Yangyue

"The flame on the waiter of the famous store ignited from the inside instead of the outside. It is absolutely impossible for an ordinary flame to turn a person into ashes in an instant." The man with the severed finger said seriously, "Liang lives next door to this young master. Not long ago, I heard there was a dispute next door, so I came out of the room to find out what happened, and I happened to see the young man wielding a knife and trying to murder the young master's guard. It's for the sake of getting rich."

The man surnamed Liang seemed to be quite prestigious among the guests. As soon as he said this, the questioning among the guests was instantly reduced by half. Even the big man with the ax just looked at them suspiciously and spat on the ground. Turn around and leave, no longer bothering the two of you.

Only then did Qi Zhu take a closer look at the man in front of him. He looked resolute, dark-skinned, and dressed as a commoner.

Qi Zhu clasped his fists at the man and said, "Thank you, big brother, for helping us out. Do you dare to ask big brother's name?"

"My surname is Liang Yu, and I live in the eastern suburbs of Yun County." The man named Liang Yu replied, "This Fuwang Inn has been open for many years, and the proprietress usually takes good care of the neighbors, but..."

Liang Yu glanced down at the charred corpse covered in white cloth not far away, and hatred flashed in his eyes.

He then lowered his voice and said: "I'm afraid this is not a simple matter, I'm afraid there are martial arts forces involved... If you have nothing else to do, it's better to leave this place as soon as possible."

Qi Zhu: "How do you say that?"

Henry Zhang also interrupted coldly: "Master, I will escort you out of the city as soon as possible."

As soon as Qi Yi heard it, he knew that Xiao Yangyue was quite suspicious, and she didn't want to talk too much in front of people who didn't know her background.

Taking advantage of the presence of outsiders, Henry Zhang will not reveal the identities of the two of them, and he must be his subordinate on the surface, Qi Zhu said bluntly: "It's okay, such a horrible thing happened here, and it hurt innocent lives. Willing to stand by and watch."

Henry Zhang frowned, holding the sword and no longer speaking.

Seeing Qi Zhu's righteous face, Liang Yu sighed slightly with a stern expression, and said, "Your Excellency is a righteous person, so I accept it kindly, but please go back, this is definitely not something ordinary people can interfere with."

Just when Liang Yu was about to say goodbye to them, Qi Zhu opened his fan, shook it lightly, and said slowly, "Brother Liang, stay awhile, and I have one more question. Are you sure that the corpse in the backyard is the proprietress?"

Liang Yu turned his head in surprise, with a look of surprise on his face.

"That corpse is indeed wearing the gown worn by the proprietress today, that's right." Qi Zhu lowered his eyes, and from the corner of his eye he looked at the waiter sitting around the weeping corpse. They rested in an upside-down room in the backyard. When they entered, the whole house was on fire. The curtains, sheets, and quilts were all burned, and the proprietress was also dead. But looking at the clothes on the corpse, although some of them were indeed burned, they were not completely destroyed. Burnt. The body’s right arm was burned particularly badly, but the clothes on the right arm were relatively intact, why is that?”

Henry Zhang frowned slightly.

"It doesn't make sense to say that the proprietress didn't die from arson, but died of spontaneous combustion due to some weird reasons like the waiter in the shop." Qi Zhudao, "When the waiter spontaneously combusted, all the skin on his body burned. , skeletons, including clothes, are almost all reduced to ashes in a few seconds, and it is even more impossible to leave a tattered piece of clothing.”

Henry Zhang quickly pushed away the crowd, came to the corpse, squatted down and lifted the white cloth to take a look, just as Qi Zhu said, the corpse's right arm was burnt and twisted and blackened, although the sleeves also had scorched holes , but still vaguely see the original appearance.

Qi Zhu's voice sounded behind him: "This corpse may not be the proprietress, or maybe it is not the proprietress of 'Today'. The clothes on the corpse were put on after the corpse was burnt. This is nothing but to let everyone I think the corpse is just the proprietress."

What Qi Zhu didn't explain was that just now he accidentally touched the proprietress's wrist in the backyard of the inn. Although it was only for a moment, he could faintly feel the internal force swimming in the other person's body, not like an ordinary village girl at all.

Looking at this scene, Liang Yu felt a biting chill run down his spine.

Qi Zhu: "But this is just my guess. I'm afraid we need more information about the truth. Brother Liang, what do you think?"

Liang Yu stared at Qi Zhu closely, and said, "I think you are not an ordinary person. If you insist on meddling in this matter, please be honest with me."

There are so many people here, the three of them have to go to a quieter place to talk conveniently.

When they came to the bamboo forest behind the inn, Qi Zhu looked at the deep and dark bamboo forest with his hands behind his hands, and said seriously: "Brother Liang, I am an official of the Dali Temple of the imperial court. I came to the southwest to investigate several old suspicious cases by imperial order. It's my colleague at Dali Temple, my surname is Qi, his surname is Yang."

Qi Zhu took out the official plate of Dali Temple from his clothes, and Liang Yu only had to take a look at it to be sure that it was a genuine official plate.

Liang Yu clasped his fists and said, "So it's the two adults from Dali Temple, Xiaomin was rude."

"Brother Liang, you don't need to be formal. These cases are of great importance. We are ordering to conduct a secret investigation." Qi Zhudao, "Just now, Brother Liang said that this matter has something to do with martial arts. Why?"

Liang Yu lowered his voice and said, "You two, do you know a martial arts sect called Yuanyang Sect?"

Qi Zhu raised his eyebrows, he glanced at Henry Zhang as if nothing, and then nodded.

"The suzerain of Yuanyang Sect died two years ago, and the headquarter of the sect has also been destroyed." Liang Yu said, "In fact, the Yuanyang Sect fell apart due to internal power struggles within the sect before it was destroyed, splitting into several branches, large and small. Sects, these remnants have not been eradicated yet. The largest branch of them is called the Hongyue Society."

Liang Yu stretched out two fingers: "The Yuanyang Sect established its foothold in the martial arts back then, relying on two major exercises. The first is its dual cultivation method, and the second is a formation created by the Yuanyang Sect master himself. According to legend, this kind of formation uses the fog as a barrier, the virtual and the real coexist, and illusions arise one after another. People trapped in the formation will no longer be able to distinguish the virtual from the real, and then lose the power to resist."

"how do you know?"

Henry Zhang stared at Liang Yu, his cool voice startled a bunch of flying birds on the branches of the bamboo forest.

In Liang Yu's eyes, Zhang Yangyue, who had changed her appearance, was ordinary in appearance, but her voice was so lonely and cold, revealing an unpredictable coercion, without a trace of fireworks.

Xiao Yangyue: "The fog hidden flying flower array of the suzerain of Yuanyang Sect has never been passed on to others."

Liang Yu was secretly shocked, surprised that Henry Zhang would know this, couldn't help but put his eyes on Henry Zhang's face, until the latter showed a little impatient look, and said: "It is true, Yuan Yangzong After the headquarters was wiped out, several major sects began to secretly search for the cheats of the Wuyin Flying Flower Formation, all trying to seize the opportunity and take the secrets of the formation as their own. In the end, the person who found the secrets was the head of the Hongyue Society .”

Henry Zhang: "You never answered my question, how did you know?"

Qi Zhu caught a glimpse of Henry Zhang's thumb protruding the blade a few inches, as if he might draw a knife to ask questions at any time, he silently retreated to his side, stretched out his hand and quietly pressed Henry Zhang's arm, signaling him not to use force.

Henry Zhang glared at him unhappily, with one side of his arm, blocking Qi Zhu's hand.

Liang Yu's brow bone trembled slightly for a moment, and a bit of struggling pain suddenly appeared on his face. In the end, those pains turned into anger and hatred, and his resolute face was covered with a layer of determination that regarded death as home.

Liang Yu: "Southwest is the headquarters of the Yuanyang Sect. The disciples of the Yuanyang Sect have been doing evil for many years. My parents, wife and children and I originally lived in Liang Town, more than 500 miles away from here. Liang Town is located in a basin, and our lives are relatively closed. , is only connected to the outside world by a rugged mountain road. Most of the people in the town have lived there for generations. I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, and I love traveling far away. At that time, everything in the town changed."

Liang Yu said in a trembling voice: "Yuanyangzong's people burned, killed and looted in Liang Town, cruelly killing dozens of innocent villagers! My parents, my wife and children all died at their hands! I regret Frustrated and furious, he broke into Yuanyang Zong Villa single-handedly, but his martial arts was no match for those martial arts traitors. People from the Hongyue Society cut off ten toes of both feet and the little finger of his right hand. Working as a coolie in the villa.

"There were tens of hundreds of people captured like me. It was also at that time that I met a one-eyed old man among the prisoners. He had been captured by Yuanyangzong for three years, and his hands and feet were festered. It was him Tell me that he once overheard the Wuyin Flying Flower Array and the Hongyuehui in the village. Not long after that, the old man was beaten to death by the traitors of Yuanyangzong because he was exhausted while working!

"I swear that I will destroy the traitors of Yuanyangzong. If I don't avenge my revenge, I will be in vain." Liang Yu clenched his fists tightly, veins sprouted from his arms, and his eyes were tearing apart. "Two months after I was captured , Yuanyang Zong Villa was forcibly broken into by another person. I saw with my own eyes how that person blocked and killed gods, and Buddhas blocked and killed Buddhas. He slaughtered the entire villa within an hour, chopped off the suzerain's head and hung it at the gate of the villa. After the Yuanyang Sect fell, I escaped from the villa with the rest of the captives."

Since then, Liang Yu has come to live here alone. While inquiring about the news of the Hongyue Society, he practiced martial arts. A respectable good name has been left behind.

"A year ago, a child disappeared in a village at the foot of Sanfeng Mountain, [-] miles away from here. Several villagers went to the mountain together to find the whereabouts of the child. Unexpectedly, only one person came back in the end. What kind of excitement, God God muttered and looked terrified, said that Sanfeng Mountain is an ominous magic mountain, the top of the mountain is surrounded by blood-colored mist, and the rest of the people were killed by the "monster in the fog", Only he escaped all the way back. At the same time, arson cases and kidnappings of boys and girls happened one after another in the villages around Sanfeng Mountain. The prisoners all wore red cloths on their arms. The old man told me about the characteristics of the members of the Hongyue Society.

"At that time, I guessed that the secret book of the Wuyin Flying Flower Formation of the Suzerain of Yuanyang Sect was very likely to fall into the hands of the Hongyue Society in the end. Yuanyang Sect has been destroyed, but its remnants are not dead, especially It is the Hongyue Society, which not only inherits Yuanyangzong's double cultivation method, but also holds the suzerain's unique formation method, if it is allowed to expand, the heinous crimes committed by Yuanyangzong will surely repeat the same mistakes."

After listening to Liang Yu's words, Qi Zhu secretly sighed, unexpectedly, the whole thing was connected by this hidden thread. If Liang Yu was telling the truth, he was really sent by heaven to help them.

Liang Yu frowned and said, "I'm afraid that the arson case in this inn is also related to the Hongyue Society..."

"If what you said is true, it is indeed related." Henry Zhang suddenly said, "Just now after Master Qi was in danger, I chased a few assassins to the bamboo forest behind them. There were indeed red cloths tied on their arms."