Chapter 736: Search the Mountain

"Injure their muscles and bones... give them a good beating once?" Cheng Mo asked.

Mo Hua nodded.

Cheng Mo was happy, then frowned again, "But, those Duan Jin Men disciples are very despicable, they hide their heads and tails, it's hard to find their traces..."

"It doesn't matter," Mo Hua said, "Call some people, during these ten days of rest, I will go into the mountain with you all."

His fellow disciples were being bullied, as this "little senior brother," he had to get face back!

"Good!" Cheng Mo nodded.

Several days later, the ten-day rest period arrived. Cheng Mo, according to Mo Hua's instructions, recruited twenty people.

These twenty people were usually the ones who shouted "little senior brother" more diligently, who played better with Cheng Mo, and who had gone out on missions, earned rewards, and divided merit points with him.

The twenty people arrived in front of Mo Hua, all saluted, and shouted:

"Little senior brother!"

Mo Hua nodded, and with a slightly solemn expression said: "This time we enter Refine Demon Mountain, we won't do anything else, we'll just deal with Duan Jin Men!"

"Their armor is strange, my gold blade technique can't hit it..."

"The method is also simple."

On the surface, the mountain was deep and the forest lush, indeed without any suspicious traces.

Adding Mo Hua and Cheng Mo et al., a total of twenty-five people, in order not to attract attention, entered Refine Demon Mountain in batches and finally met at the bottom of a hillside in Refine Demon Mountain.

"I want to see how shameless they can be..."

In a trance, he had a feeling of peering into the "true form" of all things.

"I'll stall for a bit, you all run..."

Cheng Mo immediately led the people and rushed up. After the chaos suddenly arose, knives and swords buzzed, spiritual energy overflowed, and someone shouted:

"Who?!"

"I'll go your mother, you said you'd stall for a bit, why did you run yourself?!"

"Also inside the water..."

Duan Jin Men disciples were indeed not stupid, they hid deeply.

After giving instructions, everyone set out.

Just like this, these Duan Jin Men disciples who were secretly hiding in the mountain with ill intentions were pointed out by Mo Hua one by one.

Mo Hua walked in front, scanning the surrounding mountains, rivers, and forests with his seventeen-pattern quality transformed divine sense, blessed by some slight derivation.

"We twenty people will be a group, wear overcome gold armor, equip overcome gold spirit tools, and directly enter the mountain to sweep the area!"

Mo Hua perceived for a moment, then pointed with his hand.

"Waste!"

Duan Jin Men were indeed talented in doing such insidious things, with various methods emerging.

"Good..."

In a piece of virtual white, mountains, stones, grass, wood, demon birds, snakes, insects, stripped of their appearances, were presented one by one in the form of spiritual power or demon power.

A crowd of disciples showed joyful expressions.

"Fools!"

"Suppress the techniques a bit..."

Mo Hua walked and named at the same time.

With many people hitting few people, and having overcome gold armor, the battle was almost without suspense.

And under his divine sense spying, whether they used hidden spirit tools, or borrowed mountains and stones to cover their bodies, or borrowed grass and wood to hide their aura, the Duan Jin Men disciples could not escape.

Only, in front of Mo Hua, their "insidiousness" was not worth mentioning.

Just like this, in the noise and fuss, the Duan Jin Men disciples were taken down one by one.

Mo Hua spread a map on the tabletop.

"Damn, how did they find us?"

"Inside that clump of grass over there, five people were squatting..."

"Behind the big stone, five are hiding."

"Several people are using earth escape technique, shrinking into the ground..."

"On the tree over there, seven are riding."

These days, they had been repeatedly harassed by Duan Jin Men in Refine Demon Mountain, not only injured, but also angry, a large amount of time wasted, and not many merit points earned, they had long held a belly full of fire.

"As long as they are Duan Jin Men disciples with ill intentions, if you see them, beat them, strip their robes, draw turtles, and hang them on trees."

After meeting, they formally began the "sweeping operation."

But Duan Jin Men were shameless, they would run if they couldn't win, and they would still find opportunities to harass after running, which was really annoying.

"Too Xu Men little rabbits!"

Mo Hua kept his promise, stripped their robes, drew turtles, and hung them on trees, letting them suffer humiliation.

This was the price of being cheap.

After rectifying a batch, Mo Hua waved his hand.

"Continue..."

Thus, twenty more people continued to set off.

Mo Hua still detected, named them, and Cheng Mo and the others made their move, taking down the Duan Jin Men disciples and hanging them on trees.

Under Mo Hua's lead, a group of people followed the predetermined route, searched the mountain and swept the area, and rectified all the encountered Duan Jin Men disciples once.

Until the sky gradually darkened, the crowd then left Refine Demon Mountain.

Mo Hua thought for a moment, and conveniently led everyone to hunt and kill several demon beasts, peeled the materials, sold them at the mountain gate, and divided the merit points among everyone.

There were few demon beasts and many people, so each person received just over a hundred merit points, just enough to supplement the entrance fee and not lose merit points.

They might not earn, but they absolutely cannot lose!

This was Mo Hua's bottom line.

After everyone vented their anger and were happy, they went back to the sect to drink.

The night after, inside Duan Jin Men.

A disciple reported back, reporting the matter of Refine Demon Mountain to a thin and tall Duan Jin Men senior brother.

This senior brother still carried some injuries on his body, his shoulder had traces of being chopped by an axe.

His actions were slightly slow, seemingly poisoned, with residual poison not cleared.

He was concentrating, flipping through a demon beast atlas.

"Senior Brother Jin, something bad happened..."

That disciple said in a panic.

This Duan Jin Men senior brother frowned, his face showing displeasure, "What happened?"

"We..." that disciple lightly breathed, lowered his voice, "Were ambushed by Too Xu Men..."

Duan Jin Men senior brother frowned, "Then?"

"The opposite side relied on having many people, and acted despicably. We don't know what method they used, but they pulled out all our disciples who were hiding in the mountain one by one..."

That junior brother emphasized again, "They have many people, and act despicably, we are not their opponents, we were beaten once, then..."

That disciple paused for a bit.

Duan Jin Men senior brother frowned, "Then?"

That disciple secretly glanced at the Duan Jin Men senior brother, lowered his voice: "Then, just like senior brother you..."

Duan Jin Men senior brother was slightly startled, "What do you mean, like me?"

"Stripped clothes, drew turtles, hung on trees..."

These words, like sharp swords, directly pierced the heart's defenses.

Duan Jin Men senior brother immediately felt blood rush up, fiercely slapped the table in front of him to pieces, then his whole body trembled with anger.

Great shame and humiliation!

This was the biggest humiliation he had ever encountered in his life!

What made it even harder for him to accept was that the ones who made him suffer this kind of humiliation were just a few disciples whose seniority and cultivation were not as high as his, mere Foundation Establishment mid-stage disciples.

Every time he thought of this, he gritted his teeth, anger burning.

That disciple saw the situation and shivered at the side.

After a long time, this Duan Jin Men senior brother, who had been defeated by Mo Hua and several others with broken sword techniques, stripped of his robes, hung on branches, and had turtles drawn on him, finally suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a face like frost:

"Who led the Too Xu Men side?"

That disciple said: "This is not very clear, I only know that the one who rushed to the front was a tall and strong Too Xu Men disciple holding a big axe."

Big axe!

Indeed so!

Duan Jin Men senior brother's eyes flashed with cold light.

"Senior Brother Jin, what should we do next..." that disciple carefully asked.

Duan Jin Men senior brother thought for a moment, and coldly laughed:

"They want to fight, then we will fight with them!"

The disciple's expression brightened, "Senior brother, do you want to act?"

Duan Jin Men senior brother's face darkened.

Me acting?

He was precisely in such an embarrassing situation because he had acted.

Duan Jin Men senior brother was narrow-minded, his gaze slightly cold, he looked at that disciple, not knowing what he was pondering in his heart.

After a moment, he opened his mouth:

"Not yet, I and the other Duan Jin Men senior brothers cannot act temporarily."

"Before, it was because those several little bastards snatched the demon beasts of my Duan Jin Men that I only argued with them once."

"Now it is a conflict between disciples of the same generation. If we senior brothers come forward again, it will inevitably fall into the reputation of bullying the small with the big."

"Although the matter has a cause, if it is spread out, it will inevitably fall into people's gossip."

"My Duan Jin Men act upright and sit straight, we are not afraid of these criticisms, but we also cannot give people a handle."

"So, this matter, you junior brothers of this generation still need to solve it, this fight, you need to fight it yourselves."

"But..." that disciple was a little uneasy, "We probably are not opponents of Too Xu Men..."

Duan Jin Men senior brother's expression turned cold, "You are disciples of my Duan Jin Men, how can you have no spirit, praising others and suppressing yourselves?"

Duan Jin Men senior brother coldly laughed, "Although my Duan Jin Men are only ranked twelfth stream, that is also because the previous sect ranking had bias and looked down on my Duan Jin Men."

"Up to now, my Duan Jin Men have been constantly expanding, already completely different from the past."

"While that Too Xu Men, one generation is not as good as the previous generation, has already fallen to the last stream of the eight great gates, just an empty name."

"Senior brother's words are very true!"

That disciple hurriedly said, but his expression was still a bit unconfident, "Senior brother, you don't know, they Too Xu Men, each person has a piece of overcome gold armor..."

"And my Duan Jin Men disciples are mostly based on gold spirit roots and cultivate gold system dao methods."

"Techniques hitting on overcome gold armor, the power is greatly reduced."

"Body cultivators are slightly better, but they also don't have an advantage..."

"Fighting face to face, my Duan Jin Men disciples are not afraid of Too Xu Men, but they are too cunning, and relying on the power of spirit tools and armor, we are afraid of suffering losses..."

Duan Jin Men senior brother frowned.

He also knew this matter and had felt very strange in his heart for a long time.

Logically speaking, this single five-element armor is very difficult to mass-produce, and once mass-produced, it will inevitably lose money.

Having one or two pieces is no problem.

But each person having one piece, in a unified style, with overcome gold array painted on the armor, is just very strange.

This explains that someone or some force is targeting Duan Jin Men, not hesitating to spend blood capital and a lot of money to develop this kind of custom overcome gold spirit power spirit tools...

Duan Jin Men senior brother's expression gradually became solemn. After a moment, he opened his mouth:

"I have a way for this matter, you go summon the disciples, and give Too Xu Men some color to see tomorrow."

"Yes, senior brother."

That disciple received the order and left.

Duan Jin Men senior brother pondered for a moment, then got up and left the disciples' residence, walked through the golden and jade magnificent stairs, to another place inside Duan Jin Men, in front of a cave mansion with quiet and beautiful scenery and luxurious decoration.

A beautiful female disciple opened the door and led him in, all the way to the living room.

Inside the living room, sat a handsome young master in brocade clothes.

This young master was tasting tea.

The beautiful female disciple approached and said something, that young master nodded, hooked the female disciple's chin with his hand, and said something ambiguous.

The female disciple walked away shyly.

Duan Jin Men senior brother's gaze was upright, not daring to look sideways, but his sidelong glance still couldn't help but linger a few times on the female disciple's graceful body when she left, his heart full of envy.

This was not an elder's cave mansion, but a disciple's cave mansion.

A solitary cave mansion, accompanied by female attendants.

These were all not according to the rules.

Not only in Duan Jin Men, but in most sects within the boundary of Qian Xue state, they did not conform to sect rules.

But rules are set for ordinary people.

Some people are destined to stand above ordinary people, enjoying the luxury and privileges that ordinary cultivators find difficult to touch in their lifetime.

Duan Jin Men senior brother turned his gaze to the brocade-clothed young master in the center.

Jin Yi Cai.

One of the most direct descendants of the Jin family of Duan Jin Men.

His father's lineage has been in the upper echelons of Duan Jin Men for generations; his mother's lineage is related to the seven pavilions of the central Dao Court and is quite prominent in the Dao state.

This exquisite cave mansion was specially applied for by his mother to the sect for her only precious son to live in.

According to her words, Jin Yi Cai was born noble, with extraordinary bloodline, how could he live in the same disciples' residence as those ordinary disciples.

The beautiful female disciple just now was not a maidservant.

But a true superior-grade spirit root female disciple inside Duan Jin Men.

In the eyes of others, she was a "heaven's proud daughter" with both talent and beauty, unattainable, but in this cave mansion, she was just a warming bed plaything.

Jin Yi Cai, with a good origin, a good spirit root, and a standalone cave mansion in the sect.

Inside Duan Jin Men, countless heaven's proud daughters from medium families wanted to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, to enter his Jin family's door.

He didn't even need to do anything, as long as he opened the door of the cave mansion a crack.

Every night, there were all kinds of good-looking females who would drill into the cave mansion, climb onto his bed, and offer themselves as pillows.

Even when they were tired of being played with and thrown away, these females still enjoyed it.

The female disciple who led the way also changed every few days.

These matters obviously violated sect rules.

The upper echelons of Duan Jin Men also knew, but most turned a blind eye.

Duan Jin Men senior brother felt a trace of jealousy and resentment in his heart.

Before he was promoted by Jin Yi Cai and stepped into the door of this cave mansion, he was completely unaware of this.

Only when he saw it in person did he know that those "fairies" in the sect who were praised by people and seemed pure and dignified could actually be so lowly.

Those grand sect rules were purely jokes to some people.

Fame and fortune can actually make people's hearts so rotten.

Duan Jin Men senior brother's heart was both sour and hateful.

He hated not people's desires and greed, or the rottenness of fame and fortune.

He only hated that these had nothing to do with him.

But now it was different, he was already hooked on Young Master Jin.

As long as he followed Young Master Jin and went down step by step, even if his origin was not good, he could finally stand out and step onto the road to success.

Vaguely, he could already smell the fragrance of fame and fortune.

This fragrance was so tempting, like the powder fragrance on that graceful female disciple's body just now, hooking people's heartstrings.

Just at this moment, a voice with a faint arrogance came from inside the room.

"Jin Gui, what's the matter?"

The Duan Jin Men senior brother, called "Jin Gui," immediately collected his thoughts and respectfully said:

"Too Xu Men is still causing trouble."

Jin Yi Cai, in gold silk brocade clothes with a lazy expression, immediately frowned upon hearing this.

Jin Gui continued: "They are full of 'overcome gold' class spirit tools, ordinary disciples are probably not their opponents."

Jin Yi Cai coldly laughed, "Overcome gold spirit tools? Self-smart..."

He slightly nodded, "You pass my words, let the disciples who have cultivated the Jin family's repaired Duan Jin Sword Art, have some proficiency in the sword method, and have cast the Duan Jin Sword, go play with Too Xu Men..."

Jin Yi Cai finished and coldly snorted, "Do they really think my Duan Jin Men are all a motley crowd?"

Jin Gui said: "Yes."

Jin Yi Cai thought for a moment, slightly raised his eyes, "What about the demon beasts matter?"

Jin Gui slightly lowered his head and reported: "Strictly following young master's instructions, according to the items in the atlas, we have already captured seventeen kinds alive, the remaining kinds are rare, and we are still searching..."

Jin Yi Cai was a little displeased.

Jin Gui observed his words and expressions, his heart sinking, and immediately said:

"Refine Demon Mountain is too big, the mountains are dangerous and the forests are deep, and there are numerous demon beasts, it is not easy to find them, and recently Too Xu Men disciples have obstructed us, our actions are inconvenient..."

"Wait until we deal with the Too Xu Men disciples, and within half a month, we will definitely find them all!"

Jin Yi Cai then nodded, "Don't let me down."

Jin Gui resolutely said: "Young master, rest assured!"

After that, the room became quiet.

Jin Yi Cai calmly drank tea.

Jin Gui stood respectfully, not daring to speak.

The room was luxurious and magnificent, with smoke curling from the incense burner.

A scene of ease and wealth atmosphere.

Jin Yi Cai took a sip of tea, but inexplicably felt a little irritable in his heart.

If it weren't for that matter happening, how could he be confined by his father, not allowed to step out of this cave mansion one step, even his mother's pleading was useless.

Even such an important matter had to be faked into the hands of others.

Because of this, he was still severely reprimanded by his father once.

From small to big, he had not suffered such a harsh rebuke.

Jin Yi Cai was angry and with a "creak" sound, he pinched the teacup in his hand to pieces.

Jin Gui was startled.

In a moment, that beautiful female disciple heard the sound and walked over gracefully, wiped the tea water for Jin Yi Cai, changed the cup, poured another cup of tea, and then retreated down with eyes full of charm and a graceful body.

Jin Gui lowered his head, but couldn't help but glance sideways, looking a few more times.

These females were top quality in the sect, beyond his reach.

His subtle expressions were seen by Jin Yi Cai.

Jin Yi Cai smiled slightly and said lightly:

"Did you remember the words I told you?"

Jin Gui hurriedly said: "Remembered."

"Um." Jin Yi Cai used the tea lid to skim the foam in the cup, "This matter is crucial, there can be no loss, if you can do the matter I told you well..."

Jin Yi Cai lightly sipped tea:

"I'll take you on board."

Upon hearing this, Jin Gui's whole body trembled, then his expression was ecstatic, and he didn't care about his identity, immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying:

"Many thanks, young master!"

"Thanks to young master for the promotion!"

"Jin Gui will go through fire and water from now on, and only look up to young master's lead!"

Jin Gui excitedly swore an oath of loyalty.

Jin Yi Cai nodded approvingly, looked at Jin Gui kneeling on the ground, but couldn't help but think in his heart:

"He looks exactly like a dog..."

The next day, Mo Hua again led people into Refine Demon Mountain, planning to continue searching the mountain and sweeping the area.

But this time, he discovered something different.

Duan Jin Men disciples suddenly became strong.

Although they wore the same gold-colored robes, their eyebrows were more arrogant, their spirit roots were better, their cultivation was deeper, and their sword energy was sharper. The gold-colored spirit swords they wore were obviously also different.

Moreover, they cultivated high-level sword arts.

When the two sides fought, Too Xu Men's side suddenly felt more pressure.

Mo Hua had no choice but to make a move himself.

Fortunately, although these Duan Jin Men disciples were strong, they were all just Foundation Establishment mid-stage, and with Mo Hua's current cultivation, relying solely on his powerful divine sense, near-instantaneous fireball technique, and various tricky and disgusting control techniques, he was still sufficient to greatly display his skills in this scale of cultivator battle.

Not to mention, he still had arrays.

Therefore, although this battle was a bit strenuous, Mo Hua and the others still won, just with more injured people.

Duan Jin Men lost, but their losses were not too great.

At least the disciples who were hung on trees and had bastard turtles drawn on them were much fewer.

Both sides ceased fire, exchanged harsh words, and then returned to their respective sects.

After returning to the sect, the Too Xu Men disciples were healing.

Mo Hua observed everyone's injuries and realized a problem:

Overcome gold armor seemed to be less effective now...

Overcome gold armor had an overcome gold array painted inside, which was specially targeted at five elements gold system techniques, with extremely high resistance to gold spirit power.

But the newly arrived Duan Jin Men disciples seemed to be core disciples of Duan Jin Men.

The dao methods they cultivated were the true, complete Duan Jin Royal Sword Art.

The sword energy urged by this sword art, although it was gold system sword energy, its essence was "sword energy."

Overcome gold armor purely "overcame gold," but its defense against sword energy was negligible.

So this time, Too Xu Men had relatively more injured disciples.

But... how to defend against sword energy?

What was the difference between sword energy itself and general spirit power? Why was its power stronger than general techniques?

There were still eight days until the next ten-day rest period.

Mo Hua wanted to take this time to figure out this problem.

Otherwise, if they fought again, there would likely be more injured fellow disciples, and fighting with Duan Jin Men would just not be worth it.

Mo Hua specifically went to ask Elder Yi who taught dao methods.

After that, he found Si Tu Jian and several other disciples who cultivated swords to ask, and then roughly understood.

The power of sword cultivators was most intuitively reflected in "sword energy."

And the power of sword energy, in part, depended on the "sword tool."

Sword tool...

Mo Hua thought of the luxurious gold-colored spirit swords on the waists of those Duan Jin Men disciples, his heart moved, and his eyes gradually lit up.

"Duan Jin Men spirit swords..."

(End of this chapter)