Mo Hua frowned, "I'm not young anymore, I'm fifteen!"
Gu Changhuai harrumphed, "I'm over a hundred."
Mo Hua was shocked, "Uncle Gu, you're that old?"
Gu Changhuai felt his teeth ache with irritation, wishing he could twist Mo Hua's ear, "Over a hundred, how's that old? With my mighty Golden Core, over a hundred years old, I'm quite young!"
"Alright, alright."
Mo Hua said soothingly, while muttering to herself, "If you're over a hundred and still considered young, then I must still be a child..."
After thinking for a bit, Mo Hua quietly inquired about the Fire Buddha.
Opportunities were rare, and if she didn't ask more now, Uncle Gu might be in a bad mood later and probably wouldn't answer then.
"Uncle Gu, do you know of the Fire Buddha's current whereabouts?"
Gu Changhuai didn't want to say.
Mo Hua understood.
"There's none then..."
"Will the Daoist Court issue a wanted poster for the Fire Buddha to the Sects?"
Gu Changhuai still didn't speak.
But Mo Hua could see the answer on his unpleased face:
"It won't."
"The reward for the Fire Buddha, would it be very high?"
"It looks like it'll be expensive..."
"The Fire Buddha has accomplices, right?"
"I guess so, otherwise he wouldn't have escaped the Taoist Court's encirclement..."
"The Fire Buddha has been out of sight for a long time, hasn't he?"
"It seems so..."
...
Mo Hua stared at Gu Changhuai's expression, reading between the lines while asking and answering herself.
Finally, Gu Changhuai couldn't stand it anymore, he picked up Mo Hua and started to walk out, "You'd better go back to the Sect and focus on your cultivation, stop asking all these unnecessary questions..."
Mo Hua's feet dangled in the air, kicking a few times, unable to break free, then was resigned to be carried by Gu Changhuai, but she said:
"I am waiting for my Senior Sister!"
"I still have a mission!"
"I can go back only after catching the rapist!"
Gu Changhuai had no choice but to drop Mo Hua in the front hall, advising:
"Wait here, don't bother me anymore."
"Oh..."
Gu Changhuai turned to leave.
Yet Mo Hua suddenly called out to him, "Uncle Gu!"
Gu Changhuai turned around, and Mo Hua smiled, "Let me ask one last question..."
Gu Changhuai was about to refuse, but remembering his cousin's admonishments, he sighed:
"Ask then."
"What does the Fire Buddha look like?" Mo Hua asked.
Gu Changhuai frowned, "Didn't I say not to inquire about it?"
Mo Hua said, "I'm afraid I might run into him and need to know what he looks like so I can run away in advance."
"How could you be so lucky to just run into him?"
"I'm saying just in case!"
Mo Hua emphasized, "What if I do run into him, can't recognize him, and end up foolishly getting close to him, and then he kills me?"
Your line of thinking is truly peculiar...
Gu Changhuai silently criticised.
But he couldn't find a reason to refute at the moment.
To avoid danger, one had to know about it in advance, otherwise, how could one avoid it if they are in jeopardy and unaware?
Gu Changhuai felt a headache coming on, eventually, he could only say:
"A tall stature, a compassionate face, wearing a blood-colored kasaya, with a fiery red scar on top of his head, skin slightly red..."
Mo Hua silently noted it in her mind.