MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 73

Chapter 73: The Scent of Blood

Shen Yucheng really hadn’t expected Mo Yifeng to suddenly return. His heart sank. Luckily, he retracted his pressure in time, or he would have been done for.

He heard footsteps approaching from behind, stopping in front of him.

*Has he discovered something…?*

“What are you doing?” The other’s voice carried scrutiny.

Shen Yucheng stared directly at Qi Hao, his eyes conveying pressure, clearly warning him to be sensible and not say unnecessary things. As he turned around, he said, “Nothing, I just had a sudden need to relieve myself, and he took me to do it.”

Hearing this, Mo Yifeng’s gaze fell on Qi Hao, who was slumped on the ground. But at this moment, Qi Hao’s expression didn’t match what Shen Yucheng was saying.

Shen Yucheng also realized that he had been impulsive just now. No matter how annoyed he was, he shouldn’t have acted directly. At the very least, he should have made sure that Mo Yifeng wouldn’t return so quickly.

He didn’t know what was wrong with him, that he would make such a mistake.

Although Qi Hao hadn’t revealed anything under his threat, the expression he couldn’t control had already betrayed Shen Yucheng, clearly indicating that something major had happened.

“When I was relieving myself, I heard a scream. When I came out, he was like this. He won’t say anything when I ask him,” Shen Yucheng said, observing Mo Yifeng’s reaction.

Mo Yifeng stared directly at him, seemingly trying to find a flaw.

Too bad, who did he think his Yucheng-ge was? How could he be seen through so easily?

As a result, after a moment of stalemate, Mo Yifeng couldn’t see anything and had Qi Hao retreat first, then took Shen Yucheng back to his room.

Back in the room, Shen Yucheng sat on the bed. “Sword Master, you’ve probed my breath, you’ve tried spiritual communication, shouldn’t you let me go now? I’ve told you, I’m just an ordinary cultivator.”

Mo Yifeng ignored him, entering the room and immediately taking off his outer robe.

“What are you doing?”

Shen Yucheng remembered Mo Yifeng’s always-amazing thought process. Seeing his actions, he immediately retreated a few steps towards the inside of the bed. But after a second thought, he felt that something was wrong, so he simply jumped off the bed and onto the ground, making it easier to escape.

Mo Yifeng didn’t react to this, but sat cross-legged in a corner of the room and said lightly, “You can’t leave yet. Until then, just stay here.”

Actually, this was exactly what Shen Yucheng wanted. He had just asked as a formality. If he were really allowed to leave, that would be a problem, because once he left here, it would be difficult to find out the secret of Mo Yifeng’s last ten years.

He was still protesting verbally, but his body had already climbed back onto the bed.

To be honest, although he was already a Nascent Soul body and didn’t need to rely on sleep to replenish his strength, he hadn’t really rested since coming to the Dingxu Sect and resolving the Liu family’s affairs. Now the environment here was quiet, and the bed was soft. Compared to sleeping in trees or squeezing into some strange corner in the past, this was a world of difference.

For a moment, he relaxed as never before.

He felt sleepy as soon as his head hit the pillow, but out of vigilance, he resisted and stared at Mo Yifeng in the corner, and then…

That’s how the night passed.

The next day, when he opened his eyes, he found that he was still lying on his side, without even changing his position, and didn’t even know when he had closed his eyes. And the person opposite him was long gone.

He suddenly sat up.

*Crap!*

He fell asleep? And in front of Mo Yifeng?! What if the other party took the opportunity to do something to him…

He meant something like mental manipulation.

Many powerful experts would have some means of controlling the mind, even if they weren’t law cultivators, it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn’t have such means.

Shen Yucheng was afraid that the other party would control him while he was unconscious and make him reveal the truth about his background.

Shen Yucheng didn’t dare to think about it anymore, and quickly jumped out of bed, wanting to open the door and go out, but before his hand touched the doorknob, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Seeing the person who came in, a trace of relief flashed in his heart, but there was also a bit of disappointment.

Qi Hao came in with a plate of food, his expression still unfriendly, but after yesterday’s events and seeing Shen Yucheng’s power, he didn’t dare to say anything more, only daring to make such a silent protest.

Shen Yucheng glanced at the food on the plate. Although he was already on a grain free diet and didn’t need to eat, even for a normal adult man, half a bun and corn for breakfast was too stingy, wasn’t it? It could really make people malnourished.

Watching Qi Hao unwillingly put the things on the table, he stood aside with his arms crossed, and joked, “Did Mo Yifeng ask you to prepare this?”

Qi Hao snorted coldly, and said strangely, “Or what? You still want to pick and choose? What kind of status do you think you have?”

Shen Yucheng was too lazy to argue with him, and just assumed that Mo Yifeng had been grain free for too long and had forgotten the amount of food a normal person eats. However, this guy Qi Hao was obviously doing it on purpose.

“Is Mo Yifeng outside?” He changed the subject, not wanting to get entangled in such trivial matters.

Qi Hao was about to continue to be stubborn, but when he saw Shen Yucheng’s expression, he remembered yesterday’s encounter, and his body trembled slightly, and his tone became a little restrained: “He… went out early in the morning, and told you to stay here.”

After speaking, he fled in a hurry, fearing that Shen Yucheng would do something to him again.

But he didn’t close the door when he left.

Shen Yucheng glanced at it, feeling that this didn’t seem like an accident, it might have been specially ordered by Mo Yifeng, allowing him to go out and move around.

No matter what the reason, this was undoubtedly a good opportunity for his investigation–

At least, that’s what he thought a quarter of an hour ago.

But now, he was stuck on the way to the hall.

To be precise, from the moment he stepped out of the room, every step he took, poisonous arrows or sharp swords would fly from all directions in the darkness. He had just dodged sideways, and the mechanism next to him was triggered again, and a large iron cage fell from the sky!

Shen Yucheng dodged in the nick of time, turned back and looked at the door, he had only taken a few steps away from the door, but these few steps seemed like he had experienced thousands of hardships.

What the hell was this?!

Which decent family would install so many mechanisms in their own home?!

What epic-level demon beast was this trying to defend against?!

No wonder Mo Yifeng said “I hope I don’t see an incomplete you” when he was first captured.

Now it seemed that if he didn’t have some skills, these few steps might be the road he came to the underworld.

Suddenly, he thought that when he used [Penetration] yesterday, he didn’t trigger any mechanisms, maybe this method would work–

All afternoon, Shen Yucheng paced back and forth in the room. When he walked to the hall, he found that the person who was still locked in the cage yesterday was gone. He searched the entire house, but couldn’t find any traces of escape. This meant that the person was taken away silently, without any conflict.

Regarding this matter, the only person he could think of who would do it was Mo Yifeng.

So where could a living person be hidden?

In fact, when he first checked this house, he found that in addition to the hall and his own room, there were also two locked doors. He had tried to use [Penetration] to get in, but there was a barrier on the door, and he couldn’t get in.

However, after a day of searching, he felt that no matter what, he had to explore the secrets inside these two doors.

During this time, he also found a stack of yellowed draft paper in the drawer of his room. Shen Yucheng flipped through them one by one. The paper recorded all the black market’s list of trafficked people, and each person was marked with a “value”.

“This is…” His gaze fell on the paper, which were obviously Mo Yifeng’s transaction certificates for buying and selling people in the black market, with the names of the transacted people clearly recorded.

The latest list even had a portrait attached to the “item” – it was the person he saw in the cage in the hall yesterday.

Shen Yucheng clenched the draft paper tightly, his knuckles turning white, and the paper was creased with obvious folds.

As he flipped through the paper, a single piece of draft paper fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up, and his pupils shrank when his eyes touched the paper–

On that piece of paper, the name “Qi Hao” was written impressively.

However, the portrait was of a child. Although his appearance had changed compared to the current Qi Hao, one could still vaguely see some similarities. According to the records, Qi Hao was sold to the black market when he was six years old, and successfully escaped three years ago.

But the strange thing was, since Qi Hao escaped on his own, where did this receipt come from? If he wasn’t bought, how did he and Mo Yifeng meet? Did Mo Yifeng save him when he was escaping?

As soon as this thought appeared, Shen Yucheng shook his head, feeling that he was thinking too much.

This wasn’t a drama script, where did the “rescue in distress” scene come from?

But questions kept Influenceup one after another. Last time, he had wanted to use golden threads to control Qi Hao and make him actively say everything, but he was interrupted by the sudden return of Mo Yifeng.

After that, he tried to use the method again, but other than the three meals a day when Qi Hao would show up, he disappeared from this house at other times. Even if he used his Heavenly Eye, he couldn’t find Qi Hao’s whereabouts.

Now it seemed that he shouldn’t care so much and should take action directly first.

He thought Mo Yifeng would come back at night, so he temporarily stopped the search. But after waiting all night, the other party was still nowhere to be seen.

The next morning, he planned to directly control Qi Hao when he came to deliver breakfast. But after waiting all morning, let alone Qi Hao, there wasn’t even the aura of a living creature in the entire house.

Not only that, his gaze fell on the two locked doors. At first, he didn’t pay much attention to it, but now, a strong smell was coming from there–

The smell of blood.

Shen Yucheng frowned. He was sure that when he first came here, there was no such smell outside the door. This fishy smell gradually seeped out from inside the door after Mo Yifeng disappeared and the person in the cage was gone.

He walked to the door and carefully sensed it, and found that the fishy smell coming from the door on the right was obviously stronger, and it seemed to be gradually intensifying…

Shen Yucheng directly dispelled the disguise technique and restored his original appearance, only in this way could he use 100% of his cultivation power.

He planned to ignore everything and break in with all his strength. Since there was a barrier on the door, he would use his cultivation to force his way in!

The smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger, and it was about to stain the entire room with a bloody aura. Shen Yucheng stood still, his eyes locked on the door, his right hand raised, and golden light condensed in his palm. The explosive spiritual power made a crackling sound–

At this moment, the Heart Bond emitted light. Yan Quanye Sorryed out of the Contract Spirit, looking at Shen Yucheng excitedly: “Are you finally going to get serious?! That’s great!”

But who knew, at the critical moment, the door that should have been locked tightly suddenly lost its barrier, and with a “pop”, it unlocked itself.

Shen Yucheng’s pupils shrank, and he instantly retracted the violent spiritual power, leaving only a wisp of light smoke in the air.

Yan Quanye excitedly: “…”

He froze for a moment, and shouted: “… What are you doing?! Aren’t you going to blow up the door?! I thought you were finally not playing that useless puzzle game anymore!”

Shen Yucheng ignored him, and walked straight to the door, and sure enough found that the door had been pushed open a crack. Although he didn’t know what happened, but–

After opening the door, he realized that the smell of blood he smelled outside was nothing compared to what was inside.

He pushed open the half-open door, and as soon as he stepped in, a faint moan came from inside.

Shen Yucheng vigilantly scanned his surroundings, stepping into this dark and unsettling room.

Even Yan Quanye, who was always indifferent, began to feel uneasy, “Hey, why does this place feel more eerie than a haunted house?”

The space in the room was unusually wide. Shen Yucheng had already walked straight for a while, but still couldn’t see the end.

He began to suspect whether this was a barrier space. If it was, then from the moment they stepped into this room, they might already be in another place.

He continued to move forward, and the moaning became clearer and clearer. This time, he finally heard clearly–

“Don’t go… Yucheng-ge…”

Shen Yucheng’s heart suddenly tightened.