1.

In front of you, there is a real mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

Although he had sealed his sense of smell, Lin Xiao could still feel the foul smell of blood constantly coming to his face.

Lin Xiao took Hongchen in his hand, sometimes waved his hand and turned around a few times, and sometimes gently tapped his forehead with the hilt of his sword, which was his usual action when he thought about the problem.

After entering the Qiwu Feather Residence, the situation was far more shocking than the results they had expected before—the murderer sealed this place with a Locking Spirit Array, and then wiped out the entire Liaoyuan Family in an absolutely barbaric way.

Such a horrific massacre was not known to anyone from the outside world, from the various sects and sects in the cultivation realm to the people of Li in Ningcheng!

"How's it going?" Lin Xiao asked, as Ling Ying searched from the backyard.

Ling Ying stretched out his hand towards Lin Xiaoyi, revealing his five fingers, which were covered with patches of dark red blood. "It's dried up bloodstains, both splattered on the walls and pooled in low-lying places. But most of them are on the ground, taking on a trailing shape. ”

"Drag-like bloodstains?" Lin Xiao frowned.

"There were no bodies in the backyard at all. Ling Ying was not too dirty, and as she spoke, she wiped the blood stains on her hands on the hem of her robe twice. "It depends on the situation, there must have been some clean-up work. The murderer should have counted the number of people to prevent mistakes and omissions, so the bodies of the people killed in the backyard were all gathered in front. ”

Lin Xiao nodded thoughtfully: "That is to say, all the people up and down the Liaoyuan family are all here!"

"The killer did a near perfect job. Ling Ying looked at the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood in front of him, and there was no lack of horror in his tone. "I borrowed the Lock Spirit Array to kill all the people unknowingly, and then sealed this place with the Mira Illusion. Now that there is no proof of death, even if we want to investigate deeply, we have no clue. ”

Lin Xiao and Ling Ying are both the youngest golden generation in the Purple Sun Divine Sect today, but at this moment, even if they are extraordinary and witty, they can't help but be a little helpless in the face of this situation that has almost become a dead end.

The atmosphere lasted for a long time in a stiff silence.

"Can you try to be psychic?" Lin Xiao was the first to break the silence.

Ling Ying glanced at the flying snow in his hand: "The people of the Liaoyuan family have all received the requiem ceremony, and they will not form resentful spirits. Hongchen must have told you this when he was in the Miluo Fantasy Realm. ”

Lin Xiao said in a deep voice: "But even if it is a normal soul, it has to follow the rules of Lethe River - stay in the world for seven days before you can return from the Santu River to the underworld." ”

Ling Ying was stunned.

Just as the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect who entered the Heavenly City of Hatred controlled the entire Demon Realm, the Lechuan Clan on the banks of the Santu River was also the absolute ruler of the entire Netherworld Ghost Realm. Regarding the matter of "soul return", the Lechuan clan has made clear regulations for all walks of life, that is, what Lin Xiao said: "Stay in the world for seven days before you can return to the underworld from the Santu River." ”

The Lechuan clan is composed of enlightened people from all walks of life who have been in the realm of "life and death" in their cultivation, and such people have long been beyond the path obtained by cultivation, and they have the absolute right to speak. If you break the rules of Lethe, you will be beaten into a desolate soul, and you will stay in the world forever and cannot be detached: this is actually what the world calls - lonely souls and wild ghosts.

Since the Liaoyuan family was wiped out, it stands to reason that the seven-day period has passed. However, due to the Soul Locking Array, the soul in the Qiwu Feather Instrument has always been trapped here and cannot be dissipated. Now that the formation has been broken, the soul must have been freed, so the seven-day period should be counted from now on.

"I can't reconstruct the scene on the day of the crime, and my cultivation is not enough. Ling Ying took the snow: "I can only restore the state of each deceased before death. ”

Lin Xiao nodded: "That's enough, it's better than looking at a large pile of corpses now." ”

Ling Ying closed his eyes, took the flying snow to his lips, and pressed the palace to attract business, and the sound of the flute gradually sounded. I only heard the sound of the flute mixed with the breath of the ice spring, which was bleak and bleak, and the tone was high and low. When it was extremely low, after a few circles, it went down again, and it seemed like nothing.

There is a song in the Nine Shadows, and its name is "Confessional Soul".

Lin Xiao looked at Ling Ying beside him in surprise, he knew that the other party's music was already better than the blue, but he didn't expect it to be so exquisite.

The Dark Song lingered in the Qiwu Feather Instrument Residence, and a white mist like the previous Mirage Realm slowly spread. It starts out as a thin layer, then gradually becomes richer. Lin Xiao was lucky, waved his hand, and the volley was a move to "see the sun".

The mist suddenly dispersed, but left behind dots of silver-blue light, like ghostly fire, gathering in the air and merging into one human form after another.

Liaoyuan family, gather spirits here.

2.

Ling Ying's flute sound stagnated, and the tone gradually slowed down, and a faint bloodshot flowed out of the corner of his mouth. Lin Xiao was startled, and hurriedly stretched out his palm against the "Shenshu Acupoint" behind him, injecting true qi. Ling Ying breathed a sigh of relief and ended hastily with a bass, removing the snow, his face pale.

As he himself said, cultivation was not enough, and at the moment, being able to gather the large and small Yin Spirits in the Liaoyuan Family was already the best that Ling Ying could do.

After gathering, the Yin Spirits each took on the human form of everyone in the Liaoyuan Family, emitting a silver-blue light. Lin Xiao sealed his hands, condensed his qi and drew talismans, combined with the "Heaven and Earth Net Technique", and opened a small enchantment.

I saw the formation runes flickering, and the range of the "Heaven and Earth Net" that Lin Xiao had turned into just happened to accommodate the entire Qiwu Feather Residence. The blood red of the original mountain of corpses and the sea of blood turned into black and white at this moment, leaving only the figures of those yin spirits to shine in the enchantment.

"It's ...... Tie the Heavenly Seal?" Ling Ying was startled.

"Well, almost, I've made a little improvement. Lin Xiao said. "Now let's take a good look at these people. ”

Lin Xiao raised his hand and snapped his fingers gently, and in an instant, the enchantment within the Heavenly Seal shone brightly. I saw that the courtyard of the Wuwu Feather Residence and the piles of corpses turned into a void and disappeared, and the figures gathered by the Yin Spirit gathered together one after another, neatly gathered into several rows like standing in a queue. Immediately afterwards, the silver-blue light on the surface of the figure gradually faded and turned into a real human body.

Ling Ying felt the change in the flow of the aura in the Heavenly Seal, and saw that Lin Xiao had transformed the Yin Spirit into a human body like a trick, and after a little thought, he figured out the reason: "You substituted the sea of knowledge into the enchantment of the Heavenly Seal?"

Lin Xiao was manipulating the human bodies transformed by those yin spirits at the moment, they looked no different from normal people in terms of appearance and clothing, but their faces were dull, their eyes were blank, and their bodies exuded a ghostly aura.

As far as the eye can see, those "Yin Spirit People" are densely standing all over the courtyard, like an army of puppets, which makes people shudder.

"My cultivation is not high enough. Lin Xiao was beckoning a Yin Spirit to come forward and circle him up and down. "If you are like the master of the sect and have cultivated the Heavenly Seal to the realm of Dacheng, you don't need to take this kind of detour, you can fiddle with anything in the enchantment at will. But I can't do it yet, so I substituted Zhihai into the enchantment, so that for me, there is a lot more room for manipulation. ”

While the two were talking, more than 60 people from the Liaoyuan family had all finished observing, from the head of the family, Hua Bubu, to a slave and attendant who did miscellaneous labor, and none of them were missed. However, Lin Xiao looked disappointed, and looked back at Ling Ying, too, obviously there was no clear discovery.

"It's impossible!" Lin Xiao frowned, waving his hand to repel a yin spirit who had just called forward. Ling Ying paced up, approaching the shadow on the edge of the barrier, thoughtfully, and suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he shouted, turned around, and said with excitement on his face, "Location—yes!

Lin Xiao was taken aback by him: "What position?

"Where the corpses are placed!"

Seeing that Lin Xiao still didn't react, Ling Ying quickly walked back from the void on the edge and said, "You restore Qi Wu Yu Yiju, and then put these people in their original positions." ”

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, although he hadn't thought of what important clues Ling Ying had seen, he vaguely felt that there was something hidden in the shadows, which was gradually surfacing with this discovery.

The Heavenly Seal slowly moved, and the original outline of the Qiwu Feather Residence in the enchantment, which had been hidden in the shadows, gradually emerged, until the front yard and the main hall were revealed, including the large pit in the patio that filled the corpses.

The bones and blood in the house were not restored, and Lin Xiao made another seal with one hand, and those yin spirits scattered in all directions, like a large area of stars in the sky. In the next moment, the Yin Spirits fell to the various locations where the bones had been piled up, and turned into human form again.

Ling Ying ran to the corpse pit, and at this time, it was no longer the corpses and organs soaked in blood and water, but the human bodies piled up by Yin Spirits, which could finally be seen. Ling Ying squatted on the edge of the pit and carefully inspected the clothes and costumes of the human bodies inside, then stood up and observed the figures who had fallen to the ground normally, and muttered as if he was sure of something: "Sure enough, ...... so"

Wait until the two of them have walked through the corridors in all directions, and then come to the main hall. I saw the corpse of the head of the family, Hua Bucheng, hanging high above the beams of the house, just as Lin Xiao and his party saw before entering the door. But when they really came to the hall, they found that there were two people hanging behind Hua Bucheng.

"It's ...... Are there two sons of the Hua family?"

"Yes, they are also the younger generation of figures in the cultivation realm, known as the 'Liaoyuan Shuangjie' - Hua Qian and Hua Yang. ”

The barrier that tied the Heavenly Seal quietly dissipated, and the Qiwu Feather Yiju turned into a scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood again. Lin Xiao turned his gaze to Ling Ying, who was also looking back at him.

The smiles on the faces of the two were the same.

"Do you see that?"

"What do you think?"

"Don't laugh, don't you see it, if you can't, it's fine, I'm ready to laugh at you anyway. ”

"Look at you. The order in which the corpses are discharged is according to identity, right?!"

"The whole Liaoyuan family is full of corpses, but the placement of the corpses is very regular—those who died on the ground, hung in front of the porch, and filled in the pits, judging from the clothes on their bodies, correspond to people of different status levels. ”

"Hanging on the hall are the head of the family, Hua Bucheng, and his two sons;"

"The ones hanging on both sides of the corridor are richly decorated, and they have the representative family crest of the Suzaku family, either the elders of the clan or the immediate family;"

"The more normal ones who died on the patio ground, some were dressed in the clothes of direct disciples, and there were also those dressed as outer disciples;"

"As for the rest of the mutilated ones that are filled in the pit, you don't need to think about it, and you know that they are the corpses of some miscellaneous servants. ”

Although the two of them had a smile on their faces, a shuddering feeling involuntarily rose from the bottom of their hearts. Just ask, a person (or a group) who slaughtered all the houses of the Liaoyuan family, and who still has the heart to sort the corpses one by one according to their status, should be such a murderous and cold-blooded person!

Lin Xiao looked up at Hua Bucheng's body hanging on the beam, and imagined that when the Liaoyuan family was bloodbathed, he still held a blade and fought to the death with the enemy......

Wait a minute...... Something seems wrong?!

Lin Xiao suddenly said: "One less." ”

At this moment, Ling Ying didn't have time to react, and hurriedly asked, "What's missing?"

Lin Xiao lowered his head and gradually moved his gaze from Hua Fucheng's corpse to Ling Ying, as if he was also a corpse, only to see Ling Ying covered in hair.

"Where has the lady gone?"

Ling Ying was stunned, Lin Xiao's words were very bland, and at first glance it didn't seem to be a particularly prominent thing. When he reacted, the expression on his face changed from shock to horror - because Lin Xiao was right, it was indeed "one less"!

The one who is less is Hua Bucheng's wife!

If the discharge of corpses is based on identity, then there should be four corpses hanging in the main hall at this moment. However, now there are only Hua Bucheng and his two sons, and the body of the wife of the head of the family is missing.

"Isn't it...... Escaped?"

"Impossible!" Ling Ying retorted, "Once the star has fallen, it means that there is no one to live. Unless ......"

"Unless the wife of the head of the house is already dead!"

Lin Xiao's heart was suddenly shocked, the elusive ghost in the Misty Fantasy Realm flashed in his mind, and he clearly remembered that Hongchen told him:

And although she does not have the breath of a living person, she has preserved the spiritual power of a living person in her body, and it has not been dissipated, so it can be seen that she is not a pure dead person...... One more point, I don't know if you have noticed. Among the tricks used by Fang Cai's figure, there are some of them, including Aoki's way. ”

Couldn't it be such a coincidence?!

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao blurted out and asked, "Do you know the origin of Mrs. Hua?"

Ling Ying thought carefully for a moment and replied, "Hua Qian and Hua Yang's biological mother passed away due to illness in the first year of Hua Cheng's first head of the family. But I heard that a few years ago, the Liaoyuan family and the Aoki family got married, and it seems that Hua Bucheng married the second lady of the previous generation of the Aoki family!"

When Ling Ying answered this question, his tone was as flat as Lin Xiao just now, and after Lin Xiao finished listening, he was also stunned in place like Ling Ying just now, like five thunderbolts.

That ghost is really from the Aoki family!

She is the sister of the current head of the family, Yu Yuntong!

3.

Before Lin Xiao could come to his senses, he heard a loud shout from the door: "Who is it?!"

Lin Xiao and Ling Ying were startled and hurriedly rushed out. When he ran to the patio in the front yard, he saw Li Zhou rushing in with a long sword in his hand, and on his back was a gray cloud.

Lin Xiao and the others hurriedly greeted him, lowered Yunxiao from Li Zhou, and let her lean against the pillar next to her. Lin Xiao pressed his palm against the acupoint in the back of the clouds, and slowly transferred the true qi to her, while Ling Ying stretched out his finger to give her a pulse diagnosis. As soon as he took it, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "It's the heart-shaking palm of the Aoki family!"

Lin Xiao didn't answer, and while giving Yunxiao a true anger, he ripped off the clothes on her shoulders. I saw that on the snow-white right shoulder of the clouds, there was a black palm print. Where the fingertips of the palm prints are, several extremely thin black silk threads extend out, spreading in a tendency.

Li Zhou exclaimed: "It's so violently toxic! But how can this Aoki family's shocking palm be so poisonous?"

"Ling Ying's judgment will not be wrong, it should be shocking. Lin Xiao looked at Yunxiao, a trace of black qi faintly appeared on his face, and hurriedly strengthened the output of true qi. "I'm afraid that this person will have a bigger problem. ”

Ling Ying also held Yunxiao's hand and injected her true qi from the "Lao Gong Acupoint" in her palm, and asked at the same time, "Li Zhou, what the hell is going on?"

Li Zhou was also so anxious that he was sweating profusely at this time: "Senior sister and I have been waiting for you outside for a long time and haven't seen you come out, I'm worried that there will be something boring here." She was too timid to come in, so she told me to come in and see how it was. I had only turned my head when I saw a black shadow falling behind my senior sister, and hurriedly issued a warning. But the black shadow shot too fast, although the senior sister had dodged the blow to the head, she still received a slap on the shoulder, and she fainted on the spot. After the man slapped him, he flew away, and I came in with my sister on my back. ”

"You saw that man fleeing in?" Ling Ying was startled.

"Not bad. But when I came in, I saw you directly, and the man was long gone. Li Zhou said.

Lin Xiao asked: "Have you seen what the enemy looks like?"

Li Zhou shook his head: "There seems to be some strange prohibition on that person's body, and when she moves around, she is protected by a misty fog barrier, and I can't see her appearance clearly." ”

"Did you run out of the Mirage?"

As soon as Ling Ying's words fell, he could only hear a rustling sound overhead, as if someone was crawling on the roof. When he looked up, he saw a pale woman's face on the eaves above his head, stained with blood, and even more shocking were her dead white eyes without pupils!

"Beware! ...... up there"

Before the words fell, the ghost roared, and its five fingers slashed, and it rushed straight down towards the few people below her. Seeing that Lin Xiao and the three of them had no time to make a move, Li Zhou immediately raised his sword and quickly picked it up, and a "fire-raising sky-burning style" slashed out extremely quickly, hitting the chest of the ghost.

Li Zhou's father is Li Zhulian, the law enforcement elder of the Ziyang Divine Sect, and his swordsmanship is also the true inheritance of his father. At present, this style of "raising fire to the sky", the sword qi also has an extremely deep inner family qi. If this sword is solid, it will definitely be able to cut the ghost directly into two pieces.

Unbeknownst to her, the ghost's skill was extremely weird, the sword had just touched her chest, and it actually flipped her body directly in mid-air, and retreated lightly. That kind of body is like a ghost, and the angle of its dodge is so tricky that even if Li Zhoufu has tens of millions of back moves, it is impossible to make up another sword to her.

Li Zhou's blow only hit the other party in half a move, and he was unwilling, and was about to step forward to fight again, when a red light flashed around Lin Xiao, and it was between him and the ghost. saw Hongchen in a red dress floating out, holding her sword blade body, and made a move "Seven Stars Falling into the Sky", directly blasting the ghost shadow who pounced again onto the roof with a sword.

Li Zhou withdrew his sword in a daze—it seemed that he didn't need it anymore.

Ling Ying was also stunned, and only after a moment did he whisper, "It's okay...... Haven't messed with her before!"

When he was in the Ziyang Divine Sect, Hongchen didn't run out to make trouble with a few of their junior brothers. But to be honest, it's really the first time they've seen their opponents fly with such a violent move like this.

After the ghost was hit on the roof by Hongchen's move, he probably realized that he couldn't be an opponent, so he screamed and jumped up and fled to the backyard of Qi Wuyu Yiju. Lin Xiao shouted, "Catch her back!" Hongchen replied, and the next moment he turned into a sword light and chased after him.

"That...... What the hell is it?"

Lin Xiao and Ling Ying glanced at each other and did not answer. Although they had vaguely guessed that the ghost was probably the missing "corpse" in the Liaoyuan family-Hua Bucheng's wife, who was also the sister of the head of the Aoki family.

After Yunxiao let Lin Xiao and Ling Ying spend a long period of time with their true qi, the black qi on their faces finally dissipated most of them, but they were still unconscious. Ling Ying looked at the jet-black handprint on her shoulder, although the black lines on the outside showed signs of fading, they did not improve.

"Even if we give all the true qi of you and me to Senior Sister, we can only delay the spread of the toxin, but we can't help her expel it from the body. Ling Ying concluded dejectedly.

"Now the clues are not clear, but Senior Sister has been so seriously injured. What should we do now?"

Lin Xiao said in a deep voice: "Save Senior Sister first, and then find out the real murderer." ”

Li Zhou said worriedly: "I don't know where this poison comes from, it's so intense." Now I want to save it, but where do I want to save it?"

Lin Xiao stood up and looked at the direction in which the ghost had fled, and a place had already been remembered in his mind-

The Aoki family!

【To be continued】