The Quest for Immortality Chapter 2763: Heart of Taotie (part 3)

Mo Hua’s mindset became much more positive.

He pondered for a long time, gradually coming up with a method:

"The Taotie Devouring Array I painted myself only has form, lacking the law, thus it’s lifeless."

"But the one inside the Barbarian God’s head from the Shugu Skill Department should be ’alive,’ and definitely has the ’living’ Taotie Devouring Law circulating within."

Mo Hua recollected how he previously used the life and death laws to counteract the hunger calamity, and researched the method to harness the embedded Taotie’s Power.

Such tactics can be referenced here as well:

"Use the Four Symbols Demon Formation to create a compound formation, derive the laws of demonic power for attacking the Taotie Law."

"The law of Taotie, acting from its own instinct, will surely ’devour’ other laws..."

"In this way, once the laws begin to operate, I can observe, dissect, and comprehend the changes in these laws through Heavenly secret Calculation and Tao-transformed Divine Thought."

These complex procedures gradually became clear in Mo Hua’s mind.

He foresightedly kept the Barbarian God head from the Shugu Skill Department.

Now, it was time to have someone bring it into the room.

He then picked from his Four Symbols Demon Pattern Formation some particularly more "plump" Monster Patterns to form a compound formation.

Afterward, he painted these Monster Patterns compound formation onto the Barbarian God head.

Using these Monster Patterns to "attack" the Taotie Formation.

Just like using a "meat bun" to hit a dog.

The Taotie Formation indeed instinctually began to devour the formation patterns endowed with demonic power, bit by bit consuming and digesting them.

These changes in law are not visible to the naked eye.

In the real world, ordinary cultivators can’t see it at all; their Divine Sense can hardly discern it.

But in Mo Hua’s near-deity level Divine Thought, the traces of these laws are clearly visible.

And all kinds of changes in these laws were deeply calculated and analyzed by Mo Hua’s Heavenly secret Calculation...

The twenty-three patterns Taotie Devouring Formation is "passively" devouring.

Thus, the display of this Power of Laws is not intense.

But for Mo Hua, it was already sufficient.

As long as there’s some sign of the law, he can gradually unravel the mystery, comprehend it layer by layer, continuously deepen and confirm his logical understanding of laws, and construct his own Formation System...

This marked another long period of sleepless nights and dayless exploration and comprehension.

When Mo Hua exhausted his Divine Sense for the umpteenth time,

He finally simulated in his mind the complete process of how the Taotie Law devours demonic power, digests demonic power, assimilates demonic power, and analyzes residual patterns.

He comprehended the law.

At that moment, Mo Hua felt that an earth-shattering and terrifying roar sounded in his mind.

This was the screech of Taotie.

It was a sign of the Taotie Law preliminarily merging with his Divine Soul.

Meanwhile, Mo Hua’s heart arose with a deep sense of hunger.

But this time, the "hunger" was unlike before.

This was not a hunger for food, for flesh.

It was a hunger for the Great Dao, for laws.

Mo Hua birthed an extremely intense hunger, emanating from his Taoist Heart, for the laws of the Great Dao, of everything under heaven and earth.

He was eager to seek the Great Dao, eager to explore the laws of heaven and earth.

He even wished he could "eat" all the laws in the heavens...

This was an extreme thirst for the Dao of Heaven and Earth, for the laws of all things—a "Taotie Heart."

Without attaining the Great Dao, not knowing the principles of heaven, not comprehending all laws, one never feels satisfied.

Now, Mo Hua even felt an immense emptiness and thirst within.

He urgently desired to approach certain laws.

He unconsciously began to stuff the Formation Diagram into his mouth, trying to alleviate his hunger for "laws" by "eating formations."

Fortunately, Mo Hua regained his senses and forcibly stopped this behavior that was not quite human.

Simultaneously, Mo Hua also used meditation to restrain and hold firm to his heart, forcibly suppressing the "hunger" at the bottom of his heart.

After calming his mood, Mo Hua took a long breath and slowly frowned.

He could feel that he indeed comprehended the "Devouring" law of Taotie now.

That was a good thing.

But accompanying it was the problem that the Taotie Law was just too fierce and strong.

So much so that his Divine Soul and character were somewhat "assimilated."

Previously, upon witnessing Taotie phenomena, he felt hunger for flesh.

Now, it was a deep desire for Dao and laws.

Cultivators require a strong longing for the Dao, which is supposed to be good.

But now the desire was too strong, and the inner "hunger" made Mo Hua uncomfortable.

The desire to eat laws, to eat formations seemed somewhat eerie and sinister...

Mo Hua looked at the formations scattered in front of him again, restraining the impulse to stuff them into his mouth with difficulty...

"Anyway, I’ve comprehended the Taotie’s Devouring Law."

"The twenty-three patterns Taotie Devouring Formation is also mastered."

"Later on, I can start reverse engineering, from complex to simple, to ’eat’ the Dragon Transformation Formation and understand the mysteries of this ancestral formation from the Shugu Skill Department..."

Mo Hua slightly nodded and then took out a piece of paper to give it a try and painted a Second Grade twenty-three patterns Taotie Devouring Formation.

Previously, when he painted these formation patterns, it was like a "walking corpse," formed but without spirit.

Now when painting, the Taotie Patterns seemed to come alive, radiating a fierce aura, each pattern with mouths wide open, seemingly trying to devour something.

Mo Hua himself was quite alarmed looking at it.

Then, next to the Taotie Devouring Ultimate Formation, he painted the ancestral Dragon Transformation Ultimate Formation from the Shugu Skill Department, which Mo Hua renamed.

Once painted, a strange scene unfolded.

The Taotie Devouring Formation, as if truly a "living" Taotie, its body wriggled and expanded outward.

Finally, the Taotie Patterns opened its "giant mouth," forcibly "swallowing" the entire Dragon Transformation Formation...

Though somewhat anticipated, seeing it firsthand, Mo Hua couldn’t hide the shock in his heart.

The formations were actually... "eating" formations...