Chapter 136: Dry Corpses

“With your current status, why don’t you take the initiative to come to the door and ask?” Daoist Master Golden Lotus was puzzled.

“After all, Ping Yuan Bo is a hereditary lord, and without evidence, I can’t resort to violence. And normal investigations tend to tie up the hands, to get answers, light and dark means have to complement each other.” Xu Qi’an casually explained:

“The Taoist Sect is a deservedly dominant player in the Genjutsu realm, so getting him to obediently “cooperate” and give out all the information he can should be doable, right?”

“…. You’re quite experienced, it doesn’t match your previous life and experience.” Daoist Master Golden Lotus said, gently nodding his head and giving an affirmative reply.

“Some cars look new, but the kilometers are actually frighteningly high.” Xu Qi’an said seriously.

“What is the explanation for this?” Daoist Golden Lotus frowned.

“I mean, you’ve only seen the surface of me, and a person’s life is always more exciting and colorful than the words on a dossier.” Xu Qi’an shrugged.

“Makes sense.” Daoist Master Golden Lotus didn’t continue the topic and said, “You let go of your mind and I’ll bend down into your sea of consciousness.”

“Are you a Yuan Shen out of body again?” Xu Qi’an said warily.

“Hehe, my body is injured and my strength is greatly reduced, while my Yin Spirit is intact, which can better utilize my strength.

“There is a curfew in the inner city, so I can’t go out with you in a dignified manner, I can hide it from ordinary gongs, but if I am seen by the golden gongs, it won’t be good for you or me. Besides, the capital is full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons, and threats don’t necessarily only come from the night watchmen.”

That’s true, but it’s too much if you want to turn my Yuan Shen into your own shape …. Moreover, we’re not that familiar …. Xu Qi’an frowned in embarrassment.

Although he still trusted Daoist Master Golden Lotus, he hadn’t reached the level of allowing the other party’s Yuan Shen to invade his sea of consciousness.

Moreover, he didn’t guarantee that Daoist Master Golden Lotus would not spy on some of his secrets, such as the memories of his past life, such as the Floating Fragrance Flower Leader’s round, snow-white buttocks.

Daoist Master Golden Lotus shook his head, “How is that?”

At this moment, a mournful cat’s cry came from the ridge of the house, and Xu Qi’an instantly revealed a smile, pointing to the top of his head, “I am aggrieved, Daoist.”

“….”

…..

Changing into a night watchman’s uniform, Xu Qi’an left the small courtyard brightly, encountering the imperial sword guards along the way, seeing the uniform he was wearing, they didn’t even bother to ask, but would only wonder why this night watchman had a black cat standing on his shoulder.

The only time Xu Qi’an would be stopped was when he encountered a fellow night watchman, but by pulling out his gold medallion and saying that he was under orders to investigate the case, he would be able to solve everything.

Xu Qi’an hadn’t deliberately hurried, but with his current footwork, it only took him an hour to arrive near the Pingyuan Burial Mansion.

Looking around to make sure no one was around, he found a secluded corner and tore out a page from the “magic book”, which recorded the means of blocking the eyes of a leaf.

“Thumbs up ….”

The qi ignited the paper, and an invisible force enveloped Xu Qi’an and the black cat.

The words of Confucianism follow the law …. The black cat s orange pupils stared at this scene, and Daoist Golden Lotus suddenly thought of many details.

No wonder Number Three was portraying himself as a scholar of the Cloud Deer Academy, it wasn’t just because his cousin was a scholar of the academy, he himself seemed to have a great deal to do with the academy.

How else would one possess books of burned spells.

Daoist Master Jinlian directly ruled out the option of a gift from a cousin, first of all, it was impossible for an ordinary scholar to be treated so generously by a great scholar.

Secondly, for the scholar how could this kind of supreme treasure be easily given away. I’m afraid that they wouldn’t even be willing to use it.

…. The readers of the Cloud Deer Academy had always looked down on martial artists, so why would they gift him such a treasure. As Daoist Master Golden Lotus pondered this question, he saw Xu Qi’an yank a cloak from the fragments of the Earth Book and cover himself.

Why are you so skillful… The black cat shook her head.

“Before the operation, two trivial matters came to mind, and I would like to ask the Taoist Master for advice.” Xu Qi’an, whose face was shrouded in a cloak, suddenly spoke.

“Speak!” The black cat shook the air and spat.

“Are spirit dragons only close to royalty?”

“In theory.”

“Theory?”

“Spirit dragons prefer purple energy to royalty.” The black cat explained.

…. Xu Qi’an nodded in deep thought, “There is one more thing, today I went to the Imperial City to investigate a case, and I heard that the Spirit Dragon inexplicably went berserk, and the combined efforts of all the guards couldn’t restrain it, and it nearly injured Princess Lin’an.”

The black cat didn’t speak for a long time.

“Dawnguard?”

The black cat alertly looked around, and came out the golden lotus Taoist priest’s grave voice: “The sealing thing under the Sangpo, into the city ….”

“What makes it so?”

“Spirit dragons are born with a mastery of qi looking techniques and are not comparable to ordinary qi practicing techniques; they can sense things that ordinary people cannot sense.”

No wonder Chu Caiwei s lookout technique can t see the abnormality, and she has not learned the art well …. Is this why the Spirit Dragon is kneeling to me? It can see my weird luck …. So, Supervisor Zheng can see it too?

Xu Qi’an was alarmed by this speculation.

Sang Po’s seal has entered the city …. The Spirit Dragon felt threatened, so it went berserk and was bent on fleeing the Imperial City …. Tomorrow, think of a way to reveal this matter to Wei Yuan.

Finishing off the conversation, Xu Qi’an pressed against one of the courtyard walls and felt his way outside the backyard wall of the Pingyuan Burial Mansion, leaping over the fence.

After landing, he cautiously looked left and right to make sure that the sound of the clothes breaking just now had not disturbed the experts in the mansion.

The Pingyuan Burial Mansion was vast, and according to living habits, the master usually lived in the largest courtyard in the east.

Xu Qi’an proceeded with the One Leaf Blind Spell, dodging several groups of patrolling mansion guards and arriving at the largest courtyard in the east.

Just as he stepped into the courtyard, his ears twitched and he heard a high-pitched, unabashed moan. And a man’s heavy panting.

…. Coming at a really bad time, Xu Qi’an cursed on his lips and couldn’t help but speed up his steps.

He touched the bottom of the window, his fingers condensed chi, poked through the highly flexible windowpaper, and looked in through the tiny hole.

This hole happened to be facing the master bedroom, and the movement of the two people on the bed fell intuitively into Xu Qi’an’s eyes, but because of the thin curtain covering the bed, he only saw the brocade covers rising and falling.

“Pfft…”

At that moment, there was a slight rattle overhead, the sound of a cat’s sharp claws piercing the windowpane.

Xu Qi’an raised his head and saw the black cat standing on its hind legs above his head, its two front paws resting against the window, its face pressed against the hole, watching intently.

Taoist master you also also have this bite ah …. The corner of Xu Qi’an’s mouth twitched twice.

“He should be the first son of Uncle Ping Yuan, let’s charge straight in.” Xu Qi’an proposed.

“We’ll go in when it’s over, that time is when the men are at their most lax.” Daoist Master Golden Lotus vetoed Xu Qi’an’s suggestion.

No, Taoist, you’ll regret it, you have no idea how scary Wufu can be, after all, we’re clear and cloudless powerhouses …. Xu Qi’an mentally spat.

After two incense sticks ….

Daoist Master Golden Lotus looked down at Xu Qi’an, “Alright, I admit that you’re right.”

Tsk, that’s all, think about it, when I first slept with Floating Fragrance, but I lasted until midnight …. Xu Qi’an thought rather pleasantly, and was just about to go around the front door, sneak into the house, and subdue the other party with a thunderbolt.

But right at this moment, Xu Qi’an was suddenly flooded with a creepy feeling, goosebumps protruding, and it was as if there were blood-colored thorns behind his back, piercing through his flesh and blood.

Inexplicable fear filled the mind.

“Something is coming…” the voice of Daoist Golden Lotus was heavier than ever.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Qi’an heard the shouts of the guards from afar, “What kind of person dares to trespass on the Pingyuan Burial Mansion …. Ah…”

The words turned into a scream.

Immediately afterward, waves of qi explosions swept away, screams rose and fell, and soon fell into dead silence again.

The first son of Ping Yuan Bo, who had already entered sage time, heard the commotion and couldn’t even put on his clothes, quickly jumping up from the bed, removing the sword hanging on the wall, and rushing out of the house with an ugly face.

A man wrapped in a black robe appeared in the courtyard, his face hidden in a hood, and the aura he gave off made Xu Qi’an’s legs tremble, wanting nothing more than to run away.

The black cat arched its back, its long fur exploding, its erect pupils contracting rapidly, and its abnormality represented to a certain extent the emotions of Daoist Master Jinlian at this moment.

“Who are you?” The first son of Ping Yuan Bo spoke in a trembling voice.

His legs, his arms, his facial muscles …. trembled and spasmed uncontrollably.

“Debt collector.” A hoarse voice came out of the hood, and the black-robed man raised his head, revealing a pale face with rather handsome features.

He had dark eyes with pupils that seemed to take up the entire socket, with no whites.

Xu Qi’an didn’t recognize him, firmly remembering the other party’s appearance and guessing the other party’s identity.

“It’s you, it’s you ….” The first son of Ping Yuan Bo screamed, incomparably terrified, “You’re dead, I watched you die with my own eyes ….”

“I died, but climbed out of hell again.” The voice of the man clad in black robes hissed as he raised his right hand, which seemed to come from the devil, blood-red all over with a single vein popping out, and the moment he saw these hands, the fear in Xu Qi’an’s heart exploded with it.

Whew …. The blood-red palm drummed up a cyclone and sucked Ping Yuan Bo’s first son into its center.

“Help, help …. Somebody, somebody ….”

The first son of Ping Yuan Bo’s legs stomped about, and suddenly, his flesh and blood dried up, turning into a dry corpse in an instant.

People who were alive one moment lost their lives the next.

Dryads? It was as if lightning had struck in Xu Qi’an’s mind.

The black robed man laughed fiercely and ran his qi as if he was venting his anger, bang …. The dry corpse exploded into pieces.

After killing the man, the black-robed man twisted his head, his gloomy gaze looking towards where Xu Qi’an was hiding.

He opened his palm towards the bottom of the window, and wham… the rolling cyclone reappeared.

Fuck …. Xu Qi’an’s feet were rooted to the ground, his body leaning back, little by little he was brought closer to the other party, closer to the abyss-like palm that devoured human life.

Xu Qi’an reached into his arms and pinched out the vigorous pills that Chu Caiwei had gifted him, crushing the porcelain bottle with all his might and stuffing all the pills into his mouth.

Then he pressed down on the hilt of his long black and gold sword, settling all his emotions.

Medaka!

In the darkness of the night, the dark golden blade flashed and dinged, splashing the bright red arm with a string of stinging sparks.

Xu Qi’an’s right tiger’s mouth crumbled, and the muscles of his right arm holding the sword spasmed.

This is the enemy that I can’t stop chopping with one slash …. And when facing such an enemy, the sword intent given by the secret book is not to cut another slash, it is to run away.

“Run!”

The black cat shook the air and spat out human words while leaping up and pouncing on the black-robed man.

In the midst of the qi tremor, the black cat’s body split apart in midair, and the Golden Lotus Daoist Yuan Shen protruded, slamming into the black-robed man.

Taoist master, take care of yourself …. Xu Qi An did not look at it again and took the opportunity to break free from the cyclone’s pull, leaping onto the roof in three or two steps and escaping over the wall.

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