Trapped in the tree trunk, Lin Ji frowned slightly, but was in no hurry to break out of the current predicament.
This monster does have some abilities. If you look at it as a monk, it is at least the third level of cultivation, but for him now, it can't do any harm.
But what makes him strange is that these spirits are not weak. Even if they are a big tree, they can take the essence of the plants and trees they cultivated and leave alone. Why do they want to harm people in the city?
You must know that the danger factor of such monsters in the city is too high, and it is safer to find a place to take root in the mountains and forests, not to mention it is also beneficial to practice.
This is what folk often say about ginseng dolls encountered in deep mountains and old forests.
When a small ginseng becomes a spirit, it can run away and become invisible at every turn, which makes people confused.
Even if this third-level spirit was born in the city, it should have left the place where people gathered early, but this spirit did the opposite. What did it want?
"The spirits don't go to the mountains and forests to practice, but instead harm people in the city?" Lin Ji instinctively felt that this was not a simple matter.
Gradually, the pressure around me has increased.
Lin Ji's thoughts were interrupted by this pressure, and he felt a little dissatisfied.
"court death."
As soon as his mind moved, the spiritual energy in Lin Ji's body began to rotate, vaguely resonating with the heaven and earth.
In just one breath, a pure power surrounded him.
"North Pole Kung Fu, Tianshu Star Power."
The exercises I just learned came in handy at this moment.
Lin Ji felt as if he was extremely powerful and had endless strength.
After just trying to move for a little while, I could clearly hear the sound of the surrounding wood breaking.
"You little spirit is not good at fighting, yet you dare to come out and cause trouble." Lin Ji sneered, raising his hand to break the shackles.
But before he could take action, the world was spinning again before his eyes, and he was actually released by the spirit.
Not only that, Lin Ji was also keenly aware that the spiritual energy in the Zheng family's garden was rapidly gathering towards the roots of the big tree, and was still moving slowly.
Lin Ji raised his eyebrows. He could tell that the spirit wanted to run away.
"Can you run away?"
The long sword was unsheathed, the sword light leaped over the sword edge, and a sharp aura swept around.
In the past, the sword light was transformed by the spiritual energy of Lin Ji's Hao Qi Jue, but now the sword light has a bit more power of stars.
As for how powerful it was, Lin Ji felt that it was perfect to try it out with this spirit.
Lin Ji flipped his wrist to hold the sword in his backhand, and then threw the sword away suddenly, heading straight for the place with the strongest aura during the spiritual exploration.
Immediately afterwards, there was a scream.
"ah!"
Lin Ji stepped forward and held the sword in his hand again.
But just when he was about to continue taking action, a green little man emerged from the soil.
"Sir, please spare your life, senior, please spare your life..."
Seeing this green little man, Lin Ji was in a daze for a moment.
This was the first time he saw the true form of spirits. He had learned about them from ghosts and strange things before.
Moreover, spirits rarely appear outside the mountains and forests, so they are not common.
The little man in front of me is only about half a meter tall. His clothes are made of leaves and bark glued together. He looks quite funny.
There is no nose or ears on the face, just two eyes and a mouth on the round face.
His head was bare, and there were two leaves on top of his head.
The spirit timidly looked at Lin Ji with its back against the big tree, hunched over, always ready to run away.
Lin Ji put his long sword against the monster's neck.
The spirit was so frightened that it began to tremble, its lips turned white, and its body became very weak.
This little thing didn't seem to have any external injuries, but Lin Ji's sword blow just now had already damaged its origin, otherwise it wouldn't have been so frightened that it came out to beg for mercy.
"Is it you who caused trouble in this garden and killed the two old men of the Zheng family?" Lin Ji asked coldly.
The spirit quickly shook his head.
"Sir! Senior! It's not..."
Before he finished speaking, footsteps suddenly sounded at the entrance of the garden behind him.
A voice with a familiar smile reached Lin Ji's ears.
"This is the new chief arrester, Mr. Lin, right? I am the deputy chief of arrests, Tian Jiufeng, and I have met Mr. Lin."
Lin Ji turned his head and looked at the person coming.
"Tian Jiufeng, the deputy chief of Guan Chengnan?" Lin Ji looked at the other person and asked casually.
"It's the official."
"Wait aside." Lin Ji turned back and prepared to continue questioning the spirit.
But Tian Jiufeng stepped forward quickly, came to Lin Ji's side, and said to the spirit: "Evil beast! I told you where did you escape to, how dare you come to the Zheng family to harm people!"
Lin Ji obviously found that the fear on the face of the spirit became more and more obvious after seeing Tian Jiufeng.
But before he could ask, Tian Jiufeng quickly explained: "Mr. Lin, this spirit was raised by my Tian family. It was originally used to take care of the spiritual field at home. Who would have thought that this little thing escaped not long ago?"
go out."
"Do you, the Tian family, raise the spirits in the third realm?" Lin Ji raised his eyebrows.
"Sir, this spirit was bought from the capital, and it had restrictions on it when it was bought." Tian Jiufeng replied subconsciously.
Lin Ji asked again: "Since there is a ban, how did it escape?"
"This...this..." Tian Jiufeng was at a loss for words and couldn't give an explanation for a long time.
Lin Ji was too lazy to pay attention to him, stretched out his hand, grabbed the two saplings above the spirit's head, and lifted it up.
"It doesn't matter if it belongs to your Tian family or not. This little thing has harmed someone. Naturally, this matter cannot be solved by just a few words."
Tian Jiufeng's face changed slightly.
"Mr. Lin, this spirit is worth a lot of money. Our family also spent a lot of money..."
"How about asking two people from the Tian family to pay for the lives of the two elders of the Zheng family, and I will return this monster to you?" Lin Ji sneered.
"How can this be done?" Tian Jiufeng finally figured it out. Lin Ji couldn't speak at all.
He simply set his sights on Zheng Yunxuan.
"Master Zheng, the Tian family is willing to give you a satisfactory explanation for this matter, so please don't pursue it any further. How about that?"
Hearing this, Zheng Yunxuan was silent for a moment and subconsciously looked at Lin Ji.
But he found that Lin Ji was also looking at him.
"If you dare to nod, I will immediately charge you with colluding with evil spirits and kill you, and leave one hundred thousand taels of silver to your family. How about that?"
Zheng Yunxuan quickly looked away and did not dare to speak.
Lin Ji looked at Tian Jiufeng.
"Deputy Tian arrests the boss and uses his power to suppress people. This method does not work well with me! There is something fishy about this matter, and I will definitely get to the bottom of it."
"Master Lin, why are you doing this?" Tian Jiufeng's face also darkened.
A perfunctory smile appeared on Lin Ji's lips.
"There is nothing wrong with me here. I can't see this matter, but no one cares about it. So I have to come."
While he was talking, there were footsteps again outside.
Lin Ji turned around and found that Sun Hai had arrived with two other deputy chiefs.
One is Li Wushuang, whom he has met before, and the other is a young man under thirty years old.
I guess it was Chu Qin, the last deputy head catcher who came out of the sect to gain experience.
It had been so many days since he had been the chief arrester that Lin Ji finally recognized all the arresters in the city.