The sun shines in through the lattice windows and the dust floats.

In the silent environment, Xu Qi'an stood silently in the room. After a while, the veins on his forehead that popped up were retracted. He began to inspect the scene without any expression.

The tables, chairs and other furnishings were completely arranged, and there were no traces of fighting. The man's carotid artery was cut with a sharp weapon, and his left temple was collapsed.

Instant death.

The cause of death of both mother and daughter was that they were pierced by sharp objects at the same time. The mother was pierced in the heart, but the little girl was pierced in the right chest. After Xu Qi'an touched her head, he found that the real cause of death was that the Tianling Cap was broken.

He then turned over the three corpses, lifted the cotton-padded clothes from their backs, and checked the degree of condensation of the corpse spots.

"The time of death was no more than four hours. He was killed in the morning... No, no, the temperature last night was almost 2 degrees. If he was killed at night, the actual time of death would be earlier...

"

Low temperature has a "preservation" effect and will affect the judgment of death time.

"Although there were no signs of fighting in the house, this does not mean that an acquaintance committed the crime, because it is too easy to deal with ordinary people, and they can kill instantly."

But who would kill this innocent family for no reason?

Xu Qian sat at the table, tapping his fingertips lightly on the table. The pheromones in his brain seemed to be boiling...

"Besides Chai Xian and me, who else knows about this place? If there is no one, the murderer is either him or me. If someone knows about this place, why doesn't he come here so early and then later, and then kills and silences him after I sent the message?

"The purpose is not Chai Xian, but to prevent Chai Xian from going to the Demon Slaying Conference... But what's the point? Wouldn't it be better to ambush people here and kill Chai Xian directly.

"So, it was Chai Xian who killed and silenced him? That's not right, the motive is unreasonable."

Xu Qian's eyes suddenly widened as he thought of a possibility.

The day I turned into a cat and followed Chai Xian, I was also followed by someone...

"Chai Xian couldn't detect my tracking because the walking zombies don't have anti-tracking capabilities. But I also don't have this ability. I was just a cat, not my real body. If someone quietly followed us that night...

....”

Xu Qian suddenly stood up, left the house, closed the door behind her, mounted the little mare, and galloped away.

...........

Chai Mansion.

Li Lingsu held the hot teacup in both hands and took a sip of the sweet liquid.

The white and delicate cup was filled with wolfberry, making the small amount of tea appear particularly sweet.

Alas, these days... Li Lingsu sighed.

Before the Taoist sect transcends the realm, the growth it can do to the body is limited, and it is far less abnormal than the martial arts body.

In the past six months, Sister Dongfang deliberately drained his energy, causing him to be in a state of deficit all the time.

I thought I could recharge my batteries and accumulate energy after leaving the Dongfang sisters, but unexpectedly, due to various reasons, I had to accompany other confidante.

From Wen Ren Qianrou to Chai Xinger, they are all **.

"Perhaps I should try to practice the martial arts system. Although it is said that the body cannot be broken before the martial arts training level, but that is for people who have no foundation. If you break the body early, you will not be able to practice qi. If I recover my cultivation, I can forcefully practice qi with the fourth level of Taoism.

, not difficult at all.

"Well, I still have to start from the refining realm. Otherwise, without the process of torturing the body, it is basically impossible for me to step into the fifth level of Huajin. Wait, I am not taking the martial arts path for combat power. The Qi training realm is

That’s it…”

While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a figure emerging from the shadow of the coffee table.

It was the plain-looking Xu Qian.

"senior?"

Li Lingsu was surprised. He didn't expect Xu Qian to come here in person. Wasn't he afraid of being discovered by the Buddhist monks?

He was just about to ask this when he suddenly noticed something was wrong with Xu Qian's state.

Tianzong has the ability to "investigate things to gain knowledge". He is particularly sensitive to people and things he has been with for a long time, and can immediately detect the slightest change.

It belongs to the prerequisite ability of "harmony between man and nature".

Although Li Lingsu didn't know Xu Qian well, he had spent quite a bit of time together.

In the past, Xu Qian was a pool of immersed, unfathomable water. Now, Xu Qian is like a sea with undercurrents.

Xu Qian nodded and said, "Where was Chai Xing'er last night?"

On my bed......Li Lingsu said: "Always stay with me."

Xu Qian reminded: "Are you sure?"

It's also possible that he'll go out and do some shameful things while you're asleep.

Li Lingsu frowned: "We didn't finish last night until two o'clock. In addition, a small part of my seal was broken, and I wasn't sleeping too deeply. If the person next to my pillow leaves, I can't possibly not notice it."

Having said this, Li Lingsu subconsciously rubbed his sore waist.

At two quarters of an hour, are you really suffering from kidney failure? Xu Qian nodded slowly and said nothing nonsense: "We will meet outside Beicheng in two quarters of an hour."

He turned into a shadow and disappeared into the room.

"Mysterious..."

Li Lingsu immediately left the room, asked the steward of Chai Mansion for a horse, and went straight to the gate of Beicheng along the main road.

It only took a quarter of an hour for the two of them to meet outside the North City Gate. Li Lingsu noticed that Xu Qian had changed again.

Xu Qian nodded slightly, without explaining, grabbed the mare's belly and rode away.

"drive!"

Li Lingsu waved his riding whip and followed immediately.

Approaching the village, Xu Qian slowed down his horse, threw a robe and hood to him, and said:

"Put it on, there's been a murder in the village, you go call the ghosts and find out who the murderer is."

After Li Lingsu finished his disguise, Xu Qian got off his horse and snapped his fingers. The filly and the horse Li Lingsu rode obediently entered the woods on the roadside and hid.

Tsk, the ability to control the beast Gu is so useful... Li Lingsu thought with envy.

Heart voodoo is also called "beast voodoo" and "beast controlling voodoo" because mind voodoo masters often use it to control poisonous insects and fierce beasts.

The two entered the village side by side. When they approached their destination, Xu Qian found that there were villagers standing outside the small courtyard, and mournful cries came from the houses.

The villagers stood either in the courtyard or outside the courtyard, pointing and whispering.

Xu Qian vaguely heard a few words:

"Have Wang Laosi's family provoked someone?"

"Who knew? Even the children were not spared. The murderer is really heartless."

"Hey, could it be that Chai Xian who did it? It must be him. I heard that he was a madman and even killed his adoptive father."

"Oh, then aren't we in danger?"

He and Li Lingsu pushed past the villagers and entered the yard.

A simple wooden board was set up in the house, and a family of three lay on it, covered with dirty white cloths. An old man with gray hair fell down beside the board and cried loudly.

A young couple were busy in the house. They were wearing ordinary cloth clothes, their hands were rough, and their faces were dark. They looked like they were used to doing rough work.

"who are you?"

Seeing Xu Qian and Li Lingsu coming in, the young couple were a little wary, especially Li Lingsu who was wearing a robe and a hood.

"People from the government."

Xu Qian said in a deep voice: "Who asked you to move the body without permission? What if you destroy the clues left by the murderer?"

He came up and questioned him. The young man who asked the question was at a loss and thought he had made a big mistake.

Li Lingsu took the opportunity to enter the back room, which was the scene of the murder, and closed the door.

Without giving the young man a chance to react, Xu Qian asked with a straight face, "What is your relationship with this family?"

The young man looked back at the male deceased, with sadness on his dull face:

"He is my brother, and my father is his uncle. At noon, the neighbor saw a stranger come in and then leave quickly. He came over to see what was going on. He called for a long time but no one answered. When he came in, he found that everyone had been beaten.

killed......."

As he spoke, his eyes became red.

Xu Qian's expression remained unchanged as he said, "Then call the neighbors over."

The young man walked out of the threshold, glanced at the crowd watching the excitement outside the courtyard, and said in dialect:

"The officer has something to ask, please come over here."

He pointed to several of his neighbors.

Soon, two old ladies came in, both neighbors.

The old ladies were a little scared, but couldn't restrain their nature of being busybodies, and kept looking at the three corpses on the wooden board.
To be continued...