Chapter 548: No Clue

Chapter 548: No Clue

The sun shone through the latticed windows and the dust floated.

In the silence, Xu Qi’an stood silently in the room for a while before the veins that popped up on his forehead retracted, and he began to examine the scene with little expression.

The table, chairs and other furnishings were intact, there were no signs of combat, and the man’s carotid artery had been slashed by a sharp instrument, and his left temple was caved in.

Instant death.

The cause of death for both mother and daughter was being stabbed by sharp objects at the same time, the mother was stabbed through the heart, but the little girl was stabbed through the right chest, and after Xu Qi’an touched her head, he realized that the real cause of death was being shattered in the sky.

He proceeded to turn over the three bodies, lifting the cotton coats off their backs and checking the degree of cohesion of the body spots.

“The time of death was no more than four hours, it was killed in the morning . No, that’s not right, it was almost 2 degrees last night, if they were killed at night, the actual time of death would have been earlier.”

Low temperatures have a “preservation” effect that affects the determination of time of death.

“Although there were no signs of fighting in the house, this does not indicate that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime, because it is too easy to deal with ordinary people who can be killed instantly.”

But who would kill this innocent family for no reason?

Xu Qi’an sat on the edge of the table, his fingertips lightly clasped the tabletop, and in the sound of the duk-duk, the pheromones in his brain were like boiling.

“Who else knew about this place besides Chai Yin and me? If there was no one, the murderer was either him or me. If someone knew about this place, why didn’t he come earlier or later, but after I had sent the message, he killed and killed?

“The purpose is not Chai Yin, but to stop Chai Yin from going to the Demon Slaughter Conference . But what’s the point? Wouldn’t it be better to ambush people here and just finish Chai Xian off.

“So, the one who killed and silenced him was Chaehyun? That’s not right either, the motive doesn’t make sense.”

Xu Qi’an’s eyes suddenly rounded as he thought of a possibility.

The day I turned into a cat and stalked Chai Yin, I was stalked at the same time.

“Chai Xian couldn’t detect my tracking because walkers don’t have anti-tracking abilities. But I didn’t have that ability as well, I was just a cat at the time, not an insta-body. If someone had crept up behind us that night”

Xu Qi’an rose with a flourish, left the house, closed the door behind him, mounted the filly, and galloped away.

Chai Mansion.

Li Lingsu held the piping hot teacup in both hands and took a sip of the sweet liquid.

The white, delicate cup was so full of goji berries that the few cups of tea seemed extra sweet.

Alas, this day by day . Li Ling Su sighed.

Before transcendence, the Taoist Sect had a limited increase in the body, nowhere near as perverse as a martial artist’s physique.

And during these six months, the Eastern Sisters had deliberately drained him of his energy, causing him to be in a constant state of deficit.

Originally, he thought that after detaching from the Eastern Sisters, he would be able to properly recuperate and build up his energy, but who knew that for various reasons, he had to accompany other confidants.

From Wen Ren Qian Rou to Chai Xing Er, they are all dry fire.

“Maybe I should try practicing the Wufu system, although it is said that a Wufu can’t break his body before practicing qi realm, but that’s for those who don’t have a foundation. You can’t practice qi by breaking your body early. If I restore my cultivation, it wouldn’t be difficult for me to forcefully practice qi with my fourth grade dao.

“Well, it’s still necessary to start at the Essence Refining Realm, otherwise, lacking the process of beating up my body, it’s basically impossible for me to step into the Fifth Grade Harmonization Power. Wait, it’s not like I’m taking the path of a martial artist for the sake of battle prowess, the Qi Practicing Realm will be fine .”

As he floated around, he suddenly heard a figure emerge from the shadows of the coffee table.

It was none other than the mediocre-looking Xu Qian.

“Seniors?”

Li Lingsu was taken aback, not expecting Xu Qian to come over personally, not afraid of being discovered by the Buddhist monks?

He was just about to ask this when he suddenly noticed that Xu Qian’s state was not right.

The Heavenly Sect has the ability to “realize things” and is particularly sensitive to people and things that have been with them for a long time, and can immediately notice any slight change.

It belongs to the pre-competence of the “unity of heaven and man”.

Although Li Lingsu didn’t really know Xu Qian well, she had spent a short amount of time together.

In the past, Xu Qian was a pool of immersed, unfathomable water. The Xu Qian of the present is the surface of a dark, turbulent sea.

Xu Qi’an nodded and said, “Where was Chai Xing’er last night?”

In my bed Li Ling Su said, “Always with me.”

Xu Qi’an reminded, “Are you sure?”

It’s also possible to go out and do certain unsavory things while you’re asleep.

Li Lingsu frowned, “Last night we didn’t finish until two minutes past midnight. In addition, my seal broke through a small portion and I didn’t sleep too deeply, it’s impossible for me not to notice if the person on my pillow left.”

Speaking of this, Li Ling Su subconsciously rubbed her sore waist.

Two quarters of an hour, are you really suffering from kidney loss? Xu Qi’an nodded slowly without speaking nonsense: “In two quarters of an hour, meet outside the northern city.”

He disappeared into the room as a shadow.

“Mysterious.”

Li Lingsu immediately left the room and asked the Chai Mansion steward for a horse, followed the main road, and went straight to the north city gate.

After only a quarter of an hour, the two of them met outside the north city gate, and Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian had changed his appearance again.

Xu Qi’an nodded slightly without explanation, and with a clip of the filly’s stomach, she spurred her horse away.

“Hyah!”

Li Ling Su waved his horse whip and immediately followed.

Approaching the village, Xu Qi’an slowed down his horse and threw him a robe and hood, saying:

“Put it on, there’s been a murder in the village, you go and invoke the spirits and find out who the murderer is.”

When Li Lingsu finished her disguise, Xu Qi’an rolled over and dismounted, snapped his fingers, and the little mare and the horse that Li Lingsu had ridden, behaved themselves and went into the forest by the side of the road and hid.

Tsk, the ability of the Imperial Beast Compass is so useful ah Li Ling Su thought with envy.

The Heart Compass is also known as the “Beast Compass” or “Beast Control Compass” because it is often used by Heart Compass masters to control poisonous insects and beasts.

The two entered the village side by side, and as they neared their destination, Xu Qi’an realized that villagers were standing outside the small courtyard, and mournful cries were coming from the houses.

The villagers stood either in the courtyard or outside, pointing and mingling.

Xu Qi’an vaguely heard a few words:

“Did Wang Laoshi’s family provoke someone?”

“Who knows, even the children, the murderer is really unconscionable.”

“Ugh, could it be that Chai Xian who did this, it must be him, I heard that this is a crazy person who even kills his adoptive father.”

“Geez, aren’t we in danger then?”

He and Li Ling Su squeezed through the villagers and entered the courtyard.

Simple planks had been erected in the house, on which a family of three lay, covered with dirty white cloths, and an old man with gray hair dropped down to sit by the planks, bawling his eyes out.

A young couple was busy in the house; they wore ordinary cloth clothes, their hands were rough and their faces dark, and they looked like people who were used to rough work.

“Who are you?”

Seeing Xu Qi’an and Li Lingsu enter, the young couple was a bit wary, especially Li Lingsu who was cloaked in a robe and hood.

“Officials.”

Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice, “Who told you to move the body without authorization? What about destroying the clues left by the murderer.”

He came up and questioned the young man, who was at a loss for words and thought he had made a great mistake.

For his part, Li Ling Su took the opportunity to enter the inner room, the scene of the murder, and closed the door.

Not giving the young man a chance to respond, Xu Qi’an had a stern face and asked again, “What is your relationship with this family?”

The young man looked back at the male victim, sadness showing on his mute face:

“He is my brother, and my father is his uncle, and at noon the neighbor saw a stranger come in, and then quickly go away again, and he came over to see what was the matter, and when he shouted half a dozen times and no one answered, he came in and found the people all killed.”

As he spoke, his eyes reddened.

Xu Qi’an’s face did not change as he said, “Call the surrounding neighbors over.”

The young man stepped out of the threshold, swept a few glances toward the crowd of people watching outside the courtyard, and said in dialect:

“The officer has something to ask, so come here for a moment.”

He pointed to several of the neighbors.    Soon two old moms came in, both left and right neighbors.

With some trepidation, and restraining their do-gooder natures, the old moms’ eyes frequently glanced at the three corpses on the planks.

“Have any strange people been here?”

Xu Qi’an inquired and received the answer, “A strange man came by at noon.”

“Any strange people come by this morning?”

The two old moms looked at each other and shook their heads.

One said he didn’t notice, the other said he didn’t see it.

Although there are not many people in the small village, the advantage is that if a stranger enters the village, it is very noticeable, and it is more likely to commit murder at night . He was secretly thinking, when Li Ling Su walked out from the house and shook her head at him.

“The soul is broken.” Li Lingsu transmitted.

Xu Qi’an’s face sank as he slowly nodded.

The two didn’t stay any longer and left the village in a hurry.

On the way back, Li Lingsu whispered, “What happened.”

“I followed Chai Xian that day and found my way here, and Chai Xian was hiding in this house, one of the landing spots.”

Xu Qi’an sat on the mare’s back, gazing far into the distance, and said:

“On that day, we agreed to use this as a point of contact to exchange news, and I planned to encourage him to go to the Demon Slaughter Assembly to confront Chai Xing’er, using the opportunity to pinpoint his location. Well, on that day, I was using a heart compulsion to manipulate a cat to follow him, and by the time my main body arrived, he had already left.”

Ignored here is why he was looking for Chai Xian proper.

Although Li Lingsu was puzzled, he did not ask in detail and murmured, “But Chai Xian did not appear at the Demon Slaying Conference today.”

“Yes!”

Xu Qi’an nodded, “So I came here to make confirmation, only to find that they had been silenced.”

“Hiss,” Li Ling Su huffed:

“The purpose of the silencing was to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaughter Conference? There is a problem here, and that is that the person who silenced you knew that Chai Xian would come over tonight. Otherwise, if Chai Xian couldn’t receive your note, he most likely wouldn’t show up, and then there would be no need to kill and silence him.”

These words woke Xu Qi’an up, and he said in a deep voice, “Perhaps it was not to prevent the note from being obtained by Chai Xian, but to scare Chai Xian off.”

“How?” Li Lingxu asked.

“I don’t know much about Chai Xian, but I know that this person’s character is a bit radical, and he stayed in Xiangzhou to prove his innocence and find out the real culprit behind the scenes. Even without my note, he would most likely take the opportunity of the Demon Slaughtering Conference to redress his grievances.”

Xu Qi’an analyzed:

“The note was an extra insurance policy I added, but it wasn’t the most crucial. Because I couldn’t be sure that Chai Xian would definitely come over last night, but how could the person behind the curtain be sure that Chai Xian would come last night?”

The prerequisite for killing and killing is that Chai Xian gets the note and stirs up trouble at the Demon Slaying Conference tomorrow.

But Xu Qi’an couldn’t even be sure that Chai Xian would come to the small mountain village last night; if he didn’t come, he wouldn’t be able to see the note, and the motive for killing and exterminating him wouldn’t exist.

But the family of three was still killed, which means that the person behind the scenes knew that Chai Yin would come last night.

Lee Ling Soo understood:

“The note is not the key, the key is that the murderer behind the scene knew that Chai Xian would come here last night. He killed that family of three in advance, which scared Chai Xian and made him think that the mysterious person he met that day, that is, you, senior, was the one harboring the evil intentions.

“Out of caution, he dismissed the idea of stirring up trouble at the Demon Slaughter Conference. But what is the murderer’s purpose?”

Xu Qi’an failed to give an answer and shook his head:

“One key piece of information is missing. In this case, besides Chai Xing’er and Chai Xian, there is another person who is hidden behind the scenes. He’s the one who’s going around killing people. Lock down the identity of this person and the truth will basically be solved.”

Li Ling Su thought of a character, “Could it be Chai Lan?”

This character never appeared; she strangely disappeared on the day of Chai Chien Yuan’s death and was never heard from again.

Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically, “Does she have this level of cultivation.”

“Chai Lan’s cultivation is good, but she shouldn’t have reached the fourth rank, or even the fifth rank. It’s not certain if she has hidden strength though.” Li Lingsu couldn’t be sure.

Xu Qi’an said, “You don’t have to come looking for me in the next two days.”

“Why?”

“I will secretly investigate the case, find out the real culprit behind it, and then kill him.” Xu Qi’an said expressionlessly.

Chai Mansion.

One of the monks returned to the courtyard and rang the door of Jingshin’s room, and when he received permission, he pushed his way in and saw Jingshin and Jinyuan talking with their hands.

“Two Senior Brothers, Sifu Chai Xing’er asked me to relay the message that there has been an extermination case in Xiaobu Village, more than thirty miles to the west of Xiangzhou City, suspected to be the work of a jianghu person.

“The government-organized `search team’ inquired about the situation and ruled out Chai Hsien as the culprit. However, according to the villagers, a man dressed in green came to the village at noon today. Not long afterward, two more oddly dressed outsiders entered the village, claiming to be from the government.

“But the Yamen has already done the confirmation, and these two are not from the government.”

He detailed the deaths of a family of three.

Pure Heart twisted the chess piece and “snapped” it down, his voice gentle, “Got it.”

The monk folded his arms and retreated.

“Maybe it’s a jungle ranger.” Pure Edge said.

He was referring to the two impostor officials who came after the fact.

“What’s the point of killing without ever ingesting essence blood or seeking wealth?” Pureheart frowned and pondered.

“Maybe it’s a vendetta, or maybe it’s someone from the evil path muddling through, there’s no need to be too concerned. If you want to solve this matter earlier, you still have to get rid of the root.” Pure Edge said in a deep voice.

After the Demon Slaying Conference, the government and several major jianghu forces, against the yellow book, searched from house to house in the city.

There are also “search teams” in the townships.

To be able to do this, the Xiangzhou government is already considered to be very good at what it does.

“Tonight, you will go out to patrol the city, remember to be more flashy.” Pure Heart said.

“Uh-huh.” Net Edge nodded.

Pure Heart set aside his chess pieces and took out an ancient book from his cloth bag, stopping at a certain page as the pages flipped.

“The Southern Border Corpse Compulsion Department has a secret art of raising corpses with corpses, which is derived from the art of raising parasites, where the walking corpses devour each other and seize the essence, and the final winner is the Corpse King.”

“Above the Iron Corpse is the Flying Corpse, the Flying Corpse does not possess the Alchemy Realm martial artist’s early warning of danger, the Harmonization Power martial artist’s extreme control of power, or the Fourth Grade martial artist’s “intent”, but the Flying Corpse can briefly fly through the air, and its battle power is no weaker than that of the Fourth Grade, or even stronger.”

“Because they seized enough essence blood to condense a blood dan prototype within their bodies, possessing the ability to regenerate blood and flesh.”

Pure Heart slowly said, “After killing so many martial artists, some of them were seized for their essence blood, and some of their corpses disappeared. The person behind the scenes is afraid that he wants to refine a flying corpse. He definitely won’t let go of you who cultivated the Vajra Divine Skill.”

Pure Edge laughed, “Especially since the cultivation I displayed at the Demon Slaying Assembly was barely fifth grade.”

As he was speaking, another monk came in and handed up a note:

“Elder Brother Pureheart, the butler of the Chai Mansion handed over a letter, saying that it was delivered by someone outside the gate, requesting it for you by name.”

With a puzzled mind, Nettie opened the envelope.

Xu Qi’an returned to the inn and knocked on the door.

“Who is it?”

Mu Nanjia’s voice filled with caution sounded behind the door.

“Me.”

Xu Qi’an heard something wrong with her voice and said, “Open the door, what’s wrong?”

Squeak~

The door to the room opened, and Mun Nanjian stood behind the door with a serious face.

Two small palm-sized white foxes sat crouching obediently at her feet, their tender childish voices pretending to be serious:

“Someone’s watching us, and if you don’t come back, Auntie’s going to get scared and burrow under the bed.”

PS: I recommend a book called “I Heard You Were Tacky”, a kindergarten handful of books, so remember to fasten your seatbelt before you read it.