Ren Tianxing fell silent upon hearing this. Arrogant by nature, he rarely held anyone in high regard. Although Mo Wuji's aptitude was low and he was an outer disciple, they got along famously. Moreover, Mo Wuji never seemed to think of himself as inferior just because he was an outer disciple.

Mo Wuji was one of the few people he respected. Because he considered Mo Wuji a friend, he gave up going to the Lost Heaven Ruins Earth Fire Mouth to return to the sect with Mo Wuji and even gave Mo Wuji a mask spiritual artifact.

Now that he learned of Mo Wuji's possible demise, he felt a sense of loss. It was not easy for a cultivator to meet a kindred spirit.

A few dozen feet away from Ren Tianxing and Cen Shuyin, two cultivators wearing black scarves were bending over to clean up the spoils of war. Only after Ren Tianxing and Cen Shuyin left did the two stand up.

If Mo Wuji were here, he would definitely recognize one of them as Qi Laoshi from the Honest Goods Shop.

"That Cen Shuyin came here with Mo Wuji but doesn't know where Mo Wuji went. What a stupid woman." Qi Laoshi stared at Cen Shuyin's back, saying resentfully.

The woman wearing a black scarf next to him snorted disdainfully, "You're the stupid one. That woman doesn't have much of a relationship with Mo Wuji at all. Why would she know where Mo Wuji went?"

"Then what do we do now?" Qi Laoshi quickly changed the subject, asking after hearing the woman scold him.

The black-scarved woman looked at the misty Thundercloud Forest in the distance, pondered for a long while before saying, "All three people who have seen the Immortal Kui Metal Essence have been killed by us, and only Mo Wuji had seen these three people before. We must find that kid named Mo Wuji no matter what."

"Are we overestimating this kid?" Qi Laoshi said with a smile.

The black-scarved woman snorted again, "Since that kid has a way to discover your spiritual sense imprint and frame others, he may be able to find that spirit stone mine according to your spiritual sense imprint. This is our only clue. According to our investigation, Mo Wuji should have come to Thundercloud Forest after leaving An Yang. That woman named Cen Shuyin also said that Mo Wuji came. The fact is that we didn't find Mo Wuji here. Where do you think he went?"

Qi Laoshi closed his mouth and stopped talking. The woman's words had shown her determination. Even if Mo Wuji didn't get the Immortal Kui, they would find Mo Wuji.

"Maybe he really was killed, leaving no trace." Qi Laoshi sighed. He had always thought that he had Mo Wuji in the palm of his hand, but later he realized that Mo Wuji had never fallen for his tricks. The one who was truly played was him, the honest man. Not only that, but he also lost a Quiet Tithy Pill.

The black-scarved woman's eyes turned cold as she glared at Qi Laoshi and angrily said, "Do you think that a resourceful and cunning person like that would easily die in the cultivators' battlefield? Only an idiot like you would easily die here."

Seeing that Qi Laoshi was about to ask what to do, the black-scarved female cultivator raised her hand and slapped him. Qi Laoshi didn't dare to dodge, and the slap sent him spinning in place.

After slapping Qi Laoshi, the black-clothed woman said in a cold voice, "If you were Mo Wuji, and you had offended many people in the sect, where would you hide after coming to this place?"

"I wouldn't hide. I'd leave this place as soon as possible." Qi Laoshi quickly said what was on his mind.

"That's why you're still a turtle hiding its head. Even an outer disciple dares to point his finger at the lord's nose and scold him. You can forget about catching up to an outer disciple in this lifetime. Let me tell you, Mo Wuji dared to play you and dared to come to this cultivators' battlefield, so he wouldn't leave easily. He must have his own plans..." the black-scarved woman cursed powerlessly.

"I understand. He'll go to Thundercloud Forest..." Qi Laoshi blurted out as if divinely inspired.

The black-scarved woman's eyes lit up, "That's right, he can only go to Thundercloud Forest. Let's go, we'll go to Thundercloud Forest now. If we still can't find the Immortal Kui this time, we'll have to leave the Lost Heaven Ruins underground market again."

This time, they had asked many people to investigate Mo Wuji. Although this wasn't a big deal, it was still considered showing their faces.

……

"Damn it, there are so many lightning arcs in this Thundercloud Forest. That kid's crazy to come here..." Another lightning arc struck Qi Laoshi's shoulder. He couldn't dodge it and could only curse. He had been struck by lightning arcs dozens of times in just one day of entering the Thundercloud Forest.

However, Qi Laoshi's words suddenly stopped. He saw two men blocking their path.

"Idiot, how many times have I told you to shut up." The black-scarved woman was furious at Qi Laoshi when she saw the two men blocking them.

"You two have some nerve, but you're acting suspiciously. If you want to go to our Fu Ruo Star's base, just go directly. Why bother going around in a circle through the Thundercloud Forest?" The one who spoke was a short and fat man.

This man was holding a dark iron ball in his hand, had golden hair, large ears, and somewhat square eyes. At first glance, he looked like a ridiculous shorty. Qi Laoshi and the black-clothed woman became solemn. They would never think of this shorty as someone easy to bully. This shorty's aura was restrained, and standing in front of them, he looked like a grandmaster.

The other man standing next to the shorty was of medium build, and his face was like a coffin lid, deathly silent, with his eyes drooping as if he were thinking about something. But the killing intent on his body was no weaker than that of the shorty.

"Cough, cough..." Qi Laoshi coughed twice, stepped forward, clasped his fists, and said, "Fellow Daoists, you've misunderstood, it's really a misunderstanding. We have nothing to do with the Five Great Empires' so-called Hundred Sects Alliance. We simply want to find some spiritual herbs in the Thundercloud Forest."

"The Thundercloud Forest is our territory now, so we're really sorry." The shorty tossed the iron ball in his hand.

"In that case, we'll leave immediately." The black-scarved woman said immediately. She could feel that these two men were very strong, not weaker than them in the slightest.

"Since you're here, then don't leave..." The one who spoke this time was actually the coffin-faced man. After he finished speaking, he raised dozens of silk threads in both hands and wrapped them around the black-scarved woman.

Almost at the same time, the shorty also made a move. The iron ball that he had been tossing in his hand turned into a dark light, like a black hole, and swallowed Qi Laoshi.

Unable to avoid it, Qi Laoshi suddenly had an iron hammer in his hand. The iron hammer tore through the air with a sharp whistle and slammed together with the iron ball that was drawing a black hole.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion of elemental energy and the sound of metal clashing exploded in the Thundercloud Forest. A gully several feet deep was blasted open out of thin air.

The powerful elemental force rebounded, and Qi Laoshi spat out a mouthful of essence blood on the spot and flew backward. The shorty didn't feel good either. A mouthful of essence blood reached his mouth and was swallowed by him.

Compared to Qi Laoshi and the shorty's fight, the fight between the black-scarved woman and the coffin-faced man seemed calm and unhurried.

The coffin-faced man's dozens of silk threads were all blocked by the black-scarved woman's crescent ring, but the powerful elemental force of the silk threads still broke through the black-scarved woman's defensive wall. Like invisible iron claws, they completely destroyed the black scarf on the black-scarved woman's head.

A slightly pale woman's face with very thin lips was revealed.

"Let's go!" After just one exchange, the black-scarved woman knew that she and Qi Laoshi couldn't kill the other two. The strength of these two was not inferior to theirs at all.

Without the woman's reminder, Qi Laoshi had already turned in one direction and rushed into the depths of Thundercloud Forest. The black-scarved woman circled in the air and pounced towards Qi Laoshi's back, following Qi Laoshi and disappearing into the depths of Thundercloud Forest in an instant.

The two cultivators who had intercepted Qi Laoshi and the black-scarved woman followed without hesitation.

At the place where the four had fought just now, besides a huge gully and a mess on the ground, there was no trace left.

……

"Pa!" Mo Wuji patted the spiritual stone dust off his body and stood up. Since he began cultivating by opening up his meridians, he had never cultivated so hard.

In three and a half months of cultivation, he didn't know how many spiritual stones he had consumed. He had barely cultivated from the ninth layer of Spirit Building to the late stage of the ninth layer of Spirit Building. He was still a long way from the tenth layer of Spirit Building that he wanted.

Mo Wuji looked at the spiritual stone fragments all over the ground and sighed helplessly. Perhaps he needed to cultivate in seclusion for a year and a half to have a chance to advance to the tenth layer of Spirit Building.

No, he had to continue cultivating. He had experience with the tenth layer of Meridian Opening. The reason why he was able to kill two Spirit Building cultivators back then was mainly because he was at the tenth layer of Meridian Opening. It could be seen that the watershed between the tenth and ninth layers was sometimes as obvious as a major realm.

After cleaning up the cave a little, Mo Wuji decided not to give up until he had cultivated to the tenth layer of Spirit Building.

"Boom!" A terrifying explosion of elemental energy came, startling Mo Wuji. He quickly put away the spiritual stones he had taken out and carefully opened the primary surveillance array he had set up. His surveillance array was set up next to the defensive array to prevent anyone from coming here. He had taken the initiative to turn off the surveillance array because he was cultivating in seclusion. Now that there was such a violent explosion outside, Mo Wuji naturally had to check it out.

In the surveillance array, four blurry images were engaged in a great battle. A man and a woman were fighting so fiercely that sand and stones were flying everywhere, and nothing could be seen clearly. The other two men were fighting head-on, and every time their magic treasures collided, a large pile of stone fragments would be blasted out.

Wait, Mo Wuji quickly discovered that he knew one of them, Qi Laoshi from the Lost Heaven Ruins underground market.

The more Mo Wuji watched, the more alarmed he became. He had guessed that Qi Laoshi was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger. But Qi Laoshi's true strength still shocked Mo Wuji. Mo Wuji was sure that none of the people he had met in the past were as strong as Qi Laoshi.

Seeing large pieces of rock and giant trees being blasted into fragments by the four, and the gullies on the ground becoming larger and larger, Mo Wuji secretly called himself unlucky. When he was in the Five Elements Wilderness, he encountered a top-level demon beast transcending tribulation after digging his cave.

Now that he was in Thundercloud Forest, he had encountered this kind of thing again. This time it wasn't one, but four top-level experts fighting in front of his door. Looking at the rocks that were constantly collapsing outside Thunder Valley, Mo Wuji knew that his cave would collapse before long. At that time, he would have nowhere to hide.