Guo An, who positioned himself as the "outer sect senior brother", also came over from a distance, accompanied by several other disciples in the late stage of Qi training.

He said good things about Kong Da, but it also eased the conflict between the two sides.

Of course, the fact is that although both sides look fierce on the surface, they actually think in their hearts that they will definitely lose and do not want to really fight.

Guo An gave everyone a way out, and naturally the matter was resolved and everyone put away their weapons.

"Those brothers, please move aside so as not to scare my guests. There are quite a lot of them, and their efficiency in finding people is comparable to that of fifty brothers."

After Jiang Li said this, they didn't know what to say.

Because the purpose of this "Outer Sect Competition" is different, in addition to the competitive relationship, the more important thing is to find the defecting monks.

If you sabotage each other and engage in vicious competition, you may be beaten to death.

Jiang Li asked them to enter the inn and sit down. He then said a few words to comfort the little monsters present and compensated them with some gold and silver, which made these monsters enthusiastic again.

"Brothers, tell me, what is going on?"

They sat together, drank a pot of tea, and reviewed the news in their hands.

It was discovered that eleven people had disappeared last night, and most of them had witnesses who stated that they were taken away in public.

The most shocking thing is that the people who called them away were all among these eleven people. They were like a chain, one by one, deceiving people out of the sight of others, and then disappeared.

"They, won't all rebel?"

Someone guessed so.

“How is it possible? Now the entire Yunxi City is surrounded by the elders of the sect. Wouldn’t it be courting death to rebel now?”

In fact, let alone now, the behavior of the twelve people who defected before, led by Elder Duan Shuang, was not much different from seeking death.

How long can he escape from such a tight net? "That's possible. He is being controlled."

There are many methods of cultivation in the world of immortals, and controlling a few disciples in the Qi Refining Stage is not a strange thing. This statement was quickly accepted by everyone.

But this fact also made the outer disciples even more panicked.

It turned out that they were not the only ones hunting the defecting disciples, but the defecting disciples were also hunting them in an organized and planned manner! This was terrifying. Among the group of defecting disciples, except for Yu Banxia, ​​all the others had overwhelming combat power for these outer disciples.

Normally, there is no chance of winning if they collide. You can only pray for an arrow to pierce the clouds and thousands of troops to come to meet you.

But at this time, if we add the prerequisite of being ambushed, the difficulty will suddenly jump up several levels.

"Then what should we do? Are we just going to wait here to die?"

"They have the means to control the monks. Then we can't even trust our fellow disciples!"

"Why don't we report it to the sect and ask them to let us out? We won't be able to find them at all."

"Humph, did the sect leave us any communication spirit stones? And they originally came here to deliver us... to carry out the mission, why would they interrupt just for a little loss?"

The conversation among the outer disciples was filled with negative connotations.

Jiang Li sat aside and didn't speak for a long time.

Because from the time they sat down at the table until now, no one has ever mentioned the massive death toll in the city.

Since early this morning, Jiang Li and his team have exchanged a large amount of silver and valuables. According to this calculation, the number of souls he has received in the past few hours is at least more than 100,000! That means the death of 100,000 people in a short period of time!

The number of deaths with this kind of data directly accounts for a quarter of the city’s total population.

The whole city is filled with mourning paper money, but that is the least of its worries. Even if the whole city is under martial law now, every household has closed their doors and windows and people are not allowed to move around.

But the more than 500 Qi Refining cultivators are not fools. Their search cannot be just walking around the streets. Searching house by house is the most basic operation.

One hundred thousand corpses... Even if they were all buried, the large area of ​​houses left vacant was quite suspicious. There was no way it could be hidden from the monks' eyes.

But now, it's such a big thing, but no one has brought it up on the table, which is strange.

Then there is only one explanation... All the outer disciples present are fools!

Jiang Li immediately asked them a few questions indirectly, but soon overturned the conclusion that they had come to with great difficulty.

There does not seem to be a large number of empty houses in this city, and most of them are inhabited by living people.

He looked at the buffet still running outside and was somewhat incredulous.

Everyone in the city is still alive, so where did these souls come from? Did they fall from the sky? "My fellow disciples, look at these three people. They are different from the other eight. They all went out alone and disappeared. Perhaps we should start with them."

Jiang Li rubbed his head and put his thoughts aside, pointed out the three people on the missing list and said so.

"Oh? What do you mean, Junior Brother Jiang Li?"

The others had been giving up on themselves, but when they heard Jiang Li's opinion, they all looked over.

"Look at the order in which they disappeared. The first one tricked the second one away. But these three are different. They were the beginning of the chain of disappearances. No one saw anyone call them away."

"According to Senior Brother Guo An, these three people suddenly disappeared while on patrol. So is it possible that the place they were patrolling and searching was where the defecting disciples were hiding?"

"Perhaps they were captured because they ran into a renegade disciple."

Jiang Li made this guess.

"That's worth a try."

Everyone's expressions were somewhat excited and somewhat solemn.

The locations of the three missing targets were not the same, so they began to discuss the distribution.

But Jiang Li did not plan to investigate with them, as he had his own plans.

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, are you really not going with us?"

Before leaving, Guo An still pretended to invite Jiang Li, expressing his regret that Jiang Li could not go with him.

Jiang Li bowed and saw them off.

After getting their information, Jiang Li felt that it was necessary for him to go out and investigate personally.

Before he left, he gave another briefing on the buffet matters. Since the gold and silver exchange office was beyond the capability of ordinary people, and because one of his men was missing, they were now short of manpower.

Jiang Li spent a lot of money to invite a talking red-coated mouse to help with the "cashier".

After making sure that everything was running well here and nothing would go wrong for the time being, Jiang Li left and jumped into a nearby residential courtyard.

Jiang Li pushed the door open, but the solid wooden bolt was like paper and broke easily without providing any blocking effect.

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"Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me! Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me!"

"I don't know anything, old man!"

Then Jiang Li saw two people in the room hurriedly got up from the bed, squatted together with their heads in their hands, and shouted for mercy.

Is the Immortal Master so terrifying? It seems that his fellow disciples have been bullying the city a lot.

Jiang Li was complaining as if he had forgotten what he had done, and he was not much better at all.

[Name: Wang Darong, Gender: Male, Age: 61, Occupation: None, Level: None, Danger Level: None]

[Name: Zhang Xiaomei, Gender: Female, Age: 16, Occupation: None, Level: None, Danger Level: None]

He casually threw two identification spells over, and Jiang Li was shocked.

It was obvious that these two people had just slept in the same bed. Sixty-one to sixteen, this is truly a punishable crime.

"Hey, get up and answer me a few questions."

Jiang Li asked politely.

"I don't know anything! I don't know anything! Master, please spare me! Master, please spare me!"

However, he only got the same two sentences in response. It seemed that he couldn't get anything out of them.

Jiang Li had no choice but to leave. He jumped onto the roof, flew over several blocks, and found a house to land in.

This time he was afraid of scaring others again, so he did not break in directly, but knocked on the door politely.

After a while, someone came to open the door, but as soon as the door opened, the man saw Jiang Li and immediately ran to the corner, squatted down, hugged his head, and kept repeating that sentence.

"Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me! Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me!"

Maybe some people are just timid, Jiang Li thought.

He then looked for a family nearby and finally found someone who dared to talk to him.

As soon as the door is opened.

An old lady saw Jiang Li's clothes and roared, picked up a broom and hit Jiang Li.

"You damned beast, I will fight you to the death!"

Jiang Li is a very capable person, there is no way he could be hit by a broom.

He dodged past the old lady and rushed into the room, only to see a young girl kneeling on the ground crying, holding her torn clothes.

Jiang Li already understood what happened without them telling him.

Without saying anything more, he left a silver ingot on the table and left the courtyard.

Jiang Li ran around the city, randomly selecting each household to check.

But it was true, just as the other outer disciples had said, there was no widespread death or empty houses in this city.

The development of the situation made Jiang Li more and more troubled.

until...

"Master Immortal, please spare my life! Master Immortal, please spare my life!"

"Father! Mother! It's Lian'er! Don't you recognize Lian'er?"

"We know nothing! We know nothing!"

Jiang Li's figure landed on a courtyard wall, and before he appeared, he heard this voice in his ears.

He raised his eyebrows and chose to continue watching calmly.

In the courtyard below, a middle-aged couple and a servant were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, begging for mercy.

However, the person in front of them was not an outer disciple of Sutra Valley, but a young woman in a red silk dress and a maid who followed her.

(End of this chapter)