Chapter 137 – The Truth (Added for ally “Little Dolphin’s Plume Little Morning”)

Running wildly along the way, not daring to turn back and repeatedly jumping horizontally on the ridge, Xu Qi’an, who was facing a high-grade powerhouse head-on for the first time, was still haunted by a strong fear in his heart.

If not for the Golden Lotus Taoist priest who sacrificed his life to save him, he would definitely die in the next round, and would not have time to cast the spells in the “magic book”.

And even with the help of Daoist Golden Lotus, the spells in the grimoire would most likely not be able to fight against each other.

That kind of heart-piercing fear was something Xu Qi’an had never felt before.

“What man?”

The two watchmen standing on the rooftop lookout noticed Xu Qi’an in his black robes, and one drew his standard longsword while the other took off his gong.

“It’s me.” Xu Qi’an took off his hood and pulled out his gold medal.

“Lord Xu ….”

Xu Qi’an is now the man of the hour at the night watchman’s office. First, two gongs were “jealous” of him, and then a dispute arose over a knife chopping off a Zhu Yin gong.

No one in the courthouse doesn’t know him.

Xu Qi’an retrieved the gold medal, coughed violently a few times, a fishy odor coming from deep in his throat, and said in a deep voice, “The Pingyuan Burial Mansion was attacked by an assassin, and this official was ordered to investigate the case, and collided with the assassin.

“The assassins are menacing, so don’t act rashly, and hurry to signal!”

The Pingyuan Burial Mansion has another assassin …. The two gongs glanced at each other, and immediately noticed Xu Qi’an’s bloodied tiger’s mouth, as well as his slightly trembling arm.

With serious faces, they fished out a copper tube the thickness of a baby’s small arm from the leather pouch at their waist, and with a slight twist of their fingers in the fuse, the gas ignited.

Shoo…

A dark red line of fire whistled shrilly up into the air and exploded high in the sky.

Seeing this, Xu Qi An was relieved, “I’ll go back to nurse my wounds first, you guys wait here for support, and if you encounter someone wearing a black robe …. not including me, remember to always dodge.”

“Yes.”

At that moment, Xu Qi’an saw an orange cat standing on the ridge in the distance, its deep pupils looking at him.

…. Where did you get the cat, Daolong, I knew you would be fine. Xu Qi’an exhaled again and kept rising and leaping on the ridge, the orange cat following behind him unhurriedly.

“Daoist, I completely lost the thought of fighting just now.” Stopping in a silent alley, Xu Qi’an said guiltily.

He believed that with Golden Lotus Taoist Master’s mindfulness of the city, if he wasn’t sure, he would definitely slip away faster than him.

The orange cat spat out human words, and his tone of voice was weary, “When an ordinary person sees a big bug, running away is an instinctive reaction, and the gap between you and him is even bigger than the gap between a cat and a big bug.”

Dao Master, is it really good for you to make such an analogy …. Xu Qi’an glanced at the orange cat.

“If I’m not wrong, he’s the seal that was suppressed in Sang Po.” As Xu Qi’an spoke, he took out the Golden Sore Pill and gauze and bandaged his tiger’s mouth.

Because of being high on too many Power Pills, the weakness after The Heaven and Earth One Slash Slash was alleviated, and there wasn’t that intense feeling of exhaustion where the body was emptied out.

“How can you see that?” Daoist Golden Lotus was shocked.

“When the Yongzhen Mountain and River Temple exploded that day, all three hundred forbidden soldiers patrolling the perimeter were killed, and their deaths turned into dry corpses as it were.” Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice.

Daoist Master Golden Lotus drifted off, and after a moment of silence, he said, “Then you guessed wrong, what is sealed underneath Sangpo is not the Primordial Supervisor.”

….. If it is the first generation of the Supervisor, it will not go to kill a small person, Pingyuan Bo first son was extremely frightened before his death, and he seemed to recognize the black-robed man …. Unless the one who killed the forbidden army was the one who sneaked into Sangpo and blew up the Yongzhen Mountain and River Temple, but this possibility has long been denied, and it is impossible for an expert to be able to sneak into Sangpo …. Xu Qi An sighed:

“I know, and, I have a vague suspicion in my mind that just needs to be verified.”

The orange cat nodded slightly and said, “My Yin Spirit has suffered a heavy blow, and it’s highly likely that I’m going to fall out of the realm, so I need you to do the poor Taoist a favor.”

“Daoist please speak.” Xu Qi’an was worried about how to repay the favor of saving his life.

“Find Luo Yu Heng for the poor Taoist and ask for a Yuan Gathering Pill.” The orange cat spat out human words.

“Luo Yu Heng?” Xu Qi’an asked back blankly.

“The head of the Human Sect Dao is barely the poor Taoist’s senior sister.” Daoist Head Golden Lotus said.

You’re quite senior in the Earth Sect …. The head of the Human Sect is your sister. …. A beautiful mature female Daoist nun? Xu Qi’an was a bit embarrassed, “Any token?”

“Just show her the Book of Earth,” the orange cat smiled a humanized, bitter smile, “It’s up to her mood as to whether she can fetch it or not.”

Depending on her mood? Xu Qi’an was dumbfounded.

“The Human Sect and the Heavenly Sect are like water and fire, and the Earth Sect’s relationship with the two sects isn’t exactly strained, but it’s not much better either.” The orange cat explained.

You Taoist sect is also too Kam …. Is it a family that loves each other. Xu Qi’an nodded, “I’ll try tomorrow.”

The orange cat let out a “hmmm”, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

……

Jiang Ruizhong’s face was grim as he squatted in the courtyard, cupping a tiny piece of minced meat in his hand, the meat was dry, like air-dried bacon that had been ground into powder.

The ground was covered with a light brown powder.

Dozens of bronze gongs surrounded the Ping Yuan Fu, seven or eight silver gongs collaborated in the investigation, and when they arrived, the Ping Yuan Fu was exterminated, and none of the Ping Yuan Fu’s family members, including the underlings in the house, survived.

The bodies were uniformly dead, like bacon that had been air-dried for years.

Ten thousand alpacas ran wild in Jiang Lutong’s heart, and he was also on duty when Ping Yuan Bo was killed.

“Jiang Jin Gong, there is another survivor in the house.” A silver gong came out of the house and shouted.

Jiang Ruizhong sank his face, bought over the threshold, entered the house, and with a sweep of his eyes, he locked onto the woman who was hugging the quilt, revealing her snow-white fragrant shoulders and a terrified look on her face.

She was beautiful, but slightly frivolous and slutty, and was looking at the night watchmen with fearful eyes.

“Who are you?” Jiang Lunzhong said in a deep voice.

“I… I’m Uncle Ping Yuan’s concubine.” The woman said in a trembling voice.

“Did you hear anything, see anything?” Ginger Ruizhong asked again.

The woman had long since learned what had happened from the silver gong that had awakened her, which was why she was on edge, both worried about her fate and grateful to be alive.

The woman shook her head and said obediently, “I was making merry with Oro and fell into a deep sleep afterwards ….”

Jiang Ruzhong scrutinized her, the situation of a son inheriting his father’s business was equally common in concubines, when the dynasty’s dignitaries took concubines frequently, the difference in age was extremely large, once the father died, these concubines had only two choices, either to work like a maid, or to depend on the new heir.

Surely, this kind of thing is on the table and must be reprimanded.

It’s just that no one takes it seriously, doesn’t promote it and doesn’t bother to count it.

“Let her put on her clothes and bring them back to the beatman’s court.” Jiang Lunzhong finished speaking and walked out of the house.

“Jiang Jin Gong, the body of Ping Yuan Bo’s first son was not found.” A silver gong hurriedly reported.

Jiang Ruizhong looked at the brown powder in the yard and his gaze deepened, “There’s no need to look for it.”

“My lord, there is a situation here at the outer window.”

At the sound of the voice, Kang Rul-jung went to the window facing the bedroom and saw that the windowpaper had been poked through two holes, just enough to see into the bedroom.

He swept his head down and saw two shallow lines plowed into the ground.

“Besides the murderer, there were other people present at the time …..” Jiang Ruizhong pondered for a long time and asked, “Who was the one who first discovered the abnormalities of the Pingyuan Burial Mansion.”

“Two gongs on duty.”

“Call them over.”

Soon two gongs were brought in.

Kang Lut-Chung asked, “What suspicious characters were in the neighborhood when you noticed the situation?”

The two gongs looked at each other, “No suspicious characters were found, and the case wasn’t discovered by us.”

Kang Ruzhong froze and asked, “It wasn’t you who found …. who?”

“It’s the gong Xu Qi’an.”

Xu Qi An …. Jiang Ruzhong’s eyes flashed with divine splendor.

…….

Returning to the small courtyard, Xu Qi’an didn’t even take off his clothes and fell into a deep sleep, naturally waking up three hours later, sitting on his knees, exhaling and practicing qi.

Carrying on for two weeks of days, he opened his eyes in a radiant manner, and except for a slightly pale face, he was still in good shape in all aspects.

He left the small courtyard and rode straight to the city gates.

At this time, there was still half an hour before the opening of the city gates, the outer city did not impose a curfew, and the prohibition of the city gates was also very lax, Xu Qi’an, with the gold medal, ordered the generals guarding the city to open the gates.

In less than an hour, he arrived at the Green Dragon Temple, just when the monks were getting up to do their morning lessons, and the morning bell echoed languidly between heaven and earth.

After bolting his horse and following the stone steps to the Green Dragon Temple, Xu Qi’an received an unexpected piece of news.

“Abbot Panshu has gone to the West?”

It was the same mellow Hengqing Supervisor who said with an expressionless face, “After the abbot left that day after the scholar left, the poor monk really doesn’t know the reason this time.”

…. How psycho are you about me? Xu Qi’an grinned.

Abbot Panshu had said that the duty of the Green Dragon Temple was to keep an eye on the seal under Sangpo, and that day he had revealed his intention to travel west.

I wonder if the old monk will stop by and take a monkey as a disciple along the way, that would be fun, hehehe.

“This official would like to trouble Master with one thing.” Xu Qi’an spoke in a cordial tone.

Supervisor Heng Qing stared at him warily.

“I want to see Heng Hui’s portrait, if there is none in the temple, please find someone to paint it immediately.” Xu Qi’an made his request.

Heng Qing breathed a sigh of relief and said a word to wait a moment.

After a tea break, he came out holding a scroll and handed it to Xu Qi’an.

The latter took it and slowly unfolded it, and in the scroll was a monk wearing a green-colored nakama, with handsome features and spirited eyebrows, a man with excellent skin.

Sure enough, it was him …. Xu Qi’an confirmed that the black-robed man from last night was Monk Heng Hui.

Despite the drastic change in temperament, the features were vaguely the same.

Monk Heng Hui of Qinglong Temple himself may be involved in the Sang Po case, and No. 6 Heng Yuan swore that his senior brother was abducted by the Tooth.

Based on last night’s conversation between the first son of Ping Yuan Bo and the black-robed man again, Xu Qi’an immediately had a guess in his heart and couldn’t wait to verify it.

If he hadn’t been in a terrible state last night and in dire need of rest, he would have chosen to leave the city overnight then.

“It’s really Heng Hui, damn it’s really Heng Hui …. How could it be him, and what’s his connection to the seal underneath Sang Po?”

“In that case, it doesn’t look like it’s the first Supervisor, no wonder the current Supervisor isn’t in a hurry at all and is pretending to be sick.”

“But if it’s not the Primordial Supervisor, what could it be? The possibility I can think of is that the seal is on Heng Hui.”

“It’s impossible for a mere monk to plot this shocking case, there’s someone else behind him. The King of Zhenbei?”

Xu Qi’an left the Green Dragon Temple with deep thoughts.

Returning to the capital and returning to the night watchman’s yamen, he went straight to the Haoqi Building with a clear goal to tell Wei Yuan the truth about this.

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