Chapter 536

He He Lingchuan leaped into the cellar in one step; the suspect Wu Kai was lying on the ground, and the guard tried to support him, but his waist couldn't straighten up at all. Wu Kai vomited blood in large mouthfuls, and the blood was actually pale yellow.

"Remove the shackle!" He He Lingchuan gave an order, and the guard went to remove the runic shackle on the suspect.

Maybe it was nervousness or maybe it was anxiety, he didn't open it after a few tries.

He He Lingchuan pushed him away and slashed the shackle with his knife with a "bang."

The runic shackle fell off, and Wu Kai could use his true power; the array tattoo on his body lit up immediately. He stumbled toward the corner and grabbed many protective talismans to wear.

He He Lingchuan didn't stop him. This wine cellar was heavily guarded, and Wu Kai couldn't escape even if he were several times stronger.

After wearing the protective talismans, Wu Kai seemed to be able to breathe, panting heavily.

The internal organs were like being twisted, and even the throat seemed to be tightly strangled, unable to breathe.

Everyone had long been on guard; as soon as he had a situation, the guard standing here wanted to report it upward. But He He Lingchuan actually didn't trust anyone, so he had quietly placed eyeball spiders on the beams.

After all, this prisoner was too important.

He had discovered earlier than the guard that Wu Kai shook twice and suddenly fell ill.

Fu Fu Shanyue's curse master also rushed over, reached out to pry open Wu Kai's eyes to check, and saw many tiny insects wriggling under the whites of his eyes.

"Curse art! Cen Poqing has taken action against you." He He Lingchuan took out a mirror and aimed it at Wu Kai, letting him see his own condition. "Confess immediately, and we can save your life."

He had recently entered Panlongcheng and saw the lecture notices on the Questioning Immortal Hall's bulletin board, several of which were related to curse arts. The struggle between Panlongcheng and external enemies was in every aspect; Between Beijia even used biological warfare on the Red Plateau, so what was strange about curse arts and forbidden arts? So he had also accumulated a lot of experience in this regard.

He He Lingchuan hurried to listen and benefited a lot.

When borrowing books from the Literary Pavilion, the books on defensive curse arts were also placed in the most obvious position on the bookshelf.

How to cast spells and how to harm people wasn't said; but how to prevent and how to respond was set after set.

Now he had already known that this was Panlongcheng opening a convenient door for him, so he plunged into research.

He wouldn't say he had achieved small success, but at least he had entered the door and was no longer completely ignorant of curse arts.

Wu Kai raised his head and saw his forehead was pitch black, and pale yellow saliva uncontrollably flowed from between his teeth.

Cen Poqing truly had no composure, easily falling for the Crown Prince's sowing of discord! Now both of them would die.

Wu Kai was so angry he closed his eyes, panting non-stop: "If I confess, in the end, I will also... also die!"

This was the first sentence he had said since being caught.

"But your grandson can live, the Crown Prince guarantees it to you." He He Lingchuan looked at the curse master, and seeing the latter nod, he said quickly, "You have been dragging on time, thinking that the Grand Minister of Agriculture could send someone to turn things around, and both you and Cen Poqing could be preserved. In reality, the Douyun Envoy sent by the Demon Emperor arrived today, and the Heavenly God wants to strictly investigate the Immortality Pills; your whole family being smashed to pieces wouldn't be able to withstand the Heavenly God's thunderous rage!"

Wu Kai raised his head and stared at him fixedly.

"He is in the main hall of this inn, and will arrive in a few breaths." He He Lingchuan pointed to the top of the cellar. "If you nod now, he won't know that your grandson is also in our hands; but once the Douyun Envoy arrives, if you haven't agreed yet, the conditions I offered won't count. You have lived in Lingxu City for a long time, you know best what means the Heavenly God's envoy has. Once he comes, your whole family will die! And your grandson will definitely die before you."

Anyway, as the person in charge of hunting demons for pearls, Wu Kai's life certainly couldn't be saved in the end.

Die one, or die the whole family—he had to make a choice now.

"Even if we can save you this time, Cen Poqing failed to cast the curse, he will try again in the future, and there will always be a time when he succeeds." He He Lingchuan also said, "He treats you like this, have you thought it through? Do you really want to use your whole family's life to protect him?"

Wu Kai trembled all over, and two crescent-shaped jade talismans on his neck suddenly broke, and the exorcism talisman burned without fire, disappearing in an instant.

He vomited again.

This time the saliva was yellow and green, and it actually contained many small black ladybugs, the size of rice grains. He He Lingchuan had good eyesight and could see that the mouthparts of these ladybugs had been specialized into sharp stings, looking very good at drilling holes in the prey and then drilling in.

It seemed these ghosts originally wanted to attack Wu Kai's heart and lungs, but were suppressed halfway, and were attracted by the chicken blood, and were forcibly driven out.

They left Wu Kai's body, walked staggeringly for a few steps, then flipped over on their backs and didn't move.

These few peach wood nails were also bestowed by Fu Fu Shanyue.

That fellow looked no different from an ordinary person, always making people ignore that this guy's body was a Ba; for the way of evil spirits and ghosts, he naturally knew more than ordinary practitioners.

He He Lingchuan also said: "First hurt the liver, then hurt the gallbladder; the next two times are the lungs and heart." The curse master took out a few peach wood nails and pierced them into Wu Kai's Yutang acupoint and Yuzhen acupoint respectively. "This is taken from a three-hundred-year-old peach tree, growing toward the east, with the heaviest yang energy, but now it can only be slightly relieved. This kind of life-urging curse is generally five paths, one path more powerful than the other; if you can survive the first four paths—ordinary people can't survive at all—the fifth path is directly into the brain."

The curse master also called for a three-year-old rooster, cut its neck to take blood, and then prepared many medicines, and then took advantage of the heat to pour it into Wu Kai.

"Most evil things hate roosters and will come to eat their blood."

Drinking to the third mouthful, Wu Kai's expression also relaxed, no longer so tense.

Seeing this, the curse master let out a long sigh of relief.

This heavy criminal's life was considered saved, and his salary was also saved.

Moreover, Fu Fu Shanyue rarely praised him: "Fine, you did a good job this time."

Since the Crown Prince said so, there would definitely be a reward later.

Fan Sheng frowned: "Shouldn't curse killing be chosen at midnight, why would it be at this time?"

He He Lingchuan laughed: "Commander Fan's experience is quite rich."

The last time Cheng Yu used the Nightmare to ambush He He Lingchuan was at midnight, and it was guarded by Fan Sheng.

Fan Sheng was stung by his ambiguous words and felt angry, while Bai Bai Ziqi said: "It's dinner time now, the guards are relaxed, and the prisoner is shackled and has no strength to fight back, just the right time to take action."

He He Lingchuan nodded: "Lord Bai is wise, that's the reason!"

This side Fu Fu Shanyue was about to ask questions, when Wu Kai suddenly lay on the ground and vomited non-stop, even vomiting out the chicken blood he had just eaten.

There were many small black ladybugs in the blood, the size of rice grains. He He Lingchuan had good eyesight and could see that the mouthparts of these ladybugs had been specialized into sharp stings, looking very good at drilling holes in the prey and then drilling in.

It seemed these ghosts originally wanted to attack Wu Kai's heart and lungs, but were suppressed halfway, and were attracted by the chicken blood, and were forcibly driven out.

They left Wu Kai's body, walked staggeringly for a few steps, then flipped over on their backs and didn't move.

Immediately after, these small insects and the bird feathers that Wu Kai had just vomited all turned into black water under everyone's eyes, slowly seeping into the cellar floor.

Wu Kai lay on the ground panting, a bit exhausted.

Bai Bai Ziqi stood on one side watching, and then said: "These things are not real, they are just the embodiment of curse arts. But the damage to the suspect is not discounted at all."

The fierce tiger Jiao Yu immediately asked: "Can a curse master really take a person's life from a hundred miles away?"

"For a powerful curse master, they can." Bai Bai Ziqi answered casually, "But it also requires relevant conditions, it cannot be launched at will."

He He Lingchuan's heart moved: "This time the life-urging talisman was broken, will he suffer a backlash?"

A few days ago, Cheng Yu used the Nightmare to ambush He He Lingchuan but failed, and suffered a backlash and vomited blood; was this time going to be a repeat of the old dream? Bai Bai Ziqi looked at him with strange eyes: "You don't know?"

He He Lingchuan was slightly startled: Why would Bai Bai Ziqi ask this? His gaze swept over Fan Sheng on the side, and he felt something was wrong. Yes, Bai Bai Ziqi should have heard the whole process of Fan Sheng and him forming a grudge, Cheng Yu's failed ambush on He Xiao showed that He Xiao should also be a person of this way, with extraordinary means.

As a result, now that he asked an improper question, Bai Bai Ziqi immediately felt something was wrong.

This person was too sharp; if someone said one word wrong, he could find a loophole.

He had to be careful and more careful.

Bai Bai Ziqi withdrew his gaze, as if it were just a casual mention, and then asked Wu Kai urgently: "Is the mastermind of the messenger case Cen Poqing?"

Wu Kai swallowed hard: "... Yes."

"Does Cen Poqing or you have any more pulp pearls?"

"Yes." Wu Kai said in a low voice, "I buried the remaining pulp pearls under the locust tree at the entrance of Tower Lane."

Very good, there was physical evidence too.

"He ordered you to kill demons for pearls, was it to refine Immortality Pills?"

Wu Kai was very cooperative now: "Yes, but we only are responsible for hunting pulp pearls, someone else is responsible for refining the medicine."

"Who refines the medicine?"

"Twice a year, I send the blood pearls to the Qingfu Temple in Lingxu City, and I don't care about the follow-up."

"You don't know the other buyers?"

Wu Kai shook his head.

"Speak, do you know or not?"

"I don't know."

Bai Bai Ziqi paused, then asked: "Does the Grand Minister of Agriculture know about the dirty business you are doing?"

The answer to this question involved a wide range of people.

"We did it secretly, and the Grand Minister of Agriculture and his wife never asked, perhaps..." Wu Kai shrugged.

Bai Bai Ziqi wouldn't let him muddle through: "Then does the Grand Minister of Agriculture know, or not know?"

Wu Kai had to say: "I think, probably not."

He He Lingchuan buried his head in copying, just not making a sound.

Let the specialist from Lingxu City ask these deeper questions, he didn't intend to join in the fun.

"You provided false testimony for Fu Fu Songhua?"

"Yes." Wu Kai said bluntly, "Three years ago, Cen Poqing accidentally discovered that the fugitive Fu Fu Songhua, who murdered the Bingzhou Inspector, also lived in the northwest corner of Baishajuan, not far from the Cen Mansion."

"Walking by the river often, how can one not get their shoes wet?" Wu Kai smiled bitterly. "Cen Poqing was also afraid that things would be exposed one day, so he asked me to prepare false testimony, in case things were exposed, Fu Fu Songhua would take the blame."

"The source of the White-Shouldered Eagle messenger route you prepared to frame, who designated it?"

"Cen Poqing."

"Why?"