Gu Changhuai’s head twisted like a twisted doughnut, unable to make sense of things for a long time.

This waist token was indeed from the Dao Court Department.

Even if Mo Jing was audacious, it would be impossible for him to risk a great taboo and forge a Dao Court Department waist token.

Bronze meant he was an auxiliary staff member.

But an auxiliary staff member’s waist token was still a waist token, belonging to the Dao Court Department, and it wasn’t something an ordinary cultivator could obtain.

“Where did you steal this waist token from?”

Gu Changhuai asked with a suspicious look.

Mo Jing said unhappily, “What do you mean, steal? This was personally issued to me by the chief officer of our Tongxian City Dao Court Department!”

“Tongxian City?”

Gu Changhuai remembered that was Mo Jing’s birthplace, a remote second-grade small immortal city in Li State.

Mo Jing shook his head, “No.”

Gu Changhuai didn’t understand, “Then on what basis did he give you a bronze waist token?”

That wasn’t very likely…

“No!”

Gu Changhuai’s eyebrows furrowed tightly.

“…to serve the Dao Court Department, benefit the cultivators of Tongxian City, and contribute to the peace of the cultivation world!”

Otherwise, Uncle Gu would just think that although he had a nominal position, he was still a small rascal in the Dao Court Department.

The key thing was how he could have imagined that a loose cultivator in his early teens, who had just entered the Taixu Gate, secretly had a bronze waist token from the Dao Court Department hidden on him…

Gu Changhuai raised his spirits to the maximum.

You just boast…

Mo Jing was also too lazy to explain. Anyway, what he said, others wouldn’t believe, he was already used to it.

“Benefit?” Gu Changhuai shook his head, “At your young age, what benefit can you provide?”

Later, when he played rough and stalled, he would just use this move.

Gu Changhuai had a look of disbelief.

Later, Uncle Gu might also be his “leader”.

Mo Jing then followed the flow and changed his words, saying:

Mo Jing looked at Gu Changhuai with an expression that said, “You cannot judge the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a petty person,” and said confidently:

“Of course, it’s because the chief officer saw me as young and promising, that’s why he gave me a waist token, so I can get involved…”

These two big characters, Mo Jing looked at them several times every time he passed by.

The great demon was killed by himself.

In front of his leader, he had to show a “positive and progressive” appearance!

Mo Jing learned.

He couldn’t say “get involved and earn merit”.

“Did you marry into their family?”

He thought for a moment, still evading, saying, “I only said I’d consider it, not that I’d agree…”

Careless.

“I created great benefit!”

At most, one line of characters was engraved on it, and the characters were the largest, and they were gilded!

Mo Jing!

Mo Jing nodded, “Okay.”

Mo Jing said righteously.

Gu Changhuai’s heart tightened, his gaze condensed, “You won’t say bad things about me to my cousin and Yu’er, will you…”

This child was as cunning as a ghost, with many tricks up his sleeve. Next time he spoke to him, he had to be more cautious and couldn’t be careless for a moment, leaving a handle…

Mo Jing looked at Gu Changhuai, with a pair of sparkling big eyes, full of sincere trust, “Uncle Gu, you are an adult over a hundred years old, you can’t go back on your word!”

Gu Changhuai was startled. He didn’t expect Mo Jing to be so agreeable all of a sudden, and actually let go so easily?

On the demon suppression stele outside Tongxian City, his name was still engraved.

Gu Changhuai frowned, “Are all your chief officers your relatives?”

Gu Changhuai coughed, averted his gaze, picked up the wine pot, poured and drank for himself, finished a cup, and said casually, “I’m busy now, I haven’t considered it thoroughly yet, I’ll talk about it in a few days…”

“No matter what, the waist token is mine! I’m also half a person of the Dao Court Department…”

This is the adult’s way of “playing rough” …

In a moment of haste, he fell into this boy’s trap and was trapped by his words.

Mo Jing almost said the three characters “get involved and earn merit” again…

“Then how are you considering it?”

Mo Jing looked at Gu Changhuai, pondered for a moment, and said honestly:

“Uncle Gu, you don’t have any ‘good points’ that I can talk about…”

His temper wasn’t good again.

He was a bit showy again.

He wouldn’t help when asked.

He even went back on his word and “played rough” with himself…

He just wanted to say some “good things” about him in front of Aunt Wan and Yu’er, but he had nowhere to start…

Gu Changhuai was stunned, then fell silent, his expression a bit complex.

What Mo Jing said seemed not wrong…

“That’s right,” Mo Jing glanced at Gu Changhuai, sighed and said, “If you don’t treat me well, how can I say good things about you to Aunt Wan and Yu’er?”

“If I only know your bad points, then what I say might all be bad things, right?”

“You can’t blame me for this, right…”

Mo Jing had a look of being in the right, a helpless look.

Gu Changhuai’s eyelids twitched, but thinking of his cousin and Yu’er, he finally only sighed, “Tell me, what exactly do you want to do?”

Mo Jing’s eyes lit up, “I want to catch Huofo!”

Gu Changhuai still didn’t understand, “As a newly entered disciple, what strength do you have to compete with Huofo?”

Mo Jing said seriously, “I’m narrow-minded, and I hold grudges easily. Huofo wanted to kill me, and I don’t want to let him go either.”

Gu Changhuai was stunned.

Narrow-minded, holds grudges…

This was too “honest”.

But narrow-minded shouldn’t be false words…

Gu Changhuai’s pair of handsome eyes looked at Mo Jing, slightly narrowed, “And then?”

“And what?”

“Your reason for catching Huofo is definitely not that simple…”

Gu Changhuai said affirmatively.

As expected, he was a standard officer of the Dao Court Department, not easy to fool…

Mo Jing thought for a moment, then said, “Suppose I help you all, not ‘our’ Dao Court Department… catch Huofo, can I be allocated some merit?”

“Are you so short of merit?” Gu Changhuai asked doubtfully.

“Is there anything better than merit?” Mo Jing counter-asked.

Gu Changhuai was slightly startled and involuntarily nodded.

Indeed.

Sect disciples, cultivation resources, cultivation methods, all expenses, and advancement in the sect system all depended on merit.

Merit was naturally the more the better.

Even the Dao Court Department was like this.

“The matter of Huofo, there is no merit.” Gu Changhuai said, “This is a matter of the Dao Court Department, and it will not be issued as a task to the sect.”

After all, Huofo was a vicious criminal who had exterminated entire families, with blood on his hands.

If the sect disciples took the task, acted rashly, and died at Huofo’s hands, that would be a huge trouble.

“If it’s not counted as sect merit, can it be counted as Dao Court Department merit?”

“Getting merit is fine…”

Mo Jing had a look of “I’m not picky”.

Gu Changhuai sighed.

“Alright then…”

He couldn’t possibly deduct the merit from the Dao Court Department.

Looking at Mo Jing’s happy face, Gu Changhuai felt something was off.

This child, Mo Jing, had seven or eight thoughts hidden in his heart, and there must be other reasons for this matter.

Gu Changhuai quickly recalled all the matters related to Mo Jing from beginning to end, his heart trembled, and he said in surprise:

“You don’t want to steal and learn Huofo’s Luohuojue, do you?!”

Mo Jing remained unmoved, silently glanced at Gu Changhuai:

“Uncle Gu, do you think I can learn it?”

Gu Changhuai carefully sized up Mo Jing, relaxed his breath, and gradually put down his heart:

“That’s right, you can’t learn it either…”

Luohuojue was a forbidden technique, with extremely strong spiritual power. This meant that it required a high-grade spirit root and thick spiritual power support to cultivate and display.

This child, Mo Jing, although smart, his spirit root and spiritual power were not even a tenth of his comprehension.

To learn a forbidden technique, even if he had the brains, he didn’t have the material.

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment, then agreed.

“You can follow the Dao Court Department to get involved and catch Huofo together, but we need to make three rules…”

“Make three rules?”

“Yes.” Gu Changhuai listed them one by one:

“First, you cannot delay your sect’s cultivation, and you are not allowed to ask for leave. You can only come and help during the ten-day rest period. On normal days, you are not to leave the sect;”

“Second, you cannot act. Huofo, and even his group of accomplices, are at least in the Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivation, not someone you can handle. You might be lucky enough to escape once or twice, but as long as there’s one time you can’t escape, you might just lose your life there…”

“If something happens to you, I won’t be able to explain to my cousin, and Yu’er will definitely be sad…”

“Third, if you go out to pursue Huofo, you must follow me, not leave a step, and not act arbitrarily or recklessly…”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Mo Jing kept nodding.

His requirements weren’t high either, as long as he could infiltrate the Dao Court Department and get involved, it was fine.

As for later matters, he would act as the opportunity arose…

Since he had already “exposed” his identity in the Dao Court Department and reached a “mutual cooperation” with Uncle Gu under the “three rules”, Mo Jing was no longer polite and quickly asked:

“Uncle Gu, what exactly happened the night the Xie family in Bishan City was exterminated?”

“How did Huofo get into Bishan City?”

“Why didn’t a single person from the Xie family escape?”

“Why was the Xie family exterminated?”

“After the Xie family was exterminated, where did Huofo go? Were they not found? Are there any clues?”

Mo Jing was like a “curious baby”, his small mouth chattering, asking a string of questions…

Gu Changhuai listened until he had a headache.

He knew that this child was a big trouble.

But he was already on the “thief’s” boat, and it was too late to regret.

Gu Changhuai released his divine sense, confirmed that there was no one around, then took a sip of wine to moisten his throat, frowned and said in a deep voice:

“That day you reported the case, I personally led people to search for Huofo…”

“But on the border between Luanshan City and Bishan City, there were only some flame traces, but no signs of Huofo and his group.”

“I sent people to search everywhere again, but Huofo and his group seemed to have vanished without a trace, as if someone was covering their tracks…”

“And a few days later, the Xie family extermination case happened…”

“The specific case details are still under investigation, it’s hard to determine. I can only tell you some general things…”

“The Xie family’s array was tampered with.”

“Originally, it was an outward defense array, but it was changed to an inward trap array.”

“That night at midnight, Huofo suddenly appeared inside the Xie family, suddenly used a technique, and fire fell from the sky, killing quite a few people at once, igniting houses, and the fire spread quickly, gradually expanding…”

“Then dozens of ruthless and vicious criminals took advantage of the fire spreading to kill, slaughtering the Xie family cultivators…”

“The Xie family suffered an attack. In a hurry, they opened the array, wanting to use it to resist the enemy, but instead were trapped by the array, with no way to escape, and were buried in the sea of fire…”

“Huofo’s methods were also extremely cruel.”

“It seems true as rumored that Huofo and the Xie family had a deep grudge. Killing people wasn’t enough, they even wanted to cut open the bellies of the Xie family members, dismember their bodies, and grind their bones to scatter their ashes…”

“Because the array was isolated, people outside, including the crowd of standard officers and executive officers of the Dao Court Department, couldn’t get in, and the people inside couldn’t get out…”

“Just like this, Huofo, in front of the Dao Court Department and all the cultivators in Bishan City, slaughtered the entire Xie family…”

When Gu Changhuai spoke here, he could hardly hide the anger on his face.

Mo Jing also felt a pang of intolerance and silently sighed.

“Afterwards?” Mo Jing was still a little confused, “The array was sealed and became a trap array, trapping the entire Xie family. That should also have trapped Huofo. The Xie family had no way to escape, and Huofo also shouldn’t have been able to escape…”

Gu Changhuai’s face was solemn, “The problem is right here…”

“After Huofo exterminated the Xie family, he seemed to have ‘evaporated from the human world’, disappearing inside the trap array. There were fundamentally no traces of Huofo in Bishan City.”

“Not only Huofo, but also the dozens of vicious criminals who committed the crime with him disappeared as well.”

“These days, the Dao Court Department has searched all over Bishan City and all the nearby immortal cities, but there isn’t a single clue…”

“Up to now, the clues are pitifully few…”

Gu Changhuai’s face was cold and stern, a bit annoyed.

Mo Jing thought for a moment and asked, “Uncle Gu, did the Dao Court Department ask someone to calculate the cause and effect?”

Gu Changhuai looked at Mo Jing strangely, “You still understand cause and effect?”

Mo Jing said modestly, “I understand a little.”

Gu Changhuai didn’t care, only shook his head, “We asked, we calculated, but we couldn’t calculate it, they said the traces were covered…”

Immediately, Gu Changhuai was a little displeased, “As I see it, they just weren’t skilled enough and found an excuse to evade…”

“Moreover, in this day and age, what are they talking about heavenly secrets deduction and cause and effect prediction? It’s just pretending to be mysterious and fooling people…”

When Mo Jing heard this, he knew that the Gu family probably didn’t have the inheritance of “heavenly secrets calculation”.

Their family was an “idiot” within “heavenly secrets cause and effect”.

Mo Jing was also too lazy to explain.

Heavenly secrets were unpredictable, and cause and effect were obscure, explaining it was very troublesome.

Mo Jing only followed him and said, “Yes, yes.”

Although Gu Changhuai didn’t understand heavenly secrets deduction, his intuition was keen.

He always felt that Mo Jing’s gaze when looking at him carried some sympathy, as if looking at an “idiot”…

Mo Jing saw that Gu Changhuai’s face was a little displeased, and quickly changed the subject:

“Uncle Gu, are there any other clues?”

Gu Changhuai was interrupted by him, and indeed his mind was diverted, ignoring the matter of being a heavenly secrets “idiot” in Mo Jing’s eyes…

“No, just these clues.” Gu Changhuai said, “So don’t bother me anymore, go back to the sect and cultivate properly…”

Gu Changhuai wanted to shake off Mo Jing, this “small burden”.

Seeing this, Mo Jing said, “I have a clue!”

Gu Changhuai didn’t believe it and snorted, “What kind of clue could you have?”

“If you don’t believe me, then I just won’t say.”

Mo Jing lowered his head and began to deal with the chicken leg in his bowl.

This chicken leg seemed to be from some kind of brocade chicken, it was big and tender, and the taste was very good.

Gu Changhuai was ignored by Mo Jing, and his heart was a little complex.

If he asked, it seemed he had no face.

If he didn’t ask, what if it was really an important clue?

Although this child would “boast”, on such a key matter, he didn’t seem to tell lies.

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment, then could only sigh helplessly.

The case of Huofo was still important.

“I believe you, tell me…” Gu Changhuai sighed.

Mo Jing didn’t try to create suspense and said directly:

“Hua Langjun!”

“Hua Langjun?” Gu Changhuai frowned.

“Just that flower thief,” Mo Jing explained, “I caught him before I met Huofo…”

“I heard Huofo and the others call Hua Langjun ‘Hua Liu Lang’, so I think they must know each other. And the reason Hua Langjun appeared in Luanshan City is probably to go with Huofo to exterminate the family…”

“But before going, because of cultivating a tonic technique, evil addiction struck, lust burned his body, and he couldn’t start in Bishan City, otherwise it would scare the snake. So he only started taking women in Luanshan City, which is near Bishan City…”

Gu Changhuai frowned and said, “Why didn’t you say so earlier?”

Mo Jing said righteously, “You didn’t ask me earlier either…”

Moreover, at the time of reporting the case, Hua Langjun had already been caught and imprisoned in the Dao Prison, which was equivalent to already having “surrendered”.

Mo Jing subconsciously ignored him.

Now that there were no clues, Mo Jing thought for a long time before pulling “Hua Langjun” out of his memory again…

Gu Changhuai nodded, “Let’s not delay the matter, I’ll go to Luanshan City right away.”

“Isn’t he in the Dao Prison within the boundary of Qianxue State?”

Gu Changhuai shook his head, “For local cases, unless the procedures are settled, they generally won’t be transferred…”

Mo Jing thought for a moment, then said, “I’ll go too!”

“Not allowed.”

Gu Changhuai refused without thinking.

“Alright then,” Mo Jing didn’t force it, only said faintly, “Then when you ask him, if there’s anything you don’t understand, you can come back and ask me…”

Gu Changhuai frowned, “What does it have to do with you?”

“Because Hua Langjun was caught by ‘me’!”

Mo Jing emphasized again.

Gu Changhuai choked, and said helplessly, “Alright then, you can come too.”

Mo Jing’s eyes lit up, “Yes, yes.”

Thus, Gu Changhuai spoke to Wenren Wan and said that he wanted to take Mo Jing out for a trip.

Wenren Wan was a little strange, not knowing what Gu Changhuai wanted to take Mo Jing out for.

But seeing Gu Changhuai’s unwilling face and Mo Jing’s excited expression, she thought it must not be a bad thing to tell Mo Jing, so she nodded and admonished:

“Be careful on the road.”

“Take good care of Mo Jing…”

Wenren Wan admonished again.

“Yes.”

Gu Changhuai sighed.

Afterwards, Mo Jing followed Gu Changhuai together, rode in the Gu family’s carriage, galloped all the way, and rushed to Luanshan City overnight.

Entering Luanshan City, they entered the Dao Court Department.

Gu Changhuai showed his standard officer waist token, and was unobstructed all the way, entering the underground Dao Prison of Luanshan City.

Just as they found Hua Langjun, Gu Changhuai’s face turned cold, and Mo Jing’s gaze also condensed.

Hua Langjun…

Staying in the prison, his breath was silent.

He was already a dead person.

He died very silently.

Mo Jing raised his head, glanced at the solemn, damp, and dark Dao Prison, lowered his voice, and quietly said to Gu Changhuai:

“Uncle Gu, your Dao… No, I mean our Dao Court Department, do we have an ‘inner ghost’?”

Gu Changhuai’s face was cold as ice, without saying a word.