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Chapter 86 Killing Five Envoys and Emptying the Vegetable Garden
In the dark night, before President Qian's eyes, there was only a figure covered in white light that kept swaying.

Every shake brought with it a ghostly afterimage, and every time the afterimage disappeared, one of his own thugs would fall down and lie on the ground groaning in pain.

Fast, very fast, as fast as a ghost.

Although President Qian is a businessman, he has dealt with many people in the underworld on a daily basis, so he still has some vision.

At this time, President Qian's forehead was covered with dense beads of sweat, and a feeling of impending death was rushing towards him like a mountain.

After a moment, there were only thugs on the ground screaming in pain, and even the butler was not spared.

President Qian felt a hand strangling his neck, and the feeling of death was following him like a shadow, making it difficult for him to breathe.

The man's voice in his ears was like a devilish voice urging his death, making President Qian feel cold all over, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Who is behind these things, and where did they come from?"

President Qian finally saw the face of the person who came and his eyes widened: "Shopkeeper Shen, it's you!"

Since it is a chamber of commerce, it is naturally familiar with all kinds of merchants in Shengyun County.

In addition, President Qian was well-informed and also knew what was happening to Shen Bai in the yamen.

Connecting the past and the present, President Qian already knew in his mind that Shen Bai had come to investigate him.

"Shopkeeper Shen, I don't understand what you are saying. I am just an ordinary businessman, reselling vegetables and making a small profit."

He was shrewd and knew well the grudge between Shen Bai and County Magistrate Li.

The Hengyun Chamber of Commerce has reached its current state because of County Magistrate Li, and President Qian does not dare to sell out County Magistrate Li.

And President Qian also had an idea in his mind.

"This is the county town. Could Shen Bai really kill him?"

As soon as this thought came to mind, President Qian knew he was wrong.

The sound of bones breaking was creepy and chilling in the middle of the night.

"Uh……"

President Qian looked at his limp left arm and was about to cry out in pain, but he saw Shen Bai's cold eyes and subconsciously stopped.

He really dares to kill people!

This idea emerged in President Qian's mind.

"If you don't tell me, next time it won't be just an arm." Shen Bai said lightly.

Beside him, Qin Shuang also watched coldly.

It is true that she is a provincial official, but she is also a human being.

Chairman Qian helped County Magistrate Li to resell Yin vegetables and harm the people. This kind of treatment is considered light.

"I said it all."

Chairman Qian pleaded, "I was forced into this. County Magistrate Li had a lot of leverage over me. I helped him improve the economy of Shengyun County, but I've also fallen into a quagmire and can't escape. I was forced into this."

"Too much nonsense."

Shen Bai looked at President Qian's other arm.

President Qian shuddered, feeling that his right arm was about to be lost, and spoke quickly.

"It was all ordered by County Magistrate Li. I was only responsible for the transportation. The farthest point west of Shengyun County is about two hundred miles away. There are three mountains connected together. I harvested the vegetables there."

He got scared, and he got scared very quickly.

Compared to the punishment from County Magistrate Li, it is better than dying now.

"Crack!"

President Qian's other arm was crushed by Shen Bai again. He said in pain, "Have mercy, have mercy, Shopkeeper Shen. I don't know anything else. Please spare me."

Shen Bai smiled and said, "I just think that some things look much better when they are symmetrical."

President Qian: “…”

He was speechless, but now he dared not say a word.

So you think that one of my arms is broken and asymmetrical, so you want to get a new one, right?
Qin Shuang said with a cold expression, "You should know very well who I am."

President Qian nodded quickly: "You are the Sizhou official of the Tianjian Division, so I am naturally aware of this."

"You also understand whether it is to resist stubbornly or to atone for one's sins." Qin Shuang continued.

President Qian said flatteringly, "I understand, I understand. I will definitely not tell Magistrate Li."

Shen Bai patted Qin Shuang's shoulder: "It doesn't matter if you tell me, I just need a clue."

Qin Shuang asked: "And then?"

"Take them all in one go." Shen Bai walked towards the door with a long sword in hand.

Qin Shuang looked at Shen Bai's back and suddenly felt that Shen Bai's temperament had changed more than before.

"Although you gave me a mysterious feeling before, I always felt that you couldn't fit in with Shengyun County."

"Today, it seems... different."

She knew in her heart that perhaps it was because of Grandma Zhang's death that Shen Bai had changed a little.

Shen Bai had already walked to the door, but suddenly turned back and raised his left hand.

"Boom!"

"what!"

Qin Shuang covered his head and glared at him: "What are you doing! I didn't do anything wrong!"

Shen Bai felt the texture and asked, "Has it changed?"

Qin Shuang touched his head and said blankly: "It seems to have changed, but it hasn't changed."

Shen Bai turned around and said, "I just accepted it. Let's go."

Qin Shuang caught up with Shen Bai: "What are you going to do?"

Shen Bai's eyes were as calm as water: "It's just murder."

……

The westernmost part of Shengyun County.

This place is deserted and seldom visited by humans, and is a place where wild animals and birds live.

Not far away, there are three connected mountain peaks, with the middle one being the highest and the two sides slightly lower, forming a Chinese character "品" shape.

At this time, in the innermost part of a dense forest on the middle mountain, a huge open space was dug out by someone.

On the open space, rows of vegetables are planted.

When ordinary people look at these vegetables, they will think that they are crisp and high-quality vegetables.

But if a person from the martial arts world were here, he would find that there was a dense and cold aura on these vegetables, which was like a snake entwining the vegetables.

On the vegetable field, there were many people in different clothes, watering and applying fertilizer like farmers.

At the edge of the vegetable field, several people wearing the same black robes were talking in low voices.

"Another batch of vegetables will be shipped over tomorrow."

"The strange aura is getting stronger and stronger, and it's not far from being revealed."

"That bitch, the Dark Envoy, has been missing for days. We'll need her to lead the weirdness to Shengyun County when the time comes. Don't let anything go wrong because of her."

"Emissary Guang, although you two may not get along, please don't say such things in this situation."

There were five men in black robes in total, all of them were emissaries from the Shang'e Sect.

Envoy Guang was a middle-aged man with slightly balding hair. He snorted coldly after hearing this: "That bitch has special abilities, otherwise why would she be in charge of this matter?"

Seeing that their persuasion was ineffective and seeing that Envoy Guang was complaining again, the other four shook their heads.

They said nothing more and waited patiently.

It was very dark at night, with only sporadic moonlight shining through, as if covered with a layer of jade light. Combined with the eerie atmosphere like deathly silence, it made people shudder.

The five envoys yawned.

As the saying goes, people feel sleepy in spring and tired in autumn. Even those who practice cultivation will feel sleepy in this cool weather.

Just then, a slight sound of footsteps suddenly rang out.

Under normal circumstances, the footsteps might not be audible, but at this moment, in the complete silence, the footsteps were clearly heard by the envoys.

Not only them, but even the members of the Shang'e Sect who were planting vegetables heard the sound.

"who!"

Envoy Guangzun reacted the fastest. He came to his senses immediately and turned to look at the source of the sound.

He turned his head so quickly that his head circled around his neck.

During this night, the head of the Light Envoy turned 360 degrees, looking extremely terrifying.

The next moment, a hand pressed on the head of the Light Envoy.

In the eyes of the other four envoys, Envoy Guang's head and spine were pulled out by a man and held in his bloody hands.

This extremely shocking scene made the four envoys react.

When they turned around, they saw a man in ordinary clothes with a sword hanging on his waist, looking at them with cold eyes.

"The evil bug has come to Shengyun County to cause trouble again." Shen Bai said indifferently.

"It's Shen Bai, run!"

The envoys turned around and prepared to escape without hesitation.

Shen Bai smiled and said, "It seems that Zhang Chaofeng really did pass my news to Shang'e Gate. But it doesn't matter. They are all enemies anyway. No, they should be dead."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Bai drew the long sword from his waist.

The blood-red sword light, carrying a brilliant righteous energy, was like the sunlight cutting through the darkness, instantly turning into countless.

The four envoys were covered by the sword light and immediately felt the life-and-death crisis pressing down like a mountain.

They turned around, trying to resist and buy time to escape.

But the next moment, the fourth-level blood sword dance passed over their chests.

In the dark night, with the blessing of Shadow Walk's night combat attribute, it was easy to get the bonus.

Shadows surrounded Shen Bai, as if the emperor had descended at night.

"boom!"

There was a roar.

The four envoys were unable to even resist and turned into four corpses in an instant.

The rest of the Shang'e Clan members wanted to escape. At this moment, a handful of fine needles appeared and, under Qin Shuang's control, transformed into countless gusts of wind, piercing through the chests of every Shang'e Clan member.

In a moment, Shen Bai and Qin Shuang started fighting, and there were only corpses on the ground.

Qin Shuang looked at Shen Bai, and the complexity in his eyes became more and more.

"You...are stronger again..."

"How on earth do you practice?"

After just a few days of not seeing each other, Qin Shuang discovered that Shen Bai had become drastically stronger.

Especially since Shen Bai was surrounded by nightmare-like shadows at this moment, Qin Shuang felt as if he was falling into an ice cellar just by looking at him.

Qin Shuang couldn't understand why even the geniuses of Maple Forest State who took medicine as food could not grow as fast as Shen Bai.

"He is hiding his strength. Perhaps his true strength is far greater than this, or even stronger."

This was the only thought in Qin Shuang's mind.

He is definitely hiding his incompetence.

If they hadn't concealed their incompetence, all the geniuses in Fenglin State, including Qin Shuang, would have banged their heads against the wall and died.

Shen Bai looked around, especially at the vegetable patch in front of him, and said, "Now is not the time to discuss this."

Although the people who came to the evil gate were killed, there were still some strange things that had not been solved. This was the main purpose of Shen Bai's trip.

As for County Magistrate Li, there is also Chairman Qian as evidence. For Qin Shuang, the Sizhou official, this can help him find more clues later.

The most important thing is to solve the problems in front of you.

Shen Bai came to the edge of the vegetable field and then inserted his sword into it.

This scene made Qin Shuang feel very strange.

She didn't know what Shen Bai was going to do, but she still gave him a reminder.

"Shen Bai, be careful. We can slowly dig up the vegetable patch and explore the strange situation first."

"can not wait anymore."

Shen Bai circulated the Qi in his body.

Qin Shuang was stunned: "What do you mean by can't wait, you...this..."

Qin Shuang couldn't say the rest of the words because the scene before him was too shocking.

As Shen Bai circulated the Qi in his body, a horrifying scene appeared.

Points of blood-red sword energy emerged from the vegetable field, like a mountain of swords, densely packed and extremely terrifying.

A terrifying sword energy can easily kill a cultivator at the Three Treasures Realm, let alone so many of them.

Qin Shuang knew what Shen Bai was doing, and was even more shocked.

"He was using his sword energy to patrol the vegetable fields below. Each ray of sword energy was a terrifyingly sharp blade, forming a giant net that left no place for any evil spirits to hide."

"This... is too scary."

"I must let him join the Tianjian Division!"

Various thoughts kept echoing in Qin Shuang's mind.

At this moment, a light exclamation interrupted Qin Shuang's thoughts.

Shen Bai retracted his sword and frowned slightly.

Qin Shuang walked forward puzzledly and asked, "What's wrong? Is the strange thing so strong that the sword energy can't hurt it?"

She was also a little surprised. If that was true, then this monster was too powerful.

Shen Bai shook his head: "Quite the opposite."

"On the contrary?" Qin Shuang frowned slightly. "Very weak?"

She felt that this shouldn't be the case. For someone like Shang Evil to come up with such a thing, it couldn't be that weak.

"See for yourself."

Shen Bai drew out his sword.

The sword energy under the ground exploded.

The dirt was flying everywhere like falling raindrops, and the vegetable field was in a mess.

The vegetable garden was empty, there was nothing.

"Why is there nothing?"

Qin Shuang looked at the empty vegetable patch, his black and white eyes widened, and his little mouth opened wide enough to fit a lot of things in.

There was nothing under the vegetable patch, but the strange aura inside had not diminished at all. It was still as thick as the night, making people shudder.

The whole vegetable garden gave people the feeling that there was something really weird going on, but it turned out that there was nothing weird at all.

Shen Bai touched his chin and said, "I seem to be very familiar with this thing."

Qin Shuang's expression returned to normal, and her brows furrowed slightly. "Familiar, what do you mean familiar?"

Shen Bai stretched out his hand, and a shadow kept hovering in his palm.

Walk in the shadows and drive away the shadows.

When the shadow emerged, the situation under the vegetable field changed.

In the open space below, a shadow that was imperceptible to ordinary people was crawling in a twisted manner like a rat in a sewer.

"What is this?" Qin Shuang asked.

Shen Bai waved his hand.

The shadow in his hand shot out like a sharp sword, swallowing up all the shadows in the vegetable field.

"It seems the other party also has the ability to control shadows, but it's different from mine."

Shen Bai said calmly: "This shadow is more like a bridge connecting the middle. Do you understand?"

Qin Shuang thought about it, and a flash of light suddenly emerged in his mind: "You mean, this place is not a weird place, and the other party is using shadows as a connection to absorb resentment here, and then use the shadows to strengthen the real weirdness?"

Shen Bai nodded and said, "That's right."

"Can you find it?" Qin Shuang asked.

Shen Bai shook his head and said, "I can't find it. Although the abilities are similar, they are different after all."

Qin Shuang fell into deep thought after hearing this.

At this time, Shen Bai raised his foot and walked outside.

Qin Shuang was interrupted, and after realizing what was happening, he caught up with her in a few steps: "Where are you going?"

Without even turning back, Shen Bai said, "Go back to the county government office."

"What are you going back for?" Qin Shuang asked.

Shen Bai stopped and said, "What evidence do we need now?"

Qin Shuang understood: "You want to go find Magistrate Li?"

“Every wrongdoer has his own debtor, and every debtor has his own owner.”

Shen Bai continued walking forward: "It's time to find him. If I keep talking to him, it will only make things worse. Let's settle the accounts tonight."

Qin Shuang thought about it and did not stop Shen Bai. He followed Shen Bai silently.

The two men left the mountain and headed towards Shengyun County.

……

Shengyun County, county government office.

In the room in the backyard, the lights were dim, and the light and shadows were intertwined like dog teeth, which looked a bit creepy at night.

"Dead, found."

The Dark Envoy shook his head and watched the shadow in his hand disappear.

Next to him, County Magistrate Li was sitting on a chair, reviewing the recent reports from Shengyun County, especially those dealing with the Hengyun Chamber of Commerce.

He was the one who built up the Hengyun Chamber of Commerce. Relying on his connections with the county magistrate and using various special channels, he not only boosted the economy of Shengyun County, but also made him a lot of money.

The only price is that some ordinary people have to live frugally.

After hearing the words of the Anzun Envoy, County Magistrate Li put down the memorial in his hand and turned the flame of the oil lamp brighter.

"What did you say, exposed?"

Amidst the light and shadow, County Magistrate Li's tone was filled with urgency.

The Dark Envoy turned around and asked, "What are you so anxious about?"

County Magistrate Li angrily said, "How could I not be anxious?"

"Qin Shuang from the Tianjian Division is already giving me a headache, and now there's the even more mysterious Shen Bai. If it were you, would you be anxious?"

"My cooperation with Shang'e Clan is a matter of advancement. If I were to be promoted to Fenglin Province, you would definitely benefit from it. You are well aware of this."

"It will not be good for us if the matter is exposed."

County Magistrate Li gritted his teeth at every word, as if he wanted to tear the An Zun Envoy to pieces.

The charming look on the face of the Dark Envoy became even more intense. "You have to understand, just now, five envoys from the Shang'e Sect died. This is also a huge loss for us."

Although he said so, there was no regret or remorse on the face of the Dark Envoy.

"I don't want to discuss life and death with you."

County Magistrate Li waved his hand and said, "Do you have any way to circumvent this?"

The Dark Envoy shook his head and said, "Is there any way to circumvent it?"

"They couldn't find me, but they could find you. Don't you want to think about why they were able to find your location?"

County Magistrate Li thought carefully for a moment and said, "There's something wrong with the Hengyun Chamber of Commerce."

He stood up suddenly.

"No, I have to go!"

"They've collected evidence. I can't stay here. I have to run!"

As he spoke, County Magistrate Li prepared to leave the room and pack his luggage.

The Dark Envoy chuckled and said, "Do you think you can get away? Apart from anything else, the things you've done leave you no place in the entire Great Zhou Kingdom."

County Magistrate Li stopped suddenly.

The Dark Envoy continued, "There is only one solution for now."

(End of this chapter)