The entire courtyard was shrouded in a formation.
The function of this formation must be similar to gathering the energy of heaven and earth.
Ye Chen's heart couldn't help but move slightly. He also wanted to set up such a spirit gathering formation. In this way, his cultivation path would surely be twice as effective with half the effort.
While thinking, Ye Chen had already walked into the main hall. The energy density here was three times denser than that in the courtyard.
Leng Hanjiang was seen sitting cross-legged on a lotus platform. With his immortal-like figure, he looked as if he was floating in the air.
When he saw this young man again, Leng Hanjiang's heart actually felt a bit more solemn and...awe.
Yes, it is awe!
If outsiders knew that he, a dignified Duke and a great cultivator in the late stage of the Divine Venerable Realm, was actually in awe of a small cultivator in the Condensation Realm, it would be simply laughable.
However, if others knew that the life story of this young man in the Condensation Realm was so causal that even the stargazing skills of the Black Crystal King were ineffective, they would probably not be able to laugh.
"Ye Chen, sit wherever you want."
Leng Hanjiang waved his hand, and after seeing Ye Chen sitting on the futon next to him, he continued, "Have you figured out anything about the missing female cultivator case?"
Ye Chen shook his head slightly and said, "I want to meet the families of those missing women first."
"Okay, I've already given you the list. Whose relatives do you want to meet first?"
"Leng Mei'er's parents."
"Leng Mei'er?"
Leng Hanjiang was stunned. He didn't expect Ye Chen to make such a choice.
"Okay, I'll take you there, but Leng Mei'er's father, the fourth elder of our Leng clan, is currently out on business and can't come back for a while, so you can only meet her mother first."
"Okay." Ye Chen nodded slightly.
Not long after, Leng Hanjiang brought Ye Chen to the fourth elder's residence in the palace.
This beautiful woman has a dignified and beautiful appearance and graceful manners, and looks to be only in her thirties.
After Leng Hanjiang finished introducing Ye Chen, she suddenly changed her expression and raised her eyebrows.
She stretched out her green jade finger, pointed at Ye Chen with a cold and angry look, and said, "You bastard who killed my daughter, you actually dared to appear in front of me? I will beat you to death!"
As she spoke, a powerful icy force erupted from the lady's body, and behind her, the shadow of a huge ice dragon faintly emerged.
"Fourth aunt, stop it!"
Leng Hanjiang shouted softly, resisting the icy power of the beautiful woman.
Then he quickly explained: "Ye Chen is not the murderer who killed Leng Mei'er. Fourth aunt, you misunderstood. This time he came here specifically to solve the case. His purpose is to catch the real murderer who killed Mei'er!"
“Nonsense!”
The beautiful woman refused to listen and scolded, "Leng Hanjiang, you've grown so powerful now that you dare to stand in the way of your fourth aunt!? You even side with an outsider who murdered your sister!
Fortunately, your aunt took pity on you when you were little, and even fed you with my own milk after you lost your mother at a young age..."
Leng Hanjiang was embarrassed when he heard this. He never expected that Fourth Aunt would be so angry that she would even bring up the private old accounts from many years ago, and in front of Ye Chen...
"Fourth aunt, calm down first. Things are really not what you think!"
Leng Hanjiang was helpless. Seeing that his fourth aunt was still unwilling to give up, he gritted his teeth and had to bring up his own Tianwang Patriarch and said, "The Tianwang Patriarch had already used astrology to divine that the murderer was indeed not Ye Chen, otherwise he would not have asked me to help Ye Chen investigate the case."
"Are you telling the truth?"
Upon hearing this, Fourth Aunt paused.
She naturally knew how powerful Tianwang Patriarch's astrology skills were, and that nothing he calculated was wrong.
Then, she felt that in the forbidden area in the deepest part of the palace, there seemed to be a pair of cold eyes staring at her.
The beautiful woman shuddered. She knew that it was not an illusion, but that the Heavenly King Ancestor really cast a glance in her direction for a moment.
That was obviously a warning to her not to mess around!
The beautiful woman then decided to give up, and the shadow of the ice dragon behind her slowly dissipated. She first bowed slightly respectfully in the direction of the Heavenly King Patriarch, and then welcomed Ye Chen and Leng Hanjiang into the inner room to sit down.
"Whatever you want to ask, just ask."
The beautiful woman spoke softly with a sad face.
Ye Chen also understood a mother's feelings, so he naturally wouldn't argue with her. He immediately said, "I want to ask, Auntie, did you notice any unusual behavior from Leng Mei'er before?"
"Unusual behavior?"
The beautiful woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, thought for a moment and said, "No, Mei'er has always been naughty, and she doesn't often stay in the mansion. Sometimes she goes to the academy, and sometimes she goes to the Ao clan palace to play..."
"Go to the Ao clan?" Ye Chen was stunned.
The beautiful woman explained, "My name is Ao Xuanji, and my maiden family is the Ao clan, so Mei'er is closer to the younger generation of the Ao family."
"I see……"
Ye Chen raised his brows slightly. No wonder an ice dragon shadow appeared when she was practicing martial arts just now. It turned out that she was from the Ao clan.
From this it can be seen that intermarriage between the upper classes of the four royal families should not be a rare thing.
Thinking of this, Ye Chen asked again: "Who is Leng Mei'er or the Ao clan best friends with?"
Ao Xuanji didn't even think about it and blurted out, "Of course it's her good friend Ao Mengting."
"Is Ao Mengting in the Ao Mansion now?" Ye Chen asked hurriedly.
"No, he suddenly disappeared more than a month ago."
Ao Xuan Ji shook her head slightly and sighed, "Originally, the people in the Ao Mansion thought she had returned to the academy. These past few days, news came from the academy that Ao Mengting hadn't been seen in class for a long time. Only then did everyone realize that she had disappeared a long time ago..."
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