"Sir, Lord Baihu!"
After a busy night, Xue Cheng was just about to go to bed when someone suddenly knocked on the door. The urgent call outside the door made his heart tighten. He moved clumsily, turned over and walked to the front of the house. If he didn't have a suitable reason, he decided to beat up this rude guy.
A small flag officer of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was standing in front of him with a look of joy and anxiety on his face.
"The Blood Knife in the Jinyiwei prison has confessed. He specifically wants to see you and says he wants to hand over everything to you."
"Um?"
The anger of being disturbed in his sleep was immediately swept away. Xue Cheng's eyes were shining with brilliance. He started to walk towards the Jinyiwei prison. Seeing that Xiao Ji, who had reported the matter, was still behind him, he couldn't help but pause, trying not to appear so anxious.
When Xiaoqi caught up, he imitated the behavior of his superiors, the Qianhu, and tried to speak slowly and leisurely, "Why didn't he tell me before, but only after a night? And why did he have to tell me? Is there some conspiracy?"
As a member of the Imperial Guard, one must be vigilant and cautious, and that Jinyiwei flag officer has obviously done related work, at least his assessment results in this area are still passed, so he responded without thinking.
"I've asked everyone, and that person doesn't respect anyone else. He only admires your brilliant plan. He's traveled all over the country, committed many serious crimes, and never been caught. He was only caught by you, so he only respects you."
"As for his request, it's quite simple. He only asks us to record his martial arts in the arsenal for future generations to learn from, as a legacy."
"Um."
Xue Cheng remained expressionless, but was secretly happy in his heart.
He felt very comfortable with this flattery.
Blood Knife traveled far and wide, and was even hunted by the Jinyiwei Qianhu and the golden captain of the Liushenmen, but neither of them could bring him to justice, and he was caught by him.
Doesn't this mean that his ability is stronger than that of the Jinyiwei Captain and the Liushenmen Golden Constable?
Sometimes the recognition of our enemies is more pleasing than the praise of our own people.
Xue Cheng's steps became lighter, showing his happy mood.
The Jinyiwei flagman who was leading the way in front of him knew that his boss was in a good mood at the moment, so he kept telling him the bad side of the situation.
"Master Baihu, it seems that Blood Knife was attacked yesterday. Someone wanted to silence him. He has a lot more injuries on his body."
"Um?"
Xue Cheng's expression changed and his face immediately became serious, but his overall condition was fine. Now the people below came up to report, and although their tone was a little nervous, they were not panicked, which meant that Xue Dao should not be dead, and his precautions yesterday were still reasonable.
"What exactly happened? Do you have any detailed information?"
The little flag looked at Xue Cheng carefully, but couldn't detect much expression on Xue Cheng's face. His heart sank, and he didn't dare to be careless, so he reported carefully.
"We just discovered something unusual this morning. The captain on duty has already checked it out. There are no signs of intrusion by outsiders, but there's a chilling, evil aura inside the prison. It's similar to what happened when the captain was attacked a while ago."
"With Blood Blade's strength, it would have been impossible for him to be shattered by the invasion. However, he had been repeatedly injured by multiple masters, and was already seriously injured. His Qi and blood were suppressed, and there was a mark left by the evil spirit in his body, so the evil spirit succeeded."
Xue Cheng's face became even gloomier. He had been humiliated by the evil spirit before, and now he had to rely on the blood knife to regain his face. He thought that the incident with the evil spirit was over, but he never expected that the evil spirit would come again and connect two unrelated things together.
Xiao Qi obviously knew that this would make Xue Cheng unhappy, so when he saw a gloomy look on Xue Cheng's face, he quickly added to his words.
"But it was your Excellency who was so clever that he placed a piece of evil-repelling jade in the cell ahead of time. The evil spirit returned without success. And Zhang Zongqi, who was in charge of the investigation, discovered the evil-repelling jade you left behind and mentioned it. That's why that Blood Knife wanted to see you."
"ha?"
Xue Cheng was a little confused by this inexplicable flattery.
His exorcism equipment is always well placed. After all, the evil spirits want to kill him, and such things never make sense.
The only thing that made him relax a little was that he specially invited several masters to the Blood Knife Incident.
Those masters basically followed him every day. Grandmasters could make evil spirits retreat with their powerful qi and blood alone, so he put down some of his exorcism equipment.
But he didn't have the leisure to put his own exorcism equipment into the Jinyiwei prison, nor did he put a copy on Blood Knife specifically. He didn't have the time for that.
He had doubts in his heart, but he did not show it on his face. Instead, he walked quickly to the Jinyiwei prison.
He originally thought that these people below him were flattering him and taking advantage of his glory to show off his abilities with some small tricks.
But when Xue Cheng saw the Taoist evil-repelling jade hanging next to the blood knife, his mind was stunned.
Whether in Taoist temples or Buddhist temples, there are carved jade pendants that are specially given to generous pilgrims.
But usually Buddhist carvings are of Guanyin Bodhisattva or Maitreya Buddha, while Taoist carvings usually have corresponding scriptures and talismans engraved on jade pendants or hairpins.
It is difficult to check the origin of Buddhist jade pendants, but it is very obvious for Taoist ones. This piece of jade is engraved with a talisman to ward off evil spirits.
Coincidentally, Xue Cheng just happened to have such a piece.
What's more coincidental is that Xue Cheng found this jade talisman quite familiar, and the two cracks on the top of the jade talisman were still fresh in his memory.
One of the cracks is on the lower left edge of the jade pendant, and the other new crack is on the lower right edge.
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