Chapter 683 Blood Mist (Additional update for leader Wind Chocolate~)
The undercurrent at the Qianxue state boundary is flowing faster.
As for Mo Hua, the "mastermind behind the scenes", he still knows nothing about it.
He is "starving" now and just wants to catch a fish and get some divine bones to "satisfy his hunger".
After a few days, the fish finally took the bait.
After finishing his ink painting class, he was having dinner in his disciple's residence when he received a letter from Gu Changhuai:
"The dragon crossing the river is dead."
Mo Hua said: "Real death and fake death?"
"suspended animation."
"Did you catch the mole?"
Gu Changhuai was silent for a moment and said apologetically: "No..."
Later Gu Changhuai explained the whole story:
"My time was limited and I couldn't keep an eye on him all the time, so I sent people from the Gu family to disguise themselves as prisoners and sneak into the Taoist prison, secretly watching next door to the Dragon Crossing the River."
"Everything was calm at first, nothing happened."
"But at midnight yesterday, the man who was watching suddenly felt that his whole body was cold, as if something had entered the Taoist prison. At the same time, he also felt dizzy and sleepy. When he woke up again, the dragon crossing the river was dead and his body was It’s all rotten…”
Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly, "Is it rotten?"
"Yes." Gu Changhuai said, "He has malignant sores on his body, which are rotten and smelly. No one in the prison dares to approach him."
Mo Hua asked: "Can the identity still be identified?"
Gu Changhuai said: "As always, the flesh and blood were eroded by the demonic energy, the face was rotten, the meridians were destroyed, and the spiritual power was polluted, but this time the demonic energy was not heavy, and most of the body remained..."
Gu Changhuai sighed, "It can be seen that the dead man was as tall and built as a dragon crossing the river. He also had water spiritual roots, and he still smelled fishy..."
Mo Hua nodded.
This is to find a "scapegoat" and use demonic energy to destroy different characteristics, leaving only height, body shape, spiritual root attributes, and the same characteristics as the Dragon Crossing the River.
It really took a lot of effort.
I don’t know who this scapegoat is or where he got it.
Gu Changhuai continued: "Sudden illness, covered with sores, and died in prison. The basic characteristics are the same. Daotingsi closed the case and sealed the file of Guojiang Long."
Mo Hua nodded slightly.
All this was exactly the same as what he heard from Mr. Jin.
"Then what?" Mo Hua asked again.
"No more." Gu Changhuai said.
Mo Hua obviously didn't believe it and said firmly:
"Uncle Gu, you must have a backup plan and hide something from me."
Mo Hua knows Uncle Gu well.
Although he is very good at spiritual knowledge and formations, he is a real "experienced" in the Daoting Division, especially in criminal investigation. How could it be so simple that he let the Dragon Crossing the River escape?
Gu Changhuai was discovered and said silently: "It's useless to tell you."
"If you don't tell me, you won't be able to catch the dragon crossing the river."
There is a way to success in ink painting.
Gu Changhuai was stunned for a moment, his eyes complicated, and then he sighed deeply.
He always felt that Mo Hua was like a "little magic stick", capable of pinching and calculating, and nothing could be hidden from him...
In this case, Gu Changhuai would not hide it from him.
"Outside the Daoting Division, I also secretly sent people to keep an eye on it. The next day, a corpse transporter took several corpses of those who had been sentenced to death and transported them out of the Daoting Division and sent them for incineration. The dragon crossed the river.
Inside..."
"Is there something wrong with this executive?"
"No, he didn't know." Gu Changhuai said.
"Then...the dragon crossing the river was incinerated?"
Gu Changhuai shook his head, "He was dropped halfway..."
"A funeral procession passed by with carriages and horses carrying corpses. Someone took advantage of the bailiff's inattention and swapped two identical coffins."
"Then the chief executive carried the body to the incinerator, and the funeral procession took away the coffin of Dragon Crossing the River and buried it..."
"After burying it, I secretly asked people to dig up the coffin. I found that the coffin was empty and the dragon crossing the river was gone..."
Mo Hua was a little surprised.
This method of "stealing one thing and replacing another" is indeed somewhat clever.
He silently remembered it, maybe he could use it in the future.
"Where is the coffin buried?" Mo Hua asked.
"On the banks of the Yanshui River."
Mo Hua was startled, "So, the dragon that crossed the river returned to the Yanshui River?"
"It should be..."
"Can we still find it?" Mo Hua asked.
Gu Changhuai sighed, "When a water monk like him enters the river, it is like letting a fish into the water and letting the bird return to the forest. The forest is deep and the water is wide, and there is no trace left."
"And he must have changed his face, no one can recognize him."
"There are more or less water monks in the Yanshui River. I can investigate them one by one, but doing so will inevitably alert the snake. There is no way to catch big fish in the long run..."
"Oh..." Mo Hua nodded.
He also didn't write ink, and said diligently: "Uncle Gu, let me find him for you!"
Gu Changhuai narrowed his eyes and noticed something was wrong, "Do you have any conditions waiting for me?"
Mo Hua pretended to be sad: "Uncle Gu, am I such a person? Punishing evil and promoting good is the duty of a righteous monk. As a dignified Taixu Sect..."
"Forget it if you don't say it."
"I said!" Mo Hua said immediately, and then sent out a lot of words that he had prepared:
"There are only three small conditions: tell me the clues about the traffickers; support me when I need people;"
"...The last thing is, next time, can I make the reward first, and then you can send me a reward according to the task content. This way, the process at Daotingsi will go faster, and the merits will not be owed..."
The achievements of the Fire Buddha have not been revealed yet!
The Daotingsi's organization is bloated, its processes are redundant, and Mo Hua's resentment is deep.
Gu Changhuai took a slight breath.
Are these three small conditions for you?
Which condition is smaller?
He is not big, but his tone is not small.
"No!" Gu Changhuai refused.
"No, I didn't say you couldn't bargain..." Mo Hua said weakly.
Gu Changhuai's forehead hurt a little.
Feelings, you kid is here to pay me, the Dao Ting Si Dian Si, who is asking for a lot of money, and has to sit on the ground to pay back the money...
Gu Changhuai: "I can only agree to you."
"Two?" Mo Hua asked tentatively.
"Just one, if it doesn't work, forget it."
"Oh, just one."
Mo Hua reluctantly accepted.
Gu Changhuai said: "The matter of the human traffickers is related to confidentiality, so I can't tell you; the matter of the reward is related to the Daotingsi system, so I can't agree to it. But if you are in danger or need support, I can help you.
…”
Protecting the safety of the ink paintings was also my cousin's intention. In a sense, it was also for Yu'er's benefit.
Gu Changhuai found a reason for himself.
Gu Changhuai continued: "Next time during the holidays, when you come to the Gu family, I will give you a secret order from the Gu family. This secret order can order the monks from the Gu family in the Daoting Division of the surrounding second-grade Xiaoxian City..."
Mo Hua was dumbfounded.
Gu family secret order?
Order the Gu family monks in the second-grade Daoting Department?
Mo Hua was a little embarrassed, "Isn't this... a little too expensive..."
"Forget it if you don't want it."
"Yes!" Mo Hua said quickly.
It would be a fool not to take advantage of it.
It just so happened that he wanted to catch the evil god by his tail and needed manpower.
Although Cheng Mo and the others would also help, there were only four or five people there, which was not enough manpower.
Moreover, their cultivation level is really low and they need to practice more before they can be useful.
Gu Changhuai reminded again: "This secret order of the Gu family is used to 'give orders' in my hand, but in your hands, it is only used to 'save lives'. Don't use it indiscriminately, and don't think about using the secret order to boss around or blackmail the Gu family."
Disciple, they will not agree to do something excessive for you..."
"If you let me know that you are doing anything wrong with this secret order, I will confiscate it then!"
Gu Changhuai looked serious.
"Yeah! Don't worry!" Mo Hua promised, "I will never do anything excessive!"
Gu Changhuai breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Mo Hua's assurance.
"I will tell you other clues about the dragon crossing the river. It would be best if you can find him. If you can't find him, don't force it."
"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.
After that, Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua the location where the Dragon Crossing the River buried its body and then disappeared, including the clues that Daotingsi later investigated in the Yanshui River.
During the break, Mo Hua couldn't wait and ran to Gu's house.
Gu Changhuai looked at Mo Hua's piercing eyes and felt a little regretful in his heart, but thinking that he had already promised Mo Hua, he could not break his promise, so he gritted his teeth and handed over a jade secret order with the word "Gu" engraved on it.
Ink painting.
"Only for help and support, don't act recklessly!"
Gu Changhuai warned again.
"Uh-huh!"
The ink painting is full of promise.
Gu Changhuai breathed a sigh of relief and then gave the secret order to Mo Hua.
Mo Hua took the "Gu Family Secret Order" and felt that it was shiny, cool and heavy. It was very precious at first sight.
Uncle Gu is a good man!
Ink painting of the heart.
Then he put the secret order into his storage bag, but felt it was not respectful enough, so he put it into his own ring instead.
With the Gu family's secret order in hand, from now on, he will be able to hang out in the second-grade small state near the sect, which means he has a "backer". It will be more convenient and more confident for him to act on his own.
Mo Hua felt that his waist had become much stiffer.
But after getting the benefits, I can't be careless in doing things.
He wanted to help Uncle Gu...which could be regarded as helping himself, to catch the dragon crossing the river who "faked his death".
I cannot be ashamed of my trust in Uncle Gu.
Especially I cannot be ashamed of this precious Gu family secret order!
Mo Hua looked solemn and nodded.
After saying goodbye to Gu Changhuai, he went to see Aunt Wan again, had a meal with Yu'er, and then Mo Hua set off for the lower reaches of the Yanshui River.
In this operation, he was the only one.
Because they were spying secretly and there were no merit points to be obtained yet, they didn't take Cheng Mo and the others with them.
When they arrived at Yanshui River, Mo Hua found the grave where Dragon Crossing the River faked his death and buried his body.
The tomb has no monument, it is just an earthen slope, with some Feng Shui formations symbolically placed around it to protect the tomb.
Near the river, the soil is semi-wet.
There is no need to dig out the ink paintings. Once the spiritual consciousness is scanned, you will know that the coffin is empty.
But some of the remaining breath in the coffin can still be clearly distinguished in the ink painting, which is that of the dragon crossing the river.
His eyes were deep and secrets emerged.
Traces of cause and effect extended from the coffin and floated into the river. After that, the river was vast and disappeared without a trace.
Mo Hua also remembered other clues that Uncle Gu had said, and went in hiding along the Yanshui River to check them one by one.
There are indeed traces of dragons crossing the river in the river, and there are also some light white dotted lines of cause and effect, but they are all very thin.
Although it is weak, it also means that the Dragon Crossing the River is still active nearby.
Dragon Crossing the River practices water-based exercises and lives by water. The river is his second life, and the waterway inside is his way of survival. He cannot go far.
What's more, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
Mo Hua calmed down, found a place with the deepest causal line, and sat invisibly, ready to wait and see.
At the same time, he took out the few secret books of martial arts he had obtained from Crossing the River Dragon and silently read through them.
The first is the "Bailang Jue" exercise.
This exercise cannot be learned in ink painting, and there is no need to learn it. However, the routes of movement, meridians and connections, and the disadvantages and shortcomings must be carefully studied.
Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Only by knowing the skills of Crossing the River Dragon can we restrain him better.
The second is Bailangjue Shenfa.
This is a water-based body technique, but it is completely different from the passing water step in ink painting, which focuses on dodging to save one's life.
What Bailang Shenfa emphasizes is that human and water are one, and it is performed in the water. Humans are like fishes, swimming freely without restrictions.
Mo Hua thought this might be useful in the future, so he learned it.
Time is limited, so you don’t need to be too proficient, just make do with it.
There is also a secret technique for avoiding monsters in water, called water-driving monsters, which allows monks to avoid aquatic monsters in the water, as well as poisonous weeds, whirlpools and other unknown dangers.
In a sense, it is more like the experience and skills of a "monster hunter".
It's just that this kind of monster hunter doesn't come from the mountains, but from the water.
Ink painting is instinctively interested in monster hunter stuff.
So you have to learn this too.
The world of cultivation is vast and there is no end to learning.
Mo Hua was just like this, while flipping through these exercises and Taoist techniques, he was distracted and paying attention to the movement in the water.
The more he sees, the more Mo Hua understands Yanshui River.
Just like when he first entered the Dahei Mountains, he went from unfamiliar to familiar, and then to knowing every plant and tree in the mountains like the back of his hand.
Today's Yanshui River is gradually becoming clearer in Mo Hua's eyes.
The flow of the river, the floating aquatic plants, the swimming spiritual fish, and the dangerous water monsters lurking in the muddy mud, waiting for opportunities...
Suddenly, Mo Hua felt that he had a subtle connection with Yanshui River.
This section of the river seems to be interacting with the spiritual consciousness of the ink painting little by little.
The Yanshui River, which was originally rippling with dangerous waves, gradually became "friendly" and familiar, just like the pond at his home...
This feeling is very mysterious.
At this moment, the ink painting consciousness moved slightly.
In the familiar river, a more familiar scent suddenly swam from the distance.
Dragon crossing the river!
You don't even need to look at the ink painting, you can feel it instantly.
The smoke and water are vast and sparkling.
The Dragon Crossing the River lurks in the Yanshui River, swimming along the current like a big fish.
This gives the ink painting an illusion.
Just like the fish he released, leisurely and leisurely, it swam back to his own "pond"...
Mo Hua's eyes are slightly bright.
In the Yanshui River, the Dragon Crossing the River swims forward along the current.
The ink painting continued to hide its figure, following the dragon crossing the river in the water, walking forward along the river.
After walking like this for a long time, the Dragon Crossing the River still stayed in the river and swam along the current without ever coming ashore.
Mo Hua followed patiently.
I don’t know how long it took, until night fell and the water surface was dark, the dragon crossing the river turned its head in the water and swam towards the shore.
When they got close to the shore, the Dragon Crossing the River first floated on the river bank. It paused for a while until it was sure that no one was around, and then it jumped ashore with peace of mind.
Through the faint moonlight, Mo Hua could see his figure clearly.
The previous Dragon Crossing the River had a beardless face and was all white, like a white fish.
Now he looks like a man, with a dark and rugged face and a long beard. He is also bare-chested, but his hair is very dark, and his muscles are knotted and dull, like a big black fish.
On the surface, he is not the same person as before.
Mo Hua snorted in his heart:
"Young man, you think I can't recognize you after you change your 'vest'?"
A person's appearance may change, but his spiritual essence remains the same.
Such superficial changes in skin and flesh cannot hide from Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness.
"However, the big fish finally showed up..."
Mo Hua felt a little happy in his heart.
After the Dragon Crossing the River came ashore, he looked around cautiously, then took out a few dead fish from the storage bag, found a fish basket and released them.
Then he carried the fish basket and the dead fish and walked to the shore.
Mo Hua followed quietly behind him.
When we reached the shore, the moonlight became a little brighter, and its light shone on the path.
The rough-faced dragon crossing the river kept walking forward, completely unaware that since he left the river, an invisible little monk who looked like a "water ghost" was already following behind him.
After walking for a long time, the road gradually widened, and a small fishing village appeared in front of us.
The fishing village is dilapidated, with old fishing nets and fish baskets everywhere.
There is a faint fishy smell in the air.
It was already dark at this time, and there were only a few flickering dim lights in the quiet fishing village.
Mo Hua was startled, and based on the direction calculation in his mind, he suddenly discovered that this small fishing village was the place pointed out by the fishing cultivators he had met before when they invited him home as a guest.
The Dragon Crossing the River walked straight into the small fishing village.
Mo Hua thought for a while and then walked in.
The small fishing village is poor, quiet but peaceful.
The dragon crossing the river is still walking in front, and the ink painting follows suit.
As they walked, the Dragon Crossing the River turned into a small, secluded hut and disappeared.
Mo Hua frowned, let go of his consciousness and scanned the surroundings, but found nothing.
"Where are you going?"
Mo Hua looked confused, so he thought about using heaven's calculations to see the cause and effect.
His pupils were deep, and the texture of heaven appeared in his eyes, and he looked around.
A cold and evil Qi suddenly emerged.
The small fishing village, which was originally quiet and brightly lit, was suddenly enveloped in a layer of faint scarlet blood mist.
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Chapter completed!