Chapter 258: Confession

Lan Hui’s corpse was first transported to the Dao Ting Si in Tongxian City. An executive officer went to report to Zhou Zhang Si.

As soon as Zhou Zhang Si heard, he furrowed his brows. When he saw Lan Hui's corpse, his brows furrowed even tighter. He couldn't help but say angrily:

"Zhang Lan, this brat, is causing me trouble again."

This Lan Dian Si, full-bearded, came to Tongxian City, but entered a mountain with Zhang Lan, and in a blink of an eye became a corpse.

Moreover, he was missing an arm and a leg, not even dying with a complete corpse.

How was he supposed to explain this to Qingxuan City?

Could this matter really have nothing to do with Zhang Lan? Who would believe that?

Zhou Zhang Si asked the executive officer: "What was the process of the matter?"

That executive officer cupped his hands and said: "According to Zhang Dian Si, Lan Dian Si chased and captured Guang Tou Tuo and suffered Guang Tou Tuo's sneak attack, sustaining serious injuries. While escorting Guang Tou Tuo, they again encountered a demon beast, and he unfortunately died in the mouth of the demon beast, dying on duty for public service."

"Died on duty for public service?" Zhou Zhang Si snorted coldly. "He pushed the blame quite cleanly. This person died an undignified death, but got a dignified excuse."

"But does he take others for fools? The corpse is here, how could people with discerning eyes not see exactly how Lan Hui died?"

Zhou Zhang Si thought to himself, shook his head, and again sized up Lan Hui's corpse. His divine sense swept over it slightly, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

This method... is quite clean.

The fatal wounds on Lan Hui's body were only of two kinds.

One kind was injured by a cultivator. There were faint traces of white wind-attribute spiritual power at the wound.

The person who injured him was obviously that Guang Tou Tuo.

Wind-attribute spiritual roots are quite rare. Their Dao Ting Si couldn't even find a cultivator with a wind-attribute spiritual root.

None of the cultivators on this trip had wind-attribute spiritual roots. This spiritual power couldn't be faked.

The other kind were wound marks from a demon beast tearing and biting.

There was still the remaining stinky saliva of the demon beast at the wound, and scarlet red demon power. He was truly torn to death by a demon beast.

This was even harder to fake.

Zhou Zhang Si felt relieved, and then felt that Zhang Lan, this child, could be taught.

Some matters, he can do, but not leave traces and not cause trouble for the Dao Ting Si.

Like this, he could close one eye and open one eye, just treating it as if nothing happened, and also have an explanation to the outside.

Since there was an explanation and no trouble, Zhou Zhang Si felt at ease.

He looked at Lan Hui's corpse again and thought to himself: "Died well!"

Qingxuan City Dao Ting Si, from top to bottom, is full of smoke and corruption. What kind of people are they?

Zhou Zhang Si didn't say it, but in his heart, he was quite disdainful.

Although he himself was not of high moral character, he still had a conscience. Usually, at most, he took some kickbacks, not to the extent of eating people and sucking blood, not even spitting out bones.

However, he was only a Zhang Si in Tongxian City, and could only manage the one mu and three fen of land in Tongxian City. He couldn't interfere with the matters of Qingxuan City.

Zhou Zhang Si sighed, and then was a little strange.

How exactly did Zhang Lan trick and kill Lan Hui?

Looking at Lan Hui's injuries, he was truly injured by Guang Tou Tuo, and then killed by a demon beast.

But this matter shouldn't be so simple.

This Lan Hui was cunning and treacherous, and shouldn't be so stupid...

Lan Hui was at the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and Zhang Lan was also at the ninth layer of Qi Refining. His strength was a little higher, but it was impossible to kill Lan Hui without leaving any traces.

Someone must have helped.

Zhou Zhang Si calculated silently.

Mo Shan and Ji Qingbai, who entered the mountain with Zhang Lan, would most likely take action to help.

Besides them, who else?

In his mind, Mo Hua's cunning eyes flashed past.

Zhou Zhang Si's action of stroking his beard stopped, and he was slightly startled: "That child Mo Hua, he wouldn't also take action, would he..."

The more Zhou Zhang Si thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.

After getting to know Mo Hua, he discovered that although Mo Hua, this child, was still young, he couldn't be measured with common sense.

He was meticulous, planned before acting, and his methods were clean, leaving no traces.

Zhou Zhang Si nodded, looked at Lan Hui again, and praised: "Killed well!"

At this time, Mo Hua and Zhang Lan and the others were still in the mountain valley where the criminal cultivators were hiding.

This mountain valley was used by Guang Tou Tuo and the others to hide, live, and conceal stolen goods.

Quite a few caves were excavated inside the mountain valley, big and small, fully more than ten.

The caves had beds, pills, spiritual tools, food, and other items for the cultivators' lives and cultivation. It seemed that this group of criminal cultivators had hidden here for quite a long time.

The criminal cultivators in the mountain valley, those who should be killed were killed, and those who should be captured were captured. Not one escaped.

The remaining matter was to confiscate the stolen goods.

This group of criminal cultivators killed people and robbed goods, and had snatched quite a lot of things, of various kinds. Basically, they were all hidden in this mountain valley.

Some things that were not valuable, the criminal cultivators didn't value too much, and basically threw them everywhere.

The Dao Ting Si's cultivators searched the caves one by one. The searched out stolen goods were counted well, recorded for future reference, and then placed in the middle of the mountain valley.

Quite a lot of things were already piled up in the middle of the mountain valley.

Spiritual tools, pills, books, and miscellaneous items, there were all kinds.

But these were obviously not enough.

Guang Tou Tuo had been robbing in Dahei Mountain for so long, how could there be only these things?

Zhang Lan continued to search in the mountain valley, frowning, while releasing his divine sense and looking to see if there were any secret rooms or mechanisms.

Then he just saw Mo Hua standing in front of a stone wall, concentrating and thinking about something.

Zhang Lan walked up and knocked on the stone wall with his hand. The sound was normal.

Zhang Lan asked: "Empty?"

Mo Hua nodded.

Zhang Lan swept his divine sense several times, but didn't discover anything either. It looked like just an ordinary stone wall. He couldn't help but ask:

"How did you see it?"

"Swept my divine sense, and saw it." Mo Hua's tone was very casual.

"Alright." Zhang Lan sighed.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit it.

This child's divine sense was already stronger than his.

Fortunately, he wasn't the only one whose divine sense was weaker than Mo Hua's. Basically, none of the cultivators at the ninth layer of Qi Refining could compare their divine sense with Mo Hua's.

"Can it be chiseled open?"

Mo Hua shook his head, "There's an array inside. Chiseling it forcefully will be very troublesome, and I don't know what mechanisms there are."

"Do you have a way?" Zhang Lan asked.

Mo Hua nodded, "I see if I can break the array."

Zhang Lan's eyelid jumped, "Break the array?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhang, you know about it too?" Mo Hua looked at Zhang Lan curiously.

"Naturally."

Zhang Lan said calmly, pretending to be calm, but in his heart, he couldn't help but tremble.

This child, how do you even know how to break arrays?

He had only heard the array teacher mention the word "break array" in the Zhang family's clan school, and it was only a few words, vague.

The methods of breaking arrays, that teacher also didn't know clearly, only saying that it was not something that ordinary array masters could learn and master.

Setting up arrays is one thing, but now you even need to break arrays.

Is this really something that a first-grade array master should learn?

Zhang Lan coughed and asked cautiously: "Breaking this array... is not too easy, is it? If you can't break it, then forget it. I'll have someone spend some effort to smash it open."

Mo Hua scratched his head.

He was just observing what kind of array was on this stone wall, and considering what array patterns to use to break it.

He looked for a long time, and roughly saw some clues.

Mo Hua said: "No matter, I'll break it. This array is not difficult, estimated to be less than first grade, so it should be easy to break."

Mo Hua used a quite humble expression.

Arrays less than first grade are actually quite easy to break, but you can't speak too confidently, just in case something goes wrong and you can't break the array, it would be a bit embarrassing.

"Less than first grade, quite easy to break..."

Zhang Lan sighed.

Alright, comparing people will just lead to death.

Zhang Lan patted Mo Hua's shoulder, "Then I'll rely on you."