Those who descend from the heavens privately.
Li Yan had heard of this before.
It had happened in history, those fairies descending, divine beings descending, many stories were mixed with truth and lies, perhaps there were real prototypes.
But "Heavenly Rules" are stricter than "Yin Law".
Once you descend without permission, you will suffer the Five Thunders Bombardnt.
So the endings of stories about immortals yearning for the Lower Realm are usually not good.
Therefore, those descending privately are far less than the Yin criminals returning to life.
Of course, there are other reasons for descending.
Like the Battle of God Sealing, Zhou rites replaced Shang sacrifices, many immortals descended, the Seventy-two Demon Gods were sealed, human sacrificial rites changed.
What puzzled Li Yan was, the handling of those who descend privately is usually given to those orthodox Buddhist Tao sects with strong incense, the thod similar to living Yin ssenger, guided by them to bring down lightning punishnt.
Why give him this inexplicable task?
Could it be that the Mystical Sect has caused trouble...
Looking at the Hook Paper in his hand, Li Yan was full of confusion.
But in any case, it’s considered a good thing.
The thod of using this Thunder Mansion Order should be sowhat similar to the Hook Paper, creating a response, finding the target, guiding the heavenly punishnt to fall.
The reward from the Heavenly Court should not be worse than from the Yin Bureau.
Thinking about this, Li Yan put away the Hook Paper, sat down cross-legged to Store God, completed his daily practice, and then went straight to sleep.
Now the team has assembled, everyone with their roles, he completely trusted Lv San’s abilities, able to sleep soundly.
Unconsciously, the night arrived.
The small snow had stopped in the evening, but the cold night was even more piercing, and the once bustling town had fallen silent.
Occasionally, a few taverns lit lanterns, unusually conspicuous in the dark, and from ti to ti, the barking of dogs ca from the remote alleys.
In the alleys near Qingyuan Inn, a few rats hid in the shadows, clutching hard buns in their mouths, their thief-like eyes darting around.
Suddenly, they all looked in one direction.
Only to see a sneaky head poke out from the dark alley across, constantly glancing towards Qingyuan Inn, appearing sowhat flustered.
After hesitating a long ti, the figure finally made up his mind, looked around, and sneaked along the corner wall to Qingyuan Inn.
He was small in stature, very agile, using his hands to grip the brick joints, he effortlessly climbed to the second floor by leveraging the wall angles.
Just by the look, he was soone skilled at climbing walls.
As he reached a window, just as he was about to tap it, the window suddenly opened, and a large hand grabbed his collar, pulling him inside directly.
"Ah—!"
The figure managed to let out half a scream before soone covered his mouth, pinning him to the ground.
"Mmh mm~"
He was terrified, eyes wide and struggling.
Inside the room, candlelight burned, a circle of people sat around, they were Li Yan and others, awakened by Lv San.
"It’s a thief."
Sha Lifei glanced at him, imdiately identifying his role, sowhat displeased saying: "I say, you wander the pugilistic world, how co you don’t have eyes for hues, rushing to disturb us."
It was purely his waking irritation.
After finally getting so restful sleep, being disturbed again.
Li Yan sensed sothing unusual, gave a signal with his eyes, Wu Ba imdiately released the grip, letting the person go.
This man, thin in build, eyes full of crafty light, seeing everyone’s indifferent gaze, imdiately knelt, "Great warriors, this humble one is not here to scope out."
Saying this, he looked at Wang Daoxuan, "Are you the Daoist Youji?"
Wang Daoxuan nodded, "That’s correct."
"That’s right then!"
The small thief sighed in relief, hurriedly clasped hands, saying: "I’m Lian Peng, entrusted by Chen Sanbang, Brother Chen, to warn and seek rescue."
Wang Daoxuan frowned, "What happened to Chen Sanbang?"
Chen Sanbang, the leader among those Demon Hunters who always run errands for him, took the task to find that crazy person claiming to have seen human sacrifice.
"Brother Chen has been captured."
The thief Lian Peng quickly said: "I, having mixed on this ground for years, familiar with local circumstances, was hired by Brother Chen for money."
"We found clues that this crazy person was not alone, days ago had been taken ho by family, returned to the village for retirent."
"The village is called Baixi Town, Brother Chen and the others went to inquire, but unexpectedly the entire village were practitioners, and very wary of us, broke into large-scale conflict at the slightest disagreent."
"Brother Chen and their fists could not prevail against four hands, were captured, the villagers heard it was entrusted by you, so let co back, saying you must personally go to fetch them."
"Baixi Town?"
Sha Lifei quickly asked: "What is this place?"
Thief Lian Peng explained: "This village is in the mountains across the river, very secluded, rumor has it the villagers all live on smuggling salt."
"They don’t cause much trouble, relationships with various sides are quite decent too, had it not been for this matter, I wouldn’t have known the village hides so many practitioners."
Sha Lifei, upon hearing this, looked at Li Yan, "Could it be them?"
Li Yan thought deeply, shaking his head, "Doesn’t seem likely."
"If it were them, presumably they would have dealt with that crazy person imdiately, wouldn’t send soone back to report, have the Daoist fetch them."
"It’s not urgent, since they say to fetch them, ans to follow pugilistic rules, those Demon Hunters temporarily won’t be in danger."
Everyone thought, that’s indeed the case.
Imdiately, woke the shopkeeper, had the waiter arrange a room for the thief, then rested in their own rooms.
They were aware, so not in a hurry.
This sleep lasted until bright day.
The next day, the small snow stopped, but the sky remained gloomy, the bitter wind cutting into the body.
Compared to yesterday, Dragon and Phoenix Ancient Town’s wharf beca even busier.
Only three days left until the Guangde Temple assembly, so devoted believers from other prefectures had even set off from the beginning of the month.
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