Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 77
The remaining members of the inspection department first put away the storage bags scattered on the ground by the monks of the Xu family one by one, then entered the inner hall, and searched every corner of the mansion one by one. Not to mention, they really found an underground passage in Xu Qingxian's room.

Hidden under his couch, when the head of the bed moves, the secret passage will automatically open.

Tangning and the others looked down from the top. The secret tunnel was quite deep, two to four or five feet above the ground, and the stairs went straight down.

"Junior Brother Gao, Junior Brother Tang, let's go down and have a look, and the few of you will be there to meet you." Chu Xiuyan said
Tangning and Gao Huan followed him into the tunnel and walked along the stairs to the end. The tunnel was six feet high and three feet wide, enough for the two of them to walk side by side.

The tunnel was pitch black, and with the eyes of the three of them, they could only see a distance of three feet in front of them.

After walking no more than thirty feet, a golden silk screen was seen blocking the front.

Chu Xiuyan took out the black disc and fiddled with it a few times. The golden silk screen in front of him was cracked. The three of them continued to move forward, walked out of the tunnel, and came to a barren mountain field. The entire tunnel was five or six miles long.

"If Senior Brother Chu was not well prepared and surrounded the entire Xu residence with a golden wire net, the old fox Xu Qingxian would have escaped," Tangning said.
Chu Xiuyan frowned and looked at the bushy mountains and fields around him: "It's strange, Xu Qingxian only has more than a thousand spirit stones and some pills in his storage bag, and nothing else. Is this the only thing in the entire Xu family? Xu Qingxian has colluded with each other all these years The Mozong should earn a lot of money, even bought the battle armor, where are his belongings? A family must have such things as magic tools, cultivation techniques, and pills. Could it be that they are not in the Xu Mansion?"

"It's possible." Gao Huan murmured, "It was just now that Xu Qingxian was obviously fighting to the death and was preparing to flee. Since it was fleeing, nothing else was needed. The spirit stones would always be taken away, and he only had thousands of stones in his storage bag. Yu Lingshi is obviously kept as a spare, so if you don't take it with you, it is very likely that the property is not in Xu's residence, but is hidden in another place by him."

"If you don't keep it by your side, where can you put it? There is no chamber of commerce in Xingang that can store property!"

"Perhaps there is another secret room that has not been discovered and is unknown."

"I think so too. Let's go back first!"

Naturally, they will not take the secret passage again this time. The three of them drove back to the Xu Mansion with the magic weapon. I have to dig three feet to find out, I don't believe that Xu Qingxian will transfer the property of Xu Mansion to other places, Jiang Zhu, you gather all the servants and servants of Xu Mansion, and interrogate them one by one."

Several people took orders to go, searched inside and outside Xu's mansion but did not find any other secret rooms or tunnels.

At this time, several people from the Inspection Section who were going to deal with the Xu family's remaining party also returned one after another, including Xu Qingwan and Zhao Guang who went with them also came here.

Two of the remaining six members of the Xu family got the news and fled, while the other four were executed.

Everyone gathered in the inner courtyard, and Chu Xiuyan asked: "Friend Xu, you have been hiding in the Xu family for many years, do you know where the Xu family's property is hidden?"

Xu Qingwan said: "Only Xu Qingxian knows about this matter. No one else is allowed to get involved. My concubine is only in charge of the daily expenses of the people in the mansion. As for the specific property of the Xu family, I really don't know."

Jiang Zhu gathered those servants and servants into the inner courtyard. Of course, there were also many Xu family's secular people who could not cultivate without spiritual roots, or young descendants with spiritual roots. They were neatly lined up. The rest of them were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, trembling with desolation.

Just now when Xu Qingxian fought against everyone, they hid in every corner.

A few people from the inspection department questioned them one by one. In fact, without asking, one can think that these people are only affiliated to the Xu family, so how could they know such core secrets.

Sure enough, after some cross-examination, nothing was found.

Jiang Zhu flipped his right hand and took out a black round wheel. There were eight serrations around the round wheel. It shone coldly under the sunlight. It was the eight gears of a high-grade magic weapon.

The eight gears turned into more than ten round wheels of the same shape and cut towards the people in the inner courtyard.

Tangning saw his movement, her hands quickly formed a seal, and the four-meter-high earth walls rose from the ground, surrounding the Xu family and the others in the center.

More than ten eight gears slashed on the earth wall, making a clanking sound, making several inch-deep openings on the four earth walls, circling in the air and merging back into Jiang Zhu's hands.

"Ah! Ah!"

The members of the Xu family waited until they realized it. The woman's high-pitched screams and the children's cries followed one after another, making it very noisy.

Chu Xiuyan frowned slightly: "Junior Brother Tang, what do you mean?"

Tangning said, "The Xu family has colluded with the Demon Sect, and the crime cannot be punished, but Xu Qingxian is the chief evil. There are many cultivators in the Xu family who do not know about it. However, since Xu Qingxian is the head of the family, every word and deed represent the Xu family, so they killed the Xu family. The monks should be right. But these are all secular people, how can the affairs of the practice world be transferred to them, and what is the crime of their maidservants? Neither the people of the Xu family nor the monks, so they are ruthless."

"Zongmen ordered us to investigate this case, how to deal with it is the business of the inspection department, and has nothing to do with you." Jiang Zhu said, his tone was very blunt.

He was very angry in his heart. He was one of the disciples of the inspection department who came to investigate after the death of He Wen'an. Another conclusion found that Xu's family did it, which completely overturned his previous investigation conclusion, made him lose face, and lost face in the department.

This time, he was the only one who suffered the most in the inspection department. The magic weapon was scrapped with a golden rope, and now that Tangning was openly fighting him, how could he not be angry.

Tangning naturally didn't know what he was thinking, and said, "Brother Jiang's words are wrong. I am the head of this place, and the members of the Xu family are ordinary people in the place under my jurisdiction. How can their life and death have nothing to do with me?"

Jiang Zhu said angrily, "Tangning, have you thought it over clearly, do you want to obstruct the investigation department from handling the case?

Tangning was also a little annoyed when he heard his words, and confronted each other, "Obstructing the investigation department's handling of the case? It's a serious crime, even if you obstruct it, so what, Brother Jiang, is he going to arrest me as well? I'm afraid you don't have the right."

Qianyi Zong is the only orthodox Taoist sect in Chu State. Many practitioners want their own children to join it. However, the sect has strict conditions for accepting disciples. Those with poor aptitude will not be accepted, and those with stains from the three generations of ancestors will not be accepted. Sixteen will not accept.

Even if you enter the sect, you may not be able to practice, and you have to go through the test of transformation. This test is a life-and-death test, and almost half of the disciples die in it.Therefore, it is necessary to pass many tests before becoming its official disciple.

It is very difficult to become a disciple of the sect, so once you become a formal disciple, as long as it is not a particularly serious problem, the sect will not easily abolish the status of disciple, at most it will be slightly punished.Like Tang Ning's private sale of medicinal herbs outside the sect, he was exiled to Jingbei, and this was only a private punishment from the Internal Affairs Council, which was not reported to the sect.

If one wanted to convict a disciple of the sect, three steps had to be taken. First, the deacon Keli would draw up the indictment and submit it to the courtyard, then the principal would approve and seal it, and finally submit it to the Xuande Hall.

The conviction can only be confirmed after interrogation and investigation in Xuande Hall.

As one of the subordinate departments of the Secret Academy, the Inspection Section has the power to enforce the law, and only enforces the law, and this law is prescribed by the Xuande Palace.Of course, they have certain discretionary powers when they enforce the law abroad. If they suspect that their disciples are collaborating with the enemy, they can be forcibly detained and presented to the Xuande Hall for investigation.

This is a right granted by the Zongmen to law enforcement departments such as the Inspection Division, and it is clearly stipulated that disciples cannot be forcibly detained unless it is an emergency.

"The Xu family colluded with the Demon Sect and killed He Wen, a disciple of the sect. The evidence is convincing. These people have worked in the Xu family for a long time and have a close relationship with the members of the Xu family. They can be regarded as Xu family's subordinates and belong to the same party. Brother Tang, do everything you can to eliminate evil! If you stay It’s better to kill him for fear of future troubles, you don’t need to worry about this matter, leave it to us! And the inspection department has the right to make arbitrary decisions on the spot, this is our case.” Chu Xiuyan said, at the critical moment he Naturally, he was helping his subordinates to speak up, and Tangning's words inevitably ignored the inspection department, which made him displeased.

"These are mere mortals. They don't have spiritual roots, and they can't practice for a lifetime. Even these people who have no power to restrain the chicken can cause trouble for the sect? The sect has been established for nearly five thousand years. Brother Chu's words are too much. Underestimating the power of the Zongmen, the Inspection Section has the right to make arbitrary decisions on the fly, and I can also submit a letter to report. If Brother Chu insists on this, I request to write to the Zongmen and ask the Xuande Hall to make a ruling. Before the ruling is issued, these people cannot be counted as the Xu family. Yu Dang, if Senior Brother Jiang kills him, he will kill innocent people, and I will write a letter and submit it to Xuande Hall."

Tang Ning argued that he was originally from a poor and humble background, and he was no different from these servant girls. Looking at their trembling figures and hearing their helpless cries, he felt the same way. He had experienced the whole village when he was young. Being slaughtered, the situation is so similar.

All the inspectors looked unkind, and Chu Xiuyan's eyes flashed coldly: "Junior Brother Tang is determined to stand up for these remnants of the Xu family and fight against us? I kindly advise you, be a man who knows the current affairs as a hero, don't Doing things that you will never regret for a lifetime.”

Tangning listened to his strange words, and bluntly refuted, "Senior brother Chu, doesn't he hear what a gentleman can do and what he doesn't do? A man acts with a clear conscience, how can he bow his head for the pros and cons of the situation? Why do you regret it?"

"Junior Brother Tang is right. The head of the Xu family has been punished, and the rest are nothing more than chickens and dogs. What's more, these mortals are all ants. If they are left as harm, it shows that the sect is magnanimous and sympathetic to the common people. The family teacher sits in Chu Bianjing, the country, has a lot of secular affairs, and they often teach me to act with benevolence and righteousness, if you punish him, I'm afraid they will teach me not to be benevolent." Gao Huan said suddenly.

(End of this chapter)