For a moment, Wang Zijia relaxed a little after making sure that there was nothing unusual about Tang Keli in front of him. Said: "Tell me about this incident."
"Your Highness, the Ninth Highness, the matter should have started a few months ago..." Tang Keli recounted.
Wang Zijia frowned and interrupted: "A few months ago, you mean? Didn't the report say it was more than forty days? How can such a thing be shortened?"
"Your Majesty Ninth Prince, you have misunderstood!" Tang Keli immediately replied seriously:
"The official incident did begin forty-five days ago, but according to the investigation by my subordinates, before that, there were disciples of the Ming family who disappeared, but it was not serious at the time. At first, there were three or five, and then more than ten... ···”
"For a large family like the Ming family with a population of hundreds of thousands, it is normal for a few people to disappear every day. Some things are not related, and my subordinates do not dare to report some speculations when reporting."
As Tang Keli explained, things gradually became clearer. It was much more detailed than what was seen in the information, including many details.
"So although the Ming family didn't disappear overnight, they didn't disappear in one place or another?" Wang Zijia asked with a frown.
"Yes, except for the uncertain ones in the early stage, it was roughly divided into three major waves and carried out at three different periods. At first, there were only a thousand people, mostly young people from the clan." Tang Keli said respectfully:
"The second wave included tens of thousands of people, including many sacrificial wines. The last wave included hundreds of thousands of people. The blue sky and white sun collapsed before the eyes of countless people and disappeared without a trace."
"It's interesting. They come in batches from the weak to the strong. This is not like a simple bloodline spell to curse people." Wang Zijia said to himself.
"My subordinates think so too." Tang Keli hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's quite similar to the Demon Sect's method of raising livestock."
Wang Zijia nodded in agreement, but did not discuss the issue. He asked many more details, and finally said:
"Okay, what should you do? Don't leak the news about my arrival. If you scare this thing away, I will blame you!"
"I understand!" Tang Keli bowed again and replied respectfully.
However, he didn't wait for a response for a while, and the room fell silent.
When he looked up, he discovered that His Highness the Ninth Prince, the Peerless Sword Immortal, had disappeared without a trace.
'This Ninth Prince is really becoming more and more mysterious! But it hasn’t been long since we heard about his fate? '
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After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Wang Zijia did not stop there.
The various incidents were investigated and relevant personnel were questioned. Even Wang Zijia quietly questioned the people who had participated in the investigation before.
However, there are really no clues at all.
Wang Zijia tried his best to investigate for several days, but he had no clue. It was like a dog biting a turtle, with nowhere to start.
It seems that the Ming family simply disappeared.
This made Wang Zijia, who was investigating the matter, even more cautious.
After confirming that he could not find a clue, Wang Zijia decisively changed directions.
A large-scale investigation and screening of distant relatives related to the Ming family bloodline began, and spiritual thoughts began to be left on those closest to the bloodline.
The main reason is that without the blessing of the power of Dao Fruit, the Demon Seed is just a very powerful control spell that cannot be monitored 24 hours a day, and it is not even inevitable.
After wandering around for more than half a month, Wang Zijia thought of all the ways he could think of.
In the end, I really couldn't find a clue, so I could only choose to wait and see.
While going on various outings with the two children, we walked around and arranged some things while waiting for the possibility of harvesting the fourth wave of life.
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On this day, Wang Zijia was taking his two children to carve formation symbols on the cliffs around Blackpool Valley.
For no reason, Wang Zijia felt a palpitation in his heart.
The spiritual sense is almost fried, and the power of calculation automatically triggers an early warning.
In a daze, Wang Zijia saw endless blood, filling the entire Black Pool Valley, and the blood was so rich that it could not be dissolved, filling his breath!
No, not just Blackpool Valley City, but also the large plain behind it.
The surprised Wang Zijia immediately patted the two babies.
"Snapped!"
The two babies were skillfully turned into two drawing paper pages by Wang Zijia and put away.
"call!"
"breathe!"
The next moment, Wang Zijia's whole body was covered with hair, and the hairs stood on end.
The force field that enveloped the entire Blackpool Valley City seemed to be nurturing something, as if a strange creature suddenly came to life.
It was like standing on the Nine Heavens and sucking gently at Blackpool Valley City.
"Where is the evil way!"
"ah·······"
"Damn it!"
"How brave!"
"······"
The next moment, various angry denunciations erupted in the city, but each voice was full of surprise and uncertainty, and some were still vibrating, showing the panic in their hearts.
I saw that in the entire Blackpool Valley City, nearly half of the remaining hundreds of thousands of people disappeared in an instant.
Regardless of their cultivation level, they all showed no signs or resistance, and disappeared without even the slightest reaction.
Moreover, this time, it was not just the people related to the Ming family who disappeared, some people had almost no blood connection, at least not for several generations.
Wang Zijia was also surprised, but ignored the situation in the city that had exploded again in the valley.
At this moment, he used the spiritual thoughts placed on more than ten thousand people as a lead, combined with the two powers of cause and effect, and time and space, and a weak but clear clue was finally picked out by Wang Zijia.
The golden thread of cause and effect is very weak, as if it will disappear in the next moment, but it stretches firmly into the distance.
Wang Zijia did not dare to delay and followed the direction of the pulling.
"Huh? How brave, are you really in the city?"
His eyes were slightly cold, and during the fluctuations of mana, strange fluctuations hidden in time and space covered his whole body. Wang Zijia seemed to have escaped into a different space and disappeared into the current space.
Immediately, Wang Zijia took a step forward, floated down the cliff, and rushed towards the city.
"This direction is... Blackpool Lake?"
Based on the weak induction, Wang Zijia quickly approached.
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Blackpool Valley City is built on the lake, so many buildings in the east area are lake view rooms.
However, it is completely different from the high-rise buildings and numerous buildings in the previous life. There are only a dozen courtyards on the edge of Blackpool Lake. Each one covers a large area, has different styles, and the decoration is very high-end.
Although there are not many of them, they occupy most of the best locations in the entire Blackpool Valley.
It is the most high-end 'property' in the entire Blackpool Valley City!
Wang Zijia has been searching here a lot these days, and even paid close attention to it. He dug almost three feet into the ground, but found nothing unusual.
However, at this moment, Wang Zijia clearly felt a weak pulling force pointing to an empty yard closest to the lake.
"Underground? You also like to build cellars?"
After Wang Zijia arrived here, he almost locked the target. However, even so, he still did not sense any underground palace under the courtyard.
Without any hesitation, he quickly dived into the ground.
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At this moment, there are dozens of feet underground.
An empty hemispherical space is shrouded in a special spatial position.
Looking down from the hemispherical dome, an extremely complex huge altar filled the entire open square.
The blood-red runes were densely covered, and they were flashing with a strange spiritual light and beating slightly.
It seems that there is a person trapped in every bloody rune, and he is currently suffering the ultimate torture of soul refining and marrow sucking!
As the runes flashed, the aura of the array surged. There is a steady stream of power, gathering towards the center of the huge circular formation.
After gathering and refining again and again along the way, they finally converged at the center.
The entire formation altar looks as if a blood-colored demonic dragon is hovering in it. While breathing gently, endless power gathers at the core of the formation altar's head.
The entire space is filled with blood and energy, evil spirits are growing, and strong winds are raging around the center. At first glance, it is the scene of evil evil practices.
In the center where these visions gathered, there was a three-legged square tripod made entirely of blood-colored runes. Beside it was a young man sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.
Under the blood-red light, the originally pretty young man Mingcheng felt full of evil charm.
Under his auspices, countless blood energy gathered in the three-legged cauldron composed entirely of blood-colored runes.
A blood-glazed pill the size of a dragon's eye is slowly forming. As it spins, the smell of blood fills the air.
However, it doesn't smell bad. On the contrary, the entire pill exudes a fragrant fragrance that is so rich that it goes deep into the bones.
The fragrance of Dan alone can make many people intoxicated, and even go crazy to get it.
It was a desire originating from the instinct of life, the most primitive desire to devour, which was inspired by the fragrance of this elixir.
The young man had closed his eyes and was hovering next to the three-legged cauldron, constantly making secrets, and while his mana fluctuated, he was concentrating on refining the elixir.
"Um?"
The next moment, he suddenly woke up and seemed to notice something.
However, before he could react, a stream of light flashed behind him.
"brush!"
The bloody sword light flashed across like lightning, and he was beheaded with one sword strike.
Not only that, but four dark red swords rolled quickly, crushing his body into pieces.
However, neither the head that was shot high nor the smashed body shed any blood.
"Click...!"
With a dense crackling sound.
The corpse body that Wang Zijia stirred up shattered like a ceramic brittle shell.
It obviously triggered the young man's life-saving measures.
With weak spatial fluctuations, young Mingcheng's body suddenly appeared from the side, looking at Wang Zijia with surprise and uncertainty.
"Who are you? Well, this feels like...it's you!"
Before the young man Mingcheng could continue to speak, Wang Zijia disappeared again.
Young Mingcheng had no time to do anything as his body was penetrated by the disappearing Wang Zijia again.
His body was twisted again. Different from the last time when it was like shedding its shell, this time its body quickly collapsed and in the blink of an eye it turned into a rat half as tall as a man.
(End of chapter)
