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Chapter 358 358. Six Days of Ancient Qi (Second Update)

Walking into the warehouse shrouded in darkness, even without any light, Mo Hao could still see clearly what was going on inside.

The warehouse was a standard warehouse, with grain stacked in a very planned manner, so that Mo Hao didn't even need to look for it to see things that shouldn't be placed in the warehouse.

A wooden statue.

The statue has no specific appearance, and it is not even clear whether the shape is a statue or not. It just looks like a mass of black that even obscures the darkness.

But when I looked at it, I thought from the bottom of my heart that it was a statue.

A statue of a deity.

In an instant, Mo Hao felt that he had lost all five senses and fell into a realm of endless darkness.

Darkness is not unfamiliar to Mo Hao. In fact, a considerable part of his power is related to darkness.

So he soon discovered that there was a will in the darkness, a will that was not friendly to him.

The first thing that appeared was an eye, a huge single eye that seemed to be looking over from somewhere outside this dark space, from some higher dimension.

Its original appearance cannot be seen clearly through the pitch-black space, but one can still vaguely see that it is huge in size.

Its shape hidden in the darkness is grotesque and absurd, and its blurred outline seems to be made up of hundreds of thousands of messy geometric shapes. Even with the darkness as cover, one will feel dizzy at the first sight.

A powerful being, an being that even if it is not its real body, can pull itself into this darkness with just a statue.

Darkness and despair that spread from nowhere became the main theme of this place.

An immense sense of oppression was exerted upon him. This was not just a metaphor, but a real force was exerted upon him. This was the pressure from a higher-level existence, an enemy of a far higher level than that of Kanazawa Ken.

The only person who could be found in memory to match him was Ornn, the oldest demigod with whom he had communicated face to face.

Mo Hao wasn't sure which of the two guys was stronger, but he was very clear that what was before him was stronger than any enemy he had ever faced.

His spirit was strongly shocked and he began to hear fanatical shouts in his ears. There was a voice demanding and forcing him to kneel down, to surrender, and to offer his faith to the great existence before him.

Mo Hao didn't say anything, but resisted the mental pressure.

After going through the [Blood Burning] tempering many times, not only has his body been greatly strengthened, but his spirit has also been strengthened...

Or it should be said that [Blood Burning] mainly targets the spirit. Once the spirit cannot bear the pain brought by [Blood Burning], once the consciousness becomes blurred, it will be completely burned to ashes by the blood flames.

Only by remaining awake in the midst of endless pain, and accepting and enduring that boundless pain, can one temper one's blood and energy.

Therefore, this attack on his mind caused Mo Hao to instinctively counterattack.

Blood silently spread from the dark space and then formed a huge vortex.

The huge single eye looked towards the bloody vortex, and a wary look appeared in its eyes, as if something in the vortex made it very wary.

The One-Eye immediately realized that the partial power remaining in the statue could not cause any damage to the things in the vortex.

"Let me introduce you to this gentleman with only one eye."

Mo Hao stood beside the bloody vortex, pressed one hand on the edge of the vortex, and tried hard to expand it.

"Blood Demon, I'm going to play hide-and-seek with you later." A bloody figure rushed out from the whirlpool and rushed towards the huge one-eyed monster. The two collided once, and the huge one-eyed monster suddenly made a shocking explosion.

The Blood Demon's phantom was torn to pieces in an instant. The power had not yet reached the limit of the Hell Blood Demon God, and the thing it gave birth to could not be called a Blood Demon at all. It was just a phantom.

But what Mo Hao needed was a momentary diversion of the giant single-eyed creature's attention. He immediately made a spell to force his spirit back into his body.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Mo Hao did not hesitate at all. He already held the Heavenly Escape Book in his hand, circulated his magical power, and then shouted angrily, "Thunder God, help me!!!"

Thunder fell from the sky and broke the statue into more than a dozen pieces. The pieces then shattered again in mid-air and turned into a pool of powder.

All that was heard was a roar full of pain, and then the exploding powder fell to the ground, immediately causing a raging fire.

The fire does not require any other ignition materials, it directly ignites the soil and has a tendency to burn more and more fiercely.

Mo Hao looked around, opened the door to the world of heavenly books and took away all the food in the warehouse. Then, without caring about the fire in the warehouse, his figure blended into the darkness and disappeared without a trace.

……

After returning to his residence, Mo Hao, who had already removed his Zhang Jiao disguise, sat on the bed and looked out the window indifferently.

From here, you can also see the raging fire in the warehouse.

"Come out, I have something to talk to you about."

Unintelligible words echoed in the room where only one person was, but after Mo Hao said this, a second person appeared in the room.

Someone that only Mo Hao can see.

The Taoist master of Taiping Taoism wears a yellow turban, a Taoist robe, and holds a nine-section staff.

Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jue also looked at the window, watching the raging fire in the warehouse. Before Mo Hao could ask, he was the first to give the answer, "That's the Six Heavens Qi."

The "Six Heavens" in "Six Heavens Ancient Qi" in Taoist culture refers to the system of gods that originally ruled the human world, mainly including "God" and "Five Emperors".

This explanation stems from traditional Chinese culture before the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Confucianism advocates the use of blood and food to worship gods, with God and the Five Emperors as the core. Taoism opposed this sacrificial system in the early days.

But Mo Hao's attention was not here. "How can you, a rebel leader in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, know the sayings during the Northern and Southern Dynasties?"

When Zhang Jiao said the term "Six Heavens Ancient Qi", it felt much more incongruous than anything else.

"I am not Zhang Jue, at least not the one in history that you know. I am just a symbol that represents Zhang Jue."

“The main character is Zhang Jiao from the game Three Kingdoms, and various symbols are added.”

As if knowing Mo Hao's doubts, Zhang Jiao did not hide any thoughts and said it directly without Mo Hao asking first.

"I am the symbol that represents Zhang Jiao, and also your, um, or should I say, evaluation mechanism. When you chose the power of [Zhang Jiao], this symbol of mine, which is a mixture of many sources, was born as your evaluation mechanism."

Zhang Jiao leaned against the wall, looking at Mo Hao with a somewhat strange look in his eyes, "To be honest, the factors in your mind are so complicated that it makes me sad."

(End of this chapter)