A certain lakeside.
The moonlight is bright, and occasionally naughty fish emerge from the lake surface, making the lake sparkling under the moonlight.
The willow grove by the lake sways gently with the wind, and one person faces the lake and stands with his back to the willow grove.
She looked up at the moon, but only saw the back, which should be a woman.
The sound of footsteps came from the willow forest. The visitor knelt on one knee, fisted with both hands, and did not dare to make a sound.
She turned her back to the man, and finally spoke after a long time, saying, "To what extent has the investigation been conducted?"
The visitor said respectfully: "The progress is very slow. In the past ten years, following your instructions, we have visited many places and explored as many as 119 planes, and 112 of them have martial arts."
"Among the one hundred and twelve planes, there are a total of ninety-seven plane universes with Martial Dao as the venerable."
"Including the world of the Six Emperors, there are a total of 3,597,744 people named Bai Muchen."
"Among them, there are 3,597,720 males and 24 females."
"And plan to try to explore one hundred and fifty planes in the next ten years."
The woman sighed, but she still didn't turn around, and asked, "These 3.59 million people named Bai Muchen are still alive?"
The visitor shook his head and said, "Some have been dead for thousands of years, some have been dead for tens of thousands of years, and there are still more than 1.3 million people still alive in this world."
The woman said: "In your opinion, how many years does it take for a person to turn into a weapon spirit after death?"
The visitor replied earnestly: "About this question, we have interviewed many masters of Xuan Dao, but the answers we got are not optimistic."
"After a person dies, it is rare for the soul to transform into a tool spirit. It may take tens of hundreds of years, or tens of thousands of years. There is no fixed number."
The woman's back trembled slightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Can you be more detailed?"
The visitor took out a booklet, opened it, looked at it and said, "Two years ago we visited a great master of Xuan Dao, and he gave some very valuable explanations."
"When a person dies, he has no memory during the period between his death and his transformation into a weapon spirit, so in his own opinion, maybe he just died, and it may be just a moment before he turns into a weapon spirit. .”
"If it takes 10,000 years for a person to become a weapon spirit after death, then these 10,000 years are like a flick of a finger for him."
"So this tool spirit can't tell you the exact time of his death. What he said is just his own subjective consciousness."
The woman sighed, and said: "In retrospect, Lao Bai has a deep understanding of martial arts, but his understanding of martial arts and martial arts is not very high."
"There are two possibilities. One is that he died at a very young age. He had a very good understanding of martial arts, but he has not yet practiced advanced martial arts and martial arts."
"The other is that he has a very high understanding of martial arts, but he was born in a low-level world. There are no superb martial arts and martial arts in his world."
The visitor nodded and said: "The two situations you analyzed are very reasonable, but the coverage is too broad."
The woman said: "The Six Emperors' World, how is the investigation at the Bai family going?"
The visitor said respectfully: "I've been trying to find ways to infiltrate in the past few years, but the Bai family's location is strict and the family rules are clear. It's not easy to find out."
"We did everything we could to sneak a peek at the Bai family's genealogy, but in the past five thousand years, the three characters Bai Muchen have never been registered."
"What's more, Bai Wuya's martial arts is inherited from Bai Wuya, and Bai Wuya is the enlightener of the modern martial arts system. Even a six-year-old child of the Bai family who has just learned martial arts has profound and profound basic skills. It is seriously inconsistent with the spirit you described."
The woman said: "Is it possible that they are distant relatives of the Bai family, so they are not registered."
The visitor shook his head: "The Bai family tree records every member of the Bai family in detail, including distant relatives. There is no one named Bai Muchen."
"but… "
"But what?" the woman asked.
The visitor replied: "There is a member of the Bai family who has not been found. Not long ago, Bai He used the world's voice transmission to appeal to the world. A traitor named Bai came out of the Bai family. He now claims to be Xiang Nan. This person once caused troubles in the Bai family." The ancestor worship ceremony, he... "
The woman interrupted with a wave of her hand, and said: "There is no need to waste any more time investigating this person, Lao Bai is already dead, and what I asked you to investigate is a man named Bai Muchen who has been dead for more than ten years."
"Yes." The visitor nodded.
The woman sighed, and said: "It seems that Lao Bai is indeed not of the blood of Bai Wuya's family."
"Then, let's narrow down the scope a bit. For the millions of people named Bai Muchen you have found, if you limit the time of death to more than ten years, or less than a hundred years."
The visitor said: "There is a person named Bai Muchen, who was born in the second-class plane Wuzhou Realm, Tianxuanzong, who was once known as the number one genius under the stars, but mysteriously disappeared twelve years ago."
The woman's voice trembled: "Is it possible that he is Lao Bai!"
The visitor shook his head and said, "At first, he was our biggest suspect, but after in-depth research and investigation, we found that the possibility of him being your weapon spirit is zero."
"Why?" The woman asked back: "Wuzhoujie proves that the martial arts and martial arts he has learned are not very good, and the title of the first genius under the starry sky is exactly in line with the conditions of Lao Bai's extremely high comprehension of martial arts."
"The time of his death happened to be more than ten years old."
The visitor said: "Because this person appeared once three years ago."
The woman sighed, her disappointment palpable.
The visitor said: "Three years ago on the Beast Spirit Island in the Wuzhou Realm, a large-scale scuffle broke out among the sects, and Bai Muchen's body appeared on the spot."
The woman said: "Didn't you say that he appeared before, do you mean the corpse?"
The visitor respectfully said: "Please listen to what I have to say, we have seriously suspected that this person is your weapon spirit, but according to the witnesses who have personally experienced the Battle of Beast Spirit Island, that Bai Muchen's corpse is lifelike, not only did it not rot in the slightest The signs, even the meridians are unblocked."
Having said that, the woman has stopped talking, and she knows exactly what this means.
The visitor continued: "The meridians are not the veins of flesh and blood, but the veins of the soul. We can't find the existence of meridians after dissecting a warrior. They are the imprint of the soul, just like the stars in the night sky."
"In this regard, we specifically asked the top Xuan Dao Grand Master. He once said that after a person dies, the meridians will completely disappear, and they cannot last for more than ten days at most."
"This fully illustrates the problem. We have definite reasons to believe that Bai Muchen from the Five Continents was secretly imprisoned twelve years ago."
"And on the eve of the outbreak of war on Beast Spirit Island three years ago, he was executed and his body was brought to Beast Spirit Island."
"That is to say, the actual time of death of Bai Muchen from Wuzhou Realm was within one to three days before the Battle of Beast Spirit Island broke out three years ago."
The woman said: "So, is there anyone who can forcefully continue the meridians of a dead person? What if the corpse was refined into a puppet a long time ago?"
The visitor said: "The possibility of forcibly extending the meridians is zero, and as for the puppet, the body of Bai Muchen has unblocked meridians, but no talent, which means that he is indeed dead, and he died not long ago."
"Puppets also have talents. Only the real dead will lose all their talents."
The woman was not reconciled, and said: "Who is the great martial arts master you asked about?"
The visitor said: "Two years ago, we found the old man Mo Ling from the Six Emperors World. This is what he said himself."
The woman finally gave up, and sighed: "Since even Mo Ling said that, then he must be right." The visitor said: "Mo Ling is a strange person, even when the Bai family asks him, they always keep a low voice. His words are equivalent to the final judgment of the Xuan Dao world."