Xu Zhiqiong returned to the Marquis Mansion and called Tao Huayuan: "Tao'er, let's go to the palace."
"Why go to the palace?"
"Ghost hunting."
Luo Songgui said that he did not hit a ghost, but Xu Zhiqiong suspected that his memory had been tampered with by Ye Ansheng.
Li Quangen said he did not remember the incident, and Xu Zhiqiong suspected that his memory had also been tampered with.
Qin Yan and Yue Liusheng both said they did not remember the incident, and Xu Zhiqiong had another suspicion.
Was my memory tampered with by Ye Ansheng?
Although Xu Zhiqiong has always been immune to various techniques of Qiongqi Evil Path, it is difficult to say whether Ye Ansheng will have a breakthrough in his cultivation.
Fortunately, this can be verified.
Chang De had just experienced this and remembered it very clearly.
When she arrived at Zhidian Prison, she angrily scolded Qin Yan and Li Quangen: "You told me personally that the palace was haunted, and now you have turned your back. How come you don't admit it?"
The two of them were still at a loss, Qin Yan had no impression, and Li Quangen was in a daze.
They all forgot, but Chang De remembered, which proves that Ye Ansheng came to the palace and used third-level skills on many people.
How many people are there?
There must have been more than just these people who knew about the haunting incident, but because everyone had their memories wiped out, there was no way to investigate.
Why did Ye Ansheng erase this memory?
If you can't find people's memories, you can still find ghosts.
Xu Zhiqiong called Tao Huayuan and started looking for ghosts in the palace.
According to Luo Songgui's original description, the souls of the dead servants in the palace cannot leave the palace. Over seven hundred years and hundreds of thousands of souls, it should not be difficult to find even one or a half.
Xu Zhiqiong searched the palace for more than half an hour and found nothing.
The palace is too big, and I don't know where these ghosts usually hide. If I just run around with my eyes closed, the chance of finding them is really slim.
Call a group of judges to come together?
This is not appropriate either, it makes too much noise.
Tao Huayuan has another way. She can use the magic circle to sense the unique yin energy of ghosts without making too much noise.
That night, there was a quiet rain of peach blossoms in the palace.
At this time of year, there should not be peach blossoms, so the chamberlain of Zhidian Supervisor swept the petals all over the floor early in the morning and complained a lot.
"Where do all these peach blossoms come from? It's almost winter here."
"I see that the peach trees in the palace haven't bloomed yet? This is really new!"
"Is it because of the Lord God..."
A manager next to him said: "Don't talk nonsense. I heard from the palm print that this is a good sign. Please clean it up quickly."
Tao Huayuan used the Peach Blossom Array to investigate all night, and came to a conclusion at dawn.
There was not a single ghost in the palace.
Xu Zhiqiong was dumbfounded. He had previously said that there were innocent souls everywhere in the palace, but now he said there were none.
Qin Yan sighed silently, as if she had been wronged.
Li Quangen looked confused, feeling that this matter was becoming more and more difficult to understand.
Chang De thought for a moment and asked Qin Yan to go to the palace first to avoid Hong Zhenji becoming suspicious.
He also asked Li Quangen to rest for two days and put this matter aside for the time being.
After waiting for the others to retreat, Chang De said to Xu Zhiqiong: "Master, please relax and deal with Fu Ji's matter first.
We are definitely not mistaken here, the palace is indeed haunted, and we will wait for the slave family to check it out."
Xu Zhiqiong came to the house in the east of the city, and Fu Ji was sleeping soundly in his bedroom.
Even though the house is not big and there is no one to serve it, Fu Ji doesn't have to worry about it and can sleep peacefully.
Xu Zhiqiong bought some food and wine, had two drinks with Fu Ji, and took out the five hundred meritorious deeds.
"If you still want to be a judge in the future, you will deprive yourself of this meritorious service."
Fu Ji looked at a bag of golden beans and hesitated.
"If you don't want to be a judge, let's get together and part ways."
Xu Zhiqiong took out another wooden box, which contained ten gold ingots, fifty taels each.
"These five hundred taels of gold are considered your reward."
Gold can be exchanged for silver. According to the official price, five hundred taels of gold can be exchanged for two thousand taels of silver. According to the private price, three or four thousand taels can be exchanged.
Looking at the box of gold, Fu Ji's eyes lit up.
But if gold is chosen, will Ma Changshi lose his temper?
Since he has made it clear for me to choose, if he turns against me again, this person would be too insidious.
What's the benefit of being a judge? There's no real money!
Fu Ji mustered up his courage and prepared to choose gold. Just as he was about to speak, Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "I knew you still wanted to be a judge."
After saying that, Xu Zhiqiong took out a funnel, inserted it into Fu Ji's mouth, and poured down three hundred gold beans first.
Fu Ji felt a spasm all over his body and fell asleep.
Don't underestimate these three hundred beans. Fu Ji is only a ninth-grade judge. For him, this means that he has experienced the lower to the middle, and then the ninth to the eighth grade.
Fortunately, Xu Zhiqiong used the power of imagery to guide him, and within an hour, Fu Ji woke up.
He did not dare to complain, and would steal a look at Xu Zhiqiong from time to time, his eyes filled with unwillingness.
Xu Zhiqiong took over the box of gold: "Since you have chosen to be a judge, you are still a disciple of the Taoist sect, and the rewards in the Taoist sect are indispensable to you."
It turns out that if you choose a judge, you can get both rewards!
Fu Ji was very happy and thanked him repeatedly. Xu Zhiqiong taught Fu Ji the eighth-grade skill invisibly. When Fu Ji initially grasped the essentials, he ate another 200 golden beans and took him to the middle of the eighth-grade, and he was busy.
, it’s already noon.
I wanted to take this opportunity to help Fu Ji explore his natural skills, but Xu Zhiqiong had something on his mind and couldn't let it go, so he sent Fu Ji back to the palace first.
After leaving the palace, Xu Zhiqiong went to the Underworld and found Shi Cheng.
"Brother Shi, have we ever collected the souls of eunuchs in the underworld?"
Shi Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Maybe. It seems that I saw someone who was neither yin nor yang a few days ago. I don't know if he was in this business before he was alive."
Xu Zhiqiong said in surprise: "When you arrive in the underworld, you don't ask about making a living in the underworld?"
Shi Cheng said: "If we were in Daxuan, we should ask, but there are too few people in Qianchengyin Division and they are too busy.
In the past, they didn't ask anything, only about the burial, but now they only ask about the sins of the previous life, and they really didn't ask much about making a living."
Is there really no evidence for this matter?
Could it be that Ye Ansheng and I really had our memories tampered with by Lao Chang?
When did Ye Ansheng fight against me?
Lao Chang and I never defeated him together?
The more Xu Zhiqiong thought about it, the more frightened he became. Suddenly he felt the ghost jade trembling, and Lao Chang found out his identity.
In a big house outside the city, Chang Decai was waiting for Xu Zhiqiong.
There were many eunuchs living in this mansion.
These eunuchs were all executed by Hong Juncheng, and later Yue Liusheng used puppets to redeem their lives and sent them outside the palace. Zhao Jindong, Chang Decai's earliest disciple, was among them.
When he heard that the palace was haunted, Zhao Jindong nodded and said, "Yes! This matter was spread around at that time, and everyone with status in our Decai sect knew about it!"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "You have to be sure. I asked Qin Yan, Li Quangen and Yue Liusheng, and they all said there was no ghosting."
"Aren't they telling lies with their eyes open?" Zhao Jindong frowned and said, "Forget about others, Li Quangen got a lot of bottles and cans and collected a lot of ghosts. How dare he deny this?"
Li Quangen collects ghosts...
I remembered!
Li Quangen knew martial arts and learned many techniques from Yang Wu.
"Have you seen those bottles and jars?"
Zhao Jindong nodded and said: "I have only seen a few ghosts, and many of them should be in the Zhidian secret room. As for where the secret room is, I don't know."
Xu Zhiqiong turned around and returned to the palace. When he arrived at the Zhidian Supervisor, he asked Li Quangen: "Where is the secret room?"
"The secret room? Where is the secret room?"
"You go straight to the palace supervisor's secret room."
Li Quangen pondered for a long time and said: "Does the Zhidian prison have a secret room?"
I even forgot about the secret room.
How hard did Ye Ansheng do to him?
Tao Huayuan has been waiting in the Zhidian prison to listen to Xu Zhiqiong's story.
Li Quangen knows magic, so there must be a magic circle hidden in his secret room.
But this was nothing in Tao Huayuan's eyes. A few petals flew out of her hands, circled around Zhidian Prison, and soon found Zhidian Prison's secret room.
There were more than one secret room in Zhidian Prison, and Tao Huayuan entered the first one first. There were wooden piles, clay, and many animal skins.
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be this one."
This is the secret room where Li Quangen usually practices, filled with equipment for practicing techniques.
Tao Huayuan quickly found the second secret room and went in to look for a while. Tao Huayuan's cheeks turned red and she held Xu Zhiqiong's arm tightly.
There are two rows of bookshelves in this secret room, and hundreds of volumes of spring paintings are neatly stacked on one row of shelves.
Another row of shelves holds bells, ropes and various sizes of Fujitsu artifacts (also known as kakusei).
This is the secret room where Li Quangen and Xishi met.
Xu Zhiqiong picked up a few volumes of spring paintings, studied them for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be here."
Tao Huayuan looked at a very cute bell and asked in a low voice: "What is this used for?"
The bell didn't ring, but something seemed to be shaking inside.
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the bell for a moment, then put it in his arms and said, "I've seen this in a painting. Let's try it someday."
Tao Huayuan sprinkled the petals and found the third secret room.
Entering the secret room, there are three shelves on the three walls, and dozens of porcelain bottles of various sizes are placed on the shelves.
Xu Zhiqiong picked up the porcelain bottle and smelled it, and immediately smelled the ghost's breath. He turned to Li Quangen and said:
"You used these bottles to collect ghosts, can you remember?"
Li Quangen sat in the secret room and seemed to have recovered some vague memories.
There had been countless ghosts of chamberlains in the palace, and many people knew about this matter, but only Li Quangen had really put in the effort to investigate.
Ye Ansheng failed to completely cleanse his memory. Li Quangen thought about it for a long time and finally remembered a detail.
"Run away! He ran away!"
"Who ran away?"
Xu Zhiqiong used the power of imagery to help Li Quangen concentrate his thoughts. Li Quangen said with sweat on his face: "Here, there is a chamberlain who has been in the palace for hundreds of years. He suddenly got out of the bottle and ran away.
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I also chased one of them, but I couldn't catch him. Where did he go..."
Li Quangen didn't remember where he chased him, he only remembered that the soul could break free from the shackles of the magic.
He told the story of the soul's escape. After Tao Huayuan heard it, she said to Xu Zhiqiong: "It doesn't look like he ran away. It should have been captured by some kind of magic weapon."
"What kind of magic weapon?"
Tao Huayuan shook her head and said: "It's hard to explain clearly what it looks like, but it can take away so many dead souls. It should be quite large in size and has a unique aura. The eunuch has a keen sense. As long as the cultivation level reaches the eighth level, if you look carefully, you will definitely be able to find it.
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In the Decai Sect, apart from Chang Decai's direct disciples, there are really not many who have reached the eighth level.
Li Quangen summoned sixteen chamberlains, two in a team, to search the palace carefully.
It was really not easy for sixteen people to search the huge palace.
Luo Songgui and his junior brother Deng Qiuhai were responsible for searching Yixuan Palace. They found nothing in Yixuan Palace, so they went to the back garden again.
In Daxuan, there were fields, lakes, workshops, and places for sericulture and weaving in the backyard of the imperial palace.
The emperor came here regularly to farm and fish, and the queen came here to raise silkworms and weave. It was an important place where the emperor encouraged work through personal demonstrations.
The back garden of Qiancheng Kingdom is much larger, with lakes, mountains and forests, as well as courtyards and pavilions where the gods can hunt.
Deng Qiuhai complained: "Such a big backyard depends on just the two of us. How long will it take to find it?"
Luo Songgui frowned and said, "This is the palace master's order. Don't talk too much and concentrate on your work!"
The two of them arrived in front of the back garden gate and were about to go in.
A gust of breeze blew, and the two stopped and stood in front of the door for a while, looking a little dazed.
After a long time, Deng Qiuhai said to Luo Songgui: "I've also checked in the back garden, but there's nothing here either."
Luo Songgui nodded and said: "Go to the Shenxun Palace again and have a look. If you haven't found it yet, go to the palace master to restore your life."