Chapter 650 Breakthrough

When Qiao Laoliu came back from the outer hall and saw the Fire Buddha, he looked frightened and said in a trembling voice:

"Brother, I've seen a ghost. The outer hall is empty. Many brothers have died..."

Fire Buddha's eyes were sharp, "How did you die?"

"have no idea……"

The old woodcutter murmured.

The Fire Buddha remained silent, but his blood was boiling and his evil aura was getting stronger.

Qiao Laoliu turned pale and said quickly:

"It seems that someone... killed him without anyone noticing, and then abandoned the corpse in the river, and the flesh and blood melted away, leaving no trace..."

"There are still a few left in the middle hall..."

"The outer hall is almost...all dead..."

Qiao Laoliu swallowed his throat and looked uneasy.

"impossible!"

Behind the Fire Buddha, there was a tall and thin demon cultivator with a sinister and pale face.

This person was Yin Leizi who had a relationship with Mo Hua and also hunted down Mo Hua.

Yin Leizi frowned and said:

"I've chatted with Corpse Brother before..."

Yin Leizi said with anger on his face, "...that bastard was very arrogant in his words. With his cultivation, there is no way he could die without a complete body in such a short time..."

Having said this, several other demon cultivators behind Fire Buddha also remembered.

"Me too……"

"I also exchanged letters with Rentu..."

"He's still scolding me. Sooner or later I have to kill that beast..."

"And that bitch, Scholar Yu..."

"The fire foreman also scolded me..."

…

Everyone looked at each other with a chill in their hearts.

"If they are all dead, then..."

"Is the ghost sending us a message?"

Fire Buddha's face was indifferent, his evil spirit was condensed, his eyes slowly turned, and suddenly he remembered something, and there was a hint of sharpness in his eyes.

"Master Yuan!"

Only then did the demon cultivators remember that every movement in the entire demon palace and every move of the patrolling demon cultivators were monitored by Master Yuan.

A fishy wind blew up, and blood flashed.

The demon cultivators activated their movements one after another and rushed towards the Privy Council Room of the Magnetic Array in the middle hall of the Demon Cave.

The formation in front of the secret room has been broken.

Everyone pushed the door open and saw a cold corpse lying in the secret room. There were blood holes in his forehead and Dantian. His heart had been stabbed several times, his hands were broken, and his blood had dried up.

The corpse looked very miserable, but judging from the figure and dress, it was Master Yuan.

"died?!"

The demon cultivators were shocked.

In the later stage of foundation building, Master Yuan, the highly respected evil formation master, possesses nineteen patterns of divine consciousness, terrifying formation skills, and a weird and crazy personality...

Just died so silently?

Died in his own formation privy room.

But among the demon cultivators in their palace, no one knew about it.

The demon cultivators were frightened and angry for a moment, and they all made an uproar:

"Who killed him?"

"Who can kill..."

"This is a temple..."

"How did they get in?"

"We have a mole in our midst?"

"Fuck your motherfucker!"

…

"Could it be that... Dao Ting's Yu Hua Zhenren is here?" A demonic cultivator asked in horror.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

"This is the second-grade state boundary. Even if Yuhua comes, he won't be able to kill so many people in a short time..."

"You can't be so mean and despicable if you kill Ji Zhu in the form of a feather..."

…

Everyone was talking a lot, and then they gradually calmed down and looked at the Fire Buddha silently.

Fire Buddha stepped forward and performed an autopsy for Master Yuan.

As he watched, Fire Buddha was suddenly startled.

"This is wind spiritual power..."

"Very honest..."

"Not only was it deliberately suppressed in the late stage of foundation building, it was... golden elixir..."

"Golden elixir, wind spiritual power, this is..."

The Fire Buddha's eyes were blood red, his hands were trembling, and two heart-like fireballs were beating violently in his heart.

The old wound on my chest suddenly hurts as if it had been cut into pieces by a thousand knives...

"Gu——Chang——Huai..."

Fire Buddha spoke word by word.

His face was cold, but blood-like flames were seeping out of his red cassock, and above the flames, there was a faint gray evil aura...

Qiao Lao Liu said with a fearful face:

"Brother!"

All the other demon cultivators were silent and did not dare to speak out.

Seeing the anger welling up, his whole body was on fire, and his evil aura was about to get out of control.

Fire Buddha gritted his teeth and said "Amitabha", and then recited Buddhist sutras, suppressing his mind and suppressing the violent murderous intention in his heart.

His face became compassionate again.

The other demon cultivators also breathed a sigh of relief silently.

"It's not the inner ghost, it's Dao Ting Si Dian Si..."

Fire Buddha said calmly, and then continued to look at Master Yuan's body.

"Both hands were broken..."

"He was hit hard on the head by a stick-like spiritual weapon..."

"The neck was strangled...the heart was stabbed from behind with a short knife..."

"The eyes are bulging and the face is scorched. Is this... fireball technique?"

"Whose fireball technique? It's interesting..."

Fire Buddha probably replayed the assassination process of Master Yuan in his mind, and then looked at the dark green blood stains on the ground, and his expression was startled.

"poison?"

Is the dagger quenched with poison?

Fire Buddha frowned:

"This doesn't look like Gu Changhuai's behavior..."

"After so many years of not seeing each other, he has become mean?"

Moreover, Master Yuan soaked blood wine with the eyes of the devil, and used the evil thoughts of the devil to have extremely strong spiritual consciousness. How could he be killed without even using any means of resistance?

"Could it be that... Gu Changhuai has helpers?"

Fire Buddha's eyes trembled slightly.

"This person is thoughtful and ruthless, and he is proficient in the art of spiritual thoughts and formation methods..."

"This is the only way to make sure that Master Yuan, who has powerful evil thoughts, can kill him at the very least when he is unable to resist..."

Is there another master beside Gu Changhuai?

Fire Buddha's expression became more and more solemn.

"Brother, what should we do now?"

Yin Leizi asked in a low voice when he saw that Huo Buddha had frowned and pondered for a long time, and the atmosphere was depressed.

Fire Buddha's eyes were lowered, he thought for a moment, and said:

"Go back to the inner hall, guard it tightly and destroy everything!"

The expressions of the others changed.

"Brother?!"

"Destroy everything?"

Yin Leizi whispered: "It doesn't have to be like this...that's..."

Qiao Laoliu also said: "That's right, brother, we can still hold on to the temple and close the door tightly. Even Daotingsi cannot attack for the time being..."

Other demon cultivators also echoed:

"good!"

"If Daotingsi's lackeys come, we will kill them all and use them as sacrifices. At that time, whether to leave or stay depends on us..."

"A bunch of lackeys, give them face?"

"Kill them all!"

Fire Buddha shook his head, "You don't understand..."

"Gu Changhuai is very difficult to deal with. He is different from the ordinary people in Daotingsi..."

"Since they can come in, it means that this devil's cave has begun to leak..."

"The outer palace cannot be defended..."

"We can only stay in the inner sanctum."

"And, just in case, everything in the inner hall must be destroyed, leaving no trace..."

"The temple is of great importance..."

"Once there are any signs of exposure, they must be completely eliminated and no outsiders should be allowed to know..."

The Fire Buddha looked solemn and could not refuse.

The other demon cultivators also felt awe-inspiring and nodded in agreement.

Fire Buddha's expression eased slightly, "After cleaning up the inner hall, we will find a way to rush out. I know that you have been hiding here these days, feeling a little depressed..."

"After you get out, you can be as wild as you like for a while, I won't restrain you..."

"After that we... left Qianzhou, the sky was high and the sea was vast, we were free and happy..."

"When the storm subsides in a few decades, we can come back to settle old accounts..."

When the demonic cultivators heard "Let's be wild for a while", they all showed lustful expressions and said with a smile: "I'll follow you, brother!"

So everyone took Master Yuan's body, left the secret room, and walked back to the inner hall.

Fire Buddha walked last.

Before entering the dark and chaotic inner hall, with no idea of ​​what was hidden inside, the Fire Buddha suddenly stopped and looked back at the huge outer hall.

A doubt came to mind:

"Master Yuan has died long ago... Then who is the person who talked to me about Buddhism?"

Fire Buddha frowned and thought for a moment, then turned around and walked into the depths of the Demon Palace.

The door of the inner hall slowly closed, locking the Fire Buddha and the unknown secrets inside.

…

Outside the Demon Cave.

Gu Changhuai went back to dispatch manpower.

Ink painting is on the stone bridge, protected by Gu Quan and Gu An, who are dismantling various warning and trap formations on the bridge one by one.

After the demolition was completed, Mo Hua sat at the bridge and waited.

But after waiting for a long time, no one came.

"It's just a manpower transfer. Will it take so long?"

Mo Hua muttered silently.

According to Gu Changhuai, the chief executive of the Daoting Division was stationed just outside the sky. Logically speaking, they could gather here in half an hour.

What happened?

Mo Hua was a little confused.

Because he had to stare at the devil's cave, Mo Hua could only wait peacefully.

After an unknown amount of time, the bridge on the other side became bustling with people, and there was a lot more atmosphere of monks.

"coming!"

Mo Hua was refreshed.

Gu Quan responded on the other side.

After a while, many executives from the Daoting Division began to cross the bridge in batches.

In order to keep a low profile, Mo Hua kept his figure hidden and watched them cross the bridge.

Just looking at it, Mo Hua was slightly startled.

This number of people... seems a bit too much?

"Didn't Uncle Gu say two hundred and eighty? Why does it seem like there are more than four hundred people now?"

Mo Hua was a little confused.

After all the more than 400 officers had crossed the stone bridge, Mo Hua finally saw Gu Changhuai at the end of the team.

It's just that Gu Changhuai's face doesn't look good.

Mo Hua then approached him and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle Gu, why are there so many people?"

Gu Changhuai looked unhappy, "People from the Xiao family are here too..."

Xiao family?

Mo Hua suddenly realized, "The Xiao family with a smiling face?"

Gu Changhuai was startled, then realized who the "Smiling Tiger" Mo Hua was talking about was, and sighed:

"It's okay, don't use nicknames..."

"It's okay, I didn't say it in front of him..." Mo Hua said.

Gu Changhuai had nothing to do with the ink painting.

Mo Hua asked again: "Did... the news leaked?"

Gu Changhuai's eyes narrowed but he didn't answer.

Mo Hua raised his delicate brows and asked again:

"Then what does the Xiao family do here?"

"Being a mole?"

"Tell the news, or do you want to mess up the situation?"

Gu Changhuai glared at Mo Hua gently, "Don't talk nonsense about these things without evidence..."

Then Gu Changhuai sighed slightly, "The Xiao family came here this time, probably because they want to share the meat and grab some credit..."

"Stealing the credit?"

"The stronghold of the Demon Cave, the hundreds of demon cultivators, the Fire Buddha who exterminated the family..." Gu Changhuai said, "Any one of these is a piece of fat."

"Now that these fat meats are served on a plate, the Xiao family wants to grow their power in Daotingsi and promote their disciples. How can they not be greedy..."

"Oh..." Mo Hua nodded.

No wonder others often refer to the monks of Daotingsi as lackeys and hawks.

Eagle dogs will work hard only when they have meat to eat.

When the Xiao family saw "You Shui", they naturally wanted to "act vigorously and resolutely" and took the initiative.

Gu Changhuai glanced at Mo Hua and said doubtfully:

"Are you saying bad things about Daotingsi again in your heart?"

Mo Hua looked serious, "Uncle Gu, I am half a Daotingsi person now, how can I say bad things about Daotingsi?"

Gu Changhuai nodded.

"But I'm just a supernumerary. It can be counted or not. My status is more 'flexible'..."

Mo Hua added silently in his heart.

"By the way, Smiling Face... Isn't Xiao Diansi here?" Mo Hua asked again.

Just now, all the Dao Tingsi monks passed by the ink painting.

It was like a "military parade" in the ink painting. After a patrol, no smiling tiger was found, not even the monks at the golden elixir stage.

"No." Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was puzzled, "Who in the Xiao family will lead the team?"

Gu Changhuai pointed to a young, outstanding-looking and talented monk among the chief ministers and said:

"Xiao Tianquan, a direct descendant of the Xiao family, in the late stage of foundation building, just graduated from the sect, and was admitted to the Daoting Division as the Executive Secretary..."

"This is the core disciple of the Xiao family..."

"The Xiao family wants to gain some merit for him so that he can be promoted easily."

"oh……"

Mo Hua took a look at Xiao Tianquan and saw that he had his head held high and his brows and eyes were full of high spirits. He had the feeling of a proud man who had never suffered at all and had a smooth life.

Born in an aristocratic family, graduated from a large sect, then joined the Dao Tingsi, promoted all the way to the top of the Dao Tingsi, and then was promoted to the Central Dao Ting, with a high position of authority, and became a master...

This is the template of the so-called "Tianjiao".

The one who is above me feels like I am a completely different type of person...

Just his name...

"Xiao Tianquan..."

Mo Hua fell into deep thought, and then his eyes lit up:

"Howling Sky Dog?"

Gu Changhuai on the side felt a headache after hearing this. Then he took a deep breath and emphasized again:

"It's okay... don't give other people random nicknames."

"Oh." Mo Hua said perfunctorily.

The Xiao family is willing to use such big things as the Fire Buddha, the Demon Palace, and the family extermination case as a "mat" for their direct descendants to pave the way for future promotions.

There is nothing to say about the ink paintings.

He still cares about the Fire Buddha.

And there is one thing that Mo Hua cares about very much.

Mo Hua glanced at Gu Changhuai secretly, thought about it, and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle Gu, are you and Huo Buddha enemies?"

Gu Changhuai's expression changed, "How do you know?"

"I guessed..." Mo Hua said.

He felt that every time Uncle Gu mentioned or thought about Fire Buddha, his expression would become solemn unconsciously, and there would be an urge to kill someone in his eyes.

Therefore, Mo Hua judged that the two of them must have an old grudge.

Gu Changhuai said with a cold face, "This matter is not complicated at all..."

"Back then I almost killed the evil beast Fire Buddha..."

"It's a pity that at that time I was still building a foundation, so my strength was a bit weak. I only broke part of his heart and allowed him to escape..."

"At that stop, I killed all his other brothers."

"And he..."

Gu Changhuai paused for a moment, his handsome face showed an angry look, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"You also killed a few of my classmates who graduated with me..."

Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart. He looked at Gu Changhuai with sympathy on his face and said without hesitation:

"You saw your comrades who were brothers and sisters being killed, and there was nothing you could do about it, Uncle Gu, so you harbored hatred, your temperament changed drastically, you became cold and withdrawn, unwilling to talk to others, and you were afraid that those close to you would encounter misfortune again..."

Mo Hua then thought to himself and said...

Gu Changhuai's face darkened and he said angrily:

"What nonsense?"

"I've had this temperament since the beginning!"

"What does it matter to others if you are lonely or unsociable? Why should I care about those boring people? Why should I give them a good look if they are just a fool?"

"ah……"

Mo Hua was stunned.

He didn't guess any of them correctly.

The human heart is indeed complex.

"As for those colleagues who died in the hands of the Fire Buddha..."

Gu Changhuai sighed, "Actually, I'm not too familiar with you, but I can't stand the sight of innocent people dying miserably at the hands of demon cultivators."

"Sometimes when I dream at night, I dream about these..."

"Hate my own powerlessness."

"I didn't kill all these evil monks."

"But the evil beast, Fire Buddha, escaped from my hands and is still making trouble and doing evil everywhere..."

"As long as he doesn't die, I will remember him forever..."

Mo Hua looked at Gu Changhuai with admiration.

Uncle Gu, who seems to be aloof and arrogant, looks like a "handsome bad boy" and is very unpopular, but he has such a decent heart and hates evil so much...

Sure enough, the real person cannot be judged by his appearance.

Mo Hua sighed: "Uncle Gu, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

He never thought that Uncle Gu and Huo Buddha would have a life-and-death grudge.

Gu Changhuai was speechless and gave Mo Hua a roll of his eyes:

"Can I talk to you little brat? If you don't ask, I don't even want to tell you now."

Mo Hua was startled, thought about it, and nodded:

"That's right..."

Sir, especially this kind of old... great monk who has lived for more than a hundred years, does have many old stories that he is unwilling to mention to outsiders.

Unlike himself, he is honest with others.

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

After a while, more than 400 officers had been dispatched and formed a formation to surround the gate of the magic cave.

Gu Changhuai stood up and was about to say something.

Xiao Tianquan, the genius of the Xiao family, walked to Gu Changhuai with confidence and recommended himself:

"Gu Dianshi, the matter of breaking the door can be left to my Xiao family!"

Gu Changhuai looked at him and said lightly:

"Xiao Zhishi, once you enter Daotingsi, don't talk about Xiao family. Daotingsi is not your Xiao family. People in your Xiao family are, in the final analysis, people of Daotingsi."

Xiao Tianquan's face turned pale, feeling that his face was swept away, and a hint of hidden resentment appeared in his eyes.

Gu Changhuai saw it clearly and shook his head slightly.

There is really no harm without comparison...

Even if Mo Hua is full of bad intentions, he is not that annoying.

On the contrary, this kind of child from aristocratic family is hypocritical on the surface, and can't suppress the resentment in his heart when he disagrees with others. It's inexplicably annoying to look at him.

Gu Changhuai sneered in his heart, but after a while, he remembered something and nodded:

"But you took the initiative to ask for it, which is commendable. The matter of breaking the door will be left to you."

Xiao Tianquan suppressed the resentment in his eyes and said gratefully:

"Thank you Gu Dianshi."

After that, he gave orders, letting Xiao's Zhisi take the lead, and Gu's other Zhisi assist, to set up the formation and break the formation at the same time, trying to open the door of the magic cave.

Gu Changhuai stood aside and watched.

Mo Hua followed Gu Changhuai.

This time Mo Hua did not hide.

Since he was going to attack the Demon Palace and capture the Fire Buddha, he would have to show up eventually. He just needed to be low-key and pretend to be a "slacker".

Others would not pay too much attention to him.

Even if they did, they would not dare to ask as long as they followed Uncle Gu who said "No strangers allowed".

Even Xiao Tianquan looked at Mo Hua intentionally or unintentionally.

But seeing that Mo Hua only had middle and lower-grade spiritual roots, he automatically ignored Mo Hua.

Breaking the door went smoothly.

Because before, Mo Hua was already inside and tampered with the formation of the gate.

And the Xiao family obviously also made a big investment, asking the Xiao family formation master to draw a formation outside the gate of the Demon Palace, and used many precious spiritual tools and talismans to forcibly blast the gate of the Demon Palace open.

The formation drawn by the Xiao family formation master was useless.

Mo Hua knew this very well.

What was useful were the spiritual tools and talismans.

But the Xiao family monks didn't know. When they saw the demon cave being blasted open, the evil eye-like stone door was blown open with a big crack, the fang-like door stones around it were broken, and inexplicable blood flowed out.

They all praised: "Xiao Zhisi is wise!"

"Good command!"

Some Zhisi from small families without big backgrounds also bit the bullet and followed the praise:

"Xiao Zhisi is young and promising..."

"He will become a great man!"

Xiao Tianquan looked calm, as if he had long been accustomed to such flattery.

But after a while, a monk exclaimed.

"The blood on the door... is poisonous!"

Xiao Tianquan immediately dodged, and some Zhisi who were close to him were already contaminated, with blood and foul breath, and their expressions changed drastically.

There was a commotion all around.

After a while, it calmed down.

A dozen Zhisi who were poisoned by blood took pills and rested on the side.

These pills were provided by the Xiao family, and they were claimed to be intact to avoid stains on the record of "Xiao Zhisi".

This is what Gu Changhuai said.

Mo Hua was stunned.

These noble families are indeed very scheming...

After breaking through the gate, they came to the outer hall.

The resistance they had expected did not happen. The outer hall was empty, and there was no trace of a demon cultivator.

The same was true for the middle hall.

The door of the inner hall was closed.

As expected, these demon cultivators stayed in the inner hall, and no one knew what they were doing inside.

Xiao Tianquan sneered, "Defending the inner hall and waiting for us to catch them in the trap? How stupid!"

Xiao Tianquan wanted to say something else, but suddenly looked at Gu Changhuai with a little fear.

Gu Changhuai remained calm and just nodded slightly.

Meaning, let him do what he wants.

Xiao Tianquan was relieved.

But he was still muttering in his heart that this Gu Diansi, except for his bad temper and lack of tact, did not seem to be such a difficult person to deal with.

Why did the uncles and aunts in the clan ask me to beware of him?

Then the Xiao family's master began to attack the inner hall.

The means were similar to those outside.

Mo Hua stood by and watched without taking any action.

It was not his turn to take the lead in this matter.

He did not want to show off his formation in front of so many Daotingsi monks.

Especially this Roaring Sky Dog, he was still petty.

If I steal his limelight and share his credit, he would definitely hate me.

It's a thankless job.

However, the Xiao family's formation master's level was really limited, and the progress was really slow when attacking with spiritual tools and talismans.

Mo Hua could only be patient and wait on the side.

Three and a half days had passed, and there were still three and a half days left.

There was still enough time.

The inner hall was also locked by the formation.

To break through the inner hall, either the formation was solved or the gate was broken.

Mo Hua took a look and found that the formation was very difficult to decipher. Moreover, it involved a high-level second-grade formation, which he did not know how to decipher.

Since that was the case, the inner hall could only use brute force to forcibly break the formation.

The Xiao family had no shortage of people, spirit stones, spirit tools, or talismans, so they used the solution of the formation as a supplement and the breaking of the formation as the main task.

Mo Hua saw five-colored lights rising and falling one after another.

Precious second-grade talismans were consumed one after another.

The officials took turns to perform Taoist magic and forcibly bombarded the door of the inner hall.

Mo Hua also saw for the first time that the "blind formation" who did not understand the formation, faced with the formation, how did they do it...

It lasted for most of the day, and with a "boom", the door of the inner hall slowly collapsed.

"It actually broke..."

Mo Hua was a little surprised, and looked at the formation around the door crack, and he was a little surprised.

This demon hall was not built.

Some adjacent formations near the gate were relatively weak.

Xiao Tianquan led people, accidentally, and by chance, broke some of the formations inside, loosening the overall formation.

Only in this way can the gate of the inner hall be broken in half a day.

Xiao Tianquan didn't understand this.

He really thought that he and the Xiao family had broken through the gate head-on with their own ability.

"The Demon Palace is nothing but this!"

A group of officials skillfully offered a series of flattery of "Xiao Zhisi is wise".

Mo Hua didn't bother to pay attention to them.

He couldn't wait to take a look at the inner hall.

Mo Hua was a little stunned when he saw it.

In the inner hall, there were densely packed stone walls.

These stone walls were connected and arranged to form a... maze...

Maze?

Mo Hua frowned, he released his spiritual sense and carefully sensed it, and suddenly found that these mazes were actually a kind of array medium, and on top of the maze, another array was constructed.

"This array..."

Mo Hua felt... very strange, but inexplicably familiar.

As he looked at it, his pupils slowly widened, and his heart trembled.

Isn't this...

Mysterious Heaven Array? !

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