Just as the Kunlun Mirror judged, the Yin Gui Dao's "search for the Master of Taiyin Sword" activity soon began in full swing.
To put it bluntly, although everyone was very tempted by the reward for killing the Master of Taiyin Sword, they all had enough self-awareness to know that unless they were extremely lucky, it would never fall on them.
However, if one only wants to find out the news about the Taiyin Sword Master, it would be relatively simple - as long as one can get within the range of the Taiyin Sword Master, one can automatically receive the message from the secret realm without alerting the other party.
If you think about it, there are two risks here:
The first is to bring the elders of the Yin Gui Dao to determine the location of the Taiyin Sword Master.
First get the message from the secret realm, then quickly go find the people from the Yin Gui Dao, and when you bring them here, the Taiyin Sword Master may have moved away. Then not only will you not get the reward, you may also anger the Yin Gui Dao, making them misunderstand that you are playing tricks on them.
Second, the ghosts may not necessarily keep their promises.
Although it was a big sect, its reputation was not very good after all. It was also said that in the recent war between good and evil, the Yin Gui Dao and Kunlun Taiqing Sect fought so fiercely that almost all the independent cultivators near Guanzhong were driven away.
Later, Kunlun gained the upper hand and wiped out the Yin Guidao forces in Guanzhong again and again, but they never found their specific location... To put it bluntly, after you went out, these Yin Guidao monks scattered in a hurry, so you couldn't even find them. Where could you go to get the reward?
However, although the above two risk points are so obvious, as everyone in the Yin Gui Dao had expected in advance: when there are a lot of people, there will be all kinds of people.
There are still many independent cultivators willing to come and try their luck and search for the trace of the Taiyin Sword Master for the Yin Gui Dao.
The plan went extremely smoothly in the early stages, and soon over a hundred independent cultivators verbally agreed to report the news, which encouraged the Yin Gui Dao members.
But a new problem soon emerged: too much false intelligence.
From time to time, independent cultivators would come and say that they had received a report on the location of the Taiyin Sword Master. Then the elders of the Yin Gui Dao would go over to check, and after searching for a long time near the target location, they would not receive any report at all.
It is possible that the Master of Taiyin Sword was transferred away in time, or it is possible that this casual cultivator was making up the news... Although giving false news is theoretically unprofitable, who knows what these casual cultivators are thinking?
Considering that if the casual cultivator who provided false information was killed, the casual cultivator who got the real information might be afraid that Taiyin Sword Master would run away during the reporting period, and thus would not dare to ask the Yin Gui Dao for the reward, the Yin Gui Dao people could only say a few harsh words of warning and leave in disappointment when faced with this situation.
Soon, a large number of complaints were gathered to Mo Gu. The elders all felt that this idea sounded good, but it was not smooth in practice.
"What did Elder Lianshan say?" Mo Gu asked patiently.
"She said she has no time to spare to cooperate with us." An elder replied.
Seeing Mo Gu's face changing from gloomy to bright, everyone fell silent and laughed secretly in their hearts.
In fact, the people from the Yin Guidao who entered the secret realm this time were divided into two groups: one group was led by Elder Mo Gu, and the other group was led by Elder Lianshan.
Elder Lianshan has a close relationship with the great leader Wei Dongliu, and therefore is also a member of the "Six Paths Faction" in the sect, advocating that the six paths should work together to fight against the orthodox religion.
Of course, such a radical idea naturally aroused opposition from some elders who advocated "everyone should take care of their own business".
Since Venerable Bai Gu stood behind Elder Lianshan, everyone gathered around Master Fuxie to counter Elder Lianshan's political ideas - but that didn't mean that everyone truly supported this Demonic Bone Elder.
"Ignore her for now." Mo Gu made a quick decision, "Continue to collect information from the independent cultivators."
"And can you all use your brains? Don't just believe everything someone says. For example, the location someone provided earlier was within our range! So why didn't we receive any notification?"
"For a casual cultivator like this who is obviously providing false information, just kill him directly!"
The elders of the Yin Gui Dao nodded in agreement. At this time, another elder asked to see him, saying that a wandering cultivator had provided new information.
"Call him over!" Mo Gu waved his hand and said, "Today I will teach you how to distinguish the authenticity of intelligence!"
The one brought here by the elder of the Yin Gui Dao was a plain-looking young man... As everyone knows, although cultivators can adjust their appearance freely, considering the instinctive inertia of "judging people by their appearance", most of the casual cultivators are accustomed to making themselves look like young and middle-aged men, so that they appear to have enough dignity and cannot be bullied.
Those who dress up as teenagers, old women or even disabled people are either injured and have lost the ability to regulate their bodies, or they are truly people with supernatural powers and don't care whether others look down on them when they meet them for the first time.
"It was you who received the news from the secret realm?" Mo Gu asked lazily.
"Yeah." The boy nodded and didn't say much.
Seeing that this man was calm and expressionless, Mo Gu was slightly surprised. On the surface, he remained calm and continued to ask:
"Then tell me the location, and the time you received the message."
"One hundred and sixty-two miles to the north," the young man replied, "about an incense stick of time ago."
"Since it's one incense stick ago, why didn't you come to report the news earlier?" Mo Gu asked with raised eyebrows.
"Because I'm not sure." The young man replied, "What if the Taiyin Sword Master is moving at high speed, and by the time I take you to find him, he has already left his original position, then wouldn't I have made a wasted trip?"
"I waited there for an incense stick of time. The locations where I reported the news three times were basically not far apart. I was sure of this, so I came to report the news to you."
"Oh?" Mogu said with interest, "It seems that fellow Daoist is determined to get our reward."
"But I still have a question: One hundred and sixty-two miles to the north, this location no one told us about."
"Is it just such a coincidence? You are the only one within the range of Taiyin Sword Master, and the others are not there?"
"I don't know about that." The young man said expressionlessly, "I am only responsible for confirming the information and passing it on to you. As for confirming its authenticity, that is your business, right?"
"Yes, that's true." Seeing that he didn't show any abnormality, Mo Gu finally gave up all his suspicion and said with a smile, "Then lead the way. If Taiyin Sword Master really finds it, we will naturally fulfill our promise."
"Okay." The young man asked again to confirm, "Are you going with me, or are you going to send someone to go with me?"
"I'll bring people with you." said Mo Gu.
"Then you can go on your way." The young man nodded.
The next second, before the expression on Mo Gu's face could change color, the Taiyin Su Ming Sword had already pierced through his chest, and the whole person instantly turned into white light and disappeared.
When he was teleported out of the secret realm, he saw the young man disappear from the spot and mouthed something to himself quickly:
Are you stupid?