Mo Xie slept over at the village chief's hut.

As soon as he woke up, he made his way back to the statue.

Looking at the statues, Mo Xie couldn't help but study it further; "An array built in a statue. It provides both offensive and defensive formation, it also provides cultivation aide by gathering the Spiritual Energy in the surrounding, making it a denser, it's like getting free Spirit Stones without doing nothing..."

[Where is the pattern?] Mo Xie kept searching, but to his disappointment, there are no patterns in it, a masterpiece work by a formation master.

"Hahaha, just comparing myself to them, I`m really just like an ant-like existence." Mo Xie spoke with a bit of self-mockery to himself.

[Starting over from scratch is a little hard, but maybe, I`ll also be able to break through out of the Celestial Phenomenon rank in the future...] (Mo Xie)

"But first, breaking through to the bronze rank is a must, hahaha." Mo Xie laughed at himself as he continued checking for any loophole he can see from the statue, maybe he'll receive a profound knowledge from it.

"Observing the statue diligently early in the morning?" At this moment, Ma Dong arrived with his hands behind his back.

Mo Xie looked back and nodded: "Yeah, this statue is really mysterious."

Ma Dong with satisfaction written on his face nodded and replied: "We call it the 'Eternal Bridging Statue', though, G.o.d Zhihao also named it something else, and that is, 'Loving Protection'. G.o.d Zhihao's tribute to his subordinate's son's."

"Got it." Mo Xie replied with a nod, Ma Dong smiled at him as he departed to fix some of the matters for the village.

"Wait." (Mo Xie.)

"Hmm?" Ma Dong looked back and stared at Mo Xie in wonder.

"I would like to leave this village now, they will think that I'll hide here for a long while, but I`ll be going out tonight." (Mo Xie)

Hearing Mo Xie's words, Ma Dong couldn't help but sigh, with a nod of his head he replied: "Then, you can use our village's secret pa.s.sage."

"Oh, that will be a huge help." (Mo Xie)

Ma Dong took out a piece of paper from his storage ring and handed it over to Mo Xie; "This is the path for the pa.s.sage and the kingdom nearest to our village."

Mo Xie took the paper and bowed: "Many thanks, village chief."

Ma Dong smiled at Mo Xie as he spoke: "Be sure, that if you find yourself nowhere to go, you can always lead our village."

Hearing his words, Mo Xie kept remembering the bitter things that happened with the Mo Family that he had established. He immediately shook his head and replied: "I`ll keep it in mind."

The two of them separated and did their own perspective duty, Ma Dong to the village, Mo Xie to himself.

Evening arrives.

The expert from Si Shen's camp brought some demon beast meat to the village while the female villagers did the preparation.

A few minutes more, another feast is held within the village and outside.

Si Shen, Sun Meng, and Mo Xie dined together with the villagers while the experts ate outside the village.

While eating, Si Shen would casually glance at Mo Xie's direction, she's still either to kill him no matter what, but after a while, her attention is sometimes drifting over to Ma Dong.

[What kind of village is this... to have such a profound formation array... and I have to kill this guy in order for our secret to not leak.] (Si Shen)

When Si Shen's gaze descended on Mo Xie, she noticed that the latter is also staring at her; "What?"

She couldn't help but ask with a frown on her face.

"If you find yourself in a dead-end, you can always look for me to cure those hands of yours." Mo Xie spoke and after that, he returned to eating the demon beast meat.

Si Shen and Sun Meng only looked at Mo Xie before they continued eating again. Once they return to their kingdom, they'll just ask a lot of medical experts to help Si Shen cure her hands.

But still, Si Shen couldn't help but utter some words; "You speak as if you can cure something of this scale."

Mo Xie only shrugged his shoulder and continued eating.

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A few moments later, everyone finished eating and returned to their own private lives.

Meanwhile, Mo Xie, Ma Dong, and two other villagers are gathered at the far northern end of the village which is at the opposite side of Si Shen's group.

"Don't take it personally, but, which kingdom will you be going to?" (Ma Dong)

After Ma Dong spoke, he opened up a secret door from the wall, Mo Xie smiled seeing such a deeply hidden door like that, n.o.body would've suspected that just beside the cave, a pa.s.sage like this would exist.

Mo Xie smiled, although he didn't really want anyone to know of it, but after all the trouble that Ma Dong had done without even asking for any payment, he still replied: "I`m going to the Vermillion Sonata Kingdom."

The Demon Sword Mountain is actually surrounded by three neighboring kingdoms. The three closest to the village is the Azure Imperial Kingdom and the Solar Blaze Kingdom, and the farthest from the three is the Vermillion Sonata Kingdom.

"Oh, so if they will search for you, the first thing they will do is look at the closest kingdoms? They will also be in a lot of delays after." (Ma Dong)

"Yeah." Mo Xie nodded, as he started walking inside the pa.s.sageway.

"At most, there will be a day's time before they notice that you are gone." (Ma Dong.)

With a nod, Mo Xie spoke: "Thanks."

Seeing Mo Xie's figure vanis.h.i.+ng, Ma Dong looked at the two behind him and spoke: "Be sure to protect him but only do it when things are life-threatening to him."

The two figures behind Ma Dong nodded their head, they are wrapped in a hood and mask so Mo Xie didn't see their faces, the two of them immediately vanished from sight.

Ma Dong looked at the entrance pa.s.sage one last time before closing it and spoke: "There is something that I had not mentioned...

The one that will exit the cave needs to have a certain curiousity towards the statue, only those from the village chief's line have knowledge of it."

Ma Dong chuckles as he took his leave with a satisfied expression.

The supreme expert that they are looking for is not just by power, but also talent.

Ma Dong's eyes has a certain art in it that was pa.s.sed down through the generation, and that eye is able to see the potential of a person's talent, luck, and prowess in the long run and not just at the current level.

"But something is weird... why does his body emit such a darkened aura... I also saw a monstrous figure within him..."

This is the first time that Ma Dong had seen such a deadly talent, but still, destiny is destiny, only time can tell.