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Li Zhi sighed, put down her hand again, turned around and was about to leave.There was a soft "creak" sound from behind, and Li Zhi immediately froze in place.

"Why don't you come in?" Jian Yanzhi said to Li Zhi who turned around.

"Third Senior Brother, I..."

Just when Li Zhi was about to say something, a thick and rapid bell sounded not far away, interrupting Li Zhi's words.

The sound of the bell drew out the disciples from every room in the courtyard, and the courtyard was immediately filled with people, all wondering about the sudden sound of the bell.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhi secretly heaved a sigh of relief, she just came to Jian Yanzhi in a moment of brainstorming, but she really met her, but she didn't know what to say, this is just right, and the embarrassment was relieved.

Seeing Jian Jili and others walking towards him, Li Zhi asked puzzledly: "What happened?"

Jian Jili shook her head, with a serious expression on her face: "The Shenming bell has struck, and something serious may have happened to the Nan family."

As soon as the words fell, Nan Qi brought a group of Nan family disciples to the courtyard and surrounded everyone in the courtyard.

"What do you mean?" Jian Xingheng asked Nan Qi dissatisfied.

Nan Qi bowed respectfully and apologized to everyone, and then explained: "The master asked the juniors to bring you to the Zhongliu courtyard. You will know the details when the time comes. I hope you cooperate."

Jian Tianshu pulled Jian Xingheng to signal him not to be complacent, and then turned to look at Jian Jili.

Jian Jili looked at Nan Qi, and said: "Since it is Wu Jingzun's order, we will go there, don't bother to waste so much time."

"Yazheng-jun, I have offended you a lot, but this matter is related to the reputation of my Nan family, and it is ordered by my family teacher, so I hope Haihan."

Jian Jili frowned, said nothing more, exchanged glances with Jian Zihe, and walked out of the yard first.

Although the others were dissatisfied, they couldn't say much and followed suit.

When he came to Zhongliu Courtyard, Li Zhi found that Jian Shengxuan and others were already waiting here.

"Master, what happened?" Li Zhi asked.

Jian Shengxuan shook his head, saying that he also just came here and didn't know anything.

After a while, Nanwanping appeared, glanced around, bowed and clasped his fists, and said: "I invited all the immortals to come here rashly, what happened suddenly, how disrespectful, I hope you understand."

After speaking, he paused, and opened the gate of a bell tower behind him.This bell tower is called Lan Tower, and it is the central building of Zhongliu Courtyard. It towers into the sky and is majestic. Before entering Junmeng City, Li Zhi saw this bell tower from afar and was shocked by it.

Immediately afterwards, Nan Wanping signaled the crowd to follow him into the Lanlou, and led them all the way up the stairs without saying a word.

From the moment he entered the building, Li Zhi had a strange feeling, as if something was calling him, the higher the floor, the more obvious this feeling was, thinking it was the sequelae of his soul leaving the body, Li Zhi took a deep breath and calmed down secretly discomfort.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Nanbanping stopped.

Looking around, everyone found that this floor was empty, without anything, only a strange formation was drawn on the ground in the center, and the formation was shining with golden light, forming a circle with a diameter of about one meter. aperture.

Seeing everyone looking at him in puzzlement, Nan Wanping pointed to the circle of light and said: "Everyone knows that my Nan family has a treasure called 'Nanping Bell', which has been preserved in this formation for a hundred years. "

Li Zhi looked at the empty formation, and immediately understood that the family heirloom of the Nan family had been stolen.

Sure enough, Nan Wanping continued to say: "As you can see, the Nanping Bell has disappeared."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised, and discussions continued one after another.

"That Wu Jingzun brought us here, meaning which of us is a thief." Ye Su said lazily.

The discussion suddenly stopped, and everyone turned their attention to Nanwanping.

Nan Wanping looked serious, and said: "Your Majesty, I really have this idea. In the past few days, some disciples have been stripped of their golden elixir and died. To tell you the truth, some disciples of the Nan family also died because of this."

At this time, a Mohist disciple asked aloud: "Then why did Wu Jingzun say this at this time?"

"Because I only found out today that those disciples were already dead."

"What does Wu Jingzun mean by this?" Jian Shengxuan asked.

Nan Wanping pondered for a moment, his face was very ugly, and said: "On the first day of the competition, all of us were actually in an illusion. The illusion created by Nanping Bell..."

According to Nan Wanping's words, the participating Xianxiu and Guixiu were forcibly drawn into the illusion on the second day after arriving at Nan's house, and this illusion is half true and false, that is to say, it is both true and false The illusion made everyone, including the Nan family, realize that they had lived in the illusion for so many days.

And because of this illusion, the cat was taken into the forest by someone, and many disciples were unknowingly stripped of their golden cores.

The point is, it wasn’t until the person who stole the Nanping Bell and cast the illusion that he dispelled the illusion, and today when a disciple of the Nan Family inspected the Zhongliu Courtyard, found that the gatekeeper disciple had already been killed, and Nanwanping realized that all this was an illusion.

"The Nanping Clock belongs to the Nan Family, how can outsiders know how to cast spells?" Jian Zihe asked hesitantly.

Nan Wanping sighed, and said: "It's not just outsiders who don't know, but no one except me."

"Then according to what you said, the murderer is you, isn't it?" Ye Li said directly without giving any face.

"If I were here, would everyone still be standing here?" Mo Jincheng said coldly.

Jian Shengxuan thought for a while and said, "The top priority is to find the Nanping Bell. The murderer should not throw it away at will. Only by finding the Nanping Bell can we find clues."

Nan Wanping nodded in agreement, and said: "In this case, the last battle of the 'Controversy Over the Clouds' is to find the Nanping Bell or find the murderer. The winner in the end. How about this?"

The leaders of the various immortal families nodded in agreement, and Ye Su shrugged indifferently, expressing their agreement.

"To prevent the recurrence of danger, two or three people should form a group." Jian Jili suggested.

Thinking of the murder cases that have happened continuously in the past few days, the immortal families have no objection.

Thus, Jian Jili and Jian Zihe formed a team, and Jian Xingheng and Jian Tianshu formed a team together, in short, they formed a team with Li Zhi and Jian Yizhi.

Jian Jili and Jian Zihe proposed to search outside the city, while Jian Xingheng and Jian Tianshu set their sights on the inside of the city, while Li Zhi and the others aimed to be within the scope of the Nan family.Several people split up after assigning their respective exploration areas.

The three of them first came to Nan's morgue, intending to start with the corpse to see if they could find any clues about the murderer.

However, when he opened the white cloth covering the corpse, Li Zhi couldn't help frowning, except for the fifteen teenagers who were killed by the cat, the remaining ten teenagers were all killed by the murderer.

The murderer's method was very simple and rude, and one could tell at a glance that the killing tool was an ordinary dagger. He did not use any magic or ghost techniques to force the golden pill out of the body, but directly cut open the body with the dagger to take out the golden pill.

Then, it can be guessed that the murderer's cultivation level must not be low, and he is a son of a famous family. The purpose of dissecting the golden elixir with the simplest method is to not expose the cultivation technique and to conceal his identity.

"On these corpses, we can only see the cause of death, but we can't find any clues about the murderer. Let's go to Nan's house to look for Nanping Bells." Jian Yizhi suggested.

Jian Jian nodded, and walked out of the morgue first. Seeing this, Li Zhi quickly covered the corpse with the white cloth on his hand, and followed him out.

After carefully inspecting every courtyard of Nan's house, the three of them found nothing.Finally, at sunset, the three of Li Zhi returned to the Lan Tower of Zhongliu Courtyard. Not long after, Jian Jili and others also came back one by one.

Because Ye Su and Jian Shengxuan were waiting in Lanlou together, Ye Li and Lin Nan also came back here, but as expected, everyone said they got nothing.

Jian Shengxuan was about to let everyone go back to their room to rest, when he saw Li Zhi was turning his head to look around, he asked, "What's the matter, Xiao Lizi, what are you looking at?"

Li Zhi rubbed her nose and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just always feel that Lanlou is calling me."

"Where did you come from?" Jane asked.

Li Zhi raised her hand and pointed up and down Lanlou, and said hesitantly, "It seems to be in all directions."

Ye Su suddenly opened his mouth and said, "This pear has a special constitution, so it should be sensitive to things like immortals, spirits, and ghosts, right?"

Hearing this, Li Zhi recalled the things that happened to her before, looked at Lanlou again, and said, "But what I feel is not very real, could it be a sequela from before?"

Jian Shengxuan pondered for a moment, and said: "Close your eyes, feel with your heart, get rid of distracting thoughts, and respond to it."

Li Zhi sat cross-legged on the ground obediently, and began to recite the "Heart Refining Sutra" silently. Everything around her gradually moved away, but soon there were various voices surrounding Li Zhi, "Boom~dong~dong~", it was very deep The sound of the bronze bell being struck came continuously from all directions, up, down, left, and right, and the sound was very regular.

But when Li Zhi tried to give a response, the bell suddenly rang quickly, as if to express something eagerly, "thump, boom, boom" hit Li Zhi's heart directly, Li Zhi was overwhelmed, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, fell to the ground.

Ye Li hurried forward to lift Li Zhi from the ground, stuffed a pill into Li Zhi's mouth, and asked eagerly, "Feili, how is it? Are you okay?"

Lin Nan saw it, and said with a painful face: "Second master, that is the night spirit pill. Master has made ten pills so far, and it is used for life-saving at critical moments. Mr. Li has not reached that point yet, has he?"

Ye Li rolled his eyes and said, "Fei Li is vomiting blood! This is already a critical moment, so don't you need to keep it to have a baby?!"

"How is it? Are you okay?" Everyone gathered around and asked Li Zhi.

After swallowing the legendary elixir of reviving souls, Li Zhi felt no discomfort in an instant. She signaled that she was fine, stood up and thanked Ye Li, and said to everyone: "What I heard was probably the sound of the Nanping Bell. , I think, it should be in Lan Tower."

"Then can you know the exact location?" Jian Yizhi asked.

Li Zhi shook his head helplessly, just as he was about to say something, his mouth was blocked by a white handkerchief that suddenly appeared, and the white handkerchief gently wiped away the blood around Li Zhi's mouth before leaving.

Everyone looked at the owner of the white handkerchief as if struck by lightning, in short.

Jian Yan put away the handkerchief expressionlessly, looked at Li Zhi, and said, "Continue."

Li Zhi couldn't recover from the shock all at once, and stammered, "I...I think...it...it seems...it seems to be everywhere."

"Cough cough!" Jian Shengxuan forcibly pulled back everyone's thoughts with two coughs, and said, "That...is really strange, isn't it?"

"Do you remember the Nanping Bell?" Jian Yanzhi said lightly.

Everyone was puzzled by Jian Yan's words, but this sentence awakened Li Zhi.

In order to make it easier for everyone to find the Nanping Clock, Nanwanping once showed the drawing of the Nanping Clock to everyone. Li Zhi clearly remembered that the Nanping Clock was not a clock built in one piece, but assembled from parts. The Nanping Clock can be disassembled into thousands of parts!

"The Nanping Bell has been dismantled and hidden in various places in the Lan Tower!" Li Zhi looked up at the towering Lan Tower, and she must have arrived.