Chapter 755

This monster is a demon cultivator, and not an ordinary demon cultivator at that.

Besides cultivating evil demon techniques and having a body that can "demonize," it also has mysterious Four Symbols demon patterns drawn on its body!

Mo Hua licked his lips lightly.

Four Symbols Formation!

This is a category of formations distinct from the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams formation systems.

The Taixu Sect does not pass it on.

Even ordinary sects don't have the inheritance of Four Symbols formations; it is a rather rare formation.

"Must catch this monster, skin it, and copy down the formation patterns..."

Mo Hua's gaze brightened; he pushed his Passing Water Step to the limit, his footsteps like the wind, following the bloodstains on the ground to pursue the severely injured demon cultivator.

The demon cultivator had lost an arm, was covered in blood, and crawled across the ground, leaving behind a clear trail of blood.

But it was a demon cultivator after all, and its body recovered quickly.

The bloodstains on the ground, initially gushing like a spring, gradually became like a stream, and finally left only intermittent blood marks.

But no matter how faint the bloodstains were, they couldn't hide from Mo Hua's spiritual sense.

What's more, he still had derivation.

With the guidance of cause-and-effect lines, it was almost impossible for this demon cultivator to escape.

After pursuing like this for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, the bloodstains on the ground were almost imperceptible, with only a faint fishy smell remaining in the air.

Mo Hua could only continue to pursue based on the pale red blood-colored cause-and-effect lines.

But after pursuing for another moment, the cause-and-effect lines suddenly broke.

Mo Hua frowned, looked up, and discovered that at some point, he had arrived in the depths of this mountain forest.

Before his eyes, trees were dense and thick, obscured by mist.

Front, back, left, and right, it was boundless.

At a glance, he didn't know where he was at all.

What was even more suspicious was that he released his spiritual sense, and under his perception, everything seemed normal; only by distinguishing carefully could he discover that his spiritual sense couldn't "see" anything at all...

It was as if something had quietly absorbed his probing spiritual sense.

It was also as if the entire mountain forest had woven a layer of spiritual sense "mist," blocking the cultivator's spiritual sense perception.

That severely injured demon beast had disappeared into the forest, like a fish swimming into the sea or a fierce tiger returning to the forest, leaving no trace.

"Lost it?"

Mo Hua's expression was slightly startled, his brows knitting tighter and tighter.

With his spiritual sense and Heavenly Machine derivation, he basically never lost anyone, let alone a severely injured cultivator like this...

This dense forest...

Mo Hua stood there blankly, staring at the dense forest for a long time, pondering deeply, and suddenly realized something, his pupils shaking.

What kind of thing can isolate spiritual sense?

Such large-scale spiritual sense isolation must be a formation!

But ordinary formations, in reality, actually cannot "isolate" spiritual sense.

Most confidential formations take into account soundproofing and spiritual sense isolation.

But this so-called "isolation" of spiritual sense, in terms of principle, uses formations to create chaotic spiritual power, forming a "barrier" to "isolate" spiritual sense perception.

The underlying principle is confusion at the spiritual power level, not isolation at the spiritual sense level.

When probing it with spiritual sense, one can feel a clear, obstructive "barrier."

But the dense forest before his eyes did not.

There was no obvious "barrier," yet it could isolate spiritual sense probing, making it difficult for people to see the truth.

And this kind of formation that can truly "isolate" perception from the spiritual sense level, inferred from its principle, must contain some kind of application of spiritual sense power.

In other words, the formation in this dense forest is...

A Divine Dao Formation?!

Mo Hua sucked in a breath of cold air slightly.

Unexpectedly...

Buy one get one free?!

He never expected that in this Demon Refining Mountain outside the mountain that he was accustomed to, right under his own nose, there would quietly be two types of rare formations hidden at the same time.

The Four Symbols formation on the demon cultivator.

And, integrated with this piece of dense forest...

A Divine Dao Formation!

Mo Hua released his spiritual sense again to look, but as soon as his spiritual sense entered the deep forest, it was like mud entering the sea, without a sound.

Even if his spiritual sense weren't powerful and qualitatively changed, his perception sharp, and his spiritual sense subtle, he wouldn't have noticed at all that when his spiritual sense was probing this dense forest, it actually didn't "see" anything.

Spiritual sense "looking but not seeing"...

This dense forest, in his spiritual sense, both existed and yet did not exist.

Mo Hua sighed in admiration inwardly.

What brilliant means.

What a powerful formation!

Mo Hua immediately wanted to step into the forest to study the Divine Dao Formation in the dense forest properly, but just as he raised his foot, he hesitated.

"This dense forest is a bit dangerous..."

That demon cultivator was injured and still wanted to run into this forest.

This shows that this dense forest is very likely its place of refuge.

Such a large piece of dense forest, such a brilliant Divine Dao Formation, must not have been set up by an ordinary cultivator.

Then in the depths of this dense forest, there is a high probability that there are the demon cultivator's accomplices.

Birds of a feather flock together.

People who can associate with demon cultivators, even if they aren't demon cultivators, must be other cruel demon cultivators.

Their cultivation realm is at least Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core is possible.

Now that he is alone, with only Foundation Establishment mid-tier cultivation, and without anyone to protect him, rashly entering the dense forest is still a bit too dangerous.

Mo Hua sighed.

He paced in front of the dense forest for a long time, hesitating in his heart, weighing it over and over, and still had to give up for the time being.

"What a pity..."

Clearly the Divine Dao Formation was right before his eyes.

But under the current circumstances, it wasn't good for him to rashly take risks, so he'd better go back first and then plan from a long-term perspective.

Anyway, the mountain forest is right here and won't grow legs and run away.

Mo Hua nodded, and only then did he leave somewhat reluctantly.

"Wait until I'm fully prepared, then I'll come back to pick the vegetables!"

Mo Hua nodded, and only then did he leave somewhat reluctantly.

After Mo Hua left, Xun Call Ziyou looked at his back, estimating Mo Hua's movement trajectory, and after confirming that he wouldn't be in danger for a short time, only then did he step toward the mountain forest.

His primary duty in the Demon Refining Mountain is to ensure Mo Hua's safety.

Other things are secondary.

Now that Mo Hua is safe, only then will he take a little time to go check on that demon cultivator.

The forest was shrouded in thin mist, trees towering, primitive and desolate.

Xun Call Ziyou walked a few laps in the mountain forest, released his spiritual sense, and scanned it a few times, still gaining nothing, and couldn't help but frown.

He, a Golden Core late-tier cultivator, chasing a Foundation Establishment late-tier demon cultivator, and he could lose him?

He had indeed been a bit slack over these years, but it was absolutely impossible for him to be this lazy.

It definitely wasn't his problem.

Xun Call Ziyou was a bit unconvinced, so he turned his head and said to the right side:

"You lost him too, right."

Light and shadow emerged on the right, and a man wearing Chongxu Sect robes appeared, his expression also a bit awkward, but he said:

"I was watching Xiao'er, I didn't pay much attention to other things."

"Why?"

The Chongxu Sect elder looked at Xun Call Ziyou and pretended to be indifferent. "You lost him?"

Xun Call Ziyou couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him.

The two released their spiritual sense and searched the mountain forest once, and then both frowned.

"He really disappeared..." The Chongxu Sect elder also became serious, his expression puzzled:

"What kind of means could that demon cultivator have to be able to deceive the spiritual sense of the two of us Golden Core cultivators?"

"Invisibility Technique? Invisibility magic treasure?"

Xun Call Ziyou shook his head.

The cultivation world is vast, with a wide variety of cultivation techniques, Dao techniques, and magic treasures, and it was hard for him to determine for a moment.

Logically speaking, with a disparity in realms and such a large gap in spiritual sense, even if there were some invisibility or means to conceal aura, it was impossible to deceive their perception.

Moreover, there was an even more important question.

Xun Call Ziyou frowned and said:

"How could there be a demon cultivator in the Demon Refining Mountain?"

The Chongxu Sect elder also had a solemn gaze:

"There are formations sealing the mountain all around, and at the mountain gate, there are formations monitoring demon energy; every disciple entering the mountain has been checked with a warding-off mirror, and we elders also patrol the mountain without interruption..."

"There should only be sect disciples in this mountain; apart from us patrolling Golden Core elders, it's impossible for there to be any other cultivators."

"How could there be a demon cultivator?"

"How did it enter the mountain, how did it hide in this mountain, and what kind of scheme does it have?"

Both of them had somewhat solemn expressions.

"Should we search the mountain?"

"The commotion would be too big; instead, it would blow things out of proportion, cause panic, bring trouble, and we might not even find him..."

After all, that demon cultivator disappeared right under the noses of two Golden Core cultivators.

"Stare here for a while?"

Xun Call Ziyou shook his head: "Not that much time."

Their primary mission is to protect Mo Hua and Linghu Xiao.

Both of them sighed.

The Chongxu Sect elder looked at the mountain forest in front of him again, the more he looked, the more confused he became, muttering in a low voice:

"What kind of means was used to deceive your and my spiritual sense..."

Xun Call Ziyou also stared at the mountain forest, frowning in confusion.

After staring for a while, Xun Call Ziyou was suddenly startled, his gaze solemn:

"Shangguan Xuanjian, you've been in this Demon Refining Mountain for so long, have you ever seen this mountain forest?"

The Chongxu Sect elder was startled, sized up the mountain forest in front of him again, and his brows slowly knitted.

"It seems indeed... a bit unfamiliar..."

The Demon Refining Mountain is very large, and there are many mountain forests.

But as an elder stationed in the Demon Refining Mountain for a long time, he had been to most places.

But this mountain forest in front of him, although it looked like an ordinary forest at a glance, not much different from other mountain forests, at most just a bit more vast, with no end in sight, relatively speaking, its aura was indeed too unfamiliar...

"Do you mean that it's not that the demon cultivator's invisibility means are brilliant, but rather... this forest has a trick?"

The Chongxu Sect elder asked.

Xun Call Ziyou nodded slowly.

The Chongxu Sect elder released his spiritual sense and scanned the area.

But although they were Golden Core, their spiritual sense was powerful but not qualitatively changed, their perception wasn't sharp enough, and they weren't proficient in formations, lacking the experience of relevant formations.

A scan of spiritual sense, and the surrounding mountain forest was still empty.

The Chongxu Sect elder couldn't help but ask: "What kind of trick?"

Xun Call Ziyou shook his head.

He hadn't figured it out yet either.

Xun Call Ziyou frowned in thought, and suddenly remembered Mo Hua.

He remembered that Mo Hua had just stared at this mountain forest for a long time, his eyes getting brighter and brighter, as if he had discovered something.

Later, he stepped forward wanting to enter the mountain forest, but hesitated for a moment, didn't enter, and before leaving, turned his head and looked at this strange dense forest with deep meaning.

Xun Call Ziyou pondered carefully, feeling somewhat unbelievable.

That child Mo Hua... he couldn't have seen something, could he?

"But how is that possible?"

The two of them, dignified Golden Core cultivators, couldn't see it, so how could he, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, see it?

Xun Call Ziyou frowned.

But if it were true...

If that child Mo Hua really saw something.

Then it would mean that the secret of this forest involves something Mo Hua is very proficient in, while he himself is not good at.

That is... formations!

Was a formation set up in this dense forest, which is why it could quietly isolate the spiritual sense probing of Golden Core cultivators and provide a hiding place for the demon cultivator?

What kind of formation?

Xun Call Ziyou looked at the plain-looking mountain forest in front of him, which had no trace of a formation and no clues, his expression somewhat blank.

What kind of formation could this be?

How did that child Mo Hua see it?

No matter what, he was also a Golden Core.

He couldn't see it after living for more than two hundred years, yet this child, less than twenty years old, could see it...

Xun Call Ziyou sighed deeply.

Geniuses are annoying.

Especially geniuses in formations.

Formations are too obscure, and the water inside is too deep.

Some formation geniuses, you don't even know where they are powerful, let alone how much of a gap there is between you and them...

The Chongxu Sect elder on the side, seeing Xun Call Ziyou's expression changing and sighing incessantly, frowned and asked:

"Do you know something?"

Xun Call Ziyou was startled, came back to his senses, thought about it, and felt that these were just his own guesses, so it was better not to say them out loud for now.

"No, just sighing that we elders were negligent, letting a demon cultivator sneak in." Xun Call Ziyou sighed.

The Chongxu Sect elder nodded upon hearing this.

Xun Call Ziyou added: "This matter is strange; after returning to the sect to report, we will discuss a solution. Let's not make a scene for now, so as not to let the news leak..."

"That would be for the best." The Chongxu Sect elder nodded.

After the two finished discussing, they prepared to leave.

But before leaving, the Chongxu Sect elder suddenly remembered something, feeling somewhat palpitated, and asked:

"By the way, what's going on with that 'sword control'?"

Xun Call Ziyou played dumb. "What 'sword control'?"

The Chongxu Sect elder was annoyed. "Don't play dumb with me; I saw it with my own eyes. That child, from a distance of more than one hundred and sixty feet, didn't even condense sword qi; his spiritual sense shook, and a spirit sword flew out directly, golden and bright, exploding into a mass of sword qi, shredding the demon cultivator's demonized arm, staining half its body with blood..."

That child named Mo Hua is only at Foundation Establishment mid-tier.

For sword control at this realm to have such sharp technique, such a long distance, such fast speed, and such powerful force...

The Chongxu Sect elder still felt shocked thinking about it now.

Xun Call Ziyou looked "shocked," shook his head, and said:

"No way, how is that possible? You must have seen it wrong."

The Chongxu Sect elder was speechless. "How could I have seen it wrong?"

"You just saw it wrong." Xun Call Ziyou said with a serious and certain expression, "That wasn't sword control, just a hidden weapon with a formation drawn on it; its power was actually average, but the demon cultivator was already severely injured and unable to resist, which is why it was blown up so miserably."

The Chongxu Sect elder was incredulous. "A hidden weapon with a formation drawn on it? You're talking nonsense!"

Xun Call Ziyou retorted: "Then have you ever seen a Foundation Establishment mid-tier cultivator use sword control at one hundred and sixty feet with such great power?"

The Chongxu Sect elder paused. "That... I haven't..."

This kind of thing indeed went against his common sense.

"And, sword control..." Xun Call Ziyou added, "Even that genius disciple of your Chongxu Sect who has a clear sword heart hasn't learned sword control yet; Mo Hua isn't a sword cultivator, so how could he use such powerful sword control?"

"That's true." The Chongxu Sect elder couldn't help but nod.

If nothing else, in terms of sword talent, he dared to conclude that Linghu Xiao was absolutely a top-tier talent in the Chongxu Sect, and even in the entire Ganxue Prefecture.

If Mo Hua really knew sword control, and such a powerful "sword control" at that, wouldn't he be even more of a genius than his Chongxu Sect's sword genius?

This was absolutely impossible!

The Chongxu Sect elder gradually believed it.

He was further away and hadn't seen it very clearly himself; he just "felt" that Mo Hua seemed to have used sword control, and then from far away, hit that demon cultivator, with sword qi overflowing and exploding into a cloud of blood mist.

But thinking about it now, sword control clearly didn't make much sense.

Controlling some kind of spirit tool shaped like a hidden weapon with a special formation drawn on it was reasonable.

The Chongxu Sect elder nodded slightly.

Xun Call Ziyou on the side silently breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

Finally managed to fool him...

This child Mo Hua does such "conspicuous" things, and he still has to talk nonsense and find reasons to cover for him, so as not to attract unnecessary attention.

But fortunately, the things this child does are one more "outrageous" than the next.

If he told others, they might not even believe it.

On the contrary, the excuse he made up seemed much more "reliable."

Xun Call Ziyou sighed silently in his heart.

Not only does he have to keep him safe, but he also has to make up excuses and tell lies for him.

Is it easy for him?

"If there's a chance in the future, I must make this child treat me to a drink..."

On the other side, Mo Hua met up with Linghu Xiao and the others.

"Ran away, can't find him." Mo Hua sighed.

Everyone felt a bit regretful; they were just a little bit away from killing that demon cultivator.

"Let's go back first and see how Cheng Mo's injuries are. As for that demon cultivator, since he's in the mountain, he won't be able to run away sooner or later."

Daring to lay a hand on my Taixu Sect's junior brother, sooner or later I'll skin him!

Mo Hua thought silently in his heart.

The group walked back, but on the way back, Linghu Xiao was clearly somewhat burdened with worries.

Behind his back, he secretly looked at Mo Hua several times, and finally couldn't help but ask:

"Do you know sword control?"

Mo Hua was a bit surprised and nodded. "I know a little bit, but it's not orthodox sword control; it mainly relies on the formations on the sword."

Linghu Xiao let out an "um" and didn't say anything else, but in his heart, he regarded Mo Hua even more as an "expert" who was unfathomable.

"Sooner or later, I'll have a fight with him..."

Linghu Xiao thought firmly in his heart.

Arriving at the foot of the Taixu Sect mountain, the group separated.

Linghu Xiao returned to the Chongxu Sect.

Mo Hua and the others returned to the Taixu Sect.

Arriving at the mountain gate, Situ Situ Jian asked: "Junior Brother, should we tell the elders in the sect about the demon cultivator?"

Mo Hua thought about it and felt that this matter was a bit strange; he didn't have to tell others, but he should inform the elders in the sect.

"Um." Mo Hua nodded.

And then he found Elder Song, who was responsible for attendance and various other disciple matters in the sect, and told him about encountering the demon cultivator in the Demon Refining Mountain.

"Demon cultivator!"

Upon hearing this, Elder Song's expression immediately became solemn.

"Good, I will notify the sect elders on duty in the Demon Refining Mountain about this matter, let them pay attention, and also ensure the safety of the disciples."

"The elder on duty in the Demon Refining Mountain? Is it Elder Xun Call Ziyou?" Mo Hua asked.

Elder Song was a bit surprised. "You know him?"

Mo Hua shook his head. "I've met him once, heard his name, but I don't know him well."

Elder Song nodded. "That's good; when the time comes, if there's anything, Elder Xun will go ask you again."

Mo Hua nodded. "Um, okay."

After reporting to the sect, Mo Hua felt relieved, and he went to check on Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo's injuries had improved quite a bit.

"We avenged you and cut off one of that monster's arms."

Mo Hua even showed Cheng Mo that small piece of arm, and then put it away himself.

Cheng Mo's aura was a bit weak, and he smiled bitterly: "Thank you, Junior Brother."

Seeing that his expression was somewhat dejected, Mo Hua said:

"That was a demon cultivator, very strong; the five of us joined forces and only managed to cut off one of its arms, and it still ran away."

"You rest well and recover; when your injuries are healed, we'll go find it together to get our revenge, chop that monster up, and skin it!"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Mo's spirit was indeed lifted, and he nodded with a smile:

"Okay!"

(End of chapter)

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