All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

"That's natural." Shen Lingxi inserted the nail back into the hair of Mu Huaijie's body and said seriously: "We, the Beiyamen and the Xiuyi Envoys, naturally take it as our duty to punish evil and promote good. If you really If someone died unjustly, we should enforce the law impartially and never let the murderer go unpunished."

This answer made Mu Huaijie very satisfied.

"What are you going to do?" he asked.

Shen Lingxi looked troubled.

She looked at the top of Mu Huaijie's head sympathetically, "You have been dead for more than three months. I'm afraid you don't know that Shen Yuyao is now the one who is the most beloved of the emperor, and she is also pregnant with the emperor's heir... In a short while, I'm afraid... I can’t move her.”

"Don't worry, when she gives birth to a dragon heir, I will definitely help you seek justice."

"No." Mu Huaijie flatly refused, looking at Shen Lingxi mockingly with a pale face, "When you say you want to enforce the law impartially, you are not trying to shield her. Since we want to arrest her, the sooner the better."

Shen Lingxi was even more embarrassed.

Mu Huaijie waited for several seconds, but when she didn't say anything further, he softened his tone and said, "If I tell you what the blood is about, just do as I say, and the Emperor will not be embarrassed. You, are you willing to avenge me?"

Shen Lingxi thought: Here we come.

She raised her eyes and answered sincerely, "That's natural. The facts of this case are clear and the evidence is sufficient. As long as there is no support from the Emperor, we will definitely be able to bring the evil man to justice."

Mu Huaijie relaxed his eyebrows.

He seemed to have no intention of avoiding Chu Yan's evil aura, and floated to a corpse covered with white cloth, "There is what you are looking for on this corpse."

Shen Lingxi whispered to Chu Yan not to go there, and then walked to the body alone with a wind lantern.

She lifted up the white cloth on the body, and what she saw was a body in a horrible state of death.

The body was that of a man about forty years old, wearing white clothes.

Although the body had been covered with frost after being frozen for a long time, Shen Lingxi could clearly see with the light of the wind lantern that the exposed skin of the body had very thin traces of blood.

Other than that, the only thing that is different from other long-frozen corpses is——

There was no frost on the eyelids of this corpse, and the skin color of the eyelids seemed to be the same as that of a living person.

In such an environment, it is almost impossible.

"You shine a candle into his eyes." Mu Huaijie continued to remind him.

Shen Lingxi followed the words, stretched out her hand, and was about to open the eyelids of the corpse——

"If you don't want to be like my brother, you'd better find something to rest on." Mu Huaijie said sullenly, "Just use the jade pendant around your waist."

Shen Lingxi's eyes flashed slightly as she untied the Pisces jade pendant tied around her waist.

She used the jade pendant to open the eyelids of the corpse, and looked at the pupils of the corpse with the light of the candle, and her heart suddenly shivered.

Pupils become dilated after death, and there will be no change even if there is strong light.

But the dark pupils of this corpse, illuminated by the candlelight, seemed like stirring ink, with something spinning in circles.

"This is what got into my fingertips after I accidentally touched it earlier." Mu Huaian said beside Shen Lingxi.

Together with Su Xian, he walked to Shen Lingxi's side and looked at the corpse's pupils.

"What is this?" Shen Lingxi looked at Mu Huaijie and asked.

Mu Huaijie floated across from them, "Do you know the former Imperial Master Sheng Kun?"

"Hasn't Sheng Kun been burned to death by us?" Shen Lingxi asked pretending to be surprised.

Mu Huaijie looked at her, "You alone want to burn him to death?"

Shen Lingxi frowned.

There was a hint of pride on Mu Huaijie's face, "I'm not afraid to tell you that not only did he not die, he also disintegrated into an immortal. This black thing is what he left behind."

Shen Lingxi looked shocked, "Could these people have been killed by Sheng Kun?" "That's right." Mu Huaijie laughed out loud: "Come to think of it, it's all thanks to you. That night, you He went into the water to break the formation at the bottom of the lake and left this jade pendant on the boat with his outer clothes. Because of this, he was able to escape by storing it in this jade."

As if to confirm Mu Huaijie's words, the dark "whirlpools" in the corpse's eyes suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterwards, the whirlpool turned into a black line, crawled out of the corpse's eyes, and accidentally got into Yu Perry.

Shen Lingxi subconsciously let go of her hand.

The jade pendant lost its support and lay flat on the corpse.

Under the candlelight, the jade pendant is white and shiny, without any impurities.

It was as if the black line just now had never appeared before.

Shen Lingxi looked at Mu Huaijie questioningly.

Mu Huaijie: "Sheng Kun used the power of Mingyang Jade to disintegrate his body into an immortal, and became a Jade Immortal. This black soul thread is the remaining immortal spirit of him."

"Previously, he lived in this double fish pendant and was nourished by the emperor's dragon energy, allowing him to regain his immortal consciousness. Later, he assigned me to collect human souls for him to help him cultivate."

Shen Lingxi's eyes darkened: "So, you killed all the people who died here?"

"No, no." Mu Huaijie said with some complacency: "I am only responsible for finding people and letting them touch this jade pendant. These black fairies will get into their bodies and devour their essence. The blood will refine their souls and be used by the fairies.”

Shen Lingxi laughed angrily when she heard the word "fairy spirit".

I am afraid that only a fool like Mu Huaijie would believe that these black remnant souls of Sheng Kun were so-called "fairy spirits".

The injuries on the corpse were extremely horrific. Under the skin, the blood vessels visible to the naked eye were almost severed.

You can imagine how tortured these people were during their lifetime.

What's more, in the huge Yizhuang and this ice cellar, among the dozens of corpses, there was only one dead soul, Mu Huaijie.

Presumably their souls were refined by Sheng Kun until there was no trace left.

"So you used this jade pendant left by your grandfather to make these Anbu who were loyal to your Mu family become the rations for Sheng Kun's 'fairy' to die miserably?" Shen Lingxi suppressed her anger and pretended to be calm. ask.

"How can you call it a tragic death?" Mu Huaijie disagreed and said, "This is called 'sacrifice'. Being able to dedicate one's soul to the immortals is a blessing they have cultivated for several generations. I am here to help them accumulate merit. "

A good person who helps others and accumulates merit.

According to what Mu Huaijie said, it was a good thing that he died, otherwise I don't know how many people would have died.

At this point, Shen Lingxi was almost certain that the person who told Mu Huaijie behind his back the secrets related to her and Chu Yan must be Sheng Kun.

It is very possible that the person who left the soul of this idiot Mu Huaijie here and waited for her was also Sheng Kun.

I just don't know... does Sheng Kun know that Mu Huaijie would be so stupid as to write the words "Worship Sheng Kun like a god" written on his face in front of her.

Shen Lingxi never believed that there would be coincidences in this world.

It's hard to say that from the moment Shen Yuyao handed the jade pendant to her, it was a trap set up by Sheng Kun to lure her here to meet Mu Huaijie.

However, now, Shen Lingxi still couldn't tell what Sheng Kun's real intention was in putting so much effort into this game.

She secretly forced herself to calm down the anger in her heart, and asked again calmly, "So, Sheng Kun's 'fairy spirit' is now hidden in this Jade Perry?"

Mu Huaijie shook his head and said seriously, "Since he is a fairy, how can he be parasitic in such vulgar jade."

"Oh?" Shen Lingxi raised her eyebrows and looked at him, "If it's not in this jade, where is Sheng Kun's soul now?"

Mu Huaijie smiled meaningfully, "He is hidden in the jade seal, and now he is probably in the emperor's body..."

Update on the night of the 14th + early morning of the 15th.