Nightwatcher

A man and a ghost, the two masters and servants pushed aside the grass, searched for a while, and found a corpse in the knee-high weeds.

The corpse was dressed in black clothes, had lost its head, and was holding a sharpened steel knife in its hand. The bowl-sized scar on its neck had dried up and turned black. It took at least two hours, or even longer, to die. .

"He must have died of a vendetta in the rivers and lakes. The resentment is still not light. Let's bury him, lest his body be exposed to the wilderness and turn into a resentful spirit in seven days."

Susu suggested. As a "charm", she smelled an extremely strong resentment.

This resentment is very likely to turn the deceased into a resentful soul seven days later. Of course, this kind of soul cannot exist for a long time, and it will dissipate within a few hours or a few days.

However, this mountain road is not uninhabited. If a traveler passes by before the resentful soul dissipates, it is likely to be attacked by the resentful soul. It can range from serious illness to serious illness, and to death.

Susu believes that such things should be put an end to in time.

"The resentment is so deep, there must have been some major event that made him so unwilling. I will try to summon his soul to see what it is." Li Miaozhen pondered.

"No, no, master, do you really think you are a heroine?"

Susu jumped up on the spot and said: "You are the saint of Tianzong, you will be too forgetful in the future. Life, old age, sickness, death, grievances and hatred in the world are just clouds to you. Forgetful and fair, don't you Be moved by emotions, not disturbed by emotions.

"Woman is just a role we set up for ourselves in order to disguise our identities. The sky is the most selfish, and it is used for the fair. When will you be able to stand by and watch the world's love and hatred, remain unmoved, do not stop or intervene? You will be able to cultivate a positive result.

"Let's just bury him, why bother causing trouble."

"Shut up, you!"

Li Miaozhen said impatiently: "I need you to teach me the profound meaning of Tianzong? It's true that the Supreme Master forgets love, but if you don't even know what "love" is, how can you forget it? Do you forget it when you say you forget it."

Besides, she doesn't think there's anything wrong with being chivalrous. Why do some people always talk about the inconsistency of the world? It is because there are too few people who are nosy.

If everyone had a chivalrous and meddling heart, the world would not be so hot and cold.

Li Miaozhen carried the body to the side of the road, and ordered Susu to take out three bamboo tubes, which contained black mud, black blood, and cold medicinal herbs.

The main component of the black silt is the body mud excavated from mass graves, supplemented by various negative materials.

The main component of the black blood is Guishui of the virgin born in the yin time, supplemented by various yin materials.

The medicinal materials that exude cold air are some medicinal materials that grow in extremely yin places.

This corpse has been dead for too long, so it is impossible to directly summon the soul, and it is in a state of exposing the corpse to the wilderness. If the soul is forcibly summoned, it will dissipate in the power of the sun on the spot.

Susu skillfully prepared "ink" with three kinds of materials, and took out a writing brush made of phalanx, dipped it in ink, and handed it to Li Miaozhen.

Li Miaozhen portrayed or twisted Zhang Yang on the corpse, or eccentric incantations that were reserved and introverted, and chanted words. As the formation gradually took shape, there was a gust of wind around, and the sun seemed to lose its heat.

When the last stroke was made, the shattered souls came from the wind, gathered from the side of the road, from the bushes, and from mid-air above the corpse, turning into an unrealistic phantom.

It was a thin man with dull eyes, floating above the corpse in a daze.

Li Miaozhen frowned slightly, Daomen is an expert in playing with ghosts, just one glance, she confirmed that this ghost was seriously damaged, and there was a targeted attack on the soul before death.

But the other party should be a martial artist with limited abilities, unable to completely annihilate the soul.

"Who are you?" Li Miaozhen asked.

At the same time, raising the finger to send out a ray of yin energy to nourish the soul.

The ghost was nourished by the yin energy, and his sluggish expression changed, and he muttered: "Three thousand miles of blood slaughter, three thousand miles of blood slaughter, please send troops to crusade!"

Li Miaozhen asked several times in a row, and the ghost kept repeating the same sentence, and he couldn't say any more.

"Three thousand miles of blood slaughter," Li Miaozhen muttered with a serious face.

"How to deal with him?" Susu realized the seriousness of the matter.

"His soul is incomplete. If you want him to tell the follow-up content, you have to nourish your soul, but nourishing your soul is a long process, and you can't count on it in the short term." Li Miaozhen's eyes fell on the corpse, and he had an idea:

"If the identity of this person can be found out, maybe we can learn more about the inside story and know what he wants to say."

"Master is right." Susu nodded obediently, and then asked, "How to check?"

How did I know that Li Miaozhen was silent, kept thinking, and involuntarily recalled the process of cooperating with Xu Qi'an in the investigation of the Yunzhou case in his mind.

She tried her best to recall, trying to use Xu Qi'an's ideas to solve the mystery of this corpse, but she failed.

In the silent atmosphere, Susu whispered: "If that kid is still alive, there must be a way."

You remember him too? Li Miaozhen nodded calmly, and said: "He is the person with the strongest ability to solve crimes I have ever seen, well, even take the body back to the capital and hand it over to the Yamen.

"This person was killed in a barren hill not far from the capital, probably because he was intercepted and killed."

After finishing speaking, Li Miaozhen took out the fragments of the book from the ground and pointed it at the corpse. With a flash of brilliance, the corpse disappeared. She then opened the sachet at her waist and put the remnant soul into it.

Because of this episode, the master and servant no longer wandered around leisurely. Li Miaozhen put Susu in the sachet, summoned the flying sword, and jumped on the sword spine.

With a sound of "咻", Feijian broke through the air and left.

A quarter of an hour later, she saw the majestic outline of the capital, and saw the dotted villages and small towns built around the capital.

Li Miaozhen lowered the flying sword and landed outside the city. The flying sword had a spirit and returned to its sheath automatically.

"brush!"

She shook the small jade mirror, and a lifelike paper figurine floated out of the mirror, with bamboo branches as bones and picturesque features.

With a tap of the sachet, Susu turned into green smoke and floated out, gracefully entering the paper figurine.

The paper man suddenly came to life, his eyebrows and eyes moved, his paper body turned into flesh and blood, and his long skirt fluttered.

The master and servant smiled at each other and entered the capital.

"Master, this is the first time I've come to the capital. They say this is the city of the Great Fengshoushan, the most prosperous city on the mainland." Susu said excitedly. After passing through the city gate, she couldn't wait to look around.

"Calm down, your life and ghost life together are close to forty years old." Li Miaozhen said, walking towards the bulletin board beside the city wall.

Every time she went to a city, she would instinctively look at the bulletin board, where there would be notices posted by the government, including imperial decrees, wanted notices, etc.

"Master, you have committed an old problem again. There are so many masters in the capital. Even if there is an appeal, it will not be your turn to act for the sky." Susu held a red umbrella to block the sun.

At this time, she saw Li Miaozhen's body froze suddenly, her eyes slowly opened wide, staring at a certain notice on the wall, showing an expression of disbelief.

She rarely lost her composure like this. What did she see? Out of curiosity, Susu walked over, stood side by side with Li Miaozhen, and looked at Xiwen.

The next moment, her almond eyes widened and her rosy mouth opened slightly, as if she had seen a ghost.

I don't know if I was too shocked or excited, but the hand holding the red umbrella trembled slightly.

The afternoon sun was a bit scorching, Xu Qi'an took his subordinate Tonggong to patrol the streets, a while ago, Wei Yuan adopted his suggestion, and based on him, organized a temporary team, a team composed of people from the Jianghu .

Let them be responsible for maintaining the law and order of the capital, and the imperial court will give them quite generous treatment and rewards.

The beauty of this policy is that it fundamentally solves the chaos of law and order. Why are there so many incidents of theft and robbery?

Because most people in the rivers and lakes are bastards, have no fixed livelihood, and the prices in the capital are expensive, so how can they survive without stealing or robbing.

Give them a job to earn money, let them maintain law and order, use their spears to attack their shields. Of course, every security team organized by people from the Jianghu will be monitored by the imperial court, and they must be guarded against self-stealing.

After the crackdown in the first few days, the people from the rivers and lakes who poured into the city settled down a lot.

Therefore, Xu Qi'an planned to go to Goulan to listen to the music.

"Food and clothing and think about sex, but once this is satisfied, human beings will pursue a higher level of enjoyment, which is the enjoyment of the spiritual level. There are no computers in this world, you can't play games, you can't watch movies, you can only go to Goulan to watch operas and listen to music. , to maintain a decent life”

Xu Qi'an led the gongs into Goulan, and asked for a private room, drinking tea, eating melons and fruits, and watching operas in the lobby.

Suddenly, the familiar heart palpitations came.

Xu Qi'an turned his back, blocked the view of the gongs, took out the fragments of the book from the ground, and was shocked.

[Two: Xu Qi'an is still alive? ! 】

[Two: Why didn't anyone tell me that Xu Qi'an was not dead yet, why didn't you tell me that Xu Qi'an was not dead! ! ! 】

After two letters, there was no sound.

[Four: Huh? Does Li Miao really know that Xu Qi'an is still alive? 】

Chu Yuanzhen sent a letter to express his doubts.

[One: After the Yunzhou case, she has been running around all the time, not knowing that it is normal for Xu Qi'an to come back to life after death. However, as the news of the fight came, she knew that it would happen sooner or later. Heh, it's not surprising that she and Xu Qi'an formed a deep friendship in Yunzhou, so excited. 】

Why do I feel like Number One is gloating? Xu Qi'an's heart sank.

[Six: Why is No. 2 silent? 】

Hengyuan also participated in the discussion.

Xu Qi'an thought for a while, and then sent out the message: [Three: Number two, I have something to say to you]

Before this biography was sent out, everyone in the Dishu chat group saw the biography of Daoist Jin Lian: [Li Miaozhen has arrived in the capital. 】

Afterwards, everyone never received the letter.

On the side of the street, Li Miaozhen, who was trembling all over, held the fragments of the underground book, and typed the book with trembling fingers: 【Xu Qi'an, you bastard! How long do you want to lie to us. 】

Passed the letter out, but there was no response for a long time.

Li Miaozhen became more and more trembling and cold, and passed on a letter: [Could it be that you all know that he is No. 3? Join forces to lie to me? 】

Only in this way can it explain why everyone didn't mention the news that Xu Qi'an is not dead, and why everyone is silent at the moment.

[Nine: Miaozhen, they don't know Xu Qi'an's identity. As for why he was resurrected, it is a long story, I will give you an address, you can come here to find me. 】

At this time, Li Miaozhen received a letter from Taoist Jinlian.

Li Miaozhen stared at Daoist Jinlian's biography, feeling complicated, unable to tell if she was angry or happy, or was she ashamed?

"Master, is that kid really alive?"

After the transmission was over, Susu couldn't wait to ask. Her beautiful face showed tension and joy, as if the man's life and death were very important to her.

Li Miaozhen suppressed her anger and let out a "hmm".

Thinking of this period of time, she often lamented with the "Mei" around her that heaven was jealous of talents, and it was a pity that Xu Qi'an died.

Susu also had the same psychological feeling, so the master and servant looked at each other and moved their eyes tacitly away.

[Nine: Li Miaozhen has already entered the city, do you want to meet her? Although I blocked her and didn't let her talk too much, what should come will still come. 】

In the Goulan, Xu Qi'an received a letter from Daoist Jinlian.

Master, well done! Xu Qi'an's brows were the same, and his face showed joy, and he sent a letter to respond: 【I can see her. 】

[Nine: Come to my residence. 】

Xu Qi'an put away the fragments of the book, threw a few pieces of silver, and said: "I still have important matters to deal with. After drinking, you continue to patrol the streets."

"Yes, boss."

In the outer city, at the gate of a small courtyard planted with willow trees.

Li Miaozhen, who was wearing Taoist clothes, knocked lightly on the courtyard door. After a few breaths, the courtyard door opened automatically, and the gentle voice of Taoist Priest Jinlian came: "Please come in."

Li Miaozhen brought the ghost servant Susu into the room, walked through the small courtyard, crossed the threshold, and saw Daoist Jinlian sitting cross-legged in the room.

He has gray hair, with strands of hair hanging down, and his image is as sloppy and casual as ever.

"Very good, you are indeed one of the most talented disciples of Tianzong, you have stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm." Daoist Jinlian praised.

The fourth grade of Taoism, Nascent Soul!

"Chu Yuanzhen's swordsmanship is superb. If I don't step into the fourth rank, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to defeat him." Li Miaozhen said.

"I remember that your senior brother has long been a fourth-rank Nascent Soul, is he still missing?" Daoist Jin Lian asked.

"Who knows, maybe he died because of some woman's revenge, or maybe he was imprisoned by some old friend as a confinement. I don't care about his affairs." Li Miaozhen said in a nonchalant tone.

Daoist Jin Lian pondered: "To be honest, I don't want you and Chu Yuanzhen to fight to the death, and I don't even want to see you two fight."

Li Miaozhen said indifferently: "This is the fate of Taoism. The two schools of heaven and man have been fighting for countless years, and there has been no victory or defeat. Now that the head teacher has stepped into the first rank, he can finally bring an end to this dispute of Taoism."

Daoist Jinlian smiled and did not continue this topic.

Li Miaozhen took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and said, "What's the matter with Xu Qi'an."

"He didn't die. He took Si Tianjian's bodiless pills that day, and he just faked his death." Daoist Jin Lian simply explained the reason.

"Why keep hiding from us." Susu said angrily.

"You can ask him this question yourself." Priest Jin Lian smiled and looked towards the yard.

The sound of "da da da" horseshoes came, and Xu Qi'an rode the horse and stopped outside the courtyard.

He tied up the little mare, entered the yard, stepped into the room, and showed Li Miaozhen an awkward yet polite smile:

"Long time no see, why did General Li change his outfit?"

Then he glanced at the paper goddesses of Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao, and teased: "Miss Susu, have you decided, do you want to be my concubine?"

"snort!"

Susu glared at him, turned her face away, and looked very disgusted.

"I'm a disciple of Tianzong, so I'm going to dress like this for the battle between heaven and man."

Li Miaozhen finished speaking expressionlessly, and snorted: "I want to announce that you are number three to all holders of the book fragments."

PS: Thanks to the leader of "Dugu Qingcheng tb" for the reward.