Chronicles of Celestial Origins

The remaining members of the Inspection Section first collected the storage bags scattered on the ground by the Xu family monks one by one, then entered the inner hall and searched every corner of the mansion one by one. Not to mention, they actually found an underground passage in Xu Qingxian's room.

Hidden under his bed, the secret passage would automatically open as soon as the head of the bed moved.

Tang Ning and others looked down from above and saw that the secret tunnel was dug quite deep, two to four to five feet high from the ground, with stairs leading straight down.

"Junior Brother Gao, Junior Brother Tang, let's go down and take a look. You guys will be there to support us," Chu Xiuyan said.

Tang Ning and Gao Huan followed him into the tunnel and walked along the stairs to the end. The tunnel was six feet high and three feet wide, enough for two people to walk side by side.

The tunnel was pitch black, and the three of them could only see clearly three feet in front of them.

After walking no more than thirty feet, they saw a golden silk screen blocking the way.

Chu Xiuyan took out the black disk and fiddled with it a few times. The golden silk screen in front of him cracked a hole. The three of them continued to move forward and walked out of the tunnel until they came to a deserted mountain. The entire tunnel was five or six miles long.

"If Senior Brother Chu hadn't been well prepared and surrounded the entire Xu Mansion with golden wires, ground nets, and sky, the old fox Xu Qingxian would have escaped," Tang Ning said.

Chu Xiuyan frowned and looked at the bushy mountains around him: "It's strange. There are only more than a thousand spiritual stones and some elixirs in Xu Qingxian's storage bag, and nothing else. Is this the only thing in the entire Xu family? Xu Qingxian has colluded with each other all these years. The Demon Sect must have made a lot of money. He even bought the armor. Where did he put his belongings? A family must have magical weapons, cultivation techniques, and elixirs. Could it be that they are not in the Xu Mansion? "

"It's possible." Gao Huan muttered: "Just now Xu Qingxian was obviously fighting to the death and preparing to escape. Since he was fleeing, he had to take away all the spiritual stones, and there were only a thousand of them in his storage bag. Yu Lingshi is obviously kept as a spare item. In that case, if you don’t take it with you, it is very likely that the property is not in Xu’s house, but is hidden in another place by him.”

"If you don't keep it with you, where can you put it? There is no chamber of commerce in Xingang that can store property!"

"Maybe there is another secret room that has not yet been discovered and is unknown."

"I think so too. Let's go back first!"

Naturally, they will not take the secret tunnel again this time. The three of them drove the magic weapon back to the Xu Mansion. Chu Xiuyan ordered everyone: "Search carefully for me again, don't miss every corner, and see if there is a secret room tunnel, that is. I have to dig three feet into the ground to find it. I don’t believe that Xu Qingxian will move the Xu Mansion’s property elsewhere. Jiang Zhu, gather all the maids and servants in the Xu Mansion and interrogate them one by one.”

Several people took the order and left. They searched inside and outside Xu's house but could not find any other secret rooms or tunnels.

At this time, several people from the Inspection Department who went to deal with the remaining members of the Xu family also returned one after another, including Xu Qingwan and Zhao Guang who went together.

Two of the six remaining members of the Xu family fled after receiving the news, and the remaining four were all executed.

Everyone gathered in the inner courtyard, and Chu Xiuyan asked: "Fellow Daoist Xu, you have been hiding in the Xu family for many years, do you know where the Xu family's property is hidden?"

Xu Qingwan said: "Only Xu Qingxian knows about this matter, and no one else is allowed to get involved. I am only in charge of the daily expenses of everyone in the house. As for the specific belongings of the Xu family, I really don't know."

Jiang Zhu gathered the maids and servants into the inner courtyard. Of course, there were also many secular people of the Xu family who did not have spiritual roots and could not practice, or who were still young and had spiritual roots. They were lined up neatly, hundreds of people. The rest of them were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, with desolate expressions and trembling.

When Xu Qingxian was fighting with everyone just now, they were hiding in every corner.

Several people from the Inspection Department interrogated them one by one. In fact, they could figure out without asking that these people were just affiliated with the Xu family, so how could they know such core secrets.

Sure enough, after some interrogation, nothing was found.

Jiang Zhu turned his right hand and took out a black round wheel. There were eight serrations around the wheel. It shone coldly under the sunlight. It was the eight gears of a high-grade magic weapon.

The eight gears turned into more than ten round wheels of the same shape and slashed towards everyone in the inner courtyard.

Seeing his movements, Tang Ning quickly formed seals with her hands, and earth walls of four feet high rose up from the ground, surrounding everyone in the Xu family in the center. This was an earth element technique, drawing the ground as a prison.

More than a dozen eight-wheel gears were slashed on the earth wall one after another, making a clanging sound, and made a few inch-deep gashes on the four earth walls. They circled in the air and merged into one before returning to Jiang Zhu's hands.

"Ah! Ah!"

Only then did everyone in the Xu family react. Women's high-pitched screams and children's cries came one after another, making it very noisy.

Chu Xiuyan frowned slightly: "Junior Brother Tang, what do you mean?"

Tang Ning said: "The Xu family's crime of colluding with the Demon Sect cannot be punished, but the chief culprit is Xu Qingxian. There are many monks in the Xu family who don't know about it. However, since Xu Qingxian is the head of the family, he represents the Xu family in every word and deed, so he must be punished." Monks deserve it. But these are worldly people, how can the affairs of the spiritual world affect them, and what is the crime for their maids and servants, who are not members of the Xu family and are not monks? "

"The sect ordered us to investigate this case. How to deal with it is the matter of the Inspection Department and has nothing to do with you." Jiang Zhu said in a very rude tone.

He was very angry. He was one of the disciples from the Inspection Section who came to investigate after He Wen's death. Not only did he find nothing, but he was also determined to be the Demon Sect. The investigation report and conclusion had been handed over to the Ministry. Unexpectedly, three months later, There was another conclusion that it was the Xu family who did it, which completely overturned his previous investigation conclusion, making him lose face and lose face in the department.

Among all the people in the Inspection Section, he suffered the most in this battle. The golden rope of the magic weapon was scrapped, and now Tangning openly fought against him. How could he not be angry?

Naturally, Tang Ning didn't know what he was thinking, so she said, "Senior Brother Jiang, what you said is wrong. I am the principal of this place, and the Xu family members are mortals in the place under my jurisdiction. How can their life and death have nothing to do with me?"

Jiang Zhu said angrily: "Tangning, have you thought clearly? Do you insist on obstructing the Inspection Department from handling the case?

Tangning was a little angry when he heard what he said, and argued: "Obstructing the Inspection Department from handling the case? It's such a big charge, so what if I obstruct it? Are you going to arrest me as well, Senior Brother Jiang? I'm afraid you don't have the right."

The Qianyi Sect is the only authentic Taoist sect in the Chu Kingdom. Many practitioners want their children to join it. However, the sect has very strict conditions for accepting disciples. Those with poor qualifications will not be accepted, and those with stains from the ancestors of the past three generations will not be accepted. Those who are sixteen will not be accepted.

Even if you join the sect, you may not be able to practice. You still have to go through the transition from the mortal world, which is a critical stage of life and death. Almost half of the disciples died in it. Therefore, one has to go through many tests before one can become his official disciple.

It is very difficult to become a disciple of the sect, so once you become a formal disciple, as long as it is not a particularly serious problem, the sect will not easily abolish the disciple status, and at most it will only give you a slight punishment. For example, when Tang Ning secretly sold medicinal herbs outside the sect, he was simply exiled to Jingbei. Moreover, this was only a private punishment by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was not reported to the sect.

If you want to convict a disciple of the sect of a crime, you have to go through three steps. First, Deacon Corey drafts the accusation and submits it to the courtyard, then gets the approval of the courtyard master and stamps it, and finally submits it to Xuande Hall.

A conviction can only be made after Xuande Palace interrogation and investigation.

As one of the subordinate departments of the Secret Academy, the Inspection Department has the power to enforce laws externally. It is only enforcing the law, and this law is enacted by the Xuande Palace. Of course, they have certain discretionary power when enforcing the law outside. If they suspect that a disciple within the sect is collaborating with the enemy, they can be forcibly detained and submitted to the Xuande Hall, which will conduct an investigation.

This is a power specially granted by the sect to law enforcement departments such as the Inspection Department, and there are clear regulations that disciples cannot be forcibly detained except in emergencies.

"The evidence of the Xu family's collusion with the Demon Sect and the murder of the sect disciple He Wen is conclusive. These people have worked in the Xu family for a long time and have close relationships with the Xu family. They can be regarded as subordinates of the Xu family and belong to the same party. Junior Brother Tang, you have to do your best to eliminate evil! If you stay, If he is afraid of future troubles, it is better to kill him. You don’t need to worry about this matter, leave it to us! And the Inspection Department has the power to make arbitrary decisions when the situation arises. This is our case," Chu Xiuyan said, at the critical moment. Naturally, he was speaking for his subordinates, and Tang Ning's words did not take the Inspection Department into consideration, which made him unhappy.

"These are just secular mortals. They have no spiritual roots and cannot practice cultivation in their lives. How can these people without the power to tie a chicken bring trouble to the sect? It has been nearly five thousand years since the sect was founded. Senior Brother Chu's words are too much. Underestimating the power of the sect, the Inspection Department has the power to make arbitrary decisions when the opportunity arises. I can also submit a letter to the sect. If Brother Chu insists on this, I request to write to the sect and ask the Xuande Hall for a ruling. Until the ruling is made, these people cannot be counted as the Xu family. If Senior Brother Jiang kills the rest of the party, he will be killing innocent people, and I will submit a written letter to Xuande Hall in detail."

Tang Ning argued that he was from a poor and lowly background, just like these maids and servants. Seeing their trembling figures and hearing their helpless wails and cries made him feel the same way. He had also experienced the whole village when he was a child. Being slaughtered, this situation is so similar.

All the inspectors looked unkind, and a cold light flashed in Chu Xiuyan's eyes: "Junior brother Tang is determined to stand up for these remnants of the Xu family and go against us? I would like to advise you, be a good man by being aware of current affairs, don't In a moment of enthusiasm, you will do something you will regret for the rest of your life.”

Tang Ning listened to his strange words and retorted bluntly: "Senior Brother Chu, don't you know that a gentleman does something and something he doesn't do? A man acts with a clear conscience, how can he bow his head for the pros and cons of the situation? How can he regret it?"

"What Junior Brother Tang said is reasonable. The head of the Xu family has been killed, and the rest are nothing more than chickens and dogs. What's more, these mortals are all ants. If they are left without harm, it shows that the sect is magnanimous and considerate of the common people. The family master is in charge of Chu. In Bianjing, there are many secular affairs, and I am often taught to act with benevolence and righteousness. If I am punished, I may be taught that I am not benevolent." Gao Huan suddenly said.