The words to leave haven’t been spoken yet.

Not to mention Lu Chengyun and Zhang Quan, even the two Iron Corpses guarding the gate are not opponents in a head-on battle.

Moreover, Mo Hua discovered upon entering the room that the area around the doorway was filled with Xian Chen arrays.

Some special places also had Xian Ying arrays laid out.

The ink marks were fresh, obviously drawn not long ago, and they were meant to defend against Mo Hua.

“If your trump card is known by others, then you will be targeted by others…”

Mo Hua shook his head, feeling a bit helpless.

However, as long as it’s an array, it doesn’t matter.

Mo Hua didn’t take this matter to heart either.

It was already past Zi Shi at this time.

Mo Hua pretended to lie in bed and sleep, but his divine sense had sunk into his sea of consciousness and he practiced the incomplete Ling Shu array on the Dao Bei all night.

When he woke up the next day, he cultivated as usual.

Since he had come, he would settle in, completely unaffected by external matters.

Someone delivered food to Mo Hua’s doorway.

Mo Hua ate and drank as he pleased, completely unconstrained.

Several days passed like this. Lu Chengyun never came to find Mo Hua, but Mo Hua was already a bit bored, so he went to find Lu Chengyun and asked:

“Patriarch Lu, is there anything you need me to do?”

Lu Chengyun laughed:

“No rush, we still need to prepare for a few more days. Little Mister should rest first.”

He said “rest,” but it was also equivalent to “soft imprisonment.”

He knew his secret, so he wanted to lock himself up, probably afraid that he would cause trouble for him.

“Alright.” Mo Hua nodded.

Lu Chengyun said again: “Little Mister, if you feel bored, you can walk around.”

“Really?”

Lu Chengyun laughed: “Of course.”

Since Lu Chengyun said so, Mo Hua was naturally not polite.

The next day, as soon as he went out, he casually pointed to a passing corpse cultivator, “You, come here.”

That corpse cultivator walked over and cupped his hand, saying:

“Little Mister, what are your instructions?”

“Take me for a walk.”

The corpse cultivator was startled, but he remembered that Mo Hua was Lu Chengyun’s honored guest, so he didn’t dare to neglect him.

The corpse cultivator then led Mo Hua around.

After walking around, Mo Hua discovered that the place he was in was actually a huge stone hall excavated within the mine.

The numerous stone rooms were all part of this stone hall.

The stone hall was grand, gloomy, but also crude.

Most of the furnishings were related to refining corpses.

At first, Mo Hua found it novel, but after walking a few laps, he felt utterly bored again.

This stone hall had just been built not long ago, there was nothing good to see.

Everywhere were monotonous stone rooms.

And it was just filled with gloomy corpse cultivators, black coffins, and gloomy zombies.

There were arrays, but they weren’t considered high-level.

In some places, the stone doors were sealed very tightly, obviously suspicious, but they were not allowed to be entered or even probed.

Mo Hua complained in his heart.

This Lu Chengyun was only generous on the surface; in reality, he kept a tight watch, afraid of secrets being leaked.

It was like inviting guests to eat, saying “eat whatever you want” with his mouth, but serving only radish and cabbage, without a bit of “oil.”

After staying in the corpse mine for several days, Mo Hua gradually became familiar with it.

He even lived quite freely.

Except for not being able to probe any secrets, everything else was not bad.

The corpse cultivators dared not offend Mo Hua. Even if Mo Hua had any demands, wanted to eat or drink anything, wanted to research anything, practice arrays, wanted any ink, paper, or brush, they would try their best to satisfy him.

During these few days, Mo Hua didn’t see Zhang Quan.

He was probably deliberately avoiding him, afraid of being angered.

If he were angered out of his wits again and made a move against him, it would be equivalent to disobeying Lu Chengyun, and he would definitely not have a good outcome.

Mo Hua also didn’t go to find Zhang Quan.

Finding him now was useless; it wasn’t time to reclaim the “Zombie Picture” yet.

It was not the way to go on like this.

On the surface, Mo Hua was already familiar with the basic layout of the stone hall, but this was still not enough.

He had to find a way to inquire about some hidden places.

Mo Hua wanted to try using stealth techniques.

The Xian Chen array and Xian Ying array were both arrays below the first level. It wasn’t difficult to make some adjustments.

The difficult part was how to not be discovered by Lu Chengyun.

Mo Hua thought about it and suddenly realized that not being discovered by Lu Chengyun was impossible.

Being discovered by him was reasonable.

Lu Chengyun was naturally suspicious. If he was too honest, he would definitely become suspicious.

It was better to make some small moves under his nose.

He thought he hadn’t been noticed by him, but he had actually been noticed. In this way, he wouldn’t be suspicious instead.

Mo Hua’s gaze shifted slightly, and he had an idea in his heart.

He first put on his cloak and activated the array on the cloak, using the array to conceal his figure.

Then he walked to the doorway and quietly untied the Xian Chen array.

The moment the Xian Chen array was untied, it was indeed discovered.

A divine sense descended, scanning back and forth in Mo Hua’s room, searching for Mo Hua’s figure.

This divine sense was precisely Lu Chengyun’s divine sense.

Mo Hua was very familiar with it.

During these few days, there would occasionally be divine sense spying on Mo Hua.

Gentle, obscure, with a hint of yin coldness, not easily detected.

But in Mo Hua’s perception, it was clear.

This trace of divine sense had the exact same aura as Lu Chengyun.

Mo Hua thus inferred that Lu Chengyun’s divine sense was also around the twelfth pattern, and had not reached the thirteenth pattern.

It was almost the same as his own, and even a bit weaker.

Although Lu Chengyun was at the peak of the early stage of Foundation Building and was also an array master, it seemed that his divine sense strength was just average.

Compared to ordinary cultivators, it was naturally not considered weak.

But compared to Mo Hua, there was still a difference.

Mo Hua was previously a genuine twelfth-pattern divine sense.

After refining several zombie ancestors of the Zhang family, he was now approaching the peak of the twelfth pattern, just not yet reaching the thirteenth pattern.

And it would probably still take some time to break through to the thirteenth pattern.

Mo Hua immediately felt a bit doubtful again:

“Lu Chengyun is at the peak of the early stage of Foundation Building and also studies arrays every day, why hasn’t his divine sense reached the thirteenth pattern?”

“Perhaps he draws evil arrays every day, takes shortcuts, and hasn’t properly tempered his divine sense?”

However, it was good that he hadn’t reached the thirteenth pattern.

In the corpse mine, Lu Chengyun had the highest cultivation and the strongest divine sense.

His divine sense not reaching the thirteenth pattern meant that all the corpse cultivators in the corpse mine, as well as the elders of the Lu family, would not have a stronger divine sense than him.

Moreover, he had never revealed to Lu Chengyun that his divine sense had already reached the Foundation Building stage.

Even Elder Su didn’t know.

So in Lu Chengyun’s cognition, his divine sense should conform to the limit of a Qi Refining cultivator, between the ninth and tenth patterns.

Mo Hua’s eyes brightened slightly.

If his divine sense was not as strong as his own, and he didn’t know how strong his divine sense was, then it would be easy to handle.

Mo Hua activated the hidden array and then no longer restrained his divine sense, but released a bit of aura.

This bit of aura was enough for Lu Chengyun to perceive.

Indeed, after a moment, Mo Hua detected an obscure divine sense falling on his body.

This trace of divine sense was precisely Lu Chengyun’s.

Mo Hua pretended not to notice and then stealthily went out the door.

The Xian Chen array at the doorway had been untied by Mo Hua, so it didn’t reveal Mo Hua’s figure.

Mo Hua went out the doorway, sneaking around, and checked all the strange stone rooms from before.

Although these stone rooms contained secrets, there weren’t many.

Even if he discovered them, Lu Chengyun might not care.

Indeed, Mo Hua probed for a long time, and Lu Chengyun’s divine sense didn’t have the slightest fluctuation.

Mo Hua checked a circle, discovered some superficial secrets, and then returned to the stone room and lay on the bed.

After a moment, Lu Chengyun’s divine sense withdrew.

The next day, Lu Chengyun saw Mo Hua and didn’t say anything.

Mo Hua still pretended to be “guilty” and avoided his gaze.

Lu Chengyun’s expression was indifferent. After Mo Hua left, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, indicating that everything was under control.

“So it was a hidden array…”

Lu Chengyun shook his head slightly, “A trivial skill, how can it deceive heaven and sea…”

Mo Hua’s subsequent actions were indeed all not hidden from Lu Chengyun.

After Mo Hua concealed his figure, Lu Chengyun knew exactly where he went.

Several days later, Lu Chengyun also slackened a bit.

The places Mo Hua went and the secrets he discovered were fundamentally insignificant.

This evening, Mo Hua went out in stealth, walked a circle as usual, and only found after returning that Lu Chengyun’s divine sense had already withdrawn.

It seemed he had lost interest in Mo Hua.

Mo Hua lay on the bed without moving.

Indeed, after a moment, Lu Chengyun’s divine sense came back again.

Mo Hua still honestly pretended to be asleep.

This happened three or four times, until Chou Shi passed, and Lu Chengyun finally stopped.

Mo Hua was a bit tired in his heart.

This Lu Chengyun’s suspiciousness was really heavy…

For a full cup of tea’s time, there was no divine sense spying.

Mo Hua then stealthily got up, put on his hidden cloak, cast a hidden technique, and under double concealment, he restrained his divine sense to the extreme and quietly went out the room door.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows; this was taught to him by Elder Yu.

During the day, openly walk around the corpse mine;

In the evening, open the hidden array and probe some irrelevant secrets under Lu Chengyun’s eyes;

Wait for Lu Chengyun to relax his vigilance, and then he would cast complete concealment, undetected by gods and ghosts, to spy on the true secrets in this corpse mine…

For example, how many Iron Corpses are in the middle of this corpse mine? How many Walking Corpses?

What are the arrays for refining corpses?

Where is the Ling Shu array?

What is the Lu family’s conspiracy?

There were many things Mo Hua wanted to know.

He first went to several sealed stone rooms, quietly opened a hole, and peeked through, discovering that there were indeed iron coffins hidden inside.

Within the iron coffins were Iron Corpses.

Mo Hua counted the number of similar sealed stone rooms during the day; there were more than ten.

So, it was very likely that there were more than ten Iron Corpses, and possibly even more…

In addition, there were also some secret rooms.

In the secret rooms, there were also altars, and things were also enshrined.

However, what was enshrined were not ancestral portraits and so on.

But some ghost sculptures, zombie limbs, and other strange objects.

Mo Hua didn’t quite understand.

There were still some places where time was short, and Mo Hua didn’t get to go.

Walking and walking, Mo Hua then arrived at the large doorway.

This large door was the large door of the stone hall.

It separated the stone hall from the mine shaft outside.

Inside the stone hall were numerous stone rooms for the corpse cultivators to reside.

The daily life of the corpse cultivators, refining corpses, and controlling corpses were all within the stone hall.

While outside the stone hall was the mine shaft.

Mo Hua had only taken a look when he came in; it was pitch black, full of coffins, and very strange.

Mo Hua wanted to go and see the mine shaft, but he was separated by the large door in front of him.

Above the large door, there were arrays painted.

After deriving with his divine sense, Mo Hua discovered that he could untie this array, but once it was untied, it would inevitably alarm Lu Chengyun, so he couldn’t make a move at this time.

Just at this moment, Mo Hua heard the sound of transmission array bells ringing outside the door.

After the bells rang, it seemed that countless zombies crawled out of the coffins, making strange jingling sounds, not knowing what they were doing.

These sounds, one bit at a time, gathered into a river.

Even with a sound isolation array separating them, it still felt noisy and harsh.

There was a sense of incongruity, like a dead silent underworld where dead bodies were working like living people.

Mo Hua frowned.

“What is this Lu Chengyun doing refining so many zombies?”

“Could it be… digging the mine…”

I forgot something, it seems there hasn’t been a book friend group until now…

After thinking about it, I’d better not open it yet.

I’m afraid you’ll all scold me. (￣▽￣)

Then I won’t be in the mood to write code.

(End of this chapter)