txolops Chapter 356 Underground Surveillance
Chapter 356 Underground Surveillance
The Spirit Island stretches for thousands of miles.
In addition, the island has access to abundant marine resources through fishing, and its population is comparable to that of some small countries in the Western Wilderness.
The Mo family, the rulers of Ling Island, built their ancestral home in the majestic mountain range that runs north to south through the center of the island.
Li Ping and the other two piloted their flying boat directly to the Central Mountain Range. After Wei Yiling stepped forward and introduced herself, the three of them waited silently.
A short while later, the Mo family's Core Formation stage elder came out with a smile.
This was a vigorous old man dressed in a white robe, with long, flowing hair and a beard over a foot long, both white, giving him an air of otherworldly wisdom.
Upon seeing the three, the vigorous old man burst into laughter: "Hahaha... Fairy Wei, Fairy Feng, what brings you here? My Mo family is truly honored!"
His gaze then turned to Li Ping: "This fellow Daoist is quite unfamiliar. Will Fairy Wei introduce me to him?"
Wei Yiling smiled and introduced the two, pointing to Li Ping with her jade-like hand: "This is Fellow Daoist Li."
She then introduced Li Ping: "This is Fellow Daoist Mo whom I mentioned to you. He is the Supreme Elder of the Mo family."
Li Ping and the Mo family matriarch both smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.
After getting to know each other, the Mo family elder led the three into the Mo family's third-tier grand formation.
The matriarch of the Mo family was a warm and hospitable person. He not only ordered his descendants to serve precious spiritual tea and fruits, but also planned to hold a grand banquet for the three of them.
Wei Yiling quickly stopped him, saying that the three of them were hunting demons together and were passing by when they came across this place. They wanted to rest at the Mo family's place.
The Mo family elder readily agreed, stating that given his relationship with Fairy Wei, they could stay as long as they wanted.
Wei Yiling then tried to pay him spirit stones, but he refused with righteous indignation.
No matter what Wei Yiling said, he resolutely refused to accept the spirit stones, and in the end, Wei Yiling had no choice but to give up.
"By the way, Fairy Wei, I recently heard from Fellow Daoist Cha that you two sisters had encountered the Four Fiends of the East Sea, and I was quite worried about you. Now that I see you are both alright, I can finally rest assured," said Elder Mo with a smile.
Wei Yiling shook her head: "My sister and I were just lucky..."
The conversation in the hall was mainly between Wei Yiling and the Mo family matriarch. Feng Xishuang was an introverted person and did not like to talk to people.
Li Ping sat to the side, occasionally chiming in agreement.
The four Core Formation cultivators sat in the hall discussing the Dao for a whole day, and the host and guests enjoyed themselves immensely. Afterwards, the Mo family patriarch summoned the descendants of the clan and led the three to a third-tier spiritual land that had been prepared for them to rest.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Mo family patriarch specially arranged two nearby cave dwellings for the three of them.
Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang lived in one cave, while Li Ping lived alone in another cave.
The girl who led Li Ping was a beautiful girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was slender, charming, and still a virgin.
Arriving at a quiet and elegant courtyard, Li Ping looked around and nodded in satisfaction.
But then she heard a girl's voice, barely audible: "Senior, can Qiong'er stay?"
Li Ping turned his head and could clearly see that a blush rose on the girl's cheeks as she spoke.
"This old fellow..." Li Ping shook his head inwardly, took out a bottle of pills from his storage bag, and used his magic to control it to float in front of the girl: "This bottle of pills should be helpful to your cultivation, so I'm giving it to you. Now go and cultivate properly."
"Yes, senior." The girl accepted the pill, a hint of disappointment on her face.
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In the courtyard, Li Ping set up a third-order array to block divine sense before sitting cross-legged. His vast divine sense spread out, covering an area of fifteen or sixteen miles around.
In unfamiliar surroundings, he habitually remained cautious.
The Mo family elder is at the early stage of Core Formation, while Wei and Feng are at the middle stage. Unless they have special opportunities, their spiritual sense is definitely inferior to mine. As long as I don't deliberately let them discover my spiritual sense, they won't be able to detect me at all.
However, he was not someone who liked to pry into other people's privacy. The reason he spread his divine sense at this moment was mainly because he was somewhat uneasy about the Mo family.
after all.
If Wei Yiling's senses are correct, the lair of the Four Fiends of the East Sea is likely hundreds of thousands of miles away in the mirage, and the distance between Mo Family Spirit Island and that place is not far.
So here's the question.
Given their proximity, why didn't the Four Fiends of the East Sea attack the Mo family?
There might be a reason why a rabbit doesn't eat the grass near its burrow, but Li Ping couldn't help but wonder: Could the Mo family be in cahoots with the Four Fiends of the East Sea? Or is the Mo family the spy for the Four Fiends of the East Sea?
This possibility is not entirely out of the question.
He simply spread his divine sense over the surrounding area and found nothing special. However, the Mo family elder's cave was too far from his residence for his divine sense to reach.
After a moment's hesitation, Li Ping summoned both the Earth Spirit Rat and the Wildfire Sparrow.
He ordered Xuan Yi to stay in the cave, and then instructed the Earth Spirit Rat to use the Earth Escape Technique to cover himself and the Wildfire Sparrow, and they burrowed underground, heading towards the location where the Mo family's elder resided.
Before long, a person and two beasts, bathed in a halo of light, appeared several miles below the Mo family's Supreme Cave.
Li Ping's divine sense surged upwards with a "whoosh." He originally thought that the Mo family elder would set up a divine sense isolation array around the cave, so he specially brought the Wildfire Sparrow, which was good at breaking arrays.
To his surprise, perhaps because it was located in the heart of the family territory and was protected by a third-order array, the Mo family patriarch's cave dwelling had not been equipped with such an array at all.
Li Ping's divine sense went straight in and saw the Mo family elder sitting cross-legged on the soft couch.
Li Ping left a puppet in the cave dwelling arranged by the Mo family. If someone came looking for him, he would know immediately and return in a short time by using earth magic.
Therefore, although he did not find anything unusual about the Mo family elder, he still dug a hole on the spot, sat down cross-legged, took out the Spirit Eye Jade, and began to cultivate.
His divine sense was powerful, and with his aura concealed, the Mo family elder could not detect him at all.
With the Jade of the Spiritual Eye in hand, there was no difference between staying in the underground cave and remaining in the third-tier cave dwelling.
With this arrangement, if the Mo family is up to something, he can discover it in time.
If the Mo family is alright, he will patiently wait for Wei Yiling to sense the appearance of the Four Fiends of the East Sea in the outside world, go to the cave to inform him, and then they will work together to kill the Four Fiends of the East Sea.
Inside the underground cave.
Li Ping was able to multitask, cultivating on one hand and monitoring the Mo family elder with his divine sense on the other.
Before we knew it, several months had passed.
On this day, Li Ping was in the midst of his arduous cultivation when he suddenly discovered that there was some activity on the side of the Mo family's elder.
A Foundation Establishment cultivator came to pay respects to the Elder of the Mo family, but what the two talked about made Li Ping both shocked and angry.
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