Chapter 271 Between the Cliffs
Going back in the evening, Mo Hua still practiced the concealment formation and the spirit-reverse formation on the Taoist monument in the sea of knowledge all night.
He was already familiar with the Concealment Formation, just a refresher.
The counter-spirit formation is extremely difficult. The complete counter-spirit formation requires ten lines of spiritual consciousness. The ink painting cannot be drawn now. It is only used to practice the formation and hone the spiritual consciousness.
Get up early the next day and do regular practice for an hour.
Then after having a hasty breakfast, we set off for Dahei Mountain, crossed the outer mountain, arrived at the inner mountain, and walked to the edge of the cliff.
The cliff stands thousands of feet high, and the clouds and mist below it make it unfathomable.
Mo Hua sat cross-legged on the edge of the cliff, closed his eyes, relaxed his consciousness, and looked down the cliff.
This time I had prejudgment, so my purpose was clearer and my perception was more careful.
After a while, Mo Hua opened his eyes with confusion.
Still nothing.
If his prediction was correct, these criminal cultivators should have used the concealment formation to hide, most likely under this cliff.
But at this time, the cliff was so deep that it was bottomless.
There are no human figures or other special auras within the range of Mo Hua’s spiritual consciousness.
This is a little strange.
Isn’t it under the cliff? Is it on the opposite side?
Mo Hua looked across again.
Opposite is a deep mountain with deep clouds and mist, strong miasma, and dangerous atmosphere. Moreover, the edge of the cliff cannot be seen under the cover of miasma.
You can’t see anything, so there seems to be no need to use formations to hide.
“Not under the cliff, not across the cliff, could it be between the cliffs?”
Mo Hua muttered, and then his spiritual consciousness looked between the cliffs.
Between the cliffs on both sides, the mist and mountain odor intertwined. For a while, I couldn’t see very carefully.
Looking at it, Mo Hua suddenly opened his eyes.
There really is something! Mo Hua was startled in his heart, then he closed his eyes again, concentrated his mind, put his consciousness to the extreme, tried his best to ignore the interference of the mountain mist, and tried his best to perceive.
In a blur, Mo Hua finally found a road leading to the opposite cliff.
When he realized what this road was, Mo Hua was shocked.
This is actually not a mountain road, but a fallen mountain!
The peaks are sharp and thin, and the rocks are tough. They fall from the opposite side and span between the cliffs on both sides, forming a natural stone bridge.
Some formation masters set up concealment formations on the mountain peaks to cover up their traces, and also used the natural mist between the cliffs to blur and confuse their spiritual perceptions.
This mountain peak has become an extremely hidden and unknown secret path that stands on the abyss and connects the cliffs on both sides.
By using the rocks of the heaven, earth, and mountains as medium, and by using the mist in the mountains as a cover, no traces are revealed, and the gods and ghosts are not aware of it.
Mo Hua was shocked.
Then he thought in his mind: “This formation master is a master!”
He had also just learned the concealment formation, but this formation master had already placed this concealment formation on the rocks a long time ago. The level of the formation was obviously higher than his own.
Since I learned the ink painting formation, this is the first time I have met a formation master with a higher level of formation attainment than myself, except for the enigmatic Mr. Zhuang.
Mo Hua couldn’t help but be a little curious, who is this formation master?
The scapegoat cultivator sets up formations to hide his whereabouts. Could it be that he is also a sin cultivator? Mo Hua felt a little pity in his heart. After finally learning the formation, he did something bad, but he chose to be the accomplice of the tiger and do this kind of murder and swindling.
What to do next?
Mo Hua frowned.
Now that we have discovered the traces of this group of criminal cultivators, we naturally want to find out the truth.
But Mo Hua cannot go into danger alone.
After all, no one knows how many of these evil cultivators there are, what their level of cultivation is, how bad they are, how they are entrenched in the mountains, and what their intentions are.
Mo Hua planned to go back first, tell Elder Yu about the matter, and report it to Daotingsi by the way.
With the help of the demon hunter and Dao Tingsi, they can defeat this group of sin cultivators in one fell swoop.
Mo Hua had made up his mind and planned to go back first, but when he turned around, he stopped again and frowned.
There seems to be something wrong with this.
Go back and call for people. Although there are many people, if a group of people enter the mountain, they will definitely scare the snake and put the sin cultivator on guard.
There are many of them, but what if there are more sin cultivators?
If Sin Xiu took advantage of the favorable location and ambushed them midway, many people from Dao Tingsi and the demon hunter would probably die.
Mo Hua has a good relationship with Daotingsi, and has a deep relationship with the demon hunter.
This is what Mo Hua doesn’t want to see.
Moreover, if you don’t know the reality of the crime and practice, and act rashly, your chances of winning are not good.
If the sin cultivators were allowed to escape, it would be impossible to eradicate them.
What’s more, everything so far is just Mo Hua’s guess.
Although there is a 70% to 80% chance of it happening, you can’t be sure without seeing it with your own eyes.
What if the person behind the cliff is not a sin cultivator?
What if he is an expert hermit like Mr. Zhuang, or a high-level formation master with a withdrawn temperament? If he gathers a group of monks and goes there, he will undoubtedly become a enemy.
Mo Hua was a little confused.
After thinking about it, it seems that the best way is to “endanger it alone”…
He has strong spiritual consciousness and can detect danger early. He has the ability to pass through the water, which ordinary monks cannot enter. And the most important thing now is that he can hide.
He is the only monk among all the demon hunters in Tongxian City who can remain hidden.
With the help of concealment techniques and concealment formations, the concealment effect is stronger than ordinary concealment techniques, and foundation-building monks may not be able to see through it even if they are careless.
If the opponent was an expert, he probably wouldn’t care about a young monk like him.
If the person on the other side was really a sin cultivator, he would have sneaked over and wouldn’t have alerted the enemy.
They killed people and swindled goods without knowing it, and they themselves also inquired about the truth without knowing it.
Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Once the reality is clear, it will be easier to formulate countermeasures.
Mo Hua nodded.
If you take a little risk yourself, the demon hunter or Daotingsi can save a lot of people from dying. This risk is still worth taking.
And he just cautiously went over to take a look, roughly confirm the situation on the other side, and then secretly came back.
The sin cultivator on the opposite side may not be able to detect him.
After all, his concealment skills and concealment formations were not learned in vain.
Mo Hua gradually made up his mind: “First use the stealth technique to sneak over, find out the truth, and then sneak back.”
This way you won’t alert others, and you won’t take too many risks.
Mo Hua grabbed a handful of stones nearby and found a branch. He then opened the storage bag and took out a bottle of spiritual ink. After a brief awareness with his spiritual consciousness, he poured the spiritual ink down from a place on the edge of the cliff.
The golden spiritual ink poured down smoothly. After a moment, it seemed to be blocked by something, and it splashed out one after another, forming an ink stain in the air.
“There is indeed a way.”
Mo Hua nodded, then threw a few more pebbles down, and was relieved after confirming that the pebbles had also fallen in the air and had not sunk into the cliff.
Mo Hua first activated the concealment formation, then activated the concealment technique to hide his figure, and then used the passing water step to jump off the cliff lightly and into the clouds and mist.
After a while, the soles of Mo Hua’s feet were slightly numb and he landed on the invisible stone road.
The spirit ink he just poured down and the stones he dropped were all at his feet.
Mo Hua couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although I knew there was a way, I was still a little scared to jump off the cliff.
Mo Hua glanced down, his hands and feet suddenly became weak and his face turned pale.
Below the cliff is an abyss, and if you fall you will be shattered into pieces.
At this moment, he seemed to be standing out of thin air, standing on top of an abyss.
Mo Hua took a deep breath and thought:
“Don’t look down, don’t look down…”
Then I mustered up my courage, took steps, and walked forward step by step. As I walked, I carefully used branches to test the way forward.
Between the two cliffs shrouded in clouds and mist, on a hidden mountain road, a hidden young monk was quietly walking to the other side step by step.
For two or three hundred years, the demon hunters have not discovered the hidden mountain road, and at this moment, the sin cultivators have not discovered the hidden ink painting either.
(End of chapter)