Chapter 27：Elder Dong Mingzhi

"Grandpa, you must avenge me, kill that monster and get back the storage bag and more than 300 spirit stones you gave me." Dong Kuifu recalled his fight with Mu Xuyang and felt a little scared, but his anger did not dissipate because of fear. He was still worried that Dong Mingzhi would continue to ask them questions, which would expose their plan to secretly deal with Mu Xuyang, so he quickly requested that Dong Mingzhi help him seek revenge to change the topic.

"Are you sure that the person who injured you was a monster?" Dong Mingzhi asked casually.

"I can't be sure if he was a monster, but that guy looked fierce and terrifying, with an ugly and frightening appearance. That much I am certain of," Dong Kuifu replied.

"Does a frightening appearance make someone a monster?" Dong Mingzhi shook his head and patted Dong Kuifu's head who was sitting next to him. He smiled and said, "The power of monsters is different from that of humans, and their power contains a monstrous aura that can make people feel terrified. When I was healing you, I knew that the person who attacked you was not a monster because the power used to attack you was not monster power, and there was not even a hint of monstrous aura."

"So, you mean to say that the person who attacked me was not a monster?" Dong Kuifu asked.

"Yes, Grandpa is sure that the attacker was not a monster, but a human," Dong Mingzhi said after a moment of silence. "When he attacked you, he held back a little. If not, you would not have survived. This person who infiltrated the area controlled by Leiying Hall to rob others is not simple!"

"Do you have the confidence to defeat him?"

"Not really." Dong Mingzhi shook his head and said, "Finding the person who disguised himself as a monster is not an easy task."

"So, I was hit for nothing?"

"If he targets young people from Leiying Hall, and if I am confident that I can capture him. However, if he just happened to be passing through the area controlled by Leiying Hall and robbed you because he had no more spirit stones for cultivation, then it would be difficult to find him."

As soon as Dong Mingzhi finished speaking, Gu Junlin quickly said, "That guy has robbed our junior brothers twice, and the time between the two incidents was about a week."

"Oh, so it means that the robber is still in the area controlled by Leiying Hall?" Dong Mingzhi asked Gu Junlin.

"That's just my guess, but I can't be sure. Perhaps after robbing nearly 400 spirit stones this time, he is afraid of alarming the higher-ups of Leiying Hall and will not take action again, and may even choose to leave."

"This is exactly what I'm worried about," Dong Mingzhi said with a smile to Gu Junlin. He then waved to Gu Junlin, Gou Jinshan, and the others and said, "You can all go back and rest. Don't worry about this matter. I'll handle the monster incident."

"Yes, Elder Dong," Gu Junlin, Gou Jinshan, and the others respectfully responded before leaving in a hurry.

After Gu Junlin, Gou Jinshan, and the others left, Dong Mingzhi patted Dong Kuifu's head and let him rest assured before leaving his dwelling. He then calmly took out a sword from his storage bag, which faintly flowed with spiritual power. He flew on the sword and headed towards the incident site.

Under normal circumstances, it would take half an hour for a person to walk from Dong Mingzhi's dwelling to Mu Xuyang's dwelling. However, someone like Dong Mingzhi, who had the ability to fly on a treasure, could arrive in less than half a quarter of an hour.

Of course, the speed of flying on a treasure was closely related to the quality of the treasure, the cultivation level of the person flying on it, and so on.

The better the quality of the treasure and the higher the cultivation level of the person flying on it, the faster they could travel.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Dong Mingzhi arrived at the incident site. After searching the scene, he did not find any trace of the monster. He became more certain of his speculation that someone had disguised themselves as a monster and robbed Dong Kuifu and the others.

"This guy is really smart. He didn't leave any clues for us to search. Fortunately, when I was giving the storage bag to my grandson, I condensed a few spiritual symbols at any time and threw them into the storage bag. When the storage bag is opened, it will release a power that only I can sense, which can determine where my grandson is. I didn't expect that this unintentional action would become the only clue to find the person who disguised himself as a monster. Now, the only way to find him seems to be to wait for him to open the storage bag and take the spirit stones," Dong Mingzhi thought to himself.

After searching the scene and finding no clues, Dong Mingzhi had to reluctantly find a flat area and sit cross-legged in waiting. However, to his surprise, he had been waiting for a whole night and still couldn't sense the spiritual symbols he had placed in the storage bag, releasing the power that he could sense. He felt very puzzled and wondered, "Why didn't the spiritual symbols I placed in the storage bag release the power that I can sense? Could it be that the robber hasn't opened the storage bag yet to see what's inside?"

In fact, the reason why Dong Mingzhi failed to sense the power released by the spirit talisman, which he could have sensed, was not because Mu Xuyang did not check the items inside the storage bag. Instead, when Mu Xuyang opened the storage bag, the power released by the spirit talisman was directly absorbed by the mysterious thing that existed in Mu Xuyang's sea of consciousness.

When the mysterious thing absorbed the power released by the spirit talisman in the storage bag, Mu Xuyang immediately noticed it. At that time, he even thought that the mysterious thing in his sea of consciousness would manifest itself and become something visible after absorbing the power of the spirit talisman.

So he directly took out all the spirit talismans from the storage bag, held them in his palm, and used his cultivation technique to absorb all the power contained in the spirit talismans, making the talismans turn into yellow paper with no power left, even with Dong Mingzhi's spiritual power, he could not detect anything from the talismans.

Of course, Mu Xuyang did not know that his unintentional action had resolved a major crisis.

At dawn, as usual, Mu Xuyang got up, washed up, fed the old yellow dog with dry food, instructed the dog to guard the house, and then carried farming tools such as sickles, shovels, and hoes and left his yard, heading to the spirit field.

Although Mu Xuyang had not yet broken through the body refinement realm, his sensing ability and speed were much stronger than those of ordinary body refinement realm cultivators and even comparable to those of magic refinement realm cultivators.

Therefore, as soon as Mu Xuyang left his yard, he saw Dong Mingzhi sitting cross-legged in the spirit field where there was a lot of overgrown grass. Mu Xuyang felt very puzzled and thought to himself, "This senior is sitting cross-legged in the spirit field, it seems he is waiting for something, what could it be?"