Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 342 Helmsman ([-])
"How many monks does your Zheng family have? How many foundation-building monks? What kind of cultivation?" The man's words came.

Zheng Kaicheng hurriedly said: "The Zheng family has fifty-two monks in total, and three foundation-builder monks. The patriarch is in the middle stage of foundation-building, and the other two uncles are in the early stage of foundation-building."

"Who is the boss of your intelligence station? Where is the location of the intelligence station?"

"The principal is Wang Ming, a disciple of the Qingyang Sect's intelligence department. The location is in a courtyard a hundred and fifty miles south of Danyang City. There are four old pagoda trees outside the courtyard."

"Did Zheng Changhua tell you what you do recently?"

"No."

"What about the others? Did the other two Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Zheng family ask you for any news?"

"No."

"Where have Zheng Changhua and the other two Foundation Establishment cultivators been recently?"

"The juniors really don't know."

The man asked many more about the situation of the Zheng family, and finally said: "You won't tell others what happened today after you go back!"

Zheng Tiancheng hastily said: "Senior, please rest assured, this junior will definitely not dare."

"How should I trust you?"

"This junior is willing to swear by the demons in his heart. If he reveals half of it, he will tell me that I will never build a foundation in this life, and I will die from the backlash of the demons." At this moment, Zheng Kaicheng can't care about that much in order to survive, and save his life first.

"Okay! Let me trust you for once." The man said, Zheng Tiancheng was overjoyed, and was about to speak when suddenly his eyes darkened and he fell down.

The man walked out of the cave slowly and took off his bamboo hat, revealing a handsome face. It was Tangning.

After he arrived at the capital of Danyang, he casually asked a passing cultivator to find out the location of the nearby gambling house.

After playing in the casino for three days, I met a few casual cultivators, and found out that Zheng Tiancheng was a disciple of the intelligence station while playing cards.It took some Lingshi to inquire and found out that he usually likes to have fun in Wanjiao Pavilion.

So he waited and waited for a few days and finally saw him, then took him captive, and asked him a lot of specific matters about the Zheng family during the interrogation, which was actually just to confuse him.

Let him think that his real target is the Zheng family, and it would be the best choice if he could directly silence him, but he was quite resistant to a completely innocent person and couldn't do it.

The ones he killed in the past were either Mozong monks with different identities or standpoints, or extremely targeted targets.

I am not a murderous maniac, and I am addicted to killing indiscriminately.So it was just knocking him out.

After leaving the cave, Tangning's figure turned into a light, and headed south. After walking for a while, she arrived in a remote mountain range, and saw an old courtyard next to the mountains and rivers. Four old trees were planted in front of the door. locust tree.

It was exactly the Qingyangzong intelligence site that Zheng Tiancheng mentioned.

With a flash of light, Tang Ning fell down, into the ground, sneaked for several miles, and arrived in the courtyard.

Seeing that there is a stone-step passage under the ground, he sneaked along the passage to the basement where the intelligence station belongs.

The disciples of the intelligence station are entrenched in one place in twos and threes, either at their desks to record, or whispering.

Tangning went straight to a stone room, where a man with a square face was sitting cross-legged.

Generally speaking, the chief's residence is a room with a separate passage, so there is no doubt that this person is Wang Ming, the chief of the intelligence station.

Tangning sneaked into the surrounding stone walls from the ground and quietly observed him.

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In the Xuanyue Mountain Spirit Mine, a bearded man walked out of the well-guarded warehouse filled with spirit stones, and headed towards a cave not far away.

The disciples passing by along the way saluted one after another, calling him Master Yan.

The man entered the cave and went straight to the main room.

Sitting cross-legged in the middle was a slender man with an unusually pale complexion.He opened his eyes and smiled slightly: "Junior Brother Yan is here, what's the matter?"

"Senior Brother Ji, I have some mundane business and I want to go out, so I'm here to ask you for leave." Yan Yuanfan said.

"I'm going to trouble you for such a trivial matter. I have already handed over the central disk of the formation to Junior Sister Han. You should ask her to let her go."

"You are the head of the Ling Mine, so I should report to you. Is it necessary to go through the procedures?" Yan Yuanfan took a deep look at him, and asked deeply: "Brother Ji, I have something I don't know what to say. Improper to say?"

The man said: "But it doesn't matter."

"Over the years, it seems inappropriate for senior brother to only focus on cultivation and ignore the affairs of the spiritual mine. If something goes wrong, it will be difficult for the sect to deal with it. In recent days, I often hear the following disciples discussing this matter."

The man smiled: "Cultivators, of course, do everything for their own sake. This is my consistent position. As for those trivial matters, don't worry about them. To be honest, the reason why I took the initiative to apply for the transfer of the spiritual mine back then was to be able to Concentrate on practicing and not be disturbed by the miscellaneous affairs of the department. If the sect insists, I would not even be the master of this spiritual mine. Besides, aren’t you handling the affairs of the spiritual mine? There is nothing to worry about.”

Yan Yuanfan said: "Who else in the sect is more qualified and capable than you, senior brother Ji, to be the master of the spiritual mine? If that's the case, I won't disturb the senior brother's cultivation, and I will leave."

The man nodded slightly, Yan Yuanfan went out of his cave, went to another cave, declared his intention to the woman who held the central formation plate, and then left the big formation and fled all the way.

Not long after, Duan Guang fell to a hilltop and joined people from the secret security department.

They had agreed in advance that they would meet every ten days and report the situation.

"How is it? Who has he met in the past few days? What have he talked about? Is there anything special?" Zhou Yuan, the deacon of the secret security department, asked.
"It's the same as before, staying at home. Only Junior Sister Han went to his cave to meet him once. I don't know what they talked about."

"Are you sure he's been in the cave these days? Is it possible that the golden cicada escaped from its shell?"

"He handed over all the central array disks to Junior Sister Han. If it is said that the golden cicada has escaped its shell, then Junior Sister Han is also involved. Just now I found a reason to visit his cave, and it is undoubtedly him."

Zhou Yuan frowned slightly: "I know, I'm sorry to trouble you, Junior Brother Yan."

"How long do you want me to watch him?"

"Don't worry, it won't be long."

"Why don't you go directly to Junior Sister Han, she may know more about it."

"We suspect that he may have a helper, but we are not sure who it is, so we don't want to let too many people know about it. The reason why we chose you is because we investigated that you had no contact with him before you came to the Spirit Mine, including your ancestors. He has been a disciple of the Qingyang Sect for several generations, and he is a trustworthy person."

Hearing this, Yan Yuanfan was slightly startled, do you have help?Mozong planted so many spies inside the sect?
"Can I know why? Is it because I suspect that he is a secret agent of the Demon Sect, or did he violate the sect's laws?"

Zhou Yuan smiled slightly: "Of course, but not now."

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Qingyangzong Intelligence Station, in the room of Wang Ming, the principal.

There was a "da da" knock on the door.

Wang Ming opened his eyes from the samadhi: "Come in."

A slender woman from outside the house pushed the door open and entered: "Senior brother Wang, three monks have disappeared in our jurisdiction in recent days, do you want to report to the sect?"

"Oh?" Wang Ming's heart moved. According to the instructions of the intelligence department, all intelligence stations should pay close attention to whether there are monks who disappeared without reason, and quickly inform the department after finding out.

In the past few years, there have been rumors from the intelligence department in private that there is a kind of weird monks who specialize in eating the flesh and blood of corpses lurking in various places, and the sect is secretly arresting them.

This kind of people often feed on the flesh and blood of monks, so the department ordered the intelligence stations to collect clues about missing monks in order to find these people.

And the Danyang southern intelligence station to which he belongs has not found such a monk so far.

No rewards without credit, no funding without leads.

"Is the investigation clear? Who is it?"

The woman replied: "One is a casual cultivator whose surname is Chen Mingjing. According to the casual cultivator who was traveling with him, the two returned to their residences after leaving the gambling house. But when they went to look for him again that afternoon, he was gone. The two clearly agreed to go to the gambling house in the evening. This person has been missing for three days so far."

"The other person is Su Yao, a child of the Su family. She was originally the steward of the Su family stationed at Cangyunling. She disappeared the day before yesterday. The Su family is looking for her whereabouts."

"The last person is our intelligence station disciple Zheng Tiancheng. According to the Zheng family's report, he disappeared after leaving Wanjiao Pavilion the night before yesterday. He neither returned to Zheng's house nor to the intelligence contact point."

Wang Ming was taken aback for a moment: "Zheng Tiancheng, is he missing too?"

"Yes, the Zheng family is looking for him now. Brother Wang, these three people are all eligible. They have no reason or accidental disappearance, no one is alive, no dead body. Do you think they should report to the sect?"

"Three of them went missing at once." Wang Ming asked suspiciously, "Are you sure they're alive? It's not a vendetta or murder, right?"

"Chen Jing, a casual cultivator, does not know whether he is alive or dead at present, but Su Yao and Zheng Tiancheng can be sure that they are still alive. I have already asked the monks of the Su family and the Zheng family, and their soul stones are still there. Basically, the possibility of vendetta and murder for profit can be ruled out .”

"Okay, immediately write a dossier and report this matter to the sect. Also, call Junior Brother Zhou."

"Yes." The woman replied and backed out.

Tangning heard their conversation in the inner ear of the stone wall, and felt a little joy in her heart.Originally, he planned to lurk to another intelligence station if there was no clue within ten days.

He didn't expect things to go so smoothly. Somewhat beyond his expectation, he only came here to monitor for three days before he got the clue.

That Zheng Tiancheng was kidnapped by him, and his body was restrained by spiritual energy. When he woke up and walked back to Zheng's house, it would take six or seven days.

The other two, loose cultivator Chen Jing, did not know whether they were dead or alive, but Su Yao, a child of the Su family, actually disappeared.

And nine out of ten are related to the corpse insect host.

The reason is very simple. Generally, casual cultivators will not provoke the local cultivating families. If they provoke them, they will kill them and silence them, so that no one will be left alive.

(End of this chapter)