Holy Bone

Chapter 1993 Jin An: Gotcha! You monster!
Now that physical evidence has been found in the murder case.

Jin'an then began issuing a series of instructions.

He swore an oath to the corpses on the ground that he would personally capture the real culprit and avenge them.

"Manager, have someone gather everyone in the manor together and tell them I have something to ask you."

"Instructor Zhang, take all the soldiers from my camp and seal off the Wu King's mansion. Don't let any outsiders in or anyone out. Even if my family members want to leave the mansion, you must stop them. After today, I will allow everyone to move around freely."

Upon hearing Jin An's two orders, the steward and Instructor Zhang exchanged glances, but King Wu's usual authority was too great, and neither dared to object, so they hurriedly agreed.

After waiting for the reply, the steward cautiously asked Jin An, "King Wu, you summoned everyone but forbade anyone to go out... Is this related to this murder case?"

The steward was a smart man; he saw some clues in them, and Jin An didn't hide anything, nodding directly and saying, "That's right."

Just as the steward was about to ask more questions out of curiosity, Jin An said in advance, "You will all know the specifics once everyone has been gathered."

"Alright, Steward and Instructor Zhang, you two go and deal with your current matters. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties in the Prince's Mansion, I will capture the real culprit who committed this crime today."

The steward and Instructor Zhang dared not linger any longer and hurried off to attend to their tasks.

Not long after the steward and Instructor Zhang left, another servant came to report to Jin'an that another body had been found in the Prince's mansion.

The corpse was very strange. The servants were terrified, their faces showing panic, and they spoke haltingly, not daring to say much.

Jin An simply had the servant lead the way.

When Jin An arrived at the location of the corpses, he discovered that this time there were two half-corpses, both of which had lost their upper bodies and only had their lower bodies lying on the ground.

This time it's a male corpse.

She was a member of King Wu's household and a servant.

He died in his room.

A large pool of blood was on the ground, and the blood had already congealed, indicating that the two people had been dead for at least half an hour.

The bodies were discovered by several maids. They had originally intended to go into the room to tidy up the bedding and prepare for their master's bedtime. However, upon entering the room, they were met with a strong smell of blood and saw two corpses on the floor. They were so terrified that they nearly had their hearts and spleen ruptured, and they hurriedly reported to their superiors.

Jin An told the others not to enter the room yet, and then he began to search the room. The room was very clean, except for a large pool of blood near the corpse, there were no other shoe prints or bloodstains.

If there was no blood, then how did the upper body of the corpse disappear?
If they wanted to take away the upper bodies of the two people, then it would be inevitable that bloodstains would drip onto the ground.

With this question in mind, Jin An walked to the two corpses. The corpses were next to the desk in the room, suggesting that the room's owner was about to compose poetry and songs there before being brutally murdered.

Jin'an focused his patrols on the area near the desk.

After inspecting the area, he finally fixed his gaze on the wall in front of the two corpses, his eyes showing a thoughtful expression.

Then, he reached out and wiped the wall. Some parts of the wall were dusty, while others were not, making it look very clean.

When asked about the clean walls, Jin An immediately inquired of the maids responsible for tidying up the room whether there had been any calligraphy, paintings, or scrolls hanging on the wall before.
"Your Highness, there was indeed a scroll... a painting, a painting..."

"How strange, how come the scroll is gone today... It was here at noon..."

The maids answered, their voices trembling with nervousness.

Jin An tried to be more amiable and reassured the maids, telling them not to be too nervous. He explained that he was just routinely asking about the details. After reassuring them, he continued, "What does the scroll depict?"

Several maids began to verbally describe the contents of the scroll. Jin An frowned as he listened, knowing that verbal descriptions were bound to have omissions or inconveniences. He asked them to draw it out, so that he could know more specifically what was depicted on the scroll.

None of the maids were painters, so they naturally couldn't paint anything particularly skillful, but they could capture the general outline; it was a landscape painting.

On the mountain peaks depicting landscapes and calligraphy, a person appeared.

Several people drew that person.

Is this person in the painting?

Do you know what this person looks like?

Jin An pointed to the figures in the painting and asked curiously.

As a result, all of them shook their heads and said, "I don't know."

"Your Highness, there is only a back view of that person, as if he is watching a waterfall cascading down a mountain. He always faces away from the outside, and no one knows what he looks like."

Upon hearing this, Jin An nodded knowingly, but didn't say much more.

Jin An stared at the figures on the scroll for a while, then turned to look at the two corpses on the ground, which only had their lower bodies left. He quickly came up with an idea.

The corpse was soaked in blood, so he shouldn't approach it for an autopsy, fearing it might damage the evidence. However, he had another way to try and find the upper body of the corpse.

Jin An took out the compass plate, then took a jade pendant from the owner of the house and placed it on the compass plate to try to locate the upper body of the corpse.

result.

This method really works.

The compass needle began to turn, pointing in one direction from the Prince's Palace.

"Hmph," Jin An snorted coldly, and decisively led his men to track down the missing upper body corpse.

However, the further Jin An walked, the more familiar the path felt. He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, because the path guided by the compass was the very place where the steward had led him during the day to find the strange doll, the chilling scroll, and the mask well!

It wasn't until Jin An picked up the chilling scroll that the compass in his hand stopped pointing and went straight to the scroll in front of him.

The painting depicted a simple scene: a dilapidated temple with a black coffin in the courtyard. The coffin was so dark that it gave one a chilling sense of oppression after looking at it for a while.

Just as Jin'an was staring at the painting, the steward came over and reported that everyone had been gathered.

Except for a few people who had gone home to visit relatives and couldn't return for a while, he urgently summoned back all the people who went out to purchase things, and now he was just waiting for Jin'an to question them one by one.

The steward glanced at the scrolls with surprise and asked, "King Wu, are there anything special or different about these chilling scrolls?"

"Why have you come here again to look at these paintings?"

So Jin An briefly explained that new corpses had appeared in the Prince Wu's mansion, and those corpses only had their lower bodies; their upper bodies had mysteriously disappeared.

The steward nodded and said, "I already knew about this on the way here. Could it be that King Wu's arrival here is related to this case and these paintings and masks?"

The steward pointed to the bizarre dolls, the chilling paintings, the masks, and the well water.

Jin An said, "In the room where the murder occurred, I found that a painting was missing, a painting of a human figure."

"And those two people just happened to die in front of the wall where the painting used to be hanging."

"Steward, you said the deaths of the five maids were related to the well water in the mask. Could the deaths of these two be related to the Frightening Scroll?"

Upon hearing this, the steward looked up at the painting with a slight surprise. After a moment's thought, he nodded and said solemnly, "Although this matter is somewhat peculiar and bizarre, strange and unusual things are not uncommon in the world. It's not surprising that one or two cases have occurred." "King Wu," he continued, "in your opinion, could these perplexing and mysterious murder cases be related to the Mysterious Dao Immortal Sect? Should we invite... people from the Mysterious Light Cave Heaven to come and assist in the investigation?"

Jin An smiled and said, "Let me examine this scroll first."

Upon hearing this, the steward asked in surprise, "King Wu, how do you intend to investigate?"

"Could it be that we're going to enter this painting?"

This time, Jin An didn't speak, but instead made his move directly. His five fingers were stained with blood and qi, and the scorching blood and qi of a martial arts immortal rolled endlessly on his palm, rising up wisps of white qi. The white qi swirled around in the room, with extreme yang, boiling, scorching, burning and boiling aura constantly changing on it, enveloping Jin An's palm, which was extremely terrifying.

Then, the blood and energy of these martial arts immortals transformed into five small dragons in Jin An's hands. The dragons bared their fangs and claws, circled in the air for a while, and then all flew towards the painting in front of him.

The scene was as beautiful as a poem or a painting.

Like a god, like a demon.

Only the manager remained expressionless, as if he had seen this scene many times before, showing no surprise or astonishment on his face.

This is the result of Jin An's cultivation over the past few days.

Since he obtained a lot of dragon essence from the Dragon Guardians, he returned to the mortal world and successfully cultivated the six true dragon forms of the Six Extremes Xingyi Fist. Commanding five flying dragons at once was as easy and comfortable for him as divine martial arts, and he could do it at will.

As soon as the five dragons touched the painting, a bizarre scene unfolded: they all flew into the abandoned temple within the painting, where they bared their fangs and brandished their claws, flying and dancing in the air.

Finally, the five dragons pounced on the black coffin.

Boom!

The black coffin exploded, the scroll shattered into a single piece of torn paper, and at the same time, two upper-body corpses appeared on the ground!

Judging from the clothing, it is the upper body of the two corpses that disappeared from the Wu King's mansion!
Guan was initially delighted, praising King Wu's skillful methods, but then sighed in regret and summoned servants to clean up the half-corpse on the ground.

"It was indeed done by the same group of people!"

"He deserves to die!"

"Don't let me find out who committed these killings, or I will definitely not let this ruthless killer get away with it!"

The steward was furious and wanted to avenge the dead in the Prince Wu's mansion.

"Manager, take these bizarre dolls, chilling scrolls, masks, well water, and even the torn pieces of paper on the ground. We're going to meet the others from the Martial King's Mansion. I have a way to find out who the real culprit is," Jin An said calmly, only the cold glint in his eyes revealed that his murderous intent was no less than that of the manager.

“Okay.” The steward replied, then took all his belongings and followed Jin An out.

The main hall of Prince Wu's residence.

The space here is open and suitable for gathering large groups of people.

In order to find the murderer as soon as possible and bring justice to the deceased, and more importantly, to find the missing old Taoist priest and Fatty Li as soon as possible, Jin An did not waste any words. He took out the mask well water and placed it on the compass plate to locate them.

He was prepared that if the masks and well water had no effect, he would use the tattered fragments of the terrifying painting scroll to locate and find the real culprit.

The bizarre dolls, the chilling scrolls, the masked well water—only the true culprit has ever touched them. The Luo Geng Jade Plate can help him find the real culprit.

Just as Jin'an placed the mask in the well water, the compass plate reacted as expected, and the pointer began to rotate, indicating the direction.

Holding a compass and jade plate, Jin An began to walk past each person, carefully searching for the true culprit.

until……

The jade disc led him to a person.

He was an ordinary-looking boy of seventeen or eighteen, with nothing particularly outstanding about him.

Suddenly, the young man smiled at Jin An. He didn't say anything, and his body exploded into a cloud of mist, obscuring everyone's vision.

Jin An reached out and grabbed it without expression.

He reached his palm into the fog, and with a pull, he yanked the person out. But this time, the person was no longer the young man, but Han Yichuan.

That disciple of the Celestial Master's Mansion.

When Han Yichuan realized he had been exposed, his expression hardened, and he could no longer laugh. He wanted to use his supernatural powers to escape.

however.

A stream of white vapor rose from Jin An's palm, expanding like a white sphere. It was the boiling, scorching aura of a martial arts immortal. This aura spread around Han Yichuan, preventing him from using any supernatural powers. All his primordial spirit spells were rendered useless at this moment.

When a martial arts master is near, it's like a deity descending upon you.

A perfectly capable Nascent Soul expert was rendered as weak as a cat or dog in the hands of a Martial Immortal, utterly powerless to resist.

Jin An ignored Han Yichuan, whom he was carrying. He first glanced at the compass plate in his other hand. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he said to the steward, "Steward, you should let everyone disperse. Everyone should go back to their rooms and wait for the outcome of this matter before coming out again."

"No one is allowed to leave the house without my order."

The steward glanced in surprise at Han Yichuan, who was struggling in Jin An's hands, then took his orders and went to carry them out, without paying any attention to how Jin An would deal with Han Yichuan.

Jin An caught Han Yichuan but didn't go anywhere. He stood there looking at Han Yichuan, whom he was holding, and said calmly, "Got you, you monster."

Tell me, where are my people?

"If you tell me, I can let you die quickly and without suffering too much."

However, Han Yichuan continued to struggle, trying to use his supernatural powers to escape, completely ignoring what Jin An was saying.

Since it was a ghost and not a living person, Jin An grabbed Han Yichuan's arm and gave it a light tug.

Tear!

Han Yichuan's arm was severed from his own, but it was ignited by the martial arts immortal blood of Jin An, and the severed arm was burned to ashes on the spot.

"Ah!" Han Yichuan screamed in agony.

But he only let out one scream before stopping, his eyes filled with resentment as he looked at Jin An.

Jin An didn't waste any words this time either. With a calm expression, he reached out and pulled, severing Han Yichuan's entire leg at the root. It was torn off by Jin An and burned to ashes in the blood and qi of the martial arts immortal.

"The difference in our levels is too great. Do you think you can escape once you've fallen into my hands?"

Tell me, where are my people?

"Otherwise, I have a thousand ways to slowly torment you."

Jin An said indifferently.

(End of this chapter)