"It's impossible to wait for Mo Hua to figure anything out."
"Let's go back," Gu Changhuai said indifferently.
He wanted to take Mo Hua back to the Gu Family safely and give her to his cousin, which would also save him some trouble.
Otherwise, having this youngster with him while roaming around might cause complications and accidents.
Just like what had happened earlier...
"Okay." Mo Hua nodded.
He hadn't discovered anything and had no choice but to return for now.
But as he turned to leave, Mo Hua suddenly paused, turned his head, and took another look at the ruins of the Xie family's estate. His brows slowly furrowed.
Gu Changhuai, somewhat taken aback, asked, "What's wrong?"
Mo Hua pondered for a moment and then said slowly, "Uncle Gu, do you have the Taoist architectural plans of the Xie family's estate?"
Gu Changhuai nodded, "Yes."
"Can I see them?" Mo Hua asked.
Gu Changhuai's gaze darkened slightly, "What do you want to do?"
"I need to find a place..."
"Find a place?"
Gu Changhuai frowned, thought briefly, then without asking further, he nodded:
"Alright."
Gu Changhuai found a relatively clean area, took out a scroll from his storage bag, unrolled it on the ground, and said to Mo Hua:
"This is the architectural plan of the Xie family's estate..."
The plan marked the estate's terrain, buildings, and the formations used in the structures, among other things...
Mo Hua was very familiar with this type of plan.
He began to search painstakingly through the architectural plans...
In the fiery scene that had just emerged, after the Fire Buddha killed the Xie family cultivators, he gathered their corpses in one place.
The critical scenes after that were engulfed by flames, obscured the consequences, and Mo Hua couldn't see through it.
Although he couldn't see the secrets hidden beneath the flames and didn't know exactly what the Fire Buddha had done after killing,
he still vaguely remembered the nearby scenes.
These scenes were clearly within the Xie family's premises.
Yet, he had just explored the area and hadn't found any similar landmarks.
"There must be a place I overlooked..."
Mo Hua replayed the scenes in the sea of fire repeatedly in his mind, and then compared them with the map of the Xie estate to locate similar places.
Finally, Mo Hua's eyes brightened.
On the architectural plan, in one corner of the Xie family's backyard, there was a hidden attic with an open space in front of it, surrounded by side chambers and potted plants for planting flowers.
The entire layout and setting matched the scenes in his memory.
Mo Hua pointed to the attic's courtyard on the map, "Uncle Gu, let's go check this place."
Gu Changhuai looked at Mo Hua in surprise and then nodded slightly.
Then, the two followed the map, walking through paths that were unrecognizable, stepping on ashes, until they arrived at the location of the attic.
The area around the attic had collapsed, and the charred wooden beams and walls had fallen, blocking the path.
That's why Mo Hua hadn't discovered it before.
Gu Changhuai took out a paper fan, waved it casually, and a surge of spiritual power burst forth, clearing the path.
Mo Hua continued inside and reached the courtyard in front of the attic.
This place was secluded and hidden,
and the attic had also been burned, with even bigger fire damage here, leaving fewer remnants of the building.
The courtyard was desolate with everything still appearing scorched-black, no different from other areas.
After searching for a while, they found no clues.
Gu Changhuai looked back at Mo Hua.
Mo Hua frowned deeply, lost in thought.
"There are no traces..."
"It can't be..."
Mo Hua released his Divine Sense, and in the void, it was still a scene of nothingness, with only the residual Fire Spiritual Power from the ruins and nothing else out of the ordinary.
"Nothing?"