"Zhou Qingfeng, I'll say it one last time, hand over the antidote!" Yun Yun unleashed her full power, the immense pressure unique to a Celestial Venerable permeating the entire area, pressing down on Fang Xiu like a mountain.
Faced with such immense pressure, Fang Xiu remained calm and said indifferently, "I rarely advise people, but today I must advise you to consider the consequences before you take action, and whether you can bear them."
Yun Yun remained silent, her beautiful eyes fixed intently on Fang Xiu, as if she were about to make a move at any moment.
The atmosphere in the arena was almost frozen!
At that moment, Master Tianwen's eyes suddenly bulged out, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood before passing away.
"Master Tianwen!" The Prince of Zhennan roared in fury, "Zhou Qingfeng, look what you've done!"
This time he really couldn't hold back anymore and was about to make a move when Yun Yun stopped him.
"Yunyun, you..."
Yun Yun shook her head at the Prince of Zhennan.
The Prince of Zhennan had no choice but to give up.
Fang Xiu, the murderer, turned and walked away as if he were strolling leisurely. The two men stared at his back, their anger undisguised.
After Fang Xiu left, Yun Yun suddenly said, "Uncle, we can't kill him yet."
"Alas." The Prince of Zhennan sighed, "I know this man is useful, but he is simply unruly and lawless. He is a wild beast, a wild beast that can never be tamed!"
A cold smile appeared on Yun Yun's beautiful face: "A beast? He's not the kind of beast that acts purely on instinct. He may seem reckless, but he's actually calculated that we won't dare to do anything to him."
He was well aware of his role, knowing that investigating the matter of qi deviation was entirely his responsibility. If Master Tianwen hadn't died, he wouldn't have been irreplaceable, but now that Master Tianwen was dead, he had become unique, untouchable, and therefore much safer.
The Prince of Zhennan disagreed: "You overestimate him. I feel he just wants to kill. This man is bloodthirsty and doesn't care about you or me at all."
It wasn't that the Prince of Zhennan hadn't thought of this; it was mainly due to his preconceived notions about Fang Xiu. Since meeting Fang Xiu, he had assumed that the other was a lawless, violent, and ruthless person. What wouldn't someone who could kill all the prisoners on the second level of the Heavenly Prison because they were too noisy do?
Yun Yun shook her head: "Just now, when I was about to make my move, he calmly reminded me to consider the consequences. The consequence would be that after I killed him, no one would help me rebuild the Demon Suppression Division, right? He calculated that, so he was certain that I wouldn't kill him!"
"Is that so?" The Prince of Zhennan was also a little unsure. If what Yun Yun said was true, then Zhou Qingfeng was not only audacious but also very shrewd.
However, Yun Yun misunderstood the consequences Fang Xiu mentioned. The real consequence he meant was that if they took action, he would kill them all.
Admittedly, Fang Xiu needed to rely on Yun Yun's influence to facilitate his fortune-telling, but he didn't necessarily need Yun Yun. If he hadn't been afraid of the trouble, he wouldn't have offered that advice.
Just then, the young man who had been locked in the cage suddenly let out a non-human roar. Immediately afterward, the aura of a living person on his body rapidly diminished, and was replaced by an extremely evil and eerie aura.
His originally thin body became muscular, his eyes were bloodshot and turned into a pair of eerie blood pupils, and his skin was covered with dense, black scales. He was on all fours, roaring like a beast, drool dripping from his mouth, attacking the cage like a madman.
However, soon, mysterious and profound runes lit up on the cage, sealing the person firmly inside.
Neither the Prince of Zhennan nor Yun Yun took him seriously. To them, even if such a weakling transformed into a demon and broke free from the cage, it would be a matter of a single blow.
The Prince of Zhennan seemed to suddenly remember something, took the scroll that Master Tianwen had written before his death, opened it and saw two large characters written on it: "You Shi (5-7 PM)".
I couldn't help but sigh, "Master Tianwen truly lived up to his reputation as the most renowned diviner of the Liuyun Immortal Dynasty. His calculations were incredibly accurate. He said it would be the hour of the Rooster, and it was exactly that time. It's a pity he was poisoned by a villain. Yunyun, come and see... Yunyun?"
The Prince of Zhennan turned his head and saw Yun Yun stiffly holding the scroll that Fang Xiu had written earlier, her beautiful face filled with shock.
The Prince of Zhennan paused slightly, as if he had thought of something. Could it be...?
He hurried over and stared intently at Fang Xiu's scroll, then felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
The inscription read: "3:48 PM (5:45 PM)".
"This...this can't be right, can it?" The Prince of Zhennan found it hard to believe. He looked at the sundial next to him and found that it was exactly 3:40 pm, which was exactly two minutes past the time when the person in the cage had fallen into demonic possession.
Snap!
The scroll of Master Tianwen fell from his hand to the ground, but he was completely unaware, still muttering to himself, "How is it possible that there is someone in the world who can calculate so accurately...?"
Even Yun Yun was utterly shocked. She had initially thought Fang Xiu knew he was no match for Master Tianwen, which was why he resorted to such insidious methods. But she hadn't expected that the renowned Master Tianwen had only calculated the time, while this man had not only calculated the time, but had even pinpointed it to the minute...
This made Yun Yun begin to doubt her own judgment. Could it be that, as her uncle said, this person was simply bloodthirsty?
Otherwise, there's no reason to kill Master Tianwen, right?
Since one can become an inspector without being killed, why create such a stalemate?
What Yun Yun and the others didn't know was that if Kyushu hadn't lacked smaller units of time, Fang Xiu could have written even more, down to the millimeter.
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The next day.
A shocking piece of news spread throughout the entire Liuyun Immortal Dynasty.
The Flowing Cloud Immortal Dynasty's Demon Suppression Division issued a notice to the world, announcing that a great calamity was about to begin, and the dark cloud of demonic possession was looming over the land.
Indeed, Yun Yun eventually resorted to Master Tianwen's explanation, claiming that the incident of going into a demonic state was a calamity. To further substantiate her claim, she even used Master Tianwen's name, informing the world that this calamity was calculated by Master Tianwen, and that Master Tianwen himself died for revealing heavenly secrets.
People were in turmoil, and various alchemy workshops rushed to stock up on several new types of calming pills overnight, which were snapped up by lower-level cultivators.
The Demon Suppression Division, which had been dormant for many years, also took this opportunity to successfully step onto the stage.
Headquarters of the Demon Suppression Division.
Yun Yun led a group of low-level cultivators to Fang Xiu.
At this moment, Fang Xiu was sitting upright in the main hall of the Inspectorate.
Yun Yun acted as if nothing had happened and continued to converse with Fang Xiu normally.
"Inspector Zhou, as per your request, I have brought the first batch of people to be inspected. These people are all of poor quality and have been taking pills for many years. After review by the Demon Suppression Division, they have been assessed as cultivators with a high risk of demonic possession. Now, I need you to verify them one by one."
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