Asking about longevity

The disciple who was equipped with the Fengxing Qianli Body Skill took the order and went.

The gray-haired old Mr. Xun sat at the table calmly, his eyes were calm, but his heart was like a stone falling on the lake, rippling.

He always felt that he seemed to find out some shocking facts.

But what exactly are these facts?

Mr. Xun has no clue at the moment...

...

Mo Hua got Mr. Xun's permission, and he was in a good mood, and his steps were much lighter.

After returning to the disciple residence, he began to plan what he would do when he entered the Demon Refining Mountain.

Everything is prepared, and if it is not prepared, it will be abandoned.

This is the principle of the demon hunter.

A few days later, it happened to be the ten-day holiday, so he set off and went to the Demon Refining Mountain alone.

The Demon Refining Mountain is located in the north of the Qianxuezhou boundary. It is a demon mountain with long and undulating mountains, deep forests, dangerous mountains, clouds and mist, and heavy miasma.

When Mo Hua arrived at the entrance of the Demon Refining Mountain, he looked up and saw that the demon aura on the mountain was strong and the mountain was unfathomable.

Occasionally, there were demons roaring and beasts howling, and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood, exuding a sinister atmosphere.

Some new disciples around looked at the Demon Refining Mountain, which was dormant like a huge beast, and most of them looked nervous and timid.

Even the veterans looked solemn and did not dare to be careless.

Only Mo Hua looked relaxed and his eyes were slightly bright.

He looked at the Demon Refining Mountain, which was a bit similar to the Big Black Mountain, with thick clouds and heavy fog, and demonic aura lingering. For a moment, he felt a sense of intimacy of "going home".

There was even a sense of excitement of being timid about being close to home.

When he was learning the formation, Mo Hua was a formation master.

But now, Mo Hua feels that his blood of a demon hunter has begun to revive.

He held his head high and walked up the mountain. When he reached the pass, he was stopped by someone: "One hundred merits for one demon refining order." It's not that Mo Hua can't afford one hundred merits, but he couldn't help but ask: "So expensive?" The disciple guarding the gate had a late foundation-building cultivation. I don't know which sect he was from. It looks like he has graduated and successfully joined the inner sect. He came here to guard the gate to earn sect merits. He said calmly: "If you think it's too expensive, you don't have to buy it." Mo Hua had no choice but to take out the Taixu Order, mark out one hundred merits, and buy a "demon refining order" to enter the mountain. The merits of each sect are equal, and generally can only be used in one's own sect. But to enter some public places where disciples of Qianxuezhou can practice, fight, and hunt demons, you can also consume merits. This is the case with the Demon Refining Mountain. Moreover, the Demon Refining Mountain is even more special. Only disciples of sects in Qianxuezhou who hold the sect disciple token and consume merits can be allowed to enter. Non-sect cultivators outside the Qianxuezhou boundary are prohibited from entering.

This is done to prevent outsiders from mixing in and mixing with the good and the bad;

or someone with ill intentions and ulterior motives;

and to prevent some rare monsters in the Demon Refining Mountain from being poached by non-sect cultivators.

Mo Hua bought a Demon Refining Order and walked into the mountain alone.

The gatekeeper disciple was startled when he saw it, and called Mo Hua, "You are alone?"

Mo Hua asked in confusion, "One Demon Refining Order can bring in many people?"

The gatekeeper disciple was stunned and shook his head:

"What are you thinking? How can such a good thing happen..."

Mo Hua was speechless.

Then you are not asking nonsense.

The gatekeeper disciple paused, looked at Mo Hua again, frowned, "Your blood is so weak, you are not a physical cultivator, your spiritual power is not good, and you don't have a companion, so you go up the mountain alone?"

"I'll go and take a look, one person is enough." Mo Hua said. The gatekeeper looked solemn and reminded:

"The Demon Refining Mountain is fierce. Even if you just take a look, it is very dangerous."

"Yes." Mo Hua nodded.

The gatekeeper saw that Mo Hua didn't listen at all, and said helplessly: "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

You can enter the mountain with the Demon Refining Order.

Mo Hua insisted on entering the mountain alone, and he couldn't stop him. He just sighed in his heart:

"The young disciples nowadays really don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is..."

Mo Hua walked into the gate of the Demon Refining Mountain.

After a while, a handsome man with a leisurely look came over.

When the gatekeeper saw him, he immediately bowed and said:

"Elder Xun."

The man called "Elder Xun" nodded slightly and said casually: "I'll go into the mountain to take a look."

"Yes."

The gatekeeper respectfully let him go.

Elder Xun walked into the mountain gate and looked up at the long mountain road.

At this time, on the mountain road, a young boy wearing a Taixu Taoist robe was walking up the mountain with a heroic spirit.

Elder Xun shook his head slightly.

"Ancestor is really a fool. Since you are worried about his safety, just lock him up in the sect and don't let him out..."

"Even if you let him out, don't let him into this Demon Refining Mountain. It will cause you a lot of trouble..."

"This kid is the same. What kind of cultivation and strength do you have? He doesn't know it in his heart. He runs around in the Demon Refining Mountain alone. He is really not afraid of death..."

Elder Xun was complaining in his heart, and suddenly saw Mo Hua's figure in the distance paused, stopped, turned around, and looked down the mountain.

Elder Xun's heart trembled, and instinctively dodged and hid to the side.

Mo Hua stood on the mountain road and looked down.

But after looking for a long time, he didn't see any suspicious figures. He tilted his head, his eyes were confused, and he said silently in his heart:

"Did I sense it wrong?"

"Just now, someone was clearly looking at me, and he was spying on me with his spiritual sense, and he seemed to be saying bad things about me in his heart..."

"How come in a blink of an eye, there is no one?"

Mo Hua looked around again, then shook his head and muttered, "It must be an illusion."

Then he turned around and continued to walk up the mountain.

After Mo Hua left, Elder Xun slowly appeared, looking at Mo Hua who had disappeared on the mountain road, his eyes trembling with fear.

This little ghost...wouldn't he have discovered himself...

How old is he? How strong is his spiritual sense? How could he possibly detect the prying of a late Jindan cultivator like him?

It's not that weird...

Elder Xun frowned.

After a moment, he raised his head again, walked up the mountain road, and continued to follow Mo Hua.

But this time he learned his lesson and didn't dare to follow behind blatantly. Instead, he walked through the woods to cover his figure, and at the same time used secret methods to hide his breath. He didn't dare to get too close, but followed behind from a distance.

He had to obey the orders of the ancestor and secretly watch over this young boy whose hair was more important than his arm.

After all, if his arm is broken, it is broken.

If this child's hair is really missing, I don't know how the ancestor will "tune" himself.

Elder Xun sighed helplessly.

In this way, Mo Hua walked in front, and Elder Xun followed behind.

Mo Hua didn't know that he had a "bodyguard" as soon as he entered the mountain.

He was concentrating on implementing his plan.

When you arrive in a strange place, you must first familiarize yourself with the environment. This is the basic requirement for a demon hunter.

This is the case in Dahei Mountain.

It is no exception when you arrive at the Demon Refining Mountain.

Mo Hua turned out a map of the Demon Refining Mountain.

He spent two spirit stones to buy this map from the small fairy city at the foot of the mountain.

The map simply marked the mountains and rivers, grasses and streams of the Demon Refining Mountain, but it was very rough and simple, with only some approximate mountain directions.

This is definitely not okay.

Mo Hua began to measure the terrain of the Demon Refining Mountain in person according to his habit, and based on this simple map, he drew a map of the Demon Refining Mountain that belonged to him.

The Demon Refining Mountain is very large, and there are many demon beasts.

There are mostly second-grade demon beasts in the outer area, but in the deep mountains, it is said that there are even third-grade and fourth-grade demon beasts.

However, these demon beasts above the third grade are trapped in the deep mountains by the formation.

Disciples cannot enter the deep mountains.

Similarly, the high-grade demon beasts in the deep mountains cannot go down the mountain.

Mo Hua only plans to move around the outer mountains.

The more experienced the demon hunter is, the more cautious and self-aware he is, the longer he can live and the more demon beasts he can hunt.

This is what his father Mo Shan told him.

Mo Hua deeply agrees.

Although he is not "old", he is skilled and can barely be considered an "experienced" demon hunter.

On the mountain road of the Demon Refining Mountain.

Mo Hua found a big rock to sit on, spread out a simple map, looked at it carefully, and memorized every peak in his mind.

Then he looked out and took in the outer mountains, which reflected the map in his mind and made him know what he was doing.

After reading, he chose a route and set off up the mountain.

He walked, observed and recorded.

Behind Mo Hua, in the bushes in the distance, Elder Xun followed silently, looking a little surprised.

He realized that he had underestimated this kid.

Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.

Before entering the Demon Refining Mountain, you must first get familiar with the mountain terrain. This is not something that ordinary disciples can do or even think of.

The disciples of the sect only care about whether their realm is high, how deep their cultivation is, how strong their Taoism is, and whether their swords and spiritual tools are sharp.

When they enter the mountain, they only think about killing monsters quickly.

They don't even consider getting familiar with the environment first.

When cultivators fight, life and death, victory or defeat, are not determined by strength.

The right time, right place, and right people are all indispensable.

The environment is the "right place".

This is at least something that experienced demon hunters or experienced old cultivators can realize.

But now this young boy has a kind of ease that is engraved in his bones.

Elder Xun nodded slightly.

He is indeed a little fellow that the ancestors value. Although he looks ordinary in talent, he does have some skills in doing things...

Then Elder Xun watched Mo Hua wander around the Demon Refining Mountain alone for a day.

Whenever he encountered special terrain, minerals, herbs, or dangerous swamps, mud pits, miasma, demon caves, etc., Mo Hua would record them.

If there were demon beasts, he would know in advance with a scan of his spiritual sense and avoid them early.

Sometimes he was unlucky and was blocked by demon beasts. There was no way to avoid it, so he used the concealment technique to hide.

Some demon beasts are blind and can recognize people by their breath.

The concealment technique cannot avoid them.

Mo Hua relied on his body skills to deal with them, lured them to the edge of the cliff, and then relied on his extremely fast moves, which were formed in an instant and changed in a thousand ways to knock the demon beasts off the cliff, and then he retreated calmly.

The more Elder Xun watched, the more frightened he became.

If Mo Hua had only established his foundation and his aura was not pure, he would have been a human cultivator.

He would have suspected that Mo Hua was a terrifying old demon who could transform into a human form.

He was experienced and skilled.

In the mountains where there were many dangers and even disciples in the late stage of foundation building had to be cautious and alert, he was strolling leisurely and calmly.

It was like walking in his own yard.

At such a young age, he was really amazing...

The more Elder Xun looked at him, the more he admired him, and his respect for Mr. Xun arose spontaneously.

He is worthy of being the ancestor!

He could actually see the extraordinaryness of this child through the appearance of the middle and lower grade spiritual roots.

Elder Xun thought again...

Perhaps the ancestor asked him to take care of this child so that he could see these things with his own eyes.

Let him know that although this child's spiritual roots are not good, his means and mind are all top-notch and can be of great use, so he took such good care of this child.

"The ancestor really has good intentions..."

Elder Xun sighed in his heart.

While he was thinking, he suddenly saw that the sky was getting darker, the sunset was setting, and the sunset glow dyed half of the sky red. In less than half an hour, it would be dark.

"It's time to go back..."

Elder Xun squatted on the tree and moved his shoulders, thinking that he should go back to the sect, but when he looked down, Mo Hua still didn't feel anything, buried his head in the mountains, and had no intention of going back at all.

Elder Xun was startled and frowned slightly.

This kid, he wouldn't want to spend the night in the mountains...

Any forest where monsters live is very dangerous once it gets dark.

The night is dark, the sun sets and the moon rises, the yin energy is thick, and most monsters are bloodthirsty and restless.

Some treacherous monsters that are inconvenient to move under the sunlight during the day will come out at night, sneaking and wreaking havoc in the dark, hunting flesh and blood.

The same is true for the Demon Refining Mountain.

Therefore, there are generally unwritten rules in the mountain:

Unless you are in the late stage of foundation building, you are in a team of five and you really have to hunt monsters. Otherwise, you are not allowed to spend the night in the mountain.

The Demon Refining Mountain is dangerous at night.

At night, the elders on duty are not enough, and even if something happens, they may not be able to rescue in time.

Even if the Tianjiao disciples in the late stage of foundation building, a team of five, stay in the mountains at night, it is dangerous.

Not to mention this young boy who is only in the middle stage of foundation building, weak and alone.

Elder Xun felt a little pain.

"This kid is too brave..."

But Mo Hua looked indifferent.

His idea was actually simple.

If I go back now, I will have to come back tomorrow, and I will have to spend another 100 merits. It's too much of a loss.

Merits are something that the more the better, and you should save as much as possible.

Mo Hua still concentrates on observing the terrain and recording important places on the map.

It was not until the night was deep, the sky was dark, there were no stars, and it was almost pitch dark around.

Mo Hua considered staying overnight.

At this time, the demonic aura in the mountains became more and more intense in the clear night.

The roars of monsters also came one after another.

In the darkness, many strange monsters were ready to move.

Even Elder Xun, who was in the late Jindan stage, felt a little chill in his heart.

He turned his head again and looked at Mo Hua. Seeing Mo Hua standing there and looking around, he seemed to be looking for a place to stay. He couldn't help but curl his lips and said in his heart: "Since you want to stay overnight in the Demon Mountain, you should prepare early. It's too late to cram at this time. Where can you stay..." If it doesn't work, he can only show up and take the child down the mountain... However, this does not seem to be in line with the instructions of the ancestor. The ancestor asked him to take care of it secretly. Elder Xun was thinking about it in his heart, and suddenly found that Mo Hua moved. He seemed to have found a place to stay. Elder Xun was a little confused. In the dark night, he opened his eyes and looked. He saw Mo Hua climbed up a big tree with a light figure, and then jumped onto a mountain peak. He climbed halfway along the mountain peak, jumped to the opposite side, jumped to another cliff, and took cover with bushes. After walking for a while, he found a very hidden cave that was not easy to be noticed. Mo Hua walked towards the cave. Elder Xun was startled, and then he took a breath of cold air.

Monster lair!

No, this is not for people to live in!

This is the lair of a ferocious monster! And judging from the remaining demonic energy, it is the lair of a monster of at least the second-grade late stage!

You silly child, are you going to die?

Elder Xun wanted to take action immediately and pull Mo Hua out of the cave, but when he scanned with his spiritual sense, he was suddenly startled.

"No monster?"

He glanced again, and his heart was a little relieved.

It seems that the monster has gone hunting.

Or "a cunning rabbit has three burrows", this is just one of the lair of a second-grade monster. Although the demonic energy is strong, it at least did not live in it tonight.

Elder Xun slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he watched Mo Hua "occupy the magpie's nest" and walked into the lair of this second-grade late stage monster that could swallow him in one bite without spitting out bones.

Mo Hua entered the monster's lair, first took out some fresh herbs and sprinkled them around to remove the monster's odor.

Then he found a safe corner and set up a lot of formations.

First, the early warning formation, then the concealment formation, then the defensive earth and stone formation, and the ground killing formation for self-resistance.

After setting up the formation, Mo Hua took out the dried meat and filled his stomach.

Then he took out the fruit wine and drank a few gulps.

After eating and drinking, he took out a soft blanket and wrapped himself like a zongzi, lying quietly and well-behaved, and fell asleep with a long breath...

Elder Xun outside was dumbfounded.

No...

This is a monster's lair! How do you treat it as your own home?

How can you sleep in this environment? !

You are too careless...

Elder Xun sighed deeply, not knowing what to say, and finally could only accept his fate and wait silently at the entrance of the cave.

He didn't dare to rest, so he could only close his eyes and rest.

I was afraid that if a monster really came back to the nest, it would swallow this arrogant boy in one bite, and that would be a lot of fun.

The ancestor had to peel off his skin...

The night was deep and the mountain breeze was cool.

Mo Hua was sleeping sweetly inside.

Elder Xun was outside, guarding with fear.

This is how the night passed, until the sky broke and the east was white. Mo Hua opened his eyes, sat up slowly, stretched, and then his eyes were bright and energetic.

Elder Xun outside the cave had a dull look and a haggard look.

It was getting late.

Mo Hua got up, packed his blanket, erased the formation, and marked the location of the nest on his map with a "small campfire" pattern.

Thinking that if I have something to do in the future and have to stay in the mountains, I will come again next time.

Mo Hua ate something simple and set off again.

Time was tight, and he had to draw at least a quarter of the map in one day.

Elder Xun rubbed his brows, sighed helplessly, and began to follow Mo Hua silently again.

In this way, Mo Hua ran in the Demon Refining Mountain for another day.

Elder Xun followed diligently for another day.

But Mo Hua didn't know at all.

He drew a small half of his exclusive map of the Demon Refining Mountain, which was considered to have achieved the expected goal.

After the ten-day break, Mo Hua returned to Taixu Gate.

After eight days of practice, it was another ten-day break.

Mo Hua went to the Demon Refining Mountain again, spent a hundred merits, bought the Demon Refining Order, and entered the Demon Refining Mountain.

This time, Mo Hua was familiar with the mountain.

Mo Hua was also familiar with the general terrain, threatening monsters, miasma, poisons, etc., and it was much faster to survey again.

Two days later, Mo Hua's map had been drawn.

Next, he would officially start to formulate a complete set of monster hunting tactics by combining formations and spiritual weapons.

So that he could take Cheng Mo and his group of "younger brothers" to play in the Monster Refining Mountain.