Bai Lu turned into a ghost and Zhu Yu died.

The Bai family's father and son were both seriously injured.

It is true that culture and education are so powerful that they can almost cover the sky with one hand.

What happened in the Bai family that night was covered up completely, and there was not a single rumor about it in the entire city of Haojing.

Lu Yi actually wanted to release Li Erya early and let him go to the Bai family to ask for his "legitimate and legal" wife.

But after thinking about it for a while, Lu Yi didn't do that.

He simply assigned more people to openly monitor the Bai family. Even if a servant of the Bai family went out to buy vegetables and rice, there would be a dozen spies following him.

Bai Lu has a grudge against Bai Changkong and the others.

After turning into a ghost, Bai Lu's thinking could no longer be judged by ordinary people's concepts.

She will definitely go back to the Bai family and cut off all worries; as long as Bai Lu appears, the jade flute and the red embroidered shoes will most likely appear as well.

Lu Yi is now treating the Bai family as bait, waiting to catch fish.

He had made a rapid progress in his cultivation just by killing the hairpin. If he could kill Yuxiao and the red embroidered shoes, the benefits he would get would definitely be greater - and, maybe he could even use these two sneaky creatures to lure out more evil sects?

So these days, Lu Yi and Bai Changkong and others who stayed indoors and recuperated did not disturb each other and lived a peaceful life.

The situation in Haojing City was the same as usual. On the surface, the weather was good and the people were peaceful and prosperous.

At a grand court meeting on the beginning of February, Prime Minister Zhu Chong announced in the Fuyao Palace that the so-called "Anping Prefecture" case had been completely settled - the assassins who attacked the Prime Minister's residence that night were all rebels from the Nine Yin Sect. They used the name of "Anping Prefecture" in an attempt to shake the people's hearts and minds and plot a rebellion.

The power of culture and education has grown extremely powerful in recent years, and disciples of various factions are spread all over the court and outside.

Under the leadership of Zhu Chong and others, officials from various states, prefectures, and counties outside the city of Haojing worked together and actually cracked down on hundreds of Nine Yin Sect branches and killed hundreds of thousands of Nine Yin Sect members.

As for Xiong Taidou who escaped that night, he has been labeled as a demon from the Nine Yin Sect. Photocopied portraits have spread throughout the world, and he has been jointly wanted by the Sikoutai, the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple. The reward on his head is as high as tens of millions of strings of cash!

The second day of February.

In the Yushunfang Investigation Office, Lu Yi was in his office, carefully reading the information sent by the Guardian.

Zhu Chong and others are still very resourceful.

After uncovering hundreds of Nine Yin Sect branches and capturing and killing so many Nine Yin Sect members, they actually managed to come up with something.

The Nine Yin Sect has opened thousands of coffin shops of all sizes and high and low grades in the capital city of Haojing, as well as in various states, prefectures, and counties outside. They use this method to directly find out the financial situation of their customers.

People who go to their coffin shop to buy coffins, especially those who buy thin-skinned coffins, naturally don't make much money.

As for the wealthy families who had customized expensive coffins made of rare wood and with multiple layers of coffins - after their elders were buried, either three to five months, or two to three years, their tombs were all looted by the Nine Yin Cult!

All the burial objects became the spoils of the Nine Yin Sect!

"Is this the big deal that the shop owners of the Safe Journey and Blessings to Descendants are talking about?" Lu Yu shuddered. "Digging up people's ancestral graves is an irreconcilable feud. Is this their big source of wealth?"

This time, the Nine Yin Sect was completely finished.

If they were merely amassing military power and plotting a rebellion, perhaps there would be many forces and many people willing to watch the fun.

However, they used the means of opening a coffin shop to rob the ancestral tombs of wealthy families and steal the expensive burial objects... They offended all the wealthy families in the world...

"Dead!" Lu Yi casually threw the information to the eunuch beside him and asked them to send the information to the archive: "Tsk, the wealthy families in the world are probably opening their own ancestral tombs now to check whether the tombs of their elders are intact?"

"You all owe me a favor!"

"Shi Wuyou was killed by me!"

Over the next few days, the city of Haojing was in turmoil. Many wealthy families sent their trusted men to their own ancestral tombs to worship their ancestors, kowtow and confess their crimes, and then secretly dig up the graves of their ancestors to investigate whether they had been harmed by the people of the Nine Yin Sect.

Lu Yu didn't have this worry.

Although he was born into the Jingyang Lu family, his branch of the clan was not only small in number but also not wealthy. The only one who made a name for himself, Lu Xiu, died in battle. There was not even a corpse left, only a cenotaph.

Therefore, no matter whose ancestral tombs were robbed, the evil people from the Nine Yin Sect would never dig up the tombs of the ancestors of Lu Yu's branch!

Lu Fu was very confident. He practiced martial arts, drank tea, and petted caracals in the Survey Office every day. From time to time, he would personally go out to train a group of tiger masters in the Hundred Tiger Hall.

With extremely strong financial support and a constant supply of precious medicinal materials, the Tiger Lords of Baihu Hall made rapid progress in their cultivation. In just over half a month, they had reached the point where ordinary steel weapons could not cut through them and a swing of their arms could exert a force of ten thousand pounds.

On February 7, Lu Yu finally sent a note to Lu Yi.
The Bai family and the Zhu family were silent. The expected retaliation did not come as expected. For several days in a row, Lu Yi was summoned by Yinyuan to Jiuqu Garden to fight crickets. Due to bad luck, he lost more than 3,000 strings of cash. Lu Yi, who was almost depressed by losing so much, immediately took his personal guards and went to the appointment in a grand manner.

Haojing, Baimafang, Sanpinfang City.

This market town is located to the east of Anlefang, separated only by a canal. Its area is slightly larger than Anlefang. Most of the people living in the town are wealthy businessmen with good family wealth. Business is extremely developed and entertainment is extremely extravagant.

In the southwest corner of Baimafang, on the south side of a winding river, a group of green and beautiful peaks rise up.

The green peaks were covered with green pines and cypresses, and among the lush woods, one could see many forest gardens scattered about. These forest gardens were all holiday villas of the wealthy merchants of Baimafang. It was February, and the weather was still cold and gloomy, so these villas were sparsely populated, with only a few servants occasionally coming and going to guard them.

Lu Yi came riding at full speed with three hundred personal guards. From afar, he saw a large piece of land enclosed by brocade curtains next to a beautiful river bend to the north of the mountain and south of the water.

Outside the curtain stood more than a hundred burly men with dark red skin, wearing only sleeveless animal skin coats even in the cold weather.

The faces and exposed chests of these men were all covered with densely packed strange patterns, including scorpions, poisonous snakes, centipedes, leeches, and all kinds of poisonous insects.

Near these strong men, hundreds of huge wolves were playing beside the frozen river.

Hundreds of Canglang riders sat in groups of three or five quietly near the Canglang, with longbows and lances beside them, looking around vigilantly, as if they were ready to engage in battle at any time.

Lu Yi came running with his personal guards, and a big man rushed out from the brocade curtain.

He laughed loudly, jumped onto a flat-horned bull, and rushed towards Lu Yi while holding a long rattan stick covered with bumps.

"Duke Tianyang Lu Yi, haha, I didn't expect that we are still family!"

"I am Pan Man, the thirteenth son of Lord Chiyang of Chishendong in Nanman Province."

"Come, come, come. We met during the last fire at Sijifang. Today, I will carefully consider you!"

Pan Man, with his upper body bare and intricate tattoos showing, and muscles as knotty as a python, rushed over whistling and waving a rattan stick.

Lu Yu was slightly stunned.

The meeting place that Lu Yu mentioned is here.

He remembered this Pan Man. On the night of the first month of the lunar calendar, when Sijifang was on fire, Lu Yi and Luo Qingzhou tried to break into Sijifang, but were stopped by a group of barbarians at the edge of the place.

The leader of that group of barbarians was Pan Man.

It was this Pan Man who enthusiastically brought his guards and servants, thousands of kilograms of fat and tens of thousands of kilograms of firewood, to Qifang Garden to help Qi Lu "put out the fire", and almost burned Yinqi and Qi Lu to death in it.

According to the intelligence from Shougongjian, after the riot in Sijifang, Pan Man made a big report in Honglu Temple. He said that he had tens of thousands of kilograms of precious medicinal materials stored in the yard next to Qifang Garden, and there were dozens of hostages from various vassal states to testify for him.

Relying on this, Pan Man extorted more than two million strings of cash from the Honglu Temple!

"He's not a good guy..." Lu Yi murmured, "But he dared to ask for so much, and he really dared to give it to that old man Li Zi!"

Pan Man rushed over riding a wild bull, and the 18-foot-long knotty rattan stick in his hand brought up a gust of evil wind, which whistled straight at Lu Yi's heart.

Ah Hu and Yu Dian Hu, who were following Lu Yi, were about to rush out, but Lu Yi shouted at them not to take action. He took a step forward from the back of the Blood-hoofed Black Horse and rushed forward more than twenty feet. He flipped his right palm, and the Guixu Immortal Yuan activated the Jingtao Hand, which created ripples and slapped towards the rattan stick.

With a loud 'crack-bang' sound, Lu Yi's palm and the rattan stick collided heavily.

A huge force as heavy and majestic as a mountain, with an inexplicable sense of vastness and domineering, came over Lu Yi's body, and his momentum of shooting forward was suppressed, and his body fell lightly to the ground.

Pan Man, who was riding on the back of the wild bull, groaned.

The bull under him was shaking all over and involuntarily retreated more than ten steps.

Pan Man felt severe pain in both palms and could no longer hold his proud weapon. The cane flew out of his hand, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it flew backwards dozens of feet and stuck deeply into the frozen soil with a "puff".

The 18-foot-long rattan stick was thrust more than 9 feet deep into the frozen soil, which was as hard as cast iron.

Pan Man's arms were sore and weak, and he was shaking violently.

He raised his hands in horror. The skin on his palms, which had been tempered to be extremely tough from being soaked in medicinal liquids since childhood and practicing secret techniques, was torn in large pieces. The calluses were rolled up, revealing red tender flesh, and blood was constantly oozing out.

"You kid, are you that strong?"

Pan Man's eyes widened, and he shouted in disbelief: "That night, your strength was just average!"

At the back, behind the curtain, Lu Yu walked out with his hands behind his back.

"Pan Man, now you know that there are always people who are better than you, right?"

"Lu Yu, we are all family, the guards will stay outside, let's talk inside!"