Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 278 Speculation
The Yang family's mansion is located in Tianguang Mountain. Tang Ning and Guan Xun came to the gate of the mansion and immediately aroused the vigilance of the Yang family. Suddenly, three monks came to meet them.

"Guan Daoyou, why are you here?" One of them knew Guan Xun and asked, then turned his gaze to Tangning, "Who is this senior?"

"This is Uncle Tang Ning of our sect. I have something to see Senior Yang Yuting."

"Please wait a moment, I'll report to you." The man said, he took up the magic weapon and went away. After a while, a flash of light came, showing the figure of a tall man with a chest and a back. .

"Your Majesty Yang Yuting, don't you know your friend's name?"

"My subordinate, Yi Zong Tangning, has taken the liberty to bother me this time because I have something to ask."

"Fellow Daoist, please come in and have a talk."

Tangning followed him to a large hall in the mansion, and divided the guests into their seats.

Yang Yuting said: "I don't know what is the important matter of Tang Daoyou's visit this time?"

"To be honest, I'm here because of the murder and disappearance of Yang Siqi, a son of your family."

Yang Yuting wondered, "Your nephew was murdered, how can you please fellow Daoist Tang? Could there be something else hidden in this matter?"

"Your Majesty has received news that several Demon Sect monks have sneaked into South China with unknown intentions. I suspect that the disappearance of my nephew is related to them, so I came here to inquire."

Yang Yuting said: "Although my nephew is not perfect, he still has his duty. How could he be involved in the Demon Sect? What does Fellow Daoist Tang want to know?"

Tangning asked, "Young Daoist Yang, how did you know that your nephew was killed?"

"Every child in the family who enters the practice has a soul stone placed in the ancestral hall, and is guarded by a special person."

"When was Nephew Ling killed?"

"At about a quarter of an hour, my nephew's soul stone went out."

"I know you have vigorously investigated this matter? Any clues?"

Yang Yuting shook his head: "So far, no clues have been found."

"Does your nephew have any enemies?"

"Although my nephew is stupid, he cares about money and righteousness. I haven't heard that he has any serious grievances with others. If we talk about enmity, it has some grievances with the Yang family. It has nothing to do with him as a junior, so we won't make a special trip to make trouble with him. , trouble him."

"Did you notice anything unusual before your nephew was killed?"

"I asked a few of the clan's children who made friends with him, and they all said that there was nothing abnormal about him."

"What magic weapon does nephew Ling usually use for self-defense, I mean what magic weapon does he use when traveling?"

"My nephew has a Changhong sword, which is a high-grade magic weapon, and is mostly used for traveling."

"Both the Yang family and the Qi family have sent people to search vigorously. As far as I know, Nephew Ling played in Cuihua Pavilion before he was killed. Didn't you go ask about the situation?"

"To be honest, there has always been a rift between my two families and the Liu family. Of course I sent someone to ask about it. Then Liu Mian just said that this matter has nothing to do with them and sent my people away."

Tangning stood up and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Yang, for telling me. I'll take my leave."

Yang Yuting also got up: "Fellow Taoist, have a cup of tea before leaving!"

"Thank you, I have other important matters, so I will leave."

"Fellow Daoist Tang, is this really related to the Demon Sect?"

"I don't know yet." Tangning strode out of the Yang family's mansion, disappearing into the shadows.

After walking for half a day, I arrived at Qi's house, met the head of the Qi family, and asked the same question, the head of the Qi family answered one by one, similar to Yang Yuting, and they didn't know who did it.

After Tang Ning left the Qi family, she already had a rough guess about the whole ins and outs of this matter.

Combining the words of Zhao Jia, an insider disciple of the Corpse Puppet Sect, as well as Cuihua Pavilion and Yang Jiaqi's family, he can roughly deduce the location where Yang Siqi and Qi Yun were killed and the other party's motives.

Zhao Jia said that he had heard the conversation between his master Xiang Jingxing and his uncle Han Hun. The two mentioned Dongshan County and Tianyu County many times, and said that they were in Changliu Lake. kind.

This Changliu Lake straddles Dongshan and Tianyu counties. Tangning believes that their real goal should be Changliu Lake. They are not here because of the mission of the sect, but to find some treasure. They first determined the area in Dongshan and Tianyu counties. After searching around, it was finally identified as Changliu Lake.

The rotating staff of Cuihua Pavilion said that Yang Siqi and Qi Yun had won hundreds of spirit stones that day, and they left Cuihua Pavilion around [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] pm, and said they would go to Wangxichuan to have fun.

Going west from Cuihua Pavilion to Qinchuan, it is about to pass through the border of Dongshan and Tianyu counties.

The Yang family and the Qi family said that both Yang Siqi and Qi Yun were killed around the time of Chou.

It can be confirmed that the two were indeed together at the time, so the answer is ready to come out.

If Yang Siqi and Qi Yun's cultivation base is used to fly with swords, they will start from Cuihua Pavilion at [-]:[-] Haishi and head towards Qinchuan and Xichuan.

At the moment of Choushi, they just arrived at the Changliu Lake area with their cultivation base flying speed.

Tangning guessed that they found Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun after arriving at Changliu Lake, so they were murdered and silenced.

"Go find a topographical atlas of South China immediately." Tangning returned to the Taoist temple and ordered
"Yes." Guan Xun replied, and took the order to go. After a while, he brought a topographical atlas.

Tangning unfolded the album, found the location of Cuihua Pavilion, and then determined an approximate direction according to Yang Siqi's flying speed. After leaving the Taoist temple, she turned into the light and went straight.

After a short walk, I came to Changliu Lake. This lake is quite wide, with a width of two or three hundred feet from east to west and a length of one hundred miles from north to south.

Tang Ning fell into the old forest on the shore of the lake. He guessed that what the Corpse Puppet Sect and the two were looking for should be in the forest around the lake. According to his inference, the places where Yang Siqi and Qi Yun were killed should be within this range. Not more than thirty miles.

As soon as he entered the forest, he escaped into the ground.

After so many days of delay, Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun didn't know if they would come back. If they met, he was not sure of victory in a two-on-one match.

Tangning dug into the ground, she was aware of the distance, she searched the surrounding area, and moved forward slowly.

Until night fell, he thoroughly searched the area dozens of miles away, but found nothing.

Tangning fell into deep thought.

If my deduction is correct, Yang Siqi and Qi Yun should have been killed here, why did I search all over and find nothing?

Did Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun make a mistake, or did they already find what they were looking for?
Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw two flashes of light in the sky, falling to the edge of the lake, and two men's figures appeared.

It was Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun.Tangning immediately thought, there is no one else besides them here at this time.

He sneaked into the treetops and observed quietly. The distance between the two sides was three to four hundred feet. It was impossible for his spiritual sense to detect such a distance. Tangning couldn't see the faces of the two of them clearly, so he could only be sure that they were two men.

The two fell to the edge of the lake, and looked around vigilantly. They didn't find Tang Ning who was hiding in the treetops. The light flashed on her body, and she went straight into the lake.

Is it in the lake?Seeing them fleeing into the lake, Tangning was a little startled. No wonder he searched the mountains and forests for dozens of miles and found nothing. It turned out that what they were looking for was hidden in the lake.

He didn't rush to follow, and continued to observe among the treetops.

After waiting for an hour, they didn't see them coming out of the lake. At this time, they were sure that what they were looking for was inside the lake.

Tangning didn't know what was going on inside, so she didn't dare to wait any longer, or the day lily would be cold.

He escaped into the ground, with his consciousness far away, he walked forward slowly, touched the lake, and reached the position of the two of them just now.The divine sense didn't detect anyone, so he dived into the lake, used the water escape technique, merged himself with the ten thousand hectares of lake water, and headed towards the bottom of the lake.

In the middle of the lake, sixty or seventy feet down, he found a faint light at the bottom, and groped upstream along the light.

After walking for a few miles, I vaguely saw a huge light curtain at the bottom of the lake, which was obviously restricted by a formation.

Sure enough, he was here. He was overjoyed and walked in that direction. After walking for another two or three miles, he saw several figures standing in front of the light curtain.

Tang Ning took a closer look and saw that there were three of them, all of whom released spiritual shields to block the lake water.

Why are there three people?Just now he clearly saw that only two people escaped to the bottom of the lake, that is to say, one person was already in the lake before he came here.

Three people, this is tricky.If they were discovered, the consequences would be disastrous.

Tang Ning walked forward slowly, and stopped [-] feet away from them. Even a late foundation cultivator's spiritual sense would not be able to detect this distance, unless it was a Jindan cultivator.

He looked at the three people from a distance, saw their lips move slightly, and didn't know what they were talking about, they were so far apart, and they were in the water, with the obstruction of the current, even though his eyes and ears were far better than ordinary people, he still couldn't hear their words at all. Voice.

The three of them were very strange, they were just talking, but they didn't make any movement to break the formation.

Could it be?Who are they waiting for?Tangning thought to herself, this is not good, if a Golden Core cultivator came, wouldn't she be dead without a place to bury her?
He weighed in his mind whether to withdraw or continue to wait.

If you withdraw at this time, go back and report to the Zongmen, there may not be enough time to go back and forth, and if you tell the Zongmen, you will have nothing to do with yourself.

If you continue to wait here, if a Golden Core cultivator really comes, wouldn't you be digging your own grave?

Tangning thought for a long time, and decided to observe first before making a decision.

After waiting for two or three hours, they didn't see them start to break the formation. Instead, they sat cross-legged and swallowed the elixir to replenish their spiritual power to support the consumption of the spiritual power shield to resist the pressure of the lake bottom water.

It is now certain that they must be waiting for their companions.

A choice must be made.

Tangning slowly withdrew from the lake, came to the shore, and stayed in the forest.

Since they don't plan to break the formation, they don't need to worry, let's wait and see who comes.

If there is a Golden Core cultivator, it is not too late to escape.

Tangning made some considerations and decided to take the next best thing. She stood by the lake to observe who came and acted.

He reckoned that the probability of Jindan cultivator coming here is very small, the reason is very simple, Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun secretly negotiated, traveled to South China, and discovered the secret under the lake.

Could they have informed the Golden Core cultivators above about this?It is absolutely impossible to tell the Jindan cultivator if they replace them with himself. Everything in the practice world depends on chance, and whoever snatches the unowned thing will own it.

Although the two turned to Deng Xuanmao as their teachers, they were only registered disciples. In the final analysis, they just found a big tree as a backer. This kind of relationship cannot be too close. In addition, within the Demon Sect, the weak can eat the strong and the competition is fierce.There is even less heart-to-heart and utter sincerity.

Furthermore, according to Zhao Jiazhi, Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun discovered the secret of this lake for at least a month. If the Golden Core cultivators knew about this, they would have broken the formation long ago, and it would not have been delayed for such a long time. The formation has not yet been broken.

Presumably it must be because they couldn't break through the formation and were struggling to think of a good strategy, so they delayed for so long.

Moreover, the three people in the lake are all Foundation Establishment cultivators. If the person behind the scenes is a Golden Core cultivator, he should come here in person instead of sending so many juniors to garrison. It is necessary to know that the more people who know this secret, the more likely it will be leaked. The greater the sex.What's more, this is South China, under the jurisdiction of Qianyizong.

If Jindan cultivator knew about this, he would definitely not tell his disciples, just like he would not tell Guan Xun and others about it, there would be no benefit at all.

Tangning wasn't sure how many of them there were. Just now, he thought that the two must be Xiang Jingxing and Han Hun, but now it seems that they may not be.

He waited in the forest for a day, and in the middle of the next night, around midnight, two more rays of light came, stopped by the lake, and two men appeared.

The two turned their heads and looked around, but they didn't find anyone else around them, so they went straight to the lake in a flash.

Tang Ning hid among the treetops, saw them going to the lake, and waited for about a quarter of an hour, but no one else came back, so she went underground and came to the lake, using her water escape technique to blend her body with the lake water, and quietly Drill down to the bottom of the lake.

After walking for a few miles, he arrived in front of the light curtain, and saw those people gathered in one place talking about something. He was observing them from a distance of one hundred and fifty feet.

(End of this chapter)