"Deputy Team Leader, is everything settled?" The two wooden doors were slammed and shook continuously.
Li Hongyu looked back with an embarrassed look on his face.
Judging from what Chen Ling said, Junior Master-Uncle was indeed a suspect, but he just couldn't believe that such an easy-going and gentle person could be the inner demon.
What if, what if there is some misunderstanding
He looked up, wanting to take back the white amber as he originally intended, but when the words came to his lips, only two words remained: "No."
After these words came out, even Li Hongyu himself was stunned.
Chen Ling put his hand on his shoulder: "You already have the answer in your mind, right?"
Li Hongyu closed his eyes in pain and shook his head, "I want to confirm it again."
"What if we alert the enemy?" Chen Ling asked back.
Li Hongyu remained silent, recalling many scenes of his time with Li Daoxuan. He remembered that he taught him to write, draw talismans, and read scriptures. Whenever the master of the temple punished him, if Li Daoxuan saw it, he would always pull him back to the house, apply medicine to him, and persuade him not to hate the master's severity.
The shadow of his junior master uncle was interspersed in his life for more than 20 years. Although he only appeared occasionally, it was enough to leave a deep mark.
They were his elders, his relatives.
He thought of the female ghost trapped in Rongshen Middle School, and Zhou Yuanxin who was induced to commit suicide by his inner demons; he thought of the evil spirits trapped in chains in Fengling Mountain, and the souls who repeated their painful deaths every month... Each and every one of them was a sin, a sin that no one could forgive.
Li Hongyu curled up his fingers and pinched the soft flesh in his palm hard.
His face looked very bad, with a flash of sadness between his brows, but the rest was unprecedented determination: "Do you have any plans?"
Chen Ling's eyes lit up, knowing that Li Hongyu was going to stand on their side. He shook his head and said, "There is no plan. We don't even know what your uncle wants to do."
Wu Weiwei remembered what his brother Jiang said about raising corpses and souls, and asked, "Does your uncle have a wife? Is he doing this to raise a corpse or solidify a soul for his lover?"
"No." Li Hongyu said, "We in Qingxuan Temple do not require disciples not to get married, but most people choose to practice celibacy. But I can be sure that my junior uncle belongs to the latter."
"Although he is gentle, I have never seen him get particularly close to anyone since I was a child."
Chen Ling: “Maybe.”
"What?" Li Hongyu looked at the young man in confusion.
"Inner demon." Chen Ling said, "You said before that your junior uncle had a dispute with your master over the position of the temple master. The opportunity for the inner demon to invade does not need to be special, an ordinary little thing is enough."
For Li Daoxuan, his desire for power was the opportunity.
Li Hongyu's face turned pale. "You mean, the inner demon may have been with my junior uncle since then?"
Chen Ling didn't dare to be too sure, "It's just a guess."
Wu Weiwei hissed, "A man and a demon have been together for more than twenty years, they won't merge together, right?"
"That is the inevitable result." Jiang Yu said firmly to Chen Ling, "Do you remember the story I told you?"
Wu Weiwei's eyes lit up. Brother Jiang could tell stories, so he asked hurriedly, "Brother Chen, what's the story?"
Chen Ling opened his mouth and closed it again.
Often the protagonist in “Let me tell you a story” is the storyteller himself. Combining his own guess with the respectful attitude of the City God towards the ancestors today… Jiang Yu must be the Son of the Blood Sea who was led into the ghost world by the Emperor Dongyue in the story.
He probably didn't want anyone to know his identity, otherwise he wouldn't have kept it a secret for so long. Chen Ling didn't reveal it without permission and said perfunctorily, "Nothing."
Seeing that Wu Weiwei was about to ask more questions, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Since the demonic energy can be introduced into the ghost path through certain means to give rise to three souls and seven spirits, the souls and spirits can naturally be cultivated into demons. If Li Daoxuan has really become a demon, then it is not surprising that he merged with the inner demon."
"Brother Chen, where did you see the magic energy being introduced into the ghost path?" Wu Weiwei showed great interest and wanted to find it and take a look.
Chen Ling evaded the question and said, "I forgot."
"How could I forget..." Wu Weiwei said frustratedly.
Li Hongyu was quick-witted and knew that Chen Ling was deliberately avoiding the topic. He raised his finger and pushed Wu Weiwei's forehead, "Why are you asking so many messy questions? Use your brain on the real thing."
Wu Weiwei covered his forehead in disbelief, his eyes wide open.
He couldn't believe that Li Hongyu would actually touch his forehead with his fingers!
Li Hongyu's actions just now were completely subconscious. When he saw the other party staring at him stupidly, he realized that something was wrong. He pursed his lips and said, "Sorry."
Wu Weiwei closed his mouth and shook his head like a rattle: "It's okay, I just feel it's unreal. It turns out that you can also take the initiative to touch people."
"I didn't touch you!" Li Hongyu blushed. This made him sound like a pervert!
"I'm sorry for my words." Wu Weiwei tapped his lips three times and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Li."
Li Hongyu was neither angry nor able to calm down, so he simply put his hands behind his back and moved to the side, trying to stay away from Wu Weiwei.
While the two were playing around, Chen Ling fell into silence.
No one knows the devil's abilities, but one can get a glimpse of them by looking at Jiang Yu. He felt as if a stone was pressing down on his heart, heavy, neither going up nor down, and feeling uneasy.
Jiang Yu pulled the man in front of him and held his ten fingers with both hands, "Are you scared?"
Chen Ling nodded honestly, "A little bit."
"Don't be afraid." Jiang Yu touched the young man's face with the back of his hand, "I'm here."
Chen Ling bit his lip and frowned, "It takes time to become a demon. Can Li Daoxuan really become a demon in twenty years?"
"No." Jiang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, "He should want to use the power of the four evil spirits to speed up the fusion of his soul and the inner demon."
Chen Ling felt incredible: "Why must he become a demon?"
People have seven emotions and six desires. What's wrong with being able to spend time with family and friends day and night
Jiang Yu lowered his eyes to look at the young man's fingertips. They were beautiful and round, and his nails were neatly trimmed. They were not suitable to be stained with blood. "Demons are like zombies. They transcend the six reincarnations. People have to experience birth, aging, sickness and death when they are alive. But if they become demons, all the sufferings in the world will have nothing to do with them."
Chen Ling's fingertips trembled, and he subconsciously wanted to curl them up into fists, but the man held them tighter.
Jiang Yu's voice was neither too loud nor too soft. Li Hongyu and Wu Weiwei both heard it. They were both stunned. After a long while, Wu Weiwei broke the silence and said, "This is indeed very tempting."
Moreover, after becoming a demon, its abilities will definitely be stronger than those of an ordinary ghost. It will be able to dominate the world, which is as cool as it can be.
Especially for people like Li Daoxuan who pursue power, the feelings must be even deeper.
Chen Ling was silent for a moment, puzzled: "But what does this have to do with Yuhe Mountain? Why did he stay in Yuhe Mountain for three hours and then leave before others?"
"What do you mean? Is he referring to my junior uncle?" Li Hongyu was stunned.
Just as Chen Ling was about to explain, the two doors were slammed open with a loud bang!
Dust was jumping in the air. The wooden door fell off the door frame due to the violent impact from outside and fell to the ground, right at the feet of Li Hongyu and Wu Weiwei.
Wu Weiwei stood up with a snort and said angrily: "What do you want to do!"
The Special Investigation Department came in directly from the door. The first one was a man with a slicked-back hair. He stared at Li Hongyu and said, "Deputy Team Leader, have you forgotten what Team Leader Li told you to do? If you haven't forgotten, take the things and let's go back together to report."
"You go back first, I'll bring the things later." Li Hongyu noticed that the demeanor of this group of people was not right and wanted to appease them temporarily.
Unexpectedly, the subordinates did not listen at all. The slicked-back hair sneered, "I knew that the deputy team leader had a deep friendship with these people, but I didn't expect it to be so deep that he didn't care about enemies or friends."
"Xu Yao!" Li Hongyu was a little angry.
The man with the slicked-back hair was not afraid at all, and still had a sneer on his face: "Not only do they hide evil things, they also play dirty tricks on us by swapping things. Li Hongyu, do you want to openly stand against us and defend them?"
"Who told you that it was an evil thing?" Chen Ling came forward from behind. "Li Daoxuan said so."
"You don't even think you can call our team leader by his name!" These people were like mad dogs, biting whoever they saw. Li Hongyu frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"What's wrong with you?" The slicked-back haired man cursed, "What benefits did these people promise that made you defend them so wholeheartedly?"
"Yes, Hongyu, we are all brothers in the same sect after all, how can you stand on the side of an outsider?"
"Deputy team leader, go get Bai Hu and we'll go back together. We can just pretend we didn't see what happened before and let bygones be bygones."
"Yes, yes, why do you have to get involved with those crooked ways? You should take the right path."
"Who are you saying is evil?" Wu Weiwei was so angry that he almost jumped up. These idiots were probably bewitched by Li Daoxuan, or they were mentally ill and came here specifically to ask for a beating.
Chen Ling pulled Wu Weiwei behind him and looked across with his chin raised: "We don't plan to hand over the things unless Li Daoxuan comes in person."
"Bah, how can you be so shameless!" The people from the Special Investigation Department were so angry that one of them cursed and threw a copper coin out.
Chen Ling raised his hand, with two fingers placed at the center of his eyebrows, with a copper coin sandwiched between them.
Wu Weiwei was so angry that he cursed the person who threw the coin and hit him in the face with his slingshot.
The man who was hit screamed and encouraged the people around him: "What are you still standing there for? Get the things back!"
The men in black suits from the Special Investigation Department unbuttoned their coats and threw them away, rushing into the main room aggressively. They were outnumbered and looked down on Chen Ling and his men. But as soon as they rushed in, a row of little paper men flew out and stood in a row at their feet.
The paper man grew taller as the wind blew, and became as strong as an ox, blocking them firmly.
The paper figures were picked up from Fengling Mountain earlier. Chen Ling had been keeping them in his backpack, thinking of finding time to study them. Who would have thought that they would come in handy so soon.
"Fuck, that's paper-cutting turned into a military technique!" The man with the slicked-back hair was no ordinary man. He held up a yellow talisman and it burned as soon as he finished his curse.
The talisman fire slid along his hand across the paper faces... The expected burning did not occur, and before he could put away his smug expression, a paper man had already grabbed his neck and threw him directly into the yard!
Chen Ling wanted to clap his hands and cheer. Anything produced in Jiangyu must be of the highest quality. It cannot be burned by fire and can hit people quickly, accurately and ruthlessly.
This throw seemed to add a burst of energy to Chen Ling and his group. Wu Weiwei's slingshot became more and more accurate. The peanuts on the table were slingshotted out one by one, hitting the people's eyes or directly into their open mouths and getting stuck in their throats.
The outcome of the battle was decided within just a few minutes of starting.
The people from the Special Investigation Department were pinned to the ground by the paper dolls. They squatted in the yard with their heads in their hands, all gritting their teeth and looking unwilling.
"Li Hongyu, you traitor, actually helped them!"
"I will report this matter to the higher authorities when I return. You can just wait to be expelled from the list!" The guy with the slicked-back hair shouted the loudest.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Li Hongyu walked up to him and stared at his face carefully. "You were not like this before."
The man with the slicked back hair sneered and spat, "Fuck you, you make me sick."
Li Hongyu frowned and stood up, with something sticky flowing down his cheeks.
Wu Weiwei kicked him, and the man with the slicked-back hair fell to the ground.
He rolled his eyes and tried to take the opportunity to stand up and run away, but was pinned back to the ground by a pair of paper hands.
Wu Weiwei took out a napkin and handed it to Li Hongyu, "Wipe your face first." After thinking about it, he felt that paper alone would not be enough to wipe it clean, so he pulled him towards the kitchen and said, "Let's rinse it with water."
Only a part of the "scientific expedition team" of the Special Investigation Department came to cause trouble. If everyone was called in, there would surely be a big battle. Chen Ling did not want to waste his energy on such things.
He stepped forward and looked down at the slicked-back haired man: "I'll let you go. As for Bai Hu, I still say the same thing. Let Li Daoxuan come and get it in person."
"Fellow Daoist Chen, why bother sending someone to deliver a message? I'm here now."
Li Daoxuan's leisurely voice came from below the stone steps.
He walked up slowly step by step, stepped into the yard, glanced at his subordinates squatting on the ground, and shook his head in disappointment, "You guys are still not well-trained, otherwise how could you be subdued so easily?"
The man with the slicked-back hair said humiliatingly: "They are playing dirty tricks!"
Another person followed suit and shouted, "How can paper-cutting weapons be immune to fire? They must have used some evil magic to make these indestructible paper figures!"
Li Daoxuan looked at Chen Ling with a smile: "These paper figures of Fellow Daoist Chen are indeed too yin." He lowered his eyes and sighed softly, "Young people should not be too eager for quick success and embark on the evil path."
"Bullshit! I think it's you who has gone astray!" Wu Weiwei heard this when he pulled Li Hongyu out and started cursing without any politeness.
Li Hongyu frowned slightly and whispered, "Don't swear."
Wu Weiwei: "... Is your focus not quite right?"
Li Hongyu pursed his lips, let Wu Weiwei let go of him, and turned to face Li Daoxuan, "Junior Master."
Li Daoxuan looked at him from a distance. The young man still looked indifferent. He raised his hand and said in a deep voice: "Hongyu, come here."