Zong Ziheng was startled, squatted down, and carefully inspected the deadly wound on the walking corpse. Due to the decay, the exact location could no longer be determined, but it was undoubtedly in the abdomen area. It was the first time he saw the monk who was rumored to have stolen the elixir. He had no experience, but the two brothers traveled all over the world and had seen a lot. He asked, "How did you know that he was robbed of the golden elixir?"
Huang Hongdao: "Your Majesty, look, there is such a big hole in his abdomen. Although it was due to rot, there must have been a big wound in this place when he died. In addition, except for the dantian area, there were many wounds in other places, but all It is not fatal, it seems that he deliberately wants to save his life, this monk has a lot of cultivation, such a way of underestimating the enemy is likely to throw stones at his feet, taking such a risk, it is mostly because digging people's golden core must be dug by a living person, Once a person dies, his spiritual power dissipates, and the golden elixir is useless. In the end, this walking corpse is dedicated to digging out people's stomachs, which is obviously caused by resentment and persistence. Pill thieves have been killed repeatedly, and we have seen a few of them. The way of death of a monk is similar to him."
"These devil cultivators really deserve a thousand cuts." Zong Ziheng gritted his teeth and said, "Stealing someone's life-long cultivation base will even kill someone's life."
Huang Wu sighed: "It's all because the human pills are too tempting. The more powerful the monks cultivate the human pills, the more powerful they will be supplemented. I heard that the top human pills can even change people's bones."
"Isn't the root bone born?" Zong Zixiao looked at the walking corpse, thinking of the despair of being poached away alive, and shuddered.
"Golden elixir condenses a person's innate aptitude and acquired practice. Eating such a human elixir is equivalent to eating part of the essence of a monk's past and future. It is said that people who have been dug out of the golden elixir will be reincarnated. Can no longer form pills."
"Since the cult Tianshu who specialized in this way was wiped out, the pill-stealing demon cultivators have seldom appeared in the world of cultivating immortals. When encountering such demon cultivators, everyone has to punish them. I didn't expect them to be so bold." Zong Ziheng Looking at the monk who died in vain, pity arose in his heart.
"After the Tianshu Sect was uprooted, such magic cultivators have indeed decreased a lot, but it is impossible to completely disappear. In fact..." Huang Wu hesitated to speak.
"how?"
"More than ten years ago, there was a tragedy related to stealing pills in Yanzhou. I don't know if His Highness has heard of it."
"Never."
"Your Majesty was young at the time, so it's normal if you haven't heard of it. It's a small sect, but it's also an orthodox fairy sect. In order to reform his son's bones, the head of the sect tricked and killed his best friend of thirty years."
The Zong brothers froze.
Huang Hong's face was serious: "He got the monk drunk, dug out the other party's golden core, destroyed the corpse and wiped out the traces. Later, when the matter was revealed, he was slaughtered by the revenge seekers."
Zong Ziheng's scalp became tense when he heard this. The evil of man is far better than sneakiness.
"So, it's not only the magic cultivators who specialize in this way who steal the golden elixirs. There are special 'pill hunters' in the world. Who is eaten, how can it be said for sure."
Huang Hong's words were reserved for a while, and he didn't say anything, but how could the people present not understand. Could it be that those righteous cultivators have never been tempted by Ren Dan
Zong Ziheng looked at the horrific corpse of the cultivator, thinking that he probably had the pride of helping the common people during his lifetime, and asked about his ideal of cultivating immortals. Cruel plundering, and in the end, he couldn't even rest in the ground, and was reduced to a walking corpse that harmed the people, and he was also a cultivator. Such a tragedy cannot but be sympathized with.
Zong Ziheng panicked in his heart, he said: "We passed by here, and we happened to meet him, which is considered a kind of fate, he is also a victim, crossing people to the west, this matter shouldn't just end like this. Huang Hong Huang Wu , at dawn, you go to the Chunyang Sect and Wuyun Sect respectively, and ask them to investigate the cause of this monk's death. One is to find the murderer and stop him from doing more evil, and the other is to find out the identity of this monk and send him back to his hometown for burial .”
"yes."
"Brother." Zong Zixiao tugged at the corner of his clothes, "Why would someone practice in such a harmful way?"
"...because there are bad people in this world."
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The host of the Jiaolong Club this time is the Wuliang Sect of Shushan. The two brothers have been riding horses since they set off from Daming Mansion. case, they will delay in Gutuo Town for a few days, and plan to go directly to Shushan with the sword at that time.
Later, when Huang Hong and Huang Wu came back, their expressions were not very good.
"How about it?"
Huang Hongdao: "The Chunyang Sect and Wuyun Sect have both agreed, but they are still trying to evade each other. I don't know if they will seriously investigate."
Zong Ziheng frowned and said, "No, I'll go there myself."
"Your Highness, you'd better not go." Huang Wu looked distressed.
"What's wrong?"
"Chunyang Sect is famous for its staidness and stubbornness. It rejected the government orders of the Daming Mansion several times and was disrespectful to the emperor. On the surface, the Wuyun Sect is much more tactful, but it has not paid taxes for two years and found various excuses to delay. I I'm afraid that if the great majesty goes down, it will just make me angry."
Zong Ziheng became silent.
The ancestors of the Zong family once used the Zongxuan swordsmanship to move the Kyushu and aspire to the immortal world, and laid the foundation for the next hundred years. However, the Zong family, who failed to become the ultimate arrogance for three consecutive generations, has been unable to maintain the glory of the past. The resistance of the various immortal families, It is also becoming more and more blatant. The eldest son Heng only knew about these things when he was traveling abroad. Now that the Chunyang Sect and the Wuyun Sect don't pay attention to him as the eldest prince, he can better understand why his father insisted that he win the championship at the Jiaolong Meeting. To show the world that the daimyo Zong family has successors.
"As the immortal sect stationed in the local area, they don't care about the monks being stolen and die, and they don't care about the people asking for help from the evil spirits. They are so indifferent and dereliction of duty. What kind of way are they practicing?" Zong Ziheng looked sullen. Avoiding the world, only caring about your own ascension and ignoring the sufferings of the world, wouldn't it violate the original intention of cultivating the Tao?"
"Your Majesty is right."
Zong Zixiao said: "Brother, they don't check, we check it ourselves."
"Okay, let's check it ourselves."
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The four of them spent two days visiting several villages and towns near Gutuo Mountain, and gained a little. According to their description, there is only one monk who appeared in Gutuo Town more than a year ago. He is about forty years old. He has dark skin and no obvious sect logo on his body. Besides, there are no more useful clues.
Although it is not nothing, but to rely on these to find out the identity of the monk and who was killed by him, at least these few days will definitely be too late.
Two days later, the Chunyang sect sent someone to greet the Zong brothers, and report some clues they found. It seems that negligence is negligence, and prevarication is prevarication, but Chunyang sect has at least checked it. It's a pity What they have is limited, but at the same time, they have sent a letter to the Huaying faction to assist in the investigation. The Huaying faction is the largest fairy sect in the Jianzhou generation.
Huang Wudao: "It seems that this boy's sect is more real than Wuyunmen."
Zong Zixiao asked curiously: "What boy boy sect? Is there a sect full of children?"
Zong Ziheng almost spit out the tea he just drank.
Huang Hong glared at his younger brother: "You can speak freely in front of His Highness Ninth Prince."
Huang Wu groaned slightly.
"Brother?" Zong Zixiao looked at Zong Ziheng in confusion.
Zongziheng coughed lightly: "They are talking about the Pure Yang Sect. The Pure Yang Sect focuses on martial arts, and what they cultivate is the body of the pure yang. The so-called body of the pure yang is...to cultivate Yuanyang, and then..." he said at the end , I didn't know how to explain it properly, so I gave Huang Wu an angry and funny look.
"A body of pure yang? What do you mean?" Zong Zixiao was at the age of asking the truth, so he would not be fooled.
"If you want to practice their exercises, you can't get married." Huang Hong said euphemistically.
The pure yang teaching cultivates the body of pure yang, and the profound meaning of the exercises is to keep the original yang intact. Once the original yang is vented, the exercises will be broken. Unless you practice other methods from the beginning, there is no possibility of further improvement, so you have to spend your whole life. Pure heart and few desires, can't get close to sex. Although this pure yang technique has achieved great success and has always played a pivotal role in the world of cultivating immortals, there are still not many people who are willing to practice this technique. After all, outsiders see them as lifeless.
Zong Zixiao didn't know if he understood: "Brother, why don't you practice this exercise?"
Zong Ziheng laughed: "Why should I cultivate?"
"If you have practiced the Pure Yang Kung Fu, will you not be able to get married?"
"Huh?" Zong Ziheng asked in confusion, "Don't you want me to get married?"
"In no mood."
"Why?" Zong Ziheng pinched his face and teased him, "You don't want to have a gentle and beautiful sister-in-law, maybe she cooks better than elder brother."
"I don't want to." Zong Zixiao said seriously, "Second Brother said, I can't sleep with you if you get married."
"Hahahaha." Zong Ziheng couldn't help laughing, "Could it be that you will sleep with your eldest brother for the rest of your life, and you will also get married in the future."
Zong Zixiao's little face was almost wrinkled: "Then I won't get married, we won't get married, can't we just keep doing this?" He still doesn't understand the true meaning of getting married, he only knows that if someone appears, he If you can't be like this with your eldest brother, then it's wrong, he doesn't allow it.
Huang Wu said with a smile: "Your Highness Ninth, it's fine if you don't want to get married, but His Highness has reached the age of marriage. I heard that the Emperor will find a daughter for His Highness this time at the Flood Dragon Meeting."
Zong Ziheng smiled and said: "Really? Why haven't I heard of it?" He was just at the beginning of youth, and he also had fantasies about love, but he had no imagination about his future wife. After all, it was not his turn to make decisions.
Zong Zixiao was stunned and stopped talking.
"The Emperor and Concubine Shen were worried about your distraction, so I didn't say anything. I heard what Elder Huineng said." Huang Hongdao, "If His Highness wins the first prize at the Jiaolong Meeting, which high-ranking daughter will make a marriage contract with you?" , that’s really a happy event.”
Zong Ziheng was a little embarrassed, but he was looking forward to it in his heart.
Zong Zixiao pushed Zong Ziheng hard, turned around and ran away.
"Hey..." Zong Ziheng was pushed back and almost fell off the chair, "This kid, I'm too used to him, it doesn't matter how big or small."
Zong Zixiao lost his temper, refused to eat at night, and didn't sleep with Zong Ziheng, so he insisted on opening another room. Zong Ziheng only thought that he was being petty and didn't take it seriously, so he asked the waiter to keep the food in case he was hungry and looking for something to eat in the middle of the night.
At midnight, Zong Zixiao didn't leave the house, Zong Ziheng was next door to him, hesitating whether to coax him, he fell asleep again, and fell asleep in a daze.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Zong Ziheng suddenly woke up. He felt a burst of spiritual pressure mixed with murderous aura. Their Zong family's Guiyuan mentality can sharpen people's perception of danger.
Zong Ziheng stood up, no matter what it was, his first priority was to ensure Zong Zixiao's safety.