Great Swordsman

Chapter 231 The Skeleton Remains of the Beheaded Ghost and the Starving Ghost

At the beginning of the Tai'a County National Temple, it was built to suppress the death pit, so everything was kept simple when it was built. Even the golden body of the Taizu can only vaguely see the outline of the facial features. As for other buildings, it is even more simple.

Li Mu followed Lin Zhihe into the main hall of the National Temple. When he saw the golden body of Taizu again, Li Mu saluted seriously.

"You all retreat." Lin Zhihe waved the guardian away, and then closed the main hall door.

In the slightly empty hall, candles were dimly lit.

Lin Zhihe walked to Li Mu's side, and also bowed to the golden body of Taizu, and the candlelight shone on his pale face, flickering on and off.

"Your Majesty, you can talk about it." Li Mu asked.

"Cough cough." Lin Zhihe coughed twice, and then his expression faded, and he said ferociously, "Magistrate Li, the person who hurt me was none other than Zhao Binhong, that bastard!!"

"What?" Li Mu was shocked: "Didn't it mean that he died?"

"Death? How could this bastard die so easily?" Lin Zhihe gritted his teeth and said angrily, "It's all his conspiracy! County magistrate Li didn't know that since we returned from the imperial capital, he stayed away from the county and lived for a long time. Here, he has ulterior motives! Sure enough, not long ago, he assassinated Qiu Changshi first. He knew that the county guard would suspect him, so he suspended his death first to remove his suspicion, and then assassinated me again!! This shameless and despicable villain!!"

After Li Mu heard this, although he felt that Zhao Binhong was sinister and ruthless, he was really relieved.

Because, compared to Nanshan Hou, Zhao Binhong, a real person, is obviously much easier to deal with!

Li Mu looked at Lin Zhihe who was filled with righteous indignation, and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, to be honest, after the battle at Nanke County's Deer Peak, the lower official came here, and when he saw Commander Zhao, he told the lower official, The reason why he avoids living here is because the governor of the county publicizes the matter of the imperial trial in the county city, ruining his reputation, I wonder if there is such a thing?"

If Zhao Binhong lived here for a long time with ulterior motives, you forced him out, right?
Lin Zhihe's face froze, and he hummed to himself: "If people don't want to know, you have to do nothing! Even if this county guard doesn't say anything, sooner or later someone will know. This county guard just hopes that the people in the county will see clearly what he is like earlier, so as not to Be deceived by him! This county guard is for everyone's benefit!"

Dead duck mouth hard!
Li Mu rolled his eyes, and continued to ask: "Since Commander Zhao is a fake death, why didn't the governor make this public and arrest Commandant Zhao?"

"This..." Sheriff Lin's face turned pale: "Magistrate Li doesn't know something, this matter, this matter has other secrets..."

It's all this time, are you still hesitating?
Li Mu suppressed the desire to complain, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty may wish to speak clearly."

"Magistrate Li, in fact, that bastard Zhao Binhong... died here in feigned death!" Lin Zhihe said in a low voice.

"National Temple?" Li Mu was puzzled.

He remembered that when he first came here, there were many county soldiers around Zhao Binhong. If he faked his death in the National Temple, how would he hide it from those county soldiers?

Faced with Li Mu's doubts, Lin Zhihe organized his words, coughed twice, and then said: "About ten days ago, the county soldiers around Zhao Binhong suddenly reported that someone had killed Zhao Binhong in Nanshan Yu Guomiao, the county guard was overjoyed when he heard the words... Cough, he was shocked when he heard the words, and immediately led people to the Nanshan National Temple. When the county guard arrived, he saw the corpses of the county soldiers all over the ground, and... Zhao Binhong dead body!"

Zhao Binhong's body?

Li Mu looked strange: "Since the governor has seen Zhao Binhong's body, he should have checked it carefully, right?"

Sheriff Lin nodded with a guilty conscience: "Naturally, when the Japanese sheriff checked again and again, he confirmed that the corpse was Zhao Binhong! So, so..."

"So what? Can the magistrate finish the sentence at once?" Li Mu hated people who faltered and hawed the most in his life.

Lin Zhihe looked a little embarrassed, and said, "So after the county guard took off his official seal, he threw his body into the death pit."

"???" Li Mu was stunned, what kind of operation is this?
"Magistrate Li doesn't know that Zhao Binhong is also from half of the army, and his biggest dream is to wrap his body in horse leather. Ahem, the county guard thinks he won't care about it." Lin Zhihe said in a muffled voice: "But , On the third day, the county guard was attacked and killed! And the attacker was none other than Zhao Binhong!"

"Didn't you throw his body in..." Li Mu was startled, thinking of a certain possibility.

Lin Zhihe obviously already had guesses, and said with a cold snort: "This matter is due to the carelessness of this county guard! This county guard helped him to promote his reputation in the county town. He pretended to have no face to stay in the county town, but in fact he just wanted to Find an excuse to live in the National Temple! Then, he waited for an opportunity to modify the seal in the dead man's pit, set a trap, and lured the county guard into the bait! Waiting for the county guard to throw his fake dead body into the dead man's pit in front of everyone, He is really 'dead'! Even if he comes back to life, no one will believe it is him, so, so..."

Lin Zhihe's face was full of grief and indignation, and he was angry, coughing again and again.

"So the governor wants to take people into the dead man's pit and let everyone see if Zhao Binhong's body is still there?" Li Mu asked.

"That's right!" Lin Zhihe said with a pleading look on his face, "Magistrate Li, I have been waiting here for many days just to wait for you, the Sect Master of the Sword Sect."

There is Marquis Nanshan at the bottom of the dead man's pit, and Lin Zhihe was really not sure if he asked Lin Zhihe to take the man down by himself.

So, no matter what, he had to wait for Li Mu to come!

"Lord Sheriff, this matter..." Li Mu frowned, faintly feeling that this matter was not simple.

His first reaction was to refuse.

Because once he enters the death pit, there is a high probability that Nanshanhou will kill him!
Although Li Mu is now a cultivator of the five realms of Disha, he can kick his ass in the depths of the Hengduan Mountains, but knowing himself and the enemy is the only way to win a hundred battles!
At this moment, he doesn't know anything about the cultivation realm of zombies. The ghost knows what realm Nanshan Houxiu has reached. What if he is stronger than himself?
Besides, there is a strong ghostly aura under the dead man's pit, which is their home field!

Therefore, the safest way is to do nothing!

Don't give Marquis Nanshan a chance to see him!

But that doesn't work either.

If what Lin Zhihe said is true, and Zhao Binhong, who was thrown into the dead man's pit, appeared outside again, it means that he can enter and leave the dead man's pit freely even without the official seal. If so, has Nanshan Hou come out?
Li Mu felt that even if there was only a [-]% possibility, he had to go down and check, otherwise, wouldn't he have to be wary of Nanshanhou every day?

As the old saying goes, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, not a thousand days to defend against a thief. Moreover, if this is true defense, it can be more than a thousand days, it may be two thousand days, five thousand days, or even longer!

For a moment, Li Mu's head grew bigger!

Neither the left nor the right!

"Is County Magistrate Li worried about Marquis Nanshan?" Lin Zhihe said, "A mere zombie is no longer the opponent of Sect Master Jianzong!"

"The Lord Sheriff still doesn't know the seriousness of the matter." Li Mu sighed with emotion, and immediately explained: "Zombies like Nanshan Hou will regard the person they see at the first sight as their flesh and blood, and they will never die! Lord Sheriff He and the lower officials are both on the must-kill list of the Marquis of Nanshan, once we enter the death pit and the lower officials lose to the Marquis of Nanshan, then the governor and the lower officials will probably have a lot of hatred for this."

Lin Zhihe's expression changed drastically, and he said, "Magistrate Li is serious about what he said?"

Li Mu nodded solemnly.

"Since this is the case, we should go down and check!" Lin Zhihe said urgently: "Since that dog thief Zhao Binhong can escape from the seal, maybe Nanshanhou also... No, we must check immediately, cough, cough, check !!"

Lin Zhihe was in a hurry, and coughed up two mouthfuls of old blood.

"The governor is seriously injured, it won't be too late to go down after you recover from your injury," Li Mu said.

He felt that it was not appropriate to be impatient, but to take it easy.

"No, we can't slow down!" Lin Zhihe said anxiously.

He didn't know about the Marquis of Nanshan before, but now that he knew, he didn't dare to wait for a moment, what if Marquis of Nanshan came to his door tonight?
Early inspection, early rest assured ah!

Li Mu saw that he was so persistent, with the attitude of 'even if you don't agree, I will go down to check today', so he had no choice but to agree.

Open the door of the main hall, the sun is shining outside.

The two of them walked around the National Temple hand in hand and came to the grave of the dead. Lin Zhihe quickly found the place where he threw the corpse.

There are many people behind the two, including the third of the seven judges in the county, two recorders, and the newly appointed inspector.

Because of the urgency of the situation, Lin Zhihe didn't bother to introduce them to Li Mu.

"Enlightenment!" Lin Zhihe took out the official seal of the sheriff, formed a spiritual seal with one hand, and stamped it on the official seal.

In an instant, faint ripples overflowed from the official seal, which was transformed by the fate of the country, forming a mask of about ten meters, covering Li Mu, the three judges and other seven people.

Afterwards, everyone rose against the wind and passed through the pale golden light film on the death pit.

The moment they passed through the light film, everyone's vision suddenly went dark. Before they could see the surroundings clearly, they felt the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves in their ears.

"Full of grandeur, magnanimous in the world, honest and clean, diligent and frugal, upright, with a clean heart..." Lin Zhihe was also in the death pit three times, and he immediately recited "The Fu of Haoran".

A pale yellow breath overflowed from his body, and in an instant, the howling of ghosts and wolves in his ears died down.

Under his voice, the rest of the people also recited quickly. After a while, everyone got rid of the influence of the ghost voice and calmed down.

As for Li Mu, he had already recited "Song of Righteous Qi" silently, golden ripples spread like ripples in his body, and the howling of ghosts and wolves outside did not affect him at all.

only……

Li Mu looked around, and saw more than a dozen thick and ferocious ghost pythons swimming quickly like sharks smelling blood, and then rubbing the national luck mask with their ferocious ghost scales!

The ear-piercing voice instantly resounded in everyone's ears!

The last time I came here, the ghost pythons only appeared at the bottom of the dead man's pit, and the number was rare, but now, the ghost aura here is at least ten times stronger than half a year ago, and I don't know if Lin Zhihe can hold on.

Li Mu looked at Lin Zhihe worriedly, and found that his face was indeed paler.

Because, every friction between the ghost python and the mask is consuming Lin Zhihe's spiritual power!
"Let me do it." Li Mu had no choice but to take out his official seal, and with a slap of the seal, a light golden mask of about ten meters spread out on the official seal, protecting everyone.

"Thank you County Magistrate Li." Lin Zhihe withdrew his spiritual power and heaved a long sigh of relief, but he didn't put the official seal in his sleeve just in case.

A group of people resisted the friction of the ghost python and slowly descended against the wind.

As it landed, the ghost aura below became more and more intense, and finally turned into a ghost mist, filling the entire bottom of the pit.

And the ghost python also seemed to have a sense of territory, after following a certain distance, it turned around and left!

Could it be that there are more powerful ghosts here?
Li Mu's eyes overflowed with golden ripples, and through the ghost fog, he saw a decapitated ghost noiselessly floating from the depths of the ghost fog, 'lightly' bumping into the light golden mask.

boom! ! !
In an instant, the mask vibrated violently, causing countless ripples!

The strength of this ghost with a severed head is afraid that it has reached the level of the earth... Li Mu's expression is solemn, those ghost pythons are nothing compared to this ghost with a severed head!

"What's going on? What happened just now?"

"I, I seem to see a...ghost without a head?"

Everyone is also panicked.

Fortunately, the mask was not broken.

Everyone continued to dive.

After a while, another ghost with a flat stomach and disheveled hair wandered in. When he saw the people in the mask, he screamed with a hiss.

"I, my ears!! I can't hear anything! I'm deaf, I'm deaf! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! After rushing out of the mask, he was immediately surrounded by ghost fog. Soon, his aura faded and he could no longer feel it.

"Everyone, let's recite "The Great Fu" together, and you must never underestimate the enemy!!" Lin Zhihe yelled, spitting blood, gritted his teeth.

At the same time, the suspected starving ghost stretched out its sharp nails and rubbed against the mask.

The ear-piercing sound made everyone's hair stand on end!

Li Mu also felt harsh.

"Go away!" He pulled out the Seven Star Dragon Yuan and slashed it down with his sword!
The green-golden sword light flashed away, cutting the starving ghost a hundred meters away.

But Li Mu could sense that the ghost was not dead!

I have to quickly confirm Zhao Binhong's body... Li Mu slightly accelerated the sinking speed.

The dead man's pit was 300 meters long, and everyone fell against the wind, and finally reached the bottom.

The silt here is in the shape of gravel, one by one, if you step on it hard, you can squeeze out black water. The water has a stench, and it is suspected to be corpse oil!
"The situation is not good! Magistrate Li, the ghost fog here is too thick, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find Zhao Binhong's body." Lin Zhihe looked worried.

Just falling all the way down, he felt thrilling, if Nanshan Hou appeared again, would he still be able to win?

"I'll try it first." Li Mu held up the seven-star Longyuan, and the aura of heaven and earth poured into his chest like a spring. In an instant, a brilliant golden light gushed out from the blade of Longyuan, like a round of golden scorching sun. Where the golden light shines, ghost fog is like water In case of boiling oil, it will boil and dissipate instantly!

For the first time, the pitch-black bottom of the death pit was exposed to the eyes of everyone.

"As expected of the Sect Master of the Sword Sect!"

"Is this... grand aura? It's so pure, it's unbelievable!!"

Lin Zhihe and the others were amazed, but immediately realized that the business was urgent, so they quickly checked.

The ground here is rather muddy, with black water like corpse oil on the gravel of black gauze, pale human skeletons can be seen from time to time, and even eerie ghost cries seem to be heard.

"Look, I found it!" A director pointed to the northeast and said, "Look over there!"

Li Mu and others looked and found a corpse that had been turned into a bone lying there. It seemed to have been dead for a long time, but the clothes on this bone were very new and everyone was very familiar with it.

It is the uniform of the county lieutenant!

"Zhao Binhong is dead, so he was not the one who assassinated the county guard. The real culprit was someone else!" Lin Zhihe gritted his teeth.

"Not good!" Li Mu's face changed suddenly. Seeing Zhao Binhong's corpse now, and then contacting Lin Zhihe for a series of things, how could he not react?
They... were fooled!

(End of this chapter)