Chapter 60 Li Xin's Unfortunate Death!
Dan Qi walked in from outside the door with a gentle and refined woman. She still looked somewhat sickly, but there was some spiritual energy surrounding her, so she must also be a cultivator.
Li Xinzhi narrowed his eyes, looking at her as if he was thinking about something.
Wang Lifu said, "Last year, Daoist physician Dan Qi treated a patient whose spiritual root had been dug out. The patient's name was Lin Xian, a disciple of the Shangqing Sect. He was the sword-vein disciple Lin Xian who went missing in early February last year while he was out shopping."
Several pairs of eyes turned to the woman beside Dan Qi.
The woman said, "It's me, I'm Lin Xian. I can testify that the person who lied to me was not Sect Leader Wang. Although that person has the appearance of Sect Leader Wang, judging from his aura, he is not Sect Leader Wang."
Li Xinzhi said, "How can you prove that you weren't bribed by Sect Leader Wang? Once someone takes money, their words become unreliable."
Lin Xian's expression froze: "I didn't receive any money! Everything I said is true!" Dan Qi nudged her with his elbow and whispered, "Don't go along with her. If you go along with her to prove yourself, you'll fall into her trap. Just say what you're threatening her about."
Li Xinzhi said, "Words are meaningless; who would believe you're telling the truth?"
Lin Xian nodded, gathering his strength again, and said, "I have a piece of the clothes of the person who captured me, and there is still a trace of their aura on it." There was a piece of purple clothing in Lin Xian's palm, the color and material of which were exactly the same as the one Wang Lifu was wearing.
It's hard to say that she didn't wear this dress on purpose.
Li Xinzhi's expression changed slightly, but he quickly regained his composure: "Someone, go and compare."
"Wait a minute," Cang Luo said. "I'll check it."
To prevent Li Xinzhi's men from touching the key evidence, lest it be damaged. After examining it, Cang Luo said, "The aura attached to it is not that of Sect Leader Wang."
Li Xinzhi appeared very upright: "If it's not Sect Leader Wang, then who is it? Is your Judicial Bureau so incompetent?"
Li Xinzhi's confidence suggests that the aura above her is not her own. She is cautious and must have sent someone else to do it. Relying on Lin Xian as a witness to bring down Li Xinzhi is not enough.
Lin Xian then recounted his experience of having his spiritual roots dug out after being captured. In particular, when he talked about being disemboweled and having his spiritual roots dug out while still alive, everyone present gasped in shock and placed their hopes on the execution platform, following Li Xinzhi in questioning why the execution platform was so incompetent.
He was completely led by Li Xinzhi.
Ling Shu sat upright with Zhuang Jinfu. Suddenly, Zhuang Jinfu got up and whispered a few words in Cang Luo's ear. Then Zhuang Jinfu went out and returned a short while later.
A metallic clanging sound came from outside the door, like a heavy object falling. Ling Shu looked out and saw that Li Chang had been transferred there.
Li Chang was locked in a cage, dressed in a white prison uniform, her hair disheveled, as if her heart had turned to ashes.
Just half a month ago, she was still that adorable young lady who would ask Zhuang Jinfu for tea.
Li Xin deserves a terrible death!
Zhuang Jinfu stood outside the palace gate without entering. He cast a spell on Li Chang, and the dual spiritual roots of metal and water within her abdomen manifested. There was a crack where the spiritual roots were embedded in her body; they were not perfectly fitted. Lin Xian looked over, and his fingers trembled instantly, almost causing him to cry out, "That's my spiritual root..."
Upon hearing this, Li Chang suddenly perked up: "What nonsense are you talking about! I was born with this spiritual root!"
Zhuang Jinfu stood outside the cage, her gaze extremely cold. She raised her hand and made a pushing motion in the air, and the cage door opened. Plum Blossom appeared in Zhuang Jinfu's palm. She gripped the hilt of her sword and used her magic to pull Li Chang out.
Li Chang looked at Zhuang Jin's sword with fear on her face: "Immortal Venerable, what are you going to do?"
Zhuang Jinfu drew his sword swiftly and thrust it into Li Chang's dantian. The sharp sword pierced out a corner of the spiritual root, and the golden and blue tree-branch-shaped spiritual root circulated with spiritual energy. The aura attached to the spiritual root could not be hidden.
The aura was calm, like a deep, emerald-green pool, faintly revealing darkness, morbidity, and danger.
That was Li Xinzhi's scent.
The crowd gasped in shock. "Li Xinzhi actually dug out someone's spiritual root and gave it to Li Chang!" "Extremely vicious!"
Li Xinzhi's smile could no longer hold, and she feigned weakness and pitifulness: "It was all that demon that forced me to do it. I had no choice but to do it. I only did this one thing. The twelve people whose spiritual roots were dug out had nothing to do with me. It was the demon who did it!"
Ling Shu snorted coldly. Wronged? When you killed her mother, did you ever think that her mother was also innocent? When you were chasing her and setting the Meridian Killing Formation on her, did you ever think that she was innocent?
It's time.
She was going to deliver the most fatal blow to Li Xinzhi.
Ling Shu took out the confessions obtained in the Tongxuan Secret Realm and presented them to Cang Luo: "These are the case records of eleven deceased people, along with their biographies copied from the Book of Life and Death, including important information such as the cause of death and the place of death."
Canglu took over the investigation.
Li Xinzhi's face turned deathly pale. How could it not have been destroyed?! Hu Shi, you useless piece of trash!
Cang Luo said, “Eleven self-statements, eleven sentences of clarification, clearly stating that ‘the person who harmed me was not Sect Leader Wang Lifu, but Vice Elder Li Xinzhi.’”
"Li Xinzhi!"
"You have illegally replaced cultivators' spiritual roots for personal gain and illegally traded cultivators' spiritual roots. We have both witnesses and physical evidence. Guards, arrest them!"
Li Xinzhi immediately changed his expression, grabbed his sword, and began to slaughter the people who came to surround and attack him.
Zhuang Jinfu walked in indifferently, waved to the stomping Li Xinzhi, and a red array with cage-like vertical bars appeared.
The Meridian Killing Formation.
White fur appeared on Li Xinzhi's face. She angrily cursed Zhuang Jinfu for being despicable and shameless, pointed at Ling Shu and called her a bastard, called Wang Lifu a beast in human clothing, and called Cang Luo a lackey.
The onlookers exclaimed in shock: "Li Xinzhi is a demon!"
"So Li Chang is Li Xinzhi's daughter!"
"Terrible! Absolutely terrifying! They could even harm their own daughter!"
"Compared to Li Xinzhi, it seems that Li Chang hasn't done anything wrong."
"Who knows if they've done it behind the scenes?!"
"But she did help me. Once I broke my leg, and she carried me to see the doctor."
Li Chang's spiritual root had been restored by Zhuang Jinfu, and Dan Qi fed her some Tu Fu grass, which helped her recover. Seeing Li Xinzhi's condition, Li Chang couldn't bear it any longer and shouted at her, "Shut up!"
Li Chang's eyes were practically blazing with fury: "It's you! It's all because of you that I've made such a mess of my life! How dare you even insult them?!"
Li Xinzhi quickly revealed her true form, switching between rabbit and human shapes. The plump rabbit almost filled the entire killing formation. She sneered and didn't care anymore: "My good daughter, people will always have prejudices against demons. You will never be able to integrate into the human world. If I die, you will not live either."
These words were like a thorn, piercing Li Chang's heart. Her mother's affection for her was nothing but an act.
Based on Li Qiaoyan's status and identity, and considering that they had no heirs, they placed their hopes for future succession on her. After Ling Shu appeared, they wanted to kill this rival. When Ling Shu failed to kill her, Li Chang was implicated, so they abandoned Li Chang and went to fight for the position themselves.
The bond between mother and daughter is no match for a throne.
After saying that, Li Xinzhi looked at Zhuang Jinfu and said, "Hahaha, Immortal Venerable! I knew I would end up like this. Can you feel it? The spiritual energy has become thinner."
Wang Lifu condensed a ball of spiritual energy and discovered that the condensed ball of spiritual energy was thin and transparent. She was shocked, but she didn't say anything. If she lost her composure, it would be difficult for the others to remain calm.
An Hong was also gathering spiritual energy. She was in charge of documents, and the Xingtai Association would supervise whether the elders were maintaining the operation of the Bitanshan Town Spirit Array. She had a magic array to monitor the array. When she sensed that the spiritual energy was thin, she revealed the magic array. The eight red dots on the array were dazzlingly bright.
An Hong said, "Something's wrong! The spirit-suppressing array of Bitan Mountain has been interfered with!"
A short while later, a patrolling cultivator reported: "The Spirit Suppression Array has been turned into the Calamity Array!"
The Desolate Calamity Formation is a killing formation specifically designed to trap and kill cultivators. It absorbs the cultivator's cultivation power. Once the cultivation power is completely drained, the cultivator's body loses the protection of the cultivation power and cannot withstand the spiritual energy of the Golden Core. The body will age rapidly and die within a day.
To avoid being drained, cultivators would vigorously absorb spiritual energy to protect themselves. Now that Zhenling Town has lost its effect of condensing magical power, the spiritual energy is thin, and within three days, the spiritual energy will be completely absorbed by all the cultivators in the sect.
The only solution now is to go to Bitan Mountain and destroy the Desolate Calamity Formation at the point where the suction force is strongest.
The crowd was making a ruckus, scrambling to absorb spiritual energy to protect themselves. Wang Lifu calmed the crowd down. Cang Luo was preparing to head to Bitan Mountain when he discovered that Li Xin's human form within the Ziwu Killing Formation had stabilized as he left.
Cang Luo knew he was in trouble and quickly struck out with a palm strike across the cage descending from the Meridian Killing Formation. The palm strike sent Li Xinzhi crashing to the ground, his face turning red with five finger marks. He cursed angrily, "You beast, worse than a pig or a dog, what other tricks have you played?!"
Wang Lifu stepped forward and waved his hand, and then he saw another rune pattern on her body, two water-like magic lines twisting and intertwining.
Ling Shu recognized it as a spell transfer array, a forbidden evil spell. This evil spell could transfer other people's magic power in a short time, like stealing the magic power that others had worked hard to cultivate.
In other words, Li Xinzhi connected herself to the Desolate Calamity Array, and the magical power absorbed by all the cultivators of the Shangqing Sect from the Desolate Calamity Array would be transferred to her alone.
How terrifying! If Li Xinzhi were to obtain such immense magical power, she would destroy the world!
Cang Luo immediately left behind a stronger Meridian Killing Formation to suppress her gradually increasing magical power, but it soon became uncontrollable, and cracks appeared on the red magical power cage.
After calming everyone down, Wang Lifu immediately joined in. The other cultivators, who did not know how to use this killing formation, transmitted their magical power behind the two of them.
Wang Lifu said to Ling Shu, "Ling Shu, go to Bi Tan Mountain and destroy the Wasteland Formation!"
Ling Shu pointed back at herself: "Me?"
Wang Lifu said, "Because you are half-human, the Desolate Calamity Formation poses little threat to you."
Ling Shu said sarcastically, "Now that I remember I'm half-human." She used to be called a half-demon.
Wang Lifu spoke earnestly: "Now is not the time to throw a tantrum. If you want to blame me, you can blame me however you want after this is over. I'm just begging you this once. In the entire sect, you are the only one who can get close to Bitan Mountain."
Ling Shu gave a haughty "humph".
"No, I'm here too."
Li Chang was leaning against the cage, her hair like a bird's nest, her clothes as if she had rolled in the mud for three days, but when she said those words, her image suddenly became tall and imposing.
"I am a demon, and the Desolate Calamity Array cannot absorb my cultivation."
Wang Lifu hesitated for a moment: "Can you do it?"
Li Chang stomped her feet in anger: "I, Li Chang, am not ambitious, but I do buy a lot of magical artifacts."
Wang Lifu: "What do you have?"
“Destroy the array pestle.” Li Chang looked at Cang Luo. “Master Cang, please bring me my storage bracelet that was confiscated.”
Because of her poor cultivation, Li Chang always accidentally stepped into magic arrays when she went to Bitan Mountain, and she couldn't break them herself. After being fed mosquitoes on Bitan Mountain many times, she spent a lot of money to buy the Array Destroyer. Since then, she has never been trapped by a magic array again. However, using this thing is no different from cheating, so she uses it secretly and sometimes pretends to be trapped.
It's unreasonable that a poor student wouldn't be trapped by the formation.
The array-destroying pestle ended up in Li Chang's hands. This thing looks like a rolling pin, but it has a pointed end. When using it, you just need to aim the pointed end at the array and then inject magic power to strike it.
Among those who transferred their magical power to Wang Lifu, one recognized its value: "Is this a first-grade spiritual artifact forged by the Six Sounds True Person of the Nanshan Sect?"
Li Chang said smugly, "Exactly." She turned her head and called to Ling Shu, "Let's go." Li Chang was as innocent and righteous as ever.
In the face of imminent disaster, no one curses demons anymore; when begging for help, their knees are most vulnerable. The current situation is exactly what Zhuang Jinfu has always hoped for: peaceful coexistence between humans and demons.
Ling Shu deliberately dragged things out, saying sarcastically, "Oh, so you guys have times when you need my help? Why don't you call me a monster or a lowly bastard now?"
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