"State Preceptor, let's go back first. I'll inform you when there are new developments. Please …"
Before Xu Qi'an could finish his sentence, he saw the State Preceptor turn into a golden light and escape. His expression froze and he could no longer say, "Please send us back".
At least send us back, I didn't bring my filly!
He cursed in his heart and looked at Hengy Yuan … Hmm, luckily I didn't bring my filly.
The two of them jumped over the high walls of the Count's Residence. There was no one around, so they quickly left and entered the main street.
At the end of the street, under the arch of Yong 'an Street, the sundial showed that it was a quarter to four in the morning.
At the entrance of every main street in the capital, there was a huge arch. Beside the arch was a sundial for the people to see the time.
"I'll be home in about half an hour. I hope Huaiqing won't wait too long." Xu Qi'an muttered in his heart.
In the capital, whether it was day or night, leaping onto roofs and vaulting over walls was not allowed.
Xu Qi'an did not want to attract too much attention. With his current reputation, it was better to keep a low profile. Otherwise, he would attract the fanatical pursuit of passersby and cause chaos.
Fortunately, he did not wear the Yin Gong uniform, so the people would not notice him. Most of the time, people could only remember some obvious features. For example, the cultural treasures in Xu Qi'an's hard drive from his previous life could not be recognized by him if they wore clothes.
Moreover, the capital had a population of more than two million. Not everyone could be so lucky to see Xu Yinluo's heroic appearance.
Many people had never seen Xu Yinluo in person.
As they walked, Xu Qi'an suddenly froze. He looked at Hengy Yuan and said, "Master, you've been trapped underground for more than a month. You should go back to the health hall to see the elderly and children."
Hengy Yuan nodded, "How are they doing?"
Xu Qi'an said frankly, "Although I haven't seen them, I've been sending people to deliver silver and household items."
Hengy Yuan put his palms together and bowed: "Your excellency Xu is the kindest person I have ever met. I am happy to be friends with your excellency Xu."
Xu Qi'an returned the greeting, he was also very happy, to be worshipped by a Great Master with Arhat Buddhahood, he would benefit greatly in the future.
The talented Chu Yuanzhen, the chivalrous Tenzō Shōnin, the talented and powerful Lina, the Arhat Buddhahood Hengy Yuan, and the intelligent Imperial Princess Huaiqing.
In ten years at most, the members of the Heaven & Earth Society might become the peak force in Nine Regions.
Hmm, Number Seven and Number Eight haven't appeared yet. I hope they won't disappoint.
The crowd was bustling, watching Hengy Yuan leave, Xu Qi'an breathed a sigh of relief, if Hengy Yuan followed him back to the Xu Mansion, Huaiqing's identity as Number One would be exposed.
With Huaiqing's personality, they would all die together.
…
Xu Mansion.
Huaiqing sat in the hall, waiting impatiently. As the mistress of the house, her aunt was forced by the Imperial Princess's powerful aura and identity to accompany her for a while, then went back to her room with the excuse that she was not feeling well.
Xu Lingyue was blocked by Li Miaozhen, although the Xu family's eldest daughter was more responsible than her mother, what they were about to discuss involved secrets, it was not good for her to listen in.
Li Miaozhen maintained a skeptical attitude towards Huaiqing's claim that there were major doubts in the case. She believed that her reasoning ability was only below Xu Qi'an, she was the second leading investigator of the Heaven & Earth Society.
Finally, they saw Xu Qi'an enter the courtyard, walk through the bluestone pavement, and step into the hall.
As the host, Xu Qi'an glanced at the two chairs, which were occupied by Huaiqing and Li Miaozhen respectively. He had no choice but to sit in the guest seat, then looked at the Imperial Princess.
"What did you find?"
Huaiqing had a few seconds to think, then said in a clear voice, "How can you be sure that the Earth Sect's Dao Leader is the Three Pure Ones?"
Was there a need to confirm it? Xu Qi'an was stunned, not knowing how to answer.
Huaiqing then looked at Li Miaozhen and asked, "Can the Dao Sect's Dharma Spells allow people to split their Primordial Spirits, but not necessarily into three people?"
Li Miaozhen did not need to think about this question, so she said,
"The Three Pure Ones is the most powerful Dharma Spell in the field of Primordial Spirits. It can allow a person to split into three people, each with independent consciousness. That is, a person can be alone, but the three can also be combined.
"If it's just the splitting of the Primordial Spirits, anyone who has cultivated the Yin Spirit can do it. But the split Primordial Spirits are incomplete, and can't be compared to the Three Pure Ones. "
Huaiqing was very satisfied with this answer. She turned to look at Xu Qi'an, and her bright eyes were shining.
"You said that the Jinlian Taoist priest is a remnant soul, which is consistent with the splitting of the Primordial Spirits. The Earth Sect's Dao Leader may have only separated the good and evil thoughts. The so-called Three Pure Ones is just your speculation, and you don't have any proof. "
Xu Qi'an frowned, but he kept his tone calm and analyzed,
"Maybe the three people that the Earth Sect's Dao Leader created have already been separated. Well, this is inevitable, or the Jinlian Taoist priest would have been found by the Black Lotus. "
Li Miaozhen said, "The Yi Qi Turning into Three Pure Ones can also be independent. Three unrelated people don't have to be separated."
Xu Qi'an was speechless. He remembered the Earth Sect's Dao Leader's explanation of the Three Pure Ones in the diary of the deceased Emperor.
That was the situation of one person and three people.
They could be three completely independent people.
Huaiqing continued, "One more thing. You said that Duke Huai got the Blood Elixir, and my father got the Soul Elixir. But the Soul Elixir was not enough for my father to take the risk. "
"Yes, that's why I started to investigate Yuan Jing." Xu Qi'an nodded.
"I asked Caiwei about the Soul Elixir. I found that repairing the remnant soul was its most powerful effect, and nothing else could compare to it. However, if the Earth Sect's Dao Leader really had the Three Pure Ones in One, his Primordial Spirit wouldn't be incomplete.
"Let me be clear. How could a Second Stage Daoist master not be able to control the Three Pure Ones in One?"
Xu Qi'an was taken aback. He quickly reviewed his reasoning and combined it with Huaiqing's words.
"I was wrong. After I suspected that the Earth Sect's Dao Leader's other body was hiding in the Dragon Vein, I connected the clues of the Soul Elixir and thought that the Earth Sect's Dao Leader refined the Soul Elixir to repair an incomplete soul … But I neglected the fact that he was a Second Stage Daoist. How could the Earth Sect's Dao Leader's Three Pure Ones be incomplete … But the Jinlian Taoist priest was indeed a remnant soul …"
Thoughts flashed through Xu Qi'an's mind. He swallowed and sighed.
"That is indeed unreasonable. But just like how I suspected the Earth Sect's Dao Leader, your suspicion is also just a suspicion. You don't have any concrete evidence."
Huaiqing nodded. She glanced at the legendary Silver Gong and said, "There's something else that doesn't make sense.
Hmm, I think it does … The human abduction started in the year 26 of Joan of Arc. That's what you found out. "
Xu Qi'an thought for a moment. "Even if the late Emperor was on the throne at that time, Yuan Jing, as the Crown Prince, had the ability to secretly open a secret chamber in the palace."
Huaiqing shook her head slowly. "What I want to say is that Count Pingyuan was still very young at that time. He was in the prime of his life. He secretly set up a human broker organization to do shady business for his father. There must be some kind of profit involved.
"But after my father ascended the throne, Count Pingyuan remained Count Pingyuan. He didn't advance in terms of his title or his official rank. It's not that Count Pingyuan had no ambition. In order to gain more power, he colluded with the Liang Faction to harm Princess Pingyang. That's the best evidence.
"Do you think that's reasonable? If you were Count Pingyuan, would you be willing to do that? You did shady business for the Crown Prince, but after the Crown Prince ascended the throne, you didn't make any progress for more than twenty years. "
The hall fell into a dead silence.
The atmosphere became heavy. Although Li Miaozhen didn't fully understand what she was saying, she could sense that the case seemed to have taken a turn. Huaiqing's words made sense, and Xu Qi'an didn't object.
Huaiqing broke the silence and asked, "What did you find in the underground Dragon Vein?"
Xu Qi'an told her how he rescued Hengy Yuan.
"So, there's a terrifying existence hiding in the Dragon Vein, but it's not the Earth Sect's Dao Leader?" Li Miaozhen glanced at Huaiqing, then at Xu Qi'an.
"Who could it be then?"
Huaiqing shook her head. "No, we can't be sure that it's the Earth Sect's Dao Leader. Even if the Soul Core wasn't given to the Earth Sect's Dao Leader, and even if Count Pingyuan is suspicious, we still can't be sure that the existence in the Dragon Vein isn't the Earth Sect's Dao Leader."
Xu Qi'an thought for a moment, then pinched his forehead. "It's easy to confirm. Hengy Yuan has seen that guy, and Miaozhen and I have seen Black Lotus. Draw a portrait and let Hengy Yuan identify it. "
Li Miaozhen and Huaiqing's eyes lit up.
Xu Qi'an and Li Miaozhen said at the same time, "I don't know how to paint."
In this regard, Huai Qing was unwilling to pass on the responsibility.
The three of them left the inner hall and entered the room. Xu Qi'an poured water, grinded the ink, spread out the paper, and put a white jade paperweight on it.
Huaiqing held a brush in the other hand, then looked up at Li Miaozhen and Xu Qi'an. "What does he look like?"
"He's a mermaid that's half human and half fish, not left or right, not up or down, but with a head and a penis …" Xu Qi'an described, "His face is thin, and his nose is high …"
With his description and Li Miaozhen's help, Huaiqing drew four or five portraits, and finally drew an old man who looked similar to the Earth Sect's Dao Leader.
"It's done."
Xu Qi'an grabbed the paper, shook his hand, and used his Qi to evaporate the ink. As he rolled up the portrait, he said in a low voice, "Draw another one. You should be familiar with that person."
Huaiqing was silent for a moment, then she spread out the paper and drew the second portrait.
Watching Xu Qi'an leave in a hurry, Li Miaozhen furrowed her brows and asked, "Who is the second person you drew?"
Huaiqing didn't answer, but her face was dark and solemn.
…
At the Sheng Sheng Hall in the eastern part of the city.
Hengy Yuan had visited every old man and child, including the poor child in dog skin. He returned to his room and started to pack.
Not much, just two monk robes and a few Buddhist scriptures.
A monk was all alone, so he didn't need more than a few things.
He couldn't stay here any longer. The Yuanjing Emperor would come back sooner or later, and he couldn't hide forever. He had to leave this place and cut off contact with the old and the children so that he could better protect them.
The old official stood at the door, trembling, and his face was full of sorrow.
"I won't leave Jing City for now. I plan to stay at the Xu Family for a while. It will be a safe shelter, and at the same time, it will strengthen the defense of the Xu Family. After the massacre in Chu Zhou City, his situation has become very bad … During this period, I will come back to visit him regularly. "
Hengy Yuan folded his monk robe and said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry about the money. Your excellency Xu is a kind man, and he will pay for the expenses of the health hall."
As a matter of fact, that was what he did.
The old official nodded and said sadly, "Master, you have to promise me that you don't need to come back. We don't want anything to happen to you. "
Hengy Yuan finished packing and walked past the old official and out of the room.
In the yard, eight white-haired old men were gathered together, either with the help of their children or with crutches.
The twelve children were all there, except for the child in the backyard who couldn't walk anymore …
The children raised their clean faces and looked at Hengy Yuan with their bright eyes.
"We are here to see you off."
One of the old men said, "Go, don't come back. You have helped us too much, and we can't drag you down with us anymore."
The children kept quiet with tears in their eyes.
Hengy Yuan put his palms together and bowed.
When he looked up again, he saw Xu Qi 'an rushing in from the door of the health hall.
"Your excellency Xu?"
Hengy Yuan walked up to him, surprised and surprised.
"Master Hengy Yuan, you have seen the man underground, right?"
Seeing Hengy Yuan nodded, Xu Qi 'an opened the portrait of Black Lotus and stared at the man. "Is it him?"
Hengy Yuan looked at the man for a moment and shook his head. "It's not him!"
It's not him … Right, Hengy Yuan has also seen Black Lotus. He also participated in the fight for the lotus seeds in Jian Province. If it was Black Lotus, he should have pointed it out when we were underground. I neglected this detail again … Hmm, it's also possible that the doppelganger's appearance is different from Taoist priest Black Lotus. After all, Jinlian and Black Lotus look different …
Xu Qi 'an shook his hand and burned the portrait of Black Lotus. He opened the second portrait drawn by Huaiqing and asked in a strange tone, "Is, is it him?"
Hengy Yuan's expression turned serious. He said in a deep voice, "Why do you have his portrait? It's him."
This … Xu Qi 'an's eyes widened. He felt his hair stand on end and a chill run down his spine.
The deceased emperor!
Huaiqing was drawing the deceased emperor!
The being in the underground dragon vein was the deceased emperor!!
At that moment, Xu Qi 'an's feelings were both absurd and reasonable. He was shocked and not shocked at the same time.
After Huaiqing pointed out the two suspicious points, he became suspicious of the deceased emperor. That was why he asked Huaiqing to draw the second portrait. And Huaiqing really drew the portrait of the deceased emperor, which meant that Huaiqing also suspected the deceased emperor.
"So the Earth Sect's Dao Head didn't corrupt Duke Huai or Yuan Jing, but the deceased emperor … Yes, the deceased emperor mentioned the Three Pure Ones and longevity many times. He was the one who was obsessed with longevity."
Xu Qi 'an slowly walked to the stone table and sat down. One detail after another went through his mind.
"The Three Pure Ones. Three people are one person. Three people are three people. One person is three people. One person can be three people. The deceased emperor could be the deceased emperor, Duke Huai, or even Yuan Jing.
"So the three of them, father and son, were actually the same person. That was why the paranoid Yuan Jing trusted Duke Huai wholeheartedly, bestowed him the Nation Suppressing Sword, bestowed him with the number one beauty of the empire, and displayed a trust that did not match the heart of an emperor.
"I remember now, Princess Consort once said that when Yuan Jing first saw her, he revealed an extreme infatuation for her beauty (for details, please refer to Chapter 164 of this volume) … No wonder he was willing to give Princess Consort to Duke Huai. What if Duke Huai was also himself?
"If that's the case, even if Duke Huai and Yuan Jing didn't die in the incident at the Southern Courtyard, something must have happened to them. They were either controlled or corrupted by the Earth Sect's Dao Head. After that, they were assimilated by the deceased emperor and became one person. This is the secret of one person, three people. Is this the secret that the Earth Sect's Dao Head told the deceased emperor? After that discussion, they might have already started to plan.
"The person lying under the dragon vein is the original body of the deceased emperor … The Supervisor knows everything, but he doesn't care because the person causing trouble is not the Earth Sect's Dao Head, but the emperor of Daibun. No, the Supervisor might have his own plan, but I can't guess it.
"Uncle Pingyuan has been kidnapping people all this time, but he doesn't dare to take credit for it because he is working for the deceased emperor. He thinks he is working for the deceased emperor, not Yuan Jing.
"Why does the deceased emperor need those people? The massacre in Chu Zhou City gave me the answer — the Blood Elixir and the Soul Elixir!
"The deceased emperor was not an orthodox Daoist, so he couldn't control the Three Pure Ones perfectly. Because of this, he left behind a hidden danger, such as an incomplete primordial spirit, so he needed the Soul Elixir to repair it …"
Xu Qi 'an's scalp went numb.
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