The moon and stars are sparse.
Zhou Yi fell into the courtyard, and his face changed from an old man to a middle-aged one.
This is how he looks in Tianlao on weekdays. With the magic power combined with the disguise technique and bone shrinking technique, even people close to him cannot recognize him.
"The Li family matter is finally over."
After three secret attacks, Zhou Yi's existence has attracted people's attention. Tonight's old monster is only a hair away from being innate.
"Innate Grandmasters are rarer than expected. Maybe I am the only one in Fengyang Kingdom? Li Wu is in Fengyang and Yong, and there is no one who can match him except Cangtian King, who also practices the Heaven Swallowing Demon Technique!"
After practicing for twenty-six years, I suddenly became invincible in the ordinary world!
Zhou Yi reminded himself that this is the world of immortals and demons.
Xiantian has just stepped into the world of immortality, and he doesn't know magic and has no weapons. Any monk who comes here is no match.
"According to the logic of human nature, those casual cultivators who have not done well know that they have no hope. Instead of being humble like minions in the world of immortality, it is better to become kings and hegemons in the secular world."
"It is rumored that the Taizu of Fengyang Kingdom has the power of ghosts and gods. Maybe he is a lonely cultivator?"
"Or maybe the mortal world is controlled by the world of immortality, and dynasties change just according to the will of the immortals!"
Zhou Yi restrained his complacency, and with the help of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Technique and the prisoners in the prison, he stepped into Xiantian through clever means. He had a little power to protect himself, but he must not act recklessly.
"Be careful in your words and deeds, and practice with concentration!"
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The next day.
The snow finally stopped.
Today is New Year's Eve, and the shops on the streets have posted Spring Festival couplets and hung red lanterns, creating a strong New Year atmosphere.
There was no news of the attack on the Zhenguo Palace last night, as if the two to three hundred people who died did not exist in the world.
What the people know is only what the court wants you to know!
For example, the common people only know that Li Wu died in a prison, but how many court struggles he fought before being imprisoned is not something ordinary people can know.
Seeing the decline of the Li family, some things began to spread. They were mostly officials chatting and the servants waiting nearby listened and bragged with relatives and friends.
One spreads to ten, and ten spreads to a hundred.
Why did Prime Minister Zhang show weakness on the surface, but actually asked the Duke of Zhen for advice, but actually made Li Wu hate His Majesty.
In order to fight for military power, the nobles of the country fought with Li Wu, an officer from the bottom, who had risen from the bottom.
Or maybe a direct descendant of Li Wu's army joined a certain prime minister in order to get promoted and make a fortune...
The news is false and true, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
In just one year, the popularity of Li Wu Temple has greatly diminished, and in another ten or eight years, only weeds will be left for company.
"Nothing in the world can be erased by time, except me!"
Zhou Yi went to Tianlao and carried a bucket to deliver food.
Zhang Yun, the jailer in charge of delivering meals, went home today to celebrate the New Year.
Tianlao is different from other yamen. During the New Year, the jailers can only take turns to take a bath. The only exception is Zhouyi, who goes to Dianmao every day as usual.
Being alone at home is not as lively as in prison.
Zhou Yi is not without relatives. His former ancestral home is in Kaoshan Village, Ningshan County. There are still hundreds of clan members, and cousins with closer blood are still alive.
At that time, Zhou Yi was born with deficiencies and looked like he was not very young.
The elder of the Zhou family suggested to Zhou's father that he should choose a child from the clan to adopt him, so that after Zhou Yi died, there would be no one to inherit the position of jailer and the Shenjing mansion.
Father Zhou was on duty in Tianlao and had seen many scandalous things. How could he not guess the thoughts of his clan members?
Don't say that Zhou Yi was not dead at that time. Once he agreed to the adoption, Zhou's father would not miss the holidays in the future, and the clan members would also find ways to make Zhou Yi die young.
After several back and forths, Mr. Zong still refused to give up, so Zhou’s father simply broke off the relationship completely!
After Zhou's father died of illness, Zhou Yi inherited the post of jailer. The Zhou family members occasionally came to the capital to watch, waiting for his death.
Waiting and waiting, Zhou Yi boiled several uncles to death, and several cousins also grew old.
This relative is completely broken off!
"Lao Zhou, you came just in time, please do me a favor."
Lieutenant Zhu greeted him, came over and whispered: "Today there is a prisoner in the prison. I need to use your method of torturing gangsters to punish this guy!"
Zhou Yi asked: "What happened?"
"What else can an official do but make money?"
Lieutenant Zhu said: "But this one is particularly good at making money. He is nicknamed Tian Gao San Chi. He drained the Luyang Mansion dry during his three years in office. It is said that he plundered tens of millions of taels of silver."
The annual tax revenue of Fengyang Kingdom is only tens of millions of taels.
Zhou Yi wondered: "The civil servants can't survive several rounds of torture, so why do they let me take action?"
In recent years, there have been occasional unruly criminals in the world, so Lieutenant Zhu asked Zhou Yi to punish them. This is where the name of the old devil from Blood Prison comes from.
Lieutenant Zhu explained: "The imperial court has arrested someone, but they haven't found where the money is hidden. This guy has a very tough mouth, and he can't be punished, lest he accidentally dies."
"You don't care about the lives of his family?"
Zhou Yi had been in Tianlao for so many years. Occasionally, some officials could withstand the severe punishment. However, when their parents, wives and children were dragged to torture them, few could remain indifferent.
The system of continuous sitting is naturally cruel, but Zhou Yi quite agrees with it.
This era emphasized the unity of the clan. If the clan members enjoyed the benefits of corrupt officials, they should also bear the punishment.
"This guy's family was originally a farmer. There was a famine in the early years and the whole village starved to death. His parents and relatives have long been gone."
Lieutenant Zhu explained: "I may have a wife and children, but they are just like silver, I don't know where they are hidden."
"Have you been preparing to be arrested and imprisoned for a long time?"
Zhou Yi became curious and took the bucket to Prison No. 7.
The prisoner was lying on the straw mat, his back was covered with criss-crossed blood marks, and the blood from his buttocks stained his clothes. He slowly raised his head when he heard the sound.
The face with the Chinese character Sifang is quite upright.
Zhou Yi opened the cell door and squatted in front of the prisoner, saying: "A white man can be promoted to a third-level official, and he is expected to be in the center in the future. Why should he be a corrupt official?"
The prisoner remained silent and lay back down.
"The court recovered tens of millions of taels of silver, and eleven of them fell on the common people. This can be regarded as your forgiveness."
Zhou Yi flicked his finger, and the magic power turned into a needle tip and penetrated into the prisoner's body.
Following the blood flowing around the body, the sharp breath streaked through the meridians, and the pain from the inside out was even more unbearable than Lingchi's execution.
Besides, Ling Chi will always end. This ray of magic can only pierce through, and the torture will never end.
Those gangsters are not afraid of death or torture, but they can't stand a needle being stabbed back and forth in their bodies.
"ah!"
The prisoner cried out in pain, his body shook like chaff, and his eyes were bloodshot and red.
Zhou Yi hit several acupuncture points on the prisoner to prevent him from fainting from the pain and he must be aware of the punishment.
After a long time.
"Where is the silver?"
Zhou Yi waved his hand to disperse the magic power and said slowly: "Perhaps you can challenge the limit of endurance. The first one is a vicious person in the marrow cleansing realm, known as the human devil, and he only took two days to recruit."
"Ho ho ho..."
The prisoner gasped for breath for a moment: "The money is in the Lu family, let the court get it!"
"Jiangnan Lu family?"
Zhou Yi frowned slightly. Among the many aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River, eight surnames had the longest history and could be traced back to the previous dynasty or even the previous dynasty.
There is no thousand-year-old dynasty in the world, but there are thousand-year-old families!
Among them, the Lu family ranks among the top three.
"What, are you scared?"
Resentment flashed in the prisoner's eyes, and he said in a hateful voice.
"I was also afraid, so I had no choice but to become a corrupt official!"
