Chapter 758: The Truth

The latest website: bixiashenghua A small blood-red stream gurgles and flows, extending far into the distance with no end in sight.

It is unclear whether the blood flowing within is that of demons or humans.

The stones on the stream's edge, soaked in blood year-round, have congealed a layer of dried blood plasma, presenting an eerie black-red color.

Around them are bones of demon beasts, with gnawing marks on them, as if they had been "chewed" on by humans or something else.

These bones, scattered on both banks, are piled together, like a riverbank of white bones.

Both Mo Hua and Xun Zi You's gazes were somewhat heavy.

So many demon bones indicate an extremely large number of demon beasts died here.

Similarly, this also means that the demon cultivators hidden here are probably not a small number.

Immediately, a doubt simultaneously arose in both their hearts:

Where did these demon cultivators come from?

Mo Hua looked at the furrowed brow of Xun Zi You and asked in a low voice:

"Elder Xun, have you ever seen this land of white bones before?"

Xun Zi You pondered for a moment. Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to sigh and say:

"I have been on duty in Lian Yao Mountain for twenty to thirty years, and I have never seen such a scene of blood streams and white bones before..."

"Nor have I ever seen demon cultivators," Xun Zi You added.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and asked:

"Elder Xun, outsiders really can't enter Lian Yao Mountain?"

Xun Zi You said with a heavy expression: "Lian Yao Mountain is sealed by arrays all around. Besides sect disciples and a small number of on-duty elders, no other cultivators can possibly enter Lian Yao Mountain..."

Speaking of this, Xun Zi You suddenly startled, understood Mo Hua's meaning, and said with a slight tremor in his voice:

"You mean... these demon cultivators are all sect disciples?"

Mo Hua corrected: "'Were' sect disciples."

Xun Zi You's heart grew sharply cold, and then he felt a chill down his spine.

If that were the case, the matter might be much more serious than he had imagined.

Demons are despised by the righteous path, not tolerated by Dao laws, and forbidden by the Dao Court.

If, as Mo Hua said, a large number of demon cultivators appear in this place, it means a large number of disciples have fallen into demon cultivation and entered the demonic path.

This is absolutely the biggest "scandal" in the Qian Xue State boundary to date.

The entire Qian Xue State boundary will be greatly shaken.

"Must investigate clearly!"

See who is so bold as to actually dare to induce, indulge, and cover up so many disciples becoming cultivators of the demonic path!

Xun Zi You's gaze was icy cold.

He wanted to walk into the white bone riverbank to look, but was suddenly pulled back by Mo Hua.

"We cannot leave this forest," Mo Hua said.

Xun Zi You was startled.

Mo Hua pointed at the dense forest, "Inside this piece of forest, a divine path array has been laid, covering the perception of divine sense..."

"This is a double-edged sword. It both covers the traces of the demon cultivators, but conversely, it also covers our traces."

"But the front is different. The land of blood streams and white bones is barren, with no trees covering it, and no divine path array."

"If we go over like this, we might be clearly 'seen' by people."

Xun Zi You frowned, "Use a hidden spiritual tool?"

Mo Hua asked: "Elder Xun, do you have a hidden spiritual tool?"

"Uh," Xun Zi You nodded, "I don't usually carry it, but I have been carrying it with me these past few days."

Mainly for hiding your tracks...

Xun Zi You silently said in his heart.

Mo Hua nodded slightly, thought for a bit, but still shook his head, "It's not just a hiding problem, there is probably also an array..."

"Array?"

"Um," Mo Hua pointed at the white bone land and said, "Below these white bones, an array is still buried. Although I don't know what array it is, it's very strange. If we go over rashly, there will definitely be big trouble."

"Hiding also probably won't work..."

He had just seen these things.

The demon cultivators also didn't throw the remains of the demon beasts in front of this small stream without reason.

They did so, there must be a reason for it.

Mo Hua only glanced slightly and knew that below the white bones, through the bloody evil qi, the array's qi mechanism was covered.

This is an evil array.

Moreover, it seems to be not an ordinary evil array.

"If we just go over like this and cause an anomaly, we will definitely be discovered. Golden Core demon cultivators are okay, but if there are those at the Feather Ascension Realm..."

"No Feather Ascension Realm," Xun Zi You said.

Mo Hua was surprised, "No?"

"No," Xun Zi You said with certainty, "When Lian Yao Mountain was initially built, the senior great powers who sealed the mountain with arrays similarly restricted the cultivation of cultivators in the outer mountain of Lian Yao Mountain with arrays."

"In the vicinity of the outer mountain, the highest cultivation is only Golden Core."

Mo Hua's pupils slightly shrank, "Heavenly Dao Great Array?!"

Xun Zi You was surprised, "What Heavenly Dao Great Array?"

Mo Hua pointed upwards, "Just the tribulation thunder from heaven..."

Xun Zi You suddenly understood, shook his head, "Where is there any great array above heaven? What you are saying is the restriction of the Heavenly Dao prohibition, right."

Mo Hua then remembered that Master said that the Heavenly Dao Great Array was just a legend, and most cultivators did not believe that heaven had a great array.

But Mo Hua knew that the Heavenly Dao Great Array existed.

Because he had truly seen it in person.

"Um um!" Mo Hua nodded, "It is the Heavenly Dao prohibition."

Xun Zi You shook his head and said: "This is not the same. The Nine Provinces are divided into grades. In low-grade state boundaries, using super-grade cultivation will be erased by the Heavenly Dao."

"But this kind of Heavenly Dao prohibition power is fundamentally beyond the control of cultivators."

"Lian Yao Mountain's sealed mountain array also cannot have such power."

"This sealed mountain array is actually an expulsion array. When cultivators at the Feather Ascension Realm enter Lian Yao Mountain, it will first issue a warning."

"Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, if the Feather Ascension cultivators do not leave."

"Lian Yao Mountain's mountain protection array will activate the fifth-grade space array within the array, forcibly expelling Feather Ascension Realm cultivators out of Lian Yao Mountain..."

"Why will it expel Feather Ascension?" Mo Hua asked, "Is it because they are afraid of Feather Ascension cultivators doing bad things?"

"Correct," Xun Zi You nodded, "Guarding these disciples, Golden Core elders are just enough. If Feather Ascension Realm elders are allowed in, in case they go mad and suddenly enter the demonic path, and start slaughtering in Lian Yao Mountain, it would cause a major disaster."

"Feather Ascension is different from Golden Core. Feather Ascension can turn spiritual power into feathers and fly by relying on the void."

"Once they indulge in their killing nature, coming and going, flying and escaping, and slaughtering, the sect prodigies in Lian Yao Mountain at the Foundation Establishment Realm are truly like weeds. Who knows how many will be injured or die."

"This is also a huge disaster for the sect."

"Very early on, such matters have occurred, so later, they simply cut it off and prohibited all cultivators above the Feather Ascension cultivation from entering the outer mountain of Lian Yao Mountain."

"So that's how it is..."

Mo Hua suddenly understood and nodded.

Therefore, the strongest strength of these demon cultivators is also not exceeding Golden Core.

Mo Hua looked at Xun Zi You.

Elder Xun is at the late stage of Golden Core cultivation, with profound cultivation. His actual combat ability also seems not weak, and he should be able to protect himself.

Mo Hua's confidence was even more sufficient.

"Elder Xun, let's go back first," Mo Hua said.

"Go back?" Xun Zi You didn't understand.

Mo Hua explained: "Come back in the evening. Most demon beasts hide during the day and come out at night. They will only be active in the evening."

"Demon cultivators cultivate demonic arts, drink demon blood, eat demon meat, and walk the demonic path. Generally speaking, they will only have big actions in the evening."

"Moreover, for so many years, demon cultivators have been hibernating here without revealing any traces. It is estimated that they all take advantage of the evening when people are scarce in Lian Yao Mountain to come out, secretly hunt demon beasts, and this is the only way no one discovered them..."

"So, it's better to come in the evening."

Xun Zi You said: "Then why not just wait here?"

Mo Hua silently looked at Xun Zi You and said softly: "We'll go back and check some things."

"Check what?" Xun Zi You was a bit confused again.

Mo Hua pointed at the white bones on the ground with "gnawing" marks and slowly said:

"Check the origins of these demon cultivators."

Xun Zi You's gaze slightly condensed, and he instantly understood.

If these demon cultivators were all once sect disciples, then there must be records in the archives of Lian Yao Mountain.

For example, the disciples who have "disappeared" in Lian Yao Mountain in recent years...

The "dead" disciples...

They are not necessarily truly "missing" or "dead" within Lian Yao Mountain.

It is very likely that they "transformed" into demon cultivators within Lian Yao Mountain, thereby abandoning their original identities and "dying" in the sect archives...

Xun Zi You's heart felt slightly cold.

This guess is very reasonable.

Immediately, he looked at Mo Hua with strange eyes again.

Had this child not foreseen the things that he himself had only just figured out?

How did he feel that this disciple, Mo Hua, knew more than he did?

As if he dealt with these demons and ghosts every day...

Xun Zi You was just in a daze, and Mo Hua had already started to retreat. When he was halfway back, he turned around and saw that Xun Zi You was still there in a daze and couldn't help saying:

"Elder Xun, let's go."

Xun Zi You came back to his senses and nodded, "Okay."

He just looked at Mo Hua's back, his gaze still somewhat shaken.

Perhaps it's not just himself who is mistaken, the old ancestor is also afraid of being mistaken.

This child... is very likely not just a simple "array genius".

Even, he might not be able to be treated as a "disciple"...

The two returned to the mountain gate. Mo Hua then said:

"Elder Xun, you need to check the archives to see which disciples have been missing or 'died' in Lian Yao Mountain in recent years. It's best to have portraits..."

In Mo Hua's heart, there was still another vague guess that needed to be verified.

"Alright." Xun Zi You sighed, somewhat reluctantly.

He suddenly had a feeling that Mo Hua seemed to be the "elder", and he himself was the bodyguard running errands for "Elder Mo".

Xun Zi You walked towards the archives room in the hall of Lian Yao Mountain.

Mo Hua followed very naturally.

But after walking a few steps, he was stopped by Xun Zi You, "You cannot go in."

Mo Hua was startled.

Xun Zi You said: "Only on-duty elders can enter the archives room, and only they have the qualification to look through the archives of Lian Yao Mountain."

Mo Hua was very disappointed.

He really wanted to look through the archives of Lian Yao Mountain to see what was recorded inside.

What a pity.

Mo Hua instructed: "Then look carefully, which people, don't forget the portraits either..."

Xun Zi You sighed, "Okay..."

Xun Zi You entered the archives room with his elder token. After about an hour, he came out and gave Mo Hua a look.

Mo Hua understood in his heart.

The two entered Lian Yao Mountain again, found a quiet place with no one around, behind a large stone, and sat on the ground.

Xun Zi You said in a low voice:

"I secretly took them out. These are copied versions. Names, native places, origins, resumes, portraits are all there... You look them over, and I have to burn them."

Mo Hua's heart trembled.

This Elder Xun is truly reliable!

He not only knew what he wanted, but even the things he hadn't thought of, he had already thought of them beforehand.

He is indeed the great-grandson of Mr. Xun, who knows how many generations removed!

Without delay, Mo Hua immediately flipped through the archives.

The archives recorded the list of disciples who had been "missing" or "dead" in Lian Yao Mountain for the past hundred years:

"Kuang Ping, Duan Jin Gate, disciple of the third-grade Kuang family, entered Lian Yao Mountain at the age of nineteen, disappeared three days later. Searched the mountain for two months, no trace, suspected to have died in the mouth of a demon beast..."

"Jiang Ru Long, Gui Shui Gate, disciple of the second-grade Jiang family, entered the mountain to hunt demons at the age of twenty. Due to shallow experience and panic when encountering matters, he made a mistake during demon hunting time, was dragged into the deep forest by a demon beast, and his corpse and bones were not found..."

"Lan Hui Er, Dan Qing Gate... entered the mountain with a male disciple from the same gate, both perished..."

"Liao Ying, Wan Zhen Gate..."

The list recorded missing or perished sect disciples from not only Duan Jin Gate and Gui Shui Gate, but also other sect gates.

Among them, a part should have truly died in Lian Yao Mountain.

But another part is probably not so good to say...

There is a high possibility that a part of the dead disciples on the list are currently within Lian Yao Mountain, having turned into demon kinds, eating meat and drinking blood.

Probably not only that.

In Mo Hua's intuition, some disciples with strange names and strange appearances, yet inexplicably felt somewhat familiar.

This is a kind of causal intuition.

As if there had been an intersection between them.

Mo Hua thought for a moment, and suddenly thought of:

Sin cultivators!

Initially, he captured many sin cultivators according to Jiang Lao Da's list. They carried sect inheritances on their bodies, and according to reason, they all had roots within the sects.

But the Dao Court Department checked there and gained nothing.

Mo Hua was still puzzled before. Now that he sees this list, he suddenly realizes that those "sin cultivators" who are living outside and doing evil are very likely already "dead" in the sect archives.

So the Dao Court Department couldn't find anything no matter how they checked.

It is also fundamentally difficult to verify at the sects!

In other words, not only the demon cultivators within Lian Yao Mountain, but also the evil cultivators who are trafficking cultivators and committing evil deeds outside the Qian Xue State boundary will also conduct "deregistration" in Lian Yao Mountain.

Lian Yao Mountain is just a piece of pitch-black "wipe cloth".

It will wipe off all traces of sect disciples becoming sin cultivators, demon cultivators, and even magic cultivators through "death records".

After deregistration, they change their faces and names, and no one can check their roots.

Mo Hua's heart was slightly shocked.

"No wonder..."

"No wonder those black-clothed human traffickers who became evil god's claws are so rampant, and when the Dao Court Department checks, they encounter difficulty at every step, because once they trace the roots back to the sects, they will find that there is indeed 'no such person'..."

"Because the matching disciples had already 'died' long ago!"

"And in the eyes of the sects, the Dao Court Department checking a dead or non-existent disciple and 'slandering' this disciple as colluding with human traffickers or other magic cultivators is obviously just looking for trouble, spreading rumors, and deliberately smearing."

"Any sect will not sit idly by."

"In order to maintain the interests of the sect and the reputation of the sect, even the reputation of the disciples who have 'died', the sects must confront the Dao Court Department and obstruct the investigation of the Dao Court Department."

"So, as long as the Dao Court Department checks this matter, it will definitely fall into a deadlock."

"Uncle Gu is also useless no matter how powerful he is."

"He is a Dian Si of the Dao Court Department. Checking from the Dao Court Department's side will always be isolated outside by the doors of the sects..."

Mo Hua was suddenly enlightened and finally figured out these matters.

But he was still a bit hesitant to fully confirm.

These were after all just his own guesses.

Causal intuition is also just intuition, it doesn't mean it will be completely correct.

"Need to verify once..."

Mo Hua flipped through the list again.

He didn't know how long he had been flipping when Mo Hua's pupils shrank, and after a moment, the corners of his mouth curved into a shallow smile.

"Found..."

On the list, a name was recorded:

"Xie Zang Shan, disciple of Gui Shui Gate, twenty-one years old, from the third-grade Xie family, Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivation, arrogant and conceited by nature, entered the mountain alone to hunt demons, missing... three months later, determined to be dead."

Mo Hua had not heard this name.

But the portrait beside the name was very familiar to Mo Hua.

This person, this face, was the black-clothed leader from that time!

It seemed that it was still two or three years ago. Cheng Mo and a few others ran into more than twenty black-clothed human trafficking cultivators and were chased and killed by the black-clothed people. When they were at the end of their rope, they just happened to run into him.

He made a slight move to help.

He saved Cheng Mo and also killed the human traffickers and rescued the trafficked cultivators.

At that time, this group of human traffickers mostly died and turned into a pool of black water.

There was only one exception, which was that black-clothed leader!

The black-clothed leader carried the evil god's remains on his body and chased him all the way to the barren mountain, and then was killed by him using all his means.

After the black-clothed leader died, Mo Hua looked at his face.

Although it was burned by the Leaving Fire Array, his face had some scorch marks and a sinister expression, but he looked quite young, estimated to be only a twenty-something cultivator.

That face, now, slowly overlapped with this portrait in front of him.

Xie Zang Shan!

Mo Hua's eyes lit up.

This confirms his guess!

Mo Hua looked at the time again and found that the time when Xie Zang Shan "disappeared" was just the day after he was "killed" by him.

That is to say, as soon as the black-clothed leader of the human traffickers died, Xie Zang Shan, the sect disciple, also "disappeared" in Lian Yao Mountain.

This is absolutely not a coincidence, but a very mature and stable, and almost "seamless" process.

Moreover, the people and forces involved behind it must not be small.

Mo Hua's gaze was slightly cold.

Xun Zi You, who was beside him, saw Mo Hua's focused gaze and his changing expression, and couldn't help asking:

"Did you not, again, figure something out?"

Mo Hua looked at Xun Zi You, thought for a bit, but still didn't fully tell him, only said what was in front of him:

"Those demon cultivators in Lian Yao Mountain are highly likely to be the missing or dead disciples on this list."

Xun Zi You didn't know that Mo Hua was concealing something, so he nodded and sighed in his heart.

Blackness under the lamp...

No one thought that such things could happen in the Qian Xue State boundary, under the noses of a crowd of sect elders.

Some people's boldness is really too great.

Moreover, their actions are indeed meticulous.

The conspiracy behind it is probably not small...

Xun Zi You raised his head and looked at the sky, then said: "It's not early, let's go to that white bone land again."

"Um!" Mo Hua nodded.

The two set off once again.

At this time, the sun set behind the mountains, and the evening glow splashed across the sky. This was originally a common scene within Lian Yao Mountain.

But the difference is, usually at this time, Mo Hua has finished hunting demon beasts and returns to the sect down the mountain with the sunset.

While at this time, he is walking towards the depths of the dense forest of Lian Yao Mountain.

Taking advantage of the sunset behind the mountains, step by step, he walks towards the darkness of Lian Yao Mountain...Latest website: bixiashenghua