Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 344 Helmsman ([-])
"Oh?" Hearing what he said, Tangning felt a little joy in her heart. Knowing that he must have some information, she said, "How does Fellow Daoist know?"

Su Kangcheng said: "After our investigation, we found a casual cultivator yesterday. He said that he had witnessed a strange man wearing a mask the night before, carrying a huge black bag and stepping on a flying sword towards the west. The time is around Shen time, and the location is less than a hundred miles away from Cangyun Ridge."

"Su Yao is Cangyun Ridge who left in Weishi. With her escape speed, it's almost a hundred miles in more than an hour, and the time and place are right."

"So we deduced that the man should be the culprit. The black bag on his back contained the missing Su Yao. At that time, the two fought, Su Yao lost to him and was captured by him. It was impossible to take it hostage, so it was stunned and wrapped in a black bag."

"I've been wondering why he is like this? It's the reason why he has to take people away."

Tangning nodded. Cultivators have their own storage bags, and they can put anything into it, so it's impossible to carry a big bag unless it contains living things.

Coupled with the coincidence of time and place, it can be basically determined that the man is the murderer.

And he still needed the power of the flying sword to escape, so he was obviously a Qi Refining Cultivator.

"Do you know where he fled to?"

Su Kangcheng said: "We searched and arrested him in the direction where he was flying away, and at the same time inquired about the news. This morning, we got the latest news. A member of the Wang family saw this man wearing a mask and carrying a bag yesterday. , and finally appeared in a place a hundred miles away from here, we searched all the way, but we haven't found his hiding place yet."

"Are you going to continue fleeing west?" Tangning asked

"How far can a Qi-refining cultivator carry a living person on his back? I've already sent people along this route to inquire about the news. I think he wouldn't dare to carry someone back in broad daylight. It must be day and night."

Su Zhongrui interjected: "Okay, I will leave this matter to you, Kang Cheng, you and Tang Daoyou are working together, I will go back to the mansion first."

Su Kangcheng nodded, and Su Zhongrui flew away with a flash of light.

"Why don't you do this! Fellow Daoist Su, let me go ahead and search for it first, and you all search along this route."

"it is good."

"By the way, what does that man look like with the children who were taken captive from your house? Do you have any portraits?"

"Yu Hui." Su Kangcheng called out, and the voice spread far away.

A handsome man rushed to greet him: "What's your order, third uncle?"

"Give this fellow Daoist Tang a portrait of Su Yao's man with a mask."

"Yes." The man replied, flipping through his hands, took out two portraits, and handed them to Tangning.

Tang Ning took a look, but saw the woman with apricot face and peach cheeks, and a graceful figure.The other person is wearing a mask and wearing a black robe. He looks tall and thin, like a bamboo pole, which is quite distinctive.

He put away the scroll and headed westward in a flash of light. Along the way, he crossed many high mountains, rivers and lakes, and met dozens of monks who were traveling on the same road.

Every time he catches up to see clearly, these people are quite frightened, thinking that he has met a bandit who murders and robs.

After flying away for a day, she came to an unknown high mountain. Tangning stopped and walked at his speed for a day. She still hadn't met the masked man. There were only two possibilities.

First, the man had already hid and did not move on.

Second, it changes orientation.Otherwise it is impossible not to hit.He asked the monks who traveled all the way, but no one had seen the man.

It's possible that what Su Kangcheng said was true, that man is nocturnal, if so, he should be behind him, why not sit back and wait and try his luck.

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It was late at night, the moon was hanging high, and the stars were shining brightly.

Tang Ning was hanging high in the sky, watching the passers-by within his line of sight. Whenever he saw someone passing by with his sword in his field of vision, he would go up and question him.

Around Choushi, a small black dot appeared in the farthest reaches of the eye. Soon, the small black dot became bigger and bigger. Tangning looked around, and could vaguely see a man flying with a sword.

With a flash of light, he went up to meet him, but he didn't know that the man turned around when he saw him coming, and headed south.

Tangning would not let him go so easily, she flew away at full speed, and would catch up to the man in a short time.

But seeing his tall and thin figure from the back, he was wearing a blue robe without a mask.Except for the difference in clothing, the figure is quite similar to the man in the portrait.

Seeing that he couldn't escape from his pursuit, the man took the initiative to stop. Tang Ning fell in front of him, looked him up and said, "Why do you want to run away when you see me?"

The man showed doubts on his face: "The junior is on his way. Seeing that the senior seems to be chasing him, he stops and stops. Why do you want to run away? I don't know why the senior is chasing the junior?"

"Let me ask you, a female cultivator in the Su family has disappeared recently, do you know about this?"

"What about the Su family, the junior is a casual cultivator, I don't know what the senior said."

"Really?" Tangning finished speaking, pointing her finger at him, a wave of spiritual power was stimulated, the distance between the two was less than three feet, Tangning attacked suddenly, even though the man was on guard, there was no time to react.

That spiritual power directly penetrated his body, causing a penetrating wound the size of a finger in his abdomen.

The man finally changed his complexion, and his wound healed slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Tangning smiled slightly, and grabbed his shoulder with one hand. Spiritual energy gushed out from his body, enveloping him.

The man felt that his whole body was being imprisoned by spiritual power, and he rose up to resist. The spiritual power in his body surged violently, resisting the squeeze of external spiritual power.

All I could hear was the rattling of my bones.

The chest ribs couldn't withstand the squeeze of spiritual power and shattered, the man's eyes went dark, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

Tangning saw his eyes gradually turning red, and knew that the corpse insects in his body had begun to wake up.

This is a major feature of all corpse insect hosts. Once the host is seriously injured, the body's self-healing power cannot keep up, and the consciousness will become blurred, and the corpse insects will take over.

The man's face was red, and he let out a strange roar. His arms, legs, and waist instantly doubled in size, almost tearing his green clothes. He twisted his body to contend with the spiritual power squeezed from outside.

Tangning tapped her fingers, and several transparent holes appeared on the man's body.

Not long after, the man tilted his head, closed his eyes, and passed out.

The flush on his face faded, and the wound on his body stopped healing itself.

With a wave of Tangning's hand, the spiritual power wrapped him around and headed down into the forest.

It wasn't until around noon the next day that the man woke up slowly, and opened his eyes dimly. The moment he saw Tangning clearly, his complexion changed drastically. Then he realized that he had been restrained, and his face turned ashen in an instant.

"Tell me! Who are you? What's your name? Where did you come from?" Tangning asked

The man was silent.

"I'm not interested in you, and I don't care what evil you have done. I mainly want to know what happened to you? And who is the mastermind behind making you look like this. If you cooperate, I can let you go." Leave. If you don't cooperate, you will be handed over to the Qingyang Sect for an autopsy, and the corpse worms hidden in your body will be taken out, making your life worse than death."

The man's eyes wandered, and he said after a while: "Who is the senior?"

"Tang Ning, a disciple of Qianyizong's intelligence department."

"Qian Yizong?" The man was skeptical: "Senior, do you keep your word? Let me go?"

Tangning said nonchalantly, "If I want to take your life like slaughtering chickens and dogs, why bother talking to you so much? Do you think I traveled all the way to Wu to capture you?"

"What do seniors want to know?"

"Who is your surname? Who is your surname?"

"Junior Sun Yi, a loose cultivator in Qi State."

"When did you look like this? Do you still remember the situation at that time?"

"Two years ago, I woke up next to a ruined temple. At that time, I didn't feel anything different. I just wondered why I was here. I left in a hurry, only to realize that I had been in a coma for a month, and what happened during this month I don’t even remember, the last thing I can think of is the memory picture of me practicing in the residence.”

"After that, on the night of the full moon, I passed out. When I woke up the next day, I found myself in a canyon, forty or fifty miles away from my residence, surrounded by blood and pieces of flesh. I remembered that day one after another. What happened at night. After that, I got away from people and isolated myself."

"But every time the moon is full, I will become unconscious, and then wake up somewhere in the next day, preying on others. I gradually got used to it, and took the initiative to capture monks, so as not to be discovered when I did something unexpected when my consciousness was unconscious."

"It's not without benefits. Every time after predation, the spiritual power in my body has increased by a certain amount. Therefore, I broke through the ninth level of Qi refining and reached the tenth level."

Tangning asked, "Where is the ruined temple where you woke up?"

The man replied: "Near Huangzhi County in the south of Qi State."

"When did you come to Wu country?"

"Ten days ago."

"Why did you come here all of a sudden?"

"I do not know."

"I don't know?" Tangning frowned, "What does this mean?"

"I always feel that there is something very important to me here. Every night, I feel that I have received some kind of calling, and I often come to this place involuntarily. I also feel very strange, this feeling is very strong , I was so excited that I was about to move, as if something was calling me, making me move forward involuntarily."

"You say you can't help it? Something is calling you? Do you feel that now?"

"A little bit, but in the middle of the night, the feeling will be very strong, as if someone is whispering beside you, but you can't hear what is being said, so you can't help but approach him."

Tangning fell into deep thought after hearing his words, was something calling him?Certainly not calling him himself, but summoning the corpse worm in his body.

What is it that has such a strong appeal to him?Could it be the corpse worm mother?
(End of this chapter)