Faced with Zhou Bai's questioning, the subordinate naturally answered all questions and immediately recounted the whole story of Wu Chou's encounter with Zhou Qingfeng.
After hearing this, Zhou Bai frowned deeply: "You mean, that divination master Zhou Qingfeng predicted all along that Wu Chou would suffer a qi deviation and become a demon?"
The man nodded hurriedly: "Zhou Qingfeng not only predicted that Lord Wu Chou would suffer a qi deviation, but he even gave the exact time, midnight! It's just past midnight now."
"Is it a truly accurate calculation, or is he secretly plotting something?" As the head of the Enforcement Hall, Zhou Bai naturally couldn't just listen to his subordinates' side of the story and draw a conclusion about this matter. He had seen fortune tellers before, but he had never heard of any fortune teller who could calculate so accurately. Usually, fortune tellers would only give vague time limits, not someone like Zhou Qingfeng who could even calculate the exact time. If it were true, it wouldn't be fortune telling at all, but rather... predicting the future.
"Forget it, now is not the time to delve into it. Let's deal with Wu Chou first."
Zhou Bai quickly joined the battle. With a powerful Immortal Venerable like him taking action, along with dozens of Immortals from the Law Enforcement Hall, Wu Chou was killed in no time.
However, although they successfully killed the enemy, the Enforcement Hall also paid a heavy price, with several people killed or injured.
Wu Chou was originally a powerful Immortal Venerable, and after becoming a demon, his power increased even more, even faintly surpassing the limit of the Immortal Venerable level. If he hadn't lost his reason and only had the instinct to kill, Zhou Bai and the others might not have been able to stop him.
Afterwards, Zhou Bai looked at the ruins of Wu Chou's mansion and the hundreds of corpses inside. His face was extremely gloomy, especially when he saw Wu Chou's wife, who had been smashed into a pulp.
He was the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, while Wu Chou was the deputy head. He naturally knew how Wu Chou became the deputy head – by relying on his wife.
Wu Chou's father-in-law was a high-ranking and powerful immortal official in the Liuyun Immortal Dynasty. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to place Wu Chou in such a powerful department as the Law Enforcement Hall. Now that the daughter of this high-ranking immortal official has died, things have really gotten out of hand.
If he is not careful, Zhou Bai may be implicated.
After much deliberation, he decided that he could not sit idly by and wait for his death; he had to find someone to bear the wrath of that great immortal official, that is, to find a scapegoat.
At this moment, Zhou Bai suddenly asked, "Is the divination master Zhou Qingfeng you mentioned still in the Heavenly Prison?"
The subordinate immediately replied, "He's in the imperial prison, and I personally imprisoned him."
Zhou Bai immediately had a plan in mind.
The same event can be completely different depending on whether there is a mastermind or not. If Wu Chou went mad from his cultivation and started killing indiscriminately, he would definitely be guilty of dereliction of duty. However, if Zhou Qingfeng secretly did something and he captured Zhou Qingfeng, it would be equivalent to redeeming himself by doing good deeds, and he could at least get a lighter punishment.
So he shouted to his subordinates, "Let's go to the Heavenly Prison! I suspect that Zhou Qingfeng was behind this. Wu Chou is my colleague and he cultivates the most peaceful Rain Cloud lineage. He has never shown any signs of going into demonic possession. After Zhou Qingfeng told his fortune, he said that he would go into demonic possession, and that very night he did. How could there be such a coincidence in the world?"
Moreover, Zhou Qingfeng even predicted the death of the Southern Crocodile Immortal Lord on the spot, making this matter even more suspicious.
The more Zhou Bai spoke, the more reasonable it seemed to him. He even began to believe that the truth might indeed be as he had guessed.
Afterwards, the group went to the Heavenly Prison, but when they arrived, they were immediately horrified.
They're all dead! Dead!
All the prisoners in the entire prison died overnight!
But Zhou Qingfeng was nowhere to be found.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Bai was overjoyed. He had been worried that Zhou Qingfeng might be a reclusive master of divination, whose predictions were extremely accurate, and that he would have to find a way to pin the blame on him. But now that the prison had been massacred, it didn't matter whether Zhou Qingfeng was the mastermind or not.
"Someone, bring out the recording stone from the prison."
At Zhou Bai's command, one of his subordinates immediately went to fetch the recording stone.
Fang Xiu, who was hiding in the shadows, frowned when he saw this scene. He did not expect that Kyushu was so advanced that it even had cameras.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, the recording stone began to display the scene inside the Heavenly Prison, which was the moment Fang Xiu walked out of the Heavenly Prison.
"What!?" Zhou Bai exclaimed in shock, "This Zhou Qingfeng can actually ignore the restrictions of the Heavenly Prison! This person is definitely not just a True Immortal!"
They continued reading and saw Fang Xiu begin to tell the prisoners' fortunes.
He uttered the words, "You will suffer a bloody disaster," and one prisoner after another died silently.
Zhou Bai and the others felt a chill run down their spines and gasped.
"A madman! This man is absolutely insane. Every fortune he tells brings bloodshed, and then, to prove his accuracy, he kills everyone. What else could he be but a madman?"
Even Zhou Bai, a powerful Immortal Venerable, was shocked by Fang Xiu's actions. As the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, he had dealt with vicious people before, but at least they had a decent reason for killing to steal treasures or to cultivate evil arts. However, he had never seen anyone kill someone just to prove that their calculations were accurate.
He would never have believed such an outrageous reason if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.
"Pass on my order to immediately issue an arrest warrant for Zhou Qingfeng. This man is ruthless and inhuman, and every day he lives is a threat to the security of the Liuyun Immortal Dynasty."
The next day.
An arrest warrant for Zhou Qingfeng spread throughout the Liuyun Immortal Dynasty.
Although there is no internet here, there are supernatural powers, such as flying swords to send messages and spatial arrays, so the speed of message transmission is no less than that of modern times.
In just half a day, Zhou Qingfeng's appearance and deeds spread far and wide, and discussions about him could be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys.
As a result, people have become somewhat resistant to the profession of fortune teller, and no one dares to tell fortunes easily, for fear that someone might say to them that they are in for a bloody disaster.
"Have you heard? The entire prison, with over a thousand people, was killed by that divination master named Zhou Qingfeng."
“It’s not just more than a thousand people. I heard from a fellow Daoist from the Law Enforcement Hall that Zhou Qingfeng kills people without hesitation. He grabs anyone he meets and asks them to tell his fortune, and every fortune-telling session ends in bloodshed. To this day, no one who has had their fortune told by him has survived. I heard that before he could tell the deaths of prisoners in the Heavenly Prison, he had already predicted the fate of an entire city.”
"Hiss! Could it be Fire Cloud City? Didn't they say Fire Cloud City was ravaged by demonic calamity last year, with no one in the city spared? Could this be Zhou Qingfeng's doing, and then framing the demons?"
"Very likely."
In a secluded corner, Fang Xiu frowned slightly as he listened to the discussion about him. He decided to restart the game.
Because Zhou Qingfeng's reputation is already ruined.
Furthermore, sooner or later, those with ulterior motives will connect the ability to etherealize to the true god.
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