The more Feng Chi thinks about it, the angrier he gets, and the anger surges up and down in his chest like a tide. If Tang Xu, the Dharma King of Zhitian, hadn't disrupted the situation this time, how could so many things have happened out of thin air.
'Damn old guy, hey, by the way, Du Leng, the blood element hand, seems to be moving around this time. Tang Xu, you are in the first year of junior high school, don't blame me for being in the fifteenth year.'
There are many temples in the Demon Sect, and the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. When there are more people, there will naturally be conflicts. If the Demon Sect can work together, the situation will never be like this. The reason why Dharma King Zhitian proposed to capture Li
Jie's suggestion is just to go with the flow and make the wind chime more difficult.
Feng Ling waved her hand and asked the cold-faced man to leave first. She had to think carefully about how to reveal the news about Du Leng, the blood element hand, to Li Jie and his party without leaving any trace.
It's definitely not possible to do it blatantly. Otherwise, given Du Leng's status as the Blood Element Hand, once he dies, the main altar will definitely send someone to conduct a secret investigation. If his role in it is found out, he will not be able to escape punishment even if he takes the position of a saint.
The moon was in the sky, and Feng Chi was lying on the bed tossing and turning for a long time without being able to fall asleep. These four people didn't respond to their current faces, and the few spare human skin masks they had left probably wouldn't be of much use.
'It seems that I can only provide help secretly, but it's better this way to avoid being suspected later.'
Du Leng, the Blood Element Hand, is extremely ambitious. The Heart-Burning Demonic Finger has not been practiced within the Demon Cult for nearly a hundred years. The success rate of practicing this martial art is extremely high. Of course, once it is mastered,
It is also extremely powerful and weird and difficult to defend against. Countless people have challenged it, but all ended in failure.
Until the middle of the night, Feng Ling didn't come up with any particularly good method. The simplest method was to secretly send a message, but this method was too low-level, and Feng Ling didn't want to do it. In the end, he couldn't help but feel sleepy and fell asleep.
go.
After a night of silence, Li Jie and the four of them changed their route and set off for Qingyuan County after breakfast. In fact, Li Jie didn't have much hope that the man would still stay in Qingyuan County. Although the best world in the world is the world of Zhongwu, but
The normal message transmission speed is not much different from that of Ming Dynasty.
This world is following the path of attributing great power to itself. The development of productivity is not fast, and in some aspects it is slightly worse than the Ming world. After all, the Ming world has the participation of Li Jie, and the progress of some things is faster than here.
Much more.
In this world, what Li Jie wants to do more is to climb the peak of martial arts and see the scenery above. If Li Jie really wanted to climb to that ninth-five position, he wouldn't have acted like he was in oblivion when he was in the palace.
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Every prince who can ascend the throne is naturally talented, and his understanding is far superior to that of his peers. However, the one with the highest martial arts skills among the royal family is often not the emperor. Human energy is always limited, and the amount of effort spent in managing a huge territory cannot be calculated.
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Emperor Yuankang reached the late stage of Xiantian when he was a prince. Ten years after taking the throne, he has only reached the state of Xiantian Dzogchen and has not yet broken through to the state of Grandmaster.
In fact, when you truly ascend the throne, you don't need to consider how to improve your martial arts. All your energy is devoted to managing the empire. It doesn't matter whether the emperor's martial arts are high or not.
Because it is not the emperor's turn to take action at all. If the emperor really needs to personally fight, unless the masters of the imperial court are dead, then it will be impossible for one person to save it.
Maybe a Grand Master can, but how can a Grand Master be so easy to break through? Countless people who are obsessed with martial arts and amazingly talented have not been able to break through. How can an emperor who is entangled in the world succeed?
"Ignore it, we are in Qingyuan County ahead. I am familiar with Zhou Anping, the leader of the Dapeng Gang. There happens to be a branch of the Dapeng Gang in the county. I will go there first to ask about the situation."
In the evening, after two days of traveling, everyone finally arrived at their destination. Qingyuan County is a small town. The world has been peaceful for a long time. The original city wall in Qingyuan County was probably demolished due to the expansion of the city, and the new city wall was not built.
It is not high, and through the new city wall you can vaguely see the remains of an old city wall that has not been demolished at the rear.
Li Jie nodded. The two of them had discussed this matter on the road. Among the four, only Mr. Wuhen had traveled in the Jianghu before. However, there were so many cities in the world, like stars. Mr. Wuhen had only passed by here before.
Qingyuan County is not too familiar, but fortunately there is a stronghold of the Dapeng Gang here.
After entering the city, Li Jie and others first found an inn to settle down, and then the four of them divided into two groups. Master Wuhen took Qingxuan to the Dapeng Gang to inquire about the specific situation, while Li Jie took Pu Xing to inquire about the situation in the city.
Li Jie and Pu Xing first found a seat on the second floor of the inn, ordered a few side dishes, and listened carefully to see if anyone in the inn would mention anything.
After a while, Li Jie stopped the waiter when he was serving food, stretched out his hand and threw three taels of silver over.
"Little brother, I want to ask you something."
The waiter's expression went from confused to shocked to secretly happy. Seeing Li Jie being so generous, he suddenly smiled. He usually wouldn't be able to save three taels of silver in half a year.
"My lord, feel free to ask, I will tell you everything I know."
Li Jie smiled slightly: "What major events have happened in Qingyuan County recently?"
The waiter said without thinking: "The biggest thing recently is that the son of Mr. Sun's family was elected in high school. Mr. Sun is also a great person. It has only been thirty years since the Sun family moved to Qingyuan County.
The development in the local area is no worse than that of those wealthy families that have existed for hundreds of years.
Sir, you haven't seen that scene. This is the first time in this villain's life. The Sun family specially hired a chef from Fucheng to set up a running banquet for seven days. Everyone who came to the door was a guest, even beggars couldn't come.
There is also a few food on the table. There was not much business in our inn in those days..."
Li Jie frowned slightly. These were not the things he wanted to hear, but he did not interrupt the other party. After the waiter talked endlessly, he still had some unfinished thoughts.
"Well, is there anything else besides this?"
The waiter said: "Yes, yes, there have been several mass murders in Qingyuan County recently. The deaths of those families were so tragic that not even a single body was left alive, and the heart and mouth were burned out.
Everyone said the big hole was made by the Heart Eater. Sir, I have a suggestion for you. It’s best not to go out at night recently. It’s not safe. Who knows if the Mind Eater has left? Do you think so?
"
Then Li Jie asked a few more questions, but seeing that there was nothing strange, he stopped asking.
There were also people discussing this matter in the lobby of the inn, but the news was quite mixed. Basically, the waiter at the same hotel said the same thing. If we really want to know more about it, we probably have to look at the progress of Mr. Wuhen.
After dinner, Li Jie walked out of the inn and walked around Qingyuan County. He listened to the conversations of people on the street. Recently, there were obviously fewer people going out at night than usual. This was all because of the several massacres and because the death was so severe.
It was miserable. There was a rumor going around that these families were beset by evil spirits. After wandering around for a while, Li Jie returned to the inn without finding anything.
The crescent moon was like an eyebrow, and it was already very late when Mr. Wuhen returned to the inn, but he still planned to tell Li Jie about the information he had inquired about first. Li Jie had been waiting for Mr. Wuhen to come back and did not fall asleep.
"Ignore it. Recently, there have been five cases of mass murder in Qingyuan County. They are the Song family in Shanping Township, the Feng family in Kaiyang Township, the Lu family in Ningyang Township, the Su family in Taihua Township, and the Liu family. A total of thirty-eight people died.
Everyone's death was exactly the same, they all died from heart burning, and they had not suffered any torture during their lifetime. According to the autopsy results conducted by the county government, these people should have been drugged before their lives, and they all died in their sleep.
It has been half a month since the case occurred. The first case was the Su family in Taihua Township. The day after the death of the Su family, the Liu family was also wiped out. Later, the Song Jia and Feng families were brutally murdered one after another.
The most recent case was just two days ago, and the last person to die was the Lu family from Ningyang Township. However, the county magistrate was afraid of causing panic among the people and suppressed the recent family extermination case. Not many people knew about it."
Li Jie raised his head and frowned: "Oh? So, it is very possible that the murderer is still in Qingyuan County, or has not been away for too long?"
Mr. Wuhen said: "It should be so. The murderer's audacity has angered the government. Such a bad case has not happened in Qingyuan County for a long time. After the first case, the local Jinyiwei sent out all their men to search for clues.
, but they didn't gain much. Instead, they were tricked by the murderer.
After the second case occurred, the local Jinyiwei asked Fucheng for help. The Jinyiwei sent by Fucheng was led by Yinzhang secret agent Lu Yuanbai, but there seemed to be no progress after he arrived. Of course, this was only revealed on the surface. After all, Dapeng
I can't find any information inside Jinyiwei, so I can't say what this silver medal spy has found out.
By the way, there is another news. According to the person in charge of the Dapeng Gang branch, the magistrate’s office is planning to issue a list in the near future to seek help from people in the world."
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Li Jie pondered for a moment. The news that Mr. Wuhen brought back somewhat surprised him. The murderer had been lingering in Qingyuan County for half a month. Could it be that the murderer was extremely confident in his own martial arts?
The last case happened just two days ago. At that time, Jinyiwei's support had arrived. The murderer dared to take action right under his nose. This kind of person is either stupid or confident. However, the murderer is probably not a stupid person to be able to get away with it so far. It's just why he
If he doesn't leave Qingyuan County, will he commit another crime?
"Wuhen, is there any channel on the Dapeng Gang where we can take a look at the bodies of injured people?"
There are countless martial arts in the world. Although this incident was probably done by someone from the Demon Cult, it is impossible to say that it was caused by other martial arts. It has only been two days since the last case of killing a family. It is very possible that there is something on the body.
Leave some clues.
The dead cannot speak or lie. From Li Jie's perspective, the autopsy methods here are still relatively primitive, and some subtleties are likely to be ignored.
Mr. Wuhen was stunned when he heard this: "Ignore, are you worried that we made a mistake in the investigation? Don't worry, the masters of Jinyiwei have already checked. These people did die under the finger of the Heart-Burning Demon. The murderer must be someone from the Demon Cult.
And the status is not too low, as the Heart-Burning Demon Finger is one of the secret skills of the Demon Cult, not everyone can practice it."
Li Jie shook his head: "No, I just want to check the body to see if there are any unexpected findings."
Mr. Wuhen nodded: "Well, in this case, I will ask tomorrow. There shouldn't be much of a problem. The bodies that died a few days ago may have been moved to Yizhuang outside the city. The most recent incident occurred relatively recently. Lu
The bodies of the family members are probably still in the county government office."
The next day, Li Jie got up early and went to the inn lobby. The four of them planned to go to the Dapeng Gang after breakfast, but the atmosphere in the inn lobby was a bit strange.
"Hiss, have you heard? The mind-eater appears again. Master Yuan and his family all died last night."
"What? Master Yuan, the Iron Eagle Hand, was also killed?"
"Sigh, Mr. Yuan's martial arts skills have all been killed. I really don't know when this day will end. The court doesn't know what it is doing. It hasn't found out the reason yet. Let alone people, it doesn't even see the shadow of a ghost.
arrive."
"Hush! Silence! The one sent from Fucheng has a bad temper. Be careful if your dirty talk reaches his ears."
Li Jie raised his eyebrows. This man from the Demon Cult is really too arrogant. He was committing crimes outside the city before, but now he dares to commit crimes in the county. Could it be that he is confident that no one can stop him even if he is discovered, or maybe there is something wrong with him?
Are there other ways to ensure your own safety?
And judging by his tone, the silver medal spy from Fucheng has a bad temper. People who can't control their emotions probably don't have very good patience either. To deal with such a cunning enemy, patience is the most important thing.
By sending such a person to Qingyuan County, the chance of catching the murderer has dropped by one point.
The descriptions of people in the demon sect in the world seem to be correct. They are really unscrupulous in their actions. They dare to commit crimes even when the whole city is under martial law. This is completely to offend the imperial court.
However, this change of direction also shows that this person has not left yet and is still lurking in Qingyuan County.
"Wuhen, let's go to the Dapeng Gang first to see if we can go to the crime scene and take a look."
Pu Xing was filled with indignation and said: "Sir, the demon sect's thieves are so arrogant. They dare to provoke me like this, Ming Dynasty. This is unbearable!"
Qingxuan also felt a trace of anger in his heart when he heard this. Although he didn't care much about the outside world, he was a monk after all, and he couldn't help but couldn't bear to hear such a tragedy. This was the first time that he had the idea that someone should die.
The Dapeng Gang has been entrenched in Qingyuan County for many years and still has some connections. After arriving at the gang's headquarters and explaining their intentions, it didn't take long for Li Jie and others to arrive at the county government's morgue.
The weather was getting colder, and it had only been three days since the death. The corpses were well preserved. Li Jie carefully inspected all the twelve corpses of the Lu family. Most of them were ordinary people who had never practiced martial arts.
, the two guards have practiced some martial arts, and they only practice external martial arts, and their martial arts are not very high.
Li Jie moved his nose slightly and smelled a faint odor. Generally, 3-6 hours after the death of a corpse, putrefactive bacteria in the intestines multiply and begin to produce putrefactive gas. This smell is called corpse odor, but
In addition to corpse odor, these corpses had another smell.
Unfortunately, it has been a long time, and the smell left behind is too weak, so I can't tell exactly what the smell is coming from.
Master Wuhen noticed Li Jie's strangeness and couldn't help but said, "What, did you find any problem?"