Having conquered seven mountain realms, and with Elder Zhamu secretly investigating and bringing back lists, over the past two-plus years, Mo Hua had eaten more than a hundred Barbarian Gods, large and small combined.
The surrounding Barbarian Gods had nearly been ravaged to "endangered" status by Mo Hua, this natural disaster.
Only a small number of Barbarian Gods who fulfilled their duties as gods, treated their believers kindly, and worked diligently had survived.
As had some Barbarian Gods skilled at hiding themselves—those who, the moment they sensed the wind shifting, immediately burrowed into the mountains like rats and refused to show their heads, thus escaping Mo Hua's great "tribulation."
And after eating more than a hundred of them, Mo Hua's Divine Thought had also strengthened considerably.
It had now roughly reached the middle stage of Twenty-Two Pattern.
This progress was not actually bad, but it was still far from what Mo Hua had expected.
In Mo Hua's estimation, after hunting and devouring so many Barbarian Gods, his Divine Thought should have become stronger still—at the very least, it should have neared Twenty-Three Pattern.
But things had not gone as he expected.
One reason might have been that he had eaten too many Barbarian Gods and developed resistance.
The increase in his Divine Consciousness had begun to show diminishing returns.
Second, the ranks of the Barbarian Gods he had eaten might simply have been too low.
Using Second-Grade Barbarian Gods to supplement Twenty-Two Pattern Daoization Golden Core Divine Thought was truly shabby.
Honestly, achieving his current progress was already an unexpected delight.
If he ate ordinary Second-Grade Evil Spirits, the gains would be even more negligible.
And the cultivation and strengthening of Divine Consciousness had always been exceedingly difficult.
Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could suffer bitterly without finding any way to