Chapter 494: Calculated It Out

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“I have already passed down the order, within one month, no disciples or elders in the sect are to interact with the Lu family. After the situation is assessed, a decision will be made…”

Sect Master Zhao’s expression was slightly solemn. Then, he glanced at Elder Su again:

“You also shouldn’t have too much interaction with Lu Chengyun. He is too scheming; you are no match for him…”

After Sect Master Zhao finished speaking, he ended the tea session and saw his guest out.

Elder Su sighed softly as he left the tea room.

He had previously had a very good impression of Lu Chengyun. Both were array masters, and they got along well, drinking tea together, discussing the Dao together, and even lingering over wind and moon together.

However, he did not expect that beneath Lu Chengyun’s gentle and elegant exterior, such deep and dark schemes were hidden…

Indeed, you know a person by their face, but not by their heart.

Elder Su sighed in his heart, and immediately thought of Mo Hua again, feeling some regret.

If he had known this, he shouldn't have told Lu Chengyun all of Mo Hua’s information, provoking Lu Chengyun’s schemes in vain.

The more Elder Su thought about it, the more he regretted it. He involuntarily raised his head and looked towards the mine, his expression troubled, muttering to himself:

“I wonder if little Mr. Mo will be alright…”

“I also wonder if we can still drink tea together in the future…”

Elder Su sighed.

“Little junior brother won’t be in trouble, right…”

Bai Zisheng sat under the big tree in the courtyard, frowning, somewhat worried.

“He hasn’t come back for a long time. I’ve been so worried lately, I haven’t had any appetite.”

Bai Zixi looked at him helplessly:

“You just don’t like the food and want him to come back and cook, right…”

Bai Zisheng said with a guilty conscience: “I’m worried about his safety. Cooking is just secondary!”

Bai Zixi glanced at him indifferently and ignored him.

Bai Zisheng thought for a bit, then said:

“Or, should we rush in and save little junior brother?”

“Not enough manpower,” Bai Zixi shook her head and said.

“How many people are there now?” Bai Zisheng asked curiously.

Bai Zixi thought for a moment, her beautiful eyes blinked slightly, and she said:

“Not counting the Situ family and the Dao Court, there are only five Foundation Establishment cultivators and sixty Qi Refining cultivators.”

Bai Zisheng was a little disappointed, “Only this many… Are they all people from our Bai family?”

“No, they were hired by Aunt Snow using spirit stones,” Bai Zixi said.

“What about our Bai family people?”

Bai Zixi looked at him in a bad mood, “Where are the Bai family people? This is Li State, the Bai family is that far away, and the time is so short. How could they arrive in time?”

Bai Zisheng frowned and said:

“With this many people, we are no match for the Lu family at all, right? How can we save Mo Hua?”

Bai Zixi’s gaze was clear and cold. After a moment of thought, she said:

“No need to directly save him. As long as we make a move, little junior brother should be able to find an opportunity to escape on his own.”

Bai Zisheng thought for a bit and nodded, “That’s right.”

This little junior brother of his was very clever and full of cunning. Although his cultivation was a bit lacking, he had many strange and unusual methods.

He knew how to hide and how to use the Water Passing Steps.

His divine sense was extremely strong, and he was also proficient in arrays.

Ordinary cultivators couldn't discover him, and ordinary arrays couldn't block him either.

As long as there was an opportunity, he would definitely be able to slip out…

Bai Zisheng breathed a sigh of relief and muttered:

“It should be fine, right…”

Bai Zixi nodded gently, her brows slightly furrowed.

Mo Hua’s smiling face floated in her heart.

She suddenly felt some unease. Her fair and delicate little hand unconsciously played with the small tiger in her hand.

Inside the bamboo room, Old Kui also said woodenly:

“Not enough manpower, right?”

Mr. Zhuang nodded, “Not enough.”

Old Kui asked strangely: “You’re not worried?”

“Worried about what?”

Old Kui said dryly:

“Not enough manpower, how to deal with the Lu family, how to resist the corpse tide? You’re not really relying on that child Mo Hua to solve this matter alone, are you?”

Mr. Zhuang said: “That’s impossible.”

Mr. Zhuang raised his head, looked into the distance, and said slowly:

“Human power is limited. The great undertakings in this world are not the achievements of one person, and many matters cannot be solved by one person…”

“Behind heroes stand many unknown people.”

Mr. Zhuang’s expression was emotional.

Old Kui frowned, “Say something useful.”

Mr. Zhuang “tsk”-ed and was a little speechless:

“Can’t you wait for me to finish these emotions?”

Old Kui said: “You’ve said it too many times, my ears have calluses.”

Mr. Zhuang was very disappointed and “criticized” again:

“Can’t you learn from Mo Hua? When I say these things to him, he listens very seriously!”

Old Kui said silently: “He is your disciple, he has to give you face, I don’t need to.”

“Alright then,” Mr. Zhuang was helpless and sighed.

Old Kui’s expression was wooden, “What exactly do you want to do?”

This time, Mr. Zhuang said directly:

“Not enough manpower, I’ll call some people to come and help.”

Old Kui showed a surprised expression, “You’re calling?”

Mr. Zhuang nodded.

Old Kui’s expression was complex, and he said silently: “You are alone, and you still have people who will help you?”

Mr. Zhuang was displeased, “Why am I alone? I have disciples now, three of them!”

Old Kui seemed not to hear, just frowned and said:

“Who are you going to find to help?”

Mr. Zhuang smiled mysteriously.

He took out an old copper coin, gently tossed it up. The copper coin rolled in the air, pulling the mechanism of Qi, and finally slowly fell down, falling into his fair and slender palm.

The copper coin reversed, and the heavenly mechanism changed.

A thread of Qi mechanism, seemingly present and seemingly absent, pulled cause and effect and rippled open.

Old Kui was startled, and then his gaze gradually understood…

At the same time, on the west side of the border of Little Wasteland State.

Inside a remote immortal city, three cultivators were resting in an inn.

A withered old man, a middle-aged cultivator, and a white-clothed youth.

In front of them were simple wine and dishes.

But none of the three had any appetite.

The white-clothed youth silently ate the tasteless food, the middle-aged cultivator drank wine to fill his hunger, and the withered old man closed his eyes to rest.

After three rounds of wine, the withered old man suddenly opened his eyes.

His heart trembled with fear, and he hurriedly took out the “Three Talents Easy Number” copper coin. After shaking and measuring, and divining once, his eyes showed a look of shock.

The white-clothed youth saw the situation and was somewhat puzzled.

The middle-aged cultivator then asked: “How is it?”

The withered old man was somewhat lost in thought, and murmured: “I unexpectedly… divined the position of that person…”

The middle-aged cultivator was excited, crushed the wine cup, and stared at him, asking:

“Really?”

The withered old man still found it hard to believe, nodded and said:

“No mistake! The Three Talents Easy Number copper coin… the hexagram image is like this, it won’t be wrong.”

“But…” The withered old man was still somewhat puzzled, and murmured:

“How did I divine it? How could I divine it? How did I divine it… I… I don’t have this ability…”

The middle-aged cultivator, however, said as a matter of course:

“A wise man has a thousand worries and must have one oversight. We have been thieves for a thousand days, and that person has been guarding against thieves for a thousand days. Even if he is careful, there will always be times when he overlooks something, reveals his flaws, and is divined by you once, which is normal…”

A fine light flashed in the middle-aged cultivator’s eyes, “This opportunity, we must seize it!”

He threw two spirit stones on the table, then immediately stood up, “The matter should not be delayed, we will set out now.”

The withered old man nodded, but was still somewhat self-doubting.

And the white-clothed youth’s spirit was lifted, thinking that he might soon see that person, his eyes showing longing.

The three immediately set off, following the guidance of the hexagram image, towards the east side of the border of Little Wasteland State.

After several days, the three arrived in front of South Yue City.

The middle-aged cultivator asked: “Is it here?”

The withered old man nodded, “The hexagram image says so.”

The middle-aged cultivator was silent for a moment, and asked: “How to proceed?”

The withered old man thought for a bit, and said: “Let’s enter the city first and see the situation.”

“Will we startle the snake?” The middle-aged cultivator was somewhat worried.

The withered old man sneered, “What are you thinking? When you thought of coming here, that person might have already known. Our being here is just trying our luck, seeing if there are any clues, and seeing if that person wants to see us…”

The middle-aged cultivator’s expression was stunned, and he couldn’t help but mutter:

“Is it that mysterious?”

The withered old man shook his head, with an expression of “summer insects cannot speak of ice”. After that, he looked at the white-clothed youth again and instructed:

“Little young master, remember what I told you, you can look, but speak few words and do few things. The cause and effect here are too great, we cannot afford to provoke it.”

The white-clothed youth’s expression was slightly stern, and he nodded.

The three then entered South Yue City, settled down in an inn, and made a brief inquiry.

After the inquiry, the three gathered again, their expressions all somewhat puzzled.

“Why are there so many familiar people?”

“The Xie family from Kun State, the Tu family from Li State, the Yuan family from Qian State…”

“Hidden Dao Sect, Return Sword Gate, Ten Thousand Array Mountain…”

“Did they all divine it?” The middle-aged cultivator frowned.

The withered old man thought for a bit, and suddenly understood:

“It wasn’t me who divined it, it was everyone who divined it, or rather, that person let us all divine it…”

The withered old man suddenly felt much more at ease.

When it comes to divining heavenly mechanisms, you don’t fear being weak, you just fear accidents.

If your ability is weak, at most you can’t divine it, which is no big deal.

What you fear is an accident.

Things that you could originally divine, you suddenly can’t; or things that you couldn’t originally divine, you suddenly divine.

That’s when the trouble can be big…

Either the heavenly mechanism is being interfered with, or there is a shocking change.

The withered old man knew his own limitations. At this time, seeing everyone here, and everyone having divined it, it showed that his own standard was still the same as before, with no change, and he was at ease in his “weakness”.

The withered old man’s hanging heart finally settled.

Immediately, he was again somewhat puzzled:

“That person is like a dragon, only seen from the head and not the tail, yet he suddenly revealed this slight trace, leading crowds to come. What exactly is it for?”

Not only the withered old man was puzzled, but the cultivators from various sides gathered in South Yue City were all puzzled.

But after investigating for half a day, the crowds still gained nothing.

The withered old man didn’t understand, so he released his divine sense and swept South Yue City.

South Yue City was empty.

He then looked at the mine outside the city.

He still didn’t discover anything.

“Impossible…”

The withered old man didn’t give up. He set up the Three Talents Easy Number copper coin and divined a hexagram. With this divination, he indeed discovered something fishy.

The old man pondered for a moment, then cast a spell, his eyes filled with blue light, stripping away the outer appearance, and looked at the mine outside the city again.

This one glance made his face pale, his heart trembled with alarm, and he cried out in a lost voice:

“Soaring corpse Qi!”

“Damn it, how many corpses are there?!”

(End of this chapter)