The relay station was searched thoroughly.

They found a small pill furnace for refining poisonous pills, some poisonous herbs, and hidden weapons quenched in poison.

Furthermore, there were several evil tools, several sets of white bones, and unknown resentful souls, who had died at the hands of this group of bandit cultivators. Their flesh and skin had all been scraped clean and used to refine pills.

The composition of this group of bandit cultivators was also relatively complex.

Some were killing and robbing bandits, some were alchemists who had betrayed their sects, and some were cultivators who had turned to the evil path midway.

They were wanted by the Dao Court Si and had been fleeing everywhere before being gathered here by Shui Yan Luo.

But they didn’t know much about Shui Yan Luo’s affairs, and they were under an unknown speaking prohibition, so most of them still couldn’t talk.

They could only try to find someone to verify, but they couldn’t get anything out of them.

Mo Hua and the others had no choice but to investigate themselves.

They searched again, and besides the relay station itself, the most suspicious place was the carriage near the stable outside the relay station.

Gu An found some flower petals near the carriage.

These flower petals were scattered on the ground, crushed by wheel tracks, mixed with soil, dirty and messy.

But Mo Hua still saw it at a glance:

“These are flowers from Bai Hua Valley, I just don’t know their name.”

The flowers in Bai Hua Valley were a riot of color, with numerous varieties. He couldn’t recognize the exact name, but he could remember their approximate appearance.

Gu Chang Huai nodded slightly, then was a little surprised and asked Mo Hua:

“How do you know they are flowers from Bai Hua Valley… have you been there?”

“Um…”

Mo Hua subconsciously nodded, his head halfway down, when he suddenly realized that the matter of him wearing a Bai Hua Valley dao robe and sneaking into Bai Hua Valley disguised as a little shimei must absolutely not be known by anyone!

“No! I haven’t! It’s one of my shijie in Bai Hua Valley, she planted some flowers, and I happened to have seen them before!”

Mo Hua felt a little guilty.

“Oh,” Gu Chang Huai said lightly.

He wasn’t suspicious.

Because within Bai Hua Valley, all male cultivators were forbidden from entering. No matter how capable Mo Hua was, it was absolutely impossible for him to sneak into Bai Hua Valley.

Gu Chang Huai pondered in his heart.

Flowers from Bai Hua Valley.

Hua Ru Yu’s carriage.

Thus, it could probably explain that Hua Ru Yu’s carriage had indeed been to this relay station.

This was just a bit fishy…

Gu Chang Huai said, “Bring someone over to ask.”

“Yes.” Gu An received the order, returned inside the relay station, picked a bandit cultivator who looked cowardly and talked relatively a lot, and brought him in front of Gu Chang Huai.

“I’m asking you,” Gu Chang Huai said calmly, “Is it not often that a carriage stops here?”

The bandit cultivator looked panicked and didn’t speak.

Gu Chang Huai’s face turned cold: “Confess honestly, otherwise I have ways to make you wish you were dead or alive.”

He was a Golden Core cultivator, and also a Dian Si of the Dao Court Si. He didn’t know how many criminal cultivators he had caught or killed with his own hands. When his expression darkened, he naturally carried a pressing majesty.

The bandit cultivator looked terrified and said in a trembling voice: “Yes… there is a carriage…”

Gu Chang Huai asked: “What kind of carriage?”

“A gorgeous, pink carriage with patterns,” the bandit cultivator described.

“Who was sitting in the carriage?”

“I, I don’t know…”

Gu Chang Huai frowned, “How could you not know?”

The bandit cultivator said: “Every ten days or half a month, that carriage will come over, but Big Brother he…”

“Which Big Brother? Shui Yan Luo?” Gu Chang Huai asked.

“Yes, the dao brothers all call him by this title,” the bandit cultivator said with a slightly pale face, “Big Brother instructed that as soon as that carriage comes over, all of us must hide in the relay station, unable to go out, unable to look at anything, unable to listen to anything, otherwise…”

The bandit cultivator swallowed, “Otherwise, once you see what you shouldn’t see, your soul will be hooked away, and you will surely die.”

Soul hooked away, surely die?

Gu Chang Huai frowned.

Gu An and Gu Quan were startled, their expressions confused.

Only Mo Hua was somewhat thoughtful.

After Gu Chang Huai asked several more questions and couldn’t get anything else out, he had Gu An take the bandit cultivator back to the relay station and lock him up.

Gu Chang Huai pondered for a moment, then summarized: “First, the evidence is not conclusive, so many matters still cannot be determined, but we can make an assumption first…”

“Assuming that woman’s carriage did stop here, it means that inside or around this relay station, there must be some extremely important matters for her to handle.”

“And in this stable, there is another carriage…”

Gu Quan nodded: “Earlier, I checked the wheel tracks and some fine fragments with my brother. We can probably judge that someone drove here, got off the flower carriage, changed to this carriage inside the relay station, and then went somewhere.”

Everyone then looked at the only carriage inside the relay station.

From the outside, this carriage had a simple style, no decorations, and was very inconspicuous, just like the kind of cheap carriage seen casually on the street.

But if you looked carefully, you would find that the carriage material was very unusual.

Although not made of hua li, it was unusually sturdy.

Moreover, the carriage was enclosed.

The door was also sealed.

From the outside, it was impossible to see exactly what the situation was inside the carriage.

Several people circled the carriage several times but still gained nothing. Gu Chang Huai then reached out and condensed his spiritual power, wanting to forcibly break open the sealed door of the carriage.

But the moment his palm touched the carriage, a light flashed on the door.

The carriage trembled, almost about to self-destruct.

Fortunately, Gu Chang Huai had some experience. As soon as he saw the light, he withdrew his hand, which prevented the carriage from exploding.

“It’s a self-destruct array…” Gu Chang Huai murmured.

Gu An and Gu Quan’s expressions were grave, and then they unanimously looked towards Mo Hua.

Gu Chang Huai also glanced at Mo Hua.

Among the several people, Mo Hua was the best at arrays.

Although Gu Chang Huai was a Golden Core cultivator, he was far inferior to Mo Hua in terms of arrays.

Mo Hua immediately straightened his chest and lifted his head: “Let me take a look…”

He used his hand to touch the door frame, turned his back to Gu Chang Huai, his eyes deep, and enhanced his calculations and derivations in a strange way, deducing the array patterns inside the carriage.

Gu Chang Huai’s expression was frozen. He perceived that Mo Hua’s aura had changed again, becoming somewhat deep and strange, but he was gradually getting used to it, so he didn’t say anything.

After a moment, Mo Hua determined: “On the carriage, there is a door lock array and a self-destruct array. It is a compound array…”

He deduced based on the array patterns, following the flow of the patterns and the trajectory of spiritual power, and found the “keyhole” in the corner of a carved wooden flower pattern in the lower right corner of the carriage door.

This hole was integrated with the wooden pattern and was very difficult to detect.

Mo Hua inferred: “Hua Ru Yu should have a key in her hand.”

“With the key, the array lock can be opened. Without the key, if the door is forcibly opened, the array will become disordered in reverse, and the carriage will self-destruct…”

Gu An’s expression was somewhat grave, “Then, do we have to go back and find a way to get the key from Hua Ru Yu?”

“No need,” Mo Hua said calmly, “Using a key to open an array lock is something cultivators do. For array masters, knowing the principle of the array lock makes the key unnecessary.”

Mo Hua’s tone was ordinary, but there was still some unconcealed pride between his eyebrows.

Gu An and Gu Quan looked joyful and involuntarily nodded in praise: “As expected of Young Master Mo.”

But Gu Chang Huai was still a little worried, “This array, its grade is probably not low. Will it be a problem for you?”

He had already felt that these arrays were probably not that simple from the counter-shock force after his earlier palm strike.

“They are all second-grade arrays, no problem,” Mo Hua said.

Gu Chang Huai pondered: “Even within second-grade arrays, there are divisions of elementary, middle, and high tiers. Even if it’s high tier, there are still the three levels of seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen. You are only at Building Foundation mid-stage…”

“No matter,” Mo Hua laughed, “I’ve slightly ‘gone beyond the syllabus’ a little bit.”

Seeing Mo Hua’s confident appearance, Gu Chang Huai no longer asked.

As the Dian Si of the Dao Court Si, under hundreds of various executive officers, Gu Chang Huai deeply knew that “professional” matters had to be handed over to professional people.

The professional matter of arrays could naturally only be handed over to Mo Hua, the most professional in this field, to solve.

He then watched silently from the side.

Mo Hua stared at the carriage, reached out to point, but halfway through, he suddenly thought of something, then honestly took out his pen and ink, and drew something on the carriage door.

As he drew, Gu Chang Huai’s forehead twitched.

He guessed that Mo Hua should be solving the array.

He didn’t understand exactly how to solve it, but at least he could count the number of array patterns.

Eighteen patterns!

He was solving an eighteen-pattern array!

A Building Foundation mid-stage cultivator solving an eighteen-pattern array.

Even Gu Chang Huai, who was accustomed to seeing incredible things on Mo Hua’s body, couldn’t hold steady at this time.

“Eighteen patterns ah…”

Gu Chang Huai slightly inhaled a cold breath.

Some old array masters at Building Foundation peak, with slightly lacking divine sense, might not necessarily be able to draw an eighteen-pattern array, let alone solve it.

This was probably far from being just “going beyond the syllabus”…

Gu Chang Huai’s heart was filled with emotions for a while.

On the other side, Mo Hua was still concentrating on solving the array.

He drew the solving array patterns, then injected spiritual power to activate them. A golden light flashed, and the array patterns went with and against each other, canceling each other out.

The second-grade door lock array was then abolished by Mo Hua.

Then Mo Hua drew a circle on the door and turned to Gu Chang Huai and said: “Uncle Gu, follow here and give it a punch.”

Gu Chang Huai then came back to his senses and nodded.

He stepped forward and gently blasted a fist, which blasted a hole in the door, but the carriage was still intact and did not self-destruct.

Mo Hua followed the hole, reached in, fumbled for something at the back, and with a creak, the carriage door opened.

Inside the carriage, it was dim and dark.

After the door opened, a ray of light shone in.

Mo Hua narrowed his eyes and saw that it was empty inside, with no sign of anyone, only several cushions.

A kind of scent that had been sealed for a long time, and some old rouge fragrance, lingered at the tip of his nose.

Mo Hua walked in lightly, flipped the cushions, and found two handkerchiefs, a sachet, some fine spice fragments, like flower powder from a sachet, and some traces that looked like rouge.

“Many females sat inside the carriage…”

Mo Hua silently said in his heart.

Moreover, the miscellaneous breaths mixed together were obviously not the same batch of females.

This Hua Ru Yu, on the surface, was an instructor at Bai Hua Valley, but behind the scenes, she was probably doing some shady business.

Mo Hua glanced at Gu Chang Huai.

Gu Chang Huai’s expression was ice cold, his gaze sharp, obviously also realizing this point.

Just…

Gu Chang Huai frowned.

Hua Ru Yu, this woman, was very cautious and did not leave too many traces in this carriage.

The clues here were still broken.

Where this carriage was going and specifically what kind of people it was transporting, they still didn’t know at all…

Mo Hua was also frowning.

He looked at the carriage again for a moment, suddenly startled, noticed a trace of abnormality, squatted on the ground, and tapped the carriage floor one by one.

When he tapped one piece of wood board near the carriage head, an empty sound came from inside the wood board.

After Mo Hua lifted the wood board, he found that there was actually a set of arrays remaining inside.

He looked at the array patterns on the array and his eyes immediately lit up.

Gu Chang Huai saw the situation and couldn’t help but ask: “What is this?”

Mo Hua said: “It is the drive array inside the carriage.”

Seeing that Gu Chang Huai didn’t understand very well, Mo Hua explained: “This carriage has a frame but no ropes. I felt strange before, but now I understand after seeing the array. This carriage looks like a carriage, but it is actually not a ‘horse’ carriage.”

“This carriage is not pulled by a horse, but through mechanism techniques, a set of compound arrays is embedded to drive the vehicle forward.”

“And this array hidden under the wood board is one set of mechanism drive compound arrays embedded in this carriage.”

Gu Chang Huai pondered slightly, his heart skipped a beat, “Doesn’t that mean…”

“Um.” Mo Hua nodded, “As long as the compound array is activated, the spiritual power flows through the compound array, and it will automatically drive the mechanism to turn and propel the carriage forward.”

“And within this compound array, there is also a set of Yuan Magnetic Si Nan arrays embedded.”

“This set of Si Nan arrays is used for positioning.”

“The carriage will follow the positioning of the Yuan Magnetic Si Nan array and automatically take us to the destination…”

Mo Hua said clearly and logically.

Gu Chang Huai and the other two were slightly shocked, then marveled in their hearts.

This was just arrays, encompassing everything in the world.

This was also just an array master, borrowing arrays to comprehend and control various knowledge and abilities…

“Then this carriage, can it go now?” Gu Chang Huai asked with a slightly serious expression.

Mo Hua said: “This is a new compound array system. I have to spend some time to slightly ponder it.”

“Good.” Gu Chang Huai nodded.

Then Gu Chang Huai and the other two held their breath, not making a sound, to avoid disturbing Mo Hua.

Mo Hua then concentrated on researching this set of compound arrays, which was compatible with the Yuan Magnetic Si Nan array and the mechanism drive array.

Mo Hua was somewhat familiar with the Yuan Magnetic Si Nan array.

But he hadn’t really come into contact with mechanism drive arrays before.

However, he had learned the first-grade twelve patterns, the absolute art of Xiao Ling Yin Zong—Ling Shu Absolute Array.

Ling Shu Absolute Array involved array sequences and the control of spiritual threads, which had similar wonderful uses as mechanism techniques.

In Nan Yue City, Mo Hua had also used Ling Shu Absolute Array to create some “Wood Ox Flowing Horse” for the poor mine cultivators to save manpower and transport ore.

So, he probably understood the principle of the array.

Time was limited, and he didn’t need to master it, only reactivate the array.

The array in front of him was dim without light, obviously having lost its spirit.

Mo Hua pondered carefully.

Thus, about half an hour passed, his eyes lit up, and he gradually had a clue in his heart.

This mechanism compound array, like the carriage door, shared one key to open.

But the array on the door had been solved by Mo Hua, and the door lock was also broken. The control entrance of this mechanism compound array was also equally destroyed.

Since the intervention “entrance” was gone, the array naturally couldn’t be opened, the array eye couldn’t supply energy, the mechanism drive array was invalid, and the carriage couldn’t move either.

“This way, I have to change the array hub structure, cut off the original entrance, externally connect the open and close array patterns, and build a self-contained gathering spirit array to serve as the array eye, embed it into the compound array, and supply energy to the original mechanism array…”

Mo Hua muttered to himself, saying things that Gu Chang Huai and the other two didn’t understand at all.

After Mo Hua took out his pen and ink, he began to reconstruct the array step by step according to his own ideas.

Gu Chang Huai and the other two watched intently.

But they didn’t know what exactly they were watching…

About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Mo Hua finally finished drawing the array, then checked it again, and couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.

“It should be about done…”

Mo Hua reached into his storage bag and took out spirit stones.

But halfway through, he silently put his spirit stones back and turned to Gu Chang Huai and said: “Uncle Gu, I need to use spirit stones.”

This was official business. Spirit stones spent should be reimbursed.

Gu Chang Huai was not stingy either, took out a storage bag, and directly threw it to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua took the storage bag, took out spirit stones from it, crushed them and placed them on the gathering spirit array, letting the gathering spirit array absorb spiritual power to serve as the array eye and distribute energy to the mechanism array.

The gathering spirit array absorbed spiritual power and glowed blue.

Mo Hua’s heart moved, and he opened the array through the interface he built.

A stock of pure spiritual power flowed out from the gathering spirit array and merged into the carriage’s self-contained mechanism compound array.

Then the carriage trembled, swayed, and automatically turned around.

Several people immediately supported the carriage.

Gu Chang Huai also conveniently supported the swaying Mo Hua.

The carriage trembled as it turned a corner, turning its head.

The Yuan Magnetic Si Nan array lit up and fixed a direction.

The carriage then drove forward automatically in that direction, as if possessed.

“Dian Si, we…” Gu An’s expression was somewhat worried.

Gu Chang Huai pondered for a moment and said: “Let’s just sit inside the carriage and follow it to see where this carriage will stop…”

“Yes.” Gu An and Gu Quan nodded.

The carriage drove forward silently with a creaking sound.

Mo Hua picked a cushion and honestly sat down.

He also wanted to see where the Yuan Magnetic Si Nan array was pointing and where this carriage would take him.

It would be best if it could directly take him to the evil god’s base.

He could see an altar as soon as he got off, which would be perfect.

Of course, Mo Hua was just thinking.

He knew there was definitely no such good thing…

Mo Hua took out some more spirit stones, crushed them, and charged the gathering spirit array with energy.

These spirit stones should be enough.

But there were still quite a few spirit stones left in the storage bag.

Mo Hua originally wanted to return the storage bag to Uncle Gu, but then he thought again, Uncle Gu’s family had a big business and was wealthy. If he returned the things given to him, wouldn’t that be slapping his face and looking down on him as a Dian Si of the Dao Court Si?

Mo Hua nodded silently and then stuffed the spirit stones into his own embrace.

This counted as a reward for his hard work.

Although he hadn’t passed the assessment, he was a dignified “quasi” second-grade high-tier array master. It was very reasonable to receive some spirit stones as a reward for helping out.

Mo Hua felt at ease.

The mechanism array was turning, and the carriage was driving itself with a “creak” sound.

Inside the carriage, it was enclosed and stuffy.

Mo Hua sat in the carriage, heading towards an unknown place, feeling inevitably a little nervous in his heart, but thinking of Gu Chang Huai at his side, he felt a lot more at ease.

This was second-grade territory, and this carriage looked like it couldn’t go too far, so as long as he held onto Uncle Gu’s thigh tightly, it was enough to protect his own safety.

Mo Hua put down his heart, turned his head and felt a little bored again, then put his attention back on the mechanism compound array inside the carriage.

This was still his first time seeing a real “mechanism array”.

This was again a special array system with a unique pattern.

The mechanism array inside the carriage seemed to have some common points with some of the five elements and eight trigrams arrays he had seen before, including the Ling Shu Absolute Array.

But if he deduced carefully, there seemed to be many differences again.

“Later, if I have a chance, I have to find an opportunity to learn mechanism arrays…”

If he learned mechanism arrays and integrated them with Ling Shu Absolute Array, adding coordination, he might be able to create a “puppet army”…

Mo Hua couldn’t help but fantasize in his heart.

Thus, Mo Hua was thinking on one side, the mechanism array was flowing on one side, and the carriage was driving on one side…

He didn’t know how long passed, the carriage suddenly stopped.

It seemed to have arrived at its destination.

Several people’s faces were slightly serious.

Gu An gave Gu Chang Huai a questioning look and whispered: “Do we want to go down?”

Gu Chang Huai shook his head slightly.

“Observe the changes quietly.”

Everyone then waited in the carriage and didn’t act rashly.

Another moment passed, accompanied by the sound of flowing water and the collision of boat eaves. It seemed that something had docked.

At the same time, a clear male voice came: “It’s not even fifteen yet, why did you bring people over so early?”

Gu Chang Huai and the others inside the carriage all remained silent.

The atmosphere was a little stuffy for a while.

The man outside the carriage was a little puzzled: “Why aren’t you speaking? Angry? You weren’t like this before…”

Before the man could finish speaking, he also suddenly realized something was wrong.

His face changed, and a stock of inexplicable baleful aura emanated from his body, seemingly soaked in ice cold blood water and cruel killing intent.

Perceiving this stock of aura, Mo Hua’s pupils shrank slightly.

This stock of aura…

Could this man be…

Shui Yan Luo?!