The crowd blocking Xiao Hu’s doorway looked at each other, no one daring to speak.
Tang Mo’s words couldn’t have been clearer. She had flat-out told them that she was the one behind the Sect Leader’s death.
As for why, she didn’t feel the need to explain it to them. Tang Mo, who had originally planned to be discreet and cover her tracks, suddenly felt that overthinking things here was pointless.
"Then we don’t want the other stuff, just bring out those abnormal treasures from before! We worked hard to find those."
Someone in the crowd said, mustering their courage.
How could they not know what was in the Sect Leader’s storehouse? They knew better than anyone which things they had worked hard for, and which they hadn’t.
Tang Mo laughed in exasperation. ’Should she call them naive, foolish, or just plain malicious?’
To think they still wanted the items back at a time like this.
"Xiao Hu, help us out! There’s an abnormal treasure in there that you brought back from the outside!"
The elder who had previously berated Xiao Hu was getting anxious. Those things were originally theirs. Tang Mo had just returned them, and now they were gone again. How could they not be distraught?
If they had known Tang Mo was such a tough nut to crack, they would have quit while they were ahead.
"I... Sigh, you guys."
Xiao Hu’s face turned even redder, not from anger this time, but from guilt.
They had already made things so ugly. How could he have the nerve to ask her to take the items out again?
Unable to bring himself to say anything, Xiao Hu simply turned and went back into his room.
Seeing that Xiao Hu, the only one who still had a friendly relationship with Tang Mo, had left, the crowd knew they definitely weren’t getting their things back.
Crestfallen, they gradually dispersed.
After all, this was someone who had even killed the Sect Leader. They didn’t dare to provoke her.
When Tang Mo entered the room, Xiao Hu mumbled an apology to her.
Tang Mo shook her head. ’What did this have to do with Xiao Hu? She had simply underestimated human nature.’
’She wouldn’t make that mistake again.’
"Tang Mo..."
Xiao Tao propped herself up and came to knock on Tang Mo’s door. This was the first time she had gotten out of bed and walked in a month.
She had already heard from Xiao Hu about what had just happened at the door.
She had originally hoped that after Tang Mo learned how to use spiritual power for healing, she would help treat the villagers of Wuxi Village.
But now, she could never bring herself to say those words.
"Xiao Tao, I’m leaving. Take care of yourself. I’ll come back for you after I’ve learned how."
In truth, now that Tang Mo had gotten what she came for, there was no need to stay any longer. This was for the best.
Since she had made a promise to Xiao Tao, she would see it through to the end if it was within her power.
Xiao Tao nodded. The people of Wuxi Village had truly gone too far. They were being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Xiao Tao had originally wanted to use the opportunity of Tang Mo treating everyone to let them know that the Medicinal Insects were just a giant scam.
Now, it was all meaningless. Let them cling to their Medicinal Insects and live in self-deception.
Tang Mo spent one more night in Wuxi Village before leaving the next day.
With just a single backpack on her shoulders and Jingjing cradled in her arms, she set off on the next leg of her journey.
Lin Yu wasn’t in Wuxi Village, so he must be in that mysterious Sand Town.
Tang Mo knew she couldn’t find Sand Town on her own, so she wasn’t in a hurry. She would just travel and keep an eye out.
As human and beast traveled through the jungle, Tang Mo clearly felt that the mutant beasts in the forest were getting stronger.
Intermediate Beasts, which had seemed to be in a dormant period and rarely showed themselves, were now appearing more and more frequently.
Tang Mo encountered two in just half a day, something that would have been impossible before.
If the frequency of encountering Intermediate Beasts in the forest had been this high in the past, then very few people would have made it out alive.
For the next two weeks, Tang Mo’s life was very monotonous.
She moved toward the outskirts of B City, in the direction of the desert.
Slay mutant beasts.
Study the *Zhou Yi* and the *Eight Diagrams* she had gotten from Xiao Tao.
She had looked at the three diagrams many times but could only make the faintest sense of them. She truly didn’t understand them.
Only by carefully studying the most basic concepts in these books might she make some progress in deciphering the three complete diagrams.
In two weeks, Tang Mo reached the edge of the desert.
The desert was about 1,000 meters ahead, and Tang Mo didn’t dare venture further.
This desert on the outskirts of B City was famous—not for its beauty, but for its notoriety.
Its terrain was exceptionally complex, its area vast, and its weather conditions extremely harsh. As a result, countless tourists lost their lives here every year.