Zheng Ruyu on the other end of the phone was also very helpless when she mentioned this matter and said with anger:
“This is also what I want to talk to you about. The Qianqing Sect has gone too far this time and has touched the official bottom line. After the Fengcheng incident, the Special Spiritual Department wants to tighten and restrict the power of the Taoist Sects again.”
She roughly explained the cause of the incident.
Since there were some shadows from the Taoist Sects in several major cases that were exposed, the three major families of the Taoist Sects also realized that their already fragmented organization had bred and hidden evil cultivators, who were using the identity of the Taoist Masters to do evil.
So the three major families joined forces to carry out an internal cleansing and arrested some problematic people in each family.
Among them, the most people were caught from the self-proclaimed most upright and impartial Qianqing Sect, with four spies.
Two of them were possessed by evil cultivators, one was a disciple who was bewitched and led astray;
The last one had evil intentions since he joined Qianqing Sect, and was the one who hid the deepest.
After finding out these four people, the headmaster of the Qianqing Sect was furious, claiming that this was a conspiracy against their sect that had been planned for decades.
The headmaster of Qianqing Sect didn’t know what he used, but finally pried open the mouths of these people and learned from them that their base of contact was in Fengcheng.
To demonstrate the sect’s impartiality and clear the name, the deputy headmaster of Qianqing Sect personally led the closed disciples of the sect to Fengcheng to investigate and eliminate this group of evil cultivators.
And because he learned from the spies that the leader of the Fengcheng base was good at using ghosts and dealing with ghosts, ordinary people could not do anything to them.
After sending disciples into the city to investigate, the Qianqing Sect indeed discovered many evil spirits surrounding Tianyun Village and the surrounding areas, which made it difficult for them to even enter the village.
At this time, someone remembered the day when Yan Cheng almost lost control and exploded, Gu Zhisang went to the Yan Family and suppressed the evil spirit in Yan Cheng with only a jade finger bone, which restored his clarity.
The jade finger bone has long been said to be a fairy treasure that was not inferior to the ‘Xuan level’, and others even said that it can restrain all evil spirits.
Someone in the Qianqing Sect suggested that they should borrow the jade finger bone to absorb and suppress the evil spirits near Tianyun Village so that they could enter the village smoothly.
So the deputy headmaster of the Qianqing Sect came directly to the Yan Family without informing the Special Spiritual Department, and without contacting the Yan Family in advance. They simply took Yan Cheng away.
Because of Yan Cheng’s special status, the Yan Family has a large formation to protect their mansion.
In addition, as the richest man in Xia Country, he has many bodyguards at home, including retired special forces soldiers.
No matter how good the skills and reaction abilities of ordinary people are, when an old man with white hair suddenly appears in the room, grabs Yan Cheng who is still working, and disappears on the spot, they will be stunned and at a loss.
Fortunately, this veteran was assigned to Yan Cheng by the official. He has a certain understanding of Yan Cheng’s life experience and knows that the true face of this world is not what ordinary people see on the surface.
He immediately contacted the official, and the Special Spiritual Department knew that the deputy headmaster of the Qianqing Sect was so disrespectful that he took away ordinary people to die.
The Special Spiritual Department immediately contacted the Qianqing Sect and got a high-sounding answer.
According to the headmaster of the Qianqing Sect, their deputy headmaster was afraid that if the jade finger bone was taken away, Yan Cheng, the “evil omen” with evil all over his body, would get out of control again.
They couldn’t bear this responsibility, so they thought of a “best of both worlds” method:
Take Yan Cheng away directly.
After listening to the explanation of the Qianqing Sect, the Spirit Group knew that they were perfunctory, and were even more angry at their disregard for national laws and treating the lives of ordinary people as ants.
But the deputy head who kidnapped Yan Cheng was one of the few ‘Xuan level’ Taoist masters in the Qianqing Sect. He has lived for more than 400 years and has existed since the establishment of the country.
It was no exaggeration to say that he can cause mountains to collapse and rivers to break. If we use technological weapons to fight against such people, it will inevitably trigger a series of uncontrollable chain reactions.
It was precisely because of this that in the eyes of a Taoist Master like this, the laws of the country, which was established less than a hundred years ago, were a frivolous joke.
In the past, the officials always felt that they could coexist peacefully with the Taoist Masters, but these outsiders repeatedly challenged the laws and treated the rights and safety of ordinary people as worthless.
The kidnapping of Yan Cheng was the last straw that broke the camel’s back in the relationship between the official and non-governmental organizations.
Zheng Ruyu suppressed her anger and said, “After learning about this, our team members in Fengcheng immediately intercepted the people from the Taoist Sect, but at that time we didn’t expect that the matter in Fengcheng was so difficult. The highest level of the team members sent was not even at the ‘Xuan level’, so they couldn’t stop the people from Qianqing Sect at all, nor could they persuade them.”
How could someone so arrogant that he could even despise the country listen to the dissuasion of a group of younger Taoist masters?
The more he was not allowed to bring Yan Cheng into Tianyun Village, the more the deputy headmaster wanted to do so.
In desperation, the headquarters of the Special Spiritual Department couldn’t let the team members confront such a strong man head-on, so they took a compromise method and transferred a small team from the team members in Fengcheng to protect Yan Cheng and cooperate in investigating the case in Tianyun City.
Even so, the deputy headmaster of Qianqing Sect was not very happy.
When he heard this, Gu Zhisang, who had been holding the phone and not speaking, had completely cooled down.
“What’s the situation now? Where’s Yan Chengren?”
Zheng Ruyu smiled bitterly and said: “Since yesterday morning, there has been no news from the Qianqing Sect who entered Tianyun Village and our people.”
At first, they just thought that the people from the Qianqing Sect were arrogant and unwilling to communicate with them, but after waiting for a day, even their colleagues didn’t send any messages, they began to realize that something was wrong.
There was still no news in the evening, and the members of the Special Spiritual Department team outside were sure that the people who went to Tianyun Village to investigate had an accident.
They lost contact.
If it was just that, it would not be necessary for the headquarters to issue a reward with a dangerous level overnight.
Zheng Ruyu continued: “Because the case we were in charge of, the death comics incident, which was very popular in Fengcheng, was also a bit tricky, the headquarters sent a senior in the team to assist in the investigation. He arrived yesterday evening.”
“After learning that Qianqing Sect took our team members and Yan Cheng to the village to investigate and lost contact, this senior took other colleagues directly to Tianyun Village.”
After a pause, Zheng Ruyu said in a serious tone:
“As a result, after arriving at the place, our people found that the place was empty, with only a few dead trees scattered around. The scene was a wasteland and there was no Tianyun Village at all……”
“The village was originally located on the edge of the county town, but not only the people disappeared, even the houses!”
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