A jade slip appeared in Yang Zhen's hand.
This was a report provided by Qin Guoan's spy at Prince Lu's Mansion, and was handed over to him by Qin Mingyue.
Several records that he had read once again came into his mind:
"Gong Mengli, Princess Lu, was born in the Beast Control Sect, and has a third-level cultivation of Golden Core..."
"On the first day of August in the Gengchen year, the princess left the palace and disappeared..."
"In mid-October, the princess returned to the palace. That night, she killed five people, including the slave and the maid, with a stick..."
"Also: As of the first month of the Renwu year, King Lu still has not returned."
"..."
Yang Zhen put down the jade slip and handed it to Qin Mingyue beside her.
After guessing that Huang Ji would look for her in the future, the Queen of Qin decided to act with them and strike first.
Qin Mingyue knew it at a glance and asked, "Yang Lang thinks this is what Princess Lu did?"
Yang Zhen nodded: "Whether it's the title of Empress, her cultivation, her ability to control beasts, etc., they all match very well. I can't think of anyone else."
Qin Mingyue was thoughtful and read aloud: "Gong Mengli, a surname from Canglang County, Luzhou, with a single spiritual root of the metal system. She built a foundation at the age of twenty-one. She was chosen by King Lu, who was still the heir apparent at the time, and hired as his head wife. Entered the Beast Control Sect to practice. After half a century, he broke through the Zi Mansion and married Prince Lu. After two more weeks, Gong was promoted to Jindan Zhenren..."
After reading this part of her resume, she analyzed: "Although Gong's qualifications are not as good as those of her husband, she is only three years old and has advanced to the golden elixir, which is already rare in the entire Zhao country. This woman is extremely beautiful, and she has been with Lu since she was a child. We have known each other since childhood, and the relationship between husband and wife is also very good. They are a magical couple that everyone admires in the Zhao Kingdom."
"So," Yang Zhen continued what she said: "The Gong family destroyed the whole sect of the Shenyi Sect. It is probably because she did not find the Lu King here, and went on a killing spree out of anger."
This reason may sound a bit absurd, but in the world of immortality, strength is respected, and the Shenyi Sect is a sect under the jurisdiction of King Lu. If Princess Lu really wipes out this sect, as long as her hands and feet are clean and no obvious evidence is left behind, it can be said that there will be no future troubles.
Even if there are people like Shen Jiaolan who slip through the net and one or two witnesses, without the help of other forces, it will be difficult to defeat a real Jindan person.
Qin Mingyue was silent.
"The second possibility," Yang Zhen continued, "is that she found King Lu through a special method, and King Lu needed to continue blood sacrifices to a group of monks, and because his left arm was destroyed, it was inconvenient to do it, so he instigated her to commit the murder. evil."
Considering the bloody scene in Jiuyou Stream that day, Yang Zhen's inference is obviously more reasonable.
Qin Mingyue nodded slightly, frowning in thought.
"Yang Lang's two speculations each have some doubts." She said slowly.
"First, does Princess Lu know how to move the phantom formation? If she knows, why doesn't she go in and search? If she doesn't know, why doesn't she find two people at the Divine Intention Gate to lead the way?"
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"The Prime Minister cracked the illusion formation. He probably didn't tell Princess Lu. As for why he didn't find someone to lead the way..." Yang Zhen frowned: "There may be other hidden secrets in this!"
"Second," Qin Mingyue continued without comment, "Although King Lu is rich, the resources of nearly tens of millions of spiritual stones hidden by the Divine Mind Sect for thousands of years are definitely a wealth that cannot be underestimated. Even if Princess Lu sacrifices blood to these people, You can also force them to reveal the location of the treasure, there is no conflict between the two."
"There's no reason to let such a windfall go!"
"Also, if King Lu is found, why has he never returned home in the past few years? What has he done?"
Yang Zhen frowned even more tightly. He lacked strong words to refute what Qin Mingyue said.
"If it wasn't Princess Lu, could it be..." Qixia's figure flashed in his mind, and then he shook his head. If this Yuanying Empress takes action, the Great Elder may not even have a chance to resist.
Moreover, I couldn't find a reason for her to do this.
"This matter is complicated and confusing," he sighed, and turned to Shen Bobiao and others: "I will continue to investigate who is the culprit in this incident. As for you, let's put this matter aside and concentrate on cultivation. Only when your cultivation level improves, will you be able to do anything in the future. I can avenge this blood for my sect, do you understand me?"
"I obey, I thank you for your kindness!" Shen Bobiao burst into tears and knelt down. His two disciples, as well as Shen Jiaolan and others also knelt down one after another and obeyed his orders solemnly.
…
Penzhou
The largest state in Zhao State is located on the west bank of the Hongzhi Strait. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with a basin in the middle, hence the name Penzhou.
It was dusk, and the afterglow of the sun fell on the mountains and forests, dyeing everything golden. The mountains were undulating and clouds were lingering. A flying boat appeared over the mountains in the southeastern corner of Penzhou. After lingering for a while, it sped towards a valley somewhere.
That was the last place where the spirit moss was planted in Gou Xie's remnant soul's memory.
After a while, Qin Mingyue jumped off the flying boat, looked around with alert eyes, and said softly: "Come out!"
Yang Zhen appeared from the stone chain on the woman's wrist, smiled at her, and then sat cross-legged under a tree not far away.
After half an hour passed, after Yiyi communicated with the nearby vegetation, it was confirmed that no suspicious person had appeared here in the past month.
He relaxed a little, and as his mind turned, one monk after another jumped out of the space.
There are a total of 380 foundation-building monks, including Shen Bobiao from Zifu.
With a command, a spirit-seeking rat appeared next to everyone. Except for the obviously larger one next to Shen Bobiao, the others are all first-order spiritual beasts.
What is different from the last time in Chunan County is that every spirit-seeking rat now has a monk who has concluded a blood contract with it, so that the spirit rat can see the surrounding movements clearly with the help of the spirit rat's vision.
By doing this, you can check the surrounding situation as much as possible. If Huang Ji was underground at this moment, with his cunning and sensitive nature, the sudden appearance of the spirit-seeking rat would definitely arouse his vigilance. That spirit rat will most likely be killed by it. But with shared vision, even if such a situation occurs, the cause can be quickly identified.
One must be cautious when dealing with old monsters like Huang Ji.
Not long after, all the first-order spirit rats fled into the surrounding grass and woods like birds and animals, disappearing without a trace in a few breaths, leaving only the second-order spirit rat accompanying Shen Bobiao.
More than three hundred foundation-building monks each sat cross-legged, closing their eyes in concentration, controlling the spirit rats in the blood contract with their spiritual consciousness, and searching according to their respective designated areas.
Large clouds of white mist gradually enveloped them. If they looked from mid-air at this time, they would not realize that there were hundreds of monks hidden here.
Night fell, the bright moon hung high, and white mist filled the valley and jungle. Everyone held their breath and made no sound. Only the chirping of small insects echoed one after another, echoing the rushing mountain spring not far away.
The night passed. The spirit-seeking rats have covered a radius of thirty miles, and the depth they have penetrated into the ground has reached a hundred feet.
None found yet.
The next night, the spirit-seeking rat went two hundred feet underground, but still found nothing.
Yang Zhen was not discouraged.
The soul-seeking rats continue to explore deeper underground at a rate of 100 feet per day.
Finally on the ninth day, they made a discovery.
…
"Large-scale spiritual stone mine?" Yang Zhen received the report and felt calm.
It is not surprising that every heaven and earth magic circle has a large spiritual stone mine nearby.
What’s interesting is that this spirit stone mine, like the one in Chunan County, is a mine with huge reserves that has never been discovered.
From this point of view, after those powerful monks buried the base of the formation, they covered up the nearby spiritual mines accordingly.
The discovery and development of the spiritual mine in Hubeiling in Shuyang County should be just an accident.
Finding the spirit stone mine means that the place where the spirit moss is is not far away. While Yang Zhen deployed more spirit rats to gather near the spirit mine, she also ordered Mu Zixue and others in the space to be on standby at any time.
Once he bumps into Huang Ji, there will be a fierce fight.
Another two days passed like this, and the long-awaited news finally reached his ears:
"Young Master, Group C discovered the spirit moss!"
"But..." Shen Bobiao then transmitted the message: "The moss on the cave wall looks intact. It should be that no one has touched it."
"Never touched it?" Yang Zhen was slightly stunned, feeling both happy and worried, and then ordered: "Send the rat king next to you down, and arrange ten more to check carefully from all directions!"
About two hours later, Shen Bobiao reported again: "There is no difference in all directions."
…
Huang Ji isn't here?
Where did he go?
Since the one in Hengji Mountain was just one of his avatars, the Yin Yang moss seeds he planted back then were probably found in more than one place.
Huang Ji should have gone elsewhere.
With this kind of caution, he has survived three thousand years, and he will never be able to swagger around with just a mere golden elixir realm.
He will only appear in front of the world after his cultivation has reached a level where he can look down on the world.
There is no shortage of cultivation methods, and there is a strange thing like yin-yang moss that accelerates cultivation. Why not be stubborn and develop in a wretched way?
Therefore, he will definitely come to this underground place in Penzhou.
Will definitely come!
Yang Zhen decided to wait and see.
He was hiding quietly in a corner of Lingmoyong Cave.
Opposite is where the Heaven and Earth Magic Formation is located, where the Yin Yang moss erosion is the most serious, and where the spiritual energy leaks the most.
He planted a large number of spiritual plants suitable for growing underground around the spiritual moss. As long as someone appeared ten miles away, he would be able to detect it immediately.
The language of grass and trees that Yiyi is gifted with is far beyond the common spiritual consciousness, magic or magic weapon detection methods in the world of immortality. It is a silent and incomprehensible way of communication that will never arouse Huang Ji. any alertness.
When nothing happens, people in the space, such as Zhao Yue'er, Qing Xiaoling, etc., take advantage of the loopholes in the heaven and earth magic circle, absorb the spirit moss liquid provided by Yiyi, and concentrate on practicing in the corridor.
The spiritual moss on the cave wall will not be used for the time being.
…
After waiting like this, a year has passed.
This valley seems to have been forgotten by the world, and no one has ever been there.
In this year, Yang Zhen's cultivation has broken through to the middle stage of Zifu.
Also reaching the middle stage of Zifu is Zhao Yuer.
Qin Mingyue's cultivation has reached the golden elixir perfection, which is only one step away from Nascent Soul.
She needs to return to Qin. Once she comes, as the leader of a country, she has not been in the country for a year, which may cause instability in the government and the opposition.
Secondly, she must use the formation of Yuhuang Peak to completely refine the blood jade, so as to break through the Nascent Soul in one fell swoop.
Yang Zhen decided to send her back.
The journey was uneventful, and in the early morning of the third day, the two returned to Yujing.
Just when Qin Mingyue reappeared in front of the courtiers after a year, and after presiding over the government affairs, Yang Zhen received a paper kite from Yunxiao Sect.
When I opened it, I was stunned and speechless for a long time.
"What happened?" The empress, who had put on regular clothes and had looming curves, asked curiously.
"The emperor and the queen of Xu Kingdom," Yang Zhen smiled bitterly: "Five days ago, they were both killed."
"The sect called me back to detect this case."
ps: The two-week trip is over, and stable updates should be guaranteed for a period of time starting next week.
