Chapter 461 Partial truth

“State Master, let’s go back first, I’ll inform you when there are new developments, please ………”

Before Xu Qi’an could finish his sentence, he saw the State Master transform into a golden light and vanish, his expression immediately froze, “Please send us back” could no longer be spat out.

At least give us a ride back. I don’t have my filly!

He spat in his heart and whirled around to look at Everest at his side ………. Well, it’s a good thing he didn’t bring a filly.

The two of them tumbled out of the high walls of the Earl’s palace, and with no one around, they quickly left and entered the street to merge into the flow of people.

Traveling to the end of the street, under the pagoda of Yongan Street, the sundial shows the time is four minutes past the hour (8:00 a.m.).

The capital every main street of the street, there is a huge pagoda, the pagoda side of the sundial, dedicated to the people to see the time.

“I won’t be home for half an hour or so, so I hope Huaiqing won’t be in a hurry to wait.” Xu Qi’an muttered in his heart.

In the capital, flying is not allowed, day or night.

Xu Qi’an also didn’t want to draw too much attention to himself; with his current reputation, it was better to keep a low profile, or else he would attract the frenzy of passersby and cause chaos.

It was a good thing that he didn’t wear the silver gong’s errand clothes, the common people wouldn’t notice him, most of the time, in fact, people could only remember some obvious features, such as the cultural treasures in Xu Qi’an’s hard drive in his previous life, he wouldn’t be able to recognize them when they were wearing the clothes.

Besides, with a population of over two million people in the capital, it was unlikely that everyone would be so lucky to have the honor of catching a glimpse of Xu Yinluo’s heroics.

Many people had never seen Xu Yinluo in person.

As he walked, Xu Qi’an suddenly froze, then looked at Hengyuan with his face as normal and said, “Master, you’ve been trapped underground for more than a month, so it’s better to go back to the Sanatorium to see the old people and children.”

Hengyuan nodded, “How have they been lately?”

Xu Qi’an frankly said, “Although I haven’t gone to see it, I have been sending people to send silver and household items.”

Heng Yuan clasped his hands together and bowed, “Lord Xu is the most kind-hearted person the poor monk has ever seen, and the poor monk is delighted to befriend Lord Xu.”

Xu Qi’an returned the salute and was also elated, being able to be worshipped by a grandmaster who bore the fruition of a luohan would benefit him greatly in the future.

The astonishingly talented Chu Yuanzhuan, the chivalrous Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden, the superbly gifted and powerful Lina, Hengyuan, who carries the fruit of the Lohan, and the talented and wise Imperial Eldest Daughter Huaiqing.

In ten years at the most, the members of the Heaven and Earth Association might become the peak power in Kyushu.

Well, number seven and eight have not appeared for a while, so I hope that doesn’t disappoint.

The crowd was bustling, seeing Hengyuan leave, Xu Qi’an breathed a sigh of relief, if Hengyuan followed him back to the Xu Mansion, Huaiqing’s identity as number one would not be able to be hidden.

Then, given Huaiqing’s character, we’ll all die together.

………..

Hsu Mansion.

Huaiqing sat in the hall, waiting for some impatience, as the mother of the aunt forced by the strong aura and identity of the eldest daughter of the emperor, accompanied for a while, on the pretext of body discomfort, went to his room.

Xu Ling Yue, on the other hand, was blocked back by Li Miaozhen, although the eldest miss of the Xu family was more responsible than her mother, but the next thing to be talked about involved confidentiality, and it was not good to let her sit in on the conversation.

Li Miaozhen was skeptical about Huaiqing’s claim that there were major doubts in the case. She thinks that her reasoning ability is only inferior to Xu Qi’an’s, and she is the number two investigator of the Tien-Di Association.

Finally, they saw Xu Qi’an enter the courtyard, walk across the verdant stone-paved walk to, and step into the hall.

Xu Qi’an, who was the host, looked at the two chairs for the two, which held Huaiqing and Li Miaochen, and had no choice but to sit in the guest seat below and look at the imperial eldest daughter:

“What did you find out?”

Huaiqing had a few seconds to phrase it, his voice clearing, “How do you confirm that the head of the Earth Sect Dao is the One Breath that transforms the Three Purities.”

Did this still need to be confirmed? Xu Qi’an froze for a moment, actually not knowing how to answer.

Huaiqing looked at Li Miaozhen again and inquired, “Can the spells of the Taoist sect allow one to do the splitting of the Yuan Shen, but not necessarily in the form of three people.”

This kind of question, Li Miaozhen didn’t need to think about it and said:

“One Qi Transforms Three Qing is the pinnacle of the Yuan Shen realm of spells. It allows one person, to split into three people, and all of them have independent consciousness, i.e., they are separate people, or they can be three in one.

“If it’s just the Yuan Shen splitting, anyone who cultivates the Yin God can do it. But the split Yuan Shen is crippled and incomplete, and can’t be compared to the One Breath Transforms Three Purities.”

Huaiqing was satisfied with this answer and turned to look at Xu Qi’an, his bright autumn water eyes burningly compelling:

“You said that Daoist Head Golden Lotus is a residual soul, which is consistent with the division of the Yuan Shen. The Earth Sect Taoist Head may have only split between good and evil thoughts, and the so-called one qi that transforms the Three Purities is only your speculation and has no evidence.”

Xu Qi’an frowned, keeping his tone calm and analyzing:

“Perhaps the three people that the Earth Sect Dao Head has split off from have already cut themselves off. Well, that’s inevitable, or else the Golden Lotus Daoist Head would have been found by the Black Lotus long ago.”

Li Miaozhen said, “The One Qi Transforming Three Purities can also be independent, non-connected three, and it doesn’t have to be severed in order for it to work.”

Xu Qi’an was at a loss for words, and he recalled the note from the head of the Earth Sect’s Dao in the late Emperor’s Record of Rising and Dwelling on the transformation of one qi into three qings.

Three for one, says the situation.

It can be three completely separate people.

Huaiqing continued, “One more thing, you said that in the Chuzhou Massacre, King Huai got the Blood Elixir and Father got the Soul Elixir. But the effect of the Soul Elixir is simply not enough for Father to risk universal condemnation.”

“Yes. It was because of this that I started investigating Yuan Jing.” Xu Qi’an nodded.

“I asked Caiwei about the efficacy of the Soul Pill. It was found that repairing the remnant soul is its strongest effect, and the rest of its effects, none of them can be compared to it. However, if the Head of the Earth Sect Dao really transformed the Three Purities in a single breath, then it is absolutely impossible for the Yuan Shen to be crippled.

“Let me make it clearer, an expert of the Second Grade of the Dao Sect, couldn’t he manage the art of transforming the Three Purities into one Qi?”

Xu Qi’an froze, quickly scrutinizing his reasoning and combining it with Huaiqing’s words:

I fell into a thinking misunderstanding, after suspecting that the other split soul of the head of the Earth Zong Dao might be hidden in the dragon vein, I dovetailed the clues of the soul dan, and naturally thought that the head of the Earth Zong Dao refined the soul dan in order to make up for the incomplete soul ………. However, I overlooked the second grade Taoist bit, the head of the Earth Zong Dao is one qi to transform the Three Purities, how could it be possible for the split soul to be incomplete ……… But the Golden Lotus Taoist is indeed a remnant of the soul ………

Stray thoughts flashed by like a walking light, and Xu Qi’an swallowed and spat:

“This is indeed an implausible point, but like my suspicion of the Earth Sect’s Dao Head, your suspicion, again, is only a suspicion, with no tangible evidence.”

Huaiqing nodded her head, her autumn waves flowing as she glanced at the silver gong, who was known as a legend, and said:

“There’s also a suspicion, well, what I think is a suspicion ……… that the abduction of people started in Jeanne d’Arc ’26, which is what you found out.”

Xu Qi’an pondered for a moment, “Even if the one who was reigning at the time was the late emperor, Yuan Jing, as the crown prince, he was just as capable of opening secret chambers, secretly, in the palace.”

Huaiqing slowly shook his head, ”What I’m trying to say is that at that time, Ping Yuan Bo was still young, very young, and he was at a flourishing stage. He secretly formed the Human Teeth Organization and did unseemly deeds for his father. In here, there will definitely be benefit transactions.

“But later on, when Father ascended the throne and became emperor, Ping Yuan Bo remained Ping Yuan Bo, no matter if it was a title or an official position, he didn’t go any further. And it’s not that Ping Yuan Bo didn’t have ambitions, the fact that he united with the Liang Party to assassinate County Lord Ping Yang in order to gain more power is the best evidence of this.

“Do you think this is reasonable? If you were Ping Yuan Bo in your place, would you be willing to do so? You did unseemly deeds for the Crown Prince, and after the Crown Prince ascended to the throne, you remained in the same place for more than twenty years.”

The hall fell into dead silence.

The atmosphere quietly turned heavy, and although Li Miaozhen had listened half-heartedly and didn’t fully understand, she was able to realize that the case seemed to have taken a reverse turn. What Huaiqing said made sense, and Xu Qi’an didn’t object.

Huaiqing took the initiative to break the silence and asked, “What did you find at the underground dragon vein?”

Xu Qi’an then told the story of how he had rescued Hengyuan.

“So, there is indeed a terrifying existence hidden above the Dragon Vein, but, again, it’s not the Head of the Earth Sect Dao?” Li Miaozhen glanced at Huaiqing, then at Xu Qi’an:

“And who would that be?”

Huaiqing shook his head, “No, it’s still not certain that that person isn’t the Earth Sect Daoshu, even if the Soul Pill wasn’t given to the Earth Sect Daoshu, and even if there are suspicions here in Ping Yuan Bo, we still can’t be certain that that being in the Dragon Vein isn’t the Earth Sect Daoshu.”

Xu Qi’an thought about it, pinched his brow, and said, ”If you want to confirm it, it’s simple. Hengyuan has seen that guy, while Miaozhen and I have seen Black Lotus. Just draw the portrait and give it to Hengyuan for identification.”

Li Miaozhen and Huaiqing’s eyes lit up.

Xu Qi’an and Li Miaozhen said at the same time, “I don’t know danqing.”

In this regard, Wycking is not to be trifled with.

The three left the inner hall and entered the room, Xu Qi’an attentively poured water and ink, spread out the paper and pressed on the white jade paperweight.

Huaiqing gathered his sleeves with one hand and lifted his pen with the other, hanging it over the paper, looking up and sweeping Li Miaozhen and Xu Qi’an, “What does he look like?”

He is a mermaid that is half man and half fish, not left and right, not up and down, with a head and a ding dong ………. Xu Qi’an describes it, “The face is on the thin side and the nose is high ……….”

With his description, supplemented by Li Miaozhen, Huaiqing drew four or five portraits in a row, and finally drew an old man who bore a seven or eight percent resemblance to the head of the Earth Sect Dao.

“It’s okay.”

Xu Qi’an grabbed the paper, shook his hands, and used the air machine to steam dry the ink, and while rolling up the portrait, he whispered, “Draw another one, that person should be no stranger to you.”

Wyvern was silent for a moment, spreading out his paper and drawing a second portrait.

Looking at Xu Qi’an’s hurriedly departing figure, Li Miaozhen frowned and asked, “Who was the second person you drew?”

Huaiqing did not answer, his face somber and grave.

…………

East Side, Sanitarium.

After Everest had visited every old man and child, including the poor kid in the dog’s skin, he went back to his room and began to pack his things.

It’s not much. Two monks’ robes and a few sutras.

A monk is all alone and has only three or two rituals to perform.

He couldn’t continue to stay here, sooner or later Emperor Yuan Jing would come back again, he could hide from the first day but not the fifteenth, leaving this place and cutting off contact with the old people and children in order to better protect them.

The old mandarin stood at the door of the room, trembling with grief.

“I won’t be leaving the capital for the time being, and I plan to go to the Xu residence for a while, both to have a safer shelter and to strengthen the Xu residence’s defense force at the same time. After the Chuzhou massacre, his situation has become exceptionally bad ………. During this period, I’ll be coming back to visit regularly.”

Hengyuan folded his monk’s clothes and spoke in a gentle tone, “Don’t worry about the silver, Lord Xu is a kind-hearted man and will cover the expenses of the Sanatorium.”

In fact, he did.

The old mandarin kept nodding his head and said sadly, “Master, you have to promise, you don’t have to come back. None of us want anything to happen to you again.”

Hengyuan finished packing his salute, swept past the old mandarin, and walked out of the room.

In the yard, eight gray-haired old men, either supported by their children or on crutches, gathered together.

Twelve kids are also here, except for the one in the backyard who can no longer walk ……..

The children tilted their still-clean faces, a pair of innocent and bright eyes, looking at Hengyuan wordlessly.

“We’ve come to see the Master off.”

An old man spoke up and said, “Go away and don’t come back, you’ve helped us too much to get you involved again.”

The children were silent with tears in their eyes.

Everest closed his arms in silence and bowed.

When he looked up again, he happened to see Xu Qi’an coming in through the main door of the health hall with a hurried gait.

“Lord Xu?”

Everest greeted him, surprised and amazed.

“Master Hengyuan, you’ve seen that existence in the ground, right!”

Seeing Hengyuan nod, Xu Qi’an unfolded Black Lotus’s portrait and stared at the other party with a burning gaze, “Is it him?”

Hengyuan gazed and recognized him for a moment and shook his head, “It’s not him!”

It’s not him ……… By the way, Hengyuan has also seen the Black Lotus, he also participated in the Lotus fight in Jianzhou, if it was the Black Lotus, at that time when he was in the ground, he should have pointed it out, I overlooked this detail again …… …Well, it’s also possible that the appearance of that doppelganger is different from that of Daoist Black Lotus, after all, the Golden Lotus and the Black Lotus just don’t look the same ……….

Xu Qi’an shook his hand, burning off the portrait of Black Lotus as he unfolded the second portrait drawn by Huaiqing and asked in an odd tone, “Is, is it him?”

Hengyuan’s face suddenly became grave, and he said in a deep voice, “How do you have his portrait, it’s this person.”

This …….. Xu Qi’an’s pupils widened for a moment, and inexplicably, he had a sensation of sweaty hairs shrugging and chills running down his spine.

The late emperor!

Huaiqing painted the late emperor!

That being in the underground dragon vein was the first emperor!

At this moment, Xu Qi’an’s true feelings were both absurd and reasonable, shocked and not shocked at the same time.

After Huaiqing pointed out the two doubts, he became suspicious of the late Emperor, which is why he asked Huaiqing to draw a second image, and the fact that Huaiqing really drew a picture of the late Emperor means that Huaiqing also suspected the late Emperor.

“It turns out that back then, the head of the Earth Zong Dao was polluted, not by King Huai and Yuan Jing, but by the late emperor ……… Right, the late emperor repeatedly mentioned that one qi had transformed the three clearings and mentioned longevity, and he was the one who was obsessed with longevity.”

Xu Qi’an slowly walked over to the stone table and sat down, one detail after another turning over in his mind.

“One qi transforms the Three Ching, one of the Three, three of the Three, and one of the Three. One person can be three, the first emperor can be the first emperor, or the king of Huai, or even Yuanjing.”

“It turns out that the three of them, father and son, are the same person, so the suspicious Yuan Jing pushed his heart out to King Huai, granting him the Zhen Guo Sword and the first beauty of the Dafeng, displaying a trust that doesn’t conform to the mind of an emperor.”

“I remember, the crown princess once once said that when Yuan Jing first saw her, he showed extreme infatuation with her beauty (see Chapter 164 of this volume for details) ………. No wonder he would be willing to give the crown princess to King Huai, what if King Huai is also himself?”

“In this way, during the incident in the South Garden back then, even if King Huai and Yuan Jing didn’t die, something went wrong, or they were controlled or contaminated by the Head of the Earth Sect Dao, and then after that, they were assimilated and seized by the late Emperor and became one person, which is the secret of one person and three people. Is this the secret that the Earth Sect Dao Head told the late Emperor in the first place? After that discourse, they might have started scheming.”

“What lies under the dragon vein is the late emperor s original body ……… Supervisor Zheng knows everything, but he doesn t care about anything, because the person who is making trouble is not the head of the Earth Sect Dao, it is the emperor of the Great Feng. No, Supervisor Zheng may have his plot, but I can’t guess.”

“Ping Yuan Bo has been doing the abduction of people, but he doesn’t dare to claim credit for it, and that’s because he’s working for the late emperor. He thought he was working for the late emperor, not Yuan Jing.”

“Why did the late emperor need those people? The Chuzhou Massacre has given me the answer – blood and soul pills!”

“The late emperor was not an orthodox Taoist and was unable to perfectly control the one qi that transforms the three qing, for which he left behind hidden dangers, such as a crippled Yuan Shen, and thus needed the Soul Pill to repair it ………”

Xu Qi’an’s scalp tingled.

……….

PS: This case is not yet over, Xu Baijun only found out part of the truth. Some unexplained points will be explained at the end of the volume. Well, this volume is almost finished, probably only about 100,000 words left, and with my update speed, it’s just over a week.