Bai Zisheng said, “Should we make a move now?”

Mo Hua thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, “Although that Zhang Quan is injured and suffering from medicinal backlash, his strength is greatly reduced. But this is his territory, so we still need to make some preparations and try to be as thorough as possible.”

After speaking, Mo Hua took out several array disks.

On the array disks were Earth Prison Arrays that Mo Hua had already drawn in advance.

Ever since seeing Zhang Quan’s earth element escape technique, Mo Hua had gone back and pondered how to deal with this kind of escape technique.

He was most skilled in array methods, so he naturally had to start from there.

This Earth Prison Array was something he had recently learned in the past few days. He then took the time to draw some on the array disks specifically to counter Zhang Quan’s earth escape method.

Zhang Quan was a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

This Earth Prison Array was only grade one, so its effect of trapping an enemy would be greatly discounted.

But in this kind of siege battle, being able to delay him for a few breaths of time was enough to influence the outcome of the battle.

Although the mine wasn’t large, array disks were clearly not enough to seal it with array methods.

Mo Hua then personally drew several Earth Prison Arrays on the ground.

These several arrays were special. The spirit ink seeped into the earth and stone, and the array patterns merged with the great earth. This was a method Mo Hua had learned after borrowing from the Thick Earth Array and visualizing the essence of the great earth’s dao.

With the earth as the array medium, he drew arrays on the ground.

These several Earth Prison Arrays, being one with the great earth, had a more obscure presence and were also more powerful.

After finishing the preparations, Mo Hua and Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi discussed how to deal with Zhang Quan:

“Don’t let him take pills.”

“As soon as he takes out a pill, you must interrupt him promptly.”

“Without taking pills, Zhang Quan’s physical body and techniques are very ordinary and loose.”

“Pay attention to his earth escape.”

“If he digs into the ground, try to force him towards the Earth Prison Array…”

“The Earth Prison Array can trap him for a few breaths. Take this opportunity to hit him hard!”

“The path of cultivation is perilous, so don’t be too reckless…”

“If things look bad, we’ll just run and plan for the long term…”

After the discussion, Mo Hua said:

“I’ll go in first to take a look.”

His divine sense was strong, and his concealment was even stronger; Zhang Quan wouldn’t be able to detect him.

But Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi, although their divine sense was not weak, were still in the Qi Refining stage. Relying solely on their cloaks for concealment, they would easily be discovered by Zhang Quan’s divine sense.

Bai Zisheng nodded.

Bai Zixi softly admonished, “Be careful.”

“Okay.”

Mo Hua then concealed his form, quieted his footsteps, and tiptoed towards the abandoned mine shaft.

The area outside the mine shaft was very messy, and the inside was even messier.

Abandoned mine tunnels, scrap metal, rusted mine carts, and the ground was full of broken stones.

The smell of iron rust, decay, and foul gas and death qi were all mixed together.

Mo Hua wrinkled his brow.

How could Zhang Quan stay in such a place?

Could it be that he had truly become like someone who had spent too long in a fish market and no longer smelled the stench?

This mine mountain was relatively small, and the mine shaft was not deep.

Mo Hua walked for a while and then discovered that at the end of the mine shaft, in a half-enclosed stone room, Zhang Quan, with a pale face like “snow on frost,” was circulating his inner energy to regulate his breath.

It looked like his injuries were not light.

Mo Hua stroked his chin.

Should they make a direct move?

But it was a bit dangerous inside the mine shaft.

Moreover, this was Zhang Quan’s hiding place. Mo Hua hadn’t carefully examined it and didn’t know what arrangements he had made.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and quietly retreated a bit.

He then began to set up some Earth Fire Arrays on the stone walls around the mine shaft.

The Earth Fire Array was a quite useful array method. From the time of hunting demons in Great Black Mountain, Mo Hua had been using it and was very skilled with it.

It could be said to be an essential array method for traveling, setting up ambushes, and plotting to kill enemies.

In his free time, he would prepare some and put them in his storage bag.

Now was the perfect time to use them.

Mo Hua wanted to force Zhang Quan out.

Or, would the mine shaft collapse and bury Zhang Quan directly?

“A Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if he’s weak, shouldn’t be buried to death, right…”

Mo Hua then thought of using Zhang Quan to verify this once.

He set up the Earth Fire Array, then stealthily slipped out of the mine shaft and quietly said to Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi:

“Let’s run a bit farther.”

Bai Zisheng looked at him doubtfully, “What did you do?”

Mo Hua smiled quietly, “I prepared a welcoming gift for Zhang Quan!”

The three of them ran far away and hid behind a large stone.

Mo Hua covered his ears. Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi didn’t know what was going on, but they also followed suit and covered their ears.

Not long after, with a loud bang, an explosion sounded, and the mine shaft collapsed.

The noise was very loud.

But fortunately, this place was remote, and in the mine mountain, blasting the mountain for mining happened often, so it didn’t attract the attention of other cultivators.

The mine shaft collapsed, stirring up thick smoke and dust.

After the smoke and dust dissipated, the entrance to the cave was already blocked by large stones.

Mo Hua was a little surprised.

Perhaps the mine shaft was somewhat special, and the energy inside was mixed and dangerous, making the power of the Earth Fire Array greater than he had thought.

Bai Zisheng said, “Could we have blasted him to death?”

Mo Hua wasn’t sure either. “Probably not. It’s only a grade one Earth Fire Array, and the mine shaft isn’t deep…”

Before he finished speaking, there was movement from the entrance of the mine cave.

The sound grew louder and louder. Not long after, the stones at the entrance were smashed open, and a cultivator with a gray and dirty face and tattered clothes walked out.

He said angrily:

“Who? Who is it?”

“Who the hell is it?”

“How dare you sneak attack me?!”

This person was precisely the Foundation Establishment period Zhang Quan.

At the moment the Earth Fire Array exploded, he had detected it and desperately ran outwards, but he was still blocked by giant stones.

And the power of the Earth Fire Array in the mine cave had greatly increased. Although it wasn’t fatal, it still blasted him with scorched black skin, a buzzing head, and in a sorry state.

This mine mountain was his hiding place.

Zhang Quan was in a rage and didn’t even consider who could find him, or who would dare to plot against him like this.

Moreover, using array methods!

Array methods were not something ordinary cultivators could learn.

Just then, Zhang Quan was suddenly startled.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed a point of golden light behind him.

This point of golden light was very familiar.

Zhang Quan hastily turned around and saw a young man in white, and at the same time, his long spear, and the brilliant golden light on the tip of the spear.

A ray of golden light arrived first, then the spear struck out like a dragon.

Bai Zisheng’s spear momentum was fierce, aimed directly at Zhang Quan’s throat.

Zhang Quan was greatly shocked.

It was that young man from Hundred Flowers Building!

He panicked.

At Hundred Flowers Building at that time, he had taken the Corpse Blood Pill, and his cultivation had been enhanced, only then was he able to reluctantly suppress this young cultivator in white.

Now he was severely injured and suffering from the backlash of the medicinal power. He was certainly not this young man’s opponent.

Zhang Quan used his arm to block the spear.

A blood mark was immediately cut into his hand, and a trace of blood seeped out.

Zhang Quan gritted his teeth, cast the earth escape technique, and disappeared into the ground.

The moment he disappeared, a fireball technique, with the speed of thunder, struck a pile of broken stones nearby.

Bai Zisheng and Mo Hua were senior and junior brothers and had been together for a long time. Although they occasionally bickered, they had a quite tacit understanding.

The instant Mo Hua’s fireball technique flew out, Bai Zisheng’s eyes moved.

By the time the fireball technique hit the ground of broken stones, Bai Zisheng also just happened to thrust a spear over.

Traces of blood seeped out of the ground.

Then several mottled plow marks appeared, extending outwards, revealing Zhang Quan’s sorry figure.

He covered his bleeding shoulder, his eyes bloodshot.

He was even more familiar with this fireball technique!

That damn little brat who was insidious to the extreme!

Zhang Quan looked around and indeed saw Mo Hua sitting cross-legged on a large stone in the distance, looking at him with a mocking expression.

“It’s you!!”

Zhang Quan’s eyes were about to split.

Mo Hua nodded, “It’s me!”

Zhang Quan gritted his teeth, and suddenly his heart trembled. His face turned pale and he said:

“That needle, was it you who left it?”

Mo Hua said doubtfully, “How did you guess that?”

Zhang Quan was silent.

It was when he walked out of the secret passage and changed his clothes that he discovered the needle on his clothes.

He didn’t understand this needle.

But years of cultivation experience made him understand that this kind of thing should not be left behind, so he destroyed the needle and discarded it.

And at this moment, he had hidden in this remote mine mountain, so concealed, yet he was still discovered.

Looking at it this way, this needle was used for tracking.

It had tracked him here to these three young cultivators.

Then this needle was a means used by these three young cultivators.

And among these three young cultivators, the youngest one, who looked innocent but had the most malicious heart, was definitely the originator of this needle.

Zhang Quan hated him to the point of gritting his teeth.

He immediately wanted to rush over and kill Mo Hua.

But he turned his eyes and again saw Bai Zixi beside Mo Hua.

That cold and beautiful young girl held a sword with brilliant golden light and was surrounded by white fire.

At Hundred Flowers Building at the beginning, this golden sword light had broken his iron corpse skin bag.

Zhang Quan felt apprehensive and couldn’t help but scold, “Shameless little brat, bullying with numbers! If you have the ability, come over and fight me face-to-face, don’t hide and sneak.”

Mo Hua said with surprise, “You’re such an old cultivator, how can you be so shameless? You’re asking me, a little cultivator in his teens, to fight you one-on-one…”

“Do you think I’m as stupid as you?”

Zhang Quan said hatefully, “Sharp-tongued!”

Just then, Bai Zisheng thrust out another spear.

Zhang Quan blocked it in a sorry state, and after several rounds, he gradually felt strenuous.

His serious injuries were not yet healed. If he continued like this, he would certainly be defeated.

Zhang Quan used all his strength, forcibly took one of Bai Zisheng’s spears, then slapped Bai Zisheng away with his palm, and afterwards escaped into the ground and fled outwards.

But he didn’t flee for long before he discovered that the earth underground had changed, forming railings and generating a cage that trapped him.

Zhang Quan was greatly shocked.

What was this thing?

The Earth Prison Array trapped Zhang Quan. Zhang Quan struggled with all his might, broke the array after a few breaths, and managed to escape.

But Bai Zisheng also caught up and entangled him.

Zhang Quan escaped again, was trapped again, and was chased by Bai Zisheng again.

After several times, Zhang Quan understood.

It was an array method!

Array disks were set up on the nearby ground.

Using array methods to restrain his earth element escape technique.

Truly good means!

Zhang Quan’s heart felt slightly cold, but he wasn’t tense.

Since he knew it was an array method, it was easy to handle.

Although he didn’t understand array methods, he wasn’t without experience in dealing with them.

Moreover, he often dealt with array masters.

The nearby earth system array methods used array disks as the array medium. The array disks were on the ground and visible. As long as he avoided the array disks, he could avoid the array methods.

Zhang Quan escaped into the underground, chose a position without array disks, and fled away.

But unexpectedly, he was still trapped.

Moreover, this time, the trapping earth system array method was stronger and trapped him for a bit longer.

This array method was fused with the great earth, and its presence was profound.

It was as if it was the will of this piece of great earth, wanting to trap him.

Zhang Quan’s expression suddenly changed.

What was this method?

How could such an array method be set up?

Who exactly set up this array method, and how did it fuse with the great earth?

Zhang Quan completely didn’t understand.

Just as he was in a daze, Bai Zisheng struck his back with another spear.

Zhang Quan’s heart went cold. He endured the pain and immediately became furious with shame.

He was a Foundation Establishment cultivator. When had he ever been so humiliated, chased by several young ones in the Qi Refining stage, drilling around like a stray dog in a sorry state.

Zhang Quan revealed his figure, his body bleeding nonstop.

His expression was full of sinister and ferocious intent.

“I must kill all of you!”

Zhang Quan took out a bronze medicine bottle with blood patterns.

Even if the medicinal power backfired and he went mad, he would still kill these young cultivators!

But Bai Zisheng had been waiting for a long time. Seeing him take out the medicine bottle and prepare to take pills, he immediately made a move, cutting his palm with a spear and flicking away his medicine bottle.

Zhang Quan was both shocked and angry, his face full of disbelief.

You motherfuckers, you really won’t give me any chance?!

Escape techniques, corpse pills, whatever methods he used, they were all defended against tightly!

Bai Zisheng, in his white clothes like snow, stood tall, pointing his spear at Zhang Quan, and said loudly:

“What other methods do you have? Use them all!”

These words were what Mo Hua had told him to say.

He had also said that he must say them with a majestic posture to appear handsome and look down on others.

Zhang Quan’s face turned even paler, but his eyes showed dense blood threads.

There was no way out, and he didn’t need to hide anymore.

“These things, I originally, didn’t want any living person to see…”

Zhang Quan’s voice was filled with bone-chilling venom.

Bai Zisheng frowned slightly, and Mo Hua’s gaze also condensed slightly.

Just then, in the dead silent mine mountain, a startling bell sound suddenly rang out.

As soon as the bell rang, a yin wind blew over.

The mountain stones on all sides trembled and rustled, revealing dozens of black coffins hidden among the broken stones.

From the coffins came the sound of nails scratching.

As if something had woken up…

(End of this chapter)