Pawn Crossing the River

The death conditions of the other corpses were similar. Most of them died of blood loss, and they died unprepared, as if they died suddenly at the moment of ascending to bliss.

Lingquanzi said: "Zombies and ghosts, the former sucks blood but cannot use illusions, while the latter can use illusions. For example, when you go to an abandoned house and an ancient temple at night and meet a beautiful woman, this is an illusion commonly used by ghosts, but ghosts do not have flesh and blood. It can’t suck blood, it can only suck people’s yang energy. The only ones that can suck blood and perform illusions are monsters, such as fox monsters and cat monsters, who are masters of this art.”

Zhang Yuelu said: "Sex-eyed fox demons and cat demons? The problem is not that simple."

Lingquanzi nodded and said, "It's indeed not that simple."

Zhang Yuelu asked: "Deacon Qi, what do you think?"

Qi Xuansu said: "I'm a little curious, why do these people want to massacre the Taoist temple here? This move is not like a simple show of authority, but more like a provocation. What is their motive?"

"Motive." Zhang Yuelu dispersed the energy in his hands, "I am also thinking about this problem. There is no large amount of money here, and it is not for wealth. This group of people are not natives of the Western Regions. They are new here, and the Western Region Taoist Government does not even have time to take care of them, nor talk about it. After ruling out these two possibilities, only provocation is more likely."

"Provoking a Taoist sect is asking for death." Lingquanzi said with some disbelief, "Tiangang Hall has the master and nine deputy hall masters. After the master, there are thirty-five other masters and many ordinary people. Master Zhang Da and the three deputy masters, even if they are heavenly beings or even immortals, so what? Over the past few hundred years, there have been many immortals who have died in the hands of the Taoist sect."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Could it be that someone provoked me? After all, I am new here and I don't know how powerful the Taoist sect is. This is reasonable."

Lingquanzi said coldly: "Whether they were provoked or deceived, since they have made a big mistake, the result is the same, they must die."

Zhang Yuelu suddenly said: "There is still something different. If there is really someone behind the scenes, then the group of demons who committed the crime are just knives. We need to find out who is behind the scenes and see who wants to Be an enemy of Daomen."

Zhou Bai said: "Since we talked about motives, we assume that this group of people was instigated by others, so what would be the motives of the people behind the scenes?"

This sentence reminded Zhang Yuelu, and she quickly turned around and came to the body and inspected it carefully again.

Qi Xuansu followed Zhang Yuelu, thoughtfully.

Zhang Yuelu asked: "Deacon Qi, do you see anything?"

Qi Xuansu said slowly: "I haven't seen anything yet, but I have a guess. Is there something missing from them?"

Zhang Yuelu immediately ordered: "Check again, focusing on the internal organs that cults like to use as sacrifices."

Xu Zhen and several subordinates who were proficient in autopsy came forward and carefully examined the corpses again.

Xu Zhen shook his head and said, "All organs are well preserved."

Zhang Yuelu fell into deep thought.

After a while, Zhang Yuelu looked at Lingquanzi and said, "Chief Lingquan, please check their Niwan Palace."

Taoism says that "Nine Wan Nine Realms all have houses." The brain god is named Jinggen, with the word Niwan. The place where the god lives is Niwan Palace, which is the upper Dantian in the human head.

Lingquanzi also understood, and immediately sent out his thoughts and entered the Niwan Palace of the corpses.

The stage of the alchemist's return to his true nature is called the "Thunder" state. The reason for this name is because when the alchemist Yin Shen travels, he is most afraid of two things: sky light and sky thunder, among which the spring thunder among the sky thunder is the most afraid.

As the saying goes, "The sound of spring thunder scatters the soul." Without the protection of the body, the soul will be torn apart just by the shock of spring thunder.

The martial artist in the stage of returning to his true nature is in the realm of knowing the heavens, and can sense and imitate celestial phenomena. This realm has a magical power of "tongue-splitting spring thunder", which is similar to the Buddhist "lion's roar". It imitates the spring thunder and roars, which contains boiling blood. The most important thing is to restrain the ghosts and ghosts. Alchemists below the stage of returning to true nature are not the enemies of Yihe at all.

However, such methods have little effect on Qi Refiners, and they are even more useless for banishing immortals. Among the several major inheritances, Banished Immortal has almost no weaknesses, followed by Qi Refiner. The advantages and disadvantages of the other major inheritances are very prominent.

However, after the alchemist reaches the Thunderous Realm in the stage of returning to his true form, he can no longer be afraid of skylight and thunder. Not only can he travel during the day, but as long as he is not hit directly by the thunder, the thunder will not hurt him at all. He was restrained by nature, but at least he had the strength to fight.

Lingquanzi is a thunder realm alchemist who is in the stage of returning to his true form. He can also travel in spirit during the day. Its spirit can gather energy and dissipate, gathering into Yin Shen, like a body outside the body, and dispersing into thoughts, similar to the meridians of Qi refiners and the acupoints and blood of martial artists. It is the foundation of cultivation and has endless magical uses.

There are more than 1,200 acupoints in the human body, of which 365 are major acupoints, corresponding to the number of celestial bodies, like lakes, and the three major Dantians are three vast oceans, with twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians. The meridians and other meridians are connected to form a large network, in which Qi flows, just like a river flowing, endlessly.

A martial artist in the stage of returning to the true state can condense one hundred and eighty-three acupuncture points, and a magician in the same stage has a total of one hundred and eighty-three thoughts.

Before the alchemist reaches the realm of Yangshen, the thought of loss cannot be recovered. If it is lost, it is completely lost. For an alchemist, thoughts are like a warrior's acupuncture points. After a warrior reaches the realm of seeing the gods and is indestructible, he can condense his body spirit in the acupoints. After an alchemist reaches the realm of creation, he can also turn a thought into a small world. , this is the so-called "one thought, one world". Destroying a thought is equivalent to destroying an acupoint. Although it is nothing to the whole, it still damages the cultivation level.

Lingquanzi sent out thirteen thoughts and entered the thirteen corpses respectively.

A veteran's work can tell from the corpse whether the person fell to death from a high place or was thrown from a high place after death.

Alchemists are proficient in the art of the soul, and can also judge from various traces in the Niwan Palace whether the soul of the corpse dissipated between heaven and earth on its own after death, or whether it was forcibly taken away.

After a moment, Lingquanzi retracted his thoughts, with a serious expression on his face: "Sure enough, the deputy hall master was right. There are obvious signs of damage to these people's Niwan Palace, and their souls were forcibly taken away."

Zhang Yuelu said in a deep voice: "It's not just about killing people, it's about harvesting animals."

The so-called "collecting life" means killing living people and harvesting their souls for driving purposes. There is a complete set of magic rituals when killing people. After killing a person, his soul is collected in a special container.

This is different from the Taoist method of raising ghosts.

"Yunji Qizhu" says: After death, the soul returns to heaven, the soul returns to earth, and the three corpses turn into ghosts.

What are the "three corpses"? The corpse is the meaning of the god. Humans have three major Dantians: upper, middle and lower Dantian, each with a god residing in it, collectively called the "Three Corpses".

The human body is actually a cage. The body and blood suppress the three corpses in the body, making them unable to escape. Therefore, the three corpses can only leave after the person dies. Without the restraints of the human body, the three corpses become ghosts and can be enjoyed. The wish power of incense has partial memory, but unlike the soul, it has incomplete memory and carries many negative human desires, just like an unreasonable madman. This is why there are often powerful ghosts that harm people.

Because only after a person dies can the three corpses roam around freely and enjoy the power of incense and wishes, the three corpses are always looking forward to the early death of the person, secretly attacking the human life and destroying the spiritual vitality. Generally speaking, the higher one's level of cultivation is, the more powerful the three corpses will be. Therefore, as long as one does not live forever, even gods will eventually become immortal. This is the saying that only by killing three corpses and pulling out nine insects can one become an immortal.

Because of this, there is a way to control ghosts in the world, and it is not regarded as a demonic cult, nor is it regarded as disrespectful to the dead. But if someone takes the soul by force and prevents it from returning to heaven and earth, that is a true demonic cult.

These matters are not hidden by the Taoist sect. They are clearly recorded and explained in the courses of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace. Therefore, there is no need to explain too much. Everyone has already understood the importance of the situation.

The main purpose of this group of people attacking Bishan Temple was to seize the living soul.

Tiangang Hall and Beichen Hall have solved many similar cases. Once a living soul is involved, it is most likely related to cult sacrifices and must be eradicated without any mercy. Most of the cultists are also fanatical and can easily cause a large number of casualties.

Zhang Yuelu frowned and asked the two people from the Western Region Taoist House who were guarding here: "What kind of inheritance do these dead Taoist friends have?"

One of them replied: "Reporting to the deputy hall master, there are six alchemists, four warriors, two Qi refiners, and two Sanren."

"Six alchemists." Lingquanzi suddenly said, "No wonder they want to attack Bishan Temple. For ancient immortals, the souls of alchemists are indeed more 'fat' than other people's souls."

Qi Xuansu interrupted: "According to your opinion, there should be fourteen people stationed here, but there are only thirteen corpses at this time, and one person is missing."

Zhang Yuelu immediately looked at the two people from the Western Region Daofu.

The two of them said with mournful faces: "I don't know, I don't know. I just said that we would guard the corpses and wait for everyone in Tiangang Hall. When we came, there were thirteen corpses."

Lingquanzi, as an old leader of the Taoist sect for a long time, immediately understood what was fishy here, and said dissatisfied: "The Taoist government in the Western Regions is too perfunctory. One person is missing, and his life or death is unknown. They neither investigated nor found it, nor did they write it down in the file. Just wait for us to come. If they had sent out manpower to find the missing people, they might have known what happened in Bishan Temple."

Zhang Yuelu took a deep breath: "It's too late to talk about this now. Our top priority is to find the missing person. Maybe the clues are in him."

Lingquanzi said: "Please give me instructions, deputy hall master."

Zhang Yuelu said: "Prepare the mother-in-law talisman, I will go with Deacon Qi, and Director Lingquan will go with Deacon Xu.

Split up the search, no matter what the result is, just check Baili, and then return to Bishan Temple. The rest of them clung to Bishan Temple and followed the orders of Deacon Zhou and Deacon Mu. "

Everyone responded in unison: "Yes."