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Chapter 591: Unexpected Events
"Don't panic!"

Xia Wenyi's steady voice resounded over the square. More than a dozen monks who were responsible for the safety of the competition took to the air. When they were about to check the situation, Wang Ping shouted, "Don't move!"

As his voice rang out, more than ten golden-armored soldiers with fixed hand gestures pressed the outer disciples who were vomiting blood to the ground, and then pushed away the other disciples nearby who wanted to come over to check the situation. Then countless green vines grew under the feet of these golden-armored soldiers, wrapping the disciples who were vomiting blood layer by layer.

"puff"

"puff"

"puff"

Muffled sounds rang out one after another, and the sounds came from inside the layers of vines, as if something had exploded. Then, dark blood appeared in the cracks of the vines, and the blood was corroding the vines. However, the vines contained a rich aura of wood spirit, which neutralized the corrosive energy of the blood.

"It's a spiritual poison!"

Wang Ping had already appeared at the scene of vomiting blood. He looked at the pieces of flesh wriggling in the blood on the ground and spoke in a low voice.

As he finished speaking, bursts of dull explosions were heard from the direction of the outer courtyard of Qianmu Temple. His eyes flashed, and with a wave of his hand, hundreds of talismans appeared, and then hundreds of puppets appeared, most of which flew towards the outer courtyard.

Zi Luan landed beside him and cast several blessing talismans. As rich green light continued to flash, a series of mysterious wood spirit arrays unfolded, emitting abundant wood spirit energy, which quickly stabilized the spirituality of the square area that had been disturbed by spiritual toxins.

"He's showing off!"

Yu Lian complained in Wang Ping's spiritual sea.

With Zi Luan's level of cultivation, he only needs a thought to stabilize this spiritual chaos, and he can do it silently.

Wang Ping was too lazy to dwell on these minor issues. His spiritual consciousness had already spread to the Qianmuguan mountains. As he had expected, outer disciples from each academy were hit, and the inner city area of ​​Zhonghui County was in chaos.

This can indirectly indicate that the source of the poison is most likely in Zhonghui County!

The toxicity of this poison is not very strong, and it cannot even affect Qigong practitioners who have cultivated the Qi Sea, but it is extremely harmful to the physical and spiritual bodies of mortals. It will form a tumor in the body and merge with the internal organs. It cannot be detected without careful observation.

When the tumor grows to a certain size, it will squeeze the internal organs and cause an explosion. The explosion will spread the toxins. Once inhaled into the nose and mouth, there is a chance of infection. If you are not careful, the whole city may suffer.

"The person who poisoned me had evil intentions. Although he couldn't harm you or me, the impact is extremely bad. Moreover, it happened at this time. If it is not handled properly, the news will spread throughout the south in an instant after the competition, and then spread to other places in Zhongzhou."

Zi Luan reminded Wang Ping in a low voice.

Upon hearing this, Yu Lian swept her pupils over all the people around the martial arts arena. Many people felt cold under their feet and lowered their heads involuntarily when they met her gaze.

Wang Ping looked at Xia Wenyi who had followed him and ordered, "Clear out the outer disciples, and then gather people to investigate this matter. I want preliminary investigation results within one day!"

As he spoke, he took out the Bagua plate with the number 'B Xia Ling San' from his storage bag and threw it to Xia Wenyi. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and pointed the instructions for using the Bagua plate into Xia Wenyi's forehead, merging it with his spiritual sea.

"Yes, disciple understands!"

“Don’t stop the competition. We can’t let others laugh at us!” Wang Ping looked around quickly, exchanged a glance with Zi Luan, and then they flew up at the same time and stood in front of the throne on the high platform.

"Is someone trying to embarrass us on purpose?" Wu Quan asked.

Although what happened just now seemed terrible, Wu Quan, as a guest, did not intervene like Zi Luan, but sat firmly on the armchair waiting for the result, and the same was true for Gan Qi next to him.

"Not sure!" Wang Ping did not rush to draw a conclusion. He sent a message to Yuanzheng, Ruan Chunzi and Dongcan, asking them to calm down first.

"Let's wait for the results of the investigation." Zi Luan had already sat down while he spoke. Wang Ping also threw his robe and sat down when he saw the monks in charge of the safety of the competition entering the venue to maintain order. He then reached out and gently stroked Yu Lian who was lying on his shoulder.

Soon after, order was restored in the square.

On the surface, Wang Ping was watching Xia Wenyi on the martial arts stage introducing the rules of tomorrow's incoming monks' duel. In fact, his soul had already enveloped the entire Changwen Mansion. However, no accidents occurred until Xia Wenyi announced the disbandment. He had no choice but to retract his spreading soul consciousness. After all, continuing this state would consume a lot of energy.

Three hours later, at the hour of Hai, at the mountaintop temple.

Xia Wenyi brought the preliminary investigation results of this incident.

"In addition to the outer disciples who were poisoned, there are hundreds of people whose bodies were also found to have toxins..."

Yuan Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Where is the source?"

Xia Wenyi first looked at Yuan Zheng, then at Wang Ping, and quickly said, "We investigated all the food supply channels for the outer disciples of Qianmu Temple, and also investigated all the channels for vegetables, fruits, meat, and rice in Zhonghui County, and found no problems."

"This poison shouldn't be spread through food!"

Dong Can said softly.

Xia Wenyi nodded and continued, "We also investigated where those disciples who were found to have toxins had been recently, and the most common place they had been was on a red ship in Zhonghui County."

"Red boat?"

"Where's the back?"

Yuanzheng and Wu Quan asked at the same time.

"Everyone associated with the Red Boat has also been poisoned, and some have already taken full effect. We found the source of the toxin in the sandalwood they have been using for the past month. It is a poisonous insect that cannot be seen with the naked eye. It enters the mouth and nose of the human body through the emitted sandalwood."

"The source of the sandalwood is a caravan that often travels to Xizhou, but they have already left. It will take some time to investigate further, so our investigation will stop here for now."

Xia Wenyi paused here, then looked at Wang Ping, clasped his fists and bowed, and added: "The owner of the red boat is the Wang Family Manor. In addition, many outer disciples of various sects in Nanlin Road have signs of poisoning!"

"How much hatred does this method require?"

These words were said by Zi Luan.

Ruan Chunzi analyzed softly, "Daoist Changqing has been in seclusion for 152 years. It is impossible for him to have any enemies recently. The only possibility is that he made enemies when he attacked Zhenyang Mountain!"

"Don't worry about this!" Wang Ping said, "Continue to investigate, even though I know we may not find anything."

"Yes!" Xia Wenyi nodded.

"Also, set up some detection arrays in Zhonghui County!" Wang Ping was not angry. On the contrary, he was a little expectant. He was a little impatient and wanted to take action.

After Xia Wenyi left, he looked around and said with a smile: "I just came out of seclusion, and before I even put the chess piece in my hand down, someone has already responded. This should be considered a good thing, right?"

Seeing Wang Ping's attitude, Yuan Zheng couldn't help but remind him, "The other party is not friendly, you must not be careless."

Gan Qi, who had been silent the whole time, said softly, "If this matter gets out of hand, I can charge you with interfering in the dispute over the Central Plains' divine weapon."

(End of this chapter)