My father is a Confucian sage, but the system forces me to be a crude warrior

Chapter 368 The Clues Are Slowly Unveiled
"Xiang Wangxian, my abduction of your nephew was just a misunderstanding!"

With just this one sentence, Zeng Anmin already knew.

This kid is definitely a human trafficker.

And later he said he was just a small fry...

"Young man?"

A fierce glint flashed across Zeng Anmin's face as he stepped aside, revealing the hellish landscape behind him.

The ghost messenger, his face contorted with rage, was pulling out the tongues of the little devils.

"what!!"

The little devils groaned in pain, but they still couldn't withstand the powerful force of the ghost messenger.

After their tongues were pulled out, the little devils' mouths were full of blood...

"You don't want your tongue to be pulled out by the ghost messengers, do you?"

Zeng Anmin grinned maliciously at Bai Zihua.

Bai Zihua was unable to utter a single word at this point; his entire body was trembling, and he was shaking his head frantically.

He didn't know where the strength came from, but he knelt down and kowtowed at Zeng Anmin's feet:

"Please, Xiang Tidu, save me... I'll do anything for you, like a slave..."

Zeng Anmin squinted and kicked him away.

"I ask you, after you kidnapped my poor nephew, who did you make the deal with? And where did the deal take place?"

"Be honest, if you lie, those tongue-pulling demons will be able to tell..."

Zeng Anmin's voice was extremely eerie.

Bai Zihua nodded frantically, and said in a trembling voice:

"Since I'm already dead, I'll definitely tell the truth."

"I started doing child abduction nine years ago."

“A dark-faced man found me at the time.”

"He...he poisoned my food when I wasn't looking."

"This poison is extremely potent; the antidote must be obtained from him regularly each month..."

"At first, I ignored him, but when the poison took effect, it was just too painful..."

"Later, I obediently listened to him and helped him abduct his first child."

"He gave me the antidote and five hundred taels of silver."

"After all, I'm just a collateral branch of the Bai family. Five hundred taels is a lot of money for me... From then on, I..."

"Five hundred taels?"

Zeng Anmin's brows were furrowed tightly.

What's five hundred taels?
Can a child be sold for five hundred taels?
How can it be? !
No one's child could possibly be worth five hundred taels!

Although he didn't know the price in the ordinary black market, if a child could be worth five hundred taels, all the common people in the world would definitely be making and selling effigies, and who the hell would still be farming?

"He doesn't have any other requests?"

Zeng Anmin seemed to have thought of something and stared at Bai Zihua, asking.

Bai Zihua quickly nodded: "From the second time onwards, he had requirements for the children. They had to be born on the tenth spiritual day and be virgins under the age of eight."

"How do you all conduct your transactions?"

Zeng Anmin asked, squinting his eyes.

This is the most important.

Knowing how they made the deal would allow us to catch the person behind it all.

"He always took the initiative to find me..."

Bai Zihua's voice was somewhat intermittent.

Why aren't you eating or drinking?

Zeng Anmin gazed at Bai Zihua with a calm expression.

"I couldn't take the daily torture anymore, I just wanted to die... thankfully I'm already dead."

Bai Zihua actually revealed a silly smile:
"Finally, I don't have to suffer from the poison anymore..."

"Then why didn't you confess to the jailer?"

Zeng Anmin frowned.

"He said that if I dared to expose him to others, even after I die... I would suffer from the poison every day..."

"I can't take the poisoning anymore..."

Zeng Anmin's lips twitched slightly.

It seems this kid has been brainwashed.

"Alright, I've finished asking."

Zeng Anmin had already come up with another idea.

He withdrew the blue light from his eyes and then walked out of the cell.

"Pfft~"

Bai Zihua fainted immediately. "What happened to him?"

Bai Ziqing looked at Bai Zihua, who had already fainted in the cell, then looked up and asked Zeng Anmin:
Why was it so noisy just now?

Zeng Anmin glanced at him: "I've already asked what I wanted to ask."

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Ziqing's eyes lit up.

"Regarding his motives for trafficking children."

Zeng Anmin took a deep breath, then said in a deep voice, "It might be related to... the Taoist sect."

Taoist sect?
Bai Ziqing was stunned.

Then he slapped his forehead: "That's right! The wounds on Xiang Wangxian's corpse could not only be inflicted by martial artists, but also by the evil puppets of the Daoist sect!"

"Um……"

Zeng Anmin took a deep breath and said, "We shouldn't stay here any longer. I'll talk to you when we get out."

…………

"Ten Spirit Days?!"

Bai Ziqing looked bewildered upon hearing Zeng Anmin's reply.

"Ah."

Zeng Anmin nodded and said seriously, "The last time I heard about the Ten Spirit Days, it was about the Taoist sect."

"People from the Taoist Fu Sect study a kind of eerie energy."

"The eerie energy is formed by soaking a newborn baby, along with its mother, in a pool called 'Weeping Water'."

"Both mother and child must be born on a 'Ten Spirit Day' day pillar."

"Soak it for a year, and then combine it with other spiritual roots to extract an aura called 'Spirit Absolute Breath'."

"This aura is formed from resentment, hence its eerie red color."

"It is also known as 'strange energy' by the Taoist school."

He spoke these words with a gloomy expression.

This is what Xu Mingxin said to him back in the Xuanzhen Division!

The reason he remembered it so vividly was mainly because he was terrified of being tormented by that eerie aura back then.

"So you suspect that the person behind Bai Zihua is connected to the Taoist sect?"

Bai Ziqing stared at Zeng Anmin and asked.

"Ah."

"But Taoists are always elusive, appearing and disappearing like dragons... The last Taoist I encountered was that guy named Wuxin."

Bai Ziqing thought of the Taoist priest who shared his interests.

He said with some nostalgia, "Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've seen the Heartless Taoist."

"Why do you miss him?" Zeng Anmin rolled his eyes.

He has also been rarely chatting in the Heavenly Dao Alliance lately.

“He might be our breakthrough point!” Bai Ziqing analyzed confidently, “Do you know what the person behind Bai Zihua wants the children of the Ten Spirits?”

"do not know."

"That's why I said that as a member of the Daoist sect, Wuxin Daoren should have some understanding of this."

Bai Ziqing looked at Zeng Anmin intently.

"No need for that. Speaking of Taoist people, I have someone more authoritative here."

Zeng Anmin touched his chin.

"Huh?" Bai Ziqing looked at Zeng Anmin blankly.

"Back in Nanjiang, do you still remember the sect leader of the Fu Sect who was captured by Dongfang Cang?"

Zeng Anmin raised an eyebrow at him slightly.

"What's wrong?"

"Dongfang Cang has entrusted him to me."

Zeng Anmin squinted: "But now is not the time to ask him."

"What we should do now is find the person behind the poisoning of Bai Zihua!"

"Do you have any idea?"

Bai Ziqing's eyes lit up.

"No."

Zeng Anmin shrugged.

……

Bai Ziqing's lips twitched a few times.

"But maybe I can give it a try."

Zeng Anmin squinted, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light.

(End of this chapter)