Chapter 319: The Truth

How did Mo Hua know? Had he seen that pig?

But how was this possible?

Qian Xing’s expression was shocked.

Mo Hua’s face was expressionless, but in his heart, he was even more shocked than Qian Xing.

He hadn’t expected that someone from the Qian family would actually go to Hei Shan Zhai, and that person was unexpectedly Qian Xing!

Who exactly brought him to Hei Shan Zhai?

Mo Hua asked, “Who brought you?”

Qian Xing was unwilling to say.

“If you don’t say, do you think I won’t know?”

Qian Xing said stiffly, “Since you know, why are you still asking me?”

Mo Hua was slightly startled, thinking that this Qian Xing wasn’t a fool after all, and had gotten smart this time.

“If you don’t say, then don’t think you can go back alive,” Mo Hua threatened again.

“If I say, my great-grandfather won’t let me go either!”

Mo Hua was taken aback. “Great-grandfather?”

Qian Xing’s face instantly turned pale.

Mo Hua looked at Qian Xing with a complex expression.

He had just praised Qian Xing for not being a fool, but this fool had revealed the truth himself.

He said that his great-grandfather wouldn’t let him go, so the person who brought him into the mountain was his great-grandfather.

Qian Xing’s great-grandfather was... the old ancestor of the Qian family!

Mo Hua’s gaze gradually turned cold.

Unexpectedly, it was... the old ancestor of the Qian family.

He hadn’t remembered wrongly, according to outside rumors, the old ancestor of the Qian family had one foot in the grave and was almost dead.

There was great fear between life and death.

So, in order not to die, he was refining Human Longevity Pills to extend his life...

Qian Xing regretted and was afraid again, his voice trembling as he said:

“What exactly... do you know?”

Mo Hua looked at Qian Xing, not answering, but instead asked, “Have you been to Hei Shan Zhai?”

Qian Xing was a little flustered. “What place is Hei Shan Zhai?”

It seemed that Qian Xing didn’t know where he had gone...

Mo Hua asked again, “Why would your old ancestor bring you into the mountain and still let you know about him feeding people to demons?”

If Mo Hua hadn’t guessed wrong, most of the Qian family disciples didn’t know about Hei Shan Zhai.

Even many Qian family elders might not know.

The old ancestor of the Qian family was afraid of the matter being exposed, so he even hid it from the Qian family disciples, just afraid of the news leaking out, being known by the Dao Court Department, and suffering extermination by the Dao Soldiers.

But why did he tell Qian Xing about this matter?

Although Qian Xing was a direct descendant, he was still a playboy, with decent spiritual roots but a lazy nature, and his mind was all on bullying others with power, not like the core disciples the Qian family focused on cultivating.

“I won’t say.” Qian Xing’s face was ashen.

Mo Hua just silently looked at Qian Xing and said, “But you’ve already said it, you’ve already told me the biggest secret of the Qian family.”

Qian Xing panicked and said, “Impossible, how could this be a secret...”

“Do you know what your great-grandfather did?”

Qian Xing was dispirited and murmured, “Killing people, feeding demon beasts, what’s the big deal? If they’re not cultivators of my Qian family, what does it matter whether they live or die?”

Mo Hua’s gaze deepened as he looked at him. “It seems you don’t know anything.”

Qian Xing’s gaze was blank. “Don’t know what?”

“If I tell the Dao Court Department about this, your Qian family may have the possibility of being wiped out and having their property confiscated!”

Qian Xing’s eyes widened. “This is impossible! Although he killed people, although he killed people... how could it be...”

“But you don’t need to worry, you may not live to see the day your Qian family is wiped out and their property confiscated...”

Mo Hua looked at Qian Xing, seemingly smiling but not smiling, and said, “Because you leaked the secret, your old ancestor might kill you first!”

“You’re deceiving me!”

“Want to make a bet?”

Qian Xing was both afraid and angry.

What was the point of making a bet? If he won, he wouldn’t get any benefit, if he lost, he would die.

Qian Xing didn’t believe Mo Hua’s words, but in his heart, he vaguely knew that Mo Hua was right.

This matter was not to be told. If outsiders knew, the old ancestor would be the first to kill him.

Even if he was the old ancestor’s great-grandson...

Just kill Mo Hua, that way no one would know.

As soon as this idea was born, Qian Xing extinguished it himself.

Mo Hua was no longer what he used to be. He was completely beyond his ability to provoke. He was fundamentally not Mo Hua’s opponent, and even if he played a small trick, he would definitely be seen through by Mo Hua.

In an instant, despair was born in Qian Xing’s heart. Like a drowning person, unable to breathe, he suddenly found a lifeline.

Qian Xing’s expression was panicked. With a thud, he knelt in front of Mo Hua. “Mo Hua, save me! You’re so smart, you can definitely save me!”

Mo Hua was unmoved, and said doubtfully:

“You’re not a fool, why should I save you? It’s already good that I don’t kill you.”

Qian Xing said hurriedly, “You save my life, and I’ll tell you everything!”

Mo Hua’s gaze flickered. “Really?”

Qian Xing nodded and said, “Really, I’ll say everything!”

Mo Hua thought for a moment and found a tree stump to sit down on:

“Okay, then tell me about your old ancestor killing people and feeding demons, from beginning to end.”

Qian Xing’s expression was hesitant.

Mo Hua said, “As long as you say it, I’ll teach you how to save yourself.”

Qian Xing was still a little hesitant. He thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, “Okay!”

Qian Xing recalled the process of the matter for a bit, his face pale, and opened his mouth to say:

“That year I was seven years old, I went to my great-grandfather’s place to play. When I was tired, I slept on great-grandfather’s couch. Half asleep and half awake, I was awakened by a sound. When I opened my eyes, I saw a cultivator being penetrated through the chest by great-grandfather’s arm...”

“Who was that cultivator?” Mo Hua asked.

Qian Xing shook his head. “I don’t know, it’s been so many years, I don’t remember his appearance clearly. I only heard him shout, ‘The Qian family won’t die a good death’ and so on.”

That should be someone seeking revenge from the Qian family. The Qian family had been acting recklessly for so many years, they had made quite a few enemies.

“Was it Foundation Building?”

“Should be.” Qian Xing nodded, and then continued:

“I saw blood and screamed in fright. Great-grandfather was also very surprised. Perhaps my cultivation was too low and my aura was too weak, and he didn’t detect it temporarily. Then, great-grandfather warned me not to say what I saw.”

Mo Hua frowned. “Someone sought revenge, your great-grandfather killed someone, saying it wouldn’t count as anything.”

Qian Xing shook his head. “Great-grandfather told me not to say it out, not this matter.”

Mo Hua was startled. “Then what matter?”

Qian Xing’s expression was conflicted. After hesitating for a long time, he still said honestly:

“Great-grandfather’s lifespan was reaching its limit, his spiritual power was gradually declining, and his physical body was also gradually aging. I usually saw great-grandfather as an aged and benevolent old man, but that night...”

Qian Xing swallowed his throat, his voice trembling as he said, “His eyes were red, his body was strong, and only half of his hair was white, he looked very terrifying...”

Mo Hua’s heart was greatly shaken.

The old ancestor of the Qian family, he indeed took the Human Longevity Pill and extended his life.

“Then?”

Mo Hua asked again, wanting to know what happened next.

Qian Xing said with lingering fear in his heart, “Great-grandfather looked at me with a hint of killing intent in his eyes. I kowtowed to him, shouted ‘great-grandfather’, and begged him pitifully with tears, promising not to say anything. Great-grandfather seemed to have been moved to compassion, but still hesitated, not knowing whether to let me go.”

“Great-grandfather thought for a while, and then asked me, ‘Do you want to be the Qian family head?’ I said ‘I don’t want to’. Great-grandfather’s eyes clearly showed some disdain. I then hurriedly said, ‘I want to!’ Great-grandfather then smiled a little and said, ‘Then you follow me.’”

Mo Hua’s eyelid twitched. “He took you to the Great Black Mountain?”

Qian Xing nodded.

“Where in the Great Black Mountain?”

Qian Xing shook his head again. “I don’t know either. In a daze, I was brought into a pill room by great-grandfather. The pill room was red, the walls, the pill furnace, the herbs, everything I saw was red, the ground bricks and stones seemed to be paved with blood, and the smell was nauseating. And inside the pill room, there was still a pig...”

“Great-grandfather, in front of me, fed that cultivator to that pig.”

Speaking of this, Qian Xing’s expression suddenly became pained:

“But... but that cultivator wasn’t completely dead... while being eaten, he was calling out in despair. That look and painful expression, I can’t forget it no matter what...”

After Qian Xing finished speaking, his whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and he gasped for breath in large gulps.

He had hidden this matter in his heart for many years and never dared to say it.

He also often had nightmares, dreaming of the scene of the pig demon eating people.

So after the illusion technique, he went crazy severely.

Because in the illusion technique, he saw exactly the most terrifying scene of the pig demon eating people in his memory.

The illusion technique made people feel like they were personally present. He felt as if he had experienced being swallowed alive into the pig demon’s belly, mouthful by mouthful, in despair.

Mo Hua sighed in his heart, and then suddenly frowned and said:

“I usually see you arrogant and domineering, not like someone with a shadow in your heart?”

Qian Xing had revealed the secret at the bottom of his heart, and no longer had that arrogant demeanor from before. His face was pale and he said:

“It was great-grandfather. He told me that there’s no need to treat people as people.”

Mo Hua frowned. “What do you mean?”

Qian Xing explained, “After that, I had nightmares every day, dreaming of the pig demon eating people, and my mind was absent-minded. Great-grandfather then told me...”

“You treat that dead cultivator as a person, so you feel terrible. If you don’t treat him as a person, even if a pig eats a dog, and a dog eats a pig, what’s so terrible?”

“You have to remember one point, people who want to achieve great things don’t necessarily treat people as people.”

“Except for the Qian family people, no, except for yourself, other people are not necessarily people. They are pigs and dogs, cattle and horses, labor force, tools, the cornerstone for your great dao. You have to step on their bodies to achieve the dao and become immortal!”

“I listened to great-grandfather’s words and didn’t treat other cultivators as people... it’s their duty to be cattle and horses for my Qian family. That cultivator who was eaten by the pig, he wasn’t a person either. If he died, he died. Being eaten is just feeding a pig.”

“Thinking like this, my heart felt much better, and I no longer had nightmares often.”

Extinguish human nature, and naturally you won’t feel guilty.