The mountain city here is called the mountain city, located in Qinzhou, Shuzhou, Liangzhou at the junction of the three states, called "the East Woman Country" in ancient times, the former dynasty belonged to the Duo Gansi Xuanwei Division, the Daxuan Imperial Court set up a county in this place, divided into the Yongzhou Political Envoy Division. In the division of the Daomen, this place is located on the edge of the jurisdiction of Kunlun Daofu, and is under the jurisdiction of Kunlun Daofu.

Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu came to the outside of the city and did not rush into the city.

Zhang Yuelu said: "Although it is a huge county, it is not difficult to find someone, as long as you ask what murders have happened in the city recently." However, this kind of murder will most likely be the responsibility of hundreds of local households, but it is a bit troublesome. ”

Qi Xuansu asked, "Isn't there a Taoist temple here?" ”

Zhang Yuelu explained: "Although this place is under the jurisdiction of Kunlun Daofu, but because it is located on the road to welcome the Buddha, the people who believe in the Buddha account for the majority, so the Daomen only symbolically set up a Taoist temple outside the city, acting as a post station, receiving Taoists coming and going, and there is no duty to arrest demons, if I remember correctly, there should be no more than five Taoist priests here." ”

Qi Xuansu asked again, "What is the relationship between our Tiangang Hall and Qingluanwei?" ”

Zhang Yuelu shook her head and said, "It's not very good." Among the three major factions, Taipingdao had the closest relationship with the imperial court. After the position of the Great Palm Sect was vacant, the nine halls that originally belonged directly to the Great Palm Sect actually had their own positions, whether they wanted to or not, in fact, they all had their own positions, and from a standpoint, Tiangang Hall belonged to the side of Zhengyi, and now there was an undercurrent surging between the three major factions......"

Qi Xuansu understood: "In other words, if you don't have anything to do with yourself, it's best not to have anything to do with Qingluanwei." ”

Zhang Yuelu nodded: "Yes." ”

"Do we want to inquire one by one?" Qi Xuansu asked.

Zhang Yuelu thought for a while and proposed, "Why don't you ...... Count a hexagram? ”

Qi Xuansu suddenly remembered that the scattered people in the true stage can learn the supernatural power "Innate Divine Calculation", and the immortals who are the upper scattered people can learn the "Ziwei Doushu", which is the top divination technique.

Qi Xuansu agreed: "It's a good way." ”

Zhang Yuelu said to do it, and asked Qi Xuansu to put the head he was carrying on the ground, and use it as a medium to make a hexagram according to the formula.

The reason why "Ziwei Doushu" is known as the best divination technique is because its hexagram is the most simple and clear, and there is no need to figure out the deep meaning according to the hexagram.

I saw a scene like a mirage in front of the two of them, ethereal and blurry, and countless pictures flashed quickly in it, like a white horse passing through a gap.

Gradually, the picture became clearer and the rate of change slowed down.

Finally fixed in a big house, up and down vegetarian, although there is no sound, but you can also see that the ladies are crying, and the monks are chanting the scriptures.

Qi Xuansu was a little surprised: "There was a life case yesterday, and the funeral will be performed today?" ”

At this moment, the picture is twisted and shattered like a reflection on the water being stirred, and when it regains its calm, it has become a new hazy scene.

In a gloomy morgue, three Qingluanwei dressed in green clothes were talking in a low voice, these three Qingluanwei covered their mouths and noses with animal-shaped masks, only their eyes were exposed, they were wearing bloodstained aprons, and their hands were wearing elbow-length gloves.

This should be the scene of Qingluan's post-mortem examination.

The headless corpse was probably the bitter master.

Qi Xuansu said: "This is strange, there is a funeral over there, and an autopsy here, but they don't delay, is it a well-dressed mound?" ”

The voice fell, and the scene changed abruptly.

In a large stone hall, a Western-style chandelier hangs above, a life-tall oriental candlestick stands below, and white candles piled up like no money illuminate a statue of a six-armed woman.

In front of the statue, more than ten people stood in a circle, a scholar in a Confucian shirt, a gentry in a Taoist robe, a Taoist priest in a crane, a monk with a shaved head, an old man dressed as a soap officer, and a witch woman who escaped from Zhang Yuelu's hands, but the most eye-catching thing was a tall figure wrapped in a cloak all over his body.

Around these people, there were still many figures standing, including Chu Chunliang, You Leifu and other three people who died in the hands of Qi Xuansu.

The identity of this group of people is self-evident, it is the people of the Lingshan Witch Sect. However, except for the four people Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu had seen, the rest of them couldn't see their faces clearly, and they didn't know if it was because Zhang Yuelu's skills were not perfect, or if there was something else.

Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu both looked pale.

I have to say that "Ziwei Doushu" is more intuitive than Fangshi's "backtracking earth". However, there are also disadvantages, the earth qi will not deceive people, it will only faithfully record everything, so in order to prevent "backtracking the earth qi", the only way to completely disturb the earth qi is by destroying the terrain.

But "Ziwei Doushu" is otherwise, if you meet someone who is higher than yourself and proficient in divination, the other party can directly tamper with the divination results, thus misleading. In other words, "Ziwei Doushu" will deceive people, and you can't believe it, and you can't believe it.

Soon, these mirage-like images slowly dissipated, leaving only a head burned beyond recognition by the fire.

Qi Xuansu looked at Zhang Yuelu and asked, "This matter seems to be more complicated than we expected, what should we do next?" ”

Zhang Yuelu groaned: "I have a hunch that this case is probably not an isolated case. For now, we can start with the house of the sufferer. ”

Qi Xuansu disagreed: "In my experience, Qingluanwei must have kept an eye on the bitter master's house at this time, because there is a type of murderer who likes to return to the place where he killed people afterwards and observe the reactions and movements of the eagle talons. If we rush to the door at this time, and still carry the head of the bitter master, we are afraid that we will be regarded as a person from the Lingshan Witch Sect, and we will either have a fight with Qingluan Weihuo, or show our identity and explain our intentions. ”

Zhang Yuelu didn't take this into account: "What Tianyuan said is reasonable, but I didn't think about it. ”

Qi Xuansu said again: "Another point, if it is really as Qingxiao said, it is not an isolated case, then most of the hundred households will have to report to the thousand households, and maybe it has alarmed the local thousands of households." ”

From the sixth product to try 100 households, is the sixth product 100 households, from the fifth product deputy thousand households, is the fifth product 1000 households. Among the Qingluanwei, whose highest official rank is only the third grade, Qianhu already belongs to the high-level figures in Qingluanwei, and his status is probably equivalent to the Daomen's four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist. Because in addition to the first and second grades in the nine grades of Daomen, there is no master-slave distinction between the rest of the grades, so the equivalent of thousands of households is actually a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist like Zhang Yuelu, who holds real power, rather than an ordinary four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist.

Zhang Yuelu had a headache, she really didn't want to involve Qingluanwei during the holiday, and she was still a Qingluanwei Qianhu.

In fact, Qi Xuansu didn't want to deal with Qingluanwei either, after all, just a few months ago, he had just killed Qingluanwei in Fengtai County.

The two looked at each other, and they were a little out of idea for a while.

In the end, Zhang Yuelu simply didn't want to think about it, and said: "No matter what, let's go to the city first, and take a step at a time." ”

"That's all there is to it." Qi Xuansu nodded, then turned his head to look at the top of the Relic Mountain City, and could vaguely see a continuous building, which should be the Taoist temple in Zhang Yuelu's mouth.

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Qingbai Temple is located outside the city of Yishan, because it is built outside the city, the land is not valuable, so it occupies a lot of land, only in terms of scale, it is a big view. In terms of numbers, it is an out-and-out small temple, and the official members of the entire Taoist temple add up to only four people, namely: the master, the wife, and two disciples. The rest are the Taoists who maintain the operation of the Taoist temple, and they are not considered Taoist priests.

Because of the prosperity of Buddhism in the city of Yishan, there is almost no incense in the Taoist temple. And because the relict mountain city is located on the Yingfo Road, as the name suggests, people in the Taoist gate generally do not pass through this place, and its desertion can be imagined.

The master of Qingbai Temple is named Bai Yongguan, a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist priest, who offended a real person in the ancestral court in his early years, and was degraded and sent to this small place, and it has been ten years.

Bai Yongguan saw that there was no hope of returning to Yujing, and there was really nothing to do here, so he followed the example of the ancients and celebrities, pinned his affection on the mountains and rivers, climbed high and explored the seclusion all day long, and traveled outside, often without seeing anyone for months.

So only the lady and two disciples were left to guard the huge Taoist temple, and after nightfall, it was pitch black and extraordinarily infiltrating.

When Bai Yongguan was assigned here, he was in the prime of life, and ten years passed in a blink of an eye, and he was already the age of knowing the destiny of heaven. It can be seen that when the main wife Li Zhener married Bai Yongguan, she was not yet thirty years old, and now she is only in her thirties.

Such a pair of old husbands and young wives are gathering less and leaving more, which is somewhat discordant.

As for the two disciples, a man and a woman, senior sister Bai Yue and junior brother Lu Yu, both of them are in their twenties, and now they are only an eight-grade Taoist priest, which is exactly the same as Qi Xuansu's past situation.

As soon as the two of them left the Vientiane Dao Palace, they were selected by Bai Yongguan to be accepted as disciples, and it was a good thing that they were accepted as disciples by a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist, but they didn't expect Bai Yongguan to be demoted, and the apprentices were also lost, so they could only leave Yujing.

It is not difficult to go from the ancestral court to the local provincial government, but it is never a simple matter to transfer from the local provincial government to the ancestral court.

Xu Kou was able to enter Tiangang Hall from Qizhou Provincial Mansion because of Qingwei Zhenren. And Qi Xuansu is because of the secret operation of the Qingping Society, if there is no operation of the Qingping Society, Qi Xuansu just wants to "do his best", and he can't find the temple gate with a pig's head, so Qi Niang will regard this opportunity as a reward.

As for Mu Yan and the others, they were already serving in the ancestral court, but they were only transferred back and forth between the nine halls, and they were regarded by Zhang Yuelu as a flower garden Taoist.

The benefits of transferring to Zuting are also obvious, there are more opportunities, the prospects are broader, and the people you come into contact with are completely different. It only took Qi Xuansu less than half a year to be promoted from a seventh-grade Taoist priest to a sixth-grade Taoist, and his income increased significantly, and more importantly, he was blue-eyed by Zhang Yuelu, and even entered the eyes of the real person in the hall. If he had been in the local provincial government, he would never have achieved such an accomplishment in such a short period of time.

I have to say that many times, the starting point determines the end, and the seven-grade Taoist priests of the local Taoist government struggle for a four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist for life, and most of the seven-grade Taoist priests in the nine halls of the ancestral court can guarantee the old age of the four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist. The size of the platform is far more important than the strength of the individual.

In this case, the anguish of the Qingbai audience can be imagined.

Exactly: always because the clouds can cover the sun, and the "Yujing" does not make people worried.