Arriving at the City Lord's Mansion and passing by a waterside pavilion, the bloated City Lord held a woman in tulle in each hand. Beside him were a dozen performers playing music and singing, and five beautiful dancers dancing with their smooth thighs exposed.
Yuchi Qishui was in a good mood. The beautiful woman on the left was holding his chest with one hand and twisting the glass with the other hand to put the wine into his mouth.
Too extravagant.
Mo Jiuxuan thought bitterly... I really want to participate too.
The person who received him was not the city lord. The city lord was very busy and had no time.
Under the leadership of the housekeeper, a man wearing black armor and six soldiers met with Mo Jiuxuan.
"Mo Jiuxuan, I, Wu Qingxu, have been ordered by the city lord to cooperate with you in investigating Fang Xing's case."
"Um!"
Mo Jiuxuan nodded.
The soldiers who follow the city lord should have some discernment. I don't know how to do detective work at all. I just need to be a pendant and cooperate with him.
"Where is Kong Xing's body?" Mo Jiuxuan asked.
"Master Tianyu said that if the murderer cannot be found, Fang Xing will be allowed to live in the City Lord's Mansion forever."
Wu Qingxu shook her head and smiled bitterly, "Please come with me!"
The group of people came to an underground ice cave, and Wu Qingxu ordered someone to open the door.
This is a huge ice cave. The surface of the light blue stone wall is covered with a thick layer of ice, and the brilliance of the formation can be faintly seen.
There was no light stand inside, but it was unexpectedly bright. A dozen corpses were lying on ice beds, covered with white cloth.
"Here are the remains of successive city lords. It is also his blessing that Kong Xing can lie here."
Mo Jiuxuan glanced back at his daughter. Mo Xiaoran's expression was as usual, and his eyes fell on the corpses. There was no fear, fear, or shrinkage.
Not bad for a nine-year-old girl.
Chen Sang looked around curiously, and couldn't help but raise his head to observe the magic circle symbols flashing in the sky, while Bu Xinghuo's eyes were slightly lowered, and his arms were naturally lowered, like a pile of dry wood.
Wu Qingxu bowed slightly to the corpses on the ice bed, came to a hospital bed, and opened the white cloth.
"Uh~"
He turned away in disgust.
Mo Jiuxuan also felt a crazy chill on his head, Chen Sang retched, and Bu Xinghuo picked up the junior sister who stood on tiptoes and stretched her neck to look over there curiously, and rushed out of the door.
"Brother, what are you doing? Put me down. I want to see, I want to see!"
Amidst the thumping sound, Mo Xiaoran's voice gradually faded away.
Kong Xing's limbs disappeared, and there were traces of bites from wild beasts where they connected to his body. There were still bloody holes on his abdomen and heart after being pierced by foreign objects.
The remaining muscles are shriveled and the bones are emaciated. It is obvious that the spiritual power has been drained and the spiritual field has been destroyed.
"Except for monsters, ordinary monks would not do such cruel things." Wu Qingxu analyzed, "Mo Jiuxuan, what do you think?"
Ordinary monks would just destroy him or torture his soul.
"I can't bear to watch. Taoist friend Kong Xing suffered this misfortune for nothing, and I was framed. Wu Qingxu, the investigation is based on your idea, and I will fully cooperate."
Mo Jiuxuan said sincerely.
Wu Qingxu was very satisfied with Mo Jiuxuan's answer.
As the head guard of the City Lord's Mansion, he has considerable experience in maintaining order in Muhua City and searching for monsters.
"We'd better go to the crime scene and take a look. Maybe we missed something."
"Okay." Mo Jiuxuan regarded himself as a tool.
The group came to the waterside pavilion and said goodbye to Yuchi Qishui.
The bloated city lord who enjoyed life nodded, his eyes never leaving the dancing woman in the middle, and he waved his hand casually to indicate that he understood.
Wu Qingxu took two companions, a total of seven people including Mo Jiuxuan, and quickly left Muhua City.
The scene of the crime is in the mountain forest eighty miles north of Muhua City. It is lush with vegetation and hides wild beasts. It is the only way to the Ziyun Sect.
As Taoist Priest Yuan Ming said, there were no signs of fighting nearby.
If the opponent is a monk in the foundation building stage or the golden elixir stage and suddenly attacks, the ground will at least leave the remnants of the spiritual confrontation.
But the surrounding trees and grass were intact, with only a large amount of dried blood stains, which weathered to black after a few days.
"He probably lost his ability to protect himself after taking the elixir and was killed alive."
Wu Qingxu held her chin with her right hand and looked down at the blood stains remaining on the ground, thinking deeply.
"Who discovered the body first?"
Mo Jiuxuan asked.
"I!"
A guard said, "We will patrol within a 200-mile radius of Muhua City every once in a while. When we passed by this place a few days ago, we smelled a strong smell of blood in the air. We found Kong Xing's body while searching.
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The blood was scarlet at the time, and he died not long ago.
We immediately separated the team and searched in all directions, but no suspicious person was found."
Mo Jiuxuan listened quietly and suddenly asked, "Since when you discovered Kong Xing and his party, he died not long ago, you didn't feel any fluctuations in spiritual power before?"
The guard looked solemn and said, "No, I don't feel anything at all."
"It seems that Kong Xing was poisoned before he was killed and lost his ability to resist, so he was killed calmly."
Wu Qingxu said, "In this case, there are only two situations. One is that the murderer is so strong that no one has time to resist. The other is..."
He paused and stared at Mo Jiuxuan meaningfully, "It's also possible that an acquaintance committed the crime. Because he is a familiar person, he is not on guard. Even if the opponent is not as strong as Fang Xing, he can still do it.
Killed with one blow."
Mo Jiuxuan's eyes lit up, remembering that the body in the ice cave was shriveled up and the spiritual field was withered.
"Is there a possibility that the Huanglong Pill was taken away by someone, and Fang Xing didn't eat the Huanglong Pill I gave him at all. The remaining pill in the porcelain bottle was actually left by the other party on purpose?"
Wu Qingxu sneered, "As for the real situation, maybe only the murderer and Fang Xing know."
Mo Xiaoran noticed that the man in armor looked unkind and stared at his father suspiciously. He walked over and stood in front of his father with his head raised and his hands on his hips.
"Why do you think so of my father? My father is a good person, not a bad person!"
The unexpected move relieved the tense atmosphere at the scene. Wu Qingxu helplessly looked at Xiao Nizi who was venting her anger on her father, and could only clasp her fists and surrender.
It was already dusk, golden light was falling on the horizon, spruce and green pines were bathed in the mist-like golden glow, and the scenery was exceptionally magnificent.
Several people came to a mountain top and sat on the edge of the cliff. They could see the brilliant forest and couldn't forget the edge at a glance.
Wu Qingxu took out a bottle of wine from her arms, opened the lid and took a sip. Regardless of the eager eyes of the people around her, she stuffed it into her arms again and let out a long breath, her face full of satisfaction.
Mo Jiuxuan's nose twitched, and he could tell that this was a bottle of fine spiritual wine. He looked at Wu Qingxu.
Wu Qingxu felt Mo Jiuxuan's gaze, he just glanced at him, took out the wine bottle again and took a sip like a show off, smashing it in his mouth.
"Mo Jiuxuan, don't look at it. This wine was given by the city lord. It contains ten kinds of elixirs. It was brewed by the best winemaker in Muhua City and sealed underground for twenty years.
The taste is indescribable.”
After encountering a soft nail, Mo Jiuxuan was a little disappointed, and secretly thought to himself, after finding out the real culprit in the case, I will use the recipe in the treasure house to brew a pot of the best wine in the world. You will be greedy for it!
At this time, Mo Xiaoran woke up from meditation, holding his stomach in pain with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to Mo Jiuxuan from the air, "Dad, dad, save me~"
Mo Jiuxuan pointed his finger at his forehead, showing a look of helplessness, "Xinghuo, go find some food nearby."
"yes!"
Bu Xinghuo stood up, and Mo Xiaoran looked at his senior brother's figure with uncertain eyes, "Dad, I'm going to help!"
After saying that, he jumped up and followed him quickly.
The two people in the sunset are like a brother holding his sister, and their backs are very warm.
Bu Xinghuo frowned and said for a long time, "Junior sister, you play too much."
"Oh, senior brother, I'm hungry."
Mo Xiaoran acted coquettishly, and as he spoke, he took out five top-grade Huanglong Pills and stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them casually, and then swallowed them.
Then he keenly noticed that the senior brother was a little greedy, so he took out one and raised his little hand, "Senior brother, you can have one too. You won't be so hungry after eating it."
Bu Xinghuo burst into tears because his junior sister hurt him.
It's a pity that he is not a nine-star emperor. A top-grade Huanglong Pill requires him to refine it for three days before he can fully absorb its power.
If you eat Huanglong Pill as a jelly bean like this little junior sister, you will just explode and die immediately.
However, the junior sister is still young, so she needs to feel the care and kindness of her senior brother.
The third senior brother who was not good at words said "thank you", took the elixir from the junior sister's hand sincerely, and carefully put it into his own medicine bottle.
A rare faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his pupils moved crazily in his eye sockets, and he looked through the thick trees to search for the beasts hidden inside.
The monks at the seventh level of Qi Refining have greatly reduced their need for food. After entering the foundation building, they feed on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and no longer eat mundane things.
Of course, elixirs containing spiritual energy and delicacies from the mountains and seas are no longer included in this list.
Just because you don’t eat it anymore doesn’t mean you can’t eat it anymore.
Bu Xinghuo was surprised that the junior sister's demand for food suddenly increased dramatically, like a glutton that couldn't get enough to eat, always in a state of wailing for food.
Fortunately, Master has the Huanglong Pill. Otherwise, if the junior sister cannot get the spiritual energy replenished, will she eat something?
A huge black bear entered the field of vision of the two people. It was three feet long and one foot and three feet tall. It walked out from behind the dense forest with its head shaking as if it was a stranger.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Neither the two of them expected to meet each other in such a place, and their six eyes instantly showed confusion.
With this body shape, and looking at the golden crescent-shaped pattern on the black bear's neck, Bu Xinghuo couldn't help but grit his teeth, and his cheeks bulged.
"A red-blooded violent bear with the eighth level of psychic powers."
Due to their racial superiority, demons in the Qi Refining Stage are naturally rough-skinned and thick-bodied, making it difficult for them to be harmed by ordinary magic weapons and sharp swords. Monks in the same realm would have no choice but to run away when encountering such upright demons.
The premise is that you can outrun the opponent.
Bu Xing's fire head is as big as a bucket.
Even though he practiced the purple secret book "Secret Technique of Holding Heaven", he was only at the seventh level of Qi refining, and the opponent was at the eighth level of psychic. There was no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation.
It seems that the only option is to wander away and let the junior sister go back and ask for help from the master.
I can hold on for a while... I must not let it hurt Junior Sister.
The red-blooded violent bear spoke human words, with a low and deep voice, "Hey~ Human monk, hey, you're lucky, it can be used as dessert after dinner."
It stood up like a little giant looking down at Bu Xinghuo and Mo Xiaoran. Its huge size put great pressure on Bu Xinghuo.
"Third Senior Brother, I heard Fifth Senior Brother say that bear paws are a rare delicacy."
Mo Xiaoran swallowed and his stomach growled unsatisfactorily, "You're such a big guy, you don't have to go hungry tonight."
"Little girl, what are you talking about? I am a red-blooded violent bear with the eighth level of psychic energy. How dare you two little chickens talk about bear paws? Damn it, you will have to live or die in a while.
Then tear off the flesh from your body in small bites.