"This gossip plate has been refined by my master and can detect the turbid qi. In the guest room on the second floor of the restaurant, Xiao Lingwei took out a magic weapon engraved with the gossip pattern of the five elements, closed her eyes and recited the incantation.

Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Lingwei urged the law to be decided, the disc shook violently. In the center of the treasure plate, a striking white light as thick as an arm slowly emerged, and the white light turned into an arrow, pointing directly at the high-walled compound on the hillside outside the window.

"The evil demon is hiding in Gao's house, looking at the size of the light pillar of the gossip disk, this monster is still very powerful. Xiao Lingwei opened her eyes and stared at the floating cursor and said.

At night, the Gao family's mansion in the distance seemed even more mysterious and profound, like a beast lurking in the dark.

"You see, there is another person who is also peeking at the Gao family's mansion. The sharp-eyed glass seemed to have found something outside the window, and whispered to everyone.

Everyone followed Liuli's fingers to see. In the night, beside the low wall of Jinshan Town's defense, there seemed to be a person probing his brain, secretly observing the Gao family.

The man in black was sneaky, looking at the mountain while holding a paper and a brush to record something.

Wait until the Man in Black recording is complete. When he turned around, he saw Chen Ke smiling at him. Then his eyes went black and he fainted.

When the man in black woke up, he was already lying in Chen Ke's guest room.

The middle-aged man in a night suit opened his eyes suddenly, and then he wanted to jump up and run away. However, he had been bound by the spell and knotted with it.

The middle-aged man looked around nervously while writhing, and found that he was in a room, and there were three masters sitting at the table opposite him, who had been disguised by spells and could not see their faces clearly.

One of the masters was flipping through his notes. When the middle-aged man saw it, he was even more anxious, and the spell was almost strangled into the flesh.

"Paper is a special secretary prop for officials in Great Xia. You are a civil official of Great Xia, how did you end up in the territory of Jiuyi?" Xiao Lingwei asked the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged civil official closed his eyes and was silent, looking like he was being killed.

"He is the newly appointed local official of Great Xia. Chen Ke looked at the middle-aged man's codex notes and came to a conclusion. "These are all the customs and customs of a nearby city called Linxi City, which he recorded, and the case is a major event. ”

Chen Ke had heard Xiao Lingwei say before that although Jiuyi returned to Great Xia, they were still in a loose city-state state. The Great Xia court has been dissatisfied with this for a long time, and in recent years has sent many officials to take the initiative to manage various affairs in the Jiuyi countries.

It seems that the middle-aged man who was tied up is also one of these officials. It's just that why did he come to this mountain town of the Gao clan alone?

The middle-aged man saw that his identity had been recognized, but he calmed down. He looked at the magic sword on Xiao Lingwei's back, and asked boldly, "Your Excellency the monk is also from the Great Xia Kingdom?"

Xiao Lingwei nodded in affirmation: "You tell us now, what are you doing here?"

"Even if you are a monk of the Great Xia Kingdom, if you have no official or evidence, this official will not tell you. This middle-aged civil official was strong, his eyes widened, and he looked directly at Xiao Lingwei.

Xiao Lingwei, who was familiar with the way, took out a yellow official certificate from the middle-aged man's chest, and opened it to confirm that it was correct. The three of them looked at each other and nodded, and removed the disguise spell on their bodies.

The middle-aged man was struggling violently at this moment because Xiao Lingwei took away his official certificate. Suddenly, I saw that the three people in the room had removed their disguises, and it turned out to be a tall male monk with two female monks.

His eyes swept over Xiao Lingwei's jade ruler magic sword, and then stared at her yellow dragon belt and looked at it carefully several times. Only then did he stop struggling and asked, "Which Heavenly Master of the Immortal Palace is Your Excellency?"

"Under the seat of the Heavenly Master of the Inner Gate Yuluo Palace, he personally passed on his disciple Xiao. Xiao Lingwei replied to him slowly, and also took the magic sword and released a complex dragon-shaped pattern. Then he loosened the curse from the middle-aged man.

"Liu Tao of Linxi County, meet the real heavenly master. The middle-aged man crawled out of bed in a hurry, and he didn't care about his uncoordinated body and the wound strangled by the curse, so he bowed his head.

Next, Liu Tao, the county magistrate, told the origin of his here.

It turned out that he was indeed as Chen Ke guessed, and he was the magistrate sent to this Jiuyi Linxi by the Great Xia Kingdom the year before last.

After coming here, he straightened out his taxes and worked hard. It was found that the Gao clan of this mountain had been mining gold for generations, and the family was very rich. However, the taxes and forced labor that should be paid have been evaded and there are many arrears. There are even rumors that the Gao family abused lynching, and there were murderous things in the family.

He originally wanted to investigate and punish the Gao family, but the Gao family has been in the local family for thousands of years, and the power is intertwined. Previous crackdowns have failed.

So last month, he entrusted Ma Luyuan, a monk at the end of Qi cultivation who was also installed by the Great Xia Kingdom, and asked him to assist in secretly investigating the Gao family.

Unexpectedly, Ma Luyuan was gone, and after two months of entering Qishan, there was no news.

In desperation, he had no choice but to disguise himself and come to Jinshan Town, which is controlled by the Gao family, to investigate.

Now that he met Chen Ke and the three of them, Liu Tao was overjoyed. He immediately asked Xiao Lingwei to help him enter Gao's house to investigate the situation and find the missing Ma Luyuan.

Everyone was a favor and agreed to the matter. Liu Tao kowtowed to the three of them, and bowed and bowed.

Settle down and look at this person. Chen Ke and Xiao Lingwei took advantage of the late night to come to the edge of the Gao family's mansion.

The walls of the house were built at least three feet high, and they were covered with thorns. Around the house, there are many stones with spells painted on them, which seems to be a kind of enchantment for the housekeeper.

"Then Liu Tao said that the new head of the Gao family this month is called Gao Ping, who is thirty years old and has no mana. The Gao family also has no tradition of cultivation. Xiao Lingwei said, she was about to form a clear spell and dispel the barrier that protected the house.

"Slow!" Chen Ke stopped her. He followed Bai Ze's words in his divine sense and said to Xiao Lingwei: "Be careful, didn't you say that evil demons are the best at demagoguery? Now this road is far from life and death, maybe he has been controlled by evil demons? And we don't know how many people the Gao family has affected for thousands of years." ”

Xiao Lingwei thought for a while, and bowed her head in affirmation. She took out the jade ruler and touched it lightly forward. Sure enough, not far from the jade ruler, he encountered a vague net.

Xiao Lingwei closed her eyes and concentrated, and the nearby enchantment grid became clear.

The mana grids and spells that make up this enchantment are sparse. Xiao Lingwei slowly tossed those spell seals aside with a jade ruler, and quickly picked out a large hole six feet square without destroying the enchantment.

The two used the hole to enter Gao's house.

Xiao Lingwei formed an invisibility spell and hid Chen Ke and her.

Exploring all the way along the vast mansion of the Gao family, Chen Ke and the others didn't even see a few.

"Gao Ping. You brute, bastard, give my son back!!" A woman's cry of grief came from afar.

Chen Ke, who was worried about having no clue, hurriedly heard the sound and walked over.

This is a very luxurious courtyard, and at first glance you can tell that it is inhabited by the owner class. In the courtyard, there is a room with lights on.

The woman's screams of grief were coming from the lighted room.

"Brute, this is your own son!!You want to exchange him for money!?"

"Crazy, you're all crazy!!"

"Shut up, stupid woman, the son can be reborn, and the family business of our Gao family is the big thing. In the room, another man's voice was yelling at the woman, mixed with the faint cry of a baby.

The two argued for a while. Suddenly, a bottle shattered, and the room fell silent.

Crunch, the door to the room was pushed open.

A very young, emaciated man walked out, holding a small swaddling baby in his arms. Following the man out, there was also a strong man with a tall and healthy body and a red scarf on his head.

"When she wakes up tomorrow, I will lock her up in the room and let her stay in it for a few days, and she will be fine. The man said to the strong man.

The strong man with the red turban nodded in response, his eyes looking a little blank.

"Stupid woman. The man hugged the swaddling clothes and cursed again at the room.

"That tall man is very similar to what Liu Tao said, and the young man should be Gao Ping. In the stealth enchantment, Xiao Lingwei said to Chen Ke.

"Keep up and see what they're going to do. ”

The two slowly followed Gao Ping and Ma Luyuan. I saw them take the children through the layers of garden courtyards and come to the innermost wooden house of the Gao family.

The wooden house is in disrepair and looks crumbling. But the great contrast is that on the top of this dilapidated wooden house, there is a gold plaque carved from the whole red jade, with the word treasure house on it.

"God of Wealth, God of Wealth! I'm here to see your old man. Gao Ping held the swaddling clothes and knelt on the ground in front of the room, babbling the words.

Ma Luyuan put his hand on the dilapidated and dark door of the wooden house.

The wooden door unexpectedly seeped out a little black gas, and began to condense into a dark and deep passage.

The passage seems to go downward, but the black air is permeated, making it difficult to see the scene inside.

"Can't go any further. Xiao Lingwei reminded, "The black qi in front is also a kind of enchantment. It looks a lot more complicated than the barrier outside, and I can't unravel it quietly. ”

She and Chen Ke could only stay far away, and watched these two enter the treasure house.

After a long time, the two of them came out of the wooden house again.

Gao Ping no longer had that swaddling baby in his arms. He walked with the wind, and seemed very happy and excited. It's just that in the eyes of Chen Ke and Xiao Lingwei, the two god-transforming cultivators, his eyes are obviously swollen, and his spirit has decreased a lot.

The same is true for the road that followed Gao Ping. It can be said that he is even more unbearable, because he still has unknown blood stains on his body.

Everyone walked up to the rotten wooden house. Xiao Lingwei tried hard to probe the mana enchantment attached to it, but found nothing.

"No way. She said a little frustratedly, "If I forcibly break it, it will definitely alarm the Gao family and the things in this treasure house." ”

"Let's go back first, and we'll come back when we have the time. Chen Ke suggested, "I really want to know why this Gao Ping is so happy to come out empty-handed, and what he exchanged for the child." ”

"We need to hurry, I don't want any more innocent children to die. Xiao Lingwei felt a little annoyed that she couldn't save the child just now.

The two discussed it and slowly left the Gao family.

"You let the little girls and that Liu Xiancheng go to Gao's house tomorrow to publicly question the crime, and I will take you to the treasure house. On the way back, Bai Ze said to Chen Ke.