Start with the Soul Forge

Chapter 163 163. Random draw reward: Yama Ksitigarbha

"The energy from hell will open the passage..."

The characteristics of the black fire made Mo Hao think of something, something that also came from hell and could open a passage. "Why does this thing sound so similar to the Argent energy?"

But soon Mo Hao put aside that unreasonable association. The knowledge recorded in the heavenly book can only be used through one's own learning. It will take a lot of time to produce it and transform it into combat power.

Things like mechanical engineering can be researched to some extent in a short period of time, but high-end energy stuff like black fire cannot be researched to any extent without an advanced laboratory and sufficient manpower.

Put your consciousness into the heavenly book. The world inside is not that big, only the size of a village.

The village was abandoned and looked uninhabited.

The wood has rotted and weeds have grown in the cracks between the stones. Only a few houses are still barely maintaining their original appearance, while most of the others have collapsed.

There is a stone tablet covered by weeds at the entrance of the village, with the three characters "Taohuayuan" engraved on the front.

The surrounding trees are lush and green, and the sunshine is bright. For Mo Hao, this place only needs a little reconstruction and renovation to become a portable base.

At this moment, a golden light suddenly emerged from Mo Hao's right hand, and the dragon flag was actually integrated into the heavenly book and appeared in the Peach Blossom Spring.

The dragon flag dropped from the sky and was inserted directly next to the Peach Blossom Spring stone tablet. Then a golden light swept across the entire village.

Mo Hao only felt that he could vaguely sense the movements in the Peach Blossom Spring. The dragon flag seemed to have become an amplifier of his consciousness, allowing him to perceive the situation in the Peach Blossom Spring without the need for the heavenly book.

"Okay, it's a business simulation, right? I hope future residents will like a Skyline player as mayor."

Mo Hao is not very good at managing the city, and he is often pushed out of his position as mayor by angry citizens in Skyline.

Just looking at the empty environment in Taohuayuan, he began to think about where to get some trustworthy people to rebuild Taohuayuan.

It would be a waste to simply regard the Heavenly Book World as a huge warehouse.

He first put away the Heavenly Book, and it turned into a ray of light and merged into Mo Hao's right hand. He could summon the Heavenly Book just by thinking about it.

The only thing left is the achievement reward for [The end of the end is death], [a random selection].

In front of him, a slot machine slowly appeared, with the long pull rod pointing straight at him, and it was obvious what it wanted him to do.

Mo Hao looked at the icons on the slot machine screen. They were all very familiar to him. He couldn't help but whisper, "Xianjian, Xuanyuan, Gujian, Renwang, big cousin..."

"If you don't practice dual cultivation, you will die, and demons will spread all over the world..."

"So you stole my computer, didn't you? Even copying the butter is a bit too much!"

Despite what he said, Mo Hao still put his hand on the lever and pulled it hard, while begging, "I'm not greedy, just a time stopper will do."

The icons on the slot machine screen began to appear and disappear quickly, and as time went on, they slowed down until two large white characters finally appeared.

"Warm snow..."

The slot machine turned into golden light and disappeared, and then many stone statues appeared in front of Mo Hao.

The Seven Swords Shura with eight arms and seven swords.

The God of Drinking Mingwang holds a sword in one hand and a gourd in the other.

The Venerable Wuliangye has a bird's head, bird's claws, a human body and a pair of wings on his back.

The Holy Thunder King Kong holding the Thunder Sword.

……

A total of ten different Buddha statues appeared in front of him, standing there quietly. At the same time, Mo Hao sensed that these Buddha statues were waiting for his choice.

You have to choose one of them yourself.

So which one should I choose?
Each Buddha statue represents a different power. The Holy Wrathful Thunder Vajra controls the heavenly thunder, the Divine Drinking Vajra uses wine to give birth to dragons, snakes and flames, and the Infinite Master transforms himself into a sword god with his wisdom sword.

"It's really hard for me to choose..."

Mo Hao closed his eyes and began to spin in circles.

His idea is very simple. When he finds it difficult to make a choice, he lets his feelings and instincts make the decision.

Abandoning his vision and sense of space, Mo Hao walked straight forward until he touched the hard stone statue, then he stopped.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw a stone statue in front of him with two horns and three skulls on its head. It held a brush in its hand and there seemed to be vermilion blood dripping from the tip of the brush.

Yama, Ksitigarbha and Bodhisattva.

On the pedestal below the stone statue of Yama Ksitigarbha, there is a line of words engraved: Lock up the souls, decide life and death, reward and punish good and evil, save all living beings, no one can defeat me.

This was not any Bodhisattva or Buddha that Mo Hao was familiar with. It looked more like a combination of King Yama and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

As Mo Hao made his choice, the stone statue of Yama Ksitigarbha melted into a bloody liquid. The liquid then outlined the word "death" and slammed into Mo Hao's body.

In an instant, Mo Hao felt that all the vitality in his body was gone, but he did not die.

Between life and death, neither life nor death, a picture suddenly appeared in my mind.

The picture shows two evil spirits, one with an ox head and the other with a horse face, holding weapons to capture evil spirits.

It is a painting of a scene where the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Gods escort evil spirits back to the underworld.

[Picture of the Hades’ generals marching out into battle]!
[Diagram of the Underworld Generals Going Out: Condensing souls and spirits to become the Underworld Generals under your command, seducing souls and spirits, capturing ghosts to rectify the laws of life and death.]

The feeling of being half-alive and half-dead only lasted for a moment. As Mo Hao memorized the [Diagram of the Underworld General's Formation], he soon returned to normal.

When he opened his eyes again, the slot machines and stone statues in front of him had all disappeared.

But before this space disappeared, Mo Hao knew that there were still some things that had not been settled.

Afterwards, two white balls of light floated out of Mo Hao's fists. He knew that it was the skill [Transform Axe into Fist] that he chose after entering the Taixu Realm.

The white ball of light floated in the air, and then quickly grew into a big tree like a seed.

That is the skill tree, the skill tree belonging to Niu Mo.

And there are not just one skill tree, but two.

Mo Hao looked carefully and found that the two were the skill trees of [Bull Demon] and [Spirit Monkey]. After the two white light balls evolved into skill trees, they were entangled together and slowly floated in front of Mo Hao.

[Chaos Star Dance/Transformed Axe Fist: The Bull King was originally a monkey mind, and now he has just merged the two, combining the boxing skills of the Great Power King and the Saint of Heaven. One is powerful and unparalleled, while the other is flexible and unpredictable.]

[Note: If you cause trouble in the future, do not mention my name - Pu Tao]

When he saw this skill, Mo Hao didn't do anything, but when he saw the message that he didn't know if it was from Pu Tao, he couldn't help it on the spot.

"Am I the kind of person who causes trouble everywhere?! Teacher, this is pure slander!"

Mo Hao felt that this was completely Pu Tao's prejudice. He had been a model student since childhood, and he was not the monkey who caused such a disaster.

(End of this chapter)