“I’ll ask you a few questions.”
Lord Yellow Mountain immediately retracted his demon form, revealing his original appearance with a human body and demon face, and said respectfully,
“Gentleman, please ask!”
Mo Hua asked, “Your essence is Divine Thought, but in the end, are you human, or are you a monster? And as for the Mountain God… what exactly is it?”
“How does one qualify as a ‘god’?”
Mo Hua asked several questions in quick succession.
Lord Yellow Mountain was somewhat surprised.
He had thought this young cultivator, with such formidable abilities and profound knowledge of Divine Thought Slaughter, must have an extremely profound family heritage. Yet, the questions asked were somewhat inconsistent in depth.
Things he shouldn’t have known, he knew, and not just knew, but to a frighteningly profound extent.
But things he should have known seemed to be rather limited in his knowledge…
“Is it an incomplete inheritance, or did the master only teach him half…”
Lord Yellow Mountain speculated in his heart but didn’t dare to withhold information.
He was afraid this young cultivator was “deceiving” him, pretending not to understand what he actually did, and then seizing on his own words to “devour” him.
One’s path in Tao Cultivation is fraught with peril, and it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility…
Lord Yellow Mountain said:
“All entities of Divine Consciousness in the world, just like cultivators’ Divine Sense, malicious spirits’ ghost thoughts, and evil spirits’ evil thoughts, are all illusory and not real ‘Thought Bodies’.”
“Ghosts are Thought Bodies.”
“When a cultivator reaches their limit, and their body dies and their Tao fades, the transformed Divine Thought usually becomes a ghost.”
“These ghosts and evil spirits, having scattered and mutated consciousness, consume human divine sense to sustain their own ghost thoughts, especially the divine sense of their close relatives, which to ghosts is an especially nourishing substance.”
“‘God’ is also a type of Thought Body.”
“But becoming a god is very demanding and relates to the Great Dao, cause and effect, offerings, incense worship, and the like.”
“I’m just a minor Mountain God, given some incense offerings, worshipped by believers, and by chance acquired the Mountain God Position, but more profound matters… I don’t understand…”
“Especially…”
Lord Yellow Mountain showed a look of fear, “In this world, it is said that there are ancient, supreme beings like Monster Gods, Evil Gods, and Demon Gods…”
“These beings are unseen, unknown, and almost ‘Dao,’ almost ‘Immortal’…”
Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart.
This world of cultivation was seemingly bigger, deeper, more terrifying, and more complex than he had imagined…
Mo Hua took another look at Lord Yellow Mountain and asked doubtfully:
“Mountain God, you cultivate the Righteous Dao, so that’s good, right?”
Lord Yellow Mountain smiled awkwardly, “That is generally the case… At least the divine sense is clear, desiring incense worship, wanting to form good connections, reaping good fruits…”
“Then why did you become bad before, and even got chopped?” Mo Hua asked curiously.
Lord Yellow Mountain, as if stabbed in the heart, hesitated for a moment before saying helplessly,
“That… alas, it’s hard to avoid missteps in cultivation…”
“I was too complacent as a Mountain God, and my Divine Thought hadn’t grown for a long time, so I took to perverse ideas and ate… ate a few people…”
Mo Hua’s gaze turned cold.
Lord Yellow Mountain felt a chill over his entire body and immediately said, “Not ‘me,’ but the previous ‘me’…”
Mo Hua’s face stiffened, “The you from before isn’t you anymore?”
Lord Yellow Mountain wished he could cry but helplessly replied, “Evil thoughts grew, one body, two thoughts; I had no control…”
“Then what?”
“After that… after eating a few people, my Divine Thought might have been tainted, but it definitely grew stronger. Just when ‘I’—no, the previous me—was complacently satisfied with myself, I was figured out by a cultivator from a nearby Righteous Dao Sect…”
“There was a White-Robed Sword Cultivator, with a profound level of cultivation, who chopped me down with a single sword…”
“After getting chopped, due to the good karma I had accumulated earlier, I was left with the faintest breath…”
“That Sword Cultivator said things like ‘Heaven values all life,’ ‘one death, one life, should not be cut off,’ and ‘to leave a line of survival,’ and let me go.”
“But he also warned me that if I committed evil again, he would utterly exterminate me.”
“So, young Gentleman, I really don’t dare to harm you…”
Lord Yellow Mountain wished he could open his heart for Mo Hua to see.
“Mhm mhm.” Mo Hua nodded, then suddenly remembered another question and asked:
“You are a Mountain God, a Divine Consciousness Entity, so how did that Sword Cultivator, with a sword, chop you?”
“It was…”
Seemingly recalling that moment, Lord Yellow Mountain’s eyes still held immense terror.
“Divine Thought into sword…”
Mo Hua was momentarily stunned, then his eyes lit up.
Divine Thought…
Into sword!!