Under the moon, two figures slowly walked down the mountain, and they didn't know where to go.

Three days later, Xiushan Taoist Temple.

The disciples of the mountain got up early in the morning and stood on both sides of the mountain road with solemn expressions.

In the middle of the mountain road, a young man in a big red robe slowly walked over.

His realm was not high, but in the face of the powerful monks who were all over the mountain, and even those elders sitting on the top of the Cloud Peak, he was not stage frightened at all, and even had a warm smile on his face.

The stars hold the moon, and he is in the middle of the mountain peak square.

A high-ranking Taoist deacon approached him and whispered to him.

Seeing this, the surrounding disciples began to discuss with great curiosity.

"Is this the disciple of the Heaven Survey Mansion, it doesn't seem to be anything special."

"Yes, he looks like we are the same, I am in the Golden Bone Realm, he is in the Condensing Qi Lower Realm, and there is only a small realm in the middle of him, doesn't this mean that I will also have a chance to enter the Heaven Patrol Mansion in the future?"

"Hehe, you forgot what the master said, the realm is not the only criterion, the monks of the Heaven Survey Mansion are all geniuses selected from a hundred miles, and all of them have the ability to fight across the border."

"It is said that this Chen Ji once hunted an injured third-stage demon alone during a mission."

"Hey, three stages, wouldn't even the master be able to beat him!"

"That's not it, you also said, it's a third-stage demon who has been injured, but it's already terrifying to be able to do this, ordinary monks don't even have the ability to fight in the small realm......"

Chen Ji listened to the whispers of the disciples around him, smiling, and couldn't help but feel a wave of pride in his heart.

This mountain and wilderness Taoist temple is cultivated as the highest contemplator, and it is said that cultivation is also the threshold of the fourth realm.

With this kind of strength, in their Heaven Surveying Mansion, they can't even mix with a deputy governor, at most they are a deacon, and they have to be of a lower status.

Not to mention, the disciples here.

The difference between cloud and mud.

In the clouds and mist on the top of the mountain, an old man on crutches walked out, with a solemn expression, and asked in a loud voice:

"Dare to ask this little lord of the Heaven Surveying Mansion, what are you doing here today, but for the recent wanted warrant?"

Hearing this, Chen Ji smiled slightly, took out a red scroll from his cuff, opened it and saw that there was a portrait of a young man painted on it.

In the side peak, there was a middle-aged Taoist who was holding the dust and had white eyebrows when he saw this portrait, and his pupils suddenly froze.

"This is a list of wanted documents personally ordered by the Governor of the Heavenly Surveying Mansion."

"The sinner Ji Ning, in Baiyu Town on March 3 of the year of Xinchou, lost money due to gambling, and had bad intentions, killed Jiang Chuan, the owner of the gambling house, and robbed two heavy treasures."

"Subsequently, with extremely bad means, he injured a number of gambling house guards, court officials, and finally fled into Xiushan without a trace, the local county commander led the army, called on the civilian team, and searched day and night for more than ten days, but they were not found."

"To this day."

Chen Ji was personable, and asked the elders among the surrounding peaks with a smile:

"Dare to ask everyone, can you provide me with information about the thief?"

As soon as these words came out, there was no movement in the mountains.

The eyes of all the Taoist people were on a middle-aged man with white eyebrows and crane hair.

The peak master of Yunhai Peak, the elder of the inner gate of the Taoist temple, and the peak powerhouse of the Dan period.

Xu Shi.

At the same time, he is also Ji Ning's master.

"Ning'er and I, although we have been estranged in recent years, I understand his temperament, practice boxing and martial arts all day long, and work hard with miscellaneous disciples, never stopped, it is impossible to get into the bad habit of gambling."

"The Heavenly Survey Mansion is the force sent by the imperial court to maintain stability in the frontier, and it is the most credible, but this time, I can't believe your findings."

As soon as these words came out, the mountains were silent.

Chen Ji stood in place, the faint smile on his face was always maintained, and he was not in a hurry to refute.

Because he knew that someone would argue for him.

"Lord Xu Feng, if you don't believe the payment document personally instructed by the Governor of the Heavenly Survey Mansion, what else can you believe?"

Between the peaks, another old woman showed her figure with a serious expression.

Many Taoist disciples saw this person speak, and their expressions were not surprised.

This person's surname is Lu, and he is also a highly respected elder in the Guannei, and he often competes for resources with Yunhaifeng, where Xu Shi is located, and he is very unfriendly.

"Anyone can make mistakes, this is what Emperor Xia said." Xu Shi's voice was calm, faintly transmitted between the peaks:

"If Ning'er really makes such a mistake, I will not tolerate it, but is it unfair for the Heavenly Survey Mansion to launch a wanted notice without any conclusive basis?"

When the old woman surnamed Lu heard this, she snorted coldly and said mockingly:

"People have even painted a portrait of your waste disciple, how many people in Baiyu Town have seen him escape from the Taoist temple with their own eyes, and his things have been lost, and there are all the human and material evidence, what are you still quibbling about?"

"I never denied that he did it."

"But what I question is why he did that, as far as I know, Ning'er has no gambling vice, and the money on his body should be enough, and he hasn't been down the mountain for many years, and he went down the mountain to the gambling house and ran away, so far there is no news, don't you think it's strange?"

Xu Shi's expression was serious, he looked at the disciples between the peaks, and said:

"What is Ji Ning's character on weekdays, even if you don't want to see him, you should know or hear about his efforts."

"I suspect that there must be something else wrong with this matter, it is not as simple as simple murder and robbery, I hope that the Heavenly Survey Mansion will find out the truth well, and don't wronged good people."

When many disciples heard this, their faces also showed a look of approval.

Obviously, although many of them had opinions about the identity of Ji Ning's outer disciple and ridiculed him as a waste, no one questioned the boy's efforts, chopping wood and carrying water for several years, doing any chores neatly, and he could also spare his kung fu to practice boxing.

How could such a kind-hearted, hard-working child suddenly go to the bottom of the mountain to gamble and kill people?

However, the old woman surnamed Lu sneered and spoke again:

"What you say is all nonsense!

"Xu Shi, don't pretend that you know that fugitive very well, no one in this Taoist temple doesn't know, since your precious disciple was inexplicably unable to use his aura, you have been estranged from him."

"That poor child, no one even took care of him when he was sick, once he fell on the road with a high fever and almost froze to death on a winter night, you didn't care about it, and now what kind of face do you have to say that you know him and praise that child's temperament?"

"In my opinion, it is precisely because of having a merciless master like you that Ji Ning has a deformed mentality, and finally caused such a catastrophe!"

"Xu Shi, you should also take responsibility for this!"

"Don't go too far!"

The man's face showed a trace of anger, and he stood up from the clouds suddenly, and in an instant, the coercion around his body came suddenly, and the aura of heaven and earth surged wildly, as if he would attack at any time.

Seeing this, the old woman was not afraid at all, and still said mockingly:

"Why, in front of the Quanguan Elder disciples, you still can't do it?"

"I admit that I am not your opponent, how powerful you Elder Xu is, when he was young, he dared to fight with the elders of the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace for his wife, and ran to the door of the house to sign the life and death certificate, but later he lost but did not admit it, and he rolled back to our small place to make a fortune."

Listening to the words in the old woman's mouth, Xu Shiyi was extremely angry for a while, because he knew that the matter was not what the other party said at all, and there were other hidden secrets in the matter back then, and those hidden old women also knew it, but she still said this, obviously deliberately disgusting him.

"Lu Yi, I'll kill you!"

Just when Xu Shi couldn't help it, he raised his hand and was about to do it, when the gravel between the cliffs shook, under the highest seat above the main peak, there was a white-bearded old man who was always silent, but extremely majestic, finally spoke, raised his hand and asked him to retreat.

"Xu Shi, don't forget the oath you once made."

"Within the Taoist temple, you are not allowed to use force, do you think your disciples are also affected by you?"

The man's face changed, he bowed his head and was silent for a moment, and then he unwillingly exhaled a breath of turbid air and arched his hand:

"Elder Taishang taught me that I was impulsive."

"But I still have doubts about Ning'er's matter, and I also ask the elders, the Heavenly Patrol Mansion to investigate!"

"I must check it, the key is that I have to find out where the person is first."

At this moment, Chen Ji, who was watching the play silently, finally spoke, and said with a smile:

"First of all, it doesn't matter why he went to the gambling house, and why he killed the owner Jiang Chuan there, in short, it is true that he took the thing, I once followed the route of his escape, and felt some of the breath of that thing, but I couldn't find it after entering the mountain."

"Lord Xu Feng, if you also want to prove his innocence and investigate the truth of the matter, please cooperate and tell us where your disciple is hiding now."

Xu Shibai's eyebrows stirred together, frowned and said:

"What do you mean by that, and how do I know where he is?"

The old woman surnamed Lu stood on the other side, squeezing her eyebrows and mocking:

"Lord Xu Feng, I have already reined in your edge, it turns out that you are still so bold that you dare to hide the fugitives who want to be arrested by the Heavenly Survey Mansion."

"I said I didn't!" Xu Shi glared at the old woman fiercely, and then said angrily to the audience:

"Ji Ning and I haven't spoken a word for two years, I don't know where he is!"

"Lord Xu Feng is ruthless." Chen Ji smiled slightly, and then said: "But you don't know, I think there is one person who should know." ”

"Who?"

"I heard that he has a senior brother who has a very good relationship with him, and he is inseparable from him."

As he spoke, Chen Ji put his eyes on the direction of the disciple peak, and said with a smile:

"Who is Li Hu, stand up."

Between the peaks, among the countless miscellaneous disciples, came a tall, handsome young man dressed in burlap, with bandages wrapped around his arms, panting, obviously just received the news from other places.

"I'm Li Hu."

The young man looked at the eye-catching red robe in the center, looked a little nervous, and asked with a pale face, "May I ask what the adults are looking for me." ”

Chen Ji squinted at him and said:

"Ji Ning is your junior brother?"

Li Hu nodded, and said with a straight face: "That's right, although Senior Brother Ji Ning is an outer disciple, he does the same work as our miscellaneous disciples all day long, so he calls me Senior Brother." ”

"I'll ask you, and you'll say it again." Chen Ji looked at him coldly, and then asked, "It is said that you have a very good relationship with Ji Ning, and he only has one friend in this Taoist temple, do you know where he is now?" ”

"I don't know."

Li Hu replied very neatly and shook his head.

"That morning, I went out early to chop wood, waited for the teachers in the temple to light a fire and cook, and then scrubbed the floor of the Zangjing Pavilion until sunset, when the junior brother was gone."