Chapter 123 The Gambler's Stolen Scripture

Mo Juren opened his eyes and looked around on the stone bed. He had no interest in these trivial things.

But if I say no, it will arouse suspicion, so I said indifferently,
"Since you two have divided them up, just leave me a bunch."

Unwilling to give up, Hu Pinggu knocked everywhere, even on the walls of the cave, but in the end she still found nothing.

After confirming that there was no more money to be made in this cave, he said to Mo Juren sourly,

"The spirit gathering formation in this cave seems to be more effective than ours."

"I didn't expect Wu Jiuzhi to be willing to spend money on this,"

"A cave formation like this is worth at least one thousand spirit stones. Fellow Daoist Zhang has found a treasure this time."

Mo Juren chuckled and said,

"Friend Hu's mountain ape beast is also valuable, right? Besides, since you two already have a cave, this one will be useless, right?"

Hu Pinggu and Xiong Dali smiled at each other. They had indeed been coveting this mountain ape beast for a long time.

Originally, I wanted to subdue him and have him help guard the cave. Now I finally got what I wanted, so it’s not a loss.

Hu Pinggu seemed to have figured it out. She pointed to the green space in the corner and said to Mo Juren,

"By the way, do you recognize those herbs planted under the wall on the right, Fellow Daoist Zhang? My husband and I are not good at making elixirs, so we have no idea what kind they are."

Mo Juren heard the sound and went over to take a closer look. He then said,

"Nothing, just a common medicinal herb called Heart-Stirring Leaf..."

"No!" Mo Juren said as if he suddenly realized something, "So that's it!"

Hu Pinggu was a little confused by Mo Juren's excitement.
"Is there anything wrong with this so-called 'Heart-confusing Grass'?"

Mo Juren pointed to the spirit beast bag on Xiong Dali's waist and replied,
"I know why Wu Jiuzhi planted them here! They are all used to control that mountain ape beast!"

Hu Pinggu's eyes lit up and she asked with concern,
"What kind of control method?"

Mo Juren explained,

"If the beast eats the mind-destroying grass, it will experience hallucinations. Over time, it will become addicted to the grass and cannot stop eating it."

"No wonder the mountain ape beast's eyes were red and it was destroying the formation of the cave. It turned out that it was because it couldn't eat the Heart-Stirring Grass and it caused a drug addiction attack."

Hu Pinggu said quickly,

"In that case, we have to take this Heart-Bewitching Grass away, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with the mountain ape beast if it goes crazy again."

Mo Juren does not care about Tao.

"That's fine. Fellow Daoist Hu can take away most of it, and I can just leave the rest for you to study a little."

Hu Pinggu immediately ordered Xiong Dali to go forward and pick the fruits, and dug up some of them even with the mud and roots.

Perhaps she felt Mo Juren's good intentions and was willing to say these things, so she asked with gratitude,
"Please forgive me for being so nosy, but may I ask if Brother Zhang is planning to practice in this cave in the future?"

"Yes, that's right. I just needed a place to stay, and Wu Jiuzhi came to me on his own accord. Who wouldn't want him for free?"

These two should also be local cultivators. If they get to know each other better, they can exchange information, so Mo Juren has nothing to hide from them.

Hu Pinggu thought for a moment and reminded,
"Then there is something that Fellow Daoist Zhang must know. Although Wu Jiuzhi is an acquaintance of ours, his origins are mysterious and he always likes to steal."

"He has many ways to earn spirit stones, and he may be connected with some unorthodox methods. If you stay here, you need to be aware of the risks." After Hu Pinggu reminded Mo Juren, she pointed to the sound transmission talisman on the ugly coffee table and said,
"Among those sound transmission notes, there should be one that was sent by us. As for the others, fellow Daoist, you can also carefully distinguish them."

Seeing that Hu Pinggu took the initiative to express her kindness, Mo Juren was also grateful.
"Well, Zhang thanks Fellow Daoist Hu for the reminder. I will keep it in mind."

Afterwards, the two sides said goodbye happily, and Hu Pinggu told them that the place where her cave was located was called Tianshui Village.

Then they left each other sound transmission notes, and from then on they became fellow Taoists recognized by each other.

After Mo Juren calmly sent the two away, he immediately came back to close the formation!

Then he frowned deeply at the ugly coffee table.

When the two were around, Mo Juren didn't show anything unusual, but the existence of this coffee table always made people feel like there was something else going on.

What puzzled Mo Juren was not the several sound transmission notes floating above, but the fact that the position of the coffee table itself was too strange.

The base of this coffee table is a piece of stone growing out of the ground, which is both irregular and unstable.

The stone table top is also crooked, and it feels like it was placed there randomly, and nothing can be placed on it.

If I were decorating my cave myself, I would definitely move this coffee table to the corner instead of leaving it standing in the middle of the cave and getting in the way.

However, perhaps because of the sound transmission talisman, Hu Pinggu and the other two did not suspect anything when they came in. They probably thought it was just an ordinary piece of furniture.

Mo Juren first checked the activated sound transmission notes one by one.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, my husband and I are planning to go to Tainan Market, and we have already made an appointment with Honglian Sanren. If you are interested, we can meet at the old place in Nanxiang Town in one day!"

This was the message from Hu Pinggu. It looked like these four people were all cultivators nearby. The Red Lotus Wanderer whose beauty was concealed might also be practicing nearby.

"Nine Fingers, the Ascension Conference in three years will be expanded. By then, countless independent cultivators will gather in Tainan Market. It will be a time for us to make a fortune. Remember to practice hard."

"Wu Jiuzhi, come to Canglangling when you have time. We have an appointment. There is a fat sheep coming from Xinzhou. We will split the deal 30-70 as usual!"

"The sea of ​​​​gambling is endless, turn back and you will never be out of the water! If Taoist Wu changes his mind, you can come to Mount Pu Lu, and I will definitely convert you into my Buddhist sect."

It seems that just as Hu Pinggu said, this Wu Jiuzhi is indeed a gangster, robbing, cheating, gambling, and doing many crooked things.

If there really was someone coming to visit, it should be the monk who sent the second and third messages.

But there is no need to worry too much. After all, this cave is guarded by two layers of formations and it is not easy to attack.

After reading these sound transmission notes, they automatically dissipated.

Mo Juren then lifted the stone slab of the coffee table and put it aside.

The more I looked at the strange rock, the weirder it seemed.

Although it is a little smaller, it is similar to the broken sword stele that Mo Juren saw in the forbidden area of ​​Qixuanmen.

So Mo Juren activated the Sky Eye Technique, gathered magic power in his hands, and touched the stone.

The long-dormant stones seemed to be activated by Mo Juren, absorbing his magic power like a sponge.

It really is a stone for transmitting power!

After a while, the stone that had absorbed enough magic power did change. Just like reading a jade slip, a technique just hung in the consciousness like a heavenly book.

"The Gambling Saint Steals the Scripture?"

Mo Juren murmured in his heart, why is the name of this technique so unreliable?
(End of this chapter)