? ? ) put aside Zhang Jiuping, who had launched a sneak attack without any warning. A Taoist priest had already run to report to the leader, but he ignored him in the middle of the night and went to see the lifeless Taoist priest Li Ji of Plum Blossom Temple.
I also privately asked Yue Qingfeng for some tips on how to determine the time of death from the corpse. When I lifted the white cloth, I found that it was still the same as the previous two people. After the shock, the face looked slightly ferocious, the eyeballs showed slight turbidity, and the exposed skin There were also slight corpse spots on his body, which could not be dissipated after being pressed. The wound on his neck was covered with blood, and he had obviously been dead for a long time.
Shi Gandang, who came over as if to join in the fun, groped Li Ji for a while and pinched Li Ji from top to bottom.
Logically speaking, Taoism teaches that the dead are the most important, but in the middle of the night, I really couldn't figure out what this person wanted to do. Obviously, it was only inferred that the time of death of the deceased was almost last night. As for any other clues, Night Watch knew that he could not see them.
Shi Gandang, on the other hand, asked the Taoist priest next to him where he first found the body, and followed the direction pointed to to check again.
Ye San would definitely not have too much hope for this young Taoist priest who was somewhat clever and cautious. From Ye San Geng's point of view, he didn't know if he had some hidden agenda in his behavior.
Shi Gandang, who was trotting over, realized that Ye Sangeng hadn't followed him, so he turned back and waved to him, as if the host was showing the guests around, leaving the latter speechless.
The place where the body was found was only three feet away. Ye San remembered more clearly that this was the big tree he was leaning on that night. With this as the center of the circle, it seemed a bit exaggerated to say that a distance of ten feet within the semicircle was flattened, but All these towering ancient trees were broken, which was absolutely devastating.
The scene in front of me was shocking to see. Shi Gandang walked around the tree, glaring his eyes and investigating carefully. He really looked like a government official investigating a case.
In the middle of the night, he was too lazy to go over and interfere with the young Taoist priest, and asked the Taoist priest next to him about the discovery of the body.
Because that night, a shocking sword strike in the middle of the night destroyed the place like this, which led Zhang Jiue and his group to return in search of Zhang Jiuding. Although they did not know the ins and outs of the matter at the time, Zhang Jiue still had to arrange for some of his disciples to come forward. The one who came to clean up was Taoist Zhang Jiuping.
After finishing the daily morning recitation this morning, Zhang Jiuping selected a Taoist priest to come as usual. He saw Li Ji, the Taoist priest of Plum Blossom Temple, sitting under the tree. He still died in the same way as the previous two deceased people, with a line on his neck. The blood from the superficial wounds as thin as paper has dried up.
There are no useful clues at all. Just like the previous two murders, the murderer is indeed a master in his killing methods.
Shi Gandang was waving wildly,
"Third Young Master, Third Young Master, come here quickly, I have discovered something." He already had no patience for this young Taoist priest from the Taishan Sect. He ignored him for three nights and was about to go back, when he heard Shi Gandang urging him again,
"But you will regret it if you come here. Maybe this is the key to catching the murderer." Such a confident expression made Ye San Geng somewhat curious. Being curious is the same as speaking, which makes people unclear. What can a wandering young Taoist priest discover?
I saw Shi Gandang sticking his butt out, holding on to the tree with both hands, his face almost pressed against the bark of the tree. He didn't even have to get up and turn his head. He could still hear Shi Gandang coming in the middle of the night. He said, "Look, there's a guy here with Li Jidao." It's like a wound." I have to say that Shi Gan had good eyesight. Traces similar to the wounds of the deceased appeared on the tree, mixed with the pitted bark, and it would be difficult to find it unless he had amazing eyesight.
There is a trace on the left and right of the tree, and the directions are almost the same. If the body has not been moved, with such traces, the answer is ready to come out.
Shi Gandang made way for Ye Sangen and guessed: "Strangled to death." He slightly changed his mind about the young Taoist priest. Ye Sangen joked: "At least now I can be sure that he was not killed by a fox." Attracting the other party. A chuckle,
"It's also certain that he wasn't killed by sword energy." In response to his teasing, Ye Sangen rolled his eyes, and the change in his attitude just now was gone.
This person can't give him a good look. After getting close to the bark of the tree, there was a faint smell that definitely didn't belong to this poplar tree that had lived for more than a few years. Ye Sangen frowned and came closer again, his nose almost touching, but this smell was somewhat familiar to him. He couldn't remember it vaguely.
"Have you ever smelled this?" Ye Sangen asked. Shi Gandang sniffed it closely and pondered: "Isn't this the smell of the incense burned in our Taoist temple?" Ye Sangen frowned, trying to catch the hint of inspiration, but couldn't figure it out. He frowned and fell into deep thought.
News that another murder occurred here spread in the mountains. Taoist priests from various sects came one after another and began to pray for the deceased on their own initiative. The vague scriptures were babbling, which made Ye San even more upset. .
He gently picked off a piece of bark and put it in his arms. He called to go up a mountain at midnight and was about to return. Zhang Jiuping slowly woke up.
As for the Wudang elder who suddenly attacked, it was obvious that his words and deeds just before he fell into coma showed that he was controlled by someone. As the Taoists came one after another, in the middle of the night, he suddenly saw a female crowned Taoist nun in an apricot-yellow Taoist robe among the crowd.
Although the colors of the robes in Taoist sects are various, for big sects such as Wudang Dragon and Tiger, they are all of the same origin. The inner sect's grades are divided from high to low according to the four colors of red, purple, blue and gray, while the outer sect's disciples use the most common navy to match the inner sect. door difference.
Those who are declining day by day or have established the religion for a short period of time, or the main points of the sect are obscure, have few disciples, so there are not so many restrictions on clothing regulations.
For example, the Five Pecks of Rice, which was at its peak a thousand years ago and was enshrined as the state religion by the previous dynasty, is now so thin that it has only a handful of people. For example, the Xiangxi sect and the Kanxiang sect are not only established for a short period of time, but also because of the practices of their sects that are difficult to accept. Therefore, the number of people in the church at its peak was less than twenty.
This group of people either wear the same clothes as ordinary people, perhaps because they have low self-esteem and do not want to attract attention, or they wear eye-catching colors to attract attention in the crowd, just to let more people know their existence. .
For example, Xiangxi School. This Taoist sect, which lives deep in the mountains, has a deep knowledge of talismans. It is said that in those days, the real Taoist monks could draw thunder from the sky with a snap of their fingers, and in the blink of an eye, they could complete a ninth-level talisman, and command ghosts and gods to move the clouds and cause rain.
It's just that in the following years of the Xiangxi Sect, it is impossible to verify which real person is the leader, but he actually started to engage in the shady business of exorcising ghosts and warding off evil spirits, using talismans to do business and earn money from the world.
Then it gradually developed. A hundred years ago, during the troubled times, the leader of this sect discovered by chance that carrying corpses on the battlefield could get subsidies from the court. Without saying a word, he led his disciples to and from the battlefield where danger and opportunity coexisted. The bodies of the soldiers who died in battle were sent back to their hometowns for burial.
As time went by, by chance, the headmaster also had a lot of experience in the talismans. By some mistake, he actually drew a talisman that could make the dead move. Here, the corpse exorcism, which was criticized by the world, came into being. .
Although they flaunt the idea of "fallen leaves returning to their roots" which is acceptable to ordinary people, their actions not only make their peers in the world despise them, but even ordinary people are a little afraid of what this sect does.
However, the Xiangxi sect, which is not ashamed but proud, has been passed down from generation to generation to this day, and has begun to claim that the Taoist sect is orthodox, just because of the unique attainments of the talismans in the sect.
Although other sects say they are not happy, they never deviate from their sect. The methods used by the Xiangxi sect are generally the same as those taught by Taoism, so they can only silently accept their Taoist identity.
The Xiangxi school wears an extremely unusual apricot yellow. He was also quite self-aware and did not dare to wear yellow, which had been banned by all dynasties, so he began to make clever names. He added red to the yellow, which could only be worn by the leaders of the great sects who had been granted the title by the imperial court, and evolved into apricot yellow to show his talent. Maverick.
Putting aside the wonderful Taoist master in Ye Sifu, most of the people in this group are wearing light-colored Taoist robes such as blue and gray. The only two groups wearing white are not in them at this time, and the most eye-catching one is that one An apricot-yellow Taoist nun from Western Hunan.
In view of this sect's mysterious method of exorcising corpses, Ye San even had some doubts. If they could kill the Taoist priests of the three sects in this way, it was because they used their heaven-defying talismans to control people's minds and then kill them.
Even dead people can control it, let alone living people?
"Taoist Master Shi, I want to ask you something." This was the first time that Ye Sangeng took the initiative to talk to Shi Gandang, which made the young Taoist priest who had already seen that Ye Sangeng was impatient with him feel visibly happy.
"Third Young Master, you tell me everything you know." The frivolity in speaking and doing things always makes Ye Sangeng feel a little disgusted, but this Taoist priest from Mount Tai, the head of the Five Mountains, can give something at the critical moment, which is considered crucial. information, not to mention harming or deceiving people, he can be considered a good person.
So in the middle of the night, he asked this good man: "What do you know about the Xiangxi Sect?" A meaning that all men understand suddenly burst out in those eyes that never showed much sparkle, and Shi Gandang seemed to be drooling. come down,
"Third Young Master, do you have a crush on that Taoist nun?" Sure enough, you can't give him any color, otherwise you really dare to open a big dyeing workshop.
Seeing that his eyes were wrong in the middle of the night, Shi Gandang hurriedly put away his frivolous attitude, but his serious look was even more vulgar. He said: "The Xiangxi Sect has a bad reputation, so in recent decades, it has lived in seclusion in Shiwanda Mountain, and it has become like this. A secluded sect like the Mingdaofeng."
"Can you not mention the burial knife tomb?" Ye San asked impatiently. Comparing this kind of sect that does yin and yang weird things with the sect of my mother's family, although I don't mean to be dismissive, it is still a bit uncomfortable to watch in the middle of the night.
Shi Gandang was frightened and frightened.
"Third Young Master, don't be angry. It's just a poor talker." He was not used to the other party's behavior, and Ye San didn't even bother to talk to him.
Shi Gandang continued: "The Xiangxi Sect is just trying to imitate others. What kind of status do they have, and they dare to learn how to use the knife tomb? Not to mention the Xiangxi Sect, even if our Taoist sect pursues it together for 800 years, it will not be as good as the sect Wan Yi from the Third Young Master's family. ." Now I really want to slap him in the middle of the night.
Not wanting to deal with this young Taoist priest who kept saying he was going to do a lot of work for the Ye family, he said hello at midnight and left.
"Hey, hey, hey." Shi Gandang hurriedly followed,
"Third Young Master, what do you want to know? The Xiangxi sect has been established for three hundred years and specializes in exorcising ghosts and corpses. Although it now lives in seclusion in Shiwanda Mountain, it will occasionally go out to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits for people, or to provide services to some ethnic minorities. They carry corpses and drive them away to earn daily expenses. The alchemy they pass down from generation to generation is a secret that is not passed down. Pindao definitely doesn't know this. If you are curious about how they drive away corpses, you can only ask them yourself. "In the middle of the night, he looked at the Taoist priest who was thinking casually, and the latter shut up in time.
"Don't pretend to be confused because you understand. You should understand what I want to ask." Shi Gandang said in surprise: "Third Young Master, are you really attracted to this Taoist nun?" The voice was loud, let alone the crowd. Taoist priests and even Wudang elder Zhang Jiuping, who was knocked unconscious by Yishan's punch, slowly woke up at this moment.
Ye Sangen frowned.
"Yishan, hurry, hurry, hammer him to death."
