Li Zhi quickly made hand gestures and chanted incantations, trying to force the resentment to take form. Resentment does not represent a soul, but if the resentment is too strong, it can still manifest.
But she could no longer sense any resentment in the room, as if everything that had just happened was her own illusion.
Seeing Li Zhiyi standing there in a daze, Jiang Yu asked, "Zhiyi, what's wrong?"
"I can't summon any of these people's spirits, which is very strange." Looking around the living room, the traces of the fire had already been cleared away by the police.
Li Zhi casually asked, "Where did these bones go?"
"I've had the forensic experts examine these human bones from the burned bodies."
Li Zhiyi thought for a moment and then wandered around the villa again. Jiang Yu followed her at a leisurely pace. When they reached the bathroom, Li Zhiyi stopped and then went to the kitchen. Although the bloodstains in the kitchen had dried, they had not been cleaned and it was clear that something terrible had happened there.
Then he went to the study where the murder had occurred. There was no blood in the study, but from the hole in the wooden bookcase, Li Zhizhi recalled the horrific scene of the woman being nailed there with wooden nails.
Why would the murderer nail a person to this spot with wooden nails? Is there some special meaning behind it?
Finally, the two left the villa. Jiang Yu noticed that Li Zhiyi was in a bad mood and comforted him, "It's okay, we'll come back tomorrow to check and see if we've missed anything."
"Okay, then take me back."
It was already late at night. Jiang Yu drove Li Zhizhi all the way back to the gate of the villa, got out of the car to open the door for Li Zhizhi, and then left.
From the moment Gu Siye hung up the phone, he secretly vowed that he would never interfere in her affairs again. However, upon hearing the sound of a car, he involuntarily pulled back the curtains and saw a man's back entering the car. Judging from the man's back, he had a very good physique and was driving a private luxury car.
Ah, women! He had long known that women were the most pragmatic and fickle people in the world, and this proved to be true even more.
Li Zhiyi had no idea how Gu Siye viewed her at this moment. She went back to her room and lay on the bed, but she was not sleepy at all.
She must have missed some important information. What could it be?
Jiang Yu said the only thing the victims had in common was that they were all women, and they were all murdered on the fifteenth of the lunar month, which is the night of the full moon.
My master once said that on the night of the full moon, some incredible things would happen in places that ordinary people could not see, such as rabbits worshipping the moon, and the methods by which some animals in the deep mountains and forests cultivate themselves into spirits also involve absorbing the essence of the moon.
In that instant, Li Zhiyi understood why the killer always committed murders on the night of a full moon, and also understood why there were no souls in the house where four people had died—because the souls had been controlled.
This is a method used by evil cultivators to sacrifice living people in an attempt to ascend to immortality. Everyone knows that Taoist cultivators undergo tribulations and suffer heavenly lightning during their ascension, but these evil cultivators' ascension is not permitted by the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, these evil cultivators devised this method of using the tragic deaths of living people to create the Five Elements Technique, which can defy the heavens and change one's fate.
The first person to die was killed by a knife, which belongs to the element of metal; the second was nailed to death with wood, which means death by wood; the third died by water; and the fourth died by fire.
Therefore, the fifth victim has not yet appeared and will surely die in the ground.
Once she understood this, she immediately called Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu hadn't arrived home yet, so he parked his car to the side of the road to answer the phone.
Upon hearing Li Zhiyi's words, the hairs on his body stood on end. He felt that these people were terrifying, that they would actually think of using this method to obtain immortality.
"Thank you, I understand what you're saying."
“Jiang Yu, you should go home now and not go there. That's the territory of the sorcerer. It's very dangerous for you to go there. I'll go with you every time you go from now on. And he won't harm anyone until the night of the full moon.”
Jiang Yu never expected that this case would involve metaphysics. "Okay, I promise you. I'm going back now."
The next day, when Li Zhi went downstairs for lunch, she didn't see Gu Siye. She wasn't surprised, after all, he was a big CEO, and his workload must be huge.
"Grandpa, where's Nianzhi? Why isn't she coming down for dinner?" Gu Nianzhi usually gets up earlier than him.
“Nianzhi, that child, had the driver take her to the airport early this morning, saying she was going to go on a vacation to an island with her friends for a few days. Sigh, what a playful little girl.”
"Grandpa, I'm going out today too. Will the driver be available to take me later?"
“Yes, we have more than one driver in our family. I’ll give you the driver’s phone number right now. You can have the driver pick you up and drop you off wherever you want to go. Girl, why don’t you go get a driver’s license? Whatever car you want, Grandpa will give you one.”
"No, Grandpa, I'll have the driver take me." The incident where Li Zhiyi secretly drove into a telephone pole last time left her with a lot of psychological trauma. It looks easy for others to drive, but it's actually very difficult to master. Anyway, she always has a driver when she goes out, so why should she learn to drive herself? When no one's around, she can fly!
Grandpa Gu smiled indulgently, thinking that Li Yi was worried about him spending money, and felt even more sorry for this little girl.
Li Zhiyi went directly to the police station to find Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu was surprised that she hadn't sent him a message beforehand, but he was very happy, which meant that she didn't treat him like an outsider.
When the people in the police station saw Li Zhiyi, they winked and teased him, "Captain, you've been hiding your true abilities!"
"Get out of here and get back to your work."
Everyone laughed and went to work. Jiang Yu drove Li Zhiyi back to the Yuwan Villa in the east of the city.
"Firstly, I checked the information you mentioned last night. These people did die strangely, but do you really think that sorcerer will strike again on the night of the full moon?" He still didn't believe in ascension. If ascension were truly possible, wouldn't the ancient emperors have chosen to be emperors?
Ancient emperors are said to have concocted elixirs of immortality using the bodies of young boys and girls, but which ancient emperor actually achieved immortality?
"Yes, because this evil cultivator is just one step away from success. He believes he can succeed, and even if he fails, he won't lose anything. We can't use ordinary people's thinking to speculate on the thinking of these evil cultivators."
Jiang Yu nodded in agreement. Let alone evil cultivators, even some perverted killers have a different thought process than ordinary people.
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