Chapter 133: Resolving Doubts (First Update)

  Li Shiqing and Zhang Tianshi also saw the faint murderous intent in Xiao Yu's eyes, they didn't expect Xiao Yu to have such a heavy killing heart. In their minds, Xiao Yu was so young, he must not have killed anyone before. Zhang Tianshi had already thought of how to persuade Xiao Yu before leaving the house, but they didn't expect Xiao Yu to be more decisive than they imagined.

  They didn't know that although Xiao Yu had never killed anyone, he had merged with Zhong Kui's memories, which meant that Zhong Kui's memories had become his own. Since there were many people in Zhong Kui's memories who had been killed, Xiao Yu would show no mercy to those who must be killed.

  "But let's make one thing clear, I'll take care of Xiao Jian, you guys deal with the Taoist priest!" Xiao Yu suddenly thought of the Taoist priest and shuddered all over.

  As for Xiao Yu's request, Li Shiqing and Zhang Tianshi felt strange, but they didn't say anything. Everyone has different habits, and they thought Xiao Yu wouldn't kill women, so they didn't think much of it.

  "I'll take care of that sorcerer!" Zhang Tian Shi said without hesitation, for people like him, laws were just empty words with no binding power.

  "Hmm! One is a Taoist, the other is the one who brought the Taoist here. If they're killed, then so be it. I reckon the people from the Thirteen Halls won't come knocking on our door!" Li Shiqing nodded in agreement after hearing them out.

  Xiao Yu heard this, his heart moved, thirteen places? What is this for? He thought curiously in his heart and asked Li Shi Qing: "Li Lao, what are these thirteen places for? Are they people from the country?"

  Upon hearing Xiao Yu's question, Li Shi Qing and Zhang Tian Shi both revealed a hint of oddity. With Xiao Yu's high level of magical abilities, hadn't the country sought him out?

  However, for people like Xiao Ye, such things still need to be explained clearly, lest they become a big disaster. So Li Shiqing slowly opened his mouth to explain: "The 13th place, also known as the Special Affairs Management Office, is divided into two parts, one part is internal and one part is external. The internal part is mainly responsible for handling some special events within the country, but it also has another responsibility, which is to manage the country's special population."

  "Especially for people like us who practice the mysterious arts, because we can kill without leaving any evidence, the country is afraid of some innocent killing incidents that would cause social unrest, so they established this department to supervise and manage us special individuals!"

  "Like the villa incident, it should have been handled by a special department within, but they are all military personnel or high-ranking officials who don't understand the mysterious arts. They've been wanting to recruit people with mysterious abilities to join them for years, but these individuals have their own skills and no one wants to be restricted, so this special case has formed. We can only solve it ourselves, while they're responsible for monitoring us and preventing large-scale massacres!"

  "Of course, some of us in the Qigong community also have a name tag in this special department. When the country encounters an unmanageable special event, they will gather these people. The benefit is that the country will turn a blind eye to some small things, and there will be a bonus for each action. Old Zhang has a name tag in this department! I heard that the bonus is not small each time, so it's said that Old Zhang is a rich man!"

  Li Shiqing listened to Zhang Tianshi's words and looked at him with a sarcastic expression.

  "Come on, Old Li! Stop teasing me. My Zhang family has lived in Dragon and Tiger Mountain for generations, with a big household and business to manage. How can I not put up a name? Unlike you, whose family has fewer people and most of your assets are overseas, so it's no big deal if you leave the country to live abroad. But my Zhang family's roots are right here in Dragon and Tiger Mountain!" Zhang Tian Shi saw Li Shiqing's expression and shook his head with a hint of bitter smile.

  "What specific requirements do these people have for people like us?" Xiao Ye thought for a moment before asking, he didn't know that the country had such a department.

  "There's no need for any demands, just don't indiscriminately kill ordinary people!" Zhang Tian Shi shook his head and said.

  Xiao Yu suddenly thought of Song Hu Shan and his family. Since the country had such people, Xiao Yu didn't know the specific background of Song Hu Shan and his family, but he thought that with the strength of the Song family, they should also be able to find someone like that!

  Since both of them knew they were also cultivators of Qimen, Xiao Yu spoke out the doubts in his heart to these two people.

  "Haha, you think people like us are easy to find? We're just a handful, and even nationwide, there aren't many of us. Most people only know a little bit of trivial techniques! Wanting to see the soul leave the body is something that even my Zhang family can't do now, let alone them!"

  Upon hearing Xiao You speak out his inner doubts, Zhang Tian Shi burst into loud laughter and said.

  "Moreover, the existence of people like us may not be a secret at high levels, but it's not something that everyone knows about. Even if they do know, they think we can only exorcise ghosts one by one, and our value is still inferior to those internal energy masters!" Li Da Shi said.

  Zhang Tianshi ignored Li Shiqing's words and continued, "As for the girl you mentioned, someone from our Zhang family also went to see her. Of course, it wasn't as a Qigong master, but rather as a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. However, nothing out of the ordinary was found! Only a handful of people in the Song family know about this matter!"

  "Heh heh, as for the Song family's child with yin-yang eyes, even if we knew about it, what could we do? We don't have the ability to seal his yin-yang eyes, so we can only pretend not to notice!" Zhang Tian Shi slowly revealed the inside story of the Song family.

  "Our existence, in the eyes of those high-ranking officials from other countries, is only seen as either a heretic or an exorcist to drive out ghosts. We're not good for anything else! It's already fortunate that they haven't labeled us as a cult," Li Shiqing said with a bitter smile beside him.

  Zhang Tian Shi nodded in deep agreement, the decline of Taoist rituals and practices wasn't something that happened overnight. Since entering the Dharma Ending Age, these people were no longer as glorious as they once were in ancient times. Even during the ten years of turmoil, they were seen as feudal superstitions, and many family lineages were almost severed. Some smaller families either went into hiding or emigrated abroad.

  The Li family is such a family, the family suffered heavy losses during the war years, and after liberation, they encountered those dark years again, and had to move abroad, until in recent years, Li Shiqing missed his hometown and returned home, while his children are still abroad.

  Zhang Tian Shi would have moved abroad long ago if the roots of his family were not in Dragon and Tiger Mountain. Even so, some members of the Zhang family had already moved abroad back then to preserve a lineage, so that when such an event occurred again, the inheritance of the Zhang family would not be cut off.

  So under the influence of the national environment, some high-ranking officials in the country, even if they are found for some reason, will also be sought out by their family members under different names to avoid some impact.

  And these people, in order to avoid being the first to take action, adopt an attitude of respectful distance towards them. Even if they really can't push it off, they just go through the motions.

  If we really show that we can kill people silently and invisibly from thousands of miles away, will the high-level officials in the country feel at ease with our existence? Won't they repeat the mistakes of the Black Ten Years again? They still understand the principle of being guilty of possessing a precious jade.

  So the people in the strange gate, for the sake of the family's inheritance and not being threatened with extinction, even if they really found something, they would not say it out loud.

  This is also why these people are not well-known in the country's core rights, but have a very high reputation among the people.

  At this time, Xiao Yu finally understood the cause and effect of things, but the more he knew, the more worried Xiao Yu became. He wasn't worried about himself, but about his family being affected. However, immediately afterwards, Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed and his hands instinctively touched the dagger on his body. If it really affected his family, he wouldn't mind letting this deadly instrument be stained with blood again.

  This also prompted Xiao Yu to hide better the fact that he had obtained Zhong Kui's legacy, and these things could not be revealed in any case before his family members' safety was guaranteed.

  Li Shiqing and Zhang Tianshi were also silently mourning when a strong killing intent suddenly rose from Xiao Yu's body. The two felt the intense killing intent rising from Xiao Yu's body, and they shuddered all over, retreating far away with a cautious expression as they stared at Xiao Yu.

  The two people's hands unconsciously reached for their waists, but seeing Xiao Ye standing there without any intention of attacking, rather with a murderous aura emanating from his unconscious state, the two slightly let out a breath.

  "Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu..."

  "Huh?" Li Shiqing shouted at Xiao Yu twice, waking him up from his deep thoughts.

  They could all understand Xiao Yu's state because they had been in the same situation as him before, otherwise they wouldn't have fled to a distant place with their families.

  "Sorry, both of you, I lost control!" Xiao Yu came to his senses and realized that when he entered an unconscious state, he had triggered the hidden murderous intent in Zhong Wei's memory. Xiao Yu quickly retracted his own killing aura.

  Li Shiqing and Zhang Tianshi could understand Xiao Yu, but they still looked at him with a lingering fear. What kind of person was he? Such a strong killing aura, and this was the real thing, having seen blood before. And that dagger of his, filled with murderous intent, it was hard to imagine how many lives it had taken to become such a powerful instrument of slaughter.

  At this time, Li Shiqing also had doubts about his speculation about Xiao Yu's origin, but no matter what, he couldn't imagine who Xiao Yu was.

  They had also thought that Xiao Yu might be a ruthless and merciless killer, but when they saw his demeanor, which was steady and upright with a hint of righteousness, the idea had just occurred to them before being extinguished, and they shook their heads in amusement at their own thoughts.

  At their age and level of cultivation, when they look at people, they don't look at the external appearance, but rather can see through to a person's inner nature. This is also why Zhang Tian Shi wanted to kill Xiao Jian and Di Tou Shi.

  Although the two men begged for mercy and thanked him, Zhang Tian Shi could still see the hatred and unrelenting murderous intent they had towards himself and others.

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