Chapter 13: Playing with Fire and Self-Immolation
Longjiang Town, Lizheng Mansion!
"Is the dead Taoist priest of Yunkong gone?" Cheng Hanhai asked as he sat on a Taishi chair and saw the butler return.
The housekeeper bowed and said, "After he took the money, he returned to Baiyun Temple overnight." ”
"Well," Cheng Hanhai nodded, knocking on the armrest of the Taishi chair, "My purpose in killing Fan Heng was to defeat Fan Chongming's dog, but I didn't expect that dog to commit suicide in public, and this obstacle was completely removed." ”
"Master Shengming, there is no one worthy of being your opponent in Longjiang Town. The butler immediately gave him a sycophant.
Cheng Hanhai sighed and said, "The fly in the ointment is that he didn't kill Yunkong's dead Taoist priest, and let him kill my tool man." ”
"Master, that Mengyan tapir is not easy to control, and if it dies, it will die. The butler touched his goatee, squinted his eyes and began to make bad ideas, "As for Yunkong, if he dares to beat the young master, despise the Lizheng Mansion, and don't give the master any face, then he should die, we can use the Xianxia faction to deal with him." ”
Cheng Hanhai's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "That's right, Yunkong just got the Liangyi Soul Fixing Pillar, which is a treasure worth millions of copper shells. If you tell the old man, with that old man's greedy nature, there is a chance that he will attack Yunkong, and then it will be a dog-eat-dog show. ”
"The master is really resourceful, and he has no last resort, even if those cultivators have the magical power of eating qi and destroying valleys, burning mountains and boiling seas, they are not played by the master in applause. The butler put on a look of admiration.
Cheng Hanhai enjoyed the housekeeper's admiring gaze very much, and a new thought came to him for a while, and said: "The weight of the Liangyi Soul Pillar alone is not enough, let's make up another treasure, let's just say that there is a supreme treasure that protects the soul of the god in the clouds, so that we can not be afraid of the fire of nothingness of the Mengyan tapir and be able to kill the Mengyan tapir." ”
"The master's plan, the old slave completely obeyed. The butler first gave him a sycophant, and then came up with a bad idea, "However, these things are better for the old man to hear from the streets, so that we will become outsiders, and even if he does not get the treasure of the soul protector in the future, it has nothing to do with us." ”
"Okay," Cheng Hanhai slapped his thigh excitedly, "That's it." ”
"If this can't kill Yunkong's dog Taoist, we will pay for Lao Liu to send someone to assassinate Yunkong. "The old Liu in the housekeeper's mouth, named Liu Yang, is ostensibly the owner of the auspicious gambling house, but he is actually the liaison of a killer organization.
"Squeak......
The door of the house opened suddenly, the cold wind poured in, and a figure appeared in the room, it was Ning Xi.
The smile on Cheng Hanhai's face instantly froze, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead.
He was wondering in his heart whether Yunkong had heard what he had said, and if so, how much he had heard.
As for the butler, his legs and stomach were trembling, and he couldn't stand anymore.
"Why do you want to harm Fan Chongming?" When Ning Xi found out that someone had helped Mengyan Tapir bury the Liangyi Soul Fixing Pillar, he understood that there were Mengyan Tapir's accomplices in Longjiang Town.
Originally, he couldn't be sure who was Mengyan Tapir's accomplice.
It was Tang Jichen who reminded him that when she went to Lizheng Mansion to pick up yellow rattan paper and vermilion ink, Cheng Yaotian threatened her that she would soon have to repay the humiliation he had suffered.
Ning Xi therefore set his sights on the Cheng family, it was fake to leave Longjiang Town before, and it was true that he quietly came to spy on Cheng Hanhai.
"Fan Chongming is committing suicide, and I ...... Never mind. Cheng Hanhai pretended to be calm.
Ning Xi raised his hand and patted it lightly on the butler's shoulder, seemingly without force, but the butler's seven orifices flowed blood, and his body fell diagonally.
"Gollum ......"
Cheng Hanhai swallowed his saliva and plucked up his courage to say, "I'...... I am a great merchant official, blessed by the luck of the country, if you are a cultivator, if you kill me, you will get cause and effect. ”
Ning Xi shook her head slightly.
When this bastard was in the same league with the demon and murdered the townspeople, he didn't think he was a big business official.
Now when his life is threatened, he remembers that he is an official.
It's ironic.
As everyone knows, what the country's luck blesses is a good official who is honest and honest and dedicated to the public.
A human dregs like Cheng Hanhai, who regards human life as a mustard, not only does not touch cause and effect when killed, but also saves merit.
"Some people think that death is liberation, but in fact death is the beginning of suffering. Ning Xi pinched a finger, and a cluster of samadhi true fire came out of his fingertips.
In this empty room, a terrible scream immediately sounded
Cheng Hanhai's body shook, he could hear it, the screams were from the housekeeper.
"This is called soul refining, which can refine the soul into nothingness and completely disappear into the world. Ning Xi took the samadhi true fire, and the screams stopped abruptly.
Cheng Hanhai's face turned pale, and he stammered: "You...... You can't do this to me. ”
"Don't worry, I won't do this to you," Ning Xi grinned, "I will refine your two souls and three spirits at most, so that no matter what species you are reborn into in your life, you will be an idiot, and you can only live in a muddy way, becoming the object of people's trampling and mockery, and this kind of life will never end." ”
"You...... You are so poisonous!" Cheng Hanhai was really frightened, and his body trembled involuntarily.
He only now understood what it meant that those who play with fire must burn themselves.
Cultivators like Yunkong and Void are fire, and you can plot against them, but once the slightest flaw is revealed and arouses their suspicion, it will be inevitable.
Ning Xi laughed mockingly, treating people like Cheng Hanhai, no matter how excessive, it was not poisonous, and said, "Aren't you going to say it yet?"
Cheng Hanhai bowed his head and said, "I said, I said...... I dealt with Fan Chongming to ......"
Ning Xi glanced outside the house, interrupted Cheng Hanhai's words, and said, "It's dawning, don't tell me alone, tell everyone in the town." ”
Cheng Hanhai rolled his eyes and walked out according to Ning Xi's instructions.
The rain has stopped, the morning air is especially fresh, the grass on the roadside is verdant, and the wildflowers are stained with crystal water droplets.
There was a high platform outside Lizheng Mansion, and Ning Xi escorted Cheng Hanhai up and made him kneel on the wet high platform.
"Fathers and villagers of Longjiang Town, I am the master of Baiyun Temple, Yunkong Taoist, recently people have died in the town one after another, this matter is not a demon disaster, but man-made, please come to Lizheng Mansion for the specific situation, listen to Cheng Hanhai for everyone to explain one by one. Ning Xi carried his true qi, and his voice spread like ripples, spreading throughout the town.
Soon, the townspeople arrived one after another.
These people saw Cheng Hanhai kneeling on the high platform and whispered one by one.
Ning Xi waited for a while, saw that the person was almost there, kicked Cheng Hanhai, and said, "Explain!"
"Folks, this demon wants to blackmail me, I swear to die, so he poured dirty water on me, wanting me Cheng to be ruined, please don't fall for him. Cheng Hanhai said loudly.
He really didn't dare tell the truth, he would definitely be beaten to death by the townspeople.
"Cheng Hanhai, you are simply talking nonsense," Fan Chongming's wife Fan Yang stood up, "Yesterday, my husband personally went to the head of the Yunkong Dao and wanted to fund the head of the Yunkong Dao and help him get rid of the demon, but the head of the Yunkong Dao politely declined, and he didn't take a single copper shell, how could he covet the little money of your Cheng family." ”
Fan Chongming is a well-known wealthy businessman in Longjiang Town, and his family property is far from being comparable to Cheng Hanhai.
"Besides, what kind of character you Cheng Hanhai is, can we not know. "Lao Guo is old, highly respected, and has a lot of prestige in the town.
As soon as he said this, everyone nodded again and again.
Cheng Hanhai has raised a lot of thugs, who say nothing on weekdays and do things domineeringly, but anyone who dares to go against his will will will be cleaned up very miserably.
It's just that Cheng Hanhai is very cunning, and after becoming Lizheng, he hooked up many people to form a huge community of interests and control the entire Longjiang Town.
Although everyone knew that what Daoist Yunkong said was true, because their own interests were involved, many of them didn't want to see Cheng Hanhai finished, so they spoke up.
For example, Liu Yang, the owner of Jixiang Gambling House, said loudly: "Listen to me, even if you don't believe in Cheng Hanhai, you can't believe Yunkong, what kind of character and what kind of person he is, do you understand."
Recently, some people in the town have been talking about it, and I stated it in advance, this is not what I said, Yunkong adopted Tang Jiu's daughter Tang Yuchen, not to pity her, but to ......"
Liu Yang coughed dryly when he said this, blinked, and said: "Everyone understands, poor little girl has sold her body to bury her father, and she can only live in pain and suffering." ”
Some people don't believe it, but some people do, after all, Tang Jiu's daughter is too watery and cute, and it is completely possible for some beasts to move their thoughts that they shouldn't move.
For a while, there was a lot of noise and chaos under the high stage.
Seeing this scene, Cheng Hanhai's heart was slightly relieved, after all, this Yunkong is a person from outside the square, and he has too little experience, how can he be able to play with them.
Now that everyone who knows the truth is dead, as long as he bites to death and doesn't admit it, how dare Yunkong kill him easily.
Ning Xi glanced at Liu Yang coldly, such a vicious snake, this dirty water splash is really ruthless, today I have seen another scum in the world.
Cheng Hanhai saw that his momentum was stirred up by Liu Yang's words, and immediately shouted: "Yunkong, if you dare to kill me, you will become a wanted criminal in the Great Shang Dynasty, and Baiyunguan will be over, if you let me go, that is, let Baiyunguan go." ”
"It seems that you still don't understand what it means to be a Mahayana cultivator. Ning Xi laughed mockingly, raised his hand and pinched a seal.
The sky darkened, and the soul of the Cheng Mansion steward manifested.
"This ...... It's a ghost. "There are timid townspeople whose bodies are trembling.
"It's not a ghost, it's just a manifestation. Ning Xi didn't refine the soul of the Cheng Mansion housekeeper, he looked at the Cheng Mansion housekeeper gently, "Your master is unwilling to tell him about the sins he committed, I don't know if you are willing to do it for you?"
"Yes, I do!" the steward of the Cheng Mansion said busily, those who have tasted the pain of soul refining will never want to taste that taste again.
Cheng Hanhai felt that he was indeed happy too early, the most terrifying thing about these cultivators was all kinds of magical powers and spells that you couldn't imagine.
Now he wanted to scold the butler and shut him up, but by doing so, it was tantamount to telling everyone that he was indeed in the same league as Mengyan Tapir.
Yes, he could only put on a calm appearance, but he was already panicked in his heart.
The steward of the Cheng Mansion began his story.
Half a year ago, on the way back to Longjiang Town from Beihe Town, Cheng Hanhai rescued an injured woman on the side of the road.
This woman is Mengyan tapir.
The Dream Flame Tapir wants to kill the hunters who hunted the white-striped leopard.
At that time, Cheng Hanhai happened to receive the news that because of Fan Chongming's extraordinary ability, someone above was ready to let Fan Chongming take charge of Longjiang Town instead of him.
So Cheng Hanhai hooked up with Mengyan tapir.
Cheng Hanhai was responsible for providing Mengyan Tapir with information about the hunters who had killed the white-striped leopard.
And Mengyan Tapir promised to help Cheng Hanhai deal with Fan Chongming.
"Since it's dealing with Lao Fan, why is it Lao Fan's child who has an accident?" Guo Tianlong's father couldn't help but ask out loud.
Fan Yang wept and said: "Heng'er is my husband's life, and it hurt his life, where does my husband still have any spirit to be right." ”
What's more, if Fan Chongming is killed directly, it is easy for people to suspect Cheng Hanhai.
In this way, Cheng Hanhai seems to have come to the Xianxia Sect to ask the poor way to get rid of the demons, but in fact, he knows that he can't deal with the Mengyan tapir with the cultivation of the poor road, and the purpose is to use the poor way to deal with the townspeople. The Void Dao Chief walked out of the Lizheng Mansion with the dust whisk in his hand, and he had already regained his senses.
The housekeeper of Cheng Mansion said: "Yes, the same is true for the Yunkong Dao Chief, but Cheng Hanhai didn't expect that the Yunkong Dao Chief's skills were superior and killed the Mengyan Tapir." ”
"Lao Li, I treat you well, but you betrayed me and slandered me because of this demonic way that tortured you, I will never let you go. Cheng Hanhai roared at the housekeeper.