Chapter 286: Separate Investigations
The next morning, Ye Kui was taken by Jiang Zhijin to the floor of the attic for dinner.
"Ye Kui, let's eat something casually, and then go and see how the Nine Xuanmen investigation goes."
Jiang Zhijin said as he ate the food on the table.
"Zhi Jin, how did you get out yesterday?"
"Like you, one of the juniors in the temple lent me a human skin mask yesterday, and I put on the human skin mask and then changed my face, so the other monks didn't recognize me when I walked out of this attic."
"Human Leather Mask? Zhi Jin, is that human skin mask you get the kind of human skin mask that you can see everywhere, or is it a human skin mask from the hand of a monk who is delusional?"
"I think it's probably the most common kind of human skin mask in the monk world that can only change your appearance simply, but I forgot to ask that junior brother where he got that human skin mask, so I'll show it to you later."
By the way, where did the human skin mask you wear come from?"
Jiang Zhijin replied to Ye Kui and asked Ye Kui a question at the same time.
"This Human Skin Mask of mine was obtained from the Monk Delirium, and it is much more expensive than the usual Human Skin Mask, and the quality is higher than that of the Human Skin Mask that can be found everywhere in the monk world."
Ye Kui felt that he could tell Jiang Zhijin directly about this.
"Well, I remember that the human skin mask made by Monk Delirium Monk can change its appearance like a normal human leather mask, and there are some special uses."
Jiang Zhijin asked curiously.
"Special usage? I didn't know about this, and I forgot to ask about other uses of this human leather mask from Monk Wuqi, maybe the human skin mask she gave me only changed appearance, so she didn't take the initiative to tell me other uses of this human leather mask."
"Forget it, we're almost done, let's go outside the attic to see the situation, I don't know if we can see the other people who came to the Xuanyu Plain in advance to participate in the Demon Cultivation of the Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference."
Jiang Zhijin took out a human leather mask from the Qiankun bag and quickly put it on his face, so Jiang Zhijin's appearance changed because of this.
When Ye Kui and Jiang Zhijin came to the area where the other Immortal Sect and Sect monks would pass through yesterday when they stepped down from the Flying Dharma Boat, Ye Kui and Jiang Zhijin found that the incident where the Minmen monks died yesterday did not have much impact here.
"There are five or six times more monks walking around this area now than there were yesterday, and the large number of Nine Xuanmen monks who were guarding the surrounding area yesterday actually withdrew, and the area where the flying magic boat stopped has once again become an area unguarded by monks."
Ye Kui briefly looked around, and then said to Jiang Zhijin beside him.
"Those Nine Xuanmen monks may have patrolled elsewhere, but when you and I left the attic, I also found that the Nine Xuanmen monks who were guarding the attic around the attic where we lived seemed to be the same, but it is also possible that they were really evacuated."
After hearing what Ye Kui said, Jiang Zhijin also glanced around, and then said his opinion.
"Zhi Jin, let's wait here first, and then ask the surrounding Buddhist monks separately, maybe we can learn something new from the other monks, and come back here in half an hour to meet."
"Okay."
Jiang Zhijin agreed to Ye Kui's suggestion, and then Jiang Zhijin walked towards the more lively left area.
Ye Kui walked towards the area on the right with a relatively small number of monks.
"This fellow Daoist, I see that you came a little earlier than me, have you seen those demon cultivators who came here today to participate in the Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference?"
After Ye Kui walked for a while, he saw a monk who was often looking back and forth in the area where the flying magic boats were parked, so Ye Kui tried to learn something from this monk.
"Demon cultivators? Oh, I almost forgot that this year's Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference made an unprecedented participation in the demon cultivators, I'm sorry Daoist, I haven't seen any demon cultivators here since yesterday, maybe I was unlucky to miss those demon cultivators perfectly
The process of getting off the flying boat."
When the monk replied to Ye Kui, he still didn't retract and looked at the area where the flying magic boats were parked.
"However, I noticed another thing, only two of the flying boats parked there yesterday were demon cultivators, and the others were flying boats that monks were riding.
And now, among the flying magic boats parked there, three of them are demonic cultivators, and the rest are flying magic boats that monks are riding."
The monk held out a finger and pointed to the area where the flying boats were parked.
"Have three of the four demon cultivation teams already arrived?"
As Ye Kui spoke, he also looked in the direction that the monk was pointing, where dozens of flying magic boats were parked.
The three flying boats parked among the dozens of flying magic boats were very different from the other flying magic boats.
"It should be so, anyway, I wasn't here at night, but went back to the attic that Jiuxuanmen arranged for the monks of our Immortal Gate to rest."
"Excuse me, I'll take a look elsewhere."
After Ye Kui said this to the monk, he continued to walk to the right.
Ye Kui felt that among the other monks here, there must have been monks who had seen the demon cultivator team in the flying magic boat and stopped at the place where the other flying magic boats stopped, and had also seen what the demon cultivators in that demon cultivation team looked like.
"You're wearing this, you're a pious Taoist priest?"
When Ye Kui walked past a slightly shorter monk, the monk suddenly asked.
"Fellow Daoist, who are you?"
After Ye Kui heard this, he immediately turned around and asked the other party.
"Dao Chief, can you go over there and talk about it in detail?"
The shorter monk did not answer Ye Kui, but pointed in a certain direction.
"It just so happens that there is plenty of time, and Daoyou will lead the way."
Ye Kui agreed to the other party's invitation, so Ye Kui followed the monk towards the area where there were fewer monks.
When Ye Kui and the monk came to an area where there were only more than ten monks as far as the eye could see, the monk stopped first.
"Dao Chief, are you also here to investigate the cause of the death of the Array Min Sect monk?"
The monk asked directly.
"Fellow Daoist, why do you ask that?"
Ye Kui also said with some doubts.
"Fellow Daoist, just now a monk told you that there are three flying magic boats parked among the other flying magic boats."
"You're spying on me?"
Hearing what the other party said, Ye Kui immediately asked rhetorically.
"The Daoist misunderstood, the monk that the Daoist asked just now is my fellow senior brother, and he told me about this immediately after he finished communicating with the Daoist."
The monk was worried that Ye Kui would misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained.
"Fellow Daoist, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Ye Kui hoped that the other party would not spare the bend.
"Daoist, in addition to me and my senior brother, there are other Daoists from different immortal sects who have also spontaneously participated in this investigation, and we all feel that the death of that monk from the Jinmin Sect may not be an accident, and now we are investigating while enlisting other monks to help.
We feel that the Nine Xuanmen may not be able to do what they said yesterday, that is, to catch the murderer of the monk in the Jinmin Gate before the Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Dharma Conference begins.
In addition, the monks of the Nine Xuanmen who were sent to stand guard and patrol in various areas of the Xuanyu Plain yesterday were called back by the elders of the Nine Xuanmen, so we judge that the Nine Xuanmen is a little inadequate, or that there is a shortage of manpower."
At the end of the monk's words, he took out a palm-sized wooden board that he had cut out of there and handed it to Ye Kui.
"Whose blood is this blood stain on it?"
Ye Kui took the wooden board handed over by the monk on the opposite side and looked through it carefully.
There were still some splatters of blood on the palm-sized plank, but they had dried up completely.
"Dao Chief, guess where this plank came from?"
"I'm guessing you'll tell me directly."
"Uh... The plank had been broken off by the other monks when they returned to their flying boat, and the monk told us that the blood on the plank hadn't completely dried up.
The blood on this should be the blood of the monks, not the blood of the demon cultivators, some Taoists think that the blood on this wooden board is the blood of the monks of the Jinmin Sect, and some monks say that the blood on this wooden board is the blood of other monks."
The monk took out another thing and handed it to Ye Kui.
"Rags?"
What Ye Kui took from this monk's hand this time was a rag torn from his clothes, and there were some blood marks on it after his fingers were stained with blood.
"Daoist, this blood-stained rag was found by another fellow Daoist from a corner of their flying boat, and at first he thought about disposing of it as garbage.
It wasn't until that fellow disciple of the Daoist saw the traces of the fight in the other parts of the Flying Dharma Boat that he decided to put away this rag first."
The monk began to explain the origin of the rag.
"Fellow Daoist, why don't you hand over the information you found and these things to the monks of the Nine Xuanmen? I think they should have these things that will help them investigate the cause of the death of that monk in the Jinminmen."
Ye Kui returned the bloodstained wooden plank in his hand and the rag with bloody handprints to the monk.
"Dao Leader, at the beginning, we also wanted to cooperate with the Nine Xuanmen Monks to investigate the cause of the death of the Nine Xuanmen Monks, but when we successively found several elders of the Nine Xuanmen to explain the source and some of the intentions, we were persuaded by the Nine Xuanmen Elders to leave, and then we even had a chance to take out these two things.
They said that they would get to the bottom of the matter, and they hoped that we wouldn't interfere with their investigation.
Anyway, our idea is good, but the Nine Xuanmen don't believe us at all, and they are even worried that we will affect their investigation of the cause of the death of the Jinminmen monk."
The monk also looked a little helpless and angry when he said this.
"I see, according to what you said, the Nine Xuanmen are indeed a little too arbitrary, they should listen to your advice a little, or give you a chance to speak clearly."
Ye Kui also felt that the Nine Xuanmen practices were a little inappropriate.
"Yes, Dao Chief, we think the same way, those elders of the Nine Xuanmen are really unreasonable, so we will look for other Daoists who have the same idea to investigate the cause of the death of the monk of the Jinmin Sect."
"So have you found any other important clues besides these?"
"I can't tell you about this for the time being, unless the Daoist really wants to join us, and then work with us to investigate the cause of the death of the Jinminmen monk, so that I will tell the Daoist about the other clues we have found."
The monk on the other side spoke his request again.
"Fellow Daoist, can you allow me to think about it?"
"No problem, the Daoist can consider the time for a stick of incense, and then I have to continue to look for other clues, but the Daoist can rest assured, we Daoists are all righteous monks, and there are no other evil thoughts."
At this time, the monk was very willing to wait for Ye Kui.
"Fellow Daoist, is it possible that after the conclusion of this Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference directly, you monks who have gathered together to investigate the cause of the death of the Array Min Sect monk will be disbanded directly?"
Ye Kui felt that this kind of temporary existence, similar to that of a monk's stop, should last for a short time.
"That's right, Dao Master is worried that we will affect the normal order of the monk world, right? That's not true, I'm really just a temporary formation, not the kind of monk organization that has been operating in the shadows for a long time."
"Then so be it, I will work with you to investigate the cause of the death of the monk of the Jinminmen."
Ye Kui agreed to the monk's request.
"It's too high, I believe that with the help of the Taoist Master of Qianxi Temple, we will investigate the truth of the matter faster, the Taoist will wait a while, I will tell the other Daoists about you first, of course, it is just that a new monk has joined, no
It is to directly say the identity of the debut chief.
There are also other monks among us who are secretly investigating with us in this way, and they are not directly on the road with the other monks, and we will not force you and the other monks to show up unless the Taoist Master agrees to meet with the other monks on our side."
The monk on the other side was also very happy when he heard that Ye Kui had agreed to join the group, and at the same time explained to Ye Kui other situations of their temporary organization.
"Fellow Daoist, then I'll continue to investigate secretly, and I'll tell you when I find out what's going on."
Ye Kui thought for a while and said.
"Then the Daoist will put away this jade pendant first, and when the Daoist friends want to contact me, they only need to come here and activate the magic circle of this jade pendant, then I will know that the Daoist is looking for me."
The monk said that he handed a dark green jade pendant to Ye Kui.
"Fellow Daoist, I don't know what to call you yet? My name is Tian Dao."
Ye Kui asked the name of the monk on the other side, and then told the other party a fake name.
"Daoist Tian, my name is Zhang Jia."
"Zhang Daoyou, now you can contact other Daoists first, I want to know all the clues related to the death of the Jinmin Sect monk."
"Okay, Daoist Tian will wait for a while, and I'll be back right away."
Zhang Jia turned around and left here quickly.
"After asking Zhi Jin if he knew this Zhang Jia, I always felt that he was a little familiar, but I also observed him for a long time just now, and I really haven't seen him.
In addition, when I said the fake name, Zhang Jia's eyes also changed in the slightest, he probably didn't see that I was wearing a human skin mask, and he didn't believe in my identity as a pious Taoist priest."
After the monk named Zhang Jia left temporarily, Ye Kui also began to continue to think.
After a while, Zhang Jia returned here.
"Daoist Tian, since you have just joined us, we have limited clues that we can tell you, but as long as Daoist Tian also tells us the useful clues you have investigated, then we will also share more with Daoist Tian."
"Then Zhang Daoyou, you should first tell me the clues that you can say, and I will naturally tell you when I investigate similar clues."
"Then I'll tell Dao Chang Tian two clues, the first clue, the wound that the dead Jinminmen monk suffered may have been injured elsewhere, not the small area where he fell after his death.
Because we've found some erased blood in other places as well.
The second clue, at first, many monks thought that it was the demon cultivators who came here to participate in the Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference against the Minmen monks, but a certain Taoist friend on our side who is good at controlling insects thinks that this is not the case.
Because when that Daoist who is good at controlling insects controls a certain insect that is extremely sensitive to demonic qi to approach the corpse of the Jinminmen monk and perceives the corpse of the Jinminmen monk, the insect that the insect control Daoist raised does not sense the demonic energy on the corpse of the Jinminmen monk."
Zhang Jia looked around vigilantly when he said this, and it seemed that Zhang Jia thought that these clues were very important.
"Zhang Daoyou, are these two clues credible?"
"Daoist Tian, I'm not sure that this is necessarily the case, but these two clues are a more credible part of the clues I know, after all, the Daoists who discovered these two clues are both skilled and have a wide range of knowledge, and they are also very serious when they say these things."
"Zhang Daoyou, I know."
Ye Kui nodded and said.
"Daoist Tian, then let's talk about it here this time, and now let's start looking for clues and try to solve this matter of the Jinmin Gate within more than ten days."
"I hope so."
"Daoist Tian, see you next time."
"Zhang Daoyou, you also pay attention to safety, I think the murderer of the monk of the Jinmin Sect may still be hiding in the Xuanyu Plain."
"Well, Tian Daoyou should also be more careful."
Then Ye Kui and the monk named Zhang Jia parted, and the two of them walked in other directions.
Ye Kui's side immediately returned to the area where anyone who would definitely be taken by the Nine Xuanmen monks after coming down from the Flying Law Boat.
Because Ye Kui still wanted to try to see what the last of the four demon cultivation teams would be like, but when Ye Kui came here, he didn't see the demon cultivators, so Ye Kui could only go to the place where the flying magic boat stopped.
"There are still only three."
At this time, Ye Kui was disappointed to see that among the dozens of flying magic boats, there were still only three flying magic boats that were ridden by demon cultivators, and the fourth one belonged to the demon cultivator flying and still did not appear.
"Maybe it will be more evening, then forget it, I'll continue to inquire with the other monks about some other things, and then I can go back to the place where I agreed to meet with Zhi Jin and meet again."
So Ye Kui had no choice but to continue walking through the pile of monks.
Soon, Ye Kui's attention was drawn to a monk standing on a high wall.
"What is he doing?"
Ye Kui saw the monk standing alone on the high wall ignoring the gaze of the other monks.
The monk standing on the wall had a wrinkled face, and two heavy twin knives were carrying two heavy knives behind his back, and the monk was looking in the same direction as the body of the dead monk in the Jinmin Gate had fallen.
Before Ye Kui noticed this frowning Twin Swords Monk, the other monks in the vicinity had already begun to discuss the identity of the Frowning Twin Swords Monk and various things.
"Who's that guy?" I didn't even notice him when I walked over there."
"That seems to be a ruthless person from the Wind Sword Sect, no wonder the other monks are just whispering behind our backs like us, instead of going directly up to the high wall to make fun of that monk."
After the first monk finished curiously, the second monk beside him immediately explained.
"The ruthless man of the Wind Sword Sect? Who's that?"
"Don't you know the Wind Sword Sect? Then you know the Skull Mountain Swordsman, right?"
"The Swordsmen of Skull Mountain have heard of it, it is said that there is a monk family or an immortal sect on the side of Skull Mountain, and their sword skills are very powerful."
"That's right, the Skull Mountain Swordsman is indeed powerful, by the way, let me tell you one more thing, it was originally the self-proclaimed self-proclaimed monks who were exiled after the Skeleton Sect was destroyed, and then those monks of the Skeleton Sect who survived began to look for other living fellows, and finally those Skeleton Sect gathered on a certain mountain.
So there was Skeleton Mountain, and the monks in Skeleton Mountain also called themselves Skeleton Mountain Swordsmen.
The original Skeleton Knife Sect and a certain Immortal Gate both had the opportunity to change from a medium-sized Immortal Gate to a large Immortal Gate, but an accident occurred, and the Skeleton Sect was destroyed by a sudden unknown force.
The other immortal gate was destroyed by the demon cultivator who went south, but that immortal gate was luckier than the Skeleton Knife Sect, at least the immortal gate is still there, but the price is the same as losing the opportunity to become a large immortal gate, alas, it's a pity."
When the second monk had explained this to the first, he sighed and regretted it.
Ye Kui on the side also heard this, but Ye Kui didn't ask the second monk about anything else.
"Fellow Daoist, you should talk about the Wind Sword Sect."
The first monk listened to the second monk's explanation, and then urged.
"Fellow Daoist, shouldn't what I said obvious enough? Earlier, when I mentioned the Skeleton Knife Sect and another Immortal Sect, didn't I just want to tell you that the Wind Knife Sect was not ordinary?
Forget it, I'll make it clear, the Wind Sword Sect is a swordsman immortal sect that only showed its popularity after the Skeleton Sect existed in name only, and the monk world believes that the current Skeleton Sect has far surpassed the heyday of the Skeleton Sect.
I think that this time the Wind Sword Sect came to participate in this Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference to do what the Skeleton Sect did not do."
"Fellow Daoist, I finally understand a little, and now that Wind Sword Sect wants to use this Tianque Ten Thousand Souls Fighting Law Conference to officially change from a medium-sized immortal gate to a large immortal gate, right?"
The first monk could be regarded as having learned some things about the Wind Sword Sect.
"That's right, that's it."
The second monk ordered back to.
"So what is the status of that Twin Sword Monk standing on the high wall in the Wind Sword Sect?"
The first monk continued
Ask the second monk.
"Let's put it this way, the status of the Twin Sword Monk standing on the high wall in the Wind Sword Sect is equivalent to the status of the high-profile kendo genius Yuan Zhiji in the Monk Sect in the Sword Hui Sect."
The second monk said this, and looked proudly at the double-knife monk on the high wall.
At this time, Ye Kui, who was not far away, found that the second monk was also carrying double knives behind him.