Old Five is a Goose.

Chapter 230 Covering One's Ears While Stealing a Bell

Several people looked at each other in dismay. Sang Yiping, Nie Zhengnong, and Zhuang Yan had seen relatively little of the world and couldn't think of so much all at once. Pu Qian was simply too lazy to think deeply. Only after Mo Wuji pointed it out did they realize that there were so many problems involved.

"So, Senior Brother, you put those things back?" Sang Yiping finally understood why Mo Wuji wanted to temporarily put the items back.

"Perhaps the Heavenly Sect Sect Leader released news of the Immortal Mansion through some means," Zhuang Yan said hesitantly.

"No, the Heavenly Sect Sect Leader isn't the type to make selfless sacrifices. You can tell by how he collects treasures everywhere. Sect Leader Senior Brother put that ring back; otherwise, it would definitely be full of all sorts of treasures after opening it," Sang Yiping said immediately.

Mo Wuji smiled slightly. "That ring definitely has to be taken, but before we take it, we need to figure out these problems. Another problem is that the spiritual energy here is dense, but we haven't seen any spirit-gathering formations or anything like that. I suspect there's a spirit vein here."

"A spirit vein?" they all exclaimed in unison.

Mo Wuji nodded. His spiritual sense scanned the area and felt that the densest spiritual energy was around Jing Gumu's location. If he wanted to find the source of the spirit vein, he would need to move Jing Gumu's remains. But Jing Gumu's message said not to touch his remains.

Just as everyone was still thinking about the spirit vein that Mo Wuji mentioned, Mo Wuji's expression changed, and he immediately shouted, "Everyone, come over here quickly…"

After saying that, he was the first to rush into the house where Jing Gumu was located. Pu Qian and the others had long been extremely trusting of Mo Wuji. As soon as Mo Wuji went inside, the other four followed him into the house.

Sang Yiping was just about to ask what was happening when she heard bursts of maniacal laughter coming from outside.

"Is that the True God Realm expert?" Zhuang Yan said in a trembling voice.

At this moment, everyone's faces were extremely pale. This maniacal laughter had an astonishing aura. Who else could it be but the True God Realm expert?

"It's him, and he knows we're in here," Mo Wuji said with some urgency. Facing a guy who was far stronger than them, even if he was seriously injured, they couldn't deal with him.

Seeing that everyone was a bit flustered, Mo Wuji went directly to a corner of the wall behind Jing Gumu's corpse and waved to the others.

After they approached, Mo Wuji continuously threw out some spirit stones and then took out some simple array flags. Mo Wuji couldn't refine these array flags himself; some were low-level array flags he bought, and some were array flags he found in other people's rings.

After several minutes, Mo Wuji stopped.

"Sect Leader Senior Brother, are you setting up a concealment formation?" Nie Zhengnong recognized it and asked doubtfully.

Mo Wuji nodded. "Yes, this is a simple concealment formation, not even a low-level one. In addition to this concealment formation, I also added a soundproof array."

At this moment, Mo Wuji was truly grateful to Chu Xingzi. Without Chu Xingzi, he wouldn't be able to set up a simple formation, let alone recognize it.

Sang Yiping quickly said, "Senior Linglong said that the man in black is a True God Layer 1 cultivator. Even if he's severely injured, with only one percent of his cultivation left, can this concealment formation block his spiritual sense?"

When Sang Yiping asked this question, Pu Qian and the others all stared at Mo Wuji expectantly, hoping that Mo Wuji would say that it could block it.

Mo Wuji shook his head. "Using this concealment formation to block the spiritual sense of a True God Realm cultivator is wishful thinking. I'm sure that guy will be able to see the existence of this concealment array as soon as he comes in and then find us."

"Ah…" everyone was completely dumbfounded. If this concealment array couldn't block the man in black's line of sight, why use this concealment array?

Mo Wuji said calmly, "We have nowhere to hide at all. This is just a last resort."

Sang Yiping and the others all lowered their heads. Although Sect Leader Senior Brother was deceiving himself, that's all they could do. Otherwise, where could they hide?

"Moreover, this method has a name in my hometown; it's called 'covering your ears while stealing a bell,'" Mo Wuji continued.

"What is 'covering your ears while stealing a bell'…" As soon as Zhuang Yan asked, she understood without Mo Wuji explaining. It was just covering your ears while stealing a ringing bell. The only person being deceived was yourself.

Sang Yiping said, "Sect Leader Senior Brother, you must have a reason for doing this, right?"

Mo Wuji sighed. "I can only hope that my guess is correct. Everyone, be quiet. That person will find us here soon."

"Boom!" Jing Gumu's room was kicked open, and the door, which was almost integrated with the wall, shattered into pieces.

As Mo Wuji and the others had expected, the man in black who had previously bombarded the corpse cultivator appeared at the door. Mo Wuji didn't use his spiritual sense to scan the man in black, but he could tell that the man in black's injuries were as Senior Linglong had said, and hadn't improved. The reason he dared to come here was that he didn't take them, a few cultivators from the human realm, seriously at all.

The man in black's gaze swept across the room, his line of sight passing over the corner of the room where Mo Wuji and the others were, and a sneer appeared on his lips. Thinking of deceiving his gaze with such a crude concealment array was truly ignorant and fearless.

He completely ignored Mo Wuji and the others, and his gaze fell directly on the three items in front of the corpse on the bed. Immediately, his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and grabbed the three items.

Mo Wuji breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the man in black didn't attack them immediately, they would have a chance. Although he hadn't interacted with the man in black before, from the man in black's silent bombardment of the corpse cultivator, and then desperately taking a blow from Senior Linglong, even with serious injuries, to take away the corpse cultivator's dregs, he knew that this guy was an extremely opinionated person. Once he was certain of something, he wouldn't seek the opinions of others. It was as if he had determined from Mo Wuji's words that the corpse cultivator had an Immortal Mansion, so he went straight to snatch it.

Now that he had come in and didn't attack immediately, but went to grab the items in front of the corpse, it meant that this corpse cultivator had determined that he and the others were being clever and had set up a trash concealment array that wasn't worth mentioning at all. He would definitely take away the things Jing Gumu had left behind first, and then tear apart their concealment array, letting them die slowly in fear.

This was also the purpose of Mo Wuji's setting up the concealment array. If he didn't set up the concealment array, although he would still be seen by the man in black as soon as he came in, perhaps the man in black would bombard them to death immediately. People sometimes become self-righteous, and the man in black self-righteously believed that Mo Wuji and the others were being self-righteous.

The man in black quickly scanned Jing Gumu's skin scroll, and then grabbed the jade seal in his hand and looked at it repeatedly. However, he didn't try to refine it with blood, but with a wave of his hand, he rolled away Jing Gumu's corpse. As for what Jing Gumu said, not to touch his corpse, it was complete nonsense in his eyes.

At the moment he rolled away Jing Gumu's corpse, the man in black suddenly paused. He suddenly felt a sense of something was wrong, it was the young man in blue, who had previously tricked him with words, using his hand to fight with the corpse cultivator, and as a result, the young man took the opportunity to save the woman he had been chasing for days.

From this, it could be seen that that young man was definitely not an idiot. Since he wasn't an idiot, didn't he know that setting up a concealment array here wouldn't block his sight at all? Perhaps that young man didn't know that the person coming was him, and that's why he thought the concealment array could block it.

But regardless, he should kill this young man first.

Just as he thought of this, a rich spiritual energy rushed toward him. This was the source of a spirit vein, and the man in black was overjoyed. He didn't expect that there was a spirit vein under the corpse he had rolled away. No wonder this corpse said not to touch his remains.

What would a dead person do with a spirit vein?

Not good, the man in black instantly reacted.

At the instant he reacted, a powerful divine soul aura rushed into his sea of consciousness and mind.

Soul snatching? The man in black's face became ferocious. He didn't expect that someone would try to snatch his soul. They were courting death.

The man in black sat cross-legged on the ground, and the thoughts in his sea of consciousness frantically collided with the foreign divine soul aura. He wanted to tear this soul-snatching thought into pieces.

"Crack!" Mo Wuji raised his hand and tore apart the concealment array in front of him, and was the first to stand out.

The man in black instantly understood what was happening. This young man was truly extremely vicious. He had been used for the second time.

"What's going on? Sect Leader Senior Brother," Sang Yiping asked, looking at the man in black who was sitting on the ground with an expression of surprise and uncertainty. The man in black's face was ferocious, and his veins were bulging, as if he was doing some painful struggle.

Mo Wuji wouldn't give him a chance. He raised his hand and sent one lightning ball after another towards the man in black, while saying, "Bomb this bastard to death for me."

His guess was very correct. The spiritual energy inside was dense, but they couldn't see any spirit stones or spirit-gathering formations. Obviously, there was a spirit vein here.

Mo Wuji had opened up 101 meridians and was extremely sensitive to spiritual energy. Plus, with his divine sense probing, he quickly guessed that this spirit vein was under Jing Gumu.

Just as the man in black had guessed, what would a dead person do sitting on a spirit vein? The only possibility was that this dead person wasn't completely dead. A dead person who wasn't completely dead, and couldn't actively harm others, only had one possibility: the existence of a divine soul.

Divine souls could snatch bodies, and Mo Wuji wasn't completely ignorant of this. And the other party was sitting on the spirit vein, so if an average person sensed the source of the spiritual energy, they would throw his corpse aside. As long as they touched his corpse, his divine soul would have a chance to enter the sea of consciousness of the person touching him and perform soul snatching.

The man in black rolled away Jing Gumu's corpse, so even if this man in black wasn't Jing Gumu's ideal soul-snatching target, he had to act.

With Jing Gumu starting to snatch his soul, the man in black naturally couldn't care about Mo Wuji and the others for a short time. At this time, if Mo Wuji didn't act, he would be an idiot. What's more, Mo Wuji was waiting for this moment.

The others gradually understood a little, and followed suit, taking out their spiritual weapons and attacking the man in black.

The man in black was already seriously injured. Now, being bombarded by Mo Wuji's lightning balls one after another, he didn't even dare to fight back. The frustration in his heart could be imagined.

However, he was a True God Layer 1 cultivator. Even if he had lost 90% of his strength, Mo Wuji couldn't kill him with a few bolts from the blue. His injuries were getting worse and worse, but there wasn't a single injury that could kill him.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Several more lightning arcs bombarded him. The man in black sneered. Although the previous life of this remnant soul was strong, it was even more vulnerable than him now. He had already suppressed it, and as long as he was given a little more time, he could suppress the remnant soul and then slowly torture this insidious young man. Through the feeling of this round of lightning balls bombarding him, he was very clear about this young man's strength. He was at most a Layer 1 Mortal Shedding cultivator.

At this moment, he suddenly felt an extreme fear, the kind of fear as if he was facing death.

(The third update is here. Today's updates are here. Good night, friends! Since the book was launched, I haven't been able to guarantee two updates a day, but thanks to everyone's support, I've persisted to this day. I'll persist for a few more days, and then I'll change to two updates for a while. It's a bit too much to keep up with three updates. The fact that the monthly votes have fallen to eighth place actually has nothing to do with the lack of updates, nor does it have anything to do with the support of the readers. There's nothing I can do about it. There are too many red envelopes for monthly votes. Old Five is asking friends who have monthly votes to give me one or two to help me move up.)