Day and night tour

Chapter 178 Ancient Tribe Plan
"Notify me when you find it." Zhou Xuan said to Li Chengfeng.

"Help you find relevant information about the head of the coroner's office as soon as possible."

Li Chengfeng said.

There is no direct affiliation between the coroner and the bone doctor, so naturally there is no roster of coroners.

Therefore, if one wants to find the hall master, one can only adopt a more underworld method - to search through the old man's network of relationships.

"It will take time, maybe three or two days, or more than a week, it's hard to say."

Li Chengfeng did not set a definite time limit.

Zhou Xuan could understand that even for Old Gu, it would not be easy to find the evil coroner.

The more upright one is in doing things, the wider his social circle will be, such as Siming.

Lao Si has not done much evil, and all his subordinates are legitimate businesses. He often appears in public and attends various cocktail parties, so it is convenient to look for him.

But the head of the coroner's hall and the head of the kidnapper's hall have done too many evil things and have many enemies, who are hidden very deeply.

……

Returning to the research institute, Zhou Xuan had a deeper understanding of the Blood Well Human Brain.

Those four brains, like octopuses floating in a water tank, had their U-shaped grooves slowly expanding and contracting, sending out low humming signals, as if telling Zhou Xuan about their strong desire to "go home".

"Old Li."

"Yes, young sir."

"You want to know what happened last night, right?" Zhou Xuan said.

"Ah."

"Let all your people leave, and you leave too, and give me a quiet environment." Zhou Xuan said.

"Ugh."

Li Chengfeng agreed, raised his hand to the staff in the institute, and said, "Young Master, please step aside when you are doing something."

The people who were cleaning up the scene in the institute, the students and teachers who were still doing other research, together with Li Chengfeng, withdrew from the "Weird Biology Institute".

After everyone had left, the blood well in Zhou Xuan's secret realm began to stir, and the brains of the people in the blood well also became a little restless.

"Jingzi, don't cause trouble."

Zhou Xuan knew that Xue Jing wanted to embrace the human brain directly, but now was not the time.

"The Bone Elders Association, we can't handle it for the time being."

Zhou Xuan could guess that Li Chengfeng was not in a strong position among the Bone Elders.

Even Lu Yusheng, the armored incense master of the City God, didn't look at Lao Li well.

Even the less powerful Li Chengfeng has six incense sticks, so it is difficult to ensure that there are no masters with seven incense sticks in the Gu Lao Hui.
Even without seven incense sticks, Zhou Xuan would not be able to withstand the group of masters with five or six incense sticks.

Once the brain of the Blood Well is stolen directly, the City God and the Gu Laohui will all come out to track him day and night. The scene is so beautiful...

"Even if I can escape, Lao Li can't!"

Zhou Xuan has the Wake-up Talisman, so he hides in the cracks of time and space, letting the experts find him, but where can Lao Li hide? Has Gu Lao become a fugitive?

The human brain realized what Zhou Xuan was thinking, and the sound signals it emitted became even more whimpering.

"Don't cry, I promise, it won't be long before I take you away openly."

After Zhou Xuan's words of comfort, the mood of the Blood Well Human Brain was no longer so depressed, and the Blood Well calmed down again.

“Finding out ‘hunger’ is the most important thing.”

Zhou Xuan opened the Book of Clearing Wrongs and wrote a line of words on it: August 30, 2 a.m., Weird Biology Research Institute, Huifeng Medical College, Mingjiang Prefecture,

According to Li Chengfeng, he went to Qiye Temple in the early morning to deal with the matter of Zhou Xuan swallowing the Buddha's energy. Before he left, everything was fine in the research institute.

Zhou Xuan then went back in time to the time before Lao Li set out.

After writing the words on the scroll,

The environment around Zhou Xuan changed.

……

In the research institute late at night, with the lights on, researcher Wang Yiwen was sensing the information from the blood well and the human brain while writing something on paper.

Zhou Xuan saw the words "Born in Qiye Temple, Old Priest..." written on the paper.

Just when Wang Yiwen was concentrating on recording the "experimental results", suddenly, a pool of water flowed into the room through the crack in the door.

The water flowed to Wang Yiwen's feet. Suddenly, a pair of hands emerged from the water, followed by a woman's upper body. She sat up from the water, then stood up. Her right hand stabbed into Wang Yiwen's back, and then stabbed out from his chest...

The woman who committed the murder was wearing a white coat, had a hunched back, and had a huge hump-like tumor on her back.

The woman's right hand was like a knife. After stabbing Wang Yiwen's heart, she kissed "Hunger" across the water tank, and then reached out to grab the blood-well human brain.
The human brain felt a strong sense of crisis and sent a sharp and fierce whistle towards the woman. The woman covered her ears in pain, but still couldn't block out the whistle.

She immediately fell to her knees, like a madman, scratching her face with both hands.

Blood marks appeared and his face was covered in blood.

The hump on her back was also shaking and struggling as she was scratched.

As the struggle became more and more intense, the skin of the camel's hump cracked, like a hatched egg sac. Hundreds of white little snakes crawled out of the egg sac, then drilled into Wang Yiwen's mouth, and quickly formed a huge tumor on Wang Yiwen's back!

The tumor controlled Wang Yiwen, and he used a quartz clock to smash the crazy woman to death one after another.

Not only did he smash the body to death, Wang Yiwen also grabbed the dissecting knife and skillfully cut it into thousands of pieces.

After doing all this, Wang Yiwen, who was controlled by the tumor, picked up "Hunger" and dived into the pool of water on the ground.

The woman's soul, along with a small amount of flesh, was also sucked into the water.

After the puddle of water disappeared, Wang Yiwen and the tumor disappeared without a trace...

……

"Oh!"

Zhou Xuan smashed the space-time rift with a punch and returned to the real research institute.

He squatted down again, and penetrated his perception into the brain of the blood well man, and asked: "In the early morning, what did you sense in your hungry body?"

There was nothing but fear. The Xuejing man's brain was like a person who was overly frightened. Some memories were automatically erased for self-protection and did not give Zhou Xuan the information he wanted.

"I'll check it myself."

Zhou Xuan got up and went outside the research institute.

Li Chengfeng was sitting at the door smoking his pipe.

"The person who was cut into countless pieces was not Wang Yiwen, but the murderer who killed Wang Yiwen."

Zhou Xuan also lit a cigarette and sat calmly beside Li Chengfeng. He told him what he had seen.

Li Chengfeng asked: "The murderer came out of the water?"

"Well, its true form should be the hundreds of small snakes in the tumor on its back. Women are its "feet", and the "feet" were driven crazy by the whistling sound of the blood well human brain.

The snake could not control the crazy "foot" and it was difficult to take her away. Fortunately, it regained control of Wang Yiwen and cut the woman into pieces, and also took away a small part of the flesh and blood fragments. In doing so, it not only did not leave any key information, but also created the illusion that the deceased was Wang Yiwen. "

Li Chengfeng was very surprised and asked Zhou Xuan: "Young Master, you have only been in there for half an hour. How did you get so much information?"

"Have you read detective novels? I'm reasoning!"

“……”Li Chengfeng.

"Wang Yiwen got one and a half important messages from "Hunger". Hunger was born in Qiye Temple, and the other half was about the old sacrifice. This message should not be complete. You can guess, such as the old altar, the old temple, etc. You can guess it yourself."

Qiye Temple is the birthplace of Buddhists. Could it be that hunger is also a part of the differentiation of Buddhists?

Zhou Xuan rejected this answer.

During the two hundred years, the wine-cooking monk and the Buddhists became one. How could he not know whether the Buddhists had split or not?

Since the wine-cooking monk did not mention it, there is no division among the Buddhists.

As for why "Hunger" was born in Qiye Temple, we can only know it after capturing it.

Zhou Xuan said to Li Chengfeng, "The rest will have to be found by you, the Bone Elders. There are hundreds of snakes in a tumor, and these snakes can move in and out of a pool of water freely. It should not be difficult for you, the Bone Elders, to find them with all your strength."

"I'll gather someone to check right away."

Zhou Xuan made it very clear how Li Chengfeng would find the murderer.

"By the way, when you go home at night, you can come to me once."

"Young Master wants to instruct me?"

"Of course! I'm going to use my reasoning skills."

Li Chengfeng: “…”

Zhou Xuan said: "Also, if there is any new information about "Hunger", you can also inform me. You should also pay attention to the library. I still need to check the ancient books in there."

"Don't worry, young sir."

Li Chengfeng looked at Zhou Xuan's departing back and remembered what the young master had told him.

"Find out where the coroner's chief lives.
Apply for admission to the Bone Council Library as soon as possible.

Go find the whereabouts of the snake tumor murderer."

Li Chengfeng acted decisively and first called Zhang Yifeng, the City God, and asked him to inquire about the residence of the chief coroner.

Zhang Yifeng was the night watchman, which meant he had plenty of time during the day.

After the call, Li Chengfeng drafted an application report for admission to the library.

After doing this, he assigned the task to some scholars of lower rank and asked them to track down the "snake tumor".

After finishing all this, two or three hours had passed.

Li Chengfeng smiled bitterly. When he didn't know Zhou Xuan, his daily life was very simple. He would hold an ancient book and read it all day long. He was almost not bothered by worldly affairs. But now...
“It feels like going to work on time.”

Li Chengfeng feels that his life now is very much like that of a working class.

……

Zhou Xuan was sitting in the old painting studio at this time.

He has now burned two and a half inches of incense and can learn new tattoo designs.

After using up one of his chances to return to the temple, he entered the Totem Temple.

One of the four chances was used up.

Walking in the Totem Hall, the blood tree seemed to miss him a little. Before he arrived, the branches swayed gently, making a rustling sound, welcoming him.

The first time he entered the Totem Hall, the blood tree almost killed Zhou Xuan. Fortunately, the bride with a lantern walked into the tree and resolved the murderous intent.

One is born, the second is cooked.

Now the ghost lady with a lantern entering the tree has become a formality, just a formality.

The intimacy between Xueshu and Zhou Xuan increased rapidly.

"Shuzi, I haven't seen you for two days, and you still miss me?"

Zhou Xuan gently patted the trunk of the blood tree.

The blood tree shook affectionately again.

Zhou Xuan sat on the mat, waiting for Xueshu's third lesson.

As the intimacy between the two parties increases,

The Blood Tree no longer uses obscure "babies" and "branches" to provide lessons.

It becomes particularly serious in its "teaching" work, and starts to impart knowledge directly through thought and heart.

A branch grew taller in the wind and wrapped around Zhou Xuan's right arm like a tentacle.

Zhou Xuan saw three living people in front of him.

On the back of the first living person, there was a tattoo of a faceless woman in red.

The second living person had a white tiger head tattoo on his shoulder. The third living person had a long red snake on both arms, with the snake head on his left hand and the snake tail on his right hand. The snake's body wrapped around his left hand, then swam across his back and wrapped around his right hand.

The materials and needlework of these three tattoos were all inspired by the blood tree branches, which Zhou Xuan understood clearly.

"The themes of the three tattoos this time are quite strange. They are neither Buddhist nor Taoist, and they cannot be classified into different categories. However, they are different from blood and soul tattoos because they are tattooed on living people."

I have finished learning the new tattoo pattern.
Zhou Xuan took out the Dark Stone and asked the Blood Tree, "Shuzi, do you recognize this stone?"

When the blood tree saw the dark stone, its branches began to shake and turned into whips, which it lashed hard on the stone.

Not only do these two know each other, they also seem to have a great hatred for each other.

Zhou Xuan followed the instructions in the Blood Well Divination. He took the bone tooth, cut his right palm, dipped it in his own blood, and drew a simple "door" pattern on the stone.

After the pattern is completed,

Zhou Xuan held the Dark Stone in his right hand and pointed his right finger at the ground.

The blood tree stretched out two branches, one touched Zhou Xuan's forehead, and the other wrapped around the dark stone.

"A hundred demon songs! A hundred demon songs!"

Zhou Xuan heard crazy shouts coming from the Dark Stone.

Is it calling out for someone named "Hundred Ghosts"?
Zhou Xuan felt that Bai Gui Yao didn’t sound like a person’s name, but more like a strange creature.

"Hundred Eyes, Copper Coin, I see, the opportunity is coming, the opportunity is coming, in twenty-three years,

I went to Dongshi Street and composed a hundred ghost songs in advance.
Twenty-three years later,
All you need to do is use my Dark Stone to find the Hundred Ghosts Song.
The Ballad of a Hundred Ghosts can attract all the tribesmen into the body!
The Tattoo Ancient Clan, with the entire clan descending on East Market Street, worked together to nail the fifth Great Nuo to death.
When the fifth Nuo dies, Lord Mingshi will descend and open the Jade Gate of the Sky.

Wait until that day,
Tattoo family,

Yumen ascends to heaven! "

One old voice after another echoed in Zhou Xuan's mind, making him feel creepy.

"Crucifix the fifth Nuo?"

When Zhou Xuan heard this,

Then I came to a conclusion.

The ancient tattoo tribe has nailed four great Nuos to death.
Will he be the fifth?

"What serious illness did the Tattoo Ancient Clan have that caused them to fight with our Zhou family's Nuo God lineage?"

From these old words, Zhou Xuan realized that the Tattoo Ancient Clan was planning something big.

The big event was "Yumen Ascension".

The prerequisite for accomplishing this great task is to find a "person" named Bai Guiyao and nail the fifth Nuo to death.

Zhou Xuan has the hand of the Nuo god, which, in the eyes of the ancient tattoo tribe, is probably more useful than the Great Nuo.

"No wonder the Tattoo Ancient Clan linked me up. They're planning something big."

Zhou Xuan continued to listen to the sound inside the dark stone.

The old voice no longer sounded, and two other voices sounded instead.

"Priest of the Hundred Eyes, wait for the High Priest of Jade Gate to complete his mission!"

"Copper Coin Priest, wait for the Jade Gate High Priest to complete his mission!"

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he remembered what Si Yuer once said. Through the eyes she found in the blood well, she saw an extremely powerful tattooed evil ghost - the High Priest of a Hundred Eyes.

Every time the high priest went into the blood well, an eye would appear on his body.

The "High Priest of a Hundred Eyes" that Si Yuer mentioned should be the one mentioned in the Nether Stone.

"Gan, let me make it clear in advance that I didn't provoke anyone..."

Zhou Xuan remembered what his sister said - Danuo has never produced anyone with a high level of incense.

My goodness, he has only burned two incense sticks, and the ancient tattoo clan, which is feared by all the prefectures in Jing Kingdom, has gathered the strength of the entire clan to link him up and nail him to death. How can the incense be popular?
"Hey, something seems wrong?"

Zhou Xuan figured out some tricks. During the days he came to Mingjiang Mansion, he encountered people from the ancient tattoo clan.

He also accidentally killed a member of the ancient tribe.

This means that the Tattoo Ancient Clan knows exactly where they are. After all, the link is not there for nothing.

"Since they knew I was in Mingjiang Mansion and that I didn't have a sister or a master to protect me, why didn't they use the whole clan to crucify me?"

"It seems that even if I am crucified, it won't take the strength of the entire clan. The High Priest of the Hundred Eyes and the High Priest of the Copper Coin alone are enough to crucify me."

Zhou Xuan knew his own strengths and weaknesses and the limit of his current combat power, which was the level of four incense sticks.

The High Priest of the Hundred Eyes who could be praised as “super powerful” by Si Yuer, who was only four incense sticks old, must be at least six incense sticks old.

With such a high level of incense, killing Zhou Xuan is no harder than crushing an ant.

"If it's so easy, why don't you come and kill me? And let me live peacefully?

Perhaps, I am not qualified to be killed now?"

Zhou Xuan made a bold guess and carefully verified it.

He compared the plan of the ancient tattoo tribe's "Yumen Ascension" to making a "chopped pepper fish head".
The whole dish requires a lot of ingredients, including chopped pepper, fish head, ginger, garlic, onion... and so on.

The Da Nuo who was nailed to death by the Tattoo Ancient Clan before is the remaining materials, and Zhou Xuan is the fish head.

If you want to make a good dish of chopped pepper fish head, you first need a big fish. If it is a palm-sized fish, then what’s the point of making “chopped pepper fish head”? Wouldn’t it be fried small fish?

Zhou Xuan is the fish that has never grown up.

“Are they waiting for me to grow up?”

It was like the people of the ancient tattoo clan disliked Zhou Xuan’s offerings because the level was too low.

"For them, how many incense sticks do I need to be nailed to death?"

Zhou Xuan thought that he could either go to the Blood Well to ask for divination, or go to the library to look for ancient books as planned to find out what the tattoo clan was up to.

Yumen ascends to heaven!? Ascend your uncle! "

Zhou Xuan continued to hold the Dark Stone, wanting to hear if there were more words coming out of the Dark Stone.

But the blood tree couldn't wait any longer.
It stretched out several branches, rolled up the Hades Stone, and whipped it randomly and violently.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The branches, like iron whips, first created cracks in the stone, and then after a few more whips, the stone was broken into pieces, and the cross-section seemed to be covered with a layer of mucus.

When they saw the slime, the branches became like leeches, with their tips pressed against the broken surface, sucking madly.

It didn't take too long for the Nether Stone to be sucked clean, and it really became a stone without any spirituality.

The tree that had sucked the stone's blood became somewhat happy, as if it had let out a breath of bad air, and its branches were shaking and crackling.

At the same time, a green bud sprouted from the bottom of the blood tree.

"What is this? A new lease of life?"

Zhou Xuan learned from the wine-brewing monk that there were originally nine ancestral trees between heaven and earth. The ancestral trees relied on human popularity to flourish. If human popularity declined, the ancestral trees would wither and then sink into an unknown place, becoming an evil tree.

The blood tree has now sprouted green buds, which means new life.

"Don't worry, Tree. I will make sure you grow back to the ground."

Zhou Xuan patted the tree trunk gently and said.

……

After leaving the Totem Hall,
Zhou Xuan entered the Blood Well Secret Realm through meditation.

"How many sticks of incense will it take for the Tattoo Ancient Clan to kill me?" Zhou Xuan asked through his thoughts.

The blood well was motionless.
The eyes on the temple wall are listless.

"Who is Hyakkiyome?"

There was still no fluctuation in the blood well, and the eyes could not even lift their eyelids.

"Damn it, no wonder the Blood Well Divination can only be conducted once a week."

Zhou Xuan then realized that the divination at the Blood Well, like the tattoos of the Blood Tree Religion, required energy, and after using it once, he would need to rest and recuperate.

Even if you force them to do the work, they won't be able to do it.

"Forget it, I'll go look for it secretly."

Zhou Xuan cut off the connection with the blood well.

……

According to Mingshi, Baiguiyao is in Dongshi Street. Zhou Xuan has no idea whether it is a "human" or some strange creature.

If you want to find it, there is no way to find it.

"That stone once belonged to the High Priest of Yumen. The words in the stone mentioned that the Tattoo Ancient Clan needs that stone to find the Hundred Ghosts Ballad.

However, the stone was smashed into pieces by the blood tree, which meant that the ancient tattoo tribe had no way of finding the Hundred Ghosts Ballad.
That’s good news, it buys me some time.”

Zhou Xuan thought of this and decided to pass the news of the Tattoo Ancient Clan to his sister and master first.

He called out to Li Chengfeng in the crimson moon.

"Old Li, accept my coming!"

……

Li Chengfeng arranged all his affairs and returned to his study, thinking about the "Heavenly Official's Blessing" tattoo that Zhou Xuan had made for him.

Just as he was watching intently, Li Chengfeng suddenly heard Zhou Xuan's call in his ear.

"The high priest is looking for me."

Li Chengfeng quickly knelt on his knees and welcomed Zhou Xuan's arrival with the attitude of a devout believer.

A white light flashed before Zhou Xuan's eyes, and his soul descended into Li Chengfeng's body.

"Old Li." Zhou Xuan communicated with Li Chengfeng through his consciousness: "I'm in trouble. Please inform my sister and tell her that I've been linked to the Tattoo Ancient Clan."

"Why did they link you?"

"For a plan called 'Tattoo the whole clan, ascend to heaven', they have crucified four great Nuos. I am the last Nuo in their plan. By crucifying me, they can ascend to heaven.

You spread the news to my sister by phone or telegram."

"The telephone and telegraph are unreliable. I have my own way."

"Well, if my sister has any news to respond to you, you can find me to come."

After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he came out of the descending state, feeling physically and mentally exhausted.

……

Li Chengfeng silently recited the prayer, and a small white lantern appeared in his right hand.

After he drew a few strokes on the lantern with his left middle finger, the word "花" (flower) appeared on the lantern.

Then, he closed his eyes and meditated, pouring the message he wanted to deliver into the lantern.

"Light up!"

After Li Chengfeng finished reading, he pointed his left hand upwards,
The lanterns began to burn.

……

Zhou's class, under the ancestral tree,

Zhou Lingyi saw the shadow of a lantern, and just by looking at the shape of the lantern, she knew where it came from.

"It's the lantern of the Master of the Bone Society."

Zhou Lingyi waved her hand, the lantern shattered, and a message spread in her heart.

The more she listened to this news, the more frightened she felt...

ps: Good brothers, happy weekend.

(End of this chapter)