Outside the Jingye Division of the Eastern Territory, as soon as Gu Cheng stepped into the gate, a group of Xuanjia guards and night watchmen respectfully called Sir, with a respectful and humble attitude.
Not only the Xuanjia Guards from the five cities who had previously turned to Gu Cheng were like this, but also the night watchmen from other cities.
After the battle outside the capital, Gu Cheng became famous and even took a lot of rewards from Fang Henshui and distributed them to everyone.
Don't underestimate these things. Although the treatment of Jingyesi in the capital is good, this is the capital after all, and there usually won't be big fluctuations.
Therefore, Jingyesi's Xuanjia Guards received a lot of salary, but not many additional rewards.
With a boss like Gu Cheng who can gain benefits for them, how could they not be respectful?
Even those who were not convinced by Gu Cheng before now no longer dare to challenge Gu Cheng. Now that Gu Cheng wants prestige and strength, what can they use to challenge Gu Cheng?
Don’t forget, the death of Chen Jingnan is still somewhat unclear.
Stepping into his lobby, Gu Cheng took out a pile of books and examined them. These were not cases, but the defenses that the Twelve Squares of the Eastern Territory had to prepare on the day of the ancestor worship ceremony.
The ancestor worship ceremony is about to begin in less than a month. The Longxiang Guards and others responsible for guarding the imperial city have already begun to arrange their arrangements in the imperial city. Naturally, Jingyesi's side will also respond.
Of course, the four-domain commanders like Gu Cheng don't have a big problem. They are only responsible for preventing trouble in the periphery. These things are all ready-made, and it is not difficult to follow the routines of previous years.
At this time, Yang Naigong stepped into the lobby, handed Gu Cheng a file and said, "Sir, my people found something in Fang City, which seems a bit suspicious."
Gu Cheng frowned, something happened again?
He heard Tie Tianying say that there were not so many things going on at the last ancestor worship ceremony. Everything was held smoothly. How come there are so many things going on here?
After taking the file handed to him by Yang Naigong and looking at it, the first page was a copied portrait.
It was a Maitreya Buddha, but it was a little different from the Maitreya Buddha enshrined in normal Buddhist temples. Its smile was very strange, and its eyes were narrowed into a slit, revealing a glimmer of light.
The Maitreya Buddha itself is entrenched on the sea of blood, and its whole body is emitting swastika Buddha light, blocking the waves of the sea of blood, giving it a feeling that is both holy and evil.
Yang Naigong said: "After the last battle, the Zuo Dao practitioners in the entire Eastern Region Twelve Squares have become much more honest. They don't even dare to wander on the street in broad daylight for fear of being caught by Jingyesi's people and used as targets.
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However, they still make trouble at night. Last night, someone took action in Ruyifang. It seemed that a few local cultivators had a conflict with an outsider and were killed by the other party.
But there was a guy among them who was good at the secret art of ghosts. His soul was separated and lived in a ghost. After he was killed, he hid in the corpse. As a result, he saw this guy draw on the ground with a kind of strange blood.
This portrait is imprinted on the streets.
The next day, after he found an opportunity to repair his body, he came to Jingyesi to report these things."
Gu Cheng asked with a weird look on his face: "Are you saying that the person who reported the case was actually a low-level ghost cultivator? Is there anything wrong with this guy's mind?"
These low-level left-field cultivators usually avoid Jingyesi, but now they have suffered a loss and come to report the case to Jingyesi. This is a bit funny no matter what.
However, this incident once again reminded Gu Cheng that he should be more cautious when dealing with such guys or monsters who are good at ghost refining and secret arts. After death, they will be reduced to rubble and plowed with Buddha's light.
Only after you have transcended it several times can it be considered safe.
Yang Naigong smiled bitterly and said: "This guy is indeed a bit weird, but what he did is normal, because the person who did it was the one who broke the rules.
These leftist practitioners are also divided into factions and regions. For example, those low-level leftist practitioners who fought against you before, sir, are not from the capital, but from the counties around the capital, as well as outsiders like Ma Hongbo.
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However, although some left-leaning cultivators in the capital are not as strong as them, they are more disciplined. Some of them are informants of our Jingyesi. We will even go to them if we want to find out information, so these people have their own way of doing things.
There are rules, but they are also extremely exclusive.
Now that outsiders have come to their territory to cause trouble and even kill their people, it is not surprising that these people would ask for help from us, Jingyesi."
Gu Cheng knocked on the table and asked, "If that's the case, will we, Jingyesi, take care of this kind of thing before?"
Yang Naigong said: "Guan must know how to take care of it. Although these guys are not good people, they still have to abide by some rules after all. It is better to keep them here than to keep some unruly people."
Gu Cheng nodded and said, "Okay, take me to have a look, and bring the loose cultivator from the left path who reported it to Jingyesi."
When they arrived at Ruyifang, Yang Naigong immediately brought up a guy with a broken arm and leg, his head tilted, and a hole in his chest.
This guy looked like he was about to be cut into pieces, but he was still alive. Gu Cheng couldn't help but look at him a few more times. This guy was really strong.
"The little man is a ghost in the ditch, but he has seen the adults."
The man, with blood on his face, saluted Gu Cheng with one hand miserably.
Yang Naigong slapped him, almost slapping his head off which was not very strong in the first place.
"What nickname should I give you in front of adults? Tell me your real name!"
The man said aggrievedly: "The villain is called a ditch ghost, because he was raised by beggars since he was a child. He has no name and hangs out in the stinking ditches of the capital. He steals the money bag and jumps into the stinking ditches.
No one could catch up with me, so I have always been called this name."
Gu Cheng waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop talking about useless things. What happened yesterday?"
The ditch ghost looked at Gu Cheng cautiously. This gentleman was now well-known in the Twelve Squares of the Eastern Territory. To be precise, he had a bad reputation.
In the first battle, hundreds of low-ranking left-behind cultivators were killed. This man's heart was dark and his hands were ruthless. I heard that some people with good intentions went to the county to see the dilapidated county government.
The blood was dyed red and black. God knows how many people Gu Cheng killed here.
So when facing Gu Cheng, even though Gu Cheng was very kind at this moment, even kinder than Yang Naigong who was standing aside with a fierce look on his face, the ghost in the ditch still couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.
After calming down, the ghost in the ditch said: "The villain and a few of his friends are out at night, doing some unseemly things for the dignitaries in the capital. Suddenly, he saw a guy sneaking around.
What to arrange on the street.
We all recognized the people in Ruyifang. When the guy looked so strange, we thought he was an outside practitioner snatching food, so we wanted to go over and have a chat with him. However, we didn't expect that the guy suddenly acted cruelly and killed several of us.
They were all killed.
If I didn't still have the secret technique, I might not even have the chance to file a complaint."
"Take me to see that place."
The ditch ghost took Gu Cheng to a remote alley, pointed down and said, "Sir, this is it. This is where that guy used the demon blood to draw such a strange thing. I remember it clearly.
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Gu Cheng and Yang Naigong both checked the place and found nothing special. Gu Cheng suddenly asked: "How are you sure that it is demon blood?"
The ghost in the ditch said: "There was once a reward for this thing in the black market. The villain originally found a lot of people to join forces to kill some little demons, and then he gathered a pot of demon blood. What the guy took out was definitely demon blood.
I can guarantee this."
Gu Cheng touched his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his hand, and he released the ghost of the demon fairy in the black jade space.
Yang Naigong was horrified when he saw the giant snake demon body that was more than ten feet long, and the ghost in the ditch had a look of horror on his face, as if he had seen something incredible.
For a Taoist cultivator like him who was born in the capital, the most monsters he could see were some spirits. How could he possibly see such a big monster in the deep mountains and old forests?
The demon fairy's split soul used the demon power as a guide to pull out the power from the ground, but there was nothing substantial, just a drop of blood with a black luster.
It seems that the person who did it had already removed the things underneath after being discovered, leaving only this drop of residual demon blood.
"Old Yang, let me borrow your nine-winged earthworm to find out its origin."
After following Gu Cheng and receiving Gu Cheng's promise, Yang Naigong seemed to have the motivation to do things and worked much harder.
His nine-winged earthworm was considered a consumable item, so he took it out generously at this time and traced the aura on the demon blood.
However, compared to the last time the left-field cultivator tracked the corpse-raising rotting tapir, this time because the interval was too long, the nine-winged earthworm seemed a little less powerful. Not to mention the flying speed was very slow, and it always circled.
Generally looking in the wrong place.
In this way, the two of them walked around most of the Eastern Territory around the Nine-winged Earthworm. It was already dark, but the Nine-winged Earthworm still did not stop to determine its location.
At this time, Yang Naigong suddenly pulled Gu Cheng and said, "Sir, we'd better not stop searching ahead."
"Why?"
Yang Naigong pointed to a large house in front of him and said: "This is at the junction of Jingyesi in our Eastern Region and Jingyesi in our Southern Region. Because there were some errors when the imperial city was built, the division is not particularly obvious.
Our Eastern Territory and Southern Territory Jingyesi have always been in harmony with each other, so when we usually patrol or visit such a junction area, we will subconsciously avoid it."
Gu Cheng has no intention of touching these default unspoken rules within the Jingyesi Division in the capital. He has no clue about this matter for the time being. He can just report it as an unsolved case when the time comes.
But at this moment, the nine-winged earthworm suddenly rushed towards a carriage on the street, and a cold snort suddenly came from the carriage.
"presumptuous!"
The two words were spoken, but like a thunderbolt from the clear sky, a thunder exploded in the void and went straight towards the nine-winged earthworm.