1.

Aoki family, Qingyun Mansion, Tampo Xuan.

Yu Yuntong, the only female head of the Aoki family in the history of the family, stood in front of Lin Xiao at this time, although she had heard many rumors about her, but really standing in front of this gorgeous beauty, it was inevitable that people would be intoxicated by her gorgeous appearance...... Even if her face isn't too good at the moment.

In fact, Yu Yuntong's face is really bad.

After many years of cultivation, she has been able to maintain a calm posture for any variables in anything. But after seeing what Lin Xiao brought today, Yu Yuntong found a crack in his Dao heart for the first time.

In front of her was the ebony coffin that Lin Xiao brought all the way from the Aoki family.

The female "person" in the coffin, who was neither human nor ghost, was restrained by Dingyun Suo, her dead white eyes stared around widely, and her bloodstained face was full of confusion. Her sharp fingers were no longer open, but were supple at her side.

This female "person" has not been very stable since she was brought back by Hongchen's uniform in Qiwu Yuyiju. Sometimes quietly like a doll, obediently lying in a coffin in a daze, sometimes struggling and roaring and looking extremely manic, every time Ling Ying needs to play the song "Requiem" to calm her emotions.

is so troublesome, in Li Zhou's words: they didn't catch a murderer, but invited an uncle.

And if this "uncle" is a little negligent when taking care of them, he may kill them at any time!

This time, Lin Xiao took her to worship the mountain alone. In order to prevent her from breaking out, Lin Xiao specially asked Hongchen to leave a sword mark on her head before leaving, sealing the restless demonic aura in her body.

When they were in the Liaoyuan family, when Lin Xiao and Ling Ying used the "Tie Tianyin" to investigate the clues, the two of them already vaguely knew that this female "person" who was not a human or a ghost might be the missing corpse in Qi Wuyuyi's residence, and from the origin of Mrs. Hua Chengcheng, they thought of Yu Yuntong's sister who married into the Liaoyuan family.

It's one thing to have an idea, but after all, neither Lin Xiao nor Ling Ying have seen what Mrs. Hua or Yu Dangjia's little sister looks like. In order to confirm this idea, Lin Xiao and the others dragged the seriously injured Yunxiao and the ghost here.

It wasn't until after cracking the "ink dyeing map" that Yan Mengyun and Hua Qingyan shouted out the identity of the female "person" that Lin Xiao knew that he had guessed correctly - she was indeed Mrs. Hua, and she was also the sister of the head of the Aoki family, Yu Ziying.

Yu Yuntong's ten fingers were clasped tightly on the edge of the coffin, his fingertips were white, and his face was like frost.

"Master?" Wen Qin whispered from the side.

Yu Yuntong looked up at his disciples, Lin Xiao saw that their lips were slightly buzzing, but no sound came out, knowing that they were talking in a way that "transmitted sound into secret".

I saw Yu Yuntong nodding slightly after a while, and the four of "Qinqi, Calligraphy and Painting" stepped forward to help Yu Ziying up and carry out the coffin, and sent out of the indifferent Xuan. Yu Yuntong turned to face Lin Xiao and said, "Lin Gongzi, you have sent your sister back thousands of miles away, and you have to take care of you along the way." For this, I should express my gratitude. ”

"Don't be polite, the younger generation is afraid. Lin Xiao hurriedly returned the salute.

"Childe, since you are the first disciple of the Purple Sun God Sect, what you say is naturally credible. Yu Yuntong continued, "It's just that the Liaoyuan family was destroyed without realizing it, which is really incredible. Since Childe was present at the scene, I wonder what clues he has found? Who is the perpetrator?"

"Who the murderer is, it is not yet known. Lin Xiao said after careful consideration. "In fact, I have made some simple inferences with my fellow disciples, but this is the result...... I'm afraid with ...... Madame related?"

Yu Yuntong's eyes widened, and he said slightly angrily: "Do you think it will be Ziying who killed the Liaoyuan family?!"

Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "Mrs. Hua naturally can't kill the Liaoyuan family with the power of one person. However, he can kill the two brothers Hua Qian and Hua Yang, or he can attack Hua Bu. ”

"I've seen those corpses before, and the corpses of the 'Liaoyuan Shuangjie' have a bloody hole in each heart, and there are no other wounds, indicating that they are fatal wounds. From the point of view of the depth of the wound, this move should be issued from the bottom up, straight to the heart. ”

"It's impossible, if you want to hit the heart from the angle you said," Yu Yuntong frowned, "Either the murderer is an extremely short person, or ...... The murderer's posture at the time should have been lying down. ”

"It's really good. Lin Xiao snapped his fingers and affirmed: "The most important point is that the Hua brothers have no other wounds on their bodies except for these two, which means that they have not taken any precautions against the murderer until they die." ”

Yu Yuntong's eyes lit up: "You want to say that the murderer is a person who is extremely close to the Hua brothers?!"

Lin Xiao nodded: "There is a ghostly aura on Mrs. Hua's body, I have observed it along the way, and when that aura attacks, it often makes her extremely painful and gradually loses her mind. ”

"I don't know where that stuff in her body came from. But I can be sure that the period before and after Hua Qian and Hua Yang's deaths should be the time when she had a seizure. ”

Yu Yuntong knew in her heart: Yu Ziying's demonic aura would make her miserable when she attacked, and she would definitely squat or fall down in the early stage of the struggle. And the Hua brothers care about their stepmother, and they will inevitably come forward to check on the condition, maybe it was at this time that Yu Ziying lost her mind and took the hearts of the two of them!

"Mrs. Hua is out of her mind, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a beast. Lin Xiao remembered the fierce appearance of Yu Ziying in the Miluo Fantasy Realm and the residence of Qiwu Yuyi, and he still had palpitations. "Hua Bucheng's body was destroyed beyond recognition, I don't think it's the murderer who is crazy, but Mrs. Hua at that time - there is no humanity at all!"

Lin Xiao's analysis is reasonable, well-founded and restrained, even if Yu Yuntong doesn't want to believe that his little sister is the murderer, he has to admit that there is no flaw in the other party's words.

At this time, in the hearts of the two of them, they already had a general understanding of the destruction of the Liaoyuan family:

The mastermind behind the murder case first used a peculiar method to turn Yu Ziying into the current appearance of no one or ghost, and the specific process is unknown (but Lin Xiao faintly felt that the variables on Yu Ziying's body should be related to the abnormal movement of the Xu family's ghost house in the west of the city for a while).

Yu Ziying was put back to the Liaoyuan family by the murderer, and urged the demonic aura in her body to make her lose her mind, and successively killed the two brothers Hua Qian and Hua Yang, as well as Hua Bucheng, the head of the Liaoyuan family.

As soon as the three pillars of the family fell, the murderer led people to drive straight in, slaughtering all the families of Liaoyuan. Afterwards, the murderer set up a lock spirit array in Qi Wuyu Yi to block the scene, and left Yu Ziying, who was neither human nor ghostly, in the territory of Miluo Fantasy to fend for herself.

Although Yu Ziying is still alive, she has been invaded by the demonic aura, and her body has long lost the breath of the world. It was the fateful star that judged that the Liaoyuan family was all dead, and then fell. The next thing is what Lin Xiao and his party have experienced.

The process and consequences are known, and what needs to be investigated now is the cause of this incident.

After all, Yu Yuntong has succeeded in cultivating the "Wood and Stone Heart Technique", and his cultivation is excellent, although he has a slight gaffe because of his sister's affairs, he has already calmed down at this time, and the aura that is extremely quiet is beyond the reach of Luo Sisi and Hua Qingyan. Even when pacing, it is quiet and does not stir up a trace of dust.

Lin Xiao thought to himself: The temperament of the four daughters of "Qinqi, Calligraphy and Painting" is so elegant, obviously they all come from Yu Yuntong's cultivation.

"Then, if you want to find out the real culprit, you have to find out where the demonic aura on Azusa Sakura's body comes from. Yu Yuntong calmly analyzed.

Lin Xiao nodded in agreement: "That's true." It's just that Mrs. Hua's current state is ...... I'm afraid ......"

Before Lin Xiao finished speaking, he saw that Yu Yuntong had already walked out of the indifferent Xuan, and just left a sentence indifferently: "Lin Gongzi, please come with me." ”

2.

Lin Xiao followed Yu Yuntong into the back garden of Qingyun Mansion in a daze, crossed a Chinese path, and came to a small lake. The lake is full of lotus flowers, and it is the height of summer, and large and small lotus flowers are blooming one after another. If you look at it under the moonlight, it will be a beautiful scenery.

Yu Yuntong's eyes fell on a rockery in the middle of the lake, and suddenly jumped up, leaped over the surface of the lake, and landed lightly on the rockery.

Lin Xiao hurriedly followed, and saw Yu Yuntong reach out and touch a raised stone on the rockery, and pressed it hard. I only heard the sound of the mechanism running from inside the rockery, and the two mountain surfaces in front and back slowly rotated, trying to separate the two sides, revealing a deep hole that went straight to the bottom of the lake.

It is worthy of the four major families, and even the secret passage is so hidden. Who would have thought that there would be a cave under this lake?!

Lin Xiao suddenly thought: "If the murderer slaughtered the whole family of Liaoyuan really for something, I don't know which inconspicuous corner that thing was hidden?

Just thinking to himself, he had followed Yu Yuntong down to the hidden space at the bottom of the lake.

Lin Xiao looked around, although the space here was very large, it didn't look like the kind of secret room that some families used to collect rare treasures. The furnishings in this room are extremely simple, there is a lamp like a bean in the corner, the light is extremely dim, and you can faintly see that the floor inside is full of many long strips of things.

With a wave of Yu Yuntong's hand, several subtle fires shot out, lighting the lights at the four corners. The light in the room suddenly brightened, and Lin Xiao also saw clearly what those long strips of things on the ground were, first stunned, and then stayed in place, with a shocked look on his face.

"It's ...... Hiding the corpse?!" Lin Xiao asked this sentence with great difficulty.

The long strips of things on the ground were people lying on mats covered with white cloths. These people all had their eyes closed and their breath was gone, and there was no doubt that they should be corpses.

"This is not a corpse hiding room, and we Aoki families have little interest in collecting corpses. Yu Yuntong replied coldly: "These corpses were found in an unnamed valley outside Songxi City when the disciples of this family went out to practice. Lin Gongzi might as well take a look, how are these corpses different from ordinary dead corpses?"

Lin Xiao calmed down and walked to the nearest corpse and crouched down. It was a female corpse, and he didn't care if it was beautiful or not. The female corpse lay there quietly, looking so peaceful that there was nothing strange about it.

Lin Xiao still didn't understand the essentials after looking at it for a long time, and was about to stand up, but Yu Ziying's sometimes quiet and sometimes manic appearance suddenly appeared in his mind, and for a moment he seemed to think of something, and hurriedly turned his head and looked at Yu Yuntong who was standing behind him.

"These people...... Isn't it also ......?"

Yu Yuntong was noncommittal, she stepped forward, stretched out a finger towards the female corpse, and injected her true qi from the "Baihui Acupoint" on the top of the corpse's head. The female corpse suddenly let out a low roar from the depths of her throat, opened a pair of dead white eyes, and her upper body stood upright.

The white step covered by her body slid down with her movements, and Lin Xiao saw that her body was wrapped in a chain formed by the convergence of spiritual power.

"This symptom is exactly the same as that of Mrs. Hua!" Lin Xiao frowned and exclaimed, "When did it happen?"

Yu Yuntong replied: "Just a few days ago. Specifically, it probably is...... About five or six days ago. ”

"Five or six days ago?" Lin Xiao thought about the days in his heart for a while, and said thoughtfully: "It was almost the time when the Liaoyuan family was wiped out. ”

"The condition of these people is even more precarious than that of Azusa. Yu Yuntong drew a sigil on the forehead of the "female corpse" to make her fall asleep again, and said: "In the past few days, the Qing Pavilion of our Aoki family has been studied by doctors, and the causes of these people probably have some eyebrows. ”

"What these people get is a symptom similar to 'lost souls.'" ”

"Lost souls? But 'lost souls' shouldn't just be a person becoming sluggish, how can there be signs of corpses?"

"So it's something like that. Yu Yuntong continued, "The souls of these people have been siphoned off, but the people who have taken away their souls don't know how to inject demonic energy into them, turning them into puppets like the walking dead. ”

"Gongzi said before that the supernatural case that happened in Ningcheng back then was suppressed by the Liaoyuan family, and the resentment in that old mansion was not eliminated, but was sealed in it by the people of the Liaoyuan family with a lock spirit array. This ghost house has not moved for more than ten years, and it has begun to be restless again two months before the Liaoyuan family was destroyed......"

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up: "Do you suspect that this ghostly aura comes from the Xu family's old mansion? The murderer entered the Xu family's mansion not only to study the Lock Spirit Array, but also to absorb the grievances of those powerful ghosts inside?!"

Yu Yuntong nodded: "Very likely." Although the 'Lock Spirit Array' is rare among the hundred families of the Immortal Gate, it is not difficult for a force that can destroy the Liaoyuan family to study this formation, so why bother to go to the murderous mansion to disturb the seal. ”

"Mrs. Hua should be the first person to be drained of her soul, I think that at that time, the murderer's grasp of this demonic aura was not too stable, so Mrs. Hua's situation will be more stable than these later people...... Tsk!"

Lin Xiao suddenly felt contradictory as he spoke: "No...... Shouldn't that be more difficult to control? Wrong, wrong! It shouldn't be like that. ”

Yu Yuntong smiled slightly and said: "The reason why Azusa Ying's situation is more stable than these people is mainly because she is also a cultivator, and she has spiritual power to protect her body, which can more or less protect her soul from being completely absorbed. ”

A deathly silence brewed in the air.

Yu Yuntong waved his hand, and the palm wind blew out the candle flame in the room. The two exited the dark room and returned to the rockery on the lake through the corridor, closing the secret door.

"Since Azusa Sakura's soul can leave a part of it, there is hope that she will be restored. After returning to the shore, Yu Yuntong said. "I have asked the doctors of the Green Bag Pavilion to start preparing the 'Nine Turning Soul Pills' and the medicine to dispel ghost qi, and Wen Qin and the others have also gone to prepare the soul drawing flag, the soul bell and other things. ”

"As long as you are ready, you can clear the demonic energy from Azusa Sakura's body and open the 'Wangxiang Circle' to recall her lost soul. Wake up Zi Ying, so that we can know the real cause and effect of the Liaoyuan family's extermination case. ”

Lin Xiao asked, "What about those people in the secret room?"

"They are no longer saved, after all, they are mortals without spiritual power to protect their bodies, once the living soul is completely out of the body, there will be no second way except death after more than seven days. ”

"So......" Lin Xiao said in a deep voice, "we can only wait for the antidote to the ghost qi to be prepared, and then send them to rest directly?!"

Yu Yuntong seemed to notice that Lin Xiao's voice was different, turned his head to look at him, his eyes were much softer, and said: "I know that this fact is cruel, so what we have to do - much more than that!"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows: "What?"

"Refining medicine and detoxifying, arranging a formation to summon spirits, have all been arranged, so let the disciples of the Green Bag Pavilion and Wen Qin worry about it. Yu Yuntong smiled and said, "I wonder if Gongzi Lin is willing to go out of the mountain with this seat to conduct further investigations?"

"Of course!" Lin Xiaolang said, his eyes becoming brighter. "How dare I shirk my responsibility, but I don't know where the Yu family is going to start the investigation?"

Yu Yuntong looked in the direction of Songxi City outside Qingyu Mountain and said, "Since those puppets whose souls were sucked away were found in the uninhabited valley outside Songxi City, and the closest settlement area from there should be located between Songxi City and uninhabited valley——"

"Fuyao Town. ”

3.

The night was like ink, and the originally clear moonlight was blocked by a large thick dark cloud.

"Do you really want to go to Fuyao Town with Yu Yuntong?" Hongchen lay on the bed and pillowed his arm, watching Lin Xiao make tea next to the table.

"That's nature. Lin Xiao took a sip of a cup of hot flower tea, "This case has been investigated for several days, and now I finally have some eyebrows, do you want me to give up like this?!"

Hongchen sighed and said, "Of course I didn't mean that, but don't blame me for not reminding you then." In this case, the murderer ingested the souls of other people, and then led ghosts to create puppets, the means can be described as extremely brutal, and it is certainly not done by one person. The trip ......"

"This trip can be said to be extremely dangerous, right?" Lin Xiao said with a smile.

Hongchen was looking at his fingernails, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "You know what I think in my heart! Then you should also know that what you have to face this time is definitely not as simple as what you have experienced before." If you are not careful, you will put your life on the line at any time. ”

Lin Xiao didn't answer this time, he stood up and stretched, slowly walked to the side of the bed, pushed her into the inside of the bed despite Hongchen's protest, and then lay on the outside by himself, pillowing his arms like her, and the two faced each other.

"Do you think I'm such a vulnerable person? Besides, I'm not going alone this time, and I'm traveling with the head of the dignified Aoki family, so there won't be any major problems. ”

"Taking a step back, even if the opponent is really strong, so strong that even Yu Dangjia is not an opponent......"

Lin Xiao suddenly stepped forward and almost touched the tip of Hongchen's nose, the distance was close enough for the two of them to count each other's eyelashes.

Being so close, Lin Xiao found for the first time that Hongchen's body, including her breathing, had a faint and extremely special sweet fragrance.

Truth be told, this is a new discovery. After all, he had never made such an ambiguous move towards this woman incarnated by sword spirits, and besides, he had always thought that those sword spirits incarnated by swords might have a smell of pig iron on their bodies......

"This smells—it smells pretty good!" Lin Xiao muttered to himself.

The sweet fragrance seemed to have a slight calming effect, so that Lin Xiao didn't come back for a while, and only after a while did he speak leisurely:

“...... Don't I still have you?!"

Hongchen's face was instantly flushed.

Her appearance is already very good-looking, and after blushing, she has a different touching taste.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and remained silent very tacitly, so quiet that they could hear each other's heartbeats.

Hongchen suddenly smiled slightly, and put his hand on Lin Xiao's chest......

A moment later, there was a loud bang of heavy objects colliding in the room, as if someone had been lifted out of bed with a single palm!

"You - give - I - get out!"

【To be continued】