"What?"
Lin Yue couldn't help but be startled when he heard the words, and his heart was even more disturbed.
Is Taoist Tu in prison?
How can this be?
How could a master like the old drunkard be caught by the commander of Northwest Pass?
He couldn't believe it.
Although Lin Yue didn't know at what level the practitioners in this world were classified as strong and weak, he knew the secret about Master Tu.
That secret was one of only two three-ring levels this year.
Even the secrets related to the palm seals of the Taoist Academy and the first-class martial arts warriors in the world are only at the first ring level.
The secrets of the second ring level have already reached the level of those practicing masters and martial arts cultivators.
And the level of the cultivators involved in the three-ring level secret will obviously be higher!
Therefore, he also had some guesses about the old drunkard's true behavior.
but--
Just one night passed, and Baili Fengzhi actually caught the old drunkard quietly?
This surprised him.
Unless the old drunkard did it on purpose...
one way or another.
As long as these people haven't found Xia Lie, there is still a chance to save everything.
His thoughts only lasted for a moment. Lin Yue took a deep breath, looked at the heroic commander in front of him, and said, "What do you mean, sir?"
"You don't understand?" Baili Fengzhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
She is testing me and has doubts about me... Calm down and think about how to get rid of the suspicion... Lin Yue frowned slowly while his mind was racing.
Then he took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "I understand. It seems that the Commander is here for Mr. Xialie, right?"
Baili Fengzhi didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.
"Haha, I knew it..."
Lin Yue deliberately chuckled in despair, "That lunatic named Xia Lie must have a vengeful temper. At that time, he wanted to break my hand tendons and hamstrings, but he was scared away by the old drunkard. Now Baili is in charge of this place." Why won’t my backer come back to take revenge?”
"Huh?" Baili Fengzhi frowned slightly.
"how?"
Lin Yue said in a low voice: "I have no grievances with the Commander-in-Chief. Didn't he ask you to arrest me after you found the noble Master Xialie?"
As he said this, he suddenly made a sound like he was enlightened, and then said with some mockery: "I understand, even Master Xialie must abide by the law at least on the surface, right? What reason do you intend to use to arrest me and send me to jail? "
"Do you think it was Xia Lie who asked me to arrest you?"
Baili Fengzhi raised an eyebrow and didn't bother to explain anything. He just glanced at Deputy General Chu beside him.
When Vice General Chu saw this, he immediately said: "Lin Yue, you are overthinking. The reason why I came to you is not because of Mr. Xialie, but because Taoist Tu asked to see you."
"Taoist Master Tu?" Lin Yue pretended to be surprised.
"We have not found Mr. Xialie's whereabouts."
Vice General Chu shook his head slowly and said, "But Taoist Master Tu said that after meeting you, he would consider telling you everything he knows, so I came to find you later."
This can be exploited... Lin Yue's heart moved, and he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster: "I thought it was Na Xia Lie who showed up and asked you to take revenge on me and Lao Dao..."
At this point, he suddenly seemed to realize something, his face suddenly turned pale, and he could no longer speak.
Baili Fengzhi looked at him with interest and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Yue was silent for a moment, then said with a bitter smile: "Master Commander, I want to know when you arrested Taoist Tu, did he resist?"
"I didn't resist. I restrained my hands on the spot." Baili Fengzhi said calmly.
Lin Yue tried his best to make his face paler, and laughed at himself: "It turns out that he didn't expose his cultivation, but it was my stupidity that exposed him..."
Baili Fengzhi and Vice General Chu looked at each other with a hint of amusement in their eyes.
It seemed that this Lin Yue not only knew nothing, but also thought that it was because of his words just now that he exposed Taoist Tu's true cultivation level.
Little did she know that the Sheriff's Mansion had already informed her of Taoist Tu's true identity.
Vice General Chu shook his head and said: "Lin Yue, you don't need to think too much. In order to capture Taoist Tu, even the commander-in-chief has taken action. Do you think we have not found out Taoist Tu's true identity in advance?"
Of course I know……
Lin Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief. On the surface, he seemed to have just figured this out and was speechless for a moment.
"Boy, stop talking nonsense."
Baili Fengzhi lost interest in talking any more and immediately said: "Lao Tao Tu wants to see you, please come with us quickly."
Lin Yue hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, can you wait a moment?"
"Huh?" Baili Fengzhi frowned slightly.
"Zhuo Jing hasn't taken any medicine today."
Lin Yue looked at Baili Fengzhi sincerely and asked: "Can you allow the grassroots to take the medicine and then follow you to see Taoist Tu? Zhuojing's situation has not been very good. I'm afraid... we can't delay too much." Long."
Baili Fengzhi could also sense that there was indeed an extremely weak female aura in the house. It must be the woman named Su Ziqiu who was stabbed by Xia Lie.
She looked Lin Yue up and down, nodded slightly and said, "If you still want to stay with your unmarried wife, you are serious about it, so go ahead."
"Thank you, sir."
Lin Yue bowed his hands and bowed, then turned around and walked quickly towards the house.
Baili Fengzhi and Vice General Chu looked at Lin Yue's back and walked into the house, but had no intention of following him.
Not to mention the presence of Baili Fengzhi, even Deputy General Chu could hear the breathing in the room through the wall. It was naturally impossible for Lin Yue to run away.
"Sir, although I shouldn't say this, I feel that Lin Yue and his unmarried wife have indeed suffered an unreasonable disaster." Vice General Chu sighed softly.
"Are there not many people in this world who have suffered from unexpected disasters?"
Baili Fengzhi's eyes were indifferent, and then he said: "Do you think Lin Yue really has nothing to do with Xia Lie's disappearance?"
"What do you say, sir?"
Vice Admiral Chu wondered: "Judging from Lin Yue's behavior, it is obvious that he doesn't know anything. I can also feel his heartbeat and breathing, and there is no abnormality in lying."
"It's just a little bit of spiritual awareness."
Baili Fengzhi narrowed her slightly narrow red phoenix eyes, "Although he does seem to be shallow-minded and a bit stupid, why is he the only one who can win the favor of Tu Laodao?"
…
inside the house.
Lin Yue sat by the bed, holding a small bowl containing medicine in his hand. He held Su Ziqiu's neck with his other hand and slowly fed the medicine into her mouth.
This concoction can indeed be used to clear away heat and relieve inflammation.
But it was mostly just a disguise he was using to hide another kind of medicinal powder.
This time he went to the prison to see Tu Laodao. He didn't know how long it would take to come back. If Su Ziqiu woke up, it would be troublesome, so he had to be fed bone powder and soul-trapping water again.
Both of these are miraculous medicines found through second-level secrets, which can be effective even on ordinary martial arts and masters of the three religions.
Bone powder is not very effective against Taoist cultivators who control the power of heaven and earth, but it is most effective against martial arts cultivators who purely refine their bodies. The steel and iron bones will also be melted away, making mortals even more fragile.
The function of Soul-Trapped Water is simply 'drowsiness'.
The key is that it is colorless and odorless. It disappears as soon as it enters the body. It only affects the mind. Even an expert in medicine cannot detect any trace.
While feeding the medicine, Lin Yue was constantly thinking about the next countermeasures.
The play he performed just now, if nothing else, he should have deceived Baili Fengzhi.
The shortcoming of those in power is that they think they can see through others.
It is also the arrogance of human nature.
Just now, his shallow performance of being smart and exposing his flaws will only make people think that he is easy to manipulate and increase his credibility.
He also deliberately took a 'Heart-Controlling Pill' to prevent flaws in his heartbeat, breathing, and blood flow when he lied.
This elixir was found through a certain first-level secret. It was originally an elixir to assist martial artists in their practice. It could affect the flow of qi and blood to a certain extent and prevent the heart from beating excessively during a breakthrough and causing injuries.
He hasn't practiced martial arts much, and he hasn't used the mind-controlling pill since he got it, but it just happened to work this time.
"Although Baili Fengzhi was deceived, the suspicion is still not cleared."
While Lin Yue was taking the medicine, he narrowed his eyes slightly and kept thinking in his heart.
"The old drunkard only favors me. This is an irrefutable fact. Now he takes the initiative to surrender and wants to see me by name. I'm afraid he wants to clear my suspicion..."
"Think carefully, what else is missing, what else can be used..."
In a moment, the entire bowl of concoction was finished.
Lin Yue carefully put Su Ziqiu back on the bed. While pretending to tidy up her hair and cheeks, he smeared some medicinal residue on the inside of her lips and folded the corner of her quilt as usual. Then he stood up, walked outside the house, and locked the door.
"Lord Commander, you have been waiting for a long time."
Lin Yue came to the gate of the courtyard, bowed his hands to Baili Fengzhi, and said, "The common people have been given medicine, thank you sir."
Baili Fengzhi glanced at him and suddenly said: "Your wife was stabbed with a sword, which damaged the lung meridian and spine, right? Although the physical fall is difficult to cure, the heat poison is very difficult for Tu Laodao, as long as he is willing to help , shouldn’t be difficult to resolve, right?”
Lin Yue understood what she meant.
Physical fall, that is, modern paraplegia.
Heat poison means wound inflammation. Common anti-inflammatory herbs alone can only relieve it, but cannot completely eliminate the inflammation like modern antibiotics.
But for practitioners, heat poisoning is not an unsolvable problem.
Therefore, Taoist Tu did not help resolve the heat poison, which is an unavoidable doubt.
Fortunately, he had already thought of a countermeasure.
"Isn't it difficult to resolve?"
Lin Yue immediately looked confused when he heard this, and murmured: "But Taoist Tu clearly told me that this heat poison is not easy to cure even for him, and he asked me to give up as soon as possible."
He couldn't help but ask: "Lord Commander, you mean that Taoist Tu can help Zhuo Jing get rid of the heat poison, right?"
Baili Fengzhi glanced at him and said calmly: "He is a Taoist practitioner of the Shenxiao sect. He has some attainments in the art of alchemy. Of course he can do it. I heard that he has a good relationship with you. In the entire Taoist academy, he I only favor you, so why wouldn’t I want to help you?”
Lin Yue seemed to be stunned when he heard this.
After a while, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Is it because Ziqiu was once... this old drunkard..."
He took a deep breath, bowed his hands and said, "Please, Lord Commander, take me to see Mr. Tu."
Baili Fengzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, and without asking any further questions, he just said calmly: "Let's go."
…
Not long after, we arrived at Qingdu Prison.
Today's prison has been heavily blocked by a large number of armored soldiers with guns. Each of the armored soldiers is a warrior with nearly full strength and blood. I am afraid that only Baili Fengzhi's personal guards can have such a large number of soldiers. Among the elite.
Passing through the long underground steps, and gradually entering the prison, the guards patrolling the prison became more and more strict.
In addition, Baili Fengzhi himself is here to take charge, so even ten or twenty martial arts cultivators cannot break the prison.
In silence all the way, they arrived at the door of the cell in the deepest part of the prison.
This cell door is entirely made of cold, solid cold iron, and the four walls, ceiling, and floor are also made of extremely thick steel.
In such a desperate situation, even if a martial artist wants to escape from prison, it will be as difficult as climbing to heaven.
Just hearing a clang, the heavy and solid prison door slowly opened.
Vice General Chu was guarding outside the door, while Baili Fengzhi walked into the cell with Lin Yue on her long legs.
There was silence.
Lin Yue finally met Taoist Tu again.
Taoist Tu was sitting quietly at a table with a cup of cold tea on the table.
His hands and feet were not shackled like other prisoners, but his body was wrapped with circles of strange dark golden threads, which didn't seem to affect anything at all.
But Lin Yue could probably guess that these thin lines should be used to suppress mana.
"coming."
Taoist Tu smiled at Lin Yue.
Baili Fengzhi folded his arms lazily and stood leaning against the closed cell door. He said calmly: "You can say whatever you want, but only in front of my eyes."
But Lin Yue suddenly stepped forward, stared at Taoist Tu, and said solemnly: "Taoist Tu, I treat you well, don't I?"
"What?" Tu Daochang's eyes moved slightly, as if he noticed something.
Lin Yue took a deep breath and said, "Why didn't you save Ziqiu in the first place? You knew I wanted to marry Ziqiu, why did you lie to me and say that you couldn't cure the heat poison? Just because she didn't respect you very much. , are you just going to die without saving her? Do you know how painful her life has been in the past two months? "
His questioning grew louder and more agitated.
Taoist Master Tu looked at him in astonishment. After being silent for a long time, he sighed: "You know everything?"
He glanced at Baili Fengzhi again, frowned and said, "Commander Baili, I just asked you to bring Lin Yue to see me, and I didn't ask you to tell him this, right?"
Baili Fengzhi stood quietly aside, her eyes under the silver mask were calm, and she just said: "I am also a little curious."
Taoist Tu looked at Lin Yue and said slowly: "Yes, I have selfish motives, but it's not because that girl is disrespectful to me, but because I think she is not suitable for you. You are too naive, but she is too scheming." , can’t you see that she went out of her way to bring you food just because you could go to the Taoist Temple?”
He said with a cold voice: "Even that Xia Lie can tell that she is this kind of woman, but you can't see it?"
He saw it.
I saw Lin Yue acting.
because……
He once personally rescued Su Ziqiu. He tried his best to save Su Ziqiu, but he was unable to save her.
On that day, Su Ziqiu died.
