Chapter 145: Monitor Rune (2/2)

Time to go out. Mo Wuji stored the papers within his storage bag. He should have spent a little more than two months in the Five Elements Desolate Domain. If he stayed cooped up here, he might truly stay in the desolate domain forever.

Returning to the stone gate and inserting the copper key into the keyhole, the indomitable and impenetrable stone gate opened with a ”Zhiya” sound.

Mo Wuji plucked out the key and rushed out the stone gate. Perhaps one day he might come back again.

As Mo Wuji was leaving, he suddenly thought of something. Chu Xingzi had been shut in there for so many years, and he left behind his array knowledge, but what about his actual body? Did he get out? Even if he had died inside, there should be ashes, right?

Mo Wuji was sure that the corpse outside wasn't Chu Xingzi's. If it was Chu Xingzi, it would not have the stone gate's key in his hand.

After thinking for a good half a day, Mo Wuji still couldn't make sense of the situation. He could only conclude that Chu Xingzi was down below.

He should just rush out for now, these weren't things for him to think about with his cultivation. If his cultivation was higher and he returned to find Chu Xingzi, he would bring his ashes out for a proper burial. After all, Chu Xingzi was also an esteemed master.

Mo Wuji hastened his pace and left the passage, returning to the main hall.

There was no one in the hall, just two more corpses. The corpses had already been searched clean. With a quick sweep with his spiritual will, Mo Wuji found that everyone else had already left. Wielding his metal pole, he lifted his head, discerned his direction and jumped.

Fortunately, there were those lamp like things floating in the air. He was soon able to reach the hole they first entered in.

The hole which led to the outside had already been covered entirely, but Mo Wuji wasn't worried. There was simply a thin layer of ice that's all. Elemental energy surged in the Tian Ji Pole and he thrusted upwards. After a few strikes, a fracture appeared in the layer of ice.

With a final thrust of his Tian Ji Pole, a hole appeared in front of Mo Wuji. It was pitch white outside. After confirming that there was no one else outside with his spiritual will, he jumped out of the hole and landed by the icy mountainside.

The moment he emerged, the first thing Mo Wuji did was to use his sharp knife to dig two small holes.

He was totally alone now; he was completely unable to carve ice steps down. However, he was heading down and not climbing up, he just needed to punch some holes in the ice and carefully punch his way down.

After a whole day's time, Mo Wuji finally returned to the foot of the mountain. There was already no one here, and it was completely empty. Besides the blinding light reflected against the ice mountain, there was nothing else.

...

Meanwhile, deep within a canyon thousand miles away from the ice mountain, the smell of blood filled with air

Tens of corpses laid all over the ground, and the area looked like a mess. One a rare spiritual herb could explain what had happened here.

Hou Yucheng slowly wiped the blood off his long flute and hung it on his back. His entire body remained clean; there wasn't even a speckle of dust on his body and his hair remained neat.

On the other hand, everyone else seemed to have traces of blood over their bodies, and even their clothes were tussled.

”Junior Wan’Er, are you alright?” It was only after all that did Hou Yucheng turn towards Qu Wan'Er, smiled and asked.

Qu Wan'Er's hair was rather disheveled and there were many bloodstains over her body. She gratefully looked at Hou Yucheng and shook her head. After a while, she said, ”I really have to thank Senior Hou for just now. If not for you, I might have lost a limb.”

Hou Yucheng smiled faintly, ”We're companions, you don't need to care too much about it. If I was in danger, wouldn't you also have helped me?”

Qu Wan'Er went silent for a moment before she continued, ” If I wasn't greedy and tried to get that Condensate Radish Grass, you wouldn't have been put in danger trying to save me.”

Hou Yucheng laughed gently and said, ”Junior Wan’Er, you think too much. To me, it doesn't really matter whether I have to help you once, or help you twice. I’ve said it before, we're companions after all…”

As he said this, he momentarily paused before he sighed, ”But it's a real pity with Brother Mo. We still don't know whether he managed to leave from that ice jade palace. I was the one who invited Brother Mo to the ice mountain, if something happens to him, I will not feel at ease.”

”Senior Hou seems to pay extra attention to Pill Master Mo?” Qu Wan'Er could not help but ask. This was not the first time Hou Yucheng mentioned Mo Wuji.

Hou Yucheng gazed blankly at the messy canyon before him and spoke in a slightly lower tone, ”Because I feel that his a different breed of person. He is vastly different from many of these people around us.”

”Senior Hou is also from the Heaven Demon Sect, aren't you also different from everybody else. If not for me, Senior Hou wouldn't need to kill that person.” Qu Wan'Er said faintly. She liked Hou Yucheng but Hou Yucheng treated her like a sister, and not that between a man and a woman.