Hell Emperor.
Chapter 333 Su Miao's Tracking
Chapter 333 Su Miao-Tracing
"Are you sure there is a golden wheel here? Are you kidding me?"
Su Miao couldn't find any trace of the golden wheel, so she became anxious and her words showed a hint of impatience.
"I was wondering how could there be such a coincidence. I was looking for the Golden Wheel and you just happened to meet me before. It means you had been lying to me before. Lying to me is a small matter, but if you delay the opportunity and make us unable to complete the task assigned by our master and retrieve the relics of our former master from the ruins, that would be a big deal."
Facing Su Miao's questioning, Li Fei'e shrank her neck, stammered and was unable to speak. It was the first time she saw Su Miao looking so stern.
It was Yao Yin who reached out and patted Su Miao on the shoulder, which eased the atmosphere:
"Calm down, they are not lying. If you look carefully at the surrounding carvings and decorations, you can see that this was indeed the dojo of the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace. It seems that something unexpected happened here while they were away."
Yao Yin's gaze fell on the high platform in front of him where the golden wheel was once placed. The platform was as smooth as a mirror and did not fit in with the messy traces around it.
After Yao Yin's persuasion, Su Miao's expression improved. She realized that she had lost her manners for a moment, and after calming down, she asked again, "What on earth happened here?"
Shen Qingge looked around, his eyes as sharp as torches, revealing a cold light that could see through everything. Through the clues around him, he soon discovered something unusual:
"Wait a minute... I remember that we didn't collect the remains of the dead here when we left. Logically, when we return, we should see piles of bones, or at least remains all over the ground. But when we look around, there is clearly not a single body around... Someone has been here and collected the remains of the dead."
As soon as Shen Qingge made his judgment, Li Fei'e immediately covered his mouth and exclaimed.
Before he passed away, his family members did suggest gathering and burying the dead around him so that they could rest in peace.
However, this proposal was ruthlessly rejected by Xia Wei. Xia Wei was paranoid and believed that the corpses of these evil people must be exposed to wind and sun, and eaten by birds and beasts, in order to cleanse the sins in their bones.
Now, it turns out that what disappeared was not only the golden wheel, but also the corpse. It is really surprising.
"Thanks to Master's identification, we have discovered the anomaly. Otherwise, I'm afraid we still have no clue..."
Li Fei'e had a look of relief on her face, and there was an inexplicable sense of security in her eyes as she looked towards her master. As long as her master was there, none of the unusual things would escape her eyes.
"Master is right. Someone must have come here and stolen the Golden Wheel!" Li Fei'e echoed.
Su Miao nodded and said thoughtfully, "So, as long as we can find the person who buried the corpse, we can find the whereabouts of the Golden Wheel?"
Shen Qingge did not answer, but walked through the ruins of the Vajra Temple. After some exploration, he confirmed a lot of his guesses:
"Look, the things in the temple's storehouse are empty. The last time we came here, we didn't take anything away. Now, whether it's money, jewelry, or other sundries, they are all gone. It seems that they were taken away by someone else."
After a pause, Shen Qingge quickly made a judgment: "There are many sundries in the warehouse. If there is no storage magic tool, it will be troublesome to take them away. The most urgent task now is to find out whether it was taken away by mortals or other practitioners. Check the surrounding area to see if there are any traces left behind."
Li Fei'e did as she was told and was about to look around, but Su Miao was much faster than her.
As a ghost fairy, Su Miao just opened his divine consciousness and swept through, and he knew everything around him. He said, "I found some unusual traces, just a hundred steps away from our left."
Everyone set off in a hurry and came to where Su Miao pointed, only to see two heavy tracks of wheels running over the ground in front of them. The mud was turned inside out, and there were even a few scattered wooden boxes around. The tracks were deeply engraved on the ground. Just by looking at it, one could tell how much stuff was loaded on the car to make the tracks so deep.
The ruts on the mud made Shen Qingge's eyes light up. She squatted down, observed carefully, and soon understood.
"The carriages and horses that took away the temple's things must have gone this way. Judging from the fresh marks on the soil, those people were gone not long ago, only a few hours at most. If we chase them now, we may meet them soon."
Shen Qingge's words boosted everyone's spirits. They boarded their flying swords again and chased after the car along the tracks.
The flying sword was whistling, and the cold wind kept brushing against everyone's faces. The speed of flying the sword was so fast that it was countless times faster than the coachman driving the horse on the ground. Only half a cup of tea had passed, and a dense team of people appeared in front of everyone.
The falling of the flying sword terrified the people on the ground. For a moment, they fell to the ground in chaos. It was only when a burly leader came forward to scold them that the situation improved slightly.
Without waiting for the flying sword to land, Su Miao flew out first, controlling his immortal energy and standing in the air. His sharp eyes swept across the fully loaded carriages in front of him, trying to find the whereabouts of the golden wheel among them.
Seeing Su Miao coming with a fierce momentum, seemingly with ill intentions, the leader broke out in a cold sweat and kept saying, "Welcome to the Immortal Master. I wonder what instructions the Immortal Master has for stopping us?"
Su Miao glanced at him and saw that he was only at the second level and his strength was insignificant, so she slowly said, "I would like to ask, why are you here?"
The leader did not dare to hide anything and bowed to answer: "Master, you don't know that the Return to the Sun Festival is approaching and the ghost kings will reappear in the world. We have gathered with people from several other villages and wanted to seek refuge in a nearby gathering place. However, who knew that the gathering place had already been taken a step forward and was slaughtered by evil spirits. No one survived... We have no choice but to move farther away and try to find a secluded place where no one knows about it..."
Su Miao seemed to realize something: "The gathering place you mentioned is the Vajra Temple?"
The leader was slightly stunned, not understanding how Su Miao knew this, but seeing her standing in the air with unfathomable strength, he immediately replied: "That's right, we collected the bones of the monks there, and the situation was horrible. Who would have thought that the abbot who protects us from evil spirits every year would be killed... Since the Immortal Master knows about this, he must make a decision for the people there!"
Li Fei'e's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but stroke his forehead. He felt that something was wrong, so he quickly said, "Wait a minute, the abbot you mentioned, is he wearing a robe?"
The leader nodded repeatedly: "It's great that you know the abbot!"
"It's more than just great..." Li Fei'e said embarrassedly. If she remembered correctly, the so-called abbot seemed to have been killed by Xia Wei. Could it be that he was a good person?
Su Miao didn't know the reason, so she just said, "Wait a minute, it seems that what you did was more than just helping the people there collect their bodies, right? I advise you not to play any tricks in front of me, because you took away what I was looking for."
Seeing Su Miao's harsh words, the leader said something he had not said before. He felt guilty and apologized repeatedly: "I am very sorry, I did not mean to hide this matter, but I have not said it yet. I saw that the monks there were dead and the things left behind were useless, so I took them away as a reward for collecting the corpses. I did not expect that the immortal master came for those things, so I will take the things here."
The leader did not dare to be negligent at all. Su Miao's realm was countless levels higher than his. Even the former Ghost King had not given him such a huge sense of oppression. His teeth chattered as if he was falling into an ice cellar. He hurriedly took out things one by one from the carriage behind.
Gold, silver and jewelry piled up into a small mountain in front of Li Fei'e, dazzling her eyes and making her unable to look away. Su Miao still maintained a calm expression. As a ghost fairy, she had seen all kinds of scenes, so how could she be attracted by the treasures of the human world?
"These treasures should belong to the Immortal Master." The leader said respectfully.
"This is not what I'm looking for." Su Miao shook her head.
The leader gave a wink, and soon his men brought over stacks of talisman papers. On the dark yellow talisman papers, rotating golden wheels were drawn with bright red cinnabar.
"What the Immortal Master is looking for must be the golden wheel talisman. These talismans should belong to the Immortal Master." The leader said again.
"Golden Wheel Talisman? You call this a talisman?"
Li Fei'e's expression was strange. He casually reached out his hand, pulled out a piece of talisman paper, and looked at it carefully.
The talisman paper did not contain any spiritual power at all. From Li Fei'e's knowledge, it was just an ordinary piece of yellow paper with a wheel drawn on it. It was far from a real talisman.
The leader nodded his head and said, "Master, you may not know this. Although this golden wheel talisman may not look impressive, each one is worth a hundred taels of silver. As long as you stick this golden wheel talisman on the door, you won't have to worry about being harmed when the Ghost King returns to the human world on the Day of Returning to the Sun."
"Seriously? This talisman actually has this kind of effect?"
Li Fei'e's eyes widened. She had never thought that this small talisman could contain such a unique ability that could block the invasion of evil spirits. She couldn't help but want to grab a handful of the Golden Wheel Talisman and carry them with her.
Shen Qingge was full of black lines on his head: "What are you thinking? Didn't you see that this talisman does not contain any spiritual power? How can you believe in its effect?"
Li Fei'e was puzzled. Judging from the looks of the people around him, they were full of greed and reluctance to part with the Golden Wheel Talisman. It was not fake at all. "But Master, that person clearly said that this Golden Wheel Talisman can resist the invasion of the Ghost King. How can it be fake?"
"If you have the chance, you should ask the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace about this question."
Su Miao snorted lightly, with a hint of disdain in her eyes.
She raised her hand, and suddenly a raging fire ignited on the pile of Golden Wheel Talismans, which instantly engulfed the yellow paper. The people around her were horrified, with fear in their eyes. They wanted to jump into the fire to rescue a few Golden Wheel Talismans before they were burned out, but they were afraid that they would also be engulfed by the flames.
Seeing that Su Miao knew something, Li Fei'e pulled her aside and started to act like a spoiled brat: "Sister Su Miao, just tell me!"
Su Miao smiled, raised a finger, lightly touched her forehead, and then said: "This Resurrection Festival was originally a date set by the Lord of the Wushen Temple and the overseas ghost kings. Logically speaking, the land area under the jurisdiction of the Golden Wheel Temple should not be attacked by evil spirits at all."
Li Fei'e blinked: "But, I saw that the people here are so scared, I think they are also being harassed by the Ghost King, so they fled with their entire family and came to the Vajra Temple to seek refuge, but there..."
After a pause, Li Fei'e did not continue speaking and had to look to Su Miao for help.
Su Miao was helpless and replied: "A large part of the ghosts that attack the creatures on land are raised by the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace himself. They all follow the orders of the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace, and only then do they come to the human world to attack others during the Return to the Sun Festival."
Li Fei'e opened his mouth but didn't react for a moment: "But why did the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace do this? Is there a ghost in the Golden Wheel Palace? But there are not many ghosts in the Golden Wheel Palace, so there is no need for him to do this..."
On the side, even Shen Qingge couldn't stand it anymore, so he pulled Li Fei'e over and admonished him, "If it weren't like this, how could the people here be willing to donate money to the Golden Wheel Palace Master's dojo? How could they spend a lot of money to buy the so-called consecrated instruments and the Golden Wheel Talisman that looks like ordinary yellow paper?"
Now Li Fei'e finally understood. She was very smart and understood everything at once. Then, she felt a chill in her heart. It seemed that the master of the Golden Wheel Palace and his disciples were not good people. Their so-called benevolent deeds were just to gain money from others. Xia Wei was right to kill them.
The flames burned the golden wheel talisman to ashes. The leader did not dare to resist and could only let his men fetch the last few things with a sad face:
"Master, you have a keen eye. I shouldn't have been greedy. I took this precious robe from the corpse of the abbot. Also, these sandalwood rosary and the memorial incense burner are all blessed instruments. Master, please take them. Apart from that, there is really nothing else."
Su Miao glared at him: "At this point, are you still playing dumb? This is not what I want, what I want is the Golden Wheel!"
The leader was puzzled: "Turning the golden wheel...what is turning the golden wheel?"
Su Miao's eyes darkened, and the aura of the second-level ghost fairy burst out without concealment, causing the surrounding space to completely freeze: "Tell me quickly, where did you hide the Golden Wheel?"
"Master, please spare me... Master, please spare me!" The leader fell to his knees, unable to speak clearly. No matter how Su Miao asked, he could not answer where the golden wheel was.
"Master, are you talking about the huge prayer wheel that keeps spinning in the temple? I only saw a golden light spreading, which made it impossible to open my eyes and look directly at it. When the light died down, the golden wheel had disappeared without a trace and completely vanished from our sight. I really don't know where this spinning golden wheel has gone..."
The leader's answer made Su Miao a little unhappy. What golden light, what disappeared? He was just treating her like a child. She didn't believe such things.
Shen Qingge, on the other hand, had a thoughtful look in his eyes. The golden wheel was made of special materials and was difficult to destroy even for ordinary immortals. It was not something that the mortals here could take away at all.
The inquiries were fruitless, and the few people were unable to do anything to these mortals, so they finally gave up and left with full of doubts.
(End of this chapter)
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