"Eh? Yes, Jianglin City is protected by a large formation, and there is also a top-notch strong man in charge. If the cultivators use their power, they will definitely be able to detect it. But, why, these four people were killed silently? In other words, they should have been killed without knowing it at all." Song Shuwen said.
When it came to this, everyone suddenly had some clues at the same time.
"Fireworks Street?" After thinking for a while, they said a place at the same time.
Yes, it is the place they often go to. If these people were attacked while playing in the brothel, it might be really difficult to prevent.
Although the monks all seem to be pure-hearted and asexual, in fact, they cannot handle the first contact with women in the world of prostitution. They are easily bewitched and then let down their guard. They have all been to that place before, so naturally they have deep feelings about it.
"That should be the case. There aren't many fun places in Jianglin City, except for the Fireworks Street area." Yun Xin also said.
But even if they knew, what would it matter? Could they go to the fireworks street and search for them one by one? Obviously, that would be difficult.
"Damn it, if there was any way to find these Blood Demon Cult monsters hiding in the dark, that would be great." Someone said.
But this sentence reminded Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun touched her chin and thought. As she thought, her eyes lit up. Obviously, she had thought of a solution.
After they finished their conversation, they went back to their own places.
After returning to the room, Ye Liuyun immediately said to Lin Aoxue.
"Aoxue, I suddenly have a bold idea that may help solve the problem of the Blood Demon Cult."
Lin Aoxue was originally troubled by this matter, and Ye Liuyun's words would definitely relieve her worries.
"Oh? A method? Tell me about it and see if it's feasible." Lin Aoxue asked curiously.
Ye Liuyun immediately gave a wicked smile and expressed his bold idea.
What she meant was that to solve the problem of the Blood Demon Cult headquarters in Jiangzhou Prefecture, they had to first solve the problem of ordinary people. Ye Liuyun had a kind of elixir that could produce a large amount of elixir that could make people fall asleep.
This pill is a bit like the hallucinogenic pill used in Silent City last time.
What she meant was that as long as there were enough dream pills, then at some point in the night, ordinary people in the city would enter a deep sleep.
This pill is the most useless one among the pills refined by Ye Liuyun.
Why? Because this elixir is not very useful to cultivators, so in Ye Liuyun's opinion it is a relatively useless elixir.
But now, it seems to come in handy.
He can first refine a large number of Dream Pills to make all the citizens in the city fall asleep, so that he can screen out the cultivators in the city. Then she can refine the Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Pill to allow it to accurately attack the cultivators. In this way, the Blood Demon Sect monks hiding in various places in Jianglin City will definitely be exposed.
But the problem is, what should the imperial monks stationed in Jianglin City do? There is a powerful person in the mysterious realm here, and they must find a way to lure him away, otherwise everything will be in vain with him in the city.
After listening to Ye Liuyun's proposal, Lin Aoxue felt that it was indeed a good idea, but how to deal with this Divine Transformation cultivator and the cultivators from the imperial court was the top priority at the moment.
They couldn't clearly tell the sect about this method, so it was difficult to do.
“Little guy, there is a way, but it requires risk. Let the Lanwei Sword in your body go outside the city and emit its own power. The cultivator in the Mysterious Realm of Transformation in the city is only at the second level of the Primordial Spirit. After he senses the power fluctuations of the Lanwei Sword, he will definitely go out of the city to check. Then you let the Lanwei Sword burst out with power to entangle him.” Lin Qingyou gave Ye Liuyun a suggestion.
This is probably the only way at the moment.
After listening to this, Ye Liuyun immediately asked about Lan Wei in his body.
"Lan Wei, given your current condition, how much blood do you need to absorb in order to fight against the second level of the soul?" Ye Liuyun asked.
Lan Wei didn't hesitate.
"Master, I need to recover at least 30% of my strength." Lan Weijian replied.
"Then if I use all my strength to provide the power of blood, how long will it take you to recover 30% of your strength?" Ye Liuyun asked again.
Lan Wei needs to estimate the qualification issue.
"Eh? About half a month." Lan Wei gave Ye Liuyun a rough estimate of time.
This means that Ye Liuyun and his team definitely cannot take any action this month. They can only wait until next month and then take action on the night of the full moon.
Ye Liuyun felt that there was no problem, but he still had to see whether the sect and the Yun Sect were willing to take action. The decision was not up to them.
Anyway, they can't stay here for a long time. It would be unwise to waste time with the Blood Demon Cult in the dark.
Ye Liuyun immediately shared his thoughts with Lin Aoxue.
Lin Aoxue was stunned. This means that if Zongmen and Yunzong could agree, they would have a great chance of completing the mission this time.
But the decision is not in their hands.
"I understand. That is to say, we have to find a way to force Zongmen and Yunzong to take action to wipe out the Blood Demon Cult on the 15th of next month. We have to force them to take action." Lin Aoxue said.
Indeed, they must make Yunzong take action on the 15th of next month before both sides will cooperate. If one side does not cooperate, there will be no hope.
"Yes, wasting time will definitely not work. As long as Yunzong decides to take action on the 15th, the success rate will be 90%. I have confidence." Ye Liuyun said confidently.
Lin Aoxue has a decisive character and won't get hung up on anything.
"I have witnessed the cruelty of the Blood Demon Cult with my own eyes. They have committed a blood sacrifice in a mortal city. If we don't take advantage of the opportunity to eradicate them, then Jiang Lincheng might serve as a lesson for us. For this reason, we can only deceive the sect with lies." Lin Aoxue felt that there were some things that had to be done once encountered.
They want to solve the problem, not waste time here. Since there is a way, what's wrong with telling a lie?
As for the Yun Sect, they had indeed received the news from the Yunxia Sect, but the answer they gave was to wait and make sure of it one hundred percent before making any decision.
To put it bluntly, he was just refusing because he didn't want to come into conflict with the monks from the imperial court.
The Yunxia Sect was also very annoyed. They had clearly found the location of the Blood Demon Cult's headquarters, but the Yunxia Sect still wanted to wait, making their people waste time. Could they afford to wait?
Unfortunately, Yunzong did not give any orders, so they could only wait.
Ye Liuyun has started to refine the Dream Pill in large quantities in the past few days. This pill is only a white-grade pill, so it did not cause any obvious strange phenomena in the sky and earth. There was just a dark cloud lingering over Jianglin City.
"Eh? Strange, why are there suddenly dark clouds over the sky?" People from the Yunxia Sect are the most sensitive.
These years, Ye Liuyun has almost made them like frightened birds, and they are extremely sensitive to changes in the situation.
When they saw the sky gathering dark clouds, they immediately glanced into the distance.
"This? Why is there this kind of regional dark cloud again?" The face of the Yunxia Sect's disciple suddenly fell.
They are not afraid of rain, but of thunderstorms.
Thunder soon began to roar in the sky.
"Boom, boom..."
Thunder rumbled continuously over Jianglin City, but there was no rain, just continuous thunder.
Chapter 248: Secret Investigation Department (4000 words)
The residents of Jianglin City were also looking at the dark clouds above their heads in confusion.
"What a strange thing? There are dark clouds and wind, but why is there only thunder but no rain?" The residents thought it was going to rain, so those who had homes ran back to their homes, while those who didn't have homes looked for places to shelter from the rain.
However, the dark clouds and thunder produced by Ye Liuyun's medicine refining will not cause rain. Once it rains, it will not be a good thing.
The thunder was the power of heaven. Even humans would feel uneasy if they kept hearing the loud and muffled thunder in their ears. The disciples of the Blood Demon Cult in the city were even more annoyed. These evil cult members hated thunder the most.
After all, they are not good people and have something to hide. The thunder makes them feel uneasy, as if something bad is about to happen.
Lin Aoxue was standing at the window, watching the movements in the sky outside.
"Hey! Is everything okay? This is the secular world, and it can't withstand your tossing and turning. Are you sure that your lightning won't fall?" Lin Aoxue asked with some doubt.
"Don't worry. If I say it won't fall, it definitely won't fall." Ye Liuyun assured.
She was experienced in this regard. The basin beside her was already filled with dozens of blue pills, which were the Dream Pills. If she wanted to cover the entire Jianglin City, she would probably need no less than a thousand Dream Pills.
Ye Liuyun can control when this pill will explode. After refining it, he will place it in batches in the designated area of Jiang Lincheng in advance, and then activate it on the fifteenth of next month.
A thousand pills was just a conservative estimate. After they were refined, Lin Aoxue would place them secretly. This way, she could check in advance whether a thousand pills were enough. She definitely couldn't wait until the day of action to place them. If they were not enough, it would be too late.
Let’s talk about another story. In a quiet underground palace in the north city, an old man was sitting cross-legged in a palace filled with rich blood energy, absorbing the blood energy from the blood pool below him.
"Senior Lu, my captain is here to ask you a question. If the Yun Sect wants to take action, can you guarantee the safety of our Blood Demon Sect?" A red-robed man stood in front of the gray-robed old man and asked respectfully.
The old man slowly opened his eyes after hearing this. As soon as he opened his eyes, a strange blood light immediately flowed in his eyes, and the look in his eyes made people shudder.
This person is Lu Wenyang, the imperial monk who guards Jianglin City. This old fellow is indeed related to the Blood Demon Cult.
To be precise, this Lu Wenyang originally had a vested interest in the Blood Demon Sect. Lu Wenyang was originally only at the first level of the Yuanshen realm. He was older than any of the Yun Sect's ancestors, and his life span was about to expire.
At the moment when he was about to pass away, the Blood Demon Sect secretly found him and said that if Lu Wenyang was willing to help them build a secret base in Jianglin City and provide them with protection, they could help him break through to the second level of the soul.
At that time, Lu Wenyang's life span was coming to an end, and the five signs of decay were imminent. He had no choice. If he didn't want to die, he could only cooperate with the Blood Demon Cult.
After he agreed to the Blood Demon Cult's conditions, the Blood Demon Cult handed over their secret blood refining method to Lu Wenyang.
Through this secret method of blood refining, Lu Wenyang successfully broke the shackles of realm and broke through the second level of the soul.
In order to win over Lu Wenyang, the Blood Demon Cult secretly captured tens of thousands of monks and extracted their blood to feed Lu Wenyang.
However, to achieve a breakthrough through the realm through the means of blood refining, one needs to suck blood for a lifetime. If one does not consume a certain amount of blood on the full moon night of every month, one's blood will dry up and one will die.
So Lu Wenyang acted as the protective umbrella for the Blood Demon Cult.
“Last night, a powerful man’s spiritual thought tried to penetrate North City, but was blocked by the formation. It should be the old ghost from Yun Sect who came to investigate. But don’t worry, the old ghost from Yun Sect will not live long, and they won’t risk their lives to fight with me.” Lu Wenyang said calmly.
Upon hearing this, the Blood Demon Cult monk nodded slightly, but he also had something to say.
"Okay, by the way, Senior Lu, there is one thing you know. Our branches in Jiangzhou Prefecture have all been eradicated by Yun Sect. The supply of cultivators' blood is getting less and less. I'm afraid we will need to use some monster blood and mortal blood to replenish it on the full moon night of next month." said the Blood Demon Sect disciple.
But as soon as he uttered this sentence, Lu Wenyang glared at the Blood Demon Sect monk.
At this glance, a terrifying pressure rushed towards the opponent like a tidal wave. The Blood Demon Sect monk was directly knocked away by this force and fell heavily on the wall of the underground palace.
"Puff!" The Blood Demon Cult monk spat out a large mouthful of blood after landing, and then stared at Lu Wenyang with an ugly expression.
He didn't expect that Lu Wenyang would start fighting as soon as he said so. Facing a cultivator in the Mystical Transformation Realm, he, a cultivator in the Mystical Four Extremes Realm, was totally no match for him.
"No matter what means you Blood Demon Cult use, you must provide me with enough blood. Don't bargain with me. If I can't get enough blood, then before I die, I will personally uproot your Blood Demon Cult headquarters from Jianglin City. Do you understand?" Lu Wenyang stared at the man coldly and threatened.
This Blood Demon Cult monk was helpless.
"Senior Lu, don't be angry. Don't worry. We guarantee that the blood we provide to you is no different from ordinary blood. The blood of mortals and monsters is indeed not as good as the blood of cultivators, but after being mixed with the secret method of our Blood Demon Sect, it will have an effect similar to that of cultivators' blood." The Blood Demon Sect cultivator hurriedly explained.
After hearing this, Lu Wenyang slightly withdrew his pressure.
"That's good. Don't try to fool me. Go away and don't bother me unless necessary. Also, tell your people to behave themselves during this period of time. Even if there is any action, it must be secretive. I, the Yun Sect, can still handle it, but if people from the Supreme Induction Sect come, I will not be able to stop them." Lu Wenyang reminded.
The Blood Demon Cult monk endured his injuries, bowed, and left the underground palace.
After the door was closed, the Blood Demon Cult monk's eyes revealed an angry and murderous look.
"Hmph! Arrogant old thing, do you really think that the benefits of our Blood Demon Sect are so easy to get? Just wait, when the time comes, you are just a vicious dog raised by us Blood Demons. You will bite whoever we tell you to bite. I'll let you be arrogant for a while." The Blood Demon Sect monk sneered in his heart.
Three days later, outside Jianglin City, a small red snake crawled out from the grass on the roadside, and then a graceful figure appeared beside the little snake.
"Jiang Lincheng? He's here, hehe." The graceful woman said with a sweet smile, and the little red snake at her feet immediately followed the woman's slender legs and into her clothes.
When she came out from the shadows, she saw an extremely evil and charming young man appear on the road.
The young man had pale skin and unusually rosy lips. Although he looked like a man, his figure was so good that even men would not be able to help but look at him a few more times.
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The young man had a red folding fan in his hand, and then he walked towards Jiang Lincheng with a smile like an ordinary young man.
At the same time, a group of officials dressed in special attire came to the inn where Zixia Sect was located. When this group of people arrived, the disciples of Zixia Sect in the inn immediately became alert, because all the people who came were immortal cultivators.
The Taoist masters and disciples of Zixia Sect also walked out of their rooms at the first opportunity and came in front of the group of officials.
The people on both sides immediately confronted each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Sir, how can I help you?" The innkeeper came over and asked when he saw the group of people.
The leading officer did not speak. These officers were dressed differently from ordinary officers. They were from the Tang State's special agency, the Secret Investigation Department. What did this Secret Investigation Department do? It was to deal with cases that ordinary people could not handle.
Three days ago, the secular government had determined that the deaths of the four Zixia Sect disciples were not caused by ordinary people, so they handed the case over to the Secret Investigation Department.
After a brief investigation, the Secret Investigation Department found out that these four people were from a practicing sect. The Secret Investigation Department was not an agency under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou Prefecture. They were an independent agency and not under the jurisdiction of any official secular agency.
"It's none of your business, close the door." The leader was Jiang Lincheng's red-robed secret inspector, who had reached the Dao Palace realm.
Upon seeing this, the innkeeper quickly closed the door of the inn and hung up a sign saying the inn was temporarily closed. The people in Jianglin City were very familiar with the attire of these people.
Whenever a case occurs in Jiangzhou Prefecture that the government cannot handle, a group of mysterious officials will appear to take over the investigation.
After the door was closed, the leading red-robed secret inspector turned his attention to the Taoist monk from Zixia Sect.
"My friend, which sect or school are you from?" The secret inspector asked the disciples of Zixia Sect directly after the ordinary people left.
This cultivator from the Taoist Palace of Zixia Sect knew the other party's origins, so he spoke calmly.
"We are from Ziyun Mountain."
