Cheng Mo and others were very puzzled, “Little Senior Brother, what do you need these things for?”

Mo Hua said with a serious expression, “This matter concerns the Dao Court’s operational secrets. For now, I can’t tell you all. And without researching these items a bit, I’m not too certain either…”

Dao Court’s operational secrets!

A crowd of disciples felt a chill in their hearts.

As expected of the Little Senior Brother, he even knows the Dao Court’s operational secrets.

“But,” a disciple said in confusion, “encrypted letters are fine, but blank jade slips, wiped-clean transmission orders… these should all be useless by now.”

“It doesn’t matter, I have my own methods,” Mo Hua said calmly.

“Oh, oh.”

The disciples nodded somewhat blankly.

Yuan Magnetic array method is considered another type of unconventional array method. It is a branch of the Eight Trigrams Thunder system array method, but it falls outside the orthodox lineage of common Five Elements and Eight Trigrams array methods.

Tai Xu Gate doesn’t teach it, and these disciples generally have little contact with it, knowing very little about it.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then said, “If we find any clues, we can release a reward through the Dao Court Division. Everyone who helps out can earn some merit points.”

Issue a reward through the Dao Court Division!

Everyone was shocked.

Cheng Mo was still relatively calm, as he knew Mo Hua had some connections with the Dao Court Division.

Besides being shocked, the other disciples were all visibly joyful. When they looked at Mo Hua again, their eyes were different, even showing a hint of respect.

For disciples from mundane families, relying on family power to have family elders handle things with the Dao Court Division is nothing special.

But within the sect, being able to connect with the Dao Court Division on one’s own and release a reward means something entirely different.

Moreover, good rewards are extremely valuable and must be snatched up.

Not only do you have to snatch them from fellow disciples, but also from senior brothers and sisters who have been in the sect longer.

Many times, these disciples with the shallowest seniority can only take some simple rewards, or those that others have left behind.

The merit points earned are naturally also very meager.

“Little Senior Brother, rest assured, leave it to us!”

A crowd of disciples all promised.

So for a period of time afterward, every now and then, fellow disciples would find Mo Hua to “offer treasures”:

“Little Senior Brother, Little Senior Brother, I used the method you taught to catch a bandit with very good water affinity. From his body, I found a demon bone. It looks like a water demon’s bone. See if there’s anything special about it…”

“Little Senior Brother, your Eight Trigrams Mountain Stone Armor is really useful! Those several evil cultivators who practice demonic arts are extremely strong. When their fists and feet hit us, it simply doesn’t hurt. These are some jade slips they were carrying. The Dao Court Division checked them and found nothing. Little Senior Brother, take a look…”

“Little Senior Brother, I picked up a broken sword. I don’t know if it’s useful…”

“I caught a flower-picking thief and got a jade slip. Please appraise it, Little Senior Brother…”

Within half a month, Mo Hua had accumulated a pile of things in his hands.

There were all sorts of miscellaneous items.

Some of them were indeed evil tools used by demon cultivators, but most of the storage bags of captured demon cultivators would be confiscated by the Dao Court Division.

Those with obvious demon qi also couldn’t be brought into Tai Xu Gate.

So what Mo Hua obtained were just some fragments and damaged evil tools.

These evil tools were not very useful.

However, Mo Hua could vaguely see, through derivation, some blood-colored karma attached to these evil tools.

It seemed that recently, vicious demon cultivators had used these evil tools to ruthlessly slaughter cultivators.

Besides, there were also some sheep horns.

But they were really just ordinary sheep demon horns, having no relation to the Great Wilderness Evil God.

There were also no sect tokens…

In Mo Hua’s speculation, since these demon cultivators could gather together, it was absolutely not spontaneous. At the very least, they had a small organization, or were a branch of some demon sect.

If that were the case, then they would likely have demon sect tokens.

The basic principle of demon sect tokens should be similar to the tokens of Tai Xu Gate or other sects. They are all built upon Yuan Magnetic array methods to expand their functions.

Basic ones would have communication functions.

If more advanced, they would even have something similar to Tai Xu Gate’s “Merit Pavilion,” which hides many sect treasures…

If he could get such a token in hand, there would be many things to “research.”

Mo Hua was endlessly looking forward to it in his heart.

It was a pity that such a sect token had not been found for now.

Instead, Mo Hua got one transmission order.

A few days later, Yang Qianjun handed a transmission order to Mo Hua and said:

“Cheng Mo and I were doing a task near the border of Qian Xue State, in a second-grade small immortal city called Qing Ping City. After the task was completed, on the way back, we saw a cultivator acting suspiciously, clearly not like the cultivators in Qing Ping City, so we casually asked him a few questions.”

“That cultivator answered quite seamlessly, but his gaze occasionally flickered, as if he was hiding something.”

“I felt something was fishy, so I pretended to leave but actually returned quietly to follow him. Finally, I discovered that this cultivator was actually secretly using a human skin mask to disguise himself and change his appearance. I don’t know what he was plotting.”

“Cheng Mo and I, along with a few others, worked together to capture him and sent him to the Dao Court Division. All the other things were confiscated by the Dao Court Division. Only this transmission order, with everything wiped clean, was brought back to you…”

Mo Hua took the transmission order and examined it for a few moments.

This was a light green transmission order, soaked with the smell of pills and blood.

Divine sense sank into the transmission order. Inside, it was indeed completely blank, with everything wiped clean.

Looking at it normally, it was indeed so.

But Mo Hua’s pupils slightly contracted, and a profound gaze swept over it. He could then see that beneath the blank surface, there were chaotic and indefinite magnetic patterns, fixed magnetic patterns, and obscure and indelible secondary thunder patterns.

Rain leaves traces on the leaves; geese leave their calls as they pass.

Beneath all kinds of surfaces, there are traces, it’s just that some people cannot see them.

“Is this transmission order really useful?” Yang Qianjun saw Mo Hua’s focused face and couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Mm.” Mo Hua nodded, “Thank you, Brother Yang.”

Yang Qianjun smiled, “It’s good to be of help, Little Senior Brother, no need to be polite.”

Yang Qianjun was several years older than Mo Hua, and they addressed each other differently.

Mo Hua called him “big brother,” and he called Mo Hua “Senior Brother.”

After returning to the disciples’ residence, Mo Hua began to restore this transmission order.

Mo Hua was already proficient in the entire process.

On the brightly lit study table were an array disk, array paper, and brush and ink.

Mo Hua first disassembled the transmission order, copied the set magnetic patterns, then recorded the secondary thunder patterns one by one, and then simulated them on another array disk.

He had obtained a book called “Set Magnetic Patterns Annotations” from old Mr. Xun. He knew that the seemingly abstract and complex set magnetic patterns were essentially a kind of “pointing intent characters” in the form of array patterns.

Although the “Set Magnetic Patterns Annotations” didn’t cover a wide range, only including some common annotations, it was currently just about enough for Mo Hua to use.

Through the magnetic patterns annotations, Mo Hua could already understand the meaning of these set magnetic patterns seven or eight out of ten.

He first redrew the set magnetic patterns on the array disk.

Then, on this basis, he simulated the secondary thunder patterns, thereby restoring the wiped-out words in the transmission order.

As the magnetic patterns were restored and the array method circulated, the disappeared words also gradually appeared one by one.

“Fourth month… fourteenth…”

“Fellow sect friends, gather at Qing Ping City…”

What words were missing afterward, he didn’t know if the set magnetic patterns were copied incorrectly or if there were errors in the secondary thunder patterns.

Mo Hua continued to derive downward.

“Gather at Qing Ping City… exterminate…”

Mo Hua was startled, his gaze slightly heavy, and he felt a bad premonition in his heart.

He continued to derive, and the last two words slowly appeared.

“…the entire family…”

Mo Hua was startled, and all the words connected:

Fourth month fourteenth, fellow sect friends, gather at Qing Ping City, exterminate… the entire family?

Mo Hua took a slight breath.

Exterminate the family!

The scene of the cultivators of the Xie family in Bi Shan City being slaughtered in a sea of fire, and the wails, struggles, and pain after being dismembered, resurfaced in Mo Hua’s mind.

Mo Hua found it somewhat hard to believe.

This group of demon cultivators was actually still planning to exterminate families!

But… whose entire family were they going to exterminate?

The key words on the transmission order were not restored.

Mo Hua read this sentence over and over again, then proofread the set magnetic patterns, checked the secondary thunder patterns again, and tossed and turned for half a day, but it was still useless.

He only knew that the target of the demon cultivators’ extermination this time was in Qing Ping City, but specifically which family or clan in Qing Ping City, he had no idea at all.

Mo Hua frowned.

Exterminate the family…

These demon cultivators, perhaps, were also the minions of the Evil God?

What was the meaning behind their extermination of families?

Mo Hua recalled the matters near the border of Qian Xue State one by one, and finally gradually connected them.

The second-grade Bi Shan City, the Xie family was exterminated.

Near Bi Shan City, a Bi Shan Demon Hall was built, and within the Demon Hall, there was an altar.

The former fishing village on the bank of the Yan Shui River was also considered exterminated.

The fishing village directly became the preaching ground of the Evil God, where nightmare and reality connected, and a River God Hall was built, also with an altar in the deepest part.

So, to say, “exterminate the family” is considered a prerequisite for building demon teaching halls and Evil God altars?

Why?

Mo Hua thought about the scenes within the small fishing village again, one by one, and had a guess in his heart.

Building an altar requires raising demons and monsters.

After exterminating families, the flesh and blood of cultivators are used to sacrifice and refine flesh demons.

The remaining divine souls of cultivators are used to sacrifice and refine into demons and evil spirits.

And some array methods within the Demon Hall, the river of flesh, the wall of bones… also need “people” as “building materials.”

The fishing village was like this.

The Bi Shan Demon Cave had not yet been built. The Dao Court Division attacked before it was finished, and Fire Buddha also destroyed most of the secrets of the Demon Hall, leaving not many clues.

But Mo Hua estimated it was roughly the same.

Everything has rules. The Evil God’s preaching, offerings, and building altars must also follow certain procedures.

“Taking all things as straw dogs, taking common people as ‘livestock,’ this is the Dao of the Evil God…”

Mo Hua’s gaze was ice-cold, and he sighed deeply.

Immediately, he had some doubts.

Doing this kind of thing under the nose of the Dao Court, there must be internal spies within the Dao Court Division.

At the same time, to lead these unruly and crazy demon cultivators to exterminate families without anyone noticing, there must also be a demon head of the same realm, with extremely strong cultivation and ruthless methods to lead them.

Before, it was the peak Foundation Establishment Fire Buddha who cultivated forbidden techniques.

But now Fire Buddha is dead, who is doing this kind of thing again?

Mo Hua couldn’t figure it out.

“Fourth month fourteenth, still four days…”

Four days later, he didn’t know which family would be exterminated by demon cultivators again.

Mo Hua’s heart felt a little cold.

But he was now “grounded”…

Mo Hua thought for a moment, then immediately sent a message to Gu Changhuai: “Uncle Gu, in Qing Ping City, four days later, demon cultivators will exterminate a family…”

On Gu Changhuai’s end, there was a long silence, then he sent a message:

“How do you know?”

Mo Hua was just about to answer when he suddenly started.

Uncle Gu asked, “How do you know?” instead of asking, “How did you know?”

This explained that he had already known about this matter before this.

Mo Hua was a little surprised:

“Uncle Gu, you already knew?”

Gu Changhuai was a little helpless, “Caught a few criminal cultivators, severely tortured them, and got some clues…”

Subsequently, Gu Changhuai asked again, “How did you know?”

He is a Dian Si of the Dao Court Division, responsible for the security of the surrounding area. Arresting criminal cultivators and demon cultivators is his duty, so knowing this is not strange.

But Mo Hua is a sect disciple, who hasn’t stepped out, how could he know the demon cultivators’ plot?

Clearly, he had only learned this message no more than two days ago.

Gu Changhuai’s brows slightly furrowed.

Mo Hua said truthfully, “I restored a transmission order and saw it on it…”

A transmission order…

Gu Changhuai sighed, thinking to himself that it was indeed the case.

Array masters are indeed too outrageous.

His cultivators in the Dao Court Division, after exhausting surveillance, diligently investigating, and torturing day and night, had only just managed to pry out this bit of information from a few demon cultivators’ mouths.

As a result, this child Mo Hua got a transmission order, solved a bit, restored a bit, and then knew everything…

Comparing people is infuriating.

Of course, Gu Changhuai was also clear in his heart.

What the Dao Court Division does is “tiresome work”; what Mo Hua does is “technical work.”

Especially Mo Hua’s technical work, which involves complex and profound array methods, is actually much more difficult than their surveillance and torture.

Gu Changhuai sighed again.

He didn’t even dare to think about how unfathomable Mo Hua’s array method level would become in the future when this child grew up.

“Don’t tell others, lest the wind leaks and alerts the enemy,” Gu Changhuai admonished.

“Mm, mm, I understand.” Mo Hua nodded in agreement, then asked again, “Uncle Gu, do you know which family the demon cultivators want to exterminate?”

Gu Changhuai hesitated slightly and replied, “Still haven’t found out.”

“Then what does the Dao Court Division plan to do?” Mo Hua asked.

Gu Changhuai was silent.

Mo Hua then said, “No need to say too much, just reveal a little bit.”

Gu Changhuai was stunned for a moment, then sighed:

“It doesn’t matter which family is exterminated…”

Mo Hua then understood, “Set up a heaven-and-earth net, trap them in a jar. As long as the demon cultivators enter the city with the intention to kill and exterminate the family, then counter-surround and annihilate them.”

“So it doesn’t matter whether they know exactly whose family they want to exterminate or not.”

“Is that so, Uncle Gu?”

Gu Changhuai: “…”

You’ve already said everything, what else can I say?

“Roughly so,” Gu Changhuai said vaguely.

Mo Hua thought for a moment, then suddenly said, “Uncle Gu, Qing Ping City is a second-grade immortal city, and it’s not small. Is your Dao Court Division’s manpower insufficient?”

Gu Changhuai said alertly, “What do you want to do?”

Mo Hua said quietly, “I’ll help you find some helpers?”

Gu Changhuai said disdainfully, “You don’t need to worry about this kind of thing. You should stay in the sect obediently, cultivate properly, learn more array methods, and don’t think about these irrelevant things.”

“Although the Dao Court Division’s manpower is not abundant, it hasn’t reached the point where it needs your help…”

Mo Hua said silently, “Near the border of Qian Xue State, in a second-grade immortal city, demon cultivators are gathering and plotting to exterminate a family. They dare to do this kind of thing…”

“There are definitely internal spies within the Dao Court Division.”

“Uncle Gu, are you really at ease using the people from the Dao Court Division?”

Gu Changhuai was silenced by Mo Hua’s question.

Internal spies are something everyone tacitly understands.

And to set up an ambush in Qing Ping City and trap them in a jar, a large amount of manpower is necessary.

Besides the cultivators of the Gu family, there must also be other cultivators from the Dao Court Division.

The cultivators of the Gu family are fine; he knows their background. But as for the other cultivators from the Dao Court Division, whether they are good or bad, and what they are hiding in their hearts, is hard to say.

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment, then asked Mo Hua:

“Where do you get your manpower from?”

He was indeed curious in his heart.

Mo Hua said proudly, “They are all fellow disciples from my Tai Xu Gate, very familiar with me, and their background is also very clean, at least cleaner than the Dao Court Division.”

And they all call me “Little Senior Brother.”

Gu Changhuai’s eyes widened, somewhat surprised.

Mo Hua’s relationships and connections in Tai Xu Gate were becoming more and more difficult to understand.

But Gu Changhuai was still worried: “No, it’s too dangerous. Those demon cultivators are at least in the mid to late stage of Foundation Establishment.”

Mo Hua said, “It doesn’t matter, they won’t fight head-on. They’ll just help form the net, guard the periphery, and pick up stragglers, that’s all.”

Frontal confrontations are dangerous. This matter must definitely be handled by experienced and battle-hardened executives from the Dao Court Division.

Gu Changhuai nodded slightly.

This way is barely acceptable…

Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment, then said again, “Do you want them to earn merit points?”

“Of course!” Mo Hua said righteously, “There’s no free lunch in the world!”

Mo Hua added, “…Moreover, I am familiar with you, Uncle Gu. Even doing free work as usual is fine, just take a small loss. ”

“But they are different. They are all disciples from mundane families, and they all have face. If they go out on a trip and don’t earn some merit points, how can they explain it?”

Gu Changhuai curled his lips.

This little brat is full of nonsense.

He usually doesn’t do free work, let alone suffer any losses. Most of the time, he is the one who makes others suffer losses.

“Alright then,” Gu Changhuai sighed.

Mo Hua carefully asked, “Then how many merit points can be given?”

Gu Changhuai said, “Two hundred.”

Mo Hua shook his head, “At least four hundred.”

Gu Changhuai had a headache.

After a round of unwilling bargaining, the final merit points were set at three hundred.

Mo Hua had already done his best.

As the “Little Senior Brother,” this was all he could do.

However, for ordinary disciples, three hundred merit points was not a small amount.

The next day, while eating in the dining hall at noon, Mo Hua quietly said to Cheng Mo, “I have a big task that requires about fifty people. After the matter is done, each person will get three hundred merit points.”

Cheng Mo was shocked in his heart.

Fifty people, each with three hundred merit points, this was truly a big task!

“Little Senior Brother, where did this task come from?” Cheng Mo also lowered his voice and asked softly.

Mo Hua said, “I can’t reveal the specifics for now. You will all know at that time, but this task is relatively risky, so we must find experienced people.”

Cheng Mo nodded, “That is natural.”

“Also,” Mo Hua thought for a moment and added, “We need to find familiar ones, those whose backgrounds are known, so as not to leak the news.”

“Besides, try to find disciples from mundane families outside of Qian State, who don’t have many entanglements with the local mundane families in Qian State.”

“If they are from local mundane families in Qian State, their relationships must be very good, like Hao Xuan.”

Cheng Mo was doubtful in his heart, but he always trusted Mo Hua.

Whatever Mo Hua said was naturally what it was. If he couldn’t ask anything superfluous, he wouldn’t ask.

“Rest assured, Little Senior Brother,” Cheng Mo patted his chest, “Leave it to me!”

After that, Cheng Mo secretly went to find people and found a total of fifty disciples.

Besides Si Tu Jian, Yang Qianjun, Hao Xuan, and Yi Li, these few familiar ones, most of the others were also disciples he had interacted with and whose character was trustworthy.

And three hundred merit points provided almost no reason to refuse.

They agreed without thinking.

Mo Hua’s divine sense moved, sweeping over everyone, and he nodded with satisfaction.

This way, the manpower was just enough.

After that, Mo Hua repeated his old trick and “colluded” with Gu Changhuai within the Dao Court Division. They cooperated from the inside and outside, relying on his extremely keen divine sense. At the agreed time, in front of a crowd of senior brothers and sisters, he “quickly and skillfully” grabbed a reward with a huge number of merit points but a vague description and unclear meaning.

Just like snatching a large piece of fat meat in front of a group of hungry wolves…

(End of this chapter)