What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

"Hmm, it didn't take much effort."

I said calmly.

"But before I sent them on their way, I found out something."

They said they were sent to Jiangcheng to investigate, and their target was all the well-known sorcerers in the Jiangcheng black market.

And the people who hire them…”

I looked into Li Qing and Jin Wanliang's eyes and said, word by word, "He's Yan Shouyi's boss."

Then, I briefly recounted what happened in Zhoujia Village and what followed.

"hiss--"

After hearing this, two gasps of shock rang out simultaneously in the private room.

"Yan Shouyi's boss... these people actually dared to send people to Jiangcheng to investigate at this critical juncture?"

When Li Qing heard the news I dropped, his brows furrowed into a deep knot.

"Chen Yang, are you sure you didn't hear me wrong?"

Aren't they afraid that Taoist Zhang Xuanqing will follow the clues and wipe them all out?

The high-ranking Taoist priests of Longhu Mountain are no pushovers. If they really anger the Celestial Master's Mansion, those old Taoist priests might just raze their ancestral graves to the ground.

Jin Wanliang rubbed the walnuts he was playing with in his hands, a thoughtful look on his chubby face:

"Yes, Brother Chen."

Logically speaking, if they were targeted by a master of Zhang Xuanqing's caliber, the best thing these people should do is disappear without a trace and keep a low profile.

Why would you defy the odds and send people all the way to Jiangcheng to track you down?

Just as I was about to speak, my phone suddenly vibrated in my pocket.

At this critical moment, a phone call came in, which stirred something within me.

I took out my phone and glanced at the screen; the caller ID showed Lu Yan.

"It's Lu Yan."

I gestured to Li Qing and Jin Wanliang, then pressed the answer button and turned on speakerphone.

"Chen Yang".

Lu Yan's usual cool and aloof voice came from the other end of the phone.

But if you listen carefully, you can detect a rare hint of seriousness hidden beneath her calm tone.

"I'm here. What's wrong? Weren't you recuperating at Longhu Mountain?"

As I asked the question, I leaned back slightly in my chair.

"The situation has changed."

Lu Yan didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

"Senior Brother Zhang Xuanqing... has gone missing."

The air in the private room seemed to freeze for a moment.

Li Qing's fingers, holding the cigarette, paused slightly, and the walnut in Jin Wanliang's hand also stopped spinning.

"Missing contact? When did this happen?"

My facial expression didn't change much, but I lowered my voice slightly.

"Just last night."

Lu Yan spoke very quickly.

"After leaving you, my senior brother has been tracking the trail behind Yan Shouyi."

His last message to the Celestial Master's Mansion was that an extremely hidden corpse-raising site had been discovered in western Hunan, which might be related to the employer behind Yan Shouyi.

But after that, although his life tablet wasn't broken, all his communication and location talismans became ineffective, as if they had vanished into thin air.

I squinted slightly.

I have witnessed Zhang Xuanqing's strength. For someone to be able to lose contact or be trapped, their strength and preparations must be beyond conventional understanding.

"Besides my senior brother's matter, things aren't peaceful in Jiangcheng either."

Lu Yan continued.

"I just received an urgent report from the Jiangcheng branch."

In the past three days, the number of folk custom-related cases reported by various districts in Jiangcheng has tripled.

From rumors of corpses rising from the dead in the suburbs to strange changes in the feng shui of the old city, all sorts of demons and monsters seem to have suddenly appeared.

The branch's special operations team has been working non-stop for three days, and is severely understaffed.

"It seems someone is deliberately stirring up trouble."

I replied and continued, "On my way here, I also dealt with five suspected heretical cultivators from out of town."

They said they were hired to investigate the local bullies in Jiangcheng.

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.

"Jiangcheng is now a powder keg, with undercurrents swirling around it."

Lu Yan's voice carried a hint of solemnity.

"I have applied for a transfer order from the General Administration and am on my way back to Jiangcheng. I should arrive as early as tomorrow morning."

I'm calling to remind you to be extra careful these next few days and not to take any unnecessary risks.

"Let's discuss this further when I get back."

"Okay, I understand."

Be careful on your journey, and call me when you arrive.

I calmly offered her a few words of comfort.

"Um."

Lu Yan responded and then hung up the phone.

Hearing the busy tone from my phone, I put it on the coffee table and looked up at Li Qing and Jin Wanliang.

Now, all the clues fit together perfectly, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

"It seems that your master's divination of the heavens was correct, Li Qing."

I picked up the teacup and gently swirled the tea inside.

"Master Zhang has gone missing, cases in Jiangcheng have surged, and cult practitioners from other places are being investigated."

It's not that these people aren't afraid of Zhang Xuanqing; rather, they've already set a trap for him.

After luring the tiger away from the mountain, they are finally going to overturn the table in Jiangcheng.

Jin Wanliang wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although he was a little nervous, he quickly calmed down.

"Brother Chen, these people went to such lengths, even scheming against the experts of the Celestial Master's Mansion. What exactly are they after in Jiangcheng?"

Although Jiangcheng is a large city, it has never been considered a core area in the folk culture scene.

"We'll have to ask our geomancer's successor for that." I turned my gaze to Li Qing.

Li Qing didn't speak, but instead took out a bronze-colored feng shui compass from a shelf not far away.

He placed the compass steadily in the center of the coffee table, then went back to his room and took out a topographical map of Jiangcheng, spreading it out next to the compass.

After doing all this, his eyes became unusually focused.

Then, he bit his middle finger, dripped a drop of blood onto the compass needle, and muttered the incantation for finding the dragon vein and locating the acupoint.

The compass needle began to rotate slowly and eventually stopped at a specific direction.

Li Qing looked at the pointer, then at the map, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper, until finally he realized what was going on.

"Old Chen, Fatty Jin, come and see."

Li Qing pointed to three locations on the map with his finger.

"The underground palace of the ancient town in the north of the city, the Qinglong Reservoir in the west of the city, and Zhoujia Village in the south of the city."

I looked in the direction he was pointing, and those three places were exactly where I had experienced life-or-death battles over the past six months.

"Jiangcheng is located on the banks of the Yangtze River and is crisscrossed by waterways."

In Feng Shui, this is considered a "water dragon hiding in the abyss" formation.

Li Qing used his fingernail to draw a winding line on the map, representing the watercourse of the Yangtze River.

"This layout gathers and retains energy, but it can also easily breed negative energy."

Therefore, when building cities, the ancients would often look for nodes in the earth's veins and set up array points to suppress them.

He pointed to the three points and said, "The underground palace of the ancient town suppresses the corpse of General Zuo, and the reservoir is an extremely yin water-gathering formation."

Without a doubt, the ancestral graves in Zhoujia Village must also be a natural place where yin and yang meet.

These three places were originally key points in the Jiangcheng water dragon vein.

"But now, all three key points of the formation are malfunctioning?" I continued, following his train of thought.