HCB Chapter 223: Evil Cultivator Incident
Chapter 223: Evil Cultivator Incident
The masters in the Spirit Transformation Stage were talking, but the younger ones were confused.
Su Xiaorou pulled on Venerable Linghua's sleeve.
"Uncle Master, what is that thing that Venerable Yunyin mentioned?"
Venerable Linghua didn't mind telling the younger generations about what happened back then.
"That happened about a few hundred years ago. A situation similar to the one in the illusion occurred in the mortal world, and it was even worse. The person bewitched by the evil cultivator was the mayor of a city."
"By the time a cultivator discovered something was wrong with the city, it was too late. The blood sacrifice had already begun. The city lord thought he was cultivating immortality, but in fact he was just helping the evil cultivators. The entire city was sacrificed in blood by the evil cultivators and was completely destroyed."
Venerable Ling Hua looked at Su Xiaorou, who was listening attentively, and the other juniors who pricked up their ears, and concluded:
"So, when you encounter evil cultivators, do not show mercy, otherwise there will only be more victims. You also need to be able to identify evil cultivators."
"If you encounter such a situation in the illusion, you can nip the danger in the bud in the bud."
Su Xiaorou nodded repeatedly.
On the other side, Venerable Youyue was also keeping an eye on the light curtain.
I felt relieved to see that Xie Yunhe showed no signs of being punished for the time being.
Although she believed that Qing'er would not do anything to harm her fellow disciples, she could not help but feel that they were all in a state of amnesia at the moment.
Venerable Youyue even noticed the entanglement between Sang Qing's reason and emotions.
Now there is a new breakthrough, which is good.
The main thing is that based on the existing information, Venerable Youyue couldn't confirm who the murderer was for a while.
As Venerable Youyue was thinking, he felt that something was wrong.
Is it a little quiet around her?
Suddenly remembering something, she looked towards the water mirror.
Why did Taoist Chen, who had been chattering all the time, stop making any sound?
Venerable Youyue looked carefully and saw that Taoist Chen in the water mirror had fallen asleep.
She sent a Spirit Rain Technique through the water mirror.
The ultra-long distance transmission spell, Lingyu Jue, had turned into small splashes of water when it reached Taoist Chen.
It just happened to refresh Chen Laodao's face, making him feel very cool.
"Ouch--"
Taoist Chen struggled to open his eyes, looking very sleepy.
Venerable Youyue frowned. They were already Venerables in the Spirit Transformation Stage, so there was no such thing as being trapped for them.
"What happened to you?"
Venerable Youyue asked solemnly.
Why does it happen that someone falls asleep while sitting?
Venerable Youyue didn't finish her words, but Taoist Chen knew what she meant.
It’s strange to say, Taoist Chen also felt something was wrong these days. He was sleeping more often.
Because of his talent, it is normal for him to sleep occasionally.
After all, many predictive dreams only appear during sleep, but I have been feeling tired too frequently recently.
He thought it was his illusion.
Until just now, he was still looking at the situation on the light curtain in the Gulan Secret Realm through the water mirror, but as he looked, he fell asleep again unknowingly.
This isn't right.
Taoist Chen perked up, but when faced with the words of Venerable Youyue, he didn't know how to respond.
He was also confused about his situation.
"Forget it, you can always come to me if you have any questions."
Venerable Youyue also noticed the expression of Chen Laodao who wanted to say something but hesitated, and did not delve into the matter.
She remembered the other person's talent.
Perhaps this is the secret of other people's cultivation?
For so many years, Taoist Chen has been living well even though he was hunted by his enemies.
An old man who refuses to die is a thief. Being good at fortune-telling and having the talent of predicting dreams, Taoist Chen always keeps himself in a better situation.
Venerable Youyue was not worried about his ability to survive.
Neither of them took this seriously and continued to watch the situation on the light screen.
Venerable Youyue also knew about the evil cultivator who massacred the city.
Because she was the one who killed that evil cultivator.
Back then, after committing several brutal massacres, the evil cultivator fled.
Until a hundred years ago, the evil cultivator was surrounded in a small village by Venerable Youyue and his men, and was successfully killed.
At this point, the evil cultivator known as "Blood Taoist" was completely defeated.
A major cancer in the world of immortal cultivation has been eradicated.
Venerable Youyue even improved his ranking on the Fengyun Ranking because of this incident...
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The study in the Qin Mansion can be considered luxurious. It is not only large in size but also comes with a small bedroom.
It can be imagined that even if Master Qin stayed in the study on weekdays, he could live very comfortably.
But at this moment, the study was bearing an unbearable burden.
People from the underworld, government officials, suspects, people from the Qin residence, and common people who came to watch the fun all rushed into the study.
It was Magistrate Sang who realized something was wrong and ordered that no unauthorized persons were allowed to enter the study, thus preventing the tragedy of the study being overcrowded.
Xie Yunhe also came to the study under the supervision of the black-clad constable.
It was not until now that he saw the legendary crime scene.
Xie Yunhe felt mixed emotions when he revisited the old place.
He had come to the study once yesterday, but who would have known that when he came again today, it would have become a crime scene.
Mr. Qin had been placed on the ground by the coroner and covered with a layer of white cloth.
The people around looked over curiously.
The black-clad constable caught several people who wanted to spit on the white cloth in time, preventing an uncivilized behavior and keeping the scene clean and tidy.
Xie Yunhe walked into the room.
On the desk, a white line in the shape of a human was drawn by the black-clad constable. That was the posture in which Mr. Qin died.
Xie Yunhe glanced at the desk.
The white line roughly drew an outline, and Xie Yunhe could imagine Mr. Qin's posture at that time.
Master Qin should be sitting on a chair, facing the door, and then someone came to the door.
The man struck Master Qin in the throat with a sword, and Master Qin fell on the desk before he could even utter a word.
It can be seen that all this happened very suddenly.
Because there was a half-eaten dinner on the desk.
The food box and cutlery were still placed neatly in a corner of the desk.
At the scene, you can see that the chopsticks and spoon are still placed on the bowl, as if they were temporarily placed there by Mr. Qin.
He might be in the middle of his dinner when a visitor arrived.
The blood-colored potion on the table is still on the desk, concentrated near the white lines. The color is dark red, which is very close to the color of human blood.
The blood-colored potion on the desk had not dried up yet, and there was even a faint feeling that the blood was still flowing.
It looks abnormal at first glance!
No wonder the coroner later thought it was fake blood. Normal blood would have dried up by this time, so how could it look so fresh?
The first witness, guard Xiaojia, was probably frightened and did not notice this.
Xie Yunhe looked at the half-eaten dinner on the table.
A bowl of white rice, four meat and vegetable dishes, and a bowl of chicken soup.
He looked carefully at the bowl of chicken soup that was a little less and found that it was indeed Senior Brother Chu's chicken soup.
Xie Yunhe recognized that this chicken soup was exactly the same as the one that Senior Brother Chu gave him last night.
It seems that Lao Zhang in the kitchen is really lazy and he is telling the truth.
I just poured Senior Brother Chu's chicken soup into the soup bowl to make four dishes and one soup for Master Qin.
If Xie Yunhe had not been very clear that he did not have the habit of sleepwalking and had not really killed Master Qin, he would really have thought that this was his crime scene and that Senior Brother Chu was his accomplice.
It makes sense that Captain Wen would come to such an inference.
Xie Yunhe looked at the scene and felt that something was a little strange.
He carefully recalled how he came to the study last night.
Enter the study, talk to Master Qin, take the sword, and leave.
To be honest, the whole process was very fast, even shorter than what Guard Xiaojia remembered.
What's wrong?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to my mind.
Xie Yunhe's eyes widened slightly.
Was there dinner on the desk at that time?
No, Xie Yunhe was very sure that when he came to see Master Qin last night, there was no dinner on the desk.
So… where did this half-eaten dinner at the crime scene come from?
It's impossible that the murderer had a meal here after committing the crime, right?
Xie Yunhe thought humorously.
This is obviously impossible.
Xie Yunhe collected his thoughts and began to think seriously.
There are two possibilities.
The first possibility is that Mr. Qin did not eat the dinner that was delivered at 3:15 pm immediately, but waited until he met Xie Yunhe before starting to eat dinner.
But this doesn't make sense.
Xie Yunhe arrived at the study at 11:01 PM. A steaming hot dinner had turned cold by 11:01 PM.
Would Mr. Qin eat cold food?
From what Xie Yunhe knew about Master Qin, he didn't seem like the kind of person who would put himself in a difficult position.
This study is built in an extremely luxurious way, and it must be a place that focuses on enjoyment.
There's absolutely no need to eat it cold.
Even if we take a step back and say that Mr. Qin suddenly wanted to eat cold dinner, that would not be reasonable.
If dinner has not been eaten, it must remain on the table.
However, when Xie Yunhe came to visit Mr. Qin that night, he did not find dinner on the desk.
This is also the reason why Xie Yunhe felt that it was impossible for the murderer to have eaten. Even if the murderer was in high spirits after killing Master Qin and had a meal on the spot, there must have been dinner on the scene.
The second possibility is that Mr. Qin really had dinner, but when Xie Yunhe came to the study, the dinner was hidden.
So who is hiding?
Is that Master Qin?
Xie Yunhe frowned, it shouldn't have been done by Master Qin.
A dinner was delivered at 3:15 pm on the evening of the twentieth hour. Mr. Qin ate half of it and then hid it, just to make the desk look clean when Xie Yunhe came to talk at 1:15 pm on the evening of the twentieth hour?
Then why didn't he finish it?
Perhaps Xie Yunhe's distressed look was too obvious.
County Magistrate Sang came over.
"Master Xie, did you find anything wrong?"
County Magistrate Sang asked very friendly.
For some reason, she felt that the young man was particularly kind. Even though she knew he was a suspect, she did not have the usual hatred for him.
Her intuition told her that the boy must be innocent.
Xie Yunhe paused, hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell what he had seen last night.
"When I visited Master Qin last night, there were no food boxes or dishes on the desk, and there was nothing on that corner of the desk."
Captain Wen, who had come over to see County Magistrate Sang and Xie Yunhe talking, subconsciously said,
"There's nothing strange about this."
But then, he and County Magistrate Sang were both stunned at the same time.
No, that's weird.
The dinner was not on the desk at 11:00 PM, but appeared later?
Did someone put it there?
Captain Wen looked at Xie Yunhe suspiciously.
"How do I know if you're lying?"
This was also the reason why Xie Yunhe hesitated before.
Because he was the only one who saw that scene, he had no way to prove it.
County Magistrate Sang subconsciously believed Xie Yunhe.
"In that case, the murderer must have hidden the dinner."
County Magistrate Sang also thought of the same problem that Xie Yunhe had thought of.
Personally, she is more inclined to believe that the murderer is someone else.
After all, no matter how evil Mr. Qin is, in Gulan County, killing someone means paying with one's life, this is an iron rule.
Once he is identified as the murderer, he will be executed at noon without any discussion.
This is not something Sang Qing can decide, this is... the rule of this county.
So, she is also actively looking for the murderer.
Now this clue can be said to be a new discovery.
"So why did the murderer hide the dinner? Is there anything special about this dinner?"
County Magistrate Sang spoke.
Xie Yunhe touched his chin.
"Is it special if you eat half of it?"
Count it, why not?
Why not finish dinner?
Didn’t Butler Ji say that dinner would be delivered at 3:15 pm on the evening of the twelfth lunar month? Why was the half-eaten dinner left on the desk at 2:15 pm on the evening of the twelfth lunar month, when Master Qin died?
County Magistrate Sang felt something was wrong and was about to call the guard Xiaojia over to ask about the situation.
Just then, there was a noise in a corner of the study.
"What is this place?"
"The secret room! It's the rumored secret room in the Qin Mansion's study! I never thought it really existed!"
"Are there any martial arts secrets in it?"
Many people from the martial arts world wanted to rush into the secret room, but they were quickly suppressed by the black-clad detectives who arrived.
When County Magistrate Sang arrived here, no one had ever entered the secret room.
Xie Yunhe followed.
The secret room was found under the bed in the study.
To be precise, it was found under the bed.
This was not easy to discover because the black-clad detectives had also lifted the bed board to take a look.
Obviously, when you lift the bed board, you will see the floor.
I knocked on the floor and found it was solid, so I didn't pay any more attention to it.
I didn't expect it to be discovered by accident.
The cause was a gangster who was used to stealing things. He saw that the lion carvings on the bedposts of the rosewood bed were very exquisite.
I couldn't control my hand and just touched it.
As soon as he touched the lion carving, he immediately felt something was wrong. How could the lion carved on the bedpost be able to rotate?
Following his intuition, he turned the lion carving three times.
There was a "cracking" sound coming from under the bed.
The entire bed shifted automatically, revealing the floor underneath.
The heavy stones were moved away, revealing a small room.
This turned out to be a mechanism!
The man was very surprised that there was actually a secret room in the study of the Qin Mansion!
This is what happened next.