Chapter 168 Guardian Spirit 36

​​Noticing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Xie Fu's gloomy face suddenly broke into a smile, he pulled out his office chair and sat down leisurely, with his arms folded.

"Master Ghost King's analysis is very reasonable, but in my opinion, it's just nonsense--"

The next moment, an invisible wave pinched Xie Fu's neck, making him unable to utter a single breath.

Then, Xie Fu's feet left the ground, his body slammed heavily into the ceiling chandelier, and bounced back onto the table.

The chandelier was smashed into pieces and fell down.

Glass fragments flew everywhere, but did not alarm others, and all fell on Xie Fu, cutting his exposed skin.

The fragments did not cut deep enough to injure any vital parts, but only ooze out countless bloodstains, leaving Xie Fu covered in blood.

"Big Brother!"

"Patriarch!"

Xie Zuo and the elders of the Xie family rushed over and hurriedly fed him the elixir.

Xie Fu curled up in pain, and was only able to move after taking the elixir.

Xie Zuo helped Xie Fu sit back up, and then glared at Yao Rong: "Yao Rong, you dared to attack in front of so many people."

Yao Rong's eyebrows were cold, and he stood up from the chair, pressing towards Xie Zuo with unyielding momentum.

"Xie Fu keeps calling me the Ghost King, but I don't think he takes my identity seriously. Otherwise, how could he dare to offend me so many times."

"Remember, I am willing to reason with you to give you face. But if I give you face and someone still has no shame, don't blame me for being unreasonable."

After saying that, Yao Rong untied the ghost bride's restraints and coldly ordered: "Search Xie Fu's body."

The ghost bride came to Xie Fu in a flash.

But after searching for a long time, the ghost bride didn't find the hairpin on Xie Fu.

Yao Rong's finger slipped, and the storage ring on Xie Fu's fingertips broke. A double-strand gold hairpin carved in the shape of a peach blossom fell out of the ring and was carefully held by the ghost bride.

"This is my hairpin!" said the ghost bride.

Xie Fu secretly took a deep breath, trying to stay awake as much as possible in the severe pain, and quickly thought of countermeasures.

It was exactly as Yao Rong said. He brought the hairpin into the mausoleum.

After leaving the mausoleum, he followed Elder Tang and others here, and had no chance to deal with the hairpin.

Yao Rong said: "Send the gold thread and this hairpin to Master Ji, and ask her to see if the hairpin is a standard from the Western Zhou Dynasty and whether the gold thread was taken out of the hairpin."

No one in the conference room spoke, waiting quietly for Master Ji to give the result.

Xie Fu suddenly said in a cold voice: "My Lord Ghost King, I don't know if I can speak now."

Yao Rong, who was standing, could look down at Xie Fu easily: "I didn't seal your mouth."

Xie Fu pulled a sarcastic smile from the corner of his lips: "But you almost killed me just now. I am a bit unpleasant to hear. If this happens one or two more times, I will go to the underworld and report to Prince Yan."

Yao Rong certainly knew the intention of Xie Fu's words: he wanted to use provocation to force her not to attack him again.

However, Yao Rong didn't mind agreeing to him.

If Xie Fu was allowed to die like this, it would be too easy for Xie Fu.

She wanted to make Xie Fu lose all the support of the people and reveal his ugly side. She wanted to reveal Xie Fu's true face and judge Xie Fu openly.

"For the sake of the Tianshi League, as long as you cooperate with the investigation, I will not kill you or anyone in your lineage."

"But if you don't cooperate, I can't guarantee what will happen."

Hearing Yao Rong's assurance, Xie Zuo and the elders of the Xie family secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Even the top leaders of the Tianshi League were very satisfied. This Lord Ghost King still gave them face.

The Tianshi League did not want to be an enemy of this Lord Ghost King. If this Lord Ghost King abused Xie Fu, they could pretend not to see it. After all, Xie Fu's jumping up and down just now was really annoying.

But if the Ghost King killed Xie Fu and them, the nature would be completely different, and the Tianshi League could no longer stand idly by.

Only Xie Fu guessed what Yao Rong was thinking.

What Yao Rong wanted was never to kill their lineage directly.

If her request was just that simple, their lineage would have ceased to exist many years ago.

So Xie Fu asked, "Even if the hairpin is on me, what does it matter?"

Lu Hexuan, who knew the rules of the Tianshi League by heart, said, "Of course..."

As if he had thought of something, Lu Hexuan's voice became softer and his brows furrowed.

Elder Tang shouted anxiously: "Of course, you will be punished according to the rules of the Tianshi League. You deliberately murdered the master of the Zhaodan Sword. Based on this, you can be stripped of all your positions and expelled from the league."

Xie Fu first said to Ji Tianshi: "Ji Tianshi, you don't need to check. This hairpin was indeed brought out from the tomb of the kings and princes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and I also put the gold thread into the oil lamp."

Ji Tianshi stopped his actions and looked at Xie Fu in surprise. He didn't expect that he would recognize it so readily.

But think about it, since the person was stolen and captured on the spot, it would not make much sense for Xie Fu to continue to deny it.

Afterwards, Xie Fu responded to what Elder Tang had just said: "But first, Xie Yinian is fine. Second, Xie Yinian is the son of the Ghost King."

"To be honest, I knew the identities of Xie Yinian and Yao Rong long before entering the mausoleum."

"I didn't do all this just because of personal grudges."

Elder Tang was almost disgusted by his righteous look, and his blood surged.

Lu Hexuan quickly helped Elder Tang to rest.

This is why Lu Hexuan suddenly fell silent.

As long as Xie Fu insisted that Xie Yinian was the "son of the Ghost King", the Tianshi League would not be able to give him severe punishment -

as a Tianshi, is there anything wrong with taking action against the son of the Ghost King?

Moreover, Xie Yinian was not in any trouble.

If Xie Fu was a little more shameless, he could say that he did all this to expose Yao Rong's identity in public. If it weren't for him, the Tianshi League would probably still be kept in the dark by Yao Rong and Xie Yinian.

Then, Lu Hexuan really heard Xie Fu say:

"I know that many people think that I have a grudge against Yinian, and I wish to kill Yinian. If I suddenly jump out and say that Yao Rong is the Ghost King and Yinian is the son of the Ghost King, no one may believe it."

"Only like this, in public, when many people have witnessed Yao Rong's situation, can everyone believe what I say."

"What I did is for the great cause of the Tianshi League."

The senior leaders of the Tianshi League: "..."

Bah, the great cause of the Tianshi League.

If Xie Yinian was really killed by you, what great cause would the Tianshi League have.

The anger of the Ghost King can directly destroy the great cause of the Tianshi League.

The deputy leader who has the best relationship with Patriarch Xie was speechless and a little confused.

Why didn't he realize before that Xie Fu was so shameless?

Maybe it was because when he met Xie Fu, Xie Fu was already the patriarch of the Xie family.

This kind of calculating and scheming attitude mostly happened when Xie Fu was not in power. Even

beasts wearing human clothes can pretend to be beasts in human clothing.

Not to mention Xie Fu who is used to pretending.

For example, Yao Rong was not surprised by Xie Fu's remarks.

This is what Xie Fu could say.

After twenty years in a high position, he is still the timid Xie Fu in his bones, who dares not to take what he wants openly, and is inferior and arrogant.

Only Xie Fu himself does not think that there is anything wrong with his character and behavior.

Xie Fu has seen people who act uprightly, are confident and calm, and are born to be the center of attention.

His cousin, Xie Zhou.

Xie Zhou's first twenty years of life were extremely smooth. Not only did he have the best birth and the best talents, but he also had relatives who loved him. Later, he participated in the Heavenly Master Competition and met a wife who was good in every way.

But what was Xie Zhou's final outcome?

He died and his body was exposed in the wilderness for more than ten years. Even though he was buried by Yao Rong later, his soul was never able to return to his homeland. On the

other hand, he.

As a branch of the Xie family, his parents turned against each other early on. Not long after his younger brother Xie Zuo was born, his parents reorganized their family.

He has good talents, but not the best.

He can be cultivated by the family, but not enough to make the family give everything.

In order to obtain cultivation resources, he tried every possible means, and he faced life-and-death crises countless times.

However, he had the last laugh.

When he became the final winner, he was finally able to hide his fears, his inferiority and arrogance, and pretended to be polite. He was admired by people around him, and he also created a good reputation and maintained good relations with many families and Taoist temples.

But when his power and position were unstable, those admirations and reputations would be the first to be abandoned by him.

Xie Fu never cared about Xie Zuo's worries and what he thought was "being abandoned by his relatives".

From ancient times to the present, how many heroes have had their hands stained with the blood of their loved ones.

If those heroes care too much about other people's opinions, they won't even be qualified to be judged by future generations.

If he cares too much about other people's opinions, he won't have the status he has today.

When he was just a member of the Xie family, he would be terrified that he had offended the leader of the Tianshi League.

When he was the head of the Xie family, when his will represented the will of the entire Xie family, even if he offended someone for a while, so what?

As long as the Tianshi League still needs the Xie family, as long as the Xie family can still cultivate a steady stream of Tianshi, no matter how much those people hate him in secret, in public, everyone is a decent person.

***

"Pa, pa, pa."

The slow applause rang out from the crowd.

Everyone's attention returned to Yao Rong again.

Yao Rong put down her hands: "Your shamelessness and lack of bottom line can indeed clear you up."

She didn't expect that a hairpin could bring down Xie Fu.

Yao Rong turned to the leader and asked: "Have you found the tomb robbers?"

The leader said: "I just gave the order not long ago. It will take at least one or two days to get the results..."

Elder Tang, who was sitting next to him to recuperate, suddenly raised his mobile phone: "I found it!"

The Tang family's connections are definitely not as wide as those of the Tianshi League. But who told the Tang family to do this before? When the leader of the Tianshi League sent people to investigate the matter, Elder Tang also sent a message to his family, asking them to ask directly in the tomb-robbing circle. It was

also a coincidence that not long after asking, a man named Qiangzi contacted the Tang family.

Qiangzi used to have a good brother named Aniu. Both of them were not very successful in the tomb-robbing business. They just made enough to make a living.

About 20 years ago, when Qiangzi and Aniu were drinking, Aniu suddenly said mysteriously that he had found a tomb near his home and was going to be rich.

Qiangzi didn't believe that things could be so coincidental, so he didn't take it seriously until a month later, when Aniu appeared in front of him with injuries and several antiques from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

With these antiques, Aniu completely got rid of poverty and his life became more and more prosperous.

However, Qiangzi was still poor and miserable in his middle age.

Over the years, Qiangzi has always regretted not believing Aniu's words and not going down to the ancient tomb with Aniu.

So when the Tang family asked, Qiangzi immediately recalled this incident and told the Tang family the contact information of Aniu.

No matter what Qiangzi's motivation was, he told this story, but with the information Qiangzi gave, the Tang family easily found Aniu and used some means to make Aniu speak.

Aniu was from Qingyang Village, D City. The tomb he went to rob was the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty king on the mountain. And Aniu also admitted that they did invite a heavenly master to accompany them, and that heavenly master was Xie Fu.

...

These causes and consequences are not what everyone cares about.

What everyone really cares about is what happened under the tomb.

Elder Tang covered his chest and coughed a few times, then continued to relay in a hoarse voice: "After they entered the mausoleum, they were very lucky and chose the door leading to the main tomb. But they also broke the seal, causing the Yin Sha Sword sealed in the main tomb to awaken."

"After Xie Fu and his team entered the main tomb, they began to move the burial objects in the main tomb. Everything was originally peaceful, but the ghost bride was suddenly awakened, clamoring to return her hairpin while attacking them."

"If the Yin Sha Sword had not suddenly escaped from the mausoleum and quickly released the Yin Sha Qi to form the Yin Sha Land, Xie Fu and his team would have died there."

When he said this, Elder Tang looked at Yao Rong with some complexity.

Later, this ghost soldier nurtured by nature was obtained by Yao Rong.

Yao Rong ignored the look in Elder Tang's eyes. She asked a very important question: "When did Ah Niu and his companions enter the mausoleum?"

"Let me see--" Elder Tang reread the chat records and said, "They entered the mausoleum on February 16, 2004 and left on February 18."

Elder Tang asked: "Xie Fu, do you admit what Ah Niu said?"

"If you don't admit it, I can let Ah Niu confront you face to face."

And Ah Niu was not the only tomb robber who survived that year.

It would not be difficult to find them by following the clues, but it would take some effort.

Xie Fu smiled faintly.

All the wounds on his face had solidified, and the blood scabs covered most of his face, making his smile more vicious.

"I admit it."

"I've already told you what Ah Niu said. If I hadn't been to the tomb before, how could I have gotten the golden hairpin?" The testimonies of

***

Qiangzi and Ah Niu can only further prove that Xie Fu went to the tomb of the Western Zhou kings and princes on February 16, 2004, took the hairpin, and encountered the ghost bride.

Then what?

Things were at a stalemate here.

Xie Fu said, "If there's nothing else, let's go. I want to go back and change clothes."

"Don't worry." Yao Rong said, "There's still one thing I don't understand."

Yao Rong turned to look at Ji Tianshi: "Ji Tianshi, what did you find out?"

Xie Fu stood up and paused, thinking that something was wrong.

He just took the initiative to admit that he had been to the tomb in order to attract everyone's attention and prevent Ji Tianshi from carefully examining the hairpin.

But obviously, his obstruction was unsuccessful.

Ji Tianshi said matter-of-factly: "This hairpin is indeed made in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The gold thread can match the gap of the hairpin, and the material is exactly the same. It is certain that the gold thread was disassembled from the hairpin." "

But in addition to these, I also found a special place."

Xie Fu's strength was drained away by most of his body at this moment.

When he fell back on the chair, Ji Tianshi put the gold thread and the hairpin on the table so that everyone could see the appearance of the hairpin.

"This hairpin has two gold threads removed. Judging from the traces, one gold thread was removed recently, and the other..." "

It can be traced back to 20 or 30 years ago."

"Of course, if you want a more precise time, you need to send it to the police's evidence inspection department and let them help with the identification."

Most people didn't realize what was wrong when they heard Master Ji Tian's words.

Only a very small number of people thought that the gold thread that was removed recently was obviously used to deal with Xie Yinian. Then what did Xie Fu use

the other gold thread for? When this question came to many people's minds, Yao Rong smiled coldly: "The other gold thread was used on Xie Zhou." "You designed to kill Xie Zhou and the others, right?" As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was silent. The calmness on Xie Fu's face was shattered. The next moment, Xie Fu said fiercely, "Nonsense! As a member of the Xie family, how could I do such a bad thing!" " Really?" Yao Rong sneered at his words, "In order to kill Xie Zhou, you did not hesitate to destroy the backbone of the Xie family. Xie Zhou is not the only one whose corpse was exposed in the evil land! Do you think you are worthy of being the head of the Xie family!?" Whether it was the intention to attack Xie Yinian or the fact that he had entered the tomb of the kings and princes of the Western Zhou Dynasty twenty years ago, Xie Fu's crime could not be convicted, and Xie Fu could not be kicked out of the position of the head of the Xie family. But, what if the 24 Xie family masters who died that year were all killed by Xie Fu's selfishness? How can such a person, who steps on the blood and tears of his own people, hold a high position? Yao Rong's gaze was directed at the elder of the Xie family: "Elder Xie Zheng, are you still going to help the tyrant? Think carefully, who was the first to discover the changes in the Yinsha Land and report the situation to Xie Zhou!" "Also, who was the first to suggest that there might be powerful ghosts in the Yinsha Land?" "Based on my understanding of Xie Zhou, if he was not sure that there were powerful ghosts in the Yinsha Land, Xie Zhou would at most take a few people to check the situation. Only when he was sure that there were terrible powerful ghosts in it, would Xie Zhou make a big fuss and bring so many people there at once." "Back then, when I returned to the Yao family to take care of my father, what exactly happened in the Xie family's ancestral home!?" Elder Xie Zheng was forced to take a step back by Yao Rong's questioning, with cold sweat on his forehead. He is not from Xie Fu's lineage. He is loyal to Xie Fu, but more loyal to the Xie family. If Xie Fu really did such an evil thing that would be intolerable to heaven and earth, he would never stand on Xie Fu's doomed ship. "Back then..." *** "Let me tell you what happened back then." The door of the conference room was ajar. Xie Nai and dozens of Xie family members pushed the door open and walked in, filling the conference room in an instant. Yao Rong was a little surprised by the appearance of Xie Nai and others, and turned to look at Xie Yinian. Xie Yinian smiled awkwardly and quietly waved the screen of his mobile phone at her. Yao Rong then noticed that he had actually opened a voice call in the Xie family group. Looking at the call time of more than two hours displayed on the voice call, Yao Rong's eyes were filled with smiles.

Xie Yinian started making this call shortly after the mother and son entered the conference room.

"Xie Nai, this is the Tianshi League in D City, not a place you can come and go as you please!" Xie Fu put his hands on the table, stood up from his chair, and shouted in a low voice.

Xie Nai sneered and ignored Xie Fu's words.

"That night, I went to the ancestral home to find my cousin Xie Zhou. Because it rained heavily at night, I stayed there. In the middle of the night, I heard a noise coming from the living room. I opened the door and saw Xie Fu sitting on the sofa with injuries all over his body, and my cousin Xie Zhou was sitting next to him."

"Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the injuries on Xie Fu's body were caused by a fierce ghost."

"I didn't go downstairs, so I don't know what Xie Fu and my cousin Xie Zhou talked about specifically, but what is certain is that the next day, the news about the Yinsha Land was widely spread, and shortly thereafter, my cousin Xie Zhou decided to lead a team to the Yinsha Land." After

Xie Nai finished speaking, many members of the Xie family also echoed him, and even added a lot of details to what Xie Nai said.

"I have the diary left by my husband as evidence."

Xie Jian's wife took out a yellowed diary from her arms, tears in her eyes.

"The night before he set out for the Yinsha Land, he wrote a diary as usual. It mentioned in it that if Xie Fu had not been injured, they would not have known about the chaos in D City. And he wrote the diary on February 23 of that year..."

Another old man with gray hair also said, "Yes, I can prove that they went to the Yinsha Land on February 24, 2004. On February 26, their soul lamps were all extinguished. The Xie family announced their deaths to the outside world."

Another man in his thirties blushed and said angrily, "Yes, the memorial day of my father, my uncle and my aunt is the 26th. Our family has never forgotten this day."

All of the above were members of the Xie family who once supported Xie Zhou's lineage.

The neutral Xie family members also said: "Xie Fu must have concealed the true situation of the tomb at that time. If they knew that there were powerful ghosts at the level of Ghost King in the tomb, how could they go to die."

Even the Xie family members who had always supported Xie Fu were in the crowd, shouting in extremely sad and angry voices: "The day we set out was exactly my birthday, and my mother and I agreed that after she completed the mission and came back, she would celebrate my birthday again. But in the end, I didn't even wait for her corpse..."

Under the pressure of Yao Rong, the ghost bride also revealed a very crucial news: she did kill a group of people 20 years ago, and took back a gold thread from one of them.

"That gold wire was welded to the array."

"The array is still in the mausoleum, on the second drawer on the left side of my dressing table."

Undoubtedly, the direct murderer who killed Xie Zhou and his party was the ghost bride.

But Xie Zhou and his party were heavenly masters, and they went to the evil land to kill the ghost bride.

Either the ghost bride died, or Xie Zhou and his party died.

Therefore, compared to the ghost bride, Xie Fu, who hid behind the scenes and planned everything, was more hateful!

The Xie family is a very large family of heavenly masters that has been passed down for thousands of years. Such a family is not judged by bloodline alone, they value strength more.

Even if it is the main branch, as long as there are no powerful people for two or three generations, it is likely to decline.

Even if it is a branch that cannot be separated, as long as a child with extremely high talent is born, a large amount of family resources will be tilted.

The twenty-four heavenly masters who died in the Yinsha Land were all important figures in the Xie family, and the strength of their lineage should not be underestimated.

They are dead, but they still have many relatives alive in the world.

Some of these relatives have extremely high voice in the Xie family.

Xie Fu is indeed the head of the family, but the power of the head of the family is not unlimited.

"If my child was really killed by you, I want you to pay with blood."

"The Xie family can die at the hands of a powerful devil, but they should not die in vain in the family's overthrow and conspiracy. Xie Fu, have you been sitting on the position of the head of the family for the past 20 years?" "

There is no head like you in our Xie family."

"That's right, you are not worthy of being the head of the Xie family, let alone a member of the Xie family."

Such voices were only uttered by a few people at first, but after a moment, they became the consensus of most of the Xie family members present.

Even the elder Xie Zheng quietly stepped back a few steps and drew a clear line between himself and Xie Zuo and Xie Fu.

Xie Zuo looked at Xie Fu in panic, just like in the past few decades.

Xie Fu, who always protected Xie Zuo from the storm, seemed to have lost his soul and sat on the chair.

At this point, he lost everything.

Yao Rong suddenly said, "Xie Fu, you have always been jealous of Xie Zhou."

Xie Fu's expression froze.

"You were jealous that he was the proud son of heaven, and you were only fit to be a rat in the gutter. So later, my son fell from the proud son of heaven to the mud, and your son replaced my son's position and became the proud son of heaven, and became the unicorn son of the Xie family."

"Your fate and Xie Zhou's fate were completely reversed, and your son's fate and Xie Zhou's son's fate were also completely reversed. At that time, you must have been very proud."

Xie Fu clenched his teeth tightly, because the muscles on his face were too tight and stiff, his expression at this moment was particularly fierce.

When did he start to be jealous of that cousin?

Maybe it was when the Taoist technique that he could not learn no matter how hard he tried was easily learned by that cousin.

Maybe he had to risk his life to get a high-level defensive magic weapon, while the cousin received a top-grade magic weapon like the black magic ring as a gift of adulthood.

The person who he could not catch up with no matter how hard he tried, the person who always stood on the bright side and made him ashamed, was really too jealous and hateful.

He sat in the warm and bright sunshine, but couldn't help thinking maliciously -

if there was no such person in the world who was so good that he could overshadow the brilliance of others, how great it would be.

So, when he grabbed the golden hairpin and escaped from the mausoleum, he knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally come.

He made a formation with gold wire and gave it to Xie Zhou for self-defense.

When Xie Zhou took the array and said "thank you", he never thought that this self-defense array would become his death warrant. After

Xie Zhou and his friends entered the Yinsha Land, he would endure the pain in his body and wander around the house where the soul lamp was placed every day.

Many tribesmen said that he was worried about Xie Zhou and his friends, but only he knew that he wanted to be the first to witness the news of Xie Zhou's death.

When the brightly burning soul lamp gradually went out, he was really happy.

From then on, Xie Zhou, who always overshadowed him, finally died.

And Xie Zhou's son...

If Xie Zhou's son was not very talented, he could still tolerate that child, but...

How could he let his son Xie Chuan repeat his mistakes and experience the pain he had experienced?

So don't blame him for being cruel.

He asked Xie Zuo to get rid of the child. He madly suppressed the main line of the Xie family and sent all the powerful people in the main line of the Xie family to perform dangerous tasks...

The wounds all over his body were painful. A glass flew from nowhere and hit him hard on the head. His

consciousness gradually faded away. Chief Xie looked at the hateful eyes of those tribesmen and suddenly felt that this was not supposed to be like this.

He worked hard for most of his life, but how could he end up like this.