Chapter 344: Ladder to Heaven
"Bang, a bunch of good-for-nothings, still no news?" There was a sound of broken porcelain in the study, followed by a loud roar. Xiu Tong, who was passing by the door, was startled and walked away quickly with his head down.
This was not the first time. These days, Bai Chengbi would lose his temper from time to time and smash things at any time. This was the fifth teacup he had broken today. Previously, there were teacups and antiques that Bai Chengbi had loved before, but now they were all turned into a pile of fragments.
In the study, Bai Chengbi looked very ugly, with eyes wide open, staring at the half-kneeling man in front of him. The man's name was Lou Lie, and he was the leader of the investigation team formed this time to investigate a series of deaths in Bei'e Mountain. The investigation team poured in a lot of financial and material resources, and it can be said that they gave money and people, and became the most popular organization in Bei'e Mountain. However, only Lou Lie, the team leader, knew that the investigation team was actually a hot potato. It was in his hand, but he couldn't throw it away. It was hot to hold! These days, the investigation team has been investigating with all their strength, but apart from finding that the beast was wearing white clothes, there were no other clues, which made the upper echelons of Bei'e Mountain very dissatisfied. Today, when he came to Bai Chengbi to report on his work, he was angrily rebuked by Bai Chengbi.
"Great Elder, it's not that I didn't try hard, but I really don't have any clues at all," Lou Lie said with his head down.
"Humph, there are no clues. Didn't the murderers leave any clues?" Bai Chengbi shouted, "This is Bei'e Mountain, not a toilet on the street that you can enter as you please. There are only two possibilities for committing a crime in Bei'e Mountain. One is that it was done by someone inside Bei'e Mountain; the other is that the murderer sneaked in to kill people!"
Lou Lie smiled bitterly. What Bai Chengbi said was all nonsense, but he didn't dare to refute it.
"What's going on over there with Bai Chaolie?" Bai Chengbi narrowed his eyes and suddenly said.
Lou Lie said: "I have investigated and there is no doubt that they did not do it. Even if they did, they have no motive. You know, half of the people killed were their people. They would not kill their own people to cover up the truth, right?"
Bai Chengbi's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said in a cold voice: "It's hard to say. In the face of huge interests, everything can be used. I don't believe that he will not make any moves, unless he doesn't want to grab the position of the head for his grandson."
"This..." Lou Lie didn't dare to say more. This was no longer a matter for him to interrupt.
“Check! Check it carefully. You must find out something, otherwise…” Although he didn’t finish his words, Lou Lie felt a chill passing through his neck.
"Grand Elder, do you think this was done by the Mo family?" Lou Lie asked. He knew that investigating Bai Chaolie would not yield any results, but Bai Chengbi had issued a death order, so Lou Lie had no choice but to divert Bai Chengbi's attention and turn his attention to the Mo family. Bai Wanzhong died in the Mo family, so there was a basis for this matter to be linked to the Mo family. He didn't care whether it was the Mo family or not, he only cared whether he could survive.
"Mo clan?" Bai Chengbi frowned. "Does his Mo clan have the ability to sneak into Bei'e and kill people silently and then retreat silently? If they could, his Mo clan would have unified the three regions of Bianyun long ago!"
"That's also true..." Lou Lie smiled bitterly. It seemed that his plan had failed.
"Okay, step back now. Remember what I just said and check it carefully!"
"As you command!" Lou Lie left the study and carefully closed the door.
After Lou Lie left, Bai Chengbi sat on a chair. The events of the past few days had made him extremely anxious and he had not rested well. After all, this was not an ordinary death, and it was impossible for him not to worry. Bai Chengbi did not dare to sleep at night, fearing that he would be beheaded when he woke up, so he could only take a short nap now.
Just as he fell into a light sleep, a silver thread, flashing with cold light, suddenly appeared in front of his neck.
Just as the silver line was shrinking, Bai Chengbi suddenly opened his eyes and shouted, "Who!"
He suddenly jumped up, and reached back with his right hand like a claw, but he didn't catch anything.
But Bai Chengbi knew that there was someone behind him!
Bai Bicheng only felt a gust of wind blowing past, and the pen holder on the table suddenly fell over. "Want to leave?" A cold light flashed between Bai Chengbi's palms, and a short thorn appeared instantly.
brush!
A muffled groan and a few drops of blood.
But the person is no longer there.
"You're running fast enough!" Bai Chengbi frowned. "You're able to get behind me silently, so you must be very powerful!"
Moreover, just now he used his spiritual power to sense the entire study, but he didn't feel anything, as if it was just a dream. But the blood mark on his forehead told him that this was not a dream.
Bai Chengbi broke out in a cold sweat. If there were more murderers whom he could not sense, he could not guarantee that he would be able to remain intact like he was now.
Looking at the blood on the thorn, Bai Chengbi sneered: "You can escape detection, but I wonder if your blood can escape tracking!"
Outside the window, a white shadow passed by and cursed in a low voice: "Damn, I was so careless."
Time gap.
Within just one week after Ye Yier left, Shi Yan suffered another major blow. He could no longer sense his spiritual power, and the spiritual power he already had in his body could not be used!
Shi Yan found it hard to accept this fact, so he looked for other people to see if they had similar situations.
But, it turned out that he was the only one.
It had only been a little over a year since he resumed his cultivation. It was only after more than a year of hard training and many opportunities that he reached his current level. But in the end, all his efforts were gone in one day!
Shi Yan looked at the sky bitterly. He didn't want to complain about anything anymore. He had complained too many times before. Now Shi Yan just wanted to stay quiet for a while.
The scenery of the time fault is ugly and desolate, but the sky here is so blue and beautiful.
It was very strange. When he knew that his spiritual power was not working, he should have felt very disappointed. However, after experiencing a brief loss, Shi Yan quickly put the loss behind him and felt calm. Shi Yan even doubted, "Am I used to it?"
Shi Yan smiled bitterly, sat up, and stared blankly ahead.
Suddenly, a shadow came into her sight.
It seemed to be a staircase leading to the sky.
"What is that?" Shi Yan rubbed his eyes and stared carefully, and found that the stairs were very high, passing through the clouds and extending to the sky.
Go check it out!
Shi Yan called everyone who was resting and rushed to the location of the ladder.
During training, it is common to have to rush on the journey, so no one paid much attention to it.
Shi Yan led the team towards the direction of the ladder. On the way, Mo Zixie squinted his eyes and looked at the ladder. After a long time, he sighed: "Now I know how narrow my vision was before. I was respected as a master in the Mohist School, and I was proud and complacent, but I didn't know that I was just a frog in the well."
"So you don't know what that is?"
Mo Zixie smiled bitterly, "Don't even mention knowing it. I've never even heard of it."
Mo Chou also shook his head, "I haven't heard of it either."
It was really surprising to find such a building in this desolate time gap. So the three of them agreed to speed up their progress.
However, half a day passed, and the ladder was still on the other side of the world, not getting any closer. It was like a mirage, within sight but out of reach.
The three of them looked at each other, without further communication, and continued on their way.
Three hours later, the sky began to darken and night fell, but there was still no sign of the ladder approaching.
In the time fault, the night is very dangerous. Many dangerous creatures travel at night, so Shi Yan had to order to set up camp here.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, the team continued to move forward. Shi Yan even temporarily canceled the daily training and headed straight for the ladder.
In this way, they walked for three days in a row, but there was still no sign of the ladder getting closer.
On this day, Long Er came to find Shi Yan.
"Shi Yan, at the rate we're moving forward, we'll probably be able to get out of the time fault tomorrow," Long Er said.
Shi Yan was stunned, "It's too fast!" In fact, it has only been less than two weeks, and even a little less time in the first week was spent on training.
Long Er smiled and said, "This is all thanks to Xiao Ji. When he moved through space, he moved to the boundary of the three realms with a time gap, so there was an illusion that it was so fast."
"So, we can enter the Three Realms at the latest the day after tomorrow morning?" Shi Yan had to consider the issue of survival after entering the Three Realms. If he entered the Three Realms now, it would be difficult to survive.
"How could that be possible? There is a buffer zone between the time fault and the three realms. In fact, there is also a buffer zone between the time fault and the Xuanlong Realm, but it is locked by the Dragon God." Long Er said, "In fact, if we are strict about it, we are actually in this buffer zone. There are ten layers of buffer zones, and the land we are standing on is already the tenth layer of ear land. Look, what appeared on the horizon is the biggest proof."
"That?" Shi Yan looked in the direction of Long Er's finger, and it was the ladder that he could not get close to no matter how fast he went. Shi Yan asked hurriedly, "Do you know that?"
Long Er smiled and said, "I only know a little. It is said that there is a ladder leading to the sky between the Three Realms and the Xuanlong Realm. The Great Dao creatures came from this ladder. When the Divine Dragon created the world, it was under the ladder, so it happened to be sealed between the two realms. And this ten-layer buffer zone can actually be said to be the connection between the Great Dao creatures and the ladder."
"Tomorrow, when we really enter the tenth floor, we will be able to get closer to the ladder." Long Er blinked at Shi Yan and said with a smile: "How about it, are you interested in walking up the stairs? If you are strong enough, after walking up the stairs, you may really be able to see the legendary sky!"
After hearing this, Shi Yan's eyes narrowed and he said with a smile, "Of course I have to go and see. I want to ask why I was tortured so much that day!"