A few days passed.

Zhang Yunqing suddenly found Zhuqing.

"Can you come with me to Shangyang City?" she said.

Zhu Qing was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Of course."

So Zhang Yunqing summoned his turtle mount and carried the two of them towards Shangyang City.

The two of them sat on the turtle's back. Zhang Yunqing glanced back at him and asked, "You were responsible for the Zhang Zhun and Ye Shuang case in Shangyang City, right?"

Zhu Qing looked at her doubtfully, but still nodded. "Not bad."

"So what did you find out at that time?" Zhang Yunqing went straight to the point.

Zhu Qing frowned and thought for a moment, "This is an internal secret of the Immortal Punishment Department. I'm sorry I can't tell you."

Zhang Yunqing sighed. This man had vowed to repay her a few days ago, but in the end he refused to even reveal any information about the case.

But she could understand.

"Then let me change the question. What exactly is the blood curse?"

Zhu Qing was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, "This kind of thing is hard to explain in a few words. According to the Immortal Punishment Department's rules, the Bloodline Curse is a forbidden technique."

It turned out to be a forbidden technique. No wonder she couldn't find any relevant information.

"This kind of spell is almost against the will of heaven. It can steal the luck of future generations for one's own use. The ancestors benefit, but the future generations suffer the backlash. Monsters, demons, and chaos all have the ability to cast this spell."

"Then..." Zhang Yunqing glanced at himself inconspicuously, "What kind of backlash will the descendants suffer?"

"Bad luck, a miserable life, or a premature death, or wandering around, or bedridden... and so on." Zhu Qing thought for a moment and added, "If his descendants were supposed to be geniuses in cultivating immortals, but their luck was stolen, they might just be ordinary mortals, weak and sickly, and plagued by bad luck."

"But the power of the curse will gradually weaken with the coming generations. When I investigated the Zhang Zhun and Ye Shuang case, the blood curse in Zhang Zhun's body was already very weak. Later, I secretly investigated the other two descendants of the Zhang family. One girl was Zhang Yunqing, and I could still detect a slight backlash of the curse in her body. The other girl was Zhang Huayue, and her body was completely clean, without any trace of the blood curse."

"Is this normal?" Zhang Yunqing asked.

Zhu Qing shook his head. "Of course it's not normal. Zhang Huayue and Zhang Yunqing are of the same generation, so the power of the spells in their bodies should be the same."

"So what?" Zhang Yunqing frowned.

"So..." Zhu Qing suddenly stopped talking, glanced at Zhang Yunqing, and sighed helplessly, "I have told you enough. I really can't reveal the rest."

Zhang Yunqing shook his head and sighed, "So, there's something fishy about Zhang Qianlin? Zhang Jun and his wife are both dead, but Zhang Qianlin is not. Not only that, even his daughter's blood curse has been cleared and her water and fire mixed primordial spiritual roots have been awakened."

Zhu Qing frowned. "We, the spiritual cultivators, haven't studied spells thoroughly. Maybe there are other possibilities. For example, Zhang Yunqing, although she has spell backlash in her body and is ultimately just a fake spiritual root, she is now a disciple of the master of the Shenxiao Sect. It can be seen that her luck doesn't seem to be affected too much. It can even be said that she is better than Zhang Huayue. Therefore, we may need to rethink our attitude towards Zhang Qianlin."

Zhang Yunqing shook his head silently. The original owner was indeed dead. He died at the age of 12 and could not escape the backlash of the curse.

So there is something wrong with Zhang Qianlin!

"Why did the Immortal Lord suddenly ask about this old case?" Zhu Qing wondered.

Zhang Yunqing thought for a moment and made up a story, "I had a dream yesterday. In the dream, a carrot told me to find out the truth about the Zhang Zhun and Ye Shuang case. It was related to the future of the cultivation world. When I heard that, I knew I had to investigate."

Zhu Qing looked at her helplessly and said nothing more.

"However, since you classified this case as a top-level case, I think you must have thought of a problem." Zhang Yunqing suddenly said calmly. "Don't you want to continue investigating?"

She turned to look at Zhu Qing, only to see Zhu Qing's complicated eyes, and then he sighed heavily.

"Who is Zhang Pingzhi?" Zhang Yunqing asked, staring into his eyes.

Zhu Qing shook his head, "I really haven't found out about this yet."

Not long after, the two arrived at Shangyang City.

"Let's go buy some rice, flour, grain and oil." Zhang Yunqing said.

Although Zhu Qing didn't understand what she wanted to do, he followed her anyway.

The place they went to was the grain and oil store that had been emptied a few days ago.

The narrow storefront stands out among the crowd of shops.

There were several bamboo baskets in front of the door, filled with clean rice.

A middle-aged woman with a hunched back was sifting grain.

Zhang Yunqing stopped at the door of the store, and his shadow fell on the woman's winnowing basket.

The woman slowly raised her head and recognized Zhang Yunqing. "You must be the immortal who came to buy things a few days ago, right? But is there any problem with that batch of food?"

She stood up, and her hunched body made her shorter than Zhang Yunqing.

Zhang Yunqing smiled and said, "There is no problem with the food. The quality is very good, so I want to buy some more this time."

"That's good, that's good." The woman breathed a sigh of relief and pointed to the rice next to her. "Last time, the immortal bought all kinds of food in the store. I've harvested some new rice these days, but I don't have the rest for now. Take a look."

Zhang Yunqing touched the rice. The grains were full, clean and free of impurities. It was obvious that they had been carefully screened.

"This grain is of good quality, much better than the grain and oil shop in Zhang's Mansion." Zhang Yunqing said. "The rice I bought from Zhang's Mansion Grain and Oil Shop last time looked good on the top, but was rotten underneath. It was really annoying."

The woman smiled and said nothing.

"That's right. A thief who killed his brother and sister-in-law wouldn't have any pure intentions in running a store."

Zhu Qing glanced at Zhang Yunqing and said, "That can't be said. If he really did a lot of evil, how could his descendants be so lucky and suddenly have a chance to become an immortal? Since the government didn't arrest him, he must be innocent, but his reputation was ruined by rumors."

"Bang!" The woman suddenly dropped the dustpan to the ground. "A thief who killed his brother and sister-in-law colluded with the government to clear his name, and turned out to be innocent?"

Zhang Yunqing raised his eyebrows and glanced at Zhu Qing, who smiled.

"Oh?" Zhang Yunqing turned around. "But I heard that before the old man of the Zhang family passed away, Zhang Zhun had driven Zhang Qianlin's wife and children out of the Zhang family and took all the family property. So it seems that Zhang Zhun was the first to be unkind, right?"

"Then...then!" When the woman heard Zhang Yunqing's words, she was a little emotional and wanted to explain. However, after looking at the two of them, she sighed a little sadly, "Forget it, these are all old things. Things have already happened and nothing can be changed. Whatever the immortal thinks, it's up to you."

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