Before his death, Bone Slaughter had been the Shugu Tribe's strongest general. He died to betrayal by his subordinates, died to the Evil God, died to the Famine Disaster—a sacrifice to the misfortune of the Great Wilderness. Even in death, his flesh remained powerful, and he still possessed an awe-inspiring majesty.
Likewise, he was also a corpse puppet controlled by Mo Hua through the Small Spirit Pivot Absolute Array.
But the Small Spirit Pivot Absolute Array was too low-grade and its control too weak. Bone Slaughter's destructive power as an "Undying General" could not be brought out at all. Moreover, without the Evil God's corruption and without the craving for flesh and blood, Bone Slaughter's corpse had lost its "power supply" and could only serve as decoration. Thus, after much careful thought, Mo Hua decided to first carve the Twelve-Meridian Taotie Spirit Bone Array onto Bone Slaughter's body.
He wanted the dead Bone Slaughter to become the God Lord's most loyal "servant," an undying general of the Great Wilderness, who would establish immortal merit through a body of death. At the same time, Bone Slaughter would be the best "material" for him to practice carving Spirit Bone Arrays.
Carving a fierce beast absolute array onto the bones of a "living person"—especially his own bones—was simply too dangerous. Without anything to practice on, and lacking sufficient experience, even Mo Hua did not dare act rashly.
But if he practiced on other "living people" and accidentally killed them—and he would very likely truly kill them—Mo Hua could not bear it either.
Therefore, Mo Hua could only start with a "dead person."
That dead person was Bone Slaughter.
Only, using a great general like Bone Slaughter for practice was exceedingly difficult.
Bone Slaughter had been a late Golden Core barbarian cultivator. Even after