Struggling, he pleaded hastily, "Spare me! Spare me! I'll tell you everything!"
Bai Zisheng glanced at Mo Hua.
Mo Hua nodded.
Bai Zisheng then dragged the Lu Family Cultivator back and dumped him in front of Mo Hua.
Mo Hua looked at him and said, "I'll ask you a few questions. Answer well, and I may spare you. If you hide anything, you'll join those Mining Cultivators..."
The Lu Family Cultivator's face turned ashen, and he nodded.
"What's the purpose of this mine shaft?"
The Lu Family Cultivator shook his head.
Mo Hua's gaze turned frosty, ready to throw him in.
The Lu Family Cultivator hastily said, "I, I... really don't know!"
Mo Hua's gaze sharpened, "Then what do you know?"
"I... I only know..."
The Lu Family Cultivator hesitated, sighed, "I only know that the mine shafts were ordered to be built by the Family Head, and even the Formations inside were personally arranged to be painted by him."
"After these shafts were constructed, they were sealed off, and no one has ever entered them..."
"I don't know what's inside."
"The Family Head has strictly ordered that the matter of the mine shafts must not be known to any Cultivator, nor is any Cultivator allowed to enter..."
The Lu Family Head, huh...
Mo Hua frowned, then asked further:
"How did these Mining Cultivators die?"
The Lu Family Cultivator mumbled, "That I know even less... How would I know they would sneak into these mine shafts?"
"You didn't notice?"
"They came in the middle of the night when it's eerie and spooky—who would want to go into these mine pits?"
Mo Hua's gaze sharpened, "Eerie and spooky?"
The Lu Family Cultivator knew he had misspoken and remained silent.
Mo Hua said, "This cave might be damp or dark, but it doesn't seem 'eerie and spooky'..."
"This..." the Lu Family Cultivator's gaze darted around.
"Don't want to talk?"
The Lu Family Cultivator nodded, then seeing Mo Hua's unfriendly expression, became alarmed and shook his head.
"Go on, why is it 'eerie and spooky'?"
The Lu Family Cultivator hesitated, swallowing hard before slowly saying:
"It is said that at night, this mine is haunted by ghosts..."
Mo Hua was startled, "Ghosts?"
The Lu Family Cultivator nodded, "Every night, waves of Yin energy and creaking noises fill the mine, the entire shaft vibrating subtly, as if someone is chiseling away at something..."
The Lu Family Cultivator wiped the cold sweat from his forehead:
"Some say they are the spirits of those Mining Cultivators who died unjustly within these pits. When the Yin energy is strong at night, they return to the mines as Ghost Cultivators and continue to dig as they did in life..."
Mo Hua knitted his brows.
It seemed that those Mining Cultivators had ventured into the mine to steal, and met some unknown ghostly specter at night, which led to their deaths.
But even with this, there were still many unanswered questions.
Mo Hua repeated his interrogation several times.
The Lu Family Cultivator stammered his answers, consistent every time, which made him seem truthful.
As a mid-phase Qi Refinement disciple of the Lu Family, he likely didn't know more confidential matters.
Mo Hua also casually gathered some information about the Lu Family before finally nodding and saying:
"Since you've been so cooperative, I won't make things difficult for you."
A huge weight lifted in the Lu Family Cultivator's heart.
Mo Hua then expressed his concern, "But if the Lu Family finds out that you've told me all this..."
The stone that had just lifted in the Lu Family Cultivator's heart now sank back down, and he hastily said:
"Young friend, young master, dear ancestor... please don't tell anyone..."
If word got out, the Lu Family certainly wouldn't let him off easily.
Mo Hua grudgingly said, "Fine..."
Then he sternly reminded, "But you must behave. If I have questions in the future, I'll come to you..."
"By the way, what's your name?"
The Lu Family Cultivator, on the verge of tears, replied, "Lu Ming."