Taoist Gong took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and spoke to Qin Chengyi word by word while staring at him.
"You think your methods are so clever? I have suspected you for a long time. Besides, you are not worthy of being called Master."
After he said this, unexpectedly, Qin Chengyi's eyes showed a hint of contempt.
"Ahem... Ahem... I... I had guessed your suspicion a long time ago, but... but before Senior Brother Luo died in the early hours of this morning, you had basically... stopped doubting me.
You probably started to doubt me after the incident in the main hall. I had anticipated this incident a long time ago. I wonder if what I said is right, Junior Brother. Ahem… Ahem…
If it weren’t for Master… Master who would have to rush back tonight, just give me… more half a day, and you wouldn’t… think of suspecting me again.
Because… of this, I had no choice but to… had to risk going out again… to kill Senior Brother Luo… in the early hours of the morning today. But I also figured out that you, ahem… ahem… you just had a little more suspicion about me… about me, and there was no evidence at all.
In that case, together with the other people you suspect, you have to monitor many people at the same time, and... moreover, you probably don't trust the people you send out to monitor, right
I guess it's only Master Ji who can make you feel at ease. In this case, the people you can use will be... stretched to the limit, and you won't have time to worry about me.
You... you shouldn't have known that I was coming here, this... I can confirm this, cough... cough... Could it be... Could it be..."
Although Qin Chengyi's face was terribly pale, a look of pride slowly appeared on his face which was twitching with pain.
But when he finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Li Yan, who had been silent, with a look of disbelief in his eyes.
Seeing Qin Chengyi staring at him in disbelief, Li Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This man was truly a man of extraordinary intelligence.
He looked only one or two years older than himself, and without the abundant cultivation resources like those of the Wuliang Sect, he was almost at the foundation-building stage.
What shocked Li Yan the most was how meticulous Qin Chengyi's mind was. The last words he said to Taoist Gong were exactly as if he saw what Taoist Gong was thinking.
But the fact was just as he expected, with almost no mistakes. It was obvious that he had already figured out the thoughts of everyone in the temple before making the plan.
Qin Chengyi locked his eyes on him during just a moment of speaking, but he never opened his mouth from beginning to end. Qin Chengyi had guessed some of the reasons just by his appearance here. Such intelligence is admirable.
Gong Daoren's face turned pale. He never expected that this junior brother who usually kept a low profile could be so powerful. Everything he thought and judged was within his calculations, and he was even more certain that he didn't dare to torture him directly.
Thinking of this, Taoist Gong couldn't help but snorted heavily, then looked at Li Yan.
Because even Gong Daoren himself only knew why Li Yan chose to set an ambush here. He just wanted to catch the murderer first to avoid any further accidents. He didn't have time to ask Li Yan about other things.
Seeing that Taoist Gong was indeed looking at the Qi Condensation cultivator named Li Yan to his side, Qin Chengyi couldn't help but stare at Li Yan with burning eyes. At this moment, there was a look of spirit on his face.
"If I remember correctly, Li... Fellow Daoist Li is a cultivator of the Blood Leaf Sect, right? I never thought that I was wrong, and this... this situation was actually broken by you."
After he said this, he stopped breathing heavily and seemed to have regained his spirits.
After hearing this, Li Yan saw Taoist Gong looking at him, his eyes full of curiosity and anxiety.
Li Yan looked at the sun. It was already the morning hour, less than three hours away from noon. It was neither long nor short. Qin Chengyi had already grasped the lifeline of all the Jindan cultivators here. Taoist Gong also hoped that he could express his judgment as soon as possible.
"I'm sorry to make you laugh, Brother Qin. I'm just guessing."
Li Yan bowed slightly to Qin Chengyi, and his heart couldn't help but feel relieved.
"At least you didn't realize that I'm not a cultivator from the Blood Leaf Sect. Otherwise, you would have really frightened me, Li."
His bow came from the bottom of his heart. From the perspective of an observer, he admired Qin Chengyi very much.
If it weren't for the fact that he was in a hurry and had to take action again in the hall in the early morning, I would not have linked the suspicious points I discovered yesterday to him.
Li Yan continued.
"If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Qin's fear that your master would come back and force his way in for the third time, this battle would have been won by Fellow Daoist Qin. Your plan is perfect, both in terms of timing and human nature. I admire you."
After Li Yan finished speaking, what surprised Gong Daoren was that Qin Chengyi actually smiled like a child who had received praise. Looking at Qin Chengyi, whose eyes revealed confidence, Li Yan spoke for the third time.
"The first case of Fellow Daoist Liu's death yesterday was caused by the highly toxic 'Tears of the Invaders' condensed by the 'Green Crystal Six-Headed Demon Centipede', right?"
"You actually know about the 'Blue Crystal Six-Headed Demon Centipede'?"
Qin Chengyi only heard Li Yan's first sentence and couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice.
He originally just wanted to hear how the other party could guess the reason why he had to come to the "Daojing Hall", but he didn't expect that the other party did not mention this matter, but instead told him how he killed people yesterday, and seemed to be very clear about it.
Li Yan glanced at him and continued.
"'Blue Crystal Six-Headed Demon Centipede' is an ancient vicious beast that likes cold. When it grows up, it can reach the sixth level, which is the realm of refining emptiness among cultivators. Its poison is the most unique in the world and ranks 415th on the ancient list of strange poisons. In ancient times, cultivators collected its poison and refined it into a poison called 'Xiren Tears', which specifically attacks the heart of living beings. When it is stimulated, it will merge into the world silently.
After being inhaled by nearby creatures, they will quickly condense inside the creature's body and attach to a point on the surface of the heart. When a certain amount is reached, they will suddenly explode and pierce the heart like a needle.
It invades instantly and corrodes everything inside the heart in a flash. However, the so-called condensation to a certain amount here is actually just a trace, which can cause the poison to break out.
But this poison has long disappeared with the extinction of the 'Blue Crystal Six-Headed Demon Centipede'. I didn't expect that you still have this deadly poison in your hands."
When Li Yan said this, he looked at Qin Chengyi. Qin Chengyi's face returned to normal, but he kept silent. However, his eyes flashed several times when he looked at Li Yan, as if he was thinking about something.
Seeing Qin Chengyi's expression, Li Yan was also guessing what he was thinking at the moment.
When I saw that "Senior Brother Liu" died from this poison, I was extremely shocked. I never thought that this poison still existed in this world.
Now people guess that this poison is not possessed by the Qin family, but should be provided by the force behind Qin Chengyi. In this case, this force must be extremely powerful.
"But 'Xiren Tears' has two important characteristics. One is that once this poison touches your skin, it cannot be shaken off. It will firmly adhere to your skin, then penetrate into your pores and gather towards your heart.
Secondly, if you want to activate it from a distance, you need to use spiritual power to activate it. But another feature of it is that it will go directly back to the source of the spiritual power, so that the poisoner will not be spared.
Therefore, if someone takes this poison and directly triggers it, the person who poisons it will have died before the triggering of the poison. Therefore, after the ancients refined this poison, they often had special talismans to trigger it.
Precisely because this poison is triggered by spiritual power, the symptoms after poisoning are like someone's heart being destroyed directly by magic power. Residual fluctuations of wood and water spiritual power will remain in the heart, which can easily confuse others.
The reason why it is a strange poison is that the most chilling thing about it is that the person who is poisoned will have his soul and spirit corroded and lose the chance to fall into reincarnation. This is the most vicious part of it. "
Speaking of this, Li Yan's eyes showed admiration.
"I don't know whether the poison was spread by you this time, or someone else told you the corresponding method of inducing it. If this method of poisoning was really thought up by you, I really admire you.
Can you come up with a method that can trigger the poison without causing the poison to seek your own death through your spiritual power? Finally, after a series of cover-ups, it will be difficult to find the real murderer. "
After hearing what Li Yan said, Qin Chengyi did not answer, but waited for Li Yan to continue.
However, Li Yan and Gong Daoren had already gotten the answer from the pride revealed on Qin Chengyi's face.
However, up to now, Taoist Gong was still confused. He even heard of "Xiren's Tears" for the first time, but he seemed to have seen the name "Green Crystal Six-Headed Demon Centipede" in a book. He also knew that it was an ancient ferocious beast, but he was not clear about the specific situation.
Seeing that Qin Chengyi didn't answer, Li Yan continued.
“At first, when I was in Daoist Liu’s courtyard, I also thought that Daoist Liu had died from an attack by someone else, but then Daoist Gui said something.
"It's impossible to find traces from the formation. It's better to work on the cause of the death of Junior Brother Liu. I remember that Junior Brother Liu's heart was broken, but there was still some spiritual power left. Can we find the corresponding skills from it?"
This suddenly made me connect the formation with the residual spiritual power in Fellow Daoist Liu's heart. After a final check with my spiritual sense, I concluded that Fellow Daoist Liu died from "Xiren's Tears".
But at that time, there were two doubts that could not be explained, so for a while, it was still impossible to figure out who did it. It was not until today after talking with Master Gong and understanding some of the circumstances in the temple that the first doubt was solved. "
Having said this, Li Yan paused, as if he was sorting out his thoughts. In fact, he had other thoughts in his mind, but he did not say them out loud.
At that time, there was another reason that made him even more certain that "Senior Brother Liu" died of poisoning, and that was the two words "Xiren..." whispered by the purple-shirted young man.
From this point of view, the young man in purple must be extremely proficient in poisoning. This strange poison is almost extinct. Li Yan only saw some records about it in a damaged book of the Wuliang Sect by chance.
The young man in purple immediately told the whole story, which showed that it was extraordinary. So Li Yan felt that the master and the servant were very strange, and it would be better to have less contact with them.
"Fellow Daoist Qin must have planned for a long time to steal the eyeball of the Miluo Nine-tailed Turtle. I heard from Sect Master Gong that you only entered Xuanqing Temple four years ago.
But during these four years, the Jindan ancestor of Xuanqing Temple, your master, did not go out. You would never dare to steal anything under the nose of a Jindan cultivator, so you never had the chance to do it.
It wasn't until a few days ago when your master went out that you had the opportunity, but it required careful planning, so you didn't act immediately.
The night before yesterday, after you had prepared all your plans, Fellow Daoist Luo happened to take you, Fellow Daoist Liu, and Fellow Daoist Song out to gamble, giving you this opportunity to take action.
Oh, maybe you created this opportunity yourself! Otherwise, how could you have prepared the method to trigger the strange poison of Xirenlei so early
That day, you lost a lot of spirit stones, and in the end, even the spirit stones that had been used and had lost some spiritual energy were lost completely. Well, this matter was mentioned by Brother Luo when you apologized to Master Gong.
It was precisely this sentence that solved my first question, which was how to successfully activate the strange poison of Xirenlei. "
Li Yan stared at Qin Chengyi and said.
Qin Chengyi chuckled when he saw Li Yan looking at him.
"Brother Li, let's hear what you have to say."