The captain suddenly saw behind the county magistrate, one of his former subordinates appeared behind the magistrate.
It's just that the subordinate who appeared was surrounded by black aura, and he didn't look like a living person at all.
He opened his arms and hugged the county magistrate.
Seeing that the county magistrate was about to be saved by him, the captain pounced forward.
At the same time, the knife in his hand was instantly unsheathed.
He grabbed the county magistrate with one hand and pulled the magistrate behind him.
The other hand slashed directly with a knife.
"puff!"
The knife in his hand cut directly into the body of his subordinate.
However, only blood flowed out, but there was no scream.
At the same time, the strange energy on his body began to flow towards him along the knife.
The captain suddenly pulled the knife back, and then the energy in his body surged.
Under the impact of the energy, the strange energy on the blade was directly dissipated.
And when he went to look for it again, his men mysteriously disappeared again.
The captain looked back at the county magistrate, who was lying on the ground with a pale face, and asked quickly: "Sir, are you okay?"
When the county magistrate heard what the captain said, it took him a long time to come to his senses: "Is that your subordinate just now?"
The captain nodded solemnly and said: "My lord, you are right, that one was my subordinate just now. And it was the subordinate I just left here. I don't know what happened here.
But for the sake of your safety, we should go back to the city first and wait until the Confucian scholars from Yunshan Academy arrive before making any plans."
The county magistrate nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, let's go back."
After a pause, the county magistrate said: "Close all city gates immediately."
The captain nodded and said "here".
About an hour later, a Confucian scholar named Wen appeared in the county government office.
Immediately the county magistrate and the school captain told the Confucian scholars what happened at the gate of the city.
After listening to the words of the school captain and the county magistrate, the Confucian scholars also felt that this matter was very strange.
"Today we did take action against the ghost realm. However, we have eliminated all the evil spirits in the ghost realm. We have determined that there will be nothing left."
After the Confucian scholar finished speaking, the county magistrate asked the Confucian scholar: "Are you sure that you have eliminated all the evil spirits and that nothing has slipped through the net?"
The Confucian scholar hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "There is no fish that has slipped through the net."
The county magistrate became even more panicked when he heard that no fish had slipped through the net.
If there is no problem in that ghost domain, it means that a new ghost domain has appeared at the door of his county.
And it's still a ghost land that he hasn't discovered yet.
This would be really troublesome.
"Sir, don't panic. My other two senior students will come over later. By then, the three of us will search with great righteousness and we should be able to find out what is going on." The Confucian scholar said to the county magistrate.
After hearing this, the county magistrate could only do this.
After another half hour, two other Confucian scholars arrived.
After listening to what the Confucian scholar named Wen said, the other two Confucian scholars also frowned.
They have really never heard of such a thing.
However, after the three people joined forces to explore the area near the city gate with awe-inspiring righteousness, they did find a trace of strange aura remaining.
However, the missing nine people were not found.
After repeated detections, the three people were able to confirm that the nine missing people were no longer here.
"We will report this matter to the academy immediately. At that time, the academy will send more powerful masters to investigate. Don't worry, sir."
After receiving such a promise, the county magistrate could finally relax a little.
But what the county magistrate didn't know was that the same thing happened not only in their county.
Except for the four northern states and Liangzhou.
In other states, similar situations have occurred in all ghost realms cracked by Confucianism.
And in just one night, hundreds of people disappeared inexplicably throughout the Wu Dynasty.
And this number is still rising.
In Jingzhou, even King Jing's cavalry is missing a few.
After King Jing knew about this, he came directly with his guards to look for it.
But after searching for it, I couldn't find it.
King Jing's dignified second-grade martial artist found nothing.
This made Prince Jing realize the seriousness of the matter immediately.
At the same time, King Jing brought over Kong Jijiu, who was still assisting him in garrisoning in Jingzhou.
After Kong Jijiu heard what Prince Jing said, his face became serious.
Kong Jijiu, led by two Yunshan Academy Confucian scholars, personally came to the area where the Jingzhou Ghost Domain is located.
The ghost land in Jingzhou appears in a dilapidated restaurant.
There was a fire in this restaurant back then, and more than fifty diners and people inside the restaurant were all burned to death in the restaurant.
Although later Taoist monks surpassed and purified this place.
But still no one dared to take over.
As a result, this bustling restaurant was completely idle.
But this time, the ghost domain actually landed here, turning this place into a veritable ghost building.
The matter of ghost realm is definitely not difficult for Kong Jijiu.
But because the location of the Ghost Tower belongs to Prince Jing's side.
Therefore, Kong Jijiu had a tacit understanding and did not care about this matter.
Whether it was the Changsheng Taoism before or the Confucianism now.
Kong Jijiu had no intention of intervening.
If Prince Jing hadn't come to him this time, Kong Jijiu still wouldn't have cared about this matter.
Kong Jijiu carefully looked at every room in the restaurant and said to Prince Jing: "I'm sure the ghost area here has been cleared up, and there is no suspected weirdness here."
Prince Jing said: "The two of them told me that when they were dealing with the evil spirit, part of it escaped."
Ning Chen looked at the two Confucian scholars and asked them, "Is that so? How much evil spirit was running away at that time?"
Facing the two Confucian scholars Kong Jijiu, they did not dare to lie at all.
Of course, they did not dare to lie in front of Prince Jing.
Kong Jijiu could tell at a glance whether they were lying or not.
They simply did not dare to face Prince Jing.
This is a second-rate person in this world. Lying in front of him will only happen if you are tired of living a crooked life.
Immediately, the two Confucian scholars told Kong Jijiu what had happened in detail.
After listening to the descriptions of the two people, Kong Jijiu frowned and muttered: "This is wrong."
After hearing what Kong Jijiu said was wrong, King Jing quickly asked: "What do you think is wrong?"
Kong Jijiu said: "This is completely inconsistent with the situation in the ghost realm recorded in Confucian classics."
King Jing was not too interested in what Kong Jijiu said was wrong.
Prince Jing followed the martial arts system, and although he did not believe in these classics and historical books, he did not believe them.
But I'm not entirely convinced.
"The ghost realm of the Wu Dynasty is completely different from that of the Japanese and Yue Dynasties. What's so surprising about such changes?" Prince Jing responded lightly.
Kong Jijiu said: "Although this is true, the fact that the same thing has changed for two different cultivation systems is already very unusual."
Prince Jing frowned.
Kong Jijiu's words indeed made Prince Jing feel a little inappropriate.
Ghost Realm may still be able to explain the changes in Dao Sect reluctantly.
But this explanation for the changes in Confucianism in Guiyu is too far-fetched.
After all, during the Yue Dynasty, Taoism was the main force dealing with the ghost realm.
Although Confucianism was involved at that time, it was not the main force, and secondly, Confucianism did not really go too far into the ghost realm.
"What do you want to say?" King Jing asked Kong Jijiu.
Kong Jijiu pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head: "I just feel that something is not right, but I can't tell what is wrong.
There are still too few historical materials left.
It’s hard for me to make any judgment on this matter.”
Since it was difficult to judge, King Jing did not let Kong Jijiu judge.
What's more, King Jing didn't call Kong Jijiu here because he wanted to hear Kong Jijiu analyze the problem for him.
What King Jing needs is Kong Jijiu to help him solve his problem.
Find your lost soldiers back for yourself.
Kong Jijiu and Prince Jing returned to the place where the soldiers disappeared.
Kong Jijiu inspected it carefully here again, and this time Kong Jijiu really caught a hint of strangeness.
Finding this trace of strangeness is enough for Kong Jijiu to return to its origins.
Although Confucianism does not have the ability of Taoist divination, it is still possible to return to its origins.
"return!"
Along with Kong Jijiu, he spat out one word.
With this hint of weirdness, the scene here is really recreated.
It's just that in this recreated scene, there is no trace of the strangeness.
But it was clearly shown how those soldiers were missing.
Seeing those soldiers mysteriously disappearing one by one, Prince Jing and Kong Jijiu both had serious expressions on their faces.
The soldiers who disappeared were all top-notch warriors.
Although they are all ninth grade, they are still practitioners.
Facing this small group of treacherous energy, these practitioners were completely helpless.
If this spreads throughout the city, ordinary people will have no choice but to let these evil spirits sway them.
And the key issue now is that neither King Jing nor Kong Jijiu knows where these disappeared soldiers are now.
If they were really dead, in King Jing's view, the level of danger would be greatly reduced.
King Jing was worried about what might happen if these soldiers did not die.
Instead, he became a puppet of the ghost realm, and the degree of harm would be magnified dozens of times.
Prince Jing did not expect that the Confucianists' help would lead to more and more chaos, and his face immediately turned ugly.
"I asked you to help, but the result is like this. Yunshan Academy must explain to me."
The two Confucian scholars from Yunshan Academy naturally did not dare to refute anything when faced with Prince Jing's questioning.
But there are not so many taboos about Kong Jijiu.
Although Prince Jing did not replace Confucianism and Confucianism, his meaning was expressed very clearly.
Prince Jing made it clear that their Confucianism and Confucianism were not good enough.
Speaking of Yunshan Academy, Kong Jijiu can be left to its own devices.
But talking about Confucianism, Confucianism and Taoism is not acceptable.
"Prince Jing, what you said is biased. The reason why the Taoist sect was able to deal with the ghost realm so smoothly.
That's also because my incompetent apprentice opened the Yin and Yang Tao.
The loopholes of the Ghost Domain against Taoism were plugged in advance.
If there were no Yin and Yang Dao, I don’t know how many Yin and Yang realm monks would be controlled by the Dao Sect now.
The current changes in Haoran Zhengqi in the Ghost Realm are indeed something that our Confucian sect did not expect.
But at least the Confucian students in my Confucian school will not be influenced and controlled."
King Jing asked in return: "If you Confucian scholars are not controlled, can you let your evil spirit devour warriors everywhere?
If these swallowed warriors were controlled by the ghost realm.
When the time comes to release them together, it would be more convenient for me to directly lead my troops to kill those Taoist cultivators in the Yin and Yang Realm of Taoism."
Kong Jijiu retorted: "If Prince Jing is so angry, it is not something you, Prince Jing, should say. Prince Jing, don't you think it is beneath your status to say such things?"
Prince Jing snorted coldly but said nothing more.
After speaking about Prince Jing, Kong Jijiu turned to look at the two Yunshan academies again, looking at his Confucian students gratefully.
"You two are not much better. The ghost realm has changed against the Taoist sect.
You are still following the script without any awareness of precautions.
Is this what the academy teaches you?
No wonder Confucianism is in decline now.
You don't even have the slightest sense of worry,
Confucianism will be destroyed sooner or later by your arrogant mentality."
"The students are taught by Master Confucius." The two Confucian students from Yunshan Academy all wanted to offer wine to Confucius to express their thanks.
Kong Jijiu teaches the two of them a lesson.
Two sixth-grade Confucian students, Yunshan Academy grabbed a handful of them.
Even if you scold them to wake them up, it won't fundamentally solve the problem.
"Let you two deans come over as soon as possible.
Also tell your dean.
Ask him to notify all the Confucian cultivators scattered throughout the Wu Dynasty who are preparing to deal with the ghost realm to stop.
No one is allowed to take action against the ghost realm until the matter is clarified."
"Yes, Master Kong."
After finishing the instructions for the Confucian side, Kong Ji drank and said to King Jing: "Prince Jing, please also arrange your men to go to each camp to count the number of people. You must determine whether there are any missing persons in the shortest possible time.
Situation. In addition, what happened tonight must be kept secret from everyone."
Prince Jing nodded, then waved to the bodyguard who was following him and walked over.
King Jing gave all the instructions regarding what Kong Jijiu had said.
Let him immediately and secretly start counting all the personnel registered in the camp.
In less than an hour, Zhao Zizhan, the dean of Yunshan Academy, had already appeared in Prince Jing's palace.
Zhao Zizhan already knew what happened. Before coming to the palace, Zhao Zizhan also went to the ghost domain to inspect the scene.
At the same time, he also checked the place where the soldiers were missing.
He also didn't discover much.
"Prince Jing, Kong offers wine." Zhao Zizhan bowed.
Prince Jing's face was extremely ugly, so he had no intention of greeting Zhao Zizhan.
"Did something happen to Kong Jijiu again?" Zhao Zizhan did not continue to ask Prince Jing, but asked Kong Jijiu on the other side.
Kong Jijiu said to Zhao Zizhan: "Before you came, King Jing counted the twenty battalions under his command, and found that there were a total of one hundred and fifty-six cavalry missing."