Chapter 156: White Lotus Sect Suspicions
The White Lotus Sect has many aliases, and its source is still the Ming Sect in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and later completely collapsed under the blow of Zhu Yuanzhang, but it still survives at the bottom.
Subsequently, in addition to the original sect name, the White Lotus Sect also used the names of various sects such as Maitreya and Illumination to preach and rebel. The most famous is the Tang Sai'er uprising during the Yongle period, although it failed, Tang Sai'er is a generation of strange people, after she was caught by the imperial court, she tried all kinds of tricks to kill her, but it was useless, Tang Sai'er was simply immortal, which sounds ridiculous, but it is a fact, and then Tang Sai'er still seized the opportunity to successfully escape from Jinyiwei Prison, and then disappeared.
Emperor Yongle had to catch Tang Sail at all costs, someone secretly reported that Tang Sail turned into a nun and hid in a temple in Shandong, Yongle ordered to arrest people, and as a result, all the Jinyi guards were dispatched, and Shandong Province also tried its best, but also failed to catch the real person, and finally Yongle thought that Tang Sail used witchcraft to change into a different appearance, so he arrested all the female nuns in Shandong Province and sent them to the capital.
That incident made the whole province of Shandong uproar, and I don't know how many girls were tortured to death, and even officials took the opportunity to occupy beautiful nuns as concubines, and in the end the matter was over, and Tang Sell never reappeared after that.
This kind of lack of virtue is also what Yongle Emperor Zhu Di can do, and strong emperors are often like this.
Under all kinds of severe blows, the White Lotus Sect disappeared for a while, but within a few years, it gradually appeared quietly everywhere.
The magistrates knew what it meant for the White Lotus Sect to come out of a place, so even if they found out that someone was secretly preaching, as long as they did not encourage the common people to rebel, they would close their eyes and pretend not to see it.
Another reason is that the civil officials gradually gained power, which formed a certain restriction on the imperial power, and it was impossible for the emperors after Xuanzong to act as unscrupulously as Taizu and Chengzu.
"Even if these two people are from the White Lotus Sect, what is this person doing to kill them? Besides, we have nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect, what does he mean by sending these two heads? "Besides, it's really like falling into a fog, and I can't figure it out.
"It can't be the master of Ouchi, right?"
Seeing that Murong Yanran was silent, she guessed wildly.
The greatest effort to suppress the White Lotus Sect is naturally the imperial court, and other sects are also strictly preventing its infiltration because the imperial court does not allow the existence of the White Lotus Sect, lest they cause trouble for themselves, of course, there are sectarian disputes in it, after all, once the White Lotus Sect gains power, the status of the Wudang Sect, the Heavenly Master Sect and other sects will decline significantly.
Taoism does not allow the White Lotus Sect to gain power, and the same is true for the various sects of Buddhism, after all, the White Lotus Sect is not a Taoist sect, but a continuation of Mingjiao, just putting on the skin of Taoism or Buddhism to deceive the world.
Besides, it's not pure random guessing, it is very likely that someone with such skills is the legendary Ouchi master, and besides, he has always felt that the emperor will not let him go unchecked, and there must be a way to spy on him. It is difficult to say whether the sending of these two heads was a warning to him.
"It's not them, they won't do this kind of sneaky thing, the masters of Ouchi are all arrogant people, even if they kill people, they will kill them openly, even if they don't leave their real names, they will leave their marks." Murong Yanran shook her head and said.
"Hmph, those masters are not as bright and upright as Master imagined." Jiu Niang snorted coldly.
"Then these two heads should be taken by the seniors to study carefully." Besides, I'm discouraged, I can't guess anyway, so I just ignore it, some things will naturally be known when the time comes, and there is no need to worry about myself.
"I'll do a good study, but it's probably the same as last time, and I won't get results. This person is definitely a master, and a master with special functions. Murong Yanran sighed.
"Could it be someone from the Empty Gate?"
Besides, when he blurted it out, he was shocked.
He still lingers at the empty Dao Gate, that Dao Gate is indeed too incredible, and all kinds of methods are incredible. This kind of unwitting method of giving away people's heads is in line with their style.
However, he is mortal enemies with the Empty Daomen, and if they do it, no matter what their intentions are, it will definitely not be a good thing.
"Isn't that Xiaojun from the empty door, please ask him to take a look." Jiuniang said.
Besides, I was also hesitating whether to ask Xiaojun to come over and help check it out immediately.
At this moment, I heard a person outside the door laughing: "No need to invite, I am here." ”
Besides, he was overjoyed and said with a smile, "You will be in a hurry, just in time." ”
"That's right, it's just right when I come." Xiaojun said unashamedly, pushed the door directly in, and walked in with him It was Zhou Dingcheng who ran away in a negative mood.
It turned out that as soon as there was an accident here, there was an escort who rode to the British mansion to find Zhou Dingcheng and told him that there were two human heads outside the gate, Zhou Dingcheng was drunk with Xiaojun to kill his sorrows, and he was already half-drunk.
The poor guard, riding the fastest horse, felt like a snail behind the two, and for a moment he could not even see them.
"It's just so that you're here, let's take a good look at this girl and see if it's your people who are doing something immoral." Jiu Niang said coldly.
Xiaojun doesn't care about her attitude, knowing that she is this character, if one day Jiu Niang suddenly becomes very enthusiastic and polite, gentle and ladylike, it is estimated that she will have to scare him away.
After he looked at it carefully, he shook his head: "It wasn't our Daomen who did it. ”
"How can you be so sure? There are many people in your Daomen, do you all use one method to kill people? Won't change the modus operandi? Jiuniang said.
"No, the people of our Dao Sect do not kill people in the same way, but do not kill people at all, this is the rule of the door, and it is also the precept handed down by our ancestors. If you really have to kill someone, you will never leave a mark on your appearance, let alone beheading. If someone doesn't have any scars on their skin, but their internal organs are shattered or gone, then it's really possible that someone from our sect did it. Jun explained.
"You can blow enough, your Daomen can do anything from heaven to earth." Jiu Niang was a little unconvinced.
Taking people's lives without leaving the slightest trace can be said to be the highest level of killing. That's why Jiu Niang said that Xiaojun was bragging.
Besides, he doesn't think so, he has seen the killing methods of the empty door, which is indeed extremely cruel and perverted, a hundred times more cruel and perverted than beheading.
I think that when he was in Nanjing, he saw with his own eyes the two tragic cases of Han Ziping, the master of the empty door.
In each case, a family of men and women, young and old, all committed suicide by hanging beams, and they all wore the best clothes, and the women wore the best jewelry, and their faces were painted with heavy makeup, as if there was a festival or a family celebration, and after death, everyone had a creepy and strange smile on their faces.
Since the murder cases all happened in a closed secret room, the government had no place to do anything about it, and it still inadvertently drew the mutated hell map, and for some reason he flew away, and then pounced on Han Ziping, who was hundreds of miles away, swallowed his soul, and destroyed a generation of culprits.
He still feels uncomfortable when he thinks about it now.
The people of the Empty Dao Gate are indeed very weird, but it does not mean that they are invincible in the world, when Murong Yanran was in Fengyang, he fought with the top masters of the Empty Dao Gate and the masters of the Ancestor Protector Sect, although they were defeated, they also held their positions, and the masters of these two sects were helpless against Murong Yanran.
After Zhou Dingcheng came in, he was about to say something, but he saw Murong Yanran sweeping towards him, his gaze was like thunder and lightning, and the expression on his face was like a sword out of its sheath.
Zhou Dingcheng was immediately frightened and half shortened, he felt a strong killing intent from Murong Yanran's gaze, with her status and identity, killing him was almost like pinching a bed bug to death, if Murong Yanran wanted to kill him at this time, Xiaojun couldn't stop him, and Wudang would not speak for him afterwards.
He was not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of Murong Yanran killing him, but the kind of killing intent he was afraid of. It's a little unreasonable to say, I'm not afraid of death, what are I afraid of, in fact, many people who are really not afraid of death still have many scared people and scared scenes. The human psyche is complex and subtle, and it is difficult to describe it in words.
"Have you figured out who might have done it?" Murong Yanran asked.
"No, to be honest, there are only two masters and apprentices I know who are masters of silk threads." Jun smiled bitterly.
"You ......" Jiu Niang pointed to Xiaojun's nose angrily, but couldn't say anything.
Indeed, there are really too few masters who use silk threads as weapons, and the most famous ones are their masters and apprentices.
"It's not about who did it, it's why, this man must have a good intention to send his head here every time he kills someone. So I think we have to find the answer in this kid. Xiao Jun pointed to the situation.
"He ......" Jiuniang was dumbfounded.
"What's the matter with me?" And with an innocent expression.
"You say, this man isn't trying to challenge me?" Jiu Niang still can't let go of this knot.
Xiao Jun looked at her expression and smiled, that means that people will not have nothing to do to challenge you to play, and it is almost the same to challenge Murong Yanran.
"You underestimate me?" Jiuniang looked at Xiaojun's plausible smile and said angrily.
"Jiu'er, don't make trouble, what Xiaojun said is reasonable, these things may really have something to do with Gongzi, not coming at us." Murong Yanran also smiled bitterly.
She said very bitterly, if the person was just here for the sake of the situation, it means that people didn't take her seriously at all.
What kind of master is this?
At least she didn't know that there was a master of this level. There are many masters in the Qinwang faction, and there are naturally those who are higher than her martial arts, but there is really no one who can have such a big gap.
Not only was there no one in the Qinwang faction, but as far as she knew, all the martial arts masters she knew, including those who were in the inner guards, could not find such a person.
At this time, the eyes of Murong Yanran, Xiaojun, and Jiuniang were all fixed on their faces, as if they were waiting for him to say something.
"What do you all think I'm doing, this has nothing to do with me, I'm more confused than you, I'm the victim of this." And shouted.