Chapter 347: The Small Town Is Shocked

The fireworks at midnight were so brilliant and conspicuous that all the cultivators who were above the Out-of-Body Stage and had spiritual perception or divine consciousness were alarmed. For a moment, I didn't know how many pairs of eyes were watching the fireworks.

Many rays of light of various colors soon appeared in Linyuan City, forming a neat battle formation and heading towards the place where the fireworks rose, as if facing a great enemy.

This night passed in the hustle and bustle and suspicion of the crowd, and greeted the rising sun.

Shi Xuan, who was going out to the General's Mansion, ran into Li Wei and Huang Xiao who were coming back from a walk. They were filled with happiness and warmth. They didn't notice what happened last night at all. After seeing Shi Xuan, they greeted him with a bright smile. Nothing happened in a month, and there were still one or two months before the birth, so they had forgotten about the Yuan Taijiao.

Arriving at the general's residence, Shi Xuan entered the study room as usual under the guidance of the housekeeper. However, this time, neither General Xiao Huarong nor Jindan Grandmaster Xiao Cangtian showed up. Only Xiao Yingyu, who looked unhappy, and his servant were waiting there.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to rest today?" Shi Xuan asked after seeing this. He scanned the room with his spiritual sense and found nothing wrong with Xiao Yingyu.

Xiao Yingyu smiled, covered his mouth with his hand, yawned, and the two pigtails on his head swayed with the yawn: "Reporting to Mr. Shi, Yingyu doesn't need to rest. I don't know what happened last night. There was a burst of Taoist magic in the air outside the city. Daddy took the soldiers to the outside of the city overnight, and at the same time caused chaos in the mansion. Yingyu was disturbed by the noise and didn't sleep well."

Shi Xuan nodded without showing any abnormality: "Shi also saw it, I don't know what happened. Is the general back?"

Xiao Yingyu nodded and shook his head: "Dad came back once and went out again. He said that he found the hiding place of something sect and was going to ask for reinforcements to help."

After Shi Xuan asked a few more questions casually, he started today's lecture. Until Shi Xuan finished speaking, General Xiao Huarong did not come back.

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People were coming and going on the street, but the atmosphere was much more dull and depressing than when Shi Xuan went out in the morning. When they occasionally talked, they were talking about the fireworks last night. Although they didn't know what happened, they always felt very worried and panicked.

When he walked to the ladder of the building, Shi Xuan unexpectedly ran into Li Wei. He frowned and was restless. He couldn't calm down even when he stood there, and kept walking back and forth.

"Uh, Brother Li came back so early today?" Li Wei was not like Shi Xuan. He only needed to give a lecture for an hour every day. He would work until noon and come back to eat, and then continue to work in the afternoon until the evening.

Li Wei didn't notice Shi Xuan coming in at all. When he heard Shi Xuan's voice at this time, he was startled. He turned his head and saw that it was Shi Xuan before he calmed down and sighed: "It turned out to be Brother Shi. Hey, you must have heard about your lecture in the general's mansion? Yuantaijiao appeared in Linyuan City, what should I do?!" His expression was really panicked.

Shi Xuan comforted him, "Since their traces have been discovered, the Yuantai Cult will definitely not commit crimes against the wind. The empire is so big and there are so many cities. Why bother to defend a small Linyuan City?"

After hearing what Shi Xuan said, Li Wei's face eased and he nodded frequently, "Brother Shi, you are right, Brother Shi, you are right." He was too lazy to think about the idea that the most dangerous places are the safest places. He mainly wanted to gain some psychological peace.

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Shi Xuan did not go out that day. He practiced in the house, fighting against illusions and strengthening his true spirit. I don't know when the opportunity will come, but I have to be prepared before that. If I strengthen my true spirit a little more, I will have a higher chance of defeating illusions, breaking through the gates of life and death, and achieving the Yuanshen.

Dong Dong Dong, in the evening, there was a rough knock on the door. Shi Xuan sensed through his spiritual sense and found that there were two sheriffs with Qi-inducing cultivation standing outside the door. They looked fierce and ferocious. Well, the expected interrogation is here.

Shi Xuan stood up, walked to the door, opened it, and looked at the two sheriffs with a cold expression: "What can I do for you?"

The fatter one said in a bad tone: "Hand over your identity documents for us to check." At the same time, his spiritual sense came to Shi Xuan, but was blocked by Shi Xuan's simulated spiritual sense.

In fact, even if he let his spiritual sense in, he would not find anything unusual, because after reaching the Yin Shen stage, when the spirit and energy merged, unless Shi Xuan took the initiative to send out the Yin Shen level of spiritual sense, other cultivators below the Yuan Shen level, including Yin Shen Venerables, would not be able to find Shi Xuan's true cultivation level if they only used spiritual sense without using the sixth or seventh level of detection Taoism. Similarly, Shi Xuan was the same when facing other Yin Shen Venerables.

"Why did Shi give it to you for inspection? Remember that the "Sheriff's Manual" stipulates that you must explain the reason and show proof. This is not the street!" Shi Xuan asked back with a bad attitude to show his uprightness.

The fat one was about to get angry with his eyes glaring, but the thin one saw that Shi Xuan had a tough attitude and probably had some background and strength, so he stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Did you see the Taoist magic light last night? It involves a serious case, so we have been ordered to check every household this afternoon. This is my sheriff's certificate."

Shi Xuan took his ID and looked at it, then nodded and said, "You are a bit polite. In this case, I am not an unreasonable person." He handed over the ID document while speaking.

The thin man was a little embarrassed by what Shi Xuan said, but the fat man was furious. He took Shi Xuan's ID document and read it: "Xuqing Taoist Academy, hum, Xuqing Taoist Academy is amazing, and it's amazing to be in the Qi-inducing stage! General, uh..."

The thin man saw that the fat man's voice stopped abruptly, and looked over strangely. After seeing the work status column on the ID document, he immediately pulled out a flattering smile: "So it's Mr. Shi, you are the teacher of the general's mansion, and you are from Xuqing Taoist Academy, so there is naturally no problem. Let's go and check the next one."

The fat man was pulled back by the thin man before he could react, and blurted out: "I haven't searched the house yet..." Before he finished speaking, he consciously reached out and covered his mouth.

Shi Xuan stood quietly at the door, watching the two sheriffs knocking on the door of Li Wei and Huang Xiao's room. He was very confused. He expected the whole city to be checked, but it was a bit strange that they checked this building so quickly.

Although Linyuan City is small, there are nearly 100,000 households, and the number of sheriffs is so small. It was a coincidence that they found this place not long after the start? Or is there another reason?

Could it be that as the rumors say, there is a traitor in the empire of the Yuantai Sect? You know, I only wiped out the horizontal lines left by the ghost in the vicinity and the place where I went later. As for the previous ones, I didn't look for them. After all, it is easy to trigger the monitoring when the spiritual consciousness is fully unfolded in the empire's formation, so it is very likely that they were locked near the place where the horizontal lines began to disappear.

Because Huang Xiao was a pregnant woman and had nothing to do with the Yuantai Sect, the two sheriffs checked casually and left. Huang Xiao also asked Li Wei in confusion what major case had happened, but Li Wei hesitated and couldn't explain clearly.

Afterwards, the investigation in Linyuan City lasted for a full half month before it was terminated, but the subsequent events that Shi Xuan had been cautiously guarding against did not happen. The Yuantai Cult in Linyuan City never appeared again, as if it had flashed in the pan. It was said that a group of cultivators led by a Yinshen Venerable came, and it was said that they did not find any clues except the cave and the mummy. It was said that the traces of the Yuantai Cult appeared in several large cities in the south, and it was said that the group of cultivators left again...

Everything seemed to have returned to calm, but Shi Xuan felt that a torrent was brewing and accumulating in this seemingly calm atmosphere, waiting for the day of shocking the world.

Of course, Shi Xuan forged another emblem for safety, split the aura of his own emblem and injected it into it, and then hid it in the Yin-Yang Qi Bottle.

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Time passed slowly as Shi Xuan gradually let go of his worries. In the past two years, Huang Xiao and Li Wei's children were born, full-month-old, and one-year-old, Xiao Yingyu was seven years old, and Shi Xuan's practice also yielded a lot.

Because of all kinds of seemingly true and false circumstances, illusions and falsehoods appeared more and more frequently. When they were suppressed one by one, the true spirit became stronger and stronger, and even made Shi Xuan feel that even if he encountered an opportunity now, he would have a great chance to defeat the falsehood and achieve the Yuanshen.

On this day, Shi Xuan had just finished teaching Xiao Yingyu. In the past two years, he had grown a head taller, but it would take several years for the boyish appearance to disappear.

Xiao Huarong and Xiao Cangtian were talking in the room next to the study. When they saw that the talk was over, they opened the door and walked out. Among them, Xiao Huarong smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Shi. The effect of my son's body training in the past two years is very good because of the solid theory of Taoism."

"It's also because Yingyu is studious..." Before Shi Xuan finished speaking, the mirror water curtain in the study, which was similar to a TV, suddenly lit up. After a blur, a magnificent palace hall appeared. A dark-skinned middle-aged monk stood at the stairs in front of the throne. It was the Weiwu Venerable Ao Tingtao.

This kind of mirror water curtain is quite expensive. In addition to the Taoist palace, municipal government, several large academies, and large business houses, only noble families and families of cultivators above the soul stage have it.

Venerable Wei Yu glanced ahead and spoke slowly. His voice was full of magnetism, but the content of what he said was shocking: "This prince is entrusted by His Majesty the Emperor to inform all noble families, all Yinshen Venerables, all Jindan Grandmasters, and all the people of the empire: Duke Cheng, Duke Qi, and Duke Ming colluded with Yuantaijiao to plot against the law and harm the people. The evidence is conclusive and the crimes are heinous. Now it is decided to deprive them of their titles and exterminate their clans!"

"What?" Xiao Huarong blurted out in disbelief. There are only four dukes in the empire, each of whom has more than ten Yinshen Venerables, Jindan Grandmasters, and masters of the soul stage. It is really shocking that three families were announced to deprive them of their titles and exterminate their clans. Once they rise up to resist, it is still unknown who will win.

Shi Xuan, who felt that the incident had nothing to do with him and just felt that it happened suddenly, continued to look at the mirror-like water curtain. He saw the scene change from the imperial palace to a mountain where a fierce battle was taking place.