A master of supernatural powers who started from low martial arts

Chapter 76: Heretics want to die and live

"No, no, your eyebrows should be lower!"

"The eyes. That's what the eyes are like, and the silkworm eyebrows!"

"The nose. The nose is about the same as mine, a little taller!"

In the evening, in a teahouse in the north of the city.

A middle-aged painter held a charcoal pencil and listened to the narration of a hawker couple who looked at each other and drew a lifelike portrait according to the words.

On the side, Lu Yuan, with the temporarily borrowed Chai Jiu, Hu Feng and other members of the Qinglong Gang, stood aside and watched quietly.

After a moment.

With the smearing and modification, a portrait was completely formed. At the same time, the hawker couple clapped their hands and shouted at the same time:

"Yes, yes, that's almost it!"

The painter let out a sigh of relief, quickly stood up and handed the painted portrait to Lu Yuan:
  "Master Lu has finished the painting. Take a look."

Lu Yuan took the portrait and saw that it was a middle-aged man with a Taoist bun. He had a strange face and looked a bit immortal.

He couldn't help but look at the hawker couple next to him:
  "Are you sure that the fortune teller looks like this?"

The hawker couple nodded repeatedly:

"I'm sure, that fortune teller looks basically the same as the one in this painting!"

"Don't worry, sir, you can't be wrong. This fortune teller stayed in our busy city for many days some time ago. I'm afraid hundreds of people come to him to tell their fortunes for free every day. The two of us also joined in the fun and told his fortune The appearance is clear and I can’t remember it wrongly.”

"If you don't believe it, you can take this portrait to this street and ask, others will definitely recognize it!"

Seeing that the two of them were so determined, Lu Yuan nodded slightly: "Okay, excuse me."

With that said, he gave the hawker and his wife a few silver dollars for their hard work and watched them leave happily.

Wait until they leave.

Chai Jiu and Hu Feng were still looking at the portrait suspiciously and asked:
  "Brother Yuan, is this fortune teller responsible for Wang Zhu's disappearance?"

"Human traffickers have to be selective when they want to sell people. Among the missing people are men, women, old and young. What is he after?"

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes:

"According to the current situation, the missing cases that have occurred in the past two or three months are inseparable from this person. As for what he is after, it is indeed a mystery. I am afraid that we will only know if we find this person."

After learning that many missing persons had experiences of contact with fortune tellers, he asked Chai Jiu and others to find out where the fortune tellers often haunted, and led a painter to find witnesses who had seen this person and draw a portrait. .

Now that the biggest suspect has been identified, the next thing to do is to find a way to find him.

Hu Feng couldn't help but ask:
  "Brother Yuan, what should we do next? Should we continue to wait for this fortune teller to appear again, or should we report it to the official? I suggest that it is better to report it to the official. If the Yamen doesn't care, report it to Jingwu Division. After all, other urban areas are not our territory. There is a huge sea of ​​people. I’m afraid it will be difficult to find this person with just these few brothers.”

"Report to the official."

Lu Yuan pondered for a moment, rolled up the portrait, and then took out a large handful of twenty or thirty silver coins:
  "It's already late today. I'll go back and inform Master and the others first. The two brothers have been working hard these past two days with their people. I will use this money to treat all the brothers to drink and have fun. Don't refuse."

This handful of silver dollars is by no means too small. Chai Jiu and Hu Fengxi, who were a little bit resentful after being busy these past two days, smiled brightly, but they refused again and again:

"No, please don't, Brother Yuan, you are the hall master's junior brother, how can we charge you for helping us?"

"No, no, Brother Yuan, take it back quickly!"

If you want the horses to run, you have to give them grass. Naturally, Lu Yuan wouldn't take it seriously. He forced it on them and waved his hand:
  "Okay, just take it for you. I have something else to do, so I won't have a drink with you guys."

With that said, he hurried away with the portrait.

Not long after, we returned to the Expo Theater.

Entering the back garden, I saw Aunt Lian and her husband Wang Gensheng sitting in the corner of the atrium, waiting in despair. They were covered in dust. Apparently they had been searching outside all day.

Seeing Lu Yuan coming back, the exhausted two people's eyes suddenly sparkled, and they couldn't wait to greet him:

"Brother Yuan, how's it going?"

"It's another day, is there any news about Zhu Zhu?"

Looking at this couple with faces full of vicissitudes of life, Lu Yuan shook his head regretfully:

"I just found some clues, but it may take some time to determine whether Zhu Zhu is alive or dead. I will inform you as soon as I have the results."

The slight hope in her eyes turned into disappointment. Aunt Lian and her husband looked at each other in silence, with a bloodless and sad expression on their faces:

"Then I'll bother you, Brother Yuan. We'll wait for your news."

"That's the same sentence, life and death are determined by fate, whether we are dead or alive, it's good that we can have an idea in our hearts."

Nowadays, the average life expectancy of ordinary people does not exceed forty years, and death is a normal thing.

With no news for five consecutive days, it can be basically concluded that something unexpected has happened, and they have actually prepared for the worst.

Lu Yuan was speechless and could only nod his head, and then watched the two of them stagger away while supporting each other.

At this time, Li Junxian, Xu Dahu and Xu Erhu happened to walk out of the small courtyard and asked immediately:

"Ayuan, how are you today?"

Lu Yuan stepped in front of the three of them and said solemnly:

"Master, something is wrong. Zhuzi's disappearance is not accidental, but there is something hidden."

Li Junxian's eyes suddenly condensed:
  "What inside story?"

Lu Yuan said in a deep voice:
  "According to the investigation, Aunt Lian said that the day before Wang Zhu disappeared, he met a fortune teller in the north of the city who told fortunes for free. He also joined in the fun. And in the process of looking for someone in the past two days, I borrowed a helper Unexpectedly, I found out that not only Wangzhu, but also the number of missing persons reports in other urban areas had increased significantly during this period.

And I personally went to those houses to inquire about the situation, and then I found out that many missing people had their fortunes told for free by the fortune teller before they disappeared. "

"Is there such a thing?"

It’s not just Li Junxian.

Even Xu Dahu and Xu Erhu changed their expressions when they heard this:
  "Are all these people kidnapped by the fortune teller?"

"What is a fortune teller doing kidnapping so many people? Could it be that he is a personal trafficker?"

Lu Yuan shook his head and handed over the portrait:
  "This is a portrait of a fortune teller that I asked a painter to draw after I inquired about it. Now I can't determine what the purpose of this person is. I only know that it is inseparable from the disappearance of so many people in the city."

Li Jun took it first and unfolded it. Xu Dahu and the other two also came forward and looked at it carefully. Naturally, none of them knew the characters in the portraits, but Li Junxian had a gloomy expression on his face and suddenly asked in a deep voice:

"A Yuan, when the fortune teller told Wang Zhu and these missing people, did he look at the palms and bones, or did he calculate the birth dates?"

Lu Yuan thought about it for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and said, "They are all calculated birth dates. Why does Master ask this question?"

"That's clear"

Li Junxian suddenly closed the portrait in his hand and said coldly:

"This so-called fortune teller is probably a Taoist practitioner with an evil inheritance. He secretly kidnaps people whose birth dates meet the requirements, just to practice evil or to refine magic weapons."

Evil magic, magic weapon?
  Xu Erhu was stunned as he had no concept of this aspect at all:
  "How do you use people to refine evil magic or magic weapons?"

Li Jun first said:

"Ever since the Jin Dynasty destroyed the mountains and cut down the temples, the sect has been destroyed and the rivers and lakes have ceased to exist. But in fact, during the previous dynasty, the sect was at its peak, and there has always been good and evil in the vast rivers and lakes.

The so-called good and evil are mostly distinguished by the way of practice. It is easy to say that the way of martial arts, especially the Taoist way of condensing the soul, there are many evil ways secretly eager for quick success and using human sacrifices, and they have developed such things as blood sacrifice, eye-gouging, heart-gouging, and so on. Liver and other cruel methods.

These methods can cause the victim's mind to fluctuate violently, amplify hatred, pain and despair. Combined with Taoist methods, evil magic weapons with special powers can be refined. For example, when my master and your uncle were guarding Tianyun Mansion and were besieged by Jin Ting's army and countless masters, a person commanded a strange bell, which was very powerful.

The bell contains strange power. As long as it is close to a person within two or three feet, there will be a sound of ghosts crying and howling when it is shaken. Ordinary soldiers who get close will be distraught and die on the spot. Even if you are a warrior who has fought hundreds of battles, or a master of martial arts who is one against a hundred, if you are enveloped by this ringing sound, you will be frightened, bleeding from all your orifices, and have no power to resist.

This is an extremely powerful evil magic weapon. Your master and I were almost killed by this bell at the beginning. Fortunately, Dongwang came to help and destroyed the bell with artillery bombardment. Otherwise, your master and I would have become a gang. loess.

However, such methods are not the right way. In addition, the development of Taoism itself has declined and is almost extinct. Therefore, by the Jin Dynasty, it was rare to see the existence of such evil magic among the people. However, they never expected that such evil magic would appear today. one. "

After Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but frown and his eyes suddenly turned cold.

He didn't expect that Taoist cultivation could be extended to this aspect, and that it could be like the evil cultivators in the novels who practice so-called magic weapons.

And if it is true what Li Junxian said, whether it is Wang Zhu or the other people who have disappeared in the past two or three months, I am afraid that something unexpected has already happened!

"It makes no sense."

Xu Dahu was also surprised and said:

"The act of sacrificing human blood is simply insane. How is it any different from an animal? Since A Yuan already has this person's portrait, shouldn't we report it to Jingwu Si as soon as possible?"

"Don't worry yet."

Li Junxian looked solemn:
  "Such evil figures may not necessarily use their real faces. Moreover, the Jingwu Division has the duty of monitoring public opinion, so they may not know about it. If we report the portrait rashly, we may get burned. It is better to stay put and figure out the situation first."

This was a prudent move, and Xu Erhu nodded in agreement:

"Master is right."

Li Jun first looked at Lu Yuan and ordered:
  "A Yuan, please don't continue the investigation, lest you alert the other party and provoke revenge. After all, the person who can use this method of sacrificing evil weapons is at least a high-ranking mage in the fifth realm. If such a cruel person wants to take revenge, Not to mention you, the entire Expo Park will be in a state of unrest.

Dealing with this kind of heresy is always the responsibility of Jingwusi. As a master, I will ask someone to inquire first, and then find a way to hand over the portrait to them after it is confirmed. During this period, you must remember not to disclose the information to the outside world, you know? "

Compared to the martial arts masters of the Fifth Realm, although the high-level masters of the Fifth Realm do not have any powerful martial arts, they have strange illusions that deceive people's minds, plus the use of hidden weapons to assassinate them with divine thoughts. They are even more dangerous. Likewise, It is also an extremely beneficial existence.

Seeing the seriousness of what Li Jun said first, Xu Dahu and Xu Erhu shuddered slightly, and they all solemnly agreed:

"It's Master!"

But Lu Yuan's eyes were dark, and he seemed to have other ideas. He just said calmly: "Disciple understands."

That night.

It's time for the second watch.

Li Zhenguang, the captain of the Jingwu Division, smelled of alcohol and walked out of a restaurant with sloppy steps. He was supported by Yu Xianting and another captain.

Under the courtesy of the waiter and shopkeeper, Li Zhenguang, who was red-faced and drunk, cursed half-drunk and half-awake:
  "Damn it, where did those losers get their faces, how dare they laugh at me?"

"They also said that I didn't dare to take off the head because I was afraid of the Tsing Yi Guest. That's the Tsing Yi Guest. Killing martial arts masters in the fifth realm is like slaughtering pigs. Aren't they afraid of the Tsing Yi Guest!?"

"Don't say it's me, so what if Master Suo? Didn't he just pretend to be deaf and mute and let that man's head hang for three days?"

In addition to being unwilling to be angry, these few words clearly showed a lot of resentment. Yu Xianting had no choice but to dissuade him:
  "Sir, please lower your voice. If it reaches Mr. Suo's ears, it will be troublesome."

"trouble?"

The dissolute Li Zhenguang woke up slightly from the wine and said with a smile:
  "I'm afraid of eggs! Now in this Jingwu Division, we are in a high-ranking industry. If I offend Qing Yi Ke one day, my head may be cut off. If Suo Helie really fires me, I will have to thank him, hahaha! "

Yu Xianting and the other two were speechless with such a completely messed up attitude.

During the huge turmoil not long ago, although the heads of Tongzhi Zhang Taiming and Jin Taihong, father and son, were covered in black cloth, they were hung on the door beam of the vegetable market for three days before being removed.

Since then, the prestige and reputation of Tsing Yi Ke has reached its peak in Fengyang Mansion, while Jingwu Division has plummeted, and its previous prestige has been lost.

Now that these officials take to the streets, what they get is no longer respect and fear, but looks of amusement and amusement.

In this situation, unless they can deal with the Tsing Yi guest one day, there is nothing they can do.

"Okay, leave me alone."

The cold wind was blowing, and Li Zhenguang, who felt relieved after venting his anger, threw the two of them away with a flick of his arm, and said swayingly:

"You can go back by yourselves and don't worry about me. This is just over a mile away from home. I just need to sober up."

The two captains Yu Xianting still wanted to escort them, but they were scolded by the other party and had to give up.

Just like that, Li Zhenguang staggered toward his house alone on the dark street.

Although he was half drunk and half awake, with his cultivation and the robes he was wearing, no petty thieves dared to approach him. He just walked leisurely through a street, with his own house clearly visible in front of him.

However, at this time.

"Li Zhenguang"

In the darkness in front of him, a faint voice of inquiry suddenly came:

"Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

Hear this fluttery voice.

Li Zhenguang, who had already sobered up due to the cold wind, suddenly stiffened, and the hairs on his back suddenly stood up!

(End of this chapter)