A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 250 Temple Blessing
Shen Yanliu shook the brains off his iron hand and walked out of the pavilion.

On the stone table in the pavilion behind him, Wei Yutian was already headless, handless, and footless, and had completely turned into a piece of rotten meat. However, many blood threads were flying on the rotten meat, which looked weird and terrifying in the pavilion at night...

Wei Yutian's life was trapped by lust. He never got out of this dilemma throughout his life. At the last moment of his life, he was still trapped in the whirlpool of lust... swallowed by his own obsession with lust...

Everyone has their flaws.

Wei Yutian's heart-wrenching lust, Luan Jingfu's bravery and recklessness, Xu Shouxian's indulgence and greed, and Xu Fuxian's stubbornness and harshness all had their flaws and each had their own fate.

A person's flaws usually indicate a certain fate that is difficult for him to escape.

As Shen Yanliu walked out of the pavilion, Li Zhong hurried over and said, "County Master, we have checked the front and back yards. In a secret room in the back yard, we found four strange statues and a large number of strange offerings!"

After Li Zhong finished speaking, he glanced at the bloodshot flying around in the pavilion, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.

Shen Yanliu said: "Those offerings are evidence, have someone watch over them and don't move them."

"Yes."

Shen Yanliu's eyes moved, and he said, "Where is Duan Rong? Bring him to see me."

Upon hearing this, Li Chong immediately turned around and went to look for Duan Rong.

As soon as Li Zhong walked to the side room, Duan Rong and Xiao Yu came out together. Li Zhong immediately stopped Duan Rong at the door of the side room and said, "Master Duan Rong, the county lord wants to see you."

Duan Rong glanced at Xiao Yu and said, "Wait for me here. I'll be back soon."

Xiao Yu had regained her composure by now. She just smiled and nodded, her beautiful eyes sweeping over the yamen runners who were searching around the backyard.

Duan Rong followed Li Chong to the pavilion.

Duan Rong looked at the blood threads floating in the pavilion under the dim light, and his heart was moved. "The Divine Art of Filthy Blood is so evil. Wei Yutian is already dead, but those blood threads are still floating aimlessly, waiting for the right opportunity to devour blood."

Shen Yanliu looked at Duan Rong and asked, "Duan Rong, is Luan Jingfu, the head of your Yuanshun Escort Agency, in the city now?"

Duan Rong said, "Mr. Luan and Escort Leader Sun Huang went to Lin County and Tanghe County to deliver a courier. They left the city in the afternoon and should have returned in the evening, but something might have delayed them. Mr. Luan and his men had not returned to the city at midnight."

Duan Rong answered truthfully that Xiao Yu was kidnapped at midnight, but at that time, Shang Hongye said that Luan Jingfu was not in the city yet, which showed that he did not return to the city that night.

Shen Yanliu nodded, and he looked at Duan Rong with satisfaction.

The Filthy Blood Cult was hiding so deeply that his widespread deployment of spies was useless. If Duan Rong had not informed on them, how could he have achieved his goal?

Shen Yanliu suddenly said: "Li Zhong!"

"My subordinate is here!"

"Leave half of the people here to continue cleaning up the battlefield. You take the other half and follow me to surround Luan Jingfu's mansion."

"Yes!"

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and Li Zhong had already turned around and ran to count the men and horses.

Shen Yanliu turned around and smiled at Duan Rong, saying, "Master Duan Rong, you have nothing to do tonight. We may need your cooperation in the follow-up of this case. I will send someone to the escort agency to invite you when the time comes."

"Your Excellency is too polite. I'll take my leave." Duan Rong clasped his fists and turned around. Before leaving, he glanced into the pavilion again.

Although Duan Rong's face was calm, his heart was greatly shaken. After Shen Yanliu killed Wei Yutian, he suddenly began to encircle and suppress Luan Jingfu. This clearly showed that Luan Jingfu was the person Wei Yutian had bitten before his death.

In other words, Luan Jingfu is also a follower of the Filthy Blood Cult.

Duan Rong's heart suddenly trembled.

If Luan Jingfu is a member of the Filthy Blood Cult, then Ruan Fengshan...

Duan Rong was able to determine almost instantly that Ruan Fengshan was the leader of the ancient branch of the Filthy Blood Cult.

Unlike Shen Yanliu, Duan Rong had experienced the relationship between Ruan Fengshan and Luan Jingfu very clearly many times, especially when Ruan Jing was kidnapped by the Ku Ming Gang.

On that occasion, he had been secretly surprised that the relationship between Luan Jingfu and Ruan Fengshan was by no means like the relationship between the chief and the shopkeeper, because although the escort agency was tightly organized, there was no clear-cut subordinate relationship between the superiors and subordinates.

It’s like Sun Huang is the leader of the second escort team. Although he is the boss in the team, except for the business of the escort team, everyone gets along almost equally.

But there is obviously an implicit affiliation between Luan Jingfu and Ruan Fengshan, a smell that can be felt in the air.

There is another reason. Shen Yanliu excluded Ruan Fengshan because Ruan Fengshan's martial arts realm is the inner breath realm.

But in fact, this was just a trick used by Ruan Fengshan to deceive the outside world. He had always claimed that he was trapped in the state of inner breath.

After Duan Rong achieved the second level of the Taizang Sutra, he used his spiritual consciousness to penetrate Ruan Fengshan's body. Duan Rong was greatly shocked at that time, because Ruan Fengshan was already a strong man in the Qi realm, and the Qi in his Dantian was obviously more powerful than Luan Jingfu.

Duan Rong wondered at that time, why did Ruan Fengshan want to hide his true level of cultivation?
Now Duan Rong finally knew the reason, because Ruan Fengshan was the leader of the ancient branch of the Filthy Blood Sect, and he hid his cultivation in order to protect himself.

The beggar who was frightened away at the entrance of the alley not far from the mysterious house was still staggering along the alley at first. When he walked into a dark shadow at the corner of the alley, his figure suddenly flashed, and he rushed out of another alley as fast as a civet cat and ran away.

The beggar was obviously very familiar with the area. He turned left and right, moving like a meteor without stopping for a moment.

When he came out of an alley and crossed a main street, his figure suddenly paused, and he walked again with unsteady steps. He switched between the two states without any hesitation and with great skill.

The beggar walked across the street, and as he entered the dark shadow at the alley, he suddenly leaped up and ran wildly with big strides.

The beggar turned several alleys and then ran all the way along a small alley. Although the beggar was running very fast, his steps were light, and it was obvious that he had quite good martial arts skills.

He ran along the alley for almost half an incense stick of time, almost crossing the alleys and houses here. Suddenly, the beggar jumped out from an alley entrance.

After running out of this alley, there is a wild lake. The lake is not big and is just behind the City God Temple.

Because it is located behind the City God Temple, this wild lake is said to be the Feng Shui eye of the entire Xiangu County. Many years have passed, and no one has dared to touch the lake.

It was the end of the year, the coldest time of winter, and the lake had already frozen over. The dry reeds around it rustled in the night wind.

The beggar pointed his toes at the entrance of the alley, and his body leaped out like a big bird, passing through the dry reeds and landing on the smooth ice.

The surface of the lake had already frozen solid. The beggar touched the ice with his toes and his body slid over ten feet along the smooth ice. The wild lake was not big to begin with, and after the beggars slid across, they could see the vague outline of the City God Temple in the dark night.

The temple keeper of the City God Temple is over sixty years old this year, with sparse beard and grey hair. He took over the job from his father, and has been doing this for more than thirty years.

Strictly speaking, temple keepers who serve gods are not allowed to marry, so ever since he could remember, he had called his father Master, and he never knew who his mother was.

This City God Temple has always been managed by him alone. The temple is not big and there are no children. Every year's incense money and various offerings go into his own pocket, and he lives a very comfortable life.

(End of this chapter)