Daqin arrests alchemists, what does it matter to me as a qi refiner?

After Zhao Kuangyin left, he immediately called the courtiers together and began to discuss countermeasures.

The first thing to do is to disclose the existence of practitioners.

Previously, the imperial court had always had an attitude of neither recognizing nor denying practitioners.

In fact, quite a few people among the people already know about the existence of practitioners, and the ministers in the DPRK are tacitly aware of this matter.

It’s just that no one dared to mention it directly.

Today, Zhao Kuangyin suddenly brought this matter to the table for discussion, and everyone was very surprised.

But what Zhao Kuangyin said next made some people feel like they had fallen into an ice cave.

Not many of the princes in the court have clean butts, but not many of them actually have murder cases on their bodies.

And Zhao Kuangyin's words undoubtedly dropped a bombshell in this calm lake.

At least some of them would never dare to bully the good again.

Before, they could still say that a dead person was dead. What else could they do?
But now, not only does one have a god with his head raised, but at least the wrongdoer has his head and his debtor has his owner.

If the person he killed really turned into an evil spirit, even if he didn't take action himself, wouldn't the evil spirit ask someone for questioning on his own?

As long as someone turns into an evil spirit, the evil spirit will eventually find the mastermind behind it.

There is no doubt about this, because turning from a human to an evil spirit has already begun the path to transcendence, and monks naturally have methods that are unimaginable to ordinary people.

Especially for monsters like evil spirits that feed on the flesh, flesh and souls of living creatures, they can directly search through the memories of the souls they have devoured to find what they want.

Therefore, once evil spirits appear, no one will be spared.

"In order to prevent evil spirits from harming people, from now on, every city needs to have monks stationed there." Zhao Kuangyin slowly explained his decision.

"Once evil spirits appear, the monks will report the matter directly to me, and I will personally send people to investigate related cases to strive for justice for the victims!"

Of course, in order to avoid collusion between monks and local officials and concealment, the same monk will not be stationed in one place for too long, and a rotation system will be implemented.

In addition, monks also have a set of rules and regulations that are unique to monks, and there is no need to explain these.

"Don't think this is a trivial matter, this is absolutely unavoidable!" Zhao Kuangyin said seriously.

"If there is an evil spirit and you fail to report it in time, find out the cause of the appearance. Even if one is missed, it will be a disaster!"

"An evil spirit, with as few as dozens or as many as hundreds of people, cannot be solved by monks sent from various places. At least it will require the action of General Zhengbei and Zhengde Zhenren."

"If we give that evil spirit space to grow, I'm afraid the entire Song Dynasty will be in crisis."

Zhao Kuangyin stared at the courtiers in the audience seriously: "Think about what bad things you have done. Those evil spirits will definitely seek revenge on their enemies first!"

"No one can save you then!"

Zhao Kuangyin said coldly: "This matter is to save the people, but also to save yourselves!"

After saying that, Zhao Kuangyin stood up and announced the end of the morning court!
This morning I just mentioned this matter first. The specific rules and regulations and the things that need to be coordinated and coordinated in all aspects need to be solved slowly one by one.

As Zhao Kuangyin expected, on the second day after the morning court, numerous memorials were sent to express his opposition to the supervision of practitioners.

The reason is also very simple, it is nothing more than a random reason such as the difference between immortals and mortals.

Regarding these memorials, Zhao Kuangyin chose to ignore them at all.

The reason is also very simple. Some of these people may be being used, but at least half of them have evil intentions.

Instructing people to write down the names of these people one by one, Zhao Kuangyin decided to settle accounts with these people slowly in the future.

As for the matter of practitioners intervening in government affairs, Zhao Kuangyin had already made the decision long ago, and now he is just advancing the process.

It just so happens that through this incident, we can initially advance the progress of the integration between practitioners and mortals.

In addition to the evil things, there was another thing that caused Zhao Kuangyin a headache.

That is, as the reputation of practitioners gradually increased, more and more obscene worship phenomena appeared in Song Dynasty.

All kinds of swindlers pretend to be practitioners, and even dare to claim to be practitioners by relying on their magic tricks.

What's more, they brag that they are the reincarnation of some kind of god to defraud believers of their wealth.

They even deceive believers into sacrificing their own lives for pleasure in killing others.

This phenomenon is naturally not allowed by Zhao Kuangyin.

Not to mention how many people will be harmed by the existence of these things, now that the spiritual energy is revived, these bastard liars can easily get themselves involved if they don't get it right!
Just because this doesn't happen now doesn't mean it won't happen in the future either. Naturally, we need to take precautions early!
Therefore, local governments must also begin to severely crack down on all kinds of obscene rituals, especially the Wutong God, which has recently begun to appear in the Song Dynasty.

However, before Zhao Kuangyin's crackdown started, these scammers came up with a big one for Zhao Kuangyin.

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"What? How many people died?" Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe his ears.

"Replying to the saint, there are 561 people in Wangjia Village... no dogs or chickens were left alive, except for one... seven-year-old child who survived by chance."

Zhao Kuangyin fell heavily on the throne.

There is no doubt that this was a tragedy caused by obscenity.

According to the investigation, it was found that a liar Taoist priest who came from unknown sources deceived the villagers into performing a human sacrifice.

At first, they were just animals such as chickens, ducks, fish, cattle and sheep, and then gradually evolved into living people.

I don’t know if the Taoist priest really had some skills or if there was an accident. In short, the final result was that all the 561 people in the village died, except for one who ran away from home because of a grudge against his family. The child was lucky enough to survive.

The child was only eight years old and knew nothing. He was met by a passing merchant in a daze.

After a conversation, the merchant realized that something was wrong and immediately reported it to the government.

After careful investigation, it was finally determined that this case was a tragedy caused by obscene worship.

As for where the instigator is now, no one knows.

Zhao Kuangyin was shocked.

Previously, only a few dozen people died, and the evil spirit almost wiped out the entire population of Jinling City. Now, these more than 500 people...

Zhao Kuangyin simply couldn't imagine how powerful the mastermind behind the scenes was.

"Father, let me leave this case to my son to solve!"

Zhao Kuangyin frowned: "Can you really handle it?"

Zhao Defang nodded firmly: "I heard from the teacher that these evil spirits, if nothing unexpected happens, the child's strength is completely enough to deal with them."

"But..." Zhao Kuangyin was still a little worried.

"It doesn't matter. The child is about to go to the battlefield. I heard from Master that those Liao people also have their own methods."

"Although I don't know what kind of methods they will use to deal with us, I think they are similar to the masterminds behind this. It would be great to try it out now."

"If you haven't seen blood and fire, how can you grow?" Seeing Zhao Defang's confident look, Zhao Kuangyin finally agreed.

After Zhao Defang announced that he was about to go to fight the Liao people, seven people in the school chose to leave the school and follow Zhao Defang.

Firstly, they want to make achievements and earn a good fortune for their descendants and their families.

Secondly, it is also because they really admire Zhao Defang and are willing to follow Zhao Defang, and this is personality charm.

It was not that no one was willing to follow Zhao Heng, but Zhao Heng rejected all of them on the grounds that he could not afford such a big responsibility alone and had no intention of achieving anything.

Therefore, those who originally defected to Zhao Heng eventually came under Zhao Defang's command, which also resulted in the number of Zhao Defang's subordinates eventually reaching seven.

These seven people, plus Zhao Defang, have never actually fought against a practitioner. The biggest fight they have ever had was nothing more than a competition in the school, and it was not a real battle at all.

Therefore, everyone will be mobilized to arrest the Taoist priest this time in order to gain experience.

Including Zhao Heng, they also set off together this time.

According to Zhao Heng's character, he would not have participated in such a thing.

But no matter what, he was very interested in how the Taoist priest improved his strength.

Especially after learning about evil spirits, Zhao Heng was even more moved.

With normal cultivation, he was afraid that he would never be able to catch up with Qin Tian, ​​and even his plans seemed so unreliable, with too much luck involved.

But if he knew about the blood sacrifice and evil spirits, Zhao Heng might not be able to find a way to deal with Qin Tian.

Therefore, Zhao Heng planned to take the initiative to apply to become the leader of the evil department after seeing the power of Taoist priests this time.

There is no better person in the world to lead this department.

Because except for Zhao Defang, there was no other monk in the entire Song Dynasty who could reach the foundation-building level.

If he is not allowed to be the leader, who else can be the leader?
And with the help of his position, he can also better implement his plan!

With this idea in mind, Zhao Heng joined the team that arrested Taoist priests.

The case happened a long time ago, six days ago, so the difficulty of the investigation has increased dramatically.

And because the child was ignorant and destroyed many traces of the scene, it was very difficult to locate the Taoist priest.

But this didn't bother Zhao Defang.

The spells that monks at the Foundation Establishment Realm can cast are much more powerful and the number is much greater.

One of these spells is the finding-object spell.

It is said to be for finding objects, but in fact it can also be used to find people and anything else you want to find.

It's just that monks in the Qi refining stage can only use it to find dead objects, and monks with poor practice may even need things related to dead objects as a guide to find the person.

After reaching the foundation-building realm, you can use this spell to find the people or things you want to find.

Zhao Defang didn't know what the Taoist looked like, nor what realm he was in. This would bring great trouble to the performance of the finding-object technique.

Fortunately, the Taoist had lived in the village for a long time, and Zhao Defang quickly found many things related to the Taoist.

The clothes he wore, the dishes and chopsticks he used...these things that are contaminated with his own aura can be used to assist in the casting of the finding-object spell.

The more related things there are, the more accurate the art of finding objects will be.

And this is also the strength of Qin Tian's monks who have a professional background.

Their combat effectiveness may not be as strong as those bottomless evil cultivators from Yeluzi, but their small methods and spells to deal with various situations are definitely enough.

During the long years of practice, Qin Tian has developed hundreds of thousands of spells. He has a stock of spells that can be used from the Qi Refining Stage to the God Transformation Stage.

Anyone who graduates from a school has more or less learned a few top-notch spells.

"Found it!" Zhao Defang's eyes flashed, and he suddenly felt something in his heart.

"I didn't expect that not only did you not run away, but you actually dared to walk around in front of people's eyes!"

"Be careful, come with me!"

Out of caution, Zhao Defang did not directly raise his flying sword and fly over, but decided to lead his many disciples to slowly touch it together.

Under Zhao Defang's perception, the Taoist was lurking on the back hill one mile away from the village.

I just don’t know what that thing, who doesn’t know whether it’s a human or a ghost, is doing now, and why after so many days, that guy still hasn’t left.

Although the group was walking, they were very fast and soon arrived at the back mountain.

Walking along the aura he sensed, Zhao Defang discovered a cave.

Seeing this cave, Zhao Heng's eyes flashed: "I'll go ahead and explore the way first!"

After saying that, Zhao Heng rushed in without waiting for Zhao Defang to speak.

Zhao Defang opened his mouth, feeling helpless.

"Quick, follow your senior brother."

This cave doesn't look big from the outside, but it's a unique cave inside.

Moreover, this cave is filled with an uncomfortable smell, and some monks with relatively low strength are already a little dizzy just staying here!

Seeing this, Zhao Defang could only escort these juniors out first.

The main purpose of coming here this time is to practice. It would be ridiculous if one of our own fell before we even saw the enemy.

However, Zhao Defang's eyes quickly became serious.

Because he suddenly discovered that he could not find his way out!

"As expected, this cave is that guy's lair!"

Since he couldn't find a way out, Zhao Defang still needed to have some mana to deal with unexpected situations, so he just gave the weak man two Heart-Cleaning Arts.

Now I can only hope that he can resist it.

"I'm sorry, senior brother, for causing you trouble. It's all because I'm too weak!"

Zhao Defang shook his head slightly: "I don't blame you, no one could have imagined that such a situation would happen."

Following the winding road inside the cave, the group of people soon heard the sound of fighting.

"I think it was Zhao Heng who found the Taoist. Let's go and give him a helping hand!"

After passing a corner, a broad hall appeared in front of everyone.

At this time, Zhao Heng was fighting a humanoid creature about one foot tall.

The man was clearly in human form, but if you look closely, you can see the face with countless souls emerging from his body! (End of chapter)