Chapter 360: Bloody Case, Mysterious Iron Coffin
A month has passed since Empress Qi's death.
On this day, Yu Chen received another letter from Song Xiang.
Said two things.
First, after Empress Qi's death, the undiscovered formation of the "Heaven Conquering Creation Array" was hidden in the red-robed old eunuch who had his head cut off by Song Xiang's sword.
- His identity has also been ascertained, the senior patriarch of the moon cicada, from the southern Xinjiang tribe that has long been wiped out by Great Xia, although he is not proficient in the way of cultivation, but he is extremely good at poison Gu witchcraft.
Song Xiang guessed that the sound of the wooden fish that controlled Emperor Qiyuan was his first handwriting.
It's a pity that Song Yuan was about to save him, and before he had time to interrogate him, he cut off his head.
And the formation diagram of the heaven-seizing creation was found in the mustard seed bag of the old eunuch.
- It should be that Empress Qi put this thing on this moon cicada patriarch before the decisive battle with Song Xiang.
At that time, with the help of Emperor Qiyuan, he had completely controlled the palace, and it was indeed extremely safe to place the array here.
And now, after discovering the formation diagram, Emperor Qiyuan has sealed it into the center of the Three Mountains and Nine Veins National Fortune Array.
Only when the three saints and one emperor gather together and open the national fortune array can they be taken out.
In other words, that array was sealed in the Great Array of National Fortune, and it could be said that it was the safest place in this world.
- If one day, the Three Saints and the First Emperor Seal are all taken away, then the Heaven Conquering Creation Array is no longer important, after all, it means that the Great Xia regime has been destroyed.
As for the second thing, it is about the whereabouts of the "overseas cult cultivators".
At the beginning, even if the imperial court tried its best, it didn't find any clues about this guy.
It was because of an incident later that was exposed.
- The murder of Bailu Mountain.
The Ministry of Industry sent to Bailu Mountain to destroy the two unloading warriors of the Great Formation of Heaven and Creation had not returned for a long time, so they sent people to search.
As a result, two dried corpses wearing the robes of Xieling Lux were found in Bailu Mountain.
From the two dried corpses, traces of a strange evil spell that devoured flesh and blood were found.
And this kind of evil method was used by the overseas evil cultivator who tried to refine Great Xia at the beginning.
Therefore, the court decided that this guy was still two unloading wrestlers.
Traced all the way and found some clues.
In the end, it was determined that the overseas evil cultivator had crossed Jiangzhou, which had become a wasteland, crossed Mobei, and left Great Xia.
This news made Emperor Qiyuan and Song Xiang both relieved and worried.
I breathed a sigh of relief because this thing had finally caused enough harm to humanity and went to the northern demon clan to cause disaster.
The worry is because I am worried that this guy will collude with the demon clan and make some kind of moth.
- Song Xiang also said that if it weren't for the great damage to the vitality of Great Xia now, the supreme power of the fourth realm would have killed the two of them at once, and Emperor Qiyuan even wanted to directly send troops to level the demon clan in the northern realm, and capture the overseas evil cultivator back and put them to death.
And after the official business is over, there is another private matter, that is, Song Xiang half-jokingly said that he must see the true face of the judge before he dies.
Yu Chen couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.
However, according to the old man Wensheng, Song Yi, who has always been unsmiling, said this kind of thing, which means that he has regarded Yu Chen as a friend.
Yu Chen also wrote back, with a witty tone, saying that Song Xiang's obsession could only be realized after death.
But after thinking about it, now that the country of Great Xia is peaceful and peaceful, even if Song Yi dies, most of them are happy and mourning, and I am afraid that they will not be able to leave their last wishes.
After replying to the letter, Yu Chen released the paper crane and walked out of the house.
On the dinner table, there are already big fish and meat, and the stones are still busy in the stove room, and finally a pot of fragrant crucian carp soup is served, and after sprinkling a few green onions, it is even more fragrant.
After the crowd feasted, Yu Chen was about to go outside the house and walk around twice before continuing to practice Tuna.
But a dense sound of footsteps interrupted his plan.
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the bottom of the mountain.
I saw a few officials carrying carts of corpses up the mountain.
Next to this funeral procession, there is also a rich ghost, but it looks miserable.
- His eyes were pierced and blinded, his ears were cut off, his tongue was half gone, his body was scarred, and his limbs were twisted into strange angles, and he looked like he had been tortured inhumanely.
Even if Yu Chen is well-informed and has experienced strong winds and waves, he still frowns when he sees such a tragic situation.
And listening to those officials, this is another terrifying tragedy.
The victim was the Zhu family, a wealthy businessman in White Tiger City.
The Zhu family is in the ship business, and the hairline has risen in recent years, and with the help of God, it will soon become one of the best shipyards in White Tiger City and even in the entire capital.
It can be said that forty percent of the civilian ships sailing in the entire capital were built by the Zhujia shipyard.
And it was such a huge wealthy merchant family, but it was wiped out alive a few nights ago.
I don't know that the head of the family, Zhu Wantian, has more than ten families, and even those family members, guards, and maidservants are all dead!
And most of them suffered inhuman torture.
Such a big mess, the imperial court naturally attaches great importance to it, especially now that the real Emperor Qiyuan is the kind of resolute and iron-blooded man, where can the criminal department dare to be a little neglectful?
Check it out now!
Soon caught two scattered cultivators of the Spirit Realm, and after some interrogation, although the two insisted that they were not murderers, they found countless silver and heavenly treasures in the Zhu family's secret vault in their mustard seed bags, as well as magic weapons stained with the blood of the Zhu family.
Stolen goods and seizures!
Dare to deny it?
The Criminal Department immediately sentenced him to death, and Ling Chi was executed!
The alchemists of the two spirit realms were brutally stabbed 9,900 times at the execution ground before they died!
The corpse of the Zhu family was also received by the Ministry of Rites, and after the corpse was sewn by the sewer, it was sent to the Tomb of No Return for burial.
- It is said that the tragic death at that time directly made the veterans of the corpse sewing shop feel like eating dead mice. After sewing, I took ten days off in a row.
Anyway, that's what happened.
An hour later, when dozens of corpses were buried, a few officials gave Yu Chen a flush, drank a few sips of tea, and went down the mountain.
And Yu Chen looked at the miserable ghost, but he was thoughtful.
Obviously, although the official explained the cause and effect of the whole case clearly.
But it's not that simple.
The biggest suspicion is the existence of this rich ghost.
He is the head of the Zhu family, Zhu Wantian.
If, according to what the official said, his whole family was robbed of money and killed, and died a miserable death.
But now the "murderer" has been punished, and even executed by Ling Chi.
His last wish should have been fulfilled no matter what.
And once the last wish is fulfilled, even if it is not Yu Chen's hand, the ghost should be wiped out by heaven and earth.
It shouldn't be like this, and look resentful.
Thinking like this, Yu Chen beckoned, and the ghost slowly wandered towards him.
Entered the house.
After a show, the golden light shone brightly, and the ghost turned into a streamer and drilled into the bank of the Huangquan River.
Yu Chen followed in, and saw that the ghost stopped, unwilling to leave.
In the tongueless mouth, babbling and babbling something, slurred.
Yu Chen could only hear a few simple words.
What coffin, what prince, what shame......
At the same time, Zhu Wantian, the head of the Zhu family, had been walking all his life in front of Yu Chen.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, it makes Yu Chen stunned first.
It turned out that in addition to the identity of the owner of the shipyard, this Zhu Wantian also had a deeper hidden identity.
- The disciple of the king of benevolence.
Speaking of which, he and Yu Chen are still colleagues!
His identity on the face at this moment is that he is the doorman of the Seventh Prince, King Rende!
Let's say that Zhu Wantian, a person from White Tiger City, has been driving boats for three generations.
In his generation, it is no exception.
But this Zhu Wantian was more biased than the sky, and he didn't want to beg for food on the water all his life, so he poured all his family wealth, borrowed a lot of silver, and opened a small workshop for repairing and maintaining ships.
But others rely on experience, inheritance, and the help of nobles to do business.
What does Zhu Wantian have, he has a lot of blood.
As a result, more than ten years have passed, and naturally I have lost all my pants and owed a bunch of debts.
Those who want debts are directly forced to come to the door, and the knife holder is on the neck, either pay back the money or die.
At this moment, Zhu Wantian met his nobleman.
- The Seventh Prince, King Rendeok.
At that time, King Derende was only a child of twelve or thirteen years old, but he had already begun to lay out and start to manage his own forces.
From this alone, you can see the gap between King Rende and the eldest prince, when the eldest prince was at this age, he was still eating forbidden fruit under the skirt of the maid, and King Rende had already begun to extend his hand to the people outside the court.
This can also show that Zhou Xiu, the king of benevolence at the beginning, wanted to win the heir very much, but in the end, he didn't know what he found, not only ran to the idle prince of Zhou Dang, who didn't a bird, but finally fled directly overseas.
reminds me that he once said to Yu Chen, "The capital is sick, terminally ill".
Could it be that he had already discovered the identity of Empress Qi?
Yu Chen guessed in his heart, but quickly threw these doubts out of his mind and continued to look.
With the help of King Rende, Zhu Wantian of course had a smooth journey, and soon became a famous doorman in the capital!
At the same time, he also became the most loyal group of disciples under King Rende.
His wealth, his reputation, everything he had, and even his life were all saved by King Rende, and naturally there was nothing to repay in this life!
His shipyard accumulated wealth for King Rende and attracted some connections, and King Rende's power made the Zhujia shipyard bloom all over the capital and become bigger and bigger.
Success.
And everything happened more than a year ago.
After the Seventh Prince Zhou Xiu entered the palace, he suddenly decided to fly away without any warning.
He accepted the reward of "King Rende", picked the most remote fief, and ran away.
And this departure also took away a lot of his manpower and resources, and only those like Zhu Wantian who couldn't take it away stayed behind.
But what everyone didn't know except Zhu Wantian was that before King Rende left, he set him a task.
That night, King Rende personally came to Zhu's mansion, handed Zhu Wantian a heavy iron coffin, wrapped in dense chains, and instructed Zhu Wantian to take good care of it, without any accidents!
Zhu Wantian swore on the spot.
- The head can be lost, but the coffin will not be lost!
But more than a year later, he broke his promise.
The head is lost, and the coffin is lost.
(End of chapter)