Though he did not know where Xiaoyu had obtained the information, together with the books Huang Que had given him earlier, it immediately brought to mind information about the Mo Household of the Western Liang Kingdom.
The various powers in Youyun Heaven were far more complicated than those in True Martial Heaven.
True Martial Heaven revolved entirely around the Nine Immortal Mansions, whereas Youyun Heaven had sects, immortal dynasties, and aristocratic clans among its publicly known powers alone. Its hidden heretical cultivator factions and organizations were too numerous to count.
The Mo Household had originally been a first-rate aristocratic clan in the Western Liang Kingdom, but during an upheaval seven or eight hundred years ago, many of its elite members, including its patriarch, had all died tragically, and more than half the countless cultivation techniques it had collected had been destroyed.
From then on, the Mo Household had fallen from a first-rate aristocratic clan in the Western Liang Kingdom to a third-rate one.
"Could it be... Elder Duan Tianya slaughtered your Mo Household down from a first-rate aristocratic clan in the Western Liang Kingdom to a third-rate one?"
After swiftly deducing this, Xu Taiping suddenly blurted out his conjecture, putting the question to Mo Hai.
"You're courting death!"
His words seemed to have touched Mo Hai's reverse scale.
With a metallic ring, Mo Hai's figure transformed into a cross of blade light that slashed violently toward Xu Taiping.
"Chirr!..."
Seeing this, Xu Taiping stood on one leg, gripped his blade with both hands, and slashed toward Mo Hai's blade light with the Cicada Cry Form.
"Hum..."
But the instant he unleashed his slash, a peculiar power enveloped him, lowering his aura fluctuations to minor completion of Profound Connection.
As his aura weakened, Xu Taiping's blade force was affected as well,