Just as Zhang Jinhuai expected, after “Lingsu Zhenren” answered, many people posted question marks in the comments below the post.
Obviously, the vast majority of people don’t know about this formation.
There were only a few replies saying that they had seen this formation in ancient books, but they had no idea how to use it specifically. It was thought to have been lost.
Zhang Jinhuai flipped through the popular posts and found that many professional questions were answered by this ID. And judging from the suggestions given by Lingsu Zhenren, most of them were lost methods...
More importantly, a few days after he answered the question, the original poster would come back and post a message to thank him profusely.
If the people in the thread didn't all have fixed usernames, everyone would have thought that the posters seeking advice were playing a double game with "Lingsu Zhenren"...
Some people complained that this person is simply a human-shaped mobile database. If it weren't for the fact that one must bind a real-life ID card to register for the forum, he would have thought that there was an AI behind this ID.
Some people speculated that "Zhenren Lingsu" must be a big boss who lived to be a hundred or eighty years old, or perhaps the leader of a certain sect, who was kind enough to solve the problems encountered by the grassroots Taoists.
Some people even created a special post to expose the identity of "Lingsu Zhenren".
They talked about the current leaders of the three major Taoist sects today - Maoshan, Longhushan, and Hezaoshan.
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Zhang Jinhuai silently watched the heated discussion on the post, his mind full of thoughts about who this person was.
He appeared out of nowhere without any warning and he is not a member of the Taoist Association. Could it be that, as people in the thread speculated, he is a master figure who came out from the deep mountains and forests?
Zhang Baodou stood aside, hesitating whether he should remind the other party that this was his cell phone.
The junior master has been holding his phone for such a long time, and the phone interface has turned black. Why hasn’t he returned it to him?
At this moment, Zhang Jinhuai's cell phone on the desk vibrated, indicating that someone was calling him.
Zhang Baodou was immediately as if he had been pardoned, and hurriedly said: "Little Master, someone called you. It's almost nine o'clock. It must be something urgent. Please answer it!"
Zhang Jinhuai frowned and thought, as if he was immersed in his own world and had no reaction to his words.
Zhang Baodou didn't dare to push his junior master and ask him to answer the phone quickly.
I accidentally glanced at the caller ID on the other party's phone and saw that it was a call from a member of an association. Out of curiosity, I took the phone and answered the call.
"Director Zhang! There's news about Peng Ji! He's hiding in Bijia Village, 50 kilometers northwest of the ancient city!" An excited male voice came from the phone, "What a coincidence! It is said that a reality show crew went to Bijia Village to film a show, and Bijia Village became a hot topic. A netizen just posted photos he secretly took in Bijia Village, and Peng Ji's face appeared in one of the photos."
"I sent a private message to that netizen and learned that Peng Ji had settled there ten years ago! No wonder we couldn't find him in the capital, it turns out he had been hiding in the countryside for a long time..."
Zhang Baodou's eyes widened and his breathing quickened when he heard this.
Of course he knew who Peng Ji was. He was the shame of their Taoist sect, a stink bug in the gutter!
Twenty years ago, he was an ordinary person. He got a complete copy of "Lu Ban Jing" from somewhere. After secretly learning it, he used the magic tricks in the book to move around in the circle of wealthy and noble people. Relying on the forbidden techniques in the book, he did whatever he wanted and amassed wealth recklessly, without any regard for whether such evil techniques were harmful to the harmony of nature.
At first, the Taoists did not notice this person, but as Peng Ji became more and more proficient in the evil arts, his behavior became more unscrupulous.
Later, there were frequent news reports of famous people dying suddenly at home for no apparent reason. People might not think much of it once or twice, but when it happened so many times, everyone knew that something was wrong.
The police could not find out the specific reason. It happened that a young Taoist elder went to his friend's house to celebrate the old man's birthday and accidentally discovered Peng Ji.
The truth is now revealed.
The young elder wanted to arrest Peng Ji and punish him, but he was very cunning. He first admitted his mistake and argued that he was not aware of it and did not know that the "Lu Ban Jing" was a banned book. He was originally an ordinary person, an orphan without a father or a mother. He learned this book by chance. As the saying goes, ignorance is not a crime...
The young elder was kind and simple-minded by nature, and he actually believed it in the end.
Not only did he not tell his master about the evil deeds Peng Ji had done, he also brought him back home to discipline him, and truly introduced Peng Ji to Taoism.
Peng Ji was a man with a talent for Taoism. He learned the "Lu Ban Jing" in just a few years, which shows his natural talent.
The young elder was delighted to see the opportunity and thought that Peng Ji had a bright future as long as someone could put him on the right track.
So he taught him everything he knew, and even brought Peng Ji to his sect, accepting him as his fellow apprentice.
Peng Ji did behave himself for a few years, and honestly followed the young elder to learn Taoism. He also joined the Taoist Association, assisted the police in solving cases, and worked with the young elder to solve many difficult and complicated problems among the people.
However, even if the jackal is dressed in sheep's skin, it cannot change his nature. Just a few years after joining the Taoist Association, he once again showed his fangs.
No one knew where he had learned forbidden Taoist techniques, but he deceived many humans into doing experiments and killed many innocent people.
After being discovered this time, all the evil deeds he had done in the circle of wealthy and noble families before he entered the Taoist sect were also exposed.
The elder who introduced Peng Ji to the Taoist sect did not expect that Peng Ji not only did not repent, but also did so many evil things behind the scenes. He attracted a wolf and helped the wolf sharpen its claws, which was equivalent to aiding and abetting evil. He was immediately ashamed.
The elder voluntarily resigned from his position as elder and accepted the punishment.
These two people played the Taoist Association around, and the elder knew about it but did not report it, concealing Peng Ji's numerous crimes, so the punishment was quite severe... As for the result, the elder has now become a tablet.
However, Peng Ji had already noticed that something was wrong and ran away quietly.
This incident was a great shame for Taoism, and Peng Ji was expelled from the Taoist Association. People who had experienced these things would not deliberately publicize it, and the younger generation of Taoists from various sects did not know about it. They only vaguely understood that Peng Ji was a conscientious follower of the art of exorcism.
However, as the founders of the Taoist Association, the Zhang family knew the inside story, so they never gave up hunting down Peng Ji over the years.
Every time they received the news and rushed over, Peng Ji seemed to have expected it and escaped first.
After more than ten years of searching, they still haven't caught the person.
Even in the few direct confrontations, their men suffered heavy casualties.
They knew that Peng Ji had learned a lot of skills over the years, but they didn't expect that he was also a top-notch expert at escaping and hiding.
During this period, Peng Ji accepted many disciples, but these disciples did not have his abilities and could not make any waves.
There is even his apprentice Peng Qian in the Taoist Association - also to discipline him.
However, in recent years, demons have been rampant, and some elders of the Zhang family are worried that Peng Ji will have no bottom line and associate with demons, so they have intensified their investigation.
Fortunately, there is finally news.
Zhang Baodou was almost out of breath when he suddenly heard the news. He tried to suppress his excitement and asked in a trembling voice, "Is the news true?"
The person on the other end of the phone didn't recognize Zhang Baodou's voice, and answered decisively: "I have confirmed with that netizen again and again that it is Peng Ji, and many strange things have happened in Bijia Village over the years. I suspect that these strange things are related to Peng Ji!"
Zhang Baodou held the phone tightly, exhaled deeply, and was about to say something, but before he opened his mouth, he felt a sudden pain in his wrist and the phone was snatched away.
Zhang Baodou: “…”
Zhang Jinhuai put the phone to his ear, glared at him and said, "You are so brave to answer my call!"
There was only a small space in the room and the person on the other end of the phone spoke quite loudly, so Zhang Jinhuai could hear the conversation between the two clearly and was very excited.
He thought that Zhang Baodou would return the phone to him immediately and report the situation after knowing such an important matter, but he didn't expect that this guy would take his phone and not let go!
This is outrageous!
Zhang Jinhuai didn’t know that Zhang Baodou was thinking the same thing when he held on to his phone just now (……).
Zhang Baodou smiled awkwardly: "I was just too excited and forgot about it for a moment, hehe..."
Zhang Jinhuai rolled his eyes at him, spoke a few more words to the person on the phone, then hung up with a serious expression.
Zhang Baodou hurriedly asked: "Master Junior, what should we do now?"
Zhang Jinhuai pondered and said, "Didn't you say before that a production crew was there? It even became a hot topic. I guess they have been alerted by now. Peng Ji might have been prepared."
Zhang Baodou's expression instantly fell: "You mean, he might have escaped again? Then we will be in vain again."
"Not necessarily." Zhang Jinhuai thought for a moment and said, "Since he was able to hide there for ten years, there must be something in Bijia Village that attracted him. He would not leave until he achieved his goal. Even if he escaped, he would definitely come back."
Zhang Jinhuai put his cell phone in his pocket, picked up the autopsy report on the table, flipped through a few pages and took a look, frowning.
In the previous cases, none of the corpse’s internal organs were left, and even the body was gnawed away to leave only the skeleton... How come this time only the heart of the deceased was dug out?
The modus operandi was also different from the previous cases.
Is it really the same murderer?
Zhang Baodou was extremely convinced by his junior uncle. He nodded and said, "When should we go there? Should we set off tonight?"
"Do you think Peng Ji is a cabbage? Any pig can go over and tug at him?" Zhang Jinhuai said without even raising his head, "Report to the sect first and find a few more masters. Have some self-awareness. You're just delivering vegetables to them."
Zhang Baodou: “…”
Just because my name contains the word "菜", you can't say I'm a loser!
His junior uncle is really good at discouraging people!
Zhang Jinhuai waited for a long time but heard nothing. Seeing him standing there with a bitter and resentful look on his face, he immediately said unhappily, "What are you standing there for? Go quickly!"
Zhang Baodou quickly corrected his attitude and said seriously, "Okay, but what about the people from the program team? What if something happens to them tonight..."
"What could possibly happen?" Zhang Jinhuai glanced at him. Seeing that Zhang Baodou was about to speak but stopped, he remembered what he had said before and smiled meaningfully, "Isn't there a Taoist priest named Jing in the program group? It's a good opportunity to see what kind of abilities this Taoist priest has who can make the director reject our people."
Zhang Jinhuai has always been proud, even conceited.
Although he said that he wanted to see other people's abilities, his eyes were full of disdain.
Zhang Baodou almost grew up with his junior uncle and knows him very well.
In the past, Zhang Jinhuai always slapped others in the face, but this time...
Zhang Baodou suddenly had a bad feeling.
He felt that his junior uncle would be slapped in the face this time.
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Bijia Village.
The next morning, Zhao Yi asked everyone to get up.
The young village official was followed by six or seven villagers, most of whom were women in the village, who brought breakfast to the program crew.
A few children gathered outside the old house. They were probably the children of the village women, all about five or six years old.
The young village official previously introduced the program crew to the villagers as his relatives, who had come in a group to visit him.
The guests on the show were speechless. The explanation was too perfunctory. With so many relatives coming together...who would believe it?
To everyone's surprise, the villagers seemed to actually believe it and didn't react at all.
But the look in their eyes was still a little wary.
But they soon found out that this village did not practice monogamy. A man could have many wives, and they could even exchange wives.
If you count them carefully, everyone in the village is related to each other by blood.
What’s even more ridiculous is that the villagers think this is normal and assume that people outside are the same as them.
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The author has something to say:
Explain how Peng Ji is viewed by others, and let him appear in the next chapter.
The first volume of "Lu Ban Jing" contains normal woodworking technology teaching, while the second and third volumes contain banned content.
As for Peng Ji, the "missing one" in his exam was loneliness.
Let me say this in advance here.
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