Facing Lu Quan’s sincere request for advice, Meng Zhou shook his head and said:

"I didn't even leave the courtyard. I didn't even know about this before you came here. How could I possibly know who the real murderer is?"

Lu Quan listened carefully and nodded thoughtfully.

"However, this does not prevent us from making some speculations without evidence behind closed doors, speculating on the motive for committing the crime, and making some vague judgments about his identity based on this."

Hearing this, Kan Yue nodded slightly.

Lu Quan was confused and said:

"Fellow Daoist Zhuang, you don't even know who the real murderer is, how can you judge his motive?

Vendetta? Murder for wealth? Murder for love?

Or maybe the real murderer suddenly developed some special secret skill and needed someone to try it out, so he chose the unlucky head of the Fan family.

We don’t know anything, how can you judge the motive for committing the crime?”

Hearing this, Kan Yue nodded again, thinking that this made sense.

Meng Zhou smiled slightly and explained while adding tea to the two of them:

“We are not government detectives, we are not solving cases, and we don’t need evidence.

Of course, the situations you mentioned are all possible, and I cannot completely rule them out, but there is no need to rule them out, because there is no need.

The impact of this incident has now truly spread, and may even affect everyone in Mikawahara, so let's assume that this is the murderer's motive.

Even going one step further, we will have a full-scale confrontation with Dai Shouli and other local die-hard forces, and reduce the Sanchuan Plain to rubble..."

Lu Quan seemed to have something to say again, but Meng Zhou got stuck in advance and said:

“I really don’t have evidence, but since we are chatting in private, of course we try to estimate as much as possible.

What if, right? If we really encounter such an unexpected situation, it wouldn't be a bad thing if we could be mentally prepared in advance, right?"

Lu Quan didn't seem to fully agree with his perfunctory statement and muttered:

"Is it too big to guess? Then we might as well bring in the entire Qingxuan Territory."

Meng Zhou nodded and said, "It's not a bad idea."

Just when Lu Quan's expression changed and he wanted to say something, Meng Zhou shook his head again and said:

"But, I'm sorry, my situation is so big that I can't even understand what happened in Mikawahara.

If the entire Qingxuan Territory is included, it will be meaningless and meaningless.

Moreover, I don’t think the life and death of the Fan family leader can have such a big impact."

Meng Zhou was talking nonsense with Lu Quan, but in his mind he was thinking over and over what his gaffe just now might reveal.

Next to him, Kan Yue reluctantly accepted Meng Zhou’s explanation and said:

"You mean, Brother Daoist Zhuang, that the real culprit who assassinated the head of the Fan family probably had the purpose of provoking internal conflicts in the Sanchuan Plain and disrupting the order of the Sanchuan Plain?"

Meng Zhou nodded.

"But there must be a purpose for doing this, right? What is this purpose?" Kan Yue asked.

Meng Zhou shook his head and said: "I'm not a murderer, how do I know, but we can continue..."

As he spoke, Meng Zhou looked at Lu Quan with a gesture in his eyes, as if to say, it's your turn next.

Lu Quan said helplessly: "Guess next?"

"Yes, yes."

Meng Zhou laughed and clapped his hands.

After all his "mischief", the oppressive and solemn atmosphere brought by Kan Yue and Lu Quan was swept away.

Kan Yue couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook his head:

"Isn't this just playing a game? Apart from entertaining myself, what's the point of doing this?"

Meng Zhou picked up the teacup, slowly rotating his thumb, index finger, and middle finger on the rim of the cup, and said softly: "Then what do we do now that is meaningful?"

"Of course it is..."

Kan Yue wanted to say that he would form an offensive and defensive alliance, actively prepare for war, pay close attention to the movements of Dai Shouli and others, and at the same time get in touch with more foundation-building monks.

But before the words came out of his mouth, he suddenly realized that the three of them were sitting here, and there was no need to explain clearly that this offensive and defensive alliance had already been established in fact.

As for continuing to contact more foundation-building monks, this is easy to say, but it is not easy at all to do it.

Anyone with a little bit of social experience will know that there will be countless troubles to face, both internal and external.

Such a move will stimulate Dai Shouli and others to take a step further, and with the joint "efforts" of both parties, the situation will be pushed step by step to the point where it is completely out of control.

This is also the reason why Sanchuanhui jumped out to call for the reduction of fire at this time.

Thinking of this, Kan Yue's interest in the "business" suddenly disappeared. He felt that sitting down and chatting with a wonderful person like Taoist Zhuang was much more interesting than doing these "business".

So, halfway through his words, he suddenly changed his words and said, "Well, fellow Taoist Zhuang, guess what the other party's purpose is?"

Meng Zhou also had a lot of imagination and asked: "Is it possible that the real culprit behind the scenes just wants people to die here, and the more people die, the better?"

"What's the purpose?" Kan Yue asked.

"Well, collecting the flesh, blood or souls of dead people or something?" Meng Zhouzhou thought as he guessed.

Lu Quan's eyelids jumped when he heard this, and the corner of his mouth twitched. Kan Yue also said with a look of disgust: "What kind of demonic behavior is this?"

Only then did Meng Zhou remember that the world of cultivation he had personally come into contact with was very different from the impression he had in his previous life.

For example, regarding the concept of the soul, before the foundation is successfully established and the sea of ​​consciousness is opened up, no matter whether it is a mortal or a Qi-training monk, the soul is mixed with flesh and blood, and there is no separate soul.

Human flesh and blood does not seem to have any special value. Compared with the flesh of monster beasts of the same grade, the latter is undoubtedly more attractive.

Therefore, many subconscious demonic behaviors are actually untenable.

Kan Yue did not completely reject it, but said while thinking: "However, a corpse theft incident with great impact did occur in our Jinding Territory."

"Stealing corpses? Why?" Both Meng Zhou and Lu Quan had the fire of gossip in their eyes, with a strong desire for knowledge.

"After investigation, it turned out that the group of corpse thieves were not monks from the Jinding Territory, but from the Spirit Controlling Territory.

They just took a fancy to the special physique of our monk who cultivates both law and body. It is said that Yulingyu has mastered a method of refining corpse puppets.

According to this set of standards, corpses with both legal and physical skills are the best material for refining corpse puppets, so they regard our Jinding Territory as a resource."

"There is such a thing!"

Meng Zhou lamented that Lu Quan also looked knowledgeable.

Kan Yue said: "This matter was already fifty or sixty years ago, and it was quite a big deal at that time.

Those body thieves, whether they were beaten to death or captured alive but tortured horribly, were all taken away by the Jinding Sect. It is said that they negotiated with the Yuling Sect in person to resolve the matter."

"The specific outcome of the negotiations between the Jinding Sect and the Yuling Sect is unknown, but since then, no such incident has occurred in the Jinding Domain.

However, the impact of this incident on the Jinding Territory still exists to this day, and many monks choose to be cremated when they die, and this is one of them."

Meng Zhou suddenly nodded and said:

"So, Fellow Daoist Kan thinks that this is probably done by the monks from the Soul Controlling Realm? The purpose is to obtain a large amount of materials for refining corpse puppets?... Oh, at our last gathering, there was a Taoist from the Soul Controlling Realm.

Friends?"

Kan Yue looked at "Fellow Taoist Zhuang" with a determined look on his face and said speechlessly:

"Fellow Daoist Zhuang, when did I say that? I was just following your train of thought and trying to make amends for you!

Also, let’s just talk about this statement here. If you really say it as a reason, people will laugh to death.”

The monks from the Soul Controlling Realm crossed over to the Qingxuan Realm and lived a peaceful life. However, they made such a big fuss just to obtain a few materials for refining corpse puppets. There is no such thing as burying people!

For a monk who was taken over from the outside world by Qingxuan Sect at this time and decided to stay, you can doubt his good and evil intentions, but you cannot doubt his IQ, let alone regard him as a fool.

Meng Zhou also smiled and waved his hands and said, "Okay, okay, it's just a joke. Fellow Taoist Kan, don't take it seriously... However, since you mentioned this, I remembered another thing."

"What's the matter?" Kan Yue asked.

Meng Zhou said:

"At the last gathering, I didn't have a deep impression on anyone else, but a female cultivator named Wei Xiao left a very deep impression on me.

The way she looks at people makes people very uncomfortable. Do you know what her condition is?"

Kan Yue smiled and said: "You are talking about her. I may not understand other people, but I really know her situation."

"What's going on with her?" Meng Zhou asked.

"Fellow Daoist Wei is from the Hehuan Territory, you can probably guess that, right?" Kan Yue said.

Meng Zhou thought for a while and nodded slowly.

"The Hehuan Realm regards the dual cultivation of men and women as a matter of course, and all monks, regardless of men and women, know several secret techniques of Hehuan.

Most of these secret techniques are gentle and beneficial to both practitioners.

This is called the Hehuan Sect in the Hehuan Domain, and it is considered the mainstream orthodoxy. In addition, there is an evil path called the Tonic Sect, which is only beneficial to the caster, and the other party is completely reduced to a furnace.
To be continued...