Mo Hua's brow furrowed even more deeply, then suddenly, he paused and couldn't help but sniff.
"Uncle Gu, do you smell anything?"
"The smell?" Gu Changhuai also sniffed lightly and frowned, "A burnt smell?"
"No..."
Mo Hua said, and then sniffed again, his eyes slightly focused.
"Very faint..."
"Refreshing, but with a slightly strange scent, it seems a bit sticky and moist..."
Gu Changhuai, somewhat speechless, frowned and said:
"Are you sure you're referring to a smell you detected with your nose, not a taste you're savoring in your mouth?"
"A taste hidden in the mouth?"
Mo Hua paused, suddenly startled.
He remembered!
Is this...
the scent of golden marrow?
Sheep-Horned Enforcer... Essence of Divine Thought!
Is this... the breath of an Evil God?!
Mo Hua's spirits lifted, he perked up his nose, sniffed again, and then following the faint "scent" of the Divine Thought, found a corner of the courtyard.
Mo Hua sniffed again, then rummaged around, and from the corner, he turned up a heap of charred residue.
Gu Changhuai stepped forward to take a look and also sniffed, even checking with Divine Sense, then ultimately looked somewhat disappointed:
"Just ordinary residue, nothing special."
"Just not sure... what was burnt to form it..."
Mo Hua shook his head, a grave look on his face, "This isn't ordinary!"
He had smelled the "scent of the Evil God" on it.
However, he also didn't know exactly what these pitch-black residues were.
Nor could he distinguish them.
But these residues were definitely not ordinary.
They were the truth hidden under the great fire, remnants left by some unknown entities after obscuring causality.
Likely, astonishing secrets were hidden within.
Seeing Mo Hua, who was usually innocent and crafty, showing such a serious expression, Gu Changhuai couldn't help but take it more seriously.
He took out a storage bag, divided the residues into two portions, and carefully sealed them for preservation.
"I'll take them back and have the Taoist Court Official in charge of inspections look into it to see what these residues are remnants of..."
Whether they're Spiritual Artifacts, Spiritual Objects, Pills, or...
human flesh.
Mo Hua nodded, then asked, "If they find out..."
Gu Changhuai sighed, "If they find out, I'll tell you."
"Okay."
Mo Hua looked up at the Xie family, which had been exterminated and erased.
Extermination of the entire family, destruction of the corpses and traces.
Obscuring of causality.
Traces of karmic mutation.
And...
the scent of the Evil God on the pitch-black residues...
Mo Hua's brow tightened.
He had originally thought this was just a ruthless act of inhuman slaughter led by the Fire Buddha and a group of Sin Cultivators.
But now, it seemed the water here might run very, very deep...