Heavenly beings travel against the wind, and it doesn't take long to go from "Ghost Pass" to Difei Mountain, and they only need to pass by Xijing Prefecture on the way.
However, Qi Xuansu and Yao Pei are only in the carefree stage and have not yet entered the infinite stage, so it is difficult for them to fly long distances and for a long time. They still need to take a short rest in the middle to take a breath.
So the two of them landed outside a county town under the jurisdiction of Xijing Prefecture, planning to rest for a few hours.
Xijing Prefecture and Fucheng are not the same thing. Fucheng is just a city. However, Xijing Prefecture has eighteen counties under its jurisdiction. Each county has jurisdiction over a number of towns and villages. It covers a vast area. The two of them have to pass through Xijing Prefecture to get there.
Difei Mountain, but it is not necessary to pass through the city where Wuxu Palace is located.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the city gate, they saw a group of Qingluan guards who seemed to be waiting for someone.
Qingluan Guard was greatly surprised after seeing the two of them.
One of the leaders of the Qingluan Guard Baihu took the initiative to greet them, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that just after reporting in the morning, the Master arrived in the afternoon, and two people came at once, it was really fast!"
Because both of them were still wearing Taoist formal attire and had the "First True Sutra Ribbon" hanging around their waists, anyone could tell that they were Taoist priests of the fourth grade offering wine.
Qi Xuansu frowned and said, "We were just passing by here to go to Difeishan Wanshou Chongyang Palace. What happened?"
When Qingluan Guards Baihu heard this, his smile suddenly froze, and he thought to himself: "I wonder why these Taoist masters have changed their temper. Not only did they come quickly, but two of them came at once. It turned out that they happened to be passing by."
However, when faced with a question from a Taoist priest who offered sacrifices to wine, he had no choice but to answer. While Qingluan Guard Bai Hu was slandering, he still answered honestly: "Reporting to Master, a strange case occurred in this county. Someone sneaked in at night.
We, the Qingluan Guard's Hundred Household Office, hung a human head on the flagpole in the school grounds. We cut off the flagpole and took out the head. We found that the head turned out to be the head of a local Taoist temple. It was related to the Taoist sect, so we
We reported it according to the rules, and the superiors said that a mage would be sent to handle the matter, so we mistakenly identified the two mages as the ones who came to handle the matter."
Yao Pei suddenly said: "Since it concerns people from the Taoist sect, there is no reason for us to sit back and ignore it. Please take us to see the corpse."
Qingluan Guard Baihu said in surprise: "Yes."
Under the guidance of Baihu, Qi Xuansu and Yao Pei came to the morgue. At this time, four corpses were parked here. Except for one corpse whose head had been separated, the other three corpses were still intact.
Qi Xuansu asked: "Why are there four people?"
Baihu replied: "In addition to the leader of the local Taoist temple, three other Taoist temple members were also killed in their sleep, but their heads were not cut off."
Qi Xuansu asked again: "How can you be sure that these four people were killed at night?"
Baihu hesitated for a moment and said, "No.
To hide it from Master, on the night Guanzhu Wu was killed, we drank together, and early the next morning, we found Guanzhu Wu’s head hanging on the flagpole of the school ground, so he was naturally killed at night.”
While the two were talking, Yao Pei had already arrived in front of the corpse. His eyes turned snow-white without knowing when, and his gaze was as if it were real, as if he was trying to penetrate the texture and reach inside.
After a while, Yao Pei's eyes returned to normal and he said: "This Guanzhu Wu was shocked by someone using a secret force from a distance to break his heart. The technique was very clever. If it was just an ordinary person doing an autopsy, it would be very difficult unless he directly opened the chest cavity and took out the heart for inspection.
Hard to find.”
Qi Xuansu asked directly: "Is it a secret association that committed the crime?"
Yao Pei shook his head and said: "I'm not sure, but in terms of killing methods, it's not like the style of Lingshan Witch Cult and Zhiming Cult. Ziguang Society likes to let people die quietly, but they will never kill people and then kill them."
Hang the head on the flagpole to provoke the Taoists."
Qi Xuansu asked: "Could it be that Ziguang Society killed someone, and then Lingshan Witch Cult hung the head on the flagpole?"
Yao Pei didn't say anything, but looked at Qi Xuansu with a look similar to when he heard "Jianxiu Mountain Lord Heren".
Qi Xuansu coughed lightly: "Just kidding."
Yao Pei ignored him and continued: "No matter what his background is, the murderer cannot be compared with Zhang Wuhen, nor is he far inferior to Mr. Yin. With the strength of you and me, it shouldn't be a problem."
Qi Xuansu said dumbly: "How many people in the world can compare with these two?"
While they were talking, another Qingluan Guard came to report that someone was drinking and causing trouble in the Taiping Inn in the city. The ordinary government officials had no choice but to ask the Qingluan Guards to come and suppress them.
Qi Xuansu said: "If you kill someone, instead of running away, you want to see who the saint is. Please ask hundreds of households to lead the way."
Upon hearing this, all the members of the Qingluan Guard became emboldened and gathered their hands to lead Qi Xuansu and Yao Pei to the Taiping Inn.
When a group of people came outside Taiping Inn, they saw the innkeeper. The shopkeeper had escaped and was standing on the street outside the door, not daring to go in. After seeing Qi Xuansu and Yao Pei, they all looked happy. After all, Taiping Inn is
Taoist industry, meeting the two Taoist masters is like meeting one's own family.
The shopkeeper came up to us and said, "The Master has finally arrived. Please ask the Master to provide justice for us."
Qi Xuansu looked up to the second floor and asked, "What is going on?"
The shopkeeper said with a bitter face: "Master Mingjian, it's a group of gangsters who made an appointment with me.
We were talking about things in the inn, but for some reason, they got into trouble when they disagreed, and they all had good cultivation skills. We had no choice but to escape from them."
While talking, Yao Pei had already stepped into the first floor.
Qi Xuansu saw this and followed him in.
Seeing the support of two Taoist masters, Baihu and the shopkeeper became emboldened and followed closely behind.
Yao Pei had just climbed up the stairs to the second floor when he saw a figure flying towards him.
She had no expression on her face. She just waved her sleeves and used her true energy to hold the flying person lightly. Then she waved her sleeves and threw the person aside.
Qi Xuansu was following Yao Pei, but he could see clearly.
At this time, there was only one person sitting upstairs. He was tall, with sharp eyebrows and tiger eyes. He was dressed in coarse clothes. He was very simple, but there were many wine jars on the table in front of him.
There was a circle of people around him, holding weapons and watching eagerly. However, there was a gap in the circle, and one person was obviously missing. It was expected that he was the person flying towards Yao Pei.
Then I heard the big man laugh boldly and say: "How dare you, the rotten fish and shrimps, come to harm me." .??.
However, the big man's eyes fell on Yao Pei. His throw just now contained hidden power. The slightest touch would turn it into a rolling gourd. This woman behaved carelessly and seemed to be weak, but she was
It is an understatement to resolve the dark energy, but it is actually a powerful enemy.
After Yao Pei stood still, he said with an expressionless face: "Anyone who gathers people to cause trouble and destroy property in a property under the name of the Taoist sect should be punished with three months of hard labor and ordered to compensate for all losses. If he refuses to plead guilty and openly resists, he will be punished for contempt of the Taoist sect."
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Only then did the few people standing realize the existence of Yao Pei belatedly. When they looked back, they saw the "Chu Zhen Sutra Urn" hanging on the waists of Yao Pei and Qi Xuansu. Their faces turned pale and they lost their voices: "Tao."
…Daomen…”
Before they finished speaking, several people no longer surrounded the big man, but retreated to the window seat. Someone said without hesitation: "It's trouble, it's trouble, the Taoist dog has been provoked."
Qi Xuansu frowned slightly. He was from the Wanxiang Taoist Palace. Regardless of whether he was dissatisfied with the Taoist sect or not, he would not deny his identity as a Taoist sect. Therefore, the term "Taoist sect dog" made him very uncomfortable.
Yao Pei was indifferent to this and looked at the big man: "You were the one who killed the leader of the local Taoist temple?"
"Are you talking about the bird thief Wu Yonggui?" The big man was not afraid at all. "This man not only amassed money wantonly, but also used the name of Fang Zhongshu to trick female pilgrims into doing evil things. As far as I know, more than one woman came to him.
They came to offer incense, but were put under house arrest in a Taoist temple by this man and became his concubine. He also ordered these women to dress up as
The appearance of the female crown is deceptive. I went to the Taoist temple last night and happened to see this old boy in the wild world again. He was still acting like a dragon and two phoenixes. I simply didn't stop doing it and cut off this man's head.
It was conveniently hung on the flagpole of the Qingluan Guard School Ground, who made the Qingluan Guards blind?"
"So that's it." Yao Pei nodded, "This person does have a way to die, but he should not die at your hands, but should be punished by the Taoist sect."
The big man sneered: "Your Taoist sect doesn't do anything, and I eliminate harm for the people. Is it still wrong?"
Qi Xuansu felt cold in his heart, but said nothing.
This reminded him of Wan Xiuwu and Yue Liuli. It was also because of the Taoist sect's inaction. It was also the case that he bypassed the Taoist sect and did it himself, but it was no different from this big man. From this point of view, he really had no position to accuse these people.
How about a big man?
You can't have double standards as a person.
But what Yao Pei said is not wrong. The Taoist sect will never allow this kind of thing to happen. If everyone is going to do justice for heaven, then where will the Taoist sect be?
Yao Pei did not answer the big man's question, but looked at the other group: "Who are you?"
The group of people looked at each other and didn't answer.
Yao Pei didn't care, and looked at the big man again: "Doing justice for heaven, doing chivalry and justice, this is the content in the storybook, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes. To be fair, I don't care about the so-called right or wrong, kindness
Evil, I only care about order."
"Even if there is an internal fight within the Taoist sect, they are all secretive. They are afraid of leaving any evidence, and they never dare to openly violate the rules. After the incident, they would rather risk destroying the evidence than to prove the crime.
If you secretly kill someone and then run away, I don't have to pursue it to the end, but if you still provoke someone after killing someone, whether you want to warn others or make it known to the world, you are damaging the authority of the Taoist sect.
If the Taoist sect is indifferent, others will follow suit. There are many people in the world who are fearful of power but not virtuous, and then the order that the Taoist sect has worked so hard to establish will be damaged."
"The so-called justice is too subjective. Your justice is not my justice. Even if there are immortals and Buddhas in the sky, can the justice of Buddha represent the justice of Taoist ancestors? Then who is qualified to judge whether it is justice or not? Therefore, the law is not a safeguard
Justice cannot even maintain fairness, it only maintains order."
"Maybe you are right, but you have damaged the authority of Taoist sect and destroyed the order of Taoist sect. I must get rid of you and maintain the order of Taoist sect. Unless you can be like the ancient immortal, relying on Buddhism and leaving Taoist sect helpless.
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Qi Xuansu had an inexplicable feeling that although Yao Pei was speaking to the big man, he was speaking to him.