Asking about longevity

When Qiao Laoliu came back from the outer hall and saw the Fire Buddha, he looked frightened and said in a trembling voice:

"Brother, I've seen a ghost. The outer hall is empty. Many brothers have died..."

Fire Buddha's eyes were sharp, "How did you die?"

"have no idea……"

The old woodcutter murmured.

The Fire Buddha remained silent, but his blood was boiling and his evil aura was getting stronger.

Qiao Laoliu turned pale and said quickly:

"It seems that someone... killed him without anyone noticing, and then abandoned the corpse in the river, and the flesh and blood melted away, leaving no trace..."

"There are still a few left in the middle hall..."

"The outer hall is almost...all dead..."

Qiao Laoliu swallowed his throat and looked uneasy.

"impossible!"

Behind the Fire Buddha, there was a tall and thin demon cultivator with a sinister and pale face.

This person was Yin Leizi who had a relationship with Mo Hua and also hunted down Mo Hua.

Yin Leizi frowned and said:

"I've chatted with Corpse Brother before..."

Yin Leizi said with anger on his face, "...that bastard was very arrogant in his words. With his cultivation, there is no way he could die without a complete body in such a short time..."

Having said this, several other demon cultivators behind Fire Buddha also remembered.

"Me too……"

"I also exchanged letters with Rentu..."

"He's still scolding me. Sooner or later I have to kill that beast..."

"And that bitch, Scholar Yu..."

"The fire foreman also scolded me..."

…

Everyone looked at each other with a chill in their hearts.

"If they are all dead, then..."

"Is the ghost sending us a message?"

Fire Buddha's face was indifferent, his evil spirit condensed, his eyes slowly turned, and suddenly he remembered something, and there was a hint of sharpness in his eyes.

"Master Yuan!"

Only then did the demon cultivators remember that every movement in the entire demon palace and every move of the patrolling demon cultivators were monitored by Master Yuan.

A fishy wind blew up, and blood flashed.

The demon cultivators activated their movements one after another and rushed towards the Privy Council Room of the Yuan Magnetic Array in the middle hall of the Demon Cave.

The formation in front of the secret room has been broken.

Everyone pushed the door open and saw a cold corpse lying in the secret room. There were blood holes in his forehead and Dantian. His heart had been stabbed several times, his hands were broken, and his blood had dried up.

The corpse looked very miserable, but judging from the figure and dress, it was Master Yuan.

"died?!"

The demon cultivators were shocked.

In the later stage of foundation building, Master Yuan, the highly respected evil formation master, possesses nineteen patterns of divine consciousness, terrifying formation skills, and a weird and crazy personality...

Just died so silently?

Died in his own formation privy room.

But among the demon cultivators in their palace, no one knew about it.

The demon cultivators were frightened and angry for a moment, and they all made an uproar:

"Who killed him?"

"Who can kill..."

"This is a temple..."

"How did they get in?"

"We have a mole in our midst?"

"Fuck your motherfucker!"

…

"Could it be that... Dao Ting's Yu Hua Zhenren is here?" A demonic cultivator asked in horror.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

"This is the second-grade state boundary. Even if Yuhua comes, he won't be able to kill so many people in a short time..."

"You can't be so mean and despicable if you kill Ji Zhu in the form of a feather..."

…

Everyone was talking a lot, and then they gradually calmed down and looked at the Fire Buddha silently.

Fire Buddha stepped forward to perform an autopsy on Master Yuan.

As he watched, Fire Buddha was suddenly startled.

"This is wind spiritual power..."

"Very honest..."

"Not only was it deliberately suppressed in the late stage of foundation building, it was... golden elixir..."

"Golden elixir, wind spiritual power, this is..."

The Fire Buddha's eyes were blood red, his hands were trembling, and two heart-like fireballs were beating violently in his heart.

The old wound on my chest suddenly hurts as if it had been cut into pieces with a thousand knives...

"Gu——Chang——Huai..."

Fire Buddha spoke word by word.

His face was cold, but blood-like flames were seeping out of his red cassock, and above the flames, there was a faint gray evil aura...

Qiao Lao Liu said with a fearful face:

"Brother!"

The other demon cultivators were all silent and did not dare to speak out.

Seeing the anger welling up, his whole body was on fire, and his evil aura was about to get out of control.

Fire Buddha gritted his teeth and said "Amitabha", and then recited Buddhist sutras, suppressing his mind and suppressing the violent murderous intention in his heart.

His face became compassionate again.

The other demon cultivators also breathed a sigh of relief silently.

"It's not the inner ghost, it's Dao Ting Si Dian Si..."

Fire Buddha said calmly, and then continued to look at Master Yuan's body.

"Both hands were broken..."

"He was hit hard on the head by a stick-like spiritual weapon..."

"The neck was strangled...the heart was stabbed from behind with a short knife..."

"The eyes are bulging and the face is scorched. Is this... fireball technique?"

"Whose fireball technique? It's interesting..."

Fire Buddha probably replayed the assassination process of Master Yuan in his mind, and then looked at the dark green blood stains on the ground, and his expression was startled.

"poison?"

Is the dagger quenched with poison?

Fire Buddha frowned:

"This doesn't look like Gu Changhuai's behavior..."

"After so many years of not seeing each other, he has become mean?"

Moreover, Master Yuan soaked blood wine with the eyes of the devil, and borrowed the evil thoughts of the devil, and his spiritual consciousness was extremely strong. How could he be killed without even using any means of resistance?

"Could it be that... Gu Changhuai has helpers?"

Fire Buddha's eyes trembled slightly.

"This person is thoughtful and ruthless, and he is proficient in the art of spiritual thoughts and formation methods..."

"This is the only way to make sure that Master Yuan, who has powerful evil thoughts, can kill him at the very least when he is unable to resist..."

Is there another master beside Gu Changhuai?

Fire Buddha's expression became more and more solemn.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

Yin Leizi asked in a low voice when he saw that Huo Buddha had frowned and pondered for a long time, and the atmosphere was depressed.

Fire Buddha's eyes were lowered, he thought for a moment, and said:

"Go back to the inner hall, guard it tightly, and destroy everything!"

The expressions of the others changed.

"Brother?!"

"Destroy everything?"

Yin Leizi whispered: "It doesn't have to be like this...that's..."

Qiao Laoliu also said: "That's right, brother, we can still defend the temple and close the door tightly. Even Daotingsi cannot attack for the time being..."

Other demon cultivators also echoed:

"good!"

"If Daotingsi's lackeys come, we will kill them all and use them as sacrifices. It will all depend on us whether to leave or stay at that time..."

"A bunch of lackeys, give them face?"

"Kill them all!"

Fire Buddha shook his head, "You don't understand..."

"Gu Changhuai is a very difficult person to deal with. He is different from the ordinary people in Daotingsi..."

"Since they can come in, it means that this devil's cave has begun to leak..."

"The outer palace cannot be defended..."

"We can only stay in the inner sanctum."

"And, just in case, everything in the inner hall must be destroyed, leaving no trace..."

"The temple is of great importance..."

"Once there are any signs of exposure, they must be completely eliminated and no outsiders should be allowed to know..."

The Fire Buddha looked solemn and could not refuse.

The other demon cultivators also felt awe-inspiring and nodded in agreement.

Fire Buddha's expression eased slightly, "After cleaning up the inner hall, we will find a way to rush out. I know that you have been hiding here these days, feeling a little depressed..."

"After you get out, you can be wild for a while, I won't restrain you..."

"After that we... left Qianzhou, the sky was high and the sea was vast, we were free and happy..."

"When the storm subsides in a few decades, we can come back to settle old accounts..."

When the demonic cultivators heard "Let's be wild for a while", they all showed lustful expressions and said with a smile: "I'll follow you, brother!"

So everyone took Master Yuan's body, left the secret room, and walked back to the inner hall.

Fire Buddha walked last.

Before entering the dark and chaotic inner hall, with no idea of ​​what was hidden inside, the Fire Buddha suddenly stopped and looked back at the huge outer hall.

A doubt came to mind:

"Master Yuan has died long ago... Then who is the person who talked to me about Buddhism?"

Fire Buddha frowned and thought for a moment, then turned around and walked into the depths of the Demon Palace.

The door of the inner hall slowly closed, locking the Fire Buddha and the unknown secrets inside.

…

Outside the Demon Cave.

Gu Changhuai went back to dispatch manpower.

Ink painting is on the stone bridge, protected by Gu Quan and Gu An, who are dismantling various warning and trap formations on the bridge one by one.

After the demolition was completed, Mo Hua sat at the bridge and waited.

But after waiting for a long time, no one came.

"It's just a manpower transfer. Will it take so long?"

Mo Hua muttered silently.

According to Gu Changhuai, the chief executive of the Daoting Division was stationed just outside the sky. Logically speaking, they could gather here in half an hour.

What happened?

Mo Hua was a little confused.

Because he had to stare at the devil's cave, Mo Hua could only wait peacefully.

After an unknown amount of time, the bridge on the other side became bustling with people, and there was a lot more atmosphere of monks.

"coming!"

Mo Hua was refreshed.

Gu Quan responded on the other side.

After a while, many executives from the Daoting Division began to cross the bridge in batches.

In order to keep a low profile, Mo Hua kept his figure hidden and watched them cross the bridge.

Just looking at it, Mo Hua was slightly startled.

This number of people... seems a bit too much?

"Didn't Uncle Gu say two hundred and eighty? Why does it seem like there are more than four hundred people now?"

Mo Hua was a little confused.

After all the more than 400 officers had crossed the stone bridge, Mo Hua finally saw Gu Changhuai at the end of the team.

It's just that Gu Changhuai's face doesn't look good.

Mo Hua then approached him and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle Gu, why are there so many people?"

Gu Changhuai looked unhappy, "People from the Xiao family are here too..."

Xiao family?

Mo Hua suddenly realized, "The Xiao family with a smiling face?"

Gu Changhuai was startled, and then realized who the "Smiling Tiger" Mo Hua was talking about was, and sighed:

"It's okay, don't use nicknames..."

"It's okay, I didn't say it in front of him..." Mo Hua said.

Gu Changhuai had nothing to do with the ink painting.

Mo Hua asked again: "Did... the news leaked?"

Gu Changhuai's eyes narrowed but he didn't answer.

Mo Hua raised his delicate brows and asked again:

"Then what does the Xiao family do here?"

"Being a mole?"

"Tell the news, or do you want to mess up the situation?"

Gu Changhuai glared at Mo Hua gently, "Don't talk nonsense about these things without evidence..."

Then Gu Changhuai sighed slightly, "The Xiao family came here this time probably to share the meat and grab some credit..."

"Stealing the credit?"

"The stronghold of the Demon Cave, the hundreds of demon cultivators, the Fire Buddha who exterminated the family..." Gu Changhuai said, "Any one of these is a piece of fat."

"Now that these fat meats are served on a plate, the Xiao family wants to strengthen their power in Daotingsi and promote their disciples. How can they not be greedy..."

"Oh..." Mo Hua nodded.

No wonder others often refer to Daotingsi monks as lackeys, hawks and dogs.

Eagle dogs will work hard only when they have meat to eat.

When the Xiao family saw "You Shui", they naturally wanted to "act vigorously and resolutely" and took the initiative.

Gu Changhuai glanced at Mo Hua and said doubtfully:

"Are you saying bad things about Daotingsi again in your heart?"

Mo Hua looked serious, "Uncle Gu, I am half a Daotingsi person now, how can I say bad things about Daotingsi?"

Gu Changhuai nodded.

"But I'm just a supernumerary. It can be counted or not. My status is more 'flexible'..."

Mo Hua added silently in his heart.

"By the way, Smiling Face... Isn't Xiao Diansi here?" Mo Hua asked again.

Just now, all the Dao Tingsi monks passed by the ink painting.

It was like a "military parade" in the ink painting. After a patrol, no smiling tiger was found, not even the monks at the golden elixir stage.

"No." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was puzzled, "Then who will lead the team in the Xiao family?"

Gu Changhuai pointed to a young, outstanding-looking and talented monk among the chief ministers and said:

"Xiao Tianquan, a direct descendant of the Xiao family, in the late stage of foundation building, just graduated from the sect, and was admitted to the Daoting Division as the Executive Secretary..."

"This is the core disciple of the Xiao family..."

"The Xiao family wants to gain some merit for him so that he can be promoted easily."

"oh……"

Mo Hua took a look at Xiao Tianquan and saw that he held his head high and his brows and eyes were full of high spirits. He had the feeling of a proud man who had never suffered a single bit and had a smooth life.

Born in an aristocratic family, graduated from a large sect, then joined the Dao Tingsi, promoted all the way to the top of the Dao Tingsi, and then was promoted to the Central Dao Ting, with a high position of authority, and became a master...

This is the template of the so-called "Tianjiao".

The one who is above me feels like I am a completely different type of person...

Just his name...

"Xiao Tianquan..."

Mo Hua fell into deep thought, and then his eyes lit up:

"Howling Sky Dog?"

Gu Changhuai on the side felt a headache when he heard this. Then he took a deep breath and emphasized again:

"It's okay... don't give other people random nicknames."

"Oh." Mo Hua said perfunctorily.

The Xiao family is willing to use such big things as the Fire Buddha, the Demon Palace, and the family extermination case as a "mat" for their direct descendants to pave the way for future promotions.

There is nothing to say about the ink paintings.

He still cares about the Fire Buddha.

And there is one thing that Mo Hua cares about very much.

Mo Hua glanced at Gu Changhuai secretly, thought about it, and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle Gu, are you and Huo Buddha enemies?"

Gu Changhuai's expression changed, "How do you know?"

"I guessed..." Mo Hua said.

He felt that every time Uncle Gu mentioned or thought about Fire Buddha, his expression would become solemn unconsciously, and there would be an urge to kill someone in his eyes.

Therefore, Mo Hua judged that the two of them must have an old grudge.

Gu Changhuai said with a cold face, "This matter is not complicated at all..."

"Back then I almost killed the evil beast Fire Buddha..."

"It's a pity that I was still building a foundation at that time, and my strength was a bit weak. I only broke part of his heart and allowed him to escape..."

"At that stop, I killed all his other brothers."

"And he..."

Gu Changhuai paused for a moment, his handsome face showed an angry look, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"You also killed a few of my classmates who graduated with me..."

Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart. He looked at Gu Changhuai with sympathy on his face and said without hesitation:

"Seeing his comrades being killed, Uncle Gu was helpless, so he harbored hatred and his temperament changed drastically. He became cold and withdrawn, unwilling to talk to others, and was afraid that those close to him would encounter misfortune again..."

Mo Hua then thought to himself and said...

Gu Changhuai's face darkened and he said angrily:

"What nonsense?"

"I've had this temperament since the beginning!"

"What does it matter to others if you are lonely or unsociable? Why should I care about those boring people? Why should I give them a good look if they are just a fool?"

"ah……"

Mo Hua was stunned.

He didn't guess any of them correctly.

The human heart is indeed complex.

"As for those colleagues who died in the hands of the Fire Buddha..."

Gu Changhuai sighed, "Actually, I'm not too familiar with you, but I can't stand the sight of innocent people dying miserably at the hands of demon cultivators."

"Sometimes when I dream at night, I dream about these..."

"Hate my own powerlessness."

"I didn't kill all these evil monks."

"But the evil beast, Fire Buddha, escaped from my hands and is still making trouble and doing evil everywhere..."

"As long as he doesn't die, I will remember him forever..."

Mo Hua looked at Gu Changhuai with admiration.

Uncle Gu, who seems to be aloof and arrogant, looks like a "handsome bad boy" and is very unpopular, but he has such a decent heart and hates evil so much...

Sure enough, the real person cannot be judged by his appearance.

Mo Hua sighed: "Uncle Gu, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

He never thought that Uncle Gu and Huo Buddha would have a life-and-death grudge.

Gu Changhuai was speechless and gave Mo Hua a roll of his eyes:

"Can I talk to you little brat? If you don't ask, I don't want to tell you right now."

Mo Hua was startled, thought for a while, and nodded:

"Right……"

Sir, especially an old... big monk who has lived for more than a hundred years, there are indeed many old things in the past that he doesn't want to mention to outsiders.

Unlike myself, who is honest with others.

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

After a while, more than 400 chief executives had completed their arrangements, formed a formation, and surrounded the gate of the devil's cave layer by layer.

Gu Changhuai just stood up and was about to say something.

Xiao Tianquan, the genius of the Xiao family, walked up to Gu Changhuai with a confident face and introduced himself:

"Gu Diansi, let me, the Xiao family, handle the matter of breaking down the door!"

Gu Changhuai looked at him and said calmly:

"Xiao Zhisi, once you enter Daotingsi, don't talk about the Xiao family. Daotingsi is not from your Xiao family. People in your Xiao family, in the final analysis, are also members of Daotingsi."

Xiao Tianquan's face turned pale, feeling that his face had been swept away, and there was a hint of hidden resentment in his eyes.

Gu Changhuai saw it clearly and shook his head slightly.

If there is really no comparison, there will be no harm...

Mo Hua, this kid, is not that annoying even if he is full of bad intentions.

On the contrary, this kind of kid from an aristocratic family is hypocritical on the surface, disagrees with each other, and can't suppress the resentment in his heart. It's inexplicably annoying to look at.

Gu Changhuai sneered in his heart, but after a while, he remembered something and nodded:

"But you are brave enough to take the initiative to ask for help. I will leave it to you to break down the door."

Xiao Tianquan suppressed the resentment in his eyes and said gratefully:

"Thank you Gu Diansi."

After that, he gave orders, letting the chief executive of the Xiao family take the lead, and the other chief executives of the Gu family as assistants, to set up a formation and break the formation, and at the same time forcibly broke the formation, trying to open the door of the devil's cave.

Gu Changhuai stood aside and watched.

Mo Hua followed Gu Changhuai.

This time Mo Hua is not invisible.

Since he was going to attack the Demon Palace and capture the Fire Buddha, he had to show up anyway, so he just had to keep a low profile and pretend to be a "bastard".

Others won't pay much attention to him.

Even if they cared, they didn't dare to ask as long as they followed Uncle Gu who said "no strangers should be allowed in".

Even Xiao Tianquan glanced at the ink paintings intentionally or unintentionally.

But seeing that Mo Hua only had middle-to-low-grade spiritual roots, his eyes automatically ignored Mo Hua.

The break went smoothly.

Because before, Mo Hua was already inside and had tampered with the formation of the gate.

The Xiao family obviously made a big deal and asked the Xiao family's formation master to draw a formation outside the gate of the Demon Palace. They also used many precious spiritual weapons and talismans to force the gate of the Demon Palace open.

The formation drawn by the Xiao family formation master is useless.

This is very clear in the ink painting.

Useful ones are spiritual weapons and talismans.

But the monks of the Xiao family didn't know it. When they saw that the devil's cave was blasted open, a large crack was blown out of the evil eye-like stone door, the surrounding door stones that fit like fangs were shattered, and inexplicable blood flowed out.

They all praised: "Xiao Zhisi is wise!"

"Excellent command!"

Some executives who came from small families and did not have a big background also bit the bullet and praised:

"Xiao Zhisi is young and promising..."

"It will become a great thing!"

Xiao Tianquan looked calm, as if he was already used to this kind of flattery.

But after a while, a monk exclaimed.

"The blood on the door...is poisonous!"

Xiao Tianquan immediately moved away. Some of the officers who were close to him were already contaminated, with blood and filth, and their expressions changed drastically.

There was a commotion all around.

After a while, it calmed down.

A dozen or so executives who were poisoned by blood took pills and rested aside.

These elixirs were produced by the Xiao family, and they were claimed to be intact to avoid any stain on the record of "Xiao Zhisi".

This is what Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was dumbfounded.

These aristocratic families are indeed very scheming...

After breaking through the gate, we came to the outer hall.

There was no resistance as originally expected. The outer hall was empty, and not a single demon cultivator was seen.

The same goes for the nave.

The door to the inner hall was closed.

As expected, these demonic cultivators were guarding the inner hall, wondering what they were doing inside.

Xiao Tianquan sneered, "Secure the inner palace and wait for us to catch the turtle in the jar? How stupid!"

Xiao Tianquan was still about to say something, but suddenly glanced at Gu Changhuai with some fear.

Gu Changhuai remained calm and only nodded slightly.

Meaning, let him do whatever he wants.

Xiao Tianquan was relieved.

I just muttered in my heart that, apart from his bad temper and lack of wink, this Gu Diansi didn't seem to be that difficult to deal with.

Why do all the uncles and uncles in my clan tell me to be wary of him?

After that, the Xiao family took charge and began to attack the inner palace.

The methods are similar to those outside.

Mo Hua was behind, still standing by and not taking any action.

It's not his turn to take the lead in this kind of thing.

He didn't want to show off his formation in front of so many Daotingsi monks.

Especially this Roaring Sky Dog is still very narrow-minded.

If you steal his limelight and share his credit, you will definitely be resented by him.

Thankless.

However, the level of the Xiao family's formation masters was really limited. They used spiritual weapons and talismans to attack, but their progress was really slow.

Mo Hua could only wait patiently.

Three and a half days have passed now, and there are still three and a half days to go.

There was barely enough time.

The inner hall is also locked by the formation.

If you want to break through the inner hall, you must either solve the formation or break down the gate.

Mo Hua took a look and found that the formation was difficult to understand, and he didn't know how to deal with second-grade high-level formations.

In this case, the inner palace can only use brute force to forcefully break the formation.

The Xiao family has no shortage of people, spiritual stones, spiritual weapons, or talismans, so they focus on breaking formations as a supplement and as a supplement on breaking formations.

Five colors of light can be seen in the ink painting, rising and falling one after another.

One after another precious second-grade talismans were consumed.

The chief executive took turns using Taoist magic to forcefully bombard the door of the inner hall.

Mo Hua also saw for the first time, a "formation blind" who didn't understand the formation, how did he do it when faced with the formation...

It lasted for most of the day, only to hear a "bang", and the door of the inner hall slowly collapsed.

"It actually broke..."

Mo Hua was a little surprised. He looked at the formation around the door and felt a little enlightened.

This demon temple has not yet been built.

Near the gate, some adjacent formations are relatively weak.

Xiao Tianquan and his men, by accident and chance, broke some of the formations inside, causing the overall formation to loosen.

Only in this way can the door of the inner hall be broken open in most of the day.

Xiao Tianquan didn't understand this.

He really felt that he had broken through the door head-on with his own strength and the ability of the Xiao family.

"It's just a demon temple, nothing more than that!"

A group of chief executives very skillfully flattered a series of "Xiao chief executive is wise".

Mo Hua was too lazy to pay attention to them.

He couldn't wait to take a look into the inner hall.

Looking at it, Mo Hua was a little dazed.

In the inner hall, there are densely packed stone walls.

These stone walls are connected with each other to form a...maze...

maze?

Mo Hua frowned. He let go of his consciousness and sensed carefully, and suddenly discovered that these mazes were actually a kind of formation medium. On top of the mazes, another formation was built.

"This formation..."

Mo Hua felt... strange, but somehow familiar.

He looked at it, his pupils slowly widening and his heart trembling.

Isn't this just...

Mysterious formation? !