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Finally entered the ruins of the New One Sect, at this time everything in front of them had shocked Yuan Shuai and the others, a huge 'sect' had already been ruined and turned into a ruin, from the scorched black walls around Yuan Shuai could conclude that there must have been a fierce fire here before.

He didn't take a few steps through the big 'gate' of the New First Sect, only to hear Sun Yan, who was walking in the front, exclaim, it turned out that he had inadvertently stepped on a dried corpse that had been burned almost beyond recognition! Passing over Sun Yan, who had repeatedly apologized to the dried corpse, Yuan Shuai leaned down and carefully observed the dried corpse, and through the autopsy method that he had learned with Su Man at the police station, Yuan Shuai was surprised to find that this person was not burned to death by the fire, but was consumed by the fire after being killed.

"It seems that this is not a simple tragedy caused by a fire, there must be someone behind the poison!" Thinking back to Zhang Xiao, who was bizarrely killed, Yuan Shuai's solemn expression made everyone dare not approach the dried corpse.

"We have already guessed this, so we must be vigilant next, the purpose of our coming here is to properly bury those Taoist friends who unfortunately died, and secondly, to find out the truth of the matter and find out the murderer behind the scenes. Of course, the old man didn't say the third point, which was to look for the legendary Ancient Orb in the New One Sect.

Disperse all the disciples to collect the corpses of those dead New One Sect disciples, while Yuan Shuai and Sun Yan continued to set off towards the New One Sect Hall under the leadership of the old man and Situ Wenming.

Fortunately, the building structure here was sturdy and protected from the damage of the fire, but if they looked closely at Yuan Shuai, they found many thrilling traces of fighting in the main hall, which means that there was also a fierce battle here.

At the signal of the old man, Yuan Shuai and the others hurriedly began to look for the whereabouts of Chiyanzhu in the main hall and the wing room behind the main hall, the alchemy room, and the scripture building, but unfortunately they were busy for a long time but found nothing.

According to the old man's request, they first gathered all the corpses together and then performed prayers and rituals, so that the rituals lasted for three days before the bodies could be properly buried, and those disciples of the New One Sect who had died unjustly could be exempted from the pain of displacement and smoothly carry out reincarnation.

At this time, Wu Guang, who looked panicked, ran in from outside the main hall, he intermittently pointed to the location of a side room, and said to the old man and the others: "Master, uncle, go over and see the situation there!"

followed Wu Guang to a small courtyard with a single 'gate' near the main hall, and in the backyard, everyone was surprised to see an old man sitting cross-legged on the ground wearing a flame robe, and what was even more surprised was that this old man had been dead for many days, but his lifelike face was very different from those disciples who were burned to death.

"This is Yan Tianlie, the current head of the New One Sect, I once met him in Maoshan, but I didn't expect that the head of the New One Sect of the dignified generation did not escape this catastrophe. The old man said with some embarrassment.

"But it's strange why he wasn't harmed by the flames in this huge fire?" asked Sun Yan.

"The reason is that the flame robe he is wearing, which is a token held by the successive masters of the New First Sect, just like the Qiankun Dao robe I borrowed from Senior Brother Xuantong, it is a rare treasure, as the name suggests, the flame robe can not be damaged in the lava, protecting the holder from the flames, so Yan Zhangjiao was not burned to death by this fire. After that, the old man ordered several disciples to quickly collect Yan Tianlie's body and bring it back to the main hall for safekeeping, but in the exclamation, the disciples found that Yan Tianlie's body was sitting in place as steady as Mount Tai, and several disciples stepped forward together and couldn't move at all, as if Yan Tianlie's body had taken root in the soil.

"How can there be a phenomenon of corpse pressing!" Yuan Shuai had an unbelievable expression on his face, Yuan Shuai had also encountered the phenomenon of corpse pressing in the previous incident of dealing with the red-clothed ghost, and corpse pressing generally refers to the fact that the soul of the deceased did not find that he was dead because of the rapid death, and it was generally not until a cycle of twenty-four hours before the soul would gradually leave the dead body, and at that time the corpse could move smoothly.

"Could it be that Yan Zhangjiao has just been dead for less than a day?" a disciple asked in surprise.

"No, judging from the corpse spots on the corpse, Yan Zhangjiao has been dead for a long time, and I'm afraid he has been dead since the time of the New One Sect's extermination of the 'Gate' tragedy. Yuan Shuai analyzed.

"But it's been so long, why is there still a phenomenon of crushing corpses on Yan Zhangjiao's body?"

Yuan Shuai shook his head, in fact, he was also very curious about this matter, why Yan Zhangjiao appeared here when the Xinyi Sect occurred, and judging from his situation, he did not have any wounds on his body, but a large number of blood stains were found on his clothes, and what was the matter with the phenomenon of crushing corpses for such a long time? With these questions, the doubts in Yuan Shuai's heart were getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, the old man had no choice but to take people to leave the small courtyard where Yan Zhangjiao was located for the time being, and returned to the main hall due to the damage to the wiring and could not start the lighting facilities, so the disciples lit the candles and other things they carried, but the dim candlelight and the corpses covered with white sheets everywhere gave the quiet hall a strange and terrifying atmosphere.

"Woo, Master, are we really going to live here tonight?" looked at the dead corpse under the flickering candlelight, Sun Yan said coldly.

"Hmph, what are you afraid of, these are just a group of lifeless bodies, and we cultivators are still afraid of these when we are in the company of demons and monsters all year round!"

"Ahem, ahem, but Uncle Shi, we can't make a fire to eat in front of so many 'Taoist friends', and this place is already seriously overloaded, you look at where we still have a place to live around, in my opinion, we should go to the wing room behind the main hall for one night." ”

Yuan Shuai's proposal attracted the approval of all the disciples, Situ Wenming saw that the old man was also nodding desperately, so he had to nod in agreement, and returned to the wing room at the back of the main hall, Yuan Shuai, the old man and the four of them got together alone to talk about all the strange things that happened today, from Zhang Xiao, who was killed for no reason, to the strange and bizarre New One Sect Exterminating 'Gate', and then they found Yan Tianlie, the head of the New One Sect who was still in a state of crushing corpses, in a small courtyard, what is the inevitable connection between all this?

"There are two other points that I have always had some doubts, first of all, old man, the vampire Gu and puppet Gu that you found in your hasty exploration last time have not found any traces this time, and then I have found a key point on those corpses, that is, after their death, the blood that has been sucked dry by the vampire Gu has been sucked dry, and then it will become a dried corpse after being burned by flames. Yuan Shuai 'touched' his chin and frowned.

"Yes, I also feel that this time is a little different from the last time we came, and we didn't find that evil qi on the corpse, has it been gone for no reason after a long time?" the old man muttered to himself.

"In any case, this new sect is revealing a trace of strangeness, I don't care whether the tragedy of destroying the 'door' is man-made or demonic, we must be careful to prevent a tragedy like Zhang Xiao's from happening. Saying that, Situ Wenming stood up and wanted to arrange for his disciples to take turns to carry out the vigil, but as soon as he walked out of the room, he suddenly heard a terrible scream!

In the empty and cold night, this scream was like a sharp blade cutting through the dead silence of the New One Sect, and the other disciples who rushed over after hearing the news were also awakened by this terrifying and abnormal scream, Yuan Shuai saw this and hurriedly counted the number of people, and sure enough, among the five disciples, there was one less disciple from the other 'sect' sect.

"Where did that Tiangang 'Gate' disciple named Minghui run to?" the old man asked with a solemn face.

One of the disciples replied tremblingly, "I don't know, after dinner, I saw him go out through the main hall alone, I asked him what he was going for, and he said it was convenient to go, but he never came back." ”

As he was talking, suddenly Yuan Shuai and the others felt that an evil aura was constantly spreading out, and the gossip mirror placed in Yuan Shuai's arms also began to uneasily emit an intermittent alarm sound, and the old man saw this and hurriedly called everyone to gather around to be careful, but he gave Yuan Shuai a look, and the master and apprentice quickly ran towards the direction of the main hall one after the other.

Walking through the main hall where the corpse was placed, Yuan Shuai held the feng shui compass on the gossip mirror, only to see that the pointer was rotating rapidly, and finally it pointed to one of the directions, Yuan Shuai fixed his eyes and never thought that it was the small courtyard where Yan Tianlie was.

Yuan Shuai and the old man had a bad premonition in their hearts, and the two of them looked at each other and ran quickly towards the backyard, as soon as they came to the backyard, Yuan Shuai, who had a keen sense of smell, smelled a pungent smell of blood, and looked closely at the bloodstained ground with the torsos of some torn people, and not far away, a figure in a fiery red robe was squatting in a corner, with a clattering and piercing chewing sound from his mouth.

"Yan Zhangjiao!" Yuan Shuai was stunned and couldn't help blurting out, he didn't expect that Yan Tianlie, the new sect leader who had died in front of him, would come back to life strangely.

The old man grabbed Yuan Shuai, who wanted to step forward, and reminded, "Don't act rashly, the evil qi we felt just now is emanating from this guy's body!"

As soon as the old man's words fell, he saw Yan Tianlie, who was squatting in the corner, turned his head violently, and through the bright moonlight in the sky, Yuan Shuai could clearly see Yan Tianlie's distorted and hideous face at this time, his green eyes were shining in the dark, and at this moment he was half-bowed like a beast and let out a strange cry from his throat, and in his sharp palm, he actually grabbed a head that had been half eaten!

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