Naturally, he knew clearly that the huge formation in Ji Wan City really existed.
Immortal cultivators also really exist.
"Are all the people in Gancheng dead? No one survived?" Ji Wan was helped up by Xiling Mingyue, and placed his feet on the footstool beside the bed. His right leg was the same as before, but now he had some feeling.
"Yes, Your Highness! All the people in the city were beaten into a pulp! Your Highness!
Moreover, that immortal cultivator went to Tao Town, Chuzhou and issued a declaration of war, demanding that if we don’t collect 130,000 taels of silver within three days, he will kill all the people in Chuzhou!
Your Highness, please read this, this is a declaration of war."
After saying that, Zhu Pin quickly took out a crumpled piece of paper from his chest.
Zhu Pin, kneeling on the ground, burst into tears, his fingers tightly gripping the floor, fearing that Ji Wan would not help him.
"Oh, if a cultivator is short of money, should he go to your Chuzhou to ask for it? Wouldn't it be better to go directly to Wangdu?
What does your Chuzhou have extra? If he wants it, wouldn't it be better to kill everyone in Chuzhou and then plunder the silver?
Besides, would a cultivator be short of money? "
His mind was spinning rapidly, and after hearing Zhu Pin's words, Ji Wan asked loudly.
Holding his dizzy head, Ji Wan stood up angrily and kicked Zhu Pin hard.
Why doesn't this person use his head to think about it! It's obvious that some mortal is interfering!
Immortal cultivators do not need worldly money to practice, so the possibility that this person took the money was ruled out for the purpose of practicing.
But according to Zhu Pin's meaning, the amount of silver he wanted was clearly written on the letter of challenge.
Assuming this cultivator really wanted silver, why didn't he just come to the more affluent Fanzhou City next door, or the capital city that had accumulated wealth over the years?
If the immortal cultivators have the ability to beat the people in the city into a pulp, why don't they just take action and seize the silver in Chuzhou?
Do we need to give Chuzhou three more days?
Then again, since the immortal cultivators have already beaten the people into a pulp, they have the power to keep them under their control and wait for them to raise 130,000 taels of silver.
Then, the purpose of the immortal cultivator's declaration of war must be questioned.
Unless... unless the cultivator himself doesn't want silver, but wants to lure someone into Chuzhou's territory on their own initiative, so that he can catch them all in one fell swoop... ?
But since they already have such powerful abilities, what else can stop the cultivators?
Wouldn't it be enough to just fly over and kill the person?
Haha, that’s obviously wrong!
Ji Wan used a lot of force, and Zhu Pin only came to his senses after being kicked, wondering what she had just said.
"Yes! Yes! Your Highness, immortal cultivators will never be short of money. So... what on earth is this declaration of war?"
What else could it be?
Ji Wan had the same idea as Zhu Pin before, linking the killing of civilians by immortal cultivators with the incident of issuing a declaration of war.
I subconsciously thought that the immortal cultivator had killed all the civilians in Gancheng and then ran to Taozhen in Chuzhou to issue a declaration of war to Zhu Pin.
But this doesn't make sense. Since the immortal cultivator has gone to so much trouble to kill everyone in a city, does he have to wait for Chuzhou to collect the silver?
The right thing to do is to snatch it directly.
So, the declaration of war incident and the massacre incident became two different things.
This is enough to prove that there is definitely a second person among them besides the immortal cultivator.
Even the massacre might not have been the work of an immortal cultivator...
"When did you receive the declaration of war?" After kicking the man, Ji Wan's mind calmed down.
"Your Highness, I received the declaration of war on the table in my house the night before yesterday.
"I saw the contents of the declaration of war and learned that Gancheng had been massacred. After I personally saw it, I dared to ride my horse to ask for help from your Highness!"
Feeling sad and wiping away his tears, Zhu Pin didn't dare to stand up for the time being. He could only kneel on the ground and reply to Ji Wan's words.
"Are you sure you checked on the scene and saw that the people were beaten into pulp in an instant?"
With a serious tone, Ji Wan supported his dizzy head and sat back on the bed.
"Your Highness, I have indeed conducted an on-site investigation and called in a coroner. The people of the entire city were indeed beaten into a pulp by a single blow."
Zhu Pin carefully recalled in his mind what he had done in a panic that day.
Only then did Ji Wan answer.
Lin Chanhua couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, to be able to kill an entire city in an instant, one's cultivation level must be at least at the Nascent Soul stage. But as everyone knows, outside the [realm], everyone's cultivation level is suppressed to the Golden Core stage."
Therefore, unless two Jindan-stage cultivators attack at the same time…” they can instantly massacre the city.
Ji Wanming blinked to indicate to Lin Chanhua that he already knew what she meant.
"Xiaonan, Chanhua, the two of you go to Chuzhou and focus on the declaration of war. Find out who sent it. Focus on investigating the people in Zhu Pin's mansion.
Investigate the whole story.”
The reason why the two were sent together was because Yan Peinan was careful and his fighting power was higher than that of ordinary people, and Lin Chanhua had the highest fighting power among the cultivators under Ji Wan's command.
He was not afraid of the two immortal cultivators who were at least at the Jindan stage.
Moreover, the two of them happen to be free now, so it's just right for them to go to Chuzhou to investigate the matter.
Ji Wan really suspected that the declaration of war and the massacre were not done by the same person, but there must be a close connection between them.
Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why the declaration of war was just seen here and the whole city was massacred there.
"Yes!" Lin Chanhua was not too worried about not being able to investigate the matter clearly. In the world of immortal cultivation, there is a kind of magic that can find people by their breath. Once the person is found, all you have to do is drag him out and question him.
On the other side, Zhu Pin was caught by Yan Peinan and Lin Chanhua and taken out of the house.
Cao Ke dared to speak: "Your Highness, I think... the massacre of the city may just be a sudden impulse of the immortal cultivators who then killed everyone.
As for that… declaration of war, it’s probably just someone’s greed for money, using the name of an immortal cultivator to blackmail someone.”
Unable to nod, Ji Wan could only use gestures to indicate that what Cao Ke said was a probability of happening: "It is indeed possible.
However, there is still a question: what is the purpose of the immortal cultivators in slaughtering the city? They can't just kill people without any purpose, right? "
Pan Zhuo also joined the conversation at this time: "Your Highness, even if there is no purpose, at least the person who issued the challenge knew that the immortal cultivators massacred the city."
"Indeed, we'll know the answer once we find the person and bring him over to question him." Gong Xu was finally let go by Zuo Yue, and he found a chance to interrupt.
Zuo Yue shook her head helplessly.
Ji Wan pinched his brows. He had been feeling dizzy since he woke up. "By the way, have you caught the cultivator who tried to assassinate me?"
"In reply to Your Highness, they were captured. Their alchemy houses have been completely destroyed and they have been locked up in a prison in Tongcheng," Gu Huafeng replied.
"Bring the people up here. I want to ask if this matter has anything to do with them." After being helped by the eunuch Deji to put on his coat, Ji Wan turned around and instructed Gu Huafeng.
“Here!”
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