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. With a sweep of his consciousness,
Sure enough, they discovered the fluctuations 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 that I am worried, I have to use my spiritual consciousness to inspect it 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 see it through the distance between the courtyard doors.
At this moment, there are four people in Taoist costumes standing in the courtyard. One of them is about forty years old, with a medium build, thick eyebrows and a square face, with a face as heavy as a jujube. He looks extremely majestic. At this moment, he is looking at Li Yan and the people who are walking towards him. He is indifferent.
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 Bloody Hand Flying Scythe, the leader of the Qinggu Sect Yue, and the fat man in red robe. When these people saw the Taoist Gong's eyes sweeping over them, they also nodded.
Finally, the Taoist priest's eyes rested on the two black robes and the old man with a hunchback. "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." He said this, and 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 acted as if he hadn't heard anything, and his expression was a little dull. The Taoist priest was also unimpressed when he saw this. After a while, he wanted to find out who everyone was present. As for Li Yan and several 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 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 had also reached the tenth level of Qi-Condensing Great Perfection, 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 this Taoist temple, which was extremely powerful for a second-rate sect. Especially this Taoist priest, whose aura was extremely calm.
, giving people a sense of mellow and satisfying aura, a feeling that Li Yan had only seen on his senior brother Li Wuyi and a few people in Bailiyuan. Although this person's aura was restrained, it was impossible to detect it without using his spiritual sense.
Although he could see his cultivation level, Li Yan had already guessed that this person was not far away from condensing golden elixirs and was 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 think 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 involuntarily, he took a deep breath, and then 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 broke the sect rules. Finally, the senior brother ordered the four of me to be on duty for half a month, and the spiritual stone 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 assigned to a group with Senior Brother Liu, because we have been in charge of the back hall together.'
Over the years in the Dao Jing Hall, we have had some tacit understanding with each other, and we have formed a team. Junior Brother Song and Junior Brother Qin are assigned to a group to be on duty. According to the order of the head brother, Senior Brother Liu and I will be on duty continuously after noon today.
, I will come over at noon to find Senior Brother Liu and go to the front hall to gather all the disciples, and then take 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, so as not to prevent him from getting along with him.
Senior Brother was punished and lost his temper. As he spoke, we arrived at Senior Brother Liu's place together. I sent a message to enter, but there was no reply several times. I don't know what Senior Brother Liu was doing in the house. Our respective courtyards usually use formation protection to prevent others.
It disturbed my cultivation, so I couldn't 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. I thought that in the afternoon, I would lead the disciples on patrol alone. In the evening, no matter what the three
Master...oh, I have to settle accounts with him, and then I said hello to Junior Brother Qin, and then went to the front hall alone." Having said this, he glanced sideways at the young Taoist priest in the Qi Condensation stage next to him.
, the person he was looking for 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 indeed did not respond."
After hearing Qin Chengyi's words, Luo Sanpang couldn't help but feel relieved, and then 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 messages one after another, but there was no sound coming from inside.
Junior Brother Qin and I felt uneasy in our hearts. After some 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. There would be no time to inform the senior brother in charge of this matter, so I
The two of them gritted their teeth and 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
Brother Liu
With a ferocious expression, he was lying on his back on the ground, already dead. I hurriedly cast spells to summon his 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 Senior Brother Liu's courtyard protective formation had already alerted others, and Senior Brother, the leader, you will be here soon." After saying this, Luo Sanpang looked at Taoist Gong.
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The soul-calling technique he mentioned is a method commonly used by 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 grievances, 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 be destroyed.
A monk can already use his soul to seize other people's bodies for rebirth. However, 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 mean that you can 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 first, and then talk 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 the art of summoning souls 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 dispersed.
I don’t know what really happened, and I will inevitably have to 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.”
After saying this, a monstrous aura suddenly surged out from the Taoist Palace's body, and the pressure of the fake elixir realm came overwhelmingly. Just when everyone felt it was difficult to breathe, even the monk surnamed Lin with the Blood-Handed Flying Scythe changed his face.
Although he is not afraid of the Taoist Gong, he is outside. With the several secret techniques he has, 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.
He 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 just for this moment, Li Yan and others were weighed down like a mountain. Those few
The Foundation Establishment monks were relatively well, but the remaining Qi Condensation monks were pale, trembling, and had a look of fear on their faces. Li Yan was also pale, and of course he did it deliberately. But those Taoist priests, including
Qin Chengyi's expression was normal. It was obvious that the 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. Then, when 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 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 look 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.
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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 traces of fighting.
Li Yan's spiritual consciousness directly probed the Taoist priest. After scanning it, he became even more suspicious. There was really no trace left after the fight on the dead Taoist priest. His painful appearance seemed to have been poisoned, but there were no traces on his body.
Seeing the slightest sign of poisoning, Li Yan could not help but scan the Taoist priest's body carefully with his consciousness. He was suddenly horrified. There were actually several very small cracks in the Taoist priest's heart. Without careful inspection, he thought they were in his heart.
However, after careful observation with his spiritual consciousness, he found that there were still small cracks, and the inside of the heart had been shattered, leaving only an empty shell of the heart, and there were still faint fluctuations of spiritual power on the wounds of those small cracks.
"This was someone using magic power to directly shatter his heart. According to Naluo Sanpang, he actually cried out for help and tried to release the protective formation. This should have killed him with one blow. It seems that this Taoist priest also has some
With my ability, I protected my heart and made my last call for help." Li Yan looked at the token in the hands of the Taoist priest on the ground, which should have been used by the Taoist priest to open the courtyard protective formation before he died.
Li Yan then quietly moved to the back of the crowd. He did not want to attract attention. The foundation-building monks had already looked at the Taoist Gong. They had also finished observing. Although the remaining Qi Condensing monks had surprises on their faces,
They didn't dare to speak, especially the middle-aged Ningqi couple who were traveling alone, with a submissive expression on their faces.
"Fellow Daoist Palace, your junior brother's heart was obviously shattered and he died. Are there any clues to find out?" The bloody-hand flying sickle dressed as a scholar was the first to speak. As soon as he spoke, the fat man in red robe and
Headmaster Yue also nodded slightly, which was exactly what they saw.
The two men in black robes also raised their heads and looked at the Taoist priest at this moment. After entering the house, they stood motionless at the corner of the door. They just glanced around with their spiritual consciousness. Then they raised their heads and saw under the shadow of the cloak.
The two pale faces revealed turned out to be twin brothers.
Li Yan stood behind the crowd, always acting timidly, and was closer to the middle-aged couple. Like them, the old man and the young master and servant did not seem to want to get involved.
, quietly watching the conversation between several foundation-building monks and the palace Taoist in front.
Although Li Yan seemed a little scared, he had quietly dispersed his spiritual consciousness. He was confident that even the Taoist priest would not be able to discover his spiritual consciousness. This kind of tranquility one moment could lead to murderous violence the next.
There are many things among cultivators, so he must be on full alert. Just when the words of Blood Hand Flying Scythe fell, the young man in purple shirt among the masters and servants on the side of Li Yan's consciousness curled his lips, but immediately
Calmness returned again.
This chapter has been completed!