Lu Bai looked around and couldn't believe it. The tunnel was pitch black, with only the way in and no way out. There was no skylight above his head to go out.
The air also became extremely polluted.
If Lu Bai hadn't been at a high level and had the Turtle Breathing Skill, he might have died of suffocation at this moment.
"Weird, what's going on here? If it wasn't for money, why would we dig such a big hole?" Lu Bai muttered in his heart.
When he was at a loss, his hand touched a patch of soil on the top and suddenly felt damp.
His heart skipped a beat and he groped the soil carefully.
Lu Bai soon discovered that this was a mud slab, no, it should be said to be a very thick mud brick. It is estimated that over time, this mud brick has adhered to the surrounding soil. If there were no gaps where water could seep in,
Lu Bai really might not be able to discover it.
Lu Bai held the mud brick with his hand and exerted slight pressure.
Quite heavy.
So Lu Bai used some more strength, and finally the mud bricks became loose. He pushed the mud bricks up, and water quickly flowed down from them. In order to avoid soiling his clothes, Lu Bai waved an idle hand,
Once it turned into ice, the water condensed.
Then, Lu Bai pushed open the mud brick, and a breath of fresh air came to his face.
Lu Bai saw that the entrance of the cave was very wide. He turned over and scanned the surroundings. He was delighted. The entrance of the cave was exactly the inner treasury. Moreover, deep inside the inner treasury, there was a stone slab on the mud block, which was almost exactly the same as the floor of the inner treasury.
.
He pumped his fist happily.
This time, not only one case was solved, but also the internal treasury theft case was solved.
He calmed down, quickly returned to the tunnel, blocked the entrance with mud bricks, and then returned to the huge pit.
He had roughly figured out the internal treasury theft case in his mind.
The people of Peach Blossom Temple colluded with the people of Nei Shu Tang, and then took advantage of the opportunity of rebuilding Qing Xin Palace to build such a large tunnel in the palace that led directly to the inner treasury.
The money was stolen.
From this point of view, this group of people has been thinking about the emperor's inner treasury not for two or three days, but for two or three years.
"These people are so courageous." Lu Bai sighed in his heart.
He thought he was brave enough, but he had not yet thought about the emperor's inner treasury. He did not expect that these people were already interested in him.
It's a pity that they had a bad time and met themselves.
Lu Bai was thinking about it in his mind and was walking out of the tunnel when he suddenly stopped moving after walking half way.
He stepped on something under his feet.
Lu Bai lowered his head, picked up the thing from the soil, and shook it in front of him, with a puzzled look on his face.
This is a rattle.
Because it was underground, the rattle has rotted away. One of the hammers is missing, and the other one makes a mute sound when struck on the drum surface.
"Isn't this rattle unique to me? Peach Blossom Temple also has this rattle?" Lu Bai muttered.
He thought about it and thought it was very possible.
According to what the City God said yesterday, the City God on the ground is under the jurisdiction of Peach Blossom Temple. It is possible for them to summon the City God if they have this thing in hand.
"This is more and more evidence." Lu Bai put away the rattle and continued on his way.
In less than a quarter of an hour, he saw the entrance of the cave, and then a figure flashed and appeared in the air of the deep pit. Then Lu Bai struck with his hand, and a knife rose up from the void, collapsing the entrance of the cave.
Then, he turned around and saw the palace guards surrounding the pit, but they did not come down, nor did they seem to find the hidden entrance. As for Eunuch Bai, he still stayed where he was, with a look of astonishment on his face, as if he had just obtained a remarkable thing.
news.
"Eunuch Wei is dead, dead?" Eunuch Bai couldn't believe it.
He turned around and saw Lu Bai, with a look of fear on his face.
This Eunuch Wei is one of the ancestors of Neishu Hall and the oldest elder.
Although he doesn't speak on weekdays, when he speaks, it carries a lot of weight. Not to mention the people in the inner study hall, even the emperor has to give some face to this ancestor. This ancestor did not have the clothes to travel south in the Southern Dynasties.
A character who existed from time to time.
It is almost a living fossil of the Southern Dynasties.
Such a master, but now he died in Lu Bai's hands.
Lu Bai almost guessed what Eunuch Bai was surprised about. He disappeared in a flash, and when he reappeared, he was already at Eunuch Bai's side. "He asked for death, and there was nothing I could do. Old Bai, you have to testify for me.
He was the one who did it."
Lu Bai relaxed his arms.
"As you can see, if I hadn't taken out the stuff from the bottom of the box, not to mention my arm, my life would have been decided here." Lu Bai looked like it was not my fault.
"Oh, right--"
Lu Bai turned around and looked at the ruins, "I caught the culprit of this arson case. They were the evil ghosts who assassinated the maid of the Supreme Court. I had already arrested them, but now -"
Lu Bai shook his head.
These eunuchs may not be good at catching ghosts, but it is easy for these Ascended practitioners to catch a ghost. It’s just that they usually disdain to do something to these shrimps. But when they do it, they look like this now, a barbaric look.
The force directly made those female ghosts disappear into thin air.
"They have probably been completely wiped out from this world now. Even if they become ghosts, they can't do it." Lu Bai smiled bitterly, "As for their instigator, I also found out. It seems to be Peach Blossom Temple, but who is Peach Blossom Temple?"
——”
Lu Bai shook his head and said that he had to continue investigating.
Although Lu Bai already knew the answer in his heart, he was not prepared to tell Eunuch Bai and the emperor.
Yes, he has so much money in mind.
What's more, Lu Bai had already solved the case when he caught those palace maid ghosts, so there was no need to tell Eunuch Bai the truth.
Eunuch Bai nodded numbly.
Too many things happened today, and he was still in shock. As for the murderer of the arson case, it was somewhat irrelevant.
When Lu Bai saw him nodding dumbly, he stopped holding on, patted Eunuch Bai on the shoulder and walked outside.
There are more people guarding outside.
Lu Bai then saw the master of the inner study hall, the old eunuch with white hair, a stooped back, and the skin on his face had turned into walnut bark. Next to him stood his young apprentice, the young eunuch.
Different from the old eunuch's firm eyes and kind smile when Lu Bai broke into the palace the day before yesterday, at this moment, the hall master looked at Lu Bai as if he were looking at a monster, with deep fear on his face.
On the contrary, the little eunuch behind him was full of curiosity about Lu Bai.
Lu Bai nodded to them, turned and walked out of the palace. After waiting ten steps away, he turned to look at the master of the inner study hall, "I hope the inner study hall can give me a good reason tomorrow, a right answer."
The reason why I took action."
He was handling a case for the emperor, but was injured by the eunuch beside the emperor. This is totally unjustifiable.
The old eunuch stiffened, and his ricket back became tense.
He always turned his back to Lu Bai and said nothing, but his white hair turned into white frost.
Lu Bai walked out of the palace all the way without anyone stopping him.
As soon as he left the palace, two people flashed out of the darkness, it was the wicked monk and the slovenly Taoist priest.
"Master, you are so powerful. I didn't expect that there was someone in the court." The sloppy Taoist priest looked surprised. "No wonder you want to ascend. If you didn't tell me earlier, I wanted to know that you had someone up there, so I ascended with you."
As the saying goes, if there are people in the court who can do things easily, then there are people in heaven who should be able to do things as well.
"You have many seniors in Peach Blossom Temple, why don't you see you flying up to hug my thigh?" Lu Bai asked angrily.
He took out the ghost bowl and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was safe and sound.
"That's different." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
After their sages from the Peach Blossom Temple ascended, most of them lost contact with the disciples of the Peach Blossom Temple in the lower world. Even if they did get in touch by burning incense and asking divination in front of the statues, these seniors only taught some cultivation methods or words of encouragement.
At most, it can provide guidance for the confusion of the disciples of Peach Blossom Temple in the lower realm, so that the disciples can ascend as soon as possible and join them in the immortal class.
As for life in heaven, none of these sages even mentioned it.
"So we don't know at all whether their life in heaven is good or not. Later, there was the matter of the Peach Blossom Temple's master judging the Immortal Sect. As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, so many people in the Peach Blossom Temple were disappointed.
I have the idea of ascension." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
Lu Baixin.
The people the sloppy Taoist priest mentioned are probably the ones who left Peach Blossom Temple and built Peach Blossom Temple.
"But you are different. Today you can really see how nourishing the life of the immortal in the sky is." The sloppy Taoist priest felt that the status of this immortal was not bad, so Lu Bai arranged a good treatment after he ascended.
Lu Bai was convinced, "You two monks have no idea that you attach so much importance to external things, and you are treated so well. If you don't both rank in the Immortal Class after ascending, what difference can there be in your treatment?"
Lu Bai didn't understand. He was also immortal, had good looks, drank morning dew, and ate flat peaches. What kind of treatment could he expect?
The sloppy Taoist priest waved his hand, "You are young, you don't understand."
He gave Lu Bai an example. Their Peach Blossom Temple was the state religion in the past, the largest spiritual sect in the past, and the absolute largest sect in the mortal world before the emergence of Emperor Taizu of this dynasty. People talk about things in the world, and in the true sense
Carrying the responsibility, their peach blossom view has promoted many people.
Because they have the first-mover advantage, these practitioners may not hold important positions after their ascension, but at least their status is quite high.
"The situation was different for those San people who ascended at that time. After their ascension, their status was very low." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
Lu Bai didn't understand, "How do you know that their status is low?"
The sloppy Taoist priest has his own reasons, "In the past, the Taizu of this dynasty was very kind to us Taoists before ascending. He also gave us the Peach Blossom Temple Immortal Spirit Tablet when he ascended. The emperor is the son of heaven. This is enough to prove that the senior Taohua Temple ascended.
High status."
This fairy tablet is the first fairy tablet in the world.
"It's also the only fairy tablet." The sloppy Taoist priest didn't feel very proud when he said this.
After all, this is the glory of the past.
The current Peach Blossom View has long since declined.
"By the way, there is one more thing that proves that the seniors of Peach Blossom Temple have a high status after ascending." The sloppy Taoist priest told Lu Bai that the seniors of Peach Blossom Temple who ascended in the past would occasionally receive gifts when their descendants burned incense and made wishes in front of the statues or tablets of gods.
Their guidance and even the techniques and guidance for practice were given by them.
"Peach Blossom Temple was very frequent in the past. But from the beginning to the end of the Eight Great Sects, such opportunities are rare and can be counted with one hand." said the sloppy Taoist priest.
Seniors who are promoted are equivalent to seniors who are admitted to university.
Disciples of a sect can get guidance from their seniors from time to time, so their practice will naturally improve by leaps and bounds, and each generation will get better and better. This is not the case for those disciples who occasionally get guidance from their seniors.
"This is one of the reasons why Peach Blossom Temple was so prosperous back then."
Unfortunately, these are things of the past. Since the master of Peach Blossom Temple betrayed the Immortal Sect, Peach Blossom Temple has no longer been able to get guidance from its seniors. No matter whether they burn incense or pay tribute, they can no longer get their guidance.
Now the only one that can get frequent responses is Yiqiu Villa.
Yiqiu Villa has the support of the Sword Immortal in the sky, so he should be able to get a lot of guidance.
"Of course, now I have to add you as a master." The sloppy Taoist priest and the wicked monk now knew why Lu Bai knew so many "Tao Te Ching" and Buddhist scriptures. Maybe it was the senior who just gave him instructions in his dream.
Seeing their speculation, Lu Bai didn't bother to argue.
However, he did have a little more knowledge about the sky, and he didn't expect it to be quite difficult to deal with.
"By the way, that Lao Shi Zi fairy card you just mentioned, what is that?" Lu Bai was curious.
The sloppy Taoist priest took a sip of wine and said, "How should I put it? It means that the heaven can directly communicate with the people in the lower world, issue relevant immortal orders, preach and other magical tools."
Lu Bai thought thoughtfully, "A magical weapon that can transmit sounds thousands of miles away?"
The Taoist priest thinks it's almost the same, but the fairy cards in the lower realm can only be listened to, but the words can't be heard in heaven.
In the past, there was a temple owner in Peach Blossom Temple who mastered the ability to reach heaven and listen. Later, he became the Kitchen God among the people. People in the world hoped that he would go to heaven and say good things.
"Well--"
Lu Bai could not have imagined that this is how the Stove Lord came to be in this world.
"Where is the fairy card now?" Lu Bai asked.
He thought he could come over and take a look at it some other time. Inexplicably, he felt that the function of this thing was quite familiar.
The Taoist priest shook his head. He didn't know where the Fairy Spirit Card was now.
When Peach Blossom Temple and Peach Blossom Temple were separated, there was a lot of trouble, and no one knew who had taken away the fairy cards.
"This fairy card is probably useless." The wicked monk next to him interjected.
With the rebellion of the leader of Peach Blossom Temple from the Immortal Sect, the reputation of Peach Blossom Temple in the sky has become bad. The heaven does not pay much attention to Peach Blossom Temple. Naturally, it will no longer use fairy tablets to send down immortal edicts or spread Taoism.
"Okay." Lu Bai felt quite regretful.
The sloppy Taoist priest told Lu Bai not to think about the mess, but to focus on the present first.
"We can feel that the inner study hall is very hostile to you. If the two of us hadn't been secretly talking to each other just now, you would have been attacked by a group of old monsters in the inner study hall, and then there would be no bones left.
"The wicked monk was very curious as to what kind of hornet's nest Lu Bai had stirred up tonight to actually attract so much hatred.
"I killed Eunuch Wei, the ancestor of Neishu Hall." Lu Bai smiled bitterly.
"What!"
The immoral monk and the slovenly Taoist priest stood there blankly.
They knew very well that Eunuch Wei was one of the cultivators in the Ascension Realm. He had gone through three thunder tribulations, but because he was a eunuch, he was unable to ascend and therefore could not achieve immortality.
"You actually killed him." The sloppy Taoist priest had to admire Lu Bai's courage. "Although he was old and deserved to die, you killed him. No wonder the old monsters in the inner study hall hate you so much."
The wicked monk asked: "You made such a fuss just to kill him?"
"I'm just trying to protect myself. I investigated a case and found out about the dirty things in their inner library, so they wanted to kill me to silence me." Lu Bai stopped as he spoke, took out the ghost bowl, and put his hand on the edge of the bowl.