Chapter 369: Scripture Library

"So, you haven't seen him for ten years?"

"No." Shi Shaosheng shook his head, "We also don't know what step he has reached now... Many young disciples don't even know that we still have a real Sect Master."

"Contact?"

"Every year when we worship the ancestors, we pass in a message. Generally, within three days, he will have a reply, but in recent years, the reply has become slower and slower."

Wu Chou nodded lightly. After a while, he suddenly said hoarsely: "Do you think your sect's Sect Master knows about the parasitic poison of the Huan Si Lou in Kongdong?"

"..." The room was silent for a while, and no one answered.

But the old man just waited quietly.

"But it is also 'alive', possessing the same original spirituality as those sword flows, only the 'patterns' on its body are different, so it seems like an individual wandering outside the group."

"Which peak master is in charge of money in the pavilion?"

But 【Pulling Silk】 didn't succeed after all. Not only was the main body missing, but this array pattern was first of all incompatible with this foreign sword.

The appearance of the sword dragon that Zhang Meiqing encountered floated before his eyes. Pei Ye almost stopped in his tracks—the sword flow that Zhang Meiqing encountered was a sword flow that had already completed sword practice.

It seemed to be just to confirm it like this. In the face of this majesty, Pei Ye couldn't ask much, just continued downward: "What is the purpose of the other party casting such a sword?"

"Yes, it is a magical tool." Sui Zaihua said, "It used a magical tool to achieve a part of the function of the array technique."

But Pei Ye at least believed one point—such a calm and sharp man would absolutely not rashly rush into danger while holding secrets.

"And it is consistent with the temperament of the Soul-Snatching Bead." Sui Zaihua stroked the long sword and handed it back, "The Crane Inspector and I said you have a 【Chi Fire】, which can just probe into it, trying to probe the hidden array patterns."

Sui Zaihua nodded: "After checking the Lianxin Pavilion, I am also going to Yuanwu Peak—it seems you have a special errand?"

"Go, since Zhang Meiqing is used to recording, you might as well go to the Scripture Library to take a look." The old man only left a sigh, "The wind and rain are coming, I am also busy."

Sui Zaihua took it and examined it carefully. Pei Ye told him one by one about the case of killing Ji Feng seven years ago and ruining Yan Caiyue seven years later.

"Good." Wu Chou held his sword and turned around first, "Then let's go."

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Pei Ye followed behind and walked out of the courtyard, watching them leave.

Of course, copying and copying so rigidly onto this sword had no effect, because the array pattern needed to be compatible with the carrier. As long as the material, shape, etc., of the carrier changed slightly, the lightness, length, arrangement, etc., when carving had to be adjusted accordingly. Therefore, the "meditative feeling of physical nature" before carving the array was the most difficult ability to replace.

"Or it is a bee collecting honey." Sui Zaihua stroked the long sword, "Do you know, 【Pulling Silk】 is just a connection. Sometimes the distinction between host and guest is not clear. The host can control the guest through 【Pulling Silk】, and if the guest moves autonomously, the host will also get feedback without any difference."

Pei Ye looked at him.

He looked around at everyone: "Do the other peak masters also disagree?"

The youth brought his thoughts back to his own affairs.

Pei Ye was stunned: "Yes."

Instead, he chose to go outside and detour to the Golden Jade Studio?

What made him so cautious?

Pei Ye remembered the corpse at the bottom of the lake mentioned by Wu Chou, and didn't dare to make a conclusion for a while.

"Sir Sui has already done these things." Wu Chou said, "Two quarter-hours ago."

He saw a skirt shadow just now. It was Xu Shang who came to the Law Enforcement Hall and had gone to the small courtyard to take care of Zhang Jingbi's injuries.

"Isn't that..."

The man who was immersed in the vessel path saw a fact from it—"This will definitely use a lot of Heart Amber."

"... It is Uncle-Master Xiao."

"Hmm." Sui Zaihua nodded slightly, his eyes turned, and he smiled faintly, "Young Hero Pei."

Pei Ye rubbed the sword hilt in his hand unconsciously... suddenly a realization.

Sure enough, a layer of subtle and hidden patterns gradually emerged in his perception. They were cast in gold and iron, and could not be detected without the sharp spirituality of 【Chi Fire】...

"Now carve it out." Sui Zaihua asked someone else for a sword, which was a style bought from somewhere, "Just use this flame."

Wu Chou told the youth that he had caught the traces of the Huan Si Lou in the government office after seeing this clue, because he had a memory of the first appearance of this kind of vessel pattern—it came from the Vessel Office of the government office more than ten years ago.

This sword with obvious old intention was indeed "clean" to the point of being ordinary, which was also the reason why the Law Enforcement Hall didn't find anything unusual on it immediately after the incident.

"What investigation are you referring to?"

Pei Ye remembered that he wrote down his findings firmly in his last words.

After clarifying this point, did the man choose to investigate the source of the Heart Amber?

"... If it is important, it should be kept by you."

"Since we detained... Xiao Tingshu, we naturally have to follow the investigation of Yuanwu Peak and the Lianxin Pavilion orders he handled, so that we can know whether he colluded with the enemy!"

In every night before, he wrote down his findings in detail, so how could he leave without saying goodbye when he was about to travel far, sinking into the bottom of the lake with a stomach full of secrets?

He didn't dare to tell his wife anything about these dangerous things, so where did he leave them?

As a peak master, perhaps it was not difficult for him to find out Kongdong's secret procurement of this material, but he didn't dare to trace along this line to check who promoted this procurement in the sect?

Pei Ye paced, already far away from the candlelight of the Law Enforcement Hall, and suddenly his gaze paused. A black-clothed, gray-haired figure entered his field of vision, with a single sword tied to his waist.

Long time no see, the old man was still so upright and spirited, with a majestic temperament, flipping through a booklet and talking in a low voice with two executives.

Pei Ye couldn't guess the man's thoughts at the time, but there was indeed an indisputable clue before him—Zhang Meiqing knew 【Pulling Silk】.

Before that late night, Ji Feng had already been soul-snatched and his sword taken, and Qu Zhu had already taught "it" "White Rainbow Chapter" in some unknown hut, in

Why does the sword flow use so many Heart Ambers?

Pei Ye remembered the events in 【Illuminating the Nether】; that night, "living spirits" were born from nothingness, clearly without using any such materials.

—"When fighting it, it felt like returning to those afternoons practicing the sword with you, Little Feng."

"You don't know what this extremely expensive procurement is?" It was the old man's familiar, steady voice. "Then who approved the order?"

"Concealing the array patterns is naturally to allow this sword to appear before people." Sui Zaihua said in a low voice, "As for the use... I think they were forged not to kill anyone at any one or two specific moments."

Scripture Repository.

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, then suddenly enlightened. That's right, how could someone as earnest as Zhang Meiqing leave behind only those messy, scattered drafts? Before leaving Kongdong, he must have organized all the discoveries he had made over the past few days, and it must have been more detailed than what he and Xu Shang had organized.

"Kongdong's determination to eradicate evil is unbending." This elderly Peak Master said softly, "Since we don't know where the mistake lies, we will just start searching from the beginning."

"." Xie Guangying could not hold back and stood up, saying in a deep voice, "Inspector Wuhe, we still have many investigations to conduct. Our Sect Master has been pondering for ten years; perhaps he is at a critical juncture!"

Xie Guangying had been keeping his head down, but at this, he was startled: "Go where?"

Thus Sui Zaihua smiled, shook his head, and said: "The 【Heart-Severing Glaze】 is on you; where are we your match now?"

Looking up, the cold moon was rising high and small; the night had deepened to the extreme.

In other words, now one would need to take an identical Kongdong sword, and Pei Ye would have to replicate the array patterns onto it for it to have any effect.

"Inspector Wuhe has already gone to Sword Belly Mountain?"

Pei Ye smiled embarrassedly, then told the old man his deductions and doubts regarding Zhang Meiqing's affair. At the end, he handed the sword in his hand over: "Official Sui, I remember you have some attainments in the Dao of Artifacts; could you take a look at what is peculiar about this sword?"

Pei Ye was startled first, then horrified, remembering the record in the sound-writing paper again—before the "Soul-Snatching Bead" appeared, they had safer ways to obtain sword techniques.

Pei Ye was startled for a moment, then obediently sent the Chi Fire inside, gradually spreading it to the entire sword body.

"Alright." Sui Zaihua looked at the patterns emerging in dark blue on this sword. "It is indeed 【Thread-Pulling】, carved very well."

"Naturally, it is Sword Belly Mountain." Wu Dong raised his eyes to look at him. "Go and pay a visit to your Sect Master."

But at the very instant this sword fell into his eyes, the youth realized with a start—the sword flow he saw tonight was different from the sword flow Zhang Meiqing saw back then.

That is why they need to use Heart Ambers. Even though Pei Ye knew very little about the Dao of Artifact Arrays, he had gradually realized the construction logic of this sword array—those demon swords themselves could not memorize sword techniques; this was the ability bestowed upon them by 【Heart Amber】 and 【Thread-Pulling】.

Pei Ye frowned as he looked at the sword: ". Official Sui, I don't see any array patterns at all."

Pei Ye had no choice but to bite the bullet and try hard to outline them. He had to admit that even just following the pattern, this was an extremely difficult task to complete. Fortunately, the 【Chi Fire】 was indeed as obedient as an arm, and he had previously had the experience of outlining the 【Other Shore Treasure Raft】. After many mistakes, all the subtle and exquisite details of the 【Thread-Pulling】 array pattern finally gradually appeared on this sword.

Pei Ye was stunned. Unlike when he had traced the array patterns from his memory before, using Chi Fire to outline patterns required the input of one's entire spirit and inspiration, because these were strokes that moved the spiritual mystery.

Pei Ye walked straight to this courtyard. Pushing the door open, he saw the woman holding the youth and weeping in a low voice. The youth, with a pale face, was instead gently patting his mother's shoulder.

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"Calm your heart and steady your breath." The old man said calmly.

Sui Zaihua nodded gently. After a long while, he said softly: "I have seen the array patterns you traced from those demon swords."

"This sword is different from them." Sui Zaihua fixed his expression and held the sword horizontally in front of the youth. "In this sword, there is only 【Thread-Pulling】, without that set of 'Star Insect' array patterns."

Sui Zaihua waved his hand: "You keep it. This is an object related to Sword Belly Mountain; as a link in the array, perhaps it will be useful at some point."

"This is a special technique for outlining arrays." Sui Zaihua nodded. "Different from carving array patterns after the sword is forged, this one should have had the patterns outlined inside while it was being melted and forged."

"I agree." In the silence, Shi Shaosheng spoke again.

The two Daos of Artifacts and Arrays were combined so effortlessly. Pei Ye pursed his lips: "This kind of forging technique..."

For a moment, no one spoke. Even though they were prepared to cooperate with the Immortal Platform in investigating themselves, going straight into the core of Sword Belly Mountain to question the Sect Master who had been in closed-door meditation for ten years was almost the most core and important secret of the entire Kongdong.

The eerie scene described in the "sound-writing paper" flooded his mind in an instant. In that cabin that night, there had never been a third person.

Wu Dong nodded, picked up his sword, and stood up: "Then let's go."

He looked down; in his hand was still that Kongdong sword passed down from Ji Feng. Since he had held it in his hand, it had not had any abnormal reactions.

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Pei Ye stood still and bowed: "Hello, Official Sui, long time no see."

Pei Ye knitted his brows: "Then—"

After a long while, Shi Shaosheng said in a low voice: "Inspector Wu, we... have also not seen him for ten years."

He believed that Zhang Meiqing must have been clear about everything he had just heard. So, when he saw that sword serpent in the deep night seven years ago, what was he thinking in his heart?

Pei Ye looked quietly at the deep, thick fog behind the cliff. That man had long known that without the support of the Lotus Heart Pavilion, the other party could not have laid such a murderous trap in Kongdong. Now, this sword serpent clearly had a thousand threads of connection with Sword Belly Mountain... and at that time, Bai Tianqu had already been in closed-door meditation for three years.

"It wasn't written, Inspector, but it must have passed through the Lotus Heart Pavilion."

It was not until the old man beside him closed the scroll and picked up his sword that Pei Ye suddenly came back to his senses: "Official Sui! Why don't you keep this sword? If you have any free time, you can study it a bit more."

Pei Ye deeply felt that engraving array patterns on a sword was truly a brand-new experience.

"Peak Master Xie, you may be friendly with Xiao Tingshu and are anxious to clear his name. But an investigation is not a trial; evidence can be checked slowly later. Right now, Xiao Tingshu is a criminal in my eyes, and I am anxious to find his accomplices and instigators. Can you understand?" Wu Dong looked at him calmly. "I must make a trip to Sword Belly Mountain immediately to know what role Xiao Tingshu played in this matter."

Such a set of brush and ink, the man would definitely have found a way to put it into the Iron Scripture Repository!

But the volumes were vast...

Pei Ye frowned and took two steps toward the direction of the distant fog shadows, then suddenly stopped.

Hearing the door move, Xu Shang looked up with tear stains, her eyes suddenly widening, and she choked out: "Young Hero Pei! Thank you, you saved Jingbi's life. I don't know how to repay you—"

"I have a matter to request of the Peak Master." Pei Ye hurriedly returned the bow. "May I borrow the 'Blue Bird' at the Peak Master's waist for a moment?"

(End of chapter)