Asking about longevity

The bloody stream gurgled and flowed into the distance with no end in sight.

What was flowing inside was either demon blood or human blood.

The stones by the stream have been soaked in blood for many years, and a layer of dried plasma has condensed, showing a strange black-red color.

There were also bones of monsters and beasts around, and there were bite marks on the bones, as if they had been "gnawed" by someone or something unknown.

These bones were thrown on both sides of the bank and piled together, like a pile of bones on the river beach.

The eyes of Mo Hua and Xun Ziyou were a little solemn.

There are so many demon bones, which means that the number of demon beasts that died here is extremely large.

Similarly, this also means that the number of demon cultivators hiding here is probably not a small number.

Immediately, a doubt arose in both of their minds:

Where did these demon cultivators come from?

Mo Hua glanced at Xun Ziyou, who was frowning, and asked in a low voice:

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

Xun Ziyou thought for a moment, and even though he didn't want to admit it, he had to sigh:

"I have been on duty here at Demon Refining Mountain for twenty or thirty years, and I have never seen this scene of blood and bones before..."

"I have never seen a demon cultivator before." Xun Ziyou added.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and asked:

"Elder Xun, are outsiders really not allowed to enter Demon Refining Mountain?"

Xun Ziyou said with a solemn expression: "Monster Refining Mountain is surrounded by formations. Except for sect disciples and a few elders on duty, it is absolutely impossible for any other monks to enter Demon Refining Mountain..."

Speaking of this, Xun Ziyou was suddenly startled and understood the meaning of Mo Hua. His eyes were slightly shaken and he said:

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

Mo Hua corrected: "'Zeng' is a disciple of the sect."

Xun Ziyou felt a chill in his heart, and then felt a chill on his back.

In this case, the matter may be much more serious than he thought.

Demons are not ashamed of the righteous way, are not tolerated by the laws of the Tao, and are forbidden by the Tao court.

If it is true as Mo Hua said, the presence of a large number of demon cultivators here means that a large number of disciples have become demons.

This is definitely the biggest "scandal" in Qianxue State so far.

There will be huge shocks throughout the Qianxue state boundary.

"We must find out!"

Look who is so bold and dares to seduce, condone, and shelter so many disciples and become evil monks!

Xun Ziyou's eyes were cold.

He wanted to walk into the Baigu River Beach to have a look, but was suddenly pulled back by Mo Hua.

"You can't leave this forest." Mo Hua said.

Xunzi was startled.

Mo Hua pointed at the dense forest, "In this forest, Shinto formations have been deployed to cover up the perception of spiritual consciousness..."

"This is a double-edged sword. It covers the traces of the demon cultivator, but in turn, it also covers our traces."

"But it's different in front. In the Blood Creek Bones Land, there is no grass growing, no trees to cover it, and no Shinto formations."

"If we go over like this, maybe someone will 'see' us clearly."

Xun Ziyou frowned, "What about using hidden spiritual weapons?"

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

"Yes," Xun Ziyou nodded, "I don't usually carry it with me, but these days, I carry it with me."

Mainly to track you invisibly...

Xun Ziyou said silently in his heart.

Mo Hua nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and then shook his head, "It's not just about concealment, but also about formations..."

"Array?"

"Well," Mo Hua pointed to the place of bones, "under these bones, there is a formation. Although I don't know what the formation is, it is very strange. If you go there rashly, you will definitely be in big trouble."

"It shouldn't be possible to hide..."

These are what he just saw.

The demon cultivator would not throw the remains of the demon beast in front of this creek for no reason.

There must be a reason why they did this.

With only a brief glance, Mo Hua knew that underneath the bones, the bloody and evil aura had concealed the energy of the formation.

This is an evil formation.

And it doesn’t seem to be an ordinary evil formation.

"Just go by like this. If anything goes wrong, you will definitely be discovered. The Golden Core Demon Cultivator is fine. If you are in the Ascension Realm..."

"There is no Ascension Realm." Xunzi said leisurely.

Mo Hua was surprised, "No?"

"No," Xun Ziyou said firmly, "When the Demon Refining Mountain was first built, the powerful seniors who used formations to seal the mountain also used formations to limit the cultivation of the monks outside the Demon Refining Mountain."

"Near the outer mountains, the highest level of cultivation is the golden elixir."

Mo Hua's pupils shrank, "Tiandao Formation?!"

Xunzi You was surprised, "What is the formation of heavenly law?"

Mo Hua pointed upward, "It's the thunder in the sky..."

Xun Ziyou was stunned and shook his head, "How can there be any big formation in the sky? You are talking about the restrictions of the forbidden laws of heaven."

Only then did Mo Hua remember that his master had said that the Heavenly Dao Formation was just a legend, and most monks did not believe that there was a great formation in the sky.

But Mo Hua knew that the Heavenly Dao Formation existed.

Because he had actually seen it with his own eyes.

"Yeah!" Mo Hua nodded, "It's a forbidden law of heaven."

Xun Ziyou shook his head and said: "This is different. Jiuzhou is divided into low-grade states. If you use super-grade cultivation in the borders of low-grade states, you will be obliterated by the law of heaven."

"But the power of such forbidden laws of heaven is beyond the control of monks."

"The Mountain Sealing Formation of Demon Refining Mountain cannot be so powerful."

"This mountain-sealing formation is actually an expulsion formation. When the Ascension Realm monks enter the Demon Refining Mountain, an early warning will be issued."

"Within one stick of incense, if you become a monk, you will not leave."

"The mountain-protecting formation of Demon Refining Mountain will activate the fifth-grade space formation in the re-formation, and forcibly expel the Ascension Realm monks from Demon Refining Mountain..."

"Why are you expelling Yu Hua?" Mo Hua asked, "Are you afraid that Yu Hua monks will do bad things?"

"That's right," Xun Ziyou nodded and said, "Elder Jindan is enough to take care of these disciples. If we let the elder of the Ascension Realm come in, if he is mad and suddenly becomes a demon and kills in the Demon Refining Mountain, then It would cause a disaster.”

"Feathering is different from Jindan. Yuhua can transform into feathers with spiritual power and fly in the air with the help of the void."

"Once they indulge their murderous nature, fly back and forth, and start massacres, the geniuses of these foundation-building sects in the Demon Refining Mountain will really be like a piece of grass. I don't know how many people will be killed or injured."

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

"It's not like this happened a long time ago, so later on, we simply banned all monks who have achieved enlightenment or above from entering the mountains outside the Demon Refining Mountain."

"I see……"

Mo Hua suddenly understood and nodded.

Therefore, the strongest strength of these demon cultivators in front of them will not exceed the golden elixir.

Mo Hua glanced at Xun Ziyou.

Elder Xun is a late-stage Jindan cultivator. His cultivation is profound and he does not look weak in actual combat. He should be able to protect himself.

The confidence in ink painting is even greater.

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

"Go back?" Xun Ziyou was confused.

Mo Hua explained: "Come back at night. Most of the monsters lie dormant during the day and come out at night, and they become active only at night."

"Demon cultivators practice demon skills, drink demon blood, eat demon meat, and follow the demon path. Generally speaking, they only make big moves at night."

"Moreover, for so many years, the demon cultivator has been dormant here without showing any trace. It is probably at night when there are few people in the Demon Refining Mountain that they go out to poach the demon beasts. No one has ever noticed it..."

"So, it's better to come at night."

Xunzi said leisurely: "Then why not just wait here?"

Mo Hua silently glanced at Xun Ziyou and whispered: "Let's go back and check things."

"What to check?" Xun Ziyou was a little confused again.

Mo Hua pointed at the white bones with "gnawed" marks here and said slowly:

"Check the origins of these demon cultivators."

Xun Ziyou's eyes narrowed slightly, and he understood instantly.

If these demon cultivators were once disciples of the sect, there would definitely be records in the files of Demon Refining Mountain.

For example, in recent years, the disciples who have "disappeared" in Demon Refining Mountain...

Disciples of "Death"...

They may not have really "disappeared" or "died" in Demon Refining Mountain.

It is very possible that they were "transformed" into demon cultivators in the Demon Refining Mountain, thereby abandoning their original identities and "died" in the sect's archives...

Xun Ziyou felt a little chilled in his heart.

This guess is very reasonable.

Then he looked at the ink painting with a strange look.

Did the child have expected what he just figured out now?

Why did he feel that Mo Hua, a disciple, knew more than he did?

It seems like he deals with these monsters and monsters every day...

Xun Ziyou was in a daze, and the ink paintings had already begun to be withdrawn. Halfway through the withdrawal, he turned around and saw that Xun Ziyou was still in a daze. He couldn't help but say:

"Elder Xun, you're leaving."

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

Just looking at Mo Hua's back, his eyes were still a little shaken.

Maybe not only I was wrong, but my ancestor was also wrong.

This child... is very likely to be more than just a "formation genius".

Even, he may not be regarded as a "disciple"...

…

The two returned to the mountain gate, and Mo Hua said:

"Elder Xun, we need to check the files to see which disciples have disappeared or 'died' in Demon Refining Mountain in recent years. It's best to have portraits..."

In Mo Hua's mind, there was another guess that needed to be confirmed.

"Fine."

Xunzi sighed, somewhat reluctantly.

He suddenly had a feeling that Mo Hua was the "elder" and he was a bodyguard who worked for "Elder Mo".

Xun Ziyou walked to the file room in the Hall of Demon Refining Mountain.

Ink painting follows naturally.

But after walking a few steps, he was stopped by Xun Ziyou, "You can't go in."

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment.

Xunzi said leisurely: "Only the elders on duty can enter the archives room and are qualified to read the archives of Demon Refining Mountain."

Mo Hua was very disappointed.

He really wanted to look through the files in Demon Refining Mountain and see what was recorded in them.

Pity.

Mo Hua warned: "Then take a good look at who they are, and don't forget their portraits..."

Xun Ziyou sighed, "Okay..."

Xun Ziyou held the elder's order and entered the archives room. After about an hour, he came out and winked at Mo Hua.

Mo Hua understands it deeply.

The two of them entered the Demon Refining Mountain again, found a quiet place behind a large rock with no one around, and sat on the ground.

Xunzi said softly:

"I took them out secretly. These are rubbings. They include names, place of origin, origin, resume, and portraits... I will burn them after you read them."

Mo Hua was shocked.

This Elder Xun is so reliable!

Not only did he know what he wanted, but he even thought of things he hadn't thought of in advance.

He is worthy of being Mr. Xun’s great-great-grandson of who knows how many generations!

Without further ado, Mo Hua immediately started looking through the files.

Recorded in the file is the list of people who have either "disappeared" or "died" in Demon Refining Mountain in the past hundred years:

"Kuang Ping, Duan Jinmen, a third-grade disciple of the Kuang family, was nineteen years old at the time. He entered the Demon Refining Mountain and disappeared three days later. After searching the mountain for two months, there was no trace. He was suspected to have died from the mouth of a monster..."

"Jiang Rulong, Guishuimen, a second-grade disciple of the Jiang family, was twenty years old and went into the mountains to hunt monsters. Due to his little experience, he panicked when things happened. He missed while hunting monsters and was carried into the deep forest by the monsters. No bones were left..."

"Lan Hui'er, from the Danqing Sect... went into the mountain with a male disciple from the same sect, and both died..."

"Liu Ying, Wan Zhen Sect..."

…

In the list, the missing or dead sect disciples were recorded not only from Duanjinmen and Guishuimen, but also from other sects.

Part of it should be the Demon Refining Mountain where Zhen died.

But the other part, I'm afraid it's hard to say...

It is very possible that some of the dead disciples on the list are now in the Demon Refining Mountain, turning into demons, eating flesh and drinking blood.

I'm afraid it's not just that.

In Mo Hua's intuition, some disciples with unfamiliar names and unfamiliar looks seemed a bit familiar inexplicably.

This is an intuition of cause and effect.

It seems that they have crossed paths with each other before.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and suddenly thought of:

Sin repair!

Based on Boss Jiang's list, he had arrested many criminal cultivators who had inherited the sect's heritage. Logically speaking, they all had followers within the sect.

But Daotingsi checked and found nothing.

Mo Hua was confused before, but now that he saw the list, he suddenly realized that those "criminal cultivators" who were living outside and doing evil were probably "dead" in the sect's files.

That's why Daotingsi couldn't find anything.

It is impossible to verify it from the sect!

In other words, not only the demon cultivators in Demon Refining Mountain, but also the evil cultivators who abducted and trafficked monks and committed many evil deeds outside the boundaries of Qianxue State will also be "cancelled" in Demon Refining Mountain.

Demon Refining Mountain is just a dark "rag".

It will use the "death record" to erase all traces of sect disciples before they became sin cultivators, demon cultivators, or even demon cultivators.

After being deregistered, he changed his face and his name, but no one could find out the origin.

Mo Hua was slightly shocked.

"No wonder……"

"No wonder those traffickers in black who have become minions of the evil god are so rampant, but Daotingsi has a hard time investigating it, because once the source is traced and the sect is traced, they will find that there is really no such person..."

"Because the disciples who meet the conditions are already 'dead'!"

"In the eyes of the sect, when the Dao Ting Si investigates a dead or non-existent disciple and 'slanders' this disciple as colluding with human traffickers or other demon cultivators, it is obviously provoking trouble, spreading rumors and deliberately slandering the disciple. Discredit."

"No sect can sit idly by and ignore this."

"In order to protect the interests of the sect, the reputation of the sect, and even the reputation of the 'dead' disciples, the sect has no choice but to confront the Dao Tingsi and obstruct the Dao Tingsi's investigation."

"So, as soon as the Dao Tingsi investigates this matter, it will inevitably reach a deadlock."

"Uncle Gu, too, no matter how powerful he is, it's useless."

"He is Daotingsi Diansi. Once we investigate from Daotingsi, he will always be isolated by the sect's gate..."

Mo Hua suddenly realized that he finally figured these things out.

But he was still a little unsure.

After all, these are just my guesses.

The intuition of cause and effect is just intuition, which does not mean that it is completely infallible.

"Need to verify..."

The ink painting was on the list again.

I don't know how long he was flipping through it, but Mo Hua's pupils shrank, and after a moment, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"found it……"

There is a name on the list:

"Xie Zangshan, a disciple of Guishui Sect, twenty-one years old, born in the third-grade Xie family, in the middle stage of foundation establishment, with an arrogant and complacent personality. He went into the mountains to hunt monsters alone, and disappeared...three months later, he was presumed dead."

Mo Hua has never heard of this name.

But the ink painting next to the name looked familiar.

This person, this face, was the leader in black at that time!

It seemed that it was two or three years ago. Cheng Mo and the others broke into more than 20 men in black selling monks. They were chased by the men in black. When they were at the end of their rope, they happened to encounter them.

I helped out a little bit.

He saved Cheng Mo, killed the human trafficker, and rescued the abducted monk.

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

There is only one exception, that is the leader in black!

The black-clothed leader, who was carrying the bones of the evil god, chased him all the way to the barren mountains, and then was tricked to death by his own tricks.

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

Although he had been blasted by the Lihuo Formation and had some burn marks on his face, and his expression was sinister, he looked like a rather young monk, estimated to be only in his twenties.

That face now slowly overlaps with the portrait in front of him.

Thanks Zangshan!

Mo Hua's eyes brightened.

This confirms your guess!

Mo Hua checked the time again and found that the time when Xie Zangshan "disappeared" happened to be the second day after he was "killed" by himself.

In other words, as soon as the leader in black who was a human trafficker died, Xie Zangshan, a disciple of the sect, "disappeared" in Demon Refining Mountain.

This is no coincidence, but a very mature, stable, and almost "seamless" process.

And the people and forces involved behind the scenes must be quite large.

Mo Hua's eyes were slightly cold.

Xun Ziyou, who was standing by, saw that Mo Hua's eyes were focused and his expression was changing, and couldn't help asking:

"Did you see something again?"

Mo Hua glanced at Xun Ziyou, thought about it, but still didn't tell everything, and only said what was happening in front of him:

"The demon cultivators in the Demon Refining Mountain are most likely the missing or dead disciples on this list."

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

The light is dark...

No one expected that such a thing could happen in Qianxuezhou, under the eyes of a group of sect elders.

Some people are really too brave.

And they acted very carefully.

The conspiracy behind it is probably not small...

Xun Ziyou looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late, let's go to the bone land again."

"Yes!" Mo Hua nodded.

The two set off again.

At this time, the sun was setting and the morning glow was pouring down the sky. This was a common sight in the Demon Refining Mountain.

But the difference was that at this time of the day, Mo Hua would hunt down the monsters and then go down the mountain to return to the sect in the sunset.

But at this time, he was walking deep into the dense forest of the Demon Refining Mountain.

As the sun was setting, he walked step by step into the darkness of the Demon Refining Mountain...