Otherworld Merit Upgrade System

Chapter 158 There is another secret

Chapter 158: There's More to the Story

The girl's ankle was grabbed by Lin Fei on the ground, and she almost lost her balance and fell. She was first embarrassed, then shocked, looking at the man on the ground who should have been unconscious: "How is this possible? You were poisoned by my Heavenly Purple Qi Corpse Poison, how could you not have passed out?"

"Without even this much precaution, how can our Tianmen Prefecture possibly supervise the martial arts masters of the world?" A voice rang out, and the speaker was none other than Jiang Zhilan, who should have been unconscious like Lin Fei.

Even Lin Fei, who was poisoned by the Purple Qi Corpse Poison, was not seriously injured, let alone Jiang Zhilan, whose poisoning was much milder than Lin Fei's.

"Young lady, it seems these people are your doing, aren't they?" Jiang Zhilan said coldly, "Come with us!"

It turns out that Lin Fei and Jiang Zhilan's so-called poisoning was all just a show from beginning to end. And the purpose of their show was to lure the girl hiding in the shadows to show herself.

In fact, Jiang Zhilan and Lin Fei had already sensed someone lurking in the shadows, but they were unsure if they could catch up if they acted rashly, and they were also afraid of alerting the person hiding in the shadows and letting them escape, thus cutting off their trail. So after a brief exchange of glances, the two decided to stage a play to lure the person out of the shadows.

In this mortuary, the only one who actually fell into a coma due to poisoning was the poor Constable Wang.

Upon realizing she had been tricked, the girl was both shocked and furious, but Lin Fei held her ankle firmly on the ground, making it impossible for her to break free.

The girl blushed and shouted, "You shameless scoundrel, get your filthy hands off me right now!"

"What kind of world is this? Even murderers are so self-righteous." Lin Fei was speechless. He said to the girl, "You'd better come with us obediently. Considering you're not completely ruthless and didn't try to kill us earlier, I don't want to hurt you too badly."

"Go away, you big dummy!" The girl raised her hand, and a string of cold light shot towards Lin Fei's face.

"Ding!"

"The special attribute of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill - Golden Bell Body activation, completely immune to attacks from weapons below the level of Thousand Hammer Treasure, with a certain probability of being completely immune to three attacks from the opponent, and the attack power of enemies whose cultivation level is no more than three levels higher than the host will definitely be reduced by 30%."

……

Lin Fei snorted and activated his Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill. His golden true energy completely blocked all the hidden weapons launched by the girl.

"It's the work of the abbot of Leiyin Temple!" The girl was greatly surprised to see that all her prized hidden weapons had been blocked. "Who exactly are you, you scoundrel?"

"You'd better behave yourself!" Jiang Zhilan raised her hand, and a golden light shot towards the girl.

A golden rope tightly bound the girl's hands. As she struggled, a golden light emanated from the rope, suppressing all of her true energy.

"What... what is this thing?" The girl's face showed extreme terror: "Why is my true energy being absorbed by this rope?"

"Stop struggling. This is the 'Demon-Binding Rope,' made by my Tianmen Mansion in imitation of the ancient artifact 'Immortal-Binding Rope.'" Jiang Zhilan said calmly, "The more you struggle, the tighter the Demon-Binding Rope will absorb your true energy. If your hands are strangled by the rope, don't blame me for not warning you."

Upon hearing this, the girl dared not struggle any further and had no choice but to behave herself.

Jiang Zhilan glanced at Lin Fei on the ground and snorted, "Hey, does it feel good to hold onto that girl's foot? Why don't you get up?"

Lin Fei blushed and hurriedly released the girl's ankle, getting up from the ground.

Jiang Zhilan, contrary to her usual behavior, did not continue to make things difficult for Lin Fei, but instead said, "Thank you for earlier. I didn't expect that you, who usually seem like such a bad person, would be so reliable in a critical moment."

Jiang Zhilan was referring to the matter of Lin Fei taking away the Gu worm earlier.

Previously, the murderer was hiding in the shadows, and no one knew whether he had any hidden dangerous methods. It could be said that whoever possessed that Gu worm was in greater danger, yet Lin Fei took the Gu worm from Jiang Zhilan without hesitation.

Jiang Zhilan was simply resentful that she, a top-ranking constable, was being relegated to the role of an assistant to a mere bronze-ranking constable; she wasn't an ungrateful person.

Jiang Zhilan's unusual behavior made Lin Feipo somewhat uncomfortable: "Officer Jiang, you're too kind. We were able to catch the murderer this time thanks to your help."

"What are you talking about?" At this moment, the girl bound by the demon-binding rope said with a wronged expression, "I didn't kill those dead people!"

"Not you?" Jiang Zhilan sneered, "If not you, then who is it? Killing people, manipulating corpses, absorbing corpse energy—isn't that the method of your Yan family in Jiangxi? If I'm not mistaken, that little worm just now was your Yan family's Heavenly Net Purple Corpse Worm, wasn't it?"

The girl looked aggrieved, tears welling up in her eyes: "I used Heavenly Purple Corpse Worms to collect the corpse energy of these people. But I really didn't kill them!"

She sobbed softly and mumbled, "I heard there were a lot of murders here, so there must be a lot of corpses. That's why I came all the way to Qinghe County to collect corpse energy. Who knew that before I could even finish collecting the corpse energy, I would run into you and this scoundrel."

“Since you are from Tianmen, Tianmen must have information about my Yan family.” Fearing that the two would not believe her, the girl continued to explain: “My Yan family’s Zombie Fist is to cultivate the Impermanent True Qi with the Qi of corpses. However, there is a rule that we always use the Qi of the dead to practice. We will never kill living people in order to collect the Qi of corpses.”

"It seems I can't shake off this reputation of being a rogue anytime soon." Lin Fei rubbed his nose helplessly, then turned to Jiang Zhilan and asked, "Officer Jiang, what do you think of what this girl said?"

What the girl said didn't seem like a lie. If she were truly a ruthless killer, she could have easily taken advantage of their unconsciousness to kill them and silence them, instead of taking the Gu worms and leaving.

Could there be more to this case than meets the eye? Could the girl in front of me not be the murderer?

However, given the gravity of the matter, Lin Fei dared not draw any conclusions lightly. After all, Jiang Zhilan was a top-notch constable who had solved countless cases, so listening to her opinion was ultimately not a bad thing.

“What this girl said is quite right.” Jiang Zhilan pondered for a moment and nodded: “Regarding the Yan family of Jiangxi County, there doesn’t seem to be any record in Tianmen of killing living people or creating zombies, otherwise the imperial court wouldn’t have allowed this family to survive for so many years.”

She then changed the subject: "However, the Yan family disappeared fifty years ago. Who knows if anything has changed in the past fifty years?"