I've never felt happy to become an immortal.

Chapter 153 Big White's wife gave birth to a baby

Bai Xuan's words came as fast as lightning.

It can be said that he would not rest until he said something shocking.

In an instant, the entire study fell into an eerie silence.

Everyone present subconsciously looked at the silent Madam Liu and Lu Shu, whose eyes were bloodshot.

My first reaction was to have a question mark appear above my head.

Just now, Lin Chongxiao clearly intended to kill Madam Liu. It was Madam Liu who injured Lu Shu with a knife, so Lin Chongxiao's anger was completely understandable. However, Bai Xuan's words seemed to distort the truth.

So much so that Lin Jiaolu subconsciously rubbed her eyes, trying to confirm whether she was under an illusion or experiencing auditory hallucinations.

Lin Chongxiao's anger subsided slightly, and his gaze shifted between Liu Shi and Lu Shu: "Boy, what do you mean by that?"

He's not in a hurry to take action now; what he needs more is a clear explanation.

Su Wuye also breathed a slight sigh of relief, released his hand, and cast an inquiring glance at Bai Xuan.

"I meant it literally." Bai Xuan put down his sword and leaned back on the ground. "It's not that hard to understand, is it?" He looked around and asked calmly, "What, you don't believe me?"

He pointed at Lu Shu and said, "Why don't we just ask her directly?"

Lu Shu, clutching her bleeding eyes, slowly said, "I don't understand what you're saying. She suddenly attacked, trying to kill me. I was caught off guard and my eyes were slashed..."

“If she really intended to kill someone,” Bai Xuan countered, “why was she holding a dagger and slashing instead of stabbing?”

Now that they are all true martial artists, they naturally know how to kill people most efficiently.

A slash is not fatal; what is truly deadly is a stab.

Moreover, it is usually not aimed at the face, but at vital organs such as the torso.

The human facial bones are very strong, and the face is basically covered by bones, while there are very few parts of the body that are wrapped and protected by bones.

Lu Shu shook her head and said, "How would I know what she's thinking?"

"Why not just ask her directly?" Su Wuwo said, "This... Madam?"

Madam Liu stood still, her eyes fixed on her surroundings. Despite being in a dangerous predicament, she possessed an inexplicable air of self-respect, remaining calm and composed, showing no fear even as the axe was brought upon her.

This kind of aura can't be acted out.

Although Lady Liu was also from a prominent family, she was clearly not comparable to Lady Lu of Fanyang.

Madam Liu simply stood there without saying a word, an attitude that aroused suspicion among the others.

"If she is the lady, why didn't she clarify her identity just now?" Xi Qingqing asked.

“She can’t bring herself to say it,” Bai Xuan said calmly.

"why?"

“Because her throat was destroyed,” Bai Xuan said. “She probably doesn’t have a tongue either, so how could she speak?”

As he spoke, Bai Xuan looked at Liu Shi and asked, as if seeking confirmation, "Am I right?"

Everyone looked over immediately. Liu nodded with a calm yet helpless expression.

Bai Xuan continued to question Lu Shu: "If she really came to kill someone, why did she have to destroy her own throat? Why did she have the opportunity to kill, but coincidentally injured your eye instead?"

Lin Chongxiao thought for a moment: "There are indeed some doubts about these things, but what you said is a bit too far-fetched."

Su Wuwo stroked his chin: "If this is your sister-in-law... could it be a disguise or a complete change of appearance? No, that doesn't make sense, their physical characteristics and height are different."

Liu's bone structure and physique were noticeably larger than Lu Shu's, and she was over 1.7 meters tall.

Bai Xuan said, "To understand this, we must start with a case..."

His gaze swept across the crowd, and he said in a deep voice, "The Jiao Rong case!"

Upon hearing this, most of the people present looked puzzled and frowned slightly.

But Su Wuwo was in a state of great shock, and he murmured, "Jiao Rong... case?"

Having just been released from prison, he naturally knew nothing and pressed on, "Is it a charred face, with the flesh burned to ashes?"

Bai Xuan nodded: "That's right."

Su Wuwo pressed on, "You solved this case? Do you know who the murderer is?"

His breathing quickened involuntarily; even a grandmaster like him was slightly out of control at this moment.

Lin Chongxiao patted Su Wuwo on the shoulder: "Calm down."

The two men's positions have been reversed.

Su Wuwo realized that he had unconsciously released his aura. He adjusted his emotions and breathing: "I'm sorry, I got a little excited... but this case is very important. It has been troubling me for more than ten years."

After Su Wuwo left prison, he only needed to do a little investigation to find out about the 'Jiao Rong case'. If he knew about it, he would realize that it was a clue left by the mastermind behind it all back then. At that time, he would do something that even he himself could not imagine.

So Su Wuwo's ​​decision to do nothing turned out to be a lucky accident.

"Young man, I'm sorry to trouble you..."

“Even if you don’t tell me, I will solve this case.” Bai Xuan said, “Could someone please go and get the case files related to Jiao Rong’s case? It would be best if you could also bring over the fourth and fifth bodies…and more.”

He looked at Lu Shu and Liu Shi and said, "Please keep those two under control as well." Lin Chongxiao knew that his wife was between the two of them. Although Bai Xuan's words were unbelievable, he dared not gamble on the slightest possibility and gritted his teeth, saying, "I'm sorry, Madam! You can scold me however you like afterward."

They bound the two of them.

Meanwhile, some people went to the morgue to retrieve documents and the body.

While waiting, Bai Xuan raised his hand, wanting someone nearby to help him stand up. Xi Qingqing, seeing this, subconsciously reached out her hand, then froze in mid-air, because Lin Jiaolu also reached out her hand at the same time. The two women's eyes met in the air, and a hidden emotion flashed across their faces.

There were faint bursts of electric light.

Finally, Iron-Blooded Yama pulled Bai Xuan up and helped him sit down on a recliner.

After Bai Xuan sat down, the recliner creaked and rocked, looking quite content.

Soon the documents and the body were brought over, along with the coroner who had been hastily summoned.

"They've all arrived." Lin Chongxiao said anxiously.

Bai Xuan sat up slightly: "Let the coroner give a brief account of the Jiao Rong case."

The coroner gave a detailed explanation based on the information.

After listening, Lin Jiaolu scratched his head: "There is no connection between these dead people."

Bai Xuan's gaze was indifferent: "Aside from knowing that these deceased people knew each other and had met before, there is no other connection. But this is precisely the connection of the case itself."

He pointed to the corpse: "First of all, all the victims in the Jiao Rong case had facial disfigurement, but their direct cause of death was not due to disfigurement, but rather due to different reasons."

"So, why?"

"Why would the killer disfigure the victim's face in such a way, leaving such obvious identifying features so that others would realize this is a serial murder case?"

He looked around, not immediately offering an explanation, but instead using a question-and-answer format to guide the crowd to follow his line of thought.

Xi Qingqing was rather sensitive about appearances, and tentatively asked, "So that people wouldn't recognize the deceased?"

“No.” Lin Jiaolu immediately denied: “These people’s identities are very clear. Disfigurement alone is not enough unless the body is burned.”

"In other words, the killer's goal in disfiguring the person was not to hide their identity..." Su Wuwo pondered, "either to deliberately create panic, or because they had no other choice."

“That’s right.” Bai Xuan affirmed, “I think both are true. One is that a series of murders was deliberately created, and through Jiao Rong’s method, people’s thinking was induced to ‘Fu Guang Sect’, because the Blazing Sun Divine Light can cause such injuries.”

Lin Chongxiao tacitly acknowledged this, and the Lin family indeed thought so.

"The second point, and also the most important one," Bai Xuan pointed to the charred face of the corpse, "is to destroy the face in order to destroy a crucial piece of evidence, because this evidence would directly expose the method of the entire serial murder case and the identity of the killer."

"What is it?" Su Wuwo asked immediately.

Bai Xuan pointed to his eyelids: "Eyes."

At this moment, the people present had not yet realized what was going on; they couldn't fathom what secret lay hidden in those eyes.

Xi Qingqing, however, was the one who could best follow Bai Xuan's line of thought. She looked at Madam Lu and Madam Liu, whose movements were restricted by the golden needles, and let out a soft exclamation: "I think I noticed that just now..."

She bent down slightly and looked into Liu's eyes: "There seems to be a pattern in her eyes."

Xi Qingqing turned to look at Bai Xuan and suddenly realized, "Isn't that the pattern that the Embroidered Uniform Guard obtained when they interrogated Zhao Yuzhou? Fire in the door."

Bai Xuan took out the papers and handed them to the people around him, who took turns looking at them.

However, even Su Wuwo didn't recognize him. He seemed to have some impression of him, but it wasn't very deep.

“It’s normal that you don’t know,” Bai Xuan said. “This pattern first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period. By the time the Qin Dynasty conquered the six states, the lineage had already been destroyed, so theoretically it was impossible for it to have survived to this day.”

"The fire within the gate, the gate being Rashomon; the fire being the fire of life and soul."

"They together form the character 焛."

"It is one of the ancient traditions that are sought to last forever."

"This lineage has two major traditions: the first is the pursuit of the immortality of the physical body; the second is the pursuit of the perpetuation of the spirit."

Bai Xuan knew that if he said too much, the group wouldn't understand, so he simply summarized it.

"Simply put, the first line of inheritance is the method of immortality, which has been accepted by the Dao of Immortality; the second line of inheritance is missing, and I thought it had been lost long ago, but I didn't expect to see it here..."

"The second inheritance is called the Rashomon Soul Transfer Technique."

Even if it was the first time I heard the name, upon hearing the words "soul transfer," I already deeply understood its specific function.

A chilling feeling crept over me.

The Soul Transfer Technique involves transferring one's soul into another person's body, thus having one's identity replaced by someone else.

Lin Chongxiao stared incredulously at the characters in his hand, then looked at the immobilized Lu and Liu.

Liu Shi also stared at him quietly. Lin Chongxiao's scalp tingled instantly, and his hands trembled involuntarily. The Dingfeng Long Spear fell to the ground with a crisp clang.

If this is true, didn't he just almost kill his wife?
This terrifying scheme caused him a brief moment of palpitations and panic, which then transformed into a raging inferno.

Su Wuwo gazed at the corpses on the ground and slowly said, "Could it be that all the dead here are..."

“That’s right, just as you thought, they are all victims of the Soul Transfer Technique.” Bai Xuan said calmly, “And the reason their faces were destroyed was to destroy the remaining features after the soul transfer—the '焛' character mark inside their eyes.”

(End of this chapter)