Holy Bone

Chapter 1544 The truth about the previous generation of martial arts immortals

Deputy eunuch Wei, who was tied up, looked gloomy after listening to the conversation between Jin'an and the old Taoist priest. He stopped pretending and was about to bite the poison hidden in his back tooth socket, but his eyes went black and he lost all consciousness.

Jin An is not only a pseudo-fourth-level martial arts immortal, but also a pseudo-fourth-level Shinto master. Under his divine sense, everything is as clear as day, and nothing can escape his surveillance. No little thoughts can escape his divine sense.

Just as Deputy Eunuch Wei was about to move, his concentration spell took away all his attention and he fell into a deep sleep and coma.

The disturbance caused by the Criminal Investigation Department tonight was too big. Many people followed the Bi'an carriage all the way to the outside of the Imperial City Square. Many people saw the Criminal Investigation Department forcibly abducting the nobles among the Queen's close ministers, which caused a great disturbance again.

  Is the Criminal Investigation Department addicted to arresting people tonight?

It’s not enough that the spice shop chopped off the head of a ninth-rank eunuch in public!

Then breaking into the residence of the academician of the Imperial Medical Bureau is not enough!

Now, they are guarding outside the imperial city in public, and have kidnapped the concubine close to the queen!

  He was the most favored deputy eunuch in the Ministry of Eunuchs by the Queen’s side!

He is a eunuch of the fourth rank!

  Not a ninth-rank eunuch!

They kidnapped eunuchs of the fourth rank without hesitation, and even kidnapped them by force outside the imperial city. They really had no scruples at all!

Will the Queen be kidnapped next, and taken to the water dungeon of the Criminal Investigation Department to be tortured? Of course, this sentence was kept in mind, and no one dared to discuss the royal family affairs in public!

It is true that one wave of turmoil has not yet subsided when another wave of turmoil arises. The news that the Criminal Investigation Department intercepted and kidnapped a nobleman among the Queen's close ministers outside the imperial city quickly spread throughout the capital like an explosion, causing a shocking response among the people.

  The people of the whole city were almost sleepless that night, as they were all discussing the series of major actions taken by the Criminal Investigation Department. Will there be even bigger actions in the future?

Just as people were speculating, a piece of news quickly spread in the capital. Marquis Shenwu was summoned by Emperor Kang Zhao for his contribution in clearing the court of corrupt officials and was appointed as the imperial envoy to continue hunting down the remaining remnants of the enemy country, with the privilege of executing first and reporting later.

Marquis Shenwu was wise and brave, and had a keen eye for detail. As soon as he was appointed, he found out that Deputy Eunuch Wei of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was suspected of collaborating with the enemy and had been taken to the water prison of the Criminal Investigation Department to be severely tortured.

As soon as this news came out, there was another uproar, involving the Imperial Medical Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Has the imperial city been infiltrated to such a degree?

The people all hated these traitors, clamoring for a thorough investigation, and applauded and praised the Criminal Investigation Department.

It was a bit beyond the expectations of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Wuzang Taoist Temple to receive such strong public support.

I thought people would be in a panic. The Criminal Investigation Department arrested so many people in one night. I wonder if there would be many false cases and wrongful convictions.

Unexpectedly, there was a surge in public support.

This is also due to Jinan's good reputation and the fact that it has repeatedly solved strange cases, which has laid a good foundation for Jinan in advance, so it has great public support among the people.

This is what people want.

When the Bi'an carriage entered the Criminal Investigation Department, the Criminal Investigation Department issued a formal official notice shortly afterwards, making the case details and case files public to reassure the public.

"Su Susu, the shopkeeper of Tiangong Miaoge, colluded with foreign tribes, bribed the imperial physician of the Imperial Hospital, and used money and beauty to seduce him. She refined the chronic poison rouge and powdered stone rouge, attempting to use this covert means to harm the officials of the capital and disrupt the foundation of the country. God is watching over our dynasty, and the conspiracy of the dog of the doomed country was discovered before it succeeded. Today, Su Susu, the shopkeeper of Tiangong Miaoge, Cheng Boqing, an academician of the Imperial Hospital, and the mastermind behind Su Susu and other villains have been executed..."

The notice board in front of the Criminal Investigation Department was crowded with people, all vying to read the details of the case, and some people read them aloud for those who came later to listen.

The Criminal Investigation Department posted more than a dozen notices, making the details of the case public. This was to calm people's hearts and prevent them from panicking, and it was also a way to deter the surrounding scoundrels during this turbulent time.

Jin'an had just returned to the Criminal Investigation Department and had not had time to interrogate Deputy Eunuch Wei when Fatty Li, who had been sent by Jin'an to investigate other clues, rushed into the Criminal Investigation Department in a hurry.

When Fatty Li saw Jin An, he asked, "Master Jin An, have you really kidnapped Deputy Eunuch Wei?"

His eyes darted around, and when he saw Deputy Eunuch Wei's head being pressed down by the old dog's butt, Fatty Li was so shocked that his mouth opened wide.

After a while, he gave Jin An a thumbs up: "Awesome!"

He even dared to kidnap the queen's most popular ministers. The first criminal investigation officer of Kangding State must be Jin'an.

"Master Jin'an's move this time really made a big noise, and he brought out the biggest fish that was hiding the deepest in the first attempt!"

“I can’t help but admire you!”

Fatty Li kept exclaiming in amazement, but soon became depressed. He missed so many exciting subsequent events and beat his chest in regret.

But the old Taoist priest didn't forget to provoke Fatty Li at this time: "I, the old Taoist priest, have been summoned by the emperor. He also said that he would erect a memorial archway for me and personally engrave a plaque for me."

Fatty Li suddenly became dispirited.

This caused several people and a dog to burst into laughter.

At this time, the Chief of Criminal Investigation led a eunuch and the Queen wanted to summon Jin'an into the palace.

Needless to say, they will definitely hold Jinan accountable.

But after finally catching a big fish, Jin An would not let him go so easily before he could even interrogate him: "Fatty Li, go and help me deal with it. No matter who comes, tell them that I am interrogating the remnants of the enemy country and that I am concentrating on clearing the court for Emperor Kang Zhao, so I don't have time."

Fatty Li was shocked. Only a martial arts immortal would have the confidence to disobey the Queen's order.

As soon as Jin'an finished speaking, his inner demon was activated, and he immediately began to interrogate Deputy Eunuch Wei about the secrets.

Jin An: "You bribed the bone collector several times, sneaked into Ghost Moth Mountain, and raised the ghoul Liu Yun. Are you the mastermind behind all this?"

"Were you the one who sneaked into Feihe Mountain looking for a bone collector a few days ago?"

"Whose descendants are you looking for?"

Deputy Eunuch Wei has fallen into an endless cycle of inner demons, suffering the pain of constant reincarnation in hundreds of lives, his face sometimes showing pain, sometimes sadness, sometimes crying, sometimes furious, and sometimes fear. When a person is mentally distressed, his mental defense is the weakest. He replied: "The previous emperor had an orphan who was buried in the mass grave of Gui Mo Mountain after his death."

I didn’t expect that this matter would involve the late emperor!

After being stunned for a moment, Jin An's face turned serious and he continued to interrogate: "The late emperor you are talking about is Emperor Kang Heng who suddenly fell ill and passed away more than ten years ago?"

Deputy Eunuch Wei seemed to see a ghost demanding his life, and he cried and shouted in fear in his inner demonic calamity: "It is Emperor Kang Heng."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. It is not me who wants to harm you, but the people of the world who want you dead! As long as you are willing to commit suicide in front of the world and write a letter of abdication, I will go and plead for you and ask them to hand over the little princess and let her live!"

  Ok?

The more Jin An listened, the more frightened he became. He decided to enter Deputy Eunuch Wei's dream to see what he had experienced during his inner demon calamity. As soon as he entered the dream, he saw a bloody world with the sky collapsing and the earth cracking, and swords everywhere. A bloody man with blood all over his body, with scarlet muscles exposed to the world, and his skin peeled off, was standing in front of Deputy Eunuch Wei and himself who appeared next to him.

Even though his skin was peeled off, the eyes in his eye sockets were still bright and soul-stirring, and it was frightening to look at him. He looked like a demon god looking down on all living beings, with a feeling of swallowing the sky.

Then he casually slashed out a terrifying and powerful sword energy, strangling the Deputy Eunuch Wei who was nearby.

Jin An was shocked to see such a terrifying bloody man as soon as he entered the dream. Realizing that something was wrong, he retreated from the inner demon of Deputy Eunuch Wei before the sword energy hit him.

Then he immediately went to check on Deputy Eunuch Wei.

As expected, Deputy Eunuch Wei was frightened into an idiot because of excessive shock at the terrifying bloody man that suddenly approached him.

Although it was just a quick glimpse just now, Jin An still recognized the sword energy. It was the martial arts immortal who had saved him in the corpse cave in the underworld!

  The late Emperor Kang Heng was a martial arts immortal from the previous generation?

This news was so shocking that Jin An immediately called Fatty Li and said, "Fatty Li, tell me the truth. How did the late Emperor Kang Heng die?"

Fatty Li looked at Jin'an with a serious and solemn expression. He glanced at Deputy Eunuch Wei who was kneeling on the ground and crying in surprise. He wondered in his heart, could it be that there is a clue in the bone picking case? Is the cannibalism and bone picking case with many twists and turns related to the late emperor?

Seeing Jin An's seriousness, Fatty Li quickly replied, "He died of illness."

Jin An raised his eyebrows heavily: "Really?"

"You didn't lie to me?"

Fatty Li cried out, "Master Jin'an, you know me well. Although I am a chatterbox and may seem a little unreliable, I will never be careless when it comes to important matters! I am sincere to Master Jin'an and will never lie to you!"

"Everyone knows that the late emperor fell ill and passed away!"

"However, there is another saying among the people that the late emperor suddenly fell ill and passed away when he was in his prime. It was because the empress contracted an illness outside and then passed it on to the late emperor. The late emperor suddenly fell ill and no medicine could cure him!"

Jin An raised his eyebrows again and said in a serious tone, "The previous emperor Kang Heng was a martial arts immortal, and he died in the siege of the world's Shinto masters. Don't you know that?"

"!"

Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest were so shocked that they jumped up on the spot and exclaimed in unison: "This is impossible!"

Fatty Li: "I have never heard that the late emperor was a martial arts immortal. If the late emperor was a martial arts immortal, it would be a national event and announced to the world. It would definitely not be done quietly!"

Jin An: "Qianyan Daojun, you used to be a statue of a god in a Taoist temple outside the capital. You witnessed the battle between the martial arts immortal and the world's Shinto masters over the capital more than ten years ago. Is the martial arts immortal the former emperor of Kangding, Kang Hengdi?"

Jin An knew that the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue liked to join in the fun, so he divided a wisp of his soul and sent it to the Criminal Investigation Department's watchtower, communicating directly with the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue through his spiritual consciousness.

Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue: "More than a decade ago, I was just a poor little Taoist with a hundred eyes living in a dilapidated Taoist temple. My soul couldn't even look directly at the former martial arts immortal. My soul could only reach 20 to 30 miles away. Even the ghosts I controlled could only move around near the Taoist temple. I couldn't even leave the mountains. I could only hide in the Taoist temple in the deep mountains and watch the changes in the capital from afar."

Jin An looked around at the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue, Fatty Li, and the old Taoist priest. He could naturally see that no one had lied to him.

However, all the clues are related to the previous emperor Kang Heng.

The clues to his former savior were clearly before his eyes, but he had no idea where to start. The feeling of hitting cotton with all his strength, with nowhere to vent the force, made him furious and his temples throbbed. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

After much thought, there is only one biggest possibility left, that is, if the previous martial arts immortal was the former emperor of Kangding Kingdom, he was deliberately concealing his cultivation level.

But in the end, something unexpected happened and his identity as a martial arts immortal was exposed, and he was besieged by Shinto masters from all over the world.

Jin An himself was also a martial arts immortal, so he knew very well how powerful the martial arts immortals were in suppressing the masters of the divine way. Qian Xinjie was frantically splitting his thoughts at this moment, and his mind was constantly splitting and deducing various possibilities...

The old Taoist priest was still in shock over the news, unable to calm down for a long time. When he came to his senses, he said with his eyes wide open: "What Fatty Li said is right. If the previous emperor of Kangding was a martial arts immortal, why did he hide it... Wouldn't it be better to announce it to the world and show off Kangding's martial power?"

Jin An took a deep breath, his eyes gleaming: "Because of the dispute between Shinto and Martial Arts!"

"All previous emperors have attached great importance to compiling history books, drawing on history books, and taking history as a mirror! As long as we trace back the dynasties, we can find that Shinto is afraid of martial arts, just like the conflict between water and fire. Perhaps Emperor Kang Heng is concerned about this!"

Jin An's thoughts collided like stars rising and falling, and he continued with a stern expression: "If we live in a world where everyone believes in Shintoism, and everyone burns incense to pray to ghosts and gods, and it has been like this for thousands of years, and there is no trouble... Suddenly one day, the king of a country with all the power in the world becomes a martial arts immortal, and Emperor Kang Heng, who owns thousands of mountains and rivers, is equivalent to opening up a huge arsenal of immortals, and then promotes martial arts and suppresses Shintoism. There are fewer people burning incense and worshipping ghosts and gods in temples, and martial arts halls are springing up everywhere..."

“Perhaps Emperor Kang Heng doesn’t have this intention, but if the people of the world say you have it, then you have it, because letting the king of a country step into the realm of martial arts immortal has shaken the balance that has existed for thousands of years!”

"Perhaps Emperor Kang Heng saw the seriousness of the situation, so he chose to endure hardships. However, I don't know what happened later that led to Emperor Kang Heng's exposure and was besieged and killed by the world's Shinto masters..."

Looking at Deputy Eunuch Wei, who was lying on the ground and was frightened into an idiot by his inner demon, Jin An once again thought of the horrific scene he saw in his inner demon. That battle must have been very tragic.

Jin An closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts. After a while, he opened his eyes again: "After the death of the previous emperor, where did the only orphan left behind go?"

Fatty Li replied solemnly: "He's dead too."

"Like the last emperor, he died of a serious infectious disease."

Jin An asked again: "Where are their bodies buried now?"

Alas, Fatty Li sighed, "Because the late emperor's family of three all died of an unknown infectious disease, they could not enter the imperial mausoleum, and the whereabouts of their remains are still unknown."

"But I later heard that they were taken out of the capital by a few young eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and buried in a random mass grave. Soon after they came back, the eunuchs also fell ill and died suddenly. Each of them died in a very miserable way... Some said they died of illness, and some said it was the resentful spirits of the late emperor's family who came out to harm people and wanted to find a scapegoat to reincarnate... These stories were suppressed after only a few days of circulation. The royal family and the late emperor were not allowed to be forgotten."

Fatty Li glanced at Jin An with a serious expression cautiously, then looked around and said in a low voice: "If Taoist Jin An wants to know more about the late emperor, there are various files from more than ten years ago in the Criminal Investigation Department's case library. Perhaps you can find some clues from the pile of files."

Ok.

Jin An nodded, raised his hand to put away the sound-isolating wind beads, and the air around him began to flow again, and the outside sounds also flowed in with the air.