pathfinding method" should be some folk-level, lower-tier Heavenly Mechanism Technique circulated among lower-level cultivators.
Occasionally, it can perceive some minor causes and effects, but compared to true Heavenly Mechanism Skill, it’s like clouds and mud.
As for the old Taoist, shabby clothes, kind-hearted, benevolent face...
That also seemed plausible.
There are indeed many experts or quirky alchemists in the cultivation world who like traveling.
It’s normal for them to master some strange spell points.
Xia Canonical Official secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought, how could someone at the mere Foundation Establishment Realm learn the Heavenly Mechanism Skill...
But Xia Canonical Official still cautioned Mo Hua:
"This kind of spell point, don’t use it recklessly in front of others in the future, nor divine carelessly..."
"Why?" Mo Hua asked.
Xia Canonical Official said solemnly:
"Even though it’s just a simple minor causal spell point, the word ’cause and effect’ is involved, which can overly deplete divine thought, and it’s easy to cause fluctuations in one’s own fortune. The most severe is that if you ’divine’ the cause and effect of some powerful cultivators, you might provoke experts and suffer causal backlash, and you are only at Foundation Establishment..."
Xia Canonical Official looked at Mo Hua with concern, "...This severe causal backlash is something you, a child, cannot withstand."
There is actually causal backlash...
Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart, nodded solemnly.
He then thought about how, along the way, he seemed to have calculated a lot of causes and effects, yet he hadn’t seemed to provoke any "experts" or suffer any causal backlash.
He didn’t know whether he was lucky, or if his master had secretly arranged some means of protection.
In any case, he decided to be more cautious in the future.
However, for now, the matter of the Water Yama should be fine, at least regarding causes and effects, there shouldn’t be too many concerns.
After that, the three drove the boat, quietly moving forward along the waterway divined by Mo Hua.
The further they went, the more complex the river became, making it harder to discern direction.
This area was downstream, with silt accumulation, and occasionally there were shoals overgrown with waist-high weeds.
So, as the small boat moved forward, it often had to stop.
Mo Hua would take out the broken sword and divine again, then re-determine the direction.
Xia Canonical Official silently watched Mo Hua, feeling more and more puzzled as she did.
All heavenly mechanism causality and even divine thought skills consume divine sense, especially those involving the heavenly mechanism path and causal calculations, which consume even more divine sense.
But this young boy, after so many divinations along the way, still hadn’t exhausted his divine sense.