After this battle, Mo Hua gradually rose to fame.
This fame had not come from winning with Array Techniques, but from fighting his way to it at the Sword Discussion Assembly through his own mastery of spells.
Even disciples of the mighty Qiandao Sect could be crushed to death by Mo Hua's low-tier spells.
This showed just how extraordinary Mo Hua's attainments in spellcraft were.
Of course, strictly speaking, Mo Hua had merely "assisted." Linghu Xiao was the one who had cut them down.
But Linghu Xiao had killed them.
The debt, however, had to be laid at Mo Hua's feet.
Linghu Xiao was a genius. Dying by his hand was only natural.
Being suppressed to death by Mo Hua's low-tier spells was the true ultimate humiliation.
Before long, the sense of "ultimate humiliation" born from being "humiliated" to death by low-tier spells spread.
More and more sect geniuses came to taste that feeling.
From the Twelve Streams came the Xuanhuo Sect and Lingyin Workshop.
From the Eight Great Sects came the Xiaoyao Sect and Zixia Sect.
In these four Sword Discussions, all four sects had lost to the Void Gate.
More precisely, they had lost to Mo Hua.
Their disciples had all been beaten until they had no temper left by Mo Hua's endless, ever-emerging, overwhelmingly suppressive, All-Encompassing Law—countless, boundless low-tier Five Elements spells.
It was not as though they had never considered ways to counter Mo Hua.
A single Fireball Technique, a single Water Prison Technique—even spells limited to fire and water—were relatively easy to counter.
But the dazzling, kaleidoscopic assortment of Five Elements spells left them somewhat at a loss.
If they wanted to defend against them, they could only approach it through "spell defense," refining Spirit Artifacts such as Spell-Repelling Robes to counter the spells.
But