Li Mu raised his head and looked at Old Wang. He couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body.
His biggest secret was exposed in front of everyone.
Even his most trusted Li Qing didn't know his secret. Besides Li Mu, the only person who knew that there was no soul of Li Mu's original body in his body was only one person.
The murderer of the original body.
Thousand Illusions Shangren.
But he was already dead. He was trapped in a large formation by the three experts of Dongxuan and refined. His body and Dao disappeared and his soul scattered.
Li Mu wanted to stand up, but found that his body was locked by an aura and he couldn't stand up.
Old Wang's originally cloudy eyes became clear. He looked at Li Mu with a puzzled expression and said, "I have observed you for several months. Your soul is just an ordinary mortal soul, but you have done something that even cultivators of the Upper Realm can't do. No one can take over a body without leaving a trace and not be detected by the Soul Examination Instrument. You are the first one I have ever seen."
Li Mu looked at Old Wang and asked calmly, "Who are you?"
Old Wang smiled and said, "Can't you guess who I am?"
Li Mu asked, "Thousand Illusions Shangren is not dead?"
"In everyone's eyes, he is indeed dead. In the future, there will be no more Thousand Illusions in this world." Old Wang said with a smile, "But, isn't this what I want?"
Li Mu looked at the familiar yet strange Old Wang in front of him and found that he had nothing to say.
Thousand Illusions Shangren had set up a trap and killed countless innocent people. He was strangled by the experts of the Righteous Path.
Li Mu thought that he had broken the other party's trap, but he didn't expect that he was still in it.
This was a trap within a trap.
In everyone's eyes, Thousand Illusions Shangren was dead. From now on, he could completely fade out of everyone's sight. No matter what he did, no one would suspect him. This was his true purpose.
He finally knew why the mastermind behind the scenes could accurately find these Yin-Yang Five Elements Bodies in such a short time.
No one had snuck into the county yamen. He had been there all along.
He was the person in charge of household registration. He could openly use the opportunity of sorting out household registration to check the birth characters of all the people in Yangqiu County.
He was there when Zhao Yong and Ren Yuan were executed, so it wasn't difficult for him to collect their souls.
He was the fortune-teller of the Chen Family Village and the Feng Shui master of the Zhang Family Village. He was Ren Yuan's master and the black-robed man that Li Mu had met.
Old Wang was already dead. From the very beginning, Li Mu had known the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions.
In the past few months, he had been by Li Mu's side, gambling with Li Mu, joking with Li Mu. Li Mu considered him one of his few friends and a teacher in cultivation …
Before meeting Master Thousand Illusions, Li Mu often felt fear in his heart.
At this moment, looking at Old Wang opposite him, he felt unusually calm.
Panic and fear couldn't solve any problems. He had to remain calm to have a clear mind to think of countermeasures.
He looked at Old Wang and asked, "How long have you been in the county yamen?"
Old Wang said, "Not long. Only half a year."
Li Mu asked, "You killed so many innocent people. Can you be so at ease?"
"No one is innocent." Old Wang looked at Li Mu and said, "I've taught you that the law of the world is the law of the jungle. The weak have no right to choose …"
Li Mu sighed softly and asked, "You've already achieved your goal. Why did you come back to me?"
"First, I was curious."
Old Wang looked at him with a strange expression and said, "I still haven't figured out how you did all this. Not only can you borrow a body to be reborn without leaving a trace, but also make it impossible for people to calculate your fate. If I didn't know that you were dead, even I wouldn't have suspected that you were the real Li Mu …"
"And second?"
"I want your body."
Lao Wang looked at Li Mu and did not hide the desire in his eyes. He slowly said, "A young body with a pure Yang body is of course much better than these old bones that are about to die. I wanted to teach you how to condense your soul as soon as possible, but it's a pity that you are unwilling. I can only think of other ways after occupying your body …"
Li Mu looked at him and asked, "Do you want to possess me?"
Old Wang said, "You can think of it that way."
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If I use the method you taught me to condense my soul, won't I be the same as you?"
Old Wang smiled and said, "Don't forget, I'm not Old Wang, and you're not Li Mu. You and I are the same."
"We're not the same."
Li Mu shook his head and said, "I won't be like you, who won't even let go of a baby of a few months."
"I didn't kill her." Old Wang said calmly, "I'm just telling the truth. A pure Yin body is a jinx. It's easy to provoke demons and ghosts. It's bad for parents and relatives. I didn't kill her. The ones who killed her were her family …"
"And then there's Zhao Yong. In order to curry favor with the Imperial Court, he killed his fiancee. It was the Imperial Court that executed him. I just happened to run into him and took his soul. What does his death have to do with me?
"I taught Ren Yuan how to cultivate. I didn't teach him how to kill people and take their souls. He couldn't resist the temptation. He deserved to die."
"And that Landlord Zhang. He used his power and influence to oppress the common people and steal women. What's wrong with his death?"
"Wu Bo was cruel and merciless. He did all kinds of evil things. He framed his colleagues and tried to harm you several times. He wanted to kill you. Didn't he deserve to die?"
…
Old Wang looked at Li Mu and said with a smile, "I said that this world is not like what you think. Good people often have short lives, while evil people live long. This is a man-eat-man world. If you don't want to be eaten, you have to eat others …"
"What about the Zhang-wang Clan? What about the thousands of innocent people who died in the hands of zombies in Zhou County?" Li Mu smiled coldly and said, "You have evil in your heart. What you see is evil. All of this is just an excuse for your evil deeds …"
Old Wang waved his hand and said, "That's not important …"
He sat in the chair and looked at Li Mu with gentle eyes. He said, "Actually, you're quite interesting. Unfortunately, you're too naive to walk the path of cultivation. Why don't you become one of my Thousand Illusions …"
As his voice fell, the body sitting in the chair slowly closed his eyes and tilted his head to one side.
Then, a shadow floated out of his body.
A moment later, Li Mu walked out of the duty room and left the yamen.
Li Qing stood at the door of the duty room, frowning. When she chased him to the yamen, Li Mu had already disappeared from her sight.
Another hour later, Zhang Shan stepped into the yamen, sweating profusely. As he walked, he muttered, "It's just that I didn't wear my hat properly. Why did the boss have to make such a fuss? I'm so tired …"
He carried a paper bag in his hand and walked into Old Wang's duty room. He said, "Old Wang, you asked me to bring you some steamed buns this morning. I brought them back. They're 12 copper coins in total …"
Seeing Old Wang leaning on the chair and seemingly asleep, Zhang Shan walked over and pushed his shoulder. He said, "You're old, but you still like to sleep so much. Don't sleep anymore. Get up and eat …"
Lao Wang's body tilted, and he fell softly to the ground.
Zhang Shan was stunned for a moment. He seemed to have thought of something and reached out to touch Old Wang's nose. The next moment, his face became extremely pale. He shouted, "Someone, someone come quickly!"
As he shouted, the yamen was immediately filled with chaotic footsteps.
A moment later, Constable Zhou removed his hand from Old Wang's wrist. He sighed and shook his head. He said, "Old Wang has passed away …"
Zhang Shan's face was filled with grief. He murmured, "Everything was fine. How could he …"
Constable Zhou said, "Old Wang is old and in poor health. He should have gone home long ago. He has been in the yamen all his life. It's already a good result for him to pass away in his sleep without suffering. My condolences …"
Li Si stood behind the crowd. He looked around and asked, "Where's Li Mu?"
"He should have gone to patrol." A constable sighed and shook his head. He said, "Li Mu is usually the closest to Old Wang. I'd better go find him …"
Outside the county.
In a hidden forest.
Several huge stones formed a formation. A figure sat cross-legged in the middle of the formation.
It was a young man in a constable uniform. He looked down at his hands and said with a smile, "After two hours, I will be you and you will be me …"
"You are only a part of his soul. You don't have the strength of Dongxuan," the young man said and then spoke again. He looked a little strange.
Outside his body, two overlapping shadows appeared.
"It's enough to refine your soul." The other shadow regained control and said, "With your body, I can quickly recover to Dongxuan. Within ten years, I have hope to see the secret of transcendence …"
"During this time, I really treated you as a friend. I trusted you so much …"
"I didn't lie to you about all the questions you asked me."
"You deceived my feelings."
"I also helped you a lot."
…
Li Mu and the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions shared the same body. After talking to himself for a while, he felt like a fool.
Unlike Su He who possessed Li Mu, the current Li Mu had two souls in one body. Although the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions' soul was stronger, Li Mu was the master and he was the guest. Before completely refining Li Mu's soul, unless Li Mu released control, he could not completely control Li Mu's body.
The Venerable Master Thousand Illusions regained control of the body and said, "Actually, I'm more curious about your secrets. How did you take over a body? What are those two Daoist techniques? Since you don't want to tell me, I can only find them myself after fusing with your soul …"
At this moment, Li Mu suddenly sighed and said, "I said, we are not the same. Why do you have to do this?"
The Venerable Master Thousand Illusions was pondering the meaning of these words when the body he shared with Li Mu suddenly raised its hand and made a gesture.
It was a Daoist hand seal, the Big Dipper Seal.
In an instant, Li Mu regained control of the body and quickly chanted.
"Dao, can be Dao, is not Dao."
An incomparably vast power of heaven and earth surged towards the array formation. The array formation was easily destroyed by the power of heaven and earth.
The Venerable Master Thousand Illusions felt an intense sense of danger and was greatly alarmed. He wanted to leave Li Mu's body, but he was entangled by Li Mu's soul force for an instant.
In this insignificant moment, the power of heaven and earth had already arrived.
Puff!
Blood spurted out of Li Mu's mouth as he was sent flying.
The soul fragment that belonged to the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions in his body was instantly erased by the power of heaven and earth.
"I can't accept this!"
Before the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions' soul fragment dissipated, he only had time to let out an extremely unwilling roar …
At the last moment before Li Mu lost consciousness, he sensed the disappearance of the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions' aura and smiled.
The first time he was possessed by Su He, he had tried to use Su He's Dharmic powers to activate the Dao De Sutra.
The result was that Su He's soul had almost dissipated. It also made Li Mu realize that with his strength, he was still unable to activate this mantra. If he forcefully used it, he would suffer an intense backlash.
The stronger the soul body in his body, the greater the backlash.
Li Mu's soul body was weak and the backlash was not great. The Primordial Spirit of the Venerable Master Thousand Illusions was much stronger than his and completely collapsed under this power.
Li Mu's body was sent flying dozens of feet and he fainted.
Before he lost consciousness, he vaguely saw a white figure flash before his eyes …
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