"Devour everything between heaven and earth, and let all living beings return to Chaos..."
The moment that thought surfaced—
An extreme hunger, a desire so ravenous it could drive one mad, instantly filled Mo Hua's heart, giving him a heart-rending "sense of hunger." He wanted to eat everything—whether human, yao, ghost, demon, god... he wanted to eat them all...
Not good!
Mo Hua's heart chilled in horror.
Taotie's law was assimilating him. No, to be precise, it was "polluting" him, "devouring" him...
He immediately closed his eyes, returned his Divine Consciousness to his Sea of Consciousness, severed all stray thoughts, and blocked out all interference.
The sense of hunger still continued. Mo Hua was clearly full, yet he was still driven by that hunger, wanting to eat something.
Anything would do.
Even the flesh and blood of living people made Mo Hua's mouth water.
Mo Hua could only meditate with all his might, restraining himself and guarding his heart.
He made his mind reside above his fleshly body.
The mind was the master; the fleshly body was only a puppet of his own mind.
In this way, all stray thoughts, all greed and desire, sank into the murk. They were all illusory drifting clouds, merely reflections of the emptiness within, not concrete reality.
This was a Dao Heart method Mo Hua had tempered over years of devouring Evil Spirits and purifying Evil Thoughts through meditation.
Within it was also fused a portion of the Heavenly Demon Path of Supreme Emotion-Forgetting.
Supreme Emotion-Forgetting could sever emotion, and it could also sever Evil Thoughts.
Under the foundation of his tenacious Dao Heart, Taotie's power of law gradually receded, and the sense of hunger slowly faded away as well.
After another moment, when Mo Hua looked inward, he found his heart as still