Human nature has seven sins: greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire.
Sin breeds fear, fear breeds rage, and rage is the best nourishment for a tyrannical king.
But the malevolence generated by ordinary people is too little and too slow for the King of Violence.
Therefore, that evil cultivation technique was used to catalyze their violent tendencies, incite the evil in their hearts, and completely immerse their souls in darkness.
For the King of Wrath, the soul obtained in this way was like a perfect tonic.
Greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire.
Peng Hao resorted to any means to acquire wealth, driven by greed.
Miao Yu killed Zhao Jin out of jealousy, which can be attributed to anger.
Jian Yunxing was obsessed with the pinnacle of magic, and did not hesitate to fall into evil ways, thus gaining the title of "obsessed".
Yu Chunhua dotes on her grandson, doing all sorts of bad things for him, trying to win his favor.
Now all that's left are the three sins: hatred, evil, and lust.
All we know so far is that Jian Yunxing fell into the hands of the Li Clan.
The evil race is scattered all over the world, and the evil cultivators they have created are certainly not limited to these.
Outside of Kyoto, perhaps a large number of souls trapped in sin have already been harvested by the violent race.
Thinking of this, Lu Qing's heart began to pound.
She felt powerless, as if no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop the catastrophe from happening.
Lu Qing slowly got up and left the interrogation room.
Behind her, Peng Hao kept defending himself, but Lu Qing seemed not to hear anything and walked out dejectedly.
"Girl, what's wrong?" Li Hui asked.
Lu Qing shook her head slightly: "It's nothing, I just want to take a walk by myself."
Lu Qing left the Investigation Bureau alone and wandered aimlessly through the streets.
The surrounding noise seemed to disappear from her in an instant, and her world became eerily quiet.
With a loud bang!
A muffled clap of thunder sounded in the sky, followed by a torrential downpour.
Raindrops the size of soybeans pelted down, and pedestrians without umbrellas scrambled to find shelter.
Lu Qing, however, seemed oblivious, walking in the rain.
I don't know how long I walked. The cold rain washed over my body. It wasn't that cold, but my body was shivering.
Suddenly, a black umbrella appeared over Lu Qing's head.
Lu Qing turned her head and saw a young girl smiling at her:
"Miss, I'm almost home, here's an umbrella for you."
Lu Qing was stunned and didn't answer.
The girl simply grabbed her hand and shoved the umbrella into it.
"Take it!"
"You seem a little unhappy. I don't know why, but I think that no matter how difficult things are, they will eventually pass."
As long as you live well, things will get better every day.
After saying that, the girl left in the heavy rain.
Her smile was deeply imprinted in Lu Qing's mind.
At that moment, Lu Qing seemed to suddenly see the light.
Since entering the Xuanmen sect, she has taken it upon herself to subdue demons and uphold justice in the human world.
What she did was to protect ordinary people who are kind and good, like that girl.
Even if she couldn't stop it in the end, she should have done her best, shouldn't she?
Lu Qing looked in the direction the girl had left and smiled slightly.
Thank you!
Lu Qing was about to go home when she turned around and saw Gu Xicheng.
He walked slowly through the rain, pulled Lu Qing into his arms, asked nothing, and simply whispered:
"Let's go home."
Lu Qing's nose tingled, a tear rolled down her cheek, and she choked out a "okay."
After returning home, Gu Xicheng ran a hot bath for Lu Qing, and then went into the kitchen to brew a strong bowl of ginger tea.
Lu Qing didn't like the spiciness of ginger, so he added some brown sugar instead.
After taking a shower, Lu drank a bowl of water and his body finally warmed up.
Gu Xicheng quietly dried her hair with a towel.
After a long silence, Lu Qing spoke:
Why don't you ask me what happened?
Gu Xicheng: "If you want to talk about it, I'll ask; if you don't want to, I won't ask."
Lu Qing smiled and nodded: "I wanted to say..."
Gu Xicheng: "What just happened?"
Lu Qing's eyes darkened, and he said in a serious tone:
"I know what the King of Li is after all."
Lu Qing told Gu Xicheng about her idea.
Gu Xicheng frowned slightly:
"So, in places we can't see, the Wrathful King may have already collected many souls of evil cultivators."
Lu Qing: "That's right! These souls will become nourishment for the Wrathful King. The stronger he is, the more difficult he will be to deal with when he breaks through the seal."
Lu Qing reached out and hugged Gu Xicheng's waist, saying in a muffled voice:
"Gu Xicheng, I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that my death will be meaningless."
Gu Xicheng felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart.
"Qingqing, I won't let you die."
"If one day it is necessary to sacrifice you, then we will do it together."
Lu Qing smiled slightly: "You said that before."
Lu Qing took a deep breath, then exhaled heavily, looked up at Gu Xicheng, and smiled:
"No matter what, we have to do our best!"
"Okay!" Gu Xicheng said gently.
Everyone has a dark side, some people have it less, some have it more.
In other words, anyone could potentially obtain that heretical cultivation technique.
Moreover, this technique is cultivated internally within the soul, and it cannot be discerned without direct contact.
The only way to conduct the investigation is through rudimentary methods: door-to-door checks, and nationwide investigations.
This is a huge task, but it's also a task that has to be done.
If the evil cultivation methods are allowed to continue, I'm afraid even more people will be harmed.
After Lu Qing told Li Hui about the seriousness of the matter, Li Hui immediately contacted his superiors, devised a plan, and worked with ordinary police officers to conduct door-to-door investigations.
To ensure the safety of police officers and ordinary citizens, an investigator must be present during the investigation.
But here's the problem: the entire Bureau of Investigation has only a little over a thousand people in total.
Some of them were newcomers, and they couldn't possibly withstand stronger evil cultivators on their own.
They need more mystical power.
Lu Qing naturally took this into consideration, and that very night she summoned a large number of Xuanmen disciples in her purple-robed celestial master identity.
The next day, twenty or thirty Xuanmen disciples stood at the entrance of each regional branch of the investigation bureau.
Ministers in various regions were taken aback:
Who are you?
"We, the disciples of the Xuanmen, have come to assist you on the orders of the Purple-Robed Celestial Master Lu Qing!"
The ministers were notified shortly afterward.
"To have gathered so many Xuanmen disciples so quickly, this purple-robed Celestial Master is truly amazing!"
With the help of the Xuanmen disciples, safety was guaranteed to a certain extent, and investigations were carried out in various places.
The investigation was conducted in a grid-like manner, with each group consisting of a disciple of the Taoist sect and a regular police officer.
The Bureau of Investigation has rushed to produce a batch of instruments that can detect whether a soul possesses evil energy; these instruments can work as long as they are placed close to the human body.
In just one month, they managed to identify hundreds of people who had received heretical cultivation techniques.
Some of them had already gained momentum, and it took a lot of effort to catch them.
A small number of them even injured Xuanmen disciples and fled.
Upon learning this news, Li Hui was greatly alarmed.
Fortunately, Lu Qing noticed it; otherwise, if they had continued to develop in this way, it would have been a huge problem.
The investigations are ongoing in various places, and Lu Qing has also been busy.
Whenever she wasn't in class, she would go with the police to investigate suspicious individuals, and they made some arrests during this period.
After this large-scale investigation, Kyoto has become much more peaceful.
But after only a month of peace, another major incident occurred.
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