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When the wooden box was opened, it contained a dozen tokens, several yellowed rosters, and a stack of portraits, all neatly arranged inside.

Gao Min pulled out one of the sheets and laid it flat on the desk.

The man in the painting is in his thirties, with a long and narrow face.

Drooping eyes, a black mole near the mouth

Li Ping glanced in that direction.

"The person in the portrait is still alive, while the one who is dead is someone else."

"This is Du Cheng and Shangguan Jue's money bag."

Gao Mindao,

"Was there any mark on the body of the person who died by the well last night?"

"There are thick calluses on the web of his right hand from years of wielding a heavy sword, and half of his left earlobe is missing."

Su Wan spoke up

He has an old injury on his leg.

At this moment, Li Ping added a sentence.

"The wound was charred black, looking as if it had been burned through by some kind of talismanic fire."

Gao Min flipped through the roster, her fingertip pausing on a single page.

"That guy is Xue Qi, the knife that the Shangguan family uses specifically for dirty work."

"This person is at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and is ostensibly a rogue cultivator."

"Secretly, he did shady work for the Shangguan family."

Three years ago, he accompanied Miao Jun into the Wanzhong Mountains.

Li Ping's gaze lingered on those two words.

苗钧

The lamplight in the study flickered.

Pei Xing had absolutely no idea why this was the reason.

Ren Jun slowly turned around

"Could it be Miao Jun, the one who died in Xiyun County?"

"Is that the formation master who instigated the Hu family rebellion?"

"Completely dead"

Li Pingdao,

"I watched with my own eyes as he was torn to pieces by the formation."

"However, a piece of Si family iron plaque fell out of his arms at that time."

Gao Min nodded at this moment.

"The Governor's Office has verified the news of Miao Jun's death."

"But the iron plate he's wearing is probably just a decoy used to mislead others."

He pulled a thin sheet of paper from a hidden compartment in the register.

The edge of the paper was half-burnt, and there were a few lines of very small writing on it.

"In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Jinghe, Miao Jun accepted a secret dispatch from the medicine shop and entered the Wanzhong Mountains."

"Secretly investigate the relics left by Hu Guan, the remaining formations in the mountains, and the whereabouts of the former subordinates of the prefectural governor's office."

"And Xue Qi was the bodyguard who accompanied him back then."

Li Ping stared intently at the line of text.

胡观

残阵

These were former subordinates left behind by the former prefect.

It turns out that Miao Jun wasn't a rogue cultivator who was temporarily invited by Hu Lie.

He had carried the orders from the Shangguan family long ago and entered the vast mountains.

The small amount of remaining assets belonging to the Hu family that Hu Lie possessed was merely a convenient shell.

Miao Jun used Hu Lie to attack Xiyun County, investigating the things left behind by Hu Guan.

The test is to see how many legs Chen Boyong still has in the local area.

At the same time, from the moment he began to impersonate a thief

The downfall of Hu Guan, Hu Lie's revenge, the broken formations left in the mountains, and the defense of the city during the beast tide.

These events seem to be very far apart on the surface.

Looking at it now, you can even see a thread strung together inside.

The influence of the Shangguan family had already extended to Xiyun County long ago.

It was even earlier than the time he arrived here.

"Where did Uncle Gao get such a confidential information?"

Li Ping began to ask questions.

Gao Min replied

"Found in Zhou Cheng's underwear"

"In the moment before Zhou Cheng faced death, he was in Shangguan Jue's private warehouse."

"Complete the rubbing of this page of the account."

"He's not just a scribe responsible for copying books; he's actually the deepest mole that Young Master Ren has planted in the western part of the city."

Ren Jun's facial expression looked extremely unpleasant.

"Zhou Cheng last transmitted a message three months ago."

"In his letter, he mentioned that Shangguan Jue was destroying old account books, and in those account books..."

"Hidden within is a secret route for transporting ironware to the Wan Chong Mountain."

"He completely cut off contact after that."

"I originally thought in my mind that he had died at the hands of the Si family."

"Now it seems this lackey's appetite was far too great."

"They want to profit from scarcity."

Li Ping began to speak.

"He fled into the alleyway, actually only to use the secret hidden at the bottom of the well."

"To make an exchange with Shangguan Jue, thereby securing a path for my survival."

"What he took away was definitely not this nail used to break the formation."

Su Wan spoke, pointing to the thin sheet of paper with her finger.

What he really wanted was that book that could guide him.

The three characters on the oiled paper are: well, book, and jade pendant.

The well mentioned here refers to the dry well located in Liuxiang Lane.

Jue is Shangguan Jue.

The booklet mentioned here refers to that old account book.

Or those people recorded in the old ledgers.

Zhou Cheng hid the clues on his own corpse.

Shangguan Jue's men followed and came.

However, a third group of people was actually hiding inside Liuxiang.

They took the bronze box and opened the array's core.

He then stuffed the formation-breaking nail back into Xue Qi's corpse's hand.

It looked as if they were deliberately delivering this thorn to the prefect's residence.

Chen Boyong picked up the thin piece of paper and examined it for a long time.

The booklet that Zhou Cheng stole is called "The Mountain Records".

He finally spoke.

"Over the years, the Shangguan family has been using the guise of a pharmacy and the black market."

"Countless spiritual materials and assassins were smuggled north of the Yangtze River."

"And this towering mountain was merely a base for their loot-dividing activities."

"When Miao Jun entered Xiyun County back then, it was definitely not to help Hu Lie seek revenge."

"He was ordered to uncover a strategic point recorded in the 'Mountain Records'."

Li Ping's heart sank slightly.

"What exactly is hidden in those so-called old spots?"

"That place is one of the twelve outer points of the Dragon-Locking Formation."

Chen Boyong spoke up,

"It was also a spirit sand mine that I personally sealed off back then."

Li Ping recalled the abandoned mine deep within the Wanzhong Mountains, and the remaining array and spirit sand within it.

And he also recalled the marks left behind by the Bai family.

It turns out that the place was not just the ruins of the old immortal sect.

Chen Boyong had been to that place a long time ago.

They may have even planned this all along.

The teacher turned her gaze to him, her expression perfectly calm.

"You should have already seen that abandoned mine in these towering mountains."

Is that right?

Li Ping did not deny it.

"I not only saw it with my own eyes, but I also almost lost my life inside that place."

"Since the teacher knew all along, why did they remain aloof and indifferent?"

"If I had told you about this earlier, would you have stayed obediently in this county town?"

Chen Boyong asked this question.