Demon Realm Slaughter Trial 7
Xie Guijin led his men to the Sixth Princess's fiefdom. Yesterday, they were building a training ground for the princes and princesses' fiefdoms, and Xie Guijin naturally wouldn't leave out the Sixth Princess.
The trial grounds have been sealed off. To Xie Guijin's surprise, none of the demon officials who operated the trial grounds, along with the corpses of the dead demons, were taken away by the Demon Law Hall.
She then thought that since the matter occurred in the fiefdoms of the princes and princesses who were candidates for Demon Lord, all the princes and princesses probably wanted to find out the truth themselves and did not want to entrust it to others, so the Demon Law Hall did not ask for trouble.
However, since it was their duty to investigate the case, they could only take the demon craftsmen who built the trial grounds away for investigation first.
Xie Guijin understood that the Demon Envoy might not have really been afraid to stop her, but he simply did not want to clash with all the most powerful princes and princesses who were most likely to ascend to the position of Demon Lord.
However, if the prince and princess, including her, fail to find the results within a day, the Demon Law Palace will directly intervene and begin its own investigation.
After all, the Demon Law Hall is in charge of the law of the Demon Realm. It can give princes and princesses face, but it cannot allow the Demon Realm royal family to trample on them and damage its foundation.
Xie Guijin pointed to the trial grounds and said to the magic workers, "Go and see if there's anything wrong."
The magicians obeyed and left.
Xie Guijin then went to ask the demon official in charge of the trial grounds.
The demon official said, "Before they left after their fight, I had the demon doctor examine them and treat them before letting them go, as ordered by the princess. It is absolutely impossible that they died from the fight."
The demonic doctor chimed in.
Xie Guijin frowned and went to see the body without stopping.
She had just arrived when she saw Xue Linchuan examining the body.
By the time Xue Linchuan arrived, he had already finished examining the two corpses.
The system questioned, "Isn't he the Prefect of the Capital? How can he act as a coroner? And this person who died wasn't even human."
Xie Guijin had no time to answer. She ordered the demonic physician she had brought to examine the corpse thoroughly, and then asked the demonic official in charge of the fiefdom who had been waiting to the side, "Tell me everything you know?"
"There are two dead. One is the young master of the Blood Pool Supervisor's family, named Wuchao, who is known for his fighting spirit. I heard that he has not been able to break through in recent years and has tried many methods without success. As soon as the news of the trial grounds spread this morning, he came here." The demon official first revealed the identity of the dead.
"The other one just arrived in the city yesterday, recruited as a city-guarding demon general. He is quite strong and has already been hired." The demon official continued, "Wu Shao hosted a banquet at home at noon, but left midway and did not return for a long time. He was found dead in the washroom. The other one was a corpse found not far outside the city. As an ordinary demon, he is not allowed to teleport in the city according to regulations. It is likely that he went outside the city to cast a spell to teleport back to his hometown to pack his things."
"I've also sent demons to inquire about the other fiefdoms," the demon official recounted, presenting the information he had gathered.
After listening, Xie Guijin frowned and said, "So, apart from the fact that they all came to the trial grounds and died in the same way, the nearly forty dead people have nothing in common."
“The princess is quite right,” the demon official said, his face also contorted with a frown.
Xie Guijin then asked the demonic physician who had finished examining the corpse, "And you? Did you find anything?"
"None of the deceased had external injuries. They all died from having their demonic energy drained. There were no signs of fighting or struggle on the bodies, nor any indication that they had been drugged before death. It was as if they suddenly lost all their demonic energy. There are many evil arts in the Six Realms that can absorb demonic energy, but none of the deaths should have been like this," the demonic doctor reported truthfully.
Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin dispatched the demonic physician and relevant demonic officials to revisit the location where the body was found.
The Demonic Physician accepted the order and left, with Xue Linchuan following behind.
Xie Guijin did not stop her when she saw this. She bit her lower lip and entered the training ground.
The field was paved with a moving magic array, and the outer walls were made of obsidian with dark red magic patterns embedded on them. The stone pillars on all sides were burning with ghostly flames.
Xie Guijin walked through it herself. Although she couldn't see anything else, she could tell that the magic array and magic runes had not been modified or damaged.
"Have you figured anything out?" Xie Guijin asked the other magicians in the trial grounds.
The silver-haired magician led the other magicians in replying, "Your Highness, there is nothing unusual."
The demons who had been to the crime scene also reported back: "Nothing unusual, no clues left by the murderer."
Seeing that there were no clues here, Xie Guijin sighed, rallied himself, and said to his subordinates, "Come with me to check out the other fiefdoms."
The demons obeyed the order, and Xue Linchuan quietly followed.
Xie Guijin noticed, but Xue Linchuan was clever and blended in with the group of demons, not approaching, so Xie Guijin didn't react. After all, in the eyes of the other demons, they were the Sixth Princess and Chu Shuyue.
After traveling through the other fiefdoms, she found that no prince or princess stopped her from sending a demon to investigate, nor did they utter a single sarcastic remark. Instead, they all exchanged messages with her.
These princes and princesses all knew very well that it was unlikely that Xie Guijin was behind this.
It is quite possible that other demons are targeting these princes and princesses who are vying for the position of Demon Lord.
On this matter, they must stand united with Xie Guijin and confront the outside world together.
Just because Xie Guijin proposed and built the training ground doesn't mean we should stand against Xie Guijin.
Of course, if the truth does not come to light soon, Xie Guijin will be pushed out to bear all the consequences.
Fortunately, the first batch of training grounds were chosen in the fiefdoms of the princes and princesses, which were their strongholds and where they had the highest control. When something happened, they would personally come to oversee the situation.
Therefore, there has been no panic in any of the fiefdoms or even the entire Demon Realm.
Xie Guijin led the demons to search nearly twenty fiefdoms, but found nothing. They couldn't even find any overlap in the daily lives of the deceased, whether in terms of their food, clothing, shelter, or social relationships.
The case was extremely complicated. Xie Guijin pondered for a moment and then went back to Shanghai to check the list of all demons. Apart from the deceased being removed from the list, there were almost no changes.
"If absorbing demonic energy isn't for improving cultivation, could it be for some other purpose?" Xie Guijin pondered.
Seeing this, Xue Linchuan leaned closer and whispered, "Don't send me away yet. Do you think some demons are deliberately absorbing them? Even if that's true, you should store the absorbed demonic energy instead of refining it."
When Xie Guijin turned around, the demons were not far behind her, so it was inconvenient to directly drive Xue Linchuan away. Therefore, she replied indifferently, "Do you have such a magical artifact?"
“The Six Realms are vast and full of wonders,” Xue Linchuan said, his brow furrowed. “Our knowledge is limited, and it is difficult for us to make a judgment.”
"I know, you can leave now," Xie Guijin said coldly.
Xue Linchuan opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately did not speak. He bowed and retreated.
One of the little demons, beaming with excitement, whispered to his companion, "Look, doesn't the princess dislike that pretty boy from the human race anymore?"
"You're still thinking about these things?" The demon companion said quickly when Xie Guijin's gaze shifted to him, "What time is it?"
Xie Guijin didn't actually hear what they said. She ordered all the demons under her command who were involved in the investigation to put aside their current duties and devote all their energy to investigating the case first.
The demons under his command didn't really understand why Xie Guijin did this.
Although there is no progress in the case now, the solution is actually quite simple: just stop the trial grounds from operating.
The mastermind behind this is most likely not someone who practices evil arts; killing so many demons at once would attract their attention.
If the goal is truly to improve one's cultivation, one should proceed gradually. Once the trial grounds are spread throughout the Demon Realm, even killing one prince a day might not attract so many princes and princesses to investigate the case together.
Therefore, the demons' guesses were consistent with those of the prince and princess: there was a demon who wanted to seize the position of Demon Lord from them. So, they decided to stop operating the Trial Grounds and wait until the position of Demon Lord was decided. If they still wanted to open the Trial Grounds, they could reopen them.
As for the person behind the scenes, there's no need to rush to investigate. Since they want to seize power, they will naturally have other actions. It will be much more efficient to follow the clues then.
The only concern is that if the murderer cannot be found within a day, the Demon Law Hall will take away several demon workers, which will damage the Sixth Princess's reputation. However, the innocent will clear themselves, and with the Sixth Princess as their guarantor, the demon workers' lives are safe. Once they have survived the interrogation and left the Demon Law Hall, they will definitely receive compensation from the Sixth Princess.
Since the arrival of the Demon Law Hall, the Sixth Princess has already made her stance clear and taken the initiative to investigate the case. As the leader, that is enough. If the truth can be found out in a day, everyone will be happy. However, the case is so complicated now that there is no demonic evidence. It would be a loss to make all the demons who need to investigate the case put down their duties without any evidence.
Little did they know that the current Sixth Princess was Xie Guijin, and she didn't have much time left. They had to investigate the case before she left and absolutely could not let the Demon Law Hall take the Demon Worker away.
The Demoness must complete the trials in other regions. Before she leaves, she must ensure that ordinary demons genuinely support the Sixth Princess's ascension to the throne because of the existence of these trials.
With the demons busy with their own tasks, Xie Guijin reviewed all the currently known information, searching for a breakthrough.
The witch rushed over, but before she could say anything...
Xie Guijin asked, "What happened now?"
"Princess, rumors are circulating in various fiefdoms that the training grounds cannot improve cultivation at all. They say that there are magic arrays inside that absorb the demonic energy of those fighting within them to nourish the royal family and help them break through."
"They also said that the reason they all died this time was because the royal family was greedy and didn't control the degree of absorption properly. Originally, they were supposed to absorb it gradually," the witch said in detail.
As the saying goes, it takes only a mouth to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of legwork to refute them.
Most living beings in this world don't think carefully about the logical flaws in rumors they hear.
If that's the case, why bother doing this on the first day in various fiefdoms? Why not do it for a few more days, wait until there are trial grounds all over the demon realm, then select good demons and make them look like accidents so that they can continue to feed on them for a long time, right?
This was just the beginning of the rumor, and soon even more absurd and ridiculous rumors spread rapidly throughout the demon realm.
The more absurd the rumor, the faster it spreads.
Upon hearing the news, Xie Guijin smiled sincerely and immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate the original source of the rumor at all costs.
The system asked, puzzled, "If you're not investigating the case, why are you investigating this?"
"Because the beneficiaries of this case should also be the beneficiaries of the rumors," Xie Guijin said mysteriously.
But Xie Guijin's attempt to show off quickly failed.
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