The one-eyed cultivator’s face showed panic, and the other sin cultivators lost the blood qi from their faces instantly.
So many Monster Hunters!
How could there be so many Monster Hunters?
With Inner Mountain being so vast, who could have summoned so many Monster Hunters in such a short time?
At the same time, Mo Hua’s delicate eyebrows raised slightly as she pointed at the sin cultivators with her small hand, her voice crisp as she said,
“Death is imminent for you!”
Before her words fell, the Monster Hunters on the hillsides charged down en masse, dense like dark clouds bearing down with overwhelming momentum.
“Big brother, what do we do?” the one-eyed cultivator asked in a panic.
A flash of terrified despair crossed the eyes of the bald sin cultivator before he said fiercely, “Grab that brat!”
He had also figured out that the identity of this kid must be anything but ordinary.
Capturing him, they might be able to use him to threaten the group of Monster Hunters, and they might have a chance to live.
Two sin cultivators rushed toward Mo Hua, but midway, they were blasted away by the Earth Fire Formation.
A few others managed to get past the Earth Fire Formation. One was intercepted by Ji Qingbai, and another was fended off with a punch by Yu Chengyi.
The remaining few finally reached Mo Hua, but before they could lay a hand on her, she had already retreated gracefully with her Water Passing Step, and they didn’t even touch a corner of her robe.
Monster Hunters came flooding over in an ambush, and the more than twenty sin cultivators were quickly overwhelmed by the tide of Monster Hunters, unable to hold out for long.
Mo Hua withdrew from the battle, scanned the area with her Divine Sense, her gaze sharpening before she raised her hand and shot a fireball at a bush in the distance.
The Fireball Technique exploded and a pain-filled groan came from the bush where the hidden Diao Laosi finally revealed his scrawny figure.
Mo Hua pointed at him from afar and shouted loudly, “Capture that short one, don’t let him get away!”
Hearing this, nearby Monster Hunters rushed toward Diao Laosi.
In his heart, Diao Laosi cursed Mo Hua to death.
He also cursed himself for having learned the Concealment Technique, which Mo Hua had cleverly countered.
Now that the Concealment Technique was useless, he was like a mouse crossing the street in broad daylight, vulnerable to everyone’s attack.
With no other options but to sit and wait for death, he was completely helpless.
In just a few exchanges, Diao Laosi was knocked down with a punch from a Monster Hunter, pinned to the ground, and bound tightly with iron chains.
The battle at the front was also a foregone conclusion – several sin cultivators were cut down instantly, most of the others were captured, and only two managed to escape.
One was the one-eyed cultivator who was lucky when a Monster Beast suddenly jumped out and blocked the Monster Hunters, allowing him to escape by a fluke.
The other was the bald sin cultivator, who had great movement technique and was extremely cunning.
While he had shouted about capturing Mo Hua, he was the first to flee when the situation turned sour. With swift and ghost-like movements, he was too fast for the Monster Hunters to catch.
After the battle, only a few Monster Hunters were injured and could recover with a few pills.
The sin cultivators, on the other hand, were all injured, some with missing arms and legs, locked together in chains.
These chains, designed to bind Monster Beasts, were extremely strong, and since all the sin cultivators were injured, there was virtually no chance of escape.
Yu Chengyi looked delighted, “I was worried we couldn’t catch these bastards, but they’ve run right back to us, rushing to their death.”
Mo Hua asked, “Uncle Yu, how should we deal with these sin cultivators?”
Yu Chengyi thought for a moment and said, “We should beat them first, interrogate them, and see if we can get some information out of them. Then we’ll send them to the Taoist Court to claim some rewards.”
These sin cultivators were murderers and robbers, and by the looks of it, habitual offenders, which meant death according to the Taoist Law.
The Monster Hunters would get their reward money, and the Taoist Court would earn merit. It was a win-win situation, without getting their own hands dirty.
Mo Hua nodded, then pointed her small hand toward Diao Laosi, “Leave that shorty to me, I want to ask him some questions.”
Yu Chengyi looked surprised, then with a sweeping motion, he grabbed Diao Laosi out, took a careful look, and then exclaimed,
“So it’s you!”
He also recognized that this sin cultivator was the skinny, black-clothed cultivator hired by the Qian Family to attack the Spiritual mines, skilled in the Concealment Technique, who had caused them quite some trouble back then.
With a squeeze, Yu Chengyi broke Diao Laosi’s arm to prevent resistance, and tossed him in front of Mo Hua.
“Ask him anything you want.”
Mo Hua looked at Diao Laosi intently, then suddenly smiled, revealing a friendly and warm smile,
“Give me the spell for your Concealment Technique!”