Xuantian Law Envoy

Chapter 176 The Missing Person
Gu Yuezong.

Star Peak where the elders lived.

Great Elder Mingyue Daoist Cave Mansion.

"I have seen the elder."

Xu Qing bowed and saluted, very respectful.

"It seems that you came here to investigate something. Do you have anything to do with me?"

Master Mingyue didn't have any airs, and asked with a smile like a kind uncle next door.

Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the person in front of him.

Mingyue Zhenren looks to be only 50 or [-] years old.

Immortal demeanor, like a middle-aged monk.

But in fact, everyone who knows it knows that this elder Gu Yuezong is a real old man.

It is now 340 years old.

It is said that he reached the golden core cultivation level early, but he stayed in the spiritual stage for more than 100 years.

A monk with spiritual life lived four hundred years.

If he does not break through the Nascent Soul within 50 years, he will reach the limit of his lifespan.

Logically speaking, at his life span, he should not be disturbed by mundane matters.

Instead, you should concentrate on cultivation and break through with all your strength.

But Master Mingyue took over the vacant position of Great Elder without hesitation, and assumed the great responsibility of the sect.

This responsibility, I have to say, is really admirable.

So Xu Qing was very unwilling to bother him.

However, he had to do so.

Xu Qing put a dossier in front of the old man: "Grand Elder, can you see what's wrong with this dossier?"

Master Mingyue smiled slightly, took a look at the file, and then frowned slightly: "This is the record of the exploration of the ancient city of Xunshui led by Elder Lian half a year ago? After a rough look, there seems to be no problem."

He picked up another dossier provided by Xu Qing, and after reading it, he was surprised and said: "The mission is with me, and there are 30 disciples in total."

"But there are only 29 people in the records."

"There is one less."

Master Mingyue just glanced at his consciousness, and then read to a certain part of the dossier: "Inner disciple Zong Shu died in an underground tomb in the ancient city of Xunshui."

"In order to protect the disciples, he sacrificed heroically."

Xu Qing continued: "Except for the error in the number of people, Zongshu, an inner disciple, is a rare authentic foundation-building disciple among the inner sect."

"It's an understatement for such an important genius to die in an underground grave."

"A total of four disciples came back alive."

"The most powerful sect is dead."

"It's just a simple sentence to protect the doorman, but there is no detailed explanation."

"Who is the opponent and how strong is it, I don't know."

"It's impossible for Lian Zhi'an, the leader of the team, to just let this matter slip through."

"I'm afraid there is something hidden in this. This disciple wants to ask these four inner disciples, and ask the elder for permission."

Master Mingyue nodded: "You just go and investigate yourself, you don't need to ask me about this kind of thing."

Xu Qing smiled slightly: "Of course, this disciple would also like to hear the Great Elder's evaluation of Elder Lian."

"What kind of person is he?"

"In your eyes."

However, Xu Qing didn't finish his sentence: "In addition, this disciple also wants to know what Elder Lian is doing now?"

He knew that another clone of Daoist Mingyue was monitoring Lian Zhian.

"He is drinking tea and playing chess with the old man."

Master Mingyue didn't hide anything, and said directly.

Xu Qing frowned: "He didn't do anything?"

Master Mingyue nodded: "He knows the reason for this old man's visit, but he takes it calmly, and doesn't know if it's true or not."

"The old man can't see through him."

"As for his evaluation"

"This person is best at handling the sect's finances, and he has a lot of experience in this area. He is also in charge of most of the sect's property."

"There has been no mistake in the past hundred years, and the various financial affairs of the sect have been organized in an orderly manner."

"As for his personality, I don't have much contact with him, but I think this person really cares about the honor of the sect."

Xu Qing narrowed her eyes and asked, "Quite?"

Master Mingyue glanced at Xu Qing: "You also know that he is the uncle of the head of the sect, and also the younger brother of the previous head of the sect."

"Gu Yuezong is like his own home to him."

"As for the rest, the old man is not clear."

Hearing this, Xu Qing got up and cupped his fists and said, "It's been hard work, Great Elder, this disciple still needs some time to investigate this matter, so I'm leaving."

"Go." Master Mingyue nodded and closed his eyes.

Leaving Star Peak.

Xu Qing thoughtfully went straight to Moon Blade Peak where the inner disciples were.

Just arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Then I met Li Chengfeng who went to the Law Enforcement Hall to check the results of the interrogation.

"Did something come out?"

Xu Qing asked as soon as they met.

Li Chengfeng shook his head: "I didn't ask anything, Li Wu still refused to open his mouth, and what other people asked was of no value."

Xu Qing nodded, she had expected this for a long time.

"What should I do next?" Li Chengfeng asked anxiously.

Xu Qing said calmly: "You calm down first, and after you calm down, I will assign tasks to you."

He glanced at Li Chengfeng: "In your current state, even if you find clues, you may miss them because of restlessness."

"We need to be extremely cautious in dealing with the elders' affairs, and we cannot tolerate any personal emotions."

Li Chengfeng sighed, and said slowly: "Okay, okay, I understand."

After taking a few deep breaths, he said to Xu Qing, "I'm fine."

Xu Qing: "."

Staring at Li Chengfeng for a moment, Xu Qing nodded: "Go and check Li Wu's identity background, experience in the past 50 years, blood relatives, property, etc."

"See if there's anything wrong with it."

"it is good!"

Li Chengfeng smiled immediately, and walked away excitedly, not even bothering to ask why.

"Call Junior Sister Shangfeng together, she is more careful than you!"

Xu Qing added another sentence, the happy Li Chengfeng grinned to the sky.

"Know it!"

Send away this stunned young man.

Xu Qing just went up the mountain and came to Chen Mo's cave.

When the two met, they were silent for a while.

"Don't you want to say something?"

Chen Mo looked at the silent Xu Qing and asked with a smile.

Not only failed to convict Lian Zhi'an, but also might be targeted in the future.

This is the risk he needs to bear to help Xu Qing.

But Chen Mo seemed very calm.

Seeing that the other party was in a good mood, Xu Qing didn't talk nonsense: "I want to ask four inner disciples, help me find them."

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "What are you doing?"

"Ask something about the ancient city of Xunshui, which is related to Lianzhi'an. This determines my opinion on this case."

"Opinions?" Chen Mo was keenly aware of the abnormality, "You mean, in this case, there may be problems with Lian Zhi'an's charges?"

"Or, do you think Lian Zhian might be innocent?"

Xu Qing did not answer: "I will not jump to conclusions without seeing the evidence."

"However, the possibility of him being framed cannot be ruled out."

Chen Mo frowned, and after a while he said, "I trust your judgment."

Xu Qing smiled slightly: "Thank you."

Without delay, Chen Mo turned around and left the cave, leaving Xu Qing waiting for him here.

【Ding!Successfully obtained a high degree of trust from more than five people and achieved a new achievement - "Trusted Person"]

[Reward for new achievement: Extreme Loyalty Pill*1]

[This achievement can be accumulated and grown]

[Loyalty Pill: A special pill made with Heartbreak Gu as the main medicine, which can make people trust you and be very loyal.

Low-rank Loyalty Pills can affect Qi-refining monks, middle-rank can affect foundation-building monks, top-rank can affect Jindan monks, and top-rank can affect monks with spirituality]

【However, those with a strong will can overcome the influence of Loyalty Pill】

【Efficacy for one year】

At this moment, Xu Qing suddenly remembered a reminder.

Loyal bone pill?
Can it affect people's minds?

The effect is overbearing, and this may be more acceptable than asking for soul blood.

And is willing to be your little brother.

Thinking about it this way, this pill is a little scary.

Fortunately, there are effect limits and time limits.

And achievements can grow, that is to say, as long as he can gain more and more people's high trust, then he can still get this elixir.

I studied this loyal bone pill for a while.

Xu Qing put it behind her and began to seize the time to sacrifice the magic weapon Queyu Palace obtained when refining Yuqizong.

After these few days of sacrificial training, the scope of the Queyu Palace seal town has grown from the initial one hundred feet to three hundred feet.

He has also reached [-]% control over this magic weapon.

It is estimated that after complete control, the area of ​​the town can reach four hundred feet.

That is about two miles in radius.

This is a treasure, so Xu Qing naturally attaches great importance to it.

Although its rank is not high, auxiliary treasures are rare.

Plus huge storage space inside.

The value of this Que Yu Palace is even much higher than that of a middle-grade magic weapon.

Even if he has the three primary magic weapons of the Heavenly Demon Armor, Golden Shield Armor, and Illusory Jade Card plus a mid-level offensive magic weapon, it is probably equivalent to Queyu Palace.

Moreover, in addition to sealing the town and storing things, this Queyu Palace also has an extremely powerful function.

This is also the function that Xu Qing revealed after refining [-]% of this object - teleportation within the sealed town.

This is a subversive bonus to Xu Qing's combat effectiveness.

Especially for a melee player like Xu Qing, it can be said to be like a tiger with wings added.

During the slow sacrifice, half an hour passed.

Chen Mo finally came back with four inner disciples.

When seeing Xu Qing, the four of them were a little nervous.

In addition to Xu Qing's invisible temperament change and imposing oppression brought about by his current high cultivation base.

And Xu Qing's reputation.

and the impact of recent events.

No one likes to be entangled with such troubles.

Naturally, these inner disciples were no exception.

After daring to say hello, the four of them stood at the entrance of the cave with their hands tied, as if they were elementary school students waiting for their teacher to teach them a lesson.

This scene made Chen Mo smile a little.

"Don't be nervous, I just asked you to come here to ask some details about the exploration mission of Xunshui Ancient City that you participated in half a year ago."

Xu Qing smiled and said, and the four of them were relieved.

But in an instant, Xu Qing suddenly became serious: "However, no matter what the question is, I hope you can answer it truthfully."

"Of course, you can refuse to answer matters involving your own means and cards."

"We put our ugly words up front, and we must tell the truth after answering."

"If you lie, I believe you all know the consequences, Zonggui, you all know?"

The four nodded.

Only then did Xu Qing adjust his tone, and asked casually: "Half a year ago, the exploration of the ancient city of Xunshui, the underground tombs, the sect art of the inner disciples, these key information are put together, do you have anything to say?"

The expressions of all four of them changed.

Not only Xu Qing, but even Chen Mo noticed this change.

But he didn't speak, for fear of affecting Xu Qing's inquiry.

Those four people looked at me and I looked at you, as if they were hesitating.

Xu Qing also kept silent, but patiently waited for their answer.

After a while, one of the female disciples in the middle stage of foundation establishment tentatively asked: "Senior brother asked this, is it the sect who wants to hold this matter accountable?"

Xu Qing frowned: "No, this matter has passed, no matter what happens, the sect will not ask any more questions."

"I just want to know what happened in that underground tomb and how Zongshu died."

"That's the truth."

"It has nothing to do with the sect, this is purely my personal problem."

The female disciple hesitated for a moment, and they looked at each other.

Only then did he pluck up his courage and said, "I hope senior brother knows that we have actually reported the events of that day to Elder Lian, who is also the inner sect elder leading the team."

"But the truth is not what Elder Lian said."

A trace of panic and anger appeared on the expression of the female disciple named Lu Xia: "That sect technique is not about sacrificing to protect us at all."

"That's how it was."

Lu Xia said slowly: "Not long after we entered the underground tomb, we discovered a secret room."

"The chamber of secrets is shrouded in an ancient restriction and cannot be entered."

"But among us, Senior Brother He Ziyang once passed down an ancient restriction method from his ancestors, which happens to be able to undo the restriction."

"So we worked so hard to break in."

"No one would have imagined that in that seemingly inconspicuous secret room, there are actually many pills left by ancient monks!"

Lu Xia seemed a little excited, which shows how much shock and excitement that day brought her.

"Although most of the elixirs have lost their effectiveness with the passage of time, there are still three precious ancient elixirs that have been handed down."

"According to the information left in the secret room, the elixir is a precious elixir called 'Yunling Pill', which is of top-grade quality and can quickly restore the aura lost by monks below Yuanying."

"At that time, our team had six people, but there were only three pills."

"According to what we said before, elixir should be distributed according to contribution."

Speaking of this, Xu Qing suddenly interrupted Lu Xia's words: "So you have internal strife, and Zongshu shot you because he was dissatisfied with the distribution."

"Finally killed by your joint efforts."

"Originally there were 30 disciples who participated in the task, but in the end, according to the detailed dossier records, there were only 29 of them. One died and 28 remained."

"Two are missing."

"I guess He Ziyang is missing from the list?"

As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, Lu Xia and the others stared at him dumbfounded, as if they had seen a ghost.

"You, how do you know?" Lu Xia cried out in surprise.

Chen Mo's expression also changed.

Xu Qing went on to say: "He Ziyang, um, although you all did it together, he is probably the one who killed Zongshu."

"Although the rules of the sect stipulate that in the battle that happened because of this incident, if you accidentally kill a disciple of the sect, you need to be punished for 20 years in Siguoya."

"But because you are afraid of the talent of the sect and Zhou Sheng, the elder of the inner sect who is his master, you came up with an idea to let He Ziyang run away and leave Gu Yuezong."

"Am I right?"

(End of this chapter)