Mo Qingran

After Bai Suji finished speaking, she looked anxious and at a loss. That was all she knew; she had no idea whether it could be of any help.

Feng Wuhen saw her unease and took the initiative to suggest, "Miss Bai, could you take us to visit the others? They might know something as well.

"Several senior brothers and sisters came with us too. You can lead us around to visit the others while calling them over."

Feng Wuhen had considered gathering Qin Xiaoran and the others before visiting the remaining people together, but there were too many of them. If they all followed Bai Suji, they would likely frighten those people even more.

It would be better for the three of them to follow Bai Suji first, visiting the others while summoning the rest back.

At the thought that they could soon escape this hell, Bai Suji felt strength surge through her entire body. She took the lead and headed out of her courtyard with the two of them.

The first place they visited was the courtyard next to hers. On the way, Bai Suji introduced the person living there to them.

"Speaking of which, the person next door is quite formidable. That old bastard and his people cannot even get close to him. He was also the first person to say he wanted to save us."

Hearing this, Feng Wuhen recalled the blue-clad man he had seen in her past. That man had discovered the truth of Bai Suji and the others' imprisonment and wanted to rescue them.

But his skills had fallen short; instead, he had been lured into a trap and left behind as well.

That rings a bell. When I looked into Miss Bai's past just now, there was a blue-clad medical cultivator. It should have been him.

Come to think of it, this person has some connection to my brother. He came from Divine Physician Valley—perhaps my brother knows him too!

Bai Suji heard those words as well and hurriedly introduced him. "His name is Mo Qingran, a disciple of Divine Physician Valley. His contracted spirit plant is Bone-Piercing Green. Other than its master, anyone who touches it dies, so no one dares lay a hand on him.

"Not even that old immortal dares touch him. After all, no one cherishes his life more than that old immortal."

Upon hearing Mo Qingran's name and learning that his contracted spirit plant was Bone-Piercing Green, Shen Ziheng immediately knew who he was.

"So it's Senior Brother Mo. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in a long time. The last time was before I went to Mount Grand Mystery to take a master. He told me he was going out to search for spirit plants, and we lost contact afterward.

"I thought he had not found anything suitable and was still searching elsewhere. I never imagined he had been trapped here.

"But if it's him, why didn't he send word to my parents or Martial Uncle Mu?"

As Shen Ziheng was puzzling over this, they arrived at Mo Qingran's courtyard. Yet the moment they stepped through the gate, several greenish-black vines lashed out at them.

Feng Wuhen retreated while grabbing Bai Suji by the shoulder and pulling her behind him. Seeing the vines relentlessly pursue them, he could no longer care that this was his brother's senior brother's contracted spirit plant. He summoned the Jade Bone Sword and struck once, shattering the vine chasing him into several pieces.

Bing Ling coated his hand in ice, grabbed one of the vines, and said to Shen Ziheng, whom he shielded behind him, "Old Shen, hurry up and tell your senior brother we're on the same side. Make him take these vines back, or don't blame me for freezing them into icy strips."

Shen Ziheng hurriedly shouted inward, "Senior Brother Mo, it's me—Ziheng!"

At Shen Ziheng's words, the vines pursuing them whooshed back in an instant.

A blue figure darted out from within, seized Shen Ziheng's wrist, and demanded urgently, "Aheng, why are you here? Did that old immortal capture you too?"

Shen Ziheng had just opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, Mo Qingran had already rolled up his sleeves and prepared to settle the score with the Lord of Radiant Moon City.

"Damn it, that old bastard really thinks he can do whatever he wants, doesn't he? Capturing me was one thing, but he even dragged my junior brother into this. How old are you? Is he not only taking men and women alike now, but planning to play with children too? I'm going to poison him to death right now and rid the people of this scourge!"

Mo Qingran started to leave, but Shen Ziheng quickly grabbed him, afraid that he would truly go looking for the Lord of Radiant Moon City. He was no match for that beast.

"Senior Brother, calm down. I'm fine. My senior brother, my little brother, and I crawled in through a secret passage. I wasn't captured."

Mo Qingran relaxed upon hearing that, but he soon spotted the crux of the matter. He understood senior brother meant another disciple of Mount Grand Mystery, but what was this little brother about?

He did not remember the Sect Master and Sect Master's wife having another son.

"When did you get a younger brother? I remember the Sect Master and his wife only had you as their child, and your aunt and uncle didn't have children either!"

Seeing his confusion, Shen Ziheng happily pulled Feng Wuhen over for him to see. "He's a younger brother I recognized myself. The first time I saw him, I felt that I liked him very much. I felt that he should be my little brother, so..."

Mo Qingran looked at Feng Wuhen's face and found it vaguely familiar. Then he decided he must have been overthinking it; beautiful people always resembled one another in a few ways.

"Your little brother is very handsome. His features are exquisite, his figure is tall, and his moves just now were crisp and decisive.

"You have good taste. The Sect Master and Madam will be very happy if they learn about this too."

Shen Ziheng knew his senior brother had always been exceedingly discerning. There were few things he would praise, which showed just how outstanding his little brother truly was.

Seeing Shen Ziheng introduce him to Mo Qingran, Feng Wuhen took the initiative to greet him. "Hello, Senior Brother Mo. I'm Feng Wuhen."

Mo Qingran liked him quite a bit as well. When Feng Wuhen addressed him, he took two bottles of pills from his storage ring and handed them over. "This is a meeting gift from your senior brother. Take it."

Feng Wuhen glanced at Shen Ziheng. After Shen Ziheng nodded, he reached out and accepted them. "Thank you, Senior Brother Mo."

Seeing that they had forgotten him, Bing Ling walked over and bumped Shen Ziheng with his shoulder. "Old Shen, what about me?"

"How could I forget you?" Shen Ziheng pulled Bing Ling over to introduce him, but Mo Qingran raised a hand to stop him. "I know him. He's the little Phoenix raised by the Canglan Sword Venerable. I ran into him once when I went to Mount Grand Mystery, but I was in a hurry then and didn't greet him.

"I can't forget again this time. Bing Ling, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Mo Qingran."

Bing Ling liked him quite a bit too, especially after Mo Qingran gave him two bottles of candy pills.

Mo Qingran invited them into his courtyard, poured each of them a cup of tea, then asked Shen Ziheng, "Did you also discover that he was maliciously imprisoning these young women and men to vent his desires and profit from it, so you came to investigate?"

Shen Ziheng took two sips of tea and set down his cup. "Not because of that, but because of something even more serious. Isn't his lifespan nearly exhausted? To prolong his life and break through in cultivation, he captured children and extracted their spirit roots, flesh, and blood to refine pills that would extend his lifespan.

"He also captured cultivators and used their spiritual power to aid his cultivation..."

Mo Qingran was about to explode with rage. He had thought that old immortal was already corrupt beyond measure, yet he had not expected him to commit such acts. Had he known, he should have found a way to poison the man to death back then—even if it meant perishing together.

"That beast is truly not human! No wonder he came here last time to flaunt that before long, I would become something in his pocket.

"I mocked him then for dreaming in broad daylight. So he was planning to break through to the Body Integration Realm before dealing with me.

"That makes sense. If he reached the Body Integration Realm, my Bone-Piercing Green truly might not be able to poison him to death in one go."

Hearing this, Feng Wuhen focused his mind and saw Mo Qingran smearing the juice of Bone-Piercing Green all over himself in order to protect himself.