Entering the ancient temple in the early morning, the mountains are empty.

Tiangong Temple, standing on the Buddha Hall Square, through the splendid hall, can overlook the majestic palace on the north bank of the Luo River from afar.

Li Xuan was dressed in plain clothes and stood at the door of a side hall with his hands behind his back.

Inside is the residence of a group of monks, and at the door stand two officials from Dali Temple.

Yesterday, Dai Xing, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, had already led people to conduct a detailed search here, but found nothing.

Li Xuan came here alone today to see if he could find a new breakthrough from here.

He had a feeling that he couldn't find anything from the corpse.

Since the murderer dares to do it, he naturally has a way to make it impossible for others to trace him.

If you want to find clues to the case, you can start with a group of mages, because the victim is the murderer who has the least control.

Li Xuan stepped into the side room and was about to start searching, when a chaotic sound of footsteps sounded outside the door.

Li Xuan turned around, and suddenly saw Dai Xing, the young secretary of Dali Temple, who was supposed to check the corpse in Dali Temple, appeared outside the door with a large number of black-clothed catchers.

"Dai Shaoqing, but is there anything to be gained from the autopsy?" Li Xuan was a little surprised.

"Not yet!" Dai Xing shook his head solemnly and looked at Li Xuan: "Does the prince have any clue?" ”

"I don't know where to go, but I just want to come here and take a look again, and I always feel like we've missed something." Li Xuan also briefly checked it yesterday, but the people in Dali Temple didn't gain anything, let alone him.

Dai Xing barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and stretched out his hand sideways: "Please, Lord Wang, let's retrieve it again together." ”

Li Xuan frowned slightly, what does Dai Xing mean by this, is he going to stare at him?

"Don't be so polite, Dai Shaoqing, this case is mainly based on Dali Temple, this king just comes to take a look, Dai Shaoqing invites first." Li Xuan stretched out his hand at the same time, squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at Dai Xing with a smile,

"Well said, well said." Dai Xing barely squeezed out a smile on his face, then nodded, turned around and walked towards the depths of the side hall.

The officials of Dali Temple are all veterans of searching, and they can search out some hidden and invisible things.

However, I searched for a day yesterday, but the things I found basically had nothing to do with the mages of the line, and they were all left by the monks who lived here before.

The line of mages left behind only a few volumes of scriptures, a few letters, and a few changes of clothes, and very little of what they carried.

"The four major Buddhist families are empty, and I am honest and I will not deceive." Dai Xing stood in the house and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"The golden body of the Buddha statue in the main hall also thinks so," Li Xuan said very calmly, and the look on Dai Xing's face instantly froze.

Nowadays, Taoism in the Tang Dynasty is the state religion, and the Sect and Xuan Department regulate: Buddhism is located under Taoism.

When Master Xuanzang was still there, he repeatedly suggested to the imperial court, hoping to make the Taoist Buddha sit on an equal footing.

That is the living Buddha of the world, the true great sage who returned from learning scriptures from the West, but even if it is his request, the emperor still turns a blind eye.

Even if it was Master Xuanzang's last suicide note, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi still ignored it.

Many people in the Tang royal family maintain close ties with Taoism, such as Li Xuan, who was originally a disciple of Qingyang Palace, but he was not a monk.

However, in the entire court, there are also many people who have a good impression of Buddhism, and even often accept the guidance of Buddhist monks.

If you usually say a few words in private, it's actually not a big deal, but now, you are obviously investigating the murder, but you are also talking about it, and even deliberately lead it in the direction of the contradiction between Taoism and Buddha, Li Xuan is not used to this stinky problem.

Dai Xing smiled a little, then turned around, immediately restrained his smile, and shouted loudly to his servants: "Intensify the search, hurry up." ”

Li Xuan was standing on the side, in fact, he could see it very clearly, not to mention that he had searched it yesterday, but he didn't search it, there was really nothing to check in this room.

There are not many personal clothes and miscellaneous items, and the most leftover is some copied Buddhist scriptures.

Li Xuan walked to the desk, and the scribe of Dali Temple was reviewing the contents of the Buddhist scriptures again.

Yesterday, they took away the few letters they had exchanged and did not touch the ordinary-looking Buddhist scriptures.

"Huh!" Li Xuan's heart suddenly let out a soft sigh.

Standing in front of the desk, looking at the Buddhist scriptures that were constantly being sorted out, Li Xuan frowned slightly, this is not quite right.

There were obviously far fewer Buddhist scriptures on the desk than they should be, and there were not many personal experiences recorded on them at all.

Li Xuan treats others with himself, for example, when he is usually outside, he always carries a copy of "Taishang Laojun Says Changqing Jingjingjing".

This is a Taoist classic that needs to be read frequently, and there are many personal insights written by Li Xuan himself.

On the other hand, for Venerable Yi Xing, as a Buddhist follower, he should also have such a Buddhist scripture that he often reads and records his personal experience.

There should even be more than one copy.

This should be common among other mages, but why isn't there here, it should be there.

Li Xuan was keenly aware that there was something wrong here.

"Did Dali Temple take any Buddhist scriptures from here yesterday?" Li Xuan raised his head and asked.

"No, just a few meaningless correspondence." Dai Xing walked over from behind and asked with some surprise, "Did you find anything?" ”

"I can't say yet." Li Xuan shook his head, thought about it and said, "When I examined the mage's corpse yesterday, this king didn't seem to see any burnt personal experience notes from the side, the classics he carried, and there didn't seem to be any used brushes and graphite here, just like ......"

"It's as if this isn't the real place of residence for the mages, it's just a temporary residence." Dai Xing raised his eyebrows and said it directly for Li Xuan.

Li Xuan nodded silently, turned to look at the bed on the side, and after just one glance, Li Xuan was sure that the group of mages had been resting here for a short time.

"The first group of mages is from Chang'an, and the prince has come to Luoyang on the third day of his death, if this king remembers well, he should have been living here." Li Xuan shook his head with a solemn face: "The murderer killed him, it seems that he not only wanted to set off disputes in the imperial court, but also had other purposes. ”

"I have to ask the people from the Zongxuan Bureau, they are the ones who put people here, and they are also responsible for the daily hospitality."

"Zong Xuan's agency can't do anything else, a few heads should still be able to, it looks like we have to find the place where the order is located." Li Xuan remembered that they had discussed the official document submitted before, and what they discussed at the beginning was either to use the excuse of poisoning the Buddhist monks in the Daomen, or to use the reason that the Buddhist monks themselves were refining the pill and being poisoned.

Now it seems that maybe it was not their guess at all, but a very likely fact.

"This king is quite familiar with the Taoist gate, and the Zongxuan Department is in charge of the number of temples in Kyoto and the number of Taoist priests, monks, nuns and other accounts, and the matter of fasting and Jiao; It's okay to have an account, but Zhai Jiao, there is a lot of work to be done here, what are they doing? Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, maybe that was the real reason why the new mage was killed.

Li Xuan had a faint feeling that if he investigated all these things, maybe the truth of this mage's death would be clear.

"Bang bang bang!" A burst of footsteps came from outside, and a black-clothed catcher from Dali Temple appeared at the door in a blink of an eye, panting and shouting: "Dai Lang, it's not good, it's not good, someone is dead again." ”

Li Xuan and Dai Xing turned their heads at the same time, and at the same time they were surprised, a hint of surprise flashed on their faces, there were new clues in the case.

"Let go of the matter of the Zong Xuan Department for a while, Lord Wang. Don't rush to the door to find it, otherwise it is likely to be killed, let's investigate the dead case here! ”

Dai Xing turned his head to look at Li Xuan, lest Li Xuan didn't understand that he also explained two sentences, Li Xuan nodded directly, how could he not know the sensitivity of this.