Asking about longevity

Chapter 683 Blood Mist (Additional update for leader Wind Chocolate~)

The undercurrent at the Qianxue state boundary is flowing faster.

As the "mastermind behind the scenes", Mo Hua still knows nothing about it.

He is "starving" now and just wants to catch a fish and get some divine bones to "satisfy his hunger".

After a few days, the fish finally took the bait.

After finishing the ink painting class, he was having dinner in the disciples' residence when he received a letter from Gu Changhuai:

"The dragon crossing the river is dead."

Mo Hua said: "Real death and fake death?"

"suspended animation."

"Did you catch the mole?"

Gu Changhuai was silent for a moment and said apologetically: "No..."

Later, Gu Changhuai explained the whole story:

"My time is limited and I can't keep an eye on him all the time, so I sent people from the Gu family to sneak into the prison disguised as prisoners and secretly keep an eye on the dragon across the river."

"It started off calm and nothing happened."

"But at midnight yesterday, the man who was watching suddenly felt that his whole body was cold, as if something had entered the prison. At the same time, he also felt dizzy and sleepy. When he woke up again, the dragon crossing the river was dead and his body was It’s all rotten…”

Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly, "Is it dead?"

"Yes." Gu Changhuai said, "He has malignant sores on his body, which are rotten and smelly. No one in the prison dares to approach him."

Mo Hua asked: "Can the identity still be identified?"

Gu Changhuai said: "As always, the flesh and blood were eroded by the demonic energy, the face was rotten, the meridians were destroyed, and the spiritual power was polluted, but this time the demonic energy was not heavy, and most of the body remained..."

Gu Changhuai sighed, "It can be seen that the dead man was as tall and built as a dragon crossing the river. He also had water spiritual roots, and he still smelled fishy..."

Mo Hua nodded.

This is to find a "scapegoat" and use demonic energy to destroy different characteristics, leaving only the height, body shape, spiritual root attributes, and the same characteristics as the dragon crossing the river.

It really took a lot of effort.

I don’t know who this scapegoat is or where he found it.

Gu Changhuai continued: "Sudden illness, covered with sores, and died in prison. The basic characteristics are the same. Daotingsi closed the case and sealed the file of Guojiang Long."

Mo Hua nodded slightly.

All this was exactly the same as what he heard from Mr. Jin.

"Then what?" Mo Hua asked again.

"No more." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua obviously didn't believe it and said firmly:

"Uncle Gu, you must have a backup plan and hide something from me."

Mo Hua knows Uncle Gu well.

Although he is very good at spiritual knowledge and formations, he is a real "experienced" in the Daoting Division, especially in criminal investigation. How could it really be that simple and let the Dragon Crossing the River escape?

Gu Changhuai was found out and said silently: "It's useless to tell you."

"If you don't tell me, you won't be able to catch the dragon crossing the river."

There is a mastery in ink painting.

Gu Changhuai was startled, his eyes complicated, and then he sighed deeply.

He always felt that Mo Hua was like a "little magic stick", capable of pinching and calculating, and nothing could be hidden from him...

In this case, Gu Changhuai would not hide it from him.

"Outside of the Daoting Division, I also secretly sent people to keep an eye on it. The next day, a corpse transporter took several corpses of those who had been sentenced to death and transported them out of the Daoting Division for incineration. The dragon crossed the river. inside……"

"Is there something wrong with this executive?"

"No, he didn't know." Gu Changhuai said.

"Then...the dragon crossing the river was incinerated?"

Gu Changhuai shook his head, "He was dropped halfway..."

"A funeral procession passed by with carriages and horses carrying corpses. Someone took advantage of the chief executive's inattention and swapped two identical coffins."

"Then the chief executive carried the body to the incinerator, and the funeral procession took away the coffin of Dragon Crossing the River and buried it..."

"After I buried it, I secretly asked someone to dig up the coffin. I found that the coffin was empty and the dragon crossing the river was gone..."

Mo Hua was a little surprised.

This method of "stealing one thing and replacing another" is indeed somewhat clever.

He silently remembered it, maybe he could use it in the future.

"Where is the coffin buried?" Mo Hua asked.

"On the banks of the Yanshui River."

Mo Hua was startled, "So, the dragon that crossed the river returned to the Yanshui River?"

"should be……"

"Can we still find it?" Mo Hua asked.

Gu Changhuai sighed, "When a water-type monk like him enters the river, it is like letting a fish into the water and letting the birds return to the forest. The forest is deep and the water is wide, and there is no trace left."

"And he must have changed his face, no one can recognize him."

"There are more or less water monks in the Yanshui River. I can investigate them one by one, but doing so will inevitably alert the snake, and there is no way to catch big fish in the long run..."

"Oh..." Mo Hua nodded.

He also didn't write ink, and said diligently: "Uncle Gu, let me find him for you!"

Gu Changhuai narrowed his eyes and noticed something was wrong, "Do you have any conditions waiting for me?"

Mo Hua pretended to be sad: "Uncle Gu, am I such a person? Punishing evil and promoting good is the duty of a righteous monk. As a dignified Taixu Sect..."

"Forget it if you don't tell me."

"I said it!" Mo Hua said immediately, and then sent out a lot of words that he had prepared:

"Just three small conditions: tell me the clues about the traffickers; support me when I need help;"

"...The last thing is, next time, can I do the reward first, and then you can give me a reward according to the task content. This way, the process at Daotingsi will go faster, and the merits will not be owed..."

The merits of the Fire Buddha have not yet been revealed!

Daotingsi's organization is bloated, its processes are redundant, and Mo Hua's resentment is deep.

Gu Changhuai took a slight breath.

Are these three small conditions for you?

Which condition is smaller?

The person is not big, but the tone is not small.

"No!" Gu Changhuai refused.

"No, I didn't say you couldn't bargain..." Mo Hua said weakly.

Gu Changhuai's forehead hurt a little.

Feelings, you are a child like me, the Dao Ting Si Dian Si, who is asking for a lot of money, and has to sit on the ground to pay back the money...

Gu Changhuai: "I can only agree to one thing."

"Two?" Mo Hua asked tentatively.

"Just one, if it doesn't work, forget it."

"Oh, just one."

Mo Hua reluctantly accepted.

Gu Changhuai said: "The matter of the human traffickers is related to confidentiality, so I can't tell you; the matter of the reward is related to the Daotingsi system, and I can't agree to it. But if you are in danger or need support, I can help you. …”

Protecting the safety of Mo Hua was also my cousin's intention. In a sense, it was also for Yu'er's benefit.

Gu Changhuai found a reason for himself.

Gu Changhuai continued: "Next time during the holidays, when you come to the Gu family, I will give you a secret order from the Gu family. This secret order can order the monks from the Gu family in the Daoting Division of the surrounding second-grade Xiaoxian City..."

Mo Hua was dumbfounded.

Gu family secret order?

The Gu family monk who ordered the second-grade Dao Tingsi?

Mo Hua was a little embarrassed, "Isn't this... a bit too expensive..."

"Forget it if you don't want it."

"Yes!" Mo Hua said quickly.

It would be a fool not to take advantage of it.

It just so happened that he wanted to catch the evil god by the tail and needed help.

Although Cheng Mo and the others would also help, there were only four or five people there, which was not enough manpower.

Moreover, their cultivation level is really low and they need to practice more before they can be useful.

Gu Changhuai reminded again: "In my hand, this secret order of the Gu family is used to 'give orders', but in your hands, it is only used to 'save lives'. Don't use it indiscriminately, and don't think about using the secret order to boss around or blackmail the Gu family." Disciple, if I do something excessive for you, they will not agree..."

"If you let me know that you are doing anything wrong with this secret order, I will confiscate it then!"

Gu Changhuai looked serious.

"Yeah! Don't worry!" Mo Hua promised, "I will never do anything excessive!"

Gu Changhuai breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Mo Hua's assurance.

"I will tell you other clues about the dragon crossing the river. It would be best if you can find him. If you can't find him, don't force it."

"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.

Afterwards, Gu Changhuai told Mo Hua the location where the Dragon Crossing the River buried its body and then disappeared, including the clues that Daotingsi later investigated in the Yanshui River.

During the break, Mo Hua couldn't wait and ran to Gu's house.

Gu Changhuai looked at Mo Hua's piercing eyes and felt a little regretful in his heart. However, thinking that he had promised Mo Hua, he could not break his promise, so he gritted his teeth and handed over a jade secret order with the word "Gu" engraved on it. Ink painting.

"Only for help and support, don't act recklessly!"

Gu Changhuai warned again.

"Uh-huh!"

The ink painting is full of promise.

Gu Changhuai breathed a sigh of relief and then gave the secret order to Mo Hua.

Mo Hua took the "Gu Family Secret Order" and felt that it was shiny, cold and heavy. It was very precious at first glance.

Uncle Gu is a good man!

Mo Hua thought.

Then he put the secret order into the storage bag, but felt it was not respectful enough, so he put it into his own ring.

With the Gu family's secret order in hand, from now on, he will have a "backer" to hang out in the second-grade small state near the sect. It will be more convenient and more confident for him to act on his own.

Mo Hua felt that his waist had become much stiffer.

But with the benefits, I can't be careless in doing things.

He wanted to help Uncle Gu... which could be regarded as helping himself, to catch the dragon crossing the river who "faked his death".

You cannot be ashamed of your trust in Uncle Gu.

Especially I cannot be ashamed of this precious Gu family secret order!

Mo Hua looked solemn and nodded.

After saying goodbye to Gu Changhuai, he went to see Aunt Wan again, had a meal with Yu'er, and then Mo Hua set off for the lower reaches of the Yanshui River.

He was the only one in this operation.

Because they were being watched secretly and there was no merit to be obtained yet, they didn't take Cheng Mo and the others with them.

Arriving at Yanshui River, Mo Hua found the grave where Dragon Crossing the River faked his death and buried his body.

The tomb has no monument, it is just a slope of earth. There are some symbolic Feng Shui formations surrounding the tomb to protect it.

Near the river, the soil is semi-wet.

There is no need to dig out the ink painting. With a quick scan of the ink painting, you will know that the coffin is empty.

But some of the remaining breath in the coffin can still be clearly distinguished in the ink painting, which belongs to the dragon crossing the river.

His eyes were deep, and secrets emerged.

Traces of cause and effect extended from the coffin and floated into the river. After that, the river was vast and disappeared without a trace.

Mo Hua remembered the other clues that Uncle Gu had said, and followed them along the Yanshui River in hiding, checking them one by one.

There are indeed traces of dragons crossing the river in the river, and there are also some light white dotted lines of cause and effect, but they are all very thin.

Although it is weak, it also means that the Dragon Crossing the River is still active nearby.

Crossing the River Dragon cultivates water-based skills and lives by water. The river is his second life, and the waterway inside is his way of survival. He cannot go far.

What's more, the most dangerous place is the safest place.

Mo Hua calmed down, found a place with the deepest causal line, and sat invisibly, ready to wait and see.

At the same time, he took out the few skill secret books he got from Guojiang Long and silently looked through them.

The first is the "Bai Lang Jue" technique.

This exercise cannot be learned in ink painting, and there is no need to learn it. However, the movement routes, meridians and connections, and the disadvantages and shortcomings must be carefully studied.

Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

Only by knowing the techniques of Dragon Crossing the River can we restrain him better.

The second is Bailangjue Shenfa.

This is a water-based body technique, but it is completely different from the passing water step in ink painting, which focuses on dodging to save one's life.

What Bailang Shenfa emphasizes is that human and water are one, and it is performed in the water. Humans are like fishes, swimming freely without restrictions.

Mo Hua thought this might be useful in the future, so he learned it.

Time is limited, so you don’t need to be too proficient, just make do with it.

There is also a secret technique for avoiding monsters in the water, called water-driving monsters, which allows monks to avoid aquatic monsters in the water, as well as poisonous weeds, whirlpools and other unknown dangers.

In a sense, it is more like the experience and skills of a "monster hunter".

It's just that this kind of monster hunter is not from the mountains, but from the water.

Ink Hua is instinctively interested in monster hunter stuff.

So you have to learn this too.

The world of cultivation is vast and there is no end to learning.

Mo Hua was just like this, while flipping through these exercises and Taoist techniques, he was distracted and paying attention to the movement in the water.

The more he sees, the more Mo Hua understands Yanshui River.

Just like when he first entered the Dahei Mountains, he went from unfamiliar to familiar, and then to knowing every plant and tree in the mountains like the back of his hand.

Today's Yanshui River gradually became clearer in Mo Hua's eyes.

The flow of the river, the floating aquatic plants, the swimming spiritual fish, and the dangerous water monsters lurking in the muddy mud, waiting for opportunities...

Suddenly, Mo Hua felt that he had a subtle connection with Yanshuihe.

This section of the river seems to be communicating with the spiritual consciousness of the ink painting bit by bit.

The Yanshui River, which was originally rippling with dangerous waves, gradually became "friendly" and familiar, just like the pond at his home...

This feeling is very mysterious.

At this moment, Mo Hua's consciousness moved slightly.

In the familiar river, a river suddenly swam from a distance with a more familiar scent.

Martial Law!

You don’t even need to look at the ink painting, you can feel it instantly.

The smoke and water are vast and sparkling.

The Dragon Crossing the River lurks in the Yanshui River, swimming along the current like a big fish.

This gives the ink painting an illusion.

Just like the fish he released, leisurely and leisurely, it swam back to his own "pond"...

Mo Hua's eyes brightened slightly.

In the Yanshui River, the Dragon Crossing the River swam forward along the current.

The ink painting continued to hide its figure, following the dragon crossing the river in the water, walking forward along the river.

After walking like this for a long time, the Dragon Crossing the River still stayed in the river, swimming along the current without ever coming ashore.

Mo Hua followed patiently.

I don’t know how long it took, until night fell and there was no light on the water, the dragon crossing the river turned its head in the water and swam towards the shore.

As they approached the shore, the Crossing Dragon floated on the river first. It paused for a while until it was sure that no one was around, and then it jumped ashore with peace of mind.

Through the faint moonlight, Mo Hua could see his figure clearly.

The previous Dragon Crossing the River had a beardless face and was all white, like a white fish.

Now he looks like a man, with a dark and rugged face and a long beard. He is also bare-chested, but his hair is very dark, and his muscles are knotted and dull, like a big black fish.

On the surface, he is not the same person as before.

Mo Hua snorted in his heart:

"Young man, you think I can't recognize you after you change your 'vest'?"

A person's appearance may change, but his spiritual essence remains the same.

Such superficial changes in skin and flesh cannot hide from Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness.

"However, the big fish finally showed up..."

Mo Hua was slightly happy.

After the Dragon Crossing the River came ashore, he looked around cautiously, then took out a few dead fish from the storage bag, found a fish basket and released them.

Then he carried the fish basket and the dead fish and walked to the shore.

Mo Hua followed quietly behind him.

When we reached the shore, the moonlight became a little brighter, and the clear light shone on the trail.

The rough-faced Dragon Crossing the River kept walking forward, completely unaware that since he left the river, an invisible little monk who looked like a "water ghost" was already following behind him.

After walking for a long time, the road gradually widened, and a small fishing village appeared in front of us.

The fishing village is dilapidated, with old fishing nets and fish baskets everywhere.

There is a faint fishy smell in the air.

It was already dark at this time, and there were only a few flickering dim lights in the quiet fishing village.

Mo Hua was startled, and based on the direction in his mind, he suddenly realized that this small fishing village was the place pointed out by the fishing cultivators he met before when they invited him home as a guest.

The Dragon Crossing the River walked straight into the small fishing village.

Mo Hua thought for a while and followed in.

The small fishing village is poor, quiet but peaceful.

The dragon crossing the river is still walking in front, and the ink painting follows suit.

As they walked, Crossing the River Dragon turned into a small, remote hut and disappeared.

Mo Hua frowned, let go of his consciousness and scanned the surroundings, but found nothing.

"Where are you going?"

Mo Hua looked confused, so he thought about using heaven's calculations to see the cause and effect.

His pupils were deep, and the texture of heaven appeared in his eyes, and he looked around.

A cold and evil Qi suddenly emerged.

The originally quiet, dimly lit fishing village was suddenly enveloped in a layer of faint scarlet blood mist.