In front of Yaksha Hall, blood traces covered the small square.

A hunt was underway.

Four Golden Core and two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators joined forces, hunting a deformed and powerful monster, two people high, with blood qi wrapped around its body and limbs on the ground.

This monster’s strength was indeed abnormally powerful and its form strange. Because its four limbs were twisted, its actions were often unexpected. Attacking and killing turned into paths of bloody shadows, making it difficult to defend against.

Fortunately, there were enough cultivators besieging it, and everyone had also listened to Mo Hua’s instructions to only wear it down, not engage in prolonged battles, and not be greedy for merit.

The strategy was to focus on defense as the main tactic, use attack as auxiliary, and trapping as the primary goal.

Xiao Dian Si initially paid little attention to this tactic.

He only thought of a quick battle and a quick victory, taking advantage to kill this monster and retrieve the fish bone token from its abdomen.

But after exchanging hands with this monster several times, he extinguished this thought.

Everything Mo Hua said was correct.

This monster could indeed only be worn down and fundamentally could not be killed.

Not to mention Xie Liu, even his Gui Water sword qi, when striking the monster’s body, could not even break its scale armor slightly.

“What kind of monster is this…”

Xiao Dian Si’s pupils slightly trembled, then he suppressed the shock in his heart and honestly executed Mo Hua’s plan.

Not only Xiao Dian Si, Gu Chang Huai’s wind blade and Xia Dian Si’s ice sword were similarly unable to injure this monster.

But they knew Mo Hua always had a purpose, so they generally had a sense of what was happening.

Everyone surrounded and killed it for a while longer.

In the field, blade light and sword qi flew vertically, wind blade spells danced, cultivator figures and monster blood shadows intertwined back and forth, and the battle was intense.

Mo Hua felt the excitement and watched with great absorption.

After battling over a hundred rounds, the four Golden Core cultivators still could not break the monster’s scale armor.

But the blood qi on the monster’s body was indeed being rapidly consumed.

Soon, under everyone’s combined efforts, the blood qi on the monster’s body became increasingly thin, and its actions gradually slowed down.

This monster immediately realized what was happening.

A trace of sharp light appeared in its eyes, and within the sharp light, there seemed to be some fierce but panicked emotions.

Mo Hua was startled to see the situation.

This monster… seemed to still have a trace of reason left?

It wasn’t completely acting on instinct?

Mo Hua thought of before, when this monster took advantage of everyone’s chaotic battle, secretly ran to the temple door, swallowed the guard demon statue’s fish bone token, closed the gate, and then escaped…

“A bit problematic…”

Mo Hua showed a thoughtful expression.

And in the field, with the surrounding blood qi almost faint as nothing, this monster obviously also realized the severity of the problem.

It suddenly roared, its body’s dragon scales turned into barbs, and its entire body also turned into a group of blood shadow, rushing towards Xiao Tian Quan’s direction.

It wanted to choose a path to escape.

Among the besieging individuals, Xiao Tian Quan was the weakest.

This monster understood clearly, therefore it started with the weakest Xiao Tian Quan.

Xiao Tian Quan indeed could not block this monster; in just one exchange, he was knocked back several zhang, propped his sword on the ground, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The encirclement net naturally leaked a gap.

But Mo Hua had prepared everything beforehand, so it was naturally impossible to let it escape.

The ground array unfolded, and Gu Chang Huai and Xia Dian Si, among others, also urged the trapping spirit locks in their hands.

Paths of chains entangled this monster’s body.

Gu Chang Huai blocked its position, preventing it from escaping.

Other people also successively took action. The array, spirit tools, and cultivators cooperated with each other, forming a large net, firmly trapping this monster in the square outside Yaksha Hall.

This monster was furious and frustrated, running around left and right, but fundamentally helpless.

Blood qi was its lifeline and its source of power.

With damaged blood qi, it fundamentally could not persist for long.

Everyone again unleashed their blades, swords, and spells together. In less than one incense stick of time, the blood qi on this monster’s body was thoroughly consumed.

Its form became increasingly slow, finally slowly falling to the ground, without any more power to act.

Even so, everyone did not relax their vigilance.

This was what Mo Hua had repeatedly instructed.

When a monster falls to the ground, one must still be cautious and guard against it feigning death.

Although this monster’s blood qi was exhausted and it couldn’t move, it might still be able to feign death. But this good habit must be cultivated.

Xia Dian Si stood guard with her short sword, while other people also surrounded it from four sides.

Gu Chang Huai then stepped forward, using the Dao Ting Si’s binding spirit lock to entangle all of this monster’s four limbs, ensuring it could not move.

And this monster indeed showed no movement at all, as if it had completely become a pile of flesh puppet.

Everyone then slightly relaxed their breath.

“Now what do we do?” Xie Liu asked.

Xiao Dian Si said: “Its whole body is covered with scales, and blades and swords cannot penetrate it. Since that’s the case, stab a long sword into its mouth, through the throat, probe into the abdomen, shred its internal organs, and let it die thoroughly. Then find a way, peel open its scales, cut open its belly, and take out that fish bone token.”

He was a Dian Si of Dao Ting Si, experienced in many torture methods and diverse ways of killing.

Although everyone felt it was somewhat cruel, at this point it seemed like the only thing they could do.

Mo Hua suddenly said: “Wait.”

Xiao Dian Si turned his head, looking at Mo Hua with some surprise, “Young master, what’s wrong?”

Mo Hua stroked his chin, examining this monster’s face, and softly muttered: “This monster, could it be… that Mr. Wu?”

“Mr. Wu?”

Everyone in the field was startled, and some were puzzled, not knowing who Mr. Wu was.

Mo Hua pointed to Shui Yan Luo, “He knows.”

Mr. Wu…

Shui Yan Luo’s expression trembled, for a moment somewhat hard to believe. He stared at this monster for a few eyes, and the more he looked, the more alarmed he became. Then he coldly said: “Mr. Wu… is the person in charge of this Dragon King Temple, the god lord’s witch priest. Every time I send sacrifices over, offered to the god lord, it is all Mr. Wu who is responsible for hosting the ceremony.”

God lord?

Gu Chang Huai frowned.

Xia Dian Si’s expression was also somewhat puzzled.

This was basically the first time they had heard this title.

The minions of evil gods might be recorded in the Dao Ting Si’s list.

But an evil god hidden in the depths, invisible, inaudible, unknowable, unnamable, did not exist in their cultivation cognition.

Even if Shui Yan Luo himself knew “god lord,” he didn’t necessarily know what “god lord” exactly meant.

Those who don’t cultivate the path of gods are all mortal eyes and cannot see the true form of a god.

“What is a god lord?” Gu Chang Huai asked.

Shui Yan Luo’s expression was solemn, and he coldly said: “You vulgar people, how can you know the grandeur of my god lord? How can you be qualified to utter my god lord’s title?”

“Enough,” Xia Dian Si frowned, “Mysterious and vague…”

In her eyes, this Shui Yan Luo was not only a damnable criminal cultivator, but also a god-believing madman.

People of this kind are mostly mad in disposition, no wonder he could commit so many killings.

As for the so-called “god lord” he believed in, who knew what wild god or evil thing it was.

Whether it existed or not was hard to say.

There were still more important matters at hand.

Xia Dian Si turned her head and looked at the monster lying on the ground, locked with iron chains, motionless. She pondered for a moment and said: “If he is really that Mr. Wu, he must know some inside information. If we shred his internal organs and cut his belly to take out the fish bone token, he will certainly die.”

“This temple is somewhat strange, it’s better to temporarily leave him a life and ask clearly.”

Mo Hua nodded, “Indeed…”

This Mr. Wu should still have a use.

If he died, where would he find the altar?

Xiao Dian Si was somewhat worried: “Even if this monster is really Mr. Wu, but in this appearance, not human not ghost, without divine sense, how can we ask him?”

Mo Hua pondered for a bit, his eyes brightened and he said: “Bleed him.”

“Bleed him?”

“Um,” Mo Hua nodded, “His transformation into this appearance is definitely related to the blood inside his body…”

Moreover, this blood is very likely dragon blood…

“If that’s the case, if we bleed out the blood inside his body, his divine soul won’t be polluted by external evil blood, and perhaps he can restore some reason…”

“What if he bleeds to death?” Xiao Dian Si asked.

Mo Hua said with regret: “Then count him unlucky. We’ve done our best. If we can’t save him, then his luck is too bad, and we can’t be blamed.”

“If he bleeds to death, then it’s just right, we cut open his belly, take out the fish bone token, and it won’t delay anything.”

Xiao Dian Si pondered for a bit, nodded and said: “Okay.”

But this monster, covered in scales all over, bleeding it wasn’t that easy.

Xiao Dian Si searched for a long time, only to find a place with weak scales under the monster’s hidden armpit. He then spent some effort to stab and break its armpit with a long sword.

The blood water at the wound was thick, but it still didn’t flow out.

Xiao Dian Si said in a deep voice: “He ate too much human flesh, and his blood is too dirty and too thick, almost fused with the flesh. Even if the scales are broken, the blood still won’t flow out.”

“A bit difficult…”

Mo Hua frowned, thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have a move he hadn’t used for a long time, an “absolute technique.”

The Blood Drawing Technique.

This was from a very, very long time ago, when he was in Tong Xian City, and his little senior sister personally gave it to him.

He hunted demon beasts, drew demon blood, mixed spirit ink, was self-sufficient, and relied on this “Blood Drawing Technique.”

Mo Hua rolled up his sleeves, “I’ll do it!”

Then, in everyone’s strange eyes, he pressed his palm on the monster’s armpit, urged his divine thought, and drew the blood inside the monster’s body outwards.

This monster’s blood was very thick, very sticky, much thicker than general demon blood.

But Mo Hua’s divine thought was already completely different from the past; whether in quality or quantity, it was much stronger than before.

Therefore, using the small Blood Drawing Technique was still quite easy.

The dark pus blood inside the monster’s body flowed out little by little under the drawing of Mo Hua’s divine thought.

Everyone was surprised to see the situation.

Xia Dian Si couldn’t help but say: “Mo Hua, how do you know everything?”

“Um um,” Mo Hua nodded, “I’m from a scattered cultivator background, a poor child who became the head of the household early. I have to learn a bit of everything, so that I can eat in the future.”

Xia Dian Si: “…”

You are a disciple of Tai Xu Gate, an array genius, and a little honored guest of the Gu family. Do you need to learn this kind of thing to “make a living”?

Xia Dian Si didn’t believe a word.

Mo Hua chatted while multitasking, bleeding this monster.

In just a moment, this monster’s form little by little became “thin.”

Its body scales also shrunk, shed, gradually faded, and finally merged into the skin.

As time passed, more and more blood was bled, the monster became increasingly thin, and this deformed monster body gradually showed a “human form.”

Everyone was then secretly alarmed.

This bloody monster was actually really a person…

About another incense stick of time passed, and the blood was almost completely bled.

And this monster also restored its original appearance.

It was a short and thin old man with a pale face and hands and feet that still retained some strange monster scales.

Shui Yan Luo sized up his face and sighed: “Indeed it is ‘Mr. Wu’…”

Mo Hua looked at the thick, foul-smelling blood bled from his body, and felt some regret.

“No dragon blood…”

This “Mr. Wu’s” body was covered with dragon scales, and he must have swallowed dragon blood.

Mo Hua still thought that using the Blood Drawing Technique, he could more or less draw out some dragon blood, then quietly intercept it for research.

It was a pity that his hopes were dashed.

And at this time, this Mr. Wu was still unconscious.

“We need to wake him up…” Mo Hua said.

This Mr. Wu, guarding the Dragon King Temple and hosting sacrifices, was certainly not a good person.

At this time, everyone was in a hurry and needed to find a way out, so they naturally didn’t have time to drag on with him and wait for him to wake up naturally from his sleep.

Waking people up was not something that needed Mo Hua to intervene with so many Dian Si present.

Xia Dian Si took out several pills and fed them into Mr. Wu’s mouth.

Mo Hua also didn’t know whether this was for replenishing blood or for poisoning to stimulate life.

A moment later, Mr. Wu’s complexion did indeed get a bit better, but he still didn’t wake up.

Xia Dian Si still wanted to feed him a few more, but Gu Chang Huai was already impatient.

He grasped this Mr. Wu’s neck with one hand, directly lifted him up, and smashed him on the ground several times.

Mo Hua’s eyelids twitched; he could vaguely hear the sound of bones fracturing.

But it had to be said, this “wake up” method was indeed very effective.

A moment later, a mumbling old voice rang out.

“Stop… cough, stop…”

Gu Chang Huai stopped and threw this Mr. Wu on the ground.

This Mr. Wu slowly crawled up, only feeling dizzy and swollen in the head, and sore all over. Coupled with the severe blood loss, his vitality was greatly injured. For a moment it was like falling into a prison, and it took him a good half day to recover.

He looked towards everyone with a painful expression, frowned and said: “You… who are you? Why did you come to my Dragon King Temple and actually dare to disturb my god lord’s quiet? Aren’t you afraid…”

“Less nonsense,” Gu Chang Huai said impatiently, “We ask you questions, you answer honestly, otherwise, we’ll just kill you now.”

Mr. Wu scoffed, “Ignorant fools, dare…”

Gu Chang Huai again directly pinched his neck, lifted him up, and smashed him on the ground several more times.

This time, Mr. Wu was honest.

Pain made him understand the reality of the situation.

“Young master, ask whatever you want, this old man knows everything and will say everything,” Mr. Wu rubbed his broken ribs, putting his palms together sincerely.

Gu Chang Huai said: “I ask you, why did you want to steal our token and not let us out?”

“Steal token?” Mr. Wu was startled.

Gu Chang Huai’s gaze was ice cold, “You don’t know?”

Mr. Wu frowned and thought for a bit, then said in confusion: “Why would I want to steal your token? What token? Furthermore, I don’t know you, why would I want to steal your token?”

Gu Chang Huai frowned, the other people exchanged glances, and Mo Hua was also somewhat strange.

This Mr. Wu didn’t remember anything?

Mo Hua said: “Then what do you know?”

“Know… what?” Mr. Wu still didn’t quite understand.

“Just,” Mo Hua thought for a bit and said, “In the last segment of memory before this, what were you doing?”

Mr. Wu put his palms together and said devoutly: “I was just sitting in front of the great hall in this square, giving a routine lecture, proclaiming the god lord’s mighty deeds to the believers guarding the temple.”

“And then…”

Mr. Wu tried hard to recall a bit, his expression suddenly changed, and his gaze was somewhat mad: “I seem to have heard the god lord’s revelation. He said that there would be a big crisis in this temple, and the god lord’s strong enemy was about to arrive, coming to kill the god lord’s believers, seize the god lord’s dojo, profane the god lord’s altar, and touch the god lord’s authority…”

“Then, then I just…”

Mr. Wu’s brow was furrowed, and his expression was somewhat painful, as if he didn’t remember anything.

Then he suddenly looked around, saw the tragically dead temple guards, the ground full of limbs, blood splattered everywhere, a bloody mess, couldn’t help but feel a little nauseous, his expression was shocked and then he suddenly realized.

His face full of anger, he pointed his finger at everyone and said with a trembling voice: “You… it’s you…”

“You are the god lord’s enemies!”

“It was you who killed the believers in my temple! Your methods are so cruel, your disposition is so vicious, you…”

Mr. Wu was so angry that he couldn’t speak.

Mo Hua shook his head, “These people were not killed by us.”

Mr. Wu said angrily: “Impossible!”

“They… were killed by you,” Mo Hua’s gaze was clear and firm as he looked at Mr. Wu.

Mr. Wu’s expression suddenly froze on his face, then he continuously shook his head, muttering: “Impossible, how could I possibly kill them, I…”

“You didn’t just kill them,” Mo Hua continued, “You also ‘ate’ them…”

Mr. Wu’s face instantly turned pale, he was anxious and angry, pointed at Mo Hua and said: “Good little brat, you’re slandering people! I… how could I possibly eat people? I…”

“Look, what’s on the edge of your own mouth?”

Mo Hua’s voice was very calm, but to Mr. Wu’s ears, it was as cold as ghosts from hell.

Mr. Wu smacked his mouth, and tasted it, it was the taste of blood in his own mouth.

Even between his teeth, there were still strands of meat.

This blood was human blood, and this meat strand…

Mr. Wu’s eyes rolled, and he suddenly turned towards the ground, vomiting madly, as if he wanted to vomit out his own liver and guts.

Mo Hua looked at Mr. Wu, muttering somewhat strangely, “He actually really doesn’t know…”

Everyone looked at Mr. Wu, who was made to almost vomit out his intestines by Mo Hua’s few words, then turned their heads and silently looked at Mo Hua, for a while they couldn’t say a word…

Mr. Wu vomited for a long time, until he really almost vomited out his own intestines, then he slightly recovered a bit.

But in his heart, he still seemed unable to accept that he had killed the god lord’s believers and devoured their flesh.

“It must be you, it’s you! It was you who killed them, it has nothing to do with me…”

Mr. Wu said hysterically.

Shui Yan Luo didn’t want to bear this “sin,” so he said devoutly: “Mr. Wu, you should recognize me, I am also a believer of the god lord, I…”

“Shut up!” Mr. Wu said angrily, “I understand, it must be you, it was you who brought these evil people, you betrayed the god lord, you are also a sinner of the god lord!”

Shui Yan Luo’s face was ugly.

Xiao Dian Si’s gaze slightly flickered, then he said: “Mr. Wu seems to know nothing, leaving him is also useless. Since that’s the case, cut open his belly, take out that token, and we can also leave.”

Mr. Wu’s expression trembled, “Cut open my belly?”

Xiao Dian Si looked at him and slowly said: “You turned into a monster, stole our token, and swallowed it into your abdomen.”

Mr. Wu said: “Impossible!”

Xiao Dian Si didn’t waste words with him, “I’ll cut open your belly, take out the token, show it to you, then you’ll know.”

Mr. Wu said in panic: “How can this be? My body is heavily injured, once my belly is cut open, how can I still live? Even if I don’t die, I’ll only have half a life left.”

Xiao Dian Si said indifferently: “Whether you die or not, what does it have to do with me? I only want the token.”

“But in my abdomen, there really is no token.”

“How do you know there’s none?”

“Whether it’s in my belly or not, how could I not know?”

“I don’t believe you.”

“You…”

Xiao Dian Si drew his sword, just wanting to cut Mr. Wu’s belly.

Mr. Wu’s face was pale, unable to resist, “Really not, there’s not even a bit of foreign object feeling in my abdomen…”

But Xiao Dian Si didn’t listen, he believed seeing was believing.

Just at this time, Mo Hua suddenly said: “Xiao Dian Si, it’s possible there really is no token in Mr. Wu’s abdomen.”

Xiao Dian Si was slightly startled, frowned and said: “Why?”

Mo Hua said: “He turned into a monster, his flesh is too filthy, and it can corrode external objects. That fish bone token doesn’t look like a very sturdy thing. Being swallowed into his abdomen for so long, it is estimated that it has already been corroded by the blood qi…”

“Yes, yes,” Mr. Wu grasped a life-saving straw, continuously nodding and saying, “This little brat… this little daoist is speaking reasonably!”

Xiao Dian Si’s expression was cold and stern, he was silent and didn’t speak, not knowing what he was thinking.

Mo Hua saw the opportunity and then said to Mr. Wu: “Now the gate of Dragon King Temple is sealed dead. Do you still know if there are other ways to leave Dragon King Temple?”

Mr. Wu’s expression was hesitant.

Mo Hua’s tone became a bit colder, “Don’t blame me for not reminding you, this Xiao Dian Si might not be easy to deal with. If you are not of any use, even if there really is no token in your abdomen, he will still cut open your belly…”

Mr. Wu’s face was as white as paper. After pondering for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said: “There is a way out…”

“What method?”

“I, I still hid another token…”

Mo Hua raised his brow, “Where did you hide it?”

Mr. Wu’s expression was fearful, he hesitated several times, and finally slowly opened his mouth and said, “I hid it in… the altar…”

Mo Hua was startled, then the corners of his mouth outlined a trace of a shallow smile.

A new month has begun, seeking some monthly tickets.