Chronicles of Celestial Origins

"Oh?" After hearing what he said, Tangning felt a little happy, knowing that he must have some information, so he said like this: "How did fellow Taoist know this?"

Su Kangcheng said: "After our investigation, we found a casual cultivator yesterday. He said that he saw a strange man wearing a mask the night before, carrying a huge black bag and heading west with a flying sword. The time was around Shen Shi, and the location was less than a hundred miles away from Cangyun Ridge.”

"Su Yao is Cangyun Ridge who has not yet left. With her escape speed, she can reach almost a hundred miles in more than an hour. The time and place are right."

"So we inferred that the man should be the culprit. The black bag on his back contained the missing Su Yao. At that time, the two of them fought, and Su Yao was defeated and captured by him, but he was a big living person. It was impossible to kidnap him and take him away, so he was knocked unconscious and wrapped in a black bag.”

"I've been wondering why he is like this? He has to drag people away. It turns out that's the reason."

Tang Ning nodded. The monks had their own storage bags. All items could be put inside, so it was impossible to carry a big bag unless it contained living things.

Coupled with the coincidence of time and place, it can basically be determined that the man is the murderer.

And he still needs the power of the flying sword to escape, so he is obviously a Qi Refining monk.

"Do you know where he fled to?"

Su Kangcheng said: "We are searching and arresting him in the direction of his flight, and at the same time looking around for news. This morning, we got the latest news. A member of the Wang family saw this man wearing a mask and carrying a bag yesterday. , and finally appeared a hundred miles away. We searched all the way, but we haven’t found his hiding place yet.”

"Will you continue to flee westward?" Tang Ning asked.

"How far can a Qi Refining monk carry a living person on his back in one day? I have sent people along this route to find out information. I think he should not dare to carry a person on his back in broad daylight. He must travel day and night.”

Su Zhongrui interjected: "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. Kang Cheng, you work with Tang Daoyousheng. I'll go back to the mansion first."

Su Kangcheng nodded, and Su Zhongrui flashed his light and flew away.

"How about this! Fellow Daoist Su, I'll go ahead and look for it first. You guys can search all the way along this route."

"good."

"By the way, what does that man look like and the kidnapped children of your mansion? Are there any portraits?"

"Yu Hui." Su Kangcheng shouted, his voice heard far away.

A handsome-looking man hurriedly came to greet him: "What are your orders, third uncle?"

"Give this fellow Taoist Tang a copy of Su Yao's portrait of the masked man."

"Yes." The man responded, flipping his hands over, taking out two portraits and handing them to Tang Ning.

Tang Ning took it and took a look, only to see that the woman inside had an apricot face, peach cheeks, and a graceful figure. The other man has a mask on his face and a black robe. He looks tall and thin, like a bamboo pole, which is quite distinctive.

He put away the scroll and went straight to the west. He passed many mountains, rivers and lakes along the way, and met dozens of monks who were traveling on the same road.

Every time he chased after them to get a clear look, he frightened these people so much that they thought they had met a bandit who committed murder and swindled goods.

After flying for a day, Tangning came to an unknown mountain. He stopped and traveled at his speed for a day. He still didn't meet the masked man. There were only two possibilities.

First, the man had gone into hiding and did not move on.

Second, it changes orientation. Otherwise it would be impossible not to hit. He asked the monks who were traveling with him, but no one had seen the man.

It's possible that as Su Kangcheng said, the man was walking by day and night. If so, he should still be behind him. It would be better to wait and take a chance.

…………

It was late at night, the moon was high, and the stars were shining brightly.

Tangning hung high in the sky, watching the passers-by within his sight. Whenever he saw someone passing by with his sword in his sight, he would go up and question them.

Around the time when she was ugly, a small black dot appeared in her line of sight. Soon, the small black dot became bigger and bigger. Tang Ning looked intently and could vaguely see a man flying with a sword.

With a flash of light, he went up to meet him. Unexpectedly, when the man saw him coming with a flash of light, he actually turned around and headed south.

Tangning would not let him go so easily. She immediately ran away at full speed and would catch up with the man in a short time.

But from the back, he was tall and thin, wearing a blue robe and no mask. Apart from the different clothing, his body shape is quite similar to that of the man in the portrait.

Seeing that he couldn't escape his pursuit, the man stopped on his own initiative. Tangning flashed her light and landed in front of him, sizing him up and saying, "Why do you want to run away when you see me?"

The man looked puzzled: "The junior was on his way. He saw that the senior seemed to be chasing me, so he stopped. Why did he run away? I don't know why the senior was chasing the junior?"

"Let me ask you, a female cultivator from the Su family has disappeared recently. Do you know about this?"

"What's the Su family? The junior is just a casual cultivator. I don't know what the senior is talking about."

"Really?" Tang Ning finished her words. She pointed her finger towards him, and a burst of spiritual power was stimulated. The two were only three feet apart. Tang Ning suddenly attacked. Even though the man was on guard, he had no time to react.

The spiritual power directly penetrated his body, causing a penetrating wound the size of a finger in his abdomen.

The man's complexion finally changed, and his wounds slowly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Tang Ning smiled slightly and grabbed his shoulder with one hand. Spiritual energy surged out from his body and enveloped his whole body.

The man felt that his whole body was imprisoned by spiritual power, and he rose up to resist. The spiritual power in his body surged, resisting the squeeze of external spiritual power.

All he could hear was the rattling of bones all over his body.

The ribs on his chest could not withstand the squeezing of the spiritual power and shattered. The man's vision went dark and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

Tang Ning saw his eyes gradually turning red, and knew that the corpse bugs in his body were beginning to wake up.

This is a major characteristic of all corpse worm hosts. Once the host is seriously injured and the body's self-healing power cannot keep up, consciousness will become blurred and the corpse worms will take over.

The man's face was red, and he let out a weird roar. His arms, legs, and waist instantly doubled in size, almost bursting his green clothes. He twisted his body to contend with the squeezing spiritual power from the outside.

Tang Ning clicked with her fingers, and several transparent holes immediately appeared on the man's body.

Not long after, the man tilted his head, closed his eyes, and fainted.

The flushed color on his face faded, and the wounds on his body stopped healing.

Tang Ning waved her hand, and her spiritual power carried him as he headed towards the mountains and forests below.

It wasn't until around noon the next day that the man slowly woke up and opened his eyes dimly. The moment he saw Tangning clearly, his expression changed drastically. Then he found that he had been restrained, and his face turned ashen in an instant.

"Tell me! Who are you? What's your last name? Where are you from?" Tangning asked.

The man remained silent.

"I'm not interested in you, and I don't care what evil you have done. I mainly want to know what happened to you? And who is the mastermind behind making you look like this. If you cooperate, I can let you go. Leave. If you don't cooperate, we will hand you over to the Qingyang Sect for dissection and remove the corpse worms hidden in your body, making your life worse than death."

The man's eyes were wandering, and after a while he said: "Who is the senior?"

"Tang Ning, a disciple of Qian Yizong's Intelligence Department."

"Qian Yizong?" The man was doubtful: "Senior, do you mean what you say? Let me go?"

Tang Ning said nonchalantly: "If I want to take your life, it's like killing a chicken and a dog, so why bother talking to you so much? Do you think I traveled thousands of miles to the Kingdom of Wu just to capture you?"

"Senior, what do you want to know?"

"Who is your surname? Where is your family name?"

"Junior Sun Yi is a loose cultivator in Qi State."

"When did you become like this? Do you still remember the situation at that time?"

"Two years ago, I woke up next to a ruined temple. I didn't notice anything strange at the time. I just wondered why I was here. I left in a hurry and realized that I had been sleeping for a month, and what happened during this month I don’t even remember it. The last memory I can remember is of me practicing in my residence.”

"Then on a full moon night, I fell into a coma. When I woke up the next day, I found myself in a canyon, forty or fifty miles away from my residence, surrounded by blood and minced meat. I successively remembered that day What happened at night? After that, I stayed away from people and isolated myself."

"But every full moon, my consciousness would fall into a coma, and then I would wake up somewhere unknown the next day and prey on others. I gradually became accustomed to it, and took the initiative to capture the monks to avoid being discovered by others when they did something unexpected while they were unconscious."

"This is not without its benefits. After each prey, the spiritual power in my body increases to a certain extent. As a result, I broke through the ninth level of Qi Refining and reached the tenth level."

Tangning asked, "Where exactly is the ruined temple where you woke up?"

The man replied: "Near Huangzhi County in the southern part of Qi State."

"When did you come to Wu State?"

"Ten days ago."

"Why did you come here suddenly?"

"I have no idea."

"I don't know?" Tangning frowned: "What does this mean?"

"I always feel that there is something very important to me here. Every late at night, I feel called by some kind of call, and I often come here involuntarily. I also feel very strange. This feeling is very strong. , I was so excited that I was ready to move, as if something was calling me, making me move forward involuntarily. "

"You said you couldn't help it? Something was calling you? Do you feel that way now?"

"A little bit, but the feeling will be very strong late at night, as if someone is whispering next to you, but you can't hear what exactly is being said, so you can't help but get closer to him."

Tangning fell into deep thought after hearing what he said. Was something calling him? It was definitely not summoning him himself, but summoning the corpse worms in his body.

What is it that has such a strong appeal to him? Could it be the mother body of the corpse insect?