Li Yan couldn't help but lean closer, wanting to see what was being written.
However, Zhao Lvzi in the shadows suddenly looked up.
His face was astonishingly that of a paperman!
Whoosh~
Li Yan was jerked awake.
He looked around and saw the twilight seeping through the window cracks, and the room was very quiet.
Li Yan frowned, sowhat puzzled.
For a cultivator, entering a ditative state is crucial, and as his Divine Soul grew strong, he hadn't dreamt for a long ti. Just sleeping for two or three hours was enough to refresh him.
No, there's another possibility.
Sothing might have given him a dream, much like the Dragon Lady!
But the Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant had long been returned...
Thinking of this, Li Yan felt a chill in his heart, quickly forming the Yang Jue with his hands, taking a deep breath, then abruptly turning over and getting up.
After getting off the bed, he leaped up, flipped onto the beam, lowered his body, and with a finger wiped in a cracked tile.
Inside, there were distinctly so ashes.
Not mixed with dust, it was apparent they had just burned recently.
Li Yan's expression suddenly turned grim.
He could also perform this kind of spell, which was to drive a Grass Spirit Paperman to spy and investigate. Once the spell stopped, the paperman would burn.
But he had quite a few Evil Suppressing Magical Artifacts on him.
Ordinary tricks should avoid him from afar.
The practitioner had extrely remarkable thods!
The other party should still be in the inn!
Li Yan, with a thoughtful expression, rolled over and landed, then pushed the door open and went out.
Although their spells were secretive, they also revealed so flaws. As long as he walked around the inn, he could catch the scent.
However, just as he opened the door, Sha Lifei ca walking quickly towards him.
"What's the matter?"
Seeing his serious expression, Li Yan hurriedly asked.
Sha Lifei lowered his voice and said, "That old fellow Dilongzi left two hours ago and hasn't returned yet. Could he have run away?"
"Don't worry about him for now!"
Li Yan said in a deep voice, "Tell the others to be careful. Just now, there was a master spying in the inn."
Sha Lifei imdiately understood and quickly went to inform the others.
anwhile, Li Yan, while forming a mantra and sniffing carefully, walked out of the corridor and headed downstairs to the inn's lobby.
The Dragon Gate Inn was large, with small entrances, and at dusk, the lobby's lighting was dimming too.
Unlike earlier, there were already fewer people present.
The copper fire basin crackled in the corner, with a burnt sll swirling with the blue smoke.
The waiter was lying asleep at the counter, while the elderly accountant doing the reception was calculating accounts under the sheep horn candle.
Pressing down the yellowed account book was a Tang Sancai Cal.
Seeing this, Li Yan didn't pay it any mind.
Madam Pei had already ntioned they chased away a gang of tomb robbers, leaving a lot of miscellaneous things that were all used by the inn.
Looking again around the lobby, three n were huddled by a charcoal brazier to keep warm, their cracked thumbs pressing on bladed hatchets, already drunk and speaking nonsense.
And then there was the bearded rchant from earlier, equally drunk.
None of these people were the one!
Li Yan thoughtfully looked outside the door, releasing his grip on the knife hilt.
"Young Hero Li, are you hungry?"
The old accountant behind the counter saw him coming downstairs and quickly nudged the waiter with his foot and then rushed over to bow, saying, "The shopkeeper has instructed, whatever Young Hero Li wants to eat, this old man will arrange it right away."
Li Yan turned his head, seeing Sha Lifei and others were already downstairs, he shook his head to the accountant, saying, "No trouble, by the way, have you seen that Dilongzi who ca with us?"
The old accountant shook his head and said, "He left two hours ago and hasn't returned yet. I was just wondering if I should go look for him."
"I'll go."
Li Yan made a gesture, and Lv San imdiately went downstairs.
The others stayed upstairs without following.
This was a code agreed upon by their team, with different response strategies for different situations.
He was going to look for soone, which Lv San was more adept at.
And with Wu Ba and Sha Lifei as protectors and Long Yan'er's Gu Technique, Wang Daoxuan was sufficient for most situations.
After stepping out, Li Yan once again used his Divine Skills, then frowned slightly, looking towards the dim and uninhabited official road in the distance.
He caught a faint scent, but it had already blended into the night and disappeared.
"Have you found it?"
Lv San's face was unsightly, and he frowned silently.
His duty was to be on guard for the team, but he failed to notice soone approaching with spells, clearly a dereliction of duty.
"It's fine, it was a high-level enemy and has already left."
Li Yan shook his head and said, "Don't worry about him, first find Di Longzi, this old man seems suspicious."
"Hmm."
Lv San nodded silently, then snapped his fingers.
With the cry of a hawk, his falcon Li Dong flew out of the window, flapping its wings and disappearing into the night sky.
The Little White Fox, Chu Qi, was also jumping around nearby.
Lv San was not in a hurry to pursue, instead, he continued to perform a spell and whistled towards the surrounding dark wilderness.
In an instant, leaves rustled and small animals erged from the shadows of the forest, chirping chaotically at them.
Since Lv San completed his inheritance and learned the Lan Zhi Scripture, he could not only understand the language of birds and beasts but also communicate with plants.
"He went that way."
He pointed to the mountain path on the right, and left first.
Li Yan followed at a leisurely pace.
What they didn't know was that dozens of miles away, an old man was slowly walking along a deserted path to Luoyang.
It was the hunchbacked old man from the inn during the day.
Because he was so ordinary, Li Yan didn't pay attention to him.
The hunchbacked old man stomped with each step like a nail, leaving deep footprints, and the occasional gust of Yin Wind beca calm imdiately.
His weathered face bore smile lines hidden in the wrinkles, and upon seeing an unclaid solitary grave by the road, he shook his head slightly, grabbed a handful of dirt from his waist pouch, sprinkled it on the grave, and lightly said:
"Cover up more, don't catch a cold."
After he walked past, the Yin Wind rose again around him.
Crying sounds faintly echoed in the wind...
......
The path Li Yan and Lu San were walking led to a nearby mountain.
It wasn't a famous mountain, just a naless hill, and as they reached halfway up, the cry of a hawk echoed through the night sky.
"Found it!"
Lv San quickened his pace, his body shot off like an arrow from a bow.
Li Yan also slightly furrowed his brow, performing the spell "Shrinking Ground into Inches."
He already slled blood.
Sure enough, not long after, they found Di Longzi.
The elder of the Tongtian Sect was already dead, sitting against a large tree, his head and the tree trunk behind him blown to pieces.
"It's the Divine Fire Gun."
Li Yan mused and looked ahead of Di Longzi.
There were several footprints, and though night had already fallen and the surroundings were pitch black, they couldn't escape Li Yan's eyes.
"It's the court's people!"
Li Yan made the judgnt just from a glance.
The reason was simple, the footprints were deeper at the front and shallow at the back, similar to "Dan Chi Broken Steps," characteristic of official boots.
The Great Xuan Dynasty official boots have hard soles and upturned tips, officials wearing official robes walk by lifting their robes and taking small steps, causing frequent toe-ground contact that creates indented front soles.
This is markedly different from the flat-bottod trace of ordinary cloth shoes.
Even if disguised, habits are difficult to change.
Lv San also compared the explosion marks on the tree trunk, leaped onto a nearby tree, and found the shooter's position through several jumps on the tree trunk.
Astonishingly, there were eight small holes around.
Li Yan also leaped up and said after observing, "They used an Array Flag to conceal it, a tactic of the Captain Bureau."
He often dealt with the Captain Bureau and was very familiar with their thods.
During the Yunyang Prefecture war, the court's Captain Bureau fought with Heavenly Saint Sect in the mountains, both sides had firearms, and though the casualties were heavy, they summarized a lot of experience.
Using an Array Flag for concealnt and then shooting was one of them.
Plus the footprints earlier facing closely towards Di Longzi.
Li Yan could already imagine, soone spoke with Di Longzi to attract his attention while another person behind shot him.
At such a distance, even he could hardly escape.
It's lantable that Di Longzi, an elder of the Tongtian Sect, a notorious figure on the roads of Yu State, couldn't display his techniques and t his end in the Yellow Springs.
Subsequently, the two also found the corpses of several disciples of Di Longzi, all stabbed through the heart with a single blade, the wound as thin as a cicada's wings.
"Yin and Yang, Coiling Silk energy..."
Li Yan examined the wounds carefully and mused, "Judging from the montum of the blade, it's the Gun Combination Technique entering the blade, it's the 'Chang Family Saber' of Zhoukou!"
Saying this, he turned his head to look towards Luoyang, inexplicably recalling the strange dream and the intelligence given by Lady Pei.
"Zhao Lvzi's matter seems related to the paper figure case..."
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