In the northeast corner of Zhongdu City, most of the people living in this area are businessmen.
The status of merchants in Daxia is not high, so no matter how luxurious the merchants build their homes, they dare not exceed the standards of the doors and interiors.
On a dark and windy night, in a courtyard, a monk on the third level of Qi Refining was writing something.
Behind him, a black shadow appeared.
At such a close distance, the monk at the third level of Qi Refining didn't feel anything at all. The black shadow stretched out his arms and hugged the monk.
Early the next morning, Gu Jia arrived at the scene of the crime.
He agreed to allow the casual cultivators to enter Zhongdu City. These casual cultivators abided by their agreement and did not cause any trouble in the city.
The casual cultivators were all concentrated in this area in the northeast corner of the city, and the royal family came forward to allow merchants to admit the cultivators.
There was no problem with this decision, but everything changed when August came.
People were killed one after another. They were just mortals before, but this time it was casual cultivators who were killed.
Along with Gu Jia came Patriarch Liu, and Dali Temple was sealed off.
"What a heavy cold air!" Gu Jia frowned as soon as he arrived outside the door where the crime occurred.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, was it done by an evil cultivator?" Patriarch Liu asked with an ugly expression.
"It's corpse refining. I can't be sure if it's an evil cultivator, but the method is too sinister and it's definitely not a good method!" Gu Jia said with a frown after entering the door and seeing the casual cultivator lying on the ground.
Almost every sect has the method of refining corpses. It cannot be said that refining corpses is evil.
But the refining of corpses that absorbs the essence and blood of monks is beyond the tolerance of most sects.
The casual cultivator on the ground had all the blood drained from his body, leaving only his empty skin on the ground, which looked extremely strange.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, this is a provocation to Tianhai Sect. Please make the decision for us, Daoist Gu!" Patriarch Liu bowed and said.
Gu Jia nodded, this matter happened in Zhongdu City anyway.
Although the entire Great Xia is within the Tianhai Sect's sphere of influence, as long as the monks don't cause trouble in the city, the Tianhai Sect doesn't bother to care.
But this time it was different, not only in the city, but also in the Zhongdu City where Tianhaizong monks were stationed. Before, it was a mortal, but now it was a monk who was killed.
"Wait until I find this monk!" Gu Jia said in a deep voice.
He took out an 'Intermediate Tracking Talisman' from his storage bag, activated the talisman with his spiritual power, and the talisman turned into a ray of light, locking the cold air according to his will.
The 'Intermediate Tracking Talisman' can last for three hours. During this process, the target's whereabouts will be sensed by the user.
"Follow me!" Gu Jia said to Patriarch Liu.
Patriarch Liu hesitated slightly and followed him out of the room.
Gu Jia did not use the 'Light Body Technique'. He only relied on his body at the seventh level of Qi Refining to jump over the high wall with a tap on the wall.
Patriarch Liu was not as strong as him, so he activated a 'Junior Light Body Talisman' and then jumped over the wall.
Gu Jia is very fast. If he didn't need to track the breath sensed by the 'Intermediate Tracking Talisman', his speed would be even faster.
Near the city wall, he stopped.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, what's going on?" Patriarch Liu asked quickly when he saw him stop.
"Trouble, that monk controlled the refined corpse to commit murder, and when he arrived, he put the refined corpse away, and the tracking talisman lost its target!" Gu Jia said helplessly, shaking his head.
At the same time, he had more on his mind. Compared to these casual cultivators, he had a deeper understanding of corpse refining.
The corpse-refining being able to act alone allowed a monk at the third level of Qi-refining to be killed without being noticed, so the corpse-refining has at least turned into a bronze corpse.
The copper corpse in the corpse refining is a corpse refining that has become a climate, and its strength is equivalent to the monk's Qi refining period.
Bronze corpses are also divided into junior, middle and late stages, but as long as they reach the level of bronze corpses, the refined corpses have strong defensive power and can resist the spiritual attacks of the Qi Refining monks to a certain extent.
At the same time, the bronze corpse also possesses huge power, which even monks at the same level dare not fight against. The attack contains corpse poison.
The corpse poison of the copper corpse can make the body of the Qi Refining monk stiff. If it is not treated in time, large areas of the body will become necrotic.
Judging from the appearance of the bronze corpse this time, easily killing the third level of Qi Refining shows that the strength of the bronze corpse is at least mid-term strength, and may even be higher.
Combined with the timing of the Immortal Ascension Conference, Gu Jia has more associations.
"Fellow Daoist Liu, I want to report this matter to the sect, and also ask the casual cultivators to take action. If any monks can find traces of this monk, they can apply to the sect for the resources of five hundred spirit stones!" Gu Jia thought for a moment and looked at Liu The patriarch said.
When Patriarch Liu heard this, his eyes lit up at first, but he quickly came to his senses.
"I will spread the news!" Gu Jia can offer such a huge benefit, so how can this matter be simple? Patriarch Liu responded.
"It's best that I'm overthinking it!" Gu Jia thought to himself as he felt a little heavy.
Li Shiming became an official. He was a casual official of the seventh rank, but he was not given a real job.
Generally speaking, those who want to be crowned the most beautiful women need to enter the Hanlin Academy and become a seventh-grade editor. This is the country's most important talent training channel.
However, no one would think that the emperor was suppressing him, because he received several times more rewards than the number one scholar, and even a big house.
At the same time, a plaque saying "Jinshi and the title" issued by the palace was also sent to the mansion, which shows how deep the emperor's favor is.
But Li Shiming did not move to that big house, but asked Mo Yan to take it over on his behalf.
Now there are just these few servants in the house. The house is more than ten times bigger than this one. He will leave here soon, so there is no need to bother anymore.
Li Shiming was having a meal, with a bowl of rice in his hand and a dish in front of him.
This dish is stir-fried bamboo shoots, which are grown from Fu Ling bamboo.
There is no way. Over the past six months, Fu Lingzhu has grown very well. It already has a main trunk, which is more than three meters high, almost reaching the top of the computer room.
There was no extra space in the computer room for Fu Lingzhu to grow wildly, so the newly grown bamboo shoots became one of his spiritual foods.
This also solves the problem of a single spiritual diet. It is rare to have one dish and one meal.
Spiritual bamboo shoots have much more spiritual energy than spiritual rice. With the speed at which spiritual bamboo shoots emerge, he can produce one spiritual bamboo shoot every month.
One spiritual bamboo shoot is enough for him to eat for five days. Mainly because he is at the second level of Qi Refining, the spiritual bamboo shoot is a bit too much.
In fact, in other places, no monk would regard spiritual bamboo shoots as spiritual food, because spiritual bamboo shoots are more valuable when they grow into useful materials.
Li Shiming also discovered that as long as the Fu Ling Bamboo is not allowed to grow a second trunk normally, as long as the spiritual power is sufficient and the nutrient solution keeps up, the Ling Bamboo shoots will continue to sprout.
Anyway, he has no place to grow Talisman Bamboo now, so the Talisman Bamboo Shoots have become a spiritual dish on his table.
