Although she had ultimately let that enemy of hers—the villainous leader of the Black Fiend Cult—escape because she had badly underestimated her own strength and let her guard down, Mo Caihuan hadn't come away empty-handed.
At the very least, she now knew that the rogue cultivators who had been disappearing near Xujing in recent years had fallen prey to the evil cultivator organization known as the Black Fiend Cult. The missing rogues, including her friend Miss Zhao, had all been captured by the cult and forced to practice an evil art that could turn them into monsters.
She could also piece together the connection between the Black Fiend Cult leader—Wang Yiyuan, formerly the master of Lanzhou's Five-Colored Sect and now a steward of the Xin Prince's residence—and the Xin Prince's heir, who had tried to attack him and wound up seriously injured. It wasn't hard to guess that the Xin Prince's residence, and perhaps even some of the most powerful figures throughout the Xuguo court, were deeply entangled with the Black Fiend Cult.
As for whether those people had been coerced by the cult or had gotten involved of their own accord, Mo Caihuan still had no way of knowing.
All she knew was that the Black Fiend Cult was entrenched in the capital of Xuguo. Based on the period when rogue cultivators had first begun disappearing, which Xiao Cui'er had told her about, it was easy to conclude that the cult had been entrenched in Xujing—and perhaps throughout Xuguo—for many years. It was likely a vast organization with numerous members and deep roots, and there might well be powerful figures behind it. It was no match for her, Mo Caihuan, the "Fairy Mo," who had only been cultivating for a year.
So, after returning home, dusty from her journey,