Nan Mo treated his neighbor very well, taking her to tour the entire Dark Night City and explaining the rules of Dark Night City to her.
"So, no fighting allowed in Dark Night City?"
"Yes, no fighting is allowed in Dark Night City, but the owner of Dark Night City really likes it when people fight."
Nan Mo smiled mysteriously and looked at Chu Lingwei, "If anyone enters Dark Night City and there is no bloodshed for three days, they will be punished."
"There's such a rule?" Chu Lingwei was surprised.
"This should be an unwritten rule. As for what the punishment is, no one knows." Nan Mo's eyes flashed with coldness, "Not only that, if there are too many cultivators here, people will constantly disappear."
Chu Lingwei's heart sank, "Disappear how?"
"I don't know, but no one wants to try." No one wanted to disappear for no reason, and no one wanted to be killed, so everyone could only keep cultivating and try their best to survive in this place.
"Daoist Nan, I'd like to ask, if I want to know about the cultivators who entered here twenty years ago, where can I find them?" There were many more cultivators here than Chu Lingwei had imagined, and for a moment, she didn't know where to start looking for her mother.
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Nan Mo instantly understood Chu Lingwei's purpose for coming here, and was greatly surprised. She hadn't entered here by accident, but with a plan.
"There's an old acquaintance whose last known location was here. Since I'm here, I might as well look around." Chu Lingwei answered casually, Nan Mo didn't necessarily need a precise answer.
"Not all who enter here go into Dark Night City." Nan Mo recalled carefully, "In the past twenty years, I've only seen three cultivators enter Dark Night City."
"Which three?" Chu Lingwei immediately asked, calculating the time, her own mother had entered here about twenty years ago. "Were any of them female cultivators?"
As long as cultivators entered here, there was no need to hide their cultivation. Their cultivation was profound, and they could only hide it for a while, not for decades or even a century.
"Female cultivators?" Nan Mo shook his head, "In the past thirty years, all the cultivators who entered Dark Night City were male."
Chu Lingwei's brow furrowed. There were no female cultivators. "Is it possible they hid their identities?"
"The owner of Dark Night City does not allow anyone to hide their identity, no matter who they are." Nan Mo smiled and shook his head. Chu Lingwei's question suggested that she had not hidden her appearance or identity when she entered.
Chu Lingwei's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that her mother wasn't here?
Impossible, her mother must be here, otherwise, her senior brother wouldn't have helped her enter.
"If the cultivators who entered here did not enter Dark Night City, where would they go?" Chu Lingwei asked again.
"There are two possibilities. One is being thrown into the Dark Night Forest, and the other is being directly thrown into the area along Xiushui River. There's no possibility of coming out."
Nan Mo had never seen cultivators who didn't appear in Dark Night City, "As long as they enter these two places, they can never come out again."
"Could it be that you just haven't seen them?" Chu Lingwei didn't quite believe it. There were many powerful cultivators.
"This... that's also a possibility." Nan Mo knew Chu Lingwei was here to find someone, so this statement was logical.
"Do you know under what circumstances they would be thrown into the Dark Night Forest or thrown into the Xiushui River?" Chu Lingwei hadn't expected that the area around Xiushui would be so troublesome.
Nan Mo shook his head. He had never seen anyone thrown into these two places, so he naturally didn't know why they would be thrown there.
Back at the small courtyard, Chu Lingwei had a basic understanding of the rules within Dark Night City.
"Weiwei, where should we look for your mother?" Time was pressing, and they had to choose the right place for Chu Lingwei's mother.
"Let's go to Xiushui."
The Dark Night Forest was where the cultivators here searched for cultivation resources. Those thrown into the Dark Night Forest were only unable to come out. As long as they were strong enough, they might be able to survive.
However, Xiushui could corrode a cultivator's body.
"Weiwei, didn't Nan Mo say that the place with Xiushui is very dangerous?" the Illusion Cat's eyes flickered with doubt.
"Precisely because it's dangerous, it's possible she's there," Chu Lingwei was very sure. Only a dangerous place would make the Phoenix Clan leader send her here.
"When do we go?" The Illusion Cat's small face tightened. If Weiwei's mother was here, they had to go quickly.
"Tomorrow."
The next night, Chu Lingwei arrived at the mission hall.
"I'd like to take a mission."
Chu Lingwei first handled her own identity token and placed her mission token before the mission hall's attendant.
The attendant picked up Chu Lingwei's identity token and was surprised to see the mission she had accepted. "The land of Xiushui is very dangerous, are you sure you want to go?"
"Yes, I've made up my mind."
The attendant's voice drew the attention of all the cultivators in the mission hall, and they looked at Chu Lingwei with scrutiny.
This cultivator at the Rongtian realm actually dared to go to Xiushui, truly not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth.
"No one has come out of that place for a hundred years." The attendant looked up at Chu Lingwei. She was a new cultivator to Dark Night City and might not be fully aware of the danger of Xiushui.
"I've made up my mind, I'm taking this mission." Chu Lingwei frowned slightly, she didn't like being stared at.
"Alright."
Seeing that Chu Lingwei's mind was made up, the attendant couldn't help but shake his head and assigned the mission to Chu Lingwei's mission token. "If your mission is successful, come here to collect your reward. If it's unsuccessful, come here nonetheless, and you will have to pay a certain price."
Chu Lingwei took back her identity token, said thank you, and left the mission hall.
"Daoist Chu?"
Not long after Chu Lingwei left the mission hall, Nan Mo rushed over.
"Daoist Nan, what's the rush?"
"Daoist Chu, did you accept the mission to retrieve water from Xiushui?" Nan Mo rushed over after he learned that Chu Lingwei had accepted the mission to fetch water. He had just reminded her yesterday, and she had accepted this mission in less than a day.
"Yes, I want to see how dangerous Xiushui really is."
Chu Lingwei did not hide anything. She had accepted this mission, and she hadn't kept it from anyone. She believed the entire Dark Night City knew that the newly arrived cultivator had accepted the mission to fetch water from Xiushui.
"Daoist Chu, you..." Nan Mo was truly helpless. He really didn't know what Chu Lingwei was thinking, willingly walking into danger.
"Daoist Nan, I'm leaving now. We'll meet again."
Chu Lingwei cupped her hands towards Nan Mo and quickly walked towards the direction of Dark Night City.
Nan Mo watched Chu Lingwei's retreating figure, his eyes filled with complex emotions, lost in thought for a long time.