Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2858: Chapter 144: Brutal Battle

On the other side, after suffering an ambush, losing some troops, and gaining nothing, Mo Hua withdrew his forces back to the Shugu main base, his face equally solemn.

This Elder You suddenly gave him a feeling of having nowhere to start.

Elder You was a crucial piece of the Hua family.

From this failed ambush, it seemed that as long as he used Causality Skill to calculate Elder You’s movements, there was a high chance that Elder You would sense it by some means and Mo Hua would instead fall into his schemes.

This ambush could only be counted as "saying hello."

Next time he was calculated against, what sort of deadly danger he might encounter was hard to say.

Mo Hua did not know whether this Elder You himself cultivated Causality Skill, or some Heaven Void Ancestor of the Hua family had given him a Heavenly Mechanism Treasure.

But no matter how one looked at it, Elder You had "Cause and Effect protection."

Cause and Effect was like this: when you are calculating others, others are also calculating you.

Previously it had always been others who tried to calculate Mo Hua and ended up frustrated.

Now Mo Hua was also tasting, for the first time, the flavor of "setback."

Tasting that feeling of failing in deduction and instead being calculated against.

Mo Hua did not feel good about it, but thinking that what lay before him was a grand game of chess, with his opponent being Elder You, and especially the Hua family behind Elder You, and even the Hua family’s Heaven Void Ancestor, he felt it was not unacceptable.

He was, after all, only at Foundation Establishment; to gain no advantage in the hands of a Hua family Heaven Void Realm Ancestor was the most normal thing.

Moreover, it might not even be just one Ancestor.

But the Hua family’s careful layout in the Great Wilderness, sucking the blood of all the tribes like a "leech," was an obstacle that could not be skirted around.

In the end he had to think of a way to deal with the Hua family.

"From the current situation, Elder You’s Cause and Effect cannot be touched; otherwise it will be ’the clever outsmarted by their own cleverness.’"

"But if I avoid Elder You, where else can I strike?"

"Within the Great Wilderness, what other clues does the Hua family have that can be used as a starting point for calculation?"

Mo Hua frowned, and could not help thinking: "Also, will Elder You really allow me to keep calculating like this?"

"Even if I find new clues, start from those clues, and deduce some information, how can I be sure that this information is not something Elder You deliberately leaked to me?"

In the days that followed, whenever he had time Mo Hua kept pondering and obliquely deducing matters related to the Hua family, but either he ran into walls everywhere, or it was like searching for a needle in the ocean, utterly at a loss.

Mo Hua could not help but sigh.

In front of him stood Elder You, behind Elder You stood the Hua family, and behind the Hua family there was a Heaven Void Ancestor pulling the strings.

And in this Great Wilderness game, in all likelihood the Hua family was not the only aristocratic family.

Besides the Hua family, in this chaotic situation his Uncle was still lurking in the dark with "perverse" intent, driving the spread of famine.

"This game of chess is far too difficult to play..." Mo Hua sighed.

When it came to playing chess, he was in fact still something of a "novice."

Yet the Heavenly Dao did not seem to have given him any "novice protection period."

As a "novice," he had to step up at once and play on the same board as aristocratic families, Heaven Void Ancestors, and his Uncle.

The difficulty was truly as high as Purgatory.

Mo Hua had no choice but to temporarily concede.

This chubby Elder You would be set aside for now; for the time being they would well water not offend river water. As for what to do, he would talk about it later.

...

And very soon, Mo Hua no longer had spare attention to think about Elder You.

Because he encountered an even more troublesome powerful enemy.

The current Barbaric Wilderness was a vast sand table, with all forces mixed together.

Many things, within necessity, were accompanied by a great many contingencies; variables were too many, Cause and Effect changing at every moment.

An event calculated in the last hour might, after only an hour, have its development and outcome completely altered.

No matter how thick Mo Hua’s Divine Sense, how strong his Computational Power, it was absolutely impossible to achieve completeness and perfection in such a situation, covering every angle without a single leak.

By a very accidental coincidence, he failed to calculate a single scout.

And on that scout’s body, a vast killing intent was tied.

When an hour later Mo Hua perceived this hidden danger and ordered men to "assassinate" that scout, it was already too late.

Cause and Effect had already leaked.

After just four hours, dust rolled in the distance, the earth trembled, roars filled the sky.

An extremely powerful force of Barbarian Soldiers charged over.

They wore pitch-black Battle Armor, clad in hard mail and wielding sharp weapons; Witch Cultivators danced war dances to boost morale, and ferocious Demon Cavalry spearheaded the charge.

There were also many other types of troops, clad in grim Barbarian Armor Mo Hua did not recognize, surging forward like a flood.

Deep-black banners rose high, pointing straight at the heavens, on them painted a black great vulture with blood-red eyes and spread wings, poised to fly.

The Wujiu Tribe!

Moreover, it was a regular main army of the Wujiu Tribe.

With just a glance, Mo Hua knew he could not win.

Although he had now unified the Shugubu, with over a hundred thousand Barbarian Soldiers under his banner and formidable combat strength, they were absolutely no match for this Wujiu Tribe army before them.

Even though the Wujiu Tribe army before him numbered only a bit over fifty thousand, their equipment was too complete, too many troop types, and their Barbarian Armor far too fine.

If they truly fought, even if he won it would be a pyrrhic victory.

Mo Hua had built up from "bare hands" with difficulty; he knew how much effort it had taken to gather and bind this current Shugubu power to him, and so he could never consign this "living force" to destruction in a single battle.

Moreover, he was escorting a large number of Barbarian Tribes civilians and Barbarian Slaves.

Once the frontline troops were routed and the front defense pierced, these Barbarian Cultivators and Barbarian Slaves would end up like cattle and sheep, only waiting to be slaughtered.

Fortunately, this situation was not something Mo Hua had failed to consider beforehand.