Hearing this, the little boy quickly welcomed Zhao Shun and others in and said, "The person staying at the city lord's mansion today is Sun Shouti, a righteous man from this city. I will call him out to meet the monks."
Zhao Chun waved his hand to reveal a corpse, and said in a cold voice: "No need, and the directors in the city have been summoned. If they can return, they should return to the city lord's palace immediately."
Sun Shouti was the name of Sun Erlang who died at her hands.
The person I had only seen during the day appeared in front of me with my head and body separated at night. The child was just an ordinary mortal with a weak mind. He immediately screamed and ran into the house to take the communication talisman left by the mortal masters. paper to find out.
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Yu Zhenming, as one of the more than thirty mortal masters, has not rested for a long time since the chaos began a few months ago. He has been in Taoism for decades, and his strength is undoubtedly among the top three among everyone, and he also has a heavy responsibility.
Today is his turn to patrol the entire eastern part of Dogtooth Cape. Originally, he needed to patrol until sunrise. Because a few days ago, Sun Erlang in the city broke through to the first level of human determination and took the initiative to patrol the town at night. That's why he is called now. It’s much easier just to do the patrol in the first half of the night.
While he was looking around intently, searching for traces of evil cultivators, a message suddenly came from the City Lord's Mansion, saying that Sun Shouti was actually killed by a disciple of the Zhaoyan Immortal Sect, and his body was even delivered to the City Lord's Mansion!
How can this happen?
Yu Zhenming hurriedly turned back and rushed to the city lord's mansion. As soon as he entered the mansion, he saw Sun Shoudi's body spread out in the courtyard, with a pair of tiger eyes wide open, and he died extremely unwillingly. Everything on his upper body has been torn open, and there are red lines on his heart, which is very different from mortal masters like himself.
Seeing this, Yu Zhenming had a doubt in his heart.
Entering the room, the boy in the corner had a pale face and was shaking like chaff. There was a man and a woman sitting on one side of the room. Judging from their demeanor and behavior, they should be a couple. There was no aura around them, so they were just mortals.
In the middle stood a tall female cultivator with her hands behind her hands. When she saw him coming in, she turned around and said, "But the city lord Yu Zhenming?"
"Exactly, the monk is a disciple of the Zhaoyan Immortal Sect?" He is very young. I heard that once the spiritual root monks build the foundation, their faces will stop aging, unlike him and other mortal masters, who only delay aging and still have facial expressions. There are signs of weathering.
Zhao Chun cupped his hands and said: "I am Zhao Chun, I can match you as a Taoist friend." The first level of human concentration is the same as that of a foundation-building monk. This makes Yu Zhenming's body calm and spiritual, which is about the same as the middle and late stages of foundation-building. They talk to each other with Taoism. This is exactly what you should call a friend.
Thinking that the disasters had continued for several months and were getting worse in recent days, Yu Zhenming would not be polite to Zhao Chun here, so he wasted time: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, I wonder who this Sun Shouti is?"
"This man used human blood to purify his body. Today he attacked four of the Zhang family's children and they were killed by me." Zhao Chun went straight to the point, pointing to Zhang Yongcai and his wife sitting on one side, "This is a witness."
Zhang Yongcai and his wife nodded repeatedly, confirming that Zhao Chun's words were correct.
Zhao Shun then led Yu Zhenming to the body of Sun Shouti and pointed to his heart: "This is physical evidence."
"What is this?" As soon as Yu Zhenming asked, Zhao Shun told him in detail the origin of the red lines on Sun Shouti's heart. He was a mortal master who used the method of animal blood to purify his body. After thinking about it, he immediately understood The key point is that he said angrily: "Okay, no wonder I took the initiative to ask for orders to come to patrol the town. I was waiting here. I'm so angry!"
As a righteous man, he knew the patrol routes, which made it easier to rob people. The benefits of human blood purifying the body made him taste the sweetness, so he started to intensify his efforts.
"Friend Daoist Yu, I'm afraid I need to investigate carefully to see if there are others like him among the righteous men."
"There's something else..." Zhao Chun thought carefully. Sun Shouti took the initiative to become a righteous man in order to rob the people. However, after becoming a righteous man, the risk of exposure also increased greatly. Since he could steal things without anyone noticing before he became a righteous man. Taking away human blood, why bother now?
Zhao Shun suddenly became nervous and said:
"Sun Shouti didn't do it alone! Someone may have helped him. After he did it, let him get the patrol routes for surrounding towns!"
Yu Zhenming clenched his fists and asked in surprise: "He has a relationship with an evil cultivator?"
Zhao Shun did not dare to be convinced of this idea, because Jiao Shicong was very cautious in his actions. Looking at his previous evil experience, he had never acted so openly as he did now.
The news said that after the ground clock rang through the sky that day, the situation gradually calmed down, and then the entire household began to disappear. She even felt that the latter type of disaster was not caused by Jiao Shicong at all!
A person like him who hides in hiding has no choice but to do two things after hearing the sound of the underground bell. One is to flee immediately, and the other is to stop immediately and wait until the sound of the wind has completely passed before he starts to slowly test. He was like this in Minping Town, Langzhou. With his profound concealment skills, he could repeatedly cause chaos in one place.
If Jiao Shicong had already left, Zhao Shun was afraid that he would fail and return this time. If he still stayed here and waited for the opportunity, the current situation of intensifying chaos might make him give up the Fangjiao.
"The matter of Sun Shouti can only be investigated by the righteous people in the city, and they must do it quickly! In addition, Taoist disciple Wang Yu ordered the city to keep a strict tone and not to reveal that any disciples of Zhaoyan are here, so as not to arouse the enemy."
Zhao Chun already had an idea. I'm afraid Sun Shouti and Jiao Shicong were not the same people. This matter should be investigated by Zhen Ming and solved quickly. "After the investigation is completed, it will be revealed that the evil cultivator's troubles have been solved." Use the sound of wind as bait to lure the snake out of its hole, and I will personally kill this evil spirit!"
Treating falsehood as true is so that Jiao Shicong can gradually let go of his guard.
Yu Zhenming knew what she meant, and immediately summoned the righteous men to gather at the city lord's palace, intending to vigorously investigate Sun Shouti's use of human blood to purify his body, saying that he and the people behind him might be the real culprits of the chaos that had occurred in the past few months.
This investigation involved a wide range of things. First, through the people of the Sun family, they got to know the water bandits in the Dog Tooth Cape and the Qingpeng Islands. What happened next made Zhen Ming and the other righteous men feel angry in their hearts. They were glad that they were investigated in time.
There have been trade exchanges between Canine Tooth Cape and Qingpeng Islands for a long time. With the presence of ships and caravans, water bandits naturally formed to plunder goods.
The matter of purifying the body with human blood was originally a sorcery discovered among the water bandits. Sun Shouti had also been involved in water banditry when he was young, and he knew this. Later, when his water bandit fleet fought with another fleet, After being destroyed, he fled back home.
He had just tasted the taste of human blood purifying the body, but he was not willing to change it to the extremely painful demon blood that tempered the body, so he got in touch with the water bandits again.
It happened that the evil cultivator was in chaos, and soon after it subsided, the leader of the water bandits came up with the idea. Taking advantage of the power of the evil cultivator, Sun Shouti first practiced the art of purifying the body with human blood in the city, and then became a righteous man, stealing patrol routes, and making it easier for the water bandits. chaos.
At the same time, he secretly encouraged the mortals in the city and talked about the benefits of human blood to purify the body, confusing people's hearts. By the time Zhen Ming checked the towns, nearly a hundred people in the city had tried this method. If it was not stopped, more than ten towns would be destroyed. It may be increasingly disintegrated from within by water bandits!
