Leave Qingyun Mountain and head towards the direction of Jieshi Mountain in the East.

Some time ago, when Qin Chong was still in retreat on the mountain, he received a message from Lu Xueqi that she had left Qingyun Mountain and joined the disciples of Xiaozhufeng.

Now Qin Chong has also descended the mountain, and the direction is just the opposite.

The world of cultivating immortals is really different, and it seems to be a normal thing to not see each other for a few months.

Next, I don't know how long it will take to go around the mountain before we can meet.

Jieshi Mountain is not short from Qingyun.

However, Qin Chong's strength is not low, and this distance will be reached soon.

"Senior Brother Qin. ”

The small city mentioned in the letter, Jieshi City.

"Big brother. ”

Qin Zhong landed.

The town in front of you is not very large, and even if you descend from the sky, you can see the town far away at a glance.

The most conspicuous building in the whole city is the walled wall, and most of the houses in the city are not as high as the city wall.

Looking at the scale, the residents in the city are only tens of thousands at most.

"Everyone is living in the city for the time being. ”

Lu Ming said to Qin Zhong as he led the way ahead.

"I didn't expect that the master only sent a junior brother here. ”

"When we discussed with Uncle Shi two days ago, we were hoping that an elder from Shangqing Realm would come over. ”

"Yes, I was disgusted. ”

Qin Zhong was silent.

followed behind Lu Ming: "Senior brother, be tactful." ”

Lu Ming turned around, and his originally somewhat heavy face smiled: "You kid." ”

Walking forward again: "You read the letter we sent back, right?"

"Hmm. ”

Qin nodded and put away the smile on his face.

"In addition to Fengyue Ancestor, you must also be careful that Duanmu Ancestor is in Jieshi Mountain, and the unknown cult may also have strong people. ”

Walk through the streets and pass through lively areas.

Under Lu Ming's lead, the two entered a quiet alley with no pedestrians.

At the corner of the alley, there was a tall flag fluttering, with several big characters written on it.

Underneath the flag is a two-story building.

"This time it was ordered by the master, and it stands to reason that this matter can be better solved by the master coming over. ”

While walking, Qin Chong said, "Senior brother, do you have any other news?"

Lu Ming nodded: "I'll let you see the dossier we sorted out later, maybe there will be other discoveries." ”

"Hmm. ”

Soon passed through the alley and reached the inn.

"Senior Brother Qin. ”

When Zhao Tang saw Qin Chong, his face showed joy, and then he poked his head out and looked into the alley.

It was empty, and the alleys were filled with only the leaves swept up by the wind.

The joy on his face quickly disappeared and turned into loss.

"You're the only one. ”

I sat back in my chair, and my interest dropped considerably.

Qin Zhong sat beside Zhao Tang, casually took the teapot and the empty cup next to him, poured himself a cup of tea, and made a saliva.

looked at Zhao Tang next to him: "Why, you dislike me so much." ”

"Hi. ”

Zhao Tang sighed: "No." ”

Reaching out and scratching his hair.

Stand up: "Let's go, I'll show you something." ”

Lu Ming smiled at Qin Chong: "He has invested a lot in the past few days, and he has great expectations for the sect, but now he sees that it is only you, and he is a little disappointed." ”

Qin Chong also smiled: "After living together for so many years, I still don't know about the fifth senior brother." ”

immediately followed behind Lu Ming and Zhao Tang and walked towards the inn.

"Senior Brother Qin. ”

"Senior Brother Qin. ”

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More than a dozen senior brothers were sitting on the second floor of the inn, and when they saw Qin Chong coming up, they all greeted each other, poked their heads out, and saw that there was no one else behind Qin Chong, and they were all a little disappointed.

Qin Chong responded to the senior brothers as he walked towards the inn room behind Zhao Tang.

"I'll take Senior Brother Qin to see the dossier we sorted out. ”

"Senior Brother Qin has always been smart, and he will definitely be able to find clues that we have not discovered. ”

Xie Sanming smiled faintly and said, "Let Senior Brother Qin take a look first, and we won't bother." ”

The rest of the group nodded.

When he arrived in the room, Zhao Tang opened the cabinet, took out a few books, and placed them on the table.

"Everything we've found is here. ”

Qin Chong didn't look at the few books on the table, just rubbed his hands on them.

Turning his head to look at Zhao Tang: "Can you tell me more about the specific experience?"

Zhao Tang sat down next to him: "Okay." ”

looked at Lu Ming: "If there is anything missing, Senior Brother will help me add it." ”

"Hmm. ”

The three of them sat around the table.

Zhao Tang sorted out his thoughts and began to start from the first time he noticed the serial murder case.

Qin Zhong listened quietly on the side and did not interrupt without making a sound.

It wasn't until Zhao Tang finished talking about the whole thing that Qin Chong looked at Lu Ming again.

"The fifth junior brother spoke in great detail, and there was nothing missing. ”

Qin nodded and thought for a while.

"Without considering all the information, it was just an ordinary serial murder case that happened in a remote mountain village. ”

"If it weren't for the intervention of a few senior brothers, this case would have ended up in the end, and the Qishui City Government might not even be able to receive all the cases. ”

Rubbed his head.

"Compared to the cultivation world, this case is secretive and the movement is small, which shows that the criminal didn't want to make a big deal out of it in the first place."

"But after the brothers have intervened in the incident, the culprits are still doing it, and there is a contradiction here. ”

Lu Ming and Zhao Tang both nodded as they listened.

But so it is.

After that, the murderer was exposed and fled directly to Jieshi Mountain. ”

"Jieshi Mountain has always been regarded as his own territory by Fengyue Ancestor, and the rest of the people are not allowed to survive on the mountain, this murderer's strength is not weak, but he directly hid in the territory of Fengyue Ancestor, and that Duanmu Ancestor, this person is the same level of existence as Fengyue Ancestor, but the two have been able to live together in Jieshi Mountain, and there has never been any major dispute between the two, which is also very problematic. ”

Qin Zhong took the books while analyzing.

"If my expectations are correct, this serial murder case is really what the two senior brothers said, and it is part of a certain sacrificial ritual, then there must be many other times the same thing happening, but due to the object chosen by the murderer, there should not be many left in the form of a file. ”

But the ritual must have continued for a thousand years. ”

Qin Zhong raised his head: "Let the two senior brothers go out to investigate, if there are any similar folklore, the location, it is within a few hundred miles nearby, there should be one." ”

Lu Ming nodded: "Okay." ”

Qin Zhong opened the book and began to look through its contents.

That crippled, chaotic myth was placed in front of Qin Chong.

"This creation legend is a bit different. ”

Pointing to it, he said, "This creation god should be borrowed from the myth of the creation of Pangu. ”

The finger moved, straight to the rest of the place: "This mother goddess, who created human beings, is obviously borrowed from the legend of Nuwa Niangniang who created people, but the image is wrong, this image should be borrowed from the image of the gods of the Demon Sect, and then deleted and changed, that's it." ”

A few more comments were made to the rest of the gods.

"From the point of view of the creation myth, there is nothing attractive about this cult. The evil revealed in it can be felt even by ordinary people. ”

"What, then, was the purpose of creating a religion that few people were destined to believe in from the beginning?"

Qin Chong touched his chin, unable to figure it out.

Lu Ming and Zhao Tang next to them didn't think about this aspect from the beginning, so they didn't understand.

"Is there any news in this that is good for us?"

Zhao Tang asked.

Qin Zhong raised his head and glanced at him: "Of course, with a complete study, we can distinguish what other evil rituals this cult has, and we can track down whether there are any other fellow party members, and how large this cult is..."

"All in all very useful. ”

I went through all the files.

Among them, the only incident that can be determined to be directly related to some time ago is the serial murder case that was written in the unsolved case of Qishui City thousands of years ago.

As for the cult recorded in another dossier, it is only very likely that they were the reasons behind these two cases, but there is no more practical evidence for the rest.

The rest of the things recorded in the basic books are even more specious and uncertain.

At the end, there is a record of the murderer who killed the villagers.

Qin Zhong watched carefully.

In the fifth murder case, it was inadvertently discovered by Lu Ming and others.

After the sixth murder, Lu Ming and others scattered their men and secretly waited for the murderer in several nearby villages.

In the seventh murder case, it was determined that the other party was a cultivator.

The eighth murder case was discovered on the spot by two senior brothers of the Exorcism Realm.

The appearance of the murderer, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, this is just the appearance of the age, in fact, it may have been more than 100 years old.

Dressed in gray linen and dressed like ordinary villagers, this may be a disguise that does not arouse suspicion.

The use of magic weapons is a blood-colored long knife, which coincides with the fact that every victim died from knife wounds, and the murderer used his magic weapon to kill people directly.

The aura of the opposing mana turns dark red, which is not necessarily the reason for the exercise itself, there are many factors that can cause this, so it is just a clue to judge whether the person you meet in the future is a murderer.

The murderer's methods are strange, and the methods used when fighting with the two senior brothers have not appeared in the Demon Sect and the rest of the righteous path sects.

This is a crucial clue.

This shows that the murderer is a mysterious system that has never risen in the Central Plains, of course, it is also possible that it came from other places, but it is unlikely.

Strange means: First, it can teleport a distance out of thin air, it is not clear what the maximum range is, the murderer used this teleportation method many times when fighting with the two Exorcism Realm brothers, each time a distance of several meters. It is not ruled out that it is a special trick, after all, the two senior brothers who fought with each other are just exorcism realms. The realm is lower than the other party.

Second, the spell that can make people hallucinate was cast in battle, so that the two senior brothers inexplicably saw the scene that had happened during the battle, but this illusion was restrained by the Taiji Xuanqing Dao, and the two senior brothers instinctively operated the Taiji Xuanqing Dao Exercises, so they broke the opponent's illusion, and it may also be the reason why the cultivation gap is not large.

Third, the strange ability to summon nearby creatures, this ability has little effect on the cultivator, and I don't know if the other party can affect the xenomorph.

The murderer's moves have never been seen before, and he has made the two senior brothers suffer many times.

The ability to hide breath is good.

In the end, the murderer was very fast, and in a short time left the place and went into hiding. Uncle Feiyun made the last move, but still let the other party escape into the Jieshi Mountain.

The attitude of the Fengyue Ancestor of Jieshi Mountain is a little wrong.

It was normal for the other party not to give face to Qingyunmen, after all, Qin Zhong killed his junior, and the Qingyunmen powerhouse who was present at that time, Senior Uncle Feiyun, was weaker than Fengyue Ancestor.

The key abnormality is that after the mysterious murderer escaped into Jieshi Mountain, Fengyue Ancestor appeared on the edge of Jieshi Mountain to block Uncle Feiyun.

It's too much of a coincidence.

Qin Zhong raised this point and looked at Lu Ming and Zhao Tang.

Lu Ming groaned, recalling the scene at that time and said, "I didn't think there was anything at the time, but Senior Brother Qin reminded me like this, and it was true. ”

Take the book aside.

Maps are spread out on the table.

Lu Ming said: "Jieshi Mountain is not small, and the palace of Fengyue Ancestor is in the center of Jieshi Mountain. ”

His fingers swayed: "Senior Brother Qin, Senior Brother Zhao, you see, if Fengyue Ancestor senses his uncle's breath in his lair and comes out of it, it will take a short period of time, and this time is enough for my uncle to catch up with the murderer and arrest him." ”

"Not bad. ”

Zhao Tang nodded, looked at Qin Chong and said, "In other words, this Fengyue Ancestor knows that murderer, and it is even very likely that he is from the same organization as that murderer." ”

"That's right, this will explain why Fengyue Ancestor is not a true demon. That old guy has always had his own background. Perhaps, he is the strongest of this generation of the Mother Goddess Cult?"

Qin Zhong stood up.

Walk to the window and look outside.

The most important thing now is not the question of the true identity of Fengyue Ancestor.

From the very beginning, the Fengyue Ancestor made it clear that he wanted to protect the serial murderer.

What needs to be considered now is the question of how to deal with that Fengyue Ancestor.

Turned around: "Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother, that Fengyue Ancestor really has no conflict with Duanmu Ancestor?"

Lu Ming and both of them shook their heads: "No." ”

Lu Ming said: "We inquired nearby, and it is said that a long time ago, Fengyue Ancestor saved Duanmu Ancestor once. So the two have been getting along well. ”

"But the two have never had any interactions, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. ”

"This kind of unexpected factor can't be prevented. ”

Qin Chong muttered.

"Is Uncle Shi here?"

To Lu Mingdao.

"What, you have a solution?"

Qin Zhong shook his head: "I want to go to Jieshi Mountain first to see the situation, you are waiting for my news here." ”

"It's too dangerous. ”

Lu Ming frowned.

Zhao Tang also stood up and looked at Qin Chong: "Senior brother, think of other ways." ”

Qin Zhong shook his head: "The head of the sect only let me come alone, there should be special considerations, which means that there will be no other support in the door." ”

"The strongest person here now is Uncle Shi, and we don't know what the other party's situation is. ”

"If there is only one opponent for Fengyue Ancestor, with the joint efforts of Senior Uncle and us, we will naturally be able to win very easily. ”

However, that Duanmu's attitude is not obvious, and it is likely to interfere. ”

"And the mysterious Mother Goddess. Maybe there are other strong people hidden and have to be guarded against. ”

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