Su Chen's body is dexterous, like a silent wild cat walking between the courtyard and the pavilion, avoiding the Taoist priests patrolling and guarding the Taoist temple, and coming to the courtyard wall.

He turned over and reached the outside of the Taoist temple wall, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that tonight's trip is quite smooth.

As long as you sneak back to the Yanyu Building in Gusu County, you will be completely safe.

Su Chen saw that there were already drops of raw blood on the outside of the courtyard wall, extending in the direction of the river channel of Ximen Wharf and disappearing into the river.

This is the fresh chicken blood sprinkled by the big rooster on the third watch day, which has not yet coagulated, and is used to confuse and lure the enemy, and the others should have returned to the main hall of the Aquila Gate.

Su Chen immediately went to Gusu City.

...

Qinghe Dao was as usual, and after going to the latrine, he returned to the wing room, and planned to go to bed and rest.

As soon as he stepped into the room, he frowned.

The top players are very sensitive to breath.

Especially since this is his bedroom wing, he is extremely familiar with the table, chair, and book here, even the dust in the corner.

Very few outsiders are allowed to enter the room, and the abnormal aura from outside invades and is easy to detect.

Although everything in the room was the same, his instinctive instinct was that something was wrong. There seemed to be a fresh breath intruding, making the familiar smell in the room a little disordered.

Qinghe Dao Chief's fierce gaze swept over the chamber.

There is no abnormality on the bookshelves and tables in the room, and there is no sign of turning.

It may have been turned over, but it was carefully restored to its original state, and no trace of movement was visible. Because he wipes it often, there is no dust on the table, and you can't see anything when you turn it.

Suddenly, Qing Dao Chang's gaze fell on a candlestick in the corner.

The candlestick was often lit, but he never wiped it off, leaving a little dust on the countertop. But now, the dust has been slightly wiped by the cloth.

Although the visitor was careful not to leave fingerprints, he wiped a little dust from the candlestick, apparently having been touched by someone not long ago.

"Someone has touched this candlestick and opened the secret room?!"

Qinghe Dao Chang looked startled, and walked to the candlestick, and wanted to open the secret room and enter it to see if there were any thefts or lost things.

"Wait, could it be to lure the snake out of the hole?"

Qinghe Dao Chang thought of another possibility, hesitated, and stopped.

Even if someone touched the candlestick, without an hour or two of repeated rotation and attempts, it would not be able to open the mechanism. He was worried that someone would be hiding in the dark and peeping, so he deliberately lured him to open the secret room of the menorah so that he could remember how to open the secret room.

But there are dozens of first-class masters in this Hanshan Taoist Temple, who dares to be presumptuous here~!

Qinghe Dao Chang still decided to open the secret room immediately to see if anything was lost. He quickly pressed the candlestick, three and a half turns to the left, and one and a half circles to the right.

"Click!"

The door of the secret room opened, and there were ten treasure chests full of gold, silver and jewelry, which could barely fit it.

Qinghe Dao Chang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the ten treasure chests were full of 10,000 taels of gold.

The gold, silver, and jewelry were not touched, and no one should have entered the secret room.

If a thief turns the candlestick, opens the secret room, and sees these tens of thousands of gold, silver, and jewelry, how can he not be greedy?

However, when Qinghe saw that the treasure chest was still there, he was not completely reassured, and opened a more hidden secret cabinet on the wall of the dark room.

There is a rare spiritual treasure hidden in it, which is the most important treasure of the entire Hanshan Taoist Temple, and it is a unique thing in the world, the heart of the master. The gold, silver, and jewels in the other ten treasure chests combined were not so important.

Qinghe Dao Chang carefully opened the dark cabinet to check.

At this look, his whole scalp was numb, and a look of horror and fear flashed in his pupils.

The jade spirit book in the dark cabinet has disappeared.

"The spirit book has been stolen!"

Qinghe Dao Chang's hair stood on end, and he was so frightened that his soul was frightened.

He just went out to the toilet for a cup of tea, and the secret room was actually stolen, and the most important treasure was lost.

If something else was lost, even if a treasure chest of 10,000 taels of gold in the secret room was stolen, it would be an ordinary loss, and he could try to make up for it with his own personal wealth.

However, that jade simple spirit book is the heirloom treasure of Master Hanshan Zhenren, a peerless treasure.

Even in the entire thirteen counties of Wu County, there is nothing more valuable than this treasure.

Every time Master goes on a long trip, he must tell him to take care of this secret room, and the spiritual book must not be lost.

If the Master came back from a long trip to study the spiritual book and found that the Jade Slip spiritual book was lost, then how could he explain it to the master?

I am afraid that it will be difficult to atone for this sin by death!

"Damn it!"

Qinghe Dao Chang couldn't help but be angry,

This Jiangyang thief was so crazy that he dared to take advantage of the short tea kung fu he went to the toilet to enter the secret room and steal the jade simple spirit book.

The thief must have had to work hard to open the secret room, and he must not have escaped far at this time.

Send someone to chase after you immediately, and you will be able to chase it back.

"Come quickly, the Taoist temple has been robbed!"

Qinghe Dao Chang rushed out of the wing room with a whirlwind, and let out an earth-shattering roar.

The entire Hanshan Taoist Temple was shocked by his angry shout.

The many Taoist priests who were originally preparing to sleep in each room of each courtyard woke up and poured out of each side room of each courtyard. There are also those Taoist priests who patrol and keep vigil, one by one, holding torches high, rushing to the house of the Qinghe River chief, shining brightly.

"Senior Brother Qinghe, what's going on?"

"Master, what was stolen?"

All the Taoist priests had a look of anger on their faces.

The prestige of the Hanshan Taoist Temple, the shock of the rivers and lakes for decades, the big and small thieves are all frightened, and there has not been any theft case for at least more than ten years.

Led by all the Taoist priests, there are four of the five generations of disciples of the Hanshan Taoist Temple, Qingshan Daoist, Qingyun Daoist, Qingshi Daoist and Qingmu Daoist.

Including the eldest disciple of Qinghe Dao Chief, their five senior brothers are the five major personal disciples of Hanshan Zhenren.

The rest are more than 20 young Taoist priests and more than 70 young Taoist priests, who are the second and third generations of disciples of the Hanshan Taoist Temple, and their cultivation ranges from the first, second and third ranks. Among them, there are also top first-class light masters.

Qingshan Dao Chang and the others saw the distorted face of the senior brother Qinghe Dao Chang who was shrouded in anger, which was unprecedentedly hideous and terrifying.

"Senior brothers, there is an important item that has just been stolen from the secret room. The Quanguan disciples immediately divided their troops into different directions and pursued them in different directions! Do not let go of any clues or suspicious people found along the way, immediately detain them, strictly check them, and be sure to recover the stolen items!"

Qinghe Dao Chang's face was pale, he looked at the Taoist priests, and said in a deep voice.

"Senior brother, what did you lose and be so alarmed?"

Daoist Aoyama and other senior brothers asked one after another.

"Master's spiritual book is lost. ”

Qinghe Dao Chang gritted his teeth, and he didn't dare to hide it from the other senior brothers.

This spiritual treasure is lost, and it will not be recovered. Once the master returns, he is afraid that a great disaster will come. Only by recovering the spiritual book and making meritorious contributions can we escape this catastrophe.

"Ahh

"What was lost was actually a spiritual book, this... How do we explain this to our master?!"

The four pro-preachers including the head of the Aoyama Provincial Government held torches, and they were all gasping in fright, and their faces changed in shock.

Other second and third generations of minor Taoist priests may not know the importance of this book.

However, as the disciples of the five generations of Hanshan Zhenren, they had studied this spiritual book with their master, so they naturally knew the peerless rarity of this treasure. There are thousands of volumes of secular Taoist scriptures, and it is difficult to compare with this spiritual book.

"Senior brothers, don't panic, the theft of the spirit book is only within a short cup of tea, and the thief has just succeeded, and he will definitely not be able to escape in such a short period of time!"

Qinghe Dao Chief calmed down.

Thinking that he Qinghe Dao people have been wandering the rivers and lakes for twenty or thirty years, and how many winds and waves he has experienced, although he suddenly suffered a big chaos, he did not lose his proportions, and said in a deep voice: "The second-generation disciples listen to the order, and two first-class masters will lead a team of people to chase after them!"

"Yes!"

In the Hanshan Taoist Temple, twenty middle-aged and young Taoist priests each held torches, rushed out from the side door of the main gate, and chased out frantically with many small Taoist priests.

Not knowing which direction the thieves were fleeing, they divided into eight routes and pursued them in different directions.

There are not many Taoist priests in the Hanshan Taoist Temple, only more than 100 people.

In this way, there are only more than ten Taoist priests on each road. If you encounter a fork in the road and continue to scatter, you will be even more overstretched.

After walking for miles, I am afraid that I will not even be able to see a figure.

...

The Taoist priests of the Hanshan Taoist Temple went to chase separately, and the small half pillar of incense passed, but no Taoist priest chased the thief.

However, they found a rather suspicious clue, and the Taoist priests quickly reported it to the Qinghe River Chief.

That is, outside the backyard wall of the Taoist temple, some very suspicious blood stains were found, and they went to the direction of the West Gate Wharf, and disappeared when they reached the river.

Qinghe Dao Chang and other generations of disciples came to the courtyard wall, twisted a little qi and blood, sniffed, and their expressions became solemn.

The night was too dark to see anything.

It's just that the bloody gas is thick, and it has not yet completely solidified, and it feels quite viscous.

"It's fresh... It is estimated that it was only one or two tea days ago. If you focus on searching along the banks of the canal, it will take at least thirty or forty people to barely be enough... But it cannot be ruled out that this is the thief's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and it is more likely that the thief absconded to Gusu County. ”

Qinghe Dao has been in the rivers and lakes for decades, and the veterans of the rivers and lakes, of course, will not rely on these bloods to conclude that the river and ocean thieves fled into the river and were misled to chase the wrong direction.

The direction of the river at Ximen Wharf and the direction of the county seat are the most suspicious.

But the huge county town of Gusu, with 100,000 residents, is easier to hide than a river. With the size of Gusu City, it is not at all that the Taoist priests can search.

The four personal disciples of the Hanshan True Person, such as Qingshan, Qingyun, Aoki, and Qingshi, looked panicked and uneasy, and obviously thought of this possibility. Once the Jiangyang thief escapes into Gusu County, he will escape and escape, and I am afraid it will be difficult to catch him again.

Although the spiritual book was lost by Qinghe Dao Chang, the remaining four of their personal disciples were also inevitably implicated. Including other Taoist priests in the Taoist temple, they could not escape punishment.

"Senior brother, that Jade Jianling Book is so secret, there is a candlestick mechanism, how can an outsider crack the mechanism and steal this book in just one cup of tea?!"

"Yes, although the five of us senior brothers all know that the spirit book is hidden in the secret room, but the method of opening the candlestick mechanism is only known to you, senior brother!"

"The master handed over this spiritual book to your care, and told you to guard it day and night, how did you take care of it? Senior brother, you can't be a guard and steal yourself, right?"

The four brothers couldn't help but suspect that the Qinghe River was long.

"Bastard, I know how the menorah mechanism opens. But I want to read the Jade Jian Lingshu, and I just take it out and read it. What are you stealing it for? waiting to be punished by the teacher?"

Qinghe Dao Chang couldn't help but look at the other four people angrily.

The other four brothers thought about it and were immediately dumbfounded.

Qinghe Dao Chief is in charge of it, so he can naturally read the jade spirit book at any time. Qinghe Dao Chang stole books with a real person from Hanshan on his back, and it was no good.

This Jade Brief Spirit Book, Hanshan Zhenren and their five personal disciples have been studying it for nearly twenty or thirty years, but the harvest has been very limited so far. I'm afraid that there are still top Jiangyang thieves who learned the news from somewhere and stole the spiritual book of the Hanshan Taoist Temple.

Qinghe Daochang's eyes were gloomy, staring at the quiet Gusu County in the distance.

That Jiangyang thief is so powerful, and he is definitely extraordinary and superlative when he does it under his nose. These characters must know that Gusu City is an excellent hiding place.

The Hanshan Taoist Temple has too few people to lay a net to capture this thief. It is necessary to mobilize the power of black and white, and the entire rivers and lakes.

"Then let's take a look, is your hiding kung fu strong, or my Hanshan Taoist Temple is stronger!"

Qinghe Dao Chief's expression was as cold as a knife, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth.