The relay station was searched from top to bottom.
They found a small pill furnace used for refining poison pills, some poisonous herbs, and hidden weapons coated in venom.
There were also several Evil Artifacts and a number of White Bone skeletons. No one knew where these resentful souls had come from. They had died at the hands of this gang of Bandit Cultivators, their flesh scraped clean and used for Alchemy.
This gang of Bandit Cultivators had a rather complicated makeup.
Some were thugs who killed and robbed, some were Alchemists who had betrayed their sects, and others had taken up cultivation halfway through life and practiced heretical Dao Methods.
Wanted by the Dao Court Office, they had wandered from place to place before being gathered here by Water Yama.
But they did not know much about Water Yama's affairs. Moreover, they had been subjected to some unknown silencing method, so most of them could not speak of it.
They could only make guesses and seek confirmation, but no answers could be forced from them.
Mo Hua and the others had no choice but to investigate on their own.
After another round of searching, aside from the relay station itself, the most suspicious place was the carriage near the stables outside.
Gu An found some flower petals near the carriage.
The petals lay scattered across the ground, crushed beneath wheel tracks and mixed with mud, filthy and bedraggled.
Yet Mo Hua recognized them at a glance.
"These are flowers from Hundred Flowers Valley. I just don't know their names."
The flowers of Hundred Flowers Valley bloomed in glorious profusion and came in countless varieties. He could not identify them, but he still remembered their general appearance.
Gu Changhuai nodded slightly, then asked Mo Hua in surprise, "How did you