Chapter 144 Lin Yan's decision! [Fifth update!] In the morning, the sun rises. The river surged, breaking through both banks and widening the river channel. There were also many streams of water overflowing. As daybreak approached, the flood water receded and rushed along the river. Leaving a mess on both sides of the river. Fortunately, there were people from the Heavenly Monitoring Department who guided the merchants traveling to and from the pure land and squeezed them into that medium-sized pure land. Although there were casualties during the migration last night, the situation is now under control. "You kid, are you still alive?" Deputy Commander Zhou Yuan came from a distance and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Yan.
Last night, the two of them fled separately. Except for the dragon, all other "dangers" went straight to this kid. Originally, Deputy Commander Zhou was already extremely discouraged, thinking that this unrivaled genius of the time might have died last night and would not be able to survive. He felt regretful, sad, and had a headache. He felt that he would not be able to explain to the Supreme Commander, Lord Lu, General Han, and others. But I didn't expect that this Impermanence would return intact despite such a dangerous situation last night. He seemed to have lifted a huge stone from his heart. He hurried forward, grabbed Lin Yan, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that there was no shortage of weight. "and many more……" Deputy Commander Zhou suddenly thought of something and frowned, "How come you were faster than me when you were running for your life last night?" His expression changed. After a moment, he sighed and said, "Forget it. Just pretend I didn't ask. You can explain it to the commander yourself." "..." Lin Yan laughed when he heard this. This deputy commander is much smarter than expected. Since Deputy Commander Zhou was not prepared to ask further questions, Lin Yan did not respond and asked, "The altars that were set up yesterday were all destroyed?" "Yes, although we had anticipated the changes in Dayin River and moved the altar farther away, we did not expect the changes last night to be so terrible." Deputy Commander Zhou exhaled and said, "Fortunately, the top warriors of our Gaoliu City did not come out in full force last night, otherwise, with the situation last night..." He rubbed his brows and said, "They are the backbone of Gaoliu City and even Qifeng Mansion. If any one of them falls, the consequences will be disastrous." Lin Yan did not respond, but just asked: "Where is the half body I gave you last night?" "Leave it to Chen Feng and his team. We'll transport it back to Gaoliu City in the afternoon. In the Dayin River..." Deputy Commander Zhou frowned and said, "There were a lot of bodies floating up last night, but I just ordered people to salvage along the river, and they only found seven or eight bodies... Half of the bodies were fished out by Pan Yun and his team." Hearing this, Lin Yan nodded slightly.
Pan Yun and his two flag bearers, carrying the Great Night-Illuminating Lantern, explored along the river. After all, it was Lin Yan who gave the order, so when something happened last night, Lin Yan couldn't help but be worried. Now that he heard that they were able to survive, he was relieved. "Where are the bodies?" "Not far ahead." "I'll go check it out." "Go." Deputy Commander Zhou waved his hand and said, "I have to continue upstream and explore so that I can give an explanation! At dawn, reinforcements will arrive in the city. Calculating the time, they should be here soon." After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something and said, "Do you want to keep the half arrow yourself, or should I keep it?" Lin Yan knew what he meant, nodded slightly, and said: "Just keep it, and wait until I finish my work, and then you can do whatever you want." This half arrow is the murder weapon and also the evidence! Then Deputy Commander Zhou went upstream. Lin Yan went downstream. "Master, what about me?" the little white ape asked hurriedly. "Start from where Brother Pei and the others had the accident, and use your natural magical powers to search both sides." Lin Yan said slowly: "Master, isn't this why I brought you out?" "But I'm a little scared." The little white ape couldn't help but say. "In broad daylight, how dare you be afraid of your uncle!" Lin Yan said angrily. "I'm not afraid of my uncle, I'm afraid of my mother." The little white ape blinked his eyes, looking innocent. "She won't come out in broad daylight." Lin Yan said helplessly. "This river is also very strange. Last night, it was full of wronged souls and evil spirits, and there were corpses floating on the river." The little white ape said in a muffled voice. "Look in the mirror. You are a demon anyway. Why are you afraid of ghosts?" Lin Yan said angrily, "You are useless!" "You chop people like vegetables every day, of course you're not afraid." The little white ape muttered, "I even suspect that you have instilled the idea of 'fear' into me..." "Ok?" Lin Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, full of danger. "what!" The little white ape suddenly became spirited and said solemnly, "Why am I suddenly so brave and fearless? It must be because of the 'righteousness' you have instilled in me!" It held its head high and said, "I will go now, clear both sides and learn the truth. Anyone who dares to stop me will be killed!" "roll!" "Okay!" The little white ape ran away quickly.
"..." Lin Yan felt a little helpless and walked downstream. Not long after, Pan Yun and others were seen. "Meet the Inspector!" "No need to be polite, as long as nothing happens." Lin Yan patted his shoulder and looked at the corpse lying on the ground, frowning slightly. After a moment, he tilted his head and asked, "Have all the bodies in the river been fished out?" "We fished out everything we saw, but the river was raging last night and there were such strange changes again." Pan Yun, the flag bearer, whispered, "Who knows, some bodies may have been washed away even further..." Lin Yan thought about it and took out paper and pen to draw a face. "This is?" "To the surviving merchants from last night, to identify him and see if anyone has seen him on the way." "clear." Flag bearer Pan Yun took the portrait and went to find several small flag bearers under his command. Lin Yan squatted down and looked at the corpses with a serious expression. Although these corpses are rather incomplete, the causes of death that can be identified are basically those caused by "weapons"! No one drowned! No one was smashed to pieces! "It wasn't the waves from the giant snake that overturned them, nor was it the dragon that killed them. Someone... killed them with weapons!" Lin Yan closed his eyes slightly, sensing the hundreds of ghost soldiers he saw last night. Among those ghost soldiers, there was no Master Shi Xu whom he had seen before! Then he opened his eyes and sneered. If Master Shi Xu is not among these corpses, where else could he be? - Before noon, reinforcements from Gaoliu City had already arrived. The Heavenly Monitoring Division has more than a hundred elite cavalrymen, and the person leading them is actually the highest commander of the Heavenly Monitoring Division in Gaoliu City. Behind him were a large number of soldiers from the City Defense Office, including the five guards from the inner city. There were people burning incense in the temple, and a hundred guards accompanying them. They are in full charge of the affairs here. "It's okay." The commander dismounted, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Last night's incident was beyond our expectations. I had no way to escape because of the Dragon Prison Pillar in the Great River."
"It's a good thing I didn't get away." Lin Yan sat on the rock and said, "Otherwise, you will have to fight against a powerful demon, and there will inevitably be casualties." "That's true." The commander looked at the widened river channel with a serious expression and asked, "Such a large-scale battle?" Although he had obtained detailed intelligence, he was still not as shocked as seeing it with his own eyes. "There's something I need to tell you." Lin Yan pointed upstream and said, "I went up the river last night and saw the source of this 'dramatic change'." "what?" The commander looked solemn. Afterwards, Lin Yan did not hide anything and told everyone about the hundreds of ghost soldiers last night, the cave under the river, the stone gate inside... and the scene behind the stone gate, which was like purgatory. "The underworld? The ghost soldiers?" The commander's face darkened. He knew that last night, countless fluorescent ghost lights appeared on the Dayin River, all of which were the evil spirits of the wronged. But he did not expect that the "Underworld" that only existed in legends, and the "ghost soldiers" who were said to be under the command of the Underworld, would appear! He pondered for a moment, then said, "This matter is extremely important. You have made a great contribution. I will personally record your merit and reward you. The reward will be distributed by the Inner City Heavenly Supervisor! When the information is delivered to Qifeng Prefecture, I will ask the Heavenly Supervisor in the Prefecture for another reward for you!" Lin Yan nodded slightly, and then said: "The Great River Prison Dragon Pillar is your method of stabilizing the Great Yin River?" "That's right." The commander nodded in response. "But last night, the dragon escaped. It created a storm and opened up a river channel. It is no longer in the Dayin River." Lin Yan frowned and said, "Wasn't this dragon-prisoning pillar in the river wasted?" "Because it escaped from Dayin River, so now, I am the only one who came to Dayin River." The commander said lightly: "Half of the high-ranking officials in Gaoliu City stayed behind, and the other half joined forces to intercept this dragon!" "Intercept?" Lin Yan asked in surprise. "They will drive the dragon back." The commander patted the package on his waist and said slowly: "The important parts of the Great River Dragon Prison Pillar are in my hands... I will wait for the dragon to return to the Dayin River, and then I will block its last route and complete the last step of 'Prison the Dragon'!" "What happens after imprisoning the dragon?" Lin Yan couldn't help but ask. "It will forever guard the Dayin River." The commander said in a deep voice: "When Liu Zun wakes up, I will personally anoint it as the river guardian beast of Liu Zun Temple." "From now on, the people of Gaoliu City will have to offer incense and sacrifice to this dragon?" Lin Yan suddenly asked. "Suppression is not the solution. Offering incense and praying for it to regulate the river water and pray for good weather and good harvests is the long-term solution." The commander said this, then he exhaled and said slowly: "However, the Hades Stone Gate you mentioned is indeed tricky! Even if the dragon is enthroned, I am afraid that it will be difficult to eradicate the hidden dangers with the dragon's power!" He walked to the riverside, his eyes solemn, and said: "You saw this river last night with your own eyes, tell me in detail..." Lin Yan did not hide anything and told everyone what he saw last night. The commander pondered and said, "You said that under the river, there are endless corpses and countless wronged souls and evil spirits?" He suddenly stretched out his hand, and a wisp of true energy penetrated into the river.
"No need to explore." Lin Yan shook his head and said, "I have personally checked, there is no pile of bones at the bottom of Dayin River! After dawn, the abnormal situation at the bottom of the river disappeared." After a pause, Lin Yan pondered and said, "I suspect that the big river last night was behind the stone gate of Hades!" The commander was somewhat surprised when he heard this. Lin Yan expressed his guess and said, "I think that the river in the underworld is reflected in the Dayin River, changing from real to virtual and overlapping." "..." The commander looked at him deeply but did not respond. He thought for a moment, and then said, "We have to let Mr. Lu come and see it in person. After all, he was once the temple priest of Wutong Temple!" This stone gate to the underworld is probably beyond the level that the twelve priests of Liu Zun Temple can handle! Liu Zun’s real body guards the entire Gaoliu City! They could only ask the Wutong Temple in the city to come and investigate! Lin Yan also agreed with his idea, and then said thoughtfully: "But the question is, after tonight, will the Hades Stone Gate still have an impact on Dayin River?" "Then we'll have to see what happens tonight." The commander said slowly, "But the changes last night caught us off guard. With our precautions today, the situation won't be as bad as it was last night! Before nightfall, complete the Great River Prison Dragon Pillar. With our combined strength, we can at least keep things under control tonight!" "it is good." Lin Yan waved his hand and said, "In that case, I'll go and rest first." "Thanks for your hard work." The commander was stunned again after hearing this. He seemed to feel that he had overlooked something before. After a while, he turned his head and showed a look of surprise: "Last night, the Dayin River changed. How dare this kid walk alone at night?" It’s more than just one person walking on the road at night? He actually dared to follow the evil soldiers to investigate the source of the mutation! How audacious! "and many more……" The commander's eyes changed, and he whispered, "Let's not talk about courage, can you achieve this with just the cultivation of the Refining Essence Realm?" He looked at the direction where Lin Yan left, and his expression became more and more complicated. After a while, he murmured, "Impossible..." In the entire Gaoliu City, he believed that he should be the first person to know Lin Yan's background. This kid killed people at night, and his methods were a bit crude in the eyes of me, the highest commander of the Tianjian Division. At that time, I had not yet entered the second stage of martial arts! It has been less than three years now, and I thought that I was already a genius just because I could enter the inner strength. But after coming out of seclusion, he discovered through clues that this kid had entered the realm of refining essence!
But now it seems that this kid seems... really... seems... a little beyond the scope of a martial artist in the Refining Essence Realm. "All told, just over two and a half years?" The commander leaned close to the river, looked at his face, and then looked in the direction where Lin Yan left. Then he looked at his reflection in the river twice. He touched his face, looking confused. "That doesn't make sense!" "If he is really in the Qi Refining Realm, then wouldn't I, the Supreme Commander of Gaoliu City's Heavenly Guardian Division, be a waste?" "Compared with him, shouldn't Li Shenzong be thrown out?" "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" The commander shook his head and thought to himself, "No matter how talented one is, it is impossible to cultivate to this level in such a short period of time! This is simply unheard of and unprecedented!" - At this moment, Lin Yan once again met the flag bearer Pan Yun. "Inspector, we have interrogated everyone and no one has seen the person in your painting." "Oh?" Lin Yan frowned slightly. "But there is one thing." Pan Yun pondered and said, "There are two businesses that should be doing business in the outer city of Gaoliu, in the western district of Waiyifang!" "But the owner of one of the businesses died in the Dayin River." "Among the bodies I fished out, there was the owner of this business. I have already asked someone from another business to identify him." "It seems that all the people in this business are dead." After a pause, Pan Yun said in a low voice: "From my perspective, he was killed with a knife." Lin Yan paused and asked, "But is it a robbery?" Pan Yun shook his head and said, "The goods of this business were thrown into the Dayin River. Yesterday evening, someone fished some of them out north of Gaoliu City." "Then it's not a robbery." Lin Yan laughed and asked, "Pan, a group of people from the merchant company were killed here, but it was not a robbery. What do you think was the reason?" Pan Yun's expression was a little complicated. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "They saw something they shouldn't have seen." "Like, people who shouldn't be alive?" Lin Yan chuckled, looked at Dayinjiang, and said slowly: "I was a little puzzled last night, why did so many corpses appear in Dayinjiang." He held the hilt of the knife and said, "Logically speaking, the bodies of General Pei's entourage, plus the 'murderers' who were killed by General Pei's entourage, cannot add up to more than a hundred!"
"Now it seems that there are still some people with bad luck who were silenced and thrown into the Dayin River." "Then at this moment, the clue is clear." After whispering this, he looked at Pan Yun, the flag bearer, and said, "What have you found on both sides of the Dayin River?" "Both banks of the Dayin River were washed away, widening six times. Last night, the river overflowed again, leaving no trace." Pan Yun, the flag bearer, said this. "It's none of your business." Lin Yan waved his hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work." He said nothing more and went upstream along the river. At the same time, Lin Xiaoqi, transformed from a little white ape, was seen running down quickly upstream. "Master, I found the clue." The little white ape said in a low voice. "Which direction?" Lin Yan asked calmly. "Fengcheng!" replied the little white ape. "Go and get the horse!" Lin Yan said. "Ah? Didn't you say before that we should stay here one more night to see if there will be any changes in the Dayin River tonight?" asked the little white ape. "The commander has arrived. Soon, more than half of Gaoliu City's top experts will gather here." Lin Yan said slowly: "Mr. Lu will also come, and the people from Qifeng City and Wutong Temple will come as soon as possible..." He laughed and said, "If this kind of lineup, even if arranged in advance, is unable to cope with the changes tonight... then it will be useless for me, a mere beginner in Qi Refining, to stay here!" Upon hearing this, the little white ape immediately gave a thumbs up and said seriously: "Master is really a humble, kind, good, and generous person." "If you don't know how to praise someone, don't use random words." Lin Yan tapped its head and said, "Go get the horse. Let's go to Fengcheng first!" He turned around and headed towards Dayinjiang, thinking to himself, "Tomorrow, I will bring Shi Xu's head back to pay tribute to you all!" I overestimated myself. I barely wrote half of the sixth chapter. I just put it all in this chapter! I updated 19,000 words today. I tried my best! (End of this chapter)