"Master Shen has been practicing in the sect all year round and does not live in the palace. As for his four disciples," He Shouxin's face was also very ugly and he sneered:
"One returned to the sect with the Imperial Master; one bought a house in the capital and went back to his yard to sleep at night; and another was invited by the Minister of Works that night and stayed at his house. The last one was in the palace. , But, hehe..."
"That night, in the courtyard next to the Kunde Hall, this man and several palace maids were sleeping together. He didn't hear any movement, haha!"
Yang Zhen was stunned.
As the Master of the Purple Mansion stationed by the sect in the imperial palace, Guoshi Shen enjoys the honorary title of national master in the court and public affairs of Xu State, but he actually stays in the sect for many years and is not in the country!
Among his disciples, some were absent from work, some were lazy, and the only one left in the palace was still having sex with women!
What a mess!
The Yunxiao Sect has been at peace for too long, and these people below are so lazy and slack in their work; the palace of a big country has such lax defenses!
"It's not like Master Dou took over Zhenguo Palace in a day or two. Didn't he take care of it?" Yang Zhen said hesitantly.
"Well, I don't know about the humble position." He Shouxin looked at Pang Daishou, who was playing with a jade slip handed over by the disciple behind him, with a bit of a sneer in his expression.
"After this incident, these people have been arrested and Hall Master Pang is responsible for interrogation." He pursed his lips.
"Did anything come out in the trial?" Yang Zhen turned her attention to Pang Daishou.
"No," Pang Daishou said without raising his head: "The most suspicious person is the Minister of Works, but after interrogation, nothing wrong has been found."
"Yeah." Yang Zhen frowned and asked, "Did the palace formations be activated that night?"
"Most of them are not activated. The entire palace only maintains a minimum late-stage first-order defense level. The important palaces in the palace, including the Kunde Hall, do not have any formations activated."
The Yunxiao Sect has set up a third-level mid-level defensive formation in the Xu Kingdom Palace. When nothing happens, it will at least be maintained at the mid-level second level to prevent Xiao Xiao from causing trouble.
"Didn't the sect allocate the spiritual stones to run the formation?"
"Of course it was allocated, but hey, it was all saved by the Imperial Master." Pang Daishou looked disdainful. In the past few days, he had personally presided over the interrogation of Master Shen. He would not have anything good to say about that guy who was derelict in his duties and greedy.
Yang Zhen walked forward slowly. Although he was very confident that this case was not difficult to detect, there was no harm in listening to other people's opinions.
So he then asked: "Hall Master Pang, in your opinion, what is the possible identity of the murderer?"
Pang Daishou's eyes flashed.
"The murderer's cultivation level is at least above Foundation Establishment, otherwise it would be difficult to hide it from the disciple in the palace. As for his identity, hey, it depends on his motives."
"Well, tell me what the motives are."
"There are no more than three motives. One is that foreign enemies use this to provoke our Yunxiao Sect. I heard that Sangzhou and Kuang State have expressed dissatisfaction with our country recently. Judging from the method of execution, those people died of suffocation. The methods used by the witch clan are used, so Kuang Guo seems to be the most suspicious."
"I think that the murderer's move is more of a conspiracy to cover up the truth. Although Kuang Guo made representations to our sect because of the death of the third elder of the country. However, this country has always bullied the weak and fears the strong. Blackmail may be possible. If it really kills The emperor of our country would not even have the guts to vent his anger or demonstrate in this way!"
Yang Zhen stopped again and looked at Pang Daishou's Kang Gai's speech with a cold eye, feeling a little strange. The other party looked excited at the moment, as if he meant something.
Then just listen and see what he means!
"Go on." He said calmly.
"The second possibility is that taking away the emperor's heart may be related to the practice of some evil cultivators. In other words, the murderer may be a casual cultivator who practices evil magic."
"However, judging from the torture and murder of the queen, I think the biggest motive is the third one, which is to take revenge for personal gain, or to pay someone to kill someone!" Pang Daishou said decisively.
"Oh?" Yang Zhen said in surprise: "Were there many injustices under Emperor Xu's rule?"
"It may not be an injustice," Pang Daishou said with a hint of pride on his face: "I ordered people to collect all the big news since Emperor Xu ascended the throne for sixty years, focusing on those clans with abundant resources, or the descendants who have appeared. The eucalyptus of the immortal cultivator. After some screening and screening, there are 17 eucalyptus in total. Among their families or descendants, they have the ability to retaliate against Emperor Xu."
How many important things does a dynasty have for sixty years? The files alone would probably fill a room.
The other party had gone to such great lengths to find out this possibility. Yang Zhen couldn't help but become interested and asked, "Have you found any doubts?"
"Originally, there was none, but now, there is." Pang Daishou said with a sarcastic smile.
Yang Zhen was stunned and even more confused, staring at him without saying a word.
Pang Daishou looked at him provocatively and said to himself: "I was once confused. Why did the murderer think of blaming the witch clan and divert his attention? The only explanation is that this person has channels to know what happened in the sect. Regarding the matter, we are aware of the recent entanglement between us and Kuang Guo."
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"Such a person's status in the sect will not be too low. In other words, the murderer is not a casual cultivator, but a disciple of my Yunxiao Sect."
"So I continued to narrow down the scope. Among the seventeen cases, the descendants have become disciples of the sect. There are six sects in total."
"There was a case of rape..." At this point, a strange smile appeared on his face, and then the conversation changed and he recounted a past incident:
"Twenty-three years ago, it was the imperial examination in the Gengshen year. A candidate who went to Beijing to take the examination was inexplicably involved in a fraud in the imperial examination and was imprisoned for several months. When he came out, he was dying and died soon after."
"Ten years later, his son had become an inner disciple of our Yunxiao Sect and asked someone to ask the court about his past. The court quickly replied that his father had been wronged, and soon restored the son's fame and honor... …”
"It seems that the matter can come to an end here, and it probably has nothing to do with the emperor and empress. However, I have been searching through Emperor Xu's affairs over the past few decades, and I think of a coincidence. The master of the Gengshen year It seems that the examiner was also killed by Emperor Xu in this year because of a minor or serious corruption case..."
"Because this person died strangely, I ordered people to search this person's house. The tricks of ordinary people to hide things are obvious to us cultivators. Soon, a notebook was found at his house, recording The imperial court has many inside stories.”
"Just now, my disciples have sorted out some of the contents. Among them, it was mentioned that the examination was involved in fraud ten years ago. It was actually the examiner who deliberately set up a trap and arranged for someone to leak the examination questions to he."
"And the main messenger behind it is the current queen!"
"Master Yang," Pang Daishoutu saw this and shouted sternly: "The surnamed Yang Mingyin is your biological father!"
"Empress Xu has a grudge against you for killing your father. You are very suspicious of this situation and must avoid it!"
