sacrifice
Li You stood at the foot of the altar and instructed the female disciples of Yinchao who were participating in the sacrifice: "Tomorrow is the grand sacrificial ceremony. Go and check every place again. There must not be any omissions!"
A crisp voice replied, "Yes." Everyone started working on their respective duties.
For the women of Yinchao, participating in the sacrificial ceremony is equivalent to obtaining some kind of honor. When there are more wolves than meat, it is extremely difficult to obtain the qualification.
But this year, there was someone who got in through the backdoor, which made those who were not selected extremely jealous. That person was Li Ling's sister - An Nan.
"Why on earth could she participate in the sacrificial ceremony? Not only is her spiritual power low, but she also looks sickly. It's really annoying to look at her."
"That's right, even our sister Yue'er was rejected, but she managed to get in."
"Ah, ah, ah, you don't know this, right? People like this who have no ability will use some dirty means and do some despicable things."
"After all, she is the daughter of a sinner..."
Everyone looked with malice at the thin woman who was checking things alone with her back to them. That woman was the An Nan they were talking about.
Anan flinched. She had heard these malicious words many times before, so she should have gotten used to it by now, right? She had to be patient. Just bear with it a little longer, just bear with it a little longer, and that would be enough...
She pursed her lips tightly, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.
Tomorrow is the grand sacrificial ceremony. Anyone who commits a crime at this critical moment will not have a good ending. Seeing that she did not react, everyone felt bored and quickly dispersed.
"Ah!" A scream came from the corridor.
"What's wrong?"
The female disciples rushed over upon hearing the noise.
The female disciple fell onto the wooden board, pointed her finger at the pool, her face pale, and replied in a trembling voice: "Someone's dead, someone's dead!"
"How is that possible?" A brave female disciple leaned over the railing to look down, and was immediately shocked. She took several steps back, "Someone is really dead!"
“No way!”
"What should I do? Tomorrow is the sacrificial ceremony. How unlucky..."
One of the disciples calmly reminded, "Hurry up and inform the young clan leader."
After a while, Li You and the disciple who had brought the news arrived. She first comforted the girls around her before asking in a deep voice, "Who died?"
"I don't know, he seems to be a menial disciple."
Among the five tribes, the side branches with low cultivation levels are mostly not valued by the tribe. They are usually assigned to do menial work and have low status.
Li You frowned and used his spiritual power to lift the person out of the water. He found that the person died in a very strange way.
On the surface, there didn't seem to be any wounds, but blood was coming out of all his orifices, his pupils were completely white, and his body was so swollen that it didn't look like he had been dead for just a day or two.
"Why is there still a dark aura around him?"
In a place where no one noticed, several strands of black air flew out and disappeared into the bodies of Yinchao disciples in a tricky way.
"Could it be that something bad has happened?"
It was not obvious in the water just now, but when it was pulled out, everyone discovered that there was still a strange black aura wrapped around the dead body.
Li You frowned even deeper. She had never seen such a way of death.
She had been feeling uneasy since she heard about the sudden death. Normally, a dead person floating on the water would give off a strong stench, but strangely, there was no odor at all. If someone hadn't happened to glance down, who knows when they would have discovered a dead person floating there.
Moreover, the discovery was made just one day before the Yinchao Sacrifice... It was too coincidental.
"Young Clan Leader, the one who died was the menial disciple Li Hongcai. Because he had some friendship with the Second Young Master, he bullied others on a daily basis."
Li You felt a headache after hearing this, but was helpless.
The second young master is strangely Li You's younger brother. They are obviously siblings, but there is a world of difference between them.
If Li You is a favored girl of heaven, then Li Qi is a useless piece of trash.
Not only was he useless, he also loved to do all kinds of bad things. He never stopped bullying men and women, and he would have committed murder and arson if his father hadn't warned him against it. He was a bully who was unmatched in the world.
"What's going on?"
Li You was just thinking when he saw a young man as bright as the moon walking out from the crowd.
The female disciples shouted in unison, their voices as sweet as silver bells: "Young Master Li Yu."
Li You lowered his eyebrows and called softly, "Brother Yu."
Li Yu said softly, "Tomorrow is the grand sacrificial ceremony. You have a heavy responsibility tomorrow and should not be distracted. Leave this matter to me."
Li You calmed down and neither agreed nor disagreed. He murmured, "In the Hidden Tide records, this situation is considered ominous."
"Records are just records, they are all dead. Taoism is flexible, and the laws of heaven are not fixed. As long as people are alive, there will definitely be ways to change something."
"Proceed with caution."
Seeing her let go, Li Yu smiled gently.
Out of sight of everyone, Anan looked through the gap at the corpse on the ground, his eyes filled with indifference.
After everyone left, Li Yu ordered his men to seal off the crime scene and no one was allowed to set foot there. He then brought the body back to the Law Enforcement Hall and practiced the Hidden Tide Secret Technique alone - Time Tracing.
Everything that happened that night emerged before his eyes bit by bit, until the black fog appeared. The secret technique that was supposed to consume some mana actually backfired on Li Yu.
Li Yu clutched his aching chest, quickly withdrawing his magical power and swallowing the rusty taste rising in his throat. After a moment's pause, he immediately bound a spiritual book with his hands and sent a message to Li Ling.
As soon as Li Ling was led into the secret room of the Law Enforcement Hall, the man retreated on his own initiative and locked the door in one go.
Li Yu, contrary to her usual behavior, asked with a stern face, "Did you kill Li Hongcai?"
Because Li Yu and Li You blocked the news, Li Ling didn't know what exactly happened.
Li Ling was stunned for a moment and replied, "No."
He had suffered too much injustice over the years, and fearing Li Yu wouldn't believe him, he added, "I just pushed him into the water and cast a silence spell on him."
Li Yu frowned, as this was consistent with what he saw in the time tracing back. He had originally suspected that Li Ling had used some unknown means to kill Li Hongcai, and he didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he thought of testing the waters. Now it seems that the murderer is someone else.
Li Yu stared at Li Ling's eyes for a while, and Li Ling also looked at him.
Li Ling couldn't help but murmur in his heart that his nominal brother was so serious when judging people that even God would have to listen to his lecture.
After a moment, Li Yu said bluntly: "I suspect someone wants to take this opportunity to frame you."
Li Ling was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"According to other disciples, Li Hongcai often bullies others by taking advantage of his power. You are the one with the deepest grudge against him among the clan members. Moreover, he only met you before his death, so you are the most suspicious."
Li Ling felt complicated and nodded.
Li Yu continued, "If that's the verdict. Given Elder Li Ke's character..." He paused and said, "Even if you have someone protecting you, he won't show mercy."
Not long ago, after Li Ling was protected by Li Ke, Li Yu guessed that Li Ling must have received help from a noble person.
And he is not an ordinary nobleman, because Elder Li Ke is a person who sticks to the rules, and he will not be shaken by ordinary people or ordinary things.
Li Ling smiled calmly, "Killing one's own kind, according to the Hidden Tide Law, will result in the abolition of one's cultivation, the breaking of one's limbs, and the reduction to slavery, where one will be trampled upon and will never be able to rise again."
Li Yu added: "Not only that, tomorrow is the sacrificial ceremony, and someone died today. This is a big taboo, adding sin to sin."
Li Ling glanced at Li Hongcai's corpse and commented calmly, "How vicious."
"You seem to be a magnet for bad luck." Li Yu felt a chill in her heart. Seeing that Li Ling wasn't afraid at all, she couldn't help but tease him and asked, "Have you thought of any solution? Given the hatred that person behind the scenes has for you, if he fails to harm you this time, there's a good chance he'll do it next time."
Li Ling's thin lips uttered eight words, "Use the enemy's tactics against them and lure the snake out of its hole."
Li Yu didn't expect him to say that. After all, Li Ling had just been whipped, and his injuries must not have healed yet. If he took the risk of using himself as bait, it would be bad if he didn't catch the fish but lost his life.
Li Yu is hesitant to speak.
What Li Ling said was indeed a good idea, but if the person behind it was here for the sacrifice, they would not have time.
Li Ling seemed to see what he was thinking and said, "I have another idea."
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