Yin Hua inquired about the news and told Si Tu Fang.

Si Tu Fang thought of the poor orphans and widows, her willow eyebrows furrowed tightly, and she was very angry.

“What an unreasonable thing!”

This is making money from the dead, eating the household’s last resources!

The next day, Si Tu Fang brought the cultivators from the Dao Ting Si and found Wang Lai and others in the gambling house. She took them back to the Dao Ting Si and interrogated them.

Conveniently, she recovered the extorted spirit stones.

Si Tu Fang compensated the families of the mine cultivators with these spirit stones, but there was nothing she could do about Wang Lai and the others.

Wang Lai and the others had forcibly demanded compensation for the mine cultivators and taken most of the compensation spirit stones for themselves, which was not considered too serious a crime.

The Dao Ting Si side also could not mete out too heavy a punishment.

Si Tu Fang wanted to bring up their old accounts, accumulate their crimes, and punish them together.

These hooligans harmed the countryside and must have committed many evil deeds.

But the mine cultivators were weak and afraid of retaliation, so no one dared to testify.

Si Tu Fang had no choice but to lock them up for a month in the end and use the wooden punishment, hitting them with thirty large boards before releasing them.

As soon as Wang Lai and the others were released from the Dao prison, the first thing they did was to gather a group of hooligans and go to the homes of the deceased mine cultivators. They threatened and extorted, robbing back the spirit stones, even injuring several people, and declared:

“If you dare to report to the Dao Ting Si again, we will make your entire family perish!”

This matter was told to Yin Hua by Si Tu Fang.

In the small courtyard of the cave dwelling, Si Tu Fang gritted her teeth in anger.

“I originally was going to catch them back into the Dao prison, but I was stopped by several senior executives…”

“They told me that this method is useless. They have seen many such things over the years.”

“Unless these hooligans are truly killed, otherwise they are like sticky plasters and cannot be shaken off.”

“Caught and locked up, locked up and released…”

“I am a righteous officer of the Dao Ting Si and am not afraid of them, but in the end, it is those poor mine cultivators who are bullied below who suffer…”

Si Tu Fang’s expression held deep helplessness.

After chatting for a while, Si Tu Fang left with a worried look on her face.

Yin Hua sat in the courtyard, frowning and thinking about something.

Bai Zi Sheng and Bai Zi Xi finished learning the array from Mister Zhuang and came out of the door. They passed by the courtyard and saw Yin Hua sitting under the big tree lost in thought.

Bai Zi Sheng ran up to Yin Hua and asked:

“What happened?”

Yin Hua thought for a moment and then told them about Wang Lai and the others.

Bai Zi Sheng was angry upon hearing it and said: “Kill them!”

Bai Zi Xi also lightly furrowed her willow eyebrows.

Yin Hua said: “Acting must follow the rules and obey the Dao laws. If they haven’t committed capital crimes, it’s not good to casually kill people…”

Bai Zi Sheng muttered: “I feel they should already be dead…”

Yin Hua glanced at him.

Bai Zi Sheng didn’t speak anymore.

Then he was stunned again, and he looked at Yin Hua suspiciously, “Are you up to something?”

Yin Hua said displeasedly: “How can you call it something?”

“You definitely want to set a trap for someone…” Bai Zi Sheng said.

Bai Zi Xi also looked at Yin Hua doubtfully.

“It’s not considered setting a trap…” Yin Hua thought for a moment and said: “I plan to secretly track them and see what they usually do and if they have any leverage.”

Since these cultivators have committed many evil deeds, they will surely leave some clues.

“Track?” Bai Zi Sheng’s eyes lit up.

“You can’t go.” Yin Hua said.

Bai Zi Sheng was greatly disappointed, “Why?”

“You don’t know any stealth techniques.”

“No need, right…”

“Of course you need it!” Yin Hua’s slender eyebrows raised slightly, “Only by hiding your form can you track them. Following them openly is not treating them like fools?”

“Okay…”

Bai Zi Sheng’s interest waned.

Bai Zi Xi lightly coughed once, reminding Bai Zi Sheng, and slightly glanced at Yin Hua.

Bai Zi Sheng was stunned, suddenly realized, and said to Yin Hua:

“That’s right, don’t you know how to draw stealth arrays?”

“My stealth array is not effective…” Yin Hua evaded the question.

Bai Zi Xi shook her head, “Your stealth array is very effective, it’s just that the Dao robes you used are not good.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Zi Sheng also repeatedly nodded:

“That’s right, that’s right, you are my junior brother, how can your array skills not be good? It’s just that the Dao robes you used are not good…”

“I’ll prepare high-quality Dao robes for you. You help us draw stealth arrays, and then we’ll go track those bad guys together.”

Bai Zi Sheng’s plan was well thought out, and then he said righteously:

“I am your senior brother, how can I let you take risks alone? My conscience won’t allow it.”

Yin Hua looked at him silently, “Is it your ‘conscience’ that won’t allow it, or your ‘desire to play’ that won’t allow it…”

Bai Zi Sheng’s thoughts were seen through by Yin Hua, and he said sheepishly:

“Both, both.”

These days, he had been restrained by Mister Zhuang, learning those complex and profound arrays, which made his head big.

Now that he could go out and play with Yin Hua for a few days, he naturally wanted to seize the opportunity.

Yin Hua said doubtfully: “What about Master? Don’t you want to learn arrays?”

Bai Zi Sheng and Bai Zi Xi had been learning arrays these days.

It’s just that they themselves couldn’t learn arrays.

“It’s fine. Master hasn’t taught anything new these days. It’s okay as long as we review in our free time.”

Yin Hua was still a little hesitant.

Bai Zi Sheng looked at him eagerly.

Bai Zi Xi’s eyes were also sparkling brightly.

Yin Hua sighed, “Okay, but you must be low-key and cautious…”

“You must listen to my words, okay?” Yin Hua emphasized again.

Since their junior brother said so, the junior brother and junior sister both nodded obediently.

Afterward, Yin Hua began to draw stealth arrays.

Dao robes were too cumbersome. They couldn’t just put a robe on top of their clothes. This way, it was fine when hidden, but when not hidden, it was very conspicuous.

Moreover, it was not very convenient for movement.

Bai Zi Xi picked out several pieces of clothing for Yin Hua.

Yin Hua combined them with the array and picked and picked, finally choosing the cloak-style overcoat.

This kind of coat with a hood could be worn outside to keep warm and block dust, and the hood could cover the face.

In the Small Wasteland State, the weather was hot, so there was no need to keep warm. Yin Hua then selected three lighter cloaks.

These cloaks were specially refined and were all high-quality spirit tools.

Yin Hua drew good stealth arrays on them.

Then the three of them tried it once, and the effect was very good.

At least to the naked eye, nothing could be detected.

Of course, Yin Hua’s divine sense was too strong and could still detect his junior brother and junior sister, but Bai Zi Sheng and the other one could not detect Yin Hua.

Having prepared properly, the three of them began to stake out.

The target of their stakeout was none other than Wang Lai.

Wang Lai, also known as Wang Lai Pi, was considered the boss of this group of hooligans.

He was not tall, but his cultivation was not low. He was at the peak of Qi Refining nine layers, and among this group of hooligan cultivators, his cultivation was the deepest.

He had an earth-element spirit root, walked the body-refining path, and his technique was standard. He was good at using a ring-handled knife, and his Dao method was called “Open Mountain Knife.”

He usually idled around and stirred up trouble.

When he had spirit stones, he would eat, drink, whore, and gamble, nothing less.

He often went to a street called Jin Hua Street, located in the north of Nan Yue City. It was the most prosperous place in the entire Nan Yue City.

Of course, it was also the most corrupt place.

Qin Lou Chu Hall, brothels and theaters, restaurants and gambling houses, everything was available.

There were also some places that Yin Hua had never even seen or thought of…

Yin Hua was a little curious, but he still held back and didn’t go in to look.

Anyway, it was definitely not a good place.

He himself was there, and his junior brother and junior sister were also following. He couldn’t lead them astray, otherwise Master would definitely hit his little head.

Although Jin Hua Street was prosperous, it was also divided into different grades.

The places Wang Lai could go were some remote brothels, gambling houses in narrow places, and low-grade taverns.

Just like this, indulging in dissipation, eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, the money earned from the dead was squandered away, and Wang Lai began to “earn” spirit stones.

If he didn’t “earn” spirit stones, it wouldn’t work, he still owed money to the gambling house.

A horse is not fat without night grass, and a person is not rich without ill-gotten wealth.

As Yin Hua expected, Wang Lai’s means of “earning” spirit stones were all illicit.

There was stealing, deceiving, setting traps, and robbing.

Some helped disciples of some families in Nan Yue City act as running dogs, beating people and clearing the way to earn rewards; some extorted protection fees from small vendors;

Some set up a trap with others in a gambling house to cheat gambling money from outside cultivators; some robbed wealth along the way;

They also found a female cultivator from a brothel to carry out “immortal jumps” and extort spirit stones…

Yin Hua’s eyes were truly opened.

The way for mine cultivators to earn spirit stones was only one, being diligent and hardworking, yet bitter and tired.

While this Wang Lai, who didn’t do proper work, lived a luxurious life every day…

The more diligent, the more laborious, the more bitter the life.

This world, indeed, bullies honest cultivators.

Yin Hua felt some emotion, and at the same time, there were some doubts in his heart.

He remembered Lu Ming saying that these hooligans like Wang Lai, when they really had no spirit stones, would go to the mines, work as mine cultivators for a few days, dig mines for a few days, and earn a few spirit stones.

But these days, Wang Lai did indeed have an empty purse and not a single spirit stone.

But he hadn’t entered the mines once, nor had he dug a mine once.

“Not right…”

Yin Hua wrinkled his eyebrows.

This Wang Lai seemed to have no connection with the mines at all.

This should not be possible.

Yin Hua waited patiently, and after a few days, Yin Hua discovered that Wang Lai was finally going to enter the mines.

Because he found an old mine cultivator and secretly said:

“Inside the mine well, there are high-quality ores secretly hidden by the Lu family. Let’s go steal some, and we can live comfortably for the rest of our lives, eating and drinking without worry…”

Stealing mines…

Yin Hua’s pupils shrank slightly.

Those five missing mine cultivators seemed to have died inside the mine well precisely because they stole mines…

And stealing mines was a great taboo for mine cultivators.

Why did those five mine cultivators who died miserably suddenly think of stealing mines?

Yin Hua looked at Wang Lai, his eyes containing a cold light.

(End of this chapter)