Xuantian Law Envoy

Chapter 202 Paintings and Beggars
"Tell me! Have you encountered any weird things recently!"

"Any abnormality can be said!"

"If you don't say it, you will become a lunatic like them later! Then you will be killed!"

"Say it!"

West of Taiwu City.

Temporary detention point.

An abandoned old house.

This place has been banned by monks of the Chen family with multiple formations, and at the same time mobilized a large number of guards to guard the city.

Or in other words, the "quasi-lunatic" monks who were imprisoned here.

At the same time, Taiwuwei is also intensively carrying out the interrogation work.

It is impossible for these sick lunatics to fall ill for no reason without a little reason.

Maybe they all have their own intersection that they can't detect.

And Taiwuwei's job is to find these clues and deduce why they went crazy.

blah blah-

At this moment, three middle-aged monks suddenly walked in outside the courtyard.

All the Taiwu guards in the courtyard clasped their fists and saluted respectfully.

"Master Liu!"

"Meet Master Liu!"

This middle-aged monk known as "Master Liu" was one of the many masters who had gathered in the Taiwuwei West Mansion earlier.

"How's the interrogation going? We're running out of time."

Liu Lan asked directly as soon as she entered the interrogation room.

Although his tone was not hurried, anyone could hear the sense of urgency in his words.

"My lord, many people have been interrogated, but the things they said have nothing to do with each other, and there is no overlap in their itineraries."

The interrogating Taiwuwei said with a sad face: "We have almost exhausted all means but have not obtained any useful information."

Liu Lan's face darkened, and she waved her big hand: "Bring him here, and I will interrogate him myself!"

As a Qi refining monk was brought into the interrogation room, Liu Lan's aura gradually became ethereal.

This Qi Refining Cultivator was a disciple of an unknown sect with no backing or background, so he was tortured immediately.

As for those people with profound backgrounds and extraordinary backgrounds, the Chen family adhered to the principle of not provoking them for the time being, so they did not interrogate them.

Just in custody temporarily.

However, as the situation becomes more serious, the Chen family will definitely interrogate them.

But before that, the Chen family wanted to obtain as many useful clues as possible through these monks with no background.

If you can avoid provoking those people, it is better to avoid it.

"Hello, please cooperate with our Chen family's investigation as much as possible. After the work is done, the Chen family will give you five low-grade spirit stones to compensate for your lost time."

When the young monk was brought in, his face was full of vigilance, a bit reluctant.

But when I heard Liu Lan say this sentence.

He didn't respond immediately, and even took the initiative to cooperate: "Okay, if you ask, I will answer every question."

If he can answer some questions, he will get five low-grade spirit stones. For a low-level monk like him who can only get more than ten low-grade spirit stones a year, it is simply pie from the sky.

Not to mention asking a few questions, he is willing to work as a coolie for the Chen family for a month.

"When did you enter Xiancheng?" Liu Lan asked softly.

The young monk recalled: "About a month ago."

Liu Lan nodded, and then slowly asked in a vague tone: "Tell me about your whereabouts in the past month."

The young monk's eyes flickered suddenly, and he felt a little sleepy, and then became more and more unable to hold himself.

finally.

His eyes were blank and he whispered: "A month ago, I went to the city to meet Sun Yu for the spiritual grass business. After entering the city, I waited for him at the Taihu Inn for three days."

“Then we went to Mingyue Tower”

"Five days later, I went out of the city to find the hidden spirit grass and brought it back."

"We finished the deal, so I went to Fulu Hall and rented a low-level spiritual room to practice until yesterday."

"Where are you going next?" Liu Lan asked with a frown.

"I'm planning to go back to the clan to see the master."

The male cultivator said in confusion.

"Did you encounter any strange things during this period?" Liu Lan asked.

"No." The male cultivator shook his head.

"Have you met any strange people?" Liu Lan frowned and asked again.

The male cultivator suddenly frowned, and then slowly said: "If you want to talk about strange people, there seems to be one."

"That's a beggar, selling paintings in front of Mingyue Tower"

"I was in a hurry to leave at the time, and he insisted on selling the painting. I opened it and took a look, but I didn't buy it, and then left."

"There's nothing on that bullshit painting, it's just blank."

"You madman, what a waste of my time."

As soon as Liu Lan heard the word lunatic, Liu Lan's eyes lit up immediately, and then asked a lot about the beggar.

Afterwards, Liu Lan questioned another four or five people, all of whom had different cultivation levels.

But they all met the lunatics who sold paintings, or beggars.

And it's in various places in the city.

It's just that when mentioning the lunatic's appearance, everyone looked blank, as if they couldn't remember much.

This made Liu Lan suddenly have many thoughts and guesses in his mind.

The more this happened, the more suspicious the madman's affairs became.

Soon after, he ordered someone to bring a special monk.

The special monk was an old man with empty eyes, who seemed to have been blind for many years.

Sitting next to Liu Lan, listening to his interrogation, while writing and drawing on paper.

After Liu Lan interrogated about a dozen people about the beggar, the old blind man suddenly said, "The drawing is finished."

I saw the appearance of a kind old man vividly on the paper.

Liu Lan laughed out loud, and then her eyes turned cold: "I found it!"

Afterwards, he rushed out of the house, took the painting and jumped towards the city lord's mansion.

Over the east city of Taiwu Immortal City.

Xu Qing walked side by side with a middle-aged man, and the two of them seemed to be teleporting, with a step of tens of feet away.

Whenever Xu Qing points somewhere below.

On the streets and buildings below, many monks were taken out of thin air one by one by the middle-aged man and thrown to the temporary confinement place.

No matter whether the opponent is a foundation-building cultivator, a golden core, or even a spiritual cultivator, they cannot resist the man's ban.

Fortunately, there is no problem with the spiritual monks yet.

Xu Qing never imagined that one day he would be able to hold the defense order of Taiwu Immortal City, and he was accompanied by the seventh elder of the Chen family, a great monk in the middle stage of Yuanying.

A team of Taiwu Guards below closely followed the two, perfectly catching every would-be lunatic.

Xu Qing never imagined that his first encounter with the Taiwu Chen family would be in this way.

And the strength of the Chen family also opened his eyes again and again.

But with their arrest, chaos began to break out in the city.

Many monks who were okay also started to make trouble out of fear.

Although this scene had been planned for a long time, when it actually happened, the monks of the Chen family were still stretched.

Even with the control and cooperation of the city guards.

Without him, it's just because there are too many monks in the entire Taiwu Immortal City.

Even if only a small part of the more than 50 monks has problems, it can involve several times the number of people.

Only then did Xu Qing truly realize that these parasitic creatures were more troublesome than those strange creatures in the gray mist.

They not only hide in the human body like a time bomb.

Can't get rid of it.

Once the parasitic monster is forcibly killed, the host will also die.

The reason why he knew this was because during the arrest process, a monk shot wildly at him, and was hit by Xu Qing with a thunderbolt.

The monster dissipated directly, but the monk also died immediately.

Seeing the strange thing dissipate, Xu Qing frowned.

Because after this parasitic monster was killed, no gray crystals appeared.

And the system does not have any prompts or rewards.

"Seventh Elder, if things go on like this, the situation still hasn't improved." Xu Qing couldn't help but sighed.

Today, the total number of casualties in the city is more than 500.

Except for a small number of Taiwu Guards, most of them are monks who have gone crazy.

Because not all lunatics can be restrained.

Those who are particularly strong lunatics can only be killed by force.

The Seventh Elder was about to speak, but suddenly stopped, and said to Xu Qing: "The Taiwu Guard has found the source, go to the City Lord's Mansion."

Xu Qing raised his brows immediately, urging the token in his hand without thinking.

Now he has been able to use this teleportation method freely.

The next moment, he appeared in Huixian Hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

Seeing Xu Qing and the Seventh Elder come back at the same time, the Third Elder Chen Xia immediately threw a picture scroll at them.

"After our investigation, all monks parasitized by strange things have seen this beggar."

"He was selling everybody a painting that was supposed to have nothing on it, just blank."

"And all those who have seen that painting are parasitized with strange things in their bodies."

"I suspect that this person and that painting are the key to this incident!"

Xu Qing took the scroll and unfolded it for a look. Suddenly, two lights shot out from his eyes, causing all the monks in the room to look at him.

"It turned out to be him!"

Xu Qing let out an exclamation, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

"You know him?" the third elder asked in surprise.

Xu Qing looked at the old man on the picture scroll and said coldly: "This person...is the hometown of the branch of the Chen family, Luo Yi, the current head of the Luo family village!"

"And all the things I know about the Immortal Cave are from this person!"

"This person is actually the source of that weird thing!!"

Immediately, Xu Qing's face changed. Doesn't this mean that they might be led by this person from the beginning to the end?
But at this moment, a figure suddenly walked in outside the hall, and when Xu Qing turned to look, it was Yu Qingzi.

"I have seen you seniors." Yu Qingzi looked at Xu Qing after paying a respectful salute and said, "Junior Brother, Junior Brother Li Chengfeng and the others sent news through the alliance channel."

Yu Qingzi threw a piece of jade slip to Xu Qing, Xu Qing caught it and pressed it between her eyebrows to look at it.

After a while, he suddenly looked at everyone with a dazed face: "I understand."

Many senior members of the Chen family and Yu Qingzi looked at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing pondered for a while, and understood the general outline of the whole matter.

In Tianyinmen, Li Chengfeng and others cooperated with Ye Hongliu to re-examine the death scene and body of the Tianyinmen elder.

Among its relics, a blank scroll was also found.

And because this picture scroll is rather abrupt, Ye Hongliu listed it separately.

The death of that elder was almost exactly the same as that of Chen Zhankong.

That is, they were killed in the same way.

And the appearance of this painting just proved that those weird things and this painting are inextricably linked.

"From the perspective of the younger generation, this painting should be similar to some kind of curse or mark."

"As long as anyone who has touched the painting will become the target of the weird thing and be attacked!"

"That is to say, to deal with monsters, painting is the key!"

Xu Qing took two steps, and suddenly looked at several senior members of the Chen family: "Seniors! This junior wants to verify a few things. If it is confirmed, maybe we can find a solution to the weird thing!"

The third elder waved his hand: "Just do it!"

Xu Qing nodded, and bowed to Yu Qingzi, "Senior Brother, I'll take a step first!"

Then he looked at the Seventh Elder beside him: "Senior, where is the gray fog phenomenon closest to the City Lord's Mansion?"

The Seventh Elder grabbed Xu Qing's arm: "Follow me."

Swish!
The next moment, the two disappeared in place at the same time.

Yu Qingzi raised his eyebrows, and then he cupped his fists and saluted to the third elder: "This junior is here to send a message to Xu Qing, since there is nothing to do, I will leave first."

The third elder smiled and nodded, watching him leave.

Taibai Street in the west of the city.

Somewhere in an alley.

"Shh!"

As the air fluctuated, two figures walked out of the ripples side by side and appeared in the alley.

"This is where one of the gray mist visions appeared."

The Seventh Elder pointed to the remnants of the magic circle on the ground and said in a gentle manner.

Xu Qing nodded, flipped his hand and took out the Immortal Slashing Saber, and dug towards the ground in the center of the formation.

The entire formation is arranged around the cloud of gray fog.

And the center of the formation is the core part of the gray mist.

As Xu Qing scraped away the bluestone spread on the surface, the soil beneath the ground was exposed.

Immediately afterwards, he cast earth magic to continuously dig out the large lump of soil, and soon when he dug to a depth of two feet, a flat cuboid wooden box appeared in the soil.

Xu Qing's eyes lit up, and he snapped the wooden box out. After opening it, he saw a broken picture scroll being laid out in the wooden box.

According to its original position, the front of the scroll is facing the ground above!

It's just that the picture scroll has been destroyed, and there is really nothing on it.

The weird thing that should have existed has also disappeared,
Xu Qing picked up the scroll, and saw a gray crystal the size of a thumb underneath!
"I found it!" Xu Qing jumped out of the deep pit, returned to the ground and said to the Seventh Elder, "There is indeed a picture scroll here!"

"Looking at the texture and style around the painting paper, it is exactly the same as the painting scroll in my hand!"

As Xu Qing spoke, he took out the picture scroll he got from Chen Zhankong's home and compared it.

The Seventh Elder was surprised and said, "It's really related to the picture scroll! But what does this mean?"

Xu Qing picked up the gray crystal: "This is what is left behind after the monster's death, which means that the monster on this scroll is really dead."

"This shows that if the strange thing dies, it will inevitably leave behind crystals."

"And the junior didn't see the gray crystal after killing the parasitic thing parasitic on the monk."

"So, the younger generation guesses that different paintings have different types of monsters on them. The parasitic monster that we killed should not be the body of the monster, but something similar to an avatar."

"At the same time, there should also be a painting of those weird creatures parasitic in the monk's body!"

"And that painting and the weird thing on it are the real body."

"Only by destroying that painting or killing the weird thing on that painting can we really solve this big trouble!"

(End of this chapter)