Chronicles of Celestial Origins

"Is there anything else?" Tang Ning sat on the main seat and asked the man below.

"No, that's all I know." The man said, shrugging his head.

After capturing Bai Hu, Tang Ning took him back to Tianling Mountain, recounted the abnormality in his body, and told him that all senior members of the Immortal Sect had been captured. Seeing this, the man did not struggle much and truthfully confessed what he knew and saw.

In fact, Tang Ning already knew what he said. It was no different from what Xu Ru confessed, and its value was not high.

"Here comes someone," Tangning said.

A disciple walked in outside and bowed: "Uncle, what are your orders?"

"This person and Xu Ru will be sent back to the sect and sent to the Forbidden Secret Department."

"Yes." The disciple took the order and escorted the man out.

At this point, all the core members of the Immortal Sect have been captured. Tang Ning ordered the remaining disciples to end the operation and let them return to their sects. The remaining low-level casual cultivators were no longer worthy of arrest.

Everyone left Tianling Mountain one after another and returned to the sect the next day.

He was about to leave the mountain, and when he left the wooden house, he saw a big-eared man waiting in front of the door. It was none other than Chu Yinglong who had betrayed the Immortal Cult.

He had almost forgotten about this person. He had never taken care of this person since he brought him to Tianling Mountain, and he had been staying in Tianling Mountain to practice during this period of time.

At this moment, Tang Ning saw him waiting in front of the wooden house door like a disciple on duty, and asked strangely: "Why are you here?"

Crane Yinglong said: "I saw the disciples of your sect leaving one after another yesterday, even the sentry post in front of the wooden house. I thought that there was no one to take care of me, so I made an independent decision and replaced the sentry disciples, ready to be dispatched at any time."

"The matter of the Immortal Cult is over here. They will naturally return to the sect. You should go too! No one from the Immortal Cult will trouble you again in the future."

Cree Yinglong suddenly knelt on one knee in front of him and said: "Junior is brave and has an unkind request. I hope senior will agree."

Tangning frowned slightly: "What's going on?"

Crane Yinglong said: "This junior has received great kindness from my senior and has nothing to repay. If my senior never abandons me, I will be willing to hold the whip, fall in the stirrup and listen to my orders for my senior in the future, in order to repay my senior for saving my life."

Tang Ning was about to refuse, but as she spoke, a thought suddenly flashed through her mind. Although she was the director of the Silver Fox Intelligence Station, the current intelligence station staff were all promoted and appointed by Du Yuankai. She did not have any trusted personnel, so she hired a loose man. He has good ears and eyes, so he said: "Do you know my identity?"

"This junior has been practicing in this mountain for half a year. I heard someone say that I know that my senior is a monk from the Qianyi Sect's Information Department."

"Since you know that I am a disciple of the Intelligence Department, you must have guessed that my main job is to collect information, and I need to deal with people from all religions, including Demon Sect disciples. In this process, I have to deal with some complex and dangerous things. One careless move may cost my life. No guarantee, have you thought about it?”

"This junior's life was originally saved by the seniors. Even if you die in a sea of ​​swords and fire, you will have no regrets."

Tang Ning didn't say anything. She waved her hand and her body was wrapped in spiritual energy and she walked away. After walking for several hours, she arrived at Qianjun Mountain.

"Uncle Tang, Senior Tang." Everyone stood up and saluted when they saw him returning.

Tangning paused, pointed at Cree Yinglong and said, "From now on, he will join our intelligence station. Ren An will arrange a specific task for him."

"Yes." A disciple responded

"Crei Yinglong, you follow their arrangements. If you need anything, you can come to me directly."

"yes."

Tang Ning returned to her room. Not long after, there was a knock on the door. Kong Ji pushed the door open with a file in hand: "Uncle, this is the file news sent by various intelligence points in recent times."

Most of the files are about the intrigues between various families, and some are about the Corpse Puppet Sect. He left the intelligence station for more than half a year, and everything was left to Xu Qingwan and Zheng Wei to handle everything. Unless there is particularly urgent intelligence information, it will be sent to Tianling Mountain.

"Why is there no news from Zhu Maoqing? Didn't he ask him to inquire and report Zhu Mingxuan's physical condition at any time? Why hasn't there been any intelligence news for half a year?" Tangning asked after reading through the report and found no report about the Zhu family.

"No one has seen Zhu Mingxuan since his last appearance. It is said that he is still recovering from his injuries. Zhu Maoqing is naturally out of reach, so no news has been sent."

Tangning closed the file: "Have you seen the person I brought just now?"

"Disciple has seen it."

"His name is Crepe Yinglong, from Beiyuan. Check his past carefully."

"Yes." Kong Ji responded, opening his mouth but hesitating to speak.

"What's wrong? If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Does Crepe Yinglong want to stay in our intelligence station? According to regulations, the intelligence station only has thirty-six employees, and it is already full. The sect will not pay the corresponding salary and funds for additional personnel. We need our intelligence The station pays for itself.”

"You don't need to worry about this. I will talk to fellow Taoist Xu about the salary. A Qi Refining disciple doesn't need many spiritual stones a year. You just need to find out his details."

"yes."

"Go ahead!"

Kong Ji responded and retreated.

Tang Ning patted the spirit beast bag, and a white shadow flashed out. The body of the little white snake swelled in the wind and surrounded him. Its huge head rested on his shoulder, and it kept spitting out its scarlet tongue.

During this period of time, Tangning stayed in Tianling Mountain and rarely released it.

So it was "liberated" this time, and it seemed very excited. Its huge body kept swimming around him, sometimes rubbing its head against him, sometimes spitting out letters and sweeping them across his palm.

Tang Ning gently stroked its huge head, turned her left hand and took out two vitality pills. The little white snake Xinzi swallowed them into her belly in one roll, then straightened her body and rolled several times, revealing her snow-white belly, and then He curled his body into a ball and retracted his head into his body.

………………

Half a month passed in a flash, and on this day, Kong Ji came to his room again with the file: "Uncle Master, this is the news that just came from the sect."

Tang Ning took it and took a look. It turned out that there was new progress in the corpse insect matter. Lu Xingxian asked him to return to the sect to discuss the matter.

After such a long time, there is only new progress. It seems that the final mastermind has not been found out, otherwise he would not be called back to the sect.

That night, he left the intelligence station and headed southeast. After two days of traveling, he arrived at Lu Xingxian Cave Mansion.

"You're here, sit down!" Lu Xingxian said.

Tang Ning took her seat as instructed: "I received the letter from the sect and rushed here overnight. How is the investigation on the corpse insect going?"

"The Forbidden Secret Department obtained Phoenix's memory through secret techniques and found that part of his memory was also incomplete. There is no memory about how he became the host of the corpse insect."

Tangning pondered, "In other words, we don't know what method the mastermind behind the scenes used to turn them into this. Do you have any clues about the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"Unlike several others, in his memory, he took the initiative to accept this matter."

"Take the initiative, why?"

Lu Xingxian said: "Phoenix's original name was Jiang Taihua, and he was a loose cultivator in the Qi Kingdom. He had already run out of fuel and his life was approaching. He was about to be enthroned, and even the cave where he would be enthroned was selected. Suddenly one day, a man The man found him and claimed that he could help him survive. The memory after that was very vague. After the two discussed it, Jiang Taihua finally agreed to the man, and the memory after that was gone. "

"It wasn't until he woke up again that the man appeared in his memory again. For nearly a year, the memory area was blank."

Tang Ning said: "So, that man must be the helmsman behind the scenes. The blank area in his memory for a year should be the period when he became the host of the corpse insect. What kind of cultivation level does that man have?"

"According to his memory, he was in the late stage of foundation building. His specific identity is still unknown. The man appeared three times in his memory. Each time, he was wearing a bamboo hat and a black robe. The first time was Jiang Taihua. When he was about to die, he appeared in his cave and told him how to extend his life, turning him into a corpse insect host."

"The second time was when Jiang Taihua became the host of the corpse worm. After he woke up in a barren mountain, the man was beside him. The two had a conversation about the corpse worm in his body."

"The third time was a year later. The man found him again and learned about his physical condition. He never appeared again. After that time, Jiang Taihua came to Chu State, and then found several companions one after another, and established the Immortal teach."

Tang Ning remembered that Jiang Taihua once said that this old life should have come to an end, which must have been referring to the fact that his life span was short! No wonder he looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water and refused to speak. It turned out that he had already prepared to die.

For a person who is nearing the end of his life, all threats are ineffective, and at most, it is just death.

"What did they talk about?"

Lu Xingxian flipped his left hand, took out a dossier, handed it to him and said, "This is the dossier report on Jiang Taihua's memory read by the Forbidden Secret Section. The Intelligence Section and the Inspection Section each have one copy. You can read it yourself!"

Tang Ning took the file and opened it to look at it. She saw dense rows and columns of text, most of which were in the form of dialogues. Among them are three conversations between the man in black robe and Jiang Taihua.

The first conversation records the first time they met. The main content is that the man seduced Jiang Taihua into becoming a corpse insect host and promised to extend his longevity.

The second conversation records that after Jiang Taihua woke up, the man told him about the various wonderful uses of the corpse worms in his body, including the ability to sense his companions, eating the flesh and blood of monks to help increase his spiritual power, etc. In their conversation, they called the corpse worms the source of undead essence. .

The third conversation record shows that after Jiang Taihua was in seclusion for a year, the man found him again to learn about all aspects of his physical condition. Afterwards, the man said that the corpse worms were developing very stably and he could move freely.