"What? Someone's dead? Where?"

"How did he die? How did he die? Was it a vendetta?"

"This is Yujing City. Who dares to kill someone in Yujing City? Don't you want to live?"

Taoyu also heard the cry. He immediately rushed out into the crowd ahead, shouting, "Someone's dead somewhere? Who's shouting?"

Taoyu shouted five or six times, and finally a commoner, a girl from the Holy Spirit Clan who was at the Golden Immortal level of Daluo, appeared in front of Taoyu.

The 'Holy Spirit Clan' is a group of acquired spirits within the Xiantian Wuji Realm. They are similar to the human race in the three realms of the mortal world, but the difference is that they are born with 'holy bodies' and possess the power of the Daluo Jinxian level, so they are also called the 'Holy Spirit Clan'.

The Holy Spirit Clan is the 'indigenous people' of the Xiantian Wuji Realm and is also the main component of the Dao Court. Sixty percent of the common people, state officials and nobles in the Dao Court are from the Holy Spirit Clan.

All members of the Holy Spirit Clan are born with the cultivation and physical body of a Daluo Golden Immortal, but this is the starting point and also the upper limit. The cultivation speed of the Holy Spirit Clan is extremely slow. Those who can achieve the Hunyuan Wuda Daluo Golden Immortal fruit within one million years are all the pride of the clan.

The common girl from the Holy Spirit Clan appeared before Tao Yu, pointed in a direction behind her and said, "There's a dead person over there. How scary."

Taoyu quickly asked, "Where is it?"

The girl said, "He was hanging there by the river...his face was as white as paper, his eyes were red, and his pupils were wide open...it scared me to death!"

Taoyu said, "Take me there."

The girl quickly shook her head and said, "I won't go. It's too scary."

Tao Yu took out the Ten Dusts Great Power and said, "Take me there, and these will be yours."

When the girl saw the Ten Dusts in Taoyu's hand, a trace of conflict suddenly appeared on her face. She was really scared, but she also wanted to earn the Ten Dusts.

Soon, the girl made a decision, "I'll only take you to that place, I won't go near it!"

"Okay." Taoyu said, and handed the Ten Dust Great Power in his hand to the girl. The girl accepted the power, then turned around and said, "Follow me."

Then the girl brought Taoyu and others to the river bank five or six miles away from Yuxian Tower. This river bank was called "Yangliu Bank" and was a river bank viewing point belonging to "Qilin Street". At this moment, Yangliu Bank was brightly lit, and only a few willow trees closest to the edge of the river bank were dim.

But now the willow bank was already crowded with people. The girl stood in front of the crowd and said, "It's on the willow tree on the river bank ahead."

Upon hearing this, Yu Yu immediately led his soldiers to push through the crowd and shouted, "The night patrol officer is investigating a case at the Captain's Mansion. Everyone, get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

When the crowd in front heard that people from the Night Patrol Captain's Mansion were coming, they squeezed out a path to both sides. After Taoyu and others squeezed in, they quickly rushed to the willow bank and found the willow tree with the corpse hanging on it.

It was exactly as the girl had described. A young man in gorgeous robes with disheveled hair was hanging on a tree branch, his body swaying left and right with the river breeze. His eyes were bloodshot and staring forward, his face as pale as paper.

Tao Yu simply scanned the area with his divine sense and said solemnly, "This is just a dead body. His spirit has disappeared."

This is the most optimistic statement. Generally speaking, in such a situation, the soul must have been destroyed by the person who killed him.

It was obvious that this was a homicide case, and there had not been a homicide case in Yujing City for more than a thousand years, except for the time when Gao Zaidao and his group caused trouble some time ago.

At this moment, a soldier suddenly found an object on the waist of the corpse. He took the object off and looked at it, his face suddenly changed, "Sir, look at this." The soldier handed the object to Taoyu.

Taoyu took the object and looked at it, then his expression changed drastically. This was a seal of a nobleman, which meant that the identity of the corpse was a nobleman.

"Take him down and check if there are any other tokens on him." Taoyu said immediately.

The soldiers then took the body down from the tree, and later they found another token on the body that could prove its identity.

"Yundan, the hostage of Jingshan Country..."

When Taoyu saw the true identity of the corpse from the token, he couldn't help but read it out in a trembling voice.

Yes, the trembling voice said, there has indeed been no murder in Yujing City for more than a thousand years.

But! In Taoyu's memory of millions of years, no foreign hostage had ever been murdered in Yujing City. All the hostages who died in Yujing City in the past were legitimately executed by the Ministry of Justice or other departments.

The hostages of various countries were murdered silently in Yujing City. This kind of thing has never happened before. Tao Yu of Jingshan Taoist Kingdom knew that it was a second-rate Taoist country.

Therefore, Taoyu could already foresee that the death of this Yundan hostage would definitely cause a big disturbance between Yujing City and Jingshan Dao Kingdom.

What role would the Night Patrol Captain's Mansion play in this turmoil? Taoyu didn't know, but he knew what he had to do. Taoyu then conducted a rigorous and detailed investigation of the scene. After completing the investigation, he immediately returned to the Night Patrol Captain's Mansion with Yundan's body and reported the matter to Fang Jian.

Soon after, the case was reported from the Night Patrol Captain's Office to the Garrison Office, which then reported it to the Hongluotai. The Honglutai immediately sent someone to verify Yundan's identity, and then sent an envoy to the Jingshan Dao Kingdom to report the matter.