MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 83

Chapter 83 How did they get here…?

“Over the years, everything Bai Guchen has done has been for the resurrection of Baili.”

Shen Yucheng’s heart was filled with mixed emotions. Many past mysteries seemed to find reasonable explanations.

The massacre of Jitan Village, the killing of Liu Mingzhen, and everything that recently happened to the Liu family…

He boldly speculated that Bai Guchen had not yet achieved the goal of resurrecting Baili, and must be missing a key element.

And this thing, judging from the Liu family’s movements, the Liu family head was also looking for a medicinal pill to cure his son. Recalling that Bai Guchen brutally murdered Liu Mingzhen’s family in order to force him to refine medicine, just to make Liu Mingzhen refine the resurrection elixir in despair.

This made him suspect that the Liu family head might also have encountered the same tactics.

Then, the death of the Liu family head’s son… was very likely orchestrated by Bai Guchen.

But one doubt made Shen Yucheng wonder.

Hadn’t Bai Guchen already controlled Liu Mingzhen? Why not directly force Liu Mingzhen to refine the required elixir, instead of making such a big fuss?

Mo Yifeng nodded.

The two continued to read the text on the wall.

It recorded that Bai Guchen hid the corpses of Baili and Liu Mingzhen in a secret realm, and that secret realm was the Ling Danbo Realm that Shen Yucheng and the others had visited before.

However, the records on the wall were not all text. In a certain area, some patterns appeared. Shen Yucheng glanced at it and was instantly stunned. He turned to look at Mo Yifeng: “Hey, don’t you think this pattern looks like the formation in your black hole house?”

Mo Yifeng frowned slightly, his expression solemn: “…Yeah.”

Hearing him say this, Shen Yucheng suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked: “Where did you learn this formation? What is its function?” The image of Mo Yifeng standing in the center of the formation and bleeding at that time appeared in his mind, and he couldn’t help but feel a chill down his spine.

However, Mo Yifeng remained silent.

Shen Yucheng’s anger surged, and he grabbed his collar: “Hey, speak up! Don’t force me to do it!”

Mo Yifeng raised his head, his eyes lowered, and said helplessly: “I’ll talk, I’ll talk… This is a soul-summoning formation.”

Shen Yucheng was slightly stunned, his expression didn’t change much, but his hand loosened a little.

“As long as you release enough blood and recite the name and birth date of the person you want to summon in the formation, you can summon back their soul.” Mo Yifeng slowly sat on the ground, his expression unable to hide some strangeness.

Before Shen Yucheng could ask any further, he continued: “Over the years, everyone has said you were dead… Although I didn’t want to believe it, I was still afraid… If I couldn’t summon you back, it meant there was still a glimmer of hope that you weren’t dead…”

Shen Yucheng was silent for a moment, and asked: “Where did you find this formation?”

“Liu family…”

Mo Yifeng lowered his head and glanced at Shen Yucheng. As expected, Shen Yucheng’s eyes were scrutinizing him like a criminal, wishing he could see through him.

Mo Yifeng sighed: “There was a piece of paper on the ground in front of Liu Mingzhen’s medical clinic.”

Shen Yucheng stared at him with a death glare, and after a moment, he sighed helplessly: “Fool.”

A rumor he had heard before suddenly flashed in his mind, and he asked: “By the way, what about those cages I saw in your house before, and what about the people inside? And Qi Hao, why does he always live there?”

Shen Yucheng clearly remembered that Mo Yifeng had always disliked living with others, but this time he actually made an exception to take in a Qi Hao?

At this moment, he didn’t realize that his tone sounded like he was questioning his partner.

Mo Yifeng was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and reached out to rub the top of Shen Yucheng’s head.

Shen Yucheng’s body stiffened. Realizing something, he suddenly slapped his hand away, grabbed his collar, and forced Mo Yifeng to look up at him: “I just want to know, what’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

Mo Yifeng’s eyes were full of smiles, allowing Shen Yucheng to be so aggressive towards him: “Qi Hao is just a child I met on the road. At that time, he was homeless, so I took him back to the sect and planned to let him do some chores, so he could at least survive. Later, Fu Lingxuan asked him to come here to help with chores.”

Shen Yucheng narrowed his eyes: “Chores? Would doing chores make him appear in your house every morning and evening?”

Mo Yifeng raised his eyebrows: “Huh? He leaves after cleaning up every day, right? In this house, only you have slept in the bed.”

Shen Yucheng paused, but now that he mentioned it, he hadn’t really seen Qi Hao stay in the house for too long. He originally thought Qi Hao had a room here, so that’s why…

Looking at Shen Yucheng’s little expression, Mo Yifeng couldn’t help but chuckle: “Really, we made a contract at that time. He can only do chores for one hour every day, and he can leave after he’s done.”

Shen Yucheng raised his head again, looked disdainfully at Mo Yifeng’s inexplicably cheap expression, and snorted coldly: “What about the cages then? People outside are saying you’re crazy and doing human experiments.”

Hearing this, Mo Yifeng felt even more wronged: “Three years ago, I rescued Qi Hao from the black market. Later, I heard that some people specialize in selling those who practice the Forbidden Dao, and the prices are not low. I was afraid… you might also be captured, so I started secretly looking for those who were sold.”

“Each time I rescued someone, some who were in good mental condition would go home by themselves. But some had been tortured to the point of losing their minds. I could only settle them down first and then slowly look for their families.”

Shen Yucheng suddenly understood.

He looked at the man in front of him. With Mo Yifeng’s skills, he could fly hundreds of miles in a second. It would be a problem for ordinary cultivators to keep up. So, no one had seen Mo Yifeng send the caged people home all these years, right?

No wonder the rumor “Mo Yifeng is doing experiments with living people” spread. It was really a huge misunderstanding.

“Then why didn’t you explain?” Shen Yucheng let go of his hand, his tone helpless.

Mo Yifeng lowered his head and smoothed out the wrinkles on his collar, and said lightly: “I don’t think it matters. The more outrageous the rumors, the better.”

After he finished speaking, his eyes locked tightly on Shen Yucheng.

For some reason, Shen Yucheng suddenly had a crazy guess.

Could it be that the reason why Mo Yifeng didn’t clarify these rumors all these years… was to lure him out?

Although he was very upset, if that was really the case… Mo Yifeng succeeded.

He did come back partly because he heard this rumor.

Shen Yucheng felt like he had been tricked, and his mood was a little complicated, so he simply turned his back to him.

Just then, a warm temperature came from behind, and Mo Yifeng hugged him from behind, and said softly: “I’ve finished my part, it’s your turn. Brother Yucheng, after you left, what did you do?”

Shen Yucheng felt the attachment from behind, hugged very tightly, he did not struggle, and quietly recounted his experiences after leaving the Lingfeng Sect. Mo Yifeng just listened quietly, as if imagining how Shen Yucheng had gone through the past ten years without him.

It wasn’t until he heard about the Yining Village that Mo Yifeng’s voice suddenly turned cold: “They captured you?”

The voice had obvious displeasure.

Shen Yucheng recalled the situation at the time, his injuries had not fully recovered, and if he had not escaped from the temple in time, he probably would not know what he would have become. But at the same time, he also thought of a question: “Well… but now I think about it, those villagers used spirit-locking ropes to trap me. But how could an ordinary small village have magical artifacts specifically for dealing with cultivators?”

Mo Yifeng nodded slightly: “They came prepared.”

Speaking of this, Shen Yucheng also told about the note found in A Yan’s house. According to the words “spiritual power” that A Yan wrote at the end, he speculated: “It says that the villagers were being killed off one by one, and they needed spiritual power. Coupled with the kidnapping me before, one possibility is… this village has been trying to steal spiritual power from cultivators.”

Mo Yifeng: “But what do they need spiritual power for?”

At this time, Mo Yifeng also spoke of the brain pits that their group found in the forest.

Shen Yucheng pondered for a moment, and linked all the current clues together, and came to the conclusion: “Three years ago, they already wanted spiritual power when they caught me. But after I escaped, their plan failed, causing the villagers to be killed off one by one. Now these villagers are likely created by Bai Guchen. Since this matter is related to him—”

“Then let’s go out and ask him to explain it.” Mo Yifeng interjected.

The two looked at each other, understood each other’s intentions, and didn’t need to say anything more. The spiritual power in their hands condensed, and the golden light and blue light merged together again after many years.

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Yining Village—

Li Juemu wielded his sword to block the villagers’ attacks. Just now, Mo Yifeng had arrived one step ahead of them, and then in front of everyone, he caught Shen Yucheng. The two disappeared on the spot without a trace, along with Shen Yucheng’s gold thread, barrier, and spirit beast.

Before Li Juemu had time to think about Shen Yucheng’s appearance, the battle was already imminent.

He looked up at the stone statue man above. The team leaders were fighting fiercely with it, and other disciples were resisting the villagers’ attacks.

At this time, Qin Feng hurriedly came to Li Juemu’s side and said in a low voice, “Senior Uncle, I have already notified.”

Li Juemu nodded: “What did they say?”

Qin Feng paused: “Waste.”

Li Juemu thought he had misheard and frowned back: “???”

Qin Feng said sternly: “The one who received the message was the Sect Leader. He asked his disciple to convey these words to you.”

Li Juemu’s cheeks twitched. So, it was his brother who received the news: “…What else did he say?”

Qin Feng thought for a moment: “He also said, if you can’t handle this little experience, did you buy your Nascent Soul? And—”

“Stop, stop! Wait!” Li Juemu was sweating profusely and hurriedly interrupted him before Qin Feng said more shocking words: “Say something that will help the situation!”

Only then did Qin Feng say: “The Sect Leader said that he is free now and will come over himself to clean up you, brat.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Feng looked at the petrified Li Juemu and blankly took over the villagers in front of him.

At this time, a figure stood on the shoulder of the stone statue man in mid-air. Bai Guchen’s left sleeve fluttered in the wind, and he looked down at the team leaders below with a contemptuous expression. He just raised his hand, and the stone statue suddenly punched, smashing the team leaders down like swatting flies.

Nie Yue knelt on one knee, panting heavily, and stuck a sword on the ground to steady her figure. The stone statue’s defense was terrifying. She had exhausted all her strength, but she couldn’t leave a single scratch on it. She turned her head to look at the pile of stone statues that had been shattered by Shen Yucheng’s strike just now.

How did he do that?

The other team leaders were also exhausted and could not shake the stone statue in the slightest.

Bai Guchen yawned slightly and said lazily: “Too weak, like walking a dog. Hey, can’t you find someone who can fight?”

Nie Yue gritted her teeth and looked up at Bai Guchen in mid-air. Memories from ten years ago flashed in her mind. At that time, these stone statues appeared at the Immortal Sect Conference. Her senior sister Lingyi faced these monsters head-on in that battle…

“Damn it…” Nie Yue lowered her head, her knuckles turned white, and a sense of powerlessness filled her whole body.

Just then, a low and solemn voice suddenly came from the sky: “Nie Yue, what are you doing?”

This was a voice she was very familiar with. She suddenly raised her head.

High above, Lingyi was looking down at her condescendingly.

Nie Yue’s eyes widened, her lips trembled slightly, but she couldn’t say a complete sentence: “This… how…”

At the same time, Li Juemu’s voice also sounded: “Bro, brother?! How did you get here so fast—”

The Lingfeng Sect disciples raised their heads one after another, looking at the person in surprise, and muttered: “Deputy Sect Leader… how did they get here…”