Fellow Taoists, please respect yourself.

Chapter 68 Guess
Not in the palace anymore?
Jiang Lin frowned and spread his spiritual sense out, covering Prince Song's Mansion, searching inch by inch.

However, there was really no trace of Zhou Mei found!
Only some residual energy indicated that Zhou Mei was still in the palace not long ago!
Jiang Lin was not surprised that Zhou Mei was able to get the news, but how could she escape under Zhong Kui's nose?

How can this be?

However, the fact is that Zhou Mei is no longer in the palace.

Zhong Kui's expression remained unchanged, and he said in a cold voice: "Do you know what crime your daughter has committed?"

"Please give me your instructions, Holy Lord."

King Song bowed meticulously, as if seeking advice.

But just when Zhong Kui was about to speak, Jiang Lin suddenly stood up.

Zhong Kui didn't mind being interrupted, but instead made way.

He was also a little curious.

The current situation is that we failed and let Zhou Mei escape.

To put it mildly, this is a failure to do the job properly, and to put it more seriously, it is dereliction of duty.

Besides, it's very embarrassing.

In this situation, how is this extremely young wizard in front of him going to save the situation?
"I can tell His Majesty about this matter."

Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Your daughter has made many mistakes, many of which can be called crimes."

"But her biggest mistake was that she was cast into this palace by mistake and became your daughter by mistake."

Hearing this, King Song frowned, said nothing, and just looked at Jiang Lin quietly.

Jiang Lin didn't care about King Song's attitude and continued with a smile: "A person can have many things in his life, and can also fall in love with and like many things."

"But there are always some things and certain beings that cannot cross the line. What do you think?"

Jiang Lin's words might sound strange to others, but King Song understood them.

His expression remained calm, but there was a hint of gloom in the depths of his eyes.

"This prince does not understand what the Taoist priest means."

King Song shook his head leisurely and said, "It was the Taoist priest. The former Japanese king treated me with courtesy, but the Taoist priest tried to forcibly molest my beloved daughter."

"The Taoist priest has violated the black law prohibition."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty."

Jiang Lin smiled and said, "If I really broke the ban, I will be punished according to the black law. It is not your turn to make irresponsible remarks, Your Majesty."

"Today, I was ordered to assist Master Zhong in apprehending the criminal from Fengdu. Now that the criminal has escaped, the rest of the matter is not something you can handle, Your Majesty."

Jiang Lin said this, turned around, and was about to leave, but when he reached the door, he turned back and grinned.

"Your Majesty, you don't have much time left. If you have anything to do, it's better to do it as soon as possible."

"Hangzhou is a big city with many people. There are even more people watching you. If you don't do it now, I'm afraid you won't have another chance."

He seemed to be giving the instructions very considerately, completely ignoring the gloomy look on King Song's face.

Jiang Lin smiled slightly, turned around and left Prince Song's Mansion.

Zhong Kui also removed the restrictions on Prince Song’s Mansion and left with Jiang Lin.

Both parties knew very well that Zhou Mei was a chess piece placed by King Song. At least so far, from what Jiang Lin could see, the biggest mastermind behind this was King Song.

Although Jiang Lin still doesn't know what King Song is going to do, he is certain of one thing.

These more than ten thousand souls are part of King Song’s plan.

Since this plan has been destroyed by Jiang Lin, King Song only has a few options left.

Or, abandon the plan.

Or, start the final layout in advance.

Or, start accumulating preparations again and kill Jiang Lin!
It is obvious that the King of Song will not take the first path. It is a plan that has been in the works for at least ten years, and even the current emperor may have had a hand in it.

There is no way King Song would give up such a plan.

And it is not realistic to accumulate more than 10,000 souls again.

After the incident at the Hangzhou government office was exposed, the underworld had already set its sights on this place, and King Song had no chance at all. Moreover, there was a Zen Master Dao Ji watching secretly.

And killing Jiang Lin...

Jiang Lin didn't mind dying. After all, if he died now, it would be considered a work-related injury. He might be able to go directly to Fengdu to be an official, or even have a chance to ascend to heaven and become a god in the future.

In a sense, death is actually a "shortcut" for Jiang Lin now.

Moreover, is the price of killing Jiang Lin really something King Song can afford?

No matter what King Song's plan is, at least he himself can see it.

If Jiang Lin was killed, the best outcome for King Song would be to become a ghost forever in Fengdu.

This was obviously unacceptable to King Song.

So, King Song had only one choice.

In other words, from the moment the Hangzhou government office was cleaned out by Zhong Kui, King Song had only one choice.

"Before the event, push an incomplete layout and take a gamble."

Jiang Lin said to Zhong Kui: "After knocking on the mountain to scare the tiger, naturally the tiger will run away and the wolves will rush out of the forest."

"We want it to get out of the forest!"

After listening to this, Zhong Kui smiled and asked, "So in the Master's plan, Zhou Mei is not important?"

"You are wrong."

Jiang Lin smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't expect that Zhou Mei could actually run away."

His initial idea was indeed to scare the king of Song by making a show of force, but he did not expect that even with Zhong Kui's intervention, he could not catch Zhou Mei.

Zhou Mei’s existence is indeed not very important to Jiang Lin. After all, she is just a pawn of King Song.

But why did she run away?
"When a certain family sealed off the palace, they clearly detected the presence of Zhou Mei's aura."

Zhong Kui frowned and said, "This is the confirmation of the Qi in the Book of Life and Death. There is no mistake."

Jiang Lin took up the conversation and said, "But in such a short time, Zhou Mei actually ran away."

Moreover, he even escaped from the confinement of Zhong Kui, the righteous god of the underworld!
"A certain family didn't feel anything, and the restrictions didn't fluctuate."

Zhong Kui talked to himself.

Jiang Lin's expression suddenly changed, and he said, "The Taoist who was spying on you with his Dharma eyes was a man."

"Ok?"

Zhong Kui asked, "Master, what you mean is that the Taoist is stalling for time for Zhou Mei?"

"But even so, how did Zhou Mei escape from a certain restriction?"

"That was a restriction that someone had just created by activating the energy of the underworld. It can be said that at that moment, the entire Song Palace was in the underworld."

Yes, how did Zhou Mei do it...

and many more!

Jiang Lin raised his head suddenly and asked, "You just said that your restriction is equivalent to being in the underworld?"

"Yes."

Zhong Kui nodded, somewhat confused.

Jiang Lin asked: "If there is a being from the underworld passing through your restriction, can you sense it?"

“It’s not about whether or not you can sense it.”

Zhong Kui shook his head and said, "Within the restrictions of my family, there is the Yin Qi of the underworld. Even the ghosts in the underworld cannot escape."

"Can……"

Jiang Lin raised his head and looked at Zhong Kui, his tone more solemn than ever before.

"What if it's a ghost soldier?"

"We have the command from the underworld and the Yin soldiers blessed by the Yin Talisman!"

(End of this chapter)