Chapter 149 Suspicion
"This..." Qin Ziling was stunned as he watched the black mist rolling like a rushing river pouring into the small ring in his hand.
It took a long time for Qin Ziling to come back to his senses. His eyes fell on the corpse-raising ring that he was holding between his fingers and looked still simple and unpretentious. He felt infinite emotion in his heart.
"This world is far more mysterious and vast than I imagined. It seems that if I want to rise in this world and have the ability to truly protect myself, I still have a long way to go!"
An hour and a half passed quickly.
The sun was hanging overhead and gradually moved westward.
The pool was still gurgling, and evil black air was still emitting from it, but the water was no longer as dark as it had been at the beginning, and was gradually becoming clearer.
The front mountain of Sanyuan Mountain.
The mound where Qin Ziling buried Lin Zhengqing and six others was dug up.
Lin Zhengqing's body had been carried out and placed on a stretcher covered with brocade.
Beside the stretcher, the muscles on the face of Lin Tianrui, the captain of the East City garrison, kept twitching, and the blue veins on his forehead bulged and jumped from time to time. Waves of cold murderous aura emanated from him, scaring the black-armored guards nearby so much that none of them dared to approach within three meters of him.
Suddenly, the ground shook and the gravel bounced.
Not far away, four clouded leopard horses came galloping and arrived in front of Lin Tianrui in the blink of an eye.
"Zheng Qing!" A sad and angry voice sounded. A tall and thin man with a goatee was riding one of the clouded leopard horses. Before the clouded leopard horse stopped, he jumped up and landed in front of the stretcher. His eyes were red and his beard was shaking.
"Who did it? Who killed my son?" The man turned his head suddenly, staring at Lin Tianrui fiercely with his eyes like a trapped beast.
This man was none other than the second generation Boss of the Lin family, Lin Tianjun.
The Lin family has five Hua Jin martial artists. The head of the family, Lin Jinghan, serves as the prefect of Fangqiao County. There are two clan elders. One of them, Lin Jingyue, has died at the hands of Qin Ziling, and the other is Lin Jingming. The remaining two Hua Jin martial artists are the second generation boss Lin Tianjun and the second oldest, Lin Tianrui.
Lin Tianjun served as the captain of the North City garrison, and Lin Zhengqing was his son.
Originally, Lin Zhengqing served in the North City Garrison and followed Lin Tianjun.
However, in the second half of last year, the county magistrate Pang Qiwei used the reason that bandits outside the East City had rebelled many times and that Lu Jianhui, the eldest son of the Lu family, had failed to suppress the rebellion. This forced the county lieutenant Yu Hongshan to dismiss Lu Jianhui from his post as the East City Captain and promote Lin Tianrui, the second son of the Lin family, to the position of East City Captain.
The East City garrison had been run by the Lu family for many years, and most of the soldiers were from the Lu family. The Lin family had a weak foundation in the East City garrison, and Lin Tianrui could not suppress it at all. So the Lin family transferred the two most outstanding descendants of the three generations of the Lin family, Lin Zhengji and Lin Zhengqing, to the East City garrison. On the one hand, it was to help Lin Tianrui intimidate the East City garrison, and on the other hand, it was to temper them through adversity.
Unexpectedly, just a month ago, Lin Zhengji and Lin Jingyue disappeared and their lives or deaths were unknown, and now Lin Zhengqing was killed again.
"Who killed him?" The second person to jump off the clouded leopard horse was Lin Jinghan, the patriarch of the Lin family. Tears welled up in his eyes and the strength in his body surged, causing a trace of icy and chilling air to flow around him.
After losing his younger brother and two most outstanding grandchildren in succession, even Lin Jinghan, who was known for his calmness, found it difficult to control his emotions.
"Master Lin, Tianjun, calm down first. You see Zheng Qing's injuries. It only took two or three rounds of fighting for that man to kill Zheng Qing. After killing Zheng Qing, he killed the other five people at lightning speed, leaving no one of them alive.
It can be seen that the murderer is definitely a master. Even if he is not a bone refining great martial artist, his strength is already close to that of a bone refining great martial artist. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to kill Zheng Qing so cleanly and not let any of the five black armored guards escape!
This is also the reason why Tianrui sent someone to inform us immediately after discovering the bodies of Zheng Qing and others, instead of taking any action on his own. It is useless to ask him now. "A majestic and calm voice sounded, and it was Pang Qiwei, the governor of Fangqiao County, who spoke.
Behind Pang Qiwei followed an old man dressed in black, with white hair, a hunched back, and looking very old.
"The county magistrate is right!" Lin Jinghan and Lin Tianjun took a deep breath, suppressed the grief and anger in their hearts, and bowed slightly to Pang Qiwei.
"Alas, please accept my condolences!" Pang Qiwei sighed and consoled him, then his face quickly darkened and he said, "Yu Hongshan is the only one in Fangqiao City who has reached the Bone Refining Realm. Yu Yuanhua, Xiao Wenchen, Lu Jianhui and a few others can barely do this.
But they were all in the city. With their identities, if they really wanted to leave the city in broad daylight, it should not be difficult to find them with just a little investigation. Besides, why did they want to kill Lin Zhengqing? Killing him would not change the situation, and once the information was leaked, the risk would be extremely high.
If it wasn't them, then who could it be? And why did they kill Lin Zhengqing? Could it be for... How is this possible? "Speaking of this, Pang Qiwei's face suddenly changed.
"Tianrui, have you gone there to investigate?" asked Pang Qiwei.
"Not yet. Because if that person is still there, it would be useless for me to go alone. And once that person takes advantage of the ruggedness of the place to ambush me, I will definitely die." Lin Tianrui replied.
"It's been seven years. If something goes wrong with that thing, it will be a big trouble." Ponchway looked worried.
“It shouldn’t be the case. That place is so secretive. We used special methods and spent a lot of manpower and time to find such a place outside Fangqiao City. How could others find it?
It’s just that my nephew’s death, and the disappearance of my son and uncle some time ago, I always feel that there is something unusual. ” Lin Tianrui said.
"Do you think they hired someone secretly?" Ponchway asked, his narrow eyes revealing a cold gaze as sharp as a knife.
"Don't forget, Lord County Magistrate, that Yu Hongshan's great-grandfather was once a general under the Wang family of Nanding Prefecture. Nanding Prefecture is separated from our Xiyun Prefecture by the Cangming River. Now the governor of Nanding Prefecture, Wang Lang, has declared himself king. Once he has pacified the discontent within, it is hard to say that he will not attack our Xiyun Prefecture.
You said that before this, if Wang Lang contacted the Yu family, secretly provided them with resources and men, and promised to give Fangqiao City to the Yu family, would the Yu family refuse? "Lin Tianrui asked, his eyes revealing deep hatred.
Ever since his son and his third uncle, Lin Tianrui couldn't sleep at night, thinking about his son's affairs every day. But after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any other family in Fangqiao City that had this ability, except the Yu family, whose influence is only second to the Pang family.
"Your analysis makes sense. If the Yu family really wants to have dealings with Nandingzhou, it will give us the opportunity to uproot them. Then the remaining Lu family and Xiao family will not be a concern.
But we need to investigate this matter carefully and carefully, and not alert the enemy. The most urgent thing now is to go to that place and take a look, in case something goes wrong, otherwise it will be a difficult matter. "After hearing this, Pang Qiwei's face changed for a while, and he said in a deep voice.
After that, Pang Qiwei ordered Lin Tianjun and his brother to lead their men back to the county town, while he took Lin Jinghan and the old man in black with him and disappeared into the forest with a few leaps.
Soon, Pang Qiwei and his two companions arrived at the place where Lin Zhengqing parted ways with his men.
Pang Qiwei and the other two are all masters, and they are also experienced veterans.
As soon as the three of them entered the mountain path that Qin Ziling and Lin Zhengqing had walked, their faces changed suddenly.
"Oh no, there are two people's footprints here! Someone must have been here!"
The energy from Pang Qiwei and the other two instantly rushed to his legs.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Every time the three of them stepped on the ground, it was as if dynamite suddenly exploded the ground, gravel and dirt flew everywhere, and the bodies of the three of them were ejected like cannonballs, each leap was a distance of ten to twenty meters, and they ran all the way towards the evil place.
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The pool of water surrounded by several mountains became clearer at this time.
At this time, Qin Ziling's sharp eyes could see through the water and see cracks at the bottom of the pool. Strands of black substance would overflow from the cracks like ink, dyeing the water black.
However, the amount of black ink-like substance became less and less, and the overflow speed became slower and slower. In the end, not a single drop of it overflowed for several minutes.
"It seems that the evil spirit in the evil veins below has been almost collected and is almost dried up!" Qin Ziling looked at the small corpse-raising ring in his hand, then looked at the pool of water. There was always a feeling of unreality.
"It's really unbelievable, a mere corpse-raising ring actually absorbed the evil energy that had been nurtured in an evil vein for who knows how many years!
However, there were originally twelve zombies in Li Mo's corpse-raising ring. Although the Great Ape, the Second Ape, and the other four were carefully selected by Li Mo, they were zombies with high bone quality and great potential, but they were cultivated for too short a time and their strength was the lowest. The worst of the other nine zombies were high-level silver zombies, and even the most powerful one was a high-level gold zombie, just one step away from becoming a celestial zombie.
If this corpse-raising ring cannot hold a huge amount of Yin Sha Qi, how can it be enough for them to absorb it for a long time? Judging from the concentration of Yin Sha Qi in the corpse-raising ring before, it seems that Li Mo has not replenished Yin Sha Qi for a long time. Could it be that he has not found the Yin Sha place?
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. As the leader of the Corpse Demon Sect, he is such a powerful figure with tens of thousands of disciples. How could he not find the Yin Sha place? It seems that when he was being hunted, he must have used some secret method to squander all the Yin Sha energy in the Corpse Raising Ring at once.
Hey, why am I thinking so much? I should finish my work quickly and stay away from this place of trouble!" Qin Ziling quickly suppressed his thoughts and was about to put away the corpse-raising ring and leave.
Suddenly, he slapped his head.
"I am really a little confused. This black stone platform is a Yin Gathering Formation. Why don't I take it with me and put it in the corpse-raising ring? Wouldn't it be possible to condense a Yin Sha Pearl in this way?"
Thinking in his mind, Qin Ziling quickly called out Yuan Da.
