Chapter 240: Encounter Danger

Yu Chengwu escorted the two black-clothed cultivators to Elder Yu's place, locked them in a sealed room, and tortured and interrogated them to see if they could extract any information.

Mo Hua was also a bit curious, so he followed along to watch the excitement.

While Yu Chengwu was interrogating inside, Mo Hua sat outside with Elder Yu and drank tea.

Before long, the screams from the room stopped, and Yu Chengwu came out, his clothes stained with some blood, but it wasn't his own. His expression was also somewhat pensive.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up. "Did you get anything out of them?"

Yu Chengwu glanced at Mo Hua, not really wanting to answer.

Elder Yu then said lightly, "Speak."

Yu Chengwu pondered for a bit, then said:

"Those two people confessed. They are criminal cultivators."

"Criminal cultivators?" Mo Hua was slightly startled.

Elder Yu explained, "Refers to those who have violated the laws of the Dao Court, committed major crimes, and are wanted by the Dao Court's departments."

"What crimes did the two of them commit?" Mo Hua asked curiously.

Yu Chengwu shook his head. "They didn't say. Their crimes are probably not small. They said it's a death sentence anyway, so I didn't press. After all, we are not the Dao Court's departments, so this isn't under our jurisdiction."

Elder Yu said, "Anything else?"

"Yes." Yu Chengwu nodded. "According to those two, their group has more than twenty people. Most of them are criminals who have committed crimes and are wanted by the Dao Court's departments, with no way out. So they gathered together to kill and rob to earn some spirit stones."

Elder Yu snorted coldly. "A bunch of beasts."

Mo Hua asked, "So what should we do?"

Elder Yu said, "First, send these two pieces of trash to the Dao Court's departments. If they are truly wanted, we can get some reward money. After that..."

Elder Yu put down his teacup, thought for a bit, and said, "After that, we'll see how the Dao Court's departments handle it. Capturing criminal cultivators is the Dao Court's business. If they don't speak up, it's not convenient for us to easily intervene."

"But if we encounter them in the mountains, don't be polite. Act if you can. If you can capture them alive, take them to the Dao Court's departments for a reward. If you can't capture them alive, kill them and throw them into the mountain ditches to feed the demonic beasts."

"A bunch of trash, even alive they just waste spirit stones!"

Elder Yu cursed again.

Yu Chengwu nodded, but his brows were still tightly furrowed. "I suspect those two didn't tell the truth."

Elder Yu raised his brows. "How so?"

"Cultivators who wander the cultivation world like this are all seasoned veterans. They are used to speaking half-truths. He said they have more than twenty people, but there might actually be more. He said they gathered to kill and rob, but their motives might not be so simple."

Elder Yu nodded. "Pass this matter down. During this period, all the demon hunting masters who enter the mountains should be careful, be more vigilant, and act according to the circumstances."

"Yes." Yu Chengwu cupped his hands and said.

Elder Yu then instructed Mo Hua, "You need to be even more careful. If there are no matters, just don't enter the inner mountains. Even if you want to enter, you need to be more vigilant."

"Rest assured." Mo Hua nodded.

He still needed to enter the inner mountains, but he did need to be more careful.

Otherwise, with his array drawing speed, he would eventually deplete his resources by just sitting around, and his spirit ink would soon run out.

First-grade late stage spirit ink was too expensive to buy with spirit stones.

Although Mo Hua wasn't lacking spirit stones right now, it was only relative to the Qi Refining period. If he wanted to reach Foundation Building, he still needed a large sum of spirit stones, which he needed to save in advance.

After that, the demon hunting masters who entered the mountains to hunt demons were all more careful.

And as long as there were demon hunting masters entering the mountains, either Yu Chengyi or Mo Shan had to bring the Si Nan Compass and patrol the nearby area.

Once a battle occurred, they would immediately confirm it and provide timely support if there was danger.

Seven or eight days passed peacefully.

Although they also encountered several suspicious cultivators, they only dared to look from a distance and then silently retreated.

On this day, Mo Hua, as usual, after releasing the blood of several demonic beasts, sat alone by a small stream washing his hands.

After washing his hands, Mo Hua suddenly looked up and saw a thick fog filling the air. Within a hundred feet, no one could be seen.

Mo Hua's heart was on alert, estimating that something had happened.

He released his divine sense, and in his divine sense, there was an extremely thin pale blue spiritual energy in the thick fog, mixed with strong miasma and dense fog.

These things mixed together were mottled and chaotic, hindering divine sense perception.

Mo Hua remembered Mo Shan's instruction.

If he encountered thick fog, he couldn't move rashly, otherwise he might mistakenly enter the deep mountains, and then his life would be hard to preserve.

But just staying in place like this was also somewhat dangerous.

Mo Hua took out his pen and ink, drew several array formations nearby, and then covered them with earth and stones to hide the traces. Only then did he feel at ease. He then sat cross-legged in the middle and patiently waited for the thick fog to dissipate.

Half an hour passed, and the thick fog suddenly dissipated.

The thick fog in the inner mountains came and went quickly.

Mo Hua packed up his things and was just preparing to leave when he suddenly saw a cultivator covered in blood running towards him from a distance.

When that cultivator saw Mo Hua, his expression was greatly shocked, and he urgently called out, "Run quickly!"

Mo Hua then recognized that this blood-covered cultivator was Ji Li!

Ji Li's face was pale, his whole body was wounded, and his breath was weak. He hadn't run far when a black-clothed big man caught up to him with large strides and chopped him on the back with a knife.

Blood surged like a spring, and Ji Li gradually slumped to the ground, still looking at Mo Hua, muttering:

"Quick... run."

The black-clothed big man looked at Ji Li disdainfully, then turned his head and looked at Mo Hua. His voice was hoarse as he said, "You know each other?"

Mo Hua nodded.

The big man laughed ferociously. "Good, then you'll have a companion on the road to death."

After speaking, he strode towards Mo Hua.

After walking a few steps, the big man suddenly frowned, lowered his head, and saw Ji Li's blood-covered hand, dead gripping his pants leg, not letting him go towards Mo Hua.

Ji Li wanted to say something, but couldn't speak, only coughed up a mouthful of blood from his throat.

The black-clothed big man smiled contemptuously, stepped and broke Ji Li's hand, and continued to step towards Mo Hua.

And Mo Hua still stood blankly in his original spot, not moving at all.

"Scared silly?"

The black-clothed big man laughed coldly in his heart.

It was no wonder. Such a big child, with death upon him, it was very normal to panic and lose his wits.

The black-clothed big man's eyes revealed cruelty as he continued to walk forward.

As his eyes saw him about to step within one zhang of Mo Hua's body, a trace of doubt suddenly arose in his heart:

How did such a big child survive in the inner mountains?

The inner mountains had demonic beasts, miasma, thick fog, poisonous marshes, and them, these criminal cultivators who did all kinds of evil.

This child, alone, should have died long ago.

The big man had some doubts in his heart, but his foot had already stepped out and solidly landed on the ground.

Immediately, the big man's brows furrowed as he detected something unusual.

There seemed to be something broken under his foot. The sound was crisp and delicate, like spirit stones, and at the same time, there was a feeling of spiritual energy flowing.

He glimpsed out of the corner of his eye, and the stones under his feet were actually emitting a faint red light.

The big man raised his head again to look, but discovered that Mo Hua had already lightly retreated. Where was the blank and lost expression from before? His small face was calm, and in his clear eyes, there was still a hint of mockery.

The big man was puzzled at first, then suddenly realized, "Not good!"

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