Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning nodded. The man's words confirmed his previous judgment that the person who killed Lu Tao was most likely Zhang Shilin: "I think you should know about the murder of Taoist sect Shi Qingzhi. As far as you know, has Lu Tao ever seen this Zhang Shilin? "

"No, I only heard Zhang Shilin's name recently. I have never heard of such a person before."

"Okay! I want to see the files you kept on investigating Lu Tao."

The man didn't respond and looked at the old man.

"Fellow Daoist Tang has made great contributions to our fight against the demon clan in Liangzhou. As long as there are no secrets of the department in the case file, you can hand it over to Friend Daoist Tang."

"Yes. After the junior has sorted out the case file, he will hand it over to Senior Tang."

"Thank you for your cooperation. I won't disturb Fellow Daoist Xu and leave now." Tang Ning stood up and said.

"Let's do this! If Taoist friend Tang has nothing urgent to do, he will stay at the headquarters first, and after the files are sorted out, they will be sent to you. This will save you the trouble of traveling back and forth."

"That would be disrespectful."

Tang Ning left the main hall and moved into one of the rooms under the leadership of Wang Xuan.

The next day, members of the business alliance sent several thick files to his place of residence.

After going through the entire case file, Tang Ning could not find any clues about Zhang Shilin. Although the Human Chamber of Commerce's investigation was quite thorough, due to the wrong direction, the investigation and evidence collection were all confessions from people who were in contact with the victim Lu Tao, and there was nothing he wanted. thing.

The only clue has now been removed. It seems that the search for Zhang Shilin will depend on the investigation of Daode Sect disciples.

"Senior Tang, have you discovered anything?" Zhang Quan, a disciple of the Taoist Sect who came with him, saw that he was silent after reading the file, so he asked tentatively.

"No, there are no clues implicating Zhang Shilin in Lu Tao's case. It seems that this step will not work."

"Then where do you plan to start?"

"There is no other way. Now we can only take one step at a time. Finding Zhang Shilin's traces is not an easy task. It requires a lot of manpower. This depends on your Daode Sect's intelligence network. Since the Human Chamber of Commerce has no clues about Zhang Shilin, the next step is for me to Go to the place where Lu Tao and Shi Qingzhi were killed and see if you can find any clues. You can take me to the place where Shi Qingzhi was killed. You must take the same route he took before. "

"Yes, junior understands."

The two of them immediately left the Human World Chamber of Commerce and headed to the place where Shi Qingzhi was killed.

Shi Qingzhi was killed at a remote rock hill near Hongnong County. There are still traces of the fighting there. You can clearly see the peaks flattened by the sword blade and the many uneven pits left on the ground. Apart from that, there is nothing else.

Tang Ning wandered around, but naturally found nothing. It had been so long since the Taoist Sect disciples had checked it countless times. If there were any clues left, it would be a ghost.

He just came here to see the place where he was killed, and he had an idea in his mind. He had no clues at all, so he treated a dead horse as a living horse and didn't expect to find anything.

After leaving here, the two returned to the Human World Chamber of Commerce together. Under the leadership of a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the three of them followed Lu Tao's original route from the Liangzhou branch of the Human World Chamber of Commerce to the place where he was killed.

Lu Tao disappeared and was killed while heading to the headquarters of the Human Chamber of Commerce, which is located in Cangminghai.

The Cangming Sea, which is also one of the three major sea areas in Tianyuan, is much larger than the Netherworld Sea in terms of vastness, and is more than twice the size of Liangzhou. There are many islands on it.

………

At night, the stars are like rain, and the clear moonlight shines on the sea, like the Milky Way hanging upside down. Tangning's escape light flew by quickly, then suddenly stopped and looked at a small island standing in the distance.

"Senior Tang, what's wrong?" Wang Xuan, a monk from the Human Chamber of Commerce who was accompanying him, asked.

"Is that the island where Lu Tao was killed?" Tang Ning's eyes flickered and she responded calmly.

"no."

"How far away from this."

"just in front."

Tang Ning said nothing, and her spiritual energy carried the two of them as they continued to move forward. After walking for a while, they saw a raised rocky reef, which was about dozens of miles in size.

Wang Xuan pointed to the cracked rocks and said: "According to our investigation, it is confirmed that Lu Tao was killed here. We found blood stains seeping into the soil. After comparison, it was Lu Tao's own blood."

Tangning nodded: "How far is it from your Chamber of Commerce headquarters?"

"far cry."

"Your conclusion is that the murderer planned an ambush, but why did he wait until here before taking action?"

"The Cangming Sea is vast and rarely inhabited. It is relatively safe here. The murderer was probably not sure that he could quickly kill Lu Tao. He was afraid of being disturbed or discovered by others, so he chose this location."

"I'm going to check around." Tangning said without saying anything, and left the room in a flash.

Not long after, he returned to the island he had just stopped to look at. The island was not big, about thousands of miles away, and was surrounded by lush giant trees. There was no human habitation on the island.

When the spiritual energy in his body surged towards his eyes, in an instant, two dazzling divine lights burst out from his eyes. Wherever his eyes could see, the surrounding spatial structure could be seen at a glance, turning into dense virtual and solid lines of varying thicknesses and lengths. in front of.

There is something clearly wrong in the structure of these mesh-like threads, a structure that is very different from the surrounding space.

On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be much of a problem. The spatial structures covering the surface are all linear equidistant dotted line structures, representing a stable space.

However, behind the stable space, there are threads intersecting the virtual and the real.

The surface structure and the deep structure of the surrounding space are equal dotted lines. There is only one place where the deep structure is different from the surface. The surface is an equidistant line of eyes, but the depth is crisscrossed with varying degrees of virtuality and reality.

When this happens, there is only one possibility: there is a space channel there.

When Tang Ning passed by, he noticed something strange. At that time, he did not open his spiritual eyes. The spatial structure there presented a hazy and relatively chaotic sense of sight in his field of vision, like a cloud shrouded in smoke. The mountain peaks have a feeling of being unable to see through the clouds and fog.

This is the effect after he washed his eyes with Qingling Fairy Liquid recently. Even when it is not turned on, something abnormal can be seen.

In the past, he could only see the structure of space clearly when his spiritual eyes were opened.

Now he can not only see the deeper spatial structure, but also detect the strange fluctuations in the space when his spiritual eyes are not opened. If someone follows him invisibly or uses the magical power of space azimuth, he can see through it at a glance Traces of the other party.

Since his latest baptism with Qingling Fairy Liquid, he has never seen what kind of structure the space channel hidden under the stable surface structure looks like, but at this time he can confirm that there is a space channel there.

This was too obvious to Gein. In his field of vision, the intertwined virtual and real threads hidden under the surface space were in the shape of a huge cylinder. The inside was hollow and there were no intertwined threads, but the periphery was densely packed with threads of varying thickness and thickness.

The entire structure is like an extremely deep tunnel, which is the same as when he passed through the space channel before, so he can confirm at a glance that there is a space channel hidden under the surface of the stable space.

The end of this tunnel cannot be seen at a glance. Although he can see the deep structure hidden under the surface of the space, there is also a distance limit.

Tang Ning withdrew the spiritual power pouring into her eyes, and the divine light that burst out instantly disappeared without a trace, including the countless criss-crossing threads that appeared in front of her eyes.

His eyes flickered, thoughts racing in his mind.

Before coming, he didn't expect to find a hidden space passage along the way. Where does it lead to?

Is it another interface or an independent space?

If it is an independent space, then it is very likely that this place is Zhang Shilin's hiding place, and Gein Lu Tao was killed on an island not far from here.

Now it seems that Lu Tao's murder was not what happened as investigated by the Human Chamber of Commerce. It was not a premeditated ambush, but a coincidence.

Lu Tao was ordered to set off from the Human World Chamber of Commerce branch in Fufeng County to the headquarters of Cangminghai. When he passed here on the way, he happened to encounter Zhang Shilin who had been robbed of his body and came out of an independent space. The strange phenomenon caused by opening the space channel caused Zhang Shilin's attention.

Anyone who suddenly sees a rotating space passage appear will definitely stop curiously to check the situation.

This aroused Zhang Shilin's murderous intention. This was his hiding place, so of course it had to be kept secret and not allowed to be known to outsiders, not to mention that his identity was inherently shady.

After discovering that Zhang Shilin was nearby, he definitely wanted to kill someone and silence him. After a fight between the two, Lu Tao was naturally no match for him, so he fled to the rocks in front, where he was caught up and killed by Zhang Shilin.

In this way, everything can be matched. Zhang Shilin came out of the inner independent space this time. He should have cultivated to the Great Perfection of Unity and needs to find a pill to break through the Mahayana realm.

After leaving the independent space through the space channel and arriving at Tianyuan World, he happened to meet Lu Tao. In order to keep the secret of this independent space, he killed Lu Tao and obtained intelligence information about Fufeng County's secret market from him, so he went to Fufeng County. After participating in the secret market, he learned that Shi Qingzhi had the information to break through the Mahayana elixir, so he ambushed and killed Shi Qingzhi.

If all this is true, then Zhang Shilin must have escaped back to this independent space.

Now is a good opportunity to capture him. According to Guan Yu, he had injured Zhang Shilin at that time and just let him escape. In other words, Zhang Shilin should be recovering from his injuries now and should not have broken through to the Mahayana realm.

The only variable is that there are strong men who have returned from other abandoned places in the independent space connected by the space channel. If this is where these people gather, entering the inner space this time is nothing short of self-destruction.

After thinking about it for a while, Tang Ning flashed away and returned to the island where Lu Tao was killed.

"Senior Tang, do you have any other instructions?" Wang Xuan came up and asked.

"Go back!" Naturally, Tangning would not tell them about her discovery of the space passage.

He stopped there just now and didn't mention it, and he wouldn't mention it now.

One of these two people is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the other is a member of the Daode Sect. On the surface, they are assisting him, but in fact they are monitoring his actions.

He knew this very well.

This is human nature. If he is so enthusiastic about this matter, others will naturally suspect that there is some secret behind it.