The deceased was wearing a black robe with a hooded hood. He was a thin man with a miserable death, with a sunken forehead and a bulging eyes.

The old tree next to the corpse was stained with blood.

In the distance, officials surrounded him and dispersed the onlookers.

Chang Yuchun waved his hand, and the officials immediately retreated and stood by the surroundings.

"What do you think?" Chang Yuchun said.

"This person is a practitioner. Judging from his appearance, he died by hitting a tree, but it is not like suicide. A person's neck is limited, and it is difficult for the head hammer to reach such a level. At least the force of the pusher must be used to cause such a wound."

Chang Yuchun's eyes were slightly praised and said, "How can I tell that he is a practitioner."

Xu Yan said: "Mu Zhengchu and I have been to the black market. Only when we participate in black market transactions can we wear this style of black robe."

When he first came to the imperial city, Xu Yan and Mu Zhengchu went to the black market to buy corpse refining techniques, so Xu Yan was deeply impressed by the black robe.

"I was robbed and killed as soon as I left the black market. I guess I bought something I shouldn't touch. Since I encountered it, I'll leave this case to you."

Chang Yuchun called the official officer and ordered him to investigate the identity of the deceased. He said to Xu Yan: "When the investigation results come back, we will send people according to the danger level of the case."

Xu Yan bowed and said yes.

When it comes to the murder case of practitioners, the Western Ya will take over directly, but the inspection and visiting matters will be left to local officials to handle.

After all, the Western Yaya has limited staff, so it is impossible to do everything yourself.

The case is not urgent, and the investigation results will take time. When Xu Yan returned to the Western Yamen, the first thing he did was to receive the merits of the poetry club.

Adding the income from the previous two cases, it just took only five points.

Finally, I can change to the Spirit Transformation Art!

Xu Yan went to the Merit Pavilion early in the morning, but didn't see anything else, and just changed the spiritual technique.

After returning to his residence with his skills, Xu Yan was as happy as a child who had obtained his beloved toys.

No matter how you pretend to be a living person, without spiritual energy is always a flaw.

I couldn't wait to open the exercises, and what caught my eye was an obscure record.

Xu Yan knows every word, but the meaning of the combination is difficult to understand. Each sentence has to be recited repeatedly to roughly understand its meaning.

After reading for a long time, Xu Yan had a general understanding of the Spirit Transformation Art.

The effect of the Spirit Turning Art is to convert spiritual energy into other one's own auras, such as essence, blood, anger, evil spirit, etc. Some people have even used the Spirit Turning Art to transform their own spiritual energy into demonic energy, ghost energy, demon energy and other strange auras.

According to the records in the Zhuan Ling Art, there has never been a precedent for reverse cultivation.

Xu Yan planned to use his own corpse energy to transform it into spiritual energy, so normal practice of the Spirit Transformation Art is ineffective and can only reverse the method.

As for whether he can be cultivated by then, Xu Yan is not sure at all.

"Use spirit to convert qi, use qi to condense breath, use breath to transform the method, and change everything..." Xu Yan murmured: "Since there are all kinds of changes, practice can be effective in reverse, let's try it."

If you want to practice the exercises in reverse, the prerequisite is to fully understand the exercises.

With Xu Yan's unfamiliarity with the martial arts, he understood the Spiritual Arts thoroughly and could not know what year or month it was.

Fortunately, there are veterans in the Western Yaman area who can ask questions, so they won’t be able to explore it alone.

"Uncle Cai, what does it mean to condense breath into a light and clear air to transform turbidity?"

Feicai carefully tasted the cup of Yuanyang Lie in his hand and said, "Light and clear means heaven and yang. The clear energy rises and turbid air drops. This sentence teaches you to condense the rising clear energy, which is used to differentiate the turbid air itself, so that your own breath reaches a pure balance... Five points of merit, what's wrong with changing the spiritual technique? This thing is not very useful even if it is cultivated."

"I'm curious and I'll try to practice it, then what about this sentence..."

Xu Yan used three cups of Yuan Yang Lie to exchange for all the insights on the Spirit Transformation Art, which was equivalent to obtaining a detailed instruction manual.

Although I still don’t understand it very much, it is much better than watching the exercises alone.

At least you can slowly explore and practice.

The servants in the imperial city were much faster than in other places, and at noon, they handed over the clues of last night's murder to the West Yai.

Xu Yan took the document and reviewed it.

The deceased was a child of a noble family living in the imperial city. He had the cultivation level of Qi Refining Realm. He died last night on his way back on the black market. The deceased spent a lot of money to buy a pearl called the Sea Soul Pearl and did not fly.

The sea soul bead is also called the mermaid tears. There is a unique drop of sea water in the bead. It is said that the tears of the mermaid will sway continuously as the bead rotates like a shrinking sea surface. If you listen carefully, you can hear the slight sound of waves.

After closing the file, Xu Yan's eyes were clear.

The obvious robbery of wealth, the Sea Soul Pearl is the reason why the murderer killed people.

Because the practitioner was involved in the murder, three coroners could be dispatched in this case, Xu Yan would be summoned to a total of three merit points.

Xu Yan first found the cost materials of the veteran case handler, and left a place to call Mu Zhengchu, who was the best at it. Unexpectedly, Mu Zhengchu had just taken the task and went out, and happened to meet Qi Yuanguan, so he brought this young boss with him.

The three-person team finished in a team and officially began to investigate the murders that occurred in the imperial city.

There is another clue that comes with the file, which is an eyewitness.

This person lives near the crime scene. He heard something outside and witnessed the whole thing passing through the crack of the door.

According to this person's description, there was no murderer at all. The deceased was crazy and hit the old tree. He hit him more than a dozen times in a row, but finally stopped moving.

"Suicide? Could it be that the Sea Soul Bead has any special soul control effect?" Qi Yuanju guessed.

"Just pretending, as long as you use the escape talisman to hide your body, outsiders will naturally not see the murderer committing the murderer." Fei Cai said.

"The movement witnesses heard in advance may be the sound of the murderer deliberately making, in order to allow people to see the deceased commit suicide." Xu Yan said.

"Kill a practitioner with bare hands. The murderer must be a martial arts master and is not easy to deal with." Feicai analyzed.

"You dare to kill people on the street in the imperial city. The murderer is too brave." Qi Yuanbiao said.

"There is an excellent prop to divert attention in this murder, which is the Sea Soul Pearl." Fei Cai saw that the two of them were puzzled and told the whole story.

"The sea soul bead is extremely rare. Once it appears, it will definitely become an ominous thing. The master has always been either a messy family or a sudden death. None of them has a good ending. It is said that the sea water in the bead is the curse of the mermaid."

"So evil!" Qi Yuanbiao cried in a low voice: "The murderer intends to divert his sight with the strangeness of the Sea Soul Pearl itself to achieve the effect of escape! He robbed the Sea Soul Pearl. If he goes far away, where can we find it?"

Xu Yan said: "The murderer's purpose is very clear. I believe he has known about the Sea Soul Pearl for a long time. He may not have kept the ominous object. Maybe the Sea Soul Pearl will appear in the black market."

Feicai nodded and said, "It's possible, there are no clues anyway. Let's go and have a look when the black market opens next time."

The clues left by this murder case are not enough to track down the murderer, and the only chance is to wait for him to commit the crime again.

There is still half a month left before the next black market.

Xu Yan locked himself in the room and devoted himself to the technique of turning the spirit.

As his understanding deepened, Xu Yan gradually mastered the essence of the Spirit-Turning Art.

After repeated verification, Xu Yan felt that it was almost done and began to try to reverse the spiritual practice.

A trace of corpse energy was mobilized.

The corpse qi reverses along the meridians in the body, like water that flows backwards, strange and weird.

If this is spiritual energy, the reversed person will definitely suffer from the meridians.

After all, the meridians are like rivers and can only go straight, but not upstream.

Xu Yan is different.

His meridians were strengthened by dead wood juice and were also dead. The reversal of corpse energy in the meridians was unscathed for him.

After countless difficult attempts, half a month later, a breath different from the corpse energy finally appeared in Xu Yan's corpse.
Chapter completed!