Chapter 418 Tracking

Mo Hua told Situ Fang the news.

Situ Fang thought of the poor orphans and widowed mothers, and frowned, feeling very angry.

"That's unreasonable!"

This is making money from dead people and depriving families of money!

The next day, Situ Fang took the monks from Daotingsi to find Wang Lai and others in the gambling house, took them to Daotingsi, and interrogated them.

By the way, they took back the spiritual stones they had stolen.

Situ Fang compensated these spiritual stones to the mine cultivator's family, but there was nothing he could do with Wang Lai and others.

Wang Lai and the others forcibly demanded compensation for the mine repairmen and took most of the compensated spiritual stones as their own. This was not a serious crime.

Daotingsi couldn't impose a too severe sentence.

Situ Fang wanted to clear up their old scores and punish them for several crimes.

These ruffians are causing harm to the countryside and will definitely have a bad record.

But the mine repairmen were weak and no one dared to identify him for fear of retaliation.

Situ Fang had no choice but to imprison them for a month, then used wooden torture, beat them thirty times, and released them.

When Wang Lai and others came out of Taoist prison, the first thing they did was to go to the house of the dead mine cultivator with a bunch of gangsters, threaten and blackmail them, take the spirit stones back, and even injure a few people, and said:

"If you dare to go to Daotingsi to report a crime again, your whole family will be completely wiped out!"

Situ Fang said this to Mo Hua.

In the small courtyard of the cave, Situ Fang was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"I wanted to take them to prison again, but I was stopped by some older officers..."

"They told me it was useless and that they had seen this kind of thing a lot over the years."

"Unless we really kill these gangsters, they are like dog-skin plaster and cannot be shaken off."

"Catch and lock up, lock and release again..."

"I am Daotingsi's Diansi, so I am not afraid of them, but the ones who suffer in the end are the poor mining cultivators below who were bullied by them..."

Situ Fang looked deeply helpless.

After chatting for a while, Situ Fang left with a sad face.

Mo Hua sat in the yard, frowning and thinking about something.

After Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi learned the formation from Mr. Zhuang, they went out and passed by the yard. They saw Mo Hua sitting under a big tree and meditating.

Bai Zisheng ran to the ink painting and asked:

"What's wrong?"

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then told the story about Wang Lai and others.

Bai Zisheng heard this and said angrily: "Kill them!"

Bai Zixi also frowned slightly.

Mo Hua said: "You must behave according to the rules and obey the laws of Taoism. If they have not committed a crime that deserves death, they cannot kill people casually..."

Bai Zisheng muttered: "I think they are already dead..."

Mo Hua glanced at him.

Bai Zisheng stopped talking.

Then he was stunned again and looked at Mo Hua suspiciously, "Are you having any bad intentions?"

Mo Hua said displeasedly: "How can you call it a bad idea?"

"You must be trying to trick people..." Bai Zisheng said.

Bai Zixi also looked at Mo Hua doubtfully.

"It's not a scam..." Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "I plan to follow them secretly to see what they do on a daily basis and if there is any clue."

Since these monks have committed many evil deeds, they will definitely leave some clues.

"Following?" Bai Zisheng's eyes lit up.

"You can't go." Mo Hua said.

Bai Zisheng was greatly disappointed, "Why?"

"You don't know how to hide."

"No need..."

"Of course!" Mo Hua raised his tiny eyebrows, "Only by concealing your figure can you follow them. If you follow them blatantly, wouldn't you treat them as fools?"

"All right……"

Bai Zi's enthusiasm for victory waned.

Bai Zixi coughed lightly, reminded Bai Zisheng, and glanced at the ink painting slightly.

Bai Zisheng was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized, and said to Mo Hua:

"Yes, don't you know how to hide in a formation?"

"My concealment formation is not very effective..." Mo Hua declined.

Bai Zixi shook his head and said, "Your concealment array works very well, but the Taoist robe you use is not good."

When Bai Zisheng heard this, he nodded repeatedly:

"That's right, you are my junior brother. How could it be that the formation is not good? It's because the Taoist robe you are using is not good..."

"I'll prepare good robes for you, you can help us draw a concealment formation, and then we'll track down those bad guys together."

Bai Zi's winning bet clanged loudly, and then he said confidently:

"I am your senior brother, how can I let you take risks alone? This makes me feel guilty."

Mo Hua looked at him silently, "Are you feeling sorry for your 'conscience', or are you feeling guilty for your 'playfulness'..."

Bai Zisheng was stunned by Mo Hua and said sarcastically:

"They are all there, they are all there."

In the past few days, he had been detained by Mr. Zhuang, learning those complicated and advanced formations, and his head was getting big.

Now that I can hang out with Mo Hua for a few days, I naturally want to seize the opportunity.

Mo Hua asked doubtfully: "Where's Master? Don't you want to learn formations?"

Bai Zisheng and Bai Zixi have been learning formations these days.

It's the kind of formation that you can't learn by yourself.

"It's okay. Master hasn't taught anything new these days. I just need to take the time to review."

Mo Hua was still a little hesitant.

Bai Zisheng looked at him eagerly.

Bai Zixi's eyes were also sparkling.

Mo Hua sighed, "Okay, but you must be low-key and cautious..."

"Listen to my words." Mo Hua emphasized again.

The junior brother said this, and the junior senior brother and junior sister both nodded obediently.

After that, Mo Hua began to draw the hiding formation.

The Taoist robes were too cumbersome. They couldn't wear another robe outside their clothes. This would be fine when they were hiding, but if they weren't, they would be very conspicuous.

And it wouldn't be very convenient to move.

Bai Zixi picked several pieces of clothing for Mo Hua.

Mo Hua chose a cloak-shaped cloak after considering the formation.

This kind of hooded cloak, when worn outside, can keep warm and block the wind and dust. With a hood, it can also cover the face.

In the Xiaohuangzhou realm, the weather is hot and there is no need to keep warm, so Mo Hua chose three lighter cloaks.

These cloaks were made with special techniques and were all excellent spiritual tools.

Mo Hua drew a concealment formation on them.

Then the three tried it and it worked very well.

At least to the naked eye, nothing could be found.

Of course, Mo Hua's spiritual sense was too strong, and he could still find his junior brothers and sisters, but Bai Zisheng and the other two couldn't find Mo Hua.

After they were ready, the three began to follow.

The target of the surveillance is Wang Lai.

Wang Lai, also known as Wang Laipi, is the leader of this gang of thugs.

He is not tall, but his cultivation is not low. He is at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining. He is the most profound among this group of thugs.

He has the spiritual root of the earth element and takes the path of body refining. His skills are quite standard. He is good at using a ring-headed knife, and his Taoist method is called "Mountain Knife".

He is idle and makes trouble on weekdays.

When he has spiritual stones, he eats, drinks, gambles and has nothing to do with it.

The street he often goes to is called Jinhua Street, located in the north of Nanyue City. It is the most prosperous place in the entire Nanyue City.

Of course, it is also the most corrupt place.

Qinlou, Chuguan, brothels, restaurants and gambling houses, everything is available.

There are also some places that Mo Hua has never seen and can't even think of...

Mo Hua is a little curious, but he still holds back and doesn't go in to take a look.

Anyway, it is definitely not a good place.

Forget about himself, but his junior brother and junior sister followed him, he couldn't lead them astray, otherwise the master would definitely hit his head.

Although Jinhua Street is prosperous, it is also divided into different levels.

The places Wang Lai can go to are some remote brothels, gambling houses in narrow places, and low-end wine shops.

In this way, Wang Lai lived a life of drunkenness, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and squandered the money he made from the dead. Then he started to "earn" spiritual stones.

He had to "earn" spiritual stones, as he still owed money to the gambling house.

A horse cannot grow fat without night grass, and a man cannot become rich without windfall.

As Mo Hua expected, Wang Lai's means of "earning" spiritual stones were all shady.

There were stealing, cheating, trapping, and robbery.

There are rewards earned by beating people to clear the way for disciples of a certain family in Nanyue City; there are protection fees extorted from small vendors;

There are gambling funds cheated from foreign cultivators by colluding in gambling houses; there are property robbed on the way;

There are also spiritual stones extorted by finding a female cultivator in a brothel to do a "honey trap" together...

Mo Hua was really eye-opening.

There is only one way for a mining cultivator to earn spiritual stones, which is to be diligent and hard-working, but it is hard and tiring.

And this Wang Lai, who does not do the right thing, spends his days in debauchery...

The more diligent, the harder, the harder life.

This world really bullies honest cultivators.

Mo Hua was a little emotional, and at the same time, he was a little confused.

He remembered that Lu Ming said that when Wang Lai and other ruffians really had no spiritual stones, they would go to the mines, work as mining cultivators for a few days, dig for a few days, and earn a few spiritual stones.

But these days, Wang Lai has indeed had a time when his pockets were empty and he didn't have a single spiritual stone.

But he had never been into a mine, nor had he dug a single ore.

"Something's wrong..."

Mo Hua frowned.

This Wang Lai seemed to have no connection with the mine.

This should be unlikely.

Mo Hua waited patiently, and after a few days, Mo Hua found that Wang Lai was finally going to the mine.

Because he found an old mine repairman, he whispered:

"In the mine, there are high-quality ores hidden by the Lu family. Let's steal some, and we won't have to worry about food and drink for the rest of our lives..."

Stealing ore...

Mo Hua's pupils shrank slightly.

The five missing mine repairmen seemed to have died in the mine because of stealing ore...

And stealing ore is a taboo for mine repairmen.

Why would the five mine repairmen who died tragically suddenly think of stealing ore?

Mo Hua looked at Wang Lai, with a cold light in his eyes.