The middle-aged Taoist priest was indeed a disciple of the Cloud Gate Sect, named Yun Qingzi.

Yun Qingzi, like Li Qingyun, is an outer disciple of the Cloud Gate Sect. However, his status in the Cloud Gate Sect was much higher than that of Li Qingshan. He is the district supervisor of the Medicinal Materials Affairs Department where Li Qingshan works. He is a direct subordinate of the head of the Ministry of Affairs.

In the Department of Herbal Medicine, there are a total of four supervisors in charge of different areas. Each supervisor has a number of sub-divisions. And Yun Qingzi is in charge of Li Qingshan's area. Therefore, he and Li Qingshan actually have a superior-subordinate relationship, of course, there is a person in charge in the middle.

However, Li Qingshan and Yun Qingzi have a very good relationship, and Li Qingshan has always been taken care of by Yun Qingzi.

Li Qingshan and Yun Qingzi were disciples who entered the Cloud Gate Sect in the same class, and they became disciples of the outer chamber because of their poor spiritual root qualifications. Both of them worked very hard, but Yun Qingzi was quite open-minded, and after knowing that he couldn't become a disciple in the inner room with poor qualifications, he gave up the idea of cultivation and devoted himself to developing ministry affairs, so he instead stepped into a management position.

And Li Qingshan has always been obsessed with becoming a disciple of the inner room, so he finally got into trouble and ended up in exile. In this regard, Yun Qingzi also regretted it. But everyone has their own pursuits, and others can't interfere.

Li Qingshan's hope for his son Li Kun to dredge up the relationship is Yun Qingzi. It shows that the relationship between the two is extraordinary.

This time, Yun Qingzi went out to inspect the work of foreign disciples and missed Li Qingshan's sect debriefing. Therefore, after the inspection work, he specially came to Lijiazhuang for a visit. Because he knew that Li Kun was no longer small, he had to seize the opportunity to recruit disciples from the Kaichun Sect tomorrow and arrange Li Kun to enter. So, he wanted to take a look at Li Kun's situation.

For so many years, he had only met Li Kun once, and that was when Li Kun was only six years old. Yun Qingzi has no marriage match, so he loves Li Kun very much, and has an emotion similar to that of father and son for Li Kun, but he didn't say it.

However, what shocked Yun Qingzi was that he deliberately rushed to see the tragedy of Li Jiazhuang.

Yun Qingzi arrived in Lijiazhuang only two days ago, and it has been almost three months since the tragedy in Lijia Village. Because there were piles of bones in the village, all of them were scattered and mixed, and it was impossible to distinguish them at all, so he could not confirm the bones of Li Qingshan's family, and he didn't even know the exact circumstances of the Li family's victimization.

Yun Qingzi knew that Li Qingshan had gone to the sect to report on his work, but he didn't know if Li Qingshan had returned home or if he had been killed. However, it has been three months since the tragedy, and if Li Qingshan had survived, he would have known about it a long time ago, and he would have taken action, and he would not have disappeared now. Therefore, Yun Qingzi believes that it is extremely likely that Li Qingshan was killed.

Who did this?

Yun Qingzi was naturally very angry.

He originally wanted to go back to the sect to report the matter, because he believed that if the Cloud Gate Sect investigated this matter, with the power of the Cloud Gate Sect, it would not be difficult to find out the facts of the case. However, as a middle-level manager of the Cloud Gate Sect, he was well aware of the atmosphere of the top level of the Cloud Gate Sect. They only care about the inner room disciples, and in their eyes, the outer room disciples are just dust-like existences, and they don't care about it at all, unless it is a matter of sectarian disputes.

However, at such a level as sectarian strife, how could an insignificant outer disciple be qualified to touch it? Even if it was occasionally unfortunate to be affected, it would not attract the slightest concern in the eyes of the sect's higher-ups.

Therefore, an incident like the destruction of Lijiazhuang, even if it is reported to the master, there is a high probability that it will not attract attention. What's more, Li Qingshan is still a tainted foreign affairs disciple, so it is even more impossible to get the attention of the sect.

This is the sorrow of being a lowly disciple of a powerful sect. The strength of the sect has nothing to do with them, they can't enjoy the high-quality resources and real benefits of the sect at all, and the only benefit they can get from the sect is the vanity of self-paralysis, nothing more. At the same time, on the contrary, they have to be squeezed by the sect to provide the daily consumption of the teacher.

It is for this reason that Yun Qingzi had to investigate by himself to comfort the souls of his friend's deceased souls in the sky.

However, there were no clues left at the scene, and there was no way to find out.

After two days of unannounced visits, Yun Qingzi basically figured out the situation in Xianju Town. It is a simple and simple mountain town. It's so backward that it doesn't even have a town system. However, security has always been very good, and there have been few homicides for decades. The mountain people here live a simple and responsible life. Moreover, Li Qingshan has always been low-key and cautious, and he is quite well-known in this area.

Therefore, in his opinion, vendetta is unlikely.

In addition, in this Xianju Town, the only powerful family is the merchant fort. However, Yun Qingzi didn't know the details of the merchant fort. However, according to what he has learned in the past few days, Shangbao has never bullied people, and there is no bad reputation in Xianju Town.

Families like this, the entire Immortal Cultivation Continent, abound, most of them are just rich people, they honestly and cautiously guard their wealth, live a comfortable and cautious life, it is difficult for people to associate them with the big forces of strife. Of course, they are rarely able to enter the eyes of the great powers, unless they have a certain value.

The Merchant Fort is an extremely low-key family, and their owner barely even interacts with the outside world. A family like this, if there is no strong force behind it, it will not dare to be an enemy of the Cloud Gate Sect at all. Even if there was a powerful force behind them, they would not be able to deal with an outer disciple of the Cloud Gate Sect. Because there is no value and benefit to be made in this.

So, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the merchant fort either.

Of course, Yun Qingzi didn't want to go to the merchant fort to investigate. However, he was cautious by nature and did not act rashly. Because, he knew that he didn't have the identity and ability to provoke the merchant castle single-handedly, in case of causing trouble, although the Cloud Gate Sect would not care about such a local tyrant, he would definitely be reprimanded by the head of the sect.

Could it really be a roaming bandit?

Yun Qingzi gradually had a tendency to speculate about this. After all, in this chaotic world, and coincided with drought and natural disasters, it is common for bandits to run rampant.

If it was really a roaming bandit who committed the crime, then Li Qingshan could really only consider himself unlucky if he died tragically. Even if Yun Qingzi wants to get ahead, he can't do it.

Yun Qingzi was extremely depressed about this, but he didn't give up. Because, he knew very well that except for himself, no one would stand up for them in the tragic death of Li Qingshan's family. For the sake of the soul of his old friend in the sky, and in order to keep himself from living in guilt in the future, it is necessary for him to do his best. Even if there is still no result in the end, at least I have done it, and I can be regarded as worthy of my friends.

But where do you start? There were almost no clues left at the scene, and even the corpses were eaten by wild beasts and only bones remained.

Suddenly, Yun Qingzi remembered that strange little girl again, didn't she have the ability to deal with the souls of the dead? So could she establish a connection with Li Qingshan's soul? If she could see Li Qingshan's soul, she would have a wish.

For this reason, Yun Qingzi decided to look for that special little girl again, hoping to get something useful from her.

In Xianju Town, it is very easy to find out what is going on with Fluttershy. So, Yun Qingzi quickly found out where she was, and went straight to the City God Temple outside the city to find Shang Xiaodie.

At this time, Shang Xiaodie was sitting cross-legged next to Li Kun, looking at Li Kun's lifeless face with a sad face, pouting, and complaining: "Li Kun, are you dead or alive? Everyone has taken care of you for two months, why haven't you woken up? I promised to take care of you, but at least you have to be a living person, right?"

"I originally wanted to go to Liu Shiyuan's stinky mouse to see you, he is a famous doctor, and he has a certain amount of witchcraft, he should be able to determine whether you are dead or alive. However, the stinky rat did not know where to die. ”

"Today, I met a middle-aged Taoist priest outside, who claimed to be from the Cloud Gate Sect. It seems to be investigating the tragedy in Lijia Village. I wanted to tell him about you, but I didn't dare to take the risk, for fear that he wouldn't be from the Cloud Gate Sect?"

"If, I mean, if that Taoist priest is really from the Cloud Gate Sect, do you think he will save you? I heard that the Cloud Gate Sect's humanism is very powerful. ”

"But if you do die, there's nothing you can do. After all, people cannot be brought back to life. ”

"Say, why am I so unlucky? Yes, you did me a favor that night, but I also helped you, giving you half of the cinnabar and confiscating your money. It stands to reason that we are two clear. But why do you want to bother me? We only met once, and we didn't have any friendship. ”

"Forget it, it's no wonder you, I caused trouble myself, and I brought you myself. I don't know why I'm going to take trouble to take care of you?"

"Forget it, there's no point in talking about this, if you're not dead, wake me up quickly. If you die, please come and see me. Let me know if you're dead or alive, and don't let me take care of you like this all the time. That's not too much to ask, isn't it?"

Shang Xiaodie chattered and chattered like this, and her depressed mood was finally relieved. then massaged Li Kun again. It's what she has to do every day.

At this moment, there was a strange sound outside, as if someone had come in.

Shang Xiaodie immediately became vigilant. Since she moved here, only Li Kun had come to look for her last time, and no one had been here other than that. It's like a corner abandoned by the world, rarely visited by even wild animals.

Shang Xiaodie drew her dagger and walked out silently like a civet cat, hiding behind a half-collapsed column.

As soon as Shang Xiaodie hid her figure, she saw the person who came, and it turned out to be the middle-aged Taoist priest.