Above the Great Dao
Chapter 182 - 102 There’s an Evil Spirit in Your House

Chapter 182: Chapter 102 There’s an Evil Spirit in Your House

By the riverbank, that rich merchant who dealt with the Li Family’s business, fearing Chen Shi’s wrath, quickly ordered his men to handle it.

Just now, Chen Shi and Fu Leisheng had killed with such ferocity, leaving dozens of corpses, which chilled people to the bone. If they were to provoke them, I’m afraid even I would suffer the consequences. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

"Offending the Li Family to death, these two really are cruel and outrageously evil. Do they not know how many ways there are to write the word ’death’?"

Inside the merchant’s house, someone shook his head in secret and instructed, "Collect Mr. Zeng’s corpse and send it to the province. Remember, find someone eloquent to do it."

People packed up Mr. Zeng’s body and placed it in a coffin, and soon after, a cart pulled by an ox was brought to transport the coffin to the provincial city.

Xinxiang County was quite far from Xinxiang Provincial City, and the speed of the ox cart was slow. By the time they arrived at the city, it was already the next day.

Li Xiaozheng was the new governor of Xinxiang Province. Now, with Xinxiang in a state of disrepair and many official positions vacant, the Li Family’s threshold had been nearly worn thin by visitors. Most of them were seeking connections through kinship, always able to find some relation to the Li Family.

Or there were those with backers whom they could not afford to offend, so they had no choice but to receive them.

Even the disciples of the Li Family gained a lot from this, stuffed with plenty of Silver Coins and jewels.

Thus, when the ox cart bearing a thin-skinned coffin appeared at the Li Mansion’s gate, the Li Family disciples were stunned for a moment, unable to recover their senses, before a housekeeper came to shoo them away.

Fortunately, the one leading the ox cart was quick-witted and articulate. In a short period of time, he explained who was in the coffin and the whole story, thus avoiding being beaten to death on the street by the furious Li Family descendants.

"How dare Chen Shi! To kill Mr. Zeng, to bring his corpse here, he has disgraced our Li Family!"

The Li descendants were beside themselves with rage, and many immediately mounted their horses, ready to rush to Xinxiang County to kill this scoundrel.

But before they could leave the city, they were stopped; the governor had issued an order forbidding them from taking any rash actions.

The descendants of the Li family felt extremely aggrieved and harbored hard feelings.

Killing Mr. Zeng was one thing; there might have been leeway for reconciliation, but to kill Mr. Zeng and then parade his body in a coffin to the provincial city was a slap in the face to this ancient clan. They couldn’t fathom why the governor could still bear it!

Within the inner court of Li Mansion, the doors were closed. Neither outsiders nor members of the mansion were seen.

Li Xiaozheng sat in the inner courtyard pavilion. Madam Xia Weiyin waved her hand, dismissing the maids preparing the tea, and personally began steeping the tea for Li Xiaozheng, saying, "My lord, is this Chen Shi really that same Chen Shi who was declared dead ten years ago? Can a dead person truly come back to life after so long?"

"He’s indeed alive."

While sifting through documents, Li Xiaozheng replied, "Others may not be able to resurrect the dead, but the hermits of Qianyang Mountain certainly have a way."

Hearing the words "Qianyang Mountain hermits," Xia Weiyin’s body trembled slightly.

These words held a certain power.

The hermits of Qianyang Mountain themselves were legends.

She found it difficult to connect the hermits of Qianyang Mountain with the West Capital Butcher.

Li Xiaozheng softly said, "Ten years ago, Chen Shi was sensational at the county examination. He was first in both literary and martial exams in all fifty provinces. The record for the Meridian Evil Slayer Sword had not been broken for ten years. He received a True God’s Divine Descent bestowing an Innate Dao Embryo, making him a Supreme Divine Embryo. Ten years later, he was resurrected."

He lifted the tea cup, drank it in one gulp, stood up, and gazed at the rockery not far away, murmuring softly, "The record of Meridian Evil Slayer Sword that no one could break for ten years, was broken after ten years by the same man. Furthermore, he increased the travel distance of the Sword Qi to over eighty zhang. It’s a record that I’m afraid no one will be able to break for the next hundred, five hundred, a thousand years! Such a person, whether he possesses an Innate Dao Embryo or not, should not be underestimated."

As Xia Weiyin poured him another cup of tea, she asked, "Has the True God ever bestowed a Divine Embryo a second time? Moreover, during this grand sacrifice of the Divine Descent at the Temple of Literature, he didn’t participate and didn’t receive a Divine Embryo."

Li Xiaozheng pondered, "That’s the puzzling part. From your description of how he acted, it must be that only someone with a Golden Core could do it. It implies that he has already formed a Golden Core. Without a Divine Embryo, how could he have formed a Golden Core?"

Xia Weiyin also poured herself a cup of tea and gently inhaled its fragrance before asking, "Can a Golden Core be transplanted?"

Li Xiaozheng shook his head.

"That’s strange then. He is so powerful, capable of striking Golden Core Realm masters with flying bamboo and even killing Mr. Zeng. And Mr. Zeng is no weakling!"

Li Xiaozheng turned around and said, "Mr. Zeng cultivated the Divine Five Elements Technique, forming a Nascent Soul from it and had reached the stage of Nascent Soul Emergence. His cultivation and strength were quite solid. For someone in the Golden Core Realm to kill him..."

He shook his head, his expression odd, "When Chen Shi acted, there was a tiger’s roar, and inexplicably, a tiger’s paw appeared, slapping Mr. Zeng to death. That’s even more bizarre. There’s another odd thing: the documents say that behind Chen Shi’s head was not a shrine, but a small temple."

He spread out the documents, on which there was a sketch of the small temple located behind Chen Shi’s head.

Xia Weiyin carefully examined it. The construction of the temple was very simple, quite common, seen everywhere in rural areas.

Yet, why did the shrine become a temple?

"A temple is the dwelling of gods."

Li Xiaozheng said, "What god resides in his temple?"

His gaze flickered as he couldn’t help but recall the scene he saw a few days ago when he left Xinxiang County to take up his post.

It was a massive tiger’s head, as huge as a mountain, floating above Qianyang Mountain, its roar shaking the surrounding hills, its aura so mighty it made one’s heart palpitate.

"The owner of the tiger’s paw, could it be that tiger?"

His expression became odd; he didn’t voice his guess, for that tiger was too domineering, to the degree that even he felt a shiver down his spine. How could such a supreme and monstrous tiger dwell in Chen Shi’s small temple?

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