Chapter 294

"The Daoist is a practitioner of the Dao. I heard that practitioners of the Dao must cultivate their hearts, and there is also the saying that a gentleman is benevolent and therefore stays away from the kitchen." Luo Seng held a little apprentice in one hand and said to him, "I interrogate them, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be things that people can't bear to see. Not to mention affecting the Daoist's state of mind, even if you can't eat after seeing it, it's not a good thing, so it's better to stay further away."

"There is indeed such a saying. However, there are thousands of paths to seek the Dao, this is one of them, but it is not the one we take."

Lin Jue said to Luo Seng.

He naturally is not afraid to see this kind of thing, but this kind of thing is also something that can be seen or not seen.

"Since Lord Luo said so, it's just right, we have other things to do." Lin Jue said, "That demon Daoist used this cloth bag to catch women and take essence and blood, and then threw the corpses in the wilderness, which is quite convenient. Therefore, Lord Luo, interrogate these two here, we will go to his residence to see if there are any other women he kidnapped and locked up."

"That's fine."

Lord Luo nodded: "What about that Master Fan?"

"Fellow Daoist Fan is proficient in this way, no need to worry." Lin Jue said, "Since the person has been caught, we will each do our own things."

"Hmm."

Lord Luo told them the location, then watched them leave with a calm face.

After they left, he looked at the two people in the corner of the room.

It was already morning.

Many onlookers had already stood outside the government office.

Master Fan, followed by an old servant, passed through the crowd and walked to the entrance of the government office, couldn't help but look back and look left and right.

According to the original arrangement, it should have been him, Fellow Daoist Lin, and Lord Luo coming together to check the corpses of the women. Later, Fellow Daoist Lin didn't come, and Lord Luo was going to come with him. Unexpectedly, for some reason, only he came here at this time.

What will he see?

However, the news had already spread, so he naturally couldn't not come. That might not only make the people of the capital guess wildly and be unable to feel at ease, but also damage his and Fellow Daoist Lin's reputation.

Similarly, since he came, he couldn't not look.

Master Fan was also puzzled in his heart, but his face was very calm, even with an indifferent smile, talking and laughing with the people around him.

"Seen Master Fan!"

"No need for courtesy."

"Can Master Fan find the demon?"

"Everyone, rest assured, we will definitely find it."

Master Fan's demeanor remained calm, and he didn't even raise his tone, as if he was sure of this, and as if this was just a trivial matter for him.

Actually, he knew that at this time and place, perhaps the person or demon who harmed people was hidden in the crowd, looking at himself anxiously and uneasily, and how anxious and uneasy that person was, and whether they could reveal flaws, was actually closely related to the confidence he was performing at this moment.

The middle-aged Daoist smiled slightly, and he was like an immortal, making people believe that nothing in this world could stump him.

"This poor Daoist only needs to take one look at those women to know where the murderer is. From now on, in this capital, there will never be similar things happening again."

This sentence was for the trust of Lin Jue and Lord Luo.

Today was originally a play for three people, but the other two leads were absent one by one. He didn't know the situation and had no way, so he had to perform alone.

Fortunately, this was his specialty.

So, led by the soldiers, he walked into the morgue, his face unchanged, checking the female corpses one by one. During this time, he nodded and frowned from time to time, and showed a look of understanding, and then his eyes shone, and he muttered in his mouth.

No one knew what this Master was chanting, only showing awe.

Before long, Master Fan walked out of the morgue and left calmly with the old servant.

The remaining soldiers were surrounded by the people, asking about the process inside. Many people listened to their narration, even if it was chaotic and vague, and there was no description of the storyteller in the teahouse, but they felt as if they had seen the immortal casting spells with their own eyes, both relieved and satisfied with the curiosity in their hearts.

Lin Jue and his junior sister arrived at the thin, tall Daoist's residence.

That thin, tall Daoist pretended to be a doctor sitting in a clinic in the city, pretending to be very similar, so that the courtyard was full of medicinal materials, and the house was full of the smell of medicinal materials.

Lin Jue first ignored these things, but walked toward each room one by one. If the door was not locked, he kicked the door open, observed and entered. If it was locked, he waved his sleeve to hit the door open, and then observed and entered.

The fox followed by his side, tilting its head to look at him, eyes showing thought, then turned its head to look around the courtyard.

"Here!"

The fox turned and ran toward the woodshed.

"Bang!"

Lin Jue followed it closely, waving his sleeve to hit the wooden door open.

The fox poked its head to look. After the dust fell, it went straight in. When Lin Jue followed it in, he saw it standing in the middle of the empty room, looking up at him, and then looking down.

"In the hole!"

"In the hole? Cellar?"

Lin Jue followed its gaze and looked at the floor.

Worthy of being a hole-digging fox!

Although there was wood-escape, he didn't rashly use this method to enter, but groped for a while, soon finding the cellar entrance—lifting a layer of floor, a hole suddenly appeared in the middle of the house, an old and rotten wooden ladder extended downward, leading to the darkness.

A long sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.

"Persuade you to frown."

As the voice came out, a slight sobbing sound immediately appeared below, which could be heard to be a woman's voice.

Lin Jue tucked the long sword under his ribs, rubbed his hands, whispered a spell, and then held his hands to his mouth, blowing toward the bottom.

I don't know where a piece of fireflies came from, much brighter than ordinary fireflies, suddenly blown out from his cupped hands, forming countless light spots, like a brilliant galaxy, flowing toward the dark cellar below.

This is the Seventh Third Third Shixiong's play, rotten grass becomes fireflies.

Under the illumination of countless fireflies, nothing unusual was seen. If anyone acted or cast spells, they would inevitably disturb the fireflies. Between the flow of starlight, he would be able to detect it.

Only then did Lin Jue walk in with his sword.

But he saw that there were no other mechanisms inside, and no ambush, only two women, one lying on the ground, already a dry corpse, one sitting against the wall, sobbing, many firefly starlight flying and spinning around them.

And the cellar was not ventilated, and the stench was unpleasant.

Lin Jue waved a clear wind to disperse the stench.

There were only these two women in the cellar.

One had already lost her life, and one was sitting by the wall, her eyes empty. At first, because of the Daoist's sentence "Persuade you to frown," she cried sadly. At this time, after the magic power passed, she returned to a smiling but not smiling expression.

"Sigh..."

Lin Jue sighed and brought them out.

His junior sister stayed outside, looking at all the medicinal materials in the courtyard.

"Third Shixiong brother, found anyone?"

"There are two." Lin Jue said, "And one is alive."

"Oh..."

His junior sister was silent for a while, then said: "I looked at the medicinal materials he dried, most of them are ordinary medicinal materials, but some rare medicinal materials and heavenly materials and earthly treasures were mixed in, which might be collected for refining beauty-preserving pills. I didn't find anything else good."

"Good."

"Should I report to the officials?"

"Naturally."

"Then I'll go."

His junior sister went to report to the officials, while Lin Jue waited here.

After the officials came, the two left with the medicinal materials.

There was a piece of wailing and screaming in the courtyard. It is said that even pedestrians passing by on the street outside could hear it, and all felt cold because of it.

When Lin Jue returned here, Wan Xinrong and Master Fan had also returned.

"True Person Lin, I guarded outside the morgue of the government office for a day and a night, and there was no movement. No one came to destroy the corpses, and no one came to check, until Master Fan came to check the corpses today, and I followed Master Fan back." Wan Xinrong said.

"That means they are very smart." Lin Jue said, "It doesn't matter, the harmful Daoist has already been caught and beheaded by us outside the city."

"Wan heard Lord Luo say it."

Wan Xinrong said so, suddenly stood up, with a thud, actually knelt on the ground facing Lin Jue.

"True Person Lin has a great kindness to Wan. Wan doesn't have much ability, but from now on, he is willing to listen to True Person Lin's dispatch at will! To serve like a dog or horse!"

"Too heavy! Please get up quickly!"

Lin Jue naturally hurriedly pulled him up.

His junior sister sat on the side silently watching, and counted secretly in her heart: Master Fan one, Lord Pan one, and this Fellow Daoist Wan, senior brother hasn't been in this capital for long, but the Daoist brothers he has accepted are getting more and more.

After a while, Lord Luo walked out, seemingly he had just taken a bath and changed his clothes.

"Did Lord Luo ask it out?"

"Naturally."

Luo Seng was still full of whiskers and calm, saying to them: "It's hard to say other things, they can't touch them either. Only knowing that they harmed women and took essence and blood, all were sent to a place called Jingyun Temple fifty miles outside the city, it should be refined into pills there."

"Jingyun Temple?"

Wan Xinrong gritted his teeth and said first.

Not being able to kill the enemy with his own hands last night was his biggest regret.

"Jingyun Temple?" Master Fan was much more stable, "That is one of the largest Daoist temples around the capital, second only to Guanxing Palace and Yushan Baiqing Palace. Even the Emperor and the Imperial Consort have been there. I'm afraid the Ministry of Rites and Juxian Mansion will not easily go to check, let alone take action against them."

"What skills do those Daoists have?" Lord Luo asked.

"Jingyun Temple is not a Fulu Sect, nor a Lingfa Sect, and it seems to be a bit of both. This poor Daoist also doesn't know how their skills are, they shouldn't be very high." Fan said, "But after all, it is a large Daoist temple for hundreds of years, and it involves a lot."

"The roots are many and chaotic, it is suitable for a quick saber to cut!"

Luo Seng said calmly, and aimed at them, especially Lin Jue and his junior sister:

"However, you are all people of Juxian Mansion in the capital, Daoist Lin still has to stay in the capital for a long time, and Daoist Liu also lives outside the capital, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to show up and take action. If not, even if you hold onto your skills and are not afraid of thousands of troops, you won't be able to stay in the capital. This kind of thing still needs to be done by me, the guardian."

"Lord Luo, calm down." Master Fan said immediately.

"Wan is willing to follow Lord Luo!" Wan Xinrong said.

"Luo is calm enough, but people in the Jianghu, how can they be tied by the imperial court and the law? If so, Luo is still a county commandant now, what Jianghu are you mixing in?"

"But you can plan slowly."

"This is also a path, but it is not the one Luo takes."

"This..."

Master Fan stopped talking.

Lin Jue looked at Lord Luo calmly.

Actually, they both knew clearly that even if it was that Jingyun Temple that instructed the thin, tall Daoist to harm women and collect essence and blood, they got the essence and blood and refined it into pills, they still had to give it to others.

Even Lord Luo might not have really asked it out from those two people.

It's just that those people are too unusual...

Not to mention Lin Jue and Lord Luo, even the Yili Shenjun, or the True Lord in the north, I'm afraid they can't personally take action to kill them.

Lord Luo was right this morning—

Some things still need to wait for tomorrow.

But before tomorrow comes, we must first eliminate these alchemy people.

This kind of thing should be a quick saber to cut the chaotic hemp.

If Juxian Mansion is unwilling, don't ask Juxian Mansion. If the imperial court doesn't allow it, don't ask the imperial court. The imperial order cannot be violated, so grab it before the imperial order. People in the Jianghu, people outside the world, how can they be tied by these frameworks?

And actually Fan was also right.

With Master Fan's ability and status, if he masters the evidence and plans slowly, maybe he can really topple that Jingyun Temple bit by bit.

But as Lord Luo said—

That is also a path, but it is not the one he takes.

His path is under the saber, on the horse.

Lin Jue's path is in magic.

Naturally, he should borrow a little chivalry from Lord Luo, so that he can also feel the freedom of the Jianghu once.