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Chapter 87: Made a Mess

Cuihu Street, Shihuojiao Branch.

Shi Huoji Zuo Wanyi, leading the most elite instructors of Kaiyang Community, arrived in an orderly manner, carrying a heavy aura of malevolence.

The warriors from the Tu family in the inner city, their brows furrowed, had been waiting for a long time.

The liaison building had already been sealed off to prevent the scene from being destroyed or evidence from being lost.

"Why are you so late?" Tu Cong asked, his face grim and his tone unfriendly.

Tu Li is the most outstanding young member of the Tu family. He has already broken through to the late stage of the True Qi Realm before even graduating from martial arts university.

Given time, he would surely have become a pillar of the family, but now he has died in this filthy place outside the city.

This enraged the family elders, who were determined to find the murderer, tear him to pieces, and scatter his bones to ashes.

Although Wan Yi was Fei Bin's assistant, he was a true member of the Church of the Fire, having followed the high priest on his escape from Jing Province to Linjiang. He was a true core member of the church.

"There were some martial artists causing trouble on Huyang Street. I led my men to kill a few late-stage True Qi Realm martial artists before I had time to come over."

Wan Yi automatically filtered out the accusations in Tu Cong's tone, remaining neither humble nor arrogant, and looked towards the building entrance that was blocked by the instructors.

"Let's go in and take a look. The diocese is newly established, and the academic affairs are complicated. Everyone has a lot of things to do."

Tu Cong frowned slightly upon hearing this, but the family warriors behind him couldn't contain themselves and angrily rebuked, "What are you, a mere priest, doing acting so arrogantly here?!"

"Even your leader Fei Bin has to be polite to our clan's deacons. Who do you think you are?!"

Before the martial artist could finish speaking, a scorching spiritual pressure suddenly pressed down on him.

In an instant, he felt as if he were carrying a thousand-pound boulder, his knees buckled, and he knelt down before Wan Yi in front of everyone.

At the same time, under the scorching spiritual pressure, his hair turned yellow and withered, as if it had been burned by fire.

"Now is a crucial moment in the grand ceremony. We must refrain from saying anything that undermines unity, and from doing anything that harms unity. Do we really need to remind ourselves of such a simple principle repeatedly?"

Wan Yi glanced past the kneeling Tu family warriors, looked at Tu Cong, and politely gestured for him to enter.

"Deacon Tu, please—"

Tu Cong's eyebrows twitched slightly.

This spiritual pressure—is in no way inferior to Fei Bin's. It seems that the Fire Sect sent Wan Yi to Kaiyang and Yangcheng ostensibly to assist, but in reality to check and balance them.

Now that Fei Bin's attempt to ascend to immortality has failed and he is in seclusion to recover from his injuries, the new parish has effectively fallen into the hands of the Church of the Fire.

The Qi family is truly hopeless.

Unable to compete head-on with the Wu family, they finally managed to fight back by resorting to evil and heretical methods, but before they could even hold the reins for more than a few days, they were sidelined by others.

"Walk."

Tu Cong waved his sleeve, dispelling the spiritual pressure Wan Yi had placed on his subordinates, and strode into the building.

The death of a direct descendant during training is far more serious than losing face in the outside world.

Moreover, as Wan Yi said, this is a critical period. Regardless of whether we look down on each other, we must work together to get through these next hundred days.

The group went up the corridor and saw the mess all over the building.

"The murderer is skilled at killing; those who die at his hands are all killed with a single blow."

"But for some reason, there were no signs of resistance from anyone in the building."

Wan Yi and Tu Cong both brought along skilled investigators who, after observing the deceased, revealed the extraordinary aspects of the case.

"What's so hard to understand? The killer is either a well-known figure within the sect or someone disguised as a sect soldier."

Wan Yi had seen this scene before in Jing Province.

Xiao Xiangming, a prodigy of the Ming family, disguised himself as a teacher and infiltrated the main altar. After killing and stealing treasures, he escaped unscathed.

When everyone went up to the seventh floor, they saw a completely different scene.

Tu Cong walked into the first office and his expression changed drastically when he saw the desk that had been cut open by the force of the energy.

"Qi manipulation and internal energy transformation?! The Pei family!"

Wan Yi's originally calm expression changed, and he quickly walked to the cut-open desk.

Two naked bodies were lying under the table, but the two ignored them. Only the elite instructors and Tu family warriors who followed them in had their eyes darting around, more interested in gossiping about this.

Wan Yi carefully examined the cut of the broken table and found that the cut was smooth and that a wisp of mixed spiritual energy remained on the surface.

This startled him.

The Spirit Realm allows one to directly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for one's own use, although one can also control the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to a certain extent.

However, to directly kill enemies with spiritual energy, one needs to rely on external objects, such as spiritual armor, magical weapons, and other powerful tools.

"Controlling Qi and transforming it into internal energy, is this a unique martial art of the Pei family?" Wan Yi asked.

"That's right, this is the Pei family's superior martial art—Qi Control and Power Transformation."

"His skills are divided into internal and external control; this person can control external spiritual energy. Clearly, he has already entered the realm of external control, and is by no means an unknown figure in the Pei family!"

Tu Cong's expression was solemn. If the Pei family was the killer, they wouldn't even dare to investigate.

In Linjiang, the "Four Families and One Prefecture" were like heaven and earth. If any family in the city dared to show their teeth to them, they could wipe out their entire clan and destroy their lineage in a snap.

"There's something fishy about this. Since the Pei family chose to stay out of it, why would they suddenly get involved in the affairs of the western outer city?" Wan Yi said with certainty.

Tu Cong was also completely baffled and could only continue to check other offices.

However, the more Tu Cong investigated, the more horrified he became, because the murderer had no intention of concealing it at all; traces of the murder using qi were everywhere.

By the time Tu Cong entered Tu Li's office, he had completely calmed down.

"Did your Fire Cult cause trouble in the eastern outer city?"

"With the grand ceremony imminent, who dares to disobey the chief priest's orders?" Wan Yi shook his head upon hearing this and said, "You should investigate yourselves to see if you've had any conflicts with the Pei family within the inner city."

"The Tu family and the Pei family have a falling out? Are we worthy of that?" Tu Congru laughed coldly, as if it were a joke.

Standing behind Wan Yi, Feng Qin hesitated for a long time before finally interjecting.

"Wanjizusa—there's something you should probably know."

Upon hearing this, Wan Yi's expression changed drastically, and he turned around to glare fiercely at Feng Qin.

The other party's interruption at this moment was quite telling.

"You've offended the Pei family?!" Wan Yi's eyes blazed with fury.

"No, no," Feng Qin waved his hand and said, "It's just that my subordinate went to Kaiyang Garrison today and unexpectedly learned some news."

"Chen Jue of Kaiyang Garrison is a good friend of the second young lady of the Pei family —"

"What?!" Wan Yi's expression changed drastically, and he slammed his hand on the desk next to him, shattering it.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Wan Yi's outburst, Tu Cong immediately sensed that something was terribly wrong.

"That bastard Tang Xi just led men from headquarters to intercept and kill Chen Jue!"

Wan Yi felt as if a million alpacas were galloping through his mind.

They only wanted to capture a few more fire-wielding women as backups, but they didn't expect the situation to become so complicated that it eventually involved the Pei family of Linjiang.

"Wan Yi! Are you all crazy? Why are you causing trouble at this time?!"

"Needless to say, the deaths of our Tu family's direct descendants were because you harmed people you shouldn't have!"

Before Tu Cong could rebuke him, he saw Wan Yi jump out of the window and leave, making a phone call as he headed straight for the junction of the inner and outer city.

With the situation so dire, who cares whether the Tu family lives or dies?

If he were to cause a huge mess at this moment, the high priest would definitely not let him off the hook.