Asking about longevity

Probably not...

Mo Hua thought about it for a while when he was trapped in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. He was either lost or uneasy. He had no idea and could only chew the dried meat he gave him. Song Jian, who was muddling along, silently shook his head.

Duan Jinmen is full of human beings. How could Song Jian reach the top with his little mental skills?

If you can hang out with an elder Dangdang, that’s pretty good.

Mo Hua put the matter behind him.

After returning to the sect, he taught Yu'er the formation for a while, then went back to the house, reviewed his lessons for a while, and continued to practice the formation at the Taoist monument when the time came.

He has almost learned the second-grade eighteen pattern formation given by Mr. Xun.

What he is practicing now is the Nineteen Pattern Formation.

The Nineteenth Pattern is a true second-grade high-level formation.

It is also the limit of the formations that an average second-grade formation master can control.

For ordinary formation masters, learning the Nineteen Patterns formation may take some time to understand, practice, and study before they can gradually understand it.

But for ink painting, there is almost no essential difference between the nineteen-line formation and the eighteen-line formation.

Thanks to the Dao Monument in his sea of ​​consciousness, the foundation of his powerful spiritual consciousness, and the rapid recovery of his meditation skills, his amount of formation practice is almost ten times or even dozens of times that of an ordinary formation master.

Practice makes perfect.

And he himself has a high level of understanding.

After the spiritual consciousness is transformed into Taoism, it is compatible with divinity, close to the Tao, and has a more thorough understanding of the formation.

In addition, with the guidance of Mr. Xun, as long as his spiritual consciousness is in place, he can learn this general formation very quickly, even the high-end second-grade nineteen-line formation.

Practicing the Nineteen Pattern Formation will also significantly improve your spiritual consciousness.

But this improvement is still far from enough.

Because after the nineteen lines, there is the mark of the twenty lines, separated by a natural chasm.

On top of this, every time you improve a little bit, the amount of spiritual consciousness required is huge.

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

"It's indeed too slow. I'm afraid I won't be able to give Mr. Xun any surprises..."

Still have to find some other way.

Mo Hua thought for a while and immediately sent a letter to Gu Changhuai:

"Uncle Gu, how was your blind date?"

Soon, Gu Changhuai corrected him with an ugly look:

"It's not a blind date, it's a case investigation."

"Yeah, it's an investigation."

"There's a clue."

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, "What clue?"

Gu Changhuai didn't say anything, but hesitated for a moment, frowned and said, "My aunt's side..."

"Don't worry, leave it to me!" Mo Hua said in a hurry.

Gu Changhuai sighed, and then said:

"That woman named Hua, I took the initiative to ask her to meet, and she didn't refuse..."

"Yeah." Mo Hua nodded.

Uncle Gu has made some progress.

However, that teacher Hua agreed so easily, which made Mo Hua somewhat suspicious.

But then he thought again, maybe it was because of Uncle Gu's face that the woman didn't refuse.

After all, whether you are a man or a woman, good looks can really be eaten.

Gu Changhuai continued: "I invited... that woman to have a meal in a private room of a restaurant in Baihua City. During the dinner, I was patient and chatted for a few times, but I didn't gain much."

"This woman has a fake smile on her face, speaks in a flawless manner, and is obviously very guarded. When it comes to key points, she either pretends to be reserved and smiles without saying a word, or she pretends to be pretentious, which is really annoying..."

Ink painting: "..."

He imagined the scene at that time and cursed in his heart:

Pretending to be reserved, smiling without saying a word, and giggling, aren't these trying to show you favor...

Alas, it's a pity that Uncle Gu has been working as a director for a long time, and his brain circuit is a little different from ordinary people.

That Teacher Hua was really showing her flirtatious eyes to a blind man.

"Then what?" Mo Hua asked again.

"Then I will send her back to the sect..." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua couldn't help but said: "That's it?"

Gu Changhuai: "What else do you want?"

"Okay," Mo Hua sighed: "What about the clues? It can't be just this little thing..."

"Well," Gu Changhuai said, "during dinner, she accidentally said a few words..."

"What words?"

Gu Changhuai: "I asked her what she does when she is not teaching in the sect. She said she practices and prepares lessons. Occasionally, she and some sisters go out to buy flowers, refine flower elixirs, or go to Rouge Pavilion to buy some rouge..."

Mo Hua pondered these words in his mind, frowned and said, "These are very common things."

"These words are indeed very common." Gu Changhuai said, "But when she said it, her tone changed a little, her expression was a little nervous, and her eyes subconsciously dodge, as if she suddenly realized that there was something that should not be said."

"There's nothing wrong with her words, but there's something wrong with her attitude."

"And this emotion disappeared in a flash. After that, she smiled even more and became a little more enthusiastic towards me. She even got close to me and poured me a drink..."

"Obviously she wanted to distract me with her beauty and make me ignore what she said."

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment.

For a moment, he felt that Uncle Gu was really powerful...

He is observant and has a calm mind, and beauty cannot distract him.

"Do you know which sentence is problematic?" Mo Hua asked.

Gu Changhuai nodded, "Rouge Pavilion."

"Rouge Pavilion?"

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment and said:

"I thought about it carefully. When she said these three words, her expression was normal. After she said it, she was obviously startled. Then she immediately realized that she shouldn't say these three words, so she tried to cover it up..."

"Is there a Rouge Pavilion in Baihua City?" Mo Hua asked.

"Yes," Gu Changhuai said, "I asked Gu An and Gu Quan to check. There are four Rouge Pavilions in Baihua City, but that woman usually only goes to one of them. This Rouge Pavilion is called 'Baixiang Pavilion'."

"Baixiang Pavilion..." Mo Hua muttered, and then asked, "Is there any problem with this Baixiang Pavilion?"

"On the surface, there is no problem." Gu Changhuai said, "So, I took this as a clue and went back to check the woman. After some investigation..."

Gu Changhuai frowned slightly, "...that woman named 'Hua' would go to Baixiang Pavilion every ten days and a half to purchase rouge and gouache. After buying, she was not in a hurry to return to the clan, but sat down Taking a carriage from Baihua Valley, he left Baihua City, passed through several nearby fairy cities adjacent to the sect, and continued outwards, leaving the border of Qianxue State..."

"After that, she will pass through several nearby small fairy cities, and then return from Qingzhou City to the border of Qianxue Prefecture, and pass by the gate of Daotingsi and return to Baihua Valley."

Mo Hua was a little confused, "What is she doing in such a big circle?"

"Buy rouge." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was a little unbelievable, "Just to buy rouge?"

Gu Changhuai: "Yes, I checked it later and found that she did buy some different types of rouge and gouache in every fairy city."

Mo Hua pondered: "There's something wrong with this..."

Gu Changhuai sighed, "I thought there was a problem at first, but then I asked my cousin, but she said there was no problem. She said women are like this, they just want to buy so much rouge and gouache..."

Ink painting: "..."

"Then, are there any other clues?" Mo Hua asked again.

You can't. After all the fussing for a long time, I just know that this Hua Jiaoxi likes to buy rouge and gouache.

Gu Changhuai frowned, "The time is short and the things found are limited. It's good to have so many. How can we be picky? But..."

Gu Changhuai hesitated for a moment and wrote:

"The last point is a bit suspicious... That woman left Baixiang Pavilion and circled back to Baihua Valley. The Xiaoxian City she passed through included Yanshui City!"

Mo Hua raised his eyebrows.

"Yanshui City!"

The Yanshui City where the Ye family is located is also the Yanshui City where the Yanshui River flows through.

In this way, the clues are roughly connected.

But there is no more news from Gu Changhuai.

After all, he only invited Hua Ruyu to dinner once and didn't talk much. It was already good to get these clues.

"Uncle Gu, if you make more appointments, you might be able to ask about other things." Mo Hua encouraged.

Gu Changhuai frowned, "No date."

"Why?" Mo Hua was puzzled, "I can eat, go on blind dates, and investigate cases at the same time. Isn't it nice to kill three birds with one stone?"

"You have to go by yourself. I don't have time for the moment. In a few days, I will go to Yanshui City to have a look." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua immediately said: "I'll go too, Uncle Gu, take me with you."

"What are you going to do?" Gu Changhuai asked.

"Find out the true cause of Senior Sister Ye Jin's death and give her justice!" Mo Hua said firmly.

When Gu Changhuai heard this, relying on Daoting Si Diansi's intuition, a trace of doubt arose in his heart.

have some problem.

Although Mo Hua has a good heart, he is by no means a warm-hearted and bad person.

Why are you so concerned about the death of a female disciple in Baihua Valley for no reason?

What does the matter of Baihua Valley have to do with him, a disciple of Taixu Sect?

Very problematic...

Gu Changhuai wrote: "Are you hiding something else from me? Tell me honestly, why are you investigating this matter?"

Mo Hua felt a little guilty, but on the surface he still said seriously:

“It’s really just to repay Senior Sister Ye Jin ‘justice’!”

Altars, demons, evil spirits, etc. are just incidental.

Moreover, he was in Baihua Valley, but he had promised Senior Sister Ye Jin of Half-Step Li Gui to avenge her.

Some things should not be spoken lightly.

Once you open your mouth, you are implicated in cause and effect, and you cannot speak without counting.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that it is to give justice to Senior Sister Ye Jin.

Seeing that he couldn't pry Mo Hua's mouth open, Gu Changhuai had no choice but to give up.

Anyway, even if he pries it open, he doesn't know whether the seven or eight scheming ink paintings are telling the truth.

Let him be.

"During your break, come to Daotingsi... No, go to the Gu family to find me. I will take you to Yanshui City." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly:

"Yeah, thank you Uncle Gu!"

"Also, remember my aunt's side..."

Gu Changhuai really couldn't do anything to Elder Gu Hong, so he repeated it again.

"Don't worry, I have a way." Mo Hua assured.

Gu Changhuai was relieved.

After that, Mo Hua hung out in the sect for a few more days, attending classes, hunting monsters, and drawing formations, and soon it was his midday break.

After being fully prepared, he went to Gu's house early in the morning.

After arriving at Gu's house, he said hello to Aunt Wan and ate some pastries. Mo Hua then went to the study to find Gu Changhuai.

There were two other people beside Gu Changhuai.

Mo Hua was overjoyed when he saw this, smiled and said hello: "Brother Xiao An, Brother Xiao Quan, long time no see."

Gu An and Gu Quan also bowed their hands and said with a smile: "Hello, young master."

Mo Hua was curious, "Are you going too?"

"Yes," Gu An nodded, "Since we are investigating a case, there are many people and there are many clues. We also happen to be running errands for the young master."

"Right."

When Gu Changhuai saw Mo Hua coming, he said directly: "Let's go, go early and come back early, don't delay."

"Okay." Mo Hua nodded.

After that, everyone set off in the Gu family's carriage.

After leaving Gu's house, the carriage went straight through Qingzhou City, followed the Yanshui River, and headed towards Yanshui City.

The Gu family's carriage was very fast and did not stop at several small fairy cities it passed. After about an hour, it arrived at Yanshui City.

In Yanshui City, there is a "Shuixiang Pavilion" that sells rouge and gouache.

It was also the place where the instructor named Hua Ruyu from Baihua Valley bought powder when passing by Yanshui City.

Most of the people who enter Shuixiang Pavilion are women.

Even if there were men, they would go in with the women. Very few male cultivators would go into this kind of rouge shop alone.

Mo Hua glanced at Gu Changhuai, then at Gu An and Gu Quan, and asked, "How can we check?"

Isn't it very suspicious that the four of them, three grown men, and a young boy like themselves, went in and asked questions like this.

Gu An then said: "I know a few female stewards with clean family backgrounds and reliable people. I have already made an agreement with them to ask them to come to Rouge Shop to help inquire about some things. They will come over later."

Mo Hua was stunned for a moment and looked at Gu An, a little shocked.

It’s true that people should not be judged by their appearance. Little An, who looks honest and calm, actually has such connections.

He turned his head again, glanced at Gu Changhuai, and shook his head slightly.

It means, look at Brother An, he is a deacon and he knows several female deacons. Uncle Gu, you are a dean, a bachelor, and you don’t know a single female nun.

The ink painting didn't say it clearly.

But Gu Changhuai looked at his expression and roughly understood what he meant, and his face suddenly darkened.

But in front of Gu An and Gu Quan, he didn't bother to be as knowledgeable as Mo Hua.

After coming here for a while, two women came over.

Both of them were foundation-building practitioners. They did not wear Tao Ting Si's Taoist robes. Instead, they wore pretty dresses and ordinary attire. They looked like ordinary women from aristocratic families who love beauty.

The two girls first saluted Gu Changhuai and then greeted Gu An.

Gu An then smiled and said, "Please leave it to the two girls."

The two female stewards smiled and replied, "This is as it should be."

After that, the two female stewards entered Shuixiang Pavilion hand in hand, while Gu An and Gu Quan were inquiring in the shops outside.

Mo Hua and Gu Changhuai found a teahouse and asked some gossip while drinking tea and eating pine nuts.

About an hour later, everyone met in the teahouse, booked a private room, and summarized the information they had learned.

"The boss of Shuixiang Pavilion is a peak foundation-building monk, slightly fat, and a native of Yanshui City."

"We asked him if your rouge was good, and he showed off to us, saying that his rouge is the most popular in Yanshui City. Not only women from local aristocratic families will come to him to pick up gouache, which is why Qianxue Zhoujie , some women from big families and sects often come to him to buy rouge..."

"I said I didn't believe it, so he listed some, including the female elder of Baihuamen."

"Elder?"

"It's probably because he boasted about Haikou and deliberately called Jiao Xi an elder."

Mo Hua nodded.

The female steward continued: "We took the opportunity to ask about the 'female elder' in Baihua Valley, and found out that this 'female elder' would indeed come to him every once in a while to buy rouge and gouache."

"Moreover, she not only buys rouge and gouache, she will also come up to chat with some beautiful girls when she sees her. She is beautiful, knows rouge and gouache well, and has exquisite makeup. Not to mention she is the 'elder' of Baihua Valley, so she is very It’s easy to chat with these little girls.”

"I heard from this boss that if we get along well with each other, this female elder of Baihua Valley will even introduce some girls to join Baihua Valley, one of the 'twelve streams' of Qianxue."

Recommended...to Baihua Valley?

Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly.

Gu Changhuai's expression also darkened slightly.

This teacher Hua is wandering around the rouge shops in various fairy cities, maybe he has ulterior motives...

"That's all we heard..."

Two female deacons spoke.

Gu Quan said: "I asked some nearby shops, and it is true that every once in a while, a carriage embroidered with flowers and gorgeously decorated will park outside Shuixiang Pavilion."

"This carriage should be from Baihua Valley."

"But the carriage is closed, and it's basically impossible to see what's going on inside the carriage from the outside."

"After staying for a period of time, about half an hour each time, the carriage will leave Yanshui City and drive upstream along the Yanshui River..."

"Based on their description, I roughly restored the appearance of the carriage..."

…

Afterwards, everyone shared some fragmentary and miscellaneous little news.

These messages may not be useful, but they should not be missed just in case.

After finishing the news, Gu Changhuai nodded:

"Thanks for your hard work."

Then he nodded to Gu An.

Gu An stood up and said with a smile: "I will give the two girls a gift, and by the way, I will buy some rouge and gouache for the two girls as a thank you gift."

The two female stewards smiled and thanked them, obviously very happy.

Afterwards, Gu An sent the two female stewards away.

Gu Quan took out the jade slip and recorded the relevant information in great detail, so as not to miss any seemingly ordinary but crucial details.

When Gu An came back, Gu Changhuai looked thoughtful.

Gu An frowned and said, "Dianshi, this Hua Jiaoshi, I'm afraid there is indeed a problem."

Gu Changhuai nodded slightly.

"Although there is a problem, it seems that there is no conclusive evidence at present, and there is not even an obvious clue..." Gu Quan said.

"Yes, it can be seen that she is very cautious and there are no flaws in her actions, which makes people confused about what she is going to do?"

Gu An pondered for a moment, but had no clue, so he asked Gu Changhuai:

"Next, where should we start?"

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment and said, "Follow the route of her carriage and along the Yanshui River, let's take a walk and see. It is impossible for a long snake to walk without leaving any clues."

After Gu Changhuai finished speaking, he glanced at the ink painting.

Mo Hua also nodded and said, "Yeah, I think so too!"

After that, everyone left Yanshui City, drove the carriage along the road, and drove to the next place. At the same time, four pairs of eyes stared all the way to see if there were any traces along the way.

But after staring for a long time, until the next Yunshui City, no suspicious clues were found.

Gu Changhuai frowned and could only say, "Keep going forward and see..."

Mo Hua said, "Wait a minute."

Gu Changhuai was stunned.

Mo Hua touched the copper coins left by his master in his hand, closed his eyes slightly, and silently urged his spiritual consciousness in his heart to make calculations.

After a while, Mo Hua suddenly opened his eyes, turned his head and looked back, his eyes bright:

"We don't go forward, we go back."

"Go back?" Gu Changhuai asked.

"Yeah." Mo Hua nodded, "There is a problem with the way we came..."

The line of cause and effect was broken a little...