Chapter 215: The Immortal Residence Map (2/2)

Perhaps it was because of Gouzi’s reassurance, Cu Tanzi finally decided to speak up, ”Back in the kitchen, the big jar was filled with fresh blood. But everyone seemed to think that things were normal, so I didn't dare say anything…”

Everyone in the group started glancing at one another. There was only one jar in the kitchen, and everyone had opened it up and saw what was inside; it was rice.

”Nonsense, that jar was clearly filled with rice, where would there be….” Gouzi snapped for half a sentence before stopping. Cu Tanzi had always followed beside him, and she had always been very honest. She wouldn’t lie about such things.

Mo Wuji's spiritual will went back to scan the rice jar in the kitchen. The rice jar was truly filled with rice. He then began to concentrate his spiritual will into that rice jar.

The smell of blood was instantly caught by his spiritual will. The rice suddenly turned into fresh blood. Cu Tanzi was right.

Mo Wuji's face immediately changed, his spiritual will then turned towards dry wood in the kitchen. As his divine sense fully permeated in, the dry wood also transformed; they all transformed into pieces of white bones. He then extended his spiritual wills to the rest of the cabins, and found that the cabins were no longer had their clean appearance, but were littered with cobwebs. Rags and clothes were thrown all over the place, and there were even skeletons below the beds.

Back to this big cabin, the interior was also filled with dust. Behind him, was a skeleton leaning on a wooden bench. The room looked horrifying.

After being scolded by Gouzi, Cu Tanzi became even more timid.

”Let's go back to take a look,” Jiang Xiapeng stood up and said, completely unaware that he had just stepped on a decapitated palm.

Mo Wuji could help the trembling in his voice. Ostensibly, he was truly quite worried.

”There's no need to go back. Sister Cu Tan's words should be true. This ship is really weird, I'll go up first.” With that, Mo Wuji stood up and started walking towards the main deck.

”Eh, treating a little girl's story as a fact? Wait till I go back to that kitchen and grab some rice over. With such small balls, why did you bother coming to search for treasures?” Meng Zhi, who had always remained silent, suddenly stood up and rushed down to the kitchen which was at the lowest floor.

”Brother Meng, let’s wait for everyone and go together,” Jiang Xiapeng called out from the back, but Meng Zhi had already left.

The Qi Wenxuan and Zhuang Yan couple hesitated briefly, before following Mo Wuji to the deck. Gouzi did not have any doubts towards Cu Tanzi’s words, and also followed Mo Wuji up to the main deck.

In the center floors of the ship, remained Jiang Xiapeng, Qi Susu, the monk and the black faced man.

”Do the few of you want to follow me down to take a look?” Jiang Xiapeng saw that Meng Zhi had already disappeared, and even his footsteps could no longer be heard, and he started to get a little afraid.

”Amitabha, Old Na shall help… Old Na suspects that the master of this ship might be hiding in that rice jar.” The laughing monk stood up with a serious expression. It was as though he was 100% sure that his guess was right.

The black faced Pu Qian also stood up and said, ”I also feel that might not be impossible. Since Brother Jiang extended this invitation, I would naturally follow.”

With that agreement, the four rapidly delved deeper into the ship, heading towards the kitchen.

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”Brother Mo, are Sister Cu Tan’s words true?” Even though Cu Tanzi was standing by the side, Zhuang Yan still asked this question with an pale, white face.

Mo Wuji nodded, ”That’s right, they should be true.”

”Then why can’t the rest of us see it?” Hearing Mo Wuji’s definite answer, Zhuang Yan became even more afraid.

After a brief contemplation, Mo Wuji said, ”If I didn’t guess wrongly, besides this ship which is real, almost everything else in this ship is fake. This might be an illusion array, and this illusion array has caused us to lose our usual thinking and vision.”

It wasn’t a mere ‘might be’, Mo Wuji was sure that this ship concealed an illusion array. He did not merely spend one or two days studying on Chu Xingzi’s knowledge on the array dao. Even though he had not touched upon illusion arrays, he had learnt a majority of the arrays.

”Brother Mo’s words should be true. Cu Tanzi definitely wouldn’t lie about such matters,” Gouzi added with a solemn expression.

Mo Wuji turned and looked towards the tumultuous winds and waves; he was seriously considering whether he should leave the ship. Since someone had lured them over with this immortal residence map, would they simply let him leave?

”Brother Mo, what do you intend to do now?” Qi Wenxuan had already noticed things; Mo Wuji’s strength was unknown, but his vision definitely wasn’t lacking.

Mo Wuji was just about to answer when his expression suddenly changed. Among the five people below, one had gone missing. The first to go down, Meng Zhi, had disappeared. Even after using his spiritual will to scan the entire ship, he was not able to find Meng Zhi.

[1] There are three precepts in Buddhism: the precepts of Rage, Greed and Ignorance. However, there are also accounts of eight precepts, which gave Zhu Bajie his name in the Journey of the West.