Above the Great Dao
Chapter 171 - 97 I Go to Kill Someone_2

Chapter 171: Chapter 97 I Go to Kill Someone_2

He felt the back of Shen Yusheng’s head, only to find that his skull had been opened.

His hands were covered in blood.

Fu Leisheng’s mouth twitched, as if he wanted to cry but forcibly held back, changing to a clean hand to close Shen Yusheng’s eyelids.

He turned around to examine the wounds on Tian Huaiyi’s body.

A corpse can’t speak, yet it can leave behind a lot of useful information.

The kind of spell used, the level of the attacker, the type of Golden Core, and even traces of the Nascent Soul, all could be deciphered from the corpse.

Chen Shi, however, was examining the Ten Thousand Soul Banner enshrined in the county government office.

The Ten Thousand Soul Banner, a Magical Treasure, which houses the souls often belonging to cultivators, only souls of those who had committed capital crimes qualified to enter the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

This treasure’s power is immense; it can protect an entire city, making evil spirits dare not approach, and it can also fend off powerful enemies, letting a County Magistrate stand a chance against those in the Divinity Transformation Realm!

At this moment, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner still sat on the offering table, showing no sign of its power.

It seemed that Tian Huaiyi died before he had a chance to use the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Chen Shi slightly furrowed his brows. Tian Huaiyi’s strength was undoubtedly robust, hardened by years of military life and stationed in perilous border forts; his combat experience should have been extraordinarily exceptional, impossible to have died without even managing to use the Ten Thousand Soul Banner!

Even if the attacker had reached the level of Primordial Spirit, he should have been able to activate the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and fight back!

"The Ten Thousand Soul Banner was used once."

Fu Leisheng said, "But the user wasn’t Huaiyi."

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback, approaching Tian Huaiyi’s corpse. The injuries on Tian were not ordinary, but a contusion, the blood in the wounds congealed and ice cold, not seeming like those of someone who had just died.

Chen Shi remembered the blue ghostly hand on his own chest, his heart stirred: "These are injuries caused by an Evil Ghost!"

"It was caused by the Ten Thousand Soul Banner."

Fu Leisheng’s gaze fell on the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, "The evil spirits within the Ten Thousand Soul Banner were originally very powerful, further strengthened by continuous sacrificial refinement. But Huaiyi couldn’t act in time to use this treasure, and it was instead activated by someone else."

Chen Shi was stunned, activated by someone else?

If Tian Huaiyi was holding the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, how could it have been activated by someone else?

Fu Leisheng didn’t answer but looked towards the darkness outside, his voice deep and husky, "The government office should always have officials on guard, but the officials on duty are not here, and even though a fight occurred in the office, not a single one came to check."

Only the County Magistrate and the Deputy Magistrate could order the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and restrict the officials from rash actions.

But Xinxiang County’s Magistrate had already died, and the Deputy Magistrate, Zheng Shiyun, was far inferior to Tian Huaiyi and couldn’t have possibly killed Tian Huaiyi so cleanly.

There are also many experts in Xinxiang County, possibly even those in the Divinity Transformation Realm, but since Tian Huaiyi was the main examiner of the county examination, a not so high post but still an Imperial Official, the local experts wouldn’t dare to risk extermination by the court to kill him.

"So, it must have been someone from outside."

Chen Shi said, "Among the outsiders these past few days, the powerful ones are likely from the Li Family of Quanzhou. Governor Li Xiaozheng had passed through Xinxiang County."

Fu Leisheng’s eyelids twitched, he picked up the lamp and turned to walk out, "Governor Li left for the provincial city yesterday to assume his post, he’s not in Xinxiang County. Chen Shi, you needn’t concern yourself with this matter."

Chen Shi didn’t speak but followed him. freёwebnoѵel.com

Fu Leisheng knocked on the door of the coffin shop, entering, he said to the shopkeeper, "Two coffins, must be of good quality."

The shopkeeper was startled, quickly inviting him in, "Mr. Fu, what happened?"

"Nothing."

Fu Leisheng didn’t elaborate, "Add one more, three coffins. How much?"

"Made of cypress wood, six silver coins each."

Fu Leisheng didn’t bargain, paid the silver coins, "Have some workers come with me, send two wooden coffins to the government office; there are two bodies there that need to be put in coffins. Keep one coffin in the shop for now."

The coffin shop’s shopkeeper was startled; if it were any other day, Fu Leisheng would have definitely bargained, fiercely haggling over the price, even over a single copper coin, but today he didn’t.

"Man dies, all ends; is the last coffin for yourself, Mr. Fu?"

The shopkeeper pondered for a moment, quietly instructing his workers, "Go help Mr. Fu with the bodies at the government office, just handle the bodies, don’t ask about anything else. And, be extra careful in the coming days, if you hear any unfortunate news about Mr. Fu, notify me. We must uphold our business integrity, if he dies, use this coffin to bury him."

The workers agreed.

Chen Shi followed Fu Leisheng, watching him busily moving forward and back, placing Tian Huaiyi and Shen Yusheng into the coffins.

Unknowingly, it had dawned.

The two men, having not slept all night, followed the workers’ wooden cart, delivering the two coffins to Wencai Academy for temporary storage.

Strangely, despite such a significant incident at the government office, they had been busy there all night, but no officials had come to inquire.

"Chen Shi, today is the day the examination results are announced, you and your classmates go check the board. I haven’t slept all night and need to go home to rest."

Fu Leisheng said, "As for my affairs, you needn’t concern yourself. When Shao Jing asked me to help you, he actually already paid me a sum of money, but I also took a sum from you, you don’t owe the academy anything."

Chen Shi said, "Mr. Fu, if there’s anything you need, just let me know at the academy."

Fu Leisheng nodded lightly, walked out of the academy, and headed home.

His home was indeed as Hu Feifei had said, very luxurious, built by the Qingqu River, with a dock right outside the door, a yard of over an acre with an east wing, west wing, main building, and even a small pond, surrounded by a rockery garden planted with plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum.

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