Chapter 11
Jitang practiced by the river all night, and when it was almost dawn, he got up and headed deep into the forest.
Misty flowers mostly grow at the foot of hills. They are nourished by spiritual energy over the years and are a favorite food of spiritual beasts.
The scent it emits has a mild hallucinogenic effect, which it uses to protect itself.
In addition, it is also needed in the refining of many low-level elixirs.
Jitang avoided the spiritual beasts that were looking for flowers all the way.
The closer we get to the destination, the more spiritual beasts there are, and many people taking the test are confronting the spiritual beasts.
She went around from the side, not taking the route that everyone else had to take, but instead came to the back of the hill.
A thin mist was hanging around the hills, and when she got closer she realized something was wrong.
It's too quiet.
There is no sound of wind blowing through leaves or birds flapping their wings.
It was so quiet that everything seemed dead.
Ji Tang walked into the mist, each step she took was very light. She looked around and found a pool of blood not far away.
The blood had not dried yet, and the bloodstains were dragging further inside.
She walked while paying attention to the bloodstains, and when she was almost at the foot of the mountain, she suddenly stopped.
There were more than a dozen people lying in front of her, and judging by their clothes, they were all people who came to take the assessment.
The grass behind him moved slightly, and Jitang turned around.
Xue Mai walked out of the fog and saw Ji Tang. Before he could say hello, he also saw the person lying on the ground behind her.
He muttered to himself, "I've actually entered a fantasy world..."
Xue Miao looked at Jitang, somewhat puzzled.
He didn't say anything else and walked straight towards Jitang.
Not until they were almost close did Ji Tang suddenly say, "Mr. Xue."
Xue Mai paused for a moment, then shook his head, "It's so true."
"I am real." Jitang turned around and looked at the dozen people on the ground who were not aware of their own lives.
Xue Mai was stunned. "What... Miss Shui Shen, you also entered the illusion?"
Jitang has already walked among these people.
"The mist flower's illusion can only deceive one person. It won't form a small illusion array, nor can it pull in a second person." She squatted down to observe, quickly examining the dozen or so people one by one, and concluded, "They're all dead."
Xue Miao was even more shocked when he heard this, and looked at Ji Tang with a curious look.
"I was wondering how the girl could become one of the illusions..."
He came to Jitang and said, "Then these people are real too."
He quickly scanned the corpse. "Blood gushing from all seven orifices, such a tragic death, it doesn't seem like the work of a spirit beast. Could it be that they were trapped in a floral illusion and killed each other? No, even if they killed each other, they couldn't have died in the same way."
Ji Tang suddenly asked, "Why did you take a detour to come here?"
Xue Mai's tone was stiff. "Do you doubt me?"
He took out his folding fan, and at this time, not forgetting the habit of a young master, he nodded to Jitang, "Miss, I don't doubt you yet."
"Why do you suspect me? I can't even tell your level of cultivation. If one of us is the murderer, then you are more likely to be the one, right?"
Ji Tang could actually see that his cultivation level was in the middle stage of fusion.
Xue Mai's folding fan fell into his palm. "Of course, we two are not the murderers. I came here to pick the mist flowers. Instead of fighting with others in the front, I might as well take the risk and try my luck in the back."
Ji Tang was half-believing and half-doubting, but he didn't say anything more.
She turned all the people who had fallen on their backs over and found that there was a lot of blood on their abdomens.
Ji Tang simply took off the outer robe of the person in front of him and lifted up his middle and inner garments.
"Miss Shuishen!" Xue Mai was shocked and quickly stopped her.
Ji Tang raised his eyes to look at him and made room for him. "Take a look at his Dantian to see if there is any wound there?"
Xue Mai was so frightened by her actions that he was still in shock, thinking that this woman didn't know how to avoid suspicion.
Seeing her step back and turn sideways, he lifted up her clothes, and everyone was shocked.
"This man's abdomen was cut open. Judging by the technique... it's like splitting a golden elixir!"
Xue Mai's face turned grim. "Miss Shui Shen, with such vicious tactics and the number of casualties, I don't think we can handle it..."
He didn't hear any response, so he looked up and saw that Jitang had taken away everyone's outer robes.
Xue Miao: “…”
Seeing that he didn't move, Jitang said, "Why are you just standing there? Check to see if other people are doing the same."
Xue Mai hesitated to speak, but still looked at them one by one, "Same technique, indeed, the golden elixir is gone."
Jitang touched his chin and thought.
There is no necessary connection between bleeding from all seven orifices and splitting the elixir. Is the murderer's goal the elixir? Bleeding from all seven orifices should be the murderer's means of killing.
Xue Mao was looking for Xuanzong's disciples nearby.
None of the disciples who were supposed to be hiding in the dark to supervise and protect showed up.
Xue Mai: "What's going on? Where have all the sect disciples gone?"
He looked back: "Aunt Shuishen, Aunt..."
Ji Tang was observing the wounds on the corpse's abdomen and casually replied, "I'm not your aunt."
Xue Mai: "How can you look directly at a man's body!"
Ji Tang's gaze was still fixed on the separated flesh.
The weapon used by the murderer was extremely sharp, and the cut on the body was smooth, as if it was cut with a single knife.
After she finished reading, she said, "It's blocked from below, why are you nagging?"
Xue Mai's chest heaved. It seemed like he was the one who couldn't keep calm.
It was obviously not him who took off the clothes, looked at the body, and covered the lower body!
……no!
Xue Mao's mind was in a mess.
The corpse's dantian was empty, the golden elixir had disappeared, and only a large amount of blood could be seen.
Ji Tang glanced around inconspicuously and deliberately said loudly, "These dozen or so people are either all in the Jindan stage, or they were captured and put together with the Jindan stage cultivators to confuse the public."
"Their spiritual energy has been rapidly dissipating, and there's very little left. I wonder what method the murderer used to cause their spiritual energy to dissipate so quickly. Could it be related to the bleeding from all seven orifices?"
Xue Mai had a complicated look in his eyes. He was thinking about all sorts of things, while Ji Tang was carefully analyzing the cause of death.
Xue Miao: "Maybe?"
Seeing that his brain wasn't working very well, Jitang wanted to use him to express his thoughts, but now he thought better of it.
"This should be the method of evil cultivators."
"Oh, evil cultivators...evil cultivators?!" Xue Mai snapped back to his senses. He looked around warily, "Miss Shuishen, I think we should leave here first and wait until we find a disciple of the Suxuan Sect!"
"The murderer must still be around here. You go find the disciples of Su Xuan Sect, and I will find the evil cultivator." After Ji Tang finished speaking, he was about to move forward along the hill.
Xue Mai said anxiously, "You're at the late stage of enlightenment. If you run into an evil cultivator, wouldn't that be a waste of your life? The Jindan cultivators have all had their cores split open. What can you do there?"
Jitang waved his hand.
Xue Mai saw that her figure was quickly obscured by the fog, and he became anxious and quickly turned around and ran out.
The place suddenly returned to dead silence.
After a while, a man appeared and walked into the corpse.
"What are you looking for?" Jitang also walked out of the fog.
She said as she looked at the man in black with a hood covering most of his face.
That person couldn't answer her question. He stretched out his hand in his sleeve and hit Jitang. Black and red blood mist moved towards Jitang.
Ji Tang clasped his hands together and used the self-defense technique and the levitation technique at the same time.
The black and red blood mist flew past her feet, turned around in the air as if consciously, and attacked Ji Tang from behind.
Ji Tang remained calm and composed, and used the levitation technique with great skill.
She dodged the blood mist and made another hand gesture. Two wind blades shot straight at the murderer, cutting through the brims of his hat on both sides, revealing his face.
The man had a pale face, droopy eyes, and a sinister look.
The area below the eyes is covered with black cloth, so the entire face cannot be seen.
Ji Tang knew that he was an evil cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul.
She had nothing to do in the outer gate square and watched the newcomers waiting for the assessment.
She can't remember the person, but she has an impression of him.
There were only a few Jindan stage cultivators inside, so she spoke loudly on purpose to let the evil cultivators relax their vigilance.
He was able to defeat a Jindan-stage cultivator and break open his elixir, and he also found more than ten people to cover up his tracks. It didn't seem like a sudden act, but most likely a long-planned one.
There are many powerful people in the Suxuan Sect, and there is also a border immortal master in charge.
If he really wanted the golden elixir, wouldn't it be easier to just look for lone Golden Core cultivators outside than those who were taking the sect's assessment?
It seems that his target is clear, and the person he wants to kill is among those taking the test.
The murderer killed people with a target in mind, so he would not go to other places in the forest.
Jitang waited patiently for the rabbit to come, and sure enough, he saw someone.
It seems that splitting the pill was just a trick of the murderer. What he really wanted should still be on the corpse.
"Miss Shui Shen!" Xue Mai called for reinforcements. He led the way on his sword, followed by five disciples of Su Xuan Sect who were also flying on their swords.
"Junior sister, step back!" The person who spoke walked past Xue Mai, drew the long sword from his waist, and stabbed straight at the evil cultivator.
Ji Tang recognized that the person was Qian Shao, the outer sect senior brother who had introduced her to the sect's rules and regulations and had been dragged into the water by her.
Xue Miao came to Jitang and asked, "Miss Shuishen, are you okay?"
Jitang withdrew his protective spell and hurried towards the corpse.
Xue Miao immediately understood, "It looks like he's not injured."
He followed, "What are you doing?"
Ji Tang first collected the storage bags from all the corpses and threw them to Xue Miao, "Help."
Xue Miao took it passively and said hesitantly, "Isn't this bad?"
Ji Tang observed the evil cultivator silently. Seeing that he was distracted but not anxious, he immediately understood.
The corpse's golden elixir had been dissected, its storage bag had been taken, and the clothes on its body had nothing precious. So there was only one thing that he valued—
My natal magic weapon!
Once the natal magic weapon recognizes its master, even if the master dies, it will not immediately become ownerless.
What's more, the human soul has not disappeared, and the magic weapon will not fall from the master's soul.
He now wants to take out the magic weapon, either to destroy the human soul or to melt the corpse.
With his level of cultivation, he couldn't skip the first two methods and directly extract the magic weapon.
Ji Tang looked at all the corpses one by one, and his gaze suddenly stopped and fell on one of the corpses.
She took off her ice-transmitting bracelet, covered the corpse with her back, and the aura of nightmare shrouded the corpse's chest.
Almost at the moment her hand fell, the upper body of the corpse suddenly arched up.
Of course the corpse cannot be moved, but the magical weapon inside the corpse can be moved.
The nightmare energy penetrated the body and touched the magic weapon inside, immediately causing a resonance.
It's like a lost person suddenly finding a place to belong.
The natal magic weapon in the corpse is the lost person, and the nightmare energy in Jitang's hand is the place of belonging.
That’s right, the magical weapon in the corpse belonged to the Nightmare Lord.
No way...
Ji Tang had a complicated expression.
In a short time, she saw another thing that belonged to her.
There was very little nightmare energy left on the magic weapon from the Nightmare Lord, and it only seemed to come back to life after it merged with Ji Tang's nightmare energy.
Ji Tang brought back the ice-transmitting bracelet, decisively took out the cloud-patterned token from his waist, and passed the message to Su Jinzhou.
Although the nightmare aura on the magic weapon was minimal, she also wanted to make her presence felt from Su Jinzhou. After a while, when Su Jinzhou relaxed his vigilance, she would have the opportunity to enter the magic weapon cave.
After the news came out, Jitang felt unsure.
Su Jinzhou might not even read her messages.
She called Xue Mai and said, "Move the body away!"
Xue Mai had just put all the storage bags into his own storage sachet. When he heard this, his eyebrows couldn't help but twitch, "What do you want the corpse for?"
Ji Tang: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up!"
Xue Mai had always been praised highly, so he was unwilling to listen to the little girl.
His eyebrows raised, "Why don't you move?"
Before he could continue speaking, Ji Tang stood up and dragged the man to the side of the corpse, then he made hand seals with both hands - two protective seals, one to block in front of the two men, and the other to block Qian Shao who was knocked away by the evil cultivator.
Before Xue Mai could see clearly how she was doing the hand seals, nor did he recover from the shock of Ji Tang being able to do the hand seals with both hands at the same time, he heard Ji Tang say, "I'll do this!"
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