Xianyu Villa is surrounded by mountains and rivers, even in the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies in March, the hot springs in the back mountain are still white mist, beautiful as a fairyland on earth.

Unfortunately, this wonderland is a hell today!

According to Luo Bingyan's habits, whenever she used the hot springs, these two people had to come in to clean up, but she entered the third watch last night, and she didn't come out on the fifth watch, and the servants could only wait outside with sprinkler cleaning tools, and finally realized that something was wrong in the early morning, and did not dare to trespass due to the rules, and ran to find Shen Luoyue, who noticed that something was wrong, and no one answered the question three times, and directly led someone to break in, and was shocked by the scene in front of him.

The hot spring is located on the south slope of the mountain, backed by a sloping wall and a hundred-year-old tree, three sides are quarryed by craftsmen to carve into rockeries, like a barrier to block the inner scene, leaving only a narrow path covered by flowers and plants to make in, sixteen guards stand in all directions, the remaining two are guarding the sloping wall, no matter which direction outsiders approach can not escape their eyes, but these eighteen people have become cold corpses, without exception by a sword pierced the heart, the position where the corpse fell overlapped with the place where he stood before his death, and the sword with him was not even unsheathed.

After the rockery, in the hot springs, Luo Bingyan floated naked on his back on the water, his eyes staring blankly into the sky.

Shen Luoyue did not allow anyone to move these corpses, nor did she allow others to step into the hot springs for half a step, she walked in in front of everyone, carried the tragic death of Luo Bingyan ashore, took off her robe to cover her body, subconsciously took a second look, and saw the word "Zhao" engraved on the face of the dead man, hatred and fear turned into flames almost at the same time, burning in her heart.

When Fang Yongyan came, he saw such a back.

If it weren't for Shen Luoyue and Elder Huo's three points of sanity, I am afraid that he and Liu Yishou would be eaten alive by these weak water palace disciples before they could walk out of the courtyard gate.

Liu pressed his shoulder with one hand, and was silently pushed away by him, Fang Yongyan was defenseless, and with the sharp eyes of countless people, he slowly walked into the hot spring, came to Shen Luoyue's side, and looked down at the corpse on the ground.

He took his life in three days, but he didn't want to wait a day.

There is no extra wound on Luo Bingyan's flesh soaked in hot water, only a deep bone cut mark between the throat, soaked in water for most of the night, the blood has almost dried up, and the wound is clearly revealed, it is as thin as a hair, stopping in front of the throat, thinking that it is not caused by soft steel wire, but more like a wound left by a weapon such as a thin sword.

Luo Bingyan's usual weapon is Bai Lian, and none of the swords carried by the eighteen guards can be so thin, and no other blades can be found at the scene, indicating that the murder weapon was brought by the murderer himself.

Elder Huo hurried over and watched as silently as they did.

“…… I don't believe it. After a while, Shen Luoyue spoke hoarsely, "Even if the palace master's martial arts are not superb, she is also one of the few masters in the rivers and lakes, not to mention that her weapon is at hand, who can seal her throat with a sword in one round?" Even the Zhou Sect Master of the Heaven Mending Heaven Sect may not be able to do it. ”

"I examined the eighteen bodies, and none of them were poisoned." Elder Huo took out a silver needle, the tip of the needle was bright, and he pierced the silver needle into Luo Bingyan's abdomen with a trembling hand, which was also not dyed black.

Fang Yongyan said, "Are you sure this is the Luo Palace Master?" ”

Elder Huo didn't speak, he used a silver needle to cut through the lower jaw of the corpse, there was only a small wound, but the skin and flesh did not roll over, which showed that it was the true face.

Fang Yongyan frowned, turned to look at the pool of hot springs, there was a mountain wall as a screen, the heat was easy to gather and difficult to disperse, and there was still a cool breeze outside, but it was so warm that people sweated.

He closed his eyes and sniffed carefully, the characteristic sulfur smell of the hot spring filled his nose, but mixed with a faint fragrance, which made the smell soft and pleasant.

Fang Yongyan opened his eyes, followed the fragrance and looked at the small incense burner in the corner, and asked, "Has this stove always been there?" ”

Shen Luoyue frowned slightly, and went out to call the two servant women in, these two were already so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies, and when they saw the palace master's corpse at first glance, one of them immediately rolled his eyes and fainted, and the rest of the one also trembled and was almost speechless.

She asked twice, and then the servant replied tremblingly: "Hui, Hui to protect the Dharma, this furnace has always been there, the furnace and spices are all hand-matched by the palace master, she will take it away by herself after bathing, we can only watch, never touched." ”

Fang Yongyan glanced at Elder Huo, who immediately took the incense burner, and the incense inside had already been burned, leaving only a small handful of ashes, and the fragrance had not yet dispersed.

"Do you smell it?" Fang Yongyan put the incense burner in front of the servant, "Be careful, there must be no concealment." ”

The servant woman trembled and lowered her head to sniff, and it took a long time before she said, "Yes, it's exactly the same as what the slave and maid usually smell." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, the palace master has always used this fragrance, and it has never changed."

Using the same spice for a long time, the senses will form a deep-rooted memory of this taste, and the slightest abnormality will be immediately detected, not to mention that Luo Bingyan has always been cautious, and the murderer wants to use her usual incense burner, but it will make mistakes.

But if it's not spices, what's the problem?

Shen Luoyue's words were very right, even if Zhou Jiangyun went out in person, it was impossible to kill Luo Bingyan in person, not to mention that the biggest suspect at present was only a weak-crowned young man, and the murderer could kill nineteen people in a row without alarming others, so he would inevitably use some ghost tricks.

Poisoning is the most likely means, but even if it is an invisible poison, there will always be toxins left in the organs after death, and there will be no hint of silver needles piercing the abdomen.

Fang Yongyan suddenly thought of something, and said to Shen Luoyue: "Shen Protector, can you catch a rabbit?" ”

Shen Luoyue was full of grief and hatred, and was stunned at first when she heard his headless words, and then asked angrily, "What do you want the rabbit to do?" ”

Elder Huo followed Fang Yongyan's gaze and looked at the hot spring, his gaze was slightly downcast: "Do you suspect that there is a problem in the water?" ”

"It's the only possibility." Fang Yongyan said, "With the martial arts of the Luo Palace Lord, it makes no sense that the eighteen guards are all dead, and she hasn't noticed the wind and grass, or she is the first to die, but there is only one entrance to this hot spring, and it is almost impossible for the murderer to walk in and kill people under the noses of all the guards, so there is only one speculation - the Luo Palace Lord heard the movement outside, but she couldn't move, she couldn't make a sound, and watched the murderer kill all the others and walk in." ”

His voice was very soft, but it made people feel terrified in their hearts, Shen Luoyue and Elder Huo invariably looked at Luo Bingyan's corpse, and only then did they realize that those dilated pupils were not looking upward, but always looking in front of them.

Shen Luoyue felt a chill down her spine, and hurriedly calmed down her mind and said, "There are no rabbits, but ...... There are so many people alive! ”

Before the words fell, she directly kicked the cowering servant woman off the hot spring, frightened the other party to scream and struggle, and was frozen in place by Shen Luoyue's cold eyes, and could only soak in the pool in fear.

Fang Yongyan frowned slightly, she didn't say anything, she quietly watched the servant's every move, and her right hand caged in her sleeve quietly tightened her fingers.

The hot spring water is not deep, the servant woman is slightly shorter than Luo Bingyan, the level is up to her shoulders, she soaked a stick of incense in the water, the original panicked expression slowly changed into a fog, the body visibly softened, the water surface slowly submerged the jaw, and it was about to drown her mouth and nose, Shen Luoyue, who was standing on the shore, flew up and lifted her out.

Elder Huo checked the pulse of the servant, and his face suddenly sank, and he said, "Soft tendons are scattered!" ”

Fang Yongyan asked, "Do you know which kind of soft tendon is colorless and tasteless, and the attack is so powerful?" ”

"Not much, not too much." Shen Luoyue clenched her fists, "It just so happens that there is one in the Weak Water Palace." ”

Luo Bingyan will not only spice up, but also dispense medicine, she concocted a special soft tendon powder, not only colorless and tasteless, the onset of medicine is also very fast, once this drug, even if the martial arts are the world, it will be soft into a puddle of mud, especially it has no antidote, it will become a chopping board fish meat, can only wait for two hours after the medicinal properties to disperse before it can be freed, if you want to force it out with internal force, it will catalyze the drug to become more and more intense.

Therefore, this kind of soft tendon powder was named "gentle powder" by her.

Gentle Township is the hero's mound.

Fang Yongyan realized in his heart and asked, "This kind of medicine, are there many people in the Weak Water Palace who can get it?" ”

Elder Huo hesitated for a moment, took out a celadon medicine bottle from his sleeve, and said, "In the Weak Water Palace, anyone who ranks above the hall master can get a copy from the palace master...... Mei Qi Niang is also one of them. ”

Mei Qiniang is the person who pretended to be after killing Yu Qingqing before, she has a gentle scatter in her hand, she was asked by her younger brother before, the bastard took seven people to break into the Yunshui Inn at night, not only returned the whole body and took away a Wangshumen disciple, relying on this gentleness.

Now, these people are dead, and the gentleness is probably in the hands of Zhao Yan.

At this point, it is almost certain who the murderer is.

The problem is, Luo Bingyan came to the hot spring last night to practice on a temporary basis, how could Zhaoyan, an outsider, be able to take medicine in the hot spring in advance?

There are only two possibilities, one is that he is hiding in Xianyu Villa to watch the action, and the other is ...... There's an inner ghost here.

Combined with the strange letter that appeared before, Fang Yongyan leaned towards the latter, but he knew that this kind of thing could not be said by himself.

Luo Bingyan is dead, and the weak water palace will cause chaos at any time, so it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time.

Fang Yongyan was thinking about how to say goodbye, but unexpectedly there was another commotion outside, Elder Huo looked cold, strode out towards the sky, and shouted: "Noisy and shouting—"

His voice stopped abruptly, Fang Yongyan and Shen Luoyue noticed that something was wrong, and immediately followed, only to see that the disciples of the Weak Water Palace, who were originally surrounded by water, separated to both sides, and it was Jiang Pingchao and Mu Qing who came with dozens of Bai Dao disciples!

"Brother Pingchao, Mu Nuxia!"

Fang Yongyan didn't want the two sides to have a conflict at this juncture, so he hurriedly greeted him, and found that everyone's faces were ugly, and he couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

Jiang Pingchao looked him up and down to make sure that he was safe, then he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a calm face: "Dead!" ”

Fang Yongyan thought that he was talking about Luo Bingyan, but then he thought that the news of Luo Bingyan's death was still blocked in Xianyu Villa, and all those who knew gathered here, Jiang Pingchao could not know what was happening here, and the dead person in his mouth was naturally someone else!

Sure enough, two disciples of the Haitian Gang and two disciples of Wangshumen each walked out carrying a corpse, and Fang Yongyan looked at it fixedly, and his expression changed suddenly.

Ye Xixi and Jiang Yu, who left the table early last night, died.

Jiang Yu was hit by a sword in his heart, his eyes refused to close, his face still had a look of disbelief, and his right hand held his sword tightly, the blade was very clean, not stained with a drop of blood.

Ye Xixi's face was as white as paper, a blood mark on the left side of her neck was stinging and dazzling, she also held the sword in her right hand, and most of the sword body was covered with bloodstains, except for the five finger bruises on her right wrist, there were no other wounds.

Fang Yongyan saw their corpses, and immediately shouted in his heart, the sword wound in Jiang Yu's heart coincided with the sword blade in Ye Xixi's hand!

He raised his head, only then did he notice that the disciples of the three factions who were still standing together yesterday were now distinct, especially the Haitian Gang and Wangshumen, and their eyes were full of vigilance and resentment when they looked at each other.

"When we returned to the inn last night, there was no sign of the two of them."

Jiang Pingchao and Mu Qing couldn't speak, Jiang Yanluo walked over and whispered to each other: "Everyone thought that Ye Nuxia was in a bad mood, and Senior Brother Yu walked with her for a while, but I didn't care too much about it at the time...... Early this morning, the people from the Weak Water Palace suddenly came to the door and asked all of us to come over, and we found that the two of them had not returned all night, and hurriedly sent someone out to look for them, but found that they did not go to the inn at all, but went further and further along the way, and we finally found them...... Senior Brother Yu was lying on the ground, Ye Nuxia knelt in front of him, and the sword was still on his neck. ”

Compared with Luo Bingyan's death, this case seems to be very simple, and it can be inferred from the clues left on the corpse alone-

Ye Xixi's temper is so strong, everyone has realized it last night, so Jiang Pingchao sent Jiang Yu to chase after him, after all, he is not only good at martial arts, but also has a more sharp mouth, and he has always been very good at comforting others.

Who would have thought that Ye Xixi found that everyone was moved by Luo Bingyan's proposal, and she was both angry and sad in her heart, and she was afraid that she had said something excessive, which angered Jiang Yu, so that she fought hard.

Jiang Yu got Jiang Pingchao's advice, so naturally he wouldn't take her seriously, but he didn't expect that he had collected the knife, but Ye Xixi didn't put away the sword, the two were too close, and a sword pierced through his chest, he could only look at Ye Xixi in disbelief until he died of anger.

Ye Xixi may just be dizzy for a while, she didn't really want to kill her, but the big mistake has been made, she killed Jiang Yu, and she took her own life to resist.

Jiang Pingchao and Mu Qing must have seen it, so their faces were extremely ugly, but they could only say nothing.

After Jiang Yanluo finished talking about the cause and effect, she noticed the unusualness here, and asked in a low voice, "Cousin, what's wrong here?" ”

She thought that her voice was small, but it was no different from ordinary when it fell in the ears of people with strong martial arts, and before Fang Yongyu could speak, Shen Luoyue said coldly: "Last night, our palace master was assassinated. ”

Jiang Yanluo was stunned, and Jiang Pingchao and others also changed color.

The undercurrent of the night banquet is still vivid, and three of them died overnight, is there really such a coincidence in the world?

The bodies of the eighteen guards were carried out and placed together with Jiang Yu and Ye Xixi, it was clearly a blue sky and a white day, and everyone felt a chill rising from under their feet.

Fang Yongyan looked at it carefully for a long time, and suddenly said, "The death of these two people is strange. ”

Mu Qing was taken aback: "What? ”

Fang Yongyan stepped forward and raised Ye Xixi's right hand, the bruised finger marks on the wrist were clearly visible, thinking that they were left by the river fish when he was dying and struggling.

Jiang Pingchao frowned and said, "Where is it weird?" ”

Fang Yongyan said in his heart: The size of the fingerprint is indeed not a problem, but the strange thing is the direction!

Jiang Yu was stabbed to death with a sword in the chest, if he grabbed Ye Xixi's wrist, it should be his thumb on the top and the other four fingers on the bottom, but the fingerprints on Ye Xixi's wrist were just the opposite, it was clear that someone was standing behind her and grabbed her wrist with his backhand!

He immediately confessed to Mu Qing, asked her to help lift Ye Xixi's corpse up, knelt behind the corpse, held the hand according to his fingerprints, slowly moved his stiff arm, and watched the sword blade slowly move towards the corpse, until the sword blade fit perfectly with the wound on the left side of his neck!

She didn't kill herself, she was killed!

Seeing this scene, everyone present was shocked, Jiang Pingchao subconsciously looked at Jiang Yu's corpse, took his hand and carefully compared it with his fingerprints, his face was pale: "It's a little smaller......"

That person can hold Ye Xixi's hand and kill herself, and of course let her kill Jiangyu with her own hands.

Jiang Yu was born thin, and his fingers were longer than many men, but this fingerprint was smaller than his, and the real murderer was a woman nine times out of ten.

The people who attended the night banquet last night instinctively remembered what Luo Bingyan said, could it be that this murderer was the daughter of the old palace master, and he came with Zhao Yan?

But if she wanted to do it herself, why didn't she take down the enemy's head, but instead kill Jiang Yu and Ye Xixi?

These are two cases, but they are inextricably linked.

Fang Yongyan stood up and said to Shen Luoyue: "Shen Protector, what do you want to do when you send someone to Yunshui Inn again this morning to 'invite' people?" ”

Shen Luoyue smiled coldly, she was gentle and generous yesterday, but today she has turned into a cold-faced rakshasa.

"As soon as you came, there were accidents in the Weak Water Palace one after another, and now even the palace master has unfortunately been killed, so we are bound to ask for an explanation." She raised her hand, and the disciples of the Weak Water Palace, who had originally dispersed, gathered again, surrounding the people of the White Dao.

Jiang Pingchao was not afraid, and said angrily: "It seems that only you weak water palace have died, and we have few explanations here!" ”

"In that case, we might as well take a step back." Shen Luoyue exchanged a look with Elder Huo, "Our Weak Water Palace is bound to find the real culprit, and so must all of you, so it is better to cooperate temporarily." ”

Mu Qing's eyes narrowed slightly: "Cooperation? ”

"Not bad! The weak water palace is in the dark, you are in the light, let's scrape the ground in Meixian County together and catch the murderer! Shen Luoyue's expression was fierce, and she said word by word, "Now, the clues all point to that person named Zhaoyan, as long as we find him, we will definitely be able to find out!" ”

Jiang Pingchao didn't give her face at all, and said coldly: "I don't think it's necessary, everyone is different, it's better to do their own thing, so as not to stab each other in the back." ”

Shen Luoyue glanced at him, suddenly curled the corners of her mouth, and smiled softly: "Then I can't guarantee it." ”

"What do you mean?"

"The palace master is dead, and the weak water palace is furious, and we will swear to avenge this at any cost. If you don't go the same way, I'm afraid that the doorman won't be able to care about your safety when doing things. Shen Luoyue's eyes saw a surge of murderous intent, "After all, that person originally stood out for you, if you don't know each other, do we have to believe it?" ”

Jiang Pingchao suddenly raised his head, and Mu Qing's hand also held the hilt of the sword, and there was tension on the field for a while.

Fang Yongyan sighed, he originally wanted to take everyone away with him, but now he had to wade into troubled waters.

"Okay, I promise."

Ignoring Jiang Pingchao's glare, Fang Yongyan walked out from behind Liu Yishou, and only when he walked to Shen Luoyue and Elder Huo did he turn to face the Baidao people, and said in a deep voice: "The matter has come to this, we can't stay out of the matter, the weak water palace wants to find the real culprit who killed the Luo palace master, and we also want to let the two companions rest in peace, this case is urgent, and I am the son of the martial arts alliance master, and I am willing to guarantee for everyone." ”

His voice was not loud, but at this time it could reach everyone's ears, and everyone looked at this sick man, who had always been weak and incompetent, and was a little distracted for a while, as if they had never known him.

Shen Luoyue's eyes flashed, and her smile became harmless again, and she said, "It's rare that Young Master Fang is so sensible, my weak water palace will definitely keep its promise, but ...... Things change later, and there has to be a deadline. ”

Fang Yongyan turned around and asked, "How long?"

"Since Zhao Yan has left a three-day deadline, it is better to set three days." Shen Luoyue raised her hand, "Three days later, if the real murderer is ambushed, the Weak Water Palace should thank you for your help, and then the enmity and enmity will be cleared." ”

Fang Yongyan asked reluctantly: "What if the real murderer can't be caught after three days?" ”

Shen Luoyue just smiled, and Elder Huo said slowly: "The palace master restrained the people when he was there, and now that the dragons have no leader, it is inevitable that there will be some omissions...... Meixian has been peaceful for nearly ten years. ”