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Although the Taixu Dao Sect is the overlord of the entire Lingzhou and the patron of many small countries, what does this worldly matter have to do with them? These matters can only be handled by secular officials. If the Taixu Taoist Sect intervenes casually, it may break all the current order.

"It would be fine if it was just a killing between mortals, but there are some traces of supernatural power interference behind it." Lin Zixuan said hurriedly when he saw Jiang Yuanchen's indifferent expression.

Holding the teapot and pouring two cups of tea for himself, Jiang Yuanchen said calmly: "Even if extraordinary power interferes, the local spirit gods will bear the brunt, and it has nothing to do with the two of us. Are we outsiders, or are we? Just stay here and wait for news from Li Tianhao."

"What if we can't even control the local land?" Lin Xiaozi smiled bitterly: "It was the local land god who asked my brothers and sisters to take action."

"Then the two of us can't do it! The local land is equivalent to a monk in the heartbeat stage."

Seeing Jiang Yuanchen's indifference, Lin Zixuan had no choice but to say: "Put on your clothes, and I'll take you to see the corpses first." After that, he threw a fur to Jiang Yuanchen.

Seeing that Lin Zixuan insisted on doing this, Jiang Yuanchen frowned and followed this senior brother to the Fuya morgue to check out the corpses.

Because it was the twelfth lunar month of the cold month, the smell of corpses in the morgue was not strong. Jiang Yuanchen covered his mouth and nose and followed behind Wang Baotou and Lin Zixuan to look at the twelve corpses one by one.

The first one was a man in his thirties with a broken arm. He was dressed in rags and had a dirty face. It seemed that his life was not very good during his lifetime. The broken arm was right next to his body, and there seemed to be traces of being bitten by wild dogs.

Did he die from excessive blood loss? Seeing that his right arm was severed, Jiang Yuanchen analyzed it secretly.

Then, Wu Zuo lifted off the white cloth on the second corpse. A woman with a swollen body, looking at her clothes, fair skin, and well-proportioned frame, she must have been a beauty during her lifetime. This one seems to have been drowned.

The third body was a short middle-aged man, said to be a businessman in an antique shop, who did not want to be buried alive in the soil and suffocated to death.

The fourth body, this body retains its original appearance, except that its face is pale and bloodless. A woman in her forties had a matchmaker mole stuck to the corner of her eyebrow. However, a piece of white cloth placed next to her contained a severed tongue, which was enough to explain how she died.

On the fifth body, only a skeleton was left, and a bag of meat pieces was placed beside it. The deceased had been completely cut off piece by piece using the Lingchi method. However, Jiang Yuanchen looked disgusted and was not in the mood to count the legendary three hundred and sixty knives.

The sixth, seventh... and the twelfth corpse was seen in total.

Vomiting, a sense of revolt surged into his throat, Jiang Yuanchen calmed down and endured it. He bowed his hands to Lin Zixuan, walked out of the morgue, and took a deep breath in the courtyard.

Sure enough, I have never experienced such a thing, so it can't be a spy specially sent by other sects, right? Or are even these reactions just fake? Lin Zixuan thought to himself and followed Jiang Yuanchen into the courtyard.

"Junior brother, are you okay? Brother Wei was shocked when he saw these corpses for the first time." Lin Zixuan put on a smile and said with concern.

"Nothing." Jiang Yuanchen's face softened slightly: "Are these all those who died in the past few days? Ling Chi, buried alive, tongue cutting... The preparation of these kinds of punishments takes a lot of time, but if there is no news in the city, maybe it is just It was done by one person? So senior brother thinks that there is supernatural power interfering in it? Has the local land god ever asked?"

Jiang Yuanchen thought for a while and then said: "Now that the New Year is approaching, if something like this happens in the city, not to mention that the secular government will not benefit from it, even the land god will probably be blamed."

"Lord Dijun has actually roughly pointed out the prisoner's location, but that place is a bit weird. I took my brothers to search there, but still found nothing." Wang Captou also came out at this time and asked Jiang Yuanchen explained.

"That area belongs to a wealthy family in the city. The head of the family is an official who retired from the imperial court and returned to his hometown last year. He is quite influential in the city -"

"So you want to use the power of Dao Zong to interfere?" Jiang Yuanchen sneered at Wang Baotou's little plan: "It is only through the teachings of our Dao Zong that the prosperity of Lingzhou countries has come, and naturally we have our own rules. We are absolutely convinced. We will not easily break the rules set by the Dao Sect, put pressure on the mortal kingdom below, and break the current good situation. Our brothers and sisters cannot afford this sin. It would be fine if there is extraordinary power to interfere, but if it is just If a human being in this world causes trouble, I will never stand up for you if the dignity of the imperial court is involved!"

After knocking, Jiang Yuanchen's tone softened: "Let's get the copywriting of these murder cases first."

Wang Putou responded and went back to get the documents on the murder cases, leaving only Lin Zixuan and Jiang Yuanchen standing outside the morgue.

"What, you want to take care of it?" Lin Zixuan asked, crossing his arms.

"Senior brother has brought my little brother here. If I don't get enough food and salt, I'm afraid I will be complained by my senior brother. In fact, I won't even think about practicing well these days because I feel guilty."

Lin Zixuan said in a deep voice: "Yes, we cultivators must understand our true intentions. How can we sit back and watch when we encounter such a harm to Tianhe? If my junior brother only thinks about being aloof from the world, it will be too simple. .”

You have a righteous face, but every word you say hurts the harmony of heaven and earth. The natural way of heaven and earth does not care about the good and evil of your humanity. Jiang Yuanchen rolled his eyes, and after Wang Putou brought the copy over, he took it and read it.

"What do you think, junior brother?"

Jiang Yuanchen flipped through the copy very quickly, and soon returned it to Wang Captou, and closed his eyes for a while to think about it.

"Brother, let's go to the Tutu Temple first to find out more information." After saying that, Jiang Yuanchen left the morgue first. Jiang Yuanchen was not willing to stay here for a long time...

The Di Temple, as a place of worship for the city's land, is not far from the Taixu Taoist Temple. Fifty years ago, this Earth Temple was also integrated into Taixu Taoist Temple, but it was only deliberately taken out later.

After Jiang Yuanchen and his two men arrived at the Tu Tu Temple, they burned three sticks of incense in front of the Tu Tu Statue. Then the temple blessing on the side seemed to have some idea, and indeed took the two of them to a wing at the back under the oracle conveyed by the Tu Tu.

Then, the surrounding environment changed, and the two entered the land of the gods again.

The Earth Spirit God of Taixu Taoist Sect is divided into five elements: Water Lord lives in water, Mountain God hides gold, Earth belongs to earth, Forest Lord controls trees, and Desert Lord lives in fire. The gods of rivers, mountains, regions, forests and deserts divide the lineage of earth spirit gods into endless generations according to the five elements.

This land divine realm is different from Li Tianhao's mountain god realm. It has a little more breadth of the earth and the power of return, but a little less sharp and sharp aura of mountains.

A little old man with a white beard and a cane were waiting for Jiang Yuanchen and the other two in the center of the divine realm.

"Forcibly inviting two flesh bodies here, I hope the two Taoist priests will not be blamed."

"We are all from the Taixu Dao Sect, so there is no need for God to do this." Lin Zixuan said after saluting, "The two of us would like to ask more about the murder case in the city. I wonder if God can tell me something?"

The land god here was originally a virtuous old man from this city a hundred years ago. He was ordered by the Taixu Taoist Sect to become a god after his death. He also had great affection for this city and regarded the people of this city as his descendants. There is also a lot of care.

After listening to Lin Zixuan's question, Tutu thought: "The occurrence of the murder this time was very strange. The little old man felt that there seemed to be the intervention of a supernatural force. When murders occurred frequently, he set out to investigate the situation, but in the end he only tracked down the murder case. Lin Mansion. Because there is a force hovering in the Lin Mansion, the little old man can only ask the Mengfu Yamen to come forward to collect evidence of the crime. But in the end, nothing happened, so he had to ask the Taoist priests of Taixu Taoist Temple to come forward. "

Because a force hovering in the Lin Mansion blocked the divine power of the land? Lin Zixuan and Jiang Yuanchen looked at each other and felt that this matter was not simple. There is actually a force in the jurisdiction of the land that can interfere with the power of the land god?

"Can that god tell Pindao about the circumstances of the deceased people?" A list of names floated from Jiang Yuanchen's sleeve to the Lord of the Land.

The earth's expression condensed. The paper that could exist in the earth's divine realm was absolutely extraordinary, and it seemed to have a bit of water spirit in it.

Seeing the confused look from the God of Land, Jiang Yuanchen said calmly: "Pindao once controlled the waterway for a period of time under the order of the master's sect in the past."

The piece of black jade on Jiang Yuanchen's neck can absorb the power of water, and the chain connecting the black jade is the water drop chain condensed by Jiang Yuanchen with the power of the water god, so that the black jade is forcibly embedded. Although the water god's priesthood disappeared after Jiang Yuanchen left Jinshaxi, there was still a trace of invisible divine power attached to the black jade necklace.

After encountering the mountain and river seal, the ability of the black jade necklace was stimulated, allowing Jiang Yuanchen to use this rough low-level water artifact to exert his divine power. Although the divine power is invisible, it is the purest water god's magic power. According to Jiang Yuanchen's own deduction, low-level shaping magic like the one just now can be used three times a day.

Seeing the list that Jiang Yuanchen had gathered with the power of the Water God, the Earth God felt a little more favorable towards the Taoist Priest. After all, a Taoist priest who has been in charge of the Water God Ministry understands some of the rules of Shinto better than ordinary immortal cultivators.

After writing down the lives of many deceased persons at the back of the list, the list was taken back by Jiang Yuanchen.

There is no so-called city god and underworld god in this world, so even if the land god controls the people's livelihood in a place, he will not completely record everyone's good and evil events. The various outlines written by the Earth God are just a little more than the officials know.

"Does Zun Shen mean that the woman who was drowned in the water was just out of sight for an hour and then found in a pool outside the city?"

"good."

"It's really not easy to move a living person out of the city and then drown her alive." Jiang Yuanchen looked at the list and pointed to another place: "The owner of this antique porcelain shop is actually a tomb robber? So poor? Can we think that the fact that he was buried alive in the ground and suffocated to death was a cycle of retribution?"

"Also, according to what the Lord God said, the first deceased appeared in the government prison cell. They seemed to be several deceased who had committed serious crimes. However, the bodies of these three deceased were not seen in the morgue." Jiang Yuanchen was confused. road.

The Earth God sighed: "How many people will pay attention to the three prisoners who have been sentenced to death? The cell leader was afraid that his superiors would blame him for leaving his post without permission, so he said that the three of them had committed suicide. Anyway, there were not many people. I am willing to go to prison."

So the real number of dead should be fifteen? Jiang Yuanchen seemed to understand something: "Thank you for your help this time, God. You don't need to worry anymore. This case will naturally be solved tomorrow."

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