Mo Hua felt this matter was fraught with doubts and heavy clouds. He thought it over and over, but found no clues.
He thought it would be better to wait until he caught this grey-clothed cultivator.
Then everything would become clear.
After the battle at Hundred Flowers Building, Mo Hua had a clear understanding of the grey-clothed cultivator’s trump cards.
It would be much easier to trick him again.
On the way back, Mo Hua pondered over some matters in his heart and then sighed.
These past few days, his cultivation had increased steadily following his routine practice.
However, the enhancement of his divine sense was stuck at twelve patterns and found it difficult to advance any further.
One reason was that he had no twelve-pattern arrays to learn, which slowed down the increase of his divine sense.
The second reason was the Dao Stele.
Ever since Mo Hua borrowed the Dao Stele and comprehended the essence of the Dao, the Dao Stele had been overloaded and had not fully recovered yet.
Mo Hua’s daily array practice had been greatly reduced, and the increase in his divine sense was also extremely slight.
According to this progress, it was possible that by the time he reached Foundation Building, his divine sense would not break through to thirteen patterns.
The Dao Stele’s recovery was slow, and one-grade twelve-pattern arrays were even harder to find.
Mo Hua had searched for many days but still gained nothing.
Currently, the only clue he had was still finding Instructor Yan.
But where exactly was Instructor Yan?
Mo Hua sighed again.
Bai Zi Sheng was a little surprised and asked:
“Mo Hua, do you have something on your mind?”
Mo Hua nodded, “My divine sense is increasing too slowly…”
If he couldn’t find Instructor Yan, then he couldn’t find an absolute array. Without an absolute array, he couldn’t temper his divine sense. If he couldn’t temper his divine sense, then he couldn’t prove the Dao with his divine sense as Mister Zhuang said.
Cultivate extreme divine sense, exhaust extreme array, seek the peak of the Great Dao.
Mo Hua’s current divine sense was still far from the standard given by Mister Zhuang.
“How strong is your divine sense now?”
Bai Zi Sheng asked curiously.
He only knew that Mo Hua’s divine sense was strong and had reached the Foundation Building level, but he had never specifically asked how strong it was.
He had not learned the absolute arrays Mo Hua learned, could not learn them, and would never be able to learn them.
Mo Hua muttered: “Only twelve patterns…”
Bai Zi Sheng was slightly startled, “How much?”
“Twelve…”
Bai Zi Sheng was silent.
Just twelve patterns…
This was already close to the limit of divine sense in the early stage of Foundation Building.
Generally, an array master in the Foundation Building realm with ten patterns of divine sense could attempt to learn two-grade arrays.
The divine sense of most two-grade array masters at the beginning was around eleven or twelve patterns.
Bai Zi Sheng was also hearing for the first time that a Qi Refining cultivator could have twelve patterns of divine sense.
Moreover, judging from his appearance, Mo Hua was still very unhappy.
He seemed unwilling and not too satisfied.
He was getting a bargain but still acting ungrateful!
Bai Zi Sheng was so angry that his teeth itched. He couldn’t help but scratch Mo Hua’s head.
Even Bai Zi Xi, who was standing by, couldn’t stand it and joined Bai Zi Sheng in scratching Mo Hua’s hair.
Mo Hua was a little helpless.
However, since he was the youngest junior brother, he wouldn’t argue with his senior brother and senior sister.
After returning to the cave mansion, the few people.
Mo Hua took out a Si Nan mother array compass.
On this compass, a Si Nan mother array was drawn.
The corresponding Si Nan child array was drawn by Mo Hua on a fine needle cast from fine iron using micro-engraving techniques.
Mo Hua had given these fine needles to Bai Zi Sheng in advance, asking him to stab them into the grey-clothed cultivator’s clothes or body without anyone noticing during their fight.
This way, he could determine the position of the child array based on the Si Nan mother array and track the grey-clothed cultivator’s whereabouts.
That grey-clothed cultivator, who bought and killed mine cultivators, and then bought the corpses of the dead mine cultivators, Mo Hua didn’t know what he was doing.
But it was definitely not a good thing.
The pill he took during the fight that day could create illusions of dead corpses and violently increase his strength. It was likely refined from corpses.
In the past few decades, he didn’t know how many mine cultivators had died because of this.
He also didn’t know how many families of mine cultivators had been broken up because of this.
Mine cultivators originally had a hard life and struggled to make a living. They were still targeted by this kind of crooked path and evil way, and died without a complete corpse.
Mo Hua’s young face turned cold.
So this grey-clothed cultivator must be killed!
But before killing him, Mo Hua still wanted to ask if he knew the whereabouts of Instructor Yan.
Instructor Yan disappeared at the mine.
The worst-case scenario was that he was killed by Wang Lai and others and his corpse was sold to the grey-clothed cultivator.
Besides, there was another possibility: Instructor Yan discovered something and followed the clues to investigate…
If that was the case, then Instructor Yan was very likely to have intersected with this grey-clothed cultivator.
No matter what, Mo Hua wanted to confirm it.
However, there was no light point on the Si Nan mother array compass, which meant there was no trace of the grey-clothed cultivator.
“Broken?”
Bai Zi Sheng frowned slightly.
Mo Hua checked the array and shook his head, “Not broken.”
“Then… were those Si Nan child needles of yours discovered by him?”
“Even if he discovered them, if the child needles were thrown away or damaged, there would still be some reaction on the compass.”
Bai Zi Xi thought for a moment and said slowly:
“Because of the escape technique?”
Mo Hua was startled, then understood.
That grey-clothed cultivator knew escape techniques. Escaping into the earth would cover up the array’s aura and affect the connection between the child and mother arrays.
If nothing appeared on the mother array, it meant he was either still inside the secret passage and hadn’t come out.
Or perhaps the grey-clothed cultivator had cast an escape technique and drilled into the ground somewhere.
Mo Hua thought for a moment and then said:
“Let’s wait.”
As a master hunter, you need enough patience when hunting prey.
This was taught to him by his father, Mo Shan.
Two days later, Si Tu Fang came over and told Mo Hua that the Dao Court Division had found the identity of the grey-clothed cultivator.
“This person’s name is Zhang Quan, a cultivator from South Yue City. His family has been operating a coffin shop for generations…”
“Coffin shop?” Mo Hua was slightly startled.
“Yes, a coffin shop.”
“Oh.” Mo Hua understood.
Doing coffin business…
Given the grey-clothed cultivator’s image, temperament, and actions, it actually fit quite well.
Si Tu Fang continued:
“Thirty years ago, Zhang Quan’s parents died, and he was the only one left to manage the coffin shop…”
“Zhang Quan has a somewhat gloomy aura and doesn’t talk to his neighboring cultivators, but because he deals with the dead, everyone just finds it strange but not unusual.
Zhang Quan occasionally gambles and often visits brothels…”
“I asked several female cultivators in Hundred Flowers Building, and from them, I learned that Zhang Quan often stayed in brothels but rarely showed his true face to people.”
“The cultivators who knew Zhang Quan also didn’t know that he was actually a Foundation Building cultivator.”
Mo Hua asked: “Have you been to Zhang Quan’s residence?”
Si Tu Fang nodded, “Yes, we went. The shop was closed. We broke down the door and found that the coffins inside were all burned and destroyed, and some other items were also destroyed.
We don’t know if he did it himself or if he had accomplices helping him destroy the evidence.”
“Now the problem is, what exactly is he using the corpses he bought for?”
“Was the pill he took that day refined from corpses?”
“If so, where was it refined, where is the pill furnace, how did he get the pill formula, and through what channels did he buy the herbs for refining the evil pill?”
“Did he refine it himself, or is someone helping him refine it?”
“Besides this, does he have other purposes that are not to be spoken of…”
After Si Tu Fang finished speaking, she sighed and said:
“The Dao Court Division has already issued a wanted order. If he is caught, these things should become clear.”
Then she looked at Mo Hua, looking a little worried:
“Be careful these days.”
“That day at Hundred Flowers Building, he tried every possible way to kill you. Now that he has escaped into the dark, who knows if he will make a move on you…”
Mo Hua nodded, “En, I know.”
Si Tu Fang was still a little uneasy.
Mo Hua then said: “Don’t worry, I am with my senior brother and senior sister, and they will protect me.”
Si Tu Fang then felt relieved. They chatted for a while, drank several cups of tea, and then she left.
Mo Hua’s gaze slightly condensed.
His divine sense was strong, and he also knew hiding techniques, so it was impossible for Zhang Quan to find him.
Moreover, now it was not him finding Mo Hua, but Mo Hua finding him.
Young Mo Hua was the hunter, and this Foundation Building Zhang Quan was just the prey.
In the following days, when Mo Hua had free time, he would take out the Si Nan compass and check for any movement on it.
Three days later in the afternoon, the compass finally lit up.
Two light points lit up together, while another light point was somewhat dim.
It seemed that Zhang Quan had discovered one child needle and twisted it off and threw it away.
The other two he did not discover, so they should still be on his body.
Mo Hua’s spirits were lifted.
He had finally exposed his true form…
Mo Hua then took out the map of South Yue City and found that the position of the bright spot was in a remote mine outside the city.
There were many mines outside South Yue City.
Some of these mines belonged to the Lu family, some to the South Yue Sect, some to the Dao Court Division, and some were occupied by other large and small families, sects, or even dead people.
Some mines were being mined; some were not being mined for various reasons;
While some mines had already been mined out and abandoned.
The place where Zhang Quan was hiding was just an abandoned mine.
The three of them, Mo Hua, wore cloaks, hid their figures, left South Yue City, and arrived at the mine where Zhang Quan was hiding.
This was a very small mine, and it was both dirty and messy.
Because it was abandoned, there was not a single trace of human presence.
Instead, the mine was filled with a stale, dead aura.
Mo Hua’s divine sense swept through, and his gaze turned slightly cold.
Inside this mine, there were quite a few gloomy breaths.
The corpses of the mine cultivators that Zhang Quan bought were perhaps hidden here.
(End of this chapter)