Chapter 2057: Mysterious Death
Li Yan walked at the end of the crowd. He quietly let go of his consciousness and felt the surroundings. After a moment, he withdrew his consciousness without expression. When he came over just now, he had already felt that there seemed to be something different around him. His consciousness was swept away. Sure enough, they discovered the fluctuation of the formation restriction here, which had already surrounded them.
Li Yan's spiritual consciousness has far surpassed that of the monks in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, reaching about 700 miles. However, before Li Yan came, he knew that there was an ancestor in the middle stage of the Golden Core in Xuanqing Temple. He did not dare to act recklessly and always put caution first. , I have never let go of my spiritual consciousness to scan the entire Xuanqing Temple on a large scale. Now I am not worried and I have to use my spiritual consciousness to investigate at close range.
Li Yan finally stepped into this courtyard. He glanced around the courtyard first and found that this courtyard was more than half smaller than the first courtyard they stayed in before. There were only three rooms. This was after passing by the four in the middle just now. When he was at the entrance of the courtyard, Li Yan could tell through the distance between the courtyard doors.
At this moment, there were four people in Taoist costumes standing in the courtyard. One of them was about forty years old, with a medium build, thick eyebrows and a square face, and a face like a jujube. He looked extremely majestic. At this moment, he was looking at the people who were walking towards Li Yan. He said calmly. He said, "I, my palace, are called Chui Luo. Outsiders also call me Taoist Taoist, the head of Xuanqing Temple. I don't want any trouble to happen in the Taoist Temple today. I would like to thank all fellow Taoists. Fortunately, I am an acquaintance among you, so it saves me a lot of time to talk." ." As he said this, his eyes swept over the monk named Lin with the Flying Scythe of the Blood Hand, the leader of the Qinggu Sect, and the fat man in red robes. When these people saw the Taoist priest's gaze, they also nodded.
Finally, the Taoist priest's eyes rested on the two black-robed men and the hunchbacked old man. "There are a few fellow Taoists here, but I'm not familiar with them. I can't help but offend you, so please forgive me." When he said this, the two black men The man in the robe remained silent, but the cloak on his head undulated slightly, as if he was nodding.
The hunchbacked old man seemed to have not heard anything, and his expression was a little dull. The palace Taoist was not worried when he saw this. After a while, he wanted to find out the identity of everyone present. As for Li Yan and other Qi Condensation Stage monks in his eyes, they were just After looking over them one by one, he didn't ask any further questions.
The three people behind Gong Taoist were also staring at Li Yan and his party. Li Yan did not recognize these three people, but they were none other than Luo Sanpang, Song Bo and Qin Chengyi among the four people who came back from Fangshi early this morning.
Li Yan silently counted in his mind. Among the four people in this courtyard, there were three foundation-building monks and one Qi-condensing monk. However, the Qi-condensing monk's realm had also reached the tenth-level Qi-Condensing Great Perfection realm, which was only a hair away from Foundation Building. By chance, plus the four Taoist priests and Taoist nuns who followed, there were actually seven foundation builders in the Taoist temple, which was extremely strong for a second-rate sect. Especially this palace Taoist, his aura is extremely calm, giving people a sense of mellowness and satisfaction. This feeling was something Li Yan had only seen in senior brother Li Wuyi and a few people from Bailiyuan. Although this feeling The person's aura is restrained, and it is impossible to tell his cultivation level without careful detection with his spiritual sense, but Li Yan has already guessed that this person is not far away from condensing golden elixirs and is in the realm of fake elixirs.
Seeing that everyone had entered the courtyard, the Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed to a side room with an open door behind him and said, "Junior Brother Liu, I see that something happened there, but I still want to tell you fellow Taoists what happened first." One or two, to understand the reason.”
Then he turned around and said to a fat man among the three people standing behind him, "Junior brother Luo, please tell me what happened here." ??
Luo Sanpang had been standing behind, feeling uneasy after listening to the middle-aged Taoist priest.
After speaking, the fat on his body shook. He took a deep breath and took a step forward. "This morning, Third Master... Oh, no, it was after I came back from Fang City with Senior Brother Liu, Junior Brother Song and Junior Brother Qin." , I went to see the senior brother, but because of what happened yesterday, I violated the sect rules. Finally, the senior brother ordered the four of me to be on duty for half a month, and the Lingshi salary for the next month was reduced by half. Since the Taoist temple occupies a very large area, even one person can do it. I was leading a patrol for a day, and it was also in a hurry, so the four of me divided into groups privately afterwards, so that one person could spend half a day, three... Oh, I was grouped with Senior Brother Liu, because we have been in charge of the rear hall together.' We have had a tacit understanding with each other for many years in Dao Jing Hall, so we have formed a team. According to the order of the head brother, Senior Brother Liu and I will be on duty continuously after noon today. , about noon, I came over to find Senior Brother Liu and went to the front hall to gather all the disciples, and then took over the patrol from Senior Brother Kong.
On the way, I met Junior Brother Qin again. Because of what happened yesterday, I simply dragged him along so that I could explain to him on the way that the violation of the sect rules yesterday was not entirely the fault of Junior Brother Song and I, lest he and I Senior Brother was punished and lost his temper. As he spoke, we all arrived at Senior Brother Liu's place. I sent a message to enter, but there was no reply several times. I didn't know what Senior Brother Liu was doing in the house. Each of our courtyards used array protection on a daily basis to prevent others from disturbing our practice, so I was unable to enter. At that time, I thought that Senior Brother Liu wanted to be lazy and deliberately pretended not to hear. I complained in my heart that he had broken the promise, thinking In the afternoon, I led the disciples on patrol alone. In the evening, no matter what, Third Master... Oh, I also have to settle accounts with him. Then I said hello to Junior Brother Qin and wanted to go to the front hall alone. "Speaking of this, he glanced sideways at the young Taoist priest in the Qi Condensation stage beside him. The person he was looking at was Qin Chengyi.
Qin Chengyi saw Luo Sanpang glance over and knew what he meant, so he nodded quickly, "What Senior Brother Luo said is true. The two of us did meet on the road. After talking to each other, we came outside the courtyard here. Senior Brother Luo sent messages several times. , Senior Brother Liu did not respond."
After hearing Qin Chengyi's words, Luo Sanpang couldn't help but feel relieved, and continued, "Just when Junior Brother Qin and I were about to leave, unexpectedly, Senior Brother Liu's extremely weak voice came out at this time: "Master...Master...Junior Brother ,Save...save me', I was shocked when I heard these words. I don't know what happened, but at this moment, the formation restriction shrouded in Senior Brother Liu's courtyard fluctuated, and I saw that the formation was about to be removed. , but after only fluctuating for a few times, there was no sound again, which only weakened the protective formation by a few points. When Junior Brother Qin and I saw this, we couldn't help but transmit sounds one after another, but there was no sound coming from inside.
Junior Brother Qin and I felt uneasy, and after a brief discussion, we thought that there was something wrong with Senior Brother Liu's cultivation. Otherwise, he would have lost the power to remove the formation protection just now, and there would be no time to notify the head senior brother of this matter, so I As soon as the two of them gritted their teeth, they used their magic at the same time to directly blast away. Fortunately, the previous restriction of the protective formation had been weakened a lot. After the two of us jointly attacked several times, we also directly blasted away the protective formation.
As soon as the formation was opened, the two of us rushed in directly. However, when we rushed into the courtyard, we saw the door of Senior Brother Liu's training room open. We suddenly felt that something was strange. After entering cautiously, we saw Senior Brother Liu
With a ferocious expression, he was lying on his back on the ground, already dead. I hurriedly cast a spell to summon the soul, but Senior Brother Liu's soul had dispersed and could not be gathered together at all.
Seeing this, I shouted loudly and went out, because the sound of bombarding the protective formation in Senior Brother Liu's courtyard had already alerted others. Senior Brother, you guys, the leader, arrived here very quickly. "Having said this, Luo Sanpang looked at Gong Taoist.
The soul-calling technique he mentioned is a method commonly used by immortal cultivators. It can be used by monks above the foundation level. After a person dies, his soul will leave the body and enter reincarnation, and be reincarnated again. But if the person dies, Due to the existence of resentment, the wronged soul will still stay near the deceased for a long time and refuse to leave, but mortals cannot see it. The soul of the monk is more powerful and solid. After practicing to build the foundation, if the physical body is seriously damaged, the soul of the deceased will not be able to leave. A monk can already use his soul to seize other people's bodies for rebirth, but the conditions for taking a body are harsh and require physical body, soul fluctuations, etc. to fit in one by one. A monk can only seize a body once in his life, otherwise the monk will only have an old and rotten body. Then go and seize the house, wouldn't it be possible to live forever?
"Well, what Junior Brother Luo said, I also asked Junior Brother Qin separately before. There is not much difference in the process described by the two. However, I would like to invite all fellow Taoists to come into the house and take a look before talking about it. Junior Brother Liu was just killed. I shouldn't have made you wait to watch, but it's a matter of human life. I used soul-calling techniques before, but Junior Brother Liu's soul had already been dispersed and couldn't be condensed at all. It must have been taken away by the murderer, or simply scattered. I don’t know what really happened, and I will inevitably ask you for advice later, so that fellow Taoists will not go out and say that my Taoist temple is only a one-sided statement without knowing it, so I ask all fellow Taoists to seek truth from the facts.”
Speaking of this, a monstrous aura suddenly surged out from the Taoist Palace, and the pressure of the fake elixir realm came overwhelmingly. Just when everyone felt that it was difficult to breathe, even the monk named Lin with the Blood-Handed Flying Scythe changed his face. Although he is not afraid of the Taoist Gong, he is outside. With his several secret techniques, although he cannot defeat the Taoist Gong, he can escape. But now he is on their territory, and Xuan Qingguan's formation is so difficult. It is entangled, but it is extremely difficult to escape.
This overwhelming pressure came and went quickly. The aura of the Taoist Gong was just released and retracted, as he wished, without any stagnation. But in just this moment, Li Yan and others were weighed down like a mountain. Those few The foundation-building monks were relatively well, but the remaining Qi-Condensing monks were already pale, trembling, and had a look of fear on their faces. Li Yan also looked pale, of course, this was intentional. But those Taoist priests, including Qin Chengyi, all had normal expressions. It was obvious that Taoist Gong's magic control was so wonderful just now that it only enveloped a dozen or so people in Li Yan and did not affect the people around him at all.
The room where the incident occurred was the training room on the right side of the three rooms. The doors and windows of the other two rooms were closed. After Li Yan and a dozen people entered the room, they saw that the furnishings in the room were extremely simple. There was only a futon on the ground. There is a wooden shelf placed on the wall, with some books and more than a dozen porcelain bottles of elixirs on it. A man wearing a Taoist robe of Xuanqing Temple is lying on his back. The Taoist is about twenty-seven or eight years old, with an eagle-shaped nose and a painful expression on his face. He looked ferocious, holding a token in one hand, and clasping the ground with the other hand. His fingernails had sunk deeply into the bluestone ground. He stretched his legs and it turned out to be Senior Brother Liu among the four people who came back from the mountain gate in the early morning. .
The people next to Li Yan already had solemn expressions on their faces as their spiritual consciousness shot towards the ground. Li Yan did not check immediately, but looked around the room. This room had two windows facing the courtyard, one on each side of the door. At this time, The two windows were both closed, and on the wall facing the door, there was a large double-railed window that was almost the same size as the two windows opposite it combined. It was also closed. Li Yan judged the position. There is no doubt that there should be a lotus pond outside the big window.
Finally, when Li Yan's eyes fell on the door, there were several cracks on the door, which had obviously been opened by someone using magic power.
Li Yan's eyes flickered for a few times before he turned his attention to the Taoist priest on the ground. The Taoist priest's robes were relatively neat and there were no signs of fighting.
Li Yan's spiritual sense directly probed the Taoist priest's body. After sweeping it, he was even more suspicious. There was really no trace of fighting on the dead Taoist priest's body. He looked painful and seemed to have died of poisoning, but there was no sign of poisoning on his body. Li Yan could not help but carefully sweep the Taoist priest's body with his spiritual sense. He was immediately shocked. There were several very fine cracks in the Taoist priest's heart. Without careful inspection, he thought they were tendons and veins, but after careful observation with his spiritual sense, he found that they were still fine cracks. The inside of the heart had been shattered, leaving only an empty shell of the heart, and there were faint spiritual power fluctuations on those fine cracks.
"This is someone's heart being shattered by magic power. According to what Luo Sanpang said, he cried for help and tried to release the protective formation. This should have been a one-shot kill. It seems that this Taoist priest is also quite capable. He protected his heart and made a final cry for help." Li Yan looked at the token in the Taoist priest's hand on the ground. It should be the token that the Taoist priest used to try to open the courtyard protective formation before he died.
Li Yan then quietly moved behind the crowd. He didn't want to attract attention. The foundation-building cultivators had already looked at Taoist Gong. They had also finished their observation. The remaining few Qi Condensation cultivators were also surprised, but they dared not speak. Especially the middle-aged Qi Condensation couple who traveled alone, their faces showed a timid expression.
"Fellow Daoist Gong, your junior brother was obviously killed by someone's heart being shattered. Have you found any clues?" The Blood Hand Flying Scythe dressed as a scholar spoke first. As soon as he spoke, the fat man in the red robe and the head of the Yue sect also nodded slightly. This is exactly what they saw.
The two black-robed men also raised their heads and looked at Gong Daoist. Since they entered the house, they stood at the corner of the door motionless, just sending out their spiritual sense to scan. When they looked up, two pale faces appeared under the shadow of the cloak. They were actually a pair of twin brothers.
Li Yan stood behind the crowd, always acting a little timid, and was closer to the middle-aged couple. The same as them was the old and young master and servant, who seemed not to want to participate in it, and quietly watched the conversation between the several foundation-building cultivators and Gong Daoist in front.
Although Li Yan seemed a little scared, he had already dispersed his spiritual sense quietly. He was confident that even Gong Daoist would not be able to detect his spiritual sense. There were many such things among the immortal cultivators, who were quiet one moment and killed the next moment. He had to be on full alert. Just as the Blood Hand Flying Scythe finished speaking, the purple-shirted young man among the master and servant on the side of Li Yan's spiritual sense curled his lips, but immediately returned to calm.