After a month of long journey, everyone finally arrived in the capital.

"finally reached……"

Ning Caichen looked at the huge city gate and couldn't help but sigh.

Ning Caichen never expected that the experience along the way would be so exciting.

"finally reached."

Li Pu looked at the huge city in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

A month has passed since I left the wine shop. During this month of traveling, I encountered many robbers and water thieves.

But because Zuo Qianhu was there, Zuo Qianhu's martial arts was indeed at its peak, and ordinary people were no match for him, so Li Pu never took action.

In this way, the group finally arrived in the capital.

Walking into the capital, Li Pu found that the styles of the capital and Yingtian Mansion were different.

If the style of Yingtianfu is prosperous and romantic, then the style of Jingcheng is calm and heavy.

The buildings here are not as gorgeous as Yingtian Mansion, but they are magnificent.

The only thing that is the same is the people on the street.

When you first enter the city, you can see people coming and going with patches on their clothes.

As you walk further in, you will find that the patches are getting fewer and fewer, and when you finally reach the door of the Punishment Department, most of the clothes on people's bodies are made of silk and satin.

"Brother Geng, I'm going to hand over the prisoner..."

After saying goodbye to Li Pu at the entrance of the criminal department, Zuo Qianhu escorted Mr. Zhang away.

Li Pu, on the other hand, led Ning Caichen around on the street.

After wandering around for a while, Li Pu arrived outside the palace.

After the palace, a large number of pedestrians gathered in front of the palace gate. People clasped their hands together and muttered something silently.

After closing his eyes and sensing it, Li Pu frowned. What these people said were Buddhist scriptures.

At this moment, there was suddenly another sound. This sound was the sound of countless people chanting Buddhist scriptures loudly, and it came from the palace.

Li Pu looked up and saw a group of people wearing various ritual vessels walking out of the palace.

These people who chanted Buddhist sutras also carried a soft sedan chair, on which sat a beardless monk.

When the monk walked out of the palace, many guards knelt down and spoke.

"Congratulations to the Imperial Master."

Seeing the Imperial Master walking out of the palace, the people gathered on the street knelt down, clasped their hands together and began to recite Buddhist scriptures with the chanters.

It turns out that these people gathered here just to meet this so-called national master.

Li Pu stared at the Imperial Master for a while, then left with Ning Caichen.

The Buddhist scriptures recited by these people contain a strange power. If a person is not determined, he may start to worship the national master crazily after listening to the Buddhist scriptures for a while, and may even be willing to sacrifice everything for the national master.

Li Pu took Ning Caichen to find an inn to stay temporarily, and Li Pu began to think about ways to deal with the imperial master.

Ning Caichen, on the other hand, read the book and found that it was already January.

Spring begins in a few days, and Ning Caichen is still dreaming of becoming the number one scholar in high school.

"Brother Ning, did you know that there is a kind of insect in this world called iron worm?"

"Oh? Is there anything special about this insect?"

Li Pu looked at Ning Caichen and smiled, then said.

"This insect can parasitize in the body of a praying mantis. When it grows into an adult, they will take the praying mantis to a place with a water source, drown the praying mantis and crawl out from the belly of the praying mantis.

Do you think there is a kind of insect that can get into people's skin and control their behavior without others noticing the difference?"

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Hearing what Li Pu said, Ning Caichen couldn't help but shudder.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Li Pu stood up and opened the door, only to find that Zuo Qianhu was here.

"Brother Geng, Brother Ning."

Zuo Qianhu saluted Li Pu and Ning Caichen and sat in front of Li Pu.

"Brother Geng, you have experienced a lot. I would like to ask, is there anything that can manipulate other people's consciousness and act on their behalf?"

Hearing what Zuo Qianhu said, Ning Caichen couldn't help but feel even more horrified.

Not in the mood to read, he put down the book and sat next to Li Pu.

"Oh? Why do you ask this?"

Li Pu became interested and poured a cup of tea for Zuo Qianhu and signaled him to continue.

"Today I handed the prisoner over to the Ministry of Punishment and went to visit Mr. Lu Fenglu of the Ministry of Punishment, who had promoted me, but he didn't seem to remember me."

Zuo Qianhu recalled the scene while describing it.

After he brought the gift to see Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu didn't recognize him at all. It wasn't until he said he was Zuo Qianhu that Mr. Lu seemed to have a lively chat with Zuo Qianhu.

This made Zuo Qianhu feel very strange. Master Lu seemed to have forgotten many of the things he said.

But he was sure that this person was indeed Mr. Lu, so he asked this question.

"That means Mr. Lu is not familiar with you."

Ning Caichen picked up a candied fruit and ate it, and said casually.

"How could it be possible that we are not familiar with each other? I have known Mr. Lu for twenty years, and I have only been out for two years. How could I have forgotten him?"

Li Pu shook his head and said nothing, but patted Zuo Qianhu on the shoulder.

Zuo Qianhu slapped Li Pu's hand away and said with a serious face.

"He also said that His Majesty heard that I killed the dragon in the past few days and wanted to see me. He asked me to prepare to enter the palace to see His Majesty."

Li Pu was immediately interested when he heard this.

"Going to the palace to see the emperor? Can you take me with you?"

Seeing that Li Pu spoke so casually, Zuo Qianhu said.

"If you want to see His Majesty, you are very strict. You can't just go if I say so."

When Li Pu heard what Zuo Qianhu said, he touched his chin.

"If you don't want to go, don't go."

After that, Zuo Qianhu said some things to Li Pu, but Li Pu didn't listen much.

It was night, and Li Pu came outside a building alone.

This building is extremely gorgeous and beautiful, and gold decorations can be seen everywhere.

And just outside this building, countless people were kneeling in front of the building, listening to the chanting coming from the building.

This is the residence of the national master. The house is very large, and there are many people chanting sutras in it.

Li Pu found a corner and jumped into the building from the corner.

Everyone in this building wears white robes, and there are scriptures on the white robes.

It looked extremely sacred, but Li Pu felt something was wrong.

A group of people chanting Buddhist scriptures walked through the corridor, and Li Pu was hiding in the darkness.

While all these people were passing by, he stepped forward, grabbed the person at the end of the queue, and broke his neck.

But what Li Pu didn't expect was that this man could still move even if his neck was broken by him.

Seeing that this man was about to make a sound, Li Pu hurriedly split up and the man stopped moving.

I watched my passive increase by one, and then listened to the chanting sound.

Li Pu suddenly felt like a squirrel standing in a pile of pine nuts...
Chapter completed!