"Come in!" A deep voice came from inside the house.
Zhou Yuan pushed the door open, closed it with his backhand, walked forward, clasped his fists in his hands and said, "Master."
In the dark night, a man in green robe stood in front of the desk with his back to him, motionless, as if he had blended into the dark house.
If he hadn't spoken out just now, you wouldn't even realize there was someone here.
Zhou Yuan kept his hands tied and his head lowered, saying nothing.
After a long time, the man in green robe sighed: "Zhou Yuan!"
"My subordinates are here!"
"I asked you to check something. You've been here for two years, but you got the result?"
"To report to the Hall Master, I have not yet found out the whereabouts of that person. However," Zhou Yuan cleared his throat, with a hint of excitement in his words: "I have found out where he was in the past few years!"
"Oh? Where is it."
"In Shuyang County! From the winter of 1036 to the early autumn of 1037, this person stayed in Shuyang County for at least half a year!"
"Well, tell me, how did you find it?" Wei Biao turned around and looked at his subordinates. Although his voice was still calm, Zhou Yuan, who was familiar with him, could hear a hint of excitement in it.
"Yes!" Zhou Yuan replied sonorously and began to tell:
"Two years ago, my subordinates followed the instructions of the hall master and went to the Zhenguo Hall to check the annual records of monk anomalies. They happened to find the Taoist Master Yi who had been missing for many years in the official documents reported by Qingzhou!"
"Well, I was in retreat at that time, and you left a transmission note saying that you were rushing to Qingzhou. Is this the reason for this?"
"Yes!" Zhou Yuan explained: "The hall master has given instructions that this matter can only be reported to you verbally, so the subordinates did not dare to say it clearly in the transmission notes. So I rushed over without having time to ask for instructions..." "Well, you are not wrong about this, keep talking!"
"After my subordinates arrived in Qingzhou, they met the palace master. According to his subordinates, a year ago, someone in Sangzhou discovered a treasure called Yuanling Water Fetus, which caused a lot of robbery..."
"Among them is Taoist Master Yi. However, despite his various methods of building foundations, he ultimately failed and even injured himself..."
"Yuanling water fetus?" Wei Biao paced and pondered: "Why is he, a monk without water spiritual roots, participating in the fight?"
"I don't know."
"Oh, I am asking a question out of the blue," Wei Biao smiled to himself: "I heard that this treasure was later snatched away. Did the palace master tell you about this? What is the truth?"
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"This..." Zhou Yuan was a little embarrassed: "My subordinates can talk to the Palace Master only because of the Hall Master. As for the details of the lost treasure, the Palace Master didn't tell me, and my subordinates didn't dare to ask any more questions." "This Wang Qinian!" Wei Biao cursed bitterly and returned to the topic: "What happened next, you can continue to talk."
"Later, the monks from Qingyun Palace cured his injuries, but also checked and recorded his token information in accordance with the sect's rules. It was his name, Yi Jinbo."
"So, he has been missing for two years and has not kept his name?" Wei Biao asked.
"Hall Master Mingjian, this is indeed the case!" Zhou Yuan replied.
"Is it possible that someone else is impersonating me?"
"It's unlikely. Since the information about Taoist Master Yi's token has been missing for several years, we also checked the blood essence and the seal on his token at that time, and they all matched."
"According to this person's explanation..." Zhou Yuan took a deep breath and laid out the following situation:
"In the past few years when he had no records, he found a secret place to practice in seclusion. This is also common in the world of immortal cultivation in Xu country, so the deacon of Qingyun Palace at that time did not embarrass him and just reported the information to the sect as usual.
It was only then that my subordinates found out about the imperial palace."
"Immediately afterwards, my subordinates found the teacher who treated Daoist Yi at that time and obtained his portrait."
"It's just that there is a big gap between the face in the portrait and the person he is..."
"My subordinates speculate that Daoist Master Yi probably walked around the world with this appearance in those years..."
"Therefore, my subordinates drew a straight line from Shaozhou, where he disappeared five years ago, to Qingzhou, where he appeared more than two years ago, and circled the four prefectures of Shao, Yun, Liang, and Qingzhou near this line. I judged that,
Since he has concealed his identity, he will not enter any county, prefecture, or city that checks his identity. He will probably only walk outside the city. But in such a large area, even if he has been in the suburbs, it is impossible not to leave traces.
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"So, my subordinates started investigating from Qingzhou and spent one or two months in each county looking for witnesses who had seen him. With good luck, traces of this person were finally found in Shuyang County this month.
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Although Zhou Yuan described it lightly, it can be imagined that in the past two years, he has investigated county after county and traveled thousands of miles. The hardships during this period cannot be explained to outsiders.
Wei Biao nodded slightly, feeling very satisfied with this confidant, who was willing to use his brain when doing things, and also had a lot of energy.
It's just that he has a cold temperament and still has no expression on his face. He just said "hmm" lightly.
Zhou Yuan paused for a moment and saw that the hall master did not ask any questions, so he continued:
"Outside of Shuyang County, there is a dilapidated Taoist temple called Baihu Temple. It was there that my subordinates met a group of beggars. According to them, Taoist Master Yi came here in the winter five years ago and brought
They were all driven away and stayed there for more than half a year. It was not until the early autumn of the next year that this person left, and this group of beggars dared to return to the Taoist temple."
After living there for more than half a year? Wei Biao tapped his fingers on the desk and fell into deep thought.
Could it be that what this person has been looking for all these years is in Chuyang?
Then why did he appear in Qingzhou again? Was it because he heard the news about the Yuanling water fetus, or did he leave because he had already succeeded in Zhuyang?
He seemed to see a mist in front of him, and through the mist, he could vaguely see the figure of the man.
It's a pity that he can't use the power of the sect to disperse this thick fog, so he can only ask his confidants to search secretly.
Because this was his private behavior. But he didn’t even reveal this secret to his most trusted subordinate.
Even the ancestor of the sect, Yuan Ying, was kept in the dark by him.
To talk about the origin of the matter, we need to go back twelve or thirteen years ago.
At that time, Wei Biao's cultivation level was only Zifu Perfect.
He misses that era infinitely.
As an earth-based monk with single spiritual roots, he was favored by countless people at that time. After the death of Master Qingshi, he was considered to be the best candidate to take over the General Affairs Hall.
However, the palace master or dean of Yunxiao Sect must be the Great Elder of Jindan.
So, driven by everyone's adulation and inner desire, he decided to attack the golden elixir with all his strength.