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

Chapter 451 Rhino Immortal

From a distance, on the cliff on the north side of Wuji Mountain, there was a black dot.

It was a figure standing on a sick and thin pine branch on the cliff.

The mountain wind whistled past, and his clothes fluttered, but his body remained motionless on the weak branch.

Duan Rong's spiritual consciousness has been released. He closed his eyes and stepped on the pine branches, exploring the situation on the Temple of Heaven on the top of the mountain, always ready to make adjustments based on specific variables.

It was here on the cliff that he had just thrown the huge gray rhino to the Temple of Heaven. On the cliff not far away, there were two inch-deep footprints left by him when he threw the rhino.

As the mountain wind was howling, Duan Rong's eyes suddenly opened. He looked up and saw two black shadows, one in front and one behind, falling from the top of the cliff.

It was Li Shensi and the huge rhinoceros.

Duan Rong moved his body, infused his palm with vital energy, and swept his hand across a certain part of the cliff. The original footprints on the cliff turned into powder and drifted away with the wind.

At this time, the two black shadows had already landed beside him. Duan Rong grabbed the gray rhino, stepped on the pine branches on the cliff with his toes, and floated out.

Duan Rong moved extremely fast and soon brought the gray rhino into the dense forest at the bottom of the cliff.

Not far away, Li Shensi, who was trapped in a soul illusion, fell onto the rocky beach at the bottom of the cliff with a thud.

His soul was already damaged, and he was completely lost in the soul illusion, and was smashed into a pool of meat paste.

The entire face was smashed to pieces, and an eyeball flew out and hung on a skinny and short jujube tree next to it, like a fruit hanging on a branch.

Duan Rong hid there, and when he confirmed that Li Shensi had fallen into the mud, he lifted the gray rhino and leaped into the distance in the dense forest. A few breaths later, five figures jumped down from the top of the cliff.

Wang Maochun, Chen Shanmeng and others have both reached the state of great perfection in the Qi realm. They can still climb down the steep cliff by using their lightness skills.

Although they were at the Qi realm, they did not dare to jump down directly. Instead, they kept stepping on the landing point on the cliff and then jumped down up and down.

Five figures stepped on the cliff, and rock chips fell down.

As stone chips flew, the five people finally stood around Li Shensi.

If it weren't for the official robe covered in blood and flesh, and the crane patch soaked in blood, they really wouldn't have recognized that the pool of flesh and blood was the Shangshu Ling Li Shensi.

The white feathers of the crane on the patch had been dyed red, like a flamingo.

Looking at the pool of blood and flesh on the jagged rock, Chen Shanmeng's eyelids twitched.

This Li Shensi is dead after all!

The rest of the people also had grim expressions on their faces.

Zhu Zhengfu's eyes swept across the exposed rocky beach at the bottom of the cliff, and he said with a strange look in his eyes: "My Lords, that rhino also jumped down from the Temple of Heaven. Why is its body not here?"

The Grand Protector Jiang Zhuoyun said, "When have you ever seen a rhinoceros with eyes so red? Moreover, there were crowds of people around the Temple of Heaven, but the rhinoceros was not at all panicked. When it turned around, it even looked at us with contempt and indifference. How can this be called a rhinoceros?"

Ge Hengtai glared at Jiang Zhuoyun with a dark face and said coldly, "It's not a rhinoceros, but what is it? Lord Jiang, you are also one of the Four Lords, but you are just like those ignorant people, making a fuss here."

Jiang Zhuoyun sneered upon hearing this and said, "Since Lord Ge is so wise and powerful, then you can tell me where the rhino went after it jumped off the cliff? Could it have grown wings and flown away?"

"You..." Ge Hengtai said for a moment, his eyes sweeping across the dense forests surrounding the rocky beach.

"My Lords, please don't be impatient and cause internal strife." Wang Maochun's face was a little ugly at this time. The autumn hunting ceremony was in charge of the palace owner's yamen. He really didn't expect that such a strange change would happen during this ceremony, and even the Shangshu Ling Li Shensi suddenly went crazy and died. Thinking of Li Shensi's madness and weirdness just now, and the rhinoceros with red eyes, at that moment, even he was shocked by the leisurely and weird eyes of the rhinoceros.

It's too weird! ?

Wang Maochun hesitated for a moment, then looked at Chen Shanmeng and said in a deep voice: "Master Chen, you are in charge of the Dali Temple. The matter of Master Li Shensi's death is left to you."

"This..." Chen Shanmeng's eyes showed obvious hesitation.

Wang Maochun said: "The Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony is of great importance. We cannot stop! The other lords and I must go up and complete the ceremony."

Chen Shanmeng said, "The death of Shangshu Ling Li Shensi is a major case that has shocked the city. Although the Dali Temple is in charge of the criminal law of the state, it is difficult for it to handle such a major case alone. If that were the case, the Dali Temple would be a bit too arrogant. I think it would be more appropriate for the matter to be handled by the Jianyi Doctor Ge and Guanglu Doctor Zhu together with me. I hope the Lord of the Palace can understand this. In addition, the subsequent trial of this case will have to wait until it is reported to the sect before a decision can be made. We are just handling it temporarily."

Wang Maochun's heart moved when he heard this. He was also an old fox who had been in the officialdom for a long time, and he immediately understood the implied meaning of Chen Shanmeng's words.

Chen Shanmeng appointed two people to work with him to handle the matter temporarily, one was Ge Hengtai, the Imperial Counselor, and the other was Zhu Zhengfu, the Imperial Household Department.

These two people just happened to belong to two different camps. One was Ge Rusong's bloodline in the secular world, and the other was Zhu He's bloodline in the secular world.

Obviously, in Chen Shanmeng's view, Li Shensi's death was caused by the political whirlpool of fighting between the two sides.

The Shangshu Ling is the head of the civil officials, and all official documents of Qingzhou come from the Shangshu Ling!

Such a prominent and important position, naturally neither party would give it up!

The previous Shangshu Ling Zhu Shizhong died a violent death. Li Shensi had only been in office for two months when he suffered the same fate, and his death was even more miserable.

Wang Maochun could not help but secretly admire Chen Shanmeng's calmness. He had been a little impatient and careless in his handling of the situation. He was so focused on completing the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony that he ignored the vortex behind Li Shensi's death. It was also the strange rhino that made him subconsciously think that Li Shensi's death was related to the rhino.

Wang Maochun was pondering, and Chen Shanmeng thought he was hesitant, so he continued, "The Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony was disrupted by that strange incident. I'm afraid the people have been frightened, and there must have been people trampled to death in the riot. This year's Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony should be kept simple."

Wang Maochun nodded and said, "Okay! According to Master Chen's suggestion, Master Jiang and I will return to the Temple of Heaven and continue the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony. As for the matter of Li Shensi's death, I will leave it to the three masters."

After Wang Maochun finished speaking, he and Jiang Zhuoyun looked at each other, and then the two of them used their bodies again, like old monkeys, to climb up the steep cliff.

Duan Rong carried the rhinoceros and ran seven or eight miles in the dense forest before stopping in a remote place.

His spiritual sense was always open, covering the surroundings, and he made sure that there was no one following or spying on him.

He threw the huge rhinoceros in his hands to the ground at his feet. The huge weight made the ground tremble.

The rhino's eyes had already been bleeding, as if it had shed two lines of blood and tears, but in fact it had already died. The medicinal powder that Duan Rong used on it caused its blood to flow backwards, which caused the blood to gather in its eyes and make them red.

Duan Rong suddenly slashed with his hand, and the energy on his fingertips flashed, directly splitting the huge rhinoceros corpse into two, and blood and intestines flowed all over the ground.

Duan Rong suddenly flipped his hand and held a black porcelain bottle. He sprinkled some of the powder in the black porcelain bottle on the two bloody rhinoceros corpses.

As soon as the powder came into contact with flesh and blood, it immediately began to bubble, with wisps of green smoke rising and a foul odor emanating.

The two rhino corpses were turning into pus at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, after a dozen breaths, the two huge rhinoceros corpses in front of them had disappeared, and there was a large pool of foul-smelling pus on the ground.

Duan Rong picked up a rather large rhino horn from the edge of the pool of foul-smelling pus.

He shook off the pus at the root of the rhino horn and took a look. He saw that the rhino horn was shiny black and obviously of excellent quality.

"It's a nice rhino horn! What a pity!" Duan Rong muttered to himself, and then the vital energy surged in his palm, crushed the rhino horn into powder, and scattered it in the dense forest.

Afterwards, Duan Rong moved away from here, and the large pool of foul-smelling pus slowly seeped into the deep of the grass roots...

Wang Maochun and Jiang Zhuoyun returned to the Temple of Heaven again.

Wang Maochun stood on the Temple of Heaven, looked around, and was shocked!
I saw that the crowd that was originally densely packed around the Temple of Heaven had almost dispersed in a short while, and the dark crowd was blocking the entrance to the mountain.

Around the Temple of Heaven, soldiers were carrying corpses, and many people were trampled to death.

Wang Maochun leapt up and came to a corpse. He saw that the corpse was a dark and thin man. His chin was dislocated and there was a deep dent on his chest.

Wang Maochun's eyes suddenly moved, and he saw many figures kneeling on the edge of the cliff.

Wang Maochun was a little curious, so he walked over and saw those people kneeling and muttering something. He moved closer to listen to what they were saying.

I heard a strong middle-aged man kneeling down not far away, muttering: "Great Rhinoceros Immortal! I, Liu Xi, mean no offense! Great Rhinoceros Immortal, please spare me and don't come looking for me!"

The middle-aged man knelt and muttered to himself, seeming to be very fearful and pious.

"Rhino Immortal?!"

Wang Maochun sighed. No wonder the people were so frightened. The rhinoceros with red eyes and huge body was really too weird.

Not to mention the common people, even he himself on the Temple of Heaven trembled at that moment. Even at this moment, he was still somewhat doubtful.

After all, that was what I saw with my own eyes, not the storyteller's words in the teahouse.

Only the people involved know the horror and weirdness of being there.

At this time, Jiang Zhuoyun also walked towards him, and the two looked at each other with bitter eyes.

Jiang Zhuoyun said: "Everyone has left, are we still going to hold this heavenly sacrifice ceremony?"

Wang Maochun sighed, looked towards the Temple of Heaven, and said, "Let's take the civil and military officials with us to complete the ceremony."

Jiang Zhuoyun nodded, glanced at the soldiers carrying corpses around, and said, "What should we do with the bodies of these civilians?"

Wang Maochun said: "After the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heaven is over, we will take it back by car and let the family members claim it."

Jiang Zhuoyun said: "Palace Master, if so many bodies are brought back, I'm afraid there will be some turmoil in the Shenyun Palace!"

Wang Maochun looked at Jiang Zhuoyun meaningfully and said, "You are the Grand Protector General, and you have the authority to mobilize tens of thousands of cavalry."

Jiang Zhuoyun looked embarrassed and said, "At this time, if we use cavalry to suppress the people, I'm afraid the situation will only get worse!"

Wang Maochun said: "I'm not asking you to suppress it. At least use cavalry to surround the government office to prevent the people from colliding with the government."

Jiang Zhuoyun nodded. This ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven was under the charge of the palace lord's office. Many of the people who were watching the ceremony were killed or injured, so naturally they had to seek an explanation from the palace lord's office.

Wang Maochun said: "When the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony is over, you should not follow the team back to the city. Go back first and mobilize the troops to enter the city!"

At this time, the sky was already dark and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven ended hastily in a deserted atmosphere.

After the clarion call signaling the end of the ceremony fell silent, there was a dead silence on the top of the mountain, devoid of the lively cheers of previous ceremonies.

At this time of year in previous years, sacrificial prey was distributed to the people. However, at this moment, on the empty mountain top, apart from the soldiers and officials, there was no one else to be seen.

At the foot of the cliff on the north side of Wuji Mountain, next to the pool of blood and flesh of Li Shensi, an old coroner with white hair and beard had a troubled look on his face.

Looking at the body smashed into a pulp, the old coroner's lips trembled, and he bowed to Chen Shanmeng and said, "Sir, this body is so rotten, how can I check it? Please tell me clearly."

Chen Shanmeng said: "Just check it truthfully."

The old coroner was still hesitant after hearing this, so Chen Shanmeng gave him another instruction, saying, "Check whether he has been poisoned. As for the rest... just record it down."

"Yes." After receiving clear instructions, the old coroner finally put down the coroner's box hanging on his shoulder and squatted in front of the pool of rotten meat.

Although Chen Shanmeng had already received clear instructions, he still felt at a loss as he squatted in front of the pool of rotten meat. At this moment, the old coroner suddenly discovered that a fruit slightly larger than a grape was hanging on a low jujube tree that had sprung out from a crevice in the rock beside him.

The old coroner was a little surprised, so he reached out and picked the fruit.

Unexpectedly, the fruit fell from his hand, and it was very cold and slippery. The old coroner took a closer look and found that it was actually a human eyeball.

Chen Shanmeng and Zhu Zhengfu, who were standing behind the old coroner, naturally saw it as well, but they both pretended not to see it.

Chen Shanmeng glanced at Zhu Zhengfu and asked calmly, "Master Zhu, do you have any advice on the death of Master Li Shensi?"

Zhu Zhengfu said, "Mr. Chen, you are the Minister of the Dali Temple, in charge of the criminal law of the state. And Mr. Ge is the Counselor, in charge of supervision. You are all experts in this case. I am just a Guanglu Doctor who is in charge of money and grain. How can I understand the case? I am just following you to make up the numbers."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shanmeng just stood there with a warm expression on his face, without saying a word.

At this time, in the dense forest around the rocky beach, Ge Hengtai had dispatched many soldiers, who were searching the forest in batches.

(End of this chapter)