Chapter 1479: Divine Concealment

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Chapter 1477: Divine Concealment

Bai Zixi glanced at Mo Hua. “What are you ‘Huh’-ing about?”

Mo Hua said, “No, Senior Sister, how can you go there?”

Bai Zixi said calmly, “You can go, but I can’t?”

Mo Hua stammered, “Is that the same thing?”

Bai Zixi said, “I don’t care. Anyway, if Junior Brother can go, then Senior Sister can go too.”

I don’t care…

she’s acting just like a child…

Mo Hua thought to himself, silently grumbling.

Bai Zixi’s gaze narrowed slightly. “Did you say something bad about me?”

“No!” Mo Hua immediately declared with a serious expression.

Bai Zixi’s expression softened a little.

“But,” Mo Hua said awkwardly, “that kind of place is full of filth and impurity. Senior Sister, it’s better for you not to get involved.”

Bai Zixi nodded. “Indeed.”

Mo Hua breathed a small sigh of relief.

“Then you shouldn’t go either,” Bai Zixi said.

Mo Hua was stunned. “I…”

Bai Zixi said, “That kind of place is full of filth and impurity. Little Junior Brother, it’s better for you not to get involved either.”

Mo Hua was left speechless.

This was the first time he realized that his always aloof and elegant Little Senior Sister could also be so sharp-tongued.

“But even if I wanted to take you,” Mo Hua said awkwardly again, “we couldn’t get past True Person Rong. True Person Rong would absolutely never let you, Senior Sister, go to such a place.”

Bai Zixi said, “How do you know?”

Mo Hua was taken aback. “Would True Person Rong agree?”

Bai Zixi said, “I have a way.”

Mo Hua frowned.

Impossible.

What way could there be to make True Person Rong agree to such an outrageous thing?

Mo Hua truly couldn’t think of one.

Bai Zixi said, “Come with me.”

Mo Hua said, “Oh.”

Mo Hua thought Little Senior Sister really had some good method, but her method turned out to be running straight to True Person Rong and saying directly: “Little Junior Brother is going to a brothel. I have to follow him.”

True Person Rong, who was studying the Causality Technique, had her brain short-circuit for a moment.

She heard the words, but it took her a while to figure out what kind of outrageous talk this was.

What do you mean, your Little Junior Brother is going to a brothel, so you have to follow too?

You two senior sister and junior brother really know how to have fun.

True Person Rong looked coldly at Mo Hua.

When it came to Zixi, she didn’t care whether Mo Hua was some genius, some monster, or some demon to be sliced and examined under a microscope anymore.

Heaven and earth are vast, but Zixi is the most important.

Under True Person Rong’s gaze, Mo Hua sighed softly and said, “It’s not my fault. Senior Sister wants to go. I don’t want her to go either.”

True Person Rong sneered inwardly.

Do you think I believe that?

It must be this Mo Hua who corrupted Zixi.

Before he came, Zixi was fine, with no problems, quietly cultivating and reading every day.

Now that he’s here, he causes trouble day after day.

Now Zixi can even say things like going to a brothel. How preposterous.

And this is the result with me watching right here. If I weren’t watching, who knows where this Mo Hua would lead Zixi.

Thinking of this, True Person Rong’s gaze at Mo Hua became somewhat stern.

Facing True Person Rong’s silent accusation, Mo Hua had no way to defend himself and could only sigh helplessly.

Seeing that True Person Rong wasn’t speaking, Bai Zixi nodded and said, “Then it’s settled.”

True Person Rong was startled. “What’s settled?!”

Bai Zixi said, “The matter of me going to the brothel with Little Junior Brother.”

True Person Rong said angrily, “I didn’t agree!”

Bai Zixi didn’t speak, but her pursed lips clearly showed her unhappiness.

True Person Rong had a headache.

Yet she couldn’t bring herself to speak harshly to Zixi, so she softened her tone and asked gently, “Why do you want to go to such a place?”

Bai Zixi glanced at Mo Hua and said, “Little Junior Brother wants to go.”

True Person Rong shot a look at Mo Hua, then turned back to Zixi. “If he wants to go, let him go.”

After all, she couldn’t control this little monster Mo Hua.

“You shouldn’t go,” True Person Rong said to Bai Zixi.

But Bai Zixi shook her head. “No, I’m the senior sister, and he’s the little junior brother. A senior sister must look after her junior brother. Otherwise, at his young age, if he makes a wrong step, strays onto the wrong path, he might learn bad things.”

“So, if Little Junior Brother goes, I must go too.”

True Person Rong looked at Mo Hua again. “Then, can you not go?”

Mo Hua shook his head. “I must go too. Cultivation requires self-reliance. I need to investigate matters, capture wanted criminals, and earn Spirit stones.”

True Person Rong was truly exasperated.

Truly from the same sect… this senior sister and junior brother, each more reasonable than the other.

But how could she possibly let Zixi go to such a place?

True Person Rong was about to sternly refuse, but when she looked up, she met Zixi’s gaze.

Zixi was extraordinarily beautiful, stunningly so, and her eyes naturally shone with a clarity like ice and jade.

At this moment, those icy jade-like eyes held an indescribable determination.

This meant that what seemed like absurd, playful words were actually spoken with great seriousness.

She rarely spoke, but once she did, she was determined to follow through.

Zixi had this troublesome nature.

Aloof, gentle, but occasionally rebellious.

The more aloof and detached from worldly affairs her nature was, the more unruly her rebellions became.

True Person Rong didn’t dare to truly oppose Zixi’s wishes, fearing it might provoke her rebellious streak and spiral out of control. She sighed softly and said: “It’s not that I won’t let you go out, but you know your own bloodline, your appearance, your identity and cause and effect. Once you step outside, it’s easy to cause major disturbances.”

Saying “disturbances” was putting it lightly. True Person Rong knew well in her heart that if Bai Zixi revealed her true appearance, her identity was exposed, and coupled with the uniqueness of her bloodline, if any major incident occurred, the entire Kun Province could be thrown into turmoil and unrest.

Bai Zixi also knew this, her gaze darkening slightly as she fell into silence.

Mo Hua nodded in agreement. “True Person Rong is right.”

But Bai Zixi suddenly looked at Mo Hua and said, “You figure it out.”

Mo Hua was taken aback. “What?”

Bai Zixi said, “I’m going too. As for how to go out, you figure it out.”

Mo Hua was troubled. “What can I possibly do?”

Bai Zixi shook her head. “You’re my little junior brother. You must have a way.”

True Person Rong also looked at Mo Hua with surprise, unable to hide her astonishment. Did Zixi really trust her junior brother’s abilities so much?

But… what could possibly conceal Zixi’s bloodline and aura?

Mo Hua sighed as well. “Senior Sister, aren’t you making things difficult for me?”

Bai Zixi gave a light, cold snort, with a hint of domineering in her tone: “Anyway, you figure it out yourself. If I go, you can go. If I can’t go, you’re not going either.”

Mo Hua sighed helplessly.

True Person Rong, for a moment, didn’t know what to say either. She could only look at Mo Hua, then at Bai Zixi, and let out a long sigh.

Looking after children was hard, especially when they were two Golden Core Realm ‘big children.’

…

In the days that followed, Mo Hua’s focus was primarily on researching how to disguise someone.

He never expected that the biggest obstacle to his visit to Jade Fragrance Pavilion would come from Little Senior Sister.

But since this was Little Senior Sister’s request, Mo Hua had no choice but to comply.

However, this matter was truly challenging.

The difficulty of disguising Little Senior Sister was extremely high; a being like her simply couldn’t be concealed by mere disguise.

Even if her appearance were hidden, her celestial-like figure could not be concealed.

Even if her figure were wrapped up, that noble, intensely oppressive beauty of hers could not be restrained.

Even if her aura were restrained, there remained the most troublesome issue of her bloodline.

Anyone who approached Little Senior Sister—especially women—would inevitably be affected by her bloodline, experiencing emotional turmoil and agitation.

Beyond the bloodline, there was also the issue of cause and effect.

Little Senior Sister was the Direct Line Daughter of the Bai Clan, with a special status that likely involved many unknown cause-and-effect connections. Once her identity was exposed, it would inevitably lead to disaster.

Appearance, figure, aura, bloodline, cause and effect.

He had previously considered whether he could take Little Senior Sister out for a stroll to relax. But at that time, it was just a thought, without considering the practical issues.

Now, when it came time to actually take Little Senior Sister out, Mo Hua realized the severity of the problem, feeling a tingling sensation on his forehead.

But this issue had to be resolved sooner or later.

To take Little Senior Sister out, the challenge of disguise was unavoidable.

Mo Hua had no choice but to grit his teeth and find a way.

Even if he couldn’t think of one, he had to force himself to.

…

Over the next few days, Mo Hua did nothing else but hole up in his room, pondering methods of disguise. He even obtained some disguise techniques from various sources to study, hoping to gather ideas, learn from different approaches, and find inspiration.

He designed a total of twenty related plans.

But as soon as he finished designing them, Mo Hua discarded them all, because these disguise techniques couldn’t even fool him, how could they be used to protect Little Senior Sister’s secrets?

Mo Hua settled his mind and continued to think.

After another period of intense contemplation, relying on his rich experience and profound Formation expertise, Mo Hua actually came up with a method.

The origin of this method came from the Great Wilderness Evil God.

Back in the Qianxue Prefecture realm, Mr. Tu had used the Divine Lock Formation and Divine Mist Formation to conceal many secrets in order to hide his grand plan of reviving the Evil God.

Places like the Bishan Mountain Demon Cave, the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, the small fishing village, and the Dragon King Temple… all bore traces of being sealed.

The greatest reliance that allowed Mr. Tu to advance his plan to revive the Evil God under the noses of the major powers in Qianxue was the Divine Dao Formation he mastered.

The Divine Dao Formation could channel Divine Power, conceal Qi Mechanism, obscure cause and effect, and was incredibly profound.

Mr. Tu had used the Divine Dao Formation to conceal such a massive Evil God.

So, using a Divine Dao Formation to protect ‘Little Senior Sister’ shouldn’t be too excessive, right?

No matter how significant Little Senior Sister’s cause and effect might be, surely it couldn’t be greater than that of the Evil God?

After thinking it over for a long time, Mo Hua found it reasonable.

Afterward, he began attempting to use the Divine Dao Formation to make Little Senior Sister undergo ‘Divine Concealment.’

This was no ordinary disguise technique; or rather, disguise techniques themselves were just a facade.

The true core was ‘Divine Concealment’ combined with ‘Concealment’.

(TN: Double Concealment)

Mo Hua inscribed one of the Divine Dao Formations, the Divine Mist Formation, onto a lightweight cicada-wing garment.

Afterward, he spent some time mastering the Water Concealment Formation he had glimpsed from Elder Tian.

The Water Concealment Formation was a twenty-nine-rune Golden Core high-grade formation, a full-rune high-grade formation that was extremely difficult to learn.

Previously, Mo Hua hadn’t rushed to learn it because he had no use for it.

But now that Little Senior Sister needed it for her disguise, he spent several nights delving into it until he fully comprehended the Water Concealment Formation.

Mo Hua also inscribed this Water Concealment Formation onto the lightweight, gauzy cicada-wing garment.

The Divine Mist Formation combined with the Water Concealment Formation created a dual-layered concealment effect, masking both Divine-Sense and light and shadow.

This way, as long as Little Senior Sister wore this ‘Divine Concealment’ cicada-wing garment close to her skin, she would essentially become ‘invisible’.

Divine Concealment was the foundation; next came the disguise.

Drawing on his years of experience and his recent study of disguise techniques, Mo Hua crafted a new set of Dao robes and a facial mask.

Within the robes, he reconstructed a flexible skeleton using silk and gold thread, leveraging his understanding of human meridians and agility gained during his cultivation in the Great Wilderness.

For the facial mask, he used pale spirit beast hide with a texture close to human skin as the base. On this foundation, he meticulously painted and outlined the features, creating a refined and handsome male face.

This was essentially a ‘painted-skin mask.’

As a Formation Master, Mo Hua was skilled with brush and ink, excelling in fine brushwork. When painting masks for himself, he was casual—dabbing and smudging to create a ghostly face, pretending to be the Black-Faced Fiend was enough.

But for Little Senior Sister’s mask, every stroke was exquisite, the structure refined, each eyebrow and eye both real and illusory, so lifelike it could deceive the eye.

The gold-thread skeleton Dao robes, combined with the deceptively realistic painted-skin mask, created an entirely new outer shell.

The Divine Concealment cicada-wing garment, utilizing the Power of the Divine Dao, concealed cause and effect, bloodline, and aura.

The gold-thread skeleton Daoist robes reshaped the physique.

The painted-skin mask altered the appearance.

In this way, a comprehensive disguise was achieved, covering everything from cause and effect and bloodline to appearance and figure.

Even Bai Zixi was momentarily stunned when she saw the mysterious Divine Concealment cicada-wing garment, the luxurious gold-thread Daoist robes, and the deceptively realistic painted-skin mask that Mo Hua had given her.

She did know that her Little Junior Brother possessed not only extraordinary Divine-Sense but also unimaginable abilities.

Since childhood, whenever Little Junior Brother set his mind to something, no matter how outrageous it seemed, he could accomplish it.

To protect Tongxian City, he had even constructed the First-Grade Five Elements Demon-Slaying Grand Formation.

Yet, seeing these exquisitely crafted garments before her, Bai Zixi couldn’t help but feel a tremor in her heart, her eyes shimmering.

When Bai Zixi stood before True Person Rong, wearing the Divine Concealment cicada-wing garment Mo Hua had made for her, draped in the gold-thread Daoist robes, and donning the painted-skin mask, she resembled an unfamiliar, ethereal young master of the mundane world.

True Person Rong was stunned for a long while. Only when she realized who this ethereal young master before her might be did a tempest of shock surge within her heart.

Because, at first, she truly hadn’t recognized her.

Figure, appearance, aura, cause and effect—all were concealed.

Only a faint trace of bloodline resonance leaked through, but without prior suspicion, True Person Rong wouldn’t have considered that possibility.

“How… how was this done? How is this possible…” True Person Rong murmured in disbelief, gazing at Bai Zixi’s transformed appearance.

True Person Rong listened, pondered briefly, then her pupils contracted as she couldn’t help but look at Mo Hua, the shock in her heart growing rather than diminishing.

What kind of formation could conceal both a person’s cause and effect and their bloodline?

Where did Mo Hua learn such a formation?

Moreover, that wasn’t all.

Using the formation cicada shell to make Zixi undergo Divine Concealment was a transition from ‘existence’ to ‘nonexistence.’

Building upon Divine Concealment, further applying disguise to shape the body and face—this was a transition from ‘nonexistence’ to ‘existence.’

The disguise itself was indistinguishable from reality.

This entire process of disguise encompassed profound changes in the Laws: from existence to nonexistence, from nonexistence to existence, using existence as falsehood, and using falsehood to imitate reality.

The application of the formation was masterful, and the understanding of the Laws was truly astonishing.

And Mo Hua, at this moment, was only at the Golden Core stage, yet he could already achieve this. If one day…

True Person Rong clenched her palm, her gaze trembling as she took a sharp breath, thinking to herself:

“If one day… he attains Feathered Ascension and masters the power of the Laws… wouldn’t deceiving heaven and earth, or even stealing the sky and replacing the sun, be within his grasp?”