Chapter 30: The Sacrifice

The air condensate is the master of the gas trick can do it, the air control is divided into five layers, the first layer is the wind control, as the name suggests is to achieve the control of the wind through the air control, this layer can be cultivated to the great realm can blow sandstorms, tornadoes, etc. at will; The second layer is the barrier, this layer is to condense the protective barrier through the imperial qi, which is somewhat similar to the enchantment in the mythological story, and can form a barrier several kilometers long after cultivating to the great realm. The third layer is the gas condensate, which condenses the real thing through the gas control, and after cultivating to the great realm, it can break the wall out of thin air, and freeze the water; The fourth layer is the flight of the imperial qi, through the imperial qi to make yourself fly in the air, I guess this should be the mythical realm of soaring clouds and fog; The fifth layer is called the Void Crack, and it is said in the Imperial Qi Recipe that after cultivating to this layer, you can shuttle through the invisible, and those in the great realm can tear the void and split the ground, and travel around without a shadow. However, since the birth of the Imperial Qi Jue, no one has reached this realm. I've just started cultivating the Qi Control Technique, and I haven't even done the wind control yet, so it will take a long time to reach the Qi Control Condensate.

The little guy was restless on my shoulder, I knew that it wanted me to get the two pieces of jade, but I am a demon body, this thing is also a fairy thing, I am afraid that it will have a suppressive effect on me, but I suddenly thought that I still have a spirit talisman body, if there is anything unusual, I can sacrifice the talisman.

So I took the jade piece from Li Mubai's hand, and I was cautious at first, but after taking it, I found that this thing was not only harmless to me, but also had a warm feeling in my hand.

Suddenly, the little guy's eyes showed a fierce light, only to see its hands knotted, a flash of ghostly light, two pieces of spirit rune broken jade as if it had a long mouth sucked in my palm, and in an instant my dantian suddenly gathered, two strange forces from my palm in, traveling all over the body. At first, the pain was intense, as if the muscles and veins were retrograde, and the flesh and bone were separated, and it stands to reason that I couldn't bear this kind of pain, and it was strange to say that the little pangolin seemed to have cast some secret method on me, although the pain was there, but the expression was not exposed.

I saw that after I stood motionless for a while, the pain in my whole body dissipated, the muscles and veins were smooth, and the strange power gathered in the dantian, Li Mubai and Lu Peng couldn't see the slightest change in me.

"Little thing, what did you do to me just now?"

The baby pangolin was crawling on my shoulder, and I felt as if it was weak, probably because it had just cast a spell that consumed too much energy.

"Spirit array, can be encountered, can't, ask, help you, devour, practice "Juyang San".

With that, the little pangolin slipped off my shoulder and fell into the backpack behind me.

"Are you alright?"

The little guy poked me in the back with his paw through the bag, suggesting that it was okay.

Li Mubai looked at the small wooden box for a long time, and suddenly said: "You see, there seems to be a poem behind this." ”

Four royals and five elders in the sky,

The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life.

The ancestor of the festival day Jin Dan turns,

The law of the five elements is wonderful.

Three clear offerings in the ancestral shrine,

The source of living water is safe in heaven and earth.

"It's just a Taoist poem, there's nothing special."

Lu Peng looked at the old Taoist priest who spoke.

"I know all these four royal and five elders, but who is the ancestor of the sacrifice day?"

Li Mubai looked at me suspiciously.

"You don't understand these things, how can I know."

"Xihe, the ancestor of the sacrifice sun, is said to be the mother of the sun, and Di Jun gave birth to ten golden crows, and later Hou Yi shot the sun and was killed nine of them."

The old Taoist priest is very knowledgeable, but when I look at this poem, I always feel that it should not be as simple as an ordinary Taoist poem.

"The ancients all liked to write hidden-head poems, do you think this poem will also be a hidden-head poem?"

Lu Peng's words woke us up.

Four royals and five elders in the sky,

The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life.

The ancestor of the festival day Jin Dan turns,

The law of the five elements is wonderful.

Three clear offerings in the ancestral shrine,

The source of living water is safe in heaven and earth.

Take out the first words of the six lines of the poem and connect them together, "Four people sacrifice to five ancestors!" I looked at Li Mubai in surprise.

"It can't be, right?" Li Mubai stepped forward and carefully identified it again.

"Four people sacrifice to five ancestors." The old Taoist priest was also stunned, only Lu Peng was puzzled.

"No, what do you mean by that?"

"The fifth ancestor is the fifth ancestor of the guide sect, the white jade toad, the meaning of this poem should be to resurrect the white jade toad by sacrificing four people alive."

The old Taoist priest shook his head.

"I heard the ancestors of the older generation say that this living sacrifice is to gather the people of the four seasons of heaven, and then choose the auspicious day of yin and yang harmony, with the ancient secret method, through yin and yang, know life and death, and resurrect the old people in the opposite way, but there are very few people who know this secret method, and the sacrifice method is cruel, and usually no one will try it easily."

"What is the Man of the Four Seasons of Destiny?" Lu Peng looked sideways at me.

"The people of the four seasons of destiny are also those born in the four seasons of the spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice."

Li Mubai put the jade piece into the wooden box and handed it back to the old Taoist.

"I said that I have always been restless in the past two days, Jiang Qi's birthday seems to be September 23."

The old Taoist nodded, and then asked suspiciously, "Do you know Jiang Qi?" ”

"Yes, my name is Li Mubai, and I once practiced with Brother Jiang Qi in Longhu Mountain for a period of time."

"September 23 is the day of the autumnal equinox, you mean?"

Li Mubai and I glanced at each other.

"If it's really like what this poem says, then the next victim is likely to be Jiang Qi."

"The problem is that we can't find Jiang Qi now." Lu Peng looked at Li Mubai helplessly.

"There is still time, there was a gap of twelve days between Ren Yaoyao's murder and the violent death of the Hui Ling Festival, and the murderer chose to do it in the Taoist temple twice, which shows that the living sacrifice has requirements for the place and time of death of the sacrifice."

"Can you figure out exactly how long they will get started?"

Li Mubai shook his head.

"Although the two murders have now been determined to be serial murders, the murderers are probably not the same person, and their modus operandi is completely different, one died in Wanghua Palace, the other died in Jade Toad Palace, where will the next one die?"

He looked at the small wooden box in his hand, and then looked up at me again.

"I don't know how to investigate the case, but I know a friend who should be able to help you."

Afterwards, Li Mubai and I learned that the old Taoist was called Lin Qingfeng, who was the junior brother of Zhang Zhishun and the veteran of the Jade Toad Palace. Lin Daochang said that he knew a strange man, and he once witnessed that the person analyzed the murderer after just looking at the body of the deceased.

"The person the Taoist said is called Ji Han, right?" Lu Peng seemed to know the strange person in Lin Daochang's mouth.

"That's right, it's Ji Han."

Li Mubai and I both looked back at Lu Peng.

"How did you know this guy?"

"I don't know him, but I've heard of him, and there are a few criminal police in Hainan who don't know him."

Lu Peng's words piqued my interest.

"Tell me, who can be so famous in your Hainan criminal investigation circle?"

"This Ji Han is a forensic doctor, he has a strong ability to analyze behavior, and once restored the entire process of the crime with a corpse, and also found the murderer."

"It's kind of interesting." Li Mubai is a world-class detective, he knows many masters of solving crimes, but it is the first time he has heard of the forensic doctor who can find the murderer through the corpse.

"What's even more powerful is that this Ji Han found out through the scar on the murderer's left hand that the murderer was the original culprit in the robbery of Hainan Ping'an Jewelry Store a year ago."

"What kind of logic is this?" I looked at Lu Peng suspiciously.

"A year ago, there was a big robbery at Ping An jewelry store, and the robbers were on the run, and according to the owner of the store, on the night of the crime, two masked men armed with guns walked into the jewelry store and robbed all the valuable jewelry in the store."

"But what does this have to do with the scars on the murderer's hands?"

I don't know this, Li Mubai glanced at me with disdain, and then analyzed: "When robbing, the murderer must want to take away all the valuable things as soon as possible, and most of the things in the jewelry store are placed in the glass cabinet, they want to take it and can't wait for the shopkeeper to open it one by one, so they will choose to use ** to smash the glass cabinet, the murderer will smash it with a gun in his right hand, and his left hand will naturally reach into the glass cabinet to get the jewelry, and he may be injured in an emergency, the scars scratched by the glass mouth are different from other scars, Ji Han is a forensic doctor, and it can be seen at a glance, In addition, the murderer had already been arrested at that time, and his mentality completely collapsed, so after a little interrogation, he confessed. ”

Lu Peng looked at Li Mubai with admiration on his face, "He is worthy of being one of the top three detectives in the world, this analysis is almost exactly the same as Ji Han's analysis at that time." ”