Chapter 1218

Arguing is arguing, and making a scene is making a scene, but business still has to be done.

Chen Guanlou took Pure Yang Zhenren into the capital and headed toward the residence of the Ji and Xia families.

"This case is already closed, and the people have been sentenced. Why is a Heavenly Prison Warden like you still obsessed with looking at Feng Shui? Could it be that you are also responsible for investigating cases?"

"I'm not responsible for investigating cases; I'm just satisfying my curiosity. Tonight I'll treat you to a night of revelry on a pleasure boat; how about that, is that fair enough? It's much better than those respectable women of yours."

"You don't understand the goodness of respectable women!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I don't understand! I only know that once the money and goods are exchanged, you pull up your pants and don't recognize the person, leaving no worries behind. Old Daoist, tell me the truth, do you have any idea how many bloodlines you have wandering outside?"

Upon hearing this, Pure Yang Zhenren was so angry he almost had a heart attack.

"Can you speak properly?"

"Then tell me, exactly how many bloodlines do you have?" Chen Guanlou was simply curious, wanting to see how wild the old Daoist had played when he was young.

Pure Yang Zhenren coughed lightly, his expression a bit smug. Actually, he really liked chatting with Chen Guanlou; there were no limitations on topics, he could talk about anything—white, black, yellow, the absurd things from his youth, his dark history—all could be spoken without any scruples or pressure.

He couldn't talk about these topics with his disciples or his peers.

When people get old, they like having someone to talk to to relieve boredom.

Although he was very angry, he was also truly relaxed! There was a feeling of returning to the unbridled indulgence of his youth. Moreover, being with Chen Guanlou, there was no sense of age constraint; he could fully reveal his true nature without having to hide or tuck anything away. He didn't need to put on airs, and even less did he need to be serious and act like a high-level Daoist.

He acted a bit coyly for a moment. "I reckon there are three or five, maybe six or seven."

Chen Guanlou gave a thumbs up. "The old Daoist is amazing! These three or five, six or seven bloodlines—none of them were raised by your side, and none were acknowledged?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Pure Yang Zhenren was extremely disdainful, disliking that the other party spoke too bluntly and not subtly at all. "They have fathers; what would be the point of acknowledging them? It would only cause trouble! And this Daoist has also kept an eye on them; they all take after their mothers and have no talent for learning the Dao. It's a pity for this Daoist's seed!"

How shameless!

Chen Guanlou clicked his tongue twice; the old Daoist had indeed played very wildly when he was young. Fortunately, at that time, the old Daoist was still holed up in his deep mountain base and hadn't made a name for himself, so he had no opportunity to provoke the daughters of powerful families. If he had provoked even one, he wouldn't have today's achievements and freedom.

The two walked and chatted, and soon arrived at their destination.

The houses of the Ji and Xia families were both sealed with government seals, which had never been torn open. It looked like Ji Chengqi hadn't moved in after the incident.

"Old Daoist, take a look. How is the Feng Shui of these two houses? One family had over a dozen people die, leaving only one lone seedling plus two married daughters. The other family had seven or eight die, with one left half-dead, one still away and not yet back, as well as a married daughter.

Old Man Xia shouted that the Ji family raised their foundation and raised their roof, pressing down on his family, which ruined his family's Feng Shui and stole his family's luck.

I feel that man was possessed; he was just finding an excuse for his own crimes, using this to believe his actions were righteous, psychologically absolving himself, and committing the extermination case with a clear conscience!"

Pure Yang Zhenren didn't make a sound, standing in front of the two houses with a solemn and serious expression.

Chen Guanlou clicked his tongue; had he spotted a problem?

Pure Yang Zhenren even took out a compass and walked around.

"Old Daoist, have you spotted something?"

"Don't make a sound!"

Pure Yang Zhenren walked around the two houses twice, calculating and counting silently.

Sure enough, as he said, the calculation was a bit slow.

After a long while, Pure Yang Zhenren finally said, "The house indeed has a problem. But the problem isn't with the Ji family's house, but the Xia family's."

"How so?"

"Under the Xia family's house, if nothing goes wrong, there must be an object buried, and it's not a good thing."

"Since the Xia family's house has the problem, why did the Ji family members die?" Chen Guanlou couldn't figure it out.

"This is cause and effect!" Pure Yang Zhenren was rarely serious. "I don't know what kind of person the Xia family provoked."

"Isn't this cause and effect a bit too far-fetched?"

"Far? These two families have been neighbors for generations; it must have been over a hundred years. The entanglement between the two families is far deeper than we imagine. The object is buried under the Xia family's house, and the two families are right next to each other, so the Ji family will naturally be affected too. Therefore, the extermination of these two families was only a matter of time!"

"What kind of object could cause two families to be exterminated?"

"We'll know once we dig it out."

Chen Guanlou avoided people and, according to Pure Yang Zhenren's guidance, dug out a dagger wrapped in cloth from under the Xia family's foundation.

This thing was what caused the two families to be exterminated.

"Don't touch it!" Pure Yang Zhenren shouted, then immediately changed his tone. "You are a Ninth Rank martial artist; a mere evil object can't hurt you, it might even fear you, so do as you please."

Chen Guanlou hummed twice; the old Daoist didn't have good intentions.

He only used a stick to touch it; he wouldn't use his hands.

"What's the story?" he asked the old Daoist.

Pure Yang Zhenren leaned in to take a look and said after deliberation, "This dagger has killed many people and is entangled with resentment, and having been buried underground for a long time, it's very evil! If an ordinary person touches it, at best they go bankrupt and get injured, at worst they lose their home and their life! This cloth strip has bloodstains on it; if this Daoist isn't mistaken, it's the menstrual blood of the most yin woman! The cloth strip wraps the dagger, making the dagger increasingly evil; over the years, it's no wonder it caused an extermination tragedy."

"A tiny dagger has such power?" Chen Guanlou was half-believing.

Pure Yang Zhenren was very dissatisfied with his attitude; he actually didn't believe his judgment—this is outrageous.

"Of course it's more than that. When this dagger was buried, a magic array must have been set up at the time. It's just that over the years, the array has been broken! Under normal circumstances, if no array had been set, it would take at least twenty or thirty years to exterminate two families. Look at this dagger, and look at the cloth strip; I estimate it hasn't been buried for more than ten years. In less than ten years, it exterminated two families; you tell me how deep that hatred must be?"

Chen Guanlou nodded, agreeing repeatedly.

He asked curiously, "In your judgment, was the person who buried the object aiming purely at the Xia family, or at both the Ji and Xia families?"

"It should have been aimed at the Xia family. Because the Ji family was too deeply entangled with the Xia family, they were implicated and suffered an unprovoked disaster. The two families' foundations are next to each other, wall to wall, and evil objects don't distinguish between you and me; as long as they are within range, no one will be well!"

Chen Guanlou observed the Xia family's house structure; it was a traditional residence with nothing special.

He boldly guessed, "The Xia family has quite a few people. To be able to bury an evil object under the noses of the Xia family members, it must have some connection to the Xia family, at least being able to enter the Xia family and move freely without being suspected. I even suspect it's a woman. After all, if a man did this kind of thing, I'm afraid he wouldn't think of using a menstrual cloth to wrap an evil object!"