Chapter 331: Arrest and bring to justice
As a suspect, Gu Zhifei had no access to the files on the bizarre deaths of Ying Yan and others.
However, Tiantong Daozun had great authority and revealed the whole matter.
The photo stone recorded the tragic deaths of Ying Yan and others.
They were lying on the ground, and from a distance there was nothing unusual to be seen, but as soon as one got closer, one could see that the soil was stained red with blood, and if one dug two inches down it was soaked in blood.
Turning them over, the lower abdomen of all of them was neatly torn open, leaving a fist-sized hole in their lower abdomen.
The monster took out their organs from this hole, let them die here, and disappeared without a trace.
The problem is that a monster with such a violent temper would never appear at the Seven Star Gate for no reason, and it would not line up the people neatly and then flip them over unnecessarily.
This is more like a ritual, a human ritual.
Gu Zhifei watched the entire video many times, but was still confused.
The Seven Stars Sect has a strict code of conduct and has never had a case of fellow disciples killing each other. Although there are often minor fights that are a bit awkward, they generally don't result in anyone being killed.
But the people who did all these things didn't take the rules of the Seven Stars Sect seriously at all.
Is he not from the Seven Star Sect? Or did Ying Yan, this blind fellow, provoke someone he shouldn't have? "You can ask your friend."
Gu Zhifei knew that the "friend" that Tiantong Daozun was talking about was Hua Wuya. But her intuition told her that it was not Hua Wuya.
Although Hua Wuya is a person who is very vindictive, she rarely hides anything. If she really did something like this, she would never hide it.
That's not her style.
Tiantong Daozun may not doubt her, he just asked casually.
Of course, there are probably many people in the Seven Stars Sect who want to ask this question. Who knows, the title of murderer has already been placed on Hua Wuya's head.
In order to give an explanation to Tiantong Daozun and the Qixingmen, Gu Zhifei responded with a "yes" but did not take it to heart.
She paused the image and noticed that Ying Yan was holding something green in her hand.
The green color was very different from the green weeds next to it, and it didn't seem like Ying Yan had grabbed it casually in a panic.
What was in her hand? Gu Zhifei felt that this was the key.
Ying Yan's body should have been handed over to Elder Chen. It would be impossible for me to investigate it myself, but it should not be difficult for me to sneak into the scene where her body was found.
After perfunctorily listening to what Tiantong Daozun said, she said goodbye and went directly to the back mountain of Xuejing Mountain.
One of the reasons why Elder Chen suspected Gu Zhifei was the murderer was that the place where Ying Yan died was very close to Gu Zhifei's residence.
However, Elder Chen had doubts, and so did Gu Zhifei.
As everyone knows, Gu Zhifei is the only one living at the foot of Xuejing Mountain. Apart from Bai Mengmeng from the outer sect and Hua Wuya, there is no fourth person.
And because Ying Yan had a bad relationship with him, no one in Xuejing Mountain could chat with her.
So what was she doing here? She couldn't have come here to digest her food after dinner, right? The Seven Star Gate was so big, wasn't it enough for them to stroll around? But if they came here for themselves, then it was definitely not a good thing.
It has been a while since Ying Yan's incident, and the back mountain of Xuejing Mountain has been simply cleaned up. Gu Zhifei compared the scene on the photo stone and finally determined a location.
Standing here, he could just see the roof of his residence. When Gu Zhifei squatted down, he was hidden by the half-man-high weeds.
Bai Mengmeng had cleared the orchard before, and wanted to reclaim the land and plant some spiritual plants in one go, but she died halfway because of the imbalance of fire attribute in Gu Zhifei's body.
So this place is still a wasteland.
The mud was still stained with scarlet blood, and some of the grass stems were also splattered with blood, which showed how tragic it was.
Gu Zhifei squatted and searched around, and finally found half a torn leaf in an inconspicuous mud field.
This leaf is very similar to the one Ying Yan holds in her hand in the video, so they should be the same thing.
Gu Zhifei took the leaf, leaned in and smelled it, only to smell a very faint floral scent.
Ordinary ragwort? She looked at it over and over again, but didn't find anything special.
Could she have made a mistake? There was no harm in the herb. Many female cultivators used it to make scented sachets. Moreover, this kind of thing was everywhere, and it was not rare at all.
Gu Zhifei was puzzled.
Ying Yan and her followers came to me with a few stalks of ragweed, intending to make a sachet tailor-made for me? No matter how I thought about it, it didn't make sense.
Thinking this, Gu Zhifei stuffed the broken leaves into his pocket and slowly walked back.
I didn't find anything special, so this trip can be said to be a complete failure.
The place had been searched before, so only some vague footprints of wild animals were left.
Those beasts were small in size and were not the murderers who brutally killed Ying Yan and the others.
Who could it be?
Gu Zhifei had no answer in his heart, but he heard a rustling sound in his ears.
The guy who made the sound was quite large and was approaching him.
Gu Zhifei suddenly thought that Ying Yan was dead, but the vicious beast that caused the rebellion had not been caught.
It is unclear whether there is anyone behind this whole thing, but a violent and ferocious beast definitely exists!
And that ferocious beast is probably following behind him now!
Cold sweat broke out on Gu Zhifei's forehead.
In fact, her strength was not much different from Ying Yan's, but when Ying Yan was confronting the monster head-on, there were four friends beside him, and they were still killed directly.
Gu Zhifei is alone now.
She has basically no resistance to monsters.
Gu Zhifei pretended not to notice the monster behind him and secretly used his disciple card to send a message to Tiantong Daozun.
According to the strength of the monster, even if Senior Sister Li Xiaobai appeared, it would be difficult for her to escape safely. The best solution was to go directly to Tiantong Daozun.
Gu Zhifei didn't take into account another point. As an elder, even the lazy Tiantong Daozun had to deal with affairs. Once he got busy, it became a luxury to hear Gu Zhifei's voice transmission immediately.
Tiantong Daozun had not arrived yet, but the monster behind him couldn't help but take action.
Gu Zhifei heard a long roar, and a large white tiger with hanging eyes jumped out from the bushes behind her.
Tigers are terrifying beasts in front of mortals, but are vulnerable in front of cultivators. However, the white tiger in front of Gu Zhifei is actually a fourth-level monster!
A fourth-level demon beast usually has human thinking. No wonder it would arrange the human corpse neatly after eating and drinking. No wonder everyone thought it was a human causing trouble. After a long while, it turned out to be a fourth-level white tiger! The Seven Stars Gate is heavily guarded. How could a fourth-level white tiger sneak into the residence?
Gu Zhifei no longer had the energy to think about all the strange things as the big white tiger pounced towards her face.
Gu Zhifei hurriedly waved her magic weapon and subconsciously blocked it in front of her face. Unexpectedly, the white tiger turned around in the air and pointed its claws towards her lower abdomen.
Damn the white tiger!
Gu Zhifei thought: No wonder Ying Yan fell to this white tiger. If the five of them were to besiege him, they might not be able to fight him. But this white tiger actually played psychological tactics with people and knew how to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.
Most women care about their appearance, so if they see a monster attacking their face, their first reaction is to block it.
The moment they raised their hands and weapons to shield their faces, everyone's abdomen was wide open, and they fell into the White Tiger's trap.
If you fail to react in time, you will be ripped open by the white tiger and die.
Gu Zhifei's first reaction was to cover her face. After realizing Baihu's intention, it was too late for her to protect her lower abdomen. Besides, no one could guarantee that Baihu would not change direction again.
In a flash, Gu Zhifei quickly flipped his hand seal and shouted, "Three feet of ice!"
The water attribute skill was activated too quickly and only delayed the white tiger for half a second.
But life and death are only a matter of a moment.
Gu Zhifei took advantage of the short moment he had managed to gain to pounce to the ground, flip to the right, stand up and run.
She didn't particularly want to fight this white tiger. Not to mention that it had evolved into a sentient being, even if it was at the fourth level, it would be enough to give her a hard time.
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If you can run, run. If you can't run, fight it. Drag it until Tiantong Daozun appears, then you will be alive.
Otherwise, if I meet Ying Yan in the underworld, I might even be laughed at by her.
Gu Zhifei dodged left and right, and the white tiger behind him pounced left and right. The latter seemed to be sure that Gu Zhifei was its prey and was not in a hurry.
Gu Zhifei didn't know where the confidence came from, and he didn't have time to think about it. He just ran forward as hard as he could, not noticing that there were suddenly many more vines around him.
It was normal for him to ignore a few plants when he was running around in the half-human-high grass.
It was not until Gu Zhifei discovered that there were so many vines on the ground that they were about to surround her that she realized she had fallen into an encirclement without knowing when.
The white tiger behind him suddenly sped up its movements and pounced towards him without any delay.
Gu Zhifei was furious.
She actually played a cat-and-mouse game with a tiger! She put her hands together, and a blazing orange flame appeared in her palms and eyes.
"go!"
Without any chanting or fancy skills, Gu Zhifei simply threw out two flames, which hit the vines that were wrapping around him and burned them to ashes.
After burning all the vines, Gu Zhifei did not stop. He simply burned the entire weed pile and the white tiger with all his might!
Gu Zhifei was not afraid of her own flame. The flame made her face red, distorted the space, and made the wood on the ground crackle.
At first, the white tiger didn't care. After all, it was already a fourth-level monster. A little kid whose cultivation was not as good as its own was nothing even if its fire attribute was incompatible with its own.
When the fire really burned its body, it regretted it.
The orange flame was some kind of beast fire, which made it tremble. The tiger hair that it was proud of, which was as good as a steel helmet, caught fire and was burned black immediately.
But in the blink of an eye, it turned from a white tiger into a black tiger.
"Ah! Two-legged beast!" White Tiger spoke in human language, "I will kill you, you fool who burned my fur!"
Gu Zhifei didn't expect it to be able to talk, so he retorted, "Wait until you grow some fur, you little black-haired devil!"
Baihu was almost mad.
God knows how much it cherishes its own hair. It worked so hard to keep it shiny and glossy, but now it has been burnt into this state. It will have to pluck out all its hair and let it grow again from now on.
Not to mention how painful it is to pluck the hair, it would take half a year to grow a full coat of hair again. Does she know how important good-looking hair is to a tiger? It got angry and bit Gu Zhifei's arm, tearing off a piece of flesh.
Gu Zhifei knew that there was a huge gap in strength between him and the tiger, and that the successful sneak attack was purely luck. However, he did not expect that the white tiger was so ruthless that it took a bite of him as soon as it found an opportunity, leaving his skin and flesh covered in blood.
Without having time to cry out in pain, Gu Zhifei flipped his hand and froze three feet of ice, then continued running up the path.
This time, the white tiger didn't even pause, it jumped up and pounced forward, with one pounce it pinned Gu Zhifei under it, and opened its mouth to bite off her throat.
Gu Zhifei tilted his head, all the blood in his body rushed to his head. Without any distractions, he used the Solid As A Rock technique to block only the part that the white tiger was biting.
After mobilizing all his spiritual power, Gu Zhifei's face turned red. The white tiger was not that strong.
It bit Gu Zhifei's neck. At first, it smelled the blood and tasted a little sweet blood, but then it felt something was wrong the more it bit, until a tooth broke out.
“Ouch!”
The white tiger roared and punched Gu Zhifei on the head. Gu Zhifei immediately felt a buzzing in his head, as if something was flowing out of his nose and mouth.
The blood and energy drove both the man and the beast crazy. Gu Zhifei used a blazing fire alchemy technique and smashed it directly at the white tiger's eyeball, which was as big as a knot.
The white tiger was obsessed with biting off Gu Zhifei's neck, and for a moment he was not careful and got hit by her.
It roared in pain, and its front legs nailed Gu Zhifei to the ground like nails. Its claws pierced into Gu Zhifei's shoulder blade, drawing another splash of blood.
Gu Zhifei’s spiritual energy was exhausted, his injuries became more serious, and he gradually lost the strength to fight back.
The fourth-level monster is as powerful as a peak golden elixir monster. The fact that Gu Zhifei has been training day and night for the past few days has enabled him to fight against it until now.
She never expected that she would die at the hands of this beast today, disappointing everyone's expectations so easily.
Gu Zhifei watched helplessly as the white tiger's teeth got closer and closer, and no matter how hard he struggled, the white tiger's claws only penetrated deeper.
"evil creature!"
The sky changed drastically. Gu Zhifei saw someone coming on the clouds. She had a whisk in her hand and flicked it lightly. Her whole body felt light. She flicked it again and she floated up into someone's arms.
Li Xiaobai looked at her worriedly, pinched a pill and put it into her mouth.
Gu Zhifei swallowed the pill and immediately felt relaxed all over. The clotted blood began to flow again.
The battle lasted only half a quarter of an hour before Tiantong Daozun had already caught the white tiger in his hands like a big cat.
The white tiger was almost only breathing in and not exhaling.
"Master."
Gu Zhifei originally wanted to raise his head and salute Tiantong Daozun, but the latter stopped him: "You take good care of your injuries. I will take this to report to the master."
Without Gu Zhifei telling him, he knew that this evil beast was the culprit who killed five people from his Seven Stars Sect.
It is impossible for the Seven Stars Gate to have a second fourth-level monster.
If they can find another one, then the Seven Stars Sect will really damage the reputation of the four major sects.
Watching Tiantong Daozun leave, Gu Zhifei still did not show him the half leaf in his pocket.
(End of this chapter)
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