Li Qinglin closed the gate.

His face suddenly turned gloomy.

It was not because Master Ma's attitude was rude at first but respectful later that he declined his offer to become his disciple.

Rather,

Someone had entered his yard before! Out of caution, Li Qinglin had the habit of leaving a mark every time he left the yard.

Or leaving strands of hair under the door, or leaving traces of sand on the road.

Just now, when he led Master Ma into the house, he keenly noticed that his mark had been destroyed! Someone not only broke into the yard, but also walked around inside and outside! Li Qinglin looked at the well in the yard from a distance, his eyes gloomy.

Li Qinglin did not cover the wellhead stone tightly.

Instead, he deliberately left a gap the size of a palm.

If someone looked down, they could only vaguely see the almost black well water and damp moss.

The bell toad has always been hidden under the water, in the corner.

It is extremely difficult to find unless someone goes into the water.

Of course, if it was discovered, there would be no problem. At most, they would say that Li Qinglin had hidden such a big toad in his yard without knowing it.

"Is someone targeting me, or is someone targeting...Wang's residence?"

Li Qinglin stood there, thinking for a long time.

Nightfall.

The sky is full of stars.

There were faint sounds of dogs barking from outside the street.

Li Qinglin slept fully clothed, lying on his side on the bed, breathing steadily.

There was a slight sound coming from the ground, which seemed to be footsteps.

Li Qinglin suddenly opened his eyes, turned over, held the ten-stone longbow in his right hand, and slid out from the window like a civet cat.

He quickly walked to the top of the wall, lightly placed his hands on the arrow, ready to shoot, his eyes as fast as lightning, looking around in all directions.

By the watery starlight.

He vaguely saw a ghostly figure floating out from the yards of the insect-raising tenants in front and flying away into the distance.

Then it disappeared into a building complex and reappeared after a moment.

Seems...looking for something.

"This kind of body movement... must be due to some martial arts skills!"

Seeing this, Li Qinglin cautiously did not follow.

After all, you don't know the other party's background, and if you follow him rashly, you might as well waste your life.

A quarter of an hour later, when Li Qinglin saw that there was no one around, he turned over and jumped off the wall.

Go check the yards of the tenants who raise insects one by one.

Donkey Face was sleeping soundly. There seemed to be someone under the quilt, with a pair of jade-like arms wrapped around Donkey Face's neck.

Li Qinglin took a look, secretly said he was offended, and turned to go to another courtyard.

Zhang Gong and Feng Dao were also sleeping, but Zhang Gong seemed to be sleeping uneasy. His brows were furrowed and his fists were clenched, as if he was fighting with someone in his dream.

Li Qinglin glanced at it and ignored it.

until……

"Wei Liang is not here?"

Li Qinglin was shocked to find that Wei Liang was strangely not in the room, and when he touched his bed, it was still warm, as if he had just left not long ago.

Thinking of the ghostly figure just now, Li Qinglin felt that it looked familiar.

“It’s actually him!”

Li Qinglin's eyes flickered.

Wei Liang had just entered the mansion not long ago, and during the day he pretended to be an honest and hardworking young man.

Where did his martial arts come from?

It was obvious that he entered the palace with other purposes.

For some reason, Li Qinglin felt that Wei Liang seemed to have some connection with the charcoal seller.

Li Qinglin did not say anything. After carefully cleaning up the traces he had left, he returned to the room, lay on the bed, and placed the longbow within his reach.

He felt a little uneasy.

The heart toad's beats were a little disordered, and there was a sense of oppression before a storm.

Li Qinglin simply got out of bed and started practicing the Five Directions Heavenly Will Sword with a wooden sword in the room.

The stronger you are, the more vitality you will have when you need it.

Li Qinglin did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Moreover, Li Qinglin sensed that the transformation of the bell toad would be completed in the next two days.

By then, his strength and means will be greatly improved!

…

Not far away, a night patrol guard began to approach.

Wei Liang didn't dare to stay outside for too long.

He looked deeply in the direction of the middle courtyard and retreated resolutely.

Back to the yard.

He lay back on the bed soundlessly, his breathing steady, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

A few quarters of an hour later, the metallic sound of the armored and sharp weapons of the patrol guards was heard from the corridor outside the courtyard, and then gradually faded away.

Wei Liangcai slowly opened his eyes.

He pulled up the quilt, hid himself in it, and performed some kind of... ritual.

He took out a smooth bronze mirror, half-knelt in the quilt, silently chanted a strange spell, and then gently stroked the mirror with his hand.

After a moment, a line of words slowly appeared on the mirror: "Any clues?"

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"Master, I have checked the outer courtyard and found nothing. If I have a chance, I will sneak into the middle courtyard to have a look. I have made friends with a tenant farmer who is responsible for pouring night incense. I can use him to go to the middle courtyard."

On the other side of the bronze mirror, the words did not appear for a long time, as if he was thinking about something.

After a moment, the information reappeared.

“Don’t worry about sneaking into the middle courtyard, there are others who will do it.

You only have one task now. Tomorrow I will continue to deliver incense charcoal, which contains the brain-eating begging pills. Then you will go to the king's house and find a young man who is also a slave, and give him the begging pills. Ask him some questions for me."

The message was followed by a dark portrait.

When Wei Liang saw the portrait, he was immediately shocked.

This portrait is exactly Li Qinglin! Why would the master with great magical powers care about him at this critical moment? As for the Brain-Eating Begging Pill, it is a forbidden drug for tigers and wolves. It is one of the important measures used by the temple to control powerful and difficult opponents. Once taken, a poisonous insect will drill into the brain, and life and death will be uncontrollable.

In the past, only those masters who were close to perfection in locking their essence were qualified for this treatment.

But facing the master's orders, Wei Liang did not dare to question or ask further questions.

"Yes, sir!"

…

A few days later.

Unless it was necessary, Li Qinglin would stay in the yard obediently, guarding the last critical period of the bell toad's transformation.

If someone asked him, he would act dejected and pretend that he was deeply hurt by the incident of spilling the night incense.

Nothing happened in the palace these days, and everything is in order.

Wei Liang had "passed by" the courtyard several times, and had warmly greeted Li Qinglin, asking if he had any difficulties and needed help.

Li Qinglin declined all of them.

Fortunately, Li Qinglin had always been indifferent to Wei Liang's excessive enthusiasm in the past, so he did not reveal any flaws.

Until this day.

Li Qinglin asked Master Fu Wu for advice on a few issues concerning cultivation and hurried back to the courtyard.

From a distance, I could see Wei Liang running around doing good deeds for the public good.

Li Qinglin's expression remained unchanged, but he changed direction, made a big circle, and directly climbed over the wall into the house.

Outside the yard, in the corridor, Wei Liang was talking to a few tenants with a smile on his face, his eyes inadvertently sweeping across Li Qinglin's yard.

I was very puzzled.

Is sincerity the ultimate weapon?

But how could someone not be convinced by sincerity? !

And in the hospital.

After Li Qinglin was sure that Wei Liang had gone far away, he crossed the yard and went into the inner room. He seemed a little tired and went to bed early.

But consciousness appeared in the body of the bell toad in the well.

There is a thriving sense of advancement that can no longer be suppressed at all!

Just like a cicada that has been sleeping underground for several years, it grows and breaks out of its cocoon alone in the darkness, finally breaking through the soil and announcing its first cicada chirp to the world! Break! The bell toad's body began to grow rapidly, and the protruding warts seemed to come alive, rearranging and wriggling.

A touch of jade color gradually emerged under the skin of the bell toad.

A strong evil aura suddenly emanated from the bell toad's body, almost knocking over the well stone above its head!

The winter insects in the house were like seeing a top predator. Even the mere smell of it frightened them so much that they almost died.

not good!

Li Qinglin reacted, and even though he had expected it, he still didn't expect the transformation of the bell toad to be so grand.

He immediately controlled the bell toad to dive to the bottom of the well, in front of the gap.

The demonic energy in his body is still erupting.

Choose the lesser of two evils.

The bell toad swam into the gap without much hesitation!

(End of this chapter)