Li Yan saw that Taoist Gong also asked this question. At this time, it had been half an hour since Qin Chengyi was captured. No one had come here for such a long time. It was obvious that this place had been arranged by Taoist Gong. The news of Qin Chengyi's capture would not be spread in a short time.
Taoist Gong obviously also wanted to know the reason, but Qin Chengyi deliberately didn't say it, so Li Yan had to speed up his speech.
“First, after seeing Fellow Daoist Luo enter the main hall to burn incense, Fellow Daoist Qin also went in with him.
However, Fellow Daoist Kong did not know that his entry this time would bring him to the brink of death. This was all thanks to Fellow Daoist Qin's meticulous planning.
As the monks of Xuanqing Temple knew, in the center of the main hall was the statue of the Three Pure Ones, and on both sides were the tablets of the Great Emperor, the Six Imperial Lords, and the Five Elders.
Every day, the first stick of incense to the Three Pure Ones in the morning is burned by the foundation-building monks in the temple, and the other immortal seats on both sides are burned by the disciples.
In this way, the poison has a clear target, which is the nine incense sticks of the Three Pure Ones. But as Master Gong said, how can we guarantee that only Brother Luo gets the three incense sticks
If Fellow Daoist Luo and Fellow Daoist Kong had chosen the incense that was not poisonous first, wouldn't they be harming themselves
At that time, there were only three of them in the hall with high seniority. Even if Brother Qin found a reason to change the incense, it would arouse suspicion.
Especially the incense that was replaced, how would he deal with it in front of so many people? At the same time, he also had to ensure that fellow Daoist Kong would not get the poisoned incense, otherwise his plan would fail.
At first, I was also puzzled, but later, after asking the people the three deceased fellow Taoists usually interacted with, I suddenly realized that it was all about human nature.
Fellow Daoist Luo is known as 'Third Master'. I think you two know better than I do why he is called that. He says that everything is related to the number three. So, Fellow Daoist Qin has a plan for this.
He only needs to apply the poison on the three incense sticks in front of the Lord of Morality. It must be said that although this is a plan, Fellow Daoist Qin is also taking a gamble, a gamble on his own insight into human nature.
The Three Pure Ones are Yuanshi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun. Daode Tianzun is the third of the Three Pure Ones and has mastered the Three Caverns Scriptures, a supernatural power that can reach the sky.
All of this implies a number - "three!"
No matter from which perspective, Brother Luo would be the first to grab the three incense sticks. I think he would not dare to grab them unless Master Gong was present.
In front of the other fellow disciples, Brother Luo would not give in no matter what, and he stood over immediately.
Fellow Daoist Qin would naturally not step forward to fight for it, and Fellow Daoist Kong should also know Fellow Daoist Luo's habits and would not care about it either, so everything would just happen naturally.
As for Brother Luo's storage bag, since no one found it when he died, there were many people coming and going, and you did it on purpose, you only need to pretend to pass by him casually and take it away when no one is paying attention.
Then walk to the side window and throw it out, or even cast a small spell to knock it into the ground outside the window, which is also an easy thing to do."
When Li Yan said this, Gong Daoren's face showed relief, but his heart felt even colder.
There was already some fear in his eyes when he looked at Qin Chengyi. If a person could calculate people's minds to this extent, Qin Chengyi must have known some of his daily habits clearly.
If this plan is aimed at me, can I escape his killing plan
Li Yan continued.
"It was Brother Qin's action that made me suspect you again. You were at the scene of two of the three murders, and you had an alibi for one.
You are the most likely suspect for the first and third time. All I have to do is to find out how you killed someone the second time.
When I was thinking carefully about the events before and after the second death of Brother Song, I suddenly remembered one thing: when you raised your glass to me at the window, the movement of your arm seemed to have hesitated.
I didn't think this action was unusual at the time, because I thought you were thinking about something. But when I thought back on it later, I felt that this action seemed a bit stiff at that moment.
Then I thought of a possibility - puppet!
At the same time, this brings us back to a question I raised at the beginning: how to put the strange poison "Xiren Tears" into the spirit stone
You must have used your spiritual consciousness to control the puppet and put the strange poison "Xiren Tears" into the spirit stone. Although I had previously thought about whether you used magic weapons such as flying swords to put the strange poison in, I later overturned these speculations.
This is because spiritual weapons and treasures such as flying swords also need spiritual power to activate. In that case, the strange poison of "Xiren Tears" will go up along with the spiritual power, which is still not acceptable.
But the puppet is not like that. It can be driven by spirit stones itself and does not need outsiders to use spiritual power to stimulate it. What it lacks is precise control. You can do all this through spiritual consciousness.
However, when you use the puppet to inject the strange poison "Xiren Tears", no matter how delicately you control it, there will inevitably be a little bit of the poison tracing back along the puppet's spiritual power.
Although you eventually find a way to force the poison back into the spirit stone, the internal formation of the puppet has been destroyed by the poison. This is only a puppet. If it were a human, it would have died long ago.
The puppet's hands, in particular, are the places most likely to be exposed to the "Xiren Tears" poison, so the mechanisms and formations in his body will become insensitive.
A second-level puppet cannot be repaired just by saying so. Besides, from your plan to accompany them to the market to gamble and kill people, there are only a few days, and there is no time to repair the puppet.
So when the puppet raised its glass to me, its movements were uncoordinated.
After making this guess, I went to Fellow Daoist Liu's courtyard with Sect Leader Gong, and first found a spirit stone trough in the courtyard. The spirit stone powder there was indeed different from that in other places, which confirmed the existence of the strange poison "Xiren Tears".
Then we need to find the purpose of this murder. After some analysis, we found that although revenge killing is possible, the most suspicious thing is the missing storage bags. The murderer took the storage bags because he was looking for something, or something common among several people.
In the storage bags of Daoist Fellow Liu and Daoist Fellow Luo, there is a very important item of Xuanqing Temple, which is the two halves of the wind chime that opens the "Daojing Hall".
Only when you have both halves of the wind chime in your hands at the same time can you open this place. This is probably the main reason why you killed them both!
The second death of Fellow Daoist Song and the loss of his storage bag were just a little trick of yours.
Because of this, Sect Leader Gong and I wasted a lot of time. Even though we finally came to the Taoist Scripture Hall to set up an ambush, we still weren't completely sure.
The reason is that we don't know why Fellow Daoist Song died. Now it seems that you are just trying to divert everyone's attention and at the same time prove that you were not there."
Li Yan finished the rest of his words in one breath. Taoist Gong was dumbfounded, but Qin Chengyi's eyes were full of surprise.
Having said that, Li Yan stretched out his finger and grabbed in the air, and the puppet on the ground stood up.
Looking at the puppet floating in the air, Li Yan gently tapped the puppet's arms with his left hand. After the puppet's arms became blurry for a while, the fluctuation of the formation slowly appeared.
Then, spiritual power kept flowing on it, and Li Yan's left hand shone brightly, and the spiritual power became stronger.
The spiritual power in the puppet's arms flowed even faster, but whenever the spiritual power reached below the elbows, it would stagnate, as if blocked.
"This is because when you controlled the puppet and injected the strange poison 'Xiren Tears' into it, the puppet was damaged, causing its internal formation to not function smoothly. When you used your spiritual sense to control the puppet to drink in front of the window, the movements were too small at first, so it was difficult to detect.
When you raised your arm to me, you exposed this flaw. Am I right?"
As Li Yan spoke, he slowly withdrew the spiritual power in his left hand, and the puppet returned to its dim color again.
"Hahaha... I admire Fellow Daoist Li's scheming. Even the idea of killing Senior Brother Song to distract everyone's attention was easily solved by you. You even decided to set an ambush here. Fellow Daoist Li should not be a cultivator from the Blood Leaf Sect, right
Maybe even your cultivation is fake. There are many third-rate sect cultivators with great talent, but they cannot have this kind of bearing and insight."
Qin Chengyi did not answer Li Yan's words, but laughed and asked back.
Li Yan looked at Qin Chengyi. This man had a demonic mind. He also did not answer Qin Chengyi's question, but looked at Taoist Gong.
By this time, Taoist Gong had fully understood how Qin Chengyi had killed several people in a row. Although he was horrified in his heart, his face had long since returned to calm. He looked up at the sky, then spoke to Qin Chengyi in a cold voice.
"You should be able to tell me where and with whom you met, right?"
After hearing this, Qin Chengyi shook his head and closed his eyes casually.
When Gong Daoren saw this, his face became so gloomy that it seemed as if water could drip out of it. His patience over the past two days had already reached its limit at this moment.
His eyes turned cold and he said no more. Instead, he waved his hand and a huge light shield enveloped Qin Chengyi on the spot. With his other hand, he made a gesture and a black light shot out from his fingertips.
The next moment, the black light reached Qin Chengyi. Qin Chengyi had lost his feet and his magic power was sealed, so he had no ability to dodge.
The black light flashed and sank into his brows. Then Qin Chengyi's mouth suddenly opened wide and veins on his forehead bulged, like a bunch of ferocious green snakes, rising and falling continuously.
His originally fair neck suddenly swelled up as if it was blown up, and more tangled veins bulged high on his neck, as if it would burst at any time.
At the same time, his body was constantly twisting, and every movement seemed to bend his body to an impossible angle.
The leg that had lost both feet kept kicking on the ground. The broken calf that had been sealed and no longer bleeding was now bleeding profusely, gushing out like a fountain, leaving a series of thick rivers of blood on the ground.
However, Qin Chengyi seemed not to feel the pain in his legs, and his face was so distorted that it could no longer be recognized as a human face.
It was hard to imagine that he had a handsome face before, but now he was howling continuously, and his calves were being kicked and rubbed off pieces of flesh and blood.
His two hands had already been raised, tightly pinching his neck, which had become several times thicker, as if he was pressing down on the blue veins there, fearing that they would suddenly burst, but also as if he wanted to strangle himself to death.
However, he could only see the movements but could not hear any sound. His voice had been isolated by Gong Dao Ren in the shield, and only Qin Chengyi could hear everything.
The blood inside the light shield and the tranquility outside the light shield formed a weird picture that made people shudder.
Taoist Gong just stood there, motionless, with no expression on his face, watching everything with indifference.
Li Yan sighed in his heart, walked to the side, and looked at the scenery around him.