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The Xie Family estate had been examined, and everything that needed finding had been found.

With matters here concluded, the Xie Family was no place to linger.

Mo Hua left with Gu Changhuai.

When they reached the gate, Mo Hua suddenly remembered something and pulled a flask of wine from his Storage Bag.

But it was fruit wine, not quite suitable.

Mo Hua raised his head and asked Gu Changhuai, "Uncle Gu, do you have any strong liquor?"

Gu Changhuai paused, then nodded. "I do."

Without asking further, he took an exquisite jade wine flask from his Storage Bag and handed it to Mo Hua.

A rich, heady scent of alcohol spread through the air.

Mo Hua poured the flask of strong liquor before the Xie Family gates.

Mo Hua silently said in his heart:

"Rest in peace..."

Gu Changhuai's long fingers lightly tapped the table. After pondering for a moment, a plan gradually formed in his mind...

At last, Mo Hua and the others returned to the Gu Family.

And it seemed...

The figures of the Xie Family members, slaughtered like "livestock," who had died miserably and then undergone grotesque sinful mutations, surfaced one by one in his mind...

On the way back, Mo Hua sat silently in the carriage, frowning as he thought:

Why had Fire Buddha killed the entire Xie Family?

After killing the entire Xie Family, what had he done?

What was that black residue?

Why did it carry the aura of the Evil God of the Great Wilderness?

And what did this matter have to do with the evil god known as the "Lord of the Great Wilderness"?

A sacrifice?

Mo Hua had once believed that only in impoverished places, where low-level cultivators suffered oppression and where despair and sin festered, would "Dao Sin" arise.