Chapter 108: Asking the Dao Immortal

According to the records, among the four commanderies of the shattered domain, Ningxi Commandery, governed by Xu Zhijie, had the largest area but the smallest population, with the people living in misery and grievances boiling everywhere. Xu Zhijie also raised a large-scale army, ranking first among the commanderies, but when facing the Wu tribe, they retreated steadily, often requiring the Xu family's main branch to come forward and unite with various sects and cave heaven forces to form a coalition army before they could drive the Wu Yu tribe back.

It was just that after years of war, the people were living in misery.

Just like this, Xu Zhijie served as Prefect for ten years, the territory within the commandery retreated two hundred li, the population decreased by eight hundred thousand, and it was unknown how many people secretly used the Wu Yu tribe's secret techniques to curse Xu Zhijie to die early. After that, the Xu family finally took action to take Xu Zhijie down, and then investigated various evil deeds such as eating empty pay, embezzling military supplies, and even colluding with foreign tribes. In the end, Xu Zhijie was sentenced to beheading, and his clansmen were exiled to the army.

After Xu Zhijie died, every household in Ningxi Commandery set off firecrackers to celebrate. But before half a year had passed, the Wu Yu tribe's army swept through the four commanderies of Ningxi, and after several struggles, this area became a shattered land.

Because Xu Zhijie committed many evil deeds, he was able to enjoy a separate section in the local gazetteer, with two hundred and twenty characters specifically written about his evil deeds and ending, for future generations to spit on.

The information issued by the Grand Void Palace was naturally verified and couldn't be fake. According to the information, Xu Zhijie was simply a typical official who harmed the entire commandery, and dying ten times wouldn't be too much. Ningxi Commandery originally had at least two million people, but after his ten-year term, only one million five hundred thousand remained.

But Xu Waner's words told another story.

Although Xu Zhijie was of the Xu family's direct line, he didn't accept the marriage arranged by the family, but married a commoner woman as his wife. This made the Miss of the Lu family's direct line, who was arranged in the original marriage, hold a grudge, and at the same time, several cousins in the clan were also jealous of Xu Zhijie's talent, so they united with the Miss of the Lu family to suppress and harm Xu Zhijie by all means.

Despite being suppressed, Xu Zhijie was quite capable, relying on his merits to be promoted all the way, finally promoted to Prefect of Ningxi, guarding the border. However, the forces in Ningxi Commandery were intertwined, and the shadows of the Xu family's branches were everywhere. Every Assistant Regional Commander in the army had someone behind them, and even the Provincial Military Commander couldn't command them, let alone Xu Zhijie. Eating empty quotas and embezzling military supplies were all done by these people; Xu Zhijie couldn't intervene at all, and couldn't even see the military supply accounts.

Relying on his wrist, after years of effort and paving the way, Xu Zhijie finally took down four of the eight Assistant Regional Commanders. At the same time, he also severely cracked down on large households annexing land, investigated and dealt with several large landlords, took the land back to the commandery government, and then distributed it to landless poor people to farm. Several measures offended the Xu family's branches almost everywhere, especially since one of the landlords even had someone serving as an official in the Western Jin court. They constantly impeached Xu Zhijie and splashed all kinds of dirty water on him.

And a few days before being convicted, Xu Zhijie hurriedly found Xu Waner, passed on a brilliant cultivation technique that could hide the Dao Foundation, and gave several magic tools that could save her life. Then Xu Zhijie said he had accidentally discovered a shocking secret, was in the process of investigating it, and gave Xu Waner a piece of jade paper, telling her to keep it well, and then go to Lan Shen Palace to avoid disaster.

As a result, before Xu Waner had time to leave, a large group of people of unknown identity killed their way into the Prefect's mansion that night, killing everyone they saw. Xu Waner relied on the cultivation technique that could hide the Dao Foundation to escape in the chaos, and later met Yun Feifei on the road, which was how she killed the pursuers.

After that, not long after, news came out that Xu Zhijie had been convicted and imprisoned, and many charges were announced. The people were already living in misery and didn't know the truth, so they hated Xu Zhijie to the extreme. Those who had received Xu Zhijie's kindness didn't dare to speak, and those who dared to question were arrested and defined as Xu Zhijie's accomplices. Just like this, less than a month after being convicted, Xu Zhijie was publicly beheaded. When he was beheaded, the execution ground was crowded with people, and the eggs and stinky meat thrown covered Xu Zhijie.

Little Wei Yuan listened with suspicion.

This matter indeed had many doubts. For example, both the conviction and execution were too fast. Xu Zhijie was also a heavy official in one place; under normal circumstances, just the conviction would take several months at the fastest, and then it would have to be reviewed by various departments of the imperial court, reported to the Prince of Jin for approval, and then he could be beheaded. Xu Zhijie was beheaded in less than a month from the crime to the execution, which likely had hidden circumstances.

But Little Wei Yuan came here to take Yun Feifei back to the palace, not to appeal for Xu Zhijie. To put it bluntly, the Tinghai Xianjun's move was much more important than the grievance of a Prefect, whether true or false.

Xu Wenwu listened while vomiting on the side, and as he listened, he was full of indignation, wanting to attack the ills of the times and express his own views. It was just that as soon as he opened his mouth, he was tied up by Little Wei Yuan with a Dao technique rope again. After pondering, Little Wei Yuan asked: "What did your father give you that night?"

Xu Waner recalled carefully and said: "The paper was full of very trivial records, with field and household data of more than a dozen counties in the commandery and neighboring commanderies, probably spanning several decades. There were many records of military camp soldier and grain mobilization, records of merchant caravans coming and going, a dozen account books, and money bank silver in and out, all looking very ordinary. I didn't understand what these meant either, and my father didn't tell me at the time, only telling me to find a way to bring them to Lan Shen Palace."

Little Wei Yuan didn't have a clue after listening. At this time, the time for Xu Wenwu's Dao technique mouth seal passed, and he immediately said impatiently: "These records seem chaotic, but there must be a connection! As long as we analyze carefully and find the laws among them, we can..."

Little Wei Yuan pointed his hand, and the rope tied Xu Wenwu's mouth again.

After talking about her life experience for a while, Xu Waner had long been tearful. She suddenly bowed to Little Wei Yuan and said: "My three brothers and two sisters all died at the hands of those people, and they died very miserably. As long as the benefactor can clear my father's name, this lowly woman has nothing to repay, only..."

"It's time to set off." Little Wei Yuan stood up.

Xu Waner stared at Little Wei Yuan with resentment.

Little Wei Yuan didn't get on the horse immediately, but found a flat ground, first drew a formation diagram on the ground, then placed spiritual objects in various positions, and finally placed a small formation disk in the center of the formation diagram. He pointed his hand at the formation disk, and a figure appeared in the center of the formation disk, with white whiskers fluttering, quite having the bearing of an immortal.

This formation diagram was called the Turbid World Asking Immortal Method, which Little Wei Yuan learned in the Art Theory Institute, used to divine the good or bad luck of a specific action. Normally, the divination results were very vague, and could only roughly distinguish between good and bad luck. The accuracy of divination was affected by the caster's own status, the quality of spiritual objects, and the divination object. The higher the status of the content to be divined, the more vague the result.

This was a very elementary divination method, the advantage being that it was simple and easy to use, had no harsh requirements for the environment, and didn't need offerings. Now, checking Feng Shui before every major event had become Little Wei Yuan's habit, especially now that he had the Tinghai Xianjun's formation disk in his hand, divination was exceptionally favorable.

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Little Wei Yuan saw the immortal figure in the formation and knew the formation was successful, so he silently recited in his heart: "Going to Lan Shen Palace this time, what risks do I have?"

Little Wei Yuan specifically limited the divination to himself. Xu Waner was easy to talk about, but Xu Wenwu came from another world, and although he was unlearned and skillless, his Qi Luck was strange, so he didn't know what the result would be if he put him in.

After silently reciting, Little Wei Yuan continuously input Dao power. The white-whiskered immortal figure had always been smiling, but suddenly his smiling face turned into a bitter one, his head turned black, a bird claw pierced his chest, and his whole body was covered in pus and blood, turning into a puddle of rotten mud in the blink of an eye.

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