The only way

Chapter 798 Canglan City

At that time, in the 880th year of the Tianyuan calendar, the year was early autumn, and now there is Yu's Lingchu, whose Taoist name is Taiwei, who is a direct disciple of Sanqing Daozong, a grandson of Jiuyuan Zhenzun, and a third disciple of Duanyi Zhenjun.

After ten catastrophes and thunders, he will become the purple mansion, the heavenly phenomenon, the golden lotus, the rosy rays, the dragon and the phoenix singing together, and the rain from the sky, and finally the Yuanying Dacheng, and he will be honored as the true king.

The light-golden book rattled without wind, and the pages were flipped open, and finally fixed on a blank golden paper.

Rows of majestic and correct fonts floated on the gold paper by themselves, like flowing clouds and flowing water, line after line.

The word "bit" fell, and the light golden book closed itself with a clatter, revealing a line of large characters on the front of the book.

On the top of it is written, "Sanqing Daozong Eternal Memorabilia".

When the book was closed, a white and slender hand suddenly appeared from the void, stretched out and grabbed it, and pulled the pale golden book into the void, where it disappeared.

And the protagonist recorded in the book, Taiwei Zhenjun Lingchu, is retreating in the secret realm at this moment.

Nascent Soul has been completed, but the injury from being struck by thunder has not yet fully recovered, plus just breaking through, it still needs time to stabilize and adapt to the cultivation base.

Therefore, the newly released True Monarch Taiwei continued his life of retreat.

at the same time.

Chao State, Canglan City.

Chao State is a mortal country with a long history, which has always existed on the territory headed by the Taoist Sect of the Sanqing Dynasty.

But the fairy gate that Chao Guo believes in is not Sanqing Daozong, but a fairy gate named Qingfeng Mountain.

Qingfeng Mountain is not considered a big sect, but the sect has a history of thousands of years, and there is also a Nascent Soul sitting in the sect.

There are more than a dozen mortal kingdoms under its jurisdiction, and Chao Kingdom is just one of them.

The disciples of Qingfeng Mountain stationed here also only have the cultivation base of the late stage of Qi refining.

And only the capital of Chao State has monks stationed there.

In a small city like Canglan City in Chao State, except for some monks passing by occasionally, there are no monks from Qingfeng Mountain stationed there.

However, Chao State is backed by Qingfeng Mountain, and Qingfeng Mountain is under the jurisdiction of Sanqing Taoist Sect. The evil spirits and heretics dare not act presumptuously in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Five Great Immortal Gates in the Eastern Land, so the vast majority of mortals in the Eastern Land are still alive. It's peaceful.

Apart from the hardships experienced by mortals, he was rarely disturbed by monks.

Canglan City is located in the southwest of Chao State, with flat terrain and fertile land. In addition, the officials of Chao State are clean and bright, and the people living here live a stable life.

Plant a millet in spring and harvest ten thousand in autumn.

It's autumn, and it's another year of harvest.

The rice in the city is fragrant, and the people with rich pockets have taken to the streets to buy or sell.

The inn is full of guests from south to north, some scholars sing about the joy of the good harvest, some businessmen discuss the price of food this year, and some people praise that the harvest will be full of chickens and pigs, and wine and meat will be added in the twelfth lunar month.

It was under this joyful scene that there was an undercurrent raging.

"Several people have disappeared this month, all of them are people from the west of the city."

In Canglan City County Yamen, the middle-aged man in the clothes of the fast catcher was tall and tall.

Sitting at the top is a young man with an official robe and hat on his head. He is the chief official of Canglan City.

This young official has a good family background and a smooth official career. He should be proud of his spring breeze, but at this moment his face is full of solemnity and exhaustion.

"This is just what we found out. There are many beggars running around in the west of the city. These beggars have never been registered."

The catcher's expression changed drastically, and his thick black eyebrows were tightly frowned.

"And the day before yesterday, an innkeeper came to report the case, saying that a guest hadn't returned for several days, but the luggage in the room was still left. The storekeeper was afraid that something would happen to the guest, so he rushed to report the case."

"Quick Fang, how many guests are missing in this city, but they haven't been reported?"

The young official looked gloomy, and asked the policeman a question, which made both of them fall silent.

The guests have not returned for a long time and left their belongings. Most of the inns are either afraid of getting involved in a lawsuit and implicating their business, or because the shopkeeper's waiter is greedy, so the decision to conceal this matter will occupy the majority.

Counting those whose families had never reported the crime, the beggars and refugees who had never been registered, and the innkeepers who concealed and did not report.

The voice of the policeman surnamed Fang was as heavy as a heavy weight, "... Calculated in this way, the number of missing people every month may be as many as dozens."

"And the earliest case of disappearance, we have not yet known!"

The young official clenched his fist and thumped the table, gnashing his teeth a bit. If he hadn't been newly appointed as a consultant, the two or three cases of missing persons reported every month would have been regarded as normal.

Now if you check it, you will know the depth of the undercurrent.

"This matter has to be investigated in detail. I will also write a handwritten letter to the capital. These days it is hard for you to watch and patrol day and night."

This case is probably not small, and the young officials are afraid that there may be some undercurrent of human trafficking in this small Canglan City, so they will conscientiously investigate it as a major case.

Little did they know, this case was done by extraordinary people.

I don't know that Canglan City will be in great trouble.

Canglan City is named Canglan because there is a Canglan River flowing through the city. There is a good harvest.

And next to the upper reaches of the Canglan River, in a hidden cave.

Several figures in black robes were surrounding a deep pool, their expressions were excited and even a little distorted.

I saw that in this deep pool, what flows is not clean water, but foul-smelling dark red to black turbid water.

One of the men in black was dragging an unconscious adult man in his hand, and a sharp knife with a cold light in his other hand.

With a sinister smile on his face, the man in black grabbed the man's hair and raised his head high, exposing his neck.

The sharp blade cut across the neck mercilessly, and the blood rushed out, and all fell into the deep pool.

The hot blood fell into the deep pool, and the turbid pool water was like boiling hot water, with bloody bubbles popping out one after another.

There was a strange swallowing sound from the bottom of the pool, as if the deep pool was swallowing blood one mouthful at a time.

All the people in black robes around were excited, and the rest of the people in black robes looked at each other, and turned their attention to the comatose mortals in the cave.

One after another, silent massacres were carried out in this hidden cave.

The water in the deep pool became more and more turbid with the passage of time, and a strong, sticky and cold aura slowly permeated the entire cave.

And deep in the cave, beside the deep pool, there were several pale corpses added to the mountain of corpses piled up with bones.

If someone sees this mountain of corpses, they will find that there are as many bones as there are in this mountain of corpses, probably no less than a thousand.

"Not enough... Not enough... More... More..."

In the deep pool, there seemed to be a dull and deep voice echoing.

The men in black robes around them knelt on the ground, their eyes were full of madness, and their eyes were as red as blood.

(End of this chapter)