Chapter 619: Eagle Catches Bird

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Half a day later, by the Compass Mountain Path on Canglang Mountain.

Mo Jing and the others arrived at a place with rugged mountain rocks beside the mountain path.

Those three disciples from the families had just died here.

Their bodies had already been collected, but some faint bloodstains still remained on the rubble and grass.

These bloodstains were relatively concentrated, indicating that the victims did not panic or struggle when they died. They were killed instantly by a single blow from someone, and the blood flowed out, causing them to stiffly fall down.

Moreover, according to the people from the Daoting Division, the dead disciples' bellies were inexplicably split open after death, and their appearance was relatively tragic.

Of course, in Mo Jing's eyes, this was nothing.

He was a demon hunter and had seen many bloody scenes since childhood.

Mo Jing stared curiously at the stones on the ground, observing them with a strange expression.

Murong Caiyun asked doubtfully, "Junior Brother, what are you looking at?"

Mo Jing pondered, "Based on my experience, this Yin Lao Er definitely didn't intend to kill these disciples on a whim..."

"He stalked them all the way, followed them for a long time, waited until this remote place, then suddenly attacked, killing them with one blow..."

"After killing them, he cut open their bellies..."

"This is either Yin Lao Er's habit..."

"Or he wanted to cover up something..."

Mo Jing held his chin, looking very "professional".

Murong Caiyun and the others had subtle expressions.

"Your experience..."

"Junior Brother, this kind of thing... do you do it often?"

Mo Jing nodded, then was suddenly startled and immediately shook his head: "I am a proper cultivator! How could I possibly do 'killing people and stealing goods' and such things?!"

Don't slander me!

"Alright..."

Murong Caiyun didn't ask further. She knew her junior brother was eccentric and sometimes full of mischievous ideas, so asking was pointless.

"Can you see Yin Lao Er's whereabouts?"

Murong Caiyun asked everyone again.

Ouyang Feng's divine sense scanned the surroundings and he shook his head slightly. "It's been several days. The remaining spiritual power is very faint. I can't see anything..."

Shangguan Xu also said, "This is still in the mountains. The mountain wind, mist, miasma, and demon qi are mixed together. The traces of a cultivator's spiritual power are even harder to distinguish..."

"That Yin Lao Er probably thought of this, which is why he attacked here."

Murong Caiyun frowned.

If that was the case, there were no clues, making it difficult to investigate further.

Mo Jing also furrowed his brows.

His divine sense perceived the same as everyone else. The remaining spiritual power on the bloodstains was very faint and mixed with mountain qi, miasma, and demon qi, making it somewhat disordered.

Mo Jing's divine sense was keen, and he could distinguish these breaths clearly, but it was still useless.

The traces of spiritual power left by Yin Lao Er were indeed too faint.

Like this, there was no way to know where Yin Lao Er had fled.

"The traces are too faint..."

Mo Jing's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Subconsciously, he associated it with the secondary thunder pattern.

In heaven and earth, some things do exist. It's just that when a cultivator's divine sense is not strong, they cannot see them.

Just like the secondary thunder pattern.

The secondary thunder pattern integrated into the magnetic flow was fine and obscure.

Ordinary cultivators could not detect it at all, but it didn't mean the secondary thunder pattern didn't exist.

Similarly, traces being too faint didn't mean there were no clues...

All things in heaven and earth are transformed from a single Qi.

Spiritual force is one of the myriad things in heaven and earth.

Array formations contain the principles of all things in heaven and earth.

Then, since array formations can be derived and calculated, can all things in heaven and earth, including the trajectories of a cultivator's spiritual power, also be "derived and calculated"?

Mo Jing's mind stirred slightly. He began to secretly use the heavenly mechanism derivation to perceive the faint traces of spiritual power.

But after a moment, he couldn't perceive anything...

Spiritual power was still just spiritual power.

There was no slightest change.

Mo Jing didn't believe it.

He felt that there must be certain mysteries within the spiritual power. If he couldn't perceive them, it didn't mean they didn't exist. It was just that his own divine sense calculation power was insufficient...

Mo Jing's pupils became slightly pitch black. He activated the heavenly mechanism strange calculation again, forcibly amplifying his own heavenly mechanism derivation.

More than ten breaths later, Mo Jing's expression was shocked.

He discovered that the trace of spiritual power left by Yin Lao Er began to undergo strange changes.

Those concrete spiritual powers began to produce inexplicable, illusory textures...

These textures were linked together, like chains of cause and effect...

They were extremely similar to the cause and effect chains pulled out from the void by those terrifying nightmares and deformed twisted demons when they crawled out to covet Yu'er...

The difference was that the demons' cause and effect chains were gray and black, evil and rotten.

The cause and effect traces Mo Jing saw now were faint blue, with fine lines, linked in a cycle...

Mo Jing's heart was shocked.

Perhaps this was...

True heavenly mechanism derivation?

Heavenly mechanism derivation calculates all things in heaven, penetrating the ultimate principles of heaven and earth...

From the array formations manifested from the great Dao, to the essence of array formations, which is spiritual power;

The spiritual power breaths that pervade all heaven and earth and all things;

Even the cause and effect destinies of all people and things in the world, ultimately derived by the heavenly mechanism, to thoroughly understand the heavenly Dao?

This was... heavenly mechanism derivation?!

Mo Jing only felt his mind clear and his thoughts suddenly broadened. In an instant, he had a glimmer of enlightenment about the heavenly mechanism.

But it was only this instant. As his divine sense was consumed, this glimmer of enlightenment also gradually receded. Within his divine sense view, those heavenly mechanism textures and cause and effect traces also gradually receded.

"Not good..."

Mo Jing's heart tightened. He quickly seized the time and continued to push the derivation of Yin Lao Er's spiritual power.

The remaining spiritual power of Yin Lao Er gradually peeled off the cause and effect, overlapping textures, cycling and linking, condensing into a wisp of Qi mechanism. It curled up from the spiritual power and then extended towards the distance like a guide...

Mo Jing's spirit was shaken. He reached out and pointed to the west side of Canglang Mountain, and said resolutely, "He fled towards the mountain!"

Everyone was startled.

Murong Caiyun looked at Mo Jing with a doubtful expression and asked, "How do you know?"

Mo Jing thought for a moment, concocted a reason, and said with a serious face:

"If I were the murderer, I would also run in that direction!"

For a moment, the crowd was speechless.

Ouyang Feng laughed softly and said gently,

"Alright, then let's listen to your 'little murderer' and go see..."

Murong Caiyun said helplessly,

"That's the only way."

Anyway, there were no other clues now, so they might as well tentatively listen to Mo Jing's words and go to the west of Canglang Mountain to see.

Moreover, she also felt that her junior brother's intuition was always very accurate in such "mysterious" matters...

Murong Caiyun and the others then set off and went towards the west of Canglang Mountain.

Mo Jing walked at the end, turned his head, and looked again at the bloodstains on the ground, as well as the trajectories of the spiritual power remaining on the bloodstains.

This trajectory was derived through heavenly mechanism calculation, a wisp of spiritual power cause and effect "Qi mechanism", not a true "heavenly mechanism".

But this wisp of "Qi mechanism" should be an omen of the "heavenly mechanism".

His divine thoughts were limited, and he could still only see the "Qi mechanism".

But as long as he continued to work hard and derive it, eventually, one day, he would succeed in deriving it, his divine thoughts would be upgraded, and he would be able to break through the spiritual power Qi mechanism, thereby deriving the truly grand, all-encompassing cause and effect, and vast life characters, the true "heavenly mechanism".

Mo Jing's eyes shone brightly, and a wisp of heavenly mechanism textures, bright like stars, appeared.

When he turned to leave, the light in his eyes was restrained, settling at the bottom of his eyes.

His gaze became a little clearer, and also a little more profound.

To the west of Compass Mountain Path was the deep part of Canglang Mountain.

The terrain here was complex. Besides jagged rocks, there were also streams, marshes, thick soil mixed with fallen leaves, and deep, fog-shrouded forests.

After walking for dozens of li, the crowd finally discovered abnormal traces.

A demon snake as thick as a small arm had been cut in half at the waist. The wound was smooth, indicating that the spiritual tool used to kill it was very sharp.

It was highly probable that it was a dagger.

And this snake was in the second realm, although it was only in the early stage. However, it died neatly and cleanly, without any trace of struggle. It obviously didn't detect anything before it died...

"Yin Lao Er..."

The crowd's gazes became slightly serious, and they involuntarily looked towards Mo Jing.

Mo Jing nodded:

"My guess is really accurate!"

Murong Caiyun smiled slightly and praised meaningfully,

"Not bad, the guess is very accurate..."

Then her expression became slightly serious. She looked at the snake demon's corpse and said lightly,

"The snake blood is half-dried. It obviously hasn't been dead for too long. That Yin Lao Er is very likely still in the mountain."

"According to what the Guding Division said, this person is proficient in concealment, cunning by nature, and ruthless in striking. Everyone must be extra careful."

Several people all nodded with solemn expressions.

Afterward, the crowd began to search for Yin Lao Er in the deep mountains.

Capture him if possible, kill him if not.

This was the principle they had discussed beforehand, applicable to all criminal cultivators.

As for how to capture him, they already had a plan under Mo Jing's suggestion...

Mo Jing prepared many small Yuan Magnetic arrays. While searching the mountain, he also set up arrays.

Canglang Mountain was relatively large, and the terrain in the deep mountains here was also more dangerous and complex.

These small Yuan Magnetic arrays might not be able to completely control every movement in the mountain, but they could at least provide a positioning.

They were very useful for discerning direction, checking for people, chasing people, or mutual rescue.

The only problem was that they were a bit expensive.

A single small Yuan Magnetic array wasn't expensive, but using many of them made the cost high.

Fortunately, Senior Sister Murong said she could "reimburse" them.

These arrays, she would convert into spirit stones and pay Mo Jing.

For disciples of world families, spirit stones were not too scarce. As long as they could earn merit points, it was all worth it.

With Senior Sister Murong's "reimbursement", Mo Jing became even more "unrestrained". He scattered small Yuan Magnetic arrays all the way, weaving half of Canglang Mountain into a "Yuan Magnetic net".

If Yin Lao Er, this "flying moth", didn't enter the net, it was fine. Once he entered, it would be "difficult to fly with clipped wings"...

Hua Qianqian saw Mo Jing scattering arrays everywhere. She still held several compasses in her hand and kept looking while walking. She couldn't help but say with concern,

"Junior Brother Mo, you set up so many arrays, can your divine sense manage them all?"

The more small Yuan Magnetic arrays were set up, the wider the spread, and monitoring these arrays consumed more mental energy...

"It's fine."

Mo Jing said modestly, "My divine sense is still alright, not considered weak..."

Hua Qianqian was still a bit worried.

After a moment, Mo Jing was suddenly startled. He pointed at a floating dot on a compass and said,

"There are people here!"

The crowd was startled, and then their faces showed joy.

In the deep mountains of Canglang Mountain, it was desolate with no people. At this time, there were people, and it was highly probable that it was Yin Lao Er.

"Let's go see!" Murong Caiyun said.

"Okay." Mo Jing nodded.

Then Mo Jing and the others arrived at the location indicated by the compass.

This was a small patch of woods. A small Yuan Magnetic array had been buried by Mo Jing at the foot of a large tree in the woods.

And at this time, near the small Yuan Magnetic array, there was another demon beast corpse.

This was a monkey demon. It lay on the ground, its throat cut open, its belly split open, and its inner core taken away. Blood soaked the corrupt mud and fallen leaves.

Monkey demons were humanoid.

Its manner of death... was almost exactly the same as the three disciples.

It was indeed Yin Lao Er!

Murong Caiyun released her divine sense and saw that the surroundings were dead silent, with no cultivator figures. She then asked Mo Jing, "Do you know where the person is?"

Mo Jing looked at the Yuan Magnetic compass, pointed to the right, and said, "That way."

"Good."

Murong Caiyun nodded.

Then the crowd continued to pursue him to a small stream, but there were no traces of Yin Lao Er. Mo Jing looked at the compass again and pointed the direction again...

Like this, although they didn't find Yin Lao Er, they were step by step, staring intently at him.

Moreover, several people could all feel that they were getting closer and closer to Yin Lao Er.

If they continued to chase, they would definitely catch up.

Thinking of this, Murong Caiyun's gaze towards Mo Jing became a bit more solemn.

Mo Jing's ability to set arrays, search the mountain, and track was truly too strong...

This was still because Yin Lao Er was proficient in concealment and naturally alert, which was why the chase took so long.

If it were a general Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, they would definitely have been "caught" by Mo Jing early on.

In their hearts, the crowd silently looked at Mo Jing with new eyes again.

Mo Jing, on the other hand, was completely focused, his mind on the compass, while at the same time recalling the mountain shape of Canglang Mountain and guessing where Yin Lao Er was exactly hiding.

He felt that they would meet soon.

The tracking continued...

Indeed, more than an hour later, they caught up with Yin Lao Er.

The short, thin, and sinister-faced Yin Lao Er was roasting some kind of meat in front of a mountain rock.

The moment Mo Jing and the others caught up with him, he detected them.

But he didn't escape or conceal himself. Instead, he slowly stood up, looked at Murong Caiyun and the others, his gaze sinister, his voice hoarse, and with a puzzled tone, he said,

"How did you know I was here?"

Murong Caiyun of course wouldn't tell him, but she said in a deep voice,

"Yin Lao Er, you have slaughtered cultivators and your crimes have accumulated. If you don't surrender, then don't blame us for being impolite..."

Yin Lao Er sneered, "Not polite? Just relying on you four?"

Murong Caiyun was startled.

Four?

She looked around and discovered that Mo Jing didn't know when he had already used a concealment technique and quietly hid somewhere...

So Yin Lao Er only saw them four people.

"Really clever..."

Murong Caiyun sighed in her heart, then her gaze turned cold, and she said clearly,

"The four of us are enough!"

Yin Lao Er let out a cold laugh, cut off a piece of roasted meat, threw it into his mouth, chewed it in large bites, and then said disdainfully,

"Overestimating yourselves. Want to catch me? In your next life..."

After saying that in front of the crowd, his figure gradually dimmed, and finally disappeared completely.

The instant his figure dimmed, Murong Caiyun had already condensed a spell. Five-colored spiritual light broke through the air and killed towards him, but the spiritual light landed on the ground, shattering the mountain rock, yet there was no sign of Yin Lao Er.

Ouyang Feng and Shangguan Xu also surrounded and attacked, and likewise, they struck air.

Yin Lao Er had already used the small five elements concealment technique and unknowingly escaped.

Murong Caiyun frowned.

Just at this moment, a clear voice rang in her ear, "Senior Sister, on the right, the small stream..."

Murong Caiyun followed the sound and looked. Sure enough, by the small stream, where the water flowed gurgling, there was a faint footprint. She immediately pointed her slender hand, and a ray of spiritual light shone over.

Yin Lao Er blocked this ray of spiritual light with his dagger, but he also involuntarily revealed his figure, looking puzzled.

Murong Caiyun's gaze condensed, and she said,

"Chase!"

Ouyang Feng and the others also nodded, urged their movement techniques, and chased after Yin Lao Er.

Yin Lao Er saw the situation, still sneered, and then disappeared again.

Murong Caiyun chased halfway, but did not see Yin Lao Er's figure, so she had to stop. Just at this moment, she heard Mo Jing say again,

"He drilled into the grass clump..."

This sentence, Ouyang Feng and the others also heard.

The crowd looked at each other, surprised, and then nodded to each other, indicating to continue chasing after Yin Lao Er...

Yin Lao Er drilled into the grass clump, crossed the small stream, climbed over the mountain cliff, and then arrived at a patch of barren woods.

He concealed his body, climbed onto a large tree, and looked towards the road he came from with a blurry gaze, his brows tightly furrowed.

Can't shake them off?

What's going on...

These several sect disciples were only in their early twenties in terms of cultivation age. They clearly couldn't see through his concealment, so why could they always catch up with him?

They also didn't have any means to break concealment.

He had been careful all the way, checked his clothes and storage bag, and there were no "tracking" spiritual objects left on his body.

What did they rely on to track him?

And one most crucial question, Yin Lao Er couldn't figure it out.

How did they know that he was hiding in the deep mountains in the west of Canglang Mountain?

He didn't leave any traces...

Perhaps...

Yin Lao Er's heart trembled, "Could it be that a powerful cultivator proficient in heavenly mechanism and ghost calculation calculated my cause and effect, locked onto my life character, and determined my position..."

Yin Lao Er's heart was cold. He pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

Impossible...

"What would such a powerful cultivator do calculating for a nobody like me?"

Yin Lao Er couldn't solve his hundred thoughts. Finally, he snorted coldly and said,

"Forget it, let's play with this group of little brats..."

But after playing for a while, Yin Lao Er soon felt something was wrong again.

He discovered the small Yuan Magnetic arrays.

These small Yuan Magnetic arrays were arranged exquisitely and secretly. They were the technique of a seasoned second-grade array master.

And in the deep mountains, these kinds of small Yuan Magnetic arrays seemed to be everywhere...

Between the hazy, Yin Lao Er felt that he was just like a small bird, and this Canglang Mountain was like a large net.

Behind the scenes, there was an invisible and untouchable, but meticulous and sinister black hand, trying to tighten this net step by step and catch him like a small bird!

It wasn't him playing with this group of little brats.

But he was being "played" by them.

Yin Lao Er's face sank, and anger secretly rose in his heart.

Really bold!

Do they really think I'm a soft persimmon that they can just pinch?!

Yin Lao Er's skin trembled, and killing intent rose in his heart.

But he still restrained himself.

At this time, he couldn't be impulsive.

These several sect cultivators should have low identities. If he really killed them, it would cause trouble.

And if he wasn't careful and was really caught by them and sent to the Daoting Division, the trouble would be even bigger...

Moreover, there was still a "behind-the-scenes black hand" hiding in the dark, watching like a tiger eyeing its prey.

Yin Lao Er restrained his anger and continued to flee in Canglang Mountain.

But he soon discovered again that no matter how he fled, he seemed unable to escape the tracking of these several sect disciples.

It lasted for more than half a day. He drilled through grass clumps, submerged in streams, was trapped in marshes, and even smeared himself with demon dung, but he still couldn't escape from Yin Lao Er. Finally, he couldn't help but get angry.

In his heart, a surge of fierce killing intent rose.

"Good! A bunch of little brats!"

"Do you really think I dare not kill you?!"

Just a few Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, who had not graduated from the sect and did not know the taste of blood, just didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, dared to come and surround and kill him...

Yin Lao Er's eyes revealed a red light.

"Then I'll let you die quickly..."

"As for those two female disciples, they must be bored in the mountain. I'll kill them first, then use them for entertainment..."

Conceal form, stealthily approach, one knife at a time.

Having many people was useless.

He hadn't not killed before...

Seeing the several people chasing after him again, Yin Lao Er let out a wicked laugh, then activated the small five elements concealment technique to the extreme, completely covering his body, even his spiritual power, making it faint and invisible.

For an instant, even Mo Jing, who had always been staring at Yin Lao Er, couldn't "see" his figure.

Yin Lao Er... completely disappeared...

Mo Jing's heart tightened slightly.

This was... the small five elements concealment technique?

It could actually eliminate his spiritual power existence?

Mo Jing released his divine sense to the extreme, then his pupils deepened.

He could see a wisp of faint shadow, but this perception was intermittent and not easy to grasp.

Figure dissipating, spiritual power thin, vague...

Mo Jing suddenly perceived a sharp killing intent.

His heart was shocked, and he immediately shouted:

"Senior Sister Murong, behind you!"

Murong Caiyun, who was searching the mountain woods lightly and quietly for Yin Lao Er, heard the words and her face changed color, her heart tightened. In an instant, she crushed the talisman she held in her hand.

Golden Bell Talisman!

A layer of faint golden light condensed into a golden bell, protecting her whole body.

At the same time, a sharp dagger quenched with water poison suddenly appeared and cut towards the back of Murong Caiyun's neck.

But it cut onto the golden bell with golden light overflowing.

The golden light retreated layer by layer, and the dagger advanced inch by inch.

The golden bell couldn't support it, but it still bought one or two breaths of time. Murong Caiyun used her movement technique to retreat.

Ouyang Feng's figure flashed, blocking in front of Murong Caiyun, then a sword thrust out, attacking towards the dagger.

Shangguan Xu also chopped out a sword, attacking from behind.

Hua Qianqian also scattered out rays of Hundred Flowers Spiritual Needles, sealing the open gaps.

Yin Lao Er cursed, his figure twisted, escaping from the two sword Qis. However, his shoulder was hit by a spiritual needle.

Yin Lao Er, who had escaped, used the concealment technique again, completely disappearing.

Silent, not even the sound of footsteps.

Ouyang Feng and the others had solemn expressions, fully vigilant, guarding against Yin Lao Er's sneak attack.

But the mountain woods were dead silent, with layers of dead leaves, not a single movement.

Just at this moment, Murong Caiyun suddenly looked into the distance, her beautiful face losing color, and urgently shouted: "Mo Jing!"

Under a large tree in the distance.

Originally, there was nothing, but out of thin air, a swift and sinister dagger appeared, entwined with icy spiritual power, and suddenly thrust out.

Under the dagger, there was originally similarly nothing.

But as the dagger thrust out, a faint blue water shadow appeared out of thin air.

Water flow was formless, overlapping shadows were heavy.

A light figure appeared from under the dagger, like the tide retreating from the river, passing through the water flow body, its posture composed as it retreated.

Second Grade Passing Water Step!

Mo Jing used the Passing Water Step to dodge this strike, but also revealed his figure.

And on the other side, Yin Lao Er, who held the dagger and missed in one strike, also showed his face.

He looked at Mo Jing, his expression choked, his eyes full of disbelief...

Hiding in the dark, setting up the Yuan Magnetic net in Canglang Mountain, like an eagle catching a bird, staring at him, forcing him to flee east and run west, the "behind-the-scenes black hand"...

How could it be such a childish little brat?!

(End of this chapter)

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