69: Eight dead, their remains dug up

Zhang Long handed a scroll to Lin Qinghuang: “In the past three days, eight young men and women have died in the City, all of them disciples of Xuan Yuan Martial House. They all possessed spiritual bones, extraordinary root bones, and were under sixteen years old.”

“Their deaths have enraged Xuan Yuan Martial House, and the higher-ups have already ordered the Second Hall to investigate this case within seven days.”

Xuan Yuan Martial House is a cultivation martial house within the City, with its strongest practitioner being in the Territory Expansion Realm.

Such a martial house is naturally not as powerful as a behemoth like Great Xia Holy Academy.

But even so, Xuan Yuan Martial House is a place where countless young people eager to cultivate set foot.

Because as long as one enters it, there is a great chance to embark on the path of cultivation.

In the City, there are quite a few academies and schools similar to Xuan Yuan Martial House.

Lin Qinghuang took the scroll and glanced at it. This scroll involved the deceased's autopsy report, information, and conflicts with others.

“All bones crushed, internal organs dug out…”

After Lin Qinghuang finished reading, her eyebrows raised.

She looked at Zhang Long: “Are the bodies still at Tianquan Division?”

“All are in the Second Hall morgue,” Zhang Long quickly replied.

“Let’s go take a look.” Lin Qinghuang pondered, then glanced at Xie Weilou again: “Come along.”

Xie Weilou looked at Lin Qinghuang in surprise: “Lin Qinghuang, are you afraid of dead people?”

“……” Lin Qinghuang rolled her eyes.

Xie Weilou stood up and stretched: “Then let’s go take a look! Now that the First Hall Deputy Commander is dead, if I make a great contribution, perhaps I can become the Deputy Commander.”

“Heh heh! Young Lord Xie, you really like to dream!” Lin Qinghuang looked at Xie Weilou speechless.

If you expose your cultivation, you can naturally become the First Hall’s Deputy Commander, because you completely have the strength for it.

But if you like to hide your strength and pretend to be an ordinary person, then you cannot be the First Hall’s Deputy Commander.

After all, to be a Commander, one must at least display Shackles Realm cultivation.

A moment later.

The three arrived at the morgue, where eight bodies were laid out, all covered with white cloths.

Zhang Long successively lifted the white cloths from the bodies. The bodies had only died today, and coupled with the cold weather, there were no significant signs of decomposition. However, the deceased's appearance was tragic and quite unsettling.

Lin Qinghuang stepped forward to examine the bodies. After finishing, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her expression was somewhat grim, clearly having some conclusions in mind.

She looked at Xie Weilou: “You examine them and see if you can find anything.”

Xie Weilou looked at Lin Qinghuang speechless: “Haven’t you already figured it out? Can’t you just say it directly?”

“Look!” Lin Qinghuang raised an eyebrow. If he couldn't be a Deputy Commander, he could at least be a Captian!

She was giving him a chance to make a contribution, and he wasn't seizing it?

“Alright! Then I’ll take a look.”

Xie Weilou stepped forward to examine the bodies. All internal organs were gone, and all bones were shattered.

Xie Weilou stared at the bones in the chests of these bodies, then took a pair of gloves from nearby and put them on. He extracted a few fragments from the chest of one of the bodies.

After observing them, Xie Weilou shook his head and said: “Logically, even if spiritual bones are shattered, they would still retain subtle spiritual essence. But these bone fragments are just ordinary bones, not spiritual bones.”

“Mm! Continue,” Lin Qinghuang nodded lightly.

Xie Weilou pondered: “These people’s spiritual bones were clearly dug out. The bones remaining in their chests are just ordinary bones. Someone shattered all their bones, added ordinary bones, and also dug out their internal organs, just to hide the truth of extracting the spiritual bones.”

Lin Qinghuang said: “I seem to have told you about spiritual bone transplantation before…”

“If their spiritual bones were dug out for transplantation, it would make sense,” Xie Weilou murmured.

Spiritual bone transplantation sounds very mystical, but it’s not impossible. Haven’t you heard of a certain young man whose supreme bone was dug out?

Zhang Long looked puzzled: “Transplanting spiritual bones? It sounds terrifying, but I don’t understand. If they really wanted to do this, wouldn’t destroying the bodies be better? Why leave the bodies? Once there are bodies, wouldn't the flaws be greater?”

Xie Weilou smiled faintly: “There are many possibilities. The first is that the murderer wanted revenge, deliberately extracting others’ spiritual bones to anger the deceased’s friends and family, thereby satisfying some special Hobbies of their own; the second is digging a pit… fishing…”

“Digging a pit? Fishing?” Zhang Long was stunned for a second.

Xie Weilou asked: “Who reported the case?”

Zhang Long replied: “It was an instructor from Xuan Yuan Martial House. He was the instructor of the eight deceased. According to him, his eight students died in a mansion in the City. The matter reached Xuan Yuan Martial House, so he immediately took people to investigate but couldn’t find the murderer. Finally, he chose to report the case to Tianquan Division.”

Xie Weilou looked at Qinghuang: “Qinghuang, the scroll.”

Lin Qinghuang handed the scroll in her hand to Xie Weilou.

Xie Weilou took the scroll and read it. This scroll was quite detailed, describing the conflicts the deceased had with various people during their lives.

After reading it, Xie Weilou focused on one person: “Anping Marquis Estate, Second Young Master, Li Huai, fifteen years old.”

Zhang Long explained: “This Li Huai was under the same instructor as the eight deceased, but he only had a low-grade spiritual bone. After three years in Xuan Yuan Martial House, he only entered the early stage of the Xuanhuang Realm. He has always been jealous that these eight people had higher talent than him and often troubled them.”

“Have you observed him?” Xie Weilou asked.

Zhang Long gave a bitter smile: “After these eight people died, he has been staying in Anping Marquis Estate and basically doesn't go out. We don’t have orders, so we don’t dare to act rashly against him.”

Tianquan Division, though it is the royal blade with the authority to execute first and report later.

But to put it bluntly, this kind of authority also needs someone in charge to be exercised.

Lin Qinghuang was not in charge of the Second Hall, and their status as Captians and Deputy Commanders was ordinary, so they naturally didn't dare to act rashly.

Lin Qinghuang said: “Let’s go to Anping Marquis Estate.”

She then looked at Xie Weilou, seemingly asking if he wanted to go.

After all, this guy had previously killed Li Yuan from Anping Marquis Estate at Zhenxi Marquis Manor.

Although Li Yuan was just a young master from the third branch, he was still a member of Anping Marquis Estate.

This matter was ordered to be suppressed by the higher-ups, but Anping Marquis Estate might not always swallow their anger. If they found an opportunity, they would definitely retaliate.

“Let’s go take a look! Anyway, there’s nothing else to do.” Xie Weilou smiled broadly.

“Then let’s go,” Lin Qinghuang said no more.

Xie Weilou was inherently someone who played the pig to eat the tiger. Anyone who dared to underestimate him would definitely not know how they died.

She also had some guesses about certain events during the Winter Hunt Assembly and the previous assassination attempts on Yan Junlin and Yan Wuchen.

This Xie Weilou was a restless individual, and perhaps his hand was involved in those matters. With such strength, how could he allow himself to be easily bullied?

Subsequently, Xie Weilou and Lin Qinghuang walked out of the morgue…