Pawn Crossing the River

Soon, there was news.

Lu Yujue's face was not very good, and he was a little hesitant, as if he didn't know how to report to Qi Xuansu.

On the contrary, Qi Xuansu was not as angry as imagined, but just asked calmly: "Why, Zhao Jiaowu's son also escaped?"

The calmer Qi Xuansu was, the easier it was to remind people of the calm before the storm.

Lu Yujue answered carefully: "That's not the case. However... there was an accident during the arrest, and the two sides fought fiercely. Zhao Jiaowu's son accidentally died in the chaos."

Although Lu Yujue didn't say it very clearly, it was easy to understand the implied meaning. Zhao Jiaowu had escaped, could he forget his son? Most likely someone helped Zhao Jiaowu's son escape together, and they happened to collide with the arrest team sent by Lu Yujue, so they fought directly, and Zhao Jiaowu's son, who was the main target of both sides, died in the chaos.

It is also possible that someone took advantage of the chaos to kill him.

Qi Xuansu said calmly: "It seems that all our actions are within people's expectations."

Lu Yujue hurriedly said: "We are negligent in our work."

Li Zhuyu also looked serious and said: "We will conduct an internal self-examination immediately."

Qi Xuansu did not comment: "The ice is three feet thick and it is not a day's cold. Today's situation is not caused by you."

Lu Yujue breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Xuansu was a little emotional. From another perspective, Chen Zhengxian was lucky to be dead.

The dead are the greatest, and many problems will not be pursued. There is even a bit of tragedy, and it can leave a better reputation.

If Chen Zhengxian had not died, then he might not be able to keep his reputation. After all, the Western Region Dao Mansion was infiltrated into such a ghost, and Jinque must be held accountable. Chen Zhengxian was responsible for the leadership, and he might not be able to keep his position as the real person in charge of the mansion. Maybe his reputation would be completely lost.

Now Qi Xuansu has to clean up this mess. Although Qi Xuansu's actions have been quick enough and he has launched a large-scale investigation as soon as he took office, it is still a bit unexpected that there are still so many fish that slip through the net.

Qi Xuansu did not lose his temper, nor did he blame Lu Yujue. After all, Lu Yujue had just taken office not long ago. Most of his subordinates originally obeyed the orders of the former deputy chief, Zhao Jiaowu. Among them, there are many Zhao Jiaowu's confidants, and even they are very hidden. In a short time, Lu Yujue cannot find all of them.

Qi Xuansu ordered: "Second Chief Lu, you immediately issue a wanted order in the name of the Daofu, and report to the Beichen Hall Headquarters, and mobilize all forces to hunt down the defected Zhao Jiaowu."

Lu Yujue took the order and left.

Qi Xuansu said to others: "Let's go to the scene to take a look."

Then Qi Xuansu signaled the assistant of the Beichen Hall Branch to lead the way.

Each Daofu has a prison, and the location of the prison is different according to the actual situation of each Daofu. The Nether Prison of the Snow Mountain Palace is located in the underground city, where the Lingguan is stationed and is easy to manage.

However, compared with the underground palace and the corpse-raising area, this area is still a peripheral area. After all, the area where the corpse-raising area is located is full of yin energy, and even the Lingguan cannot be stationed there. They can only be replaced by mechanical puppets. In the core area, even the puppets will be corroded, so people cannot be locked up there.

At first, it was just a temporary review led by Qi Xuansu, which was equivalent to semi-house arrest, so people were not directly locked up in the Nether Prison, but in the upper area of ​​the Taoist Palace. Later, Jiazi Lingguan came to the Western Region Daofu with the order of Jinque. In the name of Jinque, under the pretext of investigating Jiashen Lingguan, Zhao Jiaowu was transferred to the Nether Prison. This is already a rainy day.

At that time, Zhao Jiaowu should still be lucky. After all, looking at the situation at the time, Jinque should have locked Jiashen Lingguan, and all the blame fell on Jiashen Lingguan, so he could naturally get away with it.

Under normal circumstances, it is not a simple matter to attack the underground city of the Snow Mountain Palace from the outside. After all, the Snow Mountain Palace itself is a fortress, with formations inside and outside to isolate the five elements of escape. When Xuansheng attacked the Snow Mountain Palace and entered the corpse-raising ground, he first broke the formation from the outside and then killed them layer by layer.

It still fits the old saying that the strongest fortress is broken from the inside, and no matter how tight the defense is, it can't resist the inner ghost.

When he came to the nether prison, the dead and injured spirits had been transferred, leaving only a mess on the ground.

Qi Xuansu carefully looked at the traces left on the ground. There were not many traces of magic, and more traces were caused by some huge existence. It's not that people can't do this level of destruction, but the traces left are different. For example, the difference between the giant beast and ordinary people is too big when they retreat and leave scratches.

Then Qi Xuansu came to the so-called secret tunnel and asked, "What's going on here?"

The entrance to the tunnel is inside the Nether Prison. It seems that the tunnel was built first, and then the Nether Prison. It was not opened normally, as if it was directly blown up by some external force. However, no matter how strong the external force is, it is impossible to open up a whole tunnel. It seems that there was originally a tunnel, but the entrance was blocked.

Li Zhuyu and Li Mingcheng looked at each other. They had just arrived at the Western Region Dao Mansion. Qi Xuansu didn't know, and they didn't know either.

However, Li Zhuyu reacted quickly and immediately asked someone to find the assistant of the Tianji Hall Branch.

Just as the Tianji Hall is responsible for managing the entire Yujing building, the Daxue Mountain Palace is also managed by the Tianji Hall Branch.

The assistant of Tianji Hall was actually right next to him. When the tunnel incident happened, he immediately realized that he had a heavy responsibility, so he waited by the side early. Now that the real person in charge wanted to ask questions, he immediately stepped forward and came to Qi Xuansu's side.

Qi Xuansu pointed to the entrance of the tunnel and said nothing.

The assistant of Tianji Hall hurriedly replied: "This is the tunnel left by the Shamanism in the past, not built by the Taoist government."

Qi Xuansu said slowly: "It was built by the Shamanism, so there is no problem. When the Taoist sect took over the Snow Mountain Palace, there was no structural drawing of the entire Snow Mountain Palace, so there was no problem. Now more than 200 years have passed, and the Tianji Hall branch is responsible for repairing and maintaining the Snow Mountain Palace. Didn't it find this tunnel? Is there no problem with this?"

The assistant of Tianji Hall immediately replied: "Of course Tianji Hall discovered the existence of the tunnel here, but, but..."

"But what?" Qi Xuansu asked.

The assistant of Tianji Hall replied: "Because the tunnel is too long and the terrain is complicated, only the two ends of the tunnel were filled when backfilling, and the middle section was not backfilled..."

In an instant, you could hear a pin drop.

No one around said anything. This kind of thing is not uncommon. If nothing goes wrong, it's fine. Once something goes wrong, it will be a huge responsibility, and even other people's responsibilities will be thrown to you. For example, the responsibility of Beichen Hall this time can be pushed to Tianji Hall.

After a long time, Qi Xuansu broke the silence and asked: "When did this happen?"

The assistant of Tianji Hall hurriedly replied: "It was discovered during the time of the three generations of great masters, and the backfilling project was also a matter of that time."

In an instant, the expressions of many people became lively again.

It turned out to be a historical problem, so it's okay.

The assistant of the Beichen Hall branch was even a little disappointed. Now he couldn't shirk his responsibility.

What else could Qi Xuansu say? He could only sigh.

At that time, he tried to save trouble, but in the end, it was his own descendants who were in trouble.

It was unrealistic to quietly dig a tunnel under the eyes of the Taoist sect, but it was very simple to just open the two ends of the tunnel. It was basically a matter of a blink of an eye. Even if the Snow Mountain Palace noticed something was wrong, this time was enough to rescue people.

Qi Xuansu walked into the tunnel first, and the others followed closely behind. According to their different positions, they presented a situation of Qi Xuansu as the center, making it seem as if Qi Xuansu came to inspect the major projects of the Taoist sect.

After entering the tunnel, the first part was the part that was backfilled by the Taoist sect, and now it was forcibly broken by external forces, so the ground was in a mess and nothing could be seen. But after walking more than a hundred feet, gradually entering the part that was not backfilled at the beginning, it was found that there were indeed some doors in this tunnel. It was one foot high and two feet wide, and it was a stone structure. There were murals carved on the walls on both sides.

Qi Xuansu looked at them one by one. The contents of all the murals were similar. A giant was riding on a horse, rumbling across the sky, and the houses and people on the ground seemed particularly small. The position that originally belonged to the sun was occupied by a huge eye, which was bigger than the giant and was looking down at the world.

It seemed that the giant was about to fight with this huge eye that looked like the sun and the moon.

Li Zhuyu had already recognized the identity of the giant: "This should be the Changshengtian believed by the shamans, but this huge eye seems to be related to the blood sacrifice we found..."

Qi Xuansu interrupted her immediately: "Some things are better not to know. The precedent of the evil fire in Fenglinzhou must be observed."

Li Zhuyu also participated in the Fenglinzhou war. Qi Xuansu used the evil fire as an example, and she understood that despair and yin energy would attract evil fire, and this giant eye would also attract some weird things, so she stopped talking and forced herself not to think too much.

Qi Xuansu certainly knew what this was. The giant was Changshengtian, and the giant eye was the one-eyed stone Buddha under the name of "Changshengtian".

Don't say that the stone man has one eye, and provoke the world to rebel in Changhe.

Qi Xuansu was not afraid of the giant eye because the power of He Luo God protected him. Others did not have such ability, so it was better not to know.

From this, it seems that the ancient shamanism already knew the existence of "Changshengtian" and regarded it as an enemy. However, after the real Changshengtian left the world, this former enemy infiltrated the shamanism.

This is also reasonable. The one who knows you best is often your enemy. Shamanism regards "Changshengtian" as an enemy, so it naturally knows "Changshengtian" best. When they lose the protection of the real Changshengtian, this understanding becomes a curse.

Qi Xuansu continued to move forward, and others had to follow. After walking about ten miles, the tunnel was blocked by mud and rocks, which should be used to block the pursuers.

Qi Xuansu carefully observed the traces here, and he was more certain of his previous judgment that a huge creature passed through the tunnel. Then Qi Xuansu began to trace the earth's energy with Wu Peng's method.