At the banquet, Yin Tiancheng deliberately sat next to Sun Quan, which made the other party a little embarrassed, and when he toasted Yin Tiancheng, he took the initiative to mention that Tianxin Pavilion sent someone to Ganzao Mountain to ask about the crime.

Yin Tiancheng listened quietly, only to know that according to the rules, Sun Quan should lead the team to Feiyumen that time, but he remembered Yin Tiancheng's kindness, and actually showed his attitude to Liu Rulong in front of everyone.

Sun Quan didn't believe that Yin Tiancheng was the culprit who destroyed the Sword Feather Gate, but thought that there was something hidden in it, so he advocated that after a thorough investigation of the matter first, it would not be too late to send someone to find Yin Tiancheng.

Liu Rulong couldn't help but be furious when he saw Sun Quan protecting his shortcomings like this, and reprimanded him on the spot, and then changed the candidate, and ordered another protector Qin Shou to replace Sun Quan to seek justice.

After hearing this, Yin Tiancheng secretly said ashamed, he really didn't expect Sun Quan to help him behind his back, and the Dharma protector who was also harmed almost fell out with Liu Rulong because of this.

So he pretended to be generous and comforted Sun Quan a few words, and said that he should not mention the past, so as not to cause estrangement between the two of them in the future.

After three rounds of drinking, Yin Tiancheng saw that everyone was indulging in wine, so he quietly asked, "Sun Protector, what did Master Hou do to you just now?"

Sun Quan replied, "It's nothing, just ask why Sect Master Liu didn't come to the Immortal Ascension Conference." ”

Yin Tiancheng was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Then how did you answer him?"

"Originally, this matter was a secret of my Tianxin Pavilion, and I couldn't say it. But my predecessors have saved my life, so I won't hide it from you, in fact, our sect master deliberately didn't come this time. ”

Sun Quan looked around vigilantly, then lowered his voice and continued: "The sect master is not looking at the fact that he has a friendship with the Murong family for many years, and I will not come here on behalf of him today. ”

Yin Tiancheng said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Could it be that your Sect Master Liu thinks that there are ghosts in this Immortal Ascension Conference?"

When the Hou Ye sent someone to send an invitation, everyone in the faction was elated, and only the sect master had a gloomy face, and finally under the persuasion of the senior brother, he reluctantly agreed to me to come to Murong Mansion. ”

Yin Tiancheng deliberately asked: "This is a rare opportunity to become an immortal, don't tell me, Sect Master Liu is not interested in this." ”

"I'm right for you again, before leaving, the sect master talked to me alone to let me know that this Immortal Ascension Conference is likely to be a scam. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Quan didn't say any more, he pulled Yin Tiancheng out of the hall, and only after finding a corner where no one was there did he tell the truth of the matter.

"The sect asked me to be careful, he thought that this trip was extremely dangerous, and repeatedly told me to return to Tianxin Pavilion quickly if I felt the slightest sign of something wrong in Murong Mansion. ”

Yin Tiancheng snickered secretly, the last time Tianxin Pavilion came to find trouble for himself, but it turned out that two elders and a Dharma protector died, if Sun Quan had another accident, wouldn't Tianxin Pavilion be reduced to a second-rate immortal cultivation sect, and then Liu Rulong would not be able to sit firmly in the position of the alliance leader.

In order to get more information, Yin Tiancheng pretended not to believe it and asked, "Does Marquis Murong dare to go against us at the risk of the world's condemnation?

"Originally, I didn't believe it, but the sect master showed me a book that I had been collecting for many years. After pondering for a while, Sun Quan said again: "It is a book written by a senior of this sect, and it contains a detailed record of the last Immortal Ascension Conference. ”

Yin Tiancheng suddenly became interested and asked about the content of the book, but after listening to Sun Quan's words, he was shocked.

In the Immortal Ascension Conference forty years ago, the invited immortal cultivators did not see the immortals descend in the Murong Mansion, nor did they give the elixir as they did this time.

That time, everyone who was invited could be said to have returned empty-handed, and some people felt that the Hou Mansion had deceived everyone, but what happened next was very strange.

After returning to their respective sects, all of them died in less than half a year, and none of them survived to the second year!

"It's weird. Yin Tiancheng touched his chin and said, "Could it be that these people have some kind of chronic poison in the Hou Mansion, so they will die one after another after leaving?"

"If the cause of death can be found out and it is proved to be related to the Hou Mansion, then the Murong clan may have been uprooted long ago. ”

"That's right. As soon as Yin Tiancheng replied, he saw Sun Quan's eyes with surprise.

Before he could speak, Sun Quan asked, "It is said that this incident was very sensational at the time, don't you know about it, senior?"

"Hehe, at that time, I was still living in seclusion in the mountains and cultivating, and I didn't know anything about the outside. Yin Tiancheng couldn't help laughing dryly, and quickly made up a lie.

"Oh, that's right. Sun Quan was not suspicious, and continued: "The strange thing is that these seniors died without any abnormalities, even the master in my Tianxin Pavilion who recorded this matter was still in good spirits the day before he died, and died in his sleep the next night. ”

After a pause, he said, "The seniors in the faction have examined the corpse and have not found any poisoning or other anomalous phenomena, and everyone believes that this senior died of natural old age. ”

"In other words, even if this matter is related to Murong Mansion, everyone has no evidence. ”

Yin Tiancheng was surprised, he initially thought that the Immortal Ascension Conference was connected with that hateful mirage, but judging from the way these people died, it was not at all like the usual harmful style of Sun Wangye.

The two were talking, and suddenly saw Murong Liang coming over, they immediately became alert, and while greeting Hou Ye warmly, they went back to drink.

After the banquet ended, a guard took Yin Tiancheng to the wing room to rest.

Because of something on his mind, Yin Tiancheng lay in bed and couldn't sleep, he filtered Sun Quan's words and what happened in the past two days in his mind, but in the end, he was frustrated and found that he had no clue at all.

This couldn't help but make Yin Tiancheng secretly say in his heart: "Could it be that I am too worried? In fact, there is no conspiracy in Murong Mansion at all. ”

It wasn't until dawn that he closed his eyes, and soon after falling asleep, he heard a scream from outside the house.

Yin Tiancheng was startled, and he woke up suddenly, and just when he thought it was an auditory hallucination, an even more terrible scream poured into his ears.

This scream stimulated his nerves like a sharp needle, and Yin Tiancheng couldn't help but feel shocked, and suddenly realized that something was wrong outside.

He quickly grabbed the dragon scale sword next to his pillow, and his body moved, kicked open the door and jumped out.

The sky was already slightly bright, but the morning sun had not yet risen from the horizon, Yin Tiancheng ran for a sound, and found that there were other immortal cultivators flying in the same direction with surprised faces, which made Yin Tiancheng have a hunch that something was really wrong in Murong Mansion.

Running along the road, he saw more and more guards in his eyes, and when Yin Tiancheng came to a stone gate in the shape of an arch moon, he stopped.

There were dozens of guards standing guard at the stone gate, blocking all the cultivators who came to see the excitement.

Yin Tiancheng suddenly became angry, and he shouted directly at the guard with a knife in front of him: "Let me in!"

As soon as the guard said the word sorry, Yin Tiancheng slapped him to the ground, and then strode directly inside.

The other guards gave way one after another, and no one dared to step forward to stop Yin Tiancheng.

In fact, there is no way to do it, firstly, they know that Yin Tiancheng is the guest of honor of the Hou Ye, and secondly, this Taoist chief behaved too violently yesterday, how dare these guards dare to embarrass him, they can only watch Yin Tiancheng pass through the moon gate and go straight inside.

After turning a corner, Yin Tiancheng saw a square courtyard, and unsurprisingly, the guard in front of the door stopped him again.

"I advise you to get acquainted with each other and don't force me to be rude!"

As soon as Yin Tiancheng wanted to take down these guards, he heard Murong Liang say inside: "It's Engong, please let him in." ”

Yin Tiancheng swaggered in, and before he had time to pose in front of everyone, he was already taken aback.

The courtyard was full of warriors, all of them gathered around the four dead bodies on the ground, Murong Liang held the wooden box containing the elixir in his hand, which was stained with blood, and his eyes burned with anger.

Yin Tiancheng hurriedly walked over to take a look, this time he was speechless in surprise.

Among the four people who died, two were guards in the Hou Mansion, and the other two were Ming Zhiyuan's brothers!

Yin Tiancheng hurriedly asked Murong Liang what was going on, but the answer he got was that the two brothers of Ming Zhiyuan took advantage of everyone's ignorance last night to sneak into the guard room where the elixir was kept, in a vain attempt to steal the elixir and fly away.

The two of them were almost about to succeed, but when Ming Zhiyuan was about to jump onto the wall with the wooden box containing the elixir, he was discovered by other vigilant guards in the courtyard, and after a fight, the two were killed by the guards.

After listening to Murong Liang's story, Yin Tiancheng immediately discovered the suspicion in it, and said: "The place where the elixir is stored must be very secret, how can Ming Zhiyuan have the ability to find the place where the wooden box is hidden?"

Murong Liang pointed to a dead guard and said, "The wooden box is not hidden anywhere else, I asked him to carry it with him, even when he sleeps, he must keep it in his arms." ”

"In this case, Ming Zhiyuan must have killed the guards before stealing the wooden box, so he should have died inside the house, why did he die outside the house?"

"The two guards did die on the bed as Engong said, and it was Xiao Hou who ordered someone to carry them out. ”

"Hey, aren't you destroying the scene?" Yin Tiancheng sighed secretly, and then said, "Can you take me to the room to have a look?"

"No problem. Murong Liang brought Yin Tiancheng into the room where the murder occurred.

Yin Tiancheng looked intently and found that except for the quilt and bed sheets stained with blood, there was no trace of harassment in other parts of the house, which couldn't help but surprise him, and when he was about to ask again, he suddenly stopped talking.

At this time, he smelled a faint fragrance in the air.

For Yin Tiancheng, who used to be a fast catcher, this fragrance is very familiar, it is a kind of incense, many thieves like to use this incense to stun the people in the house before stealing, and then do the thing of roosters and dogs.

No wonder there was no trace of a fight in the house, it turned out that Ming Zhiyuan used this incense before he started, and then he ruthlessly killed the two guards who were in a coma and stole the wooden box.

Seeing that there were no useful clues in the room, Yin Tiancheng walked out of the house to check on Ming Zhiyuan's body.

While examining the wounds of the deceased, he asked, "The person involved in the arrest of Ming Zhiyuan and the dead guards are not in the same room, how did they find out that the wooden box was stolen?"

"How could Xiao Hou only arrange two guards to guard the elixir, and nearly ten guards were arranged by me in other rooms in the courtyard, and as soon as these two dog thieves escaped after killing people, they were discovered by other guards. ”

"I see, how many guards are involved in this battle?"

When Yin Tiancheng heard Murong Liang answer that there were only six people, he was secretly taken aback.

Generally speaking, the guards in the eunuchs' homes will not have a high level of cultivation, although the Ming Zhiyuan brothers are not good, but they are also the best in their own sect, but they actually died in the hands of six guards, that can only show the fact that Murong Mansion is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden.

Murong Liang's own cultivation is amazing, not to mention, even among his subordinates, there are many hidden masters, it seems that the strength of this Hou Mansion is definitely not worse than any immortal cultivation sect in Cangzhou.

Yin Tiancheng realized that he had lost his eyes, and he didn't find any valuable clues from the four corpses, so he wanted to find the invitation from Ming Zhiyuan, and then asked Murong Liang about the real purpose of inviting people to participate in the Immortal Ascension Conference, why did this Hou Ye only recognize the post and not people?

But at this moment, he found this invitation from Ming Zhiyuan's arms and found that it was missing a corner, as if it had been deliberately torn off.

Yin Tiancheng hurriedly stood up and handed the post to Murong Liang, saying, "Arrange for your subordinates to find this torn corner." ”

"The whole process of the two dog thieves committing the crime is very clear, and it has nothing to do with the invitation, right?"

Judging from the broken edge of the invitation, Ming Zhiyuan should have torn off this corner tonight. Let's look for it, maybe it's in this courtyard. ”

Murong Liang agreed to Yin Tiancheng's request, but the look in his eyes obviously felt that Yin Tiancheng had nothing to do.

What Yin Tiancheng didn't expect was that the guards searched the entire courtyard and didn't find the mutilated corner, and finally after obtaining Murong Liang's consent, he went to Ming Zhiyuan's residence to search again, but still found nothing.

And just when Yin Tiancheng was busy, Murong Liang issued an order to strictly prohibit all guests from walking around the mansion wantonly, and at the same time postpone the ring match by one day.

Although it restricts everyone's actions, everyone also understands very well, after all, if this happens, whoever it is, it is not easy to feel good, so it is natural to take corresponding preventive measures.

But there is one person who did not obey Hou Ye's orders, but he is not Yin Tiancheng.

Murong Liang was worried about the kindness of the Deadwood Daoist, and especially allowed Yin Tiancheng to move freely, but he had to be accompanied by guards when he went out.

And the person who immediately escaped from the Hou Mansion as soon as he heard the content of Murong Liang's restriction order was Sun Quan.