Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 97: Undercurrent
Tan Tai Qingrun flew his sword in mid-air, releasing his spiritual thoughts to cover the entire valley.
"We are here only for the two Jindan cultivators Xuanyou and Xuanming, and have nothing to do with you. The Pacification Division will come to take charge of you later. As long as they find out that you have not violated the laws of Daxia and massacred mortals, you will be safe."
Tan Tai's clear and cool voice spread throughout the valley.
Upon hearing this, the expressions on the faces of those Xuanming Valley monks who chose to give up resistance varied.
Some breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted from their shoulders, while others looked worried and had already begun to think about how to practice after their sect was burned down.
Among them, there were also a few monks with expressions of panic on their faces.
These are the evil practitioners with dirty hands.
When they heard that monks from the Pacification Division would come to take over them, they naturally felt guilty.
However, these monks raised their heads and glanced cautiously at Tan Tai Qingrun who was suspended in the air, and ultimately did not dare to make any small movements.
Facing the investigation of the Pacification Office, there is still a tiny chance to conceal the truth and gain a chance of survival.
But if anyone made any movement under the nose of this female swordsman, he would be beheaded immediately.
Not to mention that there are six Jindan monks from the Jiazi team watching covetously.
So even though they were frightened, they did not dare to act rashly.
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Tan Tai Qingrun's eyebrows suddenly raised, and something moved in his heart.
found it!
Tan Tai Qingrun's figure flashed and flashed towards the place where the divine sense had detected.
There was a barrier set up there to block her spiritual thoughts from penetrating.
With a sword, the barrier was broken, and a pitch-black underground cave entrance appeared in front of Tan Tai Qingrun.
Tan Tai Qing Run stepped forward.
The humid air was mixed with a faint smell of decay.
A cold, condensed air hits me in the face.
Tan Tai Qingrun looked around the dark cave.
What came into view was one clearly separated pool of corpses after another.
There are also a large number of human puppets in the corpse pool.
The reason why she released her divine consciousness to cover the Xuanming Valley was to search for the corpse pool necessary for refining corpse puppets.
Now the evidence is conclusive that the two Jindan cultivators in Xuanming Valley are indeed secretly refining corpse puppets.
It is the duty of the Pacification Office to capture and kill the evil practitioners who violate the prohibitions.
The reason why Zhishoulou made such a big fuss could not possibly be to help the Zhenfu Division eliminate evil.
It is not uncommon for evil practitioners to violate taboos, but if there are a large number of cultivators secretly refining corpse puppets in the entire Zhenjiang Prefecture area, their activities will be clearly revealed.
The purpose of Zhishou Tower is to capture those monks who are involved with the underworld.
Of course, in the process, we can also help the Zhenfu Division to purge the evil practitioners who are doing illegal things in Zhenjiang Prefecture. It's a two-birds-at-one thing, so why not do it? It can be considered a bonus.
But the moment he saw the pool of corpses, a chill rose in Tan Tai Qingrun's heart.
In Xuanming Valley alone, the number of corpse puppets produced is already astonishing.
Then, in the past twenty years, how terrifying would the number of corpse puppets refined by the entire mansion be?
The thought of this gives me chills.
After wandering in the cave for a long time, a divine light flashed in Tan Tai's clear and runny eyes - her divine sense sensed a huge spiritual inspiration coming from the outside world.
come yet?
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A giant wooden boat stopped above Xuanming Valley.
The moment the wooden boat stopped, hundreds of spiritual lights jumped out, and after they revealed their figures, they were actually more than a hundred monks.
Lu Qingshan glanced at these monks who appeared inexplicably.
The monks wear uniform clothing.
That is the uniform of the monks of the Pacification Division.
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Tan Tai Qingrun walked out of the underground cave and did not show any surprise at the appearance of more than a hundred monks from the Zhenfu Division before him.
Because these monks from the Zhenfu Division were the ones she had personally notified to send before she took action to take over the final steps.
The cultivator headed by the Pacification Division landed in front of Tan Tai Qing Run and bowed to him: "Master Tan Tai."
Tan Tai Qing Run nodded and said, "You're welcome. Xuan Ming Valley violated Da Xia's ban and refined corpse puppets. The corpse pool is in this underground cave. The evidence is irrefutable. These low-level cultivators in Xuan Ming Valley will be handed over to your Pacification Division, and you will investigate and deal with them on your own."
The monk from the Pacification Division naturally had no objection: "Understood, this time we have to trouble the Master of the Tantai Tower to take action."
The conspiracy of the underworld is of great importance, and there are many people with many gossips, so in order to keep it secret, the low-level cultivators of Xuanming Valley are naturally not aware of the connection between their own sect and the underworld.
As for the corpse pool, these low-level cultivators knew nothing about it because it was hidden by Master Xuanming.
Zhishoulou's trip was brief and to the point, it was just for the two Jindan cultivators from Xuanming Valley.
But these low-level cultivators in Xuanming Valley certainly cannot be let off like this.
As high-ranking members of the sect, Zhenren Xuanming and Zhenren Xuanyou are so cruel and bloodthirsty. With this being the spirit of the sect, it is unreasonable for all the low-level cultivators of Xuanming Valley to remain untainted.
Among these people, there must be cultivators who ignore the laws of Daxia.
But this matter should be left to the Zhenfu Division which is responsible for these matters.
Zhishoulou has never been known to meddle in other people's affairs.
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The many evil magical weapons of Master Xuanming cannot be refined in a short period of time.
This shows that Master Xuanming did not start killing mortals indiscriminately after coming into contact with the cultivators from the underworld.
This is cause, not effect.
The underworld also valued Xuanming Zhenren's ability to refine evil magic weapons and his bloody methods over the years, but still remained undetected, so they chose to contact Xuanming Zhenren and cooperate with him to let Xuanming Zhenren refine corpse puppets on their behalf.
In fact, the cultivators that the underworld looks for to cooperate are all evil cultivators like Xuanming Zhenren who have committed many evil deeds.
The reason is very simple, there are two points:
First of all, these evil cultivators have blood on their hands, and once the shameful things they have done are discovered by Daxia, they will be considered unforgivable crimes.
Therefore, there is no possibility for these evil practitioners to turn against us - that would be equivalent to harming themselves to benefit others.
How could an evil cultivator have such a sentiment as to expose the cultivators of the underworld at the cost of his own life and property?
In addition, the refining of corpse puppets requires human flesh as the raw material.
This means that a large number of mortals need to be captured.
With so many mortals getting into trouble and missing, if the situation is not handled properly, there will inevitably be a risk of being exposed once it attracts the attention of Da Xia.
However, these evil practitioners have been walking in the gray area for a long time, slaughtering innocent mortals to refine evil spells or evil tools, but they have never been noticed by Daxia. They must have some basis and their methods are sophisticated.
For the underworld, these people are undoubtedly excellent partners.
In fact, in the corpse puppet rebellion launched by the underworld in Zhenjiang Prefecture, most of the corpse puppets were made by these evil cultivators, and only a very small number of corpse puppets were truly made by cultivators from the underworld.
After handing over the low-level cultivators of Xuanming Valley to the Pacification Office, Tan Tai Qingrun no longer cared about the affairs here.
Taking with him Master Xuanyou and Master Xuanming who were bound by the Soul Binding Rope, Tan Tai Qingrun, Jiazi Team and Yinhu Team quickly returned to the building.
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Although they set out almost at the same time, under the leadership of Tan Tai Qingrun, Lu Qingshan and his team were the first group of guards to complete the mission.
After returning to the building, Lu Qingshan handed over Master Xuanyou and Master Xuanming to the prison warden, and his mission was completed.
But even so, Lu Qingshan and the others could not leave, but needed to gather in the building and wait for the next instruction.
——Although the capture mission in Xuanming Valley has come to an end, the mission of Zhenjiang Tower has actually just begun.
These captured evil cultivators are not members of the underworld at all, and they are not the real target of Zhishou Tower.
The reason why we took action against these people was because the monks from the underworld were hiding too tightly and we had no way to take action against them .
But with these evil cultivators, they can interrogate the information of the underworld cultivators who are in contact with them.
Then, with the help of these people, we can follow the clues and find the monks from the underworld.
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As time passed, the guards who were scattered around to carry out their missions returned one after another.
Each team of monks returning to the tower brought with them a few monks they had captured themselves and handed them over to the prison warden.
With the personnel allocation this time, the monks sent by Zhishou Tower should theoretically have no problem completing their respective tasks.
But there is no such thing as 100% success in the world.
So there were still one or two teams of monks who, for some reason, either let their target go, or failed to capture them alive and only brought back a corpse.
But it's not a big deal.
Overall, the surprise arrest mission launched by the entire Zhenjiang Louzhi Guard Company was completed extremely smoothly.
The next thing to do is to wait for news from the Prison Warden.
